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CE News
Clean Energy News Vol. 12, Number 2, January 18, 2012
Clean Energy News
Vol. 12, Number 2, January 18, 2012
CE News is a free weekly e-mail publications that features news, information and events related tp clean energy, clean air and climate change. CE News is published by Clean Energy Nepal. For more information on our campaign please visit www.cen.org.np
• Climate Change Repercussions: An Odyssey to Highlight Himalayas' Plight
• Govt to Introduce 'Scientific Transportation Fare'
• Mercury Hits Zero in Kathmandu
• Public Vehicles Not Disabled-Friendly
• NOC Hikes Petro Prices
• 'Expedite Bharatpur-Hetauda Power Line'
• One Company behind U.S.'S Top Three Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitters
• Atmospheric Particles Causing More Rain
• China Sets Historic Limits on GHG Emissions from Select Regions
• NASA GISS Identifies 14 Air Pollution Control Measures to Slow Global Warming
• Climate Change Ripples Through Mountain Ecosystems
• Slow Global Warming by Cutting Soot, Methane
• Link Of The Week
• Did You Know?
• Media Watch
• QUIZ Of The Week # 505
• Answer Of Quiz Of The Week # 504
|Local News
Climate Change Repercussions: An Odyssey to Highlight Himalayas' Plight
By Pragati Shahi
Although a series of meetings and conferences on climate change have so far failed to address the plight of the Himalayas, efforts have been made in recent years to make the problem more perceptible globally.
Apa Sherpa, 51, who has scaled Mt Everest for the record 21st time has now become a global celebrity from Nepal to raise the profile of the Himalayan glaciers that are facing serious repercussions of the climate change. Himalayan mountains serve as a freshwater storage for around 1.2 billion population living in the region. Since 2009, Apa, along with his team, including two-time Everest climber Dawa Steven Sherpa, has toured different cities in Europe and America and met dozens of mountaineers, political leaders and the public to draw their attention towards mountains and their vulnerability to the rising temperatures. "During my visits, I found most people in the West were not aware of climate change issues on mountains and the vulnerable communities," Apa said. According to him, the people were interested in knowing more about the mountains and its people and the impact of climate change on them. The people also showed interest to support the cause, Apa said. It is because the science to back the evidence, research and stories is still lacking in the context of mountain glaciers and problems associated with them. So, in search of solutions to such problems, Apa and Dawa are embarking on a 1,700-km and 120 day-long Great Himalaya Trail (GHT) from coming Sunday. The team will meet the vulnerable communities along the trek that will pass through eight out of the ten highest mountains of the world.
The historic GHT trek is endorsed by the government and is being implemented by GHT Development Programme (GHTDP) led by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and supported by development partners, namely DFID, SNV and the British Council. According to Prashant Singh, the chief executive officer of the Himalayan Climate Initiative (HCI), GHT-Climate Smart Celebrity Trek (CSCT) will focus on four important areas. They are talk and interaction with local people on visible changes observed on weather and rainfall patterns and its impact on agriculture and livelihood, documenting climate resilience strategies practiced by the mountain communities, initiating work to help the vulnerable communities with donors' support, and identifying possibilities of low-carbon alternatives like wind, solar and biogas, among others. The trek will be instrumental in exploring the possibility of promotion of tourism and related products to people across the globe. A team of seven researchers are conducting a study on climate change. A latest report prepared by a group of scientists associated with the ICIMOD states 21 percent of glacial area cover has been decreased in the past 30 years in the country. They will visit 20 districts of the country.
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com January 12, 2012
Govt to Introduce 'Scientific Transportation Fare'
Minister for Labour and Transport Management Sarita Giri has said that the government has been preparing to fix the fares of the transportation scientifically for the long-term solution, RSS reports.
Inaugurating the golden jubilee of the Eastern Transport Entrepreneur Association (ETEA) on Monday, Minister Giri also said that the government is also mulling to form Nepal Transport Authority to monitor the transportation sector. Saying that the government was positive about resolving the problems of transport sector, Giri also urged the entrepreneurs to come up with alternatives agendas. Similarly, Minister also expressed hope that the problems witnessed in the sector will gradually end after the promulgation of new constitution.
Source: http://www.nepalnews.com January 16, 2012
Mercury Hits Zero in Kathmandu
By Om Astha Rai
Denizens of Kathmandu Valley on Saturday experienced the coldest morning of the last two years as the temperature reached freezing point.
The Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) recorded a minimum temperature of 0.0 degree Celsius Saturday morning. At 0.0 degree Celsius water starts changing from liquid to solid. This is the first time in the last two years that the Valley´s minimum temperature has plunged so low. Last winter, the minimum temperature was 0.5 degree Celsius, on January 10 and 14. MFD has forecast the Valley´s minimum temperature at minus 1 degree Celsius for Sunday morning before sunrise. This is the first time this year that MFD has forecast minus zero weather. "Since the rains last Monday, the Valley is getting colder by the day," said senior meteorologist Rajendra Shrestha. "And the minimum temperature is all set to plunge further Sunday morning." Valley temperatures have not gone below zero degree since 2010. On January 12 that year, the minimum temperature was recorded at -0.2 degree Celsius. However, people did not feel too cold in the afternoon that day as maximum temperature exceeded 22.6 degrees. On Saturday, the maximum temperature was recorded at 16.8 degrees, and people experienced biting cold almost throughout the day. Weather experts say Saturday´s low temperature is somehow linked to Monday´s rains. "Dark clouds over the Valley nearly disappeared following the rains. The weather has remained fair for the last few days and this has resulted in a strong north-westerly wind," Shrestha at MFD said. "If you´re out in the open, you can feel the strong wind." The speed and intensity of the north-westerly, according to Shrestha, have caused a drastic drop in mercury. "If the weather continues fair, the mercury will plunge further," he said. In cloudy weather, chances are there is no wind or only low wind. "There is no drastic drop in mercury in such weather even if the sun is elusive," Shrestha said.
