The right which section 284 of the Revised Statutes of Indiana gives to the personal representative of a deceased person whose death has been caused by the wrongful act or omission of another to maintain an action against the latter within two years after the death accrues when the death so caused occurs, whether it happens before or after the expiration of a period of a year and a day from the date of its cause.
The common law rule in prosecutions for murder, appeals of death, and inquisitions against deodands does not apply to the right of action given by that statute.
In an action by the personal representative of a deceased person whose death has been caused by the wrongful act or omission of the defendant, evidence as to the income of the deceased previous to his death is admissible.
When, in an action founded upon a state statute, a federal judge, in instructing the jury, adopts the construction given to the statute by the highest court of the State, it is no error to add that he had formerly been of a different opinion, and so instructed former juries.
overruling of the demurrer was one of the assignments of error. There were also other assignments which are noticed in the opinion of the Court.
a carrier of passengers for hire. The gist of the action is the negligence of the company, its agents and servants, in consequence of which the decedent, on the 25th day of November, 1886, while traveling on the defendant's cars, in the State of Indiana, received injuries in his person from which death ensued. The plaintiff's testator died February 23, 1888.
"When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representative of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter for the injury, for the same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed ten thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin, to be distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased."
It appeared from the complaint that plaintiff's testator lived more than a year and a day after being injured, and the question was presented upon a demurrer interposed by the defendant whether, within the meaning of the statute, it could properly be said that death was caused by the wrongful act or omission of another if it did not occur until after the expiration of a year and a day from such act or omission. The argument in support of this limitation upon the right of action given by the statute is based upon certain rules at common law in prosecutions for murder, appeals of death, and inquisitions against deodands. Before examining this question, it will be well to ascertain the object of the statute, as declared by the Supreme Court of Indiana.
States, as we do not in this country depend upon the injured party or his representative to institute criminal prosecutions.
"The statute does not profess to revive the cause of action for the injury to the deceased in favor of his personal representative, nor is such the legal effect, but it creates a new cause of action unknown to the common law. The action given by the statute is for causing the death, by a wrongful act or omission, in a case where the deceased might have maintained an action, had he lived, for an injury by the same act or omission. The right of compensation for the bodily injury of the deceased, which dies with him, remains extinct. The right of action created by the statute is founded on a new grievance, namely, causing the death, and is for the injury sustained thereby, by the widow and children or next of kin of the deceased, for the damages must inure to their exclusive benefit."
"has been heretofore ruled to be applicable to the cause of action, and not to the person bringing it. In other words, an action may be maintained when the deceased, had he lived, would not have been prevented from recovering by reason of his want of care."
"gives to the widow or next of kin, through the personal representative, a right to recover any injury which they may have sustained by reason of the death of an adult, or one emancipated from parental service, and in whose life they may have had a pecuniary interest."
"The statute was intended mainly to be operative against carriers of passengers, and in a very large measure against corporations, whose duties are exclusively performed by hired servants, who are being constantly changed, and in whose knowledge the facts in such cases would generally rest, or who are to be depended upon for such information as would lead to a discovery of the facts and witnesses to establish them. The reasons for requiring a suit to be brought within some short period after the occurrence were therefore very forcible, and must have been perceived. While a proper regard for the security of human life required that a right of action should be given which did not exist by previous law, the consideration already noted required that the remedy should be promptly sought, else a door would be open wide for injustice and wrong."
It was therefore held that the time limited for suit began to run from the death.
"the recovery is not a penalty inflicted by way of punishment for the wrong, but is merely conpensatory of the damages sustained by the heirs or next of kin, who had, or are supposed to have had, a pecuniary interest in the life of the intestate."
"The wording of Lord Campbell's Act and the statute of this state differ somewhat, but are in effect the same. The purpose of each was to give to the personal representative of the deceased a right of action if the deceased at the instant of his death, would have had a right of action for the same act or omission had he survived."
It was consequently held that a personal representative could not maintain an action under the statute if the party injured, in his lifetime, sued and recovered full compensation for the injuries inflicted, and had thereby, if he had lived, precluded himself from maintaining any further action on account of such injuries. The same construction was placed upon Lord Campbell's Act in Read v.
Great Eastern Railway, L.R. 3 Q.B. 555, and in Littlewood v. New York City, 89 N.Y. 24, upon a statute of New York not differing materially from the Indiana statute.
It thus appears to be the settled construction of this statute that the right of a personal representative to bring an action for the exclusive benefit of the widow and children or next of kin of one whose death was caused by the wrongful act or omission of another depends upon the existence or nonexistence of a right in the decedent, immediately before his death, to have maintained an action on account of such act or omission. Consequently the words of the Indiana statute, "the action must be commenced within two years," means two years from the death of the person injured, not from the time he received the injuries from which death resulted.
assent to this view. Was the death in fact caused by the wrongful act or omission of the defendant? That is the vital inquiry in each case. The statute imposes no other condition upon the right to sue. The court has no authority to impose an additional or different one. If death was so caused, then the personal representative may sue at any time within two years from such death.
Ought we to allow this obvious construction of the statute to be defeated by any rule recognized at common law as controlling upon an inquiry as to the cause of death in cases of murder, appeals of death, or inquisitions against deodands?
"by any act whatever, to kill another who does not die by it within a year and a day thereafter, in computation whereof the whole day on which the hurt was done shall be reckoned first."
"die after that time, it cannot be discerned, as the law presumes, whether he died of the stroke or poison, etc., or a natural death, and in case of life, a rule of law ought to be certain."
3 Inst. 53. And such is the rule in this country in prosecutions for murder, except in jurisdictions where it may be otherwise prescribed by statute. Wharton's Amer.Cr.L. § 1073; State v. Orrell, 1 Devereaux Law (N.C.) 139.
"the party's private action, seeking revenge for the injury done him, and at the same time prosecuting for the crown in respect of the offense against the public."
"it seems that when these offenses, by degrees, grew no longer redeemable, the private process was still continued in order to insure the infliction of punishment on the offender, though the party was allowed no pecuniary compensation for the offense."
Bk. 4, 314. By statute of 59 Geo. 3, c. 46, appeals of murder, treason, felony, and other offenses were abolished.
"It seems clear that the appeal of death must set forth the day when the hurt was given, but also the day when the party died of it, as it appears from all precedents of this kind, both in Coke and Raslat and also from the manifest reason of the thing, that it may appear that the party died within a year and a day after the stroke, in which case only the law intends the death was occasioned by it."
"an appeal shall not be abated for default of fresh suit if the party sue within the year and day after the deed done, the computation whereof, as the law is now settled, shall be made not from the day when the wound is given, but from the day when the party died; also, the year and day shall be computed from the beginning of the day, and not from the precise time when the death happened, because regularly no fraction shall be made of a day."
appeal for the death of a man. And therefore an appeal upon the death of a man may be within the year and day, though there be not any fresh suit; within a year and a day after the death, though the blow was given before."
