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In some situations I simply overreact and shut down. I avoid certain topics until it seems that the person asking me questions has moved on from waiting for my response. I have been working on remedying this trait, which strangely enough only often appears in social situations with close friends. Asking for help has never been my strong suit. I’m getting better at it though, in a professional and a personal sense. Still there are days when I freeze – I close myself off and retreat into my own mind. I do not know exactly why I do this but I still do it regardless of reason or logic. I’m afraid of people passing me over so I keep myself down sometimes.
As you can most likely tell I worry way too much. My worries can consume an entire day, they chew up my minutes, steal away my hours, and then somehow I end up watching Lifetime movies. They reassure me for some unknown reason.
This past Monday I had a pounding headache. No, let’s call a spade a spade, I had a migraine. It progressed into a horrible pounding throughout the day and I slept for over ten hours at the very least. I needed it. My body was fatigued. But at first I wasn’t going to give myself that chance to recover. I know from past experience that a day like Monday, which didn’t simply just begin with a headache but a stuffed nose too, can all too quickly turn into an third degree cold.
Usually, I tend to ignore my own symptoms in favour of pushing on and getting through the day. I often reflect upon the idea that other’s have it worse and that I really should not be taking myself out of play for something as mundane as a potential cold. However, those colds have a way of levelling me for a week or more, a fact I usually gloss over when confronted with the decision to go into work and school or not.
I called in sick on Monday. I took the day off from class. I sent in regrets for my sorority’s Winter Big/Little Reveal. And do you know what motivated me to finally take care of myself? The book “I Am That Girl” by Alexis Jones. While my parents and friends have regularly told me to take more time for myself for some reason reading a book prompted my breakthrough. However, I do still credit those closest to me for caring about my wellbeing. I needed to make this decision to care for myself on my own and that’s what Jones’ book did for me, it made me aware of my own agency again.
And guess what? The world did not stop. People’s lives continued as normal. We tend to get so focused on parts of our lives such as school or work that we forget that those institutions or companies existed before us and will exist long after our departure. We are not that special. We do not make the world turn. I find this thought oddly comforting. I was worried about not being there for work but my boss was only focused on reassuring me that it was okay to take a sick day. My professor acknowledged my absence but still taught. Of course they did, because life goes on whether I am there or not.
We have become so focused on being “special” and unique that we believe only we can do what we do but it’s not true. There are millions of other freelance writers out there just like me, some worse, and some better. There are humanities students striving to keep their grades up and their scholarships just like me. There are only children, who are and aren’t part of sororities, that have sibling-like relationships with their friends. We are not special. But we are good enough.
We are good enough to exist, to live, to laugh, to breathe, to dance, to sing, to draw, to love, to comfort others, to write, and to listen; the list of our values is endless. I’m actually learning that maybe I do not need to worry so much because once I’ve done what is in my control all I can do is offer a helping hand to others. Life will play out as it will whether I have a migraine or not.
I have to start taking better care of myself because no one else will do it for me, and really no one else can do it better than I can. I put myself first on Monday and it felt good. I pushed back the guilt people sent my way because I knew that being a productive member of society was not in the cards for me that day. And that was okay because I am allowed to fall and to stumble. I am human after all and we are perfectly imperfect for a reason.
I am back at school today. I even packed myself breakfast and lunch.
I am learning to take care of myself. I am not being selfish. I am being responsible. You should take care of yourself too because while we may not be special, we are important.

