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We Need More Wellstone/Tasini Democrats in the Senate!
This week Representative Raul Grijalva and 15 other Democrats sent a letter to President Obama urging him to do more to reverse the coup in Honduras. Specifically, it urged him to speak up against human rights abuses under the coup regime: at least ten Hondurans have been killed since the coup (not 2, mainstream media.) The sixteen Democrats also urged Obama to cancel U.S. visas and freeze bank accounts of officials of the coup regime.
But to my knowledge, there has been as yet no mention of this letter in the media outside of the Capitol Hill press. If you search on Yahoo News, you find three unique references to "Honduras and Grijalva": an article in The Hill, and two writers on Huffington Post.
Now do a search on "Honduras and DeMint." You'll find many media citations of Senator DeMint's support of the coup.
Even if you figure that individual Senators count more than individual Representatives, it's still disproportionate. If the two houses were equal, and 100 Senators equaled 435 Representatives, then 1 Senator would equal 4.35 Representatives. So 16 Representatives would equal 3.68 Senators. But on this issue, at least, one Senator seems to count more than 16 Representatives, so a Senator counts more than three times as much as a corresponding number of Representatives.
In May, Representative McGovern introduced a bill requiring an exit strategy from Afghanistan. The bill now has 95 co-sponsors. When there was a floor vote in the House, the majority of Democrats voted for McGovern's amendment. Recent polling indicates that a majority of Americans - and three-quarters of Democrats - now oppose the Afghanistan war.
But as of today there is not yet even a Senate companion to the McGovern bill.
If it were up to the House, the Employee Free Choice Act would already be law.
If it were up to the House, we wouldn't be talking about dropping the public option for health insurance. Maybe we'd be talking about Medicare for All.
We need more progressive fighters in the Senate, like Paul Wellstone.
Jonathan Tasini is running for the Senate in New York, for the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. New York is a solidly blue state. It deserves a blue Senator, not a purple one. Tasini has been a long-time fighter for health care for all and labor rights.
And he has been long-time fighter against our endless wars. He even - chutzpah in our national political life - publicly praised Jimmy Carter for his efforts to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians. How many Senators do we have like that?
I think we could sorely use a Senator like that. If you agree, show Jonathan some love.
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The Redline Time Attack event at the famous Mazda Raceway- Laguna Seca started off with trouble. We arrived at the track late Friday afternoon and when pulling the car out of the trailer we noticed gas dripping from the vehicle. Our worst fears became a reality as upon further inspection we found a puncture hole in our gas tank which must have happened during the transport of the vehicle. Understandably this posed a huge problem as sourcing a gas tank at 7pm is next to impossible not even considering the time it would take to switch it out. We decided to try and patch up the tank with an over the counter fuel tank seal dough, and stayed up until 1 am fixing the leak and making adjustments to prepare the car for the event.
As many of you know Laguna Seca has a very strict 92 dB noise restriction with the sound station located 50ft away from the track on the right side. We feared our car would not be able to pass and as expected we got black flagged the 1st practice session Saturday morning. We swapped out the exhaust system with a standard AMS 3" resonated. It did the trick for 2 laps and once again we got bumped for sound. At that point the car also developed a mechanical issue and we've spend the remainder of the day working on the car.
We returned to the track next day. The air temperature was lower than the day prior and many of the cars who were passing the sound check the day before once again were over the 92 dB limit. We added a 90 deg. elbow to the muffler hoping to divert the sound away from the meter, it worked for a little bit and in one of the practice sessions we posted a 1.31.430 lap time which was the fastest time of the day. We felt very confident about the car and we knew we had what it takes to beat the competition. Unfortunately the air temperature was dropping throughout the day and once again we were faced with the noise restriction issue. With very limited resources at the track we hacked up the exhaust system and fabbed up the so called "AMS single stack exhaust" which extended past the wing of the car and utilized 3 mufflers/resonators. We went out for our 1st timed session and posted a time of 1.32.270 again being bumped for sound after a handful of laps. After that we switched the angle of the outlet pointing it to the left and away from the sound station.
For the final timed session we outfitted the car with a new set of BFG R1 tires, fed the beast a little more power and hoped for the best. As feared once again we got black flagged for noise level,-even with Paul letting off when passing the sound check station. The JIC S15 and the ESX World challenge Subaru WRX STI were among many other cars bumped for noise. The GST Subaru went on to win the Unlimited AWD class with a 1:31.851 lap time. They split their 3 inch exhaust system into a dual 2.5 inch set up with multiple mufflers! Our time put us 2nd in the Unlimited AWD class and 4th Overall
The AMS Time Attack team would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support;
- BF Goodrich Tires
- Fuelab
- HQ Kustoms
- Precision Turbo
- CTG TORQline
- Shepherd Transmission
- Tial Sport
- Vibrant Performance
- Performance Friction
- HTP America
- Wilwood
We also would like to thank our staff, our customers and the people who came out to support us at the event! A special thank you is also due to Sam at FIA Motorsports and Devin at Speed Element who offered to remove and lend us their OEM EVO gas tanks so we could run the event!!!
Now for the pics:
The view from the top of the hill.
Ahh, the famous corkscrew!
Paul Gerrard before the final session
Justin working on the car
The AMS Single Stack Exhaust aka "The Periscope"
Gary Sheehan piloting the ESX World Challenge STI

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Americans Spent Valentine's Day Thanking Spain for Prosecuting Bush Lawyers
By David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org
On Valentine's Day 2011, yet another U.S. judge agreed with yet another claim that President Obama has the right to protect members of the Bush-Cheney administration from prosecution for torture.
But a coalition of human rights groups spent the day visiting the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Spanish colsulates around the United States to share some love for a country that is working to prosecute former top Bush officials for torture.
The coalition thanking and encouraging Spain to enforce laws when the United States will not has gathered 8,400 signatures on a letter, a love letter of sorts, to the people of Spain, and has raised $6,000 so far for purchasing newspaper and street advertisements in Madrid.
The delegations that presented the letter on Monday to Spain's representatives in the United States reported that their visits seemed to be accepted in the spirit of friendship and gratitude in which they were made. Visits to Spanish diplomatic offices were made in Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Dallas, and Phoenix.
Spanish media outlets, and Spanish-language U.S. outlets, are reporting widely on this effort, while the rest of the U.S. media, and even the blogosphere, could hardly be less interested.
At the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C., Ray McGovern and Ann Wright led a meeting with a Spanish diplomat, thanking and encouraging Spain to prosecute former Bush officials for torture on behalf of a large coalition. Ron Fisher reports that they gave the embassy personnel Valentine's Day balloons and cookies.
In New York City, a delegation of a dozen New Yorkers gathered outside the Consulate General of Spain. They went upstairs together to the Consulate and delivered the letter, roses and a box of chocolate. They were interviewed by Univision and EFE.
Terry Rockefeller of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows made this additional remark to me on the importance of what Spain is doing:
"I would add that in my communications with Iraqis who are working on the Justice for Fallujah campaign, these developments in Spain have been a tremendous inspiration to belief that international law can be a force for positive and nonviolent change."
In Chicago the delegation to the Spanish consulate included two Veterans for Peace, representatives from Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Catholic peace and justice activists, and representatives of Amnesty International and World Can't Wait.
Jay Becker reports:
"The vice consul at the Spanish consulate in Chicago met with us. We presented the 120-page petition with the picture of the billboard in Spanish on the cover and the letter to the Spanish people, signed by all of us.
