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LOS ANGELES -- NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue emerged from a closed-door meeting with the mayor, stood on the steps of City Hall and announced that a preliminary agreement had been reached to
finally return a team to Los Angeles.
After answering reporters' questions for 15 minutes, even he
couldn't gauge the significance of his announcement Thursday.
"I'd rather not try," Tagliabue said as he was guided into the back seat of a limousine and whisked away.
Tagliabue said the agreement was between the league and the Los
Angeles Coliseum, former home to the Rams and Raiders.
But as if to make his intentions less clear, he also spoke
positively regarding a team playing at a facility proposed for the
Angel Stadium parking lot in Anaheim. And he didn't rule out the
Rose Bowl in Pasadena as a possible home field, either.
"It's the first time we've had agreement on term sheets,"
Tagliabue said, referring to the NFL and the Coliseum. "We're one
step closer, two or three steps closer. Whether it's 2009, 2010, or
2000-whatever, our goal is to have definitive agreements on all
subject matters well before our league meetings in March."
Those meetings will be held in 4½ months. The "2000-whatever" brought up by Tagliabue could be light years down the road.
Tagliabue said there have been no in-depth discussions on whether the Los Angeles area would get an expansion or existing
team. He said last month that future expansion was unlikely
anywhere but Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles area, second-largest television market in the country, has been without an NFL team since the Raiders moved from the Coliseum back to Oakland and the Rams moved from Anaheim to St.
Louis before the 1995 season.
After announcing plans in the spring of 1999 to put an expansion team in the Coliseum, the NFL was unable to reach an agreement with
the Los Angeles backers and instead awarded the 32nd franchise to
Houston that October.
Houston businessman Bob McNair and his backers offered to pay
$700 million for the new franchise and spend another $310 million
on a stadium, making it the NFL's first billion-dollar deal. That
got the job done, and the Texans began play in 2002.
In making the Thursday announcement, Tagliabue pointed to the
significant progress made in the past year with the Coliseum in
making his announcement. He spoke following a meeting with Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa and before a session with Anaheim Mayor Curt
"I think the critical thing now is we're at the point where
it's recognized, certainly by us, that the time is right,"
Tagliabue said. "We have to get agreements finalized. We'll be
pursuing agreements in Anaheim. We're going to work with both
communities for an agreement."
Tentative plans call for the NFL to finance construction of a
$500 million stadium inside the Coliseum, home to the Rams from
1946-79 and the Raiders from 1982-94.
Tagliabue also said it was important to make sure Southern California, the nation's top-ranked college team, was comfortable with any agreement, since the Trojans have made the Coliseum their home since 1923.
Tagliabue planned on meeting with USC coach Pete Carroll later Thursday. Carroll coached the New York Jets for one year and the New England Patriots for three before becoming the Trojans' coach
in 2001.
The commissioner met with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger late
"We are talking of having a fourth [team] at the Coliseum in
Los Angeles, maybe the fifth in Anaheim," Schwarzenegger told the
Los Angeles Times. San Francisco, Oakland and San Diego are the
homes of existing NFL franchises.
While Tagliabue didn't rule out the Rose Bowl, the Pasadena City
Council voted 5-2 with one abstention last June to pursue a plan
for the stadium that doesn't involve the NFL. Carson dropped out of
contention in May when city officials decided to build a mall on
its proposed site.
City Councilman Bernard Parks said after listening to Tagliabue
that he believes the Coliseum will eventually get an existing team
rather than an expansion team.
"The NFL is going to have a say on who's going to come here.
The Coliseum has no role in selecting a team," Parks said.
Asked when it might happen, Parks replied: "I don't know.
Nobody's signed anything. They've got to say they're coming."
That being said, Parks expressed optimism.
"In my judgment, I don't believe these business people waste
their time and money," he said. "They've spent a lot of time and


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In 2008 almost the whole year, I had hives and it was the first time. They were on and off. When I took loratadine (Loridin) in 2009, they went but in the last quarter of 2012, they were back. I tried to use the same medication but it could only take away symptoms temporarily. For about 5 months, I have been using raw garlic morning and evening and it works well for me. Also cetirizine was working well for me, for every 1 1/2 days each tab, but only because I wanted to avoid it as it could make me sleepy. Hope you try it out. Good luck.
Comment from: Heather, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: October 31
I was on holiday in Turkey in 2001 when I first started to get a strange reaction. I would feel weak and then my lips started to swell. When we returned home I then started to break out in huge hives and sometimes swelling under the skin. I was sent to numerous specialists and no reason for the hives was found. I tried all the usual drugs mentioned by other people and then one day in 2005, I met a person who had the same problem. She was put on a 5 day dose of prednisone 50mg. a day. At the end of that dose I was then put on hydroxyzine and ranitidine. I took this medication, 1 tablet each morning and evening. This finally worked. I eventually was able to wean myself off this medication and for the past 5 years was hive free - until late this summer when suddenly the hives returned, no known cause. I am trying the same treatment as before but this time I am not getting the same result.
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I get hives during the summer/fall every year. I use OTC Allegra or store generics as maintenance and it seems to keep the hives at bay. I then use Benadryl as the itching breaks through the effect of the Allegra.
Comment from: Angie, 13-18 Female (Patient) Published: May 25
I've been experiencing embarrassing itchy red bumps on my skin. Then I googled it and found out I probably have "hives". I never had these before until I moved and that same week I moved they started appearing. It's not severe. But the weird thing is that if I scratch myself, a couple of minutes later I see that the marks are like red and raised like hives except that they have a certain shape. I could actually write my name on my skin with these weird hives! I haven't gone to the doctor because I'm afraid they might give me a medicine that can get addicted. I've been through that before and I don't want it to happen again.
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I've had allergies my entire life = eczema, asthma, hives, angioedema. (I'm 76 yrs. old.) Was getting allergy shots for 20 yrs. but stopped when I moved to another city and started seeing another allergist who didn't prescribe allergy shots. Then I started having angioedema of my lips (had it sporadically throughout my life). Allergist initially prescribed Allegra 60 mg. bid; didn't control them; then Axid; then Vospire; then doxepin. When I didn't have any episodes for about 6 months, he would discontinue 1 medication; then they reoccurred plus had some episodes of giant hives so was put on prednisone for only 5 days. Now I've been on the 4 medications for about 2-1/2 yrs. with only one episode of idiopathic angioedema of lips.
