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Magazine for Traders Aims at Big Spenders
[ "Picture a frat party that knows no borders -- and you've met the target audience of Trader Monthly, a new men's magazine." ]
[ "In a new book, two journalists show how America’s big spenders are dispersing their mountains of dough.", "Da bears. Da bulls. Da traders. Chicago is the \"greatest trading city in the world\" according to a survey by Trader Monthly magazine.", "Huckabee's southern surge means the two man race Romney hoped for still hasn't materialized. That leaves the GOP's big spender with dwindling options", "To woo business from Fidelity Investments traders, a New York brokerage firm showered them with pricey gifts such as private vacations and golf outings, tickets to a Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera concert, parties at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston sponsored by Playboy and Maxim magazines, and a dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus wine worth $625 apiece.", "Big spenders and budget conscious teams start level in the major league's second season that begins Tuesday with eight playoff teams battling to advance to the World Series.", "The debonair jazz pianist and composer of such legendary Broadway tunes as \"Witchcraft,\" \"Big Spender,\" and \"The Best is Yet to Come,\" died on Thursday night.", "Forbes has spent nearly a century covering businessmen clad in Brooks Brothers shirts and gray flannel suits. Now the magazine empire is aiming at executives who prefer Prada skirt suits and Balenciaga pumps.", "Impressionist art still brings out the big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on Wednesday pulled in $92.5 million and showed that contemporary art sales are where the action.", "A growing market of magazines that is tapping into an underserved market is also presenting an alternative image of beauty.", "Investor's Business Daily - Cell phone makers would be remiss to neglect the big spenders in developing countries who are willing to shell out for pricey cell phones.", "Read all about it in PDF A new online newsagent is hoping to galvanise the Irish publishing market by selling magazines online.…", "The new magazine for investment bankers, called Dealmaker, will make its debut in the U.S. in November and in Europe next spring.", "Sport: Jose Mourinho has put the pressure on big spenders Liverpool and Man Utd by claiming he doesn't need to bolster his squad to win the league.", "SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The magazine known for evaluating cars and electronics is setting its sights on finding the best value and quality of prescription drugs on the market.", "A niche British fashion and style magazine is jumping on the user-generated content bandwagon, dedicating an entire upcoming issue to outside contributions in partnership with MySpace.com.", "December 20, 2004 -- Clothes, waistlines, home decorating tips - didn't these used to be men's magazines. The industry's big boys finish the year much the way they started it, on an unrelenting quest to", "Is the newspaper publisher's interest in the online magazine a stab at building a pay product?", "Not long ago, fax machines and e-mail inboxes at Vogue, the world's premier fashion magazine, were briefly assaulted with thousands of angry letters. Not about the latest gorgeously photographed fashion trends or beauty products in its influential pages, but about a single, colorful ad: for Camel No. 9 cigarettes.", "Cigar Aficionado, the glossy magazine for lovers of expensive cigars, criticized the U.S. Treasury Department for continuing to spend federal funds chasing people for buying Cuban cigars.", "Suse Linux Enterprise Real-Time is aimed at financial traders and others who watch every microsecond of the clock.", "As a preview of their upcoming issue, PHP Magazine has posted information about an article - Making Money Online with PHP.", "Media & professional: Online audio version of weekly magazine aims to meet needs of subscribers with no time to read.", "Pursuits, a glossy monthly magazine about the lifestyles of the rich, will be released next year in hopes of drawing more ads for expensive consumer goods.", "Who is the new chef/host/spender in town?", "Who's afraid of a little risk? Certainly not the swashbuckling executive cowboys lionized on the cover of business magazines for galloping hard and throwing caution to the wind.", "FOR the City trader who has a bonus to spendbut already owns a full complement of overseas homes and fast cars there is a new must- have accessory a ticket into space.", "Composer Cy Coleman, who wrote the musical \"Sweet Charity\" and whose songs included such Frank Sinatra classics as \"Witchcraft,\" \"Big Spender\" and \"The Best is Yet to Come,\" has died at the age 75, associates said on Friday.", "The retailer does a little gold digging, aiming at affluent customers with a new fashion collection.", "Lenny Dykstra, a former baseball star, is launching The Players Club, a magazine aimed at helping players manage their millions.", "Hundreds of millions of dollars in private U.S. donations are pouring in to help victims of Asia's tsunami, from children donating pocket money to big spenders giving seven-figure sums, said aid groups on Monday.", "Experienced traders say the commodity markets are full of young hotshots who see risk as a mere speed bump, until they lose big.", "Consumer Reports magazine, best known for comparing the prices and performance of cars, televisions and washing machines, is adding drugs to its coverage to help Americans save money on their health care." ]
who wrote the snows they melt the soonest
[ "Thomas Doubleday" ]
[ "The Who's Tommy", "Dr. Who", "Who You Are", "Who's That Girl", "Who We Are" ]
Political lists to watch
[ "The following coalitions are expected to do well in the Iraqi elections Sunday." ]
[ "Poor watch lists and a centralized architecture are still issues.", "A Web site commissioned by the TSA to help travelers whose names were erroneously listed on airline watch lists had security issues, a Congressional report says.", "LOS ANGELES - The Lakers' Phil Jackson will pass late Celtics legend Red Auerbach on the all-time coaching wins list. But it didn't happen on the Celtics' watch.", "counting carbs, watching kilos, and keeping an uneasy eye on the growing list of health problems linked with obesity. But it's not just the number", "The singer, who adopted the Muslim name Yusuf Islam in 1977, was denied entry to the United States on Tuesday when his name was found on an anti-terrorist watch list.", "Comcast launched a one-stop movie-television hub where viewers can watch 3,000 hours of TV, movie trailers and short videos, check show listings.", "PNC Financial Services says the luxury cars and vintage watch would cost you just as much as all the gifts listed in the Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas.", "Macon has been taken off the Moody's Investors Service "watch list" and the city's rating will stay the same for now.", "Famous folk singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, returned to the UK yesterday after being deported from the US because his name appears on a terrorist watch list.", "The hedge fund run by activist investor William Ackman said on Monday it now owns a 9.6 percent stake in Target Corp , adding the discount retailer to its small list of closely watched investments.", "Before the last of Ralph Reed's campaign signs were stripped from the swank hotel where he watched his election collapse, his supporters huddled in small circles to quietly discuss his political future.", "A government Web site designed to help travelers remove their names from aviation watch lists was so riddled with security holes that hackers could easily have stolen personal information from scores of passengers, a congressional report concluded yesterday.", "Yusuf Islam, who scored several Top Ten hits in the Seventies as Cat Stevens before leaving the business to devote himself to Islam, was denied entry into the US yesterday, because his name was on several border protection watch lists.", "Federal agents hauled the former pop singer and convert to Islam off a Washington-bound plane after diverting it to Maine yesterday, and plan to boot him out of the country today because he turned up on a US watch list." ]
CWRU wind energy startup Boundary Labs competing for $50,000 Cleantech University Prize
[ "CLEVELAND, Ohio - A wind-energy startup founded by Case Western Reserve University students is competing Feb. 8 in Chicago for the $50,000 Cleantech University Prize, a U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored contest that CWRU teams won in 2015 and 2017.\n\"Boundary Labs,\" founded by third-year student Prince Ghosh, has developed an innovative plasma technology that reduces aerodynamic drag on wind turbine blades and could make wind power more affordable and reliable. Ghosh, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major, is founder and CEO of Boundary Labs.\nGhosh said they have come up with a \"dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator\" that is flexible enough to wrap around a wind turbine blade or airplane wing to reduce turbulence and increase efficiency.\n\"Even more than the money, a big part of what we're hoping to get out of the competition are contacts with experts from the wind energy and aerospace industries,\" Ghosh said. \"While our primary target industry right now is wind, we're also really excited about exploring the potential application of our technology to the aerospace, water purification, and materials processing industries as well, and we're looking for industry partners in each of these to work with.\"\nThe other CWRU students on the team are: chief data scientist Lucas Fridman, a third-year student in chemical engineering and applied data science; chief engineer Amit Verma, a graduate student in materials science and engineering; chief operating officer Alejandro Owen, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, and chief financial officer Nihar Chhatiawala, a graduate student in physics and entrepreneurship.\nThe five students met during a Great Lakes Energy Institute ThinkEnergy Fellowship at CWRU last spring and discovered a shared passion for clean energy research and entrepreneurship. They also took part in a National Science Foundation-funded program at the University of Akron designed to help them find a commercial market for what they've developed.\nBoundary Labs is one of eight Midwestern finalists in the clean-energy competition, themed \"Switched On: Student Innovations in Cleantech,\" and will pitch their ideas against students from: Iowa State University, Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Chicago, University of Kentucky, and University of Minnesota. The top three teams will advance to the national competition in June and the chance to win another $100,000 in prizes.\nCWRU student Felipe Gomez del Campo of FGC Plasma Solutions won the Midwest Cleantech University Prize in 2015. Last year, CWRU third-year Pavel Galchenko and his childhood best friend Yohann Samarasinghe from RVS Rubber Solutions won the regional contest and went on to compete at an invitation-only business competition at Singapore Management University." ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, April 23, 2018 -- sonnen, the global market leader in intelligent residential energy storage, announced today that Ani Backa, former attorney and government affairs manager for Xcel Energy, has joined sonnen as U.S. Director of Regulatory Strategy and Utility Initiatives.\nMore Headlines Articles\nAni's responsibilities at sonnen will include working directly with regulatory bodies and utilities across the country to promote the implementation and expansion of the sonnenCommunity model and help drive innovative electricity services that connect clean, decentralized energy. In this role, she will foster strategic partnerships with developers and stakeholders committed to the deployment of residential battery storage and sonnenCommunity projects across the U.S. and in other key regions around the world.\"As an outspoken champion of the transition to clean energy, Ani shares sonnen's mission of delivering clean and reliable energy for all, specifically by promoting the benefits of distributed energy storage resources and VPP innovations,\" said Blake Richetta, Senior Vice President and leader of the Company's U.S. presence. \"With an impressive career as a lawyer in the energy field and as a significant player in the utility space at Xcel Energy, Ani will be a key asset in promoting energy storage regulation. This will support the success of sonnen's partnerships in implementing VPP technology for sonnenCommunity projects, such as the Mandalay Homes Jasper Community. Under her leadership and continued work with local regulatory and utility partners, we will further sonnen's foothold as the premier energy storage provider in the United States.\"With deep knowledge of micro and macro energy market trends and breakthrough technological platforms, this new role combines Ani's extensive experience in energy with sonnen's worldwide leadership in home energy management. Her experience in the regulatory space will support sonnen's efforts in working with utilities as the company continues to successfully deploy VPP initiatives, and bolster existing grid infrastructure to create more clean, resilient and reliable energy communities throughout the U.S. To this end, sonnen will demonstrate to its partners a continued commitment to end-users at all stages of the process with unparalleled customer support.\"I am thrilled to join sonnen at such an exciting and transformative time in the residential energy storage market,\" said Ani Backa, U.S. Director of Regulatory Strategy and Utility Initiatives at sonnen. \"Grid modernization is the key to a sustainable energy future for citizens around the world. sonnen's continued innovation and commitment to grid integration will play a pivotal role in helping utilities increase the flexibility of their existing grid infrastructure, while better managing distributed renewable resources. I look forward to working with my colleagues in Europe, Australia and South America to drive sonnen's growth through strategic partnerships with energy and utility providers, with the overarching goal of advancing the customer experience.\"About sonnenAt sonnen, we believe clean, affordable, and reliable energy for all is one of the greatest challenges of our time. sonnen is a proven global leader in intelligent energy management solutions that provide greater energy control for residential customers through increased solar self-consumption, reduced peak energy usage and reliable backup power during outages - contributing to a cleaner and more reliable energy future. sonnen has won several awards for its energy innovations, including the 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies in Energy, 2017 Zayed Future Energy Prize, MIT's Technology Review's 50 Smartest Companies in 2016, Global Cleantech 100 for 2015-2017, Greentech Media's 2016 Grid Edge Award for innovation, and Cleantech's 2015 Company of the Year Award in both Israel and Europe.", "Entrepreneurs and investors share their tips on how to get cash to fund a new business.\nIt is easier than ever, or so it seems, to open a new business, especially an ecommerce or tech business. But getting money to fund your startup, especially with so many new businesses competing for the same pool of seed money, can be tough. So which methods, or sources, are the most likely to get or give you the money you need to grow your business? Following are nine of the best, according to entrepreneurs and investors.\n[ Related: 8 keys to ecommerce success ]\n1. Start saving/Bootstrap.\n“My top tip for raising money is: use your own money first,” says Brandon Ackroyd, director, TigerMobiles, who has invested in a number of companies as an angel investor. “Far too many startups expect others to invest when they've injected zero of their own money into a business.”\nThat doesn’t necessarily mean selling your home or hocking your car, but if you are serious about your business and plan on approaching investors at some point, you need to invest your own money first. So it’s important to start saving early.\n“I want to see founders who have the confidence to put their money where their mouth is,” he says. “Sweat equity is all well and good, but if you don't know how to bootstrap and keep costs to a minimum, you're going to turn off a lot of serious investors.”\n2. Join an accelerator, incubator or mentoring program.\n“First time tech or ecommerce founders can realize enormous benefits by joining an accelerator, incubator or business mentoring program,” says Ron Flavin, a funding specialist. Tech-focused startup accelerators (e.g., Cleantech Open) can be found in nearly every state, and a growing number of cities are also home to startup incubators. There are even online accelerators.”\nAn additional advantage of joining an accelerator, incubator or mentoring program is that “these programs provide tech and ecommerce founders with access to valuable tools, resources, connections and expertise that can help them place their startups in a strong position to get funded,” he continues. And “there are also several excellent no-cost mentoring programs (e.g., BusinessAdvising.org) that provide expert guidance that help founders build a strong, fundable business model.”\n3. Use crowdfunding.\n“The best way for a new tech company to raise funds for their startup is crowdfunding,” says Tamar Huggins, a serial entrepreneur. “Crowdfunding allows the startup to have more financial freedom (when compared to VC and other investor funds). It immediately validates or invalidates the need the company is trying to solve. And crowdfunding can be an impactful marketing tool when used correctly.”\nTop crowdfunding sites include Kickstarter, Indiegogo and GoFundMe. There is also StartEngine.\n“StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform that allows companies to raise capital from the crowd by exchanging equity in return,” explains Howard Marks, founder, StartEngline. “With the recent passing of the JOBS Act, the opportunity to invest, which was originally reserved for accredited investors, is now open to [everyone]. Moreover, companies can raise up to $50 million within a 12-month period.”\n[ Related: 6 ecommerce categories that will take off in 2017 ]\n4. Take pre-orders.\n“Pre-orders can bring cash in before you make or distribute a product, and help you plan production,” says Andrew Haller, founder & co-CEO, AirDev. “Tesla built a wait list of nearly 200,000 customers just a day after announcing the Model 3, [with] each [paying] a deposit of $1,000 toward their purchase.”\n5. Enter a pitch contest.\n“Entering a [pitch] competition [is] a great way to connect to the right people and secure funding for [your] startup,” says Sagi Gidali, cofounder & CPO, SaferVPN. “While we were in university, my cofounder and I entered the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition. At the time we were seeking seed funding. We won second place and afterwards received many inquiries from potential VCs and investors. In the end, we built a long-term relationship with one of them, and this relationship led us to establish the company we have today, which is very successful, profitable and sustainable.”