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From the World Heritage inscription for Miguasha National Park:
The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the southern coast of the Gaspé peninsula, is considered to be the world's most outstanding illustration of the Devonian Period known as the 'Age of Fishes'. Dating from 370 million years ago, the Upper Devonian Escuminac Formation represented here contains five of the six fossil fish groups associated with this period. Its significance stems from the discovery there of the highest number and best-preserved fossil specimens of the lobe-finned fishes that gave rise to the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates – the tetrapods.
It is always difficult to photograph world heritage sites that are of paleontological or anthropological significance. You can't take photos of fossils in situ. Taking photos of a museum isn't that interesting. Thankfully, Miguasha is located on the very beautiful boundary between the St. Lawrence river and the ocean.
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The Philadelphia city skyline juts out from behind Penn Park and makes a great tableau for anyone who has seen Penn's new athletic complex for the first time. The Quakers' new lacrosse practice facility sits in a maze of various state-of-the-art sports fields, a powerful recruiting tool.
Quakers' coach Mike Murphy has been working on closing the gap between powerful Cornell in his three years at Penn. Penn Park is another tool. The Quakers finished 4-2 in the Ivy League last year, good enough for second place and an NCAA tournament berth. At one time last season, Penn was 8-4, with victories over Duke, Princeton and Bucknell, and an overtime loss to Cornell.
The Quakers have much of that team back this season, and with the right mixture of improved young talent with the influx of talented freshmen coming in, Penn may have closed the gulf between itself and Cornell even more this spring.
Murphy is counting on sophomore goalie Brian Feeney to pick up where he left off last season. Brian's twin brother, Dan, may certainly play a larger role, too. Senior long-stick middie Will Koshansky, a second-team All-Ivy selection, looks even better this fall, after finishing second on the Quakers in groundballs in 2011 (47 GBs).
In the background, trains go clanking down the tracks behind Penn Park, and cars can be heard swooshing down the Schuylkill Expressway off in the distance. The Quakers seem impervious to the noise, concentrating solely on getting everything out of their last fall practice.
There is a sense of collective confidence among the group. They're vocal and encouraging to one another. There is a sense that the Quakers can't wait for the spring to arrive.
It's hard to ignore No. 4, sophomore Maxx Meyer. Just like it was tough to miss him last spring as a freshman. Every time Meyer was on the field, he did something good in 2011. He had five ground balls and caused five turnovers in the Quakers' surprisingly dominating season-opening victory over then-defending national champion Duke, and scored a goal and had four groundballs in the first Quakers' victory over Princeton since 1989.
Meyer unfortunately missed the last three games of 2011 breaking his leg against Dartmouth. The Quakers lost their final three games — and maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's not, without Meyer in the lineup. But his absence certainly didn't help.
The 5-foot-10, 190-pound fireplug is back. He's still building his endurance and recovering from the injury this fall. His conditioning is slightly behind in running drills, but Murphy feels optimistic of Meyer's return by the spring.
Drew Belinsky, another stellar freshman last year, watched the Quakers' final fall practice with a black brace around his left ankle. Belinsky injured the ankle during the summer and stood taking stats during practice. He said he'll be ready by the time the 2012 season begins.
Before practice began, Murphy wanted to address a few things with his team about its Saturday scrimmage at Drexel between the Quakers, Binghamton and neighbor Drexel. Murphy wanted to clean a few things up, and wasn't exactly pleased with the way his team performed.
About 20 minutes into the practice, Murphy whistled a stop at the beginning of a drill and had his team run a gasser because they didn't do the drill properly. Midway into the practice, Murphy again stopped practice and called a team huddle.
The Quakers' coach didn't raise his voice. He addressed his team in a measured though firm tone stressing execution. He didn't like what he saw and wanted to address it. Soon after breaking the huddle, the Quakers moved with a crisp alacrity that they didn't have a few minutes earlier.
Senior stalwarts John Conneely and Koshansky, who seems to possess a bottomless well of energy, are expected to again lead the Quakers. But a handful of players seem to be emerging that could play greater roles with Penn in the spring.
One is certainly sophomore Dan Feeney, Brian's twin. As a freshman, he took 268 faceoffs and won 117. He tallied only one point last year, an assist against Yale. Expect his numbers to rise this spring. He was all over the field and didn't seem to lose a faceoff during this fall practice.
Juniors Ryan Parietti and Tim Schwalje looked very impressive. The two combined to score 10 goals and hand out 13 assists in 2011. Parietti could be the most improved player on the team.
