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NSCD receives 2014 Daniels Fund Grant
December 17, 2013
The National Sports Center for the Disabled announced today that it has received a $43,500 Daniels Fund grant for 2014. The Daniels Fund grant will be used to purchase equipment for the Center's participants with physical disabilities.
"This grant will enable the NSCD to purchase equipment for ducky (inflatable) kayaking, cycling, skiing, snowboarding and ski biking. With the addition of this equipment, the NSCD will be able to serve more people with physical disabilities in Colorado," said Becky Zimmermann, president and CEO of National Sports Center for the Disabled. "The equipment we use must ensure the very best safety, comfort and mobility. Determining the appropriate equipment for people with physical disabilities and adjusting it properly will, to a large extent, determine the success of a program and reaching an individual's therapeutic goals."
The grant will also help the Center purchase water sports equipment (kayaks, life vests and helmets) and winter equipment (skis, boards, boots and bindings, as well as ski bikes).
Bill Daniels, a pioneer in cable television known for his kindness and generosity to those in need, established the Daniels Fund to provide grants and scholarships in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. For more information, visit http://www.danielsfund.org.

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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) is a large market cap stock with a market cap of 11035.49. It is in the Surety & Title Insurance industry and sector Financial, with a current P/E of 21.48, a forward P/E of 14.03 and EPS of 1.72. At a stock price of 37 (0.14%) it has a dividend yield of 2.27%.
EPS growth for the last five years have been -1.40%, more recently this last year it has grown by -17.70%. The next year growth is going to be about 7.60% and more long-term 11.00% after five years. EPS growth quarter over quarter is 51.30%. Sales growth for the past five years have been 11.00% and sales growth quarter over quarter is 3.60%.
For performance, Fidelity National Financial, Inc. the past week has seen a gain of 1.07%. For the last month performance for Fidelity National Financial, Inc. is -3.30%. While the last quarter is 8.03% and half year, 13.71%. Finally for the year, performance is 3.69%.
The 52-week high for Fidelity National Financial, Inc., is at -3.90%, and for the 52-week low it comes to a value of 32.69%. The 20-day simple moving average is 1.10% and 9.16% for the 200-day simple moving average.
Volatility for the week is at 1.11%, and for the month it is 1.30%. Fidelity National Financial, Inc., has a target price of 43.43.
In terms of debt, long term debt/equity is 0.48, and for total debt/equity Fidelity National Financial, Inc. has 0.48. The gross margin is *TBA, while operating margin is 11.30%, the profit margin is 5.90%. The current ratio is *TBA and the quick ratio is *TBA.
Insider ownership is at 2.40%, with instituitional ownership at 87.00%. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. has a payout ratio of 47.50%. With the total shares outstanding coming to 298.66. The shares float is 261.38, with the float short at 2.29%, with short ratio coming to 4.83.
In terms of returns, the return on assets see Fidelity National Financial, Inc., get 3.80%, with its returns on investment at 8.30%. Return on equity is 9.40%. So will the investors see the target price of 43.43, reached soon?
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|Champions Cup Business, Industry & Spirit of Bartow Awards
Champions Cup recognizes and honors businesses/organizations that have championed exemplary best practices and have had a positive influence on the economic well being of the Bartow area business community. It also celebrates community service with the Spirit of Bartow (SPIRIT OF BARTOW NOMINATION FORM HERE - Available August 1, 2017) awards presented to area citizens that have contributed to the community in a significant way. For the Champions Cup Awards, nominated businesses/organizations are judged by an anonymous random panel of more than 20 community leaders who review the applicants based upon strict criteria regarding community and economic impact. The prestigious awards are presented at the evening event held at the Bartow Civic Center featuring a prominent keynote speaker. Awards are presented in categories and a community leader is inducted into the Champions Cup Hall of Fame, representing his/her impact on the community's economy. The categories include: Service/Professional Business of the Year; Retail Business of the Year; Emerging Business of the Year (start-up company in business less than three years, cannot be a buy-out of an existing company); Not-for-Profit Community Action Organization of the Year; Community Service Business of the Year; and Main Street Bartow Business of the Year. The event is a program of the Chamber's Committee of 100.
CHAMPIONS CUP NOMINATION FORM HERE - Available August 1, 2017.
