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A Family Affair
China's princelings are running amok. And Bo Xilai is just the tip of the iceberg.
In today's China, all corruption is relative.
Yes, the demise of Politburo member Bo Xilai has captured international headlines for exposing how political power and family money melded together in Chongqing, his mist- and smog-shrouded pocket of southwest China. While Bo was reviving Maoist nostalgia on his official's salary of about $1,600 per month in a country whose per capita income ranks 121st in the world, his son was renting a presidential-style suite at Oxford and driving a Porsche at Harvard. Bo's elder brother adopted an alias to control $10 million worth of shares at the Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of a state-owned bank. And Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, stands accused of being involved in the murder of her English friend Neil Heywood after a falling out over money.
Yet in a Communist Party notorious for nepotism and which refuses to subject itself to any law, the Bo family's known financial antics were in fact relatively modest. Two of his wife's sisters are worth upwards of a combined $126 million, according to a Bloomberg investigation. But the fortunes of other powerful political clans almost certainly extend into the billions, as a months-long investigation into the business dealings of one of China's most prominent families makes clear. Through years of influence-peddling and investing, multiple sources close to him say, the son of a former Chinese vice president managed to place himself at the center of a variety of lucrative deals across all aspects of China's economy, from coal mines to the stock market to shopping malls, amassing so much money he ended up buying a $32 million family mansion in Australia.
And his success exemplifies the ability of regime insiders to work the system for their own personal gain -- and make a mockery of the legal system in China. Although the private wealth of the party's princelings -- the well-connected sons and daughters of top officials -- is usually well-concealed, they are increasingly dominating the market for blocking and lubricating the arteries of public- and private-sector wealth. Stock exchanges double as vehicles for converting family political capital into cash, which can be re-converted into political power, sometimes by means as blatant as "auctioning" official positions for sale. State-owned enterprises and bureaucracies can be ruled like personal fiefdoms, with contracts allocated to relatives and useful friends, while entrepreneurs shift their profits and loyalties in exchange for regulatory protection.
Some of China's most respected public intellectuals are warning that society and economy are being held hostage to the wealth-maximizing requirements of the political elite. These warnings echo privately in business circles, too, where entrepreneurs continue to be enthralled by the prospects of short-term profits but increasingly alarmed about their personal and financial security. Officials in developed countries, and even Chinese entrepreneurs themselves, report a steep increase in business people and capital leaving China. "Nine out of ten of my business clients are in the process of applying to emigrate, if they haven't already," one of China's most successful investment bankers told me last week (he is in the process of emigrating to Canada). Executives at state-owned companies have grown incapable of acting in the interests of their companies, he says, and China's entire system of allocating resources "is malfunctioning."
Of all the inside deals that abound in China, few compare in scale and
audacity to the clandestine privatization scheme that Chinese journalists
uncovered in 2007. Caijing magazine discovered that 92 percent of the shares in the state-owned power generating company
Luneng, with net assets valued at $9.47 billion, had been secretly transferred
the previous year to two unknown private companies for $478 million. When
Chinese leaders learned the identities of the princeling children involved,
they pressured the magazine's publisher and editor and forced a follow-up
article to be recalled as soon as it hit newsstands. Documents cited by Caijing
suggest the handful of new owners might have received a windfall gain in the
vicinity of $9 billion from the deal.
Foreign Policy has learned that the most sensitive individual involved was Zeng Wei, the then 37-year-old son of former president Jiang Zemin's right-hand man Zeng Qinghong. While details of profit shares, valuations of Luneng assets and debts, and the identity of several other leading families remain disputed, Zeng Wei's involvement has been confirmed by a person integral to the original investigation, business and social acquaintances of Zeng Wei who count themselves as friends, and a recently retired senior official closely acquainted with Zeng Qinghong. The transaction was subsequently unwound but no senior figure on either side of the transaction, including the current head of China's electricity grid company, ranked no. 7 on the Forbes 2011 list of the world's largest corporations by revenue, is known to have faced disciplinary action. Exactly what happened to the $9 billion remains unknown.
It's hard to overstate how crucial Zeng Qinghong was to the ruling elite at the time his son was involved with these machinations: That same year, he brokered the surprise deal that installed Xi Jinping as the president-in-waiting, a masterwork of consensus-building among warring party factions. In 2008, just months after the Xi deal was presented to the Chinese public as a fait accompli, Zeng's son Zeng Wei paid $32 million for a home with a nine-car garage in Sydney, the most egregious confirmed example of a princeling flaunting his wealth. According to a family friend of Zeng Qinghong, the notoriety of his son's financial dealings -- and not only regarding the power company Luneng -- was one factor in his decision to retire after he handed the vice presidency to Xi in 2007. Although Zeng had reached the semi-official retirement age of 68, he also declined the customary honorary positions and confined his power-broking role to giving personal advice only to Jiang Zemin, says the family friend.
The sequence is the clearest example of how the failure of Chinese leaders to curb the crony deals of their children makes them perpetually vulnerable to their enemies and yet collectively secure, knowing that most leading families would not dare support a genuine corruption investigation that could jeopardize them all.
As the lure of the market grows ever greater and the Communist Party refuses to fetter its enormous administrative powers or subject itself to law, ambitious officials and entrepreneurs are increasingly forced to seek the favor of the politically well-connected in order to accumulate and protect their wealth. When contained, the greed this engenders can bind officials together and foster loyalty to the central party apparatus, the ultimate source of wealth and power. But many now believe that the restraint is gone: Corruption increasingly distorts policymaking, sabotages policy implementation, diminishes the leadership talent pool, and taints the party's legitimacy.
China's army of censors and propaganda officials ensure that the private dealings of cadre children never make it into mainland Chinese media. Nevertheless, even China's official mouthpieces acknowledge growing public discontent when it suits them, as they did shortly after the purge of Bo Xilai. "The spouses and children of some cadres have taken advantage of their power to seek personal gains, disregarding the law, thus stirring public outcry," Xinhua noted on April 14.
Even Premier Wen Jiabao, the lone public voice for political reform among top-ranking leaders, has long struggled for credibility in part because of his family's aggressive uses of his position to pursue private business opportunities: His son Winston co-founded the major private equity firm New Horizon Capital and now heads a state-owned satellite company.
