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Seth MacFarlane and his 'Ted' cohorts get straight-to-series order for new FOX comedy
Seth MacFarlane has sold yet another TV series to FOX - this one with live actors.
Penned by "Ted" co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, who will executive-produce with MacFarlane, the multi-camera comedy "Dads" has received a straight-to-series order from the network, already home to MacFarlane's "Family Guy," "American Dad" and "Family Guy" spinoff "The Cleveland Show." The plot of the new show centers on two successful thirtysomething men who are thrown for a loop when their respective "nightmare" fathers unexpectedly move in with them.
Sulkin and Wild have a working relationship with MacFarlane that goes back to 2005, when the two joined the "Family Guy" writing staff. They eventually rose to become executive producers on the series, which is now in its eleventh season.
Does MacFarlane's new show sound like something you'd watch? Sound off in the comments.


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Mac & Cheese
From EatingWell: January/February 2013
This healthy, homemade macaroni and cheese recipe is topped with plenty of golden breadcrumbs. If you want to add a little flair to this healthy macaroni and cheese, use aged Gruyere instead of Cheddar and add extra ingredients like peas, chopped cooked mushrooms or chopped ham. This recipe makes more Cream Sauce without the Cream than you'll need for the macaroni and cheese. Refrigerate or freeze the extra sauce and use it in place of heavy cream in any sauce or soup that calls for cream.
Makes: 4 servings, about 1 1/2 cups each
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Nutrition Profile
High fiber | Low cholesterol | High calcium |View Our Nutrition Guidelines »
Cream Sauce without the Cream
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 cup finely chopped onion
- 2/3 cup long- or medium-grain white rice
- 5 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth or "no-chicken" broth (see Tip)
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1/4 teaspoon salt, or more to taste
- Freshly ground pepper, preferably white
Mac & Cheese
- 8 ounces (2 cups) whole-wheat elbow noodles or other small pasta
- 2 1/2 cups Cream Sauce without the Cream
- 1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar or Gruyère cheese
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
- Hot sauce to taste
- 3/4 cup fresh whole-wheat breadcrumbs (see Tip)
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- To prepare cream sauce: Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, until soft but not browned, about 5 minutes. Add rice and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes more. Add broth and wine and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer until the rice is very soft and the liquid is greatly reduced, about 25 minutes. Cool slightly.
- Transfer the mixture to a blender and puree, in batches if necessary, until smooth. (Alternatively, puree in the pot with an immersion blender.) The consistency should be similar to a pourable sauce; add more broth or water as needed. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper, preferably white pepper.
- To prepare mac & cheese: Preheat oven to 375°F. Coat a 6-cup (or similar-size) baking dish with cooking spray.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add pasta and cook 3 to 4 minutes less than the package directions. Drain and transfer to the prepared baking dish.
- Combine 2 1/2 cups of the Cream Sauce and Cheddar (or Gruyère) in a medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until melted. Season with pepper and hot sauce. Pour the sauce over the pasta and gently stir to combine. Combine breadcrumbs, Parmesan, parsley and 1 tablespoon oil in a small bowl and sprinkle over the casserole.
- Bake until the top is golden and the sauce is bubbling, about 30 minutes.
Tips & Notes
- Make Ahead Tip: Cover and refrigerate cream sauce (Steps 1 & 2) for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 3 months. Defrost overnight in the refrigerator or using the defrost setting on your microwave.
- Tip: To make your own fresh breadcrumbs, trim crusts from whole-wheat bread. Tear bread into pieces and process in a food processor until coarse crumbs form. To make fine breadcrumbs, process until very fine. To make dry breadcrumbs, spread coarse or fine breadcrumbs on a baking sheet and bake at 250°F until dry, about 10 to 15 minutes. One slice of bread makes about 1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs or about 1/3 cup dry breadcrumbs. For store-bought coarse dry breadcrumbs we like Ian's brand, labeled "Panko breadcrumbs." Find them at well-stocked supermarkets.
- Variation: To make the sauce vegetarian, we like to use chicken-flavored vegetarian broth over regular vegetable broth for its hearty, rich flavor and pale yellow color. Look for "no-chicken" broth in the natural-foods section of well-stocked supermarkets.
Per serving: 511 calories; 17 g fat (8 g sat, 7 g mono); 34 mg cholesterol; 64 g carbohydrates; 1 g added sugars; 23 g protein; 6 g fiber; 712 mg sodium; 328 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Calcium (32% daily value), Magnesium (22% dv), Zinc (21% dv), Iron (18% dv).
Carbohydrate Servings: 4
Exchanges: 4 1/2 starch, 1/2 lean meat, 1 high-fat meat, 1 fat
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Opinion + Kraft
Takeover code tweaks won't affect corporate behaviourRichard LambertRichard Lambert: Skills, infrastructure and tax ultimately determine where companies invest. Policymakers should see the wider picture
Open thread: Rail and bus operator Arriva is the latest British firm to be taken over by a foreign company. But does it matter who owns what?
Dan Roberts: A political consensus is growing that takeovers should be driven by more than short-term shareholder interest. But who will act?
