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Theory is dead. Well, so I am told. Since the 1990s critics, authors and writers such as David Bordwell, Murray Pomerance and many others have stressed the need to steer film theory in a new direction, whether it be film-philosophy, neo-formalism or another approach (if not theory altogether). Thankfully, if theory is not completely dead […]
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Finding the Beauty–Book Review: The Language and Style of Film Criticism Edited by Alex Clayton and Andrew Klevan
July 14, 2011 at 11:36 am
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Border agents accused in smuggling ring convicted
SAN DIEGO – Two former Border Patrol agents were found guilty Friday of smuggling hundreds of people into the U.S. in Border Patrol vehicles.
Raul and Fidel Villarreal were convicted of charges that they brought illegal immigrants into the U.S. for money and received bribes by public officials, and counts of conspiracy to launder money. Prosecutors said Raul Villarreal started a ring that smuggled in Mexicans and Brazilians and made Fidel Villarreal, his older brother and a fellow agent, one of his first recruits.
Both brothers pleaded not guilty in one of the highest-profile corruption cases to sting the Border Patrol since it went on a hiring spree during the last decade. Raul Villarreal had been a public face of the patrol, frequently appearing on television as an agency spokesman.
The federal probe began in May 2005 with an informant's tip to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigators installed cameras on poles in areas where migrants were dropped off, planted undercover recording devices, put tracking instruments on Border Patrol vehicles and followed a smuggling load by airplane.
The prosecution also relied on accounts of alleged accomplices and migrants who entered the country illegally, including some who identified Fidel Villarreal in photographs. One 24-year-old Brazilian woman said she paid $12,000 to be taken across the border in "a police car."
Prosecutors said the brothers were tipped off about the investigation in June 2006, prompting them to flee to Mexico.
Shortly after they settled in Tijuana, a district police commander in the Mexican border city who allegedly shuttled Villarreals' customers in squad cars was killed in a hail of about 200 bullets. The brothers were arrested in October 2008 — more than two years after abruptly quitting the Border Patrol — and extradited to the U.S. to face federal charges of human smuggling, witness tampering and bribery.
David Nick, Raul Villarreal's attorney, had argued the prosecution relied on witnesses who had a strong motive to lie and surveillance yielded no evidence of wrongdoing by his client.
Nick said he couldn't comment on the verdict because of a gag order. A message for Fidel Villarreal's attorney was not immediately returned.
The brothers were scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 16. They face a maximum of 50 years in prison and at least $1.25 million in penalties.
Other defendants in the case include Armando Garcia, who was also found guilty Friday of charges of smuggling illegal immigrants for money, bringing illegal immigrants into the U.S. and conspiracy to launder money. Another, Claudia Gonzalez, pleaded guilty in Dec. 2009 and was due for sentencing Sept. 10.
U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy praised the agencies involved in prosecution, saying in a statement that stopping "corruption and maintaining the integrity of our federal border enforcement personnel is critical to U.S. border security."

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5 things to know about Electoral College vote changes
The 2010 census changed the political map a little bit by reapportioning votes. Here are five things to know:
1. Eight states gained votes. They are Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington.
2. Texas – which already had the second most electoral votes – gained the most (four) and now has a 38 votes. California has 55. By comparison, some states have only three electoral votes.
3. Ten states lost votes: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
4. Ohio and New York lost the most – two.
5. If the nation votes this year as it did in 2008, the change in electoral votes would mean a gain of four votes for the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney.


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NEW: People who left cars on Atlanta interstates are being told to go to staging areas Thursday
NEW: Fuel and the capability to jump dead batteries will be made available, officials say
About 200 children remain trapped at schools in Alabama, the governor says
At least 10 people have been killed in weather-related incidents across the Southeast
Empty streets, shuttered storefronts and abandoned vehicles littering the side of the road.
That was the scene across much of metropolitan Atlanta on Wednesday as people hunkered down to wait out the aftermath of a snow and ice storm that brought the nation's ninth-largest metropolitan area to a screeching halt.
A day after up to 3 inches of snow in parts of Georgia caused horrific gridlock on ice-covered streets – particularly in metropolitan Atlanta where thousands were trapped on the roads overnight – several major thoroughfares remained a mess due to lingering accidents and other problems.
In neighboring Alabama, there was a similar scene playing out.
"There are still four or five areas on our interstates that are still treacherous. The traffic is still proceeding very slowly, but we are making progress," Gov. Robert Bentley said.
"We still have a number of students around the state that could potentially have to remain in school tonight, but they will be taken care of. They will be protected. They will be fed. They will stay warm."
And as bad as things remained in parts of Georgia and Alabama early Wednesday evening, state officials feared it would only get worse as the night wore on and the temperatures dropped.
They pleaded for people to stay at home. Many of the roads were littered with abandoned vehicles and remained impassible. Many of those were in the metro Atlanta area.
"We're working on clearing the abandoned vehicles. We're just pushing them to the shoulders," said Karlene Barron of the Georgia Department of Transportation.
Motorists who left their vehicles on interstates are being told to go at 10 a.m. ET Thursday to one of two staging areas, depending on where they abandoned their car or truck, according to the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
"There will be fuel available for vehicles that ran out of gas as well as the capability to jump off a dead battery," the agency said in a written statement. State police will have a database to help motorists locate their vehicle, if it was towed to an impound lot, and will provide transportation to the lot, the statement said.
Meanwhile, the interstates and ramps were being "re-treated," she said, as forecasters predicted a deep freeze overnight that will likely freeze any moisture on the roadways.
"For interstates, 100% have been cleared," Barron said. "But we haven't gotten to all the state routes, but we've pretty much touched all of the interstates. It's a very good percentage cleared."
In Georgia, the governor and the mayor acknowledged they could have planned better for the storm.
And this time, they really mean it, they said, referring to their handling of a storm three years ago.
"I'm willing to take whatever blame comes my way and, if I'm responsible for it, I will accept that," Gov. Nathan Deal told reporters.
"We all have some lessons we need to learn here from this," he said. "And I think we all will."
Thousands of schoolchildren who had been trapped on buses and in Atlanta-area schools overnight were reunited by early Wednesday evening with their families, Deal said, adding that state troopers, police or members of the National Guard escorted many of the buses.
"Last night, we had at least 95 immobile buses. We had cleared them all by this morning, and that was a big task," he said. "Our next task was getting students home from school, and now we have achieved that."
In Alabama, the weather forced more than 5,000 students to spend Tuesday night in school buildings.
Some teachers who stayed in their classrooms overnight to care for stranded students were facing a possible redux Wednesday night, according to Bentley, who said in a post on Twitter that roughly 200 schoolchildren remain stranded.
Blame game?
Earlier in the day, Deal said the need to release students, government workers and private employees in stages, instead of all at once, was a chief lesson. He blamed the mass exodus Tuesday for the gridlock that paralyzed the Atlanta metro area and left some motorists stranded for more than 12 hours.
Asked who was at fault for the gridlock, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed told CNN, "I think rather than play the blame game, we have shared responsibility. But, I want to state clearly, I don't have jurisdiction to clear interstate highways in the city of Atlanta. I'm responsible for the streets that are in the city of Atlanta. And, as of today – one day into a severe weather event – we got our streets cleaned. We kept our hospitals open. We kept our people safe, and the city of Atlanta is running again."
Earlier, Reed acknowledged that "we made a mistake by not staggering when people should leave, so I will take responsibility for that – in lessons learned," he said.
"If we had to do it again, we would have said, 'Schools, you go first, private sector, you go second, and government goes last.' And so I think that would have helped."
But he said the timing of the closures was not his call. In the case of when students were sent home, it was up to the Atlanta Public Schools, and the responsibility for clearing the freeways belongs to the state, he said.
Reed said the city responded better than it did after a 2011 ice storm, which stopped the metro area dead in its tracks for four days.
The city now has 30 spreaders, 40 snowplows and 70,000 tons of sand and gravel versus just four pieces of equipment three years ago, he said.
In 2011, "nothing was done because no one had any equipment," he said.
But Tuesday's gridlock made it impossible for workers to use the equipment on many of the roads, according to Deal. "I don't know the best way to solve that," he said.
He also pointed to the complicating role played by big rigs, which he blamed for "a major portion" of the congestion as a result of jackknifing.
Deal said he based the decisions he made on the best evidence then available to him. "If we closed the city of Atlanta and our interstate system based on maybes, then we would not be a very productive government or a city," he said. "We can't do it based on the maybes."
He added, "I think we have done a reasonable job. Could we have prevented it? That's the question … I don't think anybody can say."
Asked whether he wanted to apologize to his constituents, Deal said, "I apologize to them for the fact that they are in the situation that has occurred. If it was based on my decisions, yes, I apologize for that. Will we try to make better decisions based on the knowledge we gain from this? Yes, we will. But we can never promise because it would be an unrealistic promise, that we will always be correct when it comes to deciding what Mother Nature is going to do. Because she has a mind of her own."
What to do when stuck in a snowbound car
Good Samaritans
Travis Zeh texted his wife around 12:45 p.m. Tuesday from Alpharetta, Georgia, telling her he was on his way to their home in Atlanta.
A day later, he made it – after more than 25 hours.
As much as his experience, fruitlessly looking for a gas station and hotel room before finding a place to crash with friends, was unnerving and exhausting, Zeh described it as uplifting.
