ExpandChrist the King head coach Troy Caldwell talks with his team on the floor during Friday night's game at Bishop McNamara. (Nicholas Holstein) It’s been a few decades, but Alex Renchen still remembers the type of player Troy Caldwell was on his late 1988 Kankakee Junior High eighth grade team that made a run to the IESA State Finals. “He was a really hard worker and a defensive guy,” Renchen recalled. “A real hard worker and a real good kid.” Caldwell played for Renchen and then Keith Decker at Kankakee High School, where he graduated from in 1992. Now the head coach of the boys basketball team at Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood, Caldwell returned to his hometown on Friday when the Gladiators visited Bishop McNamara Friday, leaving town with a 67-49 victory. And in that game, Caldwell got to see his former coach, Renchen, who’s now an assistant at McNamara. Not only did Caldwell play for Renchen in junior high, but it’s also Renchen who gave him his start in coaching as the sixth grade coach at Kankakee’s King Middle School. “I owe my coaching career and the start of my coaching career to coach Alex Renchen,” Caldwell said. “What I do defensively, what I do from a philosophical standpoint, from a programmatic standpoint of running I program, I learned that being under a good head coach like him, playing underneath him and coaching underneath him. " ... That’s my mentor. It’s always good to see him personally," he added. “We communicate a lot via text, via social media, but to see him is always a delight for me.” Caldwell began his high school coaching career under Ron Ashlaw at Chicago Laboratory Prep (now Chicago University Prep) for a year before taking over in 2006-07, leading the program to its first-ever iHSA Regional plaque in 2009-10. He went to Robeson, Carver and Julian in the Chicago Public Schools until he took over at Christ the King ahead of the 2018-19 school year. Since then, the Gladiators have had winning seasons every season, with Caldwell boasting a 138-65 record at Christ the King. They won their first regional in eight years last year, when they went 30-5. Renchen was honored that Caldwell gives him so much credit for his success as a head coach, and after seeing the Gladiators up close Friday, has confidence a regional plaque is one of a few that they’ll end up winning this year. “It’s great to see him do well,” Renchen said. “I’m looking forward to watching him at state.” Caldwell is far from the only member of his family to be involved in education. His twin sister, Tracy Verrett, serves on the Kankakee School Board. His sister, Leslee Caldwell, teaches at King and his niece, Bryanna Caldwell, is a nurse at Avis Huff Student Support Services. He had several family members on hand Friday, as well as friends and his family at Second Baptist Church and Pastor Tyler J. Prude, come out to see him and his team in action Friday, a true blessing. “I’m thankful for my community, my church community,” Caldwell said. “I’m just happy to be here, be around family, be around friends, and it’s just a blessing to be here.” https://daily-journal.com/sports/boys-basketball-kankakee-native-caldwell-returns-home-reunites-with-former-coach-renchen/article_91e02266-dae3-11ef-991c-0b021af75b18.html Copyright © 2023 Shaw Local News Network Arm Holdings PLC’s Chinese venture is appointing a local chip veteran to be its new chief executive officer seeking to consolidate leadership to better navigate fast-paced geopolitical and technological shifts Fujian Province-based chipmaker Rockchip Electronics Co (瑞芯微電子) according to people familiar with the matter The appointment will be made after this week’s Lunar New Year holiday Liu Renchen (劉仁辰) and Eric Chen (陳恂) will resign their posts as co-CEOs founder of joint venture partner Hopu Investment Management Co (厚樸投資管理) Chen Feng’s appointment closes the chapter to a tumultuous period for Arm’s China outpost The new CEO will be in charge of helping the Cambridge UK-based company adapt to a changing landscape as the prospect of cheaper artificial intelligence (AI) creates new tech winners and losers: Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s (深度求索) arrival as a serious contender to OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc sparked a US$1 trillion rout on Monday That threatens to upend assumptions in the lucrative datacenter market that the semiconductor designer is now targeting The two co-CEOs have served as interim leaders of Arm China since the 2022 ouster of former CEO Allen Wu (吳雄昂) who was fired in 2020 for alleged conflicts of interest but refused to leave with the co-CEOs juggling commitments elsewhere according to people familiar with Arm China’s operations Liu is affiliated with the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen who joined the board while a managing partner at the Softbank Vision Fund Given the limitations on the two co-CEOs’ time full-time CEO to help the joint venture better navigate the fast-paced technological and geopolitical shifts of the industry Arm — whose chip designs are used in most of the world’s smartphones including Apple Inc’s iPhone — is on the front lines of a US-China technological rivalry that has resulted in US-led export curbs on the most advanced AI chips Arm and other US businesses operating in China are grappling with growing tensions as Beijing warily eyes US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and his threats of more tariffs Majority-owned by Japan’s Softbank Group Corp Arm sells chip designs and licenses code that helps software communicate with processors Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot Get the most important global markets news at your fingertips with a Bloomberg.com subscription. Extreme temperatures and air pollution have raised widespread concerns about their impact on population health. To explore the quantitative exposure risks of high/low temperatures and types of air pollutants on the health of various populations in urban areas in China, this study assessed the effects of temperature and air pollutants on daily non-accidental deaths in Rencheng District, Jining City, China from 2019 to 2021. Exposure to extreme temperatures and air pollutants in the Rencheng District was associated with an increased mortality rate. Under the influence of climate change, it is necessary for policymakers to take measures to reduce the risk of non-accidental deaths among residents. Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1241385 This article is part of the Research TopicUrban Air Pollution: Sources, Characterization and MitigationView all 6 articles Background: Extreme temperatures and air pollution have raised widespread concerns about their impact on population health Aim: To explore the quantitative exposure risks of high/low temperatures and types of air pollutants on the health of various populations in urban areas in China this study assessed the effects of temperature and air pollutants on daily non-accidental deaths in Rencheng District Methods: A combination of Poisson regression models and distributed lag non-linear models was used to examine the relationships between temperature We found that temperature and air pollutants had a significant non-linear effect on non-accidental mortality Both high and low temperatures had a noticeable impact on non-accidental deaths with heat effects occurring immediately and lasting 2–3 days while cold effects lasted for 6–12 days The relative risks of non-accidental deaths from PM2.5 and SO2 were highest in winter and lowest in autumn The relative risk of non-accidental deaths from O3 was highest in spring with no significant variations in other seasons Older adults (≥75) and outdoor workers were at the greatest risk from temperature and air pollutant exposure Conclusions/interpretation: Exposure to extreme temperatures and air pollutants in the Rencheng District was associated with an increased mortality rate it is necessary for policymakers to take measures to reduce the risk of non-accidental deaths among residents With an increase in global temperatures and the universality of air pollution the intensity and frequency of extreme temperatures and high concentration pollutant events are increasing rapidly Due to higher vulnerability and limited capacity to adapt to extreme temperatures and air pollutants developing countries are more likely to sustain health threats associated with extreme temperatures and air pollutants than are developed countries China has been the subject of few comprehensive research studies exist on the serious impact of extreme temperatures and air pollution on population health which is an urgent need for analysis especially in non-metropolitan cities China has been the focus of few comprehensive research studies on the serious impact of extreme temperatures and air pollution on population health and seasonal differences in industrial cities (especially non-metropolitan