Comment from: Brian, 35-44 Male (Patient) Published: April 04
I have been getting hives just about every day now for the past 30 years. I have what the multitude of Doctors have all called idiopathic urticaria. No rhyme or reason for why I get them. Most have said it was probably hormonal and that I would out grow them...well that hasn't happened. I've been on every type of meds that could be thought of to rid these evil things. The only thing that somewhat helps is Doxepin. Prednisone does wonders but unfortunately can't be taken for any length of time. I just keep hoping one day there will be a miracle pill to cure or at least manage better than what I'm taking.
Comment from: Jane, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: March 08
I have had hives every day since June 2nd, 2011. I was given Cortizone, 2 treatments of Prednizone, Allegra, Benadryl, Doxipin, Oatmeal baths, use free and clear detergents, free and clear soaps. Now I am taking 4 Zyrtec per day and Tagamet. Recently I was given a Xolair shot. Nothing is working. Would love to hear any suggestions as I am very disgusted and sick of the itching!!!
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Eastside athletics has had a great spring. The men's track and field team won its first ever state title, and the baseball team had ...
In only his second season as head coach of the Eastside High School baseball team, Bruce Evans has been named the Region 4-AAAA Co-Coach of ...
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Both Alcovy and Eastside have starting lineups majorly made up of either sophomores and/or freshmen. The question coming into the game was "which team's inexperience would show more?" The answer to that question is Alcovy, as their inexperience showed throughout the game where they fell 36-6 to the Eagles.
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The Covington News: How's the team doing as far as the new coaches go?
In what looked to be a runaway victory at one point for Eastside High School, turned out to be a dramatic finish, but the Eagles showed resiliency and escaped with a 5-4 victory over Alcovy.
The Eastside High School softball alumni returned on Saturday for the first annual alumni game, but also to support the Wright family. James Wright was tragically injured in a car accident and left paralyzed. The proceeds of the game went to the Wright family.
Eastside High School will host a Lady Eagles alumni game on August 16 at the EHS softball fields at 11 a.m.
Heather Wood has done this before, and last time she did it well.
The beginning of the new school year is just weeks away, and we all know what that means: Friday night football is on the horizon.
Drew Buckhault will take his baseball talents to the Cougars of Cleveland State Community College next year. Buckhault signed a scholarship to play baseball and attend college at the Cleveland, Tennessee institution.
Snapping pictures with his closest friends, family and coaches in attendance, high jumper Daniel Oduah announced to the world – well, to the media center at Eastside High School – his decision to attend Albany State University.
The following is a review of the 2014 Eastside Eagles spring athletic season:
After qualifying for the state sectional with a runner-up finish in Region 8-AAAA, the Eastside Lady Eagles golf team will continue its march through the postseason, this time at the state tournament at Waynesboro Country Club.
The Eastside baseball team (14-12, 9-7 Region 8-AAAA) finished its season with a two-game series against Monroe Area High School (4-20, 4-12 Region 8-AAAA).
The Eastside High School girls golf team will have the opportunity to continue its play this postseason after qualifying for the state section event with a runner-up finish at the Region 8-AAAA golf tournament.
The Eastside Eagles varsity baseball team's rematch against Stephens County Tuesday night had everything a baseball fan could ask for - high drama, dazzling defense, squeeze plays, long balls, strategizing coaches, proud parents and jubilant players.
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Saudi Arabia is a virtual slave state. Bush and Cheney used it as a model for their changes in this country with the Patriot Act and the TSA.
Wasn't it a Coptic Christian who made the movie trailer that got the ambassador killed?
And was arrested as I a week ago predicted he would be, for violating his probation after his stint in prison for fraud.
@Theo Poser….good post, Americans need to learn the truth but the MSM is no help….we are in the Bible's "last days" before the return of Messiah Jesus to rule earth 1,000 years from the restored throne of David in Jerusalem, the Muslim clerics know the time is short for their planned restoration of the "UMMA" or Caliphate (Ottoman Empire) and its expansion to all nations. Each nation is one of 3 stages, Infiltration where they are nice neighbors and take active part in local government and education and plant mosques. Stage 2 is institutionalizing, when they work to replace Western law with Sharia Law. Stage 3 is Islamicization where they gain power and assume total control and the surviving non-Muslims become lowest caste Dhimmis.
(and we are Dummies for permitting our tolerance to allow this loss of Liberty and Freedom and our Christian heritage.)
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For Gays, a Party In Search of a Purpose; At 30, Parade Has Gone Mainstream As Movement's Goals Have Drifted
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: June 25, 2000
On a bright and sunny Sunday morning 30 years ago this week, a flock of perhaps 200 men and women -- nervous and unsure of precisely what they were doing -- gathered at Sheridan Square and then stepped onto the Avenue of the Americas to create a moment in history. For 60 minutes, they marched hastily up to Central Park, observing the first anniversary of an uprising at a gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn.
It was a gay pride parade, the city's first, and it was as much a curiosity to the sometimes hostile onlookers as it was to the gay men and lesbians who dared to join it.
When that same parade steps off at noon today, this time onto Fifth Avenue, its ranks will include some of the same gay men and lesbians who were there that first day, many of whom went on to create the nation's first post-Stonewall gay liberation groups, the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance. But the parade will also include the first lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat, and the mayor of New York, Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican.
It will count among its sponsors United Airlines and Budweiser beer. And if recent history is any guide, it will be a six-hour party -- at points both randy and rowdy, albeit with political overtones -- drawing hundreds of thousands of people from across the Eastern Seaboard. There will be gays and lesbians, to be sure, but also their heterosexual friends, parents and even children, and enough elected politicians to fill a quorum in most city halls.
But to what end?
When the first march was organized from the Bleecker Street apartment of Craig Rodwell, one of many activists who said they were present when patrons fought back when the police raided the Stonewall, the parade was intended as an act of anger and political affirmation. Mr. Rodwell, who died in 1993, envisioned a purposeful protest in a nation where there was no gay rights law, where sodomy was illegal, where police crackdowns on gay bars were commonplace, where homosexuality was portrayed in entertainment as perverse and threatening, if at all, and where the idea of living openly as a homosexual, much less announcing it with a march through Manhattan on a Sunday morning, was unthinkable.
But in the weeks leading up to the 30th anniversary of that first march, the State Legislature, after years of resistance by Republicans, passed a hate crimes bill that included protections for gays, just days after the United States Senate passed its own version of the bill. Many corporations, including Coca-Cola and the big automakers in Detroit, have granted partnership benefits to same-sex couples.
President Clinton spoke before the Empire State Pride Agenda in Manhattan in October, his presence ultimately a reminder of how unremarkable it has become for a sitting president to appear before a gay lobbying group. Four years after Bob Dole refused to accept a contribution from a gay Republican organization, gay leaders sat down for a high-profile meeting with Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the Republican candidate for president. The State of Vermont legalized gay civil unions, and even the C.I.A. has established a caucus for gay employees.