2 Inst. 320, Title Appeal, D.
The rule of a year and a day was also applied at common law to inquisitions of deodands, brought to forfeit to the king, "to be applied to pious uses and distributed in alms by his high almoner," personal chattels that were the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature. 1 Bl.Com. 300. The rule in those cases was that the law does not look upon such a wound as the cause of a man's death "after which he lives so long." Hawkins' P.C., Bk. 1 c. 8, § 7.
We have made this full reference to prosecutions for murder, appeals of death, and inquisitions against deodands because of the earnest contention of counsel that the rule applied at common law in such cases should control the construction of the Indiana statute. In our judgment, the rule of a year and a day is inapplicable to the case before us. In prosecutions for murder, the rule was one simply of criminal evidence. Appeals of death and inquisitions against deodands, although having some of the features of civil proceedings, were in material respects criminal in their nature. Besides, as we have seen, the statute of 6 Edw. I. c. 9, was construed as giving a year and a day from the death of the party killed, not from the time the would was inflicted, and we do not understand that any different construction was placed upon the statute of 3 Hen. 8, c. 1, to which counsel referred.
had in view was to make provision for the widow and children or next of kin of one whose death has been caused by the wrongful act or omission of another. The reasons upon which the rule of a year and a day were applied in the above-mentioned cases at common law do not apply with the same force in purely civil proceedings that involve no element of punishment, but only provide compensation to certain relatives of the decedent who have been deprived of his assistance and aid. As the statute, according to the construction placed upon it by the highest court of Indiana, allows the personal representative to sue within two years after the death of the testator or intestate where death was caused by the wrongful act or omission of the defendant, we cannot by mere construction restrict that right to cases in which the death occurred within a year and a day after such act or omission. We repeat that where death was caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the right of the personal representative, suing for the benefit of the widow and children or next of kin, to recover damages on account of such death is complete under the statute, and may be asserted by action brought at any time within two years from the death.
Texas & Pacific Railway v. Volk, 151 U. S. 73; Howard County v. Legg, 110 Ind. 479; Hudson v. Houser, 123 Ind. 309; Collins v. Davidson, 19 F. 83; Hall v. Galveston, 39 F. 18; Serensen v. Northern Pacific Railroad, 45 F. 407.
"Some years ago, in a case in this court involving this question, I instructed that the jury was not restricted in its award of damage to the proof of pecuniary loss suffered by the widow or next of kin, for whose benefit the action was prosecuted, and, if left to myself, should so rule now. The statute provides that the damages awarded shall 'be distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased,' and this, it seems to me, is inconsistent with the proposition that the damages to be allowed cannot exceed the proven pecuniary loss. Some of the next of kin might be dependent and shown to have a pecuniary interest in the life of the deceased, and others to have no such interest, and yet the damages allowed must go to those who had no such interest as well, and as much as to those on account of whose interest it was allowable; but the supreme court of the state, in a somewhat recent case, as I understand, has put an interpretation upon this statute which is binding upon this and other courts, and in accordance with that decision, as I remember it, I instruct you -- and for the purpose of this case you will accept it as the law -- that you will allow only the pecuniary loss suffered by the widow and surviving children on account of this death, not exceeding the limit of ten thousand dollars fixed by the statute."
The defendant, of course, makes no objection to the principle of law announced by the court, for the charge was in exact conformity to its request for instructions upon the question of damages. But it insists that the jury were probably influenced to its prejudice by the statement that the court below had expressed a different view from that announced by the state court.
said was in deference to the decision of the state court, whose interpretation of the local statute was accepted as the law of the case. The jury were distinctly informed that they were to follow the rule of damages announced by the state court, notwithstanding the court below had, on a former occasion, acted on a different interpretation of the statute. It is not to be supposed that the jury misapprehended or disregarded the explicit injunction of the court to allow, in the event of a verdict for the plaintiff, only the pecuniary loss suffered by the widow and surviving children on account of the death of the husband and father.


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Springs City Council has given city attorneys permission to represent the city, its former police chief and two officers in a lawsuit filed by a bystander who was paralyzed during a fatal shootout.
The Gazette reports that city attorney Mark Simpson told the council Monday that the officers acted appropriately, and the city should be defended.
Thomas Villanueva was injured in the February 2018 shooting that killed El Paso County Sheriff's Deputy Micah Flick and suspected car thief Manuel Zetina. Two other officers were injured.
Villanueva's attorney, Brian Calandra, called the council's decision disappointing.
A sheriff's office representative could not be reached for comment.


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Team USA Tracker: UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup Baie-Comeau
U.S. Paralympics Aug. 08, 2019
Team USA will compete in the final world cup stop of the season.
Team USA Tracker: UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup Ostend
U.S. Paralympics May 16, 2019
Twenty-four athletes will compete for Team USA.
Team USA Tracker: UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup Corridonia
Paralympians Alicia Dana and Will Groulx kick the event off with podium finishes for Team USA.
Olivia Truby Dec. 19, 2018
The U.S. roster features 14 Paralympians and seven reigning world champions.
Team USA Medal Tracker: Para-cycling Road World Cup Baie-Comeau
Follow along as Team USA competes in the third and final stop of the world cup circuit.
U.S. Cyclists Add Three More Titles On Third Day of World Championships
Olivia Truby Aug. 04, 2018
Boyle, Groulx and Walsh win road race crowns
Take A Look Back: Returning Para-Cycling World Championship Medalists
Take a look at who's aiming to defend their 2017 medals.
U.S. Para-cycling Military Veterans Back On Base As Team USA Stays At Air Force Base In Italy During Worlds
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Freddie De Los Santos is one of six military veterans on the U.S. para-cycling team.
Military Veterans Are Back On Base As U.S. Para-cycling Team Stays At Aviano Air Base In Italy
Paralympian Freddie De Los Santos is one of six military veterans on the U.S. team at the UCI Para-Cycling World Championships in Italy
U.S. Paralympics Cycling Unveils 2018 Road World Championships Team
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The team includes 12 Paralympians and seven reigning road world championship medalists.

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A tour of the Iguaçu Falls, on the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, is an unforgettable spectacle. Meandering 400 miles west from its source in the coastal mountains of Paraná and Santa Catarina, the Rio Iguaçu finally widens and falls over an area one mile wide, thundering 240ft down to the river below. Iguaçu is wider than Victoria Falls, higher than Niagara and, in the opinion of most people who visit, more beautiful than either.
Many argue over which country offers the best views of the Falls, and you should try to view them from various angles, allowing you to decide who wins. On the Brazilian side, the best panoramic view is undoubtedly from Garganta do Diablo (Devil's Throat) or you can see the falls from the river itself, and even from the air.
