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Britain is on the brink of a subsidy-free renewables "revolution" which could create up to 18GW of new capacity by 2030 and attract £20 billion of investment, analysts have claimed.
Analysis by Aurora suggested 9GW of solar, 5GW to 6GW of onshore wind and 3GW to 4GW of offshore wind could be built without subsidies by the end of the next decade
Aurora Energy Research said the explosion of subsidy-free renewables would largely snuff out the already dim prospects for new combined-cycle gas turbines (CCGTs).
"Back in 2010 at the start of the Electricity Market Reform process in Great Britain, few would have imagined that by 2018 we would be talking about a subsidy-free future for renewables," said Aurora head of product development Mateusz Wronski.
"Yet, this is where we have arrived, and our research highlights clearly the enormous prize and potential in the market, not only in Great Britain but across Europe.
"This will be a true game-changer for the energy industry and policy makers, with a knock-on effect on baseload technologies as well as flexible generation."
Analysis by Aurora suggested 9GW of solar, 5GW to 6GW of onshore wind and 3GW to 4GW of offshore wind could be built without subsidies by the end of the next decade. It predicted solar and onshore wind would reach grid parity in the early 2020s, whilst offshore wind would hit the milestone in the late 2020s or the 2030s.
To achieve the projected build out, financing costs would need to be lowered through a better understanding of the merchant risks for renewable generation.
Wronski toldthe renewables sector has already achieved massive reductions in the cost of building and operating assets, adding: "Cost of capital is the final piece of the puzzle that has yet to fall in place."
He continued: "The critical bit is getting comfortable with the risks and being able to finance these projects at a reasonable rate of return of something like 9 per cent.
"If that doesn't happen; if financing these merchant renewables occurred at say 13 per cent; then that simply doesn't work because the cost of capital is too high for merchant renewables to become viable".
One way of reducing merchant risks would be to "create a benchmark for the industry of a credible worst-case scenario of how low capture prices for renewables could go".
"This is about the investment community and developers sitting together and working out a common understanding of the risks in this area", he explained.
Path to subsidy-free solar
Source: Aurora Energy Research
Wronski said the analysis highlighted three main sources of risk to capture prices for renewables: commodity prices, including the carbon price; cannibalisation by other renewables, which depress prices as more come online; and the composition of the energy system and its impact on flexibility.
He said the last of the three was the most underappreciated and least understood, "partly because we really haven't been in a world where system composition was itself uncertain."
"If you are to deploy an additional gigawatt of solar when there's a lot of batteries and electric vehicles, you get a much higher capture price than if you were to deploy the same gigawatt in a system which is very inflexible," he added.
Subsidy-free Contracts for Difference would be a "game-changer", according to Wronski, "providing a bridge before a deeper [power purchase agreement] market emerges." He said they would be essential for offshore wind to achieve Aurora's projections.
The boom would be even faster and bigger if renewables were able to stack revenues from the capacity market and ancillary and balancing services. Just
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could bring forward grid parity by five years.
Wronski said the growth of subsidy-free renewables would have major implications for the rest of the power sector, reducing the utilisation and profitability of baseload generation but boosting the business case for flexible assets such as peaking plants, batteries and demand-side response (DSR).
If the revolution materialises, Aurora expects just 1GW of new CCGT capacity to be deployed between 2017 and 2030 – a near complete collapse when compared to the government's 2012 projection of 22GW.
"Batteries which thrive on arbitrage benefit from the additional volatility created by additional renewables, especially solar," said Wronski. "Similarly, gas reciprocating engines and DSR would benefit in that scenario".
Impact on CCGTs
Source: Aurora Energy Research
The findings were revealed earlier this week at an event hosted by Aurora in Oxford, during which energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry confirmed that
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Hello (again),
in the last few days I had nice exchange with the Mark who remembered me due to recent commit trying to solve problem of installing/running Tiki behind reverse-proxy, but more about in another post/thread.
In short: Marc has re-heated my enthusiasm for using Tiki for all my web needs which would include: {personal sites, site for non-profit org, business site for my own small company}.
I was evaluating Tiki back in 2012 and gave up due to several reasons.
In a recent time I was evaluating several (actually, lot of) static-site-generators and choices was reduced to Python-powered Nikola and Go-based Hugo.
At the moment, I've sites in WP and Textpattern, but do not like that all the content has to be entered online.
Moreover, both Nikola Hugo (will) allow to use Asciidoc markup which is suitable not for smaller blog posts, but for larger docs like books etc.
This post is my attempt to express what is, imho, one of the last weaknes of Tiki and that's some kind of "vendor lock-in" when it comes to content.
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I can e.g. easily convert ~150 posts from our non-profit web site into something else. Moreover, all the static-site-generators I tested, have e.g. ability to import from WordPress into e.g. markdown, so I believe that Tiki should move iand/or have support for more 'standard' markup or, at least, have ability to export/import so that user can create content without fear not to be able to migrate to something else without too much pain.
Here, I'd like to suggest to consider using Asciidoc(tor) which is mature markup (created in 2002 even before Markdown). It's e.g. used on Github and authors can even submit books to O'Reilly for publishing.
In a recent time there is new initiative and port to Ruby called Asciidoctor.
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The legendary "Bigfoot" monster truck has abandoned its Ford F-series body for the first time in favor of Chevy Silverado styling. This is the new Bigfoot.
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Why is keeping your blood pressure healthy important?Having high blood pressure, which is also called hypertension, can lead to significant damage to your heart or brain. People often don't have any symptoms when their blood pressure is high. That's why hypertension is called the "silent killer." People with high blood pressure are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than people with normal blood pressure.
Fortunately, you can make healthy choices that will help you control your blood pressure. Keeping your weight healthy, eating a heart-healthy diet with low levels of sodium and getting enough regular physical activity can help keep your blood pressure normal.
How and when should I measure my blood pressure?An inflatable cuff is wrapped around your arm to measure your blood pressure. The person measuring your blood pressure inflates the cuff so that it presses against your arm. The gauge measures the pressure your blood creates as it pushes blood through your arm past the cuff.
Blood pressure is measured using two numbers. The first number (systolic) represents the pressure in your blood vessels when your heart beats. The second number (diastolic) represents the pressure in your vessels when your heart rests between beats. If the measurement is 120 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) systolic and 80 mmHg diastolic, you would say "120 over 80" or write it as "120/80 mmHg."
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"The decision is novel and unprecedented. It contradicts 150 years of practice by Democratic and Republican administrations." — White House press secretary Jay Carney after a federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate last year to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board.
"We all know that death is never better — never better. Really what it's about is saying is it would be easier for us, not better for her. And I'm here to tell you ... Bella is better for us and we are better because of Bella." — Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum on his daughter Bella, born with a serious genetic condition, at the March for Life rally in Washington on Friday.
