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The risks and costs associated with the climate crisis are growing. Also growing are the job and economic opportunities from the clean economy.
We anticipate the Ontario Liberal government's long-awaited plan to address climate change will finally roll out soon. We need to get this right.
As expected, a cap-and-trade system will be the cornerstone of their plan. Under this plan, the government sets a maximum level or "cap" on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. The government issues permits to companies that allow GHG emissions up to the cap. If a company's GHG pollution exceed the cap, they must buy more pollution permits. If under the cap, they can sell pollution permits. This provides an incentive for industry to reduce emissions in order to avoid having to purchase more pollution permits or to profit from selling them.
Unfortunately, the Liberal's cap-and-trade legislation gives over 100 of Ontario's biggest polluters a free pass. Handing out free pollution permits undermine the effectiveness and integrity of the cap-and-trade system.
The Green Party supports creating the market conditions for businesses and people to make the best low carbon choices.
In the Liberal plan, the money the government collects will be used to provide incentives to change our collective behaviour and our consumer choices. We anticipate that there will be financial incentives for people to lower their carbon footprint, such as subsidies to buy electric cars or build homes that do not rely on oil or natural gas. Conceptually, these carrots are good, but is this prescriptive central planning approach the best way to go?
For years the Green Party has pushed for a price on carbon pollution that provides a strong financial incentive or stick to reduce carbon pollution. This is known as decarbonizing the economy. Greens have advocated for electric cars and their necessary infrastructure, along with passive solar homes, distributed renewable electricity generation, better transit and other things that we hope are in the government's plan.
I suppose you could say that the provincial government is finally listening to what Greens have been saying. The Ontario Liberals now seem to share many of the "ends" Greens desire for a low carbon economy, but I fear that the "means" the Liberals plan to use to achieve those "ends" are substantially different and not as effective.
The Green Party supports creating the market conditions for businesses and people to make the best low carbon choices. This can be most be most effectively and efficiently achieved with a "carbon fee and dividend" approach to decarbonizing the economy. We would identify all significant sources of GHG pollution -- not just industrial emitters like the existing plan -- and we would charge each source a fee per unit of pollution, based on a fixed carbon price. There would be no government tax involved.
This is a revenue neutral plan. All of the money raised would be returned to adult citizens of Ontario on a per capita basis, as a dividend through a separately administered Special Purpose Account segregated from government revenues. In this way there would be no loss to the economy -- just a reallocation of dollars. Things like gasoline would cost more, but everyone would get a dividend check to offset those cost. If people bought an electric vehicle and didn't need gasoline, they would still get the dividend cheque -- rewarding them financially for reducing their carbon footprint. The dividend would have the added benefit of helping to reduce poverty by establishing the financial foundation for a guaranteed annual income.
The fee and dividend system empowers people and businesses to decide the best way to reduce their carbon footprint. Solutions would not be prescriptive. Government would not pick winners and losers. Market needs would generate the incentives to reduce carbon pollution, not artificial government interventions.
There would be no carbon trading or the need for a carbon trading bureaucracy. The price of carbon would not be subject to the short-term vagaries and fluctuations of a market. It would be set based on the best estimate of the real cost of climate change to our economy, and the agreed international time frame for action.
The Green Party thinks that the best results will be achieved if citizens and businesses themselves are challenged to use their creativity and innovation to achieve the essential goal of a decarbonized Ontario economy. Let's hope the Liberals climate plan uses effective and efficient "means" to reach low carbon "ends."
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Solar flowers at Clarkson Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Region of Peel in Mississauga, Ontario. This flamboyant solar system is installed right next door to a former hybrid bus plant that also has a 427 kW solar system on it's roof. More than 23,000 renewable energy projects have been built in Ontario since the launch of the Green Energy Act in 2009. Photo David Dodge, Green EnergyFutures.ca
Siemens set up a wind turbine blade manufacturing plant in Tillsonburg shortly after the recession hit and today employs 400 people in the region. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
Tyler Hamilton, editor of Corporate Knights magazine says Ontario's has been successful in getting more than 20,000 renewable energy projects developed in Ontario–where it stumbled was in execution which created uncertainty for business and resistance in some communities. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
Jason Rioux worked at Ontario Power Generation in its coal-fired heyda. He also worked there during the transition away from coal to natural gas and renewables. He now works for NRStor, an energy storage company in Ontario. He says Ontario is well on the way to achieving its goal of 10,000 megawatts of solar, wind and biomass. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
Canadian Solar was one of many companies that have started in Ontario since the launch of the Green Energy Act. Ontario's local content rule was shot down by the WTO, but meanwhile dozens of clean energy companies emerged and are operating in Ontario. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
This wind turbine set up Exhibition Place now serves as a central feature of renewable energy education programs operated by TREC in Toronto. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
What once was a novelty is now just another feature in Exhibition Place in the heart of Toronto's waterfront. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
The Canadian Solar plant in Mississauga, Ontario has two assembly lines for solar modules. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
As you drive through the countryside in Ontario it's quite common to see solar systems like this installed on farms. This one is north of Toronto, Ontario Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
Ontario has installed 3,498 megawatts of wind and another 2,228 megawatts are under development making Ontario the leader in wind energy in Canada. Photo Tim Weis, CanWEA
A solar installation on a boat shed at Bobcygeon, Ontario. More than 20,000 solar projects have been built or are under construction in Ontario due to the Green Energy Act. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
There are more than 23,329 microFIT small rooftop solar projects installed in Ontario. This adds up to 2,356 megawatts of solar PV. For comparison Alberta has seven megawatts. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
Shows projected absolute change in provincial GHGs under current policy. Canada's 2020 target is 125 Mt below the 2005 level. Excludes land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) emissions. Data from Environment Canada. Figure via Pembina Institute: www.pembina.org/blog/758
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It would be easy enough to photoshop a geometric pattern onto an image of a waterfall, and if that was how this image had been created I would still have nodded in appreciation of the originality and execution.
