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Top 50 VC-Funded Greentech Startups
Greentech Media announces the top 50 startups in greentech
GTM Staff March 08, 2010
Venture capital firms have invested almost $20 billion into hundreds of greentech startups since 2005. All of these firms are looking to launch a disruptive force into their target markets, scale rapidly and grow quickly.
Very few of these firms will actually make it.
We put our energy analysts, reporters and editors to the task of picking fifty VC startups in greentech that have at least a fighting chance of succeeding as VC-funded start-ups and making an impact on our energy-intensive lives.
Technological edge
Potential to severely disrupt the market
Great management team
Massive market opportunity
Substantial war chest
Feasible exit strategy
Sheer hype power
Only venture-backed private firms
Methodology: We spread the names of 500 VC-funded firms on the Greentech Media dance floor and cut the head off of a chicken. Wherever the chicken landed - that was a winner. We stopped when we ran out of chickens.
Brightsource Energy: Big-name investors, a large war chest, a partnership with construction-giant Bechtel, more than a gigawatt in California utility PPAs and $1.37 billion in federal loan guarantees make this power-tower solar thermal player an easy choice. Now the challenge is getting past further environmental objections to its first 396-megawatt power plant.
Chromasun: Air conditioning accounts for fifty percent of the demand for power during peak periods in California, according to Peter Le Lievre, founder of Chromasun. It's an enormous problem and market awaiting a solution. Chromasun uses solar thermal collectors to gather solar heat to run a double effect chiller which curbs peak power, broadens the market for solar thermal technology and fits well within the practices of the building trades.
Enphase Energy: This well-funded microinverter innovator has shipped more than 120,000 units for residential and commercial deployments. The contract manufacturing model is working and the company continues to grow. There are a number of microinverter startups but Enphase is the only one to reach credibility and volume shipments in a high-growth $2 billion market.
eSolar: Fifteen months ago, eSolar was on the ropes. It desperately sought funds to build solar thermal power plants. It then switched strategies and decided to license its technology and sell equipment, leaving the actual building of the power plants to others. Since then, it's signed deals that will lead to gigawatts worth of its solar technology planted in China, India, Africa and the Middle East. A 5 megawatt demo plant went up last year and construction on the first 92 megawatts begins this year. The secret sauce: software that helps improve the efficiency of the overall plant. Funding from Google, India's Acme Group, Oak Investment Partners and NRG Energy.
Innovalight: The silicon nano-ink developer recently pivoted its business plan and shifted from solar panel manufacturing to panel manufacturing along with licensing and joint ventures. Innovalight's inks allow silicon wafer manufacturers to boost their cell efficiency by up to 2 percent with a low capital outlay. This could be one of the last novel, "new" type of solar cells to make it out for a while.
Nanosolar: The CIGS thin film pioneer got started in 2002, making it one of the earliest thin film companies supported by Silicon Valley. Since then, Nanosolar has used every avenue of funding to fund their potentially disruptive solar firm, now at about $500 million in funding to date. Nanosolar is shipping product in the 10 to 12 percent efficiency range and has panels in the lab topping 16 percent efficiency. Nanosolar faces the same challenge as every other solar panel manufacturer -- keeping up with silicon and cadmium telluride prices and efficiency.
Petra Solar: Not so much a technology play as a channel play, Petra Solar and its more than $50 million in VC funds is exploiting an untapped sales channel - solar panels on utility and power poles. Petra has a large contract with Public Service Electric & Gas, New Jersey's biggest power utility, to install solar panels on streetlights and power poles across the distribution network. PSE&G looks to install 200,000 panels and about 5 percent are up so far, according to PSE&G. Potential for high growth in a new application.
SolarCity: Fast growing SolarCity has emerged as one of the largest residential solar installers in California and has moved into other solar-friendly states. The start-up has innovated in the installation field as well as in the financial field by offering leasing options for homes and small businesses. U.S. Bancorp has set up a $100M fund to finance SolarCity's residential and commercial installations. Entrepreneurs are needed in the downstream solar business as much as in the technological side.
Solyndra: With almost a billion dollars in venture capital and half a billion in DOE loan guarantees, Solyndra is the clear winner in the money raising contest. The CIGS thin film solar company's S-1 is filed and the firm has customers and $58.8 million in revenue in the 9 months ending Sept, 30 2009. The investors and the company claim immense savings in balance of system costs. But skeptics abound and many believe that the company's solar panels are more expensive than the competition. CIGS solar cells aren't easy to make and Solyndra's cylindrical design adds to the complexity. The debate won't be answered until the customers start taking their data public.
Suniva: Well-funded Suniva has made numerous technological advances to raise crystalline silicon solar wafer efficiency and lower manufacturing cost. Investors NEA, Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincus have invested more than $125 million.
SunRun: SunRun is a home solar service company located in San Francisco, California that offers residential PPAs: "home solar as a monthly service." The company has seen 8 to 10 times growth over last year. SunRun has received venture funding from Foundation Capital and Accel Partners, as well as a $105 million tax equity commitment from an affiliate of U.S. Bancorp. Residential PPAs from SunRun might be the disruptive piece that allows solar to better penetrate the residential roof market.
Smart Grid and EV Infrastructure
What will the smart grid of the future look like? Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers speaks of a utility-managed system that orchestrates smart meters, solar panels, batteries, demand response systems and plug-in vehicle chargers to serve as "virtual power plants" scattered throughout a utility service territory.
Arcadian Networks: Arcadian Networks designs and delivers wireless communication networks to utilities based on the private (licensed), secured 700 MHz spectrum. The 700MHz appears to be a better choice (than 900Mhz) is rural areas, since the signal can travel farther without relays and can penetrate physical obstacles (such as crops and hilly terrain) that higher frequencies may struggle with. The other major advantage of the 700MHz spectrum is that because it is licensed there is not any interference from other sources. While 900MHz mesh networking solutions have dominated the market due in part to their lower costs, as interference continues to create problems for utilities, and as "intelligent provisioning" becomes more common, expect Arcadian Networks to compliment 900MHz networks in situations were interference is just not acceptable. This month Arcadian announced the release of their 2nd generation router/gateway adding the ability to link with WiMax. While this router can also connect to all other major communication networks (3G/4G, 900 MHz, Ethernet, etc) clearly, Arcadian is doubling down on licensed networks for smart grid.
Better Place: A $350 million dollar funding round in January ranks as one of the largest cleantech deals in history with a pre-money valuation of $900 million. Commercial launch is targeted for 2011 for the bold electric-vehicle / charging-station / battery-swap / electricity-selling start-up with an inital focus on Israel and Denmark. Investors include HSBC, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Lazard Asset Management, VantagePoint Venture Partners, et al. Better Place is looking to install between 15,000 and 20,000 charging stations in both Israel and Denmark in the near-term. There is the suggestion that this firm could be a Google or Netscape-type market disruptor. But even a dominant role as an urban vehicle, as a fleet vehicle, as a delivery vehicle lets Better Place win big in a niche market.
