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This Forest of Dean raptor watchpoint produced three acceptable sightings of our large Accipiter in one bitter north-easterly hour. So the Gloucestershire list increased again. Tuesday's great grey shrike didn't reshow to push it on further and I left when I'd lost all feeling in my face. Ravens and buzzards had also entertained me in the interim.
I moved on to try for hawfinch again, at last year's site of Parkend Church. The sky was clearing to take off the chill's edge so I tramped the surrounding pinewoods but really only landed a couple of redpolls. They were county bird number 145 though; it's been a good few days for that.
Now I wait to compile last month's sightings into the Bristol Ornithological Club's newsletter. It's a big job coming up.


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The Army recently conducted two successful intercept tests by the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. Based on careful analysis of those successes, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) has authorized the Army to move into the next phase of the THAAD program, the Engineering Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase. This will result in the cancellation of THAAD flight test 12, the last test scheduled in the Program Definition/Risk Reduction (PDRR) phase.
The primary objectives of the EMD phase are to translate the most promising design approach into a stable, interoperable, producible, supportable, and cost effective design; to validate the manufacturing or production process; and to demonstrate system capabilities through testing. Low rate initial production (LRIP) occurs while the engineering and manufacturing development phase is still continuing as test results and design fixes or upgrades are incorporated.
BMDO and the Army are confident that the THAAD system has proven itself in the PDRR phase, and is ready to move to the next stage of the program. This decision will save millions of dollars and potentially accelerate the ultimate fielding of the THAAD system, currently scheduled for 2007. BMDO and the Army will meet all statutory and Defense Department acquisition program requirements prior to entering into the EMD phase of the THAAD program.
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THAAD will provide theater-wide area defense from enemy launched tactical ballistic missiles operating in the lower reaches of space and within the Earth's atmosphere, directed against deployed military forces. The ability to intercept missiles at high altitudes and/or long distances from the target allows THAAD to provide broad area coverage of deployed military assets. THAAD is an area defense system that provides a protective footprint measured in hundreds of miles. It provides the upper level protection of an integrated missile defense system.


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Evangulov praises British preparation
27th July 2012
British Team Leader Alexei Evangulov insists his divers couldn't be better prepared as they look to make an impact at London 2012.
The Russian – who took over as British Performance Director after the last Olympic Games in Beijing four years ago – was in an optimistic mood as he and the British team faced the world's press ahead for the final time ahead of the start of the diving competition on Sunday.
The spirit of the team is very high - technically and physically they have prepared perfectly.
Evangulov admitted the men's individual and synchronised 10m events as well as the women's 10m synchro were the Brits' best chances of landing a medal at the Games.
But with the youngest diving team entering the competition and with an encouraging preparation camp in Southend under their belt, Evangulov was adamant the Brits had plenty to be enthusiastic about.
"This British team is the biggest we've ever had," said Evangulov. "We have 12 divers and they're the youngest diving team at the Games with four of them under the age of 18 but with experienced faces in there as well.
"We had a productive preparation for the Games with several camps and competitions and we took part in all four legs of the World Series as well as the European Championships.
"The spirit of the team is very high. Technically and physically they have prepared perfectly.
"We had a good training camp in Majorca after the trials where the team relaxed and sunbathed as well as putting in very strong strength and conditioning work.
"Then we had the last two weeks in Southend-on-Sea."
Haivng won World, Commonwealth and European gold already in his career, Tom Daley will be looking to complete his set with an Olympic title in London.
I had the Olympic experience in Beijing and I think pressure brings out the best in me.
And while the 18-year old has been the focus of much attention in the run-up to the Games, he insists he will thrive on the atmosphere in the Aquatics Centre.
"I don't see pressure as a bad thing," said Daley. "I like it in competitions and I'm used to it.
"I had the Olympic experience in Beijing and I think pressure brings out the best in me.
"Diving is an individual sport and you have to focus on what you're doing at all times.
"I've been training as hard as I can and working as hard as I can both individually and with Pete and I'm excited to start competing now."
