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Stamford, CT – March 1, 2012– (Virtual Press Office) – American Halal Co. is making its Saffron Road™ range of products available on its new online store, saffronroadfood.elsstore.com. Consumers can now browse and buy their favorite Saffron Road products online and in bulk, and have them conveniently delivered right to their door.
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2012 KTM 300 EXC Six Days specifications, pictures, reviews and rating
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|KTM's profilation of this bike
|The responsiveness of the high-torque two-stroke machine can be varied in three stages by replacing springs in the TVC exhaust controller. The rider of the 300 EXC can also choose between two different ignition curves by means of a plug or a handlebar switch fitted as standard.
|General information
|KTM 300 EXC Six Days
|Enduro / offroad
|74.4 out of 100. Show full rating and compare with other bikes
|Engine and transmission
|293.00 ccm (17.88 cubic inches)
|Engine type:
|Single cylinder, two-stroke
|Engine details:
|Reed intake and exhaust control
|Bore x stroke:
|72.0 x 72.0 mm (2.8 x 2.8 inches)
|Fuel system:
|Carburettor. Keihin PWK 36 S AG
|Lubrication system:
|Mixture oil lubrication 1:60
|Cooling system:
|Transmission type,
final drive:
|Wet multi-disk clutch / hydraulically operated
|14:50 (13:50). Primary gear 26:72.
|Chassis, suspension, brakes and wheels
|Frame type:
|Central tube frame made of chrome molybdenum steel tubing
|Rake (fork angle):
|Front suspension:
|WP Suspension Up Side Down 4860 MXMA PA
|Front wheel travel:
|300 mm (11.8 inches)
|Rear suspension:
|WP Suspension PDS 5018 DCC
|Rear wheel travel:
|335 mm (13.2 inches)
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|Front brakes:
|Single disc
|Front brakes diameter:
|260 mm (10.2 inches)
|Rear brakes:
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|Rear brakes diameter:
|220 mm (8.7 inches)
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|Dry weight:
|104.0 kg (229.3 pounds)
|Seat height:
|960 mm (37.8 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting.
|Ground clearance:
|355 mm (14.0 inches)
|1,482 mm (58.3 inches)
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Kerala State Best Film Award winning Malayalam movie "Ozhivudivasathe Kali" was released in 22 screens in the state on Friday, June 17. Helmed by Sanal Kumar Sashidharan, the low-budget movie has been distributed in Kerala by filmmaker Aashiq Abu.
Unlike other movies that are categorised as "award" films, "Ozhivudivasathe Kali" had a fabulous first day shows in most of the theatres, which were screened with houseful shows. The team has posted the photos from different theatres in Thiruvananthapuram and Kottayam, where the film was opened to a good response from the audience. Former minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan inaugurated the opening day show at Asha Theater in Kottayam.
The thriller is based on Unni R's short story with the same name and follows five men who meet up during an election holiday in Kerala. Even though their intention was to have fun, they begin to open up the hidden wildness of their real nature. Following this, they decide to play a game, which they used to play during their childhood days. Reports suggest that the second half of the movie is a single shot. The audience have given a thumbs up to the film, calling it a thrilling experience.
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Ozhivudivasthe Kali/An Off-Day Game - is a movie people should watch. It is so refreshing to see movies like these getting huge crowds and I am proud to have witnessed that on DAY ONE here at Nila, Trivandrum. Kudos to everyone in the crew starting from Sanalettan( Sanal Kumar Sasidharan) , Appu Chettan, Indrettan, Murugan Chettan, Sandeepettan, all the actors and everyone in the crew. The Live Sound has created magic in the theatres, and I am sure everyone will love how it will impact their whole cinema experience. ഇതൠകാണേണàµà´Ÿ സിനിമയാണàµ. ഇതൠകാണികàµà´•àµ‡à´£àµà´Ÿ സിനിമയാണàµ. A movie to be watched, and worth viewing :) #ODK
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The film's strength is in the flow of the narrative. It proceeds through real life situations, most of them funny, played by a bunch of newcomers. Having shot without a formal script, the film offers the actors plenty of freedom to improvise, which they seem to have made use of. However, at times scenes turn out to be cacophonic, marring the flow of the narrative. Ozhivu Divasathe Kali must be watched as a political movie, but without any prejudice. It's a deliberate take on hypocrisies in the society, an entertaining trial in which you would find yourself either in the spot of the victim or the culprit.


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Traffic at the county-owned facility went up 1.7 percent this past May compared to the same month in 2017, according to that report.
"May marks the fourth straight month of passenger traffic increases over 2017," added DBIA Director Rick Karl. "Our traffic numbers continue to grow year over year because demand consistently exceeds the capacity added by both American and Delta. This year has followed our recent trend of record growth."
68,418 passengers passed through DBIA's gates last May, 1,146 more than the May prior.
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Year-over-year passenger numbers shot up 4% at the end of May, with 731,487 passengers going through this year versus 702,737 passengers last year.


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The laws in the state are very clear about the criminal sanctions for driving while intoxicated. A person convicted of DWI will face penalties such as jail time, fines, mandatory alcohol treatment and driver's license suspension. On the civil side, any person who was injured in an accident caused by a drunk driver can file a claim for monetary damages with the driver's insurance carrier. A settlement is best pursued with the help of a qualified personal injury lawyer. Your attorney will know how to prepare your claim and the type of documentation that will be needed to demonstrate the extent of your injuries and the impact they have had on your life. Without skilled representation, it will be much more difficult to obtain the amount of compensation you deserve.
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On 30 April 2017, The BlueBelles were invited to perform for an afternoon concert at the Pewsey Heritage Centre. We had sung at a similar event 18 months previously which was a great success. The difference this time is that instead of being one of several local acts, we were the only group performing. As such we put together 2 half hour sets to entertain the audience whilst they enjoyed afternoon tea.
A few weeks before the concert we did get into a bit of a pickle when it was discovered that in fact neither of our 1st Altos could make the event. However, luckily our good friend and singer Yael was able to help out at the last minute and did a superb job of holding the Alto 1 line together all by herself after just two rehearsals with us.
The collection is housed in what was once the foundry building of Whatley & Hiscock, agricultural engineers.
Indeed, the machinery of this firm formed the basis for the Heritage Centre. When engineering work ceased, the local history society set up a museum to conserve the heavy machinery. This has grown into the resource you can see today.
Further information can be found on the heritage centre website at www.pewsey-heritage-centre.org.uk
We have a couple of events to sing at in June. On Sunday 18 June you can find us in Marlborough alongside Great Western Harmony and The Penistone Ladies Choir. Then on Saturday 24 June we will be singing alongside Upavon Military Wives Choir at St Francis School Fete.
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The Consecration Ceremony for the Enlightenment Stupa at Zen Village was held last week, early one morning. The congregants also celebrated His Holiness the Karmapa's 900th Birthday.
As you drive by on Main Highway, you can see the impressive structure.
A Stupa is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the remains of a Buddha or saint, used by Buddhists as a place of worship. There are no remains in this Stupa at Zen Village.
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Steve McElhanon, former Area President of Alltel, responsible for over $1.5 billion in revenues and thought to be one of Alltel's best leaders, opened the Elevate Speaker Series in January, a monthly series of speakers held on "Invest in Yourself" Fourth Friday's where we strive to access people of experience, wisdom and brillaint minds around topics of business, strategy, macro-important topics and leading people.