Cadbury shows takeovers need reformBrendan BarberBrendan Barber: The deal between Cadbury and Kraft is typical of acquisitions that leave workers and investors worse off than before
Charlie Brooker: The thought of the Americans meddling with the Cadbury formula is too much for many of us to bear
Polly Toynbee: It's high noon for the global economy, but malign market forces are running rings round Labour
Cif belief Death by chocolateAndrew Martin
Andrew Martin: Cadburys' sale ends an age in which working-class culture was shaped by Quaker entrepreneurs
Thread of the day Kraft's unhealthy recipe for CadburyFelicity Lawrence
Felicity Lawrence: Cadbury employees beware: the takeover takes place within a global food industry in which 'growth' equals destruction
Editorial: For most of the past three decades, the characteristic response to a closure such as the one announced by Corus yesterday would have been fatalism. Yesterday, something happened which suggests that era may be ending
Thread of the day Cadbury is a great British company, so we should treasure it, not let it goWill Hutton
Will Hutton: A venerable company will be broken up and its workforce cut. This illustrates how ownership in this country should be overhauled
Cheering news for bankersJill TreanorJill Treanor: When dog eats dog – as highlighted by Kraft's bid for Cadbury – it's a sign that things are perking up in the City


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Obama Will Announce Regulation Of CO2 From Existing Power Plants On Tuesday
The White House tweeted on Saturday that Obama's long-awaited climate speech will come Tuesday afternoon at Georgetown University. The President said in an accompanying video (below):
In my inaugural address, I pledged that America would respond to the growing threat of climate change for the sake of our children and future generations.
This Tuesday, I'll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go –- a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it.
The Washington Post reports that, "Obama will couch the effort not only in terms of the nation's domestic priorities, but as a way to meet the administration's international pledge to reduce the country's greenhouse-gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels."
A serious plan to achieve the 17 percent cut is considered by many to be the sine qua non for successful U.S. engagement in international climate talks — although it is inadequate from the perspective of what climate science says is required to stay on the 2°C (3.6°F) warming path.
Analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, among others, makes clear that attaining the 17 percent cut without further Congressional action will require regulating pollution emissions at existing power plants. Indeed, the EPA "is legally obligated to issue rules regulating CO2 from existing power plants."
Watch Obama's video:
Here are Obama's full remarks:
This is a serious challenge – but it's one uniquely suited to America's strengths.
We'll need scientists to design new fuels, and farmers to grow them.
We'll need engineers to devise new sources of energy, and businesses to make and sell them.
We'll need workers to build the foundation for a clean energy economy.
And we'll need all of us, as citizens, to do our part to preserve God's creation for future generations – our forests and waterways, our croplands and snowcapped peaks.
There's no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change. But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can.
So I hope you'll share this message with your friends. Because this a challenge that affects everyone – and we all have a stake in solving it together.
I hope to see you Tuesday. Thank you.
350.org founder and climate activist Bill McKibben said in response to news about the speech, "The world desperately needs climate leadership, and today Barack Obama showed he might turn out to be the guy who provided it."
In February, the Wall Street Journal reported that the President had been "pushing the team to get very specific about how to achieve the goals he set on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions." He described his general approach in the State of the Union this year, and on Tuesday, Americans will get a more complete picture on what Obama plans to do about "the global threat of our time."
69 Responses to Obama Will Announce Regulation Of CO2 From Existing Power Plants On Tuesday
17% by 2020, four years after he is gone? Priceless!!!
I'm excited about the prospect of finally pushing the new rule on regulating new power plants, not to mention the (far more important) rule on existing power plants. The supreme court ordered EPA to do this SIX YEARS AGO, so it's about time.
Less excited about hearing about how great nuclear power and natural gas are, and reaaaaaaally hoping the word "corn" is not used in the biofuels section.
He should have done this his first term but I am glad he is at least doing it now. Whatever it takes to get an agreement at the international climate talks in 2015 needs to be done. I think he needs our support. If not us, then who?
I hope his speech contains some real changes and not just more platitudes.
Nuclear, natural gas and corn ethanol. What did you expect? Now that climate change is advancing to the point that the deniers will be laughed off the public stage, the powers that be have to figure out how to cash in on it.
Any attempts at real solutions, of course, would reduce the returns to the 1%, so they will give us phony boondoggles that don't actually address the problem but do qualify for federal largesse.
This ship's goin' down.
Totally inadequate. 2005 is not a recognized benchmark. This is just fancy posturing distracting us from the huge challenge tha lies ahead of us, human beings. The Keystone pipeline is the litmus test for this presidency. Yes we scan!
i wondered about this:
UPDATE 1-Canada's oil capital to be shut for days after flooding
Reuters – 48 minutes ago
Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:11pm EDT. By Nia Williams. CALGARY, Alberta, June 22 (Reuters) – Southern Alberta braced for more disruption on Saturday from floods that killed at least three people, forced about 100,000 from their homes and blacked out the center of …
17% by 2020 is rather pathetic, to be honest.
Scotland is aiming for 100% renewables by then.
The floods followed some 36 hours of unusually heavy rainfall – some communities received six months of their normal rainfall in under two days.
Help Please / Comparable Numbers
Could ClimateProgress folks with access to the numbers and a clear understanding of what's necessary help us out here by putting these two aims on an easily-comparable basis, please:
* reduce GHG emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels (and by when?)
* "developed countries must reduce their emissions by 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 if we are to have a medium chance of limiting warming to 2 deg C"
Can we pick a specific year — say 2020 — and then simply state (for the audience) what GHG emissions would have to be in order to achieve the first aim, and what they would have to be in order to achieve the second aim, and (thus) the difference?
And, do you folks (Joe and Ryan) agree roughly with the statement in quotes above, that is, about what reduction would be necessary if we are to have a "medium chance of limiting warming to 2 deg C"? (The quote is from the earlier CP post at the link, of course, but I think someone else authored it, so I'm interested to hear what you think, Joe and Ryan.)
Thanks and Be Well,
(can't wait for Tuesday!?)
Don't get too excited. The power companies will go to court and tie this up for years.
Thanks for reminding me to post this video
Kevin Anderson explains the 2C target…
Yes, he will be gone, plus he really didn't say anything concrete…usual for Obama…he speaks in hopes and dreams but not in reality.
