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The rising price of gas is in the news. Naturally the administration cites it as a reason for why the public should support its policies. An exchange between a reporter and Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest makes the connection.
"We've never seen $5," the reporter said. "We've seen $4. Now we're going into the possibility of $5." … "Well, as I pointed out, in the short term, what the president has pursued was a payroll tax cut that would put $40 in the pocket of every working — of the average American family every two weeks," Earnest replied.
But the issue remains. It's even forcing some government officials to consider delaying their gas tax proposals. "Rising gas prices and the need to tackle a tough state budget are creating mounting challenges for Gov. Martin O'Malley's gas tax proposal", said the Washington Post. Between the price at the pump and the need to keep government expenditures going, well what's a politician to do? Sen. Nathaniel McFadden, D-Baltimore said he hadn't seen the public this exercised since the recent flap about same-sex marriages.
The financial squeeze, according to Delegate Tawanna Gaines, D-Prince George's, only underscores the need for more transportation projects.
"They understand that it's needed," Gaines said, referring to the state's large backlog in transportation projects. "They get that, but they basically believe that you can't get blood out of a turnip. It's going to be a very, very tough sell."
Like that high speed train project in California, which is expected to come on line in a few decades. "California voters in 2008 authorized the state to borrow $9.95 billion for a high-speed rail network, a fraction of the more than $40 billion the state expected it would need at the time. Since then, the project's cost estimate has ballooned to $98 billion." But it's coming on, just you wait.
California High-Speed Rail Authority schedules show the first phase from San Francisco to Los Angeles opening in 2027, with a link to Anaheim in 2034.
The second phase would connect the network to San Diego County via the Inland Empire sometime after 2034, but there are few details on the timing of the second phase.
Stations would open in Murrieta and Escondido along Interstate 15, with a final station in downtown San Diego.
And in the meantime there's the forty bucks every two weeks to keep people going. Even though the President claimed that nobody could do anything about gas prices, since those were set by the "markets", Iran could apparently raise them, as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner explained. He also said that high gas prices were a sure sign that the President's economic recovery was working. "Economic growth in the United States and other countries is also having an impact on global oil prices, by increasing confidence." Confidence is business that he and the President may know a lot about.
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49 Comments, 49 Threads
1. stoicheion
The public does not like public transportation. That is why it is always an economic failure. How many elected officials take public transportation? We need a law that requires those promoting public transportation to use public transportation. That would end the sillyness and get into the solution, which is drill baby drill.
February 24, 2012 - 4:39 pm Link to this Comment -
2. epignosis
More to the point, the public would have to relocate to another town first, then they could use the train to ride to commute to work. Either that or their expecting a lot of weekend riders.
February 24, 2012 - 4:43 pm Link to this Comment -
3. Buck O'Fama
Why doesn't Obama just announce he's trading all the cows in the country for magic beans? Makes as much sense as anything else he's said. We're on the Island but it's Gilligan, not the professor, that's running things.
February 24, 2012 - 5:04 pm Link to this Comment -
4. Victor
The voters in California were given fraudulent information prior to the ballot that approved HSR.
1-Grossly understating the costs of the HSR project
2-Grossly overstating the ridership HSR projections
It is boondoggle that was pushed by the unions and the warmists and it will never be built. You can fly from SF to LA for $ 49 in 1 hour why would anyone pay 4-5 x that to sit in a train for 7 hours?
HSR may make sense in extremely high density population areas — part of Japan and Taiwan -for example.
Companies like Cisco and HP use advance Telepresence technology for business conferences in instead of expensive and time wasting travel.
Cisco CEO Chambers now holds senior executive meetings via Telepresence–saving days of travel and $100000s.
He says that it increases executive productivity and enables better, faster decision making.February 24, 2012 - 5:18 pm Link to this Comment -
5. wretchard
The energy business is about as politicized as a business can get. OPEC is a monopoly. Government regulates oil production intensively. It taxes petroleum products. It is susceptible to political uncertainty.
President Obama's claim that the "price is set by the world market" surely cannot refer to the price at the pump. The price of gas varies country to country rather dramatically. And if supply were increased, as might have been the case with the Keystone pipeline, then prices would have decreased, if the law of supply and demand still operated.
But if supply and demand still operate, it does so through many political filters. Everybody is messing with energy. The Greens, OPEC, big oil, whoever. So if the price of oil is now politically unsustainable, that is a reflection of a political failure, since the system can't work out a "deal" in which every fat cat gets his cut without the peasants revolting.
The peasants are now revolting, but the President needs to keep the Fat Cats meowing happily. So what he's going to do, going by his record, is apply smoke and mirrors. Payroll tax cuts, Strategic Petroleum reserve stuff, yada yada yada.
February 24, 2012 - 5:22 pm Link to this Comment -
6. cjm
Victor, the voters in California are idiots. Regardless of whatever lies they were peddled, anyone with a functioning brain knows that high speed rail is always a boondoggle. They voted for a lot of other silly nonsense too. The place is terminal.
February 24, 2012 - 5:23 pm Link to this Comment -
7. toadold
"Tell me Monsieur, why is the Army still maintaining a cavalry unit in this day and age."
"Why we need the horse manure to grow the finest mushrooms for the officer's mess!"
"Ah! I understand."I thought that was a bit silly when I first heard it, but now I wish we knew our shit half as well.
February 24, 2012 - 5:26 pm Link to this Comment -
8. Mr. X
Sorry to jump in as a one note horse, but Mr. Ledeen's (and National Review's) grasp of economic reality seems a little…loose if you ask me.
"Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, has an insightful piece here on Obama's mania for putting more and more young Americans through college.
Currently, the U.S. is 16th in that regard (although the numbers are rather fuzzy) and Obama declares that being 16th is not acceptable — we've got to be first! But Wood demonstrates that there is no connection between where a nation stands in that regard and its economic success; some countries with higher percentages than ours are economically feeble (e.g. Russia) and others with lower percentages than ours are strong (e.g. Switzerland)."
just a sampling of this week's (in this case, 'Right' leaning) idiocy regarding Russia. Even in passing the condescension drips. In Ledeen's case, you'll notice he nearly starts off the list of America's prospective enemies with Russia (Eurasia) and China (Eastasia). Oceania's always been at war with Eur/Eastasia for these Beltway types…
Not all of the idiocy is saved for 'the Left'. There's plenty to spare among the neocons too scared/lazy to visit Moscow, unlike their old pal Henry Kissinger. And yes, I'm aware that even now with the West sinking into a Depression there are still more Russians becoming U.S. citizens than vice versa. Nonetheless perhaps Ledeen ought to see how many foreigners…including non-white Asian professional foreigners and even Israeli Jews (!)…feel quite cozy in Moscow these days. Seeing any Israelis who were born in the USSR or whose parents were voluntarily choosing to come back to the Evil Empire to work because they found it lucrative would naturally cause every neocons' heads to explode from the very impossibility of it all.
February 24, 2012 - 5:34 pm Link to this Comment -
9. Anonymous Mike
I'm glad Wretchard mentioned the Maryland case…
Maryland swept the transportation fund last year in order to close a general fund budget gap. Now this year they're crying poverty when it comes to transportation budget?!!? Keep in mind that the existing gas tax will be supplemented by a proposed gas sales tax, 6% of the total sale and not by gallon, which with $4 gallon will take the gas tax to the highest in the country.
