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CrisisCampHaiti (Boulder/Denver)
Saturday, January 16, 2010 from 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM (MST)
Event Details
Calling all programmers, developers, techies, geeks, civilians, and bleeding hearts to come together and help create technological solutions designed to aid crisis workers on the ground in Haiti. Plans are developing quickly and there will be much more information up soon.
As it stands, we'll be convening Saturday, January 16, at the Open Media Foundation in Denver (700 Kalamath St, 80204). Snacks and beverages will be provided to keep us going, but please bring your own as well.
Other groups will be meeting nationwide to work on similar efforts. The group in DC will be working on the following:
- Base layer map for Port Au Prince: This project would create a new collection of imagery and a new base map for NGOs and relief agencies. Post available imagery to share with the public for open source applications.
- Family locator systems: Uniting efforts of interested technologists, developers and communications experts to provide technical assistance.
- Tech Volunteer Skill Matrix/Volunteers: Create a role of volunteer as well as
- Managing News Aggregator: Provide content channel management to coordinate data feeds
- Defining the Collective: Create what we are and why we are doing this. Coordinate and post historical timeline/archive for the CrisisCamp efforts.
We are going to align our efforts with theirs and should have some projects outlined shortly. Stay tuned, and drop a line if you have any questions.
When & Where
Open Media Foundation
700 Klamath Street
Saturday, January 16, 2010 from 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM (MST)
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Going Ape for Wynkoop Beer
The good folks of the Wynkoop Brewing Company, as well as its six related saloons, have launched an extensive fundraising effort to assist Africa's endangered mountain gorillas.
From now through October, when the annual Gorilla Run goes ape in downtown Denver, the Wynkoop and its allied establishments -- Gaetano's, the Cherry Cricket and Pearl Street Grill among them -- will be serving Silverback Porter, a richly roasted smoked porter. And 25 percent of all sales of the beer will be donated to the Denver-based Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund.
The campaign also includes a drawing to send two people to Africa to see these gorillas, which the late Dian Fossey made so famous.
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Release now available
The initial release of my benchmark is available now from http://stlab.adobe.com/performance/.
Very interesting project and Idea.
About how to display results, I find that C++ Optimization Strategies and Techniques
is a good reference/categorization.
Always hoped for an updated/dynamic version of the above site (obviously more "second goal", more developer oriented than compiler vendor).
About "WhatToTest" from wiki page list : OpenMP should IMHO really be part of benchmarks. Here's already some on ICC, GCC and OpenMP
[ OpenMP is on my long term goals list. First I want standard C++ features and common compiler optimizations tested, and those are already a very long list – ccox ]
I would love user submittable results, automatically processed, so that CPU/arch types would be displayable using dynamics graphs a la "gapminder", with user comments per test to discuss in depth each.
Again, Very nice idea and nice work already.
[ Thank you – ccox ]
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Free Events in Portland: November 30–December 2, 2012
November 28th, 2012
Note: Admission is free for the following events, but you might be charged for activities or food and drink.
Events are sorted by start time.
All weekend
"Princess and the Pea" Performance: Each Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from November 30 through December 23, see a live performance of "Princess and the Pea" at Theater!Theatre! (3430 SE Belmont, Portland). Go to the event website for information about reserving free tickets.
Friday, November 30
West Linn Community Tree Lighting: Kids activities at the West Linn City Hall. Treats and more at businesses at Cascade Summit Town Square. 6:00 pm.
Author Michael Connelly will talk about his latest book, "The Black Box," at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7:00 pm.
Tigard Tree Lighting Festivities: See Santa and the Mayor light the tree at 7:00 pm at Liberty Park (north end of Main Street at Pacific Hwy). Then head to CrossFit PAW (across from the Tigard Post Office) for treats and a visit with Santa.
"Modernist Cuisine at Home": Scott Heimendinger, director of applied research from the Modernist Cuisine team, will present this book. Powell's City of Books on Burnside, 7:30 pm.
Saturday, December 1
A Nutcracker Tea: An abridged, family-friendly adaptation of the Nutcracker ballet for ages 4 and up. Tualatin Public Library (18878 SW Martinazzi Ave, Tualatin), 11:00 am.
Seasonal Songs from America's Back Roads: American roots musician Lauren Sheehan will perform at Gresham Library (385 NW Miller Ave, Gresham), 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm.
Milwaukie Umbrella Parade and Tree Lighting: The parade starts at 4:00 pm at the Waldorf School, followed by the tree lighting at Milwaukie City Hall (10722 SE Main St, Milwaukie).
Sherwood Winter Festival: The festival begins with a parade at 4:00 pm, followed by activities at Cannery Square Plaza in Old Town Sherwood and the Sherwood Masonic Lodge.
Gresham Spirit of Christmas: Live music, tree lighting, Santa, and more. Arts Plaza (401 NE Second St, Gresham), 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm.
Sunday, December 2
Chinese Brush Painting: Learn about and try Chinese brush painting. All materials provided. Woodstock Library (6008 SE 49th Ave, Portland), 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
Happy Valley Tree Lighting: Santa, horse-drawn carriage rides, holiday music, and more. Happy Valley City Hall, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Lake Oswego Millennium Concert Band will perform at Lakeridge High School Auditorium at 7:30 pm.
More free events
For more free and low-cost events, check Portland on the Cheap, PDX Pipeline, Dave Knows Portland, and the Oregonian.
For kids events, check UrbanMamas and PDX Kids Calendar.
For free concerts, see Concert Co-op.
And please check out your local library!
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The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions seeks to inform the design and implementation of federal policies that will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Drawing from its extensive peer-reviewed published works, in-house policy analyses, and tracking of current legislative proposals, the Center provides research, analysis, and recommendations to policymakers in Congress and the Executive Branch. Read More
The federal climate: A look back and ahead
A year ago, the path ahead for climate action at the federal level was murky. Congress clearly had little appetite for climate and energy legislation, and while President Obama had declared that climate change would be a priority in his second term, the details were hazy.
Heading into 2014, there is a clear direction and a credible and comprehensive plan for action. The Climate Action Plan the president announced in June outlines a wide array of steps his administration plans to take using existing authorities to reduce carbon emissions, increase energy efficiency, expand renewable and other low-carbon energy sources, and strengthen resilience to extreme weather and other climate impacts.
Given congressional paralysis, this plan is likely to be the blueprint for U.S. climate action for at least the next three years. The reaction at the United Nations climate conference last month in Warsaw showed that other countries have noticed, and are encouraged to see stronger U.S. action.
A key step in implementing the plan was the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal in September to limit carbon emissions from new power plants. Other elements of the plan that have already seen movement include:
Information technology and sustainability
Federal agencies trying to meet tougher sustainability mandates can make significant progress toward their goals by taking advantage of more efficient data storage and other information and communication technologies.
At the NextGov Prime 2013 conference, Scott Renda of the White House Office of Management and Budget and I outlined some of the ways these technologies can lead toward a greener government that saves energy – and money.
Climate change bills in the 113th Congress
The first year of the 113th Congress (2013-2014) draws to a close with no passage of climate-specific legislation, but signs that some in Congress understand the importance of addressing this issue. More bills were introduced that support climate action than oppose it. (For brevity, we refer to all legislative proposals as "bills.")
