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More oddball thoughts, submitted on an occasional basis by our Guest Blogger: Jack Diamond.
Well, this week I've put my thinking cap on and, amazingly, come up with a solution to some of our problems here in the UK.
The problems I've solved are to do with defence, border controls and financial budgets.
It was simple, really. No, it was. Listen…
The first step in my mind-blowingly simple plan is for us, and here I mean our leaders in Government and our military chiefs, to stop bombing and invading other countries. I know, it's radical, isn't it?
And, here's how it works.
We pull all our overseas troops home to the UK. The UK currently has troops in a number of foreign countries (source) – Kenya, Sierra Leone, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. There's possibly more. And this list doesn't include those we've invaded or bombed recently e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and, going back a few more years, places like Kosovo.
So, now that we're not bombing or invading other countries, what do we do with all these troops that we've brought home?
We use them at ports and airports around the UK to bolster the struggling UK Border Control staff. After all, these military people are all part of our Ministry of Defence, so what better job for them to do than to actually, physically defend the UK's borders?
The clue to this thinking is really in the name, the Ministry of Defence. It's not called the Ministry of Attack, or the Ministry of Invade or Bomb Other Countries. Their job is to defend the UK and what better place to start than at our borders?
This policy of not bombing or invading other countries will also have a few other knock-on effects which will be positive. It will save us billions, yes billions of Pounds annually. In one conflict alone, Afghanistan, it's cost the UK around £37 billion (source). That's one hell of a price for a war which really has very little to do with us and which has probably contributed, along with our incursion into Iraq, to many of the terror atrocities here at home.
Our bombing of Libya is estimated to have cost around £950 million (source). And that was without any troops on the ground – allegedly. The outcome of this bombing? Libya is fast becoming classified as a 'failed state' (source).
So, there's plenty of money to be saved by not invading or bombing people. Plus we get a big increase of personnel at our ports and airports, which can only be a good thing.
I could also get started on our stock of nuclear weapons (who are we planning to use these against? Our major enemy these days are terrorists at home and we certainly wont be nuking them, or at least I trust not). So, why do we need them?
But, that's for another day. For now, bring our troops home and make the UK a safer place. Oh, and save a bucket load of money too.
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Sue Paterno headlines gala, golf event to support cancer foundation
Sue Paterno won't be golfing Saturday during the second day of the fundraising event for the Eileen Morgan Foundation.
But on Friday, Paterno spoke during the fundraising gala at the Nittany Lion Inn that helped support the foundation's mission to provide financial, emotional and spiritual support for people diagnosed with cancer.
The goal for the two-day event is to raise funds to put toward an endowment fund.
"When a person can find a way to give back, it's always special," Paterno said. "She found an incredible way to help others, advocate and spread awareness."
Two years ago, Eileen Morgan created the foundation. Morgan, a Penn State graduate, said it was sparked after she was diagnosed with a form of uterine cancer in 2009. Morgan said on Aug. 13 that she has been cancer free for three years after going through treatment shortly after her diagnosis.
"You never realize how much out of pocket expenses like the co-payment of medical bills and medication can be until you go through it, even with insurance," Morgan said. "I was fortunate and blessed to be able to pay for it myself, but there are so many others who can't."
Morgan said the foundation has helped four people so far — including one who was once on the other side of the situation.
Liz Gilmore worked for an oncology supply company, where she sold the medical equipment she had to used once she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011.
"You can't believe it when you get the news," she said. "Cancer is something that can hit anyone. It doesn't discriminate."
Gilmore said she heard of the foundation when she attended a cancer survivor's event. A business card was tucked away in a gift basket.
"It's humbling when people want to help and follow through long after," Gilmore said.
Gilmore was one of about 50 people in attendance at the gala Friday where hors d'oeuvres, dinner, speeches and an auction were part of the event.
Former Penn State and NFL players Kenny Jackson and Blair Thomas signed footballs, helmets and banners for auction.
"I've known Eileen for a long time. After I coached with the Steelers, I got to really know her and found out she had cancer," Jackson said. "Cancer affects everyone. Blair and I talked with her because we knew she was a little alone in the process other than having her daughter. We helped her and tried to be a big support system.'
Now, Jackson said he couldn't be more proud to be a part of the foundation with Morgan and help spread its awareness.
"It's a new foundation, but I think Eileen has her affairs in order to really make an impact on others for a long time," he said.
The fundraising event will continue Saturday with a golf tournament at Skytop Mountain Golf Club.
Morgan said about 60 people are participating the event. She added that major fundraising opportunities like the gala and golf tournament are something she will coordinate once a year, while holding smaller events throughout the year.
And people like Paterno said it's something she is also proud to be a part of as cancer impacts many people.
"I've been a part of it since the beginning. It's a foundation that is so new, but so successful," Paterno said. "Cancer can impact anyone. It's ironic that he (Joe Paterno), who never smoked a cigarette in his life had lung cancer. You don't know what treatment you might need."
Paterno said she and her husband were heavily involved in foundations and other programs of this nature.
"He would have loved this," she said about what her husband's reaction would have been to the foundation.
For more information or to donate to the foundation, visit www.eileenmorganfoundation.org.

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Posted by Adrian Appleman
Based on the comments from first-year student focus groups held throughout November, the Office of Communications, in conjunction with the Admissions Office, will execute a complete revamp of the College's online and print publications.