Although the incoming president, Xi Jinping, is known for policing the business dealings of his nuclear family, he cannot exert the same control over the families of Zeng and Jiang, the two men who promoted him. Indeed, these and other top Chinese power players stand at the nexus of massive flows of capital; some of their sons and daughters have grown fabulously rich monetizing their abilities as gatekeepers. "This is a privileged group that only bothers talking in billions," says the Zeng acquaintance.
The last time the Communist Party seriously tackled corruption among the
princelings was in 1986, when the country's per capita income was one-tenth of
what it is today and officials were tentatively opening themselves to the power
of the market. The reformist party secretary at the time, Hu Yaobang, fought to
limit the privileges of leaders' children. He even empowered his security
apparatus to arrest the son of Politburo member Hu Qiaomu for embezzlement and reportedly supplying pornographic videotapes for sex parties in the People's Liberation Army. A group of party elders who also had
children engaged in murky business dealings were disturbed by Hu's audacity.
Hu's attempt to limit princeling corruption -- "no matter whose son is
involved," as his security chief put it -- contributed to his 1987 purge,
according to one of Hu's children.
For the Communist Party, transparency is a cure for corruption, but it could also pose an existential threat. Nepotism, corruption, and specifically the fortunes of leading princeling children fanned the popular outrage that grew into the Tiananmen protests, after the trigger of Hu Yaobang's death in April 1989. Hu's reformist successor Zhao Ziyang responded to protestor demands by offering to have the business dealings of his own family investigated, but he himself was purged shortly before the June 4th massacres. When Zhao's successor Jiang Zemin was helicoptered in from Shanghai to piece the party back together, he brought his former Shanghai deputy Zeng Qinghong into the General Office, the command center of the party.
Jiang occasionally launched anti-corruption campaigns against political opponents, guided by Zeng, but not against those of his own family and supporters. Zeng had two assets that made him uniquely capable of guiding President Jiang through the political and financial labyrinth of revolutionary elders and their children. First was his prodigious intellect and emotional intelligence, according to other princelings. Second were his parents. His father, who had been Mao's ruthless head of internal intelligence in the pre-revolution period, handed his son an intimate knowledge of the details and brutality of inner party struggle, according to a retired Party elder who has written extensively about the father. His mother had run a kindergarten for the children of high-ranking Shanghai cadres, and had bequeathed to him an alumni network of rising princeling leaders.
Zeng became the central go-to man for favors, positions, and advice. He took special care of the children, like Bo Xilai, whose parents had helped president Jiang get the top job and then keep it. He managed tricky rivalries between China's most headstrong princelings, in one case adjudicating between two factions inside the state-owned CITIC conglomerate, each of which was headed by the son of a vice president.
Zeng was known for his ability to engage intelligently and affably on almost any subject with almost anyone. "He is open minded, warm, and tolerant even to dissidents," says Dai Qing, a writer and public activist who is the adopted daughter of a leading revolutionary, and who was jailed for her involvement in the Tiananmen protests. In 1991, shortly after Dai's release from jail, she phoned Zeng, whom she had known since working together in China's embryonic space industry in the 1960s, and received his support to be the mainland-based editor-in-chief of Echo, an independently minded Taiwanese magazine. "Everyone knew he was powerful then -- as Jiang Zemin's 'right hand' -- and if I had his support then no one could stop my investigations," she says. "Personally, I like Zeng Qinghong. He is a nice guy with a clear mind. But in this system whether you are bad or good there is no way to avoid becoming incapable of action and corrupted."
Ultimately, Zeng signed up to the tradition of the party elders, like Bo Xilai's father Bo Yibo, that loyalty to the party and its founding families transcends individual justice. And Zeng's prodigious powers of persuasion apparently stopped at his own front door: He couldn't control his own son.
In 1993, Zeng asked a family friend to place his then 24-year-old son Zeng Wei in a Melbourne university because he had been unable to gain a place in China's intensely competitive elite university system. "Let him go out and work, in a restaurant, don't let him lean on others," said the father, according to a source familiar with the conversation. Zeng's friend duly found a financial sponsor in the Chinese community and arranged university admission and accommodation. But Zeng Wei never turned up.
Zeng Qinghong proudly explained to his friend that his son had decided instead to become an ordinary businessman, selling real things that people needed; he had even delivered his father a truckload of watermelons to prove it. He didn't have any inkling that within one year after Zeng Wei's no-show in Melbourne, he had progressed from selling fruit to promoting multi-million-dollar events. A friend recalls seeing Zeng Wei in a corporate box at the Workers' Stadium in 1994, for an exhibition soccer match between the Beijing soccer team and AC Milan, and embarrassing himself by trying to make an introduction with the powerful CITIC boss, Wang Jun. "Wang Jun said, 'I know him well. Zeng Wei sponsored the game, he invited AC Milan'," recalls the friend."He went from study, to watermelons, to this!"
Ambitious businessmen across the country, including many princeling children of his father's friends, were falling over themselves to cut deals and be seen to be close to the son of China's most important political power broker. Zeng Wei became close friends with Wang Yi, the deputy chairman of the Securities Regulatory Commission, the regulatory body that oversees China's stock markets, according to two friends of the Zeng family. The friendship blossomed as the regulator was discovering it had access to valuable information about state-owned companies seeking to list on China's nascent stock exchanges, and the power to make or break fortunes by providing private companies with listing approvals.
It wasn't just other Chinese that sought favor with powerful princelings. In 1999, Zeng Qinghong was appointed head of the Organization Department, the Communist Party body responsible for appointing all the top provincial heads, ministers, and corporate chiefs in the country. Later that year Rupert Murdoch, early to grasp the potential of the Chinese marketplace -- and the importance of princelings in China's power hierarchy -- got wind that Zeng Qinghong would be touring Australia and rushed across the Pacific to intercept him. Zeng dropped into his Fox studios, where Zeng was introduced to Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor on the set of Moulin Rouge. "He had a grin from ear to ear," says a source who accompanied Zeng on the visit.
Zeng then went to dinner at Rupert's son Lachlan's mansion, at Wolseley Road Point Piper, one of the world's most expensive streets. One of Sydney's finest restaurants was closed for the day so that its chefs could prepare a seafood extravaganza featuring huge green lip abalone, to be consumed as the sun set over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Murdoch brought in the Aboriginal singer-guitarist Jimmy Little to perform and the arts consultant Jean Battersby to hang the finest of his Australian works on the walls.
