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Philip K. Dick 
 Ubik (1969) uses big networks of psychics and a suspended state after death in creating a state of eroding reality.
Philip K. Dick 
 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974) is about Jason Taverner, a television star living in a dystopic near-future police state.
Philip K. Dick 
 This is no minor inconvenience, as security checkpoints manned by pols and Nats - the police and National Guard - are set up throughout the city to stop and arrest anyone without valid ID.
Philip K. Dick 
 Jason at first thinks that he was robbed, but soon discovers that his entire identity has been erased.
Philip K. Dick 
 There is no record of him in any official database, and even his closest associates do not recognize or remember him.
Philip K. Dick 
 He has only his charisma to help him when he tries to find out what happened to his past and avoid the attention of the pols.
Philip K. Dick 
 In these years, his critical reputation had grown, and this novel was awarded the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Philip K. Dick 
 In an essay written two years before dying, Dick described how he learned from his Episcopalian priest that an important scene in the novel was very similar to a scene in the Acts of the Apostles.
Philip K. Dick 
 Richard Linklater talks about this novel in his movie Waking Life, which begins with a scene reminiscent of another Dick novel, Time out of Joint.
Philip K. Dick 
 This feeling is quickly replaced with increasing confusion, hallucinations and eventually total psychosis.
Philip K. Dick 
 The word VALIS is the acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System; it is the title of a novel.
Philip K. Dick 
 SF has always done so, but it has always played upon the double, on artificial replication or imaginary duplication, whereas here the double has disappeared.
Philip K. Dick 
 There is no more double; one is always already in the other world, an other world which is not another, without mirrors or projection or utopias as means for reflection.
Philip K. Dick 
 We can no longer move "through the mirror" to the other side, as we could during the golden age of transcendence."
Philip K. Dick 
 The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick by Frank Rose, an article from Wired about movies based on the Dick's novels
Philip K. Dick 
 How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later  (Essay by PKD on his "discovery" that we are living in the Roman Empire)
Philip K. Dick 
 Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans, Stanislaw Lem's essay about the state of American science fiction circa 1975 with an extended appreciation of Dick
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Renewable energy commercialization involves many different technologies, including solar photovoltaics, solar thermal power plants, solar heating and cooling systems, wind power, hydroelectricity, geothermal power, biomass, and ocean energy systems.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Renewables contributed 19 percent to our energy consumption and 22 percent to our electricity generation in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Both, modern renewables, such as hydro, wind, solar and biofuels, as well as traditional biomass, contributed in about equal parts to the global energy supply.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$214 billion in 2013, with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind, hydro, solar and biofuels.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Renewable energy resources exist over wide geographical areas, in contrast to other energy sources, which are concentrated in a limited number of countries.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency is resulting in significant energy security, climate change mitigation, and economic benefits.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 In international public opinion surveys there is strong support for promoting renewable sources such as solar power and wind power.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 At the national level, at least 30 nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20 percent of energy supply.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 National renewable energy markets are projected to continue to grow strongly in the coming decade and beyond.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 While many renewable energy projects are large-scale, renewable technologies are also suited to rural and remote areas, where energy is often crucial in human development.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 More than 30 million rural households get lighting and cooking from biogas made in household-scale digesters.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Climate change, pollution, and energy insecurity are significant problems and addressing them requires major changes to energy supply and use.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Renewable energy technologies are essential contributors to the energy supply portfolio, as they contribute to world energy security, reduce dependency on fossil fuels, and help to reduce greenhouse gases.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Climate-disrupting fossil fuels are being replaced by clean, climate-stabilizing, non-depletable sources of energy:
Renewable energy commercialization 
 In global public opinion surveys there is strong support for promoting renewable sources such as solar power and wind power, requiring utilities to use more renewable energy, and providing tax incentives to encourage the development and use of such technologies.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 In 2010, Eurobarometer polled the twenty-seven EU member states about the target "to increase the share of renewable energy in the EU by 20 percent by 2020".
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Most people in all twenty-seven countries either approved of the target or called for it to go further.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 As of 2011, new evidence has shown that there are large risks associated with traditional energy sources, and that major changes to the mix of energy technologies is needed.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 New EPA initiatives targeting air toxics, coal ash, and effluent releases highlight the environmental impacts of coal and the cost of addressing them with control technologies.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Events at the Fukushima nuclear plant have renewed doubts about the ability to operate many nuclear plants safely over the long term.
Renewable energy commercialization 
 Cost estimates for “next generation” nuclear units continue to climb, and lenders are unwilling to finance these plants without taxpayer guarantees.
Mapudungun 
 Even after the arrival of the Spaniards, ethnic groups in Argentina adopted Mapudungun, for instance Patagonians or Tehuelche.
