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You are making way too big a deal out of this. Until now, I always thought moderators were supposed to mediate and dampen conflict, rather than go out of their way to incite it.
OK, here's my last word on the subject. Do with it whatever you will, because I respect your own good judgement a little bit less, now, and it does not matter very much to me that you disapprove.
First off, I am 57 years old, so I have handled a lot of guns that would fire when dropped. I also drove a car for many years before seat belts became a requirement, and I have ridden motorcycles without a helmet. All of the safety requirements that have been added through the years are OK with me, but I am not afraid of, nor will I reject an older gun, just because it does not have them. That is my personal preference. You know your own limitations better than I, so you do what's best for you and yours.
As for endangering others by carrying a gun that could go off if dropped, I think you can easily overwork the "what if" scenarios, in that regard. Here's the only way I ever carry the LCP. I use it only when going to work, or going to the shooting range, because everywhere else, I am able to carry something much better.:
Take the spare magazine and the gun out of the safe. (The safe is in a room with a wood floor and a thickly padded carpet.) Inspect the gun briefly, drop the mag and tap it lightly on something to reseat the cartridges, then re-insert it. Stick the gun in the holster, stick the holster in right front pocket, stick magazine in left front pocket, and go to work.
Work 8-12 hours, come home, remove the gun from the holster and place it back in safe.
The only opportunity there ever is for me to drop the gun is when I take it out of the safe, or put it back in...unless, God forbid, I should ever have to pull it out to shoot at someone. In that case, any innocent bystanders will very likely have a lot more to fear from the bad guy, than from my bumbling about with a loaded mouse gun.
If I drop the gun when removing it from the safe, and the soft carpet does not cushion it enough to prevent a discharge, then the only person in danger from a negligent discharge is me.
If I drop the gun at the shooting range, it lands on dirt. If it goes off, it endangers only me, because I choose my shooting times when I will have the handgun range to myself.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Do whatever scolding you wanted to do, and let's move on to something more interesting. I'm through with this subject.
I do not want to get into an argument with anyone, but I agree with Todd 100% that for anyone to carry a gun they know may fire if dropped is irresponsible. With all due respect, the owner's age and/or experience level does not matter. The weapon can still be dropped. The attitude that one has been around guns long enough as to be trusted with a defective one is, for lack of a better term, very dangerous and arrogant.
I recall a basic student in the police academy where I served as a firearms instructor who refused any advice from the staff with regards to firearms. He claimed to have been the state pistol champion in the 1970s and knew all there was to know about shooting and about handguns in general. We tried to work with him but felt that as long as he was safe, we would let him do his own thing. Approximately five minutes before our first live drill session, the student came to get me and stated that his gun was "broken." He showed me a S&W model 4506 and said that it fired when he engaged the safety. He then proceeded to decock the weapon.
Upon inspection of the weapon, I discovered that there was nothing wrong with it and I asked how much he had shot it in the past. It turned out that it was not even his and that he had borrowed it from a friend. He had never shot it, nor read the instruction manual. His attitude was that, as the alll knowing 1970 whatever state pistol champ, he knew how to shoot and operate any and all pistols.
I think we can all agree that this could have all ended very badly had he not admitted his ignorance of the particular weapon he was using, and asked for help.
Again, I am not trying to "jump" on anyone, or lecture, but I do feel that the topic is an important one to discuss.
I certainly hope that others here agree with us.
Nebraska tried for years to get a CCW law on the books, but one of the issues that kept it from being passed was the attitude of many supporters that there should be no training requirement.
Many voiced the view that they knew enough about guns and should not have to take a class to prove that they could be trusted to carry one. That pretty much killed the bills in committee each year along with other stuff like individuals making statements in public hearings about wanting the right to carry a weapon to protect themselves against the "corrupt governments of the United States and the state of Nebraska." I am sure you can guess how well that went over.
As gun owners, we must show that we can be trusted with the great responsibility of possessing a firearm, and statements like "I know what I am doing" often become famous, or infamous, last words. I think most of us have seen the video of the DEA agent who was "the only one professional enough" to handle a Glock model 22 that he then proceeded to fire, hitting himself in his leg or foot.
+1I always thought moderators were supposed to mediate and dampen conflict, rather than go out of their way to incite it.
Its a tough forum to go against the majority and mods. Especially the administrator.
I respectfully disagree. With the fear of sounding like a suck-up, I think that js is very tolerant of views that differ from his. That was tested a great deal during the weeks leading up the election.Originally Posted by nelskc
Everyone I am aware of who have been banned or "corrected" since I have been a member here were given plenty of opportunity to turn things around. Some more than I personally felt was deserved.
I served as a moderator on another gun forum, and it is not an easy task. I think the mods here do a great job.
Those are fine stories, and I don't disagree with the sentiments contained within them, but you are merely changing the subject.
I made what I thought was an innocent comment in the first thread, which was intended to simply mean that the LCP problem only made it the approximate equal of millions of other guns that have been and still are being used for self-defense.
I am a stickler for safety, and resent comments that suggest otherwise. If someone wants to argue my reasoning, they should simply state their case, and apply some facts, or at least some logic, rather than merely changing the subject to me being an arrogant old fool.