\nJoin the CIO Australia group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.", "It is easier than ever, or so it seems, to open a new business, especially an ecommerce or tech business. But getting money to fund your startup, especially with so many new businesses competing for the same pool of seed money, can be tough. So which methods, or sources, are the most likely to get or give you the money you need to grow your business? Following are nine of the best, according to entrepreneurs and investors.\n[ Related: 8 keys to ecommerce success ]\n1. Start saving/Bootstrap.\n“My top tip for raising money is: use your own money first,” says Brandon Ackroyd, director, TigerMobiles, who has invested in a number of companies as an angel investor. “Far too many startups expect others to invest when they've injected zero of their own money into a business.”\nThat doesn’t necessarily mean selling your home or hocking your car, but if you are serious about your business and plan on approaching investors at some point, you need to invest your own money first. So it’s important to start saving early.\n“I want to see founders who have the confidence to put their money where their mouth is,” he says. “Sweat equity is all well and good, but if you don't know how to bootstrap and keep costs to a minimum, you're going to turn off a lot of serious investors.”\n2. Join an accelerator, incubator or mentoring program.\n“First time tech or ecommerce founders can realize enormous benefits by joining an accelerator, incubator or business mentoring program,” says Ron Flavin, a funding specialist. Tech-focused startup accelerators (e.g., Cleantech Open) can be found in nearly every state, and a growing number of cities are also home to startup incubators. There are even online accelerators.”\nAn additional advantage of joining an accelerator, incubator or mentoring program is that “these programs provide tech and ecommerce founders with access to valuable tools, resources, connections and expertise that can help them place their startups in a strong position to get funded,” he continues. And “there are also several excellent no-cost mentoring programs (e.g., BusinessAdvising.org) that provide expert guidance that help founders build a strong, fundable business model.”\n3. Use crowdfunding.\n“The best way for a new tech company to raise funds for their startup is crowdfunding,” says Tamar Huggins, a serial entrepreneur. “Crowdfunding allows the startup to have more financial freedom (when compared to VC and other investor funds). It immediately validates or invalidates the need the company is trying to solve. And crowdfunding can be an impactful marketing tool when used correctly.”\nTop crowdfunding sites include Kickstarter, Indiegogo and GoFundMe. There is also StartEngine.\n“StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform that allows companies to raise capital from the crowd by exchanging equity in return,” explains Howard Marks, founder, StartEngline. “With the recent passing of the JOBS Act, the opportunity to invest, which was originally reserved for accredited investors, is now open to [everyone]. Moreover, companies can raise up to $50 million within a 12-month period.”\n[ Related: 6 ecommerce categories that will take off in 2017 ]\n4. Take pre-orders.\n“Pre-orders can bring cash in before you make or distribute a product, and help you plan production,” says Andrew Haller, founder & co-CEO, AirDev. “Tesla built a wait list of nearly 200,000 customers just a day after announcing the Model 3, [with] each [paying] a deposit of $1,000 toward their purchase.”\n5. Enter a pitch contest.\n“Entering a [pitch] competition [is] a great way to connect to the right people and secure funding for [your] startup,” says Sagi Gidali, cofounder & CPO, SaferVPN. “While we were in university, my cofounder and I entered the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition. At the time we were seeking seed funding. We won second place and afterwards received many inquiries from potential VCs and investors. In the end, we built a long-term relationship with one of them, and this relationship led us to establish the company we have today, which is very successful, profitable and sustainable.”", "Newswise — Surfers aren’t the only people trying to catch big waves. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are trying to do so, too, at least in wave climate forecasts.\nUsing decades of global climate data generated at a spatial resolution of about 25 kilometers squared, researchers were able to capture the formation of tropical cyclones, also referred to as hurricanes and typhoons, and the extreme waves that they generate. Those same models, when run at resolutions of about 100 kilometers, missed the tropical cyclones and the big waves up to 30 meters high.\nTheir findings, published in the Feb. 16 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, demonstrate the importance of running climate models at higher resolution. Better predictions of how often extreme waves will hit are important for coastal cities, the military, and industries that rely upon shipping and offshore oil platforms. And, of course, for surfers.\n\"It's well known that to study tropical cyclones using simulations, the models need to be run at high resolution,\" said study lead author and postdoctoral fellow Ben Timmermans. \"The majority of existing models used to study the global climate are run at resolutions that are insufficient to predict tropical cyclones. The simulations in our study are the first long-duration global data sets to use a resolution of 25 kilometers. It's also the first time a study has specifically examined the impact of resolution increase for ocean waves at a global climatological scale.\"\nThe other authors on this study are Dáithί Stone, Michael Wehner, and Harinarayan Krishnan. All authors are scientists in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division (CRD).\nZooming in to detect hurricanes\nClimate models work by simulating the exchange of air, water, and energy between the grid “boxes.” In today's state-of-the-art climate models, these boxes are typically 100 to 200 kilometers wide. That level of detail is good enough to catch the formation and movement of midlatitude storms, the researchers said, because such systems tend to be quite large.\nIn contrast, tropical cyclones tend to cover a smaller area. While the overall footprint of a hurricane can be broad, the eye of a hurricane can be very compact and well defined, the researchers noted.\n“The problem with that 100-kilometer resolution is that it misses key details of the hurricanes and tropical cyclones, which are clearly relevant to the generation of extreme waves,” said Stone. \"But going to a 25-kilometer resolution data set is computationally challenging. It requires 64 times more computational resources than a 100-kilometer simulation.\"\nThe study relied upon the data-crunching power of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a scientific computing user facility funded by the DOE Office of Science and based at Berkeley Lab.\nThe researchers ran the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5) climate model with data collected in three-hour increments at a low resolution of 100 kilometers and at a high resolution of 25kilometers. They found that the high-resolution simulations included tropical cyclones where the low-resolution ones did not.\nCrunching data to catch big waves\nTo see if the cyclones had an effect on waves, they then ran global wave models at both resolutions. They saw extreme waves in the high-resolution model that did not appear in the low-resolution ones.\n\"Hurricanes are tricky things to model,\" said Stone. \"We've shown the importance of using a high-resolution data set for producing hurricanes. But the characteristics of hurricanes could change with the climate. People are making projections of changes in ocean waves in a future, warmer world. It's not clear if the 25-kilometer resolution is sufficient for capturing all of the processes involved in the development of a hurricane. But we do know that it’s better than 100 kilometers.\"\nWhile additional high-resolution simulations of the future are on the way, the researchers were able to take a first look at possible conditions at the end of the 21st century. Wehner noted that the biggest waves in Hawaii are projected to be substantially larger in a much warmer future world.\nThe researchers added that this study only looked at averages of wind-generated waves. One-off “rogue” or “freak” waves cannot be reproduced in these kinds of models, and large waves such as tsunamis are very different since they are caused by seismological activity, not the wind.\nThe data from this study will be made freely available for use by the wider scientific community.\n\"In the same way that weather patterns are part of the climate, ocean wave patterns are also part of the 'wave' climate,\" said Timmermans. \"Ocean waves are relevant to the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere, which affects the planet's climate as a whole.\"\nThis work was supported by DOE’s Office of Science.\n###\nLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world’s most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab’s scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel Prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. For more, visit www.lbl.gov.\nDOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.\nSEE ORIGINAL STUDY", "Here are your morning headlines for Monday, December 11th:\nLawmakers push back on excessive license suspensions;\nWind farm developer seeks to relax setback rules;\nState health officials report higher flu hospitalizations;\nSupporters of Great Lakes conservation seek stronger defense against invasive Asian carp;\nWoman who shot and dismembered husband is arrested;\nCWRU's Barbara Snyder ranked as Ohio's highest paid private university president;\nMonitoring of water wells continues after Rover Pipeline spill;\nCanton considers cable cars to link Hall of Fame Village with downtown;\nLawmakers push back on excessive license suspensions\nOhio lawmakers have accused the state of using driver's license suspensions as an arbitrary punishment for offenses unrelated to driving while burying people under a pile of fees and fines. The state Legislature is considering multiple bills that could reinstate limited privileges for some suspended drivers and help people avoid steep license reinstatement fees. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles says 1.1 million people had their licenses suspended last year — or almost 12 percent of the state's driving-age population. Reasons for licenses suspensions include skipping a court date, failing to pay child support and dropping out of high school. State Representatives Jim Butler and Emilia Sykes have introduced a bill that would allow drivers suspended for non-driving violations to drive to work, school and appointments such as doctor's visits. Democratic state Sen. Sandra Williams has introduced a bill that would allow judges to assign community service in lieu of reinstatement fees.\nWind farm developer seeks to relax setback rules\nA company planning to develop a wind farm in two rural Ohio counties says it won't build the $92 million project unless the state Legislature eases setback rules. The Blade reports Charlottesville, Va.-based Apex Clean Energy says plans to develop a 66-turbine wind farm across Seneca and Sandusky counties are contingent on the relaxation of rules designed to protect nearby property owners from noise and vibration. Current setback rules went into effect in 2014 after the Republican-led Legislature placed a two-year freeze on renewable energy mandates for power companies. The freeze expired last year, but legislation to ease setback rules remain in place. An effort to ease the rules has stalled in the Legislature. Apex wants to build five wind farms across northern Ohio at a cost of $2.6 billion.\nState health officials report higher flu hospitalizations\nThe state says Ohio flu hospitalizations are higher than usual and much worse than a year ago. The Ohio Department of Health says the state saw 92 flu-related hospitalizations during the week that ended Dec. 2 and has seen 257 hospitalizations overall since the flu season began. The agency says those numbers are above the five-year average for December and higher than last year, which saw 19 flu-related hospitalizations during the same week. The state and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say everyone 6 months and older should get a flu shot.\nEnvironmentalists seek stronger defense against invasive Asian carp in Great Lakes\nMembers of Congress and Great Lakes advocacy groups are pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to strengthen defenses against Asian carp at a crucial choke point. The Corps is considering a $275 million plan to bolster the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois, with devices such as water jets and noisemakers to prevent the invasive fish from migrating from the Illinois River to Lake Michigan. Environmental groups submitted 10,000 citizen letters supporting the plan Friday, the deadline for a public comment period. About 50 sporting and conservation organizations also endorsed it. More than two dozen U.S. House members signed a letter urging the Corps to install the protections faster than the eight-year timeframe currently proposed.\nWoman accused of shooting and dismembering husband's body\nA Summit County woman has been arrested after her husband’s remains were discovered in their Coventry Township home. Marcia Eubank, 49, is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Howard Eubank, 54. Channel 5 reports Marcia shot Howard in June and lived with his dismembered body at their home. The remains were found after someone called the Summit County Sheriff's Office on Saturday.\nCWRU's Barbara Snyder ranked as Ohio's highest paid private university president\nThe president of Case Western Reserve University ranks as the highest paid leader of a private college in Ohio. The latest compensation report from the Chronicle of Higher Education shows in 2015 President Barbara Snyder’s base pay plus bonuses totaled more than $1 million. Snyder ranked 41st out of more than 500 presidents of private colleges included in the report. She’s among 58 presidents who earn $1 million or more. The report used the latest available federal tax documents for its analysis.\nMonitoring of water wells continues after Rover Pipeline spill\nThe Ohio EPA says it’s continuing to monitor water wells nearly eight months after the Rover Pipeline dumped diesel-contaminated waste into nearby quarries. Rover has been cited for 19 violations since the project began in early March. The wells are used by Aqua Ohio, the Canton Water Department and private residents. EPA officials say none of the slurry has seeped into the wells. The last water sample from October shows the water is not contaminated. Rover is required to check water quality every 90 days for one year.\nCanton considers cable cars to link Hall of Fame Village with downtown\nThe city of Canton is considering adding cable cars to its planned Johnson Controls Hall of Fame Village. The Repository reports a Cleveland-based company called SkyLift is partnering with Canton’s planning office to develop the concept. The cable cars would use augmented reality to add virtual elements to the surrounding scenery. The cars would run on a 3-mile route suspended up to 80 feet off the ground. The city is hoping to get a $25,000 grant to study whether or not the project would be possible in Canton. The city’s planning director says sponsorship or naming rights could be used to pay for the cable cars.", "It’s not every day a Dalhousie professor is awarded with a high honour, but in Jeff Dahn’s case, he has made his mark once again.\nProfessor Dahn, a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences won the Herzberg Medal, including a $1 million prize. The award is presented annually by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).\n“I was very happy to learn I won,” said Dahn.\nThe former Dalhousie alumni-turned-professor is a leader in energy research, mainly pertaining to lithium-ion batteries used in most electronic devices. Technology used worldwide such as cellphones and laptops rely on power from lithium-ion batteries.\n“If you want to have good electricity, lowering the cost of lithium-ion batteries and increasing its lifetime is important,” said Dahn.\nDalhousie University and Tesla are currently in a five-year partnership with the NSERC for which Dahn sits as the chair. The NSERC contributes 50 percent of funding and Tesla contributes the other half towards research.\n“We’ve been working with Tesla now for six months, and have found useful things which I hope will be incorporated in Tesla products going forward – that’s the goal,” said Dahn.\nDahn explains there are plenty of opportunities for students to get involved in energy research at the university. Groups in the engineering department do battery related research.\n“My advice for students wishing to get into research is to take the appropriate undergrad courses and develop a passion, and read widely,” said Dahn.\nSimon Maranda is an exchange student writing his master’s thesis at the Laboratory of Applied Multiphase Thermal Engineering, led by Dr. Groulx. He is an exchange student at Dalhousie from the Lucerne University in Switzerland, where he works in the thermal energy storage research group.\nMaranda explains since renewable energy is produced from weather patterns, energy storage systems such as battery or thermal storage units will become a key component to technology in the future.\n“In the future we will have a lot more renewable energy being the top energy resource,” said Maranda.\n“Tesla makes energy products used to store power generated from the sun and wind – their main focuses are cars and energy storage,” Dahn explains.\nThis award will be added to the numerous awards he has been given for his energy research including the Inaugural Governor General’s Award last year.\nAs for the one million dollar prize, Dahn says he plans to use it wisely.", "Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland-based biotechnology company Haima Therapeutics LLC have signed a two-year option to license a technology to prevent and treat bleeding complications from trauma, low platelet counts and surgery, according to a news release.\nThe agreement, managed through CWRU's Technology Transfer Office, will allow for pre-clinical testing of the hemostatic nanotechnology, called SynthoPlate. This includes safety profiling and feasibility of scaled up manufacturing.\nAt least 2 million units of platelets are transfused annually in the United States, and can suffer from many issues, such as limited supply, short shelf life, minimal portability, the need for blood typing/matching and potentially severe biologic side effects.\nTo address these issues, Anirban Sen Gupta, a professor in CWRU's Department of Biomedical Engineering, has worked to develop synthetic nanoparticles that can mimic platelets' abilities to clot at the site of a bleeding injury, according to the release.