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CDC Increases Pressure on Parents to Vaccinate Kids with Deadly Toxins
Curt Linderman Sr.
January 16, 2012
Recently, the CDC, in coordination with HHS and state health departments, has been increasing the pressure on parents to vaccinate their children. In many cases, pressure has been brought on families with phone calls, school notes sent home and now it seems, knocking on your doors. In this video, Natomas, California school officials and a school nurse are seen going door to door trying to vaccinate school children that have not had one of the many DTaP vaccines recommended by the CDC schedule (1). While these school officials are more than likely, concerned about federal dollars that they will be refused for each child that is not fully vaccinated (2) there is little doubt that there is a far more nefarious agenda at hand.
NORC (National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago) is currently working closely with CDC to ensure that all of America's children are fully vaccinated with the toxic, sickness inducing and physically and mentally debilitating cocktail of toxins, carcinogens, DNA animal fragments and viruses through the National Immunization Survey (3). Calls to your home will be coming soon if you have young children or even teenagers. These calls will most certainly begin with a nice voice at the end of the line asking questions and perhaps even exhibiting true and deep concern regarding the health of your child. In some cases, the actual operator/survey taker might even feel that they are performing a righteous task for the good of the nation and your children. That is the farthest thing from the truth.
So what is the vaccine agenda all about and why is the CDC "ramping-up" their efforts to vaccinate every American? The notion that vaccines are about preventing disease is the first mistake most people make. This might have been the case back when Jenner originally noted that milk maids exposed to cow pox were seemingly unaffected by the more lethal small pox, but this agenda changed dramatically in the early 1900s. In fact, the change in the underlying reasoning for vaccination was so dramatic and fantastically disturbing that even many of the citizens considered to be "awakened" to the globalist agenda cannot comprehend its diabolical nature. Perhaps this is a defense mechanism, I'm not sure, but you must understand the medical history of the past 100 years to truly see what is going on and where we are headed.
What most American's in this country call "traditional" medicine today started with the Flexner Report of 1910 (4). Flexner was called on to research and write this report by the Rockefeller and Carnegie eugenics organizations that were also working with the early European Eugenics societies (5). The immediate agenda of this report was to control the citizens and ultimately the population numbers (through the eradication of minorities and the mentally deficient). The way to do this was to turn profits and attention away from the healing traditions of nutrition and homeopathy and swing it 180 degrees towards the petroleum and pharmaceutical industry agenda of sickness, indebtedness and death. The first casualties where the medical schools of the early 1900s: before the Flexner Report, there were 650 medical schools across the United States teaching the true healing arts. By 1918 there were 50 left. These remaining schools were the ones that dropped to their knees and offered to worship at the altar of eugenics, the Rockefeller and Carnegie religion.
Why the history lesson? Because we have to understand that the modern vaccination policies of the western world have never been about healing and protecting the citizens. Most of us understand that things are moving at an increasingly accelerated pace regarding the placement of the New World Order government and vaccines play a crucial role in this agenda. Reports of FEMA camps, TSA checkpoints on our streets and in our shopping malls, commercials encouraging neighbors to turn each other in to the authorities for violations or concerns are daily occurrences now. A strong, healthy and smart citizenry is the most dangerous threat to tyranny and vaccines are a major part of the NWO solution to this problem.
The increase in autism, asthma, juvenile diabetes, juvenile arthritis, ADD, ADHD, Primary Immunodeficiency Syndrome, the staggering numbers of cancers among our children and more, are caused by the industrial medical complex, creating a need for pharmaceuticals that turn our children into walking, sometimes talking, little drug addicted zombies that can be assured to simply walk into the FEMA camps without any hesitation whatsoever. Add to this, the recent heavy push within the CDC to ensure that young adults are getting their booster shots and the elderly are getting their flu / pneumonia and shingles vaccines (6) and you have a populace that will willingly give up their freedoms for relief from the maladies caused by their new masters.
NORC's involvement with the CDC in the push to vaccinate every American citizen is extremely concerning. The very fact that NORC is a Chicago University based organization simply cannot be coincidental. Our socialist Commander-in-Chief and the horribly corrupt nature of Illinois politics have to play a factor. Further investigation into NORC and their affiliations illustrates the eugenic nature of the vaccine agenda as if we were once again reading from the Rockefeller/Carnegie, eugenics inspired, Flexner Report.
NORC's "selected Clients" page on their website(7) reads like a Who's Who of the corporate greed and eugenics movement. Firms and organizations like; The Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Kaiser Family Foundation, AMA, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, U.S. Dept. of Justice and interestingly enough, foreign partners such as Deutsche Invest und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), George Soros' Open Society of Europe, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as well as The Global Development Network.
Even if you haven't looked closely into the numerous vaccine controversies, if you have a fundamental understanding of the New World Order and what they have in store for us, the CDC's partnership with NORC and their need for ensuring that every American get vaccinated should be enough to do exactly what the woman in the above video clip did when they come to your doorstep: Tell them to &^%$ off and slam the door!

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The Vegetarian Option: Vegan Salad at Roti Mediterranean Grill
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I'm not often in the Loop for lunch, but many healthy options have sprung up in the last several years (Freshii, Naf Naf, Hannah's Bretzel, and Protein Bar come to mind) so yummy and nutritious don't have to be mutually exclusive adjectives to describe lunch. The menu at Roti Mediterranean Grill is short and sweet, although it can be a bit intimidating to order in the rapid-fire line for the first time. There isn't really time to ask the cooks on the line what they might recommend as a side for your falafel, for fear of incurring the wrath of the hungry lady in the pencil skirt behind you with aching feet. Luckily, before it was my turn to order, a lovely food service worker named Deborah saw me analyzing the menu and offered to make a few recommendations based on my preferences.