Source: http://myrepublica.com January 15, 2012
Public Vehicles Not Disabled-Friendly
By Pritam Bhattarai
Macharaj Maharjan, a differently-abled who cannot move his feet properly, has been facing difficulties in boarding public vehicles.
A permanent resident of Battisputali, Kathmandu, Maharjan said public vehicles do not stop for him when they identify his disability. In a recent incident, he had to wait for almost two hours to get on a public vehicle at Kamalpokhari, Kathmandu. "It was a tiresome wait before I was able to get on a bus," he said, adding that most often he gets help from the traffic police while boarding a vehicle. Dharma Thapa, a wheelchair user from Jhapa, has a similar problem to share. He struggles to get a ticket for a long route bus, let alone avail of a discount on its price or a seat reserved for people like him. Trouble Maharjan and Thapa are facing is only the tip of the iceberg. Almost all the disabled people, according to disabled rights activists, have a tough time boarding public vehicles. Teknath Neupane, vice president of the National Federation of the Disabled Nepal, said though differently abled people are entitled to discounts or priority in public vehicles, the reality is pathetic. Neupane, who himself is fully blind, said that disabled people, especially visually impaired ones, are cheated while getting a change, taking advantage of their difficulty in identifying currency notes or coins.
According to the public transport code of conduct, seats in public vehicles should be reserved for women and people with disabilities and they must be helped to board vehicles. Differently abled people constitute 10 percent of the country's total population.
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com January 15, 2012
NOC Hikes Petro Prices
The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has increased the prices of LP Gas (cooking gas) by Rs 175 per cylinder, petrol by Rs 10 and diesel and kerosene by Rs 9 each per liter.
With the price hike, LP Gas per cylinder will now cost Rs 1,500 per cylinder, petrol Rs 115, and diesel and kerosene Rs 85 each per liter, the NOC said in a statement on Wednesday. Previously, the price of LP Gas was Rs 1,325 per cylinder. Similarly, the prices of petrol and diesel and kerosene were fixed at Rs 105 and Rs 76 each per liter. In the statement, the NOC has said it had to increase the prices to make for the loss repeatedly incurred by the state oil monopoly. The NOC has also said it decided to hike the prices to end the shortage of petroleum products recently experienced in Nepali market by paying off dues to the Indian Oil Corporation. Even after bring in force the new price format, the state oil monopoly will be incurring a monthly loss of Rs 860 million, the NOC said, adding that it plans to compensated the loss with government assistance.
Source: http://myrepublica.com January 18, 2012
'Expedite Bharatpur-Hetauda Power Line'
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Wednesday directed the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation to reach agreement and start construction of the Bharatpur-Hetauda Transmission Line. It also asked the Home and Defense Ministries to take the initiative to complete the stalled Khimti-Dhalkebar project.
Construction of 70-km 220 KV Bharatpur-Hetauda Transmission Line has not started even four years after the World Bank agreed to provide a project loan, for lack of clearance from the Ministry of Forests. The anti-graft body has given a deadline of 15 days for the two ministries to reach agreement. "The Ministry of Energy had written to the Ministry of Forests four years ago for clearance to cut the trees that need to be cut, but have yet to receive the clearance," Energy Secretary Balananda Paudel said. The World Bank has agreed to funding of US$ 19 million for the project and the government has been forced to pay a commitment charge as the work has not yet started. The World Bank has twice extended the period for utilisation of the fund and the latest extension is to expire in December. "We are already late and the best we can hope is to start the work on a war footing and seek another extension of around six months to complete the project," Paudel added. Similarly, the CIAA has asked the Home and Defense Ministries to provide security for completion of the 75-km Khimti-Dhalkebar Transmission Line. "We have completed all the work and need to put in just six more pillars, but a few locals have obstructed work in Sindhuli Bazar, saying they will not allow the high-tension transmission line to go through their vicinity," Puadel disclosed. He said the 220 KV Khimti-Dhalkebar line can be brought into use immediately if the six pillars are built, and Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is losing around 8-10 MW of power from the Khimti and Bhotekoshi projects in technical loss as it has to use longer transmission lines for lack of the Khimti-Dhalkebar line.
The NEA board on Tuesday decided to seek clarifications from staff, including the respective department chiefs and general managers, for leakage of over 60 percent from the feeders. Some 20 feeders across the country have been leaking over 60 percent, with some in Saptari and Siraha districts having leakages of upto 85 percent. NEA is already enforcing additional hours of load-shedding on feeders having leakage of over 40 percent, and this has been helpful in controlling leakage, according to Paudel. But since additional power cuts have not been enforced on all the leaking feeders, the board has decided to suspend staff who don´t enforce extra load-shedding on feeders having leakage of above 40 percent.
Source: http://myrepublica.com January 12, 2012
|International News
One Company behind U.S.'S Top Three Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitters
By Jeremy Hance
The Atlanta-based Southern Company owns the top three biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. according to recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Three of Southern's coal-fired plants two in Georgia and one in Alabama account for around 64.74 million metric tons of total greenhouse gas emissions, higher than all of Finland's carbon emission in 2008.
The EPA's report listed the top 100 "big emissions sources" in U.S., 96 of which were power plants. The top 20 were largely made up of coal plants. Another company, American Electric Power, also owned three coal-fired plants in the top 20. For its part, Southern Company told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that their emissions are "indicative" of their power plants "being among the nation's largest generators of electricity," adding that, "Southern Company complies with all environmental regulations and supports transparency in emissions reporting. The company is a leader in environmental research, development and implementation." Southern company serves around 4 million people. In 2014 the corporation is opening a new coal plant in Mississippi that will reportedly capture 60 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions. According to its records Southern Company spent over $8 million in lobbying the U.S. government last year. A profile of the company on OpenSecrets.org, run by nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, reads "Southern has been one of the biggest proponents for electricity deregulation" and "gives most of its money to Republicans." Not only is burning coal one of the most significant inputs of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, it also has major impacts on human health and on water and land pollution. A recent study found that the hidden environmental and health costs of coal on U.S. society reached $523 billion annually that's $1,698 per person in the U.S. every year. "This is not borne by the coal industry, this is borne by us, in our taxes," the late Paul Epstein, the study's lead author who died last year, told Reuters at the time. "The public cost is far greater than the cost of the coal itself. The impacts of this industry go way beyond just lighting our lights."
