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They don't call it the "Sunshine State" for nothing.
About two-thirds of Florida's 365 days are sunny and Florida has - not surprisingly - higher levels of insolation, or incoming solar radiation, than states with a more northern alignment.
However, Florida routinely fails to make the top 10 list of states with solar power capacity. Residential and commercial structures in Florida added a combined 24.2 solar megawatts last year, ranking 17th nationwide, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.
For solar power on a national level, 2012 was a banner year. A record-setting 16 million individual solar panels were installed in the U.S. last year, representing a 3.3.gigawatt capacity, or the equivalent of three large nuclear or coal power plants.
The numbers - up 76 percent over 2011 - make solar the fastest-growing domestic energy source.
SunWorks Solar - at 40 years, one of the oldest renewable energy companies in Jacksonville - saw a 65 percent increase in sales over the last half of 2012, according to operations manager Jason Smith.
Researchers are forecasting that the trend will continue through 2013 with solar installations this year predicted to increase about 30 percent over 2012. The Solar Energy Industries Association reports that photovoltaic capacity across the nation has tripled in the last three years. It's significant for an energy option that had been used since the WWII era to heat homes and employed by NASA since the 1960s.
From 2006 to 2010, the state of Florida offered a $4 per watt rebate - up to $20,000 - for homeowners installing solar technology. That state incentive has since disappeared.
Offsetting the lost state rebate incentive are rapidly declining prices. Since 2008, the price of solar panels in the U.S. has dropped by 80 percent.
The nationwide average price of residential panels lingered around $5 per watt in the latter part of 2012.
Smith said that the Jacksonville numbers are lower than the national average, estimating $3.50 to $4 per watt, not including federal tax credit and rebate. He said that he's seen prices cut in half from eight years ago.
According to data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, permits and regulatory fees can comprise 25 to 30 percent of the total cost of solar installation. Obtaining a 30-percent federal rebate for a solar power system is possible, offsetting the fees.
"The price has come down so low that you can actually purchase the system with a loan and your savings on electric bills will actually be greater than the payment of the loan," said Smith, who maintains that an eight-year payback on a rooftop system is possible.
A watt of power from a photovoltaic cell converting sunlight into electricity would have run about $300 in 1956, making it unattainable for practically everyone but the elite, according to sustainable energy nonprofit Southface.
An Apollo Roofing System by CertainTeed made the This Old House Top 100 list of Best New Home Products last year. The panels, which retail around $100, can generate up to 52 watts per hour, weathering hail and 110-mph wind speeds.
JEA currently views a solar panel system as a last resort for homeowners, noting that it's costly, and urges customers to make efficiency upgrades first such as sealing duct leaks, insulating attics and servicing HVAC systems. They maintain that those improvements most often have a bigger impact on utility bills.
"If homeowners are doing it for other reasons such as ideology or off-grid battery backup systems, then we can understand those motivations," JEA spokesperson Gerri Boyce said. "You must consider how long you will stay in the same house. It doesn't make sense for most residential customers who are looking to get a substantial return on their investment."
Under JEA's customer renewable generation program, JEA customers with renewable energy sources are charged monthly for metered kWh usage, then credited for the metered kWh sent to JEA each month. Credit balances are accrued month to month until a limited, end of the year payout.
"The amount generated has a number of factors that affect the outcome, including weather, positioning of the panels, panels efficiency, size of residence, etc.," Boyce said of the net metering programs.
JEA does offer an $800-per-installation incentive to residents who install a solar water heater from a list of pre-qualified solar contractors.
Smith added that a family of four can save about 30 percent of their utility costs by installing a solar water heater, where the payback is more immediate than from a solar roof system.
The Jacksonville utility pledged in 1999 to generate at least 7.5 percent of its electric capacity from green sources by 2015 with the signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sierra Club and the American Lung Association of Florida.
Currently, it's unclear whether that deadline will be met.
"Due to regulatory uncertainty associated with renewables, as well as the premium cost for renewable energy in combination with decreased energy demand, the path toward 7.5 percent by 2015 has been lengthened and may not be achieved by 2015," Boyce stated. "As with any decision, cost to customer and assurance to comply with regulatory mandates are essential."
Florida Power and Light, whose service includes St. Augustine and Lake City, offers residential customers up to a $20,000 rebate for installing a photovoltaic system and connecting it the utility company's grid. The rebates are limited and applications for a 2014 waiting list will become available in October.
For those considering solar energy in their homes, a solar system won't cause a property to get reassessed, but it's recommended that the panels and inverter get added to a homeowner insurance policy.
The maintenance for solar panels is generally simple, with owners hosing the panels down a few times per year to get rid of debris.
"If you live closer to the beach, you might want to do it more often," Smith advised.
A solar panel will last 30 years or more and lose around 0.5 percent conversion efficiency annually. A system's inverter - which translates the direct current from the solar panels into the alternating current for household use - will last around a decade before it needs maintenance or replacement.
SunWorks offers warranties for panels for 25-30 years at 90 percent of their output. Solar hot water systems are generally offered with a 10-year warranty.
Smith said that SunWorks stocks panels that can withstand higher than average wind loads, accounting for Florida's tropical storm encounters.
"There are so many different choices out there. We select the ones that are best for the area. We find that a little more investment goes a long way," he said.
For a 2,000-square-foot house, Smith recommends a 5,000- to 7,000-watt solar panel system. For reference, research from the Department of Energy shows that the average home in the U.S. uses about 30 kWh per day.
According to the SunWorks Solar webpage, an hour of sunshine supplies the planet with more energy than humans use in one year worldwide. Conversely, 20 sunny days contain enough power to represent all the world's stores of coal, oil and natural gas.
"Renewable energy systems are a wise investment at this point," said Smith. "What you're basically doing is hedging yourself against future inflation of energy costs and market price volatility. You are basically locking in your kilowatt usage cost. You can guarantee that JEA is going to increase rates."
For more information on tax incentives for solar energy, visit database website DSIRE Solar, sponsored by the US Department of Energy, at www.dsireusa.org/solar/ and click on Florida on the map image.
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Nov. 1
— Mitchell Lucker, 28, frontman for the death-metal band Suicide Silence, in Huntington Beach, California of injuries in a motorcycle crash.
Nov. 4
— Mohammed Rafeh, 30, a prominent Syrian-born Palestinian actor, who was believed to be a supporter of President Bashar Assad's regime, in Damascus. He was kidnapped and then killed by anti-government gunmen for apparently giving information to the government about rebels and anti-government protesters.
Nov 5
— Leandro Favio, 74, movie director, actor and singer, one of Argentina's most important cultural figures, in Buenos Aires from a chronic illness.
— Elliott Carter, 103, a classical composer whose challenging, rhythmically complex works earned him widespread admiration and two Pulitzer Prizes, in New York. No cause of death was given.
Nov. 6
— Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, 98, who weathered a revolt over his communist-era ties to lead the Balkan country's Orthodox Christians for more than 40 years, in Sofia of heart failure.
Nov. 9
— Valerie Eliot, 86, widow of T.S. Eliot and zealous guardian of the poet's literary legacy for almost half a century, in London after a short illness.
— Major Harris, 65, a former member of the "Philadelphia sound" soul group the Delfonics and singer of the 1975 hit "Love Won't Let Me Wait," in Richmond, Virginia, from congestive heart and lung failure.
— Bill Tarmey, 71 an actor who for 30 years played loveable rogue Jack Duckworth on the British soap opera "Coronation Street," on the Spanish island of Tenerife. He had been in poor health for many years with heart problems and other ailments.
