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Our first peek at February homebuying shows Orange County's shoppers staying active. DataQuick's Orange County homebuying report for the 22 business days ending February 7 shows:
• Median selling price for all residences of $460,000 -- that is up 17.9 percent vs. a year ago.
Total Orange County sales of 2,413 residences closed in the latest period -- that is up 17.5 percent vs. a year ago.
• Resales of single family homes were up 17.0 percent vs. last year; condo sales rose 9.1 percent vs. year ago. Builders' new homes sales were 80.4 percent higher in the same period.
• $460,000 median selling price is 29 percent below the June 2007 peak of $645,000.
• The most recent median is 24 percent above the cyclical low hit in January 2009 at $370,000 -- so the median has recouped 33 percent of the $275,000 price drop from the peak.
• Compared to cyclical low, single-family house median is 24 percent higher ($418,250 in January 2009); condo median is 23 percent higher ($252,000 in March 2009.) Builder prices for new homes are 61 percent above June 2009's $424,000 bottom.
•Builder's new homes sales were 7 percent of all residences sold in the period vs. 4 percent a year ago.
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• 73 of 83 local ZIP codes with gains in their respective median selling price. Taking sales volume in consideration, home-sale pricing is up in ZIPs representing 89 percent of the Orange County market.
• Eight of 83 ZIPs with median sales prices above $1 million in the period vs. 11 million-dollar ZIPs when the county median price peaked in June 2007. Million-dollar ZIPs had 108 home sales in this period -- down 13 percent vs. a year ago.
• There were two ZIPs with medians under $250,000 vs. five a year ago. ZIPs with medians under a quarter million had 2 percent of all sales in the most recent period.
• 54 of 83 ZIPs had year-over-year sales gains in the period -- or 65 percent of the market; five ZIPs had sales gains of 100 percent or more in the period.
• 48 local ZIPs had both sales gains and price gains in the period. These double-gainers had combined sales volume equal to 66 percent of the Orange County market.
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LOS ANGELES—Earvin "Magic" Johnson, chairman/CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE), will serve as the closing keynote speaker on the first day of the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) here, January 27-29, 2014.
The Hall of Famer is a major league baseball owner, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a motivational speaker. He has parlayed his skills and tenacity on the basketball court into the business world, propelling his company to the status of one of the top brands in urban America.
MJE provides quality products and services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities through strategic alliances, investments, consulting and endorsements.
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Additionally, Johnson has teamed up with Tim Leiweke of AEG in an effort to build a new stadium and bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles, as well as thousands of jobs to the city.
In the business world, Johnson is most noted for his 1998 Starbucks partnership, which served as the catalyst for redevelopment in urban communities and has served as a blueprint for Corporate America's engagement and success with urban consumers.
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Easter has come and gone, and now you're stuck with a dozen hard-boiled eggs. You can be healthy and eat two at a time for a quick breakfast or one as a mid-morning snack, but that's boring. How about an egg salad sandwich instead? Quick and easy, egg salad is a make-ahead item that you can leave in your refrigerator for the week and use as you go. You can even dump some in a bowl and eat straight-up with a spoon for a light meal. It's the ultimate lazy
It's been a long while since my first pop-up restaurant in Houston almost three years ago. I've been traveling and working on other projects in television and public speaking. This year, though, I hope to focus on my own personal culinary goals, and that means…drumroll, please…developing my own restaurant concepts which I hope to open in the near future. I always get asked when I'm going to open my own restaurant, and the time finally feels right. Of course, we are in the very early development stages of it all,
I had no idea sheep were so amazing! After cradling a two-day old lamb, I experienced an ovine runway. Initially, we thought we would be getting ripped off, having paid 5 euro to listen to a shepherd talk about his sheep, but it turns out this was the highlight of our Ireland rail tour. Each sheep knew exactly when the shepherd was talking about her, and she'd get up and waddle to stage center. As far as I was told, there was no physical prodding, calling of name, or eye
