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I have a post that is using ListView, which is using this approach. You should be able to learn from that.

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SH1 Cycleways : the real story
Received from Hilary Calvert
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:40 p.m.
[begins]
NZTA has produced a Q and A sheet for their project news update on our cycle lanes along the one-way streets.
An annotated version is provided for reality junkies:
Q: Why is there a need for separated cycleways on the one-way system?
NZTA: Cyclists and pedestrians are over represented in fatal and serious injury crashes. There have been 2 fatalities since 2011. Short-term safety measure were put into place in 2013. Separated cycle lanes are the long-term solution.
Reality: There have been no deaths since the cycle lanes were widened in 2013. The two deaths since 2011 were likely contributed to by the very act of creating cycle lanes in the blind spot of vehicles. Had these cyclists been on the road they would have been safer.
Q: Where else in the country are they using these?
NZTA: These lanes are becoming familiar in major cities including Christchurch. Busy urban routes such as the one-way streets in Dunedin need higher standards of cycle lanes.
Reality: No one in their right mind would direct cyclists to State Highway 1, where all the trucks go. If these two parallel roads were returned to two-way streets, you might put trucks on one and bikes on the other. But this is mad.
Q: Why put the cycleways on the right rather than the left?
NZTA: Because it increases cycle safety and separates them from bus stops.
Reality: Bingo! NZTA has finally realised delivering cyclists to the blind side of trucks is very dangerous. But it was NZTA who chose to do that last time. A simple sorry would be a start.
Q: why not on the right-hand side from Duke St to Otago Museum then?
NZTA: This has been done in response to feedback received and supported by further cycle surveys. And there is a large number of cyclists who use this route who would have to cross the road.
Reality: Really? So feedback overcomes safety? Surely this brings into question whether they really understand the safety issues with the left-hand side. WE all know that cyclists are no different from the rest of us, they will take their bikes on the shortest route they can find. Which will mean that they are spending most of their time not on the new cycle lane. Actually, most of their time will be spent walking around campus because the University won't let cyclists inside – safety issues, apparently.
Q: What impact will this have on parking?
NZTA: Keeping the cycle lanes on the unsafe side of the road will mean we lose 20 fewer parks. Parking will be provided in high demand areas. (see revised plans).
Reality: We will lose hundreds of parks, particularly in the highest parking areas around the hospital (made worse by the DCC proposal to build on the car parking area at Frederick St). Parking is already squeezed in high demand areas. These guys are in la la land, and I don't mean the award winning movie.
Q: Will these cycle lanes disrupt traffic flows?
NZTA: The lanes are likely to smooth traffic flows and provide more reliable travel times because there will be fewer parking movements.
Reality: Yes more reliably longer times, which are likely to double for anyone using the one-way streets. More phases for cyclists and pedestrians, more traffic trying to find parks, more time needed to get to hospital appointments. It wasn't that broke. Why are those from out of town so determined to get in the way of traffic in Dunedin?
Q: How many cyclists are likely to use the cycle lanes?
NZTA: Current usage peaks at 500 per day, but this could easily double. We will measure the change.
Reality: Weasel words. Try looking north from Lower Stuart St along the one-way street. There will be several vehicles on the cycle lanes and likely not even 1 cyclist. The reality is that we are likely to have fewer than 1 cyclist per kilometre of cycleway in Dunedin at any one time. The maximum of 500 is not relevant to the usage in general. (And indeed 500 per day is 500 over 1440 minutes, about one every 3 minutes. At the absolute peak. For a moment in time. So it may double to 1 cyclist at the absolute maximum every 1.5 minutes.) And having measured it later, we are still stuck with the cycle lanes even if they don't create double the usage. Meanwhile there is no proposed monitoring of the time wasted on getting to hospital appointments, or the time spent by students walking further from free car parking to lectures, or any other flow-on effects of decreased parking where it is currently available.
Q: When is work likely to start?
NZTA: May 2017, taking around 15 months and in such a way as to ensure the one-way system is able to operate effectively and any disruption is kept to a minimum.
Reality: These streets are groaning at the seams already. Our entire one-way system will become impossible to operate usefully, and it will take double the time. By this time those who came to Dunedin because the traffic wasn't so bad will have the start of every working day diminished and their Dunedin experience effectively destroyed around the central city. We have an elderly population, and this will be the last three years of the lives of some of us.
Q: Who pays and what will it cost?
NZTA: NZTA will pay for the work directly related to the cycle lanes. $8million.
Reality: More weasel words. There are large costs not included in the direct costs. Agencies are keen on doing guestimates of the multiplier effect of benefits to the city for, say, acts at the stadium. What about a study of the likely costs to the city of loss of parking revenue, loss of time spent driving around, loss of time spent walking from vehicles, anxiety around hospital appointments, loss of business for those relying on easy car access for their custom etc. There are also costs for the work connecting roads and footpaths etc between the cycleways and the rest of our DCC infrastructure, and the inevitable landscaping in the vicinity. And then the costs of fixing what we had to redo because none of the agencies are working together. An expensive nightmare.
Q: What is being done to provide more integrated transport in Dunedin?
NZTA: NZTA, DCC and ORC are implementing transport related projects: this is one. These cycle lanes will connect with cycling lanes being considered in North Dunedin linking University, Hospital, Otago Polytechnic and the CBD.
Reality: These institutions are already handy to each other. As regards the University the biggest obstacle to cycling is the size of the campus which cannot be crossed by cyclists.
Pity NZTA doesn't have a booth in the heart of Dunedin where they could come and sit and listen to the issues. Perhaps on the corner of Stuart St and the one-way streets?
█ NZTA Dunedin Urban Cycleways Programme
Cycling in Dunedin contributes to improving transport options, providing a more efficient and integrated transport network, improving health, economic and social outcomes and city liveability. The Urban Cycleways Fund, subject to council approval, will help to accelerate the City to Harbour Bridge and the Central City and North East Valley cycle network.
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By Eileen Goodwin
A $120,000 grant has been pulled from the Dunedin physiotherapy pool upgrade because no-one yet knows when — or even if — it will happen. And the Otago Therapeutic Pool Trust has confirmed a second grant, of $100,000, is subject to an extension review and a decision is awaited.
Pool trust secretary-treasurer Neville Martin […] hopes to know more by June, when the Ministry of Health is expected to release a shortlist of site options for the $300 million Dunedin Hospital rebuild.
"To avoid closure of the pool by the Southern District Health Board, the trust has been required to cover all operating costs since the beginning of 2015." –Neville Martin
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Cull climbs into alcohol issue to advance his mayoral election campaign (?) – yet specifically states he won't campaign on the matter of the new Dunedin hospital and retention of health services for Dunedin's wellbeing.
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Alcohol policy appealed
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The University of Auckland was ranked in the top 151-200 universities, an improvement on 2015 when the institution was ranked in the top 201-300.
### ODT Online Thu, 25 Aug 2016
Otago drops in academic ranking
By Margot Taylor
The University of Otago has dropped in an annual list of the world's top universities. The university was ranked in the 300-401 band of the top 500 universities in the world in Shanghai Ranking Consultancy's Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016, the first time in eight years it has not been in the top 200-301. […] Otago University was the only New Zealand institution to drop in the list since it was last ranked.
