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Future engineers, inventors and roboticists from Oregon Episcopal School's "Lego Physics" program will show off their animal-themed creations at the Oregon Zoo this month: dozens of elaborate Lego constructions involving motors, programmable bricks, sensors and computers.
The 15th annual Legos at the Zoo science fair, free and open to the public, takes place May 30-31 in the Skyline Room, just downstairs from the Cascade Grill. Zoo admission is not required to attend.
The displays are planned, designed, programmed and built entirely by OES students. Advanced Lego "engineers," ages 8 to 17, will demonstrate their creations and the science behind them.
"The zoo show is always a highlight for us," said Jane Kenney-Norberg, who developed and oversees OES's Lego-based after-school science program. "The kids learn about wildlife as they come up with their zoo-themed creations. This year's Logo Board involves a trip around the world and includes a conservation message about the eastern black rhino, one of the most endangered animals on the planet."
The Lego Logo Board, new each year, challenges students to devise a story using elaborate motorized sequences and their own code. This year's edition is titled "Zuri the Rhino Travels the World."
"Zuri is such a beautiful animal," Kenney-Norberg said. "She reminds us of what we stand to lose if we don't protect these amazing creatures."
The Oregon Zoo is a service of Metro and is dedicated to its mission of inspiring the community to create a better future for wildlife. Committed to conservation, the zoo is currently working to save endangered California condors, Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits, Oregon silverspot and Taylor's checkerspot butterflies, Western pond turtles and Oregon spotted frogs. Other projects include studies on black rhinos, Asian elephants, polar bears and bats.
The zoo relies in part on community support through donations to the Oregon Zoo Foundation to undertake these and many other animal welfare, education and sustainability programs. The zoo is located five minutes from downtown Portland, just off Highway 26 at exit 72. The zoo is also accessible by MAX light rail line. Visitors who travel to the zoo via MAX receive $1.50 off zoo admission. Find fare and route information online or by calling TriMet Customer Service at 503-238-RIDE (7433).
General zoo admission is $10.50 (ages 12-64), $9 for seniors (65 and up), $7.50 for children (ages 3-11) and free for those 2 and younger; 25 cents of the admission price helps fund regional conservation projects through the zoo's Future for Wildlife program. A parking fee of $4 per car is also required. Additional information is available by calling 503-226-1561.
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In the past, innovative businesses had it easy. The pace of change was much slower and first mover advantage was, as a result, more important. Not so today. Let's face it: even with patent protection, products are largely becoming commoditized. If a brand launches a cool new product it's now just a matter of months before competitors are able to launch similar products. Globalization and technology innovation is, by and large, commoditizing consumer products.
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March 21 News: Wind power surged from 17,000 MW to 194,000 MW in past decade; Google takes on climate science deniers
Global wind capacity hit 194.4 GW in 2010.
Wind power surges forward around the globe (by Lester Brown)
For many years, a small handful of countries dominated growth in wind power, but this is changing as the industry goes global, with more than 70 countries now developing wind resources. Between 2000 and 2010, world wind electric generating capacity increased at a frenetic pace from 17,000 megawatts to nearly 200,000 megawatts.
Measured by share of electricity supplied by wind, Denmark is the leading nation at 21 percent. Three north German states now get 40 percent or more of their electricity from wind. For Germany as a whole, the figure is 8 percent — and climbing. And in the state of Iowa, enough wind turbines came online in the last few years to produce up to 20 percent of that state's electricity.
In terms of sheer volume, the United States leads the world with 35,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity, followed by China and Germany with 26,000 megawatts each. Texas, long the leading U.S. oil-producing state, is now also the nation's leading generator of electricity from wind. It has 9,700 megawatts of wind generating capacity online, 370 megawatts more under construction, and a huge amount under development. If all of the wind farms projected for 2025 are completed, Texas will have 38,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity — the equivalent of 38 coal-fired power plants. This would satisfy roughly 90 percent of the current residential electricity needs of the state's 25 million people.
In July 2010, ground was broken for the Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC) in the Tehachapi Pass, some 75 miles north of Los Angeles, Calif. At 1,550 megawatts, it will be the largest U.S. wind farm. The AWEC is part of what will eventually be 4,500 megawatts of renewable power generation, enough to supply electricity to some 3 million homes.
Since wind turbines occupy only 1 percent of the land covered by a wind farm, farmers and ranchers can continue to grow grain and graze cattle on land devoted to wind farms. In effect, they double-crop their land, simultaneously harvesting electricity and wheat, corn, or cattle. With no investment on their part, farmers and ranchers typically receive $3,000 to $10,000 a year in royalties for each wind turbine on their land. For thousands of ranchers in the U.S. great plains, wind royalties will dwarf their net earnings from cattle sales.
In considering the energy productivity of land, wind turbines are in a class by themselves. For example, an acre of land in northern Iowa planted in corn can yield $1,000 worth of ethanol per year. That same acre used to site a wind turbine can produce $300,000 worth of electricity per year. This helps explain why investors find wind farms so attractive.
Impressive though U.S. wind energy growth is, the expansion now under way in China is even more so. China has enough onshore harnessable wind energy to raise its current electricity consumption 16-fold. Today, most of China's 26,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity come from 50- to 100-megawatt wind farms. Beyond the many other wind farms of that size that are on the way, China's new Wind Base program is creating seven wind mega-complexes of 10 to 38 gigawatts each in six provinces (1 gigawatt equals 1,000 megawatts). When completed, these complexes will have a generating capacity of more than 130 gigawatts. This is equivalent to building one new coal plant per week for two and a half years.
Of these 130 gigawatts, 7 gigawatts will be in the coastal waters of Jiangsu Province, one of China's most highly industrialized provinces. China is planning a total of 23 gigawatts of offshore wind generating capacity. The country's first major offshore project, the 102-megawatt Donghai Bridge Wind Farm near Shanghai, is already in operation.
Google Takes on Climate Change Skeptics with New Technology Effort
Climate change skeptics who have created a political megaphone in Washington may finally meet their match in the world's largest search engine.
Google.org, the technology giant's philanthropic arm, has hand-picked a team of 21 fellows working in climate research to improve the way the science of global warming is communicated to the public and lawmakers through new media.
"We are seeing very clearly with climate change that our policy choices are currently not grounded in knowledge and understanding," said Paul Higgins, a Google fellow and an associate policy director for the American Meteorological Society.
The Google Science Communication Fellows program named its first round of participants on Tuesday. The announcement could not have come at a more timely juncture.
