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Vandaag's New Amsterdam Toddy Recipe
"The problem with most cider drinks is that they just hang around on a hot plate all day," says Vandaag's Martim Smith-Mattsson, "so the flavors get too concentrated." Here, he allows Laird's Bonded Applejack "to do most of the work," delivering powerful apple flavor and the fruit's crisp acidity without that all-too-familiar boiled-down sweetness.
His cider is subtly spiced with cardamom, cinnamon, clove, ginger, and a bare floral hint of lavender (recipe included). Orange peels and orange curacao add complementary citrus flavors without things getting too juiced up.
Adjust spices to your liking, but pay particular attention to quantity and steeping time if you use lavender; it can easily turn bitter or overly floral.
- Yield:makes 1 gallon cider (enough for 32 servings)
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:40 minutes
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- 1 gallon apple cider
- 60 grams dried lavender
- 10 sticks cinnamon
- 5 lemons, halved
- 4 cups honey
- 60 grams whole cardamom pods
- 12 one-inch pieces fresh ginger root, peeled
- Peels of 5 oranges
- 15 grams whole cloves
- 5 dashes Angostura bitters
- For each drink
- 4 ounces hot mulled cider
- 1/2 ounce orange curacao
- 1 ounce Laird's Bonded Applejack
In a large pot, simmer cider with lavender, cinnamon, lemons, honey, cardamom pods, ginger, orange peel, cloves, and bitters over low heat for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and cover with plastic wrap. Let steep 8 minutes, then strain.
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InflationFinancial Markets
Demand for gold tends to increase as faith in government and government intervention in the economy declines.
Book ReviewsInterventionismOther Schools of Thought
Hazlitt and all of the other critics of Keynes never did get to the primary points with respect to what was wrong with Keynes. One point was theoretical. The other was practical.
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For decades, federal housing policy explicitly favored whites over blacks, likely worsening many of today's enduring wealth disparities.
Free Markets
The rise of interest in free market economics has come from outside academia and Economics in One Lesson has been a great part of this awareness.
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Venezuelans are defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties and economic livelihood.
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Farewell Bobby
As the 2010 season draws to
an end, so does the career of legendary Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox. Over
his 25 year career with the Braves, Bobby's accomplishments are staggering.
Bobby led the Braves to six 100+ win seasons, an unprecedented fourteen consecutive
Divisional Championships, five League Championships and an unforgettable 1995
World Series Championship. He is a three-time Manager of the Year and ranks
fourth all-time in wins among MLB managers. However, the numbers don't
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earning the respect and admiration of players, coaches and fans throughout
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There's recently been something of a gold rush for free browser-based, kid-friendly online games, particularly from cable networks like Nickelodeon and Disney. Cartoon Network enters that mix dramatically with "FusionFall," a "World of Warcraft"-lite game that's the first one to approach the quality, playability and potential for mass appeal of its older-skewing brethren. Though the tastes of pre-teen boys are as fickle online as on the air, "FusionFall" is sure to grab its target aud's attention and, if it's well supported and marketed, could even turn into a solid business of its own.
It's evident Cartoon Network spared no muscle in creating this free, kid-friendly Web-based extension to its on-air lineup. Rather than try to mash together or directly reproduce the stylistically variant worlds in its various shows (as Nickelodeon does with its far-less-gamelike "Nicktropolis"), "FusionFall" is a wholly original, story-driven world in which everyone from the Powerpuff Girls to Dexter to Samurai Jack is reimagined as sincere, anime-inspired heroes who look cool but maintain many of their trademark quirks. The Kids Next Door see their treehouse fort translated as a surreal floating island, for instance, while obnoxious bugger Eddy (minus cohorts Ed and Edd) assigns missions from a cardboard fortress that helps fend off the monsters.
As in most massively multiplayer online (MMO) games based on licenses, players create unique characters, in this case kids armed with time-traveling powers and laser blasters. They get missions from Cartoon Network icons, who pump kids' egos by stressing how much the future of the world depends on them. Players can collect miniature versions of TV personalities, called "nanos," which offer players unique abilities.
Where "FusionFall" differs from the traditional run-and-quest MMOs it otherwise resembles is the incorporation of action elements, often requiring the player to jump floating platforms, ride zip lines or use gadgets to traverse the environment. These would benefit by being more intuitive; the learning curve alongside the 3-D view and keyboard-mouse scheme feels challenging at first. But overall, it's a clever, subtle way to break up the long town-to-town jogs that missions often require.
The rest of the gameplay is fairly linear and mission based. Initially players arrive in a futuristic area and are tasked with several quests involving assembling a time machine. If they want to continue to the present or past, however, they have to become paying subscribers. "FusionFall" manages to walk this always precarious line between encouraging subscriptions and annoying nonpaying players fairly deftly, offering a considerable amount of free content without any advertising. Nonetheless, it's designed smoothly enough that many kids are sure to bug their parents for a credit card in order to enjoy more content and pick up the "nanos" and other collectibles.
Navigation in general could be a little more intuitive, but the learning curve is all-ages-appropriate. Similarly, combat requires nothing more complex than aiming with the mouse and clicking away — which gets tedious, so it's good that missions only occasionally require players to slay beasts with clever, toonish names like "Painsaw" and "Verminator."
Game's weakest element comes in the "multiplayer" part of the MMO formula. Though the already well-populated gameworld is enjoyable, social utilities for chat, grouping up and listing buddies are minimal and feel like distractions since they necessitate pausing the gameplay. Unlike the many online games that strongly encourage teaming up and making friends, there's no reason to communicate with other players in "FusionFall." Though opening up those avenues to kids can be tricky, Cartoon Network plays things so safe that it's to the detriment of an otherwise innovative videogame.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans reeling from their second presidential loss in a row engaged in some soul-searching on Wednesday but were at odds on how far the party must change to remake its image.
Divisions that were stitched up during the presidential campaign in a show of unity against the Democrats were on display again after Republican Mitt Romney's loss on Tuesday to President Barack Obama.
If there are five stages of grief, then Republicans had gone from denial to anger and depression. But the last phases, bargaining and acceptance, were apparently still elusive as Republicans bickered over whether a serious change of course is needed to appeal to a broader spectrum of American voters.
Romney's loss underscored a growing problem within the party in dealing with the changing face of the U.S. electorate as Hispanic voters, turned off by harsh conservative rhetoric on immigration, helped Obama win battleground states like Virginia, Colorado, Nevada and Ohio.
Romney also struggled during much of his campaign to appeal to women and young voters, as the party got tangled up in high-profile disputes over abortion and gay marriage that turned off people who might otherwise be attracted to the Republicans' free-market economic message.
Some party leaders got the message and called for a more inclusive party in the wake of the second consecutive Republican loss of the White House.
"We have to become a party of inclusion, not outreach," former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, who lost the Republican presidential nomination fight this year, told CBS' "This Morning" program. "We have to recognize that if you're not going to be competitive with Latinos, with African-Americans, with Native Americans, with Asian-Americans, you're not going to be a successful party."