CPower: With 800 megawatts of demand response curtailment under management, CPower is the third largest player in this emerging demand response/energy management market. Why do we offer you #3, and not the #1 or #2? Good question. Those competitors, EnerNOC and Comverge have already gone public, that's why. Like their more-public-piers, CPower is looking to quickly move into other energy services, including reserves & frequency regulation, renewable energy credits, and energy efficiency for consumers. Last year the company doubled their curtailment load, became the largest aggregator on the Texas (ERCOT) grid, and now claims to provide demand response services to over 1,600 different retail sites. SCE, PG&E and Ontario Power Authority are all utility clients. The company's investors include Bessemer Ventures, Schneider Electric Ventures and Intel Capital.
Coulomb Technologies: Coulomb builds a vital piece of the EV infrastructure -- charging stations connected to the grid with power and data. Coulomb was founded on two premises -- that every charge station should be networked and that Coulomb needed to be a self-sustaining business model -- they win revenue from the sale of the charge station and from fee-based charge services. Investors include Voyager Capital, Rho Ventures, Siemens Venutre Capital and Hartford Ventures.
EcoLogic Analytics: EcoLogic Analytics provides meter data management (MDM) software solutions and decision management technologies for utilities. They offer a suite of software solutions that include gateway engines, meter data warehouse, meter read manager, meter reading analytic, navigator graphical user interface, automated validation engine, network performance monitor and reporting engine, real time outage validation engine, data synchronization engine, calculation engine and residential rate analysis API, and virtual metering aggregation components. Their MDM solutions also integrate with other systems, such as CIS/billing, to deliver data to business users in the enterprise. EcoLogic Analytics was chosen as the vendor to provide MDM for PG&E, the biggest AMI deployment in North America – a huge win for the company. In February 2009, the company landed its second major contract with Texas utility Oncor and will serve as the MDM provider for more than three million electric meters in Oncor's service territory.
eMeter: eMeter makes software that manages the enormous volume of data coming from smart meters, providing both MDM and AMI integration for utility information systems. eMeter's solutions also allow for demand response and real-time monitoring of resource usage, yielding greater energy efficiency and more reliable service, while minimizing the costs of AMI deployment, data management, and operations. The company competes with AMI companies that can provide their own software AMI and MDM software such as Itron and Sensus, as well as other software companies such as Oracle. In early 2009, eMeter announced a deal with CenterPoint Energy to support the Texas utility's plan to install two million smart meters in its territory. That follows deals with Alliant Energy, Jacksonville Electric Authority, the Canadian province of Ontario, and European energy company, Vattenfall. The company claims to have more than 24 million meters under contract. That number gets it a spot on the list. eMeter has transitioned from just providing MDM solutions for utilities into consumer services, such as demand response and consumer portals, following a strategy that seems to be working among smart grid players: get your foot in the door with one solution, then seek to expand.
Proximetry: Proximetry provides network and performance management solutions for wireless networks to enable network operators to visualize, provision, and actively manage their networks, especially to support mission-critical communications. The company's software solution, AirSync, enables real-time, network-wide visualization, management, and active network control from a single system and location for multivendor, multifrequency, multiprotocol wireless networks. This so-called "intelligent provisioning" which provides "dynamic bandwidth" matching network resource priorities to user and device needs seems like a logical extension of smart grid networking, and we expect this to be a major new trend going forward. Proximetry is currently working San Diego Gas & Electric, widely considered to be one of the most innovative utilities in North America.
Silver Spring Networks: Silver Spring Networks has been plugging away at standards-based networking for smart meters for close to a decade -- building routers and hubs that connect via a wireless mesh protocol. The firm has made announcements of utility contracts with Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, AEP and Florida Power & Light and closed a $100 million investment from blue-chip VCs including Kleiner Perkins and Foundation Capital, bringing its VC total to north of $250 million. This month Silver Spring declared it's intention to go public with an IPO underwriter bake-off -- the S-1 filing should follow soon. Revenues are estimated in the $100 million range. Easily the leading VC-funded smart grid start-up.
SmartSynch: SmartSynch's GridRouter is a modular, standards-based, upgradeable networking device that can handle almost any communications protocol that a utility uses. Four networking card slots allow a single box to handle ZigBee, WiFi, WiMax or other proprietary communications standards simultaneously. The cards can be removed so utilities can swap out and/or upgrade their networks without replacing the basic piece of installed equipment. It provides communication to any device on the grid over any wireless network, according to the CEO, Stephen Johnston. Potentially, that could eliminate some of the fear and uncertainty surrounding smart grid deployments. The Tennessee Valley Authority selected SmartSynch to serve as the communications backbone in its renewable program.
Tendril Networks: Tendril makes a varied suite of hardware and software solutions for applications such as demand response, energy monitoring, energy management and load control. It offers an energy management system for consumers (based on the ZigBee HAN standard) and utilities, smart devices (such as smart thermostats, smart plugs, and in-home displays,) as well as web based and iPhone enabled displays and energy controls. The company also develops applications for utilities such as network management, direct load control, customer load control. The startup has deals in place with more than 30 utilities and had a large commercial roll out in 2009, along with a number of field trials. In June 2009, the company raised a $30 million third round, bringing its total to more than $50 million and making it one of the better funded private companies competing in the Home Area Network space. General Electric's Consumer and Industrial division has teamed up with Tendril to develop algorithms and other technology that will allow utilities employing Tendril's TREE platform to turn GE dryers, refrigerators, washing machines and other energy-gobbling appliances off or on to curb power consumption. The GE deal gets the company on the list. Runner-up: EcoFactor.
Trilliant: Trilliant provides utilities with wireless equipment and management software for smart grid communication networks. In 2009, Trilliant acquired SkyPilot Networks, a manufacturer of long-range, high-capacity wireless mesh networks. The acquisition allows them to offer complementary networks, both the neighborhood network and the wide-area network. Trilliant's largest deployment is 1.4 million device network spread over 640,000 square kilometers for Hydro One in Ontario, Canada. The company has been around for years so defining it as a start-up is tough, but it has been on this tack for only the last few years.
Green Buildings, Lighting
Adura Technologies: Approximately 85 percent of commercial office buildings in the U.S. are illuminated inside with fluorescent tube lights. In the vast majority of cases, these bulbs can't be dimmed or turned off remotely. Only around 1 percent of lights in California office buildings are networked. Adura has created a wireless mesh system that effectively flips the lights off when you're not around and dims them when the sun is out. In a recent test conducted by PG&E, Adura managed to cut the power delivered to lights by 72 percent. Next, the company plans to connect its software to other devices in buildings. VantagePoint is a lead investor. Runner up for networking: Lumenergi.
Bridgelux: Bridgelux is focused on lowering the cost of LED-based solid-state lighting to a penny per lumen -- a disruptive price achieved through clever packaging and innovating in the expitaxial processes of building the phosphor-coated film. Early this year, new CEO and ex-Seagate CEO, Bill Watkins took over the reins and announced a $50 million funding to finance a new fab, bringing its substantial fund-raising totals to over $150 million from investors including DCM, El Dorado Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Chrysalix Energy and Harris & Harris Group. Our sources indicate that the firm is generating significant revenue. The big question is whether they can outrun the big guys like Philips and Osram.
Optimum Energy: Buildings consume 40 percent of the energy in the U.S. and 76 percent of the electricity. HVAC is the low hanging fruit of energy efficiency in commercial buildings and where we can make an enormous impact in energy usage. Optimum Energy develops networked building control application and products to reduce energy consumption in commercial buildings -- reducing energy consumption and GHGs while increasing operating efficiencies in HVAC plants. Optimum makes software that dynamically controls the chillers – the enormous machines that cool water for air conditioning systems in skyscrapers. According to the company, there are more than 150,000 buildings that can use their product and if the software was used in each one, 75 gigawatts could be taken off the grid. Adobe has installed it.