Having won 10m Synchro silver with Leon Taylor at the Athens Games in 2004, Peter Waterfield will partner Daley in the 10m Synchro on Monday 30th August.
And while it will be his fourth Games, the 31-year old admits tonight's Opening Ceremony will be the first he's attended.
"It's my fourth Olympic Games and I've never been to an opening ceremony before," said Waterfield.
"The competition has been quite close in the past so I haven't been.
"But this is a home Olympics and it's not going to come around again in my lifetime so it's one thing I really wanted to do. It will make it all feel more real. "
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The image to the left is a fragment of the government's references to statutes and regulation mentioned in its brief; it's the part of the list referring to the part of the FAA in question. As you can see, it almost–but not quite–lists every clause of the law.
One clause notably missing from the almost-sequential list above is 1881a(b)(4), which reads,
[An acquisition authorized under subsection (a)] may not intentionally acquire any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition to be located in the United States;
And while it mentions clauses that refer back to this restriction (for example, 1881a(c)(1), 1881a(d), 1881a(g)(2)(A)(i), etc), it never goes back and includes this language–the requirement that the government not intentionally acquire communications that are located entirely within the US–in its argument. (There are other clauses the brief ignores, a number of which pertain to oversight of the certifications the government has made; I may return to these at a future time.)
Or, to put it another way, the government never admits that the FAA permits the purportedly unintentional collection of entirely domestic communication.
And yet that is a part of this lawsuit. The original complaint in this suit invoked this clause:
An acquisition under section 702(a) may not … "intentionally acquire any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition to be located in the United States
Moreover, the Attorney General and the DNI may acquire purely domestic communications as long as there is uncertainly about the location of one party to the communications.
And the 2nd Circuit opinion (authored by Gerard Lynch) referenced this clause:
"Targeting procedures" are procedures designed to ensure that an authorized acquisition is "limited to targeting persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States," and is designed to "prevent the intentional acquisition of any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition to be located in the United States."
In addition, the certification must attest that the surveillance complies with statutory limitations providing that it:
(4) may not intentionally acquire any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition to be located in the United States;
Under the FAA, in contrast to the preexisting FISA scheme, the FISC may not monitor compliance with the targeting and minimization procedures on an ongoing basis. Instead, that duty falls to the AG and DNI, who must submit their assessments to the FISC, as well as the congressional intelligence committees and the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
But the government has not asserted, and the statute does not clearly state, that the FISC may rely on these assessments to revoke earlier surveillance authorizations.
Now, to some degree, the government might argue it ignored the clause prohibiting intentional–but not accidental–targeting of domestic communications because the plaintiffs' primary basis for establishing standing is their frequent communication with likely targets overseas. As I'll show, the government wants to make this case about a particular definition of a target, and key to that argument is a claim that it is impossible for the plaintiffs to be targets.
Yet therein lies one of the key problems with their argument, given that 1881a(b)(4) only prohibits the plaintiffs from being intentional targets; the FAA very pointedly did not prohibit the government from keeping US person information it "unintentionally" collected. In fact, Mike McConnell and Michael Mukasey started issuing veto threats when Russ Feingold tried to restrict the ongoing use of domestic communications identified as such after the fact.
Finally, in the one case that approved this kind of collection (though under the Protect America Act, not the FAA) used targeting procedures to substitute for particularity required under the Fourth Amendment. Under PAA, those procedures were not mapped out by law; under FAA they are, partly in the clause the government wants to ignore.
And yet, remarkably, the government doesn't want that clause to be part of its discussion with SCOTUS. Seeing as how even the FISA Court of Review finds that substitute for particularity–the targeting procedures–to be a key part of compliance with the Fourth Amendment, you'd think that would be relevant.
Jane Mayer has a great general purpose slapdown of torture apologist Marc Thiessen love letter to torture. She hits on most of the weaknesses of Thiessen's arguments: his false claims about what prevented the 2006 liquid explosive plane plot, apologists' very selective examination of what counts as an attack on American, the silence about Ibn Sheik al-Libi's (and others') false confessions, demonstrably false claims that no one at Gitmo was ever tortured.