"Ray Parrish from Vets for Peace read a short letter pointing out that Bradley Manning is being held in conditions amounting to torture (with no charges or conviction), while Wikileaks cables reveal real crimes committed by our government.
"Michael from PsySR conveyed the seriousness of the material CCR has compiled and urged the Spanish judiciary to take the lead the way they had in pursuing Pinochet of Chile. I read from the letter and underscored that President Obama and Eric Holder had acknowledged that torture has been committed by the US government but failed to prosecute and in fact pressured other countries not to pursue charges, which is a crime under international law.
"The vice consul accepted the petition and letter, and flowers and chocolates presented by Chris and Mary Fogarty, Irish-American anti-war and justice activists. He assured us that he will convey them all to the Consul General as soon as he returned to the consulate, and we urged him to convey our appeal to the people of Spain. The vice consul said we were brave to take this action, but we replied that we are asking Spain to be brave and uphold international law and justice in the face of pressure from this government.
"We all felt afterward that we had conveyed the seriousness of the action that needs to be taken now, and this was another important step in developing the political movement that can make these long-overdue prosecutions a reality. I hope we'll have photos shortly, and perhaps more impressions from other participants."
Susan Harman reports from San Francisco:
"Just home from ours in San Francisco. Eleven of us, in the rain. They said they'd heard about the rest of our actions around the country. They weren't allowed to accept the beautiful white roses (peace), and wouldn't let us take pictures of them or inside the lobby, so we made do out in front. Notice (in photo at top of article) Tom, an 80-year-old Korean War vet, and Juanita (with dog), who lives across the street from John Yoo in the Berkeley hills. Felt good to be able to say something nice, for a change!"
Leslie Harris reports from Dallas:
"We visited the Spanish Consulate in Dallas today. We were greeted by Jennifer Zimmer, assistant to the Spanish Consul, Janet Kafka, who welcomed us into the consulate. Holding a banner that read, "Gracias, Espana," we explained that we were there to express our heartfelt thanks for Spain's efforts in upholding the rule of law.
"We took turns reading the letter of thanks, support, and encouragement to the citizens of Spain for their interest in investigating U.S. officials' roles in authorizing torture. We expressed our sincere hopes that they and their judiciary will dispel the notion that any country is above the law.
"We wished everyone a Happy Valentines Day and presented a bouquet of flowers, some heart-shaped balloons, and a hefty stack of papers - a photocopy of a billboard planned to go up in Spain which read, "Por favor, hagan lo que los EEUU no hara - procesar a los torturadores," and a petition, signed by over 8,400 people, asking Spain to do what the U.S. won't: prosecute torture! Ms. Zimmer smiled, thanked us, and agreed to pass on our message.
"Even as we remembered those whose hearts and bodies have been broken by torture and violence, our hearts were warmed at the thought of people around the world working together to uphold justice and restore the rule of law. New friends. Smiles all around. The perfect day for a heartfelt expression of love for humanity."
Sandy Davies of PDA-Miami and the author of "Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq," reports from Miami:
"We delivered the letter, plus chocolates, roses and a vase of flowers from Chip's garden (including "Bleeding Hearts") to Cristina Barrios Almazor, the Spanish Consul General in Miami. I felt that the message was received very much in the spirit in which it was delivered, as a heartfelt thank you from the people of the United States to the people of Spain on an important matter.
"I explained to the Consul General that we represented hundreds of thousands of Americans who belong to the 29 organizations listed as signatories on the letter. I told her that we are embarrassed and ashamed by our country's failure to prosecute these crimes, and that we are grateful that, of all the countries in the world that could prosecute these crimes under universal jurisdiction, Spain has stood up to actually pursue these cases.
"Our delegation included Jim Goodenow, Diane and Ellie (South Florida Impeachment Coalition), Catherine De Leon (PDA), Chip Sullivan (PDA & VFP), Orlando Collado (President, VFP Chapter 032 - not in picture) and me.
In all the work we do, it's rare that I feel I've been part of something as important as this, that what we did today may make a real difference to the prospects for accountability and justice, and thus to deterring such crimes in the future. Peace!"
Sharon Tipton reports from Los Angeles:
"A representative from the Spanish Consulate wrote to me that this issue was not under their jurisdiction but that they would forward the letters to the Spanish Embassy. This did not stop our expression of love for the Spanish people and their wonderful pursuit of international justice! A number of grateful citizens, including Karen and Sharon from the Orange County Peace Coalition; Michael Haas, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, and author of "George W. Bush, War Criminal?", and John, Jennifer, and Adela from World Can't Wait visited the Consulate this morning bearing gifts!
"We told the Consulate representative who greeted us behind a pane of glass why we were there and that we had a gift for the Spanish people! She graciously came out to us and accepted our flowers and letters, but seemed a little uncomfortable being in our video and photos!
"Mike Haas spoke to us afterward and shared a great analysis of the state of U.S. torture accountability (which I have on video). In part he shared that the US won't prosecute torture - but that when one of these cases against a prominent American wins, it will finally get the attention of the American people. So, Spain's judges and people give us Hope! Gracias Gente de Espana!"
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Spanish media outlets, and Spanish-language U.S. outlets, are reporting widely on this effort, while the rest of the U.S. media, and even the blogosphere, could hardly be less interested.
We should be seeing more people actively supporting such efforts, to obtain indictments and prosecutions. We have had a lot of the anti-torture efforts and outrage over the years, while getting comparably little for the crimes of wars of aggression, and now we're seeing the anti-torture activists vanish, apparently.
Perhaps some bloggers who are silent figure that since the principal crimes are being mostly ignored, then there's little point in focusing on the incidental crimes, which include torture and extraordinary renditioning. I'm for indicting all of the people guilty for all of these crimes, but indictments and prosecutions for the crimes of torture will hardly help to stop the wars, which has always urgently needed to be done. Indictments for the crimes of these wars of aggression would also make it relatively easy to subsequently obtain indictments against people who aren't responsible for the wars of aggression, but who are nevertheless guilty for serious incidental crimes, including torture and extraordinary renditioning.
But more emphasis seems to have been placed by American activists on the crimes of torture than on the wars, and this continues to stun me.
Indict for torture and if successful, then great. But it ain't gonna stop the wars!
Why aim for less? The reason has never been explained.
That's not why corporate US media is ignoring this new effort to try to get Washington's torture criminals indicted, but maybe some bloggers aren't impressed with actions against incidental crimes while there are hardly any actions about the principal crimes. It does disenchant me. Economically, I believe in the bottom-up approach. When it comes to wars against peace, I think the logical or strategy should be to nail the criminals responsible for the principal crimes, first.
But maybe many of the bloggers were very pro-Obama and now that they see how badly they erred, they cowar back in silence.
I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with what this activist group did. They are acting on the basis that torture is criminal and the guilty parties are known persons, that is, identified. And if these criminals become indicted and prosecuted because of this group's effort, then GREAT. I'm just always stunned by the greater focus on torture as opposed to the supreme international crime of war of aggression. Millions of people have been cold-bloodedly murdered because of these wars. Countries destroyed. Both the torture and extraordinary renditioning, as well as wars against peace are horrendous crimes, but the latter are worse.
Here's a way to please everyone, well, besides Washington et al. Go for indictments and prosecutions of the principal war criminals as well as their associates guilty in or for the incidental crimes. Do both.
Ask the Spanish court to indict the people guilty for these wars. They are the leading criminals in all of this; the leading political criminals, that is. There are also the leading military criminals, the commanders who know law and refuse to abide by and defend it. And there are the corporate masters of Washington.