cities); therefore it is appropriate to evaluate the non-accidental deaths caused by extreme temperatures and air pollution from 2019 to 2021 in Jining the most populous of China’s top 10 coal cities The model is not limited to the study of the effects of air pollution or temperatures on human health but can also be extended to any time series study exploring relationships between predictive variables and outcomes as well as lagging effects covering many fields such as climate and environmental studies we employed a DLNM method to investigate the relationships between temperature and non-accidental deaths considering nonlinear time lag effects which is a coal city with large population The purpose of this paper is to (1) explore the interactions and seasonal differences between extreme temperatures and air pollutants; (2) investigate the roles of extreme temperatures and air pollutants in non-accidental mortality and identify the most vulnerable groups; (3) propose management strategies to assist policy makers in establishing early warning systems to reduce extreme temperature and air pollution exposure and improve the quality and level of public health management for the study area The Rencheng District of Jining City is located in the southwest of Shandong Province in China (35°08′N to 35°32′N, 116°26′E to 116°44′E), with a total area of 651 km2 and about 1.0756 million residents (shown in Figure 1) Located in the East Asian monsoon climate zone Rencheng District is hot and rainy in the summer and cold and dry in the winter there were 383 days where the daily maximum temperature in Jining exceeded 35°C and 243 days with a minimum temperature below −10°C As the largest coal industrial base in Shandong Province and a top 10 coal city in China there were 373 days of light pollution and 24 days of heavy pollution in Rencheng District A study of the severe effects of extreme temperatures and air pollution on population health in Rencheng District is expected to provide data to local policy makers to mitigate the health losses caused by extreme temperatures and air pollution The geographical location of the Rencheng District daily mortality counts from the Rencheng district of Jining between January 2019 and December 2021 were collected from the Jining Center for Disease Control and Prevention The non–accidental death data comprised 21,647 cases in the Rencheng District during the study period and were classified according to gender (male according to the occupational classification of the People’s Republic of China we adjusted the occupational system of the People’s Republic of China into eight categories and divided them into indoor workers and outdoor workers according to the characteristics of work the indoor workers included: (1) the heads of state organs (4) social production service and life service personnel; while the outdoor workers included: (1) agricultural and (4) other employees who are inconvenient to classify The effects of temperature and air pollutants on mortality depend not only on immediate exposure on a given day but also on exposure over the several preceding days (lag effect) considering the simultaneously nonlinear and lag effects of temperature and air pollutants on non-accidental mortality we employed a distributional lag nonlinear model (DLNM) to evaluate the exposure response relationship In order to capture the lagged and non-linear associations a corresponding cross-basis for the observed time series of each influencing factor was established to specify the exposure-lag-response dependency simultaneously in the current and lagged dimensions The day of the week (DOW) was set as a dummy variable to control the influence of pollutant emission cycle characteristics Table 1 summarizes the basic statistics for non-accidental mortality and air pollutant concentrations in the Rencheng District from 2019 to 2021 the daily mean concentrations were 51.8 μg/m3 for PM2.5 According to the current air quality standards in the residential area of China the annual standard values are 35 μg/m3 for PM2.5 The PM2.5 concentration exceeded the annual mean level of the national grade II and O3 concentrations did not exceed this level The annual average values of the daily minimum a total of 21,647 non-accidental deaths occurred in the Rencheng District including 11 deaths in men and nine deaths in women; 11 deaths in indoor workers and nine deaths in outdoor workers; and three deaths in people aged 0–59 years five deaths in people aged 60–74 years and 12 deaths in people aged >75 years Table 2 and Figure 2 show the seasonal variations of temperature (daily minimum temperature and non-accidental deaths in the Rencheng District from 2019 to 2021 Non-accidental deaths showed a seasonal pattern with higher counts in winter and lower counts in summer the average number of daily non-accidental deaths was 20.04 Temperature and pollutant concentration showed relatively stable annual trends Temperature and O3 showed a seasonal trend of high values in the summer and low values in the winter and NO2 were highest in the winter and lowest in the summer Seasonal variation in PM2.5 concentration was most obvious and was three times higher in the winter (81.32 μg/m3) than in the summer (26.8 μg/m3) Seasonal variation in SO2 concentration was the weakest and was 1.6 times higher in the winter (16 μg/m3) than in the summer (10.1 μg/m3) and air pollution concentrations in Rencheng The results of Spearman’s correlation analysis are shown in Table 3 where non-accidental deaths were positively correlated with PM2.5 there was a significant positive correlation between PM2.5 and NO2 were negatively correlated with O3 and temperature with statistical significance (p < 0.01) The strongest positive correlation was found between O3 and daily maximum temperature (r = 0.764) and the strongest negative correlation was found between NO2 and daily minimum temperature (r = −0.647) The strong association between air pollutants and meteorological elements suggested an inherent link between the two and that the effects on human health were not univocal suggesting that the interaction of temperature and air pollutants has a non-negligible health effect on the population Figure 3 shows two-dimensional and three-dimensional plots of the relationship between daily minimum/maximum temperature and relative risk (RR) of non-accidental mortality for the 14 lag days From Both extreme high and extreme low temperatures led to an increased risk of non-accidental mortality; the effect on mortality tended to last longer on cold days and the RR maximum tended to be higher on hot days The cold effect was primarily long-term on non-accidental mortality which tended to be strongest on lag day 2 with an RR of 1.09 and could last for about 6–12 days the heat effects on non-accidental mortality were mainly short-term with the strongest effect on lag day 0 (RR = 1.08) and lasting for about 2–3 days (A) Relative risk of mortality by daily minimum temperature over 14 lag days (B) Relative risk of mortality by daily maximum temperature over 14 lag days the low temperature ranged from P1 to P25 (−9.4–6.5°C) and high temperature ranged from P75 to P99 (24.4–32.3°C) of the daily average temperature in Rencheng District which were used as the temperature thresholds for the low temperature effect and the high temperature effect The percentage of non–accidental mortality increases caused by each 1°C decrease/increase in lag 0–14 days was calculated The results showed that when the average daily temperature varied between P1 and P25 (−9.4–6.5°C) and the non-accidental mortality rate increased by 0.56% (95% CI: −1–2%) for every 1°C decrease in temperature when the average daily temperature varied between P75 and P99 (24.4–32.3°C) the non-accidental mortality rate increased by 0.58% (95% CI: −2–3%) for every 1°C increase in temperature In order to investigate air pollutants and their corresponding seasonal influence on non-accidental mortality, the cumulative RRs increased by year, and seasonal impacts of PM2.5, NO2, SO2, and O3 concentrations across 14 lag days were calculated and plotted in Figure 4 the cumulative RR of non-accidental death was highest for NO2 exposure and tended to be less than 1 for O3 concentration The cumulative RR of non-accidental death increased by 0.05 (95% CI: 0.02–0.07) and 0.04 (95% CI: −0.02–0.09) for every 10 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 Cumulative 14-day relative lag risk of non-accidental mortality for every 10 μg/m3 increase in air pollution concentration and NO2) on non-accidental death were consistent with the concentration variation over seasons which exhibited the highest risk in winter and the lowest risk in autumn NO2 had the greatest effect on non-accidental mortality among all the pollutants with RRs of 1.11 (95% CI: 1.01–1.21) and 1.19 (95% CI: 1.01–1.39) in spring and winter for every 10 μg/m3 increase in NO2 the cumulative effect of O3 on