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Misero-mercenary at U of O
Just in, Rhodes says:
Naylor Love stiffed by U of O.
$100M Dental School to be awarded to Leighs Construction.
Naylor Love's consolation prize is the new $18M Otago Polytechnic Hall of Residence, where they were significantly more expensive than other local rival Amalgamated Builders, but scored much higher on non-price attributes, which gave them top ranking.
Amalgamated Builders, clearly not flavour of the month at either Polytech or University —it's understood the same thing occurred at the recent Commerce Building Upgrade.
1.7.16 No one wants to work for U of O
31.5.13 University of Otago development plans
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by Elizabeth | April 29, 2016 · 5:07 pm
Otago students at Pitt St: No longer drunk possums in trees
Last night I heard (muted) sirens about, nothing more – not realising what was happening a few houses away up Pitt St. My place is tucked in off the road, nothing seemed out of the usual for a Thursday night, 'student party night' —just typical city noise that often includes sirens and choppers. Reading through a consent file for 97 Filleul St collected from DCC that afternoon, I was absorbed, completely missing the street action…. On waking this morning, I opened the first message on my phone, from a journalist asking if I'd heard the party on Pitt St last night? Hmm
18 Pitt Street, Dunedin [Google Street View Nov 2009] tweaked
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Dunedin student seriously injured after jumping from roof
By Laura Walters and Hamish McNeilly
A Dunedin student in hospital with life-threatening injuries jumped from a roof just minutes after party-goers were told to turn their music down by noise control officers. Dunedin District Command Centre Senior Sergeant Brian Benn said police were called to the house on Pitt St about 11.30pm on Thursday. "A drunken student tried to jump off a roof. That didn't end too well for him." Benn said no one at the party saw the 21-year-old land after jumping from the roof, but when partygoers went to find out what happened they found him with "reasonably serious injuries". Neighbours said the flat had been quiet during 2016 until Thursday night's party. "It was a terrible racket," one neighbour said. St John ambulance spokesman Andy Gray said the student's condition was updated from serious to critical due to his "life threatening injuries". He was taken to Dunedin Hospital but the large party continued.
Fri, 29 Apr 2016
ODT: Student 'critical' after jump off roof
A student is fighting for his life after jumping off the roof of a two-storey house at a large Dunedin flat party last night. Senior Sergeant Brian Benn, of Dunedin, said the 21-year-old was seriously injured after "an aerial stunt" at the Pitt St party went wrong.
Not for the first time.
Last year, it began with the male students at 53 Royal Tce….
Comment by Elizabeth
An associate caught sight of a particularly juvenile and UNSAFE act that occurred next door [at 53]….
The scene.
Two storeyed house with dormer windows in the City Rise, tenanted by university 3rd or 4th year male students.
Constant noise and behavioural issues…. well-known to Noise Control, Campus Watch and Proctor [Police attention very much the next step – these young idiots have been told].
One of them had earlier broken his leg. Following recovery and some time later…. his so-called 'friends' egged him on to jump from a dormer roof (at second floor level) into a shallow paddling pool at ground level. He had to think about it for quite a while…. obviously he was facing serious injury or worse if he got it wrong, given the building height and shallowness of the water. Being a mental statistic he jumped – by luck not good management he did not need an ambulance.
What was that about safety nets – let the morons kill themselves, one less noise complaint.
Recent student idiocy:
● 53 Royal Tce – Dunedin [no injury, not recorded] Late 2015
● 598 Castle St – Dunedin [multiple crowd injuries] 4 Mar 2016 Link
● 124 Dundas St – Dunedin [serious head injury] 12 Mar 2016 Link
● 18 Pitt St – Dunedin 2016 [critical injury] 28 Apr 2016
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by Elizabeth | March 9, 2016 · 2:54 am
Professor Robert "Bob" Carter RIP
Robert Merlin "Bob" Carter (9 March 1942 – 19 January 2016) was an English palaeontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist who is perhaps best known as a prominent Australian climate change skeptic. He was professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University from 1981 to 1998.
Gurglars emailed me on Sunday about the Obituary:
ODT 5.3.16 (page 32)
Then I heard from Mick (Douglas Field) on Monday:
You will have read the obituary (ODT Saturday) to Bob Carter who died in January this year. As you know he was a prominent sceptic re climate science and was more or less bannished from James Cook University in Queenslamd. You wll also know of his strong connection to the University of Otago.
Chris Monckton (The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) has written a rather charming piece of music that he has called Bob Carter's Peal. It was originally written for piano but it has been modified by the clever people at Edinburgh University (Chris lives in Edinburgh) who made a version with the sound of the bells of Ghent Cathedral.
Go to: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/02/27/ghent-cathedral-bells-ring-out-bob-carters-peal/ Article + Audio
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"Professor Robert Carter of James Cook University, who died in January 2016, has been immortalised in a clock-tune written by one of his friends in the manner of a Turmuhrglockenspielsonatine by the Baroque German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. This poignant but merry tune has been described as "the loveliest bell-tune ever written". Traditionally, the Classical composers wrote clock-tunes to commemorate the weddings or funerals of their friends.
Professor Robert Carter, a geologist, became internationally famous in the last two decades of his life because he was one of the very few scientists who had the courage publicly to question some of the more extreme claims made by advocates of the apocalyptic theory of global warming. As the reported rate of global warming (even after much ever-upward adjustment of the linear-regression trends on all of the principal global-temperature datasets) continues to be very considerably below the rates that had been predicted, his polite but incisive questioning of what has become a substitute for true religion in the academic world will one day be seen to have been prescient.
Bob Carter was personally distressed by the extent to which the academic world had abandoned the scientific method in the rent-seeking pursuit of ever-larger grants from governments panicked or profiting by the climate scare. His university, which makes much money out of global warming by this questionable method, felt threatened by its leading professor's heresy. Shoddily, the vice-chancellor, to his eternal shame and to that of his university, presided over the abandonment of all pretense at academic freedom: the university took various frankly malicious steps to Bob Carter's detriment, the last of which was the withdrawal of his right as an emeritus professor to continue to use the library of the university that he had served so long and so well.
He was deeply distressed not so much by his university's mistreatment of him in the closing years of his long and distinguished life as by its totalitarian rejection of the essential and formerly sacrosanct principle of academic freedom to dissent from profitable orthodoxy. Despite the university's petty-minded and self-serving misconduct, he remained cheerfully and determinedly active to the last, attending the UN climate summit in Paris in December 2015."
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The federal government has responded favourably to demands from 34 principals of Anglican schools in Sydney to retain anti-discrimination laws which permit them to exclude LGBT teachers. And then, when there was an adverse reaction some of them broke ranks.
In an open letter, the group of Anglican schools wrote to MPs claiming the shift would undermine their faith's core values. "Until such time as religious freedom is codified in legislation, the exemptions should remain," their open letter states.
Among those who signed the letter are the principals of King's School at Parramatta, Barker College and Abbotsleigh in the northern suburbs, Shore at North Sydney and Trinity Grammar School in the inner west.
These wealthy schools which take large sums of taxpayer dollars, have a very chequered history when it comes to 'core values'.