On Monday, an annual Gallup poll on the environment reported that nearly 20 percent of Americans surveyed believe the effects of global warming will never happen, up from 11 percent three years ago, while fewer respondents are concerned about climate change than in the past.
A day later, House Republicans in the Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously against three amendments offered by Democrats that would accept that climate change is occurring; that it is largely due to human activity; and that human-made warming poses a threat to public health and welfare.
Democrats on the panel, all of whom voted for the measures, tied the proposals to larger GOP-backed legislation seeking to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
That global warming is doubted by large swathes of the country "" despite a consensus among climate scientists worldwide that says otherwise "" underscores the large gap between the data and America's understanding of it, scientists say.
Nuclear crisis doesn't panic cleantech investors
Fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan sparked a new wave of criticism of nuclear energy "" and a rally in clean-energy stocks on Monday. But that interest quickly waned as stocks in the sector dropped back from that day's highs as the stock market experienced a broad sell-off.
And that brief surge of interest never touched the private investment community, because venture capitalists typically focus on longer-term plays, said Steve Minnihan, a partner at Lux Research, a firm which specializes in cleantech.
"I haven't heard anything from my clients or from the companies that we speak to in terms of interest in solar and wind power," Minnihan said.
Any sustained increase in interest probably won't be felt for the next six to nine months, said Micah Myers, a managing partner with venture-capital firm Claremont Creek Capital. That's because the energy sector's investment cycle is typically longer than other venture investments, he said. Alternative energy sources have suffered from a lack of capital to finance projects, but that may ease as a result of the crisis in Japan.
"It's a huge tragedy, but it's only gonna give a tailwind to alternative energy technologies," Myers said. "There will be more of a willingness to put capital to work in solar and wind."
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the fuel rods in one of the nuclear reactors in the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan had experienced a partial meltdown in a statement today. As of this afternoon, the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) was attempting to restore power to the nuclear plants in order to cool the nuclear reactors and prevent a full-scale meltdown. The U.S. government has also urged any U.S. citizens within 50 miles of the reactor to evacuate the area.
While major natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina caused a huge outpouring of public support and aid funding, they didn't move the needle much on technology, said David Mann, chief of staff at Khosla Ventures "" a venture-capital investment firm well known for its backing of cleantech companies.
German nuclear firms may stop green payments
Germany's nuclear operators may scrap payments of 300 million euros ($425.3 million) this year into a fund subsidising green energy after they had to close plants for safety checks, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, citing company sources, said last week's enforced shutdown of reactors built before 1980 for security checks in light of the nuclear crisis in Japan, had prompted the four German operators to consider stopping the payments. [POWER/DE]
The contributions are part of a package of conditions tied to a deal with the government last September, which lengthened the lifespans of the nuclear power stations in return for a fuel element tax, additional security measures, and the green fund.
It is intended to collect 300 million in each of 2011 and 2012 and 200 million a year in 2013 through to 2016, supporting the planned transition of Germany's energy sector towards a higher renewables share.
The paper said the four companies, E.ON (EONGn.DE), RWE (RWEG.DE), Vattenfall Europe [VATN.UL] and EnBW (EBKG.DE) were angry about latest enforced closures of a total seven plants, two of which had been closed already, for three months at least.
USDA funds research on crops and climate change
The federal government is investing $60 million in three major studies on the effects of climate change on crops and forests to help ensure farmers and foresters can continue producing food and timber while trying to limit the impact of a changing environment.
The three studies take a new approach to crop and climate research by bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields and encouraging them to find solutions appropriate to specific geographic areas. One study will focus on Midwestern corn, another on wheat in the Northwest and a third on Southern pine forests.
Shifting weather patterns already have had a big effect on U.S. agriculture, and the country needs to prepare for even greater changes, said Roger Beachy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And since the changes are expected to vary from region to region, he said different areas will need different solutions. Some areas may gain longer growing seasons or suffer more frequent floods, while others may experience more droughts or shorter growing seasons.
"What the climatologists have predicted is that the areas that were at one time wet will in fact be dry and hot, not wet and cool," Beachy said as an example. "If that's correct, then we need to have varieties of crops that will grow in those areas and are adaptable to the changes in the climate. So really it comes down to if we don't do this, we may have some food shortages in certain kinds of foods."
The corn project will be led by a rural sociologist, Lois Wright Morton of Iowa State University. She said the collaboration between climatologists, soil scientists, plant scientists and others means the researchers will be asking questions they might never have thought of before.
"We really have assembled what I really think of as the really top scientists in the agricultural arena to address these (issues)," Wright Morton said, adding that her team members are not only experts in their fields, they're willing to learn from others. "That's a pretty potent combination."
Coal mine proposal rejected by EPA
The EPA declared LD Operations' proposal for an underground coal mine, 15 kilometres from the tourist town, environmentally unacceptable.
It received hundreds of complaints from locals arguing the mine would damage the environment and hurt the tourism industry.
The Premier Colin Barnett says the proposal is dead and the EPA has made the right decision.
"I had expressed as Premier that I thought that was a very doubtful prospect to have an underground coal mine in the prime wine growing area of Western Australia," he said.
"While this is a pro-development government, it is not development at any cost, and where projects are not acceptable, they will not be approved."
LDO's managing director Peter Ross says he is disappointed with the decision.
He says the company has not been given any reasons as to why the EPA declared the proposal environmentally unacceptable.
"Naturally we're disappointed, however we have to wait and find out what the reasons were for their decision and assess our options from there, we're still waiting for some information from the EPA," he said.
Wind energy on the horizon in North Carolina
North Carolina's first large-scale wind farm, with more than 100 towers taller than a grain elevator, is working its way through a long permitting process with little opposition.
Atlantic Winds LLC, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, plans to erect up to 150 turbines with blades reaching more than 500 feet in the air within 20,000 acres of remote farmland in Pasquotank and Perquimans counties.
At a hearing held by the state Utilities Commission on March 10 in Elizabeth City, local officials and landowners spoke highly of the project. At another hearing set for April 5 in Raleigh, only supporters of the project, including the developer, are set to speak.
"To me, the positive far outweighs any negative," farmer Horace Pritchard said. "We've done a lot of research."
Pritchard plans to lease 1,300 acres to Atlantic Winds within the farming area known as the Desert. Several landowners are involved in the deal.
Nearly 600 workers would be needed for construction of the project, according to company's application to the Utilities Commission.
When finished, the facility would have a capacity of 300 megawatts and produce enough to power about 60,000 homes. The wind-generated electricity would flow into a Dominion Power transmission line that runs from Winfall to Suffolk.