Murdoch was accompanied by his newly wedded wife, Wendi Deng, dressed in a
body-hugging green outfit. She performed as Zeng's guide and translator and
took the lead in persuading him why News Corporation's Star TV should be beamed
into China. "Wendi was definitely running the show," says an official who was
present. The official, and another source present say Zeng impressed his hosts
with poise, good humor, and engaging curiosity. Zeng returned the hospitality
the following year by hosting Murdoch and Deng at the Chinese opera in Beijing.
Zeng was also taken to Brisbane's iconic Breakfast Creek Hotel, where he clearly enjoyed taking off his tie, rolling up his sleeves, and drinking jugs of beer with the local punters and union officials. He spoke engagingly about democracy and China's need for political reform with officials on a Brisbane river cruise. But he was most impressed, it seems, with the Murdochs' stunning Sydney Harbour views. Nine years later, in March 2008, his son bought the $32 million mansion, with an identical harbor vista, diagonally across the road. (Gavan Slaughter, a spokesman who helps take care of Zeng Wei's Sydney residence, said the Zeng family was out of town and "unlikely to respond to questions." A Murdoch spokesman declined to comment.)
Murdoch spared no effort in trying to charm his way into the Chinese
marketplace, including via
important princelings. In 1995 he instructed his Harper Collins publishing
house to print a hagiographical book about Deng Xiaoping, the late leader of
China, written by his daughter, Deng Rong, whose
husband ran one of China's main arms trading conglomerates. In 2001, his News
Corporation led a consortium with investment bank Goldman Sachs to inject $325
million of capital into China Netcom, controlled by a U.S.-educated entrepreneur named Jiang Mianheng, whom he had been courting. The company was on the verge of bankruptcy
but turned to gold the following year when Jiang's father, then-President Jiang
Zemin, transferred a third of the assets of China's monopoly fixed-line
telecommunications company into a new, merged Netcom entity.
In 2002, Zeng Qinghong was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee, and then vice president, while his patron Jiang gradually bowed out from frontline duties. Ambitious politicians, officials and entrepreneurs continued to ply the Zeng family with praise and favors, and share in its glory. "Talking about all these princelings taking positions in government and wealth in the private sector, I think it's quite natural and may not be a bad thing," says the Chinese head of a foreign investment bank in China. "If it's not them making money, it would be somebody else." He adds that Zeng Wei is a personal friend who is "honest" and "a nice guy."
Zeng Qinghong's portfolio included managing mainland China's relationship with Hong Kong. His Hong Kong-based brother Zeng Qinghuai earned a reputation for aggressively muscling into business opportunities and facilitating compromises with Hong Kong businesspeople who encountered regulatory problems on the mainland. In 2010, a consortium reportedly involving Zeng Wei, Zeng Qinghuai, and convicted stock market speculators was barred from buying a Taiwanese insurance company. A businessman who knows Zeng Qinghuai says one of his more recent projects is China's tallest building, Shenzhen's recently completed Kingkey 100.
As for Zeng Wei, his business empire stretches to the midwest province of Shanxi, where in recent years he has joined with local coal barons desperately searching for protection from the risk of officials and entrepreneurs further up the food chain appropriating their assets. Business sources say one of his coal-baron partners hosted the wedding of a daughter at a beach resort in March, where the dowry alone reportedly consisted of six Ferraris.
Zeng Wei also grew close to Dai Yong'ge and his billionaire sister Xiuli Hawken, respectively the CEO and largest shareholder of Hong Kong's Renhe Commercial, a company whose competitive advantage lies in winning approvals from a quasi-military agency to convert underground bomb shelters into upmarket shopping centers around China. In 2004 Zeng Wei's dance-school graduate wife Jiang Mei was appointed as a director of an Australian company, Renhe International, alongside Dai and Hawken. In November 2006 Zeng and his wife joined Dai and Hawken as directors of another company in Australia, Fruit Master International. Zeng's wife had been working with Renhe since 2002 and was appointed as a director of the Renhe group board in December 2007, around the time the couple were buying their harbor-side home opposite the mansion that used to be owned by Lachlan Murdoch.
(The price of Renhe corporate bonds has tanked in recent weeks, to 60 cents in
the dollar, as investors fret over the value of the company's connection with
Zeng Wei. "The value of the underground bomb shelters is equal to the value of
the guanxi, and that is not disclosed in the prospectus," says a
Singapore-based debt trader at an investment bank. "And if there's a war they
have to hand the bomb shelter back.")
In the end, Murdoch's prodigious lobbying efforts failed and he pulled Star TV out of the Chinese market. It seems the lasting legacy of Murdoch's extravagant hospitality to Zeng Qinghong was his son's subsequent decision to join Australia's business migration program. The Zeng family spends most of its time in Beijing, where they have a villa in the comfortable but not overly ostentatious Yosemite compound (developed, as it happens, by Luneng). But Zeng Wei would like his two sons to be educated in Australia, far from the white-knuckle adventures of Chinese politics and business, according to family representatives in Australia, just as his father had wanted him to be.
The risk of regulatory scrutiny, while his father was embroiled in ruthless factional contest involving the former, current and future presidents, may have hastened Zeng Wei's search for an overseas refuge, according to his Beijing friends. Last year Zhang Chunjiang, who ran China Netcom and was close friends with the son of former president Jiang, was given a suspended death sentence for corruption in relation to a subsequent role. In 2010, Zeng Wei's old friend at the Securities Regulatory Commission, Wang Yi, was also sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for corruption, again relating to a subsequent role. Both sentences are expected to be commuted to life imprisonment, and neither case was explicitly connected with Zeng Wei, but no doubt it gave him pause for thought. The pioneers of princeling politics had been warned.
But then again, Zeng should be fine. The Communist Party has proven over 25 years that it hasn't got the stomach to discipline its children.
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Its happening way too often… On Labor day weekend I got a text from a friend telling me that yet another Cirrus SR22 had crashed on landing… This time in Falmouth, Massachusetts. (read about Kreindler's investigation here). He said, as if it was a foregone conclusion, that it happened during a missed approach like several others have…
A missed approach is the procedure pilots are trained to execute when the landing needs to be aborted, for whatever reason, and the pilot needs to re-try the landing attempt again. (Its also referred to as a "go around" since the plane goes around the landing pattern again to try again.) If you've flown on commercial flights enough, you've probably experienced one. In commercial aircraft, its usually because the runway is not in sight at the minimum altitude due to the cloud ceilings or visibility being too low and a missed approach/go around has to be made. Also, sometimes a missed approach/go around is necessary because the previous landing aircraft has not yet cleared the runway, so the incoming plane will have to execute a missed approach to avoid the obvious conflict.