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Healthy Purchasing for Healthy Schools A new national guidance memo for districts, schools, personnel, parents and communities webcast August 8, 2013
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1 Healthy Purchasing for Healthy Schools A new national guidance memo for districts, schools, personnel, parents and communities webcast August 8, 2013 Hosted by Healthy Schools Network
2 Background: The Coalition for Healthier Schools collaborative and broad-based work group on green cleaning developed an industry-free online training toolkit with modules for school leaders, workers and parents, building on New York State s landmark policies on green cleaning for schools and state agencies (2005). Today 11 states require or promote the use of certified green cleaning products in schools, and state and city agencies are increasingly engaged. Healthy Schools Network which convenes the Coalition for Healthier Schools and hosts the Coalition s work group on green cleaning, does not accept support from the chemical industry. Healthy buildings need to use healthy products. Today, there are many more state and city agencies and districts interested in having healthy buildings, and local schools interested in applying for the US Department of Education s voluntary Green Ribbon Schools Award. This new guidance memo can be a critical tool for finding products and equipment verified as greener and healthier, and for helping schools overcome the tidal wave of chemical industry greenwashing (false marketing claims) directed at them and at educational associations. In June 2012, the Coalition conducted an interest survey of leaders and learned that many were ready to move beyond green cleaning into wider Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP). Healthy Schools Network commissioned Renee Sharp (SHARP Strategies, OR) and Alicia Culver (Responsible Purchasing Network, CA) to produce a primer on several product categories common to schools that would help reduce chemicals and save money. Core concepts were reviewed at the Coalition s annual meeting in January 2013; the first release was hosted for National Healthy Schools Day August 2013 Back to School webcast speakers: see next slide. In addition, the August webcast featured a general welcome and introduction by Claire Barnett, Coalition Coordinator and Executive of Healthy Schools Network; comments from Tolle Graham, Chair, Coalition work group on Communications based at MassCOSH who has done extensive work on asthma at school and in day care. The final slide covers materials provided by webcast Commentator Jerry Lamping.
3 Healthy Purchasing for Healthy Schools Moderator: Rebecca Ruggles, Maryland Environmental Health Network Presenter: Alicia Culver, Responsible Purchasing Network Commentator: Jerry Lamping, award-winning school facility director (retired) Back to School free webcast from Coalition for Healthier Schools August 8, 2013, 1PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific (Mute phone by pressing *6) 3
4 Coalition for Healthier Schools Healthy Purchasing for Healthy Schools: A Guidance Memo Green Cleaning + Five More Product Categories to Help Make Schools Healthier Even the best curriculum and educators cannot succeed when students cannot concentrate, are absent from school or are uncomfortable in the classroom. One way to improve the health of the school indoor environment is to minimize the amount of toxic chemicals in products used in schools. Reducing toxic chemicals in products used in schools benefits children, teachers and custodial staff, particularly those with asthma and or other environmental sensitivities. States and cities are increasingly seeing cost-savings from buying green and buying in bulk; schools can too! Schools can also buy on state contract. 4
5 Responsible Purchasing Network Members include: States Local governments Federal agencies Colleges and universities School districts Businesses Non-profits RPN Mission Promote and practice responsible purchasing by identifying best practices, developing effective purchasing tools, educating the market, and using our collective purchasing power to maximize environmental stewardship, protect human health, and support local and global sustainability. 5
6 What are Environmentally Preferable Goods & Services? products and services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared to competing products and services that serve the same purpose. (Federal EO #13423) 6
7 Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) EPP = Environment + Price + Performance Environmentally preferable purchasing means adding environmental, health and safety considerations to purchasing decisions along with traditional factors such as performance and price. 7
8 Green Products Covered in Guide Cleaning Supplies Office Supplies Wall & Ceiling Paints Office Equipment Art Supplies Furniture 8
9 Environmental Claims Increasing Eco-safe Environmentally friendly Earth friendly Earth smart Environmentally safe Environmentally preferable Essentially non-toxic Practically non-toxic Made with non-toxic ingredients Degradable Natural Environmentally safe CFC-free Ozone friendly Recyclable 9
10 7 Sins of Greenwashing Sin of Vagueness 100% Natural No Proof Just trust us Irrelevance CFC-Free Hidden Trade-Off Compostable food containers with Teflon coating Fibbing Non-Toxic Lesser of Two Evils Hybrid SUVs Worshipping False Labels 10
11 General purpose cleaners 11
12 Green Cleaning for Healthy Schools Principles Keep dirt out Use third-party certified cleaners, hand soaps and paper products Properly/accurately dilute all chemicals Disinfect only when required, in high-risk areas Choose asthma-safe sanitizers/disinfectants Update and maintain equipment Use microfiber mops & cloths HEPA vacuums 12