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US 7364019 B2
The present invention is about a traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, comprising an elevator car that runs on guide rails placed in the shaft and connected to at least one hoisting rope un-coiling on a diverting pulley driven by a traction sheave. The invention's characteristic consists in comprising a space, outside the elevator shaft, which houses, at least partially, the traction sheave and is equipped with an opening near a floor's door for the access to the drive machine and to the traction sheave, from outside the shaft. The invention also provides for arranging the two diverting pulleys on the counterweight and on the elevator car in a way that one or the other can be tilted with respect to the vertical or arranging them on the same axis and on the same body of the pulley with the grooves of the alternating hoisting ropes.
1. A traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, comprising an elevator car and a counterweight that run on respective guide rails placed in the shaft, the elevator car and the counterweight being suspended on at least one hoisting rope running over at least one diverting pulley driven by a traction sheave wherein the diverting pulleys are located on the car and counterweight side, characterized in having, near to a floor's landing door, a space outside the elevator shaft, projecting towards the landing side and housing, at least partially, comprises a drive machine, and said space being equipped with an inspection door controlling an opening in the sidewall next to said floor's landing door, for the access from the door landing side to said drive machine and to said traction sheave, where the traction sheave is laying, at least partially, on the landing side of the plane of the elevator landing door front, and wherein said space comprising said machine is not part of a front wall pocket designed to contain the landing door when in an open position.
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The present invention is about a traction sheave elevator, without the machine room.
As it is known, in the past, because of the norms that regulated the construction procedures, the installation of elevators and similar devices had to be equipped with appropriate spaces, named machine room, wherein the lifting apparatus and its respective actuation and control equipment were placed, causing thus the need of arranging technical spaces for such equipment, with its relative costs.
In more recent years, following the changes in the elevators' construction and installation regulations, different solutions have been adopted which do not require the presence of specific rooms suitable for the actuation equipment, since the traction machinery gets placed directly inside the elevator shaft or in any case somewhere within the shaft's walls dimensions, while the actuation and control equipment could have been placed inside a cabinet situated relative to the floor served by the elevator, connected with the upper or lower end, preferably, with the equipment's position.
Through the use of such apparatuses, which are described for example by the EP patents 0631968, 0680920, 0719724 and by many other documents, the maintenance operations can be carried out on the actuation and control equipment, operating on the landing where the cabinet is situated, in a position thus external to the shaft, while in order to access the equipment is necessary to be inside the elevator shaft, therefore without being able to simultaneously carry out the maintenance of the actuation or control equipment and the traction machinery.
In the above mentioned cases the equipment is accessible to the maintenance operations only from inside the shaft either by putting oneself over the elevator car's roof, or else by positioning oneself inside the shaft's lower end in the pit usually built below the elevator car, or even by operating through inspection doors placed into the shaft's side walls.
Another kind of solution that also provides a traction machinery inside the elevator shaft, as for example described in the EP patent 0922663, the accessibility to the equipment for the maintenance operations is possible thanks to a platform inside the shaft, to which the maintenance person must access in order to operate.
In this case, from the platform the maintenance person is able to simultaneously access the traction machinery as well as the actuation and control equipment, but however this solution does not fully allow the elevator to do its entire run during the maintenance operations, because of the presence of the platform inside the shaft; furthermore it is anyhow necessary to operate from inside the elevator shaft with all its relative difficulties.
In all of the previously described solutions, in the event that the elevator car gets stuck at the traction machinery working station's height inside the shaft, the access turns out to be seriously endangered or even prevented and thus the maintenance and/or rescue operations are considerably complicated.
The invention's object is indeed that of solving the previously described problems making a traction sheave elevator without the machine room, wherein an easy inspection and maintenance of both the drive machine and the actuation and control units would be possible, without having to build complex devices.
In the previously described scope a specific object of the invention is that of building an elevator where is possible to operate from outside the shaft in order to carry out the rescue operations, as well as in those cases where is necessary to operate on the traction sheave in case it is needed to free the elevator car after the parachute device intervention.
Another object of the present invention is that of reducing considerably the space required at the shaft's upper end, limiting at the same time the shaft's plan dimensions that need to be to a large extent those requested for the elevator car and counterweight placing, and of the possible safety space.
The last but not least object of this invention is that of building a traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, which is easily achievable starting from common market availability products and materials, and that furthermore is competitive at the economic level.
The above described object, together with the other mentioned objects and others that will appear later on, are accomplished by a traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, comprising an elevator car and a counterweight that run on respective guide rails placed in the shaft, the elevator car and the counterweight being suspended on at least one hoisting rope running over at least one traction sheave actuated by a drive machine and on diverting pulleys on the car and counterweight side, characterized in having a space outside said elevator shaft housing, at least partially, said drive machine and said space being equipped with an opening next to a floor's door for the access from outside said shaft to such drive machine and to said traction sheave.
Further advantages and characteristics of a preferred, but not exclusive, embodiment of a traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, will be better highlighted in an explanatory but not limiting way through an examination of the following description, with reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
Referring to the figures mentioned above, and particularly to
A counterweight 3 that slides along its guide rails 4 is connected, through ropes 2, to the elevator car 1.
The elevator car 1, as illustrated in
The hoisting ropes bear the elevator car, preferably, in a way that the suspension's resultant would pass by near the plan projection of the car's barycentre and similarly also the suspension of the counterweight 3 is arranged so as to bear it preferably next to the plan projection of its barycentre.
For this purpose, lower sheaves 7 and 8 are provided that are connected to the lower part of the elevator car around which the ropes 2 run and have a first end 10 anchored to a fixed point.
In the same way a sheave 11 is provided for the counterweight, over which ropes 2 are running and have a second end 10 anchored to a fixed point. Some diverting pulleys are then provided, the pulley directed towards the elevator car is indicated with the number 15 and the pulley 16 directed towards the counterweight, which basically allow diverting the ropes coming from the traction sheave 17.
The traction sheave 17 is operated by a drive machine 18 that has the characteristic of being at least inserted in a space 20, which is outside the elevator shaft and is equipped with an opening 21 that is accessible from the outside, for example through an inspection door 22 that is situated near the floor's door 23 and, advantageously, is practically placed next to the sidewall of the floor's door.
In the embodiment the drive machine 18 is arranged in such a way that the traction sheave 17 can be partially into the elevator shaft and with the remaining part situated in the space 20 that is easily accessible from the outside.
Usefully, the free accessibility to the drive machine 18 is limited by the inspection door 22 which is equipped with closable openings that allow the access to the drive machine only to authorized personnel.
In the space 20, which is basically a cabinet for the machinery, can be placed, in addition to the drive machine, also the other elevator's equipment such as the control board, the motor's actuator, the emergency maneuver tools and alike that are generally indicated with the number 25 in the drawings.
The opening in the shaft's walls for the housing of the machinery is shielded on the shaft side by protection panels, indicated with the number 26, which prevent the operator to freely access the mobile equipments placed inside the elevator shaft with the risk of being injured.
The hoisting ropes 2 run from the traction sheave 17 to the diverting pulleys 15 and 16 directly or through other kinds of pulleys that are not shown in the figure.
The upper end of the car's guide rails 6 can be connected by a framework, generally indicate with the number 30 in the drawing, and an opposing horizontal structure of the drive machine 18 can be also provided, in order to balance the horizontal loads caused by the hoisting ropes traction.
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More specifically, an elevator car 101 is provided which is mounted on vertical guide rails 102 that supply the car with a Rucksack kind of suspension.
The counterweight 103 travels along the guide rails 104 that are sided by the guide rails 102 and that turn out to be placed on the same side of the elevator car relative to the wall of the shaft 105.
The hoisting rope 110 runs over a car's sheave 111 which is not connected to the car's side directed towards the guide rails 102 and that reaches a first upper fixed point 112.
Similarly the counterweight 103 is equipped with its upper sheave 113 on which the other end of the hoisting ropes 102 runs in order to reach a second upper fixed point 114.
Upper diverting pulleys are provided indicated with the number 115 for the section that runs to the car, and with the number 116 for the section that runs to the counterweight respectively, which are basically placed at the exit of the main traction sheave 120 that is connected to a drive machine 121 which is housed into a space 122 that is situated outside the elevator shaft and is equipped with a closed opening 123, an inspection door 124 for simultaneous access to the drive machine and to the traction sheave, as well as to possible additional equipment 125.
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It is clear from what has been previously described how the invention achieves the proposed objects and it is particularly highlighted the fact that an elevator is built where there is a space, outside the shaft, which houses, at least partially, both the drive machine and the traction sheave and that is equipped with an opening which is situated near a floor's door thus allowing the simultaneous access, from outside the shaft, to both the drive machine and the traction sheave, and also to possible actuation and control equipments.
This arrangement that constitutes the present invention's distinctive element, can be applied to any kind of equipment, regardless of the type of suspension, either direct or tackle, utilized for the elevator car and for the counterweight and also regardless of the kind of hoisting ropes that can be of the flat type too or can be made of belts or similar elements.
Similarly, it must be noticed that is possible to use different arrangements for the traction sheave which can have a rotation plane substantially parallel to the car's sides plane, from the diverting pulleys side or, eventually, it can be arranged with a traction sheave″ rotation plane largely parallel or slightly tilted with respect to the horizontal plane, always compatible with the kind of connection to the used ropes.
It must also be added to what has been previously said that the invention's solution is embodied by the presence of the space outside the elevator shaft, which is accessible through an opening made in the same wall of the floor's door, so as to simultaneously access to the drive machine and the traction sheave. Such solution can be applied in any case to all kinds of installation like, for example, the insertion with barycentric bearing car or Rucksack suspension car. When diverting pulleys are used in elevators, it is very important that the distance between the latter ones and the traction sheave be greater than 200 times the hoisting ropes' diameter, or that the ropes would run in the same direction on the contiguous sheaves, regardless of the distance between the sheaves.
These conditions guarantee a lower wear of the ropes and thus allow adopting lower safety coefficients.
On the other hand, it is also important that the ropes' contact angle on the traction sheave be sufficiently large in order to guarantee the needed grip between the ropes and the traction sheave.
The EP patent 0565956 B1 is able to obtain contact angles on the traction sheave greater than 180 degrees, thanks to a solution which allows the ropes that wrap around the traction sheave to cross without any interference. This solution however presents the two diverting pulleys placed on the same side with respect to the traction sheave, but the ropes running direction on one of the two diverting pulleys is the opposite direction with respect to the ropes running direction on the traction sheave. This causes a greater fatigue of the ropes, unless the distance between the diverting pulley and the traction sheave is greater than 200 times the hoisting ropes' diameter, therefore requiring the use of a higher safety coefficient.
The solution presented by the EP patent 0578237 A1 is also able to obtain contact angles on the traction sheave greater than 180 degrees, and it further allows the ropes running over the diverting pulleys in the same wrapping direction on the traction sheave. Even in this case the hoisting ropes that enter the traction sheave″ grooves cross before wrapping around the diverting pulleys, without interfering with each other.
In this case each one of the two diverting pulleys is placed on different sides with respect to the traction sheave.
In the case where the two diverting pulleys must be placed on the same side relative to the traction sheave and their distance from the traction sheave itself can not be greater than 200 times the ropes' diameter, none of the solutions presented by the two previously mentioned patents allows the ropes to run on the pulleys in the same direction with respect to the traction sheave. This result can be achieved by conveniently adopting the arrangement illustrated in
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This solution of ropes wrapping on the diverting pulleys causes the running direction to be the same for the diverting pulleys and for the traction sheave.
The diverting pulleys on the counterweight and on the elevator car can be anchored to a load bearing structure which releases a good amount of the vertical thrusts on the guide rails, both the counterweight's rails and car's rails placed on the same side.
A preferred solution is that of arranging the two pulleys on the same axis, on the same pulley's body, with the alternating ropes' grooves, namely one groove for a rope that runs in the counterweight direction alternated with a groove for the rope that runs in the car direction.
The hoisting ropes that run in the counterweight direction and those that run in the car direction are also arranged as so to cause the pulleys to rotate in the same direction. In order to obtain such result, one of the hoisting ropes must run on the pulley's upper side, for about one fourth of a round, and then go towards the suspended element, namely the counterweight.
The other rope must run on the pulley starting from the lower side, for about ¾ of a round and subsequently go towards the other suspended element, namely the elevator car.
In order to avoid that the rope which wraps itself ¾ of a round would run downward interfering with the rope's section entering the pulley, the sheave is positioned slightly tilted with respect to the vertical plane, with such an angle to allow the rope's section vertically running downward from the pulley not to touch the rope's section entering the sheave' groove.
Basically, the rope vertically leaving the pulley passes by roughly at the groove's height wherein one of the nearby ropes rests, such ropes running only for one fourth of a round on the sheave. In this manner, the two sections of the same rope which runs for about ¾ of a round on the pulley can cross without any interference, also allowing to have a sheave with a total thickness equal to that needed to place the entire number of ropes, which usually does not leave crossing space.
Because the pulley's angle in order to allow the ropes crossing, can cause a too high lateral wear of the ropes and their respective grooves, a further advantage is obtained making the ropes, coming from the traction sheave, entering the diverting pulley with a small skew angle, equal to about half the angle which the pulley should be tilted of in order to allow the crossing. In this manner, the diverting pulley's skew angle can be reduced in half.
In this fashion, the maximum offset angle between the rope and the pulley's groove is reduced and it is divided on both sides of the grooves and the ropes, reducing and compensating for the wear caused by the drag of the ropes on the grooves' side.
This preferred solution of a single diverting pulley's body with four grooves is illustrated in
The hoisting ropes 1 and 3 go to the elevator car and the ropes 2 and 4 go to the counterweight, or vice-versa.
The skew angle should not be greater than 4°.
If the pulley's skew angle decreases, possibly to a value of 2°, the crossing ropes run the risk of touching each other.
In this case, also the hoisting ropes 1 and 3 which run horizontally must enter the grooves with a slight angle, so not to interfere with the sections of the ropes 1 and 3 that vertically run downward, as shown in
The ropes running downward to the elevator car side cross with the section coming from the drive machine, roughly in the space relative to the groove wherein the ropes running in the counterweight direction enter (except for the last rope on the diverting pulley's front side).
The lower sections of the hoisting ropes coming (almost horizontally, but not necessarily) from the drive machine enter the diverting pulley's grooves with a lateral skew angle almost equal to the vertical skew angle of the diverting pulley.
The invention designed in this fashion is subject to several variations and modifications, without falling out of the scope of protection.
Furthermore, all the details can be substituted by other technically equivalent elements. Basically, according to the needs, it can be used whatever material as well as any size or shape of its elements.


