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In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more than one occasion, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King added his voice to the struggle in what became the final speech of his life. His assassination in Memphis on April 4 not only sparked protests and violence throughout America; it helped force the acceptance of worker demands in Memphis. The sanitation strike ended eight days after King's death. The connection between the Memphis sanitation strike and King's death has not received the emphasis it deserves, especially for younger readers. Marching to the Mountaintop explores how the media, politics, the Civil Rights Movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death.
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Ann Bausum is an award-winning children's book author on the lookout for personal stories that connect readers with our nation's past and the echo of history in current events. Marching to the Mountaintop is Ann's ninth book for the National Geographic Society. With painstaking research, an eye for just the right illustration, and a compelling narrative, awardwinning author Ann Bausum makes history come alive for young people. Previous books for National Geographic include Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the Dark Side of American Immigration; Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair Exposed Corruption, Inspired Reform, and Helped Found Investigative Journalism; Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, which was a Sibert Honor Book, and With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote, winner of the Jane Addams Award. Ann lives in Beloit, Wisconsin. To find out more about her writing, visit her on the Web at www.AnnBausum.com.
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Marching to the Mountaintop RLBHow Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours
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It was horrible," said the woman.
One minute she could see a sanitation worker struggling to climb out of the refuse barrel of a city garbage truck. The next minute mechanical forces pulled him back into the cavernous opening. It looked to her as though the man's raincoat had snagged on the vehicle, foiling his escape attempt. "His body went in first and his legs were hanging out," said the eyewitness, who had been sitting at her kitchen table in Memphis, Tennessee, when the truck paused in front of her home. Next, she watched the man's legs vanish as the motion of the truck's compacting unit swept the worker toward his death. "The big thing just swallowed him," she reported.
Unbeknownst to Mrs. C. E. Hinson, another man was already trapped inside the vibrating truck body. Before vehicle driver Willie Crain could react, Echol Cole, age 36, and Robert Walker, age 30, would be crushed to death. Nobody ever identified which one came close to escaping.
Cole and Walker wore raincoats for good reason on February 1, 1968. At the end of a wet workday, Willie Crain's four-man crew had divvied up the truck's available shelter for the trip to the garbage dump. Elester Gregory and Eddie Ross, Jr., squeezed into the driver's cab with Crain and left the younger members of the crew with two choices. They could hold on tight to exterior perches while the truck passed through torrential rains. Or they could climb inside the truck's garbage barrel, wedged between the front wall of the vessel and the packing arm that pressed a load of refuse against the rear of the truck. Walker and Cole opted for the dryer and seemingly more secure interior space.
Rain or shine, the 1,100 sanitation workers of Memphis collected what amounted to 2,500 tons of garbage a day. This all-male, exclusively African- American staff worked six days a week with one 15-minute break for lunch and no routine access to bathroom facilities. Their pay was based on their garbage routes, not their hours worked, so there was no overtime compensation when the days ran long. Workers supplied their own clothing and gloves, toted rain- saturated garbage in leaky tubs supplied by the city, and had no place to shower or to change out of soiled clothes before returning home. Even though the men worked full-time, their earnings failed to lift their families from poverty. To make ends meet, many found extra jobs, paid for groceries with government- sponsored food stamps, lived in low-income housing projects, and made use of items scavenged during their garbage runs.
The men toiled under a system with eerie echoes of the pre–Civil War South, what some called the plantation mentality. Whites worked as supervisors. Blacks, who made up almost 40 percent of the city's population, performed the backbreaking labor. Bosses expected to be addressed as "sir." Workers endured being called "boy," regardless of their ages. Whites presumed to know what was best for "our Negroes," and blacks tolerated poor treatment for fear of losing their jobs, or worse. City officials had no motivation to recognize the fledgling labor union that sought to protect the workers and to advocate for their rights. As a result, employees "acted like they were working on a plantation, doing what the master said," recalled sanitation worker Clinton Burrows.
Garbage collectors faced back injuries and other strains because of the physical demands of the work, and they fretted about the use of unsafe equipment. Willie Crain's truck had been purchased on the cheap in 1957 at a time when Henry Loeb ran the department of public works. By 1968, when Loeb returned to public office as the newly elected Memphis mayor, the city had begun replacing the old trucks. Two of the vehicles, including Crain's truck, had been retrofitted with a makeshift motor after the unit's trash-compacting engine had worn out. As best as anyone could figure after the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, a loose shovel had fallen into the wiring for the replacement motor and had accidentally triggered the reversal of the trash compactor.
Like those of other sanitation workers, the families of Cole and Walker managed paycheck to paycheck, leaving no reserves for emergencies. Their jobs came without the benefits of life insurance or a guarantee of support in the case of work-related injury or death. Mayor Loeb honored the victims by lowering public flags to half-mast, but he offered scant assistance to their survivors. The city contributed $500 toward the men's $900 funerals and paid out an extra month's wages to Cole's widow and the widow of Walker (who was pregnant).
The deaths of Cole and Walker wrapped up a particularly bad week for African Americans employed at the department of public works. This unit handled garbage collection, street repairs, and other city maintenance. On January 30, two days before the sanitation-worker fatalities, 21 members of the sewer and drainage division had been sent home with only two hours of "show-up pay" because of bad weather. The previous public works director had kept staff employed regardless of the weather, but Mayor Loeb had ordered Charles Blackburn, his new director, to return to Loeb's old rainy-day policy from the 1950s. In a climate where rain fell frequently, workers lost their ability to predict their income. "That's when we commenced starving," explained road worker Ed Gillis.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Daniel Brizard, an assistant coach at LSU for the past five seasons, has been named head coach of the Tennessee Tech women's soccer team.
Brizard, 36, begins his new position July 1. In addition to LSU, Brizard has coached at Florida International University, South Alabama and the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
"I'm honored to have this opportunity to coach at Tennessee Tech, and I'm excited about the possibility of competing for championships in the Ohio Valley Conference," Brizard said. "I would like to thank President Bob Bell, Mark Wilson, Frank Harrell and the athletic administration for this opportunity.
"I'm looking forward to keeping the team moving in the right direction, continuing to see improvement, and winning some OVC Championships," he said.