Steve's presentation will soon come out in video format on the CEOForums YouTube Channel. The complete presentation will be available to members and clips of the presentation will be made available to the public. Steve's presentation on Leadership Matters has received outstanding reviews and we look forward to reviewing the video to pick up even more nuggets of wisdom about how Steve executed leading people at a very level and with outstanding proven results.
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The 14th IACC held in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2010 pointed the way for the future of the fight against corruption: The international anti-corruption movement decided on a new emphasis on fighting corruption by empowering and mobilising people, be it from civil society, the private or public sectors, and younger generations. Achieving this needs innovation, fresh new ideas and most importantly, an open and vibrant interaction among all sectors.
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One day in 1993, while sitting on a beach in Maui, Don Montague watched as a friend strapped on a pair of water skis, harnessed himself to a kite, and tried to surf. It didn't work, but Montague was intrigued. He was thirty at the time, and had established himself as one of the nation's best windsurfers, winning World Cup races throughout the nineteen-eighties. As the sport began to boom, Montague also became one of its principal technicians, designing sails used by leading professional racers and by tens of thousands of amateurs. Between prize money and profits from sails that he had manufactured in China, he was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
The idea of surfing with a kite instead of a sail captivated Montague, though, so he bought one—a lightweight Flexifoil called a Skytiger. To make the kite float, he filled it with inflated condoms. "I used condoms because they were cheap and made of polyurethane,'' he told me recently, over breakfast at his house in Los Altos. Instead of water skis, Montague used a surfboard, along with a chest harness, which helped transfer the kite's power and lessen the strain on his arms. "I started practicing every day, and things worked pretty well until the kite would fall in the water. Then it would be a big wet mess of spaghetti." He tried another approach: "I went to the local Kmart, bought four inflatable pool mattresses, cut them apart, and then sewed them back together." It took some tinkering, but before long Montague had helped to establish a new sport: kiteboarding. The activity has become so popular that it almost replaced windsurfing in the 2016 Olympics. People who think of kites as toys probably haven't seen one lately; they have become precision instruments capable of pulling a rider across water at more than forty miles an hour and, with a quick jerk, launching him twenty-five feet into the air.
Montague has the engaging, wind-sheared look of a man who has spent his life on a raft. His tousled brown hair and surf-blue eyes have appeared on the covers of aquatic magazines from the Pacific Coast to the Mediterranean Sea. For years he spent the bulk of his days on the water, travelling wherever the wind was good enough to race. Still, he felt as if something was missing. "I'm a joiner,'' he said. "Kiteboarding is a solitary sport. I couldn't figure out a way to do it with other people.'' Then, one day in the mid-nineties, he was struck by what, in retrospect, seems obvious: racing boats need crews. "That was when the idea of building a competitive kite boat came to me,'' he said. "It was the logical extension of all that I had done. And a way to get some people together and form a team."
Montague's quest was based on a simple property of physics: wind becomes more powerful and dependable the farther up one moves from the surface of the earth. Tap into those higher winds with a kite, and a properly constructed boat would move faster than any comparable sailboat. Montague began to raise funds for his kite-boat project and dreamed of crossing oceans, and the world, in record time. He had become friendly with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and early in 2006 he described his plan to them. Both were avid kiteboarders. They pointed out that the power contained in those winds could do much more than move a boat. As Montague recalled the conversation, "One of them—I think it was Larry—said to me, 'Don, the kite-boat project sounds cool, but maybe it doesn't have to be your first priority. Wouldn't you rather help save the planet?' "
The proposition was compelling. Montague had been in touch with Saul Griffith, also a devoted kiteboarder. Griffith, an intellectually restless inventor, had recently completed a thesis on machines that replicate and assemble themselves, and had earned a doctorate from M.I.T. (This magazine profiled Griffith in 2010.) Griffith had thought deeply about the potential of wind energy, and in 2006 he and Montague joined with Corwin Hardham, another kiteboarding M.I.T. physicist, to form Makani Power. Their goal was both simple and colossal: to capture the wind at higher altitudes, turn it into electricity, bring it to the ground, and feed it into the nation's power grid. The kite-boat project would continue, but largely as a laboratory to test materials that Makani might use. Google supplied the first ten million dollars, and eventually another five million. Makani, which means "gentle wind" in Hawaiian, also received a three-million-dollar grant from the energy division of the federal government's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Senior engineers from Boeing have followed the company's progress and offered advice, as have scientists at NASA.
Makani is not the only company attempting to convert airborne wind into commercial energy; competitors in the United States and Europe are using kites, planes, and, in one case, an enormous moored balloon. Many focus on specific markets, such as farmers or remote coastal communities. Windlift, based not far from the landing fields of Orville and Wilbur Wright, in North Carolina, has designed kites that fit on the back of trucks. With them, the company hopes to deliver power to places where it is often absent: isolated military outposts, for example, or villages and industrial sites in the developing world which lack access to a traditional power grid.
Conventional wind turbines are clean, efficient, and effective, and their popularity is growing throughout the world. Yet, for all their promise, they have significant limitations. At least seventy per cent of a turbine's power comes from the outer reaches of its blade; the bigger the blade, the more energy it can deliver. The largest turbines have propellers with wingspans greater than those of commercial airliners. But turbines stand on massive steel-and-concrete platforms; to accommodate a tower, monitoring equipment, and safety fences can require up to fifty acres. Many people who endorse wind farms in theory recoil at the prospect of having one in their neighborhood. Ground turbines are also restricted by the forces of gravity: surface winds are often intermittent and unreliable.
By generating power from winds at higher altitudes, Makani intends to dispense with many of those problems. The company's latest prototype, Wing 7, is essentially a flying wind turbine that is attached to a tether, like a kite. Made from thin sheets of lightweight carbon fibre, at a fraction of the cost of its ground-based counterparts, it cruises in a loop hundreds of feet above the ground, where winds are steady and strong. Electricity, which is generated as the wind rotates four tiny turbines mounted on the wing, travels to the ground through the tether—a high-tension cord fifteen times stronger than steel.
"This is a rare and dazzling opportunity to produce clean electricity by replacing thousands of tons of metal with a few tons of carbon fibre,'' Mark Moore, who has been a NASA systems-analysis engineer for twenty-eight years, told me. Moore has made airborne-wind technology something of a personal crusade, lobbying for support wherever he can. "I don't know why we aren't trying harder,'' he said. "The savings could be dramatic. And the winds are always available. There is nothing to stop us but our startling lack of commitment.''
Makani Power, with a staff of twenty-eight physicists, systems engineers, avionics experts, and rocket scientists, is located at the former Naval Air Station in Alameda, on the edge of Oakland. The base is a glorious and ghostly steel-gray complex, set against a backdrop of hulking naval supply ships, the Bay Bridge, and the skyline of San Francisco. The Navy left the site more than fifteen years ago, but it has proved useful as a movie set ("The Matrix Reloaded") and is big enough for startups that need large physical plants. The Makani buildings, which consist of a tower, a hangar, and an abandoned fire station, sit adjacent to a vast uninhabited runway by the bay. One of the company's early prototypes hangs in the main hall, mounted on thick plywood, as do various sleek carbon-fibre rotors and other machine parts. More than a dozen bicycles, the Makani engineers' transport of choice, were parked vertically on a wall.
