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At risk are ancient cork oak forests - one of the most important bio-gems in the world; a top ten global biodiversity hotspot; endangered species; centuries-old traditions; skilled workers. And, for millions of wine drinkers, the soul of the wine itself.
We are talking of course about natural cork.
Over the past 15 years, the rise of screw caps and plastic stoppers has meant that natural cork is under threat. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) if this trend continues, three quarters of the Western Mediterranean's cork oak forests could be lost within the next ten to fifteen years.
How can I help?
By taking these small steps, you are helping to support natural cork:
If natural cork is no longer used in wine, this flow of revenue would stop supporting these rural communities, forest workers and property owners therefore risking the balance that has kept this bio-gem alive for so long.
We've highlighted the top ten reasons to choose wine with a natural cork stopper over artificial closures:
Natural cork is a truly sustainable product - 100% natural, renewable and recyclable.
Not a single tree is felled in the production of cork stoppers. In fact, the bark of the cork oak tree is harvested after 25 years and then once every nine years thereafter. The sustainability of cork closure production has been recognised by leading NGOs and auditing firms around the world, even having achieved accreditation from the Forestry Stewardship Council, providing independent reassurance that forests are responsibly managed to guarantee the long term protection of delicate ecosystems and habitats.
Literally all of the cork bark is used in the production of cork. Cork waste generated in the production process is granulated and returned into the process to make more corks. Even the fine particles of cork dust are collected and used as fuel to heat the factory boilers.
Analysis by PwC in 2008 found that the production of some alternative stoppers emits as much as 24 times more CO2 than the production of cork stoppers.
Overall, the analysis found that when comparing the total lifecycle environmental impact across all closure types, from production through to disposal, cork stoppers performed best. Artificial stoppers performed badly against cork stoppers in terms of non-renewable energy consumption, emission of greenhouse effect gases, contribution to atmospheric acidification, contribution to the formation of photochemical oxidants, contribution to the eutrophication of surface water and total production of solid waste.
Natural cork actively helps to prevent global warming with cork oak trees absorbing over 10 million tonnes of CO2 each year.
The cork forests are home to 24 species of reptiles and amphibians, 100 bird species and 37 mammal species, some of which are endangered. Per one thousand square metres of cork forest, there are approximately 135 species of plant and many of these species have aromatic, culinary or medicinal uses.
Letting wine breathe and mature naturally is vital to ensure the final taste and experience is the best it can be, as intended by the winemaker. Cork closures provide the perfect balance of letting in a micro-amount of oxygen sufficient to enable the wine to develop and mature. Artificial stoppers oscillate between letting too much air into the bottle, leading to oxidation (as in the case of plastic stoppers) and screw caps have been identified as being too tight a seal, letting in too little oxygen and causing reduced flavours in the wine.
Cork is a "natural born sealer". Its natural elasticity, impermeability, moisture resistance as well as its insulation properties and lightness of weight, make it a perfect material to seal wine which can be enjoyed for years.
In 1870 The French Benedictine monk, Dom Pierre Pérignon, was trying to find a new sealing solution to replace using wooden bungs wrapped in hemp to seal bottles of his sparkling wine (Champagne). In 1680, he successfully used cork. Since then the finest wines and champagne houses have continued to trust in natural cork. If it's good enough for the best, why settle for anything less?
You've finished a bottle of cork closed wine...
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What happens to the natural cork when it is recycled?
As Royal Wedding fever sweeps the nation, join the celebrations for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton by cracking a bottle of the finest Champagne. New Pop'n'Fizz is our free, simple and fun app which lets you pop a cork to the happy couple without ever even having to buy a bottle.
Simply ease open the bottle by wiggling and inching the cork with your thumb and await the celebratory pop of the natural cork, accompanied by bubbles and explosive fizz! Pop to the Royal couple, pop to yourself or pop to friends - it's cork, it's natural and it's made for popping.
Apple iPhone users can find the app on the app store, while Android users with HTC, Palm Pre or Nokia devices can find the app on the Android Marketplace:
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Natural cork in your wine bottle does more than just preserve and improve the quality and character of your wine. It preserves a centuries-long way of life in the rural communities of the Mediterranean cork oak forests, its incredible wildlife as well as the planet by absorbing CO2.
On the other hand artificial plastic stoppers or screw caps use at least five times more energy per tonne to produce, before millions of them potentially end up in our landfills and oceans.
It seems like a little thing, but demanding natural cork is something we can all do. Natural cork is the environmental choice. Support natural cork TODAY by signing this pledge
I, the undersigned, pledge to choose more wines which use natural cork. I recognise that artificial wine stoppers use at least five times more energy per tonne to produce, before millions of them potentially end up in our oceans and landfills. I also recognise that it's hard for me to tell which wines use natural cork and I want retailers, wine producers and cork producers to do more to help me choose it. It's time for wine to get back to its roots.
Why nothing beats the pop of a natural cork, by Cate Devine of the Glasgow Herald
Have you recently bought wine with an artificial plastic stopper or an aluminium screw cap? Or do you know a winery or retailer that uses 100% natural cork? Let other cork lovers know about it.


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Jared Harris is among a few more actors added to the cast of the Poltergeist reboot. He's signed on to play a "larger than life TV personality who left the world of academia behind to become the star host of basic cable TV show, Haunted House Cleaners." Details are scarce beyond that, but it's probably safe to assume that he's a bit of a charlatan who finds himself in over his head when he takes on the case of the Bowen family. Think of the larger than life TV host he played in Mr. Deeds. Now think of that character fighting a clown doll.
No word yet if the film will feature the Tangina character made famous by Zelda Rubenstein, but if so those will be difficult shoes to fill. Hollywood is really lacking for creepy, small women nowadays. (Deadline)
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In a 2003 interview with The New York Times, Murdoch was asked whether Sky News had begun to imitate Fox News.
My first reaction upon finishing it was to imitate the unsinkable Ursula and begin all over again.
Plus, as with any business venture, an early success story sparks a glut of wide-eyed hopefuls hoping to imitate that victory.
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Sandra Day O'Connor: Chief Diplomat
It looks like Justice O'Connor is not going to slow down much in retirement. As this article notes, she spent last week attending a conference of the Central and Eastern European Legal Initative (CEELI) in Istanbul. Apparently, Justice O'Connor is passionate about building and promoting independent judiciaries in the former Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union. Interestingly, she herself apparently first gained notice from former Chief Justice Burger by attending an international conference in the UK way back when. So the Court is not only losing an associate justice, but probably its "Chief Diplomat" as well.


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By Steve Calde, Supervising Designer, Alan Cooper, President – August 1, 2000
Disclaimer: Please note that this edition was written in 2000. Therefore, statements in the articles, particularly those regarding SAP's products, product strategy, branding strategy, and organizational structure, may no longer be valid.