Many Brazilians venture across to the Paraguayan town of Ciudad del Este to shop for cheap electronic goods. This gives rise to the rather strange sight of South American families, soaking in the spray of the Falls, lugging vast plasma screen televisions across the catwalks of Iguaçu.
We consider Iguaçu to be a year round destination as the falls are even more impressive in the rainy season and visitors aren't so concerned if there's no sun.


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"President Trump Issues Executive Order Requiring Ethics Pledge"
Matthew Bobys, Kenneth Gross, Ki Hong, Melissa Miles, Shayla Parker, Jeremy Regan, Charles Ricciardelli, Tyler Rosen
On January 28, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees" (the Order). This Order requires every full-time political appointee to sign an Ethics Pledge (the Trump Pledge), replacing the similar ethics pledge — with some key differences — that President Barack Obama required appointees to sign during his administration (the Obama Pledge).
As under the Obama Pledge, "appointee" includes all full-time, non-career political appointees regardless of whether they are appointed by the president, the vice president, an agency head or other government official. Individuals appointed to a career position are not required to sign the Trump Pledge. Although the Order requires those appointed on or after January 20, 2017, to sign the Trump Pledge, it is unclear whether the Trump administration intends to extend this requirement to those appointed during the Obama administration. Please note that President Obama's appointees are still subject to the terms of the Obama Pledge they signed, unless that pledge is annulled or if they sign the Trump Pledge.
Below is a summary of the most significant provisions of the Order, highlighting the differences between the Trump Pledge and the Obama Pledge provided in italicized text.
Lobbyist Gift Ban
The Trump Pledge prohibits covered appointees from accepting gifts from registered lobbyists, lobbying firms or lobbyist employers for the duration of their appointment. This ban and its exemptions are the same as under the Obama Pledge. Accordingly, many of the exemptions that exist under the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) gift rules are eliminated for covered appointees, while other minor exemptions are retained. There also were additional exemptions issued through guidance under the Obama Pledge, such as free attendance at press events or widely attended charitable events. It is unclear whether such guidance will continue to apply under the Trump Pledge.
Eliminated exemptions. The following commonly used exemptions under OGE rules do not apply to covered appointees under the Trump Pledge:
gifts from a single source of 20 dollars or less per occasion and 50 dollars or less per calendar year;
gifts provided by a former employer to attend a reception or similar event when other former employees have been invited to attend;
free attendance at widely attended gatherings; and
meals, refreshments and entertainment in a foreign area.
Retained exemptions. These exemptions are available to covered appointees under the Trump Pledge:
gifts based on a personal relationship;
discounts and similar benefits;
gifts resulting from a spouse's business or employment;
gifts customarily provided by a prospective employer;
gifts to the president or vice president;
gifts authorized by supplemental agency regulation;
gifts accepted under specific statutory authority.
modest items of food and refreshments (soft drinks, coffee and doughnuts) that are offered other than as part of a meal;
greeting cards and items with little intrinsic value (plaques, certificates and trophies) which are intended solely for presentation;
loans from banks and other financial institutions on terms generally available to the public;
opportunities and benefits, including favorable rates and commercial discounts, available to the public or to a class consisting of all government employees or all uniformed military personnel;
rewards and prizes given to competitors in contests or events open to the public, unless the employee's entry into the contest or event is required as part of his or her official duties;
pension and other benefits resulting from continued participation in an employee welfare and benefits plan maintained by a former employer;
anything that is paid for by the government or secured by the government under government contract;
free attendance to certain events at which the official is assigned to present information on behalf of his or her agency; and
anything for which market value is paid by the employee.
Revolving Door Bans
Appointees Entering Government
Working on Matters Involving a Former Client or Employer
For two years after their initial appointment, covered appointees are prohibited from working on certain matters involving a former client or employer if the appointee worked for that client or employer in the past two years. As under the Obama Pledge, the Trump Pledge prohibits the appointee from participating in matters involving specific parties that are directly and substantially related to the former client or employer. Under this restriction, a covered appointee may not participate in a matter where such a former client or employer is, or represents, a party in the matter.
However, in both the Obama and Trump pledges, the phrase "matters involving specific parties" is broadened from its regulatory definition to also include any communication or meeting with a former client or employer relating to the performance of one's official duties other than those concerning matters of general applicability where all interested parties may attend. This language suggests that appointees would be barred from communicating with former clients and employers on any issue within the scope of their responsibilities, including broad policy matters. However, the phrase "directly and substantially related" covers only matters where a former client or employer is, or represents, one of the parties. Accordingly, while the provision is not entirely clear, the better reading is that in order to be subject to the prohibition, communications and meetings between an appointee and a former client or employer must be regarding a matter in which such client or employer either is a party or represents a party in such matter.
Working on Matters and Issues Lobbied in the Past
If the appointee was a registered lobbyist during the two years prior to his or her appointment, the appointee is prohibited for a period of two years after appointment from: (1) participating in any particular matter on which he or she lobbied in the two years prior to his or her appointment and (2) participating in any matter that falls within the same specific issue area. A particular matter includes only matters that involve those that are focused upon the interests of specific persons, or a discrete and identifiable class of persons, even if it does not involve formal parties and may include governmental action such as legislation or policy-making that is narrowly focused on the interests of such a discrete and identifiable class of persons. The term "lobbied" is defined to mean having acted as a registered lobbyist under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA).
Unlike the Obama pledge, there is no restriction on a covered appointee under the Trump Pledge seeking or accepting employment with an agency he or she lobbied in the past.
Appointees Leaving Government
Five-Year Ban on Lobbying Former Agency
After leaving government service, a covered appointee may not engage in lobbying activity with respect to his or her former agency for five years after leaving his or her position. In defining "lobbying activity," the Trump Pledge uses the LDA definition, which includes both lobbying contacts and preparing and strategizing for such contacts. Accordingly, this restriction would apply to both making a lobbying communication with a covered official from his former agency, as well as "behind the scenes" lobbying activity, regardless of whether or not the individual triggers registration as a lobbyist under the LDA.
Both the duration of the ban (increased to five years from two years) and the express coverage of preparing and strategizing for lobbying contacts represent significant departures from the Obama Pledge.
Ban on Lobbying the Executive Branch for Remainder of Trump Administration
The Trump Pledge also prohibits former covered appointees from engaging in lobbying activities with respect to the entire executive branch for the remainder of the administration.
Lifetime Ban on FARA Registration for Foreign Governments and Political Parties
Unlike the Obama Pledge, the Trump Pledge subjects covered appointees to a lifetime ban on engaging in any activity on behalf of a foreign government or political party that would, as of January 20, 2017, require registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.
The Trump Pledge does not extend the one-year "cooling off" period prohibiting senior employees from communicating with employees of their former executive agency, as the Obama Pledge did. However, please note that "very senior" executive branch employees are still subject to a statutory two-year cooling-off period.