The series of focus groups, conducted annually for the past three years, focuses mainly on first-year students and their experiences with the college admissions process. Administrators for the groups included Daniella Nordin, online community manager, Daniel Forbush, executive director of Communications, Emmeline Taylor '14, a student blogger for the Office of Communications' new proprietary social networking site, Skidmore Student-to-Student, and Peter MacDonald, director of Recruitment Marketing.
One component of this year's focus groups was the implementation of a Facebook community for incoming students. On Oct. 24, the Office of Communications sent out a survey to all first-year students asking for feedback on the admissions process, as well as the College's Facebook pages and applications.
"The results of the survey reinforced that a majority of the students use Facebook as their primary way to connect with people," Nordin said.
Of the 103 first-year students who responded to the survey, 92.2 percent "liked" the Class of 2015 Facebook page, and 87.4 percent subsequently joined the private "Skidmore College" Facebook application.
"Incoming students seemed to love that they could make connections before stepping foot on campus," Nordin said. "One student even said he met his girlfriend through the site."
Further analyses of the feedback from focus groups from this and last semester showed that what students valued most during the admissions process was the personal connections with people who were already part of the college community.
"It's always about the people," said Romeo Makore '15, an international first-year student from Zimbabwe who participated in the Nov. 7 focus group and applied to Skidmore early decision having never visited campus. "Everyone at Skidmore is amazing, and everyone is accepting."
While students approved of the College's outreach on Facebook, overall they disapproved of its main website. "You shouldn't have to dig to find out about the school you want to attend," said Makore said on the difficulties navigating the site. "It should be right in front of you."
"We've known the website needs an update for a while now," Nordin conceded. "That's why we are going through a 'refreshing' period."
Efforts to redesign the website are already under way. Upcoming changes include translating the website into Spanish and Mandarin, soon to be followed by other languages to help promote international student interest.
Another possible change includes converting the "Skidmore Mind Owner's Manual," an informational manual on the average Skidmore student's mind, into an interactive web application for prospective students.
Further changes to the main website will debut between June and August of 2012, including the current "Creative Thought at Work" campaign evolving into an all-encompassing "Creative Thought Works" branch of the website, expanding it to more than just the alumni profiles offered now.
"What particularly stood out to the students were the alumni stories," said Nordin said. "We are also looking to build web components for these publications."
Edwards and Company, a communications consulting firm that helped develop the College's "Creative Thought Matters" campaign in 2002, worked with the Admissions and Communications departments to redesign the website and refresh the admissions publications.
"We wanted a better understanding of 'Creative Thought Matters'," said Forbush said, "and how it is interpreted by different audiences – what it means to the greater Skidmore community."
Through the focus groups, along with the "Recruitment Communication Strategy Group," a new coalition of several departments that including the Office of Communications, Admissions, the First-Year Experience, the Web Team, etc., Communications has re-prioritized what to focus on when it comes to refurbishing the website.
"We want more emphasis on story-telling and a focus on the outcomes of a Skidmore education," Forbush said.
With its success in generating productive feedback, the Communications department plans on continuing this series of focus groups for years to come. "Two years ago," Forbush said, "focus groups helped us understand the importance of Facebook in the admissions process. We'll always do this; we always want feedback on how we're doing."


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For the first time this year, Reading Together will
feature a more age-appropriate title for younger readers.
Laura J. Burns'
The Case of the Prank That Stank, seventh-graders Agatha Wong
and Orville Wright, who has Asperger's syndrome, try to prove that the prank
they organized did not cause the fire that burned down their rival school's
field house.
This exhibit features works by Kalamazoo Book Arts Center members; the MRC Artists' Co-op; Mary Whalen and her students; Ted Cavanaugh; plus a Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ARTreach exhibit, titled "Face-to-Face: People into Portraits".
This exhibit is available during the library's open hours from March 5 through April 14:Monday - Thursday, 9 am - 9 pmFriday, 9 am - 6 pmSaturday, 9 am - 5 pmSunday, 1 pm - 5 pm
Location: Portage District Library
Play games, read stories, and have fun while learning to better understand your friends and schoolmates with an autism spectrum disorder. Sponsored by local Girl Scout troops for all children ages 5-12.
Location: Haverhill Elementary School
EFA high school Advanced Multimedia Arts students premiere their interpretations of Curious Incident.
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Greg Zuerlein's had quite a rookie year for the Rams and it got a little bit better when the league got around to handing out player of the week honors.
Zuerlein was named the NFC special teams player of the week for the second time this year, joining Jeff Wilkins as the only Rams kickers to be honored multiple times. Zuerlein hit a 53-yard field goal to tie the game at the end of regulation and then won it with a 54-yard kick in overtime.
Those were the fifth and sixth field goals of at least 53 yards, the most ever by a kicker in a single season. He's 21-of-27 on field goals overall this year, with a long of 60 yards in Week Four. That was the other week that Zuerlein was named the conference's top special teams player.
Zuerlein, punter Johnny Hekker and cornerback Janoris Jenkins have all won weekly honors in their rookie seasons for a young Rams team trying to extend their winning streak to three in Buffalo this week.


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It was chance or perhaps serendipity when Joel Landstein's son recently discovered the nearly 70-year-old wedding band lying in the parking lot of the Roslyn Long Island Rail Road station.
