Fluffy Japanese Pancakes are a soft, airy cotton candy-like pancake dream come true. Dress them up in whipped cream, rain down the maple syrup, or try out the tiramisu topping recipe I provide – they come out delicious every which way!
"Souffle pancake" recipes can be tricky, but once we're done here bestie, you'll be able to spark joy…one outrageously fluffy pancake at a time.
…I finally made Fluffy Japanese Pancakes!
Pancake recipes make up four of my ten most popular recipes. And one of the most requested recipes over the last year has been for fluffy Japanese pancakes – how to make them, and how not to mess them up!
And if you've ever tried this custardy clouds-on-a-plate breakfast, you'll know why! (It's because they're delicious.) But as you may have figured out, they're a bit finicky to master. They're often called souffle pancakes, after all!
Don't give up too easily though, we're going to walk through the main things to keep in mind when you're making this style of pancake, and then with a little practice, you can serve up the most gloriously airy and fluffy Japanese souffle pancakes to someone very special.
A Note: While researching this recipe, I came across A LOT of posts suggesting that their Japanese pancake recipe can be made with ease and abandon in a mere 15-20 minutes. I'm going to tell you frankly that unless you're a culinary professional, cooking in a pre-prepped restaurant-style kitchen, that's simply not the case.
Of course, if you do get stumped somewhere, you may want to check out my guide on How to Read a Recipe.
What are Japanese Pancakes / Souffle Pancakes?
Japanese Pancakes, often called Souffle Pancakes, are similar in ingredients, but different in composition and texture to your standard pancake recipe.
Exceptionally thick, airy and soft…they are perfectly fluffy pancakes! The major difference between them and regular pancakes is the smaller amount of flour, and that the egg whites are beaten to form a meringue (just like you would in a souffle, hence the name), before being gently folded into the rest of the pancake batter.
As a result, more air bubbles form inside the pancake batter, and these bubbles are able to hold their shape better. The result is a super fluffy and airy pancake. Seriously, it's like biting into a cloud!
And in case you're wondering what the word for pancakes are in Japanese, the answer is "pankeki" (パンケーキ). And "fuwafuwa" (ふわふわ) is a mimetic word used to describe fluffy/soft/airy things…from pancakes to kittens! So, yes – we're making fuwafuwa pankeki today!
Fun Fact: I actually studied Japanese at university. And I can tell you quite confidently, that I'm really quite bad at it.
If you don't have much experience making meringue, then this will likely be the hardest part. Honestly, this could be an entire post by itself, so I'm going to give you a few key things to keep in mind.
Keep the separated egg white refrigerated until you come around to whisking it.
Make sure your bowls are clean and dry. Any sediment or leftover moisture (even just water) can hurt your meringue.
You can use cream of tartar to help stabilise the meringue. I personally don't think it's necessary here, but if you choose to go in that direction, add 1/8 tsp cream of tartar for each egg white in your meringue.
Like so many things in life, patience is the key here, bestie. Japanese pancakes need to be cooked slowly with the heat on low. Higher heats will result in the outsides getting cooked, while the inside remains raw. Nobody ever says, "I like my pancakes cooked rare".
Make sure to cover the pan to lock in all that lovely moisture too.
No high-flying death-defying pancakes flips here (or ever…if fluffiness is your goal). Delicately turn the pancake over using a flat spatula/flipper. The harsh impact from a careless flip will literally squish the air bubbles in your pancakes!
I made a tiramisu souffle pancake variation of this recipe. The initial plan was to write that up as an entirely separate recipe post but honestly, it felt too easy/similar to this recipe to devote an entirely new post to it. So, if you want the tiramisu version of my fluffy Japanese Pancakes recipe, all you have to do is dust a 1/4 cup of whipped cream with 1 teaspoon of espresso powder, drizzle on a teaspoon of melted dark chocolate, and then give it a little swirl. Ta-da! Souffle Pancakes with a fancy (but totes easy) tiramisu topping.
Actually, that's one of the best things about these Japanese pancakes – they go with a lot of different toppings – whipped cream, fruits, and maple syrup work great; powdered sugar is popular too; custard and cream? Yup, still yummy.
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I used an electric hand mixer to beat the egg white into a meringue. You're very welcome to use your impeccably toned whisking muscles, it's a good workout! In fact, I'd join you…except, I don't wanna.
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Fluffy Japanese Pancakes (aka. Japanese Souffle Pancakes) are an airy pancake dream. Light, fluffy, and an experience you'll long to eat again. Time to spark a little joy…one fluffy souffle pancake at a time!
Whisk the egg yolk with the sugar until pale and frothy. Mix in the milk and vanilla.
Sift flour and baking powder into the mixture and whisk until incorporated.
Whip the eggs white using an electric mixer (or a tireless whisking arm) until pale and frothy, begin adding the in sugar in batches until a glossy meringue is formed. You want stiff-ish peaks, not STIFF-peaks.
Whisk 1/3 of the meringue into the yolk mixture until completely incorporated. Add half of the remaining meringue and mix delicately. Add the remaining meringue and fold into the mixture using a spatula – be careful not to deflate the batter.
Heat a large non-stick pan (with a lid) over low heat. Add a very small drizzle of oil. Using ¼ cup scoops, scoop the batter into the pan. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Remove the lid, add another ¼ cup of batter on top of the pancake already cooking. Cover and continue to cook for another 4-5 minutes.
Flip the pancake…EVER. SO. GENTLY! Cover and cook for 4-5 more minutes until done. Repeat with the remaining batter. Serve!
Getting these to be perfect is honestly a little bit finicky. If it doesn't work out for you the first time, don't lose heart. It takes time and a little patience to get these Fluffy Japanese Pancakes to come out just right!
I've seen tips online suggesting you add a tablespoon of water to your pan to add even more moisture to the pancakes. I only tried this once, but personally didn't see a difference.
I cook these one pancake at a time in a large pan. In Japan, they're often cooked on a griddle with a lid. Either option is fine.
You can use a ring mold if you want to ensure an thickness and shape. I personally like the asymmetry that comes from working without a mold!
I love Japanese pancakes. Looking forward to having these on the weekend!
Woohoo! I hope you enjoyed them!
Good luck!! And don't be nervous. You got this, Jo!
Where do you incorporate the vanilla?
Oops! Sorry about that CJ! You add the vanilla in at the same time as the milk. I've edited the recipe to include that, thanks for noticing and letting me know!


You may remember that my daughter is a fashion designer.
My mother owned a fabric store, did a bajillion alterations and bemoaned the fact that neither of her daughters sewed one bit.
The two things that will create the most tension between my shoulders are knitting and sewing. I love to crochet (but who has time?) and hand embroidery. But knitting and I never ever got along. And sewing, well, sewing was for my mom…and my daughter.
If I needed something hemmed (and when you are only 5′ tall, everything needs to be hemmed), I would take it to my mom. But mom died about 15 months ago. Things have been piling up. I would rather buy something new than sew on a button.
And to complicate things, my daughter was in desperate need of a sewing machine while hers was being repaired so she borrowed mine. I got back the machine…but no foot control or power cord. She swore she didn't have it. I knew she did.
And then I honestly forgot about it.
While she was moving last week, guess what she found???? Yep, the cord for my machine. Just in time too. I was wearing a tiered dress last week that came unstitched…right over my backside. I got through the day, but didn't know how I was going to get my dressed repaired.
I'm thankful today that I could actually take care of something so minor – but important alone! Yay ME!!!!