Brizard has enjoyed a high level of success at LSU, something that TTU Director of Athletics Mark Wilson expects to continue.
"We're excited to bring Daniel to Tennessee Tech and we look forward to him leading our women's soccer team to Ohio Valley Conference championships and continuing the team's success academically."
At LSU, the Tigers have earned a reputation for their tenacity on the defensive end of the field and Brizard has helped build that reputation while coaching the team's goalkeepers.
In the past three years, Brizard and the Tigers have won three consecutive SEC Western Division championships and advanced to the NCAA Tournament all three years. LSU was 14-4-2 in 2008 and went 15-4-5 last season. The Tigers boasted the top defensive unit in the SEC and posted goals against averages of 0.82 in 2008 and 0.71 in 2009.
Under his tutelage, Mo Isom became the first LSU goalkeeper to earn All-America honors. Before that, Brizard coached goalkeeper Valerie Vogler to a career year in 2007 to help lead the team to its first ever SEC West crown and a berth into the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Widely considered one of the top goalkeeper coaches in all of women's college soccer, Brizard has also served as the goalkeeper coach of the Region III Olympic Development Program Team during his career, as well as a member of the Region III ODP coaching staff for nine years. He is currently a member of the coaching staff of the Region II ODP Team.
Prior to his stint at LSU, Brizard spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Florida International University, two seasons at South Alabama and two seasons at Missouri-St. Louis, while also serving as coach of the girl's soccer team at Parkway West High School in St. Louis.
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Prior to the start of his coaching career, Brizard was a four-year starter and team captain on the men's soccer team at Berry College in Rome, Georgia from 1991-95.
He earned his bachelor's degree in sports performance/exercise science from Berry College in 1995 and spent two years in the Navy before beginning his coaching career in 1998.
Brizard is married to the former Julie Schneider of St. Louis.
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Dalness is so remote, even the man from the mountain search and rescue squad hasn't heard of it. "Dalness? Where's that?" Note to self: don't get lost in Dalness. It's not listed on our sat nav system either. So, earlier this morning we entered the exact GPS co-ordinates for Dalness, before doing the only sane thing any self-respecting petrolhead should do with a car and a handful of days: tighten scarf and drive to the glorious Scottish Highlands.
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According to the UK's Met Office, Dalness is the wettest location in the UK. It 'enjoys' an average annual rainfall of 3.3 metres. Fortunately, it also sits in the middle of some of the most spectacular Highland scenery you'll find.
The roads aren't too shabby either - great swathes of asphalt that sweep majestically along valley floors and slice into the sides of humbling mountain ranges. The roads and eco-system of the Scottish Highlands are one of the best locations open to Europe's driving public 24/7, 365 days a year.
When we eventually do find it, the first question is who measures the rainfall in Dalness? Bar a herd of inquisitive deer, we don't see a soul. A map of the surrounding area shows Dalness as falling within the southwestern boundary of the National Trust for Scotland's 5,800-hectare Glencoe and Dalness Range.
Dalness lies only a few miles west of the A82, between Fort William and Crianlarich. It's signposted toward Glen Etive and the unmarked road that winds its way there races the River Etive, which traces the valley floor. The burnt orange heather that gives the surrounding scenery its distinctive hue is getting a good watering. Water pours continuously from the skies and cascades off the hillsides. Rivers rage and lochs lap high against the shore while rain is being driven horizontally by vicious winds.


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Liberals balk on Syria
As Harry Reid pushes for a Syria vote next week in the Senate, he and President Barack Obama face a major challenge convincing liberal Democrats to support them.
Sens. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) opposed the resolution authorizing military action in Syria during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on Wednesday afternoon. Another liberal Democrat, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, voted present.
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The Democratic resistance demonstrates the uphill battle that the Senate majority leader and Obama face on the Senate floor. Reid needs 60 votes to cut off an expected filibuster, and so far, it's unclear whether he can get them. Republicans will likely only be able to muster roughly 10 to 12 votes to cut off debate, meaning Reid can lose only a handful of his 54 Democrats to move to a final vote on passage.
"I think this is an evolving issue. I don't think this is static. I think people's thoughts on it are going to evolve and change," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the majority whip, following the committee vote.
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Durbin backed the measure in committee, although he — like other progressives on the panel — swallowed hard in doing so. "Many members will be noncommittal and generally opposed until faced with a reality of a choice. I've seen that many times. When they're faced with that reality, they look at things a little differently."
Durbin added: "On the left in the caucus, there will be those who have a lot of questions. Maybe the work product that we produce will satisfy some of them. But I don't expect to get every Democratic vote."
Reid, though, is expected to argue to his rank-and-file members that they need to support him — and Obama — in overcoming the 60-vote threshold to cut off debate, and are then free to oppose the resolution on final passage, which would only require 50 votes, with Vice President Joe Biden available to break a tie. In a positive sign for the White House, Murphy told POLITICO that he would vote for cloture despite his opposition to the use-of-force resolution.
"I won't mount any procedural battle. I'll just vote against it [on final passage]," Murphy said.
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Reid is expected to file the measure during a pro forma session of the Senate on Friday, sources say, a rare move that would allow him to set the stage Monday for a key procedural vote in the middle of the week. That means a vote on final passage could occur by week's end next week.
That is, if Reid can get the votes.
But a handful of progressive Senate Democrats — including Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Tom Harkin of Iowa are seen as potential 'no' votes when the resolution reaches the floor, according to Democratic sources.
Warren is undecided on the matter, an aide said on Wednesday.
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A number of other Democratic senators and Angus King (I-Maine) are officially undecided or possibly opposed, including Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Mark Udall of Colorado and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
For those Democrats who choose to vote for cloture and allow debate on military action to proceed, they are putting themselves at risk.
Liberal Democrats, haunted by the specter of the Iraq war and the ongoing U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, face a potential backlash from the party base if they are seen as giving in to the White House on any military move against the Assad regime. Public polls have shown a sizable majority of Americans are opposed to such a move, ensuring there could be some fallout for lawmakers who support a military strike. And anti-war groups have soured on the Syria campaign, including VoteVets.org, a veterans advocacy group on the left.