On the 26 February the world famous Café de Paris, located in the West End of London, played host to the annual PQ magazine awards. The awards now in their 16th year recognise the future generation of accountants, and the hard work they undertake in order to qualify; as well as those who educate and nurture them on their journey.
The AIA has a longstanding relationship with the annual PQ magazine awards, and for 2019 the AIA were pleased to sponsor and present the 'Online College of the Year' award.
Competition for the award was fierce with HTFT Partnership, Learn Signal, London School of Business and Finance, Premier Training and Training Link all shortlisted for the coveted accolade.
AIA Chief Executive, Philip Turnbull had the privilege of awarding the trophy to eventual winners, Training Link.
Accountancy Team of the Year – Listers Group Ltd.
Commenting on the evening, AIA Chief Executive, Philip Turnbull said: "As always the PQ Awards have proven to be a great success; providing a fantastic opportunity to meet and network with the future generation of accountants and educational establishments in a social environment.
Congratulations to all of the worthy award nominees and winners. In particicular to Gloria Murray (AIA Council Member) on being nominated for the prestigious 'Accountancy Personality of the Year'. The award nomination is testament to her continued drive and determination to make a positive impact on her clients and their businesses.
"Moving forward we look to continue working closely with PQ magazine, as we help to guide, develop and nurture our students journey on the path to becoming fully qualified accountants."


Google's Webmaster Central reported an SEO Audit class to their Chrome Lighthouse developers extension i.e SEO Tool. Would it be a good idea for you to get energized? The module is misleadingly essential. Notwithstanding, it's justified regardless of a look on the grounds that if a portion of the elements the module measures relate to real positioning elements, at that point it might be advantageous to add this to your SEO tools list.
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The SEO measurements the module writes about are to some degree inquisitive. For instance, one of the measurements is the Viewport Meta-Element. We realize that Google is pushing toward a portable list, so it bodes well that versatile agreeableness may be a positioning variable, either specifically or in a roundabout way as an ordering factor.
This is an SEO module from Google that is positioning the viewport meta component with regards to SEO. For anybody still wavering about pushing toward a portable first site, this ought to be a reminder.
This metric about the span of a text style is identified with versatile agreeableness. The span of a textual style influences that it is so agreeable to peruse content on a cell phone. Versatile neighborliness isn't a metric ordinarily connected with SEO.
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How simple it is for a client to peruse content does not fit into the conventional site improvement box. This is a User Optimization Metric, not a Search Engine Optimization metric. Unless textual style readability on cell phones are a Google positioning component.
Is the span of a text style for cell phones a positioning element? This isn't known. Given that the Lighthouse SEO Module positions it, it is protected to at any rate regard text dimension as though it were a positioning element.
The meta depiction is another inquisitive metric to incorporate into an SEO module. Generally, the meta depiction has been utilized by Google for show purposes as it were. It has never been viewed as a component utilized for positioning a site. There are episodic reports of positions dropping in the wake of changing the meta portrayal.
Has Google at any point remarked on meta depictions? Truly! Google's own Matt Cutts has urged distributors to either have special meta portrayals or no meta depictions and to totally keep away from copy meta depictions.
Given this history of how Google treats meta portrayal, the way that Google included meta depictions as an SEO metric is exceedingly fascinating. It adds more fuel to the level-headed discussion about whether meta portrayals are a positioning variable or not. What do you think?
Is the Lighthouse SEO Extension Useful?
I will be plain. The Lighthouse SEO Chrome augmentation isn't a specialist level apparatus. It doesn't approach. Notwithstanding, given that it's a device made by Google, it might be valuable for you to investigate. More data is constantly welcome since information is helpful. It will enthusiasm to perceive what Google includes next.


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Evidence found in mice that reduces irritation via specific neural pathways
Stimulating the nervous technique using small household current by acupuncture may tamp all the way down systemic inflammation within the body, suggests new research inside mice from the united group of neuroscientists found in the U.S. and China. The extensive research, august 12 in the journal Neuron publishing, really helps to map the neuroanatomical underpinnings with this ancient medical training.
"Most Western medicine features been emphasizing blocking the neural pathways of discomfort to ease the symptoms, but you will find so many soreness pathways therefore many approaches to open every one of them," says senior writer Qiufu Ma, the researcher at Harvard Health care Institution who has been researching the neuroanatomic schedule of pain for decades. Inspired by the key ideology of standard Chinese medicine, that is to treat an ailment by addressing the main cause, Ma and his staff make an effort to target inflammation, a typical supply of human pain and illnesses.
Previous studies demonstrate primary vagal nerve stimulations on the neck region will help reduce inflammation, but these experimental approaches require invasive procedures. Being mindful of this, Ma and his crew attempted to investigate whether and how electric powered stimulation applying acupuncture, which simply involves inserting skinny needles through skin, can modulate swelling.
The team began giving mice a 15-minute electroacupuncture at 3 mA at a certain site on the abdominal. This acupoint, dubbed ST25, has been related to nerves of the spleen, that is a significant organ associated with immune responses.
The team then simulated a life-threatening inflammatory condition that's often noticed in patients suffering severe bacterial or virus infections by injecting mice with a compound called lipopolysaccharide (LPS). After injecting the dealt with mice with LPS, scientists found the serum quantities of pro-inflammatory molecules in these pets was significantly below that of the command party. The mice's survival costs also significantly more than doubled. On the other hand, if the united team provided mice the electroacupuncture following the LPS shot, the treated mice had very much greater inflammation than the ones that were do and untreated not really survive.
By evaluating the consequence of electroacupuncture in mice by having an altered nervous program, the group determined that high strength stimulation at the stomach could excite norepinephrine-producing nerves that connect the backbone and spleen. The norepinephrine next activated a particular form of receptors in the spleen that suppressed pro-inflammatory molecules. Nevertheless when LPS very first was introduced, a different type of splenic receptors — pro-inflammatory in this full situation — became highly expressed, and the following electroacupuncture therapy improved inflammation.
"We were really astonished to find that exactly the same suggestions has completely contrary outcomes in numerous disease levels," Ma says. "But most of the time, someone would only arrive at us should they have the condition already. So we desired to find out if you will find a real solution to reduce inflammation as cure."
The team conducted electroacupuncture at another acupoint then, now on mice's hindlegs. They identified stimulation at the lowest intensity of 0.5 mA for 15 minutes could lessen pro-inflammatory molecule ranges either before or after LPS-injection significantly. Mice's survival rate after electroacupuncture likewise increased by 1-fold or maybe more. A genetically altered mice model implies that low-stage electroacupuncture at hindlegs reduced irritation not although the spleen, but an alternative neural pathway concerning the vagus nerves and the adrenal glands.
"Our review illustrated that electroacupuncture offers neuroanatomic basis, but its protection and efficacy on people must be validated inside of clinical trials," Ma says. "There's nonetheless many questions unanswered relating to this medical practice and so plenty of room to complete more research."
The continuing work was supported by NIH grants, the Harvard/MIT Joint Research Program in Simple Neuroscience, and the Wellcome Trust grant.
Materials given by Cell Press. Note: Written content might be edited for type and length.