Simply by moving in a loop, Makani's aircraft can harvest and generate enough energy to power twenty houses. I was eager to see how that worked, but Montague had another idea. He suggested that we take the kite boat out for a spin. "You'll love it,'' he said. I wasn't so sure. Montague had described the boat, which can move faster than forty knots, as "dangerous"—a thousand-pound, carbon-fibre, open-air projectile. He was certain that I could understand the principles of airborne wind only if I was propelled by it.
The boat consisted of three burnt-orange hulls linked by webbing, like a catamaran with no deck or mast; it looked like the head of a trident. We would be pulled by a vibrant red-and-blue kite fashioned from some of the world's strongest fabrics. Once aloft, the kite, fifty feet wide and shaped like a giant, billowing comma, would lift the boat out of the water and onto hydrofoils to reduce drag. Montague is genial but determined, and before I could demur he had me packed into a two-thousand-dollar Gore-Tex dry suit with an unbearably tight collar, highly insulated rubber bootees, and an electric-blue life jacket. He then held out a bright-red crash helmet and explained that there were no seats for passengers, just two slim rails attached to the central hull. The water temperature was about fifty degrees, and he assured me that if I fell in I would be grateful for the gear.
The boat was more sophisticated than it looked. The hulls had been milled from custom composites, and the boat had been rigged with enough high-tech electronics to satisfy James Bond: GoPro cameras to document the swell of every wave, G.P.S. equipment to monitor distance and speed, and several specialized tools to help the crew gauge the constantly changing movement of the wind. Montague long ago developed computer software to design kites larger than a thousand square feet, on lines that reach hundreds of feet into the air. "The fabrics can cost ten times as much as those required for a kiteboard," Montague said. "They really have to be the strongest materials imaginable."
Montague sat up front, in the only genuine seat—a swivelling chair that looked like a recumbent bicycle and that was bonded to the bow with carbon and epoxy. We were towed to a spot beneath the Bay Bridge where there was enough wind to get under way. Montague and his sailing companions, two physicists who had traded traditional careers for a more adventurous and unpredictable life (one that still involved a lot of calculations), unfurled the kite, and we were off. Montague controlled the lines and managed the direction and height of the kite, shouting regularly for a member of his crew, who sat on the rail in the back, to ease the rudder in one direction or another.
Montague, who is forty-nine, has been obsessed with wind since the third grade, when his father bought him his first kite. "I lost it in the wind the first time I ever flew it,'' Montague said. "It was very upsetting." Since then, without mathematical or engineering training, he has been attaching sails and kites to nearly anything that isn't nailed down: surfboards, skis, kayaks, catamarans. "I grew up in Canada fully dyslexic,'' he said. "I couldn't properly read, but I could take apart a telephone and put it back together upside down. I struggled so hard in school that I figured out a way to record all the answers to tests, or at least what I needed to remind myself, on a small tape deck. I would take it apart and fasten it to the side of my leg, then run a wire through the back of my hair and into my ear.'' He added, "I have always wondered why few people take the wind seriously."
Within minutes, the boat was flying across the bay at thirty-five knots, with waves crashing up and over the hull. We were quickly drenched, and the water was frigid, but the speed was exhilarating. Not far away, two yachts were training for the America's Cup races, which this year, for the first time, will be held in San Francisco. One of the boats, the Swedish yacht Artemis, is also based at the former Naval Air Station. Powered by an enormous wing sail attached to a hundred-foot mast, Artemis is among the yachting world's fastest sailing vessels, and one of the most imposing. "Let's see how fast they are today,'' Montague said slyly as we tacked toward their course. Not as fast as we were. The kite boat blew by Artemis as if she were dead in the water. Montague, framed by the red haze of the sun as it slipped behind the Golden Gate Bridge, could not contain his glee. We were using one of the boat's medium-sized kites; when fully unspooled, the lines reached two hundred and sixty feet into the brilliant blue sky. "The bigger ones can go higher and faster," he said. "You just need to capture that wind."
When Wing 7 is not in the air, it sits on its perch, like a black bird with its wings outstretched. The tips are painted in bright, highly reflective colors—one orange and the other yellow—to make it visible to planes that might wander into its flight path. Four small turbines are mounted on the wing. From tip to tip, the current prototype measures twenty-seven feet, roughly the size of a small two-seat airplane; at a hundred and thirty pounds, the frame is so light that a strong person with excellent balance could haul it around on his back. Yet this latest model, which is packed with avionic controls and aeronautic sensors, needs to perform like an airplane, hover like a helicopter, and maneuver like a kite. That makes balance and stability difficult to maintain.
Soft kites like the ones Montague has designed are relatively cheap and easy to make, launch, and test. But the team at Makani soon realized that they would never produce energy reliably enough to replace ground turbines. If winds are too strong, or too weak, a kite can crash. The engineers began to test models with rigid wings which looked and functioned more like airplanes. Moving forward by trial and error, they have turned out a series of prototypes, each of which became better at launching, staying aloft, enduring harsh winds, and landing. In a speech earlier this year, Damon Vander Lind, the project's chief engineer, described the mandate that Makani had received from Google, its initial investor: "Hey, we love wind power, but could you just go ahead and make it half the price and twice as reliable?'' Vander Lind told me, "We have made it really simple. The perch can swivel to face the wind, but it's the only part of the ground station that moves.''
Wing 7 completed its first successful test flight two weeks ago. The next day, Vander Lind sent me the video. The Wing takes off vertically from the perch; it hovers like a helicopter, drawing power to its four rotors through the tether as it slowly begins to climb. The tether, looped around a reel on the ground station, unspools like kite string. Vander Lind says the next version of the craft, with an eighty-five-foot wingspan, will reach an altitude of a thousand feet and generate the same amount of energy as a typical ground turbine.
Because the wing cannot lift itself without electricity, it looks oddly inert as it ascends. Then, with enough wind to propel it, Wing 7 begins to cruise, swooping across the sky in wide, graceful circles. At this point, flying five hundred feet above the ground, it becomes solely dependent on wind. The rotors spin, slowly at first, and then fast enough to generate electricity, which is transmitted back through the tether. The wing moves in loops just like the blade of a ground turbine—though one with steady access to wind beyond the reach of any conventional station. If the wind dies, power can be sent back up the tether, and the wing can be safely landed. "It won't fall,'' Vander Lind said. Rain "is not a problem,'' he added, because carbon fibre is waterproof, but lightning and hail may not be as easily overcome. "Right now we have a fair-weather prototype. But we have done extensive modelling, and there are ways of dealing with all of it."
Despite rapid progress, airborne-wind-power companies still face serious regulatory, scientific, and political obstacles. Makani envisions wind farms filled with dozens of airborne turbines, spaced far enough apart that they won't collide. The Federal Aviation Administration will need to approve any project that permits that many electrified tethers to flap about in the sky. Makani considers its product a kite since it is attached to the ground. Kites can break free, and, connected to what are essentially high-tension wires, they could conceivably crash into houses or other aircraft. "We are working on issues of visibility and compliance with the F.A.A.,'' Montague told me. The industry will also need to convince regulators that their turbines won't accidentally collide with birds, not to mention other aircraft. Makani says the kites would fly high enough to present only a slight threat to most birds and bats. (Conventional wind turbines kill far fewer birds than buildings, radio towers, or high-tension lines do.) Vander Lind added that Makani's turbines have been programmed to land by themselves in the event that a tether breaks.
