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ROCHESTER — The Rochester Elks Sports Hall of Fame Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 23rd Hall of Fame event to be held in May, 2013. Nominations are being accepted for athletes and contributors who are at least 21 years old. Forms are available on the website at www.rochestershof.com or at the Rochester Elks Lodge and may be submitted online or mailed to PO Box 385, Rochester, NH 03866. Nominations must be received before Jan. 1, 2013 to be considered for the 2013 class.
SOMERSWORTH — Winter indoor youth soccer on Saturday mornings with coach Connie Roy will take place Jan. 12 through Feb. 16, 9-9:45 a.m., ages 3-4; 10-11 a.m., ages 5-6; 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. ages 7-10. Sessions will be held at the Works Health and Fitness Center. Call or or stop by the program desk to register 603-742-2163, ext 41
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HAMPTON — Lighthouse Lacrosse is offering indoor skills and scrimmage sessions beginning Jan. 6 at the Seacoast United facilities in York, Maine, and Hampton. More details and registration information is available at www.lighthouselax.org/boys-indoor-skills. Space is limited to 20 per group so register early.
DOVER — Dover Baseball is pleased to announce that we have secured five spots at USA Training Center in Newington for this winter. This is a 15 week program that will run from Jan. 1 to April 15. The cost for 15 weeks is $100. The sessions will be run by Dover Baseball coaches. Register by visiting www.dovernhbaseball.org.
PORTSMOUTH — The Seacoast Spartans AAU basketball tryouts will be held Saturday at the New Heights gym in Portsmouth (100 Campus Ave.).
The tryout times are as follows: high school girls, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; high school boys, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; grade 7 and 8 boys and girls, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Grade 3 to 6 boys and girls, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
DOVER — Dover Recreation announces the next session of fitness classes to kick off the New Year. New session dates are available for Muscle Power, Interval Toning, Beginner and Intermediate/Advanced Yoga as well as Zumba classes. All classes begin in early January and are held in our fitness studio at the McConnell Center in downtown Dover. For information on dates, times, instructors and prices, please visit the website at www.dover.nh.gov/rechome.htm or call 603-516-6401 for more information!
ROCHESTER — On Jan. 19, the Farmington 500 Boys & Girls Club will hold a benefit music show at Rochester Post 7 American Legion from 7 p.m. to midnight. All proceeds will benefit Corey's Field House, an indoor youth sports facility in Farmington.
Three local bands will supply the music: Bad Prom Date, Tear Down The Sun, and Michael Spaulding. There will also be raffles.
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DOVER — The skills clinic is being held the FOUR Sundays in January: Jan 6, 13, 20 and 27. All sessions are from 2-5 p.m. and all are at the Dover Middle School, except the last Sunday which is being held at Dover High School (same time).
This skills clinic is open to any girls in grades 3-8 and will cover, hitting, defense, pitching and catching.
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HAMPTON — Seacoast United has announced brand new indoor programs beginning in January at Portsmouth's Greenleaf health and fitness facility. The Club has partnered with Seacoast Sports Clubs (SSC) in an effort to provide additional athletic opportunities for children within the greater Portsmouth area. Soccer programs including day time grassroots programs, skills and a shortened version of the popular Junior Academy will be offered. A skills program is being offered on Saturday mornings for competitive field hockey players under the guidance of Katie White, Seacoast United's Director of Field Hockey. The Club's new Director of Baseball, Scott Dubben and his assistant, Juan Tavarez will be offering a School of Excellence at various ages along with various group and individual lessons.
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Prime Minister John Key has asked the Ratana Movement not to put their faith blindly in Labour without considering what National has done for Maori.
Mr Key was welcomed onto Ratana marae this afternoon, where speaker Waka Paama soon made it clear what Key was up against: "The only thing in your favour here is the blue shirt I am wearing."
He went in to say the movement did appreciate Key making the effort to visit Ratana, despite its ties with Labour.
Mr Key responded by saying he acknowledged Ratana's links with Labour, but said it needed to consider what National had actually delivered.
"Words are cheap in politics - what really speaks is delivery."
He emphasised the pace of Treaty settlements, saying 33 of the 59 completed settlements were under National. National had also refurbished housing at Ratana.
"They can turn up at Ratana and tell you they love you, but they didn't live you enough to fix your houses."
Mr Key also spoke about Maori education saying he was determined to improve the results He said people had called for him to sack Education Minister Hekia Parata, but he knew nobody who was as passionate about Maori education as she.
Ms Parata had walked onto the marae alongside Mr Key - his usual escort, Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples was not there today. He had instead been welcomed on the day before.
Labour leader David Shearer was also welcomed onto Ratana marae today with an encouraging prophesy for him: that he will be Prime Minister after 2014.
Ratana speaker Ruia Aperehama said he believed Labour would win the next election and called for Labour to honour it's links with Ratana and all Maori at that time.
In return Mr Shearer said that he hoped Mr Aperehama was a prophet able to see into the future.
He said he had already committed to deepening the relationship with Ratana and should that prophesy come to fruition, "I hope that we are able to see a partnership between the Labour Government and the Ratana Movement."
Green co-leader Metiria Turei was given the rare honour of being allowed to talk on the marae. It was the first time a Green Party co-leader has spoken at Ratana.
Before setting out the party's new housing policy, including a rent to buy scheme, she told them she had come to Ratana every year as a child and even had her first kiss there.
Mr Aperehama also had an encouraging message for her, saying the Green Party could benefit from Maori voters who were "hoha" (angry) about the "imploding and tribal fighting" between Mana and the Maori Party.


