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The London 2012 Summer Olympics is on its way! Before the Olympics actually begin on Friday, July 27th, the torchbearers have already started their trek around the United Kingdom bearing the Olympic torch. Twenty-two inspirational Americans, some college and high school-age, are scheduled to carry the Olympic flame beginning July 9th.
The Olympic torch relay began on May 19th and will continue until the start of the Olympics. The 22 American torchbearers, including 10 teenagers from 8 states and representing 14 charities and organizations, will carry the Olympic flame over 3 days around Oxford.
This year's Olympic motto is "Inspire a Generation". This motto fits perfectly with the Summer Olympics because of the focus on youth.
Altogether, there are 8,000 Torchbearer's that Coca-Cola , Lloyd TSB and Samsung found. These 8,000 Torchbearer's are passionate, inspirational and heroes to their communities and to other locations in the world because of their charity work. The student torchbearers chosen to represent Coca-Cola for this unforgettable experience were nominated by peers, teachers and leaders of youth organizations.
There are 22 individuals from the United States that were selected because they made a positive difference in their communities. These selections were based on the following criteria:
Some of Coca-Cola's chosen heroes include renowned Americans: Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan, Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders, and Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton. Below, though, is background about the lesser known torchbearers, the 10 teens, who are thoroughly dedicated and exceptional. This shows that the younger generation is going out of their way to initiate change and help out in the world.
Kylan Nieh – Currently, Nieh, 19, goes to UC Berkeley where he is studying computer science and business administration, plus teaches a course at UC Berkley on Leadership and Public Speaking. In high school, Nieh was the co-founder of 'Internetting Family', a non-profit organization that teaches senior citizens computer skills. In addition, he founded WEducate, which provides educational supplies for students from low-income families. He was valedictorian of his high school class and student body president.
Marisa Grimes - Grimes is a proud advocator of Operation HOPE, an organization that provides a Kenyan school with uniforms. In 2008, she spent 3 weeks volunteering in a Ghanaian orphanage. In spring 2011, when she was a college freshman at Auburn University a tornado hit Alabama. Grimes created a program called 'All in for Alabama' to help the victims of the tornado. Through 'All in for Alabama" she organized and collected donations in 6 states and drove a 26' commercial truck full of supplies from Pennsylvania to Alabama. She is dedicated to helping people in her community and around the world.
It has always been a tradition for the torch to travel though the hosting country for the Olympics. The torch is transferred from one Torchbearer to another when it passes through cities and towns. By passing the torch to the next torchbearer, it spreads the message of peace, unity and friendship. For the London Olympics, the torch will go all around the United Kingdom to 1019 communities. The Olympic Flame is lit in Greece and arrives in the United Kingdom to set out the Olympic Torch Relay.
It takes 70 days and will arrive at London to officially start the Olympics.
The flame in the torch can never go out. The torch is designed to stand up against wind, rain, snow and extreme heat. Every Olympic Games, the torch changes its appearance. For the London 2012 Summer Olympics, some say the torch looks like a "Golden Cheese-Grater", but the 8,000 holes actually symbolize the 8,000 individuals selected to run the torch on its journey. The holes on the torch let the heat from the flame escape, which prevents the torchbearer from getting burned. The creator behind the torch designed it to be triangular for several reasons. The Olympic motto is 'faster, higher, stronger'. The vision of London 2012 Olympics games is 'sport, education and culture.' All the 'threes' lead the designers to come up with the triangular torch. Also, the three sides of the torch represent the three times the Olympic Games have been held in London. The torch is very light and easy to carry. It weighs only 1.76 pounds.
It's heartwarming to see teens, young men and women who have already made huge contribution to their communities as well as to the world, being honored at London 2012 Summer Olympics as Olympic torchbearers. They are an inspiration to all!
Here are some important links that will be helpful to you throughout the Olympics:
Official page of London 2012 Olympics
Olympic Page
Schedule and Results
NY Times blog on London Olympics
Washington Post Blog on London Olympics
Varsity Letter – What to do with it?
How Sports Can Prepare You for Success
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Cameron Langham
Class: Senior
School: Kittanning
Sport: Hockey
Report card: Langham is one of the leading goaltenders in Class A hockey. His 1.57 goals-against average and .920 save percentage have helped lead Kittanning to a 5-2-1 record this season.
This team is dominating opponents this season. What do you think is the biggest reason?
We're playing defense really well. I'm not seeing too many shots. And Hunter (Grafton) and Christian (Miller) are burying a lot of pucks.
Kittanning won the section last year, and it's back in the mix again. How do you keep that success going from year-to-year?
We've been playing together our whole lives. We played amateurs together.
Is there a goaltender or a goaltender's style you try to emulate?
I don't really have a certain style. How ever I'm feeling. Sometimes, I play stand-up, or I'll do down a lot. It all depends.
On a one-on-one breakaway, do you wait for the puck handler to make a move, or do you force him to make a move?
I'll wait, but once he gets close enough, I'll try the poke-check. A lot of guys don't shoot. They'll wait to make a move, and I can usually get a poke-check in there.
What do you think about the NHL labor issues?
I would love for hockey to come back. Whatever way it works out, I just want them to play hockey again.
Channing James
Class: Sophomore
School: Kiski Area
Sport: Basketball
Report card: At 6-foot-4, James is one of the tallest players in the WPIAL. A center who still is finding her way at the varsity level, she's averaging 12 points and eight rebounds for the Cavaliers, who are seeking their first win (0-7).
How are you learning to use your size to your advantage?
Lately, I've been learning to rebound better by making sure I get up there and make sure I go up tall and not small. I make sure I get big down on the block and make sure I catch the ball.
You transferred from Valley to Highlands to Kiski Area. How did you end up at Kiski Area?
I ended up at Kiski mostly for academic reasons, and I moved with my dad. The school is much better education-wise. I feel I'd learn a lot more than at Highlands or Valley.
Can you dunk?
No, not yet, but we are trying. It's going to take some time. It's going to take a lot of me working with my legs to get me up there.
Have you thought about playing volleyball?
I'm thinking about it. The coaches have talked to me. All the girls on the basketball team play, and they have been talking to me about it.
Any New Year's resolutions?
I'd say probably to improve my game and be a bigger asset to my team, produce on the things I need to work on like catching the ball, rebounding and playing better defense.