non-accidental mortality was highest in the spring and lowest in the summer; the difference was not significant in other seasons air pollutants increased the mortality risk in the winter and spring as indicated by generally increased RR values Table 4 summarizes the effects of temperature and air pollutants on the non-accidental mortality of different subgroups The maximum mortality risk caused by the individual and combined effects of temperature and air pollutants over the 14-day lag period for each subgroup was calculated both males and females were susceptible to temperature and air pollutants males were more susceptible to the effects of temperature and temperature-air pollutant interactions; the maximum RR was highest at lag 0 day at respective values of 1.22 and 1.30 Females were more susceptible to the effects of NO2 and SO2; the maximum RR was highest over lag 0–2 days at 1.21 and 1.30 outdoor workers were more affected by temperature and air pollutants than indoor workers due to greater exposure Both outdoor workers and indoor workers were more susceptible to temperature-air pollutant interactions with the strongest effects on lag day 0 (RR = 1.29 PM2.5 had the longest lag time for outdoor workers and was strongest on lag day 8 with an RR of 1.12 and lasting for about 12 days SO2 had the longest lag time for indoor workers and was the strongest on lag day 5 (RR = 1.17) and lasting for about 9 days The effect analysis on non-accidental mortality by age group showed that the older adults (≥75) were most affected by temperature and air pollution and the RR of the temperature-air pollutant interactions was highest (1.31) People aged 60–74 years were more likely to be affected by temperature and temperature-air pollutant interactions which reached a maximum on day 0 of lag (RR = 1.23) People aged 0–59 years were more susceptible to SO2 (RR = 1.26) temperature and air pollutants had a significant impact on non-accidental mortality in Rencheng most highly affecting outdoor workers and the older adults we examined the effects of temperatures and air pollutants on non-accidental mortality in the Rencheng District Our results indicated that both extreme cold/heat waves and air pollutants increase the risk of non-accidental deaths in the study area The vulnerability of populations to temperatures and air pollutants varied depending on gender The present study suggests that the Rencheng District should focus on response to extreme heat events for local designation of relevant public health policies and reducing disease burdens and concentrations exceeded the national secondary standard level O3 concentration had no obvious effect on non-accidental deaths in the Rencheng District July–August in Jining is the rainy season Rainfall plays a role in flushing and purifying air which shows a weak purification effect on air pollutants and may even experience aggravated air pollution Relevant government departments should pay attention to the seasonal effects of air pollution In order to reduce the concentrations of PM2.5 the emission of automobile exhaust and coal burning should be controlled in winter and the emission of O3 should be reduced in spring Only the data from the Rencheng District between 2019 and 2021 were collected and analyzed in this study especially that of people aged 0–59 years It is necessary to increase data collection period in the future this is an ecological study and there is no individual information such as smoking which may have some influence on the results extreme temperature and air pollutants were shown to increase the risk of non-accidental deaths in the Rencheng District The incidence of non-accidental death was higher and the lag time was shorter in the warm season Those older than 75 years and outdoor workers were more sensitive to extreme temperatures and air pollutants than younger people and indoor workers Results in this study provide useful information for local governments and other countries with similar climate characteristics to develop relevant preventive interventions and improve worldwide public health strategies The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding authors and writing—original draft preparation S-BL and SK: writing—review and editing All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version This study was supported by the 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WGLT interviewed more than a dozen parents, voters, former students, and other stakeholders for a temperature-check on the referendum now that public campaigning is underway whose daughter is a high school senior in Unit 5 Hursey has been involved in the district’s recent efforts on improving equity She’s addressed the school board and serves in a parents’ group There’s some momentum. Last year, Unit 5 hired its first director of diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s now in its second year of an Equity Action Plan with goals such as decreasing racial disparities in student discipline and trying to launch diversity clubs at elementary schools “We had to really push to help them understand that this is a problem that needs to be resolved,” Hursey said Hursey said she educated herself on the referendum if those basic services are going to be cut equity could be on the table as well,” she said because regardless we’re going to continue to push But it doesn’t help the case if there’s no funding to go along with that.” Others don’t see that direct connection to equity Jasmyn Jordan graduated from Normal West in 2021. There, she was an influential student leader, helping to create the school’s Black Student Union chapter and becoming a public voice during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020 after George Floyd’s murder Jordan is now a sophomore at the University of Iowa She’s now voting in Iowa so won’t be able to cast a ballot in Illinois “Unit 5 could — and they should be able to — accomplish various equitable goals without having to spend any money,” Jordan said you shouldn’t have to require extra money to be fair Jordan thinks Unit 5 can more responsibly manage the money it already gets from taxpayers “I know there may need to be necessary cuts we need to manage our money properly or face the consequences And we both think the school district needs to do the same.” Jordan said her family back in Bloomington-Normal cannot afford a tax increase right now, though referendum supporters stress that taxes would ultimately go down if the referendum is approved Unit 5’s Education Fund property-tax rate would rise from $2.72 to $3.60 per $100 of assessed value The pro-referendum group Yes For Unit 5 says that would allow the district to stop using high-interest borrowing (called working cash bonds) and let other construction debt expire Yes For Unit 5 says taxpayers would actually see an overall tax rate decrease of 70 cents starting in 2026 This averages out to $420 in annual savings (Editor’s note: WGLT general manager R.C. McBride, a Unit 5 parent, chairs the Yes For Unit 5 steering committee He is not involved in WGLT’s reporting on Unit 5 or the referendum and does not review WGLT’s stories before they are broadcast or published online.) Jade Hursey said those advocating for the referendum need a solid strategy to communicate this and other information with voters who all consume information in different ways “I’m not saying that people can’t comprehend this But are people going to really take the time to truly understand what this is Kyle Renchen and his wife have two kids — one attending elementary school in Unit 5 and another who will start next fall Renchen said they’ve made a real effort to get educated about the referendum including attending the district’s public informational meetings Renchen said he buys Unit 5’s argument that its Education Fund tax rate has only increased by about 10 cents since the 1980s combined with a significant decrease in state funding and increased state mandates “I don’t think anybody enjoys paying more taxes but it’s also not realistic to not change anything in 40 years It would be akin to having the same salary for the last 40 years.” But even Renchen has been critical of the district at times. He was watching last spring when Unit 5’s school board considered budget cuts to music programs. Just before the vote, the school board president told WGLT “people tend not to pay attention to school districts until something happens they're going to start paying more attention.” “I don’t think threatening to cut the fifth-grade band and orchestra program was the right approach If they were using that as a bargaining tool I wish they would have gone about it in a different way,” he said Marcia Hemenway of Normal also cares deeply about Unit 5’s music programs Hemenway said music is even more important now because it can be therapeutic for those who’ve suffered complex trauma such as what kids experienced during two years of the pandemic and start-and-stop