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Uniform TitleControlled-release antimicrobials for preventing biofilm formation in food and medical applications
NameRosenberg, Linda E. (author), Chikindas, Michael (chair), Takhistov, Paul (internal member), Daun, Henryk (dissertation committee member), Rutgers University, Graduate School - New Brunswick,
DescriptionBacterial biofilms generally are more resistant to stresses as compared to free planktonic cells. Therefore, the discovery of antimicrobial stress factors that have strong inhibitory effects on bacterial biofilm formation would have great impact on the food, personal care, and medical industries. Biofilm formation can be prevented through controlled release of nature-derived antimicrobials formulated into polymer systems, especially those featuring multiple stresses as hurdles for the bacteria to overcome to prevent the development of resistance. Salicylate-based poly(anhydride-esters) have previously been shown to inhibit biofilm formation. Our research evaluated the effect of salicylate-based poly(anhydride-esters) on biofilm forming Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The results indicate that the salicylic acid-based polymers do interfere with biofilm formation through a combination of pH effects and a thus-far-unknown mechanism. Systems combining pH stress with the controlled release of natural antimicrobials have great potential to prevent biofilm development in many environments to prevent adverse outcomes, especially implant contamination and foodborne illness.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 67-74).
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.

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Even though The Selection wasn’t my favorite series, I was shocked and UBER EXCITED for the unsuspected 4th book, The Heir! Sadly, it didn’t live up to my expectations and fell short of what I really really wanted. Don’t get me wrong, you may love this book, it just wasn’t for me…
♕ While I could NOT stand Eadlyn, I am glad I did manage to finish the book. Even though the majority of the book made me want to scream in her face, she did manage to get a bit better in the ending… not by a whole lot but to the point that I was able to stand her!
♕ Out of all of The Selected, I havvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvve to talk about my favorite, I mean come on! Henri and Erik, they were so kind and cool and caring and amazing annnnnnd I hope Eadlyn picks him because out of all the boys, he seemed the kindest. They both did, I can’t decide who was better? Erik or Henri!? I really wish she would have learned something in Finnish just to talk to Henri a bit, I am hoping that happens because it seems that he really loves her :)!
They were adorable XD
“He brought his hand up to cover mine as it was still pressed against his heart. His smile dwindled as he looked at me and swallowed. He shrugged as he held me there, seeming only to want to make the moment last. He held my hand for the longest time, and I could see he was sorting through the words in his head, trying so, so hard to find one that he knew I might understand…”
If she would just learn Finnish :”( he is so sweet, jeez… please, please Keira Cass don’t make him die or turn into a massive jerk D:!
♕Cliffhanger ending, that makes me happy and mad… Happy because the next book will, I’m hoping, be better and sad because DARN IT! what is going to happen? Spoilers spoilers spoilers… D”:
♕Oh gosh, I typically never put a book down based on main characters but I almost, ALMOST did for The Heir… Never have I been so irritated by a character, no one has bothered me as much as Eadlyn! She was a brat, I can’t put that in a nice way because she was a HUGE brat!
“Didn’t they know who I was, what they’d trained me for? I was Eadlyn Schreave. No one was more powerful than me.
So if they thought I was going down without a fight, they were sadly mistaken.”
I couldn’t stop rolling my eyes at just about every page! She went on and on about how she was powerful and how no one else was. She refused to see how mean she was to everyone who cared for her and she wouldn’t let anyone get close to her heart. Yes, Eadlyn was strong, but she was oh, so annoying. We get it, you’re gonna be the first Queen to rule Illea, ok cool, get over yourself!
“failure meant having my life led by someone else.”
“You are Eadlyn Schreave. You are the next person in line to run this country, and you will be the
first girl to do it on your own. No one,” I said, “is as powerful as you.”
“I’m smart and beautiful and strong. I don’t need to be rescued.”
I turned away from the mirror to look at her directly. “That’s not what I mean. It’s simply intriguing to me the dynamic you must have. You have my laundry in your arms, and he might cure a disease. Those are two incredibly different roles in the world.”
Just a few examples of her attitude. I understand that she was hidden from the world, and raised basically alone and all, I just couldn’t stand how she treated others…
♕I’m a twin, so I should be able to understand at least a little bit of Eadlyn and Ahren’s relationship, right? Maybe? I’m not really sure but either way, Eadlyn was downright cruel to him, I wont say why or quote it because it happened near the ending. I guess one could say that the future queen of Illea was a EVIL kitten.
Okay, I wouldn’t go as far as calling her evil per say, but she was just so unkind… Her attitude was almost enough to make me DNF it. The only thing that kept me going was someone said that she changes a bit in the ending, and oh goodness I’m so glad. Look, I’m not trying to come off as rude, and I don’t mind cold, or mean main characters. The only thing is, this Princesses personality was so annoying I almost couldn’t stand it D:
♕ Maybe it’s just been a while since I read the last Selection books, but I felt like nothing really happened in The Heir. There wasn’t any explosions or rebels or heart pounding moments, not that their needs to be, just nothing super exciting. Eadlyn spent most of the book trying to stay away from the boys and going on dates that mostly never ended well… There was talk of somethings happening outside the castle, but none of the events were that major in effecting the plot of this book.
♕ One thing I found strange, and may be explained (one day?), was the fact that Eadlyn knew next to nothing about her parents and how they fell in love, or Maxon’s Selection process! Why in the world would they not tell her that? I mean did she not ask or are they hiding something????
While The Heir really wasn’t my favorite book, it did have some sweet moments! Even though Eadlyn annoyed me A LOT, the book is worth a shot so don’t just drop it! Give it a try and please let me know how it was for you. You never know, maybe you’ll love it (I hope you do :D!)