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Corn rootworms wreaked havoc on U.S. crops for years, but genetically modified corn stopped them in their tracks. (It was engineered to be poisonous to pests). Now, it looks like the rootworms are back in business; some of the tough little guys have evolved and developed resistance to the corn, which secretes toxins derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), according to a study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists are saying the development could have been prevented if farmers had managed the crops better and planted refuges of non-Bt corn, Wired reports.
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Hand wave starts voice recognition reportting
Waze, an Israel-based mobile-apps start-up has issued a new release of its iOS version of its app to let drivers report traffic conditions while still staying focused on the road (free, App Store). The app makes use of the iPhone's proximity detector to activate voice recognition by waving a hand. It then asks a series of questions which helps the driver create and send a traffic report.
The Waze app builds upon its basic GPS and direction giving technology. It also helps crowdsource traffic information to advise drivers of local traffic conditions, accidents, speed traps or other road hazards.
Waze does have a version of the app for Android devices and is beta testing a BlackBerry version as well. These current releases require manual input for the information. In the US, in addition to relying on crowdsourced knowledge, the company has partnered with local TV stations to provide users with up to date traffic information. [via The Verge]


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CHICAGO — There he stood, the pitcher formerly known as Franchise, the left-hander who started this ballgame with his place in the rotation in jeopardy and ended it, a short two hours and nine minutes later, the owner of a no-hitter. He walked six batters, threw 123 pitches (tying his career high), struck out only two, and, when it was all over, Francisco Liriano looked relieved.
He watched Matt Tolbert catch Adam Dunn's lineout for the 27th out of the game, he exhaled and, as his teammates rushed in from all sides, showed the smallest semblance of a smile.
Nothing about the outcome of the Twins' 1-0 win over the White Sox was likely, not even the most fundamental of results — that Liriano, with a 9.13 earned-run average entering Tuesday night's game, would lead the Twins to a win. Not that he'd do so by throwing the first complete game at any level of his professional career and certainly not that it would be a no-hitter.
But nothing about this Twins season has been predictable, and Tuesday's result finally offered something to celebrate. Not that this team knew how to go about celebrating the fifth no-hitter in Twins history.
"We kind of all didn't know what to do," first baseman Justin Morneau said. "It's the first one I've been a part of, so I just started running toward the mound and then Drew (Butera) picked him up and hugged him and then we all jumped in there. He was getting beat up, a couple of shots in the ribs.
In the immediate aftermath, Liriano's half smile turned full. He told Fox Sports North he was "so nervous" and "so happy." Not long after, though, his left arm wrapped in ice, Liriano was more subdued, insisting his excitement with a straight face that relayed no such emotion.
"That," Morneau said, "is Frankie."
Perhaps, though, it's hard to know.
The Twins have seen so many versions of this 27-year-old since his 2006 dominance gave way to Tommy John surgery, since his inability to find the strike zone after returning from that elbow surgery left him in the minors, since he admitted being so wracked mentally that he didn't know what pitch to throw with runners on base and, most recently, since he seemed destined for the bullpen if Tuesday's start had not gone well.
Liriano (2-4) needed a turnaround as bad as his team, mired in a six-game losing streak, did. He needed something to hold on to, something to build on, and the White Sox, with their own disastrous start to 2011 weighing heavily, helped him find it.
"I think it's a big weight off his shoulders," pitching coach Rick Anderson said. "He (was) up against it. If a guy says he's not pressing, he's lying."
Liriano's night was not thick with brilliance or ripe with dominant pitches, and Anderson admitted he's "probably seen (Liriano) with better stuff." And with all the walks, Anderson didn't realize his starter was on the way to history until he looked up at the scoreboard in the fifth.
Liriano claimed he didn't realize what was happening until the eighth inning, though when told that, Butera smiled wide and said simply, "He's lying."
"Everybody was walking away from me and nobody was talking to me," Liriano said of his eighth-inning awakening, "so I was like, 'What's going on?' "
Early in the game, what was going on was more of the same from the starter.
Liriano walked the first batter he faced He walked another in the second, but both times benefited from inning-ending double plays. He retired the side in order in the third, then walked two more in the fourth. But after issuing his fourth walk, Liriano retired his next 11 batters before Ramon Castro drew one-out walk in the eighth.
Before that, though, Danny Valencia saved Liriano's place in history, ranging to the foul line behind the third-base bag to backhand Carlos Quentin's just-fair ball, then making a long throw to first for the third out of the seventh inning.
With that play, Michael Cuddyer said, it all became real.
"When Danny made that play, that backhand," Cuddyer said, "you're thinking this is a legitimate chance."
Said Valencia of the play: "It took a bad hop, I got it in my glove, and I'm going, 'Oh no, I've got to make the throw.' ... You're kind of on edge a little bit because you're nervous, you want to make every play, you want to go hard after everything because you know what's on the line. Not to mention it's a one-run game."
It was a one-run game, thanks to Jason Kubel's solo homer off Chicago starter Edwin Jackson (who no doubt could relate to Liriano's night after walking eight and throwing 149 pitches in his 2010 no-hitter). Liriano, Kubel and three inning-ending double plays made it stay that way.
Morneau made a fantastic scoop on a Matt Tolbert throw for the first out of the ninth inning, going down on one knee and one hand and managing to hold on to the ball in his glove for the out despite it being "as close to falling out of my glove as it could be."
It wasn't the first time in the game that Morneau came through, though his earlier play took more theatrical skill. With one out and a runner on first in the eighth, Tolbert started a 6-4-3 double play attempt. Alexi Casilla's throw from second pulled Morneau off the bag, and Morneau sold first-base umpire Paul Emmel on what seemed to be a phantom tag.
Afterward, Morneau grinned knowingly when asked about the play.
"You try to make your reaction like you get him," he said. "I don't know if (the ump) is going to be too happy with me once he looks at it. It's part of the game. You try to sell it. You try to get outs for your pitchers whenever you can."
Before Tuesday, Liriano hadn't eclipsed 97 pitches in an outing this season, and though Twins manager Ron Gardenhire is known for protecting his pitchers, so much so that he pulled Kevin Slowey after seven no-hit innings last season because the right-hander was coming off an arm injury, the manager said he was not budging from his place in the dugout Tuesday night.
"I wasn't walking out there to the mound, I'll tell you that one," Gardenhire said. "That was going to happen or not happen and I'm glad it happened."
Afterward, Gardenhire remained in the dugout, watching his players rush the field, taking in the joy.