Now a cynic may look at that gusher in revenue and last year's sweeping of the transportation fund and wonder if the tax increase is just being used to backdoor support for the general fund. Part of politics is the ability to sequence and frame choices; for Maryland drivers stuck in traffic and a Metro system in bad repair the only solution is more tax money but the fact that transportation money was used last year to keep state (unionized) workers employed and happy is not relevant to the conversation. Just as when that new gas tax money is swept during some the next fiscal emergency, the promises made about those monies reserved to ease transportation woes will not be relevant.
Even if all that money will be used for transportation where will it be spent? The multi-billion dollar Purple Line for the Metro? Another ICC? To paraphrase an old quote about pirates, billions for sexy new construction and hardly a nickel for maintenance.
Let's not even get started about the state's massive offshore wind farm proposal which will be "carbon-free."
Did I mention that Maryland is a deep-blue state inordinately populated with federal workers? I wonder at times if the state exists merely to benefit the economic development efforts of its neighbors.
Perhaps Maryland is like that old despair.com demotivational poster with the sinking ship titled "Mistakes: It May Be That Your Only Purpose in Life is To Serve as a Warning to Others."
Even if the
February 24, 2012 - 5:49 pm Link to this Comment -
10. Public transit...?
– all riders ask is a little efficiency and courtesy, but get neither.
February 24, 2012 - 5:51 pm Link to this Comment -
11. Steve
We've been all over this as well on Common Cents…
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.comFebruary 24, 2012 - 6:01 pm Link to this Comment -
12. Kinuachdrach
Here's an interesting take:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/gasoline_prices_and_dollar_prices.htmlIt is not that the cost of gasoline is going up. It is that the value of the furiously printed dollar is going down.
February 24, 2012 - 6:25 pm Link to this Comment -
13. MachiasPrivateer
Even the Spaniards are smart enough to rely on their existing nukes for power during this crisis. They have just extended the license for their oldest nuclear power plant. So why don't the Germans and Japanese follow their lead? Could it be because they are so arrogant that they think they're smarter than one of the PIIGS?
Or could it be that one of the PIIGS is wiser than they are because "necessity is the mother of invention"???
OR ARE THEY BEGGING FOR ANOTHER WPPSS? http://tinyurl.com/7l3ss29
Are they really that determined to resurrect the Ghost of Jimmy Carter & Three Mile Island as Barack Obama & Fukushima? Wasn't once enough?
February 24, 2012 - 6:30 pm Link to this Comment -
14. wretchard
Gas prices in America are like bread in Egypt; a metric of legitimacy. That's why high gas prices are such a political threat to the administration. What collapses a political elite is public awareness of an inability to provide or create an environment in which others can provide, the basics.
The current administration has invested heavily in smoke and mirrors. It has used the fiscal pump to kick the can down the road. By that means they hoped to humbug their way to re-election. Give the people hope and in the meantime, hand out change — nickels, dimes and quarters.
But now they've bankrupted the system, a concept they can't really understand. So it will be interesting to see how they come up with the cheap gas.
For most, its still "where's the stash? WHERE have they hidden the stash?" It's like plate-licking. You know, when the gravy's gone and people stick their head in the pot and slurp what's left off the bottom, like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Maybe you can't blame them. I remember reading somewhere about a fire department chief in a bankrupt town they found dead in his house, all power, water and I suppose, food gone. Maybe he died of actual starvation. Or maybe his heart gave out when he realized there would never ever be a check in the mail.
What choices do you have left when you're long in the tooth, on medication and broke? Completely shafted, realizing too late that you worked and planned on the basis of some politician's promise. So you do what you have to do, yell the louder. Write your congressman, another politician. And hope against hope they'll find money for your pension. The one they promised.
Of course, reality is pitiless. It don't give a damn, and neither, probably do the politicians.
February 24, 2012 - 6:37 pm Link to this Comment -
15. Mr. X
"Maybe you can't blame them. I remember reading somewhere about a fire department chief in a bankrupt town they found dead in his house, all power, water and I suppose, food gone. Maybe he died of actual starvation. Or maybe his heart gave out when he realized there would never ever be a check in the mail."
It was Pritchard, Alabama I think.
February 24, 2012 - 6:55 pm Link to this Comment -
16. Mr. X
P.S. re: those Lin threads several days back, I give BCers: Roman Gabriel (h/t Steve Sailer), a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams of Filipino/Irish lineage who was arguably big enough and with a big enough arm to have played in the modern NFL. He went on to star alongside John Wayne in a 1969 Western, long before Tim Tebow signed with a Hollywood agent.
February 24, 2012 - 7:11 pm Link to this Comment -
17. Subotai Bahadur
#13 wretchard
What choices do you have left when you're long in the tooth, on medication and broke? Completely shafted, realizing too late that you worked and planned on the basis of some politician's promise. So you do what you have to do, yell the louder.
Actually, what you posit is not the last set of options. And I assume that at least those at the top of the Political Class realize this and have escape plans in place. Because, after you yell louder, and nothing happens, then you start looking for those politicians who made those promises and their successors in office. The encounter when they are found may not be …. congenial.
Subotai Bahadur
February 24, 2012 - 7:20 pm Link to this Comment -
18. blob
These numbers change with time
1967 $35 233 gal/fuel 1oz/Au
2012 $35 8.75 gal/fuel .02oz/Au
2012 1oz/Au 425 gal/fuel $1600
Gold and fuel is probably is good place to keep-I hate to say it-your money.
February 24, 2012 - 7:58 pm Link to this Comment -
19. Don51
The price of gas isn't up, the value of the dollar is down. This is just the start.
After the Stimulus, QE1, QE2, and under the radar on going QE3, you can only keep printing/adding to the tally without anything to back it up for so long before it comes to bite you.
That's why even with fracking and all the pumping, even cutting regulations won't in the end make much difference. It's not the oil. It's the currency.
However, all that bad mortgage paper the banks and investment houses hold will float to their book value which is what the Fed and Treasury wanted in the end anyway. As for the rest of us, well, they're going to recommend cake for dinner.February 24, 2012 - 8:03 pm Link to this Comment -
20. Steeple
Most Americans spend more on their home utility bills than they do on gasoline. Aside from those who still use heating oil, these home utility bills are generally coming down due to the falling price of natural gas. And that is due to the wonderful advances in shale production that we can thank our President for.
No other price for any consumer good gets advertised as much as the price of a gallon of gasoline. Not trying to be insensitive, but all of the energy in Europe and Asia is priced to consumers there on an oil basis.
February 24, 2012 - 8:29 pm Link to this Comment -
21. Walt
The politicians surely know
That taxing us to death'll
Result in very angry guys
Who just want to pump ethylFebruary 24, 2012 - 8:56 pm Link to this Comment -
22. Josh
just the music and the album cover.
Generally oil and gold keep track of each other, but it's been rough the last few years, and fracking is going to take energy prices down for the next century. still, oil companies may be better investments than cash, fracking is great but you can't just print oil like you can dollars.
February 24, 2012 - 9:04 pm Link to this Comment -
23. Victor
Obama ran on the theme of reducing the price of gas–
India and China refused to boycott Iranian oil
–in fact they are both- today– negotiating long term price contracts and dramatically increased oil imports from Iran.