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Three-dimensional bicontinuous ultrafast-charge and -discharge bulk battery electrod
Rapid charge and discharge rates have become an important feature of electrical energy storage devices, but cause dramatic reductions in the energy that can be stored or delivered by most rechargeable batteries (their energy capacity)1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Supercapacitors do not suffer from this problem, but are restricted to much lower stored energy per mass (energy density) than batteries8. A storage technology that combines the rate performance of supercapacitors with the energy density of batteries would significantly advance portable and distributed power technology2. Here, we demonstrate very large battery charge and discharge rates with minimal capacity loss by using cathodes made from a self-assembled three-dimensional bicontinuous nanoarchitecture consisting of an electrolytically active material sandwiched between rapid ion and electron transport pathways. Rates of up to 400C and 1,000C for lithium-ion and nickel-metal hydride chemistries, respectively, are achieved (where a 1C rate represents a one-hour complete charge or discharge), enabling fabrication of a lithium-ion battery that can be 90% charged in 2 minutes.
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Exciting news from google. Obviously, conspiracy theorists are going to make quite a fuss. Please keep us updated on how it materializes, Joe.
Lester Brown comes through again.
You asked a few days ago about underreported stories, Joe, and I'd say one is the capability of wind and other renewable energy technologies to play a major role in producing energy and reducing carbon emissions. We are still seeing story after story following the MSM line that renewable energy is not a viable answer–the latest being one by Kate Galbraith in the NYT today. In fact, U.S. wind farms this year will generate as much electricity as 10 nuclear power plants (of 1,500 MW each). Globally, there are enough wind turbines installed (194 GW) to generate as much electricity as 50 nukes. Here in the U.S., we've installed enough in the last 3 years to generate the equivalent of 5 nukes. It's pretty clear at this point that wind can not only scale, but scale rapidly.–Tom Gray, consultant to American Wind Energy Association
"Google Takes on Climate Change Skeptics with New Technology Effort"….
Live by Google, die by Google.
Are they going to now deny Google exists???
If only we had started down this path 10 – 20 years ago. And put the investment in Nukes in to renewables.
"Between 2000 and 2010, world wind electric generating capacity increased at a frenetic pace from 17,000 megawatts to nearly 200,000 megawatts."
Speaking of underreported stories, the fact that all (apparently) of Japan's wind turbines, including an offshore installation only 300 km from the epicenter, survived the earthquake and tsunami entirely unharmed is worthy of note. These "unreliable and intermittent" generators are now merrily churning out power while many of Japan's "baseload, fully dispatchable, around-the-clock" nuclear plants are either shut down or spewing radioactive smoke:
Last July (2010) Illinois had 9779.1 MW of wind in the proposal phase (that doesn't count what has already been built). Since then I know some (hundreds of towers) has moved to construction phase.
With google taking this initiative the message will reach a lot of people. Good news on wind and to think most of these accomplishments have happened through the back door under the radar. Think what could happen if we were able to use the front door.
Here is a better link for Illinois wind with completed, construction, permitted and proposed numbers as of 28 Feb 2011.
Japan quake loaded stress on fault closer to Tokyo
It's a common occurrence after strong quakes and happened after the 2004 mega-earthquake and tsunami off Indonesia that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations.
Three months later, an 8.6-magnitude quake erupted farther down the fault line, killing 1,000 people on sparsely populated Nias island.
"But it's difficult to say," said Atwater. "There are good examples of such stresses leading to other earthquakes, big earthquakes, and there are good examples of that not happening."
It not about how much renewable power countries produce but about how much global CO2 we emit from our energy infrastructure in relation to how much we continue to need in addition each year and how much of it is new fossil fuel and how much renewable.
After all if we grow our energy usage by 2-3% per annum and deploy and shedload of renewable energy then its not much use if its only offsetting the annual growth now is it?
#4 Tom, It is amazing that the scalability of renewables, especially currently wind, for the unit price is not recognized by investors more.
The nuclear power plant crisis in Japan will change this now. The fact also that renewables in the long term effectively cost almost nothing to run and maintain compared to nukes and fossiel fuels is so often left out of the equation.
God, if only investors had woken up to this 10 – 20 years ago then we might have had Utopia.
The American Wind Energy Association estimated China has 41 GW of capacity and the US has 40 GW at the end of 2010.
Kate Galbraith dismisses renewable energy in four sentences.
Jeff Sommer, in NYT's Business Day, writes "Day to day, nuclear power is cheap."
The most graphic clip yet of the Tsunami coming ashore , with the sound . No English , I don't know what this location is. The first 9:00 min. of this thing.
China, India, Brazil Pledge Emission Limits to United Nations Climate Body
China, India and Brazil pledged to limit their greenhouse gas emissions in documents submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, formalizing commitments made in Copenhagen in December 2009.
China said it will try to lower carbon-dioxide emissions per dollar of economic output at least 40 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels, according to a document dated March 18 and e-mailed today by the UN body, which stewards global climate treaty talks. India said it aims to cut emissions per dollar at least 20 percent in the same period while Brazil said it'll slash heat-trapping gases more than a third from projected 2020 levels. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/china-india-brazil-pledge-emission-limits-to-united-nations-climate-body.html
Eminent scientists ask for restrictions on power plants
Representing 14 of the country's leading climate change scientists, Public Justice recently urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hold power plants accountable for their carbon dioxide emissions and allow states to impose restrictions on how much of the chemical compound may be released.
The scientists' amicus brief in AEP v. Connecticut et al., argues that there is no scientific uncertainty about the warming effects of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide; that the power plants threaten substantial harm to communities in the six plaintiff states; and that the benefits of reduced emissions would be significant.
The scientists include Mario Molina, who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his role in showing that chlorofluorocarbons damage the Earth's ozone layer; and Dan Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Top Ten U.S. and China Collaborations in Cleantech
A number of the cleantech efforts between the United States and China reflect the need for cooperation on issues surrounding climate change and clean energy as it is a major factor in the relations of these two countries. Although there are still issues to resolve in many of the collaborations, it is believed that if the United States and China can continue in their cleantech collaborations, that it will show the world that two major players on the international platform are serious about combating the challenge of climate change, and it will also encourage other countries to create alliances. Through collaboration, the two largest greenhouse gas emitters will be able to create technologies required to combat climate change. Not only that, but tangible benefits will be developed, not just for the United States and China, but the world as a whole. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/idUS333315525420110321
Met Office supports Climate Week
21 March 2011 – Climate Week begins today and aims to highlight the many positive steps already being taken by people throughout the country to tackle climate change.