"How about all those guys running out there at the end? You pay for stuff like that," Gardenhire said as reporters filed out of his office, the manager smiling, truly, for the first time in so long. "Wasn't that sweet, though?"
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The Zanesville Fire Department brings in the American Flag behind the Honor Guard during the Cry Out America! prayer gathering at the Muskingum County Courthouse.
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Each year, as Sept. 11 approaches, thoughts turn toward remembrance of the terrorist attacks that changed the U.S. forever and the need for spiritual guidance.
Zanesville resident Amy Moore has been organizing a patriotic gathering focused on prayer and healing for the past three years for what is now recognized as Patriot Day. In the spirit of love of God and country, the fourth Cry Out America! Prayer Gathering took place Sunday afternoon on the lawn of the Muskingum County Courthouse in downtown Zanesville.
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Jim and Evelyn Kerr of Hampton, New Brunswick, announce the engagement of their daughter Rebecca Kerr, of Fayetteville, AR., to Ryan Thurman of Fayetteville, son of Edna Happ, of Nixa, MO. and Ed Thurman, of Sparta, MO.
Rebecca graduated from High School in 2003 from Centre Wellington, in Ontario, and in 2009, she graduated from The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She currently is working on her Ph.D at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Ryan graduated from Kickapoo in 2000, in 2005 he graduated from University of Arkansas in Conway, and in 2013, from University of Arkansas in Fayetteville with a Ph.D in biochemistry. He currently is doing a fellowship at University of North Carolina Cancer Research Hospital at Chapel Hill.
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The pricing depends on some things that you don't list there... I bid some larger stores that never got built. They were old department stores and supermarkets so they were big.
Anyway, you need to know more info than that(you may know this and didn't list it)
Can work be performed any time or is it restricted to nights?
Do you have to use the malls waste disposal company or can you bring in your own cans(we own our own and couldn't)
What is the current floor covering and how clean does it need to be left(glue residues from carpet for instance)
Where can you place your dumpsters, close or in the way back parking lot?
Can you use gas powered tools?
Do you bring in your own electricians to do the disconnects or does the GC have things disconnected prior?
Like I said there are a few things that are not clear in this post. Real rough estimate though I was bidding 40,000(ish) Square foot stores for $68,000. I had to remove old fixtures and make it a bare box again for the new construction to start.
Thanks for the reply. I am e-mailing some questions to the construction manager and will answer these questions shortly. I'm figuring up that you was charging around 1.70 a square foot?
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Fresh Direct, an online grocery retailer created for city dwellers, will soon be in the South Jersey burbs.
Beginning Jan. 28, time-strapped residents in Camden and Burlington counties will be able to take a trip to the Internet instead of the supermarket to shop for food. And they can have groceries delivered to their front door.
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Hell on Wheels Season 2 Episode 7
The White Spirit
On this episode of Hell on Wheels…
The Swede shaves his head and joins the Sioux.
With Durant gone, Lily tries to take control of the railroad but meets certain resistance. She calls upon the Swede to help with the bookkeeping in order to pay the men.
Bohannon is furious that the Swede is back and locks him up in the car, but with no proof Lily sets him free.
Bohannon decides to leave but Lily convinces him to stay and the two sleep together.
Ferguson quits his job and decides to build a home outside of Hell on Wheels.
The McGinnes brothers sabotage the bar and force the owner to sell to them.
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Only 2 eps left and this show continues on its upward curve...can`t imagine what the season finally will hold in store for fans. No big bangs or shootouts this week but rather some great character portrayals which was more a way for showcasing some amazing acting by CT, AM & DM. That WTF moment when Cullen sees the Swede in the office was an absolute cracker :) However I really like how the romance between Lily & Cullen has been developing. Both are in need of some TLC right now and the timing was perfect. I love how Lily reads Cullen the best of all(the Swede a close 2nd)and knew she had to take the "lead". Cullen is such a broken soul right now and needed the comfort of Lily`s arms and charms. In a way they both need each other more than in a sexual way, they don`t realise yet. Love scene was beautifully shot and acted. HOW is such a great show with its ambiguous characters and storylines and it will be sorely missed until next season. Hopefully it will get an Emmy nomination or two ..it certainly deserves it!


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Bette has 12 years of experience in venture capital finance and accounting leadership. Prior to joining SVB Capital, Bette worked with Norwest Venture Partners' finance team on special projects including designing and implementing processes around fair value, partnership legal structure amendments and international compliance programs. Before Norwest Ventures Partners, Bette spent six years with Artiman Ventures as the Director of Finance, leading the back office operations.
Bette spent almost six years with Pricewaterhouse Coopers as an auditor. She started in Atlanta where she focused on manufacturing clients and transferred to Silicon Valley to focus on software and internet companies.
Bette received a BS in accounting with Honors from Kennesaw State College and obtained her CPA license in Georgia.
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About Dan and Mary Miller
Dan is from Canaan, Connecticut. Mary is originally from New Brunswick, Canada.
Dan is a graduate of Salisbury School and Wesleyan University, both in Connecticut. Mary completed training at Montreal General Hospital to become a registered nurse, and received her BA in human development from Eckerd College in 1997.
In 1979, Dan became owner and CEO of NCS (National Cinema Supply) Corporation, and Mary began serving on its Board of Directors. NCS Corporation, formerly known as National Theatre Supply, has been supplying and distributing motion picture theatre equipment for over 75 years. Dan and Mary's association with NCS solidified their love for the movie business as well as assured the success of the company.
The two enjoy music - Dan at the piano, Mary sings - occasionally performing in public. They are known to give a moving rendition of "Danny Boy." The couple enjoys traveling and for many years have been courtside at Wimbledon. Dan is an avid tennis player.
Together, Dan and Mary's children have made them proud, have given them much joy, and most importantly, have given them the distinct honor of 'grandparents'.
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Mary Miller began her love affair with Eckerd College almost 10 years ago after attending an RN refresher course at a local college. After pondering what she should do next, a classmate suggested Eckerd and Mary decided, "Why not?"
In May 1997, Mary received her bachelor's degree with High Honors in human development. She studied Russian history, creative writing, and studied abroad in Paris to explore the history of France, and studied in Greece for the firsthand experience of Greek mythology.
Since graduating Mary has helped other PEL students hone their writing skills by serving as a writing tutor. She has spoken at PEL information sessions and has participated in welcoming new PEL students on behalf of Eckerd.
