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The Long Road to IRENA
Cooperation and Support
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Global 100 % RE
The Challenge of Renewable Energy Market Deployment
Article published by Wolfgang Palz, WCRE Chairman, March, 2006
The Strategic Importance of the Renewable Energies for Human Society and the Energy Markets
Energy is a basic need of our economy. Hence, security of its supply is a political imperative. That energy security is best secured from domestic resources such as the renewable ones, i.e. those being derived from the sun, the wind, agriculture and forestry, and water flows.
Energy is also, however, the major driving force for climate change that is a great threat to our society. Here again, the renewable energies (RE) are the ideal solution for being in harmony with nature and exempt from harmful emissions.
Another advantage of the progressive introduction of the RE into the energy markets is their natural distribution close to the demand in contrast to the conventional energies; the monopolistic nature of the latter leads to excesses in market prices and uncontrolled industrial development policies that place priority on financial profit.
Yet today the world relies primarily on the polluting and exhaustible fossil energies. This situation is unsustainable: except for coal, all fossil resources, including Uranium, are running out in the foreseeable future. The technology for "clean coal" that involves dumping the CO2 under ground is not available.
One cannot repeat it enough; the solution is the speedy deployment of the RE in the markets combined with a more rational use and conservation of all energy. The technologies are available already and competent simulations have shown that the RE can and should become dominant within the coming 50 years in all energy markets around the world.
RE on their Way to Conquer the Global Energy Markets
Thanks to proactive energy policies, the RE have entered, at least in certain countries, an unprecedented market deployment. While 10 or 15 years ago, they occupied at best some niche markets, nowadays they are the "talk of the town". In 2005 solar companies were the stars on the German stock market and attracted billions of investment money. In otherwise stagnating economies, yearly growth rates of up to 100% for some market segments of the RE have been achieved in some countries.
Most public attention today is focusing on wind power and photovoltaics (PV) that are actually best examples for the global nature of the markets. Hence, export plays a big role in the industry. Vestas, the no1 turbine manufacturer of the world wind market, exports all its production. This has historic reasons: when Vestas was started up, Denmark was a world leader; but today its domestic market has virtually collapsed as a result of lacking political support. The situation in PV is to some extend similar. Sharp that leads the world's PV manufacturing capacity exports most of its production: here likewise the reasons are historical. Japan was for many years the world market leader but now over-seas markets have become stronger.
It is important to note that larger export does not really trigger the development of national markets in just any countries; the investments do not primarily go to places were the need is highest but rather where the return on investment is optimal – thanks to national legislation and governmental directives (in Europe the EU Commission is an important driving force as well) that open the market in a particular country.
As a result, market support with financial incentives or obligations is essential for development. The fact that those are extremely variable from country to country explains why, depending on their effectiveness, in only a few of them the markets are exploding while in most others they are hardly moving at all.
Ways of Market Stimulation for RE
Most RE are unable to compete in the energy markets because of their higher cost in purely commercial terms; if "external" costs were included into the markets, the RE would clearly be the winner. The measures of political support are a way to compensate for this disadvantage. There are many options for such support; they actually come in a confusing variety. Here is a quick overview:
In the EU, RE electricity priority in all grids; grid operators have the obligation to buy it at any time
Net metering of electricity consumption in buildings etc. that is popular in the United States for PV
Investment subsidies which were given e.g. for the solar roof programmes in Japan and Germany (phased out by now) or for solar heat collectors, pellet stoves, etc. in Germany and elsewhere
Tax credits that are the main form of support for wind power or PV plants in the United States
Quota systems as are used in the UK and in other places to support investments in wind power plants
Feed-in tariffs for the electricity fed into the grid at a kWh price which covers the actual production cost with a profit; it is used for wind power, PV, bio-power, etc. in Germany and many other countries; in some countries the price paid does not fully cover the cost. France combines tax credits and feed-in tariffs for PV current
Green tariffs where the customer is given the opportunity to buy RE electricity at a higher price (probably to "feel good"). In 2005, 600 utilities in the United States offered green power with customers among big companies, government agencies, universities etc.
Tradable green certificates, for instance in Belgium, for wind current in Italy, etc.
National tendering for pre-determined volumes of power, bio-fuels, etc.; used in France, Italy, the UK
Mandatory measures: the blending obligation for bio-fuels in Brazil, Austria, Germany; the planning of the City of Barcelona to get 100 000 m2 of solar collectors installed by 2010; Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) in many US States, etc.
Reduced excise tax for bio-fuels e.g. in Germany, etc. that is allowed in EU Member States under a Directive
The scheme that is among the most successful for RE power is that employing feed-in tariffs. It allows the investors to have an acceptable profit but it works well only in those countries that keep the administrative hurdles to a minimum.
Most recently, the competitiveness of the RE got an additional market push thanks to the steep increase of market prices for electricity and heating fuels in the global markets; and that trend is not going to stop any time in future. On the other hand are the RE visibly entering mass production and the cost decreases we have witnessed in the past years are expected to accelerate. Future trends are all favourable for the expansion of the RE markets.
What has been achieved: RE Markets Today
The following is an up date with figures for the end of 2004 and when available for the end of 2005.
The "Global Status Report RE 2005" published in November 2005 describes the global power market for 2004 as follows:
3 800 GW total power capacity of all kind around the world
of which 880 GW RE i.e. 720 GW as large hydro and 160 GW as new RE
of the new RE, 61 GW small hydro, 48 GW wind power, 39 GW bio-power, and PV 3 GW
This can be illustrated by the fact that 4% of power capacity is made up from new RE. Together with the share of large hydro it equals the total capacity of all nuclear plants.
It is also worth mentioning that 360 million households are not connected to the grid; 16 million of them produce their electricity from biogas and 2 million from PV (in very small quantities)
As far as bio-fuels are concerned, Brazil relies for 44% of its total gasoline consumption on bio-alcohol from cane; the US blends 30% of its gasoline with bio-fuels from corn. In the last few years the US bio-ethanol production has been strongly increased. Globally, the world relies for 3% of its petrol consumption on liquid bio-fuels.
The global investments in RE are said to have been 30 billion $ in 2004, 20% of total investment of the power industry.
End quote "Global Status Report" www.ren21.net
Germany is today one of the market leaders for the new RE. Since 2005, 10.2 % of all current comes from the RE; 83 million tonnes of CO2 have been avoided and 160 000 new jobs were created.
For 2005, in Germany alone, investments in all RE reached 8.7 billion € and O&M business 7.3 billion € so that globally figures must have been much higher than the 30 billion $ mentioned here above.
In the following we will focus on the market situation for PV solar energy and wind power. A detailed analysis of solar water heaters, passive solar heating and cooling, bio-gas, pellets for heating, bio-fuels, biomass power, small hydro, geothermal heat and power, ocean currents, etc. are going beyond the purpose of this paper as they are involved, at least at present, in more local captive markets.
At the end of 2005, global installed capacity reached 5GW; in the EU it reached 1.7 GW (end of 2004 1GW) with the lion's share of 1.4 GW in Germany. 90% of all PV plants in the industrialised countries are grid connected. Only some 15% of global shipments are deployed in the developing countries in off-grid applications.
Globally, new installations in 2005 reached 1400 MW, i.e. 10 times more than in 1997 (126 MW then); the 2005 installation rate in the EU was 700 MW; i.e. 10 times more than in 2000: the growth rate in the last few years in the EU was much higher than the world average.
The driving force in the EU was the German market that stands at 80% of installed EU capacity. At 600 MW of new installation, a world record in 2005, Germany installed last year 15 times more than in the year 2000. In comparison, Japan installed last year 280 MW, and the US as no3 90 MW.
300 000 PV systems are installed in Germany on building structures, half of them on farm houses. Germany represents a large import market for PV. But it has also a vital industry of its own; domestic PV production increased by 66% last year and export stood at 34%. PV business was 3 billion € last year. German industry aims at a turnover of 20 billion € by 2020 and an export rate of 70%.
Solarbuzz, the Californian Consultancy, forecasts already for 2010 a yearly revenue of +/- 20 billion $ compared to 11 billion $ today and annual PV installations of some 3.5 GW for the world market. Clean Edge Inc., another US consultancy, projects for 2015 a global PV market of more than 50 billion $. One can note that the US projections are more aggressive than the German ones.
The market capitalisation in the PV sector stands today at 20 billion $ with European companies accounting for half of it. Just in 2005, the PV industry raised more than 1.8 billion $ in the capital markets, most of it in Germany, the US, China etc.
Solar Heat Collectors
More than PV, solar heat collectors are local markets with much less international trade involved. China is by far the market leader in this field. 40 million solar water heaters are in operation there. It has an installation rate of approximately 10 million m2 a year that is 6 or 7 times more than the European market.
At the end of 2005, globally installed capacity reached almost 60 GW, that is 10 times more than in 1996. Germany musters the largest capacity that is 18.4 GW since last year. Globally 11.7 GW were newly installed last year, 2.4 GW in the US and 1.8 respectively in Spain and Germany. The total business is estimated at 12 billion $, half of it raised by the German industry. The leading wind manufacturers are currently Vestas from Denmark, Gamesa from Spain, and Enercon from Germany.
The EU has reached a wind capacity of 40 GW now and expects 75 GW by 2009. Global capacity should well exceed 100 GW at that time.
It is interesting to note that the global wind market's volume is 10 times larger than that of the PV market in terms of installed power. PV business is more significant, however, in term of revenues than that figure suggests: it reaches already the global wind market in terms of revenues today. It is expected that future wind and PV businesses will develop globally at the same pace with wind reaching a 50 billion $ market volume in 2015, too, and a global capacity of over 200 GW; more than half of that should become installed in Europe.
Technologies and Challenges ahead
The technologies that are currently available in global markets are mature as far as PV and wind power are concerned. Innovation is always desirable; many promising R&D routes are being followed by an important international PV community. Major breakthroughs should not be expected, however; they are not even necessary. Detailed analysis of the experts in technology has demonstrated that with currently available technologies the cost levels for competitiveness on the classical energy markets can be achieved. The challenge is to enter real mass production and solve all kind of teething problems. In that respect a lot of essential progress could already be made during the last ten to fifteen years, progress on which to build further in the years to come.
Crystalline silicon solar cells dominate the global PV markets of today; only 10% of the demand are met by thin-film cells, such as amorphous and microcrystalline silicon, CdTe, and CuInS2; organic cells and many others are only research items today. For thin-film cells the room for improvement in terms of efficiency and stability is greater than for the more classical silicon cells.
The efficiency of the crystalline silicon cells and modules on the market are typically 15% when they are poly-crystalline and 17% from mono-crystalline material. Only one company is successfully offering modules with 20% efficiency solar cells and expects this year a sales volume of 210 million $.
An issue of much concern for crystalline silicon is today's limitation of feedstock on the global markets. It has the severe consequence that demand for PV modules cannot be met just because of this bottleneck; the exploding demand took the chemical industry specialising in electronic and solar-grade silicon by surprise. The semiconductor industry absorbed 22,000 tonnes of silicon for chips in 2004, the PV industry needed 16,000 tonnes and both together exceeded total production capacity. Silicon feedstock capacity rose 12% last year; that was insufficient and long-term contract prices increased by up to 25%. It will take 2 or 3 more years to get rid of this particular bottleneck.
Module sizes come today typically in the range of 100 W or 0.8 m2. Full systems come in sizes of a few mW for watches all the way up to tens of MW for ground mounted plants; the most popular market segment is that of a few kW for roofs and house façades.
The theoretical efficiency for silicon cells lies at approximately 26%. Gaining a few percentage points towards the ultimate efficiency is less important, however, than to decrease production costs by 50% or so towards 1000 € a kW that is today's real challenge. On very sophisticated multi-layer structures of alternative materials a maximum efficiency of 40% has been demonstrated. But the associated cost makes such devices eventually suitable only for special applications, e.g. space vehicles.
Further improvements of the PV market products are urgent and necessary on the PV system level: inverters, storage devices, monitoring and control, support structures, certification. Of highest priority are the following two items (1) building integration and (2) PV systems tailored for the markets of the poor in the developing countries.
Modern wind turbines are technical wonders. When Denmark introduced in the late 1970 the first wind turbines in modern times, they had a power rating of 20 kW or so. Nowadays the market leaders have a power rating 100 times higher! 92% of the newly installed turbines on the German market in 2005 had a diameter between 60 (1.5MW) and 90 meters (3MW); the over all average was 1.7 MW. In Spain it was 1.3 MW on average. Towers are currently up to 100 meters high; when the turbines are well designed – not all of them are – those enormous structures don't look like colossus in the landscape but rather like most elegant pieces of art.
It should not be expected that the upward trend for turbine sizes will go on for ever. There are physical limitations and it is wise not to go against the laws of physics anyway. To achieve lowest kWh cost from the wind, optimal turbine sizes range between 1.5 and 3 MW. As far as off-shore plants are concerned, turbine sizes can be higher taking into account the higher costs for infra-structure and O&M for particular turbines in the sea. Prototypes of 6 MW turbines have been built in Germany with an eye to these markets. There are considerable uncertainties about the eventual kWh costs from off-shore plants; they could well be higher than on-land but operating time over the year could be longer.
The average energy yield of all the 18.5 GW installed in Germany is 2000 hours of equivalent full operation at nominal power. 3 northern States in Germany rely presently for more than 30% of their electricity demand on wind current. But over all, only 40% of all newly installed German turbines are sited in the coastal States, the rest inland.
kWh costs have never stopped decreasing over the last few years thanks to two phenomena: larger turbine sizes closing the gap with the physical optimum and larger market volumes. This latter trend is going to continue.
In terms of technology, not much new technology needs to be invented as today's innovative spread is really impressive; just looking at the significant range of turbine sizes between 64 and 80 meters, the turbine technologies on the German market for the 687 installations of last year were like follows: half of all turbines were gearless (some with permanent magnets, others not), the other half had a gear, almost all were pitch controlled, only 5% had active stall, none had stall regulation, 80% had variable speed, 15% fixed speed and 5% had 2 fixed rotor speeds, all machines had 3 blades.
Market introduction is in full swing, but it will take efforts on another scale moving the introduction rates of a few percentage points as of today towards the 50% and more of RE in the global energy markets to make a real difference. Markets have not only to grow in size but need spreading from the few pioneering markets to larger regions.
But we are getting closer.
McIlvaine in the US projects that globally 69 billion $ a year will be invested on average on the RE over the next two decades, as part of an over all investment for all energies of 304 billion $ per annum during that time. It is interesting to note that in this analysis investment in wind power will be 30 billion $, twice as much than that for nuclear power.
We can only agree with Clean Edge, another US publication, which says: "It won't be an easy road ahead. Change never is. But for those that heed the call and can discern the signposts, untold opportunities await."
(C) 2019 WCRE