I took the time to describe my use of this 'dangerous' gun. Why don't you tell me where my judgement is wrong, instead of giving me stories.
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I was trying to make a point without directly "targeting" you.
Since you asked, however, I feel that you are being irresponsible for keeping and carrying a firearm that is not working correctly. If it does not fuction as it was designed to, please get it fixed.
Also, if you know the weapon may fire if dropped, you should not carry it around loaded. No matter how much experience you have, you may still drop it and thereby endanger not only yourself but people around you.
If the weapon may fire if dropped, then it may also fire if struck hard enough in the right place. There is a good chance you cold be injured if the weapon is fired while in your pocket or in a holster on your person.
Bottom line is that as a repsonsible gun owner you should not use a weapon that is unsafe for anything other than to look at, in my opinion.
There, how was that?
By the way, I think your claim of anyone calling you "an arrogant old fool" is a bit over the top. No one called you that.
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Look, I honestly do not even want to be having this 'debate.' I reacted to sneering remarks from an unexpected source, and as a result, ended up trying to defend against all the straw-man arguments. I thought everyone got their kicks in the other thread, and it was all over. Now here we are, again, because someone wanted to beat a dead horse.
In a lot of circumstances, I would not carry the gun, for the same single reason that you guys keep repeating over and over and over - that it might go off, if dropped - period. But I have made the judgment that it is safe for me to carry it in the circumstances I have described. I have made the rationalization that because there are probably more guns out there without modern safety features than there are with them, and that a lot of them are being carried for self-defense, that I, too, can do it, for a short period of time, and with extreme care being given to not dropping the gun on a hard surface. The alternative is to not carry in certain circumstances.
All of you have just dug in your heels to say it's not safe, and you are not hearing arguments to the contrary. This is not as big of a deal as you all seem to think it is.
I must confess that I did not read the other thread, and I was not aware that this had alread been discussed. No dead horse beating intended from my end.
I do see your points, and they do make sense. I do, however, agree with you that I am saying it is unsafe and that is that. That is exactly what I am saying. When it comes to gun safety there is only black and white, no gray areas. I realize that this is a purist view, but yet, it is the one I choose to take.
One point you make has got me thinking. Carrying an unsafe gun or no gun at all. To be honest, I don't know what I would do. It would be easy for me to sit here and claim that I never would, but of course there would be times where it may be the only option.
Please do not feel that I am coming down on you, or questioning your level of experience etc. I do not know you, and based on your posts here on this forum I have read, you seem to be a level headed person who respects firearms.
Let me ask you this: Is the weapon in question designed that way or is there something wrong with it? If it does nto work correctly, how difficult would it be to have it excahnged or repaired?
EDIT: After further thought, I'm closing this tread. I don't want some new member, or worse, a new gun owner, to get the impression any member here condones the use or carry of a defective gun.


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Yet, even in Africa, there is suspicion of GM technology. Many countries there, such as Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania, do not allow GM seeds.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, a Kenya-based group set up in 2006 with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Gates Foundation, targets its programs specifically at small-scale farmers.
Three-quarters of the world's poorest billion people live in rural areas, dependent on farming for their livelihoods.
AGRA's Program for Africa's Seed Systems uses conventional breeding to develop new varieties of maize, cassava, beans, rice, sorghum, and other crops resistant to diseases and pests. The goal is to develop and release more than 1,000 improved crop varieties over the next 10 years.
"We've adopted a small grant mechanism that gets money out to plant breeders on the ground, so that they can, over a period of years, and selections and lots of consultations with local farmers, and access to the world's gene banks, come up with something that's truly novel, much higher yielding and resistant to local diseases and with the taste and texture that local people want," said Joseph DeVries, director of PASS.
"To leap to the GM model at this stage, just seems like it's ignoring a lot of the things that make sense locally, that people can do locally without it," he said.
Kostas Stamoulis, director of the FAO's Agricultural Development Economics Division, said only a few food crops are in wide use in genetically modified forms, and most are not well adapted to the varied and often extreme environmental conditions in sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa has eight or more staple crops that are grown in a wide variety of climates and conditions, making it far more of a challenge than in Asia, where single staple crops, such as rice, are grown in relatively homogeneous conditions over wide areas. Mr. Stamoulis emphasized the need for all kinds of technology, including traditional plant breeding.
He said there should be a balance between "people that, in my view, make the extraordinarily dangerous proposition that you can feed the world with organics, which is absolutely crazy, and those who are fanatic about GMOs without looking at the full balance of options."
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As Brittany Hite of the Wall Street Journal noted, China is having a good week.
First, 22-year-old Shanshan Feng won the Wegmans LPGA Championship to become the first Chinese player to win an LPGA Tour title and major championship. Then, 14-year-old Andy Zhang became the youngest player in the history to qualify for the U.S. Open.