But after seeing the rise of Tea Party fiscal conservatives over the past two years, many on the right felt that the problem was not that Romney was too moderate but that he was not conservative enough. That guarantees a battle over who the party will back in 2016 when it next chooses a candidate to pursue the White House.
"Mitt Romney's loss was the death rattle of the establishment GOP," said Richard Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.Com. "Far from signaling a rejection of the Tea Party or grassroots conservatives, the disaster of 2012 signals the beginning of the battle to take over the Republican Party and the opportunity to establish the GOP as the party of small-government constitutional conservatism."
Not only did Romney lose his bid for the White House, but Republican hopes of making gains in the Senate and perhaps even taking control of the chamber were dashed.
Two reasons for this setback were named Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, who had both stood a good chance of winning Senate seats in Missouri and Indiana until they made comments about rape that angered women and turned the tide against them.
"The people of this country sent a clear message to our elected officials that we want a government that works to protect the interests of working-class citizens of every race, gender and sexual orientation," said Amy Kremer, chair of the Tea Party Express, a conservative group.
Still, many Republicans were loathe to cite any one reason for their setbacks.
"While some will want to blame one wing of the party over the other, the reality is candidates from all corners of our GOP lost," said Senator John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "Clearly we have work to do in the weeks and months ahead."
Illegal immigration remains an Achilles heel for the Republican Party, with many conservatives in no mood to support any policy that might be seen as amnesty for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.
Romney, in his drive to secure the presidential nomination last spring, found himself tugged to the right to the point that he said that he supported the "self-deportation" of illegal immigrants.
It was a more hard-line position than that taken by conservatives Texas Governor Rick Perry or Gingrich, two presidential hopefuls who called for more moderate policies toward immigration.
During the presidential campaign, Romney tried to moderate his position on immigration, but the damage may have been done as his stance was an easy mark for Obama.
David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, said Republicans need to get immigration off the table by reaching a comprehensive immigration deal with Obama during his second term.
"Clearly they have to do things differently and there's nothing like a political defeat and losses to focus the political mind," he said.
But some conservatives felt Romney was not a strong advocate for their views on social issues.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, a spokeswoman for the Susan B. Anthony List, a non-profit group that campaigns on conservative social issues, accused the Romney campaign of making a "strategic decision" to avoid bringing social issues, particular abortion, into the presidential debates, thereby failing to engage potential voters who feel strongly about those issues.
"We can only do so much," she said. "If Romney doesn't talk about Obama's extremes, it doesn't work."
(Editing By Alistair Bell and Philip Barbara)


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There are many tools available online, which can let you track, monitor, automate or help you in any other way during your social media marketing campaign.
May be you need to know the trends of the moment and you want an inspiring idea to create your next blog post or you want to manage one of your social media account, automating some process that otherwise will take you a big part of your time.
I am sure you will find something interesting and useful in this list.
Let's see the 11 free online tools for blogging and social media marketing.
Tools for Twitter
1. Followerwonk
Followerwonk provides valuable information on your Twitter account with the ability to compare your followers with those of other users.
2. Tweriod
This is perhaps one of the most useful tools.
Tweriod analyzes your account with a particular attention to the moments in which you generated more engagement.
In this way you will know what is the ideal time to tweet and you will reach the largest possible audience.
3. JustUnfollow
This useful site lets you manage easily your Twitter followers. It's free up to 100 daily actions.
I've been using JustUnfollow since a good time already in order to clean up my inactive followers.
(Ouch, Lady Gaga is not following me…). 😉
4. JustRetweet
C'mon, is there any blogger or internet marketer who do not know and use this amazing site?
JustRetweet is fantastic if you need to expand your social media audience and promote your content.
Tools for Facebook
5 – Conversation Score
Discover the influence you have on Facebook with an infographic created instantly just for you.
Conversation Score, after analyzing your page, will provide information regarding your relationship with those who follow you, your habits, the percentage of likes in your posts and other useful statistics.
6 – LikeAlyzer
LikeAlyzer analyzes your Facebook page and gives you advice on how to improve your presence and your appeal, relying on dialogue, timing and posts that you have posted.
Search Tools
7. Open Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer is basically a search engine for links.
It enables you to find all the sites that link to your website (or anybody else profile, if you are curious).
When someone is linking to you, it may give you huge SEO benefits, depending on some crucial factors.
This site can help you check other blogs in order to establish relationships within your niche – or to just keep an eye on your competition!
8. Google Trends
Google Trends is a very useful tool when you have to write a new post.
In order to gain as more visibility as possible, it is suggested to write about something which is the trend of the moment and this tool lets you know what topic is hot on the web.
9. Quicksprout
Quicksprout scrutinizes your site from top to bottom, giving you precise details on SEO, SMO and comparisons with competitors.
10. Content Idea Generator
Content Idea Generator, rather than a real instrument, is a title generator of posts ready to make you smile.
Simply enter a keyword in the box and you will get a nice title with a lot of sarcastic comments.
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Sometimes the doubt assails you : " Is the site down for everyone or just for me?"
You can enter here the link to the website you are trying to reach immediately, in order to get a response on its status.
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ST. LOUIS -- Chase Headley found himself in unfamiliar territory Friday in St. Louis, as the Padres' third baseman was slotted at the second spot in the lineup for the first time since June 2011.
In 23 career games batting second prior to Friday, he was 15-for-88 with six doubles, five RBIs and a homer. Headley's current .229 average has him on pace for his worst season at the plate since he batted .222 in his rookie year.
"I don't really worry about where I hit. I'm going to try to do the same things that I always do," Headley said. "If I get going, is that what made me get going? I don't know. It just is what it is. And I'll hit when they tell me to hit."
Headley said he identified a few "very, very minute" mechanical things with his swing to keep an eye on going forward, but he had hopes of finding something more significant.
"I wish I could look and see something bigger, because then I could be like, 'Hey, there it is. Let's fix this and get going,'" Headley said. "You just have to battle through the tough times, and hopefully the numbers will take care of themselves."
Padres manager Bud Black said Headley's patience at the plate, which could help give leadoff hitter Everth Cabrera more opportunities to build on his National League-best 34 stolen bases, was also a factor in the decision. Black added that he might move Headley back in the lineup against a left-handed pitcher to take advantage of Chris Denorfia's .283 average and .348 on-base percentage against lefties.


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Since a lot of players ask about being and becoming a moderator, I'm posting the answers here.
The first and most important thing to remember is, according to the Tanked rules (accessible in the game by typing /rules), do not ask to become a moderator; wait to be asked. Players that beg to become a moderator are not showing the maturity that we look for when searching for new moderators.
Secondly, it's important to keep in mind that there are lots of players that want to be moderator and many that may qualify, but very few are actually needed in the first place. So just because you may qualify doesn't mean you will be asked. Don't take it personally.
Third, there are several things everyone can do that help moderate the game:
- Reporting players that break the rules (screenshots are especially helpful)
- Keeping a clean record yourself and helping other players do the same
- Helping new players and answering questions about Tanked
Players that do all of the above make some of the best candidates for any future moderator positions.
Finally, keep in mind being moderator is not a status symbol, it is work. And sometimes it keeps us real busy- at times we get more messages than we can keep up with. You can help lighten the load by following these guidelines (particularly points one, four, and five) that were posted in the Growtopia forums.