This important and newsworthy headline is not supported at all by the story. What is going on? If you have something that supports the headline, please post it. Otherwise the headline should be changed.
Sorry, but I don't see Keystone as a litmus test. If Obama comes through with a good speech and follows it up with action and then most importantly, hits a home run at the 2015 international climate meeting that will be good enough for me. Rejecting Keystone would be icing on the cake.
I fear it'll be iceless, and mostly cakeless. I'd be happy if wrong.
I've learned to just tune Obama out. "New fuels"? What is that supposed to mean? A new recipe for Monsanto grown corn?
He'll get my attention when his regulations mandate closing of coal and gas plants in places like Georgia and Indiana, on a five year schedule. Otherwise, it's just more of the same, piled higher and deeper.
Here IT comes
Dear Alberta: This Flood is Climate Change http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/dear-alberta-flood-climate-change/18070
Wrong topic, oops.
I am afraid this discussion is academic. The world's countries will not begin implementing their plan (assuming they actually agree to one in 2015) until 2020 so any 2020 target would become meaningless. It seems more likely that they will adopt a 2030 target. I think this is a consequence of the collapsed meeting in Copenhagen in 2009.
James Hansen disagrees with you.
Anyone know who is principally leading his climate policy team and who in the science community he's relying on in to advise?
Wrong! There are already rumors out there that these small steps to limit emissions will be the payback for APPROVING Keystone!
Do you remember the "All of the above" energy speech? Do you really think there was ever any doubt that it was going to be approved?
I want to cheer some positive leadership at last, but I'm afraid you may be right. No mention of the imminent threat of the disappearance of the Arctic ice cap. let alone the dramatic, WW2-style measures that need to be instituted to avoid it (or perhaps now, mitigate it).
I can't believe the CIA has not told him that it's very likely the ice cap will go in five to ten years, and that it will distort the jet stream to the point we have major crop failures globally. The jet stream distortions we see now, e.g., the high temps in Alaska) are a tame harbinger.
Even if Keystone is rejected and that actually prevents the tar sands from being developed (which I think is unlikely given the number of other possible routes) there are certainly enough fossil fuels around to reach 6C. So why should Keystone be a litmus test? Doesn't make sense to me. Why not use shipping coal to China? Or offshore oil drilling? Or high volume fracking? Where is the logic?
My guess is that Obama will approve Keystone. But that's a guess. I don't see the connection between Keystone and these other steps, which together probably cannot be characterized as being small. I think he is focusing on obtaining a global agreement, which is the only way to limit global warming. If that is his goal I think he is on the right path, particularly if he is able to regulate CO2 emissions from existing power plants. That would be impressive.
Well, lets see what he says and most importantly what he does. Since the administration fumbled the regulations for the new power plants (remember there was some issue that would tie them up for years?). We should probably take on odds on what the regulations for existing ones will be (fumbled for delay or just not implemented till he's about to leave office or is out of office).
Then the other side of my brain says any progress is better than no progress – so we'll see what he says and does.
17% by 2020 is a joke compared to what's needed to prevent serious destructive consequences.
I think he knows this. I think many leaders know this.
Yes we can, go extinct
Not good at all.
We've had our climate Pearl Harbors and see many times worse ones in the immediate future.
Very bleak indeed.
There is no political reality.
Accelerating climate change won't allow this level of inaction for long, but until the human capital and will can be marshalled to truly confront this thing, the future looms apocalyptic.
We have no collective free will.
We have no leadership.
No Commander In Chief.
No nothing.
The Titanic has hit the iceberg, but the Capn, he's not a'feared. He has plenty of lifeboats for the First Class Passengers, and will say a nice service for the 99% of steerage passengers, before they take his place, and go down with the ship. The band will play 'The Great Pretender'.
Love it Rab!: you so succinctly live up to your name. But there probably will be survivors. Down here I know our original people will calmly pick up the pieces and carry on as they have for 1000s of years, ignoring this 200 year hiatus, restoring sanity and essentially starting again with what's left, ME
From the Prez's remarks, there is way too much focus on creating new technologies, and way, way, too little on deploying existing technologies and techniques to address the problem.
In Washington-speak, too much "back-loading". Not a serious plan, just more nice talk.
Denmark will probably have achieved a 34% reduction by 2020.
back loading followed by back sliding, the death of a thousand cuts. much the same as the financial reform of a few years back, a big splashy announcement that is steadily watered down over time. There are actually 3 crises, food, energy and climate whose confluence will overwhelm society. this always leads to war, not the nation-state wars of the past. the War on Humanity.
Obama is in the position where he needs to do something to placate the Environmentalists who supported him in 2008 & 2012.
These proposals will be insufficient however to halt the soaring carbon levels globally. C02 is now rising close to 3ppm a year. The task of really slashing the use of coal for electricity in this country is decades off. This outcome will take place when it becomes all too clear we are facing a catastrophe.
If you want to see a bunch of total and utter imbeciles, just read the comments section of that video –
I think I should stop now, otherwise I'll give myself a heart attack/high blood pressure… these deniers make me so angry.
Sigh :-(
"there is way too much focus on creating new technologies". Exactly. Because, the only thing he can 'sell' relative to climate change is essentially another Space Program; more technology, more research, more jobs, more growth. The only thing he can't sell is what's needed; elimination of all non-essential uses of fossil fuel NOW, accompanied by other equally draconian measures.
"This outcome will take place when it becomes all too clear we are facing a catastrophe." By that time, it will be far too late for any action, given the multi-decadal lag times.
Will, there are two types of deniers; those who deny the science, and those who deny the draconian solutions required if there is to be any chance of avoiding the cliff. Either will drive us over the cliff.
