PFR editor Richard Metcalf and reporter Taryana Odayar were on hand to cover the action at the Wynn Las Vegas.
Project finance veterans pushed back against the notion that free-flowing capital was producing riskier deals at the S&P Global Platts Financing US Power Conference on Oct. 23.
PFR editor Richard Metcalf reported from the New York Marriott Marquis in New York.
NRG Energy's sale of its wind and solar development business has freed the company to procure renewables from third-party developers as it remodels itself as an energy retailer.
PFR editor Richard Metcalf reported from Las Vegas.
Fotios Tsarouhis filed these stories from Miami Beach in February.
Delegates at the Euromoney Seminars 12th Annual Latin American Energy & Infrastructure Finance Forum in Miami Beach are keeping at least one eye on Latin America's colorful political landscape, as a year of national elections and unfolding corruption probes promises to have a bearing on project financings and M&A deals.
PFR editor Richard Metcalf was on the ground in a chilly New Orleans.
Delegates traveling to Louisiana from frigid northern cities had their hopes of a respite from the cold dashed as temperatures in New Orleans hovered around freezing point for the duration of the conference this year.
Fotios Tsarouhis reported from AWEA's annual conference in New York.
PFR editor Richard Metcalf attended this regular fixture in New York.
PFR extensively covered this Euromoney Seminars conference, which took place this year at the Marriott Marquis New York, overlooking Times Square.
An influx of foreign capital from South Korea has flooded the generation space as lenders chase yield in the U.S.
Discussions on solar-plus-storage outshone talk on other emerging technologies at the 12th Annual North American Energy and Infrastructure Finance Forums in New York, but lenders are at various stages on the road to financing such projects.
As cash pours into project finance, non-bank lenders are trying hard to differentiate themselves from banks and each other.
Managing editor Olivia Feld was on hand to take the pulse of the solar industry in Las Vegas at the largest solar trade show in North America.
The competition between lenders and tax equity providers has heated up as new entities look to invest in the solar sector and the number of projects available for financing lesson.
Fotios Tsarouhis caught up with the latest trends in renewables financing at this conference in New York.
Fotios Tsarouhis reported from New York Marriott Downton.
Opinions on the impact—or lack of impact—of shifts in government policy on coal-fired and renewable generation converged during the opening panel discussion of Platts Global Power Markets 2017.
The 32nd annual Platts Global Power Markets Conference from April 24 to April 26 at the Wynn Las Vegas. PFR managing editor Olivia Feld and reporter Fotios Tsarouhis were in attendance.
Solar and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) experts at the IMN Green Investing Conference on Thursday noted that both markets will see more participation as issuance accelerates and the sectors become more sophisticated.
Infocast Solar: Crowded Utility-scale Debt Market Pushes Banks Toward D.G.
New entrants to the market and a lack of power purchase agreement is creating a more competitive environment for project finance lenders and is prompting more commercial banks to look to finance distributed generation portfolios.
Despite their companies taking a beating in the stock market, representatives of some of the leading publicly traded residential solar companies attending the Infocast Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit were keen to stress that they still have access to the capital markets.
A big winner in the first Mexican power auction is expected by some to eschew project finance in favor of balance sheet funding, but PFR readers know differently.
Uncertainty around the tax reform agenda of President Trump and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress is causing stagnation in renewable project deal flow, say attendees at the Infocast Projects & Money conference in New Orleans.
Assuming President-elect Trump does not prematurely revoke the investment tax credit (ITC), residential, commercial and industrial scale solar installations in the U.S. could reach 7.2 GW a year—resulting in 50 GW of installed capacity—by 2022, according to a Navigant analyst.
Three different kinds of lenders outlined their debt offerings for distributed solar in a panel discussion at the Infocast Distributed Solar Summit in Los Angeles on Nov. 17.
Speakers and attendees at the 20th Annual Platts Mexican Energy Conference on Nov. 14 expressed surprise at the speed and success of reforms to the energy market, but warned that some of the renewables projects that won contracts in the country's first two power auctions may not materialize.
Despite an slowdown immediately following the production tax credit extension, this year has so far been a busy one for wind project financing at a number of the leading banks in the space.
The wind industry is a close-knit group and the AWEA Wind Energy Finance & Investment Conference is generally a friendly affair, so there were plenty of lighter moments amid the serious discussions and dealmaking at the Westin New York at Times Square.
Euromoney Seminars' North American Energy and Infrastructure Finance Forum adjourned on Thursday, but not before attendees discussed a myriad of issues ranging from competition between project finance lenders, the impact of the upcoming U.S. election and the implications of a potential hike in interest rates.
Despite a tumultuous year, turnout was undamped at Solar Power International in Las Vegas. Over 17,000 solar industry professionals gathered at the Las Vegas Convention Center from Sept. 12 to Sept. 15 for the largest solar trade show in North America.
Solar Power International kicked off on Monday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Managing editor Olivia Feld attended the conference.
Some of the renewables projects that won offtake contracts in a Mexico power auction in March face a lengthy development period and may even end up not being built at all, said panelists at the Infocast Mexico Power Finance & Investment Summit in New York on June 29.
Non-utility offtakers signed contracts for about 3.4 GW of renewables last year, but long tenors are still putting some off and regulated markets still present challenges, said panelists at the REFF Wall Street conference in New York on June 21.
The rise of smaller-scale generation, including distributed solar and commercial and industrial-scale renewables, its disruptive effect on the market and its ability to attract financing were recurring topics on the first day of REFF Wall Street at the Grand Hyatt New York.
A selection of snippets gleaned on the sidelines of the 13th annual REFF Wall Street conference in New York. A regional U.S. bank seeks to break into renewables financing, and a developer gives his frank take on the Mexico power auction results.
Solar financiers converged on the New York Marriott Downtown Thursday for the Information Management Network's 4th Annual Sunshine Backed Bonds Conference.
Executives representing independent power producers attacked subsidies for renewable generation at the Platts Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas on April 19.
Financiers discussed innovative opportunities to invest in solar projects on the sidelines at the Infocast Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in San Bernardo, Calif.
Panelists debated the year ahead for the solar industry after the three year extension of the 30% investment tax credit and the turbulence in the equity markets at the Infocast Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in The Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif., on March 23.
Sponsors that have won contracts for projects into Brazilian generation auctions are struggling to find financing, according to panelists at Euromoney Seminars' 10th Anniversary Latin American Energy Finance Forum in Miami.
The term loan B market has effectively shut down, according to panelists at Infocast's 8th Annual Projects & Money conference in New Orleans on Jan. 21.
The extension of renewables tax credits at the end of last year will one of the key issues shaping the project finance market in 2016, according to speakers at Infocast's 8th Annual Projects & Money conference in New Orleans on Jan. 20.
A lack of availability of power hedges was hot topic at the Infocast 8th Annual Projects & Money conference in New Orleans on Jan. 20.
Panda Power Funds' Hummel project could have had a much racier name, if Robert Simmons had got his way.
The U.S. offshoot of Spain's Iberdrola is planning to launch a partial IPO once it completes its merger with Orange, Conn.-based United Illuminating Holding Co.