Founded in 1992 by Alan Cooper, the world's foremost interaction design expert and the "father of Visual Basic," Cooper Interaction Design is dedicated to designing digital products, services, and appliances that bring power and pleasure to the people who use them. During an ongoing partnership with SAP, Cooper has applied its Goal-Directed® design methodology – which puts customers' goals first – to several SAP web and desktop products and services.
A portal is a gateway to another place: by definition, a portal is not a destination, but a doorway to a destination. In the world wide web, a good portal is really a collection of personalized gateways to other places. It should display several important doorways, and offer a view into each one. If the user wants more than just a view, he can walk through the doorway and into a room dedicated to that particular information. There is great power in this concept of displaying an integrated view of useful information.
Many self-proclaimed portals on the web, however, bend rather far from this basic definition. Consumer portals, such as Yahoo! and MSN.com, want customers to stick around as long as possible before moving through their gateway into another place (the more banner ads seen, the better). Their pages are busy and filled with deep hierarchies of navigation. Each subsection and link, like fishing lures, are designed to grab different kinds of people in the general consumer market, and keep them at the site for a while.
At the other end of the spectrum are pure search engine portals, like Google, designed strictly for keyword-based searching. As a single-purpose portal, Google does a nice job of translating keyword input into a list of matching URLs, but doesn't provide any useful content of its own. It's an extremely helpful assistant, but only when asked a direct question.
In between the extremes of simple, but silent, Google and rich, but noisy, Yahoo! are hundreds of other consumer portals, industry-specific portals, and search portals.
Where does MySap.com fit in this world of portals? As an industry-specific portal, MySap.com doesn't have the same agenda for stickiness as a consumer portal does. What makes MySap.com unique is its ability to be a productivity portal; that is, by being able to tie into a customer's specific productivity software, MySap.com can deliver a higher level of integration and personalization for employees who use SAP applications. Instead of only providing doorways into general and company content areas, it can provide doorways-and views through those doorways-into work applications as well.
MySap.com makes it possible to take a virtual coffee break without disconnecting a worker from his productivity software. Employees have a hard time explaining that they missed an important event displayed in their work application because they were checking the weather report.
At Cooper, we frame every design decision we make in terms of user's goals. There is something inherently Goal-Directed® about a portal in that it provides a user with information that interests her; it's personal. Phil in sales may want to see summary information about his company's inventory levels for winter coats, while Mary in finance wants to see a running total of outstanding check requests that she still needs to process. A customizable portal allows for this personalization, and doesn't force Phil to see Mary's check information. By integrating information available on the Internet with this very company-specific information, users can have even more power: imagine if next to his inventory for winter coats, Phil could see weather information for his sales regions? Now, he has at-a-glance information that can help make important decisions. If a cold front is moving into his sales region, he can see whether or not he should move more inventory there.
When Cooper does a design project, we interview actual and potential customers of the digital service, appliance, or product that we are designing, and create user archetypes, called personas, based on the information we learn. The personas become design targets for us, and each one has a set of specific goals. Without going through our normal process of interviewing users, we can still extract some general goals for an employee who will use a productivity portal.
We'll call him Henry, a call center supervisor in the customer support division of a large electronics company that sells high-speed modems to consumers. Henry keeps tabs on how fast his department answers and processes a phone call, deals with escalations, and occasionally answers calls himself when things get busy. Henry's goals are:
To meet Henry's goals, a good portal needs to contain good content, be easily customizable, and provide an integrated experience.
Good content is vital to a good portal, no matter how clean and intuitive the interaction is.
A portal must not only contain useful content, but useful content that is easily digestible. That is, it needs to be information that can be absorbed at a glance. If the customer wants to see more information, he goes through the doorway to a room dedicated to that information. Showing too much content for a particular topic, or too many topics, makes the site too noisy and overwhelming, and information becomes a distraction rather than a benefit.
You will notice that none of Henry's goals includes, "manage my portal." Henry doesn't want to spend his time (especially if he is taking a quick break from his normal productivity tasks) configuring his information, pressing Submit buttons, or waiting for his browser to reload.
Automatically remember the changes Henry makes so he doesn't have to make them again. When possible, push new information to him based on the detailed information he digs for in the room dedicated for a particular type of content. For example, if Henry goes to the weather page from his weather section in the portal and searches for the weather in Frankfurt, assume that next time he logs on he might want to automatically have that city added to his weather area.
To be usable, a portal must give Henry a cohesive, integrated customer experience. There should be no navigational hierarchies; there is the main portal page, and all links take Henry out of the portal and into an application or page dedicated to information represented by the link. If searching is an appropriate tool for Henry's portal, then the search input field should be directly accessible, and not buried on an "advanced search" page.
A portal with easy-to-learn interaction, rich content that can be easily personalized, and minimal navigation requirements can truly bring power and pleasure to the people who use it. It doesn't take a lot of bad decisions, however, to create a portal that overwhelms and frustrates the people whom it is trying to help.
Cooper is a strategic consulting firm that is passionate about making technology work for a living. Cooper believes that the best solutions are born when customer goals, not technology, drive the development process. Using its unique Goal-Directed® approach, Cooper helps digital businesses develop customer-friendly products, services and strategies that capture market share and build brand loyalty. For more information about Cooper Interaction Design, please visit our web site at www.cooper.com.
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Lindsey Devine has gotten a good taste of youth volleyball with an international flavor this summer.
East Tennessee State's head coach just returned from working with a USA Volleyball national team of girls ages 14-16, helping in the selection process at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and then traveling to Italy and Croatia for competition. She was impressed by most everything she saw along the way.
"It was a great experience, both culturally and from the perspective of coaching players at that level of competition," said Devine. "The international game is a lot different, and I don't think young players in the U.S., unless they play on these national teams, understand how fast the game is, how fundamentally strong it is.
"This was really an eye-opening experience for a lot of people."
Twenty-five players from around the country were invited to Colorado Springs for tryouts, and 12 were ultimately chosen — five from California — for the national team, which would compete at two international tournaments. The first was the European Global Challenge in Croatia, where Devine was involved, and the second is a NORCECA event next month in Mexico.
Devine was an assistant to former Ohio State coach Jim Stone, who is revered in the volleyball business for his success at all levels of competition.
"He's a very gifted coach," said Devine, "and since he finished up at Ohio State, he's been on many world championship teams at various levels. To be able to get our players to buy into a system in such a short time takes a great gift. He's just really passionate about volleyball."
The U.S. team flew into Venice for five days of training in Italy in early July before heading to Pula, Croatia, for the Global Challenge. They played eight tournament matches there and finished fourth in a 12-team field.
Russia ran through the field unde feated, beating Slovenia in the final.