Recurve: Formerly Sustainable Spaces. They do energy efficiency retrofits. Recurve is assembling a dynamic software package that will allow contractors large and small around the world cut down the time, cost and errors in conducting retrofits. A lot of the employees come from Google—you can't say that about other construction companies. In fact, a number of large contractors are testing it out now. Co-founder Matt Golden is also one of the driving forces behind the $6 billion Cash for Caulkers program recently introduced by Obama. Recurve's next policy initiative: funding retrofits by getting them classified as carbon credits.
Redwood Systems: The company, which has received money from Battery Ventures and others, will soon disclose their technological angle, but the gist of it is this: Redwood replaces lighting wires and regular light bulbs with Ethernet cables and LEDs. Suddenly, you have a network in your ceiling that every light, smoke detector and other device can link into. Founders hail from Grand Junction Networks, the Fast Ethernet pioneer turned gold mine for Cisco when acquired in 1995.
Serious Materials: A bit heavy on hype, but Serious has the beginnings of revenue and has just won the Empire State Building retrofit project for their thermal windows. The company appears to have hit some speedbumps with its drywall product. But high-end investors like Foundation Capital and high-voltage staff like CEO, Kevin Surace have kept green building materials in the news, in the public imagination and in the tax credit checkbooks of the U.S. government. Sources indicate revenue between $25 million and $50 million in 2009.
Biofuels and Biochemicals
Amyris: Rumors abound that Amryis, a synthetic biology start-up spun out of UC Berkeley with more than $150 million in funding, could soon file its S-1. Amyris develops microbes that feed on sugars and secrete custom hydrocarbons for conversion into jet fuel, industrial chemicals or biodiesel. Amyris claims to eventually produce biodiesel that can wholesale for $2 a gallon. In late 2009 the firm paid $82 million to Brazil's São Martinho Group for a 40-percent stake in an ethanol mill project and entered into agreements with three other Brazilian companies to produce ethanol and high-value chemicals.
LS9: The company's scientists have engineered a strain of E. coli with a genome that can convert sugars into a fatty acid, methyl ester, which is chemically equivalent to California Clean diesel. It's a completely unnatural act but could lead to $45 a barrel biodiesel. LS9 hopes to show that the process is feasible next year. Added bonus: LS9 does not have to kill its microbes to get the oil. They secrete it naturally and then can live to feed, digest and excrete more dollops of oil. It's not out of guilt: re-using a microbe instead of cultivating a new generation cuts time and costs. Another added bonus: the company is working with Procter & Gamble on green chemicals and with Chevron on fuel.
Sapphire Energy: Sapphire eventually hopes to produce hydrocarbons from genetically modified algae grown in open ponds. Conceivably, it could be the cheapest and fastest technique for producing algae fuel. But it's also fraught with complications. Growing algae in open ponds for fuel oil at the moment is expensive and complex, and keeping GMO strains from being out-competed by natural strains in the open is even more daunting. The company has raised $100 million plus from top-flight VCs, including the firm that invests on behalf of Bill Gates, so stay tuned.
Solazyme: One of the oldest algae companies and the one that's also the furthest along. Solazyme eschews growing algae in ponds or bioreactors through photosynthesis. Instead, it puts algae in beer-brewing kettles, feeds them sugar and grows them that way. The sugar adds to the raw material costs, but Solazyme makes up that cost because it doesn't have to extract the algae from water, one of the most vexing problems facing most algae companies. Solazyme says it will be able to show that its processes can be exploited to produce competitively priced fuel from algae in about two years. It has produced thousands of gallons already and has a contract to produce 20,000 gallons of fuel for the Navy. The company is already selling algae for revenue to the food industry. Chevron is an investor.
Synthetic Genomics: In July of last year, Synthetic Genomics announced a $300 million agreement with Exxon to research and develop next-generation biofuels using photosynthetic algae. Synthetic Genomics' dynamic founder, J. Craig Venter, was quoted as saying, "I came up with a notion to trick algae into pumping more lipids out." Venter is a man of action and vision and if anyone can make algae produce hydrocarbons directly, it's him. In addition to the $300 million from Exxon, Synthetic Genomics has received funding from Draper Fisher Juvetson, Meteor Group, Biotechonomy, BP, et al.
Batteries, Fuel Cells, Energy Storage
Bloom Energy: Ten years in the making and $400 million from Kleiner Perkins for this solid oxide fuel cell developer garnered them a stellar list of customers, a high-powered board and a hype-tastic coming-out party on 60 Minutes. Now they have to make the economics of fuel cells work. The Bloom Energy Server costs $700,000 now.
Deeya Energy: A few years ago, flow batteries were exotic, barely understood pieces of equipment. Now at least five start-ups have received funding. Deeya was first. It has created a battery in which electrolyte flows in and out of the battery so it always stays charged. Utilities and cell phone carriers that need remote power will be the primary customers. Last year, the company started shipping its first commercial products. The products cost around $4,000 a kilowatt (or about half what Bloom currently sells its products for) and hopes to bring down the price to $1,000.
EEStor: This ultracapacitor aspirant makes the list by virtue of the hype and craziness that surrounds it. Kleiner Perkins was an original investor but appears to have backed away from EEStor as the company's corporate milestones and technological claims became less credible. The firm is attempting to make material advances in ceramic powders used in high energy ultracapacitors. The company has no revenue, no prototype, no customers -- but it has garnered an obsessed cadre of fan-boy supporters.
General Compression. The cheapest form of energy storage remains compressed air, according to EPRI. To date, however, compressed air has relied upon finding geological formations where you can stuff thousands of cubic meters of air. General Compression, along with SustainX and Isentropic Energy, want to change that with mechanical systems. Both General (which recently raised $17 million) and Isentropic employ pressure and temperature differentials to store and generate heat. Duke is building a 2-megawatt trial facility for General.
Coda Automotive: Later this year, Coda will attempt to market an all-electric, mid-priced sedan to American drivers. Car start-ups like Tesla and Fisker have initially aimed at the top end of the market, where price and volume are less important factors. Can Coda, and the similarly situated BYD, do it? The entire auto market will be watching closely. Coda and BYD also will represent China's first major foray into the U.S. auto market. Coda's car -- which is based around a Chinese gas-burning car that's been retrofitted by U.S. engineers -- will be assembled in China and come with a battery made through a joint venture between Coda and Lishen. A Chinese bank has agreed to lend $450 million to the battery venture. Investors include Hank "Give me $800 billion, no questions asked" Paulson. BYD counts Warren Buffet as an investor.
Fisker Automotive: A luxury EV, but unlike the Tesla, the Fisker Karma is a plug-in hybrid, combining a battery and an ICE. This firm is another Kleiner Perkins portfolio company and uses batteries from A123. A123 was also an investor in their most recent $115 million funding round. The car sells for $87,900 and already has more than 1,400 people on the waiting list. Hendrik Fisker is a noted car designer who has worked with, among others, Aston Martin.