How fitting that I continue with my Ireland vlog on St. Patrick's Day! Day 2 of our Ireland rail tour. We start out from Killarney and have Irish coffee for breakfast. It's my first time having Irish coffee, and it packed a punch to the face. Irish coffee, for those who don't know, is coffee spiked with whiskey (Jameson, to be true to the Irish). The hubs really liked it, but I found it a bit much for 7 in the morning. I thought the coffee with Bailey's Irish cream
At last, we arrived in the final country of our summer holiday. Ireland was the initial reason I wanted to do this trip; I'd heard from several people and recall from when I did have vision, that Ireland was beautiful. I imagined foggy emerald green cliffs dropping down to the steel blue sea. I wanted this scenery memorialized on our wall at home. And this,, my friends, is how the idea for this summer holiday was born. We embarked on a three-day Ireland Rail Tour and looked forward to having
On a recent flight, I watched—er, listened to—Amy, the Academy winning documentary about Amy Winehouse. For those who may not recall, Amy Winehouse was the contemporary jazz singer with that unique voice and signature cateye and beehive 'do. She reigned the music scene in the 2000s but quickly succumbed to substance abuse. All I remember about Amy Winehouse was exactly that. And then I watched this documentary, and it opened up my eyes and heart, so to speak. You see, even though I was nowhere near the fame of Amy
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Only Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne (Sideways) would think to cast the famously handsome George Clooney as a disheveled dad in his outstanding adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemmings's tragicomic novel. Clooney dials down the glamour to play Matt King, a Hawaii real-estate attorney with a propensity for unflattering shirts and ill-fitting trousers. When Matt's wife, Elizabeth, ends up in a coma after a water-skiing accident, Matt must learn to balance the parenting of his resentful daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alexandra (Shailene Woodley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), with the sale of a pristine plot of Kauai land that stands to make the King cousins, including scruffy Hugh (Beau Bridges), a fortune. As Elizabeth's condition worsens, Matt contacts friends and relatives, like her fiercely protective father (Robert Forster), so that they'll have the chance to say goodbye. In the process, he finds out she was having an affair with realtor Brian Speer (Matthew Lillard, effectively cast against type), so he and the girls, including Alex's hilariously mellow friend, Sid (Nick Krause), go on an island-hopping trip, ostensibly to add Brian to the mix, but Matt really wants to find out what his wife saw in the guy. His journey from naiveté to knowledge brings out Clooney's soulful side, creating a believably flawed, deeply sympathetic figure. If Payne leans too heavily on the slack-key soundtrack, his love for his characters, including Judy Greer as Matt's female counterpart, results in his most emotionally satisfying movie to date. --Kathleen C. FennessySee all Product Description
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Comedy, Drama, 115 minutes
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It took me about two minutes to decide that The Descendants was going to be my kind of film. It happened during Clooney's opening voice-over in which he observed that, just because they live in paradise, Hawaiians aren't exempt from the usual problems people face. That statement caught my attention because it's true, but it also alerted me to the possibility that the script would be both truthful and more intelligent than most.
Matt King (Clooney) is the kind of character that I can identify with. He's a lawyer and his job is more important to him than his family. He regularly travels to neighboring islands on business and hasn't had a proper relationship with his wife and two daughters for several years. When his wife has an accident which places her in a coma, Matt's life changes instantly. He has to be a father to his daughters and he's completely unprepared.
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You know the video would have been REAL nice if I had of watched it EARLY(er) before today (Sunday)!
But I digress.....
My midnight stroll was nice and I'm glad I was able to finally make it...
I ended up chatting with a fella that has been there from AZ. I've decided against going to the area this trip due to several factors. Mainly with the short time I will have to work with I can't risk...
I guess I should have mentioned that I have been looking at photos of the area and observed the same as you te-wa. Honestly I figure if I can get to one tree with the car(suv) close enough I had...
Anyone on here been to the Toroweap/Tuweep area of the Grand Canyon NP?
Is it possible to find a spot to hang from a hammock there?
How are the current conditions in the area and how's the...