The triumphs of Feng and Zhang are a boon to China's global sporting ambitions, though they're the sort of development that probably sets Mao Zedong's waxen body to spinning in its glass case on Tiananmen Square. Despite some claims that the sport was invented in China, golf was banned under Mao as a bourgeois indulgence. Even now, with the Communist Party having embraced entrepreneurs and luxury brands rushing to cater to the country's nouveau riche, the sport remains a somewhat controversial hobby due to concerns over the growing tracts of precious arable land being appropriated to build courses.It's only a matter of time before the
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the introduction of golf into the Olympics is a huge motivator for China. I bet they'll start pumping a lot of government funds into programs, if they haven't already, to try and compete at an Olympic level. just look at the show they put on in Bejing as an example.
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Figures. They already have (manufacture)the worlds largest inventory of major brand golf equipment.
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Word of the Day, February 14, 2014
" My strength is in Your name. For You alone can save. You will deliver me. Yours is the victory. Whom shall I fear? Whom shall I fear? "
Proverbs 31:10
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Happy Valentines to everybody. Do you have a virtuous woman? I do. She is worth more than rubies. We need to tell our wives each and everyday this. Let me explain what the BIble says about a virtuous woman.
Husband doth softly trust in her, works willingly with her hand, like a merchant's ships bringing food from afar, rises early before light and gives food to her household, with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard, strength in her loins and arms, her candle does not go out at night, reaches out to the poor and needy, not afraid of the snow because her household are clothed with scarlet, her clothes are silk and purple, she knows that her husband is known in the gate or village and respected among the people, works to support the family with her fine linen, she is filled with wisdom, her tongue speaks of the law of kindness, she looks well, no idleness, her children love her and her husband praises her, She has fear of the LORD and the fruit of her hand be praise privately and publicly in the gate.
We are commanded to love our wife like Christ loves the church, as we love ourselves. If we spent as much time loving our wives like we do loving ourselves and doing what we want, can you image how happy our wives would be.
Ephesians 5: 21, " Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of the LORD."
Ephesians 5: 25, " Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it:"
Ephesians 5:28, " So ought men love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."
I was going to write about the fear of the LORD again and I then decided to write a Valentine Day Word of the Day. As I wrote this I remembered that as a Godly woman, she must also fear the LORD. Happy marriages comes from listening and understanding the Word of God. Fear of the LORD, submitting yourselves, one to another.
Hope everybody is doing ok with this crazy weather. Praying for all that have no power. Hopefully by Sunday things will be cleared up and we can go to a good Bible preaching church and give God all the praise for the snow, food, safety, electricity and heart, our wives or husbands and our marriages . Tell your spouse today that you love them, thank them for everything they do for you and your family and pray unto the LORD for each other.
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This is a lot of Bachmann and Plasticville USA HO Scale Buildings in their original boxes. Some have not been assembled and I'm pricing them at about $5.99 a box. You can take what you need and sell the rest, I see that they are priced much higher individually. I am going to list them as: Men's Store, Motel with Swimming Pool, Drive-In Bank, Split-Level House, New Car Showroom with one car, Factory, Catherdral, Another Split-Level House, Firehouse with 2 Firetrucks, Motel with 3 cars, A New England Rancher Home, A Ranch House, Farm buildings and animals (chickens, dog, horse, 3 cows, 2 pigs, 2 sheep), A Railroad Work Car, A Cape Cod House, A Church, A Park Assistant with (1 telephone booth, six benches, 12 mailboxes, 12 fireplugs), a Gas Station with one car, another smaller Ranch House, a Roadside Stand with Paint and 3 figures. There is alot here to keep that little one busy with fun items or that big collector that is making a train community. Great Christmas gift or to put around the tree for everyone to admire. Shipping price includes insurance so that it doesn't get lost! Good luck on bidding.


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Location: Dale Bumpers National Rice Research CenterTitle: Pathological and molecular characterization of rice blast pathogenicity factor AVR-Pital in field isolates Author
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Publication Acceptance Date: 5/30/2012
Publication Date: 8/2/2012
Publication URL: http://www.uark.edu/depts/agripub/Publications/researchseries
Citation: Jia, Y., Correll, J.C., Lee, F.N. 2012. Pathological and molecular characterization of rice blast pathogenicity factor AVR-Pital in field isolates. Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Series. BR Wells Rice Research Studies 2011 pg. 53-72. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: The rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta has been effective in managing rice blast disease in Arkansas and the Southern US. The AVR-Pita1 gene in the pathogen, Maganporthe oryzae, encodes a metalloprotease that determines the efficacy of Pi-ta mediated blast resistance. Analysis of genetic variation of AVR-Pita1 in field isolates of the pathogen has lead to a better understanding of the stability of rice blast resistance. In the present study, race identity in 126 field blast isolates was determined, the AVR-Pita1 alleles were sequenced, and pathogenicity toward cultivars containing Pi-ta and lacking Pi-ta was determined. It was found that most of sequence variation in AVR-Pita1 results in altered metalloproteases in avirulent isolates. However, in isolates that attack Pi-ta resistance gene, AVR-Pita1 metalloproteases were found to be "destroyed" through various genetic mechanisms. For the first time, we provided evidence to demonstrate molecular mechanisms of the instability of rice blast resistance and the evolution of virulence in the pathogen.


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I think I may be able to come up for this one, put me as a maybe
I think I may be able to come up for this one, put me as a maybe
Ok boss. Your sort of on the list.
