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The Thunder will be the 2-seed in the Western Conference Playoffs.
Oklahoma City's fate was sealed Monday night when the Spurs rolled at home, 124-89, over Portland to move to 48-16 and earn the No. 1 seed in the West.
With the Spurs securing the top seed, it assures San Antonio will have home-court advantage through the Western Conference Finals if the Spurs make it that far. That means that any and all potential Game 7s through at least the conference finals will be played on the Spurs home court.
The Thunder will face the 7-seed, which will either be Dallas or Denver depending on how the final handful of games plays out for each of those teams. OKC, however, will have home-court advantage in that first-round series, as well as a potential second-round matchup with the winner between the 3-seed and the 6-seed.
After a career-best March, guard Russell Westbrook has hit a slump in April.
Westbrook is averaging 20.7 points on just 38.4 percent shooting in 13 games this month. In 16 April games, Westbrook averaged 26.6 points on 49.2 percent shooting, both career-highs in any month.
On Sunday against the Lakers, Westbrook shot just 3-of-22 from the field but finished with 14 points and 10 assists for his seventh double-double of the year.
"It was a tough night for me all night long," Westbrook said. "But regardless of what's going on, I still got to be able to run my team. That's my job and that's what I try to do. Unfortunately I didn't do a great job of that (Sunday)."
Lakers coach Mike Brown, known as a defensive-oriented coach, said the Thunder doesn't get enough credit for the defense it has played this season.
"They should, because Scott Brooks has done a nice job there," Brown said. "You talk about having the right pieces on your team to be a very good defensive team, if not the best in the league.
"When you look at their team you think that's a prototypical defensive team because they've got size but with the size they have athletic quickness. And so they should be able to play defense any way shape or form that they want to because of the pieces that they have. And it's starting to show, especially as the year has gone along, in the different categories that you look at."
2-0: The Thunder's record without James Harden in the lineup.
3-1: The Thunder's record in overtime games.
7-1: The Thunder's final record on Sundays.
16.8: Harden's points average this season, a career-high.
18-0: The Thunder's record when shooting at least 50 percent.
21-12: The Thunder's final road record.
36.6: Field-goal percentage against the Lakers, a season-low.
50:34: Minutes played by Kevin Durant on Sunday.
Lakers guard Kobe Bryant on the vicious Metta World Peace elbow to James Harden: "I can't speculate (how many games World Peace will be suspended). I'm sure he'll have some type of a suspension. And James, I hope he's OK. I haven't heard anything about how he's doing, but he's one of my favorite players in the league, one of my young boys, so I hope he's doing all right."
The Thunder returns to Chesapeake Energy Arena after a five-game road trip to close out the regular season with a two-game home stand. Oklahoma City will play Sacramento on Tuesday before closing the regular season against Denver on Wednesday. Tipoff for the Kings game is scheduled for 7 p.m.
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We all gathered in the dining room for our first meal on board before having a "parka party" to be fitted for our foul weather gear. During the "party" it was announced that the forecast for the Drake was in and it would not be smooth sailing. They warned us to take drugs and head to bed if we were wary of motion sickness. And just like that, it looked like the "sick-bag fairy" had paid a visit to the ship. As we left the lounge, every surface of the boat was covered in "sick bags". They were tucked over handrails, behind paintings, on counters - you couldn't reach in any direction without being able to grab one if you needed it.
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Submitted by Bill Blain of Mint Partners,
Another day of fraught wonderment ahead of us. What does it all mean? China economic data increasingly suggests there is a serious problem, (that's still a few points below crisis – but recent experience suggests the politics of mobs can turn ugly with surprising speed!). On the other hand, yesterday's US auctions went swimmingly well – so we can all relax about the taper? Er.. no. And while Spain gets a cheeky 15-yr bond issue completed (driven on the back of a large single order we strongly suspect), the Italians then get downgraded because of the weakening economy, deteriorating competitiveness and 1.9% negative growth outlook... "You can't make this stuff up," comments Chris, my head of Govvie Trading.
So its heads down, and pick the bones out of yet another messy market. Europe problems back to the fore – but volumes are tiny, and I really don't think anyone cares very much. ECB chappie Ass-mussen saying rates might stay low beyond 12 months doesn't quite have the reassuring impact Draghi had last week. We're wondering if Spain is next on the ratings hit list, and there is yet another political crisis brewing about illegal payments. Same old, same old…
There is nothing quite like a summer crisis in Europe.. Yet the hoo-ha over Portugal does seem to have blown over. Don't believe that for a second.. we don't yet know what the cost of keeping the fragile coalition will prove to be – we suspect even a slight Portuguese course change puts them in collision with Europe.. again.
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far far away... (I think I've used that too many times recently when differentiating Planet Earth from Yoorp!)..
The Bells of London are ringing with joy unconfined this bright sunny morn as the IMF says UK is poised for stratospheric growth! Of 0.9%?? wowser (US Readers: deliberate use of lower case to suggest mild sarcasm.) And Moody's has raised its UK banking outlook from negative to stable to reflect UK's increasingly stable economic outlook, and the fact the banks are generally in better shape after improving asset quality, capital ratios, funding and liquidity "metrics" (I detest that word), improving profits and efficiency gains. They remain concerned about long term "systemic support" for the big banks – who can be surprised when government has made "exhuberant banking" a hanging offence.
Whateva.. George Osborne must be dancing a jig and considering replacing the wallpaper in No 11. After all 0.9% is a positive number so hang out the blue bunting, set the band's a'playing, and lets all be deliriously happy. Lions, Andy Murray and now the IMF!
