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Testimony :: The Honorable A. Elizabeth Jones
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs - US Department of State
Chairman Campbell and Co-Chairman Smith, thank you for this opportunity to appear, along with Assistant Secretary Craner of the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, before the Helsinki Commission. We in the European Bureau -- and Ambassador Minikes and his fine staff in Vienna -- would like to thank the Helsinki Commission for the close cooperation we have enjoyed during the past year.
I would note that the OSCE has become one of the most effective tools for promoting democratic values, serving as a reliable instrument for conducting and monitoring elections, promoting free media, and ensuring the democratic rights of ethnic minorities. The OSCE supplements the work of NATO and the European Union without competing with them.
The last time I appeared before the Commission, less than a month had passed since the tragic events of September 11. I spoke then of the Administration's determination to make the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) an important actor in the gathering struggle against terrorism. I am happy to report that significant progress has been made. I would like to review these developments with you and outline the efforts we have made across the three OSCE dimensions -- the human, the economic, and the security -- to ensure that this vital organization remains relevant and responsive to the world in which we now live.
In the run-up to the December 3-4 OSCE Ministerial in Bucharest last year, the 55 participating states of the OSCE worked hard to develop an appropriate response to September 11. This effort paid off with agreement on a comprehensive Action Plan on Combating Terrorism. The Plan committed all OSCE members to become parties to the 12 UN terrorism conventions and protocols by December 31, 2002. Members also pledged to take steps to prevent terrorist groups from operating on their territory, to share information on such groups with other participating states, and to take action to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist organizations. The Action Plan tasked all OSCE institutions and bodies to prepare roadmaps with timetables and resource requirements for implementing their portions of the Action Plan.
Two weeks after Bucharest, the OSCE met in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and endorsed an additional Program of Action at the Conference on Enhancing Security and Stability in Central Asia. The Bishkek Programme echoed many of the Bucharest recommendations. It added a pledge to take further action on the financial aspects of combating terrorism. Specifically, states will consider implementing the standards of financial accountability and transparency embodied in the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on money laundering and terrorist financing (which is housed within the OECD), and to take immediate steps to block the assets of individuals and entities linked to terrorist financing.
In the months since the Bucharest and Bishkek meetings the OSCE has been working diligently to follow through on the above commitments. A majority of OSCE states have now signed or become parties to nine out of 12 of the conventions. We continue to work with participating states for further progress in this area. In February, the OSCE Chairman in Office appointed former Danish Defense Minister and current MP Jan Troejborg as the Personal Representative for Preventing and Combating Terrorism. The OSCE has created an Anti-Terror Unit in the OSCE Secretariat, staffed by experienced diplomats, to work with Mr. Troejborg to bring focus to day-to-day work on implementing the Bucharest and Bishkek plans. OSCE Police Advisor Richard Monk, meanwhile, has been working with Central Asian states to assess how the OSCE can best help them in resisting the spread of terrorism.
In addition, the OSCE has made notable progress on terrorist finance issues. The annual OSCE Economic Forum Meeting in Prague in late May discussed the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations on terrorist financing. Following this conference, OSCE participating states adopted a U.S. proposal committing each state to complete a self assessment by September 1 on efforts their compliance with the FATF recommendations. This initiative committed 34 states, not otherwise obligated to do so, to complete the self-assessments on their compliance with the FATF recommendations on terrorist financing.
In addition, the OSCE, in cooperation with the UN Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention, is conducting training seminars in Central Asia on money laundering and terrorist financing issues. This program will strengthen the ability of these states to implement the commitments they have undertaken and to prevent terrorist organizations from obtaining access to funds that could support their activities. The U.S. was the major financial contributor to this project.
The U.S. and Russia jointly proposed the creation of a database where OSCE states can post requests for assistance or OSCE institutions can post funding requests for counterterrorism-related programs, and other states can post offers for assistance. This proposal was itself part of a broader effort we have launched to work with Russia at OSCE in areas of mutual interest, beginning with counterterorrism.
We have also been working with the Portuguese Chair, the Russians and the EU to develop an OSCE Charter on Terrorism to be adopted at the December Ministerial in Porto. This will be a short statement of core principles to serve as a guide and spur to future work of the OSCE on this fundamental issue
As part of its counterterrorism efforts, the U.S. has proposed establishing an annual OSCE security review conference. This would provide an enduring forum for evaluating the work of the OSCE in promoting progress on counterterrorism. It will also serve as a forum for reviewing other OSCE activities in the security dimension, including those of its regional and field offices. By establishing such a conference we could ensure that the OSCE remains focused on implementing its counterterrorism agenda and providing necessary assistance in the years to come.
The review conference would take its mandate from the proposed Terrorism Charter and, particularly during its first years, focus on evaluating and reviewing implementation of the Bucharest Action Plan, Bishkek Document and relevant elements of UNSCR 1373 on counter-terrorism.
Improved coordination between the OSCE, the EU, and NATO also is important to broadening the work of the OSCE in the security dimension and in achieving U.S. priorities. Such cooperation is becoming more important as all institutions are taking on new responsibilities, especially regarding challenges to regional security, including terrorism, border security and trafficking.
The OSCE recognizes that economic and environmental issues can be the basis for security concerns, and if not addressed may threaten stability. Its economic dimension seeks to bring states together to address common problems such as water resources, development issues, and corruption.
The United States seeks a broadening of the OSCE's economic efforts, which can provide significant support to both the human and security dimensions. For example, in the coming year the OSCE's Economic Dimension will focus greater attention on the economic aspects of all forms of trafficking in persons. One area of new activity under discussion is developing legitimate business opportunities -- especially for women -- to mitigate the economic desperation that can compel people to fall into trafficking.
We believe the OSCE can function best as a provider of economic expertise. Particularly in re-integrating societies that have experienced ethnic conflict, the OSCE is well suited to provide training in crucial areas such as policing and customs collection and management, and in helping societies making the transition from a command economy to develop the legal framework necessary to build respect for the rule of law.
In addition, we support and promote anti-corruption and good governance activities in the OSCE area, noting that corruption and lack of transparency are important obstacles to business development, outside investment and adequate legal redress.
The OSCE is an important forum for engaging cooperatively with the Russian Federation. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the organization has proven to be a significant arena for the development of the new Russian-U.S. relationship. Broadening the work of the OSCE -- to include additional activities in the economic and security dimensions as noted above -- addresses many Russian concerns, while also advancing U.S. objectives. This effort has already borne fruit on cooperation in the counterterrorism field and other areas. We expect this cooperation to continue to lead to greater operational effectiveness within the OSCE.
In our view, this must also include cooperation across the full range of OSCE activities, including the human dimension. One of our primary goals in this endeavor is to strengthen Russian recognition of the OSCE as a valuable means of fostering democratic development in Russia and in enhancing its ties with neighbors and the West.
With no end in sight to the conflict in Chechnya, we must ensure that the OSCE Assistance Group can exercise its mandate to promote a political solution to that conflict, to protect human rights, and to work toward the economic and social rehabilitation of that area.
The OSCE plays an important role in providing a venue for effective engagement with Russia on a number of arms control issues. Of particular importance right now are questions on the implementation of the CFE Treaty-related commitments made on withdrawal of Russian forces and equipment from Georgia and Moldova at the 1999 OSCE Summit in Istanbul.
While important results have already been achieved on implementation of those commitments, key issues remain to be resolved regarding the duration of the Russian military presence at two bases in Georgia, and the status of the Russian presence at a third, in Abkhazia. In Moldova, withdrawal or disposal of Russian military equipment, including tons of ammunition and thousands of small arms, has been stalemated during 2002 by opposition from Transnistrian separatists. In early October the Russians were able to reach agreement with the Transnistrians permitting the withdrawal of a full train-load of ammunition. We will continue to work for further progress with all parties on this issue.