13 Key Elements of a Successful Green Cleaning Program Establish school committee Evaluate current products Identify/pilot test safer products Train staff with new products Track success Phase in more green products Reward participating staff Adopt policy 13
14 Office Equipment Toxic hazards: heavy metals (lead, mercury), brominated flame retardants, VOC emissions Require products to be on EPEAT Registry (Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool) EPEAT Procurement Specifications: 14
15 Healthy Computing Tips Never put electronics in trash Require vendors to recycle Look for certified recyclers (e-stewards or R2) Turn on power management systems to capture more energy savings 15
16 Wall & Ceiling Paints Specify certified low-toxicity latex paints and coatings Green Seal EcoLogo Master Painters Institute Extreme Green (X-Green) Certifications address performance Include green specs in painting and renovation contracts Require vendors to take-back and recycle leftover paint 16
17 Office Supplies Recycled paper >30% post-consumer content Virgin content certified by Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Reuse supplies before purchasing new Prohibit non-green products from contracts 17
18 Office Supplies Avoid vinyl (PVC) products Sometimes contain lead, phthalates Choose PVC-free binders, paper clips, etc. 18
19 Multi-step screening process Look for Approved Products (AP) certified by ACMI (Art and Creative Materials Institute) Review MSDS to identify chemicals of concern Avoid Heavy metals: lead, cadmium Solvents: xylene, ethyl benzene, ketones Asbestos, clay dust Permanent markers Art Supplies Toxic white-board markers (choose low-odor, if needed) Products labeled: DANGER, WARNING, Flammable 19
20 Avoid Furniture Formaldehyde (especially in particleboard) Brominated flame retardants Stain-resistant chemicals PVC (vinyl) Polyurethane foam/coatings Look for Products made of whole wood (FSC-certified), metal, glass Furniture certified by GREENGUARD (low-emitting) 20
21 Reduce Packaging Impacts Prohibit unsustainable packaging Encourage vendors to use reusable and easily recyclable packaging Buy concentrated and long-lasting products Consolidate orders 21
22 Healthy Purchasing Policy Santa Barbara Unified School District (2011): The Superintendent or designee shall promote green school practices that conserve natural resources, reduce the impact of district operations on the environment, and protect the health of students, staff and the community. 22
23 Healthy Purchasing Program Look for Prioritization Largest potential impact Ability to meet environmental/health goals Opportunities for change (contracts re-bid) Ease of implementation (use existing specs and certifications) Potential to save money/create local jobs 23
24 Save Time: Ask Suppliers to Increase their offerings of healthy products Make them eligible for deepest discounts Accurately label all certified green products Conduct training and outreach Provide green spend reports Calculate environmental benefits/cost savings of purchasing their green products 24
25 Healthy Purchasing Resources Cooperative Purchasing State contracts US Communities (www.gogreencommunities.org) Educational & Institutional Cooperative Purchasing National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) Green Schools Initiative website National Association of Counties Green Purchasing Toolkit 25
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27 Questions? Comments? (Open phone line by pressing *6) Alicia Culver Responsible Purchasing Network (510)
28 Webcast Commentator Jerry Lamping: notes District results from implementing US EPA s voluntary Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools program, along with green purchasing, and classroom assessments, include: six-fold decrease in VOC levels in classrooms; lowered reliever inhaler usage by kids with asthma; 0.8 % increase in Total Average Daily Attendance which increased state funding by over $2 million; and, 30% reduction in custodial operating costs, with both lower supply costs and reduced payroll costs due to fewer work absences. See his report at
29 Read the Coalition for Healthier Schools policy agenda, attend regular conference calls and meetings, and or receive free online News: JOIN at For more information about Healthy Purchasing,
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Bright and modern apartment located in ancient Rome, neighborhood of Trastevere. Is one of the most beautiful areas of Rome and known to the world, the district is able to describe what the best way of being and sense of belonging "Roman".
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Bright and modern apartment located in ancient Rome, Trastevere. Is one of the most beautiful areas of Rome.
The apartment is on the first floor , recently renovated with high quality furnishings. Composed of a furnished living room with a comfortable double sofa bed (King size) and a single sofa bed, fully equipped open kitchen with oven, and a bedroom with King size double bed, a large walk-in wardrobe, a bathroom with shower. The apartment is endowed of every comforts::washing machine and dryer, 2 air conditioned, independent heating, 2 televisions(LCD) 40-inch, SAT-TV, DVD,phone line ,internet access,Wi-Fi, and a security box, hair dryer, iron and ironing board, + a baby cot(upon request) and Airport transport upon demand.
The apartment is located in a corner of Trastevere area a very quiet and safe at night.
Trastevere has an ancient history that extends all the way back to ancient Rome. The area is so gorgeous that many famous and prominent people have built homes there, including Julius Caesar's garden villa Horti Caesaris. Much of its construction occurred in the Middle Ages, including the expansion of its narrow streets to make room for carriages. The area still has the feel of a medieval town, which is what gives it character and appeal to visitors.
