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Tata chief backs Jaguar F-Type:
The long-shelved Jaguar F-Type sports car, which debuted at the 2000 North American International Auto Show, appears to have secured the backing of Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata, whose company is expected to take ownership of Jaguar and Land Rover...
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Fueled by $40,000 in grants given by the Austin Food & Wine Alliance, six Austin-area culinary innovators will receive funding to help realize their dreams and further propel the city's skyrocketing culinary scene.
The highly anticipated 2015 Austin Food & Wine grant award winners were announced at a ceremony on Tuesday, December 8 at AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center. Four emergent artisan product companies, a local farming & youth development non-profit, and a high school culinary arts program were the recipients of $40,000, the AFWA's largest disbursement of funds since the organization began providing grants in 2011.
The grant winners are Texas Keeper Cider for $12,000; Two Hives Honey andMeridian Hive Meadery, each for $8,000; Urban Roots and Salud! Bitters Company, each for $5,000; and Manor High School Culinary Arts Program for $2,000.
The 2015 grants will help fund support of an artisanal cider taproom to feature uncommon micro-batches of dry ciders and unique cider/wine hybrids using Texas-grown ingredients; a hyper-local line of all-natural, raw comb honey products harvested from micro-apiaries in Austin neighborhoods; Austin's first and only meadery to expand production with innovative and diverse ingredients to meet the high demand of unique sparkling 'session meads'; updating curriculum for a local non-profit using an East Austin farm to transform the lives of young people and support community food programs; a small-batch, handcrafted bitters company using responsibly foraged, locally sourced organic ingredients that seeks to gain FDA certification and provide educational tours for Texans; a high school culinary arts program needing working appliances for a student-run restaurant and catering business that serves families staying at the Ronald McDonald house.


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Thrashers fall in OT
Updated: Dec. 31, 2008, 12:05 a.m.
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TORONTO — Curtis Joseph made 29 saves to earn his first win of the season and the 450th victory of his NHL career and the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied to beat the Atlanta Thrashers 4-3 in overtime on Tuesday night.
Pavel Kubina scored the winner on a power play 33 seconds into overtime to help the Leafs end a three-game losing streak.
Nikolai Kulemin, Lee Stempniak and Jason Blake also scored for Toronto.
The 41-year-old Joseph earned his first victory since April 5 when he beat Vancouver while with Calgary. He made 29 saves.
Colby Armstrong tied the game 3-3 for Atlanta on a power play at 13:17 of the third, but Kubina won it by sending a slap shot past Johan Hedberg. Hedberg finished with 43 saves.
Bryan Little, with his seventh goal in four games, and Jim Slater also scored for the Thrashers, who have lost three in a row.
Joseph is scheduled to start again when the Maple Leafs host the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday.
He was making his first start since a 6-3 loss at home to the Thrashers on Nov. 25.
The Maple Leafs fell behind 2-0 early, but Joseph settled down to allow his teammates to rally.
The Thrashers finished the first period up 2-1.
Little opened the scoring on a power play, completing a nifty passing play by sending Todd White's centering pass from behind the goal past Joseph at 4:41.
Just over two minutes later, Slater made it 2-0 when he took a brilliant touch pass from Joey Crabb at the blue line, walked in on Joseph and had his rebound trickle just past the goal line.
Kulemin cut into the lead at 8:29 when he converted a nice behind-the-back centering pass from Mikhail Grabovski as he cut behind then goal.
Notes: Leafs winger Jeremy Williams suffered a shoulder injury falling awkwardly into the boards early in the first period and didn't return. He came in with five goals and two assists since his recall Dec. 7. ... Stajan (right eye) and tough guy Andre Deveaux were scratched for the Maple Leafs. ... Zach Bogosian (broken left leg), the third overall pick last summer, fellow defenseman Scott Lehman (upper body) and center Jason Williams sat out for the Thrashers. ... Kulemin ended an eight-game goalless streak.
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The SS-Funker
The German field radios, or "Feldfunken", were generally operated by so called "Funktruppes". Depending on the equipment and type of radio used, these Truppes could be anywhere from two men to several dozen in size. A typical "Tornister Funktrupp", which would often be part of a Zugtruppe, or the command section of a Platoon, consisted of 2-4 men.
Generally, the members of the Funktrupp would be qualified radio operators, recognizable by the lightning bolt insignia on the Left sleeve. In a Tornister Funktrupp there would typically be a corporal commanding, with the other members being lower rank Funker.
Because most members of the truppe were qualified radio operators, they could all operate the set. How this was organized depended on the tactical situation. If the radio station had to be manned constantly, they would operate a shift pattern. In any case it was the Truppe commander's responsibility to ensure that tactical needs could be met. It would not be strange for one Funker to operate the equipment, while the other handled the messages.
The operator Funker would also listen in to the radio traffic to react to the transmission management codes or "Verkehrsziechen". But generally the message Funker would concentrate on the message content and decode it and transfer the message to the addressee. I mention addressee here because in most cases the Funktruppen were assigned to specific tactical commands, and their role would be to provide communication services for the commanding officer of that command.
In case of the Feldfunksprechers, things were at their simplest. The officer requiring the radio link would assign the Feldfunksprecher to his runner, who with minimal training could operate this simple device. (Feldfunk operators were generally not trained Funkers, and did not possess the lightning bolt insignia). The officer could listen in with the 2nd headset, but generally the Runner was kept at easy shouting distance as a radio antennas attract enemy fire and runners were often viewed as expendable. The officer would shout the message to his runner, who would transmit it and shout back the answer to his officer. In some cases, the officer would take the Feldfunksprecher himself, but probably only when he was not to be under observation from the enemy.
In 1939 the Waffen-SS adopted Waffenfarben, (Branch of Service Colors), with each branch of service being allocated a specific, identifying, waffenfarbe, with lemon yellow being chosen for Nachrichten, (Signals), personnel, which was displayed as piping on the shoulder straps. Enlisted Signals ranks shoulder straps indicate the ranks of, SS-Funker, SS-Oberfunker, SS-Sturmmann and SS-Rottenführer inclusively with the collar and/or sleeve insignia indicating the specific rank. The rank of SS-Oberfunker, is the senior funker.
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Howdy, friends! Today we going to tank about Google keyword ranking.
Anyway, even if you're neither Neil Patel, nor Brian Dean (hi guys, glad to see you) or any other top SEO/marketer, but you want to know how to rank #1 for a keyword without spending a bazillions for your SEO, this guide about Google keyword ranking can help you a bit.
Okay, let's start from the basics. As you may know, there are tons of Google ranking signals. For example, Brian Dean tells about 200+ factors, SEMrush tells about 17 most valuable and important ranking factors, Search Engine Land - about 8 major points, MOZ tells us about other 10 factors as well.
But in all cases there are 4 major ranking factors can be distinguished: backlinks (number of referring domains, backlink quality, anchor text relevance etc.), content (keywords, content length, comprehensiveness), technical SEO (page speed, SSL, mobile-friendliness) and user experience (CTR, bounce rate).
So as you may see, we are faced with some requirements that should be complied for the good website ranking. In other words, if you have done with that stuff, then it wouldn't be so hard to rank #1 as it may have been without complied "4-points" SEO-list.
A strong website. Neither "just another Wordpress blog", nor "I don't know what am I doing but hope that all will be ok". STRONG. WEBSITE. Remember the rule: speaking the "Strong Website" we mean "The website complying with ranking factors". And if you don't know what that means, we recommend you to check first of all Google Webmaster Guidelines.
A well-developed network. Yes, you can have a good content, but you should also have the places where you can promote and spread it. Thus, you should have a built-in network that includes email subscribers, Twitter account, Facebook group and niche-related accounts at forums, Reddit, LinkedIn etc. And if you don't know what is that means, we highly recommend you to check Wordstream's guide for linkbuilding and influencer relationship building.
Remember, if you don't comply with these rules at this time and you'd like to rush your Google keyword ranking campaign, then lacks of On-Page and Off-Page SEO can harm your progress in future.
First of all, you should find the main keywords related to your niche or business. In other words, the data set of your keywords should be relevant to your business model. For example, pet grooming business have a reason to target for the keywords like "pet grooming supplies" or "pet grooming mobile" or any local-target keywords like "pet grooming Miami", but there's no reason to try rank in Google for a keyword like "pet homecare".
Ahrefs. It's one of our favorite tool to all other. You can check competitor keywords, find the keyword suggestions, check the keyword difficulty, local and global search volume, return rate, clicks metric etc. In other words, there is a HUGE data set that you can find here.
Keyword Tool. A good and simple alternative to Google Keyword Planner, also can be use as one of the best keyword tracker. Not a free at all, but has a wide functionality and has a good usability for all users.
Wordstream. That guys did pretty good. Wide functionality, free of use, a lot of data for each keyword (CPC, opportunity score, competition level etc.).
At this stage of the process, you should also make a list of close variations on your primary keyword. These will be helpful in writing and optimizing your content later on.
So now you've done with a keyword research and the next step is do a search for it on Google and/or any other SE to see what your competition is already doing.
URLs and domains. Does any domains ranked in TOP-10 has an exact match with a keyword (for example, keyword is "check my SERP" and domain name like "checkmyserp.com")? Does any URL in TOP-10 has the keyword phrase(s)?
The titles. The key point is the number of the keywords in title tag and title length - check these parameters as well.
Type of well-ranked content. Whether it's a blog post or a review page, or a video link?
Competitors level. Are your keyword competitors well-known blogs and famous brands, small businesses, news aggregators?
The websites authority. Of course there is no need to check an authority metrics for each website through Ahrefs or MOZ (but you can in case of need). All you need is look closer to the websites ranked in TOP-10 for your keyword. For example, you're probably know that Wikipedia, YouTube, Forbes, Esquire, Amazon are very, very authoritative websites.
Let's take a closer look how you should check your competitors at the example below.
You can see, that the site ranked #1 for the "content marketing" keyword phrase has a number of keywords everywhere - in URL, in domain name, in the Title and Description sections.
You can also see, that the content type for this keyword are blog posts or analytical articles.
Additionally, there is a very, very high competition level for this keyword. As you can see, there are well-known websites in TOP-10 - Neil Patel, Forbes, Wikipedia, etc.
So now we can assume that you should invest a tremendous amount of energy, efforts, time and budget to get to the TOP-10 for such keyword. But… Who said that it's impossible?
Your content should be anatomically correct. An eye-catchy title and informative description, CTA-buttons, relevancy, formatting. In other words, your great article should have a structure.
Images. Whether it's an ordinary blog post, case study or promotional post - you should include images, because anybody won't see an article without useful images.
Uniqueness. You hopefully wouldn't copy and paste content from another site onto your own. But you may be tempted to do a link roundup or "best of the web," in which you curate a list of articles that you've found to be interesting.
Length. As said Brian Dean, an optimal text size for your blog post is about 1800-1900 words. Due to his study, a content with this length ranks higher in Google search results.
Internal links. It's not about classical linkbuilding, it's about the content structure and readability. An internal linking strategy - for which you link to other, related posts within your own site - and can serve to enhance and deepen the overall value of a website.
Improve content engagement. For example, make a "bucket brigade" (line break at the article start). It's an old and well-known writers trick, but it still working! Another peace of engagement improving is internal links - it will help your users to navigate throughout the content better.
Additionally, you can find a lot of case studies and articles in Google about how to make your content great. Using them, you can improve your current content strategy and make the really great posts which would be shared around thousands of people.
Optimize your content while you're creating it, rather than applying optimization after the fact.
Leverage those keywords where you can in your content, but not to the point of sounding like a crazy robot. Remember that there are a lot of "invisible" places for keywords, and I'm not talking about using white text on a white background or anything else that violates Google guidelines.
For example, you can put your keywords in first 100-150 words - it helps Google crawler to check an article faster and check its relevance. Additionally, don't forget about image file names – users won't see these if they're not looking for them, but they can increase your keyword rankings.
One of the best examples of the On-Page SEO and keyword placing is Wikipedia. In most cases Wiki's pages ranks very well and keyword ranking perform very smooth.
Optimizing your on-page SEO, don't forget about titles. If you want to get more traffic from people searching for your main keyword, then don't forget about keywords related to the main keyword. For example, your main keyword is "Google ranking". Then, you should also include the related keywords in your title, for example "How to rank in Google", "How to rank higher in Google", and so on.
Next, don't forget about content headers. It should also contain the keywords you'd like to rank for (including related keywords). But you should not to go overboard with the keywords, because your main goal is to give users information that they actually want to read. Thus, try to avoid over-optimized keywords in content headers, but try to use the headers with unique and interesting related keywords and potential search queries.
You're probably know how to publish your content. It's not hard and you can post your content when you want, in most cases. But it doesn't cover the cases when you're going to tell about any trends, news or events. In this case you should choose a perfect time, when you can increase your audience coverage.
And what about promotion? Fortunately, we've already told about in our article "A King Without Kingdom: TOP-5 Places to Promote Your Content". As we already said, you can try to promote your content in Facebook and LinkedIn, Triberr, Stumbleupon, Inbound, QuuuPromote and Growth Hackers at first. Well, This should be more than enough for your content promotion - remember, what we told you about well-developed network?
So, it's down to the wire, the last question is how to track your results. And here is the best answer: you can check your progress with Google keyword ranking tool - SpySerp. It's one of the best keyword trackers which you can use absolutely for free.
Using the SpySerp functionality, you can track your SERP positions absolutely for free. Moreover, you can track your Google keyword ranking in real-time, without XML. This keyword ranking tool can provide a wide data set about your positions, position changes, competition level, any changes in TOP-3/10/100 and gives you all necessary and most accurate data about rankings in all regions and search engines. In any case, you can find any of 9 tools for the rank checking in our guide.
That's it! This is the process we follow to rank for hundreds of keywords related to search marketing. Whatever your business niche, you can make the same process work for you. So GET STARTED!


