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The downward trend in Australian wood chip exports was broken in 2013 thanks to increased chip demand from Chinese pulpmills; China surpassed Japan as the major destination in the 1Q/14, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
Seattle, USA, May 09, 2014 - (PressReleasePoint) - Australia was for many years the world's leading exporter of wood chips and the major supplier of wood fiber to the pulp industry in Japan, which was the largest importer of wood chips in the world. This changed in 2012 when Australian exports fell to their lowest level in over ten years and Vietnam took over as the largest supplier of
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There is no lack of wood supply in Australia, rather it is the demand for chips from the export market that has changed. Exports of Eucalyptus chips reached a peak of five million tons in 2008, and fell to about 3.3 million tons in 2012, which is the lowest export volume since 2000. It is primarily the demand for chips in Japan that has diminished, and had it not been for China's increased wood fiber demand, the picture would have been even bleaker for Australian chip exporters.
However, over the past six months, shipments of wood chips from Australia have rebounded and volumes exported in the 4Q/13 and the 1Q/14 were the highest quarterly shipments since 2010. The biggest reason for the increase has been China's need for wood fiber for the country's pulp industry. As the matter of fact, the 1Q/14 was the first time Australia exported more wood chips to China than to Japan, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). Of the total shipments of 1.2 million tons in the 1Q/14, about 50% was destined to China, while the reminder was shipped to Japan, Taiwan and, for the first time, to India.
The negotiated hardwood chip export price in Australia has fallen the past two years in both Australian and US dollar terms because of lower demand from Japanese pulp mills, increased availability of chip supply from Vietnam, and unwillingness on the part of Chinese pulp companies to pay elevated prices for higher-quality Eucalyptus wood chips. Chinese chip buyers are currently paying about 30 dollars less per odmt for Eucalyptus chips than what Japanese chip buyers do, according to the WRQ (www.woodprices.com).
Despite the lower price, export volumes to China went up in 2013 and were 85 percent higher than in 2012. In the 1Q/14, Australia supplied approximately 27 percent of China's total import volume of hardwood chips, up from only seven percent during the same quarter in 2012.
Despite the encouraging outlook for increased chip exports to China and India in the coming years, the biggest challenge for Australian chip exporters is to be able to raise the prices for chips to China and to close the wide price gap with Japanese-bound chips.
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Smokers always be losing their cigarettes packs. Where do those things even end up half the time? I mean, a 78 year-old man's crotch is as good as a place as any to search.
Unfortunately for Karnesha Nantz, 32, police up in Stuart, Florida, were not buying such a story.
A Martin County Sheriff's deputy got a call just before 9:30 a.m. on November 7 that a couple was having sex in a Honda van. Nothing like a little minivan nookie to get the morning started off right.
When the Sheriff's deputy approached the van he saw Nantz's head nestled all up in the crotch of 78-year-old Jackie Fisher. According to Off the Beat, Nantz appeared startled and Fisher hastily attempted to zip up his pants.
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When the deputy asked Nantz why her facial region was all up in Fisher's penis area, she said that she was merely trying to locate cigarettes she misplaced in the senior citizen's crotch. Granted, if my smokes ended up in a 78 year-old's crotch I'd probably just a write them off, and buy some new ones, but nicotine addiction can lead you to doing some crazy things.
Nantz however quickly dropped the excuses. She told the deputy she had met Fisher a few days earlier, and he had given her a lift to go buy drugs. Fisher told the deputy that he had picked Nantz up again today at a gas station.
Interestingly, no prostitution charges were filed. Though, both Nantz and Fisher were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct.
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When I rant, it is not a knee-jerk reaction. It is more like a slow burn. Stuff accumulates in my brain until I can't take it any more. And then it breaks loose.
Here's the kindling that has started today's fire: Endless "manifestos" about dreaming your way to success and adventure. Over and over we are pounded with rainbow bombs until you begin to believe that if you're not dreaming your way to a better life then there must be something wrong with you. The conversation usually starts with something like this:
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
A mantra like this, and thousands like it, may be posted on a Facebook page or Twitter stream and then people chime in:
"This is so true! This is what I needed to hear!"
Sometimes I wonder if people even think about these things they are writing and responding to.
Let me tell you about my grandfather. For 50 years, he was a plumber mucking through the sewage pipes of Pittsburgh. As far as I know he never traveled more than 200 miles away from his home … which was about two miles from the place he was born. I do not believe he ever stepped on a boat or an airplane. He loved to read, tend to the roses in his garden, and listen to sports on the radio. He was happy with a cup of black coffee and a bowl of his home-made bean soup.
If you asked my grandfather about his latest "daring adventure" I think you would get a blank stare.
And yet, his life was certainly worthwhile and admirable. He raised two great kids and his family was always warm, safe and fed. He worked tirelessly for his church. He was a great plumber who would do a job for a chicken or some scraps of wood if his customers couldn't pay. He was a devoted husband, and he was hilarious. My grandfather was a great man, a joyful man, and I think there is something to be said for that.