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It's appropriate during National Pollinator Week to remember that.
We spotted this newly emerged green bottle fly (below) nectaring on lavender last week in our yard.
It seemed out of place among the honey bees, leafcutter bees and carpenter bees working the blossoms.
We didn't recognize it as a newly emerged green bottle fly, Lucilla sericata. But fly experts Martin Hauser of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Terry Whitworth of Washington State University, did.
Family Calliphoridae. Genus Lucilla. Species sericata.
"This looks like a Calliphoridae which just emerged, so the wings are still folded," said senior insect biosystematist Hauser.
Said Whitworth, an adjunct professor of entomology at WSU who maintains the websites birdblowfly.com and blowflies.net: "This is a teneral fly, not fully sclerotized. You can see it just emerged and the wings have still not extended so identification can be tough. However, the shot clearly shows three postacrostichals which almost certainly makes it the common, cosmopolitan Lucilia sericata."
Forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey of UC Davis marveled at the newly emerged fly. "Something dead in your yard?" he quipped.
"No," we said. "But the cat caught a rat the other day. We disposed of it quite quickly." Not the cat, the rat.
'Course, flies aren't known for being pollinators. They're better known--and rightfully so--for disposing of carrion and as the key tool in forensic entomology. They're also used in medical science as maggot therapy. And for art: one of Kimsey's former graduate students, forensic entomologist Rebecca O'Flaharty, coined the term "Maggot Art" (trademarked) and that's one of the activities at the annual UC Davis Picnic Day. Graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Entomology and Nematology show youths how to dip a maggot in water-based, non-toxic paint, place it on white paper, and let it crawl. Voila! Maggot Art! Suitable for framing...
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Men With Brooms is a Canadian romantic, comedic drama that follows four estranged friends who must reunite to overcome the past and win a second chance at life, love, and the pursuit of the perfectly thrown rock…
Nothing's been quite the same in the small town of Long Bay, Ontario since Chris Cutter (Paul Gross) cut town ten years ago. When the curling star left, he didn't just throw away his team's chance to win the Golden Broom – the "Stanley Cup" of the curling world – he inexplicably hurled their curling stones into the waters of local Trout Lake. And he also threw away a chance at love, leaving his beautiful fiancée Julie Foley (Michelle Nolden) standing at the altar.
While Julie survived Cutter's rapid retreat (she's become a top-flight astronaut), he sunk the sporting dreams of his three teammates and left them behind to fare for themselves. And they haven't fared too well: Neil Bucyk (James Allodi) is a dissatisfied mortician in a marriage as cold as his customers; James Lennox (Peter Outerbridge) courts both a Rent-A-Date (Polly Shannon) and a heap of trouble, this time in the form of a thug who's tracking him down in search of payback; and, Eddie Strombeck (Jed Rees), a man whose single digit sperm count is keeping he and his wife from ultimate domestic bliss. And last but not least, is Julie's sister Amy Foley (Molly Parker), a single mom who battles alcohol alongside regrets that she never spoke up to claim Cutter for herself. It's been ten long years with no answers and even less future for Cutter's old friends, but things are about to change for Cutter's back in town…
Cutter returns to his roots for the funeral of Coach Foley (Amy and Julie's father), his old friend and mentor who died while trying to raise the curling rocks from the bottom of Trout Lake. If guilt weren't enough to make him stay, his plans change when he hears the codicil to Coach Foley's will and discovers that his former coach wants his ashes placed in the curling team's Copernicus stone. He wants Cutter to put the old team together and, moreover, he wants them to place his stone — now his urn — on the "button" (the curling ring bulls eye) to finally win the prestigious Golden Broom.
Realizing his motley (and out of shape) crew will be hard-pressed to win without a coach, Cutter swallows his pride and calls upon a retired curling champion – his estranged father Gordon Cutter (Leslie Nielsen). Thus, these four men with brooms, along with their eccentric new coach, set off on a comedic journey which takes them from frozen lakes to huge arenas, searching for perfect stones, lost loves and second chances.
The Canadian romantic, comedic drama Men With Brooms stars Paul Gross, Leslie Nielsen, Molly Parker, Jed Rees, Peter Outerbridge, Jim Allodi, Polly Shannon, Michelle Nolden, Jane Spidell and Kari Matchett.
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Optus has announced pricing details for the HTC Incredible S Android smartphone, which will be available exclusively through the telco for three months when it launches in Australia on 1 May.
Read our comprehensive HTC Incredible S review, and check out reviews of other top HTC phones.
The Incredible S will be available for $0 upfront on the $49 Optus cap over 24 months. The plan includes $500 worth of calls and text, and 1.5GB of data, along with free Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, eBay, LinkedIn and Foursquare access. The Incredible S will also be available for Optus business customers on the $49 business complete ultimate plan. Optus will sell the Incredible S in stores from 1 May, and online from 6 May.
The HTC Incredible S Android phone is a successor to the HTC Droid Incredible; a smartphone that launched in the US market exclusively with the Verizon network. Like HTC's other new Android phones, the Desire S and the Wildfire S, the HTC Incredible S is a slight upgrade rather than a huge overhaul of the original Incredible. The main point of difference is the aluminium unibody design, which HTC says gives it a tougher and more elegant feel than the original model.
The HTC Incredible S has a 4in, capacitive SLCD touchscreen with a 480x800-pixel resolution, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and 768MB of RAM. HTC has also included an 8-megapixel camera that doubles as a 720p HD video recorder, and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calling.
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Optus' rival Telstra has already secured exclusive rights to sell HTC's other new Android phone — the HTC Desire S — in the coming months.


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2010 is the 1,500th anniversary of the arrival in the Luss area of St Kessog — or MacKessog, the Gaelic form of St Kessog — and the celebrations have already begun.
Legends say that St Kessog came from Ireland and established a monastery on the island of Inchtavannach. The name of Inchtavannach actually means monks island.
St Kessog founded the first church in Luss, but ten years after his arrival he was martyred, perhaps at Bandry, about a quarter mile south of the village.
When Robert the Bruce went into battle against the English at Bannockburn it was in the name of the blessed Kessog, and after his victory there he decreed a three-mile sanctuary around Luss.
When the Reformation came to the Luss area, the Catholics buried their treasures in a small mound for safe keeping — and then forgot about them!
However when the army were building the first road up Loch Lomondside around 1750, they dug into this mound and unearthed the treasures, which are today in Luss Church.
They found a carved stone head now reckoned to be about 1,000 years old and of St Kessog; a medieval carved stone statue of a man in clerical garb, now also reckoned to be of St Kessog and probably about 500 years old; and a stone baptismal font, believed to be about 1,000 years old and still in use.
The Rev Dane Sherrard (pictured above), minister of Luss Parish Church, established the Luss Pilgrimage Centre several years ago to explain this history in much more detail. It is in the low building across the road from the church.
Mr Sherrard was also instrumental in having the bridge across the river rebuilt, providing access to the glebe where a cross has also been erected. A Pilgrim's path also circles the glebe.
