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Aseem Chaturvedi
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Partner | Dispute Resolution
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B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (2008)
Aseem Chaturvedi is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the New Delhi office. Aseem has been practicing for over a decade now and regularly appears before almost all forums starting from the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts all over India, Arbitral Tribunals, District Courts, various Tribunals and Consumer Forums.
Energy, Infrastructure and Resources
Bar Council of Delhi
Supreme Court Bar Association
Delhi High Court Bar Association
Aseem Chaturvedi has represented and advised the following clients
Halmirah Tea Estate Private Limited
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Electrosteel Steels Limited
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Idea Cellular Limited
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Essel Mining Limited
Represented on a PIL filed by Common Cause before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in relation to illegal mining in the State of Odisha.
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Q: Find solution for $A * X = B$ I have a Matrix:
$$A= \pmatrix{1 & -2  & 1 \\ -1 & 3 & 2 \\ 0 & 1 & 4}$$
My task is to find $X$ from:
$$A * X = \pmatrix{4 & 0 & -3 & 1 \\ 1 & 5 & 2 & -1 \\ 0 & 1 & -1 & 2}$$
My problem is, that i dont know how to do this. I mean i could build several equations like:
$$1 * x1,1 -2 *x1,2 + 0* x1,3 = 4$$
But i think this would take to much time! So what could i do?
The solution for $X$ should be:
$$X = \pmatrix{49 & 38 & -5 & -13 \\  20 & 17 & -1 & -6 \\ -5 & -4 &  0 & 2}$$

A: If you denote by $x_1$, $x_2$, $x_3$ and $x_4$ the columns of $X$ and by $b_1$, $b_2$, $b_3$ and $b_4$ the columns of the given $3\times 4$ matrix (call it $B$), you have essentially to solve the linear systems
$$
Ax_i=b_i\qquad(i=1,2,3,4)
$$
If you consider the "multiaugmented" matrix
$$
\left[\begin{array}{c|c|c|c|c}A&b_1&b_2&b_3&b_4\end{array}\right]
$$
you can solve them all at once, by reducing the matrix to echelon form. If you find a pivot in the last four columns, your problem has no solution. If the rank of $A$ is $3$ the problem has exactly one solution. If the rank of $A$ is $1$ or $2$, and no pivot is found in the last four columns, the problem has infinitely many solutions.

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Kasta  Assembly constituency is  one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,  India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur  district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Dhaurahra Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held  in 2012 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly  Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed and the constituency was formed  in 2008. The constituency is assigned identification number 143.

Wards  / Areas
Extent  of Kasta Assembly constituency is KCs Kheri, Kheri Sri Nagar, Lakhimpur MB,  Oel Dhakhawa NP & Kheri NP of Lakhimpur Tehsil.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General  Elections

See also

Dhaurahra Lok Sabha constituency
Lakhimpur Kheri district
Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Vidhan Bhawan

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
Politics of Lakhimpur Kheri district
Constituencies established in 2008

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The Village of San Nazario
Village Data
Data about the village of San Nazario
The village of San Nazario belongs to the municipality of Casalattico, in the province of Frosinone, region Lazio.
The village of San Nazario is 2,21 kilometers far from the same town of Casalattico to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Casalattico also belong the localities of Case sparse (-- km), La Serra (3,61 km), Largo Paradiso (0,72 km), Largo Vallone (2,22 km), Lesche (2,28 km), Macchia (3,01 km), Matassa (2,62 km), Monforte (1,25 km), Montattico (1,46 km), Sant'Andrea (1,21 km).
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Casalattico.
The locality of San Nazario rises 325 meters above sea level.
Data about population living in San Nazario
In the village of San Nazario live twenty-five people: eleven are males and fourteen are females.
There are twelve singles (six males and six females). There are twelve people married, and zero people legally separed. There are also zero divorced people and one widows and widowers.
Please find in what follows the table of the distribution of inhabitants by age.
Age 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 >74
Males 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 2
Females 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 1 3
Total 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 3 6 0 2 0 0 1 5
Data about foreigners living in San Nazario
In San Nazario live zero foreigners, zero are males and zero are females. 0 come from Europa, 0 from Africa, 0 from America, 0 from Asia and 0 from Oceania.
Please find in what follows the table of the distribution of foreigners by age.
Age Males Females Total
From 0 to 29 years 0 0 0
From 30 to 54 years 0 0 0
More than 54 years old 0 0 0
Education in San Nazario
There are in San Nazario twenty-four people in school age, eleven are males and thirteen females.
Genere University degree High school diploma Middle School diploma Primary School diploma Literates Illiterates
Males 2 2 2 1 4 0
Females 2 4 4 5 0 0
Total 4 6 4 6 4 0
Employment rates and workers in San Nazario
There are in San Nazario 9 people aged 15 years or more. 9 are employed and 0 were previously employed but now are unemployed and seeking for a new job. There are 5 males aged 15 years or more, 5 are employed and 0 were previously employed but now are unemployed and seeking for a new job. There are 4 females aged 15 years or more, 4 are employed and 0 s were previously employed but now are unemployed and seeking for a new job.
Families and their compositions
There are in San Nazario 11 famiglie residenti, for a total of 25 people.
Please find in what follows a table showing the number of families along with the number of people for each family.
People 1 2 3 4 5 6 or more
Families 3 4 3 0 1 0
There are 11 famiglie living in San Nazario. 0 live in rented houses, 11 live in houses of their own property and 0 live in houses for different reasons.
The buildings and their characteristics in San Nazario
There are in San Nazario 21 buildings, but only 18 are used. 16 buildings are for residential use, 2 buildings are for commercial or productive pourposes. Among the 16 buildings for residential use 13 were build using bricks of tuffs, 3 were built in concrete and 0 were built using other materials like steel, wood and so on. Among the 16 buildings for residential use 7 are in excellent condition, 8 are in good conditions, 1 are in mediocre conditions and 0 are in bad conditions.
In the following three tables the buildings built for residential use in San Nazario are classified by building year, by floors number and by rooms number.
Buildings in San Nazario by year of construction
Date Before year 1919 1919-45 1946-60 1961-70 1971-80 1981-90 1991-2000 2001-05 After year 2005
Buildings 2 7 0 0 1 2 4 0 0
Buildings in San Nazario by floors number
NUmber of floors One Two Three Four or more
Buildings 0 7 9 0
Buildings in San Nazario by rooms number
Number of rooms One Two Three or four From five to eight From nine to fifteen Sixteen or more
Buildings 13 3 0 0 0 0
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Weather and weather forecast for the municipality of Casalattico, to whom San Nazario belongs.
Map and road map of San Nazario
A selection of videos about San Nazario
Banks and bank branches in San Nazario
In the hamlet of San Nazario there is no bank.
Please look at the closest banks in the town of Casalattico, to whom San Nazario belongs.
Pharmacies in San Nazario and surroundings
There is no pharmacy in the hamlet of San Nazario.
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The parishes in the town of San Nazario
There are no parishes in San Nazario.
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Weather in San Nazario
Weather and weather forecast for Casalattico, to whom San Nazario belongs.
Where to stay in San Nazario and its neighborhoods
Hotels, Resorts, B&B in San Nazario and its neighborhoods.
You can arrange the results by number of stars, by popularity, by distance or even by the guest review score choosing among young couples, mature couples, families with young children, families with older children, people withfriends, or solo travellers.
Free ads in San Nazario
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Look at the interactive map of San Nazario and get the road maps, the satellite maps and the mixed ones too. Interactive maps of San Nazario also allow an immediate view of: bar,restaurants,pubs,pizzerias,dancing,night clubs,banks,jewellers,beauty centers,hair stylists,supermarkets,pharmacies.
Just fill in the free text search box placed on top of the map with any of previous categories and then press enter.
Please feel free to use the same free text search box placed on top of the map to find any kind of business activities you're interested into.
Videos about San Nazario Casalattico, Frosinone, Lazio
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Last week the Central Statistics Office released figures which I bet came as a surprise to many people.
I'm referring to the figures on 'Unemployment Blackspots' which are defined as areas where there are more than 200 people in the local Labour Force and where unemployment is above 25%.
It came as one hell of a shock – particularly after being told for months on end of the 'miracle' of 6% unemployment at national level – to find there were 79 such areas throughout the country.
Little wonder the government's 'Keep the Recovery Going' slogan got slapped down big time by the electorate at the last General Election.
Facts don't lie. In fact the real picture could be even worse. Where I live, for example, in Donegal these statistics don't take into account the numbers who have emigrated; the real figure in some parts of the county would probably be about 40/50% .
I presume along the western seaboard right down to Kerry the picture would be very similar.
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Patient Types
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the final result should look more like this
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The href end result should grab new attribute