Even as strategic investors are increasingly becoming involved in financing renewables projects, developers are tackling a fresh set of risks and challenges in developing their generation portfolios.
A snapshot of lighter moments at the 2015 REFF Wall Street conference in New York replete with snippets of conversation and banter across panels, luncheons and cocktails.
While the renewabels market is seeing high levels of liquidity, yieldcos are capitalizing on declining costs of capital for shovel-ready and operating projects, according to panelists at the 12th Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street conference in New York today.
Project financiers at Platts' 30th Annual Global Power Markets are competing for business as lenders continue to surge into power and energy deals in the Americas.
Transactions backing solar storage could become mainstream in the coming years, according to panelists at Platts' 30th Annual Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas on April 13.
Rockland Capital is selling a 71 MW portfolio of contracted wind and solar projects in Minnesota and Massachusetts.
LNG export facilities in the U.S. and gas pipeline projects in Mexico will help balance a growing surplus of natural gas in North America, Bentek Energy presenters noted at Platts' 30th Annual Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas on April 13.
Sponsors, investors and financiers are looking for the next slate of opportunities in gas-fired projects and gas-related infrastructure.
Institutional investors are increasingly looking to make direct investments in generation and gas-related infrastructure, according to panelists at Infocast's 7th Annual Projects & Money conference in New Orleans.
Financiers, investors and developers are considering a bevy of changes in the power industry at a time when capital continues to flow into the sector. Yield companies, emissions regulations, natural gas supply, distributed generation and adjustments in capacity markets are among the catalysts that are shifting the power project finance and M&A landscape.
Project finance lenders are increasingly looking to expand into solar distributed generation, as the cost continues to decline and deals gain traction in the market, said panelists at Infocast's 7th Annual Projects & Money in New Orleans.
Opportunities in booming renewable and pipeline markets were tempered by concerns about governmental support and regulatory issues at Euromoney Seminars' 9th Annual Mexican Energy and Infrastructure Finance Forum. Roughly one hundred bankers, investors and developers gathered at the JW Marriott in Mexico City for the conference June 25-26. Senior Reporter Nicholas Stone filed the following stories.
Capital will be needed to develop natural gas pipelines in Mexico, a move arising out of the country looking to import shale gas from the U.S., said panelists at Euromoney's Mexican Energy and Infrastructure Finance Forum at the JW Marriott in Mexico City on June 25.
Sponsors and bankers are working to develop renewable project bond structures to appeal to foreign and domestic institutional investors.
Asian and U.S. lenders are stepping up project finance activity as European players scale back their efforts or step out of the market.
About $2 billion in tax equity investments are making their way through the market.
Institutional investors in the capital markets are showing an increasing appetite for bonds backing project finance deals, financiers told attendees at 9th annual REFF-Wall Street conference in New York.
The political uncertainty on Capitol Hill and the uncertainty over expiring renewable tax credits has some players questioning whether production tax credits are a good thing for the industry.
Inkia Energy is close to sealing commitments from 12 lenders participating in a roughly $600 million financing backing its $900 million, 500 MW hydro project in Peru, Pablo Eguiluz, project finance manager, said on the sidelines of Euromoney Energy Events' Renewable Finance Forum – Latin America and Caribbean.
Development and local banks are filling gaps in the Latin American renewables market as the landscape shifts from a corporate and equity financings to project level debt, said panelists at Euromoney Energy Events' Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Latin America and Caribbean in Miami.
A coterie of overseas sponsors and manufacturers are targeting project pipelines in Latin America, driven in part by renewable portfolio standards and new auctions for power purchase agreements, said attendees at Euromoney Energy Events' Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Latin America & Caribbean in Miami.
Renewables sponsor Green Valley Energy of Bonita Springs, Fla., is targeting a roughly $65 million financing backing it maiden project, a $100 million, 35 MW biomass project in Santa Barbara, Honduras.
Industry officials at Platts 27th Global Power Markets conference appeared guardedly optimistic that the production tax credits for wind would be extended at some point, although the 2013 wind market could still suffer if the extension comes late in the year.
First Solar and Exelon are in the last stages of finalizing documentation with the U.S. Department of Energy for a loan guarantee for the 230 MW solar project, Frank De Rosa, senior v.p. of First Solar, told PI on the sidelines of the Platts 27th Global Power Markets conference.
Essential Power, the U.S. power platform company of Industry Funds Management, has an eye on buying contracted assets to grow its generation platform—although it's in no rush to buy facilities that don't fit its model.
Power companies should look for ways to drive consumers toward a cleaner, more diverse generation mix given the absence of a federal long-term energy blueprint, according to speakers at Platts 27th Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas.
Sponsors of mammoth solar projects in the U.S. seeking financing are indirectly benefiting from the U.S. Department of Energy's expired loan guarantee program, said panelists at Euromoney Seminar's 7th Annual U.S. Power and Renewable Energy Conference said.
Summit Power is looking to close a roughly $1.3 billion debt financing backing its $2.4 billion, 400 MW integrated gasification combined-cycle project this summer.
At least two lenders are capable of offering 18-year tenors in this contracted bank market, said Elizabeth Waters, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ director of project finance, at Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in San Diego, pointing to BTMU and Mizuho Corporate Bank.
Scatec Solar North America, an arm of Oslo developer Scatec Solar, is talking to lenders about financings backing almost $165 million of solar projects in the U.S. this year.
Chevron affiliate Chevron Energy Solutions is expected to emerge as a player in tax equity this year, according to multiple renewables leaders at Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit 2012 in San Diego.
Solar distributed generation sponsors must achieve scale in financings to ensure financial efficiencies if the rapidly growing market is to mature, said panelists at Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit 2012.
Uncertainty over U.S. energy policies will endure through at least election day as presidential aspirants and their backers continue to position about the government's role in subsidizing renewables—and solar in particular, said attendees of Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit 2012 in San Diego.
Hundreds of bankers, developers, lawyers and investors convened for Euromoney Seminar's 3rd Annual Canadian Power Finance conference at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto Jan. 25-26. Big transmission targets, wind development and Ontario's feed-in tariff program created the buzz. Senior Reporter Holly Fletcher filed the following stories.
The Alberta Electric System Operator will launch in July a call for transmission developers to build a 248-280 mile, 500 kV transmission project in Alberta.
Ontario is likely to turn to developing more natural gas-fired projects as the province moves toward the retirement of several gigawatts of nuclear facilities, said Jason Chee-Aloy, managing director at Power Advisory at the Euromoney Seminar's Canadian Power Finance Conference in Toronto.
Canadian Solar expects to develop 50-100 MW of commercial and small utility-scale solar projects in the U.S. in 2012—its first foray in the country.
The power sector is shifting to a project finance model increasingly dependent on a larger equity component and mezzanine debt, especially for merchant projects, said panelists at Infocast's Projects & Money 2012 in New Orleans.
