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Challenge of COVID-19 Sees Resilient TAMIU Faculty Forge Ahead with Innovation
The impact of COVID-19 is measured daily in new, frightening and sometimes empowering ways. At Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), its impact has driven a resilient TAMIU faculty to forge ahead with innovation, connecting anew with students in rich and relevant ways.
It’s a daunting task…a few short weeks before the end of this Spring semester, TAMIU faculty had to transition traditional, face-to-face classes to a virtual, online environment in the space of a single week. TAMIU faculty and staff worked on the transition while face to face classes were suspended for a week after Spring Break.
TAMIU provost and vice president for Academic Affairs Dr. Tom Mitchell said that two critical factors helped the University to transition successfully.
“One, and this a given: we have a committed, passionate faculty that really cares about our students’ succeeding and their leading role in our mission. Secondly, we have infrastructure and tech systems in place, including an absolutely awesome IT team that can undergird a seismic shift of this nature. This empowers faculty to be innovative in their outreach to and connection with students. We are fortunate that our leadership anticipated those needs and built that system and continue to support it wholeheartedly,” Dr. Mitchell said.
He noted a broad range of online virtual classroom scenarios possible at TAMIU.
“To start off, we’re able to deliver classes as originally scheduled in live lectures (synchronous) or record and deliver on demand (asynchronous)…and sometimes both in combination. There are capture Echo 360 programs, virtual classroom meetings and more that our powered by our Blackboard eLearning platform. Students can ask questions online, virtually “raising” their hand during a discussion, for example. There is online student and faculty support within the platform, including a live chat…and we have a whole range of online mentoring and tutoring programs now available in University College,” he said.
He said faculty are also boldly creating or redefining student classroom experiences, especially in disciplines like the arts that traditionally include live creation or performance.
“Our Jessie Shaw, assistant professor of Art, is combining video demonstrations and creative project assignments that can transcend the studio experience, enabling students to create projects in mediums manageable at home. He’s even taking the Spring semester’s senior art show online and sharing selections on social media to help drive interest and participation.
“Music faculty members Dr. Abby Lloyd, assistant professor of Music and Dr. Mark Boseman, assistant professor of Music, have repurposed their instrument-focused studio classes into Zoom meetings with students. That’s brought the added benefit of inviting other music professionals to join in and present masterclasses on Zoom, including percussion, clarinet and saxophone,” Mitchell noted.
He said online flexibility can enable faculty to dynamically match the needs of various disciplines.
“Our College of Nursing and Health Sciences clinical assistant professors, Martha Salinas and San Juanita Hernandez, are utilizing unfolding case studies and head-to-toe assessments in the virtual environment. Students don’t have access to clinicals at hospitals at this time, so unfolding case scenarios are presented virtually. Students must demonstrate their critical thinking skills by presenting how they would resolve the case scenario through voice thread, discussion boards, and live discussions with students in Blackboard Collaborate,” Dr. Mitchell.
Dr. Brett Nickerson, assistant professor of Kinesiology in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, noted using the extensive features found on Blackboard Collaborate helped his transition to an online learning environment. He indicated these features have increased class participation opportunities through the use of chat and polling questionnaires. Additionally, Nickerson is meeting weekly with a group of undergraduate research students. Together, via WebEx and Google Docs, they are compiling several manuscripts they hope to publish by the summer.
"What I find is that students are communicating more online and that oftentimes they're more willing to post on chat than they are face-to-face," Nickerson observed.
In the College of Education, faculty encouraged students to take on virtual learning with an eye to how their future teachers would prepare for their own place in the virtual classroom, Mitchell said.
“And what they came up with is student-created virtual learning environments which we’ve been sharing with parents homeschooling during the pandemic. We’re so impressed that we’ve made it available to all on a College of Education website: https://www.tamiu.edu/coedu/student-created-virtual-learning.shtml
“In our University College, Dr. Hayley Kazen, assistant professional, has deployed an online debate tool that has students take a pro or con approach to the topic, and Flipgrid, an engagement tool. Gaby Medina, instructor, holds virtual live exercise and meditation classes for her Signature course entitled ‘Growth, Grit, and Grace,’ ” he noted.
Mitchell said the University can’t rest on its laurels, digital or otherwise.
“We realize that this is a change that was forced on all of us. And it is not an easy change…but we are seeking feedback from students online to better determine what they feel works and what they’d like us to do better. We’re confident that we have been able to deliver a modified Spring semester in a real season of challenge…but we want to be able to continue to refine and better this experience moving forward. We know that our delivery in the virtual classroom will continue for both our Maymester and Summer sessions, so our need to be flexible and responsive continues,” he concluded.
Registration for Maymester, Summer and Fall semesters is currently underway online through Uconnect. For additional information on registration, contact the Office of the Registrar via phone at 956.326.2250, email email@example.com visit their website at https://www.tamiu.edu/registrar/
As part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, TAMIU’s campus is closed to the general public. Online and virtual services at the University continue, practicing all CDC Guidelines on gathering, masking and social distancing and with most staff working remotely. Office hours are subject to change and it is recommended that phone or email contact be made first to determine the office’s schedule of operation. Entry to campus is only open to students, faculty, staff and those having legitimate reasons to be on campus. An online directory is here.
The University’s dedicated COVID-19 website is updated daily and includes information on office schedules and services, an expansive FAQ, quick links, student resources, official information links and much more.


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She was born in Athens.
Graduated The Academy of Fine Arts in Athens in the studio of Yannis Moralis with excellence. She received an honorary discretion in ceramics in 1985.
She continued her postgraduate studies in London first at the Byam Shaw School of Art where she was offered a scholarship and then at St. Martin’s School of Art where apart from the Postgraduate course in Painting she studied mixed media, metal sculpture, photography and silk print.
On her return to Greece she was engaged to commissions for interior wall paintings
and designing furniture and objects of art. She has realized scenery and art directing for short and fiction movies and was nominated for the State Award in Scenery 1998 in Salonika for the film “ Black Out” of the director Menelaos Karamagiolis.
She has realized 14 personal exhibitions ( 1989, 1993, 2006 Nees Morfes – Athens,2007 Red Gallery – Athens and 2006 Tenri Institute Soho New York ,2007 PICI Gallery Seoul Korea , 2008 Griechische Kultrstiftung Berlin Germany, 2015 Alatca Imaret Thessaliniki, 2016 MUSEUM OF Greek Folk Art- Athens) and has participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad ( last three 2008 MOCA Shanghai “Material Bonds, 2009 International Women’s Biennale Incheon Korea and Tracing Istanbul 2010- Istanbul).In 2013 she represented Greece at the Triennale of Lutz in Poland.2014 International Art Fair Zurich, 2014 International Art Fair Korea. Many of her works belong to private collections in Greece and abroad. Recently the National Bank of Greece added two of Karageorgi’s works to their collection.