A: (pages[i] = new Option('_name_','_value_')).dataset['id'] = '_id_';
This will work in FF, but unfortunately doesn't allow chainning.
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Former Martinsville High principal sues for $9.5 million, citing discrimination
MARTINSVILLE, Va. – The former principal of Martinsville High has filed discrimination charges against the city, Martinsville City School Board and Martinsville City Council to the tune of $9.5 million.
Angela Weinerth acted as principal from 2013 to 2016. In the lawsuit, she alleges that she was discriminated against as a white, 63-year-old woman.
The lawsuit states that the city instituted a policy to hire administrators and educators on the basis of race, gender and age for the purpose of reflecting the composition of the student body.
When she became an assistant principal, Weinerth tried to alert then-Principal Aji Dixon to data indicating that students were falling behind, according to the lawsuit. She alleges that the principal told her to "back off," and in another occasion lunged over his desk at her.
Dixon was removed and Weinerth took over as principal.
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Martinsville sincerely regrets that Ms. Weinerth felt it necessary to file a lawsuit against her employer, the public school system. It is particularly regrettable, at this time of national discord over questions of race and discrimination, that she has wrongly chosen to place blame for her reassignment within the school system on race and bias. It also unfortunate that our community's resources must be diverted to defending this baseless lawsuit rather than on the continued improvement of our schools.
All citizens in our area should be proud of the fact that in the past year under new leadership Martinsville High School has regained full re-accreditation from the state and has proved a safe and stable learning environment for our students.
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The town of Walls of Water is based on the many small towns of Transylvania County in Western North Carolina. This county has more waterfalls than any other place in the state and is known as The Land of Waterfalls. Incidentally, Western North Carolina is home to over a thousand waterfalls.
Despite the many coffee references in The Peach Keeper, I don't really like the taste of coffee -- although I do think it has the most amazing scent.
When I was writing The Peach Keeper, I knew the name Paxton Osgood sounded familiar. I Googled it and realized it's a name from the sit-comThe Golden Girls (Season 1, Episode 16 "The Truth Will Out"). I decided to keep the name as an homage to all those late nights writing with the TV on in the background.
The mysterious birds mentioned in The Peach Keeper are goldfinches, and I chose them based on this: "The American Goldfinch has a song that often repeats and sounds like 'Potato chip! Potato chip!'" I knew that this was my kind of bird.


One of the questions I hear constantly has to do with the impact, or potential impact, of an industry on the local economy in Grand Forks. To be clear, there are no clear rules on which industries will have the highest impact. There are multiple factors influencing such outcomes, such as the supply chain factors in the local economy, the response of the consuming public, whether the business is in a "new" industry from the perspective of the local economic portfolio or will be competing with existing firms, and so on.
The single biggest impediment to large economic footprints for Grand Forks is the supply chain issue. Dollars quickly leave the area to buy necessary inputs to the production process, which means they are no longer circulating in the local economy buying goods and services here and paying local salaries and wages. This does not mean that firms do not contribute to the local economy unless they buy local. It is better to have a company that pays some local salaries than not. The issue at hand here are the claims of broader economic impacts that will transform the local/regional economy. Transforming an economy is difficult to do at best, and often involved painful adjustments as old jobs are lost in favor of new industries.
Will they buy a significant amount of their inputs from local suppliers?
Will they be supplying other local firms with goods/services used in their production processes?
Will they generate significant direct employment effects?
There are no guarantees in life and economic impact. The answers to all these questions could be yes, but there is no large impact created or the answer could be no and a large impact created, though the latter is far less likely. These questions are a good start to thinking about economic impacts of industries and businesses.


Most application domains are chock full of processes. Sometimes they masquerade as transactions, until the requirements are elaborated and we discover that there are discrete steps and states involved.
If we start from day one modeling business processes as first-class elements in our domain, we get a couple of benefits. We still have a place to put logic to handle user actions. A place where it won't bloat up our principle domain models, things like "User" or "Product". But when it comes time to add more intermediate steps to these user activities, objects modeling processes can grow organically to accommodate the new logic. They can be queried for their current status at any time. And if necessary, we can even factor out subprocess objects to keep long, involved processes from becoming fat models in their own right.