No, it's not a horror movie. It's the same Abbey you know and love.
First, a promo of a sponsor by Ralph Lauren. Which, hey, I enjoy – because his dresses are very Audrey Hepburn-meets-American Classics. We learn that Masterpiece is something about …it helps our minds and hearts. Come on, come on! READY FOR THE SHOW NOW. I thought my DVR didn't catch this, and nearly threw a fit. So, okay, here we go.
And O'Brien has left. Who knows why, it seems she left no clues or told anyone she was thinking of it. Everyone flocks together to talk about this mystery. OH, right – O'Brien went off with Susan. BETRAYAL. I feel so bad for Cora. She was basically..intimate with O'Brien.
AND WE SEE THAT COUSIN ROSE DID KNOW OF HER MOTHER'S PLANS. She's …trouble. But we learned that she was trouble, last season.
Baby, er, Master George, is adorable and plump. Mary calls him a, "poor little orphan." Anna reminds Mary that he's not an orphan, and Mary snips back that he's not exactly poor, either.
Finally, the Countess Dowager! Even in a graveyard, Violet is a chipper sight.
We learn that it's six months since Matthew died.
The babies are walked, together, in prams! Adorable.
Tom doesn't like Nanny West. And Robert is none-too-pleased about Edith going into London to see her older, married, paramour. Her Facebook status would be, "It's Complicated," that's for sure.
Rose hitches along to the village and posts an ad for a Lady's Maid.
Isobel…she's pale and tired. Her spirit has died down. Violet tries to talk with Isobel (oh, how far they've come!) But Isobel is going to be reluctant about anything, right now.
Mr. Carson gets mail that he doesn't like, and gets grumpy about everything. Tapestry!
We also learn that everything belongs to George, instead of Mary. Basically. So, she's back where she started.
Thomas hates Nanny West, and it seems like it's kind of because he wants to be the nanny. …But then it appears that he just hates how Nanny West thinks she's an "upstairs" person who can boss him around. Naturally, he sabotages her.
It's Saint Valentine's Day! Cards for everyone! Little love notes. …But none for Daisy…WAIT, there is one. Bates and Anna share a cute moment, because their cute, though their love will always be doomed. Lady Edith has a Valentine, too. There is so much tension in a stairway scene between Edith and Mary that I kind of want to …punch Mary. She wants to make everyone as miserable as her, and she's bitter that anyone else has love. Especially Edith, because Mary was always better than Edith. Mary's attitude seems especially self-damaging and hateful towards her sister, and to her own self.
Mrs. Hughes is like Veronica Mars, so she investigated and found the guy Carson got mail from. And Hughes is good about learning what it's all about. The guy (Mr. Grig) is in a workhouse, but at least he's "in the dry" and sober. He used to sing/dance with Carson! Mrs. Hughes goes to Mrs. Crawley with the situation, because Isobel is the liberal one who helps people. But Isobel doesn't want that responsibility anymore than Carson wants.
Edith's beau has found out he can marry Edith, in another country. But would living in Germany be …ideal? Have they gone into FULL FLAPPER FASHION there? Because Edith is ROCKING a red frock and headscarf that Rachel Zoe would say she'd, "die for." But then Edith would say death is nothing to joke about, and then Zoe would roll her eyes and later say how ugly Edith is. SO, anyway. Just letting you know how that situation would play out.
The ladies are surprised to receive a mixer from Edith. Mrs. Patmore isn't happy about it. She doesn't like toasters, either. I happen to dislike my toaster, because I can never clean it properly. There's crumbs all over the bottom. AND, it's impossible to pull the tray out, it always sticks. Who knew finding a good toaster would ever be so hard? I've never owned a single toaster that worked right.
Tom appeals to Carson, so that Carson will appeal to Mary about getting her shizz together. Mary will listen to Carson, but not anyone else. I almost want Mary and Carson to get married, because…at least he makes her smile. But I think maybe she smiles because he really respects the old traditions, and she loves them, too. She loves that he's a fully committed servant who knows his place. (And it'll never be in her arms/bed/etc.) WAIT WAIT. Okay. I know what you're about to say. Yes. I wrote all of that before we were at 37 minutes into the program and Mary nailed Carson (wrong use of words…) for being so presumptuous. I GUESS SHE'S GONNA BE A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK. Cue: intense stare into the mirror.
Violet is also in on the game of trying to get Mary to live again. There's a moment after Vilet says, "I love you" where she goes from looking down to lifting her eyes – as though it broke through to her. Loved that moment.
The smooth mousse has paved the way by winning over Violet: KITCHEN AID MIXERS HERE WE COME. Then, Violet talks with Mary (who has stormed upstairs) and they have the sweetest moment of honesty.
I LOVE THAT ENTIRE SCENE. (And the next.) Robert doesn't understand, sometimes there's a family member who means well but just doesn't understand.
Nanny West didn't think it was a good time for HIS GRANDMOTHER TO SEE GEORGE? SLAP THE EVIL WITCH OF THE WEST!
Ivey gets drunk, and is then hungover.
Former housemaid has turned to a lady's maid, and wants to work for Cora. That's Jane Moorsum, the maid who had a tryst with Robert. DRAMA. Mrs. Hughes is in a tough spot, because she can't tell Cora why Jane was let go… WAIT. Okay. It was EDNA who is hired, and it's because her and TOM had a thing.
Edith gets to go out with a man, drinking and dining in public. And she looks fantastic in a green and gold dress, with white gloves and her hair waved up like they did in those days. But she'd better hold onto her drink, because her beau (can you tell I've forgotten his name) is going to move and become a German citizen. And they're going to get married. And they have the most beautiful kiss with glowy golden light.
Lady Mary apologizes to Carson, which means order is restored. Carson is kind of like Lady Mary's Grandfather, and he's very supportive of her. She's come to the realization that it's time to start living. Of course, this comes with a crying breakdown…a healing sort. Grief comes in waves. Carson is able to hug Mary through it.
Mrs. Patmore broke the mixer bowl…and she's worried she's stuck in the past and isn't relevant anymore. Poor, dear, soul. Who doesn't love Mrs. Patmore?
It's a new day. There's sun out, flowers, and the music is back! Thomas is thanked by Cora, and beams with pride. At a meeting of all men for the land (or whatever), Mary arrives in a purple dress, instead of her usual black. She's here to work. Daddy isn't so happy, but psh.
Gwen is married! That's Gwen Dawson, with the red hair, from season 1. She left to become a secretary. The actress, Rose Leslie, has been on 'Game of Thrones' recently. But it seems we'll see her for 'Downton Abbey' season four.
A box arrives of Matthew's effects. And in a book, Matthew has said that Mary should be the heiress. Even if it's not legal, it's important for Mary to know that. But Robert doesn't want to show it to Mary. He'd prefer to be in sole charge of the estate, not share with his daughter. Robert is firm about how the letter isn't a will, no matter what Matthew said he wanted, or that there were witnesses. He's the only one who feels that way, though.
Robert decides to throw very hard questions at Mary, trying "to show a woman's place is in the home," says Cora. Is Mary qualified? Robert makes it clear he hopes the letter is not verified to be legal. Luckily,Violet has a plan. She wants Branson to "explain the crops" to Mary, so she can GET qualified.
Mr. Mosely is in dire straits, and has no money or job. Anna offers to give him money, but he refuses. It's a sad sight. But in securing his signature, Mr. Bates is able to forge it and get him some money anyway. YAY BRANSON. It was in the guise of, "you owed me some money anad now I'm paying you back." Thirty pounds! Mr. Bates and Anna have hearts of gold. Much higher than 14k.