More than a quarter of travel companies gave customers flawed information about financial protection in a "mystery shopper" probe. In 18% of cases the callers were given inaccurate details and in a further 10% the information dished out was potentially misleading. The survey was conducted by Which? Travel. Its researchers called High Street travel agents and on line and traditional tour operators. Only in three instances were they told without asking whether their payments were protected if a company they were booking with collapsed and whether they would be repatriated if it happened while they were abroad. And only 34% gave "a good explanation of what was covered and by who". The survey was carried out as the Government worked out final details of shake up in protection for air holidaymakers which is intended to extend cover for travellers buying flights and other key holiday elements – such as accommodation – separately rather than as part of a conventional package.


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Doyle Lawson
Gospel and bluegrass singer, arranger, Bandleader
Doyle Lawson grew up in Ford Town, a rural community near Kingsport, Tennessee. His mother, father, and sister all sang gospel music and the family listened faithfully to the radio broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry. Inspired by the radio performances of Bill Monroe, Doyle took up the mandolin at the age of 11. By the time he was 19, Lawson began playing with the incomparable Jimmy Martin, launching a career that included performing with J.D. Crowe and the Country Gentlemen.
In 1979 he decided that he wanted to develop his own sound, so he formed Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Although the band has numerous recordings of the classic bluegrass repertoire, the group is best known for Lawson's stunning gospel vocal arrangements. In fact, it might be said that Doyle Lawson's efforts resulted in a renaissance of tight harmony bluegrass singing. For the past five years, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver have received annually the International Bluegrass Music Association's Vocal Group of the Year award.
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Rock My Soul
Interview with Mary Eckstein
NEA: Congratulations on your award. How did you feel when you heard the news?
MR. DOYLE: When [NEA Director of Folk & Traditional Arts] Barry Bergey called and told me, I was pretty near speechless. It was awfully quiet there for just a minute or two. I'm very much aware of what the award means to people in the arts, so it's pretty overwhelming. I'm truly honored to receive the award.
NEA: Why were you attracted to gospel music?
MR. DOYLE: I've always loved music in general. I grew up here in East Tennessee in a Christian home and my parents sang together for a while. They first started as a little a cappella trio performing in church. Then my mother stepped back to take care of me and my little brother and the household while Dad continued on with it.
The group later evolved into a quartet. As a small child -- and as a young teenager -- I would go to their weekly practices and listen as they put together a song. They all could read the old shape-note style music, and each would sing the individual notes of the song a couple of times before they'd sing the words. I don't know if they did that to make themselves more relaxed or to get more familiar with the melody, but I always found it really odd to hear them singing four individual parts in shape notes. But then they would start singing the words. It was wonderful! You know, the harmony structures were part of the content of the song -- that's the way songwriters wrote the songs back then. I liked the moving parts, and it was something that I've never lost my love for. I was always around gospel music and not only for the spiritual benefit -- I loved the sound of the harmonies.
I started out playing bluegrass just like all the rest of us. When Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver came into being the one thing I stressed was that I wanted a quartet like my Dad had. It's what I grew up with and it just seemed like a natural thing for me to take the original a cappella and incorporate guitar and banjo and bass and fiddle.
As I got older and got further along in my career, I began to think about the songs I heard growing up. I was surprised at how many of them I'd committed to memory. I wanted to introduce those kinds of songs to the public. Most folks had not heard any of those songs. I didn't have a blueprint -- all I wanted to do was introduce this most wonderful music I remembered from when I was a kid. At first I recorded some of them just from memory. For the ones I couldn't remember, I went to my father. He liked what I was doing and became a real source of material. He taught me to read shape-note music. I'm not well versed in it, but I can read well enough that I can get the song. If I see a song that it has good words and good melody, then I can go to work on it.
NEA: What is it about gospel music that compels you so much?
MR. DOYLE: First and foremost, I believe in what I'm singing. It's a spiritual thing with me as well as a career. I'm a professional musician, but that doesn't mean I have to disassociate myself from any kind of spiritual connection. I'm serious about my gospel music -- I don't do it just for monetary gain. I love the message. If you look at the songs I've recorded, they all have an inspiring story. I'm not trying to get the people into fever or frenzy or anything like that. It's just what I believe in and the way I feel about gospel music.
NEA: What role does gospel music play in the community where you are in Tennessee?
MR. DOYLE: When I was growing up it was a very prominent part of the church service. Many if not all of the churches had a quartet or a trio or somebody that would play music. Sometimes you'd have more than one group during a service. Sometimes even an individual. If anybody in the congregation felt spiritually inspired to stand up to sing a song, they could. It was not a real structured service. If you felt spiritually led to give testimony about your faith, there were no restrictions about that. The singing was the same way.
But the type of music I grew up with, and the way the services were held -- they're no longer as dominant as back then.
NEA: What are some of the essential qualities of a good gospel singer?
MR. DOYLE: The first thing you look for is the heartfelt emotion and belief in what you're singing about, its very essence. You can feel the real deal. That pretty much sums it up.
Gospel music has to be from the heart, more than just words on a piece of paper with a melody to it. For me gospel music has always been about the song itself and what have you to say. You do it the best you can and then let the people decide. I always did. I let them decide just how much they liked it and I always hoped that they would like it as much as I did.
NEA: You play both religious and secular music, correct?
MR. DOYLE: I started off playing just bluegrass music. But gospel music has always been an integral part of bluegrass as far back as the man we call the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. He had the Bluegrass Boys and the Bluegrass Quartet and they always played a fair amount of gospel. And that carried right on down through the Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, all the early bluegrass pioneers. Gospel music was still a part of that. Gospel was not only a part of bluegrass, but part of the country world, too. When I came along, I introduced a lot of different songs new to the world of bluegrass.
NEA: Do you have any advice for young gospel or bluegrass musicians?
MR. DOYLE: I don't think there's any one for-sure answer. Sometimes some things work out and sometimes they don't. The one thing I can say is that if you truly believe that your mission in life is to play this music, then stay the course. You'll have to endure the hardships along with the good times, and there will be hard times. Music is an ever-changing thing, and establishing a fan base and then keeping it growing is a constant struggle. If you truly believe that's what you want to do, stay the course. But it's not easy. I would be the first to tell anybody that.
NEA: What has kept you performing through the years?
MR. DOYLE: I love the sound of music and I love to sing harmony. That's my thing, putting four or five voices together. To me there's nothing any sweeter to hear than a church choir singing or a church congregation with everybody lifting their voice up in song and praise. There's a beauty to that and a feeling like no other.
I'm a lucky guy. I'm blessed that I've been able to play music professionally for almost 44 years. I don't dread getting up and going to work. I look forward to it. I still enjoy the travel and I love meeting people. I love being on the stage and looking out at the audience and seeing the smiles we're putting on their faces. Life is kind of tough these days. There's so much unrest in the world -- you never turn on the television or radio that you're not hearing about it. If by giving a concert we can help people just kind of lose themselves for a while and enjoy the music and have joy in their hearts when they go away, then we've made a difference with our music.
I love music and I count myself very, very blessed.


If you're not sure about the set, you can combine the shirt with jeans (as I did this weekend in Seville), to get a more casual look or with a black skirt or silk trousers, for istance, to dress more elegant . What do you think about it?
Both the shirt and the trousers are sold out on the website but I've looked for some similar designs like this one from H&M, this one from Asos or these from Missguided (here and here).
All pictures by Adriana Pizarnik.
The recent street-style trend for wearing one's pyjamas in the daytime looks set to stick around so... how would you wear yours? Here my guide to getting the right pyjama!


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Der Genrōin (jap. , wörtl. Ältestenrat als Übersetzung von Senat), auch als japanischer Staatsrat oder Senat bezeichnet, ersetzte nach der Konferenz von Ōsaka 1875  die Kammer zur Linken (, Sain). Er war in der frühen Meijizeit in Japan ein Beratungsorgan für legislative und administrative Fragen.

Die Bewegung für Freiheit und Bürgerrechte und Liberale innerhalb der Meiji-Oligarchie hatten sich nach anfänglichen Versuchen, repräsentative Demokratie und eine Nationalversammlung einzuführen, aus der Meiji-Regierung zurückgezogen. Die Konferenz von Ōsaka versuchte diese Angelegenheit mit der Einberufung des Genrōin zu lösen. Die Mitglieder dieses Organs wurden nicht gewählt, sondern formal vom Tennō einberufen, und rekrutierten sich vor allem aus den Adelsrängen (Kazoku), hohen Beamten und Gelehrten. Der Genrōin war auch nur quasi-legislativ, da er zwar das Recht hatte, Gesetzentwürfe zu bewerten und Vorschläge zu machen, jedoch keine eigenen Gesetzesentwürfe einbringen konnte.

Im Jahr 1876 wurde der Genrōin mit der Ausarbeitung einer Verfassung beauftragt, deren Entwurf 1880 vorgelegt wurde, aber von den Staatsmännern Itō Hirobumi und Iwakura Tomomi als zu liberal abgelehnt wurde.

Mit dem Inkrafttreten der Meiji-Verfassung 1890 wurde der Genrōin aufgelöst und ein Zweikammerparlament mit vollen legislativen Privilegien, die Kokkai, eingeführt. Das neue Parlament bestehend aus Unterhaus (Shūgiin) und Oberhaus (Kizokuin, ab 1947 Sangiin). Das Oberhaus war bis 1947 wie der Genrōin eine Adelsversammlung.

Von der Funktion als Beratungsgremium her ist das 1888 aufgestellte Sūmitsu-in am ehesten als Nachfolger des Genrōin anzusehen.

Verwandt mit dem Begriff Genrōin ist die Bezeichnung Genrō für die Staatsmänner (wörtlich die "Ältesten") der Meijizeit. Die Begriffe sind aber nicht deckungsgleich: Zwar gehörten viele der Genrō dem Genrōin an, es werden jedoch nicht alle Angehörigen des Genrōin auch den Genrō zugerechnet.

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Historisches Parlament (Japan)

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Timberview rides winning streak into homecoming game
By Bob Kowalski
Mansfield Record
Timberview has the stage to itself among Mansfield ISD schools this weekend, playing host to Cleburne in the Wolves' homecoming game at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16 at Vernon Newsom Stadium, 3700 E. Broad St.
The Wolves carry a two-game winning streak into Friday's game, coming off an impressive 18-13 road victory against Flower Mound on Oct. 9. The game will be the first District 5-5A Division II matchup of the season for the Wolves, who will be on the home sideline for the first time this season.
The other Mansfield ISD teams all have reached the bye week in their schedules and all begin district play next week.
Cleburne (3-0) also enters the game on a winning streak after knocking off Weatherford last week. The Yellow Jackets built a 34-10 lead midway through the third quarter before withstanding Weatherford's late rally, holding on for the 48-31 win.
Timberview opened the scoring at Flower Mound on a Deuce Jones touchdown run in the second quarter and built a 12-0 lead at halftime. After Flower Mound scored a pair of touchdowns to take a 13-12 lead in the fourth quarter, Timberview scored a fourth-quarter TD to seal the 18-13 victory. The Wolves' offense piled up more than 400 yards in the game.
In the season opener against Lake Ridge, Timberview rode a pair of fourth-quarter TDs – including a scintillating 51-yard run by Jones – to score a 28-14 victory. The Wolves' Week 2 opponent, Red Oak, was forced to cancel their matchup because of pandemic concerns in the Red Oak ISD.
Xavion Walker and Simeon Evans have shared time at quarterback for Timberview.