There also is concern in the left wing of the Democratic Party, as well as among more libertarian Republicans, that the White House has not fully developed its Syria military strategy beyond hitting Assad's forces over the alleged use of chemical weapons. These Democrats fear that the United States could get drawn into Syria's increasingly bloody civil war, now in its third year.
Those views were clearly what drove Murphy and Udall to oppose the resolution.
"I want to repeat that I am horrified [at] what Bashar al-Assad has done to his own people. He's committed a heinous act and a violation of the Geneva Convention, no doubt about it," Udall said in explaining his "no" vote. "However, I still believe this proposal is the wrong course of action for the United States and its military. I am voting no because this policy moves the United States toward greater involvement in the Syrian civil war and an increasing regional conflict."
"We should not take it lightly that the American people are not with us," Udall added. "New Mexicans are tired of war. Americans are tired of war."
"I think there is a chance that these [U.S.] strikes could make the situation worse on the ground [in Syria] in the short run," Murphy said of his vote. "I simply believe the risks of action today outweigh the risks of inaction."


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Commander Chris Hadfield "Space Oddity" (2013)
Talk about a viral video! When I first viewed the above YouTube video of astronaut Chris Hatfield's outer space version of David Bowie's classic "Space Oddity" on Sunday, the day it was first uploaded, it had something like 200,000 views which was pretty impressive. But now, only two days later, it is almost at seven million YouTube views! That is almost the same number that David Bowie's original 1969 video version of his song has racked up since it was uploaded to YouTube seven years ago. But the reason no doubt for the viral success of the new revised version of "Space Oddity" is understandable.
Not only is it a genuine spaceman the perfect person to cover this Bowie song but wow, what an amazing spectacle that Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station can share from his unique vantage point in outer space. Just as important is that Hadfield is a pretty darn good singer and truly does the song justice, regardless of who and/or where he is. For proof compare his version above with Bowie's version below. Meanwhile you can buy Bowie's rendition of his own song (both live and studio versions) directly from Amoeba available on various releses including the 2009 release Space Oddity (40th Anniversary) LP version.
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OK, Back to business, I know, I know... I'm back from hiatus yet again. Once I started getting into disco tracks I somehow always leaned toward the heavy monster sounding ones. It was like my taste for funk didnt really change, only the years changed. So here's this amazing disco banger. Almost violent in its funkiness. It was a classic staple of mine for a long while. In fact, not long after discovering it, I found many sealed copies of it. Not a rare piece at all, on the Atco label. I dont think folks were ready for it then, cause the sealed copies stayed right in my stacks. Not sure if folks are ready even now. Perhaps all too common of a record? Well, until it's impossible to find all over again right? Where o' where are those copies though? I think Barrabas were a funk rock outfit that branched out into disco and even some world influenced sound too. I believe they first penned "Woman" which is posted earlier in this blog by the amazing Junior Byron. "Oh no - Oh no"!
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Motorists traveling in Macomb County today may find a slow go on some roads as the construction season has returned on a couple of major roadways.
Westbound Interstate 94 has lane restrictions between Interstate 696 and Masonic Boulevard due to a $20 construction program that began at 5 a.m. today. The restrictions will be in place until 5 a.m. Monday.
Also the eastbound I-696 ramp to eastbound I-94, and the westbound I-94 exit ramp to and entrance ramp from 12 Mile Road are closed for the weekend.
Elsewhere, there are lane restrictions on Groesbeck Highway between 11 Mile and 14 Mile roads in Fraser and Roseville as part of a $13.5 million resurfacing project that started today and will continue through October.


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AbstractWhen the punter is trying to hit the "coffin corner" (within the opposing team's 10-yard line), out of bounds, what is the best angle to kick the ball for correct distance and maximum "hang time?" (For more information on the physics involved, see: Gay, 2004, Chapters 4 and 5.)
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BibliographyGay, T., Ph.D., 2005. The Physics of Football. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
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At first glance, wasting syndrome -- an often chronic and sometimes life-threatening complication experienced by many people living with HIV and AIDS -- appears to be a thing of the past. Numerous reports from both clinical trials and large cohort studies have yielded some incredibly impressive news: HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), especially those in the advanced stages of disease, are getting a second chance at life and good health. Undetectable viral loads and soaring T-cell counts aside, HIV-infected people are living longer, getting fewer opportunistic infections (OIs), and are experiencing robust increases in body weight. But do these much heralded reports of weight gain necessarily mean that wasting is no longer a problem?
Wasting Syndrome: A Primer
All too often, wasting syndrome is assumed to mean only one thing: weight loss. While the term wasting syndrome certainly does embody profound weight loss, it also means progressive loss of muscle mass with associated fatigue. Although the Centers for Disease Control has not altered its official definition of wasting to include decreases in muscle mass, numerous researchers and healthcare providers firmly believe that changes in muscle mass are equally, if not more, important than those seen in body weight. Unfortunately, much of the research generated thus far regarding the possible causes of and treatments for wasting have only used body weight as a measurement. Clinical trials are beginning to incorporate body mass measurements -- tests to measure body composition -- such as bio-electrical impedance analysis (BIA; see article) and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).
There are, essentially, two different types of wasting. The first type reflects periods of rapid weight loss and muscle wasting. This type is most commonly found in people experiencing particular OIs, such as Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) and tuberculosis. Given the proven benefits of HAART and prophylaxis, people living with HIV now stand a much better chance of either avoiding or recovering faster from an OI. This is certainly good news in terms of preventing one of the most common types of wasting (also referred to as cachexia). Patients who experience profound wasting as a result of an OI have an extremely difficult time regaining weight and muscle mass.
The second type reflects more gradual losses in both weight and muscle. Unlike the first type, which most often applies to patients with advanced HIV disease, gradual wasting can occur at any time and for any number of reasons and may be due to HIV infection itself. For starters, many people with HIV are simply not eating the right amounts or kinds of food, such as those high in protein and micronutrients (ie., certain vitamins and minerals). Some of the documented causes of this include: lack of nutritional knowledge; depression; economic hardship; impaired taste; nausea or vomiting (usually caused by adverse drug effects); and dietary restrictions, especially those surrounding multiple daily doses of certain antiretroviral drugs.
