text: Measuring the gains for distillers grains By Anthony Crooks,Ag Economist USDA Rural Development, Cooperative Programs he development of distillers grains as a valuable co-product for animal feed has been instrumental to the growth of the fuelethanol industry. If ethanol maintains its current pace of expansion, as much as 17 million tons of distillers grains will be generated annually by 2012. That level could rise to as high as 25 million tons by 2016. Along with that growth in volume, pressure mounts to find a home for this co-product of ethanol, which is largely the protein that remains after the starch content is removed from corn in the distilling process. Sheer volume, favorable prices and the growing quality of distillers grains are expected to encourage nearly every major livestock producer and feed manufacturer to pursue ways of further using this feed. Revenue from the sale of distillers grains once comprised about one-third of the average ethanol facilityÆs total revenue. However, two spikes in the price of oil, the Energy Bill and soaring ethanol markets have combined to lift ethanol income so much that those distillers grains now comprise a significantly smaller percent of their revenue, on average. Not that plant managers are complaining about todayÆs circumstance. After all, itÆs really a reflection of some exceedingly favorable ethanol market conditions, and no one truly expects this environment will last forever. However, if distillers grains are to again return to a greater portion of the revenue portfolio, an increasing diligence by plant managers to ensure a consistent, high-value product will be required. There is a real possibility that the U.S. livestock-feeding industry may ultimately approach market saturation for consumption of distillers grains. From price takers to makers In the days when ethanol cost a dollar per gallon, plant managers would have been proud to receive 10 percent of their plantÆs revenue from distillers grains. Plant managers were often confronted by livestock feeders whose opening bid was: ōI shouldnÆt even have to pay for this stuff; youÆre making ethanol.ö Indeed, frequently the best offer was: ōIÆll pay the freight to haul it off. And thatÆs it.ö The situation was almost dire in the beginning. Livestock feeders had the upper hand because they understood that wet distillers grains had to be moved quickly (in less than three days) or it would spoil. Feeders recognized the pressure that plant managers were under to sell, so they would show up on ōday twoö and ōgraciouslyö offer to take the product off the premises. The first real technological development for distillers grains was the use of driers to extend the productÆs shelf life and to improve its consistency. Managers then set a goal to keep the dryers going and never make another pound of wet feed that wasnÆt pre-sold. A few of the early plants were fortunate enough to have Farmland Industries as one of their investors. FarmlandÆs feed division not only helped to market the co-products but, more importantly, sponsored research and conducted its own studies on how best to make and use distillers grains. FarmlandÆs feed division has since been merged into Land OÆ Lakes Purina Feeds, which continues the research in its own facilities and is working with land-grant universities in the Corn Belt. Co-product research and development by universities and private corporations significantly enhanced the nutritional and market value. Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska served not only to expand existing markets for distillers grains among ruminants (dairy and feeder cattle), but also performed groundbreaking work to develop new markets among single-stomach species such as swine and poultry. Feed inclusion rates for distillers grains are presently as high as 40 percent for cattle, 25 percent for swine and 5 percent for poultry. It is expected that these levels could increase another 5 to 10 percent. Much more than an afterthought So, far from being an afterthought, distillers grains grew to become a significant component of a plantÆs revenue stream. And that progress was critical to the development of the entire industry. University-trained nutritionists began working with the plants to help market the feeds in the early 1990s. Over time, with more volume and a higher consistency, the plants developed a track record for the productsÆ feed value. After years of research and a number of technological developments (and a lot of education), feeders learned the nutritional value of distillers grains with a high level of precision: it equals from 120 to 135 percent of the nutrition of corn in the feed ration. As the cornÆs starch is removed to manufacture ethanol, the cornÆs protein level is raised in the co-product. Because nutrients are available in many different ingredients, livestock producers incorporate distillers grains into the ration simply as it makes economic sense to do so. As such, distillers grains compete with all other feeds and feed ingredients in terms of nutritional content, energy and cost per unit. And because distillers grains are discounted relative to corn (despite having a higher nutritional value), feeders look for ways to include (substitute) more of it into their ration. The development of linear programming (LP) models and other computer applications for blending feed rations at the least-cost (subject to minimum nutritional requirements) contributed greatly to the inclusion of distillers grains. These models provide the relative contribution of a particular feed ingredient Ś distillers grains, for example Ś given its price. Virtually every feed manufacturer and seller has an array of computational tools to determine the optimal available feed ration, subject to price and nutritional specifications for the regionÆs cattle, swine and poultry. With these tools, a marketer or feed seller can demonstrate to the producer the true value of including distillers grains (or any particular feed ingredient) into the ration by how it affects the bottom line. As the managers of these models, nutritionists have become the industryÆs gatekeepers of distillers grains market value. The path forward: challenges, opportunities As the ethanol industry