As Secretary Powell noted on August 1, human rights remains essential as we wage war against terrorism. The OSCE is a critical forum in that effort. In addition to the many field missions that have a substantial human rights focus, the OSCE sponsors an annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly also play an important role in this area, as evidenced by its resolution -- passed in July -- requiring Belarus to cooperate with the Assistance Monitoring Group as a pre-condition for seating Belarussian parliamentarians. The United States strongly supports such efforts to bolster the commitment of the OSCE to human rights. The fact is that, even as we broaden the range of OSCE activities to encompass issues such as combating terrorism, human rights remains the heart of what the OSCE does.
Central Asia is becoming an increasingly important area of attention for the OSCE. The organization serves as a vital forum for us to discuss human rights issues and to promote democracy in the Central Asian region. Given the need for both economic and political development in the area, the United States needs to address human rights concerns along with efforts to broaden the activities of the OSCE.
We have developed a plan of action for increased OSCE involvement in the Central Asian region that includes:
Terrorist Financing. The Central Asian States could do more regarding the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations on money laundering and terrorist financing but are limited by a lack of resources. The OSCE can be the catalyst for providing assistance to the Central Asian States about how to implement the FATF recommendations. This effort is already underway and training has been started.
Police Training. As sound policing is critical to any counterterrorism effort, the OSCE could determine how it might apply experience gained in its policing programs to Central Asia. The Bucharest Action Plan specifically targets border security, trafficking in persons, trafficking in drugs, money laundering and arms trafficking. The OSCE could help enhance police training in Central Asia in: concrete policing skills; inter-ethnic policing; and observance of human rights.
Rule Of Law/Judicial Reform. To complement police and other security force training and to strengthen a bedrock element of democracy, OSCE could contribute to strengthening the capabilities of courts and lawyers, both prosecutors and defense attorneys. Emphasis could be on areas such as court administration, the use of evidence resulting from improved policing skills, legislative drafting and/or training in laws relating to trafficking, money laundering, other economic crime, and other crimes related to terrorism or support of terrorism.
Trafficking in Persons. Trafficking in persons is a problem across the OSCE region and will be a focus of the Dutch OSCE Chairmanship in 2003. OSCE should focus programs on public education in source countries, including Central Asia, and assist with drafting legislation making prosecution of traffickers easier and protecting the rights of victims.
Ultimately, our focus on human rights and democracy continues to be the most important pillar of our OSCE strategy in the region. In order to combat terrorism and defeat extremist insurgencies in the region, we need to encourage the development of democratic institutions that respect human rights.
During the past year, Belarus has been the object of some of our most serious human rights concerns. On September 6, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry denied without credible justification a request for a visa extension for the OSCE's Advisory and Monitoring Group Mission's (AMG) human rights officer in Belarus. Earlier this year, Belarus denied visa extensions to the AMG's Deputy Head of Mission and its Political officer, thereby bringing to a temporary halt the AMG's activities in Belarus.
Belarus argued that it found no grounds for extending the visas. Yet numerous reasons for an extension can be offered. Civil society increasingly is under attack by the Lukashenko regime. Journalists have been imprisoned and newspapers closed down. Minsk has sought to crush all legitimate opposition. Members of NGO's have been assaulted, fined, and imprisoned and opponents of the regime have disappeared. Credible reports indicate that a regime death squad is responsible for these disappearances. Meanwhile, the presidential election held last year failed to meet international standards and, unless serious electoral reforms are adopted, local elections expected in early 2003 will face the same fate.
The OSCE AMG is tasked to help Belarus address these kinds of issues. Concern over what is happening there will not disappear with the expulsion of another member of the AMG. Belarus will remain a regular issue of concern and discussion by the OSCE. Belarus will not be able to normalize its relations with the United States and other members of the Euro-Atlantic community unless it permits the resumption of the activities of the AMG and makes progress in adhering to the four conditions established by the OSCE.
Additional delay on the part of the Belarus regime will only further its self-isolation from the Euro-Atlantic community and ensure that this issue becomes a topic for the December OSCE Ministerial in Porto. We continue to support the efforts of the Chair to resolve this impasse and secure a return of the AMG to Belarus. At the same time, we are discussing with other delegations additional measures that can be taken to address human rights concerns in Belarus, such as the Moscow Mechanism.
The OSCE plays a leading role in enhancing peace, stability, and democracy throughout Southeastern Europe. OSCE missions in Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Macedonia, and Albania are key to this effort. The establishment last year of a mission in Belgrade is already paying dividends in helping to support the democratic transition in Yugoslavia. The OSCE has trained some 460 multi-ethnic police in South Serbia, a sensitive area near Kosovo. The training has helped build a police force that reflects local demographics, both gender and ethnic. The portion of ethnic Albanian police in this area is now 60%, whereas at the beginning of 2001 it was close to zero. The OSCE has been actively involved in helping to transform Radio and Television Serbia (RTS), once a mouthpiece of the Milosevic regime, into a public broadcaster. As RTS is still the largest broadcaster in Serbia, its transformation is especially important in spreading the messages of tolerance, objectivity and fairness -- important confidence building measures for the entire population.
In 2001, the OSCE responded energetically to the crisis in Macedonia, and continues to assist with post-conflict stabilization and implementation of the August 2001 Framework Agreement. The OSCE provided confidence-building monitors and police advisors to ensure the smooth return of multi-ethnic police to former conflict areas. It is helping to train one thousand new recruits for a multi-ethnic police force and is continuing related efforts to strengthen Macedonian civil society. ODIHR's robust monitoring presence during the recent parliamentary elections helped to ensure that Macedonia took another strong step forward in overcoming last year's crisis.
In Kosovo, OSCE seeks to develop multi-ethnic institutions and assist in the transition of those institutions to autonomous control, support the establishment of provisional self-government for Kosovo's citizenry, and safeguard human rights for all residents of Kosovo, including Serbs and other ethnic minorities. In keeping with this mandate, the OSCE mission in Kosovo will conduct municipal elections in October.
In Bosnia, the OSCE continues to support the objectives of the Dayton Agreement through its work in elections support, human rights, and democratization. As a result of its efforts, many activities have been returned to local control and the mission budget reduced commensurately.
Since the 1994 cease-fire between the government of Moldova and the authorities of the breakaway region of Transnistria, the OSCE has played a central role in conflict resolution in the region. Along with the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the OSCE is one of the three mediators in the so-called "five-sided talks" involving the two sides to the conflict.
The OSCE Mission to Moldova, headed admirably by Ambassador David Swartz, a retired member of the U.S. Foreign Service, has played an active and constructive role in attempting to find a solution to the very difficult "Transnistrian question." In the past several months, following nearly eight years without progress, there have been signs of some progress toward a comprehensive political settlement. Negotiations continue. The United States will make every effort to support this process.
Without the close and cooperative relationship among the OSCE Mission in Moldova, the Governments of Ukraine and Russia, the OSCE in Vienna, and the OSCE participating States, including the United States, none of this would have been possible.
In Georgia, the OSCE has an important role in monitoring and supervising the cease-fire between the breakaway region of South Ossetia and the central Georgian government. In addition to funding the Joint Control Commission that oversees the Joint Peacekeeping Force in South Ossetia, the OSCE also maintains an office in the regional capital of Tskhinvali. The OSCE staff in this office undertakes confidence-building measures and political-economic development work.
