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"The Philip Scotties girls' basketball seniors are out to make a statement, and the rest of the team is ready to support them," according to the team's head coach Bobbie Jo Hix. The 20 players, four student managers, and assistant coach are working hard on creating a solid team. Hix said of assistant coach Mike Albrecht, "This is his first time being an assistant basketball coach, but he's been a referee, so he knows the game. We work very well together. All the girls respect and look up to him." The players also have already earned praise from Hix.
Orlando Drageset, age 82, of Philip, died Saturday evening, December 4, 2004, at the Hans P. Peterson Memorial Hospital in Philip. Visitation was held from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8, at the Rush Funeral Home in Philip, and one hour preceding the services at the church on Thursday. Services were held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, December 9, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Philip, with Pastor Robert Oettel officiating. Music was provided by Lyndy Ireland and Joyce Wheeler. Ushers were Dean and Dave Fitzgerald.
Three resignations hit the Haakon County Commissioners at their December 7 meeting. Librarian Rose Bly, Emergency Management Director Marty Hansen, and Deputy Sheriff Dusty Pelle all tendered their resignations, effective the latter part of December. Bly will leave her post of five and one-half years on December 23. Her husband Pastor Paul Bly has accepted a position in Pierre. The commissioners gave the library board approval to advertise for a new librarian.
A follow-up meeting for the Community Assessment will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 15, at the Philip High School Fine Arts Building. There will be sessions on "narrowing top priorities" and on "how to move forward in these priorities." The Community Assessment ended its first stage at a town meeting on October 14. This follow-up meeting will be the beginning of the next stage. The Philip Chamber of Commerce is spearheading this community improvement project. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.
The calendar year is quickly coming to a close, and the Philip City Council is concluding as much business as possible before the December 29th meeting. Building permits are free, but the $100.00 penalty for not filing a permit may have to be implemented. Overhanging electrical wires can be a danger while putting up a building or if ice lowers the line. Buried water and sewer lines, buried communication cables, and water run-off can become problems if concrete is poured over an area without prior investigation. Easements and ordinances may exist.
DeWayne D. Miller, age 61, of White Lake, SD, formerly of Philip, died Saturday evening, November 27, 2004, at the Aurora-Brule Nursing Home in White Lake. Funeral services were held Wednesday, December 1, at the Evangelical Free Church in Philip, with Pastor Gary Wahl officiating. Pallbearers were Grant and Scott Patterson, Scot Eisenbraun, Scott Romero, Mark Carlson and Mark VanderMay. Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery. Rush Funeral Home of Philip was in charge of the arrangements. DeWayne D.
The Philip High School Oral Interpretation team will be going to the state competition December 3 and 4 in Pierre. The six students qualified through district and regional meets. The team members are Michael Westerberg, Jesse Heaton, John Hart, Rose Heeb, Brittany Westerberg and Tracie Erdmann. Their coach is Laura Jacobs. All six members will be performing together in the reader's theater category. Their piece, entitled "Parts of Life", is a compilation of poetry, prose and lyrics concerning death. Philip High School has an entry in the duo drama category.
The Philip Scotties will be ready for their first meet December 3 and 4 as they have been at practice since November 15. The 16 members went through wrestle-offs on Tuesday to determine who in each weight class will represent Philip at the Stanley County Tournament in Fort Pierre. All of the 14 weight classes may not be filled because of some injuries. Some weight ranges can not be filled by any current wrestlers. Head wrestling coach Matt Donnelly said, "The first tournament will be tough. As long as we put on a good show, we're going to be fine.
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The Centennial Committee of the Philip Chamber of Commerce is moving ahead with ideas and gathering manpower for the 2007 Philip Centennial. "Where the sun kisses the earth" will be the theme for the long weekend in June of 2007. The committee will be helping with the planning and will be overseeing many different projects, though other organizations and individuals will actually be responsible for each activity. More ideas and volunteers are sought.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveyed 11,000 adults from 2007 to 2010, asking what they ate over the previous 24 hours, and those results are actually down from 13% in the CDC's previous survey for 2003-2006. Among the latest survey's findings:
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(FOX/CNS) Diane Disney Miller, the daughter of Walt Disney and a key proponent for the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, died today at age 79."
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Diane Disney Miller and our thoughts are with her family during this difficult time," according to Robert Iger, president and CEO of The Walt Disney Co.
"As the beloved daughter of Walt Disney and one of his inspirations for creating Disneyland, she holds a special place in the history of the Walt Disney Company and in the hearts of fans everywhere."She will be remembered for her grace and generosity and tireless work to preserve her father's legacy, and she will be greatly missed by all who knew her," he said.