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I understand that people love these little self-help validations in the social media stream, but you can be a great and worthy person without writing your manifesto, living out of your box, or daring to be a failure. Sometimes life gets in the way and the best you can do is deal with it …
- I have a friend who has a truly great idea for a new business. To make it work he would have to quit his well-paying job and take a tremendous financial risk for at least two years. He also has six children to feed and clothe. He is keeping his job. You know, I respect that.
- I have a college friend who is a life-long soldier. He really needs to follow orders and stay "in the box." He is not living a dream, he is not inventing, or creating art, or even building his Klout score, but I am really happy he is keeping us safe and free through his sacrifice.
- One of my business colleagues has put his career on hold to raise two special needs kids. He and his wife are exhausted and stressed every day. They have no time to create, innovate, blog, or dream about rainbow lives. At the end of the day they simply collapse in exhaustion.
Centering your life only on a "Living Your Dream" manifesto seems to be a shallow, naive, elitist, and self-absorbed way to look at life.
And yet, the message in our culture is pervasive.
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We are bombarded by marketing, advertising and social media rainbow bombs that imply that if we're not exceptional, we're nothing.
"How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?" – Seth Godin
I don't see anything in this world that makes following a dream easy for anybody. In fact, I would say it is remarkable to be remarkable.
I respect Seth Godin but his new book The Icarus Deception is dripping with rainbow bombs — head-in-the-clouds advice about aiming for remarkable by striving to create art in your daily work. You know, sometimes, a person just has to work in their daily work. Yes, I just became the first blogger in history to criticize Seth Godin. How's that for poking the box?
The tagline for a new car commercial is "Normal can never be amazing." The product? Mini Cooper. Not exactly on my list of amazing cars. We are living in an age where the expectation is unicorns and rainbow colored visions of the world even for a car that looks like a golf cart on Botox.
I'm not saying you should not follow your dreams. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be remarkable or fight every day to realize your promise and potential. You should. I'm just looking for a little balance around this place and a celebration of the human qualities that really make the world work:
- Putting your family first instead of your "art," especially when there are children who depend on you.
- Sacrificing for the less fortunate.
- Not just "lending a hand," but BEING the hand.
- Dispensing hope in the midst of crisis.
- Doing good without tweeting about it.
- Being enthusiastic and happy even when you are working on a task you despise.
- Being an authentic leader and mentor.
- Surviving tragedy and having the courage to re-ignite your life.
- Taking a stand in the face of hate and intolerance.
Now there's a manifesto.
Here's to the real people.
The Facebook World does not celebrate the people who make something on this list their life focus. These people are not going viral … and they're not worried about going viral. And yet, that is almost all of us.
Friends, it is honorable to live a life that transcends self-interest.
Today, I celebrate the "most of us." Let's have at least one blog post in this world for the humble, the brave, the suffering, the faithful, and the exhausted. Today I celebrate the plumbers of the world who work in the sewers to put bread on the table. That is something to be proud of … even if it's not a work of art.
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Former Miami Police Sgt. Raul Iglesias is serving his four-year prison sentence for dirty deeds done under the badge, but now he's been charged with more crimes after he posted phone calls on YouTube and a police-centric message board in an attempt to intimidate and harass witnesses in his case.
Iglesias was arrested in part of an FBI sting in 2012. He was suspected of planting cocaine on suspects and stealing money and drugs from crack dealers (and in turn selling those drugs).
Other Miami officers were integral witnesses in the case, and their involvement created something of a rift between Miami cops who thought they were snitches and those who thought the force should be cleaned up.
According to the Miami Herald, Iglesias started something of an online campaign to smear and intimidate the officers who testified against him. He uploaded two phone conversations he'd had with the officers, who at the time were his subordinates, on YouTube.com and the LEO Affairs website just two days before he began his prison sentence. He titled the posts "Miami Mice," and uploaded them under the name "Chivas Royal."
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Mercure Sydney International Airport - Wolli Creek
A restaurant, dry cleaning/laundry and ATM/banking are offered at this hotel. Guests can also enjoy drinks as there is a bar/lounge. If you want low-key dining options, you will be pleased to find a picnic area and 24-hour room service.
Knowledgeable staff available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide tour/ticket assistance, express check-in and express check-out. WiFi is available.
Mercure Sydney International Airport - Wolli Creek
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $125
- Superior Room, 1 King Bed
- Superior Room, 2 Double Beds
- Standard Room, 2 Single Beds
- Superior Room, 1 Queen Bed
- Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed
- Superior Room, 2 Double Beds
- Standard Room, 1 King Bed
- Family Room
Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 271 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 9 floors
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is 11 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets not allowed
- WiFi in public areas *
- WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms *
- Airport shuttle at scheduled times *
- Self parking (limited) *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Full breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 11
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 11
- Conference space size (feet) - 9289
- Conference space size (meters) - 863
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Picnic area
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Soundproofed rooms
- In-room massage available
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Pay movies
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Special features
DiningSeasons Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in regional cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
The Bar - This lobby lounge specializes in regional cuisine. Open daily.