Some people in the wind industry—not to mention utility investors, who tend to be conservative—regard airborne wind power as a fad with poor long-term prospects. "Numerous companies have products that are hyped as replacing the iconic white tower with three rotating blades that grace 240,000 individual sites around the world today,'' Mike Barnard, whose blog Barnard on Wind is devoted to developments in the wind industry, wrote recently. "At most, some of these products will be useful in high-cost niches where more cost effective alternatives have very specific limitations."
People have relied on wind for power at least since 5000 B.C., when ships set sail along the Nile. Most Americans didn't take it seriously until the Second World War—and then only because gas was rationed. Ever since, the popularity of wind power has fluctuated widely: when the price of fossil fuels rises, wind suddenly seems attractive; when the price falls, so do investments in wind farms. Until the nineteen-seventies, turbines remained a compelling curiosity, a sign of an alternative life style. Then, motivated largely by the Mideast oil crisis, the nation slowly began building more of them. That growth has accelerated in the past decade: there is now twenty times as much capacity as there was in 1999, although wind power still provides just four per cent of the nation's electricity.
Last year, wind turbines accounted for a third of all newly generated power in the U.S.; the only energy source growing faster is natural gas. The industry employs more than seventy-five thousand people, and generates sixty thousand megawatts of power—enough to fuel more than fourteen million homes. The imperatives of climate change are responsible for much of that increase, and, to some degree, so is the Obama Administration for its belated attempt to wean the country from its long addiction to fossil fuels. Many climate scientists argue that it is only a matter of time before we are forced to pay tax on the greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere by burning oil and gas. That would transform the economics of the wind industry (and most others) completely. But researchers invariably cite another reason for wind power's appeal: it works.
"We don't need gas, coal, or oil to fuel our economy," Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, told me when I met with him in his office recently. Jacobson, a leading expert on alternative fuel sources, has written and testified that the proper mixture of wind, water, and solar technologies could easily satisfy American energy demands. "It will come down to economics,'' he said. "The price of wind is stable, and in the long term that will really matter, because fossil-fuel prices are not. Eventually, they will rise and rise, and at some point you will have such high prices that it would lead to economic chaos.''
Nonetheless, no more than twenty per cent of the land in the United States would be suitable for wind turbines, and the negotiations involved in buying or using it can take years. Offshore locations offer more consistent and powerful winds, but unless the turbines are far enough from the coast to be invisible, these projects are subject to fierce opposition. Farther out to sea, the ocean becomes unrelentingly harsh; platforms even larger than those on land are required to keep the turbines stable. They must also withstand enormous waves, frequent storms, and corrosion. Steel and fibreglass, both essential components, are harder to maintain at sea, and they are expensive. Wherever possible, Makani intends to take advantage of the drawbacks for conventional turbines and deploy its airborne turbines over deep water. Each flying wing would need to be tethered to a platform, but the base would be light, mobile, and comparatively easy to maintain.
Even in the most optimistic scenarios, companies like Makani will need years to challenge the dominance of today's wind farms. If the prices of oil and gas remain low enough, airborne turbines may never succeed. But the scientific principles are solid. The first study describing the physics of kite power was published in 1980 by Miles Loyd, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In "Crosswind Kite Power," an article in the Journal of Energy, Loyd demonstrated that simply dragging a kite back and forth across a wind would generate much more power than letting it bounce around freely. He calculated that the wing of a large aircraft could produce more energy than any turbine working at that time.
Back then, not much could be done with this information. But the cost of components has fallen sharply and will almost certainly continue to drop. "High-altitude wind power is not science fiction,'' the climate scientist Ken Caldeira, of the Carnegie Institution, and colleagues wrote in 2007. Caldeira was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has long been a proponent of developing airborne wind power, and feels even more strongly today than he did a few years ago. "It depends on currently available technologies and engineering know-how, building on decades of experience with wind turbines and gyroplane technologies," the paper concluded.
"This is all becoming real in a way that nobody would have imagined even a decade ago,'' Robert Creighton, the chief executive officer of Windlift, told me. Creighton's company has worked closely with the U.S. military to develop a flexible source of energy. "The Army and Marines are often deployed in remote locations," Creighton said. "They have to set up supply lines and protect them with convoys of guards. That adds tremendous expense to the cost of fuel, and it's a huge risk for soldiers who have to drive a fuel truck through hostile territory.'' Creighton envisages kites that supply power to anyone who today relies on a diesel engine—farmers in the developing world, for instance, who need to pump water from wells to irrigate crops. The International Energy Agency has estimated that more than 1.3 billion people lack electricity, and the vast majority of them live in remote rural areas. "Think about it,'' he said. "We come in there with a trailer and power a small engine for an hour or two, and their lives are changed completely.''
Don Montague designs kites in much the same way that Paul McCartney writes songs without the ability to read music. But intuition takes you only so far. Today, Montague functions as the chief executive officer of Makani, although the company is seeking a replacement. He negotiates with investors, lawyers, and regulators, and provides a reality check on his younger, and sometimes less worldly, colleagues. "They are brilliant,'' he told me. "But if you ask them when we'll be on the market, having passed through all the hoops we face, they often say in a couple of years. The plane may be working that soon, or sooner. But it will take years to become a commercial reality."
The physicists who started the company with Montague are gone. (Griffith left in 2009 to work on other projects. Hardham, who had been the company's widely revered C.E.O., died unexpectedly last year at his desk; he was thirty-eight.) Montague himself no longer has a significant role in the aircraft's development. "This technology is way over my head,'' he said. "Fortunately, we have Damon and his team." Damon Vander Lind, who is twenty-eight, is thin and intense, with wire-rimmed glasses and the fixed and focussed look of a sniper. He has been with Makani nearly from the beginning; Vander Lind met Griffith and Hardham in 2007, while he was an undergraduate at M.I.T., and thought that the challenge of designing a new type of wind turbine sounded interesting. "My interview with Corwin lasted about thirty-five seconds,'' he told me. "Then he just said, 'When can you start?' "
The enterprise seemed like an intellectual lark. Vander Lind had intended to spend the summer as an intern, then enter a Ph.D. program in mechanical engineering at Berkeley. That was five years ago. "When I started on the project, I honestly didn't think we would figure out a viable way to make wind turbines fly,'' he said. "But, little by little, we moved through various options, and at some point I realized the whole idea wasn't crazy at all.'' I asked how much of a contribution he thought Makani, and similar companies, could make. "I want to replace a significant portion of the American electrical grid,'' he replied, without hesitation. "There is no reason to run a natural-gas or coal plant if you can make it more cheaply without carbon emissions."
Whether such a project can succeed will depend, at least in part, on the price and availability of three particular components: computer processors, extremely strong yet lightweight composite materials, and electronic sensors. Perhaps the most important components in any airplane, missile, or satellite are the many inertial measurement units (I.M.U.s), which help airborne vehicles to navigate. An I.M.U. relies on an assemblage of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers. In the nineteen-eighties, to keep an aircraft on course, those gyroscopes had to spin at high speeds with great precision. Engineers would mount them on a series of specially made, extremely sensitive ball bearings. The parts cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Today, they are small enough to be etched into the side of a computer chip. Some I.M.U.s, which remain essential parts of a plane's avionic system, cost less than lunch at McDonald's.