But there's a point she makes that really ought to be the focus of push back against all torture apologists: the Bush Administration ignored repeated warnings about the imminent al Qaeda attack in 2001, and any ignorance about al Qaeda–which Thiessen claims was general–belongs to Bush's top leaders, not the intelligence community.
Thiessen, citing [Michael] McConnell, claims that before the C.I.A. began interrogating detainees the U.S. knew "virtually nothing" about Al Qaeda. But McConnell was not in the government in the years immediately before 9/11. He retired as the director of the National Security Agency in 1996, and did not rejoin the government until 2007. Evidently, he missed a few developments during his time in the private sector, such as the C.I.A.'s founding, in 1996, of its bin Laden unit—the only unit devoted to a single figure. There was also bin Laden's declaration of war on America, in 1996, and his 1998 indictment in New York, after Al Qaeda's bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. The subsequent federal trial of the bombing suspects, in New York, produced thousands of pages of documents exposing the internal workings of Al Qaeda. A state's witness at the trial, a former Al Qaeda member named Jamal al-Fadl, supplied the F.B.I. with invaluable information about the group, including its attempts to obtain nuclear weapons. (Fadl did so without any coercion other than the hope of a future plea bargain. Indeed, the F.B.I., without using violence, has persuaded dozens of other suspected terrorists to coöperate, including, most recently, the Christmas Day bomber.)
In order to make the case that America was blind to the threat of Al Qaeda in the days before 9/11, Thiessen skips over the scandalous amount of intelligence that reached the Bush White House before the attacks. In February, 2001, the C.I.A.'s director, George Tenet, called Al Qaeda "the most immediate and serious threat" to the country. Richard Clarke, then the country's counterterrorism chief, tried without success to get Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national-security adviser, to hold a Cabinet-level meeting on Al Qaeda. Thomas Pickard, then the F.B.I.'s acting director, has testified that Attorney General John Ashcroft told him that he wanted to hear no more about Al Qaeda. On August 6, 2001, Bush did nothing in response to a briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." As Tenet later put it, "The system was blinking red."
(I would add that refusal of Thiessen's precious CIA to share information about Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar also prevented us from acting on the biggest lead that could have prevented the attack.)
This point is not repeated enough, perhaps out of some sense of comity toward a guy, Cheney, who has spent the last year (really, his entire life) breaking every rule of comity in DC.
Out of ignorance of al Qaeda, arrogance that only loyal insiders should participate in setting security priorities, and plain old bad judgment about the potential threat of terrorists, the Bush Administration failed to act on clear warnings that we would be hit on 9/11. Those are, not surprisingly, precisely the same characteristics drove us to ignore our experts on interrogation and instead follow the word of a bunch of hucksters who wanted to get rich off of torturing other human beings.
Every time someone like Thiessen attempts to push his propaganda, we really ought to be asking why we should trust the propagandist of the guys who are still trying to overcompensate for having failed in the first place.
In a post on AJ Rossmiller's Still Broken, I pointed out that bloggers probably knew more than Condi Rice leading up to the 2005 Iraqi elections because 1) we were reading Juan Cole, 2) we didn't censor out news we didn't like:
When AJ was asked how he got the 2005 election right, one of the things he pointed to, half-seriously, was the open source work of Juan Cole.
I began to write the explanation of our methodology, and I tried to resist the temptation to criticize other agencies while explaining how and why we did things differently. State, in particular, was very sensitive about their screwup, and I didn't want to piss anybody off.
"Sir, can't I just say that I copied and pasted Juan Cole?"
You see, those running the most powerful country in the world aren't reading Juan Cole directly, or at least they weren't. If they're lucky, some analyst like AJ will read him and allow Cole's expertise to influence his analysis. And if they're lucky, that analysis might bubble up to decision-makers without being censored by the vetting process. But AJ's book demonstrates that those are two very big "if's."
Well, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell just conceded that AJ was right for reading Juan Cole.