General Petraeus said that the US attacking Iran is a stupid idea–the US Military agrees so does the UK, NATO and our ECHELON allies.
Time for intelligent direct diplomacy between US and Iran–as General Petraeus advises –and has done for some time to further fundamental American interests in the region.
February 24, 2012 - 9:57 pm Link to this Comment -
24. Blast From the Past
Is the guy in the video Obama's new ambassador to Wakistan or Governor Moonbeams Director of Energy Policy?
Buck O'Fama 3,
You insult Gilligan then you insult Bob Denver and if you insult Bob Denver then you insult Maynard G Krebs. Think about it, everything you needed to know about where America was going you could have learned from that show. You may want to reconsider the analogy.There is no reason to believe the rumor that MSNBC is sitting on a story that the White House is getting support from the Garbanzo bean pickers and growers associations. Nor is there any truth to the rumor that the FDA will mandate that all meals served to replace confiscated parental lunches will include highly nutritious and energy packed bean salads. It is certainly not true that the administration has green lighted a loan to test how much renewable energy could be collected by installing total interactive learning throne pods for each student that could collect emitted natural gas while the attached active learner is being culturally enriched. However it is true that there is a working paper at the Department of Education estimating that such systems if universally installed would cut energy costs by enough to fund retirees pensions for three weeks a year. It is also true that Michelle was seen staring at her garden with a long rake in her hand.
February 24, 2012 - 10:16 pm Link to this Comment -
25. Xennady
The people running the show in the United States are still enthusiastically claiming happy days are coming back real soon now, thanks to them.
I recall reading similar nonsense from the people in charge when the first great depression began.
The problem, then and now, is that reality has the final say. And it's really not a good sign that it diverges so far from what these fine folks are telling the masses. It just seems to me that when government officials get caught- on tape, no less- saying things this obviously stupid it's a sign that we're near the day when the bottom drops out and no one will be able to pretend nothing is really wrong.
Which won't stop people from trying, of course. But if Herbert Hoover is remembered at all he is remembered as a failure.
Geithner and the legion of similar fools who have run the US right into the ground deserve the same fate.
At best.
February 24, 2012 - 10:59 pm Link to this Comment -
26. dla
It continues to amaze me that voters allow the public piggies (PP) to pursue turn-of-the-19th-century transportation solutions. When will the PP get it through their fat heads that NOBODY wants to be forced into public transport. People love their freedom and independence. And the technology for private autos is advancing faster than the technology for mas transit.
And, lest we forget, transportation fuels is only one part of our nation's oil dependence.
Ultimately, Bozama's foreign policy weakness coupled with his moronic economic notions have cause fuel prices to jump. He is worse than Carter.
February 24, 2012 - 11:07 pm Link to this Comment -
27. Mr. X
Remember that blog post with 'The Insider' and Ulsterman who predicted that Obama's reelection campaign would crank up the racial stuff big time?
interview with local radio host 'Doc Holliday' on the glow in the dark sneakers ruckus at an Orlando mallhttp://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-two/
Sounds like this playbook is being executed in Orlando this weekend to a T.4/4 EOT for me
February 24, 2012 - 11:30 pm Link to this Comment -
28. Dworkin Barimen
Subotai is right. As things inevitably get worse, not everyone is going to neatly and quietly curl up and die in their homes.
February 24, 2012 - 11:50 pm Link to this Comment -
29. MachiasPrivateer
Wretchard @ 14 and Mr X @ 15 – Don't forget Mr Peak Oil himself, Matt Simmons, being found dead in his hot tub after we succeeded in "plugging the damn hole"!
"The truth will out!" would be my warning to government poobahs everywhere! Just ask Admiral Thad Allen or Admiral James A. Watson how much they are looking forward to Monday's opening of the Deepwater Horizon trial in federal court in New Orleans. Especially if they have read http://tinyurl.com/6oc85vc
Or even better yet my blog article http://tinyurl.com/y87uhco
I read this on the Sailing Scuttlebutt website
In spite of all evidence to the contrary, the entire universe is composed of only two basic substances: magic and lies. "I guess some of us are magicians!!!!
February 25, 2012 - 12:04 am Link to this Comment -
30. MachiasPrivateer
So now the attention whores of Al Qaeda in Iraq are threatening a war with the Shiites http://tinyurl.com/79mp83o
How dumb are they? Haven't they figured out that he who wants the most attention becomes the next target for Operation Whack-An-Obnoxious-Terrorist?
"Pennies From Drone Heaven"? Look Mom, see how much cheaper it is to kill terrorists with robots???? And none of the "good guys" get killed so they can all look forward to a Hollywood acting career! We'll pay for the whole thing out of the international box office! (Did I ever tell you my family was big in vaudeville? Check out where Edward Franklin Albee II was born!) http://tinyurl.com/6mckddc
Note that he was no Mama's boy! He ran away to join the circus! And not just any circus, it was P.T. Barnum's circus!
February 25, 2012 - 1:04 am Link to this Comment -
31. Charles
Eleven reasons to switch to Thorium based Nuclear Power generation
Eleven more reasons to switch to Thorium as Nuclear fuel.
16. Russia has a Thorium program
The program is based at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute and involves the US company Thorium Power and US government funding to design fuel for Russian VVER-1000 reactors.17. China is starting up a Thorium program.
The People's Republic of China has initiated a research and development project in thorium molten-salt reactor technology, it was announced in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) annual conference on Tuesday, January 25. A Chinese delegation led by Dr. Jiang travelled to Oak Ridge National Lab last fall to learn more about MSR technology and told lab leadership of their plans to develop a thorium-fueled MSR.18. India has an active Thorium program.
(India's Kakrapar-1 reactor is the world's first reactor which uses thorium rather than depleted uranium to achieve power flattening across the reactor core. India, which has about 25% of the world's thorium reserves, is developing a 300 MW prototype of a thorium-based Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR). The prototype is expected to be fully operational by 2011,)19.Lawrence Livermore Laboratories is developing a small portable self-contained Thorium reactor capable of being carried on a low-bed trailer. A Democratic member of the United States House of Congress (Joseph Sestak) in 2010 added funding for research and development for a reactor that could use thorium as fuel and fit on a destroyer-sized ship.The first units are expected to arrive in 2015, be tamper resistant, passively failsafe and have a operative life of 30+ years.
February 25, 2012 - 1:56 am Link to this Comment -
32. Charles
Joule extracts fuels from bacteria
Premium content from New Mexico Business Weekly by Kevin Robinson-Avila, NMBW Senior Reporter
Date: Friday, January 13, 2012, 4:00am MSTIt [Joule] projects selling fuel at $20 per barrel-equivalent of diesel, and 60 cents per gallon of ethanol, making them highly competitive.
The World Economic Forum chose Joule as one of its 2012 "Technology Pioneers." The company also won silver recognition in the Wall Street Journal 's Technology Innovation Awards in October.
The Massachusetts-based firm employs 100. It has a small pilot plant in Leander, Texas.