Details of her death were not released by the company. Family friend Richard Greene told the Los Angeles Times Miller died at her home in Napa from complications of a fall she suffered in September.
She was Walt Disney's only biological daughter, born to the famed showman and Lillian Disney in 1933. Walt and Lillian Disney adopted Sharon Mae Disney at birth in 1936. She died in 1993. Miller and her husband, Ron, had seven children. The couple operated a vineyard in Napa.
In the late 1990s, she played a key role in pushing for the completion of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, a project that became bogged down in cost concerns despite a $50 million donation for the project from Lillian Disney.
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So, word on the street is that part of the first day of the All Things D conference tonight will be the unveiling of the first time of the Windows 7 operating system by Microsoft. To be clear, we shouldn't expect Windows 7 any sooner than 2010. That said, what is shown is very much a work in progress. If you can't wait for the video footage, which we are sure is soon to come, we also have a bunch of Windows 7 screenshots in our gallery.
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The future of Windows 7 does look clear, but I wanna bet that the pictures will completely change 10 times or so before they release it, just like Vista did. Back in 2002, it looked a lot like XP with a white start menu.
when is it to be launched and is it better than vista
Whats the releasing date for windows 7, and yes those screen shots are amazing really. I m quite eager to use windows 7.
yeah saw those screenies couple days ago on " istartedsomething.com " .
I can't run Windows Vista and they are coming almost with the next operating system.
If these screenshots are real then I think they have a good successor!
Cool I want multi-touch support. Like HP's touchsmart PC it is a cool idea. But the only draw back is now i have to buy my HD PC monitor again. They should just make a multi-touch screen overlay.
It looks promising, I guess we will see in 2009 what's it's really like
You people get worked up too soon. Vista is still relatively new, I can't see Windows 7 coming out until 2010, that's if there's no delays.
As for the screenshots, I sure hope I can disable those stupid widgets at the bottom. That start bar is taking up far too much screen real estate.
WHOAAA YEAH…reeeeeal Blackcomb screenshots.
If Windows 7 ends up being indeed like these screenshots, I will be a very happy person
However, experience tells me that the UI will be simplified and it will end up as just another rehashed aero (which was a rehashed luna with transparency…)
I haven't even seen a VISTA live. I since there is only 2 year to go for this NEW ms OS, people who have not yet upgraded from XP will be confused to choose between Vista and Windows 7
@ Linu: I'm sure there's still people using 98 right now, they've got Vista and XP to choose from if they were to upgrade. And Vista was released 5 years after XP, so it makes sense that a new OS would be coming in about 3 year's time.
The more things change, the more they look like OS X. Microsoft "borrows" from the best.
And they should.
I like it so far, let's hope Microsoft did a great job on Window's 7.
does it look to anyone else like the toolbars are copying macs style?
it may just be me
but i really like the look already, and i hear a few people are supposed to have betas running in a few weeks
anyone else hear about it?
It has got good graphical user interface far more better than vista, i wish atleast windows7 will be a big hit for bill gates
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WNV is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Signs and symptoms may include fever, body aches, rash, nausea, vomiting, and headache. Up to about 80 percent of people infected have no apparent symptoms and can go undiagnosed, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Severe cases, while rare, can include brain inflammation, paralysis or death.
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Brand Marketing And The Middleby Walker Smith
There are two middles in today's economy, commonly though mistakenly coupled. The middle market is struggling; so is the middle class. These are related struggles, but not one in the same.
The U.S. middle class is under pressure as never before, largely precipitated by the Great Recession, yet long in coming. The eight days of near-doom in September 2008 struck like a lightning bolt, splitting the marketplace in two along an already-weakening fissure largely hidden from view until laid bare by a direct hit from the financial crisis.
In the three decade-long run-up to September 2008, stagnant real wages, accumulating debt and flagging innovation left the middle class imperiled and vulnerable to unforeseen reversals. The financial crisis was the proverbial straw.
A Pew survey last year found almost half of U.S. consumers saying they had "lost ground" during the Great Recession. An analysis of the 2009 TNS Global Economic Crisis survey classified a similar percentage as "financially fragile," meaning that short of drastic measures they could not come up with $2,000 in 30 days to cover an unexpected emergency.
This abrupt bifurcation of the middle class left a yawning gap where an aspirational middle used to be. Millions of consumers have literally been taken out of the marketplace, now juggling tight household budgets with little to no disposable income for discretionary spending. This is not good news for middle market retailers and brands, but it's not the main reason that these middle marketers are struggling.