Contain my cynicism for a moment. 0.9% growth is better than 0.3% in Germany or -0.6% across Europe, so Osborne will be explaining success to Tory MPs ("well Toby.... 0.9 is a bigger number than -0.6.... do you see how that works?") But Mr Osborne probably shouldn't share anything more complex with his legislators lest they catch a whiff of things less than wholesome...
Friends fed me dinner last night, (She-who-wishes-to-be-Mrs-Blain is working on a contract outside town leaving me to fend for myself during the week... I know.. shocking, but that's modern gals for you...), and him being one of the UK's businessmen actually making something, we discussed the prospects for UK industry in a lower sterling environment.
The conventional wisdom is weaker currency = hurrah for exporters. Unfortunately, previous weak sterling moments have seen precious little export growth.. you need a a manufacturing sector for that particular trick to work. Might work for Japan.. probably not here. Instead, the risk is lower sterling will simply import inflation. And all the entails..
Then we have improving confidence across the UK - apparently. I worry how much that is fuelled by house price gains - again suggesting increased indebtedness contributing to the rosier picture. Again all that entails as and when UK interest rates head back towards tropospheric normalcy and we get a housing crash.
And if we get growth, the banking transmission mechanism to ensure companies get the capital/dosh they need to expand is so broken and wrapped in regulatory red-tape that growth is going to be more about finding 20 quid notes on the street rather than getting expansion funding from banks! (Hang on.. I got an idea about that.. but means opening up the tomb of the CLO market… dah dah dah!)
And even the IMF admitted the slight 0.2% revision in UK prospects didn't mean much - "the recovery is weak, and policy makers should ensure the recovery is improved." Don't underestimate the capacity of the UK's elected leaders to get this completely wrong and snatch economic defeat from the jaws of growth!
Meanwhile the IMF warns Europe faces worsening economic headwinds requiring "additional policy action" and more "do what it takes moments"! Good luck on that ahead of the September European elections.. oops.. sorry... meant Germany..
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Bill and dear ZH, It all means chaos, mathematical chaos. You find this type of behavior in compkex feddback loop systems that are non linear and show hysterisis, it is a little birpt more complex thatn this, but it siffices for this explanation. Knowing what are the dynamics of the system is. Critical to be able to control it since you knoiw what to avoid and how to maintain yir cintrols respnding so that a given action produces a predictable response. The correlation inver psions and the sudden loss of control that you are seeing are normal manifestations of this dynamics. The explanations provided are just ex post explanations of what feedback looos got activated or changed the phase of the feedback transitioning from negative feedback, thus stable to positive feedback, unstable. When a loop goes into positive feedback, the speed of the changes are not controllabke, thus the peril of the current situation we are in.
"You find this type of behavior in compkex feddback loop systems that are non linear and show hysterisis..."
Welcome to the insane asylum. We are most pleased that you have decided to linger.
Blah blah blah blah....wake me when some actual news on the global economy surfaces. This circle of nonsense is tiring.
Indeed an asylum it is, there is no other explanation why a bunch of guys that couldnt obviouslly control any complex industrial plant are being allowed to contol our economic system and therefore our life savings and future well being of this and future generations. They may send us to the stone age and we are walking to our destruction nearly as happily as the jews walked into the showers in nazi germany. May be the reason is the same people want to believe and our brains refuse to see situations that are complex and we dont have an easy remedy for. SAD!
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Bill and dear ZH, It all means chaos, mathematical chaos. You find this type of behavior in compex feedback loop systems that are non linear and show hysteresis, it is a little birt more complex than this, but it suffices for this explanation. Knowing what are the dynamics of the system is critical to be able to control it, since you know what to avoid and how to maintain your controls responding so that a given action produces a predictable response. The correlation inversions and the sudden loss of control that you are seeing are normal manifestations of this dynamics. The explanations provided are just ex post explanations of what feedback looos got activated or changed the phase of the feedback transitioning from negative feedback, thus stable to positive feedback, unstable. When a loop goes into positive feedback, the speed of the changes are not controllable, thus the peril of the current situation we are in. The only thing you can do to control these systems, meaning the only thing that you know ex ante is the dynamics ofnthe system, is to stay the hellbaway from the stability boundaries, because you know that if you touch them you can loose control and then it is game over.
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Time to shake up the snow globe again pretty soon.
Fear and greed, two sides of the same coin.
<Time to flip it and see what comes up.>
It's true, bitchez! It's true! The crown has made it clear. The climate must be perfect all the year. A law was made a distant moon ago here: July and August cannot be too hot. And there's a legal limit to the snow here In Camelot. The winter is forbidden till December And exits March the second on the dot. By order, summer lingers through September In Camelot. Camelot! Camelot! I know it sounds a bit bizarre, But in Camelot, Camelot That's how conditions are.
Its just a model.
Tis a silly place.
Perhaps the $12 recent spike in oil will help out?
There is nothing quite like a summer crisis in Europe
it has happened 5 years running, why should this summer be different?
"US Readers: deliberate use of lower case to suggest mild sarcasm"
OK. Thanks. The article was still barely readable. And still searching for a point to make.
Gideon and Mark are engineering a mini old fashioned pre electioin boom with higher house prices and higher inflation. So we are OK till May 2015 and then the piper has to be paid.
I disagree. September Taper + September Debt Celing = Red Team Wet Dream. They've thrown everything, including the kitchen sink, at Obama. The one thing they couldn't beat him on was the (bullshit stock market) economy. Team Red needs a sizable correction going into 2014. They need some real shit to hit the fan on Obama's watch.