Mercure Sydney International Airport - Wolli Creek's small print
Also known as
- Mercure Hotel Sydney International Airport
- Mercure Sydney International Airport
- Mercure Hotel Sydney Airport
- Mercure Sydney Airport Hotel Wolli Creek
- Mercure Wolli Creek
- Mercure Sydney International Airport Hotel Wolli Creek
- Mercure Sydney International Airport Hotel
- Mercure Sydney International Airport Wolli Creek
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Parking height restrictions apply.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
Deposit: AUD 100 per stay (for stays between 1 January - 31 December)
Optional extras
Onsite credit card charges are subject to an extra charge
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of AUD 120
Self parking costs AUD 25.00 per night
Rollaway beds are available for AUD 44 per night
Full breakfast is offered for an extra charge of AUD 27 per person (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of AUD 6 per person (one way)
Airport shuttle for children between the ages of 0 and 18 costs AUD 6.00 (one-way)
WiFi is available in guestrooms for AUD 24.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
WiFi is available in public areas for AUD 25 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
High-speed Internet access (wired) is available in guestrooms for AUD 24.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Good 3.7 /5 from 330 reviews
Very rude response when request for smoking room. Dusty spider webs on ceiling.
The hotel is unique for its location, half way between the Wolli Creek station and the International Terminal of Sydney Airport (15 minutes walk to either; shuttle bus to airport). There are no restaurants or cafes in the immediate area, but there are walks through parks along the Cooks River. The GoGet cars at the hotel and at Wolli Creek station make it an easy destination for members of this car share service. I would recommend it as a staging-point for the airport for people travelling by train and GoGet car, as we did.
I did not think that a hotel could charge that much money to overlook a building Site. The fact that a paying customer has to pay for car parking as well as a room. I will not be staying here again unless the price reflexs the outside amberiance!
Only one night and everything was excellent
Had lots of trouble as our booking didn't came through your bookingside, had to put up with a tiny room with my family as the hotel was booked out !!!! Very disappointed that I wrote you an email and there is NO response coming back.. people at hotel services were very rude to us it wasnt our fault...never book again with your site and wont recommend the site and either the hotel !!!!


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The World's Smallest Pacemaker
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STUDY CONDUCTED AT OU MEDICAL CENTER FINDS WORLD'S SMALLEST PACEMAKER MEETS INITIAL SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES Oklahoma City, OK— A year out from a first-of-its-kind pacemaker implant surgery, Oklahoma City pacemaker recipient Ray Haggard is excited to see the safety results of his innovative implant. Ray Haggard, 66, was the third person in the U.S. to receive the new Micra® Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) as part of a clinical trial conducted at OU Medical Center. He had the pacemaker placed after being diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia. When doctors told him about the new vitamin-sized pacemaker, Haggard decided it was the best option for him. "Before, I was just feeling like I had no energy and had a hard time breathing. Then I was having episodes where I was blacking out," said Haggard. "Today, I am doing great and have had zero complications from the pacemaker. If anything, it's almost an afterthought, and it is easy to forget it is even there." "These initial findings are encouraging and we are pleased to be among the participating clinical trial sites evaluating this novel pacemaker," said Dr. Dwight Reynolds, the OU Physicians cardiologist who implanted the device. Reynolds also is the chief of the Cardiovascular Section of the Department of Medicine at the OU Health Sciences Center. "We believe this study will prove that this pacemaker significantly reduces the risk of complications that are related to having the larger pacemaker in a pocket under the skin." Initial results from the study of the world's smallest pacemaker were presented at the Hear...


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Customs Control at Tashkent Airport
You need to declare how much money you have when entering to Uzbekistan. Some may think it is not wise to declare how much you have in yur pocket but it is better if you do. Do not need to worry about safety. It is a safe place. Please make sure the amount you have while EXITING is less than you declared when you ENTERED the country. This is checked by the customs control.
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The heat
Uzbekistan is a desert country and in the summertime it is scorching hot. There is generally plenty of shade, but I cannot stress enough that you want to take it much more fluid than you normally would. Melons and tea are the main sources for the locals, and bottled water is also widely available and cheap ($0.30 for 1/2 litre, but only $0.40 for 1.5 litres).
The Airport
I have to say the aiport is not up to high standards. I expected to change back my Uzbek Sum, have a beer or two, maybe buy a tacky suvenir! NOTHING! And I was in the business class area! The was nowhere to exchange money, a bar with no beer or coke, a load of sofas with airport workers lounging around watching soft core porn! What a laugh! This was the VIP lounge!!
Don't Take Photos on the Airplane.
Take a minute and read the warning sign at the airport. It says that taking aerial photos is against the law. It is espionage!
There was some kind of air marshal in an old Russian Army uniform on the Uzbek flight to Qarshi. I assumed he was there to enforce the law.
- Business Travel
Be prepared to pay the baggage...
Be prepared to pay the baggage guys if you want your bags. Corruption is everywhere. On my second day, I traveled to Quarshi, but first I had to pay an excess baggage fee and a fee for a ticket that was for the wrong flight. I paid the driver, and he split the money with the airline attendent.
Second Warning, Uzbek Airlines. Fly the YAK-40. Check out the bald fraying tires. Enjoy the Quarshi airport facilities! This is third world travel at its best!