Why be bashful by asking for less than what's needed?
The Clinton administration secretly used extraordinary renditioning to countries with governments known worldwide for brutal torture, too, btw.
Re. the U.S. judge:
The "U.S. judge agreed with yet another claim that President Obama has the right to protect members of the Bush-Cheney administration from prosecution for torture", and the judge is definitely wrong. Obama doesn't have this right. The U.S. doesn't have this right. No one has this right. BUT, Washington has the power to protect its criminals and to harbor foreign criminals, like terrorist Louis Posada Carilles, f.e. Having the power to protect doesn't make it right unless it's protecting innocent people and human rights. Criminals who are imprisoned have human rights, legally and ethically, so I wouldn't discount this.
It would be great for the US to apply the relevant laws, but if the US did this with the the law about torture being criminal, then it would be greatest if the US also applied the laws about wars of aggression.
But neither is going to happen and it's pretty obvious that many judges of the federal level in the U.S., as well as many at state and municipal levels, are CORRUPT. Their court and other "legal" judgments or rulings are often criminal and these criminal judges get away with this with most of the population staying totally silent about it.
People get the government they elect or certainly believe that they elect. It's really Corporate America that decides, but it does this in a way that many Americans fall for; leaving the voters to believe that they really decide who wins elections. What a farcical belief. What's not farcical about it is that the rich, ruling elites decide who can and can't be President and most voters go along with this "nice" and blindly; such loyal creatures, they are, as loyal as dumb animals when conditioned to obey their masters or trainers. Hoorah.
Hi Mike. Maybe one reason that a focus on torture makes some sense is that there is no appetite among the American public for holding governmental officials accountable. Torture may just be the issue that could overcome that reluctance. That is, if we can create in the public a mindset of accountability, then maybe we will be able to expand that idea to wars of aggression. It's also the case that the torture issue ought to resonate across a much wider political spectrum: those who support an expansive use of the U.S. military, as well as those who oppose it; law and order advocates; those who believe in limited government; military leaders; etc.
Illegal Wars - fir sure we had the perfect tools and parties, Impeachment was at our finger tips, with a Democrat House and Senate. But Nancy Pelosi is guilty of Sedition by taking the Constitution out of the Peoples hands.
We tried very hard to prosecute the Illegal Invasions and Illegal Occupations - but at this point it would be like stopping a Tidal Wave, our numbers are thin and tackling Torture is both Cohesive and Comprehensive in its nature. Our numbers can handle this pinnacle of depravity and the world is in-tune with our endeavors except Zionist Israel.
Of Course we'd all jump at the opportunity to End All Wars! this is what Capitalism does best... Imperial Conquest - soooo look at the term war and replace it with Imperial Conquest - pretty hard to stand up to that or make a dent with our over worked and stressed cadre/numbers.
How hard would it be to convince the majority of US Citizens to Not Pay their Taxes until the Wars were ended? We'd gladly champion this action, certainly it's the purse strings that make or break the action however things aren't what you'd call favorable in this Neo-Fascist Capitalist cabal.
I once knew a guy who was a surfer, with lots of ego ... and he'd sit on the 'outside' waiting and waiting for the Biggest Wave... he didn't want to waste his energy on those little 5 footers he said... in his waiting he got rusty and i dont' think he ever caught the 'Big One'.
Although prosecuting for Illegal Invasions seems like the Big Priority - We have found that the frontal assault on the Capitalist Military is invincible at the moment We can make our case against the architects of the Illegal Invasions thru prosecuting for Torture.
And many many thanks to all who managed to consult with their Spanish Embassies - Thank you for the Thank you's
that it's better to indict and prosecute the criminals guilty of the crimes of torture, and these criminals number far more than four. They also begin with the White House administration; certainly Donald Rumsfeld anyway. They also include Bush, since he was C-in-C.
But the US won't respect any ruling against these criminals made by Spain or, for extraordinary renditioning, which we know has always lead to torture, by Italy or Germany.
So Spain could just as easily perform similar indictments and prosecutions for the crimes of wars of aggression, since the US isn't going to respect any foreign court rulings against US war and torture criminals anyway.
I don't see a way to really win with respect to either crime. All that will happen is that the American criminals indicted and convicted in absentia in Spain or elsewhere may choose to never travel to these countries. That's no big deal. Many countries will still receive these criminals; many governments will, anyway. And the US will continue to act unilaterally as imperialist superpower, if it is not supported by NATO and others, which is either never or else rarely the case.
The work of this activist group is good. It's just that it won't lead to any hard convictions, that is, prison sentences being served by the criminals of Washington.
And I didn't see any mention of Spain prosecuting these criminals, except in the title used for this page.
But a coalition of human rights groups spent the day visiting the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Spanish colsulates around the United States to share some love for a country that is working to prosecute former top Bush officials for torture.
That says that Spain "is working to prosecute", not that Spain is prosecuting; while the title of the page is, "Americans Spent Valentine's Day Thanking Spain for Prosecuting Bush Lawyers", which says that Spain is prosecuting, rather than only "working to prosecute". The latter tells me that Spain hasn't begun the prosecutions, only being at or in some preparatory stage that is or might not be guaranteed to result with actual prosecutions; but the title of the page says that Spain has reached the prosecution stage.
So which is it? Did Spain [guarantee] that it'll conduct these prosecutions, if it hasn't already begun them?
Hi Mike,
There's not a person on any Accountability and Justice team across America that would not Love to see Cheney and the War Mongering Hordes FROG marched to the Haig and then to Prison - On foreign soil!!! i want them stripped of US Citizenship - i hope they hang (Pelosi first and higher with Bush and Cheney watching).
Spain was instrumental in bringing Pinochet to justice. The Spaniards have a track record that speaks for itself. We also know that the current US Junta/ObamanationINC is pressuring Spain NOT to indict anyone for war crimes. (this should speak volumes to the Social Justice adherents in the USA) i wish there were more of you at least questioning the direction and feasibility of our endeavors to bring these scumbags to trial for war crimes.
The direction of many groups to press for the end to these Illegal Invasions and Occupations (starting with Hawaii in the late 1800's, the Philippines, Central and South America, Mexico on and on Iraq, Afghanistan etc) have allowed us to continue the work of arresting and bringing to light the heinous crimes committed in the name of America. There are other orgs that are more situated to End the Invasions and Occupations: i believe World Can't Wait; Backbone; Veterans for Peace - the IVAW and i'm sure a others.
i do hope you can get situated with any of the anti-war Organizations - and that you'll stay tuned to this website for more on the Anti-Torture orgs see the PDA End War committee and just Google Anti War... it's important to understand where you want to establish your efforts and follow through.
Personally i swing in all directions:) There's so much to combat like Privatization of Education making Economic Conscription much much bigger than it is... It's all Relative to be sure. Fighting to Free Brad Manning is just as sacred as ending the occupation of Palestine, or ending these gd wars.
Will in Billings, MT
Keep coming Back we are Powerless without solidarity.
Hi Mike. Maybe one reason that a focus on torture makes some sense is that there is no appetite among the American public for holding governmental officials accountable. Torture may just be the issue that could overcome that reluctance. That is, if we can create in the public a mindset of accountability, then maybe we will be able to expand that idea to wars of aggression. It's also the case that the torture issue ought to resonate across a much wider political spectrum: those who support an expansive use of the U.S. military, as well as those who oppose it; law and order advocates; those who believe in limited government; military leaders; etc.