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Lake Spotlight
The Golden Year
Gabi Cuellar, Reporter
The school was founded in 1972, and this year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the school, and this golden year, if you will, will influence some of the events being held such as homecoming.
Over the years the school has undergone many changes, from the student body to the physical building itself.
"Lake has a much more diverse student population; it's one of the things I love so much about it now. The old building was straight from the 70's, everything was avocado green and yellow. It was very retro," Alumni and teacher Mrs. Hawkins said. "The new building is so beautiful. When my class had their 20th reunion, I gave a tour of the school and my old classmates were shocked at how amazing and advanced the building is."
Alongside the building changes, the traditions have also morphed as the clock ticked by, and the times and students grew, but the spirit in events such as homecoming have remained the same.
"Homecoming was always fun. When I was a student, the parade ended at the student parking lot (where Krueger field house sits now) and we had a big bonfire," Mrs. Hawkins said. "It was always a big favorite. Our mums were big but nothing like they are now! Actually, when I was in high school, you only wore a mum if you had a date to the dance. I love that tradition has changed because mums are the best part of homecoming!"
For Mrs. Hawkins, this year the anniversary has greater significance and meaning since she gets to witness her daughter be part of the 50th graduating class this year.
"My oldest is graduating from Lake this year in the 50th class. I graduated in 1998, in the 25th class," Ms. Hawkins said. "It is a very special year for me and my family (and Ms. Garland too! She graduated with me, and our kids will graduate in the same class)."
The year's significance varies from person to person, but the students and families of the graduating class aren't the only ones being impacted. The 50th will also influence this year's homecoming theme.
"We just started thinking more of what we think would look upscaled and like modern kind of, so we're kind of thinking, an old Hollywood, gold and red carpet. So, that's where we're going right now," student council member Allison Poole said.
The student council is hoping to make this year's homecoming dance a memorable event that people will never forget.
"The 50th year just influenced us based on us wanting to make it so that people will remember, and it won't just be one of those dances that you don't remember; it will be something that people will remember years from now."
In the past few years, the hardest thing about planning the homecoming dance has been Covid restrictions.
"Covid just made things harder because there was a lot of unknown so we wanted to do stuff, but we weren't sure if we were allowed to, and getting approval for it during covid would take too long, so we couldn't do a lot of stuff," Poole said. "Now that that's not really a factor anymore, there's really no regulations except the ones we've always had in place."
No one can see or foretell the future, but Poole hopes that as another 50 years roll by, the school unites and grows as a community.
"I hope that it expands based on what the school does, like with the clubs and stuff. I feel like the past couple years, ever since covid the clubs have gone down in what they do and they're not as strong as they were in the past, so I really hope that as years continue to go on that the clubs just grow stronger, and they do more stuff and the community like the school community just becomes more involved with each other and doing more memorable things instead of just sticking to the books," Poole said.
Here's to 50 years of memories and many more to come!
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GreatLifeKC has added Blue Springs Country Club to its roster of area golf courses, with the anticipation of restoring the club while also bringing their philosophy of combining golf and fitness to the Blue Springs area.
While the quality course itself is unchanged, the GreatLife acquisition has re-invigorated management of the club, which is now under the direction of former Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles defensive back Larry Marshall.
Marshall, who relocated to the Kansas City area after his NFL playing days, describes himself first as a businessman, but also as someone who enjoys the game.
"I'm an avid golfer," he said. "I love to play."
Marshall's business acumen will be put to the test as the club has recently fallen onto hard times.
"I honestly don't know anything about behind the scenes (at a country club)," he said. "But, I've owned my own business. It's just like running any other business. I'm sure that's why (GreatLife) put me here."
Built in 1969 by Colonel John Davis, the 6,590-yard course was one of the best courses to play in eastern Jackson County. As new courses came into the area and the golf business hit a snag, the club changed ownership several times.
"The last couple of owners, the last three to four years, they really let it go," he said. "But GreatLife's thing is, we want to move on from day one."
This makes for some busy days for Marshall, who took over management of the course April 1.
Among the plans for GreatLife will be adding a fitness club.
"We have a separate, free-standing building," Marshall explained of the building which current serves as the pro shop. "Eventually, what they will do is put the fitness center over there and the pro shop will be moved into the middle of the dining room. The fitness center be open 24-by-7. Everybody will have a key and you can come in there any time and work out."
As part of the GreatLife experience, access to the fitness center will be included with memberships at Blue Springs CC.
In Marshall's previous life as a professional athlete, he had a lot of experience with workout facilities, but he was pleasantly surprised by the variety and quality of equipment anticipated for the fitness center.
"We saw new treadmills that are motorless," he said. "It works just like a regular treadmill, it goes as fast as you want, as slow as you want, and there's no maintenance. I was kind of dumbfounded. (GreatLife) are into the fitness side of it."
While a firm date has not yet been set for opening the fitness center, Marshall expects it to happen soon.
In the meantime, he is also working to renovate the 19th Hole, a popular place for food and beverages.
"It's something that I found out everybody likes about this club," he said. "You can drive your cart right up to the door and get yourself sandwiches, beer, juice, anything you want, and it doesn't eat up a lot of time."
It has already received a new paint job and updates to its equipment. Marshall is in the process of getting health department approval and expects it to re-open this spring, and he is also working to upgrade the façade of the building.
"That's the little things to get the course back to being ready," he said. "Structurally, first impressions go a long way. We've had contractors out; all that will be addressed shortly. People will look at the club and go 'wow'. And not only the golfers, but the whole neighborhood will see what improvements we've made to the club."
GreatLife is also investing in a new fleet of golf carts.
Marshall doesn't expect to see any changes to the course layout and praises the overall condition of the course.
"Of all the things I've heard (since) I've been here, everybody loves the condition of the course," he said. The superintendent is doing a great job there. Every day I hear people say the course looks great. We've had great feedback. The greens themselves came back extremely quick; everybody likes how they roll, and I'm talking about the members who play here all the time. They're the guys I've got to impress."
Marshall wants to continue to impress the existing members by maintaining the course at a high level and bringing back some of the club's original beauty, but he also has the task of growing membership and he welcomes the challenge to improve the club while attracting new faces.
"The thing is they have to see some improvements," he said. "Like I tell my members, it's like any other business. Memberships bring in business revenue, revenue brings in improvements to the club. We can build on that. I tell them 'this is your club, not anybody who works here'."
The club had 81 members when GreatLife took over and has increased to 130; Marshall hopes to increase that number further.
"I have a goal of 200 by the end of the year," he said. "That's what I would like to do. We have our everyday members that come out and play all the time, but we need new blood. With the club being 50 years old, we need to get to those millennials, those 25-to-40 year olds that love to play golf."
Marshall and GreatLife believe they can attract those new members by combining fitness with quality golf at an affordable price.
"At a relatively inexpensive price, they can come out and play this course as much as they want," Marshall said. "And they have the opportunity to go to Hillcrest, Drumm Farm, Prairie Highlands, all these other quality courses, for a very inexpensive price."
As part of a GreatLife, members have access to 15 Kansas City area courses, plus Tallgrass in Wichita and Osage National in the Ozarks.
Along with Drumm Farm and Liberty Hills, Blue Springs is a GreatLife Classic membership, with individual rates starting at $59.99 per month. They also offer memberships for couples and families, each of which provide full access to the fitness center as well as membership privileges at the three Classic courses and all five GreatLife Champion courses.
Blue Springs has men's, women's and senior leagues and a full slate of tournaments scheduled for this summer. There is also a strong social environment, including about 20 members who have been around since the club was first founded.
"Great Life's doing a great job getting the club ready," Marshall said. "It's not going to be today or this week or this month, but give us a year or two, and we should be off and running. That's my goal."
For more information about Blue Springs Country Club, visit bluespringscc.com
For more information about GreatLifeKC, visit greatlifekc.net