the spatial praxis concept map is photographed, printed, drawn over and overlaid with the torn sketch of some masking tape tear. i photograph it on the table and let it in part overhang the edge, so it folds downwards (not to the green but to the black).
it echos both working practices from across Drawing 2 (photocopiers, tearing, overlaying) and of DI&C's Office at Night (the manual collages that drop off into the edge and negative space).
I have some more ideas around the shadows to explore (but need a tripod/ video set up for this); want to fold the map, tear a bit further and use some oil pastels and turps to smudge.
>> interested in the enacting of a different plane within this; what happens if I in drawing simply draw out (i.e. open up) those different planes, dimensions that I sense may be there; also: ordinary materials and pragmatic objects (the concept map is part of the Research/ dissertation development: it is as such not an art object but a writing/thinking aid: what happens when I transpose into the body of work?
The object at the centre of this contribution is a pair of metal filing cabinets situated in an institutional office space. More precisely, the investigation started with the shadow space between these two cabinets, with one leaning slightly towards the other. The gap, as a project, presented the first of a series of investigations into an institutional space (corridor, offices, the grounds below). Over a year or so it was conducted within two modalities: at first as researcher/ interloper; second as fixed-term member of academic staff. Was I, the researcher, still an interloper on a teaching contract?
A series of related works explored not only an expanded field of drawing (via photocopier, manuals, site-specific interventions and temporary performances) but also kept returning to the gap of the filing cabinet to ask what was and could be in that void and in that leaning gesture from one to the other.
as former and current researcher and artist in human geography; as part-time teaching assistant in the institutional space; as final year student for an undergraduate degree in Creative Arts.
In doing so, this talk proposes an input that at once seeks to open up the gap productively: as starting point and as practice for an expanded field of drawing and institutional critiques that attend both to the presence of contemporary work within the institution and the possibility for other spaces among the office furniture (see as part of these discussions e.g. David 2017, Sawdon & Marshall eds 2015, Vishmidt 2017).
The filing cabinets have remained unused throughout this period.
— it of course relates to the overall module/ parallel project of Drawing 2 and specifically to the gap as the first assignment.
Update: the paper was accepted and I presented it on Saturday 23 March. The link with a video of a practice run and some reflections on the session are in this post.
Moving from the end of Drawing 2 and towards Research/Body of Work has been swift — D2 was completed and submitted for assessment considerably earlier than planned; and it was ready to be done so.
This also means that from early Summer onwards thoughts and ideas were beginning to form around Level 3 and its focus — most of these are methodological: the how that connects the what. Yet, there is also a set of themes and enquiries that I did not pursue with Drawing 2.
Initially, however, the moving image work that I was intent on producing would take the corridor itself far more as site and actually engage with it visually and performatively further than what Parallel Praxis does (in PP, the corridor mainly exists in sound: the movement noises of passing through it, doors opening and closing and my narrating of it).
Throughout Drawing 2, I investigated various means to visually work with the space of the corridor, to draw, film, sound it out — the problem of presence and visibility remained. Early on, my tutor and I discussed means by which to set up an enquiry elsewhere: to treat it like a residency elsewhere, not as the space that I actually encroach on, seek my own legitimacy. This issue would resurface in various ways and eventually, for Assignment 3 (Green (Did I work hard enough)) lead to my departure from the space towards one green space and then another still.
The second means of working with the corridor would of course be in fiction, imagination, fantasy: to pursue a series of strategies in which the corridor mainly is a reference point, a marker from which a series of investigation spiral outwards. I was seeking such an approach early on, but know from experience too that most of my investigations tend to follow on, hold on to, notions of the real, an actual observation, experience for a rather long time before an opening towards a fiction of these emerges. So, during Drawing 2 that fictitious corridor did not exist.
However, right at the end of the module, through Assignment 5 m(e)use|use me, it begun to present itself: the box/artist book of 12 prints crumpled up that traced a year with the corridor pursued visually and performatively an opening out towards an other space, another presence of the corridor.
— In m(e)use, the corridor becomes a handling collection: invisible, yet present, and as the pages are unfolded, they link towards the corridor itself, operate clearly as representation and an object in their own right. Many of the photographs themselves operate as optical illusions, or perhaps, better: as attempts to seek alternative spatial configurations, constellations; to open out: forward, elsewhere; to offer alternative readings, practices and presences.


Sarah Tormey over at The Answer Is Garlic was kind enough to give me a smashing fall recipe just in time for the autumn weather!
As we creep further into October and the weather starts to cool, I start to crave not only eating but cooking heartier foods. Stews, roasts, casseroles, and root vegetables. As much as I like pumpkin pie and butternut squash soup, sometimes I want a good side that makes me think of fall. This hash fits the bill, and it's a double duty recipe because I also love it for breakfast, with some eggs and some thin pan fried pork chops.
It's just a few simple ingredients, but they are all so flavorful and blend so well together, and it's satisfying in a way that regular potatoes (which I LOVE, don't get me wrong) aren't always able to be. They're just heartier, somehow.
I start with a few good sized sweet potatoes, peeled, rinsed, and cut into 1-inch size chunks. They don't have to be perfect or uniform. Rustic is fine for hash.
I par-boil the sweet potatoes until they are a bit soft, but still hold their shape. While those are working, I start the pecans toasting.
Onions, garlic, and sage are next. I like them nice and soft and caramelized in yummy butter and olive oil.
Now that the potatoes are par-cooked, I drain and add to the onion mixture.
I also like to add a little fresh nutmeg here, and then chop the nuts and fold them in.
And it's as simple as that! I stir to combine all the flavors, add another pat of butter to bring it all together, let it simmer for a few minutes, and top with some chopped sage.
Peel and rinse the sweet potatoes. Chop into 1 inch large chunks. Put in a heavy bottomed skillet and cover with water. Bring to a boil and par-boil until they just start to get tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and set aside.
While the potatoes are boiling, toast the pecans in a dry skillet or cast iron pan, on low. Give the pan a shake every few minutes. Toast 8-10 minutes, until you just start to smell them. Keep a close eye on them, once they start to toast they will burn quickly. Pull off the heat and set aside to cool.
Melt 4 TB butter and 2 TB olive oil in a large heavy bottomed skillet (I prefer cast iron). Chop red onion and garlic and add to the skillet. Add in about 3/4 of a small bunch of sage, 8-10 leaves, finely chopped. Saute until soft and translucent, about 8-10 minutes. Add in the cooked sweet potato, fold to combine. Add freshly grated nutmeg to taste (if you don't have fresh nutmeg, pre-grated is fine, about 1/4 teaspoon). Roughly chop the pecans and fold in. Add the last pat of butter and stir to combine, cooking until all the flavors meld, about 3-5 minutes. Sprinkle with the last bit of chopped sage. Serve with any grilled or roasted meat and veggie (shown here with roasted chicken and sauteed green beans), or with eggs for a great breakfast.