Here's a by-the-numbers look at what Congress has done so far this term explicitly referencing climate change or related terms, such as greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide:
- 131 climate-specific bills have been introduced, surpassing the 113 introduced during the entire 112th Congress (2011-2012), and perhaps on track to match the 263 of the 111th Congress (2009-2010).
- 81 of the bills (62 percent) support climate action in some way.
- 31 bills are intended to build resilience to a changing climate, compared with nine introduced in the previous Congress.
- 30 bills have bipartisan co-sponsorship. Of these, 16 support climate action in some way.
- 25 bills, five of them bipartisan, would block or hinder the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Two such bills have passed the House, though are unlikely to be passed by the Senate and signed into law.
- 12 of the bills supporting climate action were written by Republicans, while eight bills opposing climate action were written by Democrats, showing that climate issues don't always fall neatly along partisan lines.
- 7 of the 16 bipartisan bills that support climate action promote energy efficiency. The bipartisan Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill is considered to have the best chance of enactment of any energy measure in this Congress.
- 3 bills would block or hinder federal agencies from using the social cost of carbon in federal rulemaking.
- 2 bills seek to reduce short-lived climate pollutants.
Sandy Anniversary is a Reminder of the Need for Better Protections
A year after Hurricane Sandy, more work remains to be done to help families and communities fully recover. But another pressing need, not only for those who were in Sandy's wake but for all of us, is to learn from the storm's devastating impacts and reduce the risk of future damage and loss of life.
Hurricane Sandy's estimated $65 billion in damages make it the second costliest hurricane in U.S. history, surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.
Building resilience to the impacts of major coastal storms like Sandy—and to other types of extreme weather that are becoming more intense and frequent as a result of climate change—will require a commitment to better protect infrastructure and implement policies to help get people out of harm's way. Both efforts should take into account how future sea level rise can amplify storm surges, potentially making future impacts greater than what we've experienced in the past.
Proud of what we've done, but there's still more to accomplish
When I founded a new nonprofit organization 15 years ago, the United States and the world urgently needed practical solutions to our energy and climate challenges. That need has only grown more urgent.
Earlier today, I announced my plans to step aside as the President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) once my successor is on board. As I look back, I find we have come a long way. That said, any honest assessment of our progress to date in addressing one of this century's paramount challenges must conclude that we have much, much further to go.
When our organization, then named the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, first launched in 1998, 63 percent of the world's electricity generation came from fossil fuels. Incredibly, that number is even higher today – 67 percent. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, is also higher than it was then – in fact, at its highest level in more than 2 million years.
Scientists around the globe have just reaffirmed with greater certainty than ever that human activity is warming the planet and threatening to irreversibly alter our climate. Climate change is no longer a future possibility. It is a here-and-now reality. It's leading to more frequent and intense heat waves, higher sea levels, and more severe droughts, wildfires, and downpours.
We at C2ES have believed from the start that the most effective, efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and spur the innovation needed to achieve a low-carbon economy is to put a price on carbon. It's a path that a growing number of countries, states, and even cities are taking.
The new coal plant standard
With all the fuss around the EPA's proposed carbon dioxide standard for new power plants, you would be forgiven for missing the following line: "EPA projects that this proposed rule will result in negligible CO2 emission changes, quantified benefits, and costs by 2022." That's right, the standard will likely have little to no effect before the date by which EPA will be required by law to revise it.
Why? As I recently told the National Journal, because the most credible projections have natural gas so inexpensive for the next several years that very few power companies are planning to build new coal plants – compared with the 150 natural gas power plants in the works. Pulling the proposed standard wouldn't change that reality. In fact, the one coal plant being built today includes carbon capture and storage (CCS), and is expected to meet the tough carbon standard EPA has proposed. A handful of additional coal plants with CCS may move forward in the next several years, as well.
So what's all the fuss about?
Environmental Law Institute: President Obama's Climate Action Plan in the Near Term: Expectations, Risks, and Opportunities
Elliot Diringer joins Dan Utech of the Obama Administration and Jennifer Smokelin of Reed Smith LLP to discuss the president's Climate Action Plan. They will identify possible shortcomings and areas of emphasis. The panelists will also share their concerns about how the plan will be implemented and their views on risks and opportunities for businesses.
David W. Wagner, Associate, Reed Smith LLP (moderator)
Elliot Diringer, Executive Vice President, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Jennifer A. Smokelin, Counsel, Reed Smith LLP
Dan Utech, Deputy Director for Energy and Climate Change, White House Domestic Policy Council
September 30, 2013
12:00 PM to 1:15 PM ET
Environmental Law Institute
2000 L Street NW, Suite 620
Washington, DC 20036
See a video of the ELI panel on Obama's Climate Action Plan.
U.S. Department of Energy Investment in Carbon, Capture and Storage
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) oversees federal efforts to advance the deployment carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. In addition to working on the research and development of CCS component technologies, DOE has provided financial support to multiple commercial-scale CCS projects in the power and industrial sectors. This brief examines DOE's support for CCS through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and through its annual budget.
EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Power Plants
This page discusses EPA's final standards for new power plants issued on August 3rd, 2015. For a discussion of the standards for existing power plants click here.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants on August 3, 2015. The final "Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants" replaces earlier proposals from September 2013 and March 2012. It would establish New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) under the Clean Air Act to limit emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. C2ES submitted public comments in response to EPA's proposal for new power plants from September 2013, which can be found here. EPA also simultaneously released a final rule to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants.
How would the standards work?
New Source Performance Standards set limits on emissions based on EPA's assessment of available technologies. As with many other Clean Air Act programs, EPA establishes a standard for a given category of facility, which state environmental agencies then translate into requirements for individual facilities.
EPA's final "Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants" was developed under Section 111(b) of the Clean Air Act. Section 111(b) calls for a standard that "reflects the degree of emissions limitation achievable through the application of the best system of emissions reduction which (taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction and any non-air quality health and environmental impact and energy requirements) the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated." The emissions limit must take the form of a standard – in the case of power plants, maximum allowable CO2 emissions per unit of electricity – and may not prescribe a particular technology.
The Act ostensibly requires EPA to review the technological options available and, if appropriate, establish a new standard every eight years. In practice, standards have typically remained unexamined and unchanged for much longer than eight years, often because of resource constraints at EPA.
What does the standard require?
The final rule sets separate standards for new power plants fueled by natural gas and coal. New natural gas power plants can emit no more than 1,000 pounds (lbs) of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity produced, which is achievable with the latest combined cycle technology.
New coal power plants can emit no more than 1,400 lbs CO2/MWh, which almost certainly requires the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
In the power sector, CCS is in use at a commercial-scale power plant in Saskatchewan, Canada, and will be employed at two commercial-scale power projects under construction in Kemper County, Mississippi, and in Thompsons, Texas. CCS technology is also in place in several industrial facilities, some of which generate as much carbon dioxide as a commercial-scale power plant.
How is this different from the standard EPA proposed in September 2013 or March 2012?
Similar to EPA's earlier proposals, the final rule requires almost all natural gas power plants to meet an emissions standard of 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh.
In contrast to its proposed rule from September 2013, the final rule requires new coal-fired power plants to meet a less stringent emissions standard equal to 1,400 lbs CO2/MWh from the beginning of the power plant's lifetime.
Under its proposal from September 2013, EPA would have required new coal power plants to meet more stringent standards with CCS, but a power plant could choose from two different compliance options. New coal plants could either emit less than 1,100 lbs CO2/MWh upon the beginning of operations or an average of 1,000 to 1,050 lbs CO2/MWh within the first seven years of operations.
