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Everyone knows a classic pencil skirt will get you far in life (just ask Elle Woods). When we initially saw this leather pencil skirt with star cut-outs we swooned, and you bet that once we found out the price we nearly fainted. After all, at over $1,000, the designer version of this skirt is pretty damn pricey. But we've found a nearly identical version and we retail it for a very modest $45.50. Take a look at the skirts below, both caught on the runway, and let us know which one is from GoJane and which one is designer.
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My sentiments, exactly! And that's is why I've hidden Facebook apps from my Facebook news feed. Do those Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc. notifications annoy you on Facebook? Just hover over one of those updates in your News Feed and click on the "Hide" option that appears to the right. Choose to hide those notifications from your feed and you won't have to worry about them ever again!
However, according to this article from Mashable, we might not have to worry about Facebook app notifications any more. They supposedly said goodbye to the practice today. However, the article does mention that the notifications will shift to email notifications – which is just as bad in my opinion (but tolerable thanks to Gmail's filter feature)!
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Tom McCall almost certainly would rank as the most beloved of Oregon's 36 governors were a poll taken today.
But I harbor a special affinity for Oswald West.
He is not so well known as the flamboyant and ever-quotable McCall, who in his most famous pronouncement encouraged people to visit Oregon but admonished them to not even consider moving here.Yet West's relative obscurity in the state he governed is due not to any shortage of political accomplishment on his part, but it results rather from the irresistible erosive power of time.
West was elected in 1910, is the thing. He served one term, 1911-15.
This means, if I've done the math correctly, that unless you're at least 94 years old you were born after West left office.
That's not many former constituents left to carry West's torch.
More to the point, it means that West, unlike McCall, who served as governor from 1967-75, had the misfortune of getting elected before television was invented.
McCall did give us the Bottle Bill, which is nice.
It led to a lot of recycling, anyway. Also the legislation ensured there is plenty of room on Oregon's highway shoulders to accommodate hamburger wrappers, which take up precious shoulder space if you let them lie about in your car.
But McCall also gave us land-use planning, which remains generally popular but which infuriates certain people in a way nickel deposits can't equal.
The gift West bestowed on Oregonians, however, seems to me such a vital part of the state's essence — the piece of public policy which more than any other has made Oregon a uniquely wonderful place — that it relegates McCall's contributions to the merely commonplace.
West gave us the right to get sand between our toes without worrying whether we are trespassing.
(He also, by extension, gave us the less pleasant right to get sand on everything else we own.)
What's more, West pulled this off while simultaneously fulfilling a campaign promise.
I thought about Governor West last week when I spent a couple of days at the Coast.
I re-read the story about how West pledged during his 1910 campaign to preserve the public's access to Oregon's beaches, and how he achieved that goal by pushing through the 1913 Legislature an ingenious bill that designated those beaches as public highways.
West's legacy seemed to me especially vivid while my wife, Lisa, and I stood on the beach at Pacific City and watched our daughter, Olivia, shovel sand into her purple plastic bucket.
Olivia is a month short of her second birthday and has the brief attention span typical of that age. But when she gets to digging she is not soon diverted.
Nor easily.
Before we started back to the parking lot — the seaside was blustery even by its tempestuous standards, also it was coming on supper time — I practically had to pry the yellow shovel from her plump little fist.
Olivia has quick hands, though. Despite being confined between her parents and pretending to be encumbered by holding onto my right index finger and Lisa's left, Olivia managed to pull one hand free and swipe the shovel from me a couple times. And before I could reclaim the tool she plunged its blade into the damp sand and, in the frenzied manner of a child who knows her time for mischief is short, flicked a handful onto my jeans. The tan grains stuck to the denim until the next washing.
What seemed to me remarkable about the pleasant hour we passed on the beach is that it wasn't remarkable at all.
If you've lived all your life in Oregon, as I have, you tend to consider as routine your legal right to comb any stretch of beach you want.
I have only a vague memory of learning, when I was a teenager, that in most places beaches are treated rather more like backyards — as places that can be fenced, and owned by people who can holler at you to get lost if you stray past a boundary which might not be posted.
I remember too watching TV programs that showed a beach in, say, California, where people lay sprawled in orderly rows like a company of soldiers felled by a burst from a lone machine gun. The flesh-free gaps between their towels was no wider than the space between sailors' bunks in the berth of a submarine.
I had never seen anything like this on an Oregon beach (and I still haven't.) After I had thought about this for a time I decided that the discrepancy could not be explained solely by the chilly weather that predominates on our state's share of the Pacific shore and which deters all but the hardiest of sunbathers from lying on the sand for more than a few minutes.
I came to realize that when people are afforded the freedom to choose any patch of sand they want, they usually pick a place with room enough for their elbows — and their lawn chairs and beer cooler.
Oceanfront property is worth a lot to developers, of course.
But Oswald West believed it is even more valuable than that — so valuable, in fact, that it should belong to everyone.
In doing so he argued for the family picnic over the hotel brunch, for the notion that people ought to be able to watch the sun dip behind Haystack Rock and against the edict that they have to buy a ticket first.
I started this column by touting West's exploits as superior to McCall, but I fear I have not given the latter governor the credit he is due.
The two men — McCall a Republican, West a Democrat — were more alike than I perhaps implied.
In fact it was McCall who took up the fight that West, who died in 1960, must have thought he had won.
In 1966 the owner of a beachside motel flouted Oregon law by building a fence around a stretch of beach and allowing only his guests to go there.
McCall's response — not for nothing did I describe him as flamboyant — was to order two helicopters to land on the disputed beach.
McCall's media-friendly spectacle roused public support for the Oregon Beach Bill, which declares that all "wet sand" within 16 vertical feet of the low tide line is state property. The bill, which McCall signed into law on July 6, 1967, also guarantees the public "free and uninterrupted use of the beaches."
Oregon honored Oswald West by naming a state park for him. The park, appropriately, is at the Coast, between Tillamook and Seaside. It includes many miles of beach.
I'm going to try from here on to remember West whenever I visit Oregon's seashore.