The middle market was under pressure well before the financial crisis, due in no small part to the trading up ambition that catalyzed much of the frenzied, reckless spending that surged during the years just prior to the housing meltdown. Middle marketers lost their niche long before the downturn. The "hourglass economy" tag now refers to a split of consumer income into high and low, but a decade ago the very same tag referred to a split of consumer interest (and related things like retail concepts) into high and low. Both nuances reference the passing of the middle, but the decline of the middle market long antedates the distress of the middle class.
The elephant in the room is whether there is a future for a middle of either sort. Policy-makers and protestors are at loggerheads over issues of income inequality. Marketers are at loose ends over issues of sourcing growth.
Marketers must not pin their hopes for the future on a resurgent middle class or a resuscitated middle market. Better for brands to move past the middle. Indeed, success is being found now by brands with more of high-low approach. Strategies anchored by the middle, whether to trade up, trade more or trade higher, will cast brands adrift as this moorage continues to slip over time. For marketers, the growth imperative is to go high or low and not look for the middle to carry brands forward into the future.
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This is spot on! The US consumer market has had fundamental changes since before the turn of the century. The low end is the new "Mass" market with store brands and a sea of sameness all driven by cost/price. The premium market still exists but many companies are afraid to pursue as they are still right sizing their businesses after dreaming about a never ending bubble that exaggerated the premium market and then burst resetting the premium market to more reasonable and historical scale. Those that can quickly adapt will be able to prosper.


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Hence, with us, the people (by which is meant the mass of individuals composing the society) being competent to judge of the facts occurring in ordinary life, they have retained the functions of judges of facts under the name of jurors; but being unqualified for the management of affairs requiring intelligence above the common level, yet competent judges of human character, they chose for their management representatives, some by themselves immediately, others by electors chosen by themselves.
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Music video for Agemixer theme "DA SHIT" yes, I've changed the title.
It contrasts with all the violent stuff I've made before and looks kind of positive also it's more abstract and assosiative than other movies here, but if you'll look deeper it even has a plot.
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DangDang, "the Chinese Amazon" (though without Amazon-style market share), listed on the New York Stock Exchange to great fanfare on December 9th, 2010.
Just over a month later, DangDang CEO Li Guoqing exploded at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse in a profanity-laced tirade (click here for sanitized reports), blaming them for a botched IPO that severely undervalued the firm. From Li Guoqing's Sina Weibo:
"Lyrics for a rock song: You (Morgan Stanley) gave out a valuation of 1-6 billion, but in Hong Kong the opening statements stated only 0.78 billion, stop fucking acting. You f**kers knew first day of launch that valuation would be 2 billion, but you still priced USD 16 per share, which comes to 1.1 billion. My CFO was in panic mode, I held back a breath and silently cursed you motherf**kers."
Li's statement shocked thousands of Weibo users and spread like wildfire.
Next, two Sina Weibo accounts claiming to be employees of Morgan Stanley fired back at Li in personal attacks of the most severe degree. Morgan Stanley has launched a preliminary investigation and does not believe that the responses are actually from its employees. Nonetheless, the virulent defense by Morgan Stanley "employees" also exploded on the Chinese Weibo-sphere, a PR disaster for both firms.
What's more, an infuriated Li actually responded to these "employees" in a series of over 50 weibos (full transcript in Chinese). Update: full transcript in English
A response by @迷失的唯怡 openly questioned Li Guoqing's intelligence, refuting Li's assertion that Morgan Stanley made undue return on investment via DangDang's IPO. The Weibos insult Li's family, his parents, and his "well-connected" wife:
"Our investment firm didn't charge you a fucking single extra cent, go home and work that out with your broken-gong brain [shit for brain]. Do you know what you are? You are a beggar! For the last ten years have you lived a day without being chased after by debt collectors? How many of your debts did your wife repay? You really think Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse believed in you? If not for Yuyu [Li's wife], you would be left on the streets of Beijing as a piece of shit." – @迷失的唯怡
"'If Morgan Stanley is bad', then why the hell did you come to us with your wife crying about how poor you were? Big joke. 'Goldman Sachs is good', then go to Goldman Sachs–how come I remember you two [Li and his wife] were rejected by them two years ago, if I recall correctly." - @露西娅天气
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This afternoon, in a sober response, Li posted this in his Weibo.
1. Li Guoqing's "Rock Song Lyrics" are purely fictional, his own literary hobby.
2. Offensive use of language was wrong, and the "lyrics" were not targeted at specific industry or firm.
3. The "lyrics" do not reflect negativity towards a certain industry.
4. Li Guoqing's response to 2-3 users are offensive, but did not use any actual offensive words (i.e. swear words).
5. Li Guoqing's "lyrics" were written to comfort his own pains and to warn follow companies planning to list in the U.S.
6. Weibo is open media, all are welcome to comment, but please refrain from using offensive words. DangDang agrees with entrepreneurs being active in Weibo, but please keep it clean.