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Just seven months after it closed a $150 million Series E round, Locus Robotics secured another $50 million to scale its autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) around the world. The Wilmington, Mass.-based company has now raised about $305 million since it was founded in 2014.
The additional $50 million in funding comes from existing investor Tiger Global Management. Tiger co-led the Series E funding round in February 2021, which valued Locus Robotics at $1 billion. Locus also raised a $40 million Series D in June 2020, that in part helped it accelerate expansion into Europe and other markets.
“At a time of increasing volumes and ongoing labor shortages, this new round of funding underscores how critical flexible, scalable, intelligent robotics automation has become to the warehouse and the supply chain,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “Locus is uniquely positioned to drive digital transformation in this enormous global market.”
Locus’ LocusBot AMRs have completed more than half a billion picks. It took Locus just 94 days to go from 400 million picks to the 500 million mark.
LocusBots navigate autonomously within a warehouse to locate and transport pick items to associates. LocusBots can be flexibly deployed to support a range of picking strategies, helping to reduce time spent on routine or physically demanding tasks, reducing manual errors and increasing productivity for customers.
“We are impressed by Locus Robotics’ proven technology, flexible design, and customer obsession,” said Griffin Schroeder, Partner, Tiger Global. “As their warehouse partners face rapidly growing e-commerce volumes, rising labor costs, and increasingly demanding customers, Locus will be ready to provide solutions that work.”
Two AMR companies were acquired in July 2021. Fetch Robotics was acquired by Zebra Technologies for $290 million, while industrial robotics leader ABB acquired ASTI Mobile Robotics for an undisclosed amount.
Faulk joined The Robot Report Podcast in February after closing the Series E round. He discussed the company’s unicorn status, pending improvements to its AMRs, COVID-19’s impact on e-commerce, and why Locus Robotics should be a publicly-traded company. You can listen to the interview below, starting at the 3:49 mark.


UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
PROGRAM ON ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
From: Koffi Kouakou To: All Subject: Program on Environment Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hello, I would like to introduce myself to all of you and tell you that I am point 1:109/151.53 off the Baobab. My name is Koffi M. Kouakou. I have been operational for a while but I have not posted anything significant yet.
The reason I am broadcasting this message is to inform you about the Program I coordinate at the World Bank, the Program on Environment Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This multi-donor program was initiated by the World Bank in conjunction with other donors and international agencies in early 1990. The aim of the program is to help Sub-Saharan African countries set up operational environmental information systems, to meet the priority demands of resource users, planners and decision-makers for better renewable resource management.
The term "environment information systems (EIS) is used in the context of the Program to cover any organized system for environmental data management, including geographic information systems (GIS) containing environmental data sets.
The program supports African countries as they assess their priority needs in terms of environment and land information system, and analyze the technical, institutional, legal and economic issues hampering their possibilities of meeting these needs. It assists them in finding adequate, sustainaible and long-term solutions to deal with these issues.
The Program provides a framework for planning the development of an operational environmental information system: (a) an assessemnt of the environmental information requirements/priorities of resources users, planners, and managers at local, district and national levels; (b) an assessment of the current situation of the country an in particular an analysis of the issues the country faces in renewable resource information management and the gap bewteen priority information demand and current supply; (c) elaboration of a long term strategy (15 to 20 years) to establish a national environmental information system; (d) the identification of low-cost interventions to be implemented in the short term; (e) the preparation of the first investment segment (possibly 5 years) to implement the long term strategy; (e) the provision of help to relevant national institutions to initiate implementation under adequate financing.
Among the countries which have participated in the Program by sharing relevant information, are Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several biliteral and multilateral agencies, including the Bank, are supporting the program, and others are exepected to join in.
The implementation of the program is coordinated by an international Advisory Committee with 14 members, which meets twice a year, assisted by African participants. The latest meeting was held in Encshede, The Netherlands, on April 20, 1993. Within the World Bank's Africa Region technical Department, Environment Division (AFTES), Francois Falloux is the Principal Environmentalist responsible for the program.
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Bill Gates (yes, that Bill Gates), through a fund called Gates Ventures, is investing $15 million in advanced biofuels firm KiOR. Gates is not a huge cleantech investor generally (though he has backed other firms such as the young MIT spin-off Liquid Metal Battery). So it’s rather interesting that he’s decided to invest in KiOR, which is not at all an “early stage” tech firm – in fact, it is a public company.
Vinod Khosla, a tech pioneer who is much more well known as a cleantech investor with deep pockets, has committed to putting in another $85 million to KiOR in debt and stock. Khosla was instrumental in the founding of the company and has been an unusually loyal and generous benefactor.
With this $100 million infusion, KiOR says it will be able to build out its capacity-doubling project at its Columbus, Miss. facility (see Khosla, Kior Double Down).
If we go back in time a bit to the end of the second quarter, we see that KiOR had started shipping its drop-in fuels (gasoline, diesel, heating oil) made from wood. But the amount of production was behind schedule, and its cash position was delicate, to say the least. At the time, analysts suggested that the firm should bring in a corporate partner such as a refining company. But that’s not what happened.
It is clearly good news for KiOR that it has a few friends who are willing to keep dipping in to their own pockets to make sure its first facility can reach the point where it generates enough cash to fund operations – and presumably prove out that KiOR’s next commercial facility (planned for Natchez, Miss.) will be profitable.
And its only fair to note that the same analysts who suggested KiOR get an additional large investor are also very bullish on the company. So what is there to like about KiOR?
- KiOR has significantly increased uptime at the Columbus facility
- It has produced and shipped actual product
- Yields are rising
- Drop-in biofuel is considered a much more desirable product than ethanol
- KiOR’s technology can accommodate cheap feedstocks (the expansion will use waste railroad ties)
The main negative, in fact, was the near-term need for additional capital. And even back in August – before both recent investment announcements – analysts at Credit Suisse and Raymond James had an outperform rating on KiOR’s stock.
Does all of this mean that KiOR is a guaranteed win? No, of course not. But I find it interesting how far KiOR is poised to go with the help of a few true believers.
Elevance comes to the U.S.
Elevance is another cleantech firm that is expanding its commercial operations. The company makes specialty chemical intermediates – functionalized esters and the like – for use in downstream products for personal care, coatings, lubricants and additives. Its feedstock is vegetable oil, which it processes using olefin metathesis.
The company did not have an IPO, as KiOR did, but chose instead to raise private capital. Its first plant, in Gresik, Indonesia is a large one, at 180,000 metric tons per year. Elevance says that its output there is all spoken for, and it is now proceeding with plans to build a second plant, also in Natchez, Miss. That facility is expected to come online in 2016.
When the second quarter ended, drop-in cellulosic biofuels maker KiOR was in the process of ramping up production at its first large-scale (eventually 13 million gal per year) plant in Columbus, Miss. The company told investors that it hoped to double the capacity at the Columbus location, at an estimated cost of $225 million.
The company had cash reserves of just under $12 million. But, it had one asset that is incredibly valuable – the backing of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Khosla has agreed to fork over $50 million – half of it likely to come from his own personal funds – to seed an investment strategy that may bring in other deep pocketed parties such as an industrial partner or traditional lender.
KiOR makes gasoline and diesel (not ethanol) from cellulosic feedstocks (wood) via fermentation. Khosla was there at the company’s beginning – he helped midwife it into a startup in 2007 and invested in it before – and now after – its IPO in June 2011. The company went public at $15 a share in its pre-production, pre-revenue era (it is now trading around $2.50).
With the Columbus plant, KiOR is in the very first crop of producers of cellulosic biofuels. Investors love that the company’s output is not subject to blend walls the way ethanol production is. But getting steady-state, high levels of output from a first-of-its-kind facility is pretty much unheard of in the second-gen biofuels industry.
And so KiOR is hoping it will produce 1 million gal this year, as it does the start-stop-fix-start thing. That’s why it is interesting that rather than hold out to generate revenue from Columbus I, KiOR plans to use what has been learned already to literally double down on its bet. Interestingly, part of the motivation to build the Columbus II plant is the availability of cheap railroad ties at that location.
In the press release Khosla (who owns a majority stake) stands by his company:
“While KiOR has faced normal start-up issues at the Columbus I facility, I believe that the Columbus I facility has proven that KiOR’s technology can meet and over time exceed the technology performance metrics of approximately 80 gallons per bone dry ton I expected for 2015, driving toward the ultimate goal of producing 92 gallons of hydrocarbon fuels (or over 150 gallons of ethanol equivalent) per bone dry ton of biomass, particularly given the Company’s continued progress in research and development. I believe that KiOR’s proprietary technology platform is substantially better, and can produce hydrocarbon fuels at lower cost, than any other currently visible biofuels fermentation technology, cellulosic or otherwise, that I am aware of. I expect that cash costs per gallon (excluding depreciation) on an energy content basis at the two Columbus facilities should be lower than today’s corn based ethanol. I also believe that KiOR’s cellulosic fuels, which have a higher per gallon energy content than ethanol and can integrate seamlessly into the existing hydrocarbon fuels infrastructure, will provide a biofuel alternative without blendwall issues that is more attractive than ethanol, considering both production costs and logistical efficiencies.”
That’s rather a lot of very specific declarations by the normally Zen-like master of Cleantech VC. But others also sound pretty darned enthused about the company. Stock analysts Pavel Molchanov at Raymond James and Edward Westlake of Credit Suisse both rate the stock as outperform though they acknowledge that investors are jittery.
Once Columbus I and then Columbus II are up and running, both analysts seem very comfortable with the company’s production cost structure. In the meanwhile, Molchanov says investors’ worries should be quieted by Khosla’s confidence.
“By pledging an additional $50 million – an anchor as KiOR finalizes its long-term financing package – Khosla guaranteed KiOR’s financial security for at least six more months, which should set jittery investors’ minds at ease. Khosla’s status as one of the nation’s wealthiest VC investors means that his (yet again reaffirmed) backing for KiOR is analogous to Elon Musk’s support for Tesla and SolarCity, which in the past, went through their own periods of facing a skeptical market.”
You can read more about Khosla’s long-term investing strategy in biofuels on the Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch blog. In addition, Jim Lane at Biofuels Digest writes about how difficult it is for outsiders – and even insiders – to understand the true status of a ramp-up like KiOR’s.
Funding for cleantech and related start-ups can be feast or famine. Government, venture capital, and corporate backing ebbs and flows. One constant, though, is that technology entrepreneurs should never miss a chance to get in front of investors.
On February 25, start up executives will pitch to investors at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington, DC. An event run by Future Energy will provide the space, a slide template, and a panel of experts for Q&A. In the audience will be people from corporations and other kinds of investors who will be attending the ARPA-E gathering to hear from the likes of Michael Bloomberg and the folks who dispense money from DOE.
Future Energy is a part of a larger organization called Ultralight Startups. Shell, through its program Shell Game Changer, is the main sponsor. Future Energy founder Graham Lawlor tells Cleantech Chemistry that unlike internet startups which are legion and fill to overflowing many investor pitch events, his events are specific to energy and cleantech and he has to go out and find tech start-ups for the slots. But he’s not worried, because the scientists and engineers are out there with good ideas.
In 2012, Future Energy held two events in Boston and two in New York. This year they’ll head also to Silicon Valley. At the ARPA-E event in DC, two of the companies pitching won their slots through an online voting mechanism. You can go to their website to apply for future events through the first half of the year (tell your friends!). You can see a video of United Catalyst at an event last year pitching technology for inorganic catalysts designed for cellulosic ethanol production. The pitches are only 3 minutes long, so its good to pare down your story to bare essentials.
Also investing seed money in energy start-ups is Lux Capital, which today announced commitments totally $245 million for its third venture fund. The fund is fairly broad- the firm is looking for unusual opportunities in energy, healthcare and technology.
The ever-enthusiastic Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital co-founder and managing partner, describes his strategy this way:
“At Lux, we are sticking to our knitting to build a concentrated portfolio of extraordinary companies in unconventional areas,” says Wolfe. “Many of the themes and entrepreneurs we’re excited about—in 3D printing, metamaterials, robotics and breakthroughs in solid-state electronics—are non-obvious, and that’s by design. We believe the combination of brilliant entrepreneurs and deep scientific innovation drives immense industry shifts and profits. Both at Lux and our companies, we’re growing rapidly and calling for the boldest and brightest that want to invent and invest in the future.”
Hanergy, a China-based renewable energy company, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of thin-film solar firm Miasolé. The buyer first reached a purchase agreement with Miasolé’s investors in September.
Of the many photovoltaic manufacturers out there – and/or recently bankrupt – Miasolé is one of the most elegant. And not just because of its attractive-sounding name (news reports online have stripped it of the accent aigu — it’s pronounced MiasolA).
Miasolé makes thin film solar cells of the copper indium gallium selenide variety. This is an attractive technology because it is possible to make CIGS as efficient as heavier traditional polysilicon solar PV. The first thin-film technology was based on amorphous silicon (a technology that Hanergy plans to abandon), which was much less efficient than traditional solar cells. In theory, CIGS can be manufactured in long, flat, flexible sheets and installed in places that cannot support other kinds of solar panels.
For now, CIGS material on the market has an upper-bound efficiency of about 12% or so, while traditional solar starts there and goes up a bit. CIGS are more expensive, and are much more difficult to manufacture.
For Miasolé’s part, in May the company reported that NREL confirmed a 15.5% efficiency on its newest commercial, flexible CIGS cells. It is not clear what the efficiency of a fully installed system would be. But it shows that this firm has been pushing the technology. Back in 2011, it worked with semiconductor maker Intel to help it ramp up its manufacturing. At the time, the company said it was using a low-cost sputtering technology for materials deposition.
News reports have estimated that Hanergy spent about $120 million to buy Miasolé’, a company that was valued as high as $1.2 billion in 2008. Hanergy makes most of its money by generating power from hydroelectric installations. Last year it also snapped up Solibro, a unit of Germany’s solar manufacturer Q-Cells.
Hanergy says it will keep the Miasolé CIGS manufacturing operations going in California. Meanwhile, another CIGS start-up, SoloPower, recently began production in Portland, Oregon.
It’s not too often that I get a press release with a New Zealand embargo time. Waste gas to fuels and chemicals firm LanzaTech got its start in New Zealand, but is currently headquartered in Illinois. Still, the company’s larger projects are all in Asia, and being on the opposite side of the world from Cleantech Chemistry blog HQ is not a problem for them.
Yesterday (which is today in New Zealand), LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren spoke to a conference of oil refiners in New Delhi. In her remarks, she announced that the firm has a new joint development agreement with Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas.
The two firms will work to produce chemicals from carbon dioxide – the first one being acetic acid. LanzaTech already has two facilities that make ethanol from CO. In all cases, the CO or CO2 comes from waste gases. LanzaTech’s proprietary microbes ferment the gas into various end products. The Petronas deal will get its CO2 from refinery off gases and natural gas wells.
Earlier this year, the venture arm of Petronas contributed to LanzaTech’s third round of venture funding. And it seems the two companies have been in cahoots ever since.
C&EN profiled LanzaTech this summer.
And there is another cleantech firm that aims to make acetic acid – Zeachem. Zeachem is building out its plant that will produce acetic acid – as well as ethanol – from hybrid poplar grown in Oregon.
I wish I could be in Portland, Oregon today to watch SoloPower start up its first production line of thin film CIGS solar panels. The company says it can manufacture in a continuous process to make its solar material in strips as long as one mile.
The company asserts that its thin, flexible modules are a good fit for building-integrated solar, especially in locations where heavier, traditional glass panels cannot be installed such as on warehouse roofs. The modules are certified to an efficiency rate of 9.7 to 12.7%.
But it’s not so much the technology itself that is interesting, but rather SoloPower’s business model and whether it can succeed in selling what it admits is a premium-priced product while the traditional silicon modules continue to drop in price, taking down many efficient producers with them.
SoloPower is already having to bear up under scrutiny because it will be able to tap into almost $200 million in DOE loan guarantees, under the same program that was behind the Solyndra kerfuffle. NPR did a nice job this morning interrogating SoloPower CEO Tim Harris. Read or listen to the short piece here.
NPR rightly points out that Solyndra was backed by $1 billion in private funding and accessed half a billion dollars in its own DOE loan before going bankrupt. But SoloPower doesn’t have a billion bucks to lose, and perhaps that is a good thing.
Instead of comparing SoloPower to Solyndra I’d like to compare it to Gevo, a maker of biobased isobutyl alcohol (what it calls isobutanol). Both firms are pursuing a capital-light strategy.
SoloPower’s first production line will have a small eventual annual capacity of 100 MW. So far, it has spent only its own investors’ dollars. Gevo, a now public company, is spending somewhere around 25% to one-third the cost of a new fermentation plant by converting existing corn ethanol plants.
When a company that has a technology without a track record wants to build its first large plant, it faces financing risk on top of technology risk. Range Fuels built a shiny new plant in Georgia to make ethanol from wood chips. But since the technology did not work upon start-up, Range could not pay its monthly loan overhead, and the factory was repossessed by its financing bank and sold at auction (Range also had a DOE loan guarantee).
Early this week, Gevo told investors that it had stopped making isobutyl alcohol at its facility in Luverne, Minnesota. Instead, it turned the switch back to ethanol. Gevo’s plan to convert an ethanol plant in Redmond, South Dakota is on hold. The company said though it successfully made isobutyl alcohol in Luverne, to reach its target run rate would require more work. Meanwhile, both locations can still produce ethanol.
Though Gevo’s investors weren’t happy with this news, Gevo has given itself plenty of time to fix its problems, saying it would reach its target run rate in 2013 (it could take a year and still make this deadline).
Reducing a company’s financing risk doesn’t do much to reduce its technology risk – or in SoloPower’s case, its market risk – in either the short or long term. But it may help a company last beyond just the short term. Given the pitfalls of technology scale-up, that could make all the difference.
Liquid Metal Battery Corporation now has a new name – Ambri. I have to admit, since I track a number of cleantech start-ups, I had a fondness for LMBC partly because the name was so descriptive of the technology. It helps when my memory gets a little faulty.
The researcher and founder of Ambri, Donald Sadoway, is profiled in C&EN’s very recent cover package about Entrepreneurs in Chemistry. I enjoyed Sadoway’s story very much. As C&EN’s Amanda Yarnell points out in the story, though he is an expert in materials, Sadoway and his team are not experts in the battery industry. Their outside perspective helped the team come up with a cheaper method to store intermittent, renewable energy.
But I will miss the old name. The press release says Ambri comes from a snippet of Cambridge, home of MIT. Maybe Liquid Metal Battery Corp was considered too long, or perhaps too, er, sloshy?
Cleantech firms are sometimes criticized for pie in the sky thinking. Harvest Power, though, looks like a pretty down to earth company. It makes dirt*. Mind you, this is high quality dirt*.
Late last week, Harvest Power said it had raised $110 million in a third round of venture capital funding. That’s a tidy sum for a messy business. Harvest is an industry that some call “organics management.” According to the firm’s website, it works at a community level to gather and re-use organic materials (food waste, lawn clippings, pieces of lumber). It produces mulches, organic fertilizer, and soil products using composting and anareobic digestion.
These technologies are not exactly new. But it seems that the value is in its system approach and its facilities. Harvest ties into local communities where organic materials are separated from the waste stream. In addition to recyling the waste into soil-related products – which it sells to local farmers and gardeners - its digestors produce renewable energy from biogas.
The biogas is used in combined heat and power plants, exported as pipeline-grade (i.e. purified methane) natural gas, or compressed gas to be used for transportation. High heat content materials like wood chips are also processed into fuel for use in industrial boilers.
According to PrivCo, a firm that tracks the finances of privately-held companies, Harvest can boast significant revenues (this contrasts the firm with some cleantech plays that go public before making any money from sales). Founded in 2008, it made close to $50 million last year and is expected to rake in $75-$100 million in 2012.
The financing will be used by the company to expand its reach. PrivCo reports Harvest is finishing two Canadian energy plants and has plans for waste to energy facilities in New Jersey and Florida.
* [update] Harvest actually produces soil, as The Phytophactor points out in his comment.
Last Friday, press reports began to circulate that cellulosic ethanol start-up Qteros had fired its CEO John McCarthy, laid off a bunch of staff, and may be for sale. I was intrigued as I had written a bit about the company in the past, and realized, in retrospect, that I hadn’t heard much about it lately.
In fact, it appears that Qteros is in a bit of a huddle and may change the scope of its future plans. I asked the new CEO, Mick Sawka, formerly the company’s senior vice president of engineering and commercial development if he could update me. By e-mail he replied that “Qteros has reduced its staff and John McCarthy has stepped down as CEO. … Based on our data and that of our strategic partner, Praj Industries, we remain confident that we have one of the best process and economic routes to cellulosic ethanol production. Under our new leadership we continue to develop our process.”
Praj Industries is an Indian firm focused on engineering for biobased ethanol. It wants to expand into cellulosic feedstocks.
The partnership was announced early in January, just a day before the firm disclosed it had raised $22 million in the first part of a C round of venture capital funding. At that time, the firm implied it planned to get more investments and proceed to commercialization. It sounds like the scope of the firm’s plans may have narrowed a bit. Cleantech Chemistry will keep an ear out for more information.
I wrote about Qteros’ former CEO John McCarthy back in February of 2010, when he had just taken the helm. Two other firms, Mascoma (also in cellulosic ethanol) and Segetis (in bio-based chemicals) had brand new CEOs at the same time. In all three cases, the new CEO’s were experienced hands who were brought in to guide the biobased firms to commercialization.
Qteros is not the only one of the three that has been quiet this year. Segetis’ most recent press release came out Feb. 14 and is about a deal with Method (a household cleaner firm) to develop a tub and tile cleaner made from bio-based molecules. Meanwhile, in September, Mascoma filed for an IPO worth up to $100 million – though it has not yet begun selling stock. Both firms have the same CEOs as they did when I wrote about them in 2010 – Atul Thakrar is at Segetis and William J. Brady is still in charge at Mascoma.
While you were at lunch, the nascent cleantech manufacturing industry in the U.S. collapsed.
Actually, that’s not quite true, but it is true that Solyndra will file for bankruptcy. This is a big deal – Google News lists 85 news outlets covering the story. Solyndra is famous for its stylish, glass tubular, CIGS-powered, solar rooftop modules. And for raising vast amounts of venture capital. And for getting a $535 million Department of Energy loan guarantee. And for filing for, and later cancelling, a planned IPO in late 2009.
Solyndra’s success in raising money was an early indicator that venture capitalists had turned to so-called cleantech industries, taking some of the shine off of internet and technology-based start-ups. It was the first company to benefit from the DOE’s loan program, part of the 2005 Energy Act.
But cleantech — particularly solar — has been looking a bit less shiny lately. Earlier this month, Evergreen Solar filed for bankruptcy protection, and its filing shows that the firm does not plan to emerge in anything like its current form. Evergreen also received government largess, getting more than $50 million in support from the state of Massachusetts.
Both Solyndra and Evergreen had proven technologies and they had the financial resources to scale up their manufacturing. Compared to many segments of cleantech, this sounded like a pretty good risk for investors. However, both technologies were based, at least in part, on solar module designs that minimized the use of polysilicon. That was smart at the time, because polysilicon supplies were very tight, and shortages threatened to choke the life out of (traditional) solar manufacturing. That was back in 2007-8. But by the end of 2008, chemical makers made plans to ramp up their manufacturing of polysilicon. The stuff was fetching record prices, after all, and it’s made from sand.
Beginning in 2009, polysilicon manufacturers like Hemlock Semiconductor (owned in part by Dow Corning) and Wacker Chemie began doubling, tripling, quadrupling etc their polysilicon capacity. Billion dollar plus-sized polysilicon plants in the US also won government support. By late 2009 there was an overabundance of polysilicon and an oversupplyof modules in inventory, crushing prices.
Firms like Solyndra and Evergreen had raised money and started scaling up manufacturing right as solar modules became a commodity. Chinese manufacturers at that point had their eye on making solar modules for close to $2 per watt. It was not a good time to have a technologically distinct – and more expensive – solar product.
In 2010-2011, European countries – especially Spain – cut back on solar subsidies. Germany has trimmed them as well. All solar makers were busy cutting costs amid strong competition, especially from China, and selling into a market with constrained demand.
Looking at the subject from a distance, it seems that polysilicon makers and their ambitious and steep increases in capacity are what doomed the non-polysilicon players. Materials suppliers, not just of polysilicon, but of also of polymer backing sheets, UV protecting films, and metal pastes, are doing very well selling into the photovoltaic market.
But government bets on cell manufacturing technology have not paid off. It is not clear yet how much of the loan gurantee Solyndra leveraged into actual financing. Still, Congress will likely have a great deal to say about lessons learned from Solyndra.