"I will never leave until Morsi leaves. What can possibly happen to us? Will we die? That's fine, because then I will be with God as a martyr. Many have died before us and even if we don't see change, future generations will." — Egyptian protester Sara Mohammed as she was treated for tear gas inhalation outside President Mohammed Morsi's palace in Cairo on Friday.


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WACO, Texas, April 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday assured victims of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion they have not been forgotten.
Obama, who attended a memorial in Waco after first appearing with four of his predecessors at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, spoke before a near-capacity crowd of 9,260 at the Ferrell Center on the Baylor University campus. Caskets of the 12 firefighters killed at the plant, each covered with a U.S. flag, were lined up in front of the stage.
In all, 15 people died and 200 were injured in last week's explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant.
"To the families and neighbors grappling with unbearable loss -- you are not alone. You are not forgotten," Obama said.
"We need people who so love their neighbors as themselves that they're willing to lay down their lives for them," Obama said of the volunteer firefighters who died.
Obama pledged the country will help West rebuild.
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From the shore to the deep: Former Warwick resident writes about extraordinary freedives
It's hard to imagine that an activity as common as diving for quahogs in Narragansett Bay could lead to a record-breaking freedive that, by all accounts, could have killed him but that's exactly what happened to Bob Croft.
"It didn't take us long to discover that we could dig quahogs from the bottom with our hands and feet quite easily," he wrote. "The most reachable clams were found in water about three to four feet deep, and retrieving them often required holding our breath and upending, with our legs sticking out of the water … I always managed to get the most quahogs because I could stay submerged the longest. I had no idea how significant that ability would prove to be in years to come."
Bob Croft's life on Warwick Neck started when his family moved there after the Hurricane of 1938, an event he and his family lived through in Groton, Conn.
"My memory of the storm was standing with my sister Joan, looking out our third floor apartment window and watching debris fly by," he relates in his autobiography published last year. "I had just passed my fourth birthday, so I didn't fully understand the magnitude and danger of what was going on around us."
Croft wrote that he thought that was great fun and it was only later that he came to appreciate how devastating that storm was. That was not to be the last adventure Croft would have without realizing the danger. A peculiar habit he developed as an 11- or 12-year-old boy turned out to be less common than he imagined.
"When we lived on Warwick Neck, I used to sleep outside in a hammock whenever I could and I developed this technique of packing air into my lungs by using my tongue as a pump," Croft said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "When I was in the Navy as a submariner, I didn't know that other people didn't do that."
One of Croft's jobs in the Navy was training crewmembers to escape from subs, which had been known to sink every now and again. When he was freediving in tanks, his instructors were doing the conventional method of filling their lungs with their diaphragms. It eventually dawned on him that his method of "airpacking" using his tongue was unique when he began to break records holding his breath under water while freediving, which is going as deep as you can without the aid of a breathing apparatus, like scuba lings or a diving helmet.
Before Croft proved otherwise, experts thought deep freediving was certain death. The U.S. Navy Diving Manual said a dive below 120 feet could prove fatal, and 200 feet was the boundary of physical possibility.
"This was based on the belief that the human thorax could not survive such compression," said Croft. "But I was routinely holding my breath at the bottom of the training tank and I could spend five or six minutes doing it."
When a biologist who was studying the methods that seals and dolphins use to spend extended time underwater wanted to expand his research to the human limits, someone told him about Croft and his extraordinary gift for packing air and staying under water.
"When Bob Allison asked me if I would work with him, I said 'Sure.'"
Just like the kid who wandered off as a toddler, or swam to Patience Island from Warwick Neck as a boy, the possibility of currents or tides or being run over while swimming through a shipping lane, Croft signed on for the scientific research that lead to his record freedive. Curiosity had always motivated Croft and testing limits was second nature for him.
Croft was too young for World War II and still too young when Korea came along, but he convinced his parents that he could become a Navy Reservist with his parents' permission and he ended up serving on the submarines that used to fascinate him when they streamed up the Thames River to the Groton Submarine base. He was assigned to the U.S. Submarine School instructing submariners in ways to survive a sinking submarine. He monitored escape trainees as they ascended in simulated escapes, to make sure they exhaled on the way up.
His technique of "airpacking" allowed him to hold his breath for five to six minutes. In 1962 he was invited to the Naval Submarine Medical Research Lab where he eagerly volunteered as a subject and investigator for submarine-related research projects, testing diving contact lenses, subjecting himself to high-frequency sonar at close range.
"Submarines are always noisy and I now have two hearing aids," said Croft. "That high frequency sonar did a real job on my right ear."
But he was setting freediving records and his breath-holding projects resulted in him being featured in Science magazine.
His lung packing technique became a regular tool of freedivers around the world.
"Before I made those dives, there was never any formal competition," he said. "Now, they have competitions all over the world."
The airpacking method found its way into training for Navy SEALs, and through a retired SEAL, "it was later rediscovered in 1992 at an experiment in an undersea lab in Key Largo. From there, the technique was studied at Duke University and later was exhaustively studied at several laboratories in Sweden," according to an article on the International Legends of Diving website.
Croft was assigned to a right-out-of-a-James-Bond-movie spy submarine, X-1, that had been converted to a research vehicle. The crew all had to be experienced divers as well as submariners but most of what Croft and the crew did remained classified.
"After the Navy, Bob went to work for Tarrytown Labs, a descendent of the Union Carbide-Ocean Systems deep diving research lab," according to the same article, "where he worked on, among other things, development of decompression tables for dives to 1000 fsw. He later worked for Ingersoll-Rand and then Dresser-Rand, where he did training and training videos." He is still being invited to freediving competitions but he no longer participates.
"I'm in my 80s now and my doctors won't allow it," said Croft. "But I proved it could be done by any healthy male or female … I went to 212, 217, 240 feet … I taught them how to use their tongues as an air pump."
And to think that he taught himself to do it, as a boy on Warwick Neck, lying in a hammock, with nothing to do but make plans for the next adventure.


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WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont restaurant that removed a bacon advertisement called insensitive to vegans and Muslims is being criticized for doing so.
Sneakers Bistro and Cafe in Winooski last week took down a sign saying "Yield for Sneakers Bacon" after comments were posted in an online community forum by "a vegan and a member of a Muslim household." Vegans and Muslims don't eat pork.
Sneakers' menu features items including a breakfast sandwich with homemade turkey bacon. Owner Marc Dysinger says the sign was meant to be fun and to show the restaurant cares about Winooski, a city of 7,000 residents with many Muslim families.