I ended up with a falafel and roasted vegetable combo salad plate ($7.95) so I could try as many things as possible. The roasted broccoli, bell peppers, and onions are served cold, but I'm told this will soon switch to brussels sprouts and root vegetables served hot, which will be nice with cooler weather descending upon us. I then opted for the S'hug sauce, which I'd never heard of before, but it's spicy and that's all I needed to know. I piled on the sides, including cous cous, red cabbage slaw, Spanish eggplant, and tomato and cucumber salad. The Spanish eggplant, prepared in a caponata style, was a little sweet for my taste, but everything else was crisp, fresh, and tossed lightly in extra virgin olive oil.
The S'hug—which I learned later is a Yemeni hot sauce made from cayenne peppers, coriander and garlic—really made the meal. Just enough heat to make the vegetables sing, but not so much to leave me panting for water. My meal was not only vegetarian, but vegan, and I didn't have to ask for any substitutions. The create-your-own salad almost has the feel of a salad bar at Whole Foods or Plum Market, but with a more curated Mediterranean vibe. Gluten-free pitas are also available for those avoiding the wheat protein.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - CNN's Anderson Cooper won't be in Buffalo, New York, to celebrate the city's heritage on Dyngus Day, a holiday that made his show's "Ridiculist" and left him giggling uncontrollably on the air last year.
Dyngus Day is a Polish-American day-after-Easter tradition celebrating the end of Lent. It features people playfully sprinkling each other with water and swatting one another with pussy willows to show their amorous interest.
Through a protracted fit of laughter last year, Cooper said, "It's so stupid, really so stupid." He later said he was referring to his giggling, not the holiday.
Organizers set up a website to try to persuade Cooper to attend and offered to name him the festival's first pussy willow prince.
But Cooper tweeted Thursday he's "really sad" he won't be able to. He says it sounds like "a lot of fun."


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We boarded a turbo-otter in Hearst, which brought us and our numerous supplies to the camp. The guys who had built the camp did a good job on the dock. (I'm the one by the open doors.)
A lot of the drilling stuff was already there, even though the drillers (diamond drillers) weren't yet. Note: Diamond drills are called so because their bits are tipped with diamonds to bite through hard rock, even at several thousand foot depths, not because they drill for diamonds.
And our ride left.
The camp wasn't too bad. It was on what seemed to be the only piece of dry land this side of the lake.
It came with a 5-star restaurant.
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Of course, with it's own efficient and environmentally friendly electricity facility.
And no camp would be complete without an internet connection.
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Red junglefowl are the wild ancestors of all domestic poultry (3), although the rooster is said to be more brilliantly colored than its tame relative (4). The vibrant male has long, golden-orange to deep-red crown and neck feathers, and a dark metallic-green tail with a white tuft at the base. The underparts are a dull black while the upperparts are a combination of glossy blue-green, rich dark red, maroon-red, fiery orange, rufous and blackish brown (3). The colourful cock also has vivid scarlet-red facial skin, throat, two lappets and heavily dented fleshy crest (comb), and red or white ear patches on the sides of the head (3) (4) (5). The rather drab female is a dull brown-gold colour (6) with a partly naked, pale red face and throat (3). After the summer moult, from June to September, the male develops an 'eclipse plumage', in which the golden neck feathers (hackles) are replaced with dull black feathers, the long tail feathers are lost, and the comb reduces in size and becomes duller in colour (3) (4). With much hybridisation between pure and domestic stock, the standard criteria of pure wild junglefowl include the tail being carried horizontally in both sexes, the absence of a comb in the female, and dark or slate grey leg colour and an annual eclipse moult in the male (3) (7).
There are five subspecies, which vary in the colour of the facial lappets, in the size of the combs, and in the length, colour and terminal end shape of the neck hackles of males during the breeding season (2) (8).
The red junglefowl lives in small mixed flocks during the non-breeding season - summer, autumn and winter (3). These have a hierarchical social system in which there is a 'pecking order' for both males and females (4). In the spring, at the onset of the breeding season, each of the stronger cocks maintains a territory with three to five hens (3). Meanwhile, young cocks live isolated in twos and threes. Studies have shown that the offspring of top roosters are more likely to grow up to be leaders than are those of low-ranking males, and that hierarchy may have a genetic component. Experiments have shown that females have the ability to retain or eject sperm, and that they consistently retain the sperm of the one or two dominant roosters in the group and eject that of all others (10). Hens produce four to seven, typically four to six, eggs per clutch, which are incubated for 18 to 20 days by the female only (2) (4). At twelve weeks of age, the young are chased out of the social group by their mother, and go off to join another group or form their own (4).
Red junglefowl forage on the ground for seeds, fruit and insects, using their feet to scratch away the leaf-litter in search of food (5).
Native to Southern and Southeast Asia (6), from India eastward and south through Indonesia, but the domestic form is found worldwide and hybridisation is widespread (8). Five subspecies are usually recognised: the Indian red junglefowl (G. g. murghi) occurs in north and northeast India, adjacent Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh; the Burmese red junglefowl (G. g. spadiceus) in southwest Yunnan (China) and adjacent east Arunachal Pradesh (India), Myanmar, Thailand (except East), Peninsular Malaysia and north Sumatra; the Tonkinese red junglefowl (G. g. jabouillei) in southeast Yunnan and Hainan (China) and north Vietnam; the Cochin-Chinese red junglefowl (G. g. gallus) in east Thailand through central and south Laos, and Cambodia to central and south Vietnam; and the Javan red junglefowl (G. g. bankiva) in south Sumatra, Java and Bali (2) (8) (9).
