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Should we put more pollutants into the air to keep Earth's temperature down? How about covering polar ice with reflective panels to cut down on melting? Or putting a giant umbrella in space to shade the planet?
Some of the ideas for easing Earth's warming trend may sound crazy - but in a newly published book titled "Hack the Planet," Eli Kintisch says scientists may have no choice but to give them a try.
"The only thing crazier than geoengineering is what we're doing now to the atmosphere by continuing to dump carbon dioxide into it," he told me.
Kintisch, a staff writer for the journal Science, delves into the flip side of the global climate issue: If we're in the beginning stages of a radical warm-up in global temperatures, caused in part by greenhouse-gas emissions, what can we do about it?
One part of the answer is to reduce those emissions. Scientists, engineers and policymakers are working on strategies to do that. We could see cleaner cars, less carbon-intensive energy sources, and perhaps carbon-curbing legislation as well. But some researchers say that still won't be enough. Some of the less crazy ideas for hacking the planet might still have to be put into effect. That's why Kintisch calls geoengineering "a bad idea whose time has come."
"Scientists are in a similar position to the researchers who went to the Manhattan Project in the 1940s," he said. "They desperately don't want to study these radical ways of altering the planet, but they feel as though they must. And here's why: Even if we stopped all our carbon emissions tomorrow, the planet would continue to heat up, the ocean would continue to heat up, because carbon dioxide lasts for thousands of years in the atmosphere."
University of Calgary physicist David Keith once observed that scientists studying the geoengineering issue tend to join either the "Blue Team" (who are inclined to invent ways to alter the atmosphere) or the "Red Team" (who are generally skeptical of geoengineering and try to find flaws in the Blue Team's work). Right now, the Blues appear to be in the ascendancy, Kintisch said.
"Since I wrote the book, the number of scientific organizations and prominent scientists who have called for research into geoengineering has only broadened," he said. Legislative hearings are being held, in Washington and in London. Task forces are being set up. Conferences are being conducted. And protests are being organized as well.
How to hack the planet
The strategies for hacking the planet generally involve adding something to the landscape ... or the seascape ... or the atmosphere ... or even outer space. Here are just a few of the ideas floating out there:
- Seed the atmosphere with sulfur compounds - yes, the kind of compounds that are put out by industrial smokestacks. Scientists realized years ago that such compounds tend to brighten clouds and make them more reflective. Those clouds block sunlight, reducing the greenhouse effect. It's thought that such "global dimming," sparked by emissions from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, counteracted global warming trends in the 1990s. Kintisch says experiments using sulfate aerosols to whiten clouds are "probably closest to fruition" in the geoengineering realm, but some researchers warn that the strategy could have nasty side effects.
- Fertilize the sea with iron. The idea here is that dropping loads of iron dust into the world's oceans would stimulate the growth of phytoplankton. Those tiny marine critters would consume carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, then die and sink to the seafloor, effectively "locking up" the carbon. Some iron-fertilization experiments have been conducted already, but they weren't as effective as scientists hoped.
- Whip up a mess of "microbubbles." Harvard physicist Russell Seitz has suggested pumping compressed air like Jacuzzi jets into wide areas of the world's oceans. The tiny bubbles would make the water whiter and more reflective. Sunlight would be reflected away from the ocean surface, reducing sea temperatures. Seitz's climate modeling suggest that the strategy could cool the planet by as much as 5 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius), but the technical difficulties would be daunting.
- Cover up the ice. Several engineers are trying to develop silica-filled panels that could be placed over polar and glacial ice to slow down the melting process. The project, known as Ice911, has gone through a small-scale test in California's Sierra Nevada mountains - but it's not clear whether the "planetary band-aid" would work on a larger scale.
- Build artificial trees: Earth's vegetation does a great job of soaking up carbon dioxide and turning it into oxygen. "Artificial trees" are devices that could chemically extract CO2 for storage, perhaps in underground reservoirs.
- Shield the planet from space. The ultimate fix would involve launching millions of mirrors to the gravitational balance point between Earth and the sun. It's an idea that was suggested nine years ago, somewhat tongue in cheek - but the concept continues to serve as a prime example of "smoke and mirrors" in the geoengineering debate.
The space-mirror idea just might make sense "if money wasn't an issue, and money is always an issue," Kintisch said. Not one of these ideas is ready for prime time ... yet ... but some of them are being taken seriously enough to cause a stir.
"There's going to be a big fight coming on field tests for geoengineering," Kintisch predicted. "It may be two years from now. It may be five years from now."
Regulating geoengineering?
Heading off a future policy battle over bioengineering was the motivation behind a meeting held last month at the Asilomar Conference Center in California. Thirty-five years ago, scientists gathered at Asilomar to work out the guidelines for conducting recombinant DNA research. The 1975 meeting marked a milestone - not only for genetics, but also for the regulation of potentially risky science.
|"Hack the Planet" delves into climate uncertainties and possible remedies.
Asilomar 2.0 was aimed at setting similar guidelines for geoengineering experiments. Those in attendance generally saw the conference as a good start, but only a start. Nature's Jeff Tollefson noted that the gathering "came up short on their stated goal" of developing research guidelines. Environment360's Jeff Goodell, who is coming out with his own book about geoengineering titled "How to Cool the Planet," said he felt as if he was witnessing the birth of "the conscience of a geoengineer."
Kintisch said Asilomar 2.0 had to address uncertainties that were far murkier than the ones facing Asilomar 1.0. He noted that the earlier meeting was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, "so the government wanted scientists to come up with regulations" for genetic research.
"This is different," Kintisch said. "Here you have scientists coming up with voluntary guidelines for geoengineering research. They know that, in the end, governments will decide what research happens. ... This is scientists way out ahead of governments, and it's unclear what nations are going to want to do about geoengineering tests."
It's also unclear how much the public will permit when it comes to hacking the planet, particularly in light of recent questions raised about the behavior of some climate researchers.