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Walking through the alleys of Trastevere, one is struck by the magic that runs through the streets and fully understand the meaning of "Eternal City". Rome grows, expands, but continues to maintain a heart and pride inherited from 'ancient Rome.
All places of tourist interest are within a short walk, Colosseo,St.Peter Vatican, Piazza Venezia, Campidoglio, Foro Romano, Piazza del Popolo ,Circo Massimo,Fori Imperiali, Campo de' Fiori, , the Pantheon, , Piazza Navona.
The position is strategic to reach any attraction in a very small time and very well connected by public transport.., Completely renovated and' decorated to offer the best hospitality in an elegant and eye for detail. Its strategic location makes it ideal for a comfortable and enjoyable holidays.
The neighborhood is vibrant and packed with cafes, restaurants, gelaterias, and local shops. At 200 meters there is the famous market of Porta Portese, open only on Sundays, attracts tourists for its many antique stalls. .... At 200 meters from the station of Trastevere and you can reach the airport of Fiumicino in just 20 minutes by city train(FR1) .
The Trastevere area resembles a traditional Southern-Italian village with narrow and winding cobblestone streets. Many visitors like to stay in a Rome apartment in the Trastevere area because of its dining, entertainment and cultural opportunities. It is a great place to spend all day walking and soaking up Italian living. Many tourists feel that this is the closest you can get to real Rome.
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We offer our guests have a 24 hour helpline on 24 , for the duration of their stay , we are always available and we try to pamper our guests making their stay as pleasant as possible . Giving information of all kinds and helping them to solve problems in case they need it We offer assistance of any kind , transfers to the airport, arrange sightseeing in Pompeii, sightseeing the Castelli Romani.
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Close to Trastevere station , very convenient for those coming from the airport of Fiumicino. Using the city train (FR1) in just 20 minutes you can reach the apartment, the ticket cost 8 euros.
Let us always know the estimated time of arrival and any information about your flight so that in case of delays, we advise to reach the city in a more convenient and easier. We suggest you bring with you our phone number and do not hesitate to contact us if necessary. It 's important to let us know immediately of any change in your arrival time.
You will be kindly asked to behave in civil, polite, good-neighborliness.
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PlayStation Universe recently hooked up with Switchblade Monkeys' Creative Director Yousuf Mapara to chat with him about the indie revolution, the PS4 launch game Secret Ponchos and to find out how the journey began for the independant developer.
Here is the Q&A in full.
The indie development scene has exploded in recent years while larger studios, including ex-employer Radical Entertainment, have crumbled. What have you learned about the industry from the downfall of some popular and successful publishers and developers, and do you think the indie revolution will last?
As long as there has been a games industry, there has been a need for new IP's, new styles, and new types of gameplay to surprise players. Right now in this development landscape we are seeing the smaller teams in the digital space take that focus on creativity and new IP. Indie developers can go there because frankly they put themselves on the line out of creative passion.
A lot of the larger franchise games we play now were developed by small teams back in the day, that resembled the "indie studios" of today. The term that defines the teams that take these risks has changed over the years, but I think it has always been there.. small groups of people passionate about making new types of experiences.
AAA games are great too, they just bring a different type of experience to the market, that focuses on leaving you in awe of what 100 or 1000 people can make if they work together, in terms of scope and perfection of craft. My personal passion however is in the digital space, because it delivers constant surprises in style and innovation which is compelling for an artist.
We understand that Secret Ponchos started as a fun project and that there were no initial plans to launch it as a full retail product. At what point did you realize the game had a potential to be much more?
There was a point early on where the project was much smaller. Quickly some of our friends saw the game, and said "That's cool, if you guys want help I'm in!" They were so talented in their respective fields it inspired us to something bigger if we could all stay disciplined and collaborate together. With that decision we sort of changed goals and what we expected of ourselves.
What's the idea behind the name? We understand that the 'Ponchos' part of the title is related to spaghetti westerns, but what's the 'secret'?
The word "Secret" came mainly from our project history. We started this project in secret, and we would all get together and collaborate on this passion project on the down low. This was our Secret Project, and we called the blog "Secret Ponchos". When we were naming the game, we brainstormed hundreds of names. But a lot of the imagery and creative content of the game connected too deep with that identity we had on the blog, and it just felt gross switching it to a more 'video game standard' name. These mysterious outlaws and bounty hunters, concealing themselves and their weapons in giant sombreros, ponchos, trenchcoats - Secret Ponchos just had the right vibe and attitude . In the end people tell us they either love the name, or hate it. But the interesting thing is that it is a memorable game name and not something generic which is what we wanted to avoid.
How did the decision to initially launch Secret Ponchos as a PlayStation 4 exclusive come about and how have you found working with Sony?