Like they said in 2008... Jobs weren't their #1 priority. Ruining Obama is their #1 priority.
By all accounts Barry is ruining himself these days.
Not that it matters, though. The "Blue Team" doesn't seem to mind his "changing America", and the other non "Red Team" sheeple only have a 2-3 week memory since they need to focus on reality TV and what free shiznit they can grope from the government. By 2014, they'll forget spying, IRS thugs, debt ceilings, Benghazi, and Obummercare.
We have decended into simply one team. The purple team and they are all idiots and their leader is the village idiot from the village of idiots!!!
Stimulus Hopes. There's a hell of a lot more wealth to transfer before the crash.
Weak stuff.
Barely passes for summer reading.
Better than nothing by a small margin.
Thanks anyway.
I'm not sure a paranoid rant from one of the usual suspects is goig to help. Most are probably digging a new sub-basement for their bunker anyway.
Everything today is about managing the next two days....putting out fires...no long term ideas...this is what we have devloved into....De evolotion..DEVO....where are the statesmen who will take the long view...they are all buried and gone forever....trillions more will be printed to put out fires...at some point those trillions become the fuel for the fire as they become worthless......when peole finally lose the "faith"....at some point inflation has to rear its ugly head...and will not be stopped...it will come very fast.....panic will insue...and panic it will be....


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What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? This project has helped in training of graduate research assistants (Bernabas Wolde and Pralhad Burli) and one post-doctoral associate (Thomas Ochuodho). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? The study results were disseminated through publishing peer-reviewed journal article, book chapters, and oral presentations at academic conferences and seminars. Other community outreach activities include stakeholder meetings with forestland owners in states of Texas, Virginia, and Alabama; Meeting with contractors/loggers; Landowner survey instrument refinement and feedback from university extension professionals engaged in bioenergy research and extension. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? We are currently conducting a more comprehensive assessment of other socioeconomic and forestland features that affect respondents' likelihood of participating in these markets. We plan to finalize the economic analyses of unit costs and profitability of woody biofuels production. We plan to assess the profitability of woody biofuels under more scenarios and using different measures of profitability. We will also evaluate if investors would consider this as a viable investment option by comparing likely returns from other investments in the energy sector and average stock market returns. We will administer landowner surveys in Virginia and Texas and analyze the survey results. We will undertake statistical analyses to better understand the motivations of forestland owners that express willingness to participate in the woody biomass supply market and the limiting factors for those expressing unwillingness to participate in such markets. We will assess respondents' policy preference to better understand the types of incentives for which they will respond. We also plan to assess forestland owners' educational needs, likelihood to change management practices in response to the emergence of woody bioenergy, how prior information affects their policy preference, how past activities may be used to predict planned activities, their sustainability concerns and how that manifests in terms of the amount of residual biomass they are willing to harvest for bioenergy. We believe that these results will be of interest to extension and outreach professionals, forestland owners, managers and other researchers studying the potential economic, social, and ecological impacts associated with the changes forestland owners report as their plans and potential response to woody bioenergy. The income and employment impacts (including total and distributional impacts) of biofuels will be analyzed using the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and computable general equilibrium approaches. Techno-economic modeling results along with survey data will be used to calibrate the model for the biofuels sector in the SAM framework and develop biofuel expansion scenarios. We will also undertkae GIS analyses to gauge association between distribution of Loblolly and Slash and pine and counties with significant minority population and which are delineated "persistent poverty counties' by USDA ERS. We willshare project learning's at regional national and international conference and meetings and publish results and submit them to peer-reviewed journals and other outlets so that others professionals can benefit from them. ImpactsWhat was accomplished under these goals?
We conducted techno-economic analyses of woody bioenergy from loblolly pine. This included assessment of unit cost of producing biofuel from woody biomass under various scenarios including different feedstock prices, capital costs, conversion efficiencies, co-product values, transportation costs. We are complementing this with a profitability analyses by using different potential market prices and discount rates. We are using state specific values whenever possible to tailor the results, conclusions and recommendations to the relevant states while also trying to maintain some generality. Our results suggest that under some scenarios such as lower discount rate and higher conversion efficiency competitive unit cost and profitably may be achieved. We are currently doing sensitivity analyses where we change the value of certain variables at a time while holding the rest constant to evaluate how sensitive the whole assessment is to changing parameters and to capture performance under changing market conditions. The preliminary results of this analysis suggest that the cost of capital accounts for a significant portion of the unit cost and that financial support programs aimed at this cost component could alleviate the business risk investors might face.We also evaluated the net present value of growing pine for bioenergy under different scenarios of fertilization use, thinning, raking practices, site preparation needs. Our results suggest that forestland owners can viably grow pine for bioenergy under scenarios such as relatively lower site preparation need and with raking, among others. The primary data is being collected through the use of survey instrument based on randomly selected private forestland owners from each state. The Tailored Design Method was adopted for survey administration. We included four different bid values per state in our survey representing per acre woody biomass revenue based on stakeholder meetings, expert feedback and tested through growth and yield models coupled with Timber Mart South price data. The survey covered forested counties in South West Alabama, Virginia, and East Texas. Following previous studies and a consideration that the economics of harvesting from a much smaller land size discourages loggers and forestland owners from actively engaging in biomass marketing practices, we targeted forestland owners holding 20 acres or more. In Alabama, 42 percent of completed survey responses were received from minority landowners.Our results suggest that forestland owners are willing to participate in these markets and that they are responsive to price, where higher price offers lead more forestland owners to participate in these markets. Based on our preliminary analysis we found that for respondents that initially didn't accept the value quoted in the survey, their self-reported minimum acceptable price tend to have a positive and significant effect on