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A garbage /septage cocktail for fuel.
January 31, 2008 10:38 AM - , Private Landowner Network
Here's a frothy brew you wouldn't want to put a straw into: a not-so-tasty blend of sewage and garbage. As unappealing as it may seem together the two can cut greenhouse gases, help cleanup water supplies and add a new source of green and endlessly renewable fuel, all with the help of a new patented invention by Viridis Waste Control: Septage Bioreactor Landfill (TM) technology.
Globalization Poison
January 31, 2008 09:36 AM - Nin-Hai Tseng, Global Policy Innovations Program
If we're to do business, keep the poison away. Such is the message reverberating lately in the global marketplace. Mercury tests of tuna sushi bought in October by the New York Times from Manhattan restaurants and stores revealed toxic levels high enough to warrant precaution for children and pregnant women. Some suppliers have argued that because mercury enters the oceans as an industrial pollutant, its presence in fish is out of their control and must instead be dealt with on a global level.
Free Reusable Bags at Whole Foods
January 31, 2008 09:08 AM - , Big Green Purse
Whole Foods Markets from New Jersey to Virginia began giving away one free reusable bag per customer yesterday to encourage shoppers to "BYOB"ť — Bring Your Own Bag. The bag had already caught my eye, not only because it's so cheerful and colorful, but also because it's made from 80% post-consumer waste. Plus, it's got a washable surface and actually seems more ample inside than the standard paper grocery bag.
UK greenhouse gas emissions fall in 2006
January 31, 2008 08:08 AM - Reuters
Britain reversed previous estimates to say its emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases fell in 2006, showing on Thursday that it was already nearing a self-imposed goal for 2025. Britain says it is a world leader in the fight against global warming and is introducing legally binding targets to cut carbon emissions by 26-32 percent by 2025 and 60 percent by 2050 below 1990 levels.
EU steps up legal action vs Italy over Naples waste
January 31, 2008 06:51 AM - Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will step up legal action against Italy over the country's handling of a rubbish crisis in Naples, it said on Thursday. "The European Commission is sending Italy a final written warning over the chronic waste crisis plaguing Naples and the rest of the Campania region," the EU executive said in a statement.
France scraps licenses for 1,500 pesticides
January 30, 2008 08:42 AM - Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - France will ban the sale of more than 1,500 pesticides from February 1 as part of a larger plan to cut by 50 percent the use of phytosanitary products in the next 10 years, the farm ministry said. "Michel Barnier, minister for agriculture and fisheries, has announced the cancellation, before February 1, of marketing licenses for products containing 30 substances considered as the most worrying," it said in a statement released late on Tuesday.
Indigenous peoples win conservation successes in Chile
January 30, 2008 08:41 AM - WWF
A near 20 year struggle for land rights and conservation of their rare Araucaria forests for an indigenous Pehuenche community of the Andes range has been rewarded with a grant of title to 22,000 acres of land in southern Chile. Also in December, the Huiliche indigenous community of Mapu Lahual received a prestigious Seal Award from Chilean president Michelle Bachelet for the contribution of their local development and conservation project to one of the most isolated and poorest areas of coastal Chile. This project, "Strenghtening Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Huilliche Territoty of Mapu Lahual"ť is being carried out by WWF Chile and the Mapu Lahual indigenous Association.
SmartWay: It' not just a clever name
January 29, 2008 11:36 AM - , Ship Green
Although shipping emissions are one of the largest contributors to total CO2 emissions in the U.S. and beyond, they have only been recently studied in depth. Part of the recent interest in shipping emissions and methods to mitigate them has been sparked by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport program. Launched in 2004 after a year of study and dialogue with various research groups and consultants, the program engages trucking companies, retailers, rail companies, and individual truckers interested in reducing their emissions and helps them with everything from practical everyday fixes such as proper tire maintenance to financing for new equipment that greatly improves fuel efficiency. We spoke with Mitch Greenberg, Program Manager of the EPA's SmartWay program to find out how it works, what companies and shippers can do to get involved with the program, and what it has planned for the year ahead.
Should you buy soda in plastic bottles or aluminum cans?
January 29, 2008 09:29 AM - , Triple Pundit
Dear Pablo, Assuming that one can't break the habit of drinking pop, what kind of container is more environmentally friendly, aluminum cans or plastic bottles (2 liter)?
Russia clears way for carbon profits
January 29, 2008 08:22 AM - Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's government on Tuesday opened the door to applications from entrepreneurs and big polluters to profit from greenhouse gas emissions cuts by selling these to Western countries. The U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol puts limits on greenhouse gases from 36 rich nations but softens the restrictions by allowing governments to fund emissions-cutting projects in poor and former communist countries and count the cuts as their own.


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PLAINVIEW - Jacob Lee Chapa, 11, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002.
Private graveside services were at 4 p.m. Friday in Parklawn Memorial Gardens with Eric Earhart, pastor of Family Harvest, officiating. Arrangements were by Bartley-Silva Funeral Home.
Jacob was a fourth-grade honor student at Highland Elementary School. He loved sports, especially baseball and football.
Survivors include his parents, Jerry and Veronica Chapa of Plainview; a sister, Abbie Chapa of Plainview; a brother, John Eric Rubio of Plainview; and his grandparents, Albert and Heladia Chapa and Minga Rubio, all of Plainview.
Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 2, 2002
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Farmers call them "flying rats" or "deer with wings."
They gather by the tens of thousands every year about this time to graze on sprouting winter wheat, rye, alfalfa, and barley.
They're voracious, persistent, and dirty, leaving behind a trail of droppings.