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machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had xhost
and DISPLAY correct, so I went to check netstat for the ip port 6000 being open,
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I usually, to defeat the "nolisten" options usually set on, edit my startx file
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ages ago, when I last wanted to display a foreign app onto my FreeBSD X11
screen. However, no matter how I tried to start my X, I can't seem to provoke
netstat to show my ip port 6000. I tried running my ordinay startxfce4, I tried
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Uzo Aduba Joins Season Four Cast of FARGO on FX
Season 4 of Fargo is set in 1950 in Kansas City, MO. The locale serves as the crossroads and collisions of two migrations - Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, and African Americans who left the south in great numbers to escape Jim Crow, both fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, two criminal syndicates - one Italian, led by Donatello Fadda, one African American, led by Loy Cannon (Rock) - have struck an uneasy peace, which the heads of both families have cemented by trading their youngest sons.
Aduba will play Zelmare Roulette, a ruthless recent escapee from prison who joins forces with the Cannon family.
The series is created, written, directed and executive produced by Noah Hawley, who also serves as showrunner. Production begins this fall in Chicago for premiere on FX in 2020.
The season four cast also includes Jack Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jessie Buckley, Salvatore Esposito, Andrew Bird, Jeremie Harris, Gaetano Bruno, Anji White, Francesco Acquaroli,, E'myri Crutchfield and Amber Midthunder.
Aduba is best known for starring on the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black. She also is a veteran of the stage, starring on Broadway in the revival of Godspell, and in Coram Boy and starring off-Broadway in Venice and The Seven.
Read the original article on Deadline.

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Well, this certainly was a very liberal interpretation of my favorite X-Men character! Who knew that before Kurt Wagner joined Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, he was an amoral sociopath named Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) who spends his nights recording violent and gruesome crime and accident footage for local Los Angeles news affiliates? And talk about squandering the source material! They traded out Nightcrawler’s blue skin and devil tail for slicked-back Patrick Bateman hair and cold wide eyes that will make you shit your pants with fear. They didn’t even get his powers right! Gyllenhaal didn’t teleport once! All he did was do very questionable things to get good shots, blackmail and strong-arm people into granting his requests and straight-up cut down anyone who gets in his way. Boo! Final score: zero out of ten!
Okay, all joking aside, NIGHTCRAWLER is actually an amazing ride. Obviously, it’s not based off the Marvel superhero of the same name, but instead follows a very disturbed man as he does whatever it takes to become the top freelance photojournalist in L.A.. To bring another Marvel hero into the mix, imagine if Gyllenhaal was given the chance to play black-suited Peter Parker from SPIDER-MAN 3…except play him as actually scary and intimidating!
Gyllenhaal’s performance is uncanny and very unnerving as it becomes apparent that Bloom is a grand manipulator, getting in cozy with enemies and friends alike with false pleasantries until he finds something he can use to utterly destroy them professionally, emotionally or even (in some cases) physically. It’s very clear from the start that he could give a damn about anybody else and just uses the basic understandings of human socialization and business politics to get ahead. Gyllenhaal does very well in playing both Bloom’s facade and his emotional detachment. It’s only when he does what he does best- capturing human misery on film for sensationalist news- that Bloom genuinely appears to display any sense of enthusiasm or enjoyment which makes the character all the more chilling.
It’s the subtle actions Bloom takes while he is on the job that make his grander and more ruthless displays unbelievable but still not unexpected. He tampers with crime scenes to make better compositions for a shot, purposely withholds evidence from the police to escalate situations in order to capture more violent footage later on and uses his talents and exclusivity to negotiate a more intimate relationship with the news director Nina (Rene Russo).
Speaking of which, it is great to see Rene Russo back in a strong leading role after having only a line or two as Thor’s mom in the past few years. She plays Nina as an unrelenting and uncompromising news director who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the top ratings for her station…even if that includes making a deal with a devil like Bloom. It is interesting to watch as she initially takes on the role of mentor to the freelancer, attempts to gain the upper hand on him and quickly finds herself at his mercy, essentially letting him dominate her…in every sense of the word. Pretty much all of her interactions with Gyllenhaal have an undercurrent of sexual tension running throughout them. They could be talking or negotiating about anything else, but their posture and poise screams foreplay.
Russo’s portrayal of Nina as someone who refuses to back down but ultimately relents isn’t so much about taking a strong female character and making her comply. We can’t help but feel sorry for her when Bloom breaks her down. Indeed, there really are no “pure” characters in NIGHTCRAWLER, but compared to Bloom, they are rays of sunshine! It does not matter if you are his cut-throat boss, his assistant (Riz Ahmed) or his loudmouth rival (Bill Paxton): if you get in Bloom’s way, he will obliterate you.
To accompany the terrific performances, writer-director Dan Gilroy has shot a very beautiful film. It’s no surprise that a movie about video journalism would be eye-catching. L.A. conveys all of its neon glory well through the David Fincher and Michael Mann-like bleakness and grit. Action scenes such as car chases and shootouts are composed with just the right amount of tense build-up and frantic energy. Darkness and the use of great lighting are this film’s allies as they make each crime scene or accident that Bloom stumbles upon all the more uncomfortable and uneasy.
About the only problem I had with regards to the overall plot is a disbelief that any local news affiliate would be showing this much graphic content for their morning broadcasts. To me, it appeared to be almost absurd to the point of being unintentionally hilarious. But perhaps that was the intent: to juxtapose the idea of allegedly “upstanding” journalism with the desperation of a ratings grab. Who knows?
NIGHTCRAWLER is a fun and fascinating look into the mind of someone who we would never ever want to meet in real life. The movie ends up wearing a lot of hats from crime-thriller to drama to extremely dark comedy, but doesn’t seem to run out of new and captivating ways of showing just what a fucking creep our lead character is capable of being. Gyllenhaal, Russo and the rest of the cast turn in marvelous performances and the film is executed in such a way that it makes looking at so much unpleasantness look so cool. This quickly became a favorite of mine and I can’t wait to visit it again.
Final Score: 9 out of 10
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Ruth Seaborne dreams of returning to Wimbledon, and she believes the University of Iowa women's tennis program will get her there.
University of Iowa sophomore outfielder Eric Toole has been named second team All-Big Ten, it was announced Tuesday by the league office. The honor is the first of Toole's career.
Fans of the University of Iowa men's basketball team interested in following Fran McCaffery's Hawkeyes to the Bahamas in November for the Battle 4 Atlantis have a unique travel option: Fly with the team.
University of Iowa sophomore Mike Evans has been named to the 2013 National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Division I All-Academic Team.
The University of Iowa track and field team travels to Austin, Texas, this week to compete at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The NCAA West Regional event will be held at Mike A. Myers...
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The English Housing Survey revealed recently that damp continues to be a problem for at least one million homes in England. The statistics showed that those living in rented properties, either social housing or private, were most likely to be living with ‘damp’, manifesting itself as condensation and mould growth. This was found to affect 586,000 households. As is widely known, condensation and mould are produced by activities in the home, such as taking showers and baths, boiling kettles, cooking, drying clothes and breathing. A family of four will contribute approximately four pints of water per person a day into the atmosphere, which is equal to over 100 pints of water vapour a week, creating high levels of humidity if internal air is not allowed to circulate and new drier air to enter the home.
Before the days of energy-efficient upgrades, such as double glazing, cavity walls and loft insulation, this humid, stale air would find its escape route through ill-fitting windows and doors, lofts and so on – otherwise known as draughts! In modern homes that have greater airtightness, there can be a lack of fresh air circulating around the house. Without a regular circulation of fresh air into a house, warm air hits a cooler surface and the water vapour within it condenses, leading to damp appearing on walls and around windows.