When I flew in the Navy onto aircraft carriers, a missed approach/go around happened not infrequently. There the amount of time between landings was 45 seconds, much less than
the typical busy commercial airport landing interval, which is usually between 1 1/2 -2 minutes. It was much shorter in the Navy because we had to recover aircraft and clear them from the landing area as quickly as possible. Sometimes it would take longer to disconnect the arresting gear – which is used to "trap" the jet on the carrier – than usual, so a missed approach/go around would have to be executed.
So a missed approach/go around can be necessary for many different reasons; an unstable approach, the runway not being in sight, another aircraft on the runway, or even an animal on the runway. You never know for what reason you may need to execute a missed approach/go around.
The tactical jets I flew in the Navy were actually easier to conduct a missed approach in than the Cirrus SR22 can be. That's because, when you apply full power to go missed approach in a tactical
jet, the power is applied symmetrically to the aircraft and is not difficult to control. You just push the throttle full forward, and as the engine smoothly but rapidly spools up power you bring the nose of the aircraft up to a climb attitude and the aircraft starts to climb away… In a propeller plane no prescription viagra like the Cirrus SR22 however, when you add full power the airplane tends to cork-screw and turn to the left. If you think of those wind up little wooden rubber band airplanes you probably played with when you were little (or maybe still do) you can begin to understand some of the force that's created in a propeller plane.
With this significant force to the left, the pilot must try to maintain control of the aircraft by applying right rudder which should counteract the left turning force and allow the aircraft to climb out straight ahead. The Cirrus SR22 is a very light and powerful (for its weight) aircraft. As such, a very strong left turning force is created when the plane is at a slow airspeed (high angle of attack) and power is abruptly added, as in the case of a missed approach/go around. There have been several Cirrus SR22 crashes in the missed approach/go around flight stage that have seriously injured and killed several pilots and passengers. The landing accident history of the SR22 necessarily calls into question the ability to control the SR22 in this critical stage of flight. Does the rudder provide the appropriate amount of authority to control the left turning tendency of the aircraft to provide for its safe maneuvering???
The SR22 rudder was initially designed to control the less powerful SR20 model aircraft — which has the same basic airframe as the SR22 but was designed for a much less powerful engine. The rudder design is critical to the ability to safely control the aircraft in the missed approach/go around flight regime. Failure to control the aircraft in this critical flight phase begs the question of whether the design is safe. Notably, the Columbia/Cessna 400 aircraft, which is essentially the same airframe design with the same engine, has not suffered from the same landing crash history as the SR22. It seems that when Columbia was faced with the same design issue — that is having a more powerful engine in an airframe that was initially designed for a less powerful engine, Columbia went back to the drawing board to redesign the rudder to provide more control in situations such as a missed approach/go around….
I hope that some of these issues will be considered and investigated by the NTSB in this crash, but i'm not optimistic… this is the type of crash that is too easily "written up" as "pilot error" without digging deeper to see how the man-machine interaction functioned and whether it contributed to the crash… but that's for another post… In the meantime more pilots and passengers have been injured and killed ….


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Linux Use Rocketing at Jet Propulsion Laboratories
Few technologies are more exacting than that of designing and running space probes. A trajectory error as small as one inch per mile, for instance, can result in missing the target by tens of thousands of miles. Now add stringent budgetary constraints, and you have some idea of the daily working environment of the scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
With their long history of mainframe-based computing, NASA scientists were quick to spot the benefits of Linux. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, for example, uses Linux with its airborne Scanning Radar Altimeter to study hurricanes. NASA's Beowulf-class clustered computing project has also made use of Linux for several years. Further, one NASA employee maintains a site on the use of Linux for x-ray astronomers, and another is harnessing it for the on-board navigational computers of space probes. It's no surprise, therefore, that NASA's JPL is now utilizing Linux in two very different projects: one to build better spacecraft and the other to see that they arrive at the right place.
When you are two billion miles from earth, you can't just pop out to a hardware store to get a spare part. JPL's Advanced Thermal and Structural Technology Group (ATSTG), therefore, is responsible for ensuring all space probe components can withstand the rigors of space travel. The ATSTG works on advanced technologies for thermal, cryogenic and structural space systems including aerobots, rovers, mechanical coolers and heat pipes. They have recently integrated Linux into the business of building better spacecraft.
Thermal engineers play a key role in the design of space hardware. "Thermal engineering provides designs that maintain the required temperatures at specific space hardware sites through the range of all modes of operation and for the life of the hardware in space," says Technical Group Leader Jose Rodriquez. "Temperature requirements for electronics, mechanisms, detectors and lasers are critical to mission success."
The ATSTG uses a number of analysis tools to develop analytical models to carry out design trade studies. The best, cheapest and most complete integrated thermal analysis package available is the Thermal Synthesis System (TSS). It allows thermal engineers to create a thermal model of the hardware in a simulated space environment. They can then achieve a better understanding of how well the system will actually work when it is out in space. At the time it was developed, the TSS graphical interface requirements could be met with only high-end HP machines running UNIX. When the ATSTG wanted a version for its own use, the only free versions of the software available were for HP running UNIX or Linux on a PC. Given the choice between spending many thousands of dollars to buy or rent an HP, or spending $150 US to buy Red Hat Linux and Accelerated X, they opted for the Linux version of TSS. The group also installed Linux TSS on computers at two subcontractor facilities.
TCP/IP is used to transmit data and models back and forth between Linux and Windows computers. "Because of the high expense associated with the HP machines, it is necessary to keep them utilized constantly to generate enough resources to pay for the equipment," states Rodriquez. "This is done by keeping as few machines as possible, which means that engineers can't easily access these computers during normal working hours and have to work early or late hours to get the work done." Having Linux allows the ATSTG members to run TSS right on their own PC whenever they need it, eliminating costly downtime and enabling projects to be completed sooner.