"What some people call 'Climategate' is actually going to be a central problem for scientists studying geoengineering, and for all climate scientists," Kintisch said. "They're doing a very poor job of communicating climate science to the public. ... Since geoengineering is such a radical and controversial idea, that trust deficit could be a major problem."
As crazy as it sounds, figuring out how to hack the planet may turn out to be the easy part. The hard part will be convincing the public that the planet-hackers really know what they're doing.
Check out this interactive graphic on geoengineering, and feel free to weigh in with your comments in the message box below. For a planetary tale that's completely different, check out my book, "The Case for Pluto." The next event on the book-tour schedule is my talk at the National Academy of Sciences' Marian Koshland Science Museum in Washington at 6:30 p.m. on April 15. In the meantime, you can join the Cosmic Log corps by signing up as my Facebook friend or hooking up on Twitter


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By MATT HONGOLTZ-HETLING Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, had harsh words Tuesday for President Obama, who she said has put the country into a "no-win situation" by issuing an ultimatum to Syrian President Bashar Assad without fully considering the consequences.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins spoke about the proposal for military action against Syria during a speech in Waterville on Tuesday. Collins said a plan to launch missiles at Syrian military sites is extremely difficult and one that she will consider. "I am pleased the administration is going to Congress with the proposal," Collins said.
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Collins said she is pleased that Obama has sought congressional approval for a possible military strike against Syria, which the White House said used chemical weapons against its own people.
However, the president acted too quickly in August 2012, when he warned that Syria's use of chemical weapons would cross a "red line" resulting in serious consequences, said Collins, who spoke at a local chamber of commerce event Tuesday.
"I cannot help but wonder if the president hadn't made the comment about drawing the red line, if we would be in the situation that we're in now," Collins said. "I think that was a hasty comment that was made without his having a well-vetted plan for what he would do if Assad did cross that line."
While Republican national leaders came out in favor of a military strike Tuesday, Maine's senators reserved judgment.
Collins said she has not decided how she will vote on the issue, which is expected to come before Congress next week.
On Tuesday morning, independent Sen. Angus King released a statement that said he had not decided whether to support a military strike against Syria.
Crystal Canney, a spokeswoman for King, said King was gathering information through congressional briefings and other means and might make a decision later this week.
Collins said she is concerned about the possible consequences of any decision by Congress. If there is no military response, she said, it could embolden Iran, which she referred to as a "rogue state" developing a nuclear weapon.
She said military action inevitably would cause the deaths of innocent people. She also expressed concern that a military strike would involve the U.S. in Syria's civil war, and that there might be undesirable implications for the entire region.
"I think that we've been put into a terrible situation, a truly no-win situation," Collins said.
Collins made the remarks at the Leading Women's Luncheon, an event hosted by the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce that celebrates women leaders.
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Senator Harradine a Worthy but Deluded Opponent: Eros
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The Eros Association today paid tribute to the man they locked horns with more times than they cared to remember. Eros CEO Fiona Patten said that he was a formidable political opponent, driven by his religious convictions and a cultural mindset stuck in the 1950s. "From the late 1980s onward, he used his balance of power in the Senate to try and roll back the supernova of eroticism that was exploding all around him", she said. "He knew how to work a government like nobody else and was always one step ahead of them in his efforts to ban pornography. But he did not understand that the technological revolution of the 1990s was the beginning of a new way of life and that pornography was an integral part of that life. He thought if you can control the brown paper bags, you could control what was in them."
She said that he came close to banning X rated films on a number of occasions but always just failed. On the other hand she said Eros had almost had X rated films legalised across the country but in the end had also failed mainly due to his lobbying. "The X rated movie has remained in no man's land for 30 years due to the battle that we constantly fought with him", she said. "Perhaps now that this great colossus of the moral minority has passed away, Australia can do what the rest of the western world did 20 years ago and legalise the humble X rated movie."
Senator Harradine was part of the split Klugman Senate Committee on Community Values (dubbed the Morals Committee) in 1988 and used the debates to showcase his new-found feminist arguments against porn.
He horse-traded his vote on important bills like the sale of Telstra to push through a ban on 1900 erotic phone lines. He also traded his vote on other bills to achieve tighter controls and bans on X rated films and to ban internet porn in the Online Services Act. In 2000 Eros ambushed him with a Bill that came from the Attorney General to set up a new category of films called Non Violent Erotica. At the eleventh hour he realised that full import of this new legislation and ambushed Prime Minister John Howard by showing him and a small coterie of National Party members, three black transsexual films that he claimed would make the new NVE cut. Howard claimed after the movie viewing that he had never been so offended in his life and the new category was scrapped.
Senator Harradine supplied the three black transsexual movies from his own sizeable personal collection of porn. He probably watched more porn than any other politician of his era – all in the name of research.
He used his position to ban overseas aid to health clinics that provided abortions or information about them.
Ms Patten said that in his latter years Mr Harradine must have wondered whether it was worth it all given the ubiquitous and textured nature of pornography on the internet these days.
"We salute him for the tenacity and strategy that he employed in his crusades against porn but he was fighting a losing battle from the beginning. And if he thought that his efforts would win him favour in the afterlife, he didn't understand how far reaching the internet was".
Senate Committee on Electoral Matters Should Look at Barnaby Joyce
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The Australian Sex Party has replied to criticisms from the chairman of Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, Tony Smith, that the nomination of its ACT-based candidate, Robbie Swan, in the 2013 Tasmanian Senate election, was 'bizarre'. Mr Smith flagged the probability that that his Committee would recommend a ban on 'foreign' nominations for a state senate election by saying… 'On this matter…. the status quo is not an option'.
Sex Party President, Fiona Patten, said that the notion of the Senate being a parochial 'state's House' that could only be represented by people from within that state, was a complete misreading of the original intention of the founding fathers and a complete abrogation of the way the modern Senate worked.