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by thefourthman » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:04 amDaytripper #4
Daytripper is an interesting little book. It really is, unfortunately the conceit of the book began to feel tired after last issue. It is an odd book to put out in a field of comics plagued by death. Heroes are killed and resurrected constantly. Maybe that is the point that the creators are trying to get across and despite the nature of the conceit, it certainly is more powerful than the umpteenth death of a Hawkman.
The strengths of the book have been the characterizations though. Ba and Moon have set out to make us know this character through each iteration with expert exposition and a feel for the setting, surroundings, and very nature of their character.
That is why this issue feels so weak. There is a great sense of how Bras reacts to things around him, who he is as a soul, but until the closing narrative, we don't really know who he is other than an expectant father and a son who just lost his own patriarch. The fears of not meeting his father's expectations only come towards the end and the mother comes off as a scarier father figure in this episode.
It is obvious that the illegitimate child will be explored in future issues, but here it feels forced and unneeded and more importantly, it is unsatisifactorily dealt with. It is just to make his dad seem like the creep he was, instead of showing a tender moment when Bras wants to be like him.
Certainly all sons live to a certain extent in the shadows of their fathers, it is a guiding theme in the Dark Tower Comics, we all find ourselves wanting to be like them or escape their mistakes. All of this is brought about too close to the end of this narrative... the first issue of the series lends clues to this relationship, problem is these are alternative lives of Bras, it is not rational to assume that this Bras who has become a novelist and overcome his feelings of inadequecy as a writer would still be trying to play catch up to his dad and certainly not to the extent that he would just allow his heart to fail. Maybe Jorge not being around makes him lose his grounding to the real world, but to this reader, this issue feels more force and contrived than the others, its purpose is brought too late and feels rushed.
The art is also somewhat less thrilling than past issues. Suddenly we are not in exotic locales. We are in common houses and hospitals, the sense of wonder that was present in previous issues is lost as a result allowing further harm to the narrative that the artists have been building.
I said it before in this thread and I stand by it, this has all the markings of a good, but not great college creative writing assignment. It's a shame that the conceit has hurt what was one of the strongest opening issues of the last few years. The book is not a lost cause yet, this is a bump in the road. While this reader tires of the conceit, I am still impressed with the character work and interwoven nature of the stories. If the book can manage to finish as strong as it started, it will have been a feat of modern comic storytelling, here's hoping the best for this experiment.
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by thefourthman » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:25 am
This is an interesting take on the book. THe only problem I see with your obituary theory is that there are slight differences in the version of Bras at play. Here he is an up and coming novelist who has given up the obituary game, in the first issue, he is a failed writer who never got out of the obituary gig. However the reflection bit is an insight I had not thought of.
I disagree with you on the power of this issue obviously, but thanks for a new way to look at the book going forward.
by thefourthman » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:29 am
This is also an interesting review. Too often, readers are ready to call schmaltz or saccharine when a story works for a specific place in a person's mindset. I find it very interesting that it touched the cords it did in you... that speaks volumes to Ba and Moon's capabilities.
by Kerny » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:44 am
I'm a huge King fan, so I'm intrigued. I was a little bummed out he's only doing the second story on the first arc.
by MrBlack » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:46 am
It's a small shop in a mall, so their space for new books is limited.
Thinking about it, there actually is a good chance that they'll have that, but with Irredeemable coming out this week I wanted to give that book (and BOOM) some coverage.
by Zero » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:46 am
Ah, but the first issue is set before this one. The titles of the issues are his ages in the stories and while in the first one he hadn't taken off as a writer quite yet, here he's kept at it and followed through. Telling the stories out of chronological order is an odd choice, but I'm sure it's for a reason.
I'm not saying the book's bad by any means, but it just hasn't had the power that I think it'll have when collected and we can see the full picture.
Fair call on Irredemable though, I read up to issue 9 and it's the kinda book people here would like.
by thefourthman » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:49 am
you are correct sir. good call. Although, I got the sense from the second issue that had the story progressed, he would have been significantly different. Maybe the chronological order is to keep us off balance.
I still contend it will be an obnoxious read as a trade.
by ****** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:25 pm
by thefourthman » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:30 pmwhere did all this fake fourthman crap start anyhow?
and why the hell am I not in the article?
by guitarsmashley » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:31 pmI wont be reading next week. I'm on the trade schedule for irredeemable.
by ****** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:49 pm
I thought about taking a pass also as I too am reading it in trades and have already pre-ordered the volume this issue will be collected in, but I've since "acquired" 9, 10 and 11 (I've already paid for them, don't judge me! ) and will be caught up in time to read/review #12.
by thefourthman » Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:10 pm
you should post a deadline in the op then.
by ****** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:12 pm
That's been there since the first week after we moved here.
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A former Alibi writer will be at the Wyoming Hastings Friday night (10.29) to sign his novels.
Dennis Domrzalski, former Tribune and Weekly Alibi journalist, and current N.M. Business Weekly staff writer will be selling copies of Volumes one and two of his Stinky Feet novels.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (September 28, 2008)- After winning its opening Atlantic Sun Conference match Friday against Jacksonville, the ETSU women's soccer team could not maintain its momentum dropping its first league contest at North Florida 2-1 Sunday, in Jacksonville, Fla.
ETSU opened the scoring first, as junior forward Jordan Monty (Mesquite, Texas), fired a shot that would rebound off the UNF crossbar, where fellow teammate Rachel Van Horn (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), would be waiting to convert the rebound for the matches first goal.
Van Horn's goal would be the only one of the first half, as the Bucs headed into the intermission with a one goal lead.
"Early on our team played hard and kept the pressure on UNF's defense," said head coach Heather Henson. "Rachel (Van Horn), did a good job staying with the play and giving us a early lead so that gave us some momentum heading into the break. But give credit to North Florida for adjusting at the end of the first half, which limitied our offensive opportunities."
As Jacksonville did in Friday's match, North Florida would not go home empty handed. Ten minutes into the second half, the Lady Ospreys' Katy Dearing found teammate Elena Luzins for the game-tying goal, in the 57th minute.
As both teams battled for possession for the next 20 minutes, the Lady Ospreys would continue to put pressure on ETSU freshman goalkeeper Megan Masch (Virginia Beach, Va.). After the Osprey's played a ball inside the ETSU box, UNF forward Katelin Swift picked up the loss ball and fired home the game-winning goal with 14 minutes to play.
"In the second half our center-midfielders had some chances to find our forwards, but the team didn't do a good job of readjusting to UNF's speed," said Henson. "When you sit back on your heels against a team like North Florida its hard to maintain ball control and keep the pressure off your defense. Give credit to Katelin (Swift) who is a great player for their team. Anytime you give a good goal scorer like her that many opportunities around the net, more times then not, they are going to convert shots into goals. In college soccer, every player has to play hard for a full 90 minutes to be successful and that�s something that we didn't do a great job of maintaining this afternoon."