the proportion of non-forested land, where for each additional hundred dollars reported by respondents, there was a statistically signifcant increase in the proportion of non-forested land allocated for pine.The preliminary survey results show that the majority of those who responded will consider diverting loblolly pine if they expect returns between $1,200 and $1,700 per acre. If given the price 54% of the respondent will plant some acres of loblolly pine for energy production on non-forest land. As expected, willingness to participate in this market is higher for higher bid price offers. While there is increased willingness to participate in this market for higher bid price offers, which is in line with expectations, some forestland owners expressed reluctance, perhaps owing to strictly defined alternative forest management objectives. complete data analysis will give a clearer picture and delineate other factors that can influence their biomass supply decisions. We applied social accounting matrix (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to assess regional economic impacts of bioenergy production in US southeast. CGE models are a class of economic impact models that use economic data to estimate how an economy might react to changes in policies, markets, technologies, or other similar factors. Literature review was meant to arrive at most suitable procedure of "creating" bioenergy sectors from an existing SAM. For the purposes of this study, we identified the following 13 US southeast states as one contiguous land base with potential for bioenergy production. With the help of University of Florida, we acquired 2010 SAM dataset from Impact Analysis for Planning (IMPLAN) for the 13 US southeast states above. The SAM dataset is the basic framework used in CGE modeling. SAM dataset is a square matrix table showing economic data for commodity by industry demand, commodity trade (imports and exports), demographics (number of households by income groupings) among other data categories. We mapped and aggregated the SAM for CGE modeling. SAM data came as transactions between two accounts in 27 separate individual files (for example, demand of each factor of production by individual industries, is one such file) for each of the 13 states. The raw 2010 SAM dataset has 440 industries, 440 commodities, 4 factors, and 20 institutions. For CGE modeling purposes, these have to be "grouped" into some reduced number of the same. A grouping system was defined in a procedure called mapping using General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) software (Holland et al. 2007). Mapping procedure therefore detailed in GAMS software codes the way the unaggregated activities (industries), commodities, factors, institutions, and government entities were to be aggregated. Mapping procedure define the sectoring scheme. Aggregation process is where the 440 industries were grouped (grouping common industries together and disaggregating "new" industries from existing ones) into fewer industries. In this case, we aggregated the original 440 industries into 15 industries, which included bioenergy industry sectors. At the moment, bioenergy (from all sources) does not exist as a distinctive commodity/industry sector within IMPLAN SAM database as with the case of conventional energy sectors like coal and electricity. In order to conduct any regional economic assessments of bioenergy production or policy in a CGE model setup, bioenergy sector(s) has/have to exist as own sector(s). For the purposes of model calibration, we assembled forest biomass data for the 13 US southeast states. Model calibration is the process of estimating model parameters such as budget shares in household utility function. Calibration was done by solving the model equations for the parameters of interest using observed values in the SAM of both the endogenous and exogenous variables (Lofgren et al. 2002). Once satisfactory estimates of the parameters for all model were obtained, the model was checked to assure that it adequately performed the functions for which it was intended. The validation process established the credibility of the model by demonstrating its ability to replicate actual observed data.We formulated CGE model which is the process of establishing economic relationships between variables and parameters in the model based on neoclassical economic theory. In this process, model equations and their functional forms (linear and non-linear) were specified. These were written both in mathematical formulation and in GAMS software algorithm codes. In this study, we applied a CGE model developed by Lofgren et al. (2002) and customized by Holland et al. (2007) for compatibility with the IMPLAN to achieve the objective of this study.For actual model analysis and simulations, we shall incorporate biomass data for forest biomass based on landowner survey and techno-economic analyses. Publications
Progress 08/01/12 to 07/31/13OutputsTarget Audience: Policy makers, extension agents, forestland owners, loggers, transporters, processors, distributors, private sector bioenergy operators and/or investors, environmental professionals, and academia especially those from disciplines like forestry, environmental conservation, economics, urban planning, geography, engineering, environmental science, public policy and sociology. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? This project has helped in training of one graduate research assistant (Bernabas Wolde) and one post-doctoral associate (Thakur Upadhyay). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? The study results were disseminated through publishing peer-reviewed journal article, book chapters, and oral presentations at academic conferences. Other community outreach activities include stakeholder meetings with forestland owners were held in states of Texas, Virginia, and Alabama to assess their participation in future bioenergy markets and to facilitate adoption of dedicated bioenergy crops; Focus group discussion with minority landowners was held to gauge their perception about wood based energy and participation in future bioenergy markets; Meeting with contractors/loggers; Landowner survey instrument development and feedback from university extension professionals engaged in bioenergy research and extension; and bioenergy webinar at the trade council for technology and technology support companies. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Objective 1: Quantitative and qualitative primary data will be collected through the use of survey instrument based on randomly selected private forestland owners from each state. The Tailored Design Method (Dillman, 2007) will be adopted in administering the survey. Given the binomial attribute of the dependent variable in terms of participating or not in bioenergy markets, planting non-forested fields and adopting or not intensive management as a response to bioenergy market, increasing logging activities or not, investing in specialized transportation and processing equipment or not, among others, a logit model will be used. This will identify the factors that statistically explain stakeholders' responses using their respective socioeconomic, demographic and other relevant attributes. Further, a collective, pairwise and two-way analysis of variance will be used to assess presence of a statistical difference and interaction in response to the survey responses. We will also use statistical technique such as principal component analysis to find a more condensed way of structuring the number of variables by identifying the most significant ones to develop a robust predictive model. We will analyze what type of supply response behavior forestland owners will exhibit in terms of either adopting an intensive silvicultural practice or foresting previously non-forested fields. The literature review on sustainability,markets, sustainability, policies, logging and transportation