Nov. 11
— Sir Rex Hunt, 86, who was governor of the Falkland Islands at the time of the Argentine invasion in 1982, in Britain. No cause of death was given.
Nov. 13
— Jack Gilbert, 87, a prize-winning American poet known for his clear and subtle verse, in Berkeley, California. He had Alzheimner's disease.
— Bryce Bayer, 83, a retired Kodak scientist and the inventor of a widely used colour filter array that bears his name, in Brunswick, Maine. The cause of death was not released.
Nov. 14
— David Oliver Relin, 49, the co-author of the bestselling book "Three Cups of Tea" about building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan that came under scrutiny after allegations it contained numerous fabrications, in Corbett, Oregon. He committed suicide.
Nov. 17
— Bal Thackeray, 86, a Hindu extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers in India, in Mumbai after a cardio-respiratory arrest.
Nov. 21
— Art Ginsburg, 81, the delightfully dorky American television chef known as Mr. Food, in Weston, Florida He had pancreatic cancer.
Nov. 22
— Bryce Courtenoy, 79, the bestselling Australian author whose first and final books drew on his tough early-life experiences in Africa, in Canberra of stomach cancer.
Nov. 23
— Larry Hagman, 81, an American actor who masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron J.R. Ewing on television's long-running and hugely successful nighttime soap opera, "Dallas," in Dallas of complications from cancer.
Nov. 25
— Zenaida Silva, 80, a veteran Filipino journalist who covered the 1986 "people power" revolt that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos and other turbulent political events in the Philippines, in Manila after a six-month battle with cancer.
Nov. 26
— Joseph E. Murray, 93, a physician who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, in Boston after suffering a stroke.
Nov. 27
— Erik Israelewicz, 58, the top editor at France's leading daily newspaper Le Monde who had held key jobs at some of his country's leading business newspapers, in Paris after a heart attack.
Nov 28
— Jakes Gerwel, 66 , who advocated for the end of apartheid in South Africa and became a longtime friend and trusted aide to former President Nelson Mandela, in Cape Town after imdergpomg heart surgery.
— Zig Ziglar, 86, a motivational speaker who wrote more than 30 books and focused on positivity and leading a balanced life, in Plano, Texas. He had pneumonia.
Nov. 30
— Inder Kumar Gujral, 92, a former Indian prime minister who gave a new impetus to improving his country's relations with its neighbours during a term in office that lasted less than a year, near New Delhi after he was admitted to a hospital with a lung infection.

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Friday, September 06, 2013
Unicycle Madness!
Sounds crazy? H'mm. Then I guess you don't have a unicycle. QU-AX has video from the Waldmeisterschaft 2012, and no few of the riders are barely grade-school age (I suspect in riding a unicycle, it helps if you tend to bounce more than splat when you fall). It looks kinda fun.
ETA: They're playing unicycle football here in the States -- well, LA -- now!
(I was at QU-AX's site grabbing an image for comparison in a post at Retrotechnologist).
5 comments:
- greg said...
Yesterday I was watching ESPN, and they showed a clip from a unicycle football league. Seemed to me that there might be a lot easier ways to end up with a broken arm.
- September 6, 2013 at 11:08 PM
- Roberta X said...
But are there more fun ways to get a broken arm?
Heck, if a broken arm was all you wanted, I know people who will do that for free, or at least for a nominal honorarium.
- September 7, 2013 at 8:30 AM
Why does it look like everybody is hurrying to find a place to pee?
- September 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM
- Roberta X said...
Because balancing atop a single wheel is a lot like balancing atop a full bladder? ...And either way, there's a lot to lose if you slip.
- September 7, 2013 at 10:37 AM
I taught myself to ride a unicycle in my late 40s. I was pleasantly surprised to find that although I came off the thing a gazillion times, actually falling was rare. Most of the time you land on your feet while the uni crashes to the ground behind you.
Of course, that was on relatively smooth surfaces. Off-road uni has a lot more potential for carnage.
Look up "Kris Holm" for more offroad uni expertise/insanity.
- September 9, 2013 at 12:00 PM


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Nearly everything about Chester Watson seems prodigious. A gifted rapper and producer, he's made an enviable name for himself on the strength of just two mixtapes over two years—and he's only 16 years old. His age has earned him comparisons to Earl Sweatshirt, who dropped his debut mixtape, Earl, at the same age; the two share a similarly dry, somnambulant flow, but the comparisons stop there. "Yetti", a highlight from Watson's latest, Tin Wooki, makes it clear that his interests are cerebral—hich is to say that he's into the philosophical side of getting, as the refrain here puts it, "High as fuck." His talent suggests he's older than his years, as he spits, "The new kid, but he's archaic with usage/ Scarface of the future, but I be chillin' with Shakespeare at Hooters" over a beat that suggests Hotline Miami meets Flying Lotus meets "Twin Peaks". Who's that cool at sixteen?


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So I'm new to the dating scene in San Diego, having only moved back last month. Of course I want to stay true to who I am, but I'm starting to realize that dating in my thirties in SoCal is a whole new ballgame. I mean, I didn't think so until last night…
I walked into a bar where my friend had organized a happy hour. I hadn't seen her in many years and the first thing she said to me was that her cheeks had been "overfilled" that day [with some kind of injection]. I'm not judging her comment at all, but it was just kind of a culture shock for me. Are we having work done already? I still feel too young!
Finally, after several other encounters, I ran into a girl with whom I'd gone to high school. She was super popular in school and since then, has maintained her thin, blonde, beautiful look. Now she has a really great career, is still very cool, expressive, and has had no work done. Anyway, she actually drank, wasn't afraid to eat, told hilarious stories, and introduced me to her fiance, who seemed to be quite the catch. So this girl, the one person who could have made me feel bad, actually gave me hope.
You can be real, natural, and you can have everything going for you, and you can find love. Needless to say, I went home and put on some eye cream.