We should definitely get some name badge stickers so everyone can show their board name and real name. Well, also so we can all write "the Dent" and "the Sniffer" on all of them.
(Hello Brak's, hello Mirax, hello Zammers, where are you?)
Dang!!! That's a lot of people! This is going to be GREAT!!!!!!!!
We have less than 2 months
So is that date we have now the one set in stone? If so I think im good to go.
I think that we should crash one of the tapings for the Tonight Show
I cant wait! I am hungry now... lets go! :P
Count me in guys, I get to take Friday off from school!!!
Count me in as well!!! heck if i am manning the table I might as well go to the dinner also!!
I think my stomach will just happen to be rumbling right around that time! Please mark me down + 1 guest!
This thread brings up a thought.... http://http://www.thedentedhelmet.co...ead.php?t=4282
*Is it possible that you can list, in addition to eveyones screen name, their REAL name as well??
The reason I ask is because recently I meet some fellow TDH members and they gave me their screen name only....so when I had a question or two I wasn't sure how to address them?? And calling someone "TK-such and such" was wierd.....It was just kinda awkward really..
anyway just a Thought..
I'll start it.....My name is Alex.
So I was thinking of possibly coming out to Cali just for hell of it...so maybe ill come for the dinner.
tahhaaa! Classic Tim! You are like the only person I know online anywhere that simply goes by their real name! Be sure to spike your hair and don't forget the shades bro! Oh, my real name is James, so put me down as James, or Skippy, as some of friends like to call me (dont ask)
Is it possible eat SPAGHETTI in a Casey's resturant???
please add me and my girl!
Add me to the list as well, hopefully I can find someone to go with since I'm sure that I'll be pretty clueless in L.A.
ya im on the list already but forgot to say that im gonna have a guest with me. maybe 2
K, ladies and Gents, I might come out there, But I have a quick question. would anyone going be able to take me to LAX afterwards?
I would gladly compensate you for your gas. I would love to get to come out to hang for a little bit.
Ok I am going to put this in the first post as well but I will put here it cause Iwant to.
I spoke with the guy from Casey's today and we finalized prices and a menu. It is going to be $26.65 per person, for that you get:
Choice of 1 of the following: Onion Rings, or Fried Mozz sticks
Chocie of 1 of the following: Classic Cheese burger, Penne Pomodoro, Cajun Chicken Pasta
And Cheesecake for Dessert
Unlimted Soda, tea, coffee
I am going to do this pre-paid so that everyone will pay me and then I will pay Casey's prior to our arrival. Also when I start taking payments I will need your food choices and real names (put them in the e-mail for paypal). Once I give the list to Casey's no one will be able to change their minds about the food, as they will make what ever I put on the list and no more (that is how we are keeping the cost so low) Also this means that only people who pre-pay can go to dinner, sorry that is how it has to be.
Sound good? I will start taking payments in the next couple of days.
BTW the date and time is set.


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We've talked about a lot of vintage items here in my column, now let's turn our attention to Vintage TV sets. Boasting almost 50 different television sets, this site definitely has variety down.
From a 1948 Admiral to 1964 Zenith, you'll find a lot of variety here. Mostly table top television sets from the 50's—I found this interesting. I mean, TV's today are either flat and hang on a wall or sharp edged boxes that vary from big screen to 15 inch on a TV stand. It's interesting to see these TV's that sat on tables, kitchen counters, and such.
Can you imagine a 12 inch set being a "big screen" TV? I can't. My computer monitor is a 17 inch and I definitely don't like watching DVD's on the computer due to the screen size. We sure are spoiled with size.
What is really neat about this site is that you get to see the TV's obviously, but you also get to see the guts of the TV's in the repair photos, and some of the original advertisements for the sets. I mean they even had suitcase television sets for travel.
You can also check out what the site owner is looking for, and the Phil Predicta Article about the technology of television tubes!
A very neat site all around, make sure you tune in.
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By Todd Harrison
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — In what's shaping up to be the most important Wednesday in the history of days that end in "Y," we're set to digest guidance from the Federal Reserve and G-20 regarding how they plan to combat the sovereign sequel to the first phase of the financial crisis.
The fact that our once free-markets are dependent on a steady fix of drugs from global policymakers, while sad, isn't the point. We must trade the tape we have not the tape we want and odds are that without the tens of trillions of dollars in synthetic stimuli, we probably wouldn't want that tape either. See Minyanville's "A Five-Step Guide to Contagion."
There are several sides to the current ride and we would be wise to see them all.
The good
• S&P 1335 — the level of lore in a reverse head and shoulders formation that works (through a pure technical lens) to S&P SPX -0.33% 1400 — remains underfoot.
• BKX BKX +0.40% 44 — the 'stealth tell' we've monitored in Minyanville that has worked like a charm — resides below current levels as well.
• The momentum monkeys — Apple Inc. AAPL -0.61% , Google Inc. GOOG -0.88% , LinkedIn Corp. LNKD -0.19% , Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.87% , Baidu Inc. BIDU -3.20% and Priceline.com Inc. PCLN -1.61% — trade firm, which implies an underlying "risk-on" mentality.