We were presenting our game for the first time at PAX East, and Brian Silva, Nick Suttner from Sony Dev relations were at the event. Brian and Nick came to our booth (disguised as regular gamers as I like to say). They checked out the game, and watched people playing it for quite a while. We had no idea they were from Sony Dev Relations or we would have been a lot more nervous having to go into pitch mode. But they got to see the game for what it was, without being hyped. They eventually introduced themselves after they formed their opinion and asked us if we've considered launching on PS4. At the time I was shocked, it was so outside the realm of what we thought was a possible option. I actually told Brian "We're just a tiny team, I don't know if we can do PS4 " and Brian asked "What are your barriers?" and suggested how we could work together to overcome them. We really were honoured by what they were suggesting. It also did strike an impression how proactive they were in finding a strong portfolio, while being really down to earth and the type of people you want to do business with. After they left, we just huddled together and decided as a team no guts no glory, and decided we wanted to work together with Sony and get this thing on PS4.
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While she is very strict, she is consistently the most generous and caring character of the fanon. She is also a proven determined worker and strong woman.
At some point in time, she became the Mother Superior of the Kisah Abbey.
- The name "Dasna" comes from the Latvian word for "generous".
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This is a replication of William Nordhaus' original DICE model, as described in Managing the Global Commons and a 1992 Science article and Cowles Foundation working paper that preceded it.
There are many good things about this model, but also some bad. If you are thinking of using it as a platform for expansion, read my dissertation first.
Units balance.
I provide several versions:
- Model with simple heuristics replacing the time-vector decisions in the original; runs in Vensim PLE
- DICE-heur-7-PLE.mdl – just the model
- DICE-heur-7-PLE.vpm – package including ancillary files
- Full model, with decisions implemented as vectors of points over time; requires Vensim Pro or DSS
- Same as #2, but with VECTOR LOOKUP replaced with VECTOR ELM MAP; supports earlier versions of Pro or DSS
- DICE-vec-6-elm.mdl (you'll also want a copy of DICE-vec-6.vpm above, so that you can extract the supporting optimization control files)
Note that there may be minor variances from the published versions, e.g. that transversality coefficients for the state variables (i.e. terminal values of the states for optimization) are not included. The optimizations use fewer time decision points than the original GAMS equivalents. These do not have any significant effect on the outcome.
Workshop on Modularity and Integration of Climate Models
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is organizing a workshop at this year's Conference on Computational Sustainability entitled "Modularity and Integration of Climate Models." Check out the Agenda.
Traditionally, computational models designed to simulate climate change and its associated impacts (climate science models, integrated assessment models, and climate economics models) have been developed as standalone entities. This limits possibilities for collaboration between independent researchers focused on sub-?problems, and is a barrier to more rapid advances in climate modeling science because work is not distributed effectively across the community. The architecture of these models also precludes running a model with modular sub -? components located on different physical hardware across a network.
In this workshop, we hope to examine the possibility for widespread development of climate model components that may be developed independently and coupled together at runtime in a "plug and play" fashion. Work on climate models and modeling frameworks that are more modular has begun, (e.g. Kim, et al., 2006) and substantial progress has been made in creating open data standards for climate science models, but many challenges remain.
A goal of this workshop is to characterize issues like these more precisely, and to brainstorm about approaches to addressing them. Another desirable outcome of this workshop is the creation of an informal working group that is interested in promoting more modular climate model development.
C-ROADS & climate leadership workshop
In Boston, Oct. 18-20, Climate Interactive and Seed Systems will be running a workshop on C-ROADS and climate leadership.
Attend to develop your capacities in:
- Systems thinking: Causal loop and stock-flow diagramming.
- Leadership and learning: Vision, reflective conversation, consensus building.
- Computer simulation: Using and leading policy-testing with the C-ROADS/C-Learn simulation.
- Policy savvy: Attendees will play the "World Climate" exercise.
- Climate, energy, and sustainability strategy: Reflections and insights from international experts.
- Business success stories: What's working in the new low Carbon Economy and implications for you.
- Build your network of people sharing your aspirations for Climate progress.
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EPA gets the bathtub
Eli Rabett has been posting the comment/response section of the EPA endangerment finding. For the most part the comments are a quagmire of tinfoil-hat pseudoscience; I'm astonished that the EPA could find some real scientists who could stomach wading through and debunking it all – an important but thankless job.