In a new directive that challenges the insular culture of U.S. intelligence agencies, Director of National Intelligence J. Michael McConnell has ordered analysts to cultivate relationships with outside experts "whenever possible" in order to improve the quality of intelligence analysis.
The DNI's July 16 directive on "Analytic Outreach" (pdf) establishes procedures for implementing such outreach, including incentives and rewards for successful performance.
"Analytic outreach is the open, overt, and deliberate act of an IC [intelligence community] analyst engaging with an individual outside the IC to explore ideas and alternate perspectives, gain new insights, generate new knowledge, or obtain new information," the directive states.
"Elements of the IC should use outside experts whenever possible to contribute to, critique, and challenge internal products and analysis…."
"Sound intelligence analysis requires that analysts… develop trusted relationships" with "experts in academia; think tanks; industry; non-governmental organizations; the scientific world; …and elsewhere."
Golly. Almost seven years after 9/11 and the intelligence community might just catch up to us DFH bloggers!
I think I've given as much consideration to what it would take to have a meaningful study of what the Administration did with its illegal wiretapping program as anyone (though also see this piece on immunity from Brian Beutler, one of the last pieces he did before he got shot last week). And I gotta say–the fact that DNI Mike McConnell and AG Michael Mukasey claim they'd advise Bush to veto the bill if it included Jeff Bingaman's amendment–holding off on giving the telecoms immunity until after the IG study mandated by the bill was completed–makes me rather suspicious that Bush intends to spike the IG investigation (h/t Spencer).
As we have previously noted, any FISA modernization bill must contain effective legal protections for those companies sued because they are believed to have helped the Government prevent terrorist attacks in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
H.R. 6304 contains such protection, but the amendment would reportedly foreclose an electronic communication service provider from receiving retroactive [immunity] until 90 days after the Inspectors General of various departments, as required by section 301 of H.R. 6304, complete a comprehensive review of, and submit a final report on, communications intelligence activities authorized by the President between September 11, 2001, and January 17, 2007. The final report is not due for a year after the enactment of the bill. Any amendment that would delay implementation of [immunity] in this manner is unacceptable. Providing prompt liability protection is critical to the national security. Accordingly, we, as well as the President's other advisors, will recommend that the President veto any bill that includes such an amendment.
Now, I'd be charitable and buy Mike amd Mike's claim that they're just worried about a delay. Except that they make this completely cynical bid to suggest that the SSCI's review of the program was adequate to expose what really happened with this program.
Deferring a final decision on retroactive [immunity] for 15 months while the Inspectors General complete the review required by H.R. 6304 is also unnecessary. The Senate Intelligence Committee conducted an extensive study of the issue, which included the review of the relevant classified documents, numerous hearings, and testimony. Continue reading
I wanted to give you all a heads up to a mid-week book salon I'll be hosting today at 3PM ET over at the mother ship: Tim Shorrock's Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. I pushed to include Shorrock on the schedule because (as you'll see in my post at 3) his book offers some key insights on FISA–and we seem to be gearing up for another FISA fight.
But there's more than FISA that might interest you about the book (and about chatting with Shorrock). He gives the corporate back-story to:
Shorrock wraps that background story in a discussion both of the ideology behind the privatization of our intelligence function:
…as we've seen, money and profits are not the sole motivators for the corporations and executives who populate the Intelligence Industrial Complex. Because so many top executives are former intelligence officers themselves, many of their companies are motivated by politics as well. For CACI's CEO, Jack London, that translates into a desire to "disseminate vital intelligence" for the fight against "Islamofascists." For ManTech CEO George Pederson, it's a yearning for his company to be "on the battlefield," whether in Iraq, South Korea, or the Philippines. For the senior vice presidents of the big prime contractors, Booz Allen Hamilton and Science Applications International Corporation, it involves power, either as a way to influence future policy or make changes in the way the Intelligence Community is organized.
And a discussion of the subservience of public to private interest in such an Intelligence-Industrial Complex.