He is that rarest of politicians who can count among his successes one which, nearly a century later and long after his death, still makes it so that a a little girl can pour sand into her new bucket.
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The major in art and art history gives a broad-based and focused, historical education in the arts. General history courses in art (i.e. painting, sculpture, architecture and related media), music, film, photography, and theatre are coupled with studio experience.
- After a course in methodology and art literature, students choose more specific work, not in one discipline, but in one era or period.
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In addition, art and art history majors are required (1) to take two semesters of a foreign language, preferably a language suitable to the student's chosen period of study, and (2) to attend on a regular basis cultural affairs on- and off-campus: concerts, gallery exhibitions, films, lectures, etc.
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In 2007, MSYSA expanded the requirement for small-sided play to the U11 and U12 age groups to increase developmental opportunities for young players. Small-sided play had been required for U10 and younger teams for a number of years, with a 7v7 format and a 14 player roster limit. The expanded policy was to be implemented over a two year period.
Starting in seasonal year 2007-2008, all play in the U11 age group would be no more than 8v8 format, with a maximum roster size of 14. Starting in seasonal year 2008-2009, all play in the U11 and U12 age groups be no more than 8v8 format, with a maximum roster size of 14.
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What Do I Read Now??Thursday, January 31st, 2013
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How Greinke Helps Cubs
The Brewers' trade for Zach Greinke is big-time. You win with strong starting pitching, and Milwaukee's 1-2-3 punch of Yovani Gallardo, Shaun Marcum and Greinke is awfully strong.
The Brewers, of course, gave up its young talent to land a true ace and Cy Young Award winner. But in a single move they're right back in the hunt for the NL Central.
So what if Milwaukee gave up its future to compete now. I'd make the same trade in a split second.
The Giants, remember, won the World Series with barely any regular season offense. The Brew Crew, however, has plenty of offense to go with its revamped rotation.
Milwaukee finished fourth in the NL in runs scored, batting average and RBI. And, finished second in the league in home runs (182). That's enough offense to win with in Milwaukee.
As far as the Cubs, the move turns up the offseason heat on Jim Hendry. No way the Cubs keep up with Cincy, St. Louis, and now Milwaukee, without adding another strong-arm to its rotation.
Signing Brandon Webb is a must, but hardly counters Milwaukee's move of Greinke. Trading Carlos Zambrano for a starter is a no brainer, but also seems unlikely. Is Matt Garza the answer or is it time the Cubs part with some younger talent for a true ace?


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Posted January 15, 2013, 2:25 pm
Officials with the Division of Wildlife Resources are concerned about cold temperatures and how those temperatures might affect deer if the weather doesn't warm up soon.
As they do every winter, DWR biologists are watching Utah's deer herds closely.
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Watching the deer herds
Since the start of December, DWR biologists have been monitoring deer herds across Utah. The following are the five factors biologists monitor to determine how well the deer are doing:
Deer in good shape
Anis Aoude, big game coordinator for the DWR, says one of the five factors — the temperature — has reached a critical point in some areas in Utah.
Despite the cold temperatures, Aoude says Utah's deer herds are doing well.
"Fortunately," he says, "deer went into the winter with an average layer of fat on them. And the snow depth in most of the state is not covering the vegetation. Slopes that face south are nearly bare in some areas, so the deer can still find food."
If conditions deteriorate, biologists will consider feeding deer specially designed pellets.
The pellets are formulated to fit the complex digestive system mule deer have. The pellets are also designed to give deer extra energy. Extra energy is something deer often need when the temperature is cold and the snow is deep.
If the need arises, the DWR is ready to purchase pellets and feed deer.
Aoude says DWR biologists will continue to monitor the deer herds closely. "If feeding becomes necessary," he says, "we'll make sure it's done at the right time and with the right type of food."
How you can help
To help them get through the winter, deer put weight on throughout the spring, summer and fall.
Anytime a deer is disturbed, it has to burn some of its precious fat reserves to try to escape the threat.
With that in mind, not disturbing deer is one of the best things you can do to help deer in the winter:
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Forrest Gump.
That's whose life I feel like I've lived over the past six years at CNBC.
I played basketball against Dwyane Wade (I promised him I would tell you I didn't score a point). I've crashed into the wall at the Charlotte Motor Speedway with Kurt Busch at the wheel. I've taken an Andy Roddick full speed serve to the chest.
I lived in Beijing during the Olympics. I've reported on Nike factory workers in Vietnam. I covered a Presidential Election from a bowling alley in Pennsylvania and played cornhole with a Coors Light girl before the NFL season opener in Indianapolis.
Miami Heat owner Micky Arison is thrilled the team won the NBA title, but he says he's hardly ringing up the cash register.
Arison told CNBC that the final numbers aren't in yet, but his guess is that the team lost money again.
"This is a hobby of passion, it's not a business," said Arison, the CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines who took control of the team in 1995. "Every year in the building we've lost money aside from last year, under the old Collective Bargaining Agreement, because of LeBron."
The Heat have been playing in American Airlines Arena for 12 seasons. They also haven't ever paid rent thanks to loopholes in the agreement with Miami-Dade County including a clause that allows the team to pay itself back for its contributions to the arena's cost before sharing the wealth.
With the Olympic Games less than a month away, a major ticket dispute between a ticket broker, the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and the official credit card of the games, Visa, is taking place.
Texas-based ticket firm Golden Tickets is accusing the London Organizing Committee \(LOCOG\) of trying to enforce rules it cannot legally enforce, Visa of wielding its sponsorship power to cut off what it says is legitimate reselling of Olympic tickets and a payment processor called iPayment of fining the company without legal grounds.
After selling Olympic tickets, Golden Tickets president Steve Parry was informed by his comptroller that $25,000 was taken out of the company's bank account without warning.
Winning a title finally got the monkey off LeBron James' back, but that doesn't mean he will be seen as more marketable in the eyes of Madison Avenue.
Results of a poll taken by the Davie-Brown Index after the Heat's Game 5 title-clinching victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, and exclusively released to CNBC, reveal that the general population did not find James to be a different man from an endorsement perspective.
Justin Gatlin was on top of the world after winning the 100 meters at the 2004 Olympic Games.