Building a better spacecraft is fruitless, however, if it never arrives at its intended destination. While some people have trouble navigating their way across town, the scientists at JPL have to plot a trajectory that will allow a space probe to intercept a planet that is billions of miles away and traveling at 15,000 miles an hour. If you arrive a day late after a three-year journey, you've missed the target by hundreds of thousands of miles. As well as difficulties in hitting its space targets, there are also budgetary targets that NASA personnel are expected to meet. Linux is key to achieving both. "Smaller projects (DS1, Mars Pathfinder, etc.) are trying very hard to cut costs while achieving all scientific goals," says Peter Breckheimer, Technical Group Supervisor in the Navigation and Flight Mechanics Section of JPL's Systems Division. "Computers to run the navigation system have been very expensive in the past due to the high level of performance required."
Breckheimer's group has the responsibility of designing, implementing delivering, and sustaining the Institutional Navigation System Software (INSS) in all flight projects (Galileo, Cassini, Mars, DS1, Stardust, etc.). Consisting of over 160 programs written primarily in Fortran 77 and C, Perl, Tcl/Tk and HTML, INSS contains 4.5 million lines of source code. INSS is designed to be readily portable to new platforms as they develop (particularly Linux).
When JPL switched from mainframe to VAX in the eighties, it required 15 man-years of software conversions. Later, for the move to HP-UX, engineers used only standard features within the Fortran 77 and C compilers. As a result, portability issues are easy to deal with. Going from HP-UX to Linux, therefore, took minimal work and even tools like Perl and Tcl/Tk worked correctly the first time. "There are tools we have experimented with to convert c-shell to NT scripts, but we haven't been successful yet," reports Breckheimer. "As for Linux, no conversion was necessary. The scripts worked properly with no changes."
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8 people found the following review helpful
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I'm somewhat embarrassed to say this, but whenever I take this before I go to bed I'll have multiple erections throughout the night. I'm 50 years old and haven't had any issues in this department, but when I take two of these it's like I'm 20 again. I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm here to buy more.
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Works fine
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A health food store told me to take this for poor circulation in my legs. It works most of the time. I wouldn't want to stop taking it since I notice the difference when I don't.
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Garlic is one of those things you can't necessarily feel, but can experience the effects. Seems to be a decent anti-biotic/anti-viral. I was starting to get sick and I started taking this (two pills twice a day) and the sickness never really developed, had a little mucous in the nose but that's it. My wife uses a similar garlic product, she's been having chronic illness, seems to be an infection but the doctors have not been useful, we think it's crohnes, anyhow after her last round of antibiotics she got better and then started regressing, same as always, so I did research and decided to try garlic, and it worked, she got better and as of yet has not regressed.
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My homeopathic MD informed me that Cinnamon, Garlic and Caprylic Acid were the only 3 substances together that actually killed Candida in vitro (there is some evidence of this trial on the web as well). So, I started taking these 3 substances, and with great success: I take Well BetX Cinnamon because it is water-soluble, as liver issues can come up if you consistently use regular cinnamon in quantity w/ it's essential oils intact. The water-soluble type is apparently not toxic to the liver. I use this in combination w/ Solaray's Capryl since it's sustained-release (good), and finally with Nature's Way Garlicin HC as it is odor-free (a must). Try this combo w/ meals, particularly those that include carbs (which convert to sugar)... as well as with any liquid that might also convert to sugar in your body, such as beer & wine or fruit juices. Drink lots of water and include raw greens in your diet since plants' cellulase enzymes will help to break down the yeast. This combination is the only thing that has ever worked for me after many years of "battle". You should also take a good probiotic (like Healthy Origins, which survives stomach acid) and a good digestive enzyme formula that contains a heavily formulated amt and broad array of enzymes that help to break down all food types. You should consider taking this regimen for 3-6 months for decent results and have your partner take it as well, since yeast infections are exactly that: infections.. and they are easily and consistently passed between sexual partners. After a period of time you could take once a day w/ a heavy meal (and always with *any* sugars)... and increase if issues creep back. This formula also greatly assists w/ the gas and bloating inherent to yeast infections.
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Im really happy with iherb. Prices, service, and timely shipment. The best part is very low shipment rate, will definitely use iherb again. I ordered garlicin to treat my acne, it is working, it is drying up. I heard that it helps with bacteria. All kind of bacteria even yeast infection. Also it helps the liver to get rid of bacteria.
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Use of Nitric Oxide Metabolites for Predicting Embryo Quality in In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
This study has suspended participant recruitment.
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Johns Hopkins University
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Lisa Kolp, Johns Hopkins University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 10, 2008
Last updated: November 1, 2011
Last verified: November 2011
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Improvements in In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) outcomes have largely been due to the generation of excess embryos allowing for multiple embryo transfer. Unfortunately this has also increased the risk of multiple pregnancy with associated maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The investigators believe that the concentration of nitric oxide metabolites measured in the culture medium from the first day of culture can identify the best quality embryos allowing us to transfer a limited number of embryos without compromising the optimum chance for pregnancy.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Infertility |
Procedure: Transfer of embryos on day 3 or day 5 after fertilization. Procedure: Day 5 transfer |
Phase 2 Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Use of Nitric Oxide Metabolites for Predicting Embryo Quality in In-Vitro Fertilization |
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Nitric oxide
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Further study details as provided by Johns Hopkins University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage of subjects with viable pregnancy one month after embryo transfer [ Time Frame: 1 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage of subjects with > 2 viable embryos one month after embryo transfer [ Time Frame: 1 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 250 |
Study Start Date: | January 2009 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | March 2012 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | January 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: Day 3 transfer
Subjects in this arm will have two embryos transferred three days after fertilization. Embryos will be selected based on the concentration of nitric oxide metabolites in the culture medium.
Procedure: Transfer of embryos on day 3 or day 5 after fertilization.
Subjects will be allocated at random to the two arms. Group 1 will have two embryos transferred on day 3 based on nitric oxide concentration. Group 2 will have two embryos transferred on day 5 based on morphologic criteria.
Active Comparator: Day 5 transfer
Subjects will have two embryos transferred on day 5 after fertilization with selection of embryos based on morphologic criteria.