Penn may be very strong in the face-off area, with Dan Feeney and freshman Joe McCallion, a prized recruit from last year's No. 1 high school team, Haverford School. McCallion was a bull at the high school level, out-muscling opponents for the ball. It seems as if he's carried those bullish ways to the major college level, winning a number of face-offs during this fall practice.
One of the most interesting, grueling, and somewhat lighter aspects—if you're one of the fortunate on the sideline—of Penn's practice is something the Quakers call "Braveheart." Murphy holds a full length of the field one-on-one between two players to determine the winner of a blue-white scrimmage.
The two unfortunate souls on this Monday afternoon happened to be Dan Feeney and junior defender Anthony Santomo. Feeney won the face-off, but struggled to score against the larger Santomo. After a few back-and-forth runs up and down the field, with both players struggling mightily, Santomo finally brought an end to this drill after a few minutes.
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WASHINGTON - In a column for the conservative magazine, The Weekly
Standard, Executive Editor Fred Barnes broke the news that President
Bush has decided to bow to the weeks of demands from the right-wing
extremist groups and hold a press conference in the Rose Garden of the
White House to reiterate his support of the Federal Marriage Amendment.
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"It's a national disgrace that President Bush has yet again bowed to
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Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
In his article this weekend, Barnes wrote, "As for Bush, he will
appear on June 5 in the Rose Garden before a gathering of amendment
supporters and, a White House official says, 'strongly support' the
amendment. The president has rarely mentioned the amendment in the
past. The choice of the Rose Garden as a venue means he is raising the
marriage amendment to a higher level on his agenda, his wife's advice
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extremists groups calling on President Bush to immediately speak out
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Congrats to Cameron Diaz, 40, who has just been named "artistic direction" at fashion footwear and accessories brand Pour La Toire! The celebrity is reportedly excited about making an impact in the fashion world, according to Vogue.co.uk.
Here's the latest actress to take on a role in the fashion industry: http://t.co/e8T5JY500v
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Here's what she had to say about her achievement, reports the source:
I don't do endorsements really. This is completely different. Being influential in a brand and in its campaigns interests me. I love fashion, it's a large part of my life. What I wear is looked at – it influences what other people wear because that's just the world we live in.
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I know how I work and I know when something is important to me. I'll try my best and hope for the best. Not everyone succeeds or fails all the time. All I can do is engage with it.
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Harsh Interrogation
An exchange that began on 12/17 or so with a progressive blogger has had me tied up with the question of whether, and how, harsh interrogation of prisoners is justified in the ongoing war on terror. There's a lengthy discussion attached to the post entitled "Those Who Make the Hard Decisions." I'm recounting here the final argument of that discussion, making the case that the government's choices have been responsible and properly within the bounds of moral behavior.
Two articles are necessary to understand this part of the discussion. The first is an outstanding but occasionally snarky analysis of the ambiguity attached to deciding which interrogation techniques are appropriate and which are not, by a professor (he does not say what subject he professes) who describes himself as a liberal Democrat. I reproduce the core of his argument in my own words, but his discussion is worth reviewing.
The second recounts two instances of harsh interrogation, one by a German Police Chief who afterwards got tried by the European Court of Human Rights on a torture complaint, the other requested by CIA interrogators at Guantanamo Bay but denied by higher-ups. One important thing to notice in the article is the fact that the German policeman, while convicted on a lesser charge of "inhuman treatment," was not punished by the Court. The fact that he applied a rough tactic to obtain in seconds the whereabouts of a boy's body from a kidnapper who had been lying to the police for hours under less stressful questioning, apparently convinced the Court that his behavior was not the sort of thing they wanted to punish. Another important feature is the detail about the formal categories of harshness in the US' interrogation regimen at Guantanamo, even as early as 2002. These categories will play a role in the argument, below.
When we speak of illegal acts that are immoral by their very nature, we're talking of things that are usually pretty clearly defined. Murder, for example, is relatively simple (but still not without it's gray areas.) The act in question is deliberate killing. The victim is either dead, or not. The person killing the victim either has a legal right to do so, or not. Most of the disputable areas can be settled by clear findings of fact.
The same is true of theft. The act in question is taking possession or ownership of an item. Either the person takes possession, or he does not. He either has a right to possession, or he does not. There are gray areas, but the act can be clearly defined, and usually clear findings of fact settle the gray areas.
When leftists speak of US interrogation techniques, they invariably use the term "torture." Torture is not an act like murder or theft, and in fact is not even the subject of the discussion; it's a red herring. There is such a thing as deliberate infliction of pain on, say, kidnap victims, for the sake of pain or entertainment. The act of deliberately detaining someone and causing them pain for pain's sake is certainly torture, and is certainly illegal. Inasmuch as US military personnel practice such things (as occurred at Abu Graib,) they are prosecutable, and ought to be. I will not defend such behavior; it is indefensible.