But he lost the fastest man in the world title and all the marketing that goes with it to Usain Bolt four years later, as Gatlin was in the midst of sitting out a four-year ban from the sport as a result of testing positive for testosterone.
Anthony Davis, who will likely be taken as the No. 1 pick in this Thursday's NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets, is getting down to business -- literally.
Davis, known for his connected eyebrows, trademarked the phrases "Fear The Brow" and "Raise The Brow" earlier this month.
"I don't want anyone to try to grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off of it," Davis told CNBC. "Me and my family decided to trademark it because it's very unique."
Davis said that people frequently tell him to cut it, but Davis said he won't because "everyone's talking about it."
Since 2006, I have been telling you who is going to win the National Spelling Bee. Since that time, I have had the champion in my list all six times.
So who will I pick this year? To the disappointment of some, it won't be Lori Anne Madison, the youngest competitor ever at six years old. First-time competitors can't win this, and I just can't see this fairytale being written. With that said, if you're in a Spelling Bee pool, you can bank on it that the winner will be among these five.
For 12 straight years, football in high schools in America has been so popular that the number of boys playing the sport has been greater than the second and third most played sports, track and field and basketball.
But with the dangers of concussions being thrust out into the open is a participation decline around the corner?
In a remarkable reversal of fortune, former major league pitcher Curt Schilling has laid off the entire staff that formed his videogame company, 38 Studios, just months after the company designed its first game.
While Schilling had said he was pleased with the success of the game, "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning," the company was late on a payment to the state of Rhode Island, which had loaned 38 Studios $75 million in exchange for moving its headquarters to the state.
The Boston Globe has reported the company didn't have enough money to make its May 15th payroll.
Schilling has been quiet amidst the criticism that he failed to live up to his end of the bargain, but was open about his predicament when he appeared on "CNBC SportsBiz" two months ago, though he didn't say at the time his company was in trouble.
Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton is having an incredible season, leading the American League in average, home runs and RBI.
Despite Hamilton's tear, which included a four home run game on May 8, collectors aren't exactly fighting for the centerfielder's memorabilia.
Much of the hesitancy to invest in Hamilton has to do with his past, including drug and alcohol addictions that took him out of baseball for years after he was picked No. 1 overall in the 1999 draft by the Tampa Bay Rays.
"Collectors are scared," said Matt Powers (@powersco), owner of online sports and memorabilia company, PowersCollectibles.com. "They're not confident that his story has a great ending because he's still very active in dealing with his disease."
Powers says he is one of the largest purchasers of autographed items of Hamilton, who has an exclusive deal with the Major League Baseball Alumni Association. He is pre-selling a ball that Hamilton will sign that includes his four home run inscription with the date.
While it retails for $449, Powers tested the marketplace over the weekend by putting the balls on Groupon for $149. Even at that discount, he didn't move much.
"I sold maybe 50 balls," Powers said. "When I did a similar deal with Brian Wilson, who signed 'Fear The Beard' on 2010 World Series baseballs, I sold 700 really quickly."
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At Arlington National Cemetery, soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry, known as the Old Guard, placed hundreds of thousands of American flags at the gravestones and niches of service members interred at the cemetery overlooking the nation's capital from Virginia.
Across the Potomac River, in Northwest Washington, members of the Old Guard also placed flags Thursday at the graves of those buried at the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery.
There are more than 260,000 gravestones and about 7,300 niches for cremated remains at Arlington, established in 1864, and more than 14,000 veterans are interred at the Soldiers' and Airmen's Cemetery, established in 1861.
The annual "Flags In" project takes place just before the Memorial Day weekend. It has been a part of the mission of the Old Guard since it was designated the Army's ceremonial unit in 1948.
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After a long winter, our "Only One" reporter finally got out and spent last weekend as the only Black media member in the Jane Sage Cowles Stadium press box at the NCAA Minneapolis Regional softball tournament at the University of Minnesota. Again I seemingly wore my invisible suit as the passing-out-stats people passed me by on a couple of occasions. Before last weekend's four-team double elimination tournament, I promised Gophers' Tyler Walker and Madie Eckstrom that I would attend. The two previously were featured a couple of weeks ago in our Gopher 100 series.
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These two new Pokémon games are set in a new region and are of a different, 3D game-play style. From the trailer, we see that you can explore around various landscapes and encounter Pokémon through the classic trainer battles and tall grass.
The trailer also shows off three new Pokémon which appear to be the Fire, Grass and Water starters.
- Chespin, a Grass-type Pokémon: a brown, Erinaceidae-looking Pokémon with a green hat with spikes, small arms and a small tail.
- Fennekin, a Fire-type Pokémon: an orange, fox-looking Pokémon with flame-like fur emerging from its ears. Fennekin also shares its name and appearance with the Fennec Fox.
- Froakie, a Water-type Pokémon: a blue, frog-looking Pokémon with a white puffball on its back.
The two legendary Pokémon that are the mascots for Pokémon X and Pokémon Y have been officially named as: Xerneas and Yveltal. Xerneas seems to be a buck with rainbow antlers, who is shaped like the letter X when it's legs are apart, while Yveltal seems to be an avian of some sort, who is shaped like the letter Y.
The set release date for Pokémon X and Y is October 2013 in most of the world including; North America, Australia, Europe, and Japan.
- These are the first Pokémon games to be released worldwide at the same time.
- It is possibly known that the game draw inspiration from Europe. One of the main facts is known that there is a Tower based on the Eiffel Tower, the main monument of France, has been located in a unnamed town and behind Pikachu at the beginning of the trailer. A bridge that has been based on the popular London Bridge has also been appeared in the game as seen in the trailer after that the female player is running over it.
- It is also possible that the two new Legendary Pokémon that were introduced may actually end up in a trio, with each representing the X, Y and Z axes of the 3rd dimension.
- These are the first main Pokémon titles that uses single letters instead using colors or material items for the sub-title.
- These are the first two games to have their mascot's English name released before their Japanese names.
