![]() So the feed-in tariff is a vital way to subsidise costs. That means the ‘useful’ period of self- consumption – when panels are in full sun and at peak 5kWp output – is actually quite limited in most homes with limited energy demand during the day for powering the washing machine or air-conditioning and no energy production at night. However, in real terms, solar energy firms such as Bosch estimate that the natural self-consumption rate is only about 20% for a one-person household and 40% for a five-person household with a 5kW system. ![]() Using power from their own solar panels gives households a double boost as they are selling excess energy for more money than they pay when they use it and they save on the cost when they use self-produced energy. She also hopes more local councils will start to see so-called autoconsommation, self-consumption as a way to cut costs in social housing and other public areas. This brings the cost down to €9,600 and should be paid off over nine years.Įach year about 25,000 families install solar panels and the government hopes that two measures will help double this number as part of the transition to renewable energy.Įnvironment Minister Ségolène Royal said low energy prices had slowed down the change and she hoped the new measure would provide new impetus. ![]() With €800 grant offered for every 1kW of solar panel output in residential projects, that would mean that a typical 3kW installation for a three/four person household, costing an average of €12,000, would get €2,400 aid. Now, there could be a new impetus as the government grants available make the sums start to add up again. Previously, house-owners had to sell the power to energy suppliers such as EDF but the feed-in tariff for this had fallen so much – down last quarter to 23.54 centimes from 58 in 2011 – that solar take-up slumped. the tiles and roof installation carry a warranty of at least 25 years if they don’t.Anyone planning to fit solar panels has been given a powerful incentive as parliament has approved a law to allow households to use energy direct from their panels at the same time as the government revealed new grants for roof installations. The newest iteration of the should last for up to 30 years, according to elon musk. the tiles are less efficient than a traditional solar panel but cover a wider surface so should be able to gather more energy overall. therefore, it makes sense for customers who are planning on replacing their roof anyway. The tiles are cheaper than replacing your roof and adding separate solar panels at the same time. customers can enter their address and get an updated estimate that takes into account local costs and incentives, and add on any powerwalls (three are the default for a 2,000 square-foot roof). The tesla’s solar roof website also includes a new pricing estimator which lists $42,500 as the total price for the average 2,000 square-foot home, with 10kw solar panels. The tiles are made from tempered glass which tesla says is three times stronger than ‘standard roofing tiles.’ they are designed so that they can be installed on a customer’s home by a local installer and use fewer parts than previous versions, making the process simpler and easier. elon musk has also stated that new variants of the roof tiles are in development, including earth-toned and others that look like french slate. like earlier versions, the roof is hydrographically printed to resemble french slate or tuscan glass. Tesla released official details on friday, saying that it will begin installations in the coming weeks and has set a goal of getting 1,000 roofs installed per week. called solarglass, the product is designed to look just like normal roof tiles when installed on a house, while doubling as solar panels to generate power. Tesla has launched the third version of its solar roof tile.
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![]() And the best is kept until last…Įxhibit A is the opening track, a jaunty number called ‘Mama’s Boy’ in which Biff exhorts the parents of the flower-power generation to chill out about their children. ![]() The really interesting stuff lies elsewhere on Biff’s album. Bowie does it better, but Biff did it first. ![]() Bowie’s vocal is unarguably superior, but he’s aping much of what Biff does – for example that last extended ‘Fuh-reeeee!’, lifting into falsetto. For another thing, there’s the vocal: Biff sings most of ‘Fill Your Heart’ straight on the beat, whereas Bowie brings a dextrous swing to the whole affair, loosening up the song and, appropriately enough given the lyric, freeing it wonderfully. For one thing, there’s the piano: sweet though Biff’s playing is, it’s no match for Rick Wakeman’s dizzying virtuosity on Hunky Dory. A self-acknowledged magpie but never a plagiarist, Bowie freely acknowledges this debt in the handwritten liner notes on the back cover of Hunky Dory: ‘Mick and I agree that the ‘Fill Your Heart’ arrangement owes one hell of a lot to Arthur G Wright and his prototype.’ Nonetheless, Bowie succeeds in lifting the song to a new level. If you’ve heard Biff’s version of ‘Fill Your Heart’, you’ll know that Bowie’s rendition on Hunky Dory is extraordinarily faithful: in particular, the string arrangement and the parping sax breaks are practically identical to those created by Biff’s arranger, Arthur G Wright. Biff’s vocal stylings and his instrumental sound evidently made an impact on David at the beginning of the seventies, a time when our man was still finding his own voice as a singer-songwriter. Quite how resounding a chord is something I’m only now beginning to appreciate.ĭavid’s oft-quoted description of Biff Rose as ‘a flower-power Randy Newman’ is entirely apt: the quirky vignettes, eccentric wordplay and piano-and-strings arrangements which are Biff’s stock in trade readily call to mind Newman’s early work. Both of these songs originated on The Thorn in Mrs Rose’s Side, so we’ve always known that it was an LP which struck a chord with David. Those whose knowledge goes a little deeper will also be familiar with ‘Buzz the Fuzz’, a rather more whimsical Biff Rose composition which Bowie occasionally included in his live sets at around the same time. I say ‘the entirety’ – it’s as short as most albums were in those days, clocking in at a refreshingly concise 35 minutes, but that’s more than enough time to shed new light on a whole stack of David Bowie’s early songs.