Despite dropping this contest, ETSU did earn three team points in the A-Sun standing this opening weekend.
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And Soon the Darkness (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus loved hanging out with Amber and Odette but then one got kidnapped
Two girls are doing a spot of travelling when they decide to leave their party and do a bit of exploring. Spending the night in a small town, the pair go to the local bar and Ellis (Odette Yussman) ends up getting it on with a local, only to be saved my broody stranger Michael (Karl Urban) when the local gets a bit too pushy.
The following day the pair miss their tour bus due to an alarm clock malfunction and decide to spend the day at a nearby clearing. After an argument over each other's behaviour Stephanie (Amber Heard) leaves Ellie behind and after she pedals off, cools down and returns, realises her friend is missing. Now with the help of Michael and not many others Stephanie tries desperately to track her friend down only to discover the seedy underbelly of the local kidnapping business.
And Soon The Darkness (a title that bares almost no relation to the actual movie) really doesn't offer up a lot. Barely anything happens in the eighty-seven minute run time and when it does it left me wondering how this one reached the big screen as it's got very small screen sensibilities. There's nothing all that wrong with it, it just doesn't really go anywhere all that exciting and for a thriller there's really nothing that eventful going on outside of some pretty girls in a pretty backdrop getting caught up in a situation that we don't learn near enough about during the course of the film.
It could be that the filmmakers expect us to fill in the gaps ourselves, which is fine, but really this looseness towards the plot should really have been propped up with some scares and some grizzly visuals to be effective but it just doesn't go there. Instead we get a couple of pretty girls wandering blindly into danger.
Sadly this seems like all Amber Heard is becoming on our screens. After a great breakout in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (a character I truly loved), Amber seems to have just coasted through roles. She's always good but she never seems to play outside pretty cliché roles and nothing changes with this one. As for Odette Yussman, she's a good looking girl, but her playing sassy here is pretty embarrassing and I just didn't buy it at all. Megan Fox-Lite has got some work to do if she wants to get noticed.
What we're left with is a fairly tepid travel nightmare that is pretty forgettable and feels as if it missed an opportunity or two to shock, thrill or scare us somewhere along the line.
The Argentinean locations look pretty good on this DVD put it always feels only "pretty good" when you know how much better it'd look in HD. The lighting adds a nice natural colour palette, the photography of the area is well presented, but the softness in the standard definition transfer lets the side down a bit even if detail levels often hint at a greatness that's more than I'd expect from a DVD.
Night scenes look okay and the bar scene has some good colour choices to make the transfer feel more lively. Skin tones also look good (especially in the bikini scene) and really other than the softness to the image there's not a lot to complain about.
I seem to have seen a fair few horrors lately and this latest one has a pretty well handled 5.1 track. The heart beating score does a good job with just the right amount of bass and there's plenty of atmospherics to fill up the outdoor locations—from chirping birds and crickets to stones crunched under foot and car tyres struggling to grip the gravel.
The airy score sits just right to create the desired mood and without the movie ever really going over the top in scares the odd peak shows off the mix a bit more without there ever being a real show off moment. It's a consistent track but not a very memorable one.
The disc opens with trailers for The Tourist, the Brighton Rock remake and The Last Exorcism, then it's only the trailer (01:02) and just under seven minutes of deleted scenes for the actual movie. Pretty weak, right?
And Soon the Darkness doesn't really live up to the eeriness of its title and really doesn't deserve the relatively well known cast that it has. There's nothing unique about it, the story never goes anywhere unexpected, and even though it could be argued that it's keeping it realistic, it's a bit too obvious and as a straight down the line a kidnap movie, it lacks pay-off in the finale.
The disc is light on extras (especially when compared to other regions) and the good A/V presentation isn't good enough to make this a must have. So really this becomes yet another small town's dark secret movie and not one that's all that memorable.
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I watch the original just after watching my screener copy. It's a much better movie.
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
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Release Date: 7th March 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Deleted Scenes, Trailer
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Director: Marcos Efron
Cast: Amber Heard, Odette Yustman, Karl Urban
Genre: Drama and Thriller
Length: 87 minutes
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These are quite promising findings. However, all major studies on lipoic acid for peripheral neuropathy have been performed by a single group of researchers. Research by independent groups is needed before lipoic acid can be considered a proven treatment for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
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According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, between 1970 and 2010 the number of cows raised for human consumption rose 32 percent to reach 1.4 billion, pigs rose 76 percent to reach 965 million, and chickens rose 273 percent to reach 19.4 billion. But despite its popularity, current levels and methods of meat production and consumption can have an adverse effect on human health, the environment, and animal welfare.
Jason Matheny is working to produce economically viable meat substitutes. (Photo credit: MercoPress.com)
New Harvest is an organization that supports research regarding economically viable meat substitutes and provides a forum for sharing related innovations. In the interview below, New Harvest founder Jason Matheny talks about the work of the organization and his perspectives on the future of meat alternatives.
Why did you start New Harvest and what is its primary focus?
I founded New Harvest in 2003 because there wasn't an organization devoted to advancing technologies for new meat substitutes. There are several companies making plant- or mycoprotein-based meat substitutes, but there was no organization working on more advanced technologies, such as cultured meat, and no organization looking broadly at how to replace animal proteins with advanced substitutes. We fund academic research, conferences, and economic and environmental assessments. We'll probably continue focusing on these areas, since it addresses an important need.
What do you think are some of the most interesting alternative meat products? Do you think the future of alternative meat products lie in meat-like products such as soy burgers and no-chicken nuggets, or in vegetable-based products that do not look or sound like meat?
I think there are lots of good products out there, and they're getting better. Two recent developments are the work of Pat Brown, a big name in biology who took a sabbatical from Stanford University to focus on developing new meat substitutes; and Ethan Brown (no relation), whose new meat substitute was recently covered by Mark Bittman of the New York Times. Given the strong appetite that most people have for things that taste and look like meat, I think the future of alternative meat products lies in meat-like products.
Why is it important to have meat substitutes like "tofu dogs"? Is the goal to help wean omnivores off of meat? Or perhaps to give them easy, more-sustainable ways of reducing their meat consumption?
Both. Meat was rare and nutritionally important in our evolutionary past, so it's likely that we have a strong taste for it. And the global trend is a massive increase in meat consumption – mostly in developing countries.
What would you say to critics who point out that meat substitutes are usually more expensive than meat and are often highly processed?