The Hobbs project [located in New Mexico] is its first commercial demonstration plant. It will have six solar bioreactor production modules to start. The first will come on line in June, and the rest by late 2012 [covering a total of 5 acres by the end of 2012]
Joule will add more production modules later, eventually scaling up to 1,200
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/print-edition/2012/01/13/joule-extracts-fuels-from-bacteria.html?page=allacres.February 25, 2012 - 2:08 am Link to this Comment -
33. stoicheion
"General Petraeus said that the US attacking Iran is a stupid idea"
General Petraeus is an average to fair operational commander but a lousy strategos. If he had any moral courage he would have refused the assignment in Afghanistan.
War between the USA and Iran has been ongoing since 1979, the Mad Dog Muallahs have just been careful to keep it just this side of obvious. They have used catspaws and surrogates well enough to allow cowards and those with sub-room temperature IQ's to claim it's all a misunderstanding.
It isn't. Once they have sufficient nuclear weapons, they will make their intentions quite clear.
The best move on the part of the MDM (Mad Dog Mullahs) would be kick starting the Canary Island Fault;
http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/tsunami.htmlAs a natural event, La Palma is on the order of getting mauled by a Polar bear and a Grizzly bear on the same day, as the commercial states. As a human created event, it is not only possible but likely. Considering they could destroy western civilization in an afternoon, What is not to like about it as a MDM?
Kill 75 million Americans and about twice that many Europeans, then send in the Red Crescent with relief. Naturally, there will need to be armed soldiers along to protect the relief workers from looters.February 25, 2012 - 3:30 am Link to this Comment -
34. MachiasPrivateer
stoicheion @ 33 That's why the game has changed so much! There is a positve feedback every time we Whack-A-Mullah!!! It feels so good, it could become addictive!!! Whack, whack, whack!!!!
So they really want to chill so that the size of the positive feedback gets reduced and the game becomes more boring. Then maybe the whackers will find more interesting whackees, such as Assad or Putin et al. They do NOT want to be the attention whore of the day!!
February 25, 2012 - 3:48 am Link to this Comment -
35. Roughcoat
Good grief, now Viktor is posting as "Mr. X." He is so clever, that one.
February 25, 2012 - 5:11 am Link to this Comment -
36. John Work
Came across an interesting article on Watts Up http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/25/relevant-quotes-on-skepticism-plus-a-motto-for-our-times/#more-57504 on critical thinking. Many interesting quotes.
This is a good one – "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." –Bertrand Russell
February 25, 2012 - 6:25 am Link to this Comment -
37. Annoy Mouse
There is a train that connects San Diego with Los Angeles right now. I have family in the South Bay which is well west and south of Los Angeles. The problem with the train is that it does not turn left to where I am going. It veers off into downtown where it is surrounded by urban blight, crime, and the smell of urine. Nobody I know would want to go downtown to pick me up. I take the Greyhound instead and it is cheaper and faster.
Who was the general who said, something to the effect;"the Iranians could close down the straight of Hormuz"? That is what has shaken the markets more than anything. Why can't these guys just put a sock in it?
February 25, 2012 - 7:33 am Link to this Comment -
38. MachiasPrivateer
Is there anybody old enough to remember Jimmy Carter and the Washington Public Power Supply System aka Whooops? (Now "Energy Nortwest" after emerging from bankruptcy). Note at the time that was the largest bankruptcy of a municipal corporation in American history (something we are likely to see much more of very soon).
Right now both Japan and Germany have totally shut down their nuclear power plants, so the plants don't generate any cash flow to pay the bondholders, so the huge investment funds are "mysteriously" going broke in a "black swan" event!
And Japan still needs electricity so they are gobbling up all the oil they can thereby driving up the price of oil AND THE PRICE OF GASOLINE GOING INTO YOUR TANK!
Remember how the housing crisis began with $4 per gallon gasoline?
History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
February 25, 2012 - 7:44 am Link to this Comment -
39. herb
Interesting that the ethanol subsidy is kaput.
Ethanol has about 2/3 the energy content of gasoline (30 MJ/Kg vs. 47 for gas) It aint helping the mileage or performance.
I cant find commodity pricing data for ethanol that's current (that's curious by itself), but I understand that it costs more to produce that gas (hence the need for the subsidy).
To my simple mind an easy way to lower the pump price is to make plain gas available generally. I hear that there a rare places you can get it but none in my area.February 25, 2012 - 8:28 am Link to this Comment -
40. Josh
mp @ 38: Remember how the housing crisis began with $4 per gallon gasoline?
More like two crisis happened at the same time and contributed to a third crisis, the plunging stock market. The housing bubble had been inflating for ten years and was gonna burst, and when it burst in combination with the derivatives market it turned out to break the market which made a downturn into a crisis, at just the same time that derivatives in oil futures had driven the spot price of oil to $150 and gasoline over $4, which if it stuck was going to depress the stock market 3,000 points all by itself, and so the stock market plunged like 5,000 points, which was probably too much but nobody wanted to catch a falling knife except for Ben Bernanke who figured it was his job, so he caught the falling knife with a catcher's mitt padded with three trillion dollars, not even counting TARP (that worked out!) and a trillion in porkulus that Hairy Reed has now deemed a continuing annual event.
But you're certainly right that soaring energy prices threaten wider downstream recession, and that Germany and Japan shutting down nukes could hardly be timed worse, so it's hard to say which is cause and which is effect. This is how the US survives these days, we're stupider than everyone except for everyone else. Well, it's a living.
am @ 37: The problem with the train is that it does not turn left to where I am going.
The south bay is a bit of an isolated wart, getting from Torrance or Redondo or PV to anywhere, is a battle. You can catch the train out in Fullerton or Irvine, and for people who live or work out there, past downtown out in Burbank. And even downtown Union Station isn't nearly as bad as you describe, just highly inaccessible from the south bay, requires you drive 20+ miles north in heavy traffic to catch a train south 120 miles. Bad math!
Did the old red cars ever run to the south bay? Might still be an old right of way could be reclaimed, like the purple Exposition line to west Los Angeles.
Just a Y up to Dominguez then down along the coast, nothing out to the Redondo or Hermosa piers.
February 25, 2012 - 9:03 am Link to this Comment -
41. Tee
Come springtime, we put away the boots and shovels and GMC pickup, and take out summer clothes and garden tools and the little 32 mpg Hyundai.
February 25, 2012 - 9:09 am Link to this Comment -
42. hallmonitor
Its amazingly anti-technology, the Democratic party, except when it comes to Silicon Valley opening their wallets to their campaign coffers. Commercial aircraft and trucking, and also privately owned automobiles are quite able,they will be serving California well into the 30th century. Innovation and imagination will always figure out a better way to get folks from point A to B. The problems start when the politicians, contractors and unions start up to the conga line that lead to the taxpayers dollars. High Speed anything is a sham.Does anyone remember stopping and smelling the roses along the way?
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ALL of the biofuels are Solyndras in the growing.
They founder upon their absolute need for carbon dioxide at very high partial pressures. ( Most researchers are using nearly pure carbon dioxide 'climates' inside their photosynthetic converters.
And then, the very nature of photosynthesis is brutally feeble. If success is ever achieved the output ought to be sold as animal feed/ fish food. ( Now that would be worthwhile. )
As for your Thorium Dreams ™ you've never explained to the Belmont Club how atomic science WRT hot Fluorine can be rewritten.