Mapudungun 
 Today, its speakers number 260,000, with 250,000 in the Central Valley of Chile and 10,000 in the Argentinian region of Patagonia.
Impurity 
 Solar cells are made of silicon crystals, but a very small amount of impurity (0.001% to 0.01%) is needed in them to work.
Queen's Hall 
 The first time The Queen's Hall was used was on 25 November 1893 when Newman gave a children's party in the afternoon.
Queen's Hall 
 In the evening about 2000 ladies and gentlemen came to a concert given by the Band of the Coldstream Guards, which included vocal music, piano and organ solos.
Queen's Hall 
 On January 14, 1896, the first public movie show was given at the Queen's Hall to members and wives of the Royal Photographic Society.
Queen's Hall 
 The seats were uncomfortable because there was not enough leg room, so in 1913 and 1919 some changes were made, after which the hall could seat 2400 people.
Queen's Hall 
 Arturo Toscanini, who guest conducted the orchestra during the 1930s, made  some famous recordings in the Queen's Hall in the late 1930s.
Queen's Hall 
 On 10 May 1941 (during the World War II)  the Royal Choral Society gave a concert in the Queen's Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Queen's Hall 
 It was the last concert ever given there because, later that night, the hall was completely destroyed by bombs.
Queen's Hall 
 After the destruction of Queen's Hall, the BBC Symphony Orchestra moved its broadcast concerts and recording sessions to Bedford School.
Queen's Hall 
 Among the great recordings made at the school was Sir Adrian Boult's recording of Elgar's second symphony.
Queen's Hall 
 They also took place in Bristol and Bedford, but after the war they settled in the Royal Albert Hall where they continue today.
Darius I of Persia 
 Darius the Great (c. 549 BC– 486/485 BC) was the son of Hystaspes and Shah of Iran from 522 BC to 485 BC.
Darius I of Persia 
 After Darius became Shah of Iran, he divided the Persian Empire into twenty provinces, and appointed a governor for each province.
Pasargadae 
 The building of the capital city by Cyrus the Great, begun in 546 BCE, but was left unfinished, for Cyrus died in 530 BCE.
Persepolis 
 Persepolis (Old Persian: 'Pars', New Persian: , Takht-e Jamshid) was an ancient capital of the second Iranian dynasty, the Achaemenid Empire.
Shell (zoology) 
 A shell is a hard outer layer, which has evolved in a very wide variety of different animals, including molluscs, sea urchins, crustaceans, turtles and tortoises, armadillos, etc.
Shell (zoology) 
 Seashells are perhaps the most familiar and most common shells, both in the wild and for sale as decorative objects.
Shell (zoology) 
 Small pieces of colored shell and iridescent shell have been used to create mosaics and inlays which have been used to decorate larger items such as boxes and furniture.
Shell (zoology) 
 Large numbers of whole seashells, arranged to form patterns, have been used to decorate man-made grottos.
Shell (zoology) 
 The majority of shell-forming molluscs belong to two classes: Gastropoda (univalves, or snails) and Bivalvia (bivalves or clams, oysters, scallops, etc.).
Tortoise 
 Most are quite small, but island tortoises have several times evolved to a large size: those on the Galapagos are famous.
Tortoise (disambiguation) 
 Tortoises, a 1921 short volume of poetry by D H Lawrence containing poems later collected in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).
Sea turtle 
 Sea turtles (Chelonioidea) are turtles found in all the world's oceans except the Arctic Ocean, and some species travel between oceans.
Sea turtle 
 In British English they are simply called "turtles"; fresh-water chelonians are called "terrapins" and land chelonians are called tortoises.
Sea turtle 
 So, turtles are one of the oldest surviving reptile groups: they are more ancient than snakes or crocodiless.
Sea turtle 
 There are seven species of sea turtle: Kemp's ridley sea turtle, the olive ridley, the flatback, the green, the loggerhead, the hawksbill and the leatherback.
Sea turtle 
 The leatherback sea turtle is the largest, measuring six or seven feet (2 m) in length at maturity, and three to five feet (1 to 1.5 m) in width, weighing up to 2000 pounds (about 900 kg).
Sea turtle 
 Most other species are smaller, being two to four feet in length (0.5 to 1 m) and proportionally less wide.
Sea turtle 
 SWOT – The state of the world's sea turtles – The most up-to-date information on global sea turtle populations
Sea turtle 
 Oceana scientists are tracking turtles in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to find out more about their habits in the deep sea
Report of 1800 
 The Report was the last important writing by Madison meant to explain the Constitution in great detail, until the 1817 Bonus Bill Veto Message.
Report of 1800 
 The arguments made in the Resolutions and the Report were used many times during the nullification crisis of 1832.