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RN12 - Environment and Society
The Environment & Society Research Network aims to provide a platform for social scientists interested in issues of environment and sustainability. The main activity of the E&S network is the coordination of sessions at the biannual ESA conference. The network also has an e-mail list and a website to facilitate communication among social scientists active in the field of environment and sustainability.
Researchers and educators who are interested are welcome to join the network. For more information, please contact the network's chair Matthias Gross at matthias.gross[at]ufz.de.
Board members:
Matthias Gross, chair/coordinator,
Click here to read the biennial report 2013-2015 of RN12
Click here to read the biennial report 2011-2013 of RN12
Click here to read the biennial report 2009-2011 of RN12
Call for Papers
3rd Energy & Society Conference
Midterm conference of ESA RN 12
"Transforming Energy for Society"
Leipzig, Germany, September, 12-14, 2016
About the 2016-conference theme
While global oil and gas supplies are subject to geopolitics, the concrete form of a particular energy regime is often an issue of national politics. This has recently become clear within the context of climate change mitigation and energy security, with significant differences in national approaches. Some countries have opted for a renewed fossil fuel strategy pursuing unconventional exploitation of shale gas and oil, and new nuclear capacities. Other nations are by contrast pursuing renewable energy systems, seeking to dramatically reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and a third group, most notably China, is heavily investing in both energy regimes. Pathways of energy regimes have long term implications for the labour market, the landscape and built infrastructure, the parliamentarian spectrum and the relationship of regions to their central government. While renewable strategies call for increased cooperation between neighbouring countries, energy sector coupling and "smart" de-centralisation, fossil and nuclear pathways will reaffirm large scale industrial infrastructure, global fuel supply chains and centralised ownership.
Energy policies are foremost legitimised in a national context, but they also relate to the international discourse on climate change mitigation as well as practices on the local level. The consequences of increasingly diverging pathways thus have implications for single nations as well as for global politics. For example, in the European context, while some countries have opted for nuclear power and unconventional fossil fuels, others support a post-fossil road map. The period of broad consensus that shaped energy policies in Europe for many years and formed the very basis of the early Union itself makes way for a new phase of contention.
These issues present important questions for social research, regarding discourses of risk, acceptance and legitimacy, investment and costs, (changing) practices of energy consumption and production, and evolutions in actor networks.
Taking this as a starting point, the conference explores the diversity of contemporary energy regimes and seeks to examine the emerging questions. We want to address the particular local and national contexts and also the big picture. What could be a seed for change when hopes in post-Kyoto politics are repeatedly disappointed? Do energy and climate politics need a restart to develop a new pathway for a desirable sustainable future?
We encourage submissions on a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Local, regional, national and international energy strategies, pathways and policies
- Theoretical approaches to energy transitions research
- Energy, vulnerability and poverty
- Public participation, democracy and justice in 'old' and 'new' energy provisioning
- Spatial and geo-political dimensions of energy transition pathways
- Communities, grass roots and self-organisation in energy transitions
- Dynamics and patterns of energy use practices
- Smart meters, smart appliances, smart grids, smart everything?
- Economics of energy transitions: Green/blue economy, degrowth, divestment, and other concepts
- Research at the nexus of energy-environment-water-food-mobility
- Methodological approaches to energy research
We encourage submission of abstracts for presentations and posters. Workshop proposals are also welcome.
Sessions and Submissions
- Abstracts (oral and poster presentations): 150-200 words. Please indicate your preference regarding the format (presentation in a session, poster, round table) and session topic
- Workshops (90 min.) proposals are invited in different formats with a focus on thematic, methodological, and/or theoretical discussions. They can include up to four presentations. If the workshop is planned to include individual presentations, the workshop organizer also needs to include a title and abstract of each presenter's paper (150 words and affiliations).
Selected abstracts will be allocated by the conference organisers to roundtable sessions. Roundtable sessions are where a number of presentations are given simultaneously at separate tables within a single room. Each table will have a session chair and the papers allocated to it will be grouped by themes. Each of the papers within the roundtable will be allocated a 20 minute slot (15 minutes presentation followed by 5 minutes questions). Computers and PowerPoint are not used during the roundtable sessions giving presenters an opportunity to think more creatively about their presentation. These are particularly useful sessions for presenting work in progress and early stage ideas for discussion with peers. If you would like to be selected to present in the roundtable session please indicate your preference on your submission.
Key Information
Authors cannot present more than one paper but can be co-authors of other papers. Abstracts must be submitted in English.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts and workshop proposals is January 10th 2016. Authors will be informed whether or not their abstract or workshop proposal is accepted by 1st of March 2016.
The fees for the conference are to be for early bird registration 50 Euro for ESA members, 60 for non-members, 30 for students. Registration will open from March to July 2016.
