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2nd Annual Meeting of the OECD Roundtable on Urban Strategy of Mayors and Ministers on "Competitive Cities and Climate Change", plenary II: Competitive Cities and Climate Change: Global Governance
Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Milan, Italy, 10 October 2008
Ministers, mayors, ladies and gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure to speak to you on a topic that lies at the heart of the OECD's mandate: climate change and global governance. climate change is the global challenge par excellence, one that cannot be addressed by any country alone and one that inevitably calls for multilevel governance approaches. Cities are part of the solution.
For this reason I am very pleased that this Conference is urbanising the climate change debate. This is where climate change will mainly need to be addressed. Your attendance here from 21 cities, 17 countries, and 10 international organisations, not to mention a number of important non-governmental organisations or companies, pays tribute to the importance of multilevel mobilisation of effort around climate change.
The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 projected that, if we continue on a business as usual path, global greenhouse gas emissions will grow by over 50% by 2050; which will cause world temperatures to rise between 1.7 and 2.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2050, and between 4 and 6 degrees Celsius or more in the long-term. This pace of change is ten times greater than that experienced since the last Ice Age.
Climate change will impact on our health, our security and our economies. The damage could be large and irreversible. This means we need to act now. Moving forward will not be cheap but doing nothing is not an option. In fact, inaction would be even more costly. The key question is thus how to find the best way to move forward. This is where the OECD's more than 20 years experience on the economics of climate change makes a difference.
Our work shows that a cost-effective strategy to tackle climate change will need to emphasise instruments that put a price on greenhouse gas emissions, covering as many countries, sectors and greenhouse gases as possible. Cap-and-trade schemes, or emission taxes are cost effective because they induce firms to look for abatement options where they are cheapest, and boost incentives to scale up climate-friendly R&D. These economic instruments need to be complemented by other policies to help address market and information failures. For example, the lack of information about energy-efficiency performance of electrical appliances and light bulbs may prevent households from optimising energy consumption. Such specific problems can be addressed through energy efficiency standards, or eco-labelling requirements. Both are areas where municipal policies can have a big impact.
Climate change is a comprehensive challenge. Addressing it successfully will need the combined partnership of national governments worldwide, local authorities -including cities -, the energy industry, other business and consumers. We are already seeing action by many of these partners, but a more co-ordinated, comprehensive and ambitious response is needed. This will also require addressing the difficult problem of how to distribute costs among the different players. The OECD is currently extending its analysis of the costs and impacts of different policy mixes to address climate change. The results of this work will be available in autumn and will feed into the UNFCCC's process leading up to the 15th Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.
We need the commitment and involvement of all countries, all regions and all cities if we are to move forward. What happens on the global scene is replicated at the local level. In many ways, the global challenge is made up of many smaller problems that are even more visible at the local level.
Two key facts can illustrate the central role of cities and metropolitan policies in addressing the challenge of climate change:
1. Urban areas make up just two percent of the world's surface but consume between 60 and 80 percent of commercial energy.
2. Climate change is already having a large impact on cities: hurricanes and floods have destroyed urban infrastructure, rising sea levels have altered real estate markets, and heat waves have produced power outages, harmed agriculture and most importantly put people's lives at stake.
Apart from preventing health, environment and economic losses, there is also a strong business case for taking action at the city level. Companies value clean and safe environments to do business and action on climate change can also serve to create new business opportunities, for example in the area of green buildings or clean technology. This will require a new set of policies that stimulate and enable a "green economy" to flourish.
But we will also need better tools to protect cities and their inhabitants from the effects of inevitable climate change. Today, the OECD is releasing, jointly with the Danish authorities, a new case study on Copenhagen as part of our project on Cities and Climate Change. This ongoing project assesses climate change impacts, sea level rise and storm surge risk in port cities. We found that Copenhagen's existing dikes and sea walls are able to face significant sea level rise, but they need to be upgraded. Otherwise, a storm surge with one-out-of-ten chance of occurring every year would cost Copenhagen 2.5 billion Euros. And the economic costs would be much higher in many cities worldwide, especially in developing countries, where comprehensive flood defense infrastructure and risk management plans may be weaker. We are currently carrying out another case study on Mumbai, a city which has experienced increasingly significant flood damages in recent years.
Let me now turn to the policy conclusions. What can be done in concrete terms to "urbanise" the climate change debate?
First and foremost, cities and nations need to collaborate better on climate change. This would ensure coherence of local and national action, while clearly acknowledging differences in the mandates of cities and national governments. City and sub-national regional leaders are generally best suited to design strategies to address their infrastructure needs, land use, geography, and economic profiles. Central governments, in turn, can set out the broad goals and frameworks to encourage action in the right areas; they can also provide needed funding or other incentives for city initiatives. Together they could work closer together to develop and exchange information about possible policy responses, to experiment with new solutions, to share experience and broaden and replicate successful initiatives.
But currently, there is no common set of urban environmental indicators that could facilitate the exchange of experiences and enable comparisons. Each city uses its own methodology to measure contamination and compliance with regulations. Here is where the OECD could contribute by joining other partners to help development and promote harmonised reporting frameworks to assess and measure progress towards carbon emission reduction across cities. The OECD can also help in pooling knowledge on the best tools for multi-level governmental collaboration in addressing climate change.
Momentum is building to mainstream policies for the "green economy" and climate smart cities. Some progressive cities are already providing financial incentives for cleaner public transportation, for green buildings, and for renewable energy.
To name just a few examples: In Pittsburgh, the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority offers loans at lower interest rates for projects that earn green building certification. Cities throughout Italy, Japan, and Canada have distributed "smart metres" to homes, which allow citizens to adjust their energy consumption in real time rather than after receiving a bill at the end of the month. City governments, which are often the largest local employers, are also beginning to hold themselves accountable by mandating "green tendering" procedures that limit their own carbon and other environmental footprints.
Many more cities are taking path-breaking action around climate change, but more often than not their experiences fail to inform policy at the national level. A richer and more structured interaction between cities and national governments could help create improved tools to support the "green economy" and the "climate smart" urban economy.