grows, sufficient volumes of distillers grains will be manufactured to develop a consistently reliable supply at the local, regional and, ultimately, the national and even international levels. Between then and now, however, a few marketlimiting issues must be resolved, including: Flowability Ś High temperatures and humidity can sometimes cause the most commonly produced distillers grains product, distillers dried grains with solubles (DDG), to stick together and harden into something resembling a fine-grain concrete. The caking problem was so severe that air hammers were used to extract the DDG from railcars. Rail carriers Ś understandably upset to see their cars damaged by the air-hammer unloading Ś prohibited plants from using their cars to ship DDG. Having no option but to purchase or lease railcars dedicated to DDG transport put an otherwise unnecessary financial and logistical burden on the ethanol plants. It added about $6 per ton to the cost of shipping, or about $39 million a year industry-wide. Several preventive products are being developed to improve DDG flowability, mostly with mixed results. The industry is still searching for better solutions to this, its biggest obstacle. Opportunities for expansion into international markets, such as Mexico and Asia, are compelling reasons for the industry to resolve these DDG flowability challenges. Movement toward standardization Ś An industry-wide push for more consistent color, palatability, nutrient content, particle size and flowability of the product is opening doors to markets previously unimagined. In concert with its effort for consistency, the industry is developing a set of standardized definitions for distillers grain products along with standards for quality and testing. The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) have taken the lead and are working together to reconcile and resolve the numerous ways that distillers grains are now tested and so that nutritionists may soon have something that approaches a single standard. Export opportunities Ś There is sufficient domestic demand to consume the potential 7 million metric tons of distillers grains that U.S. ethanol plants are expected to produce in 2006. However, if the corn ethanol industry grows to 15 billion gallons per year, there is a genuine need to develop markets beyond our borders. The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) is working hard to identify new and emerging opportunities for distillers grains exports. Inroads into potential growth markets such as Asia, Mexico, Canada and the European Union are being channeled through the USGCÆs education efforts in its 10 overseas offices. The council conducts DDG feed trials to demonstrate the quality and benefits of using DDG as an ingredient in feed rations for swine, poultry and dairy diets. There is great export potential in Asia because there is a sizable feed industry that can use DDG (and the Asian ethanol industry is only just emerging). Asia is also a traditionally significant importer of U.S. grain. Japan, for example, is the top customer for U.S. corn. Education efforts and feeding trials are currently being conducted in Japan, Taiwan and China. Other potential markets for U.S. DDG lie within the European Union, which is already a frequent buyer and has the appropriate systems to handle DDG imports. The EU may also prove to be an especially strong customer during drought years. Two significant opportunities for expanding DDG export markets exist in Mexico. Hog growers there have expressed a keen interest in importing significant quantities of DDG to blend into their hog feed, and they have the infrastructure to handle it. The poultry industry, while having a less advanced infrastructure, is still very promising. The poultry market in the Veracruz region alone has the potential to displace 60,000 tons of corn per month. However, because of its infrastructure limitations, the best way to move DDG into the Mexican poultry market may be as a complete feed. Importing processed feeds such as DDG does not require an import certificate and avoids the quota system that regulates the volume of Mexican corn imports. Educating end-users Ś From fertilizer to fuel, to plastic resin replacement, to biomaterials (such as cat litter) and now to novel human food applications, more and more unconventional applications are presented for distillers grains every year. Alternative uses could one day make up a significant portion of the global distillers grains market. Research and education efforts are having an impact to promote distillers grain use in ever-wider applications here at home and abroad. For a list of references used for this article, please e-mail the author at: firstname.lastname@example.com, or call him at (202) 205-9322. September/October Table of Contents


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Pope Francis: Don't give in to pessimism, courageously share Gospel
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Never give in to the devil's pessimism, discouragement and bitterness, Pope Francis said; Christians need to share the Gospel message with joy and courage because it will truly answer people's deepest needs.
Young people also need the wisdom and knowledge of older people, whose insight is like "fine wine that gets better with age," he told the College of Cardinals March 15.
His remarks came during a meeting in the Clementine Hall in the apostolic palace with all the cardinals who were present in Rome, including the non-elector cardinals who were over the age of 80 and did not vote in the conclave.
Wearing a simple white papal cassock without the red mozzetta, the pope looked relaxed and comfortable during the meeting, diverging often from his prepared text and speaking heart-to-heart in off-the-cuff comments.
"Dear brothers, perhaps half of us are in our old age," he said with a smile.
But the 76-year-old pope said he likes to think of old age as a sign of wisdom.
"Like the elderly Simeon and elderly Anna in the temple," he said, they had the knowledge and wisdom from life's journey to recognize Jesus.
"Let's give this knowledge to young people, like fine wine that gets better with age, let's give young people the knowledge of life," he said.