However, most of what's being discussed with respect to US detention of prisoners has nothing to do with such excesses. The act we're talking about is "interrogation," not "torture." There is simply no question that interrogation is legal; it is. It's also necessary. Nobody disputes this. There is a valid discussion to be held regarding what techniques are appropriate for interrogation, and in what circumstances. To speak of "torture," in this context, does nothing but obscure the relevant questions — which is why leftists do it. People who speak of "torture" are usually attempting to co-opt reasonable debate by using emotionally-charged language, which is the opposite of sound reasoning. Calling this a discussion about "torture" actually commits the fallacy called "poisoning the well," since much torture has nothing to do with interrogation, and most interrogation has nothing to do with torture.
To understand the issue at hand, one should imagine making a scale of interrogation techniques in order to decide which are appropriate and which are not. We can start at "1″ with seating the detainee in a comfy chair with a glass of scotch, and asking him sly questions. Something like chopping off a foot and threatening to chop off the other if the victim won't talk lands somewhere near 90; we'll call beating to death 100.
Now, let's draw an arbitrary point in the middle — say, 50 — and say that higher numbers are immoral, and lower numbers are not. The reasonable question to ask is, what act would we call "49″ on this scale? No, saying "Whatever you think, waterboarding is 65 and immoral" begs the question, and the people who jump to this are deliberately trying to avoid the discussion. What, precisely, constitutes 49, and what constitutes 51, and what's the difference? The ambiguity of the problem becomes immediately apparent to the objective observer when they consider such questions. Clearly, there's an increasing continuum in the direction of harshness, and at some point somebody has to draw an arbitrary line and say "This is far enough." The continuum might pass through seating the prisoner on a hard chair facing a bank of bright lights, to denying him water for two hours, to making him stand for four hours, to slapping his stomach with an open palm, to shouting dire threats into his face, to extended periods in a cold, wet room, and so on. Somebody has to decide which acts are more harsh than which; the order, like the line which constitutes the harshest permissible tactic, is arbitrary.
International treaties do make an attempt to define where these marks are, but they're necessarily vague, using phrases like "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" to describe prohibited treatment. It's frequently up to the court to decide whether a particular act fits the category. Moreover, the recent German case mentioned at the top of the article illustrates that there are other factors that can affect the criteria. For instance, the urgency of the situation changes the equation; techniques that are higher up the "improper interrogation" scale become more acceptable when, say, a kidnapped child's life might be in the balance, as in the German case. Also, the importance of what's being saved affects the equation; more violent techniques that would not be appropriate when attempting to find, say, some Wall Street broker's secret bank account, become more appropriate if there's a plot to murder tens of thousands of people. The fact that waterboarding probably prevented a 9/11-style attack on the Library Tower in Los Angeles obviously mitigates whatever might be said about the barbarity of waterboarding.
There are good examples of attempts to identify which acts an interrogator might use fall into which spot on the scale. One such example exists in the CIA's interrogation regimen that they're using on terrorists. The linked article illustrates a case where Category I and II acts are permitted, but Category III acts require special approval — and are denied. The scale that they've implemented traverses a whole range of increasingly rough tactics, and comes complete with levels of oversight and responsibility; the higher on the "hard interrogation" scale, the greater the degree of oversight.
The existence of the hierarchy and the oversight, as well as the clear record of a discussion within the current administration to answer the question posed by CIA interrogation experts, "What are we permitted to do, and what are we forbidden?" makes it clear that the administration has been thoroughly responsible regarding this topic, attempting to devise a balanced system that protects the rights of the prisoners but permits more stringent interrogations when demanded by the circumstances. The fact that the most extreme tactics, like waterboarding, have only been used on a few occasions demonstrates that the system works to limit harsh treatment, and testifies to a good-faith effort to remain within the bounds of humanity. The administration, far from deserving condemnation and prosecution, should be commended for holding to high standards while successfully protecting the nation.
In order to be cogent in their criticism, critics of the Bush administration must believe that they drew the line between acceptable and unacceptable questioning in the wrong place. It is entirely fair to ask them where they, the critics, believe the line should have been drawn, and then to make them explain in legal and moral terms the difference between their endpoint (let's say, 42 on our 1-100 scale) and the CIA's endpoint (say, 55). Of course, they seldom answer such questions, as many of them have never considered the matter as a continuum of increasingly harsh treatments, some of which are acceptable and some not.