Tesla Motors: The little EV company that might. Teslas has shipped about 1,000 units of their speedy Roadster model, opened up retail outlets in the U.S. and Europe, and just filed their S-1, which showed them raising $442 million in VC and reaching revenues of $93.3 million in the nine months ending Sept. 30, 2009. The next step is building the all-electric sedan, with far more ambitious volume sales goals.
Other Energy -- Wind, Nuclear, Cleaner Coal, Geothermal
Laurus Energy: Funded by MDV in an $8.5 million round and helmed by energy exec Rebecca McDonald, Laurus extracts energy from coal in the form of syngas while it is still in the ground using a process known as UCG -- underground coal gasification. Laurus then fractionalizes the syngas: carbon dioxide is separated and sent via a pipe to oil fields, where it is injected into other wells to help pull crude out of the ground. The rest of the gases -- a combination of hydogen, methane and hydrocarbons -- are then burnt in a gas-fueled power plant. Power from coal is not going away, so any disruptive technology that lowers the carbon footprint of coal and eliminates mountain top removal can be a new untapped piece of the energy mix. It is currently working with a Native American tribe in Alaska to build a UCG vein with a power plant.
Nuscale: NuScale's modular nuclear reactor design could disruptively shift development away from the "cathedral model" of large-scale, over-budget, ten-year nuclear power plant projects. Investor in NuScale and partner at CMEA, Maurice Gunderson suggests that small modular reactors are the "game-changer" in energy technology. NuScale can manufacture modular reactors on a factory assembly line –- and cut the time to develop a nuclear plant in half. "Nuclear is necessary, doable, and the markets are gargantuan," adds Gunderson. However, the question of whether nuclear belongs on a greentech list always results in vigorous debate.
Nordic Wind Power: With funding from Khosla Ventures, NEA and Novus Energy Partners, Nordic Wind Power is the only wind turbine company in the U.S. to get a DOE loan guarantee -- $16 million under the innovative renewable energy program. Nordic also received "significant" funding from Goldman Sachs in 2007. Their groundbreaking 1-megawatt 2-blade turbine design challenges the traditional wind turbine design paradigm.
Potter Drilling: Geothermal provided 4.5 percent of California's power in 2007 and advocates say that more power could be extracted from underneath the ground, even in non-geothermal hot spots. The problem has been getting to it economically and safely. Potter, founded by oil industry alums, has come up with a way to drill that's five times as fast and far less costly. Google.org is one of its investors.
Ze-Gen: Ze-Gen dips organic landfill waste into molten iron and turns it into biogas. The architecture of the system eliminates many of the inefficiencies associated with biomass. It has a pilot plant and raised $20 million in a second round last year. The big challenge is in getting a production plant off the ground.
Oasys: This water start-up is built around research from Yale with $10 million in venture funds to see if its novel desalination technique, which exploits fundamental chemistry and waste heat, can go commercial. The company claims its "forward osmosis" process can desalinate water for about half the cost of standard reverse osmosis desalination.
Miox: The disruptive aspect of Miox' business plan is distributed water purification instead of the current centralized model. The company makes onsite water purification systems for gray water remediation and water recycling. Distributed water purification could potentially open up a flood of investment into water. Miox's trick is in making the process cost-effective. The company's system can purify a given amount of liquid with a volume of salt that is one-fourth the amount of liquid chlorine that would be required. Investors include Sierra Venutres, DCM, and Flywheel Ventures.
Purfresh: If you drink bottled water or eat bagged organic lettuce, you've encountered Purfresh. The company, backed by Foundation Capital, kills microbes with ozinated water. Growers use it to keep food fresh on the way to store shelves and bottlers use it to sterilize plastic. Orders go up every time an E. coli outbreak occurs. Like Serious Materials, Purfresh is expanding from its base to become a full-service water and food company.
Hara: Originally funded in 2008 by Silicon Valley heavyweight VC Kleiner Perkins, Hara has been making good headway attacking the nascent carbon accounting and management software space. It's still early days for this market, but a very large base of enterprise companies are actively looking for software solutions that provide actionable information, metrics, recommendations and reporting regarding their carbon footprints. Hara has amassed an impressive list of customers to date, including Coca Cola, News Corp., Akamai, Intuit, Brocade and Safeway.
Sandforce: The company has created a chip that makes it possible for search companies, banks and other companies with large datacenters to swap out storage systems made out of hard drives in favor of drives made of flash memory, which only use about 5 percent of the power. In real terms, that means dropping the power budget for storage systems from $50,000 for five years to $250. Storage giant EMC has invested.
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Newbury man scoops tickets to 2015 Corn Exchange shows in golden competition
By Ellis Barker
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Fred Fortmuller, aged 74 of Lipscombe Close, won the year-long prize in the theatre's golden ticket prize draw.
Mr Fortmuller said he particularly enjoys the music programme at the Corn Exchange and New Greenham Arts, but added that he is looking forward to sampling new genres at the venues, such as comedy.
And, if Mr Fortmuller is unable to attend any of the performances, he can lend his ticket to family members and friends.
"I've been coming to the Corn Exchange for many years and really enjoy their many shows," he said. "They do a fantastic job and I was delighted when the golden ticket scheme came up so that I could help by participating, and give my support to the Corn Exchange, which in turn helps the whole community, both young and old."
Newbury Corn Exchange director Katy Griffiths said: "A year's worth of entertainment is an incredible prize and I can't wait to see Mr Fortmuller regularly at the Corn Exchange.
"A huge thank you to everyone who entered and helped us with our fundraising efforts, as we work to make sure we can maintain our beautiful building and keep going with our performances and events."
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American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders
Edited by Dan J. Stein, M.D., Ph.D., David J. Kupfer, M.D., and Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D.
Psychiatrists and other mental health care and medical professionals can now turn to a truly authoritative, up-to-date reference for current information about mood disorders. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders—including a wealth of illustrations, tables and references—presents the state of the art in diagnosis, psychobiology, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy across the vast spectrum of mood disorders:
Symptomatology and Epidemiology: historical aspects and social underpinnings of mood disorders, classification and rating scales, and global burden
Pathogenesis: neurochemistry and psychoneuroendocrinology, cognitive processing models (experimental cognitive research), and evolutionary explanations
Methods of Investigation:anatomical pathology, molecular and cellular neurobiology of severe mood disorders, and genetics of bipolar and unipolar disorders
Types of Mood Disorder: psychotic depression, seasonal affective disorder, secondary depression with medical illness, major depression seen in primary care, and substance abuse, and sleep disorders
Treatments: pharmacotherapy, brain stimulation techniques, and psychotherapies
Pertinent Factors: personality, culture, and gender
Offering a fascinating synthesis of the multifaceted field of mood disorders, the richly informative American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders will prove invaluable for psychiatric and medical practitioners, educators, students, and residents interested in the latest breakthroughs in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of mood disorders.