"If it was a little bit to the left or right he would've never seen it," Landstein said.
The simple gold ring with a faded inscription was hard to make out, so he took the ring to a local jeweler who was able to decipher two sets of initials along with a day, month, and year of 1948.
"We could not read the engraving and went through the house to try to find the magnifying glass and couldn't find that," Landstein said. "Then we realized, wow, there's history behind this."
A symbolic promise of forever, Landstein says he cannot imagine what the owner of this priceless ring may now be going through.
So, he's put up flyers around the station along with a Facebook post hoping the ring's rightful owner can be reunited.
"It means something, you know, there's value there's sentimental value to this and we're trying," Landstein said.
Over the past two weeks Landstein has received almost a dozen phone calls from people whose loved ones have lost rings over the years, but so far none of their initials or dates are the perfect match.
"Unfortunately the phone calls I've gotten are from people who have parents who are deceased and that their rings were missing, stolen, and they would just love to get them back," Landstein said. "It's something that I just want to get back to the original family. I just hope that somebody is looking for it."


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Public Forum of PRESTO Final Conference entitled "Save the Sea – Investing in Waste Water Management in Belarus" took place in Helsinki on 11th of February 2014. The event has gathered around 90 participants representing waste water treatment utilities, universities and research institutes, engineering and technology consultancy companies, as well as local, national and EU officials and representatives of the international organizations (UBC, HELCOM), water associations (European - EWA, German - DWA, Belarussian - Aqua-Bel and Finnish Water Forum) and financial institutions (NIB, NDEP/EBRD, NEFCO).
Topics discussed during the conference concentrated on the benefits and challenges of implementing the transnational investments in Belarus, presented practical examples of cooperation aiming at reducing the nutrient load in the Baltic Sea Region, and tried to look into the future of European water management sector.
|Björn Grönholm, Head of the Sectretariat UBC EnvCom, explaining "How did we do it?" in PRESTO project
The overall objective of the event was to summarize the achievements of the project, disseminate its outcomes and share the knowledge developed throughout over the two years of its duration. PRESTO kicked off in November 2011, and since then the project activities have resulted in the phosphorous removal investments at three Belorussian WTTPs in Grodno, Molodechno and Vitebsk; laboratory, measurement and other analyzing equipment at the Baltic WTTPs Daugavpils and Kaunas; and capacity building cooperation between the Technical University of Berlin and three universities that prepare water management specialists in Belarus.
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Hi readers!
Last Saturday was another day of bonding time with my family. We went again at SM Mall of Asia, check the photos below.
|MOA's ice skating rink.
|Mall of Asia EYE Ferris Wheel plus the cloudy sky :)
|My brother and Thor. Palakihan ba ng katawan ang labanan :)
|Tropical Hut store inside SM Mall of Asia's food court.
Saturday is a family day, we were not surprised when MOA was so crowded. All the fast food we checked was full, we end up eating at the food court. We decided to order our food at Tropical Hut.
|3 plates of spaghetti? Actually he only ate 1 plate, nage-emote lang yan (^_^)
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DIPOLOG CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / June 27, 2008) – US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney is expected to grace the opening of the 17th Mindanao Business Conference in Dipolog City in the southern province of Zamboanga del Norte.
Edgar Bagariano, president of the Dipolog Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Kenney has accepted their invitation and is most likely to speak at the business conference set on August 27-29.
"We are excited with this latest development as we prepare for this big event that will put Dipolog City in the map of the Philippine business community," Bagarinao said.
He said they also invited President Gloria Arroyo to be their guest of honor at the closing ceremony.
"We have also invited President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be the Guest of Honor during the closing program of the conference and we expect to hear word from Malacanang of the President's confirmation in a couple of weeks."
"It has been a tradition that the President personally attends the Mindanao Business Conference to receive the Mindanao Policy Agenda which is an integration of issues and recommendations from the business community," Bagarinao said.
Bagarinao said members of the Diplomatic Corps are expected to attend the conference and among those invited were Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura, Canadian Ambassador Robert Desjardins, Chinese Ambassador Song Tao, Australian Ambassador Roderick Smith and Sabah Chief Minister YAB Datuk Musa Haji Aman.
The Mindanao Business Conference, organized by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is the biggest annual gathering of the business community in Mindanao. The Dipolog Chamber of Commerce and Industry will host this year's conference. (Mindanao Examiner)


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Lindsey Graham (R-Wash Post) has duly received praise from "constituents" Dana Milbank and David Broder for deferring to the president's nomination of Elena Kagan. But Graham was not willing to defer to the nomination of Jim Haynes to the Fourth Circuit of Appeals by President George W. Bush. Graham did not just refuse to vote to confirm Haynes; he acted to prevent Haynes from even getting an up-or-down vote.
Graham's opposition to Haynes related to Bush administration terrorist detainee policy. Haynes was involved with that policy as General Counsel at the Department of Defense. However, he did not formulate it. The government's legal position was developed at the Department of Justice, apparently with the substantial involvement of Vice President Cheney's staff. Haynes, in fact, recommended against a number of interrogation techniques, all deemed lawful by the Department of Justice, that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld approved.