On the contrary, they're actually claiming something a lot more unbelievable than just "They drew the line in the wrong place." Not only do they think the line was drawn in the wrong place, they believe there exists an absolute moral precipice between where they, the critics, would draw the line and where Cheney & Co draw it. They think that at their safe 42, they're strolling in moral purity, earning the kudos of the moral universe, but that somewhere between that point and 55, Cheney has fallen off an immense cliff, from moral purity into the deepest depths of degradation so obviously immoral that nations cannot tolerate the very thought of it. Once we've taken pejorative terms like "torture" out of the picture and explained the progressive scale of interrogation we're examining, the claim simply becomes a joke; they can't possibly be serious, no such precipice exists. Some harsh acts are permitted, others forbidden, but the line between them is more or less arbitrary, and the differences are differences only of degree. And if the cowards among them retreat their line to an obviously safe spot — like, anything beyond the Comfy Chair and the glass of scotch is over the cliff — we snort and put them on "ignore"; again, they can't possibly be serious, and no nation on the planet adheres to such a standard, nor should they.
What's obvious here is that they're not engaging in sound thinking at all, but playing some sort of game. The Back Talk blog that I linked to at the top of this article calls their position "moral exhibitionism," asserting that they're simply trying to buttress their own egos by asserting moral superiority. Tammy Bruce makes a similar diagnosis, calling these folks "malignant narcissists." For many, I think, that's all it is — they're infants in adult bodies, playing at "I'm better than you, nyah nyah."
But for others, it's something a lot more sinister. These began a process about 8 years ago that said this: "The Republicans have made our Democratic President look like a moral cretin. We have to make theirs look worse." I recall dozens of progressives saying precisely that, in writing (ignoring the simple fact that it was the Democratic President who made himself look like a moral cretin, and the Republicans were simply doing their jobs.) The process has proceeded without ceasing for the last 8 years, with a clear intent to criminalize any normal aspect of governance that could possibly be made to look criminal. Phrases like "a secret legal cabal" to describe the President's ordinary consultation with his private attorney makes it clear that that's what's being done. This is not analysis, nor principled opposition (though such opposition is possible and does exist). The fact is that the Democrats in Congress were briefed more than 30 times on the interrogation regimen, and most of them approved it heartily; their moral preening on the subject today is rank hypocrisy, and an exercise in political theater aimed at fooling the voting population into voting Democrat. It's the rot at the heart of the tree of liberty. Such people are dangerous. This, and not Cheney's responsible governance, is an evil worth opposing.
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Comment by dullhammer
Your thorough covering of this topic reminds me of a good, long game of chess. It's encouraging to see and learn from. Especially after seeing so many people playing 'skittles' on most sites and subjects.
(Author's note: Thanks. And in case you're interested: 1. e4)
Comment by Joe Huster
Just a few points Phil;
First, your distinction between torture and interrogation is misplaced. Critics of the Bush administration are claiming that illegal torture was employed as a method of interrogation. Your claim that leftists are intentionally using the inflamatory word "torture" instead of the correct word "interrogation" misstates their criticism. They know that the detainees were being interrogated. Their claim is that illegal torture was the government's method.
Second, while your analysis has some merit in terms of the morality of interrogation tactics, you scrupulously avoid the fact that, as a legal matter, waterboarding has been a recognized form of illegal torture for centuries. We've prosecuted Japanese commanders for engaing in the practice.
The illegality of waterboarding is neither a close legal question or an open one. It is about as settled a question of law as there is.
Third, the executive is not free to ignore settled law. Under our system of government, the only way to change setteled law is to challenge it in court or to ask congress to change it. No amount of legal analysis by the office of legal counsel can change settled law.
Fourth, the executive is bound by settled law and is not entitled to simply ignore laws that he deems unwise – or even unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed this principle of our constitutional system in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Fifth and finally, leaders who intentionally violate felony statutes should be prosecuted. The reasons for my stating this are so obvious that I'll leave them unstated.
These are the reasons why I think Vice President Cheney should be prosecuted. I'm not some leftist out to discredit President Bush. I'm simply responding to the fact that Vice President Cheney has admitted taking actions that constitute legal felonies (as a matter of settled law). I think leaders who commit felonies should be prosecuted – and if any democrats assisted in a way that renders them legally culpable, they should be prosecuted with equal vigor.