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CRY Parliamentary Reception 2015
Our 2015 Parliamentary Reception on Wednesday November 25 was an event attended not only by CRY Representatives, supporters, bereaved families, members of the myheart group and the largest ever number of CRY funded Research Fellows (past and present) but also over 40 MPs – all gathered together under one (very prestigious!) roof to help commemorate 20 years of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY).
As well as marking the charity's many milestones and achievements, the annual event also provided a high profile platform for the launch of CRY's inspiring new campaign: www.YSCD.org.uk – a new online database that will allow us to collate information supporting the "true scale" of young sudden cardiac deaths in the UK, as well as presenting the Government with a more accurate understanding of the number of these tragedies.
Guests heard how this emotive new campaign is calling for an immediate review of the evidence behind the National Screening Committee's recent decision not to recommend a cardiac screening programme for young people in the UK. A ripple of agreement and support could be heard amongst the audience as our speakers highlighted the absolute need for a national screening programme for young people if CRY is to fulfil its mission of preventing young sudden cardiac death.
CRY also believes that underpinning this campaign is an opportunity to give a voice to all those young people who have died so suddenly and so tragically – at the prime of their lives.
As in previous years, the MC for the evening was Hugh Mulcahey, bereaved father & Chair of CRY's Trustee Board who welcomed the first speaker, Tracey Crouch (Minister for Sport) MP.
Tracey had been introduced to CRY via one of our very enthusiastic and proactive supporters, Roger Maddams (a bereaved father from Kent, who is behind the recently launched "Football Fightback" campaign). Whilst Roger lives close to Tracey's constituency (Chatham and Aylesford) he had also invited along his own MP, Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge, Edenbridge and Malling), who is clearly engaged with CRY's goals and has since attended a screening weekend (where we tested over 200 young people) at the home of Roger's local football team, Tonbridge Angels.
Tracey Crouch opened the speeches by providing the guests with an overview of the progress that has been made in terms of screening in sport and the need to ensure this is rolled out from an elite, professional level to all those involved in grass roots sport.
Ms. Crouch was then surprised (and visibly moved) to be presented with this year's painting by wonderful CRY supporter and bereaved father John Bennett – who annually creates a watercolour of a landmark local to our chosen MP. CRY's Founder Alison Cox MBE explained to the audience that John had started painting to help him come to terms with the sudden cardiac death of his own 14-year-old daughter Laura.
Dr Steven Cox – who was introduced by Hugh as CRY's newly appointed Chief Executive – followed on from Ms. Crouch with further insight and explanation of the new yscd.org.uk campaign, as well as outlining the need for CRY to develop the foundations for a National Strategy for the prevention of young sudden cardiac death.
Professor Sanjay Sharma, now an internationally renowned speaker then gave his usual brilliant talk – particularly focusing again on the proven efficacy of CRY screenings and how screening should be being used proactively to safeguard the 80% of young people with a hidden heart condition who die without exhibiting any warning signs or symptoms.
And then – having literally just stepped off the train from a 6-hour round trip to Durham to watch his daughter playing in a University hockey match – CRY Patron and leading sports broadcaster, John Inverdale took to the podium to deliver a flawless and utterly heartfelt account of his involvement with CRY and unrelenting commitment to supporting the charity in its work to raise awareness.
For those that were unaware, John spoke openly of his own personal experience of knowing four young people who have died from yscd and the devastating impact on family and friends (including the best friend of one of his daughters, 16 year-old Emma Broad, selected to play hockey for Great Britain). He told CRY's guests of how, in 1993, one of his close friends, Howard English, died in his arms during a game of rugby from an undiagnosed heart condition. He was aged just 32 and his sudden and premature death sent shock waves among his friends, family and teammates.
Howard left a wife, Stephanie and three young children. John went on to explain that just over 10 years later, Howard's eldest son, Sebastian, died on the rugby pitch in very similar circumstances. He was aged just 15. Tragically, it was then discovered by leading pathologist, Professor Mary Shepherd (another guest at the Reception) that both Howard and Sebastian had died of the same inherited heart condition. Had this link been known at the time, Sebastian's condition may have been picked up and treated. The outcome could have been so very different…
Stephanie and two of her children (Sabrina and Titus English) were there to hear John's very moving words, along with CRY Patron and family friend, former England rugby star Simon Halliday who had been playing in the same game as John and Howard all those years ago…
CRY Patrons Simon Halliday and John Inverdale with the English family and CRY Founder Alison Cox MBE
Baroness Ilora Finlay, another of CRY's Patrons and one of the best known and most active members of the House of Lords concluded our speeches, eloquently and passionately highlighting that the full cost of a young life was still not being properly addressed. She reiterated what she had told the audience at the Parliamentary Reception last year, that it was only when people fully understood this cost did she think that the matter would be given the priority it deserved and welcomed the launch of CRY's recent manifesto.
As well as our Patron speakers Ilora and John, the event was also supported by CRY Patrons Simon Halliday, Andy Scott and Lee Mears who we welcomed to the event, and whose company was very much enjoyed by our many guests.
Professor Sanjay Sharma with CRY Patrons Andy Scott, Simon Halliday, Lee Mears, Simon Halliday, John Inverdale, Baroness Finlay and CRY Founder Alison Cox MBE
It was a pleasure to see MP for Eastleigh, Mims Davies (who has done so much for CRY over the past 12 months – from hosting a Commons Adjournment Debate on our behalf to running the Great South Run to help raise funds!), along with bereaved parents, Graham and Anne Hunter from her constituency in Hampshire. Dr Rupa Huq, MP for Ealing Central and Acton, also attended in support of her constituency member Paul Clabburn who lost his son Tom due to an undiagnosed heart condition. And, as ever, Kevan Jones MP and Sir Roget Gale, two of our most loyal Parliamentary supporters joined us on the night. The list goes on…
CRY's Founder Alison Cox MBE rounded off the speeches by unveiling the latest in CRY's specialist series of "grief booklets" – "Christmas following a young sudden cardiac death", a very timely resource written by – and for – those who had been affected – offering support and solace at one of the most difficult times of the year.
Alison then went on to say just a few words about her decision to "take a step back" after 20 incredible years at the helm of CRY, having explained in a recent letter to all supporters that "the responsibilities of Chief Executive should rest on younger shoulders than mine".
Alison reassured the audience that whilst she would be handing over the position of Chief Executive to CRY's former Director of Screening and Research, Dr Steven Cox, she would still be supporting families and "giving my attention in the future primarily to the bereavement support programme, and ensuring our voice is heard in the corridors of power at Westminster."
And, judging by the impact of the 2015 Parliamentary Reception, Westminster had better watch out for yet more campaigning, more demands for answers and, of course, a continued representation of the families affected by young sudden cardiac death over the next 20 years (or as long as it takes to ensure young, apparently healthy men, women, boys and girls are no longer at risk from these devastating and indiscriminate conditions.)
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We bought it for our new kitchen at our last house and are now about to developer our current house so could do with it out of the way. The collector tray for the ice tray has two cracks in it (see pics), you can get a new one from Bosch if it developes further but it works fine otherwise. I only noticed them whilst taking it all apart to clean. All the other drawers, shelves, trays are perfect. Its an Airflow fridge so has no frost or condensation build up which is pretty cool. Outside has a few tiny marks and little dents at low level (too small to photograph). Below are the full specifications. Energy efficiency class: A+ (520 kWh per year). Actual energy consumption will depend on how the appliance is used and where it is located. Total net capacity: 604 litres. Net fridge capacity: 385 litres. Net freezer capacity: 219 litres. Freezing capacity in 24 hours: 12 kg. Maximum freezer storage time in power failure: 16 hours. Noise level dB(A) re 1 pW: 44. Climate class SN-T (suitable for ambient temperatures between 10 to 43°C). Two separate cooling circuits allow independent temperature control and prevents the transference of humidity between the fridge and freezer cavity. MultiAirflow system - improves circulation of air around the fridge. DayLight - bright interior fridge light (2 x 25 W).
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Buckner Missions is urgently seeking people who feel led to participate in fall and winter mission trips to Ethiopia, Kenya, the Dominican Republic and Peru. The Ethiopia and Dominican Republic trips are shoe distribution trips, and Kenya and Peru are Christmas-themed trips.
Tripgoers in Ethiopia and the Dominican Republic will spend their mornings and afternoons being the hands and feet of Jesus – leading Bible studies, playing games and sharing the love of Jesus in a tangible way by giving out new pairs of shoes to orphans and children.
The trips to Kenya and Peru will focus on celebrating Christmas and the birth of Jesus with the children. The Peru trip will visit several different orphanages, giving participants the opportunity to interact with about 1,000 orphan children over the week. Kenya mission trip participants will spend the entire week getting to know a group of 100 kids.
Dave Atkins, a five-time trip participant to Kenya, wrote of his experience on his blog.
For more details on these trips, check out our mission trip calendar here, or click on each country below to download a flyer with more information.