This morning I took part in the Roundtable on Urban Strategy of Mayors and Ministers whose participants discussed many of these issues. Mayors and Ministers underscored the need for stronger partnerships between cities, national governments and international organisations to more effectively contribute to climate policy responses. They called upon the OECD to help systematise city experience, to draw out good practice and to help them measure their performance. They also asked the OECD to help them become more active in international markets to reduce emissions. We will work in partnership with our member governments and their cities to bring city level perspectives experience to bear on the climate discussions and energy frameworks for policy.
At the OECD, we will continue to support our leaders to establish cost-effective climate change policies and encourage them to involve cities as major actors in these debates. During the time of this plenary alone another ten thousand people will migrate from rural areas to cities. There they will contribute to the economy, but also consume energy, produce waste and boost GHG emissions.
How cities develop will determine our collective ability to address climate change. It will be decisive in driving world green-house gas emissions up or down and it will determine how vulnerable we are to climate change impacts. The time has come to bring the experience and the capacity of cities to deal with the development and climate change challenge to the front of the climate debate. We need to empower cities to do the right things on climate change and we need to learn from their experience.
The OECD stands ready to help in addressing this challenge of multilevel global environmental governance to tackle climate change and we look forward to working with you to make this world a better and more livable place for our children and grandchildren.
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Where You've Been - or Where They've Been
I ran across this fun little site that will show you where you've been (or haven't been, in my case). I thought it would be fun to make a map to add to my genealogy websites for each branch of the family. For instance, my direct-line Graves ancestors settled in the areas marked on the map in red -
States that my Graves ancestors called home
The map is intended to show what states you've visited, and calculates the percentage of the US (or other countries) that you've seen, and incorporates that data into the text below the map; however, with a little html tweaking, which is easily done with the new Blogger setup, I changed the text to relate the map to my Graves family.
Ahh... something else fun to do besides the laundry...
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Alice Lloyd College is named for its founder, Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, who came to the Eastern Kentucky Mountains from her native home in Boston. Early in her career, she was a writer for local newspapers and periodicals. In 1902, Miss Geddes was publisher and editor of The Cambridge Press, the first publication in America with an all-female staff.
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Greenpeace flagship the MV Rainbow Warrior blocks the Marchwood Military Port in Southampton today while activists paint an anti-war message on the stern of a military supply vessel as part of the global campaign to prevent a military attack on Iraq.
The 1981 bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facility at Osirak, by Israel is a good example: - the bombing certainly delayed the programme, but it also drove it underground, with the result that whilst Osirak had been monitored by the IAEA, subsequent activities were not. Many members ofthe international community were very surprised by how far the Iraqi programme had developed in the 9 years following the bombing of Osirak. The Iraqi regime simply became even more determined to develop theirnuclear programme following the strikes and committed even more humanand economic resources to it.
Alarmingly some members of the international community seem keen to follow the same path with Iran.
One of the reasons we opposed the War in Iraq was because we believed it set a dangerous and illegal precedent for the use of force. The United Nations Charterprohibits the threat or use of force between States, except in two situations: when authorized by the Security Council to maintain peace and security and as a form of self-defense against armed attack.
Importantly the Charter strictly limits the use of force in self-defense to actual occurrences of armed attack. Some have argued, that preemptive action against an imminent attack is also permissible, but this remains a controversial interpretation with no consensus. Unfortunately recent expansive interpretations have taken the debatable preemption argument even farther, claiming a right of military action against possible attacks that have not yet materialized, effectively justifying "preventive" war.
Use of force is also considered justified under the Charter if authorized by Security Council but importantly only when efforts to address the matter by measures falling short of force have either failed or would have been futile. This is widely considered to mean when there is widespread violence or a humanitarian emergency.
None of this applied in the case of Iraq.
Evenmore alarmingly, nuclear weapons states (NWS) are increasingly talking of preventative use of nuclear as well as conventional weapons.
Historically the NWS have treated nuclear weapons as a weapon only to be used as alast resort, if at all. It has generally been accepted that they wouldonly be used in response to a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attack from another state, or to an attack from a country strongly allied toanother NWS.
But in January 2002 the US revealed in its nuclear posture review that it intended to combine its nuclear and conventional forces into one in distinct force and plan and prepare for nuclear weapons that were much more useable even in conventional conflict:
"A broader array of capability is needed to dissuade states from undertaking political, military, or technical courses of action that would threaten US and allied security … USstrategic forces need to provide the President with a range of options to defeat any aggressor." [US Nuclear Posture Review, 8 January 2002]
Several months later the UK added a new chapter to its Strategic Defence Review that extended the role of nuclear weapons beyond nation States:
"The UK's nuclear weapons have a continuing use as a means of deterring major strategic military threats, and they have a continuing role in guaranteeing the ultimate security of the UK. But we also want it to be clear, particularly to the leaders of states of concern and terrorist organisations, that all our forces play a part in deterrence, and that we have a broad range of responses available." ['The Strategic DefenceReview: A New Chapter', Ministry of Defence, Cm 5566 Vol I, July 2002]
And in January 2006 French President Jacques Chirac followed this lead by very publicly stating that: "…nuclear deterrence is not intended to deter fanatical terrorists. Yet, the leaders of States who would use terrorist means against us, as well as those who would consider using, in one way or another, weapons of mass destruction, must understand that they would lay themselves open to a firm and adapted response onour part. And this response could be a conventional one. It could also be of a different kind…"
Whilst Russia has not publicly changed its past public position it is believed to have adopted a similar policy.
What makes this all the more concerning is that the threat or use of nuclear weapons was actually declared illegal by the International Court of Justice in 1996.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to vote Tuesday on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, the chairman said Monday.
Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the vote would move forward despite a threat Sunday by James Inhofe, R-Okla., the committee's top Republican, to hold up Hagel's confirmation, The Hill reported.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also threatened to hold up Hagel's nomination.