The trip began on an ominous note for the Americans.
"We flew in and were expected to play our first match that night against the Italian youth national team," said Devine. "They had been practicing for two to four weeks already. We're tired and hadn't even come together as a team yet. Most of these girls had seen each other across the net in club matches but never played as a unit — and it was evident."
Devine said her group was treated royally during its stay in Italy.
"They did a fantastic job of hosting," she said, "and a great job of advertising and promoting the events. With the U.S. coming to play, that was a big deal to them."
Devine hopes to translate some of her experience abroad into her program at ETSU.
"I believe we're doing what we need to do here," she said, "but now I can see even better how much benefit it is if you're an aggressive serving team that is able to pass the ball and get first kills. We have to make sure that in practice situations we're working on those skills over and over."
Devine's players will report to camp to begin preparations for a new season on Aug. 7.
"I'm totally motivated," she said.


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Neverwinter Nights Linux Client ReleasedMarch 20th, 2003 by michael
Bioware has released the Neverwinter Nights Linux Client Beta. Apparently you have to login to their community site to get it. From the announcement:
Important Notes Before You Begin
There are 2 things you will need in order to use Neverwinter Nights Linux Client, aside from downloading the Linux Client binaries:
1. The game resources (from an existing Windows installation)
2. A CD-Key
You will need to get the Neverwinter Nights game resouces from an existing Windows installation of the 1.29 build of Neverwinter Nights. Why must it be this way, you ask? It is because there is no feasable way to get the game resources from the InstallShield cabinet files on the Windows version CDs. Currently the NWN Linux Client supports English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
You will have to purchase a copy of the game to get a valid Neverwinter Nights CD-Key. Of course, with this purchase you also get a lovely Neverwinter Nights mapkin, a spiral-bound game manual, and three plastic-coated aluminum-reinforced W1nd0z3 brand coasters.
A later update noted:
- The Neverwinter Nights Linux Client Public Beta is now open. The Linux Forum can be used to discuss the Linux Client, however do not post bugs in that forum. To report bugs, send a detailed bug description to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- We will be releasing updated Beta versions with fixes – check back often.
- Server browsing and chat are disabled in Beta 1 and will be available in the next Beta release.
Update: A poster to Slashdot.org noted that you can get the binary directly here.
Update: Jeff Ryden pointed out this installer to get the data off of Win32 Neverwinter Nights discs.


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Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa each scored twice in leading the Chicago Blackhawks to an 8-1 rout of the Dallas Stars on Saturday night. Nick Leddy and Patrick Kane each had a goal and two assists as eight Blackhawks scored two or more points and Chicago boosted its road record to 12-1-2 with a dominant win on the second stop of a four-game road trip. Corey Crawford made 18 saves for his 13th victory. Johnny Oduya and Duncan Keith had the Blackhawks' other goals. Trevor Daley scored for the Stars, who have been outscored 16-3 in losing four straight (0-3-1). The Stars will play nine of their next 11 at home, where they have lost three in a row and are 2-5-1 in their last nine.
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I just rebooted into Linux from Windows and got an error message that there
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Wise Water Use
In this Section:
- Introduction
- Sustaining Our Water Supply
- Sustaining Our Infrastructure
- The Municipal Challenge
- Individual Action – Conserving Water in the Home, Community and at Work
- The Bottom Line
The importance of protecting our water resource cannot be overstated. In economic terms, the measurable contribution of water to the Canadian economy is difficult to estimate. In environmental terms, water is the lifeblood of the planet. Without a steady supply of clean, fresh water, all life, including human, would cease to exist.
The perception that Canada is blessed with an abundance of fresh water has led to misuse and abuse of the resource: from household toilets that use 20 litres per flush where 6 litres would do, to industrial plants -- and some municipalities -- that use water bodies as convenient sewers.
The quantity, quality and economic problems we face as a result of our use of water are complex but, at least one of the causes of these problems is easy to manage -- the way we waste water. And, the solution is straight forward -- water conservation. Simply stated, water conservation means doing the same with less, by using water more efficiently or reducing where appropriate, in order to protect the resource now, and for the future. Using water wisely will reduce pollution and health risks, lower water costs, and extend the useful life of existing supply and waste treatment facilities.
And it's easy. With little change to the way we do things now, or the equipment we use, we can reduce water consumption in the home, and in business, by 40% or more. These pages outline the role of water conservation in addressing problems related to water use and water quality. It also shows us what part we can play as residential consumers in finding solutions.
Sustaining our Water Supply
Water is considered a renewable resource: "renewable" referring to that portion which circulates back and forth in the hydrologic cycle. However, pressures on the resource are growing. For example, between 1972 and 1996, Canada's rate of water withdrawals increased by almost 90%, from 24 billion m3/yr (cubic metres per year) to 45 billion m3/yr. But, our population increased by only 33.6% over the same period, illustrating the growth in our thirsty lifestyles. As the readily available supplies of fresh water are being used up, we begin to see that there are real limits to how much water we can count on.
Limiting factors
- Although Canada has a significant amount of fresh water, we possess only 7% of the world's renewable freshwater supply.
- In Canada, 84% of the population lives in a narrow southern band, while 60% of our water supply flows north to the Arctic Circle.
- Our growing population, and our growing thirst for water, are being concentrated in expanding metropolitan areas, and are forcing water regulators and policy makers to find ways to stretch available supplies even further.
- Increasing pollution of surface and groundwater is further reducing the supplies of readily available, clean water.
- Because our water use almost always leads to some degree of deterioration in water quality, the less water we withdraw, the less we upset the natural balance of our aquatic ecosystems. And, the less we upset the ecosystem, the less we have to spend to restore the water quality to an acceptable standard for public use.
- Finally, financing by municipal governments for the treatment of water supplies and wastewater is becoming increasingly constrained.
We take our water for granted
Because we undervalue this precious resource, we tend to overuse it and, in fact, abuse it. The apparent abundance of water is deceptive, and the capacity of our lakes and rivers -- and even of the oceans -- to purify the wastes we dump into them is much more limited than we once thought it was. There is a price for it: billions and billions of dollars to clean up or prevent pollution. It is becoming abundantly clear that water is not a free good. Sooner or later it presents us with a bill: the price of neglect. In many cases we pay less than the actual cost of processing and delivery. For example, irrigation water charges only recover about 10% of the actual costs of the service. The same is true, to a less extreme extent, for water costs to householders.
Our overuse of water begins at home. Compared to other countries, we pay very little to have water delivered to our kitchen and bathroom faucets.