Today's installment tackles the atmospheric half life of CO2:
A common analogy used for CO2 concentrations is water in a bathtub. If the drain and the spigot are both large and perfectly balanced, then the time than any individual water molecule spends in the bathtub is short. But if a cup of water is added to the bathtub, the change in volume in the bathtub will persist even when all the water molecules originally from that cup have flowed out the drain. This is not a perfect analogy: in the case of CO2, there are several linked bathtubs, and the increased pressure of water in one bathtub from an extra cup will actually lead to a small increase in flow through the drain, so eventually the cup of water will be spread throughout the bathtubs leading to a small increase in each, but the point remains that the "residence time" of a molecule of water will be very different from the "adjustment time" of the bathtub as a whole.
Having tested a lot of low-order carbon cycle models, including I think all possible linear variants up to 3rd order, I agree with EPA – anyone who claims that the effective half life or time constant of CO2 uptake is 10 or 20 or even 50 years is bonkers.
States' role in climate policy
Jack Dirmann passed along an interesting paper arguing for a bigger role for states in setting federal climate policy.
This article explains why states and localities need to be full partners in a national climate change effort based on federal legislation or the existing Clean Air Act. A large share of reductions with the lowest cost and the greatest co-benefits (e.g., job creation, technology development, reduction of other pollutants) are in areas that a federal cap-and-trade program or other purely federal measures will not easily reach. These are also areas where the states have traditionally exercised their powers – including land use, building construction, transportation, and recycling. The economic recovery and expansion will require direct state and local management of climate and energy actions to reach full potential and efficiency.
This article also describes in detail a proposed state climate action planning process that would help make the states full partners. This state planning process – based on a proven template from actions taken by many states – provides an opportunity to achieve cheaper, faster, and greater emissions reductions than federal legislation or regulation alone would achieve. It would also realize macroeconomic benefits and non-economic co-benefits, and would mean that the national program is more economically and environmentally sustainable.
Climate Science, Climate Policy and Montana
Last night I gave a climate talk at the Museum of the Rockies here in Bozeman, organized by Cherilyn DeVries and sponsored by United Methodist. It was a lot of fun – we had a terrific discussion at the end, and the museum's monster projector was addictive for running C-LEARN live. Thanks to everyone who helped to make it happen. My next challenge is to do this for young kids.
My slides are here as a PowerPoint show: Climate Science, Climate Policy & Montana (better because it includes some animated builds) or PDF: Climate Science, Climate Policy & Montana (PDF)
Some related resources:
Climate Interactive & the online C-LEARN model
Montana Climate Change Advisory Committee
Montana emissions inventory & forecast visualization (click through the graphic):
Kerry-Lieberman "American Power Act" leaked
I think it's a second-best policy, but perhaps the most we can hope for, and better than nothing.
Climate Progress has a first analysis and links to the leaked draft legislation outline and short summary of the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act. [Update: there's now a nice summary table.] For me, the bottom line is, what are the emissions and price trajectories, what emissions are covered, and where does the money go?
The target is 95.25% of 2005 by 2013, 83% by 2020, 58% by 2030, and 17% by 2050, with six Kyoto gases covered. Entities over 25 MTCO2eq/year are covered. Sector coverage is unclear; the summary refers to "the three major emitting sectors, power plants, heavy industry, and transportation" which is actually a rather incomplete list. Presumably the implication is that a lot of residential, commercial, and manufacturing emissions get picked up upstream, but the mechanics aren't clear.
The target looks like this [Update: ignoring minor gases]:
This is not much different from ACES or CLEAR, and like them it's backwards. Emissions reductions are back-loaded. The rate of reduction (green dots) from 2030 to 2050, 6.1%/year, is hardly plausible without massive retrofit or abandonment of existing capital (or negative economic growth). Given that the easiest reductions are likely to be the first, not the last, more aggressive action should be happening up front. (Actually there are a multitude of reasons for front-loading reductions as much as reasonable price stability allows).
There's also a price collar:
These mechanisms provide a predictable price corridor, with the expected prices of the EPA Waxman-Markey analysis (dashed green) running right up the middle. The silly strategic reserve is gone. Still, I think this arrangement is backwards, in a different sense from the target. The right way to manage the uncertainty in the long run emissions trajectory needed to stabilize climate without triggering short run economic dislocation is with a mechanism that yields stable prices over the short to medium term, while providing for adaptive adjustment of the long term price trajectory to achieve emissions stability. A cap and trade with no safety valve is essentially the opposite of that: short run volatility with long run rigidity, and therefore a poor choice. The price collar bounds the short term volatility to 2:1 (early) to 4:1 (late) price movements, but it doesn't do anything to provide for adaptation of the emissions target or price collar if emissions reductions turn out to be unexpectedly hard, easy, important, etc. It's likely that the target and collar will be regarded as property rights and hard to change later in the game.