I think we need a whole new view of the situation. It appears inevitable that there will be very serious consequences. It appears the best we can hope for is a strong international agreement that will begin to be implemented in 2020. Therefore, it seems extremely unlikely that we can stay below 2C. Since we are apparently going to surpass 2C at some point we need a new framework for deciding on a goal. Continuing to fight for the goals from ten or more years ago is making less and less sense.
Maybe like Algae fuel? Centrifuges and water turning(ventilating powered by solar shingles and combined with an electric fuel delivery system could make this process carbon neutral or even negative?
Well comments in this matter must be considered carefully, it might be that comments are in part "produced" to give the impression of wide resistance. Because we have companies on record to use automated systems to do exactly this.
It wouldn't surprise me.
I don't see the logic of Obama apologists either.
The draconian measures thing is pure denier myth.
"Oh you poor dear," they say, and "you have to pedal all the way home."
And how awful it is to peddle mostly on level ground next to the water in the sun and breezes, no traffic, can easily stop for dinner or a drink, chat with friends . . .
And the "how awful it must be to deal with the cold, snow, and rain," yes it is . . . same as when I went speedskating, skiing, and sailing, but that was much better since I spent lots of money.
Those zoom zoom commercials in the pristine countryside myth are hysterical compared to driving under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in NYC and straight out of "1984".
Oh the horrors we will have to endure when we come to our senses!
His chief Science advisor is John Holdren, who before he fell into the black hole of the administration, knew the score on climate change very well.
Before he was in the administration I remember hearing a remark of his regarding loosing the ice cap in the arctic…basically it was that once you loose ice cap in the summer the winter ice cap will follow suprisingly quickly (whatever that means), that was all based on simulations I'm sure.
Not sure about climate policy in particular, but its pretty obvious he has people who know whats going on and has chosen not to follow their warnings.
And, the god-awful stuff I have to eat just to stay healthy.
And, the writhing ball of antisocial anxiety I have become since I stopped smoking . . .
This is easy BobbyL. Because Obama can stop the expansion of the tar sands, by himself with one decision. Its politically achievable, right now – the others here in the U.S. are not.
And this won't keep the tar sands from being exploited (he approved 2 prior tar sands pipelines in 2009 with oil at 5 year price lows) but it will slow it down enough to give us more time (which is the one thing we desperately need) opening more spigots is what we have to avoid whenever possible.
Any of those other restrictions are pie in the sky dreams at this point – cause they'd have to go through congress and the GOP won't restrict anything (and its not clear the Dem Senate would either, they blew the cap-n-trade when we could have done that).
Yeah, I think the new framework should be hard limits on the amount of fossil fuels that can be extracted worldwide keeping the top at 450ppm (from human induced CO2 increases) attacking one industry at a time – coal first, then oil, then gas.
One way or the other these industries have to be killed and the sooner we start doing that the better off we'll be down the line.
Superman1 wrote: "there are two types of deniers; those who deny the science, and those who deny the draconian solutions required if there is to be any chance of avoiding the cliff"
fj wrote: "The draconian measures thing is pure denier myth."
fj is correct, and in fact, Superman1's defeatism is the new denial.
The reality is that we have the means at hand NOW, in the form of efficiency and renewable energy technologies, to drastically reduce GHG emissions much more rapidly, much more easily, and at much lower cost than most people realize.
We can do so well within the time frame that climate scientists tell us is required to have a good "chance of avoiding the cliff".
And we can do so without imposing any "draconian" impacts on anyone — indeed, the transition to renewable energy, organic agriculture and a more efficient, less wasteful built environment will be the driver of sustainable, equitable prosperity and healthier, more human lifestyles for people everywhere.
The only "draconian" impact will be on the fossil fuel barons, who will see trillions of dollars in wealth shift from their corporations to other sectors of the economy.
And it is precisely to obstruct and delay that transition that the fossil fuel barons have spent a generation "denying the science" — to keep the public ignorant of the problem.
And it is precisely for that reason that they engage in dishonest, alarmist fear-mongering about supposed "draconian" impacts from phasing out fossil fuels — to make the public fearful of the solutions.
And as with all such "memes", this one gets picked up and endlessly regurgitated, by both shills and cranks. Superman1 has even gone so far as to assert on this blog that if large numbers of people switched from coal-fired to wind-generated electricity and adopted vegan diets, it would cause a "global economic depression". What nonsense!
We have the solutions at hand. The costs of implementing them are small, and the benefits, even above and beyond the vital necessity of stopping global warming, are huge. We need to get on with it. The only real obstacle is the entrenched political power and wealth of the fossil fuel corporations — and the public ignorance and fear that they create with their propaganda.
Reject defeatism as firmly and strongly as you reject denial.
A NYC class advanced net zero transit system capable of moving millions per hour would be a major game change with bikeshare laughably early-stage primitive but still quite effective.
It seems to me that the decision to use Powder River Basin for coal mining to ship vast amounts of coal to China was made by Ken Salazar, former Secretary of the Interior, obviously with the blessings of Obama. I don't remember Congress having any role in that decision. Congress may in fact have the last word on Keystone. Some members of Congress believe they have the power to take the decision away from Obama. The whole Keystone thing could wind up in the courts to determine who has the authority to make the decision, particularly if the Republicans make gains in the Senate and hold the House in next election.
In the next few decades, humankind will need to double, or even triple energy production as billions of people in the developing world lift themselves out of poverty and begin to live modern lives. Unless the source of this new energy is clean and non-CO2 emitting, the risk of triggering a devastating global climate catastrophe is all but certain. Weaning ourselves away from fossil fuels is going to cause hardship for a lot of people, especially in my state (West Virginia) where coal is so important … but ignoring the problem is going to make things exponentially worse in the long run.