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MIT: The challenge of integrating renewables
New report cites factors due to technology, economics
If you're still debating whether renewable energy will become a utility-scale asset and critical to this country's power needs, you're tilting at windmills.
The issue on the table is how to integrate variable resources with the power grid in the most efficient and reliable manner. What are the challenges, both technically and in terms of policy?
I'll touch on three developments in this area, one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and another from the Utility Variable Generation Integration Group (UVIG). (You may know the UVIG as the UWIG, but that's changed for the very reason we're discussing RE integration in today's column.)
Last year at this time, MIT held a symposium on large-scale integration of renewable energy and earlier this month it held a panel on the release of the symposium's report. (Click on the link to access Web video of the March 12 discussion of the report, and the report itself.)
In a nutshell, the MIT effort brought together subject matter experts in generation, transmission and regulation to discuss the impacts of large-scale renewables integration. Although many systems are handling the challenge, MIT noted that "there is limited system-wide analysis of how the deployment of large-scale renewables physically affects conventional thermal plants, the limits of their capabilities for such accommodation and the degree to which the integration of renewables is changing the physical and economic operations of power systems."
Yes, take a deep breath. The MIT report really sets up the issue well, however, providing some clarity to a potentially daunting subject. In 29 states and many countries, policies have encouraged renewable generation but "as renewable capacity has increased, the intermittent nature of wind and solar generation ... has led to operational difficulties and unintended consequences for emissions and economic efficiency."
The characteristics of intermittency and the need to balance supply and demand on the grid is creating a need for system flexibility to meet reliability goals and policy mandates such as renewable portfolio standards (RPS), the MIT group said in an "issues summary."
"In the absence of economically viable, large-scale storage, the burden of maintaining system reliability will fall mostly on the flexible operation of thermal generation units such as coal, natural gas and nuclear [generation]. However, the ability of these plants to operate flexibly is limited by both physical plant constraints and economic profitability considerations."
The impacts on regulation vary from the "economic dispatch in the short term to generation capacity investments in the long term," according to the issues summary.
"Ensuring the adequacy of the regulatory structure is an extremely complicated undertaking. In the U.S., the regulatory landscape for market rules and renewable policies is fractured and complex; planning and policy making for electric power systems occur at the state, regional and national level."
The MIT group framed five key topics:
- Emissions: The integration of intermittent renewables forces the existing system to adapt and less efficient ramping and cycling of traditional generation can reduce the low-emissions contribution of those renewables.
- Unintended consequences: RPSs can change market structures. Policies, markets and system requirements impact system planners and market participants, potentially raising the cost of the generation mix.
- Future generation mix: What does a well-adapted generation mix look like? And what types of regulations would support units that contribute to reliability but may have low-utilization rates?
- Electricity markets: Should the market treat renewables as any other generator, subject to scheduling penalties?
- Regulation: The current regulatory system encourages cost reduction and reliability, not innovation. This may be inadequate to incentivize the development of new transmission and generation technologies required to fully enable large-scale renewable generation.
In practical terms, baseload generation—mostly coal and natural gas—must be cycled up or down to accommodate intermittent renewables, which leads to shorter lifetimes for components due to the physical stress of temperature changes, according to Howard Herzog, a senior research engineer at the MIT Energy Initiative. Cycling also reduces a plant's efficiency, which incurs higher fuel costs and, ultimately, to higher costs per kilowatt hour. Emissions equipment also doesn't run as efficiently at low loads, Herzog said.
One solution will be to find improved materials to withstand temperature fluxes. Another: better understanding how cycling can be done more efficiently. For instance, in France where 80 percent of generation comes from nuclear reactors, one-third the fleet has been modified for load-following of intermittent sources. However, cycling can introduce human error, an undesirable element in the case of nuclear power.
"Natural gas—in the absence of affordable storage—remains the technology of choice for integrating large-scale renewable energy resources," Herzog said.
In related news, EPRI's just-released "Generic Models and Model Validation for Wind and Solar PV Generation: Technical Update" is an ongoing effort to answer "a need for generic, standard and publicly available models for variable generation technologies for the purpose of power system planning studies," according to the update's abstract. Frankly, generic models and model validation go beyond my current knowledge, but I get that modeling and system planning are among the nuts-and-bolts issues in RE integration, especially as utilities attempt to meet RPSs.
Lastly, UWIG has become UVIG. Yes, that took place last October, but I wasn't paying attention and even UWIG acknowledged that this change in scope will take time (i.e., most of 2012). The change reflected the growing need to accommodate increasing solar power on the grid and the potential for other variable energy resources such as wave and hydrokinetic power to assume greater importance. UVIG has worked for more than three decades to be a forum for solid engineering and operational practices in renewables integration at utility scale.
Phil Carson
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I haven't read the MIT report yet, but I've spent enough time on the issues in California to be reasonably conversant on this topic.
Cycling plants that were originally built for a base load duty cycle is nothing new. Most of the remaining fleet of coastal plants in California were originally built with supercritical boilers for for base load operation. Many of the coal plants that are being retired in response to new clean air regulations were built for base load operation and later modified. The same holds true for a number of large, supercritical gas plants in and around the Houston area. Many of those plants are more than 30 years old and are past the end of their economic lives.
I think it's also important for readers to remember that base load generation imposes costs of its own. My observation over many decades in this business is that utilities and independent generators still look at busbar costs assuming a plant will operate at full load, and then they choose base load generation without taking a careful look at the plant's duty cycle over its lifetime. AEP's giant coal plants are a perfect example.
Storage is still too costly, though in part its because there's not enough price variability. If regulators and politicians are scared by the prospect of hourly and intra-hour wholesale prices that move dramatically from one period to the next, storage is never going to make sense. Price differentials have to be large enough to cover the cost of the losses that every storage device incurs, plus the storage device's O&M costs, plus some contribution to fixed costs. If on average, the relative difference between the prices storage receives when it generates and the prices it pays when it charges is less than 2.5 or 3x, other options probably make more sense. A high efficiency pumped storage plant needs on average a 1.33 differential, most existing pumped storage plants need at least 1.5, and flow batteries need 2.0 just to pay for their losses.