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NASA's ventilator prototype approved for use by the FDA
Many firms and organizations across the world have responded to a possible, upcoming shortage of ventilators due to COVID-19. Recently, we've seen companies like Tesla, Maingear, and others, venture into the domain.
NASA too has been active in taking action in the fight against the global pandemic. Now, the space agency has made a ventilator that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat severe cases of COVID-19.
Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally, or VITAL for short, has been developed by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Compared to traditional ventilators, it is composed of fewer parts and houses materials that are readily available in supply chains, an idea that is similar to what Tesla has been doing by recycling automobile parts for use in its ventilator. While NASA claims that the product is easy to maintain, it won't be replacing traditional ventilators because VITAL is essentially a stopgap measure and is built to last around three to four months.
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VITAL was developed in a period of 37 days courtesy of a fast-track program. On April 21, it was tested successfully on a human patient simulator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Currently, NASA is looking for a medical industry partner to manufacture the device with a royalty-free license during the pandemic.
"It's been exhilarating coming up with VITAL's design. Now that we have FDA approval, we're looking forward to seeing companies license this technology and share it with the rest of the world," said Michelle Easter, an engineer at JPL who worked on developing the device.


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Q: Check on a proof I saw on another thread: Metrizable Lindelöf spaces have a countable basis I saw the following proof given of to the theorem below. I don't think the proof is correct, but I wasn't quite sure as it was given an up vote and thought I'd re post here to get some other opinions. Thanks in advance!

A metrizable Lindelöf space has a countable basis

The authors proof:
Note: This proof requires the assumption that every metrizable space with a countable dense subset has a countable basis.
Let $X$ be a metrizable Lindelhof space.
(Then as above)
For each positive integer $n$ let $\mathscr{U}_n=\left\{B\left(x,\frac1n\right):x\in X\right\}$; this is an open cover of $X$, so it has a countable subcover $\mathscr{B}_n$. Consider $\mathscr{B}=\bigcup_{n\in\Bbb Z^+}\mathscr{B}_n$.
I want to show $\mathscr{B}$ is dense in $X$.
Let $x\in X$, then let $B(x,\epsilon)$ be a basis element containing $x$. Then there exists an $n$ s.t. $x\in B(x', n)$ for some $x'$. But this implies that $x' \in B(x,\epsilon)$. So $x$ $\in \overline{\mathscr{B}}$, therefore $\overline{\mathscr{B}} = X$. Therefore $X$ has a countable basis since it contains a countable dense subset.

The original proof can be found here:
A metrizable Lindelöf space has a countable basis
My Review:
-- First it seems that the set $\mathscr{B}$ is already an open covering and hence equal to all of X. Since X, the entire space, is a closed set, then $\bar{X}$ = X but X need not be countable, so $\mathscr{B}$ isn't necessarily countable either.
-- Second, the use of the open ball B(x', n) seems like it should be B(x',1/n), since thats how the author created his set he wants to verify as dense.
-- Third, I believe the set the author actually wants to verify as dense is the set $C$ = { x $\in$ $\mathscr{B}$ | x centered in an open ball = B(x,$\epsilon$) }. This set would actually be countable, and not equal to all of X in the case where X is uncountable.
-- Fourth, even considering the above point that the author is trying to prove the set $C$ as dense, I don't think the following is correct:
" Then there exists an $n$ s.t. $x\in B(x', n)$ for some $x'$. But this implies that $x' \in B(x,\epsilon)$. "
It may actually be true that C is dense, but the above phrasing implies that since x' has some neighborhood that contains x, then x' must be within epsilon of x. It seems perfectly plausible that d(x,x') $\gt$ $\epsilon$ with then n $\gt$ epsilon.

A: Let $(X,d)$ be a Lindelof metric space.
For each $n\in \Bbb N$ let  $B(n)=\{B_d(x,1/n):x\in X\}$). Let $C(n)$ be a countable subset of $B(n)$ with $\cup C(n)=X.$
Claim: The countable set $D=\{\emptyset\}\cup\,(\,\cup_{n\in \Bbb N}C(n)\,)$ is a base (basis) for $(X,d).$
Proof: It suffices that if $x\in U\subset X$ where $U$ is open, then there exists $\delta \in D$ such that $x\in \delta\subset U.$
There exists $n\in \Bbb N$ such that  $B_d(x,1/n)\subset U.$ Then there exists $\delta=B_d(y,1/2n) \in C(2n)$ such that $x\in\delta.$ We have $d(x,y)<1/2n.$ And for any $z\in \delta$ we have $d(y,z)<1/2n.$ Therefore $$z\in \delta \implies d(x,z)\le d(x,y)+d(y,z)<$$ $$<1/2n+1/2n=1/n \implies$$ $$\implies z\in B_d(x,1/n).$$  So $x\in \delta \subset B_d(1/n)\subset U.$

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In February the children are learning about the miracles of Jesus during Bible time. Jesus gives us glimpses of His glory as the Son of God as He suspends the laws of nature and performs miracles. We praise almighty God for the greatest miracle of all, that He claims us as His own through the redemptive work of Jesus. It is a joy each school day to remind the children how much they are loved by our Lord.
Kindergarten kids are building fluency in reading and reading comprehension skills. In Feb we will be telling time and learning about money in math. Our Social Studies unit is a study of our great state of Oregon with a field trip to the Oregon Historical Museum.
The 4's and pre-k kids will be taking a look at the different geographic regions in our state. We praise God for the diversity of landforms, plants and animals. Writing and phonics skills continue to build, as well as learning to write numerals.
The 3's preschoolers will be learning about what makes a family and where families live. The 3's are gaining confidence at using scissors; we'll add glue to our skill list in February.
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"EL VY is a collaboration between vocalist and lyricist of The National Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf, the Portland musician and producer best known for his work in Menomena and his more recent band Ramona Falls.
Their debut album 'Return To The Moon' is a project Berninger and Knopf have been thinking about for years. Their friendship spans nearly a decade, starting back when The National and Menomena played small half-empty clubs along America's West coast. Feeling an immediate musical kinship, the pair kept in touch, Brent sending Matt occasional rough sketches of music and Matt responding with ideas and lyrics. Finally, in the Winter and Spring of 2014 - 2015, they got together to make an album.
'Return To The Moon' sounds exactly like you'd hope a collaboration between these artists would: Berninger's darkly funny, lyrical storytelling and his immediately identifiable sense of melody offset by Knopf's playful, architectural arrangements and inventive production."


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Q: How to get the size of a specific image in the front end? The title pretty much says it all.

One possible point of confusion is that this question is not limited to items with head Image.
I don't know what is the official terminology for what I'm referring to, but I can describe it operationally: if I click on a "graphic-type" (Graphics, Graphics3D, Image, etc.) thingie being displayed by the front end, usually1 an orange outline appears around it, featuring "drag handles" at its corners and mid-sides.  My question here is: how can I get the current, actual image size of such a thing?
Also, I'm not interested in ways to answer this question that rely on deducing this size from knowledge of the default behaviors of the code that produced the output.  Rather, I'm looking for a method that somehow interrogates the actual item shown on the screen.

1 One exception is the output of, say, GraphicsGrid, which, depending on where one clicks on it, can get a thick gray outline around the whole grid, or an orange outline around the content of an individual cell.

A: kglr's very useful trophy from the land of undocumented functions needs to be recorded.
Suppose you have the following plot:
Plot[Sin[2 Pi t], {t, 0, 1}, ImageSize -> Tiny]

Then you can just cut and paste

{100, 54}

Note, however, that Predictions`getImageSize actually reports ImageSize plus ImageMargins, as shown in the listing below.  (The following abbreviations are used in the headings: Pred`gIS= reported by Predictions`getImageSize; IS= specified ImageSize; PRP= specified PlotRangePadding; IP= specified ImagePadding; IM=specified ImageMargins; the ImageSize was adjusted as necessary so as to keep the size of the plotted function graph invariant.)