In memory of her parents, she established the David and Blanche Colgan Memorial Award, an award given at Commencement to a graduating PEL student who has demonstrated extraordinary determination and perseverance to complete successfully his/her education through the Program for Experienced Learners.
The Mary E. Miller PEL Student Loan is a bridge loan for students awaiting financial aid who would not otherwise be able to start PEL. The Daniel P. and Mary E. Miller Scholarship is a need-based scholarship for a PEL senior majoring in Human Development. A scholarship program at the Women's Resource Center in Sarasota gives recipients starter funds to attend their first semester at Eckerd.
Mary was the first recipient of the 1998-99 PEL Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to the College and the Community. She was instrumental in organizing a PEL alumni chapter in Sarasota and has helped to coordinate alumni social events and the annual senior reception for Sarasota graduating seniors and their families.
In 2000, Mary joined the Board of Trustees at Eckerd College and continues to serve as an active member.
In November 2001, Mary donated a state-of-the-art computer lab to the Sarasota PEL Center. The donation of 16 new laptop computers resulted in the development of an Information Technology curriculum at the Sarasota Center.
For the past five years Mary has hosted and funded the annual Sarasota PEL Alumni Luncheon at Michael's on East restaurant in Sarasota. Proceeds from an opportunity drawing benefit the PEL scholarship fund. Featured speakers have included distinguished leaders from the college as well as prominent members of the local community. In addition, Dan and Mary host an annual tennis tournament that benefits the tennis program at Eckerd College.
Mary has been known to say, "Eckerd has been a life-changing experience."
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I talk in that baby talk voice when I`m on TV, it`s a put on.
One of my heroes is Barbie. She may not do anything, but she always looks great doing it.
The root of all evil is not money, it`s boredom.
`"If you want to make the camera your friend, pretend it`s a cute boy!"
The best thing about having your own nightclub is that everything`s free and you can tell the DJ to play whatever you want.
I`ve had a lot of stalker incidents and I usually can handle them, but the scariest one was when a guy turned up at my dad`s office and said he was my fiancé.
I have always had a voice and always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think that is the hardest thing you can do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realised it is what I am most talented at and what I love to do the most.
No matter what a woman looks like, if she`s confident, she`s sexy.
If you have a beautiful face you don`t need big fake boobs to get anyone`s attention.
I went to Wal-Mart for the first time. I always thought they sold wallpaper. I didn`t realise it has everything. You can get anything you want there for really, really cheap.
It`s traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that`s true of me, but it actually was.
(Newsweek interview, June 2005): I thought it was cute to play a dumb blonde. On TV, I do it because it`s funny. I consider myself a businesswoman and a brand. I don`t enjoy going out anymore. It`s such a pain. It`s everyone saying, "Let`s do a deal! Can I have a picture?" I`m just, like, "These people are such losers. I can`t believe I used to love doing this".
I can`t walk the streets. It`s too embarrassing. I don`t want to go out anymore. I don`t want to party.
I haven`t seen it, but when people copy you, that`s like the most flattering thing, so whatever people can say, I just laugh about it. It doesn`t matter to me. (On "South Park: Stupid Spoiled wh*re Video Playset (#8.12)" (2004))
I`m the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends. I would really do almost anything to make sure they`re happy.But I only want friends who are there for me just like I`m there for them. Otherwise it`s too painful.
The only person who really knows me is Nicky (Nicky Hilton). And not many people know this, but my sister is one of the funniest people you`ll ever meet.
I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don`t take myself all that seriously.
I think the biggest misconception about me is that I`m this spoiled brat. But I`m not. I`m the total opposite.
I`m serious about acting and I have a bunch of movies lined up. I think I can become a good actress. It`s something I want to prove to myself and to other people. I feel I`m getting better and feeling more confident about what I can do as an actress.
The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
I don`t want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
There`s nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I`m that icon.
Once you hear the music, you can`t knock it. I go to clubs and I play it and don`t tell anyone it`s me. If everyone knew "This is Paris Hilton", they`d stop and judge.
Nicole (Nicole Richie) and I are not enemies, but I can`t be friends with someone who doesn`t want good things for me.
I brought Nicole (Nicole Richie) on to _"Simple Life, The" (2003) and, all of a sudden, she became this different person. She dropped her old friends and she`s someone else.
I don`t want to be known as the grand-daughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
I desperately hate one thing about my body. I have size 11 feet. Yeah, it sucks, because I see all these super cute shoes in the stores: Guccis, YSLs, Manolos. And when they bring them out in my size, they look like clown shoes.
Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend
I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, '˜Beverly Hills 90210` and '˜Models Inc.` At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.
At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim, ... She`s going to be stuck with the tab of repairing that car.
I`ve made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.
Who are you wearing?
What`s a soup kitchen?
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
I don`t really think, I just walk.
Some Girls Are Just Born With Glitter In Their Veins.
That`s Huge.
Thank Youah !
To me, anything goes.But that`s me.
always act like you`re wearing an invisible crown, I do.
King me, baby... it`s oh-so fashionable.
(Partying) is what I do for a living. I get paid to go to events and parties, and it`s fun.
Dream as if you`ll live forever. Live as if you`ll die today.
I love creating magical moments and turning them into special memories.
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Updating the Case Shiller 100 Chart & Forecast
by Barry Ritholtz - July 28th, 2010, 11:48am
Back in 2008, I ran this updated chart of the Case Shiller Housing Price Index by BP reader Steve Barry. It was widely reproduced around the web. (Unfortunately, some unscrupulous folks striped Steve's authorship off of it, and passed it off as their own).
I asked Steve to update Shiller's NYT chart, now that much of the government intervention has run its course. There is still massive Federal Reserve subsidies in the form of record low rates. But the short term bounce caused by HAMP, Foreclosure abatements and first time home buyers tax credits are mostly over.
Here is Steve's chart:
click for ginormous graphic
Chart courtesy of the NYT, as modified by Steve Barry
Classic Case Shiller Housing Price Chart, Updated (December 30th, 2008)
A Closer Look at the Second Leg Down in Housing (June 24th, 2010)
Category: Bailouts, Credit, Real Estate
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
46 Responses to "Updating the Case Shiller 100 Chart & Forecast"
jpm says:
Why O Why is an overshoot to 1995 prices so foreign a concept?
Free Market Extreemist says:
San Fransisco Charts would disagree
napster says:
Awesome Barry. Thanks for being totally awesome.