The Met Office is supporting Climate Week, acting as the lead science adviser and providing clear guidance on the results from research and studies undertaken by our climate science experts.
Among this work is the compelling evidence of rising global temperature published in 2010 by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in the US in its annual 'State of the Climate' report.
Google Recruits Scientists to Use New Media to Tackle Climate Skeptics
In an effort to help improve communication regarding global warming issues and to counter the rampant 'noise' made by fossil fuel industry-funded climate skepticism, Google's philanthropy arm has launched a new program focused on bringing together scientists, communications experts, and the world of social media. Google has tapped 21 top climate researchers to be fellows on the project, and they plan on mapping out a way to get accurate, scientifically sound information on climate to the masses. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/google-scientists-climate-skeptics.php
Look at all the sockpuppet comments at treehugger. The MSM should remove obvious sockpuppet comment lies, spread by the denial machine.
UN releases pledges by poor countries to curb climate change: expand forests, go green energy
Mongolia says it will erect solar power plants in the frigid Gobi desert. The Central African Republic says it will expand its forests to cover a quarter of its territory. Mexico promises to slash carbon emissions by 30 per cent by the end of the decade.
Costa Rica and the Maldives aim to become carbon neutral and even chaotic Afghanistan is promising to take action on climate change.
The pledges from dozens of developing countries, compiled by the United Nations and released Monday, are voluntary, and many made them conditional on financial and technical help from the industrial world.
Poorer countries agreed to join the richer nations and submit their own climate action plans after the most recent climate conference in Cancun, Mexico, last December.
Some countries kept their pledges vague and brief: China said it would lower its carbon emissions 40-45 per cent per unit of production by 2020. India used a similar measure, promising to cut emission intensity by 20-25 per cent.
Submissions by others were detailed in the extreme. Ethiopia listed 75 projects, including each new rail line where trains would run by renewable energy.
Argentina, which has outlawed old fashioned light bulbs, specified subsidies for wind and solar energy. The Himalayan nation of Bhutan promised never to emit more carbon than its vast forests can soak up. The Ivory Coast listed a plan for more hydropower, renewable energy and forest management.
Mongolia, in addition to solar units in the desert, wants to give nomadic herders portable wind turbines. It said it still needs to burn coal for home heating in a country were temperatures drop to -40 degrees Celsius (-40 Fahrenheit), but pledged to install more efficient boilers.
Among the agreements reached in Cancun was a plan for a "Green Climate Fund" to administer tens of billions of dollars for developing nations to help them adapt to climate change and help them reduce their own emissions.
You know those unusually cold winters in the northern hemisphere of late ?
It seems the Canadian Harp seals know all about it. They are showing up in U.S. waters in greater numbers and farther south than usual and biologists say there's no clear explanation why.
The winter that never really was
we had four snowfall events, that's a decent winter here. This winter's snowfall events were a little bit different though the snow never stuck around. The snow fell, and then it turned to rain or melted very quickly."
Not only are Japan's nuclear power plants under threat from earthquakes, tsunamis and public sentiment, blooms of giant Nomura's jellyfish have been fouling their cooling systems for a number of years.
Baby Nomura's Jellyfish grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a washing machine in less than six months, and armadas of up to 500 million of the giant stinging 450lb blobs have wreaked massive damage on Japan's fishing industry. Any attempt to physically damage the creature results in the release of billions of spores.
The ever-enterprising locals are working to expand the jellyfish ice cream market. Yum. Something we can all look forward to.
As of today however, jellyfish ice cream could have a slightly more zesty flavour about it.
Abnormally high levels of radioactive substances have been detected in seawater 100 kilometres south of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said the level of iodine-131 was 126.7 times higher and caesium-134 was 24.8 times higher than government-set standards.
Giant swarms of monster radioactive jellyfish. I feel a movie coming on. A real blockbuster.
#20 Prokaryotes. Do you or anybody else who knows abut these things consider this an adequate response? A good start? A token?
How does one judge the status of these reports? Thanks, ME
Merrelyn Emery "Do you or anybody else who knows abut these things consider this an adequate response?"
Everything is a start, we have reached a critical mass – and momentum is building now in europe because of fukushima. Further down the year we can potentially have a similar magnitude event like last year nashville, pakistan or russia. NASA predicts an active 2012 season and another kathrina type event will surely further trigger an adequate response. Because we need clean tech to sustain civilization and once people start using all the new technologies, they will start to love it.
Important is a ban on fossil exploration and out phase, free Co2 city centers, Co2 tax and stuff like this. Though, yes token of progress or token of sustainability.
On the bottom line, time is running out because the world starts to see many nations collapse at once (Nobody have thought of this? So many food riots at once and they triggered all those lingering unstable regime changes. And what about the theory of "climate whammy's"? Just look at the triple impact at fukushima climate impacts are very diverse and happen at the same time too) Though if we have chaos in half the world or better in all the world with different kind of magnitude, progress forward will be slow or impossible. But we need the world to become carbon zero and negative (BECCS, artifical photosythesis, biochar etc)
To bad for human politicians, the climate does not differ between borders.
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Look at all the sockpuppet comments at treehugger. The MSM should remove obvious sockpuppet comment lies, spread by the denial machine.
Heh. Predictably, the good folks over at WUWT didn't think much of Google's initiative either:
Yes. Wind is a very valuable supplementary power to conventional energy. With Giant Wind Turbines coming(10 MW),and offshore wind energy catching up in countries like US,China,Taiwan,South Korea etc. Wind will be the main Alternative Energy in the Energy Mix.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore (AP), India
I hope that Google will begin by flagging and/or eliminating the junk science sites (such as the notorious "Friends of Science") which are returned when one types in the words "global warming."


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The Attorney General's office says 43-year-old Chad Calloway of Goldsboro was indicted and arrested Monday on two counts of statutory rape, three counts of statutory sex offense, four counts of indecent liberties, and three counts of sexual offense with someone he knows.
The charges stem from an investigation conducted by the SBI at the request of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office.
Calloway was a captain with the Goldsboro Police Department and is free on a $500,000 unsecured bond.


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To actually buy into the idea that these young girls and older women are genuinely turned on by each other requires a good deal of suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, some moments are worth noting and will certainly help move this to fans of the genre.
For one, Austin O?Riley engages in some convincing full-mouth kissing with an older blonde before diving into her muff with a good amount of energy. Marquetta Jewel turns on for the camera with a devil?s glint in her naughty eyes. And Penny Porsche?s mammoth hooters fill the TV screen.
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I think this lens is reason enough to invest in a m43-body. I owned the Sigma 8-16 with the Pentax K5, but the 7-14 with the GH2 is a much better combination.