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The Bureau of Statistics Causes of Death data for 2010 paints an interesting picture of how the lives of 150,000 Australians ended that year. What the data shows is that the four top-ranked conditions that killed Australians in 2010 were heart disease (45,499 deaths), cancer (43,293) , lung disease (11,954) and injuries (8,925). Yes - injuries.
Because the community fragments the public health problem of injury into small separate categories - falls, skateboard accidents, snake bites, etc - in contrast to the way we clump cancers, heart and lung disease into single-issue conditions, we trivialise the significant health and economic impact of a conditions that cause the death of almost 9,000 Australians each year.
Last month the British medical journal The Lancet released its Global Burden on Health report.
Like the Bureau of Statistics report it is an extraordinary snapshot of what is making people sick and killing them - in more than 180 countries, including Australia.
The Lancet report revealed that every day almost 16,000 people die from injuries. They drown, they get killed on the road, die at work, self harm or die during sport and leisure activities. Every day, many times that number are seriously injured, do not die, but suffer ongoing disability.
In 20 years since the first Global Burden of Disease report was published by The Lancet in 1990, the global burden of road crash injury has increased 33 per cent, climbing from 12th to 10th place in the world ranking. Suicide has increased 24 per cent, moving from 19th to 18th place, while falls have increased 37 per cent, moving from 22nd to 19th place. Not only are these increases dramatic but, if considered collectively, the ''all injuries'' group ranks alongside the equivalent collective category of ''all cardiovascular/circulatory disease'' as the leading non-communicable disease contributors to the global burden (substantially ahead, in terms of morbidity, than the ''all cancer'', ''all respiratory'', ''all mental health'', and ''all metabolic'' disease groups).
Last year the federal government allocated more than $133 million over four years to the newly created Australian Preventive Health Agency to promote health and reduce health risk and inequalities, and to initiate actions to promote health across the Australian community. The focus of the agency is at present restricted to tobacco, obesity and alcohol-related diseases.
Among Australians younger than 44, injury is the leading cause of death. A 2003 Access Economics study found there are $1.3 trillion, yes trillion, of potential health gains to be made from reducing injuries. What has been the Australian response?
Injury is the only Australian national health priority area without a high-profile focus for the promotion of evidence-based solutions. Injury has been entirely omitted from the Australian government's preventive health strategy. This gap in national advocacy, multi-disciplinary action, and the deployment of resources, is contributing to the growing costs resulting from preventable injuries in all settings.
Australia has an excellent record in creating focused, co-ordinated approaches to health problems: witness the response to HIV/AIDS and the reduction in cancer-related deaths due to smoking.
But the major public health problem that is injury has been rendered invisible through its fragmentation into multiple, small, settings-based sub-categories. An adequate response to the problem has been rendered impotent by the dissipation of the responsibility for the issue onto individuals and groups with little capacity to achieve social change.
Falls, crashes, overdoses, violence, burns, drowning, and indeed all injuries across all settings, have one thing in common; they are all caused by a simple - and preventable - transfer of energy. While we continue to think of injury as a fragmented health issue, we are unlikely to halt its rapid rise up the global burden of disease ''hit list''. While we continue to trivialise injury by shifting responsibility for addressing components of the problem to ''other people'' we are not going to save lives and build futures.
What is urgently needed is a national commitment to addressing the problem of all-cause injury - for those 9,000 Australians each year who do not need to die, and many times more who do not need to live the rest of their life with disability.
Professor Rod McClure is director of the Monash injury research institute.


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People Who've Had Their Genomes Sequenced
by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted September 21, 2009 in DNA in General
Trying to compile a list of people who've had their genome sequenced and announced it publicly:
- Craig Venter
- James Watson
- Stephen Quake
- George Church
- Marjolein Kriek
- Hermann Hauser
- Han Chinese
- Seong-Jin Kim
- Korean AK1
- Yoruban African NA18507
- 14 others sequenced by Complete Genomics
- Unknown number sequenced by Knome
- 6 genomes sequenced at high depth by the 1000 Genomes Project
- 180 genomes sequenced at low coverage by the 1000 Genomes Project
- Two acute myeloid leukemia patients
Know any I've missed?
Please see the comments for more links.
Sources: Technology Review, Nature 2009 Aug 20; 460(7258):1011-5
Last edited 22 September 2009
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Illumina's genome sequencing service costs $48,000, and its first customer was entrepreneur Hermann Hauser.
I think there are two distinct Korean genomes sequenced.
A highly annotated whole-genome sequence of a Korean individual.
Kim JI, Ju YS, Park H, Kim S, Lee S, Yi JH, Mudge J, Miller NA, Hong D, Bell CJ, Kim HS, Chung IS, Lee WC, Lee JS, Seo SH, Yun JY, Woo HN, Lee H, Suh D, Lee S, Kim HJ, Yavartanoo M, Kwak M, Zheng Y, Lee MK, Park H, Kim JY, Gokcumen O, Mills RE, Zaranek AW, Thakuria J, Wu X, Kim RW, Huntley JJ, Luo S, Schroth GP, Wu TD, Kim H, Yang KS, Park WY, Kim H, Church GM, Lee C, Kingsmore SF, Seo JS.
Nature. 2009 Aug 20;460(7258):1011-5. Epub 2009 Jul 8.
The first Korean genome sequence and analysis: full genome sequencing for a socio-ethnic group.
Ahn SM, Kim TH, Lee S, Kim D, Ghang H, Kim DS, Kim BC, Kim SY, Kim WY, Kim C, Park D, Lee YS, Kim S, Reja R, Jho S, Kim CG, Cha JY, Kim KH, Lee B, Bhak J, Kim SJ.
Genome Res. 2009 Sep;19(9):1622-9. Epub 2009 May 26.
Yes, there are certainly two Korean totally sequenced genomes. Plus, as far as I know, Knome sequenced more than 10 people (for serious amounts of money of course).
Awesome. Thanks for your help, guys! Just curious to see how quickly the list grows. Is there a central repository of the publicly available sequences or at least a link list of where each can be found? I know available data from the PGP-10 is at:
Hey Hsien,
One of the Koreans is named: Seong-Jin Kim (the last author on the second paper Keith cited above). The other is known only as AK1.
The Yoruba individual is an anonymous male known as NA18507, and he's actually been sequenced twice: once using Illumina technology, and a second time using SOLiD.
The 1000 Genomes Project has so far sequenced six genomes (three Europeans and three Africans, all anonymous HapMap individuals) to very high depth, and a further 180 individuals (60 Europeans, 60 Yoruba, 30 Han Chinese and 30 Japanese) with very low coverage. The project will have sequenced round 1200 genomes at low coverage by Feb 2010.
There are also two acute myeloid leukemia patients who have had both their cancer and normal genome sequenced: see here and here.
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You knew eventually had to be coming, and I'm thrilled for her that she now has one of her own. Unfortunately, the jail loving Mindy McCready sex tape is not with baseball great Roger Clemens. However, he plays a big part in the tape.
The video which features McCready, pictured here in 2006, having explicit sex with a former boyfriend named "Peter," features snippets of detailed romps with celebrities including Roger Clemens.
During one of the interview portions, McCready says that she and Clemens didn't get intimate until she was of legal age, and describes the MLB star as being "good" in bed, despite having "a lot of problems" with erectile dysfunction.
McCready goes on to reveal just how far she did or didn't go with several celebrities, and refers to her ex-fiancé Dean "Superman" Cain as being better equipped behind closed doors then Clemens.