7. Whether you like Li Guoqing's statements or not, DangDang sincerely welcomes you all.
In their own preliminary statement, Morgan Stanley said that the two involved employees were in fact not from their firm. I checked the account of one of them; many of her followers are certainly from Morgan Stanley and she's well educated in the investment business. There are still doubts as to their true identities.
In the meantime, I presume Li is looking for a new hobby.
Lessons Learned
- 2011 promises many more US IPOs for Chinese internet companies. Firms should carefully select a bank; banks should take PR precautions.
- Valuation – how much is a hot Chinese internet company worth? Recently there has been talks of Sina spinning off Sina Weibo, readying it for an IPO. According to Innovation Works founder Li Kaifu, Weibo's valuation should be placed at USD 1 billion, even though Weibo has barely has any revenue. How well can bankers (or anyone) understand the Chinese internet to present a proper valuation? The one trait that all Chinese IPOs share is extreme volatility.
- Founders should be kept under tighter restraints on social media, especially when many companies policies are designed to regulate employees' internet behavior. The same should be no less true for the boss.
http://www.kailukoff.com Kai Lukoff
I assume any US CEO would be forced to resign after such an insane lapse of judgment. Let's see what happens with DangDang CEO Li.
That will not happen in China~ or on Chinese CEO
also how morgan stanley treats his employee.
My pity today is reserved neither for the bank nor the executive, but for Li's wife, the hardworking people at Dangdang whose work has been undermined by an apparently infantile CEO, and the PR people inside and outside of Dangdang who are having to contend with this unnecessary nightmare.
http://markenglehartevans.com Mark Englehart Evans
Great coverage. This is quite a tempest.
Will Ashworth
It's refreshing candor for sure. Take out the swearing and it's much ado about nothing. I wish CEOs were this honest. Unfortunately, they're too busy making 300 times the average worker.
what's so infantile about the CEO? his concern is relevant and pointed!
Here we have a member of the "communist" country elite acting out freely, and the "stiffs" (presumably) of the wasp school of capitalism and "home of the free" are "censoring" this outburst? O the irony.
I say let er rip. the point is kinda valid.
http://twitter.com/alexlobov Alexander Lobov
Good question actually. I've been trying to figure out how the company is listed in the US. I'm pretty sure it's Level 3 Depository Receipts, which means that a fiduciary duty exists between shareholders and board… which in turn means that the board could sack the CEO as with any public company in the US. But a lot would depend on the makeup of the shareholders. Western investors obviously would not be comfortable with this sort of thing. And the stock price has dropped around 10% since news broke so there'd be grounds for some action there.
yeah, 'I'm CEO, Bitch!'
http://twitter.com/21tigermike Michael A. Robson
Sounds like a brilliant guy. Bush league.
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A short time ago I got a call from a builder with whom I've worked for many years. He usually seeks legal advice before jumping into something new, but this time he was a bit slow to check in. The builder had terminated a homeowner's renovation contract before the work was complete and was being sued for $200,000 in damages.
According to the builder, the job was tough from the start. There was no architect, and the homeowner scrutinized subcontractors' work and questioned the job foreman's judgments. There were six change orders in the first four weeks of work, all caused by the owner's indecision. The owner complained and interfered so much that the subcontracted carpenter quit the job. The builder didn't have another carpenter to turn to and, with progress stalled, he terminated the contract because he felt the owner had stepped over the line. He tried to reach an agreement on payments by asking for about half the job's value, since work was roughly half done, but was rebuffed by the owner. Instead, he got an aggressive lawsuit that called the builder's work "shoddy and unprofessional."
"Help," the contractor pleaded, "All I did was try to get out of a bad deal." When we met to talk, I learned my client had made a series of errors that began before he even met the homeowner. His standard form contract had no termination provisions and didn't allow him to collect his profits or his legal fees if things went wrong. He tried to reach a settlement without legal guidance and had unwittingly driven a wedge between the parties. Consequently, he was facing expensive court proceedings and judgment by a hostile jury. After all, he was a contractor, and contractors often do not fare well in court.
Whether it's due to a difficult homeowner, a major illness, or a customer's sudden job loss, most contractors will have to terminate a contract at some point in their careers. If a contractor doesn't plan for this in advance, he will almost certainly lose his anticipated profit and may not be paid for the work that's already done. He is likely to face expensive legal fees and the possibility of an adverse judgment in court. The best way to avoid these negative outcomes is to use a good contract and get advice from a competent lawyer.