The price of meat substitutes has been dominated by small-scale production, less efficient processes, and niche marketing. But it needn't be that way. Pat Brown has been especially focused on reducing the price of meat substitutes well below that of meat. As for processing, most meat substitutes are replacements for heavily processed meat products. Replacing processed meat with processed plants that are much healthier, more humane, and environmentally friendly is a great improvement.
Excessive meat consumption in industrialized countries is often connected with negative health effects, yet more modest consumption in developing countries can provide a much-needed source of protein and can play a key role in alleviating hunger and malnutrition. Do meat substitutes have a different role to play in industrial nations versus developing countries?
Even developing countries have wealthier citizens who are eating unhealthy amounts of meat – overnutrition is a serious health problem among the wealthy in many low-income countries. My experience working on public health projects in India was part of the reason for starting New Harvest. I think it makes sense to try to increase consumption of meat substitutes among the middle and upper classes in both developed and developing countries.
Globally, who is doing the most exciting work in in vitro meat? Who is the closest to having a product that tastes like meat? Who is the closest to finding an affordable way of replicating the process?
Cultured meat is still at a very early stage. The Netherlands has been leading the way in research. Mark Post expects to unveil a cultured meat hamburger this year. But there is progress in other countries, too. Gabor Forgacs in the United States even had a taste test during a recent TED event.
Has anyone done research about whether consumption of in vitro meat would have any adverse effects on human health?
There's no commercial product yet to test – this is still at a basic research stage. Such testing would occur before U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. Cultured meat is made of the same stuff that real meat is made of – but in principle one could make it much healthier by precisely controlling the amount and type of fat. One could have a hamburger with the fat content of an avocado.
How do you respond to those who fear in vitro meat for the same reasons they fear GM plants (that it is unnatural, for example, or may have unforeseen health detriments)?
It's not natural to put 10,000 chickens in a metal shed and pump them full of growth-promoting drugs. But that's how most countries make chicken meat now. Even if they were free-range, there's nothing natural about the broiler chicken – an animal artificially bred over centuries to have twice the natural size and growth rate of jungle fowl, with severe health problems as a result. Apart from those willing to revive a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, we've all opted to eat unnatural. I would prefer that we develop unnatural foods that are healthier, safer, cleaner, and more humane than the unnatural foods we find in animal agriculture.
Some advocates suggest that producing in vitro meat instead of raising livestock in a more traditional manner wouId reduce the use of natural resources such as water, land, and energy and generate less pollution. Can you quantify that for us?
Research at Oxford University looked at that question and estimated that mass production of cultured meat would reduce water and land use and CO2 emissions by 90% or more.
Love of meat eating and fear of "test tube" meat are both deeply engrained in the psyche of many across the globe. Moreover, in the developing world, meat eating has taken on the power of a status symbol, a source of pride. What do you think it will take to open up the public's hearts and minds to in vitro meat?
A product that's safe, healthy, as cheap as regular meat, and aesthetically indistinguishable.
To learn more about New Harvest visit their website.
To read more about meat consumption and production and animal welfare see: Preventing Cruelty on the Farm, What We Eat Matters, Environmental Working Group recommends less meat and cheese, Carlo Petrini Makes the Case for Eating Less Meat, Pork without a pig: scientists attempt to grow artificial meat in a lab, and Can becoming a vegetarian help save the planet.
Kevin Robbins is a research intern with the Nourishing the Planet project.
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* Cycle status is based on S&P 500.
As major market cycles have matured, one gauge of maturation points has been the willingness of the investing public to buy into a bull trend, or to sell into a bear. The financial media is often dumbly complicit in the drama since it has little point of reference and views the market merely in terms of news justification derived from information acquired yesterday or today. Trends are largely irrelevant and are presumed as perpetual until, belatedly, the media picks up on the notion that the balance of buyers versus sellers has shifted because more people are happy, or more people are unhappy. Bull or bear.
In the "more happy" camp, in a recent newspaper story it was reported that a family that had been "totally" out of the stock market since 2008 was now "getting back in." Of course, our first question would be, "based on what?" But the decision reminds us of the two guys out fishing on a lake. They are having good day. One guy says, "This is a great spot. Let's mark it. "The other guy agrees. When they get back to shore, the first guy says, "Oh, did you mark the spot?" The other one replies, "Yes, there's a big 'X' on the side of the boat."
Market Overview – What We Know:
- All of major indexes declined last week. NASDAQ Composite and Value Line index are negative on Minor Cycle with S&P 500 and Dow 30 close to confirming short-term negative trends.
- S&P 500 and Dow 30 remain "Overbought" with NASDAQ and VAY at "Neutral" with a negative bias.
- Market volume rose 30% last week, but increasing activity was due to fact previous week had only four tradable sessions rather than regular five.
- S&P 500 weakness below lower edge of 10-Day Price Channel (1552.00 through Monday) would suggest end to short-term advance in effect since February 26. Intermediate trend remains positive until lower edge of 10-Week Price Channel (1493.28 through April 12).
- Daily MAAD remained below its March 11 short to intermediate-term high last week with similar action in Weekly MAAD that remains in vicinity of long-term trend line stretching back to 1999 at point prior to March 2000 market highs. Weekly MAAD has yet to overcome resistance made in spring of 2011.
- Daily CPFL reached new short to intermediate-term March 27. Indicator remains in gradually upsloping longer-term advance begun in December 2011, but is nowhere near major resistance plot high made week of February 25, 2011.
Many investors are like those fishermen -- they approach the market as the vehicle for what they "want" later, on the "long term," in that vague Neverland perpetuated by the sales departments of Wall Street firms. "Time the market? Good heavens! Not possible." Besides, everyone knows Warren Buffet, George Soros, and Marty Schwartz (one of the great traders of all-time) were just "lucky." In addition, most investors have no point of orientation from which to make decisions except mutual fund results for the past five years while professing little-defined, financial goals like "I want a 10% return with no risk when I retire." Unfortunately, they do not realize the stock market is not a perpetual cash cow (unless they are high velocity traders), and the odds are excellent they will sell when they are least comfortable and will buy when they are most comfortable. They will succumb to herd mentality. Thus, the family that is reinvesting more than four years into a mature bull market that began in March 2009.
Market Overview – What We Think:
- Unconfirmed new highs in major indexes last week with subsequent weakness suggest short-term advance begun after February lows is probably over.
- Extent to which Minor Cycle weakens will determine staying power of intermediate advance that began after November lows (1343.35—S&P 500). Trendline weakness below 1530 in S&P 500 would fracture uptrend in effect since November.
- While its possible current market negativity could prove to be yet another near-term corrective phase in advance in effect since November lows, and by definition longer bull trend, it is a certainty current intermediate uptrend will end. Questions is, are current negative divergences enough to end that trend?