We look forward to welcoming you to Leipzig! Further info including abstract submissions can be found here: http://www.ufz.de/energyandsociety
ESA 2015 - Call for Papers
Differences, Inequalities and the Sociological Imagination
12th Conference of the European Sociological Association
Prague, Czech Republic, 25 – 28 August 2015
RN12 - Environment and Society
RN Coordinator: Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research, Leipzig and University of Jena, Germany, matthias.gross(at)ufz.de
The theme of the 12th conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) is "Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination." In accordance with this theme, RN12 will critically focus on the environmental dimensions of contemporary inequalities and justice issues as well as the sociological imagination to fathom new ways of conceptualizing human development in the natural environment. Our sociological focus will be on areas as diverse as water management, social movements, renewable energies, human-animal relations, air and soil pollution, environmental risks, the role of science and technology in environmental innovation, and vulnerability to natural and technological disasters. We aim to explore issues of environment and society from diverse theoretical, methodological and empirical points of view keeping an eye on practice orientation of sociological research.
We invite you submit abstracts to the session themes listed below. Topics addressed in the RN 12 sessions include, but should not be restricted by those listed below:
01RN12. Social Theory and the Environment
02RN12. Sociology and Climate Change
03RN12. Natural Disasters, Resilience, and Vulnerability
04RN12. Renewable and Non-renewable Energies
05RN12. Social, Environmental, and Financial Pillars of Sustainability
06RN12. (Un-)Sustainable Consumption
07RN12. Risk, Rationality and Environmental Decision Making
08RN12. Local and Global Food Chains
09RN12. Environmental Communication, Values, and Attitudes
10RN12. Participation, Citizenship and Environmental Democracy
11RN12. Science, Technology, and Environmental Innovation
12RN12. Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
13RN12. Energy Transitions and Sociological Theory
14RN12. Governance and Management of Water
15RN12. Environmental Justice
16RN12. New Trends in Environmental Movements Research
17RN12. Urban Structures and Environmental Change
18RN12. Transition Theory and Environmental Reform
19RN12. Human-Animal Studies and Environmental Sociology
20RN12. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Circular Economy
21RN12. Biological Diversity and Nature Conservation
22RN12. Low Carbon Society
23RN12. Environment & Society (open session for new trends in environment sociology not covered in the topics above)
We are open for additional topics as long as they can be accommodated in the conference schedule. Authors from outside of Europe are especially welcome to submit abstracts and participate in the sessions.
Authors are invited to submit each abstract only to one session theme/topic. After abstract evaluation, coordinators will transfer papers between session topics where applicable.
Abstracts should not exceed 1750 characters (including spaces) or approximately 250 words. Each paper session will have the duration of 1.5 hours. Normally sessions will include 4 papers. Abstracts can only be submitted online no later than 1st of February 2015 to the submission platform at: http://esa12thconference.eu/abstract-submission. Abstracts sent by email cannot be accepted.
The information requested during abstract submission include: 1) name(s), affiliation(s) and email of all the author(s); 2) contact details of presenting author (postal address, and telephone in addition to email); 3) title of proposed presentation; 4) up to 4 keywords (optional).
Submitting authors will receive an email of acknowledgement of successful submission receipt. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and selected for presentation. Each author cannot submit more than two abstracts (as first author).
Abstract submission deadline: 15th February 2015
Abstract submission platform: http://esa12thconference.eu/abstract-submission or the link below until 1st February 2015: www.conftool.pro/esa2015/
The language of the abstract should be English. Acceptance of the abstract will be based on the following criteria:
• Does the abstract indicate that the paper will make an original, understandable, and meaningful contribution to environment and society debates?
• If the paper presents new empirical material it must be clear from the abstract upon which research any of the conclusions for environment and society debates are based.
• If the paper mainly presents new theoretical considerations it must be clear from the abstract which existing theories and concepts the paper is in discussion with, and which new insights will be added to the debates.
If you have further questions on the conference, please visit the conference website. For further information on the Research Network, please visit http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn12-environment-and-society.html.
Call for Papers
2nd Energy & Society Conference
Midterm conference of ESA RN 12, in cooperation with ISA RC 24
Krakow, 4th – 6th June 2014
Energy Transitions as Societal Transitions:
Challenges for the Present and the Future
Energy transitions are strongly linked to wider societal change. Questions remain, however, regarding how these links can be characterized and whether proposed energy transitions currently place enough emphasis on the implied transformations to societal structures, including habits, life styles, social structures and norms. Further, it is unclear whether the extent of change and the sometimes quite radical implications for society are adequately captured in existing attempts to chart transitional pathways. Two key overarching concerns are at the centre of this conference. First, issues relating to whether non/changing societies are enabling or blocking wider technological or infrastructural transformations. This includes problems of societal acceptance, participation and living cultures, as well as political structures and the nature of contemporary societies (e.g. capitalist, neo-liberal societies). Second, questions about the ways that technological or infrastructural transition intersects with economic, cultural, social, and political routines. This incorporates concerns about environmental justice and capability effects and social sustainability that may be disrupted through technological and infrastructural transition.
We invite all researchers interested in the social aspects of energy transitions to submit abstracts for the 2nd Conference of the International Energy and Society Network, which will be held at the Institute of Sociology (Jagiellonian University), Krakow, Poland, on June 4-6, 2014.