The celebrations started on January 1, just after the stroke of midnight, with the ringing of a HM Submarines bell, borrowed from the Clyde Submarine Base at Faslane, from the 'Hill of the Bell' on Inchtavannach.
On Sunday January 17 the Very Rev Dr John Cairns, a former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, preached at a special service in the church, and on January 31 the minister of Glasgow Cathedral, the Rev Dr Laurence Whitley preached at a service to mark the link between the church and the Cathedral.
In 1429 the Bishop of Glasgow, John Cameron, upgraded Luss Church to a prebend of his cathedral and appointed a vicar to administer the parish — a mark of the number of people who were visiting the village at that time as pilgrims. In return the church paid £3 a year to the cathedral, and this relationship lasted until the Reformation.
The special guest who preached on February 21 was the now retired Rev James H.Simpson, former chairman of the Church of Scotland General Trustees, who encouraged and assisted all the developments at the church this century. Also visiting in February for ten days were a party from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Intense preparations are underway for St Kessog's Day on Wednesday March 10, when a life-sized statue of the Saint will placed on the glebe and dedicated.
A special exhibition will be opened in the church's new heritage centre within the Pilgrimage Centre, and all round the wood-panelled room, the story of Kessog (left) will be told across medieval-style manuscripts and on eight flat screen monitors.
The church itself will be the venue for a multimedia exhibition highlighting important historical events in the life of the church and the village from St Kessog's time to the present day, and A new book, 'Luss: The First Fifteen Hundred Years', by John Sinclair, will also be launched.
All the celebrations are being chronicled on the church's extensive and much-praised website, which is http://www.lussonline.net, and the story of St Kessog is told in an article in the Religion section in the Heritage area of this site.
- The photo of Mr Sherrard is by courtesy of the Helensburgh Advertiser.


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When I got in last night, a tad tipsy as a result of wine involvement at the beeb, Myfwt was already in, on the phone of course to a sister (giggling) but ready to serve me with Rioja and pizza, specifically a meat feast as she'd an inkling 'I'd be pissed'. Fucking ace. This morning not all was ace, in addition to a hangover, my morning movement wasn't the usual Trafalgar Square Lapper, oh no, it was more of a case of farting out a Gormley, my delicate freckle subsequently feels as if Janet Street Porter has been eating habanero chillies orf it.
I read something yesterday evening from the revolting tabloid that is the Metro that caused me to say 'cunt' on the tube in front of strangers and hurl the fucking rag down the carriage, allow me to hand this one over to you. Some 17-year-old ginger halfwit was given a piano by a relative. So far so good, but it turns out that said piano was rescued from a recording studio previously used by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Queen … Indeed Freddie Mercury himself had paid to have it repaired after he damaged it 'playing too roughly'. But the recipient of this legendary instrument is far from happy, Emily Davies, 17, from the forest of fucking Dean says the bands 'hammered it so its not a very good piano', and it's covered in fag burns. Her piano, the headline claims, isn't a 'Steinway to Heaven' and she'd like to 'have a word with Led Zeppelin for wrecking it'. I'm not going to make any more comment on this but if you're not apoplectic with seething rage after reading that there is something wrong with you. I hope Emily's fanny eats her alive.
Right, busy day and a busy weekend to boot. Due to all of this I've decided to publish an article on Piqued that I wrote about getting a kidney stone, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want Morphine. Following that the usual despicable Friday list, the last one of 2007, and to cap the lot orf, some very early Pink Floyd as promised in yesterdays ramblings. It's probably my best ever youtube find, it's astonishing, quite lovely.
Do have nice weekends won't you.
Renal Chronic
It was about 9 in the pub when I noticed that the stitch-like pain in my side wasn't pulsing like indigestion or a pulled muscle. It was just there. It didn't alter no matter how I shifted in my chair or rubbed the area directly below my rib cage on the left hand side of my stomach. When I climbed into bed it was still present but the 4 pints of beer and a large spliff ensured that I got a good nights sleep.
The following morning at work the pain had somewhat increased, still in the same place it had now become a major distraction and I figured that it was time to make an appointment to visit a doctor. By lunchtime whilst walking to the bank I was in a state of denial, now it was starting to really hurt but the knowledge of my decision to have it checked out somehow, remarkably, comforted my usual state of paranoia.
Then it got really bad. My colleague noticed that I had turned a whiter shade of green and it was at this very point that I asked her to drive me to the hospital, as soon as this decision left my lips all hell broke loose and I was in a excruciating agony. In her car I writhed and bit my hand to transfer the awful feeling to another area but it was no use, I was in the grip of a peculiar fever and was dimly aware of a loss of mental faculties, to such an extent that when I went into casualty I had pulled down my trousers and was stood in my pants trying to tell a receptionist what was wrong. I think I was gibbering, I decided to lie down on the hospital floor, and then decided to stand up again.
After what seemed like a day I was put on a trolley a wheeled into a large room with other trolley's, nurses and curtains. During the wait for assistance my trolley became a sort of climbing frame, I wrapped myself round the steel bars and clearly remember climbing under it. A nurse asked me what I was doing, something in my eyes sparked some attention and I was handed some pills. They came immediately back out of me along with my unspecified lunch. Catherine, who had taken me in her car was holding a cardboard kidney tray full of my stinking vomit, this was beyond the call of her work detail. I think I said thank you.
Mercifully, after losing my lunch I was wheeled off by the most beautiful nurse who took me to a cubicle, muttered something sweet and chucked 10mg of Morphine into my leg. My sticky veins instantly opened wide and within seconds all manner of pain had melted to nothing, ironically replaced by a wonderful delirium. Take the awesome delights of a cold sweat, add half a bottle of claret and the peak of a long bout of laughing, then remove any form of discomfort in any way association with the above. I could feel the hairs on my arms reaching out for pleasure and when they arrived in the form of Myfwt, when her long fingers ran slowly through my hair rippling fizzy bubbles of ecstasy through my feet, up my calves, in my stomach and over the back of my jaw, I was already gravity free and floating gently in space
Its quite comforting to know that in the last stages of life, if the patient is suffering discomfort, they rig them up to a machine known in medical slang as the death-pump. That equates to 40 mgs of morphine an hour. You people won't fear the reaper, I promise, you'll be asking him to back to your flat for a nightcap.
I lay on the trolley in a room with just Myfwt and me. I was there for hours and hours, I lay on my stomach the muscles in my body gently creaking as they relaxed from the earlier pain. Presently 2 doctors came into the room. They were both young and seemed to be in good spirits, I seem to remember them both as very handsome and it seemed somehow inappropriate that we were all in this room together, especially as someone had put me in a surgical gown so my arse was pointing at them.
It would seem, however that this was the intention. They introduced themselves, Dr. Crippen and Dr. Kildare (I dunno, I was caned) and suggested to me that what they were about to do may be uncomfortable.
'Mr. Piqued, I am going to examine you by just putting my finger into your rectum and checking for any abnormalities'.
I think I said bring it on.
Either way following the snap of a latex glove a chubby finger slip into my freckle. I asked the doctor if we had been properly introduced. I think someone laughed, I am sure it was me but either way the feeling was nothing short of magnificent. I had to stifled a gurgle.