Wind developers looking to bid into Brazil's next auction for generation are worried that the downward trend in pricing in contracts will make many projects unfeasible.
The financing package backing Odebrecht's $1.25 billion Chaglia hydro project in central Peru is slated to close in February.
Fortis, the St. John, Newfoundland-based utility holding company, is scouting for acquisition opportunities of power and gas utilities in the U.S.
Talks are continuing between AES and prospective buyers for its AES Eastern Energy subsidiary even as the coal-fired unit anticipates challenges in making its next debt payment.
Pacific Gas & Electric plans to tap the capital markets in 2012 to help finance its heavy capital expenditures program, Kent Harvey, senior v.p. and cfo, told PI at the Edison Electric Institute Financial Conference in Orlando, Fla.
Portland General Electric is readying a request for proposals for 500-700 MW of gas-fired generation.
Public Service Enterprise Group is readying $750 million in transmission lines from Warren County, N.J., through Morris County to Essex County.
Observations from around the Edison Electric Institute Financial Conference.
A round-up of news from the Edison Electric Institute Financial Conference about companies including Southern Co., American Electric Power, Black Hills Corp., CH Energy Group and FirstEnergy.
Solar photovoltaic sponsors are pitching extremely low prices to utilities as the sponsors face a paucity of power purchase agreements and robust competition.
The European sovereign debt crisis may have sidelined some project lenders, compressed tenors and widened spreads, but there is appetite to wrap deals, said Matt O'Connor, leader of GE Energy Financial Services' financial institutions group, at Platts' 13th Annual Financing US Power in New York.
A rally in stock markets has opened a window for securing term B loans, bankers and executives said at the conference.
Financial players have an eye out for coal-fired generation investments, but opportunities are difficult to value.
Energy Capital Partners is nearing the first close on its maiden mezzanine debt fund.
A collection of interesting tidbits picked up at, and behind, the scene of the conference.
New tax equity players may emerge to take advantage of tax credits even after the expected sunset of the U.S. Department of Treasury cash grant on Dec. 31, said Robert Sternthal, president of Reznick Capital Markets.
PowerBridge, the Fairfield, Conn.-based transmission developer behind the Neptune and Hudson lines, is planning early-stage projects in northern New England, Hawaii and upstate New York.
La Caixa expects to relocate four existing project financiers from Spain to staff an office in New York that it aims to open within three months, said an industry observer.
Marathon Capital is working with a utility and pension funds to establish a vehicle that will co-invest in Edison Mission Energy's wind portfolio.
Starwood Energy Group has wrapped a roughly $40 million financing backing 10 MW at a solar photovoltaic project in Sault Ste.
Reznick Capital Markets is in the market to expand its capital advisory practice into a full boutique investment bank.
The geothermal, hydro, solar and wind industries are lobbying Congress to allow master limited partnerships to invest in renewables projects, said Keith Martin, Chadbourne & Parke partner, on the sidelines of the REFF-Wall Street conference in New York City hosted by the American Council on Renewable Energy and Euromoney Energy Events.
ENN Group North America, an affiliate of Chinese solar manufacturer ENN Solar, is looking to finance 20 MW of solar photovoltaic projects in New Jersey by year-end to qualify for the U.S.
Tenaska is monitoring whether a bill in the Illinois legislature will put its $3.5 billion, 600 MW Taylorville integrated gasification combined cycle project back on track.
The nuclear renaissance that was taking hold in the U.S. is expected to be stopped in its tracks—at least temporarily—as a result of the ongoing crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s earthquake and tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear plant.
NRG Energy is in the early stages of an initiative to securitize portions of the revenue from its solar portfolio as a way to diversify its access to capital.
New natural gas-fired projects will continue to take a backseat to asset M&A as low power demand and pricing signal that new build is not yet required.
Empresa Electrica de Guatemala, a distribution company based in Guatemala City, is teaming up with two other local distribution companies on an 800 MW request for proposals that will bring in 480 MW of renewable power.
Competitive Power Ventures expects to finalize the $400 million financing backing its 850 MW Sentinel combined-cycle facility in the middle of next month.
Coal-fired plants are expected to trickle into the financing and M&A markets as developers get more clarity on regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Solar generation is in growth mode, but technology and a lack of federal renewable portfolio standards continue to dog the sector, according to panelists at Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit 2011 in San Diego, Calif.
A new raft of international developers are seeking financing for $600-830 million of North American solar projects.
MetLife has bought in to BP Solar's 32 MW Long Island Solar Farm as an investor and partner, said Jim Shandalov, BP senior director of solar development in San Francisco, on the sidelines of Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit 2011.
Financiers at Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit 2011 are split over the merits of the U.S. Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for commercial-ready technologies.
EDF Energies Nouvelles aims to wrap a financing backing its roughly $48 million St. Isidore B solar plant in May.
The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to process at least 25 more applications in the queue for federal loan guarantees.
Republicans in the House of Representatives are proposing to slash $1.4 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy's loan guarantee program as part of a plan to cut billions from this year's federal budget.
Raymond James is readying a $184 million bond issue backing a geothermal plant in North America, said Jimmy Leung, a Toronto-based managing director at the Geothermal Energy Association's Geothermal Energy Finance Forum 2011 in New York.
Hannon Armstrong Capital of Annapolis, Md., and Glacier Geothermal and Seafood Corp., a New York-based subsidiary of Icelandic bank Islandsbanki, have launched GeoBanc, a joint venture to advise geothermal sponsors on development and financing.
Geothermal financing is available, but investors remain wary of drilling risks, said multiple financiers, advisors and developers.
Congress is unlikely to extend the U.S. Department of Treasury cash grant beyond its scheduled expiration of Dec. 31, attorneys and lobbyists said Feb. 9 at the Geothermal Energy Association's Geothermal Energy Finance Forum in New York.
Clean Line Energy Partners is applying for utility status make it easier to recover costs on its transmission projects and access rights to the land.
Auto manufacturers and tech companies, like Cisco Systems and Google, are being tipped as likely power investors that move their products into the realm of energy efficiency or balancing.
Google will consider making investments in pre-construction stage wind, solar or geothermal projects.
Direct Energy is on the prowl for natural-gas fired generation acquisitions in the Northeast to support its demand requirements in the region.
SkyPower will look to the project finance market for up to $720 million to support roughly one-fifth of its 1.2 GW solar photovoltaic pipeline in Ontario this year.
Developers, lenders and solar manufacturers are working together to meet local content requirements under the Ontario Power Authority's feed in tariff program and to ensure financing for projects.
Sea Breeze Power has filed the second part of its loan guarantee application with the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Ontario Power Authority is planning to kick off a new request for proposals to ink power purchase agreements for up to 500 MW of generation.
The Ontario Energy Board is inviting private companies to compete for the right to build a roughly $550 million transmission line.
Finavera Renewables is close to locking in equity via a partner for a portion of its $800 million wind pipeline before targeting a debt financing.
Canadian sponsors are not likely to find cheaper pricing this year because U.S. developers will be looking north of the border for lenders to finance a slew of projects, bankers said on a panel at Euromoney's 2nd Annual Canadian Power Finance conference in Toronto.