- In meantime and until verification, we must regard all short-term pullbacks as mere hesitations in larger intermediate advance, and Major Cycle trend that has been underway since March 2009.
- So long as pricing and indicators are not in synch on upside, as they were from March 2009 until May 2011, lingering doubts will persist about long-term viability of Major Cycle and we will continue to wonder how much longer this market will be able to shake off unfavorable indicator divergences.


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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Picture-postcard Guanabara Bay is the main attraction of the Olympic city's newest cultural center.
The Rio Art Museum commands a view of the bay's azure waters, and its exhibitions feature image after image of the bay, with 18th century maps, 19th century paintings and contemporary photos showcasing its watery expanse, its fringe of tropical vegetation and its iconic Sugarloaf Mountain.
The museum, opening Friday with a visit from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, is part of Rio's multibillion-dollar bid to reinvent itself before hosting the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Long derided as a cultural wasteland whose main draws are sandy beaches and over-the-top Carnival celebrations, Rio hopes to emerge as Latin America's newest arts hub with a spate of new museums opening over the next few years.
The Rio Art Museum, or MAR, as it's known by its Portuguese acronym, is one of the centerpieces of the city's $3.8 billion project to renovate the port zone.
The museum is located in the heart of the city's derelict port neighborhood, sandwiched between crumbling colonial buildings and a multi-lane elevated highway. It's housed in two abutting historical buildings that were completely renovated and linked by a footbridge and big overhang whose wavy structure evokes the nearby bay's surface.
Municipal budgets have paid most of the $40 million needed to extensively renovate the two dilapidated buildings and set up the museum's initial exhibitions. Officials have said they hope the museum will become self-sustaining in the medium term.
Citing the successful port renovations that Barcelona and Sydney undertook before the Olympic games in those cities, Rio officials say they intend to transform the district into a bustling commercial and artistic center. Construction is to start next year on five 38-story TrumpTowers office buildings, another crown jewel of the Porto Maravilha renovation project. The top floor of the MAR looks over the site where another cultural institution, the Museum of Tomorrow, is being built. Designed by celebrated Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the museum dedicated to science is to open in 2014.
The MAR's inauguration was timed to coincide with the 448th anniversary of Rio's founding, and the deadline had museum officials and workers scrambling. During a Thursday media visit on the eve of the opening, three of the museum's four exhibition spaces were largely ready, but construction workers were still rushing to put the finishing touches on the buildings.
Although the MAR already has a collection of some 3,000 pieces of art, many donated by private collectors, it won't have a permanent display. Instead, several temporary shows will cycle through the museum annually.
"River of Images," one of the four initial exhibits, celebrates Rio's cityscape, with its sandy beaches, verdant pockets of urban jungle and hillside slums known as favelas. It follows the city's evolution through the eyes of 18th and 19th century artists and map makers, 19th and 20th century photographers and 21st century videographers.
Sugarloaf Mountain, the photogenic rock that crowns the entrance to Guanabara Bay, is the star of the exhibition, looming in panoramic photos, watercolors and a host of antique souvenirs like cut-glass vases from 1910 and kitschy mugs from the 1920s. The show also includes an oversized Art Deco sculpture of Jesus's head, a study for the giant Christ the Redeemer statue that is one of Rio's top tourist attractions.
Another exhibition, titled "The Collector," showcases paintings and sculptures acquired by Jean Borghici, a European-born collector who arrived in Brazil in the late 1940s. The pieces span from the creations of globe-trotting 19th century French artist Jean-Baptiste Debret to the bright oil paintings of Brazilian modernist Tarsila de Amaral to the steel statues Brazilian sculptor Lygia Clark made in the 1960s and '70s.
Standout pieces in the two other exhibits include a diminutive cedar sculpture called "Saint Joseph in Boots" by Alejadinho, the most famous sculptor of Brazil's colonial period.
Beyond the exhibition rooms, the 5,200 square-meter (52,000-square-foot) museum space also includes an auditorium and classroom where up to 2,000 teachers from Rio's public school system will be able to receive art appreciation and pedagogy classes each year. Museum officials say the goal is to bring 100,000 public school students to the museum in the first year and twice that number in subsequent years.
Other museums opening in Rio before the Olympics include the Museum of Image and Sound, which is being built on Copacabana beach on the site of a former seedy disco, and the Casa Daros, a huge private collection of Latin American art, which is being inaugurated next month.


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Last January (2000), the Louisiana Right to Life Federation promoted a White Ribbons for Life campaign for the purpose of promoting respect for human life and to oppose abortion on demand, both in Louisiana and, to the extent possible, nationwide. We are again promoting this campaign in January 2001, and anticipate getting even greater participation than last year.
As with yellow ribbons for hostages, or pink ones for breast cancer, the idea is to display large loops of white ribbon anywhere and everywhere they can be displayed or tied, including on trees, bushes, cars, door knobs, mailboxes etc., all during the month of January, and to wear small white ribbon loops on our persons (lapels, sweaters, dresses, etc.), at least on the weekend preceding and on January 22nd. This way, we can bring attention to the need to recognize the sacredness of human life from our earliest beginnings until natural death.
To spread the idea, and to encourage participation, we must use whatever means we have at our disposal: churches, church broadcast media, secular media, friends, faxes, e-mail, the worldwide web, etc., but starting right away, so that as many people as possible know to do it during January. Telling 10 friends about the campaign, for instance by e-mail, and having each one tell 10 of their friends, both in Louisiana and outside the State, will spread the message far and wide. If everyone contacted were to participate, the 10 of the first round can become the 100 of the second round, then 1,000, 100,000, 1 million, 10 million and even 100 million!
Nothing would be able to stop this showing of white ribbons and the desire to return to a full respect for the God-given lives of the unborn - except ourselves, by non-participation. White ribbon is a virtually no-cost item, although I can see someone 'formalizing' it in a wearable pin for sale for raising money for the right-to-life cause, similarly to what is done with symbolic red poppies for veterans. And all of this can easier be done in addition to anything else that's already being planned for the 28th memorialization of legalized abortion in our country.
God bless! And please join the January White Ribbons for Life campaign!
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Manchester North L.L. outscores Bedford
Relief pitcher Kyler Bosse held Bedford scoreless over the last two innings and gave Manchester North time to rally for a 7-6 victory Tuesday in the winners' bracket of the New Hampshire District I Little League 11-12-year-old tournament at Manchester North.
Defending state champ Bedford (2-1) fell into the losers' bracket of the double-elimination tournament and North (3-0) advanced to Monday's winners' bracket final against Salem, an 11-0 winner against Manchester East Tuesday night.