Procedure: Day 5 transfer
Subjects will have embryo transfer on day 5 after fertilization. Selection of embryos to transfer will be based on morphologic criteria.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 21 Years to 37 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 21-37
- Female
- Less than two previous unsuccessful IVF cycles
Exclusion Criteria:
- Day 3 FSH >9.9
- Fewer than 8 mature oocytes retrieved
- Fewer than 8 normally fertilized embryos on day 2 after fertilization
Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00788619
United States, Maryland | |
Johns Hopkins Fertility Center | |
Lutherville, Maryland, United States, 21093 |
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Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator: | Lisa A Kolp, M.D. | Johns Hopkins University |
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Responsible Party: | Lisa Kolp, Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00788619 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | NA_00013752 |
Study First Received: | November 10, 2008 |
Last Updated: | November 1, 2011 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by Johns Hopkins University:
Infertility Assisted reproductive technology Nitric oxide |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Infertility Genital Diseases, Male Genital Diseases, Female Nitric Oxide Bronchodilator Agents Autonomic Agents Peripheral Nervous System Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs Pharmacologic Actions Anti-Asthmatic Agents |
Respiratory System Agents Therapeutic Uses Free Radical Scavengers Antioxidants Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Neurotransmitter Agents Endothelium-Dependent Relaxing Factors Vasodilator Agents Cardiovascular Agents Protective Agents |
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Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
Farmer's wives and farmers sell egs at a market and buy vegetables and textiles, - Several shots of three farmer's wives on cloggs and in traditional attire go to the market with wicker baskets in their arms, total 14"; - several shots of selling and receiving payments for eggs, total 20"; 6"; - several shots of shopping at the market, total 25".
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As reported in the Toronto Star recently, Ken Holland circles the American Thanksgiving on his calendar every year in red ink. By then, he says, a team has established its true winning percentage.
Not everyone takes so long a view of things as the Red Wings GM, but even on teams where an October overhaul is needed, many NHL GMs and coaches still often say they like to wait ten or twelve games to get a feel for their players.
These experienced hockey professionals wait to pass judgement on their roster because they know the risks of reacting too quickly. They know that over-analyzing early results often leads to bad decisions.
Similarly, what separates the fantasy GMs who are destined to swim in the lower half of their pools from those who are angling for the top spot, is partially how they handle the early season temptation to make big moves in the hopes of finding a breakout performer.
Every year, bizarre trends appear early in the season. Angus has already pointed it out in the Daily Ramblings section, but if you missed it, check out James Duthie's humourous article on "premature evaluation", at TSN.ca.
Nicolas Chabot has an excellent column in The Hockey News called, Inside the Numbers. This past issue, he compared last season's top scorers at the two-week mark with the final list. Of the top twenty scorers after two weeks, only four remained on the list by the end of the season. Some, like Paul Kariya and Paul Stastny, had their season derailed by injury (fairly predictable in Kariya's case), but consider Aaron Voros who "had the best 15 days of his life" according to Chabot back in October 2008 and occupied the 9th spot on the scoring list. You may remember how that story ended…by April he ranked an inglorious 408th.
The always entertaining Janet Eagleson at rotowire.com pointed out in her latest article that after his recent four point night, Matt Carle ownership in Yahoo leagues shot up from 8% to 47%. Some of these acquisitions might have been quality decisions (possibly by some desperate former owners of Andrei Markov), but many of these folks may have been dumping higher quality players because of a slow start in favour of what they think is a quick fix.
Are these folks just picking up another version of Voros? Only time will tell. But Carle may have already had his best game of the season.
Don't Take Yourself Out of the Running
Every year there are poolies who are smart (or lucky) enough to grab the few sustainable breakout surprises in October, but I guarantee you that at this time of year, there are many more people who seriously handicap their seasons by making knee-jerk decisions.
That's why so many people preach patience when it comes to making early season changes.
But every October, many poolies start the roster-surgery, convinced (or afraid) that they know how the season will play out after only a handful of games. Be aware that if you do decide to play this high-stakes game, it won't go unnoticed – the savviest and most dangerous of GMs will quietly watch your moves only to turn around and gut you with them. It's the fantasy version of the Great One's famous quotation, "a good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."
Some players, like Roberto Luongo, have had horrible starts, but because of their pedigree you're not worried (yet). But here are a few less blue-blooded players that might have you wringing your hands and thinking about a change:
Player |
Yahoo Position |
Yahoo O-Rank |
Yahoo Rank (Tuesday, October 13, 2009) |
Jason Spezza |
33 |
501 |
It's still not clear yet how the post Heatley era in Ottawa will affect Spezza, but if Mike Fisher continues to gel between Daniel Alfredsson and Alex Kovalev, Spezza may remain on the second line longer than his owners would like. That said, Spezza will get his points yet. |
Jonathan Toews |
35 |
253 |
Toews tends to start a bit slowly, and the European trip probably didn't help. The young captain will ramp it up soon. |
David Backes |
54 |
585 |
Backes is ranked higher by Yahoo than he should be, but give Backes (and the rest of the Blues) a chance to recover after their European start. They were dead last in the Western Conference in mid-Februry last year, but finished in 6th place - Backes was a big part of that. |
David Booth |
58 |
465 |
The whole top line in Florida is struggling to score. Now, I'm no Nobel prize winner, but didn't Booth's team also start the season in Europe? Hmm… |
David Krejci |
80 |
321 |
As pointed out by Dobber, Krejci is still getting warmed up after missing the entire training camp due to his surgery. He'll be back in last year's form soon. |
Olli Jokinen |
70 |
169 |
Jokinen will pick up the pace (because I can't see him off Iginla's line any time soon), but I think Yahoo had him too highly ranked, and he had a slow finish last season. If someone in my pool has dumped another slow-starter at centre, I'd think about picking him up. |
Nathan Horton |
121 |
478 |
Ditto Booth's entry. |
Dennis Wideman |
136 |
325 |
Like a number of Bruins, Wideman has not hit the season running, and the recent shoulder injury isn't going to help, but it is only day-to-day. The Bruins are better than their record shows, and so is Wideman. |
Lastly, if you want to know how seriously some fantasy hockey GMs take the annual early season panic? Check out this fascinating article written way back in October of 2007 describing how to fake a "panic trade" in order to improve your team.
Fantasy hockey GMs are a vicious lot, and if you can't see the sucker at the table, well… you've been warned.
Your Fantasy Take-Aways
Here's how to navigate these tumultuous early days:
1. Do yourself a favour and wait until your players have had 10-12 games under their belts before you pass judgement (obviously this doesn't apply to seriously injured players like Johan Franzen or Markov);
2. If you absolutely feel the need to make big changes this early, consider limiting them to your bench players. Have some confidence in your draft choices and give your high-priced players a chance;
3. Be aware that other owners in your league may not display the same level of poise, and be ready to take advantage of their panic.