along the pine feedstock based bioenergy supply chain will be used to develop a white paper. Objective 2: We will assess economics of slash and loblolly pine management for the forestland owner under different scenarios including fertilization and pine raking, the unit cost of producing ethanol from loblolly and slash pine for cellulosic plants under two different capabilities in terms of conversion efficiency and integrated CHP, and its profitability under different scenarios including different discount rate and selling prices. We will estimate the standing forest per acre value, the annual equivalent value, and the land expectation values. We will also estimate of the unit cost of producing an energy equivalent gallon of pine biomass based ethanol. This information can be used to identify the phases of the production cycle that contribute significantly to the overall cost, and identifying alternative inputs and/or production/transportation techniques. We will compare our results with fossil fuel prices. An ethanol plant without a power production capability at 75% conversion efficiency and a plant with a higher conversion efficiency with an onsite power generation capability representing a wide range of present and potential cellulosic ethanol capabilities (Davis et al. 2013) will be used for unit cost analyses. We will conduct sensitivity analyses in terms of feedstock price, excess biomass value, cost of capital, and handling and transportation costs. Objective 3: We will continue our work on the input-output/social accounting matrix (IO/SAM) will be used to assess regional information on employment, industry output, personal income, commodity level supply and demand, state and federal government taxes and spending, capital investment, business inventories, value-added and domestic and foreign trade. We will map and aggregate the SAM for CGE modeling. Other CGE activities will include CGE model formulation, biomass data acquisition and assembling, and CGE model calibration and validation. The GISoverlay for county levelmaps of loblolly and slash pine forest in the study states, minority dominated counties, and persistent poverty counties will be undertaken. ImpactsWhat was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1: We identified those that have stake or interest in bioenergy issues including key supply chain actors such as forestland owners, loggers, transporters, processors, and distributors. We conducted literature review to understand if and how well these stakeholders are willing to participate in woody biomass supply markets. This review also helped identify their priorities, expectations from the sector, the strength, opportunities, threats, challenges they perceive about the sector, and their interaction with others in the forest biomass based bioenergy supply chain. We conducted stakeholder meetings with forestland owners in states of Texas, Virginia, and Alabama to assess their participation in future bioenergy markets and to facilitate adoption of dedicated bioenergy crops.Focus group discussion with minority landowners was held to gauge their perception about wood based energy and participation in future bioenergy markets. Meetings with contractors/loggers were held to discuss their participation in bioenergy markets. We developed the survey instruments that will be used to assess stakeholders participation along the supply chains of forest biomass based biofuels markets in three study states.Thus far, the survey instrument has undergone several rounds of peer reviews from academicians and extension agents. Pilot runs were conducted to determine how forestland owners are likely to respond to it and their suggestions on survey questions were incorporated. The stakeholder meetings in study states were used to develop bid values for landowner survey. Growth and yield model results coupled with price data from Timber Mart South was used to improve per acre stumpage price estimations. The triangulation process also included per acre stumpage price data gathered through sealed bid opening and timber sale award. We reviewed the status of technology and markets, sustainability, policies, and logging and transportation, focusing more on the ways in which forest bioenergy issues have been approached by researchers, and the ensuing results.We are analyzing forest based bioenergy sustainability and policies through intensive literature review comprising the supply chain of pine based biofuels. This review encompasses the entire supply chain—biomass production, harvesting, collection, pretreatment, storage, transporting from the site to the roadside landing, merchandizing and transporting to biomass processors, conversion to advanced biofuels, and delivery to the final consumer. Objective 2: We have prepared manuscript on economics of woody bioenergy as a chapter (Lal and Alavalapati, 2014) in an upcoming book on Handbook of Forest Resource Economics. This work presents a summary of previous studies that apply principles of economics to measure and assess implications of woody bioenergy on the local and regional economies. It summarizes some of the more commonly used tools, findings, and the challenges resulting from varied models and their underlying assumptions. It highlighted some of the areas that have received recent research attention and future research needs required to better inform future public policy. We are conducting economic analyses to assess if conversion facilities can produce cellulosic ethanol at competitive prices. Towards this end, we are assessing the streams of income for a conversion facility from ethanol sales at different prices, capital investment and operating cost analysis to estimate unit cost of producing a gallon of gasoline equivalent cellulosic ethanol. Our preliminary results indicate that cellulosic ethanol can be produced at a competitive price at lower discount rates and prices higher than the unit cost of producing a gasoline equivalent gallon up to the conversion stage. Similarly, our preliminary sensitivity analysis indicates that unit cost of ethanol is significantly influenced by changes in capital return factor and feedstock prices given their proportionally bigger role in the total cost. Such sensitivity of profitability to capital returns factor and feedstock prices may indicate a need for tax credits on capital investments or other forms of assistance to manage risk for conversion facilities. Objective 3: Extensive review of most current literature on application of CGE modeling in bioenergy studies was conducted. Kretschmer and Peterson (2010) conducted an extensive survey on integrating bioenergy into computable general equilibrium models. Their study gives a summary of most recent studies of bioenergy using CGE models. The study also summarizes major issues in modelling bioenergy in CGE models. At the moment, bioenergy does not have its own distinctive account in the SAM but rather it is aggregated as part of other energy sectors, depending on the level of grouping (aggregation) of a particular SAM database. Literature review was meant to arrive at most suitable procedure of "creating" bioenergy sectors from an existing SAM. For the purposes of this study, we identified the following 13 US southeast states as one contiguous land base with potential for bioenergy production. These include: Arkansas Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. With the help of University of Florida, we acquired 2010 SAM dataset from Impact Analysis for Planning (IMPLAN) for the 13 US southeast states above. The SAM dataset is the basic framework used in CGE modeling. SAM dataset is a square matrix table showing economic data for commodity by industry demand, commodity trade (imports and exports), demographics (number of households by income groupings) among other data categories. Publications


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What Skills Do You Have That Are Worth Money?