\nInjected intravenously, these nanoparticles can potentially act as a surrogate to prevent or treat bleeding when natural platelet products are unavailable. They could reduce the need for donor platelet transfusion, according to the release.\n\"Outside of large blood banks and trauma centers, platelet products are rarely available. It is an even bigger challenge to get donor platelets to our military in the field where heavy bleeding injuries are frequent,\" Sen Gupta said in a prepared statement. \"Our nanoparticle technology can be used in civilian and military scenarios of traumatic non-compressible bleeding where donor platelets are not readily available. This has been the motivation behind the research on platelet surrogates in my laboratory, and SynthoPlate is a technology that stemmed from it.\"\nLab testing and proof-of-concept studies in small and large animals have been funded by the Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership, Council to Advance Human Health, Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Start-up Fund and the National Institutes of Health's Center for Accelerated Innovation, according to the release. Additional studies evaluating hemostatic effect and safety are ongoing in trauma models and are funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.\n\"We are excited to work with Dr. Sen Gupta to advance this highly promising technology toward the clinic,\" said Christa Pawlowski, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Haima Therapeutics, in a prepared statement. \"Our goal is to provide a product that can address the real, unmet needs of patients with bleeding complications.\"", "As GaN Systems’ gallium nitride transistors revolutionize the power electronics market, the company’s funding partners are being recognized for their investment success. After releasing its 8th annual Global Cleantech 100 list, Cleantech Group (CTG) has awarded GaN Systems investor, Crysalix Venture Capital, the 2017 Financial Investor of the Year Award. The Global Cleantech 100 is a peer-reviewed list of the top private companies involved in innovative clean technology, and that have the greatest potential to impact the future of a wide range of industries within a 5-10 year timeframe. In a parallel development, in its 2016 “Year in Review” report, the CVCA (Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association) reported that GaN Systems’ funding partner, Cycle Capital Management, was recognized for being the most active cleantech venture capital firm in Canada in 2016. Additionally, Cycle Capital was Canada’s 2nd most active independent private venture capital firm, consummating 29 deals and investing at total investment of $132M. According to the CVCA report, Canadian cleantech investments for 2016 experienced a 200% increase over the previous year.\nChrysalix Venture Capital was selected from a field of over 11,000 peer-reviewed nominees. They were chosen for having the highest percentage – in excess of 60% – of their qualifying portfolio companies on the 2017 Global Cleantech 100 list. Chrysalix Venture Capital is a technology-focused investment firm that invests in companies that bring disruptive innovation to the world’s largest industries. GaN Systems, a developer of gallium nitride power switching semiconductors, is one of seven such companies in the investment firm’s portfolio that are also included in the Global Cleantech 100 list.\nAs stated by Chrysalix President and CEO, Wal van Lierop, “We are honored to be recognized as the Financial Investor of the Year at this year’s Global Cleantech 100. This award is a great endorsement of our portfolio and validation of Chrysalix’s strategy of targeting breakthrough industrial innovations leveraging intelligent systems and components, which we pioneered in our last fund and have made the central focus of our new Chrysalix RoboValley Fund.”\nCycle Capital invests in cleantech entrepreneurial companies that are dedicated to fostering a sustainable future and that produce more with less. Commenting on how GaN Systems fits into its portfolio, Cycle Capital’s Founder and Managing Partner Andrée-Lise Méthot said, “We’re happy to share these results with our portfolio companies because it’s by investing in globally competitive companies led by great entrepreneurial teams like GaN Systems that we become the leader of the cleantech investment in Canada.”\n“GaN Systems is proud to be a member of Chrysalix Venture Capital’s portfolio of leading-edge technology companies,” remarked GaN Systems CEO, Jim Witham. “We congratulate our funding partner on being recognized for their forward-thinking, and for winning this well-deserved and highly prestigious award.” Mr. Witham went on to congratulate Cycle Capital, “We’re extremely proud to be a member of the Cycle Capital portfolio of companies who are at the vanguard of the cleantech revolution. By investing in GaN Systems, together we are helping to reduce the world’s exploding demand for more energy, while simultaneously enabling our customers with solutions that give them a competitive advantage.”", "The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Connected Systems Institute is receiving $900,000 from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to help the project get off the ground.\nThe grant puts the new institute on a similar level to industry clusters around water technology, energy and power controls, food and beverage and aerospace, where WEDC has made or plans to make similar investments in centers of excellence.\nUWM is planning to dedicate 3,000 square feet in the east wing of the Golda Meir Library to the new center aimed at helping manufacturers take advantage of Industrial Internet of Things technology. The space could expand by another 10,000 square feet in the future.\nThe Industrial Internet of Things incorporates sensors and computing devices to help companies improve efficiency, reliability and lower costs.\n“Companies in Wisconsin really need help in this area,” said Adel Nasiri, associate dean for research and a professor in UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science. “The Connected Systems Institute will serve as a central point where industry representatives and scholars can collaborate on IIoT technologies.”\nThe center will feature a simulation lab that allows companies to test end-to-end production solutions and supporters describe it as the first large-scale public-private partnership in the U.S. to connect industry, academic institutions, government and nonprofits in the industry.\n“We are excited to be on the forefront of this emerging technology that will be essential to businesses across the state,” said UWM chancellor Mark Mone. “I am grateful to WEDC for recognizing how critical this project is to the health of Wisconsin’s manufacturing industry and for having the confidence in UWM to lead the way.”\nThe funding will go towards educational, research and test bed application lab costs. The grant is similar to funding WEDC offered to the Global Water Center and the Energy Innovation Center. The agency also supports annual startup programs run by The Water Council and the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium.\nMark Maley, a WEDC spokesman, said there’s a possibility WEDC could provide similar funding to the Connected Systems Institute in the future if it develops programing that would benefit from WEDC support.\nThe university began planning the Connected Systems Institute in January 2016 after a meeting with Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella, a UWM graduate.\nMicrosoft will be a partner in the development of the center, but the company and university officials are continuing to finalize the details of that arraignment, according to Michelle Johnson, a UWM spokeswoman.\nJohnson said the university is also in talks with a number of companies about potential support for the center, but she added those agreements are yet to be finalized.\nThe center received a funding boost in September when Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. announced $1.7 million in funding to support the project.\nMone said at the time the new institute would require a $5 million to $10 million endowment and fundraising would take place over the next year to three years. Plans for the institute were still being finalized and Mone said the curriculum would be developed over the next 18 months.\nThe university now plans to begin offering executive education programs in the spring. A master’s degree program will also be designed in the spring and the university hopes to open lab space in spring 2019.", "This study provides an analytical overview of public financing instruments available for innovative cleantech start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in Europe. Many of these instruments operate under the theme of Horizon 2020, the largest European research and innovation programme with a total funding capacity of 80 Billion from 2014-2020.\nThe most common types of funding provided include loan-based and equity-based financing. Some instruments provide grants and guarantees as well. Some of the common thematic fields for which financing support is being provided include energy efficiency, smart cities, ICT, renewable energy, and healthcare. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Investment Fund (EIF) are the two prominent managing bodies of these funding instruments. Other managing bodies include the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), EUREKA, and the European Commission.\nWhile some instruments provide direct funding to SMEs and start-ups, others operate through financial intermediaries. For example, this study analyses portfolio size, average investment size, success rate of applications, accepted technology readiness levels (TRL), consortium requirements, maximum percentage of the project financed, as well as the frequency of project monitoring for all instruments covered in this study.\nFinancial instruments have been benchmarked in each of these categories mentioned to provide a numerical overview of all instruments. It must be taken note that each instrument has been devised to meet a specific need; this can vary from one instrument to another. The researchers find that in addition to financing, additional support is being provided by many instruments in the form of business coaching and training, ideation, business and advisory services, strategy, marketing and commercialization, IP rights and protection, policy support, financial management, process and quality management, R&D support and cooperation, and business acceleration services. While most instruments target SMEs, some target SMEs and research institutions. This is likely to benefit companies operating in partnership with research institutions.\nKey Topics Covered:\n1. Executive Summary\nCEO's Perspective\nKey Measurements of Funding Instruments\n2. Fund Description\nDescription of Funding Instruments\n3. Fund Benchmarking\nSummary of Competing Instruments\nDescription of Funding Metrics\nPortfolio Size Benchmarking\nTicket Size Benchmarking\nSuccess Rate Benchmarking\nTechnology Readiness Level Benchmarking\nConsortium Requirements\nProject Duration Benchmarking\nMaximum Percentage of Project Finance\nFrequency of Monitoring Benchmarking\nSupport Provided\nApplication Procedure\nEvaluation Steps\nTime for Approval\nTarget Company Type\n4. Growth Opportunities\nGrowth Opportunity 1-New Capabilities\nStrategic Imperatives-Cleantech SMEs\n5. The Last Word\nLast Word-Encouraging Founder's Mentality\n6. Appendix\nFor more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6dmhq6/understanding?w=5\nMedia Contact:\nResearch and Markets\nLaura Wood, Senior Manager\npress@researchandmarkets.com\nFor E.S.T Office Hours Call +1-917-300-0470\nFor U.S./CAN Toll Free Call +1-800-526-8630\nFor GMT Office Hours Call +353-1-416-8900\nU.S. Fax: 646-607-1907\nFax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/understanding-public-financing-options-in-cleantech-innovation-2018-research-report-300656455.html\nSOURCE Research and Markets\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.researchandmarkets.com", "SMALL BUSINESS STATUS REPORT\nWhile startup businesses are more likely to add jobs than older, more established companies, more than half struggle to get credit that will help them grow.\nThat’s the finding of a report released last week by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which analyzed the results of a survey of business owners across the country. The report found that 43 per cent of startups, companies 5 years old and under, were likely to add jobs and increase their revenues, compared with 22 per cent of older businesses.\nBut 58 per cent of companies 2 years old and under reported they had a difficult time getting credit, and 53 per cent of companies 3 to 5 years old also had problems. That compares with 39 per cent of older businesses. Nearly 70 per cent who did get financing didn’t get all that they needed, compared to 54 per cent of older enterprises. The most often-cited reason for not getting enough money: an insufficient credit history, a problem inherent in being a young company.\nThe survey shows that little has changed for small businesses since the Great Recession, which officially ended eight years ago. While owners are an optimistic lot, many find that banks aren’t willing to take a chance on a young business without a proven track record. The restrictions put on banks as part of the Dodd-Frank bill have made already wary banks even more cautious about lending to newer businesses. The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress want to change Dodd-Frank, which became law following the financial crisis.\nWIND ENERGY\nWhile wind power is still a small factor in U.S. energy production, it is gaining momentum, according to an Energy Department report released last week. With many small businesses interested in alternative forms of energy — and some companies and farms generating their own wind power — the wind industry is expected to continue its growth. Some facts from the report:\n–The country added more than 8,200 megawatts of wind power capacity in 2016, more than a quarter of the new energy capacity additions in the U.S. and in third place behind solar energy and natural gas. The nation’s wind power can generate more than 82 gigawatts a year.\n–The U.S. ranked second among countries around the world in adding wind power capacity, behind China.\n–Forty states and Puerto Rico have wind energy projects that considered utility scale, or large enough to generate 10 megawatts or more of electricity. Texas, the state with the biggest wind energy capabilities, doubled its capacity to 20,320 megawatts in 2016 from 2010’s 10,089.\n— The number of jobs related to wind power development rose 32 per cent from 2015, to 101,738.\nWHAT A website NEEDS\nSmall company owners can learn about the essential elements that every business website needs at an online seminar sponsored by SCORE, the organization that counsels business owners for free. It will be held Thursday, Aug. 17 at 1 p.m. Eastern time. You can learn more and register at http://bit.ly/2fz1BhW .\n———-\nFollow Joyce Rosenberg at http://www.twitter.com/JoyceMRosenberg . Her work can be found here: https://apnews.com/search/joyce%20rosenberg", "Coal Minister Piyush Goyal today said India should strive for 50 per cent of its power generation capacity from renewable sources by 2030 on the back of technological advancements in solar and wind energy.\n“With technological advancements in solar power and large turbines in wind energy, the country should strive for 50 per cent generation capacity from renewable sources by 2030,” Goyal said while addressing the 7th Indian Energy Congress.\nHe further said India is the first major country which is fast transitioning into a new era of carbon-free energy for its citizens.\nThe minister also said the country is set to exceed the target of 175 GW in renewable energy and touch 200 GW by 2022 which “shows the seriousness India attaches to climate change and environment protection.”\nIndia, the seventh largest economy in the world, is poised for fast economic growth in the coming years and will rank as the second largest in not-so-distant future, he added.\nEarlier in the conference, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the power sector must adopt new technologies and innovate to cut transmission and distribution losses as energy consumption in the country is set to see a phenomenal rise in the coming years.\n“While the government has accorded top priority to the sector, industry leaders must ensure that all citizens across the country have access to electricity at affordable rates. This will require substantially increasing the share of renewable energies as well as improving energy efficiencies.\n“You cannot stop the technology?s aggressive landing. Digitalisation, Internet of Things, 3-D printing and artificial intelligence will soon mechanise the energy sector. Industry 4.0 will cause disruption the energy sector as well, like in healthcare and education,” said Pradhan.\nGurdeep Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Ltd and Member Secretary of World Energy Council India, said the opportunities and challenges arising from Energy 4.0 and energy transition transcend long-established sector boundaries defined by coal, oil and gas sectors.\nDuring the conference, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar invited suggestions from industry leaders as the think- tank embarks to prepare Indias integrated energy policy along with a national plan for the manufacturing sector to adopt new technologies like artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT).\n“This is an era of pro-sumers ? producers who are consumers as well ? and with Industry 4.0, manufacturing is witnessing the biggest disruption ever seen in history. The integration of conventional fuels and renewable energies will determine a whole panorama of future public services,” he said.", "H3 Dynamics, a pioneering tele robotics tech startup from Singapore is proud to announce it has chosen Paris, France as its regional headquarters for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The company will furthermore establish new R&D activities in France, in areas ranging from advanced energy storage systems to visual analytics.\nH3 Dynamics chose Paris and France's buoyant tech startup ecosystem as its European base in a continued effort to drive engineering excellence, new technology partnerships and customer success. Set at the cross-roads of robotics, cognitive computing, and IoT, H3 Dynamics also enhances the autonomy of sensors and small aerial drones with advanced hydrogen energy storage. Through the effective convergence of several technologies, the group intends to market a range of solutions that achieve productivity gains and operational efficiencies for its clients.\n\"In March 2017 in Singapore, the Prime Minister of Singapore and former French President announced 2018 as the 'Year of Innovation' between both countries, two 'startup nations' with a shared willingness to shape the future of innovation and strengthen economic ties,\" said Marc Abensour, Ambassador of France in Singapore. \"With a European HQ in Paris and a Global HQ in Singapore, H3 Dynamics is a concrete example of this ambition.