Efforts to resolve the conflict between the Georgian government and the breakaway region of Abkhazia are handled under a UN mandate by CIS peacekeeping forces and the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). However, the OSCE Mission in Georgia coordinates closely with the UN on humanitarian projects in and around Abkhazia, as part of its overall mandate for Georgia.
It is a U.S. priority to make the OSCE as operationally effective as possible. Political leaders increasingly rely on the OSCE for rapid and effective deployment of human resources to trouble spots in the region, such as occurred in Macedonia. We have worked vigorously to develop the REACT concept (Rapid Expert Assistance and Cooperation Teams). REACT provides a mechanism for the OSCE to recruit and deploy more rapidly experts in human rights, elections, public administration, policing, and rule of law. This program has enabled the OSCE to produce more qualified experts more efficiently to respond to field contingencies.
A related goal is increasing general managerial effectiveness. The OSCE expanded its activities more rapidly than it created systems to manage them. We are committed to ensuring that the OSCE implements the necessary procedures and systems to ensure effective managerial control of its operations. We believe the appointment of Senior Police Advisor and support unit, a new Economic/Environmental Coordinator, the Special Representative for Combating Terrorism and the Counterterrorism Unit are positive steps in improving the ability of the OSCE to operationalize its commitments. We fully support their activities.
Many participating states have also sought to give the organization a legal status equivalent to that of the United Nations. By contrast, the United States is satisfied with the way the OSCE is currently structured and does not believe fundamental changes to its legal basis are needed. However, most of the support for granting the OSCE a "legal personality" revolves around concerns for the protection of personnel and the need for the organization's missions to function effectively. For this reason, the United States supports development of a convention that would provide privileges and immunities to the OSCE's officials and employees and authorize the OSCE to enter into legal contracts.
The United States is committed to the principle of burden sharing in funding OSCE activities. Last year, a number of States blocked adoption of the OSCE budget, insisting they were assessed at excessive rates. Earlier this year, after many months of negotiation, the OSCE adopted a new scale of assessments that will extend until the end of 2004, for the funding of the OSCE Secretariat, institutions and most OSCE Missions. The U.S. share remained at nine percent. In addition, last year the United States agreed to an increase in our scale of assessment for large missions from 12 percent to 13.57 percent, effective in 2002. Negotiations are underway over development of a methodology for new scales starting in 2005. Ensuring that burden sharing is reflected in the adoption of these scales remains the highest priority for the United States in these negotiations.
Mr. Chairman, we believe that the OSCE is a growth industry. It has important work to do in all three of its baskets. In the many field missions operated by the OSCE the United States seeks to advance security, to promote economic development, and to increase respect for human rights. Our purpose is to create the conditions that will permit OSCE to continue to grow in all three of these dimensions, so that the organization will continue as a force for progress in the Euro-Atlantic region for the foreseeable future. At the next Ministerial meeting and throughout the coming year, we hope to broaden the efforts of the OSCE to combat counterterrorism, to prevent trafficking, to promote economic development, and to enhance the effectiveness of the organization in improving the standard of respect for human rights among all member states. Our task is to see that it remains relevant and responsive to the world in which we live.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Justice Ruth Ginsberg wanted to know "what kind of marriage is it", if same sex couples are denied the same benefits as married men and women.
Justice Sotomayor wanted to know where the federal government gets the authority to define marriage.
The two liberal members of the court were clearly convinced that the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gay and lesbian couples who have been married in 9 States and the District of Columbia where same sex marriages are legal.
Such marriages are illegal in the vast majority of States with many adding amendments to their constitutions prohibiting same sex marriages.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, thought to be the key swing vote, seemed to suggest the federal government has infringed on States rights with DOMA which bans same sex married couples from eleven hundred different federal benefits. Kennedy points out that marriage has been a states issue, not federal.
he Obama administration enforced the DOMA law but no longer supports it. House leaders brought the case to the Supreme court after losing battles in lower federal courts.


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Third time's the charm for Denzel Washington. The "2 Guns" star had to ask his wife to marry him three times before she said yes.
The "Flight" star has been married to Pauletta, the mother of his four children, for 30 years but was forced to get down on one knee on three separate occasions before she would agree to wed.
Washington himself forgot the two previous refusals and had to be reminded by his wife, who joked that age was getting the better of his memory.
Speaking to Access Hollywood at the premiere of the actor's latest movie "2 Guns" in New York on Monday, Pauletta declared, "It was three times. I know with age sometimes things (go), the mind."
Washington added, "Why was it twice?…Why would I have to ask again?" and when informed by his wife that she turned him down twice he added, "You heard it here first. She turned me down, she said no. And since it was three times, that means she turned me down twice."
"2 Guns," which also stars Mark Wahlberg, opens in theaters on Friday.


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COP17: Australia to leverage carbon price momentum
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- 25 November 2011
Caroline Bayliss, Director, The Climate Group Australia, takes a look at the Australia negotiating position heading into COP17 in Durban next week, as part of a series of articles from our international policy staff looking at the position of key countries in the UN climate talks.
Emerging after a long battle to establish carbon pricing in Australia, the Labor Government now faces the challenge of using Australia's recent momentum to leverage increased action from the global community at COP17.
International climate change negotiations are a core concern of the Labor Government – not least because one of the key criticisms of the government's Clean Energy Future Package was that Australia is getting too far ahead of international action and that its three year fixed carbon price is much higher than the current EU price.
Both the Government and the Opposition have established a clear link between electoral support for a the Clean Energy Future legislation and the strength of international climate action.
While Australia has a target of 80% emissions reduction on 2000 levels by 2050, its shorter term target is contingent on internationally agreed climate change targets and commitments. Its 2020 target is to cut emissions by at least 5% compared with 2000, but the Government has stated that it may commit to decrease carbon pollution by 15-25% in that timeframe, depending on the scale of global action.
The Australia-Norway climate roadmap
In a submission to the UNFCCC process, Australia and Norway (both signatories to the 1997 Kyoto treaty) have proposed a new roadmap for international climate negotiations, including proposed outcomes for Durban.
The Australia-Norway roadmap states that a binding global pact to limit global emissions should not be finalized until 2015, as these two countries believe that it will take four years to agree a legally-binding deal that includes emission targets for developed and developing countries.
The submission contends that, "A stepwise approach from Durban to 2015 will provide time and space for countries to build confidence and capacity, and ensure a robust outcome over time." It also states that at the UN climate summit in Durban, countries should launch a process to negotiate a new treaty and begin evaluating and scaling up emission pledges made last year at Cancun. It is based on an expectation that the world's poorest countries will not take on any legally binding obligations.
The submission calls for the 2011-2014 period to establish carbon accounting rules, international oversight procedures, and the scaling-up of mitigation ambition in order to meet the 2C warming goal agreed to at the end of COP16 in Cancun.
Read about the UNFCCC Australia-Norway roadmap
Further reading
For those interested in more analysis on the prospects for COP17, the following sources e3g.org/ and wri.org/ are recommended.
Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager, The Climate Group, will also be writing news and analysis throughout COP17, and providing a more in-depth post-COP Briefing after the events. Keep up to date on our website and by following him on Twitter during COP17. Read Damian's Pre-COP17 Briefing.
Our international policy teams are also commenting on key regional positions in the lead-up to Durban; read about India, the US Europe and China.


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The following is a brief overview of carbon sequestration and offsets solutions undertaken by members of C2ES's Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC).
For more information on each of these companies efforts to address climate change, please see the Businesses Leading The Way [1] section of this Web site.
Air Products is a technology developer and provider for the CO2 Capture Project [2] (CCP), which is an international effort by seven of the world's leading energy companies. This project seeks to develop new technologies to reduce the cost of capturing CO2 from combustion sources and safely storing it underground. It is a collaborative effort involving partnerships with governments, industry, NGO's and other stakeholders.