īowiephiles will, of course, know the New Orleans-born Biff Rose as the co-author of ‘Fill Your Heart’, the hippy-dippy anthem to happiness, freedom and gentleness which our man seized, covered and made his own on Hunky Dory. I blush to confess that, for the first time in all my years as a David Bowie enthusiast, I’ve just sat down and listened to the entirety of Biff Rose’s 1968 album The Thorn in Mrs Rose’s Side. On other occasions – and this is one of them – it can be something which, as the old saying goes, has been hidden in plain view. Sometimes this discovery can be something very obscure. One of the lessons learned from a lifetime’s immersion in David Bowie’s work is the certain knowledge – and this is something I happily came to terms with many years ago – that just when you thought you’d got the whole thing nailed, along comes an unexpected discovery which requires you to rethink everything you thought you knew. A Rose by any other name: the secret history of Biff and Bowie You can be an elven princess, a fairy elf, or even a wench elf. ![]() When it comes to elf costumes, you can go many ways. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books and their successful movie counterparts.
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So if you tried Spore and loved it, this one is a no-brainer. In short, this is basically Spore for the modern gamer. ![]() The game also uses a similar stage system where players will grow from a tiny microbe to an intelligent creature capable of utilizing the most advanced technologies around. You’ll do this by creating mutations that can survive the hostile environment of this planet, adapt to the conditions and defend themselves against the other life forms that are fighting for supremacy. The game sees you take control of an alien planet and your goal is simple, Thrive. Thrive is a free-to-play title that takes all of the mechanics that Spore offers and tweaks them slightly to offer a game that feels more modern and fresh, and it won’t cost you a penny. If you want a game that is just like Spore, then you can’t really get much closer than Thrive. Check it out: Best Games like Spore: Our Top 25 PICKS 1. So with that in mind, we want to give you a comprehensive overview of the best games to play if you loved Spore. A handful of games would borrow and repurpose mechanics from this outlandish and quirky title. However, as is always the case, it wouldn’t remain unique for too long. It blends real-time strategy, RPG, and simulation mechanics together beautifully to make a truly unique game. Think of it as the race for space in CIV but with much more player choice and control throughout. This god game sees you play through five key stages in the life cycle of your creation, these are the cell, creature, tribal, civilization, and space stages. The game uses a unique Spore creature creator to let players create their own intelligent Spore creatures, nurturing them from a single-celled organism, right up to a fully self-sufficient creature, and they are usually adorable creatures to boot. This game comes courtesy of game developer Maxis and publisher, Electronic Arts. Well, that’s exactly what Spore allows players to do. However, few games allow you to create entire ecosystems and literally create everything right down to a microscopic level. There are games where you oversee civilizations, games that allow you to control every aspect of your character’s daily lives, and games that allow you to create entire worlds. Have you ever wanted to play god? Well, there are a lot of games out there that allow you to do just that.
Hogwarts years Īt the age of eleven, Minerva attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Now free to be with her kind and to exercise her talents, Minerva saw how her mother sobbed that day, not only out of pride, but also out of envy. The wand she selected was an unusual specimen, 9 and a half inches, fir and dragon heartstring. Before coming to the school, she visited Diagon Alley and purchased her wand from Ollivander's Wand Shop. On Minerva's eleventh birthday, Minerva received her admittance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, at the time headed by Professor Armando Dippet. She was very close to her Muggle father, whom in temperament she resembled more than her mother. As a child, Minerva helped her mother conceal from her father the accidents and embarrassments the young witch's magic sometimes caused. She later had two brothers, Malcolm and Robert Jnr, who revealed magical ability in due course. The two parents remained together despite the shocking revelation, but their trust never was the same, much to the sadness of their perceptive daughter. She knew she must confess to her husband about their daughter's wizarding abilities and so she finally did, explaining everything to Robert and telling him that they were bound by the International Statute of Secrecy and that they must conceal the truth about their magical abilities for their safety. Thus, Isobel often secluded herself with Minerva for days at a time. She had no control of her magic and thus inadvertently summoned toys that had been left on upper shelves to her cot, made the family cat do her bidding, and her father's bagpipes play themselves which would cause her to chuckle happily. However, the infant Minerva displayed small but noticeable signs of magic from her earliest hours. ![]() Her birth proved both a joy and a crisis: Isobel had given up the use of her magic for her love of Robert and never told him about her nature as she was afraid to mar the bliss of their wedding. By then, her parents lived on the outskirts of Caithness in the Scottish Highlands, in a village where mostly Muggles lived. She was the couple's first child and was named after her mother's grandmother, a very powerful witch. Minerva McGonagall was born on 4 October to Robert McGonagall, a Muggle Presbyterian minister, and his wife Isobel Ross, a witch.