Haynes, though, alienated certain high-level JAG lawyers, who claimed — falsely — that he was not attentive to their concerns about administration policy with respect to interrogating detainees. Graham is himself a JAG lawyer and has a strong sentimental attachment to the JAG corps. Haynes' imagined affronts to JAG brass trumped Graham's willingness to defer to a Republican president.
But what about Kagan's affront to military lawyers? Unlike Haynes, who simply disagreed with some military lawyers on complex issues, Kagan treated military lawyers as second class citizens, refusing to give them the same privileges granted to every other employer interested in recruiting at Harvard Law School. But Graham dismissed this problem. In a rambling explanation he said, in essence, that the mistreatment of military recruiters said more about Harvard than about the military, and that he was sure Kagan "loves the military as much as anybody else."
The two points cannot be reconciled. "Harvard" in this case was Kagan. And if her treatment of military recruiters says more about her than about the military, what does it say about her? At a minimum, it says that Kagan does not love the military as much as Jim Haynes, who served in it. Certainly she does not love it more than Haynes does. Yet, Graham would not defer to the president when it came to Haynes.
Graham's incoherence strongly suggests that he and his pals in the JAG brass from whom he takes his cues didn't really mind seeing military lawyers treated as second class citizens by Harvard. Or maybe the common thread in Graham's treatment of Haynes (who devoted part of his life to serving in the military) and Kagan (whose "love" for that institution Graham takes on faith) is that opposing Haynes and supporting Kagan would both earn Graham praise from the Washington Post.
In any case, Graham's deference in these matters seems to be towards players other than the president.
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Bond yields soar after Trump wins presidency
15.11.2016 - Axel Botte
Weekly markets analysis from experts of Natixis AM's Fixed Income investment division
- Treasury yields practically erase their YTD rally
- Bonds price in risk premium after Trump's win
- Neutrality on rates and curve positioning
- France OAT spreads markedly wider
Read further in Fixed Income Strategy Weekly
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In 2007, he was named Head of the Fixed Income research within the Investment Strategy department managing 2 fixed income strategists.
He joined Ostrum Asset Management in October 2010 as Strategist. He provides top-down analysis of fixed income markets in close relationship with fund management teams. The research covers interest rates, developed market government bonds, sovereign debt allocation, global inflation-linked, credit and structured credit.
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A manipulative technique that encourages healthy functioning of the brain and spinal cord to promote immunity, stress reduction, and overall good health.
Deep Tissue
Slow strokes and direct pressure applied to relieve pain from deeper muscle layers.
Hot Stone
Warm stones are used to massage the body; the heat allows deep muscles to relax to relieve symptoms of ailments such as arthritis.
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An acupressure technique in which light pressure is applied to specific points on the body in an effort to align energy flow.
Traction and pressure used to relax muscles and connective tissue, especially after injury or other incidents of chronic pain.
Pressure is applied to relax muscles, increase circulation, and reduce tension, pain, and stress.
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This final volume of the trilogy, "Paul's Three Wars," sees Paul and Betty moving into retirement, closing Paul's military career in the 1960s, and Betty's musical career later. Meanwhile, the focus turns to their son, Danny; Betty's daughter, Rosalie; and Paul's nephew, Teddy. The family must cope with failed marriages and new loves; Rosalie's music career; Teddy's Army service and his investigation of a case of Soviet espionage; fears of homosexuality; and the Vietnamese War. Danny's involvement in the anti-war movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s threatens to tear the family apart.
Bio: Karl G. Larew, earned his B.A., University of Connecticut, 1959, and his Ph.D., Yale University, 1964. Since 1966, he has been a professor of history at Towson University, Maryland (semi-retired since 2005), specializing in military history. He has also been a sometime civilian historian in the US Army and an Army Intelligence officer, 1964-66, specializing in counter-espionage work. He witnessed the anti-Vietnamese War movement as a young professor at Towson. He has published many articles, encyclopedia entries, and reviews, mostly on military history topics, and a number of poems and a short story. He is the author of six novels including a triology covering the WWII, Korean War, and Cold War/Vietnam eras, of which "Gran'paul's Family is the third--though each may be read on its own. The first two have appeared already in this online journal. His other three novels include "Candles in the Window," also already in this journal, and two spoofs on vampire/werewolf/James Bond stories. He lives in southern Pennsylvania with his wife and cat.
What will readers like about your book?
It's a coming-of-age book, with two young men and one young women doing the growing up, but they are from half a generation apart and see the Cold War and Vietnam War in different ways, threatening family ties; they also see homosexuality in different ways; and there is a case of espionage that has an impact on the family saga.
Why did you self-publish?
After my agent died, and many tries to replace her, I gave up trying to find a commercial agent--despite praise for my work--and consequently gave up trying to find a commercial publisher.
Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
Lyn Alexander ("The English General" and "A Good Soldier") writes about WWII, but her approach is similar to mine even though my present volume is about another era. I tend to be impressed by non-fiction when it comes to the Vietnam era, such as Winnie Smith's "American Daughter Gone to War."
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Moto is now saying that the MPX220 will be available in Q4, rather than in Q3. Seeing as how these dates were never anything more than fuzzy guestimates, it's not earthshaking news. The general consensus among speculators was that it would be available in September, so if it slips into Q4, that means no earlier than October.
It would make me so happy if, for once, a gadget that I'm lusting after shipped early, instead of late…


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In no particular order, here are my top 10 cleantech stories of 2009. Any other interesting stories that you think should be on this list?