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Norstedts, 2006. ISBN: 9789113015989
Reviewed by Anna Paterson in SBR 2008:1
Why does Agneta Pleijel turn history into novels? Why select particular elements of history for fictional makeover? She is an outstandingly good writer, observant, emotionally aware and somewhat melancholic.Varying in form – novels, plays, poetry, journalism – and rich in ideas, her work is focused on the side effects on people of time passing.As she says, in a characteristic sentence from her foreword to Vid floden (By the River, 2003: a volume of two plays about reminiscing): "We are standing on the banks of the swift-running river of time or go wading into the rapids, sometimes with our eyes closed". Individual memories seem to interest her even more than the collectively held records of history. Personal recall is important in her recent plays and poetry, as is documentary material in her recent novels, from Fungi (1993), about scientific exploration in the nineteenth century, via Lord Nevermore (2000) about travels during the twentieth century, to the two published novels of her new trilogy, set mainly in Stockholm during the last four decades of eighteenth century . Drottningens chirurg is the first and Kungens komediant the second instalment of the trilogy. Royalty mattered in those days: the shift of power in the early 1770s from King Adolf Frederick and his Queen to their glamorous son Gustav affected every aspect of Sweden's political and cultural life. In the surgeon's story, the emphasis is on courtly culture and the absurdly unfair trickle-down of royal patronage, rather than on the characters of the dull royals. On the other hand, King Gustav III was a complex, talented man and his presence dominates every turn of the tale told by one of the leading comic actors of his day. Agneta Pleijel recreates the past carefully, filling in with beautifully assembled detail. Her sensual alertness to "what it was like" is moving and convincing. Historical novels inevitably leave the reader wondering about the relative proportions of colourful authorial touches and documentary precision, but as far as my checking goes, both these books are alive with authenticity. It must have helped with the recreation of that dirty and violent little city that was Stockholm to have welldocumented actual citizens as protagonists.The surgeon, Herman Schützer, started out as the ambitious son of an immigrant German barbersurgeon and went on to become an ennobled court medic, but died a poor and embittered old man.We first meet him hurrying along to an interesting obstetric case: a dwarf is in the last stages of labour. Schützer specialised in the endless complications of giving birth and was confident enough to attempt a caesarean section, the first in Sweden.A bevy of medical colleagues crowded into bedroom: classically, the operation was a success, but the patient died.The baby survived, though and becomes a key character in the novel, a bright, kindly, pocket-sized person. Louisa, known as Liten (Little), is the trusted housemaid in the Schützer household, a go-between helping Schützer's frustrated wife and a protective friend of the doctor's boy apprentice Lars. That boy, who quickly drops medicine in favour of acting, is the fictional impersonation of Lars Hjortsberg, a leading actor with a talent for comic roles. His birth in 1772 coincided with young Gustav III stepping dramatically onto the political stage at the head of a rebellious, nationalistic party. Gustav's story is the heart of the second novel, not only because he is a fascinating man with a flamboyant line in politics, but because his life gives so much reason for thought about private and public, learning and action, artifice and reality. Arrogant and sensitive, torn between his royal role and inclination towards the arts, Gustav III must have seen himself in the kings of the plays "in the French style" which he loved so much. His obsession with theatre and opera makes Lars Hjortsberg an invaluable engine driving the novel's narrative onwards. Lars is an especially favoured boy-actor, who, while still in his teens, is chosen to read aloud to the King. Sometimes hiding behind a curtain, Lars stays with his King after the shooting at the famous masked ball and observes him as he dies slowly in fever and pain. In terms of novel construction, the crucial difference between the two books is the mode of narration. Schützer's story is told plainly but with verve, plenty of unnerving materia medica and sharp insights into the intellectual ruthlessness of some professionals.The dramatic tension rises as Schützer becomes locked into an agonising, career-wrecking dispute with a wellconnected colleague. His wife hopelessly endures both her husband's distractedness and the incurable mixture of alcoholism and poverty that finally kills her lover. The story of Lars and the King is told by the aging actor in a flow of monologue, delivered to the elderly Liten, who never interrupts.The monologue format suits the man and the actor, but makes the rather shallow, sentiment-driven Lars dominate the narrative far more than is good for it. He delivers a novel-length confession, a partly self-obsessed, partly self-mocking tale of an exciting, successful life with its full share of mistakes and misdeeds – including raping Liten after the King's death.The nakedly told rape scene is oddly unreal, compared to the snapshots of life on the stage and the episodes from the lives of the French actors, who changed the stale court presentations into real, popular theatre. Do these two books get us any closer to finding an answer to the questions about what draws Agneta Pleijel to write inside a framework of history? She is quoted as having recently said: "[my books] are tales told by the camp-fire ... made from an alloy of my language, knowledge and experience ... with religion and history as my tools and my aids on the road towards maturity." Religion features hardly at all in these two books; it was a sceptical age and neither the surgeon nor the actor care very much. Gustav III loved the great Enlightenment writers, even if he had little sympathy for any populist political ideas. But both novels demonstrate elegantly how history can aid maturity through observing and identifying with the humanity of shadowy figures from the past.


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I sewed a lined vest out of a wool boucle that I bought about 30 years ago. The pattern doesn't include a lining, but since I was sewing the vest in a wool boucle, I also lined it with a colorful silky polyester. The pattern directions use bias fold tape to finish the armholes and includes pockets in the front seams, but the pockets were too small to be useful and they added too much bulk to the front of the vest so I omitted them.
Pattern: Simplicity 1499 (view C)
Fabric: Wool Boucle (garment) & silky polyester (lining)
Machine used: Kenmore
I've never added a lining to a garment before when the pattern did not include pattern pieces and instructions for doing so. I searched around the internet a bit to find some useful instructions about how to do it and read over some of my patterns that include lining directions. I took my time on this project because I wasn't entirely sure about what I was doing and I wanted to have a nice outcome in the end.
To make the lining, I cut out the pattern pieces for the front, front side, and back of the vest, and sewed the lining up just as I had sewn the fabric for the body of the garment. Most of the instructions I found for adding a lining to a vest (or sleeveless dress) did not include any information about collars, so I wasn't quite sure what the proper order should be to attach the lining to the garment. I figured out the proper order by trial and error. When I sewed a seam in the wool boucle, the seam threads disappeared into the fabric, which made it very tedious to pick out a seam if I sewed it in the wrong order, so I hand basted most of the seams, then checked to see if the order worked properly BEFORE I sewed the permanent seam. This took several iterations to figure out the best order.
The order that worked was:
- Sew garment side and shoulder seams and collar into garment – I left the side seams unsewn. The pattern instructions directs the sewer to fold the collar piece in half and sew almost the entire collar together, leaving about 2 inches open to turn the collar and to sew it to the back of the garment. Since I was lining the garment, I only sewed the sides and back edge of the collar together and left the side of the collar that is sewed to the garment open. Then I turned the collar and sewed the collar to the back of the garment, matching the notches and center of the garment with those of the garment. I also sewed the tab and buttons on the back of the garment.
- Sew garment facing to matching lining pieces
- Sew the lining side and shoulder seams together (treating facing and lining as one piece of fabric) – since the garment facing was cut from the same front pattern piece, it was not necessary for me to also cut this front pattern piece in the lining fabric. If I make this vest again, I will only cut the lining fabric out of the side front and back pattern pieces and sew the lining side front fabric directly to the facing front fabric.
- Sew the lining and the garment together at the neck and front.
- Sew the lining and the garment together at the armholes
- Sew the lining and the garment together at the bottom
- Top stitch front, neck, collar edges and along the bottom.
I trimmed about an inch off the length of the lining and pressed the vest so the fabric was folded up about 1/2 inch to the inside.
Pressing the seams as I sewed them was a bit tricky. The boucle was very thick so I couldn't get a nice crisp press and I also didn't want to flatten the boucle loft so I used a light hand when ironing. I also dampened a washcloth and placed that on top of my ironing board where I placed the fabric to press and I used an ironing cloth when I pressed any seam on the vest.
Understitching the armholes and the facing was also difficult to do given the bulk of boucle and the lining material. Since I knew I was going to top stitch most of the seams, I didn't understitch the front facing or the armholes. Instead I pressed the seams carefully so that none of the lining fabric was showing on the outside of the garment and then I top stitched the most of the seams very slowly to make sure the lining was not showing.
I'm pleased with how well the vest turned out and am looking forward to wearing it this winter. I don't have a need for many vests so I think this will be the only vest I make for myself this year, but I might make another one next year.


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Specifications for a Cat 257 Skid Loaderby Andrew Cohen
The Caterpillar is a versatile skid steer loader. A skid steer loader is a small-frame, engine-powered vehicle that is equipped with lift arms, to which an assortment of labor easing tools attach.
Engine Specifications
The Caterpillar 257 uses Caterpillar's 3024C engine that is capable of producing a maximum of 57 horsepower. The maximum pressure produced by this engine is 3,355 psi.