By signing the Trump Pledge, every covered appointee agrees that all hiring and employment decisions the appointee makes will be based on the candidate's qualifications, competence and experience.
The president or his designee may grant waivers of any restriction contained in the Trump Pledge.
Administration and Enforcement
The Order instructs the head of every executive agency to establish rules or procedures to ensure every appointee signs the Trump Pledge upon becoming an appointee. It also provides the OGE with instructions to provide further guidance concerning the administration of the Trump Pledge. Enforcement will be provided through civil action by the attorney general. Any former appointee who is determined to have violated the Trump Pledge may be barred from lobbying any officer or employee of that agency for up to five years, in addition to the time period covered by the Trump Pledge.
Trump Directs Department of Labor to Review Fiduciary Rule
New York Passes Ethics Package Impacting Lobbying and Disclosure
"Mandatory Online Ethics Training for New York State Lobbyists"
SDNY Rules in Favor of Mutual Fund Adviser, Dismisses Excessive Fee Claim
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Advantage IND Will Offer Webalo's User First™ Mobile & Desktop App Generation Platform To Industrial End Users and System Integrators in the Southeastern US.
Webalo, Inc., announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with Advantage Industrial Automation, Inc., a subsidiary of Graybar, to further drive User First™ mobile and desktop access to the Food & Beverage, Consumer Products, Water & Wastewater, Energy, and Material Handling markets.
Webalo's User First applications provide simple, low-cost ways to improve productivity and effectiveness in manufacturing line operation, infrastructure management, shipping & receiving, property management and many other areas of industrial business operations. Webalo's patented technology enables companies to easily transform enterprise applications into personal applications, where every user has the information they need on their personal device to help them get their job done.
Advantage Industrial Automation, Inc. is dedicated to providing the best in intelligent automation. Their technological expertise, and commitment to delivering the latest advancements in mobile technology to their customers, sets them apart from others within the industry. "Our partnership with Webalo enables us to further extend this customer commitment from the plant floor, throughout the enterprise and into cloud data sources," stated Steve Smith, VP & CTO of Advantage Industrial Automation, Inc. "By enabling personalized and role based views of relevant enterprise data on a mobile device, or at the desktop, we're enabling our customers' employees to make better and more informed decisions in real time."
"As a GE Digital ISV and OEM Partner we're experiencing tremendous growth transforming legacy GE Proficy deployments into User First applications that drive business productivity, and from being the front-end for apps and services for the new GE Digital Predix platform," said Peter Price, CEO of Webalo. "We're very pleased to welcome Advantage Industrial Automation to the Webalo family of partners. Their expertise and commitment to excellence in the industrial automation sector is helping us to empower users to get their work done more efficiently, by making enterprise data immediately available, relevant, actionable and informative on any device."
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To find out about all things First Presbyterian, the best place to begin is with the First Family Newsletter. Here you will find insightful and inspirational reflections from the pastor, updates about ongoing projects, information about future events, and birthdays of fellow churchgoers. This monthly publication is sent via email and posted below in pdf format. To see the most recent publication, please click the top link below. See also all past newsletters.


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The Five Greatest Sports Stars of the 20th Century
Last year I made five drawings of the five people who I consider to be the greatest sports stars of the 20th Century and with typical efficiency I am only now doing anything with them. I love sport more than anything else, I think. Like great music or art, it transcends human experience with a potency far outreaching its remit. But, unlike music or art, it retains a crucial element of total objectivity. There are winners and losers in sport; for all the discussion and for all the postulation there will always come a time when all the bullshit must, through absolute necessity, stop. It is this which appeals to me on such a fundamental level. Elemental, even. I need it.
Choosing five outstanding people from the sporting field is foolhardy in the extreme and invariably shot through with bias, blind spots and flaws. Complaints to the usual place, perhaps. Or, even better, how about making your own list? Creative solutions to internet-based disagreement is surely the way forward. For my choices, I tried to pick five people whose greatness went beyond their particular field of endeavour. They are people who made a wider social impact, through their values, their example or their personality.
I consider them to be five of the most inspirational people the Twentieth Century produced.
5. Tommie Smith (1944-) - Athletics
Tommie Smith crystallised an entire movement in one single perfect moment. On 16th October 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics, he won the 200 metres sprint in 19.83 seconds. It was an heroic enough performance as it stood: he had been nursing a hamstring injury through the heats and his display in the final was astonishing, the first time that 200 metres had been officially run in under twenty seconds in human history.
Quite rightly, however, Smith is better remembered for what he did on the podium. 1968 had been a year of tumult. In his homeland, it had seen the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and the worsening of the conflict in Vietnam. The Civil Rights struggle was far too deeply ingrained to be solved simply by recourse to legislature and racial tension remained a tinderbox across the United States. As for the rest of the world, similar life-and-death struggles for recognition, for freedom and for human rights also raged: Northern Ireland, Warsaw, The Prague Spring, student uprisings in France and West Germany; the continuing stain of Apartheid in South Africa, as well as continuing tension in Israel and Palestine.
Tommie Smith's black gloved raised fist salute was seen as being a symbol of black power and association with the nascent Black Panther movement. In truth, it represented support for everything that is good and just in a year that had, at times, looked set to spiral out of control. Even if in the moment he, silver medallist Peter Norman of Australia and Smith's American teammate John Carlos may have not realised what an epochal gesture they had made, nearly 50 years on it remains the single most staggeringly eloquent reminder of sport's social potency.
Of course, Smith's reward was to be canned. Both he and Carlos were immediately sent home from the Olympics and made pariah by a significant proportion of American society. The following year, Smith moved into American Football, playing two games for the Cincinnati Bengals before becoming both a sociology teacher and an athletics coach at Oberlin College, Ohio.
4. Jesse Owens (1913-1980) - Athletics
Jesse Owens was one of the greatest track athletes in history. During the 1935 Big Ten athletics meeting at Ann Arbor, Michigan, he broke three world records within 45 minutes. The following year, he won four gold medals in the 100 metre sprint, 200 metre sprint, 4x100 metre sprint relay and long jump at the Berlin Olympics.
Owens never set out to be a hero or a warrior for social justice. Both things just sort of caught up with him, even when nothing else could. He remains the ultimate fly in the ointment, the most celebrated up yours to the most insidious and evil political regime of modern human history. Adolf Hitler had, of course, designed the Berlin Olympics to be as carefully choreographed a love letter to the innate superiority of his Aryan supermen as any sporting event could be. But he had not reckoned on the basic truth of the forces at work in the sporting arena. 1936 was Owens' time and he would not be - could not have been - denied.