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Music Friday: Jason Derulo Borrows Iconic Ad Slogan for His New Release, 'Diamonds'
Welcome to Music Friday, when we bring you hot, new songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. In Jason Derulo's brand new release, "Diamonds," the singer lavishes praise on his girlfriend with a borrowed phrase from what Ad Age magazine called the best advertising slogan of the 20th century.
Penned for a De Beers marketing campaign in 1947 by NW Ayer copywriter Mary Frances Gerety, the brilliant four-word tagline "A Diamond Is Forever" has inspired an Ian Fleming novel, a James Bond flick, an iconic theme song by Shirley Bassey... and a new tune by Derulo.
He sings, "Flawless like diamonds / Out of all the ones I've seen, you are the finest / I can't buy your heart; your love is priceless / Diamonds are forever / Diamonds are forever."
Written by Derulo, 1Mind, Rogét Chahayed and Shawn Charles, "Diamonds" is the sixth track on Derulo's extended play called 2Sides. As its title implies, 2Sides will, in fact, have two sides, the first of which was released in November of 2019. The second EP is due later this month.
Born Jason Joel Desrouleaux in Miramar, Fla., the 30-year-old singer-songwriter-dancer-choreographer, has sold more than 30 million singles since launching his solo career in 2009. He changed his last name to Derulo because the French spelling was too hard to pronounce.
Derulo majored in musical theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan and got his big break when he won the grand prize on the 2006 season finale of the TV show Showtime at the Apollo. That exposure led to a recording contract with Beluga Heights Records and Warner Bros. Records.
When asked which artists have had the biggest influence on his music, Derulo cited Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Madonna, Prince, Usher and Justin Timberlake.
Please check out the official lyrics video of "Diamonds." The lyrics are also noted below if you'd like to sing along…
"Diamonds"
Written by Jason Derulo, 1Mind, Rogét Chahayed and Shawn Charles. Performed by Jason Derulo.
Flawless like diamonds
Girl you are
I'm nothing without you
You keep me shining
I can't buy your love; your heart is priceless
So I know you'll stay this way
Out of all the ones I've seen, you are the finest
I can't buy your heart; your love is priceless
Got me shining, yeah
Shining, shining, yeah
Girl, you the baddest, yeah (Yeah)
Diamonds are forever, diamonds are forever (Yeah)
I need you daily
The love we makin' changed me, changed me
'Cause you remind me of a melody
That kind you keep on singing, singing
My pretty lady
You know you make me better
Better then I've ever been
There's no mistaking
You should be famous
'Cause baby, you are
I'm nothing without you, you keep me shining (yeah)
I can't buy your love; your heart is priceless
So I know you'll stay this way
Out of all the ones I've seen, you are the finest (Yeah)
I can't buy your heart
Your love is priceless
Diamonds are forever, yeah
This love is forever
This love is forever, babe
'Cause you make me better (Ooh-hoo)
Diamonds are forever (Ooh-hoo)
Diamonds are forever, no, no
Woo, oh
Diamonds are forever, babe
Diamonds are
Oh-oh
Credit: Image by MTV International [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Defensive Scouting Report: Brandon Crawford
Range/Positioning: Brandon Crawford has plus agility and quickness, which provides him with above average range for the shortstop position. He glides on the infield, making the difficult plays look easy. Entering 2015, he had 21 Range and Positioning Runs Saved over his career. Crawford also entered 2015 having made 28 more plays throughout his career than […]
Range/Positioning:
Brandon Crawford has plus agility and quickness, which provides him with above average range for the shortstop position. He glides on the infield, making the difficult plays look easy. Entering 2015, he had 21 Range and Positioning Runs Saved over his career. Crawford also entered 2015 having made 28 more plays throughout his career than the league average shortstop. He looks most comfortable on balls hit to his left, especially when jogging or sprinting.
Crawford's hands are quick and smooth, giving him one of the fastest glove-to-hand transfers in the Majors. This especially helps when turning the double play and, over the last three years, Crawford is fourth among all shortstops in GDP Runs Saved with five. He also excels when fielding balls backhanded. Since the start of the 2013 season, the league average success rate for shortstops when fielding a ball backhanded is 69.1 percent. Crawford's backhanded success rate during that time frame is 74.3 percent, ranking first among all shortstops with at least 800 opportunities.
Footwork:
Crawford has smooth and efficient footwork combined with a solid lower half. Due to his tremendous body control, he consistently gets in the best position to field the ball. His footwork is highlighted when moving to his left or backwards. When Crawford's first movement is back, he has a success rate of 53.0 percent, which is second highest among all shortstops with at least 800 opportunities since the start of 2013 according to BIS.
Throwing Arm:
Crawford's strongest defensive tool is his fantastic throwing arm. He has proper arm action for an infielder, to go along with well-above average arm strength. His arm is quick and his throws have solid on-line carry, allowing him to make strong throws in the hole and on the move. Crawford's arm is also one of the most accurate at the shortstop position. Since 2013, he has an Infield Good Throw Rate of 95.4 percent, which is highest among all shortstops with at least 700 opportunities.
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In today's world, the processes of a rapidly changing human and natural environment create opportunities for scientific advancement and challenges in the protection of our planet and the wellbeing of our society. This means that there is an increasing demand for graduates equipped with the relevant scientific expertise to resolve human health and other societal issues, and protect and enhance our environment.
Our Taste of Science Summer School is an exciting 2-week programme that includes academic English classes and science workshops, enabling you to enhance your academic skills, whilst giving you a flavour of what it's like to study science at UWE Bristol.
The course will run from Monday 15 - Friday 26 July 2019, 09:30 – 15:30.
There will be plenty to keep you busy outside of the course too. We're arranging an exciting events programme including social evenings and excursions to other cities in the UK, so you'll get to make the most of your time with us.
This course is ideal for those students who may be thinking of studying science at university, or already studying science at Foundation level.
What are the Summer School entry requirements?
There are no formal qualification requirements. You need to be at least 18 years old at the start of the course, or 16 if you are coming as part of a group with a group leader. Lessons are taught in English so you'll need an intermediate level of English. If you need any advice on your level of English, please email globalstudents@uwe.ac.uk.
Biological and environmental sciences: bio-indicators to assess water quality.
Find out more information about what to expect from the Taste of Science Summer School workshops.
UWE Bristol certificate of attendance.
London, England's capital city, famous for its art galleries and museums, historic buildings and great shopping. The trip includes a twilight flight on the London Eye and dinner in London.
Oxford, 'city of dreaming spires' and home to England's oldest university. There will also be an option to visit Bicester Village, where you can buy designer goods at discount prices.
Bristol, see the sights of this buzzing university city, and end your tour with a welcome dinner at a well-known Bristol restaurant (included in the package).
All trips are with an experienced, professional tour guide.
We're offering free airport transfers to UWE Bristol from London Heathrow on Sunday 14 July at 11:00, 15:00 and 19:00, so we recommend that you book your flights so that you can take advantage of this. If you can't make these times or you're arriving at another airport, you can book your airport transfer independently. Find out about accommodation and airport transfer prices. Please email globalstudents@uwe.ac.uk if you would like any help booking this.


The Pleasant Grove Hawks are heading to "The Star" in Frisco to take on Aubrey in the 2nd round of the Texas High School Playoffs.
For the second year in a row the Hawks will sit down to give thanks, and eat some turkey and dressing with family, before heading out Thursday night to practice under the lights.
Then on Friday it's off to the fabulous "Star" to play Aubrey at 4PM.
The Hawks improved to 11-0 last week with a victory over Tatum in the first round of the playoffs at their place. Coach Josh Gibson was high on the PG defense which smothered the Eagles most of the night, " We played extremely well on defense. To hold any opponent to negative rushing yards and 7 points in the playoffs is a special accomplishment. I'm proud of the defensive coaches and players."
Defensive corner back Tyler Kelly made possibly the play of the year for the Hawks so far, as he ran down a Tatum receiver who seemed destined to score a touchdown and reduce the Hawks lead to just 7 points in the 2nd half. Instead the defense held and the Eagles got nothing out of the play and never scored another point.
Gibson loved the play that Kelly made, " Tyler's play is one we preach about all the time...never give up on a play and always pursue FULL TILT until the whistle is blown. Tyler's effort saved a touchdown. We will use that play clip for a long time about why we never quit on plays. Proud of Tyler."
As for the next opponent, Aubrey, Gibson says they are well coached and run the Wing T just like the Hawks do. Defensively, they run multiple fronts but like to base out of a split front,.
Of course playing at the facility in Frisco is a great venue for both players and fans. Gibson says, "It's the nicest high school stadium in the nations. We are lucky to be playing there, and even luckier that our kids have played there before which helps with "The big eyes."
Gibson hopes his team can take another step and continue to grow. He says,"The players always want to get better and we usually do because of their attitude and effort."
As we mentioned above the Hawks will practice under the lights on Thanksgiving Night. Gibson says, "It's a special thing to practicing on Thanksgiving and playing that weekend. We are fortunate to have done this the last two years. The Thanksgiving games give extended families an opportunity to come watch their relatives play and perform. To be able to do this at the Ford Center makes it even more special."
Here's hoping everyone has a chance to give thanks for all their blessings, enjoy family and good food, then head to Hawk Stadium Thursday night, for practice under the lights.
The topper to a fantastic Thanksgiving Weekend would be a huge Hawk Nation Fan Base at "The Star", a Hawk victory over Aubrey, and a ticket to the 3rd round of the playoffs.
Happy Thanksgiving and GO HAWKS!!!