I suspect that if the evidence showed that the circumstantial stakes were truly high enough, and our leaders had sound reasons for believing that the government's need for information was critically urgent, a prosecutor could be persuaded not to bring charges and/or a jury (or judge) could be persuaded to aquit – based on the defense that waterborading was circumstantially justified. [Although I'd note that your claim that waterboarding probably prevented a terrorist attack on the Liberty Tower is the subject of significant dispute - a fact that you should have noted for your readers. I'd also note that even if that claim is true, it would only serve as a justification (on your reasoning) if the government already had reason to think that a major attack was immanent and was merely trying to discover its target].
But Cheney's defenders are citing these claims as reasons to forego any criminal investigation at all. That would be truly unprecedented – foregoing a criminal investigation of admitted and clearly illegal conduct based on the self-serving assurances of the potential defendants.
Best wishes Phil,
Joe H.
Comment by Phil
Ah, Joe,
Still playing the "torture" game, I see. So let's ask the question using your words, as the same point gets illustrated either way:
1. Describe the most abusive interrogation procedure you can imagine that you would not call "torture";
2. Describe the least abusive interrogation procedure you can imagine that you would call "torture";
3. Explain the essential difference between them.
I'll guarantee you that the difference is an arbitrary assertion addressing an unmeasurable matter of degree.
That makes your initial assessment, voiced in the discussion on your blog, of "evil" — and not just any evil, but an evil so intense that to decry the moral and intellectual deterioration of the entire culture pales before it — into nothing but a quibble over an arbitrary line.
You were engaging in moral exhibitionism, and calling me "unchristian" for not engaging in it with you. I'm… unimpressed. And I rest my case.
The illegality of waterboarding is neither a close legal question or an open one. It is about as settled a question of law as there is.
So show me the statutes and case law establishing it — or stop making that claim.
Fourth, the executive is bound by settled law and is not entitled to simply ignore laws that he deems unwise – or even unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed this principle of our constitutional system in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
This is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. There was nothing settled about the legal status of detained, non-uniformed combatants attaching to no country or legal entity but fighting in organized fashion against an armed, uniformed militia. Since they had no country, there was no treaty covering them; the existing treaties regarding treatment of prisoners applied to conflicts between signatory nations. Even if those treaties were said to apply, the fact that they hid among civilians and fought without uniform or organizing army made them either "spies" or "pirates" (and appropriately, much of the discussion attempted to draw parallels to our 19th century scuffle with the Barbary pirates,) in which case summary execution would have been justified, but neither of those definitions fit precisely. Hamdan v Rumsfeld made the absurd and legally indefensible extension that the US is forced by law to treat them as though they were uniformed combatants from a country that had signed a treaty with us. The government has followed this since the Court decided it (despite the fact that its legal reasoning is unsound), but there was nothing certain about the outcome of that case before it was decided, and I think you know that.
What you're attempting to do here is hold Cheney legally responsible for disobeying a Supreme Court interpretation of law before they interpreted it. This is precisely the sort of tyrannical behavior the Constitution's authors were trying to eliminate when they wrote their prohibition of ex post facto laws (Article I, section 9). No civilized person, and certainly nobody interested in maintaining American liberty, should cooperate with you in this.
Comment by RM
Very interesting debate, and well worth the time to read and try to follow and understand.
As I said before, where we draw our lines on these and similar issues will determine much of our future as a nation.
A few comments:
There will always be a logical and totally rational tension over how much power to give the government in our need to protect ourselves. I am a believer in the slippery slope when it comes to the government. While I can accept the need for say, waterboarding of someone like KSM under the circumstances, I do not want to see it used on Tony Soprano, period. And I do not have a great deal of confidence that over time, government will make sound decisions on these matters.
I cannot cite chapter and verse, but as an example, it is my perception that RICO laws started with one intention and are used in many other less compelling situations than their original intent. I seem to remember Hubert Humphrey commenting on how quotas germinating from some of the equal rights legislation would never, ever happen.
Good points about the sliding scale of "torture". It is also my belief that this issue has been used more for political preening and partisan advantage than out of genuine outrage. I sincerely believe, in every bone of my body, that had a "D" president undertaken policies almost identical to those of George Bush with respect to the war, the debate would have a far, far different tone. This applies to much more than the torture issue.
Perhaps more to come. Incredibly relevant content and thread, Phil.
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-- Clarence R. "Dick" Keplar, 71, 1725 Kenwood Drive, died Thursday, July 1, 1999, at his residence after a three-month illness.
Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Auble Funeral Home in Orrville, with the Rev. Dennis O Rinehart officiating. Burial will be at Crown Hill Cemetery in Orrville.
There will be no calling hours.
Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, Wayne County Branch, in care of Wooster Clinic, 1740 Cleveland Road, Wooster 44691.