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- Day 6Mon, May 10, 2021BREISACH, GERMANY. Breisach is your gateway toseveral different excursions, depending on your interests.Step back in time with a visit to the enchanting Alsatiantown of Riquewihr, which looks almost the same as it didin the 16th century. On your walking tour, admire historicarchitecture as well as famous sights, such as the DolderGate. Alternatively, you may wish to go to Freiburg, foundedin 1120 and home to the Freiburg'''s M''nster, a Gothiccathedral said to have '''the most beautiful spire on earth.'''Those wishing a more active excursion can cycle throughthe scenic countryside, or go on a hike to the Black Forest,a magical land full of cultural traditions. (B,L,D)
- Day 7Tue, May 11, 2021STRASBOURG, FRANCE. Strasbourg, the capital city of Alsace, offers flavors of both France and Germany because of its borderline location. Enjoy a panoramic tour past the stunning Parc de l'''Orangerie, the European Parliament and the Place de la R''publique. Then walk through its iconic UNESCO World Heritage '''La Petite France''' district, which appears to have been lifted straight from the pages of a fairytale. Wander through these charming streets and past the Cath''drale de N''tre Dame with its famous astronomical clock. For the active adventurer, you can take a guided bike ride through this captivating city and Parc de l'''Orangerie. (B,L,D)
- Day 8Wed, May 12, 2021LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY ''' R''DESHEIM. Ludwigshafen is your gateway to a choice of three excursions. Visit Heidelberg, the perfectly preserved medieval city nestled in the Neckar River Valley along Germany'''s Castle Road. Discover the iconic red sandstone Heidelberg Castle and Great Vat, an 18th-century 49,000-gallon wine cask. For a more active adventure while in Heidelberg, join a guided hike up the Philosopher's Path, aptly named during the Romantic Period, and be rewarded with panoramic views of the city. Alternatively, you can visit one of Germany'''s oldest cities, Speyer, known for the largest Romanesque cathedral in Europe'''a UNESCO World Heritage Site'''and the medieval Altp''rtel, Old Gate. Later in the day, sail to R''desheim where you can visit Siegfried'''s Mechanical Music Museum; or taste one of the town'''s special delights, R''desheimer Coffee, ceremoniously made with brandy. (B,L,D)
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- Day 11Sat, May 15, 2021AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam boasts amazing history, art, architecture, and museums, and you have a choice as to how you wish to explore it. The famous canals of Amsterdam await discovery on your city tour beginning with a scenic canal cruise followed by a walk to Begijnhof, known for its Middle Age buildings. For a different view of the city, you can join the Jordaan tour. (B,L,D)*Depending on docking location, Jordaan Tour may not operate; therefore, an alternative tour will operate instead.
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Earlier this month, we touched on the release of the first non-game/entertainment app to integrate the social gaming platform Openfeint for the iPhone. Well, that very app, Dunnit! is now FREE for 1 day, courtesy of FreeAppaDay.com. With its easy to use interface and features that include tagging, repeating tasks and multiple task entry (not to mention Twitter and Openfeint integration), its hard not to like Runloop's Dunnit! And now that the price tag has dropped from $4.99 to FREE, this is one App Store download you shouldn't miss out on today.
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In March, comparing the price of a cancer drug on a per capita basis here and in India, I told drug companies how to charge $1.6 million per patient for a new drug -- and get away with it. So long as companies make sure that all patients have access, I argued, it's possible to convince governments and insurers to pay truly princely sums for medicines that really help patients.
Still, I thought that $1.6 million, was a sky high, off-the-charts, unbelievable amount. Surely, no medicine for sale today cost more than $1 million I thought. In fact, the priciest one I can name is Soliris, from biotech high-flyer Alexion, which costs $500,000 per patient -- a lot, but still only half a million. Turns out I was wrong -- it's possible that medicines that are already on the market could rise to this price point, if they continue to help young patients grow bigger.
I was convinced of this by an April 17 note from biotechnology analyst Geoffrey Porges of Sanford C. Bernstein. He wrote that ultra-high-priced drugs are the one "bright spot" in the pharmaceutical business. Companies will be able to maintain their prices for these expensive medicines, he argued, calling Alexion "the paradigm of the postmillennial biopharmaceutical company." A second medicine Alexion is testing could also cost more than $200,000 a year. Biogen Idec could price its new drug for amyloid lateral sclerosis at more than $75,000 per patient per year. Vertex Pharmaceuticals' new cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco costs $290,000 price point, and a new Vertex CF combo pill could cost about as much.
In the process of making this argument, Porges took a look at how existing enzyme replacement drugs for rare genetic diseases are priced. These medicines, including medicines such as Cerezyme and Fabrazyme sold by Sanofi's Genzyme unit, all average $200,000 per patient per year or more. But they are actually dosed by weight and the cost of the medicine increases as patients gain weight. Because these medicines improve and extend the lives of children with terrible diseases, someday the per patient cost could become much higher as the kids grow up.
First, Porges shows a graph of how much these medicines cost now, as children approach age 5:
That red line is Naglazyme, which treats Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome, a disease that causes dwarfism, heart problems, and nerve problems. The treatment, sold by BioMarin, costs about $350,000 for the average patient. For kids under five, as the chart shows, the cost would actually be well less than that. But what happens as those children get older?
One of the most important questions when we think about how new medicines should be priced is this: is it better for a new medicine to help a select few patients a great deal at a high per patient cost (like Naglazyme, Cerezyme, or Vertex's Kalydeco for CF) that will be paid by the health care system (because few individuals can afford these kinds of drug prices)? Or is it better to have lower cost medicines taken by millions, like Lipitor or Plavix? Right now, as a society, we've decided on the former. That may well be the right decision, but it would be nice if it seemed we were actually putting some thought into what we want.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
December 5th, 2011: SCIENCE INK
An amazing photo that was submitted by Carl Zimmer, the author of Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed (among other books). It was sent to him by one of his contributors, and I love how it fits in with Corpus Libris. Thanks Carl!
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Final Ninja of the Month: Ragdoll Ninja
Shawnimals is moving onto new projects in their Legends of Ninjatown series, so December 2012's Ninja of the Month will be the final one produced by the company. And since this 7×7 inch plushy is closing the book on a three year long legacy, they've done something special with the Ragdoll Ninja. The terrycloth-like fabric, button eyes, and thick stitching make Ragdoll Ninja unique. And unlike other Ninjas, this one can sit upright, making it perfect for a shelf or table. He comes with the customary hangtag, card, and button, as well as a special scroll.
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In creating 100 drawings within a single semester, students will move through many forms of drawing, from direct observation to work from photographic sources, from abstraction to the idiosyncratic. Assignments are sequenced to encourage experimentation and play with a wide range of drawing materials and methods. At the conclusion of the course, students will have begun to develop their own point of view, style, and approach to drawing. Required for Sophomore Drawing Majors. Offered spring.
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The week in review
Worst raising Kaine: The Democrats decide to have Virginia's newbie Governor Tim Kaine rebut President Bush's State of the Union address January 31, and critic Ariana Huffington asks: "What the hell are they thinking?" (She alleges that Dems simply wanted a blue guv who won a red state.)
Widest margin: If the 2008 Presidential election were held now, former Governor Mark Warner would trounce Senator George Allen by a margin of 49 to 32 percent, according to a Center for Politics poll.
Widest margin, part 2: In the 2006 U.S. Senate race, Allen leads Democrat Harris Miller by 30 points, according to a Rasmussen survey.
Biggest grant: The MacArthur Foundation awards $4.5 million for UVA law prof John T. Monahan to study legally mandated treatments of people with mental disorders.
Second most oscillations: A 1997 paper by UVA researcher Wladek Minor has been declared the second-most-cited scientific opus in the world in the last 10 years, according to The Scientist magazine. Co-written with Zbyszek Otwinowski of the University of Texas, the paper is titled "Processing of X-ray Differentiation Data Collected in Oscillation Mode."