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'Revolutionary' new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation
Detailed maps of forest biodiversity from a new study in Peru could pinpoint the most important areas for conservation. The research employs technology that, if deployed in a satellite, would provide a global picture of biodiversity. by John C. Cannon on 27 January 2017 |
Mongabay Series: Global Forest Reporting Network, Global Forests
The research uses the chemical signals of tree communities to reveal their different survival strategies and identify priority areas for protection.
Currently, the Carnegie Airborne Observatory's airplane provides the only way to create these biodiversity maps. But the team is working to install the technology in an Earth-orbiting satellite.
Once launched, the $200 million satellite would provide worldwide biodiversity mapping updated every month.
Sometimes for a scientist, the disconnected pieces of years of research come together in a single, "really awesome" point in time.
For ecologist Greg Asner, where it happened was about as important as the epiphany itself.
"I was almost on the Ecuador-Peru border, way up the Rio Tigre, and we had the moment," said Asner, who heads the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) in Stanford, California. "We were days and days away from the rest of the world."
It was the summer of 2015, and he and a pair of botanists had just connected the sampling they had done from CAO's state-of-the-art research plane with their shoe-leather, on-the-ground observations of forests in the Peruvian Amazon.
They had measured the chemical signatures of different tree communities from high above. From those measurements, it seemed that the sea of uniform green they had flown over represented in reality an assortment of distinct growth and survival strategies.
Greg Asner (right) and his team as they made their discovery near the Rio Tigre in the forests of northern Peru. Photo courtesy of Greg Asner
At that moment near the Rio Tigre, they figured out that those unique community strategies – what they refer to as "functional diversity" – extended to an even finer scale, correlating with unique species compositions, or "biodiversity." With that connection drawn, they'd locked on to a new tactic for identifying which areas are the most unique, the most diverse and, consequently, the most important to protect.
Their work in Peru, which they published in the journal Science on Thursday, is just the beginning: Asner now hopes to make the same measurements from space and map the biodiversity of the entire planet.
"The word 'revolutionary' is often overused, but I think this fits perfectly," said Eric Dinerstein, a conservation biologist and director of biodiversity and wildlife solutions at the public policy organization Resolve, who was not involved in this research.
Peru is a country with 76 million hectares (293,438 square miles) of tropical forest, but threats such as big oil palm plantations, oil and gas extraction, and cattle ranching are driving that figure lower, as they are in many Amazonian countries.
Large-scale deforestation for ranching in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
Asner has a long-standing partnership with the Ministry of Environment in Peru, and he worked with ministry representatives on this study.
"They're innovating," Asner said of his collaborators in Peru. "They want to know if they're protecting all of the different forest types that are out there."
To answer that question, the research team employed a technique known as "airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy," which they developed at CAO. By taking samples with imaging spectrometers mounted on the CAO aircraft, they can measure the different wavelengths of light reflected by the canopy as they fly over the forest, which in turn indicate the concentrations of certain chemicals present. The "imaging" part of this device adds three-dimensional pictures of the canopy's structure.
The concentrations of a specific chemical – say, nitrogen, for example, which plays a critical role in photosynthesis – pointed to survival strategies, which varied from tree community to tree community. Asner and his team then distilled those strategies into seven community "traits" that had the most influence on the variations they were seeing in the forest canopy.
Regional distribution of 36 functionally and biologically distinct forest types throughout the Andes and Amazon region of Peru, with outlines of current protected areas shown with white lines. Image and caption courtesy of Greg Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science
Now, the scientists could distinguish not just a handful but dozens of different types of forest. From that data, they then looked for classes that were well protected, and those that might be vulnerable.
Overall, about 40 percent of the country's forests are protected in some way, either in a cordoned-off area such as a park or a reserve, or in some sort of sustainable use.
"More importantly, there are certain types of forest that are really underrepresented in the protected area network," Asner said. Their work found, for example, that the tree communities at the base of the Andes are hemorrhaging 7,000 hectares (27 square miles) of forest a year in some places, due mostly to illegal gold mining and ranching.
Data from the University of Maryland visualized on Global Forest Watch indicate that, overall, Peru's high-Andean and submontane forests lost around 5 percent of their tree cover between 2001 and 2014. Northern regions appear to have been particularly affected, with satellite imagery from Google Earth captured in 2013 showing large swaths of forest cleared for agriculture.
Peru can take these discoveries and directly apply them to their conservation efforts, making sure that the full spectrum of the country's rich habitats will endure.
But the possibilities for this methodology are in fact much bigger than just one study in a single country.
"We can use this piece of equipment, this sensor, to give us the finest-scale map of biodiversity ever created," Dinerstein said. And that's exactly what Asner wants to do – for the whole world.
"We need this map," he said. "We need to go global."
The trouble is, there's only one plane like Asner's. The technology is available nowhere else, limiting these sorts of analyses to locations where he and his team can get the plane and have enough time to survey an area.
But, Asner said, if they can install their instrumentation onto a satellite, they could produce these biodiversity maps for the whole world. What's more, they'd be able to update them every 30 days.
The CAO team has been working with engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the technology is ready, he said. But it won't come cheap. Currently, he's building support for a project that would cost about $200 million.
Carnegie Airborne Observatory-3 onboard laboratory includes navigation and data collection consoles, power and computing racks, and data capture facilities. The CAO AToMS sensor package can be seen in the back of the aircraft. Photo and caption courtesy of Greg Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science
That figure is still dwarfed by the $700 million price tag for a Landsat satellite. But most forest ecologists would argue that funding for the Landsat family has been well spent over the past 40 years. They've provided transformative revelations about forest cover that underpin tools like Global Forest Watch, and they allow us to keep an eye on what's going on in the world's forests in near-real time.
"If you think of our progress in understanding the status of forests around the world, it's increased on an exponential scale," Dinerstein said, referring to the work of remote sensing scientist Matt Hansen at the University of Maryland and others to map global forest cover.
Currently, the maps we get using data gathered from space are limited, without the resolution to tease apart the nuances that Asner's team has revealed.
"Tropical forests are not homogenous," he said. But right now, "any satellite view is just forest or not forest."
A global map that lays out 36 classes – and perhaps more – of forest would open a window into insights beyond just the diversity of the trees in the canopy, he said.
The CAO laser-guided imaging spectrometer data are fully three-dimensional, providing the structure and architecture of the forest, while simultaneously capturing up to 23 chemical properties of the canopy foliage. These colors indicate the diversity of canopy traits among co- existing tree species in the same hectare. Image and caption courtesy of Greg Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science
Asner and his colleagues at CAO, led by postdoctoral fellow Mark Higgins, have already demonstrated that when the tree canopy is rich in species in the tropics, so are the plant communities that colonize the forest floor. Whether that diversity extends to the animal kingdom will require more research, Asner said, to unpack the "wonderfully complex" ecosystems in the Peruvian Amazon and in Borneo, where the group has done similar work recently.
Dinerstein said that these maps could tell us a lot about the largest group of animals alive today – the invertebrates.
"In many cases," he said, "their life histories are tied to the plants they live on. If you could map plant diversity, you would not only have a rich database, but you have the most important proxy ever available for mapping invertebrates as well."
Many insects like this leaf katydid in Peru are tied intimately to the forests they inhabit. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
Seeing the variation present in Peru's forests led Asner and his colleagues to investigate whether something about these locations was instigating communities to evolve unique strategies for survival. They found that several factors play important roles, including the elevation, slope and climate of an area.
But one in particular stood out, and it turned out to be the foundation of the forests themselves.
"That geological patchwork underneath the forest has driven these species to become different," Asner said. So now, in addition to the insights into biodiversity, the team's new methods can pick out changes in the geology previously hidden beneath the forest.
That deeper understanding of how forests function and the array of differences that exist point to a need to change our approach to forest conservation, Asner said.
"We should be more tactical and more explicit about where we put protected areas," he said. To his mind, it calls for an overhaul of the strategies we employ for protection "to maximize the number of species we try to save per acre or per hectare of land, rather than just putting down national parks wherever you can."
"We have to deal with the fact that we have to feed more people and countries want to develop, so where do you put protected areas?" Asner added.
The monthly maps that Asner envisions would serve to bring a level of detail to the study of biodiversity that's never been there before, and also provide a platform for discussion.
"It'll get everybody to the same table about how to shepherd the biodiversity forward as best we can in this 'sixth extinction' that we're going through," he said.
Right now, the expansion of this approach depends on one thing: getting the technology into to orbit. Asner has taken that challenge on with singular focus.
"I'm not going to rest until we get to orbit."
Banner image of the Amazon landscape scarred by open pit gold mines in Peru by Rhett A. Butler
Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Knapp, D. E., Tupayachi, R., Anderson, C. B., Sinca, F., … Llactayo, W. (2017). Airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy to map forest trait diversity and guide conservation. Science, 355(6323), 385 LP-389. Retrieved from http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6323/385.abstract
Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, S. V. Stehman, S. J. Goetz, T. R. Loveland, A. Kommareddy, A. Egorov, L. Chini, C. O. Justice, and J. R. G. Townshend. 2013. "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change." Science 342 (15 November): 850–53. Data available on-line from:http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest. Accessed through Global Forest Watch on January 26, 2017. www.globalforestwatch.org
Higgins, M. A., Asner, G. P., Anderson, C. B., Martin, R. E., Knapp, D. E., Tupayachi, R., … Alonso, A. (2015). Regional-Scale drivers of forest structure and function in northwestern Amazonia. PLoS ONE, 10(3), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119887
Article published by John Cannon
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Monica Bauer, a graduate of Brown and Yale, was the 2005 Teaching Fellow in the Graduate Playwriting Program at Boston University. She has been a student of Kate Snodgrass, Gary Garrison, and Craig Lucas. Awards include third place in New Theater Works for Young Women, and second-runner up in the Eileen Heckart Senior Drama awards. Her plays have been produced in Denver, Boston, Cambridge, Atlanta, San Diego, Providence, and 0ff-0ff Broadway. She's a favorite at the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York, and was one of six playwrights given productions in 2007 as part of their Next Step Developmental Series. Her play about race, jazz, and Nebraska (My Occasion of Sin) is being developed through the support of the Hixson-Lied Foundation. She is a proud member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild, and in her non-theatrical life is the Political Science and Education Editor at Choice Magazine, in Middletown, Connecticut. Her first play was a monologue she wrote for herself to perform in a high school forensics competition!