He has Jenny Busing and her husband Ryan to thank largely for that. After taking Zeh in, Jenny had them head out on roads around metro Atlanta's northern perimeter and I-285 off-ramps to hand out food, water and much needed energy.
That's how what was supposed to be one-hour sojourn turned into a nearly five-hour, adrenaline-fueled, overnight adventure. Led by Jenny, Zeh said they checked in on crawling motorists and, in one case, a bus with about a dozen young students to give them what they could – even going to a gas station to restock on supplies.
"It was one of those things where you see the good in people," Zeh recalled. "We were offered money and we said keep it, use it for gas or just pay it forward."
But Zeh's experience was a mere inconvenience compared with the situation of a woman in labor in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.
Traffic jams blocked her way to the hospital and kept paramedics from reaching her, so – with the aid of her husband and a police officer – she delivered her daughter Tuesday evening.
"It was just really all a blur. My husband was driving on the side and everyone is beeping at us because they are all in gridlock," Amy Anderson told CNN's Piers Morgan on Wednesday evening.
"We came to a stop that we couldn't get through at all. That's when I told him, 'We are going to have this baby in the car.'"
Anderson said the family, which includes two other daughters, are doing well.
"When we gave her the name Grace, it just fully explained the whole situation: just by the grace of God that we all came out healthy…."
Deaths and injuries
For some, the storm had tragic results. Authorities blamed it for 10 deaths across the Southeast.
In Alabama, five people died, and 23 people were injured, the state Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday.
The governor deployed 350 National Guard troops to help motorists.
In Georgia, two storm-related deaths were confirmed. A 60-year-old woman died Tuesday afternoon in Senoia when her van drove into a ditch and overturned, the Georgia State Patrol said.
And a 17-year-old boy was killed in Henry County when his pickup struck a tree Tuesday evening, police said.
The Georgia State Patrol said it had tallied 1,254 accidents and 130 injuries.
In Mississippi, the state Emergency Management Agency reported one death in a storm-related traffic accident in Smith County.
In North Carolina, two people died in accidents, the state Department of Public Safety reported.
North Carolina state patrol officers responded to more than 3,000 service calls, including 600 on Wednesday morning, from motorists who had crashed their vehicles or abandoned them a day earlier, the public safety department said.
Still, as many accidents as there were, transportation department spokesman Steve Abbott conceded it could have been worse.
"We didn't get as much ice as we had expected," he said.
How snow is messing with your air travel
CNN's Phil Gast, Tom Watkins, Carma Hassan, Joseph Netto, Catherine E. Shoichet, Steve Almasy, Greg Botelho, Kevin Conlon, Chad Myers, Dave Alsup and Jareen Imam contributed to this report.


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2017 Honda PIONEER 1000 LIMITED EDITION
When it comes to finding new, innovative ways to solve problems, Honda has always risen to the challenge. Take our family of Pioneer 1000s. These great side-by-sides got it right the first time in terms of comfort, handling, hauling, and user-friendly features, but we've taken the opportunity to make them even better this year. By applying a hefty dose of Honda technology, we're giving you what we think is the best side-by-side out there—the new Pioneer 1000 Limited Edition. What makes it so special? First, the combination of Honda's exclusive automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission (DCT), combined with our revolutionary I-4WD technology. Then we've added FOX QS-3 shock absorbers, and have enhanced the Pioneer 1000's comfort and protection features.
But some things haven't changed. Our Pioneer lineup is available in both three- and five-seat versions. And in addition to their innovative features, nothing can match the build quality you get with a Honda. Or our reputation for quality and reliability—huge assets when the going gets rough.
You can make a strong case for the Pioneer 1000-5 as the most versatile side-by-side at work or on the trails today. Like every Pioneer, it's designed to offer a blend of comfort and control you won't find in any other side-by-side. Plus, the 1000-5 features our exclusive QuickFlip® in-bed seating design, so you can go from a 3-seater to a 4-seater to a 5-seater in seconds, without tools.
The Pioneer 1000 and Pioneer 1000 EPS offer the same chassis and engine as our Pioneer 1000-5 models, but with a three-place front bench seat and a conventional tilt bed. Available in three trim levels, updated to be more comfortable for 2017 thanks to improved front seats, and pre-wired to make winch installation easier than ever, when you're looking for a side-by-side you'll be driving for years to come, the Honda Pioneer 1000 lineup is what you want.
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5 US soldiers die in Afghanistan attack
WASHINGTON — A defense official says five NATO soldiers killed in a southern Afghanistan attack are American.
Earlier reports from the international coalition in Kabul said the five were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident.
A statement from the coalition said all five soldiers died on Monday but did not give further details on the attack or the nationality of the soldiers. Coalition policy is for home countries to identify their military dead.
Most of the forces operating in the area are from the United States.
"The casualties occurred during a security operation when their unit came into contact with enemy forces. Tragically, there is the possibility that fratricide may have been involved. The incident is under investigation. Our thoughts are with the families of those killed during this difficult time," the coalition said in an announcement.
If confirmed, it would be one of the most serious cases involving coalition on coalition friendly fire during the nearly 14-year Afghan war. One of the worst came in April 2002 when four Canadian soldiers were killed when an American F-16 dropped a bomb on them near a night firing exercise in the southern Kandahar.
A senior police official in southern Zabul province said the coalition soldiers may have been killed when they called in for close air support.
Provincial police chief Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Rooghlawanay said there was a joint operation by Afghan and NATO troops in the area's Arghandab district early Monday. After that operation was over, the troops came under attack from the Taliban and called in air support.
"There was a joint operation by the joint Afghan and foreign forces in Arghandab district of Zabul province on Monday. After the operation was over on the way back, the joint forces came under the attack of insurgents, then foreign forces called for an air support, Unfortunately five NATO soldiers and one Afghan army officer were killed mistakenly by NATO air strike," Rooghlawanay said.
There was no way to independently confirm Rooghlawanay comments. The coalition would not comment and NATO headquarters in Brussels also deferred comment.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The insurgents have intensified attacks on Afghan and foreign forces ahead of the country's presidential election runoff on Saturday. Officials are concerned there could be more violence around the time of the vote, although the first round in April passed relatively peacefully.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said a battle took place on Monday night between foreign troops and Taliban fighters in the Arghandab district. Ahmadi claimed a "huge number" of NATO soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting but the Taliban often exaggerate their claims.
Separately, a NATO statement said a service member had died on Monday as a result of a non-battle injury in eastern Afghanistan.
The deaths bring to 36 the number of NATO soldiers killed so far this year in Afghanistan, with eight service members killed in June.
Casualties have been falling in the U.S.-led military coalition as its forces pull back to allow the Afghan army and police to fight the Taliban insurgency. All combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn from the country by the end of this year.
Patrick Quinn contributed from Cairo, Egypt.


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Spin the Globe
Spin the Globe
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Looking for a great vacation spot for your family? Then spin the globe (or flip through an atlas or scan a map) while you're unwinding, and you and your child can plan the perfect trip.
Choose a destination at random, and discuss the place with your child. See what he or she knows about the language, customs, government, lifestyle, and so on (your child might also check an encyclopedia or another reference book for additional information).
If you and your child agree that it might be a nice place to visit, ask your co-traveler to help you plan an agenda. How would you get there, and how long would it take? What clothes would you pack? What words and phrases would you need to learn? What tourist attractions should you be sure to see while you're there? What noteworthy local people might you run into, and what questions or other messages might you have for them if you did?
If you and your child plan a trip to Great Britain, do stop at Buckingham Palace and give the Queen our best!
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Land quality and deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil
The state of Mato Grosso is the epicenter of an agricultural revolution in Brazil. During the last 15 years, expansion of agriculture in the state has helped Brazil become one of the world's top producers of soy, corn, cotton, and other staple crops. Despite the increase in production, the rate at which Amazon forestland in the state was cleared to make room for new farmland slowed significantly in the second half of the last decade.
Much of the credit for slowing deforestation has been given to government policies and intervention, including a moratorium on exporting soy grown on deforested land. But new research from Brown University suggests something else may be helping slow deforestation: The inventory of forestland in Mato Grosso that is ideal for conversion to agriculture is starting to dwindle.
"I'm sure that policy is helping, but we suggest it might not be all policy," said Stephanie Spera, a graduate student at Brown and the study's lead author. "It might also be a decrease in the amount of highly suitable agricultural land. The effect of policy may have been overestimated."
The findings are published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
Mapping changes in land use
Over the last few years, Spera and her colleagues have been using data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite to track changes in land use in Mato Grosso. Using a measure called the Enhanced Vegetation Index—essentially a measure of greenness in land cover—the researchers are able to distinguish between forestland and land used for agriculture. Forestland remains green all year. Land used for agriculture displays spikes in greenness that correspond with growing seasons.
By looking for changes on those patterns of greenness, Spera and her colleagues have mapped land use patterns in Mato Grosso from 2001 to 2011—a time during which agriculture exploded in the state.
"The rigorous mapping of land cover change and cropping is unprecedented in the temporal scope and spatial accuracy," said Jack Mustard, professor of geological sciences at Brown and another of the study's authors. "It shows huge transformations happening in this agricultural frontier that were unexpected but are hugely important."