He was born Feb. 26, 1928 in Nelsonville to Clarence A. and Mable (Skiver) Keplar and married Ruth Moore on July 18, 1949 in Nelsonville. She survives.
Surviving in addition to his beloved wife, Ruth, are a daughter, Sherri (Tim) Keplar of Orrville and sons, Dennis (Karen) Keplar of Wooster and Dana (Michelle) Keplar of Uniontown; grandchildren, Angela Marks, Cody Finkenbinder, Corey, Eric, Josh, Andrew, Ryan, Justin and Nicholas Keplar; a brother, Ralph (Carolyn) Keplar of Orrville; and sisters, Phyllis (Jack) Crosser of Orrville, Zita (Larry) Bentley of Nelsonville and Glennia Keplar of Columbus.


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A virtual press conference yesterday from Cleantech Group and Deloitte announced that venture capital (VC) investments for clean technologies in the third quarter of this year overtook investments for (medical) biotechnology and IT.
Cleantech group defines clean technology as a diverse range of products, services and processes that are intended to reduce or eliminate negative ecological impacts while at the same improving the productive and responsible use of natural resources at lower costs and with improved performance.
Green chemistry, along with industrial biotechnology is included in their scope of analysis under "MATERIALS" although Cleantech and their partner Deloitte do not really cover these areas that much except for biofuels (pity…).
Anyway, clean technology is now said to be the largest US venture capital category with 27% share followed by biotechnology (24%), software (18%), and medical devices and equipment (17%).
Cleantech's preliminary report estimates 3Q 2009 VC investments in North America, Europe, China and India totaling $1.59bn across 134 companies, up 10% compared to 2Q but still down 42% from 3Q 2008. Most of the rebound this quarter is attributed to effects of government stimulus funding worldwide.
"The two largest venture deals (Solyndra and Tesla Motors) and the largest IPO (A123Systems) this quarter were all recipients of US government funding. Hundreds of millions of dollars in new venture funds this quarter are also evidence of investor confidence and momentum, including $1.1bn in two new funds by Khosla Ventures alone."
In terms of technology sector, solar continue to lead this quarter's highest VC investments area with $451m in total, followed by transportation (subsectors include vehicles, biofuels and advanced batteries), which received $383m, and green buildings ($110m) that include energy efficient buildings, glass and lighting subsectors.


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Beck's Misinformer of the Year defense rests on falsehoods
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Glenn Beck devoted the full hour of his Fox News show to responding to "some liberal blogs" that had named him Misinformer of the Year, asserting that the blogs "didn't back it up with any facts." Beck's 60-minute rebuttal ignored numerous facts set forth by Media Matters for America undermining a litany of Beck's claims throughout 2009; moreover, his defense itself rested on misrepresentations and false claims.
Beck claims "some blogs" failed to "back it up with any facts" in naming him Misinformer of the Year
From the January 4 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: We've been preparing this program -- this series of programs, the next five programs -- for about a month and a half, and while I was on vacation last week, some liberal blogs named me the Misinformer of the Year. But what I loved about it was, they didn't back it up with any facts. I saw another article in The Washington Post that did the same thing. [Glenn Beck, 1/4/10]
Media Matters provided numerous factual rebuttals to Beck's claims throughout 2009
Beck falsely claimed "[o]nly 3 percent" of stimulus plan would be "spent in the next 12 months." During the January 27 broadcast of his Fox News program, Beck falsely claimed that "[o]nly 3 percent" of the Democratic economic stimulus plan would be "spent in the next 12 months." Beck's figures were based on a partial Congressional Budget Office cost estimate that excluded faster-moving provisions in the bill. According to the CBO's full cost estimate of the bill, 11.2 percent of the $816 billion bill would be spent in the first seven and a half months after the bill was enacted, and, when including the bill's tax cut provisions, $169 billion -- or 20.7 percent of the bill's total cost -- were estimated to take effect in the first seven and a half months, or before the end of the last fiscal year.
Beck aired false claim that a union needs only 30 percent support from employees to be "established." On February 12, Beck aired an on-screen graphic with the headline, "THEN ... WAGNER ACT," which falsely asserted that if 30 percent of employees want a union, "it gets established." In fact, the Wagner Act, which was passed in the 1930s, required that for union representation to be established, a majority of employees in a bargaining unit within a company had to "designate or select" a union to represent them.
Beck falsely claimed average UAW worker makes $154 per hour. On February 18, Beck falsely claimed that "the average UAW [United Auto Workers] worker" earns "[a] hundred and fifty-four dollars an hour if you look at -- you know, if you add in all of the benefits." In fact, a Barclays Capital analysis reportedly found that U.S. automakers "pay an average of $55 an hour in wages and benefits to hourly workers."