1. Copenhagen Accord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen
The widely anticipated UN climate talks at Copenhagen in Dec 2009 ended with a whimper. After spending much time haggling about the main issues, world leaders could only come up with a kind of letter of intent. In fact, it was US President Barack Obama who brokered the final deal with China, India, South Africa and Brazil. Europe, which was left out, was apparently angered with this move. For now, the goalpost has been shifted to Mexico in 2010.
2. Global Cleantech Stimulus
Though we're facing the toughest financial crisis yet, several governments around the world managed to announce multi-billion dollar stimulus packages for the cleantech sector, underscoring the importance of the sector to deal with climate change and energy supply issues. US, China, South Korea, Japan, EU, Germany, Australia and UK are among the biggest contributors.
3. A123 Systems IPO Soars
Lithium ion battery company A123 Systems was clearly the star of cleantech IPOs this year, with its shares soaring more than 50% on the first day of trading in Sep 2009. A123 Systems has not made any money, yet its stock price is still trading above its offering price with currently $2 billion market cap, even though Chrysler cancelled its electric vehicle plans which included A123 batteries. Doesn't this remind you of the tech boom in the late 1990s? More IPOs are expected to come with Solyndra already filed for IPO in Dec 2009 while we'll just have to keep guessing when Tesla Motors, Silver Spring Networks and Codexis will make their debut.
4. Khosla Ventures Raises $1.1 billion Cleantech Funds
Even as VC/PE cleantech investments slumps in 2009, Khosla Ventures raises the bar with its $1.1 billion funds raised in Sep 2009. It was the largest amount raised by a VC firm since 2007 and the largest first-time fund raised since 1999. This was also the first time Khosla Ventures has raised funds from outside investors which included the CalPERS. It was a rare feat to raise a fund of this size and Vinod Khosla has definitely proved it.
5. Cleantech Investments Shift from Solar to Energy Efficiency
Indeed 2009 proved to be tough on solar companies where declining orders, excess inventory and project financing problems were accompanied with massive layoffs. While Spain's removal of government subsidies and the financial crisis contributed to the solar slump, China continues to provide state funding to the Chinese cleantech firms via low-interest loans from big state banks to fund their growth. It is no surprise that investment is seen shifting from capital-intensive cleantech such as solar and wind to less capital-intensive cleantech such as energy efficiency, storage, transportation and smart grid sector. Have you heard of the Jevons Paradox – the more efficient we become in our use of energy, the more we will use? Ironically, energy efficiency may lead to more energy consumption as the cost of energy resource reduces.
6. Electric Vehicles: Electric Dreams Come True
It's no doubt that Obama's stimulus package has jolted the US electric car industry into life. Anything from electric vehicles, fuel cells, battery technologies, hybrid vehicles to charging stations have turned into golden opportunity for investment. Even the Big Three, GM, Ford and Chrysler were pressured by the US government to make electric cars. The stakes are high here, as we look forward to reduce oil dependence. Yet this has caused another "gold" rush, i.e. rare metals which are important components in making the fuel cells and batteries and China is the main producer of rare metals. Meanwhile, expect the Japanese Toyota and Honda to continue to lead in the hybrid car sector.
7. Biofuel Flights Sizzle
With biofuels craze fizzling out this year, a good news from the industry appeared. Biofuel flights were tested successfully by 3 different airlines this year. In Jan 2009, Continental Airlines tested flight with 50% jet fuel, 47% jatropha, 3% algae in 1 engine (the first to use algae). In the same month, Japan Airlines tested flight with 50% jet fuel, 50% biofuel (of which 84% is camelina, 16% jatropha, less than 1% algae; the first to use camelina). In Nov 2009, KLM demonstrated the first passenger flight with 50% jet fuel, 50% camelina. Previously, Virgin Atlantic was the first to test flight with biofuel mix with 50% jet fuel, 20% mix of coconut and babassu oil in Feb 2008 (some people were mocking Richard Branson at that time!) while Air New Zealand tested flight in Dec 2008 with 50% jet fuel, 50% jatropha (the first to use jatropha). No doubt, we will see more of these biofuel flights realizing in the future.
8. Algae is Oil's Best Friend
It seems like algae is the new biofuel. Exxon Mobil invested $600 million in Synthetic Genomics, a biotechnology company founded by none other than the genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter, in July 2009 to produce fuel from algae. BP, already an early investor in Synthetic Genomics, invested $10 million in Martek Biosciences in Aug 2009. Though it is applauding to see oil companies to look at alternative energy sources, Exxon Mobil's latest $31 billion acquisition of XTO Energy, the largest natural gas producer in US, in Dec 2009 is a bet that alternative energy is not viable enough to meet US energy needs for the next few decades while hoping that the cleaner fossil fuel will reduce possible carbon tax in the future.
9. Smart Grid Gets Smarter
The smart grid has been hailed as the electricity Internet and it is such a big play that even the big IT players IBM (via its IBM Venture Capital Group) and Cisco are eyeing for a piece of it. In Obama's stimulus plan, it calls for the creation of a smart grid and 40 million smart meters to be deployed in American homes. Smart grid may be the largest cloud (computing) and expensive but it will be lucrative for smart grid players. Silver Spring Networks, GridPoint, Trilliant, eMeter, Grid Net and SmartSynch are just some of the players that should benefit from the stimulus.