Can't speak to the Pentax K5, but I agree with the 7-14 and GH2 being a great combo... The images shot here were with the G3, but the 7-14 balances way better, so feels more "of a piece" with the GH2 body.
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For years I have been griping about the mad rush to get to Christmas as soon as Halloween is over.
Actually, there's another word besides "griping" that probably describes it better, but I'm feeling polite today so I won't use it, out of respect for female canines.
Anyway, we're at it again. In fact, it's even worse these days. Christmas and Halloween merchandise are side-by-side in some stores, and it just strikes me as wrong, because it just feeds the tendency to steamroll past Thanksgiving — the best holiday of them all in my book — turning a wonderful day of family and gratitude into nothing more than a yuletide warmup.
Well, I think I know why. Thanksgiving is missing something.
It needs better music.
Really, what gets you into the festive holiday spirit like music? No wonder Thanksgiving gets short shrift. The only Thanksgiving songs anyone knows are the one about going over the river and through the woods and the hymn about gathering together to ask the Lord's blessing. We need more songs.
Well, I used to write songs for a radio station, and so I've put my tunesmith hat back on to see what I could come up with. How about this one, sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells"?
Turkey Day, Turkey Day, we love Turkey Day,
Eat too much and fall asleep the good old-fashioned way, hey!
You're right. It stinks.
OK, try this, to the tune of "Deck The Halls."
Politics with Uncle Davy, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
Please shut up and pass the gravy, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
Too close to home, huh? All right, let's try again. This time, sing to the tune of "We Three Kings."
Eat three kinds of pie for dessert
And you'll find your stomach will hurt …
Think "The Little Drummer Boy" for this one:
Come, they told me, pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
A football game to see pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
Wow. That is really lame. OK, one more try, the tune of "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow."
I've been cooking since 2 this morning
And the table there is groaning
The family all gathers round
Wolf it down! Wolf it down! Wolf it down!
For all of that preparation
It's a meal of short duration
I'm feeding a pack of hounds
Wolf it down! Wolf it down! Wolf it down!
OK, so maybe my tunesmith hat is a little out of tune.
Or maybe I am making the mistake others make when they try to turn Thanksgiving into pre-Christmas, or the Big Meal Before Shopping.
Thanksgiving is special because it's the one truly American holiday (no offense to my Canadian friends, who have their Thanksgiving, too). Anyone can celebrate regardless of who they are, what color they are, where they worship (or even if they worship at all). It cuts across all boundaries.
And all it is for is to say thank you. Regardless of the problems we face in this country, and we have lots, we still can and should be grateful for all the goodness we enjoy. And this is a day for that. Food and football and shopping are fine, but let's not lose sight of the real Thanksgiving deal, folks.
There's a good song in there, somewhere. Someone else will have to write it, though. Not that I'm griping.


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Gia's Ultimate Surrender wrestling name is "The Fountain". Lets find out why. Gia is bound down in a great "fuck me" position. Her pussy and ass are open and helpless. We tie off her huge nipples to her leg ropes, so now anytime she moves she pulls hard on her nipples.
After some hard foot caning and snapping, ass flogging and pussy flogging, it's time to turn on the fountain. Isis sucks on Gia's clit to get her ready, then straps on, and give her a good fucking. Soon the strap on is replaced by Isis's fist, and Gia gets fisted by the hand of an angry GOD!
Multiple squirting orgasms are ripped out of Gia's helpless spasmodic body. How much can she take? How much squirt can actually come out of her body, How many more orgasms can we take from this bound up helpless MILF?
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So "hard" and so beautiful. GIA pushing her limits at each shoot. ISIS and MATT are very good "teachers" for BDSM. GREAT WORK. Super MODEL GIA.
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Gia is fantastic!
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HOT! All of the best stuff done to hot Gia plus Isis gets naked and is flogged a little.
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Awesome! Gia is gorgeous, bondage was great - as always. Plus I can't get enough of a naked Isis doing her thing! ;)
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Gia is fantastic, Isis superb. Matt what about some tution shoots.
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It would have been greater without that ball gag so she could react to what was being done to her
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Nobody can dildo rape another girl like Isis, She's in a class by herself. WTF with Gia's hideous tattoos? Why does someone as attractive as she try so hard to disfigure herself? Ditto those shitty loking shoes on Gia, as opposed to those divine boots on tat-clean Isis. Isis is aptly named after a goddess.
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Isis and Gia are great! Gia is beautifully submissive and exposed so nicely in this scene. I think the ball gag is hot and I also like seeing Gia's beautiful nipples tied with string and stretched.
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Isis and Gia are great! Gia is beautifully submissive and exposed so nicely in this scene. I think the ball gag is hot and I also like seeing Gia's beautiful nipples tied with string and stretched.
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Awesome! I loved watching Isis go down on Gia. Maybe move your hair back a little next time ;-). I appreciate Matt's care for the models.
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Gia, you are beautiful! And I love that bound ""fuck me" position!" I'm sure all would agree that you have a nice wide open pussy that looks inviting...I can see why Isis wants too fist you...Can you imagine what a room full of horny guys and girls would like to do to you?
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Lee had posted a $500,000 bond June 13 after winning a temporary injunction against Viacom's plan to rename TNN. State Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub gave him until Thursday to post the additional $2 million.
The 46-year-old director of films including "Malcolm X" and "Do the Right Thing" got the injunction after claiming that Viacom, owner of the CBS network, MTV and Showtime, was renaming TNN in a deliberate attempt to hijack his name, image and reputation.
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Carter Cash, who was born in the community of Maces Spring, died May 15 after complications from heart surgery. She would have been 74 on Monday.
"I don't know hardly what to say tonight about being up here without her," the 71-year-old singer told a crowd of more than 1,000 people who packed the Carter Fold on Saturday.
"The pain is so severe there is no way of describing it," he said. "It really hurts."
Cash, wearing his trademark black, sang several of his hits, including "Folsom Prison Blues," "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line." He was accompanied onstage and in song by his son, John Carter Cash, and daughter-in-law, Laura Cash.
"It's been a pleasure," Cash said before finishing. "It's been a painful experience ... but a healing thing to come back here to this wonderful place with you. (June) loved this valley and all these people and all you people. I wish I could share it more - how we felt about each other."
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Hey guys, I have a few questions, and please don't make a big deal and say I'm asking for scripts, I know how to script perfectly fine, I would just like to know what is needed to be done to make these happen:
a script for a door that opens when the player has a key.
a script for a trainer battle using the vs seeker (where they continue to get stronger)
a script for a mart that progressively sells more items as the game goes on. (not over time, through set points in the story)
help for any of these would be much appreciated. Thank you.
