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Energy and Global Warming News for July 12: Run cars on green electricity, not natural gas; World on track for hottest year on record; New rules may cloud outlook for biomass
Run Cars on Green Electricity, Not Natural Gas
With the dramatic increase in oil prices earlier this year translating into higher prices at the gas pump in the United States, concerns over U.S. dependence on foreign oil are once again part of the national discussion on energy security. Combined with the growing understanding that carbon emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels are driving global climate change, the debate is now focused on how to restructure the U.S. transport system to solve these two problems. While the idea of running U.S. vehicles on natural gas has lately received a great deal of attention, powering our cars with green electricity is a more sensible option on all fronts "" national security, efficiency, climate stabilization and economics.
Having a fleet of natural gas-powered vehicles (NGVs) would simply replace U.S. dependence on foreign oil with a dependence on natural gas, another fossil fuel. The United States has scarcely 3 percent of the world's proved natural gas reserves, yet even without the increased demand that would result from an NGV fleet, the country already consumes nearly a quarter of the world's natural gas. At current rates of consumption, U.S. proved reserves would only meet national demand for another nine years….
A better investment is one that supports a fleet of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), such as the Chevy Volt slated for sale in 2010, which can use the existing electric infrastructure. A study by the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that if all U.S. automobiles were PHEVs, the current U.S. infrastructure could provide power for more than 70 percent of the fleet. Battery charging would occur mostly at night, when demand for electricity is low. In the emerging energy economy "" an economy built on domestic wind, solar and geothermal energy sources "" the greening of the grid by replacing fossil fuel-based electrical generation will also be a greening of the transport system. Beyond the grid, distributed power systems "" solar cells on rooftops, for example "" could also be used to power PHEVs.
With today's energy mix, PHEVs running on electricity from the grid are nearly three times more efficient than NGVs on a "well-to-wheel" basis""that is, when considering the full life cycle of the energy source, from fuel extraction to combustion to vehicle propulsion. This is because internal combustion engines, such as those used in natural gas vehicles and in today's gas-powered automobile fleet, are incredibly inefficient. Only 20 percent or so of the energy in the fuel is used to move the vehicle. The other 80 percent is wasted as heat. Thus, choosing electric vehicles over NGVs can sharply reduce energy demand….
Burning natural gas in a new combined cycle power plant is three times as efficient as burning natural gas in a car. Even including electrical losses from transmission, distribution, and battery charging, running a car on electricity from a natural gas power plant is more than twice as efficient. Keeping natural gas in the electric sector to help power a fleet of PHEVs is therefore the logical choice. Wind-generated electricity should replace electricity from coal-fired power plants, the most polluting power source.
Under normal driving conditions, well-to-wheel carbon dioxide emissions for vehicles running on electricity from natural gas-fired power plants are one fourth as high as emissions from cars directly burning natural gas. Since a PHEV operating in electric-only mode has no tailpipe emissions, electrifying transport would move the majority of carbon emissions from millions of vehicles to centralized electricity-generating plants, greatly simplifying the task of controlling emissions. As fossil-based power generation is replaced with wind and solar power, cumulative carbon emissions from centralized power facilities will be greatly reduced.
New Rules May Cloud the Outlook for Biomass
An energy technology that has long been viewed as a clean and climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels is facing tough new regulatory hurdles that could ultimately hamper its ability to compete with renewable power sources like wind and solar.
Dozens of biomass power plants, which typically burn plant or tree matter to generate electricity, are already in operation in a variety of states, like California, Michigan and Maine. In most cases, those plants have qualified for some form of renewable energy tax incentives or other benefits, as states used them to diversify their power portfolios.
But a long-simmering debate in Massachusetts questioning the environmental benefits of biomass has culminated in new rules that will limit what sorts of projects will qualify for renewable energy incentives there. If other states "" or even Congress, which is writing energy legislation of its own "" follow suit, it could have wide implications for biomass developers, as well as for states trying to meet renewable energy production targets.
World on Track for Warmest Year on Record, U.S. Scientist Says
The current year may become the warmest on record, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist.
Temperature trends across the U.S. and around the world have been among the warmest on record, said David Easterling, a climatologist with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.
"If the warming around the world continues the way it has so far this year, we are likely to have 2010 be the warmest on record," Easterling said during a conference call on climate change hosted by the Union of Concerned Scientists, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The combined land and ocean temperatures around the world were 1.22 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average, according to NOAA records. Since 1975, global temperatures have been rising and since 1960 the number of heat waves has been increasing, Easterling said on the call.
Much of the U.S. Northeast has been gripped by a heat wave that broke temperature records in New York, Washington and Baltimore and brought 100 degrees or more to Newark four days in a row.
Oil Industry, Green Groups Launch Dueling Ad Campaigns
A new ad war erupted today pitting groups that support climate legislation against the oil industry.
Clean Energy Works, a coalition of about 60 groups, launched an ad campaign that seeks to tar the oil industry with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The effort comes two days after the start of a new ad blitz from the oil industry trade group American Petroleum Institute (API), which is funding spots that protest the possible loss of sector tax benefits.
The new ad from Clean Energy Works tags the petroleum industry as "Big Oil." The TV spot shows pictures of more than $4-per-gallon gas prices, former BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward, and the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig before it sank in the Gulf. The spots advocate passage of "clean energy" legislation.
"What's next from the big oil companies?" the television ad from green groups asks. "A multimillion-dollar smear campaign to stop clean energy legislation from passing in the U.S. Senate."
Described by the group as costing "six figures," it will run nationally on cable networks CNN and MSNBC.
Not enough jobs and too much heat; sagging payrolls and global warming.
Why not address both problems with a major public program to directly put people to work saving energy?
Plenty of green-job advocates have offered practical details, including my University of Massachusetts colleague, Robert Pollin. Yet no one in Congress or the White House seems willing to plant this garden.
I'm trying to figure out why green job-creation proposals have gotten stuck in the mud. Maybe environmentalists as a group are viewed with suspicion because they make us all feel guilty. Certainly, we've seen a conservative backlash against promotion of green jobs, linked to skepticism about the threat of global warming.
Sometimes political differences generate interesting debate "" as in an exchange published in The Economist between Van Jones and Andrew Morriss. But partisan bickering also discourages public engagement.
Clear Waters, Cloudy Future For California Wetlands
Oil continues to cloud Gulf Coast waters, but on the other side of the country, scientists are studying a body of water with the opposite problem. San Francisco Bay is becoming clearer. And clearer water is not always good news.
Underneath the dock on Alcatraz Island, U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist David Schoellhamer is collecting samples. "What we're measuring here is suspended sediment," he says. He holds up a bottle of cloudy water that he just collected. "Think of it as the microscopic rocks that are floating in the water."