My point is that the 450 ppm goal to stay below 2C is no longer attainable. The earliest that a global agreement will be implemented is 2020 so emissions will at best peak after that which is too late. Maybe 500 ppm remains a longshot. It is no longer 2008 and we are hoping for an agreement to be implemented by 2013. It didn't happen. We need to readjust to the changed circumstances.
After you lose the icecap in the summer, the ocean will warm to the point where the winter icecap will be prevented from developing.
This is a good step. We can only hope that in a few years there is a consensus for much stronger action. Here in Indiana where we get most of our energy from coal even Democrats decry efforts that will increase our electricity costs in the short term. As an Indiana scientist and professor, I will write to Sen Donelly and tell him that I strongly support regulations that will move our state away from fossil fuel electricity much more quickly.
More Obama propaganda…this is ridiculous. America is the ONLY nation NOT to have responded to what has been proven as a crisis for years, now. All this sudden talk about climate change and doing something about it is to reduce his downward spiral over the leak about citizen surveillance. This is more smoke and mirrors…nothing will get done.
"Let me be provocative for a moment. Do you know how much of a return on your investment you would receive if you installed solar on your home or business right now? Do you know enough to even estimate the amount of money you'd save over 25-30 years? Would you guess that solar energy is actually a financial investment with recent returns more solid than stocks and bonds? Do you know that solar energy works in colder climates and on cloudy days? Did you know that nearly any solar installation company will gladly provide you these numbers for free? Probably not. Not many Americans can begin to answer these questions. And who can blame them?" Terrill Dines
"The motivation and the goals of Germany's unprecedented solar policy are neither a secret nor hard to research (EEG 2004, Article 1). For decades, the main problem of solar had been identified as it being too expensive to deploy. But, at the same time, only deployment and mass production would lead to significant cost reductions. To overcome this barrier, the German parliament adapted the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) in 2004 to incentivize the installation of solar PV systems, thus creating the first uncapped mass market for solar power. It was the goal to reduce the technology's cost through deployment, innovation, and market forces within the solar industry. The plan has succeeded a lot faster than anticipated and the cost of PV is expected to decline by at least another 50% by 2020." Paul Gipe
The Feed in Tariff is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in Renewable Energy, the California FiT allows eligible customers generators to enter into 10- 15- 20- year contracts with their utility company to sell the electricity produced by renewable energy, and guarantees that anyone who generates electricity from R E source, whether homeowner, small business, or large utility, is able to sell that electricity. It is mandated by the State to produce 33% R E by 2020
FIT policies can be implemented to support all renewable technologies including:
Photovoltaics (PV)
Solar thermal
Fuel cells
Tidal and wave power.
So long as the payment levels are differentiated appropriately, FIT policies can increase development in a number of different technology types over a wide geographic area. At the same time, they can contribute to local job creation and increased clean energy development in a variety of different technology sectors.
FIT policies are successful around the world, notably in Europe. This suggests that they will continue to grow in importance in the United States, especially as evidence mounts about their effectiveness as framework for promoting renewable energy development and job creation.
With the worlds carbon levels at 400-410 parts per million and rising, globally emitting over 32 Gigatons of CO2 each year, causing Global Warming and life changing pollution, Renewable Energy will address these issues and start us on the road back to 350 parts per million of carbon, Thank You Bill McKibben
California law does not allow Homeowners to oversize their Renewable Energy systems
Allowing homeowners to oversize their Renewable Energy systems, is a true capitalistic tool, that will give us the potential to challenge the utility monopolies, democratize energy generation and transform millions of homes and small business into energy generators, during Sandy, Solar homes where not utilized to their full potential, because there was no disconnect and or transfer switch, to turn off incoming grid and start in home Solar power. how comforting it would be, to have mandatory transfer switches on all residential and small business renewable energy installations.
We don't even take into account the tremendous health cost to us and our planet, when we burn oil, coal, and natural gas, which would make them more expensive than Renewable Energy.
Since 2000-2001, according to the California Energy Commission, power plants with maximum output totaling about 20,000 megawatts have become operational. An additional 3,900 megawatts are under construction and 4,700 more have been approved and are in pre-construction phases.
The new plants should boost California's energy independence. The state currently produces about 71% of the electricity it consumes, while it imports 8% from the Pacific Northwest and 21% from the Southwest.
Natural gas was burned to make 45.3% of California's power generated in-state in 2011. Nuclear power from San Onofre and Diablo Canyon in San Luis Obispo County accounted for 18.3%, large hydropower 18.3%, renewable 16.6% and coal 1.6%.
We need a National Feed in Tariff, for Renewable Energy, with laws that level the playing field, this petition starts with homeowners in California.
Japan, Germany, and our state of Hawaii, will pay residents between 21- 52 cents per kilowatt hour, here in California they will pay a commercial FiT in a few counties at 17 cents per kilowatt hour, No Residential FiT and they wont let us oversize our Residential Renewable Energy systems.
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A myth the fossil fuel industry thrives on especially since it monopolizes the way we get a lot of our energy and is a major drain on the economy and environment.
The transition might be downright utopian.
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This one is definitely gettable (although some knowledge of Alex Robinson's awesome series Box Office Poison comes in handy). There are a whole lot of characters on the last pair of covers, though, so I won't be surprised to get some very inventive guesses (yesterday's got a whole pile of clever alternate answers), but I have a hunch that whoever guesses at this one will get what I'm shooting for!
Holy crap, one I might know! *sends off his guess*
I'm not familiar with Box Office Poison, but I cruised the Wikipedia page, and took a shot.
Oh, man, it's been so long since I've read BOP, and you had to pick an issue I don't have. (I have some individual issues and the trade…).