FWIW, here's the code that generated the listing above.
example[size_, prPadding_, padding_, margins_] := Module[{plot},
   plot =
    Plot[Sin[2 Pi t], {t, 0, 1}, Frame -> True,
     Background -> LightBlue, PlotRangePadding -> prPadding,
     ImagePadding -> padding, ImageMargins -> margins,
     ImageSize -> size];
   {Predictions`getImageSize[plot], plot, size, prPadding, padding,
    margins}
   ];

Grid[Join[{{"Pred`gIS", "Sin[2 Pi t]", "IS", "PRP", "IP", "IM"}},
  example @@@
   {
    {100,          0,            0,  0},
    {100/0.8,      Scaled[0.1],  0,  0},
    {60 + 100/0.8, Scaled[0.1], 30,  0},
    {60 + 100/0.8, Scaled[0.1], 30, 15}
   }],
 Alignment -> Left,
 Dividers -> {All, {True, True, False, False, False, True}},
 Spacings -> {2, 2}]


An operator is something that you feed with one or more values (or expressions, in programming jargon) which yields another value (so that the construction itself becomes an expression). So you can think of functions or constructions that return a value (like print) as operators and those that return nothing (like echo) as any other thing.
There are three types of operators. Firstly there is the unary operator which operates on only one value, for example ! (the negation operator) or ++ (the increment operator). The second group are termed binary operators; this group contains most of the operators that PHP supports, and a list follows below in the section Operator Precedence.
The third group is the ternary operator: ?:. It should be used to select between two expressions depending on a third one, rather than to select two sentences or paths of execution. Surrounding ternary expressions with parentheses is a very good idea.
The precedence of an operator specifies how "tightly" it binds two expressions together. For example, in the expression 1 + 5 * 3, the answer is 16 and not 18 because the multiplication ("*") operator has a higher precedence than the addition ("+") operator. Parentheses may be used to force precedence, if necessary. For instance: (1 + 5) * 3 evaluates to 18. If operator precedence is equal, left to right associativity is used.
The following table lists the precedence of operators with the highest-precedence operators listed at the top of the table. Operators on the same line have equal precedence, in which case their associativity decides which order to evaluate them in.
Left associativity means that the expression is evaluated from left to right, right associativity means the opposite.
Use parentheses to increase readability of the code.
Note: Although ! has a higher precedence than =, PHP will still allow expressions similar to the following: if (!$a = foo()), in which case the output from foo() is put into $a.


Metal Tiger plc (AIM:MTR), the London Stock Exchange AIM listed investor in strategic natural resource opportunities, is pleased to provide an update regarding the exploration activities of the Company's new Joint Venture ("New JV"), Tshukudu Exploration (Pty) Ltd ("Tshukudu Exploration"), in the Kalahari Copper Belt in Botswana. The Company holds a 30% interest in Tshukudu Exploration via Metal Capital Exploration Limited, with MOD Resources Limited ("MOD") (ASX:MOD) holding the remaining 70%. For further information on the New JV, please see the Company's announcements of 18 July 2018 and 16 November 2018.
"We are delighted to report the intersection of shallow copper mineralisation on the T23 Dome, which forms part of T20 Exploration Project, 100km west of the T3 Project, and is held within the New JV.
Whilst Metal Tiger now holds an indirect interest in the T3 Project through our shareholding in MOD, we continue to explore the wider Kalahari Copper Belt in order to generate significant upside potential through the new, directly held, Tshukudu Exploration joint venture.
Following the sale of the Company's interest in the T3 Project (announced 16 November 2018), in addition to its 30% interest in the New JV, Metal Tiger holds: 31,064,220 MOD ordinary shares, representing approximately 12.5% of MOD's issued share capital; 40,673,566 unquoted options with a nil exercise price expiring on 15 November 2021; and 154,167 options over MOD ordinary shares, each exercisable at AU$0.06 per MOD ordinary share on or before 15 April 2019.
The T3 Project is located on the Kalahari Copper Belt in northern Botswana and is a Copper/Silver Project. T3 is located within the central part of the T3 Dome Complex (approximately 1,000 km2), which is the focus of rapidly increasing exploration activity undertaken by MOD. Two significant resources have been discovered to date within the T3 Dome: T1 (Mahumo deposit 100% MOD) and T3 (100% MOD).


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Brilliant dark red appearance, with refined aromas of dark plums and blackberries. On the palate the fruit is evident along with a superb soft silky texture all held together with a firm structure and good length on the finish. The wine can be enjoyed now, and will become more complex with further cellaring for a couple of decades.


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Q: Viewing MHTML (.mht) file in web page Technology at my disposal:
HTML, HTML5, LINQ, C#, ASP.net, Razor, jQuery, Javascript, Entity
I would like to view my MHTL file on my website.  Is this possible?
I tried using IFrame but this only forced a download of the file.

A: Use an browser plugin or preference, such as the following:

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*unMHT and Mozilla Archive Format plugins for Firefox

*MHTML preference in the following URL for Chrome or Opera:
chrome://flags/#save-page-as-mhtml

*MHTML URIs for IE, (but registry and HTTP headers may need configuration)


Japanese food, including Sushi and Teppanyaki. Take out available. The mushroom soup is always a crowd pleaser!
Italian cuisine. Voted #1 Best Sandwiches in Wausau by the City Pages for 2016! Check out their freezer to stock up on soups, lasagnas, etc. or grab some baked goods and a cup of coffee and enjoy free wifi and a relaxed atmosphere in the heart of downtown Wausau!
American Style sit down restaurant with a fun, unique theme! The entire restaurant is designed to look like a gold mine with slow stalactite fountains, rock walls, and even authentic mining artifacts for decor! Favorites from our office include the Italian cheese fries and Baked French Onion Soup.
Delicious, authentic Mexican food and beverages. Homemade chips, salsa and guac! Burritos bigger than your head!
Cute, custom-made cupcakes and baked goods featuring high quality ingredients. Features ice cream in summer and holiday treats in winter. There's always something new to try!
Italian style sit down dining or delivery. EXCELLENT Alfredo pizza, garlic bread, and tiramisu.
Chain pizza place in the Wisconsin area. Variety of unique toppings. Online ordering available! You're not really from central Wisconsin 'til you've tried Topperstix.
Several locations in Wausau, Weston, Stevens Point, etc. Huge, foldable slices of pizza with unique toppings like macaroni and cheese alongside traditional favorites. Garlic knots are a local favorite! Dine in or take out.
Order from a variety of different local restaurants online or over the phone! American, Chinese, Italian, and many more.
Who doesn't remember their funny commercials?
Family style deli and bakery. Everything is made from scratch in house by the third generation of the family to own this local business! Breakfast sandwiches, fresh baked bread and buns, seasonal treats, coffee cakes, and donuts. Business catering and custom orders available. The french bread, croissants, and danishes are to die for!
Small local grocery store featuring a Hmong deli. Pick up some dinner or a snack while doing your shopping. The egg rolls and sticky rice are really good!
Healthy, locally produced, and organic produce, featuring a deli and food bar right in the mall! Very friendly for special diets and vegetarian/vegan.


Banner ads that include celebrities are nothing new, and a common tactic used by marketers to improve click-thru rates. However, in most cases, the celebrities being featured aren't actually being paid for the endorsement.
Oprah has decided to do something about it, and along with Dr. Oz and The Illinois State Attorney General's Office have filed a lawsuit against more than 50 different marketers who have used their images without permission.
"The Illinois State AG has filed actions against three parties for deceptive advertising practices in the marketing of acai berry products and other dietary supplements. Please keep in mind that the regulators are choosing to directly pursue affiliate marketers for their marketing practices. The full text of the press release can be found here.
Dr. Oz and Oprah Winfrey have also filed a lawsuit in New York for copyright and trademark infringement against approximately 50 companies, including advertisers, suppliers, ad networks, and affiliates. To put it bluntly, they are very unhappy of their celebrity status being used to market dietary supplements and cosmetics, without their permission. They have specifically listed hundreds of affiliate sites they want discontinued immediately, because the URLs use their name or the sites claim endorsements from Oprah/Dr. Oz. The full story can be found here."
It's hard not to be on Oprah's side of this issue. The ads – like the one featured above – are clearly not for products and brands that Oprah would want her name affiliated with. That said, ads like these are everywhere. It will be interesting to see if the Oprah suit leads other public figures to aggressively go after those that use their image in online ads without permission.