Shortly after my Symbiartic co-blogger Kalliopi has run a workshop about social media for nature & science artists at the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators annual conference in July, I will be speaking about social media for medical illustrators and communicators at the Association of Medical Illustrators annual conference at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, [...]
You've seen the cartoon before: a fish hoisting itself up on land with its front fins, being greeted with some snarky sign like, "Evolve at your own risk," or something similar.
Here's a new photography app that could be useful for a number of sciart illustration and art applications: Fragment. For: iOS devices.
The best Halloween stories are true. There is a lake in Tanzania, Lake Natron, that is so hostile to life that only two species, alkaline tilapia and blue-green algae can live in its deadly waters.
We're wrapping up the daily sciart posts today. We hope you've enjoyed them! Stay tuned tomorrow for a round-up of the month's artists and images.
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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb County police launched an internal investigation after authorities failed to update a computer database to reflect a carjacking victim's car being returned to the rightful owner. The mix up led police to detain Xavier Darity, the victim and rightful owner of the car, and other family members outside of a DeKalb County home.
According to a police report, Darity was carjacked at gun point earlier this month.
"I reported it stolen. OnStar located it for me, I got it back that same night," said Darity.
The stolen car was returned to Darity on Jan. 9, according to a police report. Nearly 10 days later, Darity said he was followed by police as he pulled into friend's driveway on Cross Lane in DeKalb County. Shortly after, Darity said the home was surrounded by police, and the road was blocked.
"I was in my night gown, they told me to get up, 'Put your hands up and shut up,'" Nannette Wilcox, the homeowner, told Channel 2's Rachel Stockman.
"They had guns pointing at me, lasers on my forehead ," said neighbor Gregory Wilcox.
"Guns everywhere, they (police) was like 20 deep," said Dnarre Kennard, who lives next door.
A spokesperson for Dekalb County Police said somehow the information about the stolen car was not correctly inputted into the National Crime Information Center system, and the Camaro still came up stolen, when police ran a check on it.
"It is a dumb excuse. It means somebody is dropping the ball and we need to get it right," Nanette Wilcox said.
"One of the officers proceeded to I guess call the dispatcher, and they said he was the victim in the carjacking, and they was like, 'Oh, we apologize,'" Darity said.
But Darity, and the homeowners, say an apology is not enough.
"I want more than just, 'I'm sorry.' You humiliated my whole family in front of the neighbors, you were blocking people's driveways," Darity said
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We've all been there, haven't we?
Whether it's something we said aloud we'd never do once we had children or just a thought we had while watching another parent, eventually we end up, at least once, doing many of those things.
Here are 10 that I can't believe I've done!
#1: Be Overdue
This was just one of those things I never thought would happen to me. I mean. . . .I'm a timely person. Surely my children would be on time too. I was so wrong, and I have an 8-day late baby and a 7-day late baby to prove it.
#2: Cold Cereal for Dinner
Sometimes, a day is just too long (or too short!) to make a real meal. Cold cereal to the rescue.
#3: Let My Child Walk Around in Public without Shoes
Sometimes, you just dash out of the house without realizing your child took off their shoes and. . .you're just that mom.
#4: Let my child use a pacifier until they were past three-years-old
What can I say? I love my sleep.
#5: Put my child to bed more than an hour early
She can't tell time, and the extra sleep won't hurt her!
#6: Use a treat as bribery
If it didn't work so well, I wouldn't do it!
#7: Talk in Baby Talk
It always embarrassed me so much to hear adults talking in baby talk to their children. Now I'm that adult!
#8: Throw away an article of clothing rather than taking it home to remove stains
Sometimes, if it's not an item you particularly love, a big blowout means goodbye to that piece of clothing.
#9: Pretend not to hear my child waking up so my husband would get up
. . . and I could catch an extra ten minutes of sleep.
#10: Sing along to a kid song for 10 minutes
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Application of atmospheric pressure microwave plasma source for production of hydrogen via methane reforming
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In this paper, results of hydrogen production via methane pyrolysis in the atmospheric pressure microwave plasma with CH4 swirl are presented. A waveguide-based nozzleless cylinder-type microwave plasma source (MPS) was used to convert methane into hydrogen. The plasma generation was stabilized by a CH4 swirl having a flow rate of 87.5 L min-1. The absorbed microwave power was 1.5–5 kW. The hydrogen production rate and the corresponding energy efficiency were 866 g (H2) h-1 and 577 g (H2) kWh-1 of microwave energy absorbed by the plasma, respectively. These parameters are better than our previous results when nitrogen was used as a swirl gas and much better than those typical for other plasma methods of hydrogen production (electron beam, gliding arc, plasmatron).


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President Barack Obama's appearance on the "Between Two Ferns" satirical online talk show this week is at 15 million views almost at Justin Bieber levels. The website Funny or Die says Obama's interview with Zach Galfianakis, posted Tuesday, will likely beat Bieber's record of 17.8 million views for the talk show. Obama was looking to reach a target audience of young people with his health care message.