''Who would have dreamed 30 years ago that this much valuable progress would have been made?'' asked Martin Duberman, one of the nation's pre-eminent gay historians. ''I'm thrilled.''
Yet as a result of that, the gay rights movement seems at times on the brink of being rendered irrelevant by its own success. The fundamental question challenging the movement since its founding members gathered in the weeks after Stonewall, the uprising seen as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, seems as daunting as ever: what, beyond the general notion of seeking what its leaders call equal rights, is it fighting for?
There is, of course, still abundant evidence of antipathy toward homosexuals: the fatal beating of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming in 1998, the denunciation of homosexuality by some Republican leaders, and the difficulties reported by gay men and women living outside urban centers. But a glance at the halls of Congress by day, or at the typical fare on television by night, suggests the vast cultural and legal advances this movement has made in 30 years.
It was particularly striking that when Representative Rick A. Lazio, Mrs. Clinton's Republican opponent for the Senate, chose to skip today's parade, his decision was described even by Republicans as politically foolish.
These questions of purpose are not new and they are, arguably, distinct to a movement that is not quite like any other civil rights movement that has crossed the American stage. As even a cursory glance at the participants in today's march will reveal, this is a highly diverse group of people of different colors, ideologies and incomes, bound by their sexual orientation and their perception that they are victims of discrimination because of it. It is hardly surprising that this movement has had such difficulty agreeing on a political agenda, a chronic battle that has accounted for much of the upheaval that has marked gay organizing in the 31 years since Stonewall.


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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:28 PM GMT on October 09, 2007
A large low pressure system (94L) over the Western Caribbean continues to be a threat to develop into a tropical depression. This morning's QuikSCAT pass showed a well-defined surface circulation, with top winds of 30 mph. Satellite loops show this surface circulation is centered less than 100 miles off the Mexican coast near Chetumal. Concentrated thunderstorm activity is mostly absent near the center of circulation, but Cancun radar shows heavy rain showers in bands removed from the center moving ashore over the Yucatan. Wind shear remains below 10 knots, but given the very large amount of atmosphere 94L is trying to spin up, it may not have time to form into a tropical depression before the center moves ashore. The center should move ashore in the Yucatan between Chetumal and Cozumel later tonight or Wednesday. All hurricane hunter flights into 94L have been canceled.
Steering currents are weak in the Western Caribbean, but a slow motion to the west or northwest is expected for the next 1-3 days, which will keep the storm over the Yucatan. Heavy rains may cause flooding problems in Belize, Mexico's Yucatan, and northeast Guatemala over the next five days. Some models, such as the GFDL, predict that 94L will perform a counter-clockwise loop over the Yucatan and re-emerge into the Western Caribbean 3-4 days from now. Another round of drenching rains might then ensue over Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico's Yucatan as the storm re-intensifies. It is also possible 94L could emerge into the Gulf of Mexico or Pacific Ocean, and re-intensify in those locations.
There is a strong trough of low pressure forecast to swing across the U.S. this week, which could turn 94L northwards into Western Cuba, the Florida Keys, or Southwest Florida. The HWRF is the only of our reliable computer models forecasting such a turn, and I don't expect it to happen.
Record heat, record cold
Unprecedented heat cooked the eastern half of the U.S. during the first week of October--but record cold temperatures affected some regions of the West, as well. On Sunday October 7, and Monday October 8, hundreds of daily high temperature records were set, and many stations recorded their hottest October temperature ever (or their highest temperature so late in the year). Among these hottest ever October records:
Bluefield, VA 88
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Memphis, TN 95
New York City, NY (Kennedy Airport) 90
South Bend, IN 89
Fort Wayne, IN 89
Indianapolis, IN 91
Jackson, KY 88
London, KY 92
Detroit, MI 90
Alpena, MI 90
Saginaw, MI 90
The heat brought an early end to the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, which was halted after the 88-degree heat sent 49 runners to the hospital. Emergency vehicles made 300 calls along the race course.
Figure 1. Departure of maximum temperature from average for Monday, October 7. Image credit: National Climatic Data Center.
Temperatures have averaged over 30 degrees above normal in some regions of the country the past week (Figure 1). On the other side of the country, though, record daily low temperatures have been recorded at a few locations in Arizona and Utah this week. The jet stream is to blame for the record heat and record cold--a sharp kink in the jet has put a persistent trough of low pressure over the Western U.S. and a ridge of high pressure over the Eastern U.S. Beginning today, this kink is expected to straighten out some, resulting in far fewer temperature extremes across the country.
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In terms of the hotel, we really can not say enough good things about the staff and the location but we were still left with the abiding impression that this is a three star hotel not the four star hotel it claims to be. There are quite a few little things that could and should improve to really hit the standards that one would expect for the money. These include:
- proper beds in both rooms in the suites (our double bed in Room 405 was a glorified sofa bed that had seen better days and was desperately uncomfortable as both parties rolled into the sagging middle);
- toiletries in all bedrooms (really surprised there weren't any)
- wifi in rooms, please
- wifi that does not require a fresh webpage login every time
- breakfast hot food served on hot plates, please, so that it is not cold when it arrives
- a warmer swimming pool (to be fair, it was warm at the start of the week but never recovered after presumably being drained following a "sanitation incident")
- better "free" wine (please bear in mind that we have paid for this in the whopping great holiday price so we expect to be drinking better than EUR5 wine; if you must, charge EUR 50 per head more for the holiday and spend EUR 10 per head more per night so that we don't have to drink this de-icer any more)
- lighter, healthier options on the food and more use of local specialties (we do not need 3 course of really heavy, stodgy comfort food every night - though I should say that we were pleasantly surprised to see that some of it was really well cooked, eg perfectly pink lamb and venison)
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The SEC needs a rap sheet more than a scorecard.
As the college football season approaches, key athletes all over the Southeastern Conference are driving their coaches, their fans and, yes, their opponents crazy by being in so much trouble no one knows if they will play or not. And in the SEC, guilt or innocence really doesn't matter much. It's part of the game plan.
At Alabama, star tackle Cam Robinson and reserve defensive back Hootie Jones faced drugs and weapon charges over the summer that mysteriously were not prosecuted. What a surprise, sort of like police investigated O.J. Simpson for assaulting his wife and never filed reports because of the Juice's celebrity status. But the news is out, and Nick Saban still faces whether to discipline his two players.