Rose invites Anna to some sort of dance. But she has to watch out, because Edna and Thomas are framing her for ruining a scarf (or something) of Cora's. For now, she's got to go to the dance with Rose at the Jubilee Dance Hall. They're sneaky little minx's. Rose is just wild for the One Step. And for boys. And now she's…"Rose Smith." What's a creative girl like her using such a boring last name? Or maybe the writer's did so because they knew we'd never remember if it was her real last name. James stops by (the snoop), and everyone dances. When two boys fight over Rose, it's James to the rescue…and he's taken a fancy to Rose after all. THE POLICE ARE COMING. AAAAH. THERE ARE POLICE WHISTLES.
The man that Rose was dancing with has come back to make sure she's okay. And here's Rose, all dressed up in a rose dress, looking nothing like a maid. Therefore, Anna puts her in a maid's outfit so she can go speak to the boy. But Rose is able to put him off by saying she's engaged. Thomas witnesses this, so now he's got blackmail material. (We know he loves it.) Though, we needn't worry that Thomas will fall for Rose, as he's falling for Edna.
AND HERE'S A SCENE WHERE WE SEE THE DOG. Robert has arranged everyone to hear that Matthew's request that Mary should own half the estate stands. Carson and everyone is pleased, except Papa.
And, in his good mood, Carson sees to it to see Grigg before he leaves for good. There was a woman, Alice, who'd come between them. But they talk, and things are instantly better between the two. It's sad and bittersweet, because Carson was too prideful to come around earlier and he could have learned the truth about Alice. Carson doesn't have many friends.
Carson insists on paying for Mr. Griggs' stay, though Isobel tries to resist. But it is a sign that Carson really has forgiven his friend, and now considers him enough of a friend to take on any of his burdens. It's sweet. And with that sweetness, we say goodbye to this premiere of Downton Abbey season four…for now.
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SILENT SLEEP
Issue 34 / June 2013 Words: Richard Lewis
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The project of singer/songwriter Chris McIntosh, SILENT SLEEP have unveiled their highly accomplished debut album Walk Me to the Sea; ten tracks of sumptuously arranged baroque pop spiked with compellingly downbeat and caustic lyrics. Awash with brass, strings and percussion, the band's highly detailed orch-pop sound is brought to life onstage by eight musicians, led by Chris on vocals and acoustic guitar. A veteran of Liverpool's music scene, piloting the much-admired 28 Costumes for most of the 2000s, when the band splintered in early 2010, Chris relocated to Berlin to gain a fresh perspective on music, and life.
"The band had stopped and I realised throughout my whole adult life I'd just done that band and I hadn't really done anything else. I wanted to do something different," Chris explains, sat in the neo-classical finery of The Vines. "The idea of living away in a city where nobody knows you, I just took that opportunity since I had no ties here. I didn't move to Berlin to write an album or anything like that [but] when I was there I had a lot of time on my hands and I only had my acoustic guitar. Inevitably I started writing singer-songwriter type songs which I'd not really done before."
Berlin's fertile music scene meant ample opportunity to road-test material in front of receptive audiences. "As I started writing these songs I started booking myself little gigs in cafés and in basements. Tiny gigs with twenty people sat down, and loads of candles. The great thing about Berlin is that I think it's really easy to get an alcohol licence and it's very cheap to rent places so bars just shoot up," Chris enthuses. Despite this, however, the singer found some aspects of the city wanting. "When I was moving, everybody was telling me how great a city it is for music and 'You're gonna meet so many musicians' and after about a year I was like 'Where are all these crazy musicians?' Everyone's really cool in Berlin and it was kind of intimidating, being on your own. Some of them were like offensively cool," Chris laughs, "and we were on totally different wavelengths."
Due to his new modus operandi, Chris began to mentally sketch out the arrangements for each track after creating the basic chord structure and vocal melody. "I had a lot of time to let the songs grow and think in my head how I'd like them to sound if I had whatever instruments I wanted to at hand," Chris explains. "When I came home I wanted to record all these songs as an album and try and realise how they sounded in my head."
Moving back home meant that Chris also had the huge plus of being able to take advantage of the near-spooky six degrees of separation that exists between Liverpool musicians. "I put on Facebook just as I was about to record the album, 'Does anybody know a trumpet player and a violin player?' and everyone replied 'John Gibbons', then someone else said 'Elaine Sykes plays violin', so they were the first two people I emailed." With the tracks written and the players assembled, Chris chose Pledge Music to raise funds for the sessions. The money was raised within six weeks – half the allocated time – and then the band were free to record the tracks in Whitewood Studios, with go-to-guy du jour Rob Whitley as producer, whom Chris had earmarked for the project from its conception.
The arrangements on the record, with melody lines weaving their way dextrously across the tracks is one of Silent Sleep's hallmark elements. "A lot of it was planned meticulously and a lot of it was made up on the spot," Chris explains. "For me, that's the most enjoyable bit of songwriting, piecing it all together, being spontaneous." Housed in a handsome record sleeve, ("The only brief I gave the artist Fiona Osborne was that I wanted it to look like the front cover of an old photo album"), the LP is only available in a limited edition run of 250 vinyl copies.
"I'm no good at writing fantastical lyrics. I can only go from what's in my journal." Silent Sleep
Set against the lush instrumentation, as titles Liked Me After All and We've Fallen Out Again starkly demonstrate, Silent Sleep's lyrics err towards the personal. "All the lyrics are pretty autobiographical," Chris states. "I'm no good at writing fantastical lyrics. I can only go from what's in my journal." Another effect of Chris's move back to Merseyside was to influence his lyrics to reflect his present environment as On The Steps Of The Bombed Out Church, Black Tide and Walk Me To The Sea amply prove.
Citing David Gedge, the leader of indie icons The Wedding Present, as his biggest lyrical influence, Chris selects Arcade Fire and Eels for providing musical inspiration. Similar to the two North American acts, who prefer festival halls over arenas and academy's live, Silent Sleep aim to create music on the biggest canvas possible. "I'd love to play The Royal Albert Hall or do a tour of Philharmonic Hall style venues," Chris nods. "It'll only be eight musicians as opposed to 20. I'll keep that for the bigger occasions."
Indeed, Silent Sleep's recent performance at The Black-E has become one of the most lauded shows by a local artist in months. Having already won the audience over with a commanding performance, a spontaneous decision by the songwriter to go off-script pushed the gig up a level.
"As soon as I saw that domed entrance [at The Black-E], my first thought was 'That would be amazing to play in','' Chris grins. "To be honest, it was only when I heard the nightmare stories about a show there the night before with the sound going on and off, I thought 'If that starts happening to us I'll get everyone up there. Everything went fine but then I thought 'I'll do it for the last one'. I wasn't gonna do it [but] the gig seemed to be going well and people were into it and I thought, 'Fuck it, I'll do it.' We had the choir at the top of stairs with us."
Completely unamplified but benefitting from the natural acoustics, the resultant YouTube footage captures the moment for posterity. The song in question, On The Steps Of The Bombed Out Church, is released towards the end of the month as Silent Sleep's next single with, as Chris puts it, a launch party "in a fairly predictable venue" to mark the occasion.
On The Steps Of The Bombed Out Church is out now
silentsleep.bandcamp.com
Keith Ainsworth,
Richard Lewis,
IT'S A WALTURDAW LIFE
LIVERPOOL LOST AND FOUND
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART – TOTAL ART