In his 13-minute talk, Pope Francis thanked everyone in the college and the Vatican for their support and help during the interregnum.
He thanked the faithful who turned out in St. Peter's Square the night of his election March 13, saying the image of so many people gathered in prayer and joy was "still engrained in my mind."
He also thanked his "venerated predecessor," retired Pope Benedict XVI, for having "enriched and reinvigorated the church with his magisterium, goodness, guidance, faith, humility and gentleness, which remain as a spiritual heritage for everyone."
He said Pope Benedict has "lit a flame deep in our hearts, which will continue to burn because it will be fed by his prayers, which will still support the church in her spiritual and missionary journey."
Pope Francis said that, with his pontificate, he will "serve the Gospel with renewed love, helping the church become ever more in Christ and with Christ."
In the context of the Year of Faith, established by Pope Benedict, "we will strive to faithfully respond to the continuing mission: Bring Jesus Christ to humanity and lead people to an encounter with Jesus Christ, the way, the truth and the life," he said.
Pope Francis recalled his predecessor's message that it is Christ through his spirit, not individuals, leading the church through history.
"We never give in to pessimism, that bitterness that the devil offers us every day," knowing the Holy Spirit's life-giving and unifying force is at work, he told the cardinals.
Never give in to discouragement either, he said, because "we have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the church, with its powerful breeze, the courage to persevere and also to find new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the far ends of the earth."
"The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs," he said, adding that the Gospel is as valid and applicable to the world today as it was thousands of years ago.
The pope tripped, but did not fall after he stood up from the papal chair without realizing it was on a platform elevated a few steps off the ground when he went to greet the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
In his opening remarks, the cardinal, speaking on behalf of the whole college, thanked the pope for "having accepted, with a great and generous heart, the Lord's invitation" to lead the universal church.
The papacy is "a demanding job," Cardinal Sodano said, but the pope will have the help of the Holy Spirit.
Pope Francis told the cardinals he hoped they'd return home enriched by their experience in Rome -- an event that was "so charged with faith and ecclesial communion."
The conclave and the days of preparation before it provided a unique experience that was marked by "great cordiality," he said.
"This is good because we are brothers," he said, who are part of a community and a friendship "that is good for everyone."
The cardinals' sense of openness and mutual friendship helped the Holy Spirit do its part during the conclave, he said.
One "curiosity," the pope noted, is that the Holy Spirit is a sort of "apostle of Babel" that creates the differences in the church.
But on the other hand, he said, it's the same Holy Spirit that "unites these differences, not in equality but in harmony," by focusing everyone's different gifts on the adoration of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
After his talk, Pope Francis personally greeted each of the cardinals present. Some of them offered him gifts, books or letters; another gave him two small bags of religious objects to bless.
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, gave the pope a yellow wristband, which the pope immediately placed on his wrist.
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I was thinking about buying a second ps3.... but because of cinavia protections causing many of my files not to work right, and lack of .mkv support. Im prolly just going to buy a much cheaper media box or blu ray player. The blu ray players are much cheaper these days than in the past and they also play .mkvs and netflix, and at this point im getting older and playing less games anyway. They used to cost almost as much as a ps3 but now are only 60 -80$ I was considering about an xbox 360....
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Go ahead, the xbox has so many adds on the stupid dashbord , so manny acounts have beend TRULEY hacked * none that i know of have been hacked on the psn thru any method other than imputing the pass word and username * so many pirated games being palayed online * i know about 7 people who pirate yhere 360 games * and a bunch of other buLL crap.. ARET WE PAYING 55 $ for "better internet.." yet i cant find a **bleep** game on the 360 that runs as smooth as 2007's warhawk.. not to mention LITTLE third party suport EPIC has just about had it with MS and are actualy thinking of porting the first three gears games to the ps3.. so GO PLAY THE **bleep**BOX ..I still cant fathom why so many people bought he 360 when the original console sucked **bleep** .. IMo the ps3 has the best line up of everythig including online.. because we pay ZERO , ZERO $ for a service that i can only say is lightley below or if not just as good as XBL.. * playing cross play... yea the xbox cant do that.. is tha talso why the ps3 has the best netflix version ..*


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Two long-time rental industry veterans were selected by the American Rental Association as the newest inductees into the Rental Hall of Fame. Robert C. Elmen of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Paul M. Coogan of Peoria, Ill., will be formally inducted during the keynote session on Feb. 11 at The Rental Show in Las Vegas.
The American Rental Association created the Rental Hall of Fame in 2000 to foster an appreciation of the historical development of the rental industry and the leaders who have made the industry what it is today. Each year, nominations are accepted to recognize individuals who have made a substantial impact on the industry at the national or international level. The induction ceremony is held during the keynote session at The Rental Show.