"We are riding the cheap-computing wave,'' Kenny Jensen told me as we sat one afternoon in a conference room at Makani. Jensen came to the company from Berkeley, where he was pursuing a Ph.D. in physics. He is in charge of controls systems—software and sensors that tell the aircraft what to do and how to stay aloft. He, too, spent his undergraduate years at M.I.T. On most days, Jensen could be found at MITERS, the M.I.T. Electronic Research Society, which began in 1973 as a gathering place for hackers. At the time, it provided students with access to computers. Now that everyone has a laptop, MITERS remains a center for the nerd élite, a club where future engineers spend hours fabricating electronic devices ranging from miniature hexapods to Dobsonian telescopes. Jensen compares the rapidly growing drone industry to the early days of personal computers. "Before Apple, few people thought about computers, and almost nobody wanted one,'' he said. "They were expensive, and nobody knew what to use them for. Then Steve Jobs came around and told everyone they had to have a computer at home. People laughed, but look what happened. We are seeing the same phenomenon with drones and aerospace technology." Drones, which are viewed largely as a weapons-delivery system, also monitor livestock and the weather; their advocates predict that soon drones will be delivering everything from FedEx packages to Chinese food. "It's not just for NASA or Boeing anymore," Jensen said. "Everything keeps getting cheaper to buy and easier to make."
Makani had scheduled a flight test during my visit. When I got to the airfield, Wing 7 was dangling from a crane. Jensen and several other engineers were sitting in the back of a van a hundred yards away. A long table covered with computers was pushed against the wall; it looked like a Generation X version of the control-room scenes in "The Right Stuff." Energy drinks lined the tailgate of the van. "You know these tests don't always work,'' Jensen told me warily. "If we have to scratch it, that is not the biggest problem."
The technology behind airborne wind power improves nearly every week, but the industry will require major infusions of capital in order to succeed. In most years, wind projects receive federal subsidies, but funding is never guaranteed, and the price of competing sources of energy is variable. When gas is cheap, technologies like wind and solar power seem less attractive; in recent years, the extraction process known as fracking has contributed to a drop in the price of natural gas. When oil prices reach a hundred and forty dollars a barrel, as they did in 2008, the savings from wind are obvious, but at the moment the price of oil is closer to ninety-five. Subsidies lower the cost of wind energy by 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour. (On average, U.S. households consume about thirty kilowatts' worth of electricity per hour on any given day.) Those pennies often determine the difference between profit and loss—and in years without subsidies, turbine shipments drop sharply. "Everyone has become so risk-averse,'' NASA's Mark Moore told me. "And it is killing us in terms of developing radical new technologies. Right now we are in a place where the technology is fantastic but where there is no political solution. Congress will do nothing, and it becomes the responsibility of some very brave technologists."
Last week, Makani Power found a solution to its financial problems: Google X has agreed to acquire the company for an undisclosed amount of money. The experimental division of Google was created specifically to invest in futuristic long shots like Google Glass, its augmented-reality glasses, and driverless cars. "This technology really has the potential to deliver clean energy at a much lower cost,'' Sergey Brin, who directs Google X, told me. He said that it would cost at least "tens of millions of dollars" for Makani to reach a point where it could produce turbines for sale; creating large wind farms could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. "We don't invest in sure things, but we don't invest in crazy ideas, either," Brin said. "This is a bet. But we think it's a very good bet."
The technology has matured, but it clearly needs further development. As I watched, Jensen fiddled with various knobs, switches, and software programs. "The sensor is not transmitting the code properly,'' he said with a shrug. He leapt off the gate of the van and explained that there were a few glitches that needed to be addressed. "It's not going to happen today,'' he said. "Soon, but not today." ♦


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2/4/2017 2 Comments
I'm Done Playing it Safe.
It was the first day of March, and my friend Emmie & I had decided to spend our evening in the Amsterdam RAI Arena, celebrating the Hillsong Netherlands Church's 5th anniversary with the rest of the congregation.
Pastor Brian Houston, the founder of Hillsong Church was coming to the Netherlands especially for this service. I'd heard a couple of his sermons on TV before, but this would be the first time I would be hearing him speak in person.
I was really looking forward to it! 😃
We arrived at the Rai just in time for worship, and afterwards a few people gave an account of the church's growth over the last five years. Shortly after, the lead pastor in the Hillsong Netherlands Church Pastor Richard van der Kolk went to the pulpit and introduced Pastor Houston.
It was nice to finally see him here in the Netherlands. 😊 He started by expressing his regret that he hadn't been here before, and then he made us laugh with a few funny stories. Shortly afterwards he began preaching.
It felt good to be in the midst of other believers celebrating something special together. Honestly speaking, I hadn't thought about much else apart from that - I was just happy to be there! 😊
It was then that Pastor Houston announced his sermon title, "Look it Straight In the Eye & Step Into it". He talked about how it was time for us to get out of our comfort zones, and step into a place of faith. He went even further by saying that we should be looking around us for whatever is ripe for God's work, and ready for us to believe it possible of becoming more than it currently is.
I suddenly felt like he was speaking specifically to me!
I've often caught myself playing it safe in certain areas of my life. And it was only recently that I realized why - I sometimes feel guilty for how my life is turning out. It seems unfair that I sometimes have it easier than others do - or at least it looks that way to me and sounds that way, too.
What's more, it's also occurred to me that I had a different picture of where I thought the people I grew up with would be now. I always had the naive assumption that we'd all achieve the things we'd dreamt of achieving when we were younger, and it hits me quite hard when I see people in very different places from where I thought they'd be now - both physically and mentally. I never thought that the way other people's lives turned out would affect me so much. Neither did I think that it would hinder me from living out my own life to its full potential...
What I liked most about Pastor Houston's sermon, however, was that it redirected my focus to what's really important: doing what I am supposed to be doing and doing it to my full potential. With time I've learnt that what I am supposed to be doing is all that I can do no matter how unfair the opportunities that come my way may look from the outside.
I'd like to attribute where I am in life right now to something I may have done in the past, (and don't get me wrong - there are many decisions I made in the past that I'm now really happy that I made), but I know that it has more to do with God than me. I'm humbled and grateful that He chose me to live the life that I'm living. And I know that the best way I can show Him how grateful I am is to embrace it and live it to the fullest.💃
It really is time for me to "Look It Straight in the Eye & Step into It". And if there's someone out there like me who hasn't been doing that, I'd urge you to do the same. 😉😊
11/4/2017 21:18:25
Really cool message. I think it is a great challenge to embrace God's favor and grace though for sure we know we don't deserve it. HE gives us because he loves us and we receive it in Christ Jesus. Thanks for sharing that! Am glad for you and the favor God is showing you!
12/4/2017 18:52:30
It really is. The concept of unconditional love is hard to grasp, it's a learning process for everyone.
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Morning Scoop
Tragedy on El Capitan. Farewell, Hef. Attention, Walmart voyeur?
It's Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. Welcome to your Morning Scoop of fresh headlines and general good stuff. Sign up to get the Scoop in your email inbox.
Top Scoops
• Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution and built a multimedia empire symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at 91.