Under the CCP, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. has directly contributed to projects, including early development of sorption enhanced water gas shift process and advancing the feasibility study of retrofitting boilers and fired heaters with oxy-fuel burner systems.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is also participating as a partner in the CANMET programs exploring means to increase efficiency in energy-intensive industries, develop more efficient hydrocarbon conversion processes, and reduce emissions, including CO2, from fossil fuel combustion.
Alcoa plants thousands of trees annually near their operations and service areas, sequestering thousands of tons of CO2 every year.
In 2003, Alcoa employees fulfilled a goal to plant one million trees around the world in ten years—and did so in half the time. A new company goal is for employees to plant 10 million trees by the year 2020.
BP is a member of the CO2 Capture Research Project [3] (CCP), an international effort by seven of the world's leading energy companies. BP is learning from its CO2 geologic storage facility in Algeria, where it will be storing around one million tons of CO2 a year beginning in 2004.
B P is working with the MIT Energy Laboratory [4] as part of a consortium researching the environmental impacts, technological approaches, and economic issues associated with carbon sequestration. The MIT research focuses on efforts to better understand and reduce the cost of carbon separation and sequestration.
BP is contributing to the development of a Blue Chip Standard, as part of the Climate and Biodiversity Alliance, for demonstrating the contribution of forestry projects to the goal of atmospheric greenhouse gas stabilization. This standard will support the creation of carbon sequestration credits that are generally recognized and therefore tradable.
BP's Global Choice [5] program allows Australian business customers to offset the greenhouse gas emissions from their fuel consumption. Participation in the program is free for companies purchasing BP Ultimate or bp autogas and only 1-2 cents per liter to offset regular unleaded or diesel fuels. The offsets are independently audited and certified by the Australian Federal Government's Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO). Since November 2001, over 6,500 customers have offset 626,095 tonnes of greenhouse gases.
Delta was the first U.S. airline to offer carbon offsets to its customers through a partnership with The Nature Conservancy. Proceeds benefit a forest conservation, reforestation and wildlife habitat restoration project in Louisiana's Tensas River Basin. In 2010 Delta, together with its customers, contributed more than $75,000 towards this project, the equivalent of offsetting the CO2 emissions of ten 747 flights from Tokyo to Detroit.
Dominion has supported a number of research projects designed to commercialize carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. For example, the company contributed $500,000 to the Virginia Center for Coal & Energy Research at Virginia Tech where scientists are studying carbon dioxide storage in the unmineable coal seams of Central Appalachia.
Some of the most promising sites for carbon storage are in Virginia's coalfield region near the company's new Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, which Dominion designed to accommodate CCS technology once it is becomes available.
DTE Energy seeks opportunities to sequester carbon dioxide and capture methane escaping from landfills. Since 1995, DTE Energy has planted 20 million trees in Michigan alone and DTE Biomass landfill projects have captured the equivalent of nearly 20 million tons of CO2.
DTE Energy is a participating member of the UtiliTree Carbon Company. UtiliTree is a consortium of 41 utilities organized by the Edison Electric Institute to invest in a portfolio of forestry projects that manage GHG emissions, particularly CO2. A $3.2 million investment in eight domestic and two international projects will capture over 3 million tons of CO2 over the life of these projects.
DTE is a founding member of PowerTree Carbon Company, LLC [6], a voluntary carbon sequestration initiative. PowerTree, which has 25 member companies, will invest $3.4 million for reforestation of over 3,800 acres of bottomland hardwood projects in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The project will sequester over 2 million tons of CO2 over the 100-year project term.
Entergy plants thousands of trees annually on their landholdings, sequestering thousands of tons of CO2 every year.
Entergy in partnership with Trust for Public Land and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), is acquiring 1,600 acres of land adjacent to the Tensas River Wildlife Refuge, restoring bottom land hardwood habitat on marginal croplands and donating the improved land to USFWS who will manage the property. This will sequester 640,000 tons of CO2 over the next 70 years.
Entergy in partnership with the Conservation Fund, USFWS and Friends of the Red River, dedicated the Red River Wildlife Refuge in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and established a 600 acre sequestration site that will create 225,000 tons of CO2 offset credits over the next 70 years.
Entergy has leased 30,000 tons of CO2 offset credits from the Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association (PNDSA). Credits are generated by growers who have agreed to use direct seed agriculture methods for at least 10 years. Direct seed cultivation avoids soil losses from oxidation associated with traditional farming techniques and also reduces the growers' fuel use and soil erosion.
In December 2003, Entergy became the first U.S. utility to purchase carbon emissions credits from geological sequestration projects. These projects capture CO2 vent gases that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere and then place them into oil-bearing geologic formations for use in enhanced domestic oil recovery. Under this program, Entergy plans to purchase over 2,800,000 metric tons of CO2e emission reduction credits by the end of 2005.
Entergy is a participating member of the UtiliTree Carbon Company. UtiliTree is a consortium of 41 utilities organized by the Edison Electric Institute to invest in a portfolio of forestry projects that manage GHG emissions, particularly CO2. A $3.2 million investment in eight domestic and two international projects will capture over 3 million tons of CO2 over the life of these projects.
PECO and Exelon have committed $150,000 to TreeVitalize, an aggressive four-year, $8 million partnership to plant more than 20,000 shade trees and restore 1,000 acres of forested riparian buffers in southeastern Pennsylvania. Tree cover (percent of land covered by trees and shrubs) has been decreasing in the five-county Greater Philadelphia region due mainly to the combined impacts of suburban sprawl and urban decay. In response to a study highlighting the loss of tree cover, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources launched TreeVitalize.
Planting alone is not sufficient to address the loss of tree cover. Both existing and new trees need better care. TreeVitalize will work with municipalities to identify tools to promote improved tree care. TreeVitalize will also collaborate with community groups to nurture volunteers by providing training for 2,000 citizens in proper tree care techniques.
For more info, visit the TreeVitalize website at http://www.treevitalize.net/ [7].
Working in partnership to restore prairie grass
Exelon has restored more than 110 acres of natural prairie habitat on buffer lands and rights of way in Illinois since the initiative's beginning in 1994. This effort is helping to sequester CO2, restore wildlife habitat, prevent runoff and improve water quality.
In 2004, restoration work continued on several significant Illinois projects. We partnered with the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County to manage transmission rights of way in conjunction with a larger restoration project. An ecosystem lease was signed for the county to manage our property, which was a first for Exelon. And in Will County, we restored four acres along a transmission right of way adjacent to a larger restoration project. Another six acres of prairie were restored adjacent to a Forest Preserve District of Will County restoration project along the DuPage River.
Exelon is currently evaluating 10 to 15 additional acres of company rights of way and buffer lands for possible restoration.
Capturing CO2 emissions through tree plantings
During 2004, Exelon maintained its participation in PowerTree Carbon Company, LLC, an initiative formed in 2003 by 25 U.S. power generators as part of a voluntary industry response to climate change. Member companies committed more than $3 million for reforestation in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. The projects will remove from the atmosphere and store more than 2 million tons of CO2 over their projected 100-year lifetimes. Exelon will be entitled to claim approximately 3 percent of the sequestered CO2.
As of December 31, 2004, PowerTree Carbon Company had planted in excess of 2,000 acres of seedlings, using native tree species. Projects typically involve planting on a 12- by 12-foot spacing for an initial tree density Periodic monitoring using peer-reviewed methodologies measures above- and below-ground carbon stores.
The Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley once contained nearly 22 million acres of bottomland hardwoods that have been reduced to approximately 4 million acres as a result of decades of flood control measures and conversion of forestlands to marginal farmland. Benefits from PowerTree Carbon Company, LLC projects beyond carbon sequestration include restoration of habitat for birds and other wildlife, reduction of fertilizer inputs to water bodies and increased soil stabilization. This initiative will help to advance the science behind carbon sequestration as a GHG mitigation option.
For more info, visit the PowerTree website at http://www.powertreecarboncompany.com/ [6].
Managing trees along rights of way
Exelon maintains almost 56,000 miles of overhead electric lines in its distribution system and more than 6,000 miles of transmission rights of way. Our vegetation management program uses safe, reliable and cost-effective methods, including tree trimming, removal and herbicide application. These methods follow the standards set by the American National Standards Institute, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the International Society of Arboriculture.
PECO maintains its 12,150 miles of distribution lines on a five-year cycle, ComEd its 43,700 miles on a four-year cycle. Our transmission rights of way on state, local and federal lands – through prairies, wetlands, woods, agricultural land, suburban and urban areas and along highways and railroad corridors – are maintained on a five-year cycle, with annual comprehensive surveys of conditions.
ComEd is converting sections of transmission rights of way to native grasses and to date has converted 110 acres. Through the Municipal Tree Restoration Program, PECO encourages customers to plant the right tree in the right place to help minimize contact with wires. Both PECO and ComEd support municipalities by funding the removal and replacement of diseased, weakened or tall-growing trees under our overhead conductors. ComEd and PECO support National Arbor Day by working with school groups, municipalities and civic organizations to supply trees and planting training. ComEd is a five-year recipient of the National Arbor Day Foundation's Tree Line USA Award.
For more info on tree plantings near power lines visit PECO's Compatible Trees for Planting Under or Near Power Lines [8].
As part of NRG's aggressive effort to transition to a low-carbon economy, it is currently exploring a variety of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects including post-combustion technologies to capture CO2 from the flue gas of a power plant and place it in safe geological formations for permanent sequestration.
NRG's post-combustion CCS demonstration project at WA Parish near Houston, Texas, will be among the first of its kind and is expected to begin operating in 2013. The project will process flue gas from the plant equal in quantity to that of a 60 MW unit, a level that can prove the technology's viability on a larger scale, and then deliver that captured CO2 for use in enhanced oil recovery in nearby oil fields. This commercial-scale demonstration is designed to capture approximately 90 percent (or just under half a million tons) of CO2 in the flue gas annually.
NRG Energy has invested in a 680 net megawatt (MW) IGCC plant with carbon capture and sequestration in Tonawanda, NY. IGCC technology removes more than 90% of nitrogen oxide (NOX), 99% of sulfur dioxide (SO2), and 95% of mercury emissions, compared to conventional coal-fueled plants. Additionally, our IGCC plant will capture 65% of CO2 emissions, with a potential of up to 90% over time.
NRG Energy created and maintains the Oxbow Reforestation Project in Shreveport, La. The project features one of the largest single reforestation efforts on private land in the southeastern United States and is supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The site includes 60 acres of shallow water wetlands and nearly 2,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest.
The Restore America's Estuaries Nation Conference was held in Galveston in 2010. NRG was the conference's climate sponsor, offsetting 1,500 metric tons of carbon for the weeklong event. Wetland plants from NRG Energy's EcoCenter were donated and planted by conference participants during the Restore Galveston Bay field session
Pacific Gas and Electric Company has submitted a proposal to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for a new and innovative environmental program that will allow interested customers to contribute toward a cleaner California. This voluntary program would be available to most of PG&E's residential and business customers.
Through the Climate Protection Program, customers can choose to sign up and pay a small premium on their monthly utility bill which will fund independent environmental projects aimed at removing carbon dioxide from the air. To read more about this program, click here. [9] (pdf)
Rio Tinto Aluminium (RTA) partnered with The Carbon Pool Pty Ltd. In the "Minding the Carbon Store (MTCS)" project to abate approximately 1 million tons of CO2 emissions through avoided deforestation. The project, verified and approved under the Australian government's Greenhouse Gas Friendly initiative, provided payments to landowners to forego permits to clear native vegetation, avoiding the release of GHG emissions over a period of 120 years from land clearing of 12,000 hectares of native vegetation.
Rio Tinto's Luzenac America subsidiary purchased green tags from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to offset 100 percent of the GHG emissions associated with energy used at its Yellowstone Talc mine near Cameron, Montana.
Rio Tinto invests in developing and commercialising carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Rio Tinto is a founding member of the Global CCS Institute [10] and supports other collaborative efforts to deploy CCS technology, such as the CO2CRC [11]'s Otway Basin geosequestration project in Australia
Royal Dutch/Shell is a member of the CO2 capture project CO2 Capture Research Project [2], an international effort by seven of the world's leading energy companies.
Shell leads the CO2Sink project at Ketzin in Germany, which is the first onshore project in Europe to inject CO2 underground. From 2008 - 2010, the project will store up to 60,000 tonnes of CO2 in saltwater rock layers, showing how effectively CO2 is absorbed and its movement over time. Shell is leading this project, providing technical expertise and helping find the most cost-effective ways to store CO2 in saltwater formations. Governments will also use findings to help design effective safety regulations.
TransAlta is a participating member of the UtiliTree Carbon Company. UtiliTree is a consortium of 41 utilities organized by the Edison Electric Institute to invest in a portfolio of forestry projects that manage GHG emissions, particularly CO2. A $3.2 million investment in eight domestic and two international projects will capture over 3 million tons of CO2 over the life of these projects.
TransAlta, in concert with a coalition of governments and industry, will research commercially viable technology to eliminate CO2 from coal-burning power plants. The coalition plans to construct and operate a demonstration plant by 2007 to test the technology's technical, environmental, and economic viability.
TransAlta is part of the Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium [12], a non-profit Canadian corporation formed by ten Canadian Energy Companies that invests in emissions offsets. Among other offsets, the consortium has purchased 6 million metric tons of carbon emission reduction credits from Iowa farmers who use minimum-till and no-till farming practices, cropland retirement, buffer strips, afforestation, reforestation, improved timber management, power generation from biomass, and methane abatement from livestock waste to reduce emissions.
At the close of 2004, Weyerhaeuser owned, licensed, or leased 37.9 million acres of forests worldwide. The company uses intensive silvicultural practices on the highly productive forests it owns to achieve the natural biological potential. In other areas it uses less intensive practices to emulate natural forest structure. In both cases, these sustainably managed forests sequester large pools of CO2 inherent in the trees. Weyerhaeuser invests in afforestation ventures in South America to sustainably sequester additional tons of CO2 and uses recycled fibers in products to extend the time that CO2 removed from the atmosphere during the tree-growing stage is stored in products.
In 2004 Weyerhaeuser improved its process for inventorying GHG emissions and the carbon stored in its forests and products. The company's operations sequestered approximately 26 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents and emitted approximately 7 million tons from the use of fossil fuels and other activities. This effectively sequestered 19 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent or 0.5 metric tons of carbon equivalents per ton of production, an improvement of approximately 18% over 2003.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/companies_leading_the_way_belc
[2] http://www.co2captureproject.org/index.htm
[3] http://www.co2captureproject.org/
[4] http://lfee.mit.edu/
[5] http://www.bp.com.au/globalchoice
[6] http://www.powertreecarboncompany.com/
[7] http://www.treevitalize.net/
[8] http://www.exeloncorp.com/ourcompanies/peco/pecores/energy_education/tree_and_vegetation_services/trimming_away_danger.htm#planting_right_tree
[9] http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/PG%2526E%20offsets.pdf
[10] http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/
[11] http://www.co2crc.com.au/
[12] http://www.gemco.org/


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Loom Knit Scarf
Lion Brand® Martha Stewart Crafts
Glitter Eyelash
Pattern Number: L10167 Texture and shimmer make this furry scarf an excellent choice for your holiday crafting list. Make one for yourself with the Martha Stewart Crafts Lion Brand Yarn Knit & Weave Loom Kit.