It is essential that people with HIV consume enough of the right kinds of food. Some studies have shown that, because HIV is a chronic infection, the body requires greater amounts of energy to consistently fuel itself. Even if viral load is being kept in check by HAART, additional energy is still required by the immune system to help build new cells and repair damaged tissues. Certain organs, such as the liver and kidneys, also require greater amounts of energy and certain micronutrients to efficiently process the relatively high levels of toxic therapies being consumed on a daily basis.
Malabsorption, a problem not uncommon among people with HIV, is another cause of gradual wasting. Foods that are swallowed require a great deal of processing by the gastrointestinal system (the gut) so that they can effectively be broken down into their most basic forms -- either protein (amino acids), fat (triglycerides and cholesterol), or sugar (glucose) -- and adequately absorbed by the intestine. Drug side effects, such as diarrhea and vomiting, can prevent food from staying in the gut long enough to be properly digested and absorbed. Diarrhea and vomiting may also be signs of an underlying infection or complication. Infections such as cryptosporidiosis and microsporidiiosis can both cause diarrhea and drastically impair the intestine's ability to absorb essential nutrients. Other infections and complications of the gut include CMV, lymphoma, and KS, all of which can impair digestive function and absorption without causing overt symptoms (ie., severe diarrhea).
There have been numerous reports of people on HAART who are experiencing significant improvements in their overall immune status and, as a result, are much less likely to develop an OI. Yet, it has not been adequately determined if, for example, 400 T-cells post-HAART are much better than 100 T-cells pre-HAART. It is still too early to throw caution to the wind; drug- or infection-induced symptoms such as diarrhea and weight loss should be brought to the attention of a healthcare provider immediately.
In recent years, a significant amount of research has focused on metabolic problems that can cause wasting. Metabolism -- an intricate system by which nutrients are either broken down (catabolism) for energy purposes or stored (anabolism) for later use -- has been shown to become highly irregular in people with HIV. More simply, metabolism is the body's utilization of energy from foods. To fuel its energy needs, the body first catabolizes glucose and lipids circulating in the blood ("free-floating" nutrients); amino acids are spared so that they can be used to build muscle mass and other substances such as enzymes and antibodies. If free-floating nutrients are used up and not adequately replaced, the body will then begin breaking down stored nutrients -- usually lipid and cholesterol deposits (fat mass) -- to keep up with its energy needs; stored amino acids, such as those in muscle, are spared during prolonged fasting and used as energy only as a last resort. In people with HIV, this entire process is often reversed. We know this because people with HIV often have elevated glucose levels and fat levels (hyperlipidemia) and, especially during an OI, have a negative nitrogen balance (a marker of muscle loss). While negative nitrogen balances are certainly a sign that muscle wasting is occurring, the connections between elevated glucose levels, lipid levels and muscle loss have not yet been fully determined. However they are characteristic of cachexia.
Like many other chronic diseases, HIV and AIDS-related opportunistic infections put a tremendous amount of pressure on the body to rapidly expend energy. Because amino acids are much easier to convert into energy than lipids, the body begins catabolizing both free-floating and stored amino acids to fuel itself. In turn, muscle mass slowly becomes depleted while fat mass continues to accumulate. This is potentially dangerous, considering that muscle mass is necessary for survival.
How nutrient metabolism becomes altered in HIV-infected people is not entirely understood. While a number of studies have demonstrated a strong association between the severity of immune suppression and the likelihood of developing wasting, it is still not entirely clear whether or not immune system damage is an underlying cause of wasting. In its response to HIV and OIs, an abundance of hormone-like substances called cytokines are produced by cells to more effectively communicate with each other. While these cytokines play an important role in bolstering the immune response against an infection, prolonged and excessive amounts have been shown to result in significant problems. The cytokines interleukin-1 (IL-1), interferons (alpha, beta, and gamma), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) have all been shown to induce the classic symptoms experienced during an illness. These include some that are prominent in HIV disease: fever, nausea, decreased appetite, fatigue, diarrhea, anemia, and confusion. Still it is not entirely clear whether or not hyperactivity of the immune system directly causes wasting or, more specifically, muscle loss.
Numerous studies have, however, implicated hormones and the immune system as likely culprits. Many people with HIV experience significant endocrine (hormonal) problems such as decreased production of both insulin-like growth factor (a precursor of growth hormone) and testosterone. Anabolic hormones such as these play a large role in promoting protein anabolism and muscle growth. Hypogonadism, or decreased testosterone production, is frequently reported in HIV-infected people; rates vary from 25% to 45%, depending on the stage of HIV disease. Possible causes of hypogonadism include testicular infections, drug side effects (particularly from ketaconazole, ganciclovir, and megestrol acetate), and elevations in cortisol levels (a hormone produced by the adrenal glands). No matter what the cause, low testosterone levels have been directly associated with fatigue, depression, decreased sex drive, and weight and muscle loss.
As the name syndrome implies, wasting is a multifactorial problem. One or all of the above mentioned problems can contribute to HIV-related wasting, sometimes gradually throughout the course of disease or sometimes rapidly in the presence of an OI. How each of these complications relate to each other and wasting is not entirely understood and are not likely to be worked out completely in the near future.
Given the numerous possible causes of wasting syndrome, it should come as no surprise that treatments for wasting are equally complex and, unfortunately, cannot be universally prescribed. No "standard of care" for wasting exists; in fact, there is little consensus regarding the best way to prevent and treat wasting, especially muscle loss. Yet, there are a number of treatment strategies that have been proven effective in terms of weight gain and, in some cases, muscle growth and maintenance.
First and foremost, dietary intervention is crucial for virtually all HIV-infected individuals suffering from mild to severe forms of weight loss. Forms of dietary interventions include nutritional counseling and oral nutritional supplementation. In terms of counseling, a registered dietitian can help identify weaknesses in an existing diet and make suggestions regarding dietary needs and how best to tailor them to meet individual tastes, schedules (ie., drug dosing schedules), and tolerances. Nutritional supplementation can also be extremely useful. A number of oral supplements -- including Ensure™, Sustacal™, Citrisource™, Resouce™, Jevity™, and Replete™ -- are widely available, but can be expensive. To meet individual dietary needs and/or restrictions, some are free of wheat, dairy (lactose), or other components that are frequently difficult to digest. Very few clinical trials of oral supplements , have focused on whether or not they can sustain weight in HIV-infected individuals (see CRIA News).