Source: http://news.mongabay.com January 16, 2012
Atmospheric Particles Causing More Rain
A rise in the atmosphere of aerosols miniscule particles which include soot, dust and sulphates has led to more rainfall in certain parts of the world and could provide vital clues for future climate predictions, a scientific study shows.
A deeper understanding of rainfall patterns would aid scientists' ability to predict changing trends in the climate. Aerosols can be produced from burning coal or gas, industrial and agricultural processes or by the burning of forests. As well as being harmful for human health, they are blamed for causing air pollution such as smog and smoke. "For a range of conditions, increases in aerosol abundance are associated with the local intensification of rain rates," said the study published in Nature Geoscience by scientists from Israel's Weizmann Institute, NASA, and other institutions. "The relationship is apparent over both the ocean and land, and in the tropics, sub-tropics and mid-latitudes," it added, which would include large parts of continents such as Africa, South America and Asia. The scientists said further work was needed on how aerosols influence regions with lower rainfall rates. A separate study last November also found that aerosols increase the frequency of rainfall. It is thought that large volcanic eruptions, which release sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, have led to increased rainfall. Another uncertainty in future climate prediction is over the role of aerosols in cloud formation. It is thought clouds can be changed by aerosol particles which act as seeds in cloud droplet and ice formation, influencing the way clouds are formed. Heavier cloud formation could cool the earth's surface temperature by reflecting light back into space.
Source: http://www.enn.com January 16, 2012
China Sets Historic Limits on GHG Emissions from Select Regions
By David A Gabel
China is starting to get on board with the international push to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Last week, China's authoritarian government ordered five cities and two provinces to institute limits on GHG emissions. These areas will now have to submit proposals to the national government's National Development and Reform Commission on how they plan to achieve it.
The first implementation plan has been drawn up by Guandong Province, China's largest GHG emitting province and was approved. Guandong, has committed to decrease its consumption of fossil fuels to only 80 percent of overall energy consumption. The other 20 percent will have to come from either renewable sources, nuclear, or hydroelectric. In so doing, Guandong will be cutting carbon dioxide produced per unit of economic growth, known as carbon intensity, by 19.5 percent. It must accomplish this by 2015. Other cities and provinces ordered to institute similar plans include the major cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Shenzhen. Along with Guangdong, the province of Hubei is also included. To come up with these ambitious plans, the cities and provinces must set aside a fund dedicated to the project, according to the national directive. China, with a population over three times larger than the United States, has surpassed the US to become world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Their economic and industrial rise can be largely reliant on the increasing number of coal power plants constructed. The burning of dirty fossil fuels is required to fuel the nation's massive industrial infrastructure. This may be a reason why China has decided to use carbon intensity as its primary measurement rather than overall carbon emissions. The nation is striving for continuous growth and does not want to be hampered by hard carbon limits. Nonetheless, China as a whole has committed to significant reductions in carbon intensity. It aims to bring carbon intensity down 40-45 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels. During the 2011-2015 period, it aims to reduce carbon intensity by 17 percent. Tools to achieve this include the top-down national directive to select cities and provinces. China is also looking to establish market mechanisms to reach the target, supposedly a cap and trade-like system. Other regions are independently trying to set up their own GHG reducing regimes. These include the coal-rich province of Shaanxi and the port city of Dalian. Overall, there are over 100 entities following along with similar purpose. Correlations within the US may include California's increasingly stringent standards for air pollution set by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Also, the northeastern states have allied to create the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a group dedicated to cutting GHG emissions from the power sector by ten percent by 2018.
Source: http://www.enn.com January 18, 2012
NASA GISS Identifies 14 Air Pollution Control Measures to Slow Global Warming
By Andrew Burger
Fourteen air pollution control measures, if implemented today, could not only slow the pace of global warming, according to an intensive study by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), but also improve health and boost agricultural productivity. All regions of the world would benefit as a result, NASA found, but the biggest health and agricultural gains would be realized in Asia and the Middle East as a result of greenhouse (GHG) emissions reductions.
The GHG pollution measures center on methods of reducing emissions of methane (CH4) and black carbon particulates (soot). While increasing volumes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into our atmosphere is the primary agent of the greenhouse effect and the long-term global warming trend, the NASA GISS research team found that reducing emissions of methane and black carbon "are complementary actions that would have a more immediate impact because these two pollutants circulate out of the atmosphere more quickly," according to a project summary on NASA GISS' website that comes with several, unique interactive explanatory features. "Protecting public health and food supplies may take precedence over avoiding climate change in most countries, but knowing that these measures also mitigate climate change may help motivate policies to put them into practice," NASA GISS research team leader Drew Shindell stated. "The scientific case for fast action on these so-called 'short-lived climate forcers' has been steadily built over more than a decade, and this study provides further focused and compelling analysis of the likely benefits at the national and regional level," added United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner.
Source: http://www.enn.com January 18, 2012
Climate Change Ripples Through Mountain Ecosystems
By Joseph Castro
Like dominoes given one nudge, climate change in the form of reduced winter snowfall on mountaintops has subtle but powerful cascading effects felt throughout entire ecosystems, a new study finds.
In the northern mountains of Arizona, elk spend their winters in lower elevations where there's much less snow and the cold is less pronounced. But the decrease in high-elevation snowfall in the mountains over the last 25 years has allowed elk to forage in these areas throughout winter. Researchers found that the elks' year-round high-elevation browsing has decimated the density of seasonal woodsy plants, which, in turn, has impacted the populations of songbirds (animals you might expect would actually benefit from less snow). By preventing elk from entering several study sites for six years, the researchers were able to reverse the multi-decadal decline in plant and bird populations in these locations. "Ecologic communities are pretty complex. There are all these tight interactions going on," said study co-author Tom Martin, a wildlife researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey. "Perturbation from climate can affect those communities in many indirect ways and cause all of these ramifying effects."