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner (Level 1)
SIZE: One Size
About 5 x 60 in. (12.5 x 152.5 cm)
CORRECTIONS: None
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Loom Configuration
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Connect pieces to form a rectangle as follows: 36-hole piece > U-shaped piece > 36-hole piece > U-shaped piece.
Place one small peg in each connecting hole to hold loom together.
Insert 14 large pegs into every other hole along one long side of assembled loom - 14 working pegs placed.
Following loom manual instructions, cast onto all working pegs.
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Private equity player IDFC Alternatives today said it has invested Rs 100 crore in education major Manipal Group's management business.
"IDFC Alternatives, through IDFC Private Equity Fund III, has invested Rs 100 crore or $18 million in Manipal Servicecorp Facility Management (MSFM), promoted by the Manipal Education and Medical Group," an IDFC statement said.
IDFC, however, did not mention the stake it would pick up in the investee company nor did it divulge as to how the money would be utilised.
The MSFM currently services clients like CapGemini, Cisco and Titan Industries, and is repositioning itself as a student-living services and facilities management provider to education institutes in the country and abroad, the statement said.
Student-living services will first be rolled out at the group-promoted Manipal University in Jaipur and TA Pai Management Institute in Manipal which will be followed by its banking training vertical in Bangalore, it said.
Commenting on the investment, IDFC Alternatives managing partner Satish Mandhana said, "Upgrading the social infrastructure, including our educational institutions, will be vital to the country's economic growth."
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Carrageenan is a natural material that comes from the red seaweed plant found in the Atlantic Ocean. When carrageenan is extracted from red seaweed by boiling it or treating it with hot alkali, it forms a gel-like material that gives it firmness and makes it an effective thickener for food products. Not surprisingly, carrageenan has been embraced as a food additive by the food industry where it's commonly used to thicken and add texture and stability to foods and beverages that would otherwise be too thin and lack the proper "mouth feel."
All it takes is a glance at a few food labels to see how common carrageenan is as a food additive. Some common products that may contain carrageenan are salad dressings, cottage cheese, ice cream, non-dairy milk, syrups, sauces, breakfast cereals, processed cheese, jams, jelly, yogurt, pudding, wet dog food and other processed foods that need a more substantial texture and feel.
Carrageenan is also used as a binder for meat products like sausage and hamburger and is used to bind and stabilize some vegetarian-meat alternative marketed to vegetarians and vegans. In some of these products, carrageenan serves as an emulsifier, a compound that keeps oil and water-soluble ingredients from separating. Without emulsifiers, the ingredients in products would be more unstable and separate in much the same way oil separates from vinegar. That's why it's a common ingredient in salad dressings that contain both oil and water-soluble components.
Carrageenan is also commonly added to personal care and cosmetic products. Here, it's used to give products additional texture, thickness and added stability. Without a thickening and emulsifying agent like carrageenan, ingredients would separate from each other and the product would feel less substantial.
Some cosmetic and personal care products that may contain carrageenan include shampoos, toothpaste, air freshener gels, lubricants, moisturizers and facial scrubs. It's a common ingredient in hair conditioning products, due to its ability to bind water and coat the hair shaft. Carrageenan helps to stabilize the ingredients in these products and gives them a more substantial texture, thickness and a better "feel."
Despite its widespread use in processed foods and packaged food products, there's some controversy about its health effects, at least in animals. Research has linked degraded carrageenan, carrageenan that's been broken down, with colon cancer in animals. Fortunately, the FDA only allows carrageenan that hasn't been degraded in food products, but there's some concern that degradation could occur after ingestion by bacteria in the intestines. There's also concern that carrageenan could cause intestinal inflammation and may increase the risk of inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Some people report experiencing intestinal symptoms like nausea and bloating after consuming a product that contains it. So far this hasn't been resolved, but the FDA classifies carrageenan as GRAS or "generally recognized as safe." It's possible that some people are sensitive to carrageenan in food products, while others can consume it without any problems.
Fortunately, the controversy surrounding carrageenan in food products is of less concern with regards to cosmetic and personal care products since carrageenan is too large to be absorbed through the skin. Instead it serves the useful purpose of giving products added thickness and a smoother texture while stabilizing the ingredients so they don't separate out and destroy the benefits of the product.
With such widespread use of carrageenan, it's easy to see that both food manufacturers and manufacturers of cosmetic and personal care products find it to be a useful addition to their products. Interestingly, some research suggests that applying carrageenan topically to the skin blocks the growth of viruses like human papillomavirus that cause genital warts and cervical cancer. So, carrageenan may have benefits that go beyond thickening and adding texture to products even if isn't healthy for the intestines.
From a cosmetic perspective, carrageenan appears to be safe at the levels found in these products, although there are some questions about its health effects as a food additive. The Environmental Working Group classifies carrageenan as a low-hazard ingredient in the amounts in cosmetic and personal care products.


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Cyclones Beat Islanders, 80-50
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State had five players in double figures and outscored Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 43-26, in the second half to earn the 80-50 win Tuesday night at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State improves to 2-0 this season, while Texas A&M-Corpus Christi falls to 1-1.
Keys of the Game
Dustin Hogue brought the energy to the second half for the Cyclones, who got a three from Matt Thomas late in the first half to take a 13-point lead into the second half. Hogue had three points and two rebounds in the opening frame and finished the game with 13 points, eight boards and two steals.
The Cyclones extended the lead to as many as 33 and cruised to the 30-point win.
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Cyclone Game Ball Goes To...
Iowa State had five players in double-figures but it was Hogue's energy that helped bust open the game in the second half.
Monté Morris finished with a career-high 11 points. DeAndre Kane had another solid performance, finishing with a game-high 15 points, seven rebounds and four assists. Georges Niang (12) and Matt Thomas (13) joined Hogue, Kane and Morris in double figures.
Cyclone Nation, who was your player of the game? Tweet the player along with the hashtag #CyclONEgameball to @CycloneMBB and we'll announce the fan's pick on Monday morning.
Cyclone Quick Hits
*Tonight's win was the 100th at Hilton Coliseum for head coach Fred Hoiberg. Hoiberg was 53-10 as a player and is 47-9 as head coach.
*Matt Thomas hit a career-best three 3-pointers. He has hit multiple threes in both games this season.
*Iowa State had just two turnovers in the first half.
*Iowa State has had five players in double figures both games this season.
*Niang finished the game with five assists, his second career game with five or more dimes.
Next Up
Iowa State hosts No. 7 Michigan Sunday in a nationally televised game. Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. on ESPN2.
Fan Tweet Of The Game
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Ottawa, ON (Sports Network) - James Neal and Jarome Iginla each had two goals
to help lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 7-3 Game 4 win over the Ottawa
Senators at Scotiabank Place.
Kris Letang registered four assists for the Penguins, who scored six straight
goals at one point Wednesday night to grab a commanding 3-1 lead in this
Eastern Conference semifinal series. They will look to vanquish the Senators
on Friday at home.
Sidney Crosby and Pascal Dupuis each registered a goal and one helper for
Pittsburgh, which got 30 saves from Tomas Vokoun.