This year's Chromebook Plus features a 12.2-inch screen with 1080p resolution, while the original model came with a 12.3-inch panel with 2,400 x 1,600 resolution. Another change I notice is that the screen has been swapped out to a lower resolution model, from a 12.3-inch 2400x1600 pixel display in the 2017 Chromebook Plus, to a 12.2-inch 1920x1080 pixel display in the V2 device.
Samsung, on Thursday, unveiled the successor to its notebook which it introduced past year. Availability beings on June 24th at Best Buy. The 2.93-pound Chromebook Plus V2 also has 4GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage, along with a microSD card slot for adding up to 400GB of additional storage. The company just announced its Chromebook Plus V2, a thin-and-light convertible that tosses out the Rockchip OP1 from the previous-generation machine in favor of an Intel Kaby Lake Celeron 3965Y. When the keyboard is flipped, it can serve as its rear camera.
Samsung didn't specifically mention Chrome OS's new ability to run containerized Linux applications in an integrated fashion, but we would be surprised if that capability didn't eventually make it to the Chromebook Plus V2.
The other notable addition is a new one megapixel front-facing camera that joins the 13 megapixel rear-facing camera.
Premium Design, Premium Experience - designed for comfort and peace of mind, with a curved-cap keyboard built to withstand spills up to 60cc. The new Chromebook Plus V2 features 16:10 aspect ratio compared to 3:2 in the previous edition. In terms of connectivity, the laptop has two USB Type-C ports, one USB 3.0 port, a microSD card reader, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Samsung Chromebook Plus (V2) offers even more functionality to users with multiple connected devices, including easy file sharing between Chromebook and mobile devices. Be sure to check out our guide to the best Chromebooks if you're in the market for a new Chrome OS device.
All the different options in this world of assassination means players can have practically countless playing experiences. Sniper Assassin can also be enjoyed in a single player mode for those who want to play as Agent 47.
Archibong said these cases were "very different" from the use of data by third-party developers in the Cambridge Analytica case. Ime Archibong, Facebook's vice-president of product partnerships, said the company disagreed with the Times report.


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An unusual results show ended with the news that Reagan Strange earned a place in the semifinals.
The headline for this article — Reagan Strange received the Instant save, while DeAndre Nico and Dave Fenley suffered elimination — seems typical for a "The Voice" results show recap.
Tuesday's "The Voice" did not, however, play out like a typical results show.
Early in the broadcast, host Carson Daly revealed that Team Adam contestant Reagan Strange was sick and unable to appear on stage during the episode.
That became a particularly noteworthy situation when news broke that Strange was one of this week's lowest-vote-getters. In the bottom three alongside fellow Team Adam member DeAndre Nico and Team Blake's Dave Fenley, Strange would need the "Instant Save" to advance to next week's Semifinal.
But whereas Nico and Fenley were able to perform in their effort to win the live Twitter vote, Strange could only watch from the stands.
Coach Adam Levine did, however, make a final case on her behalf. Levine directly urged fans to save Strange — even though her survival would mean the elimination of his other contestant DeAndre Nico.
The move predictably raised eyebrows on Twitter, with numerous fans criticizing Levine's bias.
Levine did, however, get his wish. Strange narrowly bested Nico in the live vote, thus earning a place in next week's semifinal. Nico and Fenley were accordingly eliminated.
In addition to Strange, the semifinal round will feature Team Kelly's Chevel Shepherd, Sarah Grace and Kymberli Joye, Team Jennifer's MaKenzie Thomas and Kennedy Holmes, and Team Blake's Chris Kroeze and Kirk Jay.