I think we should expect the unexpected. My personal guess is that the EPA allowance price estimates are way too low. In that case, we'll find ourselves stuck on the price ceiling, with targets unmet. 83% reductions in emissions at an emissions price corresponding with under $1/gallon for fuel just strike me as unlikely, unless we're very lucky technologically. My preference would be an adaptive carbon price, starting at a substantially higher level (high enough to prevent investment in new carbon intensive capital, but not so high initially as to strand those assets – maybe $50/TonCO2). By default, the price should rise at some modest rate, with an explicit adjustment process taking place at longish intervals so that new information can be incorporated. Essentially the goal is to implement feedback control that stabilizes long term climate without short term volatility (as here or here and here).
Some other gut reactions:
- Clean energy R&D funding.
- Allowance distribution by auction.
- Border adjustments (I can only find these in the summary, not the draft outline).
- More subsidies, guarantees and other support for nuclear power plants. Why not let the first round play out first? Is this really a good use of resources or a level playing field?
- Subsidized CCS deployment. There are good reasons for subsidizing R&D, but deployment should be primarily motivated by the economic incentive of the emissions price.
- Other deployment incentives. Let the price do the work!
- Rebates through utilities. There's good evidence that total bills are more salient to consumers than marginal costs, so this at least partially defeats the price signal. At least it's temporary (though transient measures have a way of becoming entitlements).
- Preemption of state cap & trade schemes. Sorry, RGGI, AB32, and WCI. This probably has to happen.
- Green jobs claims. In the long run, employment is controlled by a bunch of negative feedback loops, so it's not likely to change a lot. The current effects of the housing bust/financial crisis and eventual effects of big twin deficits are likely to overwhelm any climate policy signal. The real issue is how to create wealth without borrowing it from the future (e.g., by filling up the atmospheric bathtub with GHGs) and sustaining vulnerability to oil shocks, and on that score this is a good move.
- State preemption of offshore oil leasing within 75 miles of its shoreline. Is this anything more than an illusion of protection?
- Banking, borrowing and offsets allowed.
- Performance standards for coal plants.
- Transportation efficiency measures.
- Industry rebates to prevent leakage (does this defeat the price signal?).
John Sterman on solving our biggest problems
The key message is that climate, health, and other big messy problems don't have purely technical fixes. Therefore Manhattan Project approaches to solving them won't work. Creating and deploying solutions to these problems requires public involvement and widespread change with distributed leadership. The challenge is to get public understanding of climate to carry the same sense of urgency that drove the civil rights movement. From a series at the IBM Almaden Institute conference.
Another look at inadequate Copenhagen pledges
Joeri Rogelj and others argue that Copenhagen Accord pledges are paltry in a Nature Opinion,
Current national emissions targets can't limit global warming to 2 °C, calculate Joeri Rogelj, Malte Meinshausen and colleagues — they might even lock the world into exceeding 3 °C warming.
- Nations will probably meet only the lower ends of their emissions pledges in the absence of a binding international agreement
- Nations can bank an estimated 12 gigatonnes of Co2 equivalents surplus allowances for use after 2012
- Land-use rules are likely to result in further allowance increases of 0.5 GtCO2-eq per year
- Global emissions in 2020 could thus be up to 20% higher than today
- Current pledges mean a greater than 50% chance that warming will exceed 3°C by 2100
- If nations agree to halve emissions by 2050, there is still a 50% chance that warming will exceed 2°C and will almost certainly exceed 1.5°C
Via Nature's Climate Feedback, Copenhagen Accord – missing the mark.


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Jul 28, 2011 at 9:07 UTC
RIS/WDS is old school technology, as a Microsoft evangelist recently said. Notably, it gets painful to manage images.
FOG Project does better. If have not already read it, the review gives a few insights (http://community.spiceworks.com/product/21797-fog-computer-cloner).%C2%A0; Have not needed, but can deploy driver bundles as a package, err "FOG plug-in", for varied hardware.
Really ought look into MDT & WAIK LTI (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Windows Automated Install Kit light touch installation). MDT can do the OS install, some applications, and have the usual driver packs for varied hardware. Saw a demo to convert a WinXP machine to Win7 then back to WinXP from a USB thumb drive -- each OS switch took ~30 min. Slick considering data was moved as well. Cool in it avoid images, and goes the all package route.
Aug 10, 2011 at 1:00 UTC
MDT w/WAIK and WDS works wonderfully!
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We don't have the transcripts from the previous news conferences, but no one would be shocked if the opening words of this article were uttered by previous coaches like Bob Wenzel, Kevin Bannon, Gary Waters or Fred Hill.
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When Rice was an assistant at Pitt and Saint Joseph's, he didn't exactly worry about going against Rutgers in recruiting or on the court.
And why would he?
"We weren't fearful of the RAC or fearful of the 34,000 [students] in attendance," Rice said. "There wasn't much teeth here. There was no fear in recruiting or playing against them."