Among those transformations was a dramatic expansion of agriculture on newly cleared forestland. In 2001, 3.3 million hectares of mechanized agriculture were cultivated in Mato Grosso. By 2011, agriculture had expanded to cover about 5.8 million hectares. Most of that expansion, however, was concentrated in the early part of the decade.
Later in the decade—after about 2006—clearing of forestland slowed and the intensification of farming on existing farmland increased. That intensification came mostly in the form of double cropping—planting two crops in the same field in a single growing season. In the satellite data, double-cropped land shows up as having two peaks in the greenness index per growing season, one just before the first crop is harvested, and a second peak for the second crop. In 2001, 0.5 million hectares were double cropped. By 2011, that had increased to 2.9 million hectares.
"Such increases in food production from double cropping—without expanding to new lands—are the key to meeting global food needs as populations and incomes go up around the world in the next 50 years," said Leah VanWey, a study co-author, professor of sociology and deputy director of Brown's Institute for the Study of Environment and Society. "Mato Grosso shows that this is possible on the most suitable lands in a new agricultural region."
The next step in the work was to learn more about the factors that influence agricultural growth patterns.
"What I was curious about next was whether or not there are certain characteristics of that land—like soil or slope or [proximity to] roads—that promoted either clearing new land or intensifying on existing agricultural land," Spera said. "That was the question we looked at for this paper."
Land characteristics
To get an idea of what might make for ideal agricultural land in Mato Grosso, Spera and her colleagues turned to a classic economic theory. In the 1800s, the economist David Ricardo developed a theory positing "the most fertile and most favorably situated land will be first cultivated."
Following the theory, Spera looked to see what characteristics may have been common to the land developed at the beginning of the agriculture expansion. Those characteristics included soil quality, the degree of slope of the land, average temperature in the area, the proximity to roads that could deliver goods to market, and other factors. In all, the researchers looked at seven factors that could contribute to the usability of the land. They found that the land initially converted to agriculture tended to be flat, low elevation, and close to roads. Weather around agricultural lands tended to be relatively cool and wet.
Armed with data about what makes good agricultural land, the researchers combined those factors with their land-use maps. They found that the forestland cleared for agriculture over the decade tended to be similar in those characteristics to the land developed at the beginning of the study period. Moreover, land on which agriculture was started but then abandoned during the study period tended to be significantly different from the initial land developed for agriculture, suggesting that land that deviates too much from those characteristics is less than ideal for agriculture.
Spera then set out to see how much land with those ideal characteristics remains in Mato Grosso. They found available land with those characteristics declined by as much as 40 percentage points over the decade.
Taken together, the results suggest that "a scarcity of high-quality land available for agricultural expansion may be influencing patterns of agricultural development in the region," the researchers write.
An understanding of the characteristics that make land suitable for agriculture could inform future policymaking, Spera said. "Maybe policies shouldn't be broad brush, but should take into account land suitability," she said. "Maybe the land that we know isn't well-suited for agriculture anyway should be prioritized for protection from deforestation."
Spera and her colleagues plan to continue monitoring land use changes across Mato Grosso. Understanding these patterns of change, the researchers say, could help manage Brazil's agricultural expansion in a way that helps to feed a growing world population while maintaining the precious forests of the Amazon.
More information: Paper: iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/6/064010/article
Journal information: Environmental Research Letters
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Eaters may come to Blake Island for the salmon bake, but they stay for the lively story-and-dance show featuring Coast Salish legends and – this year – a new mask.
Argosy Cruises, which operates the popular Tillicum Village excursion, commissioned a new Crooked Beak of Heaven mask for its 2013 season. According to Argosy spokeswoman Maureen Black, it took an anonymous carver six months to carve the massive headdress from a single piece of cedar. During the off-season, Argosy also arranged for the repair of its decade-old Big Beak and Hamatsa Raven masks.
"Masks that are used for performances tend to get a lot more wear and tear than those for 'display'," Black explains. "It's the internal pieces that tend to break – i.e. the mechanisms and pulls to clap the beaks."
Although Blake Island is a short float from Seattle, Tillicum Village has interpreted an array of Coast Salish traditions since caterer Bill Hewitt developed the tourist attraction. Hewitt in 1962 furnished a five-acre corner of the state park with a longhouse and totem poles associated with tribes from much further up the coast.
The dance masks come from the Kwakwaka'wakw, or Kwakiutl, whose tribal lands are located on the northern end of Vancouver Island. In Kwakwaka'wakw culture, bird masks are used in a coming-of-age ceremony that emphasizes harmony and balance.
"The appearance of these masks helps to calm and tame the initiate Hamatsa dancer, who has been possessed by the Cannibal Spirit," Bill Holm wrote in a passage quoted on the Burke Museum's website. "The dancer, hidden by a long fringe of red-dyed cedar bark, imitates the high-stepping actions of the bird, shouts the bird's call, and snaps the hinged beak loudly at important points of the dance."
All that snapping is rough on Argosy's mask collection, but it's also a sound effect so compelling that it inevitably distracts diners from their individual apple pies.
"The masks are considered the most theatrical of all of the Coast Salish tribes," Black says.


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Spire for 1 World Trade Center arrives in NYC
NEW YORK The crowning spire of the World Trade Center's tallest building has arrived in New York City.
A barge was brought across New York Harbor from New Jersey's Port Newark on Tuesday.
It held nine pieces of the steel spire that will top One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
Meanwhile, workers on the 104-story skyscraper were busy pouring concrete that will hold the 408-foot spire.
The trade center's director of construction, Steven Plate (playt), says the spire marks a post 9/11 milestone that signifies New York City is "better than ever."
The heaviest piece weighs nearly 70 tons.
The spire is expected to rise into the Manhattan sky by spring.
Plate says the 1,776-foot high-rise symbolizing America's freedom will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
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[Editor's note: I happened on this interactive map from the San Francisco airport when I flew thru SFO this past weekend as I bid adieu to my California vacation. There is an airport overview and maps of each terminal. Gates, stores, food options, restrooms, and other features are located. Each feature is interactive with a tooltip and small description, including open hours for businesses, and full description in the bottom left corner. Category searches are available in the top left corner and the map will highlight with the appropriate location(s).]
Interact with the original at FlySFO . . .
Detail of map above shows result of a food and beverage category querry for the restraunt name.


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Trepanation, or trephination (both derived from the Greek word trypanon, meaning "to bore") is perhaps the oldest form of neurosurgery. The procedure, which is called a craniotomy in medical terminology, involves the removal of a piece of bone from the skull, and it has been performed since prehistoric times. The oldest trepanned skull, found at a neolithic burial site of Ensisheim in France, is more than 7,000 years old, and trepanation was practised by the Ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Romans, Greeks and the early Mesoamerican civilizations. The procedure is still performed today, for both medical and non-medical reasons
The trepanned skulls found at prehistoric European sites contained round holes, which varied in size from just a few centimetres in diameter to nearly half of the skull. They are most commonly found in the parietal bone, and also in the occipital and frontal bones, but rarely in the temporal bone. In the earliest European trepanned skulls, the holes were made by scraping the bone away with sharp stones such as flint or obsidian; later, primitive drilling tools were used to drill small holes arranged in circles, after which the piece of bone inside the circle was removed. The late Medieval period saw the introduction of mechanical drilling and sawing instruments, whose sophistication would continue to increase for several hundred years.
There is a great deal of speculation about why ancient civilizations used trepanation, as it was – and still is – carried out in the absence of head trauma. However, it is almost certain that all those who used it did so because they somehow linked the brain with behaviour. Some anthropologists suggest that trepanation was performed as part of tribal or superstitious rituals. Other researchers believe that the procedure was used as a treatment for conditions such as headaches, epilepsy, hydrocephalus and mental disorders. These were presumably attributed to possession by evil demons, such that a hole in the skull would have provided the spirits a passage for escape. Although the reasons for trepanning and the instruments used for the procedure differ with time and from culture to culture, the result is always the same: a hole in the head, usually made when the individual was fully conscious and, often, unanaesthetized.
Some suggest that trepanation was used specifically to treat depressed skull fractures, and there is historical evidence that it was used for medical reasons. For example, the ancient Greek physicians used various instruments for trepanning, including the terebra (right). The way this instrument was used is easily inferred from its structure: the cross-beam was used to wind the thong tightly around the central beam. When released, the centre beam rotated quickly, so that applying downward pressure on the instrument would cause it to bore through the skull. This instrument may have been used to drill single small holes, but it is more likely to have been used to make multiple holes arranged in a circle, so that the piece of bone within the circle was made easier to remove.
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.E.) describes the types of injuries for which trepanning was usedin this passage from On the Injuries of the Head:
…the contusion, whether the bone be laid bare or not; and the fissure, whether apparent or not. And if, when an indentation by a weapon takes place in a bone it be attended with fracture and contusion, and even if contusion alone, without fracture, be combined with the indentation, it requires trepanning…those [bones] which are most pressed and broken require trepanning the least.
The first specimen of a trepanned skull was found in 1685 by Bernard de Montfauchon at a site in Cocherel, France, but its importance was not recognized. In 1816, a second specimen was found by Alexander Francois Barbie du Bovage at Nogentles-les-Vierges. This time, it was recognized that the skull had belonged to an individual on whom a craniotomy had been performed, apparently years before his death. However, the second specimen was considered to be exceptional, and little thought was given to why the skull had been perforated. In 1839, Samuel George Morton depicted a trepanned skull in his book Crania Americana, but mistakenly assumed the hole had occurred as the result of a battle wound. Although the second specimen to be found was recognized as a craniotomy, the real significance of the skulls had escaped scientists and physicians.