online learning My taxes have increased a lot living in Normal please walk me through how there isn’t enough money to include programs that have already been included in your curriculum,” Hemenway said Spend it correctly and keep the programs you already have Why do all of a sudden we need more money for those programs?” Mandy Nicolaides of Normal is carrying a lot of history with Unit 5 as she considers how to vote this fall But instead he’s traveling several hours every day to a school in Jacksonville for those who are deaf or hard of hearing where Unit 5 placed him He’s deaf in his right ear and has a rare genetic condition called TUBB3 She suspects he’s on the autism spectrum though he doesn’t have that formal diagnosis Nicolaides said her son briefly attended a behavioral program at Colene Hoose Elementary in Normal that serves as a special education hub for Unit 5 She called that experience a “nightmare” for her family and that she felt the district’s staff lacked sufficient expertise in neurodiversity where all these kids are the same,” Nicolaides said Nicolaides is listening to the discourse around the referendum She’s hoping to hear about more money being allocated to special education so Unit 5 can “become better and treat our children better.” She said she doesn’t have faith in the district “Are you raising taxes and then using that money to then turn around and fight parents for services that their children need Because I feel like they do that a lot,” Nicolaides said Josh Jensen has some experience fighting for what he wants Jensen has four kids in Unit 5 right now — two at Normal Community and two in elementary school. They’re a very musical family. His oldest plays violin in the NCHS orchestra. The other kids are in choir. His wife was in the marching band. He’s the president of the Unit 5 Music Parents group a nonprofit that supports all music throughout the district Jensen was front and center — and very much opposed — last spring when the Unit 5 school board considered music program cuts Those proposed cuts to fifth-grade band and orchestra program were averted “We knew then that the fight wasn’t over,” Jensen said He’s now worried about what happens if the referendum fails music is not the only thing they care about “I have a daughter on the swim team at Normal Community I’ve got a son and daughter who love baseball and softball So they’ve already talked about playing in junior high and they might not get that chance if this doesn’t happen,” Jensen said Jensen said the general public does not yet understand the facts of the referendum. He said he was happy to see the Yes For Unit 5 community group go public last week “We want to make sure we sticking to the facts of it There’s always a lot of emotions that goes into this kind of stuff We want to make sure we’re explaining the value of what it will mean for our children,” Jensen said Become a WGLT sponsor You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience A new study details how floating photovoltaics impact wind flow and irradiance on lakes with the effect of influencing water temperature at different depths the report’s authors say more research is needed on how to design systems for maximum benefit to the water bodies themselves Floating PV power plant installed on Lake Maiwald with a net capacity of 749 kWp near Renchen/Baden Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE In their study of a 749 kW FPV system on the lake the researchers investigated the impact of the system on near-surface lateral wind flow and energy balance using extensive meteorological and hydrological measurements The group found that the uppermost water layers show large water temperature differences (ΔTw) variability depending on the time of day negative ΔTw values can be observed in the near-surface layer indicating a cooling effect of the system The depth and standard deviation of mean water temperature differences show a strong negative correlation (r = −0.87) The fluctuations of the water temperature differences are significantly higher in the depth range of 0 to 5 m than in the depth range of 5 to 10 m (p = 0.0007).” Researchers say the findings could indicate that the effect of FPV is mainly reflected in the upper water layers as well as that different effects can be expected during the day and night with the strongest cooling occurring in the near-surface water layer To determine the effects of the FPV on the lake inputting data from measurements of global horizontal irradiance (GHI) above and below the modules the team used data generated by small wind transmitters to analyze differences in near-surface lateral wind speed due to the system “Based on the sensitivity analysis of the wind reduction it can be observed that the impact of FPV on the near-surface wind speed can have a considerable effect on the thermal properties of the lake,” the study notes “While the measured reductions in irradiance (73%) and wind (23%) imply a counteracting effect to climate change high wind reductions can have a stabilizing effect on the stratification and significantly increase the surface water temperatures in extreme years such as 2018 could further amplify the expected effects of climate change.” The group says the above complexities mean that more research should be done to monitor the interaction between FPVs and water so that systems can be specifically designed “to achieve beneficial effects for the water bodies with regard to climate change.” Their findings are available in the report “The impact of floating photovoltaic power plants on lake water temperature and stratification,” published in scientific reports More articles from Bernadette Geyer Please be mindful of our community standards and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" This website uses cookies to anonymously count visitor numbers. View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close Get the most important global markets news at your fingertips with a Bloomberg.com subscription Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) is investigating the impact of floating PV systems on oxygen levels and water temperature The study is focused on determining whether floating PV systems deployed by Erdgas Südwest in southern Germany have altered the lake’s thermal stratification and oxygen content From pv magazine Germany Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer ISE are investigating the impact that floating PV arrays have on lake ecosystems Together with the energy supplier Erdgas Südwest the researchers are investigating the effects of a floating PV system deployed on a quarry pond in Leimershein The company installed the 1.5 MW system on more than 6,500 floating structures hosting 3,744 solar panels The lake is 18 hectares in size and around 8% of its surface is covered by the solar array The research team will permanently attach twelve sensors to the system and the lake around it It wants to use the sensors to document the oxygen content carbon dioxide content and the availability of various nutrients we will be able to better determine what the perfect ratio between lake and facility area should be positive effects on water quality,” explained Fraunhofer ISE researcher Konstantin Ilgen “Our previous measurements in the Renchen quarry lake suggest that with an area occupancy of up to 10% hardly any effects on the lake are to be expected the researchers also examined the effects of the floating solar system in Renchen using stationary and mobile probes It turned out that the system had little influence on the oxygen content or thermal stratification of the lake the system only covers 2% of the water surface The Fraunhofer ISE team also found that the structure of the photovoltaic system prevented the wind from coming into contact with the water surface and therefore had no cooling effect the modules shade the water surface and thus provide cooling The research project in Leimersheim is expected to deliver results in around two years Natural gas Südwest is supporting another research project on site The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is currently investigating the effects of the floating photovoltaic system on the biology of the quarry lake More articles from Marian Willuhn Volume 9 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.980384 existing seascapes containing natural habitats such as biogenic reefs or plant-dominated systems human-made habitats ranging from artificial reefs to energy extraction infrastructure and shoreline installments Despite the mixture of natural and artificial habitats across seascapes the distribution and extent of these two types of structured habitats are not well understood but are necessary pieces of information for ocean planning and resource management decisions we quantified the amount of seafloor in the southeastern US (SEUS; 103,220 km2 in the Atlantic Ocean; 10 – 200 m depth) covered by artificial reefs and natural