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Q: how to write if statement in accordance to the "name" in a cell and the amount of characters Using google docs script:
I want to write a code that will check all of row B(lets say B2), using a loop, and if it says "dogs" i want the correcponding cells(lets say D2) to have 8 characters("00000000") and have multiple of these with different words will check if the corresponding column has a certain number of characters.
I also want it to show an error if there is more or less than the allowed charaters in the correcsponding column.

A: Try this:
function countChar(){

var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
 var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];

  var range = sheet.getRange("B4");
  var char = range.getValue();
  Logger.log(char)
  Logger.log("length: "+ char.length);

}

According to this document:

Google Apps Script is a scripting language based on JavaScript that lets you do new and cool things with G Suite products like Docs, Sheets, and Forms.

Since GAS is based from Javascript you can use JavaScript String length Property to get the length of a variable.
Hope this helps.

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Question: Hello, I have been on qlaira Combination pill for the past 25 days and I have been experiencing breakthrough bleeding (moderate to heavy) for the past 20 days. I want to switch to micronor which I was taking before switching to Qlaira without any side effects. When can I switch?
Yes you can leave qlaira right now itself and shift to micronor instantly without any problem and will be very beneficial in relief from this bleeding as higher estrogen content of micronor will stop the bleed in a couple of days.
Micronor doesn't have any estrogen as it is the XXXXXXX pill, progesterone only. I know that I can't switch at any time as it would have been the case if i was switching from XXXXXXX pill to combination, now i want to switch from combination (qlaira) to micronor (mini pill). When is the ideal time to switch? after i take all active pills? after i take all active and inactive? is the bleeding likely to continue even after i switch to XXXXXXX pill?
I ve been on the XXXXXXX pill for 3 months before switching to qlaira this month and i didn't have any problems.
please can you review my question again?
Yes dear Im sorry as I wrote estrogen instead of progesterone in a hurried response.
You can switch to micronor instantly now itself while on active pills of qlaira.
It won't be much helpful in case you start inactive pills as that way you will be subjected to withdrawal bleeding and thus increased bleeding can occur instead.
Start polynor and stop qlaira now itself you will get instant relief of bleeding due to higher progesterone content of polynor.
This is such a great relief!!!
Tomorrow I am getting the prescription for micronor and tomorrow is the last day of the active pills so I will skip tomorrow's active pill and take micronor instead correct? Sorry for asking so many questions, I want to make sure I don't make any mistakes.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help!!
Yes you are absolutely right, you can skip the last active pill and shift to micronor tomorrow itself.


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A race well underway and Archibald Cary Smith was evidentially on hand to have painted this fine representation of the day's event. A capable yacht racer, it is likely that the primary gaff-rigged shoal draft speedster is smith's own sandbagger. The accuracy of the painting shows A.C. Smith's active familiarity with these popular yachts. It is recorded that many of the wealthiest members of the New York yacht club would slip off to race their sandbaggers when the competitive spirit of the prestigious club events inspired them to personally take the helm.
Smith's first ship was comet, an 18' catboat which he designed, built and raced. He would go on to design nearly every type of yacht in his 56 year career. The sandbagger hull was nicknamed the 'skimming dish', and primarily only the rig differed from the slightly smaller catboats. Each racer wears an identifying red course pennant at the main for the judges' reference, one of whom is armed with a spyglass, while others excitedly point out the action.
Superior results achieved in his artistic and architectural pursuits, this painting shows smith's mastery of each. It has survived in its original unlined state and is in excellent condition. The brilliant coloration is finished with the artist's full range of shadow and light, employing an interesting technique of illuminating the waves with multiple hues mixed within the water. Note the spectacle of a ship knocked down, her crew riding on the windward rail to keep her righted and underway. Several others stow their rigs, while the apparent winner flies an American ensign and a three-flag code probably announcing their elapsed time for the observers. The sloop LEONOA appears at rest, her sail furled and watching the action, while her name pennant flies on the main behind the foremost sandbagger. Complete in every sense for a period yacht painting; a top work by this artist.
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Signed LL: A. Cary Smith.67.
Provenance: Purchased in the 1950s by a Private South Carolina Collector, by Descent in His Family.