In March 2012, EPA's first proposal for limiting carbon emissions from new power plants would have subjected all new power plants to a uniform standard: 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh. Many of the public comments received by EPA on its initial proposal objected to the unprecedented use of a single standard for both coal- and natural gas-fired plants. EPA responded in its proposal from September 2013 by including a separate standard for each fuel.
What are the costs associated with the final rule?
EPA expects this standard to have negligible costs through 2022 (the intended time horizon of the standard), since very few new coal plants are planned, even without the proposed standard, and since developers of new natural gas plants should see minimal, if any, additional costs.
If a developer chooses to build a new coal plant, the proposed standards could add considerable costs to the project because it will have to employ CCS technology. Since CCS technology is just reaching commercial maturity for power plant applications, its costs are still relatively high. However, as with any new technology, costs will come down as developers gain experience and new innovations are made.
What effect is this proposal expected to have on carbon dioxide emissions?
In the near future, the final rule is expected to have very little impact on emissions because so few new coal plants would likely be built even without the standard. Nearly all new fossil-fuel power plants in the planning stages will be fueled by natural gas, using generation technology that complies with EPA's final standards without any alterations. Power plant developers already have strong incentive to use the most efficient technology to maximize the amount of electricity that can be generated from each unit of fuel.
If a developer chooses to build a new coal plant, the requirement that the plant install CCS technology will drastically reduce its emissions. Increased deployment of CCS technology at power plants will very likely drive CCS costs down and make it a more viable option at other new coal plants. Through experience and innovation, CCS costs may come down enough to be viable on new natural gas power plants, or as retrofits on existing coal plants, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector even further.
What can power plants do to reduce emissions?
New natural gas plants can reach the final CO2 standard by employing efficient generation technology. In older steam turbine plants, natural gas is combusted to heat water, which creates steam to turn a turbine and generate electricity. These plants have thermal efficiencies of 30-35 percent, meaning about one third of the chemical energy stored in natural gas is converted to electricity. In contrast, new combined cycle combustion turbines more effectively take advantage of the energy in natural gas to operate with a thermal efficiency above 60 percent.
New coal plants, on the other hand, cannot achieve the final standard through efficiency alone. The most efficient type of coal plants, using ultra-supercritical boilers or integrated gasification combined cycle technology, can currently achieve a CO2 emission rate of around 1,700 lbs/MWh.
Thus, new coal plants can only meet a standard of 1,400 lbs CO2/MWh through the use of CCS, which can capture a significant portion of a power plant's potential emissions. CCS is a multi-stage process in which potential CO2 emissions are captured from a power plant instead of vented into the atmosphere. Captured CO2 is transported via pipeline and injected into an underground geological formation for permanent storage. EPA has established certain regulatory requirements for demonstrating the permanent underground storage of CO2. Certain proposed CCS power plants are aiming to capture nearly 90 percent of potential emissions, which translates into an emissions rate of potentially less than 500 lbs CO2/MWh.
If new coal plants must use carbon capture and storage technology, what will that mean for the future of coal? How far along is CCS technology?
Even if EPA were not moving forward with this standard, very few new coal plants would likely be built, in large part because of the availability of affordable natural gas. The Energy Information Administration lists only four potential coal plants between now and 2018, compared with more than 200 expected natural gas plants.
Today, there are 13 active commercial-scale CCS projects at industrial plants around the world (eight of them in the United States). The world's first commercial-scale CCS power plant – the Boundary Dam Power Station in Saskatchewan, Canada – has been in operation since late 2014. Two additional commercial-scale power plants with CCS are under construction. Southern Company's Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi is expected to come online in late 2015 or early 2016, while NRG Energy's Petra Nova project in Texas is expected to come online in 2017. All three projects are coal-fired.
Approximately 50 additional commercial-scale CCS projects in the power and industrial sectors are in various stages of development around the world. Learn more about the status of CCS technology here.
How would existing state policies, such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, be affected?
The final rule for new power plants would likely be layered on top of existing state programs. For example, a new plant operating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) territory would have to achieve the final federal standard, and would also have to submit tradable emission allowances annually to comply with the requirements of RGGI.
How does the final rule relate to EPA's work on a standard for existing power plants?
Section 111 of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants under two separate but related provisions. Section 111(b) requires EPA to set emission performance standards for new, modified, and reconstructed power plants, while Section 111(d) requires EPA to set guidelines for existing power plants. The guidelines for existing power plants cannot be finalized until a final standard is in place for new power plants.
Section 111(b) vests relatively more authority in EPA, and is more straightforward. EPA is required to find emission-reduction technology that has been adequately demonstrated and use this to set federal, numerical performance standards that new power plants must meet. These Section 111(b) standards are implemented by the states, as are most EPA air rules, but states do not have much flexibility to alter the standards set by EPA. On the other hand, under Section 111(d), states have greater flexibility in how they implement the EPA standard. For instance, Section 111(d) allows for the possibility of market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions system-wide, rather than focusing on individual power plants.
Under what authority is EPA regulating greenhouse gas emissions?
EPA is required by the Clean Air Act to develop and enforce regulations on greenhouse gases, much in the way it regulates other air pollutants. This authority was clarified in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007). The decision was a result of 12 states petitioning EPA to regulate greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles in 1999. The Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases meet the definition of air pollutants under the Clean Air Act and must be regulated if these gases could be reasonably anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. Responding to the Court's ruling, EPA finalized an endangerment finding in December 2009. Based on overwhelming scientific evidence it found that six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, constitute a threat to public health and welfare. Thus, it is the Supreme Court's interpretation of the existing Act and EPA's assessment of the scientific evidence that form the basis for EPA's regulatory actions.
Once any substance becomes a regulated pollutant under the Clean Air Act, certain other provisions of the Act automatically kick in. Greenhouse gases first became regulated under the Act with EPA's rule setting new standards for light-duty vehicles. This, in turn, triggered the requirement that major new or modified stationary sources be subject to a handful of Clean Air Act provisions, including Section 111(b).
Has EPA regulated greenhouse gas emissions before?
Yes. In addition to its existing greenhouse gas standards for new light duty vehicles, EPA regulates greenhouse gas emissions from new, large stationary sources through a process called New Source Review (NSR). If a new emissions source, including a power plant, will emit above a certain threshold, it must acquire a permit to emit greenhouse gas. This permit will include a requirement that the source employ the Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to ensure it will take all feasible steps available to limit greenhouse gas emissions. BACT is set on a source-specific basis, and so far EPA has determined BACT for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants to be efficiency improvements. Once EPA's proposed NSPS is finalized, new power plants will have to comply with both this NSPS and NSR, as well as other permitting requirements already in place.
Why is regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants important?
Electric power generation is responsible for about 40 percent of U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas.
Figure 1: 2013 U.S. CO2 Emissions
Source: Energy Information Administration
Since the federal government adopted new vehicle standards in August 2012 to reduce transportation-related emissions, the power sector represents the next opportunity to achieve significant carbon reductions.
Coal and natural gas are used to fuel around two-thirds of U.S. electricity generation, and are responsible for nearly 100 percent of power sector CO2 emissions. As shown in Figure 2, the United States currently obtains 30 percent of its electricity from natural gas. Since 2000, however, natural gas has accounted for over 90 percent of new fossil generation capacity, and most new generation planned for the next few years will be fueled by natural gas.