• Quarter-end is on tap next week, which may be why the "bang-for-the-buck" proxies mentioned above have traded with a better bid.
• Given the uncertainty surrounding the Greek election — and European concerns as a whole — many market participants moved to the sidelines last month and are sitting in cash; as a result, they may be vulnerable to a "long squeeze" as the buyers are higher (and the sellers lower).
The bad
• Europe isn't fixed, as evidenced by Spanish yields trading near crisis highs.
• Greece, while moving toward a coalition government, has yet to reach an agreement for further funds needed to stave off default. German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to insist "the new government must stick to their commitments" and "there can be no loosening on these reform steps."


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Not too long ago we were making a capital pitch to a respected Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He seemed to understand our ideas about the emerging Next Economy, and he agreed that the world had better be headed that way soon to avoid serious risks to civilization. Looking through the 80-some constituents of our Green Alpha Next Economy Index (GANEX), he praised our vision of combining all the necessary elements of the future green economy in one place. He was seemingly in love with our names in solar, wind, batteries, basic research, transportation, water, wave power, green building, etc. But then, looking at one name, he stopped short. "Google?" he asked, "what the hell does search have to do with the green economy?" He literally laughed out loud. We had two follow-on meetings with this guy (no investment was ultimately forthcoming, incidentally), and each time, he ridiculed our competence to correctly model the next economy on the basis of this one holding. Now I don't think that just because you wear the title of VC means you need to know everything, but, in this case, there's only one word for this guy's reaction: clueless.
Google, whatever else it may be (a lot), is not just an example of a Next Economy company. It is arguably the example (for now) of the best, most clear sighted, realistic, practical enterprise of smart people who, when confronted with the complicated realities of a populous, warming, resource-constrained world, decided to put up rather than shut up. Why?
First, Google's core search business, despite what Mr. VC might think, is itself critical to a sustainable future. Fast, relevant searches, combined with Google's myriad efficiency boosters (think Maps and mobile payments), streamline and render more productive not only obvious things like office productivity, but also enable the increasingly rapid advancement of science, technology and other pursuits that benefit from real-time availability of very precise information. For all I know, Google is attempting to quantify the dollars or percentages this adds to our gross world product, but suffice it to say that the effects are significant. Forrester calculated that Google Apps alone provide businesses with a 307% return on investment. Smart tech economists will no doubt render better opinions than mine on this, so I'll move on to a few of the company's other pursuits.
Renewable energy. It was my turn to laugh when I heard a CNBC anchor say that Google's investments in zero-carbon, renewable energy were "distracting from core business" and "damaging the firm's value." On the contrary, Google's accurate vision of our growing need for domestic, secure, safe, not poisonous, less-vulnerable-to-natural-disasters energy means that their holdings will be perfectly positioned to provide a commodity that, exactly like search, we never stop needing: electricity. Google, for all its size and wealth, is actually in the early stages of building a dynamic conglomerate. Consider this selected list of the company's many green energy investments:
- $55 million into the Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California. This wind station will generate 1.5 gigawatts, which can meet the demand of some 450,000 homes.
- $168 million into the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (solar thermal), which may be the "largest solar energy project in the world" at a capacity of 392 Mojave sun-powered megawatts, approximately equivalent to the requirements of 140,000 homes.
Image: rendering of the completed Ivanpah project (source www.brightsourceenergy.com)
- $100 million into the Caithness Shepherds Flat wind farm, "with capacity of up to 909 megawatts (about 325,000 homes' worth), located immediately south of the Columbia River in north-central Oregon, on approximately 32,000 acres."
- Undisclosed but no doubt very large investment into undersea transmission cables off the Atlantic coast designed to allow Eastern cities to tap into massive offshore wind potential. Google owns "41.7% of the development phase of the project," according to the WSJ. The entire 350-mile project is valued at $5 billion.
So, wind, solar and infrastructure. A good long-view mix if your goal is to be a dominant energy player in 10 or 20 years. All in, I count at least US$455 million invested so far by Google into renewable energies. There could be more I'm not aware of, and there's certainly more to come. And Google's Next Economy efforts aren't limited to energy.
Creative applications. Google is tinkering with ways to ignite and boost the next economy that we hope will soon become commonplace in business and daily experience. For example, they were early to install solar carports and electric vehicle (EV) charging to employees, and as far as I know were the very first to offer inductive charging plates so that all an EV driving employee need do to juice up is park at the Mountain View HQ campus, and walk away. For EV drivers who don't work there, Google has added all publicly-usable EV charging stations to Google Maps. Back at their "core business," Google is employing creative ways to minimize not only the power but also the fresh water impacts at data centers via new ideas such as using sea water as a coolant. In the realm of finance, Google Payments has every chance of catching on huge and accelerating economies right at the point of sale. And it's rumored that Google may be endeavoring to improve upon the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index with their own Google Price Index. Google's being tight lipped about the project, but we're sympathetic to the ideal, since providing a redefined metric to benchmark the economy that matters most is what we're doing too.
