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The White House's Climate Strategy: Pass Bill Now, Slip Carbon Taxes in Later
You have to read between the lines on this one: "several sources familiar with the administration's thinking confirmed it has started pressing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to bring up a slimmed-down energy and climate bill next month. Such a measure would pass more easily than a comprehensive climate bill, and could still be negotiated with the broader bill the House passed a year ago."
Related: BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion | Obama Using Oil Spill To Push Green Economy Agenda | Confidential document reveals Obama's hardline US climate talk strategy | Obama sets sights on Arctic oil and gas exploration | Obama Likely to Rebrand Climate Bill as Jobs Bill | Obama targets US public with call for climate action | Obama to stake reputation on fast-tracked climate bill
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
June 18, 2010
While President Obama made the pitch for climate and energy legislation yet again Tuesday in his Oval Office address, he did not disclose the White House's new strategy: push for a scaled-back bill in the Senate, and drag out the conference long enough to ensure a floor vote after the negotiations.
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said the administration continues to press for a broad Senate bill: "Last night President Obama reiterated his call for comprehensive energy and climate legislation to break our dependence on oil and fossil fuels. Next week he will be reaching out to senators on both sides of the aisle to chart a path forward."
"A number of proposals have been put forward from members on both sides of the aisle. We're open to good ideas from all sources, and will be working with senators on a comprehensive proposal," LaBolt added. "The tragedy in the gulf underscores the need to move quickly, and the president is committed to finding the votes for comprehensive energy legislation this year."
But several sources familiar with the administration's thinking confirmed it has started pressing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to bring up a slimmed-down energy and climate bill next month. Such a measure would pass more easily than a comprehensive climate bill, and could still be negotiated with the broader bill the House passed a year ago.
Under this scenario, the final product of any House-Senate conference could come up for a final vote in a lame-duck session after lawmakers have faced voters in November, thereby cushioning the vote's political impact.
Reid spokesman Jim Manley said the majority leader was still consulting with his Democratic colleagues, who plan to discuss climate legislation during a caucus meeting Thursday.
"We haven't settled on next steps and strategy," Manley said in an interview. "Whatever we do, we're going to need the help of the administration to get the 60 votes out of the Senate."
In a statement released Tuesday night, Reid made it clear he still doesn't see the votes for a broad climate bill in light of GOP opposition.
"I look forward to working with the president to find a bipartisan path to passing meaningful, comprehensive clean-energy legislation this year," Reid said. "This legislation can only be passed if Republicans decide to work with us and demonstrate that they share our serious commitment to building a 21st-century energy strategy for America."
And when asked if the leader was leaning toward a scaled-back bill, Manley replied, "We're all moving toward that."
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To that end, here are some of the most complex movie revenge schemes of all time, the ones that involve far more cunning, planning, and preparation than simply showing up and massacring people. So as much as we loved "Kill Bill," "Gladiator," and "Cape Fear," you won't find them on this list. Any grand schemes we overlooked? Let us know in the comments.


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Wondering which champagnes and wines to serve at your wedding? Don't know how much of each you'll need? Here are the basics that you'll need to know to get the perfect mix at your big day.
You may already have a Champagne or wine that you love - something that the two of you drank on a favorite date, or a Champagne that your parents drank at their wedding. If you don't, there are many helpful sites to Champagne and wine on the net, including wine.about.com. Your caterer will most likely have recommendations for you and will help you figure out how much wine you'll need for the amount of people you're having. At most parties, approximately 30-50% will drink white wine (mostly Chardonnay), 30-50% will drink red wine (mostly cabernet), and about 10 to 20% will drink white zinfandel. You'll want to consider your crowd: more women usually mean more white wine drinkers, more men mean more red wine. I work with a lot of theater crowds which are heavy beer and red wine drinkers.
You'll also want to consider what entree you are serving. Sauvignon Blanc goes with a wide variety of seafood entrees, as well as poultry and cheeses, and is the best option for pasta with a cream sauce. Chardonnay is a widely popular white that works well with chicken, pork and many seafood dishes.
For red wines, Merlot and Cabernet are the most popular options and both suit a menu that includes beef or pastas with red sauces. Another crowd pleaser is Beaujolais, a light fruity red. If you're having a late November wedding or early December wedding, why not serve a Beaujolais Nouveau. This highly-anticipated wine is the first wine of the new season and should be drunk immediately. It's great for weddings as it carries a sentiment of new beginnings and celebration.
And of course, you'll want to have a Champagne or sparkling wine for toasting! (many of you may not know that sparkling wine is the same thing as champagne, except that its not from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France). This will be the most expensive part of your wine budget, thus only serve it for the toasting. You should plan for 2 glasses of Champagne per guest, unless your wedding will be very long, or you know that there will be many formal toasts.


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What's the point (of view)? (Writing journal, October 21, 2102)
After having made some decent progress on defining my character and plot for Unanimous Consent, I now find myself struggling to choose the point of view for the narrative. I had been assuming a third person objective point of view. But my quest to find something new to read made me question that. I decided to stop reading Atlas Shrugged for now; it's simply too much work. And besides, maybe it's better if I don't compare my novel to it at this point; that can come later. So, I scanned by bookshelves for something new to read.
My old Scholastic Book Services version of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth called out to me. I started reading but after a few chapters, it occurred to me that maybe I should be reading something that's written in third-person perspective to get my mind more familiar with that style for my own writing. So, back to the bookshelves.
I could read more Steinbeck. I browsed through some of his works, but quickly noticed his writing style is similar across all his stories—excellent writing, but all similar in style. I want something different. Some Philip Roth perhaps? No, they all seem to be in first person. The Great Gatsby? No, first person. I know Richard Bach's other works are in first person, as is Thoreau's work. Lolita? Nope, first person.
And so at this point, I'm wondering if maybe I shouldn't be writing Unanimous Consent in a first person perspective. I looked at a few articles about the subject online, and although they helped illustrate the pros and cons of the various choices, the best answer for what I'm writing still wasn't clear.
I guess I can always change my mind later, but that could mean a lot of rewriting.
And then I realize, ironically, that Atlas Shrugged is a pretty good example of a novel written in third person point of view, so maybe I really should give that another chance.
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Get our your crystal ball Oscar prognosticators, because it's time to shake it up again. The weekend brought with it a couple more bits and bobs and changes to the Oscar race, with a couple more folks chasing the statue in some unlikely films.
While the movie doesn't have a release date just yet -- or even a distributor -- Annapurna will be pushing James Franco for Best Supporting Actor his role as the cornrowed, golden toothed Alien in Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers." The plan is to give the movie an Oscar qualifying run in December, probably supported by Academy only screenings and/or screeners sent to voters, but it's certainly something we didn't expect. Granted, the film has generated some pretty strong word of mouth on the festival circuit after premiering in Venice and hitting TIFF shortly after, but Franco is up against an incredibly tough field this year.