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Q: Plotting curves of different orders of magnitudes on the same graph I want to plot
Plot[{Exp[x],Sin[x]},{x,0,10}]

The issue is that Sin[x] and Exp[x] are not of the same order of magnitude, so we do not see Sin[x]. Therefore, I would like to set different y-axis but on the same graph. For Exp[x], the y axis would go from 0 to 25000 and for Sin[x] from -1 to 1. How can I do that ?

A: Multiply, Sin[x] by, say, 1000 and rescale the right axis:
Plot[{Exp[x], 1000 Sin[x]}, {x, 0, 10}, Frame -> True,
  FrameTicks -> {{Automatic, Charting`FindTicks[{-1000, 1000}, {-1, 1}]},
    {Automatic, Automatic}},
  PlotLegends -> {HoldForm @ Exp[x], Sin[x]}]

A: A slightly modified version using Overlay.
combine[data1_, data2_] := Overlay[{ListLinePlot[data1,
  Frame -> {True, True, False, False},
  FrameLabel -> {"x1", "y1"}, LabelStyle -> Directive[12, Blue],
  PlotStyle -> Blue, PlotRange -> All,
  ImagePadding -> {{50, 50}, {40, 40}}],
  ListLinePlot[data2, Frame -> {False, False, True, True},
  FrameTicks -> All, FrameLabel -> {{None, "y2"}, {None, "x2"}},
  LabelStyle -> Directive[12, Red], PlotStyle -> {Red, Dashed},
  PlotRange -> All, ImagePadding -> {{50, 50}, {40, 40}}]},
 Alignment -> Center]

data1 = Table[{x, Sin[x]}, {x, 0, 10, 0.01}];
data2 = Table[{x, Exp[x]}, {x, -5, 5, 0.01}];
combine[data1, data2]

One advantage here is that you can use any range for x and y.
You can use Plot as well in the combine and modify the appearance.