The illustration shows typical municipal water prices per cubic metre in a number of countries around the world. All amounts are based on a 1998 survey of OECD countries and are calculated using a purchasing power parity method. The figures do not include the cost of waste treatment. Canada: $0.31 Spain: $0.47 United States: $0.40-$0.80 Ireland: $0.61 Sweden: $0.69 Italy: $0.70 Finland: $0.77 United Kingdom: $1.28 Netherlands: $1.30 France: $1.35 Belgium: $1.55 Germany: $2.16 Source: World Commission on Water for the 21st Century, 1999. "The Poor Pay Much More for Water... Use Much Less - Often Contaminated." (www.worldcouncil.org). Note: The World Water Commission is assembling its data from a wide variety of sources, including its own research, World Bank reports, UN data, private sector surveys, non-governmental organizations and other Internet sources. The findings are preliminary rather than definitive, but do show trends
Source: World Commission on Water for the 21st Century, 1999. "The Poor Pay Much More for Water... Use Much Less - Often Contaminated." (www.worldcouncil.org).
Note: The World Water Commission is assembling its data from a wide variety of sources, including its own research, World Bank reports, UN data, private sector surveys, non-governmental organizations and other Internet sources. The findings are preliminary rather than definitive, but do show trends.
Nevertheless, we use more water per person than most other countries.
The illustration shows that the average daily domestic water use per capita is 380 litres in the United States, 329 litres in Canada, 250 litres in Italy, 200 litres in Sweden, 150 litres in France, and 135 litres in Israel. Note: Definitions and estimation methods employed by these countries may vary considerably and may change over time making water use comparison difficult
Note: Definitions and estimation methods employed by these countries may vary considerably and may change over time making water use comparison difficult.
We can, however, make a significant contribution to solving these problems by reducing unnecessary levels of water use. To do so requires that we identify the areas within our homes, businesses, buildings and processes where we waste water and then make appropriate changes, either in our fixtures, or in our water-using habits.
Sustaining our Infrastructure
While many communities have access to an abundant water supply, the costs of the infrastructure that provides homes and industry with water and sewer services are straining the available municipal financial resources.
By infrastructure, we mean the water treatment plants that purify our water, the water mains in the ground that transport water, and the towers and reservoirs that store water. The term includes the sewer pipes that carry away wastewater and the sewage treatment plants that treat wastewater before returning it to the environment where it often becomes the source of water for communities downstream. This figure illustrates municipal water supply and sewage treatment:
The illustration shows the municipal water supply and treatment system in which water is taken from a lake or river into the water purification plant and delivered to homes, industries, and buildings. The waste water is then piped to the sewage treatment plant after which it flows out into the lake or river
Experts are predicting a growing problem involving municipal water and sewer infrastructure in Canada. In 1991, the value of this investment was estimated to be worth over 90 billion dollars, of which a significant amount is deteriorating with age.
An increasing number of Canadian municipalities are considering water conservation as the key to keeping expansion needs to a minimum. Water conservation also optimizes plant efficiency, while assisting municipalities in financing the replacement of infrastructure that may be over 50 years old in some communities and up to 100 years old in several others.
Communities with older systems in need of extensive repairs or replacement face the most difficult problems. With all levels of government adopting policies of realistic water pricing and user pay principles, many municipalities have instituted full cost pricing to recover the total cost of providing both water and sewer services -- including the costs of financing the replacement of older systems and the upgrading of overloaded treatment plants. Higher municipal costs, in turn, mean higher water -- and sewer -- bills.
The problem of stressed treatment systems is not restricted to communities with piped water and sewer systems. Over the past 25 years, there has been a substantial migration of urban dwellers to the countryside. City-bred water using habits and attitudes are, in many instances, lowering the water table. And, the flood of wastewater produced is stressing the soil's ability to treat septic effluent adequately.
For both urban and rural communities, water conservation can extend the life of this over-stressed infrastructure.
Tied to price increases, metered households generally show reductions in water use, with the greatest savings occurring during the summer months, when water use is usually much higher due to frequency of lawn watering, car washing and other outdoor uses. In 1999, water use was 70% higher when consumers faced flat rates rather than volume-based rates. And yet, only about 56% of Canada's urban population was metered in 1999.
Metering of industry has been common for some time. What's new is the metering of the return flow to the sewer system, particularly as it relates to the industrial sector. Case studies show that including sewage treatment in rate calculations generates greater water savings. An increasing number of municipalities are applying sewer surcharges to residential water bills.
Water efficient residential technology
More than half of municipal water is used by the residential sector.
As a consequence, the residential sector represents a logical target for demand management activities. Depending on the nature of the water efficiency program developed, each household can reduce water use by 40% or more.
Leak detection and repair
Up to 30% of the total water entering supply-line systems is lost to leaking pipes.
In most cases, if unaccounted for water in a municipal system exceeds 10 to 15%, a leak detection and repair program is cost-effective. For example, studies have shown that for every $1.00 spent in communities with leak detection programs, up to $3.00 can be saved.
Rates, pricing and public education
About 55% of Canadians served municipal water pay in ways that do not promote conservation. A 2001 study of rate structures by Environment Canada showed that in 1999, 43% of the population was under a flat rate structure (where the charge or assessment is fixed, regardless of the amount of water used). Another 12% were under a declining block rate structure (where the consumer's bill rises at a slower rate as higher volumes of water are used); i.e., the more you use, the less you pay per unit.
Only about 45% of the population served was found to be under a rate structure that provided a definite incentive to conserve water: 36% were under a constant rate structure (where the bill to the consumer climbs uniformly with the volume used); and 9% were under an increasing block rate structure (where a successively higher price is changed as larger volumes of water are used).
Introducing conservation-oriented pricing or raising the price has reduced water use in some jurisdictions, but it must be accompanied by a well articulated public education program that informs the consumer what to expect.
The Municipal Challenge
Municipal governments across Canada are beginning to take action to manage the demand for water, instead of seeking new sources of supply. Demand management, incorporating water efficient applications, is rapidly gaining popularity as a low cost, effective way to get more service out of existing systems, thus delaying or deferring the need for constructing new works. The benefits of water efficient techniques apply equally well to rural, private wells and septic disposal systems, as they do to central water and sewer systems in the city.
The wide range of water efficiency initiatives currently being undertaken, can be grouped under four principal categories:
Most of these water conservation activities fall within the jurisdiction of municipal governments and/or public utilities.
- metering
- water recycling systems
- wastewater re-use
- flow control devices
- distribution system pressure reduction
- water saving devices (efficient fixtures, appliances and retrofits)
- drought resistant landscaping (xeriscaping)
- efficient sprinkling/irrigation technology
- new process technologies
- plant improvements
- leak detection and repair
- water use restrictions
- elimination of combined sanitary/storm sewers to reduce loadings on sewage treatment plants
- plant improvements
- rate structures
- pricing policies
- incentives through rebates and tax credits
- other sanctions (fines)
- public education
- information transfer and training
- regulatory (legislation, codes, standards and by-laws)
As we have seen, water quality and quantity are two sides of the same coin. How does saving water help water quality? Because water saved is water that does not end up in the wastewater stream requiring treatment. This, in turn, reduces municipal pumping and treatment costs and frees up monies that can be used for infrastructure renewal and replacement and protection of supply sources. Less wastewater in the sewage treatment plant also means that the plant has a better chance of doing the job it was intended to do.