Image: Google green transportation initiatives (source: http://www.ideaconnection.com)
Now, in aggregate, we ask the question, who if not Google stands to profit when the imperatives of the next economy become evident? What enterprises will thrive when, for example, coal is in relative terms far too expensive to keep mining and burning? Who will loom large as peak oil becomes increasingly expensive or a hostile OPEC decides simply to turn down the spigot? Who will be positioned to seamlessly conduct business when the policy world finally does come around to limiting greenhouse and toxic emissions? It'll be entities such as Google and Germany who, despite the almost complete failure of U.S. and international policy to devise programmatic prescriptions for change, have decided to forge ahead.
The way we here at Green Alpha ® Advisors model the Next Economy and thus build our portfolios starts with us asking "which companies are leading the way to the future, green economy?" and "what firms existing now can we imagine thriving in that world?" We believe Google qualifies both ways and will be able to persist in a model of the next economy even 50 years out. Further, as opinion leaders, Google is bringing their brand of non-linear thinking into the mainstream, which in itself is a positive game changer.
If Google is crazy, it's crazy like a mutant nuclear fox on steroids. We love their ongoing growth prospects and have been betting on them in our benchmark GANEX since that index's first day, December 30, 2008. We're not selling GOOG shares any time soon. Folks who say Google has reached maturity (or has even bubble status) fail utterly to grasp the company's vision to become a global leader in much more than search and information. More than that, they fail to understand the demanding requirements of the Next Economy.
Garvin Jabusch is the cofounder of Green Alpha Advisors, LLC and manages The Sierra Club Green Alpha Portfolio -- a unique blend of Green Alpha Advisors' Next Economy universe and the Sierra Club's proprietary green-investment guidelines.


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Kind of an odd question - approximately how many full pumps are required on a nicely maintained B&G 1 gallon stainless steel sprayer? The label on Masterline Bifenthrin 7.9 states it should be used indoors at or under 25 p.s.i., and I kind of feel like buying and using a pressure gauge for such a basic task is unreasonable. I have been under the impression that, in general, a surface area sprayed with a finer mist would allow the area to be more evenly treated, whether it's carpet, tile, or something else. I know there are some cases where some of the spray actually bounces off (as I've learned in reading about flea broadcast sprays), but do you know why the 25 psi thing was mentioned? Also, would you recommend a very high (but reasonable and safe) pressure be used on outside band sprays? Another question about application rates on granular products. If a label states 8 oz per 100 sq feet, is the easiest way to apply it to measure 8 oz of the product, place it in a little shaker, and try to place that pre-measured amount reasonably evenly throughout the 100 sq feet?
Christopher, FL
These are REALLY important questions, so I'll go on for awhile. First on the sprayer, and the nozzle tips on hand sprayers may be one of the most overlooked items in our tool box. They get clogged and worn as time goes on and eventually the spray volume and pattern that you THINK are coming out of them no longer are. I once had a technician complaining that the flea product he used was no good and was simply not controlling fleas. So, I watched him apply it one time and realized that instead of the even fan pattern he "thought" was being applied to the carpet, his clogged and worn spray tip was putting out two widely spaced pin streams. Probably 95% of the carpet wasn't even being treated because he failed to check his equipment and to test it now and then to be certain it was in good working condition.
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"In Denmark – my favorite country – they are the happiest people in the world," declared Joy Behar on "The View" September 23. They've come a long way since Hamlet.
Why are the Danes so contented? Could it be all that Havarti and herring? The satisfaction of knowing that their ancestors plundered and pillaged the entire North Atlantic? No. According to Behar, the Danes wear the smile of socialism.
"The reason that they're so happy is because they don't worry about health care," she explained. "They don't worry about sending their kids to college because everything's paid for."
It appears Behar was referring to the 2008 World Values Survey that asked 350,000 citizens of 97 different countries two questions:
1. Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, or not at all happy?
2. All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?
While it's true that Denmark was ranked the happiest country in the world, Behar's premise – that universal health care and "free" tuition put a spring in the Danish step – is false.
For example, Ukraine, which also has universal health care, barely scraped by at number 95. Other countries with universal health care include: Bulgaria, ranked 92; Georgia, ranked 91; Russia, ranked 89; Romania, ranked 88.
What about "free" college? First off, it's not free. The Danes pay the highest taxes in the world at 48.4%. Secondly, 12 of the 27 E.U. countries have no tuition fees, so it's not that unique. Those tuition-free countries include: Poland, ranked 52; the Czech Republic, ranked 53; and Slovakia, ranked 75.
What's more, Denmark's Scandinavian neighbors, Finland, Norway and Sweden boast both "free" college tuition and universal healthcare. Yet their happiness rankings are 25, 19 and 14, respectively.
If Joy had read the actual study, she would have discovered that "the most important determinant of happiness is the extent to which people have free choice in how to live their lives." Not universal health care and "free" college.


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The New News Process
As he looks at the sector, he publishes a new process for news (above) and says:
The notion that news comes in and stories go out — text and photos come in and paper goes out — is an artifact of the means of production and distribution, of course. Now a story never begins and it never ends. But at some point in the life of a story, a journalist (working wherever) may see the idea and then can get all kinds of new input. But the story itself — in whatever medium — is merely a blip on the line, a stage in a process, for that process continues after publication.
