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When you donate to your favorite charities and causes through Network for Good, you receive the benefit of knowing you're helping to make a difference. Not just that, doing that qualifies you for tax deductions too. In essence, your contribution can be called a tax return donation.
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When I make a charitable contribution on Network for Good, is that contribution tax-deductible?
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How much can I legally deduct on my taxes for charitable contributions?
You can only deduct the amount of a contribution given voluntarily, with no expectation of a commensurate return. Generally speaking, you may deduct up to 50% of your aggregate gross income — half of your total income, subject to income phase-outs. There are some specific types of donations (such as gifts of stock, or donations to certain types of organizations) that have lower percentage ceilings.Additionally, if you receive a financial or economic benefit in return for making a gift, the payment is not a deductible charitable contribution except to the extent that it exceeds the fair market value of the benefit. For example, if you gave $100 to a museum and received a book in return that sells regularly for $25, you can claim $75 as a charitable deduction.The IRS has a worksheet to help you determine how many of your donations are tax-deductible.
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Some contributions can be tax-deductible for less than the donated amount if the charity provides you with something of substantive value in return. At Network for Good, we streamline the giving process so that 100% of your donation is tax-deductible — no worries about what's deductible and what's not.
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Dieter's dream... the pizza that's 'healthier than a salad' and contains all 47 of the nutrients we need
- Eat Balanced pizzas designed by professor of nutrition
- Prof Mike Lean: 'It is the only nutritionally-balanced ready meal anywhere'
- Incorporates vitamin and mineral-rich ingredients such as seaweed
If you thought you had to cut out pizza when it comes to a diet, think again.
This one claims to be better for you than a salad.
Created by a professor of human nutrition, it is billed as the world's healthiest pizza – and the only ready meal that is nutritionally balanced.
The Eat Balanced pizza, which comes in three flavours, incorporates vitamin and mineral-rich ingredients such as ground seaweed and red pepper into its flour base and tomato sauce.
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Dieting alternative: The Eat Balanced pizza claims to be healthier than a salad
Hidden ingredients: The pizzas are so to contain all 47 nutrients that human body needs in the right amounts
The range was dreamt up by obesity expert Professor Mike Lean amid concerns that supermarket ready meals and pizzas fail to meet our body's demands.
For instance, many pizzas are high in salt and fat but lack vital vitamins and minerals. Vitamin C, in particular, is likely to be low.
In contrast the frozen Eat Balanced pizzas, which went on sale in England and Wales this week, have been carefully created to contain each of the 47 nutrients essential for health – and in the right amounts.
Professor Lean, who spoke at the European Congress on Obesity in Liverpool, this week, said: 'This is the only nutritionally-balanced ready meal anywhere.
'Nobody has previously designed a meal which has got everything in the right proportions. I'm pretty proud of it.'
Analysis shows the pizzas, which cost around £3.50, to be healthier than shop-bought salads.
Variety: The pizzas come in three flavours and were designed as an alternative to unhealthy ready meals
Shop-bought salads tend to be low in protein and high in carbohydrates and fat, while a range of key vitamins and minerals are missing all together.
Professor Lean, of Glasgow University, said: 'Find me a salad that matches up to the Eat Balanced pizza. I haven't been able to find one yet.'
To turn a pizza into a perfect meal, the professor brainstormed with Donnie Maclean, an entrepreneur looking for new business ventures.
Mr Maclean came up with the idea of using seaweed, collected from Hebridean beaches, to provide the vitamins and minerals missing from the average pizza.
The seaweed, which is ground up and added to the part-wholemeal flour base, is rich in iron, zinc, vitamin B 12 and iodine.
Its gritty taste also means that only a tiny amount of salt need be added to the mix.
To make a pizza with vitamin C, the pair added a tiny amount of ground red pepper to the tomato sauce.
Tomatoes are low in the vitamin but it is plentiful in red peppers.
The cheese used is simply normal mozzarella and the calorie count is 600 – roughly a third of a person's daily intake.
Each pizza also contains roughly a third of the recommended daily amount of each nutrient needed for health and tests have had positive results.
Professor Lean said: 'You are not sitting on the seats of Sorrento eating it. It is a frozen pizza but it tastes, smells and looks as good as any other frozen pizza.'
At around £3.50 it is, however, slightly more expensive than some other 9-inch pizzas.
The Eat Balanced range has been on sale in Scotland for several months and has just become available to English and Welsh shoppers, through Ocado.
Those who are tempted will be glad to know that they can eat three of the pizzas a day and be perfectly nutritionally balanced.
Dieters, however should limit themselves to two pizzas.
Dr Maria Bryant, of the UK Association for the Study of Obesity, warned that seaweed is an acquired taste.
She added: 'I support the move towards improving existing foods that are very popular but I am not sure that eating two or three pizzas a day would be the best approach.'
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Columbia Academy named Pernell Knox, class of '94, as Alumnus of the Year.
Knox is the son of Flora Knox and currently lives in Henderson where he serves as Head Athletic Trainer for Freed-Hardeman University.
"This young man is the ultimate Columbia Academy success story," said former teacher and coach John Kodatt. "He was a tremendous leader as a student-athlete both on and off the playing field and basketball court at CA.
"He has had a very successful baseball career at Freed Hardeman University, received an advanced degree and continues to give back. I am proud to have coached him," Kodatt said.