I don't know how to do the second one, but I have done the first and third.
For the first one, just place a hidden character on the door and remove the warp. Then write a script that will open the door, have the player walk forward, and then warp. Then set up a script that will check your player for the key, using the check item command, and if he has it, it will jump to the first script. If not, it just says that the door is locked.
The second one is a little more complicated. You can use flags or vars, though vars will simplify it. First, find a tutorial or figure out how to make a mart in the first place. Now, make several different mart scripts with the mart you want for each point in the story. Put all of these marts as differet dynamic offsets in your script.
Now, I'm going to use vars for this explanation, place a script or add to a script at key points in the story that will set a specific var, let's say 0x5000 +1 at each event.
Then, go back to your old script and using the compare comand, check your var for the different values and have it jump to the different mart offsets based on the value in the var 5000.
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Mayoral Control Makes the Grade
Unions want to take back the schools.
Mayoral control of public education has gained currency in recent years, including in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Washington, D.C. Results vary from place to place, but one clear success story has been New York City, where the policy deserves to be extended.
Upon taking office seven years ago, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg waged a campaign to abolish the city's 32 community school boards; hire and fire the schools chancellor; and appoint a majority of members on the city's Board of Education. Prior to the change, two out of three public schools in Gotham were underperforming and graduation rates were stagnant. Meanwhile, the Board of Education would blame the mayor, who pointed to the schools chancellor, who cited the Board of Education, and so on.
Mr. Bloomberg sought to end this circular blame game by taking responsibility for school performance in return for more control over education policy. In the event, test scores have improved and more kids are graduating. The New York State legislature has until June to reauthorize mayoral control, and it would be a breeze if not for teacher-union hostility.
"Today, more than 10,000 additional students are graduating than we took over in 2002," said schools Chancellor Joel Klein last month. "Today, many more students are meeting and exceeding standards in math and reading. And today, the gap separating African-American and Latino students from their white and Asian peers is shrinking."
Mayoral control has also been a boon for reformers looking to expand school choice for low-income families. In 2002, New York City had fewer than 20 charter schools; next year it will have more than 100. This is a direct result of charter-friendly policies pushed by the mayor that would have been blocked by teacher union control of the school board. Mr. Klein's long tenure -- now seven years -- also makes for more policy staying power.
Eva Moskowitz, whose Harlem Success Charter Network operates four schools, says the change has been "fundamental" to her efforts to offer disadvantaged kids an alternative to failing schools. "The only way to fix the problem of the education monopoly is competition," said Ms. Moskowitz, a former member of the City Council. "And you can't have competition unless you have mayoral control. The local forces -- the teachers unions -- are fundamentally opposed to competition, whereas the mayor is responsive to the voters and the parents."
The United Federation of Teachers, the local union, claims to favor mayoral control. Yet it's urging state lawmakers to scotch the mayor's ability to appoint a majority of school board members -- a modification that would increase the union's influence and end real accountability. State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a union ally, says he favors renewing the law but also wants to give parents a greater voice in the system, whatever that means. In fact, a recent poll found that parents with children in public schools favor mayoral control by 57% to 39%.
The way to truly empower parents is to let them decide where their children attend school. Mayoral control is no education panacea, but to the extent that it is aiding competition and raising standards in New York it is saving thousands of kids from the tyranny of union-dominated failure.
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Seriously about to give up.. Need encouragement!
Katelyn (22) & Jonathan (23)
09-30-2010 ~ Married my first love ♥
FTM to my little princess Maci Leanne-11/17/12
I'm basically in the same boat.. my little guy is 11 days younger than yours. I had an emergency C-section. I was just prescribed domperidone. It's insanely expensive and an apothecary has to make it for me. I did find it online (clickremedy.com) but I've heard it takes forever to get shipped.
I really hope it works for me. I know its worked for others. Maybe you should consider asking for that? It's basically the last ditch effort.
CJ Nov 2012 Expecting baby #2 1/23/16
It supposedly ships in 2-3 days but its 65 for 200 pills and I have hardly heard from anyone with experience using it. I don't want to waste the money and it not work for me.. But I'm real close to asking my husband if I can order it.. :(
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09-30-2010 ~ Married my first love ♥
FTM to my little princess Maci Leanne-11/17/12
Sounds like you are doing all that you can do. At this point I would say to try and take a nap and rest. Maybe your body just needs a little rest mama....that and a good dark beer because those are good for milk makin as well! Sounds like you probably are, but the only other suggestion is making sure you are getting enough B-Vitamins. I am sure your LO appreciates all you are doing to be a good producer for them!
Your baby might be crying because she is too hot, too cold, over stimulated, under stimulated, wet, poopy, irritated, gassy, etc...there are so many things other than hunger that can trigger crying at this age. Remember, too, that babies have fussy periods and sometimes just need to cry.
- Jess
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this is my situation too! i rareyly pump more that 15 ccs every 2 to 3 hrs. we have been using the Lact-aid nursing system. its basically a baggie of formula with a little tube that goes in the babies mouth with your nipple. i think it has helped build my supply a little. at the very least i dont have to give LO a bottle after nursing which makes her super gassy and projectile spit up every now and then.
my lactation consultant said we've done pretty much all i can - more milk blend of herbs, pumping, using the lact-aid. I am just one of the 1-2% of women who cant produce enough milk. she told me that they used to use Domperidone all the time but the FDA put out a warning against it- why you cant get it in the US. she recommended asking my midwife about Reglan, a similar drug, but it can make depression worse.
i think ive decided to just let it be and be thankful for the amount of breastmilk i can give my baby, because i cant stand to get my hopes up again and have it not work. this is exactly what happened with my son, but everyone assured me that it might be different this time. guess not. :(
best of luck to all of you!
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I am right there with you....I can only pump .5 to 1 oz. each time, and that is with pumping only, no breastfeeding! So I can only provide for about 1-2 bottles a day! I hate it and feel like giving up all the time. I am just proud of myself for lasting this long because I gave up after one week with my son. I never even got milk in with him at all, so I guess my boobs are just defective.
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US Mission Due for Free Trade Accord
The United States is stepping up efforts to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Korea, as was reported here on January 14.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is set to dispatch its fact- finding mission to Seoul at the end of this month or early next month, according to trade sources familiar with the issue.
The delegation, which will consist of American economists, will meet policymakers and business leaders with the goal of analyzing the impact of the free trade accord between Korea and the United States, he said.