Figure 2: 2012 U.S. Electricity Generation
Source: Energy Information Administration
Figure 3: Proposed U.S. Fossil Generation Capacity
Source: Energy Information Administration
Congressional Testimony of Judi Greenwald on the Future of Coal: Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Testimony of Judi Greenwald, Vice President for Technology and Innovation
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Subcommittee on Energy
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
U.S. House of Representatives
July 25, 2013
Click here to view video of the testimony.
Hearing on The Future of Coal: Utilizing America's Abundant Energy Resources
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Madam Chairman, Rep. Swalwell, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on carbon capture, utilization, and storage. My name is Judi Greenwald, and I am Vice President for Technology and Innovation at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES – formerly known as the Pew Center on Global Climate Change).
My testimony today will focus on the most important climate and energy solution that no one knows about. I will emphasize two main points:
- Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a critical technology for solving climate change, while allowing continued reliance on fossil fuels.
- Carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) can advance CCS, while boosting domestic oil production and generating net federal revenue.
C2ES is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing practical and effective policies and actions to address our global climate change and energy challenges. We perform multifaceted research and analysis of the scientific, technological, economic, and policy aspects of these issues. Our work is informed by our Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), a group of 34 major companies, most in the Fortune 500, that work with C2ES on climate change and energy risks, challenges, and solutions. The views I am expressing, however, are those of C2ES alone.
C2ES has been analyzing CCS for over a decade and has recently focused on how CO2-EOR can advance CCS. With the Great Plains Institute, C2ES co-convenes the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative, or NEORI, a coalition of businesses, environmental NGOs, labor representatives, and state officials advocating for incentives to use captured CO2 in EOR. You can find more information on NEORI at www.neori.org. I would like to submit NEORI's CO2-EOR analysis and consensus recommendations for the record. In addition, C2ES serves as the advisor and facilitator to the Sequestration Working Group of the North America 2050 Initiative, a collaborative of states and provinces exploring options for CCS regulations and incentives. C2ES recently completed a summary of state-level regulations and incentives that can be found at www.na2050.org/sequestration.[1]
C2ES also has authored research and publications related to CCS and CO2-EOR. For example, C2ES developed a comprehensive framework for calculating CO2 emissions from CCS based on input from experts in industry, academia, and the environmental community.[2] C2ES also publishes a CCS Climate TechBook,[3] a brief report that explains in layman's terms how CCS technology works, why its development is needed to address climate change, and how it might be advanced.
CCS is a critically important technology
The United States and the rest of the world are getting 80 percent of our energy from coal, oil and gas, and our dependence on, and overall use of, these fossil fuels globally is growing rapidly. Under a business-as-usual scenario, the Energy Information Administration expects fossil fuels will continue to provide more than 65 percent of U.S. electricity in 2040 – with 35 percent coming from coal-fired generation. Globally, coal consumption is expected to increase nearly 60 percent over the next two decades, led by developing countries like China and India, which together will comprise 62 percent of the total global coal demand in 2035. This poses an enormous challenge, because the CO2 emissions from the combustion of these fossil fuels are the major contributor to global climate change. While we can and should become more energy-efficient and shift our energy mix toward inherently zero-emitting sources like nuclear power and renewables, it will be difficult to do that fast enough and at a reasonable enough cost to avoid the worst climate impacts.
Hence the critical need for CCS, a suite of technologies that captures CO2 and stores it deep underground in geological formations. CCS can capture up to 90 percent of emissions from stationary sources, such as power plants and industrial facilities, thereby allowing coal and natural gas to remain part of our energy mix. The International Energy Agency (IEA) and others have demonstrated through detailed technology and economic scenario analyses that CCS is likely an essential component of an affordable and effective response to global climate change. In fact, IEA estimates that CCS could provide one-sixth of the requisite GHG emissions reductions by 2050.
What is needed to advance CCS?
CCS has been established and commercialized for the capture of CO2 from some industrial processes such as natural gas processing, chemical, fertilizer and ethanol production, and the gasification of coal. The use of man-made CO2 in EOR has been practiced for several decades. However, CCS in other contexts – for example, coal- and natural gas-powered electricity generation – is a relatively expensive technology that is just reaching maturity. Further R&D is important, but the key challenge for CCS is to get a sufficient number of commercial-scale projects up and running to demonstrate the emerging technologies at scale and bring down their costs. The first large-scale commercial CCS power projects are under construction. Yet, it is still unclear whether more commercial-scale CCS projects will be built after these initial projects are completed. After the collapse of climate legislation in the United States in 2010, a number of CCS projects were cancelled.
CCS is being increasingly thought of as carbon capture utilization and storage, or CCUS. Instead of seeing CO2 as a waste, utilizing and selling captured CO2, primarily for EOR, improves the economics of CCS projects and is an important market driver. Almost all of the existing or planned CO2 capture projects in the United States have been developed with the intention of marketing captured CO2 for use in EOR. Still, in many cases, additional drivers are needed. Those projects operating or underway today are being financed though some combination of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grants, utility cost recovery from ratepayers, private finance, sales of CO2 for EOR, other revenue streams from chemical production, and existing tax credits.
DOE's role in CCS development has been and will remain critical. DOE is working with the private sector on the leading innovative CCS projects in the United States today. This collaboration is beginning to yield results. In late 2012, the DOE-supported Air Products' Port Arthur CCS project, where CO2 is captured from refinery-based hydrogen production and sent for use in EOR, began operations. Through its Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) Program and with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), DOE agreed to fund $284 million of the Port Arthur project's $430 million total investment cost. The Port Arthur project is expected to capture up to 1 million tons of CO2 per year and enable EOR production of 1.6 million to 3.1 million barrels of domestic oil a year in East Texas.
DOE is also working on applying CCS to the power sector. Southern Company's coal-fueled Kemper County energy facility in Mississippi is now under construction and will be the first commercial-scale CCS power project in the United States. DOE selected the Kemper project to receive more than $290 million through its Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). A later round of the CCPI made possible through ARRA funding selected three additional coal-fired CCS power projects for funding. They are Summit Power's Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), NRG Energy's Washington Parish Project, and SCS Energy's Hydrogen Energy California project. TCEP is nearing financial close and, when completed, will capture 90 percent of its emissions and supply approximately 2.5 million tons of CO2 for use in EOR.
Given the high costs and uncertainties of CCS investment for the private sector and the urgent need for CCS, it is extremely important that the federal government continue to support CCS research, development, demonstration, and deployment. Beyond DOE's pivotal role, other forms of federal financial support, such as tax credits, should be reformed and expanded. States too can play a key role in advancing CCS through incentives and well-informed regulation.
Background on CO2-EOR
CO2-EOR is a means of commercial oil production that could play a key role in the development of CCS and in increasing our domestic energy security. CO2-EOR has the potential to increase American oil production by tens of billions of barrels, while displacing imported oil and safely storing billions of tons of CO2 underground.
How does CO2-EOR work? Even after conventional primary and secondary oil recovery, most of the oil in a typical oil field is left in the ground. When injected deep underground, CO2 can make it possible to recover more oil and extend an oil field's life. The best available evidence indicates that by using best EOR industry practice and existing rules governing underground injection, the overwhelming majority of the injected CO2 remains underground, incidentally and safely storing CO2. Commercial injection of CO2 for EOR is regulated under EPA's Underground Injection Control Program, and under current federal greenhouse gas reporting rules for air emissions, EOR operators may document this incidental CO2 storage through additional monitoring, reporting, and verification requirements to qualify as geologic sequestration. There is a range of views as to what additional state or federal rules are needed to ensure that CO2 is stored permanently.