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package com.iitp.njack.iitp_connect.utils;

import android.support.annotation.NonNull;

import org.threeten.bp.LocalDateTime;
import org.threeten.bp.ZoneId;
import org.threeten.bp.ZonedDateTime;
import org.threeten.bp.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import org.threeten.bp.format.DateTimeParseException;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

import timber.log.Timber;

public final class DateUtils {

    public static final String FORMAT_12H = "hh:mm a";
    public static final String FORMAT_24H = "HH:mm";
    public static final String FORMAT_DATE_COMPLETE = "EE, dd MMM yyyy";
    public static final String FORMAT_DAY_COMPLETE = "HH:mm, EE, dd MMM yyyy";

    private static final String INVALID_DATE = "Invalid Date";
    private static final Map<String, DateTimeFormatter> FORMATTER_MAP = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

    private static boolean showLocal;

    private DateUtils() {
        // Never Called
    }

    private static DateTimeFormatter getFormatter(@NonNull String format) {
        if (!FORMATTER_MAP.containsKey(format))
            FORMATTER_MAP.put(format, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(format));

        return FORMATTER_MAP.get(format);
    }

    // Internal convenience methods to reduce boilerplate

    @NonNull
    private static String formatDate(@NonNull String format, @NonNull ZonedDateTime isoDate) {
        return getFormatter(format).format(isoDate);
    }

    @NonNull
    private static ZoneId getZoneId() {
        // Implement when needed.
        return ZoneId.systemDefault();
    }

    // Public methods

    public static void setShowLocal(boolean showLocal) {
        DateUtils.showLocal = showLocal;
    }

    @NonNull
    public static String formatDateToIso(@NonNull LocalDateTime date) {
        return DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME.format(date.atZone(getZoneId()));
    }

    @NonNull
    public static ZonedDateTime getDate(@NonNull String isoDateString) {
        if (isoDateString == null)
            return ZonedDateTime.now();
        return ZonedDateTime.parse(isoDateString).withZoneSameInstant(getZoneId());
    }

    // Currently unused but should be used in future to hide fields if not using default string
    @NonNull
    public static String formatDate(@NonNull String format, @NonNull String isoDateString) {
        return formatDate(format, getDate(isoDateString));
    }

    @NonNull
    public static String formatDateWithDefault(@NonNull String format, @NonNull String isoString, @NonNull String defaultString) {
        try {
            return formatDate(format, isoString);
        } catch (DateTimeParseException pe) {
            Timber.e(pe);
            Timber.e("Error parsing date %s with format %s and default string %s",
                isoString,
                format,
                defaultString);
        }

        return defaultString;
    }

    @NonNull
    public static String formatDateWithDefault(@NonNull String format, @NonNull String isoString) {
        return formatDateWithDefault(format, isoString, INVALID_DATE);
    }

    @NonNull
    public static LocalDateTime getIsoOffsetTimeFromTimestamp(@NonNull String timestamp) {
        return LocalDateTime.parse(timestamp, DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME);
    }

}

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William M. Feehan (29 de septiembre de 1929 - 11 de septiembre de 2001) fue un miembro del Departamento de Bomberos de la Ciudad de Nueva York que murió durante el derrumbe del World Trade Center.

Biografía
Feehan se graduó en la Universidad de San Juan en 1952. Antes de trabajar en el FDNY, sirvió en el ejército de Estados Unidos durante la Guerra de Corea, durante la cual recibió numerosas condecoraciones como la Medalla de Servicio en la Defensa Nacional entre otras.

Feehan fue el primer bombero en la historia del cuerpo en ocupar cada rango desde el momento de su nombramiento el 10 de octubre de 1959. Se convirtió en teniente en 1964 y finalmente jefe del departamento de bomberos en 1991. En 1992 fue nombrado comisionado de bomberos adjunto, tras la renuncia del comisionado de bomberos, Carlos M. Rivera, ocupó el puesto de comisionado de bomberos interino hasta el final de la administración del alcalde David Dinkins.

Después de que el alcalde Rudolph Giuliani nombrara un nuevo comisionario de bomberos, Feenhan regresó a su puesto original de comisionario de bomberos, puesto que ocupó hasta su muerte, causada por el derrumbe de la torre sur del World Trade Center durante los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001.

A Feenhan le sobrevivieron cuatro hijos y varios nietos.

En el National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Feenhan se encuentra memorializado en el panel S-18  de la piscina sur.