Condensation can be reduced and indoor air quality improved by retrofitting PIV (Positive Input Ventilation) systems, which eradicates problems with high humidity leading to condensation and mould. PIV creates a fresh, healthy and condensation-free environment by drawing in a constant supply of fresh filtered air into homes through the loft space.
Another interesting finding from the English Housing Survey was that the energy efficiency of England’s housing stock has improved significantly. Over the last 10 years, the percentage of homes achieving an energy efficiency rating between A and C increased from 5 to 28%. The proportion of homes in the lowest energy efficiency bands fell from 19 to 3%. This trend towards greater energy efficiency, whilst it is a positive in terms of warmth and comfort, is one of the main reasons why mechanical ventilation is needed in homes. Many industry experts have pointed out that requirements for airtightness in new and renovated homes has increased, yet ventilation requirements have remained unchanged for many years. Regardless of this, many social housing providers are recognising the issue that tenants face and the burden that dealing with condensation and mould growth puts on their maintenance teams. Social housing providers are also aware of how poor ventilation can impact on the health of tenants, by exacerbating existing respiratory conditions, such as asthma.
A persistent problem for housing maintenance teams, particularly in the colder months, involves dealing with issues caused by condensation and mould growth. As homes have been made more airtight, due to energy-efficient upgrades, this has had a direct impact on the internal environment by lowering the quality of the indoor air. Social housing providers are all too aware of the issues that tenants face with poor ventilation – which can worsen respiratory conditions, such as asthma. A major issue with improving airtightness is that it traps pollutants in the home, resulting in a much higher concentration, unless it is adequately ventilated. There are a variety of natural and man-made airborne pollutants that exist in homes such as Radon, VOCs and pollen.
Continuous flow of fresh air
Without a continuous flow of fresh air into and out of a dwelling to control the relative humidity, the internal atmosphere may reach a high relative humidity of around 70 to 80%, which then leads to condensation. The water droplets that form on colder surfaces can result in mould growth and, in some cases, damage to the building fabric itself.
Condensation is often more noticeable in kitchens and bathrooms, because it is where most moisture is generated, for instance, from baths, showers and cooking. The situation is even worse when dwellings have internal bathrooms, with no windows, as often occurs in flats, which can be prone to serious condensation, especially if the extractor fan is inadequate or not working.
In some cases, fans are switched off by tenants who believe they are expensive to run and, in other cases, the units may malfunction. This is why there is a clear need for education when ventilation systems are fitted, to advise tenants how they work and why they are essential. It is also worth considering ventilation systems that are tamper-proof, which means they can work effectively without restriction.
Many social housing providers are recognising the benefits of retrofitting Positive Input Ventilation (PIV) systems into homes that are most at risk of issues with condensation and mould. Fit and forget systems like PIV are helping to improve the indoor air quality for tenants across the country, whilst reducing the risk of mould and damage to the fabric of a building.
Given that the onus is still on public sector housing providers to upgrade the airtightness of their homes, there is a very real need for ventilation to be given equal consideration to energy-efficient upgrades. By upgrading the ventilation systems too it means that for a relatively small investment, the level of complaints for issues of condensation and mould growth would be much reduced. By upgrading the ventilation in a property, social housing providers can ensure that indoor air quality is improved and the burden on the maintenance team is reduced.


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Best Certificate of Deposit Rates Increase This Week
The best rates on certificates of deposit move higher this week, continuing the trend of higher rates the past month. The increases are small again this week but at least CD rates are moving higher, not lower, as we have seen for the past 6 years.
The highest CD rates on 1 year certificates of deposit are now at 1.16 percent with an APY of 1.17 percent from two different banks, Bank Direct and Congressional Bank. The best 1 year CD rate last week was from Sallie Mae Bank at 1.14 percent with an APY of 1.15 percent. A year ago the best 1 year CD rates were at 1.00 percent and this coming year we will probably see 1 year rates move towards 2.00 percent.
The highest 2 year certificate of deposit rates this week are also from Congressional Bank at 1.54 percent with an APY of 1.55 percent. Last week's best 2 year CD rate was at 1.50 percent with an APY of 1.50 percent. By the end of 2015, the highest 2 year bank CD rates will head towards 3.00 percent.
The highest 3 year CD rate this week is from iGObanking at 1.69 percent with an APY of 1.70 percent. The highest 5 year CD rates this week are at 2.50 percent with an APY of 2.52 percent. Listed below are the top 5 CD rates from banks and credit unions for certificate of deposit terms between 3 months and 5 years.
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Take your skills from player to Game Art pro, learning the tools to create your very own environment.
Turn your gaming passion into a career with our intensive Video Games Art Production course. It has been been designed to meet the demand for new creative talent, as games evolve across mobile, PC and console the industry is rapidly growing.
The course has been developed by our Head of Games, Simon Fenton, with the skills and techniques required by the Games industry. You’ll get to grips with a range of software that is currently used by professionals such as Unreal Engine, ZBrush and Maya.
You’ll learn the principles behind game art, gaining a full understanding of the games production pipeline with techniques such as interactivity with 3D and animation workflows. The course focuses on developing your artist skills and creativity to equip you with the core skills in practices such as environment art and digital sculpting.
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Online slot machines are a popular casino game that can be played from anywhere with an internet connection. They can be accessed via desktop computers, tablets or smartphones. In addition to offering a variety of games, many online slots come with innovative features designed to increase payouts and trigger special bonuses. They also feature attractive graphics and audio. This makes them a great choice for anyone who wants to experience the thrill of playing casino games without leaving home.
Unlike electromechanical slot machines, online versions of the game use software to determine what symbols will appear on the reels at the end of each spin. These algorithms are tested by independent expert agencies to ensure they are fair. However, the actual results of slot games over time can vary greatly.
While the odds of winning a jackpot on a slot machine are slim, players should remember that they can win smaller amounts often. This can add up over time, resulting in a significant amount of money. In addition, it’s possible to play for free or with fake money before investing real cash. This way, players can learn how the slot machine works and become more familiar with the game before deciding to play for real money.
When choosing an online slot machine, be sure to read the rules and paytable to understand how to make bets. It is also important to check the payout percentage, which is a number that indicates how much the game pays out over its lifetime. This information is typically posted on the casino’s website or in its rules. Some online casinos even have a dedicated page for this information.
While some people are content to play slots occasionally and do not suffer any serious consequences, others have trouble controlling their gambling addictions and jeopardize their lives and those of those around them. This is why it’s crucial for gamblers to know the warning signs of an addiction and seek help when necessary. In some cases, a person’s addiction can lead to financial ruin or even suicide. The best way to prevent this is to seek professional help from a reputable gambling treatment provider as soon as possible. They can help a gambler overcome their problems and live a life that is both satisfying and safe.

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The only place on Long Beach Island to have a 4th of July fireworks will be at Frank V. Panzone Memorial Park behind Bay Village. The show starts at dusk. We recommend taking the LBI Shuttle and getting there early. There are many activities to do before, during and after the firework show at Bay Village and surround area that is walkable. Another option is to Uber/Lyft to Bay Village early and then Uber/Lyft back to the Sea Horse Motel.