The United States has been a global leader in CO2-EOR for 40 years. We currently obtain six percent of our domestic oil production through this method. While most CO2-EOR activity occurs in the Permian Basin of Texas, there are also projects in the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountains, Oklahoma, and even Michigan. Estimates of the potential for CO2-EOR to increase oil production and store CO2 have been increasing in recent years. According to the National Energy Technology Lab, using existing techniques, CO2-EOR could double or triple U.S. oil reserves and store 10 to 20 billion tons of CO2, which is equivalent to between five and 10 years of emissions from all U.S. coal-fired power plants. More advanced techniques could yield much higher oil production and CO2 storage.
The key role of CO2-EOR in advancing CCS
For those CO2 capture technologies that have not reached full commercialization, especially in electric power generation, selling captured CO2 for use in EOR can provide a revenue stream that helps reduce the financial risks and uncertainty of investing in emerging technology. About 75 percent of the CO2 used in EOR currently comes from naturally occurring CO2 reservoirs. The rest comes from man-made CO2 sources. Somewhat oddly, the EOR market lacks sufficient CO2. By expanding carbon capture from man-made sources, we can increase domestic oil production, promote economic development, create jobs, reduce CO2 emissions, and drive innovation in CCS technology.
It is because of these multiple benefits that we have been able to bring together the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative, or NEORI, a diverse coalition favoring the reform and expansion of existing tax incentives to use captured CO2 in EOR. Among the members of NEORI are Arch Coal, Summit Power, Tenaska, the Natural Resources Defense Council, AFL-CIO, and The Wyoming Outdoor Council. Some of NEORI's participants are primarily interested in job creation, others in increasing domestic oil production, and others in protecting the environment. But all agree that advancing the capture of man-made CO2 for use in EOR makes sense. NEORI has been briefing members on both sides of the aisle in both houses of Congress on its proposals.
EOR operators in some regions are willing to pay upwards of $30 per ton for CO2. At the same time, industrial facilities and power plants are emitting billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere as a waste. CO2-EOR therefore offers the opportunity to transform this waste into a marketable commodity and transform an environmental problem into an energy production solution.
In a few cases, revenue from selling CO2 for enhanced oil recovery is sufficient to pay for CO2 capture and transport. Thanks to the efforts of the private sector and DOE, many CO2 capture technologies are already commercially proven, and only a modest incentive is needed to help close the gap between the market price of CO2 and the costs to capture and transport it. In the case of emerging technologies, however, companies need a larger incentive to help shoulder the additional financial and operational risk of deploying new, pioneering capture projects for the first few times at a commercial scale.
By combining private EOR operators' willingness to pay for CO2 with a tax incentive, society leverages its public investment. Perhaps most importantly, according to our analysis, such tax incentives would more than pay for themselves by driving increased domestic oil production and associated taxable oil revenues. Increased CO2-EOR production will generate federal revenue that more than pays for the cost of new incentives within a 10-year timeframe. Under existing tax treatment, CO2-EOR directly yields revenues from three main sources: corporate income taxes, individual income taxes on royalties from production on private land, and royalties from production on federal land. Our analysis indicates that federal revenues from incremental CO2-EOR production would exceed the fiscal cost of new incentives by more than $100 billion over 40 years.
CCS is a critical technology for reconciling our continued dependence on fossil fuels with the imperative to protect the global climate. Our best hope at the moment for CCS advancement is carbon capture, utilization, and storage, or CCUS. The best example of CO2 utilization we know of is enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR). Solving our climate and energy problems will require a portfolio of technologies, and all must be pursued vigorously. But we are focusing here today on CO2-EOR, because it is the most important climate and energy solution that no one knows about.
[1] http://na2050.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/NA2050_State_Policy_Actions_to_Overcome_Barriers_to_CCS_and_CO2-EOR.pdf
[2] http://www.c2es.org/publications/greenhouse-gas-accounting-framework-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects


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I'm feeling my weekend of less-than-stellar meals this morning. Actually, I started feeling them Saturday morning when I woke up with puffy eyes and generally feeling off. I was out of town, and while we thought we were choosing good restaurants to dine in, we were wrong. Friday night's dinner was particularly bad, both in taste and quality. Saturday's lunch was, well, awful. At least Saturday night's dinner was just mediocre. Sunday was a step up, but I'm glad to get back to my usual eating routine today.
Many people would describe my eating routine as clean eating. It's a term that's got a lot of confusion surrounding it these days.
So that gets us to the question posed in the title of this post. If it's defined the way I think about it, "clean eating" isn't just another diet that classifies foods as good or bad. As I discuss in "Clean Eating: Just Another Weight Loss Diet Fad?", it's about whole foods eaten in a balanced proportion.
But I add a twist that's not often in the definition. I think it's about food that tastes great, too. For me, eating well is about enjoyment as much as how it makes me feel. Can we really separate the two things?
The above post talks about my definition of clean eating in more detail but here's a short list of what I see as the benefits.
Clean eating:
- helps you start each day with enthusiasm and energy.
- makes you look forward to feeling hungry and satisfying that hunger with good-tasting foods that make you feel great as you eat them and after.
- changes what you want to eat so there's no push-pull when it comes to making decisions about food.
- helps re-balance your body, including your metabolism and ultimately your muscle/fat ratio.
- reduces risk for chronic illness such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome and more.
Be sure to read down to the section in the post titled "There's Still Room for Ice Cream". The title says it all. And that's a relief to many of us who are struggling with diet deprivation. Clean eating really doesn't mean giving up foods; it just means focusing on the quality of the foods we eat.
So as I write this post, I'm sipping tea and wrapping my mind around taking a walk before I get going on all the work on my plate today. I've never been one to go along with fads so while clean eating may sound like one, I'm sure glad I've found a definition I can live with.
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Sorry for the very long post, but I've been storing this up for a while.
My husband has ADHD, while I have the inattentive type. I've tried to become more aware of my habits in social situations, like interrupting, talking too loudly, and going off on rabbit trails. I think some of it has to do with anxiety as much as ADD. Even though I'm an introvert, certain situations bring out these behaviors.
My husband seems clueless about his own socially awkward habits. They seem to get worse around men; he has no real male friends. For instance, at parties or dinners out with work friends he'll pull out his phone and start showing funny pictures or videos to the point that it's interfering with conversation, and it's obvious to me that no one is interested and they're just trying to be polite. He doesn't seem to get that people want to interact with each other and not stare at a screen.
Another thing he does is laugh at inappropriate times, at things that aren't funny, usually after something he says. It's like a nervous tic, as if to cushion what he is saying or as if his laughing will make the other person laugh. Instead you are in the position to laugh with him in a fake way to avoid awkwardness, or stay straight-faced and feel awkward. Sometimes when I try this, he asks me what's wrong. I want to say, "You didn't say anything funny. Why should I laugh?" It's exhausting at times.