Saint Nick is under no pressure to bench his guys, but he is not saying because it gives Southern Cal, his opening day opponent, one or two more things to think about in preparing for the game. Florida State doesn't know what to expect for its opener against Ole Miss. The Rebels' defensive tackle Breeland Speaks was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in March, and Coach Hugh Freeze has not said if he'll play against the 'Noles. The same goes for Rod Taylor, a key offensive lineman who was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting in April. Does it really take so long to decide?
Auburn plays defending Orange Bowl champion Clemson at home in its season-opener, yet the Tigers could very well be without two of their best young players in cornerback Carlton Davis and pass-rusher Byron Cowart. They, along with wide out Ryan Davis and defensive back, Jeremiah Dinson, were arrested in May on misdemeanor marijuana charges. Coach Gus Malzahn hasn't said much because his indecision is confusing Clemson.
As with Alabama, some of these kids won't ever go to court, but that's not the point. SEC coaches are using their transgressions as smokescreens for opponents trying to prepare to play their teams. Seemingly, nothing has been learned from what has happened in the past when it comes to football in the SEC.
Local police are hesitant to make arrests and DA's are hesitant to press charges because of the pressures THEY face from the schools, their coaches and their fans. Whether or not they play, they are part of the summer game plan in the SEC. Nice strategy.
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And so we wait.
What action will the NCAA take against UNC for its athletic/academic wrongdoings?
Personally, I do not understand why the NCAA has any moral authority in these matters in any case. It is, after all, the enabler of the Big Time Sports schemes. I am much more concerned about the deliberations of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools from which a stern sentence could literally cost the university billions of dollars.
What troubles me now about the scandal is the narrow, legalistic framing. Does this email confirm corrupt behavior or exonerate the sender? What is the definition of "behavior?" What is the definition of "sender?" Will an NCAA verdict and sentence bring a close to the scandal and its horrific costs to the moral core and the reputation of the University?
In my view, this narrow framing will not bring an end. The University, does, however, have it within its own power to do the right thing, regardless of the legal contortions. This we know. Hundreds of presumed students participated in games as athletes, while getting credit for fraudulent courses. It matters not whether Roy Williams or Sylvia Hatchell or the entire Faculty Council were active collaborators or ignorant souls about these indisputable misdeeds, each individual has to live with their own conscience. We know that University procedures and officials made it possible for UNC teams to win by encouraging and enabling dishonesty at the vital core of any university–integrity in the classroom.
The University can own this responsibility by forfeiting the games, returning the tainted championship banners, acknowledging simply and clearly, "we violated the basic trust placed in us as a university and we take responsibility for making amends." In Dostoyevsky's monumental psychological drama, Crime and Punishment, the very first we hear from Raskolnikov, the tormented protagonist, is "all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom.
It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most…"
If victories are what define athletics, let's not be afraid to give them back.
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UNC Chancellor Carol Folt said the university is "pleased to have" the amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA.
The amended allegations came in to the university on Monday morning and were released to the public later that afternoon.
Folt, speaking at the WCHL Community Forum on Tuesday, said that the university is ready to move forward.
"We feel like we've been doing everything that we can to work with the NCAA," Folt said, "and I think that's been very important for us."
Folt added that she was pleased with the steps the university has taken and that the UNC student-athletes set a record-high APR over the past year.
"I try to remember that the students who are here have nothing to do with those allegations, so they need to feel that they're moving forward and proud of their institution," Folt said. "And we need to feel very proud of how we're handling it."
Folt also credited UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham for his guidance through this process, calling him a "very thoughtful leader" adding she had "a lot of confidence in him."
The new Notice of Allegations still contains accusations of five Level 1 infractions, the most serious the NCAA can levy. But what has drawn the most attention is the wording of the amended NOA, specifically the lack of a mention of either the men's basketball or football programs.
The university has 90 days to respond to the amended NOA.http://chapelboro.com/featured/unc-chancellor-addresses-amended-notice-of-allegations
There were a few words missing from the amended Notice of Allegations that UNC received on Monday from the NCAA when comparing it to the original notice, most notably "men's basketball" and "football."
The new 12-page document that was released on Monday afternoon differs in places from the 55-page notice the university originally received in May 2015. The procedure leading to any NCAA decision was put on hold in August when the university self-reported additional violations.
After an eight-month wait, the new document has restarted the process to reach the finish line in the long-running scandal.
While men's basketball and football aren't mentioned in the amended Notice of Allegations, UNC is still facing five Level 1 infractions, the most serious the NCAA can levy.
UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham called these allegations "very significant" adding the university takes them "very seriously."
"We're working as hard as we can to secure a fair outcome for Carolina," Cunningham told reporters in a teleconference on Monday.
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Cunningham clarified that the amended NOA replaces the original notice and is not an add-on document.
Cunningham said speculating on potential sanctions is something he "can not do."
He added that the extent of the investigation is likely what led to the length of time it took for the NCAA to respond to the university's self-reported violations.
"This may be the most complicated, involved case in history – certainly in our history," Cunningham said. "And there has been a lot of reporting, there's been a lot of investigations, multiple investigations. And the NCAA is now completing their work by issuing the amended notice.
"But it's voluminous in nature, and it's over an extended period of time. I think the volume and the time is probably why it has lasted this long."
Cunningham said while the university awaits any potential sanctions from the NCAA, he thinks the university has already suffered in some ways due to the length of the investigation.
"I do think that the length of time that the investigations – both the internal investigations that we've conducted as a university [and] the external reviews and investigations that have been done – have been taxing and draining on the institution," Cunningham said.
The amended notice alleges former UNC women's basketball athletic academic counselor Jan Boxill "knowingly provided extra benefits in the form of impermissible academic assistance and special arrangements to women's basketball student-athletes."
UNC is also accused of not sufficiently monitoring the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes in the formerly-known African and Afro-American Studies department from the fall of 2005 through the summer of 2011. This allegation makes a reference to student-athletes in general but contains no specific accusation toward men's basketball or football, a significant change from the original notice.
The other charges are in connection with Deborah Crowder and Julius Nyang'oro not cooperating with the NCAA investigation and a charge of Lack of Institutional Control.
When asked why men's basketball and football weren't mentioned in the revised notice, Cunningham said that was a question for the NCAA.
Cunningham said he expects the university to use nearly the full 90 days before responding to the notice. Cunningham said if the university decides to self-impose any sanctions, it will most likely come during the window to respond to the NCAA.
Still, the timeline for a resolution to the case could easily linger into 2017.
Deborah Stroman is a professor at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and a regular sports commentator. She spoke with WCHL's Aaron Keck on Monday following the release of the ANOA.http://chapelboro.com/featured/amended-noa-differs-original-significant-charges-remain
The University of North Carolina has released the amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA.
The news broke on Monday morning that the university had received the revised allegations.