The densities of seasonal woodsy plants, including aspen and maple trees, in the northern Arizona mountains have steadily declined over the last two decades. Martin and his colleague John Maron, a biologist at the University of Montana, hypothesized that this decline is primarily the result of one of two things: decreased soil water or increased exposure to hungry elk. To find out, the researchers set up 25-acre enclosures around three drainages, or vegetation-rich valleys created by snowmelt. By keeping the elk out, the enclosures essentially mimicked the effects of large snowfall. The researchers found that plant populations in the enclosures rebounded to levels last seen in 1996 — suppressing winter-browsing elk for six years effectively reversed 15 years of plant-density decline. Plant populations in nearby open drainages, however, did not improve over the six years. Similarly, the populations of five key songbird species rebounded in enclosed drainages. "With more vegetation, there are more nesting areas, and it becomes harder for predators to find the nests," Martin told Livescience. Since the populations of elk have also strongly declined over the last 11 years, the results show that the elks' new tendency to stick around over winter is ravaging the plant and bird communities. "It doesn't take very many animals to have a pretty large impact if they're there year-round," Martin explained.
Eric Post, a biologist at Pennsylvania State University who was not involved with the research, said that the study demonstrates how observational and experimental research can compliment each other. "Both are necessary to study climate change ecology," Post told LiveScience. While impressed with the study, Post thinks that the researchers "didn't nail down the driving factor in the relationship between plant growth and bird abundance." It seems convincing that the architecture of the vegetation would provide the birds with more nesting opportunities, he said, but that theory doesn't take into account the effect of invertebrate (animals without a backbone) abundance. The winter elk may also be affecting the populations of local insects, which the birds eat. Still, Post believes that the study has important implications for conservation. "If you are interested in the conservation of birds, you need to look at more than just the birds and the vegetation they are dependent on," Post said. "You need to look at the broader system of browsing animals." Martin agrees, adding that by "recognizing that these things happen, we can target priority habitats for conservation."
Source: http://green.yahoo.com January 17, 2012
Slow Global Warming by Cutting Soot, Methane
By Rosanne Skirble
An international team of scientists says global warming can be slowed in the short term by focusing less on carbon dioxide and more on the emission of methane and soot.
Carbon dioxide emissions produced by burning fossil fuels are the major cause of global warming, so efforts to combat climate change have focused on ways to cut CO2 releases. But according to the new study published this week in the journal Science, a quicker and more effective strategy would be to reduce emissions of other, shorter-lived air pollutants. The measures would not just slow climate change, but also boost crop yields, save money, and save lives. Once CO2 is released into the atmosphere, it remains there for decades, while other global-warming pollutants such as methane and black carbon, or soot, do not. Soot is a byproduct of inefficient burning, a big problem in developing countries with cook stoves using wood, dung or coal. Soot stays in the air for only a few days. Methane, a gas released from landfills, farms, mines and natural gas wells, stays in the atmosphere for about a decade. Researchers analyzed 2,000 existing pollution control measures for the two pollutants to determine which would be most effective in both slowing global warming and cleaning up the air. Drew Shindell, a climate scientist with NASA, the U.S. space agency, led the analysis. In an interview with the journal Science, he pointed to the control measures that ranked at the top of the list.
For methane, he said, that means "… capturing leaks from pipelines and storage tanks, capturing instead of either releasing or flaring off methane that is produced naturally in coal mining, and in oil and gas production, and capturing methane from city landfills. Measures to reduce black carbon, also known as BC, focused largely on controlling soot emissions from diesel engines and switching to cleaner burning cook stoves. "So regions where you are reducing BC [black carbon], where the sources are especially large in Asia, especially south Asia and also parts of Africa, those regions would tend to see the greatest benefits in both local reduction of warming and in public health," Shindell said. Adopting such controls could avoid between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths, the study estimates, and save one-third of a million lives in India and China alone. Shindell said the measures are cost effective. For example, profits from captured methane from a mining operation or landfill could boost the economy and protect public health. "Typically the benefits [come from] reduced damage to agriculture and to health," he said. "And if you value the climate benefits as well, these more than offset the cost. If you invest $50 million and get $70 million back, we think it's a great idea." Control measures would also increase the annual yields of major crops by as much as 135 million metric tons. And Shindell said other effects would begin immediately. "So for something like black carbon, one of the things that it will do is disrupt the hydrologic cycle," he said. "So as soon as you stop emitting it, the same week, the atmosphere responds and you would have a educed disruption of rainfall patterns, staring virtually immediately."
Under the methane and black carbon reduction scenario, the study predicts fewer droughts in southern Europe and parts of Africa, and less severe monsoons in Asia. And implementing this strategy could shave a half degree off the expected 1.2 degree Celsius rise in global mean temperature now expected over the next four decades. Shindell says that while carbon dioxide emissions must be addressed in the long-term, these short-term measures that impact both climate change and public health are worth taking now.
Source: http://www.voanews.com January 13, 2012
|Link of the Week
Climate change may make lizards smarter, if they don't go extinct first
|Did you Know ?