Individual Action -- Conserving Water in the Home, Community and at Work
In the home
So where do we start? The first step is to identify where we use water in the home. Then we need to decide on what to do to reduce the amount of water we use, either by eliminating wasteful practices and habits, or by improving the efficiency of our water using fixtures and devices. Since we waste so much, this should be a relatively easy and painless process. The prime area to target is the bathroom, where nearly 65% of all indoor water use occurs.
Water use in the home The illustration shows how water is used in the home: showers and baths: 35 percent toilet flushing: 30 percent laundry: 20 percent kitchen and drinking: 10 percent cleaning: 5 percent.
At work and in the community
Many of the suggestions made for reducing water use in the home have wider application, both in the workplace, and in the community at large. Low-flow equipment are available for most commercial and toilet applications, instituting them may mean taking a leading role yourself, for example, forming and leading a committee that would address the following questions:
- do your workplace bathrooms, kitchens, etc. have water-efficient toilets, faucets, etc. similar to those discussed for the household?
- if your workplace uses water in its production process or for washing goods or equipment, is this being done efficiently?
- does your community have a water-efficiency assistance program that helps households and business improve their water-use efficiency?
- is the water distribution system properly maintained so that no pollution leaks into it and so that no water is wasted through leaky mains?
What follows are some suggestions for how to get your house or business in order. Based on the three rules of water conservation -- reduce, repair and retrofit -- a typical household can reduce water consumption by 40% or more, with or no effect on lifestyle.
Much of the water "consumed" in our daily activities is simply wasted. Taps are left running while we brush our teeth. Dishwashers and laundry machines are operated without full loads. Really, everywhere we use water there is room for improvement. Here are just a few examples for both indoor and outdoor water use.
- Don't use the toilet as a wastebasket or flush it unnecessarily.
- Take short showers -- five minutes or less should do. If you prefer baths, fill the tub only one-quarter full.
- Keep a bottle of drinking water in the refridgerator rather than letting your tap run to get cold water when you want a drink. (Rinse the bottle every few days.)
- More than 50% of the water applied to lawns and gardens is lost due to evaporation, or run-off because of overwatering. Find out how much water your lawn really needs. As a general rule, most lawns and gardens require little more than 2 to 3 centimeters (1 inch) of water per week.
- To reduce loses due to evaporation, water early in the morning (after the dew has dried).
- Watering off-peak helps the utility manage its load on the system and helps ensure adequate reservoir levels and water pressure for possible fire emergencies.
- When washing a car, fill a bucket with water and use a sponge. This can save about 300 litres of water.
Leaks can be costly. A leak of only one drop per second wastes about 10 000 litres of water per year. Most leaks are easy to find and to fix, at very little cost.
Making repairs – saving money The illustration shows someone about to install a new washer in a leaking faucet.
- Leaking faucets are often caused by a worn out washer that costs pennies to replace. Most hardware stores will have faucet repair kits with illustrations showing how to replace a washer.
- A toilet that continues to run after flushing, if the leak is large enough, can waste up to 200 000 litres of water in a single year! To find out if your toilet is leaking, put two or three drops of food colouring in the tank at the back of the toilet. Wait a few minutes. If the colour shows up in the bowl, there's a leak.
- Toilet leaks are often due to a flush valve or flapper valve that isn't sitting properly in the valve seat, bent or misaligned flush valve lift wires, or a corroded valve seat. All of these can be fixed easily and inexpensively. To get at the valve seat, which surrounds the outlet hole at the bottom of the tank, you must first empty the tank. This is accomplished by turning off the inlet tap under the tank and flushing the toilet, making sure to keep depressing the flush lever until no more water drains out of the tank. Then, holding the valve out of the way, sand the corroded or warped valve seat smooth with a piece of emery cloth, if, however, the leak is around the base of the toilet where it sits on the floor, call a professional.
Inside the toilet tank A cutaway illustration of the inside of a toilet tank showing the flush lever, float ball, overflow tube, flapper valve, valve seat, lift wire, and ballcock
Retrofit means adapting or replacing an older water-using fixture or appliance with one of the many water-efficient devices now on the market. While these solutions cost more, they also save the most water and money. Retrofitting offers considerable water saving potential in the home and business.
Toilet retrofits
When it comes to retrofitting, the prime fixture to target is the toilet. You can: i) adapt your existing toilet in a number of ways, by installing certain water-saving devices inside the tank at the back of the toilet; or, ii) if the toilet is more than fifteen years old -- which means it probably uses about 18 or more litres of water per flush -- you can replace it with one of the growing number of ultra-low-volume (ULV) toilets, that can be ordered from most plumbing outlets, and use only 6 litres or less per flush.
There are many toilet adaptations you can install in the tank of an existing toilet to reduce the amount of water used in a flush cycle. These devices fall into three generic categories:
- water retention devices;
- water displacement devices; and,
- alternate flushing devices.
The most common water retention device available is the toilet dam. A set will save about 5 litres per flush when installed properly. Their main attraction is their low cost (under $10.00 per set) and the fact that they are easy to distribute and install for example, as part of a wider municipally-sponsored retrofit program. Their main disadvantage is that they tend to leak over time by slipping out of adjustment and can slip free and interfere with the moving parts inside the toilet tank, if not routinely checked.
Toilet dam and displacement bag The illustration shows two different way to reduce the refill volume after each toilet flush. It shows how a toilet dam and a displacement bag are positioned in the toilet tank so that they increase the amount of water that remains in the toilet tank when it is flushed
The water displacement devices familiar to most people are the plastic bags or bottles filled with water which are suspended inside the toilet tank. As the name implies, these devices displace several litres of water, saving an equivalent amount during each flush. Like the toilet dam, most displacement devices are inexpensive and easy to install. Their chief disadvantage is that they don't save as much water as other devices and, if they are not installed carefully, they can interfere with the proper operation of the toilet.
One displacement device to stay away from is the brick! It can disintegrate inside the toilet tank, leading to excessive leakage at the flapper valve and may even be heavy enough to actually crack the tank.
There are essentially two types of alternative flush devices: early-closure and dual-flush. They are usually attached to the overflow tube inside the toilet tank. In both cases, they close the flush valve or flapper after the tank is only partially emptied. In theory, this interruption in the flush cycle occurs after the bowl has been cleared. In the case of the dual-flush mechanism, the amount of water saved is dependent upon how long the flush lever is activated -- a partial flush for light duty or full flush or heavy duty.