Best workplace for commuters: The City of Charlottesville, according to the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation, for encouraging smart alternative transportation programs like carpools, public transit, walking, biking and telecommuting. Charlottesville is one of 20 employers recognized.
Biggest protection: The owners of Castle Hill donate 345 acres to the Nature Conservancy, at the same time putting 1,203 acres into a conservation easement. The group scores another 33 acres from an adjoining landowner, according to a Jessica Kitchin report in the Progress.
Widest protection: A record 10,500 Albemarle acres go into such easements in 2005.
Latest in the Sampson saga: Sir Ralph, the former 'Hoo basketball standout, is indicted for lying about his finances to get a court-appointed lawyer for his federal child-support case. Sampson will be sentenced February 1 for failure to pay $307,036 for his two daughters by two different women.
Worst invasion: A Charlottesville woman returns to her 15th Street Northwest home January 17 to find two men she didn't know in her living room.
Worst teen spirit: Two young males– one wielding a firearm– and two females rob the Auto Zone January 21. Police describe them as black, wearing dark clothes, and appearing to be between 16 and 21. A similar robbery with similar suspects occurred a week earlier on January 14 at Westpark Market.
Best beneficiary of tobacco: Children, Youth & Family Services, Inc. receives a three-year, $224,700 grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation.
Most molestations: Two Augusta County citizens are charged with sex crimes in the past week. Waynesboro resident Joseph Lee Weddle, 42, is indicted January 18 on five felony counts for allegedly molesting a girl, now 17, over the past decade, according to an NBC 29 report. And a Stuarts Draft resident, Jason Edward Fretwell, 27, who used to work for the Nelson County Sheriff's Office, is charged on three counts that involve a 15-year-old female family member, reports the Progress.
Best road map: Charlottesville Today's Brian Wheeler puts together a transportation matrix listing every transportation project, real and proposed, in the area, and what's going on with each.
Greenest gathering: Members of the Sierra Club, People's Alliance for Clean Energy, Center for Peace and Justice, and Alternatives to Paving present 19 environmental imperatives to Charlottesville and Albemarle officials January 19.


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"My dear boy, please don't put a label on me – don't make me a category before you get to know me!"
John Irving is a big name in literature, and his latest novel 'In One Person' is a testament to his skill as an author. The main character in this story is bisexual and the book is a fictional account of his coming of age and an exploration into the fragility of his self-discovery journey and the mysteries of identity. Irving has always been considered a provocative writer and this book is no exception. The book is very sexually explicit and frank, so if you are uncomfortable with that you might want to take a pass on this one. It is not a book for everyone. However, the book is an amazing literary achievement and not to be missed by Irving fans or anyone open to a compassionate exploration of a subject many people shy away from. Irving's intent is not to disturb or unsettle, but to provide a window into a part of human experience and as usual, for this author, to produce a beautifully well written work of art.
Though the book is fiction, it reads like a memoir so it makes sense that it would be candid. As a fictional memoir it has the power of a personal story free from judgement and politics. The latter part of the book is an empathic account of the unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in North America during the 80's. All of the characters, the tragedy, the humour, and the insights in this book will stay with me for a very long time.


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Liverpool edge Swansea in 7 goal thriller
Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson scored two goals apiece as Liverpool registered...
(SportsNetwork.com) – The Boston Bruins will try to avoid their first three-
game losing streak of the season when they welcome the Nashville Predators for
Thursday's clash at TD Garden.
Boston is coming off consecutive defeats at the hands of Ottawa and the New
York Islanders, giving the Bruins just their third two-game slide of the
season and first since Nov. 2-5.
The last time Boston dropped three straight was in Games 4, 5 and 6 of last
spring's Stanley Cup Finals loss to the Chicago Blackhawks. The Bruins' last
three-game losing streak in the regular season was part of an 0-3-1 slide from
April 11-20 of last season.
Boston fell to 0-2 against the Islanders this season after dropping a 5-3 home
decision on Tuesday. John Tavares netted a pair of third-period goals to lift
New York to the road triumph at TD Garden.
David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron and Daniel Paille provided offense for the
Bruins, who have dropped two straight in regulation for the first time since
Oct. 26-30. Tuukka Rask was on the hook for all five goals on 31 shots, as
Boston fell despite holding a 3-1 lead at one point.
"I think when we took the 3-1 lead, we kind of relaxed and they came back hard
and they kind of got the momentum back and we couldn't regain it," said Bruins
head coach Claude Julien.
Boston had an eight-game home win streak halted on Tuesday, but the B's are
still 16-4-2 in Beantown this season.
Nashville, meanwhile, enters Thursday having won its last two games and can
match a season-high winning streak with another victory tonight. However, the
Preds have lost three of the last four meetings against the Bruins overall and
three straight in Boston.
After beating Los Angeles on Saturday to halt a five-game skid, the Predators
made it two in a row with Tuesday's 6-4 decision against visiting Detroit.
Colin Wilson posted two goals and an assist as Nashville outlasted the Red
Wings at Bridgestone Arena.
Mike Fisher had a goal and two assists, while Nick Spaling, Craig Smith and
Roman Josi all scored for the Predators. Marek Mazanec stopped 21 shots in the
"We found a way to shut it down and get the next one when we needed it," said
Fisher. "That's a sign of a good team, to be able to keep up with those guys
over there."
Nashville has lost its last two as the guest but hopes to end that slide
tonight in the opener of a three-game road trip. The Preds are 8-10-1 as the
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Ezzy Freeride NC 2007
This is Ezzy's no cam freeride sail and who better to tell us all about it than the man himself;
David Ezzy: Initially, I had no plans to make a no-cam freeride sail. I've always felt that for flatwater sailing you can't beat a cam for its superior draft stability. After much pleading from one of our largest shops in the US requesting me to make a freeride sail, I started thinking that my new deep, draft-forward profile that I was using in the 2007 wave sail might be pretty cool in a freeride sail. The first Freeride proto turned out to be extremely stable and very powerful. It felt very much like it had cams, yet gybed like a wave sail.
The 07 FREERIDE NC explained
David Ezzy: The Freeride is designed with a radically deep profile that is located very forward in the sail. For light wind, you can run it with neutral to 1.0cm of outhaul and get a super deep profile. The fact that the draft is so forward means that there is less side force which means your back hand does not load up. For strong wind, you apply a lot of outhaul, up to 7.0 cm of positive outhaul and then it feels light with a locked-in shape. The reason for this is that even when set flat, the forward profile remains. It is also interesting to note that the Freeride and all of our 2007 sails require less downhaul tension in years past. Over-downhauling will flatten the luff too much and will actually make them harder to control in strong winds. Most of the tuning is done with the outhaul.