'Mr. Piqued, as I suspected you have a kidney stone, it has now left your blah blah and is travelling, as we speak down your blah blah, blah…blah.. piss it out in 3 days in pieces after we have radiated you (or something like that).
Still creamed off my noggin I decided it was time for a cigarette, temporarily forgetting that I was now wired to a drip and had to push a little trolley from which was suspended saline solution. Basically I went and the little trolley followed wherever I went, sort of like Mary and her little lamb but not as comforting.
I approached Myfwt who had cleared a path for my wheels, standing outside and crying softly at the sight of me. I must have looked pathetic, white and boggled eyed in utter confusion from the outside of me but inside, all was well thank you. I tried to explain this but I think it came out as swearing.
When we got back to the ward I was awarded my very own trolley which was eventually discreetly pushed into a corner where curtains were drawn around me and, to my utter delight, a sleeping Myfwt. I woke up thinking I had done something wrong until the creeping ache around my waste signified another attack of pain. Instead of a lesson in visiting hours the first nurse that saw me smiled and injected another 10mgs of Morphine into my leg, once again delighted with my situation we left our temporary dwellings and wondered off toward the canteen to get some coffee where I relieved myself of a good 35 seconds worth of foul smelling gases. They left making the sound of a slow handclap, which I found to be the funniest thing since that elephant shat on the Blue Peter studio floor.
Needless to say the rest of the events in the hospital are a bit of a muddle, I was put on a ward that coincidentally, I had worked on during my time as an auxiliary nurse whilst studying as an art student. I also remember that I was put into Mr. Dougherty's old bed who had died of pneumonia about an hour before my shift had finished. At some point in the following afternoon since my initial arrival, Myfwt had to go, her sister was about to have her first child and throughout the whole process she was phoning her on the hour to check up on proceedings. In spite of the regular admissions of Morphine her leaving was nonetheless a severe blow and for the first time I began to get frightened of the impersonal aspect of my surroundings.
That first night on the ward was vaguely unpleasant; one of the patients was snoring at sonic boom level, which caused some of the other patients to randomly shout obscenities. My predicament was worsened by the lights being turned off at 10.30 at least 2 hours before my body clock was due to begin shut down and as a result I began to enter the first stages of a panic attack, even when my night-night dose of Morphine was administered the charm-less nurse stuck the needle in my leg with such force I carried a high intensity bruise for a full month.
The following day Myfwt came to see me, she had spent the night in my flat and her sisters baby was now officially overdue, my brother also dropped by but I have no recollection of his visit. I do, however, remember Myfwt rushing up to tell me that her sisters waters had broken and she rushed off to see the arrival of her niece, Isabella who arrived into the world with some temporary complications at 8lbs.
When in the full woolly grip of the Morphine I have smoky memories of reading motorcycle magazines, endlessly going to the toilet and peeing for what seemed like hours on end and being given injections. I remember every one because they were becoming painful albeit very welcome. I have no real recollection of the rest of that day or that night but I do remember that in the morning of day four I was sent down for tests. There was an issue about the amount of time of my arrival to the actual test but someone else championed this on my behalf, though it may well just have easily been me complaining. Who knows?
The intention was to dye my urinary tract and x-ray the area to identify the location of the rock in my system, this would then be zapped by ultra sound but this was not to be. I was informed that, after lying on my back for 2 hours with the taste of rust in my mouth, the stone had reached the end of its journey at it would come out on its own; I was in all intents and purposes free to leave. I was wheeled back to the ward where I was allowed to eat some 'matter', I collected my belongings and made for the nurses station. I informed the nurse that I was off and politely requested a final shot of Morphine for my journey. Without any sense of irony she actually told me to fuck off.
I wandered out into the street, abandoned, out of my brains, weak and extraordinarily confused. I needed a cab but didn't have the cash or the capacity to figure out how to go about getting one so I found my way to the bus stop. It was only sheer luck that I knew where I was and which bus to take home.
When it finally arrived I was feeling, as I would imagine, like an old man. I felt venerable and confused, my bones clattered together with the smallest quark of movement and every time the dumb suspension of the bus failed to soak up a pothole my teeth shook in my skull. I was also aware of the Morphine beginning to leave my system, it made me anxious and paranoid that the pain was going to return, bearing in mind that that I was in the knowledge that an uncut diamond had been slicing its way through hair sized tubes and was now resting, waiting to exit at the bottom of my guts, I had good reason to assume that more may be lurking within.
Two days later it unceremoniously came out. I was taking a pee and my system sort of shuddered and came to a brief halt during mid flow, there was a gorgeous eye-rolling induced feeling throughout the entire length of my manhood and with an audible 'ping' a small perfectly white stone shot out of me, hit the porcelain and disappeared forever into the pan.
I felt purged, cured and concerned that I may see more in due course, I have forced myself to drink more water, the basic preventative solution to stones but have fallen down on the instruction to avoid cheeses and wine. Ever time I get a pain in my side I get a little concerned but when all is said and done it's hardly a life threatening condition.
Lately I met a woman who in addition to having 2 children had also passed a stone. She told me the pain was just as bad as childbirth, well, I said, at least you get something out of childbirth, something to show for your agony, with kidney stone you get, well, a stone from your kidney.
And Morphine, she said. I nodded in agreement. I suppose after all it wasn't all that bad.
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Other Treatments for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
]]>Main Page]]> | ]]>Cause]]> | ]]>Risk Factors]]> | ]]>Symptoms]]> | ]]>Diagnosis]]> | ]]>Treatment]]> | ]]>Screening]]> | ]]>Reducing Your Risk]]> | ]]>Talking to Your Doctor]]> | ]]>Living With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome]]> | ]]>Resource Guide]]>
Aside from surgery, medication and lifestyle changes, several other treatments can help ease the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Rest, Ice, Elevation
Along with taking anti-inflammatory medication, you'll need to rest your hands and wrists for a short time. In addition to rest and medications, ice and elevation can provide temporary relief from carpal tunnel syndrome while you are modifying your lifestyle to prevent recurrence.
To assure that your wrist is rested, your doctor may choose to put your wrist in a splint. The splint holds the wrist in a cocked-up position. It may be worn only at night, when symptoms are usually at their worst, or throughout the day and night. Since any motion raises the pressure in the carpal tunnel and counteracts the effects of the splint, many doctor recommend the splint be worn continuously for the first week to ten days.
According to a report published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a simple warm-up routine may greatly reduce the incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome. This routine, combined with medication and rest, may prove to be better at treating symptoms than simple rest and medication.
The warm-up routine is as follows:
- Hold your hands in front of you as if pushing on a wall. Count to five.
- Relax your wrists and fingers.
- Make tight fists with both hands.
- Bend both fists downward. Count to five.
- Repeat each step ten times.
- Then shake arms loosely while hanging at your side.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website. Available at: http://www.aaos.org/ .
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research website. Available at: http://www.mayo.edu/ .