While all of the above toilet adaptations appear to work as intended when first installed, their performance may vary considerably, depending on the toilet design. The best advice is to monitor the performance of the devices periodically. If you discover that it becomes necessary to double flush the toilet, something is in need of adjustment or replacement. Remember that double flushing defeats the purpose of your water conservation efforts and is costing you money.
If you decide that it is time for a toilet replacement in your home or business, you are well on your way to significant water savings that you can bank on over the life of the toilet. Replacing a 18 litre per flush toilet with an ultra-low-volume (ULV) 6 litre flush model represents a 70% savings in water flushed and will cut indoor water use by about 30%.
Water Rate
(Contact your municipality for your true water rate that includes sewage charges and/or surcharges)
Annual Cost
(Based on a four person household flushing four times per person per day)
|Annual Savings
with an ultra low-flush toilet
|Standard Toilet
(per flush)
|Low-flush Toilet
(per flush)
|Ultra Low-flush Toilet
(per flush)
|Standard Toilet
|Low-flush Toilet
(per flush)
= 19 litres
= 4.2 imperial gallons
= 5.0 US gallons
(per flush)
= 13.2 litres
= 2.9 imperial gallons
= 3.5 US gallons
(per flush)
= 5.7 litres
= 1.25 imperial gallons
= 1.5 US gallons
Keep in mind that 18 litres per flush, assuming 4 flushes per person per day, translates into nearly 30 000 litres of clean, fresh water per year just to get rid of 650 litres of body waste. A 6 litre flush toilet only use about 10 000 litres to do the same task. Low flush toilets are available for less than $150.00 at most plumbing and supply stores.
Water use per flush – conventional versus ULV toilet The illustration shows that a conventional toilet uses 18 litres of water per flush, while an ultra-low-volume (ULV) toilet uses 6 litres of water per flush
Remember, the ULV toilet not only uses less water, it produces less wastewater. If your municipality applies a sewer surcharge on your water bill, the investment in the better toilet could translate into a 50% reduction in your combined water/sewer bill. If you are on a private well and septic system, you are significantly reducing the loading on your tile field while extending its useful life. To a lesser degree, the same applies to the other water-saving devices described in these pages.
Showerheads and faucets
After the toilet, the shower and bath consume the most water inside the home. Conventional showerheads have flow rates up to 15 to 20 litres per minute. A properly designed low-flow showerhead can reduce that flow by half and still provide proper shower performance. Low-flow showerheads can be purchased in most plumbing supply outlets.
|Shower Time
Water Rate
(Contact your municipality for your true water rate that includes sewage charges and/or surcharge)
|Annual Cost
|Annual Savings with a Low-flow Showerhead
|Standard Showerhead
|Low-flow Showerhead
|"6 minute shower"
|"8 minute shower"
|"10 minute shower"
|"12 minute shower"
This table assumes 10 showers per week
Use this table to compute annual cost/savings for other numbers of weekly showers by:
1. locating your Shower Time and Water Rate.
2. multiplying the corresponding Cost/Savings figure by your weekly showers.
3. dividing by 10.
"Note the additional savings by reducing the showering time regardless of showerhead type."
= 17.1 litres/min.
= 3.75 imperial gallons/min.
= 4.5 US gallons/min.
= 9.5 litres/min.
= 2.1 imperial gallons/min.
= 2.5 US gallons/min.
Depending on your preference for finish and appearance, you can select a serviceable low-flow showerhead starting at around ten dollars. Consider one with a shut-off button. The advantage of the shut-off button is that it allows you to be really water efficient if you so choose, by being able to interrupt the flow, while you lather up or shampoo, and then resume at the same flow rate and temperature.
Illustration of a low-flow showerhead with a shut-off button, which is convenient for shutting off water temporarily while soaping or shampooing
Beware of the type of showerhead that produce such a fine mist that the water is quite cool by the time it reaches your feet. And, stay away from so-called flow restrictors that are inserted inside your existing showerhead. They look like a small plastic washer and can produce a fierce, stinging spray pattern which may significantly reduce the enjoyment of taking a shower.
Conventional faucets have an average flow rate of 13.5 litres of water per minute. Install low-flow aerators to reduce this flow. In the bathroom, a flow rate of about 6 litres per minute should do the trick, and in the kitchen a flow rate of 6 to 9 litres per minute is sufficient. Don't bother retrofitting the tap in the utility sink; it is intended to provide large volumes of water quickly, for example, for cleaning or washing, such that low flows will only inconvenience the user.
During the growing season water use can increase by as much as 50%. While lawns require a lot of water, much of this water is wasted -- lost due to over-watering and evaporation.
Watering equipment also plays a part in how much water is saved and lost. Ideally, sprinklers should be suited to the size and shape of the lawn. That way, you avoid watering driveways and sidewalks. Installing timers on outdoor taps can be a wise investment.
Sprinklers that lay water down in a flat pattern are better than oscillating sprinklers which lose as much as 50% of what they disperse through evaporation. Drip irrigation systems which apply water only to the roots zone are the most efficient -- and the most expensive -- alternative.
The water you use to water your lawn doesn't have to come out of a tap. A cistern, which captures and stores rainwater, can be used as a source of irrigation water. A rain barrel can adequately fulfil this function.
Finally, consider a low-maintenance landscape -- one which requires little more water than nature provides. Often called xeriscaping, the principles of a low-maintenance landscape are as follows:
- a reduced amount of lawn;
- proper plan selection making use of native grasses, shrubs and trees;
- the use of rain barrels / roof drainage
- mulching to reduce evaporative losses around shrubs and trees;
- improvements to soils;
- a proper irrigation system; and
- planned maintenance.
The most significant savings of course, come from a reduction in lawn area and switching from exotic plant forms to native species which require less water. In general, lawn areas should not exceed what is useful for play and social activities, and should be limited to the backyard where the family spends the majority of its time.
Saving water outdoors The illustration shows how to save water outdoors by means of before and after drawings. Initially, the yard has a large expanse of lawn requiring excessive water use by an automatic sprinkler. The same yard is then shown with water-efficient landscaping being watered by hand
Calculate Your Water Use
Have you ever wondered how much water you use? Use the Water Use Calculator to find out.
The Bottom Line
Water conservation. The message is clear. If we each save a little, it can add up to major savings in water, energy and money. For the average household, reductions in water use as high as 40 % or more are feasible, just by following the steps outlined on the preceding Web pages.
The benefits don't stop at the household or business. The municipal water and sewer department gets a break on the amount of water it has to pump to our homes and businesses and on the amount of wastewater it has to treat in sewage treatment plants. Water conservation can extend the useful life of municipal water supply and treatment plants, and will benefit the operating efficiency -- and life expectancy -- of private septic disposal systems.