The red junglefowl occupies most tropical and subtropical habitats throughout its extensive range, including mangroves, scrubland and plantations, although it seems to prefer flat or gently sloping terrain, forest edges and secondary forest (2) (4). It is also found in the foothills of the Himalayas. Found from sea level up to around 2,500 metres (2).
Classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List 2007 (1).
The red junglefowl is generally considered common and widespread despite habitat loss and poaching within its range (5) (8). The bird is affected relatively little by habitat loss because it can occupy a variety of habitats, including secondary vegetation and man-made habitats, such as rubber and oil-palm plantations and planted fields on forest edges (2) (11). However, it has recently come to light that genetic contamination through interbreeding with domestic and feral chickens poses the real threat, pushing pure wild junglefowl to the verge of extinction (4) (8). Eclipse plumage, one of the indicators of pure stock, is now only seen in populations in the western and central regions of the species' geographic range, and it is therefore feared that the pure form of this colourful bird has disappeared completely from extreme south-east Asia. Due to the high density of the human population, whose domestic chickens could continue to contaminate the red junglefowl genetically, the purity of the species, where it remains, is in constant danger (4) (7) (11).
With as much hybridisation in captivity as in the wild, both between pure and domestic stock and between the five subspecies, a studbook has now been developed and many breeders are having their birds' DNA tested for purity (8). The World Pheasant Association is also undertaking extensive DNA research, but sadly virtually all the birds in captivity in Europe have been found to display hybridised genes (11). It seems that its domestic descendents will be the undoing of this unique wild bird, which has been quietly slipping into genetic extinction, before the world was even aware of, and could appropriately respond to, the situation (7). In the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where local people appear never to have allowed free roaming domestic poultry, due to high numbers of predators such as leopards (Panthera pardus) and leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis), junglefowl that retain traditional morphology continue to exist and are currently the subject of considerable research (11).
Junglefowl have been used in the development of a number of medical developments that have benefited mankind. Among these are the first anti-malarial drugs, anti-cobra venom and the chicken genome project.
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Nokia has just announced its latest addition to its Purity series of headsets, the Purity Pro Wireless Stereo headset at IFA in Berlin.
The new Purity Pro Wireless Stereo headset provide wire-free music experience thanks to Bluetooth. The headsets also pack NFC for one-touch connectivity with NFC enabled smartphones.
The Purity Pro Wireless headset have been made by Monster, the creator and founder of 'Beats by Dr. Dre', and features noise cancellation and will be available in a bunch of colors including red, yellow, white and black. The Bluetooth on the headsets are automatically
Monster CEO Noel Lee said: "With our Purity Pro, users can now enjoy unprecedented audio performance and advanced capabilities, with all the added benefits of a pure and seamless wireless connection."
The Purity Pro wireless headset will be available sometime in the fourth quarter of 2012 for around €299. Readers can find more information about Nokia's Purity Pro Wireless headset over at its official product page.


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The President's budget proposal expands opportunities for students to go to college and graduate by expanding student aid, shifting resources from banks and middlemen toward students, creating new incentives for colleges to focus on student completion, and expanding access to low-cost Federal student loans.
Expands Pell Grants and Puts the Program on Sure Footing.
Because the Administration is committed to making college affordable for all Americans, the 2010 Budget builds on the recovery Act by supporting a $5,550 Pell Grant maximum award in the 2010-2011 school year. But it is not enough just to make Pell Grants more generous and to put on a short-term patch. Fourteen times since 1973, the maximum Pell Grant has failed to increase even in nominal dollars. To make sure that we have a highly-educated workforce and that the opportunity to go to college is not determined by how much money you have, we need to put the Pell Grant program on sure footing. The Administration will index Pell grants to the Consumer Price Index plus 1 percent in order to address inflation. In addition, the Administration proposes to make the Pell Grant program mandatory to ensure a regular stream of funding and eliminate the practice of "backfilling" billions of dollars in Pell shortfalls each year. Finally, while expanding student aid, the Administration will also simplify the student aid application process.
Stabilizes the Student Loan Program for Students and Saves Billions of dollars for Taxpayers. Right now, the subsidies in the Government-guaranteed student loan program are set by the Congress through the political process. That program has not only needlessly cost taxpayers billions of dollars, but has also subjected students to uncertainty because of turmoil in the financial markets. The President's Budget asks the Congress to end the entitlements for financial institutions that lend to students. The Administration will instead take advantage of low-cost and stable sources of capital so students are ensured access to loans, while providing high-quality services for students by using competitive, private providers to service loans. The approach in the Budget, originating all new loans in the direct lending program, saves more than $4 billion a year that is reinvested in aid to students. The Budget also makes campus-based, low-interest loans more widely available through a new modernized Perkins Loan program, overhauling the inefficient and inequitable current Perkins program.
Focuses on College Completion. It is not enough for the Nation to enroll more students in college; we also need to graduate more students from college. A few States and institutions have begun to experiment with these approaches, but there is much more they can do. The Budget includes a new five-year, $2.5 billion Access and Completion Incentive Fund to support innovative State efforts to help low-income students succeed and complete their college education. The program will include a rigorous evaluation component to ensure that we learn from what works.


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Moisture rising from the farms of California's Central Valley powers big storms in the desert Southwest – providing fuel for massive and dramatic summer monsoons as far away as Arizona and New Mexico, a new study shows.
And when the water returns as rain, it can increase flow into the Colorado River by nearly 30 percent. Some of that water loops its way back to California as part of our imported water supply.
The previously unknown connection between agricultural evaporation in California and monsoons in the Southwest is revealed in a paper published last week by a UC Irvine Earth System Science professor.
While global climate change driven by human activity more often makes headlines, the new paper reveals a more rarely seen effect: human activity driving climate change on a regional scale.