During his time as a student at CA, Knox achieved many awards in athletics as a member of the basketball team for four years and the baseball team for three years.
He was voted "Most School Spirit" and "Friendliest" by his classmates. He was a member of the 1994 TSSAA Class A State Baseball Championship Team at CA.
Knox received a baseball scholarship to Freed-Hardeman University in 1994. As one of the premier power hitters to ever come through the Lions' program, Knox set several records in his junior and senior year.
Playing first base, Knox tied the program's single season home run record with 17 during his junior year. He finished the season with a .762 slugging percentage, a 1.222 OPS and 29 extra-base hits.
His outstanding performance earned him a selection to the all conference and NAIA Honorable Mention All-American team. Most recently, Knox was inducted into the Freed-Hardeman University Athletics Hall of Fame.
After graduating in 1998 from Freed-Hardeman, Knox continued his education and earned a graduate degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Tennessee Memphis Health Science Center.
Knox worked at Star Physical Therapy from 2005 to 2011 in Columbia and Henderson.
Knox among five inducted: Pernell Knox enjoyed a successful baseball career in addition to his academic achievements while on his way to graduation at Freed-Hardeman.
Inducted along with Knox were Stacy Myers Palmer, women's basketball; Wes Miller, men's basketball; Tony Lambert, men's basketball; and Jonathan Estes, baseball have now joined a list of 66 other athletes and coaches whose plaques are on display in the Mac Felts Hall of Fame Room inside the Brewer Sports Center.
In introducing Knox, former FHU head coach and Hall of Fame member Chuck Box called him "the epitome of a college athlete." Knox played baseball under Box from 1994-1998 and is currently the Head Athletic Trainer at Freed-Hardeman.
"When the opportunity presented itself, he took advantage of it," said Box. "He graduated, received an advanced degree and is now giving back to his alma mater."
Knox said very little about himself. Instead, he talked about the people he felt got him to where he was — Box, his other coaches at FHU, his teammates and his family. He left the stage with two short but powerful comments.
"Play for the love of the game and good things will happen," Knox said. "This plaque may have my name and my stats, but it's a testament to all the people that have helped me get here."


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A radiosensitizer is a drug that makes tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy.
One of the major limitations of radiotherapy is that the cells of solid tumors become deficient in oxygen. Solid tumors can outgrow their blood supply, causing a low-oxygen state known as hypoxia. Oxygen is a potent radiosensitizer, increasing the effectiveness of a given dose of radiation by forming DNA-damaging free radicals. Tumor cells in a hypoxic environment may be as much as 2 to 3 times more resistant to radiation damage than those in a normal oxygen environment.[1] Much research has been devoted to overcoming this problem including the use of high pressure oxygen tanks, blood substitutes that carry increased oxygen, hypoxic cell radiosensitizers such as misonidazole and metronidazole, and hypoxic cytotoxins, such as tirapazamine. A newer approach involves the use of an oxygen diffusion-enhancing compound to re-oxygenate hypoxic tumor tissue.[2] One such compound, trans sodium crocetinate, is currently being tested in a multi-center clinical trial in 59 patients newly diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme.[3]
- ^ Harrison LB, Chadha M, Hill RJ, Hu K, Shasha D (2002). "Impact of tumor hypoxia and anemia on radiation therapy outcomes". Oncologist 7 (6): 492–508. doi:10.1634/theoncologist.7-6-492. PMID 12490737.
- ^ Sheehan JP, Shaffrey ME, Gupta B, Larner J, Rich JN, Park D (2010). "Improving the radiosensitivity of radioresistant and hypoxic glioblastoma". Future Oncology 6 (10): 1591–1601. doi:10.2217/fon.10.123. PMID 21062158.
- ^ "Safety and Efficacy Study of Trans Sodium Crocetinate (TSC) With Concomitant Radiation Therapy and Temozolomide in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma (GBM)". ClinicalTrials.gov. November 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
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- Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Microbubble (MB)-assisted focused ultrasound is a promising technique for delivering drugs to the brain by noninvasively and transiently opening the blood-brain barrier (BBB), and monitoring BBB opening using passive cavitation detection (PCD) is critical in detecting its occurrence, extent as well as assessing its mechanism. One of the main obstacles in achieving those objectives in large animals is the transcranial attenuation. To study the effects, the cavitation response through the in-vitro non-human primate (NHP) skull was investigated. In-house manufactured lipid-shelled MB (medium diameter: 4-5 um) were injected into a 4-mm channel of a phantom below a degassed monkey skull. A hydrophone confocally aligned with the FUS transducer served as PCD during sonication (frequency: 0.50 MHz, peak rarefactional pressures: 0.05-0.60 MPa, pulse length: 100 cycles, PRF: 10 Hz, duration: 2 s) for four cases: water without skull, water with skull, MB without skull and MB with skull. A 5.1-MHz linear-array transducer was also used to monitor the MB disruption. The frequency spectra, spectrograms, stable cavitation dose (SCD) and inertial cavitation dose (ICD) were quantified. Results showed that the onset of stable cavitation and inertial cavitation in the experiments occurred at 50 kPa, and was detectable throught the NHP skull since the both the detection thresholds for stable cavitation and inertial cavitation remained unchanged compared to the non-skull case, and the SCD and ICD acquired transcranially may not adequately represent the true extent of stable and inertial cavitation due to the skull attenuation.