Daniel Alfredsson, Milan Michalek and Kyle Turris scored for Ottawa. Senators
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Hi all,
I'm fairly new to Zimbra but managed to install the ZCS community edition 7.0.0_GA_3077 on Ubuntu 10.04 Server. Sending and receiving mails works just fine.
My Problem:
It is quite easy to get Zimbra to fetch mails from external mail accounts (via POP3 or IMAP) but in addition to that I would like to send mails "from" these external accounts.
My Zimbra account: firstname.lastname@example.com
Some external account: email@example.com
I set up postfix as described in this post http://www.zimbra.com/forums/177359-post12.html
By doing this postfix can send outgoing mails to different relay servers depending on the mail address they originate from. I verified this using telnet (localhost port 25) on the Zimbra server. Works great, meaning if I send a mail from email@example.com postfix automatically relays it to smtp.somedomain.com instead of sending it to the default relay server of my domain hoster.
But if I send a mail using the Zimbra Web-Client and choose an external account as the origin of my mail (e.g. firstname.lastname@example.com) Zimbra substitutes the "from" address of my mail for the address of my Zimbra account (firstname.lastname@example.com). This causes postfix NOT to send the mail to the "right" relay host. BTW I already checked "Allow sending email from any address" in the preferences.
Is it somehow possible to prevent Zimbra from substituting the "from" so that postfix could route the mail to the right relay host? I'm very grateful for any pointers!
Tanks in advance!
Found solution here Bug 40731 – Wrong MAIL FROM in SMTP dialog when using a Persona
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Columbus, OH (Sports Network) - After missing out on a trip to the postseason
for the first time in five years, the Columbus Crew has put itself in position
for a quick return to the playoffs after a successful offseason.
The club not only acquired Glauber, Dominic Oduro and Matias Sanchez, who
figure to have a positive impact, but head coach Robert Warzycha's side should
also benefit from having playmaker Federico Higuain play a full campaign for
the Black and Gold.
Columbus missed out on the final postseason berth in the Eastern Conference by
one point last term. But according to defender Danny O'Rourke, it is something
that has been put in the past, while serving as motivation ahead of the new
"Everyone kind of left last year with a bad taste in their mouths," O'Rourke
said. "Everyone wanted to come back not just to get in shape for preseason,
but to come back ready to work from day one.
"You take a couple of days and look back at games where you should've played
better, games where you shouldn't have given up a goal or where you didn't
score a goal and other opportunities squandered. I learned from a good coach
one time that the best thing about a soccer player is a short memory. Whether
it's a bad pass or bad first touch, or whether it's not making the playoffs,
you've got to learn how to put it behind you."
Fellow defender Chad Marshall would like to erase the memory of last season as
well as he underwent ankle surgery following the regular season and never
quite seemed to be a full strength.
Marshall was limited to 24 games last season, but his return to top form will
be a big boost, as will the continued success of defenders Sebastian Miranda
and Josh Williams.
Add to that mix Brazilian defender Glauber, who at 29 brings a wealth of
experience from his time in Europe, and Warzycha's defense figures to be a
The biggest reason for optimism in Columbus is the fact that the Crew will be
able to get a full season out of Higuain, who was named the MLS Newcomer of
the Year last season despite playing just 13 games.
Higuain's impact was undeniable, however, as he totaled five goals and seven
assists in those 13 matches, giving the Crew attack some much-needed punch.
Joining Higuain in the midfield will be fellow Argentine Sanchez, who signed
with the Crew in the offseason after spending the past five seasons in his
native country with Estudiantes.
Columbus had trouble finding the net at times last season with 44 goals in 34
games. But along with Higuain and joint top scorers Jairo Arrieta and Eddie
Gaven, who netted nine goals apiece, the Crew was able to land an impact
forward in Oduro.
The Ghanaian has spent the past two years with the Chicago Fire, where he
tallied 18 goals.
Oduro was acquired in a trade with Chicago for midfielder Dilly Duka, and
Warzycha feels as though he will bring an extra dimension to the Columbus
"I think he adds something to our style of play," Warzycha said. "He's a
player that scored 12 goals two years ago and scored six last season. He has
something not too many players have in this league, he has speed. He's very
fast, and obviously he's going to give us some other options to play a little
2012 IN REVIEW: Columbus narrowly missed the playoffs for the first time in
five seasons, finishing one point back of the Houston Dynamo for the final
postseason berth in the Eastern Conference. Higuain's arrival in midseason
came a little too late, and Marshall battled through an injury-plagued
campaign that clearly had a negative impact. Even still, the Crew nearly
overcame those issues to qualify for the playoffs, with seven of the club's 12
defeats coming by one goal.
ACQUISITIONS: Tyson Wahl (D), Agustin Viana (D/M), Glauber (D), Dominic Oduro
(F), Matias Sanchez (M).
LOSSES: Cole Grossman (M), Nemanja Vukovic (D), Rich Balchan (D), Julius James
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Parents are finding out that teachers are not villains
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The PDK/Gallup poll, analysts say, shows that Americans on the whole are becoming skeptical about the connection between teachers and failing schools, suggesting instead that schools need more resources to succeed. Seventy percent of respondents – the highest percentage ever recorded in the 45-year-old poll – oppose using taxpayer money to fund "vouchers" for private schools.
"Americans continue to identify lack of financial support as the biggest problem facing public schools, while increased testing and regulation emerged as other top concerns Americans have about schools," Bill Bushaw, executive director of PDK International, said during a press call Tuesday.
Education groups pounced on the poll results, pointing to a finding that only 25 percent of respondents believe increased testing has helped make American schools better. At the same time, 72 percent of respondents say they trust the men and women who are "teaching children in the public schools."
If it's not the teachers who are at fault, who then?
There are two answers. The first answer regards the rising cost of funding school programs. The villain of the piece there is Wall Street and the greedy traders who made billions of dollars selling worthless mortgages, all the time knowing that they would make billions more betting that those mortgages would fail. Now that the economy is coming back, those pension costs to the districts will go down and there will be peace in the valley once more.
The second question, whose fault is the dropping test scores and the feeling that students are not getting a proper education for later life?
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Who's at fault for failing schools? We are. All the residents of Long Island and across the nation who segregate our children into districts of "haves/have nots" and minority/white. Look at the schools that are failing and are always at the bottom of educational performance lists. They are always schools that are largely minority and/or consist of a largely lower socio-economic population. Let's not fool ourselves into believing that educational reform initiatives such as common core are anything but a waste of taxpayer dollars. Want to improve education? First, let's not compare minority children in crime-ridden, poor, neighborhoods to privileged children from middle class neighborhoods. The educations they're receiving are impacted by a lot more than curriculum. Secondly, demand to dissolve the segregated districts on Long Island. Have kids from Garden City and Jericho sit in classes alongside kids from Roosevelt and Hempstead.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Wansley Walters and her staff are painting murals at a Tallahassee juvenile detention center.
Walters and others planned to paint murals in the cafeteria, hallways and clinic at the Leon Regional Juvenile Detention Center on Saturday.
The agency said research shows that the environment in which juvenile offenders are confined can affect their future behavior and lower their chances of future incarceration.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation released a report last month that showed a 32 percent drop in the number of Florida's youth being sent to residential juvenile justice programs between 1997 and 2010.
Wansley is also proposing comprehensive juvenile justice reform that would shift resources to community-based interventions and increase the availability of transitional services including vocational programming, employment, education, housing and transportation.
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Grey's theology
The popular TV show touts short-lived community as a rare and precious cure
"Grey's theology" Continued...
"Grey's Anatomy is currently the #1 television show in the universe." That's what the buddytv.com website announced with some exaggeration, but at least in the United States Grey's reigns supreme: Over 19 million households gravitated to its last show in February, putting it temporarily ahead even of American Idol.