'The composition of the Senate was originally agreed to because the smaller colonies wanted to have some protection from the might and power of the larger colonies', she said. 'But the reality is that the Senate has never operated like that and if it did, neither party would get any legislation through. Just in case Mr Smith missed it, Senators vote on party lines - not on State-based allegiances'.
Ms Patten reminded Mr Smith and his Committee that Barnaby Joyce, who had been a Senator for Queensland for many years and lived in that state, decided to resign his position for reasons of political advancement and to run for the House of Representatives in the state of NSW. 'If Mr Smith thinks it's not OK for an ACT resident to run in a Tasmanian Senate election, then how does he justify a Queensland Senator running for a NSW lower house seat', she said. 'There are plenty more examples of House of Reps candidates not initially living in their electorates. The public has a right to know if Mr Smith is cherry-picking jurisdictions here for his own party's benefit'.
Robbie Swan missed out on winning a Senate seat in Tasmania by 145 votes at the last Senate election with a lead policy to take Tasmania out of its economic woes by becoming the first state in Australia to grow and tax marijuana. Since then Colorado in the US has done exactly that and had put millions of dollars worth of tax money into new schools.
Ms Patten said that Mr Smith had not called her to discuss the issues before coming out against her party and neither had he asked her to appear before the Committee as a witness.
Corbell's Crackdown on Drugs Misses the Mark: Sex Party
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ACT Attorney General, Simon Corbell has sided with the old style prohibitionists by introducing new drug laws in the ACT Parliament today. Australian Sex Party President, Fiona Patten, said the laws will continue to fail and will be rejected by Canberrans' progressive attitudes.
She said marijuana and heroin had been banned for almost 100 years in Australia but were never more popular than now. 'It is disappointing to see a Gen X Attorney General, supporting the same tired old prohibitionist policies that ignorant politicians used to ban alcohol as far back as the 1920s', she said. 'We support his moves to reduce the numbers of young people going to jail for personal possession of drugs but it is disingenuous in the extreme to try and separate out different ends of the recreational drug market and makes saints out of one end and sinners of the other. Reducing the harm done to people and society by recreational drug use requires a holistic approach based in the health portfolio - not in the criminal justice one.'
Ms Patten who is also the CEO of the Eros Association which represents legal sellers of social tonics, said that two years ago there was a new emerging psychoactive substance coming onto the market every couple of months. Now there were three every week.
'Trying to prohibit these new substances with more and more prohibition is futile and the New Zealand government recognised this over a year ago and set up a regulatory scheme based on proving that a substance was not harmful for the people taking it. In the first year of this scheme the number of outlets selling these products declined from 3,000 to 300. The number of products on sale dramatically reduced from hundreds to 36. If the ACT had totally legalised natural cannabis, these synthetic products would not even be around'.
The Sex Party completely rejected the notion of minimum sentencing for trafficking that Mr Corbell was pushing. Ms Patten said that only a few weeks ago a South Australian man with leukaemia was sent to jail for growing 23 marijuana plants. His wife had Hodgkin's Lymphoma and they were both using the drug to bring them some relief for their medical conditions. 'It's completely reasonable that they would have consumed 23 plants from their backyard in a year and yet under minimum sentencing this man will now spend the next two years in jail – with leukaemia and no medical marihuana. Something similar will happen in the ACT under these new laws', she said. 'Someone with a bag of icing sugar can now go to jail under these laws if the police say they think its cocaine. Not having to have chemicals positively tested and identified before charges are laid sets a very dangerous precedent.'
Ms Patten said that instead of band aid solutions that made it look like something was being done, we needed an adult approach to drug use and drug laws in the ACT. 'As the most progressive jurisdiction in Australia we should be leading this conversation, as we have done in the past. The Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs has been trying to work out how to ban these drugs for three years now and in that time the number of new substances coming onto the market has trebled. Mr Corbell needs to think about that instead of following this unworkable approach.'
Sex Party Enters Tasmanian Politics at Sexpo this Weekend
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The Australian Sex Party is gearing up for Hobart's first ever Sexpo this weekend and will be talking to Tasmanians about their civil liberties and looking to sign up Tasmanian members. The party will focus on its battle to legalise and tax cannabis in the state and will be hosting a parliamentary petition addressed to the Premier, calling for legalisation.
Marijuana law reform is moving quickly around the world. Since the beginning of this year, more than 70 bills related to hemp have been introduced in more than half of the states in the U.S and some commentators are suggesting that marijuana will be legal and taxed in most parts of the US within a few years.
"The Tasmanian economy needs all the help it can get," said Sex Party President Fiona Patten. "Legalising hemp and cannabis will not only generate millions of dollars in tax revenue but also kick start an industry which will provide thousands of jobs for Tasmanians. Tasmanian hemp growers are unique in the world in that they are still banned from using their products in food."
The Sex Party missed out on winning a Tasmanian Senate seat at the last federal election by only 245 votes with its main policy being legalisation and taxing of marijuana. Ms Patten said that Tasmanians were quite progressive people, contrary to the views held by many mainlanders who had demonstrated support for marijuana law reform but also for their Museum of Old and New Art which contained some of the most sexualised and bizarre art in the southern hemisphere. "At the last state election the Nationals candidate for the Tasmanian seat of Braddon, Ken Dorsey, even stole our policy on the legalisation of cannabis", she said. "How progressive is that?"
Cannabis is Australia's most commonly used illicit drug, according to the 2010 National Drug Strategy Household Survey report. More than half of people in Australia aged 30-39 years had used cannabis at some time in their lives.
"We will be signing up new members at Sexpo with a view to registering a Tasmanian branch of the party before the next state election," Ms. Patten said.
Sex Party Asks W.A. Voters to Abolish States
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Following her widely reported proposals to increase education funding in Western Australia by taxing and legalizing marijuana, Sex Party candidate in Saturday's Senate by-election, Fiona Patten, has announced her party's Constitutional Reform policy that would effectively abolish the state of Western Australia.