Much has been made of the Fuhrer's avoidance of Owens following his Olympic success. Debate still continues as to whether or not this was the result of prior engagements, a desire to not be caught out in an impending rainstorm or his virulent racism. The possibility even remains that the Nazi leader did seek out and congratulate Owens but that it was subsequently hushed up. The fact remains that Owens' feats were all featured in Leni Reifenstahl's state-funded 1938 film of the event, Olympia, whilst at home he remained a second-class citizen. It is this frequently ignored story which speaks with the greatest volume about the legacy of Jesse Owens, a campaigner for civil rights and social justice. He always maintained that it was not Hitler who snubbed him but his own President. "[He] didn't even send a telegram".
3. Ayrton Senna (1960-1994) - Motor racing
Ayrton Senna was the fastest racing driver who has ever lived. He drove like the devil was after him and he was trying to get away. And as fanciful a narrative as that sounds, the man himself would leave you in some doubt as to whether or not it was what was at stake. There are few people possessed of the kind of single-minded dedication, control and ability to achieve all that Senna did in his brief life, fewer still able to articulate it in quite the same mesmerising way that he did: all the more remarkable if you consider that he was often doing so in a second language.
The winner of 41 Grands Prix, three Formula 1 World Championships and 65 pole positions - the latter a record that it took even Michael Schumacher nearly a hundred additional career races to overhaul - Senna's numbers remain impressive but, as is the nature of many statistics, are slowly being subsumed by history. What will not go away is the story. Senna's electrifying presence transfixed the motor racing world; Formula 1 was Ayrton Senna and to set out to conquer it meant beating him. What will never go away is the footage. Some of it shows him doing things which are devious, questionable or downright reprehensible, all reminders of the fundamental flaws that reside within human beings. These were foes to overcome all as real as Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell or Michael Schumacher. What will never go away is the sight of a man propelling a racing car along at a speed at which his rivals were either unable or unwilling to match.
Senna was a remarkable man. Born of considerable privilege and wealth, he nevertheless remains nothing less than a hero to millions of his disenfranchised and poverty stricken Brazilian countrymen. Clearly flawed and prone to behaviour on track so nefarious it could probably have been tried in a court of law, he remains a hero to every journalist and motorsport fan, one whose legacy grows with each passing year. Had he survived the crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix which claimed him, he could well have been the President of Brazil by now. Or of the United Nations. He may even have been able to swing Pope. To assume anything less of Ayrton Senna always was to be confounded by him.
2. Billie Jean King (1943-) - Tennis
So much of the story of Twentieth Century sport, as with its history, is entangled with the story of race that it is easy to forget that the battle for equality was never just confined to the colour of a person's skin. Women's rights and LGBT rights were - are - just as defining and active a social battleground. Billie Jean King was a pioneer, a leader and a spokeswoman; a brilliant competitor who could have made all her most telling points on the court but chose to speak out off it as well. Moreover, she still is and still does all of these things.
Much is made of her participation in the famous Battle Of The Sexes tennis match, an event between the top female player of the day and Bobby Riggs, the 1939 Wimbledon singles champion who, at 55-years old believed he was still the match of any modern female player. King disabused him of this notion, defeating him comfortably 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. But in reality this was just a spectacle for the television and a silly old fool getting his comeuppance. Billie Jean King is better remembered for the way she lived her life day to day, a fact summed up by her belief that her most famous match's key virtue was getting people interested and enthused about the sport of tennis.
As a player she was an indefatigable competitor. Combined with a longevity rare in such a high impact sport - her career spanned four decades and lasted 24 years - it makes the case for her inclusion on any list of sporting greats on a statistical basis alone. What truly sets King apart for me is her bravery. It takes considerable courage to choose to continually put your head above the parapet because it is the right thing to do, especially when you are successfully operating in an arena which would make anyone quite able to happily and quietly feather their nest ready for a peaceful retirement. King refused to stand down; on the issue of professionalism in tennis, on the issue of equality for women, or on the issue of the acceptance of homosexuals into society. To this day, if Billie Jean speaks openly on any subject, we had better all be listening.
1. Muhammad Ali (1942-) - Boxing
Muhammad Ali is the greatest. We have no excuse for this coming as a surprise as he has been telling us all for decades. It is perhaps to his greatest credit that the scale of his achievement - as a sportsman and as a human being - was such that it was nevertheless still surprising.
No other sporting figure has ever blurred so many social boundaries. He was both of our time and for all time; initially just a boxer, his extraordinary personality made him a star at a time in America where black people were supposed to know their place. Ali stood up and was counted. When this, as it inevitably would, made him enemies he stood louder and prouder. When they took away what was rightfully his he won it back in such impossibly heroic circumstances that it would be dismissed out of hand as a film treatment as simply too unbelievable.
Ali is a continual reminder to me that the search for a higher power is best attempted by looking around you. A glimpse into the eyes of Ali, even now as a frail man broken by disease and dulled by age, leaves me in no doubt as to his other-worldly power to inspire greatness in those around him. There will never be another sportsman who so unifies as many disparate sections of human society as Muhammad Ali. The greatest tribute of all is that, principle among the reasons for this is that Ali existed in the first place.
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I treat the customer as if it were me on the other end. Yes, I listen and seek to fix whatever is the problem. And, occasionally, I do make mistakes. But, the worse is the shipping problems. What to do if they don't receive their order? I send it again! This is the toughie for me!!
I can honestly say I have never had that happen, Kathleen. So, you send the order, and have confirmation that you sent it, yet, the customer says they did not receive it?
In nearly five years of operating Annie's Goat Hill, I (happily) can report that I received only two complaints. Both were frustrating. One was extremely so because the customer supplied both a bad phone number and email address. I was unable to call or email the customer once I discovered I needed additional information to process their order. I finally resorted to snail mail but not before I was accused of running an "un-ethical, typical to this era, business." Sometimes, no-matter how positive and diligent we are, we lose out. As I said, though, challenges teach us to be strong and help us to be able to handle the next bump in the road with greater finesse.
Our experience with unhappy customers were mainly when selling goats though but those days are over now though, we have 6 goats now but that is soon to change though, a young boy took 5 of our goats on Saturday.
It was a great chat and there was some really great information that everyone shared. It is a fine balance as a small biz owner trying to please everyone.
I agree, a fine balance, and close to the heart because we have the advantage of developing communities with our customers, closer relationships, not just phone answering customer service types!
I love Kathleen's comment about treating the customer as if it was her on the receiving end of the treatment. I'll have to remember that — great sound bite. This is a super summary, Mary, thank you for sharing. I love your approach to customer service. You are always so polite and respectful. It has served you well at Annie's Goat Hill and I know it will continue to serve you well in your new venture too!
I look at challenges as something to grow by, not something to take negatively. When you take on that type of mindset, I think it reflects in customer service. Thanks, dM! I hope it does continue to serve me well.


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Free Trade Zones (Declared Areas) (Amendment) Notification 2005
3 Amendment of Second Schedule
Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement on 30 Sep 2005
Free Trade Zones Act
(Chapter 114)
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(1) of the Free Trade Zones Act, the Minister for Finance hereby makes the following Notification:
1. This Notification may be cited as the Free Trade Zones (Declared Areas) (Amendment) Notification 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2005.