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PCC Advice Surgery - St Helens
18:00 - 20:00 | 30.01.23 - St Helens St Helens
Merseyside's Police Commissioner is inviting residents to share their views and feedback with her at the next monthly PCC surgery in St Helens.
Emily Spurrell launched the monthly advice surgeries last year as part of her commitment to giving local people a greater voice on policing, crime and community safety issues in Merseyside.
The sessions enable Emily to meet residents from across the region face-to-face and in confidence to listen to their views on how we can build a stronger, safer Merseyside and respond to any questions or concerns they have about the performance or oversight of Merseyside Police.
The Commissioner and her team will work with residents to identify the best route for their enquiry and discuss any action that can be taken or supported by her office.
The next PCC surgery will take place between 6pm and 8pm on Monday 30th January in St Helens and appointments must be booked in advance.
Merseyside's Police Commissioner Emily Spurrell said: "When I was elected, I promised to be a loud voice on behalf of people across our fantastic region and ensure the views of residents are at the heart of local policing.
"Launching these regular advice surgeries is a great way to hear directly from local communities about any views or concerns they have and are a crucial way I can ensure I am as accessible as possible to local people.
"I would encourage anyone with views or concerns about policing, crime and community safety across Merseyside to get in touch and book a slot at one of these surgeries. I want to hear your views and ensure your voice is heard on local issues.
"These surgeries are just part of the wider work that I'm undertaking to raise awareness of the role of PCC and make sure I'm alive to the views and opinions of local people. Residents are already invited to submit their questions ahead of my quarterly Scrutiny Meetings to get a direct response from the Chief Constable and her team. These meetings are also live-streamed and recorded so local people can see for themselves the progress which is being made on key issues."
Representing the views of residents is a key responsibility of the Commissioner and an important part of monitoring Merseyside Police's performance and holding the Chief Constable to account.
These PCC surgeries will help the Commissioner to identify themes or trends in public opinion, which will help to influence her scrutiny of the Chief Constable and inform future decisions, including the commissioning of services, projects and campaigns.
PCC Surgeries will be held on a monthly basis at a variety of accessible venues, with two sessions a year taking place in each of the five boroughs of Merseyside: Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, and two virtual sessions.
The PCC will be accompanied by staff from her team who will help to facilitate the meetings and may take notes where necessary.
Surgeries are by appointment only, to ensure that the issues being raised relate to policing, crime or community safety, and to ensure the PCC is fully briefed on the issue prior to the meeting.
While the Commissioner is unable to intervene in operational matters, she welcomes your feedback on how the region is policed and how we can work together to build a stronger, safer Merseyside.
Please note, the PCC will not be able to consider complaints about police officers, member of police staff, police community support officers or special constables, as this is a matter for Merseyside Police.
If you would like to book a 15-minute slot with Emily Spurrell, please contact the PCC's office with your name, contact information and what you would like to discuss during your meeting, by:
Calling (0151) 777 5155
Emailing [email protected]
Writing to:
Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner,
Mather Avenue Training Centre,
Mather Avenue,
Liverpool,
L18 9TG
Please note, surgery slots are limited and work on a first come, first served basis. We cannot guarantee a slot for everyone. If a session is full, you will be given the details of alternative sessions, including the PCC's virtual sessions. We also ask that if you cannot make your pre-booked appointment slot, please give 48hours notice so we may offer your booking to another resident.
Merseyside Strategic Policing & Partnerships Board
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Easton Press, Amy Tan "The Joy Luck Club" Signed Limited Edition (Sealed)
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The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese-American immigrant families who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. There are sixteen chapters divided into four sections, and each woman, both mothers and daughters, (with the exception of one mother, Suyuan Woo, who dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. While The Joy Luck Club was usually described as a novel by critics, to Tan it is a collection of short stories.[citation needed]
In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Mei Juan Xi, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by Amy Tan and Ronald Bass.
Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film.
She has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Her most recent book, Saving Fish From Drowning, explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition into the jungles of Burma. In addition, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series airing on PBS. She has also appeared on PBS in a short spot on encouraging children to write.
Life and influences
Born in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John (a Baptist minister) and Daisy (a Shanghai nurse), Tan was fourteen when her father and elder brother died of brain tumours. With her mother and younger brother Peter, Tan moved to Montreux, Switzerland shortly afterward. As a teenager, Tan experienced many cross-cultural conflicts with her mother. One incident involved her mother setting up a police sting that netted Tan's boyfriend, a suspected drug dealer.
The first book that Tan ever bought was The Catcher in the Rye. At the time, owning the book was considered to be a badge of rebellion for students in her California school. The first copy Tan owned was confiscated from her when she was 14 years old to protect her from its supposed bad influence. This early experience with censorship left an impression on Tan, who notes: "I grew up to be such a stubborn person. I learned I had to think for myself."
Tan credits her rebellious nature with starting her carreer as a writer. Having started out as a pre-med student in college, and although being told by her teachers that mathematics and science were her strengths, Tan changed to become an English major still in her first year. Only days after her employer told her that writing was her "worst skill" and that she should work to become an account manager, Tan took up non-fictional writing as a freelancer. Tan received a master's degree in linguistics at San Jos� State University. Her first job was as a children's speech-language pathologist.
Tan's mother Daisy witnessed her mother committing suicide. Tan believed that her grandmother, her mother and herself all suffered from depression. Tan has also suffered from neurological Lyme disease since 1999, a struggle she has chronicled on her website and in interviews with the media. Tan was diagnosed only when her disease had already reached a late stage, and had originally credited some of her symptoms, including memory lapses, to getting older or even having Alzheimer's (her mother was diagnosed Alzheimer's before dying on 22 November, 1999). Amy Tan has become an outspoken advocate on behalf of patients with the disease.
Since turning 40, Tan has been a member of the literary garage band Rock Bottom Remainders with Dave Barry, Matt GroeningStephen King, who dedicated his non-fiction book On Writing to her. Along with King, she appeared in an episode of The Simpsons called "Insane Clown Poppy".and
She has been married to Louis DeMattei since 1974. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their pets.
The Joy Luck Club, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
The Kitchen God's Wife, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991.
The Moon Lady, Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.
Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, Aladdin, 1994.
The Hundred Secret Senses, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
The Bonesetter's Daughter, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
The Opposite of Fate, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
Saving Fish from Drowning, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
"I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable."
Tan began her talk by launching into an anecdote about coming upon a Cliffs Notes version of her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club," in a bookstore. Surprised to see her work among Cliffs Notes' "Lord Jim", "Ulysses" and "Hamlet" (all of which she used in college to get through her English literature classes), her first thought was, "I'm not dead yet." (The Opposite of Fate 10)
"I'm sitting in the $4.95 bookstore bleachers along with Shakespeare, Conrad and Joyce," she said. "I acknowledge that there is a fundamental difference that separates us. I am a contemporary author and they are not. And since I'm not dead yet, I can talk back." (The Opposite of Fate 10)
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Xiangdong Chen
Heaven, 2019, Porcelain
Heaven and Earth, 2019, Porcelain
Big Heart - Full Belly, 2019, Porcelain
Doting Lotus, 2019, Porcelain
© Stride Arts. Image courtesy of the artist.