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Reptiles are a simple to look after pet dog as well as they do not scent. Reptiles consume crickets. Bunnies are little, very easy, treatment pet dogs which do not require to be bathed. They are great deals of enjoyable however they such as to eat so you will certainly require to rabbit evidence your house. In some cases you can obtain bunnies at a rescue team or the SPCA. Bunnies are extremely caring and also they do not call for a great deal of room. You can feed your bunny once daily so they will not require great deals of focus. If you obtain wired lower cages for them it will certainly be much easier to cleanse. There are several kinds of bunnies available that will certainly be simple to take care of. Get more info https://dogily.vn/meo-canh/gia-mua-ban-meo-tai-cup-scottish-fold/.
Tiny rats as white computer mice, hamsters and also gerbils are excellent little animals as well. Their cages will not scent if you maintain it tidy as well as make use of cedar bed linens to manage the smells. Rats are affordable pet dogs to maintain since all they require is a cage, bed linens, food as well as water. You can additionally get eat playthings and also deals with for your rats at the animal shops. Generally you need to cleanse their cages when a month so they aren’t a high upkeep animal.
Beta fish or fish are an additional little family pet. The first prices for the fish tank or the fish digestive tract will certainly be your major expense. You will certainly need to feed the fish daily or obtain some fish food that lasts as much as 5 days so you will not need to feed the fish as typically. You will certainly need to clean up the aquarium once in awhile or fish dish as it will certainly scent after some time. These family pets are much less treatment and also upkeep for you to maintain as well as they will certainly supply you with hrs of enjoyable as well as enhance your lives.