And many Grey's viewers are intense. Proliferating blogs devoted to the show include comments like these: "I'm so excited for tomorrow night! I seriously cannot wait for this episode! . . . 28 hours left! I cannot wait for Thursday!"
One homeschooling mom wrote, "I am totally freaked out. . . . I saw Mer 'die.' She has to live right?!? She'll live-I mean the show is 'her' show right? They couldn't kill her off right?"
The "Mer" who created such anxiety is Grey's Anatomy's lead character, Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), who normally has first and last words on the show-and many of her comments seem almost biblical in their worldview. Here's one on our natural propensity to lie: "We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces."
Essentially, show creator and executive producer Shonda Rimes, a product of Chicago Catholic schools, provides a pretty good analysis of contemporary life (solitary, not so poor, but nasty, brutish, and short). Her semi-solution includes no verticality (as far as the central characters are concerned, God might as well be dead) but lots of temporary horizontality, as characters get through their days and nights by developing short-lived community.
Grey's theology, judging from the fan blogs, is not the primary reason why the show is popular. The dozen major actors on the show are good-looking and the plots, woven around the lives of doctors at a Seattle hospital, use soap-opera traditions overlaid by modern bed-hopping that ratchets up relationship tension.
The show is the ratings successor to NBC's No. 1 hit Friends (see "America's virtual Friends-ship," Feb. 24, 1996), except that none of those six buddies did open-heart surgery; also, Grey's Anatomy is racially and ethnically diverse, with four African-Americans or Hispanics in key roles. In addition, Grey's is dark psychologically: Rimes writes of her lead character, "She is somebody, in a very large sense, without a home, without a family, without ties, without (anyone) when you first met her. . . . You all know Meredith's been doing a dance with death for some time."
The three-parter last month that advanced Grey's ratings began with Meredith depressed because her mother raised her to be "extraordinary" and has told her that she is merely a disappointing "ordinary." The plot thickens when two ships in the Seattle harbor collide, with enormous casualties. Doctors head to the scene and, after many sub-stories, a man Meredith is helping starts flailing wildly, knocking her into the cold water. Only a lost little girl, made mute by the horror, sees what has happened.
In the second episode, many minutes have gone by without anyone (amid scenes of horror) noticing that Meredith is gone. Fellow doctor (and boyfriend) Derek asks the little girl, who points to the water. Derek dives in and comes up with Meredith-pale, cold, not breathing. CPR does not work and the doctors despair, but she suddenly sits up and and is in a nondescript room where she meets dead acquaintances and asks, "Am I dead?"
In the final part of the trilogy, titled "Some Kind of Miracle," Meredith initially insists to one of the acquaintances that she fought to survive in the water. He tells her that she gave up and that her death would crush her friends and destroy Derek: "He's still an optimist. If you don't come back from this, you will change who he is." She finally confesses her guilt in wanting to die: "I was swimming, I was fighting, and then for a moment I thought, what's the point?" Her after-death spiritual counselor then offers advice: "That's all you get-moments with the people you love." Meredith sees her mother, who has just died, with new words for her: "You're anything but ordinary." And, like Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life, she decides she wants to live again-and runs down the hall toward an exit from death.
Meanwhile, Meredith's best friend Cristina, a despairing young doctor with a backstory-when she was 9 years old her father bled to death in front of her-has headed to a bar, unable to stand the pain. Just in time she comes back, hugs Meredith's feet, and commands the senior doctors, "TRY AGAIN" to shock a mostly dead heart back to life. This time it works and Meredith is back alive, amazingly without brain damage.
What's going on here, besides the jerking of tears and the delivery of high ratings? Meredith realizes that she loves others who need her, so she does not want to die. Cristina realizes that to love her friend she cannot give in to her traumatic past. Boyfriend Derek is also changed, according to Shonda Rimes: "He's forced to sit out in the hall, helpless. And he's seeing his worst nightmare come true. Because he's realizing: Meredith has become so important to him and the prospect of losing her is terrifying. . . . Who is he when he can't save a life?"
But does that sense of helplessness lead to God? No. The writer who worked on the episode, Marti Noxon, blogged this explanation: "There's a lot of grief in all of this, but there's great hope too. It's the lesson from 'the other place' too. We are who we love." What is that other place? Noxon writes that much of the episode "takes place . . . where? In Meredith's head? In Heaven? We decided, for obvious reasons, not to get too specific. And we knew Meredith had to go on a journey. But get it wrong and it's 'Touched by an Icy Blue Surgeon.' All will agree that I basically punted that stuff."
Grey's Anatomy is not Touched by an Angel, and "who we love" is not God. Jesus said, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Grey's skips the first to emphasize a chunk of the second, but without the first the second has no lasting power.
The Lexis-Nexis electronic database lists 1,935 articles in the English language published during February that at least mention Grey's Anatomy. Some concerned the aftermath of a teapot tempest that developed last fall after one of the show's actors, Isaiah Washington, called castmate T.R. Knight a "faggot." Knight soon after declared that he is gay and Washington said he would enter counseling. On the show itself this past season, the character played by Knight married a female doctor.
Grey's is also receiving international press attention, as at least 60 channels around the world broadcast it, sometimes with title changes: In Japan it's Anatomy of Love, in Croatia it's Introduction to Anatomy 101, and in Hungary it's Grace Clinic.
Some liberties in translating dialogue also occur: French TV is fighting depictions of smoking and drinking, so when a Grey's doctor advises a patient to reduce stress by smoking one cigarette daily, translators changed that to have the doctor recommend eating a bowl of rice.
But these articles recorded on Lexis-Nexis rarely include any examination of what Grey's Anatomy indirectly teaches. One commenter on the Crossdaily.com blog, though, wrote, "If people are going to advocate speaking out against Mr. Knight's lifestyle as a sin, then perhaps the show ought to be boycotted on the basis it promotes adultery (sex outside of marriage)." Another commenter wrote, "Even though they are just sleeping together, I liked the way Meredith and McDreamy [a fan nickname for Derek] are actually sleeping, in normal people clothes, and their issue is her snoring and his unshaven face and bad breath. It is very realistic. And I like the way there aren't nudie bedroom scenes. It seems normal and natural."
Grey's does make hooking up seem normal, and at the same time it grips many fans by heightening normality. One commenter wrote to the show's writers about the "Some Kind of Miracle" episode, "I have never cried so hard and so emotionally about a TV show EVER in my life. I know, I know, it's 'entertainment.' I can tell you this, the things you put into last night's show took $2,000 worth of therapy for me to figure out. It was fantastic, raw, real humanity at its finest. I never knew someone else felt like I do." She summarized the reaction she and her significant other had: "We just thought we were crazy. Now we know the real truth-we're just like TV characters!"
The title Grey's Anatomy alludes to a classic medical textbook, Gray's Anatomy, but also suggests a close-up look at what human beings are really made of. That's a common theme in Meredith Grey's opening and closing voiceovers. In describing misery she says, "Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way." She describes the problems of "communication: It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need."
The diagnosis is right. The apostle Paul wrote in chapter 7 of Romans about how the law actually leads us to sin. Meredith Grey says that we rebel against parents, and then, "without parents to defy, we break the rules"-including the rules we've adopted for ourselves. She notes, "We throw tantrums when things don't go our way."
The diagnosis is right but the prescription is inadequate. Missing from Grey's Anatomy is God's grace.


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The annual Wings of Freedom Tour landed at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View last week, allowing residents to tour bomber aircraft used in World War II. The B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft," above, the Boeing B-17 "Nine O Nine" and the P-51 Mustang fighter are on display through Saturday.
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