reefs We developed multiple data-driven approaches to quantify the extent of artificial reefs within state-managed artificial reef programs and then drew from seafloor maps and published geological and predictive seafloor habitat models to develop three estimates of natural reef extent Comparisons of the extent of natural and artificial reefs revealed that artificial reefs account for substantially less habitat (average of two estimates 3 km2; <0.01% of SEUS) in the region than natural reefs (average of three estimates 2,654 km2; 2.57% of SEUS) and that this pattern holds across finer regional groupings (e.g. Our overall estimates suggest that artificial reef coverage is several orders of magnitude less than natural reef coverage While expansive seafloor mapping and characterization efforts are still needed in SEUS waters our results fill information gaps regarding the extent of artificial and natural reef habitats in the region providing support for ecosystem-based management and demonstrating an approach applicable to other regions We focus on the SEUS because its continental shelf contains naturally occurring reefs that are now joined by artificial reefs deployed through state-managed artificial reef programs and intended to enhance existing natural habitat and provide sites for fishers and divers to use The extent of artificial reefs in the SEUS has not Figure 1 Underwater images of artificial reefs (A (B) Artificial reef formed from a train boxcar Photos by John McCord/Coastal Studies Institute (A) We develop and implement a reproducible and easily standardized approach for estimating the extent of artificial and natural reefs in the SEUS we compare the resulting reef extent estimates by reef type (artificial versus natural) and examine patterns in reef extent over the entire SEUS region we also examine reef coverage by the material from which the artificial reef is constructed While our case study was conducted for reefs in the SEUS this approach is translatable to other large marine ecosystems to help better understand the relative coverage and spatial distribution of habitats with implications for marine spatial planning and ecosystem-based fisheries management We binned depth at a fine resolution (10 m) for depths 10 m to 100 m and at a coarser resolution (100 m) for depths 100 m to 200 m Artificial reef data from four SEUS states – NC FL – were obtained from the NC Division of Marine Fisheries GA Department of Natural Resources – Coastal Resources Division and FL Division of Marine Fisheries Management – Artificial Reef Program Two data types were provided: 1) data on permitted artificial reef zones and 2) data on reef structures that occur in these zones Artificial reef structures deployed within permitted plots include items such as ships Data for each structure included the permitted plot that the structure was deployed within as well as the coordinates of the structure deployment we received depth information on the structures we used depth collected at the level of the permitted plot and applied it to each structure within the plot Data on the quantity of structure deployed Each structure was also categorized more broadly (e.g. unknown) and sometimes accompanied by a more qualitative description (e.g. We standardized and collated structure data from each state into one regional structures dataset There were 137 unique structure classifications across the four SEUS states. We categorized each of the 137 unique structure classifications into 25 broad categories to streamline the diverse structure types and nomenclature across states (Table S1) Each structure category reflected a combination of material (metal and in some cases a sub-type further describing the structure attributes (e.g. We also assigned each structure as low relief (< 2 m height) or high relief (> 2 m height) and as having a low Three data-driven approaches were developed to quantify the extent or footprint of artificial reefs within the SEUS artificial reef programs Multiple approaches were necessary as each state had differing levels of information on artificial reefs NC conducted high-resolution habitat mapping of their artificial reefs and had precise estimates of artificial reef footprint whereas others had not conducted habitat mapping but had quantity data for some structures We calculated the area of permitted artificial reef plots using the raster package (Hijmans, 2020) in R The plot areas represent the total possible coverage of artificial reefs since no plots are fully covered by artificial reef structures When artificial reef data included accurate measurements of the amount of area covered by structures in each plot we used these measurements to calculate artificial reef extent which we refer to as the “measured extent” method was applicable when states had conducted habitat mapping surveys of artificial reefs using instruments such as multibeam echosounders or side-scan sonar that permitted delineation of artificial reef structures to calculate footprints We applied the measured extent method to NC artificial reefs because NC artificial reefs had been mapped using side-scan sonar following an extensive multi-year mapping effort by the NC Artificial Reef Program from which artificial reef structures were manually delineated for area calculations When measured structure footprints were unavailable we estimated the extent of artificial reef structures as a percentage of the permitted plot area which we refer to as the “plot percentage” method used NC data to extrapolate to other states and maximum (4.07%) percentage of artificial reef plots covered by artificial reef structures and maximum structure extents to permitted plots in SC and FL by multiplying the artificial reef plot sizes in each state by the NC mean and maximum values to obtain an estimated mean and maximum coverage value for each SEUS plot The third approach for estimating structure extent, called the “classified structures” method, was based upon the footprint of particular structures, such as concrete pipes or large metal vessels. For each of the 25 broad structure categories (Table S1) Structures from NC and some from FL were associated with measured footprint values Some additional structures in FL had model-predicted footprints from a generalized linear model using a power-link function This model was developed by the FL Artificial Reef Program and used the tonnage of material deployed as a parameter to predict the artificial reef footprint These measured and modeled values provided footprints for discrete deployments of artificial reef structures 20 ft x 20 ft) but not footprints were provided Some of the footprint values also had quantity data tons (a deployment of 100 tons of concrete pipe) or in some cases both count and tonnage values We used these footprint and quantity data to calculate unit footprint as m2/count or m2/ton and then to calculate the unit footprint minimum and maximum across deployments for each structure type tons) but not footprint data were available and maximum unit footprint values and multiplied them by the reported quantity Footprints per count were preferred and used when available When neither quantity nor footprint values were provided for a structure deployment we obtained footprint estimates from artificial reef managers or found the minimum and maximum footprints of all deployments (not per unit) of the same structure type across states and applied those values to estimate footprint For structures with no measured values in the SEUS or manager-estimated footprint values values were obtained from outside the SEUS from other artificial reef data and maximum footprint values in a hierarchical fashion (e.g. etc.) helped estimate uncertainty since there were likely variations in structures within each category (e.g. secondary-use concrete with long or skinny shapes included pipes The seafloor of the SEUS mostly consists of sand or mud, but patches of natural reef habitats occur throughout the region (Powles and Barans, 1980; Parker et al., 1983; Schobernd and Sedberry, 2009) Given the large discrepancies in previous estimates of natural reef extent in the SEUS that range from 3% to 30% we provide updated estimates of the extent of natural reefs in the SEUS using three approaches: 1) polygon delineation We delineated polygons corresponding to natural reefs using a spatial dataset of sonar mapping, survey data, and information from fishers in the SEUS (Text S2) NMB) independently delineated estimated boundaries of natural reefs in ArcGIS Pro the size and shape of natural reef areas were obvious from the multiple data source layers (e.g. dozens of fishing points on top of a clear natural reef from the multibeam sonar map) there were sparse points from fishers and no other correlating evidence of natural reefs in an area so coauthors used their best judgment (independently) to determine if these points indicated a natural reef Because natural reefs are