As we recently broke it down, Philip Seymour Hoffman is still going to be the one to beat for his turn in "The Master" with a number of heavy hitters also in the mix, including Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook," Leonardo DiCaprio for "Django Unchained," Matthew McConaughey for "Magic Mike," Russell Crowe for "Les Miserables," Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln" and more. Granted, Franco is already a nominee (for "127 Hours"), but this seems like a longshot unless one of the major movies in the next few months stumbles very, very hard.
Meanwhile, geeks will be happy they have something to pay attention to awards wise this fall, as Warner Bros. has revealed their slate of Oscar hopefuls, and among them is Anne Hathaway for Best Actress in "The Dark Knight Rises." One could make the argument she's more of a supporting role, but it's likely WB doesn't want to clash with Universal's plans to place her in that category for "Les Miserables." Of course, Christopher Nolan's films are no stranger to nominees with Heath Ledger winning post-humously for "The Dark Knight." However, while Hathaway is very good in 'Rises,' we're not sure it's going to happen. And in case you're wondering, WB will also be pushing the rest of the cast for the movie as well with Christian Bale going for lead, while Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard go supporting. The studio are also putting Tom Hanks and Halle Berry in Best Actor and Actress for "Cloud Atlas" as well.
Finally, in the "not gonna happen" category, campaigns are being launched for Emily Blunt in "Looper," Jake Gyllenhaal in "End Of Watch" and uh, Josh Brolin in "Men In Black III."
Can these more niche movies play alongside the more prestigious and "serious" fare? Anything can happen, so perhaps we'll see. [Showbiz 411/In Contention/THR]
shamsher | October 31, 2012 4:24 AM
i love it
Archie | October 16, 2012 6:37 AM
Oh yes TDKR supporting cast for Oscar .Why not nominate Gary Oldman again in supporting for his great and underappreciated turn as Comissioner Gordon and make up the mistake that he lost last year his Oscar to Jean Dujardin? ;P
I hope to see a few surprise nominees .It looks almost like it´s allready decided who ´ll get in and we are in mid october .....
randall gerber | October 16, 2012 3:52 AM
you forgot for best supporting actor alan arkin in argo ,you fool!!!!!
DG | October 15, 2012 12:38 PM
Two actors and performances I will root for right here but there's almost no way either will win, and not because of their quality but because they don't fit in to what Oscar voters usually go for. Playlist is Right in saying it'd take one of the other big releases stumbling for one of these to break though.
Paul F | October 15, 2012 11:24 AM
Oscar is such bullshit!! One studio decide : oh let's put a clearly SUPPORTING actress in another category so we don't mess with other studio plans...
It's pathetic how the studios and producers control the oscars like that. I always knew it but it makes me angry everytime .
Paul F. | October 15, 2012 11:23 AM
Oscar is such bullshit!! One studio decide : oh let's put a clearly SUPPORTING actress in another category so we don't mess with other studio plans...
It's pathetic how the studios and producers control the oscars like that. I always knew it but it makes me angry everytime .
Zep | October 15, 2012 11:21 AM
This headline just made me wonder how the award circuit differentiates in performances between sexes. Does anyone have any specific thoughts on that or know of any ongoing debate concerning such a matter? I'm intrigued...
GOLD BULLETS NOW GOLD OSCAR | October 15, 2012 10:41 AM
James Franco for the WIN, especially since his performance WILL be remembered as future a classic (not just for the moment). He was truly amazing in Spring Breakers and totally different to what some websites are saying regarding similar to Matthew McConaughey. He's appearance alone is an outstanding transformation, plus his acting and the singing (HIGHER LEVEL that's why is part of a FUTURE CLASSIC). He should win just for his "Everytime" Britney Spears number ALONE.
I'm also surprised that you find it a surprise that Spring Breakers is in the mix. Look at the work of the unique Director plus the fact James Franco is one of the best actors of our generation and it's not a surprise.
I would also like to add that I didn't like the way you and some other websites have hinted "already a nominee (for "127 Hours"), but this seems like a longshot unless one of the major movies in the next few months stumbles very, very hard". It's as if you have all made judgment that he is out BUT you still have to report. What about the list of below actors for some who have "already" been nominated various times and even some have won (more than once). I noticed when it came to them your wording from this website and others were different?
Why IS HE the longshot and not some of the others? When he GAVE BETTER performance? Unless, the Oscars is truly FIXED, I don't see why it should be given that Philip Seymour Hoffman (especially) Robert De Niro "Silver Linings Playbook," Leonardo DiCaprio "Django Unchained (especially)," Matthew McConaughey "Magic Mike," Russell Crower "Les Miserables," Tommy Lee Jones "Lincoln", or others are truly safe bets. To my knowledge, it should be WIDE open but I'm already sensing that certain websites are trying to dismiss James Franco performance or the movie itself, so their recordedguess hopefuls are still in the mix.
Websites/Oscars please PLAY fair so the Oscars doesn't become a bigger joke.
tyrannosaurus max | October 15, 2012 10:27 AM
wow I would love to see anything Korine related involved in the Academy somehow...just for the sheer fact of it.
Sam | October 15, 2012 10:20 AM
no Tom Hardy for Batman ?!
Hathaway was really good. i can't argue with that. but, man: Tom Hardy. he leapt off the screen in a masked role with only his eyes, voice and body to do the talking.
i hope you just forgot to report his name from WB.
AS | October 15, 2012 9:59 AM
I could definitely see Cotillard going for supporting actress... at the Razzies that is.
caro | October 15, 2012 9:46 AM
Marion Cotillard in TDKR ....LOL her death is so ... different
JD | October 15, 2012 9:31 AM
These are largely token campaigns because Warner Bros believe Nolan should get recognition for his work on the trilogy, most of their real campaigning will centre around Argo for BP and some supporting love for Arkin and Goodman. Cloud Atlas is the same.


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Either Flip or Ernie will be representing the Wizards at the lottery.
My money would be for Flip, since he's the new guy, but we'll see what happens as we get closer to Tuesday. UPDATE: According to NBA.com, Ernie will be the on-stage representative and Flip will be the Lottery Room Participant.


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Out of the Coma: Comus returns from long hiatus with new smoky jazz edge
Comus, Out of the Coma, Coptic Cat, NIFE 014CD (2012)
Out of the coma? – more like out of the deep freeze for this English dark folk band whose last recording came out in the mid-1970s! And while some people might prefer that the new Comus sound exactly like the old Comus, one must allow that in the very long hiatus between the mid-1970s and 2012 the band members must have been listening to plenty of music and absorbing influences, and that very definitely shows here: there's a mellow jazz edge to the music which makes Comus a bit more contemporary. The sound is fresh and clear and the Comus vibe still has just the right touch of derangement which is very necessary in songs like the title track and the following song "The Sacrifice". Lyrics deal with resurrection, sacrifice and rebirth on a different plane of existence, and there's a bonus of a live recording from 1972 that the band found recently.
"Out of the Coma" sounds like a very robust folk-oriented song with passionate singing, at least until the instrumental passage kicks in and that's a real surprise with saxophone lending a smoky air. "The Sacrifice" is more like the Comus of old with male and female vocal duetting and a pastoral air with sweet flute melody, violin and acoustic guitar: the song swings from serene and peaceful to urgent and anxious as the subject of the song meets her inevitable end to appease an unknown pagan god and assure the next year's harvest. "The Return" is a beautiful if dark song that switches from major to minor key and back and includes a soulful saxophone solo halfway through.