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PharmaCan Capital Corp., doing business as Cronos Group (TSX VENTURE: MJN) (“Cronos Group” or “the Company”), has divested its equity interest in Vert/Green Medical Inc. (“Vert”). Vert was acquired by Canopy Growth Corporation (“Canopy”) in a share-for-share transaction that Canopy today announced has closed. As a result of the transaction, the Company today acquired, through … Continued
Canopy has announced that as part of the transaction it will immediately repay Vert’s debt, which includes the $422,933.45 currently owed to Cronos Group.
“As we concentrate on optimizing and expanding our wholly-owned subsidiaries – Peace Naturals Project Inc. and In The Zone Produce Inc., we welcome the opportunity to monetize non-core assets,” said Cronos Group CEO Mike Gorenstein. “This transaction allows us to secure non-dilutive capital to further develop our core assets.”
About Cronos Group
PharmaCan Capital Corp., known as the Cronos Group, is a holding company for licensed producers under Canada’s Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (“ACMPR”). With interests in five licensed producers and two license applicants, Cronos Group is focused on building iconic brands providing patients with compassionate, personalized care.
The Peace Naturals Project Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, is licensed to produce up to 2,500 kg of medical marijuana per year and is located on 95-acres of land in Ontario. Peace has current grow facilities of approximately 38,000 square feet.
The Company’s other wholly-owned subsidiary, In the Zone Produce Inc., is licensed to produce up to 100 kg of medical marijuana per year and is located on 31 acres of land in the Okanagan Valley, BC.
The Company also has stakes in: Whistler Medical Marijuana Corporation, ABcann Medicinals Inc., Hydropothecary, Evergreen, and Cannmart.
For more information, please visit www.TheCronosGroup.com.
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Dr Hilary advises UK on best options for going on holiday
UK holidays enjoyed a wonderful summer after the bleak months of the spring lockdown. Amid international travel restrictions and concerns relating to the pandemic, many Britons switched their foreign escape to one right here at home.
Now, staycation enthusiasts may have another UK destination to add to the list if an ongoing planning application is approved.
The new holiday park, already being dubbed “Centre Parcs-on-sea” by its developers, promises a mix of holiday lodges and a hotel boasting 148 bedrooms to accommodate for all types of traveller.
While the park is no relation to Centre Parcs, it is a similar concept, comprised of 250 eco-lodges, a hotel, a lake for water sports and two leisure units.
The 57-acre site will also house a petrol station and a Lidl food store.
Staycations: If plans are approved the new park could be ready by 2022
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The concept, put forward by Grimsby-based development group YPG Fab 2, will regenerate a patch of desolate land on Cleethorpe’s seafront where the former Pleasure Island fairground used to be.
A planning application is currently being considered by local authorities for the transformational £57 million project.
Visitors to the site will be able to enjoy water-based activities including kayaking, canoeing and paddle boarding.
The site will also offer space for larger events and even festivals.
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An array of food will also be on offer, with a large food hall with up to 25 different culinary outlets.
Each of the eco-cabins will be a modern twist on traditional holiday cabins, promising open-plan spaces, loft suites and their own private terraces.
Though the project is still in the planning stages, with the first application submitted in August, should everything run smoothly some of the first lodges are anticipated to open their doors in time for Spring 2022.
The project is being headed up by development duo Adrian Smith and Ming Yeung whose shared vision could “attract thousands of visitors and bring hundreds of jobs”.
“We estimate it will attract £13.2m of new visitor expenditure per annum,” said Mr Smith.
The pair told regional newspaper Grimsby Live that they felt the current staycation boom was an opportunity they could not miss.
Furthermore, the plans will redevelop land which has been abandoned for four years, since the closure of the theme park.
Cleethorpes is situated on the coast of North East Lincolnshire and has a long history as a seaside resort.
It is hoped that the new development could help regenerate the coastal destination after the devastating impact the lockdown has had on the town’s tourism figures in 2020.
During the initial lockdown in March, consumer spending in the resort plummeted by 72 percent according to figures from Social Investment business.
Some businesses in the area saw losses of up to 95 percent.
The UK tourism industry in total is worth £127 billion, including both domestic tourism and foreign visitors.
VisitBritain chief executive Patricia Yates previously urged Britons to consider a holiday at home.
“Our tourist sector is one of the most vibrant and successful in the world - it needs you to make sure it bounces back once more,” she said.


Dilwyn Edmunds, 37, whose ankle has never fully recovered, sued his bosses Rhymney Valley DC, claiming he should never have been instructed to carry out the job of clearing a culvert by a stream in such weather conditions.
But his hopes of winning damages were destroyed when Judge Norman Francis dismissed his claim that the council had been negligent, ruling the fall had simply been an accident.
Today Mr Edmunds made a last-ditch attempt to revive his claim, urging the appeal court to overturn Judge Francis' ruling, made after a trial at Cardiff County Court in March last year. His counsel, Jonathan Walters, told the court Mr Edmunds, then 30, had been one of three workmen instructed to clear out a culvert at the rear of Faraday Drive, Forest Park, Penpedair Heol, near Gelligaer, Mid-Glamorgan, on July 4, 1990.
'The banking was very slippery and it was raining heavily at the time. Mr Edmunds had to carry a rake and a shovel to clear the culvert and as he was making his way along the steep banking, he lost his footing, slipped and fell.
'This was a hazardous enterprise. It was not reasonable to expect these men to do this work when it was pouring with rain. It should have been postponed.'
But Andrew Green, counsel for Rhymney Valley, said Judge Francis 'showed good common sense' in dismissing Mr Edmunds' claim.
He added: 'He wasn't walking the plank. It was a path two-and-a-half feet in width along the bank of a stream.
'It was an accident pure and simple.'
And appeal judges Lord Justice Brooke and Brian Neill agreed, dismissing Mr Edmunds' appeal and with it, all hope of compensation.
Giving judgment, Lord Justice Brooke said: 'This was a group of mature, outside labourers sent out to do a job in the countryside.
'An employer cannot reasonably be expected to do much to protect his servant from the ordinary, natural hazards of the countryside.
'Given the judge's finding of fact that this was a bank which was reasonably safe, although wet and slippery, a finding the employer was not negligent inevitably follows.'


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By the way, celebrities are seen on TV, either as hosts or as guests. How do these celebrities live behind the camera? Very few people know this.
In this news of our web we will tell you about famous anchor Kiran Naz, interesting information about his family and daughter.
Karan Naz is currently one of the most famous and beautiful news anchors in Pakistan, who speaks boldly in front of the camera. Kiran Naz is currently associated with Samaa News. Initially, Kiran started her career as a newscaster, but due to her abilities, she moved from the newsroom to the program room.
Karan Naz hails from Punjab and was born on June 15, 1990. Karan Naz received his early education in Punjab but graduated from the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology in Karachi.
Kiran Naz loves her mother very much. She was present with Kiran and her mother in a program in which she said that she tried her best to make her mother wear black clothes like me but her mother-in-law ie my grandmother did not. She was forbidden to wear black, so she still does not wear black.
Kiran loves her parents very much while Kiran loves her brother Farrukh Sheikh very much. Farrukh is ten years younger than her sister Karan. Farrukh says about his sister that I affectionately call her sister Anna, while Anna has given me a quota, just like pepper is crushed with spices, that is why I am now Sharif because of her beating. I’m done.