There are a number of treatments available to control symptoms, including drug side effects, that make eating undesirable. Drugs to control nausea and vomiting (antiemetics), diarrhea (antidiarrheals), and decreased appetite (appetite stimulants) are widely available. Treatments such as Marinol™ (gel-caps containing THC, the active ingredient in marijuana) and megestrol acetate (Megace™) have been shown to significantly increase appetite. However, as is the case with megestrol acetate, patients who do manage to achieve weight gain often do so in the form of fat, not muscle. In fact, megestrol acetate -- a synthetic form of the female hormone progesterone -- has been shown to decrease testosterone production in men.
Treating an active opportunistic infection, especially one that causes malabsorption, can halt and possibly reverse weight loss. Treatments for conditions such as MAC, TB, and intestinal diseases such as CMV and KS have been shown to be extremely effective and are often associated with increased weight. Unfortunately, there are no effective treatments for intestinal diseases such as cryptosporidiosis and microsporidiosis, however a number of recent reports have suggested that HAART may be extremely helpful in terms of boosting the immune response against these chronic infections and ultimately increasing weight. But, like appetite stimulants, treatments for OIs associated with weight gain usually contribute to fat accumulation, not muscle.
Treating metabolic disorders associated with wasting has been a large focus of research over the past few years. In particular, results from clinical trials of anabolic therapies have suggested that certain agents -- including testosterone, growth hormone, oxandrolone, nandrolone, and oxymethalone -- can significantly increase muscle mass in HIV-infected people with wasting. Interestingly, weight gain as opposed to muscle mass does not appear to be a significant benefit of anabolic steroids and might be best used in combination with appetite stimulants and/or nutritional supplements to boost weight.
In terms of treating immune system disorders, promising results have been seen using the drug thalidomide -- once banned because of its ability to cause birth defects in pregnant women taking the drug -- which apparently reduces levels of the inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor. Yet, the most promising therapy in terms of stabilizing the immune system has been HAART. By drastically reducing the amount of virus circulating in the body, HAART allows the immune system to recover from the onslaught of HIV. In fact, a large number of studies have demonstrated that patients on HAART, especially those with wasting, are gaining weight while on therapy. At first, this weight gain was heralded as a significant triumph. As of recent, however, many researchers, healthcare providers, and patients have begun to wonder what much of the weight gain is really all about.
Lipodystrophy: A New Type of Wasting?
Little less than a year ago, reports began to surface that people on HAART were experiencing significant increases in weight... and waist size. Over time, the number of reports increased and were classified as a distinct syndrome associated with HAART. Along with fat mass accumulation around the waist, the syndrome was also characterized by the loss of the layer of fat under the skin, making veins seem to protrude; wasting of the face and limbs; narrowing thighs; breast enlargement in women; and the accumulation of fat between the shoulder blades. The syndrome, now dubbed lipodystrophy, has become one of the most closely watched manifestations in people with HIV. While numerous researchers and clinicians have directly associated the lipodystrophy with protease inhibitor therapy, some experts argue that the syndrome is associated with the biological consequences of HAART, not the drugs themselves.
Cases of lipodystrophy have now been reported among people taking any of the four approved protease inhibitors. Although lipodystrophy's early nickname was "Crix belly" (after Crixivan™), it is now clear that it is not specific to one drug. In fact, there have been a number of reports of lipodystrophy occurring among HIV-infected patients taking non-protease inhibitor-based HAART combinations.
Estimates of the proportion of people who develop lipodystrophy while on HAART have ranged from 11% to 64%. While the obvious discrepancy in this range is highly suspect, it is important to note that some researchers only reported cases in which body changes were physically apparent, while others used scans (ie., MRI, DEXA, CT scan) to measure very subtle body changes. In light of these varying study methods and results, further research into the epidemiology of this syndrome is warranted.
Many people on HAART are also experiencing metabolic complications such as elevated glucose levels and glucose intolerance, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, along with mild elevations in cortisol secretion and hypogonadism, all of which have been associated with body composition changes in HIV-infected patients. Yet, many people on HAART have only specific metabolic complications sometimes in the presence of body composition changes and sometimes without. In turn, there is not even consensus on exactly what HIV-related lipodystrophy includes; a case definition of the syndrome does not exist.
Research into the this syndrome is still in its infancy. Preliminary results from one study have demonstrated that protease inhibitors can have a direct effect on fat metabolism. However, some researchers are not convinced that protease inhibitors are necessarily to blame. According to Dr. Donald Kotler, CRIA Vice President and a researcher at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, the major weaknesses in the protease inhibitor argument are that: 1) Some HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy are not taking protease inhibitors; 2) A similar syndrome was seen in the past -- although more rarely; and 3) A similar syndrome exists in HIV-uninfected subjects. Lipodystrophy has been found in patients with diabetes mellitus, Cushing's syndrome, and other chronic diseases. As with these other diseases, HIV-related lipodystrophy is associated with body composition changes in both men and women, glucose intolerance, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, elevations in cortisol secretion, and decreased testosterone levels. A common thread in the syndromes seen in both HIV-positive patients on HAART and HIV-negative patients with other diseases, may be the presence of a "chronic stress response;" even in the presence of therapy intended to control certain aspects of the disease, the metabolic system remains highly dysfunctional. The similarities in syndromes are worrisome, since the syndrome in HIV negative patients is associated with accelerated cardiovascular disease, stroke, and osteoporosis.
To date, virtually no anti-wasting/weight loss therapy has shown to be effective in terms of halting or reversing lipodystrophy. Clinical trials are currently being conducted to study possible treatments (ig., growth hormone) for lipodystrophy, including one at CRIA. Anecdotal reports regarding the efficacy of anabolic compounds, anti-inflammatory drugs (ie., prednisone), and various alternative treatments (non-pharmaceutical compounds such as alpha-lipoic acid) have suggested that therapeutic intervention may be helpful.
Tim Horn is the Executive Editor of the PRN Notebook_, published by the Physicians' Research Network, and is a member of the Treatment Action Group (TAG)._


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Ruby was pulled from the water and her father Scott began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Her mother Amanda called an ambulance. Although the ambulance took 40 minutes to arrive, during this time the girl was helped by a family friend trained as a medical doctor. After some effort, and to everyone's relief, Ruby's heart began to beat and she was rushed to hospital.