You can review the amended NOA through the Carolina Commitment website.
UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham released the following statement regarding the amended NOA:
"We are carefully reviewing the amended notice of allegations resulting from our joint investigation with the NCAA and will respond with facts and evidence that present a full picture of our case. The University takes these allegations extremely seriously. We remain committed to cooperating fully with the NCAA while working tirelessly to secure a fair outcome for Carolina."
A press conference is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
More information will be added to this story as it becomes available.http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-releases-amended-notice-of-allegations
***UPDATED: View the amended Notice of Allegations here.***
UNC has confirmed that it has received the amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA.
The Associated Press' Aaron Beard was first to report the university had received the document.
The university initially received the Notice of Allegations following the long-running paper-class scandal on May 22 of last year. The 59-page NOA was then made public in June charging North Carolina with five Level 1 infractions ranging from impermissible benefits to unethical conduct and lack of institutional control.
UNC then self-reported additional potential violations in August, restarting the clock for a response from the NCAA.
UNC now has 90 days to submit its response to the amended NOA.
The NCAA will then have a time period to respond before a hearing could be held by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions.
The amended NOA is expected to be made public Monday afternoon and a press conference is scheduled to take place with UNC officials.http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-receives-amended-noa-ncaa
So the 2015-16 Tar Heels turned out to be a team of destiny after all…
…it just wasn't quite the destiny we wanted.
After a year of preseason accolades, hype, doubt, and triumph, Brice and Marcus and crew stormed through the ACC tourney and ran all the way to the NCAA title game, only to come up juuust short at the hands of stupid Villanova and stupid Kris Jenkins' stupid last-second 3.
Great game. Memorable season. Just not quite a national title.
But never fear!
I'm calling it right now: Carolina will win the NCAA championship in 2018.
How can I be so sure?
Because we've seen this story before.
Seventeen years before, to be precise.
Go back to 1999. March 29, St. Petersburg. Usually some interloping 3- or 4-seed sneaks into the NCAA final, but that year's final featured undeniably the two best teams in the nation. On the one side, the Big East champion (Connecticut rather than Villanova), seeking a title after several years of coming up just short. On the other side, the ACC champ (Duke rather than UNC), seeking its first national title in…yep, exactly seven years.
It would have been the third overall for their legendary coach.
Is this sounding familiar?
Both teams brought their A games. Back and forth the whole way. Duke scored 39 first-half points and led at halftime – just like Carolina did – but UConn came back and pulled out a thrilling victory in the closing seconds.
Final score? 77-74. Yes, exactly the same as UNC-Nova. Look it up.
And two years later, Duke won the NCAA title.
So that's it. I'm calling it. The similarities are too eerie. It can't be coincidence, y'all. It's got to be destiny.
Tar Heels! 2018 national champions!
(Provided the NCAA doesn't get in the way, of course.)
And while I'm making wild predictions, don't worry: Marcus Paige will get his NCAA title too. Twenty years from now. After he takes over for Hubert Davis as UNC's head coach.
(Try to remember you heard it here first.)
The NCAA tournament begins for UNC tonight, with the 16th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast Eagles looming as the Tar Heels' first hurdle on the road to the Final Four. (Game time is 7:20 at PNC Arena in Raleigh; WCHL's coverage begins at 5:30 with the UNC Health Care Countdown to Tipoff.)
How far will the Heels go this year? Who poses the greatest threat in the East region? Who else will make the Final Four? And who ever thought it was a good idea to let Tulsa in, anyway?
Deborah Stroman is a sports commentator and a professor at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School (and a Virginia alum who might be really conflicted come April 2). Earlier this week, she discussed the bracket with WCHL's Aaron Keck.http://chapelboro.com/sports/unc-sports/stroman-on-sports-road-to-the-final-four
It's ACC Tournament week, with games getting under way today in Washington, DC. The Tar Heels are regular-season champs (for the seventh time in Roy Williams' 13 years as head coach!), so they're the top seed this week; they'll take on either Pitt or Syracuse in the quarterfinal on Thursday at noon. UNC is looking to end a seven-year drought: they've reached the title game four times in the last five years, but they haven't actually won the ACC tourney since 2008.
(Worth noting, though: regardless of what the Heels do in Washington this week, they have a history of playing well in the NCAA tournament when winning the regular-season conference title. They've won or shared the ACC regular-season title six times in the Roy Williams era – and each of those six years, they've reached at least the Elite Eight in the NCAA tourney.)
Deborah Stroman is a sports commentator and a professor at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. She discussed the ACC tournament with Aaron Keck on WCHL Monday.
WCHL will have wire-to-wire coverage of the ACC tournament beginning with the quarterfinals on Thursday. Tune in Thursday morning at 10 am for a special hour-long edition of the UNC Health Care Countdown to Tipoff, followed by all four quarterfinal games. We'll air Friday's semifinals and Saturday's final as well.http://chapelboro.com/sports/unc-sports/stroman-on-sports-acc-tournament-time
For avid football fans across the country, the season never ends. Having just experienced in person the College Football Playoff National Championship game where Alabama hoisted another trophy, I am still in amazement of all the complexities and nail-biting interest for such an intriguing institution. Yes, I do refer to the sport of football as an institution and not just another American pastime. The college regular season ends during the jockeying for divisional and wildcard positions for the NFL. The beginning of the playoffs for the professional leagues occurs during the Bowl games for the colleges. And the Super Bowl build up just happens to coincide with prime-time college recruiting and signing! Still want more? Hold out a few weeks and then the college spring practice is upon us. Truly Americans have a love affair with boys and men wearing helmets and tight pants throwing, kicking, catching, and running with an oblong-shaped leather ball. With National Signing Day now becoming another "must-see" television event (i.e., ESPNU National Signing Day Special), social media trendsetter, and soon-to-be an additional sport holiday similar to the Super Bowl and March Madness, it is only appropriate that I share my reflections on what it really takes for big-time colleges to wear that championship crown.
Clemson University adopted the motto "All-In" for their run to the 2015 championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and last month's title game in Arizona. I think this phrase embodies the essence of how nearly everyone – alumni, administrators, faculty, donors, staff, students, and local residents and businesses must be 100% supporters of the program to achieve the ultimate success. So what does this cooperation look like? The community must be knowledgeable about their team, and the college administration must be transparent about their commitment. The depth of this charge, loyalty, and allegiance must be clear to all. To that end, I believe there are only 30 or so programs out of the NCAA Division I 128 Football Bowl Subdivision universities that are truly capable of winning a title. And of course, these programs are all in the Power 5 conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) where the money has a better chance to flow freely. The best teams all have outstanding coaches with technical competencies. And they all have very bright and athletic players with a great passion to play, learn, and compete. What makes the difference between national championship and good teams is not the technical teaching of the "X's and O's" but rather the total backing and collaboration from nearly everyone connected to the school. It's "All-In" for the football program. Which colleges are willing to make the following commitments?