Farrukh added that if I had an older brother, he might not be as tough as Anna. In one of the programs, Karna Naz said about his brothers that the younger brother had parked the car of his brother-in-law, ie Karan’s husband, that is, the car had met with an accident. While Kiran says that Farrukh has a different relationship with Sami.
Farrukh says that in the beginning Sami Bhai (Karan Naz’s husband) did not make me like this, I thought he was terrorizing me, although he knew that I was not terrified of anyone but Anna. In the beginning I had a lot of problems. Of course, as we talked, now, thank God, they have a very good friendship.
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Yesterday, we left Cyprus after being there for five weeks. It was a weird feeling, leaving there, after being there for that long, especially since we are now in a cold place.
The night before, we went to bed early because we had to wake up before seven to catch our plane. My parents didn’t quite calculate the European time change happening, so I was woken up at what they thought was 6:58. We rushed around and jumped in the car as fast as we could. When we got out of the neighborhood we had been staying in, Mom noticed that they had actually woke us up at 5:58. We turned around and had eggs for breakfast, and Kaitlyn and Liam were able to say goodbye to the cats living at our house.
We got to the airport early and hopped on our plane to go to someplace in eastern Europe. After our eight year layover there, we flew to Frankfurt, Germany, where we are right now. The journey from the airport to our house was no fun with our three small bags, two medium-sized, and two big bags.
After we arrived, we were welcomed with a five-story apartment building with no elevator, and still, seven bags. We also found out that we were living right at the very tippy top of that building.
Anyways, I like Germany so far. It was the one place I’ve wanted to go since we went to Rome. Almost everyone walks to where they need to go, and the sidewalks are huge. It doesn’t seem like it’d be very fun to drive on those roads because they are so narrow and there are so many people. It isn’t as cold as I expected it to be, but it definitely isn’t the kind of warm we experienced in Cyprus. The people seem nice, and the clouds don’t make it as gloomy as they do in the U.K.

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Bethel Prevention Coalition Mental Health and Wellness Fair
Bethel Prevention Coalition has created a Mental Health and Wellness Fair for Mental Health Promotion Awareness Month. To promote mental health and physical fitness in the community. Mental Health coincides with your physical health because poor mental health is a risk factor for chronic physical conditions. People with serious mental health conditions are at high risk of experiencing chronic physical conditions. Bethel Prevention Coalition strives to create a safe, healthy, drug-free community. We are doing this with CrossFit activities for kids, Zumba for all ages, and San Antonio Food Bank will give food presentations on healthy meals for mental health wellness. The Mental Health and Wellness Fair will include a Mental Health Round Table: Impact of Mental Health on Teens.

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The Latest: Indonesia greenlights vaccines for 12 and older
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo announced Monday that his government will administer COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 12 after the country’s Food and Drug Monitoring Agency green-lighted emergency use of the Sinovac vaccine for children.
Widodo said in a video statement that he was grateful that the agency has issued an emergency use of authorization for the Sinovac vaccine so that “vaccination for children that age can start immediately.”
He has asked authorities to boost the country’s vaccination rollout to two million shots a day by August from the current level of about 1 million a day, as a second wave of infections engulfs Southeast Asia country.
Monday’s announcement came a day after health authorities announced the country’s largest one-day jump in new coronavirus infections, the second day in a row, as the Health Ministry reported 21,342 new cases and 409 deaths over the past 24 hours.
The latest tally on Monday showed the country’s total confirmed cases since the pandemic began at more than 2.1 million, the most in Southeast Asia, including confirmed fatalities to more than 57,100.
Authorities have so far only fully vaccinated 13.1 million of Indonesia’s 270 million people and partially vaccinated another 14.2 million.
MORE ON THE PANDEMIC
— Australia battles variant clusters; Sydney and Darwin are in lockdown
— Portugal, Spain and Hong Kong announce new restrictions on travelers from Britain
— Post-COVID offices to feature wider hallways, fewer desks
— As variant rises, U.S. vaccine plan targets ‘movable middle’
Follow more of AP’s pandemic coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine
HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s emergency order about the coronavirus pandemic is entering its final days.
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says she will end the “state of civil emergency” order she instituted in the pandemic’s early days.
The ordered has allowed Mills to use state resources to try to control the spread of the virus in Maine. Republicans and Democrats have sparred for months about whether the emergency order has gone on for too long.
Republicans have also charged that the order gave Mills too much authority and future orders should be more limited. Mills and other Democrats have said it played a key role in reducing the state’s burden from coronavirus.
Mills said earlier in June that ending the emergency order is a key milestone and it reflects that “Maine people have persevered, and, although challenges remain, we will get through them together just as we did this past year.”
The state’s number of daily new cases of coronavirus has fallen below two dozen.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Sweden will soon allow bars and restaurants to seat more people and stay open longer.
“As of Thursday, life can start to go on a little more as it was before the pandemic,” Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren said.
Starting July 1, eateries and cafes can seat up to 300 indoors and 3,000 outside and remain open after 10:30 p.m. The country has been gradually easing virus restrictions since June 1.
Johan Carlson, head of Sweden’s Public Health Agency said that “together, we have succeeded in pushing back the spread of COVID-19 in our country.”
The Scandinavian country has stood out among European nations for its comparatively hands-off response to the pandemic. It has not gone into lockdowns or closed businesses, relying instead on citizens’ sense of civic duty to control infections.
The country has seen more than a million cases and 14,619 deaths.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Monday says it will ease several COVID-19 related restrictions from next month for those people who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus.
According to a government announcement, indoor dining will be allowed at restaurants starting Thursday for only vaccinated people.
It said shrines, cinemas and marriage halls, which were shut in November amid a surge in cases, will also be allowed to reopen for those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus.
The government has also allowed 100 percent attendance at government and private offices starting Thursday.
The latest development comes hours after Pakistan reported one of the lowest single-day deaths from coronavirus since earlier this year.
So far, Pakistan has partially or fully has vaccinated about 14 million of its 220 million residents. The country has reported 955,657 cases among 222,31 deaths from COVID-19 so far.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the U.K. starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.
It said in a statement Monday that the U.K. has been classified as “extremely high risk“ because of the “recent rebound of the epidemic situation in the U.K. and the widespread delta variant virus strain there.”
Under the classification, people who have stayed in the U.K. for more than two hours will be restricted from boarding passenger flights to Hong Kong.
It is the second time that the Hong Kong government has banned flights from the U.K., following a restriction imposed last December.
The ban comes amid heightened tensions between the U.K. and China over semi-autonomous Hong Kong, which was a British colony until it was handed over to China in 1997.
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus is proceeding with the voluntary vaccination against COVID-19 of 16- and 17 year-olds after data showed that nearly 30% of all new infections are among socially active youths 18 and under.
Cyprus’ Health Ministry said on Monday that the teenagers will be vaccinated with mRNA-based shots such as those produced by Pfizer and Moderna.
Vaccination appointments will be made through an online platform and permission forms will be required from parents or guardians.
The ministry said scientific data shows that the characteristics of the virus found among adolescents, including symptoms and transmission, are identical to those found among adults.