The conference aims at bringing together researchers interested in relations between energy and society and to provide an opportunity for them to connect with others for the purpose of international exchange and possible research collaboration in this area. The conference will feature a keynote by a distinguished scholar prof. Elisabeth Shove. In addition to thematic panels of regular paper presentations, the program will include workshops and scheduled time and space for discussions. Additionally, optional excursions will be organized, likely to include a visit to the Laboratory of RES and Energy Safe Technologies or to a Coal Mining site.
We encourage submissions on a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Energy policies as public policies: social impacts of energy transitions, socially conscious shaping of transitions.
- Structural changes to the energy system and changes in society: decentralization, shifts from "big players" to a multitude of actors, from consumer to prosumer.
- Energy transition as local project: local initiatives, citizen power plants, local strategies, and the interplay of governance levels.
- Conceptual approaches to energy transition research: existing concepts-new applications, innovations in theory.
- Energy transition in context: national and regional conditions, paradigms and pathways, energy cultures.
- Interlinking socio-technical systems: energy – water, energy – waste, energy-food.
- Practice, materiality, energy and social change: innovations in practice, embeddedness, technology and change
- Energy poverty, justice and development: energy poverty research and concepts, environmental justice, political and personal conceptions.
- Public acceptability: implications for energy system transitions, approaches to understanding acceptability.
- Energy demand, markets and innovation: the shaping of demand, implications of energy market innovation for demand.
Please send your abstracts of no more than 250 words by 15th of December 2013 via e-mail:
Notifications of acceptance will be given in January 2014
Full Papers are welcome but are not a requirement. Any full papers submitted will be distributed to the conference participants. A journal special issue is planned as an output of the conference.
More information is available at www.energyandsociety.confer.uj.edu.pl
About the Energy and Society Network
The Energy and Society Network was established in 2010 by academics active in the European Sociological Association Research Network on Environment and Society and in the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Environment and Society. Over 140 researchers from Europe and elsewhere contributed to the first conference of the Energy and Society network, which was held in Lisbon in 2012 as a Midterm Conference of the ESA's Research Network on Environment and Society. The network published a selection of papers from the first conference in a special issue of Nature and Culture due for release in 2014.
Scientific organizing committee
Marian Niezgoda, Institute of Sociology - Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Maria Swiatkiewicz-Mosny, Institute of Sociology - Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Aleksandra Wagner, Institute of Sociology - Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Çigdem Adem, The Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East (Turkey)
Françoise Bartiaux, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Catherine Butler, Cardiff University - School of Psychology (UK)
Ana Horta, Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Portugal)
Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and University of Jena (Germany)
Pia Laborgne, IWAR/TU Darmstadt and European Institute for Energy Research (Germany)
Giorgio Osti, Università degli Studi di Trieste - Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali (Italy)
André Schaffrin, Europäische Akademie (Germany)
Luísa Schmidt, Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Portugal)


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The D looked good on paper last year and sucked! Paper doesn't matter anymore, it's all up to how the players decided they want to play
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Haha, thanks. I like yours too.
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on Mar 3, 2012
at 3:14 PM
You're welcome, fiat-knox! Thanks very much for helping the others I'm working on!
on Mar 3, 2012
at 1:04 PM
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Enjoy your completed collection!
on Mar 2, 2012
at 3:14 AM
Hi! Would you be willing to send your Joseph Ducreux, 2 Vulpix and 2 Scumbag Steevees? I've run far short of the need on these. Thank you!
on Feb 24, 2012
at 12:11 PM
Thanks! Many of them are in their new homes already. Enjoy!
on Feb 24, 2012
at 10:09 AM
Looks like I missed your Sketchy Bunnies Collectibles -- sending now.
on Feb 24, 2012
at 7:59 AM
A wonderful cheezfriend just sent me the Bachelor Frog and Taco for you. And enjoy the 15 new Retired Collectibles! Take care!
on Feb 24, 2012
at 7:36 AM
Well, your page should look quite a bit more possible now! I've added 3 Birds of MEMEbase, 3 Evolution of the Cat, 1 Wolfpack, 4 Keyboard Cat, 1 Poptart Cat, 1 LOLrus Pool Party, 2 Bunny Day, 2 Nap Time, 4 Valentines, 4 New Year's Rezolshunz, 3 Do Not Want, 4 Invisible, 2 Noms, 3 Toyz, 3 Happy Lolidays, 3 A Very Basement Cat Xmas, 4 Holiday Apparel, 4 Thanksgiving Noms, and 3 Dr. Tiny Cat's Trauma Center. I have 14 other cheezfriends' pages in the works now, so please make your returns most helpful to them by starting with the Rage Guys Day Jobs set and working through and including the Challenge Accepted set. Some also need a few individual items outside those sets: Chrismakkuh, Santa Klause, Bah Humbug Kitteh, Crab Hat, and Celeb Bomb. Now I'll fix some coffee and start on your Yaris page. Have a great Friday!
on Feb 24, 2012
at 12:17 AM
thank you, kind sire!
on Feb 23, 2012
at 3:59 PM
I still have most everything you need saved for you. How many would you like at a time?