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Though, being in this position, it's got me thinking. If you wanted to start your own call center using entirely open source software, how would you do it and what software would you use? How would you handle automated/predictive dialing, crm integration, recordings, agent desktops, telephony systems, voicemails, email, etc.
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Debora Spar is a professor at the Harvard Business School who has studied the evolution of Internet technology from early, anarchic beginnings into a more mature and consolidated industry. In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, she turns to reproductive technology. The science of baby making-in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, genetic engineering-has given rise to a global trade in sperm, eggs, embryos, wombs-for-rent, and in the services of a cadre of suppliers, technicians, middlemen, researchers, lawyers, third-party payers, and consultants.
Spar provides a revealing portrait of the size, scope, and rapid growth of the business. Take the most low-tech and profitable segment of the U.S. market: the fertility trade. The number of fertility clinics has increased from 100 in 1986 to 428 in 2002. Revenues from fertility treatment jumped from $41 million in 1986 to nearly $3 billion in 2002. Specialization and consolidation, either in the direction of high-end niche markets or high-volume mass markets, has also occurred. The fertility industry has spawned subsidiary businesses such as premium egg freezing and egg banking for the masses.
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: a person who has just started learning or doing something
: a new member of a religious group who is preparing to become a nun or a monk
Full Definition of novice
1 : a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community
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Novices serve time as scullery serfs as they work toward the privilege of trailing a pastry chef … —Guy Trebay, New York Times, 4 Sept. 2002
For the novice, walking the course also means being scared senseless by all the possibilities to screw up. —Tim Keown, ESPN, 17 Sept. 2001
Yet it's obvious to him and everyone else who the novice is here, the book-learned tournament virgin. —James McManus, Harper's, December 2000
Much defter than one would have thought possible from the length of her fingernails, Toula had no fear of high fast notes; her flair, mounted between Andrea's perfectionist reserve and Alice's novice awkwardness, seemed all too displayed. —John Updike, The Afterlife, 1994
He's a novice in cooking.
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Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin novicius, from Latin, newly imported, from novus — more at new
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The Vanderbilt Commodores and the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers have scheduled a three-game football series, both schools announced this morning.
Vanderbilt will host Western Kentucky at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville on Sept. 12, 2015 and again on Nov. 4, 2017. The Commodores will travel to face the Hilltoppers at Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green on Sept. 24, 2016.
"This series is a good idea for several reasons," Vanderbilt Director of Athletics David Williams said. "We are already playing several other nearby institutions and Western is only an hour up the road for the fan bases of both schools. And in this era of escalating travel costs and game expenses, it makes sense to stay at or near home when the opportunity arises."
The two schools have met three times on the gridiron, but the games were in 1931, 1932, and 1938. Vanderbilt leads the series 3-0.
"We are very excited to be adding Vanderbilt as a future football opponent," said WKU Director of Athletics Todd Stewart. "Our game in 2016 will mark the first ever football appearance by a member of the SEC on our campus, and it will be a great day for our university, fans and community. The away games also present a great opportunity for our fans, students and over 7,000 alumni in Nashville to support WKU football on the road."
Barring any changes, Vanderbilt has now completed their 2015 non-conference schedule. Vandy is also slated to host Richmond and travel to Middle Tennessee and Wake Forest.
In 2016, the Commodores also host Middle Tennessee and travel to Georgia Tech, while in 2017 they travel to MTSU again.
Western Kentucky has also tentatively completed their 2015 non-conference schedule, which also includes Miami (OH) at home and Indiana and LSU on the road.
WKU was previously scheduled to play at Army in 2015 and host the Black Knights in 2016, but those two games have been pushed back to 2019 and 2021.
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It'd be nice if Vandy could play some of the other regional schools like Memphis, Louisville, and UAB.
they need a guarenteed win or as close as you can come to one.
They play UAB this season.
Nampa you can bash the other SEC schools but leave Vandy out of it. They play Wake every year and often play Duke, Northwestern, UConn. Ga Tech etc. Vandy is not Alabama or Florida but they schedule other BCS schools. It may not be USC or Texas but come on….
telling the truth is not bashing. They are the little brother to the SEC big boys. They do not have the fan base or the money to support such a big time program as a Florida or Alabama. What they do have going is a far superior university education and those whose graduate will on average earn far more money over their careers than the public school graduates. They are basically the Northwestern of the SEC.
Yes and they play Northwestern, Duke, Wake, Ga Tech etc. All you do is BASH the SEC and really everyone else. You really give it to Boise. I have yest to see one positive post from you. Sorry but that is the "truth".
by the way Vandy does have the money not only do they get the same cut as Auburn, Florida and Alabama (this is not the Big 12) they get more donations than most other SEC schools.
Yes nampa naive. They are basically Duke, They are basically Northwestern. They are basically GaTech. They are basically Stanford.
What do all those schools have in common? The only way you will ever get into any of them is by donating your corpse to their Pathology Department.


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To The Editor: I would like to respond to the decision being made concerning the Tuxedo Elementary School. My home is in the Tuxedo area, I attended the school and so did my children.
I am very interested in our community and would like to see the Tuxedo School saved and put to good use for the people of Tuxedo and Henderson County.
There is also sentimental value to our family and other families in our community.
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The Devil's Reparations for Haiti's Debt?