For Schoellhamer, the bottle holds important clues to the bay's history. About 10 years ago, he noticed something strange in these samples: The bay's water was becoming clearer, after more than a century of murkiness.
"Back in the 1800s … during the Gold Rush, the gold miners used essentially fire hoses and water cannons to literally wash down mountainsides to extract the gold from the sediment," Schoellhamer explains.
Concerns Spread Over Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas
Around suppertime on June 3 in Clearfield County, Pa., a geyser of natural gas and sludge began shooting out of a well called Punxsutawney Hunting Club 36. The toxic stew of gas, salt water, mud and chemicals went 75 feet into the air for 16 hours. Some of this mess seeped into a stream northeast of Pittsburgh.
Four days later, as authorities were cleaning up the debris in Pennsylvania, an explosion burned seven workers at a gas well on the site of an abandoned coal mine outside of Moundsville, W.Va., just southwest of Pittsburgh.
The back-to-back emergencies were like a five-alarm fire for John Hanger, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. For a brief moment, the cable news channels turned their attention away from the BP PLC oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico to the apparent trouble in the nation's expanding onshore natural gas fields.
The events added force to a tough public debate in Pennsylvania and New York and across northern Appalachia about how the environmental impacts of gas drilling balance against the economic benefits of gas and the role it could play in helping electric utilities transition to cleaner fuels.
Prince of Wales opens new front in global warming fight
The Prince of Wales, who warned last year that there were "less than 100 months" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change, is stepping up his own efforts.
The heir to the throne has launched a global project to prevent ecological disaster, the International Sustainability Unit, for which he has ambitious plans.
"This is the most important cause that His Royal Highness has ever taken on," says one of Prince Charles's friends. "He hopes that the unit will make a real difference on the global stage. He knows that it's a controversial issue, but considers it of such importance that he is prepared to take risks."
A spokesman for the Prince says the organisation will work with national governments and global bodies such as the World Bank to promote "sustainable" development. "The ISU will continue the Prince's rainforest work while also engaging with other urgent issues, in particular the marine environment (and especially over-fishing), sustainable agriculture and preserving ecosystem services," says the spokesman.
"The unit aims to address the depletion of the world's natural capital by helping to create a consensus as to the best ways to enhance long-term food, water and energy security."
Climate change biggest restriction on China's development -economist
With its own security in mind, China is pushing to curb greenhouse gases, setting up broad environmental as well as economic targets in its latest five-year state plan, a leading Chinese "green development" advocate said this week.
Fully 39 percent of the performance indicators for government officials in the new 2011-2015 plan should focus on "green" issues, up from 3 percent in the previous plan, said Hu Angang, an economics professor from Tsinghua University in Beijing, speaking at Chatham House in London.
That's in part because Chinese officials, facing rising public unhappiness over some of the world's worst pollution and an estimated $25 trillion cost to clean up environmental damage associated with the country's rapid industrialisation, now see climate change, economic and security issues as inextricably linked, he said.
"Climate change is the biggest actor restricting China's development," Hu said
An interview with Yvo de Boer, the United Nations' former climate-change chief
Until this month, Yvo de Boer served as executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the body that oversees international climate negotiations. After supervising the Copenhagen climate talks last year, a process he has called frustrating, de Boer suddenly announced in February that he would be stepping down. After nearly four years on the U.N. job (he describes it as "three years and 11 months," but who's counting?), he just started work as an adviser on climate change and sustainability at KPMG International in London. The Washington Post's national environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin spoke with de Boer last week about leaving the United Nations, why he never kept Al Gore out in the cold and how President Obama has his brain in the right place.
Opposition Builds to Canadian Pipeline for the World's Dirtiest Oil
Yesterday marked the 80th day that oil has been hemorrhaging into the Gulf of Mexico from the site where BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and took the lives of 11 workers. If our country learns one lesson from this tragedy, I hope it's this: that we can't afford to maintain our profligate diet of dirty, dangerous oil, no matter how much greedy oil corporations scheme to keep us hooked.
One of the most devastating projects Big Oil has cooked up in North America, and arguably worldwide, is the exploitation of Canada's tar sands for crude.
To access oil from the tar sands, giants like BP are clear-cutting massive swaths of forest, draining wetlands and hauling away tons of living matter and soil to mine a tarry substance that can be upgraded and refined into oil. Indigenous communities living downstream are being poisoned by toxins leaching from the sludge left behind. In Fort Chipewyan, one hundred of the town's 1,200 residents have died from rare cancers and auto-immune diseases since 2000.
Tar sands oil is called the world's dirtiest because its production dumps three times more climate-warming emissions into the atmosphere than conventional oil. It also spews higher levels of smog- and asthma-causing toxins into the air when refined.
Change coming slowly on climate law
Congress may or may not pass a serious climate bill this year, but one thing is certain: It won't be business as usual.
While Republicans and polluting industries will celebrate, most know their victory will be fleeting and, with or without a bill, they'll soon face a cascade of onerous and expensive new regulations that could fundamentally reshape the nation's economic, environmental and legal landscape.
That's because the Obama administration spent the past year setting up a series of rules and international frameworks on climate control that were intended to prod Congress into action, sync up with whatever legislation did pass and, as a last resort, kick in as a backstop, should Congress fail to act.
It looks increasingly like Plan C "" which even President Barack Obama has characterized as a worst-case option "" will prevail. And as those rules slide into place, look for the climate change battles to take plenty of dramatic twists and turns.
Senate Democrats face critical four weeks
Senate Democrats will be racing against the clock and calendar this week when they return to Washington for a four-week legislative sprint.
The majority party hopes to take up and pass a long-stalled package of unemployment insurance benefits this week, as well as the Wall Street reform conference report they'd hoped to finish before the recess. Democrats plan to map out specifics at their weekly lunch on Tuesday.
Few believe there will be enough time or will for major legislative battles after the Senate recesses for a monthlong break on Aug. 6, meaning some of the heaviest legislative lifting "" an energy bill, immigration reform, the START arms control treaty and campaign finance reform "" may get pushed into 2011.
"It is really going to be hard," said Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor and Senate analyst for The Cook Political Report. "Maybe they can move the ball down the field on some of these things, but actually getting it done and to the president's desk? Occasionally there's a surprise, and they'll pull one of those all-nighters or two, but at the end of the day not much gets done."
Green firms uniting to flex political muscle
Stonyfield Farm is slapping its familiar cow logo on more than just containers of yogurt these days. The New Hampshire-based organic food maker is one of more than 50 local companies to lend its corporate name to a political lobbying campaign aimed at persuading Congress to support climate and energy legislation on Capitol Hill.