En 2015, el departamento de bomberos de la ciudad de Nueva York bautizó a una lancha con el nombre de Feenhan.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Nacidos en 1929
Fallecidos en 2001
Víctimas de los atentados del 11 de Septiembre
Militares estadounidenses de la Guerra de Corea


This 3-D key charm is the exact size of a small jewelry box key. Measurement includes the top loop. The little key charm has two sides with a seam and a hollow interior. It does not have a right and wrong side, but has the shape of a real key. Loops fit with our 4mm jump rings.
Thank you to Janice Everett for her magazine feature using FAB in Bead Trends magazine, Dec 2011.
Drawings by Romain de Tirtoff (1892 – 1990) Commonly known as Erté.
Perfect . . . just what I needed...thank you!


In the summer of 2016, Boon Sheridan started noticing people gathering outside his home, staring at their phones. Pokemon Go had launched and Boon's converted church was a Gym. This was Boon's introduction to the game and how it made use of Augmented Reality.
We talk about Augmented reality, virtual reality and "Mixed reality". We look beyond AR and VR gimmicks and discuss the use of augmented reality in the workplace and in situations where it becomes an integral part of an experience. We also discuss making AR more inclusive and the use of VR in therapy and rehabilitation.


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Future Cities, Now!
Nine new books to curl up with this month
Anna Ben Yehuda
Posted: Thursday February 1 2018, 3:08 PM
Is there anything more comforting than curling up with a book with a hot chocolate in hand? We think not. That's exactly what you'll find us doing all month long, getting through these great nine new books.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (drops February 6)
The novel follows Vietnam veteran Ernt Allbright as he moves his family to Alaska and attempts to build a new life, leaving the atrocities of the war behind.
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara (drops February 6)
One of the year's most anticipated books, Cassara's work of fiction explores the drag world in 1980s New York City through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Angel.
Feel Free by Zadie Smith (drops February 6)
The prolific author divides this collection of essays into five sections—In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf and Feel Free—tackling all sorts of subjects in each composition.
Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (drops February 6)
The book explores themes relating to exile, passion and love by chronicling the love story between Zebra and Ludo—two diametrically opposed yet magnetic characters.
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (drops February 6)
The novel chronicles the unnamed narrator's attempt at coping with the unexpected loss of her best friend and mentor while taking care of the unwanted dog that said friend left behind.
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (drops February 6)
Newlyweds Roy and Celestial are enjoying their seemingly ideal life until the former goes to prison for a crime he didn't commit. The novel explores the characters' marriage through Roy's seven years of imprisonment.
Madness is Better Than Defeat by Ned Beauman (drops February 13)
The British author pens this literary thriller that deals with subjects ranging from Holylwood and Manhattan in the 1930s to a CIA operation gone wrong... and Mayan gods.
Mrs. by Caitlin Macy (drops February 13)
Adored Big Little Lies? This should be your next read. Macy tells the story of three women from New York's Upper East Side whose lives intertwine when their kids start attending the same preschool.
Sunburn by Laura Lippman (drops February 20)
Polly and Adam meet at a local tavern in Delaware and "abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair...." until something goes wrong.


Why did the aging despot General Than Shwe meet with Aung San Suu Kyi?
The prevailing view is that the Old Man wants to ensure that in his final phase of life he is safe from any form of retribution, that his extended family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are safe and that their ill-gotten gains - estimated at $ billions - remain intact.
I am sure these are elements in Than Shwe's equation. But there is more to his move - that he met the woman whom he set out to destroy in his official stay in power - that is, almost 20 years.
1) Than Shwe is the Master Strategist, the scriptwriter and the director of the play "Discipline Flourishing Democracy".
2) As such, he knows his chess pieces/characters very well. he hand-picked a perfect man - Thein Sein, un assuming, non-threatening A Class Liar for the President post, stacked all key positions with the most subservient and loyal generals whom he had groomed and gave jump promotions (for instance, Min Aung Hlaing) and sidelined or bypassed the ambitious cameleon with rotten name - Thura Shwe Mann.
3) He has a perfect sense of timing: remember US Senator Jim Webb and Yattaw thingy? - when Obama was about to create the first major China Containment move (Asian Pivot or Rebalancing)?
4) He doesn't need assurances or security guarantees from Aung San Suu Kyi or any future elected government as long as his loyalists control the entire Security Sector; their personal control - and the military's institutional interets are guaranteed, constitutionally.
5) But what Than Shwe is ultimately after is this: THAN SHWE NEEDS TO SHOW THE WORLD WHO REALLY IS THE BOSS WHEN THE EVENTS ARE UNFOLDING SMOOTHLY AS HE IMAGED.
OF ALL PEOPLE, THAN SHWE - IF NOT HIS USDP STOOGES LIKE HTAY OO OR THEIN SEIN - MUST HAVE KNOWN AUNG SAN SUU KYI WOULD WIN HANDS DOWN IN ANY FREE VOTING PROCESS - IF NOT FREE AND FAIR ELECTION AS WE KNOW IT IN A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.
HE WANTS TO TAKE THE CREDIT AS THE DICTATOR WHO FACILITATED THE SEMI-DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION.
But do NOT celebrate this as yet.
For the military's institutional interests are not necessarily coterminous with those of Than Shwe's family or personal interests. They will soon diverge - if the Old Man allow Aung San Suu Kyi to strip the military of any real power. That is unlikely to happen because the next generation of generals waiting in their wings are not going to wittingly and voluntarily let the democratization process to drastically curb their power, privileges and control.
Than Shwe-Aung San Suu Kyi meeting is about the Bama or dominant Burmese' interests intertwined with the interests of both Supreme Leaders.
As such structurally, neither non-Bama could see any shift in politics that will help them realize their dream of federalist Burma.
And for the Rohingya, the deal excludes their genocide.