It was not until the latter half of the nineteenth century that investigators began to appreciate the significance of trepanation. Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888) had acquired a specimen of a trepanned skull, and brought it to the attention of the scientific and medical communities in America and Europe. Squier was a self-taught archaeologist and a respected writer and journalist, who was appointed by Abraham Lincoln to act as the U. S. Commissioner to Peru. He first encountered the now famous specimen during a visit to the home of a wealthy woman, in the Peruvian region of Cuczo. As he marvelled at the woman's collection of artifacts – which he later described as the finest collection of pre-Columbian art in Peru – Squier noticed a fragment of a skull containing a square hole measuring 15 x 17 mm (left). He immediately recognized that the hole was man-made.
In this passage from his book about Peru, Squier describes his first impressions of the skull fragment, and how its owner allowed him to take it with him so that it could be examined
…the most important relic in Señora Zentino's collection is the frontal bone of a skull, from the Inca cemetery in the valley of Yucay, which exhibits a clear case of trepanning before death. The señora was kind enough to give it to me for investigation, and it has been submitted to the criticism of the best surgeons of the United States and Europe, and regarded by all as the most remarkable evidence of a knowledge of surgery among the aborigines yet discovered on this continent; for trepanning is one of the most difficult surgical processes. The cutting through the bone was not performed with a saw, but evidently with a burin, or tool like that used by engravers on wood and metal. The opening is fifty-eight hundredths of an inch wide and seventy hundredths long.
Squier left Peru, and took the skull fragment to the New York Academy of Medicine, where he asked Dr. August K. Gardner to examine it and present it to the other members of the Academy. At the time, the relationship between brain size, race and intelligence was a hotly debated topic in scientific academies around the world. The general consensus among academics was that the three factors were intimately linked: non-whites were less intelligent than white because they had smaller skulls and brains. There was, therefore, great interest in the skull that Squier had acquired, as it provided the first evidence for trepanation in an ancient and "primitive" culture.
Most of the physicians at the Academy interpreted Squeir's specimen as "a case of trephining." This interpretation is documented in the minutes of the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine:
The skull showed that during the patient's life an operation for trephining had been performed, a square-shaped piece of bone having been removed from the frontal bone, by what would appear to have been a gouging instrument. At one portion of the opening there seemed to be evidence of the attempt on the part of nature to form new bone, to repair the injury done by the operation.
All of the Academy's members agreed that the hole was man-made, but a few argued that there was no evidence of bone growth, and that it must therefore have been made after the individual's death. Squier then crossed the Atlantic and took the skull to Paul Broca, a leading anthropologist who had founded the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris in 1859. Broca had been interested in craniometry for some time, particularly in relation to the ongoing debates about the relationship between brain size, race and intelligence. Upon examination of the specimen, Broca found no sign of fracture, and wondered why the procedure had been performed. He suggested that the skull had been perforated to relieve built-up intracranial pressure that had followed a closed head injury, and that the patient had died several days after the trepanation was performed:
There is no fracture or fissure of either external or internal table…and the surgeon who performed the operation could consequently only be governed by functional troubles when diagnosing the existence of an intra-cranial lesion. Was this diagnosis correct? Did the operation succeed in evacuating a fluid poured into the cranium? I am far from affirming this, but am tempted to believe it. In effect, the internal table around the opening is the seat of a very different alteration from that which existed on the external table around the denudation…These peculiarities and several others, which would take too long to detail, are well explained, if we suppose that there had been for some days before the operation an effusion of blood under the dura mater.
Contrary to the widely-held belief that all ancient, and particularly non-white, civilizations were primitive, Broca – who not only accepted the popular view himself, but was also partly responsible for its formation – concluded that the skull fragment was strong evidence of "advanced surgery" by the ancient Peruvians:
What astonishes me is not the boldness of the operation, as ignorance is often the mother of boldness. To trepan on an apparent fracture at the bottom of a wound is a sufficiently simple conception and does not necessitate the existence of advanced surgical arts. But here the trepanning was performed on a point where there was no fracture, and probably not even a wound, so that the surgical act was preceded by a diagnosis. Whether this diagnosis was correct, as is probable, or false, we are in either case authorized to conclude that there was in Peru, before the European era, a surgery already very advanced – and this entirely new notion is not without interest for American anthropology.
Broca also experimented with trepanation himself. He found that a hole could very easily be made in the skull of a deceased 2-year-old child; using a simple glass scraper, the procedure took him about 4 minutes. But the same procedure took about 50 minutes when performed on a skull from an adult. (Young childrens' crania are easier to perforate than those of adults because the process of calcification is not yet complete.) Broca therefore wrongly assumed that the Incas usually performed trepanation on the young.
By 1867, following the presentation of Squier's specimen in New York, and Broca's publication of his observations of the skull fragment, there was increasing interest in trepanation. This led others to search for more specimens and subsequently, hundreds of trepanned skulls would be found in every corner of Europe. One French site, for example, contained 120 skulls, 40 of which had been trepanned.
The specimen Squeir had obtained came from the Cuczo region of Peru, where many other trepanned skulls have since been found. At one Paracas Indian necropolis located south of Lima, for example, 10,000 complete and well-preserved bodies were found. They belonged to the Incas and to the pre-Inca Tallan and Mochica cultures; around 6% had been trepanned, and many contained multiple holes. From these subsequent discoveries it is clear that the square opening in Squeir's specimen – which is housed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and is now dated to 1400-1530 – is not at all unusual.
In both pre-Inca and Inca cultures, trepanation was performed using a cermonial knife called a tumi. The patient's head was held tightly between the surgeon's knees, and the tumi blade, which consisted of a sharp piece of flint or copper, was then rubbed back and forth along the surface of the skull. In this way, four incisions arranged in a criss cross pattern, were made in the skull (these are clearly visible in Ephraim's drawing at the top). The tumi blade increased in thickness close to the sharp edge, thus it was prevented from suddenly penetrating the skull to far. When the incisions were deep enough, the square-shaped piece of bone in the middle of the criss cross was prized out from the skull. An exact survival rate cannot be determined, but the presence of multiple holes in many of the Peru skulls suggests that the individuals survived more than one procedure; some estimates, based on the rate of bone growth seen around the holes in the skulls, put the survival rate at greater than 60%. The Aztecs used similar trepanning instruments, consisting of a sharp semicircular piece of obsidian attached to a wooden handle. Some copper and bronze instruments have also been found, sometimes with ornate and elaborate handles.
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Latinized as Albucasis) provides descriptions of the instruments used by Arab surgeons in the twelfth century. A sharp pointed borer was used to make small holes arranged in a cirlce, and another with a spear-shaped head was then used to remove the round piece of bone in the middle. Ambroise Paré (1517-1590), a barber-surgeon who often operated on the battlefield, employed trepanning instruments that had braces or drill stocks to which saws were attached with binding screws. In his treatises on surgery, Paré also described "trepanes or round saws for cutting out a circular piece of bone with a sharp-pointed nail in the centre projecting beyond the teeth," and another trepan with a transverse handle. The mechanical cogwheel trepan was invented by Matthia Narvatio in Antwerp in 1575. The cogwheel was connected to a second wheel which rotated a circular saw that cut through the bone. This instrument was used much in the same way as a modern hand drill – held in one hand and cranked with the other. But it was extremely heavy and cumbersome, and therefore did not become popular among the surgeons of the time.
A further and highly significant advance in trepanning instruments came with the invention of a central screw. In the mid-sixteenth century, a trepan consisting of a head brace and drill stock to which a circular saw or sharp perforator was widely available. In 1632, Joannis Scultetus, who was one of the most accomplished seventeenth century surgeons, described an instrument called a trioploides, which he used for raising depressed skull fractures. This was a three-legged instrument with a long centrally-placed screw, similar to the "crown" trepan in the image on the right. In his book Armamentarium chirurgicum, which was published in 1655, Scultetus provided beautiful illustrations of various types of cranial surgery, including trepanation, as well as the instruments used to perform them (below). He also described what he called "male" and "female" instruments, the former with, and the latter without, central screws, and explained how together they were used for trepanning:
Before we use the females, we must make a print on the skull with the male so that the female may stand faster upon it. Now for to trepan the skull the Chyrurgian must have at hand at least three trepans exactly equal to each other; one male and two females, so that he may oft-times change them.
Today, trepanning is still used routinely by doctors to treat traumatic brain injuries. The biggest advocate of trepanation for non-medical purposes is a Dutchman named Bart Hughes, who makes pseudoscientific claims that the procedure can be used to reach a higher state of consciousness:
I met [someone who] used to stand on his head…for considerable periods of time. When I asked him why he did it, he said it got him high. [Later, I was given] some mescaline, and it was then that I got my first clear picture of the mechanism, realizing that it was the increase in the volume of brainblood [sic] that gave the expanded consciousness…[which] must have been caused by more blood in the brain which meant there must have been less of something else. Then I realized that it must be the volume of cerebrospinal fluid that was decreased.