A: Rescaling the y-coordinates:
rescaleShow[p1_, p2_] := Module[{g1, g2, pr1, pr2, rs1, rs2},
   {g1, g2} = Cases[{p1, p2}, _Graphics, Infinity];
   {pr1, pr2} = Last /@ PlotRange /@ {g1, g2};
   rs1 = With[{pr = Last@PlotRange[g1]}, Rescale[#, pr] &];
   rs2 = With[{pr = Last@PlotRange[g2]}, Rescale[#, pr] &];
   Show[
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    p2 /. Line[p_] :> Line[Transpose@MapAt[rs2, Transpose@p, 2]],
    PlotRange -> {0, 1}, Frame -> True,
    FrameTicks -> {{Charting`FindTicks[{0, 1}, pr1],
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OP's example:
rescaleShow[
 Plot[Exp[x], {x, 0, 10},
  PlotStyle -> ColorData[97][1], PlotLegends -> {HoldForm@Exp[x]},
  Frame -> True, PlotRange -> All],
 Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10},
  PlotStyle -> ColorData[97][2], PlotLegends -> {Sin[x]}]
 ]

This method uses Plot so you get the Plot bells and whistles, like discontinuity processing, except for automatic coloring of the graphs:
rescaleShow[
 Plot[Tan[x], {x, 0, 10},
  PlotStyle -> ColorData[97][1], PlotLegends -> {Tan[x]},
  Frame -> True],
 Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10},
  PlotStyle -> ColorData[97][2], PlotLegends -> {Sin[x]}]
 ]

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Buckling up into a tiny Cessna, I steady myself as the plane swerves over green valleys, with snowy mountains in the distance. I've journeyed to Kluane National Park in the far northern Canadian region of the Yukon to experience the legendary beauty of its sprawling wilderness.
When visiting Canada, a flght over Niagara Falls is an attraction for the bucket list but so is a flight over Kluane National Park, which is a crystalline spectacle of glaciers.
My pilot, Easton, explains the history of Kluane National Park and the mountains and glaciers that cover most of this remote area.
My stomach swirls as we glide further up while the view the first of dozens of glaciers takes by breath away.
Seeing glaciers in the Yukon is right up there with looking up at the sky at night and seeing the Yukon Northern Lights.
Riding the scenic Alaska Highway from Whitehorse to Haines Junction, where Kluane National Park is located, is almost as memorable as spotting glaciers.
The highway stretches out in quiet wonder, lined with spruce forests and scrawny pine trees stunted by brutal winters.
Although it's a road that hosts thousands of vehicles, the highway is calm and hushed, with just the rush of the wind through the wildflowers or an occasional car stirring up sounds. Even the elk that I spot in the distance seems to be trotting delicately.
The highway was once a gravel-filled road that mangled tires and served up treacherous winter journeys but now the paved version seems to inspire almost reverent passing.
We roll into the Kluane Glacier Air tours office primed for a standout excursion and we are not disappointed.
Hiking is a top pastime at Kluane National Park. Here's Kathleen Lake Campground day use area . Photo:Ron Chambers tour boat.
Kluane National Park sits in the southwest corner of the Yukon Territory.
Its claim to fame is it has the world's largest non-polar ice fields and is part of the world's largest internationally protected wilderness.
There are hiking paths and camp grounds but large portions of the park are inaccessible and can only be viewed by plane.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, Kluane National Park is also home to Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan (5,959m).
In other words, this endless expanse of mountains and glaciers is spectacular.
Up in the air, Easton kicks off the glacier flightseeing tour by teaching me about the structure of glaciers.
Glaciers are composed of fallen snow that has packed down in layers over time.
These layers of snow turn to ice and the glaciers begin to flow like rivers because of their massive size.
My first glimpse is a section of Kaskawulsh Glacier, looming up in a frosty blue vision.
It looks like a landscape from another planet and as the plane flies closer, I see the details of the ice forming long waves, like a frozen road.
The surrounding snow-covered mountains resemble a perfectly rendered winter landscape. They are so striking that they don't look real.
What is real is my rising motion sickness as the small plane swoops and glides upwards.
Easton checks my expression to see if I'm okay and I push aside my nausea, determined to absorb every minute of the flight experience.
Mount Kennedy in Kluane Naitonal Park and Reserve is stunning.
We fly near Mount Kennedy and the aptly named Disappointment Mountain, named by gold miners who joined the Yukon's 1800s-era Gold Rush too late.
Criss-crossed with crevices packed with snow, the mountains supply scene after scene of panoramic views.
South Arm and Lowell Glaciers appear next, filled with icebergs floating down the front.
As we near then end of the 60-minute flight, I feel dizzy with amazement and a queasy stomach.
Before we land, I'm rewarded with a peek of Mount Logan, cutting through the clouds.
Kluane Naitonal Park's snow-covered mountains never fails to amaze.
With shaky legs I climb out of the Cessna. I have surveyed one of the most isolated and beautiful areas on Earth and gained up-close views of massive glaciers.
I'm no longer in the air but I still felt high with amazement.
1- See the amazing landscape from the air on a flight seeing tour of the park. The bird's-eye view of mountains and glaciers of the park will take your breath away.
2- Viist the Tachäl Dhäl Visitor Centre, which is about an hour's drive north along the Alaska Highway from Haines Junction, to learn more about the park. The centre also has telescopes that you can use to spot wildlife from afar.
3- Go paddling at Kathleen Lake, which has campsites and trails. Sleeping in an oTENTik is a fun way to experience this natural region. Find out more about it here.
4- Backcountry camping is an amazing experience in the Kluane wilderness. The best spots are Observation Mountain and along the Cottonwood Trail. You need a permit to camp.
5- See the giant floor map at the Kluane National Park and Reserve Visitor Centre in the Da Kų Cultural Centre at Haines Junction. This is the place to learn about Champagne Aishihik First Nations culture.
6- Kluane National Park and reserve is a fantastic place to go hiking. From day trips to multi-day treks, the scenery is amazing. Try the Auriol Trail or the Sheep Creek Trail. Find out more about the hiking routes here.
7- Go on a rafting adventure on the Alsek River, which has the distinction of being glacier fed from the second highest coastal mountain range in the world.
8- Experienced mountain climbers will relish the challenge of mountaineering in Kluane National Park. The season runs from mid-April to mid-June.
9- Go on a mountain bike ride along the park's old mining roads and trails, such as the Alsek Trail and the Cottonwood Trail.
10- Go fishing for Rainbow Trout or Arctic Grayling at Mush Lake, Bates Lake or St Elias. Day or annual fishing permits are available at the visitors centres at Haines Junction and Whitehorse.
Read this post and plan your trip around these cool experiences in the Yukon. If you don't have time to make it out to Kluane National Park, check out Miles Canyon in Whitehorse for a dose of nature.
Exploring Canada? Here are more breathtaking vistas and ideas on what to do in Canada.
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Those views are simply amazing!
Thanks, they were really unforgettable!
Wow, you are not going to see scenery that is much better than this in my opinion. What a great way to experience new things!
David, it is truly a one-of-a-kind view!
Britanica, the Yukon is one of the most photogenic places in the world! You'd love it!
These photos look gorgeous! I have really been wanting to go to Canada lately. It looks lovely and the scenery is amazing. If and when I go I will have to visit this place!
Maddie, I highly recommend Canada in general, it's a huge, beautiful country with friendly people.