Beck falsely asserted that U.S. does not fingerprint foreign visitors or collect rapists' DNA. On March 16, Beck asserted that "[w]e can't fingerprint anybody who's coming into this country because that would be offensive" and that "[w]e can't take DNA samples from killers or rapists, but you can have your fingerprint taken if you want to sell your house." In fact, the Department of Homeland Security does take fingerprints from "aliens seeking admission to the United States" at U.S. entry points, and according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, "All 50 states require that convicted sex offenders provide a DNA sample."
Beck falsely claimed Iowa marriage ruling "is actually about going into churches." On April 13, Beck falsely asserted that the Iowa Supreme Court's decision striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage "is actually about going into churches ... and saying you can't teach anything else." In fact, the ruling does not affect religious institutions' definitions of marriage.
Beck echoed falsehood that ACORN received stimulus funds. On May 6, Beck echoed a false Republican talking point by stating, "By including ACORN, or groups like them, in the stimulus package, we have guaranteed them billions of dollars to buy more votes for the party that helps them the most." In fact, the stimulus bill does not mention ACORN or otherwise single it out for funding.
Beck falsely claimed $1.4 million in stimulus spent on doors, which actually cost $246,100 to repair. On July 20, Beck falsely claimed that the government spent $1.4 million of economic stimulus funds "to repair a door" at Dyess Air Force Base. In fact, the doors repaired were hangar doors and did not cost that much money. Recovery.gov actually states that the government awarded AFCO Technologies nearly $1.2 million to replace gas mains on the base, and $246,100 to repair the hangar doors in Building 5112.
Beck falsely claimed Obama said he doesn't want health reform protesters to "do a lot of talking." On August 10, Beck falsely claimed that President Obama was "reacti[ng] to the health care protests" when he said, "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking." In fact, Obama was not talking about public protests or even health care reform; he was discussing "folks on the other side of the aisle pointing at the federal budget and somehow trying to put that at our feet."
Beck reported fake murder story from ACORN video as fact. On September 15, after Andrew Breitbart posted a video of an ACORN employee in San Bernardino, California, claiming that she had killed her ex-husband, Beck joined Fox News colleagues Karl Rove, Greta Van Susteren, and Sean Hannity in promoting it without fact-checking it or indicating that they had contacted ACORN for a response to the claim. In fact, ACORN stated that the employee made up the story because she recognized that the actors in the video "were clearly playing with" her so she "matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios," and, indeed, the San Bernardino Police Department has said her claim is false.
Beck, falsely claimed IPCC's Latif has "pulled the rug out" from under climate change consensus. On September 22, Beck joined Hannity in seizing on a World Climate Conference presentation on short-term natural climate variability by Mojib Latif, a prominent climate modeler, to suggest that, in Beck's words, Latif has "backed out now and said, 'We were wrong,' " about global warming because, according to Hannity, Latif stated that global temperatures are actually "cooling." In fact, Latif asserted that contrary to common "media" misperceptions of global warming as a "monotonic process" in which "each year is warmer than the preceding year," there are significant natural climate variations within the decadal timescale that do not change the "long-term warming trend."
Beck falsely claimed Anita Dunn "worships" "her hero" Mao Zedong. Throughout most of his October 15 Fox News program, Beck falsely claimed that White House communications director Anita Dunn "worships" and "idolizes" "her hero" Mao Zedong. In fact, in the video that Beck aired as evidence to support his claims, Dunn offered no endorsement of Mao's ideology or atrocities -- rather, she commented that Mao and Mother Teresa were two of her "favorite political philosophers," and based on short quotes from them, she offered the advice that "you don't have to follow other people's choices and paths" or "let external definition define how good you are internally."
Beck falsely accused Reid of lying about support for public option. Following reports that Senate leaders planned to include a public option in health care legislation, on the October 27 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Beck falsely suggested that only "35 percent of the population" supported a public option and accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of lying when he said, in co-host Gretchen Carlson's words, that "the public wants this." In fact, polling consistently showed broad support for the public option, and the Fox News poll Beck presumably was referencing did not ask specifically about a public option.
Beck falsely claimed that under the Senate health care bill, "You don't get a single benefit until 2014." On November 19, Beck falsely claimed that under the Senate health care bill, "All of the benefits of this bill don't kick in until when? You don't get a single benefit until 2014." According to a document released by Senate Democrats summarizing the "Immediate Benefits" of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the bill included numerous benefits that would "be available in the first year after enactment" of the bill. Indeed, Washington Post writer Ezra Klein published a list of benefits that the Senate bill would provide "before 2014."