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Vacations, Day Trips and Getaways
Cindy Tether: Come to Iceland--It's Like Visiting Another Planet, but It's a Lot Closer than Mars
By Cindy Tether, Bronxville Author and Traveler
Feb. 28, 2018: While touring the Golden Circle, my friends and I visited a hydroelectric plant, saw a demonstration of the four gaits of the sturdy Icelandic horses, were amazed by the fantastic shapes of the lava hills and mountains, and were thrilled by the eruption of the Strokkur geyser, along with all the steaming geothermal pools nearby.
Another day, we lounged in the luxury and warmth of the Blue Lagoon, sampling blueberry smoothies, wine, and beer, then coating our faces with silica and algae masks. Emerging from the therapeutic lagoon, we agreed that our skin had never felt so smooth, so soft, and so replenished.
Our South Shore Adventure turned out to be another experience of a lifetime: We marveled at the force of the Gullfoss, Seljalandsfoss, and Skógafoss waterfalls; then, bundled up like indomitable snowmen, we walked to the tip of a glacier, battling strong winds, as ice pellets pounded our faces (at one point, I asked our guide if we had reached the North Pole yet!).
Warm lamb soup and hot, tasty rolls with fresh butter awaited us at the Lava House, followed by a film on the four most recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland.
The next day, on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, we greeted a group of curious seals as the sun rose in the East, and several kilometers farther along, we were humbled by the power of the surf as it lashed the basalt cliffs and hollowed out sea caves below. We also paid homage to the "trolls" who were caught in the daylight and became forever transfixed overlooking the ocean.
A bit farther down the road, we climbed the remains of a volcanic crater and later stood in awe of Kirkjufell mountain and its nearby extreme waterfalls, frozen, unforgiving, but still raging through the tunnels of ice created by their spray. As magical as all this was, there was nothing to compare to the Northern Lights, which we were so fortunate to experience, both in the darkness of Thingvellir National Park and, another night, as we sipped hot chocolate overlooking the Whale Fjord.
What an amazing treat the Northern Lights are! To see them, one needs the confluence of four key variables: the right place; the right time of year; dark, cloudless, starry skies; and a solar storm to have taken place 36 to 48 hours beforehand (it takes that long for the sun's supercharged particles to reach the Earth's atmosphere and interact with the oxygen and nitrogen molecules causing the lights to appear and, hopefully, "dance"). A little divine intervention helps as well.
First faint, then more distinct, and, finally, ending in a blaze of glory, the Northern Lights danced and waved to the hoots and howls of the patient onlookers. The Northern Lights were worth waiting four hours in the cold for, as they started puffing and swaying and waving across the dark night sky after midnight.
In closing, I must say: "I'm in love with Iceland," from the protein-packed dreaminess of the Icelandic yogurt called "skyr" to sustain us through the day, to the friendly, helpful people, many of whom are descendants of the original Vikings, to the sights and sounds like no other. Iceland is a charmer, a treasure not soon to be forgotten!
Pictured here: Scenes from Iceland.
Photos by Cindy Tether
Bayside Travel Wins Small Business Award from '914INC.' Magazine
By Sally Winston, Bayside Travel
Sep. 20, 2017: Bayside Travel won a 2017 Small Business Award from 914INC., a Westchester magazine. The agency is honored to have won in the category of General Excellence.
Bayside Travel was one of fifteen local noteworthy businesses selected from hundreds of nominations. Judging was based on the consistency of success, impact on the community, and customer/client base.
This year, Bayside Travel is celebrating 30 outstanding years under Barbara Nichuals's ownership. The company is headquartered in Bronxville. It specializes in custom-crafted itineraries from exotic safaris to multi-gen family trips to island escapes. The staff is multi-lingual and averages over 20 years of experience per person in the travel industry.
914INC.'s annual Small Business Awards pay tribute to the success of these outstanding businesses and to the businesses that support them.
Bayside Travel, along with fellow Small Business Award winners, will be honored at a cocktail reception on Thursday, September 28, at The Crowne Plaza in White Plains.
Pictured here: Barbara Nichuals, owner and CEO of Bayside Travel.
Photo courtesy Bayside Travel
Adrienne Smith, the Constant Traveler: Malaise in Munich
By Adrienne Smith
Apr. 12, 2017: What to do in Munich? Your constant traveler has been there many times, visited all the wonderful art museums, faithfully stood in the central square, Marienplatz, watching the colorful glockenspiel figures come out dancing on the hour, visited the superb Deutsches Museum to see huge displays of model trains.
Time for something new.
An exhibition at the Münchner Stadtmuseum titled National Socialism in Munich caught my eye. Clearly some sort of description of the rise of Nazism in Germany.
What made this particularly interesting to me, requiring that I expose a familial black sheep, was that my grandfather, a rabid conservative who tended to rant at our Thanksgiving feasts when talking about the likes of Franklin Roosevelt (but otherwise a very nice man), had been in Munich on business in the mid-1930s.
His hotel overlooked a large square and, from his room, he could see a massive, Trumpian crowd and could hear what he described as the hypnotic voice of the man addressing said crowd, none other than Adolf Hitler.
Overcome by the experience, my grandfather decided to pen a letter of praise to Hitler, receiving, in return, a missive of thanks from his secretary, which I now possess. As you can imagine, this is not something that I care to display prominently and proudly in my house.
So off I went to the museum. Luckily, an English audio guide was available for use, since most of the exhibition was, quite naturally, in German. The audio plus the visuals made for a depressing tale of increasingly insane measures taken against Jewish residents of the city.
Munich, itself, was the center of the National Socialist Party and for Hitler, himself. He had attempted a putsch in 1923 and finally achieved control of the national government in 1933, a government that at that time was headquartered in Munich.
Starting that year, laws were passed limiting the rights of Jews to work in designated professions, marry non-Jews, and otherwise enjoy the rights of full citizenship.
Documents list businesses and individuals banned from plying their trade. One photo shows a prominent Jewish lawyer, who had gone to the police station to defend a client, stripped to his underwear and forced to walk the streets with a denigrating placard hanging from his neck.
The saga of Uhlfelder Department Store, illustrated in detail, sums up the progressing horror of the times. The store, the second largest in Munich, was noted for its installation of then-unusual escalators. Starting in 1933, the Jewish owner was placed in "protective custody." In November of 1938, as part of the Nazi night of terror throughout Germany that became known as the Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"), the store was broken into, damaged, and set on fire.
Herr Uhlfelder and some of his employees were sent to Dachau, seven miles from the city center. After four years, he was released upon surrender of all his assets, and, absurdly, payment for the damage done to the store.
The exhibition also features details of the crackdown on "decadent" art and replacement of it by obviously inferior scenes of pastoral harmony and military bravery, much resembling, in their sugary sweetness, the murals that line the Moscow subway system.