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Bioenergy, Energy Efficiency, Geothermal, Hydropower, Solar, Wind Power
Feed-in Tariffs Go Global: Policy in Practice
Miguel Mendonça and David Jacobs 9.17.09
London, UK [Renewable Energy World magazine] Globally, feed-in tariffs (FITs), also known as 'advanced renewable tariffs' (ARTs) or 'renewable energy payments' (REPs) in North America, have gone from strength to strength. Such schemes pay renewable energy producers a set rate (tariff) for each unit of electricity fed into the grid, and generally oblige power companies to purchase all electricity from eligible producers in their service area over a long period of time — usually 15 to 20 years.
This policy has proven to be remarkably adaptable and effective, gaining popularity in both developed and developing countries. Interest in exploiting renewable energy sources — as well as the new industrial opportunities they offer — has been prompted by the emerging crises relating to energy and economics. And the implementation of best policies to support the deployment of renewable energies has received greater priority.
Why have feed-in tariffs become the policy instrument of choice for so many diverse economies around the world? It is because feed-in tariffs are empirically proven to promote the fastest expansion of renewable electric power, at the lowest cost. They also do so more simply, transparently and democratically than other schemes. Unlike other mechanisms, such as tax credits or research and development subsidies, feed-in tariffs need cost governments nothing, being usually funded through costs spread among all electric utility customers, as part of their regular bill. They are performance-based, only paying for the actual output of renewable electricity, not just given out as a grant for purchasing the equipment.
Feed-in tariffs work so well because they are simple and inclusive, allowing all players to invest. They are more transparent than other schemes, have lower administration costs, and when designed properly — and supported by appropriate planning laws — can get deployment moving very quickly. Experience in Germany shows that the feed-in tariff was instrumental in increasing the power generated by renewable energy resources from 6.3% in 2000 to more than 15% in 2008 — an increase of more than 200% in eight years.
Generally, feed-in tariffs also accelerate the cost reduction of renewable energy technologies, making them cost-competitive with conventional energy sources at a much faster pace. At that point, no more support will be necessary. The question of how long support is necessary also depends on the ambition of the country in question. Although they can be used to meet a minimal target, they can also be applied aggressively to redirect money flows in a significant way towards creating a domestic renewable energy industry large enough to compete in the global market.
That global market will only continue to grow as oil prices begin to rise in response to the peaking of global production, which as the IEA predicts in its World Energy Outlook 2008 will occur around 2020. The ultimate goal is to reach a point at which there is no longer any need to support the renewables industry. Indeed, much of the need for support is in response to a requirement to overcome some of the barriers to wider and faster deployment, for example the subsidies that are paid to the conventional energy industry.
Feed-in tariffs can foster technological development through rapid deployment and economies of scale. This decreases the technology specific generation costs of renewable energy sources and improves their competitiveness with conventional power plants. The greater the number of well designed feed-in tariff schemes today, the sooner the costs of renewable electricity will fall below the price of conventionally produced electricity.
Renewable energy sources are already cost-competitive with conventional energy sources such as coal, gas and nuclear in some regions at peak times. Once this is the case for more widespread circumstances, feed-in tariffs will have done their job and will only be needed in exceptional cases, if at all. The costs of wind energy and certain other renewable energy technologies are already in the range of the spot market electricity price in many countries. Once countries implement cap-and-trade schemes for carbon emissions, the price of conventionally produced electricity will further increase, making renewables even more competitive.
Even though solar PV is still more expensive than electricity sold on grey power markets, it will soon reach 'grid parity,' i.e. the price that final consumers pay for the electricity. In developing countries, most renewable energy technologies are more cost-effective than expensive electricity from diesel generators. By implementing feed-in tariffs, the remaining gap between the increasing costs of fossil fuels and the decreasing costs of renewable energy will be closed faster.
Governments around the world have been experimenting with feed-in tariff schemes for more than three decades, starting with the PURPA Act in 1978. Today, empiric findings clearly indicate which design options should be part of a good feed-in tariff scheme and which features should be avoided.
An in-depth analysis of all 'basic,' 'advanced' and 'bad' feed-in tariff design options has been carried out in Powering the green economy – The feed-in tariff handbook, due in November 2009 (Earthscan). When designing feed-in tariffs, policy makers try to balance the needs for investors and consumers. Good feed-in tariffs avoid windfall profits for producers but instead provide a stable investment framework, thus lowering the investment costs and the costs for the final consumers.
A good design of feed-in tariff scheme starts with a clear definition of the eligible technologies and plants. In order to choose the eligible technology the policymaker should have a good idea about the resource potential in a given country or region. Therefore, the mapping of the regional or national potential is an important first step. A large number of technologies should be covered by the feed-in tariff scheme, promoting both firm renewable energy technologies, including biomass, hydro power, concentrating solar thermal and geothermal, and fluctuating technologies, such as wind power and solar PV. This way, the policymaker can lay an early foundation for providing back-up power for renewable energy technologies from other renewable energy technologies —e a prerequisite for the sought-after 100% renewable energy system.
By definition, feed-in tariff schemes should be technology specific. Providing specific support for each renewable energy technology is a major advantage of feed-in tariffs over other support mechanisms, such as Tradable Green Certificates or Renewable Portfolio Standards. It does not make sense to support all renewable energy technologies equally, simply because they all fall under the generic term 'renewable energy.' The requirements for large wind power projects are certainly different to the requirements of solar PV systems on, say the roof of a private household, and so are the costs for electricity generation. Depending on the technology, the generation costs of green electricity can range from 3–40 Eurocent/kWh (4–56 US cent/kWh). In Germany, for instance, onshore wind receives 5.0–9.2 Eurocent/kWh (7.1–13 US cent/kWh), depending on the location of the power plant. Solar PV receives up to 43.01 Eurocent/kWh (60.75 US cent/kWh) if on a home, or 31.94 Eurocent/kWh (45.11 US cent/kWh) if on a ground-mounted site.
Feed-in tariffs should therefore be calculated based on the generation costs of each technology. This approach will automatically lead to technology specific tariffs. A clear and transparent tariff calculation methodology should be developed by the responsible ministry, including investment costs, grid-connection costs, operation and maintenance costs, and fuel costs in the case of biomass and biogas.
In some countries, the tariff level has been related to the electricity cost for the final consumer or the avoided external costs. Both approaches, however, have proven to be hardly effective as the tariff level only coincidentally matched the generation costs of a specific technology. Basing the tariff level calculation on the generation costs is the best solution for providing sufficiently high tariffs on the one hand and avoiding wind fall profits on the other hand. Good feed-in tariffs normally provide an internal rate of return of 5%–10%.
When the share of renewable electricity increases, certain countries have opted to also implement location-specific tariffs. This approach has so far only been used in the case of wind energy. Theoretically, location-specific tariffs can also be implemented for other technologies with dispersed resource availability in a given countries, such as solar PV. Location-specific tariffs for wind energy will lead to a more evenly distribution of wind power plants in a given territory, since producers will not only be bound to the most windy spots. This can reduce local opposition to wind farms, as the windiest spots are normally located in touristy areas at the coastline or the top of mountains, where they are most visible. If this approach is chosen, all wind power producers normally receive a flat-rate tariff for the first few years of operation. In this time period, the average full-load hours are measured and the remuneration for the following years is fixed accordingly. This way, windfall profits for producers at very good locations can be avoided. Even though location-specific tariffs allow for wind power generation at less than optimal locations, the tariff scheme should nonetheless grant higher profitability rates at the most windy locations. Otherwise, the overall efficiency of the feed-in tariff scheme could be undermined.
A Sliding Support Scale
In order to avoid windfall profits and anticipate technological learning over time, many feed-in tariff schemes are automatically reducing tariff payment on an annual basis. The reduced tariffs, however, only affect new installation. The annual tariff reduction for new installations, so-called tariff degression, also provides an incentive for technology learning and cost reduction in the renewable energy sector, counteracting the argument that price-based support mechanisms hamper technological progress.
The degression rate depends on the expected learning potential of each technology. Rather mature technologies, such as wind power, normally have no or a very low degression rate, for example 1% per year. Other technologies with a larger learning potential, such as solar PV, might have a degression rate of up to 10% per year, putting pressure on the producers to continue research and development. Since anticipating the optimal degression rate is difficult, some countries have implemented the so-called flexible tariff degression – relating the degression rate to the market growth of a certain technology. In times of high market growth, the tariff will decrease more rapidly than in times of low market growth.