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5/11/2015 · Mini concrete pump utilizes pressures to the greatest extant to realize the transportation of lightweight cement, foam concrete, and small aggregate conveniently. Gathering the advantages of flexible transportation, high reliability and easy operation, small portable concrete pump mainly suits the development and achievement of ground and high-rise building construction projects.
A concrete mixer pump is formed by combining a concrete trailer pump and a concrete mixer. The adding of a automobile chassis further makes it a portable concrete mixer with pump. The same type of mixer pump falls on varied names, like a concrete mixer and pump combination, a portable concrete mixer and pump, a concrete mixer with pump, a mobile concrete mixer with pump etc.
Mobile concrete mixer with pump is a multiple functional machine, which can continuously mix and transport concrete mixture by pressure alongside the pipeline. It is known for its convenient movement.Mobile concrete pumps are most suitable for houses and commercial buildings under thirty floors, roads, water conservancy, etc., etc.
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Actually, the concrete productivity Aimix concrete mixer and pump is around 30 to 40 m 3 /h, and this output is enough for rural building construction or small project construction. Besides, the concrete mixer and pump is more like a combination of a small concrete batching plant and a trailer mounted concrete pump due to its special mixing and pumping functions.
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About Bobby 7s
Bobby 7's - NextGen Gaming brings us this 5 reel and 25 payline slot featuring the great Bobby, which is what policemen in London are sometimes known as. The graphics are funny and you have the good old policeman, the robber and the classic slot symbol, the 7s. There are some classic icons but with a Bobby twist that will keep you playing.
Bobby 7's Information
The Wild is the Bobby and he will replace all the symbols except the Scatter. The wild will also give you cash, if you have 3 Bobbies you will get 20 coins, 4 Bobbies gives you 50 and 5 will get you 100 coins.
The Scatter is the Robber with the bonus sign and it comes up on reels 1, 3 and 5 and you will not only get the bonus but also immediately get double your bet. You will have to choose one of the icons and you will get a chance to win free spins.
You will also win new bonuses when you get 3 or more of the icons 7 Police, this will trigger the high or low game and a chance to win up to X500 of your bet. 7 Crooks will get you a pick and win game and 7 Judges will get you maximum X5 your bet. All of these games will give you a chance to win a lot of money.
How to play Bobby 7's
To catch the robber and get the money you will need to set the bet. Set the payline and the amount you want to bet, and start spinning. With every win you have a chance to gamble and double your money. As always you have the Max button to set the maximum bet if you only play high bets. And for the players that like to sit back and relax all you need to do is use the Autoplay button. So help Bobby catch the crook and get the cash in your bags.
This is a game I tried a few days ago in one of my sessions at Slotjoint casino. This was a game I hadn't tried before so I wanted to do it. The design and overall appearance was quite classic and simplistic. I did experience a few bonus features - none of them paid big but I do see potential there.
Bobby7 looks so cheap, poor... But anyway i was playing it few times. So in these times i have noticed very frequent small winnings and small winnings in bonus game. I dont think that this game has any potential.

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Ribbon cutting ceremony
The President of the Ana G. Méndez University System, José F. Méndez Méndez, and Dr. Luis A. Burgos, Chancellor of Florida Campuses, cordially request the pleasure of your presence at the ribbon cutting ceremony of the South Florida Campus' new facilities located at 15201 N.W. 79th Court in the city of Miami Lakes, FL. The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, September 27th at 9:30 a.m. The new state-of-the-art 50,000 square feet campus will help further the AGMUS mission of promoting cultural, social and economic development of the local South Florida community.
The Ana G. Méndez University System is honored to be the first university in the city of Miami Lakes that offers a unique dual-language education program. It is the only University System in the United States where all classes are taught one week in English and one week in Spanish. AGMUS was founded almost 70 years ago in Puerto Rico and is the largest non-profit private university system on the island with approximately 44,000 students. In 2003, the System opened its doors for the first time in the U.S. It currently has campuses in Orlando, Dallas, Maryland, Tampa and South Florida and has graduated students from more than 28 different countries.
We hope you will be able to celebrate with us this historic moment for the Ana G. Méndez University System in South Florida. Please R.S.V.P. your attendance by September 20th to: firstname.lastname@example.org or call 954.376.4800

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|World Environment Day||veröffentlicht am 05.06.2012|
Every year on June 5th, the World celebrates the Environment Day commonly known as the ‘World Environment Day’ (WED). This year the worldwide theme was ‘Green Economy, Does It Include You?’ In Rwanda, REMA (Rwanda Environment Management Authority) organises a whole participatory environment week. The activities end with the celebration of the WED, on June 5th. In this context the ACNR staff joined Rwandan population and stakeholders to celebrate the WED 2012 which took place in Rubavu District, at the north-western part of Rwanda.
REMA planned to show us participants how they have been protecting Rubavu Mountain. About two years ago, the Government of Rwanda noticed how soiled the quarter up the hill was. Since it was located lakeside it threatened Lake Kivu seriously. REMA and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) decided to move local inhabitants to Karukogo Village, away from Rubavu Mountain and City. The slum made place for a park where tourists and locals shall enjoy nature in the future. The former quarter changed completely. Instead of dusty narrow trails between houses, smoke from fireplaces and acid sewages we enjoyed a path out of rocks leading up and down the hill, fresh air and a stunning view over Rubavu City, DRC and Lake Kivu. But still, there is a lot to work on. It is intended to build up lodges and restaurants up the mountain in order to make it a tourist attraction.
During the morning we visited Karukogo Village. It does not only host former residents of Rubavu Mountain but also families who were located on a nearby hill. Because heavy rain destroyed their houses, those families lived in huts out of metal sheets. REMA did improve their livelihoods by, among others, showing them how to build proper houses. The Director General of REMA Dr. Rose Mukankomeje explained how close environment and sustainable development are linked. Hence we visited a future village henhouse, before planting some fruit trees belonging to the local community. We noticed the more developed status of this village and it was promised by the Western Providence Governor to keep on working with the local dwellers. Therefore, “it is important to empower the partnership between governmental institutions, NGOs, private sectors and communities”, said Hon. Minister Stanislas Kamanzi, the Rwanda Minister of Natural Resources (MINIRENA), who was the Guest of Honour at that ceremony.
According to the local inhabitants all activities had a huge impact. It brought many advantages like infrastructure, access to fresh water and electric power. Moreover, there is enough space for every family to have its own field and even some animals. People seemed happy with the new circumstances; they were dancing and singing with hope for a better future. We from ACNR appreciate the effort made and hope to continue our partnership with REMA closely.
|Welcome to Julie||veröffentlicht am 01.10.2011|
ACNR has addition to its staff. Kathi and Prosper from the University were joining ACNR in Septmber and October. Since the 1st of September ACNR is happy to work with Julie Entzian, a new volunteer from Germany. She is replacing Till Esch and Dane Beckers who left back to Germany during September 2011 after a successful year. In this manner we keep our close partnership to artefact.If you want to know more about Kathi, Prosper and Julie or other employees please have a look at our staff section.
|World Migratory Bird Day 2011 in Rwanda||veröffentlicht am 20.05.2011|
|Environmental Education in Jinja, Uganda||veröffentlicht am 27.04.2011|