He also gets into a kind of one-upsmanship with other men. He might tell a story, and when the conversation moves on to another person's related story, instead of responding politely and showing interest, he'll keep dragging the conversation back to his own story to add details or exaggerate some point he made, as if his experience was funnier/weirder/better. If the other person pauses for a split second to take a breath, he interrupts. He does this to me sometimes, and it's really annoying because I often lose my train of thought entirely, so I tend to call him on it. But in social situations I don't want to embarrass him. I always feel on edge trying to tell a story or listen to someone else tell one because I'm afraid he'll interrupt before they (or I) can finish. He seems to have a hard time listening to other people, participating in a conversation, and just going with the flow. He also seems to get wrapped up in impressing people with anecdotes or knowledge and getting a big reaction, so there's no room to just listen, relax, and BE. I can relate to the social anxiety but over the years I have learned how to show interest and listen, and he says I'm really good at that.
Sometimes this behavior is so embarrassing that I've had to leave the room. I don't want to embarrass him in front of others by saying something then and there, and I don't know how to approach it later without shaming him because he can be sensitive and defensive. He also completely forgets what he said or did and will argue about it, so bringing it up later can be pointless. (I also have difficulty with confrontation.)
He has told me that he does have some anxiety in social situations, like at parties, and he's always ready to leave before I am. In some situations he will hardly say two words (like with my family).
I'm sure a lot of this has to do with anxiety and not being able to just relax and let people get to know him for him. I love him and he has lots of wonderful ideas and qualities, and if he could overcome some of this I think he could make friends more easily. As it is we have very few friends, and I've seen him get pushed to the margins of social groups many times. He had no friends at his last job - acquaintances who were friendly, but not friends. Meanwhile everyone else was going out together, going camping, etc. He felt very excluded.
He has encouraged me to talk about anything that bothers me and has helped me a lot in overcoming my fear of confrontation. But I don't know how to talk to him about this. If he could work on these things it would help both of us. The lack of socializing on his part is making me crazy. I feel claustrophobic when he has no one else to hang out with but me, and bad for him. We need our own social lives.
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Adamm's Deli is a family business proudly owned and operated by Bill and Adamm Houck, father and son. The restaurant opened for business in 2007, with a goal to provide delicious, comfort food, quickly and courteously, as an alternative to usual, fast food.
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The aubergine is described both as the shah of vegetables and the meat of the poor, since due to its flavour and versatility it is the vegetable prized above all others in Turkish cuisine. Particularly in the summer months its privileged status is unrivalled, both in regional cooking and in the haute cuisine of the cities. Nearly two hundred different dishes, including pickles and even jam, are made from aubergines. In the past when the aubergine season arrived the constant frying and broiling of aubergines was held responsible for many of the fires which spread through Istanbul's neighbourhoods of wooden houses like a whirlwind in dry weather, and edicts were issued forbidding aubergines to be brought into Istanbul for sale.
India is generally thought to be the original
homeland of the aubergine, which is an annual
herbaceous plant in temperate climes and a perennial
in tropical regions. There are scores of cultivated
varieties, the most common grown in Turkey being
the kemer patlican which is curved and slender
in shape, 20 cm long, dark purple in colour
and has few seeds; the Halkapinar patlican,
which tapers to a point, is not as glossy, and
has soft flesh; the bostan patlican, which is
globular, either dark purple or mottled, and
firm-fleshed; and the kirmasti patlican, which
is 12-17 cm in length and dark purple.
Medical history is also full of references to
aubergines, which were used to treat poor appetite,
indigestion, clogged arteries, haemorrhoids,
eye diseases and melancholy.
Turkey's Aegean, Mediterranean and southeast
Anatolian cuisines are where aubergine dishes
reign supreme, and in the province of Gaziantep
in southeast Anatolia aubergine dishes almost
form a cuisine of their own, outdoing even the
ubiquitous tomato in levels of consumption.
So that this favourite vegetable is available
at every time of year, aubergines are dried
for winter use, and strings of aubergines like
purple necklaces can be seen hung on house walls
throughout the province. Before drying they
are either cut in half and hollowed out for
stuffing, or cut into cubes for other dishes.
dish known as sikilmihsi (a corruption of seyh'l-muhsi,
meaning the wise man of stuffed food) which
is recorded in an 18th-century cookery book,
and all the many other distinctive aubergine
dishes are the pride of Gaziantep cuisine.
* Ömer Faruk Serifoglu is a freelance writer.


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If you like to keep your social persona consistent with the same user names a profile pictures across the board, YouTube and Google have just made things a whole lot easier for you. Yesterday they added a new YouTube feature that allows users to sign up for a new YouTube channel using their existing Google+ profile.
What does this mean? Produce manager Trevor O'Brien explains on the YouTube blog, "You can now use your Google+ profile name and photo on a new YouTube channel, giving you one consistent identity across platforms when uploading videos, sharing, commenting and other public activities."
According to the blog post, if you have a Google+ profile and you sign up to create a new YouTube channel you'll see the following screen. You can click 'OK, I'm ready to continue' and the new account will be ready to go.
Note that if you want to create a YouTube channel that is not tied to your Google+ profile and you are getting this screen you can click the 'Create a username' link to create a YouTube channel as usual.
Unfortunately, it looks like if you already have a YouTube channel that uses the same email address as the one tied to your Google+ account you won't be able to connect your channel to Google+ at this time. However, O'Brien writes, "If you already have a YouTube channel and want to connect it to your Google+ profile—stay tuned. We'll be following feedback on this update and hope to add more features that bring the best of Google+ into YouTube."
What Google+ features would you like to see incorporated into YouTube?
Megan O'Neill is the resident web video enthusiast here at Social Times. Megan covers everything from the latest viral videos to online video news and tips, and has a passion for bizarre, original and revolutionary content and ideas.


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This article could be considered game mechanics. -- Riffsyphon1024 04:06, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Right, the Databank article for the launcher doesn't mention that they need special droids to use them. -LtNOWIS 04:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Separatist Assault Droid Edit
This article is literally the same as Separatist assault droid. They should be merged or this should be deleted.Hntr.peters 16:27, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Revenge of the Sith Edit
I noticed that there's a droid troopers with a heavy gun in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (video game). Are they these Assault battle droids?--Kreivi Wolter 08:17, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
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in Star wars: the Clone Wars game, one battle has several assualt droids...--22.214.171.124 02:03, February 13, 2010 (UTC)


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By Paul Virgo
ROME, May 24 (Reuters) - Goals by Philippe Mexes and Simone Perrotta gave AS Roma a 2-1 win over Serie A champions Inter Milan in the Italian Cup final on Saturday.
Roma retained the trophy and gained some revenge for missing out on the league title after French defender Mexes glided unmarked into the area to smack a David Pizarro corner into the net in the 35th minute.
Italy midfielder Simone Perrotta scored after a one-two with Montenegro forward Mirko Vucinic to double Roma's lead in the 53rd minute.
Inter's Portuguese midfielder Pele, on as a substitute, pulled a goal back just before the hour with a remarkable shot from 25 metres.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano handed the trophy to Roma captain Francesco Totti, who was unable to play because of injury.
"We shared this festival with our wonderful fans," Roma coach Luciano Spalletti told a news conference.
"We didn't need this victory to show that we are not much inferior to Inter. I told the lads before the game that they had done a great championship and they had the chance to make it really great."
Roma surged forward in the opening period and Perrotta had a powerful strike deflected away from goal.
Roma continued to create more danger and it took desperate defending from Cristian Chivu to deny Perrotta from close range.