It is fulsomely apparent that you don't comprehend the advantage current methods have: fuel pellets devastated by fission can be swapped out chronically. The abuse they absorb saves the containment system.
In your treasured cycle the fission reaction occurs right up to the edge of the first line of containment. In effect, the device is but one very big fuel pellet. After enough abuse the whole thing has to be tossed.
Stop posting these fantasies until someone, anyone, gets even one prototype to work — and to work economically.
BTW, I find it absolutely hilarious when posters project micro-nukes planted all over the landscape. What kind of politics is going to permit that? It answers itself!
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44. Charles
I'm no fan of Obama or his crony capital solar investments.
ALL of the biofuels are Solyndras in the growing.You want to be careful about substituting narrative for data. The US federal government is not an investor in Joule but — a Russian sovereign wealth fund is.
They founder upon their absolute need for carbon dioxide at very high partial pressures. ( Most researchers are using nearly pure carbon dioxide 'climates' inside their photosynthetic converters.Actually this is a great selling point of these technologies. Guess why? Think about it for a second. Here's another second. Yup you got it. there's lots of coal powered electrical plants around, and lots of cement plants around that produced loads of pure carbon dioxide that the greens just hate.
And then, the very nature of photosynthesis is brutally feeble. If success is ever achieved the output ought to be sold as animal feed/ fish food. ( Now that would be worthwhile. )The reason that I post about Joule–rather than dozens of other companies– is that they have solved the big technological problem that has stymied algae biofuel development. The cost of pulling the biofuel out of the algae and then refining it into a usuable fuel makes the algae oil cost prohibitive. The unique thing about Joule is that bacteria doesn't have to be harvested. The bacteria secretes the biofuel. Further the biofuel needs no further refinement before it can be put into the fuel tank.
As for your Thorium Dreams ™ you've never explained to the Belmont Club how atomic science WRT hot Fluorine can be rewritten.On this I feel for you. Its lousy to have history rewritten on you. Never the less, that's just what's happening.
Its being rewritten right now as we speak. If you'll do a google search on thorium news–you'll see new articles come out on it nearly every day. The rewriting of history has been going on for the last several years. I've posted several in depth videos on the subject but apparently you have not looked at them. Here, I'll try again.
Stop posting these fantasies until someone, anyone, gets even one prototype to work — and to work economically.Actually, that's part of the sales pitch of liquid-fluoride thorium reactors. The US military produced a working prototype more than half a century ago at the Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee. (I've also posted links to this several times but apparently you have not bothered to click on the links.) A lot of this history can now be found in wikipedia.
BTW, I find it absolutely hilarious when posters project micro-nukes planted all over the landscape. What kind of politics is going to permit that? It answers itself!The politics on this is already changing.
The obama administration has already the approved the first big nuke plant since the three mile island accident 30 years ago. The Germans are already backing off their plan to shut down their nuke plants.
Guess why.
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Regarding Germany shutting down their nukes…
There was an article recently that said Germany's huge installed base of solar panels is only producing electricity at about 5% of available capacity because of persistently overcast skies. Well, tie up my feet and call me "dogie"! The sun almost NEVER shines in northern Europe! Just what were they thinking when they instituted and maintained the insane policy of incentivizing solar?
Germany is a thousands-of-years-old society with a rich history and culture. Yet, somehow, they keep giving in to collective national insanity.
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In an MSR you reprocess the fuel as part of normal operation, recovering useful isotopes in the process. Fertile and fissionable isotopes stay in the fuel flow, so they aren't wasted. The thorium based fuel has advantages, but there are uranium based fuels too, they can be used to "burn" the spent nuclear fuel and depleted uranium we have massive stocks of, eliminating the nuclear waste issue. MSR are safe not because of multiple layers of defenses, but because of the physics, the fuel is they primary coolant, and if the salt overheats, it melts a safety plug and dumps itself into a cooling off tank.
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What our smartest-ever President and his clueless cronies don't seem to know is that oil traders are dealing in a commodity, and therefore deal in "futures."
If the virtual moratorium (in defiance of a federal court order) were lifted today, there would be a drop in oil prices today, and a drop in gasoline prices tomorrow or thereabouts. A decision to lift all irrational restricitons on domestic oil exploration and drill permits would then cause a significant — even dramatic — drop in oil and gasoline prices in fairly short order. The fact that it would take years for the new oil to come to market is not all that relevant to the commodities market.
It's also laughable to hear Obama cite "market forces" considering his hostility to real-world economics.
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49. Charles
Just like I figured. Fracking is pushing up recoverable reserves in old fields. Now Texas is talking about doubling oil ouput in five years.
DALLAS — The Permian Basin of West Texas is experiencing an oil boom, leading some of the region's top oilmen to predict that Texas oil production will double within five to seven years.Oil drillers over the last eight years have found that the dense oil rock of the basin surrounding Midland and Odessa responds well to hydraulic fracturing, releasing lush yields. Total oil production last year in Texas averaged more than 1 million barrels per day for the first time since 2001.
"Right in the basin, we could get up to 2 million barrels a day," Jim Henry of Midland-based Henry Resources told The Dallas Morning News for an article in its Sunday's edition.
"I've been totally surprised by the amount of oil we're finding out in the shale zones," Scott Sheffield, chairman and chief executive of Irving-based Pioneer Natural Resources Co., told the newspaper.
"We have 30 billion barrels of new oil discoveries," said Tim Leach, chairman and CEO of Midland-based Concho Resources. "It can be hard to get your mind around that.
"I could paint a scenario for you where we are producing 3 million more barrels per day by 2016, which would almost get us to the point where we could eliminate 60 to 70 percent of our OPEC imports," Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman told The News. "With that greater control over our own energy security, we could care less about what happens in the Strait of Hormuz."
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Creating Comics From Start to Finish
- Posted by Johanna on March 6, 2011 at 11:16 am
- Category: Books and Prose
- CREDITS: by Buddy Scalera
- PUBLISHER: Impact; $24.99 US
This how-to-create-comics book is definitely aimed at the old-school, "I wanna make superheroes" aspiring creator, from the big back-cover headline "You can work professionally in comics!" to the list of those interviewed, which includes Batman editor Mike Marts, Mark Waid, Darick Robertson, Joe Quesada, and Stan Lee.
The biggest giveaway, though, is how it's organized. The chapters are based on the traditional assembly-line corporate breakdown: writing, pencilling, inking, lettering, coloring, and most significantly, editing — which starts the book off, reminding readers that today's superhero comics are heavily editorial-driven.
That structure isn't a bad thing — there's always been an audience for this kind of material, those who love the comics they read and dream of working on their favorite superheroes in some way. I can't explain the creepy bondage girl on the cover, though, other than the idea that cleavage always attracts the superhero fanboys. And starting an introduction with a Matrix quote about the rabbit hole and learning the "real" story was terribly cliched, I thought.
The introduction does reiterate that a significant part of this book will be about different ways to break in — again, this is an old-fashioned approach, especially Buddy Scalera's lengthy autobiography section about all the work he did with Wizard magazine, now departed. That's the reasoning behind including the interviews, to share others' stories of how they built careers. It actually sounded like Scalera wanted to write more of that, less of the advice, but maybe it has to be positioned as a how-to in order to get published, even if that's rather misleading to the customer, since the book is more "here's what they did" than "here's what to do". The lessons imparted here are simple: be reliable, especially with schedules, and build connections.