"The simple fact is that West Australians are going back to the polling booths for the third time in 13 months" she said. "People are over it. They just want governments to get on with the job of running good hospitals and keeping schools open. All our states are completely over-governed", she said.
A 2012 Griffith University survey on Constitutional Values found that two thirds of Australians felt that state and federal governments did not work well together. It also found that 76.4% believed that State governments were not effective in doing their job.*
The Sex Party is calling for a Constitutional Commission that, amongst other things, would look at abolishing all state governments and replacing them with regions or provinces. One whole level of government would be abolished with the provinces taking over much of the responsibilities of local councils. Areas such as education and health which are currently duplicated, would be centralised. Under such a scheme, what is currently Western Australia could become four or five provinces.
"The savings that would be made by getting rid of a whole layer of government could go directly towards paying for better health care and more hospitals", Ms Patten said. Under her vision of a new federalism she said "People living in the north and the east of Western Australia who often feel isolated from Perth, would get a better share of services across the board with direct funding and liaison from the federal government."
She said that the constant bickering between States and the Federal government would disappear and there would be less political snouts in the trough. "W.A. State politics has had its fair share of corrupt and disgraced Premiers, Ministers and back benchers over the years. Imagine if that whole layer of inept and costly government were removed".
* www.griffith.edu.au/federalism
Abolishing Charities Commission Ends Scrutiny of Religious Businesses
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The Australian Sex Party is calling on the federal government not to abolish the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits-Commission (ACNC) because of its potential to investigate improper behaviour and reporting by religious businesses. Over 40 charities have now called for the government to reverse its decision to axe the Commission.
Last week the government introduced repeal legislation to abolish the Commission, which only came into being last year, on the premise of reducing red tape. Sex Party President, Fiona Patten said that with the Commission only just being established, there was no time for the government to gather evidence to show that charities were being hampered by red tape. "They could have just as easily said they were giving George Pell a going away present as blaming red tape", she said.
As revealed at the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse last week, the Sydney Archdiocese of the Catholic Church alone, controls over $ 1 billion dollars in assets with a yearly turnover in the millions. The Chancellor of the Archdiocese confirmed that these assets and profits were run through income tax exempt charities, which also enjoy capital tax exemptions.
The Australian Sex Party supported the establishment of the ACNC as a positive step to increase transparency of charities - notwithstanding the fact that churches had been exempt from reporting. There was considerable speculation that the Henry Tax Review, which set up the Commission, would also recommend wide-ranging changes affecting the billions of dollars worth of tax benefits received by Church-owned businesses but in the end religion and religious businesses were left well out of it. Ms Patten said she was concerned about the circumstances that may have led to Mr Henry's apparent turnaround. "The Sex Party continues to argue that an organisation who's sole purpose is the 'the advancement of religion' should never be given charitable status", she said.
Ms Patten said that by abolishing the Commission, Tony Abbott had caved in to Cardinal Pell's lobbying on the issue. " We are not surprised that the government has made this move," she said. "It is well known that the Catholic Church and Cardinal Pell in particular, vehemently opposed the establishment of the Commission in the first place. What this really amounts to is giving Cardinal Pell what he wanted."
Ms Patten said that churches and religious organizations receive a multitude of tax breaks from income tax exemptions, GST concessions and exemptions from capital gains tax (on property and share trading) and Fringe Benefits Tax. "Income tax exemptions alone are costing the Australian tax payer around $ 20 billion a year", she said. "If the Abbott government believes companies should not be bailed out by governments then by the same token it is time to seriously review the anti-competitive tax breaks given to Church-owned businesses. Why should profit-making organizations operating in areas as diverse as insurance to breakfast cereals, get a free ride because they hide behind the dubious and often fanatical mask of religion?
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Sex Party Calls for Marijuana and Church Taxes to Fund W.A. Education
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Fiona Patten, the Sex Party candidate in the upcoming State Senate by-election today called on the Barnett government to tax and regulate marijuana as a way to fund public education ahead of a state-wide teacher's strike on April 1.
Accepting that a proposal linking taxes on recreational cannabis to education would be controversial, she is appealing to the government to look to the current wave of reform in the US for evidence-based results.
Colorado, the first state to legalise marijuana originally projected revenues from excises and taxes to be in the region of $ 70 million but following early results has now raised its projections to $ 130 million for the next fiscal year.
Under the new law in Colorado, which only recently came into effect, the first $40 million earned through the excise tax goes directly towards building new schools. The rest of the money is to be spent on education programmes aimed at addiction prevention and drug awareness.
"A tax which didn't exist last year, is now being projected to raise over $ 100 million with all of it being directed to education", she said.
She also pointed to her party's tax policy on Church-owned businesses which receive generous tax concessions unlike almost anywhere else in the world. As an example she points to Sanitarium, a cereal and breakfast drink manufacturer, with an estimated turnover in the region of $ 300 million but owned by the Seventh Day Adventists and therefore exempt from tax.
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Sex Party Hops out of Bed
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Leading civil libertarian and President of the Australian Sex Party, Fiona Patten, is to head the party's ticket in the upcoming Western Australian Senate by-election having narrowly missed out on being elected in the September poll.
The importance of this election cannot be underestimated Ms Patten said adding that this was one reason her party had decided to eschew the tight preference swaps amongst the minor parties that were a feature of the September poll. Whilst recognising that this has caused her party to be effectively frozen out from receiving preferences from many other minor parties and would make her election more difficult, she was comfortable with the position the party had taken.
In addition to a wide-ranging progressive platform including regulating and taxing marijuana, same-sex marriage, voluntary euthanasia and taxing Church-owned businesses, Ms Patten said she would campaign for electoral reform if she was elected. "The system of Group Voting Tickets should be abolished and below the line voting reintroduced.", she said. She predicted that this would lead to a reduction in micro party registration.