And I've actually read the FF issue, and GR's a favorite series too, but I don't have that one.
Curse you, Cronin!
Nah, not really. But I will have to dig out BOP and give it a look today or tomorrow.
I was wondering if I would manage to tie this with the tracks of Suicide first album…there's "Ghost Rider" and "Johnny", but since I have no idea about BOP characters couldn't finish that thought (well, there's "Girl").
Yay, I got it right! I thought of it about 10 minutes after logging off the other day. I was more surprised I could remember all the character names from BOP.
I love your line of thinking. I haven't read Box Office in forever, and have no recollection of their names. It would be a riot if one of the characters was named Frankie Teardrop.
Wow, how goofy is that cover with the Trapster using Medusa's hair as a rope. (And how did Thing's fists get outside the closed window? Unstable glass molecules?)
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Julie Roberts says she hopes her shows in Maryland this weekend will be the start of a long-running return to center stage.
Roberts hasn't performed outside of Tennessee since disastrous 2009 and 2010, which saw her lose her recording deal and television movie project, and then her Nashville home in a flash flood.
"I spent the entire year of 2010 rebuilding my home and rebuilding my life," she added.
The past year was a better one for the 33-year-old, who broke into the music business after landing a job as an assistant to the chairman of Universal Music Group Nashville. She released a new album called "Alive," although she is soldiering on as an independent without the resources of a record company,
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The world can roughly be divided into two factions – those who love a good switched-on rock anthem and those who believe the phrase "I tell thee" shouldn't be anywhere near popular song – so there's some trepidation about Kaiser Chiefs' fifth album. Expectation's also haunted by the departure last year of drummer Nick Hodgson, who many believed to be the brains of the operation, and Ricky Wilson's arrival on The Voice. We'll see that the signature Kaiser sound hasn't suffered, but can Wilson remain a credible rock star while he's hanging with the likes of chart scourge will.i.am, pop figurine Kylie Minogue and orange car alarm Sir Tom Jones? Time to choose your side.
The Factory Gates
'Education, Education, Education & War' was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia with Animal Collective producer Ben H. Allen (who, intriguingly, will also be at the controls for the next Belle & Sebastian album), but from the off it's rooted to these shores. 'The Factory Gates' opens with bitter wind and the squawk of seagulls, pulling your coat tighter around you, before Wilson and the chaps (now including new drummer Vijay Mistry) rediscover their flair for a big chorus in double-quick time. The theme is your place in the machine – "All aboard for the labour exchange… What you make on the factory floor/You take straight to the company store" – and your role in perpetuating the grim cycle. Welcome back!
Coming Home
There's a softer flow to 'Coming Home', with light synth chords and twinkling guitars. It's a bit like Mancunian mystics James, for all you gnarled veterans out there, and boasts a second singalong chorus on the trot ("We're coming home… light a fire") to prove once again that those chops are still intact, however hard will.i.am tries to infect Wilson with his anti-joy miasma.
Misery Company
Somewhat less cheer here – "Everyone leaves me/It's so hard to keep company/I'm misery company" – but it has an undeniable, metallic stomp and grisly guitar bringing equal-part fun and equal-part howling despair. And a Wurlitzer, and a 'Laughing Policeman' of a "ha ha ha ha" chorus. "People don't mention the straps on my sleeves," sings Wilson, all "I'm mad, me!", and to give him his due this does sound pretty much bananas.
Ruffians On Parade
"I study military maps/It helps me relax" – well, don't we all. "I own a replica gun" – steady on. 'Ruffians On Parade' is the first track on the album to feature the patented Kaiser Chiefs run-up to the chorus, a flurry of "oh oh oh"s that let you know we're about to burst out big before tattoos of drums tell us we're in a makeshift army now (woah-oh-oh). The album title's a reference to Tony Blair's 2005 election pledge that "education, education, education" was the cornerstone of our nation's future. The "& War" passes judgement on the rest of his legacy.
Meanwhile Up In Heaven
A moment of light relief, away from the day-to-day downtrodden drudgery? There's rolling piano, a guitar wanged on every beat and a tumbling, sweet chorus at its peak. It's a little like 'Don't Look Back In Anger' getting a bit of a move on, and latches onto your brain nicely. "Picture yourself by a rocket... in a silver suit... getting on it/Saluting the news crews," sings Wilson, making a right hash of the 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' lyrics.
One More Last Song
"Keep on pressing/Teach 'em a lesson/Hold the line... We haven't broken any laws" – the album feels like the natural successor to 'I Predict A Riot', the "angry mob" showing no intention of backing down, fighting the good fight as the economy crashes all around them and everyone gets almightily screwed. Good times! 'One More Last Song' is intense and committed, a Jam guitar riff giving way to a thrilling chorus where synths pile on and the seams creak.
My Life
But there always was a part of Kaiser Chiefs that wanted to be Duran Duran. Or at least wanted to be Blur being Duran Duran on 'Girls And Boys'. Wrist-flicking riffs have that slightly lumpy white-boy funk, but 'My Life' turns out to be another intense attack, ever tighter, hammering home. "I didn't want it/I didn't need it/But it feels like/This is my life," goes the resigned refrain.
Bows & Arrows
"You and me on the frontline..." More war-talk as Wilson whacks the big red button, spins his chair around and launches himself at the establishment. Watch out, he's got a Wurlitzer organ on his side – which doesn't seem all that threatening on the face of it until you realise this sounds like The Stranglers. You wouldn't have wanted to meet them on the frontline. They always looked like they were concealing a bike chain about their person.