Robert C. Elmen
Elmen's leadership has been demonstrated by the achievements and successes of his business ventures, as he believes in giving people the information, opportunity and platform from which to make choices that challenge themselves and their staff within individual businesses. He's been responsible for 53 general rental stores, a rental software firm, and rent-to-own and mini storage businesses, plus had a television station interest and substantial property management initiatives. He created and operated all of this with a central office staff of eight located in Sioux Falls. He had a thin, flat management system that utilized field managers to make major decisions regarding their individual markets, stores, staff and future with operations in 11 different states.
Elmen's impact on the rental industry can be seen through 40-plus years managing rental stores, where he grew his firm to become the largest privately owned general rental company in the U.S. He helped build the original United Rental franchise as well as the Nationwide trailer system. His impact additionally was felt with the designing and building of a rental computer software system for his stores, which he then shared with the industry. He also trained hundreds of managers who found careers in the rental industry.
It was ingenuity and foresight that drove Elmen's business growth. He was able to foresee the impact of computers and installed IBM computer/cash registers in all his stores by 1977. He used his own rental stores to develop R.E.N.T.S. software for rental stores and offered it nationwide, resulting in 250 user stores. He developed Mail Order USA, which was a time-use versus time-out rental program for rural markets, as well as the flex rate program that automatically changed rental rates based on time and availability.
In addition to his businesses he wrote "Some Operational Aspects of the General Rental Industry" in 1966 in addition to articles for Rental Age and RENTAL MANAGEMENT magazines. He was recognized the "50 National Rental Leaders" list in 1963, was ARA Meritorious Service Award recipient in 1970, ARA Distinguished Service Award recipient in 1974 and ARA Region Six Person of the Year in 1990.
In 1999, he sold his rental stores to United Rentals. He currently is the owner of Mason City Rent All in Mason City, Iowa, and does contract bookkeeping for rental firms in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota.
Elmen is committed to his community, as well as a U.S. Navy veteran. He is involved in his church and civic and community organizations, including Augustana College, Sioux Falls. He also an Augustana College Fellow.
Paul M. Coogan
Coogan's leadership can be described as forward-leaning, which is demonstrated in his desire to embrace change and continuous improvement of the individual and the rental industry. He sought out ways to diversify Aggregate Equipment and Supply by looking for diverse employee candidates to nurture. He developed a formal manager trainee program for his new employees referred to as "Coogan College" that was an intensive week-long program covering all aspects of the rental business. In addition, he encouraged employees to continue their educations by providing reimbursement for business-related course work. This allowed him to have and grow an educated and loyal managerial workforce.
As president of the American Rental Association in 1985, Coogan was an outspoken proponent of the rental industry and made it a point to help others expand their operations successfully as he himself had done. During his term, he and his fellow directors put into place management procedures for continued growth of the industry and ARA. He strengthened ARA's structure and program management to help point the way for the association's continued success.
Coogan's ingenuity helped propel not only Aggregate Equipment but also the entire industry as a whole by thinking "outside the box." Multiple stores and multiple state locations became a key to increasing equipment utilization. Marketing on a progressive scale was another of his beliefs.
The "one-stop shop" concept was another innovation of his that helped propel Aggregate and other rental stores to a higher level of profitability. The idea to build or erect one-source jobsite rental stores on or as near as possible to new building projects was part of his "mega project concept" that was incorporated by other rental businesses.
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Coogan helped fund scholarships at the business school of Bradley University in Peoria and sponsored several of Bradley's marketing students for internships. He believed in promoting from within and the use of incentives for his employees.
Coogan's personal commitment to the industry is evident in the work he did while on the board of ARA as well as through Aggregate Equipment and Supply. His personal commitment to his community was done in quiet ways through leadership roles, service and without fanfare. He served on the Illinois Central College board of trustees, as well as local community and civic organizations and his church.
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Magdalena \m(a)-gdale-na, mag-da-lena\ as a girl's name is pronounced mag-da-LEE-nah. It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Magdalena is "woman from Magdala". Biblical: Mary Magdalene came from the Magdala area near the sea of Galilee.
Magdalena has 4 variant forms: Magdalen, Magdalene, Magdelena and Magdeline.
For more information, see also related girl names Alena, Magda and Madeline.
Magdalena is also pronounced similarly to Magdalina, Magdaline, Magdalini and Magdelina. Other suggested similar baby names are Madalena, Magdala and Magdolna.
Magdalena is a very popular first name for females (#703 out of 4276) and a slightly less popular surname or last name for all people (#81672 out of 88799) (2000 U.S. Census).
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Ejecta is a new project from Leanne Macomber of Neon Indian/Fight Bite and Joel Ford of Ford And Lopatin and "Jeremiah (The Denier)" is their glowy, breathy new dance single. The duo is slated to drop its debut LP in November as the first release on Ford's new label Driftless Records. Check out the track below.