"The Malgaard Suite", introduced by Roger Wootton, is the bonus 1972 recording recovered and cleaned up for "Out of the Coma". Despite it having been recorded on a tape recorder, the sound quality is not bad at all and the song just sounds as if it had been recorded in a room with muted acoustics. The song is a tango-ing duet of male and female singing accompanied by violin and bassoon and at times has a jaunty rhythm. The muted sound actually gives the song a forlorn and slightly desolate quality that suits the recovered / reconstructed lyrics.
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News: Lil Kim Says Nicki Minaj Brought Beef On Herself, "They Thought I Was Gonna Sit Back"
Friday, Mar 4, 2011 4:30PM
Brooklyn rap veteran Lil Kim has opened up about her issues toward Young Money star Nicki Minaj and why fingers should be pointed at the Barbie for sparking their beef.
Kim believes Minaj's swagger jacking fumed their current rap beef.
"This is the thing: It's just, it's really, like, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'm gonna keep doing what I have to do," Kim said in an interview. "I'm gonna do me. They're the ones that brought this about. It could have been that simple. But what they did was underestimate me. They thought I was gonna sit back and let them do what they were doing. I'm gonna let everybody know: I'm on my Hollywood sophisticated, but I'll bring it back if I have to. And that's in life. I can't help it. I'm G'd up from my feet up. If I have to handle my business, I'mma handle my business. And I have to fight for my fans." (MTV)
Notorious K.I.M. also said loyalty toward the fans fueled her motivation to defend her own image.
"What kind of message would that send to my fans if I just sit back and watched?" she said. "Let this girl do what she's doing. My fans were more fumed than I was. They were looking like, 'Do you see this? Do you hear this?' But at the end of the day, I understand what they were feeling. I owe my fans a whole lot." (MTV)
Last week, Kim rap rival Foxy Brown weighed in on the back-and-forth disses.
"Had [Kim] let the people say, 'Oh [Nicki], you're trying to be Kim, you're a fake Kim,' then it doesn't come directly from her," Foxy explained in an interview. "But when you're using that as a platform to bring your new album out, that's like, 'Oh my God, wait a minute.' I don't condone it at all; I don't think it's cute. Nicki clearly drew from both Kim and me. And she hasn't been disrespectful to me in any way -- I haven't heard her be disrespectful toward anybody else but Kim. And at some point, it's like, O.K., Kim, you've had a problem with Foxy, you've had a problem with Nicki, you've had a problem with Faith [Evans], with Charli [Baltimore], with everybody. It's like, enough already. I choose to stay out of it. Put out great music, and that's that." (Billboard)
In late November, Minaj spoke with radio personality Angie Martinez about Kim being a rap bully.
"It's one of those moments where you say, 'don't play with me,' because I respect you, I love you, I've said it in every interview time and time again, and if that's not good enough with you mama, then it's something deep rooted in you. Something is bothering you inside. That's your insecurity bothering you. [If] it's not Nicki Minaj, it would have been any girl that started poppin'. She picked a fight with Foxy [Brown], then she picked a fight with Eve, then she picked a fight with Remy [Ma], then it was Ms. [Voletta] Wallace, then it was Nicki Minaj. Every time you in the news is 'cause you gettin' at somebody. Where's your music? Put your music out. When I see your name on Billboard, that's when I'll respond to you. Other than that, goodbye." (Hot 97)
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Princeton Creative Writing Faculty Read at Labyrinth Books
The three winners of Princeton University's 2014 Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize will read their winning poems along with three members of the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing faculty on Tuesday, March 25 at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street. The reading is free and open to the public.
The Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize is an international poetry competition open to high school students in the eleventh grade. Applicants submit up to three original poems they have written, which are then reviewed by a jury of faculty in the Program in Creative Writing with the sole criterion being the excellence of the work. This year the program received nearly 600 submissions from all fifty states and international entries from countries such as Australia, China, Germany, Greece, France, India, and New Zealand. The program is named for and supported by Princeton alumnus Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953.
"The work that these students present is quite remarkable," notes Susan Wheeler, Director of the Program in Creative Writing. "The jury had a difficult time selecting the winners from among the many excellent submissions. It is wonderful to see so many students engaged in writing poetry."
First prize winners receive an award of $500, second prize is $250, and third prize is $100. Six more received Honorable Mentions. Students reading are Adina Lasser from Taylors, S.C.; Tim D. Housand from Greenville, S.C.; and Katie Hibner from Mason, O.H.
Reading with the student winners are Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University Paul Muldoon; poet, translator and Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center Idra Novey; and poet and Professor of English and Creative Writing James Richardson.
Muldoon served as the founding chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006), and Maggot (2010). His awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War."
Novey is the author of Exit; Civilian, a 2011 National Poetry Series Selection; and The Next Country, a finalist for the 2008 Foreword Book of the Year Award in poetry. She has received fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN Translation Fund, and Poets & Writers magazine. Her most recent translations include Clarice Lispector's novel The Passion According to G.H. and Viscount Lascano Tegui's novel in prose fragments On Elegance While Sleeping, shortlisted for the 2010 Best Translated Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Slate, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Versions of her work have been published in Arabic, Bengali, Spanish and Portuguese.
Richardson graduated from Princeton in 1971 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1975. He joined the Creative Writing faculty in 1980 and teaches beginning and advanced poetry, a workshop specializing in short forms. Richardson's books include By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms, which was a 2010 National Book Award finalist and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2010"; and Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. Richardson is the recipient of the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize, an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Robert H. Winner, Cecil Hemley, and Emily Dickinson Awards of the Poetry Society of America, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Students, teachers and schools interested in the Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize can find more information here. Submissions for the next round of the competition will be in November 2014.
The Lewis Center for the Arts encompasses Princeton University's academic programs in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts, as well as the interdisciplinary Princeton Atelier. The Center represents a major initiative of the University to fully embrace the arts as an essential part of the educational experience for all who study and teach at Princeton. Over 100 diverse public performances, exhibitions, readings, screenings and lectures are offered each year, most of them free or at a nominal ticket price.
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The Ottawa Senators announced today that they have signed forward prospect Mark Stone to an entry-level contract. Stone spent last season in the WHL with the Brandon Wheat Kings, where he posted 106 points. He finished third in league scoring.
Congratulations to Ottawa Senators prospect Mark Stone on his invitation to Team Canada's Summer Development Camp. The Development Camp is the first step for players who are auditioning to join Team Canada at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship. Stone was a 6th round pick of the Senators in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. He posted 106 points in 71 games this past season, tying him with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for third in points in the league.