"We say it accelerates the water cycle," said Jay Famiglietti, the senior author on the study. "In the Southwestern U.S., water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas. There is a lot of energy associated with that. It's like throwing fuel on a fire."
The finding also could be a warning sign, he said. If agriculture diminishes in the Central Valley because of excessive drawdown of groundwater, the effects could be dire, spanning a vast section of the West.
"The take-home message from the study is that what we do with water management can impact regional climate," Famiglietti said. "As we start to run out of water in California, then the monsoon will lose that vapor source. We could very well see more drought, less precipitation, and less stream flow as a result."
Famiglietti and the paper's lead author, Min-Hui Lo, used a computer model of global climate to try to pin down the regional effects.
Plugging climate data for the region into the model, they ran two simulations to spool time 90 years into the future. One factored in delivery of surface water and withdrawal of groundwater to and from the Central Valley. The other left out those effects.
The differences between the model runs revealed which climate effects could be attributed solely to irrigation. And those effects were dramatic. They showed a spike in evaporation over the Central Valley in the summer.
But little of that moisture remained over the Central Valley. Instead, prevailing atmospheric patterns pushed much of the moisture to the east and south.
That resulted in a 15 percent increase in summer rainfall over the Southwest, boosting river runoff across a four-state region by 56 percent, 28 percent over the Colorado River basin.
It amounts to an outsized, human-driven alteration in the regional rainfall cycle.
"The water evaporates, and the prevailing wind direction is from west to east," Famiglietti said. "It gets transported to the east, hits the next big, active system, which is this big monsoon system. You amp up the convection happening over there."
The paper, "Irrigation in California's Central Valley Strengthens the Southwestern U.S. Water Cycle," appears in Geophysical Research Letters.
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You know that $185,000 you've been saving up to register .zomgilovearstechnica as your very own generic Top Level Domain (gTLD)? It looks like you'll have to wait a bit longer. On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers released a revised version of its draft guide to expanded gTLD applications, along with a lengthy analysis of the voluminous comments and critiques they received in response to the first draft. To give themselves time to process a second round of comments, ICANN will push off implementation of the plan from September to December of this year.
Last year, ICANN's directors voted unanimously to move forward with an ambitious plan to massively expand the Net's system of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). The proposal would allow anyone able to fork over a princely application fee, along with annual maintenance charges of $75,000, to add their very own gTLD—such as .arstechnica or .blog or .riverrunpasteveandadams—to the familiar roster of 21 existing domain extensions, such as .com and .org. But ICANN's first-draft guidelines for new domains generated an avalanche of critical comments—not least from the US government. It has released a second draft that seeks to address some of those criticisms, as well as a 154-page analysis of the comments they've received—but some critics say the central problems with the proposal remain.
High on the list of worries is the potential confusion that could result from the proliferation of gTLDs—a point of special concern to companies afraid they'll end up having to shell out for prophylactic registration of a whole spate of new domain names, and perhaps even entire TLDs.
High on the list of worries is the potential confusion that could result from the proliferation of gTLDs—a point of special concern to companies afraid they'll end up having to shell out for prophylactic registration of a whole spate of new domain names, and perhaps even entire TLDs. One possible solution is to develop a list effectively placing a hold on the registration of protected terms—but such mechanisms raise the contrasting problem of extending trademark holders' rights far beyond what trademark law allows, since typically marks are held only in specific contexts, and often cover ordinary words, such as "Apple" or "Dell."
The trademark issue is largely left unresolved in the current draft, leading Michael Palage of the Progress and Freedom Foundation to argue that ICANN has "simply kicked the can down the road." A pair of reports commissioned by ICANN—one on the economic dynamics of the domain system generally, another on the specific effects of expanding gTLDs—may inform whatever procedures the final guidebook adopts.
Similarly kicked down the road are security and stability concerns flowing from "near coincident changes planned for introduction into the root zone—IPv6 records, DNSSEC, IDNs, and new TLDs," which "have not been analyzed for their combined impact on root zone operations." The answer here, too, is another study to be conducted jointly by ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee and Root Server System Advisory Committee.
The most recent draft also eases restrictions designed to preserve a separation of registries (the master indexes of domains within the various TLDs) and registrars (the companies from which end-users buy their domain names). In response to myriad comments, ICANN has agreed to reduce the annual registry fee to $25,000, but despite a welter of objections, has not changed the $180,000 gTLD application fee, arguing that this is necessary to make the system self-supporting. If that sum proves to exceed the costs of evaluating applications for new gTLDs—a process summarized in a handy flowchart included in the latest draft document—the excess "will be distributed in accordance with consultation from the ICANN community," rather than being added to ICANN's general operating fund.
Internet governance expert Milton Mueller, author of Ruling the Root, points to another component of the application review process as a source of potential problems. ICANN has "refused to prioritize or take seriously the objections to the free expression problems in [allowing objections based on] MAPO (morality and public order)," says Mueller. "Indeed, the issues they prioritize (trademark, security, etc.) bear an uncanny resemblance to those raised by the US government. Fancy that." The central means of limiting these types of objections in the current draft guidebook is ICANN's professed intention to "develop a mechanism by which those objecting on the ground of morality and public order must show a legitimate interest and harm or potential harm resulting from the applied-for gTLD string."
ICANN will accept comments on its latest proposal through April 13 of this year.


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At Chesterfield Primary School we aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, built around the 2014 National Curriculum, which meet the needs of all our children.
"Our children have opportunities to experience all the areas of the National Curriculum through creative cross-curricular topic work known as 'The Learning Quest'. The Learning Quest is underpinned by a set of principles for the way things are taught and learnt in our schools. Through the Learning Quest, children are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning."
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Creativity and imagination are at the core of our teaching. Our aim is to encourage children to become independent learners with positive attitudes to learning in whole class lessons, in groups and when working independently.