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Mike Huckabee (Still) Hasn't Ruled Out 2016 Presidential Bid
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This just in, from Politico:
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday that he has "not ruled out" a presidential bid in 2016.
"Am I informally chatting with people, asking if they think there's any value in my taking it to another level? I'm having those conversations," he said.
You can read the full story here.
Arkansas Business checked in with Huckabee earlier this year, when he was mulling whether he'd return to his syndicated radio talk show (which Politico quickly followed up on). And he pretty much told us what he's telling Politico now -- that he hasn't ruled anything out:
"I haven't decided. I mean, it's not something I have completely ruled out, but it's not something I'm sitting around every night at the kitchen table plotting," he said. "So, I'll keep the option at least open for the next year or so and at some point would have to decide if that really was something I was going to do again. There are times I honestly think, first of all, I would have less of a platform as a candidate than I do now. ..."
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If there's such a thing as an ultimate Red Hot Chili Peppers video, it probably includes the following four things: (1) fire, (2) bare-chested raging out, (3) skimpily dressed hot girls, (4) hard-earned weatherbeaten musing on the fleeting nature of life. It's not exactly easy to find room for all four of those things in one four-minute visual stretch, but with their new "Brendan's Death Song" video, the Chili Peppers have found a context that'll support all that stuff: A New Orleans jazz funeral! The song is a power-ballad dedicated to old-school L.A. punk scenester and early Chili Peppers booster Brendan Mullen, who died in 2009, and director Marc Klasfeld films the band peacocking mournfully. Watch it at Rolling Stone.
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text: Newsweek Reporter David A. Graham Runs Interference for Black Panthers, Relies on Media Matters Research by John Sexton 15 Jul 2010 post a comment Share This: Today's case study in Newsweek's shameless bias disguised as news reporting comes via David A. Graham's article "The New Black Panther Party Is the New ACORN" published yesterday. It begins with this: "As voter intimidation exercises go, it wasn't much." And it gets worse from there. The real story according to Graham is how a minor case of voter intimidation was overblown by conservatives media outlets to attack the White House. Graham links to five stories at three different sites--Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, and Red State--as proof that conservative blogs "can't get enough." He mentions that the incident was caught on tape but, strangely, doesn't include the footage on the page or even recommend that his readers view it. Could it be that the sight of a man brandishing a baton in front of a polling place is a bit too incriminating for the narrative he's trying to spin? Then, out of nowhere, Graham compares the incident to the ACORN investigation: So how did the incident become a replay of the ACORN scandal? There's some resemblance between the two: an organization with unacceptable practices and a vague connection to the Obama administration (through voter registration drives in the ACORN case and Justice Department litigation in the Panther case) becomes a tool for critics of the White House to attack it as corrupt and illegitimate. But as in the ACORN case, the scandal is minimal (much of the ACORN hit has been discredited)—and the allegations against So according to David A. Graham, ACORN and the Black Panther case are both non-scandals that became "a tool for critics of the White House." It's not as if I can detect any point of view here, but this is still a news magazine, right? The best part has to be his parenthetical which states that the ACORN sting has been "discredited." His proof for this is a link to this post by Media Matters' Eric Boehlert. Now all of you Big Journalism readers know Boehlert is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters who has made it his personal mission to attack and attempt to destroy Andrew Breitbart. The two men exchange insulting tweets on a regular basis daily. Linking to Boehlert as a source on a story involving Breitbart is like asking the Joker for comment on Batman. It tells you more about the reporter than the story. Photo from David A. Graham's twitter profile In any case, Graham might want to take a look at this piece by NY Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt. Hoyt looked over all the same evidence that is the subject of Boehlert's post. What did he conclude? Acorn's supporters appear to hope that the whole story will fall apart over the issue of what O'Keefe wore: if that was wrong, everything else must be wrong. The record does not support them. A bit later David A. Graham gets to the current flashpoint in the story: ...things really blew open on July 6, when Bush Justice official J. Christian Adams, who is white, suggested that Justice's voting division avoided bringing cases where defendants were black and plaintiffs were white. Adams's testimony is questionable; there are doubts about whether he was actually present for the incidents he described, and he's refused to offer details on key questions That second link--the one about questionable testimony--goes right back to Media Matters. David A. Graham summarizes MM's lengthy hit piece by saying, "there are doubts about whether he was actually present for the incidents he described." Well, no, there are not doubts about that at all. In his interview with Megyn Kelly (which Media Matters transcribes), Adams plainly states that he wasn't there: KELLY: What was the response? I mean, that's an extraordinary story. ADAMS: I don't know. I wasn't there. KELLY: But this came to you from Coates. ADAMS: Correct. Graham makes it sound as if Adams had been caught in a lie or his credibility had been undermined, i.e. "there are doubts..." On the contrary, Adams admitted he wasn't there and explained exactly how he learned of the story. Why not just say that instead? This is an example of the kind of biased, shoddy analysis I've come to expect from Newsweek in the last year, ever since I caught Senior Editor Sharon Begley lying about a supposedly "viral" racist comment which she used to characterize opposition to health reform. (Her idea of "going viral" apparently includes statements which appear on one unknown web forum and were never repeated by anyone else.) But if Newsweek reporters are now relying on Media Matters as research, then Newsweek cannot be salvaged. It's officially our adversary.