David Ezzy: The Freeride construction and materials are exactly the same as used in our wave sail. The body material is our Spectra X film. It has a vinyl window. All seams are double sewn. It has two battens below the boom to add more foot area. The foot rakes nicely on the board for slalom-type sailing, yet it is high enough for bump'n'jump sailing too.
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It was thoughtful of you to notify me that this product (all 3 varieties) will no longer be available. How much it cost you to send this letter to every doctor in the U.S. & Canada I have no idea.
In all honesty, I have never, ever, ever, recommended a specific denture adhesive to anyone. In fact, in 12 years of practice, I don't think a patient has ever mentioned their chosen brand of such a product to me. Generally, the study of neurology is pretty far removed from whatever substance people might be using to glue their false teeth to their gums.
My office colleague Dr. Pissy, for whatever reason, hasn't gotten your letter yet. I told him this was likely because he was on your Poligrip consumer, rather than prescriber list. He was not amused.
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I've always wanted a Cribs-style game room for the excuse to collect vintage arcade and pinball games, but where I live, space is limited and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade console doesn't really match the furniture. The arcade table from Surface Tension doubles as a normal-looking coffee table with a modern flair.
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The Other Work Congress has yet to do
While much focus around Congress' return has been around the "fiscal cliff" and Benghazi, Congress faces a whole host of unfinished business.
The farm bill, which sets agriculture policy and funds the food stamp program, expired Sept. 30. Its expiration hit farmers immediately, especially dairy farmers who have not received their supplemental payments. If Congress doesn't act by January 1, the cost of milk is expected to skyrocket and dairy farmers would have to comply with decades-old regulations that don't conform to the modern industry. As for crop farmers, they have been in limbo, unsure of what sort of subsidies and priorities Congress will set for next year. The Senate passed a bill but the House has not. Analysts say a one-year extension is possible during the lame duck session but a full-fledged five-year reauthorization is unlikely.
The U.S. Postal Service is another area in need of Congress' attention. The broke quasi-government agency is not government funded but lacks autonomy to make much needed changes in service and pension payments as it's constrained by the heavy hand of Congress. The service has been unable to meet $1.1 billion in payments for future retirees' pensions and is asking Congress to act. The Senate passed a bill but the House has yet to act over wrangling over the high cost of the food stamp program.
Congress also faces deadlines to extend the post-9/11 surveillance bill, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, funding for the intelligence community and a bill to authorize defense spending and programs.


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Album sales: Nicki Minaj scores big debut, Madonna posts record drop
The chart road divided this week for two of the three participants in this year's Super Bowl halftime show. On the one side, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded easily grabbed the top spot on the latest Billboard album chart, moving 253,000 copies in an extremely respectable opening week. It's her first debut at number one, though her 2010 debut Pink Friday did find the upper plateau several months after its release thanks to the late surge of "Super Bass" in early 2011.
The success of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is easy to see, as Minaj went on a media blitz that included a free surprise concert in Times Square and the continued success of the single "Starships" (which currently sits at number five on the Billboard Hot 100).
That's all good news for Minaj, whose album has been met with mixed critical reactions but seems to be capitalizing on its everything to everyone approach. The outlooks is less rosy for Madonna, whose latest album MDNA posted the single biggest second week sales decrease for a number one debut since SoundScan started tracking official sales in 1991. MDNA moved 359,000 copies in its first week, giving Madonna one of the best opening weeks of her career. But in its second week, MDNA only shifted 48,000 copies—a drop-off of 86%, surpassing former record holder Lady Gaga, whose Born This Way dipped 84% after a massive opening stanza last year.
A number of issues conspired against Madonna's latest. Though both her singles (the Minaj-assisted "Give Me All Your Luvin'" and "Girl Gone Wild") have dominated the dance world, neither have caught fire in the mainstream (the former quickly surged to number 10 but then tumbled out of the Hot 100; it was back in last week at 87). Madonna hasn't done much in the way of promotion outside of her music videos, and like Gaga before her, the first week sales were inflated. If you recall, Gaga's Born This Way was available for a mere 99 cents in its first week, pushing the sales total well over a million copies but profoundly devaluing the album (and forcing Billboard to change its chart rules). In the case of MDNA, the album was made available as a toss-in when people bought tickets to Madonna's upcoming tour. That's not the same as discounting your album, and most of those people probably would have bought the album anyway, but it still probably unnaturally boosted Madge's first week numbers.
Finally, one final point about this week's album chart: Adele's 21 came in at number two this week with 153,000 copies sold. That's an increase of 26% from last week's tally. The album has now been out for a ridiculous 59 weeks. Who are the 153,000 people who just decided to pick up a copy of 21? If you did, please tell us in the comments what finally pushed you to pick it up.
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Our congregation has accepted the appointment by the Diocese of Harrisburg to begin pastoral ministry of St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Bonneauville, PA. Installation of the Pastor, Fr. Augusty Thankachan, M.SS.CC. took place on June 26, 2011. Many St. Joseph parishioners and friends from the nearby parish of St. Mary's of Fairfield attended. Our congregation has been working in the diocese of Harrisburg since 1993 when we assumed pastoral direction of St. Mary's in Fairfield and St. Rita's in Blue Ridge Summit.
St. Joseph the Worker parish, founded in 1859, currently has 400 families. Fr. Thankachan also assumes responsibility of Catholic campus ministry at nearby Gettysburg College.


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Hey kiddo! I hope you have an awesome birthday today. Wish I was there to enjoy some cake with you! Have fun!
Hey kiddo! I hope you have an awesome birthday today. Wish I was there to enjoy some cake with you! Have fun!
happy, happy!
"life is short...make a mess of it!"
Happy Birthday Troy. I hope it was a good one and best of luck in High School in a couple of weeks. Oh drats... we have to go back.
Happy birthday Troy.... hope you get everything you want!!!
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Hope its Special
"It may be that your soul purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others" ~Steven Wright~I'm in my own little Lat/Lon
Danse avec les Arbres
HAve a happy, happy day!!!
~ Beach Comber ~
Have a great day Troy and feel lucky,school has already started down here.
Just smile it won't crack your face
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is
suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best
friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.
Troy - hope your Birthday was extra special!
Happy Birthday " navigator ". Hope you have a great one today!
Why not live life like it is your last day....instead of pretending to be a member of the Peter Pan Club and believing you will be around forever.


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The New iPhone is Rumored to Come Equipped with Redesigned Headphones
"It's no surprise that Apple is expected to release the new iPhone later this year (sources suggest September 21st). However, these photos, and video (below), did come as a surprise when they were uploaded a few days ago onto Vietnamese tech blog Tinhte.vn.