Weight Specifications
The Caterpillar 257 can carry a maximum of 1,615 pounds at a 35 percent tipping load, and a maximum of 2,310 pounds at a 50 percent tipping load. The curb weight of this skid-steer loader is 7,559 pounds.
The Cat 257 skid-steer loader is 66 inches wide and has a veritcal linkage system. The length of this machine's tracks, which it uses for mobility, is 59 inches. The arms of the 257 can reach a maximum height of 119 inches.
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How do I print
At most units the customer computers have a printing service in use. Ask the library personnel for more information.
The default is always the printer closest to the work point. The print function can be found under the logo in the browser. Printing is also started by the CTRL + P key combination.
The print preview window always shows the printer to which the printing work is sent (sometimes the default can be a PDF-printer), the amount of pages to be printed and which pages shall be printed. During the preview always check that the page looks ok – the print out is always looking like the draft in the preview function.
The fee's charged for the print outs can be checked from the web library under Payments, terms and conditions.
If you need to change the printer, click the Change… button next to the printer and choose the desired printer from the list.
- How do I begin
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Per Egil Hegge
Per Egil Hegge (born 6 March 1940) is a Norwegian journalist.
Per Egil Hegge
Per Egil Hegge
6 March 1940
Trondheim, Norway
Hegge was born in Trondheim[1] as a son of two teachers from Skatval. The family moved to Inderøy in 1941.[2]
He served his military service at the elite Russian language program of the Norwegian Armed Forces. He started his career in the Norwegian News Agency, and was hired in Aftenposten in 1962 and remained there for the rest of his career. He was the newspaper's London correspondent from 1963 to 1965, and then worked in Norway (winning the Narvesen Prize in 1968) before becoming Moscow correspondent from 1969 to 1971. He was then expelled from the country, one of the reasons for this being that he was the first journalist to interview Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. After another six years in Norway from 1971 to 1977 Hegge was the Washington DC correspondent from 1977 to 1981. He was then subeditor before editing Aftenposten's magazine A-magasinet from 1984 to 1988. From 1992 to 1998 he was the cultural editor. He retired in 2005,[3][4] but continued to have a column about the correct use of language. When it comes to perceptions of the Norwegian language quality development, Hegge has been called a "housegod of the dissatisfied" by literary critic Aage Borchgrevink.[5]
Hegge chaired the Norwegian branch of PEN-International from 1985 to 1988. He has written several books, formerly about world affairs,[3][4] lately many books about the correct use of language and other popular releases. He has also biographed Otto Sverdrup (in 1996), Fridtjof Nansen (in 2002) and Harald V of Norway (in 2006). His Nansen biography was translated to Armenian in 2007.[6] Hegge has also been a popular lecturer.[7]
In 2003 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (Knight 1st Class).[7]
- "Nord ikke sør!". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 30 September 1985.
- Seniorforum med Per Egil Hegge Archived 2012-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Stjørdalsnytt, 30 April, 2012
- Bonde, Arne. "Per Egil Hegge". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Per Egil Hegge". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- Borchgrevink, Aage (13 December 2009). "Gjensyn med Babels tårn". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
- List of publications in BIBSYS
- "Per Egil Hegge ble ridder av St. Olavs Orden". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 17 October 2003. p. 32.
|Preceded by
Richard Herrmann
| Recipient of the Narvesen Prize
(shared with Arve Solstad)
|Succeeded by
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During the last couple of years, I was giving lots of thoughts to a fully automated house. Usually I was amazed by different ideas, usage of diverse technologies and concepts, but never tried to really apply some of these in my apartment. This changed couple of months ago, and after the first home automation project, I already have couple of more ideas.
It all started when I found this device in a shop nearby:
I spent couple of days mounting these guys all around my apartment. At the end, I presented three remote controls to my wife: one for living room, one for administration room and one for our bedroom. She was skeptic at first, but later realized the benefits.
After couple of weeks I couldn't resist from opening one of those remotes 🙂 What I found inside was HS1527 in the heart of the device. Next instinctive step was googgling for HS1527 remote control which led me to one really interesting discussion on JeeLabs webpage. There I discovered the magic device: JeeNode USB (v3):
Couple of days after ordering, I received my own JeeNode (+candy :D). Since JeeNode uses FTDI chip I downloaded and installed drivers from FTDI site. Using RealTerm software I quickly connected to the gadget and start playing with pre-installed program. That was fun, but not exactly what I had on mind. I downloaded IDE from Arduino web site, and after couple of hours of the programing, using the code I found in JeeLabs discussion, the first light was remotely turned on and off 🙂
// Homy Control #include <ctype.h> #include <Ports.h> #include <RF12.h> #define Tck 350 long devIds[16] = {28202, 28202, 28202, 28202, 912938, 912938, 912938, 912938, 416811, 416811, 416811, 416811}; int chanIds[16] = { 0, 4, 2, 1, 0, 4, 2, 1, 0, 4, 2, 1}; static void sendHigh() { rf12_onOff(1); delayMicroseconds(Tck+150); rf12_onOff(0); delayMicroseconds(3*Tck-200); } static void sendLow() { rf12_onOff(1); delayMicroseconds(3*Tck+150); rf12_onOff(0); delayMicroseconds(Tck-200); } static void sendBit(boolean data) { if (data) sendHigh(); else sendLow(); } static void sendPreamble() { rf12_onOff(1); delayMicroseconds(Tck+150); rf12_onOff(0); delayMicroseconds(31*Tck-200); } static void sendPacket(long C, int D) { sendPreamble(); for(int b = 19; b > -1; b--) sendBit((C >> b) & 0b1); for(int b = 3; b > -1; b--) sendBit((D >> b) & 0b1); } static void turn(long deviceId, int channel, boolean on) { int count = 5; while (count--) sendPacket(deviceId, (on ? 0b0000 : 0b1000) | (channel & 0b0111)); } static void train(long deviceId, int channel) { int count = 100; while (count--) sendPacket(deviceId, 0b1000 | (channel & 0b0111)); } static void led(byte on) { pinMode(9, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(9, !on); } char getc() { while (Serial.available()==0) {} return Serial.read(); } int device(char c) { c = toupper(c); if (c>='0' && c<='9') return (int)(c-48); if (c>='A' && c<='F') return (int)(c-55); return -1; } void setup() { Serial.begin(57600); rf12_initialize(0, RF12_433MHZ); Serial.println("Homy Control"); Serial.println(); Serial.println("Syntax :"); Serial.println(" [0|1|X|Z]<device>"); Serial.println(); Serial.println(" where :"); Serial.println(" 0 - turn off"); Serial.println(" 1 - turn on"); Serial.println(" X - turn all off for device group"); Serial.println(" Z - hook device"); Serial.println(" <device> - device code (hex digit)"); Serial.println(); } void loop() { Serial.print(">"); char fc = getc(); int dev; switch(toupper(fc)) { case 'Z': dev = device(getc()); led(1); train(devIds[dev],chanIds[dev]); Serial.print("Train ");Serial.print(devIds[dev]);Serial.print(" ");Serial.println(chanIds[dev]); led(0); break; case '1': dev = device(getc()); turn(devIds[dev],chanIds[dev],1); Serial.print("On ");Serial.print(devIds[dev]);Serial.print(" ");Serial.println(chanIds[dev]); break; case '0': dev = device(getc()); turn(devIds[dev],chanIds[dev],0); Serial.print("Off ");Serial.print(devIds[dev]);Serial.print(" ");Serial.println(chanIds[dev]); break; case 'X': dev = device(getc()); turn(devIds[dev],7,1); Serial.print("Off ALL ");Serial.println(devIds[dev]); break; default: led(1); Serial.println("*"); led(0); break; } }
Since the antenna shipped with JeeNode was for 868 MHz RF signals, the range was pretty poor. I replaced that antenna with 165mm one, that is optimal length of whip antenna for frequencies of 433 MHz. The range boosted and now all the lights in my apartment were covered. I showed my new baby to my wife, and explained her that if she types 11 in console, light will turn on. She gave me strange look. We named this project Homy.