Canada geese.
"You see a couple, then 10, 50, 100, 300," said farmer Ray Hlubik, 61, of Chesterfield, Burlington County. Soon, like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, "they cover a whole field.
"They decimated my alfalfa last year," Hlubik said. And in the early spring, "they pulled the tops off my sweet corn."
The foul problems in New Jersey and Pennsylvania cost farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in lost produce and force the replanting of geese-ravaged fields.


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Update: The song is now available for purchase digitally or on limited 7″ vinyl, courtesy of Soul Temple Music. Check out the full version of the track, sans drops, down below.
6/4/13: EBro, Cipha Sounds, and Rosenberg debut a new track from The Wu-Tang Clan's upcoming LP, A Better Tomorrow. Sounds unmastered and the drops are annoying…. but we can get with this.
Good song for the summer. It seems incomplete though. Maybe they haven't all laid their verses yet.
Nice! This sounds more like it came off of a Ghostface record than a group lp, not that that's a bad thing though.
you know rae aint like this track…LOLOLOL
Why is Daniel Bryan doing the chorus?
I thought this time "it will have to be right". I expected at least "wutang forever" sound on this album and not mickey mouse crap like that.
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Stepping Stones
Sean, Stepping Stones
Gerry and Sean
Sean, Handlebar Heights
Gerry riding the tracked up powder
Scenes from my favourite bar
Sean taking in the view
Gerry going down at Stepping Stones
Dead Crow Creek
Howe Sound
Ricky concentrating
Andrew, Britannia, with Howe Sound in the backgroung
Poor little guy, all tuckered out from a hard play time.
Rick playing.
A little bit of trail building, the more the merrier
Ahhhh, what a day.
Gerry and Ricky
Gas Gas maintenance with Ricky and Brodie
Gas Gas maintenance with Ricky, the second chain to come off for the day.
Sean, Preparing to ride awesome rock without the usual run in.
Sean's ride up awesome rock.
Rick trying to ride "UP" a sick down line on awesome rock.
Rick being the first to clean "UP" a down line on Awesome rock. Oh what's next???
Ricky going UP awesome rock like no one else.
Sean cleaning Rod's gap.
Gerry, Goat Ridge
Sean, Goat Ridge
Andrew, Reflections in water
Cory, Goat Ridge
Andrew, ahhh swimming in an alpine lake, that totally rocks!
Spiderman was here
Corey, Awesome Rock
Simon, Awesome Rock
Andrew, Awesome Rock
Andrew, corner of Awesome Rock, which Rick rode UP the following week!
Andrew, corner of Awesome Rock
Clayton, Awesome Rock
Corey, Playground area, unsuccessful attempt
Corey, Playground area
Ricky riding to the very end of "the Log"
Chest Cam of Ricky and Andrew riding the railway bridge
Chest Cam of Andrew riding a small section of Organ Donor
Howe Sound and Britannia
Justin, Handlebar Heights
Howe Sound viewed from the Alpine
Ricky, Alpine splatter
The Gang of Sunday July 12 at the Highest point of the Goat
Goats returning
Justin flying on Lions spine
Tantalus Range, July 11
Ricky, Splatter, Conroy
Sean with the King Kong line
Justin with the King Kong line
Ricky, Kinging it up
Ricky sweeping the section
Ricky riding Hellraiser
Ricky up Sean's Rock
Sean and Justin
Alpine Oasis
Ted and Tim
Tim and Justin
Ted, Sean and Tim
Beeeautiful day in the Alpine
Beeeeautiful day in the Alpine
The Views were good...if you like that sort of thing.
Ricky's Shadow
Ricky Styles (the legend) walking the last 100m back to the truck after running out of fuel.
Wednesday night ride in Conroy
Happy July 1st
First riders up Up Up 'n Away for 2009, surprising lack of snow this season.
The Boys at the top of Pleasure Dome
Ted styling it up
The gang gathers for a day of riding in the sunshine
Stretching before the big event is prudent
more examples of "stretching"
Checking the tires air pressure, also prudent
Ricky on the new trail, climbing out of the parking lot
Ricky sampling some of the many features
The Saturday gang.
Sean's new feature.
Andrew J. splatter
Phil splatter
Ricky splatter
Sean gap
Phil gap
Ricky gap
Shane gap
resting near the end of the day
finishing the day with a bit of fluids to rehydrate the body after a hot day in the sun.
Gerry, Britannia
Gerry trying to offer Sean help in fixing his Montesa.
Gerry, Britannia, Snacks to go
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Yankees Snap 6-Game Home Losing Streak With 7-3 Win Over Mets
Mark Teixeira and Russell Martin each hit two-run homers as the New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets 7-3 to tie their Major League Baseball interleague series at one game each.
Curtis Granderson and Alex Rodriguez also homered in the sixth inning to help the Yankees snap a season-high six-game home losing streak, while Teixeira drove home Derek Jeter on a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
"We've been good and bad. Overall if you look at the numbers, league-wise we're OK," Rodriguez told reporters. "But I think there's a lot of room for improvement. It's important for us to think small ball. To also score runs on base hits, singles and doubles."
Teixeira has hit a home run in each of the past three games, the second time this season he has had a three-game home run streak. Jeter got his 326th career stolen base, tying Rickey Henderson for the most in franchise history.
The Mets took a 2-1 lead in the first inning when Jason Bay hit a sacrifice fly to allow Jose Reyes to score and Justin Turner hit a one-run single. Carlos Beltran drove in Reyes in fifth for the Mets third run.