A Democratic source told The Hill the committee vote Tuesday would allow Hagel's nomination to come to the floor as soon as Thursday, before the Senate's recess next week.
Inhofe, who has said he is voting against Hagel, R-Neb., has no plans to walk out on the committee vote, an aide told The Hill, after reports surfaced Sunday that GOP members were considering it.
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Graham threatened to put a hold on both Hagel and John Brennan, Obama's CIA director nominee, until the White House reveals more information about the response to last year's terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other diplomatic employees died.
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On August 24 AIDSVote announced a project with four other organizations [POZ magazine, Housing Works, the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA-US), and Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)] to launch a major absentee voter drive. A new Web site provided by POZ allows people to request an absentee ballot online if they are eligible to vote absentee. (The rules differ by state. In some states, one can vote absentee for any reason or none at all; in states using new voting machines with no paper trail, some voters plan to vote absentee to make sure their vote is counted. But other states only allow absentee voting for specific reasons, such as travel or illness.)
The new voter site also allows people to change their address if necessary, or register to vote online.
"For anyone who thinks that they might not be able to vote due to drug side effects, a medical appointment or hospitalization, limited mobility, fatigue or lack of access to transportation, this technology can help make sure your vote isn't missed," said Charles King, president and CEO of New York City's Housing Works.
Caution: Deadlines may differ, but many states have registration deadlines 30 days before the November 2 election. And deadlines for absentee voting can vary greatly by state. If you need to register, change your address, or request an absentee ballot, it is better to check now than to risk waiting until it is too late.
For more information see www.aidsvote.org. The voter registration/absentee site is http://electionimpact.votenet.com/poz/.
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California's political leaders, from the state Senate's top Democrat to the mayor of Los Angeles, have embraced a boycott of Arizona after that state adopted a new law giving police broad discretion to detain and arrest anyone they believe to be an undocumented immigrant.
Here's a better idea: instead of running away from Arizona, Californians should be running to Arizona – to lure residents, businesses and jobs back to the Golden State.
The bad publicity Arizona is getting represents an enormous opportunity for California. Businesses that rely heavily on immigrant labor – agriculture, garments, tourism, assembly-line manufacturing, huge swaths of the service sector – have to be nervous about the impact that strict enforcement of the new law might have on their ability to recruit and retain employees.
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Posted: Mar 3 2004, 10:41 AM
Reigning and Defending
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 1,722
Member No.: 625
Joined: Aug 12th 2003
Location: West Los Angeles, CA
Here you can list the name of your ID team in YOUR area, and jot down the name and rank of all members. I'll go first.
Team name: Kengai
# of members: 3
Name of members in order of performance:
1. KNGAI, MGLCA, CHEAT, ....1. Leader, and ranked 1st for performance, ME.
2. FCKIT. Newest member and ranked 2nd for performance, Fernando.
3. KNGAI. Member and ranked 3rd for performance, Carlos a.k.a. Kengai_rcrOne here in the forums.
Location: Ventura, CA. Part of the Southern California Initial D community.
Win/Loss record as a team: Raced 5 teams, lost NONE!
Name of teams defeated: Sons of Heaven, Speed Militia, SDD(San Diego Drifters), SMDK(Santa Maria Drift Crew), and this other team that tried to come up on us, team Khaos. There's still one team down here in Ventura that's been training to take us on, but I doubt they're even going to make a move, they are
Team X-ecution. Still waiting.....
Posted: Mar 3 2004, 01:57 PM
Akagi's White Comet
Group: Members
Posts: 442
Member No.: 877
Joined: Oct 5th 2003
Location: Warner Robins, GA
Team- Seven members-Based in Vegas/Henderson.
MLL,Team leader and damn good on all the courses,tho he has Retired till Ver 3.
JPN,Second in command and quickest on Happogahara
KOJI,Our top Racer right now being the Fastest on Akagi Uh,Akina Dh,Iroha Dh.
VOLT(Me),Fastest on Akagi Dh and Akina Uh,Decent on the rest,and proformance is still rising.
KMAN,Decent on the last four,adn he is still getting ALOT better.
Kyu,Damn quick with his 180Sx and his 8-5,Perfect on Usui and Myogi,and Avg on the rest(the 8-5 is keeping him back,it's his main car.)
Theres one more racer,but i still haven't meet him,been introduced to him,and even seen him race.....so till then he will be called....ZORO!
This post has been edited by V0|t on May 10 2004, 06:48 AM
Posted: Mar 4 2004, 06:42 PM
We're the People's Front of Judea!
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 13,123
Member No.: 1,355
Joined: Feb 28th 2004
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Rotary Knights
(1 guess as to what we all drive)
Rtry-Me, Best on the DHs, and usui
Ae86?-Al around average guy, can keep up with me on all courses except akagi, but doesnt usually win unless boost is on or i hold back
CrzFD- Good on usui, akagi, and iro uphill. Best on the UHs
"I like my engines to go around and around, not up and down"
This post has been edited by sidewaysgts on Mar 4 2004, 06:49 PM
Posted: Mar 9 2004, 12:23 PM
IDW Expert Member
Group: Members
Posts: 106
Member No.: 1,196
Joined: Jan 29th 2004
Location: Tampa, FL
Team Name, Initial Desire. Members 5. Team captain, me. Location, Tampa, FL.
Posted: Mar 10 2004, 02:52 AM
IDW Jr. Member
Group: Members
Posts: 63
Member No.: 1,415
Joined: Mar 10th 2004
Location: Update Profile
Team name: Project SV
# of members: 8
Fastest team in North America
Team record:
Usui CW: OA#2
Akagi up wet: OA#1
Happo In OA#1
Iro Down: OA#1
Four courses: OA#1
Location: Sunnyvale, North California
This post has been edited by FFR on May 22 2004, 08:38 PM
Posted: Mar 11 2004, 03:07 PM
IDW Saiyan
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 9,139
Member No.: 1,205
Joined: Jan 31st 2004
Location: Dallas, Texas
Team name:S-W-A-T
Leader- Me
Number of players right now:4
Me: All tracks
Craig- Akagi, Akinda
Jo- Happ., Usui, wet
Blair- Akina
Location: Dallas Texas
This post has been edited by AP1FrEaKsLiDe on Mar 11 2004, 03:08 PM
Posted: Mar 13 2004, 03:15 AM
slap slap slap!