If you want to start your business off on the right foot, you need to figure out where your talent lies. What are you skilled at now? What are some of the things that you do today and are good at that you could use in your future business? Here are a few of mine:
- Writing
- Graphics Design
- EBook Authoring
I guarantee you that there are things you know about that I have zero to very little knowledge of. You were innately born with strengths that can easily develop into skills with a little training. Those skills are worth money.
Everybody is an expert at one thing or the other. Well, contrary to what you've been taught, an expert is not a person that knows it all – experts still make mistakes and they are constantly learning. Simply put, when you know a "thing" that it flows naturally from your inside, then you are an expert.
For instance, I'm very good at writing. Nothing interests me more than seeing my work published. That means I'm an expert and you are too. This skill can make you money. You've got to discover that one thing that makes you unique. The money you make from your skill would definitely be bigger than money you earn selling affiliate products (most of the time).
So, what can you do well, without struggling even when you just woke up from sleep?
Make a list of your skills, talents and things that you enjoy. Then think of ways that you can turn that list into things that other people need to solve their problems.
If you've discovered that thing, then it's a money maker in disguise.
What If I Haven't Got Enough Skills
There was a man who was drowning, and a boat came, and the man on the boat said "Do you need help?" and the man said "No thanks, God will save me". Then another boat came and he tried to help him, but he said "No thanks, God will save me", then he drowned and went to Heaven. The man asked God, "God, why didn't you save me?" and God said "I sent you two big boats, you dummy!"
I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm going tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.
You do not have to do it all. Know your limitations. Use the skills you have and Outsource the ones you don't.


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UFC on Fuel TV 6 will take place on November 10, 2012 in Macau, China and is the UFC's first venture into China. The main event is a bout that was supposed to take place at UFC 148, that was until Vitor Belfort broke his hand forcing Franklin to move over to UFC 147 and face Wanderlei Silva in the main event. This allowed the Cung Le vs Patrick Cote to occur at UFC 148. With Le and Franklin both being successful this led to Cung Le (8-2) vs Rich "Ace" Franklin (29-6) as the first main event in China.
Franklin is a former UFC Middleweight Champion who has returned to the division after a trip to Light Heavyweight with a final title run on his mind. Franklin has 15 career TKO/KO and 10 career submission victories. Franklin has wins over some of MMA's best, names like Chuck Lidell, Wanderlie Silva (Twice), Travis Lutter, Matt Hamill and Yushin Okami. IIn his last bout with Silva, Franklin showed very good striking with use of faints and movement.
Cung Le brings with him a exciting striking style that utilizes spinning moves and kicks that no one else in MMA uses. That striking style has led Le to win 7 of 8 fights by TKO/KO. Le is a former Strkiforce Middleweight Champion and his wars with Scott Smith were just that amazing, exciting wars!! Le does not know how to be in a dull fight which is part of why he is a fan favorite. Le is coming off another exciting war with Patrick Cote that after had Le's foot hurting so much from landing kicks it almost threatened this bout from happening. Le is healthy now and ready for the huge spotlight.
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'Big Brother' 15 Episode 29: 'A Blindside Most Glorious'
9/2/2013 9:30am EDT
Part One: Wipe That Smile Off Your Face
Previously on Big Brother: Aaryn was evicted and then scalped on live television by the beautiful, perfect, genius Julie Chen. Amanda won her only competition and acted like a total ass about it. She tried to bully Elissa but only got laughs and a growing target. An alliance called The Exterminators, which gets rid of rats and snakes, was formed with Gina Marie, Judd, Spencer, and Mr. Rat himself, Andy.
• An "egg-citing" battle. Pun-tastic.
• The physical HOH continues. They have to hop like bunnies and get a bunch of eggs through a wire fence. It's easter themed for no reason whatsoever.
• Spencer laments that any one of The Exterminators need to win. Amanda wants a member of 3 A.M to get it. Andy, a full-fledged member of both alliances, is playing both sides, but leaning towards The Exterminators.
• Amanda actually has a DR about choosing the more loyal Andy to keep last week, not knowing that he's completely turned against them. That might be the week Amanda regrets the most, out of tons of regrettable weeks.
• Nick mention #1!
• Amanda fake apologizes to Elissa before the HOH competition because of Julie's question to her on the live show about her bullying behavior. Amanda fully believes that Elissa simply joking that she threw the POV was "taunting" and bullying. In unrelated news, Amanda is batsh*t crazy.
• Spencer is really bad at the HOH comp.
• McCrae blames his hair for being bad at the competition. As if he can't just pull it back like everybody will long hair in the history of time.
• "I would say I was a front runner in this competition. But I'm more of a front hopper." Andy is so not as charming as he thinks he is.
• "I'm basically competing not to get that damn costume," says Judd.