patchy and often occur as a matrix of rock and sand, drawing a polygon around this matrix of natural reef and sand would likely overestimate the amount of natural reef inside of the polygons. Low profile or pavement type reefs face exposure and burial by sediment movement influencing their detectability (Renaud et al., 1997) by drawing polygons around only obvious natural reefs patches of natural reef habitat would likely be missed outside of the polygons we estimated the extent of natural reefs in the SEUS region The first scenario was designed as a low estimate of the extent of natural reef assuming only 50% of the area inside and 0% outside of polygons was natural reef The second scenario was designed as our best approximation of the extent of natural reefs assuming 50% of the area inside and 1% outside of polygons was natural reef Our third scenario was designed as a high estimate of natural reef assuming 100% of the area inside and 2% of the area outside of polygons was natural reef This approach resulted in six total estimates of natural reef extent in each stratum using the polygon delineation approach: estimates from two people and three scenarios we calculated mean and variance of the extent of natural hard-bottom for the overall SEUS To quantify the distribution of natural reef habitats we restricted selection of habitat classes in the dataset to “hard-bottom slope” and “shelf upper slope” and only considered polygons that had confidence rankings from the review process of “probable” and “very high confidence” and omitted confidence rankings of “possible” and “potential” The resulting polygons were converted and gridded into a raster layer with square cell dimensions of 90 m The habitat classes were then reclassified to a binary value where hard-bottom is 1 and no hard-bottom is 0 The model output was a raster grid with cell resolution of 90 m by 90 m We applied a threshold of likelihood values >0.63 which represented an accuracy of greater than 90% at predicting the occurrence of hard-bottom within the grid cell and a <5% false positivity rate This threshold was used to reclassify into a binary raster with cell resolution 90 m by 90 m We also assessed another predictive model for hard-bottom distribution in the SEUS from Dunn and Halpin (2009) but did not include this model in our estimation approaches because it exhibited biases (Text S1) Averaging results from the plot percentage and classified structures approaches resulted in an estimate of 3.00 km2 (<0.01%) of the SEUS seafloor covered by artificial reefs Figure 2 Locations of artificial reefs (A) and natural reefs (B–D) along the southeastern US continental shelf (A) Artificial reef locations correspond to centroids of permitted artificial reef plots and the size of the artificial reef dots corresponding to each plot is not to scale The inset in panel A depicts one NC artificial reef permitted plot (dashed line) and the artificial reef structures (red polygons) within (B) Natural reefs delineated by expert-drawn polygons (C) Natural reefs predicted by the TNC synthesis (D) Natural reefs predicted by the NCCOS model (likelihood >0.63) Figure 3 Extent of artificial reefs (A Measured approach for artificial reef footprint not shown because only applied to NC Black circles represent the maximum and minimum extent values for applicable methods Table 1 Approaches for and corresponding estimates of artificial and natural reef extents Each artificial reef estimation method was several orders of magnitude less than its respective natural reef estimation Figure 4 Footprint (km2) of artificial reefs (A Measured approach for artificial reef footprint was only available in NC Note different y-axis scales between panels (A The three estimates of natural reef coverage exhibited different patterns natural reefs were concentrated in shallower depths whereas in the TNC synthesis the opposite trend was observed natural reefs were more universally distributed across the depth range Figure 5 Extent of artificial reefs (A) and natural reefs (B) by depth bin Twelve artificial reefs did not have assigned values so these artificial reefs permitted plots and structures are not represented in this figure Our estimates based on seafloor maps and published geological and predictive seafloor habitat models suggest that natural reef coverage is less than previous estimates at 2.57% (average of our three approaches) of the SEUS seafloor of artificial reef placement in the seascape cement a future research need to incorporate footprint estimations into ecological projections of artificial reef effects Another benefit of knowing the spatial arrangement of natural reef habitats in the SEUS is in guiding marine spatial planning including marine protected area placement and placement of future artificial reefs in the region since artificial reefs are often installed to supplement existing natural reefs region-wide reef fish sampling programs could consider sampling artificial reefs concurrently with sampled natural reefs to quantify reef-associated fish communities and potential effects from differential fishing pressure on these two types of structured habitat Estimating the extent of artificial reefs was challenging because it involved synthesizing disparate data across a broad geographic region The methods we developed effectively standardized artificial reef data across states and ultimately comparison with natural reef data When we validated the plot percentage estimate by performing the estimation in NC and comparing it to the measured NC footprint we found that the plot percentage approach underestimated the artificial reef footprint as NC permitted zones were typically filled with a higher portion of structures than those in the other states This discrepancy likely reflects different artificial reef development strategies between states NC rarely established new artificial reef plots preferring to continue to develop within existing permitted zones which could explain the inflated artificial reef estimates for reefs in other states sandy habitat within permitted plots is intentionally left devoid of artificial reef structures to provide foraging grounds for select fish species When we validated the classified structure method in NC it overpredicted NC coverage compared to the measured footprint the structure classification estimate accounted for the diversity of artificial reef structure types deployed on the SEUS seafloor and in general estimated a smaller footprint than the plot percentage method The true coverage of artificial reefs likely falls between the plot percentage and classified structure estimates additional habitat mapping efforts following artificial reef deployment would allow delineation of the footprint of deployed artificial reef structures and could help streamline this approach and refine estimates The three approaches to estimating natural reef extent had respective strengths and weaknesses the polygon approach resulted in natural reef extent estimates that were between those predicted by the other two methods the TNC synthesis predicted the highest NR extent compared to the other methods in NC and FL and predicted high natural reef coverage between 100-200 m depths the NCCOS maximum entropy model predicted the lowest NR extent in all states except SC This model seemingly underpredicted natural reef extent in the shallowest and deepest depth groupings This could be explained by the considerable change in relative seafloor complexity from the relatively flat through the steep slope of the shelf edge to the lower slope of the continental shelf The true coverage of natural reefs likely falls within the three natural reef estimation approaches More extensive and concentrated habitat mapping and ground-truthing approaches along the SEUS continental shelf will help improve natural reef extent estimates This study fills gaps in and establishes baseline understanding of artificial and natural reef coverage on the SEUS seafloor by generating the first estimate of artificial reef footprint in the SEUS and simultaneously refining previous regional natural reef extent estimates seafloor mapping and characterization efforts for both artificial and natural reefs along with a more standardized approach to recording and managing quantitative information on artificial reef deployments With projected increases in artificial structures globally including slated offshore wind energy development and potential reef-related impacts from climate change the reproducible approach that we developed for quantifying reef footprint is applicable to other geographic regions and ultimately provides support for regional marine spatial planning needs and accompanying ecosystem-based management The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding authors KM and JR provided Florida artificial reef data ZH and JB provided North Carolina artificial reef data RM and CB provided South Carolina and Georgia artificial