Often-ignored Ottawa Senators prospect Derek Grant, currently playing for Michigan State, was named the Central Collegiate Hockey Association Rookie of the Week after putting up two goals and two assists in two games. Though Grant is a freshman, he's been skating on the team's top forward line. Grant was drafted by the Sens in the fourth round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
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The Ottawa Senators' fourth-round draft pick in 2008, André Petersson, has signed a one-year deal with HV71 of the SEL. Though Petersson spent the majority of the year with the club's junior team (notching 55 points in 36 games), he did suit up for the big club for 10 games. Petersson is probably best known to North American fans for his play on Sweden's silver medal squad at the World Junior Hockey Championship, where he notched three goals and three assists.
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Apartments are a little easier to come by in the Portland area, but that's not slowing down rent increases across much of the market. According to the Metro Multifamily Housing Association, which released its latest survey of apartment managers and owners Wednesday, vacancy across the metro area grew to 3.72 percent from 3.34 percent late last year. Rents, meanwhile, climbed 3 percent in the same period, reaching $1 a square foot per month across the metro area. An average two-bedroom unit now rents for $771 a month, an increase of $28 a month compared with six months earlier. The Portland area has one of the lowest rental vacancy rates in the country. Last year, the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Association of Realtors both ranked Portland the second-tightest rental market among the largest metro areas. That's good news for owners of apartment buildings, who can push rents higher without risking empty units. "If you want to live in the moment, the moment is fantastic," Portland economist Jerry Johnson told an audience of housing professionals at the report's release. But the clock is running. High demand for apartments has drawn interest from developers, and Johnson said some 6,100 units are in the works. "New product must be rented, and there will be fierce competition," said Maureen MacNabb, the president of Capital Property Management Services Inc. of Portland. The bulk of those new apartments are still months or years away. Only 1,700 units will come to market this year, with another 2,700 on track to open in 2013. That lags the region's 15-year historical average of 4,000 new units a year. Still, new apartment buildings aren't the instant moneymaker they might have been a year ago. "It's no longer a can't-miss market where any idiot can make money," Johnson said. "You're going to have to pick you project, pick your market." For apartment-seekers, the hot market means enduring heavy competition and high move-in costs. "Tenants are battling for their desired apartment," MacNabb said. "They have to get in the game quickly." With the hassle of waiting lists and application fees, she says more tenants that have an apartment are likely to stay put in spite of increasing rent. But higher rent isn't often matched by higher wages. Justin Buri, deputy director of the Oregon Community Alliance of Tenants, said calls to the organization's renters' rights hotline are increasingly prompted by big rent increases at the end of a 12-month lease. "Even people with moderate incomes are starting to really feel the heat," Buri said. "It's really affecting all of us." For most callers, there's little the organization can do but offer support if they look for a new apartment. But often, the alternatives aren't much better. Vacancy rates are lowest -- and rents highest -- in the close-in Portland neighborhoods. Inner and central Southeast Portland have seen rents rise 9 percent over the past year, the Metro Multifamily Housing Association reports. Downtown Portland remains the most expensive district at $1.66 a square foot a month. Northwest Portland, the second most expensive, gained 10 cents to reach $1.44 a square foot. But rents have actually fallen slightly in Beaverton and east Vancouver. Clackamas, Southwest Portland and Oregon City have stayed steady.
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Ground Stabilization for Urban Tunneling
TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine, August 2010
This feature article explores the geotechnical methods available to facilitate soft ground, mixed face and shallow-cover rock tunneling, and associated work such as deep access shaft construction, under dense urban conditions.
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Overcoming the Challenges of New England's Water & Soil Conditions
Construction Outlook – A publication of the Utility Contractor's Association of New England, September 2009
Profiling the work of Moretrench and its subsidiary Ground/Water Treatment & Technology in the New England Region
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Soil Nails and Poly-Fiber Shotcrete Support Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Proton Therapy Building Excavation
Foundation Drilling, The magazine of The International Association of Foundation Drilling, December/January 2010
This cover feature article describes installation of permanent soil nail earth support in tight, limited-access conditions for construction of an underground addition to one of the nations' leading academic medical centers.
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Brightwater's Ballinger Way Portal Presents Deep Shaft Ground Freezing Challenges
Tunneling & Underground Construction, June 2009
A detailed case study of how ground freezing met the challenge of shaft sinking to 216 feet below grade through a complex and challenging soil profile characterized by multiple groundwater tables.
Grouting for Ground Improvement & Water Control
Trenchless Technology, May 2009
From straightforward void filling to the complex and challenging protection of historic or sensitive structures during subsurface work, grouting plays an important role in many below-grade construction projects. Read about grouting techniques and their applications to specific subsurface conditions.
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A detailed technical case study of emergency-response micropile retrofit to correct severe settlement of an underground structure that occurred as a result of basal failure.
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A variety of projects undertaken in New Jersey by Moretrench's Geotechnical Division are presented, together with an overview of the company.
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Ground Freezing a Proven Technology in Mine Shaft Sinking
Tunneling & Underground Construction, June 2007
This informative article traces the 150-year history of ground freezing, discusses principles and quality control measures, and presents several noteworthy case studies.
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New York Construction, 2007
Most engineers and construction teams working in Lower Manhattan are forced to find ways to work around the area's high water table and the foundation excavation problems it can cause. Read about how an unusual application of ground freezing aided excavation for a deep elevator shaft pit on a tight site.
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Soft ground tunneling arguably remains the most challenging of underground construction operations. The wide range of geotechnical methods available to aid soft ground tunneling operations are discussed, together with project examples.
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Tunnel Business Magazine, December, 2005
Dewatering can have an enormous impact on the success or failure of an underground construction project. Learn more about the misunderstandings associated with dewatering, the value of a properly designed and implemented groundwater control system, design approaches, and a success story in Seattle.
Ground Freezing Aids Water Tunnel Construction
Tunnel Business Magazine, December, 2005
Construction of New York City Water Tunnel Number 3 represents the largest capital construction project in the city's history. Read how ground freezing aided the construction of several large-diameter shafts that connect to the tunnel deep within the underlying rock formation.
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I haven't heard any important news from the Colts in a while. I don't know about you guys, but when it's a slow period of news for the Colts, I start to speculate about their future. My favorite thing to speculate about is adding new players to the team which probably explains why my favorite part about Madden is the offseason period where I can scout college prospects and sign big name free agents.
This past offseason we've seen the Colts solidly quiet a few positions. Our QB and TE positions were already set before free agency even began, but adding Matt Hassellback gave us a nice insurance policy in case the unthinkable happens. It looks like our RB, WR, S, and ILB positions have been fixed at least for this season, but next season we could use an upgrade at those positions. OL theoretically looks like we are alright with 4 new additions, but we are missing depth at T, probably need to find a replacement for Satele, and Costanzo is a FA next year. We have the cap space to resign him, but in today's day and age of free agency nothing is certain. Depth at OLB and CB are also concerns as is RB with Bradshaw only signing a one year deal and Donald Brown being in his last year I his contract.
I think at the end of the day we need to start looking for some replacements for the former Pro Bowlers from the previous regime. AB, Reggie, and Mathis are all going to need to be replaced soon and with about $40 million next offseason. We could use that period of free agency and the draft to find those replacements.