"Civil liberty, free speech and personal freedoms are not won by picking off single issues one at a time", she said. "They are won when the principles of freedom and liberty are alive and well in the consciousness of the community. Drug Law Reform is unlikely to come about when people are still being sent to jail for selling non-violent adult sex movies. Abortion law reform is unlikely to happen nationally when gay couples cannot marry. And the true separation of church and state is not likely to occur while religious businesses are not required to pay tax".
Having just returned from speaking at an international conference on Drug Law Reform in New Zealand, she made the point that our neighbours seems to be leaving Australia behind in so many areas, that it is an international embarrassment.
"The Kiwis are about to take the Union Jack off their flag whilst we are reintroducing Imperial honours, she said. "Same-sex marriage and a legal and regulated synthetic market are a reality when we still have our head in the sand"
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The Australian Sex Party invites you to express your interest in standing as a candidate at the Victorian State Election scheduled for November 29th 2014.
If you are passionate about protecting civil liberties and are keen to shake things up a bit, this is an opportunity for you to make a real impact on the Victorian political landscape.
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As this was my first ChillOut I was not sure what to expect but had been told that the previous year's event was great fun.
An early start was required to get to Daylesford by 9am to set up. Once we found our stand and set up, it was time to park the vehicle and walk to town for the march.
Finding the rest of the Sex Party crew was easy. We had superheroes and the rest of us wearing our yellow Tshirts.
The parade was two laps of the main street.
The crowd's response to us, as always, was great!
Our superheroes were handing out HERO condoms to the crowd and then it was back to the showground for the carnival.
As the crowd built up, we were kept busy by talking to people, handing out HERO condoms and Sex Party cards. The response to was fantastic.
We signed up a few new members. Fun was also had temporary tattooing people which is always a good way to talk about the party and our policies.
It was a long day, as all these days are, but I have to say I had a great time and I will be back there next year!
If you missed out going, I can recommend that you jot next year's date in your diary and come along. It does live up to it's name.


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When I'm not drawing, working in the construction business or out getting drunk, I like to produce music. I've been into it since 2005 and have been part of various projects, bands and styles, but these days I mostly make electronic music under the artist name Sharee, which incorporates experimental dubstep, drum&bass, idm and ambient into one crazy blend. You can listen to some of my recent output here:
I have a new album that I'm working on but it will be a while. I might post occasional tracks and snippets from time to time, but we're here for the visual arts, right? ;)
Right now I'm practicing anatomy as much as I can (the skeleton specifically) but I will try not to bother you with too many shitty webcam photos of those drawings. Anyway, here are some select recent to semi-recent paintings and fun stuff.
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Miniatur Wunderland: The Largest Model Railway in the World
There are eight sections connected by 13 kilometers of track with over 900 trains running "night" and day. Each day in this little world lasts 15 minutes, and once the sun sets, nightlife begins. The scope of this project is difficult to convey in words and even photographs, as the choreography of the people, the cars, the boats, and the trains truly make this little world come alive! For a great 5-minute introduction to this universe, go watch The Wonderland in 5 Minutes.
With 40 manned computers running self-developed software keeping the world moving, there has clearly been a great deal of work put into this project. By 2020, they promise to open sections depicting areas of France, Italy, England, and Africa!
I suppose I don't feel as bad for the amount of time that I put into appointing my surroundings. It sure hasn't been 500,000 hours!
Images: Frank Zarges, Miniatur Wunderland
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Unfortunately, Minotaur Wunderland may not be the world's largest model train layout, yet. Northlandz in Flemington, New Jersey houses a model railroad in a lartger space, 52,000 square feet, with 50,000 linear feet of HO scale track alone.
it's not Minotaur but Miniature, John ;-)
LOL this is right around my corner, and i really didn't expect to find it on AT :-)
I went there a couple of times when I lived in Hamburg and it was great! :) There's also the most amazing coffee shop/cafe/museum thing next door. http://www.speicherstadt-kaffee.de/
In fact, there are a huge number of museums and attractions in the Speicherstadt / warehouse district, it's pretty great.
I forgot to add, there are loads of brilliant little Easter eggs hidden all over the place - purple cows, mining dwarves, dragons, crime scenes, people having sex, a monk in the bushes watching a woman fix her car, aliens, building catching fire, a prison break - you find something new every time.
I grew up in Hamburg and have been to this one of the last times I went home,it is absolutely amazing !!!
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Want to learn some cool skateboarding tricks? Here's a few you may not have seen before, and some brief tutorials so that you can quickly get up to speed with them…
Trick 1: Boneless
This in particular is an old school trick, but that said you're very likely to still find it interesting. To start off with this trick you need to be at a good speed, then what you do is grab just behind the front wheels of your board.
And then you take your front foot off the board and rapidly put it on the ground, and then jump with that leg. So next, while you're in the air you simply put your front foot back on the board and land with your knees bent.
Easy, right? Well, although a good speed is ideal, you'll want to start this trick slower until you're comfortable with it.
Trick 2: No Comply
This trick – to start off you simply put your back foot on the tail of the board, and your front foot on the nose of the board.
Next, you slide your front foot off the nose and place it on the floor.
At the same time push with your back foot, since this has the effect of making the board jump up a little bit. Then simply catch your board with your front knee, and next hop with your front foot, then on your way back to Earth put your front foot back on the board.
Sound easy? Give it a go.
Trick 3: The Heel flip
Here you'll want to put your back foot on the tail so that only around two thirds of your foot is on the board, and then at the same time place your front foot anywhere you choose from the middle of the board all the way up to the front.
Okay, so first of all you Ollie which you should know how to do, then you slide your front foot to the tip of the board and use the balls of your feet to hit the front corner of the board.
This force will cause the board to flip, then simply catch the board with your feet and land.
Try it and see how it works for you.
Trick 4: Finger flip
This trick starts with your rear foot on the back of the board, and your front foot around the middle. Then you simply Ollie, grab the front tip of your board and flicked it with your hands making sure to keep your feet out of the way.