If grids are built to make sure there's never ever a shortage of supply, we'll end up with a fleet of electricity production factories that is economically inefficient and operates badly. We tend to overbuild supply based on engineering criteria and then wonder why the economic models for complementary technologies like storage, DG and flexible demand that could help balance renewables never seem to make economic sense. Perhaps its time to start thinking about electricity in terms of classical market economics and stop thinking about it in terms of the parallel economic universe that's been invented and refined over the years by utilities, regulators and rate economists.
It's possible as Mr. Woodridge suggests that this push for renewable energy is a fool's errand. We currently have abundant supplies of the fossil fuels used for electric generation and they are relatively cheap. However current costs fail to account for the as-yet unknown impacts on those that live near extraction sites; the consequences of exhausting fossil fuel supplies; and the long-term climatic impacts. I'd personally rather see renewable energy development proceed a little more thoughtfully so that there's time to more fully understand and solve problems like those outlined in the MIT report, but I'm not willing to say we should call a halt.
Jack Ellis, Tahoe City, CA
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Renewables, specifically wind and solar, are not economically feasible as baseload power and are not physically feasible as peaking power due to their generation timing. When one talks of utility scale wind and solar, one is generally talking remotely located facilities which means long distance transmission lines rated to carry X amount of power but, on average, delivering 0.3X amount of power in the case of wind and 0.2X amount of power in the case of solar. These technologies were forcibly deployed by use of RPSs, RESs, PTCs, and cash grants in order to promote an agenda. The result of this forcible deployment is economic distress for the US and other OECD countries to no net environmental benefit. Studies out of the UK (see the Civitas group) and out of the Netherlands (see report by Dutch physicist C. le Pair have shown that heavy investment in wind energy in those countries has resulted in no CO2 emissions decreases due to having to run fossil fueled power plants at low loads to provide rapid backup and to provide grid stability to make up for the intense variability of wind generators. Further, the Civitas study shows that the installed cost of offshore wind exceeds the installed cost of nuclear power on a per unit capacity basis and the all-in costs of electrical energy on a per MWh basis when levelized exceed all other technologies.
A major problem with both of these technologies is non-dispatchability. A second problem is variability which tends to destabilize the grid. Both of these demand that there must be a matching megawatt of fossil power for every megawatt of wind or solar installed so one must either add fossil generation or keep an older fossil plant commissioned when it should have been retired to provide the needed backup and grid stabilization. Theoretically, one could install some storage to provide backup and stability but just how much storage will one need to provide for days when a pressure cell settles in an area an virtually becalms it for days in the case of wind. The parallel with solar is to have several days of overcast weather which seriously degrade the output of solar facilities.
It's is pretty stupid and pretty wasteful to jump through hoops to integrate energy technologies that achieve little or nothing to decrease emissions of CO2 or anything else for that matter.
Look at what happened to Spain according to an economic study there--for every job gained in green technology, they lost 2.2 jobs in other industries. Each job added effectively cost in excess of $700,000.
The real joke is that for the amount of taxpayer dollars pumped into green energy by way of PTCs and cash grants, we could have built dispatchable gas turbine combined cycle plants and/or ultra-supercritical coal plants that would have actually decreased emissions substantially without laying waste to large swaths of forested regions or pristine wilderness areas to make access for windfarms and utility scale solar and the long distance transmission lines they so desperately need.
Utter idiocy
Mark Wooldridge
The problem is who pays for this integration
The reason I commented on this particular article in the way I did is that however the integration is done, someone will pay for it. Any federal contributions to the program come from the taxpayers because the feds do not have any money they do not get from the taxpayers. Even if they print new money to pay for the programs, they devalue what money the taxpayers still have after paying their taxes so the taxpayer ends up paying higher prices for everything, ergo the taxpayer pays.
If the integration is done by utilities, the ratepayers pay. At least at present, the majority of ratepayers are taxpayers, therefore it is arguable the taxpayer pays.
The article talks about cycling baseload fossil power plants to integrate renewables. If the baseload power plant is a utility power plant, the costs of that plant is paid for by the taxpayer/ratepayer thereby increasing the cost per unit of energy from the plant because the plant is now not running at the high capacity factor for which it is designed and the heat rate is going up causing the taxpayer/ratepayer's cost per unit of energy to increase still further while his taxes are being used to subsidize the energy output of the renewable power facility. Sounds like a triple whammy to me.
If there were no renewable portfolio standards, renewable energy standards, production tax credits for wind, or cash-in-lieu grants for solar, there would be no need to pay for integrating these highly variable renewables, therefore no need to pay the costs of integrating them. The PTCs and cash grants all come from the taxpayers. The RPSs or RESs result in programs such as feed-in-tariffs or other such credits which basically increase the price of electricity for customers who cannot afford to invest in windfarms, solar farms, or solar panels on their homes or buildings. The taxpayers who are not able to invest in renewables end up being burdened with the tax credits given to those who can afford to invest in them.
In short, what is the net result of investing taxpayer money in or causing the taxpayer/ratepayer to pay more for electricity produced by these wind or solar projects and to pay for them to integrate this green energy. The answer--nothing.
I do not object to change if it is beneficial but not if the benefits either do not exist or the benefits do not outway the costs. The benefits of wind do not outway the costs because there presently is no benefit to wind generation if you bother to read the Civitas or C. le Pair studies. The benefits of solar do not outway the costs because solar was subjected to commercial deployment before all the R&D was done to get the costs of manufacture down. Thus, since neither of the technologies result in benefits that outway the costs, the benefits of integration do not outway the costs.
The American taxpayer is being bled to death through taxes to pay rich people to develop and operate uneconomical power generation facilities, increased prices of foods and goods due to taxation of the companies from whom he/she obtains the foods and goods, increased costs of building materials resulting from the proliferation of windfarms that use massive quantities of building materials per MWh generated, loss of employment due to manufacturing businesses closing down or leaving the US to go overseas where they pay lower taxes and lower wages, and now this integration of renewables will raise the taxpayer's cost of living still higher.
In short, our own governments (federal and state levels) are participating in the destruction of America by squeezing the taxpayer (be they individuals or businesses not involved in green energy) to the point he has nothing left. You are damn right I am mad.