2. The First Schedule to the Free Trade Zones (Declared Areas) Notification (N 3) is amended by deleting item (5) and substituting the following item:
"(5) Changi Airport Cargo Terminal Complex
All that area comprised part of Lot Nos. 1288Cpt, 3363Kpt, 4288Tpt, 4289Apt, 4290Ppt and 4294Npt and Lot Nos. 1246V and 1273L occupied by "CHANGI AIRPORT CARGO TERMINAL COMPLEX — FREE TRADE ZONE" containing an area of about 474,784 square metres and bounded approximately as follows:
The boundary commences at the eastern-most corner of "CHANGI AIRPORT CARGO TERMINAL COMPLEX — FREE TRADE ZONE" which point is 40,701.9 metres North and 46,632.8 metres East of the Survey Department origin of co-ordinates, the boundary runs along successive lines of fence of bearings and distances as follows:
Distance in metres
to a point where it meets a line, thence along that and other successive lines of bearings and distances as follows:
to a point where it meets a fence, thence along successive lines of fence of bearings and distances as follows:
to a point where it meets a line, thence along the line on a bearing of 203° 01' for a distance of 118.1 metres to a point where it meets a fence, thence along successive lines of fence of bearings and distances as follows:
23° 08'
to meet a line, thence along the line of a bearing 286° 56' and distance of 2 metres to the corner of a wall, thence along a line of bearing 293° 01' and distance of 90.7 metres which follows closely a series of walls and fence, thence along that and other successive lines of wall of bearings and distances as follows:
to a point where it meets a line, thence along successive lines of fence of bearings and distances as follows:
5° 10'
to the point of commencement . The boundary of "CHANGI AIRPORT CARGO TERMINAL COMPLEX –– FREE TRADE ZONE" is delineated in Plan V set out in the Second Schedule.".
Amendment of Second Schedule
3. The Second Schedule to the Free Trade Zones (Declared Areas) Notification is amended by deleting Plan V and substituting the following Plan:
Changi Airport Cargo
Terminal Complex — Free Trade Zone
[G. N. Nos. S 535/2000; S 598/2000; S 199/2001; S 282/2001; S 383/2001; S 208/2002; S 334/2002; S529/2002; S 37/2003; S 106/2003; S 33/2004; S 45/2004; S 64/2004; S 283/2004]
Made this 26th day of September 2005.
LIM SIONG GUAN
Ministry of Finance,
[CAAS/LE/FTZ/G1; MF (R) R031.001.0001 Vol. 9; AG/LEG/SL/114/2002/1 Vol. 2]


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Why it's so apt that Whitney-bound Liam's Map has the "heart of a soldier"
Karen M Johnson | August 06, 2015 |
When an owner names a horse after a friend, who also happens to be someone they hold in high esteem, it can be tricky business. The owner, of course, fervently hopes the horse will properly honor the person for whom it is named.
In the case of Liam's Map, a winner of four races by a combined margin of 23 1/4 lengths, his owners, Vincent Viola and wife Teresa, did a masterful job of paying tribute to Liam Collins, one of the first American special operations soldiers to arrive in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, 2001. Collins would go on to become the executive director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, which Vincent Viola, a graduate of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, funded. When Collins later moved from his position at the CTC to become a professor at the USMA, he was honored at the Army's traditional Hail and Farewell ceremony. It was there that Collins presented Viola with a very special gift.
"You usually present a memento to the departing officer or soldier, so after Liam received his memento, and gave thanks for his service, he paused the ceremony, and he presented me with the silk survival map he carried when he went into Afghanistan," Viola said. "I was so moved. I had just purchased this beautiful Unbridled's Song yearling, so I told Liam I was going to name him Liam's Map." Viola said the 4-year-old colt has proven to be very worthy of carrying Collins' name. "Liam's Map has the heart of a soldier, and the fortitude of a hero," Viola remarked.
On Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, Liam's Map will make his graded stakes debut in the G1 Whitney, a "Win and You're In" designated race for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland on Oct. 31. The $1.25 million Whitney will be broadcast live on NBC between 5 and 6 p.m. ET.
Liam's Map, who the Violas purchased for $800,000 at the 2012 Keeneland September yearling sale, has had a near flawless campaign, winning four of five starts. A striking looking, powerfully built gray colt, Liam's Map is trained by Todd Pletcher, and races in the silks of Teresa Viola Racing Stables.
The Violas share a mutual love of racing. Vincent, who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, attended the races at Aqueduct and Belmont Park nearly every weekend with his father, a truck driver, who, his son said, "handicapped every day of his life." Teresa's grandfather also was an avid handicapper, and was responsible for her introduction to the sport.Vincent Viola, a former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, is a Wall Street businessman. The 59-year-old also owns the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers. His Thoroughbred holdings are substantial, with about 70 horses, a number that also includes breeding stock.
Given his extensive background in finance, it's not surprising that Viola manages his racing interests as a business. "What any financial professional needs to master, and conquer, quite frankly, is risk management. And owning a Thoroughbred stable is all about managing risks," Viola commented. "Managing risks around proper husbandry of the horse, managing risks around proper expenditure and value, and what you think the horse can and cannot do. You have to have a great disciplined strategy, which, quite frankly, if you don't stick to, you won't stick around too long. It really requires a disciplined model that is based on a very objective definition of risk that has to be objectively managed against an amount of capital, and the reward that you seek." But, make no mistake, Viola's heart is also fully invested in his horses, "These animals give so much to us. They give us so much more than we give them," Viola said. "As a young kid, I would look at these magnificent athletes, and realized they had an unique intelligence. I was, and am, fascinated by the breed. For my money, it's the most exciting sport in the world."
Viola first became an owner in the late 1990s, when his father became ill with congestive heart disease, and he wished to provide his dad with something positive to focus on. He later took a sabbatical from racing to concentrate on his then involvement in the ownership group behind the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets.
A fews years ago, the Violas re-entered racing and became equal partners on several horses with West Point Thoroughbreds, whose managing partner, Terry Finley, is also an alumni of West Point. Racing under the nom-de-course St. Elias Stables, the Violas campaigned graded winners Ring Weekend and Freedom Child with West Point Thoroughbreds.
Teresa said having Liam's Map compete in the Whitney, Saratoga's signature race for older male horses, has provided her with an "overwhelming" feeling of gratitude. "For us, this is just the best part of this whole meet," she said with a broad smile.
Collins has yet to see his namesake compete in person, but Vincent Viola said it is his wish for that to happen someday.
"I've not wanted Liam to come to his races because I don't want him to be disappointed if the horse loses," Viola said. "But Liam's Map keeps winning, so I promised myself if we're lucky enough to win a graded stakes with him, the next race, no matter what it is, I will make sure Colonel Collins is here to see him."