ATHENS, Greece — Greece will give young adults 150 euros ($180) in credit to get vaccinated as it launches a two-tier access policy over the summer.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday that starting July 15, Greek citizens under age 26 would be eligible for the credit in a digital wallet after receiving the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccination.
“We hope that young people will take advantage of this opportunity,” Mitsotakis said in a televised speech.
Heavily reliant on tourism, Greece is looking for ways to fully reopen its economy after recently making the vaccination available to all adult age groups.
PORTUGAL — Spain and Portugal have placed new restrictions on U.K. travelers.
Portugal says they must go into quarantine for two weeks unless they have proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 finished 14 days earlier. The policy took effect Monday. The government says people can quarantine at home or in a place stipulated by Portuguese health authorities. Arrivals from Brazil, India and South Africa come under the same rule.
All others entering Portugal must show either the European Union’s COVID Digital Certificate or a negative PCR test.
In Spain, beginning Thursday, people arriving from the U.K. in the Balearic Islands will have to show they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a negative PCR test.
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia was battling to contain several COVID-19 clusters around the country on Monday in what some experts have described as the nation’s most dangerous stage of the pandemic since the earliest days.
Sydney in the east and Darwin in the north were locked down on Monday. Perth in the west made masks compulsory for three days and warned a lockdown could follow after a resident tested positive after visiting Sydney more than a week ago.
Brisbane and Canberra have or will soon make wearing masks compulsory. South Australia state announced new statewide restrictions beginning Tuesday.
Australia has been relatively successful in containing clusters throughout the pandemic, registering fewer than 31,000 cases since the pandemic began. But the new clusters have highlighted the nation’s slow vaccine rollout with only 5% of the population fully vaccinated.
Most of the new cases stem from a Sydney limousine driver who tested positive on June 16 to the delta variant, which is thought to be more contagious. He was not vaccinated, reportedly did not wear a mask and is suspected to have been infected while transporting a foreign air crew from Sydney Airport.
MADRID – Spain’s prime minister says arrivals from the United Kingdom in the Balearic Islands will have to show they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or a negative PCR test.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told Cadena SER radio on Monday that the measure would be introduced Thursday to give tour group operators and travelers time to adapt to the new rule.
Britain last week added the Mediterranean islands, which include Mallorca and Ibiza, to its “green” list of safe travel destinations amid pressure from airlines and travel companies to relax COVID-19 restrictions.
Southern European Union countries are keen for British holidaymakers to visit and help their tourism-based economies recover from the economic consequences of the epidemic, but a U.K. surge in infections due to the delta variant has made them wary.
MADRID — Authorities on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca are restricting hundreds of visiting high-school students to their hotels after class vacations to mark the end of the academic year turned into a major COVID-19 outbreak.
Officials say more than 800 COVID-19 cases in eight regions across mainland Spain have been traced back to the Mallorca outbreak, which started last week.
Scores of infected teens are still on Mallorca. Some are being kept in their hotel rooms, others have been moved to a hotel being used by local authorities for the isolation of those with mild symptoms or suspected cases. Nine have mild symptoms and are in a local hospital as a precaution.
Mallorca health authorities carried out mass testing on hundreds of students after the outbreak became clear. It is believed to have spread as hundreds of partying students gathered at a concert and street parties.
BANGKOK — Health authorities in Thailand on Monday announced 5,406 new COVID-19 cases, as the country struggles with how to cope with new coronavirus variants and contain its rapid spread around the capital Bangkok and in southern provinces.
Nine of the new cases were in prisoners, while the others among the general public marked a record high for that category of patients.
Thailand has had 249,853 confirmed COVID cases since the pandemic began last year, more than 88% occurring in the third wave of the coronavirus that started this April. Twenty-two related deaths announced Monday brought the total deaths to 1,934, 95% in the third wave.
Health officials also announced they have found Bangkok’s first case of the beta variant, which originated in South Africa. The patient was a worker in a Bangkok market whose son came up from the southern province of Narathiwat to visit him. The beta variant is believed to have entered Thailand from Malaysia.
Random testing of virus samples by Thailand’s Department of Medical Sciences from April to June found that 86.3% were the alpha variant from Britain, 12.3% were the delta variant from India and 1.4% were the beta variant
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has reintroduced tough restrictions including a ban on alcohol sales and an extended nightly curfew as it fights a fast-increasing surge of COVID-19 cases.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the delta variant that was first discovered in India appears to be driving South Africa’s new increase.
South Africa recorded more than 15,000 new cases Sunday including 122 deaths. That brings its total fatalities to near 60,000.
The country’s most populous province of Gauteng has the brunt of the current surge accounting for about 66% of new infections. The province includes the largest city Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria.
Health authorities are concerned that the country’s eight other provinces are likely to soon see spikes in cases to match those in Gauteng, where hospitals are running short of COVID-19 beds and patients are being taken to health facilities in other provinces. Neighboring Zimbabwe, Namibia and Mozambique are also fighting growing numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian state says it will ease lockdown restrictions, despite the federal government’s move to extend a nation-wide lockdown indefinitely to curb the pandemic.
Hajiji Noor, chief minister of Sabah state on Borneo island, says more sectors including rubber, timber and furniture factories will be allowed to reopen from Tuesday. He says dine-in will also be allowed at restaurants and hotels, hair salons can operate and sports that do not involve physical contact such as golf and fishing can resume. But he said in a statement Monday that other restrictions will remain in place.
State governments have jurisdiction over the lockdown implementation. Sabah is the only state so far that has decided to loosen curbs.
Just a day earlier, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the national lockdown, imposed since June 1, will continue until daily infections fall below 4,000 and 6% of the population has been vaccinated.


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JERUSALEM — The 60-year-old U.N. agency that provides education and social services to 4.7 million Palestinian refugees will be asking the United States, its major benefactor — and critic — for more funding and political support next week.
U.S. backing is critical to the survival of the agency, according to Filippo Grandi, the Italian-born international civil servant who heads the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which he said was once again in the midst of a funding crisis.
"People might not think of America as a natural funder of our agency, but in fact I think it would be very worrying for those who are strong advocates of Israel to think of a context where UNRWA didn't exist. It wouldn't be good for the stability of Israel and it wouldn't be good for Israel," he said from his Jerusalem office.
UNRWA's budget is several hundred million dollars a year, of which the U.S. contributes $190 million, making it the largest single donor country. Last month, the State Department announced an initial contribution of $40 million to UNRWA to "provide critical health, education and humanitarian services to 4.7 million Palestinians across the region." Grandi said he hopes the U.S. will continue to increase its support, as it has over the past decade.
UNRWA has increasingly come under fire, however, most recently by a group of members of Congress led by Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., who during a visit to Israel last month said that UNRWA has "perpetuated" the plight of Palestinians by keeping them in refugee status.
During his visit to Washington, Grandi hopes to tackle politicians such as Engel head on.
"My pitch to them is that U.S. support is indispensible, and necessary," said Grandi. "Even if you made UNRWA disappear, the refugee problem would continue to exist. We are not the cause of the problem, we are the tool for the international community to deal with this problem."
Earlier this year, the Canadian government announced that it would redirect funding from the agency out of fears that Hamas had infiltrated UNRWA's work in Gaza. Canada will now send funds to strengthen the Palestinian judicial system.