The rumored earbuds sport a smaller and more comfortable fit, according to reports. Also, the microphone is now closer to the jaw line. Many people believe that the headphones are in production at Foxconn manufacturing facilities in Vietnam.
Apple is expected to announce the next generation iPhone on September 12th, get excited."
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It's finally here, the moment some of us might've of waited for! I'm proud to present "The Ani-TAY Podcast"!
A podcast made by the Kotaku reader-run anime community Ani-TAY, a sub-community of Talk Amongst Yourselves. The Ani-TAY Podcast features Kotaku author Richard Eisenbeis and Ani-TAY Community members FruityDrinks (Ken), Dexomega (David) and Rockmandash12 (Kevin)! This podcast is dedicated to the latest seasonal anime & discussing broad open subjects about anime in general. In addition to the main cast, we also feature a different guest from the community every episode!
This episode's special guest is Aestevalis (George)!
A lot of preparation and work was put into this special pilot episode, and I hope you enjoy the fruits of our labour. As we cast our minds back over the course of two seasons we share our opinions on some of the biggest shows that aired. We also expressed our views on what we anticipate most for the spring 2014 in anime. It's only right we then open up old wounds and scars that past series that have inflicted such onto us, due to that exact anticipation and hype which sometime surrounds a particular anime. The other times they're just a sour disappointment. It sucked and we still watched them.
Chapters of the Podcast
Intro ————————————— 0:00-15:25
Log Horizon ————————- 15:25 - 27:40
Golden Time ————————- 27:40 - 42:28
Kill la Kill ——————————- 42:28 - 59:40
Noragami —————————— 59:40 - 1:10:50
Nagi no Asukara —————- 1:10:50 -1:21:05
Sakura Trick ———————— 1:21:05 - 1:31:30
Tonari no Seki-Kun ————-1:31:30 - 1:35:00
Our Next Season Picks ——- 1:35:45 - 1:58:37
Anime Let Down ——————1:58:37 - 2:19:42
Outro ———————————- 2:19:42 -2:25:00
Don't have the time to listen on your desktop? Download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!
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As of writing this, iTunes have yet to approve us, but you can still subscribe through us by opening iTunes —> clicking file near the top —> subscribe to podcast and typing in the feed : http://feeds.feedburner.com/AniTAY
The graph below represents all the series each of us was watching individually if you wanted to know as well.
While we may have our first podcast finally out, it still needs work. Case and point our sad affair with our art for iTunes. We're still open to submission for the artwork, and the dimensions should be 1400x1400 in jpeg. We'll also be looking for another guest to feature in next episode! So again cast your name into the pot and maybe you'll be picked! Also keep your eyes open for the open topic article which will appear in two weeks to have your input in the podcast on the subject.


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Three Israeli suspects who have confessed to the gruesome killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was abducted in East Jerusalem and later burnt to death, are going to plead "temporary insanity", according to Haaretz. Mohammed's father guessed as much last week, when asked whether he trusted Israel's judicial system: "I think they will say that [the murderers] were insane and give them a year or two and that's all."
That's not because Hussein Abu Khdeir has incredible prescience; it's because this is how it works in Israel. Palestinians who kill Israelis are terrorists, and Israelis who kill Palestinians are either heroes, if they are doing it in an official capacity, or deeply damaged individuals on the "fringes of society", if they act on their own. Either way, they are not meaningfully held to account.
As Hussein also implies, the three, if convicted, will probably get a lenient sentence and then pardoned when the fuss dies down in a year or two.
Notice also that the three other suspects arrested last week have been released, even though the police say they were part of the cell believed to have organised the kidnapping. So why not charge them with conspiracy to murder, or membership of a terrorist organisation, or one of the other charges that would be used if the suspects were Palestinian, including Palestinian citizens of Israel?
And here's another question: how can we take seriously a claim of "temporary insanity" among an organised group ("a cell") that has a wider membership and whose creation presumably predated the general mood of revenge that permeated Israeli society following news that three Israeli teens had been abducted on June 12? What was this cell organised to do if not to harm Palestinians? And if this is the case, how can "insanity" apply to the group collectively and how can it be termed "temporary"?
I expect none of these questions to be addressed, let alone answered, in the trial – assuming, of course, we get one and this is not hushed up in a closed hearing at which they are committed to psychiatric care.
Instead, Israeli officials will doubtless assent to the deranged notion of "insanity" propagated by the far-right legal group, Honenu, defending the three suspects. It says:
Given the crazy, abnormal situation in the country, it's natural that among the many people who approach us, some have been emotionally scarred by the security situation or by difficult personal circumstances and responded accordingly.
Remember, "accordingly" here refers to a decision to abduct a child, force-feed him a flammable liquid and then set him on fire. Maybe "insanity" in this case has a much wider application than just to three individuals.
Below is the full story in Haaretz.
In Israeli court, suspects in Mohammed Abu Khdeir killing to plead insanity
The two minors who have confessed to involvement in the killing 'aren't functioning individuals,' a source says.
By Nir Hasson | Jul. 14, 2014 | 2:15 AM
The three main suspects in the kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir two weeks ago will probably claim temporary insanity, associates of the three said Sunday.
The three males, who have already confessed, are a 30-year-old man from a community near Jerusalem and two minors, one from Jerusalem and one from nearby Beit Shemesh. They are to be brought before the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court Monday morning to have their detention extended.
"They live at the fringe of society and aren't functioning individuals," said a source close to both minors.
Also on Monday, the police are expected to declare their intent to prosecute the three and ask that their detention be extended until Friday to allow for preparation of an indictment. On Friday, the police are expected to request that the three be held in custody until the end of legal proceedings.
Police believe the kidnapping and murder of Abu Khdeir was committed to avenge the kidnapping-murder of three Jewish teens whose bodies had been buried only hours earlier.
Asked last week whether he had faith in Israel's judicial system, Mohammed's father Hussein Abu Khdeir told Haaretz: "I don't trust them. Not in the least. I am afraid. I am really afraid. I think they will say that [the murderers] were insane and give them a year or two and that's all."
The three suspects have reenacted the kidnapping and murder; they were in the car when Abu Khdeir was snatched, assaulted, taken to the Jerusalem Forest and burned. An autopsy showed that although Abu Khdeir had been struck on the head, he was still alive when set on fire.
Three other suspects were released last week after it was determined that they were not involved in the killing, although they were allegedly part of the cell that was responsible for it. Their attorneys from the group Honenu said there was no evidence linking them to the murder and complained that they had been held for days without being allowed to see a lawyer.
According to its website, Honenu defends civilians and soldiers "who find themselves in legal entanglements due to defending themselves against Arab aggression, or due to their love for Israel." The group said that defending these suspects was in keeping with its mission.