Less than a week after making headlines for her armpit hair, Bella Thorne is back in a bikini. On March 18, the actress updated her 19 million Instagram followers with a video that managed to appeal to both male and female fans.
For men who are partial to a Hollywood actress in a string bikini, the video serves its purpose. For women seeking haircare tips, Bella washing her locks with beer likewise proves handy. Addressing "everyone" who has been "harassing" her following TMZ's March 14 photos, Bella is taking a stand. Yes, she has underarm hair (and yes, she washes her hair with alcoholic beverages).
A male voice can be heard saying, "I can't believe you're doing that" as the actress kneels in a red bikini while a fellow girl washes her hair. The caption comes with advice, though.
Alerting fans that Bella's next movie will see her blonde, Thorne makes a budget-friendly suggestion. In short, beer will "save her a trip" to a beauty parlor as it "naturally lightens" hair. The male voice in the video then suggests future promotions as a result. Celebrities and hair promotions come hand-in-hand these days. Kylie Jenner and Selena Gomez are both at it.


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Where Most Research Happens
Katherine Dungan, Preservation Archaeologist
(August 19, 2016)—Odds are good that when you think of archaeology, you're thinking of an outdoor activity, whether that's a bunch of dust-covered researchers poking around in square holes or just you, experiencing a place on the landscape with a deep human history.
Protecting those kinds of places is absolutely at the core of what we do at Archaeology Southwest. We also do archaeological field work of the "square holes" variety—most extensively as part of our annual Preservation Archaeology field school in the Upper Gila River area of New Mexico—and for many years, the field school students and staff have reported on their experiences in the field, from the field, on this blog.
"Square hole" archaeology at the 3-Up site.
The endless thrills of field work.
But it's also true that most archaeological research happens away from the field—for every day spent on excavation, many more are spent in the lab, analyzing artifacts and samples, doing background research and making comparisons, and finally reporting on the results and preparing the collections for curation (proper storage at a museum or similar facility). More and more research is also drawing on the potential of existing collections to produce new data.
The lab: where many archaeologists spend most of their time.
What I want to do here and in my next couple of posts is to provide a picture of what we've learned thus far from the Upper Gila research, and particularly from analyzing the collections from our field work in Mule Creek. In the next posts, I'll focus specifically on synthesizing the results of our work at the Fornholt site (which, not coincidentally at all, features heavily in my now-thankfully-complete-and-filed dissertation). Here, I want to give you an example of what we've learned from the analysis of a single artifact type, namely ceramics (because that's my thing).
The pottery recovered from our test excavations in Mule Creek and in the Cliff valley provides most of our information about the dating of those sites—I wrote about this some time ago in regards to the Late Pithouse period in Mule Creek (and Deb Huntley explained the role of ceramics in site dating here). Our work at Fornholt focused primarily on the use of the site after the Classic period, in the late 1100s through early 1200s, and I'll come back to the role of pottery in establishing Fornholt's chronology in a subsequent post. Our excavations in the Cliff valley and at the other Mule Creek sites have concentrated on the Cliff phase of the 1300s and 1400s. Sherds from Salado polychrome vessels are typical ("diagnostic") of settlements inhabited during this time period.
The pottery also gives us an idea of who lived at the sites and of their social connections in relationship to the larger Southwest. For example, at the 3-Up site in Mule Creek, one portion of the site has a high proportion of ceramics associated with immigrants from northern Arizona (Maverick Mountain Series ceramics, which are essentially locally made copies of "Kayenta" vessels, made beginning in the late 1200s), suggesting the presence of an immigrant "enclave." We now know, based on a compositional study, that both Maverick Mountain series pottery and Salado polychrome vessels were made locally in the Upper Gila.
In addition to providing evidence for the presence of immigrants at 3-Up, this fits with a larger pattern of local production of Salado polychrome (aka Roosevelt Red Ware) at settlements across much of the southern and central Southwest. It also stands in stark contrast to many other Southwestern pottery types that circulated over very large areas but were made in only a comparatively small region.
Several researchers—beginning with Patricia Crown in her 1994 book, Ceramics and Ideology, Salado Polychrome Pottery—have suggested that the widespread production of Salado polychrome is related to the adoption of an ideology across socially diverse sites and regions. The ceramics collected during the recent and future excavations in the Cliff valley will let us speak to the degree of variability among Cliff phase assemblages—we can already say, for example, that polychrome pottery from northern Chihuahua is present at Dinwiddie in the Cliff valley, and entirely absent from 3-Up in Mule Creek. This, in turn, should give us some information about the diversity of backgrounds and connections among the people who came together in the 1300s at Cliff phase sites in the Upper Gila.
By my calculations, we—that is, I, Deborah Huntley, and several volunteers—examined around 23,000 sherds from the sites in Mule Creek. The compositional study required selecting sherds for analysis from a number of existing collections, and therefore involved collaboration with several institutions, including the researchers at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (who did the actual irradiation of the sherds).
The arguments we've made about the Upper Gila sites are based on the artifacts we collected through field work, but also on a long tradition of past research and interpretation. The point I want to make here is that, while field work is a critical part of archaeology and often offers more thrills than much of the daily grind of lab work, it's only the tip of the iceberg of archaeological research. We backfilled our last units at Fornholt in July of 2012. In my next posts, I hope to give you an idea of just how much we've learned about the site since then.
Sherds of several pottery types from the 3-Up site, including Salado polychromes and the Maverick Mountain series.
Tracking Kayenta, Understanding Salado
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As many of us know, Arbor Day is a national celebration of our land's trees. Although some states celebrate the day during different parts of the year – for example, South Carolina celebrates it during the first week of December as noted by USC Upstate – it is important to take note of this special day. After all, trees help produce oxygen, which allows to breathe.
It is important to celebrate and acknowledge the importance of Arbor Day, and arborday.org suggests several ways to do so.
While Arbor Day comes once-per-year, it is important to understand year-round why trees are so important to us.
The Powell Group invites you to gather information about trees around your home and neighborhood. Our team members are here to answer your questions about your area.


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kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092 --topic first_topic --from-beginning
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WARN [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=console-consumer-71129] Connection to node 0 could not be established. Broker may not be available. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)

please help!
in server.properties setup
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Cavalier Game Studios Interview
Part of the story behind the Sexy Brutale: Cavalier Game Studios, co-developers of the Sexy Brutale along with Tequila Works, discusses brotherhood, The Sexy Brutale and why it partnered with another developer instead of a publisher. You can read the full interview in GamesIndustry.biz.
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What is the ruling on using the douche that women use to clean their private parts?
I am a new shahadah and inquiring about the use of feminine products. Is it permissible for women to use douches to clense themselves?
May this message reach you in a timothy fashion.
We praise Allah for having guided you to Islam, and we ask Him to make you steadfast in adhering to His religion and to increase you in faith, certainty and guidance, for He is All-Hearing, Ever Near.
There is nothing wrong with using the douche mentioned in principle, but that is on condition that it be free of haraam substances, such as pork fat and the like.
It is also stipulated that it should not be harmful to the one who uses it, or affect the foetus if she is pregnant. There has been a great deal of talk by specialists about the douche that is used for cleaning the front passage, in that using it regularly leads to changes in the pH balance in that place; it also leads to an increase in local infections and leads to a greater risk of pelvic infections. It is regarded as one of the causes of increased secretions, changes in secretions and irritation, as well as other harmful effects. So you should refer to a trustworthy doctor concerning that.


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Vasvár (, ) är en mindre stad i provinsen Vas i västra Ungern. Staden hade 4 059 invånare (2022), på en yta av 55,10 km².

Historia
Medan osmanerna ockuperade större delen av Centraleuropa, kvarstod regionen norr om Balatonsjön inom Kungariket Ungern. Staden var huvudort för området Eisenburg omkring 1850. Fram till 1918, var Vasvár en del av Österrike-Ungern i provinsen Ungern, i Transleithanien efter den österrikisk-ungerska kompromissen år 1867.