Children at Chesterfield experience all areas of the National Curriculum through our Learning Pathway. We believe in pupil choice and pupil voice. Our thematic approach engages all learners by delivering learning which interests the children.
Educational trips and visitors in school extend the children's understanding of the themes we teach. Through the provision of a broad and balanced curriculum, we recognise individual talents and interests, whilst developing their knowledge, understanding and skills in all subjects as they progress through the school.
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Geologist's Alaska gamble could turn into America's next big shale play
ANCHORAGE -- Petroleum geologist Ed Duncan believes he's on the precipice of proving America's next monster shale oil play.
Duncan, president and CEO of Great Bear Petroleum LLC, is betting big that Alaska's North Slope geology will yield bountiful untapped resources as vast as the unconventional oil plays at Texas' Eagle Ford and North Dakota's Bakken shale fields.
He shocked the industry in 2010 when he scooped up 500,000 acres of Alaska state land leases in a region that international energy giants had long ago dismissed.
The major oil companies were focused on conventional oil fields, like the lucrative resources at Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk River along Alaska's northern shores.
But Duncan and the oil industry veterans he's working with have their sights set on the lands just south of those fields. Specifically, they're focused on three layers of source rock that geologists say generated the large volumes of oil and gas that eventually migrated to Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk.
That source rock could contain up to 2 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil and up to 80 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a 2012 U.S. Geological Survey report. The North Slope shales stretch from the Chukchi Sea on the west to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the east.
Last year, Great Bear took core samples and drilled two vertical flow test wells to acquire reservoir data on its leases. Duncan had hoped to begin horizontal drilling and fracking at the two sites in December, but the company's rig contract expired before the tests could proceed.
Now Duncan and researchers at Great Bear's labs in Palo Alto, Calif., are poring over drilling data, rock cores and seismic records to determine their next step. Early test results verify that the source rock on their leases contains oil. The company also discovered a modest conventional oil field at the site.
"We're not committed to drilling this summer," Duncan said in an interview. "But we have the permits in place if we choose to do so. We'll continue the technical evaluations as we have been doing."
He added: "The rocks are going to tell us what we want to do."
Duncan predicts that the North Slope could see massive new unconventional oil development, beginning with the Great Bear prospect.
"I think a reasonable pace of development for a play like this for our company would be eight development pads per year with perhaps as many as 20 to 24 wells per pad," he explained. "So if everything goes well, 200 wells per year would be a meaningful number."
In 2011 testimony before the Alaska Legislature, Duncan boldly predicted that the unconventional oil fields on his leases could produce 200,000 barrels of crude per day by 2020. He expects production to peak at 600,000 bpd in 2056.
If the North Slope shale oil fields are as rich as Duncan anticipates, Alaska could see decades of unconventional oil and gas development.
"Just as we're seeing with the Bakken and the Eagle Ford and the Marcellus in the lower 48, these are plays that will be actively drilled through the next 30 or 40 years," he predicted.
Those rosy forecasts are making state officials bullish on Alaska's unconventional oil and gas future. "We're really just starting to unlock the unconventional plays here," Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan said. "The key is the technology and the cost to unlock it."
'Seed kernel' planted in the '80s
Great Bear's Anchorage conference room is dominated by a massive canvas map of Alaska's North Slope, with ownership of the oil leases marked in bright squares of color across the terrain.
The company's leases, designated in yellow, stretch across the state's transportation spine -- the Dalton Highway and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
The proximity is no accident. Great Bear officials recognize that the gravel Dalton Highway, the only road that runs from Fairbanks to the North Slope oil fields, would provide year-round access to their drilling sites. The pipeline would be the ideal vehicle to ship crude to market.
Duncan jumped into Alaska's oil race at a dark moment in the state's oil history.
The day before Alaska state regulators opened Great Bear's oil lease bids, USGS dramatically downgraded federal estimates of the resource wealth in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
USGS calculated that the 23-million-acre reserve holds 896 million barrels of oil -- one-tenth of the 10.6 billion barrels reported by the agency eight years earlier. The agency's findings appeared to justify the major oil companies' declining investment in the region.
The very next day, however, Duncan raised new hope for Alaska's oil future when he bought 105 state oil leases for $8 million.
Duncan's aggressive lease grab was based on North Slope geological studies that he was part of in the 1980s when he worked for Sohio, which later became part of BP.
"The seed kernel of the idea, if you will, was planted back when I was working on the North Slope on a summerlong field survey," he recalled. "It was specifically geared toward sampling source rocks from the central Brooks Range all the way around to the Canadian border."
Twenty-five years later, when new horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies opened shale rock formations in Pennsylvania and Texas to new energy development, Duncan thought again of the northern Alaska rock formations.
"It didn't take long to convince me that the three world-class oil-prone source rock layers on the North Slope would be interesting targets to contemplate deploying the completion technologies that are so well-known now," he said.
Duncan decided to be the first-mover on Alaska's unconventional oil lands. "This was a classic case of being the early entrant and wanting to establish a dominant position early on," he explained. "That's key for a small company, particularly when the scene in north Alaska is dominated by companies that are global supermajors."
After acquiring the leases, Great Bear moved quickly to test its fields. "We didn't take those leases to sit on them and watch them," he said. "We took those leases because we felt very confident and feel very confident that their potential is high when we set out to test those with the drill bit."
Duncan subsequently negotiated a joint venture agreement with Halliburton Co. covering about a quarter of his company's North Slope acreage. Great Bear owns a 75 percent share. Halliburton took 25 percent and is handling the drilling operations.
After acquiring 3-D seismic data on 57 acres of their leases, Duncan and his wife Karen Bryant Duncan went into the field to identify the best drilling sites. They focused on uplands areas that would not be subject to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' wetlands regulations.