Ruby was given a 10% chance of survival. Scott and Amanda were warned that if she did survive, long-term brain damage was highly likely. But after spending Christmas day in an induced coma and three weeks in the paediatric intensive care unit, against all odds, Ruby made a miraculous recovery.
Ruby slowly regained her strength. She learned to crawl and walk again and has begun to talk. Her fine motor skills were affected so she visits an occupational therapist and physiotherapist every two weeks. Her family in New Zealand have been told that if there is any long-term neurological damage it may become evident when Ruby starts school.
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Cuba at 50: Has a half-century of revolution improved lives?
Fifty years ago, an attorney turned bearded guerrilla marched triumphantly into Havana and declared victory over a departing dictator. Then he became a despot himself.
Fidel Castro forever changed the landscape of both Cuba and Miami. He jailed or executed his enemies, seized private property, divided families, and drove nearly two million Cubans into exile. His nation became a Cold War pawn.
At the same time, Castro launched a massive literacy campaign. The island churned out armies of new doctors. Cuba became an international player, inspiring guerrilla movements and supplying soldiers for ''anti-imperialist'' wars around the globe. Castro's refusal to kowtow to the United States won him praise.
As the Jan. 1 anniversary of the revolution's triumph approaches, many of the social welfare achievements that were the trophies of the communist regime have rusted. Years of failed economic policy, waves of mass exodus, and Cuba's inability to recover from the collapse of its patron, the Soviet Union, have dulled Castro's touted crown jewels -- the advances in health and education.
Still, the revolution that ousted Fulgencio Batista and transformed a tropical getaway into a communist state remains one of the Western Hemisphere's most significant events of the last century.
''The Cuban government is going to celebrate its 50-year anniversary -- 50 years of what?'' said Andy Gomez, a senior fellow at the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, who left the island in 1960 when he was 6.
"Fifty years of sacrifice and misery?''
In the only communist country in the Western hemisphere, many would argue that Castro had a single resounding success: staying in power. He built a strong rebel army, never bothered with civic freedoms or presidential elections, and created a vast and powerful state security apparatus that kept watch on literally every block.
His regime reigned over a population that is among the world's best educated, but many still flee. Every year, about 20,000 are issued permits to resettle in the United States, and each year a nearly equal number risk their lives on dangerous sea voyages.
But if numbers alone could tell this story, Castro met his revolutionary goals -- without any meddling from Washington.
Within two years after Castro emerged from the jungle in 1959 to seize control of the island, more than 700,000 Cubans learned how to read, and 25,000 new homes were built. Cuba's communist revolution would eventually produce so many doctors that last year there was one physician per 155 residents, more than double Florida's ratio. Before Castro, there was one doctor for every 1,058 people.
But today, almost a quarter of the nation's doctors are serving ''missions'' overseas so the government can collect much-needed hard currency from their work. So many underpaid educators have left classrooms that the school system is relying on teenage interns to teach.
There is no question that Cuba enjoys a low infant mortality rate, high life expectancy, and crime statistics that any Latin American nation would envy. But experts say Castro's early accomplishments have declined so sharply that only drastic measures can save them.
''They always say the great achievements were healthcare and education, but in Cuba you don't spend your whole life sick or studying,'' said Lizette Fernández, a former banker and dissident who arrived in 2006 and now sells cosmetics in Hialeah. "If the medical system was an accomplishment, doctors would not be writing prescriptions without any hope that you will find the medicine.''
Experts stress that when Castro, with the help of his younger brother, RaUl, and other rebels, took over on Jan. 1, 1959, they took the helm of what was already one of the most developed nations in the hemisphere. Cubans led Latin America in the number of households that owned TV sets, and Cuba was outpaced by only Argentina and Uruguay in other economic and social indicators.
According to a report last week by the University of Miami, Cuba already had the lowest infant mortality rate in Latin America and was among the region's most literate countries.
But the wealth and progress were concentrated in Havana. Illiteracy rates reached 42 percent in the rural areas, while only 23 percent of urban dwellers could not read, according to early national statistics.
Castro's government promised to change that. It set out to upend the social order, claiming that Cuba would become a nation where women matter as much as men, black people could become doctors, and peasants could read and write.
As the middle and upper classes fled to Miami and as Cuba lost half of its doctors to exile, the government went after private businesses, killed or locked up political opponents, and sent thousands of youngsters to the countryside as teachers in a vast literacy campaign. Then it built clinics and thousands of schools.
World Bank statistics show that half of Cuban children were enrolled in school in 1950. Now, all of them are. Cuba more than quadrupled the number of teachers.
Even as Cuba has high graduation rates and people with engineering degrees, many find it more lucrative to wait on tables. Uneven access to dollars has brought inequality back, and college graduates complain that there are few worthwhile opportunities after their studies.
The average Cuban salary is barely $20 a month. Black Cubans, long considered the main beneficiaries of Castro's social policies, find themselves again shut out. Few Afro-Cubans obtain jobs in the tourist industry or have relatives in Miami sending dollars.
''I remember when I went to Cuba, I visited the National Ballet at the García Lorca theater, and I told the lady who accompanied us how nice her scarf was, and she told me it was from Paris,'' said Uva de Aragón, associate director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.
"People inside the theater were well dressed, and children were outside taking tips for watching cars. I thought, 'Forty years later, and this is the same. My parents' life was stolen from them to create a country where everyone was equal.'
"Now I go to the University of Havana, and while there are a few black people in the classes, the people cleaning the bathroom are still in uniform, and they are still black.''
She also said that Cuba's social welfare programs are not free -- Cubans pay for them with underpaid labor.
''A Cuban gets a salary of 500 pesos a month ($20) and is told that education and healthcare are free,'' she said. ``Nothing is free. The Cuban people pay for it with their work.''
Some experts question what will happen now that so many of Cuba's doctors are providing healthcare in Venezuela, Bolivia and other nations in exchange for money or much needed supplies, such as oil.
''Can they continue to maintain good health indicators when they are missing their primary resource -- doctors?'' asked Cuba expert Daniel P. Erikson of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank in Washington. "Doctors in Cuba specialized in having a neighborhood healthcare system. But now all these doctors are in the neighborhood -- in Caracas.''