So Pat Robertson, to whom the media are still inexplicably willing to pay attention, is saying that Haiti is being punished for an alleged pact with the devil?
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Yes, Obama is still pursuing clean air, clean energy jobs bill that puts a price on carbon pollution
Is it "conceivable" the media could report the news correctly? No, I'm afraid it is "unlikely."
Today, in an extended set of remarks at a town hall meeting in Nashua New Hampshire, the President once again strongly endorsed a comprehensive bill that combines energy and climate policy — and sets a price on carbon:
The concept of incentivizing clean energy so that it's the cheaper, more effective kind of energy is one that is proven to work and is actually a market-based approach.
In fact, he went on and on extolling the virtues of putting a price on sulfur trading in the Clean Air Act:
By the way, remember acid rain? That's how that got solved, was basically what happened — the Clean Air Act slapped a price on sulfur emissions. And what ended up happening was all these companies who were saying this was going to be a jobs killer, et cetera, they figured it out. They figured it out a lot cheaper than anybody expected. And it turns out now that our trees are okay up here in New Hampshire. That's a good thing. So we should take a lesson from the past and not be afraid of the future.
While in his professorial mode he did opine as to how some folks on the Hill want to split out the pricing mechanism and just do the energy:
And it's conceivable that that's where the Senate ends up.
Double duh.
But since the media very much wants to declare all of Obama's major initiatives to be dead, dead, dead, that word "conceivable" morphed into this headline from TalkingPointsMemo of all places:
Obama Acknowledges Senate Unlikely To Adopt Pollution Limits
and that 3:39 pm headline morphed into their 3:42 pm front-page story as
Stick A Fork In Cap-and-Trade
Yes, "conceivable" becomes "likely" because drop-dead certainty.
Interestingly, the URL for TPM's main story is http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/obama-hints-senate-unlikely-to-adopt-pollution-limits.php — so some TPM editor apparently felt the original overhyped headline didn't do enough overselling to interest folks zinging around the Internet looking for the most sensational thing to read.
I guess a more accurate headline like
Obama hints Senate might not adopt pollution limits
wouldn't actually qualify as news, let alone a fully accurate headline like:
Obama restates his strong support for pricing carbon, says it's 'conceivable' that might not happen
It gets better, which is to say worse.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the same remarks — claiming the president said "We may be able to separate these things out. And it's possible that that's where the Senate ends up," whereas the WH transcript says "conceivable."
In any case, the WSJ had the benefit of the inevitable clarification of the President's slightly ambiguous remarks:
A White House spokesman downplayed the president's comments, saying Mr. Obama still favored a bill that would combine measures to encourage jobs in green-energy fields with the establishment of a trading mechanism for emissions.
But the WSJ still ran with the headline:
Obama Retreats From Goal of Cap-Trade Bill
Sad, really.
We saw the same morbidly over-eager over-reaction last week to some ambiguous remarks by Sen. Lindsey Graham, which he immediately corrected (see Is there going to be a bipartisan climate, energy security, clean air and clean energy jobs bill this year? and Lindsey Graham: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about energy independence. The odd thing is you'll never have energy independence until you clean up the air, and you'll never clean up the air until you price carbon").
It may well be that the conventional wisdom is correct about the chances for getting a comprehensive bill that prices carbon and cuts pollution. Indeed, such media stories have a way of become self-fulfilling. But there is no excuse for this kind of headline writing.
Here are the President's full remarks. I think you'll agree that they are pretty much a lengthy endorsement of pricing carbon:
Well, let me respond by talking more broadly about energy. First of all, those are such good ideas I've already adopted them, although I didn't know they came from you. (Laughter.)
Number one, we have to invest in innovation and new technologies. There's no doubt about it. And by the way, we've got to upgrade some old technologies. I know it's controversial in some quarters, but if you're serious about dealing with climate change then you've got to take a serious look at the nuclear industry. If you are serious about climate change, you've got to figure out is there technology that can allow us to sequester coal and the emissions that are set out.
The reason for that is not just for the United States. China is building a coal-fired plant once a week, just about –India is doing the same — because coal is cheap. And unless we can come up with some energy alternatives that allow us to franchise that technology so that they are equipped to burn that coal cleanly, we're going to have problems no matter what we do in this country when it comes to the environment. So technology is key. And, by the way, we can make significant profits and create huge jobs just upgrading traditional technologies. Then you've got the whole clean energy sector, which is ready to take off if we provide the kind of seed capital, the kind of R&D credits that are necessary.
This past recession almost killed a lot of our homegrown clean energy sectors. And the industry will tell you. You talk to the wind industry or the solar industry, if we hadn't passed the Recovery Act and all the support for clean energy, a lot of them would have completely gone under and we would have been ceding leadership as we already have, unfortunately, to a lot of countries like Spain and Germany and Japan that are doing a lot more work on it. So this is a huge engine for job creation, and we've got to make those investments.
The third thing you said, energy efficiency. We are one of the least efficient advanced economies when it comes to energy usage. And it's estimated that we could probably lop off 30 percent of our energy consumption just on efficiency without changing our lifestyles significantly. I say "significantly" because you'd have to start buying LED batteries or LED light bulbs. But it's still a light bulb. You don't have to sit in the dark. You don't have to use gas lanterns. You just have to make the investment. And one of the things that a company like ARC Energy is doing is trying to bring down the unit cost for each of those light bulbs.