Last reviewed August 2008 by ]]>Robert Leach, MD]]>
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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HARTFORD, Conn — Lawyers for a woman mauled by a chimpanzee in Connecticut have agreed to settle a lawsuit against the estate of the primate's now-dead owner, but there's a dispute over the final details, according to court documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Attack victim Charla Nash's brother filed the lawsuit on her behalf in 2009 in state Superior Court seeking $50 million in damages from chimp owner Sandra Herold, who died in 2010. Nash was blinded, lost both hands and underwent a face transplant after being mauled outside Herold's home in Stamford in February 2009.
Lawyers for Nash's twin brother, Michael Nash, accused executors of Herold's estate this week of failing to provide information needed to complete the settlement, according to a court document obtained by the AP. Details of the deal weren't available.
Lawyers in the case and Nash family members didn't immediately return messages Thursday.
Charla Nash, 57, now lives in a nursing home outside of Boston. She had gone to Herold's home on the day of the attack to help lure Herold's 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, back into her home. But the animal went berserk and ripped off Nash's nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by a police officer.
A month after the mauling, Nash's family sued Herold for alleged negligence and recklessness.
The lawsuit alleged Herold knew Travis was dangerous, but failed to confine him to a secure area and allowed him to roam her property.
Travis had previously bitten another woman's hand and tried to drag her into a car in 1996, bit a man's thumb two years later and escaped from her home and roamed downtown Stamford for hours being captured in 2003, according to the lawsuit.
Nash' family is also trying to sue the state for $150 million, but is awaiting permission from the state claims commissioner. The state is immune from lawsuits unless they're allowed by the claims commissioner.
Nash wants to sue the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, which she holds responsible for not seizing the animal before the attack despite a state biologist's warning it was dangerous.
"I hope and pray that the commissioner will give me my day in court," Charla Nash told reporters following a hearing in August before Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr. "And I also pray that I hope this never happens to anyone else again. It is not nice."
Court documents obtained by the AP on Thursday show the settlement between Nash's family and Herold's estate was approved by the Stamford Probate Court on Sept. 25 and the two sides met on Nov. 13 to finalize it.
A lawyer for Michael Nash, Matthew Newman, said in a court document filed Tuesday that since Nov. 13, "executors have failed and refused to provide information necessary to complete the settlement."


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Construction Worker Pretend Play PromptShop the Story
(This pretend play prompt brought to you by guest blogger Joyce of Childhood Beckons.)
Pretend play is an important part of childhood. When children are pretending, storytelling, and role playing they are learning a myriad of skills. I try my best to encourage pretend play and one of my favorite ways is to set up a pretend play prompt.
This construction worker play prompt was a fun success! I began by creating an inviting space for my son to play and explore. I kept it simple and set out some blocks, play dough, craft sticks, toothpicks and dried beans on our train table. Then I built a road that ran around the table, allowing his Melissa & Doug Wooden Construction Site Vehicles Set to travel to all of the various construction sites. I finished off the invitation to play with his Melissa & Doug Construction Worker Role Play Costume Set and a printable.
I created and laminated this work order printable so he could use it repeatedly to draw and check off the jobs he completes. If you like this printable, feel free to save and print for your own construction fun!
He was thrilled when he saw his surprise and immediately got to work. He constructed tall towers and houses with the blocks. He used his vehicles for demolitions and rock pushing. He used his tools, built structures, and ran his trucks through the play dough. And each time he completed another job, he marked it off his list!
More Ways to Play:
- Start with story time! Read a construction themed book together before you let your little builder loose.
- Fix simple household items. Take apart a flash light, a cell phone, or a watch and have your child put it back together again.
- Take a lunch break! Make a bagged lunch for your child to take with them to work.
- Set up a digging patch. It doesn't have to be dirt! Use dried beans, pasta, or even cloud dough. This Melissa & Doug Trailer and Excavator Wooden Vehicle Play Set would make a fun addition to any digging patch.
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A proposal by TSOs should typically be consulted upon in accordance with Article 6 and, according to Article 4(8), submitted to the concerned regulatory authorities and to the Agency and should contain a timescale for implementation and the expected impact on the objectives of the FCA Regulation as referred to in Article 3. The concerned regulatory authorities should take decisions concerning the proposed terms and conditions or methodologies within six months after the receipt of the proposal. Where the regulatory authorities are not able to agree on the approval of the proposal, they can request an amendment, which gives TSOs an extra two months for amending the proposal and another two months for the regulatory authorities to approve the amended proposal. If, in either case, the regulatory authorities are not able to reach unanimous agreement or upon their joint request, the Agency shall adopt a decision within six months from the referral.
After the adoption of the terms and conditions or methodologies, the TSOs responsible for developing the respective proposals or the regulatory authorities responsible for their adoption, may request amendments of these terms and conditions or methodologies, in accordance with Article 4(12). In that case the proposals for amendment to the terms and conditions or methodologies shall be submitted to consultation and follow the approval procedure as described above.


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Bacteria are microscopic living organisms, unicellular and present in all types of biotopes encountered on Earth including the human body. They can be isolated from the soil, water, air, ocean depths, radioactive waste, the earth's crust, skin...
There are about 10 000 known species to date, but the true diversity of the bacterial world is probably greater. The estimate of the number of species oscillates between 5 and 10 million[1].
Knowledge of rare microorganisms
Many species of bacteria are poorly known and not exploited because they cannot be cultured in the laboratory. They have developed a metabolism adapted to their natural environment (specific conditions of temperature, acidity, oxygenation) that are very difficult to reproduce.
Since its inception, DEINOVE has developed a specific expertise in this field: by fine tuning the culture conditions (nutrients, pH, oxygen, etc.), DEINOVE researchers have managed to culture these rare micro-organisms and study the compounds that they express in different conditions, opening up a whole world of discoveries and potential innovations.
A unique biological collection, source of innovative compounds
DEINOVE's bacterial collection includes more than 6000 strains, including about 40% of Deinococcus and 60% of other rare bacterial genera, all selected through an original process based on UV resistance. This proprietary and patented selection method has allowed it to collect rare strains with varied properties.
DEINOVE's rare bacterial strains collection
The Deinococccus genus
DEINOVE has based its scientific approach on the knowledge and valorization of the genetic and metabolic potentialities of the bacterial genus Deinococcus. This bacterium, discovered by chance in 1956, has exceptional properties that had never been valued. Highly resistant to environmental stresses (drought, extreme temperatures, radiation, ionization, UV exposure, etc.), Deinococcus bacteria have been present on Earth for 3.5 billion years, making it one of the oldest living creatures and an amazing microorganism.
Deinococcus is particularly known for its particularly efficient DNA repair mechanism. After suffering a number of breaks in its DNA that is enough to kill any other known living organism, Deinococcus is able to regenerate completely in just a few hours. This very sophisticated mechanism involves an action to prevent cell damage thanks to antioxidant molecules such as Deinoxanthine, a carotenoid responsible for the color of Deinococcus.
Deinococcus is the bacterial chassis used historically by DEINOVE and in particular in the production process of Phyt-N-Resist® for the conversion of sugars into phytoene.