Next step was software part for my home computer. After whole weekend of programming, the result was Windows application that talks to JeeNode using COM port communication and exposes web service for further integration.
Also, in order to access service from my PC, I developed a client that communicates with Homy Control Service using web services:
By then my wife was pretty angry since I spent whole weekend programming, so I had to do something about it. She recently became an owner of iPhone, so logical step was to bring the fun there. Using jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for developing for iPhone, a simple web application was born:
After this, we started playing like two kids, each of us with its own controller. I think neighbors must have been shocked, since the lights were going on and off the whole night.
Another thing that took me additional night of thinking and programming was how to determine the IDs of the existing remote controllers, so we can use the in parallel.
At the end, here is short video demonstration of Homy:
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This project will be the first of its kind Civic Engagement Cohort that focusses its efforts in an individual watershed. The Otter Tail River Watershed is scheduled to start a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) in 2016 and as a component of that project, the cohort will provide the civic engagement requirement. The cohort will be comprised of 25-30 individuals located throughout the watershed who represent a broad spectrum of resource managers and citizens who are familiar with water quality and watershed management.
Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota's invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
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This guest blog post is by Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General and TEDMED 2015 speaker. You can watch his TEDMED talk here.
Imagine if there was a force in your life that could reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke, that could help you live longer, that could make your children less likely to use drugs and engage in crime, and that could even help you lose weight.
It turns out, it is not a new prescription medication or medical procedure. The force I'm talking about is emotional well-being.
Emotional well-being is the often overlooked counterpart to physical well-being. Emotional well-being is about much more than the absence of mental illness in the same way that physical well-being is about more than the absence of injury or disease. Commonly thought of as happiness, emotional well-being is a powerful resource within each of us that can reduce our risk of illness, improve our performance, and enable us to be resilient in the face of adversity. Emotional well-being is what can make the difference between surviving and thriving.
It might be tempting to assume that emotional well-being is solely a consequence of our circumstances. We may tell ourselves that we'll be happy if we get the promotion we want, make more money, or lose some weight. This is not to say that circumstances don't matter. They do. In particular, external factors such as poverty, violence, and poor access to health care have a real impact on health and well-being – and we must do everything we can to address them. But science tells us that there are also internal factors that influence emotional well-being and that we can in fact proactively cultivate emotional well-being using tools that are surprisingly simple and relatively inexpensive.
We can cultivate emotional well-being with physical exercise, which research shows can improve mood and outlook as well as reduce depression. Contemplative practices like gratitude exercises and meditation have also been shown to improve emotional well-being, as has getting an adequate amount of sleep.
Perhaps one of the most powerful tools for improving emotional well-being is social connection – the presence of genuine, strong, relationships where one feels known and supported. Despite the ubiquity of social media, we are facing an epidemic of loneliness and social isolation. Helping people find and build meaningful relationships is one way to improve emotional well-being. The good news is there are a growing number of communities that have begun to invest in improving emotional well-being and are seeing remarkable results.
One example is Visitacion Valley Middle School in California. The school is located in a community where violence is prevalent. The majority of the students come from economically-challenged families. Many have one or both parents in prison. Several years ago, suspension rates were high, academic performance was low and anxiety and trauma were commonplace. Desperate to do something, the school teamed up with the Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education to develop a voluntary "Quiet Time" program for students – that included the option to practice 15 minutes of meditation, twice a day. In the first year alone, there was a 45% reduction in suspensions, teacher absenteeism dropped by 30%, grades and test scores went up, and the students reported less anxiety and fewer sleep disturbances. The program has since been expanded to more schools, with promising results.
Emotional well-being is a relatively untapped resource that has the potential to transform our health. It can help us build resilience, enhance productivity, and shift our mindsets away from fear and pessimism toward peace and possibility – a shift that is increasingly necessary and urgent in today's world.
Imagine if we prioritized emotional well-being as much as test scores in schools. Imagine if cultivating emotional well-being was seen as a priority in our workplaces. Imagine if emotional well-being was understood by all our policymakers to be the fuel that enables us to be healthy, productive, and strong.
The question is: can we make the cultivation of emotional well-being a priority that is reflected in our culture, our policies, and each of our lives? For the sake of our health and the health of future generations, we must ensure the answer is "yes."


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I found these wooden castles at a recent Michaels trip and I was so excited to get started on this project! Now, I thought it would keep them occupied for a looong time, but it was about 30 minutes. It is ok though, because they were so proud of their creations!
The castles were $9.99 but they always have one of those 40% or 50% off coupons that you can find. All you need is some paint and paintbrushes, as well as something to cover the table (I used a roll of kraft paper).
I let the kids pick which colors they would like on their "palette", which is a small plastic bowl.
My daughter is almost two years old, and even she was very engaged an excited about this project.
I find it best to give each sibling their own brushes and paint from the start, so they know what is theirs and it avoids fighting.
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by Luke Wayne
The Jehovah's Witness brochure "Should You Believe in the Trinity?" claims that the early Christian writer Irenaeus did not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. The paragraph reads:
"Irenaeus, who died about 200 C.E., said that the pre-human Jesus had a separate existence from God and was inferior to him. He showed that Jesus is not equal to the 'One true and only God,' who is 'supreme over all, and besides whom there is no other.'"1
Most of this paragraph is mere assertion. They simply tell you that Irenaeus said these things about Jesus without quoting him or telling you where he is supposed to have said them. The few quotes they do offer, namely the phrases "One true and only God" and "supreme over all, and besides whom there is no other" are uncontroversial. The biblical doctrine of the Trinity is clear that there is one and only one true and living God, and that besides the one true God there is no other, and that He is supreme over all. There is nothing that contradicts this in the biblical claim that the one and only being that is God has eternally and uniquely existed in three distinct persons. In fact, this is what Irenaeus himself believed.
In his primary work, "Against Heresies," Irenaeus wrote:
"There is one God, the Creator—He who is above every Principality, and Power, and Dominion, and Virtue: He is Father, He is God, He the Founder, He the Maker, He the Creator, who made those things by Himself, that is, through His Word and His Wisdom"2
Note that God's "Word and Wisdom" are synonymous with "Himself" and are distinct from creation. We see this explained later in the same section when Irenaeus writes of the Word:
"His Word, who is His Son, through Him He is revealed and manifested to all to whom He is revealed; for those only know Him to whom the Son has revealed Him. But the Son, eternally co-existing with the Father, from of old, yea, from the beginning, always reveals the Father to Angels, Archangels, Powers, Virtues, and all to whom He wills that God should be revealed."3
The Word is the Son. He has eternally existed with the Father and makes the Father known even to archangels, the category of being to which the Jehovah's Witnesses wish to diminish the Word. There is only one God. God made all things by Himself through His eternal Word, not through the agency of any created being. Irenaeus doesn't stop there, however. He also writes later in the same work:
"I have also largely demonstrated that the Word, namely the Son, was always with the Father; and that Wisdom also, which is the Spirit, was present with Him before all creation"4
So there is one God, and before all creation, this God was Father, Word, and Wisdom. The Word is the Son, and Wisdom is the Spirit. Therefore, God was eternally Father, Son, and Spirit. These three are distinct from one another and have their respective roles, but they are one and only one God. This is the doctrine of the Trinity. Despite the Watchtower assertions to the contrary, Irenaeus is just one of many ancient Christians whose writings testify that the earliest churches believed and taught this biblical doctrine.