The green-friendly businesses "" including many young tech companies not yet household names "" are the regional face of a multimillion dollar lobbying effort aimed at key senators across the country. Their effort is backed by some of the world's most recognizable consumer brands and Fortune 500 companies, and guided by experienced political hands with deep connections to the Obama and Clinton administrations.
The TV, radio, and print campaign, bolstered by in-person jawboning of legislators, demonstrates the political reach of green-technology and alternative energy companies, which have progressed from the cluttered basements of inventors and entrepreneurs into an emerging political force seeking to apply pressure at the highest levels of government.
Obama urges increase in clean energy tax credits
Mixing policy and politics, President Barack Obama called on Congress Friday to expand a clean energy tax credit that could pay off in Nevada, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is struggling in his re-election campaign.
Obama told an audience at the University of Nevada that a $5 billion increase in clean energy manufacturing tax credits could generate nearly 40,000 jobs. Some of those could arrive in Nevada, where 14 percent unemployment threatens to undermine Reid's argument that his position as majority leader pays dividends to his state.
"If an American company wants to create jobs and grow, we should be there to help them do it," Obama said.
Reid, who is seeking a fifth term, has been pushing hard for investments in solar energy to capitalize on his home state's scorching climate. He's had some success attracting projects to the state, but he and other Democrats are battling uphill going into November's critical midterms.
While Obama applauded both Democrats and Republicans for supporting his call for the expanded tax credits, he took a swipe at GOP lawmakers, saying similar bipartisan support has been absent from many of the other efforts he and Reid have promoted, from the massive health care overhaul to Wall Street reform.
We fiddle while Farm Belt copes with climate change
Legend has it that the Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Almost two millennia later, Congress keeps quarreling while the world keeps warming. Greenhouse gas emissions have grown by 70 percent from 1970 to 2004 and are projected to increase from 25 percent to 90 percent more by 2030. By the end of the century, global average temperatures are expected to increase by from 1.1 to 6.4 degrees Celsius. In the face of this, food production is at risk and actions are needed.
While the Beltway is still scoping out the science, the Farm Belt is coping with the consequences of climate change and soon will face yet larger changes. Temperature has increased by one degree Celsius so far with shifts observed in growing seasons, areas where crops are suitable, rainfall and pests, among many other effects. As temperatures climb further, U.S. farmers could experience longer growing seasons, altered rainfall and water availability, with less expected in the deep South, less snowfall, more crop growth as a result of atmospheric carbon dioxide, northward shifts in suitable crop areas, and increased incidence of droughts, pests and livestock heat stress. Drought losses since 1998 have cost Texas agriculture alone more than $3.6 billion.
Even if the Beltway enacts new climate management policies, the Farm Belt will still have to find new ways to adapt agricultural practices to altered climate conditions. Even if Congress passes cap-and-trade legislation and greenhouse gas emissions return to 2000 levels, temperature will continue to increase due to international emissions increases and momentum.
37 Responses to Energy and Global Warming News for July 12: Run cars on green electricity, not natural gas; World on track for hottest year on record; New rules may cloud outlook for biomass
It may be getting hotter, and the torrential downpours are increasing- but is greater society listening? The arctic is melting…
How long and far do climatic patterns need to shift before action is taken?
We are on the precipice – what lies beyond is anyone's guess. In the current economic and political environment nothing will be done.
As we progress further into the decade I wonder what emotional and economic tipping points will be reached before the powers may be wake up. Day by Day…..
Expect more of the cynical "drill baby drill" with qualifiers that "…we meant on land" or "…if the environmentalists would have allowed us to drill in shallow water [this wouldn't have happened/we would have that oil well [blow out] leak capped by now."
Great lake warms up….headed for record-setting high temperatures later this summer.
"It's going to mean a more pleasant year for tourism," said Jay Austin, associate professor of physics at UMD who is studying lake temperature trends. "It is going to mean a warmer year everywhere on the lake."
Range Rover just announced their Liberty, a EV 4WD SUV. And a very expensive one. (But that's not the news.)
Range Rover is claiming a 300,000 mile/13 year battery life expectancy.
Three hundred thousand miles.
They are also offering 'no plug-in' charging via induction plates. And talking about a one to three charge time for a 200 mile range EV.
200 mile range. Three hours or less to charge without having to plug in. Batteries lasting the life of the vehicle.
It's the batteries stupid….
On NG vehicles, I couldn't agree more strongly with the view that they're a very bad idea. My main objection is a simple cost/benefit calculation: If you convert a large portion of the US rolling stock of vehicles to run on NG (either through replacement or in-place conversions), it will cost a lot and take years, and it will buy us only a 25% reduction in automotive emissions.
PHEVs and EVs have a vastly better future, for a reason no one seems want to talk about (and it's not peak oil or peak NG): If you look at the level of CO2 emissions reductions the US has to make if we have any hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change, then we will dramatically clean up our electricity generation, even if not one person in the entire country is plugging in a car. But people will be plugging in cars, which means those PH/EVs on the road will automatically become cleaner vehicles with no change at all required at the consumer level. NG fueled vehicles will continue to emit 75% of the CO2 we get from gasoline powered vehicles, regardless of what we do with our electricity supply.
"Whether you call it biomass or simply chopping down trees, it's still deforestation," said Franz A. Matzner, climate legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, which supports the sensible use of biomass power. "Burning trees for energy is an age-old practice that we know can cause some pretty bad effects if we don't get our heads around doing it the right way."
The 'right way' involves coppicing, cutting the branches and trunk off of certain species of trees to make firewood and/or charcoal. Chinaberry lends itself well to this use. Copious amounts of wood mass can be quickly grown in this way on limited acreage. Coppicing has been practiced for thousands of years.
The only way I can see natural gas vehicles being viable is if estimates of safely-recoverable supplies were so large that it could both help displace coal, and serve the transit sector without excess price pressure. And even then, coupled with hybrid technology. At this point the options seem limited for those wanting more than a short-range city car at reasonable cost. So if nat gas could displace some gasoline, and reduce greenhouse gases somewhat in the process, then I could understand it's appeal as a potential bridge fuel.
"If the warming around the world continues the way it has so far this year, we are likely to have 2010 be the warmest on record," Easterling said …."
Misleading out of context. El Niño is done, La Niña is coming. 2010 may become the warmest year by a slight margin though.
Here's an interesting article from Salon, interviewing Peter Ward, author of The Flooded Earth:
For passenger cars, plug-in hybrids and full battery electric makes great sense, but it will be a long time before big rigs, industrial equipment, trains, and ships will be able to run on batteries. There's still room for fuels like bio-gas and bio-diesel, provided they're made in a carbon-neutral process that doesn't take food away from people. It's hard to see how we could afford to replace all the diesel-fueled engines and diesel-delivery infrastructure. That's another reason why natural gas isn't going to win a big share of the transportation fuel market. As better forms of bio-diesel come onto the market, there won't be any great incentive to switch to natural gas for transportation.