One improved stove emits 1.8 ton less carbon dioxide annually as compared to the general stoves.
|Media and Event Watch
Every Monday 8:30 pm on Nepal FM 91.8 MHZ "Climate Change Mero Bhawisya Mero Chaso"
Every Sunday at 7:30 am on Radio Sagarmatha 102.4 MHz "Batabaran Dabali"
Every Monday at 5:30 pm (re-telecast every Tuesday 11 am) on ABC Television "Climate Change
Every Alternate Friday at 2 PM on ENPHO Hall – "Green Discussion" Organized by Clean Energy Nepal, Nepalese Youth for Climate Action anGrnd Green Youth Network
Every Friday on The Himalayan Times "THT Green Plus"
Environment Cycle Radio F.M.104.2Mhz (ECR FM)
|QUIZ of the Week # 505
As per the Climate Change Policy 2011 and National Adaptation Programme of Action 2010, ……………………… per cent of the total funds need to be spent on local level activities.
a) 50
b) 60
c) 70
d) 80
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|Answer of the week # 504
Financial Act 2002-2003 decided to collect pollution tax of ……………… from a unit of petroleum products sold in the Kathmandu Valley and provide it to EPF, but the provision has not been implemented. MoE data shows around Rs 690 million have been collected till now.
a) 50 paisa
Rajan Parajuli
Yagya Vajra
Heerakaji Maharjan
Indra Kumari Manandhar
Sagar Shiwakoti
Rajesh Kc
Aayush Pokhrel
Sangeeta Pandey
Bivor Rai
Rajan Parajuli is the lucky winner for this week. Please contact the CEN office within a week with your identity card.
Congratulation to the Winner and thanks to all participants.
Prepared by: Suman Udas and Pabitra Basnet
Edited by: Bhushan Tuladhar
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Do the Opposite
From Standard & Poor's Equity Research
In a legendary Seinfeld episode, George Costanza's life takes a turn for the better when he admits his instincts are wrong and he starts "doing the opposite." Investors might become more successful if they stopped following their instincts and started doing the opposite of the Wall Street herd.
Market sentiment is simple to understand and easy to use. In a nutshell, when everyone is bullish or bearish on a particular asset, it may be time to do the opposite. That is, if the herd is bullish on technology, or housing, or commodities, it probably means that these areas of investment should be avoided, and at some point, shorted. Why? Because when markets get overheated, momentum takes over and funds are thrown at any asset class that is outperforming, regardless of the fundamentals. Eventually, too many people are sitting on the same fence - and the fence breaks. The key to market sentiment is to take advantage of this momentum, but not to be the last one out of the room.
Two market sentiment polls that recently moved to bearish extremes are the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) poll and the Investor's Intelligence (II) poll. The AAII sentiment survey asks its membership weekly where they think the market will be in six months. The responses are grouped into three categories: bullish, bearish, or neutral. The Investor's Intelligence (II) survey, administered by Chartcraft and edited by Michael Burke, polls 140 investment newsletters and determines whether the publisher is bullish, bearish, or neutral.
During the latest market bottom in June and July, we saw a major shift in sentiment to the bearish camp. During the week of July 21, bearish sentiment in the AAII poll rose to 57.8%, the highest reading since February, 2003, while bullish sentiment fell to 23.9%, the lowest since April, 2005. Bullish sentiment in the II poll fell to 35.6% in June, the lowest since October, 2002, while bearish sentiment rose to 37.1% in August, the highest since March, 2003. During the week of June 23, sentiment was at a standstill, with bulls and bears both at 35.6%. This was the first time that bearish sentiment was as high as bullish sentiment since October, 2002.
We believe that for the market to continue higher, the bears need to throw in the towel and move quickly to the bullish side of the fence. This has yet to happen. During the final market low in March, 2003, bullish sentiment in the II poll fell to 39.8% and bearish sentiment rose to 38.2%. As the market came out of that low, the bears quickly turned bullish, and in just five weeks, bullish sentiment rose to 51.1% and bearish sentiment fell to 30.3%. Since June of this year, we have seen only a small uptick in bullish sentiment and a minuscule drop in bearish sentiment. The same thing can be seen in the AAII poll during early 2003. In nine weeks, bullish sentiment exploded from 21.1% to 63%, and bearish sentiment plunged from 57.9% to 19%. Since the peak in bearish sentiment in the AAII poll in July, we have five weeks of subsequent data, but so far, bullish sentiment has only risen to 39.4% and bearish sentiment has only fallen to 37.4%.
We would note that long-term trends in market sentiment follow the long-term trends in the stock market. However, during the latest bull market, the peak in bullish sentiment occurred back in 2003, and since that time, sentiment has traced out series of lower highs and lower lows. While the latest readings in market sentiment might have been correct in calling for the recent intermediate-term low, we do not believe that the final market low has been put in, because the longer-term trend in market sentiment is still heading lower. With seasonal factors turning bearish and a typical four-year market low likely later this year, we believe we have to see one more washout in sentiment before the major long-term market trend can turn higher.

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I'm surprised that no-one seems to have spotted an obvious Roman parallel for the success of Barack Obama. Or have I missed it? In the second century AD, Lucius Septimius Severus became the first 'African-Roman' emperor of Rome. Like Obama he was of mixed race -- his father from Libya, his mother of European descent. He too had an outspoken and determined wife, from Syria. And his first task on coming to the throne in 193 AD was to deal with a military disaster in Iraq ('Parthia' as it was then known). The success of his surge was commemorated in the great arch, which remains to this day one of the most impressive monuments in the Forum at Rome.
The two little children he took with him to the palace did not fare so well. In fact they grew up to be murderous thugs – even if the elder, Caracalla, did go on to initiate the most daring extension of civic rights in the whole of world history. Once he had got rid of his brother (nastily murdered on his mother's lap), he gave full Roman citizenship, and the legal privileges and protection that went with it, to all the free male inhabitants of the empire.
Did the success of Septimius Severus show that race no longer mattered in Roman politics? And is there a message in his story for the new president-elect?
If so, the message is a double-edged one. A few more African-Romans did make it to the higher echelons of the imperial government (in many cases members of the emperor's own family, or his wife's friends). But on the wider view, it was not so much that his race did not matter, but that the Roman upper class and the Roman media made sure that it simply was not seen.