The 2008 United Nations human development index, which measures social welfare indicators such as infant mortality, ranks Cuba 51st, on par with Mexico and surpassing Brazil and Panama. The United States ranks 12th.
Government statistics show that life expectancy in Cuba is 77.7 years, the same as in the United States. Latin Americans in general live until they are about 70.
Many Cuba-watchers stress that despite Cuba's economic woes, it still fares much better than places such as the Dominican Republic.
''The human tragedy and that so many families were torn apart is very unfortunate,'' said Professor John Kirk, a Cuba expert at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "But if you look at education and healthcare, Cuba has made significant advances.''
People leave in droves for Miami, he said, because of the mythical image of "roads paved in gold.''
Arturo Lopez-Levy, a former political analyst at Cuba's Ministry of the Interior, agrees with Kirk's assessment that the overall balance is still positive -- if only Cuba would quit putting politics over economics.
''The economic policies of the last 40 years made it difficult to keep those achievements,'' said Lopez-Levy, who broke with the government and is now a lecturer at the University of Denver. "Overall, if you look at social indicators, I think things are better than they were in 1959.''
Advances held strong until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, when Cuba suddenly lost billions of dollars in subsidies. Castro had poured so much foreign money into social services that he never established a sound economic policy of Cuba's own. The U.S. trade embargo further limited the country's cash flow. Money to pay for everything from school supplies to aspirins vanished.
''In the beginning, they tried to do things in grand scale,'' said Julio Cesar Alfonso, who heads Solidarity Without Borders, a Miami organization of Cuban doctors who have defected. "They graduated 3,000 doctors a year, creating so many doctors that it was excessive and unnecessary. But now they don't have ambulances in Cuba. If someone falls in the street, they flag the first car that goes by. And if the first thing to go by is a bicycle, then they flag down the bicycle.''
Alfonso, 40, who lives in West Miami-Dade County, said he was a devout believer in the revolution until he was jailed in the early 1990s and charged with ''enemy propaganda'' for suggesting improvements to the state healthcare system.
''In the last 20 years, things have deteriorated in all levels,'' said Katrin Hansing, visiting associate director of FIU's Cuban Research Institute, who lived on the island for a decade. "Today, if you need a checkup with a specialist, you need to bribe somebody -- No. 1, because there are not enough doctors, and No. 2, because doctors need to make ends meet, too.
"People used to say, 'At least we have this.' Now, they don't have this. So, it's ''para que?' '' For what?
Raul Castro formally took over the presidency last February when his brother Fidel, now 82, retired because of a prolonged illness. The new leader has publicly acknowledged the need to reform the educational sector and bring qualified teachers back to the classroom.
He also has received visits from the presidents of Russia and China. Raul Castro, 77, leads a nation with a significant foreign-policy presence -- a nation that has succeeded in thumbing its nose at Uncle Sam for five decades.
Together, the Castros have outlasted 10 U.S. presidents so far.


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Welcome to Yan Flower Chinese Restaurant. Located at the end of the Pacific Garden Mall, the center of Santa Cruz's historic shopping and arts district, close to the Santa Cruz Pier, beach and boardwalk. Yan Flower serves up Santa Cruz's finest Chinese cuisine with exciting dishes and unique ambiance. At Yan Flower, every dish is created using only the freshest, finest ingredients. We serve choice meats and seafood, tasty rice, and vegetables that are fresh from market. Our authentic menu and atmosphere create a truly enjoyable dining experience.
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Scientists have identified another mishap that can result from sex in the dark after filming creatures that live in the deeps of the Pacific Ocean.
Footage from remote-controlled submersibles revealed that male deep-sea squid struggle to distinguish between potential mates and members of the same sex in the dimly lit waters.
But instead of developing keener senses to help find a partner, the male of the species has adopted a sexual strategy to suit the conditions: it mates with any deep sea squid it comes across.
Researchers blame bad light, similar male and female body size and the rarity of encounters for the squid's indiscriminate behaviour, which leaves its mark on the bodies of unsuspecting males in the form of spent sperm sacs.
Henk-Jan Hoving, a marine biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, said that wasting sperm was apparently less costly for the males than honing their ability to spot females.
His team found evidence of the squid's "shot-in-the-dark" approach to sex when they examined screen grabs from video recorded at depths of 400-800 metres in the Monterey submarine canyon off the coast of California. To their surprise, as many males as females carried spent sperm sacs on their bodies, a sure sign that males had attempted to mate with them.
In a report published in the journal Biology Letters, the authors claim the behaviour "exemplifies the 'live fast and die young' life strategy of many cephalopods."
The study centred on a squid species called Octopoteuthis deletron. When the squid mate, the male releases a sperm-filled bag that discharges into the female's tissues. The act is swift, but leaves empty sperm sacs on the female body as an outward sign of recent mating.
Underwater footage of the squid in action was recorded by robotic submersibles between 1992 and 2011. Though 108 squid were filmed, 15 were juveniles and in 54 cases, it was impossible to determine the maturity of the squid, their sex, or whether sperm sacs were present on the animals' bodies.
Among the remaining squid were 19 females and 20 males, of which 10 females and 9 males had visible sperm sacs on their bodies. Those left on the males were in such positions that they must have been left by other males, the researchers note.
In some species, such a scattergun approach to mating might be seen as a waste of valuable sperm. But the squid are solitary creatures and encounter other members of the species only rarely, and since males and females are the same size and shape, it is hard to tell the difference in the dark. When sex is so rapid, evolution favours multiple matings with any individual encountered.
"Deep-sea squid are extremely important in the oceanic food webs as tuna and many other fish feed primarily on them. However, our knowledge of these animals is very limited," Hoving told the Guardian.
"Squid, including deep-sea species, only reproduce once and they have to find mates in time in an environment where encounters between individuals of the same species are few and far between."


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To design and start the Amazonia Energy Initiative (AEI) aimed at increasing energy access for isolated communities in the Amazon region while promoting productive and efficient energy use.