Chris Capuano (3-5) gave up six hits and six runs, including the four homers in 5 1/3 innings. A.J. Burnett (5-3) went 6 1/3 innings for the Yankees, allowing six hits and three runs. He noted the difference between the hitter-friendly Yankee Stadium and more spacious Citi Field.
"I think that's the frustrating part for me: I didn't give up a lot of hits, just big ones," Capuano said. "I think maybe we are a little more spoiled at Citi. I think we really know how good we have it there as pitchers."
In the National League, it was Milwaukee 3, Colorado 2.
In interleague games played at American League stadiums, it was Toronto 7, Houston 5; the Chicago White Sox 9, the Los Angeles Dodgers 2; St. Louis 3, Kansas City 0; Baltimore 8, Washington 3; Cleveland 2, Cincinnati 1; the Chicago Cubs 9, Red Sox 6; and Atlanta 5, Los Angeles Angels (12 innings).
In interleague games played at National League stadiums, it was Philadelphia 2, Texas 0; San Francisco 3, Oakland 0; Florida 5, Tampa Bay 3; Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 2; Seattle 4, San Diego 0; and Arizona 9, Minnesota 6.


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Joe Nocera Still Loves Keystone XL, Is Still Confused About The Basic Economics Of Oil Markets
By Dr. Jim Barrett
It's nice to know that the Joe Nocera at the New York Times can be taught. The last time I read one of his columns, he made the mistake of calling people "boneheaded" because they understood the economics of oil markets in a way that he clearly didn't. He actually claimed that taxing oil production would increase oil production.
This time out, Joe has clearly showed that he learned his lesson: Don't call people "boneheads" while displaying your own ignorance. Unfortunately for Joe, the lesson seems to have ended at not calling names, because his ignorance is once again on full display.
As with his last column, the discussion is about the Keystone XL pipeline which would bring crude from the tar sands of Canada to oil refineries in Texas. If you haven't been paying attention to the issue, environmentalists and others oppose the pipeline on the basis of both local environmental issues surrounding the possibility of a leak in sensitive areas and on the global environmental grounds that developing Canada's tar sands would be catastrophic for climate change.
Nocera, who to his credit admits openly to being a "longtime supporter" of the pipeline, abandons his previous comically flawed attempt at making economic arguments. This time, he attempts a political one: Allowing the pipeline to go through the U.S. will help us achieve "energy independence."
Ignoring both the fact that the tar sands crude would flow to Texas refineries and then exported to other parts of the world as well the odd trend of treating Canada as though it were part of the U.S. (I wonder how Canadians feel about that), Nocera's new energy security argument is just as flawed as his old economic one.
The problem is that even if Canada were just a northern U.S. state and even if all of the oil it produced were consumed in the U.S., the pipeline wouldn't bring us any closer to actual energy independence. The reason is economics (sorry Joe, the stuff is everywhere). Oil is sold on global markets. The price oil is the same no matter where it is sold and who is buying it. If a buyer in Japan is offering $100 for a barrel of oil, and a U.S. company is only offering $80, the Japanese buyer will get it. That's just how markets work. If the U.S. wants oil, we're going to have to pay the market price.
The companies developing Canadian tar sands are not going to sell us that oil at below market rates because we are neighbors or because they like us. American oil companies don't even do that. If global oil prices go up, we pay more for oil no matter who we buy it from.
Despite Nocera's claim that "[w]e would no longer need OPEC," (the oil producing cartel centered in the Middle East) we would still be very much subject to their whims and the impact it has on global oil markets. Whether or not the Keystone pipeline gets built, OPEC will still be a major supplier of oil. If OPEC decides to decrease production, global oil prices will rise, and the existence of the Keystone pipeline won't change that. Fighting in the Middle East, sadly common, will still send global oil prices rising as it always has, and unless the Canadian oil companies promise not to raise their prices or only to sell to Americans (which they have literally sworn they won't do (see video below), oil from the Canadian tar sands will go through the same price gyrations as all the other oil in the world.
Energy independence in the way most people think of it has always been something of a mirage. It has never really been about being able to get the oil want. It has always been about getting it at the price we want. If Venezuela (a member of OPEC) decides it doesn't want to sell oil to the U.S. any more, there are other suppliers can get it from. We may have to pay more to get it, and that is the problem.
To be truly independent, we would have to sever ourselves from global oil markets. That is only possible if we can both supply all the oil we need and are willing to ban all oil exports. Otherwise the global price signal will find its way into our market. Even if we pretend that Canada is a part of the U.S., and even if this new and suddenly much larger U.S. could supply as much oil as it consumes, no one has ever seriously proposed banning oil exports, and so energy independence has never seriously been on the table, with or without the Keystone pipeline.
If we want to be free from the influence of oil markets, we have to be free from oil. To the extent that allowing the Keystone pipeline to go through slows or diverts investment from alternative energies and efficiency efforts, it actually makes us more dependent on oil markets, more vulnerable to volatile price swings, and less secure.
— Dr. Jim Barrett is Chief Economist at the Clean Economy Development Center
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22 Responses to Joe Nocera Still Loves Keystone XL, Is Still Confused About The Basic Economics Of Oil Markets
Your argument is very compelling, but the fact that burning as little as one fourth of the remaining fossil fuel reserves will result in irreversible, catastrophic climate change is also very compelling.
Doesn't it make sense then, that while we convert to non-fossil based renewable energy, that we pick and choose which fossil fuels we extract from the earth? We have after all, more fossil fuels than we can safely use. There is absolutely no reason that we need extract the most polluting and least energy efficient fossil fuels.