It was a fun trip and always enjoy a night or two out in me hammock sharing the experience with my brother. Nice job on the videos. I'm glad one of us has time to do something to put something...
All those shots were taken with a Canon MarkIII and a 17-40mm f4L lens.
Thanks again for the comments.
Thank you a lot for the kind words guys, I really do appreciate the feedback.
Happy New Year!
Here's a few pictures from our trip.
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Did you happen to find the Double Mossy Tree? :lol:
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Now that's one HECK of a trip! WOW! Nice pictures too. I love Alaska!
Thank you!
I'll post more but I'm not sure where to do so and keep things on topic (Hammocks, etc.) I guess I'll just post them here in this thread as I get to them. I've just been slammed with...
Here's another shot from a top of Hawksbill, the bill points the way into the george!
walk to the edge! just don't take too many steps :lol:
dude you bloodied my nose once that was payback enough! It twere a dang good punch right square to the old rudolf laser beam
Just call me Col. Forbin! I'd rather think of myself as him.
but "Hercules"..... for some reason I see an image of of Eddie Murphy in a woman fat suit bouncing up and down in a chair, frantically...
Ummm, I got to get something off my chest......
The more I go back and watch that video the more I'm beginning to wonder if, not only did the double mossy tree make it rain, but I'm wondering if...
I've found that life is a lot more fun to live when you act like a doof! I have to play the "professional" far too much that being a doof is a release! :D
Yea I was sweating it a little bit more than a let on at the time. :lol:
Actually we had to go on a hunt hunt for some gas 1st because I "forgot" to fill up before we headed up the mountain. We made it with 9 miles to spare! :lol:
we hit it TWICE!
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Great video brother! Awesome trip and I can't wait to go back and do it again!
Well we got a little wet hiking down the C. Cove Trail. It started raining just before we got to the river but we got our tarps set up just as the harder rains started to fall. The downpour during...
Wait until you all get to see the Double Mossy Tree! :D
I don't have the time to write up a full report so I'm going to just let this one picture (well it's actually several pictures stitched together) do the reporting for me. I did my best with the...
I'd love to come down under one of these days before I expire. Looks like you had a great trip! Love the pictures ........ well 'cept for the snake. Me don't like'y snakes!
those will have to wait for much cooler weather! :D
:D Well if it makes ya'll (those of you that know how bad that climb is) feel any better. I almost puked about 1 1/2 miles into it :scared: :lol:
Thanks for the kind words on the photos.
Mod, I messed up and meant to put this in the Trip Report Forum. Please move. Sorry!
This past weekend I took off a little later than I had intended on Friday to make a short, but yet strenuous hike up the AT from the NOC to Wesser Bald. My wife had surprisingly said to me earlier in...
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email the pics from your phone to your email address. Save them as jpegs to your PC then upload them. I know I'm not the only one that would like to see them :scared:
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Man that's some beautiful country! Looks like one heck of a trip!
Your picture below doesn't look like any deer or elk rubs I've ever seen. I don't think either of those are the culprit here.
I know I saw that :cursing: Dang it Ken!
You got to be on your toes to get some stuff around here :D
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I tied up 3 of these after doing a soft shackle this evening. These were a bit more challenging than the soft shackle however they weren't all that difficult.
Still though I'll say that my finger...
opie, thanks for taking the time to share.
I tied up one of these earlier this evening while watching my gamecocks eat some tiger for dinner. WOOOOOOOOOOO Buddy! (had to borrow that one from shug)...
my brother told me about hammocks. I bought an ENO DN just to hang in when around camp just to chill in. Well our first trip out that I had the hammock I got in the thing after lunch and fell a...
I'm 6'3" 220lbs and while there are many options out there that would work for you I can speak to one in particular. The Warbonnet Blackbird 1.7 dbl if a fine hammock. You can get really comfy in...
here's a sample of some of the sort of stuff I'll be after. This is not at Linville Gorge
Heck yea I'd love to do something like that Hawk eye. I'd love to make the Forum hang but that week/weekend is BAD for me. My daughters birthday is the 25th so I'm always going to be unavailable...