She even takes a stab at Oprah Winfrey, calling her racist. According to McCready, the talk show queen told her she should have been strong enough to escape an abusive relationship because she is white, and she believes Oprah wasn't really informed about the ins and outs of domestic violence.
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Dr Keep is an early career researcher with a focus on eHealth, the use of technology to improve healthcare, and supporting the student experience. Underpinning Dr Keep's research is a motivation to facilitate access to healthcare and enhance the training of future health professionals using technology. In particular, she is interested in examining the role of communication between patients and health practitioners for better outcomes and how this changes in the eHealth context.
Dr Keep's research investigates how practitioners use technology to deliver healthcare and integrates this into her curriculum. She evaluates how technology can be used to facilitate learning (eLearning) in the health context and how to better equip health professionals for a health sector that increasingly includes eHealth methods and interventions.
With a focus on building student leadership, Dr Keep's scholarship of learning and teaching has included building opportunities for undergraduate research (in large scale programs as well as mentoring small groups of junior undergraduate students in research) and peer mentoring.
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Virtual World Health Interviewing: this project develops, implements and evaluates a serious game aimed at teaching health students interviewing skills. First Year students enter a virtual world and interview an avatar.
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- 2014 Faculty of Health Sciences Award for Support of the Student Experience
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Residents in many New Jersey coastal communities battered by Sandy watched with dread this week as wind swirled and flood waters spilled onto highways and door steps as the latest Nor'easter unfurled up the east coast.
Sand drifts blew onto Ocean Avenue in Point Pleasant Beach. Farther south, in Ortley Beach, the ocean lapped at the town's newly replenished dunes, repaired after Sandy at a cost of $1.6 million.
In nearby Mantaloking, the gnarly surf breached the dunes, flooding out Route 35, a roadway recently repaired after receiving heavy damage during Sandy.
In Sea Bright, the flooding came not from the ocean, but from the nearby Shrewsbury River. Ocean Avenue, the borough's major thoroughfare, had to be closed three times during high tide.
A handful of homes still in tatters from Sandy took on water up to their floor joists. Others were thankful when the water stopped at their doorsteps. Officials are struggling to figure out why the flooding has increased.
"This [Nor'easter] was the third time we had a water event in our downtown since Sandy. So clearly there's something happening that's causing the water to come up higher and more frequently," said Dina Long, mayor of Sea Bright.
One theory is that debris swept into the river during Sandy is causing a change in the tide, failing to allow for a normal in and out flow of the waters to the ocean.
"There is no question that there is a lot more material in there displacing where the water originally was and it is possible it could be slowing down some of the water of getting back out," said Jim Nickels, marine scientist at the Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University.
This week he will use sonar to map the bottom of the Shrewsbury River, to determine if it's adding to the problem.
Other causes for increased flooding post Sandy include eroded dunes, and compromised bulkheads destroyed during Sandy.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 19 @ 23:48:19 PST by Duke_FerrisJust got back from the movies (The Savages) so only a brief manifesto today. But I gotta say, Wednesdays it's only $3.50 a ticket and they have beer! Does your movie theater have beer?
They have real food too - pizza, pasta and sandwiches. There are tables and couches to lounge upon while you watch the movie... it's all very civilized. All theaters should be like this.
Anyway... where was I... must be the beer... video games! A couple of you people sent me my favorite graph so far this week (I'm a big fan of graphs). And I actually play EVE all the time, so even better. Plus, it's so very true.
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I think I have all my dream 1911s at this point. My Nighthawk is still on order, however.
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I think I have all my dream 1911s at this point. My Nighthawk is still on order, however.
My dream 1911 is getting a top notch smith to customize the 70 series Colt Commander that my granddad carried before he died. Hopefully I can get the money scraped together next year so I can get on a waiting list.
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Do not make the mistake of buying a home from this builder. I purchased a home from them and had it inspected. It failed inspections on the HVAC, roof, concrete, and wiring. They will not give me my EMD back!
After speaking with the sales agent, (who by the way has no clue what she is talking about), I spoke to the sales manager named Justin Davis and he lied to me face to face saying I would receive my money. When I didn't receive it after six weeks, I kept calling and he gave me every excuse he could find to delay the process. I finally called the corporate office and spoke with Bryan VanSlyke (VP of operations). He was extremely rude and told me it was not the builders fault the home failed inspection!!! I requested to speak with the owner and I was told he was out killing something....Are you kidding me?
I called back a week later and left a message for the owner, Edwin Henry, to call me right away. It has been two months and still no call or response at all.
This is unacceptable business practice. I can only put the word out and warn people not to purchase with this shady builder. The managers are unethical and please believe me when I say they build a crappy house!!! I have a 20 page report to prove it!
People: Don't buy with them. I am extremely surprised there are not more complaints on here since my new builder and realtor says Henry Comapny Homes is known to be a "cheap builder."
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VMware Proves Its Value
IPO-darling VMware handily beat analysts' expectations in its first quarter as a public company, tripling profits. And though investors had already priced a powerful quarter into VMware's lofty share price, which has more than tripled since the software company's initial public offering in August, the stock surged 5% after the report.
VMware (VMW), which makes "virtualization" software that helps companies pile the work of multiple computer servers onto a single machine, nearly doubled its third-quarter revenue compared with a year ago, generating sales of $358 million. Orders for new software licenses, a key measure of future revenues, also nearly doubled, to $248 million.
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Third-quarter net income totaled $64.7 million, or 18¢ per share. Wall Street's consensus estimate was that VMware would earn 17¢ per share on $334 million in revenues, but the unofficial "whisper" estimate had investors looking for $355 million to $360 million in sales. As such, the results managed to vault the especially high hurdle analysts had set in advance of the Oct. 24 report. Investors bid up VMware shares in after-hours trading following the update, though some of that gain may have been driven by short-sellers forced to cover their positions after betting the company wouldn't meet the market's outsize expectations.
A spin-off from data storage supplier EMC (EMC), which still owns 86% of the shares, VMware dominates the fast-growing market for virtualization software that can cut hardware costs and reduce electricity bills (BusinessWeek.com, 9/10/07) for computer data centers. With IT departments wrestling with server sprawl and soaring energy prices to cool those servers, VMware has created a market niche virtually from scratch. "Virtualization is driving what is turning out to be a complete refresh of the data center," VMware CEO Diane Greene said during an Oct. 24 conference call with investors. "We see more opportunity than we have staff to build to and market to."
A day after VMware's report, EMC announced that its own third-quarter earnings rose 74% to $493 million, or 23 cents per share—boosted in two ways by VMware. About a tenth of EMC's profit came from its share of VMware's earnings. But nearly a quarter of EMC's income came from a $115 million capital gain from selling, a month before the IPO, 6 million VMware shares to Cisco Systems (CSCO). By selling that stock to Cisco for just $25 per share, or $150 million overall, EMC has missed out on roughly a half billion dollars of appreciation in the value of those 6 million shares.
At more than $108 a share, VMware now fetches nearly four times the $29 asking price from the company's $1.1 billion offering on Aug. 14 (BusinessWeek.com, 8/14/07), the technology industry's most successful IPO in years. With a market value of $41.6 billion, VMware has quickly become one of the world's most valuable software companies: nowhere near Microsoft's (MSFT) $294 billion market value or Oracle's (ORCL) $108.5 billion, but close behind Adobe Systems' (ADBE) $42.34 billion value.
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Another striking contrast: VMware's stock is now trading at 157 times this year's expected earnings—a big premium to other leading tech stocks. Even Google (GOOG), with a price-earnings ratio of 43, doesn't command as high a multiple.