10. Water Splashes With Osmotic Power and Reverse Osmosis Desalination
In Nov 2009, Norway's state-owned power company, Statkraft opened a prototype osmotic power plant which is the world's first that generates energy by mixing fresh water with sea water. The idea of generating power from osmotic pressure gradients is actually an extension of reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. RO desal is used for water and wastewater purification, and such large plants are usually found in Middle East nearby power plants where they can easily get their electricity needs from oil. While the Middle Eastern plants consume oil to generate power for its desal process, Norway's plant generates power from its desal process. I wish I could say much more for the water space but it is noteworthy that Kleiner Perkins has made its first water-related cleantech investment in APT. Hopefully we will see more VC investments in water-related cleantech next year.


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First Transmission From Mr. Otis
Greetings, people. This is my first direct transmission to you. You may call me Mr. Otis, though this is only one of many names I've gone by throughout the course of time. Without burdening you with the details of my history, let us simply say that I have been in existence — in various forms — for approximately 26,000 years (give or take a few thousand). You can think of me as a spirit or a "soul" if you wish — one who resides in what your scientists refer to as another dimension. Those who have a bent towards the UFO model may want to think of me as an "extraterrestrial." It matters not: it's all one and the same.I have been "channeling" (the currently fashionable term, at least amongst those who label yourselves "New Agers") through the person known to you as Stuart Goldman for some time now. In point of fact, the rather abrasive quality that many of you attribute to Mr. Goldman has been at my, er, behest. Goldman himself is a rather quiet, bookish sort. A bit of a nebbish, actually.
The reason I have chosen to make my existence known at this point in time is that frankly, I'm appalled at the goings-on that are taking place on your planet. There is an extremely dangerous situation at hand, people! I'm not talking about nuclear destruction, or The End Of The World or any of that nonsense. No, the real danger is that you are all in jeopardy of becoming what Mr. Goldman has — rather eloquently I must say — referred to as "Pod People." (The reference comes from the classic sci-fi film, "The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.") I'm sure you get the idea.
Much of your world's horrid situation, in this pre-millennial era, is due to the increased fervor with which my fellow-spirits are hawking their wares, so to speak. Friends, I'm here to tell you that nine-tenths of these beings are total and complete phonies! You see, in my dimension, as in yours, there are many lost souls floating around. These entities love nothing better than to get inside a nice, empty-headed human and start blabbering away about whatever comes into their heads. They'll spout all kinds of gibberish — espousing the whys and wherefores of everything from astral projection to pyramid power to long-winded (and absolutely fictitious) testimonials on The Lost Continent Of Atlantis.
Typically however, their dialog revolves around love, peace, universal harmony, and other assorted tidbits of similar gibberish. What concerns me, dear ones, is that you're buying it! Honestly, what's wrong with you people? That stuff was boring in the '60s, and it's even more boring today!
Don't you see — you've been brainwashed! But you're all so preoccupied with pursuing your little goals or "getting in touch" with "true selves" (as if there were any such thing!) that you can't see that you're headed on a path to doom and destruction!
Do you really think that this is a free ride? Sorry, no dice. Call it karma, call it Judgement Day — I don't care. But one way or another, people, you're going to have to pay the piper for the reprobate lifestyles which you're leading. Sorry, I didn't make the rules.
I mean some of the things going on here … I just can't believe my eyes! (I don't, per se, "have" eyes. This is a euphemism.) Let's start with the politicians — those lying, flesh-maggots who you've chosen to run your country. You feign surprise when your president — this low-life, terminally criminal hillbilly — is caught with his britches down. Come off it! Anyone with half a brain could have seen that one coming.
Or when the headlines shriek about some poor schlep who goes off his rocker and blows away a half-dozen of his co-workers, the neighbors all say, "But he seemed like such a nice guy!" Everyone is shocked. How could this happen? you say while finishing your morning coffee. It's appalling! And you're right … it is. But this is the world you've created! Actions beget reactions; there's no great mystery to it.
Besides, the truth is, you're not really shocked … or even truly interested. In fact, you enjoy it, in a rather perverse fashion. It makes you feel superior when you can talk about "those people." It allows you to forget that all those same tendencies (the tendencies responsible for the actions of the poor lost soul who gunned down 50 of workmates) — all those exact same tendencies are alive and well at this very moment … living inside you!
What about these disgusting swine you call "stars?" Those vain, immoral, narcissistic film, TV and rock and roll morons who you've elevated into cultural icons? Could you please enlighten me: what could anyone possibly find attractive in that ossified little twerp, Leonardo DiCaprio? Or that repulsive creature who calls herself Madonna? Why in God's name would anyone in their right mind pay two cents to attend a concert by that noxious little Nellybelle, Elton John? Or an ancient group of ugly, musical no-talents like Aerosmith? That goes doubly for just about any of the current crop of rock "heroes" — whether it's one of the multitude of ugly little body-pierced, tattooed mutants, or those fat, foul-mouthed, baggy pantsed hoodlums who are raking in millions of dollars selling illiteracy (quaintly referred to as "rap music").
Why some God-fearing citizen hasn't ripped the cojones off that sanctimonious wimp of a feminist sympathizer, Alan Alda, is a question that plagues me. Why nobody has put a stake through the heart of that hideous, child-molesting little buttfucker, Michael Jackson is a question that allows me no peace of mind!