Under andra världskriget intogs Vasvár den 31 mars 1945 av sovjetiska trupper från den 3:e ukrainska fronten i samband med Nagykanizsa–Körmend-offensiven.

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MUZAFFARABAD: (Parliament Times) The Chief Justice of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Justice Ch. Ibrahim Zia inaugurated spring tree plantation drive by planting a sapling in the lawn of Supreme Court building on Monday.
Senior judge SC Justice Raja Saeed Akram Khan and Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal also planted saplings.
Talking to media CJ Zia said trees are essential for environmental pollution, greenery, tourism and soil erosion. He also urged on their protection. He emphasized the officials of forests and agriculture departments to guide the people through the help of their experts to keep in mind the land and environment while planting fruit trees.
He was of the view that if every citizen of the State plants 5 saplings, it would significantly help control soil erosion, environmental pollution and promote tourism in the State. Environment pollution has become a big issue that the world faces now, he added. He underscored the need of a comprehensive planning to overcome environment hazards and to beautify the State. He said fruit trees would help people get fruits of different kinds apart from checking the atmosphere around. He stressed the forests and agriculture departments to ensure that maximum number of saplings are planted during the spring tree plantation drive.


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Biography: Jim Vopicka was a player on the 1932 Morton HS (of Cicero) basketball team coached by Norm Ziebell which defeated Canton, 30-16 for the state title. That team also won the old Stag Tournament in Chicago where he was an all tournament selection. Vopicka attended the University of Illinois playing on the championship team of 1937. He began his coaching career at Redmon before returning to Cicero to become an assistant to Coach Ziebell. During the 1944-45 season Jim stepped in as head coach due to an illness. He became the head coach for good from 1948-1961. His teams compiled a 221-81 record during that time. During his final season, Vopicka's team advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. In 1975, Jim retired after 37 dedicated years in the field of education. Jim passed away on November 11, 1990 at the age of 77.
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Denny Cherry (MCSA, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP, MCM) has been working with Microsoft technology for over 15 years starting with Windows 3.51 and SQL Server 6.5. In 2009, Denny was named as a Microsoft MVP for the Microsoft SQL Server product, and in 2011 Denny earned the Microsoft Certified Master certification for SQL Server 2008. Denny has written dozens of articles for a variety of websites as well as print magazines on a variety of subjects including SQL Server, Clustering, Storage Configuration, and SharePoint.


This GSM 900MHz mobile phone signal amplifier significantly improves the performance of any cellular device experiencing weak signal inside of buildings! This signal booster repeater provides the ultimate solution in any area where cellular communications can not work well due to leak of signals. it can help reduce drop calls and improve GSM voice communication quality. Using a large external antenna and an indoor repeater, this GSM signal booster boosts signals sent by both your phone and the cell tower. This GSM signal booster works for GSM networks operating at the GSM standard frequencies (up-link frequency: 890MHz-915 MHz; down-link frequency: 935MHz-960MHz). The coverage area has been increased by up to 250 sq m unobstructed area. This signal booster repeater is particularly useful in zones with poor GSM coverage such as basements, car parks and tunnels. This GSM signal booster can also be used in offices, homes, supermarkets, cinemas and hotels etc.! Don't hesitate, just take your orders today!


THE WIRGREN ESTIMATE of the number of tricks declarer will take (given an adequate trump fit) is the sum of two numbers. The first number is WP/3, which must be 'rounded up' if it is not a whole number. The second number is the number of 'shortness tricks.' For this second number, count 3 tricks for each nonduplicated void, 2 for singletons, 1 for doubletons.
Explanation: The square brackets are a reminder to 'round up' after dividing WP by 3, and ST is the number of shortness tricks.
Notice how short this is, once WP is understood. Tables like those on pages 139, 146, and 149-152 are not needed. Also, there is no place in this description for subtracting from 13, or for any arithmetic except dividing WP by 3. Next, let's mention SST. I believe that the concept of SST is more complicated (especially with 3 short suits) and less intuitive than the concept of shortness tricks. Although I am happy to eliminate the SST concept, I guess that you justifiably have the opposite feeling. First of all, SST led you to your exciting breakthrough. Secondly, SST has already started to enter the world's bridge lexicon.
Thank you for your short and beautiful formula.
A short comment: the word 'nonduplicated' refers to doubletons and singletons also. Then, a doubleton opposite a singleton or void counts for nothing, just like a singleton opposite a void.


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Lima (region)
10 Best Things to Do in Lima
What is Lima Most Famous For?
There are plenty of things to do in Lima besides hitting up its gorgeous beaches – Peru's capital is an equally modern city as it is traditional, offering a variety of boutique restaurants, breweries, and art galleries. Historical sites include 16th-century monasteries (with creepy catacombs), Spanish colonial structures, and cathedrals, all located within its UNESCO-listed city centre.
Aside from sightseeing, you can also find world-class surfing spots and paragliding excursions throughout Lima's vibrant districts. With colourful markets in almost every corner and enough ceviche (and pisco sour) to feed an army, Lima is arguably one of the best places to visit in South America.
Start the day at the Historic Centre of Lima
See classic architecture and historic spots
Lima's historic centre stretches from Plaza San Martin to Plaza de Armas, within the Lima District. It's where you can experience Peru's well-preserved colonial past, with important sites such as the Cathedral of Lima, Presidential Palace, and the Main Square. Start the day walking streets dating back to the 1530s, gazing up at the famous Lima balconies, and immersing yourself in one of the most traditional places in the country.
Poloha: Centro Historico de Lima, Lima District 15082, Peru
Must-See: the Peruvian catacombs
Learn the history behind the final resting place of over 25,000 Limeños
The eerie Peruvian catacombs are located under the Basílica y Convento de San Francisco de Lima (Saint Francis Monastery). The Spanish baroque monastery and the surrounding historic centre of Lima are part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. Explore the final resting place for over 25,000 wealthy Limeños, a practice that stopped in 1808.
The larger bones such as femurs, forearms, and skulls are arranged in a circular pattern to make them more aesthetically pleasing to fans of the morbid. You can join a guided tour for about $3, which takes an hour and includes a chronological telling of the catacombs' history.
Poloha: Jirón Carabaya, Cercado de Lima 15001, Peru
Otevřeno: Monday–Friday from 9am to 5pm, Saturday from 10am to 1pm, Sunday from 1pm to 5pm
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Check out some of the world's best surfing spots
Surf on the 250-km Pacific coastline
Test the waves of Lima by surfing the 250-km-long pacific coastline. A favourite destination for many surfers across the world, the town enjoys some of the best swells from May through August. Lima is also home to a variety of surfing schools, offering courses for beginners looking to learn how to surf.
Head down south to La Herradura, a famous point break that offers one of the best waves in Peru in the Chorrillos District. It's about a 30-minute drive of Lima, and get there early as this spot becomes quite crowded later in the day. Experienced surfers may enjoy the challenging swells in Punta Hermosa.
Tour the city on a Mirabus
See the city aboard an air-conditioned double decker
The Mirabus bus company offers enjoyable day and night tours in and around Lima. Departing from Parque Kennedy in Miraflores, you'll explore the city's historic centre on a double-decker bus, with a panoramic view from the upper and open-air deck.
Its 'Classic Lima Day Tour' takes around 3½ hours, covering most major spots in Lima as well as nearby districts such as Barranco and Miraflores. The bus also make stops along the way so that you can get off and explore the sights on foot. The tour also include bilingual guides sharing interesting facts about Lima's colonial history.
Autor fotografií: KK70088 (CC BY-SA 2.0) upraveno
Eat ceviche
Pair it with a pisco sour
Ceviche consists of raw fish marinated (traditionally for 3 hours) in a citrus-based mixture of key lime or bitter orange juice, with sliced onions, chili peppers, salt, and pepper. Some restaurants in Lima add cilantro, corn-on-the-cob, cooked sweet potato, and Andean chili rocoto. It's a light and refreshing dish that's often paired with pisco sour. Originated from Lima, this cocktail is made with Peruvian Pisco as the base liquor, mixed with Angostura bitters, lime juice, simple syrup, and egg white.
Paragliding in Miraflores
Fly high above the seafront cliffs with an experienced instructor
After spending time in Lima's museums, art galleries, and markets, finish off the trip by paragliding off the cliffs of Lima's nearby town, Miraflores. The most popular spot for this is located at Parque Raimondi, where there are plenty of places offering both tandem and expert flights.
Choose a tandem flight if you're a novice at paragliding – you'll find yourself strapped to an experienced paragliding instructor who'll take you up for a 10-minute flight above the seafront cliffs.
Poloha: Malecón Cisneros 4013, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Výlet pro jednoho
Shop at Mercado Indio
Take home genuine Peruvian souvenirs
Lima's Mercado Indio (Indian Market) attracts shoppers on the lookout for authentic and colourful souvenirs. Located on Avenida Petit Thouars in Miraflores, this traditional marketplace is relatively inexpensive and a great place to purchase traditional Peruvian handcrafts such as alpaca sweaters, embroidered cushions, woven textiles, ceramics, and jewellery. Remember to haggle with the store owners, who are very used to the practice. You'll often end up getting a discount of up to 40% if you know how to bargain properly.
Poloha: Petit Thouars 5245, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
Must-See: Parque del Amor
For couples visiting Lima
Parque del Amor is a landscaped park in Miraflores, where you can enjoy views of ocean and unique art sculptures. It pays homage to love with a massive statue called "El Beso" (The Kiss) from Victor Delfí and walls decorated with colourful mosaics. Parque del Amor is usually busy during sunset, as you can watch the sun setting over the Bay of Lima and Pacific Ocean.
Poloha: Malecón Cisneros, Miraflores 15074, Peru
Daytrip to the Nazca Lines
See immerse designs carved into mountain sides and desert rocks
The Nazca Lines are a series of geoglyphs etched into desert landscapes, which nobody knows exactly who were responsible for. Located in Nazca Desert, these ancient patterns take up over 1,000 sq km, and are best seen from the air.
Aerial tours are available in Lima to take you to see the 300 different designs, which include a spider, monkey, cactus, and whale. Many Peruvians still hold on to the idea that these designs were carved into the desert rock by aliens, but you can visit the site and decide that for yourself.
Poloha: Nazca Lines, Lima, Peru
End the day at Barranco's breweries
Check out one of the trendiest districts in Lima
Located 12 km south of the Historic Centre of Lima, Barranco is one of the city's most romantic and bohemian districts. The area is also home to many of Peru's artists, musicians, designers and photographers – you'll find a variety of boutique restaurants and breweries, as well as art galleries, cocktail bars, and public parks. Barranco is where you can visit Puente de los Suspiros (the Bridge of Sighs), which is said to grant wishes if you hold your breath while crossing it.
Poloha: Barranco District, Lima, Peru
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Its the return of the Space parties. Its time to dance in a cave. Its lights camera magic.
Part performance piece, part noise-band, and part sculptural installation. Cars Will Burn! is a machine realized by Mark Price and is at every moment on the verge of complete disaster. The way everything is wired we should be blowing circuits and frying our gear.
Sweatheart is a pop group from philadelphia featuring thom lessner, rose luardo and amanda blank. They perform live with a new backing band, "the toddlers" featuring dave papp, max dimezzo and julia rainer.
Dis-member of manman, member of sweatheart, and Tom Ruth and Miu perform lively for the second time in Philadelphia as Sri Slava.
BYO + its Halloween… dress like it.