\"\n\"I am delighted with the decision of the pioneer Singaporean company H3 Dynamics to establish its European HQ and new R&D activities in France. Business France has facilitated H3 Dynamics' project along with its partner Paris Region Entreprises,\" said Caroline Leboucher, Chief Operating Officer, Invest, of Business France.\n\"We are excited about starting up our European operations in France, a country that has stood out in recent times for its drive for innovation and its audacity - as seen in the President's initiative 'Make our planet great again',\" says Founder and CEO Taras Wankewycz, a tech entrepreneur based in Singapore since 2011.\nH3 Dynamics, an IBM Business Partner and a member of Intel's Global IoT Alliance will be exhibiting its solutions at Europe's largest tech event (Vivatechnology innovation fair in Paris on June 15-17) on the VINCI Energies Lab as well as in the show's Discovery Zone. H3 Dynamics, through its partnership with the Starburst Aerospace Accelerator, will also exhibit at the Paris Air Show on June 21st.\nFor more information, please visit us at Vivatechnology : booth M15-019 (Vinci Energies Lab) and booth G20-021 (Discovery Zone) on June 15th, 16th and 17th at the Parc des Expositions - Paris, France, or at the Paris Air Show - Hall Concorde Booth S5 (Paris Air Lab) on June 21st.\nH3 Dynamics is headquartered in Singapore, with established regional offices Asia, North America and Europe. The group is composed of three tech pillars: hydrogen energy for enhanced electric flight, networked drone automation systems, and field data analytics services.\nwww.h3dynamics.com\nBusiness France is the national agency supporting the international development of the French economy, responsible for fostering export growth by French businesses, as well as promoting and facilitating international investment in France. It promotes France's companies, business image and nationwide attractiveness as an investment location, and also runs the VIE international internship program.\nwww.businessfrance.fr\nParis Region Entreprises is the agency in charge of promoting the Paris Region to attract international companies and support them in setting up by providing a full range of tailored services. President : Franck Margain / CEO : Robin Rivaton\nwww.parisregionentreprises.org\n$page_length='long'; ?>", "Get the Mach newsletter. SUBSCRIBE\nWith more than 50,000 wind turbines in place across the U.S., wind power now accounts for 8 percent of the nation's energy-generating capacity — and experts predict that figure could rise to 20 percent by 2030.\nBut all that clean, renewable energy comes with a high cost to the nation's wildlife. Researchers estimate that 140,000 to 328,000 birds are killed every year in collisions with the turbines' spinning rotor blades and support towers. The risk to birds is highest at night, when the blades and towers are cloaked in darkness.\nNow researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have hit upon what could prove to be a simple way to protect birds from wind turbines. They've used the \"signatures\" of birds that are visible in raw weather radar data to generate bird maps and live migration forecasts designed to alert wind farm operators to the presence of birds at peak times.\nMassive numbers\nOn any given night during the peak of the spring migration — from the end of April to the beginning of May — up to 520 million migrating birds are on the wing, says Dr. Kyle Horton of Cornell's famed ornithology lab and one of the researchers involved in the project.\nAccording to keepers, a wind turbine near the Altamont Pass severed a portion of this 14-year-old golden eagle's left wing in 2000, leaving him unable to fly or survive in the wild. Noah Berger / AP file\nMost are small birds at risk from predators. (Big birds tend to migrate in daylight, although they too sometimes fall afoul of the turbines.)\n\"Our measures are dominated by small songbirds, things like warblers and tanagers, thrushes and grosbeaks — those are the dominant signatures we're getting,\" says Horton.\nIt's long been known that migrating birds are easily detected by the Doppler radar systems used to monitor rainfall in the U.S.\nFor weather forecasting purposes, of course, the radar signals caused by bird flocks are filtered out. But the Cornell researchers, including Horton and Benjamin Van Doren, a zoologist who recently moved to Oxford University in the U.K., realized that birds' nighttime flights could be used to generate real-time maps that could help save birds' lives.\nAfter working for several years to integrate the signals from a network of weather radar systems across the U.S., the scientists a few weeks ago started posting automated bird migration forecasts and real-time tracking maps at the lab's website, BirdCast.info.\nMaking use of the maps\nVan Doren and Horton hope wind farm operators will heed the forecasts and maps — which are drawn from 143 weather radar systems across the country — and stop or slow their wind turbines temporarily when large numbers of birds are flying through the area.\nOne solution to the bird-strike problem might be to raise the turbines' so-called \"cut-in speed.\" That's the wind speed above which it makes economic sense to run the turbines. Wind turbines operate more efficiently at the high wind speeds, Horton says, while birds tend to avoid flying on windy nights.\n\"If we're getting large pulses of [migrating birds] coming through on a handful of nights, then altering their strategies for just, say, five nights versus doing nothing, then it may have a big impact,\" he says of wind farm operators.", "B2B Rocks, the first and leading conference about B2B & SaaS startups around the world is coming back to Sydney for its second edition, to explore \"the Future of Work\".\nContact\nAnne Perego\n***@b2brocks.co Anne Perego\nEnd\n-- This year, the conference is supported by Lendlease, which will host the one-day event on Thursday 28 September 2017 in its new Barangaroo building, at the Tower 3. Sponsored by Microsoft and its BizSpark program, the conference will be the perfect place for the different speakers and panelists to discuss about \"The Future of Work\", the main topic for the morning. In the afternoon, the 250 attendees spanning from early stage to mature startup founders, investors and C-levels from medium to large international companies, will hear actionable insights from world-class experts from the B2B & SaaS space and select the most promising B2B startup entering the 1st B2B Rocks pitching competition.Attendees will have the chance to learn from shapers and doers from the B2B ecosystem and network from 8.30am to 6pm, with about 25 speakers including Natalie Slessor, the Head of Workplace at Lendlease, Dean McEvoy, CEO at TechSydney, Bridget Loudon, CEO at Expert360, which just raised a $13 million series B, Marc Havercroft, Futurist and VP of Digital Transformation for Human Capital Management at SAP, Olga Oleinikova, CEO at Persollo, Jason Wyatt, CEO at Marketplacer, Fred Orrenius, Founding Partner at Digital4s Ventures, Constantine Georgiou, Co-founder of The Founder Lab, Lawrence Crumpton, HoloLens/MR Solution Specialist at Microsoft, Nicolas Chu, Founder of Sinorbis, Marc Cowper, CEO at Recomazing, Ezechiel Ritchie, Head of Media Sales at Taboola, Jessica Ellerm, CEO at Zuper, David Francis, Co-founder of Virtual Method, Chris Gilbert, CEO Equitise, Andrew Everingham, Managing Director at Capital-E, Georgia King-Siem, Director at KPMG, Melissa Widner, General Partner at NAB Ventures, Dave Gardiner, Co-founder of Carthona Capital, Lija Wilson, Co-founder of Puffling, Adam Cook, Associate at AirTree Ventures, Andy Farquharson, Sales Architect at Winning by Design, Alister Coleman, Managing Partner at Tempus Partners and others.Aside from the main event, B2B Rocks will host a B2B startup pitching competition sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark where 10 shortlisted startups from APAC region will be pitching in front of a judging panel to win an Azure Sponsorship worth a USD 120,000 (BizSpark Plus Program), and several prizes awarded by TechSydney and other partners. If you're a B2B startup, less than 5 years old and USD 1 million in annual revenue, click here to apply ( https://b2brocks.awardsplatform.com )!The event is supported by Dragon Law, technology partners such as BlueJeans, Zeetings, Award Force and community partners such as TechSydney, Techboard, Recomazing, Fishburners, Tank Stream Labs and more. Tickets for the event are now available, secure your seat now! ( http://events.eventzilla.net/ e/b2b-rocks- 2138905613 More speakers will be announced shortly as well as the fully detailed program. Don't miss our upcoming announcements about our Future of Work and B2B Startup experts by following the B2B Rocks LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/10812751/).", "So you have a great idea for the next great social sharing app. Or maybe a new crowdsourcing platform, medical device or social enterprise? Or maybe you don’t have an idea, but you want to get some hands-on experience in entrepreneurship?\nWhatever the idea, the Pitt Innovation Institute has several competitions and hackathons lined up for Pitt students this semester where you can find out if your idea can make it to market. Your idea could even win some cash prizes, including the Randall Family Big Idea Competition, which includes a $25,000 top prize and $100,000 in total prizes.\nThe fun kicks off Friday and Saturday, Jan. 19 and 20, with the Startup Blitz. At this 24-hour startup-athon, you can pitch your idea, recruit teammates, join a team and work one-on-one with an experienced business mentor to begin developing your idea into a viable product or service.\nYou then pitch your idea Saturday afternoon for the chance to win cash prizes. Food is provided Friday night and Saturday morning on the third floor of the School of Computing and Information. Don’t have your own idea? No problem. Come to the event and listen to the initial pitches from your fellow students and try to join a team that interests you.\nThe following weekend, Jan. 26-28, is the She Innovates all-women hackathon. Also held at the School of Information and Computing, this event is for female students (undergraduate and graduate). If you don’t have a team, don’t worry. You can join one at the event. You don’t even need hacking experience to participate. Mentors will be there to guide you along.\nNext up is the Randall Family Big Idea Competition. Now in its 10th year, the Big Idea competition is also open to all students (from undergrad to postdoctoral fellows) who have an idea that might make the basis for a startup or a new social enterprise. Sponsored through the generosity of Pitt trustee Bob Randall and his family, many past participants have gone on to launch their ideas as startups.\nJohn Frazier and Nicole Xu, who earned degrees from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in 2016, first floated their idea for a language translation platform at a Startup Blitz event, where they and fellow classmate Lujing Gao won the $1,500 top prize for their pitch.\nThey went on to compete in the Randall Family Big Idea Competition and launched their business, uTranslated, after completing the Pitt Blast Furnace student idea accelerator.\n“We never intended to be entrepreneurs. It just sort of worked out that we came up with this idea and we won the Startup Blitz pitch competition,” Frazier said. “It turned out to be a life-changing experience. When we got that money we didn’t pay rent, we decided to keep pushing ahead. It was the perfect time in our lives to try something (entrepreneurial). So we went for it.”\nTo register for Startup Blitz and/or She Innovates and to apply for the Randall Family Big Idea Competition, visit the Innovation Institute web site, www.innovation.pitt.edu and click on the “Events & Competitions” tab. Deadline for submission is February 5, 2018.\nprintPrint", "DENVER (CN) – The president will release his proposed 2019 budget early next week, and many expect him to pick up where he left off last year – with hefty blows to renewable energy funding.\nThe Washington Post reportedly glanced at a draft that offers the U.S. Department of Energy 28 percent of what it was allocated last year.\nOf the nation’s $4 trillion budget, the Office of Energy Efficiency under the U.S. Department of Energy is currently spending $2 billion. The proposed cuts would reduce the office’s budget to $575 million.\nTrump made a similar proposition last year targeting the Offices of Science, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, while increasing funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration. Congress later challenged the proposal.\nAmong programs at risk is the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Last year, the lab received $458 million in funding, a portion of which came from the federal government. More than 2,000 employees, researchers, interns, professionals and subcontractors contribute to NREL’s 13 research programs. NREL also encompasses the National Bioenergy Center, the National Center for Photovoltaics, and the National Wind Technology Center.\nSenator Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, has long considered energy a top issue for his state and has helped secure funding for the research facility.\n“The United States is entering a new phase of energy history, and the nation is at the cusp of energy independence as we continue to produce our own secure supply of energy. Meeting our country’s energy demands will include an all-of-the-above strategy,” Gardner said in a statement, referring to the party’s slogan supporting the use of both fossil fuel and renewable energy sources.\n“The state is on the cutting edge of energy production and research, due in large part to the NREL,” he continued. “I support developing and utilizing American energy of all kinds. This includes the use of traditional power like coal, oil, nuclear, natural gas, along with the use of renewable energy such as wind, solar, hydroelectric power, and geothermal.”\nAccording to the Colorado Energy Office, renewable energy makes up more than 17 percent of the state’s power, most of which comes from wind. Colorado is a top producer of both solar energy and coal power. Fifty-four percent of Colorado’s electricity comes from coal and 20 percent from natural gas, the state’s primary heating source for homes.\nAt the state level, several initiatives have been proposed to provide direction to the Colorado Energy Office.\nOne bill that aimed to push Colorado toward 100 percent renewable energy by 2035 was killed in the state Senate Thursday.\nSenator Ray Scott, R-Grand Junction, attributed the bill’s demise to funding.\n“We don’t have a wind severance tax,” he said in a phone interview. “We don’t have a solar energy severance tax. There’s absolutely no revenue coming in from those renewables to backfill out as fossil fuels have done for 20 years in Colorado.”\nAt the start of the legislative session, Scott introduced another bill that prioritized nuclear and hydroelectric power while eliminating economic incentives aimed at promoting the expansion of wind and solar power. The senator says most of the programs he proposed cutting are either underused or obsolete.\n“I want to make sure we are just as competitive as the other states that produce energy, and to investors and companies that would want to move to Colorado for energy services. In Colorado, we’ve done a very, very good job of getting a good mix of all-of-the-above,” Scott said.\nIn his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump alluded to just one energy source: “beautiful, clean coal.”\nThe president indicated early on in his term that he would prioritize reducing federal involvement in environmental issues. In contrast to Trump’s attempt to erase lines for efficient and renewable energy from the government budget, a recent poll from the Pew Research Center estimates two-thirds of Americans would prioritize finding alternative energy sources over expanding fossil fuel sources.\nNREL did not respond to requests for comment made by email or voicemail.\nLike this: Like Loading...", "Know Labs, Inc. (f/k/a Visualant, Incorporated) (OTCQB: KNWN) – a provider of identification, authentication and diagnostic solutions, announced today that Michael Grabham has been appointed Chief Business Officer of the Company.\nMichael Grabham is a Seattle serial entrepreneur who has started six companies over the past 25 years. His first company was started at age 28 and was sold three years later after more the tripling the annual revenues. He recently invented and patented the Package Guard, a consumer product to protect packages that are delivered to your doorstep.\nGrabham has led, as President, several companies from a regional telecommunications company ($14M annual sales) to a software assessment company (startup). As a leader in sales, business development and marketing, his roles have enabled him to be a driving force in revenue generation and his relationship with customers has provided a strong foundation for growth. He focuses on building quality process to ensure clear communication and scalability for growth. He has managed administrative, engineering and sales staffs throughout his career.\nGrabham received his MBA from Seattle University and has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics. He and his wife started a nonprofit, Survive the Streets, in 1999 which assists the homeless population in Seattle.\n\"Mike Grabham is a great addition to the Know Labs team,” stated Phil Bosua, Chief Executive Officer. \"As we bring our new product and technology embodying our Bio-RFID™ platform to the market Mike will be an immeasurable asset for creating the relationships and processes that allow us to rapidly scale our business.”\n\"I am very excited to join Know Labs,” said Grabham. \"I love the energy and creativity of the team and especially look forward to adding value as we bring the initial product to the market. Our products can be life changing as they allow consumers to know more about the inner workings of their bodies in order to better manage their health and wellness.”\nAbout Know Labs, Inc.\nKnow Labs, Inc. (f/k/a Visualant Incorporated) is a public company whose shares trade under the stock symbol \"KNWN.” The company’s technology directs structured light or radio waves through a substance or material to capture a unique molecular signature. The Company refers to these signatures as ChromaID™ and Bio-RFID™. ChromaID and Bio-RFID are used to identify, detect, or diagnose substance markers or biomarkers that may be invisible to the human eye. ChromaID and Bio-RFID scanner modules can be integrated into a variety of mobile or bench-top form factors. This patented and patent pending, award-winning technology makes it possible to effectively conduct analyses that could only previously be performed by invasive and/or large and expensive lab-based tests. For more information on Know Labs, visit the company’s website at www.knowlabs.co.\nView source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530005439/en/", "SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. is exploring a technology first developed for the US military to produce tasty prepared meals that do not need refrigeration, as it looks for new ways to muscle into the $700 billion US grocery business.