We do not know for certain whether or not Septimius Severus was black. That is itself significant. One historian writing three hundred years after his lifetime claimed that he was 'dark', and one or two portrait statues appear to show him with African features. But the vast majority of images that survive make him look like any other Roman emperor before him – his whiteness over-emphasised by the shiny white marble in which he was so often portrayed. This was not a black man claiming the imperial throne for himself. This was the Roman imperial machine turning a man of colour into an emperor more or less indistinguishable from all his predecessors. The machine was making sure that race did not show.
No-one is suggesting, of course, that Obama's publicity team will attempt, literally, to whiten the image of the forty-fourth president. But the 'Septimius Severus problem' is already clear enough. Obama's understandable decision not to mention his own ethnic identity, or anything else about race, in his acceptance speech had decided echoes of Septimius Severus' image as a white emperor. The more you present Obama as any other president, and peddle the self-congratulatory clichés about the end of a raclal divide at the highest pinnacle of American politics, the more you are simply refusing to see that for most people in the US and the rest of the world race does still matter..
Most British women will recognise a much more recent political analogy. For ethnicity, read gender. Margaret Thatcher did almost nothing to advance the chances of other women in British public life, Quite the reverse. By making it look as if the gender wars were a conflict now decisively won --- when for millions of British women the battle had hardly begun -- the effect of Thatcher's victory was to put back the cause of women for a generation at least.
Lets hope the same is not true for Obama – and that he doesn't take the Septimius Severus route towards the same old orthodoxy of power. If race (or gender) is really not to matter it needs to be visible to us.


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Instead, in a way, Paris was on many minds - or at least the fact that in the week remaining until the finish, Sunday was one of two stages that would favour a break by flat-landers.
The result was the hardest-fought first half of any stage in this Tour de France. For two hours and almost 100 kilometres, escape succeeded escape, and chases followed the escapes.
The peloton was strung out in one sweating, cursing line in a wind that was blowing partly in riders' faces, and was scented with lavender and mint.
The string split in two or three from time to time, and almost invariably Iban Mayo was among the backmarkers as the peloton sped across the plains of the Herault and the Aude, through serried ranks of vines and rows of olive trees.
In the knowledge that the yellow jersey seems destined for Lance Armstrong today or the day after, French holidaymakers turned out to applaud their compatriot Thomas Voeckler, after his desperately brave fight on Saturday to hang on to his lead.
For the present, having ridden through the Pyrenees with all the speed and aplomb of a steamroller, Sunday's winner Aitor Gonzalez would consider himself among the flat-earth men.
On Sunday, the big Spaniard infiltrated the 10-man escape, which finally broke the peloton's spirit after 100 kilometres, and disappeared alone with eight mainly downhill kilometres left to give his Fassa Bortolo team its third stage win of the tour.
Spain's 100th stage win was a fine effort, but it was ironic that it came just after the nation's climbers had flopped in the Pyrenees. It was also not quite what was expected of the man nicknamed the Aitorminator after he won the Tour of Spain in 2002. After that, Gonzalez was expected to be a successor to Miguel Indurain.
He produced brave talk about taking on Armstrong last year but presented himself for duty last season with the effects of too many chorizos and cervezas lingering on his waistline, and the best he could manage was 19th in the Giro d'Italia.
His efforts prompted team manager Giancarlo Ferretti to blast him for not training enough and not living like a professional athlete.
On Sunday, Gonzalez admitted: "I was hired to win big tours and I didn't, so it's normal they should be angry. I was angry with myself as well."
To add spice to the last-week mix, Armstrong is hinting he may return next year even if he wins a record sixth tour this Sunday.
Australia's Robbie McEwen increased his lead in the points category, beating his main rivals in a bunch sprint to finish at the head of the peloton in 11th.
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Well, it has definitely come time (way overdue) to pull the trigger on some suspension for my car. I'm riding on stock shocks at about 75,000 miles, and even though it's not horrible, it is getting relatively bouncy over rough roads.
Now, I have been trying to get a clear and definitive answer on drop height for the Eibach Pro-Kit springs and the H&R Sport Springs, but can't seem to get one, so I beg of the site sponsors to help me out. Here's what I have found directly from the manufacturer web sites:
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Upon reading other threads (lots, and lots, and lots of threads), I have seen so much conflicting information, and when it comes to something as critical as suspension (don't want to end up dropping the car and getting a super raked stance, or start scraping on every driveway), I haven't pulled the trigger since I haven't been able to get the correct information.
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I have already replaced the front CAB and RTAB's on the car about 10,000 miles ago, anything else I'm missing that's crucial for the install?
I was initially thinking of going with the H&R Touring Kit, but don't want a super raked look, and also heard the shocks, even though the internals are Bilstein, aren't very good and can go bad after only 10,000 miles??? Is it possible to remove the lower rear spring pad that comes on the kit in order to remove some of the rake?
I've also read that it appears the Eibach springs lower more when combined with the Koni FSDs? So I hope why you can see the reasoning behind trying to get this information sorted prior to purchase.
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A 25-year-old woman has alleged that she had been subjected to horrific torture by police after her arrest. The police, she said, stripped her and inserted beer bottle and chilli powder in her private parts. The station officer of Kanchak, Jammu, she said, had been one of the perpetrators.
Hug In Haste, Repent At Leisure. How This Rahul Gandhi Move Backfired
India News | Reported by Rohit Bhan, Written by Suparna Singh | Tuesday July 26, 2016
During his trip to Una to meet with the young Dalit men who were stripped, tied to a car, and thrashed by a group of cow vigilantes for skinning a dead cow, Rahul Gandhi hugged a woman at a local hospital.
Woman, Lover Stripped, Tied To Tree Allegedly By Husband, Villagers In Rajasthan
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A woman and her paramour were stripped and tied to a tree allegedly by her husband and villagers, who also posted disturbing pictures of the incident in Rajasthan's Udaipur district on social media. Police has arrested 13 people in connection with the incident.
Woman Beaten, Stripped In Maharashtra; 20 Held
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A 35-year-old woman was allegedly beaten and stripped by a mob in a village here, following which over 20 people were apprehended, police said today.