Report of 1800 
 In this crisis, South Carolina said that federal tariffs were unconstitutional and not valid within the state.
Report of 1800 
 Modern historians debate whether Madison's theory of republicanism really supported the nullification movement.
Report of 1800 
 More broadly, historians debate whether the ideas Madison expressed between 1798 and 1800 agree with his work before and after this period.
Report of 1800 
 Election of 1800 was significant because it marked the first peaceful change in power from one political party to another.
Report of 1800 
 Madison, a member of the Republican Party, was elected to the Virginia General Assembly from Orange County in 1799.
Report of 1800 
 A major item on his agenda was the defense of the General Assembly's 1798 Virginia Resolutions, which Madison had written earlier.
Report of 1800 
 The Virginia Resolutions, usually discussed together with Thomas Jefferson's contemporaneous Kentucky Resolutions, were a response to various perceived outrages perpetrated by the Federalist-dominated national government.
Report of 1800 
 The most significant of these were the Alien and Sedition Acts, four laws that allowed the President to deport aliens at will, required a longer period of residence before aliens could become citizens, and made it a crime to publish malicious or defamatory material against the government or its officials.
Report of 1800 
 Republicans were outraged by the legislation, and Madison and Jefferson drafted the highly critical Resolutions adopted in response by the Virginia and Kentucky state legislatures.
Report of 1800 
 The Virginia Resolutions had in the year since publication received highly critical replies from state legislatures, including those of New York, Delaware, and the five New England states.
Report of 1800 
 The reason for the criticism was that the General Assembly, led in the effort by state-sovereignty advocate John Taylor of Caroline, had put a state-sovereignty spin on the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 despite Madison's hopes.
Report of 1800 
 These replies contended that the Supreme Court of the United States had the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether federal laws were constitutional, and that the Alien and Sedition Acts were constitutional and necessary.
Report of 1800 
 At the time, leading Virginia Republican figures such as Rep. William Branch Giles (in public) and Sen. John Taylor of Caroline (in private) actually were contemplating disunion, and the Virginia General Assembly chose this juncture for finally constructing a new state armory in Richmond, so there was some truth to the charge.
Report of 1800 
 Jefferson, the leader of the Republican Party and then–Vice President, wrote to Madison in August 1799 outlining a campaign to strengthen public support for the principles expressed in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 (commonly referred to as "the principles of '98"):
Report of 1800 
 That the principles already advanced by Virginia & Kentucky are not to be yielded in silence, I presume we all agree.
Report of 1800 
 Answer the reasonings of such of the states as have ventured in the field of reason, & that of the Committee of Congress.
Report of 1800 
 Make a firm protestation against the principle & the precedent; and a reservation of the rights resulting to us from these palpable violations of the constitutional compact by the Federal government, ... 3.
Report of 1800 
 Express in affectionate and conciliatory language our warm attachment to union with our sister-states, and to the instrument & principles by which we are united; … fully confident that the good sense of the American people and their attachment to rally with us round the true principle of our federal compact.
Report of 1800 
 But determined, were we to be disappointed in this, to sever ourselves from that union we so much value, rather than give up the rights of self government which we have reserved, & in which alone we see liberty, safety & happiness.
Report of 1800 
 In response to this letter, Madison visited Jefferson at Monticello during the first week of September.
Report of 1800 
 Their discussion was important in that it persuaded Jefferson to depart from his radical stance on dissociation from the Union, which is expressed at the end of the excerpt above.
Report of 1800 
 At the very least, Virginia or Kentucky taking such a stance publicly would have justified the Federalist attacks against the secessionist tendencies of the Republicans.
Report of 1800 
 Madison won over Jefferson, who shortly thereafter wrote to Wilson Cary Nicholas that: "From [this position] I retreat readily, not only in deference to [Madison's] judgment but because as we should never think of separation but for repeated and enormous violations, so these, when they occur, will be cause enough of themselves."
Report of 1800 
 Adrienne Koch and Harry Ammon, examining Jefferson's later writing, conclude that Madison had a significant role "in softening Jefferson's more extreme views."
Report of 1800 
 Jefferson hoped for further involvement with the production of the Report and planned to visit Madison at Montpelier on his way to Philadelphia, the national capital, for the winter session of the United States Congress.
Report of 1800 
 However, James Monroe, who would become Governor of Virginia before the end of the year, visited Jefferson at Monticello and cautioned him against meeting with Madison, since another meeting between two of the most important Republican leaders would provoke significant public comment.
Report of 1800 
 Jefferson underlined the importance of this work in a November 26 letter to Madison in which he identified "protestations against violations of the true principles of our constitution" as one of the four primary elements of the Republican Party plan.
Report of 1800 
 Once at Richmond, Madison began drafting the Report, though he was delayed by a weeklong battle with dysentery.