Mark Wooldridge
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I will have to check on the lowest individual taxes in the industrialized world to see where our tax rates fit. I know that 26% of my gross pay gets taken from me before I ever get my check. The American corporate income tax rate is now the highest in the world from what I heard on the news the other day--we were second. Corporations find ways to roll those taxes into prices that we have to pay for goods. I believe those demanding green energy have been misled by those who promote green energy programs into thinking the energy is really free and cost competitive and that it really decreases CO2 emissions. Read the Civitas group report on the effects of the UK's heavy investment in wind energy and the report done by C. le Pair in the Netherlands about the results there and you will see those countries have found wind has not decreased CO2 emissions--in fact, le Pair states it has increased CO2 emissions by 3%. Nor do I believe that manmade CO2 is the principal cause of global warming--no wait that was global cooling originally--okay, global climate change. I believe it contributes but is not the principal cause just as the waste heat from power generation contributes but is not the prinicpal cause.
If green energy was competitive, it would not require PTCs, cash grants, or RPSs to be implemented. In ERCOT, generation is strictly market-based--all competitive. At night, wholesale power prices routinely drop to under $30 per MWh--3 cents per KWh. Not only does wind energy get the 3 cents but they get 2.2 cents from the feds as a PTC. Wind is highly variable--when a front is moving in, the wind might blow strong enough for the windfarms to produce significant power around the clock. If a stationary cell settles in, there may be no significant wind generation for a couple of days. Normally, wind is available from midnight to 0800. The result of this uncertainty, no one wants to build new thermal generation because they cannot project what their return will be and now, ERCOT is short of their reserve margin target in the warm months. In addition, ERCOT consumers are now on the hook for some $7 billion to pay for a transmission line (that was supposed to be $4.3 billion) just to bring wind energy from the west to load centers.
As for the massive subsidies to oil companies which are "...the most profitable companies on the face of the earth..." Defining most profitable depends on whether you are talking quantity of money or profit margin. You will find many other industries with higher profit margins than oil companies. And, what about GE? They did not pay any income taxes yet their CEO is an adviser to the President on job creation while they are moving some production lines to China. No oil company gets a tax credit for producing oil--they may have deductions from income. No, let me correct that--if you are so concerned about subsidizes to big (bad) oil, you better look at some of the big players in the green energy development field, because that is one route some big oil players (and others with higher profit margins than big oil) are using to reduce their tax burden. Guess who picks up the slack.
Last year, DoE spent $100 billion on green energy promotions. $100 billion is enough to build 91,000MW of gas turbine combined cycle plants that could have replaced older coal-fired plants that do not have SO2 scrubbers and other emissions equipment while reducing CO2 emissions by roughly 162 million tons per year if run at base load. $100 billion is enough to build 45,000MW of ultra-supercritical coal fired power plant with all emissions controls (except CCS) that would have reduced CO2 emissions by 81 million tons per year running at base load. And both of those technologies are fully dispatchable while neither wind nor solar are dispatchable.
On top of that, I wonder how many deaths would result from loss of electricity or lack of dependable electricity compared to the EPA's (gue)estimate of power plant emissions related deaths.
As for the Iraq War--I think it was completely unjustified. We have no business engaging in nation-building, especially among a group of peoples (differing ethnicities) whom we do not even understand. My thoughts on the Afghan War--once we determined that Al Qaeda was the culprit and where they were, we should have pretended we had absolutely no idea what to do and publicly wrung our hands in despair while we sent the "black jets" and precision guided munitions to obliterate every Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan and any other place we knew of using precision guided munitions without asking permission of Pakistan or any other country. Once we started talking with countries surrounding Afghanistan to get their permission, you can be sure that while we were into opening "arguments", bin Laden was already warned and gone. Maybe some special ops units to check things out later but no invasion, no nation-building, and minimum if any civilian casualties. What that has to do with the DoE throwing money away now, I am not sure but you brought it up.
I think your views of the role of government is a bit idealized--but, that is my opinion. It is also my opinion that Energy Secretary Chu is a highly educated man with no common sense to speak of. It is also my opinion that the federal government should stick to the powers and duties assigned it in the Constitution.
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MIT is correct yet throughout the industry there has been touted a misconseption about pumped storage and it's flexibility. The lastest technology in pump turbines renders that arguement null.
A variable speed pump turbine coupled with the digital stator can respond in 5 sec. and be at full capacity in 20 sec. For the balancing of large variable renewable these advances make pumped hydro very attractive.
Its also been said the the siting of pumped hydro is very difficut- true but doable, in fact its happening now with projects waiting on FERC licensing. By removing a pumped hydro from the aquatic resource and designing a closed loop system most of the environmental nexus is removed. This reduces the cost of licensing and mostly removes the nimbyism that arose when projects wanted to use recreational bodys of water.
Large scale grid sized storage does have one set back - it removes the need for combustion based ramping generation which is a large part of the major utilities inventory. No company wants to see their assets become obsolete and they do fight storage projects.
However the time has come for storage to take its place in the energy market if only for onee reason - to lessen the impacts of fossil fuel use.


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Benjamin Powell on the Payroll Tax Cut and Salt Regulation by the FDA
Recorded: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Benjamin Powell engages with Judge Napolitano on Fox Business Networks Freedom Watch about the payroll tax cut and the FDA regulation of salt.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: TelevisionIssues: Agriculture, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Regulation and Deregulation, Social Security, Taxes
Benjamin Powell on U.S. Pork Barrel Farm Policies
Recorded: Friday, August 20, 2010
Benjamin Powell on CNBC discusses the pitfalls of U.S. protection of the farming industry with pork barrel farm policies, and how they hurt both Americans and producers in underdeveloped countries.
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Recorded: Thursday, February 21, 2008
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For decades, efforts to end world poverty have focused on redistributing wealth, rather than creating it. This approach, however, has done little to foster long-term economic progress in Africa.
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One of the biggest misnomers about partnered sex is that intercourse is "all the way," is the only "real" sex, and is some sort of final goal to sexuality, which is unfortunate and untrue. Intercourse also isn't the only sexual activity that presents the possibility of both physical and emotional risks, negative and positive.