Dependency on fossil fuels is a huge drain on the world's economies and accelerating as climate change accelerates.
And we are now in a fossil fuel bubble which will cost the economy a six trillion dollars financial collapse when it goes.
San Francisco and others are rapidly divesting which makes good economic sense.
It is the law that publically traded companies must declare their exposure to climate change and the insurance and fossil fuel industries are the worst.
And the insurance industry is changing dramatically to limit it's exposure.
The fossil fuel industry is trying to intrench the exposure even more. This is plainly misguided and is amplifying risk.
In the same NYT essay, Mr Nocera made a very snide dig at Dr Hansen:
"I couldn't help myself: I asked Oliver what he thought of Hansen's willingness to chain himself to the White House fence to protest the pipeline.
He couldn't help himself either. Given the dirty oil in California, he replied, 'he should be chaining himself to a mannequin in Rodeo Drive.'"
Dr Hansen, not an economist, had showed how Mr Nocera had utterly bungled the economics of a Carbon Tax. So all Mr Nocera can do is get personal. It makes one wonder about the NYT, publishing the blather of such a petulant, snarky ignoramus.
The pipeline will be built. IF it isn't, alternative pipelines will be.
Pipelines are still the safest way to move oil.
Interesting point, but it seems to engage in the rather risk-o-philic proposition that getting to the edge of disaster will be followed by a miraculous pulling away just in time; this is no Hollywood movie. Maybe we ought to consider the respite a gift of time in which to get on to 100 percent large-scale non-carbon energy systems such as solar PV, wind and geothermal. I say large-scale because small is not enough and far, far too slow and unmanageable to be useful for electrifying transportation and decarbonizing electricity production at a scale which will be meaningful.
I don't get the argument. The tar sands ARE developed. It's not like Keystone is the key to making them reality. And they will continue to be developed, Keystone or no Keystone.
Keystone is only about whether tar sands oil will join other heavy oil to pass through pipelines to US refineries, or whether the US will keep using rail and oil tankers (which are much worse for the environment).
Don't get me wrong, I bike commute to work to lessen the impact on the environment. But as long as we are dependent on oil (which will be for a while, at least) there are a lot worse villains than Keystone.
Energy independence alone has been a sufficient reason to build 100% renewable energy since before 1970. Is global warming a hoax? Who cares? I don't. We still need renewables in any case.
Going full out as mentioned is great but . . .
Back to the future. In some cases small is best.
With rapid deployment of bikeshare happening right now — early-stage net zero transit — in New York City, NYC DoT Commissioner tweeted "Come to New York and help save the planet."
An NYT opinion piece today by Alter and Fishman points out that even if we do achieve energy independence, it'll likely drive the international price of oil down, causing stress in OPEC countries, resulting in unrest that would probably increase our involvement with them, rather then decrease. That sounds right.
The comment above is also right–the way to energy independence is to displace oil with renewables and conservation. Ironically, that may also reduce revenue to unstable oil-producing countries. So it's in our interest to get them off oil, too.
Saudi Arabia is already moving toward solar big way, towards becoming the, ah, well, the Saudi Arabia of solar.
Without oil revenue, they have to do something to keep social order. Free energy from the sun is part of the answer.
It is well documented that the very nasty stuff the pipeline is proposed to deliver is not needed or wanted; and it would be a very bad thing if that nasty stuff was to be delivered: devastating to economy contributing to the six trillion dollar fossil fuel bubble as detailed in a recent BloombergNews report and would greatly contribute to rapidly accelerating climate change as delivery of this crud ramps up.
It boils down to Frog Soup: markets operate on the margins, and the "optimal" conditions they reach are not necessarily global. Your first point may be read two ways: "Dependency on fossil fuels is a huge drain on the world's economies and (the dependency and drain are both) accelerating as climate change accelerates." Insurance companies are one thing, but their limiting their exposure to at-risk assets merely(!) confirms their corporate actuarial belief that climatologists are right. OTOH, FF corps(es) are exposed to climate change only if there is a viable mechanism to wean their customers — that would be a global us — off their product. San Francisco's ff stock divestiture merely expresses her citizens' belief such a mechanism is forthcoming. But the actual effect is tempered by the same citizenry's continued consumption of fossil fuels. PetroSlurp has a sobering graphic over at The Oil Drum.
Maybe, but it won't be as easy, and presumably not as economical, to attempt alternate routes. The fact remains that this project has been vigorously pursued for a reason: Because it's the most favorable to expanding tar sands operations and enhancing accessibility to international markets. How that will not boost North American fossil carbon emissions (when we're supposed to be trying to reduce them) is beyond me.
Of course, I prefer the pipeline not be built simply on the climate change argument. True, oil is traded on the global market. But as a point of argument (to be fair to the other side), is that Canada is a neighboring friendly country. The middle east unfriendly, and unstable. The probability and manageability of supply disruption on the global market is more adverse in the middle east. This is likely the reasoning the Obama administration will go with on the point of "energy independence".
There are definitely viable means to wean global customers off fossil fuels as detailed on these pages; and the genesis of an economically dangerous fossil fuel financial bubble valued at six trillion dollars as detailed in a recent BloombergNews report.
One-half billion Chinese cyclists (in China alone) and rapid deployed bikeshare in NYC (miniscule in comparison) chimes in with the pretty much indisputable reality that something is not impossible if it already exists.
Not sure how a "friendly neighbor" would go about shipping this stuff across your front lawn.