…I thought about making a hole at the base of the spine to let the fluid out, and while thinking about holes I realized that pressure was necessary to squeeze the cerebrospinal fluid out of the system. Then, having concluded upon the nil pressure inside the adult skull (in most people the skull seals between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two) I saw that any hole in the bony surrounding of the system would give the pressure back. But after a time I realized a hole in the spine would heal over so it had to be in the skull, where holes stay open.
In 1965, Hughes famously performed a trepanation on himself using an electric drill, a surgical knife and a hypodermic needle to administer a local anaesthetic. He has followers who have also performed self-trepanation, or have asked friends to do it for them.


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This site was designed by me, using the Bootstrap framework.
I played with the carousel feature to get the look of the site and I will probably play with it some more at any given moment.
Thanks to the people on these sites, amongst others, I am sure, for teaching me how to make the modifications I wanted:


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I will quote from Jonathan what chapter 2 covers:
Chapter 2 is basically all about routing - a pretty fundamental topic for Camel! I cover route creation in Java and Spring, as well as several EIPs. Since it is such an early chapter its pretty hand-holding throughout - you don't need to know Spring or EIPs beforehand, for instance.The other new chapter is chapter 4 (Yes we have rearranged the chapters a bit.). It covers how to use beans with Camel. You may think there isn't material to mandate a topic about beans? Well Camel does go through great lengths to ensure using beans is easy and painless. But under the covers a lot is happening and this chapter discloses what and how. We wrote the code so we damn well talk about how it works :). The goal is to help you better understand and leverage the many features Camel provides for using beans. Camel has clever parameter binding which allows you to have loose coupling between Camel and your beans. It also have a arsenal of parameter and method annotations which has its merits as well. The chapter is also written in a more engaging style allowing you to try out and test as we goes.
Beware Manning have not yet updated the table of contents in the book website. I assume they will do this later today to reflect the latest rearrangement.
We are also happy to announce that Manning have provided us with a special discount code for this MEAP update. You can get 30% discount for any of the Camel in Action versions (ebook, print book or combo). Use checkout code camel30 from the Camel in Action website.
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1 worker hurt in chemical leak at Dalton plant; company experienced earlier accidents
An accident at a chemical plant in Dalton injured a worker Monday and briefly caused authorities to close roads and warn residents in nearby apartments to stay inside, officials said.
The accident marked a third serious safety incident for MFG Chemical Inc. Another of the company's facilities in Dalton suffered a runaway reaction in 2004 that forced a nine-hour evacuation and a reactor explosion in 2012.
"Sometimes with these incidents that keep occurring, yes, we do have some concerns," Dalton Fire Chief Bruce Satterfield said.
The incident Monday started just after 6 a.m. at an industrial park on Kimberly Park Drive, not far from Interstate 75. A worker was adding a chemical into a reactor to produce maleic anhydride, Satterfield said. A chemical reaction quickly produced a vapor that escaped before the worker could shut a lid.
That worker, whose name was not released, inhaled the vapor and appeared to have injured his respiratory tract, Satterfield said. He was flown by helicopter to a burn center in Augusta.
It was not immediately clear what chemicals were in the vapor. Maleic anhydride is commonly used to manufacture polyester resins used in boats, cars, buildings and electrical goods, and in other products, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Inhaling it can irritate the larynx, cause coughing, headaches and eye irritation.
There were conflicting reports over whether the vapor left the facility. MFG Chemical said in a written statement that the release was contained within its plant and that it posed no threat to the public. However, Satterfield said fire crews arriving at the scene noticed that some vapor was leaving the site. Investigators for the Dalton fire department and Georgia's Environmental Protection Division were still trying to determine Monday exactly what happened.
"We're investigating that, and we haven't come to any conclusions," said Woody Mader, the company's commercial development manager.
The chemical reaction had stopped by the time firefighters arrived. Emergency officials initially closed several roads near the plant and told the residents of a nearby apartment complex to stay indoors. Those precautions were subsequently lifted.
MFG Chemical operates three chemical plants in Dalton and sells a variety of products used in the textile, mining, oil and paper industries. Another of its plants in Dalton has twice suffered serious accidents.
On April 12, 2004, a runaway reaction at a facility on Callahan Road released highly toxic and flammable chemicals, forcing the evacuation of more than 200 families, according to a report by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. One worker suffered chemical burns and 154 people needed to be decontaminated and treated for chemical exposure.
Federal investigators faulted MFG Chemical for several failures in that accident, including not anticipating the potential chemical hazards and not preparing adequate emergency response plans.
Another runaway reaction at the same plant on May 21, 2012, created too much pressure in a reactor, ruptured a dome cover and blew a hole in the roof of the building, according to findings by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Investigators said 40 people working in the area were sent to the hospital for decontamination. MFG Chemical paid $57,055 in penalties for safety violations identified by inspectors after that accident, OSHA spokesman Lindsay Williams said.
OSHA is investigating the latest accident.
AP reporter Jeff Martin contributed to this report. Follow Ray Henry on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhenryAP.


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Bill Gates and I don't often disagree. However, at the recent Techonomy conference, Bill was predicting the future of higher education. I took umbrage with some of his comments. Per his usual rhetoric, Bill positioned technology as the panacea for the future of higher education.
Here are some of Bill's comments:
"The self-motivated [college] learner will be on the web and there will be far less place-based things."
"College, except for the parties…. needs to be less place-based."
"Place-based activity in that 'college thing' will be 5 times less important than it is today."
"The room for innovation, thank God for charters, there's no room for innovation in the standard system."
Bill's commentary at the conference was picked up by TechCrunch and posted as "Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web."
The post quickly spread like a wildfire throughout Twitter:
"In five years, the best education will come from the web." – @billgates http://cot.ag/aK6f0M
The interesting thing is that the quote that's being passed around on Twitter as originating from Bill Gates seems to have been actually just the post title from TechCrunch. I wasn't able to find video or text where Bill Gates actually said what is being attributed to him by a lot of folks on Twitter.
The disturbing aspects of Bill's quotes from the video are that he seems to have a negative attitude toward the physical spaces of higher education. Bill constructs his arguments around cost and access, but fails to adequately critique his own points. "Self-motivated learners" generally do not include students from traditionally marginalized groups. Bill Gates went to an exclusive preparatory high school and attended Harvard College. His is not a story of overcoming obstacles. Access issues are pervasive in higher education. Socioeconomic status catapulted Gates to where he is today. His arguments around access fail to include awareness of the digital divide in terms of both class and disability. Simply offering more web-based opportunities for learning will not improve access issues. And don't get me started about the bit about "parties" being the only rationale for "place-based" institutions.
Bill's rhetoric is consistently anti-student-involvement. Gates approaches his arguments from the position that every student is coming out of an innovative charter school and where self-motivated learners roam the higher education sphere. What Bill is forgetting is that involvement is crucial to student success. Can a student be successful when there primary involvement opportunities take place via the web — absolutely. However, most of our students benefit tremendously from their involvement and interactions within the brick and mortar activities of their educational institution.
Student involvement theory is a foundational element for student affairs professionals. Research has shown that increased involvement leads to higher amounts of persistence and greater academic success.
According to Alexander Astin (1984) [pdf]:
[S]tudent involvement refers to the amount of physical and psycho- logical energy that the student devotes to the academic experience. Thus, a highly involved student is one who, for example, devotes considerable energy to studying, spends much time on campus, participates actively in student organizations, and interacts frequently with faculty members and other students.
Astin (1984) concluded that "the greater the student's involvement in college, the greater will be the amount of student learning and personal development."
I wish that Bill Gates would offer a blended approach. Why can't we have both? Amazing opportunities can be created to support students in both the virtual and physical spheres.
Astin, A. (1984). Student involvement: a developmental theory for higher education. Journal of College Student Personnel, 25(4), 297-308.


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Hello all,
I try to use the sample from Eric Lengyel without success,
I think my problem is related to the clip plane, since my plane is from world coordinate, it say it need to be in camera eye coord,
Do I need transform my plane (world space) before using it?
The perspective matrix is build using glm::perspective, my matrix are basically glm::mat4…
matrix4 oblique = projection;
vector4 plane(normal, distance);
vector4 q;
q.x = (sign(plane.x) + projection[0][2]) / projection[0][0];
q.y = (sign(plane.y) + projection[1][2]) / projection[1][1];
q.z = -1.0f;
q.w = (1.0f + projection[2][2]) / projection[2][3];
vector4 c = plane * (2.0f / glm::dot(plane, q));
oblique[0][2] = c.x;
oblique[1][2] = c.y;
oblique[2][2] = c.z + 1.0f;
oblique[3][2] = c.w;
Here the shot using the projection without the oblique. The second shot show the issue I try to resolve with oblique near clip plane.
If I am using this code, I am jumping out of the map, I just see the sky


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Get Your Geek On
The Austin scene of Web designers and usability experts, technologists, social media enthusiasts, game developers, and beyond seems to be thriving, with an almost overwhelming number of groups and corresponding events every week.
- Refresh Austin – for Web designers and developers working to keep it fresh. The next meeting is Tuesday, May 13th.
- Geek Austin – their blog includes interviews with lots of tech industry and startup stars. Geek Austin and Refresh Austin are hosting a WordPress Fest on May 21st to celebrate the release of the blogging software's version 2.5.
- Jelly Austin! – although not exclusive to tech workers, this co-working group meets currently every Friday at Café Caffeine.