"Given the crazy, abnormal situation in the country, it's natural that among the many people who approach us, some have been emotionally scarred by the security situation or by difficult personal circumstances and responded accordingly," Honenu chief Shmuel Medad told the newspaper Besheva. "Apparently this is such a case."
Meanwhile, the Jerusalem light rail ran its full route Sunday for the first time since rioters in Jerusalem's Shoafat neighborhood destroyed stations and equipment after Abu Khdeir's body had been found. As a result, the company CityPass, which operates the system, stopped service through Shoafat, leaving the large Jewish neighborhood Pisgat Ze'ev at the end of the route cut off.
On Sunday, police and security guards rode on light-rail trains as they passed through Arab neighborhoods.


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Kia ora from down under.
It's a long weekend here and today was, unusually for this time of year, a beautiful clear spring day. I'm away with friends for the weekend and we went exploring today.
Tree ferns.
Kawhia is an old fashioned seaside community, pretty and peaceful.
It's a black sand (iron sand) hot water beach. If you dig a hole in the sand below the high tide mark, the hole will fill with very warm water and make a lovely bath. It wasn't warm enough to strip down to a bathing suit today but I had a great exfoliating foot bath.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Historical Period:
The 19th Century
Wolowski was born in Poland but his family fled to France after the 1830 revolution. He became a French citizen and taught law and economics in Paris. He took the Chair of Industrial Law in 1839 at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers and in 1864 the Chair of Industrial Economics. He was an active member of the Free Trade Association (1846). From 1866-67 he was the President of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He wrote on many topics including banking, free trade, and tariff policy.


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James L. Liggins Jr., a litigation and trial attorney with Miller Canfield in Kalmazoo, joined business and community leaders in the nation's capital for a closed press conversation about jobs and the economy. The February 10 meeting, held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House, was hosted by the White House Business Council and Business Forward.
Liggins, who studied political science at the University of Michigan, enjoyed hearing the administration's plans for moving Michigan--and the city of Detroit--into a promising future.
David Kappos, undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, discussed the decision to build the first-ever USPTO satellite office in Detroit, at the Old Stroh's Brewery site on the riverfront, with the anticipated hiring of 100 local patent examiners and 25 judges the first year.
"But they believe that number is only the start," Liggins says.
Locating the satellite USPTO office in the Motor City is a strong statement by the administration of Detroit's vitality and the future of the city, Liggins says. The USPTO office should attract attorneys, drafters, carrier services, IT systems, paralegals, and the innovation community to the area.
Ann Arbor native Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, discussed the goal of jump-starting jobs, the push for the housing/foreclosure settlement and an increase in support for manufacturing in Detroit through budget initiatives.
"Many of the initiatives are designed to emphasize that the administration will not wait for Congress to make progress on the economy. The hope is that the cumulative effect will equate to progress," Liggins says. "Mr. Sperling had the most connection to Detroit, being from the area and his brother is Rick Sperling the founder of the Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit."
Peter Rogoff, administrator, FTA, DOT, reinforced the administration's commitment to making Detroit a desirable economic hub again, working with Mayor Dave Bing and Gov. Rick Snyder to rectify Detroit's bus rapid transit system.
"The FTA, DOT has also increased its efforts to enforce the Buy America Act, requiring that products have a certain percentage of domestically produced content," Liggins says.
Dr. Rebecca Blank, acting deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, gave a basic overview of the national economy, discussed the Middle Class Tax Relief Act and reduction in payroll tax, and the hope that unemployment will be below 8 percent by the end of the year.
"The administration's focus is on how to best optimize consumer spending, business investment, government spending, and trade to continue the improvement of the economy," Liggins says.
Blank placed the housing market decline into perspective by pointing out that between 2002 through 2006 there was a 50 percent uptick in housing prices.
"When the housing market crashed, housing prices fell by 20 percent so looking at things from a historical perspective allows a less negative view of the market," Liggins says. "There's evidence the housing market is turning around, but it's too early to tell."
Blank outlined reasons for the slow recovery: the Euro-debt crisis; potential energy problems; ongoing housing market challenges; consumer de-leveraging (people are getting rid of debt and therefore not spending); worries about political gridlock; and slowing of government spending.
"Dr. Blank's rationale is that it's too soon to drastically slash government spending and that the initiatives to do so have negatively impacted the recovery," Liggins says.
Short and long term goals include extending and increasing the payroll tax cut for a second year; creating jobs and improving American infra-structure; gradually reducing the federal deficit; promoting excellence in education; and supporting innovation and research.
Marie Johns, deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, discussed providing small businesses access to capital, federal contracting and counseling and technical assistance, and how the administration has worked to increase the guarantee on SBA loans, is working to waive or eliminate certain fees associated with SBA loans, and is working with smaller and community banks and non-traditional lenders to push access to capital for small businesses.
"The administration has spearheaded an increase of $20 billion in additional small business support and CAP-Line now will consider accounts receivables and inventories as collateral as opposed to only utilizing hard assets as collateral," Liggins says. "There's also a focus on the federal agencies that drive federal spending to utilize small businesses for certain contracting work."
The administration is also pushing to increase employment of veterans, with programs that show how military skills can equate to civilian job skills.
"There's no doubt this is an election year and that the administration hopes to highlight its commitment to the success of Michigan and Detroit in a highly contested election. However, it also seemed obvious to me that these programs and policies did not materialize overnight," Liggins says. "Much thought, planning, and energy have gone into determining how best to support the economy and jump start the recovery."
He hopes the Michigan CEOs, executives, and business leaders return to their communities and not only share insights provided by this meeting, but also take advantage of the programs and objectives to advance the economy in their own spheres of influence.
"An overriding theme of this meeting was that the truly effective and productive ideas come not from the government but from those of us in the trenches dealing with the realities of our economy every day. My hope is that those of us in attendance are energized to collaborate, innovate and continue to make this country and Michigan the best it can be."
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Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
"Truth exists, delusion does not." So why is it so hard to get past the one and all the way into the other? If the only "badness" of ego—and all the dark conspiratorial forces that stem from it—is due to its illusory nature, how is it that the spell is so tough to break? Isn't the beauty, reality, and supremacy of truth self-evident? A no-brainer?
The idea of falseness may exist, but that's not the same as falseness existing. There is no Moon made of blue cheese in reality, only the recognition that there is no such thing as a blue cheese Moon. (Assuming there isn't such a thing - if we dare!). If the idea of a separate ego-self is false, then all that is true is the recognition of that falseness.