A couple players I'd be interested would be Jarius Byrd, who has not sign a long term with the Bills yet, and Brian Orakpo. I think we could find Reggie's replacement in the draft. Heyward Bey only signed a one year contract so we might need to grab 2 WRs next year. But of course we could upgrade a few other positions besides just S, WR, and OLB. A replacement for Redding would be nice and if neither Angerer nor Conner return next season we would need to fill the void at ILB. We also have to remember that Vontae Davis is going to be a FA as well and if we aren't able to grab him, our secondary is going to look very shaky with our #1 being an injury proned player in Greg Toler.
Priorities: A) Resign AC. We gotta protect Luck's blindside. B) Resign Davis. He has shutdown corner potential which is hard to find. C) Fix our WR position. We are potentially losing one in DHB if another team signs him and adding another year to an already old Reggie Wayne. D) Robert Mathis and Antoine Bathea: see Reggie Wayne, but if we can grab stars like Byrd and Orakpo, I say go for it. We have a lot of solid defenders but not too many difference makers. If Werner lives up to his hype and Orakpo is in Colts Blue, I see Freeney and Mathis all over again for another decade. We would also have Walden still for run defense. E) Upgrade depth at RB, S, and possibly ILB pending Angerer and Conner.
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Here is a great Q&A with Kellon Hassenstab, the publisher of Hoopniks on the state of MD basketball. He goes through all of MD's incoming recruits, additional 2012 recruits, and 2013 prospects as well. A lof of good info actually. Highs & Lows... he tells it like it is and doesnt sugar coat it.
Good news : thinks that MD will be a tourney team next year, likes the Mitchell & Cleare combo (doesnt care that they are similar in style), sees layman as a 4 but can play wing (interesting), & thinks that Wilbut or Cassel would be the best fit for MD. One interesting point is that he said MD could add a PG who has graduated and looking to get his masters... I LOVE THIS IDEA. I forget what high major team added a stud mid major PG this year... I saw them play 2 weeks ago. Anyway, the player could play right away and only occupy a scholarship for one year. This would be ideal.
Lows: Twins to Kentucky.
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Coping with food price hikes: strategies of the poor in Kandy, Sri Lanka
AbstractThe objectives of this study are to assess: (i) the resource profile of the vulnerable households in Kandy district in Sri Lanka, (ii) food consumption pattern of the households, (iii) the coping strategies adopted by the households during the times of food price hikes, (iv) the usefulness and effectiveness of coping strategies adopted by the household, and (v) the factors that influence the decisions made by households to change their food consumption patterns in crisis situations.
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CNN Plays Up Democratic Protests Over Congressional Hearing on Birth Control
Liberal women were in an uproar over the all-male panel at Thursday's congressional hearing on the HHS birth control mandate, and CNN made sure to tout their displeasure. Anchor Hala Gorani emphasized the "fireworks" over the hearing while ignoring the Republican explanation as to why a female pro-birth control witness was refused participation in the panel.
Gorani played clips of two Democratic congresswomen decrying the all-male panel and gave the Democratic talking points as to why two congresswomen left the hearing in protest. "The two Democratic women tried to get a witness added who favors birth control services, but were refused. Thus, the walkout," Gorani tersely explained. [Video below the break.]
Of course, Gorani failed to add the GOP explanation for the refusal, that the Democrats did not add the witness in time before the hearing and that she was not a member of the clergy.
A letter from Issa's staff stated, "As the hearing is not about reproductive rights but instead about the administration's actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness."
After building up the controversy for two minutes, Gorani briefly noted that the afternoon panel included two women before adding "none of the ten testifying before the committee spoke in favor of the Obama administration's birth control insurance decision."
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What a difference...
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 7:17pm.
...four years make. In '08 we were still debating whether abortion was right or wrong. Now the left has lumped contraceptives and abortion together as a "woman's health" issue. Somehow it became a "right" that the government should pay for with our tax dollars. I blame the libs in DC and in the media, and the idiots that support them.
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Nice... maybe next time she could just leave out..
Submitted by Mark81150 on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 7:56pm.
That it was about the Obama administrations ham fisted attempt to spit on peoples religious convictions...
oh wait... she did.
This was fully planned, they knew adding a witness who was immaterial to the hearing was going to be denied.. that is why they did it, knowing full well that CNN leading the pack would entirely swallow the democrat party line.
Textbook propaganda..
This is religious persecution straight up and raw by the White House. Even Biden, Joe dumb as a box o rocks Biden, told them it was spitting on Catholics. They don't care, because no God comes before the God of liberalism. It's a jealous God, demanding heretics be publically slandered and smeared.
With CNN, The WP, the NYT's and ABC CNN NBC MSNBC CBS and NPR leading the charge to bully all into silence while they are forced to violate their faith.. or shut down thousands of hospitals and schools, charities.. great going you freaks.. how many people will suffer if you force people to chose, obeying the decree of an egomaniac or obeying God?
do they even care?
dirty filthy low down evil rotten scum,...
all because they are too cheap to buy their own condoms, and they love the evil glee they get, forcing a priest to pay for abortions.. knowing he sees it as a mortal sin.
Obama... or God?
gee... maybe I pick.... God, and work hard to expel that tyrant back to the slimepits of Chicago corruption politics.
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Submitted by Mark81150 on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 8:00pm.
but there is nothing lower, than a fool who gets his jollies by threatening people into violating their faith... sincerely thinking, that they're amoral cynics like them,.. well no Miss,.. people do take their faith seriously.. and this con game is sheer malicious evil.
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Another joke
Submitted by mmilesll on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 8:24pm.
They complain about their not being any women on the panel, why didn't they wait for the next panel-women were on the panel.
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Submitted by GregE on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 9:45pm.
..........going to demand male contraceptives, aka, condoms be mandated to be free? Oh wait, no, that's a man, and contraception is a women's issue. I guess what has to happen is a woman has to put in the claim. Is that called a legal straw purchase?
.......but no I'm for none of it, but I had to get that in. :-)
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2 Timothy 3
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 9:47pm.
2 Timothy 3
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
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Of course we all know, but it
Submitted by Reaver on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 9:54pm.
Of course we all know, but it bears mentioning, that if a couple republicans had walked out of a democrat organized committee meeting CNN would say it was bitterly partisan and a cheap political stunt and why can't our dysfunctional government work together to get things done. Oh yeah, bipartisan and compromise, gotta have those two words in it.
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Will newsbusters ever out Bill O'Reilly?
Submitted by Fredy on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:14am.
Now that Bill has gone full tilt in promoting lies about Rick Santorum on his show, at what point will Newsbusters point out Bill's liberal bias?
Yesterday, Bill allowed Alan Colmes to completely lie about Santorum having a public platform of restricting birth control. Today, Bill is replaying the exact same lies that msnbc used in degrading abstinence as a presidential wedge issue that Santorum supports.
Does anyone know why Bill is desperatly smearing Santorum, as he did Gingrich?
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I saw that
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:39am.
I was wondering why he didn't give Colmes an intellectual bitch-slap.....but then again he lets a lot of lefties say things that are blatantly ridiculous. I think he's too worried about his ratings and looking "balanced", if he looks too conservative he might lose a few precious moderate viewers....