- Creative Commons Austin Salon – this group advocates for Creative Commons, which "provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry." They have a Google group and meet occasionally.
- 501c Tech Club – affiliated with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, this group meets monthly although I don't see the next meeting date's info on the site. (If you're interested in the intersection of technology and nonprofits, check out the great blog FISpace.)
- Austin High Tech Happy Hour – is just what it sounds like.
- Social Media Club – a fairly nascent group of social media professionals and enthusiasts whose next meeting is May 15th.
Speaking of co-working, if you do freelance work, often work from home, or are starting your own business, you might be interested in the work of Conjunctured, a co-working company and the forthcoming LaunchPad, a co-working space (so you don't have to go to your local coffeeshop all the time and you can have a place to meet, make copies, etc.)


text: Known more for its style than its functionality, the Men's Air Max 95 Running Shoe is a classic whose functionality and style actually enjoy equal footing. Almost 20 years after its original release these classic running shoes were designed with the human body in mind. Initially just a running shoe, the Nike Air Max 95 has now transcended into popular culture as a casual shoe with all around purpose and functionality. Featuring a unique lacing system, nylon eyestays to secure the foot in place, as well as reflective material at the heel for improved visibility during those evening runs. With visible Air in the heel and forefoot, this classic vintage style delivers the same flexible cushioning as the original model. Elegant, comfortable, and stylish what else can you ask for in a classic running shoe.


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Industrial gases company signs 7-year renewable energy supply contract
Air Liquide Argentina, a company that supplies industrial, medical and specialty gases, announced the signing of a 7-year contract for the supply of renewable energy with PCR, from its wind farm located in the south of the province of Buenos Aires.
The agreement will allow Air Liquide to supply almost 8 MW of renewable energy starting in the second half of 2023, which will enable it to supply its production plants with renewable energy.
By operating its production plants with a higher proportion of renewable energy, the company will avoid the emission of 133,000 tons of CO2 during the term of the agreement, accelerating its commitment to lead the energy transition, especially through the decarbonization of its own assets.
Facundo Aranguren, CEO of Air Liquide Argentina, said that the company "is committed to decarbonizing its own assets and enabling the development of renewable energy capacity globally through its long-term commitments."
The Mercado a Término de Energía Eléctrica de Fuentes Renovables or Mater, as it is known by its acronym, is the market where renewable energy is bought and sold between private parties.
This scheme allows the system's large consumers to comply with the requirements of Law 27.191, which demands that by 2025 20% of the electric energy they consume comes from renewable sources.
The purpose of the legislation is to regulate an Electric Energy purchase mechanism that allows its acquisition by free agreement between the parties for Large Users of the Wholesale Electricity Market (MEM) with power demands equal to or greater than 300 kw.
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Can coal be a clean energy source? Australia and Japan think so
Unit 3 of Norochcholai Power Plant suffers breakdown
Energy rich present our gift to the future
German gas network suitable for hydrogen
Kazakhstan, UK talk co-op on green hydrogen production
Spain asks Brussels to exclude hydrogen produced with fossil energy from renewables
Cummins and Accelera fuel hydrogen commitment at Con Expo
Colombian ecopetrol creates subsidiary focused on technology and innovation in spain
De Heus and Bel Ga fulfill commitments to sustainability with solar rooftop portfolio
EDP creates two companies with Aboño and Soto power plants to launch hydrogen investments
Denmark: Five municipalities leading investors of renewable energy
Wind Canon winds are blowing
African renewables platform Lekela moves to new owner Infinity Power
Wind energy projects produce 64.54 bn units of electricity in India
Infinity Power Finalizes Acquisition of Lekela Power in Africa's Biggest Renewable Energy Deal
Lhyfe, Centrica team up on offshore green hydrogen in UK
enercity is driving the expansion of wind energy in Lower Saxony
Infinity Power acquires Lekela Power
India: 64.54 billion units electricity produced from Wind Energy during April, 2022-January, 2023 – Union Power & NRE Minister – Shri R. K. Singh
Transfer of China's renewable energy expertise to Pakistan urged
Zim mulls energy efficiency policy
Fugro and Petrobras pioneer remote subsea inspection survey in Brazil
Mar 19
German government confirmed "nuclear blackout" for April 15
Africa: Presidency finalising Electricity Minister's powers
The bulk of the Brussels electricity reform is in force in Spain without having avoided the price crisis.
Tackling Ice on the Baltic Sea to Generate Additional Costs for Offshore Wind Farms
43 million tons of annual wind turbine blade waste
Spain subsidized 600 million in electricity to Morocco after the change of position on Sahara
Could New Zealand become the SAUDI ARABIA OF WIND?
V2G Charging: Unlock the Benefits of Smart Charging for UK EV Owners
European wind industry agrees to produce 36,000 megawatts per year
Ukraine builds a mega wind farm
Thai company wins grant for region's largest cross-border wind farm in Laos
Electricity in Spain 34% cheaper than in France
More than 90 thousand Edesur users are still without power in AMBA
Sweden: Electricity consumption down by 6.5% in February 2023
Management committee meeting of China Southern Power Grid – University of Macau Joint Laboratory of Smart Power and Energy for Carbon Neutrality held at UM
India to have a modern and smart power transmission system; Government accepts the Task Force report
Mar 17
China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd issued RMB 3 bln short-term commercial paper
Shandong Nuclear Power Company Ltd. issued RMB 1 bln short-term commercial paper
China Longyuan Power Group Corporation Limited issued RMB 2 bln short-term commercial paper
MEPCO recovers over Rs 887m from permanent defaulters
NTPC ranked as the top Independent Power Producers and Energy Traders Globally by S&P Platts
Masdar talks its plan of activities in Azerbaijan
Rosatom's subsidiary preparing project to build small HPPs in Congo - Russian ambassador
NEPRA organizes webinar on incident investigation
PM directs measures to improve power transmission
MEPCO disconnects all WASA connections over non-payment of dues
Thar coal offers sustainable solution to energy issues of country: Imtiaz Sheikh
EU to auction E 800 million in aid for domestic green hydrogen producers
Industry associations not quite happy with EC's legislative proposals
Lithuania approves requirements for maiden offshore wind tender
Mitie Group plc - Four important lessons on the road to decarbonisation
Abiding by dept rules, regulation ensures transparency
Rampal plant resumes power generation after month-long closure
Monster of Rs2.6tr circular debt will stay despite levying of Rs3.23/unit surcharge
Russia proposes 'direct payment' for Bangladesh power plant amid SWIFT ban
Greenvolt buys into Solarelit to enter Italy's DG solar market
The DEA issues permit for preliminary site investigations in the site Nordsøen I
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Equinor, Petrobras agree to evaluate seven offshore wind projects in Brazil
UK to spend $24 billion on domestic carbon capture projects to hit energy transition goals
Vestas Wind Systems A/S - Vestas secures 50 MW order in Finland
ENERGY CRISIS - There are greener, healthier ways to respond to Kusile pollution problem
'Strange situation' as electricity prices to soar 14% in NI despite drop in costs
Building sector plan calls for solar on all new EU buildings
A North Sea energy megaproject will rid the EU of US LNG
Volkswagen previews what its future electric utility vehicle will look like, with clear Golf inspiration
Offshore wind power to play an important role in Vietnam's future
Ayala unit acquires US wind power assets
BayWa r.e. and NORD/LB complete financing of solar farm
India faces high risks of power cuts after years of coal, hydro power neglect
Kenya hit peak electricity demand in December
Salt battery attracts many spectators at solar trade show
LONGi ranks again in BNEF Tier 1 list for Q1 2023 with its PV modules recognized by the industry
Wind farms produce 49.10% of UK power on March 16
Nuclear power Taiwan's only hedge against Chinese naval blockade: Peter Zeihan
Government prioritises renewable energy investment
Cabinet Welcomes Launch of Fund to Address Energy Challenges
Magnora ASA: Helios Nordic Energy AB hands over another 21 MW to customer
Bord refuses permission for Carlow wind farm
Govt to build 2,000MW nuclear power plant
Visayan Electric set to cut power rate anew
Hydrogen power for delivery drones: Wingcopter and ZAL GmbH start joint development
European Union boosts green technologies to respond to U.S. and China
EBRD's renewable energy project in Central Asia is largest to date
EU sees drop in CO2 emissions, green electricity tops gas - IEA
INPEX to expand its geothermal, offshore wind power business
Uzbekistan discloses energy generated by SPPs in Navoi and Samarkand regions
Siemens energy sells shares for $1.33 billion to finance gamesa's offering
EU envisages subsidies for hydrogen produced with energy - draft
European Commission Proposes Reform of EU Electricity Market Design to Boost Renewables, Better Protect Consumers, Enhance Industrial Competitiveness
Mar 16
Bolivia plans to be the main supplier of electricity to Brazil
Nuclear to be reclassif ied as 'green' to boost grants
MA/Will the UK power network fail us?