I've got plenty of batteries and well for me it's CF cards. I'm a nut and actually carry a very "not for hiking" camera. I'm a Canon guy myself so that's what I tote but I also usually carry 2 lenses...
As long as he doesn't fall and hurt something again then we'll be just fine. :D


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"The best evidence based advice to help cannabis smokers look after their lungs would be to abandon the peculiar British habit of mixing cannabis with tobacco"
A letter from Prof. David Nutt, former leading scientific advisor on drugs to the UK government, sacked for providing unbiased evidence based advice on drugs.
The wise advice above is in response to a controversial report (note a report – not a scientific study) by the British Lung Foundation. The UKCIA have further torn apart the Independent and BBC's coverage of the report by demonstrating the flagrant errors in the "reefer madness" reporting.
Update 11/06/2012: Prof. Nutt has published a thorough debunking of the report on his blog.
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That guy's a total Nutt.
..Seriously though, he's absolutely right.
Professor David Nutt said it all. If you want to users to smoke healthier, tell them to cut out that tobacco and vaporize!
ok then so now thats intent to supply, pure smokes use a lot more, and they'll fuck us for that
I only smoke pure,I can't handle that mixing shit and you use the same amount of weed your joints just look a little smaller,unless your one of those idiots that put about 90% tobacco in.
i think a lot of people would end up putting more weed in their spliffs though to compensate (as my house mate does) which could lead to a greater negative effect on the mind…
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The Nuclear Wasting Of South Australia – Poison In The Heart
Poison In The Heart: The Nuclear Wasting Of South Australia Counter Currents by Vincent Di Stefano — July 22, 2016
"Nuclear weapons and nuclear power are both leading instances of the irrationalities
Our planet is deeply burdened. It presently harbours 390,000 tons of high level nuclear waste produced by nuclear reactors and weapons programs over the past 70 years. Spent nuclear fuel is one of the most dangerous materials on earth. Most of it is stored underwater in numerous cooling ponds throughout the world. High level nuclear waste is dangerous to all life for unthinkable periods of time. Plutonium, which is produced in every nuclear fuel rod, has a toxic lifespan of 240,000 years. With each passing year, a further 10,000 tons of spent fuel is added to the world's accumulated stores of deadly waste. In addition to the spent fuel from nuclear reactors, vast amounts of lower-level radioactive waste lie scattered in mining sites, tailings dams, undersea dumps and soil-borne contamination on every continent.
We have no idea what to do with the stuff. The Americans sank over $13 billion into the construction of a massive underground repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. It was closed down in 2010 without taking in a single gram of nuclear waste. The Soviets didn't bother with such elaborate schemes and until recently, simply dumped much of their waste – including obsolete submarines complete with nuclear reactors – into the Kara Sea and elsewhere in the Arctic Circle where they slowly corrode, leaching their lethal contents into the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.
In the meantime, a small cadre of aspirational Promethean technocrats in South Australia have somehow decided that Australia holds the solution to the global problem of nuclear waste. The recently releasedNuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission Report recommends that the South Australian government accepts over one third of the world's high level waste for above-ground storage and eventual burial in yet-to-be-built underground repositories in the South Australian desert. The report proposes that South Australia imports 138,000 tons of high level radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods as well as an additional 390,000 cubic metres of intermediate level waste for storage and eventual disposal.
This has all been spruiked as a fail-safe commercial venture that will relieve the South Australian Government of its financial problems ever after and create a rosy economic future for generations that have yet to be born. Such madness blithely ignores the fact that the genetic and biological futures of those generations may thereafter be a different story……. ww.countercurrents.org/2016/07/22/poison-in-the-heart-the-nuclear-wasting-of-south-australia/
The critically important work of Australia's indigenous rangers
Indigenous rangers play a silent and undervalued role as leaders and educators in their communities, role models for how to progress in both worlds. It's important to provide local, challenging, culturally relevant, real jobs to keep these leaders embedded within the fabric of their families and communities.