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Cheap Date
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:47am.
Now we get to see who the real women are. Can their vote be bought for sex on demand?
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read "Leftism As Psychopathy" by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
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WSJ had a good opinion piece on this
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:50am.
The Real Trouble With the Birth-Control Mandate
Critics are missing the main point. There are good reasons that your car-insurance company doesn't add $100 to your premium and then cover oil changes
This is an assault on all of us. Why don't the government mandate dental insurance give away free toothpaste. Or home insurance give away free fire extinquishers. Or health insurance give away free vitamins.
Insurance is supposed to mean a contract, by which a company pays for large, unanticipated expenses in return for a premium: expenses like your house burning down, your car getting stolen or a big medical bill.
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Just when did
Submitted by bull579 on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 4:10am.
Just when did women's birth control become a "right" I mean it's not like it's really expensive. If your insurance does not cover it, can't you pay for it yourself? Why is this so much more important than any health concerns I as a man require?
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Submitted by Kleenex on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 6:17am.
This is so stupid really. Does somebody in Arizona or Nevada need to buy flood insurance? Does somebody in North Dakota need to buy hurricane insurance? This is all about the 1st amendment and Obama's mandates. This claim that 95% of Catholics use birth control is also stupid since it's obvious that not even close to 95% of Catholics are even in their child bearing years! Republicans could easily win this if they framed it correctly but they keep going off on tangents. Make it about Obama's mandate and choice in insurance coverage. If you want contraception covered, then add it to your policy and pay for it, if you don't then don't have it on your policy and don't pay for it. Make it a consumer argument, would someone that doesn't own a car be required to buy auto insurance just because Obama says so? You see there are lots of ways you can frame this and win with the public. I can't believe no one is making this argument.
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The WSJ made it.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 7:50am.
See my link above.
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Liberal plan
Submitted by fatboy on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:01am.
This is their plan...to turn a haering on the religious rights mandate into a discussion of contraception. They know they fail on the mandate issue and must therefore change the narrative into something completely unrelated.
Ain't gonna work though.
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I have to add...
Submitted by fatboy on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:11am.
The most putrid aspect of this whole farce is that the MSM is leading the charge.
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It's sexism...
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:19pm.
It's sexism: the idea that "women's issues" can't be "discussed" be men. Hay, feminazies, men are part of the reproductive cycle too, you know. They, too, use contraceptives. Why shouldn't they be a part of the discussion? Even an all-male "panel" represents at least half of the equation. "Reproductive rights" is not exclusive to women only. WHY have you created this glass ceiling for men being involved in the discussion? I though you were all against those glass ceilings?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Ledbury charity urges people to raise their voices in song
Updated 12:05pm Tuesday 4th February 2014 in News
LOCAL people are being urged to raise their voices in support of a local charity.
The Friends of Community Action, Ledbury, will be hosting a community sing–along on Saturday March 15, from 11am to 5pm, at St Michaels and All Angels Church, Ledbury.
Those taking part don't need to be able to read music, only the words, and both will be provided.
There will be a selection of music from musicals to folk-songs and Ballads, and snippets from Handel's Messiah.
Light refreshments will be on offer and tickets costing £10 each are available from Ledbury Books and Maps and Three Counties Bookshop, the High Street, in advance.
Tickets will also be available on the door.
All proceeds will go to Community Action Ledbury a local charity who provide the Ring and Ride service, Community Transport the Mobility Centre and Volunteer Centre.


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Cancellation of spurious CALTs up
BAGUIO CITY – The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is set to cancel some of the Certificates of Ancestral Land Title (CALTs) irregularly issued in the city including their derivative titles, Mayor Mauricio Domogan said on Wednesday.
The mayor who attended the meeting of the Task Force for Baguio City and Boracay Redevelopment last Wednesday where the CALT and other land issues of the city were tackled said the NCIP representatives reported finding irregularities in three of the five CALT cases in the city being investigated by the commission. The two other cases are still being probed.


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Foam Sclerotherapy is a safe and effective method for treating troublesome varicose veins through injecting a detergent-like agent which has been suspended in foam into the vein. This method is so effective because the foam fills the entire cavity of the vein. This treatment is performed on an outpatient basis by either a physician or a cosmetic technician who has been trained in the procedure.
Though it is less expensive than other more invasive treatments, costs for foam sclerotherapy still range from $200 to $500 in most areas. One treatment often resolves the issue, but sometimes as many as six treatments are needed. These can be scheduled about every two months until the desired results are achieved.
Foam sclerotherapy has few side effects, but compression hose should be worn for a while, and it sometimes takes up to six weeks for the veins to disappear completely. The injection site may be slightly sore and some bruising may occur, but the veins will no longer cause pain. Once they are gone, they will not return.
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After impressing London audiences last year with their raw athleticism and Cuban charm, the cast of Ballet Revolución are back with a bang as they return to the Peacock Theatre for a limited three-week run.
Described as "dazzlingly fast-paced, humorous and sizzlingly hotblooded" (Daily Express), Ballet Revolución is an explosive fusion of ballet, contemporary dance and hip hop, performed by a company of supremely talented Cuban dancers, many of whom have trained at Cuba's most prestigious conservatoires such as the Escuela Nacional de Arte and performed with top companies including Danza Contemporánea de Cuba.
Watch as they burst onto the stage with breathtaking twists, audacious jumps and sensual moves in this adrenaline-fuelled dance sensation, to a soundtrack of popular hits from Shakira, Beyoncé, J-Lo and many more, played by the Ballet Revolución live band. Choreographed by Aaron Cash and Roclan Gonzalez Chavez, Ballet Revolución has enjoyed sell-out performances in Sydney, Singapore, Berlin and Vienna.
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Collection systems are as important as distribution systems. They can have a severe impact on environmental and sanitary issues if capacity and maintenance are inadequate. Overloaded systems will overspill and may flood streets and basements with contaminated water. This water can carry and spread diseases. Overloads also accelerate the production of hydrogen sulphide which corrodes the systems.
The supply of fresh water has the first priority, but the second priority to get rid of the wastewater is just as important.
Sewer systems require massive investments to establish and are costly to maintain. Particularly as the pressure on the systems increases as urbanisation develops and the effects of climate change become more pronounced. Investments and maintenance costs can be reduced by planning and operating the systems more efficiently by incorporating innovative solutions.
Even existing systems can be utilised better by implementing decision support systems, which enable the operators to maximise the utilisation of the capacity more efficiently.
Mapping the actual capacity of the system provides the overview. The next step is to optimise the utilisation, pinpoint the bottlenecks and design the appropriate alleviation measures.
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Water utilities, Industrial production and technology, Product safety and environment, Rivers and reservoirs, Water resources and land use management, Ecology and aquaculture, Coastal and estuarine engineering, Marine infrastructure and energy
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Rat bites Evolution revellers
At least two people were been bitten by a rat at the Evolution Festival in Newcastle.
An audience member and a security guard were bitten by the rodent that made its way into the crowds during Raleigh Randall's act.