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Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, John Krasinski, and other boldface actors lent their talents to The24 Hour Plays on Broadway last night, to benefit the Urban Arts Partnership. At the show's after-party, Krasinski, recently engaged to ELLE Women in Hollywood honoree Emily Blunt, looked casual-cool in a monochrome black ensemble. (The Office star is currently promoting his new film Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, based on David Foster Wallace's short-story collection of the same name). ELLE.com participated in the 24 Hour Plays' Off Broadway incarnation click here to watch the video.
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WOW! I wasn't prepared driving in my Model S Sig today to get a negative taunt thrown at me... I was showing some friends of mine at their office in a heavily walked area. Some guy comes up and says "Oh, so that's what my tax money is paying for." Now, I'm not normally political, but I went off... For those just receiving your car, have some nice witty retorts just in case you get something like that... I have a few good ones now that I am prepared. Of course, that's been the 1 bad out of 100 good who keep stopping and looking or wanting to see it (and I've only had it on the street for less than an hour)...
For someone with an execllent command of the English language, you seem to misuse "outrageous" and "BS".
Watts admits to gettting 88,000 in funding to set up his web site from Heartland. He's had the cost of his publication paid for by Heartland, and he's been a featured speaker at their confrences. (want to bet they have a nice fat speakers fee?). Watts has never said he doesn't get paid by Heartland. He says he's not on salary. Not the same as being a grant recipient, getting honorareium, having his costs underwritten. Some links if your interested.
"The Heartland Institute published Watts' initial report on weather station data, titled Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?[11]
Watts has been featured as a speaker at Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change, for which he acknowledges receiving payment.[47]
Documents obtained from the Heartland Institute and made public in February 2012 reveal that the Institute had agreed to help Watts raise $88,000 to set up a website, "devoted to accessing the new temperature data from NOAA's web site and converting them into easy-to-understand graphs that can be easily found and understood by weathermen and the general interested public."[48][49][50] The documents state that $44,000 had already been pledged by an anonymous donor, and the Institute would seek to raise the rest.[47]
11. ^ a b c d Watts, Anthony (2009). Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?. Heartland Institute. ISBN 1934791266. Retrieved 2009-11-24
47.^ a b Gascoyne, Tom (February 23, 2012). "Leaked documents hit home Climate-change scandal has a local connection". Chico News & Review. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
48.^ "2012 Fundraising Plan". The Heartland Institute. January 15, 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
49.^ Hickman, Leo (February 15, 2012). "Climate sceptics – who gets paid what?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
50.^ Watts, Anthony (February 15, 2012). "Some notes on the Heartland Leak". Watts Up With That?. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
Since you were quite wrong on that last one, any interest in seeing who funds the Heartland Institute? Might be fun to speculate on why. Because private donors who own large industrial concerns don't just drop a million 10 on a whim. They want something. Question is who. And what?
Nuclear plants run 24/7, 24/24 with very high reliability and dispatchabilit. Solar, not so much. Solar input into the grid varies uncontrollably; at 10% problems occur. At 20%, it's unmanageable.
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The US has a perfectly workable spent fuel solution - it is called Yucca mountain. Environmentalists have prevented its use, so we continue to stockpile spent fuel at nuclear power station sites. If I recall correctly, the French simply breakdown spent nuclear fuel in a breeder reactor to make much less volume of nuclear waste. Anyways, my point seems to stand. If you are worried about co2 production through burning fossil fuels, you would think that you would at least look into nuclear to see if it would work. Instead many (not all) global warming alarmists dismiss nuclear out of hand without researching it or knowing too much about it. And nuclear is a very viable solution to rising co2 levels. So why do alarmists dismiss nuclear? If the world is going to fry, wouldn't taking a chance with nuclear, given that it would solve co2 levels, be the right thing to do, or at least look into??
As a Libertarian, I will probably be in the minority here (as I am everywhere)but my response would be that I am not in favour of government bail-outs, loans or subsidies either but when the government is offering 'free' money it would not be rational to refuse it.