In the past, [former NSA Director Kenneth] Minihan said, contractors "used to support military operations; now we participate [in them]. We're inextricably tied to the success of their operations." This new situation, he argued, presents corporations with "interesting opportunities" to create technologies that governments can take advantage of, "with all the complexities that exist in merging the interests of the private and public sector in the intelligence apparatus."
Merging the interests of the private and public sector. That astonishing phrase, which is now the mantra of the intelligence contracting industry, suggests the creation of a new mode of capitalism that specifically serves theneeds of government and its "intelligence apparatus." Continue reading
A number of you sent me this Eric Lichtblau story describing how, because of a "technical glitch," the FBI accidentally got all the emails going to one domain, rather than just the emails to and from their particular target.
A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.
F.B.I. officials blamed an "apparent miscommunication" with the unnamed Internet provider, which mistakenly turned over all the e-mail from a small e-mail domain for which it served as host. The records were ultimately destroyed, officials said.
Bureau officials noticed a "surge" in the e-mail activity they were monitoring and realized that the provider had mistakenly set its filtering equipment to trap far more data than a judge had actually authorized.
The episode is an unusual example of what has become a regular if little-noticed occurrence, as American officials have expanded their technological tools: government officials, or the private companies they rely on for surveillance operations, sometimes foul up their instructions about what they can and cannot collect.
The problem has received no discussion as part of the fierce debate in Congress about whether to expand the government's wiretapping authorities and give legal immunity to private telecommunications companies that have helped in those operations.
But an intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because surveillance operations are classified, said: "It's inevitable that these things will happen. It's not weekly, but it's common."
My response to this is sort of similar to Kagro X's (and given all my posts about minimization, I would certainly take issue with Lichtblau's assertion that "the problem has received no discussion"). This story illustrates why minimization is every bit as important in the FISA discussion as immunity.
Hmm. Minimization. That rings a bell. What was it?
Oh yeah! The FISA fight in the Senate! Minimization was a concern because the Senate bill pretty much gave the government a free hand to suck up every phone call, e-mail, text message, etc. there is, and — amazingly enough — had to be amended on the floor in order to even approach a proper handling of minimization concerns. Continue reading


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The Energy for All Partnership established the thematic working group Lighting for All to meet these challenges. It expands access to solar lighting technologies among rural communities by linking the international lighting industry (including storage, electrics and solar) with local system integrators, financers and service providers. For local communities, this transfer of technological knowledge strengthens their capabilities to design, develop and deliver high-efficiency, high-quality, reliable and affordable lighting products and services. For the industry, it catalyzes the undeveloped, high-growth rural lighting market by providing cutting-edge technologies and know-how adapted for local challenges.
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Well the mana crystal is gone and i'm going to have blame people who can't work out the numbers for themselves as aparently people have been buying the attribute gems, which should've been removed instead . . .
Using mean averages for all the gems and the now current (lowered) radiance prices.
Strength Crystals | 20 str | effectively | 200 HP | 2 hp regen | 10 dmg | 1200 radiance
or in other crystals | 2 purple, 200hp | 1 green, 5.5 hp regen | 1 black, 12.5 dmg | 1040 radiance | only uses 4 crystal slots
Agility Crystals | 20 agi | effectively | 2 atk speed | 1 move speed | 10 dmg | 1000 radiance
or in other crystals | 1 black , 12.5dmg (62.5dmg/turn) | see note about MS | 1 black crystal, 12.5dmg | 720 radiance | only uses 2 crystal slots
The atk speed equates to 0.2 attacks/turn which depending on your damage/atk (~100-312.5-600) equals ~20-62.5-120 dmg/turn. Damage on the other hand is multiplied by your number of attacks (assumed to be 5 for the calculation above).
Note 1) The movespeed admittadly can't be bought from other gems but 1 more movespeed when it takes 10 for 1 extra move/turn means even with all items with full agi crystals you still wouldn't get an extra move/turn from just the crystals so…
Inteligence Crystals | 20 int | effectively | 200 mana | 2 mana regen | 10 dmg | 4% spell power | 800 radiance
or in other crystals | 2 (old yellow crystals), 200mana | 1 white crystal, 5.5 mana regen | 1 black crystal, 12.5dmg | 1 red crystal 3.5% sp | 760 radiance | only uses 3 crystals, but you now can't get the mana crystals so you lose out there)
This shows the Agi and Str crystals are in effect completely useless to buy and the Int crystals are aswell if you have enough max mana already.