Just look at the people you let into your living rooms via your TV sets. Howard Stern! Barbara Walters! Regis Philbin! Sinbad! Larry Franklin! Jerry Springer! Dennis Miller! Andy Rooney! Dr. Joyce Brothers!!
Monosyllabic action film stars like Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone have become icons to your children! Barbara Streisand and Elizabeth Taylor are actually considered to be role models (models of what … umpteen facelifts?). Have you ever taken a good look at these … I hesitate to even call them "people" … because they aren't even human. They're monsters! Long-since vacated bodies, inhabited by demons!
And when you're not hypnotizing yourselves with empty-headed TV shows, idiotic movies, or foul, brain-deadening music, you're busy getting in shape (what for?), or stuffing your fat little faces with nauseating, repugnant health foods. As if you could somehow stop the process of decay that is at this very minute rotting you away! Sorry, no matter what measures you take to stave off the Grim Reaper … you're wasting your time, people. You're history! (And probably much sooner than you think.)
But the problem is, when you have one of those moments when your routine gets interrupted and you happen to catch that sickening glimpse of your mortality, what do you do? You run off and dump your hard-earned savings into the hands of some money-grubbing charlatan (Dr. Deepak Chopra immediately comes to mind), who tells you that all have to do is learn how to "think positively" (and meanwhile send him $2,000 to take one of his idiotic courses).
Oh, I know you don't like hearing all this. You'd much rather be told what a beautiful, wonderful, "special" person you are. That you're really "one with the cosmos" and that all you need do is to learn to get in touch with your "real self." You love that slop, because it keeps you from looking at the wretched, petty, frightened little twerp that you actually are.
Oh, you're not frightened? Really? You mean to tell me that you don't wake up at 3:00 in the morning in the deep sweats? You never find yourself lying there, your eyes wide-open, with a horrible, nameless fear gnawing away at your guts? Come off it!
Ah yes, the night — that's when it gets you. Sure, during the day, when you're busy trying to impress everyone what a selfless, caring human being you are, you talk about the people you love. But when you're alone — at night — you obsess about the people you hate.
Not me, you say. Really? How about the people at work? The ones who you imagine are talking about you when you're not around. They do talk about you, you know; it's not just your imagination. That's right — the minute you leave, they talk about what a jerk you are. They laugh behind your back! They're plotting to get rid of you, you know. You're not paranoid. It's true! Don't you want to get back at those traitorous scum? Of course you do!
You can yammer about peace and nonviolence all you what, but what's the point? Why talk bout non-violence when the truth is that you're violent? You are violent, aren't you? Aren't you mean to people? Don't you bully people whenever you get the chance — especially those people whom you (supposedly) "love." People like your wife and children?
Yes, you can yammer about peace and nonviolence, but what you really want is revenge! Wouldn't you love to get that jerk that just cut you off on the freeway? Run that ugly little Toyota of his with the cute little personalized plates right off the road, and watch it go careening over on the wrong side of the freeway, where it'd immediately get smacked head on (and magically transformed into a piece of scrap metal) by one of those big ol' nasty 10-wheelers? Wouldn't that just make your day? (Especially if you were assured you'd never get caught?) You bet your bippy it would!
So violence is the fact. Non-violence is fiction. As for "peace" … do you really think you can have peace by incessantly talking about it, or by joining hands and chanting, or singing songs of praise? Do you actually think you're going to solve a (self-created) problem like AIDS (which is no "mystery" — it's a result of the sick, immoral and utterly reprobate lifestyle of homosexuals) by going on an AIDS walk!? Oh people, for pity's sake — grow up! Change your behavior. Give up your addictions (i.e. perversions) and things will change … naturally. All this other nonsense (AIDS Awareness Week; AIDS quilts) is nothing more than a sideshow. A shabby circus act. All that nonsense is just another way of avoiding looking at the actual problem, while making you "feel" good (your main preoccupation in life) at the same time.
But what about love, you say? What about it? You don't know anything about love. Your wife or your "lover" is only there to stroke you — to make you feel good by bolstering your ugly little sense of pride. The fact that you "need" her is the only reason she stays with pathetic little wimp like you. She lives off you … sucks your energy … bleeds you dry, until you're nothing but a useless shell of a man. She keeps you addicted to her (what you call "love" is essentially addiction); and when she's finally sucked away all your precious lifeblood, she dumps you like a used up old pair of shoes and goes off in search of a new victim.
So let us talk about addiction, shall we? The experts blather on about drugs and how to kick them, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. After all, only a total ignoramus would stick some noxious substance up his nose, or smoke poisonous weeds that make him stupid … correct? Besides, there are so many drugs — some legal, some not.
Did you ever watch yourself smoke? Smoking is about as natural as eating garbage! But you like to suck on that thing, don't you? Why? Why do you want to run around with earphones plastered on your heads, or with your car radios blasting hideous, offensive, mind-numbing music? Because it keeps you from thinking! Have you ever tried being quiet? No, you don't like quiet … do you?
Why do you want to watch a bunch of cretins with no necks run around a field (inflicting incredible amounts of damage to their bodies in the process) so that they can kick a ball over a goal post, or stuff a ball through a hoop? Because it gets those adrenal glands of yours pumping. Because it gives you an excuse to jump up and down like a bunch of chimpanzees — that's why! Distraction, distraction, distraction! Isn't it wonderful? And it comes in so many different forms. There's no end to it!