"Run Cars on Green Electricity, Not Natural Gas"
Exactly. The scariest development currently is the plans of the fossil industries to replace oil/coal with methane/natural gas.
Natural gas is often described as the cleanest fossil fuel, producing less carbon dioxide per joule delivered than either coal or oil.[19], and far fewer pollutants than other fossil fuels. However, in absolute terms, it does contribute substantially to global carbon emissions, and this contribution is projected to grow. According to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group III Report, chapter 4), in 2004, natural gas produced about 5.3 billion tons a year of CO2 emissions, while coal and oil produced 10.6 and 10.2 billion tons respectively (figure 4.4). According to an updated version of the SRES B2 emissions scenario, however, by the year 2030, natural gas would be the source of 11 billion tons a year, with coal and oil now 8.4 and 17.2 billion respectively[30] (Total global emissions for 2004 were estimated at over 27,200 million tons).
In addition, natural gas itself is a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide when released into the atmosphere, although natural gas is released in much smaller quantities. Natural gas is mainly composed of methane, which has a radiative forcing twenty times greater than carbon dioxide. Based on such composition, a ton of methane in the atmosphere traps in as much radiation as 20 tons of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide still receives the lion's share of attention over greenhouse gases because it is released in much larger amounts. Still, it is inevitable when natural gas is used on a large scale that some of it will leak into the atmosphere. Current estimates by the EPA place global emissions of methane at 3 trillion cubic feet annually, or 3.2% of global production. Direct emissions of methane represented 14.3% of all global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2004.
Storm may have killed half a billion trees
Rate of Arctic sea ice melt heats up
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service, July 12, 2010
Glacier Loses Ice Chunk Equal to One-Eighth of Manhattan
CBS News, July 11, 2010
Kerry Looking to Strike Deal With Utilities on Carbon Emissions Cap
Yangtze dike set for blasting as flood precaution
Rate of Arctic sea ice melt slows down. It is not June anymore. It's July. Check the daily melt here.
#16 Peter Dunkelberg:
This is acknowledged in the article (first link in comment #13):
'Last week, for the first time since early May, the trend line for 2010's rapid ice melt leveled out just enough to intersect with the 2007 trend line on NSIDC's daily satellite graphing of total Arctic ice extent.'
But you're right: I'd better not have pointed out this article, it contains no news since JR's last post on the subject.
Russia Urges Siesta Regime for Workers Amid Record Heat Wave
Temperatures have broken July records in dozens of cities in European Russia, including Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. Moscow on July 15-16 may break the all-time record of 36.8 degrees Celsius (98.2 Farenheit) set in August 1920, Tatiana Pozdnyakova, chief specialist at the Moscow Meteorological Service, said by phone.
The government has declared a state of emergency in 16 grain-producing regions as the worst drought in at least a decade damages crops and livelihoods. Russia, which is vying with Canada to rank as the largest wheat exporter after the U.S., expects this year's grain harvest to decline at least 12 percent to 85 million metric tons.
Europe is continuing to swelter under a heatwave which has sent temperatures soaring.
The punishing heat with temperatures as high as 40C (104F) has sparked a series of health warnings across the Northern region.
In Germany dozens of passengers on three trains had to be removed and some hospitalised after temperatures reached 50C (122F) after the air conditioning broke down during the weekend.
Violent thunderstorms have been triggered over France, Germany and the Low Countries with large hail, squally winds and risk of flash flooding in places.
In Switzerland, recent heavy storms created by the sweltering heat have caused flash flooding and mudslides.
Meanwhile, temperatures across south-eastern England, Western Europe and Scandinavia have now eased back to near normal.
However, temperatures further south and east remain high with the chance of severe thunderstorms breaking out during this week.
Research carried out at Newcastle University has found that coriander and turmeric – spices traditionally used to flavour curries – can reduce the amount of methane produced by bacteria in a sheep's stomach by up to 40pc.
Working a bit like an antibiotic, the spices were found to kill the methane-producing 'bad' bacteria in the animal's gut while allowing the 'good' bacteria to flourish.
Can fermenting microbes save us from climate change?
German scientists showed how to insert genes to make C. ljungdahlii make butanol instead of ethanol.
"The synthesis capabilities of C. ljungdahlii from CO and CO2 are not limited to biofuels, but can be expanded to virtually every compound for which biological pathways exist or will be newly constructed," the researchers write in the June 28 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in which they unveil the genome. "This unique biotechnological approach will reduce dependency on crude oil, will fulfill industrial needs and, by doing so, could contribute to reducing the atmospheric greenhouse effect."
In fact, this could result in fuels that actually consume as much or more CO2 than they release back into the atmosphere (as long as the hydrogen isn't produced by cracking natural gas or a similar CO2-intensive method).
Oregon State University entomologist looks to uncover what's killing honeybees
World's First Hybrid Coal-Solar Power Plant Goes Online in Colorado
* Rising river temperatures threaten nuclear generation
* Good hydro, wind generation could offset outages
Deadly storm cuts power across northern Philippines
President Benigno Aquino criticised meteorologists for failing to suggest Manila would be so hard-hit.
GE unveils Yves Behar-designed electric vehicle charger
The Russian Grain Union, an industry lobby, said the country was seeing the worst drought in 130 years. It had already shrivelled grains on 9 million hectares, roughly one fifth of the total area sown to this year's harvest.
The Kommersant business daily, citing estimates by agribusiness companies, said on Tuesday that combined losses of Russia's agricultural industry could total $1 billion this year.
There is also a danger of peat bog fires in the forests around Moscow, said Roshydromet's Lukyanov. In the past, Moscow's huge residential districts have suffered from suffocating smoke and low visibility during such fires.
In Germany, a forest fire south of Berlin ignited stray munitions at a former Soviet military base, causing small explosions and preventing firefighters from getting close to the flames, a spokesman for the state of Brandenburg said.
Three people were killed after powerful storms swept across northwest Germany on Monday evening after a heatwave. German farmers face big crop shortfalls from the heat, a spokesman for the German Farmer's Association said, with the grain harvest set to fall 10 to 20 percent below average this year and wheat prices up 16 percent from early June. More hot weather is predicted at the end of the week.
China's wars, rebellions driven by climate
Meanwhile, it emerged that Abu Dhabi is still considering whether to invest in BP. "We are still thinking about it," Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told Bloomberg News. "We are looking across the board. We have been partners with BP for years."
The developments come as 18 oil and gas companies, including BP, prepare to defend their offshore drilling in Europe at high-level meetings in Brussels today.
Günther Oettinger, the European Union energy commissioner, last week called for a ban on new deep water projects in the North Sea and other oil-rich areas until the triggers of BP's accident are definitely known.