Wind and rain cause 20-minute power outage in four municipalities
Electricity generation: a model in crisis
OX2 inks asset management contract for 101-MW wind farm in Sweden
Eskom's Kusile power station's emissions exemption gets mixed reaction
India to have a modern and smart power transmission system; Government accepts the Task Force report
Sarawak ready to share sustainable energy development experience with neighbouring countries -- Abang Johari
Agreements signed on EBRD loan for Serbian energy sector
Ceres signs deal with Bosch, Linde for green hydrogen demonstration
NTPC commissions India's first Air cooled condenser at North Karanpura Super Critical plant in Jharkhand
Draft bill on energy efficiency and conservation at study stage - Nik Nazmi
Shanghai Electric project adds another 1320 MW to national grid system: Khurram
MQM-P MNA blames HESCO for 'tormenting consumers'
NTPC commissions green coal project in Varanasi
NEPRA delegation visits K-Electric
MEPCO recovers over Rs 887m from permanent defaulters
Equinor hikes stake in renewables firm Scatec
INTERVIEW - Digital tools can also support energy permitting, regulation
EBRD aids roll-out of renewable power auctions in Serbia
Thermal power plants to be built in Syrdarya and Surkhandarya regions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology : Minimizing electric vehicles' impact on the grid
Ceres Power agrees 1MW green hydrogen demo with Linde and Bosch
Temporary bypass of pollution rules at Kusile
INTERVIEW - Renault SA MD Shumani Tshifularo: challenges in the shift to an electric future
United Kingdom: Government announces team of leading experts to boost energy efficiency
Mintz EnergyTech Update: New Hydrogen Patents Data Released
Columbus gets regulatory nod to move to Warsaw's main market
Government to inject 15 million for green hydrogen plant in Meirama
UN nuclear watchdog: 2.5 tons of uranium missing in Libya
FESCO to ensure uninterrupted power supply during Ramadan-ul-Mubarak
Tagum businessmen join call for entry of Aboitiz-owned power utility in Davao Norte
UNECE implementing project to assess Turkmenistan's potential for hydrogen energy
Uzbekistan discloses energy generated by SPPs in Navoi and Samarkand regions
Maziwisa in another appeal bid
Japan assures discharge of treated water from Fukushima nuclear plant safe, no impact on Malaysia or environment
Hydroelectric power plants will be built near the border of the Russian Federation with Norway and Finland
Power outages in the AMBA: neighbors took to the streets to protest against the lack of electricity supply
Enel bets on hybrid, solar and wind projects at the same site, to increase capacity
Massive $1.5bn solar farm plan for region
India to have a modern and smart power transmission system; Government accepts the Task Force report
Tlou to complete 10MW project in 2023 third-quarter
MacTel helps Horizon Power with 'cleaner' service push
Qld govt urged to rule out solar feed-in charges
How renewables can help drive economic recovery, prosperity in SA
Why SA's new electricity minister should heed the words of Eskom's former CEO
Grantown gets wind farm lifts
More bids for wind farms in the future
A Fresh Approach to Energy Policy
Chandigarh residents can apply for free installation of solar plants by March 31
Amendments To The Legislation Regarding Storage Activities In The Electricity Market Have Been Introduced
Due to government policies towards the sector, Mexico lags behind in the wind and solar energy race in Latam
Iberdrola Awards Contract to Haizea Group for 1400 MW Wind Farm in UK
PLN guarantees electric vehicle users will easily find chargers
Vietnam has dual opportunity from offshore wind power: Danish Ambassador
Offshore wind projects face uncertainty with existing contracts. Cape Codders respond.
Ørsted acquires Irish solar project
Fluxys SA - DNV Study shows high offshore hydrogen infrastructure potential for Europe
Galerazamba wind power project: proposal for new connection
Vietnam looks to offshore wind power in transition to renewable energy
RWE to market power from 132-MW wind farm to Polish industry
Norway rejects electricity cable project with Scotland
Chinese Wind And Solar Output Is Nearly Equal To Household Demand
India's Hero Future Energies agrees USD-3.6bn renewables plan in AP
Cambodia presents power development masterplan, national energy efficiency policy
TÜV SÜD – reliable partner in the expansion and optimised use of wind power resources across Europe
Wind parks generate 22.27% of UK's electricity on Mar 15
OX2 signs asset management agreement for a 36 turbine wind farm in Sweden
Mar 15
Onshore wind turbines planned for Humber ports as part of net zero efforts
Chancellor reclassifies nuclear power as 'environmentally sustainable'
Uzbekistan to increase renewables deployment in Bukhara region
Arise to take control of Finnish wind, solar firm Pohjan Voima
Ather Grid Chargers Will Cut-off at 80%; Here's Why
European Commission aims to make renewable energy easier to adopt
Aspen Technology Selected to Transform AES El Salvador's Electrical Grid and Help Drive Sustainability Initiatives
GSE Solutions to Upgrade Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant Simulators
Electricity market reform brings 80 GW more of solar and wind
LEAG gets approval for 25 MWp solar project in eastern Germany
Radioactive Cylinder Missing from Power Plant in Prachinburi
NTPC ranked as the top Independent Power Producers and Energy Traders Globally by S&P Platts
Dogger Bank wind project opens O&M base
ABO Wind raises 2022 net profit 78%
Emerson to Automate New Zealand's First Large-Scale Solar Project
Vestas Secures 373 MW Supply Order for South Africa Wind Projects
Japan's Daiwa Acquires Minority Stake In 1.2 GW Hornsea One
Karnataka energy dept directs power supply companies to ensure no load-shedding this summer
Hong Kong: LCQ4 - Use of clean energy for electricity generation
NEPRA organizes webinar on incident investigation
PM directs measures to improve power transmission
MEPCO disconnects all WASA connections over non-payment of dues
Thar coal offers sustainable solution to energy issues of country: Imtiaz Sheikh
RWE's LECH Nowy Staw III wind farm produces green energy for breweries
Wind turbines will soon be bigger than the Eiffel Tower
Solar Power Accelerator AB tap into the global 400 € billion-dollar market - adjusting forecasts to 1 TWh and recruitment of a superstar board of directors
Electricity spot market prices decline in March
JUST IN | Eskom allowed to exceed emission limits at Kusile, to reduce load shedding
MQM-P leaders concerned over unscheduled load-shedding in city
Rampal plant resumes power generation after month-long closure
EC proposes power market changes towards more renewables
TAQA and Reykjavik Geothermal sign Joint Venture Agreement to form TAQA Geothermal Energy LLC
FM urges use of nuclear technology for public benefit
Coal India to step up supply to power plants
PM stresses collaboration with IAEA to reduce climate change losses
Minister Pralhad Joshi reviews construction of NUPPL Thermal Power Plant
Landi Kotal residents besiege grid station to protest outages
Turkmenistan's Energy Ministry opens tender for construction of combined power plant
TNB accelerates responsible energy transition drive, partners Thailand's energy players
'2023 to be the darkest year yet' as energy experts expect the worse rate of load shedding on record
Europe's plan for more stable electricity prices
LINE LOSSES DUE TO ELECTRIC PILFERAGE: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning would be leveraged to analyse data generated through smart meters to detect the theft cases - Union Power & NRE Minister Shri R. K. Singh
China's Coal Plant Approvals Surged To A 7-Year High In 2022
Eskom goes after dodgy contractors
Vestas and KOTRA collaborate to host 'Vestas Supplier Day' event in Seoul, South Korea; engage with suppliers to strengthen future wind supply chain
Tokyo Century, JFE form solar JV for Japanese PPA market
Finland's OL3 nuclear reactor resumes test output
Delhi's power demand may peak to 8,100 MW
Wind accounts for 36.02% of UK's power output on Mar 14
Oman inks deals for USD 20bn of green hydrogen projects
Investment of 111 billion euros required for expansion of electricity grid operator
Full decoupling of electricity, gas prices isn't possible yet - Lithuanian commissioner
Developer Of World's Largest Green Hydrogen Facility Plans New Megaprojects
Securing our power grid
The Raiffeisen Group finances the construction of a photovoltaic power plant in Satu Mare
Radioactive caesium missing from power plant
STEM award gets wind farm backing
Siemens Gamesa to deliver blades for RWE's Sofia offshore wind project.
Solar Power Accelerator AB tap into the global 400 € billion-dollar market - adjusting forecasts to 1 TWh and recruitment of a superstar board of directors
Spain's plan to accelerate the deployment of renewables: everything at once and everywhere
OX2 initiates research cooperation on Åland to increase bio diversity in connection with offshore wind power
Nel bags firm order for 120-MW German Baltic coast electrolyser
High Taxes Stand In The Way Of UK Renewable Development
EDF Renewables to Host Public Exhibition for Kilsallagh Wind Farm
Terna cleared to add storage at 22-MW solar park in Greece
Explosive Revelations About South Africa's Power Utility - Why New Electricity Minister Should Heed the Words of Former Eskom CEO
India's power transmission system embracing modern technology to combat cyber attacks
UK government urged to transform ports to boost floating offshore wind
Nigeria lags as global wind energy investment hits $74.2bn in 2022
Mar 14
Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals Issues Tender for O&M of 4.9 MW Wind Power Project
India to have a modern and smart power transmission system; Government accepts the Task Force report
Analog Devices Accelerates Sustainability with Intelligent Solutions at embedded world 2023
Operations and maintenance base for the world's largest offshore wind farm officially opens in South Shields – creating around 400 jobs
Chinese coal boom a 'direct threat' to 1.5C goal, analysts warn
EU assesses new electricity plan in wake of energy crisis
UK welcomes extension of two EDF nuclear power plants
Nuclear Power A Viable Option To Meet Pakistan Energy Demands
EU Commission counts on long-term power contracts to stabilise prices
ISO 50001: the Arcugnano plant of Pietro Fiorentini is certified
1ST LEADEU Commission counts on long-term power contracts to stabilise pricesBy Doris Pundy, dpa
TheGreenBillions eyeing Australia for its first overseas expansion in green hydrogen & sustainable energy solutions
Weev reveals Northern Ireland's greenest ultra-rapid EV charging hub on one of the busiest routes
EU unveils electricity reforms to reduce price spike threat
Telangana power demand peaks record 15062 MW on March 14
Thailand searches for missing radioactive cylinder
Oracle Power: Strategic MoU for Green Hydrogen Project with World's Largest Utility
Transaction of 7,000 shares of The Hub Power Company Limited
Power supply from Adani to Bangladesh's national grid starts
Union Power Ministry crafts a multi-pronged strategy to ensure adequate availability of power during summer season
H2Med, the hydrogen corridor that will connect Spain and France, dismantles the gas 'trap' hidden by H2Med
Endesa's owner relaunches its commitment to new nuclear power plants in Europe
After record energy demand, more than 75 thousand users still without electricity
National Grid team puts energy into RSPB volunteering day
NRC Issues Event Notification for Waterford Nuclear Plant, La.