This is just what I wanted to see, and appears to confirm what I had already thought — that housing prices are still high relative to median income.
Mannwich says:
Steve Barry is back?!? Where are you Steve? Posting under another handle?
RandyClayton says:
Napster: I don't think 4.35x Median income vs the 4.1x mean seems high? Until interest rates move up I am not sure we will see additional downward moves in home prices (nationally, some individual markets are still crazy).
napster says:
@Free Market
As I am sure you know, comparing San Francisco market to the other markets is not advisable because San Francisco is a special market for two main reasons:
1) small amount of land available; there is no perimeter of land outside the main buildup. Nearly 100% of the 7 by 7 mile city is already built upon. This is true for most of the Bay Area, from Oakland and Marin down to San Jose. It is the "outer edge" of the expansion outside of the Bay Area, places like Stockton, Santa Rosa, and Gilroy where the new house construction was occurring over the last 10-15 years.
2) the beauty of region makes it a mecca for the very wealthy, which bid up prices; the wealthy are also more insulated from economic downturns than the lower 99% of the population who earn less than $100,000.
Steve Barry says:
I stopped updating this regularly, as the index was bouncing around a bit and it is tough to work on such a compacted scale. I don't know that Shiller himself updates this long-range version. I discovered that it basically charted The Case Shiller 20 city composite. As Barry pointed out, despite all the artificial measures, I would characterize the bounce as dead elephant and it has leveled off already. Surely it is futile to try to stabilize an index well above all previous non-bubble highs.
Napster: I don't know what this says, if anything, about prices relative to income…it says something about inflation-adjusted prices relative to time…but a good conclusion would be, if Shiller did the data correctly, an index that far above all past levels is not sustainable. The projection in red is purely mine and I was very kind not to scare the kids…why couldn't it overshoot to the downside?
Mannwich: I have never posted under another handle and don't post on other blogs…just into a new career, helping society in my own way, and don't have time to post. Also, I would sound like a broken record already. Still see a deflationary debt crash…the Fed multiplier, last time I checked, was less than one – meaning every new dollar or debt created was HURTING the economy. The stock market is just a bunch of computers trading with each other now…up only when volume is low.
Mannwich says:
I hear you, Steve, and pretty much agree. Good to hear from you though.
seit says:
I'm in the 'young professional' category in Boston and I'm interested to see how housing prices will work out for the first time buyer crowd. For example:
1) Most of my friends came out of school/grad school $25,000 – $100,000+ in debt
2) Few are getting married or buying houses together, so we're back to single income households
With approximately 20% of a $300,000 condo being $60,000…it's going to take awhile before school debt is paid off and an additional $60,000 is saved.
With the inventory numbers being thrown around, I wonder if it takes into account the difficulty for the first time buyer crowd.
Steve Barry says:
Also, if my deflation scenario is correct, inflation adjusted income will be falling as well, so your price to median income would not significantly improve despite further price drops.
Said more simply, deflation will kill home prices above what has already occurred. Interesting from the chart that during the Great Depression, home prices actually rose, albeit from low levels, likely softening the depression. A depression now will be hurt by falling prices.
JSchmid says:
Barry or readers,
Does anyone know how this relates to vacant lot prices?
I ask because I am looking to buy land to put a house on in a few years, and I am unsure if I should buy now or wait longer for a better deal. It doesn't look like lot prices have changed at all in the Midwest market.
ewmayer says:
Thanks, Steve – the one added normalization for recent decades that might be useful would be to normalize by square footage, as the trend in American new-home sizes seems to have mirrored that in American waistlines. Surely even a bubble-priced 3000-sq-ft vintage 2005 McMansion is worth intrinsically more than a more-modest 2000-sq-ft home build a few decades earlier was at the the time of construction, assuming similar building quality 9in an average sense – YMMV) and sitting on a similar lot. This effect may be one reason to not expect a massive overshooting to the downside this time around.
Back to the chart: Just keep reminding yourself that Ben Bernanke says "bubbles cannot be spotted in real time" – yes indeedy, the runup that began around 2002 was really quite subtle and hard to spot until, oh, around 2006, at which point it was of course too late to do anything but watch it pop.
jpm says:
" Few are getting married or buying houses together, so we're back to single income households"
… which is normal for that age group. What would be atypical is that everyone is renting singly rather than achieving economy by renting 2-3 to a place.
napster says:
I hear you bro, but my point refers to something I said in yesterday's comments.
The median of individual income has not changed much (if at all) since 1970, but lets look at household income If we have a home ownership of 65% that means 65-50 = 15% of the home owners earn less than the median household income of $50,233 (in 2007, according to the census bureau). Mind you that this includes all combined incomes of families who are considered one household, which is much different that the median of individual income — which hasn't changed much.
So if the median household income of $40,000 in 1970 goes to 50,233 in 2007, does that percent of increase correspond to the price of housing percent of increase? Using natural logarithms, I get Ln ( 50233/40000)/ (2007-1970) … which equals 0.00615. This means that the average rate of increase per year is only 0.6%. The total percent of increase over the 37 year span from 1970 to 2007 is 25%.
What is the percent of increase of housing during this time? Look at the Case-Shiller index above. It goes from 110 to 190 (in 2007) — a 72% increase and sits right now at 145 — which is still a 31.8% increase. If the benchmark was 140, then it would be a 27% increase.
All of this is relative to the median of household income, which is larger than median of individual income and also has increased since 1970 — whereas the median of individual income has not increase. But still, if we have a 65% of the population owning homes, that means 15% have incomes less than the median individual income. These persons are probably not all single owners and are mixed in with the household income, but these two data sets are hard to intersect.
The percent of increase for household income should be equal the percent of increase of the benchmark price in the Case-Shiller index if prices were equivalent, however we are ignoring the individuals upon who this assumption is projected: ie, in the short-term of a decade, is it axiomatic that the increase in median income will flow into increasing the prices of housing irrespective of the current economic situation?
My answer to that question is the reason why I think housing prices are still high relative to median income — household or individual.
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
SOURCE: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/index.html
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Household_income_65_to_05.png
napster says:
Thanks for the feed back Steve.
jpm says:
"Interesting from the chart that during the Great Depression, home prices actually rose"
Worth noting: They rose only after changing the gold standard, which was that generation's version of QE.