A very depressing show but significant for the public acknowledgment of Munich's dark days.
Pictured here: Uhlfelder after Kristallnacht.
Photo by Adrienne Smith
Adrienne Smith, the Constant Traveler: Many a Slip
Mar. 1, 2017: I left on a weeklong trip to Munich, Germany, recently. As luck would have it, my flight to Munich was destined to depart right in the middle of what was forecast to be an epic snowstorm. So, as a precautionary measure, I booked hotel space out at Newark Airport for the night before at one of those dreary but adequate chain motels that look out on highways and barren industrial areas.
I woke up the next morning to quite an accumulation of snow but sat smugly in my lodgings, acknowledging my success in dealing so cleverly with the weather's vagaries. That is, until noon.
Channel 1 on my room's TV listed all the upcoming flights at EWR, most either canceled or massively delayed. Search as I might, I couldn't find my flight number listed. Strange! As the wheels in my brain whirred, I thought I might as well double-check my flight reservation.
Disaster! My Lufthansa booking was from JFK!
What's a girl to do? I dug myself out of my motel parking space, and, with great trepidation, started what I feared would be an impossible, accident-risking trip across New Jersey, Manhattan, and Queens.
To my surprise, hardly any vehicles were on the road, and I arrived at the Lincoln Tunnel in jig time. Then through the tunnel and across a rather deeply slushy Manhattan, into the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and, gasp, onto the Long Island Expressway.
Dizzied by my success, and seeing long hours of wait time stretching ahead of me, I determined to detour to my beloved White Castle, where, after slogging through blocks and blocks of slippery roads, I arrived at the blazingly regal vision of my ever-revered gustatory desire.
After consuming this manna from heaven, I mushed back through the less-than-manicured outer-borough byways, arriving at JFK unscathed. Wending and weaving my way to long-term parking, I arrived to find it looking like an arctic outpost.
The lot was covered with a foot of snow, making the idea of traversing any aisle foolhardy. After several go-rounds, I found a small plowed area where, with great relief, I came to a halt.
Then it was off to the terminal on the AirTrain, into the pleasant Lufthansa lounge, some light reading, and, of course, Candy Crush.
Hours after we were scheduled to leave, we finally boarded our plane. But, as luck would have it, we couldn't back out of our gate, because an Alitalia plane had skidded on the tarmac right behind us and had to be towed away. Great! What was the runway going to be like?
At last, five hours after our originally scheduled departure, we zipped down the runway, and, in the shortest time span I can recall, my giant bird leapt skyward. The trip was on!
Pictured here: A Lufthansa Airbus taking off.
Valerie Wilson Travel Celebrates 35th Year with Travel Industry Leaders from Around the World
By Kimberly Wilson Wetty, Co-President, Valerie Wilson Travel, and Mary Clifford
Feb. 15, 2017: Travel industry leaders--including luxury hoteliers, resort and cruise line operators, airlines, and their teams from across the United States and around the world--gathered in New York City last week to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Valerie Wilson Travel (VWT). The event featured two days of instruction and networking among some of the best luxury travel representatives in the industry. The highlight of the celebration culminated on Wednesday evening with an exclusive black-tie evening gala at Cipriani 42nd Street.
VWT is one of the largest family-managed full-service travel consulting agencies specializing in high-touch services. Chairman & CEO Valerie Ann Wilson, who has lived in Bronxville for over 40 years, founded the company in 1981 in New York City. Today, Valerie continues to run the company along with her two daughters, co-presidents and co-owners Jennifer Wilson-Buttigieg and Kimberly Wilson Wetty both of whom are also live in Bronxville. With a diverse client base, there are 16 offices nationwide with a network of 315 travel advisors and associate agents.
"Our future is rooted in the past and our 35th anniversary is the perfect time to reflect upon that," said Valerie Ann Wilson to a crowd of over 600 guests. "We would not be the success we are today without our people. It is our advisors who are curating, facilitating, protecting, and enhancing the travel needs, significant life events, and adventures for our clients. And that is why it was so important to invite them to New York to personally thank them in a momentous way."
In true VWT fashion, the gala event was celebrated with a global experience and an attention to detail that created a path to "Paint the World Peach" (the VWT iconic brand color) where a "who's who in luxury travel" walked the peach carpet. "I was thrilled yet humbled to have so many friends, clients, and partners celebrate with us," said Valerie Ann Wilson, who personally greeted guests--each with a hug and a kiss. "It is so important for us to honor the relationships that we have. That personal touch truly makes a difference and goes a long way."
The heart of the celebration focused on gratitude and giving. During the evening, Valerie, Jennifer, and Kimberly presented the Longevity Awards to almost 90 individuals who have been VWT partners and employees for 15 years or more. "Who we are as a company comes down to a simple, yet powerful, concept of people caring for people," said Jennifer Wilson-Buttigieg. "We wanted to show our gratitude to those with whom we work in a great way. The Longevity Awards are our way of saying thank-you to those who exemplify our core values of consistency, loyalty, and longevity. They are an inspiration, and without them, we would not have all of the successes that we have today."
During the gala, VWT announced its continued dedication to making a difference in the world and the lives of others. Over the past five years, VWT has donated $1 million through the combination of cash and in-kind gifts to hundreds of organizations across the globe--and the journey continues. As VWT commemorates its 35th anniversary, in lieu of gifts, it will be donating $35,000 of charitable gifts to 20 hand-selected nonprofit organizations. VWT engaged its leadership and staff to establish two tiers of giving. Tier 1 features five charities (which were selected individually by Valerie, Jennifer, and Kimberly) and two additional charities that support the travel industry. The five charities are American Heart Association, Dream Foundation, Swim Across America, Abercrombie & Kent Philanthropy, and Tourism Cares. Tier 2 includes 15 additional charities handpicked by VWT associates and employees that will receive smaller donations. "This is part of the role we play in our global footprint," said Kimberly Wilson Wetty, "and giving back is a part of our DNA."
The evening was filled with memorable stories, live entertainment, and exquisite food and drink. The night concluded with a toast to three-and-a-half decades of integrity, trust, and loyalty and an inspirational speech by Valerie. "Our journey in travel advocacy and travel management continues to evolve," she said. "After 35 years, we are still committed to servicing our clients, and we look forward to further enhancing our preferred partner relationships, expanding our Power of Access®, increasing our presence worldwide, and continuing to make a difference in the world in which we travel."
Pictured here: Valerie Ann Wilson with family.
Photo by Robert Stanzione
Adrienne Smith, the Constant Traveler: Odysseus Redux
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My name is Gireesh and I am the head of product for Freshdesk.