PART 1: Symptomatology and Epidemiology
Chapter 1. Historical Aspects of Mood Disorders
Chapter 2. Classification of Mood Disorders
Chapter 3. Epidemiology of Mood Disorders
Chapter 4. Global Burden of Mood Disorders
Chapter 5. Rating Scales for Mood Disorders
PART 2: Pathogenesis of Mood Disorders
Chapter 6. Neurochemistry of Mood Disorders
Chapter 7. Psychoneuroendocrinology of Mood Disorders
Chapter 8. Cognitive Processing Models of Depression
Chapter 9. Social Perspectives on Mood Disorders
Chapter 10. Evolutionary Explanations for Mood and Mood Disorders
PART 3: Investigating Mood Disorders
Chapter 11. Anatomical Pathology
Chapter 12. Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology of Severe Mood Disorders
Chapter 13. Brain Imaging
Chapter 14. Genetics of Bipolar and Unipolar Disorders
PART 4: Somatic Interventions for Mood Disorders
Chapter 15. Tricyclics, Tetracyclics, and Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors
Chapter 16. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Newer Antidepressants
Chapter 17. Lithium and Mood Stabilizers
Chapter 18. Antipsychotic Medications
Chapter 19. Targeting Peptide and Hormonal Systems
Chapter 20. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Chapter 21. Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Deep Brain Stimulation
PART 5: Psychotherapy of Mood Disorders
Chapter 22. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Dysthymia
Chapter 23. Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression and Dysthymic Disorder
Chapter 24. Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Depression and Dysthymia
Chapter 25. Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorder
Chapter 26. Psychotherapy for Depression in Children and Adolescents
PART 6: Integrative Management of Mood Disorders
Chapter 27. Guidelines for the Treatment of Major Depression
Chapter 28. Guidelines for the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Chapter 29. Understanding and Preventing Suicide
Chapter 30. Suicide in Children and Adolescents
Chapter 31. Medication Combination and Augmentation Strategies in the Treatment of Major Depression
PART 7: Subtypes of Mood Disorders
Chapter 32. Seasonal Affective Disorder
Chapter 33. Atypical Depression, Dysthymia, and Cyclothymia
Chapter 34. Psychotic Depression
Chapter 35. Pediatric Mood Disorders
Chapter 36. Geriatric Mood Disorders
PART 8: Additional Perspective on Mood Disorders
Chapter 37. Depression in Primary Care
Chapter 38. Depression in Medical Illness (Secondary Depression)
Chapter 39. Mood Disorders and Substance Use
Chapter 40. Depression and Personality
Chapter 41. Depression and Gender
Chapter 42. Depression Across Cultures
Chapter 43. Mood Disorders and Sleep
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This is an overall and up-to-date review of all aspects of mood disorders, including epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation as well as different treatment interventions, including psychotherapy. The book offers the latest science in the field and also guidance for proper diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders in daily practice. Not only should libraries have this book as a standard edition on their shelves, but also psychiatrists in the field should guide their practice [by consulting] the newest research in this textbook on mood disorders.—Siegfried Kasper, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
This is a comprehensive book covering the state of progress on mood disorders, from the molecular biology to the day-to-day clinical aspects. Written and edited by internationally recognized clinician-researchers on mood disorders, it is an outstanding contribution to the field and will become a standard textbook in this important clinical domain. . . . It will surely become a benchmark for all other mood disorder textbooks. I highly recommend it!—Doody's Review Service, 1/1/2007
This is a book that will stand the test of time. With eight section editors, whose names are household words throughout psychiatry, 99 highly qualified contributors to 43 chapters, and 778 pages, it is one big book. And why not? As the editors point out: "Mood disorders are the bread and butter of clinical psychiatry: Just about everything you need to know about the subject is at your fingertips. The editing is excellent. The index is first-rate. Every chapter is referenced generously….If you want the most complete and timely text devoted entirely to mood disorders, this is the book for you. One would be hard pout to find a major omission that could not be explained by that unavoidable lag in publishing that is inherent in all books. I see its audience to be one with a clinical rather than basic research orientation, one that extends beyond psychiatry to a considerably wider range of mental health professionals (including those in primary care who are well immersed in recognizing, diagnosing, and treating disorders of mood).—American Journal of Psychiatry, 1/1/2007
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Justice Week 2018: Calls for increased funding to maintain public faith in the justice system
Representatives from the FDA, the Law Society and the Bar Council have called for increased investment in the criminal justice system at a round table event to mark Justice Week 2018.
FDA organised the event to explore the question 'How can we maintain public faith in the criminal justice system?', which drew a unified response from panellists and audience members alike.
Opening the discussion, Richard Atkinson, Chair of the Law Society Criminal Law Committee, described resources as the "elephant in the room" of many meetings he attends. He did not shy away from the fact that "improvements in the way we work can be found" but warned that "there is only so much that can be done with the very limited existing resources".
Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders recently called for "an investment of resources nationally" and Atkinson endorsed this message, telling attendees "if confidence is to be restored to our justice system there must be a significant investment in it".
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have suffered some of the worst real terms budget cuts since 2010 and panellist Richard Atkins QC, Bar Council Chair Elect, said it was "dispiriting" to see "funding for justice cut once again", after Chancellor Philip Hammond's 2018 Budget showed no sign of reversing this trend.
David Chrimes, National Convener of the FDA CPS Section, explained how these cuts have had a direct impact on the FDA members he works alongside in the CPS, where pay has fallen well behind inflation since 2010.
Chrimes expressed concerns at the widening pay gap between jobs in the criminal justice system and other career opportunities for law graduates, such as corporate law. "Why is pay important? It's important to attract the best possible people to the criminal justice system", he explained.
This view was echoed by Richard Atkinson, who told attendees that real terms cuts to legal aid have seen criminal law salaries fall "dramatically behind those in other areas of law to the point where they are simply no longer viable even for the most committed young person embarking on a legal career".
The panel's consensus was neatly summed up by Richard Atkins QC in his closing remarks: "How do we maintain faith in the justice system? It needs funding."
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The aerospace and defence industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the uptake of advanced technology, and growing importance of technologies such as hypersonics and advanced materials.
In the last three years alone, there have been over 174,000 patents filed and granted in the aerospace and defence industry, according to GlobalData's report on Innovation in Aerospace, Defence & Security: Aircraft battery packs.
However, not all innovations are equal and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early emergence to accelerating adoption, before finally stabilising and reaching maturity.
Identifying where a particular innovation is on this journey, especially those that are in the emerging and accelerating stages, is essential for understanding their current level of adoption and the likely future trajectory and impact they will have.
180+ innovations will shape the aerospace and defence industry
According to GlobalData's Technology Foresights, which plots the S-curve for the aerospace and defence industry using innovation intensity models built on over 262,000 patents, there are 180+ innovation areas that will shape the future of the industry.
Within the emerging innovation stage, bonded fibre laminates, thermoplastic elastomer laminates, and vibration supression devices are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely.
Centrifugal fan impellers, ceramic composite laminates, and gas turbine engine testing are some of the accelerating innovation areas, where adoption has been steadily increasing. Among maturing innovation areas are protective blade coatings and blade alloy welding, which are now well established in the industry.
Aircraft battery packs is a key innovation area in aerospace and defence
The main electrical system of an aircraft utilises batteries, which are used pre-flight to power up the electrical system and to launch the auxiliary power unit and, in some cases, the engines. The APU, once started, drives generators, which power the electrical circuits in the aircraft and charge the batteries.
GlobalData's analysis also uncovers the companies at the forefront of each innovation area and assesses the potential reach and impact of their patenting activity across different applications and geographies.