Then once you've done that, of course land on your board. This trick can look great if you do it right.
Trick 5: Pop Shove-It
With this trick you once again start with an Ollie, and then you move your rear foot in a backwards sweeping motion.
So after your skateboard has gone through a 180° turn, you capture it with your feet and land.
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Mentor Graphics and Altera Partner on DO-254
San Jose, Calif. and Wilsonville, Ore., August 19, 2008—Supporting the growing number of avionics and military applications requiring DO-254-certifiable components, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the companies are working together to develop tools and methodologies for use in creating DO-254-certifiable intellectual property (IP) that targets Altera's field programmable gate array (FPGA) and HardCopy® application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solutions. As part of this announcement, Mentor will join Altera's DO-254 Global Partner Network in order to establish design and verification best practices for DO 254-certifiable IP development and integration flows.
Under this initiative, Mentor will leverage its expertise and industry-leading design and verification solutions in the development of DO-254-certifiable IP. The primary tools in Mentor's DO-254 suite include HDL Designer™, Precision® Synthesis, ModelSim®, Questa®, the 0-In® suite of formal verification tools, and a new solution for automating requirements traceability. Mentor also offers DO-254 compliance training, design methodology assessments, and consulting services, including a DO-254 Jumpstart package aimed at establishing advanced verification methodologies for DO-254 designs. More information on Mentor's DO-254 offering can be found at www.mentor.com/go/do-254.
"DO-254-certifiable IP is a huge productivity gain for our customers who have to comply with the DO-254 standard," said Amr El-Ashmawi, senior business unit manager of Altera's military/aerospace market. "Now instead of having to reverse engineer or re-develop a commonly used component, companies can actually reap the productivity benefit of off-the-shelf certifiable networking and processor IP, with the confidence of knowing that it supports the design assurance needs of their flows and thus does not present a certification risk."
Altera, through its DO-254 Global Partner Network, currently offers a safety-critical version of its Nios® II embedded processor. The certification aspects of this core were developed by HCELL Engineering using Mentor tools.
Tammy Reeve, president of Patmos Engineering Services, a firm that acts as a certification authority under the guidance of the FAA, stated, "Dealing with COTS IP under the guidance of DO-254 has been one of the industry's biggest challenges to date. I'm excited to see vendors like Altera and Mentor taking the initiative to address a very important aspect of these flows to make COTS IP compliant with DO-254. Their efforts could save hardware applicants a lot of resources and frustration."
"Working with Altera on DO-254-certifiable IP is the next step for us in supporting the needs of this market," said Michelle Lange, DO-254 program manager, Mentor Graphics. "Mentor recognized the importance of DO-254 at its inception and has been investing in solutions for DO-254 certification for several years. This initiative lets us leverage both our methodology expertise and tools to not only provide the industry with high-quality IP but also the tool and methodology guidance that many are seeking."
About Altera's DO-254 Global Partner Network
Enforced by worldwide aviation safety agencies since 2005, the DO-254 standard was developed by the avionics industry to establish design assurance and guidance for airborne electronic hardware designs. Altera's DO-254 Global Partner Network provides a comprehensive environment of DO-254-certifiable IP cores, best practice methodologies, best-in-class tools and in-house DO-254 expertise. The DO-254 Global Partner Network supports the needs of companies developing hardware that requires DO 254 Level A, B, C or D compliance. For more information about Altera's DO-254 Global Partner Network, visit www.altera.com/military .
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Altera® programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more at www.altera.com.
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Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services, and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $850 million and employs approximately 4,200 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: www.mentor.com.
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FPGA Press Releases
- Mentor Graphics Announces Logic and Physical Synthesis Support for Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs (Mar 8, 2011)
- Mentor Graphics DO-254 Platform Adopted by the Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC) (Sep 13, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics Announces New FPGA Synthesis Innovation in Precision Synthesis 2010a Release (May 20, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics Extends DO-254 Platform Offering with Enhanced HDL Coding Standards (Apr 13, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics ReqTracer Automates Requirements Tracking and Reporting for Broad Range of Electronic Design Projects (Apr 5, 2010)
- The MathWorks and Mentor Graphics Outline Joint Workflow for Model-based Design (Mar 23, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics and Aeroconseil Partner to Support DO-254 in China (Oct 15, 2009)
- Mentor Graphics Launches Precise-IP Vendor-independent IP Platform for FPGA Design (Sep 3, 2009)
- Mentor Graphics Announces Logic and Physical Synthesis Support for Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs (Jun 24, 2009)
- Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis Tool Family Supports Altera's Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX FPGA Devices (Mar 9, 2009)


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This adorable snowman snow globe is sure to become a holiday favorite.
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Use liner brush and Bright Orange to paint carrot noses.
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- "Additional factors that support our view of a low default rate in 2014 are the continuous accommodative monetary environment together with ample liquidity, which has and will continue to allow distressed companies to access the capital market and reduce refinancing risk in the near future."
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Tuesday, Jul 232013, 1:34 PMWith rising rates forcing some issuers out of the market, Moody's expects the U.S. high-yield (HYG, JNK) default rate to rise to 3.2% by November from 2.9% now. It's hardly bad news as that's still well below the 4.5% average since 1993 and the peak rate of 14% in 2009, and Moody's expects the default rate to fall to 2.6% by mid-2014 as issuers return to the market once volatility subsides.
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Wednesday, Jul 102013, 3:51 PMYes, there's been a deterioration in underwriting standards in the high yield market (HYG, JNK), writes Scott Minerd, but it's far from pre-crisis excesses and secondary to other concerns - namely higher rates. To protect against rates, he prefers bank loans (BKLN, SNLN) - senior to high yield paper and floating rate. B-rated bank bonds have barely budged since rates began moving higher in May while BB-rated notes (junk) have declined 3.9%. |Wednesday, Jul 102013, 3:51 PM| Comment!