Brazilian Doni produced a fine save to keep out a right-footed strike from outside the area by Brazilian defender Maxwell in the 25th but Roma were soon back on the offensive.
Vucinic could not quite get enough boot on a Marco Cassetti cross before Mexes struck.
Roma looked sharper after the break too and extended the advantage through Perrotta, although Inter protested that Cassetti committed a foul earlier in the move.
Nicolas Burdisso almost equalised four minutes after Pele's goal when the Argentine defender hit the post with a header.
Otherwise Roma hung on without too much trouble to gain revenge for finishing runners-up to Inter in the league for the second year on the trot. They also equalled Juventus's record of nine Italian Cup victories.
"You can lose a match or win, it's down to a detail," Spaletti said. "Look at what happened between Chelsea and Manchester United. (They say that) because someone slipped the coach is worth nothing, the players have failed again this year. We have to change this way of thinking."
Saturday's match was the fourth successive Cup final between the teams. Roma beat Inter 7-4 on aggregate last season when it was contested over two legs and Inter won the previous two years.
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I have to say that this weekend was a eye opening and life changing experience. Before the 1 on 1 with Fader I attended the seminar with Future who is also an amazing instructor. Fader and I went through and broke down each part of day game and how it differs from night game. We also covered the psychological thinking we go through and the thought process of the set you are interacting with.
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Fader put a lot of emphasis on approaching life with a play to win mentality and to be a value giver, not a value taker. It was incredible to see the way Fader interacts with other people and the positive reactions he gave off and received.
The biggest thing I took from this experience was realizing that I am the prize and that I'm somebody people want to be around and how thats the vibe you have to give off to the women you meet and interact with and if they don't like it all you have to say to yourself is "her lose... next". This weekend was not just an insight into day game but was also a spiritually enlightening experience. Fader is truly a master of his craft.
Thanks alot man. This is a really really great review. I appreciate it. Remember, you just have to warm up a bit to get in social mode, say hello, hi, get use to making eye contact and greeting strangers who make eye contact with you. Once you brain sees positivity from the interactions you will get more confident and be able to actually do real deal cold approaches.
Work on the openers and the stories i sent you. You're going to be fine. By the time you start night game you will already be dominating.View Full Profile: Click Here 200 + Reviews (Most In Company History): http://www.theattractionforums.com/t...iew_fader.html (watch my journey from student to approach coach, to instructor, to master instructor, to stripper destroyer).
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A very muted reaction from equity markets to what were undoubtedly disappointing payroll numbers on Friday with the Dow closing down just 21 on Friday after a positive week that fall could have been considerably more. Asia much the same with the Nikkei off 69 and the Hang Seng down just 1.
Regarding those US Payrolls numbers Friday, the massive layoffs by state and local governments took most of the headlines but within the numbers there are more reasons for concern. Temporary employment fell considerably and layoffs in residential construction and real estate would suggest the double dip in the housing market is well under way. Overall it is very hard to see the consumer coming back soon and consumption growth is unlikely to offset the fading fiscal stimulus in the second half of the year. The house of the giant vampire squid, Goldman Sachs have cut their forecasts for growth in both the US and Japan citing stimulus boosts waning. In 2011 they forecast growth for Japan at 1.4% compared to 1.7% originally and for the US they revise down to 1.9% from 2.5% originally.
Today's Market Moving Stories
- Bank stress tests have shown that as much as 20% of loans by China's commercial banks to state owned enterprises (SOEs) could go bad, Market Watch reported, citing a report in Japan's Nikkei newspaper. Nikkei quoted an unnamed China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) official as saying 20% of all outstanding loans to SOEs failed to meet lending requirements, though they could not yet be considered non-performing. Earlier, the CBRC said that non-performing loans had risen to US$67.2bn by the end of June. Official figures may understate the problem: Ratings agency Fitch has warned that Chinese credit data is distorted by informal exposure. "securitization of bank loans, which results "in pervasive understatement of credit growth and credit.
- President Barack Obama's top energy adviser said Sunday that BP will pay a "large financial penalty" for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster but refused to say if criminal negligence charges will be pursued. With the ruptured Macondo well all but dead on the ocean floor as engineers shut the well for good, BP is shifting toward recovery operations, including cleaning hundreds of miles of shoreline and restoring the economic health of the region. Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, stressed that the British energy giant was on the hook for billions of dollars in penalties for the largest unintentional oil spill in petroleum industry history. "BP will be held absolutely accountable," Browner told NBC's "Meet the Press" program. "There will be a large financial penalty."
- The WSJ reports that European equities may have rebounded as sovereign fears eased. But most major indexes remain down for the year. And with many companies increasing dividends, European stocks offer juicy yields now higher than those on government bonds for only the third time in 30 years. On the past two occasions, in early 2003 and 2009, that heralded an equity rally. But although equity markets are below long term price to book ratios, analysts are cautious about forecasting big gains, noting an uncertain growth outlook. That is good news for income investors. This year, European equities will yield 4.1%, UBS says, almost twice U.S. That is above the 3.3% yield on AA rated corporate bonds and the weighted average 3.6% on 10 year bonds from 11 euro zone countries. True, dividends can be cut. They have been by some 40% since 2008, versus cuts of less than 30% in the past three recessions. Cancelling BP's dividend in June took 12% off forecasts for U.K. companies' second quarter payments, notes Capita Registrars, and corporate earnings could disappoint: UBS forecasts of 24% European earnings growth in 2010 and 10% in 2011 compare with a 7% longrun average. But corporate cash balances are near all time highs. Even though companies are slowly returning to the acquisition trail, payouts look sustainable. Dividend cover at 1.6 times free cash-flow is in line with a 10 year average. Although dividend payments from banks, typically around a quarter of Europe's highest yielding stocks, are still disappointing, the telecom, utilities and energy sectors all are yielding a respectable 5% to 6%, J.P Morgan says. Investors should take note.
- The FT reports that the Federal Reserve is set to downgrade its assessment of US economic prospects when it meets on Tuesday to discuss ways to reboot the flagging recovery. Faced with weak economic data and rising fears of a double dip recession, the Federal Open Market Committee is likely to ensure its policy is not constraining growth and to use its statement to signal greater concern about the economy. It is, however, unlikely to agree big new steps to boost growth. Smaller measures to help the economy could initially take the form of a decision to reinvest proceeds from maturing mortgage backed securities held by the US central bank, thereby preventing the Fed's balance sheet from shrinking naturally. Investors will also examine closely any changes to the pledge made by the FOMC in June to "employ its policy tools as necessary to promote economic recovery and price stability", which could be hardened if policymakers choose to signal the potential for more aggressive move to boost the economy in the future, but even if that happens, most economists believe that it would take several more months of poor data for the Fed to actually begin a new round of asset purchases on the scale of those carried out during the recession. In congressional testimony last month, Ben Bernanke noted "unusual uncertainty" in the economic outlook and in a speech last week the Fed chairman warned of a "considerable way to go" before the US achieves a full recovery. Although Fed policymakers still believe the basic trajectory of the economy remains one of moderate expansion, there may be more attention given to heightened dangers of a sharp slowdown.
- The highly influential and respected Ifo research institute in Munich expects the German economy to cool from the third quarter after the strong economic data recently, German daily Handelsblatt reports over the weekend. It cites Kai Carstensen, the director of Ifo's business surveys as saying that the strong dynamics should lose some steam in the second half of the year.