"They're running on all cylinders right now, and it's hard to refute, in the short term, the trajectory of the business," says Israel Hernandez, head of software research at Lehman Brothers (LEH). "The reason the stock is trading at a significant premium by any metric is the tremendous opportunity VMware has in front of it."
Some have been less bullish. Credit Suisse (CS) analyst Jason Maynard wrote in an Oct. 22 report that "investors may be getting ahead of the company and the natural pace of business," and that expectations for third- and fourth-quarter growth may be already priced into the stock. Maynard's 12-month price target for VMware going into the third-quarter report was $85. An update on his expectations wasn't immediately available.
For now, VMware pretty much has the market to itself for virtualization software on servers that run on chips from Intel (INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). But next year, Microsoft plans to release a competing product that could cut into VMware's market share and erode prices. Market researcher IDC expects the market for virtualization software to reach $4.8 billion by 2011, an annual growth rate of 40%. "There's plenty of runway left," says Brent Thill, software research director at Citigroup (C).
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So can VMware's stock continue its upward march? Borrowing a page from Google's no-forecast playbook, the company made good on its promise not to provide guidance on fourth-quarter results. While analyst surveys "officially" predict revenue of $386 million for the current quarter, the whisper estimate is ranging above $400 million. "This is your classic growth and momentum stock," says Lehman's Hernandez. Short of a broad sell-off by technology stocks, it's hard to see what could hold back further gains, he adds.
So far, third-quarter tech earnings have looked good. VMware's results came after upbeat results at Intel, Apple (AAPL), and Amazon.com (AMZN). Bolstering the bull case is the relative paucity of VMware shares, with just 38 million available to trade. On Oct. 9, Fidelity Investments reported that its funds held just below 9 million of those shares, further crimping supply.
Yet short-sellers have targeted VMware in recent weeks, betting the stock price is inflated. On Oct. 15, the last date for which public data were available, nearly a quarter of VMware's actively traded shares were sold short, according to the New York Stock Exchange (NYX). And there's talk among analysts that short interest has increased dramatically since then—to perhaps more than half of all traded shares. Short-sellers borrow shares of a stock and sell them, hoping the price will go down so they can repurchase the shares at a lower price to repay the borrowed stock and profit on the difference. Large short positions can lead to volatility if a sudden jump in stock prices forces short-sellers to buy shares to cover their positions.
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Its not pleasant, witnessing the gradual retreat of the classical-record industry from artistic significance to blandness and the spread of the notion that serious music wont hurt you if you dont listen too hard. Retreads predominate: Romantico Domingo, The Ultimate Mozart Album, The Greatest Classical Show on Earth. Promising projects are begun, then abandoned midway: Sonys Ligeti project with Esa-Pekka Salonen, for example.
Its a privilege as well as a shock to report, therefore, the completion of one project that, on its own, suggests that its still possible to take the recording industry seriously, and to suspect that, in some corners, there remains a belief in a buying public with taste, brains and curiosity. A couple of months ago, the British label Hyperion, whose products are distributed in this country by Harmonia Mundi, completed its recording of the entire song literature of Franz Schubert. Volume 37, the final disc, is devoted to songs of Schuberts last year, but that doesnt mean that the entire series, consisting of over 750 separate entries, runs in chronological order. One of the remarkable aspects of the series, in fact, is the variety of intelligence expended in organizing each disc. You may not want to spend something like 50 consecutive hours with Schuberts total song output, but if you did you would not be bored.
The intelligence is that of Graham Johnson, who organized the order of events, chose the appropriate singers (Brits mostly, but not entirely) for each song, accompanied every performance at the piano, and wrote 37 sets of exhaustive program notes -- in booklets running as long as 100 pages each -- that, by themselves, constitute a landmark of writing about music out of love, scholarship and evangelical ardor. (A Schubert scholar myself, with a thesis to prove it, I write those last words out of awe and undisguised envy.) Several of the volumes run chronologically -- The Young Schubert, The Final Year, etc. Some attempt to re-create the Schubertiades, the famous informal gatherings of Schubert adorers where poets gathered, songs were sung, and intelligent conversation ran thick and fast. The series includes an 1815 Schubertiade and a Goethe Schubertiade, although the great poet-philosopher never attended one in person. (In the final set of notes, Johnson wittily imagines a mutual-admiration meeting between composer and poet. It takes place a few years after Schuberts actual death and shortly before Goethes.) Most rewarding are the volumes arranged around themes: a collection of water songs, a nocturnal set, and one about visions of Death and Heaven that begins with the harrowing Tod und das Madchen and ends with a serene, angelic Seligkeit that sends you off onto your own Cloud Nine.
Schuberts reputation is on the rise. The rediscovered, reconstructed deathbed symphony (No. 10 in some reckonings), with its haunting, bleak slow movement, heightens the sense of loss in his death at 31. Mitsuko Uchidas new Philips recordings of his sonatas and impromptus are awesomely beautiful. I envy anyone first discovering -- preferably in the Emersons recording on DG -- the astonishing icy grandeur of the G-major, the last of the string quartets. Even so, it is the songs that define Schubert the best, and can move us the most by our just thinking about them. As the church cantatas for Bach, as the late piano concertos for Mozart, the confluence of Schubert and poetry -- even bad poetry so long as it also possessed a soul -- produced an art whose closeness to humanness leaves mere verbal description futile. Something happens inside all of us when the Boy cries out in terror at the Erlkings caress; when the Young Nun finds solace in a glimpse of heaven; when, across the still landscape of Night and Dreams, the harmony suddenly drops to some other realm and we lose a breath.
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Johnsons zeal fills these discs remarkably well. Everything is here: fragments of songs left unfinished for one reason or another; poems that Schubert set more than once, sometimes years apart; part songs for several voices with piano; interesting oddities. A set of pretty, wordless vocal exercises bears witness that Schubert earned a few shillings now and then giving voice lessons. A bullying letter from the poet Matthaus Collin to his cousin Joseph Spaun (Why do you never write . . .?) is transformed by Schubert into a parody of Italian operatic recitative. Der Hochzeitbraten for three voices with piano accompaniment is a hilarious small scene celebrating a rural wedding feast. A duet for soprano and bass by the 17-year-old Schubert, to a text from Goethes Faust, points toward a career in opera that, alas, never got off the ground.
Not all of Johnsons singers are elegant vocal technicians, but most are; the list includes such luminaries as Thomas Hampson, Elly Ameling, Lucia Popp and Thomas Allen. Even among the ever-so-slightly-lesser lights, the level is remarkably high, and its obvious through the entire ensemble that Johnsons presence at the piano becomes the major shaping force. And there are wonderful performances: Ian Bostridge, participating at the very start of his career, will wring your heart with Die schone Mullerin, which gleans an extra thread of gold as the veteran Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who owned this music in his time, comes on to read the verses. Among the German singers, Matthias Goernes Winterreise is superb, and the great tenor Peter Schreier delivers one of my favorite less-known songs, Auf der Bruck, with glorious hammer strokes. Brigitte Fassbaender has the entire Death and Heaven disc to herself, and delivers a devastating Tod und das Madchen at the start. One disappointment: That delightful piece with the clarinet and the yodeling, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, should have been on the Last Years collection. It had, however, been sung by Arleen Auger, rather heavily, on an earlier disc.