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 1,493
Member No.: 1,183
Joined: Jan 26th 2004
Location: Update Profile
[Initial Drift]
Car name - MAT
Car - SXE10 ( Altezza Rs200)
Car name - ENEMY
Car - FC3S ( Rx7 Spirit )
We made this for a lil fun... Nufin Serious at all... Prolly wont even battle anyone LOL
We dont really wanna battle anyway... We have no idea why we bothered to make this
Anyways, Sydney is were we at
This post has been edited by -eViL- on May 8 2004, 10:22 PM
Posted: Mar 18 2004, 10:29 PM
Join the Empire today! Or die, rebel scum!
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 13,448
Member No.: 1,473
Joined: Mar 18th 2004
Location: Update Profile
im the new team member of speed militia, names BUNTA: Andres. other members are DHARD:brett aka "KORN" AKA "PAPER" AND TWO MORE. we live in santa paula.
Posted: Mar 20 2004, 08:42 AM
Group: Members
Posts: 3
Member No.: 1,481
Joined: Mar 20th 2004
Location: Update Profile
i'm on Project SV.. same as FFR.. haha 3rd on iro and 3rd on akagi with DC2.. har har..
if u wanna see our times, or the members list check out our site
Posted: Mar 23 2004, 12:25 AM
Group: Members
Posts: 4
Member No.: 1,493
Joined: Mar 23rd 2004
Location: Update Profile
Team name: ELeMeNT
# of members: 4
Name of members in order they joined:
1. Leader and founder: Me
2. 2nd in command: Turbocivic
3. Jon C.
Team Mission: To be the best and conquer all!!!
Posted: Mar 23 2004, 03:36 PM
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 3,364
Member No.: 1,467
Joined: Mar 17th 2004
Location: Update Profile
team name: Project D
# of members: 3
dont really have a leader...
name-car(s)-best course
cho-bunta mobile / 86 trueno-akina
tofu-evoIII / evoIV-iro (me)
kaka-fd spirit / evoIV-akagi
need to find some1 taht can play happo good...
Posted: Mar 28 2004, 01:21 AM
Group: Members
Posts: 5
Member No.: 1,529
Joined: Mar 28th 2004
Location: Update Profile
Team Name: Team Sago
Number of Members: 8 and growing
Area: Edmonton Alberta Canada
link to members: The Members
team site should be up within the month
Posted: Apr 1 2004, 07:02 PM
IDW Senior Member
Group: Members
Posts: 70
Member No.: 1,568
Joined: Apr 1st 2004
Location: Update Profile
im new and just started a team we're call by poeple in the acrades the evo nights or the evo brothers wich ever one fits ill let you guys decide.
number of member iits kinda simple #2
Legoinry-me car EVO 4/ EVO3
drakelord-best friend car EVO3/ RX7
we play version 1 and version 2 so we have 2 cars
we have raced anyone who wanted a piece of this and havnt lost let total number of race 23 i dont think we have raced and team thow some of them seemed like really hard core players.
location NC
RACE location Raleigh, NC
looking for a good team will be up in raleigh this saturday at adenture landing if any team is interested
we play for fun and pride lol.
Posted: Apr 21 2004, 04:06 PM
IDW Expert Member
Group: Members
Posts: 141
Member No.: 1,494
Joined: Mar 23rd 2004
Location: Ironton Ohio
Team name: Project Rush
Location: Ohio, Kentucky, WV Tristate
Me ( Chris )
Cars: AE86, MR2 G-Limited, Evo IV
Fav/Best Tracks: Akina DH/UH, Akagi DH/UH, Iro DH
Cars: DC2, R32, Evo IV
Fav/Best Tracks: Myogi CW/CCW, Akagi DH/UH, Happo IB/OB, Iro DH/RV
Cars: GT4, Evo III
Fav/Best Tracks: Usui CW/CCW, Akagi UH, Akina UH
We are just three guys who adore this game that are looking for some friendly rivals. Come in play some games, share some info and tips and just have fun.
Posted: Apr 22 2004, 10:00 AM
Miata Drifter and DGTrials Ambassador
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 2,172
Member No.: 1,671
Joined: Apr 22nd 2004
Location: Atlanta, GA
Team: Crusaders. In Atlanta, GA, US.
Play at startime Entertainment. (www.startimeentertainment.com)
Upgraded to Version 3
JT with EVO4
Babba with R32 and MR2
Java with Capp
Beau with FC and GDB
John with Sil-80
Kin with AE86 and FD
Shortman with his Silvia Q
Mike with FD, ER34
Kris with R32
Kalid with R32
Tyler with EVO4
Adam with RX-8
Also hello to the Glitchee and Ram-Master
This post has been edited by babba-r32 on Aug 2 2004, 05:43 PM
Posted: May 9 2004, 11:22 AM
IDW Expert Member
Group: Members
Posts: 106
Member No.: 1,196
Joined: Jan 29th 2004
Location: Tampa, FL
Started a side project team. Team name DCBlue
Posted: May 11 2004, 03:24 PM
Group: Members
Posts: 1
Member No.: 1,812
Joined: May 11th 2004
Location: Waianae, Hawaii
My local team is project xXx and we are based in waianae hawaii.
Project xXx is also looking for anyone who would like to join here in hawaii cuz we only have like five members all of us are intermediate players but we know the basics of drift and braking and downshift. Our team favorite is irohazaka and our favorite character is Shingo Shouji. The only machines we play are arcade stage: Volume 2 and it is the english version.
Edited by Perry: Please do not double post. Thank you.