60-Year-Old Woman Stripped, Tortured After Son 'Runs Away' With Girl
India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 26, 2016
A 60-year-old woman was stripped and tortured in a village in Uttar Pradesh on Monday after her son allegedly eloped with a girl, police said.
From Bengaluru To Abroad, Indians' Anti-Black Racism
Opinion | Sharmila Sen | Tuesday March 15, 2016
The Indian Census has not included "race" as a category since the early in 1950s. Race might be a "biological fiction" according to geneticists, but the world over, it is a social reality. Racism is a topic Indians have been discussing fervently following the reprehensible attack on a Tanzanian woman by a mob that beat and publicly stripped her in ...
Sadananda Gowda Asks Karnataka Government 'To Keep A Watch On Foreign Students'
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Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda today asked the Karnataka government to form a special squad to keep a watch on foreign students, in the wake of an alleged assault and stripping of a Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru.
3 Cops Suspended For Not Helping Tanzanian Woman Attacked By Mob
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Three Bengaluru policemen have been suspended and nine people arrested over the mob attack on Sunday on a Tanzanian woman who was beaten and stripped on a road. The Tanzanian envoy, who has called it a "racist attack", is in the city along with senior Indian foreign ministry officials.
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In her statement to the police, the Tanzanian woman who was attacked by a mob on Sunday has described a harrowing chase on the roads of Bengaluru. She and her friends have alleged that she was stripped and paraded, though the state government has denied it.
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A young Tanzanian woman was beaten up and stripped on a road in Bengaluru, prompting the Tanzanian embassy to ask the government to take action against her attackers.
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An 85-year-old woman has complained of being tortured with searing tongs and stripped after being branded as a witch in Rajasthan's Bihara village, over 260 km from Jaipur,, police said.
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Duffman's Plan To Reform Healthcare, Part 1
It's been a while, so here goes:
Duffman's plan to start reforming healthcare in the U.S. :
First, a few principles or "givens":
1) The U.S. currently has the best healthcare delivery system on the planet. The capability and quality of the medical care available exceed that available in Europe (including the "junior socialist' cradle to grave programs in many European countries) or Asia. When those with unlimited resources want the best care available, they come here.
2) Government is not capable of running a complex program like health care in a high quality and efficient manner.
Step One: Tort Reform
Change 1: Medical treatments - particularly in cases of unusual or advanced illnesses/conditions - are a blend of art and science. Trained practitioners gather data, and make informed decisions. No matter how well-informed those decision makers are or how skilled and educated the person(s) involved in healthcare decisions are there will always be cases where actions taken don't succeed.
So in Change 1 of Tort Reform, no medical practitioner who follows a standard protocol/prudent course of action under the given the circumstances can be held liable for a negative or unexpected outcome. Period. No second-guessing, monday morning quarterbacking by paid experts or professional witnesses. Only in cases of truly gross negligence (i.e. drunken doctor) can negligence be considered.
Change 2: Drugs are a key part of our medical system, and have the capability to save lives and improve the quality of lives. The way in which drugs work will result in side effects and interactions. Not all possible side effects, interactions, or anomalous responses can be anticipated. Oh, and people lie about their histories, "unofficial" drug use, etc...
In Change 2, no drug manufacturer, researcher, distributor, etc... can be held liable for the effects of a drug, either known and expected or unknown as long as said drug has received proper FDA approvals. This applies to future discoveries as well. If it's FDA approved, no lawsuits, period.
Change 3: This is a companion to Change 2. No medical practitioner can be held liable anything arising from the use of an FDA approved drug in the designated manner. If they used the drug in the prescribed manner for it's intended purpose, they cannot be sued for any side effects or interactions (provided they made a legitimate attempt to get a patient history). An incomplete patient history is not the medical practitioner's problem. A future discovery about a drug likewise does not make the practitioner liable.
Change 4: Eliminate "class action" lawsuits, which given the changes above would be tough to put together. Every lawsuit (that passed the tests of Changes 1-3 above) would each have to be individually litigated. One plaintiff, one lawyer, one trial.
Change 5: Lawsuits become "loser pays", where an unsuccessful plaintiff is responsible for paying their lawyer (no more "only pay if you win" and 40%+ legal fees) AND for paying the full cost of the defense effort. Plaintiffs with no ability to do this would have their cases dismissed before the trail started (with no costs other than their legal counsel costs). Obviously, the plaintiff's legal counsel could elect to work pro bono (free), but they would be precluded from collecting any funds from the plaintiff.
Those changes should save tens of billions annually in the form of reduced malpractice insurance fees, reduced medical practitioner costs, and lower drug costs. Our drug companies and medical community can again focus on patient care and outcomes rather than litigation avoidance and management.
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Tort reform will help with the costs.
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Would be the best place to start. Good call only thing I'd change is attorneys could still do 40%+expenses only pay if you win, but if you lose you pay for defence fees.
|August 7th, 2009, 08:43 PM
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The only thing I'd add, (maybe it already exists) is some type of arbitration board that the average citizen could go before and have his case heard. Otherwise you're likely to have some unscrupulous doctors taking poor peoples money and delivering substandard care, knowing that they won't be able to afford a lawyer to sue them.
|August 8th, 2009, 01:07 PM
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Part 2 of my plan would call for all members of government (with the exception of the active duty or injured in the line of duty military) to receive the same healthcare benefits as any other government employee. The sitting President (as a member of the military) would receive special treatment, but only while in office. His family gets the same benefits as any other military dependents.
After leaving office (i.e. "retiring") politicians would receive the same level of healthcare benefits (or not) as any other government retiree, given their years of service.
Government employee healthcare benefits would be indexed to private industry to ensure parity.
This is the Pub. Leave common sense at the door.
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Gee, if I remember correctly, Tor reform was to be part of the health reform.
No time to research right now, you are all on your own.
Sorry, Duff, don't have time to read your whole post at the moment.