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- Institutionalise selected ongoing projects and establish as independent micro-power producers, managed locally and stimulating income generating energy use;
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- Provide inputs to the ongoing discussions headed by MME aligned with the GVEP action plan and priorities. REEEP has signed an MoU with GVEP to collaborate.
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CBD, also called Cannabidiol, is just one of 85 different chemical compounds in marijuana plants. CBD Hemp Oil is derived from hemp, or cannabis grown with very little THC (often less than 0.3%). For the sake of this article we will refer to marijuana as cannabis grown for its psychoactive effects, and hemp as cannabis grown for its practical uses as a fiber. Marijuana is marketed for its THC content and hemp is utilized for its CBD content.
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THC is the psychoactive or intoxicating compound found in cannabis plants whereas, CBD oil is not psychoactive or intoxicating and has shown strong signs of being an effective treatment for a variety of diseases and mental health disorders.
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Hemp oil is legal in all 50 states but the production of CBD Hemp Oil is not. Even though both come from marijuana, hemp oil is derived from sterile cannabis seeds, which are legal under the Controlled Substances Act. CBD Oil is derived from the plant's flowers which are not legal in some states. However, this doesn't stop the import of CBD oil made from industrialized hemp grown legally, which is why you're able to buy it legally on the internet.
You can find products containing hemp oil in the beauty section of your local retail store, but to get CBD Oil you'll either need to be in a state where it's legal to produce or purchase an import.
No prescription required: Even though they are more potent than regular CBD Oils, most pure CBD Oils do not require a prescription.
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Getting nothing more than a website is like getting really well designed pamphlets for your business and placing them at the front door hoping passers-by will pick them up. To make effective use of you web marketing dollar you need to drive traffic to your site. 7 in 10 web sessions start with a visit to a search engine. Remember that over 65% of all web searches are with Google. So, it makes sense that if you are going to spend your valuable marketing dollar it should reach half the internet, or more, before they spend their dollars elsewhere.
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Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich Nordic nation announced that it will work with Britain to study how the base of the North Sea could be used for carbon dioxide storage for European countries. It will also allocate nearly $200 million toward carbon capture and storage projects in the European Union.
Although some environmentalists aren't yet convinced of the long-term prospects of sequestering carbon dioxide emissions deep under the ocean, the idea has become something of a holy grail in the effort to stop global warming.
The joint British-Norwegian study will build a profile for the whole North Sea, assessing each countries' storage potential and projections of likely volumes and locations of carbon dioxide (CO2) flows. The conference in Bergen, where the plan was announced, took place in advance of December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
The North Sea Basin Task Force, which now includes Norway, Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands, has previously estimated the Utsira deep saline formation in the North Sea could store up to 600 billion ton of CO2, equivalent to all the emissions of all the power stations in Europe for the next 600 years.
Utsira is just one of many subsea geological structures being considered as storage sites for carbon emissions. Scotland, for example, announced last month that the Scottish area underneath the Northern and Central North Sea could store emissions from the United Kingdom's coal-fired power plants for the next 200 years, making it comparable to the capacity offshore Norway.
Carbon storage the next 'moon landing?'
Carbon capture is a prestige issue for Norway. It was the first country to store CO2 from an offshore oil platform underneath the seabed, the first to transport and store CO2 subsea from an onshore liquefied natural gas plant, and hopes to be the first to have full scale CO2 capture from a gas-fired power plant.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has equated the importance of carbon capture and storage technology for Norway to what the "moon landing" was for the United States.
Norwegian oil company Statoil started storing carbon dioxide in the North Sea's Utsira formation underneath the Sleipner oil field platform 13 years ago. Since then, the company has pumped 11 million tons of CO2 into the half-mile thick layer of gas-tight rock. Statoil believes that the 430-mile-long formation has the potential to hold three times as much.
"The reservoir quality underneath Sleipner is very good for CO2 storage and has a potential to hold large amounts," says Øistein Johannessen, Statoil's new energy spokesman. "But Utsira is characterized by sand with different origins and qualities, many with no connection between them. To estimate how large volumes Utsira may store, we need to do more studies of the reservoir."
A major factor leading to Statoil's decision to begin storing CO2 from Sleipner under the seabed was pure economics: It currently costs them around $30 per ton of CO2 to put the emissions underground, roughly the same price as Norway's CO2 tax.
Clean, green Norway?
Norway is the world's third largest exporter of gas and fifth largest oil exporter. Environmentalists have criticized the country for putting more money into carbon capture so that it can continue to pollute rather than investing in more renewable energy.
"The future of the planet is being gambled on a technological solution that could turn out to be an end of the pipe dream," says Emily Rochon, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace International. "Governments need to invest in proven solutions like wind, solar, and the smarter use of power."
Greenpeace released a critical report on the Utsira formation during the recent Bergen conference that questioned the safety of storing CO2 underneath the seabed. The group claims most storage estimates are overly optimistic and based on methodologies that are "insufficiently robust."
The report cites the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, which concluded that it was uncertain whether Utsira was suitable for large-scale storage of Europe's carbon emissions. In addition, the report points to problems last year with a with a crater on the seabed floor leaking oil at the Tordis field, where Statoil was injecting water into the Utsira formation to increase gas recovery.
"It's not possible to prove that all injected CO2 is still there," says Peter Haugan, leader of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Bergen and an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report on carbon capture and storage. "There's no way of measuring the amount of CO2with sufficient accuracy using seismic mapping."
Statoil says the Sleipner and Tordis fields are located 200 miles apart and have no connection. Moreover, seismic monitoring from a year ago shows that storage at Sleipner is proceeding as planned.
Full-scale project delayed
Meantime, the country is still grappling with delays at its onshore carbon capture plant at Kårstø, in western Norway. This was supposed to be the site of the world's first full-scale carbon capture at a gas-fired power plant, starting in 2012, with the Utsira formation as a possible subsea storage site.
But the Norwegian government put the brakes on the procurement process last month because the new gas-fired power plant has been operating in fits and starts, producing scant CO2 emissions to date. The Norwegian oil ministry has declined to give a new date for the start-up of the carbon capture plant at Kårstø, though one environmental group believes start-up will be delayed by at least a year.
Meanwhile, the country is proceeding with plans to have a full-scale carbon capture plant for the new gas-fired power plant at Mongstad in western Norway possibly ready by 2014.


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