While we're flicking through the soundalikes, here's Wilson doing his Rock Profiles David Bowie, a Croydon voiceover – "Look alive/Pick a side/Draw a line in the sand" – that intros discordant synths and a seething, sarcastic assault ("If we wanna be out by Christmas/We're gonna need a lot more cannons"). The finishing chant drops to cow moos and helicopters and some apocalyptic commentary from – I think – Bill Nighy, who's got previous with the Kaiser Chiefs.
The anger of 'Education, Education, Education & War' has been offset throughout by big, friendly tunes, but here it dissipates entirely for a slow sad scarf-waver. "There's places I have to go/Before I'll see the light," sings Wilson letting in a little hope over chords not unlike Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'The Power Of Love', possibly trying to harness that crucial John Lewis demographic. That'd be at odds with an album more interested in flinging a brick through the window – 'Education, Education, Education & War' takes our leaders to task, pinning them to the ballot box with vast festival choruses. Che Guevara, eat your heart out.


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Softmod on a Red Wii would be pretty tasty ...:)
Can't beat a game of WarHeads.
Can't get enough of this game ...lol. Sad.
Approx 2 weeks ago the Wii was posted lost in the mail/transit. Jimdean was informed and the check for the insurance has been issued. The new Wii System will still be paied for by me from my...
Brick bad ...also updated to Shop ver20 via DOP-Mii ...no issues.
IOS56 needed to updated first*
Thanks WiiJohn.
Hey hey hey, don't be hatein on my wife's color writing skills and my clicking skills, lmao. Simon ftw!
Im not sure if this was mentioned in one of the many, many posts added to this thread ...but if anyone would like the Animated Forwarder that matches the Black USBConfigLoader screen, instead of the...
Works so much cleaner than USB Loader GX, thanks alot Krank. Saved the day once again.
Anything to keep this place alive and kickin well, seems to be the best I've found for well ...everything. Any help ( for the site ), ask the man.
Ps, I'm the man.
I'm wanting to play my Pokemon Games, but I'm wondering does VBAGX have Real-time saves on it. Otherwise playing the games will be useless ...there won't be a night unless I change the clocks every...
Grats all!
I have a few other things up my sleeve, but I thought that would be one of the coolest. I have some very rare sealed items.
Nintendo Wii Console with Nintendo Wii Sports Resort, Black - ver 4.2U. Sealed in box, ready for shipping.
- Won it in a raffel/retail store, found out 2 days after I bought the exact same thing...
If a mod could get with me I would like to make a suggestion on a brand new item I have that would be well worthy for a monthly drawing.
Least I can do as much as Ive been so retarded...
Ive gotten some bad pos's in the past for xBox360 controllers and what not, but for the Wii what Ive saw looks okay.
YOU ARE THE MAN! Worked like a charm, updated right to ver .19 got right in with no problems. Thanks A MILLION!
Ive gotta donate to this site, all you guys are amazing. / PS, right after this I...
Tryed it on my 4.2U, installed with no issues ...but still can't get into the shop channel to get the internet channel. Could it be that I blocked some IOS's from auto updateing?
Installed perfectly, but when I go to download the channel. Its still says there's an update for the Wii Shop Channel ...
Maybe because I'm already on 4.2U?
Thanks. I wish it was a walk in the part but its been a terd up to this point. I just wanna get this installed and be done ...
Ok, so I got my Wii softmodded with http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-faqs-guides-tutorials-only/24839-softmod-any-4-2-wii.html ...thanks to help of Krank I got the entire thing installed...
Huge thanks to Krank, Stomp, and all else who got my situated ...PriiLoader is now installed and my USB Loader is working so well I cant even belive it. My daughters already enjoying New Super Mario...
Wouldent that have been installed threw the guide? How did I miss it?
sysCheck v2.0 by Double_A
...runs on IOS61 (rev 5405).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.2 (v481)
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 134752238
Boot2 v4
Found 56 titles.
Under the installer IOS70 is showing what installs for new IOS's, and I did try the MMM method. Same results.


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Charges of aggravated robbery have been laid against four
males in relation to a violent incident in Albert Town last
week, during which a tourist was allegedly assaulted and
The defendants, aged 15, 17, 18 and 20, all face one charge
of robbing Moreno Antonio de Meyere of $350 cash in Albert
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TravelPod Member ReviewsHotel Malaspina Florence
This hotel is in a brilliant location. I was just out of the city centre which was prefect to get away from the hustle and bustle. The hotel was clean from top to bottom. Our rooms were spacious and the bathroom was brilliant. We even had our own mini bar. Our view wasn't the best. It was overlooking a small court yard, we didn't mind that much because we were always out and about. The breakfast was pretty good. The staff were really helpful with booking our tour to Pisa and Lucca. Would recommend this place.
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Perfect for the business traveller, otherwise lacking charm
The Malaspina is a lovely clean hotel - facing a somewhat bland park in a quiet business/residential area, three blocks from the train station. If I was in Florence on business and wanted a safe haven - I would chose this hotel. However - it was completely lacking in either charm or sophistication - hovering somewhere between the two. And therefore not my recommendation for a vacation in FLorence. I would have been much happer to be closer to the Duomo, the restaurants, cafe's, shopping, etc and would have sacrificed the large sterile room in favour of something more quaint. The front desk staff was merely adequate for directions and info - not particulary friendly. The bathroom was cramped but our large bed room was quite spacious, although lacking in decoration. With a few well placed pictures or mirrors, nicer amenities, this hotel could have been luxurious, but instead it left us cold. While it is true that all the sites are merely a few large city blocks away, you do so much walking in FLorence - it would have been much nicer to be in the middle of the action - rather than out of the way. The breakfast buffet was ok - rolls, eggs, cheese, cold meats etc.