This post has been edited by Perry on May 26 2004, 06:26 PM
Posted: May 22 2004, 10:47 PM
IDW Member
Group: Members
Posts: 10
Member No.: 1,883
Joined: May 22nd 2004
Location: Update Profile
Team name: umm... don't really have one... yet
# of members: 3 as of now
no real leader
me, Maug, Tofu
location: Huntsville, AL
Posted: May 23 2004, 09:28 AM
Akagi's White Comet
Group: Members
Posts: 442
Member No.: 877
Joined: Oct 5th 2003
Location: Warner Robins, GA
Just started a new team and i scarped the other one,the new team name is
Four members so far,
there are no leaders on this team.
PART1 (Daniel~Me~)Main Car:Gdb N Tune Silver,Sleeper:Rx-7 Fc3s
PART5 (Aaron)Main Car:Gdb N Tune Blue,Sleeper:Unknown at this time
PART7 (Jimmy)Main Car:Gdb N Tune White,Sleeper:Mr-2 G Limited
PART8 (Paul)Main Car:Gdb N Tune Black,Sleeper:Evo IV
This post has been edited by V0|t on May 25 2004, 12:49 PM
Posted: May 29 2004, 11:01 PM
IDW Banned Member
Group: Banned
Posts: 1,615
Member No.: 1,892
Joined: May 23rd 2004
Location: Update Profile
team name: FULL METAL
location: Los Angeles CA
members and thier cars
Chris-(O.O) dc2,dc2(AT),fd3s(spirit)
J.r-J.R s2000
Jesse- ??? wrx
noheel-NOEL!-evo IV,s14 k's,buntamobile,wrx
not much of a team but we still whoop on fools
This post has been edited by gt3turbocharged9 on Jun 11 2004, 11:56 AM
Posted: May 30 2004, 11:50 AM
Group: Members
Posts: 410
Member No.: 904
Joined: Oct 12th 2003
Location: Update Profile
FIREMEN - Good team, lotsa FT cards.. hardly play anymore (if at all).
Team NATIVE - Suck, lurk around arcade and watch u play smellin like ass. They fish.. err... try to fish.
Team Sago - Decent v3 team.. ya.
I know all members of Sago and Firemen, not part of any team.
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Posted: May 30 2004, 01:02 PM
Better than you, in so many ways...
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 5,366
Member No.: 1,869
Joined: May 20th 2004
Location: Petersburg, VA
My other memer of my Team 'Monstor Inc.' is away training in the navy.
EVOIV is da king of our arcade!!! And I wanna keep it that way!
Posted: Jun 3 2004, 09:42 AM
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 2,014
Member No.: 1,896
Joined: May 24th 2004
Location: Update Profile
i'll post up for Project Kishu...i'm not a member but an associate
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Founder and Leaders: Razorsuke (Best in Calgary on all course, and Best in Irohazaka in Western Canada) and Matt
Other Members:
Wes (Second Best in Calgary, our lil Takumi on Akina according to Razor)
Tony (Maniac of Pho, Also tied for Second in Calgary)
Non Kishu Kishu Members (aka. named the AfterSchool Crew by Razor):
Me, (aka. Phoker)
Full List: http://www.kishu.ca/members.php
Records: http://www.kishu.ca/time-v2.php
Best Times in the Team:
Myogi CCW: 2'52"886 (Razor - R32)
CW: 2'54"014 (Steve - RX-7)
Usui CCW: 2'43"8xx (Razor - Sileighty)
CW: 2'44"8xx (Raozr - Sileighty)
Akagi DH: 2'14"671 (Razor - RX-7 Type R)
UH: 2'19"956 (Razor - RX-7 Spirit)
Akina DH: 2'47"929 (Wes - Capp)
UH: 2'57'767 (Wes - Capp)
Happo OB: 2'14"593 (Razor - DC2)
IB: 2'13"200 (Razor - DC2)
Iro DH: 2"33"889 (Razor - DC2)
Rev: 2'42"508 (Razor - DC2)
All4Course: 9'58"890 (Razorsuke - DC2)
Project SV, meet Project Kishu...
best in North America? Theres also The Toronto Speed Concept Team...
This post has been edited by phome on Jun 3 2004, 10:08 AM
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Posted: Jun 3 2004, 12:13 PM
Better than you, in so many ways...
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 5,366
Member No.: 1,869
Joined: May 20th 2004
Location: Petersburg, VA
2'33" IRO DH?!!! Holy shit!! That's fast!
Posted: Jun 3 2004, 01:53 PM
Group: Advanced Members
Posts: 2,014
Member No.: 1,896
Joined: May 24th 2004
Location: Update Profile
heh, thats why hes the best in western canada....i dunno about the toronto/montreal ppl...."eastern canada"
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The most important responsibility of MDC's Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy is to help faculty develop and implement high quality service-learning experiences into their courses. We are excited to assist you as you transform the teaching/learning process to improve learning and create a new generation of citizens.
If there is a crisis in education in the United States today, it is less that test scores have declined than it is that we have failed to provide the education for citizenship that is still the most significant responsibility of the nation's schools and colleges.
Frank Newman, Higher Education and the American Resurgence
Service-learning has become a major force in American higher education to improve academic learning, leadership, civic and democratic involvement, and prepare students for the workforce and for lives of engaged citizenship.
Miami Dade College faculty are part of this massive national effort to reclaim the civic mission of higher education by combining academic learning with course-related service. Connecting academic study with community service through structured reflection is widely recognized as contributing to learning that is deeper, longer-lasting, and more portable to new situations and circumstances. Hundreds of MDC faculty are helping transform students into active citizens with the skills and desire to build a better world. Phenomenal results are being achieved to improve academic learning, meet MDC's learning outcomes, and transform our community.
Service-Learning Defined
Service-learning is a course-based, credit-bearing educational experience that allows students to (a) participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs, and (b) reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility. Service-learning addresses community-identified needs while helping students meet academic, social and civic learning goals.
Students involved in service-learning are expected not only to provide direct community service but also to learn about the context in which the service is provided, the connection between the service and their academic coursework, and their roles as citizens.
Service-Learning – how is it different from volunteerism, community service, and internships?