Manageability of supply disruption comes with broad deployment of distributed energy sources like solar and wind. You do not solve a security problem with a very wasteful dangerous failing legacy system based on fossil fuels.
Fossil fuel dependency domestic or otherwise is treated as a liability by the US Army as do many others in this country and worldwide; and is currently considered a very dangerous economic liability as well.
Any decision affirming the need for the pipeline for "energy independence" is pure "method of mass deception" reminiscent of the prior administration's reason for the Iraq War based on Sadam Hussein's non-existent nuclear capability where approval of the pipeline threatens to contribute to a level of devastation on a much larger scale.
While all the attention is given to the Keystone XL, the expansion of the Enbridge Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline thru ND and MN to a port on Lake Superior is being overlooked. http://www.freep.com/article/20130414/NEWS06/304140150/Great-Lakes-oil-proposals-threaten-repeat-of-Kalamazoo-spill-environmentalists-saythe
Enbridge, the company that leaked 1 million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River, is planning to expand this tar sands pipeline from 570,000 bpd to 880,000 bpd. The Keystone XL capacity is 800,000 bpd. See page 16566 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-03-15/pdf/2013-06039.pdf
There are plans to ship this oil thu the Lakes. Increased transport of refined and tar sands oil in pipes and especially on the Great Lakes greatly increases the chance of spills that could do major damage.
The Great Lakes provide drinking and other water to tens of millions of US and Canadian citizens and businesses, a multi-billion dollar tourist, boating and fishing industries and tens of thousands of jobs, a multi-billion dollar increase in shore-line property values, and immeasurable recreation and quality of life value.
The Great Lakes are fresh water, surprisingly shallow and much more vulnerable. The average depth of Lake Huron is only 195 feet, Lake Erie 62 feet and Lake St. Clare 10 feet. (Tankers travel 26 miles over this lake thru a channel.)
Four large ships have sunk in the great Lakes in the past 55 years. And, the Exxon Valdez spilled only 260,000 barrels in 1989 and the much larger Alaskan coastline still hasn't recovered. Last summer, the largest ship on the Great Lakes was grounded because of low water levels.
The profits of a few Canadian companies and a little more oil or the US are not valid reasons to endanger the tremendous water, jobs, wealth and quality of life the Great Lakes provide
I have one question for him. How much CO2 does Mr. Nocera really believe the world's nations can safely emit from now to 2050?
Pipeline opponents have been very clear about this. So far, Mr. Nocera has not.
At their 2009 Copenhagen conference, the leaders of 167 nations (including the U.S. and China) agreed that we cannot safely warm the planet more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) from preindustrial levels. Based on a study by Meinshausen et al. published in Nature in 2009, pipeline opponents say that to stay below 2C, we must emit less than 500 billion tons of CO2 from 2013 to 2050.
That's a global "carbon budget", Mr. Nocera. Unless you support a higher carbon budget, there's no conceivable argument for the KXL pipeline.
So, Mr. Nocera, what do you consider a safe global carbon budget for the next 37 years?
Imagine that Joe Nocera covered gun violence the same way he covers climate change.
Yet it seems we are still hell bent on extracting and burning any and all types of fossil fuel we can figure out how to extract by any means possible.
"Clean fuel" is just a ridiculous ad slogan seen on TV. As we a learning, natural gas for example might actually be worse than coal when we consider the ACTUAL amount of methane that is leaked into the atmosphere.
You-all might like (James) Kunstler's take on this – as always, pretty satisying – http://kunstler.com/blog/2013/04/we-wish.html.
Of course I'd prefer renewables as the genuine solution to energy independence. This is long term. But if one were still dependent on oil, and we still are, and will be for awhile, given the number of ICE cars around. Having a global supply dependent on friendly and stable countries is still preferable to unfriendly and unstable ones.
There is a certain (political) logic (whether you agree or disagree with it) to Obama's "all of the above strategy". He doesn't want the hassle of an all out war against the fossil fuel industry. It impedes his other political agenda. Technologically and economically, we are still largely dependent on fossil fuels. A responsible president would do whatever he can to lessen the risks to economic disruption with the reality at hand. He would also pave the way for alternatives such as renewable energy, hopes the cost eventually drops enough to compete with the fossil fuel industry. When this happens, market forces take over. Renewables will scale and explode in a massive way simply through economic logic. This is probably going to be the more likely path of "change" than the carbon tax, given the current political environment and entrenched interests. But first, you need to find a way to keep renewables alive (which the Repulicans are trying to kill in favor of "tried and true proven technology").
Then there's the climate change issue. The "all of the above" strategy may be too slow what what really needs to be done.
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Mike Careyâs highly ambitious âAge of Xâ storyline was, in the end, a mixed bag, with exceptional highs and disappointing lows. This first piece of the aftermath of that story tries to tie things up, but while thereâs emotional resonance here, the execution is mostly awkward and frustrating.
In this issue, the X-Men on Utopia try to recover from the last seven days spent in an alternate reality thanks to one of Legionâs many powerful personalities. We see characters deciding to purge their minds (or not) of the memories with the help of Emma Frost and her Cuckoos. Others try to make sense of what theyâve experienced with varying degrees of success.
As a longtime fan of the X-Men, I always find reading about the emotional relationships, sans any punches or villainous plans, pretty enjoyable when handled well. Carey is someone I trust with these relationships as heâs proven himself time and again to be a nuanced and considerate writer. However, this issue is so heavy with exposition and epilogue that it doesnât work well as a comic, even though some of the conversations between characters are ones that I enjoyed. Thanks to the way that âAge of Xâ ended, this âaftermathâ feels extremely necessary, but also extremely unsatisfying. As if Carey couldnât quite do what he needed to do within the arc and so now is attempting to explain it all in overly talky conversations and narration. Overall, the entire issue misfires as a result.