In 2012, the company drilled its first two wells, Alcor 1 and Merak 1, located off gravel access roads along the Dalton Highway.
"The design is basically laying timber rig mats right off of the existing gravel," explained Patrick Galvin, Great Bear's vice president for external affairs and deputy general counsel. "That will allow year-round drilling, year-round access to any one of these sites."
Water everywhere, but other supplies are lacking
On the road to commercializing their leases, Great Bear officials are enjoying some unexpected benefits of working in Alaska, while at the same time struggling with serious long-term problems.
Unlike unconventional oil developers in the lower 48 states, Great Bear has plenty of water on hand to frack its underground wells. The company's North Slope leases sit on a deep aquifer of brackish water that is unusable for drinking water or agriculture but may be of "ideal quality for hydraulic fracturing operations," Duncan observed.
The small Native villages that dot the North Slope rely on surface water, which is separated from the underground aquifer by a permafrost barrier.
Although some local residents and environmentalists have raised concerns that fracking operations could taint drinking water supplies, the issue has not become a major sticking point in Great Bear's development plans.
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is currently taking public comment on draft fracking regulations that would apply to the state's future unconventional oil operations (EnergyWire, Jan. 3.)
Duncan said the North Slope's bountiful water supply "is a huge benefit to us. We're doing an aquifer study to establish rates of deliverability and also to identify bands in the deep subsurface that we can use as sites for injecting our drilling waste."
Alaska also has ample supplies of sand that Duncan predicts will be suitable for fracking.
"We're fairly confident we should be able to find an in-state source," he said. "Something like that would be a huge cost driver for us in terms of being able to find local sources as opposed to having to ship such a large quantity of fairly heavy material."
At the same time, however, the company is facing a serious scarcity of rigs and a lack of trained workers.
"The primary thing that separates the North Slope from the lower 48 right now is a shortfall in rigs and other drilling and completion equipment that will be necessary for full development of these places," Duncan noted. "There simply aren't very many suitable rigs on the North Slope at this time."
That shortage hit Great Bear this winter when the company was in the middle of testing the oil resources at its Alcor and Merak drill sites.
"We did one test, one perk and sampled oil out of one of the unconventional zones that we encountered in Alcor," Duncan recalled. "We also encountered that zone at Merak. But we ran out of time."
The rig that Great Bear was using had already been contracted by another company for the North Slope's winter drilling season. As a result, Duncan was forced to scale back his plans and regroup.
Supply-chain issues are driving the cost of drilling in northern Alaska. "You don't have a lot of materials," Duncan said. "You have companies competing for few rigs. The rig rates are high. Labor costs are high. Material costs are high on the North Slope."
If their initial unconventional oil wells are successful, company officials plan to expand development into leases located farther away from the Dalton Highway. The promise of new oil wealth could also attract other oil operators to the North Slope.
Since Great Bear burst onto the Alaska oil and gas scene in 2010, other companies have bought state leases for unconventional oil development. San Diego oil and gas company Royale Energy Inc. acquired 100,000 acres near Great Bear's operations. ConocoPhillips secured a smaller block of leases farther west.
Such expansion could help moderate the cost of operating in the region. "We'll see economies of scale as we drill a large number of wells per year to develop this play," Duncan predicted. "Additional rigs will come into the market, costs will come down, efficiencies will be discovered and exploited."
"We believe we can drive the cost on a per-well basis, drilled and completed, down to something that will be reasonably competitive with the lower 48," he said. "That's a big mission for us -- to break the cycle of what we perceive as really unnecessarily high costs in northern Alaska."
For the time being, however, Duncan and Great Bear's oil experts are studying the scientific data collected last year, securing permits and gathering new environmental data it will need to speed future operations.
As the international oil giants continue to dominate Alaska's conventional oil and gas fields, Duncan's small company is staking a dominant position in the North Slope's frontier fields for unconventional energy.
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This one quote has my hopes up for a BMW Superbike revival. Over the past couple of months, the fact that once the riders get to the ragged edge, the bike tosses 'em like an 8 second bull rider whose been on for 2 seconds was a concern. I was wondering if BMW would ever get this bike to a point where the rider felt like he was in control.
Mika, in your opinion, does BMW have a chance of being on the podium in say four or five of the upcoming races?
I was very impressed with the fact that for a first year go-fast, the BMW showed well. Yet many have expressed dissatisfaction that Troy and Ruben were not on the podium in many of the races. Personally, I am happy that the BMW is coming of age. Can it handle the DUC, YAMY or any of the other ground pounders?
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Microsoft (MSFT) shares today are down 66 cents, or 1.8%, at $37.18, following a ratings cut by Merrill Lynch's Kash Rangan, who dropped the stock to Underperform from Neutral, and from Goldman Sach's Heather Bellini, who reiterated a Sell rating and a $28 price target.
Bellini cut her EPS estimates for this year ever-so-slightly, to reflect both a lower outlook for personal computer shipments, but also diminished profit prospects for Microsoft's Surface tablet computer.
For PCs, Bellini writes that the Goldman analyst team cut its outlook for PC shipments for the December-ending quarter, Microsoft's fiscal Q2, to 78.7 million units shipped by the industry worldwide, down from a prior projection of 79.8 million units, a decline of 10% from the same quarter last year.
The firm also lowered its estimate for the 12 months of Microsoft's fiscal year ending next June to 303 million PC units shipped, down 7.6% from the prior period, and worse than the prior 6.6% drop that was estimated.
Meanwhile, tablet shipments may reach 245 million in the same 12-month period, growth of 20%, higher than a prior 18% estimate. And Microsoft's Surface may have 9.6 million Surface shipments, slightly better than her 9.3-million prior estimate.