The idea that intercourse -- especially only penis-in-vagina intercourse -- is the only sexual activity anyone needs to think about being ready for can also leave many queer people out in the cold, or give the idea that the readiness (or lack thereof) of gay, lesbian or bisexual people doesn't matter. Of course, some of all that hoopla about why genital intercourse is THE sex can have to do with the fact that it's often where the greatest risks are taken.
Any kind of genital sex is often framed as "taking it to the next level," even though in plenty of relationships, or for plenty of people, that may not be any sort of "next" or "higher" level at all, especially if one or both people involved really aren't and don't feel ready. It can be a big shocker to presume a sexual activity safe and then discover you've got a sexually transmitted infection, or feel some heartache from something you thought had nothing to do with your heart at all. To have any kind of sex be as good in the short and long-term as it can possibly be, anticipating, recognizing and managing realities and risks -- both wanted and unwanted -- is a big help. The best sex is pretty much always the sex everyone involved really wants and is earnestly ready for.
If you're considering having sex for the first time or for any time thereafter, there are a bunch of things you and your partner should know and evaluate, especially with an activity like intercourse where pregnancy is an additional risk. So take stock, see where you stand in terms of a readiness ideal and get real!
When we're figuring out if we're ready for sex with a partner, if we want to ask ourselves the most basic questions possible, those are:
If you said yes to the last question, then you and your partner(s) are probably in a sound position to have a kind of sex together and more likely to have positive outcomes. If you said no to the last question, then one or both of you might want to press pause, and rethink your choices and/or take some time to make changes to whatever needs changing to get you both to that yes.
And that's the Cliff's Notes. Want the novel? Keep reading.
Intercourse or other partnered genital sex will not necessarily do any of the following for you or your partner:
There's a lot to think about when deciding if it is right for you and your partner to have vaginal intercourse or other genital sex. Here are some questions to ask of yourself, and to ask of your partner.
Do either of you feel you must or should, feel pressured in any way from your partner or friend, or think sex will fix troubles in your relationship? Then hit the pause button. Sex between people should only happen when it is what both people enthusiastically and actively want and not just because they think it'll make the other person happy (or get them to stop nagging). Another thing to give you pause might be if you're fantasizing about sex based on movies or television. Remember how in Tom and Jerry cartoons, Tom could hit a wall and walk away from it just fine, and you knew that wouldn't work in real life? Same goes with a lot of sex in movies and television; it isn't often as it appears.
On the other hand, if you've been with your partner long enough (whatever that means to you) to feel good about the idea of sex with them, feel a strong desire for sex yourself, and have a solid level of other sexual experience (including kissing, petting, masturbation); you feel you can trust yourself and your partner with limits; if you're looking to explore your sexual relationship responsibly and sensitively, and for some greater intimacy and sexual exploration with no notion any certain result -- positive or negative -- is guaranteed, and you've got a firm grip on reality, read on.
I'd also suggest checking in with yourself to be sure that sex is what you really want from sex. In other words, take some time to think about what you're looking for in having sex with someone else, and that what you're seeking really is sex, rather than, for example, more general physical affection, personal validation, a way to cement your relationship, control or ownership of someone else, some kind of risk when you're feeling stagnant in your life, friendship or other things that certainly can be aspects of sex, but which sex might also not really tend to or be the best choice to address or accomplish.
If it's for you and your partner as well as you, fantastic. But if it's for someone else primarily, not for yourself -- or JUST for yourself -- take another pause. People have hands and fingers. They know how to use them to get off and you can rest assured they've been using them long before you came along. Sex with someone else shouldn't just be about self-gratification; that's what masturbation is for. If your friends are saying you should, with no understanding of your relationship, or your own needs, they're being crappy friends. A lot of friends who pressure their friends to have sex do so because they don't feel all that good about their own choices, and want to hide behind endorsing sex to make themselves feel better. Tell them to carry their own baggage, not try and pass it off on you.
It's smart to take stock of what your expectations are, and give them a reality check. Talk to a friend who has had intercourse or other genital sex who is really honest with you (or an older sibling or family member) about what you expect, and listen to their own experiences. Gather diverse perspectives: one person's sexual experiences can often vary a lot from those of another.
If you have a list as long as Santa's of sexual expectations, it isn't very likely they'll all be met. Sex is often not what we expect, whether the difference between our expectations and reality is positive, negative, or just another ball of wax. Often -- with sex or anything else -- the less we expect, the more we often receive. Intercourse or other genital sex isn't a miracle cure for anything, and it isn't always a fireworks show: it can be a wonderful, natural affirmation of intimacy, and an excellent physical and emotional experience as long as you're ready for it and take it at face value, without romanticizing it or imagining it to be something it is not. The sex you have with someone else tends to be a mirror of your relationship: if your relationship is lousy, the sex within it isn't likely to be better or to improve the relationship.
Some studies show that a good 30% of people never have sex again with a first partner. Only about 25% of women usually report enjoying first intercourse; less than 8% report orgasm from first intercourse. Those bummers most likely had to do with being ill-prepared in general, not taking the time to learn each other's sexual basics, both partners not being equally invested, and overall, with unrealistic expectations. In other words, not about something being terribly wrong with people, but about people's expectations being out of whack. The cultural idea that first sex is the best sex is almost always off-kilter. Sex is one of those things that tends to improve for people over time and which gets better with time and experience, rather than starting off perfect and fantastic and either staying there or getting worse.
There's a lot to juggle; probably more than you think. Here are the material, physical, emotional and interpersonal ideals for partnered sex that's most likely to be enjoyable, safe, physically gratifying, and emotionally sound.
Those material items are ideal to prevent and deal with disease, illness, infections or pregnancy (when applicable). Obviously, your mileage may vary when it comes to what sexual health and sexuality items might be covered by your insurance or your country, city or state's services provided to you for free or low-cost. These items may also be limited by your age or personal or family means. There is no sex, save masturbation -- no matter how long you and your partner have known each other, or what you have convinced yourself of -- that does not carry some risks, no matter how safe you play it, and reducing and managing those risks often costs money.