Contract law requires the parties to an agreement to abide in good faith with the terms of the deal. Various legal theories might be used to void an agreement (impossibility of performance, for example, or fraud), but they rarely come into play. The parties are bound by the deal they make and a judge's role in any dispute is to interpret the contract and enforce its terms.
One way to avoid this type of financial disaster is by using a good written contract. The contract should cover all foreseeable events. Most builders use form contracts that they adapt to each customer or job. You can buy standard forms from a variety of on-line contract drafting services or have one written by your attorney.
Whatever approach you take, be sure to include termination provisions that are clear and concise. If the terms aren't clear, disputes are more likely to arise about the parties' obligations under the contract. The only thing worse than having no termination clause is having one that muddies issues even further. For example, the contract could state that the builder can walk away from the job if he's not paid "within 48 hours of submitting his invoice." This would be better than saying the builder can quit if not paid after completing certain work to "the owner's reasonable satisfaction."
While it's impossible to foresee every potential circumstance, builders can anticipate many of them. Contracts should describe conditions that allow the builder to walk away — a failure to make timely payment, stoppage of work caused by the owner's conduct, and death or disability of the contractor should all be included. If one of these events occurs, the contract should provide notice procedures and define financial consequences. The terms should be as clear and specific as possible.
Concerning owner conduct, a contract might require owners to stay away from the job site while subcontractors are there and report any perceived issues directly to the contractor alone. Violations of a provision like this might be dealt with via a written notice to the owner that the contractor will be forced to leave the job if interference with work progress continues. Should an owner cause the job to end, the agreement might require payment of the builder's profit on completed work. The amount due can be calculated through a progress payment scheme whereby certain amounts are due as specific benchmarks are reached. If a phase of the project is partially completed on termination, the contract can provide for reimbursement based on time and materials expended on that portion of the work.
Perhaps even more important is to cover circumstances that allow the homeowner to back out of the job due to a builder's supposed poor work. Contracts should require owners to give the builder advance notice and an opportunity to cure before they can terminate the contract for this reason. Because owners are not normally expert at judging work in progress, contracts might require them to offer specific support for any alleged deficiencies and instructions on what should be done to remedy any problems. The architect, if there is one, might be useful for this purpose. It's hard to set a specific time frame for "curing" a perceived problem, so writing that the contractor must begin to address the problem within, say, seven days makes sense. The contract can then provide that any problems be fixed within a reasonable time.
Fighting things out in court is difficult and expensive, especially if there are issues of fact that require expert testimony. A building contract can help lessen the financial load by providing for the arbitration of disputes. This process is less expensive and much faster than courtroom litigation. A typical arbitration clause provides for the submission of disputes to an entity such as the American Arbitration Association, which can appoint a neutral arbitrator and provide rules to govern the procedure.
Other components of dispute resolution to consider are the payment of legal fees and the identities of the parties to litigation. A contract can include language that requires the party in breach to pay all fees and costs incurred by the non-breaching party in an enforcement action. This type of clause can head off lawsuits by making unreasonable parties think twice about the consequences of their conduct. And if the contract allows suit only against a corporate entity (which may have limited assets) and not against the builder who owns it, a homeowner may be more amenable to working out a deal. This is how any dispute over contract termination should be resolved.
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Pima Community College Chancellor Lee Lambert addressed the school faculty regarding two former students who passed while in the line of duty fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30.
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died in the Yarnell Hill Fire near Prescott are graduates of Pima Community
College. Garret Zuppiger earned an Arizona
General Education Curriculum-Arts degree in Liberal Arts in 2006 and William
Warneke earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in Fire Science in 2012.
William and their 17 brave colleagues died as they fought to save the lives and
property of their fellow Arizonans. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their
families, friends and the communities they served.
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The Cathedral Choir offers its annual Christmas Carol Service on Saturday, Dec. 24, at 4 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City.
The service features music of the Advent and Christmas seasons, including plainchant, choral works and traditional carols. As is tradition, it will begin with a solo child voice intoning the traditional Latin chant Rorate caeli – Drop down dew, you heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just.
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As freezing temperatures, gales and blizzards of deadly "100-year, record-smashing" spring storms battered Europe this past month, the energy gap I've warned about for years hit the headlines: "It's payback time for our insane energy policy," snarled London's Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
Hypothermia has killed thousands, losses to the economy have soared into the billions, and the wintry spring has wrought mayhem on the roads, closed businesses and smashed power lines.
Last weekend, the head of the United Kingdom's second-largest energy supplier announced that the nation had barely 48 hours' worth of stored natural gas left to keep the population warm. "Our generating capacity has fallen so low that we can expect power cuts to begin at any time."