The art by Jorge Molina, Craig Yeung, and Pat Davidson is a real miss. Though the art is sometimes quite pretty, in an issue full of emotional talking heads, expression and clarity are truly important, and thereâs zero consistency or understanding of that in these pages. Characters donât look the same from page to page, let alone panel to panel, and much of the acting is terrible. Facial expressions donât match with dialogue and many choices just feel flat out wrong. In a âreunionâ scene between Rachael Summers (aka Revenant) and her father Scott Summers, I have no idea whether to trust the visual, or the text, which seem to convey wildly conflicting messages. Revenant looks happy in one panel, but the dialogue doesnât feel as if itâs supposed to be happy. In another she looks pissed and ready to blow the world to bits, but the text conveys nothing of the sort. All of Careyâs nuance is lost here because, for the most part, the art canât handle the subtlety or perhaps doesnât even understand it. In an issue in which it is critical that a reader understand what a character is saying and what it means for the larger picture, I was utterly lost. Significant relationship milestones that Carey is clearly trying to establish, especially between Rogue and Gambit and Rogue and Magneto instead come out entirely muddled.
Careyâs ambitious story these past few months was some of the most fun Iâve had reading the X-Men in a long time, but the ending and this aftermath are a real let down. There are still interesting things to be mined here as a result of the storyline, but it has to be more competently executed than this if he wants people to continue to come along for the ride.


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I've read tutorials about showing custom post type with the same category but it seems that all I get was the same posts from the main loop. I want to display custom post type named 'content_block' (it's from the Custom Post Widget) in the sidebar. Here's my code:
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Good location
We recently stayed at the hotel and had booked two double rooms - one a luxury room with jacuzzi looking over the canal at the front of the hotel and the other a double with shower which was in the attic overlooking the courtyard garden. The attic room was of average size but seemed small once it contained a travel cot - the jacuzzi room was quite big by amsterdam standards and had a lovely view of the canal which is quite quiet both day and night. the staff were extremely helpful and knowledgeable and were more than willing to accommodate any request especially as we had a toddler with us - the only downsides to the trip were that there are a few steps up to the hotel and also steps up to the lift and to some of the rooms - this is not mentioned in the website - and this did cause a few problems as one member of our party had mobility problems and we had to manoeuver a pram. The hotel serves breakfast and snacks in the afternoon and evening, so you have to eat out for dinner. The facilities in the rooms were quite different - the jacuzzi room was quite well decorated and had air conditioning as well as the usual tea,coffee,hairdryer,toiletries,radio and alarm etc. the attic room however did not appear to have been given so much attention and did not have air con and the bathroom was minute. the minibar is quite cheap by hotel standards but did not have wines or spirits, and the pay per view channels are already turned on when you arrive and you have to request to have them turned off - they are good value at 4 channels for only 8.85euro from 11am to 11am. the hotel does have internet access and it is also possible to hire dvd players and video players - something we wish we had known in advance. The hotel classes itself as a business hotel but we found it to be quite an intimate family-friendly hotel which can boast a back garden in which the children can play and the adults can enjoy a drink from the bar.
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We stayed at The Hotel Toren in April 2004. The hotel was beautifully quiet, clean and comfortable. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The hotel is well situated for a visit to the city. I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone visiting Amsterdam
Snuggly bed, peaceful and convenient location
My husband and I stayed at the Hotel Toren for one night on March 22.
The hotel is in an excellent location -- away from the busy, central street, yet in walking distance to the Anne Frank Musuem, Central Station, Red Light District and the Flower Market. We stayed in room 421, located a few doors down from the main building. The room was clean, of decent size and had a charming canal view. The bed was one of the most comfortable I've slept in. The linens were crisp and white and the comforter/blankets were so snuggly! Additionally, the Hotel was recently added to the Airport Connexxion shuttle stop list, so it was convenient and inexpensive to transfer to/from the airport (10.50 Euro). The rates are decent and the staff friendly. Television-watchers beware, pay-per-view (including adult content) needs to be turned off by request or you risk being charged an additional 8 or 8.50 Euro per day.
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ToreN Hotel, AmsterdamMy wife and I spent 4 nights there Thurs 25th March to Mon 29th March 2004. We were allocated room 223 which was up in the attic. My complaint is purely to do with the room. Everything else about the hotel is fine.Room 223 is tiny. Far too small for 2 people. One tiny wardrobe and no other storage racks. No space between the twin beds. If not careful one might bang one's head off slanted ceiling and wooden beams. Bathroom was tiny. Shower was very powerful but the controls were broken so it was necessary to hold the shower in one hand while washing, otherwise the whole bathroom area got destroyed with water as happened on the first occasion I used the shower. Not very satisfactory and it meant I didn't bother to shower on 2 of the days. While sitting on the toilet one's head is over the sink. Again not very satisfactory.On a less important note the TV remote control didn't work properly and the manual controls had to be used.To summarise, I feel I didn't get value for the Euro 140 per night.
Absolutely brilliant!
We had just had the best stay possible in Amsterdam - this hotel is a gem! You couldn't find a nicer hotel with staff to match. The rooms are a bit on the small size, but you could eat your food off the floor! The bedlinen is as white as snow and starched to perfection. They have a lovely little bar and breakfast room and the actual location is spot on. It is by one of the canals (naturally) and only 5-10 minutes walk away from the hustle and bustle of all the bars and the redlight district! We can't recommend it enough - go and experience it for yourselves...