It is often said that enlightenment a) doesn't happen to a person, and b) when it does happen, it is recognized as always having been the case. Presumably this is because the recognition of the falseness of the idea of an ego-self—which only takes an instant—allows for the erasure of a lifelong (mistaken) perception of living through and as that self. In other words, once enlightened, always was enlightened—because with the false self goes the illusion (all those false memory implants) of ever having been anything else.
Does that even make sense?
The idea that "only truth exists" is a tautology. Beliefs about the Moon do not change or in any way affect the nature of the Moon. Belief does not interface with reality. It only create false realities that come between ourselves and Truth. If the only purpose of false realities and the illusion of a separate ego self is to keep out the Truth, then surely there is no great need to dispel that illusion? All the harm that comes about from an allegiance to an illusory self is itself also illusory. Truth—our true nature—cannot in any way be affected, much less harmed, by that false allegiance.
I can see no other destination for the quest for enlightenment than one of utter futility and despair. However, this is the correct and necessary destination, because once we have begun to glimpse the total futility of our existence—and beyond even futility, the fundamental falsity of it—it is no longer possible to return to the sort of activity that once upheld the illusion of meaning and purpose—of validity—to our individual life-paths.
When the cell recognizes that its choice of a volitional path has turned it into a cancerous cell that, if allowed to continue, would destroy the whole body, the cell has only one honest recourse: suicide, or self-sacrifice. Did Jesus die to save humanity because he recognized his cancerous nature as "King of the Jews"—and to undo the Mess he had created by accepting the role of Mess-I-Ah?? Thereby setting the only honest and true example for the rest of us—who are all wanna-be-messiahs, following not Christ but Lucifer, trying to squeeze our egos through the eye of the needle and reign in Heaven, but winding up by refurbishing Hell one more time and hoping we won't notice the difference?
Holy, holy, holy. The mind is its own place. Surrender to the divine comes on the heels of seeing the futility of everything else. There are a billion seeds we get to sort through, but only one is going to give fruit. Abandon hope then before entering, because if you are still hoping to find it, you haven't faced the facts. The facts of life and death.
Jesus said, you have to lose your life to save it. You have to lose your life to save it. And if you love your life, you aren't going to want to lose it. "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."
So Jesus says, Hate your life. Not too many bumper stickers with that on, is there?


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The recently released third chapbook of poetry by David James of the Hope College faculty celebrates the seemingly small but sometimes surprising moments and realizations that become the component parts of the individual.
"Psychological Clock" has been published by Pudding House Publications of Columbus, Ohio. The latest volume follows "Lost Enough" (July 2007) and "A Little Instability without Birds" (July 2006), both published by Finishing Line Press. James is credited in each as D.R. James, since another published poet has the same first and last name.
The new volume's 24 poems explore and reflect on a mix of common and singular events, ranging from the familiar rituals of a hometown basketball game, to the agility of squirrels as they raid the birdfeeder, to a conversation with the condominium to which aging parents will soon move. The chapbook's title is shared by one of the poems, which considers the value in taking a new look at old assumptions.
James has been teaching writing and literature, and directing the writing and study skills tutoring program and the Summer Seminars, at Hope since 1987, and helped develop Hope's initial PATH writing program for gifted and talented adolescents. Previously, he taught English, French and theatre at Holland High School, SaugatuckHigh School and the now long-closed St. Augustine Seminary for high school boys, formerly located in what is now Saugatuck Dunes State Park. He has been a consultant to school districts and intermediate school districts on the teaching of writing at the kindergarten through 12th-grade level, and facilitated an Ottawa-area writing project for teachers for three summers.
He graduated from Hope in 1976 with majors in English and French, and received his M.A. in English in 1980 from the University of Iowa.
Copies of all three of James's chapbooks are available at the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore, located on the lower level of the DeWitt Center on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street, as well as at Reader's World and Tree House Books.


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Trial produces encouraging results for backers of personal carbon budgets
Royal Society forecasts scheme to encourage individuals to cut their global warming emissions could be in place in just over a decade
Juliette Jowit
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 February 2009 09.03 GMT
Personal carbon allowances set a limit on the emissions that can be produced by an individual's activities. Photograph: PR
Every person in the UK could have their own carbon budget in just over a decade to encourage individuals to cut their global warming emissions, the head of the most comprehensive trial of the idea has predicted.
Personal carbon allowances set a limit on the emissions that can be produced by an individual's activities, such as driving and heating homes. People could switch to greener products and services or simply do without to meet their allowances. The idea also allows people to sell credits if they do not use the full limit or buy credits if they go over the budget through indulging in highly polluting activities such as flying or simply consuming too much.
The idea has been promoted for years by visionary environmentalists as a way of reducing emissions. But it was given credibility by the support of David Miliband, the former environment and now foreign secretary, and the launch of a three-year study by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). However, critics fear an "Orwellian" future in which every transaction would be watched and judged.
A report into the project has concluded that trading allowances allowing people who cut emissions to sell their credits to those with more polluting lifestyles is politically too controversial in the short term.
But Matt Prescott, the RSA's project director, said important elements of the idea could work, including the fundamental principal of giving every person in the country a carbon budget.
Initially budgets would probably cover emissions from key areas such as buildings and transport, but could be extended to cover "all goods and services" as technology developed, he said.
Last year, a report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) effectively dismissed personal carbon trading after consultants estimated it would cost £700m-2bn to set up and £1bn-2bn a year to run, therefore "outweighing by many times" any benefits in changing public behaviour.
But the RSA report says budgets could be managed through existing technology such as bank cards, loyalty and fuel cards or company expense accounts for much less than Defra's consultants, Accenture, calculated for a new system.
Also, instead of individual trading, credits could be bought and sold by groups such as local authorities or employers, who were in a better position to make cuts, for example by investing in clean energy or public transport, with the benefits passed on through incentives such as council tax rebates or extra holiday, said Prescott.
Such a scheme would be technically feasible by 2013 but he predicted 2020 was a more likely date for its introduction when technology had developed to make it easier to cut emissions. A further trial is to be launched with volunteer local authorities.
"Some people will adopt greener living because they think it's the right thing to do, but the bulk of the population need to feel that they are part of a movement," said Prescott. "The government have to become bolder in getting more directly involved in behaviour change."
The Department for Energy and Climate Change welcomed the RSA study but warned of the challenges that still need to be tackled: "As our own studies found, personal carbon trading, whilst having a lot of potential, raises a number of challenges which need to be tackled. We welcome the further analysis the RSA have undertaken and take an active interest in the ongoing academic work in this area, which we hope in due course will lay the foundations for further policy development."
The RSA's CarbonLimited study was launched in 2006. Hundreds of individuals joined an open market scheme and 27 voluntary groups registered to use the specially developed CarbonDAQ trading system.