Summertime is the perfect time to adopt a new best friend. Visit the Seattle Humane Society's MaxMobile – our awesome yellow adoption bus coming to a neighborhood near you for on-the-spot adoptions.
Don't miss us at the Pride Parade!
Starts at corner of Union St. and 4th Ave.
If you can't make it out this week – check our Events Calendar HERE for more upcoming locations.


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The future of Ghana's energy mix: how to meet demand growth to 2030
By Ishmael Ackah
Ghana's rapid population growth and ambitious development agenda will significantly increase electricity demand. The government has developed various strategic plans in response. Understanding both the current and potential pathways is crucial to Ghana's next policy making steps.
Current Energy Resources in Ghana
According to Ghana's Energy Commission, final energy consumption increased by 4.3% in 2019. Peak electricity demand for 2019 was 2804 MW, well under Ghana's total installed capacity of 5,172 MW. Installed capacity is dominated by thermal (68%), followed by hydro (31%), and marginal renewables (0.82%)(Figure 1). Ghana's thermal dependency is due to high demand, unpredictable water levels in domestic dams, discovery of indigenous oil and gas, and the introduction of the West African Gas Pipeline.
Domestic: The country's domestic resources comprise crude oil, natural gas, hydropower, and non-hydro renewable energy (solar, wind and biomass).1
First discovered in 2007, Ghana's commercial quantities of crude oil are an estimated 1,019 million barrels, which is entirely exported.2
Some oil discoveries (Jubilee and TEN fields) have natural gas deposits. Combined with other discoveries like Offshore Cape Three Points, gas reserves totaled around 1,936 billion cubic feet in November 2019, used entirely in-country.3
Imports: Ghana imports natural gas from Nigeria through the West African Gas Pipeline and electricity from Côte d'Ivoire when there are disruptions in local generation. The Tema LNG terminal project (scheduled to be completed 2021) will give Ghana access to global gas markets as well.
FIGURE 1: Installed power capacity mix in 2019
What does the Integrated Power Sector Master Plan (IPSMP) project for Ghana's future energy mix?
The 2019 IPSMP projects possible demand and supply dynamics through 2030:
Generation and Demand. No additional thermal capacity will be needed until the mid-2020s due to the gas-fired plants already under construction or recently commissioned, which will add a dispatchable capacity of 936 MW.
Indigenous resources (hydropower, renewables, and natural gas) are the least-cost option over the entire planning period to improve energy security, and allow gradual grid integration of solar and wind.
Renewable Energy. Ghana has a goal of 10% renewable generation by 2030. In the IPSMP reference case scenario, the country will add a total of 520 MW of solar, 325 MW of wind and 60 MW of hydro from 2022 – 2030.
Nuclear. If the government decides to develop nuclear capacity by the early 2030s, it will likely need to defer some planned gas power to avoid overgeneration. Nuclear plants generally cost more to build and require more regulatory oversight, but have lower operational costs and are less prone to market fluctuations than coal or gas.
If gas prices fall and Ghana can produce or procure ample supply, gas will remain the least cost option for baseload and dispatchable power, and nuclear development may be delayed or canceled.
If Ghana's gas supplies are depleted or demand rises faster than imports, then nuclear power will be an attractive option into the 2030s and 2040s.
Ghana may explore lower cost and easier to build Small Modular Reactors as direct replacements for gas plants as they retire or resources deplete.
What can Ghana do to achieve its energy mix goals?
Refine the target for 10% renewable energy by 2030. Ghana's current generation mix is near 40% low-carbon, with 39% hydro and 0.5% solar. However, the Renewable Act (832) did not originally consider hydro projects over 100 MW — including Akosombo (1020 MW), Bui (400) or Kpone (160) — as renewable. The government later amended the act to include large hydro, meaning Ghana has already met its 2030 goal and should realign its target to be more ambitious.
Revise the legal provisions that block renewable energy development. The Renewable Energy Master Plan calls for $460 million of investment in renewables annually from 2019 – 2030, with 80% coming from the private sector. But two well-intended existing laws may inhibit private investment:
The government's moratorium on new generation investments due to overcapacity. There is no specific timeline as to when the moratorium will be lifted.
Local Content Regulations (L.I. 2354) require compulsory partnerships with Ghanaian businesses and funding from Ghanaian banks. But the Association of Ghana Industries cites access to credit and high interest rates as two of the top five challenges businesses face, potentially hindering project development.Both the moratorium and the local content provisions need to be revised to enable more investment in renewables.
Develop natural gas generation that complements renewables. Ghana will need additional gas-fired combined cycle capacity beyond the 2020s. As the country harnesses more gas, it should plan long-term to ensure new plants complement renewable power. Three factors make natural gas a good fuel for firm power:
Availability. Ghana currently has three fields that produce natural gas, is under contract for imports from Nigeria, and developed a 250 mmscfd capacity regasification facility with the national oil company.
Cost. Natural gas is cheaper than heavy fuel oil (HFO). Exactly how much natural gas will be used will depend on gas pricing, availability, environmental commitments, demand and existing national plans.
Climate ambitions. Ghana's Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement highlights energy as a core focus, with targets that include natural gas as key for emissions reductions.
What factors may impact the IPSMP's success?
Ghana's previous long-term energy plan, the Strategic National Energy Plan (2006-2020), was not successfully implemented, leading to power crises. The drafting of the IPSMP was more inclusive of interested parties, used a more robust methodology, and received support from partners like the World Bank and USAID. The improved planning process has made the IPSMP a key policy reference point, and its demand projections are likely accurate since it considers scenarios including climate commitments, natural disasters, historical trends, and social, geographic and economic conditions. However, two market drivers may affect its projections' accuracy:
Increased demand for distributed energy systems and self generation can pose challenges to existing investments in generation, transmission and distribution if not properly managed. Some energy-intensive companies such as Kasapreko Company Limited and Unilever have invested in distributed solar, and in areas like Prestea and Tarkwa, some mining companies have contracted Genser to build and operate gas-fired captive plants for the mines. Grid defections from industrial customers impact demand projections.
Increased export to countries such as Burkina Faso and Togo means that Ghana will require more capacity, which will have to guarantee affordability and reliability in order to compete against countries like Nigeria that can offer low gas prices.
With these factors in mind, the government should commit to periodic review of the plan's projections and implement a procurement policy that ensures all new capacity is contracted by open, transparent and competitive tendering in line with the IPSMP to enhance affordability and accountability.
Act 832 (Renewable Energy Act) does not recognize large hydro as a renewable energy source.
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Clean water from clean energy
By Mohamed Alhaj
How renewable energy can be a game-changer for Africa's desalination industry By 2050, it is expected that there will be at least 800 million Africans living in regions with acute water scarcity (where the renewable water resources capacity is less than 1000 m3/capita/year).1 A recent study on the potential growth of the desalination market in developing countries estimated the demand for desalination in Africa's most water-scarce countries to reach 37 Mm3/day by 2050, satisfying total municipal water demand for urban populations; which is an increase of more than 1500% compared to the current installed capacity in these countries.1 FIGURE 1: Projected desalination capacity in sub-Saharan Africa's most water-scarce countries by 2050 According to the FAO, the agricultural sector has the highest water demands in these regions, which makes desalination a key enabler for food security. African governments are already taking serious steps to develop more desalination plants.
Recognizing the energy access challenges of informal urban communities in Africa