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Gigawatt Global launches East Africa's First Solar Field
Posted on February 8, 2015 February 19, 2015 by Hanna Klein
East Africa's First Utility-Scale Solar Field Boosts Rwanda's Electric Generation Capacity by Six Percent
(Kigali, Rwanda) - Only 12 months after the official signing of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), Gigawatt Global has succeeded in financing, constructing and interconnecting a $23.7 million solar energy plant, culminating in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting event.
Rwanda's Minister of Infrastructure, Hon. James Musoni, and the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), John Morton, will lead the ribbon-cutting on Thursday, February 5, at 12:30pm of the 8.5 Megawatt (MW) solar field at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (ASYV), and will be joined by international representatives of the partners that developed the landmark project.
The Rwanda field - constructed in the shape of the African continent - brought together an international consortium of financing partners. Debt was provided by FMO (Netherlands Development Finance Company) and the London-based EAIF (Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund); mezzanine debt provided by Norfund (the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries); equity from Scatec Solar ASA (who also served as EPC contractor and serves as O&M provider), Norfund and KLP Norfund Investments (a vehicle jointly owned by KLP, the largest pension fund in Norway, and Norfund). Grants were received from the United States Government via OPIC's ACEF (Africa Clean Energy Finance) grant and from the EEP (Energy and Environment Partnership) Programme, a partnership of the Finnish, Norwegian and Austrian governments. SEDI Labs served as a key project development partner. Norton Rose Fulbright from London served as the international legal counsel.
"Top quality developers like Gigawatt Global are the keys to success for President Obama's Power Africa Initiative," said Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO of OPIC. "After OPIC provided critical early-stage support through the ACEF program, Gigawatt smoothly and swiftly brought the project online to give Rwanda enough grid-connected power to supply 15,000 homes. Gigawatt Global in Rwanda is a clear demonstration that solar will be a key part of Africa's energy solution."
Chaim Motzen, Gigawatt Global Co-Founder and Managing Director, and the main force behind the development of the project stated, "Our project proves the viability of financing and building large-scale solar fields in sub-Saharan Africa, and we hope that this solar field serves as a catalyst for many more sustainable energy projects in the region." He continued, "The speed with which this project was completed is a tribute to the strength of the Rwandan government's institutions and their laser-focus on increasing Rwanda's generation capacity as well as to the nimbleness of our team and partners which spanned eight countries."
The Rwandan project is built on land owned by the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, whose mission is to care for Rwanda's most vulnerable children orphaned before and after the Rwandan genocide. The village is leasing land to house the solar facility, the fees from which will help pay for a portion of the Village's charitable expenses. Gigawatt Global will also be providing training on solar power to students of the Liquidnet High School on the grounds of the Youth Village.
"Anne Heyman, our Founder of blessed memory, held to a vision in which the Village practiced tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching to help heal the world. In addition to our work with Rwanda's most vulnerable children, we're now helping to improve the lives of thousands of people through sustainable electricity generation," said Laurie Toll Franz, ASYV's Board Chair.
Yosef Abramowitz, President of Gigawatt Global, believes that "this utility-scale solar field at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village is a symbol of hope for sub-Saharan Africa's tens of millions of orphans and 600 million people without power, ushering in a new era of impact investing that we will hopefully be replicating throughout Africa. We want to thank President Obama and Secretary Kerry, along with our other financial partners, for the opportunity to celebrate this landmark electricity-generating project under Power Africa."
Gigawatt Global is one of almost 90 private sector partners involved in the U.S. Government's Power Africa Initiative, which is designed to increase access to electricity throughout all of sub-Saharan Africa. By providing creative financing, business development support and commercial advocacy through various U.S. Government agencies, Power Africa represents a new model of development which facilitates the work of its partner companies in developing new energy sources, including wind, solar, hydropower, natural gas, and geothermal resources in all of sub-Saharan Africa.
"The people of Rwanda should be proud to host the first utility-scale solar power plant in East Africa, and we hope that the pioneering spirit of Rwandan authorities may serve as an inspiration to other countries in the region. The ASYV project will be an important source of clean and reliable electricity for the next 20 years and beyond, and we are proud of having made this possible in cooperation with our partners Gigawatt and Norfund," said Torstein Berntsen, Executive Vice President of Scatec Solar ASA.
Gigawatt Global's 8.5 MW solar field in Rwanda is the first utility-scale project to reach financial close and come online under the Africa Clean Energy Finance (ACEF) program, which is now an integral part of the Power Africa Initiative.
About Gigawatt Global
Gigawatt Global, an American-owned Dutch company is an impact investment platform and leading frontier solar developer with a proven track record in the development, financing, construction and activation of commercial-scale solar energy fields in emerging markets—targeting 1,000 MW of solar power in Africa by 2020. The company's vision is for a world in which developing nations will be powered predominantly by clean, safe, affordable, renewable energy. Clean energy will not be a luxury that only wealthy nations can afford, but will be the energy of choice for lifting people in developing countries out of poverty. Gigawatt Global mobilizes the ingenuity of our international team to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels and empower people globally.
For more information, please visit: www.gigawattglobal.com
About Power Africa
Launched on June 30, 2013 by President Obama, Power Africa brings together the combined expertise and resources of 12 U.S. Government agencies, with African governments, the private sector, multilateral and bilateral partners to increase energy access, remove barriers to energy development and to promote and improve governance of a growing power sector throughout all of sub-Saharan Africa.
Power Africa has set an ambitious goal of adding 30,000 megawatts of new, cleaner electricity generation capacity and increasing electricity access by at least 60 million new household and business connections in all of sub-Saharan Africa.
To date, Power Africa has mobilized more than $20 billion in commitments from 90 private sector partners, and an additional $9 billion through strategic partnerships forged with the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Government of Sweden.
About Chaim Motzen
Chaim Motzen, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Gigawatt Global, led the successful development of the first utility-scale solar field in East Africa in record time, an 8.5 MW plant in Rwanda which reached full production in September 2014 and increased Rwanda's generation capacity by approximately 6%. Chaim is a former consultant at McKinsey and Company, where he was awarded "The Marvin," McKinsey's highest award for non-partners, recognizing exceptional work in knowledge building. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. Chaim is on the Board of Directors of the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, a world leader in facilitating bone marrow transplants for children and adults suffering from life-threatening diseases.
About Yosef Abramowitz
Yosef Abramowitz, a human rights activist, educator and entrepreneur, is President of Gigawatt Global, an impact investment platform that advances the environmental and humanitarian goals of providing affordable green power to underserved populations. Nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, Abramowitz is recognized as a pioneer of the solar energy industry and co-founded the solar industry in Israel. He was named by CNN as one of the six top global "Green Pioneers," and by PV Tech as one of the world's most inspiring solar CEOs.
Gigawatt Global launches East Africa's first utility-scale solar field, constructed in the shape of the African continent
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Bethany Christian Schools is a private school for grades 4-12 with about 300 students. The high school was founded in 1954, expanded to include a middle school in 1996, and added elementary grades 4-5 in 2011. Bethany is owned and operated by Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. The schools are located at the south edge of Goshen, Indiana, a city of about 25,000 people.
Bethany provides an education with learning that lasts and faith that lives. Discover the difference!
Teachers are at the heart of a Christ-centered school. For them, teaching is not just a job, but a calling. Our teachers, coaches, administrators, and staff model Christ's love to students and incorporate the teachings of Jesus into the classroom, athletics, and daily work. Students explore Christ's call on their lives, seeking a faith they can own. Bethany works in partnership with church and home to nurture youth in Christian faith, provides students with Christian adult mentors other than their parents, and plans activities to help student develop many friendships.
Read more about who are the Mennonites?
Bethany prepares students for college and career through a challenging curriculum. Bethany's high graduation rate and SAT and ISTEP scores exceed state and local averages and reflect the excellent academic instruction and individualized attention that Bethany students receive.
Read more about Bethany Christian Schools' excellence in academics.
Over three-fourths of Bethany students—many who would not have such opportunity at larger schools—have participated in at least one sport and often with success as high school teams have won numerous sectional championships.
Read more about Bethany Christian Schools' athletic programs.
Bethany provides private and classroom instrumental and vocal music instruction. Additionally, students can participate in musicals, select choirs, state contests, and assist in chapels.
Read more about Bethany Christian Schools' music and drama program.