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Let's take a look back in time and see the most-read posts from January. Go check them out:
- Everyday Theology: God Won't Give You More Than You Can Handle (July 2009)
- Book Review: Real Marriage by Mark and Grace Driscoll (December 2011)
- Marriage, Mystery and the Gospel in Real Marriage (January 2012)
- Critics, Criticism and Character (January 2012)
- John Piper on Mark Driscoll & John MacArthur (May 2009)
- Everyday Theology: God helps those who help themselves (July 2009)
- Kindle Deals for the Christian Reader (January) (January 2012)
- Book Review: Jesus + Nothing = Everything by Tullian Tchividjian (January 2012)
- He Descended into… Hell? (January 2012)
- The Dos and Don'ts of Book Reviews (or at least how I do them) (January 2011)
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- Book Review: Love Wins by Rob Bell (March 2011)
- 12 Books I Want to Read in 2012 (and Think You Should, Too) (December 2011)
- You Might Be Killing Your Ministry (And Not Even Know It) (January 2012)
- Why I'm Not Using a Reading Plan in 2012 (January 2012)
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- Why is Narnia Okay, But Not Princess and the Frog? (January 2012)
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You could focus on discrimination in the workplace, especially for those who do not have a college degree.
Thanks for the info. I have come up with my introduction on this. Can you take a look and see if this is good way to start?
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I could have subtitled this one: 'or how I stopped worrying and learned to like an American football game'.
For me, the test of a truly great sports game is whether it's compelling enough that even people who aren't huge fans of the sport can get involved. For instance, I can rarely be bothered to even watch Wimbledon, yet I love Virtua Tennis 3 to bits. I'm fairly agnostic on football, but I can happily waste a few hours away playing FIFA. I don't think I've ever watched a single game of basketball, but that's never been a barrier to my enjoyment of the NBA or NBA Street games. Once upon a time I got so addicted to Links and PGA Tour Golf (as it was called then) that I actually started playing and watching the real thing.
American football games, however, have always been impervious to my efforts – until now.
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The bed was amazingly comfortable. Water pressure in the showe was beyond ridiculous, while the small string-like water was running there was a sound coming out of the pipes so loud that im sure the whole hotel knew I was showering or I even woke them up, who knows. When I was done with my shower I got slapped in the face when I put my face against the towel. Omg! It was like throwing an ash tray on my face!
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I did not like anything about this place. We were going to stay so I was closer to work in case the weather got to bad for me to make it in. When I first got there, there was no one at the desk and I had to wait about 10 minutes before someone helped me. The pool was closed and we were informed it had been closed for over a year and that they had no intention of fixing it. We got to our room and the blow dryer didn't work and it looked like someone cut the cord on the lamp.They gave us a different room and my husband went to check it out, when he tried to turn on the lamp he got electrocuted. He went back to the front desk and demanded a refund, they charged us a $25 cancelation fee and told us we could contact the owner. My husband then called the owner and explained what happened and he told my husband f**k you, you can go ahead and stay somewhere else then. I've never had such a horrible experience at a hotel and will never go back there. I stayed there years ago when it was AmericInn and it was wonderful. It's gone down hill since then and I would never recommend this hotel to anyone ever.
room was clean, small but adequate for an over night stay there was no facial tissue in the room
I would prefer two queen beds to two doubles.
Loud refrigerator that was too difficult to access in order to unplug.
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It is in great location and have stayed there before We reserved a king size bed and got one full size bed
Liked the proximity to the university where I was attending a church function. The first night there, I found that the room had not been vacuumed. Was a bit disappointed that there was not an hot egg type of breakfast available.
Nice location, staff and room.
Included breakfast Close to BVU The 'green' toilet paper was horribly cheap and disintegrated. Appearance is somewhat dated.
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This is a great story. Not sure why they don't have the breed of the dog listed.
This is a discussion on Dog takes bullet for family within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Video Report Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com A dog tries to protect his family from an intruder and the intruder shoots him three ...
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch; Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
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This is a great story. Not sure why they don't have the breed of the dog listed.
THAT is a good dog!
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Makes me wonder if I could get my pistol drawn in time to protect the family. He kicks in door and comes in shooting....
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what a great dog. to take the fall for for the family. sad that the dog got killed
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Another example of why we should try to make all shelters in the country "No Kill" shelters.
The number of unwanted dogs and cats "murdered"(I refuse to use the more gentle term like "put to sleep") in shelters each year in this country alone is in the millions. Very sad. Most of those dogs and cats deserve better from us humans.
"It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien
That dog deserves steak and place by a warm fire for the rest of his life
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Agreed PGrass.
He's officially retired in my book and should be shown his golden doggie bowl.
What a great dog, and fortunate family!
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Reason 6,234,238 that dogs rule.
Sadly, my little feller would eek out a bark or two and probably run away
Its interesting to see what an animal that loves it family will do for them. Death is not even considered, the dog does what it feels it has to do. It is duty in the purest sense.
If only some people could act as noble when the chips are down.
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That is such a sad yet inspiring story. I love dogs, for obvious reasons. Oh and that is the perfect example of pitbulls in the news. I am not able to see pics but if what one previous poster said is correct, it shows the perfect example that the media only wants to shed a negative light on the pitbull and bully breeds. It makes me sick.
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good story,great dog, now its time to track down the scumbum that shot him.
that creep really needs some serious jail time,
what state did this happen in?
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The next chapter of the popular Metal Gear tactical-espionage series will be available for the PlayStation portable in 2010, video game designer Hideo Kojima announced Tuesday.
Called Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the game takes place in 1974, picking up where Metal Gear Solid 3 left off. (This could get a little confusing, because Metal Gear Solid 3 was a prequel to the first Metal Gear Solid.) That means players assume the role of Naked Snake (aka Big Boss).
"I'll be deeply involved in this title, writing the script and producing it," Kojima said at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, adding that the team that worked on Metal Gear Solid 4 would be participating as well. Kojima will also be directing the game design, according to a press release.
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