…In this new ecology, I think newsrooms will need to be organized around topics or tags or stories because the notion of a section is as out of date as the Dewey Decimal System… Stories and topics become molecules that attract atoms: reporters, editors, witnesses, archives, commenters, and so on, all adding different elements to a greater understanding. Who brings that together? It's not always the reporter or editor anymore. It can just as easily be the reader(s) now.
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The Snapchat for iOS app has been updated to version 6.1 and includes some new features including one called "Replay". With this app turned on, users can see a Snapchat message that has already self-destructed. However, you're limited to using "Replay" on one Snapchat message per day, one time only.
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The Four Horsemen of Industrial Society: War, Over-Population, Climate Change & Peak Oil
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"Human Over-Population would be my candidate for the second horseman. It worsens the other three conditions, driving them to fiery extremes. The growing number of humans already consume more than our fair share of the globe's limited and non-renewable resources, without adequate consideration of the consequences to other creatures, life forms, and the elements that sustain human and other forms of life. We continue our expansion without a sense of the finiteness of resources and the limits to growth."
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""Human Over-Population would be my candidate for the second horseman. It worsens the other three conditions, driving them to fiery extremes.""
i don't think there is "over-population" most of the people i know - in US, Japan, Korea, Australia/NZ , Europe are only having one or 2 kids at most. infact so many married couple are choosing not to have kids. in our grandma's days - they have 5 to 8 kids easy.
and in most african countries - people are being decimated by the millions due to AIDS and other diseases.
what over population?
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Date: January 7, 2006
Byline: Steve Connor
Climate change and global pollution cannot be adequately tackled without addressing the neglected issue of the world's booming population, according to two leading scientists.
Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, and Professor John Guillebaud, vented their frustration yesterday at the fact that overpopulation had fallen off the agenda of the many organisations dedicated to saving the planet.
The scientists said dealing with the burgeoning human population of the planet was vital if real progress was to be made on the other enormous problems facing the world.
"It is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about" Professor Guillebaud said. "Unless we reduce the human population humanely through family planning, nature will do it for us through violence, epidemics or starvation."
Professor Guillebaud said he decided to study the field of human reproduction more than 40 years ago specifically because of the problems he envisaged through overpopulation.
His concerns were echoed by Professor Rapley, an expert on the effects of climate change on the Antarctic, who pointed out that this year an extra 76 million people would be added to the 6.5 billion already living on Earth, which is twice as many as in 1960.
By the middle of the century, the United Nations estimates that the world population is likely to increase to more than nine billion, which is equivalent to an extra 200,000 people each day. Professor Rapley said the extra resources needed to sustain this growth in population would put immense strains on the planet's life-support system even if pollution emissions per head could be dramatically reduced.
"Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental 'footprint', the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero. Only the lack of the individual can bring it down to nothing," Professor Rapley says in an article for the BBC website.
"So if we believe that the size of the human 'footprint' is a serious problem - and there is much evidence for this - then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed."
Professor Rapley says the explosive growth in the human population and the concomitant effects on the environment have been largely ignored by many of those concerned with climate change. "It is a bombshell of a topic, with profound and emotive issues of ethics, morality, equity and practicability," he says.
"So controversial is the subject that it has become the Cinderella of the great sustainability debate - rarely visible in public, or even in private.
"In interdisciplinary meetings addressing how the planet functions as an integrated whole, demographers and population specialists are usually notable by their absence.''
Professor Guillebaud, who co-chairs the Optimum Population Trust, said it became politically incorrect about 25 years ago to bring up family planning in discussing the environmental problems of the developing world. The world population needed to be reduced by nearly two-thirds if climate change was to be prevented and everyone on the planet was to enjoy a lifestyle similar to that of Europeans, Professor Guillebaud said.
An environmental assessment by the conservation charity WWF and the Worldwatch Institute in Washington found that humans were now exploiting about 20 per cent more renewable resources than can be replaced each year.
Professor Guillebaud said this meant it would require the natural resources equivalent to four more Planet Earths to sustain the projected 2050 population of nine billion people.
"The figures demonstrate the folly of concentrating exclusively on lifestyles and technology and ignoring human numbers in our attempts to combat global warming," he said. "We need to think about climate changers - human beings and their numbers - as well as climate change."
Some environmentalists have argued that is not human numbers that are important, but the relative use of natural resources and production of waste such as carbon dioxide emissions. They have suggested that the planet can sustain a population of nine billion people or even more provided that everyone adopts a less energy-intensive lifestyle based on renewable sources of energy rather than fossil fuels.
But Professor Guillebaud said: "We urgently need to stabilise and reduce human numbers. There is no way that a population of nine billion - the UN's medium forecast for 2050 - can meet its energy needs without unacceptable damage to the planet and a great deal of human misery."
Crowded Earth
* The human population stands at 6.5 billion and is projected to rise to more than 9 billion by 2050.
* In less than 50 years the human population has more than doubled from its 1960 level of 3 billion.
* China is the most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people. India is second with more than 1.1 billion.
* By about 2030 India is expected to exceed China with nearly 1.5 billion people.