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In the vast, colourful, blaring acreage that is the 2006 World Cup, the tennis at Roland Garros has managed to insert an intrusive, but meaningful, foot because of the soaring merit of this afternoon's men's final. Roger Federer, the world No 1, versus Rafael Nadal, the exuberant Spanish 20-year-old who is defending the title, is the clash everyone demanded and many simply regarded as inevitable, the best two clay-court players on the planet.
"Voila!", exclaimed the headline in France's sports daily, L'Equipe. "The summit!". Le Figaro pointed out: "The whole world is up for Federer-Nadal." Rather than swap thunderballs on Court Philippe Chatrier in pursuit of the Coupe des Mousquetaires and first prize of £644,000, these two could simply hurl statistics at each other. Truly formidable statistics.
Nadal, he of the piratical pants and headband, is going for his 60th straight victory on clay, having left Guillermo Vilas's long-standing record of 53 in his wake after the opening round here. He is in search of a fifth successive win over Federer, an indignity no one else has come near inflicting. He has not been beaten on the slow stuff since April 2005 and bustled into the French Open with three clay titles in his pocket: from Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome.
The monster stat pursued by Federer is to win the French and thereby hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time, a feat last achieved in the men's game by Rod Laver in 1969 and in the women's by Steffi Graf in 1988. Even purists who acclaim those as "true" Grand Slams because they were achieved in a calendar year would surely not quibble overlong about praising Federer, who is operating in more demanding circumstances. And if he should triumph today, the Swiss superman would hold the quite astonishing record of having won all eight Grand Slam finals he has contested.
The prospect of holding the sport's four majors was summed up by this modest genius yesterday as "pretty nice". Both men have dropped just two sets en route to the final. Federer has won 16 sets and 113 games, Nadal 17 sets and 114 games. This is the first French final between the No 1 and No 2 seeds since 1984, when Ivan Lendl rallied to defeat John McEnroe (to McEnroe's enduring grief).
But enough of the statistics. What of the prospects? How can Federer turn round that losing sequence? "I'm feeling good, feeling rested and I know I'm playing well. I've got to play like I did in Rome [where he held two match points before Nadal pipped him in five sets], aggressive, patient, everything."
As for Nadal, he feels he must attempt what to everyone else would appear the impossible by being even more aggressive, though he suffered the indignity of being warned by the umpire for slowness between points in Friday's semi-final against Ivan Ljubicic.
Federer acknowledged this is the contest everyone has clamoured for. "The finals in Rome and Monte Carlo showed we are the best players on clay this season." While not supporting the argument that he and Federer are light years ahead on clay, Nadal acknowledged: "The people who deserve to win, win." So they do, Rafa.
Thanks to David Nalbandian's abdominal strain, which terminated their semi-final in one hour and 48 minutes, Federer is nicely rested. "That's the key here at the French Open," he said. "That you come such a long way and you feel pretty good. So one thing's for sure, I won't lose because I'm tired. Trying to win this title for the first time, my goal was to reach at least the semi-finals [as he did last year, losing to Nadal]. I've surpassed that, so that's fantastic. Quarters and semis are all very nice, but you want to go out there on a Sunday with a chance."
Federer dismissed any belief that Nadal can only win on clay. "Those who say that have absolutely no idea of tennis. [Nadal] has won on other surfaces, indoors in Madrid, outdoors in Toronto, against very good opposition. So it's being consistent that makes the difference. That's why he and I keep ourselves at the top of the ranking."
Though he does not fear Federer, Nadal respects and admires the No 1. "He is one of the best in history. He's a world superstar, and not just in tennis, in all sports. And he's a nice guy. I admire his humble (sic), no?"
And Federer admires Nadal's power and strokemaking genius, no? Well, yes. And with reason. Against Ljubicic, fourth in the world rankings, Nadal offered fleeting moments of fallibility to prove he is human and not from another planet, as his crushed third-round opponent, Paul-Henri Mathieu, maintained. But those moments are comfortably exceeded by shots possibly fashioned on Krypton. You get the impression that, if needed, Rafa could even conjure up a doosra.
Federer let on that "many of those in the locker room are rooting for me" because of the four Slams hope, an opinion reinforced by Ljubicic in the sour aftermath of his defeat by Nadal. "I would love to see Roger win it. I think everybody would, as he is probably the best player ever."
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Our apartment is located in a safe and active neighborhood with walking and short metro access to Paris. We are a short walk to "Bois de Boulogne" and "La Défense" where you can get RER, train, or subway. You'll find at the foot of our building : good bakery and butcher's, restaurants, supermarkets with late opening hours, bus and train station.
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Children recovering after museum train engine catches fire
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga - Several children are recovering after embers from a train engine burned them.
Channel 2's Tony Thomas reported it happened on a field trip at a Gwinnett County railway museum Tuesday morning.
Those seven children are back at the day care after their field trip veered off the tracks.
The injuries were minor but authorities said it could have easily been a lot worse.
Parents arrived to pick up their children from the Loganville day care and were relieved to learn that none of the burn injuries was serious.
"The embers either hit them on the neck, at the knees or on their arm," Michelle Gilley of Discovery Point said.
Children and six staffers were riding a 1950s-era train in the railway museum when a smokestack on the diesel engine caught fire, sending smoke and embers into the air and onto the children.