Last week, we sent out an email to all of our customers and announced that we'll be deprecating the old version of Freshdesk by the 31st of January 2019. As a result, we'll be migrating all of your accounts to Mint - a fully-revamped, improved version of Freshdesk that we released a year ago.
Depending on who you are, this is either completely fine or kinda scary and frustrating. But I wanted to take a moment to let all of you know that, no matter which camp you belong to, we're here to help you with this transition.
Since we launched Mint last year, thousands of teams have moved over to Mint and have found it to be more intuitive than the old Freshdesk experience. So much that today, more than 75% of the agents using our product are on Mint. We're pretty happy with some of the feedback we've received so far and we're working hard to address open requests and concerns.
In recent months, we've added powerful features and enhancements to Mint to show you what's possible with our new technology platform. Going forward, we have plans to leverage it further and build more innovative features that weren't possible earlier.
While we understand that the old version of Freshdesk helped us get to where we are today, it's equally important for us to turn our focus to the new version and work on it exclusively. We believe this is the right way forward for us to take our product so that we can continue offering more value to our customers.
Please check your inbox for an email from our customer success team about this update. We have a team of experts on standby to take any questions or migration requests you might have - so please don't hesitate to reply and ask for help.
As always, I'll be happy to hear your feedback, and I look forward to your continued support.
P.S. I have attached a document explaining everything that is new on Mint as a quick refresher.
We don't understand why you promote upgrading to freshdesk Mint while it still has plenty of bugs.
So suddenly our helpdesk system didnt work anymore!
When we contacted your support, they told us they knew that the ecommerce integration didnt work witht he new version. How can you let people update this or even not inform about known bugs in a production environment where thousands of tickets have to be handled?
We have been careful in not upsetting the workflow of a live account and that's the reason why Mint has been rolled out in batches ever since its inception. We have also included the option to switch back to the Classic interface if some missing feature proves to be a blocker.
Having said that, over the past few months, we have been introducing new features while simultaneously working on getting all the features that you see on the Classic interface available on Mint, if not better. You can follow our release notes to stay updated on any changes to the Mint interface.
For now, I'd suggest you to use the Classic interface to setup the eBay integration but you can be assured that it will make its way onto the Mint interface soon.
Tried Mint today. The font weight on the subject in the ticket list is uncomfortably low. It makes the page painful to use.
Maybe it's something to do with Windows 8 or not being in my 20s but there is no way I could use Mint in the long term as it is.
Easily readable text is a top level requirement.
I'm Shankar from the Freshdesk product team.
You're right about the fonts. We're making a bunch of enhancements based on feedback we've received. We'll definitely look at increasing font sizes - this is something we've heard from others, too.
Thanks Shankar. Increasing the font weight to 400 or 450 would help a lot. It isn't really the height so much as the font width.
We transitioned last Thursday and it has been very painful and frustrating. Watch your phone credits, especially if most of your customers are phone based. Ours didn't transfer over causing a major shutdown of more than 2/3 of our busy Monday resulting in a major productivity and cost loss.
Although, I'm hoping for the best with Mint my whole team and myself feels the previous version was much more intuitive than this. Many features are lost that we've used and some of the new features take more steps to get to.
As I said, I'm hoping for the best.
We were unpleasantly surprised this morning to see that it just switched over ~65 days early.
"The old Freshdesk has been removed from your account. Enjoy the Mint experience!"
TRYING, but it still has too-many serious problems, new to Mint, and previously reported long ago.
Newest bug found today: copy/paste from Outlook introduces random spaces into the middle of the text, or removes needed line-breaks.
You lied to our customers!
I was shocked to find out when I logged in that the "old" Freshdesk design suddenly disappeared and the new design "Mint" was activated without my permission.
For several months now, you've been annoying us customers by telling them that you're going to force everyone to switch by January 31, 2019.
What is today? Today is December 03, 2018! You changed it without permission! What is this bad action for the customers? Months and weeks ago I already reported bugs here, which are in the new design "Mint". Until today you never got a reaction from @Freshdesk. And now, a sad game that you're playing.
"The old Freshdesk has been removed from your account. We wish you lots of fun with Mint!
Are you serious? Today, December 03, 2018 is not January 31, 2019. There are still a lot of problems in and with the new design "Mint", which have been said here in the community in the section "Problems" by other customers again and again. Your reaction to mistakes with the design "Mint" = equal to zero.
What is this community for if you are not interested at all in the people who use it?
A real tragedy. Thanks for nothing.
An elementary and important example is that contact photos of the users that were automatically created via Facebook in a ticket, with the new design "Mint" does not work at all. It no longer displays contact photos. Communicated here months and weeks ago. Your reaction? None! Now "Mint" has been installed and the error is still there. I don't see any contact photos anymore.
@Rob @Rene, We're sorry for the blip and I'd like to clarify that it was an unintentional change. This happened because of a recent code change and affected a few of our customers' accounts. We're trying to reverse the change but I've managed to re-activate the Classic Freshdesk interface for your accounts. You'll continue to have access to the Classic Freshdesk interface until the original date mentioned earlier in the post. I'll also look at the other issues reported and make sure they're addressed soon.
I would also like to let you know that we've been collecting feedback from our users on their experience with Mint and have prioritised the items to be fixed before we bring the curtain down on the Classic Freshdesk UI. We'll continue to make your experience with Mint better and you can track all the progress here.
- ecommerce channels dont work anymore as the reply button is missing in the tickets. Our requests when this will be working continue to be ignored.
- our freshphone and freschat for existing users still hasent been migrated and after we followed the instructions to register now our trial has expired.
We will not tolerate that our account is migrated to a new version which works only half as we had last year when two days we were not able to respond to any ecommerce tickets anymore. We receive almost 300 tickets a day, so disrupting a business by an upgrade in beta stage is unacceptable.
It's not ideal that we are losing a lot of custom made apps with the migration to freshdesk mint.
@Sandy, We're sorry to hear that you're facing few issues on the Mint interface. Along with the e-commerce integration, there are few other apps that are currently unavailable on Mint. The apps are ready and, over the next few days, we'll add them to the marketplace site.
I'll have your Account Manager to reach out to discuss more on the migration plan.