Toren Hotel is great!
We just returned from Amsterdam where we spent 10 days at the Toren.
The July weather was very warm this year and a good feature of the hotel was that it is air conditioned. Our stay was very enjoyable: Staff friendly and helpful; upgraded rooms pleasant and comfortable (new bathroom). We had a canal view and it really added to the entire feeling of our trip. We feel that the history of the hotel should be shared more widely (used to be the home of a "patrician" family then the library to the old university: built in 1733). Many of the architectural features remain from those days.
Very pleased
We splurged on a room with a view of the canal, and were very happy with it. The room was large, decorated in red and gold (very pretty- see their website for pictures) and well-maintained, with lots of natural light. The view was beautiful- we left the windows open all night. The bathroom was somewhat small, with a jacuzzi tub and new-looking fixtures; good water pressure in the shower, not much shelf space. Staff was friendly and helpful. The location is perfect- quiet and beautiful, but within walking distance of everything. Negatives: expensive if you want the canal view! But you probably already knew that.
Nice Hotel - Great Location
I stayed at Hotel toren for three nights early in April of 2003. Most of the staff were nice, although one or two of the people at the front desk had something of a teutonic chilliness about them. The room was not terribly large, but it had a pleasant view onto the back garden (the Canal view rooms were way too expensive for me - starting at twice the price of the back rooms!). The pluses: Room was quiet, furniture was nice, location can't be beat, the common areas of the hotel are nice. Minuses: bathroom was a little too small, especially the shower, and although I was supposedly on a 'non-smoking' floor, the corridor outside my room stank of cigarette smoke. Also, the breakfast was a little too expensive, at 12 Euros per day.But it was wonderful to be so centrally located, and to have my nice quiet room with the pleasant garden view as a refuge. All in all, despite a few minuses, I rate this above average.
Great Hotel
Great location - can walk to everything. Near the Anne Frank House. Friendly staff and nice rooms.
Gem of a hotel
Stayed in Toren late Nov/early Dec this year.
Recently uograded to 4 star.
Lovely hotel can"t fault it.
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... hands down. At least the beer was good!
Bubba and Tracy had an early morning ahead of them as their flight was departing around 8am, so we went back to the hotel right after dinner. We wished them good travels and we were all hopeful that their final leg of the holiday would be without issues. It was still early for me though, so I mixed up a drink, grabbed a cigar and made my way to the roof top to enjoy the evening view. What a great way to end a fantastic day!
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| Guest chapter 24 . 7/1/2015
Incredible story! Read the entire story today and have loved it. You write so beautifully. Please continue!
| KEMLEM81 chapter 24 . 6/27/2015
What a story! I only just started reading this yesterday and am pleased to know you're still continuing it. You're writing style is fantastic and you've brought me to tears several times now. I look forward to continuing to follow this story and see where you take it from here.
| Guest chapter 23 . 4/15/2015
Hi, this plot has seriously surprised me. please continue!
| Tina0609 chapter 23 . 4/11/2015
I just found your stoy and really really hope you continue it some time...maybe? Mostly because I love it and love how you wrote those characters and the drama. An well, as you wrote in your A/N, I want them to be together and since the last chapters were so well written I don't want to ignore them to get my happy ending ;)
So please, keep going!
| fsugrad05 chapter 23 . 1/21/2015
Love this story, so different from anything I've read on here. Please finish!
| ekwibbels chapter 23 . 11/21/2014
Wish the chapter was a little longer and was a little meatier. But I'm glad glad they're where they are
| ZA ZA zoom chapter 23 . 11/21/2014
I bloody love this story. So happy you updated.
| ZA ZA zoom chapter 22 . 6/2/2014
Please make them be happy together again. Its such a shame for the both of them that they are not. Please don't make them get a divorce.
| ZA ZA zoom chapter 21 . 5/29/2014
Hopefully your next chapter is as good as this one.
| Melissamax22 chapter 21 . 3/12/2014
Update soon
| Scarlet3086 chapter 21 . 2/24/2014
It was a little confusing, but I like that it will be fleshed out a little later. Makes for an interesting read that way. thanks!
| allessandramari chapter 21 . 2/24/2014
Actually, I didn't have any trouble following where you led. Your time jump indicators worked fine. I'm glad you updated this story, I found it fairly early on in my reading of fanfic, and always wanted to know what happened next.
"She didn't want him around. And right there, this very second, Jess Mariano's world ended. Like someone kicked the air out of his lungs. For a short moment time stood still, realization dawning, enveloping him in its numb wake. Then the moment was over, the sound of her pulse from the monitor breaking through the silence with his head. She was alive. She was still there. Maybe it was the last thing she wanted right now, but he was. He was there"
Really loved that section...
| ZA ZA zoom chapter 21 . 2/24/2014
Great chapter but sad how they lost the baby.
| ZA ZA zoom chapter 20 . 2/22/2014
Please continue writing this story. I wanna find out if Rory's pregnant because of the whole late night food cravings.
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Please continue writing this story. I wanna find out if Rory's pregnant because of the whole late night craving thing.


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Slog commenter Jubilation T. Cornball, currently attending a gay wedding in San Francisco, waxes emotional in an email he just sent me:
Thought you might be interested in a real time description of the weddings in San Francisco…I am at the City Hall rotunda now. There is a band playing love songs. Small and smaller gaggles of folks are in various spots under the rotunda dome, all of which have, at their center, two guys or two women and an officiating, um, official.