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The Financial Regulator has confirmed that the year end deadline for AIB to raise €7.4bn is not to be extended. However, if disposals are confirmed, the Regulator will be "reasonable" when accounting for delays due to regulatory approval for deals. The comments, reported in the Tribune, come after Managing Director of AIB, Colm Doherty, said he hoped the regulator would be "rational" if the bank were to experience delays in the asset disposal process. Doherty said that AIB may have to raise over €3bn after asset disposals, to meet the Regulator's capital targets.
A radical reorganisation of the Ulster Bank loan book will see almost €6.3bn of property loans on the Irish portfolio swapped into its non core unit, according to reports. €6bn of residential home loans will move into back into core Ulster Bank, leaving €22bn of loans in the non core operations, and stemming potential future losses in the Irish operations. RBS has already invested €2.6bn in new capital into Ulster Bank since the banking crisis began according to the Sunday Times. Ulster reported last week that 4.8% of its mortgage book was in arrears, with a further 3% in forbearance. Separately, Bank of Scotland Ireland reported last week that 90% of its €6bn property development loan book was impaired, while 46% of its €7.3bn investment property loan book was impaired. Lloyds (NYSE:LYG) has injected €4.5bn in capital, since the crisis hit the €32bn Irish loan book, of which 44% is now impaired.
The decision on Anglo Irish Bank "good bank/ bad bank" concept and its strategic future is expected from the EU in September. According to the Tribune, the failure to get approval for Anglo Irish Bank new structure may impact on the calculation of Irish national debt by Eurostat, if the bank is not seen as a going concern.
JC Flowers are reported to be preparing to lodge a bid for EBS, ahead of tomorrow's deadline according to press reports over the weekend. The private equity group will join Irish Life & Permanent (OTCPK:ILPMF) and Carlyle Group (OTC:CARYK) as potential acquirers according to the Sunday Independent.
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- Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) and Lloyds have been told by the Bank of England that they could be penalized by the European Union if the special funding program begun in the financial crisis were to be extended, the Times reported without saying where it got the information. An extension would break EU rules, in the bank's opinion, because it would mainly assist the two state-controlled banks and not the entire banking sector, the Times said. Many financial industry observers have said the central bank will have to lengthen the program, called the Special Liquidity Scheme, because banks continue to find it difficult to fund themselves, and they disagree with the Bank of England's argument that it would incur EU problems, the newspaper said.
- The sudden departure of Hewlett- Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd leaves the company in search of a successor who can integrate more than $20bn in acquisitions and maintain sales growth. Hurd resigned after an investigation found he had a personal relationship with a contractor who received numerous inappropriate payments from the company. His exit will force a fresh CEO to follow through on a half-finished expansion into new businesses ranging from smartphones to networking gear.
- Bloomberg reports that GDF Suez (GDFZY.PK) and International Power (OTC:IPRPY) are close to agreeing on a transaction that would have France's second largest utility take control of the British company with interests in more than 45 power stations, according to two people familiar with the matter. GDF Suez will pay International Power shareholders a special dividend of about £1.3bn as part of the deal, and GDF will control about two thirds of the enlarged company, said one of the people, who declined to be identified as the talks are private. While the companies are trying to reach a deal before both report earnings on Aug. 10, there's a chance an agreement won't be reached.
- In related news an alliance comprising a parliamentary group, southern states of Germany and the German economics ministry favour extending the life span of German nuclear power plants by 14 years on average, German magazine Der Spiegel reports over the weekend, without citing sources. German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen, however, wants shorter extensions, the report adds. Joachim Pfeiffer, lawmaker and economic spokesman for the ruling conservative parties' parliamentary group in the lower house, tells Der Spiegel "Roettgen should acknowledge that the majority in the party and parliamentary group regard longer life spans as absolutely necessary to ensure power supply." Pfeiffer added that the parliamentary group won't approve a planned tax on nuclear fuel rods unless as broader agreement is reached. According to the magazine, the German government is in talks with the four nuclear power plant operators, E.ON AG (OTCPK:EONGY), RWE AG, EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg and Vattenfall about alternatives to a nuclear fuel rod tax. The four companies want to avoid an additional tax in return for life span extensions for the plants.
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Thursday, October 03, 2013 5:00 PM
WINNEMUCCA - It is my six-year anniversary of "Sticky Notes" - although I repeat many things (as government never seems to just act and complete quickly).
I hope that you have gained an insight on the projects that "you" as a taxpayer have been paying the bill. I know that the City Council and the city employees are very cognizant that this is not our money and must be spent to make our city a valued asset for its residents.
The city is a great network of unique people working to better our community. It has been very rewarding to see the work in progress and occasionally the conclusion of the projects that have been in the making for a number of years.
So a year ago, we were still working on the intersection of Bridge and Haskell streets. We have been aggressively working on this for over five years. This intersection is controlled by the state. The city is not willing to take over the street until we know what it will cost us to operate the street.
We are currently waiting on a report from the railroad that will give us an idea as to the type of connection needed to connect a traffic signal with the railroad and also the cost of that connection.
I would hope that before the end of the year, the Council will be able to make a determination on whether the city can afford Haskell Street. This is truly an example of progress in "slow motion."
Our other road improvements - Water Canyon Road and Great Basin Drive - are our successes. Great Basin Drive is completed and in use. It's a new route to Lowry High School and the surrounding residential area. Water Canyon Road should have its facelift completed maybe this month. They are currently putting in the utilities and completing the grading. The next step will be paving.
Although this street will not be completely finished (when the adjacent property is developed, the developer for that property will complete the curbs, gutters, sidewalks and their portion of the road) the majority of the road will be completed.
Another project that was talked about a year ago was the need for a new fire station. The new fire station is now a reality. The building has been designed and, although I had to submit this column prior to knowing the outcome, the bids were opened on Tuesday (Oct. 1) and were to be awarded at a special Council meeting yesterday (Oct. 3).
So I can't tell you the results but it is a project that can be stamped as "completed." It is also a project that positions our fire department for the future. It accommodates the current needs and has the ability to expand if needed in the future.
A year ago we began discussions on improving our sewage treatment plant. We are now in the process of going forward with our plans that will use irrigation pivots to dispose of the effluent water and an upgrading of the treatment plant's head-works and pumps.
This last month Steve West and myself met with the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection to discuss the improvement and how best to begin the process. It was important to have their input and buy-in before we get too far into the project. This is a major step in planning for the growth of Winnemucca as well as satisfying the NDEP.
The month of October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The WDVS will be starting their activities with a Wine and Dine Vigil tonight (Friday, Oct. 4). Supporting this event is a great way to send a message that domestic violence is unacceptable in our community. The funds raised this month will be used to enhance the education and support of local victims and their families.
On another note, Halloween is "creeping" up. It will be celebrated on Thursday, Oct. 31, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. We do want everyone to be safe and enjoy the evening. It is a school night - be prepared for an early rush of ghost and goblins.
I would like to conclude by reiterating that communication is the key to success. I would like to keep you apprised of projects, issues, and general information regarding the city and my representation as your Mayor.
In return I ask for your input and communication. Please feel free to call (623-6341) or email me (email@example.com). I do try to respond to all questions and I am very interested in your comments and appreciate your participation.
Mayor Di An Putnam writes a monthly column for the Humboldt Sun.
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