He was forced to restart his performance after the rat was caught.


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The 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Posted: 20 Feb 2013
All our relations wove the popular thematic thread connections, conversation and exchange across The Art Gallery of NSW, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island and Pier 2/3. This concept is informed by the partnership of curators — Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster — and an emphasis on collaborative, cross-disciplinary and participatory practices that call for active viewers. This year's show encompassed over 100 artists from forty-four countries. 220 works incorporate a variety of surprising media, performances and installations at Carriageworks, Biennale Bar at Pier 2/3 and a busy education and public program. All our relations invited audiences to engage with specific local social, political and environmental issues within the context of Sydney and this international platform. Employing storytelling to underline a postmodern 'global proposal' of contemporary art to illustrate how we as individuals, and our streams of creative thought, are interconnected as never before.
The well-curated In Finite Blue Planet at the Art Gallery of NSW boasts a convincing eclectic body of work that is a highlight of this biennale. Processes of mapping were a strong theme — a fabulous example being Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili's powerful eight-channel video installation The Mapping Journey Project (2008–2011). Khalili's intelligent work challenged normative cartography by documenting an alternative map of the Mediterranean through 'clandestine journeys' of undocumented refugees, giving voice to minority languages as the faceless narrators poignantly trace their breathtaking journeys on maps in thick, black pen. In contrast, Thai artist Nipan Oranniwesna employed idealised and interconnected urban topography in his sweeping City of Ghost (2007–2012), assembled from cut-out city maps traced in baby powder to astonishing effect. Australian artist John Wolseley's marvellous project Flight of Ventifacts: Mallee (2006–2012) took an organic approach to mapping and drawing, to articulate "subtle changes in the dynamics of wild fires" in Northern Victoria. Wolseley released sheets of paper (both blank and marked by burnt trees) into the wind. Weeks, or months later, the artist 'harvests' the crumpled stained pages and charts their journey. The curators play on this, as Wolseley's pages are 'blown' throughout the AGNSW; scattered along a corridor, squashed down the side of an escalator or as a landscape of living paper in the lower galleries.
Highlights at the MCA's Possible Composition included Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei's The Mending Project (2012), which explored relationships between self, other and environment by inviting viewers to bring fabric to be repaired by Mingwei in the gallery. Sydney-based Thai artist Phaptawan Suwannakudt's sumptuous paper installation Not for Sure (2012) drew on her muralist skills to enable writing to "perform a counter-conversation". Paper crafted from Thai plants, patterned with personal stories and local literature, is strung throughout the gallery like a maze of textured words and images. Also utilising the hand-made is Arin Rungjang's The Living are Few but the Dead Are Many (2012), for which the Bangkok artist collaborated with orphans of the Rwandan genocide to explore their experiences through pottery workshops at a ceramic factory in Kigali. In a moving display, the earthenware vessels were exhibited alongside honest video portraits of the participants — using the act of making and sharing — to "contemplate how we perceive commonality not difference". Rungjang expanded this process by engaging disadvantaged children in Sydney in related activities. Also working in ceramics, Park Young-Sooks and Yeesookyung's collaboration is an exquisite dialogue between traditional and contemporary South Korea. Twelve of Young-Sooks flawless white porcelain Moon Jar (2012) curve around the gallery facing Yeesookyung's Translated Vase – the Moon (2012), a round vessel constructed from shattered pieces of Young-Sook's porcelain.
On Cockatoo Island there were strong works scattered throughout Stories, Senses and Spheres, although the overall curatorial thread didn't achieve the difficult task of connecting the disparate corners and architecture of the site, and the upper island lacked vigour with many of the works feeling a little lost. More successful was the Lower Island's Industrial Precinct, particularly the Turbine Hall, a powerful space that needs strong work to compete with its sublime scale and atmosphere. This was tackled by Dutch/UK duo Reiner Rietveld and Craigie Horsfield's effective installation Confusion (2012) — the immensity of the soundscape pulsated through the cavernous hall, mingling with seagull screeches and fog drifting in from Fujiko Nakaya's Cloud Installation (2012). Similarly, New Zealander Peter Robinson's Snow Ball Blind Time (2008) is the first work I've experienced that visually challenged this space. The towering installation of meticulously carved white polystyrene chains entangle and smother the rusted shell. Further along, Canadian-based Phillip Beesley's fantastical kinetic installation Hylozoic Series (2011) flickered with light and trembled with movement, as quivering white fronds curled up defensively and fascinated viewers wondered around in disbelief.
Located in one of the precinct's smaller buildings was Colombian-born Maria Fernanda Cardoso's and Sydney artist Ross Rudesch Harley's collaborative piece The Museum of Copulatory Organs (2012). This extraordinary display included 'micro-artworks' and video footage, depicting undeniably beautiful specimens of insect genitalia. The still darkness of the space suggested the hush of a museum — lending secrecy, voyeurism and eroticism to the exhibit. Interesting participatory projects included Eva Kot'átková's The Theatre of Speaking Objects (2012), Nadia Meyer's The Scar Project (2005-ongoing) and Erin Manning's Stitching Time – A Collective Fashioning (2012), although their inclusion begs the question as to whether participatory art loses agency in long-running exhibitions, especially on sites like Cockatoo Island, where on quiet days these works can sit empty and flat. This is also true for politically driven projects such as Susan Hefuna's Celebrate Life: I Love Egypt (2011), which doesn't work away from the energy and context of its making in Cairo and London.
The 18th Biennale of Sydney offered audiences the chance to experience some exciting artists' practices that explored All our relations, emphasising the viewer's subjective experience and involvement in making meaning through these processes of participation and conversation. And while there were some wonderful artworks, the curatorial cohesion across venues and inaccessible theoretical framework didn't extend these artist's dialogues as one would hope, to allow new narratives and relations to emerge.
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Pinaree Sanpitak, Anything Can Break, 2011, handmade glass, paper. Courtesy the artist.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Ross Rudesch Harley, Museum of Copulatory Organs, installation at Cockatoo Island, 2012, Photograph Nicholas Sullivan.
Khaled Sabsabi, Air Land, 2011, 8 channel digital video. Courtesy the artist.
Philip Beesley, Hylozoic Series, installation view, 2010, 3000 x 1500 x 400cm. ©Philip Beesley Architect Inc. Photograph Nicholas Sullivan.
Nadia Myre, The Scar Project, 2005, installation view, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Art Mûr, Montreal. Photograph Alan Wiener.
Lee Mingwei, The Mending Project, 2009, table, chairs, 800 spools of thread, sewing needles, mended garments.
Park Young-Sook, Moon Jars, 2006–2008, white porcelain. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.
Judith Wright, A Journey, 2001, installation view. Courtesy the artist; Sophie Gannon Gallery, Sydney; Jan Manton Art, Brisbane; Jensen, Sydney; and Fox/Jensen, Auckland.
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My Fits foods founder and CEO Mario Mendias and chef Fred Raynaud joined Good Day Austin and shared a recipe for steak tacos.