One last thing that is important to consider is what the laws are in your country, province or state when it comes to sex and related issues. For instance, are you and/or your partner over the age of consent? What about laws and policies around access to birth control? If you're engaging in sex with pregnancy risks, are you making your choices knowing what your rights, or those of your partner, are in terms of pregnancy, abortion or parenting? Many areas, provinces and states have laws and policies around sex and reproductive/sexual rights which may surprise you and may influence you or a partner's sexual choices, so doing a little homework in that department makes a whole lot of sense.
Toss the checklist to your partner too: talk about the items on it together. This is about both of you. You may find that simply discussing the reality of the situation makes a big difference for you both. A lot of sex is innate and intuitive, and it is perfectly normal to feel driven by our libido and our emotions, but it isn't smart to ignore good sense and responsible behavior, or the practical parts of sex, because of those feelings and desires. Rather, when we have our basic needs in place, it can be a lot easier to be spontaneous and free-spirited with sex.
That's a lot to look at, we know. How did you do? What do you have already set, and what might you need to look into evaluating, talking about or getting?
Please know that realistically, even most older adults will not check every single thing on this list. But we can safely say that any person who's pretty darn ready for partnered genital sex, and who's most likely to have beneficial and healthy sexual experiences, should have or be working towards most of what is on this list, as should their partner.
If you can see some areas where you're lacking, give yourself time to think about them, maybe re-evaluate, slow down, and hold off before you become sexually active until you've made more progress. When you see weak spots in what you've got on the list, how about just doing some work on those? In talking to a partner who feels they're ready, you might want to remember this list so that you can better articulate and explain in what areas you don't feel you or they are really ready.
There isn't a statute of limitations on your sex life. You can initiate any of it at any time during your life, and change what you want to do as you go along, determining at any time what is best for you, and for your partner(s). If you haven't checked almost all of the things on those lists, take a look at the ones you didn't check and try and figure out what you need to do for yourself right now. There is no reason to set yourself up for a fall, or rush into something that won't be enjoyable or rewarding, when it isn't going to go away if you wait. Be honest with yourself, and above all else, do what is right for YOU.
Information on this site is provided for educational purposes. It is not meant to and cannot substitute for advice or care provided by an in-person medical professional. The information contained herein is not meant to be used to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease, or for prescribing any medication. You should always consult your own healthcare provider if you have a health problem or medical condition.


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Civil Liberties and Security in an Age of Terrorism
Recorded: Thursday, July 18, 2013
Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism: A special evening with our "Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminars" students and featured by C-SPAN's Book TV. Watch this eye-opening, timely discussion on the recent revelations of systematic government spyingincluding NSA accessing of phone records, USPS photocopying the exterior of all mail, and the dangers posed to liberty and security by these and other such unchecked and unconstitutional powers.
Experts: Anthony Gregory, Robert Higgs, Mary L. G. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Privacy, Terrorism and National Crises
Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
Highlights from the Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Highlights from the Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Robert Higgs accepting the Alexis de Tocqueville Award
Part 2: Tribute from Ron Paul
Part 3: Tribute from Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Part 4: Tribute from Leszek Balcerowicz
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Archbishop Desmond M. TutuType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Government Power
Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
Recorded: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Experts: Ivan Eland, Peter Galbraith, Charles V. PeñaType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy
What the Second Amendment Means Today
Recorded: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Experts: Robert Higgs, Don B. Kates Jr., David J. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Constitutional Law, Gun Control, History (U.S)
Why Are Politicians Always Trying to Scare Us?
Recorded: Thursday, December 6, 2007
Experts: Robert Higgs, David J. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Government Power, Politics, Terrorism and National Crises
The 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Awards and An Evening With Robert Higgs
Recorded: Wednesday, December 6, 2006
The gala reception and presentation of the Thomas S. Szasz Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties to Robert Higgs and Robert Spillane, followed by a special forum featuring Dr. Higgs on Liberty and Leviathan, based on his acclaimed book, Depression, War, and Cold War (Oxford University Press).
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The Thomas S. Szasz Award is a tribute conferred annually by the Center for Independent Thought for the avocation of civil liberties and to encourage others to work to protect personal autonomy from state encroachment.
Robert Higgs
Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute.
Winner, 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Award, General Award.
Author, Depression, War, and Cold War, Against Leviathan, and Crisis and Leviathan.
Robert Spillane
Professor of Management Macquarie University Australia.
Winner, 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Award, Professional Award.
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President, Center for Independent Thought
David J. Theroux
Founder and President, The Independent Institute
Experts: Robert Higgs, Robert Spillane, Thomas S. SzaszType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Political Ideology and Philosophy
Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society
Recorded: Wednesday, September 29, 2004
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What is fundamentally wrong with government today? Since 2001, despite low inflation, federal spending has increased by a massive 28.8%, creating the largest deficits in U.S. history and the highest rate of government growth since the "guns-and-butter" presidencies of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. At the same time, federal agencies have been given new powers to secretly search anyone's property and intercept phone, Internet, and other communications, as well as inspect health and financial records. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, economist and historian Robert Higgs alone predicted this explosion of government power, as politicians have again taken full advantage of a frightened American public.
At this special Independent Policy Forum based on his new book, Against Leviathan, Dr. Higgs will present an unflinchingly critical analysis of the abuse of government power, including pork, the welfare state, protectionism, trampling on the Bill of Rights, and governmental responses to a continuing stream of "crises," including foreign wars, both hot and cold. Dr. Higgs combines an economist's analytical scrutiny, an historian's respect for the facts, and a refusal to accept the standard excuses and cruelties of government officialdom.
Robert Higgs
Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy
Author, Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society
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Founder and President, The Independent Institute
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Maria Farm is located 32 km from the centre of Pärnu. In Pärnu, drive along the Haapsalu maantee that becomes Lihula highway at the city limits. Continue along the Lihula highway up to the post marking kilometre 12 where you will see a sign for Maria Farm pointing left towards Tõstamaa. Turn left, continue to the post marking kilometre 22 on Tõstamaa highway and you have arrived.
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