India to have a modern and smart power transmission system; Government accepts the Task Force report
Operations at two Centrica nuclear power plants extended for 2 years
Over 3,500 electricity facilities restored in new Russian territories - Rosseti head
Three utility-related bills pass the House
Operations at two Centrica nuclear power plants extended for 2 years
K-Electric's improved efficiency after privatisation, an example for power companies: PM
KP Chief Secretary chairs meeting to address electricity issues in merged districts
Sri Lankan President's plan for nuclear power could run into opposition
Shanghai Electric project adds another 1320 MW to national grid system: Khurram
India's first tender for offshore wind projects by March 2023
Roofit.Solar secures EUR 6.45m to expand solar roof production
PM directs measures to improve power transmission
Thar coal offers sustainable solution to energy issues of country: Imtiaz Sheikh
Abiding by dept rules, regulation ensures transparency
Sungrow technology picked for 825-MWh battery project in UK
Joburg fears for revenue amid Eskom flight
Deloitte wins deal for Shuaiba North power plant privatisation in Kuwait
EU to revamp power market, aiming to blunt price spikes
Uzbekistan discloses energy generated by SPPs in Navoi and Samarkand regions
Centrica Plans To Extend Lives Of Two Nuclear Power Stations
Update on Italian Electricity Production
European Renewable Energy Developer IbVogt Chooses Nextracker's Terrain-Following Solar Tracker
Minister: Second unit of BelNPP will go online by 2023 year-end
Iran, Pakistan Ink Electricity Exchange Contract in Tehran
China's nuclear power plants have world-leading safety record: political advisor
Australia India Trade Association Inks MoU with SMART Energy Council of Australia
BrightNight, ACEN Join Hands to Develop Renewables in India
Senegal's emblematic 130MW Malicounda power fully operational
How SA's new state of disaster could affect construction contracting
New tax incentives are a welcome boost to solar in SA, but do they go far enough?
South African power producer Red Rocket orders turbines from Vestas
European wind-power generation at highest level in past two months; Gazprom requests 42.4 mcm for transit via Ukraine
EDF Renewables Ireland to update public on 80-MW wind project
RWE AG - RWE to market green electricity from Polish wind farm to local industry
Vestas receives 373 MW order from Red Rocket in South Africa
Interior Secretary Haaland, White House Climate Advisor Zaidi, Maryland Governor Moore to Headline 2023 International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum
GWEC: Accelerating wind deployment can be a key tool for developing countries looking to grow their economy and deliver on climate goals
NIWE proposes a Rs 400-cr jetty at Dhanushkodi for offshore projects
Vestas lands 373-MW order in South Africa from IPP Red Rocket
3500 MW Of Wind Addition Possible In 5 Countries: GWEC Report
Pacifico Sells 45 MW Solar Portfolio to Mytilineos in Italy
UK Firm, CFP UK Holdings LTD, to Acquire 31.25% Stake in Lake Turkana Wind Power
e-wikom orders 50.4 MW in wind energy units from Nordex in Germany
President signs wind turbine law
We will keep MSEDCL power hike low, says Fadnavis
AleaSoft: Wind power production breaks records in several European markets
Due to the heat wave, electricity consumption set a new record and there are 78,000 users without power in the AMBA
Welsh government grants permission for first floating wind farm in Wales
DTEK completes first phase of wind power project in Ukraine
Another big array of offshore turbines is proposed for RI. Here's what's in the wind.
White hydrogen from soil may be inexhaustible source of energy
Liander asks companies to estimate future electricity consumption
Mar 13
PM stresses collaboration with IAEA to reduce climate change losses
Unigel and Thyssenkrupp Nucera to increase capacity of green hydrogen plant
Brussels brings forward to tomorrow its proposal for an electricity market focused on long-term contracts
Heat wave: Nation demands more energy from provinces with hydroelectric plants and drought controversy erupts
Fit for a fossil-free age: Vattenfall presents proposals for EU electricity market reform
What's Happening at Fukushima Plant 12 Years After Meltdown?
Sweden: Customers complain about slow electricity agreement changes
Interconnector Services
In Zimbabwe, drought is driving a hydropower crisis—and a search for alternatives
Iran, Pakistan's Power Transmission Grids Connected
Energy regulator fights to keep Karpowership deal details confidential
Axpo to build battery storage in Sweden
Nawah Energy: The UAE's Nuclear Supply Chain Continues to Grow with Three-Year Refueling Outages Contract Awarded to Altrad
The global conference of "Green Planet Renren Power Plant" was Held while WeTrade Group released the new energy industry layout for the first time
Electricity at 4 euros between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m.
Nuclear power a possibility for Montana, NorthWestern tells SD regulators
Second day without electricity for Joburg residents after Roodepoort substation explodes
TRISO-X Successfully Completes Fuel Test to Power Nuclear Thermal Propulsion in Space
TRISO-X Successfully Completes Fuel Test to Power Nuclear Thermal Propulsion in Space
Kyrgyzstan discloses funds allocated for Kambarata -1 HPP construction from state budget
USD 160 million to be invested in solar plant in the Chaco region
United Nations Climate
Ramokgopa aims to bring idle Eskom plants back online
Japan Commits AUD$2.35B to Establish World's First Liquefied Hydrogen Supply Chain
Wapda to add another 10,000MW hydropower to national grid
Endesa and Housell join forces to help the real estate proptech's customers save on their electricity bills
ON THE MONEY - Electricity minister is certainly not divorced from reality
Fears of ripple effects of solar
PRIVATE OPERATORS - Concessions on Eskom's coal-fired plants 'a bold move'
BrightNight collaborates with ACEN Corporation
Iberdrola, Naturgy and Endesa study nuclear production for cancer treatment
Total Eren eyes GW-scale green H2 rollout in Australia
KenGen reveals industrial park plans
Company Blames Insufficient Power Allocation for Unstable Electricity Supply
Construction of Madhya Bhotekoshi in full swing, target to complete by mid-July
EssilorLuxottica and ERG sign a long-term Corporate PPA agreement in Italy for the supply of electricity produced from renewable sources
Belectric bags 150-MWp solar O&M deal in England
Turkmenistan to build new large combined-cycle power plant in Balkan region
SA's brutal power cuts set to worsen
Pacific countries call for nuclear-free region
FOCUS: Japan set to release treated water off Fukushima despite fears
CNNC announces largest ever annual investment plan on nuclear power, new energy
Cyprus' power grid in trouble
Germany's ThyssenKrupp and Brazilian firm ink deal for green hydrogen
Denso and Toyota to Start Green Hydrogen Demonstration Project
The unnecessary non-Ministerial Ministry of Electricity will not take us out of the dark
Time to rise up for our electricity rights
Company blames insufficient power allocation for unstable electricity supply
Egypt, Germany probe ways of boosting green hydrogen cooperation
India to have a modern and smart power transmission system; Government accepts the Task Force report
Draft bill on energy efficiency and conservation at study stage - Nik Nazmi
PAC directs to refund Rs 9bln to electricity consumers
Japan's contaminated wastewater discharge plan inappropriate, says Japanese scholar
GT investigates: How Tokyo Electric Power colluded with Japanese govt to push a plan to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater
As Local, Foreign Investors Jostle for Stakes in Geregu Power
Ramaphosa's power remarks show that 'we are on our own'
From surplus energy to investment opportunities: Startups across Europe combat fuel poverty
Norway: Municipalities open to nuclear power
Fate of 'Tiger Connector' depends on Missourians voicing their support
LM Wind Power joins Blades2Build project to develop recycling solutions for blades
Iberdrola: We start construction of Montechoro photovoltaic complex in Portugal
Bosnia's Winter Wind gets energy permit for 72.6 MW wind farm
China: What China's green transition means for the world
New German-Austrian grid connection to spur renewables integration
Hove Americas has received an order of more than DKK 500,000 from a wind turbine OEM
Uzbekistan boosts renewables deployment of country's Surkhandarya region
Tata Power Renewable Energy, Tata Power-DDL tie-up for 510 MW hybrid project
In addition to offshore wind farms, solar panel farms may soon be coming to the sea
Boosting renewables in the mix
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