However, Bellini cuts her pricing and margin assumptions for Surface:
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selling its 64GB Surface RT without a cover for $399 (vs. prior list of $449) and the same SKU with a cover for $449 (vs. prior list of $499). Accordingly, our Surface revenue estimate for F2Q14 is now $259mn assuming the company sells roughly 400K devices (100K Surface RT, 200K Surface Pro 2, and 100K Surface RT 2) versus our prior forecast of $268mn based on roughly 350K units (50K Surface Pro, 200K Surface Pro 2, and 100K Surface RT 2 units). In addition, we have updated our view on Surface gross margin given disclosure in the F1Q14 10-Q: "D&C Hardware cost of revenue increased, primarily due to $645 million higher Surface cost of revenue." Given Surface revenue of $400mn in the quarter, this implies gross margins were negative 55% in the quarter vs. our assumption of 5%. Accordingly, we have adjusted our view on Surface gross margin for FY14 and FY15 to -21% / -6% from mid-single digits prior given our view on mix and our assumption that it takes Microsoft several quarters to work down inventory and improve fixed cost absorption.
The upshot of that is minimal, with Bellini maintaining an 83.3 billion revenue estimate for fiscal '14, while cutting her EPS estimate just a penny, to $2.53.
Regardless of the numbers, Bellini thinks Microsoft is still too tied to PCs:
We continue to believe that Microsoft is fundamentally tied to the PC market, which is facing significant structural challenges due to the popularity of smartphones and tablets, where Microsoft has been a laggard. And, as Microsoft has been a share loser in consumer compute, we believe the company's long-term fate will be predicated on whether Microsoft can successfully drive adoption of its new mobility offerings while also trying to slow the rate of decline in PCs. While Microsoft's enterprise-related businesses give the company a somewhat stable near-term ballast (longer-term prospects are more questionable due to "the consumerization of IT" and the BYOD trend in the workplace) and cloud services such as Azure could be promising businesses over time, we believe revenue and earnings are likely biased lower given top-line and profit tied to compute combined with significant business investment.


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Newswise — Short snippets of DNA found in human brain tissue provide new insight into human cognitive function and risk for developing certain neurological diseases, according to researchers from the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The findings are published in the November 20th issue of PLoS Biology. There are nearly 40 million positions in the human genome with DNA sequences that are different than those in non-human primates, making the task of learning which are important and which are inconsequential a challenge for scientists. Rather than comparing these sequences strand by strand, Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, wanted to identify the crucial set of differences between the two genomes by looking more broadly at the chromatin, the structure that packages the DNA and controls how it is expressed.
They found hundreds of regions throughout the human genome which showed a markedly different chromatin structure in neurons in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region that controls complex emotional and cognitive behavior, compared to non-human primates. The findings of the study provide important insights for diseases that are unique to humans such as Alzheimer's disease and autism.
"While mapping the human genome has taught us a great deal about human biology, the emerging field of epigenomics may help us identify previously overlooked or discarded sequences that are key to understanding disease," said Dr. Akbarian. "We identified hundreds of loci that represent untapped areas of study that may have therapeutic potential."
Dr. Akbarian and his research team isolated small snippets of chromatin fibers from the prefrontal cortex. Next, they analyzed these snippets to determine what genetic signals they were expressing. Many of the sequences with human-specific epigenetic characteristics were, until recently, considered to be "junk DNA" with no particular function.
Now, they present new leads on how the human brain has evolved, and a starting point for studying neurological diseases. For example, the sequence of DPP10—a gene critically important for normal human brain development—not only showed distinct human-specific chromatin structures different from other primate brains such as the chimpanzee or the macaque, but the underlying DNA sequence showed some interesting differences from two extinct primates—the Neanderthal and Denisovan, most closely related to our own species and also referred to as 'archaic hominins'.
"Many neurological disorders are unique to human and are very hard as a clinical syndrome to study in animals, such as Alzheimer's disease, autism, and depression," said Dr. Akbarian. "By studying epigenetics we can learn more about those unique pieces of the human genome."
The research team also discovered that several of these chromatin regions appear to physically interact with each other inside the cell nucleus, despite being separated by hundreds of thousands of DNA strands on the genome. This phenomenon of "chromatin looping" appears to control the expression of neighboring genes, including several with a critical role for human brain development.
"There is growing consensus among genome researchers that much of what was previously considered as 'junk sequences' in our genomes indeed could play some sort of regulatory role," said Dr. Akbarian.
This study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Akbarian plans to do more epigenetic studies in other areas of the brain to see if there are additional chromatin regions that are unique to humans. They also plan to study the epigenomes of other mammals with highly evolved social behaviors such as elephants.
Dr. Akbarian joined Mount Sinai in July 2012. He is internationally known for his cutting-edge research on the epigenetic mechanisms of psychiatric disorders. He is a widely recognized expert in advanced chromatin tools—many of which were developed in his laboratory—in conjunction with mouse mutagenesis and behavioral models of mental illness to bridge molecular, cellular, and behavioral investigations. He is also a renowned authority on the epigenetic analysis of human brain tissue examined postmortem.
Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Akbarian was Director of the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute. He received his medical and doctorate degrees from the Freie Universitaet Berlin. Dr. Akbarian completed his postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the University of California at Irvine and the Whitehead Institute, and his residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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For the second straight year, UFC fighter Chael Sonnen will serve as host of Fighters Only's World MMA Awards.
Sonnen has again has been paired up with CBS Sports Network/NFL Network anchor Molly Qerim.
The duo hosts the 2012 World MMA Awards official ceremony, which is a black-tie ceremony held Jan. 11 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Broadcast and/or streaming plans haven't been announced for the event, though Versus and FUEL TV has aired past installments.