Some of the refugees served by UNRWA are third- and fourth-generation descendants of Palestinians who fled Israel following its declaration of independence in 1948 and are currently living in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories.
Grandi joined the U.N. in 1988 and previously served in a number of countries across the Middle East and Africa. Most recently he was chief of mission of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Afghanistan. This will be his first visit abroad since taking charge of UNRWA.
Pro-Israel groups have lobbied Congress for years to cut funding to UNRWA, backed by reports issued by the Israeli military that UNRWA employees Palestinian militants and allows them to use UNRWA facilities for terrorist activities.
"We have countered every accusation put forward against us, and we are always prepared to take measures whenever necessary. ... On a few occasions where we have found that employees are participating in political parties, they were fired immediately," said Grandi.
UNRWA also has a special reporting channel to the State Department that undertakes regular reviews of UNRWA's personnel and practices, he said.
"All the reviews we have gone through have given us a clean bill of health," he said. "The Israelis and their friends say we are not hard enough on Hamas. Hamas tells us we are not hard enough on everybody else. The Palestinians tell us we are not hard enough on Israel. I think when an organization gets put under pressure to be harder on every other party, then that organizations is doing its job well."
When UNRWA was founded in December 1949, it became the first and only U.N. agency to help refugees from a particular region or conflict. What was meant as a temporary relief agency has persisted for 60 years — until most recently functioning solely on a three-year mandate.
Next week, Vice President Joe Biden will arrive in Jerusalem to push a U.S. initiative for indirect peace talks. Israelis and Palestinians ended the last round in December 2008, when Israel launched a military assault in Gaza. Following a series of failed efforts, the U.S. negotiating team has advanced a proposal for indirect talks, with the U.S. relaying messages between the two parties.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has backed the plan and told the Israeli Knesset this week that the "time was ripe for peace." Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas secured the support of the Arab League, and he was prepared to advance with the new talks in the "coming days," said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.
It will be the first time in 16 years that Israelis and Palestinians won't be in the same room for negotiations, and the political situation is one of many reasons that Grandi thinks UNRWA's mandate will persist for years.
"In order to make UNRWA disappear we need to have peace. And peace can only be real, solid, durable peace if the refugee issue is addressed and solved," he said.
Sheera Frenkel is a McClatchy special correspondent.)
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Snowy Hydro 2.0 was, I thought, being justified at the political level by its capacity to back up with pumped storage some of the “reckless” development of wind and solar energy around the place. RenewEconomy now reports that Snowy Hydro is itself planning to develop 800 MW of wind and solar capacity. It has put out an expression of interest document, aiming to conclude contracts by September:
- “The initial aim is to procure 400MW of wind and 400MW of solar off takes,” the document states, although the company may change its mind on the 50/50 split between wind and solar depending on the offers made.
“Snowy Hydro’s goal is to construct a portfolio of wind and solar offtakes such that the resulting portfolio benefits from diversification of fuel sources (wind / sun), geography (across NEM States, latitude and longitude) and supply profile (intra-day, week, month and season).”
I would have thought it more economic and appropriate to back up geographically dispersed wind and solar facilities with pumped storage nearby. However, rooftop solar is starting to become a significant resource and is happening everywhere. In March NSW had 1.47 GW of rooftop solar capacity, which in May grew by 39 MW.
Rooftop solar is becoming disruptive, producing dips in network demand during daytime peaks.
- one third of homes in Queensland and South Australia had rooftop solar, 25 per cent in Western Australia and 17 per cent in NSW (and growing fast).
This compared to just 20 per cent in Hawaii and California, often seen as the global leaders in the uptake of rooftop solar.
So thought is being given as to how it should be managed and integrated with network electricity. In the next few days Energy Networks Australia and the Australian Energy Market Operator plan to release a joint study about the appropriate platform to manage the growth in distributed energy.
- Companies like Greensync, Reposit, Tesla, and sonnen have ideas of how that can be done – through the creation of virtual power plants and other “aggregated source” that links and connects these resources.
The NSW government seems intent on running trials about managing distributed energy. Will they think of the potential of Snowy 2.0? Professor Andrew Blakers said the Snowy 2.0 would be able to supply 2 GW of electricity for two weeks, or around 350 GW hours. However, there is no evidence I have yet seen that the Commonwealth or Snowy Hydro are considering the possible role of backing rooftop solar. Snowy management seem keen to strike agreements with large-scale wind and solar generators. The costing from their documents runs like this:
- “On that firming product we have wind at about $40, and us with a firming product of around $40 as well—around $80. Those costs are coming down rapidly.”.
These estimates are backed up by new documents released by Snowy Hydro that suggests wind (including a price premium for firming) is approx $70 – $80/MWh, and solar with a price premium for firming is about $77 – $99 per MWh.
This compares to the price of new coal plants of $78 – $120/MWh depending on capacity factor, and the cost of gas, assuming sufficient quantities can be sourced on existing infrastructure, of $100-$125/MWh.
Andrew Blakers Youtube (see about 23:50) puts the cost of firming renewables with dispersed pumped hydro as follows:
Blakers’ estimated costs come in at less than $5 MWh until the system reaches over 60 per cent renewables, and tops out at about $25 with 100 per cent.
Snowy Hydro has significant financial grunt, as it is becoming a major force in the electricity generation market:
- it owns and operates the 4,100MW Snowy Mountains Scheme, the 300MW Valley Power gas-fired power station, the 320MW Laverton North gas-fired power station and the 667MW gas-fired generator at Colongra in NSW.
It also owns and operates diesel fired peakers in South Australia, and since the purchase of Lumo Energy (to add to Red Energy), it has become the fourth biggest energy retailer in the National Electricity Market.
The article says “retailer”, I think they mean “generator”.
Meanwhile Origin has announced electricity price reductions in Queensland and South Australia, and a freeze in NSW and the ACT. Victorian prices change from the beginning of the year, rather than 1 July. Frydenberg says wholesale prices have come down by 30 per cent. Remembering that the actual electricity only forms 25 per cent of the bill or a little under, a price reduction of 1.3 per cent in SEQ seems mean, considering there was a 15 per cent increase last year. Here’s a table of the price changes:
Frydenberg, talking to Patricia Karvelas, got away with saying prices were reducing because prices were reducing and then went on to mention a range of factors including Snowy 2.0, virtually claiming the credit for the government. Renewable energy did not get a mention.
Origin Energy talking to Steve Austin, said prices were reducing because of renewables. Other factors were mentioned. The SEQ network distributor Energex has reduced its charges, and the government instruction to the state-owned generators to lower their bids had an effect. However, the Origin representative thought we might be at a turning point where future investments in renewables would continue place downward pressure on costs and prices.
Origin itself has invested in the Clare and Daydream solar farms, and expected to make further such investments.
Frydenberg and Malcolm Turnbull sing from a different song sheet, consistently blaming a reckless plunge renewables for all the electricity sectors woes, citing Snowy 2.0 as a responsible remedial action. Unfortunately Frydenberg’s regular use of spin means that you can’t take at face value anything he says.
To bring all this together, the Commonwealth now owns a large and significant electricity generator, and by buying out NSW and Victoria, seem committed to a massive pumped hydro scheme which is shaping as hopelessly uncompetitive and seems destined to crowd out cheaper and more appropriate investment in pumped hydro and other levelling technologies.