Xiangdong Chen was born in Nantong, China in 1963, where he attended Nantong University - School of Fine Arts. After graduating from Nantong University in 1987, Chen moved on to continue his studies at the Print Program of Nanjing Academy, completing his program in 1991. From 1989 to today, Chen has continued to refine his practice, making him one of the most prominent international Chinese print artists of our century. He is currently based in New York, NY.
Chen's most recent work puts a contemporary twist on the traditional craft of porcelain by infusing ink paint into his pieces. He is deeply involved in the entire process, from the selection of the clay through to the kiln-firing. Chen has mastered the delicate dance between these two unwieldy media to create a body of work that is exceptionally unique and elegantly straddles the cultures of the East and the West.
Chen is a member of the China Artists Association, the China Association of Print Artists, and the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA). His work can be found in numerous collections, including the National Art Museum of China, Jiangsu Museum of Art, United Nations, Si Chuan Divine Printmaking Museum and Taiwan Tainan Museum, Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, National Taiwan Normal University, and the Nanjing Arts Institute.
Exhibitions at Stride Arts
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1989 The 7th National Fine Arts Exhibition, Beijing, China.
1990 The 10th National Printmaking Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
1991 The 5th Taiwan International Biennial Prints Exhibition, Taipei.
1992 The 11th National Printmaking Exhibition, Yinchuan, China
1993 Jiangsu Provincial Prints Exhibition (winner of Award of Excellence, Nanjing, China
1994 The 8th Chinese National Fine Arts Exhibition, Beijing, China
1995 The 6th Chinese National Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition, Beijing, China
1996 The 13th National Printmaking Exhibition, Nanjing, China
1997 Jiangsu Provincial Prints Exhibition (winner of Excellence Award), Nanjing, China
2000 2K International Prints Exhibition, Taiwan
2001 The 4th GASASA Exhibition of Crack Modern Fine Arts, GASASA Museum of Art,
2002 Sino-Japanese Modern Art Exhibition, ASGO Museum of Art, Japan
2003 Exhibition of Chinese Modern Graphic Art, St. John's University New York, U.SA.
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By Daniel Mufson
In the fall of 1988, the Los Angeles Theatre Center decided to let Reza Abdoh direct his first production on the mainstage. His only previous work at the theatre was on one of the secondary stages, where he directed two one-acts by David Henry Hwang, As the Crow Flies and The Sound of a Voice, in February of 1986. In 1987, he had was already been discussing a piece whose working title was Bogeyman with Mira-Lani Oglesby, with whom he had recently collaborated on for Peep Show, a site specific work that took its audience through a number or rooms in a downtown Hollywood hotel. Even in the earliest planning stages, it was clear that Bogeyman would cost more money than the LATC was at that point willing to give Abdoh. Instead, Abdoh and Oglesby chose to do a play based on a true story, an environmental catastrophe in Minamata, Japan.
Minamata would turn out to be one of the most important productions of Abdoh's career in part because of its artistic qualities but more so as a turning point in his life—professionally and personally. With Minamata, Abdoh jettisoned many of the actors he had been relying on for the previous five years. Artson Hardison, Meg Kruszewska, Suraya Nobel, Irene Ujda, Ron Frank, and Carla-Maria von Wiegandt, all of whom had considered themselves part of Reza's de facto company, suddenly found themselves out in the cold. With the exception of Kruszewska, who would have one final and unpleasant experience with Abdoh in Father Was a Peculiar Man, none of them would ever work with Abdoh again.
Abdoh's professional decision came at significant personal cost. Most if not all of the above actors considered themselves Abdoh's friends, and his decision to switch to more established professional actors was interpreted as egregious betrayal. Abdoh seemed to recognize how high the stakes were for his career and responded with a correspondingly dramatic action. In turn, the LATC's decision to give a mainstage slot to a 25 year old director itself changed the nature of the Abdoh's work—polishing it, intensifying it, making it far more reliant on technology and its variety of special effects. For a director inclined towards spectacle, the access to better sound, lighting, projections, and video allowed a reconsideration of what was possible; in technological terms, the productions would for the next few years sound and look increasingly baroque.
Along with the turmoil of switching actors and the sense of promise the came with directing on the mainstage, Abdoh also received at about this time the news that he was infected with HIV. Although sexual congress is indeed simulated at one point in Minamata, sexual issues are almost completely irrelevant to the play. This is the last production of which that could be said. After Minamata, which lasted about two hours and twenty minutes, Abdoh's works grew shorter, seldom exceeding an hour and a half, and increased in intensity. This may have been related to the diagnosis, but LATC's artistic director, Bill Bushnell, is said to have been urging Abdoh to trim and cut his work throughout Minamata's production process. Although Abdoh resisted the advice during Minamata, in hindsight he may have realized that Bushnell's objection had some validity and that Minamata would have benefited from Occam's Razor. Something that takes even firmer root in Minamata is the incorporation of socio-political issues into a play text; in particular, Minamata begins to cast urban, industrial, capitalist society in a critical light and questions its claim on the notion of progress. Minamata may have been only a village, but it carries within it the seeds of the "ruined city."
Minamata was Abdoh and Oglesby's second collaboration, and already the relationship was beginning to show signs of strain. According to others involved in the production process, Abdoh frequently played with pieces of text Oglesby had written in ways that infuriated Oglesby. Oglesby consistently refused requests for an interview, so it is hard to know for certain who wrote what or how much or what the nature of their disagreements was.
There are darkly humorous moments that resonate with subsequent plays that Abdoh wrote alone, and the piece is richly choreographed with long dance numbers. The use of repetition to augment and alter the significance of a line or phrase is much in evidence: "Our lives are a continuing succession of opportunities for survival," and "Quietly, death becomes a commodity," and "We are trying to atone for our dead," to name just a few. That said, the script lacks traits that Abdoh seemed to be honing at least as early as Rusty and which would grow ever more abundant from Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice onwards: lines that at first sound like non sequiturs but actually have a hidden relevance; an aversion to the prosaic; an intense stylization of speech that strives for the poetic but doesn't sound as overwrought as much of Minamata's text. Even the repeated phrases don't have the sense of rhythm in language that typifies Abdoh's later use of the device. The refrain, "Our lives are a continuing succession of opportunities for survival," lacks the clipped, cutting quality that Abdoh would later perfect. Minamata is also the last play to use a narrator to help guide the play's action and soothe or antagonize the audience. Finally, the dances in Minamata seem balanced between populist dance (from Hollywood musicals or folk traditions) and modern dance; after Minamata, the choreography would be confined to using only the former, but in increasingly alienated, or twisted, representations.
Death and Commodity
Since kings break faith upon commodity, Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee.
King John, II, i., 597-598.
Beginning in 1932, the Tokyo-based Chisso Corporation began dumping chemical waste from the production of acetaldehyde into the bay of Minamata, a fishing village 560 miles southwest of Tokyo, on the island of Kyushu. Acetaldehyde is used in the production of plastics, drugs, perfumes, and photographic chemicals, and one of the chemicals required for its manufacture is mercury. Mercury, of course, is highly toxic; the origins of the English expression, "mad as a hatter," lie in the (now obsolete) use of mercurous nitrate in the making of felt hats, which eventually induced neurological disorders in the hatters. In Minamata's case, the mercury discharged from acetaldehyde production made its way into Minamata's fish population, and the fish were in turn eaten by the inhabitants of Minamata. The so-called "strange disease," would first affect the nervous system, causing numbness in the limbs and lips. Progressively, speech would grow slurred and vision, myopic. Fainting, spasms, and uncontrolled shouting were typical of some of the early, extreme cases. The rate of birth defects skyrocketed, as did the rate of mental illness induced by mercury poisoning. In the 1950s, Minamata's population reached 50,000; by 1975, it had sunk to 36,000. It took time to figure out what the disease was. Not until early in 1956 did it become clear that something had gone seriously wrong. Amidst a campaign of denials, obfuscation, and egregious legal maneuverings by the Chisso Corporation, the dumping of mercury into the bay actually continued until 1968, at which time the mercury method of production for acetaldehyde finally became obsolete. The Chisso Corporation had realized it was responsible for the epidemic as early as 1959, but it continued to deny responsibility and actually negotiated a contract with victims that offered the sufferers token financial aid from the corporation in return for the victims' waiving their right to sue