• With Fresno Unified school teachers threatening to strike, the district is prepared to give substitutes about 300 percent more than their usual daily pay to fill in. The union leader said that symbolizes district leaders' disinterest in settling on a contract.
• National Park Service authorities are investigating a rockfall on Yosemite's El Capitan that took one life and injured another person.
• Federal cargo restrictions that were slowing to flow of aid to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico were waived this morning by the Trump administration.
• Newly released video shows the fatal shooting of a vehicle passenger by a California Highway Patrol officer. Authorities say the passenger, a Sacramento man, was holding a knife. The shooting is the subject of a wrongful death lawsuit.
• The teenager who gained national notoriety for live-streaming a crash that killed her sister will stand trial in Merced County on charges of manslaughter and drunken driving.
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• "Love outlives life," a tattoo on her arm reads. She lives every day with advanced breast cancer. And until the disease claims her, she and her 6-year-old boy will make those words real.
Good Stuff to Know
• The latest statewide benchmark scores for public schools are out. See how your student's district did.
• The next rain season begins Oct. 1. Will it be anything like the deluge we experienced a year ago? Forecasters weigh in.
• The man who became an instant hero by thwarting a robbery attempt at a Fresno Starbucks was honored by police. "He is someone I deeply admire," Chief Jerry Dyer said.
• The "X" factor looms large in Saturday's Fresno State-Nevada football game, beat writer Robert Kuwada says. (Hint: That's a receiver position on the Bulldogs' offense).
• The letter "P" is prominent in today's lineup of entertainment possibilities. (Hint: Poundstone. For starters.)
• Thinking of hooking up? You'd better practice safe sex because a bunch of people aren't, especially in Fresno County.
Outrè Scoops
• Attention, Walmart shopper: A woman says she looked down and caught a manager of a Georgia store shooting a video up her dress.
Jody Murray: 559-441-6367, @jmurray59


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ETFs To Watch July 12, 2011 (DIG, TLT, EFU, SLV)
Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Tuesday July 12, 2011.
Gold was one of the few things working on Monday, so trade the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) and look for a pop in the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV).
This could be a week for the safety of dividends making the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSE: VIG) and the SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (NYSE: SDY) worth a look.
Play a rebound in oil stocks with the ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas (NYSE: DIG).
Emerging markets plays of the day: ProShares UltraShort MSCI EAFE (NYSE: EFU), Market Vectors Russia ETF (NYSE: RSX) and the ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 25 (NYSE: FXP).
Forex play of the day: PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP).
Bond play of the day: iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSE: TLT).
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This PGI Certified, premium quality Balsamic Vinegar of Modena is produced by artisans who are members of the Consorzio Aceto Balsamico di Modena, an agency which monitors the production of Balsamic Vinegar of Modena. It has the classic fruit and barrel aged, sweet-tart characteristics that make it extremely versatile on salads and in a wide variety of dishes. Formerly Aceto Balsamico di Modena 12-year Aged Balsamic Vinegar.The PGI certification is your guarantee that this is a true Balsamic Vinegar of Modena. The 3 Leaf Quality rating was awarded to it by the independent CSQA, an organization that scores Balsamic Vinegar based on 10 different analytical and organoleptic quality levels.
Add a tablespoon of your favorite pureed fruit (Kiwi, Berry, Peach, Apple, Pear etc.) to 2 or 3 tablespoons of vinegar, and 1/3 cup of your favorite EVOO to create your own unique Balsamic Vinaigrette. Olive Tap 3 Leaf Quality Balsamic Vinegar is exquisite on Caprese Salad, and will brighten up and add depth of flavor to almost any dish. Try a few drops in soups and on seafood.
Perfect Pairings:
Pairs with any 100% EVOO or Flavor Infused Olive Oil
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Sweetness Scale: 2
Use by Date: 3-5 Years from Purchase Date
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Source: Modena, Italy
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Balsamic I've ever tasted
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This vinegar is the best ! I use it in my salad dressing and my tomato, basil and mozzarella salad. Just the thought of my own tomatoes with this balsamic gets my mouth watering !
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Such a amazing flavor to this vinegar, I have been searching for one for my salads and this is it! Pairs amazing with the Olive Oil: Tuscan Herb.
Aceto Balsamico di Modena makes for the Best Fruit Salads!
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Hi all! Lately I've had a bundle of diastasis recti questions coming my way from new and veteran mama friends, and also from mama FFF readers. Many of those conversations have ended with this statement, "Well if you don't recommend splinting what do you recommend?" Which would lead into a conversation about alignment and breath, and well, a whole lot of other stuff. It's kind of a long conversation, so I was hoping to find someone whose postpartum conversation was right on the money. As the fates would have it, this coincided with discovering Wendy Powell and her Mutu System, and she was gracious enough to donate a guest post to the blog here. So here is what you've been craving straight from the expert's mouth! Thanks for all your great questions and keep them coming. You all know who you are- and this post is dedicated to you!
Enter Wendy:
Many mums have had a light-bulb moment when they realize that postpartum recovery hasn't got an awful lot to do with the race to fit into skinny jeans. It has a lot more to do with being whole again:
- Walking without pain
- Exercising without leaking
- Lifting your child without hurting
- Being able to keep your innards IN
MuTu System programs have been created to offer a body and mind re-boot. I've learned that this is desperately needed, from my own personal and professional experience, and from conversations with hundreds of mums.
What Matters to Mums?
That light-bulb moment I mentioned? It usually hits us around about the time we put our back out lifting our child, or we wet ourselves a bit when we sneeze, or we try to do abdominal crunches and notice our tummy doming (yes, that'll be your vital organs poking through your weak abdominal wall).
Our bodies tell us in no uncertain terms that our jellified tummy is the least of our worries. Right about then, we stop Googling 'baby bulge diets' and start searching for 'how to fix a pelvic floor'.
And that's a really good change in priorities!
So how can we get our body back to its best, inside and out?
On the surface, there are two problems to overcome: pelvic floor weakness and diastasis recti (abdominal separation).
Linked to this unstable core, mums may be suffering from back pain or pelvic floor dysfunction (which could mean urine leakage, faecal incontinence, pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse and hernia). And they may be stuck with 'mummy tummy', unable to firm up and strengthen their mid-section.
While initially caused by making room for and supporting a growing baby in the uterus, these issues are exacerbated after childbirth by excessive intra-abdominal pressure. The healing process can't start until the pressure lowers in the abdominal cavity – and to do that, we need to check our alignment.
Misalignment is a brick wall in the face of post-natal wellness – it's what prevents intra-abdominal pressure from returning to normal after giving birth.
If your body was not aligned properly before having babies, it sure as hell isn't afterwards. Any glitches in our alignment and musculature that have crept up on us over the years are aggravated by that monumentally physically demanding process.
To reduce pressure, many of us need to start from square one: learning how to walk and breathe right. That is the first step to full post-partum recovery.
New Foundations
Breathing right, standing right, walking right, learning how to connect our minds to the muscles of our core and pelvic floor, so that we use them with every move we make: none of this can be skipped.
Focused core exercises have their place – and intensive workouts too when your body is ready – but it's the day to day stuff that is crucial.
Alignment, breathing, moving a lot and in the right way: That's your pelvic floor pension plan right there.