I am not an expert on nuclear power, but I read an article a couple of years ago that described how the French actually pay people to bury spent fuel in their backyards and have put spent fuel in the English channel figuring that if dispersed enough it would not be a problem. All this led to a measureable increase in Leukemia. In the same article it mentioned that the French were offering the US some of their newer nuclear reactors in exchange for our taking their spent fuel. I think the idea is that we would store it in Yuca Mountain, but as you say in the US we say, "Not in my backyard", even if we have a very big back yard. Transportation is part of the problem.
The other issue is nuclear power plants, like any "big" power plants, they are subject not only to natural disasters, but also to terrorist attacks, and if brought down, the result is a much greater disruption of our lives and economy relative to a more distributed power generation system.
The first time I understood this difference was, a few years ago, when my wife and I were talking with a local candidate for congress and General Wesley Clark, (Ex) Supreme Commander of NATO, about the infrastructure in Afghanistan and the troubles NATO was having with enemy attacks on electrical generation and the grid there. As they explained if one bases a countries electrical infrastructure on "big" power generation and a high-power grid to distribute the electricity around the country, an attack on the power station or grid can disrupt a large section of the economy. On the other hand, the discussion continued, if the country's power generation is widely distributed with lots of smaller power plants, ideally as much as possible with solar and wind, and local grids, then it is much harder for the enemy or a terrorist to have a significant effect on the infrastructure.
Of course big business interests prefer "big" power plants as that is how they make their money, but it would seem that with big power, not only do you have distribution losses transporting that power over large distances, one is creating an infrastructure that when disrupted has the biggest impact on the economy. Local distributed power, including solar panels in our backyards are good for lot of reasons.
some see the future and some have to be hit over the head with it.
Elon can get a SpaceX contract to launch the spent fuel rods into space, maybe out and straight down? I don't like the idea of Nuclear energy unless it's built in a very stable environment, but with the way the weather has been, is there really any environment free of Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Tsunami's or any other number of disasters that can cripple a Nuclear Power Plant and cause it to overheat? Northern Japan is still dealing with that after their Tsunami and it's even effecting some regions in the West Coast of North America. It's not longer an small isolated area, it's a global problem. Out need for power is a global problem. Safe, sustainable energy is really the only real way to go, IMHO.
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Elon Musk, founder of Paypal and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks on a panel with Segway Inventor Dean Kamen and J. Craig Venter about how to accelerate the change toward renewable energy at WSJ's ECO:nomics conference.
Launching radioactive waste into orbit (or beyond) is an extraordinarily bad idea. Rockets fail. The failure mode would result in widespread dissemination of radioactive material into the upper atmosphere (if explosive event) or spread across a large area on the ground making containment and cleanup extremely difficult. Use of newer reactor designs that can utilize spent fuel, or underground storage, are the best current options.
The main reason we don't use more nuclear is the same reason we wheren't using more solar... Cost. $6/w is cheap for nuclear power. Florida Power and Light was getting quotes of over $10/w for the AP1000s they wanted to build and the price has not dropped over time because we don't build enough plants for economies of scale. Unlike nuclear the cost of solar has been falling dramatically.
An added thorn in the nuclear idustries side is the fact that they must maintain a high capacity factor to be profitable. As the cost of solar continues to drop and deployment expands we will see less and less need for additional capacity during most of the day. Nuclear quickly becomes exceedingly cost prohibitive as its Capacity Factor dips toward 50%. German solar already provides near 50% of demand on some days.
Do you want cake or icecream? (I would like some of each.) A newly engineered, smallish nuclear plant with with the surrounding safety zone set up for massive solar.
Putting solar around all the nuke plants that have already been built is a great idea.
There is a heck of a lot of room for solar, and all factors prove to be a win-win with that plan.
No doubt hundreds,even thousands of square miles of solar could be deployed, with high power electric lines already on each site, -otherwise the land and solar resource is wasted.
Budget as much money for doing solar on these sites as it cost to build the nukes.
We should do that first, then talk about the need for new nukes.
Need some balance.
Time for some more ice cream, we got plenty of cake.
@JohnQ, no faith in SpaceX to pull it off without incident? Fine, then we can use the space elevator... :)
I believe I recall Elon saying (at a talk in the UK) that the amount of land required for a nuclear generating site, if covered with solar panels, could generate an equivalent amount of energy. I don't know that I believe this claim, but I found it interesting.
@BYT, No faith in anyone to pull it off as the failure is catastrophic even if it's a once every 20 year event. You really don't want it raining spent fuel rods across three states.
If you can build a space elevator I will support the export of nuclear waste to space. But, boy, what a terrorist target that thing would be (see Robinson's Mars series).
@DouglasR, that claim might be possible. Problem with Solar is not the area or even the cost, but where it is usable and the fact that it depends of weather to work. We can't use solar here in north, the time we could make use of it most we don't have any Sun.