And, finally, water conservation can generate significant environmental benefits. It can reduce water diverted and the pollution loadings on our lakes and rivers by reducing the volumes of wastewater which we have to treat. This can help to protect our drinking water and the ecological balance in sensitive aquatic ecosystems.
If we all practice water conservation, everyone -- and everything -- benefits.
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A fossil meteorite unlike anything seen before has been uncovered in a Swedish quarry. The mysterious rock may be the first known piece of the "bullet" that sparked an explosion of life on early Earth.
Roughly 100 fossil meteorites have emerged from the limestone quarry west of Stockholm, which is being mined for flooring. All of the meteorites are part of an iron-poor class called the L chondrites. They date back about 470 million years to the Ordovician period, when Earth experienced a mysterious burst of new species.
Now miners working in the Swedish quarry have found a meteorite fragment that is not an L chondrite. Analysing its microscopic crystals, Birger Schmitz at Lund University and his colleagues found that the rock dates to the same time period but is of a kind completely unknown to science.
Cloud of destruction
About 515 million years ago, our planet was going through an evolutionary slump. A burst of diversity that happened during the Cambrian period had tapered off, and few new types of animals were emerging. Mysteriously, about 25 million years later life sprang back into action in the early part of the Ordovician, generating loads of species. So what triggered the second explosion?
Fossil meteorites from the quarry suggest that during this time, impacts were tens to hundreds of times more frequent than they are today. The meteorites may have been born when two asteroids collided and broke apart between Mars and Jupiter. The larger object spawned the cloud of L chondrites that bombarded Earth for about 10 million years. According to one popular idea, this intense meteor shower caused just enough destruction to open up ecological niches and drive life to diversify into a richer assortment. But the fate and identity of the smaller asteroid has long been a mystery.
The fact that the latest fossil comes from the same rock layers as the L chondrites suggests that it is a piece of that second asteroid, says Schmitz. The theory says that most of the smaller asteroid was vaporised during the collision, so it also makes sense that only scant fragments of it would remain.
Crash, bang, wallop
David Harper at Durham University, UK, agrees. "The team may at last have identified the impactor responsible for the break-up of the parent body of the L chondrite meteorites," he says. In which case, he adds, it is a direct remnant of one of the most violent events in our solar system's history.
"This was the largest documented asteroid break-up event of the past 3 billion years," says Schmitz. "The asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, believed to have killed the non-avian dinosaurs, was tiny in comparison."
Journal reference: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.034
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The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón continued to represent the Stars and Stripes well in France, as Flying Lizard Motorsports claimed the GTE Am pole for the 80th 24 Hours of Le Mans. The California-based team earned the provisional pole during the first official qualifying session on Wednesday and could not be topped in two subsequent qualifying sessions on Thursday.
Driver Patrick Pilet scored the pole time, a 3:57.594 in the No. 79 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, which he shares with Seth Neiman and Spencer Pumpelly. The time was 0.444 seconds clear of the nearest GTE Am challenger.
"It's all looking good," Neiman said. "All the drivers are doing good and the car feels great. "I think we have a good opportunity."
Though Corvette Racing lost the provisional GTE Pro pole it earned on Wednesday, the team is still confident for a strong result in today's race. Drivers of the No. 74 Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1 – Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Richard Westbrook – were unable to improve on Gavin's fast time from Wednesday, a 3:55.910. As a result, the team slipped to third on the grid. Jordan Taylor, Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia will start the No. 73 Corvette fifth in class.
"Confidence is creeping up as the week goes on," Westbrook said. "We've got ourselves a really good race car. We don't have the fastest car over one lap, but that doesn't matter in a 24-hour race. All three of us have a car we like in the night and the day.
"We never expected to get pole. We know the Ferrari and the Aston Martin are too quick over one lap, but over a race distance we've got a lot of confidence."
The No. 80 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Flying Lizard Motorsports' GTE Pro entry, qualified seventh.
"There were some problems with that car that we were able to fix, so I will be surprised if they remain there," Lizards driver/owner Neiman added.
In the highly competitive P2 category, Level 5 Motorsports was unable to participate in Thursday's first qualifying session due to continued repairs on the No. 33 HPD ARX-03b. Returning to the course for the final two-hour qualifying session, Scott Tucker, Christophe Bouchut and Luis Diaz were unable to improve upon Bouchut's quick lap from Wednesday, a 3:42.224. The team will start 13th in class.
"I felt a lot better with the car and the track," Le Mans rookie Diaz said. "I'm just taking it time by time because it's a very dangerous track. I think we have a good car. We need to make a couple adjustments for the race, but I think we'll be in good shape and as long as we keep working like this it will be good."
Running in the "New Technology" category, the Nissan DeltaWing will make its race debut from 29th overall. The Highcroft Racing entry did not improve on its Wednesday qualifying lap of 3:42.612.
The No. 1 Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro improved on its provisional pole time to retain the overall pole for today's race. Andre Lotterer clocked a 3:23.787 in the final qualifying session to secure the spot. The German will shares driving duties with Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler. The trio won last year's race.
The front row will be all Audi, with the No. 3 Audi R18 qualifying second at the hands of Loic Duval.
Today's race begins at 9 a.m. and SPEED network will begin its coverage at 8:30 a.m.


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Keeping with the trend, cost for anhydrous ammonia has farmers seeking alternative productionWILLMAR — Just like corn farmers who went out on a limb years ago to invest in ethanol plants, farmers may soon be considering the economic viability of investing in wind farms to create anhydrous ammonia from water.
By: By Carolyn Lange, West Central Tribune
WILLMAR — Just like corn farmers who went out on a limb years ago to invest in ethanol plants, farmers may soon be considering the economic viability of investing in wind farms to create anhydrous ammonia from water.
Farmers are "big users" of anhydrous ammonia, the nitrogen-based fertilizer crucial for corn crops, said Bruce Reuss, chairman of the ag and renewable energy committee of the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission.
Made from expensive natural gas that comes primarily from China, Africa and India, anhydrous ammonia has gone from $250 a ton five years ago to about $1,000 a ton today, said Michael Reese, renewable energy coordinator at the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center in Morris.
That has drastically increased farm input costs, and Reese said the U.S. can't "import its way out of this problem."
If anhydrous ammonia can be made from water by using wind energy that's generated in Kandiyohi County, local farmers and the local economy could reap benefits.
"It would be a real good fit for Kandiyohi County," said Reuss, who is a Kandiyohi County farmer.
The committee hosted a meeting Thursday to hear about the advancing technology and potential for local ownership of a renewable anhydrous ammonia production facility.
A $3.75 million pilot project is under way at the Morris research center to study just that.