Getting Bodies to 'Just Do It'
There is a lot of gadgetry in this industry – pelvic floor toning devices and belly binding splints remain popular 'solutions' to diastasis recti and pelvic floor dysfunction.
I'm not here to pour water on other techniques, I can only tell you what I believe – which is that bodies are capable of being strong, mobile and fit for life. They can do it on their own, with a little bit of commitment on our part.
The mental connection is important. Lots of mums understandably 'switch off' from 'down below' after giving birth: It doesn't feel right and (if they dare to look) it sure as hell doesn't look right. It's a lost cause.
The brain needs to talk to the muscles to activate them. It needs to open up the dialogue again. Simply sucking in your stomach, or using a splint, is not the same as activating your core. It does nothing to strengthen or tighten the muscles to help them work properly on their own.
In fact, sucking in, or binding, displaces mass upwards and downwards like a tube of toothpaste squeezed in the middle, placing more pressure on the diaphragm and pelvic floor – doing the opposite of what we want to achieve.
Fighting Fit
Weirdly, having babies is a chance to get fully fit: our post-natal' re-boot' is often the thing that helps us re-focus our energies on wellness. Not just looking good, but feeling energetic and having a body that works.
So many mums tell me that their post-natal fight back was the start of a better lifestyle for them. They come to know and love and respect their bodies in a way they never did before. The skinny jeans are just a bonus.
About the Author
Mom of 2 Wendy Powell is founder of the internationally recognized and sought after MuTu® System program. She has over 12 years experience, proven record and study in the pre and postpartum fitness industry.
MuTu System includes online coaching, DVD's, online support and community, fully endorsed by Specialist Women's Health Physiotherapists and Industry Experts worldwide. It is fresh, personal, progressive and motivational, and it gives Moms the answers, guidance and support they need to restore body confidence inside and out. Wendy has an established international social media following and industry reputation.
MuTu System covers fitness, fat loss, nutrition, hormone balancing and motivational strategies for busy Mums.
Wendy's specialist area of expertise is pelvic and abdominal reconnection and restoration after childbirth: functional core strength, diastasis recti, pelvic floor and related alignment issues.
Wendy writes for the Huffington Post and has appeared in numerous magazine features, including Red magazine, Health and Fitness and Zest. Health and Fitness magazine UK also commissioned Wendy to write their Get Your Body Back book, published September 2013.
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This new app is kind of like Uber or Lyft, but for the modeling industry. Instead of drivers, you have models — who can book their own gigs on the go. It's completely changing the way modeling industry has worked for the last several decades.
Ubooker is the brainchild of models Claudia Wagner and Diana Gaertner, who are now co-founders of the website and app with two more co-founders, Nicola Scagnolari and Andrea Losso.
Wagner and Gaertner have been working as models for more than 20 years. Having seen all the ups and downs of the modeling industry, they decided it was time things changed, ultimately making it their goal to give back to the younger generation.
"I would like for the models to be in control of their own careers," Wagner said. "There were some agencies that, you know, insist on having their girls on a contract, not providing any work."
It was ultimately the unfairness of working with agencies that drove Wagner and Gaertner to start their own form of agency, in order to benefit the models better.
Modeling agencies in the U.S. typically have 20-30 percent commission rate and most models can only work exclusively with one agency. More often than not, the gigs provided by one agency doesn't earn enough for a model, which forces a lot of models to get second jobs that don't have anything to do with fashion or modeling.
So instead, Ubooker is contract-free and takes 10 percent from the model while giving him or her freedom to book his or her own gigs. The company also takes 10 percent from the client as well. Ubooker also pays the models within 96 hours, again challenging the industry standard of paying models within a couple of months.
"We didn't really invent anything here," Wagner said. "This is just the concept of cutting out the middle man – taking away the power from big companies and giving it to the individuals. This is why they compare us to Uber or Airbnb."
So far, Ubooker has 140 models approved for the site and more than 850 on the waiting list.
Each time a new model applies, one of the founders will meet with him or her in person before the final approval. The app is currently available in the U.S. and Europe.
"If you want to disrupt an industry, there will always be pushback because, you know, we're cutting out the middleman here," Wagner said. The founders expected some pushback from the modeling industry when they launched earlier in 2017.
"It's an industry that's been there for 75 years," said Nicola Scagnolari, co-founder. "We are trying to basically make it more efficient and more modern, streamline the process, and make sure that the clients are saving their money, the models make more money in the process while they do the job."
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On every side mysterious things abound,
In earth and sky and ocean's deep domain,
Which man's poor reason utterly confound,
Beyond his power to fathom or explain.
His mind is dark. In what way shall he see?
Oh, God! Form thou thine image in my heart,
Implant thy likeness in my spiritual part,
And help me to behold all things in thee.
Thou art the source of light. That light, when through
My darkened mind its radiance is streaming,
In all its shadowy, secret places beaming,
At once dispels the dimness of my view.
In thy light seeing light, my raptured eye
Doth every where behold love and infinity.
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Xenomorphs take over the show this week as DigiPen prof Sonia Michaels helps us figure out the point of the Xbox One X: Project Scorpio Edition, assess Elon Musk and Co.'s letter to the UN requesting a ban of killer robots, and discuss why video game … [Read more...]
Episode 133: Fetal Bag
DigiPen's own Sonia Michaels joins us this week to assess Brash Games' sketchy disappearance and writer "compensation," a rather pregnant article on whether or not games need stories, and Elon Musk's latest brain augmentation venture. Then enter the … [Read more...]
Episode 125: GrayHairea
The crew is waxing poetic on the end of Steam Greenlight, the hullabaloo around Pewdiepie, and the justification of Season Passes. We hit the Lightning Round in stride to applaud the pending return of Jay and Silent Bob and accepting our cyborg … [Read more...]
Episode 115: Get Me A Switch
It's a Core Panel episode this week! We get comfy and go over the big Nintendo Switch news, Rockstar's unconventional marketing habits (and of course RDR2!) , as well as the lasting power of the legendary mouse and keyboard combo! For the Lightning … [Read more...]
Episode 114: Pootatoes
We've got a game development focused episode this week. We discuss how player imagination is just important to the game as intentionally designed narrative and mechanics, the connections between Westworld and video games, and what game devs actually … [Read more...]
Episode 113: Tingles
We're joined this week by Nichole (aka SpringbokASMR) to talk about our favorite games and what makes them replayable (or not), whether it's possible to quantify the traits that make a bad game, and Elon Musk's somewhat reasonable plan to take us all … [Read more...]
Episode 101: Monster Foreplay
Boss Key head honcho, Cliff Bleszinski, joins us for Episode 101! We pour a few drinks and we wax poetic about Elite:Dangerous' killer AI, how the latest Game of Thrones episode relates to game development and reminisce about the days when people … [Read more...]
Episode 100: Developsters
100th Episode! Holy smokes!!! We get the whole gang together as well as a bevy of some of our most faithful guests and friends to examine Elon Musk's claims that we all live in a giant video game simulation, Google's AI killswitch, and proper game … [Read more...]
Episode 90: Gross Blanket
The notorious James Id returns for our 90th episode. He gives us a brief glimpse at his new project with Ed McMillen, the recently announced The Legend of Bum-bo! From there, we talk about the TAY disaster on Twitter, Ryan Green's problem with Let's … [Read more...]