Volunteerism and community service involve activities where the primary emphasis is on the service being provided and the primary intended beneficiary is clearly the service recipient (e.g. providing food to the homeless during the holidays).
Internships are primarily for the purpose of providing students with hands‐on experiences that enhance their learning or understanding of issues relevant to a particular area of study.
Service-learning differs from community service, volunteerism, and internships in four distinct ways:
How and why is service-learning important?
Students learn more when they are actively involved in what they are learning than when they are passive recipients of information. Service learning is "active participation" in learning and one of the most effective forms of active learning.
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Carmageddon dev: "Humour is the key selling point"
Carmageddon dev, Stainless Games, has told an industry crowd at Develop that it never expected its 1997 original death-racer to be quite as controversial as it turned out to be, but joked that the team would be "heartbroken" if it doesn't ruffle feathers with its 2013 reboot.
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Carmageddon dev prioritises IP retention
Stainless Games CEO Patrick Buckland says independent developers should try to hold on to original intellectual property rather than sign it away to publishers.
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Lacie's LaPlug is identical to the Pogoplug in concept: plug in any USB HDD and it magically transforms into a Time Machine-compatible NAS drive that's accessible from outside your home network. This is a product trend I like.
Hard drives die. That's a fact. What happens to your NAS once your drives go bad? The drives aren't always user replaceable. But if you have something like the LaPlug, when a drive dies, you're not completely without NAS powers. The last time I used a Pogoplug, however, it was cripplingly slow. I'm hoping these types of products have gotten faster since then. $75 (around £45). [Lacie via Engadget]
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I showed you this little powder room HERE, I told you that overall I like this small bath but there were some issues I wanted to address.
The most important thing we have to do right now is change the lavatory, it got damage when the little bottle on the second shelf (picture below), fell and cracked the bowl.
In the meantime I need to fix what cause that problem, storage space. That's the principal problem because those shelves look good, but they don't hold that much.
My solution: To install three floating shelves.
You can check the following video for complete instructions or you can continue reading the story.
I took off those boxes and traced level lines where I wanted to install the shelves.
Since they were going to be floating shelves, a cleat was installed to the wall to hold the shelves. For the cleats I used the cheapest kind of 1x2s. They were screwed to the wall with anchors where needed, and with nails to the studs.
When all the cleats were installed, it was a good time to fill in the holes and paint the wall.
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The big education news this week: Compton parents who sought to exercise their rights under the new "trigger" law -- which allows parents to force the takeover of failing schools -- sued their school district in court. Their claim? That the school district -- by demanding they appear in person to verify their signatures on the petition triggering the takeover of McKinley Elementary School -- was seeking to intimidate them and violate their rights. The parents on Thursday won an early victory, with a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge granting a temporary restraining order barring the district from verifying their signatures.
McKinley is the first school in the state where parents have tried to employ the new trigger law. They want the school to be taken over by a charter school company. So the case has great potential to set precedents for how the trigger is handled.
This may be one reason for the lawsuit. The new administration of Gov. Jerry Brown is widely believed to be hostile to the "parent trigger," which was championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In one of his first acts as governor, So backers of the trigger may prefer to let the courts decide how the law should be enforced rather than leaving it to Brown's appointees on the state school board. Brown replaced several members of the state school board, including the leader of the Parent Revolution group that has assisted the parents in Compton, just days before regulations on the parent trigger would be finalized. So it wouldn't be a surprise if the Brown board, which has so far delayed action on the parent trigger, sought to undercut the law via regulations that made it very difficult for parents to pull the trigger.
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As to the merits of the lawsuit: in a normal situation, the school district's desire to check ID -- and make sure that the parents whose names on the petition really signed the document -- makes sense in general. But this case is different. By multiple accounts, school district employees and teachers who object to the parent trigger have applied private and public pressure to parents to get them to back off. (According to some reports, parents whose immigration status is in question have been targeted).
Plus, this is Compton, which has a well-documented and entrenched political culture in which threats and corruption. The Compton school district itself had to be taken over by the state a decade ago for fiscal and academic mismanagement -- the first district in the state to receive that penalty. Given that history, parents' complaints about intimidation by school employees should be taken very seriously.


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Hope you're well and bearing up in these extremely unusual and difficult times.
It is with much sadness and disappointment that we have been advised from Tuesday 24th that APC our courier can no longer guarantee next day deliveries due to the volume of staff that they have either off sick or staying at home to social distance or isolate since the Governments latest announcement last night. They have been advised by DEFRA to cease shipping of any and all livestock.
We like you are obviously still coming to terms with how COVID19 affects us, our family and our business. We would like to ask you if you're considering placing an order that you please do so to help support us in these unprecedented and difficult times as currently despite all this our operating costs remain unchanged.
We would then ship to you when any shipping restrictions or lockdowns are lifted. In the meantime your corals will be well looked after and kept in our sold tank for you
As a thank you and encouragement we shall from this afternoon be offering a 25% discount across the website, this will be applied automatically when you reach the cart stage of your purchase, so the prices shown are BEFORE this discount is applied for you
Thanking you in advance and with our sincerest apologies.
We wish you and your family good health and hope we can all get through this as quickly as possible
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We have 3 tiers of shipping charges, all require you or a friend/relative to be in to sign for your lovely new corals.