If you want to make solar reliable you would need to move it to space, but then the solar rectenna would need to be big which limits the places you could build one once again.
Biggest problem with that is the prohibitive cost of moving things from Earth surface to space. Maybe with mining asteroids and Moon that could be feasible, so in order to do that we would need to turn to true spacefaring civilization. Well, what do you know, there is one company named SpaceX that is doing just that...
All hail great Elon!
(also I again need to mention cheap fusion, that solves all energy problems here at Earth once we get it to work)
Dropping things into the sun is much harder than it seems. Takes a lot of energy to get there. It would not be cost effective. Besides we already have stable, reliable fusion we can tap.
Hope you are not serious about the space elevator. Being a structural analyst I was involved for a short while with the space elevator. Unfortunately the materials are not ready yet, at least that was the case a couple of years ago.
It appears that only single walled nanotubes are strong enough (about 100x stronger than steel ... greater when one considers the strength to weight ratio) but I don't know of anyone making them longer than about 4 inches (really long for a single molecule). We need to make them much longer in order to braid them successfully, because they tend to slide over each other easily. The ribbon would be thinner than a human hair and about 8" wide. Hope it is far enough out in the ocean to avoid birds because they won't be able to see it if it is edgeways!
One day this could happen. But I think you could see space elevators happen on the moon before here because of the lower strength requirements and lack of weather.
Even if the space elevator did work it is still a risky undertaking to hoist nuclear waste.. I don't think the public will allow it.
Think Elon is safe with space-X for a little while longer!
@lph Hope you are not serious about the space elevator. Being a structural analyst I was involved for a short while with the space elevator. Unfortunately the materials are not ready yet, at least that was the case a couple of years ago.
It appears that only single walled nanotubes are strong enough
There are couple of other carbon nanotube variants that are strong enough, so single-walled is not the only option, however...
I don't know of anyone making them longer than about 4 inches
That is the problem with all of them. At least now AFAIK. Also even if there were method of creating longer ones mass-production required to build structure as big as space elevator is out of the question for a long long time.
Hey guys, this thread has gone wildly off topic - can we get back to random people saying nasty stuff to Model S drivers and their responses? Feel free to make a "comprehensive electricity generation pros/cons" thread if you like.
"Eat your heart out. Then have a nice day!"
Arch, you cracked me up.
"Subsidies usually screw up, but the gov't got lucky with Tesla. It's a great product and a great company."
Those unacquainted with the Model S are curious and impressed with the answers. Their jaws hit the ground when I pop the Frunk and the expressions are priceless. Those that know about it, friends and strangers alike, are kind and full of well wishes like; congratulations, god bless you, I'm happy for you, brilliant, have fun, you were really smart to get it, good luck, it's beautiful, etc. Every person I've encountered is rooting for me and for Tesla. Haven't heard a discouraging word yet. The response is more positive than I imagined. Everybody in the office building I work in (hundreds of people) all seem to know about it and like to come out and look at it. Those that have found me sitting in it during lunch, learning the controls and saving bookmarks in my browser, offer smiles and thumbs up.
Sorry, I should have posted this in the "what are people saying about the car" thread. Will copy it in the right thread. Sorry for going off topic and double posting.
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Oh, god. If maturity is a requirement I'm toast.
I don't get mine for a few weeks, but I couldn't help but hear the conversation from the table next to me last night at dinner. Here are a few choice quotes:
"I don't know why they don't just start drilling. Gas is going to be $10 / gallon of they don't start drilling soon."
"I heard we only have 10 months supply of oil, but at least it will buy us some time."
"I don't understand electric cars. I heard over 30mph they switch over to gas anyway. That might be good in New York or Chicago, but around here we drive more than 30mph."
At that point I really wanted to get up and inform them about global markets, OPEC, and how except for a few hybrid electrics, electrics don't use gas at any speed. As far as I know, only the plugin prius switches to gas based on speed (55mph?).
I was having a nice dinner with my family so I let them carry on but it was painful. I have a feeling this conversation will be directed at me soon.
then you'll get to unload. Both barrels. >:)
I thought I would be more like Andy, and I was when I first got my Roadster. I remember having an arguement with my Rush Limbuagh neighbor in San Francisco 3 years ago (all the typical party line BS from him). It got my wife ticked at me and I decided then: no more discussions with the enemy.
Since then, with my Roadster and now my Sig, I let them come to me. Plenty do, all the time. All kinds of questions. A lot of the same ones. I have given many a stranger a test ride. All of my family and friends have driven one or both of the cars.
That's how to do it. Passive resistance to Big Oil seems to be working on everyone I meet. My Sig plates read: OILS NME and the plate holder says "The Future is Electric".....That is the only discussion I will have now with "them".
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