Deborah Stroman discussed this column with Aaron Keck on WCHL.
So National Signing Day is over and teams are raving about their big recruitment wins. I hope all the attention and limelight shone on this wonderful moment for these young men does not create a false impression that the bulk of the work is complete. Securing commitment from top athletes is important but it pales in comparison to building the support necessary for those same players to be embraced in their duty to work hard and smart as teammates and leaders. Each new season brings about hope and excitement to challenge for the national championship. Only those communities that come together to fully support the demanding championship goal established by the college and the team really has a chance to win it all though. All the other activities are simply noise and distractions that provide a feel-good escapism for fans. And strangely, regardless of the particularly exorbitant cost of football for most universities, that effort in itself is simply enough.http://chapelboro.com/columns/guest-column-columns/counting-the-real-cost-of-a-championship


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http://blogs.forbes.com/briancaulfield/2011/08/01/macbook-air-selling-out-in-some-stores-analyst-says/?partner=yahootixIntel knew what people are looking for. That's why Intel designed chips for ultrathin laptops.
Again, you are the only one on here who cares
Ok, it sounds like they are still ironing out the wrinkles, just like Intel.
Like the x86 version, it can't run 100% apps as some are native ARM code. My understanding is that it can run Honeycomb but it's still not in any shipping devices yet.
Does MIPS Android port work with 100% of all Android apps? Does it run Honeycomb OS 3.x? Are we comparing apples, or oranges?
This is very good news as Intel is trying to create a new category of ultra thin laptops, beyond Mac Air, to counteract the tablet hype.
Good first step; however we need Intel inside the tablets and smart phones in order to neuter the naysayering analysts that continue to drag Intel down; also, couple with that some strong commentary (with teeth) from Intel management when baseless comments are made.
One thing Intel likes to do, is to keep up the image as the performance leader.When you finally see phones and tablets with Intel inside, they will perform as expected, flawlessly, and better than anything else in the market.Intel is working around the clock to port Android to x86, when this is done, you will see the x86 Honeycomb tablets hit the shelves. Manufacturers are standing by, waiting on the OS to be 100% ready.Smart Phones based on 32nm Medfield Atom SOCs will be out in 2012.


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Such a beautiful quilt...love the colours, piecing and the amazing quilting...inspiring.
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NY DOT to study alternatives to Buffalo's waterfront Skyway
July 25, 2016
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More water main breaks reported in Buffalo area
July 25, 2016
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Upstate woman to become top enlisted airman in NY Air Guard
July 25, 2016
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A veteran of the war in Afghanistan is set to become the first woman to hold the top enlisted airman's position in the New York Air National Guard. more »»
Police: Man, 21, dies in weekend shooting in Syracuse
July 25, 2016
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a man has died in a weekend shooting in central New York.
Syracuse police say 21-year-old Anthony Ebron was shot at about 4:15 a.m. Saturda. more »»
Man drowns when kayak overturns on central New York lake
July 25, 2016
SKANEATELES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York City man has drowned over the weekend after his kayak overturned on a central New York lak. more »»
NYPD: Bodies of 2 women found in separate Brooklyn parks
July 25, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department says two bodies were found in separate Brooklyn parks over the weekend.
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Police: 2 motorcyclists dead, 1 injured in separate crashes
July 25, 2016
LAKEVIEW, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say three weekend crashes on Long Island have left two motorcyclists dead and another injured.
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Police: Body found in car, death ruled suspicious
July 25, 2016
EAST ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities are investigating what they're calling a suspicious death of a man whose body was found inside a vehicle in western New York. more »»
Brandi Chastain: On headers, concussions, soccer wages
July 25, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — Brandi Chastain likes U.S. soccer's prospects for defending gold in Rio, is advocating for fewer headers in youth games and tackling her son's diagnosis of Crohn's disease. more »»
Police: 2 men pulled from water after boat capsizes in river
July 25, 2016
TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a father and son were thrown into the water when their boat capsized on a western New York river.
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Oswego Speedway to host Super DIRT Week
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OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — The biggest dirt racing week of the year in upstate New York is moving to Oswego Speedway. more »»
New York to spend $3M on electronic waste recycling
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New York task force to address drug-resistant bacteria
July 25, 2016
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — State health officials have established a task force to examine drug-resistant bacteria and efforts to protect New Yorker. more »»
Oswego County celebrating bicentennial
July 25, 2016
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Police: Motorcyclist killed, ejected off bike in central NY
July 25, 2016
CICERO, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a motorcyclist was killed in central New York after losing control of his bike. more »»
About 50 cats rescued from garbage-filled upstate NY home
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Michael Bloomberg to endorse Hillary Clinton at DNC
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Police: Gunshots narrowly miss infant in Syracuse suburb
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HMAS Ballarat, the navy warship at the centre of a sex scandal, is engaged in a tense stand-off with Indonesia
- From: News Corp Australia Network
- November 08, 2013
THE navy's latest ship of shame, the Anzac frigate HMAS Ballarat, is engaged in a tense stand-off with Indonesian forces over the fate of 56 asylum seekers rescued by the warship inside Indonesia's search and rescue zone.
Crew members from the ship have been accused of conducting bizarre hazing rituals where carrots, bananas, pencils and pens are used to sexually assault sailors to mark their birthday.
The crew's attention was diverted to a potential conflict with Indonesia over the fate of the asylum seekers who were rescued from their foundering vessel at lunch time yesterday.
The boat sent out an SOS the previous day when it was just 40km from the coast of Java and the Ballarat urged its crew to turn about and sail back to Indonesia.
An Indonesian patrol boat arrived on the scene soon afterwards and told the crew and their desperate passengers to keep going towards Christmas Island.
Under the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) provisions the rescued asylum seekers must be landed at the nearest port and that is in Indonesia.
However Indonesian authorities have refused to take them and have denied the Ballarat permission to enter their waters.
Both Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison refused to comment on the stand-off yesterday.
"The best way to stop the boats is to ensure ... we are not providing a shipping news service for people smugglers," Mr Abbott said.
"None of you would want to jeopardise our operations to stop the boats surely, given that we have seen an absolutely tragic toll in lives lost at sea while people-smuggling operations continue."
News Corp Australia understands that if the matter cannot be resolved quickly then the warship will return to Christmas Island where the asylum seekers would be processed and sent the Manus Island or Nauru.