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Hidden Responses To Mail Order Bride Unmasked
November 28, 2020 Alisha TransportUncategorized
In the 20th century, the trend was primarily in direction of women living in creating nations seeking males in more developed nations. In the twenty-first century, the development is now primarily based primarily on web-based mostly meeting places which do not per se qualify as mail-order bride providers. The majority of the women listed within the twentieth-century and twenty-first-century providers are from Southeast Asia, countries of the former Eastern Bloc and from Latin America. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, large numbers of japanese European ladies have advertised themselves in such a way, primarily from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova.
Filipina ladies are undoubtedly distinctive from one another and have their gaps. It's essential to acknowledge these girls are from the culture that's different and so, learn to conform. Filipina girls from the Philippines are properly prepared to wait earlier than you fall asleep. Filipina women like to sleep, and subsequently, hate to get bothered by their own males the entire time. They're utilised to assembly Filipina ladies that are afraid of making the preliminary move.
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Agencies must additionally acquire the potential bride's written consent to release her private contact information to the consumer. After receiving this data, the bride has the choice to just accept or refuse communication with the shopper.
In addition the businesses sponsor excursions that allow fascinated males the opportunity to travel overseas to meet a lot of eligible ladies in person. Child brides and youngster marriage are persistent issues in violation of a number mailorder brides of international and national laws efforts affecting hundreds of thousands of women every year. Initiatives have begun to finish youngster trafficking by 2030, but might want to increase exponentially if this goal is to be achieved.
Realizing he was one of the robbers, she fled, and historical past doesn't document what became of her. It turns out Louis was certainly a miner, however he uncared for to say in his advert that he supplemented his earnings robbing stagecoaches with a few his associates. One notable example, although by all means not the one one, is that of 22-year-old school mistress Elizabeth Berry and bachelor miner Louis Dreibelbis. Elizabeth was involved about turning into a spinster, since she was nonetheless single at 22, which was approaching old age within the Old West marriage market. Elizabeth packed up her things after a brief correspondence with Louis and went to California to marry him. On the way, her stagecoach was robbed, however one of the three robbers allowed her to maintain her luggage, which had her marriage ceremony costume and all her other belongings for her new life in it. During the initial American settling of the western part of North America, it was mainly males who went out there.
If we take these easy facts into account, we'll shortly conclude that mail order brides websites are preventing a warfare in opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is the number one killer; the feeling of segregation and abandonment take extra lives per 12 months than automobile crashes. In 2001, at age 23, she found her method to a fledgling internet cafe in a close-by metropolis and registered at Cherry Blossoms, the oldest and most established mail-order bride service on the planet. Cherry Blossoms began publishing catalogues of worldwide ladies in search of husbands in 1974, charging foreigners a charge in change for a girl's tackle.
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Nonetheless, there are cases of mail order brides that are trafficking, subsequently consideration and prevention efforts must be directed to this concern. The Philippines enacted an anti-mail-order-bride legislation, during which it is illegal to facilitate the marriage of Filipina ladies and foreign men as a enterprise . The law has largely been ineffective with using the internet for marriage brokering, and for lack of designation of an enforcement company by the Philippine authorities . As a result, marriages involving international brides has dropped forty%, mail order bride business earnings have been affected by the age limits, and Taiwanese police have begun offering trainings to recognize human trafficking . The incentives that drive many women to enlist as mail-order brides are much like the conditions that make trafficking victims extra prone to their traffickers. Often driven by poverty and unemployment, many brides are enticed by media images of Western lifestyles and go away their residence nations seeking a better life. The worldwide marriage brokering business thrives on unrealistic guarantees and a lack of information offered to prospective brides.
A few occasions ukraine brides reviews I even have been associated with circumstances the place the women claimed to be solely 18 years old however had tattoos and piercings which were considerably older.
They may be having problems with other women and reside in a foul popularity.
There are some on-line people which were profitable at serving to girls.
There are some people that provide marriage counseling and others that don't.
It may be better to go with someone who is sincere and might actually assist you to get what you want.
Every individual on the positioning is required to have a psychology check to find out they may be of audio mind. one particular person requirements solely common and he may fly for some other nation for a perfect night along with somebody requires considerably extra second for falling in love with an individual he has chatted just on-line. When you're certainly one of them, anticipate to turn into the actual happiest explicit particular person on earth, for the reason that cute women expect in your case on discover-bride.
Jonathan landed on the neighboring island of Cebu on March 12, where Leonor met him, they usually took the 5-hour ferry experience again to Dumaguete collectively. They have just begun to discover whether or not the bond they shaped online is also meant for the actual world. Several of Leonor's associates expressed their approval when she shared the story of Jonathan's immediate generosity at a celebration. Many of them avoid younger, conventionally attractive overseas men, as a result of they're more more likely to cheat and never have stable incomes. Jelia's method appears designed to draw foreigners, with her waist-length wavy hair and penchant for cutoff jeans and heels. Yet her coquettish demeanor turned severe and reserved as soon as she switched to her native Visayan to speak a few new boyfriend she met just lately.
The greatest mail order bride sites often ask only in your basic data during this procedure. These ladies are typically very devoted and are actually good housewives. By providing them with a method to settle down with comfort and safety, they may provide you with a lot of love and care. Each mail order bride web site is often dedicated to the actual nation, like Latin or Ukrainian women. This means your search will become even more efficient when you'll give you a concrete desire of what wife you wish to have sooner or later.
As a outcome, the United States now has mechanisms in place to deter this. Immigration laws enable a lady to remain in the United States if she divorces her husband because of domestic violence. However, due to language or cultural obstacles, some girls will not be conscious of these legal protections. International marriage companies that function on the Internet present pictures of potential brides. The focus is on girls's bodily look and age rather than their personalities or pursuits.


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Would You Buy Travis Scott's $12 Hand Sanitizers?
By Ty Gaskins	 August 11, 2020
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Travis Scott recently released another unexpected collection of merchandise branded with his name. We all remember the release of his video game controllers, his partnership with Reese's Puffs cereal, and when he made himself into an action figure — just in case you missed the Fortnite concerts. Now he's stamping his name on hand sanitizers and face coverings with his "Pandemic Survival Kit."
If there was any further question on how COVID-19 has changed the face of streetwear, last week the 28-year-old rapper released a Cactus Jack logo capsule collection of "everyday safety items," including a Cactus Jack hand sanitizer ($12), a Cactus Jack cloth face mask ($25), and a Cactus Jack SafeTouch hygiene multi-tool ($30), which is more reasonably priced compared to his past merch drops like his infamous $120 Astroworld t-shirts.
Infused with an agave fragrance, his sanitizer contains 72% alcohol and "kills 99% of germs … La Flame burns the other 1%," which is a questionable breakdown for an essential product (the CDC recommends hand sanitizers contain at least 60% alcohol).
Meanwhile his Safetouch multi-tool is a plastic contraction that's said to be covered with antimicrobial powder that allows you to press and open surfaces like doors and elevator buttons, and its handle is emblazoned with a pandemic-appropriate mantra, "I ain't touching that sh–." As a bonus, it has a built-in bottle opener for social distancing hangouts.
The face mask, also logo embroidered with Travis Scott's brand, is 100% cotton, but has a disclaimer that reads "are neither medical devices nor personal protective equipment. For the avoidance of doubt, the use of cloth face coverings does not protect you against COVID-19, and is not intended to replace recommended measures to stop the community spread of COVID-19, such as social distancing, washing your hands, and refraining from touching your face." Leaving us to wonder if the pandemic safety essentials are actually essential or a marketing take on fan merch.
Although it's a fun and punchy capsule collection, it obviously caters to the "Astroworld" rapper's nostalgic fan-based reminiscing of the days of concerts and party gatherings (aren't we all?) more than CDC health guidelines. It's important to note that these items shouldn't stand in place of PPE when out in public or densely populated places. With the sold-out success of the launch, you can sign up for updates on a possible restock at shop.travisscott.com.
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Little Princes
Conor Grennan
So as not to seem completely self-indulgent to his friends and family, Conor started his year-long trip around the world with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What began as a cover story changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless others, forever.
The turning point occurred during Conor's second stint as a volunteer with Little Princes. While playing on the roof of the orphanage, Conor was approached by a woman who would turn out to be the mother of two of the wards. Over hours of conversations with her, Conor learned the truth. Many of the little princes were not orphans but children that had been taken from their homes by child traffickers.
In addition to losing two of her boys, this woman, while under the control of a human trafficker, was doing her best to keep seven other terrified kids alive. Conor's life changed in those moments, as he decided to commit himself to these unfortunates. After securing spots in an orphanage for all seven and arranging for excellent local staff to run the Little Princes Orphanage, Conor escaped Nepal, one day before revolution erupted in Kathmandu.
After arriving home, Conor received a devastating email reporting that the seven kids had disappeared, snatched once again by the same trafficker. Soon he was back in Kathmandu, riding through the chaotic streets on the back of a local's motorcycle, searching for his kids, seven needles in a corrupt haystack. And that is where Conor's story begins.
Conor pledged to not only start a new orphanage for these seven but also to start an entirely new programme dedicated to reuniting kids with their lost families in remote villages in the Nepalese hills. He lived under constant fear of retribution from the traffickers.
He needed to return to the US by 22 December, both because that was the agreed-upon panic date on which friends would alert authorities if he didn't return, and because it was the date that the woman he'd fallen in love with over email would arrive at his door so they could, at long last, meet in person.
Conor's tale is an epic thriller and a love story, and is best told by Conor himself.
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This is a randomized, double-blind, multi-center, parallel-group study designed to compare the safety and efficacy of a range of doses of ZP-Zolmitriptan intracutaneous microneedle systems to placebo.
This is a randomized, double-blind, multi-center, parallel group study designed to compare the safety and efficacy of a range of doses of ZP-Zolmitriptan intracutaneous microneedle systems to placebo. Subjects who have consented and meet the entry criteria will be randomized to one of four blinded treatment groups. There will be a screening period of up to 1 week, followed by a run-in period to record migraine activity. The run-in period is to determine eligibility for randomization, and is planned to be 4 weeks in duration but may be extended up to an additional 4 weeks to accommodate scheduling. Qualified subjects will randomize to the double-blind treatment period at Day 0 and will have up to 8 weeks to confirm and treat a qualifying migraine. Using the eDiary to confirm they are experiencing a qualified migraine, subjects will self-administer the patch or patches and continue to respond to questions in the eDiary for 48 hours post treatment administration.
Pain Freedom at 2 hours post study drug administration is one of the co-primary endpoints. Subjects were queried via their eDiary about their level of migraine pain (none, mild, moderate, or severe) at various intervals post-dose. Subjects who answered none at 2 hours post study drug were considered pain free at 2 hours.
The proportion of subjects with freedom from the subject's pre-specified most bothersome symptom at 2 hours is one of two parts of the co-primary efficacy endpoint. This endpoint will be evaluated separately but both endpoints have to be met statistically for the study to be considered a success.
Women of child-bearing potential must not be pregnant, must agree to avoid pregnancy during the trial, and must use an acceptable methods of birth control for the duration of the trial.
Able to understand the operation of the electronic diary and is able to apply the demo study drug patch.
Confirmation of continuing good general health, or stable non-serious disease that in the opinion of the Investigator will not place the subject at risk.
Spierings EL, Brandes JL, Kudrow DB, Weintraub J, Schmidt PC, Kellerman DJ, Tepper SJ. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multi-center study of the safety and efficacy of ADAM zolmitriptan for the acute treatment of migraine. Cephalalgia. 2018 Feb;38(2):215-224. doi: 10.1177/0333102417737765. Epub 2017 Oct 12.