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Skin Grafting General Principles
Filed under: Chapter 2,Chapters — mthatte @ 4:04 am
1.	The skin is a large, indispensable, complex organ that develops both from the ectoderm (epidermis) and the mesoderm (the dermis).
2.	Most of the epidermal layers survive without blood supply except at their junction with the dermis. The basal layer of the epidermis also contains melanocytes.
3.	The dermis contains within it a substrate called collagen, interspersed with elastic tissue, sebaceous glands attached to hair follicles, sweat glands, blood vessels, nerves as well as lymphatics.
4.	Together with the epidermis the skin as a whole is a barrier against environmental assault and also is the principal site for communication with its surroundings.
5.	It serves a thermostatic function by judicious use of secretion of sweat controlled by the nervous system. The sebaceous glands play a smaller role in this regard and are not influenced by the nervous system. The two together also lubricate the skin and some of these secretions can be called as excretory in nature.
6.	The skin because of its size is a huge storehouse for blood which can be diverted to other crucial areas at the time of adversity, for example in shock. A large rapidly occurring burn means depletion of a fair volume of blood as also loss of fluids due to passive evaporation of water as well as the inflammatory exudate.
7.	The skin with its rich reticulo-endothelial system protects the body from invasion by bacteria and viruses. Because of its multilayered structure it is also resistant to mechanical, thermal and radiation injury up to a limit.
8.	The hair follicles and sebaceous glands as well as sweat glands, which all lie in the dermis, have openings on the surface of the epidermis. The epidermal layer invaginates throughout these tubular structures and lines them from within and therefore the regeneration of the epidermis can occur from these invaginated layers as long as some of these structures are preserved in the dermis after an injury or after a skin graft is harvested. Sridhar from Chennai adds "When split skin graft is taken the donor site heals by epithelialisation from cut ends of sebaceous glands/ducts/sweat gland ducts and hair follicles. That is why the healing is fast and donor site has mottled appearance."
9.	Skin grafting means detaching (cutting) a piece of skin from one site and placing it on a bed which revascularises it.
10.	The procedure of skin grafting is actually a transplantation of a complex organ which serves many vital functions.
11.	A split skin graft is classified by its thickness. Purely epidermal grafts are rarely ever done at the present time. Depending upon how much dermis is taken the graft is called a thin, intermediate or a thick split skin graft. A thick graft leaves behind much less regenerative capacity in the donor area than a thin graft and consequently the donor site will take longer to heal and will be left with poorer quality skin.
12.	When a full thickness graft is cut, the regenerative power to heal in the donor area is nil and therefore the donor area needs to be closed primarily (small areas) or requires to be covered with another split skin graft.
13.	The thickness of the graft determines the value and quantity of the constituents that are transferred.
14.	The thicker the graft the greater is the biological requirement for the graft to "take".
15.	When a graft is placed on a recipient bed, the process of "take" begins. For some hours it is bathed and nourished by plasmatic circulation or serum imbibition. Simultaneously fortuitous and accidental apposition of the vessels in the bed and those in the graft allows blood to be sucked into the graft (inosculation). Soon afterwards active penetration of the graft by blood vessels from the bed begins and is well established by the fifth day. This is when the graft regains its colour which was lost when it was harvested because of severe vasoconstriction as a result of trauma.
16.	A graft that has 'taken' (to its bed) remodels itself over a period of several weeks or months. This process is called consolidation in which collagen gets fragmented and is re-laid, elastic fibers degenerate and form anew. No graft remains identical to what it was when it was harvested and there is always some loss of its collagen content and its elasticity. This loss is highest in thin grafts and the least in full thickness grafts. When a graft is harvested it tends to coil on itself because of its elasticity. The thicker the graft the greater the recoil. A thin graft can be spread easily and remains in that state. Those grafts which coil up on harvesting contract the least after they 'take'. The reverse is true of thinner grafts.
17.	In nature all wounds contract by the laying down of fibrous tissue through fibroblasts unless interfered with by local or systemic disease. A large granulating wound of some duration therefore has already started the process of contraction while a freshly created surgical wound which gets primarily closed shows little or no contraction. Therefore, a surgically created wound which is covered by a full thickness graft will show the minimum contraction while at the other end of the scale a large chronic, granulating wound covered by a split thickness graft, particularly if it is thin, will show maximum contraction.
18.	When contraction is complete, the pathological state left behind is called a contracture (e.g. a burn contracture across the elbow or the ankle).
19.	A graft fails to "take" when it cannot be revascularised or when the process of revascularization is harmed by a shearing force due to improper immobilization of the graft and the bed.
20.	Failure of revascularization can occur when the bed on which the graft is placed has poor vascularity or the revascularization is prevented by a blood clot between the graft and the bed.
21.	Though all granulating wounds can be considered as harbouring infection, a well prepared granulating wound will 'take' grafts. Suppuration is another matter. Pus and multiplying organisms have proteolytic enzymes, prevent capillary formation and an overt presence of pus is the poorest environment for 'take' of a graft.
22.	Debilitating conditions, such as uncontrolled diabetes, hypoproteinemia or local irradiation usually have adverse implications for the recipient beds.
23.	Completely normal reinnervation of grafts is extremely rare. Reinnervation depends on the bed on which the graft is placed rather than the graft. The greater the number of nerve endings in the bed, the better is the reinnervation. Reinnervation occurs by penetration of nerves into the graft but also by insinuation of hollow myelin tubes which are remnants of the remodeling process in the graft.
Dr. Sridhar adds, "When a thicker skin having hair follicle is harvested as a graft then hair can grow at the recipient site, but when thin graft is taken this does not occur. This fact must be kept in mind while harvesting thick graft for recipient areas where hair growth is not desirable."