Wednesday, Jun 262013, 2:48 PMAttempting to answer the question of what the world would look like if the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4% while short rates remained about zero, Marty Fridson says spreads on high yield (HYG, JNK) and investment-grade (LQD) corporates would widen to levels seen at the time of the Lehman failure. He's quick to point out this is a stagflation scenario, but if the yields rose because of a booming economy, it would be a different result for corporate paper. |Wednesday, Jun 262013, 2:48 PM| Comment!
Wednesday, Jun 52013, 10:09 AMVanguard finally moves into the international and emerging bond market ETF space, launching today its Total International Bond ETF (BNDX) with expense ratio of 0.20% and its Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF (VWOB) with expense ratio of 0.35%. Both are hedged against currency exposure. Possible competitors include: GLCB, IGOV, EMB. |Wednesday, Jun 52013, 10:09 AM| Comment!
Saturday, Jun 12013, 8:48 AMYTD junk bond issuance hits $254B globally, up 53% Y/Y. In the U.S., issuance is up 24% at $130.6B in the first five months of the year and some say the frothy market (see: 5% yield barrier broken) is ripe for a correction. In fact, data suggest cracks are already starting to show in the secondary market: investors pulled a combined $660M from HYG and JNK last week, as fears mount regarding the dreaded "taper". (Previously: Lousy month for high yield; anomalous high yield/ muni spread tightens) |Saturday, Jun 12013, 8:48 AM| 1 Comment
Friday, May 312013, 3:04 PMA nasty close is in store for a lousy month for high yield (HYG -1%) as it loses some appeal amid now-visible Treasury rates. The yield spread over Treasurys was nearly 500 bps a year ago, but just 400 now. Through yesterday, investors have pulled about $1.5B from HYG and JNK according to IndexUniverse. Not falling as far as the index funds and actually seeing inflows this month is AdvisorShares' actively-managed high yield ETF (HYLD). |Friday, May 312013, 3:04 PM| 1 Comment
Friday, May 242013, 11:54 AMA bit of selling by investors in high-yield ETFs (HYG, JNK) has Wall Street banks stepping in - their holdings of junk paper rising 37% to $7.7B in the last 2 weeks. Also at work suggests JPMorgan's team is banks' - used to being cautious the past few years - becoming a little more comfortable with trading activity. |Friday, May 242013, 11:54 AM| Comment!
Monday, May 202013, 12:30 PMThe hot market for corporate junk (HYG, JNK) has pushed the yield on high-yield corporates (4.88%) well below that of high-yield municipals (5.22% nominally, over 8% on a tax-equivalent basis). The nominal spread of 34 bps is down from 56 bps a week ago as investors take notice of the anomaly. High-yield muni ETFs: HYD, HYMB, XMPT. |Monday, May 202013, 12:30 PM| 4 Comments
Monday, May 202013, 9:47 AMUBS' 5 "suspected" asset bubbles: 1) Risk-free rates - specifically Treasurys (TLT), Bunds (BUND, BUNL), JGBs (JGBL, JGBT, JGBD, JGBS) 2) Credit (HYG, JNK) 3) Real estate in Asia (WPS) 4) Certain EM equity markets (EIDO, IDXJ, EPHE, THD, EWW) 5) Australian banks (WBK, NABZY.PK, ANZBY.PK, CMWAY.PK). |Monday, May 202013, 9:47 AM| Comment!
Friday, May 102013, 5:57 AMDon't panic, Moody's says, there's "no strong evidence that recent [corporate debt] issuance levels presage a damaging correction." The notion that a bubble is building in the corporate bond market isn't reflected in credit spreads which, for both investment grade (LQD) and high yield (HYG, JNK), are closer to long-run averages than they are to alarmingly tight. Furthermore, the ratings agency says a surge in issuance reflects the "disintermediation of the banking sector" and notes that the proportion of total corporate liabilities comprised of debt securities hasn't significantly increased over the past two years." We can all rest easy now. (previous) |Friday, May 102013, 5:57 AM| 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 82013, 11:38 AMThe 5% yield barrier on junk bonds (HYG, JNK) is broken for the first time ever, the Barclays U.S. High Yield Index sliding to 4.97% (prior to Jan., the yield had never fallen below 6%). Spreads to Treasurys remain at a not-unreasonable 406 bps, far wider than the record-tight 223 points reached just as the gates of financial heck were about to open in 2007. In the meantime, the equity of highly non-wobbly companies like RDS.A, VOD, and GSK yields in the area of 5%. "We don't want to question the market," writes the FT's David Keohane, "but: what the (heck)?" |Wednesday, May 82013, 11:38 AM| 7 Comments
Monday, May 62013, 1:04 PMIt's an easy market to hate, but junk bond prices (HYG, JNK) keep going higher, the yield on the benchmark BAML index hitting an all-time low of 5.084%. The spread to Treasurys - treading water for awhile at 475 bps - has broken through that resistance, and is now at 4.33%. The Fed's role here is well-documented, but the latest meme has the BOJ's easing efforts as forcing a fresh wave of cash into the sector. |Monday, May 62013, 1:04 PM| 8 Comments
Friday, Apr 122013, 12:28 PMFixed-income may not be being given away as it was in 2010, but there's still value, says Jeff Gundlach, scoffing at talk of a bond bubble. "Raise your hand" if you own Treasurys for yourself or a client, he asked a room full of advisors (none went up). Bonds are not "over-owned" in the U.S., he says, showing cash and fixed income make up a higher percentage of household financial assets in other countries. |Friday, Apr 122013, 12:28 PM| 5 Comments
Wednesday, Mar 202013, 10:11 AMThe term "high-yield" doesn't quite cut it anymore as the 30-day SEC yield on the High-Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) threatens to drop below 5%. |Wednesday, Mar 202013, 10:11 AM| 4 Comments
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November 09, 2011
The Placer County Board of Supervisors honored the city of Lincoln for its quick, effective response to an Aug. 23 propane fire and paid tribute to several individuals for outstanding community service during a special recognition ceremony Tuesday.