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Simple Tower Defense 3
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Date added: 2014-11-09
Description: If you love enjoying tower defense games, Simple Tower Defense 3 will satisfy you at the moment. Don't waste time anymore! Let's prove your excellent skill with this cool game! First of all, players should pick up one among the 3 levels as Easy, Medium, and Hard. It's the great time to challenge yourself, guys. Select one and begin to perform the main task. The players need to prevent a troop of aggressive cars from going to the main base. Look at available towers (at the right side of the screen). Purchase some and place them along the road to stop the cars. Remember that each tower has a different price and function, so think carefully before getting one. Whenever the game is advanced, don't forget to upgrade the current towers or buy more advanced ones or unlock new ones. Do your best to snatch the final truthful success! Good luck!
Instructions: Use the mouse only.
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Excellent film showing a fold up caravan - it can be put up in 3 minutes.
Short Summary
We are shown the newest in "covered wagons" for camping.
A woman drives an open topped car with a girlfriend sitting beside her. They are towing a fold up caravan behind the car. They are driving along grass. "Its lightweight construction permits it to be pulled by a 7 h.p. car with practically no effect on the car's performance." Another shot of the girls driving along. "There's even a natty little brake that comes into action when the car stops - " C/U of the brake which is on the rod which holds the caravan to the car. "When you've found the right spot, three minutes sees your trailer-caravan ready for occupation." The girls jump out of the car, throw off their coats and pull open the top of the covered wagon. We see the various processes involved in making this expanding wagon habitable (it does look very easy).
"Everything for your use, except a swimming bath -" C/U of the girls inside the wagon. They open out doors of a cupboard which has plates and a teapot inside. Cooking utensils including a camping stove with a kettle on top are also shown. M/S of the girls getting things out of a drawer and setting up a table inside the wagon for afternoon tea. "Everything can be done inside the caravan - even the washing-up." The girls do just that. "Where my caravan is rested, very much up-to-date - " The girls look out of the back of the caravan and wave at the camera. Then they pull down the flap of the caravan so that we can't see them any more. M/S of one of the girls in bed, she pulls the covers over herself. (The flaps are now open to the elements again and it is daytime!) "The caravan can be totally enclosed when desired." Side view of the caravan. "A few minutes only is necessary to close the trailer..." The girls fold the whole thing down again. They turn and smile at the camera. "...and then to pastures new." They drive off down a country lane.
Was item in Eve's Film Review 430.
Safety print exists.
- Film ID:
- 1164.28
- Media URN:
- 40249
- Group:
- Eve pictorials
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 29/08/1929
- Sound:
- Mute
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:02:16:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:46:00:00 / 01:48:16:00
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Smart Energy
Global energy needs are set to increase 40% by 2030, bringing pressure on prices, competition for resources, difficulties to provide access to societies' poorest citizens, climate change, impact on economic growth. And cities are where energy flows – oil and gas and electricity feed city life. Cities need to make their energy smarter: more efficient, reliable and green.
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Cities looking to achieve Smart City initiatives for reduced energy consumption, lower energy-related emissions, and enhanced quality of service and customer satisfaction will find that Schneider Electric's solutions provide the integration that is critical to enhanced network operations from an advanced digital information network that accurately collects data from all monitoring and control points in the electric system, to the command and control infrastructure that enables and executes better, Smart Grid performance.


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Collected Retreat is one of my favorite events of the year. I'm lucky enough to have hosts Mallory + Justin as some of my best friends, and they are absolute visionaries when it comes to all things creative, collaborative and fun.
Collected is a whole bunch of awesome creatives and wedding vendors coming together to imagine, design and network. It's crazy inspiring to work alongside people who are SO good at what they do and shoot just for the fun of it.
This year, for the first time, Collected was hosted at The Piggery at Anna Dean Farm and it provided the perfect backdrop for this colorful and textured shoot.
(Shot on Portra 160 | Developed/Scanned by Richard Photo Lab)
Collected 2016 hosted by Mallory + Justin
Venue: The Piggery at Anna Dean Farm
Furniture & Styling: Borrow Rentals
Florals: Ashley's Floral
Cake: Hummingbird Bake Shop
Stationery: Baci Designer
Wooden Signs: With Love + Whimsy
Catering: Taproot Catering
Hair & Makeup: Beauty Therapy
Gowns & Accessories: Moon and Back Bridal
Backdrop: ELBOWGREASE design
Mobile Bar: Happy Camper Bar Car
Band: The Scenic Route
Bride & Groom #1: Sydney Bolek & Ross Newbauer
Bride #2: Sophia Termine
Groom #2: Brandon Marlowe


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Current Position
Faculty, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), Chile;
Director, Sustainability Research Centre and Strategic Resource Management; (CiSGER);
Principal Investigator, iSustainabilityLab,
Academic Director, Master's program in Sustainability Management, School of Engineering, UDD.
Faculty, Doctorate in Social Complexity Sciences, School of Government, UDD.
Head, Waste to Energy Research and Technology - Chile, WTERT-Chile.
Research Associate, Earth Engineering Center at The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Research Associate, FONDAP Centro de Recursos Hídricos para la Agricultura y Minería
Undergraduate Courses:
Postgraduate Courses at Master's program in Sustainability Management
Postgraduate Courses at Master's program in Sustainable Cities
Postgraduate Courses at Doctorate's program in Social Complexity Sciences
Past Positions
Scholar in Residence 2012, Department of Modern Language and Natural Applied Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, WI, US August-November, 2012. As a Scholar in Residence at UW-Green Bay, I will teach,
Assistant Professor (2010-2012), Faculty of Ecology and Natural Resources, Research Fellow, Center for Sustainability, Faculty of Ecology and Natural Resources and Research Associate, Department of Engineering Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Chile. Duties: Representative of Clean Production Agreement, "Protocol for Sustainable Campuses Consortium" among Universities and Government.
Analyst, Quality Assurance Department (2006-2009), Vice-rectory for Academic Affairs, UNAB, Chile.
(2008). School of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, (UAI), Santiago, Chile. Courses: "Science and Technology: History and Environmental Sciences" and "Decontamination Processes".
(2003 – 2006) Department of Biological Sciences, UNAB, Chile. Courses: "Biostatistics" and "Principles of Management".
(2007). School of Engineering, PUC, Course: "Design Systems of Bioremediation of Soils".
(2000 – 2006) Academic Program for Talented Children (PENTA) PUC and Andes Foundation, Chile. Courses: "Pollution and Environment" and "Classic Genetic".
Teaching Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate Research Assistant
My research explores the governance of complex and evolving human-ecosystem systems to deliver simple and practical solutions to current sustainability problems like water scarcity and food, waste management, energy and environmental pollution. My main goal is to develop frameworks of analysis for understanding the causes and effects of current events to contribute to national sustainable development through better understanding and integration of local systems - characterized by its natural resources, climate, infrastructure needs engineering, social and political - for the service of decision making techniques to the public policy level, linking science, technology, society and education. Though the use of qualitative and quantitative methods are needed, I attempt to understand if and how a variety of governing programs (such as regulations and planning processes) plan for or adapt to changing social and ecological circumstances. My current work examines the governance of environmental challenges associated with changes in the use and management of ecosystem services.
Awarded Research Grants
Consulting for Government
Consulting for Private Companies