The U.S. has been pressing ahead with the FTA with Korea since it inked similar pacts with a number of countries including Mexico, Canada, Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
It is now pushing for negotiations with Singapore in this respect but the prospect has remained dim due to the growing resistance from U.S.
The U.S. business concerns express a negative opinion regarding the envisaged FTA with Singapore, given that the island country's economy has virtually been liberalized in full swing, said an official from the Korea International Trade Association (KITA).
But in the case of Korea, prospects for the establishment of an FTA has been relatively bright as the American firms and research institutes back the idea.
For one thing, the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AmCham) has recently called for the signing of a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between the two countries as the initial step toward the FTA.
As the issue involving screen quotas has been a major barrier in bids to establish the BIT, the chamber even advised Seoul and Washington to sign the treaty with the exclusion of the screen quota issue. …


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NC sees few problems on big election day
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina voters put a Republican in the Executive Mansion for the first time in 20 years on Tuesday and weighed whether President Barack Obama could repeat his narrow victory from four years ago in the state.
Former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory won the governor's race over Democrat Walter Dalton with 55 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results. McCrory lost to Democrat Beverly Perdue in 2008, when Obama won North Carolina by 14,000 votes. Perdue didn't seek re-election this year.
McCrory will take the oath of office in January. Jim Martin was the last Republican governor, leaving office in 1993.
Private preschool teacher Mary Russ, 43, of Raleigh said her financial circumstances are no better off than four years ago, so she backed Republicans McCrory and presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
"I was pretty much steady" for the GOP candidates, Russ said.
Irene Jones voted for Dalton, although the 57-year-old pastor and bus driver from Zebulon was much more excited about voting for Obama again. She said the men running for governor never got her interested in the race.
"I couldn't tell a lot of difference. I'm OK with either one of them winning. I'm just going to pray that they do a good job once they get into office," Jones said.
Poll workers at more than 2,700 precincts statewide reported few problems, and none of them disrupted voting for long.
Law enforcement quickly determined a bomb threat to three unspecified Cumberland County precincts was a hoax, State Board of Elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett said. Power went out to four polling places in High Point, but voting never ceased, he said. Poll workers needed a few minutes to reorganize, then backup batteries on the machines and generators kept power on, he said.
"This has been one of the quieter elections I remember, knock on wood," Bartlett said.
It was a cold and cloudy Election Day across the state, but turnout was steady, Bartlett said. More than 2.7 million ballots already cast through mail-in absentee voting and in-person early voting that ended last weekend.
Bartlett said he expected turnout to be about 70 percent, the same as in 2008. North Carolina has about 400,000 more registered voters than in 2008, and about 250,000 to 300,000 more people were expected to vote, Bartlett said.
Fewer than half the votes this election were expected to be cast on Election Day, but get-out-the-vote efforts remained critical to tens of thousands of volunteers for Obama and for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Voters supporting Romney outside the polls appeared more motivated in 2012 than supporters of John McCain were in 2008. Voice-over talent Pat Crosswhite, 55, of Holly Springs called the Obama administration divisive. She said she held her nose and voted for John McCain in 2008, but was much more excited about a vote for Romney and against Obama this year at the Wake County Firearms Education & Training Center in Apex.
"I think it would be disastrous," Crosswhite said of a possible second Obama term. "I think what he started is terrible. I don't want him to finish it."
North Carolina voters also were poised to elect a new lieutenant governor and seven members of the Council of State, all 13 members of the state's U.S. House delegation and the 170 members of the Legislature. They were also picking a justice on the Supreme Court, three Court of Appeals judges and scores of county commissioners and local bond issues.
The Supreme Court race between incumbent Paul Newby and Court of Appeals Judge Sam Ervin IV was marked by several outside groups that backed Newby collecting at least $2 million for television ads and mailers. While officially nonpartisan, an Ervin win would mean four of the seven justices are Democratic by voter registration. The state's highest court would remain 4-3 Republican with a Newby victory. The court is expected to hear redistricting litigation in the near future.
Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed in Apex and Jeffrey Collins in Zebulon contributed to this report.


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So I am just wondering if I will be able to overclock my CPU. It is an AMD Anthlon II Quad Core @ 3.0GHz. My motherboard is an Asus M4A87TD/USB3. My Power Suply is a Coolermaster 600W. Currently running Windows 7 Ultimate. My CPU's normal temperature at idle is around 16 degree tested by Core Temp. Its maximum temperature is 90 degree. My CPU cooler is a Coolermaster V8.
Please note that I am not super super good with computers, but I am not that bad either.
A few questions:
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Discussion in 'Wrestling Forum' started by TPIB, Jan 11, 2012.
Far too long. Especially with Michael Cole's w*nking over him.
Johnny won't be around for long, his character will get got soon enough
I think an elimination tag would have made more sense. There were too many guys for just one fall.
I do hope so. It would be nice to have a GM just be there to book matches.
3 seconds before he attempts to screw Punk - yawn.
I love Punk, but Y2J will cement his legacy tonight and win the title. Come on Jericho, also loving the jacket
It keeps him safe when he's jogging at night.
F*cking snicklefritz Lauriaitis and his stupid a*s stipulations. I'm officially worried...
I'm officially pissed off, is what I am.
This will be good
Jericho's tights have "Best in the world" on the back
I know, Jericho really fancies himself
If this ends on a DQ I'll lose all faith
Another reason why Jericho is the very best heel in the business.
Agreed, nasty suplex
The throw off the second rope just then was pretty evil too.
Pointless stipulation is pointless.
I missed the first hour which sounds like a good thing.
You only missed the burial of Bryan
and the fans chanting his name right up til taker/HHH
WWE are probably wishing they built the card up to the big 2 matches. Crowd died after the Taker match.
The best thing was obviously you didn't pay anything for it. I'm feeling cheated out of at least a tenner of the £15.
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Rapper Lil Wayne Released From Hospital
After spending the weekend in the hospital and causing an uproar of online reports stating that he was near death, Lil Wayne has been released -- and his friend Mack Maine couldn't be more grateful.
"Thanks to [Cedars-Sinai] for everything!!! @LilTunechi has been officially been released and is headed home. ...God is great," the Young Money Entertainment president tweeted on Monday.
After being hospitalized in Los Angeles on Friday, reps for the 30-year-old performer revealed that he had, in fact, suffered a seizure, but was on the mend and doing well.