They need a commitment beyond 2018 that their real jobs will still exist.
[The video below does not apply to The Numbulwar ranger group, but still gives an example of the kind of work that they do]
Queensland Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger Program
As well as protecting the land, Indigenous rangers play an undervalued role as leaders in their communities. It's never been more important to protect these jobs. Many conservative politicians and commentators argue Indigenous ranger jobs are not "real jobs". This is perfectly illustrated by the recentleaking to Crikey of a secret federal Coalition government plan to radically change this successful Indigenous ranger program in order to "get participants into employment". While the minister for Indigenous affairs, Nigel Scullion has denied he is planning an overhaul of the program, his government has not made a commitment to fund the program beyond 2018.
This question of whether ranger jobs are "real jobs" can easily be put to rest.
The Numbulwar ranger group in Arnhem Land was re-established in November 2015, Continue reading
Will Australia's new Resources Minister Matt Canavan really listen to Aboriginal people?
Matt Canavan has now the opportunity to correct these mistakes and engage in a truly inclusive and transparent process which actually listens to the concerns of the community and other stakeholders. Although a nuclear proponent, he should ensure that this process is not dealt with light-heartedly and pays attention to all aspects involved.
This would best be achieved through an independent inquiry into Australia's nuclear waste and options for managing it.
Aboriginal communities all across Australia have sustainably managed the land for thousands of years, longer than any other group of people can claim. Their knowledge and concerns are valuable. Let's hope they will be listened to.
3rd Minister in two years to handle Australia's nuclear waste dump http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=18394&page=0 Anica Niepraschk – , 22 July 2016 The recent federal election has once more seen a bit of a reshuffle in PM Turnbull's cabinet and thereby thrown the portfolio for Australia's national radioactive waste dump in the hands of another Minister for the third time in less than two years.
After 20 years of failed siting processes for the proposed dump, then Industry and Science Minister Ian MacFarlane only announced a new attempt in November 2014. The first half of last year saw a voluntary nomination process happen where landowners across Australia could propose their property to host Australia's low and intermediate level nuclear waste. Out of the 28 sites nominated, six were shortlisted for further consultation and investigation last November. All six site nominations were highly contested by the local communities.
Although the government, with its new 'voluntary' approach promised to not impose a nuclear waste dump on any community and therefore rely on voluntary nominations and community consultation, one of these six sites, Wallerbidina/ Barndioota in the Flinders Ranges, SA, made it to the next stage of the process, despite the strong opposition of the local Adnyamathanha community at Yappala station, just kilometres away from the site.
Not only chose the government to once again, after pursuing Coober Pedy from 1998 to 2004 and Muckaty in the NT from 2005 to 2014, to target an Aboginial community but it also chose a culturally highly significant site. The proposed property, nominated by former Liberal Senator Grant Chapman, is part of a songline and hosts many cultural sites, including the beautiful Hookina springs, a sacred women's site for the Adnyamathanha. The local community remains actively connected to the maintenance and preservation of the land and is documenting and preserving their culture and history through recording traditional heritage sites and artefacts and mapping storylines in the area. Continue reading
South Australia: Resuscitating a Nuclear Waste Nightmare
The project to bury the world's nuclear poison in the heart of the Australian desert has not sprung out of a void. It is an idea that has been insidiously festering for two decades in a variety of incarnations.
The first stirrings of the hellish project to turn Australia into the world's nuclear dumping ground emerged in the late 1990s when Pangea Resources, a U.K. based company promoted the construction of a commercially-operated international waste repository in Western Australia. The project was supported by a $40 million budget, 80% of which came from British Nuclear Fuels Limited (wholly owned by the U.K. government), with the remaining 20% from two nuclear waste management companies.
Australia's Overflowing Nuclear Waste Dumps
One of the more disturbing elements of the Royal Commission report is its explicit endorsement of the progressive nuclearisation of the planet over the course of the next century. But given the make-up of the Royal Commission, this comes as no surprise.