on Feb 22, 2012
at 9:23 PM
Enjoy the AppleDerp, which completes your My Little Bronies set, the O RLY, which completes your O RLY Family set, and the Turtle Trolley & Hover Cat to complete your Transportation Lolz set. May I please have the duplicates you don't have homes for from the Ninja Turtrolls & Nom Nom Nom the Sequel sets for others who need them? Thanks!
on Feb 21, 2012
at 2:45 AM
Can we do it with Skype?
on Feb 20, 2012
at 5:35 PM
You're welcome! I'll try to get you more, but I could use some of these following exras you have: Snocat, Stocking Stuffers, Bah Humbug, Leftover Turkey Sandwich, Derpatello, LOL RallyDriver, Struttin' Eagle, Smell Like a Boss, Sound Like a Boss, Hairball Microscope, Convertible, Jetski, Vulpix, Scumbag Steevee, and Taco Cat.
on Feb 18, 2012
at 9:57 PM
Thanks very much! They'll help any number of people.
on Feb 18, 2012
at 8:25 PM
Could I have Vulpix, Taco Cat, Classic Photobomb, and Rickroll? Thanks!
on Feb 17, 2012
at 2:54 PM
Thank you for the collectibles, but please no more from the Troll Science collection! Everyone on my friends list has them so I can't gift out anymore of the Fire Extinguishers, Infinite Power, Wooden Shoes, and the Anti-Gravity Kitty. But I could use some from the other collections. Thank you anyway.
on Feb 15, 2012
at 4:32 PM
how does it work actually?
on Feb 15, 2012
at 2:41 AM
hypnotize me so i can be more confidence . . . Man, i just realized that was absurd
on Feb 14, 2012
at 4:56 AM
I'd be happy to help you in whatever way makes you comfortable! There's no obligation. Just knowing you're actively using to spares to help others is plenty. A great many people never did that and are looking for ways to see them used now. But since yours are in no danger of going to waste, please don't give it another thought. I'd be happy to provide what you need with or without trades from a collection of spares others have shared for just that purpose. No one who wants a complete collection should go without when there are so many cheezfriends happily giving their leftovers to prevent it! Have a good day, and please let me know what you need whenever!
on Feb 14, 2012
at 3:35 AM
There's no need for you to return anything at all. I'm glad you are able to use your spares to help friends!
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As a sport-loving nation we understand that no matter how much the rules of a game might evolve, it is ultimately the performance of individual players in the team along with how well they function together that leads to relative success or failure.
Fundamentally it is the same in an evolving economic game. Success in terms of increased prosperity is primarily determined by our performance in adding value at a personal, enterprise and community level. The value is signalled through the remuneration paid for our jobs and the financial returns we generate from the processes and capital invested in our businesses and other enterprises.
So leaving to one side debates on the effectiveness and efficiency of direct wealth transfers, what potential contribution might we expect from local or central government to our overall performance and prosperity?
In principle, we should be able to make some assessment of the value added at an operational level for Crown entities, departments and agencies as we would for other enterprises. However, in practice it proves to be far harder. Even where there is clear consumer demand, seldom does price and the normal interplay of demand and supply help us make assessments of relative value. Typically, governments are monopoly providers so there are no local comparators and international comparisons tend not to be straightforward.
So, crudely, we rely on our three-yearly democratic election process and the insights shared through the media and political debates to determine the scale of resources from taxes, levies and borrowing that we as a community want to allocate to government activities, including which ones are seen as our greatest priorities.
At a more strategic level, how well politicians design and implement our social, economic and environmental frameworks matter - but only indirectly like the rules of the game.
Rugby in the professional era provides a good analogy. Rule changes have affected player behaviour and the flow and style of the game. However, players and their fans still know what good performance looks like for every playing position making up the team.
Yes, we might believe passionately that the rules need to change to achieve a better flowing game, but we don't let the players and teams off the hook if they perform poorly, whatever the rules.
That is why better performance through innovation in our jobs and enterprises matters the most over time and needs to form the greater part of our focus. Innovation can flow from the positive attitudes and the application of our people and enterprises, whatever our social, economic and environmental frameworks.
Get both dimensions right; implementing good government frameworks to complement the attitudes and application of our people and our enterprises, and the resulting economic and social impacts can be very significant.
Witness the changes in China in the past two decades. This is illustrated by many well- researched articles in The Economist. Typically they analyse the evidence from a wide range of countries to assess the impacts on outcomes and performance for whatever element of social and economic frameworks they are reviewing.
For example, a recent edition looked at women in the workforce and the different solutions to the combining of work and parenthood. It concluded that it was difficult to evaluate the relative merits of the wide variations in arrangements and that quite different systems produced similar results. Anti-statist United States has roughly the same proportion of children in kindergartens as statist Finland.
The conclusion is that once the strategies and systems which have reasonably good prospects of delivering improved outcomes have been chosen, how well and consistently these are implemented is of far greater importance than looking for any theoretically best approach.
Also, if government frameworks and policies favour certain behaviour, then with any major change inevitably there will be winners and losers. Governments like to be popular so pleasing the winners is not the issue, rather justifying the impact on losers and making an assessment of what that might mean politically will determine whether the proposed change proceeds.