"It won't come down to push and shove between the two navy vessels," a source said.
Investigators from the Australian Defence Force Investigative Service (ADFIS) arrived on the island yesterday and will board the Ballarat when she returns to the island to investigate the claims of serious sexual assault.
Mr Abbott said the allegations were "disturbing'' and he was confident that they would be properly investigated.
The stand-off is a potential embarrassment for the Abbott Government and its hard-line "stop the boats" policy with both Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Defence Minister Senator David Johnston currently in Indonesia for high-level talks.
At their weekly briefing in Canberra Mr Morrison and his people smuggling guru Lieutenant General Angus Campbell flatly refused to answer any questions about the stand-off between the two navies citing the popular excuse for military censorship - "operational matters".


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Energy and Global Warming news for April 24, 25: The inevitable watering down of Waxman-Markey
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Democrats May Ease Bill's Emissions Rules
Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are negotiating among themselves on whether to scale back legislation that would impose a mandatory limit on greenhouse gases, with some conservatives and moderates calling for electric utilities to be given free pollution allowances and for more modest cuts in the targets for reducing emissions….
The talks suggest that utilities that distribute electricity from coal-fired plants are making progress in their efforts to get free access to 40 percent of the emissions permits, underscoring the challenge lawmakers face in seeking strict limits on carbon dioxide and other contributors to warming….
The Waxman-Markey bill calls for cutting U.S. emissions to 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 83 percent below by 2050; the Boucher proposal would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent by 2020 while leaving the 2050 goal in place….
Daniel J. Weiss, a senior fellow at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, said that senior Democrats are unlikely to adopt some of Boucher's requests — such as lowering emissions targets — because they simply reflect the legislation that he and Dingell pushed unsuccessfully last year, but that they might accept his proposal on free allowances.
"The Boucher list seems to be a very thoughtful distillation of good ideas, old ideas and areas for discussion," Weiss said, adding that awarding the allowances free could "soften the transition" to a low-carbon economy for consumers. "Boucher's request means a deal is very possible."
Talks intensify in search for committee win on emissions bill
House Democrats are working behind the scenes to build a winning coalition on a major energy and global warming bill, but it is unclear if they will be successful.
The closed-door negotiations involve leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and about a dozen of the panel's moderate and conservative Democrats who are concerned that the draft legislation circulated earlier this month pushes too fast to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Reps. Rick Boucher of Virginia and Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania have the lead in the compromise talks with Chairman Henry Waxman of California. The moderates' group also includes Reps. Charles Melancon of Louisiana and Charles Gonzalez of Texas.
"This is going to be a direct conversation that [Waxman] and I have," Boucher said yesterday. "Undoubtedly, it'll span a number of days now. And at the end of the process, I hope I'll be able to support the bill. In its current form, I cannot."
Boucher declined to release his four-page list of recommendations, though he and Doyle provided some details. For instance, they have endorsed the electric utility industry's call to set aside 40 percent of the proposed cap-and-trade program's allowances for free distribution to regulated local distribution companies (LDCs) within the electricity sector.
On emission limits, they want emission targets lower than those proposed by President Obama (14 percent below 2005 levels by 2020) and Waxman (20 percent). Doyle did not give a specific figure, but an early draft of recommended changes obtained by E&E suggests beginning with a 6 percent cut by 2020.
The moderate and conservative Democrats also support a less aggressive 15 percent nationwide renewable electricity standard for 2025, as compared with the 25 percent target Waxman and Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have set for the same date.
"It's recommendations to the chairman, and we expect over the weekend we'll be negotiating," Doyle said. "His staff and our staff will be working on it."
Doyle explained that the proposed changes could help build industry support for the bill, as well as among Democrats outside the committee. "I want to make the bill as good as we can make it," he said. "I don't have any firm lines in the sand. These are things I think are important. If we're able to get movement toward those areas, then we'll have a good bill."
Democrats who already have embraced the draft climate proposal said they welcomed the Boucher-led group's suite of recommended changes. "We're going to work very closely with him to resolve those issues," said Markey, the chairman of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee.
"At least on the Democratic side, people are looking for a way to get to yes," added Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.).
Other liberal members of the Energy and Commerce Committee said they are willing to keep on supporting the climate legislation as the moderates press for their issues to be heard.
"Sure, you can devastate the bill, and I'd vote against it," said Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.). "But I think the types of modifications that those folks sitting on the fence might be looking for might address a regional concern, a concern back home in their home state and home region.
Dingell predicts energy passage
Michigan Congressman John D. Dingell, the former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said that the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to regulate carbon dioxide emissions as harmful pollutants Thursday would help push Congress to pass a meaningful energy reform bill.
'I think the administration's using that as a club or a whip or a goad to make the House and Senate act on this legislation,' Dingell said.
Utilities press House panel for free allowances
Utility companies are pushing for 40% free allowances""a move that reveals power companies' acceptance of the inevitability of a carbon market. Polluting will no longer be totally free, so the utilities are asking for it to be two-fifths free.
Power company executives amplified their call today for free emission credits to comply with a House climate bill, calling their proposal an "elegant solution" ensuring the public won't face skyrocketing electric bills.
Representatives of the Edison Electric Institute, the American Public Power Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee to set aside 40 percent of the proposed cap-and-trade program's allowances for free distribution to regulated local distribution companies (LDCs) within the electricity sector.
Stimulus restarts 5,000 projects, work on high-speed rail
California will use $5.2 billion from the federal stimulus law to restart 5,000 public-works projects that had been stalled by the state's financial crisis.
Getting new life are projects that had stopped in December because of the state's $42 billion budget deficit and credit crunch. They include wastewater treatment construction, engine retrofits, flood control and road construction.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) announced the projects' rebirth yesterday at a Sam's Club in Glendora, where Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and BP were unveiling a rooftop solar installation. "This is huge, this will protect jobs, this will create new jobs," he said. "Every billion dollars we spend on infrastructure creates 18,000 to 25,000 new jobs."
Calif. approves nation's 1st low-carbon fuel rule
California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The California Air Resources Board voted 9-1 to approve the standards, which are expected to create a new market for alternative fuels and could serve as a template for a national policy that has been advocated by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress.
California Fuel Move Angers Ethanol Makers
Ethanol producers reacted with dismay to California's approval of the nation's first low-carbon fuel standard, which will require the state's mix of fuels to be 10 percent lower in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
'The drive to force the market toward greater use of alternative fuels will be a boon to the state's economy and public health "" it reduces air pollution, creates new jobs and continues California's leadership in the fight against global warming,' said the California board's chairman, Mary D. Nichols, in a statement.