\nThe world’s biggest online retailer has discussed selling ready-to-eat dishes such as beef stew and a vegetable frittata as soon as next year, officials at the startup firm marketing the technology told Reuters.\nThe dishes would be easy to stockpile and ship because they do not require refrigeration and could be offered quite cheaply compared with take-out from a restaurant.\nIf the cutting-edge food technology comes to fruition, and Amazon implements it on a large scale, it would be a major step forward for the company as it looks to grab hold of more grocery customers shifting towards quick and easy meal options at home.\nDelivering meals would build on the company’s AmazonFresh service, which has been delivering groceries to customers’ homes for a decade. It could also complement Amazon’s planned $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market Inc. and Amazon’s checkout-free convenience store, which is in the test stage.\nThe pioneering food-prep tech, known as microwave assisted thermal sterilisation, or MATS, was developed by researchers at Washington State University and is being brought to market by a venture-backed startup called 915 Labs, based in Denver.\nThe method involves placing sealed packages of food in pressurised water and heating them with microwaves for several minutes, according to 915 Labs.\nUnlike traditional processing methods, where packages are in pressure cookers for up to an hour until both bacteria and nutrients are largely gone, the dishes retain their natural flavour and texture, the company said. They also can sit on a shelf for a year, which would make them suitable for Amazon’s storage and delivery business model.\n“They obviously see that this is a potential disruptor and an ability to get to a private brand uniqueness that they’re looking for,” said Greg Spragg, a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executive and now head of a startup working with MATS technology. “They will test these products with their consumers, and get a sense of where they would go.”\nAmazon declined to comment.\nSpragg’s company, Solve for Food, plans to acquire a MATS machine from 915 Labs that can make 1,800 packages an hour. The company aims to use the machine at a new food innovation centre in northwest Arkansas, near the headquarters of Wal-Mart.\n915 Labs also has an Arkansas connection: it is designing the beef stew and other dishes with a chef at the Bentonville-based Brightwater Centre for the Study of Food.\nWalmart did not comment on whether it is looking into the technology.\nHiring food people\n‘like crazy’\nMATS technology grew out of efforts by the US Army’s Natick laboratories more than a decade ago to improve food quality for soldiers in combat. Washington State University, a five-hour drive from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, received US funding and became the research hub for MATS.\n915 Labs said it formed in 2014 and acquired the assets of a business called Food Chain Safety, which previously was working on MATS before facing financial trouble in 2013.\n915 Labs also licensed the original patents from the university, its Chief Executive Michael Locatis said, and its MATS dishes are now pending US Food and Drug Administration approval.\nIn addition to ongoing work with the US military, the company has sold machines to the Australian government and to food companies in Asia.\n“They have to leapfrog to MATS because they don’t have the refrigerated supply chain like we have in the US,” said Locatis, who was an assistant secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security until 2013.\nAmazon invited the startup to Seattle after learning about MATS technology last year at the SIAL Paris food trade show, according to Locatis.\nIn February, Amazon sent a team to Washington State University that met with Juming Tang, chair of the school’s biological systems engineering department and a key developer of the technology.\nAnd in March, Amazon joined the university’s researchers and other companies in Seattle for the inaugural meeting of the Industrial Microwave Alliance, according to a university news release. The group’s mission is to “accelerate technology transfer of microwave-based food safety”.\n“Amazon just started this,” Tang said in an interview. “They need to deliver meals to homes... They’re hiring food people like crazy.”\nNot everyone sees why MATS would be worth pursuing. Some think packaged food would have little attraction to the generally high-income members of Amazon’s Prime shopping club.\n“I get why new food processing systems that increase shelf life may be good for Amazon,” said Bentley Hall, CEO of fresh food delivery service Good Eggs. “I struggle to see how this solution addresses an actual consumer want or need better than fresh, prepared meals.”\nMATS represents just one way Amazon is searching for an edge in the grocery business, to distinguish itself from incumbents like Kroger Co.\nThe company has also filed for a trademark for cook-it-yourself meal-kits — a move that pushed down shares of Blue Apron Holdings Inc. — but has not yet detailed its plans for ready-to-eat meal delivery.", "CLEVELAND, Ohio - Farouk El-Baz, a geologist and a NASA scientist on the Apollo space program's site-selection committee, will receive the Inamori Ethics Prize at Case Western Reserve University.\nThe university is scheduled to present the honor to El-Baz during campus events Sept. 13 and 14, 2018.\nThe ethics prize has been awarded annually since 2008 to honor an individual for significant and lasting contributions to ethical leadership on the global stage.\n\"Dr. El-Baz has shown tremendous ethical leadership throughout his life,\" Inamori Center Director Shannon French, a professor at the law school and the philosophy department, said in a statement. \"Not only did he serve all of humankind with his essential contributions to NASA's historic Apollo space program, but he has since turned his talents to the task of locating desperately needed scarce resources here on the Earth to save lives and resolve deadly conflicts. As many have stated, he is truly a national--and international--treasure.\"\nEl-Baz is director of the Center for Remote Sensing and a research professor in the departments of archaeology and electrical and computer engineering at Boston University\nThe center uses space technology to study the earth and its environment, including finding critically needed groundwater in arid regions around the globe.\nThe Egyptian-born El-Baz received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and geology from Ain Shams University in Cairo and received a master's and PhD from the University of Missouri. He taught mineralogy at Heidelberg University in Germany and worked in Egypt's oil industry. He became a United States citizen in 1970.\nFrom 1967 to 1972, El-Baz participated in the Apollo program as supervisor of lunar science planning at Bellcomm Inc., a division of AT&T that conducted systems analysis for NASA headquarters in Washington D.C.\nIn 1973, he established and directed the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Air and Space Museum of Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He was vice president for science and technology at Itek Optical Systems from 1982 until he joined Boston University in 1986.\nEl-Baz recalled that as Apollo 11 slowly descended to the moon's surface on July 20, 1969, the team of NASA scientists responsible for choosing the first lunar landing site was as anxious and in awe as the rest of the world.\n\"All our hearts were pounding,\" he said in a statement. \"What if the moon was completely different than we thought? We were not 100 percent sure of all aspects, so there was room for error.\"\nThe capsule touched down four miles from the predicted landing point and about a minute-and-a-half sooner than scheduled. The mission--and five Apollo lunar landings that followed--was considered a success.\nIn his honor, one episode of \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" featured a shuttle spacecraft named \"El-Baz.\" He was also the focus of an episode of the Tom Hanks-produced HBO miniseries \"From the Earth to the Moon,\" in a segment titled, \"The Brain of Farouk El-Baz.\"\nEl-Baz is known for pioneering work in applying space images to groundwater exploration in arid lands, CWRU said. Based on the analysis of space photographs, his recommendations resulted in the discovery of groundwater resources in Egypt, India, China, Sudan, Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates and Chad.\nTo honor his research on the understanding of arid lands and their groundwater resources, the Geological Society of America Foundation established two annual awards: The Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research to reward professional excellence in arid land studies, and The Farouk El-Baz Student Research Award to be awarded to two students--one male and one female--to encourage geological research on arid lands.", "University of Sheffield signs collaboration agreement with leading Malaysian university focused on energy\nUniversity of Sheffield President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Keith Burnett has signed an agreement with Professor Dr Kamal Nasharuddin Mustapha, Vice-Chancellor of UNITEN University in Malaysia, to build research partnerships and student and faculty exchanges between the two institutions in the crucial area of energy.\nThe signing was accompanied by a meeting and presentations from both universities, and included discussions with a number of senior UNITEN staff who are Sheffield alumni. The Vice-Chancellor of UNITEN is himself a graduate of the University of Sheffield’s Department of Civil and Structural Engineering.\nSir Keith said: “I am delighted that the University of Sheffield is developing what I am confident will be a very fruitful partnership between one of Malaysia’s leading private universities working in a very focused way on Energy, a clear area of relevance to both the people of Malaysia and the United Kingdom, but also more broadly around the world.\n“This is a strategically important area for both of our universities. Energy is a key focus of research and teaching in Sheffield through the partnerships which already exist with our Faculty of Engineering and Energy 2050 research, but also through our work on wind, solar and nuclear energy. We should not think either that our partnership will be restricted to engineering and science. I see real potential for collaboration with UNITEN and our University’s highly-respected work on sustainability and colleagues working in Economics and Management.”\nHe added: “It is also tremendous to see the impact our Malaysian engineering graduates over many decades are now making in their own country. I was deeply proud to speak to the Vice-Chancellor of UNITEN who is a Sheffield alumnus and to a number of his professors. I recognise in them the same determination to bring the highest standards of research and teaching to the benefit of local communities that I know they learned from our own university.”\nSir Keith signed the Memorandum of Understanding during a short trip to Malaysia, where he met a number of senior University of Sheffield alumni who are graduates in Engineering, Law, Medicine, Architecture and Landscape. Sir Keith also held discussions with the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi about ways in which the University of Sheffield can further develop its educational activities in Malaysia, with a particular focus on opportunities in engineering and technical training with industry.\nThe announcement of a partnership with UNITEN was also welcomed by the University of Sheffield’s new Director of Global Engagement, Malcolm Butler. He said: “It is most encouraging to see the University of Sheffield continue to build partnerships at the highest levels in Malaysia, working with both academia and industry to apply our internationally-leading research strengths.\n“It also continues to be true that Malaysians are a vital part of our university community. The University of Sheffield has historically been one of the largest recruiter of Malaysian students to the United Kingdom, and our students and alumni are found across all subject areas where they make a huge contribution to student and academic life as well as to their own society after graduation.”\nThe signing followed discussions between UNITEN and the University of Sheffield’s Electronic and Electrical Engineering in the area of renewable energy, led by Professor John David – Professor of Semiconductor Materials and Devices, working with engineering colleagues Professor Tao Wang - Professor of Advanced Optoelectronics and Professor Chee Hing Tan, who holds a Chair in Photon Detectors.\nAdditional information The University of Sheffield is a top 100 global university with key strengths in research and teaching in the area of energy including: Energy 2050 - One of the UK’s largest energy research institutes. Based at the University of Sheffield, we have over 120 academics and more than 250 PhD students undertaking energy research and innovation - http://energy2050.ac.uk/about-energy-2050/\n- One of the UK’s largest energy research institutes. Based at the University of Sheffield, we have over 120 academics and more than 250 PhD students undertaking energy research and innovation - http://energy2050.ac.uk/about-energy-2050/ Sheffield-Siemens Wind Power Research Centre – the S²WP Research Centre at the University of Sheffield - https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/eee/research/emd/emd_news/sw2p-1.542344\n– the S²WP Research Centre at the University of Sheffield - https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/eee/research/emd/emd_news/sw2p-1.542344 Sheffield Solar - https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/\n- https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/ The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures leads the University of Sheffield’s work around sustainability, and the interaction between food, energy and resources. Established in Autumn 2014 with a £2.6m gift from The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, the Centre focuses on the science of sustainability and connects it with the policy debate about how humans can live in a more sustainable way - http://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/\nleads the University of Sheffield’s work around sustainability, and the interaction between food, energy and resources. Established in Autumn 2014 with a £2.6m gift from The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, the Centre focuses on the science of sustainability and connects it with the policy debate about how humans can live in a more sustainable way - http://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/ Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre - http://namrc.co.uk/ With almost 27,000 of the brightest students from over 140 countries, learning alongside over 1,200 of the best academics from across the globe, the University of Sheffield is one of the world’s leading universities. A member of the UK’s prestigious Russell Group of leading research-led institutions, Sheffield offers world-class teaching and research excellence across a wide range of disciplines. Unified by the power of discovery and understanding, staff and students at the university are committed to finding new ways to transform the world we live in. Sheffield is the only university to feature in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2017 and was voted number one university in the UK for Student Satisfaction by Times Higher Education in 2014. In the last decade it has won four Queen’s Anniversary Prizes in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the United Kingdom’s intellectual, economic, cultural and social life. Sheffield has six Nobel Prize winners among former staff and students and its alumni go on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence all over the world, making significant contributions in their chosen fields. Global research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Glaxo SmithKline, Siemens and Airbus, as well as many UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations. Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) is a private university, located in Selangor, Malaysia, with GLC university status. It is wholly owned by the public-listed Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) energy utilities company and offers academic programmes in engineering and business management at undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as undertaking energy related research.", "University City companies — 36 of them — qualify for tax credits for profitable startups\nPhoto: Katie Zhao / The Daily Pennsylvanian\nUniversity City continues to set the trend for innovation in Pennsylvania, with 36 companies receiving over $2 million in tax credits for profitable startups.\nThe 2016 Keystone Innovation Zone Tax Credits are $15 million in tax credits that are available to start-up companies in cartain geographic areas throughout the state , called \"Keystone Innovation Zones.\" KIZs were originally created as part of former Governor Ed Rendell's stimulus plan to encourage startup growth throughout Pennsylvania.\nEligible startups can receive a tax credit for up to half of the total increase in revenues from the previous year.\nSenior manager for marketing and media relations at the University City Science Center Kristen Fitch said that most of the startups don't need these tax credits, so they can sell them instead at market value and use the money at their discretion to pursue new projects.\n“Most of these companies do not have tax liabilities, so most of them are selling the tax credits. What’s unique about these tax credits is that once they sell it they can apply the money to anything they want at the company,” she said.\nFitch administers the KIZ, and the University City Science Center provides resources and lab space for companies like Phelix Therapeutics, which received a KIZ tax credit for 2016 to pursue research that is not normally covered through the grants they receive.\n“KIZ companies are using the tax credits for everything from research and development to hiring a new employee to buying new equipment,” she said. “The great part about the program is it provides flexibility to these companies.\"\nSpecifically, KIZs are designed around educational institutions to foster a startup environment. The University City KIZ is a partnership between Drexel, Penn, Thomas Jefferson, the University of the Sciences, the Wistar Institute, BioAdvance and the University City Science Center, which has Penn administrators serving on the board according to the Science Center website.\nThe success of University City companies at gaining nearly 15% of the total KIZ tax credits awarded in Pennsylvania reflects the growing start-up community within University City, which was recently named the ‘hottest tech submarket’ and continues to develop real estate to encourage start-ups.\nVice President of marketing communications and community engagement at University City Science Center Jeanne Mell said,“I think it’s just one more tool in the Commonwealth’s ability to attract, retain, and foster start-ups. Start-ups really help us develop a thriving and a vibrant economy, and we’re excited to do our part for it.