You don't need to emulate Holland by waiting until late November to consider a major overhaul to your team. But do yourself a favour, and give your lads another week.
blammo said:
KFV said:
Atomic Wedgy said:
Considering the game where Carle scored 4 in one period was a record breaking game, I think you are right on that. I doubt that any defenceman in the league will score 5 points in any one game. However, Carle will get 40+ points this year. Mark it down and put my name with it. I'll eat my hat if he doesn't get 40.
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What I got left to fill my 5th slot is Yandle, Ian White, and Anton Stralman, and so far not so great. Ian White has been the best of the three, and Toronto hasn't won a game (We count +/-)! Anton has some Visa problems, and Yandle, who knows they called up Lapisto and he got more ice time!
Yesterday I decided I needed more depth at blue line. So I pulled to trigger on Del Zotto as my first waiver wire pick. I had fist pick so I could get anyone that was available. I would have like to pick up a nice "maybe" goalie, but decided my most pressing need was defence due to the whole Markov affair. Demers and Girardi were also available to me as was Pavelec and Ellis. Anyway hopefully it all works out.


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Lessons from Lanie: Life lived aloud
I didn't know Lanie Kruszewski. But I really wish I had.
A memorial service was held for her on Aug. 3; mourners packed the auditorium of Maggie Walker Governor's School, where Lanie had attended high school. Even though I arrived just a few minutes late, I was obliged to stand in the lobby, for the seats and the standing room inside the auditorium had been occupied, I surmised, long before. Even so, I couldn't miss the many stories told of a remarkable and memorable young woman. I write fiction, and it occurred to me that her friends were describing a true heroine, someone culled from a vivid imagination. I already knew that Lanie was fiercely intelligent and a gifted athlete. But as I stood there listening, Lanie took shape before me, as an intriguing character of literature might. She was a culinary school-trained foodie with a penchant for bacon, lavender ice cream, ear-shaped cookies and fresh ingredients, and moreover, she liked to share. She possessed a sassy spirit, with the wit to carry it off. She didn't have a driver's license or a car, preferring the freedom and earth-friendliness of a bike. She touched people of all walks of life with her positivity and joie de vivre. She had great legs. She knew who she was, even at the age of 24. Lanie also enjoyed reading. And this doesn't surprise me in the least, for I know her mother Patty. I'm not sure if it was when my firstborn was still in the womb or right after his birth when Patty gave me The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. The book touts the importance of reading aloud to children, basically from the moment of conception straight through the high school years. And knowing Patty and her mothering ways, I took it to heart, feeling guilty if I ever missed even one day of read-alouds. I have always looked up to Patty, both as a mother and a writer. And these words that we both admire, the written thoughts that we endeavor to put to the page, have failed me in the face of this tragedy. There is only a gaping white silence in which words float as aimlessly as dandelion fluff. Often in the face of grief, I turn to the escape of reading. During the memorial service, I learned that Lanie was a Harry Potter fan, to put it mildly. I too am quite the Harry Potter fan. Patty would be proud to know that I read all of the Harry Potter books to my firstborn. Years of his formative childhood were spent reading to him about the enduring friendships of child wizards, their school Hogwarts, and the battle between good and evil. When we finished the seventh and final installment, we both experienced a sort of mourning period. What book would ever match such brilliance? Such grief isn't an unusual emotion for me at the completion of novels. I get attached to the characters; I want them to live forever within the bound pages of the book, so that all I have to do is just pick it up again to find out what happens next. When I finished writing my first novel, I couldn't let my characters go. And now, I am almost done with the sequel. What next? I ask myself. I hate to contemplate moving on, for I fear their stories aren't yet finished. But books aren't meant to go on indefinitely. They are exquisitely brief, like lavender ice cream and chocolate-covered bacon, and unfortunately, life itself. And yet, the best heroines inspire us and bring out the best in us. They live on inside us, even after their stories end. Lanie's life was brutally taken from us. Unfairly, her story ended before its time. But it doesn't matter to those whose lives she touched. We will continue to turn her pages, because I, for one, have decided to embrace each day as Lanie did. And I will encourage everyone around me to do the same—to not be afraid to peel back life's flimsy plastic covering and reveal the mysterious, to travel where their legs can take them, to enthusiastically sample the juicy and fresh and untried, to read, to be kind and share and make a difference. I am now reading the Harry Potter books to my second-born, and much to my delight, my first-born insists on listening too. Great stories find themselves repeated. Women like Lanie will live on. Diann Ducharme is the author of The Outer Banks House the recently released e-book, Chasing Eternity, and is a wife, mother of three children and owner of one border collie. You can find her at http://www.diannducharme.com where, she blogs about the writing life. |
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Henrico's Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is one of only 20 gardens in North America nominated for USA Today's "10Best Reader's Choice" contest for Best Public Garden.
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• Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York
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Henrico PAL honors seven community members at annual banquet
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The Fifth Annual Henrico Police Athletic League (PAL) Award Banquet, held Feb. 6 at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, honored HPAL's top volunteers and employees, including Morgan Lewis, Youth of the Year; Dale Alexander, Volunteer of the Year; Lowell Thomas, Employee of the Year, and Victor Williams, Board Member of the Year. Also honored for their support were Jim and Christi Dowd of Richmond BMW and Josh Davis of Henrico County Public Schools Pupil Transportation.
Keynote speaker for the banquet was Tim Hightower, a University of Richmond alumnus and former NFL running back. Hightower was introduced by Billy McMullen, former NFL player and a Henrico PAL board member. > Read more.
DAC chapter donates $1.3M in coupons
The Pocahontas Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, based in western Henrico, last year donated more than $1.3 million worth of manufacturers coupons to U.S. military personnel overseas. Throughout 2013, members and friends of the chapter clipped 952,349 manufacturers' coupons valued at $1,350,630, which Program Chairman Carole Featherston shipped to U.S. military bases abroad. Military personnel can use the coupons when shopping in base stores.
The National Society Daughters of American Colonists is a women's genealogical and patriotic society whose members are descended from a man or woman who rendered civil or military service in any of the American colonies prior to July 4, 1776. > Read more.
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The Henrico County Division of Recreation and Parks has several events to offer residents this weekend! Do you have what it takes to be a volunteer at Meadow Farm Museum? Learn more about the African Americans who served in the Union Army during the Civil War at Dabbs House Museum, or check out the Henrico County Adventure Series. The Division of Fire will dedicate the new Fire Station #7 this weekend as well. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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I could not care less about who uses my images.