The series began with Janet Bakers singing of Der Jungling am Bache, a song from Schuberts 15th year -- full of youthful ardor and innocence, says Graham Johnsons note. It ends with Anthony Rolfe Johnsons singing of Die Taubenpost from 16 years later. This blend of happiness and wistfulness, writes Graham Johnson, sets the seal, gently and without ceremony, on a composers entire songwriting career, indeed his entire creative life. It is generally reckoned as Schuberts last song, completed in October 1828. One month later, its composer was dead.
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Neighbors in a 29-home cohousing community in rural New Hampshire pool their resources and go solar.
You might say that an overlooked "expense" of adding solar to a home is the time and mental energy that must be invested up front. As solar is still a relatively unconventional energy source, homeowners interested in purchasing a system can spend considerable effort researching options, deciding what might be most suitable, understanding incentive programs and managing the installation.
One way to lessen such a burden is by sharing it, spreading this "expense" among many people. As residents of a cohousing community, our situation has lent itself well to this approach. We live in Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm in Peterborough, N.H., where we recently teamed up with a group of neighbors to purchase photovoltaic (PV) solar panels at an economical rate — both in terms of time invested and dollars and cents.
At the end of a nine-month process, 17 homes in our community now have a total of 169 PV panels, providing 38.8 kilowatts (kW) of generating capacity that's expected to satisfy some 65 percent of these homes' electricity needs. Our own home, a three-bedroom duplex, has a nine-panel, 2.07-kW array. By taking a shared, neighborhood-based approach, we were able to create an economy of scale that saved some 11 percent over the typical industry pricing.
Living at Nubanusit Neighborhood
There are many kinds of cohousing developments, but a central idea is that residents are consciously committed to living as a community. Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in shaping their own neighborhood. Cohousers seek to know their neighbors and avoid the isolation of some modern neighborhoods.
Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm has 29 homes clustered closely together on a few acres of land, surrounded by more than 100 acres of woods and farmland that we own in common. Our values stress environmental sustainability and stewardship, and interconnectedness. The physical design of the neighborhood encourages both social contact and individual space, and neighborhood-wide decisions are made by consensus, rather than by a board or by voting. As Nubanusit Neighborhood is legally organized as a condominium development, we own our individual home and share with our neighbors ownership of common land and facilities. The neighborhood includes a mix of housing types from two "quads" (each with four two-bedroom homes in it) to seven duplexes (each with a three-bedroom unit adjoining a two-bedroom unit) and seven standalone four-bedroom houses.
Like most cohousing developments, Nubanusit also has a shared community building, called the Common House, with a large kitchen and dining room where there's a community meal available Thursday evenings and potlucks on Sunday evenings. We take our two children to many community meals, but not all, as attendance is voluntary, and sometimes we're busy elsewhere or just prefer to have quiet family time. The Common House allows individual homes to be somewhat smaller than they might be otherwise. It serves essentially as an extension of our own home, as it does for everyone in the community. The Common House has two bedrooms available for visiting guests, as well as a children's room, a small library and a large multipurpose room for meetings, celebrations and other events. With the Common House and the design of individual homes, the development of Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm stressed sustainability from the start.
Nubanusit Neighborhood residences have a highly insulated envelope, access to natural light and energy-efficient light fixtures and appliances. The windows are triple-paned and there are no fireplaces (except a shared fireplace in the Common House). For all buildings, heat and hot water are provided by a centralized wood pellet boiler system. Six stoker-fired boilers are located in the basement of the "Governor's House," a rehabbed farmhouse that contains offices upstairs. Having the heating source centralized increases efficiency over having individual boilers for each home. A wood pellet system was chosen for its local and sustainable qualities — fuel for the boilers comes from New England Wood Pellet, a nearby supplier that uses the residual waste of local wood product manufacturing. Pellets are delivered to a 25-ton silo next to the Governor's House and from there they feed automatically to the boilers through a subsurface auger. Water heated in the boiler room is circulated throughout the neighborhood by a variable-frequency-drive pump. The hot water travels through insulated pex tubing buried roughly five feet deep. In each home, the hot water feeds either individual radiant panels, each with its own thermostatic control, or a domestic hot water heat exchanger that feeds a storage tank. Each home also has a master control thermostat.
While solar energy was of interest to the developers of Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm, they decided it was not cost-effective to include as part of the initial construction. Originally they intended to have all the buildings in the neighborhood on one electrical meter so that costs would be shared, but the local utility, Public Service of New Hampshire, required a separate meter for each home. The developers were unable to find any federal or state incentive program that would reduce their cost of installing solar as part of the initial construction of such individually metered homes. Nonetheless, the developers and architects designed the homes with solar in mind. The buildings are oriented, for the most part, with south-facing, 45-degree-angle roofs. And during construction the houses were plumbed for solar hot water systems, in anticipation of homeowners adding panels after moving in.
Considering Solar Options
Although the neighborhood was primed to go solar, it did not happen right away. Most of the homes sold relatively quickly when first completed (or even before construction was complete). But then the economy tanked, sales slowed, and those of us who had moved in became focused on the many tasks of starting up a new, ambitious community. Solar remained on the radar, but it wasn't until 2010, nearly two years after initial construction was complete, that the community began to really focus on the topic. As with everything in a cohousing setting, we start with conversations. And because many members of the community share strong commitments to sustainable energy, beginning the conversation came naturally. One way we gathered information and ideas was by inviting local solar experts for dinner. We hosted the owners of Green Energy Options, a USA Solar Store in Keene, N.H., and on another night we had dinner with the conference director of a nearby environmental education organization.By May 2010, an informal group had formed to begin discussing alternative energy possibilities for our community — or, as one neighbor put it, to begin exploring "possible scenarios for capturing the sun for our energy needs." By June, an e-mail discussion list had been created for those in the neighborhood interested in the topic. At first, the group's discussion was broad, looking at many different energy options (including wind, solar and even small-hydro), but we mostly focused on solar thermal and how to integrate it into the neighborhood's wood pellet boiler system. Then in the late summer, we learned that the state's main incentive program for solar PV was about to be significantly reduced. The focus shifted to PV.
The sustainable energy division of New Hampshire's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) provides a rebate for installing residential renewable electricity generation systems smaller than 5 kW. In mid-2010, this incentive program provided a rebate of $3 per installed watt, with a maximum of $6,000 per system. Combined with the 30 percent federal tax credit, total incentives approached 78 percent of the system cost for some Nubanusit residences. Seeing this, when we learned that the PUC would hold hearings in the fall to consider reducing or eliminating the state portion of the incentive, we decided to move forward with PV before the costs would rise significantly. At this time, not everyone joined the push for solar (for various reasons, including financial) and a half-dozen homes were still unoccupied. But by mid-September, 17 households in our neighborhood had signed up to have PV systems installed. The group selected an installer, Nashau, N.H.-based KW Management, and submitted applications for the state program before the PUC changed its terms. As it turned out, we did get in just under the wire — shortly after, they reduced the incentive program to a rate of $1.25 per watt with a maximum refund of $4,500. But because our paperwork was submitted before this change, we were locked in at the higher rate of $3 per watt and $6,000 maximum rebate.