By June Lukuyu, Jess Kersey
Over one billion people globally are now estimated to live in slums or informal settlements.1 This population is growing as conflicts, natural disasters, and climate change fuel further displacement from rural areas.2 In sub-Saharan Africa, somewhere from 50-60% of the urban population of 200 million lives in informal communities that face structural barriers to securing legal access to the electricity grid. For residents of informal communities who cannot afford the connection fee or provide required tenancy documents (among other barriers), the only viable alternative is to connect informally through a local electrician.
How Might Clean Energy Feature at the White House Africa Summit?
By Todd Moss
Next week is make-or-break for the United States to show an actual alternative to Chinese-backed infrastructure. President Biden will host 49 African leaders December 13-15 in an orchestrated effort to show that the United States is no longer disengaged with the continent and to rebuild trust with a region where one in four people will live by mid-century.
Moving Beyond 'All or Nothing': Finding the Pragmatic Middle Ground on Gas in Africa
By Bonnie Powell, Brad Handler, Morgan Bazilian
Europe's energy crisis is aggravating a decades-old tension between the developed and the developing world. As wealthy countries increase natural gas imports (including from Africa), many of them are maintaining policies that restrict development finance for gas-fired infrastructure projects in poorer nations.
Making Nigeria's energy transition plan a reality
By Michael Dioha
Nigeria wants to achieve a net-zero emissions energy system In November 2021, at the United Nations climate change conference (COP26) held in Glasgow, President Muhammadu Buhari announced Nigeria's commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2060.


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Enterprise Servicing Goals for 2014
March 1, 2014 Peter DeHaan
By Donna Fluss
As the economy continues to improve in the US and around the world, 2014 is looking to be a good year for technology investments that are supported by a solid business case and have quantifiable benefits with a rapid payback of one year or less. Enterprises and government agencies are expected to make investments to improve the customer or constituent experience. These investments will address the core infrastructure of contact centers and customer service organizations, many of which have not been updated in more than ten years. Other investments will be management applications and analytics to help organizations make the most of every customer contact.
Investments will be driven by eight top contact center and servicing trends for 2014. These trends are:
1) Improving customer service: For years, executives have discussed the importance of delivering a great experience, but they have been unwilling to make the investments necessary to achieve this goal. But change is finally starting to happen. It may be because of the speed at which a small issue can go viral, or perhaps it's due to a growing appreciation that customer service is becoming the primary differentiator in a world of highly commoditized products and services.
2) Improving the customer journey: For the first time, organizations now have tools to measure every touch and action taken by prospects and customers, from the time they first access information about a company online to when they retire the use of a product.
3) Resolving inquires during the initial contact: Organizations have been talking about "one and done," or first contact resolution (FCR), for as long as call centers have existed. But now organizations are going proactive, realizing that the shortest route and best way to resolve an issue is to try to address everything a caller might need to know, not just what they are asking. Companies are striving to provide answers to anticipated issues in order to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
4) Reducing operating costs: Contact centers and customer service departments require staff, and people are expensive. Executives are more motivated than at any time in the past to deliver an outstanding customer experience, but the winning investments will be those that improve service while reducing operating expenses.
5) Complying with regulatory requirements: Whether it's the new Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regulations or other Do Not Call (DNC) requirements in the US and many other countries, governments are introducing laws to protect their citizens from bad business practices.
6) Avoiding social media firestorms: Companies are investing in social media to avoid bad public relations. Never in the history of business has there been a tool like social media that can affect the bottom line and stock price of a company due to the public airing of consumer opinions.
7) Retaining customers: This is a top goal in tough economic times, but it is still important when people are more freely spending money. It is always more expensive to acquire customers than to retain existing ones.
8) Increasing sales and collections: Companies are in business to make money. Inside and outside sales teams need to pick up the pace of sales. Collections departments need to follow best practices to increase their contribution to the bottom line. And executives want their contact centers to pick up the slack and become major players in generating revenue.
Many of these goals are similar to those in prior years; however, the priorities have changed, and there are new twists enabled by a more open, creative, and flexible view of the role of contact centers and service organizations.
The top technology and application areas of investment for 2014–2015 will be:
Unified communications contact center solutions
Customer relationship management, servicing, and sales applications, including desktop analytics
Speech analytics and analytics-enabled quality assurance
Real-time guidance and next-best actions
Workforce management, including intra-day management
Social media applications to improve the effectiveness, timeliness, and quality of these interactions
Performance management to improve the management of front- and back-office operating areas
Back-office applications for work allocation and workforce management
Big data and proactive analytics to support all of these initiatives
A lot is going to change during the next few years, including the contributions and perception of contact centers. Now is the time to start making these changes.
Donna Fluss is the founder of DMG, a vendor-independent research and consulting firm that analyzes contact center and back-office technology and best practices. DMG uses this information to help enterprise and contact center leaders build their servicing strategies and select the right solutions for their environments. Contact Donna at donna.fluss@dmgconsult.com.
[From Connection Magazine – Mar/Apr 2014]
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Taking a break for a crew photo on the Rhode Island project!
I have been out of touch and away from my computer for much of the summer traveling alongside a very busy Trail Crew. As I mentioned in a previous post, our trail crew goes by a variety of names, including (but not limited to) the Roving Conservation Crew, Roving Contract Crew, Contract Crew, RCC, and one season even referred to themselves as the Rock Pile… For time's sake, and to continue with the AMC's long standing tradition of using three letter acronyms, I will from here on out refer to them as the RCC.
Some of the Equipment used for building the accessible trail.
With fear of some of the last remaining open space in the City of North Providence Rhode Island being sold to developers, the City was able to purchase the 15 acre parcel known as Camp Meehan/Governor Notte Park. Soon thereafter, the city contacted the AMC to discuss building/upgrading the trail system around the property. A plan was set in place, and in May of 2015, the RCC broke ground on this project. Over the next nine weeks the RCC used excavators and skid steers, rakes and shovels, chainsaws and skill saws, and good ole' hammer and nails to construct a series of universally accessible trails, natural surface trails, ramps, stairs and bridges to the highest level of AMC standards. The project was completed just before the parks 4th of July Celebration. Camp Meehan/Governor Notte Park is now a real gem for locals and visitors alike; whether a visitor to the park would like to go for a nice easy stroll on a hardened surface accessible trail, or venture off into the woods on a natural surface trail, this little park in the heart of Rhode Island now has something to offer any visitor!
I could continue on about the many projects we've worked on this year, but this Rhode Island project was a huge undertaking and worthy of mention, so for now, happy Trails. And if you find yourself in Rhode Island this summer, go check out some of the RCC's work! I think you will be impressed!