\"", "Tesla Kauai solar-energy generation and storage project [photo: The Verge] Enlarge Photo\nFor years, renewable energy has been cast as the most expensive option to reduce emissions and the world's reliance on fossil fuels.\nBut 2016 may have marked a turn for the renewable energy sector, with solar energy in particular rising significantly in output.\nFor the first time in history, renewable energy sources accounted for fully two-thirds of the new energy capacity added worldwide in 2016.\nDON'T MISS: More solar energy was added in 2016 than natural gas or wind\nThat represents not just a healthy share, but a shift in behavior among energy producers, though fossil fuels still dominate generation today.\nThe International Energy Agency's renewable-market analysis showed solar energy as the largest gainer in 2016, according to an NBC report on Wednesday.\nIn fact, solar-energy production rose by 50 percent last year, outpacing any other fuel and surpassing coal's net growth—the first time a renewable source has ever achieved such year-over-year growth.\nWind farm outside Fort MacLeod, Alberta, Canada [photographer: Joel Bennett] Enlarge Photo\nFatih Birol, the IEA's executive director, told the network a \"new era in solar photovoltaic\" has emerged, referencing lower costs and worldwide expansion of the solar industry, reported by CNBC.\nSolar photovoltaic (solar pv) is a way of directly converting light from the sun into electricity.\nOne country sped past others in solar energy investments, however: China. More than 50 percent of the additional solar power that came online in 2016 is located in China, according to Birol.\nREAD THIS: Renewable energy to hit 9 percent of U.S. total in 2017\nChina, India, and the United States will likely lead the renewable energy industry, he added, but solar power can compete with coal better in China.\nIn total, 165 gigawatts worth of renewable energy came online in 2016, and the sector will grow 43 percent by 2022, according to the report.\nLooking ahead, Birol forecasted solar to be the fastest-growing renewable energy source through 2022.\nTesla and SolarCity solar farm on Ta'u, American Samoa Enlarge Photo\nIn general, the report expects renewable energy to grow by about 1,000 gigawatts by 2022, equal to half of the current global capacity in coal power.\nSuch capacity in coal power took 80 years to build, Birol noted, and renewables will likely achieve parity in only a few years.\nCost is the biggest factor, and the IEA expects the solar energy costs to be halved in the next three years.\nCHECK OUT: Scientists debate: could renewable energy entirely replace fossil fuels in U.S. by 2050?\nHowever, Birol conceded renewables likely can't and won't provide every single kilowatt-hour the world consumes.\nHe stressed the role of \"traditional\" fossil fuels in providing uninterrupted power to national energy grids 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\nInstead, he believes a \"healthy marriage\" between renewable and traditional fuel sources lies ahead—though clearly the data shows the trajectory is toward more renewables.\n_______________________________________\nFollow GreenCarReports on Facebook and Twitter", "Subscribe Let our news meet your inbox. SIGN UP\nAn astronaut wandering the moon next year could use a smartphone to call home. A German startup is preparing to set up the first telecommunication infrastructure on the lunar surface.\nThe German company Part Time Scientists, which originally competed for the Google Lunar X Prize race to the moon, plans to send a lander with a rover in late 2018 to visit the landing site of Apollo 17. (Launched in 1972, this was NASA's final Apollo mission to the moon.) Instead of using a complex dedicated telecommunication system to relay data from the rover to the Earth, the company will rely on LTE technology — the same system used on Earth for mobile phone communications.\n\"We are cooperating with Vodafone in order to provide LTE base stations on the moon,\" Karsten Becker, who heads embedded electronics development and integration for the startup, told Space.com.\n\"What we are aiming to do is to provide commercial service to bring goods to the moon and also to provide services on the surface of the moon,\" Becker added.\nPart Time Scientists has a launch contract for late 2018 with Space X as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9 rocket. Becker said the company believes it will be the first private entity to reach the surface of the moon, suggesting that none of the Google Lunar X Prize participants are likely to meet the December 2017 deadline for the competition. (Part Time Scientists itself withdrew from the Google Lunar X Prize earlier this year due to the time constraints of the competition.)\nThe Falcon 9 will carry the team's spacecraft, Alina, to the geostationary transfer orbit, a highly elliptical Earth orbit whose highest point is 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers). From there, Alina will continue on its own to the moon.\n\"We will soft-land on the moon and disembark our two rovers, the Audi Lunar Quatro rovers, with which we are going to drive up to Apollo 17,\" Becker said.\n\"The two rovers are essentially mobile phones that will communicate our video stream to Alina, which serves as an LTE base station, and Alina will communicate the data to us,\" he said.\nThe two rovers, which appeared in this year's \"Alien: Covenant\" film, will examine in detail the Apollo 17 spacecraft to see what has happened to it in its 45 years on the lunar surface.\n\"Using the LTE modem to transmit our data is much more energy efficient than using direct Earth communication,\" Becker explained.\nThe rover gets 90 watts of energy from its solar panel, half of which goes to driving, Becker said; previously, the other half would have to go to the modem for communicating directly to Earth. \"With LTE, it's significantly less,\" he said.\nAdditionally, relaying data via the base station rather than directly to Earth solves difficulties with pointing the rover's antenna in the rough lunar terrain, Becker said.\nHe said Part Time Scientists does not expect Alina and the rovers to survive the lunar night because of the extreme low temperatures. However, the experience gained during the first mission will be used in subsequent missions that will aim to establish a permanent telecommunication infrastructure on the moon's surface, he said.\n\"We are trying to show that you can use the most widespread means of communication, which is the mobile network and particularly the LTE network, on the surface of the moon, to execute missions there,\" said Becker. \"We are aiming to provide cost-effective solutions to problems that are arising in terms of building the lunar village.\"\nAccording to Becker, Part Time Scientists plans to conduct a second mission around 2020 that would carry LTE terminals designed to survive in the harsh lunar environment for extended periods of time. The company is closely cooperating with the European Space Agency, which has proposed a lunar village concept that would lead to permanent human presence on the surface of the moon. The agency's plan would let all nations and entities contribute to the overall operations with their unique skills and expertise.\nThe Alina spacecraft can carry up to 100 kilograms (220 lbs.) of payload. During its first mission, the craft will carry three customer payloads, including an experiment designed by NASA Ames.\nThis article originally appeared on Space.com.\nYour Video Begins in: 00:00 00:23 00:00 / 00:00 Build Your Own Eclipse Viewer 00:01:43\nFOLLOW NBC MACH ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM", "Wind Turbine Blade Market\nGlobal Wind Turbine Blade Market Information Report by Type (Glass Fiber and Carbon Fiber), by size and by Region - Forecast to 2027\nKey Player Some of the key players in the Wind Turbine blade market are Siemens AG (Germany), Acciona S.A. (Spain), Vestas Wind Systems (Denmark), Suzlon Energy Limited (India), Stem AS (Denmark)” — Market Research Future\nPUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, August 14, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Market Synopsis of Wind Turbine Blade Market:\nMarket Scenario:\nFavorable Government Policies towards the Wind Turbine Blade Market are a major factor which is driving the market. Rapid inclusion of policies by the governments to boost the integration of renewable energy in their energy mix is inducing significant demand in the Wind Turbine Blade Market. A mix of awareness and economic benefits is pushing the market towards immense growth globally.\nRequest a Sample Report @ https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/sample_request/1150\nStudy Objectives of Wind Turbine Blade Market:\n• To provide detailed analysis of the market structure along with forecast for the next 10 years of the various segments and sub-segments of the Global Wind Turbine Blade Market\n• To provide insights about factors affecting the market growth\n• To Analyze the Wind Turbine Blade Market based on various factors- price analysis, supply chain analysis, Porters five force analysis.\n• To provide historical and forecast revenue of the market segments and sub-segments with respect to six main geographies and their countries- North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East, and Africa\n• To provide country level analysis of the market with respect to the current market size and future prospective\n• To provide country level analysis of the market for segment by size, by type and by region as well as its sub segments\n• To provide strategic profiling of key players in the market, comprehensively analyzing their core competencies, and drawing a competitive landscape for the market\n• To track and analyze competitive developments such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and new product developments in the Global Wind Turbine Blade Market\nMake an Enquiry before Buying @ https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/enquiry/1150\nSegments:\nThe Wind Turbine Blade Market has been segmented on the basis of type as Glass Fiber and Carbon Fiber. On the basis of size the market has been segmented as <27 Meter, 27-37 Meter, 38-50 Meter, and >50 Meter.\nRegional Analysis of Wind Turbine Blade Market:\nAsia-Pacific is one of the leading regions for the Wind Turbine Blade Market mainly due to the favorable government policies and attractive investment opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. Increasing awareness regarding economic benefits of the renewable energy sources is one of the main factors that are driving the demand in this market.\nKey Player:\nSome of the key players in the Wind Turbine Blade Market are Siemens AG (Germany), Acciona S.A. (Spain), Vestas Wind Systems (Denmark), Suzlon Energy Limited (India), Stem AS (Denmark), and Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica (Spain).\nBrowse Full Report Details @ https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/wind-turbine-blade-market\nAbout Market Research Future:\nAt Market Research Future (MRFR), we enable our customers to unravel the complexity of various industries through our Cooked Research Report (CRR), Half-Cooked Research Reports (HCRR), Raw Research Reports (3R), Continuous-Feed Research (CFR), and Market Research & Consulting Services.\nMRFR team have supreme objective to provide the optimum quality market research and intelligence services to our clients. Our market research studies by Components, Application, Logistics and market players for global, regional, and country level market segments, enable our clients to see more, know more, and do more, which help to answer all their most important questions.", "A new study using data from NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is accelerating particles to high energies — some of which may reach Earth as cosmic rays.\n“We know the blast waves of exploded stars can accelerate cosmic ray particles to speeds comparable to that of light, an incredible energy boost,” said Kenji Hamaguchi, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the lead author of the study. “Similar processes must occur in other extreme environments. Our analysis indicates Eta Carinae is one of them.”\nAstronomers know that cosmic rays with energies greater than 1 billion electron volts (eV) come to us from beyond our solar system. But because these particles — electrons, protons and atomic nuclei — all carry an electrical charge, they veer off course whenever they encounter magnetic fields. This scrambles their paths and masks their origins.\nZoom into Eta Carinae, where the outflows of two massive stars collide and shoot accelerated particles — cosmic rays — into space. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center\nEta Carinae, located about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina, is famous for a 19th century outburst that briefly made it the second-brightest star in the sky. This event also ejected a massive hourglass-shaped nebula, but the cause of the eruption remains poorly understood.\nThe system contains a pair of massive stars whose eccentric orbits bring them unusually close every 5.5 years. The stars contain 90 and 30 times the mass of our Sun and pass 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) apart at their closest approach — about the average distance separating Mars and the Sun.\n“Both of Eta Carinae’s stars drive powerful outflows called stellar winds,” said team member Michael Corcoran, also at Goddard. “Where these winds clash changes during the orbital cycle, which produces a periodic signal in low-energy X-rays we’ve been tracking for more than two decades.”\nNASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope also observes a change in gamma rays — light packing far more energy than X-rays — from a source in the direction of Eta Carinae. But Fermi’s vision isn’t as sharp as X-ray telescopes, so astronomers couldn’t confirm the connection.\nTo bridge the gap between low-energy X-ray monitoring and Fermi observations, Hamaguchi and his colleagues turned to NuSTAR. Launched in 2012, NuSTAR can focus X-rays of much greater energy than any previous telescope. Using both newly taken and archival data, the team examined NuSTAR observations acquired between March 2014 and June 2016, along with lower-energy X-ray observations from the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite over the same period.\nEta Carinae’s low-energy, or soft, X-rays come from gas at the interface of the colliding stellar winds, where temperatures exceed 70 million degrees Fahrenheit (40 million degrees Celsius). But NuSTAR detects a source emitting X-rays above 30,000 eV, some three times higher than can be explained by shock waves in the colliding winds. For comparison, the energy of visible light ranges from about 2 to 3 eV.\nThe team’s analysis, presented in a paper published on Monday, July 2, in Nature Astronomy, shows that these “hard” X-rays vary with the binary orbital period and show a similar pattern of energy output as the gamma rays observed by Fermi.\nThe researchers say that the best explanation for both the hard X-ray and the gamma-ray emission is electrons accelerated in violent shock waves along the boundary of the colliding stellar winds. The X-rays detected by NuSTAR and the gamma rays detected by Fermi arise from starlight given a huge energy boost by interactions with these electrons.\nSome of the superfast electrons, as well as other accelerated particles, must escape the system and perhaps some eventually wander to Earth, where they may be detected as cosmic rays.\n“We’ve known for some time that the region around Eta Carinae is the source of energetic emission in high-energy X-rays and gamma rays”, said Fiona Harrison, the principal investigator of NuSTAR and a professor of astronomy at Caltech in Pasadena, California. “But until NuSTAR was able to pinpoint the radiation, show it comes from the binary and study its properties in detail, the origin was mysterious.”\nNuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by Caltech and managed by JPL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. NuSTAR was developed in partnership with the Danish Technical University and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corp., Dulles, Virginia. NuSTAR’s mission operations center is at UC Berkeley, and the official data archive is at NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. ASI provides the mission’s ground station and a mirror archive. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.", "With a dedicated focus on technology that can improve its customer’s banking experience, Eastern Bank is now trying to get a little close to some of the brightest new minds in fintech.\nThe bank yesterday announced that it will be a “Challenge Partner” in MassChallenge’s Fintech program, a new accelerator to support and grow startups in the financial technology industry that will match fintech startups with industry leaders to grow emerging products and services that have the power to transform the financial services ecosystem.\n“Boston is home to a thriving fintech community and MassChallenge Fintech serves as a powerful connector to all kinds of emerging ideas,” Bob Rivers, chairman and CEO of Eastern Bank, said in a statement. “We recognize the importance of small businesses to our local economy and this is a natural way to support them through a program that will also add new momentum to how we think about our customer experience.”\nAs a challenge partner, Eastern will help accelerate innovation in the financial services industry by making it easier for startups and established businesses, institutions and organizations to work together. Startups selected for MassChallenge Fintech will participate in a six-month, vertical-specific accelerator where they will work closely with a leading partner on a range of activities from co-development and product validation to strategic investment and advisor introductions. At the end of the program, the enterprise-ready startups have the opportunity to win zero-equity cash prizes.\n“We’re very excited to have Eastern Bank join MassChallenge Fintech as a challenge partner,” Devon Sherman, program director of MassChallenge Fintech, said in a statement. “Together, we’ll work to create new opportunities for customers and communities by connecting exceptional fintech startups with Eastern Bank’s network.”\nIn May 2017, Eastern successfully spun out a new technology company, Numerated Growth Technologies, which offers a fully digital small business lending platform that gives customers the opportunity to obtain a loan in less than five minutes.\n“As a local bank celebrating 200 years in Massachusetts, we believe it’s important to support Boston’s fintech ecosystem and the job growth and economic development it creates in our own backyard,” Ashley Nagle Eknaian, who joined Eastern Bank in February as chief digital strategist to lead its tech lab and collaborations with the fintech community, said in a statement. “MassChallenge excels at creating networks that stretch the imagination, and we’re excited to cultivate new products and services that push our thinking on how we serve our customers and communities.”\nThe MassChallenge Fintech program will run from January 2019 through June 2019. Applications for the first cohort open in August 2018.