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Fashion in the Digital age according to Shiona Turini
There are people who follow and there are those who lead, and Bermuda-born stylist, Shiona Turini is a leader in her own right. Rather than doing a job that fits into a cookie-cutter description, Shiona successfully created a dream fashion career and hasn't looked back ever since. Stylist and image consultant to fashion household names like Dior and Salvatorre Ferragamo as well as A-list stars like Solange and Beyonce Knowles (we all have Shiona to thank for all that couture goodness in both Beyonce's "Formation" video and select visuals from Solange's much raved-about "A Seat At The Table").
Shiona has also successfully solidified herself as an expert for all things fashion publishing and branding. Dishing on "Fashion In The Digital Age", Shiona doled out very important advice at the GTBank fashion weekend masterclass for those looking to break into the industry with no specific role in mind.
Internship is Key
In the exact words of Miss Turini. However cliché internships may sound, Shiona maintained that they will help one define the specific role they want to take up, refine one's strategy and will also help give one more insight into how the industry works.
Create Your Own Opportunities
There are perks that come with being in the digital age and a major one is being able to create your own opportunities said Shiona. With tools like instagram, one is definitely able to show his/her point view and aesthetics.
Be Social Media-Organic
According to instafamous Shiona, Instagram is both a blessing and a curse as while it is an avenue for people to show their art, people have also become caught up with titles as everyone wants to be a creative director etc. However, Shiona advised to be organic with content.


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Once you've finished up your more involved DIY projects--replacing the rusted-out floor in that Volkswagen, say, or converting a Mr. Potato Head into a painstakingly crafted Mad Maxian monster--you'll no doubt need a simpler task to help you unwind.
We've got just the thing. All it requires is a staple gun, a few staples, and a little bit of wall space. Shouldn't take too much time. All you're doing, really, is drawing a picture--with staples. That's right: instead of tracing out your lines or rubbing in your shadows with a pencil, say, or maybe stippling all that in with a paintbrush, you simply whip out the staple gun and start plugging away (and you know that will help you unwind).
But perhaps you'd like an example. An illustration or two just so you're sure you've got the right idea. All right: Here's a somewhat amateurish take by a fellow named Baptiste Debombourg. True, Debombourg is a French artiste, with Ecole des Beaux-Arts credentials and a fancy CV, but don't let that put you off. After all, it sometimes takes him more than two weeks to complete our simple little task.
Really? A drawing with a staple gun? Two weeks? You could probably knock out at least a dozen staple drawings in a day. Provided, of course, you didn't run out of staples (our bumbling friend Debombourg has been known to go through more than 450,000 for a single drawing).
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Valuing your role and others
Research carried out by the RCN has shown that good teams:
- are creative in the way they organise services
- make sound decisions
- respond effectively to sudden changes
- provide high-quality services to patients/clients.
But good teams don't just 'happen'. Sticking a group of people together doesn't make them a 'team'. Instead, good teams emerge over time through focusing on:
- developing a common purpose (in health care, high-quality patient/client care would be the team's purpose)
- using the skills, talents and knowledge of everyone in the team to the best effect
- making sure everyone in the team is kept informed about what's going on and has a say in any proposed changes
- setting realistic and achievable objectives that rely on contributions from all team members
- developing a 'team spirit' – if you like, a team 'ethic' – which develops a sense of everyone working together and everyone playing their part.
The basis for this kind of team emerging is everyone in the team understanding, respecting and valuing their own role in the team and the roles other members play. This means that every team member must be clear about:
- the boundaries of their role – what they can, and cannot, do
- how much freedom they have to make decisions
- who they can delegate activities to, and who delegates activities to them
- how their performance will be assessed – what are they main things they are expected to do?
- where they can turn to for advice, support and supervision
- the boundaries to their freedom to be creative and use their initiative
- how they will be supported to grow and develop as a person and a worker in the team.
Many of the challenges in team working we mentioned earlier come about because people in the team are not clear about these issues. They don't fully understand what they should be doing, nor do they understand what other team members should be doing. This is the kind of atmosphere in which conflict can bloom. So by being clear about your role and the role of others, you'll be doing a lot to reduce any tensions in the team.
Listen to this audio clip of how much a doctor and practice nurse value the role of the HCA in their team and how they miss her when she goes away on holiday.
A useful RCN document is 'The nursing team: Common goals, different roles' [PDF file 79.5KB].


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Does anyone know where I can find a list of what's compatible with what sets or what is just a stand-alone? I've looked through this forum/website and have seen some of the information I was seeking. I did find some information in a random post from boardgamegeeks.com that is relevant up to Teen Titian release. To the question, I played DC Deckbuilding omegle xender the original hero's at a friend a loved it! I started looking into getting it myself and have been pleasantly surprised by how many expansion/versions of the game that Cryptozoic offers. The issue I have is I do not know what is playable with what or if they all stand alone. I found a random post that explains up to Teen Titan release.
Then i found the Multiverse, and that seems to be just a deck box but has cards in it, so i don't know what "core" set that is playable with..... and now Rebirth which I think is an updated of the original but not entirely sure.
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AARP Urges New York Court to Uphold State Protections for Aging in Place
An AARP brief asks that a state appeals court hold nursing facilities to the letter and spirit of state law protecting against unwanted institutionalization.
Virginia Bennett was transferred to St. John's Home nursing facility in Rochester, NY for physical therapy after her three-day hospitalization in July 2007. She completed that therapy in August 2007 and her husband then asked that she be discharged to their home. Ms. Bennett received home health care assistance from her husband for many years prior to her hospitalization.
In subsequent litigation, Mr. Bennett claims the nursing facility refused to discharge her on the grounds that she required "24-hour care" at home. Mr. Bennett further claims that he agreed to be trained on how to care for his wife, but was not provided training. However, the facility refused to accept Mr. Bennett as a part-time caregiver for Mrs. Bennett, for reasons never clearly explained. As a result, the facility refused to discharge her to anything other than in-person care from a home health agency twenty-four hours a day. At the time, no agencies were willing to provide this level of care.
After some months of prolonged institutionalization, Mr. Bennett eventually located a home health care agency willing to provide 24 hour home care services and she was discharged from St. John's in October 2007. About one year later, she was rehospitalized, admitted to a different nursing facility, and ultimately transported to hospice care where she passed away.
Bennett's suit against St. John's argued that the facility had violated his wife's rights to independent personal decisions and available choices, a right granted under state law in New York. A trial court dismissed the case and Bennett appealed.
AARP Foundation Litigation attorneys filed AARP's friend-of-the-court brief in the case supporting Bennett's claims. The brief points out that the risk of becoming "stuck" in a nursing facility is particularly high in New York, where according to one study less than 7 percent of nursing facility residents with stays of 90 days or more ever return to the community — a rate that places New York 42nd in the nation. Moreover, the state is at the bottom of national statistics (ranking 48th ) in length of stays lasting 100 days or more. The chronic understaffing at many of New York's nursing facilities means that patients are more likely to receive individual care at home than they are in a nursing facility.