Steve Barry says:
The fact that the McMansions should in theory be worth more is interesting, but I feel this will exacerbate the pain on the way down. When a McMansion owner gets layed off, they cannot hope to keep up with the massive utility bills, landscaping costs, taxes and upkeep on these homes. Don't confuse price with value…they cost more to buy, but in the end that extra, in many cases unneeded space, due to the asscociated higher upkeep, could make the home LESS valuable and saleable. A reversion to smaller sized homes should reflect in a lower index as well.
DeDude says:
Personally I don't think we will go much below 130 for the next 10 years. The thing is that as society gets richer the allocation of income into different types of consumption will change. When you have less wealth/productivity a higher % of that wealth/productivity will be forced into use on food and clothing. As society get richer there is a lot more freedom to allocate more or less income towards a specific category. Right now the culture is strongly behind the idea of living in huge luxury castles as a sign that you have "made it". Only if that culture changes will we see people inclined to drop houses as a focus of where to spend their income.
Mannwich says:
I agree, Steve, and many of these enormous new homes' quality are less than stellar, IMO. I've seen a few in my neighborhood recently that make me wonder if my 90 year-old home will be standing well past those newer, charmless boxes.
Bokolis says:
I've had 1998 prices in mind for the proper correction, so I'll buy 1995 as an overshoot..even if the tapeworm is dead against asset deflation (and doing everything it can to prop them up) so as to protect the concentration of wealth. It's only a matter of time before the government pulls the spending rug out from under this taco stand…plus, two years ago, I was told that 2011 is when the real fun will begin.
[...] clipped from http://www.ritholtz.com [...]
Mike in Nola says:
Steve: Nice to hear from you.
Not that I disagree, but was wondering what underlies the projection. I assume we are going to have reversion to the mean, but anything more profound there?
Mike in Nola says:
Oh – interesting 5yr auction topped out at 1.796%. Lowest of the decade (maybe ever) as well as highest bid to cover.
Don says:
Barry and Steve,
Any chance there is a chart out there comparing price per sq ft over time – factoring in when 20+ year mortgages became available – which could also show average monthly payments (per sq ft?)? I would be interested to find out if we are paying more per sq ft right now when you factor in how much we are paying monthly for each sq ft. Even though we are paying about 35-40% above historical norms for our homes, are we paying the same amount (NOW) per month, because of low rates, as we were (say in 1985)? Maybe this would be a better indicator as to whether we are back to historical (at least monthly) pricing. If we have been paying $100 per sq ft on average for the last 50 years for a home (whatever it has been since long term mortgages became available) and our monthly payment per month – per sq ft – averaged out to X number of dollars, are we now – with the lowest rates in history – paying X dollars per month again? Or X plus? Or X minus?
tagyoureit says:
I think we should attempt to justify higher house prices via citing technological advances in housing. Something like, 'This house is less like a house and more like an electronic device.'
Darkness says:
That steady level seems like a no-brainer to return to, at best. As Steve stated above, the argument that houses are bigger and therefore more "valuable" only makes it worse by increasing cost of ownership. Add in the often double digit inflation in healthcare and education costs and households have even less to spend on housing. Given the population shift of the boomers, this bubble and overhang could not have come at a worse time.
Steve Barry says:
Well, if home prices never exceeded 110, except on spikes, while the US was becoming the greatest power in the world, why should they be above that in a debt-ridden regime?
Two more, important points:
1) Yes rates are at historic lows now, meaning you can afford a more expensive home…but that means rates have nowhere to go but UP. That will bring prices down
2) Don't know the exact figures, someone can post it maybe, but the current home prices are pumped up with debt…isn't home equity at ridiculous low levels?
Again, all this assumes Shiller is not a quack, much less Case (who must enjoy being in the background)
RandyClayton says:
Now I understand your point. Thank you.
One comment with respect to the median income change since 1970. When broken into deciles, all of the inflation adjusted gains have gone to the top decile. So I think the situation is more grim than it looks when looking at the median. For 80% of the population, income has been flat now for 40 years.
Mike in Nola says:
Steve: Didn't mean by the interest rate post to say that this is a positive. Just shows how deflationary things are.
I don't think you could label as a quack the Author of Irrational Exuberance, published just before the dotcom crash and this in 2006:
He seems to be one of the few economists who understands economics.
zell says:
Welcome Steve…. I was beginning to think you enetered the witness protection program or something.
Scarlett102 says:
The brains at the Fed are always telling those that will listen that they cannot forecast bubbles, no matter which market. Maybe they should surf the web a little more. This chart portrays the US housing price market to a 'T'. Nice call.
If only G-man, Kohn and the current thriller, Bernanke, had such ability to understand the house price market!
patient renter says:
DeDude Says:
"The thing is that as society gets richer the allocation of income into different types of consumption will change"
The thing is that 99% of society is not getting richer.
Mannwich says:
@Scarlett102: I believe the understood alright (or more than it appears) but they knew that they'd be canned if they did anything substantial to stop it. Too many powerful people were getting rich off it and everyone was happy, including the politicians and the sheeple.
Jo says:
So, in the round, housing is (or should be) an inflation hedge.
Given that, I'd love to see that chart relative to gold!
Ted Kavadas says:
Thanks for the interesting post and chart.
I am curious as to the reasoning of the red "Projection" line on the chart…
Also, RE: "…now that much of the government intervention has run its course. There is still massive Federal Reserve subsidies in the form of record low rates. But the short term bounce caused by HAMP, Foreclosure abatements and first time home buyers tax credits are mostly over."
I think it would be more accurate to say that some of the government intervention has run its course. In addition, I'm sure we will see more intervention should additional weakness develop in the housing market. (and my analysis indicates that such weakness will be forthcoming)
DeDude says:
"The thing is that 99% of society is not getting richer."
That certainly apply for the past 3 decades, but the chart goes back to 1890 and we have all gotten considerably richer since then.
patient renter says:
I wasn't alive 3 decades ago, but point taken.
philipat says:
See previous Post?
ben22 says:
steve barry for president
bonderman says:
Small Question. During WW II, the OPA (Office of Price Administration) froze lots of prices. Both rentals and home sales were controlled and locked. There was no civilian construction. How would that have affected the data other than a flat line through the war years?
[...] The history of home values. [...]
[...] Barry Ritholz has an updated figure done by Steve Barry to the end of July 2010. [...]
[...] another chart, documenting the housing boom and subsequent collapse, by Steve Barry via Barry Ritholz and The Big Picture. Ominously, it suggests that housing values are STILL well above historic levels of the past [...]