A school building like this, guarantee you that we could make this school probably 10-15-20 percent more energy efficient. But the problem is school budgets a lot of times don't have the money to put the capital up front to make it more energy efficient. So are there ways we can help universities and schools and other institutions — more efficient? We could retrofit every building in this country that was built over the last 50 years and get huge increases in energy, huge decreases in greenhouse gas emissions. But it requires some seed money. It requires some work. And that's why part of our jobs package is actually — it's a very simple concept: Hire people to weatherize homes that will save those homeowners' heating bills, or cooling bills, and at the same time put people back to work and train them in things like insulation and heating systems. So there's a lot of opportunity there.
Now, here's the only thing I would say. The most controversial aspects of the energy debate that we've been having — the House passed an energy bill and people complained about, well, there's this cap and trade thing. And you just mentioned, let's do the fun stuff before we do the hard stuff. The only thing I would say about it is this: We may be able to separate these things out. And it's conceivable that that's where the Senate ends up. But the concept of incentivizing clean energy so that it's the cheaper, more effective kind of energy is one that is proven to work and is actually a market-based approach. A lot of times, people just respond to incentives. And no matter how good the technology is, the fact of the matter is if you're not factoring in the soot that's being put in the atmosphere, coal is going to be cheaper for a very long time. For the average industry, the average company, we can make huge progress on solar, we can make huge progress on wind, but the unit costs — energy costs that you get from those technologies relative to coal are still going to be pretty substantial. They're going to get better, but it might take 20-30-40 years of technology to get better.
And so the question then is: Does it make sense for us to start pricing in the fact that this thing is really bad for the environment? And if we do, then can we do it in a way that doesn't involve some big bureaucracy in a control and command system, but just says, look, we're just going to — there's going to be a price to pollution. And then everybody can adapt and decide which are the — which are the best energies. And that's — that's, by the way, remember acid rain? That's how that got solved, was basically what happened — the Clean Air Act slapped a price on sulfur emissions. And what ended up happening was all these companies who were saying this was going to be a jobs killer, et cetera, they figured it out. They figured it out a lot cheaper than anybody expected. And it turns out now that our trees are okay up here in New Hampshire. That's a good thing. So we should take a lesson from the past and not be afraid of the future. (Applause.)
Triple duh.
The desperate desire to retain readers through sensational headlines that simply don't match up with the content of their stories — coupled with a morbid desire to declare dead all things Obama — is yet another sign of the actual, certified, attending-physician-called-it-so-get-out-of-the-ER-please death of the traditional media. Stick a friggin' fork in it, already!
Memo to TPM: Please don't fall prey to this old media syndrome and thereby risk becoming like the pigs at the end of Orwell's "Animal Farm," indistinguishable from the humans they once overthrew….
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The wall street journal also deletes comments, which are not of sceptic nature.
The Media — Again
Several points …
Joe, you wrote (and I agree):
"Indeed, such media stories have a way of becoming self-fulfilling."
But this is only one part of the much larger media problem, of course, and I think it's necessary to keep pointing this out, and taking names, until it changes.
Once something like this becomes a headline, it can (sometimes) be self-fulfilling, or at least the headline serves to facilitate movement in that direction.
But well before that, of course, the very problem that such an article (with or without its headline) discusses is brought about, in part, because of the dismal media coverage all along. The poor media coverage CONTRIBUTES to getting us into this problematic and unfortunate situation in the first place, and then the attention-grabbing self-fulfilling headline merely serves to put the nails in the coffin.
I'd like to remind readers that I've sent a full commentary (critique) of media philosophy (regarding climate change) to you, Joe, and to Andy Revkin, and to Curtis Brainard. I would hope that all three of you — or at least Andy and Curtis — will read it. (You do a great job, Joe, and I sent it to you mainly for the record and in case you have "free time" … ha.)
But, I hope that Andy and Curtis read it.
I also understand that Andy will be appearing in San Francisco on April 27, and I'm hoping to hear his latest thinking on the media's effectiveness then. If my schedule allows, I'll be there. Perhaps others who are concerned about the media, who live in the San Francisco area, can also come.
Be Well,
Two comments.
First, I think a potentially bigger concern than this speech is what Ezra Klein writes:
White House predictions: Health-care reform passes, cap-and-trade doesn't
Last year's budget included space for both a health-care reform bill and a cap-and-trade bill. The revenues for cap-and-trade, in fact, paid for a substantial middle-class tax cut. But this year, the budget assumes that health-care reform passes and deletes cap-and-trade — and the tax cut it would fund in the future — entirely.
Would the revenues from cap-and-trade disappear from the budget if you still passed the policy, but gave away the permits?
Second, I'm not sure the language of "pricing carbon" is terribly effective for the average voter. The President does a good job of elaborating on what it means, but as a sound bite it doesn't mean a lot to someone who hasn't taken an econ course. If you don't know what it means to "internalize the externality" (and even most libertarian economists have trouble with the concept), then it isn't immediately intuitive why "pricing carbon" will lead to jobs. If anything, it intuitively sounds like something that would destroy jobs, since the first thing I think when I hear is "higher prices, higher costs." You have to think about it for a second to realize "higher costs –> investment and innovation –> jobs."
I don't have a better idea at the moment though, so I guess I'm no help.
I find that frustrating too. Nobody knows the truth about what is really going on, because the media botches the story. So I try to cover these stories straight, as if we had honest media.