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Cheryl Scott, a native of Norfolk, Va., wanted to attend a four-year college. After being a stay-at-home mom for more than a decade, Scott decided to pursue her dream of becoming an elementary school teacher. When she applied to Norfolk State University, she learned that her associate's degree credits from a local two-year college could be not used because the school, which had closed sometime after she had earned her degree, had not been an accredited institution. To make matters worse, Scott's high school academic record at a Norfolk public school fell short of the 2.0 grade point average NSU required for its matriculating students.
"It was so frustrating, and it made me wish I had done better in high school," she says.
Fortunately for Scott, Norfolk State officials had established, in association with the Tidewater Community College system, a program called PASSport. Formerly an open admissions public university, Norfolk State worked out an agreement with Tidewater that would allow students not meeting the university's admissions requirements to attend the community college to take remedial courses, usually for one or two semesters, before enrolling directly into Norfolk State.
"I had to start all over again, but (the PASSport program) got me into college," says Scott, who expects to graduate in 2005.
Claiming that it's the only program of its kind at a historically Black college or university, Norfolk State officials have embraced PASSport because they see it as a way to keep their doors open to students who in the past would have automatically gained entry under open admissions. In addition to PASSport, Norfolk State and Tidewater Community College officials signed an articulation agreement this past May to hammer out specific transfer arrangements for a variety of majors.
"Norfolk State still sees itself as a school of opportunity even though we have eliminated open admissions," says Dr. Elsie M. Barnes, vice president for academic affairs at Norfolk State.
Because of changes in state higher education systems to shift remedial education to the community colleges, historically Black public universities in a number of states have had to drop their open-admissions status and adopt selective admissions standards. Observers say it's critical that with raised admissions standards at four-year schools, HBCUs find and develop ways to be accessible and attractive to students who begin their academic careers at the community college.
That has meant that HBCUs, like many of their four-year counterparts across American higher education, have been actively developing articulation agreements with community colleges that specify the criteria under which the community-college student can receive credit at and transfer into four-year schools.
"There has to be real commitment from the presidents of these institutions to develop effective articulation agreements," says Arnold Kee, coordinator of minority services at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in Washington.
In addition to unique programs such as PASSport and the growing adoption of articulation agreements, two- and four-year schools are forging links around critical need areas, such as in nursing, teacher training, and science. A few HBCUs are taking advantage of these critical need initiatives that link them with community colleges.
HBCU advocates and officials have watched with concern the trend of states raising admissions standards at four-year colleges and universities. The move has meant that four-year schools are dropping their remedial education programs and community colleges are becoming the only public state institutions to offer remedial courses. Justified as a means to save money in states, increase retention rates and improve the overall academic quality of four-year institutions, the shift has forced a number of minority-serving institutions, such as HBCUs and urban universities, to eliminate the practice of open admissions.
For the most part, fears that adopting higher admissions standards might put some HBCUs out of business due to deep enrollment drops have been far from realized. In Mississippi and Louisiana, the introduction of higher admissions standards in the late 1990s has generally led to short-lived enrollment drops at the historically Black public colleges in those states. Mississippi's adoption of higher admissions standards resulting from a 1997 ruling in the state's long-running Ayers desegregation case has seen more enrollment growth rather than decline at the state's three Black universities.
In the past few years, undergraduate enrollments rose from 6,832 in fall 2000 at Jackson State University to 7,783 in fall 2002; 2,936 in fall 2000 at Alcorn State University to 3,143 in fall 2002; and 2,687 in fall 2000 at Mississippi Valley State University to 3,521 in fall 2002.
Dr. Edward R. Jackson, chancellor of Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., has said the move from open admissions to selective admissions resulted in undergraduate enrollment drops in 2001 and 2002. Officials, however, anticipate that Southern will see enough of an increase in the number of freshman and transfer students enrolling this rail to reach the 2000 enrollment level.
Not solely relying on demographic changes that show the baby-boomer children swelling most college enrollments over the next several years, Jackson State and Southern have taken measures to beef up their recruiting efforts at community colleges. "We see the community college as fertile ground," says Dr. Debra A. Buchanan, the vice provost for student life at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss.
Like other Mississippi senior colleges, Jackson State has hired a full-time recruiter to scour the community colleges for prospective students. Buchanan says the recruiter spends a great deal of time visiting the two-year school campuses during their career/academic fairs. She believes there's a sense of competition among the Mississippi universities that has evolved since the late 1990s to attract well-prepared minority students to the respective schools.
"The predominantly White schools have been able to increase their numbers of Black students largely by recruiting them from the community colleges," Buchanan says.
At Norfolk State, the idea to launch PASSport grew out of discussions between Dr. Marie V. McDemmond, president of Norfolk State University, and Dr. Deborah M. DiCroce, president of Tidewater Community College, according to McDemmond. Typically, a student accepted into PASSport either failed to achieve a 2.0 high school grade point average or missed making a minimum score on either the SAT or the ACT. Twenty-three percent of the school's annual applicant pool fail to meet minimum academic requirements.
Since the fall of 2000 when the program began, a total of 30 students who enrolled in PASSport have made the transition to full Norfolk State students.
"PASSport lets students come in as soon as they finish their remedial course without them having to apply again," McDemmond says.
While a number of HBCUs are embracing community colleges after adopting higher admission standards, at least one historically Black institution, Winston-Salem State University, is voluntarily becoming more selective in its admissions as a strategy to raise its academic profile. Under a push by Dr. Harold Martin, the chancellor at Winston-Salem State, the school has been refining its articulation agreements with local area community colleges to make it easy for prospective students to take remedial courses that will allow them admission to Winston-Salem State.
In addition to adjusting to higher admissions standards, HBCUs have begun to participate in programs that funnel community--college students in critical need majors, such as teaching and science, into four-year schools and puts some of them on the path to graduate school (see Techtalk, pg. 40).
One such program is the N.C. Transfer Assistance in the Biomedical Sciences (NC-TABS) program that gives minority community-college students the training and experience to move from the two-year degree to the doctorate. Funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NC-TABS program is administered by the N.C. Community College system and the University of North Carolina system.
Since 1995, the community college and the university system have received about $1 million in NIH grant funding. After completing their two-year degree, NC-TABS students are eligible to attend any of the 16 public universities in North Carolina. Nevertheless, the program receives the bulk of its instructional and operational support from N.C. Central University, N.C. State University, North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Pembroke, according to program officials.


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