Liam's Map
St. Elias Stables
Teresa Viola
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Top 9 Solar Energy Storage Problems
Many thoughts are rising about solar energy storage problems as we try to achieve sustainable, clean and renewable energy.
The world is doing all it can to achieve sustainable development and this can only be achieved if certain factors like the provision of universal access to affordable, clean and reliable energy can be met.
Meeting these factors, we have to look at some facts like climate change, inequalities, resource constraints, population growth, geopolitics, food security and health which are prevalent in our world today.
As we strive for sustainable development. All hands must be on deck for this achievement. It's easier said than done.
We can rally around creating awareness about climate change and the damage fossil fuel is doing to the environment even affecting us directly, we can choose to propagate laws banning the use of fossil fuel energy or we can just migrate gradually to these renewables knowing that they are not entirely safe.
There have been mistakes made by the industrial age that we seem to be making today. And that's going into an endeavour without waging the risks.
The industrial age or the age that brought in the mass production and use of fossil fuels didn't consider the risks going into that endeavour but the age strived because of the massive gain in the fossil fuel market, the basic technology for their production, the mass production and their effectiveness.
So, as the effects of the use of fossil fuel energy became more spelt out, people started pushing for alternative energy. Now, there is no safe energy out there but we can say that of a truth, renewable energy is far better considering the environmental and health risk.
But, have we looked at other factors of which some are environmental, health, efficiency, cost but to name a few. Transcending into the use of renewable energy puts us into a not entirely new circle of adverse effects as we are faced with fossil fuel energy some of which we are not familiar with like efficiency.
One can dream of an ideal world whose energy is gotten from major renewables like solar energy. But some issues are having to use these renewable energies and if tackled not just jumping into the widespread use of it can we reap good benefits from it.
Not like we did with fossil fuel energy. Renewable energy posits a lot of benefits we can draw from.
Hydroelectric power is still the most used renewable energy-producing massive energy for countries having fewer drawbacks but countries and communities that don't have access to hydroelectric power consider solar energy as a better alternative seeing that solar energy is limitless.
But, there are some issues with having to use solar energy as alternative energy to the present fossil fuel energy.
The world is developing every day and that's because the minds of people are developing bring better solutions to solve man's problem and ensure a better life for ourselves and the generation to come.
The inception of solar energy production brought a whole new problem of variations in solar radiation leading to lesser than needed production of energy or no production at all.
This was not known in the use of fossil fuels. And since there is no continuous production as seen in fossil fuel energy production, there is a need for compensation for the periods of limited or no production to ensure continuous electrification of the world by renewable energy.
Since there are periods because of more than needed energy production through solar energy as a result of high radiation occurring some days or some hours, scientists have found a way to store these excess energies through the development of certain technologies that can be able to store solar energy.
Now, this is relatively new and started being known worldwide this decade so, there have some drawbacks if not handled could make using solar energy as an alternative and renewable energy catastrophic and not desirable.
That's why we look at the problems that affect solar energy storage – solar energy storage problems.
Types of Solar Energy Storage Systems
1. Thermal Energy Storage Systems
2. Compressed Air Energy Storage
3. Hydrogen Gas
4. Pumped Hydroelectric Storage Systems
1. Lack of Standardisation
2. High Prices of Storage Systems
3. Outdated Regulatory Policy and Market Design
4. Incomplete Definition of Energy Storage
5. Heat Losses
6. Efficiency Losses
7. Limited Solar Energy System to Meet the Current Demand for Solar Energy Storage
8. The Hesitance of the Government to Accept Solar Energy Storage Systems because of their Present Cost
9. Variations in Solar Energy Radiation
There are various types of solar energy storage systems available and they are;
Thermal energy storage systems
Compressed air energy storage
Pumped hydroelectric storage system
First used in 1985, thermal energy storage systems generate electricity by capturing heat from the sun and storing this energy in water, molten salts, or other fluids.
A thermal energy storage system typically consists of a storage medium in a reservoir or tank, a built-in refrigeration system, piping, pump(s) and controls.
There are two classes of thermal energy storage systems and this classification is based on its operating temperature. They include; low-temperature thermal energy storage systems and high-temperature energy storage systems.
The low-temperature thermal energy storage systems use cold water and a reheating process while the high-temperature thermal energy storage systems are based on latent and thermochemical heat storage.
Thermal energy storage systems can be able to store large quantities at a relatively low capital cost, while also avoiding the production of any major hazards.
Here the elastic potential energy of compressed air is stored until its release to produce electricity. As solar energy enters the Compressed Air Energy Storage system, an electric motor drives an air compressor where compressed ambient air is stored under pressure in an underground cavern and is released when needed.
There can be unwanted energy discharges as a result of heat generation within the compressed air energy storage system as high pressures are applied to the air. For this to be minimised, inter and aftercoolers are present Compressed Air Energy Storage system to extract heat during the compression process.
Hydrogen gas is one of the largest energy components of any fuel. Making it an ideal method for the storage and distribution of energy even solar energy.
The hydrogen gas storage system manipulates the properties of cyclohexane for the production of energy through a reproducible cyclic process, where hydrogenation is followed by dehydrogenation.
The hydrogenation process forms cyclohexane (C6H12) through the addition of six hydrogen atoms from the abundant hydrocarbons to benzene (C6H6) present in the hydrogen storage system following solar exposure.
Dehydrogenation processes occur following the removal of the six carbons from cyclohexane, allowing this chemical to become available for use in energy storage devices and other applications.
Platinum-based nanoparticles are an essential aspect of the dehydrogenation reaction, in which these nanoparticles act as photocatalysts by providing a temporary donation of their photoexcited electrons to existing cyclohexane molecules.
This donation breaks the carbon-hydrogen bonds, releasing hydrogen atoms without causing excess heat to be released. It is one of the most efficient options for energy storage because it allows up to 97% of benzene to be converted back to cyclohexane.
This is the storage system that helps in the adaptability of the variability of solar radiation which causes the supply of energy to exceed demand in some periods and demand to exceed supply in some periods.
When supply exceeds demand, water is pumped into the upper reservoir to store solar energy and when demand exceeds supply, water within this initial reservoir is released by running downhill into a lower reservoir through turbines, generating electricity.
Flywheel is a similar transmission energy storage technology, this cylindrical-shaped device contains a large rotor inside a vacuum. When power is drawn from its energy source (sun), the rotor accelerates to very high speeds, storing electricity as rotational energy within the device.
Energy can then be distributed once the rotor is switched to "generation mode," which slows down the rotor and returns electricity to the grid for consumer use.
Batteries, like flywheels, can be located anywhere, and are often seen as similar storage systems for the distribution of energy. For large-scale energy storage potential, batteries can vary from sodium-sulphur, metal-air, lithium-ion, and lead-acid batteries, depending on their energy source and application.