for further compensation. The Minamata catastrophe received a great deal of publicity in 1975 as a result of a book of ghastly pictures taken by W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith, some of which are projected upon the rear scrim in the LATC production. The final legal settlement of the case would not come until 1996, when about 2,400 of the surviving plaintiffs settled out-of-court for 2.6 million Yen each ($24,200), plus 3.8 billion Yen ($3,800,000) for the organization representing the plaintiffs. When Minamata went up at the LATC, the sordid affair was far from over; indeed, for the survivors, the repercussions continue to last beyond any court settlement. Abdoh and Oglesby used the story of Minamata as a base from which to launch a broader critique of capitalism, legal systems that protect corporations more than the populace, and industrialization in general. Although the narrator, who introduces himself as a lawyer (played by Mark Rosenblatt), gives a great deal of background information about the Minamata case, little effort is made to put the play in a Japanese context, in scenic terms or otherwise. Only one of the actors in the twelve-member cast is of Japanese descent; two others are black, and the rest are white. Occasionally, lines are repeated in Japanese, and there is a Japanese rendition of the "Beverly Hillbillies" song, but in general Abdoh and Oglesby make it easy to forget that the Minamata incident happened in Japan, not America. The only recognizable individual in Minamata is the Chisso Corporation's doctor who worked honestly to discover the cause of the disease but then allowed his findings to be suppressed for years. The doctor's name was Dr. Hajimé Hosokawa; in the play, he is played by a black man and given the name, Del. In reality and in the theater, however, the doctor is an avid fan of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. It turns out to be an anomaly in Abdoh's career that he would co-write and stage a play so directly pre-occupied with an environmental catastrophe. In all of Abdoh's other works, the focus of the writing is on an emotional struggle—produced by or producing dysfunctional or destructive behavior. The struggle in Minamata is not one of inner conflict. The tortured souls are tortured physically; their psychic anguish is a byproduct of their physical predicament, not vice versa. Although the Smiths' book actually does talk about how the citizens of Minamata had divided feelings towards the Chisso Company, in Abdoh and Oglesby's play there is no psychic division, no gray moral area. There is no grand conflict between dynamic forces. In Quotations from a Ruined City, Abdoh would again turn his attention to the cruelty intrinsic to capitalism, but the Puritan/entrepreneurial figures in Quotations seem at times to be victims of their own creation, and their rather inhuman dialogue is tempered by that of the gay lovers. In Minamata, except for a speech by Tom Fitzpatrick which presents a menacing vision of "creative destruction," the phrase Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter used to describe capitalism, the villains are never seen, merely referred to by the Lawyer/Narrator. Nothing tempers the inevitable indictment of the Chisso Corporation's behavior. There's no complex weave of thought, however repugnant, which the audience is forced to explore, as was the case with Abdoh's handling of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in The Law of Remains. In all these ways, Minamata is an atypical work for Abdoh. The closest thing to moral ambiguity comes when the Old Woman of Minamata asks, "Are five billion people living out a perfunctory existence in six hundred sixty six countries accessories to rape and pillage?" The notion that everyone on the planet is complicit in every crime committed on the planet is too devoid of credibility to have the threatening or shocking impact that Hip-Hop or Law of Remains would have. The moral exploration never transcends this type of superficial and immature rhetoric. Apropos of the Manichean nature of the Minamata story, Abdoh and Oglesby use devices that originated in the Living Newspaper productions as part of America's Federal Theatre Project in the Great Depression. Slides of photos from Smith's Minamata provide documentary evidence of the atrocity, while the Old Woman catalogues facts that indict the priorities of governments and corporations around the world:
One soldier for every 43 people. Check. One doctor for every 1,030 people. Check. 40% of our research and development devoted to developing weapons to make us better killers. Check. 60% of our physical scientists and engineers devoted to developing weapons to make us better killers.
And so forth. In such a production, the use of a narrator is almost a necessity; information, such as when a chemical factory opened or started producing acetaldehyde, tends to be difficult to integrate gracefully or poetically into dialogue. The script occasionally tries to compensate for the pedestrian recital of facts by leaping for rhetoric that often comes off as bloated. Shortly after finishing a series of lines such as, "The Antarctic stratosphere loses half its ozone every September," the Old Woman continues, "Eternal verities couched in expedient slogans permeate the material world." But the script is not comfortable with its own loftiness. Aptly, another character interrupts the Old Woman after the line about eternal verities and asks, "What does that mean?" Throughout the production, characters interrupt each other with wry remarks that undercut the highfalutin tenor. The Old Woman starts a speech, "The sky is red. The color of saffron," but is immediately interrupted by another woman who says, "No, it's not." The Old Woman answers, defensively, "That's what's written. That's what I'm gonna say." Shrugging, the other woman says in a doubting tone, "Ok," and the Old Woman continues on with her speech, "The earth seems wholly black. / The sea still and blue. / A humid rotten flower smell. / A musty dry smell of deserted forests: / The smell of mutation," and so forth. Such apparent tensions between the urges toward flowery and hard speech are occasionally amusing, but they more often give a sense either of two authors ill at ease with each other's style or of one or two authors ill at ease with their own. It is perhaps significant that, without exception, these interjections appear in the actual production but none of them appear in the extant script. It would be presumptuous to guess that Oglesby was responsible for the purple parts of the play while Abdoh was responsible for the attempts at deflation. Going back to the book of poetry Abdoh wrote and published at age 16, even its title, "The Sound of a Poet Breathing in an Imprisoned Air," announces a tendency to the overblown. If we look at Abdoh's other works, there is always a tension between the impulse towards flowery or "poetic" speech and the impulse to deflate, undermine, or mock what is lofty. Indeed, a key part of Abdoh's maturation as a writer (or "creator," if we are uncomfortable with using the word "writer" to refer to someone who cut and pasted excerpts from so many other sources) is that he began to find poetry in the profane, to become more concrete, hard-edged, and anti-pretentious in his attempts at writing something elevated.
Text versus Staging
More than the struggle between the people of Minamata and the Chisso Corporation, Minamata announces from the beginning the struggle between word and image. In the opening monologue, the Lawyer announces:
The play is about Minamata. Minamata is a fishing slash factory town in Japan. Perhaps you've seen the pictures. They involve mercury poisoning. Very aesthetic, I guess. Life magazine. Late sixties. [sic] But pictures are symbols. And through pictures information becomes symbols. Symbols are forgettable. This play wants to be more than aesthetic. It wants to be more than about some crazy diseased cats and Japanese people. It wants to be more.
Albeit vague, the Lawyer's introduction outlines the course and strategy of Minamata. The entire script strives to make analogies between the factors leading up to the Japanese environmental disaster and aspects of modernization and industrialization throughout the world. None of these are particularly far-fetched. If one reads the two reviews that appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Minamata sounds as if it laces together disparate elements in much the same way the later plays would. Not true. The boldness of interjection in Minamata is relatively tame. At one point, for example, the Old Woman has a monologue about how telephone operators adjusted to the change from cord-boards to computers. The relation to Minamata is far from direct, but both topics could certainly fit under the broad heading, "Modernization." Compared to the next production that Abdoh would stage at LATC, Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice, where references to Jacques Cousteau, Andy Gibb, proper table manners, and Citizen Kane are peppered into a monologue about the end of sensuality, the breadth of Minamata's allusions seems narrow. Knowing Abdoh's other works, it is hard to believe that a character in one of his plays could refer scornfully to the aesthetic and dismiss symbols as forgettable. There are in fact memorable images in Minamata, but they have a more disciplined correspondence to the script than usual. Minamata's set changes, but not architecturally; the scrim changes color, slides are occasionally projected onto it. Almost all of the slides seem to depict in a fairly direct way the deformation of nature. The breadth of the visual imagery is limited—perhaps because of the parameters set by the Lawyer in his opening, or perhaps because Abdoh had not yet quite imagined the visual opulence that would characterize later shows. Certainly, Minamata is significant as the first