The book feels to me like an instant time capsule of how things used to be. The modern way to build a career in comics is to make your own, self-publish or post them on the web, and drive your own future instead of waiting to be selected by an editor or company. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who still work this way and even more who dream of working this way, but it just seems so … irrelevant to all the comic creators I know and follow. That "on the wrong side of changing history" feel is reinforced by two things: the number of pro stories that involve "before the internet was as much a part of the process" (which couldn't be avoided, since Scalera was going for big, known names, which means lengthy careers) and the lack of any women mentioned.
There's very little art in this book, and much of what there is is from Scalera's self-published books, which will be unfamiliar to most readers. (The rest are a few photos of each person interviewed.) The bright yellow pages can be difficult to stick with over a long period, so don't plan to read the whole book at once. Missing details, like putting the chapter name in the otherwise blank page footer, make it difficult to navigate the book quickly or to find what you're looking for when you return to it later. Also tacky: the book references extras found at a companion website, but when you visit the link, all you get is a request to sign up for the publisher's newsletter.
A few chapters at the end of the volume cover bits'n'pieces. Seven pages are dedicated to alternative jobs, including internship, comic shop clerk, production, marketing, and "fan press". Quesada and Lee each get a chapter. (Their positions make them not very useful to advise aspiring pros, but the name value for sales to the intended audience is immense.) The very last chapter is actual advice on breaking in. The tips are good, and the cautionary tale of how easy it is to lose money self-publishing is a great object lesson.
Overall, I would have been much more interested in this book if it had more emphasis on the interviews with the focus of how comic craft has changed over the years due to technology, kind of a "then and now" comparison. As it is, I'm not sure there are enough positions left in this traditional assembly-line breakdown for the old-school fanboys who want to break in to make Creating Comics From Start to Finish relevant. (The publisher provided a review copy.)
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March 7, 2011 at 9:48 AMAnd what better way to reinforce that women have no place in comics but as scantily clad characters than by putting gratuitous T&A on the cover of a "how-to" book?

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John Hawkes is being tipped for nominations this coming awards season thanks to his performance as Mark O' Brien in The Sessions, which addresses the issue of sex surrogates.
Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy sat down to talk about their buzz-worthy film.
Macy said: "A guy named Mark O'Brien had polio, and he wrote some articles because he wanted to know what sex was.
"He wrote some articles and chronicled the whole thing. At the time, and there still is, a thing called sexual surrogates. It's for people with disability to teach them how to have sex, and sometimes to have sex. He comes to his priest, [played by] moi, and says, 'Can I do this?' Well, my priest says, 'yes.'"
Hawkes, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2011, talks about how he picked this film.
"I had some luck with Winter's Bone film, so I was sent scripts – a pretty hefty pile," he explained. "I wasn't quite used to that great opportunity coming my way. I read them. Some were good, some were bad, one was really amazingly excellent. That was this one.
"It was a role unlike any I had seen. It was a story told in a really concise and smart way. It was a very fraught situation and a character that could potentially be sentimental or self-pitying.
"The script has none of that. It had a great deal of humour. It just grabbed me and made me want to be part of it."
Hunt – who has already won an Oscar for her portrayal of a single mother with an asthmatic son in the romcom As Good as it Gets –, thinks that humour will help people get over the shock of seeing her full frontal nudity in this film, as she takes on the role of a sex surrogate.
"Well I think the script called for, and I wanted to, get naked right away so that was just done," she said. "Then whatever reaction people had they would have, then we can get on with the movie."
Hawkes explained how he prepared to play such a physically clanging role: "It was intense preparation and an intense hoot playing a character whose body is ravaged by polio.
"This is a real-life guy, there is footage of him in a great documentary by Jessica Yu called Breathing Lessons. That was a wonderful look."
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I was trying to come up with a dry stout that would have more chocolate flavor and less coffee flavor than most of the recipes i keep finding. I also wanted to try the simpsons extra dark crystal malt 165L because i never really see anyone using it. This is my first stout so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Boil Volume 5 gallons Batch Size 5 gallons OG 1.045 FG 1.011 IBU 32 ABV 4.4 % SRM 36 % Weight Weight (lbs) Grain Gravity Points Color 75.0 % 6.00 Light Malt Extract Syrup 40.8 2.4 6.3 % 0.50 British Crystal 135-165L 1.1 15.0 6.3 % 0.50 Roasted Barley 1.0 45.0 12.5 % 1.00 British Pale Chocolate 2.2 40.0 % Wt Weight (oz) Hop Form AA% time 50.0 % 1.00 East Kent Goldings Pellet 5.0 60min 50.0 % 1.00 East Kent Goldings Pellet 5.0 20min
Looks great! Commercial stouts that i enjoy and have chocolate notes on my palate tend to be sweeter and a little bigger bodied. So, three thoughts: 1. You don't mention yeast - a lesser attenuating variety will leave a little more sugar and accentuate the chocolate. Go to the White Labs site and it will give you the lowdown on all the varities. For example, you might consider WLP002 (english ale) instead of WLP004 (Irish ale) or WLP005 (British ale). 2. Use another pound of a lighter crystal malt, just for body. 3. Add a little lactose I think your recipe looks great as is - you just need to pick the right yeast for what you want! Good luck!


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Hillbilly Dream Catcher
Pair of girls panties and some beer, what more does a hillbilly need? OK fess up how many folks are now going to make one of these?
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What are some of the most imporant or basic vst's for starting to produce? i already use massive and izotope mastering vst but thats about it. suggestions?
What are some of the most imporant or basic vst's for starting to produce? i already use massive and izotope mastering vst but thats about it. suggestions?
no important or "basic" vsts really, get what you need!
but i dont know where to look or wich ones are good
if you have just started i would recomend using the ones you already have.
no point in splashing out on new ones if your learning. master the ones you have got first!
kvr and lots of other sites on the net with lots of free vsts and reviews on them - and you could always download demos of the pricey ones etc - just test lots of them and see what suits you best/whats needed in your productions.
hmm. quite right in some kinda way, but on the other hand: if theyre shit there isnt any use in mastering them..
A lot of people go for Massive, z3ta+, Sylenth. Great quality, flexible synths. Stay away from the likes of Nexus because they won't teach you anything, they just supply good quality sounds....
Read up on some articles on synthesis and read bits of the manual for whichever synth you really want to learn. It'll teach you much more than fiddling about will, and if you have a good knowledge of it, you can do anything with it!
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I like using filter plugins like fabfilter volcano 2 and have recently installed the vengeance philta that came with my CM dvd and it's fun to mess around with. check out camelphat aswell, quite a few people use this one and like others have said it really does help to read up on the basics of synthesis and stuff first
Usually i use IXL Spectral analyzer, Waves Req6, Psp Vintage Warmer and Breverb in my projects as a habit =]
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Just got predator. nice synth!
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A list of good stuff anyone doing dnb should have:
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This week we look through the camera at Porterdale Ga.
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Smiley's Family Restaurant in Porterdale closed down this week, and although owner Gwen Spears hopes to find a new location soon, she may have to relocate to another county.
Porterdale residents on Tuesday gave their approval by a vote of 115 to 5 to a $10,000 homestead exemption.