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Republican mounts bid to undo Arizona's renewable energy standard
"Second, I'm not sure the language of "pricing carbon" is terribly effective for the average voter."
Not to harp on a slightly disgusting analogy, but we price sewage and citizens seem to have no problem understanding that requirement. C02 is effluent, like other forms of effluent it is not "free." This is where the battle over EPA's classification of C02 as a pollutant counts in an intangible way; once C02 is cemented in the public mind as a pollutant, it conceptually joins sewage and a host of other effluents, becomes something the public intuitively grasps as an environmental management problem.
Sometime I feel like I am a character in a Russian Novel.
1. Lead with Solutions.
A. Clean energy
B. Dramatic improvements in Efficiency.
C. Keeping heated air in buildings.
2. Point out the Opportunities.
A. Jobs in Clean Energy research, developing and revitalizing businesses.
B. Saving major bucks on the heating / cooling bill.
C. Buildings that feel good, reduce absenteeism (because people want to come to work, because they feel good.)
3. Bring it home with the Moral reasons.
A. For our children.
B. For our children's future.
C. Because we are responsible for handing off a "positive" energy future.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Slowly the world pivots. We don't notice. Still it pivots.
Is it me, or is TPM losing its "fresh eyes"?
Obama pushing clean coal and green jobs
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is meeting with governors from coal-producing states, hoping to earn their support for a languishing energy bill and to bolster his image as a leader willing to work with Republicans as well as Democrats.
Intresting there is still some media reporting news instead of fraud.
Doug: I agree completely with our comment about the phrase "pricing carbon" falling flat. It's a perfect example of bureaucratic tin ear syndrome, which is simply one version of lousy communication.
I think we need something much more direct, and your suggestion of linking it to other forms of pollution or waste is good. How about instead of "pay-go" ("pay as you go"), a popular WDC meme, we have "pay as you pollute"? It could be followed up with the appealing and "fair" notion that whoever pollutes our shared air, water, or land should have to either stop it completely or pay an appropriate price for the damage done to others.
I can see Obama giving a speech in which he says he's pushing for big corporations should be held to the same standards of responsibility as the children of American voters–you make a mess, you clean it up.
What will the right wingers do, argue for lack of responsibility?
10, same would be a model for taxation.
Ultimatly one should ask if society wants to listen to science any longer.
This sense is long gone. It started with thales once. He showed society that science is more importend than short term financial gains. He did this in many ways.
The media is flawed and now as last chance either the government and agencys start hunting the denial down or we can all just sit back and watch the apocalypse emerge, while eating the last popcorn.
The New York Times web site did slightly better it's headline read "Obama Says Senate May Drop Cap and Trade, Pass Energy-Only Bill"
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said headline writers are aiming at "folks zinging around the Internet looking for the most sensational thing to read"
Efficiency. A number of years ago I read that the united states wastes the amount of energy that the Alaska Pipeline produces. I am sure that statement is dated by now but understandable breakdowns like that can stick in peoples minds. People on average just don't get it that wasted energy is throwing money not only out the window but into the hands of corporations and Dictators and then paying interest on same forever more to China and the worlds assorted already rich. No wonder they all fight so hard for the status quo.
Common Sense
I agree with people who say that "pricing carbon" is a phrase that doesn't make itself clear and that doesn't capture the essence and heart of the matter. In important ways, it's an ambiguous, sanitized, dead, unappealing phrase. Nor does it capture genuine human motive. Nobody likes a "price". And "carbon" is about as exciting as "pencil" if you don't already have a deep appreciation for it.
Ask yourself: On a free evening, with a friend, would you rather "price carbon" or go see a movie, even a pretty boring one? At least at a movie you can get Junior Mints!
The need to "price carbon" arises because of a very common-sense and obvious point: If it's free to pour CO2 into the atmosphere, then companies (many of them among the largest companies on Earth) will be happy to keep selling us products that do just that; and we won't transition to clean energy sources effectively.
So, "pricing carbon" is akin to "being smart and responsible".
Indeed, let's talk about IDENTITY. We are (supposedly) homo sapiens. Well, "sapiens" means wise. So, there is a rather direct link to identity itself: "Pricing carbon" is being wise, given the circumstances. Anything less is dramatically UN-wise. So, if we want to retain our (fragile) self-identities as "homo sapiens", we'd better do it.
Thus, a shift in phrasing could be from "pricing carbon" to "being sapiens" or even "walking the talk". (Someone would have to help get the actual wording and tense correct. My Latin is non-existent.)
This "pricing carbon" phrase has got to be improved and given a form that EXPLAINS, in the term itself, what is at stake and why we should be motivated to do it.
If we don't "price carbon", we can't think of ourselves as "sapiens" any more. It's as simple as that. Any good economist should support the essence of that point, under the circumstances. So, what phrase can best convey that idea. Price carbon, or change your self-identity.
Be Well,
Case in point: The average home owner wastes about 25% (?) of their energy budget that can be readily recoverable with little investment. Assuming a average monthly energy budget of $700, (cars count, as well as your job, so I am sure that number is low), that is about $175 per month per household going directly into some rich Dud's pocket and then paying interest on that money with TAXES. (no end in sight and growing!) OFF THE TOP! ~$5.00 a day per household. Of course if you have a BIG carbon stomp that number will be much higher. Just so "YOU" can have the privilege of sloppy living!