"I responded basically because of sound, because of them crying. I myself had a(n) ember hit me and I thought I had a bee sting," Gilley said.
The engine now sits in the maintenance yard at the museum. Seven children in all were hurt, suffering first or second-degree burns.
"Some of them had one burn injury, some had two burn injures," Capt. Tommy Rutledge of the Gwinnett Fire Department said.
Administrator Randy Pirkle showed Thomas where the kids were riding.
"It could have been significantly worse; having a fire of any nature is a bad thing. Having a fire when you're involved with kids is an extremely scary thing," Pirkle said.
Pirkle said it's the first time the engine has ever caught fire. It's used regularly to give rides around the museum yard.
"Even though this happened, we will pull the positive out of it," Gilley said.
The museum's maintenance volunteers will be looking at the engine later Tuesday.
Train rides at the museum are on hold until they figure out exactly what happened.


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South Africa's central bank spent the last 18 months stuck between a rock and a hard place, and it doesn't look likely to budge any time soon.
Growth is anemic and unemployment high, arguing for lower interest rates. But inflation is also elevated and foreign capital is fleeing as the country's currency tumbles, suggesting a need for higher rates. The result, economists said, is that the central bank will likely to stand pat in the coming months.


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Robert Whitfield (aka Simon Vance) is one of my favorite narrators, particularly for classics. He doesn't disappoint in this historical fiction about 1760s England & Caribbean. However, perhaps because I first encountered this story via the Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland film, I found that I preferred my experience reading this to that of listening to it. Whitfield's various voices for the characters were well done (Peter Blood's Irish accent was specially good) but they weren't the voices I was used to and several times I found that I had lost the thread of the story. So in this case, the audiobook loses a ½ star instead of gaining one...
I hadn't heard of Sabatini until quite recently, when I saw him credited as one of Arturo Perez-Reverte's major influences - along with Alexandre Dumas. That was enough to make me seek out a book!
This 1922 novel is the story that the movie starring Errol Flynn was based on - and it is indeed, as one might expect, a swashbuckling pirate adventure.
Peter Blood, an educated doctor with a military background, runs afoul of the law for giving medical aid to a political rebel against King James Stuart.
Condemned as a traitor, he's shipped off to the Caribbean and sold as a slave - where, of course, he chastely falls in love with his owner's daughter, Arabella.
His medical training gives him opportunities other slaves do not have - and when the chance comes, he makes an escape, seizes a ship, and turns pirate -
leaving his true love behind.
Many piratical adventures ensue, giving the book somewhat of the feeling of a serial - but enough of a plot runs through all Blood's escapades to tie it all together.
A fun, quick read, regardless of the novel's age - it's definitely withstood the test of time.
Peter Blood, forced into piracy, never abandons his sense of honor. Pining for the unattainable and beautiful Arabella, he names his ship after her and paints it red. With an amazing gift for strategy, he leads his buccaneers to victory despite overwhelmingly poor odds. Every chapter was a delight in this high seas adventure.
Love me some pirates.
Peter Blood is a doctor who does not want to be involved in the politics. This is seventeenth century England and monarchies are ever changing. Peter Blood is accused of treason when he treats on of his patients who happens to be a rebel. He is convicted and is sold into slavery to a plantation in West Indies. He escapes and gets into buccaneering ways. He has many adventures and this is a excellent narration of them.
This book is fast paced and very entertaining. The language is Dickensonian. It has adventure and a little bit of romance. A 4/5 read.
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Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all.
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The town's high building rose to greet me as I ran towards any opening I could find. Jumping off the walls, I leaped onto the high viaduct that ran round the outside of the square. Hundreds of men were running after me, unable to jump or climb as I high as I could. They climbed the steps and ran bellow.
A bridge overhanging the square opened in front of me and I ran along its length. A few men jumped and clung to the sides in an attempt to get at me. Some fell, others propelled themselves forward; they all missed.
Reaching the roof of the small building at the other end of the bridge, I slid down the slope that led away from the open space and into the cramped area of the town. A stone arch stood there and it led to a square junction. Straight ahead, a narrow street with high-rise houses was my destination. On the left and right were entrances to the buildings and back allies that surrounded the town centre.
Diving through the arch and into the small enclosed area, I leapt over more figures running from every direction. Then I saw him.
He stood with his right arm raised and red eyes glowing. In his hand was his famous silver whip.
Quicker than I could move, the whip lashed out and touched my shoulder. I could feel each tiny silver razor cutting my skin. My shoulder started to burn with the allergic reaction and I fell to the ground. I slid across the marble flooring and collided with one of the pillars. Through my tears I could see the black-clad groups of me running into each of the four arches; away from me, to find my brother.
As the small square beneath the four-way entrance cleared, I could see him walking slowly towards me, raising the whip as he did so. I tried to pull away, I tried to get up, but he flicked his wrist and the silver teeth wrapped round and cut into my neck. Choking, burning, bleeding. He laughed.
Releasing me, he bent down over me and his sickly smell filled my nostrils. "Not so powerful and mighty now! You do look pathetic."
He leaned back and raised the whip again.
Each stroke opened a fresh wound in my leg, my thigh, my chest. The burning sensation rippled across my skin each time the precious metal lashed my body. A hard lash across my windpipe halted my breathing for what felt like an eternity. I finally drew another breath and it felt like I was sucking lava down my throat. I shuddered and my eyesight failed me a few times.