Poison In The Heart: The Nuclear Wasting Of South Australia Counter Currents by Vincent Di Stefano — July 22, 2016 "……..It is a curious thing to observe the confidence with which the recent Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has embraced the promotion of South Australia as the ideal destination for over one third of the world's accumulated stores of spent nuclear fuel. This spent fuel, together with the 400,000 cubic metres of intermediate-level nuclear waste that the Royal Commission recommends be transported to South Australia, represents a problem that nations with decades-long histories of nuclear energy production have failed to resolve. The entrancement induced by a whiff of billions of dollars of new revenue presently has a closed circle of nuclear advocates and politicians straining to persuade the people of South Australia to obligingly make their way as latter-day lemmings towards a dangerous and uncharted nuclear abyss.
In the short term, the Commission calls for the transportation of vast tonnages of highly radioactive materials from around the planet for decades-long storage in above-ground facilities. In the longer term, it proposes the construction of a deep underground repository for the "permanent" burial of the most dangerous wastes produced by a destructive and senescent civilisation. Continue reading
President Obama's solar energy systems for low income earners
White House's New Initiative to Install 1GW of Solar for Needies, Energy trend, 21 July 16 Under name of President Obama, the White House announces "Clean Energy Savings for All Initiative" and aims to offer a total of 1GW solar to low- and moderate-income families by 2020.
The Initiative, which was announced through a FACT SHEET on July 19, includes an investment of approximately US$288 million from housing associations, energy corporations, and power companies for solar deployment. The Initiative targets installing 1GW of solar systems for around 200,000 low- to moderate-income families by 2020.
President Obama's Climate Action Plan set a goal of installing 100MW of renewable energy on federally-assisted affordable housing by 2020. The new initiative, depicted as "new catalytic goal," will bring 10 fold of solar to the needy Americas. The Clean Energy Savings to All Initiative is the successor to the Climate Action Plan.
The new scheme will be implemented in collaboration with state agencies. Propergy-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) funding, a community solar competition and jobs programs will also be involved in.
The Initiative is supported by government agencies include the Departments of Energy (DOE), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Veteran's Affairs (VA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Celeste Tsai, analyst at EnergyTrend, describes this new initiative as "an American version of PV Poverty Alleviation Project." This program will be helpful for expanding renewable energy installations and relevant jobs as well as creating economical supports for needy families……., the new program will further declare Obama's commitment to developing renewable energy and creating new jobs for the United States. http://pv.energytrend.com/news/White_House_New_Initiative_to_Install_1GW_of_Solar_for_Needies.html
Australian uranium miner Paladin questioned by Australian Securities Exchange
Paladin cops ASX query over deals The West Australian on July 22, 2016, Paladin Energy has been forced to halt trading of its shares after a query from the Australian Securities Exchange demanding more information about $US200 million worth of deals flagged to the market yesterday.
Paladin did not outline the additional information requested by the ASX, but yesterday's announcement was notable in that it did not give the name of the party offering to pay $US175 million for 24 per cent of its Langer Heinrich uranium mine in Namibia.
Paladin said yesterday the agreement was non-binding and that "key terms of this proposed transaction remain confidential, including the identity of the counterparty".
Paladin promised yesterday to disclose details as the deal firmed up, including the identity of the buyer.
But the ASX has been on the warpath over non-disclosure of counterparties to major funding deals since the Padbury Mining scandal in 2014, when shares in the market tiddler surged after it said funding had been "secured" from an unnamed party that would supposedly deliver $US6.5 billion to build the Oakajee port and rail project…….Paladin shares closed down 3.5¢ to 20.5¢ on the announcement yesterday. ra ra https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32125776/paladin-cops-asx-query-over-deals/#page1
Uranium price at an 11 year low
Uranium Price Falls to 11-Year Low, Economic Calendar, July 21, 2016, Despite bullish forecasts for uranium in the years ahead, the commodity continues to languish in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Shortly after the earthquake in Japan caused the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, uranium prices crashed on the expectations, and reality that countries around the world would shun nuclear power as a source of energy…..