Reese said creating a "load center" here would keep resources and money in the local economy. "Our focus is on local ownership of renewable energy," said Reese.
Steve Renquist, EDC director, said if the university's model proves that commercialization is economically viable, he wants Kandiyohi County farmers to be at the front of the pack and ready to move with a plan to develop and invest in a production facility.
"If you wait until it's a slam dunk," said Renquist, "everybody will be doing it."
Because of the initial investment in equipment, Reese said the short-term financial return may not be good, but he's optimistic about the long-term cost-benefit ratio. "We will be able to mitigate the risk factors," he said.
Besides the benefit of generating fertilizer in the Midwest, which is where it's used, Reese said the process is also another way to use "stranded" wind energy.
Although wind energy is abundant here, he said inadequate transmission lines and limited access to the electrical grid means much of that energy is wasted. Capturing it and using it to fuel an anhydrous ammonia facility could maximize renewable energy investment, reduce dependence on fertilizer made from foreign-based resources, increase the security for domestic fertilizer and biofuels and benefit the environment.
Construction of the Morris project will begin this fall.
Working in what he called the "living laboratory" for renewable energy at the Morris research center, Reese said researchers will take the wind energy from the center's 1.65-megawatt wind turbine and bring it to a piece of equipment called an electrolyzer, which will separate hydrogen from oxygen in water.
Nitrogen will then "be pulled from the air," said Reese. The hydrogen and nitrogen will be combined and passed through a catalyst of iron filings. By using the correct pressure and temperature, anhydrous ammonia is developed.
The small-scale plant is expected to produce a maximum of 1 ton of anhydrous ammonia a day.
The project has the potential for other value-added renewable energy options, including hydrogen fuel for transportation and production of electricity.
The project at Morris will look much like one currently being used in Utsira, Norway.
Ironically, Norway had been the leader 60 years ago using hydroelectric power to make ammonia. When the cheaper natural gas came along, the method was abandoned.
Now that natural gas prices have skyrocketed, Reese said there is an economic drive to return to the old methods.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Five-term Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will face a challenger in the June 3 Republican primary, and one Democrat has been disqualified from his party's race.
53-year-old Tom Hoefling of Lohrville collected enough signatures to appear on the Republican primary ballot. He will face Branstad, who is seeking re-election.
Meanwhile, the Iowa secretary of state's office determined that former Des Moines school board member Jonathan Narcisse did not meet the state's requirements to appear on the Democratic ballot. That would leave state Sen. Jack Hatch of Des Moines as the only Democrat running for governor.
Narcisse's campaign says it exceeded Iowa's requirements to appear on the ballot, and will challenge the secretary of state's decision.
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Photo By Alison CookChris Frankel, above, was named bar director for chef Robert del Grande's RDG & Bar Annie.
Chris Frankel - who has worked his beverage magic at venues such as Anvil, Cuchara and the wine bar at Underbelly - will take over as bar director for chef Robert del Grande's flagship RDG & Bar Annie. It's a high-profile spot that Frankel wants to turn into a "destination" for its drinks program.
According to a news release, Frankel and del Grande will collaborate on a cocktail program that will roll out in the coming weeks. They're promising some physical renovations and a revamped bar menu as well.
Look for something creative, at any rate. Frankel was one of the first local bartenders (other than chef Anita Jaisinghani at Indika) to delve into South Asian flavors for his cocktails.
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Just a dose of color to remind you that the world wasn't always as desolate as it appears now.
These shots are from a few months back, when I stopped by Jongmyo to catch the scrubbing and polishing of the ritual dishes. I also bumped into a flying squirrel and caught a last glimpse of fall colors. The course that I had previously mentioned on this site — heading across the pedestrian bridge to Changgyeong Palace — has now been shut down. I guess the days of the old two-fer are gone for good.


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opinionBy Gerry Jackson
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki was the keynote speaker on Monday at the opening day of Zimbabwe's diamond conference at Victoria Falls.
He was invited by Mines Minister Obert Mpofu in yet another ZANU PF attempt to give legitimacy to the diamond process in the country.
It was of course Thabo Mbeki who was the chief negotiator between the MDC and ZANU PF after the violent 2008 elections, which ZANU PF had lost. It was Mbeki who persuade the MDC to 'share' power, which at the time was described by Morgan Tsvangirai as: "That is not power sharing, it is power grabbing."
There were many critics who said Mbeki was not helping to create a government of national unity, but was in fact helping ZANU PF to hold on to power and, in his speech at the diamond conference, Mbeki came out very clearly on the side of ZANU PF.
He spent the first half of his speech making excuses for ZANU PF's disastrous land reform program and blaming the west for the problems it created.
He said he had come to Zimbabwe in 2000 as part of a SADC delegation, to discuss the occupation of white owned farms by war vets. He said they failed to get the war vets to withdraw from the farms, but that was the fault of the west.
Mbeki added: 'We did not get the funding commitments to the programmes that were agreed at the 1998 International Conference on the Zimbabwe Land Question. We failed to convince the world powers to honour the solemn commitments they had made, including their funding of the Zimbabwe land reform, and therefore the related creation of the conditions to end the occupation of the white-owned farms."
He went on to say that the West had promised to compensate white farmers for the land they would lose.
But, this is not true.
At the 1998 land conference Western nations assured Zimbabwe that they would in fact help fund land reform, if the rule of law was followed and it was based on a willing seller, willing buyer.
These terms were rejected by ZANU PF.
In his speech Mbeki finally got around to the diamond question and suggested that the Kimberley Process (which is an attempt to stamp out conflict diamonds) was being hijacked by those who wanted to undermine Zimbabwe's diamond industry and enforce regime change.
As Thabo Mbeki was standing on a platform defending ZANU PF for its land reform and its diamond industry, Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) released a comprehensive report that showed that at least $2 Billion had been plundered in the past few years, from the Marange diamond fields.
Alan Martin of PAC said they were always criticized for pointing out 'inconvenient truths.' He added that the KP is a regulatory system for diamond trading companies and referring to Zimbabwe he said: "No other country in the KP ever had the level of smuggling that you see in Marange right now."


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A bombing at the busiest airport in Moscow that killed at least 31 and injured 130 is being called a terrorist attack by Russian officials.
"From the preliminary information we have, it was a terror attack," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said of Monday's attack on the Domodedovo Airport in a televised briefing.
Medvedev also said that those responsible for the attack would be "tracked down and punished."
All Moscow transportation services went on high alert following the attack. Israel canceled all flights to Moscow.
Israel's Foreign Ministry said it was not sure whether any of the victims were Israeli.
In March 2010, two female Chechen suicide bombers blew themselves up in the metro system, killing 40. In 2004, two suicide bombers boarded separate planes at the same airport and blew themselves up in midair, killing all 90 people aboard the two flights.
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