All the while, he kept on lashing and laughing at his power over me. Until he gagged.
Something brown was wrapped around his neck and his eyes bulged. I knew he didn't need to breathe but it must have hurt. His head jerked to the side and I heard a cracking sound. Then the tip of something wooden burst through his chest.
My vision failed again. I could still hear him screaming and someone growling menacingly.
Finally, everything went silent. I could heard the sound of hundreds of feet echoing round the corridors on either side of me. Something warm touched my eyelids and I flinched; my vision returned. Tears fell like waterfalls when I tried to look up at whoever had saved my life.
All I could see was a pair of bare feet and strong looking legs that were knelt down on the stone floor. A large hand appeared in my view and I whimpered in fear. It didn't hit me, or raise a whip; my bleeding face was cupped in the hand and another stroked my cheek. I was too afraid to move.
Gently, the person turned my head. I cried out and he gasped as he saw the mess of my neck. The growl I'd heard before came from somewhere above me; it wasn't menacing. His fingers caressed my neck and, although it still hurt, I could breathe more easily.
This time, I turned my head to look up. Seeing a pair of blue eyes was not what I expected. They were filled with worry and his pupils kept dilating and contracting which gave him the appearance of a camera turning on and off. His forehead furrowed and a whine escaped his lips. Then his face relaxed and he smiled a little.
"Can you move?" He sounded truly concerned about me which also surprised me. "Can I carry you?"
His voice was almost hypnotic to me and, while I looked into those gem-like eyes, I felt comfortably numb. I nodded slightly and he started to pick me up.
My scream was painful to even my ears.
He murmured soothing words to me as he held my bleeding body close to his bare chest. He grew suddenly warmer and I could feel soft fur against my right cheek. Holding me to him with one massive arm, he bounded down the narrow street, out of the square junction.


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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has just ranked 180 countries for sustainability in a report called the Wellbeing of Nations.
To make its list, the world's premier environmental scientists looked at countries' human development indicators like incomes, education, peace, order and stress levels, and then at the health of the environment and conservation measures. When it married the two, it came up with some interesting results. Just 37 countries, it concluded, are approaching sustainability (although most of these had poor environmental records), but more than 4bn people were living in a poor state of human development.
Top of the sustainability league table came Sweden - with Germany ranked 13th, Australia 18th, Japan 24th, the US 27th and Britain an ignominious 33rd. According to the IUCN there were just 10 countries in the world with a worse record on ecological wellbeing. Of the 10 countries at the bottom of the table, seven were Islamic. Of these, three have been bombed by the US and Britain in the past decade, two others are at war, and several more have "terrorist organisations" targeted by the US. Afghanistan, second from the bottom, above Iraq, ironically has one of the best global records for conserving its nature. If IUCN repeat the exercise, it is widely expected to be bottom of the list. For more details: www.iucn.org
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Meanwhile, the Stop Esso campaign has largely ground to a halt in the US because of fear of seeming insensitive, but nothing stops the company in its patriotic duty of drilling oil and impacting on the environment. The week after the New York atrocity, news slipped out that the US fish and wildlife service had given Esso the right to kill polar bears as part of their drilling/oil exploration in Alaska.
Economy drive?
And boy, do the Americans need oil. How much they consume was starkly illustrated in a one-liner from the US environmental protection agency last week. Of America's new cars and lorries, 94% run at less than 30 miles to a gallon. The world's oil reserves are, of course, mainly in the Middle East and held by Muslim countries . . .
Taking the strain
With the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US still at the forefront of congressional activity, the US government has been asking biotechnologists about the potential for industry to provide vaccines to give some degree of protection against biological warfare. The industry, keen to show it was working for the global good, immediately said yes. Two days later, it was looking likely that the anthrax strain which has affected several people came from an American industrial lab.
Some good news. Thames Water (UK) has set up a website associated with WaterAid and, if 2m people click on to it, they will donate £150,000 to provide safe drinking water for 10,000 people in Africa and Asia. There are only a few weeks left and 600,000 more clicks are still required to meet the target. So, come on Guardian readers, take a hit at www.givewater.org
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It's good to know that people are on the case for world peace. The octogenarian Indian mystic, maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is pushing ahead with plans to build a 144-storey, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in the heart of India. The 2,220-foot building, designed by the firm responsible for the World Trade Centre, will easily top the world's tallest skyscrapers. What about security? No problem, says a spokesman for the maharishi. "We believe that the 100,000 priests meditating and chanting Vedic mantras in the building will generate positive energy and no harm will come to us."


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I'm not a huge fan of Mondays. Garfield has it right, even if he has no reason to hate Mondays. He's a cat. He doesn't have school or work. He just gets to sit there, eating and sleeping, to his hearts content. But I on the other hand, have school, and it's my first Monday of the term. Yay. Feel the enthusiasm radiating off of me. Seriously, it's overwhelming.
I rolled my eyes at my inner monologue as I headed to the sofa where everyone was sitting on our break. Honestly, English had actually been pretty damn good, and I hadn't even caused any trouble. I smiled. Yeah well, first time for everything.
"What are we talking about?" I asked, collapsing in to one of the chairs at the side.
"About the English project."
"Well it was certainly a better idea than his first lesson."
"He must be new to teaching."
"Come on, he can't even be much older than us! I wonder if he went to another," Naomi paused, looking around, "special school."