Although uranium analysts changed their sentiment from negative to positive, uranium prices till floundered. This is because, in reality, the ramp-up of nuclear power plants was much slower than anticipated and at the same time stockpiles of the commodity remained high. Ahead of the nuclear disaster, there was a ramp up in global uranium production with the price of uranium reaching a record high of $70 a pound, which spurred increased investment and production increases around the world. After the nuclear disaster, uranium demand came to a virtual stand still, leaving an oversupplied market.
Now, these stockpiles are being worked down, and there is little incentive for new production. In fact, many companies have slashed production as weak pricing has impacted the economics of uranium mining. On Monday, according to Ux Consulting, uranium prices fell to an 11-year low. Uranium is also finding new competition for an energy source thanks to the increase in availability and decrease in the price of natural gas….
Nuclear power as a carbon emitter- good reason to shut it down
There are good reasons for California to phase out nuclear power, Huffington Post, Johann Saathoff,MP German BundestagCoordinator of energy policy for the Social Democratic Party in the German Bundestag 07/22/2016 "…….While electricity from nuclear power stations may be carbon-free at the time of production, looked at in overall terms it is anything but that and it is certainly not clean.
Nobody asks or calculates how much CO2 was released in the building of the power station. Nobody considers how CO2 is released through the mining, processing and enrichment of uranium and through its transportation. And nobody in the world knows at this point where and how radioactive waste can be safely stored for the millennia to come, how much CO2 will have to be used in the process and what the costs will be in terms of the second energy bill, as in the case of fossil energy sources.
Considered in overall terms – even assuming no incidents – the actual costs of nuclear power per kilowatt hour and CO2 emissions are incalculable. What is certain, however, is that unlike renewable energies, nuclear power is not carbon-free.
For this reason alone a renaissance of nuclear power would be irresponsible. It would also be irresponsible because of the danger of accidents (particularly in earthquake-prone areas) and the unsolved question of the final storage of nuclear waste. Nuclear power is also not clean; discharges of hot water cause considerable damage to the environment – to say nothing of the enormous environmental damage caused by the extraction of uranium……..http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-saathoff/there-are-good-reasons-fo_b_11133916.html
The global climate danger of Russia's forest wildfires
Russian wildfires put key climate change resource at risk, Japan Times, 22 July 16 AFP-JIJI, REUTERS JUL 22, 2016 MOSCOW – Russia's practice of leaving massive wildfires to burn out of control in sprawling stretches of Siberia puts at risk a key global resource for absorbing climate-warming emissions: its trees. Continue reading
India cannot join Nuclear Suppliers Group unless it signs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
India Nuclear Suppliers Group Membership Depends on Signing NPT http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160722/1043439110/india-npt-signing.html No country which is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) can become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Thursday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Wednesday, India's Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj told the lawmakers that India will not sign the NPT."It is worth mentioning that China does not make the rules for how to become new members of the group. The international community has forged a consensus long ago that the NPT is the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation regime. No country should or can put itself opposite to the NPT," Lu Kang was cited as saying by The Times of India.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force in 1970 with the aim to prevent the spread of nuclear weaponry. Three states, namely India, Pakistan and Israel, denied to sign the treaty. North Korea withdrew from NPT in 2003.
The Nuclear Suppliers Group is a group of nuclear supplier countries whose aim is to prevent nuclear proliferation by controlling the export of materials, equipment and technology which could be used to produce nuclear weapons. As of 2016, the NSG has 48 members, including China
Complete ecosystem collapse in sections of Great Barrier Reef
Sections of Great Barrier Reef suffering from 'complete ecosystem collapse'
Coral Watch investigator reports 'shocking' lack of fish and says the surviving corals are continuing to bleach, even during winter, Guardian, Michael Slezak, 22 July 16, "Complete ecosystem collapse" is being seen on parts of the Great Barrier Reef, as fish numbers tumble and surviving corals continue to bleach into winter, according to a scientist returning from one of the worst-hit areas.