Party in the streets: It was an afternoon and evening of music and dance - The annual Yellow River Jam returned to Porterdale on Saturday. Five bands will perform throughout the day. They included Larry and Anita Denny, Donnie Long, True Gospel Church Band, Apostles of Bluegrass and Jordan Rager will sing country from 6-8 p.m.
It will be an afternoon of music and dance - The annual Yellow River Jam is returning to Porterdale on Saturday.
Porterdale residents are gearing up to clean rubbish from the Yellow River on Saturday.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell; one scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting and yet conjure up a childhood memory.
Burning leaves by the curb reminds of sweeping the yard all day with your mother and sisters. I am sure all of us did this, and while we did, we visited with neighbors and friends. We would talk and laugh while taking care of this chore. We knew all our neighbors and our parents knew all the children in the mill village. We all grew up together, attending the Porterdale schools.
Frankie's Blues Mission is set to perform a free concert at noon Thursday on the Historic Courthouse Square in Covington.
Porterdale Police Chief Wayne Digby announced his resignation Friday, effective Oct. 15, because he was insulted by the contract the city offered him and didn't want to be caught in the middle of a city council conflict.
I would like to start with a big thank you to all of you for the kind comments on my article. I'm so glad you enjoyed reading it, as I have had so much enjoyment writing about Porterdale. I have a funny story to start off with in this column.
Honoring the fallen: The Porterdale Fire Department adorned it's lawn with white crosses this week in remembrance of the New York City firefighters who perished in the World Trade Center towers.
Porterdale resident Nancy Naya has filed a letter of complaint against Porterdale City Councilman Robert Foxworth after he allegedly threatened her at a recent council meeting.
While Porterdale's work session on Thursday was business as usual, an eruption at the close of the meeting stirred emotions from a long brewing feud over the Community Assistance Relief Effort's ability to hold charitable events on city property and collect donations through residents' water bill.
Together again: Former and current Porterdale residents came together Saturday for the eighth annual Porterdale Reunion. Old photos and other memorabilia were on display, and residents and guests alike poured over them sharing stories. Copies of "Diary of a Cotton Mill Girl," written by Lucy Ivey Shaw, were available to buy, as were engraved bricks. There was also a bake sale, hosted by the Porterdale Woman's Club and a silent auction. Proceeds from all the sales will go toward renovating the Porterdale gym.
The Porterdale City Council held a work session on Thursday to discuss several items, two of which will be action items for the council's Sep. 13 meeting.
Porterdale is revved up and ready for the 2010 Porterdale Reunion. Each year since 2003, the City of Porterdale, The Porterdale Woman's Club and the Friends of Porterdale have sponsored this gathering, which has drawn in current and former Porterdale residents since the very first gathering.


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Orange Planet Book 1 and Male Harem Manga
Posted in Manga Reviews on May 3, 2009 by Johannaby Haruka Fukushima; adapted by Kaya Laterman
published by Del Rey Manga; $10.99 US
When I hear the term "harem manga", I think of one of those series where a goofy guy has his pick of zaftig girls. I'd never seen the opposite — but I may just not have been looking hard enough.
It seems that harem manga aimed at girls differs from that aimed at boys in three major ways:
There are fewer boys involved, usually 3, instead of a half-dozen or more girls.
There may be some plot beyond "falling in love", which is why they may not be immediately recognizable as part of this genre or only questionably so. Fruits Basket, for example, has the quest to break a mystical curse. Ouran High School Host Club features cross-dressing. The Wallflower has four guys trying to "reform" a goth horror fan.
And usually, there's a lot less obvious fan service. Guy characters their for the visuals don't thrust their crotches or chests at the viewer the way harem girls flash their panties and push out their breasts. Women don't walk in on men undressing nearly as often as guys do.
So why am I pondering this? Because that's the whole point of this book. Which of three boys will the orphaned Rui pick? Kaoru? She's got a crush on him, but he's fooling around with someone else. Neighbor Taro? They're such good friends that she crawls into bed with him without a second thought, but she only thinks of him as a friend. Or intern teacher Eisuke? He winds up living with her after another girl burns down his apartment.
I really don't care for the way Haruka Fukushima's characters look so very young. It made more sense in her earlier series, Instant Teen, but here, where the focus is romance instead of growing up, it's creepy. I guess a college student isn't THAT much older than a junior high girl (although a six-year difference is pretty big at that age), but I still don't want to see them flirting.
I also find her busy, overdone storytelling horrible. Often, I can't tell what's happened. In other cases where the visuals aren't clear, the writer covers the lack through dialogue or captions, but here, the text is generically boring.
The book is meant to be funny, but instead of laughing, it's so frantic that I felt nothing but tired after reading it. (A complimentary copy for this review was provided by the publisher.)
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Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 review
To understand how we go about the UK's most accurate and realistic anti-virus testing, read How We Test: Anti-virus software.
Kaspersky's Internet Security suite has won high accolades in previous years' tests, and nothing we've seen this year has cast a shadow on its outstanding performance. It defended against 100 per cent of malware threats, with the vast majority blocked at the browser.
Its performance in our false positive test was also good, with none of the twitchiness or over-sensitivity that we've seen from previous versions. Just 10 per cent of our tests (two applications) prompted warning pop-ups, both these were invariably unobtrusive toaster-style pop-ups from the notification area which recommended trusting the benign applications we'd exposed our PC to.
The interface has been updated from last year's darker colours to a light turquoise, white and green skin, with handy icons on the opening window providing access to core features, such as the on-demand scanner, manual signature update, and parental controls. Scrolling right allows you to view shortcuts to less critical features, including a virtualised sandbox for running risky or unknown programs, a monitoring tool for your local network and a virtual keyboard that guarantees malicious keyboard loggers can't steal your passwords for services such as online banking. The main settings menu provides control of core features such as email virus scanning and spam filtering and your firewall, as well as less critical features including a web ad banner blocker.
Kaspersky provides highly effective protection against malware, and no longer requires the level of fine-tuning that previous versions once did to prevent it from interfering with the day-to-day running of your computer.
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Brownies, Lightened Up
by Toby Amidor in Cookies & Other Desserts, Healthy Recipes, Kid-Friendly, February 7, 2011I'm a brownie kind of girl — my friends and family can vouch for me. Luckily, you can lighten up this uber-chocolatey favorite easily. What's the secret? Read on to find out.
The Nutrition Facts
Commercially-prepared brownies typically contain around 230 calories and 9 grams of fat each (for about 3 inches square). If you look at some store bought brands those numbers go up: Starbucks espresso brownies weigh in at 370 and 21 grams of fat, while their caramel variety has a whopping 580 calories and 36 grams of fat. The more gooey stuff you put on those brownies, the higher the calories go.
Go Simple
The goodness of brownies is all in the chocolate. So when you're looking for a recipe, choose ones that call for the basics: flour, butter, sugar, cocoa powder and/or chocolate. Skip recipes with extra heavy ingredients like heavy cream and corn syrup. If you find a very simple recipe, you'll find that it tastes even better than the boxed stuff where you're paying more for a laundry list of additives and preservatives.