Why? Because instead of developing its vast natural gas resources to fuel gas-fired generators, Britain has been building wind turbines, which provide almost no electricity during frigid weather.
The Sunday Telegraph bitterly concluded, "The grotesque mishandling of Britain's energy policy by politicians of all parties, as they chase their childish chimeras of CO2-induced global warming and windmills, has been arguably the greatest act of political irresponsibility in our history."
Now we can see what might have happened to America had the Senate ratified the disastrous Kyoto Protocol -- and what "childish chimeras" President Obama is chasing with carbon taxes and Environmental Protection Agent regulations.
The "energy gap" is the amount of "green energy" we actually produce, compared with how much more we would need to produce to replace energy from fossil fuel, nuclear and hydroelectric power that greens and bureaucrats want to shut down. It's a reality check.
Every year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration provides a simple chart useful for calculating America's energy gap. EIA's website calls it "Total Energy Supply and Disposition." It lists all energy sources and the number of BTUs each contributed. (A British thermal unit is a standard measuring unit for energy.) The EIA chart shows BTUs in quadrillions. Here's how America's energy sources and use stacked up in 2012.
Liquid fuels and other petroleum: 36.74 quadrillion BTUs; natural gas: 25.80; coal: 19.46; nuclear: 8.50; hydropower: 2.67; biomass: 2.73; other renewable energy: 1.77 (includes grid-connected electricity from landfill gas, biogenic municipal waste, wind, photovoltaic and solar thermal sources, and nonelectric energy from renewable sources, such as active and passive solar systems); other: 0.38. Total U.S. energy for 2012: 97.93 quadrillion BTUs.
Fossil fuels alone -- oil, gas and coal -- contributed 82 percent of this total. Wind and solar provided a mere 3.32 percent of our overall needs in 2012. America therefore had an energy gap of 96.7 percent last year.
Updated EIA energy gap figures should be shown daily by every news outlet. People need to know that if Obama and his Big Green supporters want to kill the 82 percent that we get from fossil fuels before renewables are even remotely prepared to replace them, the United States will be freezing and jobless in the dark, just like the U.K.
Thankfully, the political momentum behind the climate movement may not last much longer. A new trend in climate science has emerged in leading peer-reviewed journals, and even mainstream media are reporting it. German's flagship daily newspaper Die Welt stunned Europe with the headline "Scientists Warning of Ice Age." The story by veteran journalist Ulli Kulke noted that more scientists have been challenging the simplistic "one-dimensional CO2 explanation" for climate change.
More and more scientists are now seeing a huge opportunity to overturn one of the most ballyhooed scientific hypotheses of modern time, Kulke wrote -- funding be damned.
With the vast sums we're spending to kill 82 percent of our energy needs, the revolution can't come soon enough. And all we have to show for going green is a piddling 3.32 percent from wind and solar.
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Pachacutec: Incan Emperor Who Created Machu Picchu
posted on September 11th, 2014 in Incas, Machu Picchu, Peru
Pachacutec: The Incan Emperor Who Built Machu Picchu
By Kim MacQuarrie
(Excerpt from the book, Machu Picchu: Song of Stone)
According to Inca oral history, in the early part of the 15th century an Inca king arose who would not only revolutionize the entire Andean world but who would also create some of the finest architectural monuments ever known. At the time, the Incas lived within a small kingdom centered around the valley of Cuzco, one of many such small kingdoms in the Andes and on the coast. The Incas told the Spaniards that, at the time, they were led by an old Inca king named Viracocha Inca. Faced with an approaching army from the powerful kingdom of the Chancas, the Inca ruler fled, leaving his adult son, Cusi Yupanqui, behind. The latter quickly took charge, raised an army, and somehow miraculously defeated the invaders. Cusi Yupanqui then deposed his father, arranged for his own coronation, and changed his name to Pachacutec, a Quechua word that means "earth-shaker" or "cataclysm," or "he who turns the world upside down." The name was a prescient one, for Pachacutec would soon turn the status quo of the Andes entirely upside down.