[...] weeks ago, Barry Ritholtz posted the following chart. It was originally featured by the New York Times, and updated by a commenter [...]
[...] The Big Picture: The bottom chart shows existing-home prices over time, adjusted for inflation, with a forward [...]
[...] The Big Picture: The bottom chart shows existing-home prices over time, adjusted for inflation, with a forward [...]


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Study: Battery Energy Storage Works For Solar But Not Wind
Everyone knows energy storage is the key to unlocking renewable energy's full potential, right? Well, not always, says new research from Stanford University.
Utility-scale batteries make sense for storing electricity from large solar power systems, but not wind farms, according to analysis published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.
If true, this research could undercut one of the most promising opportunities to solve intermittency concerns from renewable power sources and better integrate wind and solar onto the grid.
Can Energy Storage Solve Intermittency Issues?
Energy intermittency from renewables (meaning the relative unpredictability of the wind blowing or the sun shining) is one of the biggest challenges facing our transition to a clean energy economy.
Grid operators are most concerned with reliability, and they often overlook the climate and pollution issues that come from running coal and natural gas plants around the clock as baseload power resources.
While incredible technological advances in the ability to forecast weather and renewable output are happening today, there are still times when solar or wind output don't match demand – which freaks out grid operators.
That's where energy storage comes into the picture. Technologies like pumped-hydro storage or large battery systems can be paired with solar and wind to capture whatever power they generate whenever it's available, providing grid operators with confidence it'll be available when they need it to meet demand.
What's EROI And Why Does It Matter?
As more and more renewables come online, large batteries have become more and more attractive as an energy storage option. But as with most developing technologies, they're often expensive, and thus Stanford's research focus.
The Stanford scientists examined the energy return on energy investment (EROI) ratios of using several technologies to store solar and wind energy. The EROI calculation is relatively simple – the amount of energy produced by a technology divided by the amount of energy required to build and maintain a storage system.
"Batteries with high energetic costs consume more fossil fuels and therefore release more carbon dioxide over their lifetime," said lead author Charles Barnhart. "If the battery's energetic cost is too high, its overall contribution to global warming could negate the environmental benefits of the wind or solar farm."
Based on this formula, many battery technologies may not provide a positive EROI when used for wind energy. "Both wind turbines and photovoltaics deliver more energy than it takes to build or maintain," said co-author Michael Dale. "The overall energetic cost of wind turbines is much lower than conventional solar panel."
Stanford's EROI found the energy demands of solar power installations comparable to the energy demands of the five leading battery technologies. But wind farms, since they require less energy to build and maintain, significantly reduce EROI from 20-50% depending on the energy storage technology.
That's a problem for wind power, because curtailment – shutting off the turbines when they're generating too much power – only reduces EROI by 10% "For wind farms, the energetic cost of curtailment is much lower than it is for batteries," said Dale. "It would actually be more energetically efficient to shut down a wind turbine than to store the surplus electricity it generates."
But Hope Still Springs Eternal
But while that reality may be true, it doesn't comport well with our need to get off fossil fuels to cut emissions and slow climate change. Fortunately, the Stanford researchers do see several options to make the EROI of energy storage via batteries work for both wind and solar generation.
Increasing battery life cycles is the most effective way to boost EROI, according to the study, but the goal is high. The Stanford researchers estimate batteries must endure 10,000-18,000 cycles to efficiently store energy on the grid – but conventional lithium-ion batteries only last 6,000 cycles and lead-acid batteries only 700 cycles.
Pumped-hydro energy storage performs best of all the available options, providing an EROI 10 times better than conventional batteries, but with limited deployment options. Other options like vehicle-to-grid technology also hold promise, according to the researchers, and could grow in scale as more electric vehicles hit the road.
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Thomas Maloney says:
It will be a day for the history books when this final hurdle of electrical storage is conquered — renewable energy as unlimited potential as long as the appropriate storage solution can be found. But as it is noted here this is a holy grail, and equally elusive as the fabled goblet. Hopefully these Stanford scientists are onto something.
Dana Blankenhorn says:
I do wish the authors had looked into the economics of hydrogen here, especially for offshore wind. Rather than turning off wind turbines, simply route the excess to a facility that turns water into hydrogen for fuel cells. Sell the resulting gases on the open market, the hydrogen to power fuel cells, the oxygen for other purposes. Then make sure fuel cells capture their "pollution" so it can be poured out into aquifers rather than discharged into the atmosphere.
Yes, this is nominally inefficient. But it uses power that is otherwise unused, and stores it in a form that can be used to generate more power, either for utility grid back-up or other purposes. It creates a new energy pathway that can grow and become competitive.
Nathan Wilson says:
The title implies that solar and batteries work well together, but the source journal article struck me as much more pessimistic. It shows an EROI of 8:1 for silicon wafer PV cells; thin film is only a little better at 13:1 (these are median estimates, undoubtedly worse in Germany or Japan). The ubiquitous lead-acid battery had a meager ratio of 5 (lifetime_energy_stored/energy_to_make_it), with sodium-sulfur better at 20.
In contrast, wind had a EROI of 86. CSP is not discussed, however, the 2012 DOE Sunshot Vision Study (see fig 7-3) showed much better lifecycle CO2 emissions for CSP (and wind and nuclear) compared to PV, so that likely means better EROI also.
So this is bad news for PV, especially in locations that are not deserts. To improve the combined EROI for PV, we should not try to use it in cloudy regions (duh). Ground-mounted utility scale PV is easier to clean and maintain, hence lifetimes should be longer and EROI better than residential. Also, instead of trying to build enough batteries to last through nights and cloudy days, we should minimize the percentage of energy production that gets cycled through the batteries (i.e. 1 hour of storage stabilizes the grid by giving fossil fuel back-up the chance to throttle up/down; 5 hours of storage is enough to make desert PV a good peaking source to use with geothermal, OTEC, or nuclear power; tracking PV has output that is flatter through the day, with less noon-peaking that needs to be stored).
We should be putting much more emphasis on wind (and nuclear) with dispatchable fuel synthesis.
N Nadir says:
The editor of ES&T, Jerald Schoor, spoke at Princeton earlier this week and gave a talk on water and biofuels. During the talk, he remarked that many people in Iowa would like him to be fired for what he says, and joked he's very thankful for tenure and academic freedom.