• Elissa silently cheers on GM.
• GM wins and is greeted with a hug by Elissa. This was for you, Nick!
• Nick mention #2!
• Spencer and Judd get the chicken suits.
• "I don't know why you're so happy. You just sent her best friend home. So, wipe that smile off your face." Amanda's social game never ceases to amaze me. Save the cockiness for after nominations.
• Amanda is certain she's going to get Elissa on the block. These DRs are cocky and beautiful, knowing that The Exterminators have been plotting her demise for a week.
Part Two: I'm The New Bunny
• Amanda can't help herself from antagonizing Elissa. Elissa reaffirms that Aaryn would be proud of GM's HOH win, so Amanda needs to repeat it with as much malice as possible. I wonder if she literally can't control her hate from spewing from her mouth.
• Every time Amanda mentions how happy Aaryn will be when GM sends Elissa to jury, GM changes the subject. Amanda is so used to only hearing her own voice and getting her way that she doesn't remotely notice that there hasn't been a single word of agreement.
• "I might be blond. I might be cute. But my name isn't Aaryn. It's Gina Marie." This is the only time I will ever root for GM. I still can't wait until she finds out that she's a racist piece of garbage.
• Everybody in the house knows McCranda's fate but they still play dumb. It's pretty funny to see Amanda so certain, yet still manic and nonstop talking about it.
• "I'm the new bunny!" Amanda is so certain that she can spend 10 weeks ignoring GM and then become her best friend in two seconds. This is too good.
• Elissa and GM double cheek kiss.
• "I can't wait for them to get a taste of their own medicine. Mmmmm. Bitter." I love Elissa.
• Meanwhile, Amanda is STILL talking about Elissa.
• Spencer is enjoying himself in the chicken suit, but Judd clearly wants to kill himself.
• Amanda uses the old "nobody will be mad at you" strategy where you tell the HOH that you have tons of allies that could potentially come after you. It's a dumb strategy because it's basically saying, "I have lots of allies to propel me further into the game, while the person I want up has nobody." You want people in the house who have nobody because it's easier to compete against them.
• "Amanda's right. I should nominate two people who nobody would be upset about. Unfortunately for her, those two people are Amanda and McCrae."
• I love how this episode isn't even trying to pretend that somebody else is even an option for nomination. We all know who will be on the block by the end of the episode, but it's just so wonderful to see it happen anyway.
• Who wants to see my HOH room? Not any black or Asian people, that's for sure.
• Nick mention #3! And it's a picture. Stop feeding that addiction, Big Brother. It's mean.
• Elissa complimenting GM is "pushing" Amanda's buttons. Seriously, she said those words. Out loud.
• Elissa says she misses Aaryn. It's awesome. It clearly makes Amanda even madder. Perfect.
• Nick mention #4! He's the star of this episode.
• "Why does she think it's okay to harass me 24/7?" Elissa asks. It's because she lives in a world of delusion.
• "You're alone and you're going up on the block tomorrow." Amanda thinks she's saying this to Elissa, but she's saying it to herself.
• Elissa starts talking about how Jessie was amazing, beautiful, the only ten in the house. It makes Amanda go crazy. She goes on an insane, mean rant. Can't wait for her to leave.
• "I'm gonna go get chocolate milk." Spencer knows what's up.


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Why Serge Ibaka matters more than James Harden
GQ.com contributor Bethlehem Shoals does a good job of summing up why Thunder defensive stopper Serge Ibaka has become James Harden ... and matters more to OKC than the Thunder's former shooting guard.
Shoals points out that Ibaka means more to the Thunder than just his offense - Ibaka brings it all together and is the jolt the Thunder needs.
From Shoals: "But there's another part of the story, one that everyone lauding Ibaka's defensive contributions will overlook. Ibaka isn't just key to the Thunder defense. He's also, a jolt of electricity for the entire team, igniting the offense in the same way that all great turnover-creators do."
Shoals makes note of the Thunder -- the James Harden Thunder -- beating the Spurs to advance to the 2012 NBA Finals. But what if that team was the Ibaka Thunder more than we realized, asks Shoals.
"As Ibaka has matured, he hasn't just acquired a jump shot, he's integrated himself more fully into the Thunder's overall concept," Shoals said. "With that, he's come to occupy exactly the same kind of niche that Harden once did: the guy who helps things come together, who at his best helps Durant and Westbrook attain even greater heights."


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Not really touring related but that's my eventual goal so I'm posting here.
I must have overdid it yesterday. I started to just do a qucik ride but it was so nice out (68 F) that it morphed into a 2 hour ride 20 mile ride that included riding off the mountain and back. Today my right knee fells a little like it does after a long hike as in tight behind the knee. I was hoping I could do some long bike rides as I get in better shape without bothering the knee. I have researched bike fit web sites etc and have my bike dialed in fit wise. I am not over extending the knee which seems to lead to back knee pain. I try to not mash the gears as I know that can strain the knee. Oh and my other knee feels fine. it is the knee that gives me fits hiking. I'll either have to back off a little and see if I can work up slowly. I have been riding about 10 miles fairly regularly without knee pain. BTW, the 520 is great for climbing the mountian with just my 240 lbs. I use the 30 in front and the 34 in the back on the steepest climbs but now drop down a couple in the back as the steepness demands.