And heythere are straight people getting married here, too! They don't seem to act like their marriages are under threat.
This experience is, simply put, one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life. I am certainly going to cry for happiness when my friends get married (or if Turkey beat Germany, which I have been following on my blackberrymy damn friends had to get married during a Euro semifinal), but now I find myself tearing up watching strangers.
One walks through the front door of City Hall to the rotunda, under four large panels of the AIDS quilt, reminding us that the struggles our community have undergone in our lifetimes are huge. But we somehow get through them, and move on to better days and places…including a room filled with marrying couples who might wonder who that strange guy is crying a little by the stairs.
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The role of George Kennan's Containment strategy in securing a U.S. victory in the Cold War has been overstated by both the right and the left. While its attributes render it an acceptable and honorable path to victory, Containment's efficacy is undermined by military and diplomatic conflict, which yielded a change in American foreign policy after 1968. What can more accurately be considered America's winning strategy is a three-part proposal by Major General John R. Deane, chief of the United States Military Liaison Mission to Moscow from 1943 to 1945. He asserted that active attempts to contain Soviet Communism around the globe would not be as potent as the system's inherent incompatibility with both world domination and Russian society.
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In the 48 regular-season games between 2006 to 2008, Minnesota's run defense held opponents to fewer rushing yards than any team in football. The exact figure was 3,400 rushing yards, an average of 70.8 yards per game.
In two games this season, opponents are averaging 109 yards per game. That number puts the Vikings smack in the middle of NFL rankings, but the 35 percent increase is at least worth noting as Sunday's game against San Francisco and tailback Frank Gore approaches. (In case you missed it, Gore rushed for 207 yards and two touchdowns last week in the 49ers' 23-10 victory over Seattle.)
Most notable to me has been how brazenly both Cleveland and Detroit have challenged what has long been the Vikings' strength. The Browns ran on 15 of its first 26 plays Sept. 13, while the Lions kept it on the ground for 24 of their first 32 plays.
Asked about that dynamic this week, Vikings coach Brad Childress repeated a quote he said he heard from NBA star Dwayne Wade.
"It really holds true," Childress said, "that you earn your respect every night in the NBA going out on the court. You have to earn it every time out. This league is now different than what he's talking about individually. You have to earn it. It's not that somebody is going to defer and come in and bow to you and say we're not going to probe there. You have to earn it. Last year is old news. What you have done in the past is old news. You have to earn it week to week because every team is good enough to be able to exert their will on you from time to time."
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The foregoing hash of a sentence is deliberately inedible. We are talking today of Writer's Interruptus, a stylistic device that relies upon parenthetical phrases to derail a reader's train of thought.
On Sept. 3, columnist George Will was writing about Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California zoo. He said:
"Having intimated that he would finance his own campaign -- he would not be beholden to 'special interests' because 'I don't need to take money from anyone; I have plenty of money myself' -- he quickly solicited $3.1 million from contributors, for starters."
After a pause, my brother Will continued:
"But it is clear that Schwarzenegger, although from Austria, has an attribute that Matthew Arnold ascribed to -- the 19th century did not know that stereotypes are naughty -- Celtic people: a 'passionate, turbulent, indomitable reaction against the despotism of fact.'"
Will turned to candidate Cruz Bustamente, who is telling Californians to brace themselves for "tough love."
"By that he means he will solve their problems by making taxation of the rich even heavier -- in 2000, almost 38 percent of California income taxation was paid by one- third of 1 percent of taxpayers. ... And, oh yes, there will be cheaper gasoline prices when Gov. Bustamente, displaying insouciant disregard for the U.S. Constitution -- it makes the regulation of interstate commerce a federal prerogative -- imposes state regulation on the petroleum industry."
My brother concluded with a warning that Schwarzenegger could expect a "late hit" from his foes -- an unsavory revelation just before the election. Late hits are familiar blows in California politics. "In 1998 Darrell Issa -- he is now a congressman; his $1.6 million funding of the recall petition drive produced this recall election -- lost a Senate primary when it was revealed that he had embellished his military record."
Somewhere in all this tangled shrubbery were nouns in desperate search of verbs. Parental clauses had mislaid their orphan predicates. Prepositions had lost their objects. Devoted readers -- and George Will has millions of devoted readers; they welcome his cogent conservative thinking, not only in his widely syndicated column but also in his television commentaries, in which his acerbic wit enables him to skewer his unprepared adversaries -- have learned to leap the dashes and stay the course. You bet.
Another of my favorite writers, Janet Maslin of The New York Times, occasionally indulges in Writer's Interruptus. Novelist Chuck Palahniuk, she wrote, "is someone whose idea of bedtime music (in 'Lullaby,' the novel preceding this one) is a song that actually kills its listeners."
Reviewing a biography of Diana Mosley, again she fell into parenthetical arms: "Diana was a cousin of Winston Churchill's, a darling of Evelyn Waugh's (who dedicated 'Vile Bodies' to the Guinnesses) and a likely friend of Lytton Strachey's and Dora Carrington's, even if she found Bloomsbury tastes 'dreary' and 'middle-class'; Diana's own aesthetic ran toward pink, blue and gold luxe."
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- 2 kg vanilla and strawberry ripple ice cream
- 300 g raspberries (fresh or frozen)
- 10 meringue nests, crushed
- 300 g raspberries, extra
- Line a 22cm round spring-form cake tin with plastic wrap.
- Allow ice-cream to soften but not melt, place one third of the ice-cream into cake tin's base, cover with half the raspberries, then half the meringues.
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