"I thought you didn't think he had powers?" I asked.
"I don't. But... I dunno... they wouldn't let an outsider in. He must have something about him. But he definitely doesn't know what's going on with Al."
"Maybe that's just it. Al has a unique power... maybe he just doesn't understand it. Maybe any of us he'd be fine with..." I pondered.
"You can't be thinking about doing anything?" Makenna asked frowning.
"Well I can't. I mean what am I supposed to do? Zap him? No but maybe we should perform an experiment? I mean we should know right? We have a right to know."
"So maybe we should just ask someone?" Flynn put in.
"Like who?"
"Er... your mum?" Makenna said.
"Why not?"
"Because my dear mother is enjoying that I haven't been sent to her office yet, so I wouldn't want to ruin her good mood."
"Yes but this isn't being sent this is-" Makenna was interrupted by the arrival of Alex who dumped her bag down and sat on the arm of my chair.
"Someone give me some good news because I have the Monday blues."
"I'm suggesting the conduction of an experiment on our favourite English teacher to see if he knows about us being special. Where were you in English?"
"Sleeping. What sort of experiment?"
"We haven't got that far. Obviously I can't shock him and I'm not asking my mother," I made this point at Makenna who rolled her eyes and crossed her arms but didn't seem too put out, "so I can't really think of anything."
"Well why don't you just get him to go to the control class this afternoon. It's mandatory for everyone. They do it a couple of times a term unless someone has real problems, and then they drag them in for one to one..."
"Oh that's what that is."
"Yeah, it's a drag but I'm pretty sure that'd get his attention if he doesn't know."
"That's actually pretty clever." Makenna agreed.
"But how would we get him there?" Naomi said as the bell rang.
"Everyone think about it during class. We'll plan during lunch yeah?" I said.
"Okay." The chorused and then began to vacate. Alex grabbed my arm.
"Come on, time for art. The photos should be ready in the dark room."
I grinned and allowed myself to be dragged out of the room towards art.


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We are always in hurry to reach our work or school in the morning, Cold cereals come handy and easy to have for breakfast. We believe that these cereals are healthy and have all the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and proteins we require to maintain a good health.
But are these cereals really as healthy as we think them to be or are claimed to be?
I am trying to look in detail into these breakfast cereals and their effect on our health.
What Is Breakfast Cereal?
Breakfast cereal is made from processed grain. It is often eaten with milk, yogurt, fruit or nuts.
Breakfast cereal is often fortified with vitamins and minerals. This means that nutrients are added to make it more nutritious .
Here's how breakfast cereals are typically made:
- Processing: The grains are usually processed into fine flour and cooked.
- Mixing: The flour is then mixed with ingredients like sugar, chocolate and water.
- Extrusion: Many breakfast cereals are produced via extrusion. This is a high-temperature process that uses a machine to shape the cereal.
- Drying: Next, the cereal is dried.
- Shaping: Finally, the cereal is shaped into forms, such as balls, stars, loops or rectangles.
Breakfast cereals may also be puffed, flaked or shredded. The cereal may also be coated in chocolate or frosting before it is dried.
When we look at the labels we often see refined grains and sugars. Actually these are misleading as they have very small quantity of whole grains in them which cannot negate the effect of unhealthy ingredients in them.
But the problem is that people believe that they are very healthy because of lack of knowledge. If you try cornflakes in milk it tastes sweet without adding the sugar why because it is already loaded with refined sugars.
Keep in mind that truly healthy foods don't even need health claims.
Children are the target for selling these cereals
The manufacturers of these cereals generally target the children with different colors , cartoon shapes and flavours. The children associate cereal time as a fun and entertainment time. These are leading to child obesity which is a big problem these days.
If you have to buy breakfast cereals anyhow then keep these points while purchasing them
If you really must eat cereal for breakfast, then there are some tips to help you select a healthier (or "less unhealthy") breakfast cereal.
See the Sugar content: Choose a breakfast cereal that contains less than 5 grams of sugar per serving. Read the food label to find out how much sugar the product contains. It should have High Fiber:
Breakfast cereals that contain at least 3 grams of fiber per serving are optimal. Eating enough fiber can have numerous benefits for health (14).
Pay Attention To Portions
Breakfast cereals tend to be crunchy and tasty, and it can be very easy to consume large amounts of calories. Measure how much you are eating and use the serving size information on the packaging for guidance.
Read the Ingredients List
Ignore the health claims on the front of the box, and make sure to check the ingredients list. The first two or three ingredients are the most important, as the product contains the most of these.
If sugar is listed several times under different names, even if it is not in the first three spots, then the product is probably very high in sugar.
Add Some Protein
Protein is the most filling macronutrient. It increases fullness and reduces appetite.
A tablespoon of nuts, seeds or some Greek yogurt are good choices for extra protein.
Eat Breakfast for sure , But Choose Unprocessed Options
If you are hungry in the morning, you should eat breakfast. However, it is best to choose whole, single-ingredient foods.
Here are a few great choices:
Oatmeal with raisins and nuts.
Greek yogurt with nuts and sliced fruit.
Scrambled eggs with vegetables.
Wheat daliya with milk or vegetables
Vegetable oats
Sprouts with vegetables etc
Whole eggs are an excellent breakfast choice. They are high in protein and healthy fats, as well as loaded with nutrients They keep you full for a long time, and may also be a good choice for people who want to lose weight.