Any strict ban from Europe could signal an end to North Sea oil explorers drilling west of the Shetland Islands. Oil and gas companies will argue at the meeting that these projects are not nearly so deep and ambitious as BP's wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
Government Imposes New Deepwater Offshore Drilling Moratorium
The Obama administration on Monday issued a new moratorium on deepwater offshore oil drilling until November 30 [2010] to ensure oil companies implement stricter safety measures following the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"More than 80 days into the BP oil spill, a pause on deepwater drilling is essential and appropriate to protect communities, coasts, and wildlife from the risks that deepwater drilling currently pose," said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a statement. "I am basing my decision on evidence that grows every day of the industry's inability in the deepwater to contain a catastrophic blowout, respond to an oil spill, and to operate safely."
Big Mammals Disappearing in Africa's National Parks
20th Century One of Driest in Nine Centuries for Northwest Africa
Hawaii is already seeing effects of global warming
Temperatures at Hawaii's higher elevations are rising faster than the global average, said Deanna Spooner, coordinator of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative.
"It's getting hotter here faster than anywhere else in the world up in the upper elevations," Spooner said at the Honolulu meeting of the federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.
Rainfall levels, meanwhile, are falling. "Our freshwater resources are shrinking," she said.
Supermarket refrigerators are highly toxic to the environment
PetroChina, BP Assess 'Huge' Coal-Bed Methane Deposit
June SSTs in the tropical Atlantic set a new record
Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) in the Atlantic's Main Development Region for hurricanes had their warmest June on record
Google climate map offers a glimpse of a 4C world
Interactive tool layering climate data over Google Earth maps shows the impact of an average global temperature rise of 4C


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Larry Martin Gleason, Sr. was born March 16, 1960 in Shenandoah, IA, the son of Harold Martin and Shirley Joan (Davis) Gleason. He married Michelle Carlson April 7, 1988 in Sidney, IA.
Larry formerly lived in Sidney, IA before moving to Nebraska City in 2001 and he formerly worked at Cargill in Nebraska City. Larry was an avid Husker fan and he loved camping, gardening, cooking and spending time with his family.
Survivors include his wife, Michelle; son, Larry Gleason, Jr. and his wife Tonya; daughter, Terri Gleason and her fiancé Michael Shannon; grandchildren, Alexis Gleason, Cheyanne Gleason, Bailey Gleason and Natalee Gleason, all of Nebraska City; brother, Terry Gleason and sister, Brenda Gleason, both of Shenandoah, IA; many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; father in law and mother in law, Kenneth and Patricia Carlson and nephew, Larry Hilgerson.
Larry died June 7, 2014 at his residence in Nebraska City at the age of 54 years, 2 months and 21 days.
Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at Marshall Funeral Chapel in Nebraska City with Pastor Terry Duffy of the Nebraska City Church of Christ officiating. Burial will follow in Wyuka Cemetery.
Visitations will be 1:00 to 9:00 P.M. Monday at the funeral home with the family greeting friends from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Memorials are suggested to the family.Online condolences may be expressed at www.marshallfuneral.com.
Marshall Funeral Chapel of Nebraska City is in charge of the arrangements.
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FDA Approves Osphena for Postmenopausal Women Experiencing Pain During Sex »
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Osphena (ospemifene) to treat women experiencing moderate to severe dyspareunia (pain during sexual intercourse), a symptom of vulvar and vaginal atrophy due to menopause.
Read the FDA Approves Osphena for Postmenopausal Women Experiencing Pain During Sex article »
Generally, when estrogen is prescribed for a postmenopausal woman with a uterus, a progestin should also be considered to reduce the risk of endometrial cancer.
A woman without a uterus does not need a progestin. In some cases, however, hysterectomized women with a history of endometriosis may need a progestin [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS].
Use of estrogen-alone, or in combination with a progestin, should be with the lowest effective dose and for the shortest duration consistent with treatment goals and risks for the individual woman. Postmenopausal women should be re-evaluated periodically as clinically appropriate to determine if treatment is still necessary.
Treatment of Atrophic Vaginitis due to Menopause
Vagifem should be administered intravaginally using the supplied applicator: 1 tablet daily for 2 weeks, followed by 1 tablet twice weekly (for example, Tuesday and Friday). Generally, women should be started at the 10 mcg dosage strength.
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Vagifem is a small, white, round, film-coated, bi-convex vaginal tablet containing 10 mcg or 25 mcg of estradiol. Each vaginal tablet is 6 mm in diameter and is administered in a disposable applicator.
Each Vagifem (estradiol vaginal tablets), 10 mcg and 25 mcg, is contained in a disposable, single-use applicator, packaged in a blister pack. Cartons contain 8 or 18 applicators with inset tablets.
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Store at 25°C (77°F), excursions permitted to 15°C to 30°C (59°F to 86°F).
Do not refrigerate.
[See USP Controlled Room Temperature.]
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Richard Gonzales Returns To Richmond
Remember this horrible story, about the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl outside the Richmond High School Homecoming dance? As many as 20 people witnessed the brutality, but the 911 call didn't come in till two hours later.
NPR's Richard Gonzales grew up in Richmond, though he went to a different high school. He went back to his hometown to see how the locals are coping with the aftermath of the tragedy. He also asked this question of Rhonda James, who runs the rape crisis center there: How could this have happened?
JAMES: We have to realize that we have failed our boy and our girls and I think you see that really strongly in an under-resourced community.
GONZALES: There's got to be a lot of people out there who say, what's that got to do with this barbarity? Why are you making excuses?
JAMES: Poverty. Nothing excuses the behavior of these young men. Nothing. I think its easy to start seeing your self other than the person you're abusing. It's easy to otherize, if you have been otherized. We see it where men gather. We see it where men gather.
Where poverty reigns, empathy can be an unfortunate casualty. In other words, Gonzales concludes, "it could have happened anywhere."
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(VAN NUYS, CA) -- Digital Playground and company founder, acclaimed and awarded director, Joone are excited to release the video trailer for Island Fever 3, starring a beautiful and talented cast, Jesse Jane, Devon & Tera Patrick.
Island Fever 3 clearly demonstrates why Joone is the master of erotic filmmaking. The third installment in the multi-award winning Island Fever series was filmed on location in Bora Bora and Tahiti, which boast spectacular, picturesque scenery and features Digital Playground's contract superstars Jesse Jane and Devon in their first sexual encounter.
Joone's talent for combining natural light with the High Definition cameras created absolute perfection. Jesse raves, "I thought Devon was submissive and I can't tell you how wrong I was. She is like a wild animal when she gets turned on. Making Island Fever 3 with her has been a life long fantasy of mine with breath-taking moments." Devon raves, "Jesse is one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen. It was amazing to have such a torrid, sexual experience."