Other rare bacterial genera
The DEINOVE collection also has nearly 3,500 strains of various rare bacterial genera. Rare genera are generally little studied, especially since they can be difficult to culture in laboratories. DEINOVE has developed a specific expertise in the culture, screening, and engineering of these microorganisms with the objective of identifying all opportunities for producing compounds of interest in health, cosmetics, or nutrition.
An expanding collection
DEINOVE continues to expand its strain bank in a targeted way, mainly to multiply the chances of discovering new antibiotic structures. To do this, the Company has modified its approach according to two axes:
- Collection of new strains: DEINOVE collaborates with specialists in environmental microbiology to identify environments that are particularly conducive to the discovery of new antibiotics, such as contaminated environments, waste, etc.
- External collaborations: DEINOVE enters into agreements with pharmaceutical companies to access new strains, potentially producing antibiotics. The Company focuses on rare bacterial genera that could complement its own collection. In the event of a promising discovery, the strains concerned may be the subject of an acquisition or license agreement. This is, for example, the aim of the collaborations with bioMérieux and Naicons.
The objective of the AGIR Program is to collect and characterize 2000 new strains per year over the 5 years of the project.
Samples of DEINOVE'S strain collection
Deinococcus geothermalis
Collected at Piton de la Fournaise (Reunion Island) | Bacterium from the Deinococcales group | Antioxidant, healing and whitening activities
Deinococcus aquaticus
Collected in Brittany (France) | Bacterium from the Deinococcales group | Antioxidant activity | Produces nutrients for animal health | Produces red pigment
Collected in Aquitaine (France) | Protoobacterium from the Sphingomonadaceae group | Antioxidant and healing activities | Produces yellow pigment | Licensed out to Greentech
Microbacterium arborescens
Collected in Occitania (France) | Protoobacterium from the Microbacteriaceae group | Antibiotic activity (DNB101/102) | Produces blue pigment
[1] Isabelle Burgun, « Bactéries : La guerre des mondes » [archive], Agence Science-Presse, 28 novembre 2012.


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When governments direct markets the very best that they can possibly hope to achieve is misdirection.
Germany's Energy Poverty: How Electricity Became a Luxury Good
Germany's agressive and reckless expansion of wind and solar power has come with a hefty pricetag for consumers, and the costs often fall disproportionately on the poor. Government advisors are calling for a completely new start.
If you want to do something big, you have to start small. That's something German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier knows all too well. The politician, a member of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has put together a manual of practical tips on how everyone can make small, everyday contributions to the shift away from nuclear power and toward green energy. The so-called Energiewende, or energy revolution, is Chancellor Angela Merkel's project of the century.
"Join in and start today," Altmaier writes in the introduction. He then turns to such everyday activities as baking and cooking. "Avoid preheating and utilize residual heat," Altmaier advises. TV viewers can also save a lot of electricity, albeit at the expense of picture quality. "For instance, you can reduce brightness and contrast," his booklet suggests.Altmaier and others are on a mission to help people save money on their electricity bills, because they're about to receive some bad news. The government predicts that the renewable energy surcharge added to every consumer's electricity bill will increase from 5.3 cents today to between 6.2 and 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour — a 20-percent price hike.
German consumers already pay the highest electricity prices in Europe. But because the government is failing to get the costs of its new energypolicy under control, rising prices are already on the horizon. Electricity is becoming a luxury good in Germany, and one of the country's most important future-oriented projects is acutely at risk.
After the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan two and a half years ago, Merkel quickly decided to begin phasing out nuclear power and lead the country into the age of wind and solar. But now many Germans are realizing the coalition government of Merkel's CDU and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) is unable to cope with this shift. Of course, this doesn't mean that the public has any more confidence in a potential alliance of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens. The political world is wedged between the green-energy lobby, masquerading as saviors of the world, and the established electric utilities, with their dire warnings of chaotic supply problems and job losses.
Even well-informed citizens can no longer keep track of all the additional costs being imposed on them. According to government sources, the surcharge to finance the power grids will increase by 0.2 to 0.4 cents per kilowatt hour next year. On top of that, consumers pay a host of taxes, surcharges and fees that would make any consumer's head spin.
Former Environment Minister Jürgen Tritten of the Green Party once claimed that switching Germany to renewable energy wasn't going to cost citizens more than one scoop of ice cream. Today his successor Altmaier admits consumers are paying enough to "eat everything on the ice cream menu."
Paying Big for Nothing
For society as a whole, the costs have reached levels comparable only to the euro-zone bailouts. This year, German consumers will be forced to pay €20 billion ($26 billion) for electricity from solar, wind and biogas plants — electricity with a market price of just over €3 billion. Even the figure of €20 billion is disputable if you include all the unintended costs and collateral damage associated with the project. Solar panels and wind turbines at times generate huge amounts of electricity, and sometimes none at all. Depending on the weather and the time of day, the country can face absurd states of energy surplus or deficit.
If there is too much power coming from the grid, wind turbines have to be shut down. Nevertheless, consumers are still paying for the "phantom electricity" the turbines are theoretically generating. Occasionally, Germany has to pay fees to dump already subsidized green energy, creating what experts refer to as "negative electricity prices."
On the other hand, when the wind suddenly stops blowing, and in particular during the cold season, supply becomes scarce. That's when heavy oil and coal power plants have to be fired up to close the gap, which is why Germany's energy producers in 2012 actually released more climate-damaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than in 2011.
If there is still an electricity shortfall, energy-hungry plants like the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Hamburg are sometimes asked to shut down production to protect the grid. Of course, ordinary electricity customers are then expected to pay for the compensation these businesses are entitled to for lost profits.
The government has high hopes for the expansion of offshore wind farms. But the construction sites are in a state of chaos: Wind turbines off the North Sea island of Borkum are currently rotating without being connected to the grid. The connection cable will probably not be finished until next year. In the meantime, the turbines are being run with diesel fuel to prevent them from rusting.
In the current election campaign, the parties are blaming each other for the disaster. Meanwhile, the federal government would prefer to avoid discussing its energy policies entirely. "It exposes us to criticism," says a government spokesman. "There are undeniably major problems," admits a cabinet member.
But this week, the issue is forcing its way onto the agenda. On Thursday, a government-sanctioned commission plans to submit a special report called "Competition in Times of the Energy Transition." The report is sharply critical, arguing that Germany's current system actually rewards the most inefficient plants, doesn't contribute to protecting the climate, jeopardizes the energy supply and puts the poor at a disadvantage.
The experts propose changing the system to resemble a model long successful in Sweden. If implemented, it would eliminate the more than 4,000 different subsidies currently in place. Instead of bureaucrats setting green energy prices, they would be allowed to develop indepedently on a separate market. The report's authors believe the Swedish model would lead to faster and cheaper implementation of renewable energy, and that the system would also become what it is not today: socially just.
Trouble Paying the Bills
When Stefan Becker of the Berlin office of the Catholic charity Caritas makes a house call, he likes to bring along a few energy-saving bulbs. Many residents still use old light bulbs, which consume a lot of electricity but are cheaper than newer bulbs. "People here have to decide between spending money on an expensive energy-saving bulb or a hot meal," says Becker. In other words, saving energy is well and good — but only if people can afford it.