These are some of the solar energy storage problems that need to be addressed, they include:
Lack of standardisation
High Prices of Storage Systems
Outdated regulatory policy and market design
Incomplete definition of energy storage
Efficiency losses
Limited solar energy storage system to meet the current demand for solar energy storage.
The hesitance of the government to accept solar because of its present cost.
Variations in solar energy radiation.
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. There is no specific standard for the mass production of batteries which are the main storage system used in solar energy production.
This is because of its complexity and also the fact that the storage of solar energy is an emerging market. With diverse technical requirements to be met as well as varied processes and policies to contend with, batteries face a roadblock for massive deployment.
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. This is not just the main problem associated with solar energy storage systems but also the most vexing problem. Though the prices of solar batteries have reduced drastically, they are still outrageously high.
The larger your solar panels to trap more solar radiation generating energy or electricity, the larger the batteries and the higher the cost. Special solar energy storage systems for large or massive energy production for the grid of a particular community is very costly.
Though there are more efficient solar energy storage systems that can be used for communities especially in some locations during the winter periods, these solar energy storage systems are very complex and very costly. This has made many states or communities not adopt these efficient solar energy storage systems.
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. Because solar energy storage is relatively new to the market, the regulatory policy has not yet covered solar energy storage systems as expected with emerging technologies.
Besides wholesale market rules, retail rules will also need to be updated, as residential and commercial and industrial interest grows.
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. Because solar energy storage is relatively new to the market, stakeholders and policymakers around the world struggling with how to define fast-acting battery storage. This has made solar energy storage have an identity crisis.
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. Solar energy is heat energy meaning the storage of solar energy is also the storage of heat energy though this time it is used for electrification and other energy utilisation purposes. Just like switching off the gas or power source of a kettle of water.
The water might be boiled but as time goes on because of no connected power source, the temperature of the water reduces. So, the heat stored in the battery or storage system of a solar energy system decreases in temperature once there is no more solar radiation that could charge the batteries.
So, being an off-grid resident using solar energy for power generation or anyone using solar energy, you would have heat discharges even when you are not at home.
Though most times, this is compensated by the hours of solar radiation in the day, what will happen in winter periods, there would be blackouts except an alternative energy source is used, integrated or plugged in.
There are fixes to this problem though, but it is costly, not widespread and cannot be applied to most off-grid dwellers.
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. Just as any other battery would solar energy storage systems made up of majorly batteries depreciate in efficiency with time. A typical solar energy storage system that is made up of major batteries has a life span of 10 years. Now, this may seem to be huge but because of its cost, normal electricity tariff systems would be cheaper for 10 years.
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. The demand for solar energy storage is very massive and because of many factors like the cost of production, the solar energy storage systems that have been produced are less than the demand. Also, the cost of various solar energy storage systems has made many shy away from the purchase and use of
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. There has been over the years hesitance of the government to accept the use of solar in general for many countries because of the cost of a solar energy storage system. This is one of the major reasons why the migration from non-renewable energy to renewables like solar energy has not been
This is one of the solar energy storage problems facing the solar energy sector and they need to be addressed. This is the most vexing problem with solar energy in general. Compared to other forms of energy production like fossil fuel energy, there are variations in solar radiation leading to lesser than needed production of energy or no production at all.
So, one cannot predict the hours of sunlight that would be available on a particular day. Too much solar charge might be able to overload the batteries and to get a better battery to add to the present ones can be very costly.
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Asus is set to expand presence in the country with introduction of its range of \\\'ZenFone\\\' smartphones next month.
New DELHI: Taiwanese tech major Asus is set to expand presence in the country with introduction of its range of 'ZenFone' smartphones next month, which will take head on devices from the stables of Samsung, Microsoft Devices and Motorola as well as domestic firms like Micromax.
Asus, known globally for its mother boards, will launch its ZenFone range of smartphones in India next month in the mid and premium range, sources said.
The firm had unveiled various ZenFone models with screen size ranging from 4 inches onwards at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and Computex in Taiwan earlier this year.
The firm expected to introduce ZenFone 6 in India, which was unveiled at CES 2014. It features a 6-inch HD screen, is powered by the latest Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system and has a 2 GHz dual-core Intel Atom processor.
Another device that the company showcased was ZenFone 5 feauring a five-inch screen and running on the Android KitKat OS could also be launched in the second week of July.
Asus already sells its PadFone and MemoPad voice calling tablets in India.
Samsung maintained its leadership in the market with a 35 per cent market share in Q1, followed by Micromax (15 per cent), Karbonn (10 per cent), LAVA (6 per cent) and Nokia (4 per cent), according to IDC.


With 450GB free on the boot drive (only drive), I get a "waiting capture destination...."
Force quit application says "not responding" Putting mouse on security spy menus results in spinning beach ball.
This is second license. First license has attached (Thunderbolt 2) data but I have not checked it yet.
Oh, I forgot, the version was the latest version, downloaded on 10/25/18 (with reboot just in case). I can't find the version number as everything hung.
Was there a custom capture destination in use before, that has now been disconnected? What kind of capture destination was this (USB, Thunderbolt, network?).
When you see this message, hold the escape key on the keyboard. This tells SecuritySpy to skip this step. However if you are getting the spinning beach ball this may not work.
If the missing capture destination was a network drive, then try disconnecting your Mac from the network (turn off WiFi, disconnect any Ethernet cable) and launch SecuritySpy again.
Once you get SecuritySpy launched, then reset the capture destinations for all cameras.
Thank you. It was the internal drive of the MacbookPro. No external drives.
I tried to implement your esc suggestion, but SS doesn't get past "initialising..."
For how long have you left SecuritySpy in this state? Try 10 minutes (this shouldn't be necessary, but it is a useful test just in case it recovers in this time). If that doesn't work, then this unfortunately sounds like a case of a corrupt settings file. This can result in SecuritySpy looking for a drive that doesn't exist, whereby it gets stuck in file system calls. I think the best way forward would be for you to reset SecuritySpy's settings and set up the software again. To do this, hold the command + alt (option) key while opening SecuritySpy - it will ask you if you want to erase the settings. I hope this isn't too much trouble to set up again.
Thank you, I tried it on one camera to test it and it worked.
It reminds me of a request from 2 years ago, and please correct me if the feature is in the latest version. A great feature would be to have export-->camera details (camera name, internal IP address, ports (if necessary), camera type, video format. Basically, anything that doesn't change with the camera including motion file locations, etc.
Now I have to enter all of the camera information again instead of input-->camera details.
Recovering from a crash/problem would then only mean updating any non-camera parameters.
Or is there a way to save a preference file and put it back before rebooting after a crash?
Good to hear it worked and I'm sorry you have to go through the setup again.
There is a way to save/restore the settings file (see this FAQ), but it is precisely this settings file that has apparently become corrupt in this case, so it wouldn't help.


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