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The world’s leading economies pressed the US and Europe to swiftly resolve their fiscal challenges on Monday, warning that they threaten to harm global growth.
Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 vowed to do “everything necessary” to strengthen the world economy, reduce financial market volatility and generate jobs.
The two-day talks in Mexico City focused on the eurozone’s relentless debt crisis and the looming “fiscal cliff” in the US — a set of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that could impact global growth if they go in effect in January.
“Global growth remains modest and downside risks are still elevated,” the G20 said in a final communique.
The statement cited “possible delays in the complex implementation of recent policy announcements in Europe” and a “potential sharp fiscal tightening in the United States.”
However, the finance chiefs also voiced concern over Japan’s fiscal troubles, as well as slowing growth in emerging nations and “additional supply shocks” in some commodity markets.
G20 officials urged the winner of the US presidential election — be it US President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney — to rapidly act to reach a deal with US Congress after the vote.
“The US leadership needs to address quickly the so-called ‘fiscal cliff,’” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
She added that there were “clearly factors of uncertainty not only for the US economy, but also for the global economy, given the size of the US economy.”
“Whoever is going to be elected or re-elected tomorrow will be faced with that challenge,” Lagarde said.
The G20 statement said Washington will “carefully calibrate” the pace of its fiscal tightening so that public finances are placed on a “sustainable long-run path while avoiding a sharp fiscal contraction” next year.
Spanish Minister of Economy Luis de Guindos warned that the US fiscal cliff hung over the world like the “Sword of Damocles.”
Meanwhile, Europe’s debt crisis was again in the spotlight at the G20 talks.
“There was a clear message from many in the room today to our European colleagues that they do need to remove the policy uncertainties that are dragging on growth and investment,” Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said.
However, the eurozone also won praise for recent moves to create a banking union, activate a 500 billion euro (US$650 billion) crisis firewall and launch a European Central Bank bond buying program.
While G20 nations “recognize” the progress made in Europe, “there is also impatience and a strong demand for all of this to be put in place in an effective and concrete way,” a senior G20 official said.
Greece faces key deadlines to avoid bankruptcy this month, while Spain is under pressure to seek a bailout of its own amid a recession that has pushed the unemployment rate to 25 percent.
De Guindos outlined his country’s banking and labor reforms to G20 counterparts at a dinner on Sunday night.
However, he told reporters on Monday that his country does not need a rescue from European partners for now as it was “well-financed this year.”
Greece is in tough negotiations with the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank to unlock a 31.5 billion euro tranche of a bailout package or risk bankruptcy this month.
The Greek parliament will hold crucial votes this week on a new round of austerity demanded by international lenders. However, Greece also wants a two-year delay to implement its fiscal obligations, an issue that divides Europeans.


Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate Trailer Reveals New Mechanics, Story Details
We’ve just got a fresh look at upcoming VR adventure, Dyshcronia: Chronos Alternate.
A new trailer for the latest game from Tokyo-based MyDearest debuted on the Upload VR Showcase today. It gives us an overview of the game’s story as well as introducing new gameplay mechanics. Check it out below.


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Entrepreneur Ales Taustyka Sentenced to 15 Days of Jail
On 15 January the police detained the activist of For Freedom movement, entrepreneur Ales Taustyka near his house. Then he was guarded to Tsentralny district court of Minsk and sentenced to 15 days of jail for active participation in the protest action of entrepreneurs on 10 December.
During the trial Taustyka’s blood pressure suddenly rose. After the trial he was taken to Tsentralny district police department. The police promised to call an ambulance there, before taking the entrepreneur to the prison in Akrestsin Street.
Bear in mind that in the morning Ales Taustyka suddenly disappeared and his whereabouts remained unknown for five hours.


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DOGS: It's law to control pets
I write further to the letter from Steven Coates about dogs, (News Guardian, January 5).
Mr Coates advocates a view which is all too common, that dogs have the right to run free and members of the public must put up with them.
The law in this regard is clear: Dogs in public places must be under control at all times. If your dog is not under control, you are breaking the law.
Members of the public are entitled to run, walk or even do somersaults in public without being harassed or inconvenienced by inadequately controlled dogs.


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As of April 2, 2020, Saskatchewan has 13 new, confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 206. Currently, there are four people in hospital in the province.
Two people are receiving inpatient care in Saskatoon, while two people are currently in intensive care – one in Regina and one in Saskatoon. Six more people have recovered from COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, bringing the provincial total to 36.
Of the 206 cases in the province:
- 96 cases are travellers.
- 44 are community contacts (mass gatherings included).
- 10 have no known exposures.
- 56 are under investigation by local public health.
Overall in Saskatchewan:
- One hundred and three of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 44 from the Regina area, 38 from the north, nine from the central region, nine from the south and three from the far north.
- Six cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
- Ninety-three cases are in the 20-44 age range; 74 are in the 45-64 age range; and 33 are in the 65-plus range.
- Fifty-five per cent of the cases are males and 45 per cent are females.
- Three deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 11,395 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Saskatchewan continues to have the second highest rate of testing per capita among the provinces.
Case surveillance and testing information, including regional locations of confirmed/presumptive cases is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/COVID19.
Public inquiries may be directed to COVID19@health.gov.sk.ca.


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This video is a must watch for everyone. Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at MIT, opens our eyes to the synergistic role of aluminum and glyphosate in autism. Glyphosate is the so-called active ingredient in Monsanto’s ubiquitous and toxic herbicidal concoction Roundup. She also discusses glyphosate’s role in diabetes, Alzheimer’s, digestive system disorders, infertility and birth defects.
MIT Researcher’s New Warning: At Today’s Rate, Half of All U.S. Children Will Be Autistic (by 2025)
Research scientist Stephanie Seneff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a widely published author on topics ranging from Azlheimer’s Disease to autism and cardiovascular disease, raised plenty of eyebrows recently with a bold proclamation on autism at a special panel in Massachusetts about genetically modified organisms and other topics.
“At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two children will be autistic,” Seneff said last Thursday in Groton, MA at an event sponsored by the holistic-focused Groton Wellness organization.
Seneff presented slides showing a remarkably consistent correlation between the rising use of Roundup (with its active ingredient glyphosate) on crops and the rising rates of autism; while it doesn’t show a direct correlation it does give researchers plenty to think about, especially considering Seneff’s research into the side effects of autism that mimic glyphosate toxicity and deficiencies.

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The Association welcomes the recent release of Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual Upskirt Photography by the Law Reform Commission (LRC) on the 30th April 2019. The Association would anticipate the proposed legal reform can be implemented as soon as possible to patch the current legal loopholes.
The Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women would express its anticipation and concerns towards the release of the Law Reform Commission's Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual upskirt-photography on 30th April 2019.
RainLily launched a major report, ‘The living evidence of sexual violence against women in Hong Kong: A retrospective study of RainLily’s crisis services (2000-2018)’ at the report launch seminar at the City University of Hong Kong.
Judicial, medical, and social services are equally vital and closely intersecting in the handling of sexual violence incidents…

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Fans of Darksiders can take some comfort in knowing that there is still hope left for the franchise.
The auction process for THQ’s game studios has ended.
Lenders say the sale of THQ’s assets is happening too quickly.
The documents reveal titles and a few details for the projects from Vigil, THQ Montreal, and Relic.
The company says it will continue operating.
Editor’s Pick Waves of change in the game business could either sweep you aside or take you to a new shore.
Jason Rubin gave a boost to charity through his company’s Humble THQ Bundle.
THQ humbles itself with a new pay-what-you-want bundle.
THQ needs to resolve its credit problem to keep producing video games.
The struggling video game publisher is running low on revenue.
THQ lays off “about 20″ people from its marketing and production departments.
THQ’s four internal studios have begun work on new games since company president Jason Rubin took over his position.
In its commitment to higher quality games, THQ has hired a former Electronic Arts exec to oversee triple-A production.
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Jason Rubin, the co-founder of famous game developer Naughty Dog, has been named the president of struggling video game publisher THQ.


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