The insanity of it all!
And the GOP fights for the status quo!
And our side is holding the short end of the stick!
Go figure!
The concept of pricing carbon is a difficult sell. I always explain cap-and-trade by saying that "a price on carbon means we also place a value on reducing emissions. This is how we create value in the future, by rewarding companies for being clean".
Dont focus on "negative" words like costs, pay, pollution. Turn it around by using words like value, reward, clean.
Just my 2 cents.
Jeff: How about "Dump Fee" to get the ball rolling?
While the U.S. seems unable to wipe it's rear end these days without Peabody's permission, other relatively tiny European and N. African countries with relatively tiny research and development and infrastructure construction budgets are turning to wind and solar energy. I think India will as well due to their poor transmission capacity.
How long will the U.S. middle class give their last blanket and roll in the mud so the coal, oil and nuclear industries (health industries as well) can keep up their 3 a day latte habit? At some point folks are going to look across the ocean and figure out why everyone else is driving electric cars and can afford to heat their house in the winter. Michael Moore compared our health care system with Europe's and wasn't successful; yet. We just haven't descended far enough into poverty to get over our fear of change.
It'll happen. Just need to keep the lines of communication open. Which is exactly what you are doing.
Obama's outspoken support is causing folks like Dorgan and his ilk to have to tell lots of lies. Patience.
TPM, to an extent, botched it's reporting on the CRU hack as well.
"But manipulating the review process — 'even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is' — in order to obtain a specific desired result is close to the very definition of putting ideology over scientific integrity."
(http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/the_hacked_climate_change_emails_what_they_do_and.php )
TPM is uneven at best.
Lou Grinzo says: February 3, 2010 at 7:26 am
"What will the right wingers do, argue for lack of responsibility?"
Indeed this is all about responsibility which of course leads directly to accountability, two favorite words with conservatives, and no wonder because the fundamental concept resonates with nearly everybody.
It's not even a matter of "us versus them", we're all accountable. If a corporation wants to retain the same absolute dollar profit and finds it is able to to pass previously ignored costs along to consumers, what is actually wrong with that? At the end of the day, for many of us the costs we're speaking of are not an existential threat and in any case they are our responsibility because we are making the choice to buy or not buy products and services.
Here's an example. Consumer Reports just published a short item about replacement batteries for cordless power tools. Their remarkably thoughtless recommendation was that consumers should consider buying entire new tool kits regardless of the condition of the tools themselves, because it is "less costly to you". The only reason that seems less costly is because consumers buying those tools are dodging responsibility and passing costs along to other people, encouraged by manufacturers. By accounting for disposal expenses in the initial purchase price of the tool set, consumers would be taking responsibility, being accountable in dollars and cents for their choice. At that point it's purely a personal choice if they want to throw away a tool, they're not passing the buck.
For C02 it's even simpler: We don't expect to have our drains to end at the edge of our property, emptying into our neighbor's yard, we know that is wrong and is a failure to take responsibility. We know we have to pay, to account for our waste. Similarly we should not expect "free" disposal of C02.
So the entire argument here swerves back to communicating the polluting nature of C02 to the public, that's where the action really is, that's why scientists unwittingly following the "wrong" path of inquiry are being fed into a public relations meatgrinder. It is absolutely imperative for fossil fuel interests that this horse not get out of the barn, they're armed, dangerous and the stakes they have in this fight are far more than for what many countries have gone to war and shed blood.
Sorry, Obama, the Clean Air Act was not the success greenwashing industry and government pretend it is, and the forests in New Hampshire and everywhere else are decidedly NOT healthy. Here's an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Charles Driscoll, but any internet search about acid rain will reveal the lasting, persistent damage and the ongoing deposition from multiple sources:
larryo: So on acid rain. It's below the radar of the media these days. Any idea why?
cdriscoll: I sent you the Science Links report and paper we did a few years ago to try to bring it back to the public attention. I think it is because the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments addressed the problem in part and the media and public have the perception that the problem is solved. Also other national and global environmental problems have emerged.
from this interview: http://dsc.discovery.com/earth/im-interview/acid-rain-driscoll.html
It's not going to be possible to solve our emissions problems if we don't start getting realistic about the scope of the impacts.
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Leif, I liked your comment. Ha! Why a Russian novel? And what role do you play?
One of those guys that don't make it to the end. And get abused a lot.
Henrik, #16: I like your direction of more "positive". Survival Savings, or SS Account? SSA to distinguish from other well liked program. Perhaps the SSA could even help pay into SS! A % of GDP above base line business as usual? I like that one.
Obama will stop smoking tobacco before he gains credibility in striving for clean air.
I do not know if this is measurable, but the mainstream political reporters seem to have no interest in the environement. Are they foating through a series of hotels, offices, conference rooms, and the like detached from the natural world? I suppose they would claim that they need to be objective, but they don't even seem to be interested, let alone to care about global warming.
Jerry Levitt says: February 3, 2010 at 3:36 pm
"Obama will stop smoking tobacco before he gains credibility in striving for clean air."
That's the best you can do? Nothing specific? No commentary on actual policy, as opposed to cracking an exhausted gag?
At least say something, if you're going to drag your name into it.