A family Becker recently visited is a case in point. They live in a dark, ground-floor apartment in Berlin's Neukölln neighborhood. On a sunny summer day, the two children inside had to keep the lights on — which drives up the electricity bill, even if the family is using energy-saving bulbs.
Becker wants to prevent his clients from having their electricity shut off for not paying their bill. After sending out a few warning notices, the power company typically sends someone to the apartment to shut off the power — leaving the customers with no functioning refrigerator, stove or bathroom fan. Unless they happen to have a camping stove, they can't even boil water for a cup of tea. It's like living in the Stone Age.
Once the power has been shut off, it's difficult to have it switched on again. Customers have to negotiate a payment plan, and are also charged a reconnection fee of up to €100. "When people get their late payment notices in the spring, our phones start ringing," says Becker.
In the near future, an average three-person household will spend about €90 a month for electricity. That's about twice as much as in 2000.Two-thirds of the price increase is due to new government fees, surcharges and taxes. But despite those price hikes, government pensions and social welfare payments have not been adjusted. As a result, every new fee becomes a threat to low-income consumers.


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In this section, you will power on your system and use the Toradex Easy Installer to flash the latest Toradex pre-built image to your module.
In this module you will:
Press the on/off switch (SW7):
You should see the Toradex Easy Installer displayed on the monitor attached to the VGA port of the Colibri Evaluation Board. Images available for download are listed. If none are currently shown, check that the Ethernet cable is connected and press "r" to refresh.
Your module should have come with the Toradex Easy Installer pre-installed.
If this isn't the case, you can follow the link below to deploy the Toradex Easy Installer to the module before proceeding:
Use the connected keyboard arrow key buttons to navigate and select the Toradex Embedded Linux Demo with LXDE and press "i" to install and enter to confirm:
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Obamacare continues to unravel, even more thoroughly than its harshest critics could have hallucinated. Now, rather than chop the GOP in two by enacting comprehensive immigration reform, House Republican leaders should divide Democrats by scheduling incremental votes on pro-patient ideas to replace Obamacare.
Just this week, the Congressional Budget Office reported that Obamacare's disincentives to hire and incentives not to work will reduce the U.S. work force by the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs by 2021.
Meanwhile, HealthCare.gov lurched into another wall. Some 22,000 Americans have completed seven-page-long appeals after they incorrectly were denied coverage or overcharged for Obamacare. Unfortunately, as the Washington Post revealed, "The part of the computer system that would allow agency workers to read and handle appeals has not been built." Not built? The $677 million website premiered on October 1!
Federal authorities also are combing HealthCare.gov for programming code reportedly drafted in an anti-American, Soviet-style dictatorship. One official told Bill Gertz, the Washington Free Beacon's veteran national-security correspondent: "The U.S. Affordable Care Act software was written in part in Belarus by software developers under state control, and that makes the software a potential target for cyber attacks." If true, one wonders, were Silicon Valley programmers so busy that Team Obama had to recruit talent in Minsk?
As Obamacare crumbles, the House at long last should pass legislation to demonstrate that Republicans oppose Obamacare but support free-market health-care solutions. Rather than write a 2,801-page bill in secret and then adopt it, unread — à la Obamacare — the GOP House should spend each week debating and then voting on one specific idea to replace Obama's pet monster, piece by piece.
Each of these small items likely would receive some Democratic votes, although the party uniformly would reject a single, catchall GOP alternative to Obamacare. This portfolio of votes will be highly instructive next November. Republican challengers can tell voters whether Democratic incumbents embraced or spurned, for instance, medical-malpractice reform, health-insurance purchases across state lines, termination of the medical-device tax, and a repeal of Obamacare's $47 billion bailout of health-insurance companies.
Republicans should give Democrats repeated opportunities to stand and be counted. Let Democrats help or hinder Republican efforts to allow universal health-savings accounts, tax-free health premiums, and tax deductibility for the value of charity care that doctors provide to the indigent and uninsured.
Harry Reid and Senate Democrats will kill or, more likely, ignore these pro-freedom, pro-patient concepts. Republicans then should tell voters: "If you like these ideas, reelect a Republican House and elect a Republican Senate. In 2015, we will pass this replacement for Obamacare. If Obama vetoes it, elect a Republican president in 2016. Together, we will drive Obamacare straight to the junkyard."
This all sounds much better than a GOP civil war over amnesty.
If Republicans feel compelled to act on immigration, they should adopt stronger, smarter border protections — for national security as much as to curb illegal immigration. As former national intelligence director Mike McConnell told the El Paso Times, "Terrorists have been caught trying to cross the Mexican border, and these interdictions saved American lives."
Republicans can promote lawful immigration by fast-tracking green cards for pro-American, crime-free foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges and wish to pursue the American Dream rather than jet home and compete against us.
GOP lawmakers and voters can unite behind these modest goals. However, granting illegal aliens amnesty will rip the Right in two, paralyze the conservative base in disgust, and possibly inspire exasperated activists to launch a third party to run against Republicans in general elections. This will guarantee Democratic victories from coast to coast.
Voting on Obamacare-replacement measures will unite Republicans and force Democrats to claw each other's eyes out. But pivoting from Obamacare to amnesty (for which there is no public clamor) will turn the GOP into Gettysburg, maintain the Senate in Harry Reid's hands, and possibly return the speaker's gavel to Nancy Pelosi's plutocratic fingers.
So, don't do that.
— Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.


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The World's Rich Are One Step Closer to Becoming Paupers
The 20 richest people on Earth lost a combined $11.3 billion yesterday…in their couch cushions.
Haha, just kidding. They lost it for realsies, on account of falling global markets and stalled European economic growth.
Bloomberg reports that Warren Buffett's personal fortune fell $407.3 million, dropping his net worth to a staggering[ly low] $43.9 billion.
Here is what $44 billion looks like written out: $44,000,000,000.
Lakshmi Mittal, chairman and chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel company, saw his own fortune drop by $918 million—enough to bump him off the list of the world's 20 richest people (down to #21), which must be embarrassing for his kids.
Potters' fields across the globe are being readied for the influx of shallow-dug graves this news portends.
In a related story, my own personal fortune increased by $1.21 today, thanks to a combination of ingenuity, discounts, and judiciously applied CVS ExtraBucks.
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DUBAI - Kidnappers in Syria on Sunday freed a U.S. journalist missing since 2012 following Qatari efforts to win his release, al Jazeera reported.
The Qatari-owned television station named the journalist as Peter Theo Curtis, and said he had been handed over to a representative of the United Nations.
His reported release happened just days after the Islamic State militant group fighting in Iraq and Syria issued a video shown the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
That video, together with a threat to kill another American journalist being held hostage, Steven Sotloff, inspired widespread revulsion in the West and a desire to hunt down the killer.
The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists estimates that about 20 journalists are missing in Syria. Many of them are believed to be held by Islamic State.
In a video statement released by Curtis's kidnappers at some point during his captivity, Curtis said he was a journalist from Boston, Massachusetts, Al Jazeera reported.
Commenting on his treatment in that video, Curtis said he "had everything" he needed and "everything has been perfect, food, clothing, even friends now."