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In 1883, the Cincinnati Water Works wanted to extend its efficient water supply main tunnel (which had remained incomplete for several years) 185 feet to the line at Gilbert Avenue. This efficient main started at the reservoir in Eden Park. To control the flow of water at the base of the steep hill, a valve house was needed. Because the Water Works wanted to enhance the landscape of the park, plus they wanted a structure that would also serve as a new entrance to the park, they felt that the valve house needed to have a special design.
That spring, Cincinnati was host to the Shakespearean Dramatic Festival at Music Hall. The highlight of the festival was the performance of "Hamlet" on Friday evening, May 4. A famous actor by the name of James E. Murdock played the role of Hamlet. Even at the age of 72, this actor was very popular in Cincinnati, mainly because Cincinnati was his hometown. Although many in the audience felt that Mr. Murdock was too old to play the role of Hamlet, they were highly impressed with the stage sets, especially the opening scene. This particular stage set was a 65-by-65 foot painting of Elsinore Castle (also known as Kronberg Castle), where the moody Denmark prince walked at night and spoke with the ghost of his father. A local artist named merry painted this stage set. In the audience that night was Water Works Superintendent A.G. Moore. He was so impressed with the painting of Elsinore Castle that that next Monday morning he appeared at the offices of Samuel Hannaford and Sons (famous local architectural firm that designed, among other structures, Music Hall and the City Building) with a newspaper illustration of the Elsinore stage set. What resulted was that Charles B. Hannaford, the son of Samuel, was commissioned to design the valve house in the form of Elsinore Castle. The Elsinore Tower was built later that year for a cost of $15,000.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that St. Mary's College of Maryland is the Individual Conference Champion of the Capital Athletic Conference in the 2010-2011 College and University Green Power Challenge. This is the college's fourth consecutive year as the largest green power purchaser in its conference.
"I'm proud of the commitment our community has made to protecting natural resources," said the college's sustainability coordinator, Luke Mowbray. "Our participation in the renewable credits market has been a very exciting addition to our campus sustainability initiatives."
St. Mary's College purchased 22 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of renewable energy credits from the company 3Degrees, representing 116 percent of the school's annual electricity usage and more than half of the campus' carbon footprint. According to the EPA, 22 million kWh of renewable energy is equivalent to avoiding the annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of either 3,000 passenger vehicles or from the electricity use of nearly 2,000 average American homes. The college also generates green power from a solar photovoltaic array atop the college library.
The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. Green power is electricity that is generated from renewable resources such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass, and low-impact hydro. The Partnership currently has more than 1,300 Partner organizations voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt-hours of green power annually.
Since April 2006, the EPA's Green Power Partnership has tracked and recognized the collegiate athletic conferences with the highest combined green power purchases in the nation. Thirty-one collegiate conferences and 69 schools competed in the 2010-2011 challenge. "We're glad to see the competition heating up as more and more colleges and universities join the Green Power Challenge," said EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "This year's schools used more than 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of green power, cutting harmful emissions from our air, protecting health and driving demand in the clean energy market."
The EPA will extend the College & University Green Power Challenge for a sixth year, to conclude in spring of 2012. EPA's Green Power Challenge is open to all U.S. colleges, universities, and conferences. For more information, visit: http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/initiatives/cu_challenge.htm.
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My entire life I have been hearing how the white man and the government is the reason so many of us were poor, uneducated, and unemployed. Now, don't get me wrong I do understand that the holocaust of slavery, the unjust justice system of Jim Crow and the civil rights disparities have crippled Black Americans in many ways.
But, can we still say that today? We must take accountability for our actions as well. Today we have a Black man as President but he is a President not the Savior of Black America. We have more Black millionaires than any other time in the history of this country, yet our schools are worst than they were before integration. Our unemployment rate is higher than ever before. Our kids are killing each other like they were living in the Old West. And we own almost none of the businesses in our communities. Is this what Dr. King gave his life for? Is this what Thurgood Marshall fought for?
Why is this all happening now? Lack of ACCOUNTABILITY in our RACE. We blindly support singers, actors, rappers, and athletes to the point that we make them gods. We spend our last dime supporting them but do they support us? How hard would it be for ten or twenty of them to come together and buy properties in cities and towns and open up businesses and trade schools? Where are the Dick Gregory's, Muhammad Ali's, Bill Russell's, and Jim Brown's of this generation?
I know some of you will say Warren these folks don't owe us a thing. Why do we keep asking for hand outs? To you I say a great majority of these stars voted for our current President and his message is clear that we have a duty to the greater good of all then a small few. What I am proposing isn't a handout at all. I am not asking for fish I am asking to teach us how to fish.
If a group did this it would allow people the chance to save their homes. Help keep our children off of drugs and out of the crime black hole that a majority of them seem to be in. It would help destroy the process that most of our kids and (many parents) seem to think that the only way to be successful is to be a rapper or ball player. It would help fund the education of these children to the point that the schools would truly be equal not just integrated.
ACCOUNTABILITY! We must change this stupid no snitch rule in our communities. We must call the cops on our kids who are on the corners selling dope. We must stop blaming the White man for all the ills of Black America. We must stop all these town halls and State of Black America meetings.
And we must stop supporting these singers, actors, rappers, and athletes who don't do anything for us.
If you continue your current path Black America well shame on you.
[Warren Ballentine is a lawyer and a nationally syndicated radio host and a regular on Sunday nights on the newsroom on CNN. The Warren Ballentine Show can be heard weekdays from 10AM-1PM. (check local market listings or visit www.truthfighters.tv.]


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PHOENIX (AP) - A woman is set to stand trial in the 1996 Tucson car bomb killing of her ex-husband.
Pamela Phillips is charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Tucson businessman Gary Triano. She has pleaded not guilty. Jury selection begins Tuesday morning.
Authorities say Phillips hired an ex-boyfriend to kill Triano so she could collect his $2 million life insurance policy. Ronald Young was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to two life terms.
Phillips was arrested in Austria in 2009 while living a lavish lifestyle from the insurance payout. Her case was delayed while authorities worked to restore her competency to stand trial.
Triano, a real estate broker and developer, died Nov. 1, 1996, when his Lincoln Town Car exploded outside a country club.
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