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Q: Georeferencing multispectral data using ArcGIS Desktop? I often have to georeference Landsat data image to map (often raw data without geometric corrections). The way I am doing this is to open up one channel and set my GCPs and save them into a txt file. After that I open each individual channel and am loading the GCPs from the txt file to each image and I am rectifying each channel.
Is there a faster way to do this so that I don't have to load and georeference each channel separately?
I'm using ArcGIS Desktop 10.0.


The Debate: Why is it so unacceptable for straight people to stand up against homophobia?
I'm going to start by briefly talking about my sexuality. I am a heterosexual male. I find women attractive. My partner is female. My previous relations have been with females. When I settle down and raise a family, it will most probably be with a female. I am comfortable with my sexuality. Now, if I happened to find males attractive, physically or emotionally, then I would embrace it, as would, I'm sure, my friends and family, as they are mature and have sense and reason. But as it is, I do not. I happen to be straight. I was born this way.
What is the point of the above, you may ask? The above is the sort of statement many heterosexual people feel they have to make when they publicly claim to support gay rights, have homosexual friends, or even exhibit "gay" behaviour themselves, such as, say, enjoying music by LGBT-friendly artists, almost in a bid to justify themselves. Statements that I myself have felt that I have to make to some people, because I am strongly in favour of gay rights, and also enjoy music by Lady Gaga and the Scissor Sisters, swing dancing, and other things that may not be classified "macho".
There seems to be this mindset which says that, if you're pro-LGBT, you must be gay yourself. "Oh, why else would you care otherwise?" Now, I myself don't care about being labelled so. It can get annoying if people constantly say you're something you're not, but generally it doesn't bother me. I think I know myself pretty well.
However, there are many out there who feel the same way. People who are straight and believe homosexuals don't deserve the bullying, the name calling, the discriminating, the ostracising, the disowning, and even the violence they suffer on a day to day basis. But they're worried that, by actively taking a stand against LGBT discrimination, people will start questioning their sexuality and maybe they'll start experiencing ostracism and discrimination of their own.
In the public zeitgeist, racism is seen as outdated, hateful and ignorant. The majority of people acknowledge this and condemn it, and when they do, nobody says "why are they speaking out against racism? They're not of that race." We need to get to a point where the exact same applies for homophobia.
When South Africa declared apartheid rule in 1948, it wasn't long before the international community condemned the white minority government, and in the 1960s, imposed such sanctions as trade embargoes and exclusion from international sports tournaments, which were only lifted after the demise of apartheid in 1991. I doubt many asked why millions of white people across the world were condemning a system of law which would have benefited them were they living in South Africa. Sometimes, injustice and unfairness are plain and clear for all to see.
Helen Suzman, a white South African from a wealthy background, actively stood up against apartheid during her 36 years in parliament.
Things are looking up. It's been a very big week for LGBT rights worldwide, with Hillary Clinton explicitly stating that gay rights are human rights, and that reform will be encouraged using foreign aid and diplomacy. The likes of Iran, Zimbabwe and all other countries where homosexuality is illegal will have plenty of food for thought. In Belgium, Elio Di Rupo became the first homosexual head of state in the EU, and the second worldwide, after Icelandic Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.
Closer to home, England Rugby World Cup winner Ben Cohen launched his foundation, StandUp, in May 2011, which raises awareness against bullying and homophobia. He has been touring the United States, where it has proved incredibly popular. This week he announced on the BBC his plans to launch a UK wing in early 2012.
Ben but is aware of how prevalent bullying and homophobia is worldwide, and how it wrecks lives, and has decided to use his high profile to raise awareness of it.
On the related BBC article, Ben says: "We are looking to affect the next generation. We want to create cultural change and we are doing that by using our StandUp brand to communicate that it is not cool to bully, but it is cool to stand up... we want to engage the masses, those who stand by whilst others are suffering."
Crucially, Ben himself is heterosexual. He has a wife and children.
So, are we going to question why Ben is investing so much time and effort combating homophobia and bullying when he himself isn't gay? Should we stand by while others are suffering and collectively say: "Why should I care? It's nothing to do with me"? Should we look suspiciously at other straight people who speak up for LGBT rights, and simply assume that "they must be gay as well"?
Or, like Ben, are we going to acknowledge that many people who are gay, lesbian, bi, transgender and queer, who just want to get on with their lives, are being tormented, bullied, hurt and even killed because of their sexuality, agree that it's not right, and actively stand up and speak up against it?
Joe, the reason some people question Ben Cohen is not because of his sexuality. Rather, it has to do with some questions regarding the structure of his fundraising, and some of his conduct at past events with the gay community.
The first time I asked for information from one of his representatives, communication with that rep ceased. The second time I asked even for YTD metrics on the charity to vet it (as people should do before giving money to any charity) I was told I could see their 990 after their first year was over. With the StandUp Foundation, largely being an organization that gives money to other organizations, the process of determining their program ratio is key...why would I give $35 to StandUp if only $5-10 makes it to the beneficiaries? If that's the case, I'd rather donate directly to them.
Other tales have come in from members of gay rugby teams that Ben has been seen as rude, distant, or disinterested at various events as well. I've found this is generally the source of people questioning Ben's motives as an advocate/ally.
To reiterate: the questions/hesitations/reservations have nothing to do with him being heterosexual. It has to do with behavioral concerns and business practices that some find to be unclear or counterproductive.
I will say though that there is a section of the public that does question straight allies for their motives. (Often times it manifests as people debating whether or not said ally is actually straight. Perhaps wishful thinking?) This is unfortunate, but not entirely unique. Generally I think each of us carry around a little skepticism...we see so much greed and selfishness in the world so often that a truly charitable or generous act seems to be foreign to the human condition. A sad state indeed.