Take sex — your favorite form of distraction. What is so bloody wonderful about this silly little act? Why is it that the minute some brainless female shakes her rump, you start drooling all over yourself? Because you've been conditioned — in true Pavlovian fashion — so that you're walking around in a constant state of sexual frenzy.
The fact is that sexual intercourse is the easiest way to avoid looking at your own inner poverty. It's the ultimate high! Oh friends, don't you see? You're all addicts! You can't go for one second without sticking something into yourself … food, a penis, a cigarette — it's all the same. You're always sucking at the environment, trying to fill up that horrible, gaping maw inside yourself.
But what about the other drugs? Drugs like ideas and opinions. Aren't you addicted to ideas? Don't you love your opinions? Don't you like to be right? Haven't you ever noticed how defensive you get when somebody attacks the ideas that you hold sacred? Having all these ideas — political, religious, whatever — makes you feel important, doesn't it? Why? Because you are your ideas. Without them, there is no such thing as "you."
Perhaps you have a job that gives you a sense of identity. It doesn't matter whether you're the president of a corporation, the author of some stupid book, or a postal clerk. Whatever it is you do — that becomes your "identity." Now you're somebody. Now you can bully a few people who are lower on the food chain. Now you can inflict your opinions on others.
Every day, you go to some meaningless little job that you hate. Probably you come home and bully your wife. Have a drink. Flip on the tube. As the years slip by it all becomes habit. (You call it a "routine.") You're numbed out. Then one day you start to feel "odd." Pretty soon, you begin to think about weird things … things like pickup trucks full of dead frogs, or your grandmother's tumor. Maybe you consult a shrink. But nothing helps. Most of the time you're walking around in a total daze. You've become a walking zombie. Eventually, you begin to contemplate your death with great anticipation; perhaps you consider suicide … but you haven't got the guts to do it. So you carry on … one dreary day after another.
And on it goes. Finally one day, you simply expire. Pfffffftt. Finished. End of story. Don't laugh people! This is your life!!
The worst thing is that you act as if you were going to live forever. Well, guess what? Take a look around you, wherever you're are at this very moment. All this is going to be gone! Right this very second your life is ebbing away. If you buy the reincarnation bit, you may think you're going to come back and get another shot at it. Or else you fantasize about some beautiful, eternally peaceful place waiting for you on "the other side." Give me a fucking break!
Please, I'm not being cruel. These are not my facts. They are simply facts. Facts are facts regardless of who utters them. But for God's sake, don't believe anyone — including me. After all, I might simply be engaged in what you refer to as a "put on." Then again, I might not. Your job is to find out.
What I am saying is simply this. Drop your guru. Get rid of your therapist. Good-bye! Throw out all your self-help books. Dump them in the trash! Next, stop listening to people. Let me correct that. Stop believing people … I don't care how many degrees they have! And I'm not just talking about "the experts." Don't believe anybody. Subject everything and everyone to the fires of doubt!
Now is the time for action. No more talking. You say you hate your husband? Forget trying to "heal" the relationship. Dump the sucker! Get rid of those worthless energy suckers you call your "friends" — those boring creeps who feed off your vitality. Bye bye! Oh people, don't you see? This is real freedom!
Are you interested in all this? Probably not. Well, too bad. It's your life. And to be perfectly honest, I don't give a hoot in hell what you do. I'm telling you all this because, well — frankly because I've got a lot of "time" to kill. I'm bored, floating around out here in the ether. But occasionally, watching the way you people carry on gets to be too much … even for me.
So friends, my plan is this: I'll continue to offer tidbits of my wisdom to you through the person of Mr. Goldman (I don't "occupy" Mr. Goldman, per se — I simply make occasional use of him as a vehicle, because he has a certain way with words that I find entertaining). Perhaps — if and when the mood strikes — I'll address you personally (in that case, I don't have to be bothered dealing with Goldman's "conditioning") through these "transmissions."
As for Goldman, don't be too hard on him. He's just a poor, struggling fool like the rest of you. Forget him! He's not important. And for pity's sake, don't start making some kind of guru out of him! Sure, I let the little twit sign his name to these columns … but I tell you truly… without me, he's nothing!
Well people, I'm afraid our time is about up. So until my next appearance (if indeed there be one) I bid you a fond farewell.
I AM Otis — the great and terrible; I have come to obliterate, eliminate, destroy, eviscerate, decapitate, wipe out, and otherwise lay waste to all that is evil, horrible, wicked, pointless, disgusting, dreadful, depressing, idiotic, immoral, stupid and boring from the lives of all decent, God-fearing people inhabiting your planet.
So until next time, dear friends, may you be scourged in the fires of cynicism and doubt. May the truth of these words cause you to twist and squirm and sweat and moan until you finally get down on your knees and holler "Uncle." For until you humble yourselves — until you "give up" — you are doomed to exist in a perpetual living Hell. Until you admit to your utter helplessness — until you forsake everything — you will never find that peace which you seek.
And with this last bit of harsh reality, dear friends, I give you my fondest regards.
Mr. Otis
Editors note: When Mr. Goldman was asked if he were aware of the presence of "Mr. Otis," he replied with a succinct , "No comment."
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