So is the large number of New Zealanders at the centre of New Zealand's politics prepared for a balanced prescription of tax changes in the 2010 Budget with some pain offset by some gain? Will the John Key-led Government get the prescription right and demonstrate the leadership package and present it well?
Or have we, as voters and taxpayers, become so mollycoddled by the State over the years that we can no longer discern what effectively are our own responsibilities, whether or not Government makes good choices about New Zealand's social and economic frameworks?
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From Canada's Housing Bubble- Déjà Vu from the Northern Side of the Border:
During the financial crisis of 2008, many praised Canada's economy, its banks and regulators for the fact that it didn't have the same loose lending practices that were common in the United States and therefore it didn't suffer a similar bust. We have a different view on the matter.
In Canada, like other parts of the world such as China, Brazil, India, Australia and Israel interest rates were far from zero in 2002, when the real estate speculation orgy started in different places around the world. All of these countries closed the gap in the last two years, by slashing interest rates and increasing the money supply. Liquidity brings stupidity, and with stupidity came those reckless lending standards. Canada is one more example of a place was artificially low interest rates caused its citizens, corporations, and banks to lose their mind.
Is Canada's Banking System Conservative as Many Claim?
A good bank is not measured by its ability to make money during the good years. Any bank can do that. It is a big mistake to follow the banks that report record profits when the economy, and especially the real estate market is booming and think that the stock and earnings performance indicate that those banks are well managed. According to such standards, Washington Mutual, Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA), Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC), Citigroup (NYSE:C) and others would be well managed banks with amazing risk management. However, since the fall of 2008, everyone knows that isn't the case and that those financial institutions were not prepared for the great recession/depression that started in the years 2007-2008.
In Canada, like in Australia, Israel, Brazil, India and other countries around the globe, the housing bubble hasn't popped yet. So the fact that they are reporting record profits while the banks in the United States and Europe are struggling is meaningless. What a prudent investor should examine is how these banks prepared for the inevitable downturn in real estate. Are they better off than the American banks in 2008?
What Can the Equity to Total Assets Ratio Tell Us About the Canadian Banking System?
The equity to total assets ratio reflects the basic leverage of a given bank, and in aggregate – the leverage of a given banking system. After examining this ratio in the largest Canadian banks one can discover that not only are the Canadian banks not prepared for a downturn, but they are less capitalized than the largest American banks ever were! (Stats From: Canada's Housing Bubble)
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An examination of the entire banking system reveals similar results (click to enlarge):
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It may come as a shock, but not only are Canadian banks under-capitalized in comparison to the American banks today, but even when comparing the equity ratios to the levels of December 2008. Remember, in December 2008 the United States was in the midst of the worst economic contraction since the great depression and the banks had already written down hundreds of billions of bad loans. The Canadian banks in December 2009 are less capitalized than those banks were and they are in the midst of a housing boom!
Another interesting point is that the Australian banks are in even worse shape than the Canadian banks. (For more about Australia's housing bubble please go to Australia's Housing Bubble- Past the Point of No Return.)
Canadian Banks Are Extremely Vulnerable to a Housing Downturn
The Canadian banks have an equity to total assets ratio of less than 6%. That means that if their assets fall by more than 6% they will essentially be bankrupt. That is an unbelievable figure given that the American banking system collapsed under similar conditions, even though they had a much better starting point.
Does Canada Have the Money to Save Its Banks?
Canadian banks will need a bailout. That is for sure. The only question is will the Canadian government have the resources to rescue them?
The total assets of the largest banks in Canada are as follows:
- Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) - $700 Billion USD
- Toronto Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) - $575 Billion USD
- Bank of Montreal (NYSE:BMO) - $400 Billion USD
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE:CM) - $350 Billion USD
- National Bank of Canada (OTCPK:NTIOF) - $150 Billion USD
- Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) - $525 Billion USD
Total: $2.7 Trillion USD
Let's compare that to the largest banks in the United States:
- Citigroup (C) - $1.8 Trillion USD
- Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) - $2.3 Trillion USD
- J.P Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) - $2.3 Trillion USD
- Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) - $1.2 Trillion USD
- U.S Bancorp (NYSE:USB) - $285 Billion USD
- BB&T Corporation (NYSE:BBT) - $165 Billion USD
Total: $8.05 Trillion USD
The total amount of assets held by the six largest Canadian banks is $2.7 trillion U.S. dollars, or 168% of GDP, while in the United States it is only 57% of GDP.
What about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac you may ask? Well let's have a look. The total assets of Fannie Mae are about $3.3 trillion and of Freddie Mac, about $2.3 trillion.
If you add Fannie and Freddie the total assets of the 8 largest American financial institutions is still "only" $13.6 trillion which represents a smaller share of the United States' GDP than the six largest Canadian banks represent of Canada's GDP!
Please remember that Canada does not enjoy a reserve currency status and therefore will need to actually raise the capital needed in order to save its banking system. (As opposed to just printing it).
Canada will probably suffer from a weak currency when the crash comes, unlike what the U.S experienced, a fact that will keep both its central bank and government paralyzed. A fiscal or monetary stimulus may be out of the question, as is always the case when a credit collapse is combined with a collapsing currency.