Snowy Hydro’s brief no doubt is to maximise the dollar return to their shareholder, the Commonwealth of Australia. In Frydenberg we have a minister who undoubtedly has a brain, but seems not to be applying it to resolve the best use of a large asset in the public interest.
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FYI, broadcast last night on ABC 7:30, there was a segment on New details on potential pumped hydro in Tasmania, link here.
Brian, you say:
Blakers says it’s a trade-off between pumped-hydro storage and interconnectors (YouTube 2017 CURF Annual Forum – Andrew Blakers keynote from 8:20 and 23:35). In the longer term, Australia could become the energy superpower for Asia through HVDC interconnector sea cables.
Indeed it is, but I wonder whether the current grid configuration allows rooftop solar-PV to feed back through the local transformers to a potential nearby pumped-hydro facility, or only supplies to the neighboring houses along the street that don’t have rooftop solar.
Note that Blakers’ Cost of hourly balancing is the “upper bound figures” (from 25:12) – optimization could make balancing costs significantly lower.
Meanwhile in the AFR is the online article headlined Thermal coal price surge expected to deliver record royalties to NSW, dated June 6, link here.
One of the potential advantages of solar is that it can be turned on or off very quickly (and in small modules) in order to provide fast reactions to changes to demand or power generated.
Even better if batteries/other storage is used to reduce power wastage during demand reduction.
It is also worth noting that houses don’t need 7.5 kWh batteries to handle short variations in solar output. The larger batteries will reduce the amount of imported power required and are essential if a house wants to go off grid.
Brian: Further to the above REnewEconomy came up with a detailed rebuttal of claims rooftop solar would cause blackouts.
Worth a read. To summarise:
Queensland Energy Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said the Government had introduced several measures to future-proof the network.
Geoff M, I missed the 7.30 Report because I switched to the State of Origin rugby league fest. I did see this article at RenewEconomy, but actually forgot to look at it before posting. There is also another on the interconnectors needed, and one at the AFR.
Seems the build cost per MW would be about half Snowy. Also the grid connection would be about $1 billion for Tasmania as against $2 billion for Snowy.
They are looking at 2500 MW but don’t say how long that would run for. They seem to be looking at wind and gas to lift the water, but who is going to build them is not clear. Probably Tasmanian Hydro.
They could probably do it off their balance sheet. Snowy is apparently going to self-fund Snowy 2.0 without tax payer input.
John D, thanks for that. There was an article Urgent call for reforms as solar powers up and NSW flags co-ordinated transmission to unlock $18b of investment.
It does seem that Snowy 2.0 may be too far away to use the power off Sydney rooftops, but Qld’s resources minister Anthony Lynham says here we are going to do just that in SEQ withg the Wivenhoe Dam. The difference would be, I think, that Wivenhoe dam is within the Energex distribution area, being 70.9 km by road from the CBD, probably 50 km via the power line.
The Parkinson article takes on the regulators and firms with profit prospects and accuses them of conducting a scare campaign. He certainly seems to have mastered the detail, but he says:
My question is how we are going to move to a new grid, with a huge and in most states privatised stake in the old one?
We have a layered system (generation, high voltage transmission, distribution, retail, consumer and distributed generator) split into privatised bits. Queensland probably has enough state ownership to make rational decisions across the whole system, but it would be quite difficult in the other mainland NEM states.
In this context AEMO, the Energy Security Board and COAG are doing the forward planning. We should remember that Frydenberg has one voice on COAG and they operate on consensus.
John Davidson (Re: JUNE 7, 2018 AT 10:06 PM):
Here’s a link to Key Updates to the Standard and what they mean for Installers.
Brian (Re: JUNE 7, 2018 AT 11:24 PM):
It requires effective policy formulation and en-action from governments. It’s too big for the markets to do it.
Dated June 5, the AEMO has posted On the road with AEMO! Link here. It includes a 4 minute video – 17 AEMO employees from across AEMO’s offices gathered in New South Wales to kick start their bus tour of Taralga Windfarm and Snowy Hydro on May 2.
Yesterday, SMH online article headlined Energy bosses say power companies need to work together, or else, link here. It included:
I think it is inevitable that governments need to step in. Markets don’t necessarily act in the people’s (, states/territories’ or nation’s) best interests. Therefore, governments need to formulate effective policy and regulate, and if necessary, step in if markets won’t act effectively and in a timely manner.
YouTube video titled 2017 CURF Annual Forum – Andrew Blakers keynote is up to 176 views.
In yesterday’s The Australian, there’s an article by political reporter Joe Kelly headlined Monash Forum MPs release coal ‘fact sheets’. The article includes a link to the Monash Forum’s “FACTSHEET1”, link here. The table of numbers is headlined by “NEW COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS”.
Note that the source for the “FACTSHEET1” is shown as: CoalSwarm, Global Power Plant Tracker, Coal Plants by Country, January 2018.
The information is sourced from endcoal.org, link here, and the numbers appear to match the numbers in the Coal Plants By Country (Units) – January 2018 spreadsheet (3rd link down the Summary Statistics list). This table is for the number of generator units (not power stations). Power stations may have multiple generator units on the same site. It seems the Monash Forum is confusing the terminology of generator units with power station sites – I wonder whether that is deliberate?
It’s interesting that the Monash Forum appears to be endorsing information from a website with the URL endcoal.org – how ironic.
The Monash Forum is not mentioning that in the March 2018 publication Boom and Bust 2018: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline, click on the Reports link, on page 3 in the Executive Summary, that includes:
Perhaps that is information that the Monash Forum doesn’t want highlighted – far too inconvenient for their narrative perhaps?
That would be a bad error, if it’s what they did.
Hazelwood for example, 1600 MW capacity with 8 units.
That was one power station. 200 MW each unit.
Counting power stations seems a bit crude. Isn’t there a better way? Nameplate capacity??
Ambigulous (Re: JUNE 22, 2018 AT 10:41 PM):
There is, and https://endcoal.org/global-coal-plant-tracker/ shows this in the link for Coal Plants by Country (MW) – January 2018.
The Australian article by Joe Kelly headlined Monash Forum MPs release coal ‘fact sheets’, refers to the Monash Forum’s first of their “fact sheets” outlining the number of new coal-fired power stations across the globe, and provides a link to it.
The article then states:
So it appears political reporter Joe Kelly picked up on the error. Likewise, David Crowe in the SMH article headlined Coalition MPs reject Tony Abbott warning on energy and climate change, says:
Ooops. The Monash Forum needs to be a bit more precise.
What they probably don’t want to highlight is the March 2018 publication Boom and Bust 2018: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline, on page 8, Figure 5: Coal Power Capacity in Pre-Construction and Construction, January 2016 to January 2018 (Gigawatts), which shows declining capacity between 2016 and 2018. In other words, some new coal-fired power station projects are being cancelled/abandoned. That tends to spoil the narrative, according to Monash Forum member Craig Kelly on-air at Radio 2GB in the early hours of June 22, when he said:
Meanwhile Indian Energy Minister flags a massive 100GW solar tender.
In Friday’s SMH was an article by Cole Latimer headlined Snowy 2.0 needs to double or triple in size, hydro chief says, link here.
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