With an increasing share of renewable electricity, policymakers will be looking for the implementation of design options to better integrate green power into the main electricity markets. Wind energy producers are sometimes obliged to forecast their production, but at the same time they might receive additional tariff payment for auxiliary grid services, such as the capacity to support voltage dips and the provision of reactive power for grid stability. Besides, producers that can control the timing of power output are sometimes paid higher tariffs during peak demand and a lower tariff in off-peak periods. Legislators can also grant additional tariff payment for the combination of several fluctuating and non-fluctuating technologies, for example the combination of electricity produced from wind power, biomass and solar power.
The most prominent design option for better market integration is the so-called 'premium' feed-in tariff. Under this scenario, the renewable power producer sells electricity on the conventional power market and receives an additional premium feed-in tariff on top of the commercial value. Together, both remuneration components should provide enough income for sufficient profitability. Logically, this premium feed-in tariff is lower than the normal, fixed feed-in tariff, and in this case, the renewable electricity producer can no longer rely on the above mentioned purchase obligation. Premium feed-in tariffs are already in use in a number of European countries, including Spain, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Slovenia.
Such tariffs should be optional to fixed feed-in tariff schemes as they normally favour large power producers such as utilities which have already gathered experience in selling electricity on the market. For small producers, such as a household with a roof-mounted solar PV panel, selling the electricity on the market is not an option as the transaction costs are typically too high. In order to avoid windfall profits, the legislator has to anticipate the market price of electricity as this becomes one component of the overall remuneration scheme. Since predicting electricity prices has become increasingly difficult in times of volatile fuel prices, it is recommended to implement both a price cap and floor. The cap prevents the overall remuneration exceeding a certain limit, thus avoiding windfall profits. The floor guarantees a minimum level of revenue for generators.
Where Are Feed-in Tariffs Programs in Existence or Being Explored?
Feed-in tariffs are now in use in around 50 countries, states and provinces. Table 1 (left) lists them as at the end of 2008. Countries with feed-in tariffs in jurisdictions below national level are asterisked (*). Feed-in laws are also under discussion or in development in such places as the UK, Finland, New Zealand, Japan, Nigeria, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. Meanwhile, many states, provinces and territories in North America and Australia are interested, largely due to the huge job creation, technology export and energy security potential.
Anglophone countries have for some time been associated with an ideological type of opposition to feed-in tariffs, considering them insufficiently compatible with markets, as they 'fix prices'. However, feed-in tariffs can integrate renewable energies into the conventional power market (see below) contradicting this argument. It is something of a breakthrough, in the UK and US especially, that politicians are warming to the concept. As already noted, the academic literature is quite unanimous in its appraisal of the efficiency and effectiveness of the various feed-in tariff support schemes. In view of the facts, and advocacy work which has been done by NGOs, trade associations and coalitions of diverse interest groups, the evidence in support of adopting a feed-in tariff is compelling.
The UK government intends to introduce a law in April 2010 for renewable electricity (and renewable heat a year later), and has enormous backing from a particularly knowledgeable and well organized advocacy coalition. There is already a sense that certain things will be done differently from other countries, including the funding mechanism, and it remains to be seen whether an effective mechanism will come forth.
Canada has had success with a new law for Ontario, which is part of the Green Energy Act — a much bigger bill aimed at promoting renewables and efficiency measures throughout the province, hopefully leading to the creation of around 90,000 jobs. It is undoubtedly very progressive by North America standards, and is likely to set the bar for policies across the continent for some time.
The United States has seen laws introduced in the municipality of Gainesville, Florida, and the states of Vermont and California, although the latter is very limited in scale and scope. Vermont has a much more full-featured law, and looks impressive. Many more states are now working on legislation and campaigns. At the federal level, Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) proposed a national feed-in tariff in 2008, backed by many renewable energy companies and organizations, However, the bill did not even pass committee stage in the House of Representatives. Another federal bill was introduced in 2009, but faces criticism for creating meaninglessly low tariffs.
Australia has also seen calls for federal-level legislation, but despite a national renewable energy target of 20% by 2020 being set, so far the action has again been at the state and territory level — with eight either in place or proposed. Policy design differs from one jurisdiction to another, as do tariff levels, eligible technologies, and so on. The purpose is mainly to encourage the uptake of small-scale renewables — typically targeting solar PV under 30 kWp at the time of writing.
Many would like to see more technologies being supported, including wind, bioenergy and even large-scale power systems, such as solar. The majority of state-based feed-in tariffs are 'net' meaning they only pay for the excess electricity exported (production minus consumption) to the grid, instead of the total 'gross' generation. This difference can significantly impact the incentive received and therefore the payback period of the renewable energy system. There have even been protest rallies and online petitions for net schemes, and against gross feed-in tariffs. In November 2008, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to investigate the harmonization of feed-in tariff legislations; COAG then set out 'National Principles for Feed-in Tariff Schemes'. These principles do not appear to support the implementation of a gross feed-in tariff, but do seek to streamline the state-based feed-in tariffs to be nationally consistent.
Besides these examples, many developing countries and emerging economies have currently implemented, or plan to implement, feed-in tariff schemes, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Ghana, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. Renewable energies have an incredible potential in those countries, considering the fact that 1.6 billion people around the world have no access to electricity.
Furthermore, feed-in tariffs can also operate in monopolized or oligopolized markets, as the combination of tariff payment and purchase obligation establishes a stable framework for independent power producers. African countries are especially interesting in this respect, as they show that nowadays renewable energy sources are an essential part of each and every energy mix. The cost analysis of the Kenyan feed-in tariff scheme, for instance, reveals that the promoted renewable energy technologies — wind, biomass and hydro power — are already more cost efficient that conventional diesel generators. In the light of increasing prices for conventional energy sources, renewable energy technologies can stabilize or even decrease energy costs.
When implementing feed-in tariffs in developing countries, certain special design options have to be considered. First, the financing mechanism may have to be modified as electricity consumers in these countries are usually more vulnerable to electricity price increases. The tariff payment is normally financed by distributing costs amongst all ratepayers. In developing countries, some of the additional costs might have to be covered by a national fund for renewable energy deployment. This approach could undermine the stability of the support mechanism as governmental money or money from international donors will be included. Second, developing countries might need to limit the installed renewable capacity in order to control costs for the final consumer. Even though such caps have had disruptive effects in the case of many industrialized countries, developing countries often still have national plans for future investment in new power generation capacity.
Feed-in tariffs can also be adopted to promote renewable energies in mini-grids — small-scale electricity networks based on a local and often isolated distribution system. Recently, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission adapted feed-in tariffs to those actors involved in typical mini-grids. These modifications merely refer to the financing mechanism, since costs that occur in an isolated mini-grid cannot be distributed equally amongst all electricity consumers in a given country. According to those involved in the power production business — Independent Power Producers, Renewable Energy Service Companies or private households — the money flow has to be adopted, including revenue sources from the national level.
The Feed-in Tariff Goal
Despite the fact that feed-in tariffs have proven to be the most successful support mechanism in bringing about new renewable power at low costs, the specific design is crucial for effective and efficient support. The experience with this policy instrument all over the world clearly indicates which best practice design criteria will have to be included in well-functioning feed-in tariffs.
Today, many countries have overcome their ideological barriers towards 'fixed price' support mechanisms as their performance is clearly superior to other support instruments. The 50 countries, states and provinces all over the world that already operate with feed-in tariffs, play an important role in the global transition to a renewable energy-based system. They can also contribute to overcoming the current economic crisis and powering the green economy.
Miguel Mendonça and David Jacobs are co-authors of Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-in Tariff Handbook, due to be published in November 2009 by Earthscan.