According to Inca history, Pachacutec had had a profound religious experience when he was young, a sort of epiphany that revealed to him both his divine nature and a vision of a nearly unbounded future. Wrote the Jesuit priest Bernabé Cobo:
It is said of this Inca [Pachacutec], that before he became king, he went
once to visit his father Viracocha, who was . . . five leagues from Cuzco,
and as he reached a spring called Susurpuquiu, he saw a crystal tablet fall
into it; within this tablet there appeared to him the figure of an Indian
dressed in this way: around his head he had a llauto like the headdress of
the Incas; three brightly shining rays, like those of the sun, sprang from
the top of his head; some snakes were coiled around his arms at the
shoulder joints . . . and there was a kind of snake that stretched from the
top to the bottom of his back. Upon seeing this image, Pachacutec became
so terrified that he started to flee, but the image spoke to him from inside
the spring, saying to him: "Come here, my child; have no fear, for I am
your father the Sun; I know that you will subjugate many nations and
take great care to honor me and remember me in your sacrifices"; and,
having said these words, the vision disappeared, but the crystal tablet re-
mained in the spring. The Inca Pachacutec took the tablet and kept it; it is said that
after this it served him as a mirror in which he saw anything he wanted,
and in memory of his vision, when he was king, he had a statue made of
the Sun, which was none other than the image he had seen in the crystal,
and he built a temple of the Sun called Qoricancha, with the magnifi-
cence and richness that it had at the time when the Spaniards came, be-
cause before it was a small and humble structure. Moreover, Pachacutec ordered
that solemn temples dedicated to the Sun be built throughout all the
lands that he subjugated under his empire, and he endowed them with
great incomes, ordering that all his subjects worship and revere the Sun.
Soon after becoming king, Pachacutec wasted no time in remaking the world according to his unique vision, beginning with the city of Cuzco. There, he undertook a major rebuilding campaign, reorganizing the layout of the capital, tearing down old buildings, creating new boulevards, and ordering a host of palaces and temples to be built. All of these were constructed in a new style of stonework that Pachacutec preferred–later referred to as the imperial style–stones cut and fitted together so perfectly that the skill and artistry displayed would eventually become famous as one of the wonders of the New World.
Not satisfied with defeating the Chancas, however, the ambitious young king soon led his army into the nearby Yucay (Vilcanota) and Vilcabamba Valleys, conquering a number of ethnic groups. To celebrate these victories, Pachacutec ordered the construction of a number of royal estates: one in Pisac, another at Ollantaytambo, and a third that would eventually be known as Machu Picchu. The three estates were unusual, however, in that they were destined to be privately owned by the conqueror himself. It was a model that would soon be copied by succeeding Inca emperors and also by a small number of high-ranking Inca elites. Theirs would be the only privately held lands within the rapidly expanding Inca Empire.
Pachacutec created his new estates with a number of specific purposes in mind, perhaps the most important of which was to support his own family lineage. Each new Inca emperor was supposed to found his own panaca, or descent lineage, in essence becoming the patriarch and founder of a new family line. The crops and animal herds raised on Pachacutec's private estates were thus slated to be used to support the members of his royal panaca. After his death, the estates would continue to be used and maintained by his descendants.
A second purpose for building the royal estates was to commemorate Pachacutec's recent conquests: when complete, they would serve as monuments that would reflect the new emperor's boldness, initiative, and power. Finally, the estates were also meant to serve as secluded royal retreats–luxury resorts located well away from the capital where the emperor and a select group of relatives and elites could rest, relax, and commune with the local mountain gods.
As with the new palaces and buildings he had ordered built in Cuzco, Pachacutec was first presumably shown models of his proposed estates in clay, complete with the projected buildings, agricultural terraces, and temples. Once Pachacuti had approved the designs, a legion of the kingdom's finest architects, engineers, stonecutters, and masons went to work.
Pachacutec Creates Machu Picchu
To commemorate his conquest of the Vilcabamba Valley, Pachacutec ordered his third royal estate to be built on a high ridge overlooking what is now called the Urubamba River. The Incas apparently called the new site Picchu, meaning "peak." Since the proposed citadel and nearby satellite communities were planned from the start to form part of a luxurious private estate, the entire complex would display some of the finest examples of Inca engineering and art.
The complex of what is now known as the ruins of Machu Picchu, in fact, was carefully planned and designed long before the first white granite block was ever cut and moved into place. The location, first of all, had to be both suitably sacred and spectacular; the site that Pachacuti selected was set high atop a ridge with an almost God-like view over the entire area and of the surrounding apus, or sacred peaks. It was essential that the site also contain a source of clean water-a substance sacred in itself-that could be used for drinking, bathing, and for ritual purposes. Picchu, in fact, possessed just such a crucial characteristic: on the large peak now known as Machu Picchu, and high above the proposed citadel, Inca engineers located a natural spring. They then designed a gravity-fed water system that would eventually carry water down from the peak to the ridge top site where it would ultimately pass through sixteen descending ritual fountains.
Portions of the ridge top were now carefully planed and flattened as workers created foundations of gravel, stones, and even subterranean retaining walls. Archaeologists who have excavated at Machu Picchu have reported that some 60 percent of the architectural engineering associated with the ruins actually lies beneath the ruins. Because of the heavy granite architecture and the region's equally heavy rains, Inca engineers had to be certain that the locations chosen for building had solid foundations capable of withstanding both water and weight. Once the foundation was complete, construction finally began on the citadel itself, with workers cutting stone mainly from a quarry located on the same ridge top, using a variety of stone and bronze tools. Only once the first stone blocks had been cut did construction begin on the buildings, palaces, and temples of Machu Picchu.