AARP's brief details the legislative history of the New York law safeguarding the right to age in place, and the myriad programs designed to assist individuals with living outside of institutions. The brief also highlights academic studies that demonstrate better outcomes for people who remain in familiar settings surrounded by familiar people, as opposed to those receiving care in an institutional setting.
What's at Stake
Protecting a person's ability and right to age in place is a major concern for older Americans. Unnecessary impediments to leaving a nursing facility for a community-based setting contribute to excessive hospitalization, a downward spiral in the quality of a person's life, and exorbitant costs to both individuals and government health care programs. Federal and state laws and policies clearly support an individual's right to choose a home or community based long-term care setting as an alternative to institutionalization.
Case Status
Bennett v. St. John's Home is before the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, Fourth Department.


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A year ago, generous donors helped build a new well with Katelleh Village in Sierra Leone. Because of these gifts and contributions from our monthly donors, partners can visit project sites throughout the year, strengthening relationships with communities and evaluating the actual water project. These consistent visits allow us to learn vital lessons and hear amazing stories – we're excited to share this one from our partner, Nanah Mansaray, with you.
Life has improved for the people of Katelleh Village in many ways. The people have been drinking swamp water for so many years which was not good for their health and they have been experiencing sicknesses which are vomiting and diarrhea. But from the completion of this water project and they started using sanitation facilities, all this sickness has stopped.
Chairlady Fatmata Kargbo shares her experience since the new water source was installed last year. "The biggest changes that happen in our community is our children now go to school on time, we prepared food for our family on time and we hardly heard that a snake has bitten someone on their way to the stream. Now, we are enjoying this facility and we don't spend much time on fetching water for drinking, laundry, bathing etc."
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It is with a thankful and hopeful heart that I write to express my deepest gratitude to Pat Summitt and the Pat Summitt Foundation for their support and commitment to establish the Pat Summitt Alzheimer's Clinic. The new clinic will greatly expand the scope and capacity of the existing Alzheimer's clinic at the University of Tennessee Medical Center by providing the resources our community needs and opportunities to expand research efforts in finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. It will increase much-needed patient and caregiver support services to our local families while extending education and awareness to East Tennessee and beyond.
There is currently no known cause, cure or meaningful drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease. According to the Alzheimer's experts, the state of Tennessee has the fifth highest Alzheimer's death rate in the nation with a 138 percent increase in deaths between 2000 and 2010. By the year 2025, more than 160,000 Tennesseans are expected to have Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a critical issue that Tennesseans cannot ignore.
As a physician and a member of the Pat Summitt Foundation Advisory Board, I am joining hands with Summitt and inviting you, your readers, corporations and foundations to help win this fight by joining her team. Many of your readers have already joined her team, and to them I say, "Thank you." There are many ways for all of us to get involved. The starting point is at www.patsummitt.org.
In the fight against Alzheimer's, every second counts. The odds are against us; an arduous task is before us. The head coach emeritus of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers has many championships yet ahead, and together we can win them, one by one. Some say that finding a cure is impossible, but then again, so was winning 1,098 collegiate basketball games.
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What Are Variable Manufacturing Costs?
Small businesses and new start-ups must keep close watch on their manufacturing costs to make a profit. The term "variable manufacturing cost" applies to accounting methods to track business expenses and profits. Depending on the type of accounting system used, the specifics of the variable costs vary widely.
Manufacturing Costs
Manufacturing costs include funds spent on direct costs, such as the amount your business spends for the materials and the amount you pay labor to make the items. Transportation of the goods to the marketplace also adds to manufacturing costs. Indirect costs add more to the product. Indirect fees include payments to manufacturing representatives to promote your products. Industrial researchers, including informal studies at Ford Motors and Rolls Royce, link between 70 percent and 90 percent of manufacturing costs to basic product design. Simple designs typically cost less to manufacture.
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Fixed manufacturing costs describe fees required to create the item, and manufacturers must pay these costs to produce the goods. Companies have little room to modify or change the fixed costs since the company must pay these standard costs to produce the goods. General accounting principals group the usual costs associated with the direct manufacture and the labor costs, although these costs do have some flexibility and vary somewhat over time.
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Variable costs also include the amount of your company inventory on hand and the cost of storing or warehousing your goods. While the cost of marketing your items and the amount you spend to promote your products might appear to fall under the variable cost category, most accounting methods treat both selling and administrative expenses as period costs, not variable accounting costs. Period costs are paid at at certain times during the year. Your accountant may use period accounting methods in keeping your business books.
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Some small industries have unplanned cost increases due to fluctuations in certain raw product markets, such as oil. For small businesses, increases in manufacturing costs due to increased oil prices effectively reduce profits. This loss is linked to the limited scale of a small-business production. Large companies have a greater capacity to deal with price fluctuations. One way to control variable costs involves making long-term contracts with suppliers to lock in your prices. This allows your business a firm, fixed price for materials. Long-term labor agreements, if your company uses unionized workers, also provides stable manufacturing costs.
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When you feel like adding touches of La Dolce Vita to your backyard, don't worry, you won't need to hire an Italian event planner. A few simple well-designed additions to your patio can transform a boring backyard into Italian-style elegant garden. Here are our 10 top picks for a chic update.
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With its soft wave-like effect, Kartell's Dune Tray creates a bold background for your food presentation.
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The Mirage Glasses created in high quality plastic by Guzzini are the result of a collaboration with young Venetian designer Luca Nichetto.
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With its flower-like shape, the Belle Epoque dinner plate by Guzzini adds a distinctive and elegant touch to your outdoor table.
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Premier Jay Weatherill this week announced that the South Australian Government has granted an extension to the indenture for BHP Billiton to expand Olympic Dam.
The period by which BHP Billiton is required to approve the expansion has been extended to October 2016, Mr Weatherill reported.
BHP Billition also has committed to spending more than $650 million over the next four years at Olympic Dam and on other initiatives within South Australia.
"BHP Billiton has recommitted itself to South Australia. The world-class resource at Olympic Dam will be unlocked, but on a longer time line. " Mr Weatherill said.
"The level of BHPB's activity reinforces the commitment it has to its existing workers at Olympic Dam, which is the largest underground mine in Australia.These new activities will also ensure there are more flow-on jobs from the existing operations, let alone the thousands of jobs to be created with the expansion, " Mr Weatherill added.
The vision, Mr Weatherill believes, is to make South Australia the mining services hub for Australia.
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said Olympic Dam was an incredibly rich resource body and would be developed.
"Olympic Dam is still the world's biggest uranium resource and fourth biggest copper and gold resources. The independent advice I received showed BHP Billiton did face unforseen economic circumstances that prevented them from approving the original proposal by the December 15 deadline, " Mr Koutsantonis said.
"This extension puts BHPB in the best position to develop a plan to secure the mine's expansion and the future prosperity of our State."
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Governor Cuomo Announces 11 More Companies Join Start-Up NY
83 Businesses Have Joined Start-Up NY Since Launch and Committed to Create More Than 2,530 New Jobs
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 11 more businesses plan to expand in or locate to New York State under the START-UP NY program. They will join the more than 70 companies already participating in the initiative, which creates tax-free areas associated with colleges and universities across the state in order to spur economic growth.
The 11 businesses will invest nearly $30 million, and have committed to create at least 158 new jobs over the next five years in tax-free areas sponsored by the University at Buffalo, Rochester Institute of Technology, Farmingdale State College, Morrisville State College, SUNY Brockport and Stony Brook University. This latest group of companies joining the program brings the total number of businesses participating in START-UP NY to 83, representing commitments to create more than 2,530 new jobs and invest more than $133 million in communities throughout the state.