All of the honorees received commemorative coins under a program established by the board in 2002 to recognize acts of heroism, longstanding community service or exceptional acts that dramatically improved or impacted people's lives.
The commemorative coins typically are awarded to individuals or couples, but the Board of Supervisors decided to bestow one upon city of Lincoln officials for their response when a railroad tank car filled with 29,000 gallons of propane caught fire near the city's downtown area. About 4,800 homes and businesses had to be evacuated because of the potential for an explosion.
Board Chairman Robert M. Weygandt, Lincoln's representative on the Board of Supervisors, nominated city officials for the honor.
Lincoln City Fire Chief Dave Whitt, Lincoln City Mayor Paul Joiner, Placer Supervisor Robert M. Weygandt, Lincoln City Manager Jim Estep, and Interim Lincoln City Police Chief Paul Shelgren.
"The important thing here is what did not happen to Lincoln," Supervisor Weygandt said, noting that a similar incident in Kingman, Ariz. in 1973 took the lives of 11 firefighters when a railroad car exploded.
The 2nd District supervisor credited the Lincoln fire and police departments with a quick, effective response, noting that an explosion could have damaged much of Lincoln's downtown area. He also noted that other city departments and emergency responders from agencies throughout the area assisted with the response.
Individuals who received commemorative coins were:
The commemorative coins feature the county seal on one side. On the other side are the word "hero" and the image of an eagle with a star and sun rays in the background. That second side of the coin was designed by J. Randal Smith, an Auburn native who is a nationally known artist. His design won a competition coordinated by the Arts Council of Placer County.
District 1 – Dr. Irwin Herman
Dr. Herman moved to Sun City Roseville after practicing in San Leandro for 30 years. After retiring in 1992, he developed a volunteer free health care clinic at a local community center.
He has served on the Placer County Older Adult Advisory Commission since 2004 and currently is vice chair. He is chair of the city of Roseville Senior Commission, an advisory body he joined eight years ago.
He helped develop the Placer County Medical Reserve Corps after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The organization later was incorporated into the regional Sacramento MRC.
"I am very proud to provide Dr. Irwin Herman this commemorative coin for the many hours he has given to this community and I know the many more hours he is going to give after I give him this coin," Supervisor Duran said.
District 3 – Betty and Gary Doupnik
For many years, Gary Doupnik Mfg. Inc. produced modular buildings for schools throughout California, as well as a host of other public agencies, private organizations and companies. The company was the largest employer in Loomis and the town's largest sales tax producer at one point.
Gary and Betty Doupnik are well known for their contributions to community causes. For example, they donated gym and storage lockers for the Placer County Sheriff's Office, a building for the Loomis Basin Chamber of Commerce and a storage building for the Loomis Basin Food Pantry.
"I know it took a little convincing for Gary and Betty to come today. As I said, they like to stay out of the spotlight, but, given their unassuming nature and quiet giving, I am glad that they are here today, so that the Board of Supervisors and I can recognize them," 3rd District Supervisor Jim Holmes said. "You two are truly an inspiration to all of us, because you have touched the lives of so many people in a quiet, but positive way."
District 4 – C. H. Vincent
Fourth District Supervisor Kirk Uhler noted that he was on a youth soccer team coached by Vincent in 1979. Vincent coached soccer teams from 1979 to 2004 and spent 23 seasons as a softball coach in five cities.
He also assisted with the varsity softball team at Del Oro High School in 1988 and managed and assisted with baseball teams in the South Placer Little League.
Since 1986, Vincent has run the clock and scoreboard at home girls basketball games at Del Oro High while his wife, Earlene, runs the shot clock. He also has been involved in the Save Our Sports campaign that benefits the athletic program at Del Oro.
"Over the years, Coach, as he is affectionately referred to now by hundreds, if not thousands of youngsters like myself, has dedicated 32 years to serving his community, most of them after his kids already were grown," Supervisor Uhler said. "It is my great honor today to recognize the man I grew up calling coach and now have the pleasure of calling friend, Mr. C. H. Vincent."
District 5 – Virgil Traynor
Traynor established the Edgewood Veterinary Clinic in Auburn after a two-year stint in the military. In 2001, he became a founding member of the Auburn Community Cancer Endowment Fund, which has raised more than $1.5 million and supports an endowed chair in basic science research at the UC Davis Cancer Center.
A member of the Auburn Rotary Club since 1977, Traynor was a founding principal of the club's community garden, which is in its third year of existence and expects to raise almost 20,000 pounds of vegetables for the Salvation Army this year.
He also is noted for his willingness to heat up his two portable barbecues to cook at community fundraisers and other events.
"Virgil, I think, really exemplifies the individual who works for the whole community, not necessarily just a specific group or specific individual, but really to make this a better place for all of us," 5th District Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery said.
District 5-E. Ken Tokutomi
Tokutomi, senior partner in Tokutomi and Caruthers CPA's LLP, was born in Auburn and grew up in Newcastle.
As chairman of the Salvation Army of Auburn's Advisory Board, he helped institute an all-volunteer Christmas Kettle program.
"Ken has been instrumental - as many of you know because he has probably tapped you on the shoulder for your assistance - in numerous fund-raising projects, including raising over $40,000 for the passage of the Placer Union High School bond initiative back in 1999," Supervisor Montgomery said. "He is just an amazing individual."
Tokutomi won the Vernon Gould McCann Award in 1997 for his contributions to the community and was selected one of the 18 Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans in the U.S.
He currently is spearheading a fundraising effort for a bronze statue that will be placed at Placer County's memorial to local Japanese-American residents who served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, one of the U.S. Army's most-decorated units during World War II. The memorial is at the Bill Santucci Justice Center in Roseville.
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