See more here: "California may rule corn ethanol is not a globlal warming solution."
A Setback in the 'Nuclear Renaissance'
A Missouri utility said Thursday that it was suspending its efforts to build a new nuclear reactor, making its proposed plant, Callaway 2, the first of the 'nuclear renaissance' reactors to fall by the wayside.
The utility, AmerenUE, planned to build a reactor near Fulton, Mo., but first it was seeking changes in the Missouri law governing how new power plants are financed. In a letter on Thursday it asked the sponsors of a new law now moving through the state legislature to withdraw the measure, because in its current form it would not provide the 'financial and regulatory certainty' the company needed before construction could begin.
Britain Advances Carbon-Capture Plans
Steps to capture and bury greenhouse gas emissions""rather than release them into the atmosphere""appear to have taken an important step forward this week in Britain, where the government proposed making the construction of large new power plants contingent on fitting the technology.
The government also proposed creating clusters of utilities to facilitate the transport and collection of carbon dioxide for storage in depleted oil and gas fields in the North Sea as part of a process known as 'carbon capture and sequestration,' or CCS.
Guardian (UK)
Bolivia: water people of Andes face extinction
Its members belong to what is thought to be the oldest surviving culture in the Andes, a tribe that has survived for 4,000 years on the barren plains of the Bolivian interior. But the Uru Chipaya, who outlasted the Inca empire and survived the Spanish conquest, are warning that they now face extinction through climate change.
Compiled by Max Luken and Carlin Rosengarten
11 Responses to Energy and Global Warming news for April 24, 25: The inevitable watering down of Waxman-Markey
At 57 I sat yesterday with a friend at lunch. I rode my bike, she drove her Jag. We ate Asian fusion in air conditioned comfort. She has travelled to China and Egypt in the last month. I travelled to the beach five minutes away last weekend for the afternoon. I keep the screened windows open all day long at our house while she sits inside her condo in air conditioning so the dirt doesn't come in and lay on her white upholstery. I spoke to her for two hours on what I am able to convey about the gravity of the changes we are seeing and the scientific consensus and research concerning climate changes.
Take it all the way down to the daily lives of individuals and tell me that technology and cap and trade are going to make a darn bit of difference.
I watched the hearing of when Gore and Warner were witnesses. The republicans were scurrilous. This is nothing but alot of high fiveing and gotcha politics while the planet burns.
Admit it. We are already past the tipping point and even if we aren't we are so close that by the time these a**hats agree on anything we will be.
Unfortunately it appears that positive feedback mechanisms are gaining intensity even as human-related GHG emissions are at or above the high-end IPCC emission scenarios. In addition, the IPCC didn't adequately capture all of our GHG emissions.
From the WaPo story (the top article above):
"The Boucher list seems to be a very thoughtful distillation of good ideas, old ideas and areas for discussion," Weiss said, adding that awarding the allowances free could "soften the transition" to a low-carbon economy for consumers.
Do you think the "soften the transition" quote is properly contextualized? That is, do you really think Weiss believes free allocation is a positive factor for *consumers*?
Depressing to read this, when the original targets weren't going to be enough anyways, but inevitable as Joe said – since this whole thing is just another negotiable point like all the other things they play with in Washington.
Interesting to hear your take Joe. Hopefully stage 1 is alot shorter than 2030, as it looks like it'll be game over by that time.
God I hope they keep the original targets in the bill – that's probably naive, but 6% by 2020 (probably with lots of rip offsets on top of it), that's way too little, way too late (time to plan my migration north, for my great grandkids, if that's the case).
Well, it'd be a little naive if we didn't expect our pals in the coal mining, utilities and oil business to oppose this bill. The bill's reasonable CO2 emission cap goals are beyond what these industries will tolerate. In fact they would oppose even modest goals even if they were submitted by Boy Scouts.
So let's do our part, write our papers and flex a little people power. Given enough people, people power wins everytime.
One thing you said about stage one. I wasn't even expecting it this early given the glacial speed that Congress moves.
I think if the situation in the southwest, particularly in Southern California, gets desparate because of water shortages more people will be pesuaded to demand more substantial action to reduce green house gas emissions.
People will have to get very active and vocal about it because our history shows that nothing we got today from municipal fire departments (Once private firms), city paramedic services (the private funeral homes performed this service until the late 1960s. You can only imagine the conflict of interest in this one) city water treatment, the banning of steam locomotives for diesel-electrics came without organized political action. The fight to save a livable planet will be no different.
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How Global Warming could lead to the EXTINCTION of Homo
Sapiens by the year 2030:
Reference: "The Long Summer" by Brian Fagan
"Collapse" by Jared Diamond
"Six Degrees" by Mark Lynas
In previous civilization collapses, there were always people living
beyond the range of the civilization that collapsed. That is why
no previous collapse of civilization has ever been an extinction
event for humans. When a civilization collapsed in the past, the
people there wandered off looking for food. On the average,
something like one person out of 10,000 found food elsewhere.
The remaining 99.99% died of starvation or violence. There were
always people living far away to start a new civilization
Now our civilization is global and we have the means of
transportation to wander absolutely everywhere on the planet.
That means that the people who wander off looking for food
(everybody, all 6.7 Billion of us) will find and eat all of the food
available to even the remotest, most isolated and most primitive
people on the planet. Given the example of Haiti and other places
where food is scarce, everything that is even close to edible will be
hunted or gathered to extinction. With the total extinction of the
food, the humans will also go extinct. You don't want to live
through the end. It will be gruesome.
Conclusion: Homo Sapiens could go extinct by the year 2030 if
extreme action on global warming is not taken immediately. A
population crash caused by a human population of 9 Billion could
also lead to extinction in the same way UNLESS we have self-
sustaining colonies on other planets, out of reach of those left on
I recommend and demand that ALL coal fired power plants
WORLDWIDE be shut down by the end of 2015. If there is a
coal fired power plant still operating on 1 January 2016, bomb it.
The situation is a lot worse than a world war. We have
FACTORY MADE nuclear power plants to replace coal fired
power plants with. See: http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/why.html
A Government Owned Government Operated [GOGO] nuclear
fuel recycling plant is required and indicated because nuclear fuel
is recyclable and no longer wasteable. Yucca Mountain has been
shut down.
Scientific American: "A Guide to Carbon Capture and Storage":
The show 24 is taking a big stand on Global warming. I think they should shut down Hollywood. Making these Movies and TV shows uses an unimaginable amount of energy for entertainment.


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(born 1954). American short-story writer and poet Sandra Cisneros imaginatively re-created Mexican American life in Chicago, Illinois. She was perhaps best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983).


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