According to GlobalData, there are 20+ companies, spanning technology vendors, established aerospace and defence companies, and up-and-coming start-ups engaged in the development and application of aircraft battery packs.
'Application diversity' measures the number of different applications identified for each relevant patent and broadly splits companies into either 'niche' or 'diversified' innovators.
'Geographic reach' refers to the number of different countries each relevant patent is registered in and reflects the breadth of geographic application intended, ranging from 'global' to 'local'.
CEA is the leading patent filer in aircraft battery packs. The patents include a number of applications for smart and modular battery packs as well as patents for powering key aspects of the aircraft. SZ DJI is the second largest patent filer in the sector and is focused on battery packs for small UAVs, creating innovative new technology which has modular capabilities and can be swapped out to avoid losing time on recharging. Other key patent filers include Airbus , Boeing and Naval Group .
In terms of application diversity, Ford Motor is in top position, followed by Nippon Kayaku, Hyndai Motor Group and Autel Robotics. By geographic distribution, Cayago is first, followed by Wartsila and Porsche.
There has been significant innovation in batteries in recent years, in part to fuel the development of electric aircraft and vehicles and major companies are investing in developing battery technology for implementation with existing systems.
To further understand the key themes and technologies disrupting the aerospace and defence industry, access GlobalData's latest thematic research report on Aerospace and Defence.


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Fuori di gusto era un programma televisivo italiano di genere enogastronomico condotto da Vladimir Luxuria e Fede&Tinto, trasmesso su LA7 dal 15 dicembre 2012 al 2013.

Il programma
I conduttori viaggiano per l'Italia a bordo di un fuoristrada e narrano i loro weekend fatti di scoperte enogastronomiche italiane.

Il programma è scritto da Federico Quaranta (Fede) e Nicola Prudente (Tinto), gli stessi conduttori di  Decanter su Radio2, con la collaborazione di Francesco Acampora e Alberto Consarino.

Produttore esecutivo del road show è Federica Morelli, mentre curatrice per La7 è Elisabetta Arnaboldi.

Note

Voci correlate
Enogastronomia
LA7

Collegamenti esterni

Programmi televisivi degli anni 2010

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Stateside Vodka: Kensington goes Reading Terminal Market
There's a lot to say about Kensington, Philadelphia's own Stateside Urbancraft Vodka. For starters, it's distilled SEVEN times. To put that into perspective, Grey Goose is distilled five times.
What distilling does is get rid of all the impurities and solids in a liquid, so the more you distill a vodka, the smoother and cleaner it is. When something is distilled seven times, you'll feel the heat of the alcohol, but if you're waiting for that bite at the end—you won't get it. (Your inner-teenage-self will thank you for paying attention to this.)
After the distillation process, Stateside actually infuses the natural minerals back into the vodka (Hello, electrolytes), and you know what that means? It means say goodbye to hangovers. (Your inner-teenage-self will ALSO thank you for paying attention to this. Over and over again.)
If that sounds like it's your speed, you're always able to tour the distillery at 1700 N. Hancock St. or just pop in for a cocktail. They've got a menu with a bunch of fun names and eclectic infusions. You'll love it.
But if you're feeling like walking through a marketplace jungle of food vendors, sweets shoppes, stop at the front of the market first.—the Reading Terminal Market that is.
This year, they've got this new thing called the Pennsylvania Pour Collective that's got a bunch of booths of local distilled liquors. All of the vendors are support supportive of each other, and they've all got their own story (and samples) willing to share.
It's alive. It's vibrant. It's some free shots and good conversation. I'd definitely recommend Stateside Vodka over and over again to you guys. Highly recommend checking it out in your spare time.
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Home / Entertainment / Solange Talks Purpose and the Significance of 'A Seat at the Table' as a 'Glamour' Woman of the Year
Solange Talks Purpose and the Significance of 'A Seat at the Table' as a 'Glamour' Woman of the Year
By Sheriden Chanel on November 1, 2017@IndieByline
More than any artist out there right now, Solange has proven time and time again that she is the embodiment of being herself. She is fearless, talented, soulful, transcendent, transformative, and divergent. And she does it all without apology. Anybody could have faded to the background and acted as a shadow under the massive light that is superstar big sister Beyoncé. But not Solange. She had her own direction, her own style, her own swagger, and her own voice – who knew it'd blow us away as hard as it did when she gave the world A Seat at the Table.
In addition to the cultural significance of the album, as well as her activism and other contributions to art and music, Solange has been crowned one of Glamour magazine's Women of the Year. Undoubtedly, she's earned it. Solange walked the magazine through her journey to birthing the A Seat at the Table project. Read about her process below.
A post shared by Solange (@saintrecords) on Oct 30, 2017 at 11:19am PDT
On the motivation behind creating A Seat at the Table:
"I knew I had to make this record to become a better human, better mother, better wife, better friend. I knew I was carrying around so many microaggressions that transitioned into trauma, that transitioned into rage, that transitioned into a weight I carried around. I needed to disassemble these things as much as possible so I could operate from a place of healing and so I wouldn't pass that negativity on to my son."
On how the three months spent making the album helped it all come to life:
"While I worked on the album on and off for three years, at one point I spent three months writing songs in Patoutville, Louisiana, about two hours from New Orleans, where the population is, like, 300 people. There's such a rich regional culture there—a sense of pride, tradition, and resilience. It inspired me in such a powerful way. We worked in a house on a sugar plantation, and I'll never forget feeling the closest I could possibly feel to my ancestors, to my lineage. It put me in a constant state of reflection. I really wanted to reclaim and change the narrative—whether it was people challenging who wrote what on my album, whether it was about some editor commenting on my hair in a story or someone feeling like they were entitled to space in my life. I needed to unfold, reveal, and discover my truth."
The support and love from the women whom I intended this album to reach is what impacted me the most. I saw nothing but black women embracing me, holding me down, lifting me up. I am wide open with thanks.
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On the importance of women using their voices to tell their stories:
"There's such a dated, tired narrative that women are taking a risk by standing up for themselves, writing their own narratives, and having control over their bodies. But I felt so much freedom in speaking my truth. I no longer wanted to stay silent. I didn't care what I had to lose. I started to weigh what the risks of not telling my truth were versus burning bridges that needed to be burned."
On the women who inspire and "raise" her:
"When I think about my evolution, I think of my mother; she has been the force of womanhood through my entire life, and I cannot thank her enough for all the sacrifices she made for us to exist as we exist today. I also credit pioneers like Grace Jones, Erykah Badu, and Kelis, who have done the work and shared a wealth of information. Merely existing every day as a black woman in this country is a form of activism. Cardi B is an activist; she's my feminist icon.
"For so long this idea existed that as black women, we could not be multifaceted and nuanced. I'm excited I get to be this complex, complicated, loud, vocal, flawed woman and still be worthy of recognition. It only makes me want to keep evolving. Keep standing. Keep fighting to make sure my body is my body, my mind is my mind, my story is my story."
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2013: 16 June, the Italian government unveiled the "decreto del fare" decree, which lists the TEEM as a strategic work for the national economy.
2013: 6 June, Tangenziale Esterna and Impregilo offered a training course to Reggio Calabria high school students on building site safety and legality on building sites.
2013: On the night of 12/13 May, the new TEEM's first viaduct was set in place over the Milan-Venice railway, between the municipalities of Melzo and Pozzuolo Martesana.