"Under START-UP NY we are continuing to show businesses around the world that there is no better place to grow than New York," Governor Cuomo said. "This initiative is creating new opportunities and strengthening the economy by pairing our world-class colleges and universities with the workforce and tax-free environment that helps companies thrive. START-UP NY is generating great things for New York State, and I am pleased to welcome these businesses to the program."
These businesses will create jobs in several key industries, including research and development in biotechnology, physical engineering and life sciences, advanced manufacturing, beverages, information technology, and systems and software development.
The following businesses are approved for START-UP NY:
- Adiabatic Solutions, LLC
- C&M Robotics Co., Ltd.
- ClearCove Systems, Inc.
- Codagenix, Inc.
- DaStrong Corp.
- Empire Farmstead Brewery, Inc.
- Joox America, LLC
- K16 Corporation
- Mitogenetics, LLC
- Precision Optical Transceivers, Inc.
- QB Sonic, Inc.
Empire State Development Acting President, CEO & Commissioner Howard Zemsky said, "START-UP NY is a game-changing initiative that is attracting thousands of jobs and millions in investment to New York State. We are growing our economy and training a highly skilled workforce to fill the great jobs that are being created by START-UP NY companies in a range of high-growth industries such as life sciences, biotechnology and advance manufacturing, among many others."
SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said, "Governor Cuomo's START-UP NY program continues to successfully lure innovative, high-tech businesses to SUNY campuses and New York's communities. STARTUP-NY has proven to be an economic game-changer not only for the business community and the state, but for the many SUNY students, faculty, and staff who connect with them in pursuit of research, enhanced academic opportunities, and hands-on workforce experience in a variety of disciplines. We look forward to welcoming these newest businesses to SUNY."
Additional details about the latest businesses approved for START-UP NY are as follows:
Morrisville State College – 54 new jobs
Empire Farmstead Brewery is a new business that will create a stand-alone manufacturing and agri-tourism facility in Cazenovia, Madison County. The theme of Empire Farmstead Brewery is a contemporary, state-of-the-art microbrewery, working farm and tasting tours; and beer manufactured at the facility will be packaged in kegs, bottles and cans for regional and international distribution. The project is in partnership with SUNY Morrisville, which is implementing a new Brewing Studies Program and will work directly with the company to manage the facility and educate students with first-hand practical business experience in production brewing. Empire Brewing will create 52 net new jobs while investing $5.9 million.
K16 Corporation is a new technology device and software development firm focused on developing technology based solutions in teaching methods. K16 will be locating to on-campus space in Morrisville and create two net new jobs while investing $10,000.
University at Buffalo – 40 new jobs
Adiabatic Solutions, LLC is a formative stage advanced manufacturing company located in Tonawanda, Erie County, producing metal components for a wide variety of industries (energy, medical devices, automotive and small engine) through a unique HBI forming process. The company, which recently won the State's 43North business plan contest, will locate in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Center's Innovations Center and create 27 net new jobs while investing $12.1 million.
DaStrong Corp. is a new company that is developing and manufacturing a next generation cooling fan for electronic equipment. The company will locate to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Center's Innovation Center and create two net new jobs while investing $1,634,600.
Joox America, LLC, originally founded in Brazil, is a new to New York State information technology company developing a cloud-based platform that enables a client or company to choose any object or product to be customized online. The company will locate to the Gateway Building in Buffalo and create 11 net new jobs while investing $271,130.
Rochester Institute of Technology – 23 new jobs
ClearCove Systems, a New York State incubator graduate from Venture Creations in Rochester, Monroe County, is a renewable energy company that has developed patented solutions that transform wastewater treatment plants into renewable energy resources and creates economic development for their local community. The company has tested its new technology at two upstate wastewater treatment plants and plans to implement its first full-scale operation at the Bath (Steuben County) wastewater plant by early summer 2015. Clearcove Systems will locate its headquarters to the RIT downtown campus and create 23 net new jobs while investing $3.98 million.
Farmingdale State College – 20 new jobs
Mitogenetics, LLC is a new to New York State business that is currently incorporated in Iowa. The research and development company focuses on compounds that can treat diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, which is what occurs when the mitochondria, i.e. energy source in cells, are not able to function due to genetic or environmental factors. The company will locate to Broad Hollow Science Park in Farmingdale and create 15 net new jobs while investing $2.65 million.
Codagenix, Inc. is a formative stage biotechnology research and development company that is commercializing a software-based platform for more effective development of vaccines. This platform technology uses computer-based rational design for the design and construction of vaccines. The preclinical success has garnered significant commercial and investor interest that will allow them to grow on the SUNY Farmingdale campus and create five net new jobs while investing $135,000.
Stony Brook University – 13 new jobs
C&M Robotics Co. Ltd, currently operating in Seoul, Korea, is a new to New York State advanced manufacturing business that manufactures specialized robotics hardware for companies reliant on robotic processes, with a focus on robotic press fitting systems. C&M Robotics envisions a long-term research and development collaboration with the manufacturing automation laboratory at Stony Brook University. The company will locate to the Long Island High Technology Incubator and create eight net new jobs while investing $950,000.
QB Sonic, Inc. is a new medical device company that is commercializing technology developed at Stony Brook University. The ultrasound technology will diagnose and treat musculoskeletal disorders, which include deterioration due to aging, (i.e. osteoporosis), and trauma to bones, tendons, ligaments, and joints due to injury or overuse. The technology can image bones and soft tissue with high resolution, low cost equipment that does not have harmful X-rays. The company will locate to the Long Island High Technology Incubator in Stony Brook and create five net new jobs while investing $25,000.
SUNY Brockport – 8 new jobs
Precision Optical Transceivers Inc. is an existing manufacturer of optical transceivers and accessories used in cable and telecommunications networks. The company has developed proprietary Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory coding technology and production processes to enable the rapid delivery of transceivers to customers. Precision Optical is currently operating in Brockport, Monroe County, and will locate new employees to the SUNY Brockport MetroCenter in Rochester. The company will create eight net new jobs and invest $2,060,000.
About START-UP NY
START-UP NY seeks to accelerate entrepreneurialism and job creation across the state on a large scale, with a particular focus on Upstate New York. Under the program, businesses sponsored by participating colleges and universities that create net new jobs will operate 100 percent tax-free for 10 years, paying no state income tax, business or corporate state or local taxes, sales tax, property tax or franchise fees. The companies will have opportunities to partner with the higher education institutions, as well as access industry experts and advanced research laboratories associated with the schools.
To date, 66 schools have been approved for START-UP NY, including four CUNY and 17 private institutions, establishing more than 385 tax-free areas for new or expanding businesses to operate on or near campus. Each school's approved START-UP NY plan is available at www.startup-ny.com.
START-UP NY includes strong provisions to protect against fraud. Businesses are required to submit certification to ESD, and falsifying certifications is a felony. The program also includes strict provisions to guard against abuses such as shifting jobs among related entities or "shirtchanging," when a company simply reincorporates under a new name and claims its existing employees are now new jobs. In addition, START-UP NY includes measures to prevent self-dealing and conflicts of interest. In cases of fraud, the State is empowered to claw-back benefits granted to the business. Companies that do not meet the terms of the program – including meeting their job creation targets – may have their benefits reduced, suspended or terminated. ESD has the authority to review company data to ensure that jobs have been created and maintained, and to end participation by companies that have not created net new jobs.
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