Debuting brand new technology, Digital Playground is presenting Island Fever 3 on a special double disc collectors set with regular DVD and HD-DVD options. Island Fever 3 is the first title to offer a bonus HD-DVD disc and it's at no extra charge. Shot and edited entirely in HD, Disc 1 offers the entire movie in regular DVD video at true 16:9 format and a plethora of special features including behind-the-scenes, the making of and audio commentary by the stars, director and crew. Disc 2 is an HD-DVD, which will play the entire movie in true High Definition resolution on any 2.5 GHz PC or any WMV-HD player. This breath-taking sexual adventure, featuring the most demanded stars in adult entertainment, will hit the streets simultaneously in VHS and DVD formats on September 21!
Experience paradise, where you can live and breathe your every fantasy with the most exotic women the world has ever seen, Jesse Jane, Devon & Tera Patrick. Revolutionary director Joone invites you to explore all your fantasies in the warm tropics of the Tahitian islands. Immerse your senses in a lush, tropical paradise as three beautiful women surround you, each existing to fulfill your ultimate fantasy. The Island Fever 3 trailer can be viewed and downloaded Now at the link below.
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In 2001, the original Island Fever received two of the industries most demanded titles, AVN's "Best Renting Tape" and Adult DVD Empire's "Best Selling DVD." the same year, Island Fever received trophies for "Best Editing" and "Best Video Quality." it was later named "Best DVD" by both AFW and Nightmoves and Empire declared it "Best All sex DVD." AVN Publisher, Paul Fishbein writes, "Island Fever is the first title to stay on AVN's Top selling DVD charts for a year. It continues to sell month after month in both traditional retail stores and through 0n-line DVD sales." Adult DVD Empire concurs; in March, they named Island Fever "Best Selling DVD" for the second year in a row.
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Burnout needs to be treated seriously. The prescription is to give yourself time to rest, reflect and heal. This is advice you can ill-afford to ignore.
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text: Would it generally impact the performance of a firewall if it has to enable a site by domain rather than IP? The context is we have an application that runs on Google Appengine (no fixed IP's) and a question was raised by the IT function of a potential customer that opening their firewall for our application will mean they have to do a reverse DNS lookup on every packet if they enable traffic to our domain. I can't imagine this is a unique situation and I'm wandering if this is a general problem with enabling per domain or specific to a technology choice they have made.


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In a radio interview on 1280 The Zone, BYU Athletic Director Tom Holmoe was asked about the numerous future schedule rumors for the Cougars. Holmoe stated that the "internet rumors are mainly wrong."
Holmoe was on The Gordon Monson show and was asked about BYU's future schedules due to the many rumors on the Internet. Holmoe had the following to say regarding their schedules:
"Internet rumors are mainly wrong. I mean there's a lot of them and I don't read them but people bring them to my attention…and, uh, I think that some of them are wildly wrong…and if there's enough people guessing some of them are gonna be right. But there's so many out there that are wrong."
"The process is, I have this paper in front of me right now and we have games scheduled out through 2020. Just a few in the later years, but through 2014 we're getting very close to, you know, 3/4 of the way full on some of those…15, 16, 17 we're talking every day right now with teams trying to fill those up."
"Some teams that you talk to want to play you two-for-one, and it's not in our best interest to play all BCS teams two-for-one."
You can listen to the full interview at 1280 The Zone.
Last week we posted some scheduling rumors that had been sent to us. These rumors have hit many other sites as well. But during the radio interview, the only one shot down by Holmoe was Nebraska. Regarding the Cornhuskers, Holmoe said "…we are currently not in discussions with Nebraska."
But his line that the rumors are "mainly wrong" could mean that some of the opponents are correct.
Stay tuned as BYU will likely make some official announcements before too long. Holmoe said they had opponents scheduled out to 2020, but a home game against Georgia Tech in 2017 is the latest we have on record.
However, Holmoe could have been referring to games against Hawaii. The Cougars and Warriors recently signed an agreement to play almost every year through 2020.
The other rumor that BYU Ad Tom Holmoe won't be able to dodge is the prospect of BYU being invited to the Big-12. With that league officially keeping its name, the future ambitions are obvious, and just about everyone close to the presidents of the league schools put BYU at the top of the list of perspective new member schools. Holmoe has to be very judicious with respects to what home and home contracts he signs since many analysts put a Big-12/BYU invitation as early as the 2013 season, and these 2 for 1 deals will NEVER work and hopefully will dispel the notion that BYU is an independent for the long haul. Since the Pac-12 is not interested in a religious school, being a replacement in the Big-12 is to the best mutual interest of both parties.
BYU will never be in the Big XII. F'n pipedream, buddy.
BYU in the Big 12….and what other team would be joining? Seems more of a natural fit if SMU/Houston rejoined then BYU.
SMU and Houston would not "re-join" the BIG 12. Remember, the BIG 12 is the original Big 8 + 4 Texas schools after the SWC dissolved. Nebraska and Colorado saw the way the conference bowed to UT and got out while they could. Missouri desperately wanted to join the Big 10, and if the Big 10 ever expands to 14 teams, look for Missouri to get out of the UT Conference and their 9 step-children.
i hope we stay indy…who wants to go join the big-12 north with KSU, KU, ISU, etc. BORING. i'll take an Indy schedule with half of the "rumored" teams on there any day. plus going Indy on ESPN all the time fits their mission as an institution and lets their national fan base see them.
PS. BYU's "junior day" is this week. "rumor" has it an announcement or two may be forthcoming to wow some potential players when the come this weekend. the rest are likely to be announced during their "media day" which is July 12th.
Go Coug's
BYU and Notre Dame…those would be great additions to the North Division and not disrupt any of the rest of the college football landscape.
Notre Dame in the Big 12? That's almost as ridiculous as TCU in the Big East, which is the most ridiculous thing ever. Conferences are based on geography. TCU is east of nothing.
well, they do call it the BIG East. East of the Rockies at least (in Hawaii, so everything is east of me).
i strongly believe, big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, good ol Jerry Jones
(owner of Cowboys stadium) and other various influential individuals are holding fast on the grasp of expansion for now and with the perfect timing will aggressivly seek some prominent programs. One would be Norte Dame and BYU as pair. Byu will be an easier target compared to ND but with the right financial talks and moves am sure ND will join. Or BYU/Air Force Academy could work as well. If that plan somehow doesnt not seem to workout i believe they should go after South Florida and Central Florida as a pair and swiftly obtain the fertility of the state of Florida. One much needed and anticipated move is to replace Iowa State with one of these programs such as Louisville, Memphis (FedEx money),Southern Miss (Gain SEC country with these 3),San Diego State (gain the the San Diego pop), Boise State (growing football program), Either way the Big 12 is capabable of reaching and expanding north to south (Boise State, BYU, Norte Dame, etc.) or west to east (San Diego State, USF-Tampa, Fl, UCF-Orlando, Fl…..or even both and move up to 13 or 14 teams but istand in opposition in megaconfrences not good for college football
Notre Dame will NEVER join the Big 12. It may be a pipe dream for all you BIG 12 losers. NOTRE DAME would never want to enter a conference with TEXAS and their super inflated self worth.