Best hotel where I have stayed in Europe
Location great because not in center of tourist area and noise but close enough to get there in 5 minutes. Staff spoke perfect English and gave great assistance.
Breakfast very good and included meat and cheese.
Hotel room large with nice bathroom, two twin beds, large closet, and quiet. 10 minute walk to train station. Price at 70 euros per night was bargain. Will definitely stay there when I return to Florence.
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First the positives...great breakfast. Well, that's about it. The rest was bland and disappointing. The front desk staff couldn't crack a smile if their lives depended on it...
The rooms are dark and cramped.
The location isn't bad, but the park on which it sits is most dreary in the winter months.
Enhance your Florence experience by searching out another hotel.
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September 2003: Very nice hotel close to the center in a very old building. Hotel is renewed and has spacious rooms. Bigger then any hotel we have stayed in Italy. Nice helpfull people, good breakfast, elevator and parking around the corner. If back in Florance we will stay again.
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Walking through the streets of Rome it is almost impossible not to bump into a monument of some sort, either a crumbling, picturesque ruin or a towering pillar commemorating a powerful man or significant event. History is woven into the fabric of the city--often literally. After the fall of Rome, the local citizens used many of the crumbling ruins as quarries, carting off bricks, blocks of stones and slabs of marble for their homes, large and small. That marble arch decorating the exterior of what was a 16th-century palace, now a Roman apartment house, may be a piece of ancient Rome.
Thankfully, for modern visitors, the practice of stone looting at Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum, ended in the 18th century when the citizens began to recognize the site's drawing power and historic importance. Today, it is the city's most famous monument and, perhaps, the most iconic ancient building in the city, capturing both the power of ancient Rome and the horror of the age. The site is open daily from 8:30 a.m., closing times vary, but are usually one hour before sunset. The monument is illuminated at night and the interior best visited early in the morning before the crowds arrive. Plaza del Colosseo Campitelli Rome, Italy 011-39-06-967-700 pierreci.it
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Just east of the Colosseum is the impressive Arch of Constantine, built in A.D. 312 to mark the emperor's victory in battle over a rival. Legend has it that before the battle, Constantine had a vision that led him to allow his soldiers to carry Christian symbols. After the victory, Constantine converted to Christianity and ordered the religion to be tolerated in the empire, changing the course of history. Via di San Gregorio VII, Campitelli, Rome, Italy
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The sight of a 120-foot-tall pyramid along the Aurelian Wall, near a busy traffic intersection, seems odd, but Romans were famous for adopting gods and customs from the nations they conquered. The pyramid is the tomb of Gaius Cestius, a wealthy Roman official in the first century B.C. Cats held religious significance for the ancient Egyptians, and, coincidentally, the site of the pyramid is home to one of Rome's famous cat colonies. Here, the city's "gattare," women who feed and look after Rome's outdoor cats, offer tours of the pyramid and the cat shelter on Saturdays. Piazzale Ostiense Testaccio Rome, Italy
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Excavations continue in modern Rome, notably at the sites of the imperial forums built from 42 B.C. and A.D. 112 by Caesar, Augustus, Vespasian, Nerva and Trajan. In the 1930s, Mussolini built the Via dei Fori Imperiali that leads to the Colosseum, covering many of the sites that are now being excavated. The public can view only Trajan's Forum in person, the other excavations are updated online. The ruins on view include Trajan's Column, the 125-foot-high victory monument, decorated with scenes from the Dacian Wars in what is now modern Romania. Via dei Fori Imperiali Campitelli Rome, Italy 011-39-06-679-7786 capitolium.org
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John Brandon has an article in ComputerWorld, Famous tech myths that just won't die. Wherein he attempts to lay to rest some of our most treasured tech myths. Submitted for your approval is a concise list of those myths. And my brief comments. Seriously you didn't think you were going to get off that easy did you.
- Bill Gates dropped a $1,000 bill and didn't bother to pick it up – Can you imagine the guy who ruled the Microserfs dropping a $1 bill much less not picking it up?
- The iPhone 3G has a kill switch that Apple can use to disable the device – Actually it does. It's called AT&T here in America. No wait, that's a killjoy switch. My bad.
- Internet2 will replace the Internet – Now this is just silly. Everyone knows the internet will be replaced by the Cepheid Galactic Internet.
- PC gaming is dying or already dead – Just keep telling yourself this while you're getting fragged online by newbs with an unfair advantage (a PC), X-box boy.
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Definition of agonistic
1 : of or relating to the athletic contests of ancient Greece
2 : argumentative
3 : striving for effect : strained
4 : of, relating to, or being aggressive or defensive social interaction (as fighting, fleeing, or submitting) between individuals usually of the same species
agonisticallyplay \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
Examples of agonistic in a sentence
<clearly a writer with a chip on his shoulder, he's very agonistic even when stating indisputable facts>
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Agonistic has its roots in ancient Greece-specifically in the agonistic (to use the oldest sense of the word) athletic contests called agons featured at public festivals. From physical conflict to verbal jousting, "agonistic" came to be used as a synonym for "argumentative" and later to mean "striving for effect" or "strained." Common current use, however, is biological, relating to confrontational interaction among animals of the same species and the responsive behaviors-such as aggression, flight, or submission-they exhibit. "Agonistic" is also sometimes used to describe an agonist muscle, a muscle that on contracting is automatically checked and controlled by an opposing muscle, that other muscle being an "antagonist." For example, during a bicep curl in weight lifting, the (contracted) bicep is the agonistic muscle and the (relaxed) triceps muscle is the antagonist.
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Medical Definition of agonistic
: of, relating to, or being aggressive or defensive social interaction (as fighting, fleeing, or submitting) between individuals usually of the same species <agonistic behavior>
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