There was some jealousy of the lost potential, however.
"The location, the players that you could see without driving six hours to see or flying to see," Rice said. "For one reason or another, they couldn't put it together. There would be good recruiting classes, but they never seemed to put it together. There's no question that it hasn't happened, but once it does it won't end any time soon."
Rice, who shall we say is a kinder, gentler hyperactive coach than someone like former Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez, wanted to be the coach to change the perception. He wanted to be the coach to finally get the Knights over the hump.
"I would have walked to Rutgers for the opportunity to take over the program," Rice said.
This spring, Rice, 41, was a candidate at Fordham and Seton Hall after turning Robert Morris into the team to beat in the Northeast Conference. The Colonials won 26 games and made the NIT in his first season. They won 24 and made the NCAA tournament in his second season. And then 23 more last season, including a NEC tournament title on Quinnipiac's home court and a near miss against second-seeded Villanova in the first round of the Big Dance.
As for Rutgers, athletic director Tim Pernetti initially gave Hill one more year to turn the Scarlet Knights around. But then, after a heated argument at an RU baseball game in which Hill's father was the head coach, Hill and Rutgers headed toward a protracted separation and eventual divorce.
A Big East job in the New York market was certainly of interest to a number of coaches with longer and more impressive résumés than Rice. However, Rice said Rutgers wasn't going to "pay a higher-profile guy what he wanted. But at the end, I'm not sure that was the best fit for the program anyway. They needed a guy who was going to roll up his sleeves and improve the program."
Pernetti said he had to be cognizant of the dicey financial situation in New Jersey, but he wasn't going to limit the search.
"I wanted the best candidate and then pay later," Pernetti said. "I wanted to find the right person, the right fit. It wasn't about the money, it was about the fit.
"I wanted someone who was going to grind in every sense of the word. I wanted a no-ego guy. [Rice and I] had a meeting planned for a few hours, but we met for five."
Rutgers, as a state university, released Rice's salary upon hiring him. He has a base salary of $250,000 and a guaranteed compensation of $300,000 in the first year. There are grade point average, Academic Progress Rate and performance-based bonuses that can push the salary higher. But the two highest combined chunks of money -- the annual base salary and additional guaranteed compensation -- will max out at a combined $750,000 in the final year of the deal in 2014-15.
"I think Tim understood that he couldn't get this wrong," Rice said. "This program can't afford any more setbacks. He was doing his due diligence. He felt he had to get it right."
Rice, whose father, Mike, was a college basketball head coach at Duquesne and Youngstown State and is currently a color commentator for the Portland Trail Blazers, certainly doesn't lack for confidence or energy. Pernetti claims Rice has been a worker bee running around the Rutgers campus, meeting various people affiliated with the school.
He's also been recruiting tirelessly from New York to Washington, D.C., and all points in between. Rice said he didn't need to reintroduce himself to the various high school, AAU and summer-league coaches because he was already working the same coaches for Saint Joe's, Pitt and as a head coach at Robert Morris.
"A lot of the reason I got the job was those AAU and high school coaches [in the metro area]," Rice said. "They're the ones that talked about Mike Rice."
Still, Rutgers basketball has to become more palatable to the actual recruits. The Scarlet Knights do have one commitment for 2011 in Derrick Randall, ESPNU's 35th-ranked power forward out of South Kent (Conn.).
"The first step is making them aware of what direction this program is going," Rice said. "We're excited about it, and hopefully we'll be signing some of these guys."
The Scarlet Knights just added Robert Lumpkins, a senior from New Mexico State who graduated and will be allowed to play immediately under an NCAA waiver. The 6-foot-7 Lumpkins is originally from Washington, D.C., another player from the footprint Rice wants to step all over in recruiting. But Lumpkins becomes just the 10th scholarship player for a Rutgers team that likely will struggle to score without Mike Rosario, who transferred to Florida. It'll also be without defensive big man Hamady Ndiaye, who graduated.
In other words, simply reaching five Big East wins like last season might be a stretch.
"It will be an interesting year," Rice said. "We have no center on the roster. We're going to play a lot of guards and annoy some of the bigger, more talented programs. But we've got to get a rebound to stay close."
So he's tempering expectations for this season. But he's not about to temper expectations for the program as a whole. Like so many Rutgers coaches before him, Rice has high hopes for the eternally sleeping giant.
"There's no question I'm getting this done," he said. "If you're in the top eight or 10 in the Big East, you have a chance to be in the NCAA tournament. I'm not saying we will win the national championship or the Big East. But we will be in the mix and make this a relevant basketball program for people to be excited about in the state of New Jersey."
Andy Katz is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


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