Boise State doesnt have the balls to join the Big 12 or any other BCS conference. It would ruin their whiny reputation.
Rumor has it that Jerry Jones wants his beloved " Arkansas" to become a member of the "BIG 12. TexaS A&M is suppose to be on the radar of the SEC. All is not well in the BIG 12. That's why Colorado left. The former PAC 10 wanted Texas and Colorado. The former PAC 10 commish admitted that seven years ago. I am not a BYU fan. I have a problem with 21-25 year old freshmen etc. coming back from mormon missions that's old enough to be in the NFL. Half these guys are married men with children. I don't think it's fair to send a 18 -19 against full grown men!!
if it's truly an advantage then everyone would recruit them….
one of the oldest excuses with very little thought put into it….
I envision an east-west split should BYU/ Air Force join, especially if the expansion goes to 14 with Notre Dame and another Eastern team joins (my vote is Illinois, Arkansas, or Iowa) The Oklahoma schools, Kansas schools, BYU, Air Force, and Texas Tech would make up the West, with the remaining 3 Texas schools, Missouri, Iowa State, Notre Dame and the other East school making the Eastern division. Each would have a guaranteed cross-division "rivalry" game, plus play 2 more cross-division games each year, making a total of 9 conference games and 3 Out of conference games per season, and ensure that all of the major rivalry games be played every year.
I like BYU/Air Force/Boise to Big 12. Let's get-er-done.


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Pattern Help
I am kniting a sweater for a Ken Doll. Here is where I am stumped.
Cast on 11 sts. with No. 4 needles and work in pattern for 24 rows, keeping the 3 center front sts. in garter st. for border. Put a marker at underarm edge to mark armhole. Cont. to work for 14 rows, and at the same time incr. 1 st. at center edge for collar every 4th row 4 times, working the incr. sts. in garter st. Work as high as back and bind off for shoulder at armhole edge 3 sts. 2 times. Rem. 4 sts. work in garter st. for 4 more rows. Bind off. Work the other Front to correspond.
The number of stitches seems way off. If you are to do 14 rows but inc. every 4th 4 times is 16. Also when all is said and done binding off 3sts 2 times is 6 sts leaving 9 not 4. I am not understanding something. I should say this piece is the left half of a cardigan.
Thanks for any help
Is this a flat piece?
Do you need to do the inc on BOTH sides of the center sts?
Do you need to BO the armhole sts on BOTH sides/ends?
pattern help
Yep, not adding up.
CO 11. Inc 4. BO 3. BO3. Leaves 9 (7 in garter, 2 in pattern) NOT 4.
Is it possible that when you place the marker for the underarm you are to work a short row there and leave 5sts as the underarm area and work the other 14 rows on only the other sts?
Pattern help
Hi and welcome to KH!
Is this the pattern?
Binding off 3sts x 2 matches the back shoulder bind off. The error must be in the collar sts. Instead of 4 collar sts, you have 9. I'd try working the collar on those 9 and just see how it looks. It is quite a large collar and it does roll so maybe that uses the 9sts.
Pattern help
Thanks again
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Nice Nocturne
Like reticulatas said. It needs some kind of boost in the audio, I don't know, maybe the equalizing, or maybe reducing the verb more. Just sounds slightly muddy to me. The bass notes are fine, but I'd like to hear the melodies being played slightly louder. Enough for it to shine through.
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Pretty nice
Could do with a boost in volume however. What sequencer did you use?
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Cheers, recorded into Ableton Live 8. I always thought the volume was fine though. Well maybe a small boost... :)


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Need a redirect from Assemblage (real estate) to plottage.
In real estate, assemblage is the combining of various contiguous smaller tracts into one large tract, which is then worth more per square foot than the original smaller tracts. The increase in value is called plottage, or "plottage increment." The increase can occur both because of better development possibilities (the larger tract may support a more valuable improvement) or because the assembled large tract would have all the road access of all the original smaller tracts, or both.
The practice of assemblage is sometimes referred to as "plottage."
An issue in real estate appraisals.
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I am using magazine basic theme. I checked the appropriate boxes in discussion under settings yet I do not see the comments form at the end of my articles. Can someone tell me how to fix it? Thanks
I am using magazine basic theme. I checked the appropriate boxes in discussion under settings yet I do not see the comments form at the end of my articles. Can someone tell me how to fix it? Thanks
Edit each published Page or Post and check "Allow comments" in each case. If you do not see this pane, click Screen Options at the very top of the page and check "Discussion".
esme, I have checked "allow comments" and also "comments" box in Screen Options. In screen options, there is no Discussion box.
There are no "allow comments" or "comments" boxes in Screen Options. Just a checkbox (amongst others) labelled "Discussion".
esmi, I checked the box, "anyone can post comments" box. Still, there is no comments box on each post page, as suggested by c bavota.
Can you replicate the problem using the default theme with all plugins deactivated?
esmi, I think you got me there. I am not that computer-savvy. I am not sure what you mean by default theme. There are only two plugins - akismat and Jetpack by WordPress.com.
Do you suggest I delete them?
I appreciate the time you're taking to help me.
Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate the Twenty Twelve theme.
Okay. I activated Twenty Twelve theme. Still no comments box.
Can we see your site please?
Yes. please. URL is http://thulika.net.
Edit http://thulika.net/dr-nayani-krishna-kumari-a-distinguished-scholar-by-nidadavolu-malathi/ and ensure that "Allow comments" is checked.
I am sorry. That did not work either. Still no comments box. I don't mind giving you id and password if it helps.
Or, I may have to go back to my earlier theme. It gave me comments box, although, I found this theme serves my purpose better. Mine is a literature site, not business.
Please do not give login information out to anyone on these forums. You should only share that information with a web developer that you have employed after vetting them thoroughly.
Can you try creating a new admin user on your site, logging in as that user and then editing that post?
Thank you for your suggestion about login info. I should have known.
I will try a new admin user and editing the post. Probably, it will take a while, but I will keep trying.
This is definitely not a theme issue. There's something wrong in your WordPress install or it's an issue with your login cookie.
Thank you for your suggestion about login info. I should have known.
There is one more administrator for my site. I will ask her to login and ckeck for the issues you've mentioned. Once again, thanks for your help.
Finally, I found the problem. I posted aticles on home page which does not have comment box. All other pages do have comment pages.