\nTags: Eastern Bank, FinTech, MassChallenge", "Τhe East Mediterranean’s gas resources can promote cooperation, resolve conflicts and deliver financial benefits that contribute to the economic development of littoral countries, primarily Israel.\nA renewed Israeli gas regulation framework portends a competitive market in the East Mediterranean, given that new companies acquire offshore exploration licenses as result of Israel’s first international licensing round. The first Israeli international round concluded with the award of licenses to Greek energy company Energean Oil & Gas and a consortium of Indian companies comprised of ONGC Videsh, Bharat PetroResources, Indian Oil Corp and Oil India. Due to limited response by prospective investors, the second licensing round is scheduled for 2018 so that utilization of gas and oil fields occurs within Israel’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).\nThe attraction of international energy companies however depends on the commercial viability of existing and future reserves that is linked to energy market prices, the cost of constructing export infrastructure, and the securing of customers. Concurrently, existing and prospective supply options and regional stability or instability are factors determining investment decisions by international energy majors.\nThe lack of oil and gas transportation infrastructure is a reality in Israel. Leviathan gas field partners namely Noble Energy, Avner Oil Exploration, Ratio Oil Exploration and Delek Drilling are likely to develop infrastructure used exclusively by Leviathan, blocking out competitors and endangering prospects for future gas discoveries in Israel. Without Leviathan’s economies of scale, competitors will have to finance their own transportation infrastructure, thus raising the costs of developing smaller fields at prohibitive levels.\nRegarding prospective supply options, the overall outlook is quite promising. Israel’s capacity as a gas exporter is significant in regional terms, as evidenced by the signing of a $15 billion agreement to export approximately 64 bcm of gas over a ten-year period from Israel to Egypt. Notably, the new Egyptian legislation, called Resolution No. 196 of 2017, foresees the establishment of a gas regulatory authority and permits private companies to import gas from third countries like Israel.The transfer of Israeli gas to Egypt will be carried out via Jordan, which is expected to gain revenues in the form of royalties paid by oil companies. Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) finalized the Gas Transport Agreement (GTA) with the Jordanian-Egyptian Fajr Company for Natural Gas Transmission and Supply Co Ltd in December 2017; Jordan’s council of ministers authorized the GTA on February 4, 2018, and NEPCO and Fajr Company signed the GTA contract on February 20, 2018. The agreement foresees the construction of a 50 km pipeline expected to be fully operational in the second half of 2019. The benefits of the project are two-fold as not only it guarantees the flow of economic resources that open the way for the speed development of the Leviathan gas field, but it is also a milestone in regional gas cooperation as it supports real Jordan-Israel-Egypt normalization.\nPolitical tensions that can negatively impact regional energy cooperation are connected to competing Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) claims between littoral countries in the East Mediterranean. For example, overlapping maritime claims between Israel and Lebanon over Block 9, an 854-square kilometer maritime boundary, carry the risk of escalation if exploration in this disrupted area were to proceed. The January 2018 signing of Lebanon’s first exploration and production agreement (EPA) with a consortium of companies led by French Total as the operator, Italian Eni and Russian Novatek as partners, signals competition that could evolve into confrontation over energy resources. To dodge tension, a 2012 American proposal that involved division of the disputed area, granting Lebanon a larger share, could serve as basis of bilateral discussions and could be carried out by a third party. The reason is that in the absence of mutual diplomatic recognition between Lebanon and Israel, no trans-boundary natural resource sharing initiative could be taken. In fact, the block-9 consortium’s announcement that no operation within 25 km of the disputed area will happen leaves room for a third party mediation; this party could minimize the risk of armed conflict, and work on reciprocal acceptance of the 2012 American proposal so that consensual and authorized economic activity becomes feasible.\nThe development of energy resources is a demanding process thus Israel should swiftly proceed with the construction of the pipeline that will carry gas from Israel to Egypt through Jordan to capitalize Egyptian Resolution 196 and circumvent Egyptian government regulation, which dictates that gas agreements with Israel can proceed only after arbitration cases against Egyptian firms are resolved. Israel’s focus on multiple gas export options is deemed as critic also that Israeli gas is not tied to a single market where changing bilateral relations or geopolitical conditions can affect the sustainability of exports, and thus negatively impact the country’s energy wealth.\nAdditionally the joint use of Israeli Leviathan field’s transportation infrastructure or alternatively the development of joint national infrastructure to overcome prohibitively high costs associated with developing smaller fields in Israel like Dalit gas field and the Shimshon field is important to attract international energy majors for future licensing rounds. The Israeli government should specifically address risks that worry investors like force majeure and export sustainability by guaranteeing a certain amount of financial recovery through the existing compensation mechanism.\nLast but not least, the convening of an East Mediterranean Conference that will focus on the delineation of regional countries’ maritime borders encouraging perhaps the EU to intervene as arbitrator for the disputed Block 9 that lies across the common Israel-Lebanon maritime border can prove catalytic for regional energy cooperation.\nNo doubt that Israel has a competitive edge in gas exploration and development in the East Mediterranean; it is a deserving pioneer that has overcome past regulatory wilderness and is profoundly committed to solve adversities so that regional energy and economic integration becomes of substance. Because as it is aptly highlighted by American winner of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Edward Prescott “Economic integration is the path to riches and peace”.\nThis article was published at Modern Diplomacy", "Next weekend’s SPAR Summer Festival is set for another bumper entry as action enthusiasts gear up for an assortment of outdoor disciplines in the resort town of Cannonville just outside Port Elizabeth.\nEvent organiser Michael Zoetmulder said those interested in competing in the various events – including the featured River Mile swims – on February 25 and 26 had until 3 pm on the day before the festival to enter.\n“We encourage everyone to enter online because it is so quick and easy, but we will take late entries at the festival. However, there is a late entry fee of R50 attached to that.”\nHe added that those who entered online would receive a goodie bag if they collected their race numbers from the Nelson Mandela Bay Aquatics board room at the Newton Park pool on Wednesday (noon to 6 pm).\nThe two-day programme, which includes swimming races, mountain biking, a fun run and the new Anything That Floats option, will culminate with the traditional men’s and women’s River Mile races on Sunday afternoon.\nZoetmulder said the chance of cashing in was proving to be a good incentive for competitors as entries were coming in nicely.\n“I don’t know of many local events that offer lucky draw prizes of this nature,” he said, referring to the main prize of R10 000 that will be awarded to one lucky mile finisher at the post-race prize-giving.\nThere will also be two R3 000 lucky draw prizes, of which one will go to a finisher from the combined entry of the triathlon and various swimming events (double mile, family half-mile and disabled mile).\nThe second is destined for a lucky competitor from the mountain bike and fun run fields.\nZoetmulder said families of four should take advantage of the discounted entry option for the half-mile swim.\nHe added that the fun Anything That Floats category was attracting much interest.\n“A lot of people are talking about this event and it’s great in that it doesn’t require any special skills. Just bring an inflatable and float down the river on the tide for half an hour,” he said.\nWhile there is an array of fun sporting activities to choose from, the emphasis is also on celebrating the heritage of the SPAR River Mile, which celebrates its 93rd anniversary this year.\nEstablished at Redhouse on the Swartkops River in 1924, the event has a proud history as Africa’s longest-running open water swimming competition.\nTo enter or for more information, go to www.zsports.co.za\nIssued by fullstop on behalf of SPAR Eastern Cape.", "In May, German utility Uniper, Düsseldorf, began operating an innovative 1-MW power-to-gas (PtG) pilot plant in Falkenhagen, Germany. The unit converts hydrogen from regenerative energy sources and carbon dioxide from a nearby bio-ethanol plant into methane, i.e., synthetic natural gas (SNG), at normal temperature and pressure. The transformation itself occurs in a prototype honeycomb catalytic reactor developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Karlsruhe, Germany.\nMethanation Pilot Plant Figure 1. Falkenhagenfacility uses hydrogen and carbon dioxide from regenerative sources to produce “green” methane. Source: Uniper.\nHydrogen for the process comes from Wind Gas Falkenhagen, a neighboring PtG plant built in 2013 to store wind energy within the German natural gas grid. That 2-MW facility produces up to 360 m3/hr of hydrogen via six alkaline electrolyzers.\nThe new methanation plant uses 210 m3/hr of hydrogen from Wind Gas in the reaction to produce up to 57 m³/hr of SNG; this output, roughly 600 kWh/hr, could heat a 50-m2(≈540-ft2) apartment for a month. The existing natural gas infrastructure can handle transport and storage of the SNG produced.\nThe reaction also generates a significant amount of heat, which a high-pressure hot water pipeline delivers to a neighboring veneer mill for use in its production processes. Meanwhile, water produced by the methanation process goes to the water supply of the electrolysis systems in the Wind Gas plant.\nFalkenhagen is one of three PtG pilots currently under development in Europe as part of the European Union’s four-year STORE&GO project, which was launched in 2016under the E.U’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Total project funding is expected to reach €28 million ($33 million), with €18 million ($15 million) coming directly from the E.U.\nThe pilot plant’s operation over the next 24 months primarily will focus on gaining insights about specific technical areas.\n“The general methanation process will be investigated in detail by various test programs to gain information on efficiency, stability, flexibility and optimization potentials. The pilot plant performance and efficiency will be compared to the other two STORE&GO pilots installed in Switzerland and Italy, with the aim to find an optimum technology for any potential boundary conditions,” says Helge Föcker, project manager storage facilities and project management, Uniper Energy Storage.\nLooking to the future, Föcker is confident the technology being tested is robust enough for the rigors of commercial operation. “We believe that our pilot plant investigations will show only limited scale-up challenges and that plants in the 10-MW+ class could be realized with a very similar concept,” he adds.", "**Wind Advisory in effect for most of Siouxland into early afternoon/evening**\nAfter a beautiful Sunday, conditions are becoming colder as we kick-start the workweek. Clouds will be moving in and the winds will become blustery through the day as a cold front continues to track through the region. Our temps look to fall into the 30s and 40s which is around 10° cooler than Sunday. It'll feel a bit worse though as wind chills look to be a factor due to NW winds that may gust toward 45 mph. In terms of precipitation, the boundary could spark up a little rain and snow especially this afternoon.\nA few isolated spots could pick up a coating but little to no accumulation is expected, as precipitation looks to be fairly scattered. Moisture then exits tonight as clouds start to diminish through the overnight. We'll see clouds mixed with sunshine Tuesday with temps topping out near 40° yet again. Another warm front lifts in which will continue our up and down temperature trend. Highs look to climb back toward 50° Wednesday along with breezy winds as the front pushes in. Our above average highs aren't ending behind this passage either but the 30s look to return with lower 40s SW of Sioux City on Thursday. Highs climb back up progressing into the weekend with 40s and 50s expected by Sunday. This dry and rather quiet pattern looks to continue as well with no big chances of rain or snow into next week.\nMeteorologist T.J. Springer", "WORLDWEBFORUM/FinTech 2017 Innovation doesn't just belong to Silicon Valley - it comes from everywhere. That's the message from the World Economic Forum sent with its annual list of the most innovative companies in the world. The list includes 61 early-stage companies whose technologies are \"world changing.\" They're from, yes, Silicon Valley, but there are also several from emerging markets in Africa and South America, as well as Europe. As industry-watchers may expect, many of the companies listed are utilizing artificial intelligence, as well as a number of biotech firms and blockchain technologies. Here are the 61 companies the World Economic Forum considers pioneers.\n1928 Diagnostics — Sweden 1928 Diagnostics 1928 Diagnostics is a Swedish biotech company that has developed a platform to better diagnose infectious diseases.\nAgrosmart — Brazil Shutterstock Agrosmart is a Brazilian company that uses sensors, meteorological data, and image processing to provide real-time crop monitoring that helps farmers to better manage their agribusiness.\nApeel Sciences —USA Apeel Sciences Apeel Sciences is a food-tech startup that has created an edible coating that makes produce and fresh food last longer. Backed by Bill Gates and famed Silicon Valley venture firm Andreeseen Horowitz, the company recently introduced its longer-lasting avocados at Costco and Harps Food Stores locations throughout the Midwest.\nApplied Brain Research — Canada University of Waterloo Applied Brain Research is an artificial intelligence company working in the field of so-called neuromorphic computing, which uses artificial neurons to compute in a way similiar to the human brain, but using less power than traditional machine learning algorithms.\nAqua Security — Israel Aqua Security Aqua Security (formerly known as Scalock) is an Israeli cybersecurity company helping its customers secure their modern software infrastructure. The company counts Microsoft as an investor, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a partner.\nArmis — USA Armis Armis is an enterprise security company founded by Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, two former Google employees. Its solutions help companies secure their smart devices.\nBenevolentAI — UK Benevolent AI BenevolentAI is an artificial intelligence platform that helps developers build software that can take advantage of unstructured information in scientific papers, patents, clinical trial information, and from a large number of structured data sets. Focusing on biotechnology, the UK-based startup is focused on helingp discover new drugs to treat conditions like Parkinson's disease and rare cancers.\nBestmile — Switzerland Screenshot/BestMile Bestmile is an online platform, helping companies manage and maintain their current and future fleets of autonomous cars, buses, and trucks.\nBlue Vision Labs — UK Blue Vision Labs Blue Vision Labs is a UK-based startup making technology that allows several people to use augmented reality (AR) at the same time.\nBitPesa — Kenya Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Yahoo Finance/Oath BitPesa is an online payment platform that uses blockchain to allow users in sub-Saharan Africa to trade bitcoin.\nCadenza Innovation —USA World Economic Forum Founded in 2012 by Swedish chemist Christina Lampe-Önnerud, Cadenza Innovations uses patented technology to make lithium-ion batteries safer, cheaper, and able to hold more energy.\nCarePay — Kenya CarePay CarePay is a Kenyan company that has developed 'mHealth Wallet', a mobile wallet that lets users save, insure, and pay for healthcare services.\nCasetext — USA Casetext Casetext is a legal-tech startup that lets lawyers and their staff upload legal briefs, and then uses artificial inteligence to identify other relevant cases and documents.\nCode.org — USA Code.org Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in for K-12 students in schools, focusing on increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities.\nCognitiveScale — USA CognitiveScale CognitiveScale makes software that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to organize big data sets for companies.\nColor Genomics — USA Color Genomics Color Genomics offers affordable genetic testing to help customers understand their risk for common hereditary cancers and heart conditions.\nCohesity — USA Cohesity Founded by Mohit Aron, an early Google employee and the co-founder of Nutanix, storage company Cohesity was only the second enterprise software company ever to earn an investment from Japanese venture firm Softbank.\nCUJO AI — USA CUJO AI CUJO AI uses artificial intelligence to provide cybersecurity for home devices, including a feature for parental controls.\nDelair — France Delair Delair uses long-range drones to gather aerial imagery, giving customers an eagle-eye view of a work site or facility.\nDrive.ai — USA Drive.ai Drive.ai, which was started by researchers in Stanford University's artificial intelligence lab, are making the \"brains\" - or the software - that powers self-driving cars.\nEverledger — UK WORLDWEBFORUM/FinTech 2017 Everledger is putting diamonds on the blockchain. The Everledger blockchain provides a secure ledger that tracks and stores information about the color, carat and certificate number of each diamond. The company hopes to reduce and completely eliminate theft, illicit trafficking and fraud in the diamond and jewelry industry.\nEVRYTHNG — UK EVRYTHNG EVRYTHNG is a platform that allows users to easily manage and track physical objects digitally. It can, for example, let a customer track a product as it moves through their supply clain.\nFetch Robotics — USA Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Fetch Robotics builds autonomous robots that can work on factory floors. These robots, the company says, can be particularly helpful to those in the e-commerce business who are struggling to keep up with the likes of Amazon in order fulfillment.\nGamalon — USA Gamalon Gamalon uses artificial intelligence to understand text conversations, to help software make sense of normal human interactions.