reef data NB and CS delineated natural reef polygons and performed 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Paxton, YXZlcnkucGF4dG9uQG5vYWEuZ292 2025 that it has appointed Feng Chen as its new CEO following the departure of co-CEOs Renchen Liu and Eric Chen Feng Chen held key positions at SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation) where he served as the Director of the Design Services Department and Head of the Department Feng Chen previously worked as a researcher at Nokia Bell Labs in the US focusing on mobile chip design and R&D He also served as the Vice General Manager of Chinese IC design company Rockchip where he led product planning and marketing operations before his recent departure Feng Chen will assume the role immediately while former co-CEOs Renchen Liu and Eric Chen will transition to advisory positions The leadership change comes amid a series of significant personnel changes and challenges that Arm China has faced since its establishment These developments have complicated the company's management and overall strategy in the Chinese market Management tensions emerged in 2018 between Arm China and Arm Holdings due to complex shareholder structures and differences in strategic direction frequent executive changes raised concerns about the company's governance and future stability A particularly significant disruption occurred in 2020 when then-CEO Allen Wu's management style and strategic decisions were questioned by Arm Holdings This led to a complex and prolonged internal power struggle with the parent company Allen Wu maintained his position as CEO with support from local Chinese shareholders as the board and Arm Holdings established stronger control over Arm China Wu ultimately stepped down from the CEO role and left the company Wu hasn't updated his LinkedIn profile yet Allen Wu replaced by co-CEOs Renchen Liu and Eric Chen The replacement of the Arm China CEO appears to be a rapidly developing story. On Wednesday, we reported on Allen Wu's exit being imminent when Arm went to court to get new business registration documents and a new seal (sometimes called a chop) issued Wu had steadfastly refused to let go of these important symbols of ownership in Chinese business with the wheels of business law looking like they were going to roll over Mr the stubborn Arm China boss claimed there were flaws in the business registration process by which new documents and a new seal were issued He also published a letter to Arm China's WeChat page said that the organization would continue with Wu as the leader even though the court issued documents and a seal an Arm spokesperson insisted all Chinese law had been followed in full with a new seal and business license granted by Chinese governmental authorities in Shenzhen "The relevant agency in Shenzhen has registered Dr Liu as the company's legal representative and general manager and duly issued a new chop and business license to Dr Renchen Liu is a vice dean at the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen a managing partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund It seems pretty certain that Wu's attempts to stay on his throne aren't quite over yet but this might be a significant milestone for Softbank/Arm Ltd in taking back control of its Chinese Joint Venture Wu has previously acted in ways out of the ordinary for a big tech boss. For example, when Arm first tried to fire him, he posted security guards at Arm China premises to stop outside execs from visiting the business he had previously been suspected of setting up an investment firm competing with Arm's business in China Wu's rogue Arm China operation boasted of declaring independence from Arm Ltd and having its own China R&D team of 400+ scientists Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews Arm owner Softbank must feel relieved if its China JV issues are finally over. For example, Arm China had previously refused outside auditing, which was enough of a stumbling block for the doomed Nvidia deal. With the Arm IPO being readied by Softbank Arm China CEOs working in concert with the parent company should help make the process as smooth as possible He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason Dynatron coolers support up to 660W for Intel Diamond Rapids and AMD Venice CPUs Intel hedges its bet for High-NA EUV with the 14A process node — an alternate Low-NA technique has identical yield and design rules Windows 11 24H2 update is now automatically downloading on some PCs Ryan McMorrow in Beijing and Anna Gross in London selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter the new chief executive of Arm’s China unit found a six-man security team barring his entrance to the UK chip designer’s offices glasses pressed to his nose and khakis hiked up to his belly button was determined to enter and resolve a two-year corporate battle Gaining control over the renegade Chinese unit is crucial to plans being drawn up by Arm’s owner to list the UK’s biggest technology company Last week, Shenzhen officials finally agreed to remove Arm China head Allen Wu clearing his name from business records and fashioning a new “chop” which authorises official documents and with which Wu has wielded power for nearly two years the other side is not putting it on a silver platter,” said a person close to Arm China’s board This account of the battle for control of Arm China is based on multiple people with direct knowledge of the events Arm and SoftBank did not respond to requests for comment The stand-off ended after police descended on Arm’s 24th-floor offices and hauled away two of Wu’s guards unsmiling photo in front of big Chinese characters suspended in the office fountain: Anmou Keji or Arm Technology Arm China’s new chief executive Liu Renchen poses after entering the offices © Arm ChinaBut recapturing the Shenzhen office this past Friday proved only a partial victory as Wu’s team notified employees in the city to work from home until further notice both sides have bombarded Arm China’s roughly 800 staff with messages Wu’s team sent instructions to report “requests for any information or to execute any command” to their current supervisors “to prevent disclosing non-public information to the outside” his loyalists in control of the IT system blocked emails and deleted internal messages from the new Arm-backed leadership team that instructed employees and managers to stop obeying Wu His team had also retained the bank accounts social media accounts and headquarters in Shanghai Liu’s emails began to land in staff inboxes used by Wu to propagate attacks on SoftBank as a “big Western capital consortium” bent on stymying China’s chip industry When Arm and its Chinese partner Hopu Investments do fully regain control of the venture it will be of a company that Wu has remade over two years of unfettered power He has systematically removed disloyal employees and fostered personal loyalty by handing out bonuses and perks while hiring dozens of staff Recent Chinese new year red envelopes full of cash were stamped with the character for his surname “Wu” rather than the company name He has also pushed the idea internally that “Anmou Keji” is an independent company dedicated to the build-up of China’s semiconductor industry messaging that has led some rank and file staff to consider Liu an illegitimate successor 430 Arm China employees signed an open letter backing Wu “The Anmou Keji team backs the leadership of Allen Wu and will unswervingly follow the path of independent development and self-improvement working together to build Anmou Keji into a great Chinese technology company!” the letter said While some employees said they were under pressure to sign their admiration for Wu and his willingness to continue supplying chip designs to Chinese national champion Huawei in the face of Washington’s sanctions is genuine A similar open letter released two years ago at the dispute’s outset was used as a loyalty test with several employees who didn’t sign demoted said he was stripped of 80 per cent of his critical customer accounts because he declined to add his name The corporate battle highlighted the perils of doing business in China for foreign investors lured by the appeal of the vast market At nearly every turn, Arm and its owner SoftBank have been outmanoeuvred by local operators. Communist party-controlled courts never held an official hearing on lawsuits connected to the stand-off. In the end, it took the possibility of losing Arm’s direct participation in the local joint venture for the Chinese government to act Replacing Wu as co-CEO and in the critical role of legal representative is Liu a government adviser and businessman who has married his career with the interests of the state he has worked to facilitate technology transfer to China with a stint in San Francisco recruiting tech talent and projects to Shenzhen He currently leads a state-backed venture called Shenzhen