I would like to wish all of you a happy and prosperous new year.
I don't know what prosperous means, but it goes with the saying.
and continue to keep our paws crossed that all furry kids find forever homes.
We are gonna watch the Rose Parade too!!!
THAT is a grrreat way to start the new year.
Hope your year is PAWsperus too.
Hi Benny, Lily, and 'da mama!
Wesa think your resolutions are fantastic. Wesa wish you all a blessed 2013.
I think I will add "eat more cheese" to my list. Happy New Year.
Great list Benny, we forgot eat more cheese also, and Bites will try to quit barking at the TV!
A Wonderful 2013 filled with fun and laughter and much joy.
With your outfit yesterday we thought for sure you'd still be dancing the night away! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 2013 to you and your Family!
Love the photos you both look sooooooo cute! I just love your squishy faces! I like your New Years Resolutions, the eating of more cheese is my favorite one and I too will be crossing my Puggy Paws for those dogs in need of forever homes!
Happy New Year to both of you, but I think your elephant needs a rest.
We join you in wishing loving homes for all the fur kids out there. That would be amazing!
Happy New Year to our favourite Frenchies and Mom!
ps, that is the sort of resolution we can live with.
Oh, those are some great resolutions!! Monkey noises are funny! I do the same things when I hear doggies bark on TV!
Have a great New Year Guys!
Eat more cheese? That TOTALLY sounds like a resolution we can keep! We won't make monkey noises at the teevee, but we can't promise that we won't bark... Happy New Year!
We agree with your New Year's wish. Have a warm and blessed New Year!
But if we don't make noise at the door bell or tv, who will?
Lot's and lot's of cheese we say!
Happy 2013 Benny & Lily!!!!!
Happy New Year, Benny and Lily!
Yappy new years! "Prosperous" means more bacon, which is always worth aspiring too.
those are darned good wishes for the New Year! Happy New Year to you...oh and I would love to hear those "monkey noises"
Those are some great wishes, Benny & Lily. We especially like the last one. ...oh, and the doorbell one.
Happy New Year! Great resolutions. Totally on board with the cheese thing.
Henry is resolving to eat more treats. Happy 2013!
Happy New Years! we wish you a fun and healthy 2013!
It looks like it was a fun pawty. Happy New Year.
Eating Cheese sounds fabulous! Why didn't we make any resolutions this year! We will definately work on the eating more cheese thing!
Wow, I watched the parade too! How fun. I really like that cool elephant on this post. My resolution is to do a better job of training my peeps...they need some work!
Happy New Year to you and lots of wishes for a fun 2013!
Those are some great resolutions. You and your family have an awesome new year!


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Peraia-lighthouse pier
This very photogenic pier is found in the eastern suburbs of Thessaloniki, in Peraia.
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During the ottoman domination this area belonged to a Turkish bey. After the Minor Asia catastrophe in 1922, Greek refugees came and settled here. Because the refugees came from different regions, they disagreed over the name they should give their new home. Eventually there was a draw and "Peraia" was the winning name.
The area is dominated by its long beach, which in past decades was a major attraction especially during summertime. People from Thessaloniki would take a boat and come here to take a swim and relax. These days it's not such a popular destination anymore, but still remains a beautiful place by the sea, worth a visit.
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has congratulated the MFM Football Club on its victory at the inaugural Church World Cup which ended in Goa, India on Sunday.
In a letter of congratulations addressed to the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr. Daniel Olukoya yesterday, and signed by General Secretary, Musa Amadu, the NFF lauded the feat and affirmed that it was worthy of recognition and good mention.
"The new Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation is determined to celebrate excellence in all spheres of the Nigeria game, and the laudable achievement of your football team, which has brought honour to our dear country, deserves recognition and good mention.
"We also want to express deep appreciation of the NFF and the Nigeria football family for the keen interest of the General Overseer and the entire leadership of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries in football, and also commend your huge investment in the football sector, which has seen MFM Football Club become one of the strongest teams in the Nigeria National League – the second tier of our country's domestic football.
"The NFF believes that the excellent feat of MFM FC in India will encourage the leadership of your church to invest even more in football for the benefit of the youth of our nation," he noted.


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Mary Redmond (1863 – 16 January 1930) was an Irish sculptor born in Nenagh, County Tipperary in 1863, and then raised in Ardclough, County Kildare, where her father came to work in the limestone quarries.

Early life
At school in Ardclough she modelled the soft clay from a sinkhole near her home into clay figures. At the age of nine she was sent to live in Dublin to attend Primary school. While there she worked in the studio of Thomas Farrell where she created her first work 'a hand on a cushion'. She was accepted into the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where she studied drawing and painting, though she was drawn to working with clay.

Career
Her most famous work, a statue of Father Mathew in Dublin's O'Connell Street was inaugurated in 1893 (or 1891 )  (8 February). She won a contest to create the sculpture, an achievement for a woman artist at the time. According to Nora J Murray's article in Capuchin Annual (1932) the male model for the Father Mathew statue took the concept of getting plastered a little too far, was dismissed for drunkenness and was later convicted for vandalising her work.

Works
Amongst her other works were a bust of Gladstone, modelled at his home; a bust of Edmund Dwyer Gray (of which thirty repeats were made) a presentation shield to Lord Wolseley and a memorial bust of William Martin.

Later life and death
Redmond married Dr W Dunn, from Florence, in London in 1893. They moved to Italy and lived near Galileo's tower in Florence. She died there on 16 January 1930.

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