He alleges in his petition that there are many separate leasehold estates for the production of petroleum products from beneath the surface of the earth which are owned by persons not owning land or other real estate sufficient to secure the payment of taxes on those leasehold estates that these estates are created by written leases whereby the owner-lessor of land conveys or grants to the lessee the exclusive right to drill for, produce and have the petroleum products under said land for a fixed time or so long as the products may be produced that all of said lessee interests are taxable property, and the secured tax rates of certain school districts for the current fiscal year of 1944-1945 are higher than the rates for the prior fiscal year of 1943-1944, and if the rate being used by respondent is permitted, the county will not obtain as much revenue. Petitioner, a taxpayer, prays for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent auditor to compute the taxes on those lessee interests in oil leases, hereinafter referred to as lessee interests, according to the current 1944-1945 rates and respondent tax collector to collect the taxes accordingly. The secured roll is that part of the assessment roll containing property, the taxes on which are a lien on real property sufficient in the opinion of the assessor to secure the payment of the taxes, and the unsecured roll constitutes the remainder of the assessment roll. Respondent is engaged in computing the taxes on those interests as though they were unsecured taxes and the interests were listed on the unsecured roll, using the rates on the secured roll for the previous fiscal year, 1943-1944, rather than the rates for the current year, 1944- 1945. The assessor of Los Angeles County has entered in that portion of the assessment roll for the fiscal year 1944-45, designated as the secured roll, the interests of lessees under leases for the production of petroleum products, and the assessment roll has been transmitted by the county board of supervisors to the respondent county auditor to compute the taxes for the current fiscal year. Curtis Smith, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondents. O'Connor, County Counsel (Los Angeles), and A. Lowery, as County Auditor, etc., et al., Respondents. ![]() When you launch the mobile app, the home screen will display the name of your network, its status (online/offline), and tabs for connected devices and nodes. You can manage your Velop network using a web portal or with the Linksys mobile app for Android and iOS devices. The system supports dynamic wireless backhaul as well as wired backhaul, and uses the latest 802.11ax technologies including WPA3 encryption, 1024 QAM, Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) data transmissions, MU-MIMO simultaneous data streaming, and direct-to-client signal beamforming, but it doesn't support 160MHz channel bandwidth. It's a tri-band Wi-Fi 6 system that can reach data rates of up to 600Mbps on the 2.4GHz band, 1,200Mbps on one of the 5GHz bands, and 2,400Mbps on the second 5GHz band. The Velop AX4200 is powered by a 1.4GHz quad-core processor, 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of flash memory. ![]() An On/Off switch, a reset button, and a WPS button are located on the base of each node. The top of each Velop node has an LED status indicator that turns blue when connected, red when it loses its internet connection, yellow when it's out of range of another node, and purple during setup. Other Wi-Fi systems such as the TP-Link X60 AX3000 and the TrendNet TEW-830MDR2K are equipped with only two LAN ports. Linksys puts all that bulk to good use: Each node has four Gigabit Ethernet ports (3 LAN, 1 WAN) and a USB 3.0 port. They stand 9.6 inches tall and are 4.5 inches in width and depth. This system uses the same big white enclosures as the Velop MX10. Rapid antigen tests hold much promise for use in the school environment. The success of this strategy depends, however, on the accuracy of the rapid test in correctly identifying those who are infectious. Rapid testing allows for quick identification of potentially infectious individuals so that they can be isolated and removed from the school environment. One strategy that has been proposed for safer re-opening of schools is rapid COVID-19 testing of students and staff as an adjunct to public health safety measures. Closure of schools and remote learning has been theorized to lead to worse educational and mental health outcomes compared with in-person instruction and has added immense stress to parents and caregivers. It has led to shutdowns of many sectors across the country, including in-person learning in schools. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed the way we live. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Hilton Foundation for the study and reported serving as a scientific advisor to Payssurance and American Medical Association and receiving grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, Abbott Diagnostics, Health Care Services Corporation, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute outside the submitted work. Sood reported receiving funding from Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti City of Los Angeles, Rockefeller Foundation, and Conrad R. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: Dr. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting information files.įunding: This work was supported grants to the University of Southern California by the Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti City of Los Angeles Rockefeller Foundation and Conrad R. Received: FebruAccepted: MaPublished: April 5, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Sood et al. PLoS ONE 16(4):Įditor: Etsuro Ito, Waseda University: Waseda Daigaku, JAPAN (2021) Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: Implications for screening in a school setting. 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