Workers and specialists from around the country now convened on the remote site, all of them supervised by a bevy of architects and engineers. In order to equip the citadel with the latest, state-of-the-art technology, Inca astronomers worked alongside the engineers and stonemasons to fashion observatories that could accurately mark the summer and winter solstices as well as other astronomical events. Workers fulfilling their mit'a labor tax, meanwhile, busied themselves constructing roads to and from the royal estate, linking Machu Picchu with the capital, Cuzco, and with other newly built centers, such as Ollantaytambo, Pisac, and, eventually, Vitcos and Vilcabamba. Additional laborers were also put to work constructing large agricultural terraces in order to help provide food for the citadel's future inhabitants as well as for ritual sacrifices. Soon, Inca labor and technology had transformed the steep, jungle-covered slopes into a staggered series of flat terraces that eventually produced fourteen acres of sacred corn.
When Machu Picchu was finally ready for use sometime in the 1450s or 1460s, the first ruler of the newly created Inca Empire, Pachacutec, no doubt arrived there on his royal litter, accompanied by royal guests, a large retinue of servants, and at least part of his harem. The citadel's furnishings, plumbing, food, supplies, servants, and cooks had all been carefully prepared so that the emperor would be able to relax along with his guests. Then, as now, clouds wreathed the surrounding peaks, alternately exposing and obscuring them. Unlike the ruins today, however, the gabled roofs of the buildings were covered with fresh yellow ichu thatch while the stones of the citadel were white and freshly cut and glistened in the sun.
Similar to the recent architecture in Cuzco, much of the stonework at Machu Picchu had been cut in the imperial style that Pachacutec preferred; some of the buildings, in fact, were constructed with boulders the size of small cars, each cut, fitted perfectly into place, and weighing up to fourteen tons. The water from the nearby peak of Machu Picchu, meanwhile, descended into the citadel through a stone-lined aqueduct and arrived first at Pachacutec's living quarters, thus allowing the emperor to come into contact with only the purest water available. A stone-cut pool in Pachacutec's dwelling allowed the emperor to bathe in complete privacy while the emperor's residence also had the only water-flushed lavatory at Machu Picchu.
As Pachacutec bathed himself in his private bath, the voices of his guests would have floated across the plaza outside along with the distant sounds of metalworkers tending their forges and hammering out gold and silver ornaments, utensils, and jewelry. Strings of llama trains constantly arrived, looking from a condor's perspective like lengths of knotted quipu cords; the food and supplies they carried up from the jungle and down from the Andes was carefully unpacked at a station just outside the citadel. Even at this private retreat, chaski runners appeared periodically with messages for the emperor and other officials, who in turn sent their commands back to Cuzco and to other parts of the empire. Wherever the emperor went, in fact, his royal court followed. Thus, whenever Pachacutec was in retreat at Machu Picchu, this lofty, isolated citadel temporarily became the power center and locus of the entire Inca world.
Machu Picchu During the Time of Pachacutec: A Royal Estate
Unlike the ruins of Machu Picchu today–which are owned by the Peruvian state and are open to the public, and where tour buses disgorge hundreds of thousands of visitors each year–Machu Picchu in the time of Pachacutec was an exclusive and private affair. The roads here–like the roads elsewhere in the empire–were open only to those individuals traveling on state business. Other than Pachacutec's immediate family, the workers who kept the citadel functioning, and the invited elites who traveled here on canopied litters, often decorated with precious metals and iridescent bird feathers, Machu Picchu was unknown to the rest of the empire's inhabitants. Machu Picchu, quite simply, was Pachacutec's Camp David–a royal resort built by a man who had almost single-handedly transformed a small native kingdom into the largest empire the New World has ever known.
The citadel of Machu Picchu was thus the third and perhaps most important jewel in the crown of architectural monuments that Pachacuti had created, after Pisac and Ollantaytambo. Balmy and warm, the site was no doubt a welcome respite from the often freezing winter weather of the Inca capital and from the high Andes in general. Even after Pachacutec's death and long after the emperor had been ritually embalmed and mummified, Pachacutec's servants no doubt continued bringing their divine emperor to visit Machu Picchu and to visit the other estates he had carved out of the Andes, his sightless eyes seeming to gaze off into the distance as the members of his royal panaca continued to enjoy the fruits of their founder's unparalleled conquests and labors.


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