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Apr 27, 2010 | ISBN 9780345512185
"As a parent, nothing is more painful than to get a diagnosis that something is wrong with your child. No matter what the issue – auditory processing disorder, hearing impairment, or simple listening challenges – Lois Heymann's advice is both a great comfort and a practical roadmap to help children reach their potential. As a parent who personally benefitted from Lois's therapy sessions, I highly recommend this book for all families traveling down this road." —Lee Woodruff, author, Perfectly Imperfect
"With good listening comes understanding. When a child doesn't seem to be able to listen well, it's critical that parents get involved and nurture his or her listening skills. The Sound of Hope will provide you with great ideas and simple strategies to help them build up that 'muscle.'" —Jo Frost, SuperNanny, and author of Ask SuperNanny: What Every Parent Wants to Know
"Although this wonderfully practical, sensible, and accessible book targets parents raising children with auditory processing disorders, I encourage every parent to read it. Who doesn't need tips on how to help children listen? Heymann's suggestions are so practical and her thoughtful explanation of how each child is unique is brilliant. I underlined feverishly as I read this book, eager to pass along the advice to the many parents I know who want to help their children develop confidence and competence and become people who look forward to learning, socializing, and exploring."—Dale Atkins, Ph.D., author of Sanity Savers


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Hu Zhenlai has lived on the water all her life. At the end of the '80s, she moved with her family from the Hongze Lake in Jiangsu province to catch fish on the Yangtze river. Now her son has followed his father's footsteps and became a fisherman. But the number of fish in the Yangtze is declining, in part due to water pollution. This spring, only two out of Yanglingang's six large boats have made a profit catching saury. Those who rely primarily on fishing are all living in impoverished conditions, with only their boats and no houses on land. Hu Zhenlai spends her days on the boat taking care of her grandson, who attends school.
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Physical Therapy Degrees
Physical therapists work with patients who have varying types of movement dysfunction resulting from illness, injuries, surgical procedures, or other medical conditions. Physical therapists help patients regain bodily movement and function, reduce pain, and try to prevent future injuries, pain, or disabilities. They assess each patient, consult with the patient's primary physician, surgeon, or other medical professionals, and develop a treatment plan to fit the patient's specific needs. This can include helping patients walk, use their hands and arms to pick things up, learn how to use a prosthetic limb, and turn their heads.
If this sounds like a career that you might be interested in, you may want to consider pursuing a degree in physical therapy. Completing online PhD physical therapy degrees will familiarize you with the human body, and give you the skills you need to assess patients and develop exercises to improve their mobility and reduce their pain.
Classes and Assignments of a Physical Therapy Major
Physical therapists must be familiar with the human body, its normal range of motion, physical disabilities, and treatment methods and techniques. To give students a foundation of knowledge they can build on, many physical therapy programs begin with courses such as physical therapy procedures, anatomy and physiology, human growth and development, motor skills, and patient care in physical therapy. Your courses will then progress into areas such as patient assessment, evaluation of movement, exercise science, and physical therapy treatment options and techniques for various conditions.
Your assignments may include assessing and evaluating mock patients, identifying ailments and disabilities and describing methods of treatment that are appropriate for each, and completing scenarios that demonstrate your ability to determine and perform the correct treatment options. In addition to your course work, you will be required to complete a certain number of clinical hours, which are spent at a hospital or other medical facility, shadowing a physical therapist and gaining hands-on knowledge.
Degree Levels for Physical Therapy Majors
- Bachelor's. Online bachelors physical therapy degrees will cover the fundamentals of several areas that pertain to physical therapy, such as physics, anatomy, strength training and conditioning, evaluation and assessment, and medical terminology. A bachelor's degree will prepare you for a graduate-level physical therapy degree program.
- Master's. Online masters physical therapy degrees will expand on your fundamental knowledge, with courses such as orthopaedic principles, neuroanatomy, exercise physiology, prosthetics and orthotics, and geriatric, adult, and pediatric rehabilitation. Some states allow individuals with a master's degree to obtain licensure and practice physical therapy.
- Doctoral. A doctoral degree program in physical therapy will progress into highly advanced areas of study. Some courses will expand on what you have already learned, and can include physical therapy intervention, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, and spine examination and treatment. Other courses may include clinical research in physical therapy, clinical decision making, physical therapy administration and leadership, and applied research statistics. Some states require individuals to have a doctoral degree to obtain licensure and practice physical therapy.
A Future as a Physical Therapy Major
To practice physical therapy, you must earn a graduate degree from an accredited physical therapy program, pass the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE), and become licensed by your state. Additional requirements vary by state, as well as the requirements to maintain your license.
The majority of physical therapists work in hospitals, nursing care facilities, outpatient clinics, private offices, or in patient's homes. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that the average salary for a physical therapist is $77,990 a year. Keep in mind, though, that this amount varies depending on several factors, including the organization you work for, the amount of experience you have, and where in the country you are located. The BLS is expecting to see a 30% increase in employment through the year 2018, which is considerably higher than most occupations.


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"Justified" returns Tuesday on FX
While most of the current best cable dramas compete to be dark and demon-filled studies of tragic antiheroes, one stands out as somewhat more optimistic. For starters, the hero is truly heroic. On "Justified," the modern western returning Tuesday on FX, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is flawed, to be sure, but he's working on the side of the law. The rough-edged Kentucky country boy in cowboy boots, possessed of a slow drawl and a fast draw, literally wears a white hat.
Olyphant is never better than when Raylan goes up against his nemesis Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins). Unless it's when Raylan goes up against his criminal father Arlo (Raymond J. Berry). Or when he's fighting with his boss the Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen (Nick Searcy).
As season 4 opens, there's plenty of each of those matchups when a 30-year-old cold case is accidentally reopened. Additionally, the new season boasts a terrific dose of comic relief in the form of Patton Oswalt. Oswalt plays Bob Sweeney, a well meaning but inept sidekick to Raylan who wants nothing more than to be a real Marshal himself one day. The hapless Sweeney appears to be a cross between Barney Fife and Barney Rubble, but Oswalt makes him his own.
The Emmy-winning series has proven itself with tales, based on Elmore Leonard's short stories, about outlaw families, a gangster from out of town, rigged politics and moonshine. This season, it tackles a snake-handling Pentecostal preacher.


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People do all kinds of crazy things in Hawaii, but flying balloons over a volcano usually isn't one of them. Unless you're Adam Durant, that is.
Durant, an adjunct geological sciences faculty member at Michigan Technological University, and colleagues took meteorological balloons to the Kilauea volcano this summer to make the first on-location measurements of volcanic gases as they actually spew from the mouth of the volcano. The Kilauea volcano began erupting in March.