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Founded in 2007, Campus Explorer, Inc., helps higher education institutions recruit and enroll students. The company was the recipient of the Deloitte Fast 500 (seventh-fastest-growing Internet company in the U.S.) for their work in bringing innovative recruitment products and services to the higher-education industry. In November of 2018, Campus Explorer announced its corporate rebrand to Archer Education.

Early Funding

In the Summer of 2007, Campus Explorer raised a $1.65 million Series A investment from Rincon Venture Partners and O'Connor Ventures. In the first quarter of 2009, Campus Explorer reached more than 1 million visitors, which was up 55% from the end of 2008, setting the stage for $2.25 million in a Series B funding round led by investors OCA Ventures, Origin Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners. In 2010, Campus Explorer raised $5 million in a Series C funding round. The funding came from investors Vicente Capital Partners, OCA Ventures and Origin Ventures.

Acclaim

In 2011, the Los Angeles winners of the Deloitte Fast 500 list of fastest-growing companies were announced, and Campus Explorer was awarded the "Technology Rising Stars" award with 1,497% revenue growth.

By 2013, Campus Explorer ranked the seventh fastest-growing Internet company in the United States. Campus Explorer grew 5,636% between 2008 and 2012.

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Kerala's Kumbalangi To Be The First Sanitary Napkin-Free Village In India, We Love This Initiative!
By Jasveen Kaur Sawhney | January 14, 2022
The term 'menstruation' in India deals with an ignorant behaviour and often goes missing. Strangulated by misconceptions, it still remains taboo in the country, with menstrual hygiene being alien to many. But the news that we have stumbled upon and are glad we did, offers a ray of hope. Coming straight from a place that is home to the lush green landscapes of India, a village in Kerala is winning applause for initiating to become the first-ever sanitary napkin-free village in the country. I know you'd be surprised reading this, but it's true. Proudly announcing the same, on January 13, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan shared that a village named– Kumbalangi in Ernakulam district has become the first napkin-free village in the country. Propagating the idea under the initiative of Avalkayi which means 'For Her,' the government has decided on distributing close to 5,000 menstrual cups to women aged 18 and above. Led by Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden, the project will also guide and educate women about the usage of a menstrual cup and its advantages. While the village has always been known for initiating such schemes, it is also India's first model tourism village with nearly 1,20,000 residents and is a witness to an aquatic life.
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With the majority of the Indian female population still resorting to sanitary napkins that are often the bare minimum in the smallest pockets of India, the scheme leads by an example. A truly one-of-a-kind approach that will not only help erase the stigma around menstruation, but will also help the village be pollution-free by opting for menstrual cups instead of synthetic napkins.
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At some places where women continue to be deprived of the basic right of education and decision making, menstruation is a subject that hardly finds a spot under the limelight. But the changing years have witnessed the importance of empowering the rural patches of India, that live a life fenced by restrictions. Courtesy of some concerned government leaders, many states like Punjab and Rajasthan have been working towards the welfare of women, by the distribution of free sanitary napkins and educating the importance of menstrual hygiene. And we're glad of Kumbalangi's new initiative.
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The 1970's oil crisis spurred extensive research and development into renewable energy in the US and Europe. Will the latest supply ruptures similarly galvanise international renewable energy programmes?
Pricing renewables into the market?
Brent crude has already soared to a historic high of US$124 a barrel and oil traders at this months IP week in London suggested that the floor price would likely settle at $120. With oil supplies plateau-ing and demand surging from galloping economies like China, India and Brazil, oil prices are likley to follow an upward spiral.
Instability in the oil sector may place greater urgency upon Western nations to incorporate more renewable energy into the energy mix, but "the pressure will be incremental", says Justin Dargin, Research Fellow with The Dubai Initiative, Harvard University and a Fulbright Scholar of the Middle East. He says there have been more significant drivers over the past decade, such the issue of climate change.
Georg Brakmann, Managing Director of Fichtner Solar similarly notes that the current support for renewable energy is primarily driven by environmental concerns and secondarily by worries over the security of energy supply. Hence, the positive effect of the current Iranian oil embargo towards renewable energy policy "might be rather small".
"On the contrary, there might be a negative effect on programs like Desertec, where solar electricity from North Africa and the Middle East will be supplied to Europe. Such programs depend on political stability in the area", Brakmann points out.
Renewables cannot directly replace oil, as most renewable energy technologies merely generate electricity. "To replace oil, we need alternative transport technologies such as hybrid and electric cars. Of course, electric cars can be charged using renewable-generated electricity", says Robin Mills, a Dubai-based energy economist and author of 'The Myth of the Oil Crisis'.
Overall, oil is not a significant fuel for power generation due to its high cost; the resource only comprises between 5-7% of global electricity generation – and perhaps more in certain regions like the Middle East.
"Natural gas and coal are the hydrocarbons that are consumed much more significantly in power generation. But since the price of natural gas is linked to oil, instability in the oil price will lead to increases in the price of natural gas which would encourage switchover to solar energy", explains Dargin.
Dr. Luis Crespo, secretary general of Protermosol, believes that the oil crisis could push governments to become more self-sufficient, but not with the qualitative effect of the seventies' oil crises.
"At that time we moved from 'nothing to something'. The first pilot plants were constructed and the industry started to develop. Now each renewable technology - including CSP - is running along its own learning curve and the higher the price of fossil fuels, the sooner breakeven will be reached".
The squeeze in crude supply would add to the lack of Syrian and Yemeni oil in the market, South Sudan's halted output, and Libya's struggling, post-war oil sector. Consequently, oil-producing countries would be pressured to boost production. For example, Saudi Arabia – the world's largest oil exporter - would need to produce 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) to replace Iranian supply, and would have to ship crude from its Red Sea ports if the Strait gets blocked.
More widely, GCC exporters and Iraq may need to invest in pipelines to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz altogether. The UAE is building a massive 370km pipeline from Habshan in Abu Dhabi to Fujairah to allow the country direct access to the Indian Ocean and ensure safe flow of its crude oil exports. Construction on the $3.3bn project should be complete by mid-2012 and when ready, the pipeline will have a capacity for 1.5 million bpd, increasable to 1.8 million bpd.
In the event of any oil disruption, Asian refiners are likely to be the hardest hit. Out of the 2.53 million bpd that Iran exported in the first nine months of 2011, 65% of those supplies were taken by Asia.
While Japan is still recovering from the meltdown at its Fukushima complex, resource-poor South Korea is looking for other suppliers in the GCC, having relied on Iran for nearly 10% of its crude oil. China has also been discussing its options with GCC leaders, and has signed a deal to build a refinery in the Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu, besides the oil and gas concession it recently won in Afghanistan.
India, on the other hand, gets nearly three-quarters of its crude oil through imports, and Iran is its second-largest supplier after Saudi Arabia. Given the extent of its energy reliance on Iran, India is not in a position to cut supplies and has made it clear it will continue purchasing Iranian oil - saying it would only recognize multilateral sanctions imposed by the United Nations. Unlike developed countries, India lacks sufficient petroleum reserves, and its colossal transportation system could break down as a result of decreased oil imports.
Although Indian refiners are gradually buying more from GCC sources, a movement towards solar energy has been materializing. For the first time, India is producing power from solar cells more cheaply than by burning diesel, encouraging the country's largest mobile-phone operator and Coca Cola's mango supplier to replace fuel with photovoltaic panels.
Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile-phone operator, has upgraded 1,646 out of about 22,000 rural sites that get little or no grid-connected power to run on solar and other renewable sources, and Jain Irrigation, the world's biggest mango-puree producer and supplier to Coca-Cola, will complete an 8.5MW PV solar project in March to replace diesel-fired output at its processing plant in Maharashtra, at a cost which the company expects to recoup in as little as five years.
Back to Iran, where the dilemma started, renewable energy has come under spotlight. A recent statement revealed its interest in alternative energy, which is has yet to be exploited in the republic.
"Reliance on hydrocarbon resources in the long run is neither possible nor meets national interest. Gradual reduction of oil consumption, and a revolutionary and swift move towards using renewable energies, are the only appropriate mechanisms which can help the country", Iranian energy minister Rostam Qasemi said.
In the past few years, solar costs have plunged dramatically; the prices for photovoltaic components dropped due to economies of scale, supported by government initiatives and massive solar equipment production in China. In Germany, solar has almost reached parity with conventional energy.
"It is expected that subsidies for solar energy will disappear within a few years in Germany; this success can be replicated in other areas of the world", says Dargin, who concludes that concern over climatic change, along with oil price volatility, and plunge of solar prices could emerge as a "perfect storm" for integrating much more solar energy in the global energy mix over the coming decade.