The add-ins also rack up calories — and fast: Keep mix-ins like peanut butter, nuts, caramel, chocolate chips, toffee, marshmallows to a minimum. If you must have one, choose heart healthy nuts or natural peanut butter and halve or quarter the amount listed. If you're looking to enhance the flavor without calories, try espresso powder. It has minimal calories and a little goes a long way.
Cut The Fat
By popular demand, we've added some tips on how to cut fat (and add nutrition) to your favorite recipes. These swaps will make your finished product a cakier, still-delicious treat. Here are some easy ways to cut the fat in your favorite brownie recipe:
- Trade half the butter for pureed fruits such as bananas, pumpkin, prunes or apple butter, or nonfat plain yogurt.
- A half-cup of oil packs a whopping 960 calories, while applesauce has just 60 calories per half-cup, so replacing half the oil with applesauce can create huge fat and calorie savings.
- Replace each whole egg with two egg whites or 1/4 cup egg substitute.
- Get more fat-reduction ideas for all your baked goods >>
The Portions
Of course, controlling portions also helps you control calories. Prepare in mini muffin pans for perfectly portioned brownie bites or pre-slice into small (2-inch) cubes once the brownies have cooled. If you've made too much, freeze a batch for later (or share with friends or coworkers.)
Recipes to Try:
- Made Over Deep Dish Brownies
- Ellie Krieger's Double Chocolate Brownies
- Cheesecake Brownies
- Espresso Brownies
- Dark Chocolate Brownies
TELL US: How do you lighten up brownies?
Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian and consultant who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. See Toby's full bio »
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Len Deighton | |
Len Deighton (left) teaches Michael Caine how to break an egg on the set of The IPCRESS File.[1] | |
Born | Leonard Cyril Deighton 18 February 1929 Marylebone, London |
Occupation | Military historian, cookery writer, graphic artist, and novelist |
Len Deighton | |
Len Deighton (left) teaches Michael Caine how to break an egg on the set of The IPCRESS File.[1] | |
Born | Leonard Cyril Deighton 18 February 1929 Marylebone, London |
Occupation | Military historian, cookery writer, graphic artist, and novelist |
Leonard Cyril Deighton (/ˈdiːtən/; born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British military historian, cookery writer, graphic artist, and novelist. He is perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer.
Deighton was born in Marylebone, London, in 1929. His father was a chauffeur and mechanic, and his mother was a part-time cook. At the time they lived in Gloucester Place Mews[2][3] near Baker Street.[4]
Deighton's interest in spy stories may have been partially inspired by the arrest of Anna Wolkoff, which he witnessed as an 11-year-old boy. Wolkoff, a British subject of Russian descent, was a Nazi spy. She was detained on 20 May 1940 and subsequently convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act for attempting to pass secret documents to the Nazis.[5]
After leaving school, Deighton worked as a railway clerk before performing his National Service, which he spent as a photographer for the Royal Air Force's Special Investigation Branch. After discharge from the RAF, he studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London in 1949, and in 1952 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1955.[6] While he was at the RCA he became a "lifelong friend"[7] of fellow designer Raymond Hawkey, who later designed covers for his early books. Deighton then worked as an airline steward with BOAC. Before he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator in New York and, in 1960, as an art director in a now defunct London advertising agency, Sharps Advertising. He is credited with creating the first British cover for Kerouac's On the Road.[4] He has since used his drawing skills to illustrate a number of his own military history books.
Following the success of his first novels, Deighton became The Observer's cookery writer and produced illustrated cookbooks. In September 1967 he wrote an article in the Sunday Times Magazine about Operation Snowdrop - an SAS attack on Benghazi during World War II. The following year David Stirling would be awarded substantial damages in libel from the article.[8]
He also wrote travel guides and became travel editor of Playboy, before becoming a film producer. After producing a film adaption of his 1968 novel Only When I Larf, Deighton and photographer Brian Duffy bought the film rights to Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop's stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!. Deighton wrote the screenplay and was an uncredited producer [9] of the film but he had his name removed from the credits, however, a move that he later described as "stupid and infantile". That was his last involvement with the cinema.[4]
Deighton left England in 1969. He briefly resided in Blackrock, County Louth, in Ireland. He has not returned to England apart from some personal visits and very few media appearances, his last one since 1985 being a 2006 interview that formed part of a "Len Deighton Night" on BBC Four. He and his wife Ysabele divide their time between homes in Portugal and Guernsey.[10]
Several of Deighton's novels have been adapted as films. His first four novels featured an anonymous anti-hero, named "Harry Palmer" in the films and portrayed by Michael Caine. The first trilogy of his Bernard Samson novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988, shown only once, then withdrawn on instructions from Deighton.[citation needed] Quentin Tarantino has expressed interest in filming the trilogy.[11]
Deighton's 1970 World War II historical novel Bomber about an RAF Bomber Command raid over Germany often is considered his masterpiece. It was the first novel to be written on a word processor, the IBM MT/ST.[12] He reportedly began an unfinished Vietnam War novel, a portion of which appeared as the story First Base in his short story collection Declarations of War.
Deighton also published a series of cookery books and wrote and drew a weekly strip cartoon-style illustrated cooking guide in London's The Observer newspaper – Len Deighton's Cookstrip. At least one of the strips is pinned up in Deighton's spy hero's kitchen in the 1965 film of his novel The IPCRESS File.[1]
To exploit the success of Deighton's first four "Unnamed Hero" novels, he wrote Len Deighton's London Dossier (1967), a guide book to Swinging Sixties London with a "secret agent" theme – contributions from other writers are described as "surveillance reports".
Deighton's 1977 Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain was said by Albert Speer (once Hitler's Minister of Armaments) to be "an excellent, most thorough examination. I read page after page with fascination." The piece was furnished with a comment by A. J. P. Taylor simply saying: "Brilliant analysis."
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GPs can conduct a comprehensive health and lifestyle check designed to detect risks for many of the chronic conditions affecting older adults, such as type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and heart disease. They can then help patients to make the necessary lifestyle changes to prevent or delay the onset of chronic disease. To be eligible for the check, the doctor must identify at least one risk factor, such as unhealthy lifestyle, biomedical risk factors (high cholesterol or high blood pressure, say) or family history. About 90% of people in this age group have at least one risk factor.
A structured health assessment aimed at preventing or managing health issues and conditions, it also looks at factors that influence a person's physical, psychological and sociological functioning.
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However, screening is controversial, because the harms associated with treatment may outweigh the benefits of diagnosis – many men die with, rather than from, prostate cancer.
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) is a protein produced by the prostate gland, and higher than normal blood levels are found in men with prostate cancer. The test isn't fail-proof, but a rectal examination by a doctor will help increase the detection rate.
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Garcia's Seafood Grille & Fish Market, Miami
398 N.W. North River Drive
Miami , Florida
Tel: 305 375 0765
Miami , Florida
Tel: 305 375 0765
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Located on an out-of-the-way stretch of the Miami River (the reason even some longtime residents have never heard of this place), this very basic restaurant with an outdoor patio right on the river serves some of the freshest and most reasonably priced seafood in town. Dolphin sandwiches; grilled, fried, or blackened shrimp; and stone crabs are among the specialties. Go on a Sunday afternoon, when local families tend to congregate, and there's a lively feeling on the patio. That will help you pass the time while you wait for a table.
Lunch and dinner daily.