show in which pre-recorded images—in this case, projected slides—play an important role. After Minamata, almost every production included pre-recorded images , but after Minamata projections are replaced by video. Judging from Minamata, the shift to video makes sense; the clumsy off-on-off-on nature of slides compromises their ability to work as a seamless counterpoint to the other events on stage, and the possibilities of manipulating images are much greater with video than they are with still photos. Abdoh's main counterpoint to the banalities of the text in Minamata is song and dance. The production is saturated with dance numbers. As has already been mentioned, Abdoh's interest in popular and folk dance forms begins to take mature form here, but he still maintains an interest in modern dance, most notably in the so-called "Factory Dance," whose movements are meant to evoke Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Abdoh seems to have been aware that Minamata's text is dry and that his central task would be to bring some life into a script that often bears a strong resemblance to a harangue. In part, he accomplishes this via the inserted quips mentioned above, or by allowing the actors leeway to ad-lib in a way he had never allowed before and would never allow after. Above all, though, he enlivens the play with song and dance. In several instances, an actor delivers a long speech from a peripheral position on the stage while the rest of the company dances. Two songs, the "Kentucky (Pigmy) Woman's Song" and "Black Betty," reflect Abdoh's interest in Negro spirituals, an interest that will manifest itself repeatedly in later productions, particularly Tight Right White. The latter is a traditional Negro spiritual; the former, a Negro spiritual version of the song, "Kentucky Woman," but its lyrics describe a woman losing her hair and shrinking in size to nothingness as a result of working at a nuclear plant. The song and dance numbers provide Abdoh's actors with an opportunity to radiate the energy for which Abdoh's subsequent productions are known.
The Haunting Pastoral
Minamata is perhaps also significant for introducing Abdoh's signature half-gesture at redemption. The play ends, as so many of his subsequent works, with a disbelieving glance at the possibility of a salvaged world. Three trees, chopped down at the beginning of the show, stand again at the end. Soft music plays. The scene is suburban, peaceful. Lights glow in a house. A child swings on a swing. Responding to a question about this in his interview with the Los Angeles Times' Sylvie Drake, Abdoh said, "I can't completely succumb to the notion of paradise lost." Not completely, perhaps. But consider the dialogue preceding the silent pastoral, where the character known as the "Expert Witness," played by Tom Fitzpatrick, has a final few words with the Old Woman as the Lawyer looks on:
EXPERT WITNESS: The weather has been going very weird. Very peculiar. All over the world. It's snowing, see how large the flakes are?
OLD WOMAN: Where?
EXPERT WITNESS: There, over the hill. [It starts to snow.]
OLD WOMAN: It's a miracle.
EXPERT WITNESS: What?
OLD WOMAN: Man's sins are being washed away.
EXPERT WITNESS: I somehow doubt it. I somehow doubt it.
LAWYER: In 1968, the factor stopped using mercury to make acetaldehyde. The process was technologically outmoded.
The Lawyer proceeds to call out case numbers, presumably signifying the plaintiffs who, at the time of the production, were still locked in legal battles with the Chisso Corporation. As the polarizing figures of Minamata recede and leave behind the halcyon scene, one doubts, along with the Expert Witness, that "man's sins" have been washed away and wonders instead if the quiet pastoral is in fact a symbol of the complacency and egocentrism that helped precipitate and prolong the Minamata crisis in the first place. The Smiths' book is full of anecdotes that illustrate the division of the community, the impulse to deny that there was actually a problem or to blame or stigmatize the victims. Who sits in the quiet, softly lighted house at the end of the play? Dr. Hajimé Hosokawa (a.k.a. Dell), who sat for ten years on the knowledge that the Chisso Corporation caused the disease, not speaking up until he himself was on his deathbed? Is it a person poisoned and crippled by the acetaldehyde effluent? Or just one of the many people vaguely aware of environmental dangers but who assume they will remain problems for someone else in some other community? Do they carry the ruined city under their skin, and, if not, what have they done, or not done, to save others from the ruins?
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Diablo Canyon: Safety Success Story
Located on a picture-perfect bluff overlooking California's Avila Beach and the Pacific Ocean lies the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (DCPP). In service since 1985, DCPP provides more than 18,000 megawatts of electricity annually to the California grid, comprising roughly 10 percent of California's energy portfolio and meeting the needs of more than three million Northern and Central Californians. Helping to create more than 4,500 jobs and creating an annual economic impact of more than $1.8 billion, DCPP is at the heart of California's energy future. However, key to the future of the DCPP and to that of many nuclear power plants worldwide is how to handle the threat of nearby seismic activity.
When the Diablo Canyon area near San Louis Obisbo, Calif. was selected to host DCPP in 1965, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) was unaware of the seismic makeup of the surrounding area. Geologists from Shell Oil discovered the Hosgri earthquake fault in 1969 during the design review process. The earthquake potential from the newly discovered fault located just 2.5 miles from the DCPP site exceeded the maximum seismic capacity of the construction plans outlined in the initial license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, PG&E and the NRC hosted numerous joint-meetings and workshops, transparently modifying the approved construction plans to ensure DCPP was able to withstand a seismic event. In 1984, after 15 years of hearings, retrofits and reconstructions, the NRC granted DCPP final approval and the two reactors began operation in May of 1985 and March of 1986.
The 15-year period between the initial design and eventual operating approval was not a simple or easy process for PG&E. Some nine revisions to its costs and operating plans were submitted and the retrofit ended up increasing the cost of construction by some $4.4 billion. However, the end result was a nuclear power plant that exceeded the expected maximum earthquake velocity in the region and was granted a full operating license by the NRC.
The long process of building trust between the operator and the regulator has again been called into action in recent years due to the 2008 discovery of the Shoreline fault some 600 meters from DCPP and the PG&E's 2009 application to extend DCPP's operating license until 2045. The original operating license for the two reactors is set to expire in 2024 and 2025. Pursuant to the discovery of the Shoreline fault and in preparation for the license extension, the NRC asked PG&E to do a new seismic analysis to assess any newly apparent risks to the safety of the DCPP. In 2011, PG&E submitted a report that stated the earthquake hazard presented by the newly discovered fault fell within the existent earthquake resistant design specifications and required no additional action. The following year, NRC performed its own analysis and came to the same conclusion, namely that, according to a probabilistic risk assessment, DCPP's existing earthquake retrofits (the ability to withstand up to an earthquake from the Hosgri fault measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale) were sufficient for protecting against earthquakes from the newly discovered Shoreline fault.
Despite its location in an active earthquake zone and only 600 meters from the nearest fault, DCPP continues to operate safely under the close watch of the federal regulators. Even as the relicensing process continues, additional seismic testing is ongoing due to both the federal reexamination of seismic risk in the wake of the Fukushima accident as well as a California law requiring additional vulnerability testing.
As DCPP moves toward its fourth decade of operation in a seismically active area, continual seismic testing and retrofitting help minimize the probability of an earthquake triggered nuclear accident. As Lloyd Cluff, PG&E's Chief Seismologist recently stated, "there's always uncertainty in everything we do in in this world when it comes to earthquakes… [but] we don't see a concern about the uncertainty." Thanks to a culture of trust and cooperation between the NRC and PG&E, DCPP balances between need for caution with the necessity of continued operations.
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Q: error cannot create a folder folder_name? in git My git is not working properly.when i try to pull from the repository I get the following error

fatal error cannot create a folder project/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc...

when i try to push also I'm getting the same error.I cannot even merge.
git pull
fatal error:cannot create the directory project/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc...

git push
fatal error:cannot create the directory project/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc...

what is happening behind the screens?
thanks in advance

A: Try git pull from the root. You might not have permissions.
If you dont have the root enabled, you enable it.
Refer http://www.ducea.com/2006/06/21/ubuntu-how-to-enable-the-root-account/


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Upper Peirce Reservoir Park Entrance is about 1 km away.
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