District I Commissioner Don Kirkland announced Tuesday night that Salem will host North on Monday at 6 p.m.
In Manchester, in the home sixth with the scored knotted 6-6, North's Brendan Courtney singled with two outs and galloped to third base on a single to right by Griffin Hamel. Courtney drew the outfield throw and the ball sailed past the bag, which allowed Courtney to score the winning run.
Bosse entered the game after Bedford tied it on an RBI single from Noah Hughes, plating slugger Graham Reynolds in the fourth inning. Bosse blanked Bedford the rest of the way, allowing no hits, two walks with three strikeouts.
Bedford roared out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning. Reynolds, who had two of his team's seven hits, bashed a two-run homer. Spencer Adams and Hughes each doubled and Jacob Collins also drove in a run.
North responded with four runs in the home first as Kyle Swetland highlighted the frame with a two-run single.
In the second inning North took a 6-5 lead when Bosse (walk) and Jaken Pellerin (single) set the table for Swetland and Hamel (three hits), who each had an RBI base hit.
Salem was led by winning pitcher Jake Delaney who highlighted the offense with a two-run double.


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In the days of computing yore, public-service agencies that were trying to move away from stovepipe systems to a distributed computing environment, or to connect everyone via an intranet, ran into a problem with legacy applications. They were a big problem then because programs running on a mainframe had to be modified or eliminated in favor of desktop versions.
Now the opposite is happening, as government tries to move everything into the cloud.
I hope I'm not stating the obvious here, but lots of people think the cloud is some magical place where programs go to live forever. The truth of the cloud is that, in a lot of ways, it's just like the mainframes of yesteryear. Programs that exist "in the cloud" reside on servers somewhere in the world (though probably not down the hall from you) and are able to serve themselves to your personal desktops or laptops or tablets as needed, which again reminds me of the dummy terminal and mainframe relationship of days gone by.
Yes, cloud applications are distributed and redundant so that if one cloud server goes down, users can still access all their information and programs. You don't get a day off work anymore if "the mainframe crashes." But at some level, the cloud is a return to the way programs worked in the past, when the actual code wasn't stored locally.
So it was little surprising to find a report showing that the General Services Administration was bogged down in its move to a cloud-based e-mail system by thousands of legacy applications.
GSA's problem specifically is with Lotus Notes, which lets users create applications for their own ends. In that sense, Notes was an excellent tool for the distributed computing environment. If users needed to process payroll information every week, they could create a Notes application to help. It needed only to work on a local machine or a few local computers, and life was good.
But over the years, numerous offices within GSA had developed thousands of Notes applications. And that creates problems when an agency moves its files and programs into the cloud, which isn't a perfect process.
Take, for example, my own experience in the GCN Lab. When we moved our e-mail server to the cloud, we simply replicated the whole thing. What was funny was that the machine it was running on had this odd quirk that only when it was rebooted – but not when it was shutdown fully and then brought back up ¬– a certain service would not automatically activate, which caused the e-mail not to function. It was no big deal. When our e-mail stopped working, we simply went into the menu and started that service manually, which happened whenever patches were applied that forced a reboot, or during a power failure.
Once we got into the cloud, we found that we had replicated that same quirk. Even though our system was running on brand new hardware off in cloud land, it still maintained the same problems as before. And we picked up a few new ones, specifically with drivers for applications tied directly to the mail service. In our case, we actually got off lucky. We didn't need the extra programs, so they were deactivated. And we were used to dealing with the quirky server, so not much changed overall.
But that doesn't always happen. The biggest problem is that a lot of individual files like print drivers don't work right unless optimized for the cloud. And that is likely the biggest hang-up for GSA, which a recent audit found had overstated the cost savings for its cloud plan. I guess finding out that thousands of Notes applications no longer work can be an expensive revelation.
So what is an agency to do with legacy apps? There are few options. They can be reprogrammed to work in the cloud, of course, but that could be a pretty big undertaking. Or they can be sent to the cloud to let users take their chances.
However, GSA, and anyone in a similar spot, might also try a program like VMware ThinApp. That program can isolate legacy applications within the cloud and trick them into running independently on end-user machines.
We tested it with an application written for Windows XP that did not work on Windows 7. Running it though ThinApp first, we were able to get it to run fine on Windows 7 systems.
A Citrix Metaframe server also could do the trick if your agency is familiar with how they work.
The Notes applications in the GSA example should benefit from either of those programs. But in the future, every agency should carefully audit its applications to make sure everything can move safely into the cloud the first time.
It's a lot easier to catch problems before a move than to try and troubleshoot them afterwards, and probably a lot cheaper too.
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Most probably the business case for the migration to the cloud included the licenses, administration and support of the servers and the clients they would eliminate. Even if they migrate only mail to the cloud, they will keep all those costs, so even if that's reduced, I wonder whether the project really made sense.
We had a MetaFrame Server that continued a legacy payroll application for several years. WinFrame and MetaFrame are fantastic in doing this kind of work.
Glad to see you recognize the similarities with the old mainframe and dumb terminal. The more things change the more they stay the same.
John - another option is that they could have kept the applications on premises and moved email to the cloud. There are Domino server options for applications that reduce price. That would have been a good go between until the apps could be modernized and moved to other platforms.
Nice post. Very un-biased which is unusual when posts deal with Lotus Notes which has been my bread-n-butter for the past 12 yrs. It just goes to show you that CIO's are making decisions to save money without discussing with lower management.
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ADEL, Iowa (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan heaped praise on Bill Clinton Wednesday, holding him up as a model of reform and Barack Obama as his opposite just hours before the former president's speech to the Democratic National Convention.
Campaigning in Iowa, Ryan lauded Clinton administration action on welfare reform and spending reductions — areas where the GOP ticket has aimed some of its sharpest critiques of Obama, the incumbent Democrat.
Clinton, once an Obama critic, has become one of his biggest assets as the president scraps with GOP nominee Mitt Romney for re-election. Clinton, whose two terms ended on an economic high note, appears in a television ad where he likens Obama's agenda to his own.
Void of a single reference to Clinton-era scandals, Ryan's praise was a way to paint Obama as a failure on the GOP ticket's terms.
"Under President Clinton we got welfare reform," Ryan told an audience outside a small-town courthouse west of Des Moines. "President Obama is rolling back welfare reform. President Clinton worked with Republicans in Congress to have a budget agreement to cut spending. President Obama, a gusher of new spending."
Ryan, a House member from Wisconsin, also said a Clinton administration commission to study the future of Medicare inspired the GOP ticket's proposal to offer seniors a choice of traditional Medicare or a fixed government payment that could be used to buy private coverage.
"It's an idea that came out of the Clinton commission to save Medicare," Ryan said.