Do eat breakfast . Have eggs or high protein options. They keep you full and help you to reduce weight.
Take home message
Breakfast cereals are highly processed. They contain loads of added sugar and refined carbs. They are also often marketed with highly misleading labels.
If you must eat breakfast cereal, make sure to read the ingredients list and be wary of front label health claims. Choose cereals that are high in fiber and low in sugar.
However, there are many healthier breakfast options to choose from. Start with whole, single-ingredient foods. Eggs are a great choice.
Preparing a healthy breakfast from whole foods doesn't have to take a long time, either — you only need 5–10 more minutes in the morning.
Just wake up a little earlier, and take the time to start your day with a nutritious meal.
Stay healthy and blessed!!!


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Quick word from Salzburg, and a couple of days at the Festival earlier this week taking part in the Preis der Schallplattenkritik's Quartett der Kritiker.
Harrison Birtwistle is one of this year's featured composers (you can read Fiona Maddocks' review of the flagship event of the Birtwistle-residency, a new production of his opera Gawain, in tomorrow's Observer), and his music was the focus of two fabulously engrossing concerts in the Kollegienkirche from Austrian new music ensembles Klangforum Wien and OENM.
Klangforum's performance of the 1984 masterpiece Secret Theatre was a Birtwistlean thrill ride of explosivity and stasis; Sylvain Cambreling conducted with uncompromising precision, energy, and hell-for-leather speeds that pushed his players to their expressive and technical limits. After OENM's performance of the shattering, raw elementality of Verses for Ensemble the night before (a piece that Birtwistle described to me as his vision of a "music before music" and which still sounds primordially rich and strange, 44 years after it was written), Secret Theatre sounded more sophisticated in its essentially joyful play of instrumental theatre, and its complex counterpoint between "cantus and continuum", as Birtwistle describes the two most obvious layers of the music. And yet it never lost - just as Birtwistle's music has never lost - its sense of simultaneous ancientness and coruscating modernity.
One clue to one of the work's secrets, however: towards the end of the piece, there's an etiolated melody that appears in the percussion; Birtwistle told me during rehearsals that this is the tune What the World Needs Now is Love. You heard it here first: Birtwistle quotes Burt Bacharach!
Oustripping even Secret Theatre for searing emotional power was Claron McFadden's performance of Birtwistle's Nine Settings of Celan, songs usually heard as part of the gigantic Pulse Shadows cycle, in which the vocal numbers are interpolated by music for string quartet. Heard instead as a continuous sequence of songs, there was an unflinching sense of bearing witness to the intensity of Celan's poems in the sharp-edged lyricism of Birtwistle's music and the breathtaking clarity of McFadden's voice, at some moments reduced to a whisper, at others, entwining ethereally with the instrumentalists. At one point she even made her vocal line fuse with the sound of the two clarinets, creating an uncanny meta-instrument of voice and woodwinds.
Strange and wonderful place, Salzburg. The festival's main venues are carved sideways into the cliff that looms behind the inner city, so the audience from the opera house (the night I was there, a dramatically and musically inert production of Verdi's Falstaff, directed by Damiano Michieletto with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta) tip out theatrically on to the main drag with its red carpets and restaurants. And the papers there are full of the festival, as you'd imagine. And as you wouldn't - it's not just the reviews, it's the gossip pages too. The supposed frostiness in the starry partnership of Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott (the evidence for which seemed to be that they weren't holding hands on the red carpet this year, whereas last year they were, and testimony of unnamed "friends" that every relationship goes through its difficult times, etc, etc...) fills the space that that British tabloids reserve for Posh, Becks and the rest of the litany of pseudo-celeb-dom. It's a sign of how much the musical scene matters to Salzburg - although it's probably not great if you're Anna or Erwin.
Another of the other big stories at Salzburg this year is the largest single importation of Venezula's El Sistema ensembles at a festival of all time ever: over 1,000 young musicians in six ensembles. José Antonio Abreu has been called the "Gandhi of classical music", and brooking any disagreement on that idea or criticising any other aspect of El Sistema is tantamount to heresy. I personally don't agree, either with the Gandhi comparison or the notion that El Sistema is a universal musical good, but there were signs in Austria that just as important as the South American example were the ways that new initiatives in Europe are responding to the challenges of creating meaningful musical opportunities for otherwise disenfranchised children. Superar is an organisation working with children in Austria and Switzerland, but also in Romania, Bosnia, and Turkey. Some children from Bosnia and Romania were making their first trip away from home to sing with the El Sistema ensemble in Salzburg. These are lives lived only a few hundred miles from the richest parts of Europe - yet in another world. Looking to South America for inspirational music-making ideas is one thing, but there are opportunities in parts of Europe that organisations such as Superar and many others must continue to create.


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On Oct. 6 it was made public that Toyo University ace junior Ryuji Kashiwabara will sit out the Oct. 11 Izumo Ekiden in Izumo, Shimane prefecture. Toyo head coach Sakai told reporters that Kashiwabara's condition this season is not good and that he will take things easy. Toyo won the last two Hakone Ekidens on the strength of Kashiwabara's pair of stage record runs on Hakone's legendary uphill Fifth Stage.