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Opec: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
The Conference recognized and appreciated the production cuts pledged by some non-OPEC oil-producing countries, in particular the Sultanate of Oman, Mexico and others, and agreed to continue consultations with the non-OPEC oil producers so as to establish and maintain stability in the oil market in the future. The Conference also appealed to other non-OPEC oil exporters to support these measures to stabilize the market by moderating their output, in the interests of all concerned The Conference, having reviewed the current market situation, agreed to make further reductions in the production of member countries (excluding Iraq), bringing total reductions to 2.6 mb/d, so that the base (using February 1998 production levels as given by OPEC.
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference of September 10-14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. The five Founding Members were later joined by eight Qther Members: Qatar (1961); Indonesia (1962); Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1962); United Arab Emirates (1967): Algeria (1969); Nigeria (1971); Ecuador [(1973-1992).sup.*] and Gabon [(1975-1994).sup.*] OPEC transferred its headquarters from Geneva, Switzerland, to Vienna, Austria, on 1 September 1965, and moved into the present Secretariat building in 1977.
OPEC's objective is to co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among member countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on capital to those investing in the industry.
The OPEC Conference of Ministers meets in ordinary session twice, a year; and is responsible for the formulation bf the general policy of the Organization.
The 1990s
At the fifth Meeting of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee, held on 16-17 March 1990, in Vienna, the Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the November 1989 pricing and production agreement. On 2-3 May 1990, the Sixth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee, convened in Geneva to address the problem of over-supply in the oil market and the consequent deterioration in crude oil prices, unanimously agreed to take immediate collective action to cut back OPEC production by 1.445 mb/d, the reduction to remain valid until the end of July 1990.
The 87th Meeting of the Conference, held on 26-27 July 1990, in Geneva, after reviewing the oil market situation, decided to make the minimum reference price for the OPEC crude basket at $21/b, and that the total ceiling for OPEC production for the second half of 1990 should be set at 22.491 mb/d. It was also decided that the Monitoring Committee should henceforth comprise all 13 OPEC Oil Ministers.
On 8 August 1990, the OPEC Secretariat issued a statement by HE Sadek Boussena, President of the Conference and Minister of Mines & Industry of Algeria, in connection with the developments in the oil market following the outbreak of the Gulf crisis on 2 August. The President said fears expressed concerning possible disruption of oil supply in the short term were the result of psychological and speculative factors rather than the manifestation of real market fundamentals. Nonetheless, OPEC was aware that the developments induced by the events in the Gulf were fraught with uncertainty as regards the equilibrium and stability of the international oil market, as well as the integrity of the Organization. OPEC would accordingly carefully monitor the evolution of the situation and assess its implications for world oil supply for member countries' revenues and for the interests of both producers and consumers, and take whatever action was deemed necessary. HE Boussena stressed, however, that ensuring stability of su pply to the market was the shared responsibility of all oil producers, the international oil industry, the consuming countries' governments and international energy agencies. …


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2012 was a big birthday year for Lutheran Memorial Church in Pierre, S.D. Five members — Fern Lyngstad (left), Irene Caldwell, Ralph Henrickson, Alma Buechler and Albina Stageberg — turned 100. The congregation celebrated in mid-September when two had turned 100 and the other three were soon to have birthdays. The honorees were recognized during worship and at a potluck following the service. Members sang a favorite hymn of each, and family members spoke about life lessons they had received from the mothers and father — testaments of hard work, strong character and great faith, said the local newspaper.
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Google Passing Your Private Data To U.S Government: Confirmed By The Chief
Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a CNBC interview has confirmed that he and his company comes under United States Patriot Act and is providing your private surfing data to the U.S authorities.
Eric Schmidt told CNBC Anchor Maria Bartiromo, on the cable network's recent special "Inside the Mind of Google," that people who have something to hide shouldn't be doing things online that might potentially expose them if law enforcement seeks access to their search histories.
By turning the argument against the user with "just don't do anything wrong and you'll be OK," Schmidt is essentially saying that we are now going to start spying on you.
In response to Google's CEO downplayed consumers' privacy concerns a Mozilla official today pointed Firefox users to the extension that adds Microsoft's Bing to the list of the browser's search engines.


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Year, State Incorporated: 1999, Georgia
Affiliates:NSPIRE Charlotte, Hope For Domestic Violence, NSPIRE Memphis, and 3 chapters
Stated Purpose: "it shall be the purpose of NSPIRE Outreach to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ...and to have a vital part in missions."
Standard 5: Conflict of Interest - No transaction(s) in which any board or staff members have material conflicting interests with the charity resulting from any relationship or business affiliation. Factors that will be considered when concluding whether or not a related party transaction constitutes a conflict of interest and if such a conflict is material, include, but are not limited to: any arm's length procedures established by the charity; the size of the transaction relative to like expenses of the charity; whether the interested party participated in the board vote on the transaction; if competitive bids were sought and whether the transaction is one-time, recurring or ongoing.
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Nice location, gravel surface, sites not too spacious but we had no one on either side of us for the 3 nights we stayed there. A couple of non-Elks groups used the picnic facilities adjacent to the RV parking but they were gone by dark. Friendly staff in lodge. Water and electric at site but no dump. Couldn't get level on Site #9 so chose #8 instead. - RVtravelers2
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Expanding Choice through Defined Contributions: Overcoming a Non-Participatory Health Care Economy
Version of Record online: 12 OCT 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00689.x
© 2012 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Inc.
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Special Issue: SYMPOSIUM 1: Conflicts of Interest in the Practice of Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 3, pages 558–573, Fall 2012
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Moffit, R. E. (2012), Expanding Choice through Defined Contributions: Overcoming a Non-Participatory Health Care Economy. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 40: 558–573. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00689.x
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The fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is uncertain. Much of the opposition is grounded in popular hostility to expansive federal control over individuals' health care decision-making. But the new law reinforces existing third-party payment, primarily through employers and government programs. This financing already restricts personal choice of health plans and coverage options. Private employers, managed care executives, and public officials make the key spending decisions in health care. Unlike consumers in other sectors of the economy, individuals are mostly passive spectators. Normal market dynamics do not exist, and consumer choice is frustrated. Curiously, public programs, such as the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), the Medicare Advantage Program, and the Medicare Part D Drug program, are the main exceptions to the norm. In these programs, individuals control the flow of dollars over the purchase of health plans. In crucial areas such as access to care and benefits, cost control, quality, and patient satisfaction, these programs have a strong record. By realigning health reform with the primacy of personal choice, and building on the experience of these programs, policymakers can expand consumer control through defined-contribution financing. Specifically, Congress can replace the existing tax regime for commercial private health insurance with a national tax credit system, provide generous financial assistance for the poor, and transform Medicare into a "premium support" program.