Ryan reminded the audience of supporters that the national debt surpassed $16 trillion this week on the first day of the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"That's a country in decline," Ryan said.
Among Ryan's criticisms was an indirect reference to the GOP ticket's debunked claim that Obama has waived the work requirement on Clinton-era welfare reform.
Ryan also neglected to mention that the Clinton action he praised came after Democrats lost control of the House and Senate in 1994, having raised taxes in 1993 and tried unsuccessfully to enact a national health care program the following year.
The balanced budget agreement Clinton made with then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Georgia Republican, created the first new benefit program in years, a health insurance program for low-income children not eligible for Medicaid.
And Ryan made no mention of the scandals that marked the Clinton administration. Most notably the GOP-controlled House approved four articles of impeachment in 1998, though the Senate voted against removing Clinton from office.
Ryan was elected in 1998, but the impeachment votes took place before Ryan assumed his seat.
By treading lightly on the former president, Romney's team also is making a play for Clinton supporters who are disappointed by Obama.
Romney's campaign has stepped up its effort to appeal to working-class white voters in pivotal states such as Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Virginia.
White voters without college degrees preferred Clinton's wife, Hillary, over Obama in states such as Ohio during the 2008 Democratic presidential nominating campaign. They now prefer Romney over Obama by more than 20 percentage points, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll published last month.
Clinton's prime time speaking slot at the convention, like his central role in the Obama ad airing in key states, is seen as an effort to narrow Romney's advantage with these voters, who could tip the balance in a close election.
"Bill Clinton has very favorable approval numbers," said Katon Dawson, a national political consultant and former South Carolina Republican Party chairman. "He's a pretty tough adversary for us."
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"Each year, we strive to bring attendees an extraordinary lineup of the nation's top celebrity chefs, San Diego's best restaurants, and award-winning wineries, breweries and spirit companies," said Michelle Metter, event organizer. "This year's festival experience was nothing short of spectacular."
A week-long series of events, including cooking classes, fundraiser lunches and a "grand tasting" held at Marina Park North, where upward of 5,000 people gathered to sip wine and sample fare from San Diego's top restaurants, helped boost San Diego as a destination that is as desirable for its sautés as its sunny days.
Beach-area culinary talent was one of the many stars at the festival, including several local chefs placing in the "Chefs of the Fest" competition. In the top ten were chef Stephen Window from Roppongi Restaurant & Sushi Bar in La Jolla, chef Amy DiBiase from The Shores Restaurant and Jaison Burke from the Pearl Hotel in Point Loma. Burke took the People's Choice Award.
Chef Bernard Guillas of The Marine Room also helped host a festival luncheon to benefit culinary scholarships for the next generation of chefs.
One of many highlights of the festival was its array of cooking classes. Held at the Macy's School of Cooking in Mission Valley and The San Diego Wine & Culinary Center downtown, guests were taken on a culinary world tour.
Stops included a sherry and Spanish tapas class hosted by chef/owner James Campbell Caruso of La Boca in Santa Fe, N.M., and a celebration of Julia Child with modern twists on her classic French cooking by former "Iron Chef America" stars Katsuya Fukushima and RJ Kooper. This was not your mother's apple Charlotte and chicken liver mousse. Fukushima and Kooper count cooking for Julia Child before her death in 2004 as one of their memorable culinary career accomplishments.
The festival was also a way to catch up on trends in the restaurant industry. For example, it captured the trend of moving toward small plates and high-energy eating environments.
"It's part of a revolution across the U.S. People want to have an experience, to eat in a room that feels good," said Caruso, who has extensive knowledge of Spanish culinary culture and features a wide variety of tapas and wines at his restaurant. "You should have the right space that brings people together."
The San Diego Wine & Food Festival has been growing and adding new features every year and is already gearing up for 2013.
"We are looking forward to topping this year with our 10-year anniversary in 2013," said Metter. "We've got some exciting things in the works for 2013, so stay tuned."


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I have done a search for all Greek words in a particular range. In the details button I am creating an Accordance. Using the display customization I see that I can choose how much is shown in a text excerpt, as well as the excerpt size. What I can't figure out is why excerpts are showing only for the words that occur only once.
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Which version are you using? This is not happening for me in 9.6.5. Please post screenshots of the search tab and the Concordance.
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I figured it out Helen - my text excerpt size was too low.
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Tropical Storm Chantal dissipates in Caribbean
Storm's remnants are still a flood threat for Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Tropical Storm Chantal dissipated into a tropical wave late Wednesday after skirting the southern coasts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
The storm's remnants could bring heavy rain to areas where many people live in vulnerable homes of plywood and corrugated steel and where flooding is common.
In both countries, people fortified houses with extra tarps and wood and gathered supplies, largely ignoring warnings to leave their neighborhoods.
"We're going to wait until it's over. We're already used to this," said 36-year-old Sergio Guzman, who along the banks of a river near Santo Domingo.
A Dominican firefighter was killed in the community of Maimon, about 50 miles north of the capital, Santo Domingo, when he was swept away by floodwaters as he tried to clear a storm drain, said Luis Luna, director of the country's civil defense agency.
The death of 26-year-old Juan Ramon Rodriguez was believed to be the first caused by Chantal, which began moving through the Caribbean on Tuesday.
In the final advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center at 5 p.m. ET, the center of Chantal was located about 230 miles east southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and was moving west at 23 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph.
All tropical storm watches and warnings had been cancelled.
In the Dominican Republic, state meteorologist Bolivar Ledesma warned that as much as 8 inches of rain might fall along the southern coast.
Haitian officials issued warnings over the radio urging people move away from ravines and stock up on food, though life in Port-au-Prince hummed along like any other day.
"There's not much I can do," Stevenson Etienne, a 40-year-old welder, said from his garage in downtown Port-au-Prince. "Still, I will try to protect myself and my children."
Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, general director for Haiti's Civil Protection Department, said the government had prepared 400 emergency shelters nationwide to accommodate people if needed.
Storms often trigger flooding and landslides in the island of Hispaniola shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but severe deforestation and makeshift housing in Haiti make it especially vulnerable to even moderate rains. Some 279,000 Haitians live in ramshackle settlements established in the capital and elsewhere after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Chantal had raced through the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday, with officials in Dominica reporting that heavy winds ripped off the roofs of several homes. No injuries were reported there or anywhere else in the region.
The storm passed overnight to the south of Puerto Rico. Authorities in the U.S. island territory said some 7,000 people are without power and more than 2,500 people without water. More than 20 people also sought shelter at a school in the southern city of Ponce, but officials said they would return home soon. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla also ordered public employees to return to work on Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard said all ports in Puerto Rico have reopened except those along the island's southern and western coasts.
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