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HOUSTON - 2009: Kyle Shanahan of the Houston Texans poses for his 2009 NFL headshot at photo day in Houston, Texas. (Photo by NFL Photos)
Under fire all week for questionable playcalling in an 18-16 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, Redskins offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan responded with his most balanced effort to date. With the ground game sputtering against the NFL's worst run defense, Shanahan turned to his third option in Ryan Torain. The move didn't disappoint as Torain -- an afterthought in the pecking order at running back -- rushed for 135 yards and a touchdown. The Redskins' 40 rushing attempts were the most by the team in a single game since 2009. They sacked Sam Bradford seven times and held the Rams to 172 yards of total offense to improve to 3-1 on the season. Furthermore, the 17-10 win combined with the Cowboys loss to Detroit means Washington is first place in the NFC East heading into its bye week. Time for Shanahan to breathe a sigh of relief, right? Not so fast. The Redskins had this game in hand from the start, yet in typical fashion found a way to let St Louis back into it with a pair of turnovers f...
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<me-too> I wrote my own custom authentication scheme for exactly the same reasons. I hope Tomcat will soon add forms based authentication so I can remove this (unnecessary) level of complexity from my applications. </me-too> Emir. -----Original Message----- From: Hughes, Tim [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:50 PM To: 'email@example.com' Subject: RE: Programmatic security with servlet mappings in tomcat I did not want to use the container's authentication mechanism for several reasons: 1. I can't store passwords and usernames in a database. 2. I get more control over the login process e.g. I can give different login error message depending on the source of the login failiure (wrong password, wrong username, etc ...) + I can log these login failiures (useful since they may help in detecting "breakins"). 3. I read in Wrox Professional Java Server Programming that "as of writing this chapter, Tomcat (Version 3.1) does not completely support form-based authentication. Although Tomcat includes an experimentation version of form-based authentication, this is not suitable for demonstration purposes". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tim Hughes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Antony Bowesman [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: 3. juli 2001 10:32 To: email@example.com Subject: Re: Programmatic security with servlet mappings in tomcat Pete, pete wrote: > > Tim, > > there are several ways to implement this kind of security check. If you > want a fullblown MVC model, you might consider looking at Struts or one > of the other Apache-driven frameworks (Struts is the only one i have > personal experience with). > > with the example you give, i don't understand the need for a > 'controller' jsp in this context. > > The way i handle security in one of my apps is that i have a method in a > session-bean (public void isAuthenticated()) that checks the user has a > valid login, so all my jsps (except login.jsp) are wrapped in a > statement like > > <jsp:useBean id="Authentication" scope="session" > class="com.mycompany.authentication"></jsp:useBean> > > <%if (Authentication.isAuthenticated()) > {%> > > .... rest of JSP goes here > > <%} > else > { > response.sendRedirect("./login.jsp"); > } > %> > > If a valid session key is already assigned, the method returns true. If > username and password are supplied in request scope, isAuthenticated > does a lookup to our authentication database, and if successful, sets a > valid session key, and returns true. > > If neither of these are true, isAuthenticated sets a 'you are not > authenticated' message to be displayed by login.jsp, returns false, and > the user is redirected back to login.jsp Interesting that you don't use the container's authentication mechanism to protect pages. What if someone writes an app that doesn't protect the page. Any reason why you chose this route? Rgds Antony This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.
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April 16, 2012
Whitebox Readies Push into RIA Channel
Minneapolis-based Whitebox Advisors, the $2.3 billion asset management firm founded by Andrew Redleaf, is making a concerted push into the Registered Investment Advisor channel with the help of third-party marketing firm Havener Capital Partners LLC.
Whitebox Mutual Funds' flagship fund, Whitebox Tactical Opportunities, invests in a variety of securities including equities, debt, convertible securities, and derivatives, often employing classic "hedge fund" strategies.
"We have been patiently waiting for best-of-breed hedge fund firms to launch mutual fund products," stated Stacy Havener, president of the Providence, R.I.-based marketing shop. "RIAs have told us that they are looking for liquid alternatives and that they are looking for 'something different.'"
ETFs Rake in $14B
Exchange-traded funds took in more than $14 billion bringing their total assets to $1.2 trillion as of March 31, according to State Street Global Advisors' ETF Snapshot report for March 2012.
The top three managers in the U.S. ETF marketplace in March were BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, accounting for some 83% of the U.S.-listed ETF market. And the top three ETFs in terms of assets for the month were the SPDR S&P 500[SPY], SPDR Gold Shares [GLD] and Vanguard Emerging Markets [VWO].
Also, the top three ETFs as measured by dollar volume traded for the month were the SPDR S&P 500 [SPY], the iShares Russell 2000 [IWM] and the PowerShares QQQ [QQQ].
Guggenheim, JP Morgan Embark on Alts Roadshow
A group of alternative mutual funds is kicking off its second annual advisor road show today in hopes of educating advisors on the benefits of alternative investing and, ultimately, winning business.
The firms sponsoring the 2012 tour include Altegris, Driehaus, Eaton Vance, Forward, Guggenheim Investments, JP Morgan, Fortigent, Morningstar and Ramius.
While the 2011 roadshow served as a broad introduction to alternatives, this year's seven-city tour emphasizes ways to utilize them in portfolio construction. Every stop on the tour will include portfolio implementation educational session, giving advisors the opportunity to hear about best practices from portfolio construction gurus.
The roadshow, which kicks off at the Morningstar Auditorium in Chicago, will make additional stops in Philadelphia (April 12), Denver (May 1), Dallas (May 3), Palo Alto, Calif. (May 15) and Seattle (May 17) before wrapping up in New York on May 22.