Here's another headline from the New York Times "Sen. Graham Slams Push for a 'Half-Assed Energy Bill'" The article opened
A key Senate Republican came out swinging today against the idea of passing just an energy bill and ignoring President Obama's call to also cap greenhouse gas emissions.
"It's the 'kick the can down the road' approach," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "It's putting off to another Congress what really needs to be done comprehensively. I don't think you'll ever have energy independence the way I want until you start dealing with carbon pollution and pricing carbon. The two are interconnected."
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/03/03greenwire-sen-graham-slams-push-for-a-half-assed-energy-54765.html
Is the government going to fine me for exhaling CO2?
[JR: You personally? Let's hope so. But as a general rule, the answer to your absurd question is "No, duh!"]
yes What is a clean air job?
[JR: A job that reduces air pollution.]
#31, Harold: I believe if you read the proposal as written, if you in fact produce over 25,000? tons of CO2 a year than you will in fact be affected. You may well qualify as excrement will decompose into significant CO2.


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Anglers were flyfishing, people riding bikes or walking their dogs. It was great...
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ART REVIEW; Lush, Staid or Frenetic on Long Island
By KEN JOHNSON
Published: July 20, 2001
Visitors to Long Island museums this summer can time-travel through the 20th century. Start with the elegant designs of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods at the Nassau County Museum of Art.
Move on to the vibrant emotional impact of Abstract Expressionism in two shows on the East End that examine the relationship between Alfonso Ossario and Jackson Pollock. And bring yourself up to date, at Guild Hall, with the newest work of the contemporary sculptor Dennis Oppenheim.
And the summer is far from over. On July 29 the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton opens ''About the Bayberry Bush,'' an exhibition of responses by 12 contemporary artists to ''The Bayberry Bush'' by William Merritt Chase, one of the museum's prized possessions. With such provocative participants as Richard Artschwager, Bonnie Collura, Peter Doig and Beverly Semmes, this promises to be an intriguing show.
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True to its title, ''Reflections of Opulence: Art Nouveau to Art Deco'' in Roslyn Harbor is loaded with ravishing luxury commodities, including paintings, furniture, glass, silverware, pottery and jewelry. More than just pretty, the show also has brains. Assisted by lucid catalog essays by the curators, Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell, it invites reflection on the roles that art has aspired to play in the modern world.
You might not immediately pick up on the intellectual dimension as you simply surrender to the many sumptuous, beautifully made creations emanating from these two design movements. They defined aesthetic elegance in the 20th century and in many ways still do in the 21st.
The gorgeous objects include a tall cabinet by Louis Majorelle, its surfaces inlaid with many different woods to represent vines, snails and a herd of geese; an illuminated stained-glass window by Tiffany representing flowering clematis on a lattice of bamboo; a bouquet of nasturtiums in a glass vase painted with breathtaking delicacy by Fantin-Latour; an enamel, silver and gold necklace with a pendant in the form of a spread-eagled bat by the Paris jeweler Sandoz; and a tabletop bronze by Pierre Le Faguays depicting the almost comically formal pursuit of a smooth-bodied nymph by a chiseled, muscular faun.
Considering the variety, the exhibition is remarkably integrated. There is a good reason for that.
Both Art Nouveau, which emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and is characterized by flowing lines and elements mimicking natural forms, and Art Deco, which peaked between the world wars and favored more rigorously geometric forms, were dedicated to the ideal of the ensemble. Different kinds of functional or decorative objects worked together to create total environments.
In this context, modern painting seems an art that serves to decoratively accent tastefully appointed homes rather than to express social or aesthetic rebellion. Pierre Amedée Marcel-Beronneau's dreamy Symbolist painting of a naked woman in an ornate headdress, accompanied by a black panther, may point to a decadent, wilder place in the psyche, and Albert Gleizes's candy-colored exercise in flattened, curvilinear Synthetic Cubism may come out of an uncompromising formalist radicalism, but here both seem hothouse blossoms in tune with the lifestyles of the fashionable and well-to-do. Even a compact, Cubist still life by Picasso, the fractured image of a pigeon on a white tablecloth, comes off as a work of what one might call high domesticity.
But Art Nouveau and Art Deco were not -- not at first, anyway -- expressions of bourgeois complacency.
Both movements were reacting, though in very different ways, to the acceleration of the Industrial Revolution around the turn of the century. Art Nouveau artists were committed to traditional, preindustrial modes of craftsmanship and sought a rapport between nature and culture. Art Deco embraced the aesthetic of the machine and produced works in which rational function, restrained geometric patterning and speedy streamlining produced a kind of futuristic classicism.
Art Deco often exudes a cool eroticism: note the sleek, sexy and slightly kitschy paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, whose voluptuous, geometricized ''Nude With Sailboats'' graces the exhibition's catalog cover. What artists in both movements shared was the utopian dream of the ''gesamtkunstwerke, the creation of a total, all-encompassing artwork,'' as the curators put it, by which they ''endeavored to remake the world in their own image.''
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At the other end of Long Island, two exhibitions draw from another modern art tradition, Abstract Expressionism, and explore the impact of Jackson Pollock on his friend, neighbor, fellow artist and patron, Alfonso Ossorio.
At the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, where Pollock produced his celebrated drip paintings of the late 1940's and early 50's, is a small show of paintings and drawings that Ossorio made in reaction to Pollock's death in 1956, when after a day of drinking, Pollock crashed his car into the woods near his home.


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