Change! Change itself is at the core of everything, it's an unavoidable element and process to which every being, willing or not, has to go through. As a consequence it has to be dealt with!
Change is also at the heart of the new path which EBM are on! In fact, in the videoclip you'll be able to notice a couple of changes to the lineup of the band that you've known up until now. The presence of a second voice, Pidduck, is going to be a regular fit for the future productions and live concerts!
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Home › 2018 › Northside Hospital Announces Fetal Therapy Program, Partnership with Texas Children's Fetal Center
Northside Hospital Announces Fetal Therapy Program, Partnership with Texas Children's Fetal Center
Northside Hospital in Atlanta is developing and launching a new Fetal Therapy Program to treat some of Georgia's sickest unborn babies.
Northside entered into an agreement this month with Texas Children's Fetal Center®, located within Texas Children's Pavilion for Women in Houston, to train Northside's maternal-fetal medicine physicians on a procedure to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Affecting 10 to 15 percent of identical twin pregnancies with a shared placenta, TTTS is a serious complication that, if left untreated, can result in the death of one or both of the babies in more than 90 percent of these pregnancies.
Intrauterine selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation, or SFLP, is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that uses laser energy to stop the abnormal blood vessel connections that cause twins to share a blood supply, sometimes disproportionately, and often halts the progression of TTTS. Currently, Georgia mothers requiring SFLP are transferred out of state during pregnancy for treatment as no doctors or hospitals in Georgia offer the procedure.
"This new fetal therapy program is the next step in the evolution of our care at Northside and to enhancing the services we already provide to our mothers and babies," said Dr. Kevin Gomez, Northside Hospital Center for Perinatal Medicine and Georgia Perinatal Consultants. "We're continuing to provide the highest quality maternity and newborn services to ensure the best possible clinical outcomes for high-risk and complicated pregnancies."
For more than a generation, Northside Hospital in Atlanta has been the undisputed leader in maternity and newborn services, delivering more babies than any other single hospital in the United States. Physicians at Northside perform a variety of interventional and invasive fetal therapies. Melissa Sisson, Northside's director of women's services, said this latest initiative is an important expansion of a highly regarded perinatal program.
"Women who experience difficult or high-risk pregnancies often come to Northside Hospital because we are so well-equipped to support them," said Sisson. "We have sophisticated early warning systems designed to manage maternal complications, and our staff is remarkable in the care they provide."
"As one of the nation's leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of abnormalities in unborn and newborn infants and one of only a few providers nationally of the full spectrum of fetal therapies, Texas Children's Fetal Center is pleased to partner with Northside Hospital so women whose babies are affected by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome can get the care they need, closer to home," said Dr. Michael Belfort, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine and obstetrician and gynecologist-in-chief at Texas Children's Hospital. "Our mission at Texas Children's Fetal Center is to deliver the highest quality of care and patient satisfaction and we are delighted to help Northside Hospital establish this definitive program."
Northside Hospital's Fetal Therapy Program will be offered within its Atlanta-campus Women's Center. Northside hopes to have the program operational by late summer 2018.
Read more about maternity and newborn services at Northside Hospital.
About Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital, a not-for-profit health care organization, is committed to creating a healthier future for children and women throughout the global community by leading in patient care, education and research. Consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation, Texas Children's has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise and breakthroughs in pediatric and women's health. The hospital includes the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute; the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children's care for communities north of Houston. The organization also created Texas Children's Health Plan, the nation's first HMO for children; Texas Children's Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children's Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that's channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children's Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine. For more information, go to www.texaschildrens.org. Get the latest news by visiting the online newsroom and Twitter at twitter.com/texaschildrens.
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A Look Inside the First Air Caraïbes Airbus A350, With 3-4-3 in Coach
Alex Macheras
This week, Air Caraïbes took delivery of its first Airbus A350-900. The French leisure airline also has two more of these planes on order, in addition to three Airbus A350-1000's, which will make it easier for the carrier to expand both the number of routes and frequency between Paris and the Caribbean. Here's a closer look at what makes the A350 so special.
The Aircraft
This is the first A350-900 to accommodate 389 passengers, the largest number of seats on this type of plane so far, largely due to the 3-4-3 seating configuration in its economy cabin. It's also the first French airline to fly the A350, which will operate it alongside the carrier's current Airbus A330s on routes between Paris Orly Airport (ORY) and the French Caribbean, including destinations like Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport (PTP) in Guadeloupe and Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport (FDF), starting March 2. The aircraft has three classes, with 18 seats in business class, 45 in premium economy and 326 in economy.
The business-class cabin is arranged in a 2-2-2 layout, with each seat reclining to a fully-flat position, making this the first airline to offer lie-flat seating between Paris and the Caribbean. There's one major disadvantage, though — as with Lufthansa's A350 business-class seats, these don't offer passengers direct-aisle access. Seat features include personal headsets, USB and universal sockets, a light and an IFE screen with more than 150 hours of movies and TV shows to keep you busy during the flight.
Air Caraïbes' new premium economy seats are arranged in a 3-3-3 configuration, just like you'd see in an A350-900's economy section, but with a more respectable pitch of 36 inches — the seat width, however, is just 17.3 inches, making it one of the skinniest seats in a premium economy cabin. In-seat power is provided by both USB and universal power sockets, while moveable headrests can be adjusted for your comfort.
Economy gets even more snug, with a seating configuration of 3-4-3, a layout that's typically found in the economy section on other aircraft like the Airbus A380. Most other airlines opt for the 'standard comfortable' seat width of 18 inches — which helps increase the feeling of 'shoulder space' while you're sitting next to another passenger — and include an average seat pitch of around 31-34 inches. But by installing the extra seat in the middle row of economy on Air Caraïbes' A350, it's now the first A350 operator to not have the usual 'Airbus standard' 18-inch seat width, instead offering a seat that's just 16.8 inches wide with 31" of pitch. Airbus was able to fit the 'extra' seat in the middle row, making it 10-abreast, by reducing the width of the armrests and slightly reducing the width of the aisle.
It's important to note that Air Caraïbes is a leisure carrier and by having a higher seat capacity on the aircraft, it's able to offer lower fares to the Caribbean than its competitors, most of which are around 350 euros, or $370 round-trip. This also allows the airline to price out its premium economy fares so they're closer to the cost of a regular economy flight you'd find on other airlines operating similar routes.
Of course, the main benefits of the A350 are still present, including its extra wide-body cabin, LED mood lighting and a more frequent introduction of 'fresh air' into the cabin that occurs every 2-3 minutes, meaning that a journey in economy on an Air Caraïbes A350 will be much more comfortable than on its existing aircraft — there's still a feeling of 'space' that's evident due to the structure of the cabin's walls and ceiling.
Although this is the tightest A350 in the skies (in terms of passenger comfort), it's almost a 'business as usual' offering for Air Caraïbes, which already has A330s flying with similar cabins, its focus being able to fly as many passengers as possible while offering the cheapest tickets possible on its Paris-Caribbean routes. The advantages to flying on an A350 (wider cabin, extra space, mood lighting and fresher air) are an obvious upgrade from the airlines' existing fleet and it's good to see the carrier is now offering the first fully-flat bed between Paris and the French Caribbean, despite the fact it's joined Lufthansa by not offering direct-aisle-access in business class.
Featured image by Air Caraïbes A350-900 XWB. Image courtesy of Airbus.


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