Durant and Matt Watson, also an adjunct faculty member at Michigan Tech, are working with Paul Voss of Smith College to measure the temperature, composition and water content of the volcanic gases. Durant and Watson both are Michigan Tech alumni who are doing postdoctoral work at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
"The first flight was a success and made the first in situ measurements of gases in a volcanic plume using meteorological balloons," Durant reported in a talk at Michigan Tech.
In addition to seeing volcanoes up closeDurant and his colleagues wear goggles and breathing masks at the infernal mouth of the volcanohe analyzes the plumes using controlled meteorological (CMET) balloons, which have altitude control and drift with winds.
"The balloons are piloted remotely by satellite link," Durant explained, "with flight visualization using Google Earth. We were looking at tropospheric volcanic emissions of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and water, which can be hazardous to human and animal health and degrade ecosystems."
The scientists released two balloons in July that rode the winds in and out of the plumes emanating from Kilauea's Halema'uma'u crater. Using instruments hanging below the balloon, the researchers measured the gases as the plumes rose up and away from the active volcano, one of three on Hawaii.
After the first balloon was released into strong winds left over from tropical storm Elida, it worked for a couple of hours, ascending to 2,500 meters around Mauna Loa mountain. The flight lasted for just under two hours before the balloon crashed into the mountain north of the launch site. Durant and Watson spent the next three hours scouring the jungle on steep mountain slopes before finally locating the balloon, mostly intact.
The next day's launch was even more eventful.
Voss worked through the night at home in Massachusetts, while Durant worked remotely in the field to fly the balloon using Google Earth. The balloon remained airborne so long that the researchers had to ask the Federal Aviation Administration to extend the flight beyond their approved window. After five hours, they finally had to terminate the flight themselves, to avoid exceeding the new FAA window or interfering with Hilo or Kona airports.
This flight landed in a macadamia nut tree plantation. The Google Earth images were so clear "we could count the rows of trees to find the balloon," Durant said. They also managed to land the balloon close to a major highway. "It sure beat slugging it out through a jungle," he remarked.
The preliminary data is already interesting, Durant says. "We are fairly confident of three findings. First, this work is feasible for measuring sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in volcanic emissions for several hours after eruptions. Second, there is a loss of SO2 after one hour of flight away from the source, which could reflect conversion to sulfate aerosol (which may lower the Earth's temperature by reflecting away solar radiation). And third, there is a clear stratification of SO2 above CO2 within the plumes."
The stratification could represent separation of the gases through meteorological processes such as water droplet formation, Durant said This finding has implications for remote sensing studies that aim to measure volcanic gas emission rates.
Their research could have immediate consequences for neighboring residents. "One of the largest subdivisions in America is Ocean View, and it is downwind from the volcano on the west side of the island," Durant noted. "We detected sulfur dioxide over the development, several hours after it was erupted into the atmosphere." Although they detected considerably less than the 500 parts per million at the source, the level is still high enough to warrant more monitoring, he said.
Durant and colleagues would like to return to Hawaii to conduct another, larger study with more accurate (and expensive) instrumentation, to collect more data on the gases that Kilauea belches out. The devil is in the details, it seems, even in paradise.
|Contact: Jennifer Donovan
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RL Willard necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Winterhawk Energy and Development is a new socially-aware energy company that works directly with Native American land partners to create win-win partnerships. We focus on the development of wind and solar energy projects. Our business is firmly rooted in fair practices with Native American partners, who have traditionally been "hoodwinked" by land speculators and large energy concerns. We give back to our partner communities not only through advantageous lease deals, but also through extensive job training and a 50% community hiring practice - by far the highest in the industry. We help our partner communities sustain themselves not through one-time handouts, but by developing educational programs and skill sets for the 21st century that can be built upon - including college certification for all of our partner employees. We are a start-up, looking for a really good designer that we can work with long-term through our media agency, RULE7MEDIA, in New York.
Essentially, we are a business-to-business company. We also market our revolutionary style of business to Native American communities.
As a renewable energy company, we would like our logo to reflect our "dynamic concern" for the environment. Also, we want to use the colors blue, green, gold and gray. It is important to portray strength and solidity - especially since we are just starting. The image of a hawk (a winterhawk in particular!) in in our minds right now, but we're open to clever alternatives of course. Abstract is ok, as long as it can be easily explained. There is a prototype of our web design attached for further guidance.
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text: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 CMS Proposes Timeline for Providers to Return Overpayments The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday proposed that providers and suppliers must report and return self-identified overpayments either within 60 days of the incorrect payment being identified or on the date when a corresponding cost report is due—whichever is later. The announcement is 1 in a series of steps Medicare is taking to protect taxpayer dollars, including efforts to prevent overpayments from occurring. These efforts include allowing private auditors working on behalf of Medicare to catch wasteful spending before it happens by expanding the use of Recovery Audit Contractors, testing changes to outdated hospital billing systems to help prevent overbilling, and changing processes for approving payments for medical equipment with high error rates. A Medicare overpayment refers to any funds that a person receives or retains under Medicare to which the person is not entitled. Examples of overpayments in Medicare include the following: duplicate submission of the same service or claim payment to the incorrect payee payment for excluded or medically unnecessary services payment for non-covered services Any failure to report and return the overpayment within the applicable time frame could be a violation of the False Claims Act. Providers also could be subject to civil monetary penalties or excluded from participating in federal health care programs for failure to report and return an overpayment. Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) providers did not face an explicit deadline for returning overpayments. CMS has received approximately $5 million in overpayment refunds under ACA. Contractors also have received a substantial number of overpayment refunds. APTA is analyzing CMS' proposal and will post a summary on www.apta.org shortly. Also yesterday, the Obama Administration announced that the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program had recovered $4.1 billion in Fiscal Year 2011 from anti-fraud efforts, while the Department of Justice opened 1,110 new criminal health care fraud investigations involving 2,561 potential defendants. Access the following links for APTA resources on fraud and abuse, the False Claims Act, and other compliance-related topics.