I was also posting about this issue in another thread. It may be that there's something between this theme and certain host servers caching methods that causes this problem in some cases. My settings were fine all along. I'd cleaned my own cache, used multiple browsers of different kinds, etc, and it still didn't work. I finally waited a full day and found the comments boxes appeared, as they would instantly with other themes.
rob212, I didn't know about the browsers playing a part in this. You may be right. Now I see comments box even on the page new articles being posted for two days now. For previous articles, however, "comments closed" line appears at the end, and I could not change it.
It is not important for me, just thought I would mention it.
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The Mjolnir silently orbited Naboo, resting it's crew and giving them well earned shore leave, leaving only a skeleton crew and the marines onboard. The trip had been swift and Aislin had been detained onboard the small ship for the entire time, not risking any chance of escape while Tepe and Strider were preoccupied and speaking of the tense situation.
Now the very same Syren-class Luxury Yacht Aislin had been using for her bounty hunting landed next to Charna's shuttle on the landing pad, opening the ramp for everyone to get outside. Tepe and Strider were the first to walk out, escorted by two of Tepe's guards and being followed by four more guards escorting Aislin. She had been disarmed and her lightsaber had been given to Tepe for safekeeping so she wouldn't try anything.
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Some families opt to buy holiday dinners -- not cook them
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HOUMA -- While most people have fond memories of the smells emerging from grandmas kitchen on Thanksgiving, some locals are making new memories by spending time with family instead of in front of the stove.
That means that restaurants, caterers and grocery stores will be busier than in previous years, according to workers at local establishments who are already taking orders for Thanksgiving dinners.
"We are getting more and more families eating out, and we are also selling dinners to go," said Calvin Jones, manager of Piccadilly, 6803 W. Park Ave.
The Baton Rouge-based restaurant chain, which has offered Thanksgiving dinners since it opened more than 60 years ago, has seen its Thanksgiving Day sales steadily grow by about 4 percent each year, Jones said.
Customers are attracted to it because its a lot more convenient, he said.
"People dont have a lot of time for cooking, and we sell them a meal that is cooked. They can pick and choose whatever they want without having to spend the day in the kitchen," Jones said.
And thats the reason even some local grandmas and grandpas are joining the trend.
Graciela and Pedro Pablo Pujals of Thibodaux, who used to look forward to pleasing their children and grandchildren with a meal that took two days to cook, will break away from tradition this year.
The couple, in their early 80s, will share a Thanksgiving meal with their family at Piccadilly.
"I told them this is my place to come," she said, adding their daughter-in-law and three of 19 grandchildren will come from Chicago for the holiday.
Israel and Patricia Turner of Houma say they too will buy their turkey dinner instead of cooking it. The reason? Limited time.
"She used to cook at home, but now she is working seven days a week and there is no time to cook," Turner said, adding he helped cook, too. This year the turkey dinner, candied yams, green beans and pumpkin buy will be already cooked when they buy it.
But not everyone is catching on to the new trend. Although prepared thanksgiving meals sell well at Thibodaux-based Rouses Supermarket, they dont get snapped up at the rate the frozen turkeys do, said Donald Rouse, store president.
There is a deep-rooted tradition here to join grandparents for Thanksgiving and eat their carefully cooked meals, Rouse said. However, he said he has seen a gradual increase in the number of people buying prepared meals.
"It saves time in the kitchen, and the family can be together at the table," he said adding the Rouses chain is expecting to sell 48,000 turkeys, frozen and cooked, in the two weeks prior to Thanksgiving.
Houma resident Paul Hutchinson, a former student of the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute based at Nicholls State University, said eating out or ordering a take-out meal, might be OK every once in a while, but he hopes his family continues celebrating the old-fashioned way.
"I went to Rouses and bought a smoked turkey, and it was pretty good. I enjoyed it" but there is no comparison to years of family tradition, he said. "Family is always important. I want to be able to show (my family) what I am capable of doing for them in the kitchen."
The Hutchinson family tradition includes hunting their own turkey, geese and ducks. Hutchinsons job will be to create homemade bread, desserts, cornbread dressing and the potato salad, while his aunt prepares the meats for the 18 or so family members who will gather at her house.
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sorry, forgot to mention: i'm running version 3.1.8 :)
i've just upgraded from mozilla firefox 0.8 to 0.9.2 and
get the following errors:
i get "Internet Explorer Script Error" windows with the
following messages, asking if i'd like to continue running
scripts on the page. clicking yes or no seems to make
no difference. i'm using IE6, patched with all the current
critical updates.
upon booting windows i get an error window with-
an error has occurred on this page.
line: 262
char: 7
error: unspecified error
code: 0
URL: (search.html in the dir i installed the search bar
when clicking in the text box to type a search-
line: 716
char: 3
error: 'init' is undefined
code: 0
URL: as above
this one i seemed to "fix" by adding the line 'init = false'
right before line 716, but i don't know what overall
effect that'll have.
and finally, when i click on the magnifying glass graphic
on the QSDB-
line 376
char 3
error: 'reuseBrowserWindowModeOverride' is undefined
code 0
i assume firefox to be the culprit as i made a norton
ghost image of my hdd prior to installing it (lucky eh!). i
reverted back to that image and tried installing firefox
again, without making any other changes anywhere on
my system, and the same thing happened. before
installing firefox 0.9.2 i tried firstly renaming the old
firefox folder to something else (without uninstalling),
and the second time i completely uninstalled firefox 0.8
before installing 0.9.2. no difference it seems.
sorry if there's already a tracker for this but i checked
and couldn't see one. any help would be much
appreciated! i'd like upgrade firefox but i'd also like to
continue using this excellent and very handy search
tool :)
my email address is email@example.com
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sorry, forgot to mention: i'm running version 3.1.8 :)
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sorry, forgot to mention: i'm running version 3.1.8
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I am also running DQSD 188.8.131.52 and Firefox 0.9 and I see the
same problem.
It almost makes DQSD unusable, as the time I save is lost by
needing to close the script error every time. Plus, when the
script error occurs, the search is not stored in the DQSD
history, making F8 useless. :(
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I saw this problem about a month ago (when FF 0.9) first
came out. I've fixed (worked-around, really) this with some
mods to tools.js.
I've just committed these changes to the CVS repository.
The next release will have this in. Before that, you'll
need to obtain a copy of the tools.js and replace your
existing one with that.
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This seems to be partly a problem with Mozilla:
There's a workaround posted as an attachment to the bug report.
Together with Will's fixes, I think this should do it - I'm
running Firefox at the moment, and it appears to be working OK.
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It appears to be incomplete assignment by Windows of any
browser (not just mozilla) as the default application for html
etc. files. I just resolved the problem on my PC by running