Planning the Project and Neighborhood Review
Neighborhood discussions moved to a planning phase at this point. KW Management owner Mark Weissflog discussed state and federal incentives and how to size each system to the individual home. The Nubanusit Neighborhood homes were designed with energy efficiency in mind, thereby allowing a smaller system to cover more of the typical annual usage. Weissflog estimated each system's production performance using the National Renewable Energy Labratory's PV Watts tool (version 1), along with shading analysis with a solar pathfinder. The average production per kW was estimated at 1,200 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year. The sizes of the installed systems vary from 1.38 kW to 3.45 kW, with each system size corresponding to the resident's energy usage. In a few cases, systems were increased in size to accommodate potential future increases in demand. Weissflog estimated that the average 2.07-kW PV system at Nubanusit Neighborhood will account for approximately 65 percent of the average home's actual usage (ranging from a low of 57 percent to over 100 percent).Weissflog chose Trina 230-watt solar panels, which are polycrystalline PV modules, a technology that he felt had proven its reliability and performance in our region for many years. He also chose Enphase microinverters, again based largely on their reliability. Using microinverters rather than a standard string inverter promised to maximize production for neighborhood arrays that figured to have problems with shading. If one panel in a shaded array has a low output, the microinverters prevent production from falling off in other more fully lit panels.
Working out the technical details with Weissflog was only part of the process. Our community requires a formal review for vetting construction projects of all kinds, and the process was relatively new and unfamiliar to many of us in the fall of 2010. Fortunately, we have an architect living in the community who has solar experience and lead the review process. The PV project fell into the largest type of project, involving "major exterior changes" to buildings. Projects of this kind are planned and executed with the help of a neighborhood Design Review Team (DRT) and are approved by consensus of all in attendance at the DRT review meetings. The process involves a fairly strict schedule of informing the community as a whole of plans, posting visual plans and other details for everyone in the neighborhood to be able to review, and meeting with the DRT team to discuss questions and possible concerns.
While there were no deal-breaker objections raised during this process, there was a lot of discussion about aesthetics, placement of the panels, and questions about how PV would fit into (and not preclude) possible future development of other renewable energy options. One neighbor was concerned that our panels were being purchased from China rather than a more local source. Weissflog said it was his first time using Chinese-made modules in his 12 years as an installer and his decision was based on financial value, reliability, and the Trina modules' performance specifications. Also, having dealt previously with manufacturers that are no longer in business, he wanted to select a manufacturer that he believed was likely to remain solvent for a long time. Another concern raised by neighbors was that there should be space left on roofs for solar hot water panels. The group had discussed the possibility of installing a centralized array of solar hot water panels to augment our wood pellet boiler system (and allow us to shut the boilers down in the summers), but we had also been considering the possibility of a distributed system in which individual homes would have solar hot water panels on them. Thus, the PV installation needed to allow space for this future possibility.
Installing the System and Moving Forward
Plans with KW Management were finalized at the end of October. Installation began in November and continued into the early winter. The timing posed considerable challenges for the installer, as the season was colder with more snow than average years. There were days when the temperature stayed below 0°F (-18°C) until mid-morning. The installation crew leader told us that some nights he went home with numb toes and woke up the next morning not completely recovered.
The installation team began by mounting aluminum pan flashed to shingle and then three rails to support panels. Most roofs have panels three deep to cover the area best and keep the configuration close to a square. Conduit leading from the panels connects to the meters. Black conduit was selected during our community's DRT process in order to be as visually unobtrusive as possible. Installation stalled a few times due to winter storms and problems with delayed or incorrect equipment deliveries. After installation was finally complete, a "snorkel" lift that workers had used to get up to and down from the roofs was half-buried in snow and ice. It wasn't retrieved until a spring melt a couple months later. Other bumps along the way included working around vent pipes that had been placed on south-facing roofs, and making sure that the correct sets of panels were connected to the correct meters on the duplexes and quads.
Once the final installation and town planner inspections were completed, neighbors were eager to collect data on their electricity production. We were pleased to see our own panels producing electricity even during the short gray days of a New England winter. Within four hours of connecting our nine-panel, 2.07-kW array, it had produced its first 4 kWh of electricity. In the subsequent three months (winter into early spring), it produced another 600 kWh. Going forward, we're still trying to figure out the most efficient ways to manage our unique system. Does it make more sense to insure the panels as a neighborhood or on individual insurance policies? How do we best track generation — individually and as a group? Although a monitoring system is available that works in conjunction with our Enphase Microinverters, we found that it would not monitor our neighborhood-wide system at once. Because each owner would need to purchase a separate monitoring device, we chose to purchase just one and now share it so that individual homes can periodically track production.
As it turns out, working on such a project as a group is a major benefit, but also in some ways a burden. Among the positives: The workload is shared, there's a wide pool of expertise to draw upon and there are economies of scale. But less positive: The process can become more complicated than an individual homeowner working solo and progress can slow down for everyone due to problems that are particular only to some. Decisions can be made that some individuals don't necessarily like and other people bring up complaints that might not be share by most.
This is the nature of group life. Now, on to our next challenge: heating our water with solar hot water panels!
About the Authors: Noel White and Johanna Wilson-White, along with their two children, have been residents of Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm since 2008. You can reach them at noel . white @ gmail . com, and you can find more information about their community at peterboroughcohousing.org.


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BRISTOL — Bristol police on July 17 arrested a town man on a warrant from the Vermont Department of Corrections. Police arrested Jonah S. Kleinfeldt, 39, for escape.
Bristol Police Chief Kevin Gibbs said his force took Kleinfeldt to the Chittenden County Correctional Center in South Burlington.
In other department news, a man Bristol police arrested last month was acquitted of selling marijuana by a jury in Addison County Superior Court, but was convicted of lesser charges.
BRISTOL — Officers in the Bristol Police Department were active during the month of June, as can be seen in the log recently submitted to the newspaper by Chief Kevin Gibbs.
During the second half of the month, Bristol police:
• On June 15 took a report of property damage at a gas pump at Champlain Farms, where a Vergennes woman had driven away with the pump nozzle still attached to her vehicle. The business took insurance information from the woman.
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• On June 1 at 3:29 a.m. assisted Vermont State Police with a traffic stop and consent search on suspicion of driving under the influence and drug possession.
ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police responded to a motor vehicle crash on Route 125 in Hancock, about a half mile west of Route 100, at a little past 5:30 a.m. on July 17.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police on July 18 at 3:57 p.m. received a report from a resident that the driver of a vehicle on Court Street was possibly impaired. When the officer contacted the driver, he admitted to texting while driving. The officer issued the driver a ticket for doing so.
Between July 14 and 21, Middlebury police dealt with a variety of incidents including noise disturbances, welfare checks and many traffic stops.
In other activity last week, police:
BRISTOL — Bristol police recently issued a log recounting the large number of incidents with which they dealt during the month of May — some of great importance, others routine police work.
The Independent already published part of that log. Also during that month, Bristol police:
• On May 24 at 2:44 p.m. received a wallet found by a citizen in the park. Police located the owner and returned the wallet.
Vermont State Police cited Jamerson A. Maurer, 33, of Northborough, Mass., for driving under the influence and endangering a child, following a stop on Route 7 in New Haven on July 15. Police said that during the stop, Maurer was "found to be intoxicated" and had a young child with him in the vehicle.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police received multiple reports of car break-ins in the Twin Circles, Woodland Park and North Pleasant Street neighborhoods on July 7. The culprit(s) targeted unlocked vehicle and stole a variety of items, including iPods, loose change, cameras, a GPS unit, a cell phone and a purse, according to police. Anyone with information on the thefts should call Middlebury police at 388-3191. Authorities are reminding people to always lock their vehicles and to not leave any valuables within plain sight.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police on July 11 cited a city man for lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor for an incident that allegedly occurred on June 6.
Cited was Darrell Tucker, 57. Police said they received a complaint on July 9 that allegedly involved a boy, 14, and that they cited Tucker after an investigation.
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