2012: Agreement signed on 12 November to initiate a €120 million bridging loan.
2012: €120 million bridging loan granted in September; capital increase from €100 million to €220 million resolved.
2012: 31 July, Legality Protocol signed against Mafia infiltration in awarding tenders, Milan Prefecture.
2012: 15 June, Interministerial Decree no. 147 of 8 May 2012 registered at the Court of Auditors as no. 6, Sheet no. 270.
2012: EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) contract signed on 11 June, marking the start of TEEM-related work, scheduled to last through 2013 for the Arco TEEM, until 2015 for the rest of the motorway-grade route, and 2016 for realization of all ancillary works. The Health and Safety Supervisor is to exercise its functions in full compliance with Single Convention provisions.
2012: 12 March, CAL granted an ad hoc proxy to exercise powers of expropriation.
2012: 8 March, signature of Amendment no. 1 to the Single Convention and annexes updated to take into account the new Investment Economic Framework in the Final Plan, approved by the Interministerial Committee for Economic Programming (CIPE).
2012: 3 March, CIPE resolution published in the Official Gazette.
2012:24 February, Court of Auditors' registration of resolution adopted by CIPE on 3 August 2011 to approve the TEEM Final Plan and Financial Economic Plan.
2012: 26 January, financial shareholder Banca Infrastrutture Innovazione e Sviluppo (BIIS) commissioned to structure the Project Financing as Arranger.
2011: December, TEEM Interministerial Decree signed by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
2011: August, the Interministerial Committee for Economic Programming (CIPE) approved the TEEM Final Plan and Economic Financial Plan.
2011: April, TEEM Services Conference held by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
2011: February, TEEM Final Plan published.
2009: January, special-purpose project company established under the name Tangenziale Esterna SpA.
2008: November, temporary consortium won the tender and concession.
2008: July, temporary consortium assembled promoter TEM SpA and various Italian industry partners (designers, constructors, managers, and a financial partner). The temporary consortium was put together to tender a bid for the concession to design, realize and manage TEEM.
2008: June, CAL (Concessioni Autostradali Lombarde) SpA published a Call for Tenders for TEEM design, realization and management.
2007: Planning Agreement signed by the Lombardy Regional Administration, the Province of Milan, the Province of Lodi, the Ministry of Infrastructure, CAL SpA (assignor entity), Anas SpA and the representatives of 64 municipalities.
2005: The Interministerial Committee for Economic Programming (CIPE) approved the Preliminary Plan for TEEM. The infrastructure qualified as a work of relevant national strategic interest, and was therefore eligible for "Legge Obiettivo"-related procedures.
2002: The Tangenziali Esterne di Milano (TEM) SpA company was established to plan and realize the work as Promoter.
2001: At the behest of the Province of Milan, a plan was developed for a new external eastern bypass to reduce traffic levels on Milan's existing eastern bypass.


The Presto Cool Touch Electric Tilt 'n' Drain Big Griddle. And it is big. Store on top of the fridge big. It doesn't fit in any of my cabinets. And I love it!
Now, I do love it. But it's not perfect. You notice the uneven browning? The heating elements makes a loop on the underside so that the outside of the griddle gets up to temp, but the dead center does not get nearly as high (look at that poor lone paleface in the middle). The solution is obvious: I just don't put a pancake in the center. And I make sure that the griddle heats up completely between batches of pancakes. Fiddling the temp helps, too. We get a nice crisp crust and…here's the best part…I can make them faster than they can eat them. I went from cooking 3-4 smallish pancakes on my Circulon to 8 medium to large pancakes. Woohoo!
The non-stick surface is simply awesome and clean up is a breeze. The griddle surface will wipe clean after cooking pancakes. After cooking meat (we did pork chops), just let the griddle cool completely and gently scrape off the charred bits with the edge of a plastic spatula. Finish off with dish soap and water. No elbow grease required. The only drawback is that this monster is so big it does not fit into my super deep double sink…makes it a bit messy to rinse. That and I'm a bit of a spaz when it comes to using the sprayer.
The only thing I would change about my new Big Griddle: I wish there were an easier way to store the temp control. It doesn't fit in the drip tray and has a tendency to get tangled up with other things in my drawer.
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Disclosure: I received a gift card from CSN Stores to purchase this product for review purposes. This review reflects my honest opinion and personal experiences.
We have this same griddle and love it! I made pancakes on it earlier this week and steaks on it last night. Yum!
I have one of these and I LOVE IT! I make pancakes on it and it saves me so much time! And I also make grilled cheese sandwiches, and salmon patties. A most excellent product!
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In the slant of these staggering numbers, what are governmental agencies and private campaigns enactment to educate American drivers virtually drunk driving? This article will provide a survey of the most widely-publicized anti-impaired driving campaigns, and an analysis of their real-world effects.
In the last few years, weve seen numerous ad campaigns, initiated both by state-funded organizations and private fascination groups, advocating for widespread confession of something called buzzed driving. so what is it?
Buzzed driving is a unquestionably easy concept. After ingestion, alcohol is absorbed gruffly by the bloodstream and common tests, as soon as a breathalyzer, can feat the amount of alcohol in your blood reliably and quickly. Driving taking into account a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of 0.08 or cutting edge is illegal in every state. At that concentration, drivers nearly invariably experience sedation and slower appreciation times. In new words, its handily risky to steer bearing in mind that much alcohol in your system.
Buzzed driving is helpfully having a BAC degrade than 0.08% but far ahead than 0.00%.
The genuine hardship is that American performance and public policy tend to see upon 0.08% as a definitive, meaningful boundary. under that origin and youre relatively safe, above it youre dangerous. But the researchers at UC San Diego found that the chances of causing a crash increases steadily and well from BAC 0.01 to 0.24 percent, meaning that there is no unexpected transition when comparing a buzzed driver to a drunk driver. It turns out that 0.08% is not a definitive boundary, and that no amount of alcohol is safe in the firm analysis.
The financial credit from UC San Diego was published in the British medical journal injury Prevention. You can log on a summary here.
The Ad Council, Americas largest non-profit producer of public assist announcements, spearheaded the Buzzed Driving vigilance campaign. upon their website, they credit that their ads reached nearly one half of every American adults greater than the age of 21. And that there was a significant accrual in the proportion of men age 21 35 who called themselves extremely concerned not quite the matter of drunk driving, from 22 percent in 2005 to 27 percent in 2011.
And even though public watchfulness is extremely important, Americas legislators have still to reply to our additional harmony of buzzed driving. In fact, later most make a clean breast governments deal with to zero tolerance, they either limit this prohibition to drivers below 21 or want usefully that they wont tolerate any driver taking into consideration a BAC higher than 0.08%.
Only become old will say whether or not give access governments follow through on the current research. back in 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended lowering Americas authentic limit to 0.05%, but no welcome has nevertheless to talk to this stricter limit.
Another response has been to contextualize drunk driving, to clarify it in terms of another tragic condition. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states: drunk driving is often a symptom of a larger problem: alcohol neglect and abuse. The underlying premise to this campaign is that some drunk drivers put-on vehicles though impaired because (in therefore many words) they cant incite it. And if you acquire substance dependent persons treatment, you might agree to some impaired drivers off the road in the same gesture.