Reviving "born alive" falsehood, Beck claimed Obama suggested it's OK to "put a spike in the baby's head." On November 25, Beck falsely claimed that Obama "suggested that [it] was OK" to "go into those pregnant women and pull the babies out of them and put a spike in the baby's head," echoing the oft-repeated right-wing falsehood that Obama did not support protecting babies who survived botched abortions. In fact, while serving in the state Senate, Obama opposed legislation to amend the Illinois Abortion Law because the amendment threatened abortion rights and was unnecessary since existing law already required doctors to provide medical care for babies who survived abortions.
Beck falsely claimed that no jobs are being "saved or created" by recovery legislation. On December 2, Beck falsely claimed that "jobs are not being saved or created" by the economic recovery legislation and that the Obama administration is "creating the make-believe 'saved or created' category" for jobs. In fact, the CBO had recently estimated that the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, which was heavily promoted by Obama, created 1.6 million jobs, and the Bush administration repeatedly stated that its economic initiatives had "saved or created" jobs.
Beck falsely claimed Robert Creamer "stole" $2 million from banks. On December 8, Beck falsely claimed that progressive activist Robert Creamer "stole" $2 million from banks while serving as executive director of the Illinois Public Action Fund. In fact, Creamer was never accused of stealing any money, and the judge in the case reportedly gave Creamer a lighter sentence because no one suffered any "out of pocket losses."
Beck led charge advancing "Lie of the Year" contender that Holdren supported forced abortions and sterilizations. Throughout 2009, Beck repeatedly advanced the false claim that White House science and technology adviser John Holdren -- whom Beck called "our science czar" -- supported forced abortions and putting sterilants in drinking water. PolitiFact.com declared his claim "pants on fire" false and nominated it for "Lie of the Year," stating that Holdren and his co-authors "make clear that they did not support coercive means of population control." Beck's claim was PolitiFact's runner-up for Lie of the Year.
Beck's defense rests on misrepresentations and falsehoods
Beck claim: Death panels "discovered by The New York Times." On his January 4 show, Beck claimed, "Last summer during the health care debate, we told you that the administration's math didn't add up. It was a very reasonable explanation on the program. I appealed to your reason. I said it would be impossible to add 30 million people to health care onto the rolls and at the same time add no additional doctors or nurses. And then not have rationing. You can't do that. Because some bureaucracy would have to decide whether you would receive, or they would receive rationed health care, the terms 'death panels' was applied. Well, here is the fact." After showing archive footage of himself discussing rationing and death panels, he stated:
BECK: But instead of telling you the Lie of the Year, how about I just tell you the truth, as discovered by The New York Times in a front-page article about our mushrooming unsustainable debt? Here is the truth from the Times. Quote: "The competing demands could deepen political battles over the size and the role of government. The tradeoffs between taxes and spending. The choices between helping older generations versus younger ones, and the bottom line questions about who should ultimately shoulder the burden."
That was The New York Times. Hmmm. That also sounds reasonable, doesn't it, when there's a shortage of money? So The New York Times says it, but SEIU named me the fearmonger of the year. That's weird. I wonder if The New York Times will share that award with me.
Fact: Times article cited by Beck makes no mention of health care reform or "death panels." The November 22 New York Times article cited by Beck, headlined, "Wave of debt payments facing U.S. government," did not address health care reform and made no mention of death panels or health care rationing. From The New York Times:
Americans now have to climb out of two deep holes: as debt-loaded consumers, whose personal wealth sank along with housing and stock prices; and as taxpayers, whose government debt has almost doubled in the last two years alone, just as costs tied to benefits for retiring baby boomers are set to explode.
The competing demands could deepen political battles over the size and role of the government, the trade-offs between taxes and spending, the choices between helping older generations versus younger ones, and the bottom-line questions about who should ultimately shoulder the burden.
"The government is on teaser rates," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan group that advocates lower deficits. "We're taking out a huge mortgage right now, but we won't feel the pain until later."
Beck: "I didn't want [Van Jones] to be fired." During his discussion of Van Jones, Beck stated, "I didn't want the man to be fired. I wanted a debate on the issue of a communist being an adviser to the president of the United States."
Fact: Beck said, "Removing Van Jones is not enough," and called on listeners to ask, "Why is this man in [Obama's] administration?" Discussing Van Jones on the September 3 edition of his radio show, Beck asked, "Is it time yet that you demand an answer from the president of the United States, 'Why is this man in your administration?' " Beck went on to claim, "And it's not about Van Jones. Removing Van Jones is not enough."
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