I'm not saying Spell Power crystals shouldn't have been added cause they should've, people have asked for them, there logical and balance-able, what i'm trying to say is that mana crystals shouldn't have been removed.
While after a certain level you really don't need them any more and you likely lament getting them when farming at 50, i say they're integral on the road to getting level 50.
Many of my characters struggled with maximum mana cap especially after level 10 when you got an ultimate spell if you chose to, because using this would puke your whole mana cap in one turn, and that doesn't change until 15-20 levels later (probably more now there's no mana crystals) meaning you couldn't cast anything else that turn and depending on your mana regen for many turns after.
Also as you level your spells up to rank 4/5 some of them end up taking large amounts of mana aswell which can mean your cap can't accommodate two spells in one turn or in quick succession, not because you mana doesn't recharge fast enough but because you just don't have the mana to start with.
While no one probably ever bought Mana Crystals with radiance they did drop and they will have undoubtly been used, either on crappy temp items you only hold onto until your natural mana cap gets high enough or thrown in with 3/4 more useful crystals (3/4 regen, 1/2 mana, i've done this a few times) and whether you realise the magnitude of the difference it makes or not. Its effect needs to be stated here, 80-120 mana (100 mana) when you have a base mana pool of 550 and your spells all take 300+ mana is a huge difference in down time between spells.
Also worth saying, leveling 10-30 say, you don't exactly have shed loads of cash to spend on items that are level requ equal to your character level, leaving you shopping in the 1-10 section where your unlikely to see high +mana values and even more unlikely to see them high enough to make the same difference a single mana crystal does.
In the end all i can say is, please bring mana crystals back quickly, I can see their not being in game dettering people from playing purely because they can't use there characters properly and can't do anything about it.
Bring back mana crystals.
Everyone stop buying attribute crystals.


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Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette put heartbreak aside with a gutsy performance which gave her an Olympic bronze in women's figure skating, just four days after the death of her mother on Thursday.
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Duke Energy Acquires Tierra Energys Wind Development Business May 29, 2007
Duke Energy today announced that it has acquired the wind power development business of Tierra Energy, a leading wind power development company located in Austin, Texas, from Energy Investors Funds for an undisclosed amount. The purchase includes more than 1,000 megawatts of wind assets under development in the Western and Southwestern United States.
Three of the development projects a total of approximately 240 megawatts are located in Texas and Wyoming, and are anticipated to be in commercial operation by the end of next year, with additional facilities potentially in operation as early as 2009. The power produced will be sold through long-term contracts.
As our nations appetite for electricity continues to grow, renewable energy will play a larger role in meeting that demand, said Duke Energy Chairman, President and CEO, James E. Rogers. This acquisition supports our strategy to increase our investment in renewable energy and national efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
The assets become part of Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), a Duke Energy subsidiary that focuses on investments in onsite energy, commercial and renewable energy assets across North America.
Six members of Tierra Energys senior management team are joining DEGS, including David Marks, formerly Tierra Energy president. Marks becomes DEGS senior vice president, business development wind energy.
Were very excited to be involved with this environmentally friendly technology and that David and his team are joining us, said DEGS President, Wouter van Kempen. We see wind power as a potential growth opportunity for DEGS, and we plan to spend approximately $400 million in capital expenditures through 2008 to complete the first three development projects. We would expect to begin seeing earnings from these assets in 2009.
Duke Energy currently has purchase agreements for wind generation in Indiana and recently installed solar panels at 10 Indiana schools. The company also recently issued a request for proposal for renewable energy to help meet growing demand in the Carolinas.
DEGS develops, owns and operates electric generation for large energy consumers, municipalities, utilities and industrial facilities. DEGS specializes in developing innovative and environmentally sound generation solutions using a variety of fuels, including natural gas, coal, waste coal and wood, as well as wind and other renewable energy.