\nGrid Singularity — Germany lmh Grid Singularity is bringing blockchain to the energy sector by creating an open source decentralized energy data exchange platform that can host applications.\nH55 — Switzerland H55 Founded by Swiss pilot André Borschberg, H55 produces electric propulsion systems for existing airplanes as well as for flying taxis and drones. Borschberg has experience in the aviation industry, as he was behind Solar Impulse 2, the experimental aircraft that successfully ran entirely on solar power.\nHorizon State — Australia Horizon State Horizon State is an Australian company that is looking to use blockchain to make voting more secure.\nHyperloop Transportation Technologies — USA HTT Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is working on making the hyperloop concept - the idea of super fast travel through underground low-pressure tubes, first envisioned by Elon Musk- a reality.\nInnoviz Technologies — Israel Innoviz Innoviz develops technology for self-driving cars, including LiDAR, a crucial piece of hardware that allows an autonomous car to percieve its surroundings.\nJuvo — USA Juvo Juvo is a fintech company that allows users in developing markets to borrow small amounts money in exchange for more talk time or data on their phones, allowing users to build credit.\nMalong Technologies — China Malong Technologies Malong is a Chinese artificial intelligence startup that allow machines to recognize physical objects, like consumer products, and identify them.\nME SOLshare — Bangladesh SOLshare SOLshare has developed the world's first peer-to-peer solar electricity trading platform. The company aims to bring power to low-income rural parts of Bangladesh.\nMelonport — Switzerland Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch Melonport has created Melon, a platform for crypto token asset management.\nModern Meadow — USA Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch Modern Meadow makes animal-free leather using a process called biofabrication, which allows the company to grow collagen, a protein found in animal skin, without an actual animal.\nMy Crop Technologies — India MyCrop My Crop is an India-based agriculture platform that uses machine learning to help farmers plan their crops and planting.\nNarrativ — USA Narrativ Narrativ allows retailers to bid for publishers to link to their stores via affiliate link.\nNarrative Science — USA YouTube Narrative Science is a Chicago-based company that has created Quill, a platform for turning data into easy-to-understand recommendations.\nOnlinePajak — Indonesia OnlinePajak OnlinePajak is an easy-to-use platform that lets Indonesians prepare, pay, and file taxes online.\nOvamba Solutions — USA Ovamba Ovamba is a mobile app that connects small business owners in Africa with investment capital.\nPeloton Technology — USA Peloton Peloton Technology connects two trucks, allowing one truck driver to control the acceleration and braking of both trucks simultaneously. The process saves both time and fuel, allowing one trucker to do the work of two.\nPetuum — USA Petuum Petuum provides an platform that allows companies to build their own artificially intelligent software without the need for AI engineering expertise.\nPlataforma Verde — Brazil Chicko Sousa Plataforma Verde is a waste management platform on the blockchain.\nPlenty — USA Plenty Plenty is an agriculture technology company that grows crops in an indoor vertical farm - and without pesticides and GMOs.\nPrecognize — Israel Yael Zur Precognize makes software that predicts - using artificial intelligence - which machines might need maintenance. The company focuses on heavy industry.\nPrimer — USA Primer Primer helps parse and collate a large number of documents across several languages, automating the analysis of very large datasets.\nPymetrics — USA Pymetrics Pymetrics uses neuroscience games and AI to reduce bias and save time in the hiring process.\nQuintessenceLabs — Australia Quintessence Labs QuintessenceLabs is a quantum cybersecurity company.\nRaycatch — Israel Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images Raycatch uses artificial intelligence to provide suggestions about operations and maintenance to operators and owners of solar plants.\nSeismic — USA Superflex Seismic is creating \"wearable robotics,\" which it calls Powered Clothing, for senior citizens. It' SuperFlex suit would add strength to muscles and joints for those who have trouble with mobility.\nSocialCops — India SocialCops SocialCops is a data intelligence company that specializes in cleaning up unorganized data.\nSoft Robotics — USA Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images for TechCrunch Soft Robotics builds a proprietary \"soft\" gripper on the end of a robotic arm. The grasper can handle a range of objects, regardless of shape, size, or weight, with no tool or software changes between cycles.\nSoul Machines — New Zealand Soul Machines Soul Machines creates life-like, emotionally responsive digital assistants with personality and character.\nSuade — UK Suade Suade is a fintech startup that makes software for banks to help them adapt their balance sheets to changes in financial regulation.\nThoughtSpot — USA ThoughtSpot ThoughtSpot is a search and artificial intelligence-driven analytics platform. The company recently scored a $145 million Series D funding round valuing the startup at $1 billion. It plans to IPO in the near future.\nTulip Interfaces — USA Tulip Tulip lets workers without any coding experience build apps that can monitor heavy equipment like you might find on a factory floor.\nuBiome — USA REUTERS/Mike Blake uBiome is a home-testing company that lets customers analyzes their microbiome. The company offers a SmartGut test, which gives people insight into what's going on in their digestive tract, and its SmartJane test, which tests for HPV and STIs.\nUtilis — Israel Utilis Utilis uses remote sensing and satellite data to detect drinking water leaks from underground pipes.\nVayyar — Israel Vayyar Vayyar claims to make the world's most advanced 3D imaging sensor, which can be used in applications ranging from breast cancer screening to detecting water leakage.\nWatergen — Israel Watergen Watergen has built a small water-from-air generator that provides renewable source of clean and fresh drinking water.\nWaystoCap — Morocco Niama El Bassunie WaystoCap is a B2B marketplace where businesses in Africa can buy and sell products. The startup graduated from Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator in 2017." ]
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[ "Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket. It was originally introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for professional inter-county competition in England and Wales.n a Twenty20 game the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs." ]
[ "T20 originated in England and Wales in 2003. It was conceived as an exciting alternative to One Day and Test Match cricket. The format ensures fans are captivated by every ball, every hit and every run throughout the match. The T20 format started as an inter-county domestic competition. It has now grown into a massive part of the international game.", "T20 - T18 - D18 [T20 - D25 - D20] *. * The bull option on the shot in brackets is not recommended if your opponent is on an out shot. But if you are not under pressure and have some skill on bulls it can give you a higher percentage to close with the next 3 darts.", "Gayle smashed the fastest century in the format, brought off 30 balls; made the highest individual T20 score (175 not out); struck the most sixes by a batsman in a T20 innings (17); helped Royal Challengers Bangalore hit the most sixes for a team in a T20 innings (21) and reach the highest total in T20 cricket (263).fter Gayle's onslaught, there was only going to be one result, and further confirmation of that arrived when four wickets fell inside the first six overs of the Warriors chase. Their defeat was the second-biggest in terms of runs in the IPL's six seasons.", "The Progen T20 is a 2-door hypercar introduced in GTA 5 and GTA Online, as part of the Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 Update. Overall, the Progen T20 ‘s main body design is almost identical to the McLaren P1, including the curvature of the hood, the greenhouse area and the rear guards of the car.The rear lights, fascia and spoiler are also inspired by the McLaren P1.he Progen T20 features a modification adding large intake on the hood, intakes on the roof, and splitters on the front and sides. A large carbon-fibre composites as a grille at the front of the vehicle.", "With some having done well and others having floundered, the ICC player rankings will show which individuals are at the top of their game right now with the ball in hand. Read on for the top 10 T20 bowlers in the world right now, taking into account the recent World T20 tournament. =9.", "For example, the Progen T20 made its debut with the release of Ill-Gotten Gains Part II just yesterday, and has been the most popular of the newly purchasable cars. The super-car has awed many with its speed, and quite a few players began propagating the idea that the T20 is the fastest car currently in-game. Now, naturally, GTA Online players won’t leave a claim such as that un-disputed, and a few prominent GTA Online Youtubers decided to put the theory to the test. First up, we have a video from tej jethwa where the T20 and the Osiris have a one-on-one race.", "1 The T20's name is likely a parody of the P1's, while also referencing the English alphabet, as T is the 20th letter. 2 It could also be parodying the Tushek TS600, which also contains a T and a number. 3 The T20's $2,200,000 price tag makes it the most expensive land vehicle in GTA Online.he headlight arrangement and positioning is also similar to that of the TS600s, whereas the headlight's design are similar to those found on the Falcon F7. The rear is mostly similar to the P1, but the rear exhaust and the rear diffuser are similar to the Ferrari 488 GTB.", "T20 merges the drama of short form cricket with a party atmosphere at the ground. You can expect a lot of entertainment at matches both on and off the pitch. This results in non-stop action from beginning to end whether you are at the game or watching at home.", "IPL 2016 - Indian Premier League T20 Schedule. IPL 2016 tournament date is decided by IPL Governing Council. 2016 IPL T20 will be played between April 8 to May 29, 2016. Final IPL 2016 T20 schedule may be declared in around december 2015.", "The only difference is that Afridi scored it on a international level while Gayle scored it in the domestic T20 event which is full of International players. HERE ARE SOME OF THE RECORDS HE BROKE: 1 Highest Number of Sixes. 2 Highest Individual score. 3 Fastest 50 in T20.4 Fastest Centure in T20.he only difference is that Afridi scored it on a international level while Gayle scored it in the domestic T20 event which is full of International players. HERE ARE SOME OF THE RECORDS HE BROKE: 1 Highest Number of Sixes. 2 Highest Individual score. 3 Fastest 50 in T20.", "The dates are not finalized yet but we can expect BCCI and ICC to announce the provisional 2016 ICC T20 WC schedule somewhere in the summer of 2015. Here are all the details you need to know about T20 World Cup 2016.", "The next T20 world cup will take place in 2016 and it will use the same format as the last one which Sri Lanka won defeating West Indies in the final. The dates are not finalized yet but we can expect BCCI and ICC to announce the provisional 2016 ICC T20 WC schedule somewhere in the summer of 2015.", "The advent of Twenty20 cricket (T20) and the wild success of the IPL in the first decade of the 21st century led to a period of great innovation in the game. The new, truncated form of the game privileged batting, partly by restricting the placement of fielders and shortening the boundaries.", "Aaron Finch’s blistering knock of 156 against England at Southampton, in the first of two match T20 internationals, made him the highest scorer in an innings in T20 International cricket, surpassing Brendon McCullum who features twice in the following list.", "Now, as we head into the fifth edition of the ICC World Twenty20, we use a statistical algorithm to determine the top 50 players to have graced the field over the nine-year history of the international T20 game.", "― Legendarymotorsport.net description. The Progen T20 is a two-door hypercar introduced in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, as part of the Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 Update.he headlight arrangement and positioning is also similar to that of the TS600s, whereas the headlight's design are similar to those found on the Falcon F7. The rear is mostly similar to the P1, but the rear exhaust and the rear diffuser are similar to the Ferrari 488 GTB.", "Although the schedule is not announced yet but the start and finish dates are announced by ICC as the 2015 T20 World cup will start on 11 March 2016 and the final will take place on 03 April 2016.", "Here are some of their T20 numbers from January 2012: 1 Twenty different batsmen have batted in the top three for Pakistan - the most for any team. 2 Pakistan's Powerplay run rate of 6.29 is the worst of any team in this period. A Pakistan batsman scores a fifty every 9.6 innings - the worst for any team.", "Other T20. The 10th of 11 children, Brian Lara learnt his game at the Harvard Coaching Clinic, where he was enrolled at the age of six, and although at school he played for Trinidad's junior football and table tennis side, it was cricket which really drew him.", "Chris Gayle 175 vs Pune Fastest Century Video – 17 Sixes of 30 balls.he only difference is that Afridi scored it on a international level while Gayle scored it in the domestic T20 event which is full of International players. HERE ARE SOME OF THE RECORDS HE BROKE: 1 Highest Number of Sixes. 2 Highest Individual score. 3 Fastest 50 in T20.", "Australia Tour of India (7 ODI and 2 T20) India: Oct-Nov 2017: Bangladesh Tour of South Africa (2 Test, 3 ODI,1 T20) South Africa: Oct-Dec 2017: Sri Lanka Tour of Pakistan (3 Test, 5 ODI, 2 T20) UAE: Nov 2017 to Jan 2018: India Tour of South Africa (3 Test, 7 ODI, 2 T20) South Africa: Nov-Dec 2017: West Indies Tour of New Zealand (3 Test, 5 ODI, 1 T20) New Zealand", "A T20 bulb is commonly known by industry standards as the following bulb sizes: 7440 7441 7443 7444 992A, etc. These T20 bulbs are commonly used for the turn signals, tail/stop lights, reverse lights, and daytime running lights.", "There are many different cricket teams within Australia that represent on a particular level. To answer the question, there are two main levels of cricket in Australia, domest … ic and international. Domestic cricket runs in the form of the KFC T20 Big Bash, the Ryobi One Day Cup, and the Sheffield Shield.", "Soon after with the adoption of Twenty20 matches by other cricket boards, the popularity of the format grew with unexpected crowd attendance, new regional tournaments such as Pakistan's Faysal Bank T20 Cup and Stanford 20/20 tournament and the financial incentive in the format.t was first decided that every two years an ICC World Twenty20 tournament is to take place, except in the event of an Cricket World Cup being scheduled in the same year, in which case it will be held the year before.", "Zee Media Bureau/Suyash Srivastava. Southampton: Aaron Finch was in a devastating mood in the first T20 international against England as he clobbered 156 runs off just 63 balls on Thursday.", "But then less than a month later the Progen T20 turned up in the second part of the Ill-Gotten Gains DLC, throwing a spanner in the works. It looked to be a little bit faster and it was certainly the most expensive car in the game.", "117 Chris Gayle (West Indies v South Africa, Sep 11, 2007). 116no Brendon McCullum (New Zealand v South Africa, Feb 28, 2010). 104no Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka v Australia, Aug 6, 2011). The 26-year-old smashed an incredible 156 from 63 balls with 14 sixes and 11 fours, the highest score in any T20 international.", "This article is about the sport of cricket; Twenty20, the professional version of the game. For details on amateur twenty over cricket, see Short form cricket. For the Malayalam film, see Twenty:20 (film) . For other uses, see 2020 (disambiguation) .wenty20 match format is similar to limited overs cricket in that it involves two teams, each with a single innings, the key difference being each team bats for a maximum of 20 overs.", "In the world cup top 8 teams will get the direct qualification to the Super 10 round while the bottom 2 ranked teams will join in the Associate members to qualify for the qualification round. The tournament is set to be played from 11 th March to 3 rd of April. T20 World Cup 2016 Venue. Eden Gardens (Kolkata).", "1 T20 (or T50) test-This is a measure of the concrete's viscosity and is measured as the amount of time it takes for concrete in the slump flow test to reach a diameter of 20 inches (or 50 centimeters). 2 A T20 between 2 and 5 seconds is taken as a low viscosity concrete.", "Southampton: Aaron Finch was in a devastating mood in the first T20 international against England as he clobbered 156 runs off just 63 balls on Thursday. The right-hander’s record brutal knock had eleven boundaries and 14 sixes as he surpassed Brendon McCullum’s highest individual score (123) in T20 internationals.", "Twenty20 match format is similar to limited overs cricket in that it involves two teams, each with a single innings, the key difference being each team bats for a maximum of 20 overs.wenty20 match format is similar to limited overs cricket in that it involves two teams, each with a single innings, the key difference being each team bats for a maximum of 20 overs." ]
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Big Hard Negatives Dataset

A dataset for training embedding models for semantic search.

TODO: add desc

A dataset in a nixietune compatible format:

{
  "query": ")what was the immediate impact of the success of the manhattan project?",
  "pos": [
    "The presence of communication amid scientific minds was equally important to the success of the Manhattan Project as scientific intellect was. The only cloud hanging over the impressive achievement of the atomic researchers and engineers is what their success truly meant; hundreds of thousands of innocent lives obliterated."
  ],
  "neg": [
    "Abstract. The pivotal engineering and scientific success of the Twentieth century was the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project assimilated concepts and leaders from all scientific fields and engineering disciplines to construct the first two atomic bombs.",
    "The pivotal engineering and scientific success of the Twentieth century was the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project assimilated concepts and leaders from all scientific fields and engineering disciplines to construct the first two atomic bombs."
  ]
}

Usage

To use with HF datasets:

pip install datasets zstandard
from datasets import load_dataset

data = load_dataset('nixiesearch/bfhardneg-small')
print(data["train"].features)

License

Apache 2.0

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