Sonnen currently is coaching opposite UFC light-heavyweight Jon Jones on "The Ultimate Fighter 17," which debuts in January on FX. He and Jones then meet at an April 27 pay-per-view event in Newark, N.J. It's Sonnen's first fight since a failed bid to take middleweight champion Anderson Silva's title in July.
The World MMA Awards feature 21 fan-voted categories, including the prestigious Charles "Mask" Lewis Fighter of the Year. Ronda Rousey, Daniel Cormier, Nate Diaz, Benson Henderson and Jon Jones are the category's nominees.
The awards recognize achievements from Sept. 1, 2011, to Sept. 30, 2012 (a 13-month span), and voting can be done at www.worldmmaawards.com through Dec. 31. Nearly a half-million votes were cast for this past year's awards.
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German-themed pubs and bars across London were filled with delighted expats tonight as they gathered to watch their national team win the World Cup.
At the Zeitgeist pub in Vauxhall several hundred fans of Der Mannschaft erupted with joy at the final whistle, spraying beer everywhere to start a party that went on long into the night after Germany beat Argentina 1-0 in extra time.
One fan, called Jorg, said: "It's unbelievable. This is the second World Cup I have witnessed us winning since I was born, the first I was too young to realise, this one has been a dream.
"We now have four stars, four stars baby. I'm going to have to go shopping and get a new shirt with four stars on it!"
Philip Nuggert, from the German city of Bielefeld, was heading to Trafalgar Square to carry on the party.
He said: "I feel amazing, I can't believe we won this.
"And Gotze scored, it is incredible, it's the best feeling ever.
"Now we are heading to Trafalgar Square to party all night long.
"I spoke to my manager already, she is fine with it!"
The mood was in stark contrast to that in Argentinian bars across the capital.
Around 400 noisy fans gathered at Moo Cantina in Pimlico to cheer on the South Americans.
Many wore their team's blue and white shirt and painted their cheeks in support of their heroes.
They chanted constantly throughout the game until Mario Gotze's goal in the 113th minute left everyone in stunned silence.
Some fans were left in tears and could not bring themselves to watch the dying moments of the game.
But when the final whistle was blown the fans gave a rapturous round of applause for their team's efforts.
Some left the venue with glum faces, but many others held a party outside, setting off fireworks and dancing.
Caro Serrizvela, 31, of Bayswater, said: "I'm very happy and very proud of how we played. But in the World Cup the most important thing is to win."
Daniel Caballero, 34, who lives in Stoke Newington, said: "I think that was our best performance. Everyone thought the Germans would score three or four goals but after 90 minutes it was 50/50.
"Someone has to win at the end."
His wife, Chantal, 26, said: "Both teams had good chances. I was suffering for 120 minutes. It would have been nice to see Messi lift the World Cup."
Alex Hughes, 26, who grew up in Argentina and now lives in Peckham, said: "I feel destroyed but extremely proud. I felt it deserved to go to penalties.
"Germany managed to shut Messi down. Possibly he played too deep."
Hernan Palacios, 33, of Bromley, said: "We almost won the World Cup, so if you don't win, second place isn't enough."


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I Believe the Children Are Our Future
So I signed on this morning to read the episode review for I Believe the Children Are Our Future only to learn that I was supposed to be the one who wrote it! (What happened to my reminder notice?) Since I'm past deadline, I'm just doing a quick recap and then highlighting my favorite moments.
The boys arrive in Alliance, Nebraska where people are falling prey to children's urban legends – itching powder will make you scratch your brains out, hand buzzers will electrocute you to death, ingesting pop rocks and soda will hospitalize you, etc. Turns out one little boy named Jesse Turner believes the lies his adopted parents have told him so completely he's making the events actually happen to his townspeople. The Winchesters quickly deem he's a good kid, who doesn't mean to be doing these things, but they have to ask WHY he's capable of such power. Short answer—he's a half-human, half-demon, born to a virgin who was possessed. Cass tells the brothers this child is the anti-christ, not Lucifer's son, but demon spawn so powerful he's the Devil's greatest weapon. Cass wants to kill the boy before Lucifer can twist him to his purpose and, in Dean's words, "nuke the angels." Sam is appalled by Cass's plan and suggests they tell the boy the truth and allow him to make the right choice. Cass said Sam didn't do the right thing and he can't take that chance with the boy. Mom gets repossessed and everyone shows up at Jesse's house. Cass gets zapped into an action figure and, after learning just how scarily strong Jesse is, the boys do tell Jesse the truth about his parentage. He effortlessly vanquishes the demon and asks if he can say goodbye to his family before the Winchester's take him to Bobby's to keep him safe and train him to fight in the war. They agree and while he's out of sight he, presumably, if the picture on his wall is any indication, magics himself to Australia. The episode ends with Cass returning to full-size and the brothers understanding why parents tell kids the cautionary lies they do and wishing their own father had lied to them.
I loved this episode! Unlike last week's, which I thought was an awkward balance of light and dark, this one got it right. It advanced the mythology, but had me LMAO.
"That'll do pig." Dean's delight in the huge, buzzer-cooked ham cracked me up.
"I got bored. That nurse was hot." Dean
"Do NOT use my razor." Sam
I nearly DIED when I saw Dean's hairy palm. The only time I've laughed harder in an SPN episode was the cat in the locker scene in Yellow Fever.
"That wasn't me." Cass
All three of the guys reactions to the whoopee cushion was hysterical.
"Because I have to believe someone can make the right choice. Even if I couldn't." Sam
Wow, just wow. Beautifully played, Jared.
And major kudos to Gattlin Griffith who was freakin' adorable, but believably played a kick-ass cambion. I'm sure that's not the last we'll see of him.