Report of 1800 
 On December 23, Madison moved for the creation of a special seven-member committee with himself as chairman to respond to "certain answers from several of the states, relative to the communications made by the Virginia legislature at their last session."
Report of 1800 
 The committee members were Madison, John Taylor, William Branch Giles, George Keith Taylor, John Wise, John Mercer, and William Daniel.
Report of 1800 
 The measure came before the House of Delegates, the lower house of the General Assembly, on January 2.
Report of 1800 
 Though certain to pass due to the Republican majority, which had recently been solidified by the election of a Republican clerk and speaker of the House, the Report was debated for five days.
Report of 1800 
 …this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties; … and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by said compact, the states who are parties thereto have the right … to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil…the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Report of 1800 
 The Report was ultimately amended to provide greater clarity on this issue by emphasizing that it was the people themselves, acting through the states in their sovereign capacity, who were parties to the Constitution.
Report of 1800 
 The General Assembly arranged for five thousand copies to be printed and distributed in the state, but there was not much public response to the Report, and it appears to have had relatively little impact on the presidential election of 1800 (which was, nevertheless, a major victory for the Republicans and a repudiation of Federalist policies).
Report of 1800 
 Parties outside Virginia seemed uninterested in the rehashing of the 1798 Resolutions, and in other states there was very little public comment.
Report of 1800 
 Jefferson eagerly sought copies for distribution to Republican members of Congress departing for their home states, and when they failed to arrive he entreated Monroe for at least one copy that he could reproduce.
Report of 1800 
 Despite Jefferson's approval of and attempt to distribute Madison's work, the national reaction was tepid.
Report of 1800 
 Though it had little impact on the immediate election, Madison's Report clarified the legal argument against the Acts and for states' rights in general, particularly in its advancement of the Tenth Amendment rather than the Ninth as the main bulwark against federal encroachment on state autonomy.
Report of 1800 
 The general purpose of the Report was the affirmation and expansion of the principles in the Virginia Resolutions.
Report of 1800 
 The first major goal of the Resolutions was to bring about the repeal of the Alien and Sedition Acts by generating public opposition that would be expressed through the state legislatures.
Report of 1800 
 Madison sought to accomplish this by demonstrating conclusively that the Acts violated the constitution.
Report of 1800 
 Contrary to the Sedition Act, the federal government had no power to protect officials from dissent or libelous attack, beyond the protection it accorded to every citizen; indeed, such special intervention against the press was "expressly forbidden by a declaratory amendment to the constitution."
Report of 1800 
 To remedy the defects revealed by the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, Madison called for citizens to have an absolute right to free speech.
Report of 1800 
 Madison writes that the ability to prosecute speech amounts to "a protection of those who administer the government, if they should at any time deserve the contempt or hatred of the people, against being exposed to it."
Report of 1800 
 Freedom of the press was necessary, because "chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted to the press for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
Report of 1800 
 While the Federalists interpreted the amendment as limiting the power of Congress over the press, but implying that such power existed, Madison argued that the First Amendment wholly prohibited Congress from any interference with the press.
Report of 1800 
 More generally, the Report made the argument in favor of the sovereignty of the individual states, for which it is best known.
Report of 1800 
 The basic message was that the states were the ultimate parties constituting the federal compact, and that therefore the individual states were ultimate arbiters of whether the compact had been broken by the usurpation of power.
Report of 1800 
 It was the presence of this argument in the Resolutions that had allowed the Federalists to paint the Republicans as leaning toward secession; in the amended Report the line is moderated, with an emphasis that it is the states as political societies of the people (and therefore, one reads in, not the state legislatures alone) which possess this power.
Report of 1800 
 Either formulation would help the Republican cause by refuting the finality of any constitutional interpretation advanced by the Congress and federal judiciary, both of which were dominated by Federalists.
Report of 1800 
 In defense of Virginia Republicans and the Resolutions, Madison emphasized that even if one disagreed with the compact theory, the Virginia Resolutions and the Report of 1800 themselves were simply protests, which states were surely entitled to produce.
Report of 1800 
 They were "expressions of opinion, unaccompanied with any other effect than what they may produce on opinion by exciting reflection."
Report of 1800 
 By eschewing direct action in favor of influencing popular opinion, Madison tried to make clear that the Republicans were not moving toward disunion.
Report of 1800 
 The Report was regarded in the early 19th century as among the more important expressions of Republican principles.
Report of 1800 
 Spencer Roane described it as "the Magna Charta on which the republicans settled down, after the great struggle in the year 1799."
Report of 1800 
 Henry Clay said on the floor of the House of Representatives that it was from the Report of 1800, above other documents, that he had developed his own theories on constitutional interpretation.