Also telling is that the NHTSA refers to impaired driving, rather than drunk driving. In origin gone recent developments in addiction studies, the NHTSA has adopted the scientific convention that finds more story than contrast amongst alcohol abuse and drug addiction in general.
This origin of reasoning seems bolstered by statistical evidence. In a breakdown released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, researchers found that almost half of every drivers who were killed in crashes and tested distinct for drugs with had alcohol in their system. In many cases, then, the trouble is mixed. And the solution might be, too.


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The 9:01: De-annexation, Garth Brooks
Good morning in Memphis, where Beale has the Blues (Challenge) and the Panda makes a pick, but first …
The 9:01: De-annexation, Garth Brooks Good morning in Memphis, where Beale has the Blues (Challenge) and the Panda makes a pick, but first … Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: http://memne.ws/2k3uTm4
Chris Herrington, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 9:01 a.m. CT Feb. 3, 2017 | Updated 9:08 a.m. CT Feb. 3, 2017
Map showing Memphis annexations since 1998.(Photo: submitted)
Voluntary de-annexation picked up steam last night as the Strickland administration recommended studying seven areas for potential de-annexation, including the South Cordova and Southwind-Windyke neighborhoods that spurred the Great De-annexation Crisis of 2016 in the state legislature in the early days of Strickland's mayoral tenure. Ryan Poe reports:
The potential de-annexations could cost the city 10,672 residents and an estimated $7.6 million in net annual revenue, Memphis Chief Operations Officer Doug McGowen said in a presentation to the Strategic Footprint Review Task Force. He said the administration is recommending no de-annexations before 2021 because bonding agencies take a "dim view" of sudden financial changes.
On paper, the de-annexations don't appear very significant: The city's footprint shrinks by 8 percent, its population by 1.2 percent and its operating revenue by 1.1 percent. But the recommendations signal a sea change for a city that for decades grew through sprawl, spreading itself thinner as it annexed often unwilling new territories like the South Cordova and Southwind-Windyke neighborhoods.
Losing land at a greater rate than population shrinks size but increases density, which might be a worthwhile tradeoff — Memphis seems to have too much of the former and not enough of the latter as is — even if the process, pushed in part by state legislators outside of the Memphis metro, has perhaps felt a little bit extortive.
The Memphis Flyer's Jackson Baker:
There is an urgency to the process. The consultants' report declares that "rightsizing our city is the right thing to do" and makes the case that judicious de-annexation "is important to the health of our city" and a means whereby the city's vitality could in fact be focused and regenerated. But the primary reason why the city is seeking to come up with a de-annexation plan lies not in such abstract and high-sounding motives but in the simple fact of self-defense.
Though the virtues of de-annexing this or that area had been discussed by Council members and city officials over the years, the issue is being forced by imminent and serious pressure from elsewhere in the state.
Will the gradualist approach head off more aggressive measures in Nashville? Stay tuned. WindEXIT and SouthWENT here we come?
I'm With the Panda:
Le Le picked the Falcons to win the #SuperBowl this year. We'll see if he's right this Sunday! Who are you rooting for? 🐼❤🏈 pic.twitter.com/PwgccBuceF
— Memphis Zoo (@MemphisZoo) February 2, 2017
Urban/Rural Again: The question of de-annexation and the state legislature is a specific chapter in the urban/rural tension that's become one of the defining issues in American life. Two good, but very different reads on the subject were published this week.
An Atlantic piece, titled "Red State, Blue City," doesn't mention Memphis specifically, but certainly identifies the city's standing amid political shifts, looking at the difficult attempt by cities to create a kind of haven against state legislatures whose whims run counter to the majority of city populations.
[I]f liberal advocates are clinging to the hope that federalism will allow them to create progressive havens, they're overlooking a big problem: Power may be decentralized in the American system, but it devolves to the state, not the city. Recent events in red states where cities are pockets of liberalism are instructive, and cautionary. Over the past few years, city governments and state legislatures have fought each other in a series of battles involving preemption, the principle that state law trumps local regulation, just as federal law supersedes state law. It hasn't gone well for the city dwellers.
For The Bitter Southerner, a couple of Southern-bred professors look at these issues in terms of higher education and particularly its relations to students from rural areas, focusing on three areas: the recruitment of rural students to colleges and universities, the risk of stereotyping them when they're there, and the challenge of improving social studies education in rural areas. One offers his own undergrad portrait of arriving to school with a pickup truck horn that played "Dixie" and a license plate that incorporated Confederate flag imagery.
He considered those things a part of his heritage, not symbols that could be perceived as hate. Now, he understands that perception as the manifestation of privilege, but those words would have meant little at the time.
In Adam's case, as interactions with individuals from different cultures and experiences with knowledgeable and patient professors unfolded, the "Dixie" horn was disconnected and the old Georgia flag was taken down. This was not a putting away of cultural symbols out of shame, but rather a deeper embracing of the reality of rich, complex Southern culture, and the reality that parts of that historical culture were symbols of hate with which he did not want to be associated. Through social education, he realized those things did not represent him at all.
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— Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) February 2, 2017
In the Presence of Garth: Garth Brooks played a three-hour, 30-song, packed-house concert at FedExForum last night full of familiar country hits blended with "a mix of classic rock theatrics and soft rock schmaltz," Bob Mehr reports. If you missed it, you're out of luck because … wait, what? Oh …
Garth Brooks plans to celebrate Groundhog Day by having the same concert over and over @FedExForum.
— Kevin Cerrito (@cerrito) February 2, 2017
Brooks is playing four shows in three days at FedExForum and probably isn't in the mood to hear the building's traveling main tenants complain about their own weekend back-to-back. He even did an usual practice-court presser before, and his off-the-cuff remark about the "Great Balls of Fire" session down the road at Sun Studio — ".. music that would separate sons and fathers, that would eventually bring them back together" — might be his best writing.
I spent parts of two days listening to and writing about Brooks at the beginning of the week, with an original intent of doing some kind of annotated playlist, like I did to preview Janet Jackson's show a couple of years ago, but I found I was a lot more interested in Brooks as persona and cultural/commercial phenomenon than I was in the actual one-song-at-a-time music. But I'm planning on going to tonight's show. I've never seen Brooks live and am interested in the spectacle. Hopefully I'll find the music more engaging up close.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood in Memphis
Garth Brooks performs his first show of four concerts at FedExForum. Nikki Boertman, The Commercial Appeal
Garth Brooks takes questions from the media before their sound check during a press conference held at FedExForum. Nikki Boertman, The Commercial Appeal
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood take questions from the media before their sound check during a press conference held at FedExForum. Nikki Boertman, The Commercial Appeal
Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks take questions from the media before their sound check during a news conference at FedExForum. Nikki Boertman / The Commercial Appeal
Happening in Memphis This Weekend: The International Blues Challenge gets serious, "Bill & Ted" return to the big screen, and more ideas in this Go Out guide.
The Fadeout: One more time for the Falcons fans out there. Good luck in the "Big Game." (I saw that formulation at the grocery store yesterday and was reminded one again of how preposterous it is that "Super Bowl" is so legally protected.)
Reach Chris Herrington at chris.herrington@commercialappeal.com or on Twitter at @chrisherrington and @herringtonNBA.
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