Duke Energy Corp., one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers energy to approximately 3.9 million U.S. customers.
The company has nearly 37,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: www.duke-energy.com.
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Cheyenne, WY (KGWN) - After months of anticipation, lotto sales began Sunday with a better than expected start. "We ended up with $198,612 on I think 60,001 transactions, so it was a banner day," said John Clontz, WyoLotto CEO.
The lotto corporation hopes that trend continues, "We're hoping to make 45,000 a day, in dollars, and we certainly did that yesterday," said Clontz.
The luck was even had for Alf's Pub here in Cheyenne, who tied for first in sales on Sunday. "We sold right around $2050 worth of tickets," said, Bryan Grzegorchyk, owner of Alf's Pub.
The sale of lotto tickets isn't only going to good causes, "it goes back to education, and it goes back to local government, things that benefit the people," said Clontz.
But it also helps local businesses boom as well. "We had people come in, kind of hang out, check out how the lotto was going, sit back and relax. It was a good day, and we had a lot going on," Grzegorchyk


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Any recommendations on foods to eat after surgery? I know to keep to low sodium starting out, but any suggestions?
What Food Should I Eat After a Tummy Tuck?
Doctor Answers 5
Food after Tummy Tuck?
Thank you for the question.
There is no specific "recommended diet" for the post-tummy tuck patient. A well-balanced diet with high fiber and a good protein source would obviously be helpful. Adding a protein shake ( to each meal) if necessary may also be helpful especially if your appetite is curtailed ( which often happens during this period). Frequent hydration is also important.
Best wishes.
Web reference: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_tummyTuck.htm
Tummy Tuck and Diets
A healing body needs a normal balanced diet rich in proteins and especially essential amino acid. To do well do NOT diet after surgery. Doing so will impact on your healing and the quality of scars. Instead, focus on getting a balanced diet rich in proteins and you will do well.
Dr. Aldea
Foods after tummy tuck
Web reference: https://www.edelsteincosmetic.com
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Avoid excess salt, no other restrictions exist.
Well balanced diet following tummy tuck
The best suggestion is a well balanced diet. I am not an advocate of extreme diets or pushing any one vitamin or supplement. A healthy diet with fruits vegetables and adequate protein is essential to providing all the essential nutrients for building tissue following surgery.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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FILE - In this May 18, 2011 file photo, a compact fluorescent light bulb is seen in Philadelphia. Having to buy a squiggly fluorescent light bulb is an affront to personal freedom, some lawmakers are saying as the House decides whether to overturn a law setting new energy-efficiency standards for the bulbs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)


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Mother Teresa got Carl's Jr. burger and fries in San Diego
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WASHINGTON: Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said the World Bank should not reduce its financial assistance to India even though the country has been recording impressive growth figures.
"Yes you see 9 per cent growth but then you zoom in and look at parts of India that are growing at 4 per cent and 5 per cent or even less. They are very poor and need to be helped and that help should be given by the World Bank," he told reporters here.


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BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores here has entered into the video downloads market with an exclusive "Superman Returns" DVD bundle containing a video download option with purchase of the physical DVD, available starting today only at Wal-Mart, the company said yesterday. This physical/digital DVD bundle gives customers the flexibility to watch the Warner Bros. movie the way they want, on their TVs, portable devices and/or computers, the company said. "This unique Superman Returns ...
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LONDON (FNS) -- Tesco plc and J. Sainsbury plc have entered the computer age. shopping services in Britain. The services are via the Internet and CompuServe. Tesco and Sainsbury are both offering wine via the services. Tesco has linked up with CompuServe to offer 90 of its private-label wines from throughout the world. The system also recommends wines for a particular occasion, a spokeswoman said. Under the service, CompuServe takes the order, which is sent by electronic mail to Tesco. ...
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3015 at Trinity Groves hosted another sold out Fork Fight between Chefs from Chino Chinatown and Souk on August 8, 2013
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