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Artist: Casting Crowns
Album: Miscellaneous
Genre: Christian
Oh, what I would do to have the kind of faith it takes
To climb out of this boat I'm in onto the crashing waves
To step out of my comfort zone into the realm of the unknown
Where Jesus is and He's holding out His hand
But the waves are calling out my name and they laugh at me
Reminding me of all the times I've tried before and failed
The waves they keep on telling me time and time again
"Boy, you'll never win, you'll never win, you'll never win"
Oh, what I would do to have the kind of strength it takes
To stand before a giant with just a sling and stone
Surrounded by the sound of a thousand warriors
Shaking in their armor, wishing they'd have had the strength to stand
But the giant's calling out my name and he laughs at me
Reminding me of all the times I've tried before and failed
The giant keeps on telling me time and time again
"Boy you'll never win, you'll never win, you'll never win"
But the stone was just the right size to take the giant down
And the waves don't seem so high
When I'm standing on top of them looking down
And I'd soar with the wings of eagles if I could just ignore the sound
Of the waves and the giants, the waves and the giants in my mind
Lord, You've not given me a spirit of fear
But of power and of love, and of a sound mind
So from now on, I won't let the tempters lies
Turn my eyes away from the prize
That You have set before me
That You have set before me
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Ashton Kutcher is on the brink of losing his title as Twitter king. After famously beating CNN to 1 million followers last April, Ashton Kutcher has been the undisputed king of Twitter, gaining more followers than anyone else on the micro-blogging site. But are his days as Twitter's most popular user numbered?
He's got nearly 5 million followers, but he's a mere 10,000 or so ahead of Britney Spears. What's more, she's on track to overtake him within a month, reports Mashable, which not only provides a trending graphic but a breakdown of the rivals' tweeting strategy.
Britney Spears is slowly closing in on Kutcher â and the gap between their number of followers gets smaller every day. (At the time of this posting, Kutcher had 4,890,797 followers; Spears had 4,878,516).
Hereâs what Ashton and Britney each have going for them and against them, according to Mashable:
- Spearsâ account is almost four months older than Kutcherâs.
- Kutcher actually uses his own account to send personal tweets about things he cares about.
- Spearsâ account is managed by her staff and is largely promotional or âBS alertsâ when unfavorable tabloid reports surface. Tweets from âBritâ or âBritneyâ comprise around a third of all tweets from the account.
- Like many ârealâ users, Kutcher follows a relatively small group of friends, just 553 people as of today.
Spearsâ account is following nearly half a million others.
- Kutcher updates his account every few hours, usually via Twitter client Brizzly.
- Spearsâ account is updated every few days. Updates are always posted from the web, even when the star tweets she is on location or at an event or party.
- Kutcher regularly @replies regular users in conversations.
- The Spears account doesnât engage in conversations but features occasional retweets from Adam Leber, Spearsâ manager, and Candieâs, the brand for which the star is currently shilling.
Hereâs a look at the stats according to TwitterCounter:
Although, hereâs no dispute as to who is the better, more interesting user of a real-time service for personal updates. Spearsâ Twitter account is little more than another facet of her marketing machine. But the singerâs overall international popularity is apparently enough to gather an army of followers for even a hollow account.
Now, the big question remains: Do you think Twitter users will stage another âFollow Ashtonâ campaign like the one that arose last year during the race with CNN? [via People and Mashable]


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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
I shall call today second Monday. It was just a busy, busy day...
I started my day off right by getting on my Gazelle with an hour long playlist and making it 30 minutes into it before getting a phone call that we were about to have guests. I've been a little off my usual routine with recent events and this house was so not fit for guests. So, that phone call spurred an emergency cleaning/stashing things in cupboards because it looks tidier hidden and vacuuming spree. I managed to take 2 weeks worth of unkempt mess and make it look great in 30 minutes...I'm pretty sure that was a better workout than my workout.
I had to go to WIC to re-certify for their 6 month follow up program. Which is a huge help! Milk is flipping expensive so...three cheers for free milk! Anyhow...after WIC it was onward to Wal-Mart and then to get vegetables...and vegetables I did get.
Too many vegetables actually because I can't stash everything in my tiny fridge so that led to am impromptu fridge cleaning and re-organizing session. Which then lead to an impromptu deep cleaning session because I found an unidentifiable puddle of red goo in the back corner of one of the upper shelves that I can't see so well. Finally after an hour, a full trash bag, and dishpan hands I stashed all the fresh items away.
Dinner was great. I made salad with everything I could think to put on it veggie wise and topped with a hard boiled egg and some chickpeas for protein. Now the goal is to get in the rest of my exercise, watch some TV and snuggle with the poor sick hubby, who managed to end up with pneumonia in the middle of summer.
Today I am grateful for:
Learning how to reach my goals and still keep my vegetarianism. I am getting the hang of getting the correct amount of protein every day without needing any supplements or processed junk to fill in the slack.
Trust and communication. I love that fact that I can talk to my husband even about "silly" things. Our dinner conversations are never boring...tonight's conversation was about the fact I bought an even smaller bra today than the last one I bought and I'm positive my tattoo will migrate if they shrink much more.
Snuggles...I am going to get my rear in gear and finish up my workout so I can get my snuggle on. Poor sick baby, he needs extra love right now.
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Wow. You are amazing. I hope you know that. I'm so sorry your dh has pneumonia. I hope he feels better soon. I love your attitude of gratitude. I need to follow your example.
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Sounds like you were a busy bee today! Tell dh I hope he feels better soon. Poor guy!
I love the pic you put on there. I love that quote.
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It sounds like you are really doing great! I've been praying for you and DH's continued healing. I know you have been going through a lot and it's amazing how well you are keeping to your routines and staying positive. You are an inspiration!
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