Szechuan Grilled Flat Iron
Serves 4
1 ea Flat Iron Steak (12 oz)
2 tsp Tamari Soy
2 tsp Sesame seed oil
1 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns, ground
1 pinch ground star anise
½ tsp Smoked Paprika
1. Rub flat iron with tamari and oil.
2. Sprinkle with seasoning
3. Grill to medium rare (138 f or desired doneness)
4. Cool in refrigerator.
5. Once cool, slice lengthwise down middle so you have 2 flat sides. Then cut across into julienne strips. Set Aside
Szechuan Sauce
1 Tbl Sesame Oil
1 Tbl Ginger, minced
1 Tsp Garlic, minced
2 Tbl Green Onions, Minced
2 Tbl Dry Sherry
1 Tbl Tamari Soy
1 Tbl Rice Vinegar
2 Tbl Agave
1 Tbl Chinese Chili Garlic Sauce
½ Cup Chicken Broth
1/3 Cup Plum Sauce (or Hoisin if desired)
2 Tsp Cornstarch (mix with water)
1. Sauté ginger, garlic, and scallions.
2. Add Sherry, Tamari, Rice Vinegar, Agave, Chili garlic sauce and chicken broth. Bring to simmer.
3. Mix cornstarch with water into a light paste and whisk into simmering sauce.
4. Add plum sauce, whisk, and hold till ready to use
Szechuan Steak Tacos
Julienne steak strips (from above)
Szechuan sauce (from above)
1 Tbl Sesame Oil
6 oz Onions, julienne
6 oz Red peppers, julienne
6 oz Green Peppers, julienne
12 oz Julienne steak strips
1 cup Szechuan sauce
2 Tbl Cilantro, chopped
8 ea Corn tortillas
8 ea Iceberg or Bibb lettuce cups
¼ cup Cucumber, julienne
Optional: crispy glass noodles, wonton noodles, or roasted chopped peanuts… to sprinkle on top
1. Sauté on high, peppers and onions in sesame oil till onions caramelized but crisp
2. Add beef strips, toss
3. Add sauce, toss
4. Add cilantro, toss
5. Toast tortillas on cast iron skillet. Top each with meat and peppers
6. Sprinkle with crunchy
7. Alternatively, place steak strips in lettuce cups and top with cucumber
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To the Editor:
The lack of confidence by consumers is what is keeping us in this economic downturn, in Hamden, our state and our nation. Our mayor, governor and president are responsible for this economic downturn at this time. Their economic recovery models have not worked and well not work, due in part to the fact that their economic recovery models divide Americans into two social economic groups.
Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt divide this country into two social economic groups in the years of the Great Depression, No! He worked with the political leaders of the time to rebuild consumer confidence by uniting Americans under one positive economic recovery banner.
Mayor Jackson, Governor Malloy and President Obama, start working to reverse this lack of consumer confidence at the local, state and national level, if we are to recover from this latest economic downturn.
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MPs debate NHS reforms
MPs are debating the government's controversial controversial health and social care bill after it was passed in the Lords yesterday.
No Liberal Democrat MPs voted in support of Labour's attempt to derail NHS bill
An analysis of division lists showed that no Liberal Democrat MPs voted in support of Labour's attempt to block the Bill's progress. Prominent critics of the Bill on the Liberal Democrat benches, including John Pugh, Liberal Democrat MP for Southport, abstained.
Labour fails to delay NHS bill becoming law
Labour has failed in an 11th-hour attempt to block the Government's health reforms until an internal assessment of their risks is published.
The Commons voted 328 to 246, majority 82, against Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham's attempt to derail the Health and Social Care Bill.
It's Andy versus Andrew: the battle over the NHS gets personalby Libby Wiener - Political Correspondent
In angry exchanges in the Commons, the Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham warned the Coalition Government, it was making a "catastrophic political mistake" by pushing ahead with its NHS reforms.
But the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said Labour's stance was "political opportunism dressed up as principle" and he accused Mr Burnham of putting forward an "erroneous view" in a constituency leaflet that suggested the Government was pushing through £20 billion of unmandated cuts.
The cuts, said Mr Lansley, were efficency savings given the go-ahead under Labour.
'We will repeal NHS bill' says Shadow Health Secretaryby Libby Wiener - Political Correspondent
A future Labour Government would repeal the Health and Social Care bill at the first opportunity, the Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham told MPs.
He said it was a bill that nobody voted for, that no MP could look their constituent in the eye and defend and he attacked the Liberal Democrats for what he claimed was selling out by failing to stand up to the Prime Minister. Fiery talk, but a speech that will not halt the progress of the bill.
Andy Burnham warns of gamble over the NHSby Libby Wiener - Political Correspondent
The Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham told MPs they were being asked to back the gamble of the Government's NHS reforms without being afforded the courtesy of being told the odds.
He was opening a debate over whether the Government should publish the Risk Register, an internal document on the risks associated with the health reforms.
Shadow Health Secretary: 'We will restore the 'N' in NHS'
The Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has told the Commons that the government should "respect the law" and publish the NHS risk register. Mr Burnham said that the Labour Party would "restore their finest achievement" and "put the 'N' back in NHS".
Andy Burnham says NHS reforms have been 'wrecklessly reorganised'
The Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has told the Commons that the government's NHS reforms have been 'wrecklessly reorganised', without considering all of the facts, as part of an emergency debate on the bill. Mr Burnham said:
If the NHS starts to struggle, how will Members of Parliament respond when it starts to fail?"
Clegg says civil servants advice on NHS register is 'frank and fearless'
The Deputy Prime Minister has admitted that advice from civil servants detailing the government's NHS risk register is "frank and fearless". Nick Clegg told the Commons:
I have seen the risk register and as you know it is a very important tool to allow civil servants to give frank and fearless advice to ministers".
Health Minister: No regrets over NHS billby Libby Wiener - Political Correspondent
As the Health and Social Care bill limps on to the Statute Book, the Health Minister Simon Burns has told us that pressing ahead with change was not an easy option but it was the "responsible option."
He rejected suggestions the reforms amounted to any large scale commercialisation of the NHS.
Asked if he had any regrets about the bill, he said: "No, we could not afford to standstill."
Andy Burnham's ninety minutes in the spotlight
The shadow health secretary has an hour and a half to prevent the Health and Social Care bill going ahead today.Read the full story


text: Larry Brown made the one move that have doomed the sixers for the past decade. He drafted friggin Larry Hughes over Paul Pierce and Dirk. If we had one of those players during our 2001 Run, we would have taken the Lakers. So don't blame our sixers bad fortunes solely on AI, he did what he could with garbage for a decade. I have some faith in the team we have now, theres alot of potential. I'm just hoping Iverson can make another run with this group, because he was undeniably one of the most talented players in the past 20 years. If he fails, im not gonna blame him for the sixers misfortune, that was larry brown and the organizations fault. They have made some terrible moves since AI left, like signing Elton Brand to a max contract, imagine they could have spent that money on resigning Andre Miller. So give AI a freakin break, he should have had pleanty of championships in his career but he was screwed over by the dumbasses in managment over its course.