Basically his message his take home message was that this form of so called "renewable energy" - which was once very, very, very popular and is now, much to our chagrin, is actually operating almost at maximal scale, involves strip mining aquifiers in the Midwest, trashing the Gulf of Mexico, and loading the atmosphere with the ozone depleting greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. In a word it is, um, hardly sustainable.
One hears all sorts of schemes for storing so called "renewable energy." A very amusing one, one of my favorites is by wind energy advocate Paul Denholm, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39, 1903-1911, (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es049946p) where he wrote about wonderful CAES (Compressed Air Energy Storage) schemes for the wind industry which were actually just lipstick on the dangerous natural gas pig, like everything else the wind energy industry. He calculated that wind energy was "only" 3 to 20 times worse than nuclear energy for climate change gas emissions under CAES conditions, which was - I kid you not - OK with him because, um, people don't "like" nuclear energy.
It seems to me that we make energy choices the same way that we choose what should popular television shows.
The choice of television shows of course, while depressing, is a lot less pernicious and toxic than the expensive and wasteful obeisance to the so called "renewable" fantasy.
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who is asking for obeisance ?
Name one form of energy conversion that does not require materials such as minerals, metals, water and energy that does not have to be aquired from another source?
Name one that is not mined or produced in the most cost effective and economical way?
Name those with zero waste before during or after production?
What fantasy power source guaranteed to be available and deployable in the next 20 years would you recommend?
When you can provide a satisfactory answer to these questions I am sure you would choose those that do the least harm and kow 'tou to them.
Please be sure to let us all know what your solution is.
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"Name one form of energy conversion that does not require materials such as minerals, metals, water and energy that does not have to be aquired from another source?"
Nuclear power. Nuclear fuel can be absorbed economically from seawater and used in fast reactors. The concentration of nuclear fuel in seawater will be replenished by erosion, so the resource is unlimited.
"Name one that is not mined or produced in the most cost effective and economical way?"
Nuclear fuel is incredibly cost effective to produce. For example, removing uranium from all fertilizer used by the USA farm sector would yield up to 10.000 tons of uranium per year. Removing this uranium would prevent it from ending up on farmland and in ground water as NORM (Naturally occuring radioactive materials). 10.000 tons of uranium can fuel 10.000 GW (ten thousand gigawatts) of nuclear electric power plants (fast reactors/breeders). In other words, the uranium that is freely available from the US fertilizer industry is enough to power the entire world electricity supply.
"Name those with zero waste before during or after production?"
Nuclear power has the least amount of waste by mass per unit of energy of all energy technologies. The nature of nuclear power requires that 100% of this waste is stewarded and kept out of the environment, which means nuclear power is inherently polution free. This is a unique feature that no other technology can match, which is why polution from all other technologies is ubiquitous. The key point here is that 'waste' is not equal to 'pollution'. 'Polution' is waste that is freely emitted into the environment. In the nuclear industry, no waste is ever emitted into the environment, therefore, the nuclear industry does not polute.
"What fantasy power source guaranteed to be available and deployable in the next 20 years would you recommend?"
Historically, nuclear power provides the fastest (and cheapest) pathway to wholesale decarbonisation of the energy supply, which has been proven in many countries including Sweden and France.
"When you can provide a satisfactory answer to these questions I am sure you would choose those that do the least harm and kow 'tou to them."
I've made my choice. It is nuclear power. I made that choice because I have experience with all the others, and all the others are simply not up to the task. I hope that other environmentalists also come to realise this, so we can start saving the planet. There is a lot of work to do.
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Imagine theres an asteroid hurtling toward Earth. At its present rate, it will make impact in the year 2022. The human race is doomed; however, there is one controversial solution: raise taxes and cut spending. This would fund a project designed to divert the asteroids path.
The harrowing scenario began New York University Stern School of Business professor Jonathan Haidts speech addressing FSU students and the Tallahassee public on Sept. 11. His speech, entitled The Righteous Mind: How morality binds us together and tears us apart, was delivered to a filled-to-capacity Student Life Cinema on Tuesday evening.
Those who came late to the event were directed to an overflow room, where the lecture could be viewed on a projector screen.
There is no known asteroid bent toward destroying mankind; Haidt made it up as an experiment to gauge the audiences willingness to implement measures that might go against their political views if it meant saving the world. The majority said they would.
Haidt, who taught psychology for 16 years at the University of Virginia, then directed his lecture to the main topic and his area of expertise: moral psychology. His main talking points were centered on three primary features of morality. First, Haidt said that intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second. His next point was that theres more to morality than harm and fairness and his third that morality binds and blinds.
According to Haidt, we pose two decidedly different questions to ourselves when it comes to what we want to believe and what we dont want to believe. What we want to believe makes us ask, Can we believe it? Whereas what we dont want to believe brings up the question, Must we believe it?
In other words, human psychology points us toward the arguments for the view we want to support.
We see what we want to see as long as theres ambiguity, Haidt said.
Haidt also drew an analogy between contemporary American politics and cuisine. The political campaign spectrum voices a range of six topics, spanning care (most important for liberals) as well as fairness and liberty (most important for conservatives), along with authority, loyalty and sanctity.
Vote for us and heres the meal youll get, Haidt imagines a politician saying. While Democrats serve sugar, Republicans serve a much more diverse meal, covering all six tastes.
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Despite the apparent issues of demonization and polarization Haidt said are so prevalent in American society, he offered three methods of enacting change.
He first charges us to change our institutions in ways that tone down demonizing.
He points to his website, civilpolitics.org, as well as to another website with the same non-partisan goals, nolabels.org.
The second charge is to change ourselves in ways that tone down demonizing.
Approach others with an interested and eager-to-learn attitude, he says. And build relationships with good people on the other side, a goal that drives a local Tallahassee non-profit called The Village Square (tothevillagesquare.org).
Students, like President of non-partisan RSO No Labels at FSU Brooke Renney, said they learned from Haidts insight and were inspired to carry on the wisdom.
By educating students on the moral psychology associated with political ideology and allowing students to work together to discuss some prominent social issues, Haidt and the sponsors of the event created a judgment-free atmosphere for students to discuss issues and meet in the center to further discuss solutions, regardless of ideology or party-line, said Renney. This is exactly what we should be doing as Florida State Seminoles, and is something that No Labels at FSU is hoping to carry forward.
Haidts final request to his attendees was to join the asteroid club.
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