* About one in every three people alive today is under the age of 20, which means that the population will continue to grow as more children reach sexual maturity.
* Britain's population of 60 million is forecast to grow by 7 million over the next 25 years and by at least 10 million over the next 60 years, mainly through immigration.
* This is equivalent to an extra 57 towns the size of Luton (pop 184,000)
* By the time you have finished reading this column, an estimated 100 babies have been born in the world.
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"An environmental assessment by the conservation charity WWF and the Worldwatch Institute in Washington found that humans were now exploiting about 20 per cent more renewable resources than can be replaced each year."
...Sigh, did you know?
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Play Civilization III, once you figure it out, you will have a much better understanding why governments act the way they do, especially America.
It is about growth, placating the population, and controlling resources.
"As numbers (of people) increase, quality (of life) declines." -Socrates
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Thank you Nerak,
Solutions have existed for decades. As my grandfather would say when I was a child, "Greed and Self-Interest Will Return Mankind to Pre-history". It is those who control, manipulate, create and exploit the fabric of modern existence for personal benefit to the exclusion of the greater good who wittingly and unwittingly are leading this world to catastrophe. Morally bankrupt politicians, governments and their wholly owned legal/judicial minions selectively construct and apply laws based on preservation of existing power and interest structures. These often brilliant people squander and betray their intellectual gifts by concentrating their creative abilities in continuous efforts to effectively short-circuit the intuitive and intrinsically well-intended minds of intelligent people. The true masters are incredibly gifted when it comes to dressing up their connivances in the guise of nobility and propriety. The resulting confused and often divided masses are left to depend on self-styled intellectuals/scholars/ theologians who feign understanding and regurgitate some convoluted explanation that serves to convince people that eating excrement is actually good for them and doesn't really smell so bad either. There should be no mistake, the true monsters among us are those charged with the moral and material welfare of this beautiful planet and their systematic conversion of this greatest of gifts into a wasteland. What is being preserved now is the existing planetary power and interest structure at the expense of the planet itself. One thing we have all experienced and come to know very well is that if a resource can not be controlled, metered and capitalized on by those who perceive planetary resources to be their exclusive domain, it will not be allowed. Don't know if my commentary pertains to a horse, however, if it does, that poor bastard is going to have a mighty large load of miscreants upon its back as it descends into darkness.
Upside Note: I believe a new day is coming. I direct my waking efforts toward doing my part in assuring that The Next Turn of the Cosmic Wheel Is for Positive Rectification!
Nerak, I always enjoy your contributions and perspective.
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Oh wow, my bad. I just rebooted my modem, and sure enough the IP address changed. I thought that, that stayed the same. Maybe I was confusing it with the MAC address?
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Oh wow, my bad. I just rebooted my modem, and sure enough the IP address changed. I thought that, that stayed the same. Maybe I was confusing it with the MAC address?
MAC addresses never change on their own. You can clone them to pretend you are another device.
The public IP on most broadband connections seem to change either weekly or monthly.
I vote NO to the IP ban method.
Banned another mega-post spammer (41 in 35 minutes) this AM. Same IP as the preceding two ...........
Hmmm, how about if we banned that IP address for a week? Seeing how IT came in 3 times under the same IP address. Will that be an option to look into?
What of the other spammers, were their IP address the same?
Most of those spammers are in China. So it's not like any of you guys have to worry about inheriting one of their IP addresses.
I know it's not relevant. But it's a Zoom and I am able to connect to it at 230mbps via wifi N on my Mac Mini, tested it when I had the cable internet installed. But at my home I am using a Netgear, would love to have it over my g/f's, connected at 54mbps using N on wifi.
I was told that it was peak-time when I was downloading. I hope to try it again at a later time though.
Yeah, speedtest.net lol
Cable modems are more likely to "appear" slow when the neighborhood (literally, other customers on your same block) are all busy on-line at the same time. Early evening is the worst time usually. Cable modems share a local "pipe" before it joins up with the cable company's larger "pipe" at their offices. That local pipe can become congested if everyone attached is downloading at the same time.
DSL is less likely to suffer this constraint as you don't join a shared pipe until you get to the telephone company site where they "should" have enough pipe/bandwidth for all.
Conversely, any cable company could over-design their network to avoid this issue, and a telco could under-design their network to create the issue.
In general, cable can support higher speeds than DSL if the company builds it right.
My home dsl seems more reliable than my office cable. It also depends on all the connections between you and the server.
Cable Internet does have the best performance when everything is right. The problem is that doesn't happen very often in my experience.
Not that it makes a hoot - but the Verizon DSL here is clean and fast (for what it is). EXCEPT when mice decide to make a home in the 90 skrillion wire phone cable pedestal at the north end corner of our gravel road. It took 2 line techs most of a day to clean up the mess and splice it all back together. (but we got a cutesy new steel box out of the job...........)
They're back... *spooky music*
I don't know if this is a new type of a spammer, or just an idiot.
Clueless poster - Ranger nailed it an hour or so ago.
"cesaryen711" was another bot. Gonzo.
kimberlywatkins828 appears to be another one - restating other people's posts in multiple threads.


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