Qingyan Technology Transfer Co People involved said Liu was a compromise candidate chosen to satisfy Chinese officials and clear the way for the return of Arm China to its majority shareholders Arm’s energy-efficient chip blueprints are a crucial piece of the puzzle in the country’s race to catch up with the US in semiconductors Arm’s designs underpin almost every smartphone But as with any foreign product critical to China’s tech supply chain To tamp down those concerns and further embed Arm’s designs in China’s booming electronics industry the UK company established a joint venture in 2018 Chinese investment firm Hopu took a 36 per cent stake and Wu criss-crossed the country to rope in other investors “Allen spent months planning the structure of the joint venture to maximise his control,” said one Wu confidant which on paper was ultimately controlled not by Wu Arm executives in Cambridge appear to have been left unaware of the arrangement. It remains unclear what will happen to Wu’s share interests. He has previously demanded as much as $200mn to buy him out People involved say that with the Shenzhen record change Arm and its partner Hopu will eventually gain full control of the company but note the stand-off could still drag on as Shanghai “He has a team of creative lawyers searching for ways to keep him in power,” the person close to the board added He may not be able to continue paying them from Arm China’s accounts for much longer Nian Liu contributed reporting from Beijing Participation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 5th Eastern Economic Forum Discussed in Moscow Get exposure for your startup at RISE 2020 CreditEase’s Tang Ning: China’s Wealth Management Market is Undergoing Five Major Shifts Meet 5 of the best startups selected to represent China at the largest technology event in Asia Lisle won 41-25 over Manteno for girls basketball action Monday night that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser Please enable JavaScript to make this website work Ciel & Terre pioneered the first specific and industrialized floating PV solar system – named Hydrelio The innovative floating solar platform is a cost-effective and durable (resistant to winds and waves) way to make solar panels float on large bodies of water – such as reservoirs irrigation canals or remediation and tailing ponds The company has installed Hydrelio systems all across the world in France https://youtu.be/-EE9XErrTcA In a recent announcement Ciel & Terre proudly shared news of the launching of a new utility-scale 750 kWp floating solar array in Renchen It’s expected to produce 736 MWh per year with its 2,300 plus solar panels Not only was it the company’s first project in Germany but it was also Germany’s first utility-scale floating solar PV power facility Construction began in February and ended in June renewable electricity to the granite mining company Ossola GmbH (who owns the lake where it was installed) The electricity will be used to power their quarry machines with any excess electricity produced being re-injected into the local grid an EnBW subsidiary (one of the biggest German energy company) to develop and construct the project – who chose to collaborate with Ciel & Terre floating structure and installation were all provided by Ciel & Terre This project was actually the company’s inauguration of an unprecedented anchoring system for an FPV plant The installation of the floating PV plant was ambitious because of the site type – it is a 40-hectare quarry lake with gaps dug underwater with variable depths (up to 59m) and another hole planned to be made shortly These physical and operational constraints required for a usual anchoring solution It issued an unprecedented anchoring solution: to install a parabolic mooring line system Neige Breant, Sales manager EMEA and Vincent Pinchou, Project Engineering Manager EMEA, explained to CleanTechnica in an interview: One big anchoring cable is placed at the West side of the array and crosses the lake from South to North Then small cables are linking this big cable to the floating array As the quarry is still in operation in the middle of the lake it was not allowed to stretch cables from the West side of the island up to the West bank of the reservoir the parabolic line has been studied as the anchoring solution the most cost effective the depth of the reservoir on the West side is around 60 m With such a depth the use of divers to install the anchors is too expensive what they did was attach the facility to the banks on three sides and its fourth edge is tied to a cable crossing the pond Ever since Ciel & Terre came up with this new idea, it has used the solution in consulting other projects. The world-premiere floating solar array with a parabolic mooring line could be the answer for projects where anchoring is an issue, thus making it possible to install even more floating solar plants all over the planet By Abenthung Kikon has called upon the youth not to take pride in speaking other language and adopting alien lifestyle but promote their culture and tradition which is their identity passed down by their ancestors Speaking at a one-day seminar organised by Renchen Women Welfare Society (RWWS) for college and higher secondary girl students at Lotha Hoho Ki in Wokha town stated that culture and tradition required attention and due importance to enable other people recognise their distinct identity The seminar was organised on the theme “Traditional weaving: recollect pass on,” in which around 200 students including teachers in-charge from Bailey Baptist College and Libemo Memorial Higherr Secondary Schools attended the event Mhondamo has lauded RWWS for organising such events to educate and create awareness among the girl students about the importance of the age-old traditional practices in weaving He further called upon them to remember their responsibilities and contribute towards building the society has highlighted about the different arts and costumes practiced by the ancestors She further stated that such a programme is necessary in order to save culture and to let the girl students learn about the diminishing arts and other practices spoke on ‘Weave to earn.’ She encouraged the participants to learn the art of weaving which could be a source of earning for livelihood The seminar was followed with an interaction session their significance and usages highlighted at seminar Renchen Women Welfare Society (RWWS) organized a one-day seminar for college and higher secondary girl students on the theme ‘Traditional Weaving: Recollect Mhondamo Ovung was the special guest while former Lotha Eloe Hoho President lauded RWWS for their initiative to educate and create awareness among girl students about the importance of the age-old traditional practices He encouraged the participants to learn the art of weaving and other customary practices of the ancestors as it not only benefits them in many ways but also enables them to know the age-old traditional practices of the forefathers While urging the girl students to be sincere and have determination in their endeavours he called upon them to remember their responsibilities and use them for their future success as women equally contribute to building the nation and the welfare of the society He also reminded them to preserve and conserve the Lotha traditional practices to keep the culture alive Thungbeny Lotha emphasized on the topic ‘Reviving Traditional Weaving Skills for Cultural Identity and Posterity’ She also highlighted the different arts and costumes practiced by the ancestors and their significance and usage She further stated that such kind of program is necessary to save the Lotha culture and to let the girl students learn about the disappearing arts and other practices Yilobeni Lotha dwelled on the topic “Weave to Earn.” More than 200 students from different higher secondary and colleges participated in the seminar delivered the welcome address and Orenponi Ezung proposed the vote of thanks feedback@nagalandtribune.in announced in June 2018 that it sold a majority stake in Arm China and made Arm China a joint venture Arm China will have exclusive control over Arm's IP licenses in China It turns out that they are approaching customers with a contract to 'discount fees' passed the dismissal of CEO Wu in 2020 with 7: 1 against Wu was dismissed as CEO by the board of directors the company seal of Arm China remained in his possession Wu's dismissal procedure could not proceed Wu expelled a senior executive on the side of Arm headquarters and continued to sell Arm licensed products in China as CEO of Arm China Arm's Chinese joint venture declares independence from Arm, steals some licenses and customers in the Chinese market as it is-GIGAZINE What is the future that a super-realistic humanoid development company that reproduces 'human-like' facial expressions and gestures is aiming for? 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