The report, A Persuasive Climate, publishes results from the three most advanced trials: one involved a group of students; another was set up by council workers in the London borough of Lewisham; and the third was an experiment run by technology specialists Atos Consulting using Nectar loyalty cards to monitor the fuel use of 100 volunteer drivers.
Although none of the trials offered money as a financial incentive to cut emissions, the 140 volunteers in those three groups reduced emissions by just under 5% on average. Using a "currency" to trade credits would encourage more people to make cuts and could fund further reductions, such as investment in clean electricity generation, adds the report.
The trial results compare to two theoretical studies which suggest individuals could cut their emissions by up to 20%, but would need external help such as better public transport to go further than that.
However, the trials revealed some problems:
Contrary to hopes that carbon trading could be progressive by enabling people with less money to spend on emitting carbon to sell their credits, the report says people with lower incomes or savings had less money to spend on improvements to cut emissions such home efficiency or newer, less polluting cars.
The report dashes hopes that markets would help find the cheapest ways of cutting emissions because, it says, people often do not know the full costs and benefits of choices, and individuals "do not act rationally and make optimal decisions consistently".
Even if individuals cut their emissions by one fifth - equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide - it might not be worth the cost in time and effort because the market only valued that tonne at £25-50, says the report.
And those who had higher emissions were discouraged rather than inspired to cut their carbon footprint, it adds.
Questions also remain about what would happen if the market was extended, including what emissions to measure, and how to stop "free riders" from making no effort but still getting the benefits of rewards to a group.
The trials were "very basic", but the 5% cuts were "an encouraging start", said Prescott. "If we wanted to add incentives on top, arguably you could achieve even higher results."
The Local Government Information Unit thinktank has taken over CarbonDAQ and hopes to launch a trial of community carbon trading among volunteer local authorities this year. The authorities could offer incentives to groups such as residents to reduce emissions in return for giving them votes on how to spend community funds or giving council tax discounts. Longer term, there could also be national trading between councils on behalf of local groups, said Gemma Roberts, one of the thinktank's policy analysts.
Last year, the environmental audit committee of MPs said carbon trading "might be the kind of radical measure needed to bring about behaviour change" and "has the potential to drive greater emissions reductions than green taxation".
Another study by the Institute of Public Policy Research thinktank showed it was the most popular of three choices to tackle global warming, ahead of carbon taxes and a cap on emissions from power generators.
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Get out your carbon ration books
The scheme to reduce emissions championed by David Miliband is gaining new support
The personal carbon budget (aka carbon ratioining) is the crazy notion that refuses to go away.
To be honest, I had assumed that the idea - giving everyone in the country an equal share of carbon credits to be spent judiciously on heating, transport and goods and then allowing the carbon thrifty to sell their surplus - had been mothballed since it lost its patron saint, David Miliband, to foreign affairs.
I now see this was an error. Juliette Jowitt's piece this week charts developments since those heady days of explicit government support. Leading proponent, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), which has developed CarbonDAQ (a virtual carbon trading site for personal allowances) reckons we're on course for individual carbon budgets in 10 years' time.
Yes, within a decade you could be making space in your wallet for another Nectar-style reward card that will clock every purchase, flight and lightbulb you buy and deduct them from your given carbon allowance. Or perhaps the chip will just be implanted in your forehead so you can run that through a head-height checkout in the fulfilment of the Orwellian nightmare that detractors envision.
Spookily, this is the second time within a week that I've found myself being reacquainted with the opportunity/spectre (which is it?) of personal carbon trading. It came up during a discussion called The Politics of Limits at the launch of the Fabian Society's pamphlet The Green Crunch last week.
The author, Sir John Harman, the former head of the the Environment Agency, is not a fan. "The interest that the government is showing in personal carbon allowances is worrying," he asserts at the opening of The Green Crunch.
Presumably he would be very anxious indeed were he to venture down to the RSA and the Local Government Information Unit thinktank who are again promoting it.
I'm not sure I buy the bad, mad and dangerous argument. Yes, it would be good to have what Harman calls a more "liberal version of collective action" as a solution to pressing environmental and social justice problems. But achieving this has many hurdles in its way, even though a lot of people find personal carbon trading an attractive option. It is seen as a potentially revolutionary way to cut carbon which can also redistribute wealth.
Carbon rationing is horribly complex. In January 2007, I came up with the bright idea of doing a carbon diet for the Observer focusing on the things you could do to cut personal emissions. Annoyingly, this was just weeks before Chris Goodall's useful book was published so I spent weeks sobbing over my calculator and reports full of conflicting estimates of emissions tied to everything from washing towels to orange squash.
The RSA CarbonDAQ figures, and project director Matt Prescott, rescued me. Divining the embodied carbon emissions of every damned thing did not then appear to be an exact science, but progress was being made. In 10 years' time, will we have watertight calculations to make the rationing of carbon a reality? Or will it be regarded as an unacceptably authoritarian tool and fall by the wayside?
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Today, the EGNOS Safety-of-Life signal was formally declared available to aviation. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically guiding aircraft during landing approaches.
By using three satellites and a 40-strong network of ground stations, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) sharpens the accuracy of GPS satnav signals across Europe.
The signals are guaranteed to the extremely high reliability set out by the International Civil Aviation Organisation standard, adapted for Europe by Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation.
The EGNOS Open Service was launched in October 2009, for navigation applications where the safety of human life is not at stake, such as personal navigation, goods tracking and precision farming.
Today, following an arduous certification and verification process, the EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service has been declared operational, and suitable for use by European aviation.
"We are very proud of the large effort ESA put into EGNOS, and very pleased that it can now be used for the purpose it was initially designed for," said Philippe Michel, head of ESA's EGNOS project team.
"Through EGNOS, satellite navigation guidance is being made available for the first time in the vertical as well as horizontal domain," explained Francisco Salabert of Eurocontrol.
"EGNOS offers the aviation industry the means to provide accurate and safe vertically guided approaches to smaller airports where a conventional precision landing system is not today economically viable.
"Its introduction will reduce delays, diversions and cancellations of flights into and out of these airfields while improving passenger safety."
In order to use EGNOS for approaches, Air Navigation Service Providers must publish runway procedures and aircraft and operators have to be equipped with certified receivers and be approved for operations.
"Eurocontrol is coordinating EGNOS's operational introduction across Europe," Mr Salabert added. "Runway procedures have already been designed for various airports and heliports, with more on the way.
"On the airline side, we are encouraging early adaptors – called EGNOS pioneers."
After six years in operation, the 'WAAS' US equivalent to EGNOS, is being used by more than 40 000 aircraft and more than 2000 procedures have been published.
Some 15 years in the making, EGNOS is the result of a tripartite agreement between ESA, the European Commission (EC) and Eurocontrol.
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