"The lack of fish was the most shocking thing," said Justin Marshall, of the University of Queensland and the chief investigator of citizen science program Coral Watch. "In broad terms, I was seeing a lot less than 50% of what was there [before the bleaching]. Some species I wasn't seeing at all."
Marshall spent a week this month conducting surveys on the reefs around Lizard Island………overall, Marshall estimate that more than 90% of the branching corals had died around Lizard Island. He said many of the huge porites corals, which could be a thousand years old, had died.
Coral and other organisms like anemones and giant clams bleach when water temperatures are too high for too long. When they become stressed, they expel their colourful symbiotic algae that provide them with energy, becoming pale or white. Unless the water temperatures quickly return to normal, many of those organisms die.
Lizard Island was particularly badly hit by the global bleaching event that hit every major reef region in the world and killed almost a quarter of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef. But, in the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, between Lizard Island and the Torres Strait, a majority of the coral is thought to have died.
The mass bleaching this year was driven by climate change, which raised water temperatures close to the maximum threshold coral could stand, and a strong El Niño that bumped the temperatures above that threshold. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/21/sections-of-great-barrier-reef-suffering-from-complete-ecosystem-collapse
Investments in wind have brought costs down- THE AUSTRALIAN got it SO wrong!
This week's front-page "exclusive" in The Australian suggests South Australia's wind turbines were producing significant amounts of "negative power" from the grid at the height of the recent electricity "crisis". But the numbers it quotes are ridiculously wrong.
The story, by Adelaide bureau chief Michael Owen, suggests the state's wind turbines were "producing about 5780MW" between 6am and 7am, but by mid afternoon were producing "negative 50MW". Asanalysis from Ron Brakels observes, the report confuses energy terminology, apparently not knowing the difference between capacity and output.
In fact, the state's wind turbines cannot produce 5780MW — they only have a combined capacity of 1600MW. There's not even 5780MW of wind capacity in the whole country……
As SA Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis told the ABC, that's precisely why the government encouraged investments in wind and solar: to bring costs down. That has largely succeeded. https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/07/22/558133/
El Nino is Basically Over — But this Global Coral Bleaching Event Just Won't End
Back in 2014, an unsuspecting world was on the verge of a major global temperature increase. But despite warnings from scientists like Dr. Kevin Trenberth that deep ocean warming had sped up and would eventually result in rapid surface warming, the big media meme at the time was that global warming had 'paused.' Originating in The Economist, and swiftly spreading to numerous other news outlets, this particular blast of bad information fed the public a big helping of false sense of security.
In 2014 through 2016, maximum global temperatures jumped from around 0.65 degrees Celsius to around 1 C above the 20th-century average. In just three years' time, the whole of the Earth's surface had warmed by about 0.35 C. This is like cramming all of the warming from 1880 to 1980 into the three-year 2014-to-2016 period. Never before in all of the global climate record starting in the late…
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The week in Australian nuclear and climate news
It's not too late to comment on this appalling nuclear lobby plan to make South Australia the world's nuclear toilet. Yes, the South Australian govt will probably ignore you. However, as with Facebook, Twitter, and comments all over the place – the pro nuclear shills are active on this site, too – at http://nuclear.yoursay.sa.gov.au/discussions/nuclear-community-conversation-share-your-initial-thoughts-on-the-royal-commission-s-final-report
CLIMATE and NUCLEAR.
Federal Politics Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wasted no time in gifting to the nuclear and coal industries – the new Minister For Environment and Energy – Josh Frydenberg. Australia rates rather poorly on UN Sustainable Development Goals. Turnbull govt still backing Trans Pacific Partnership. Warning to Australia against being USA 'deputy sheriff' near China.
South Australia holding Parliamentary Inquiry in the nuclear waste importing plan. No report so far, but evidence was given by Craig Wilkins (Conservation Council Of South Australia), and by independent campaigner David Noonan.
Premier Jay Weatherill is launching a pro nuclear extravaganza. The tax-payers of this cash-strapped State are forking out at least $13 million this campaign to blanket the State with nuclear propaganda. First the Royal Commission fed them with a biased report recommending nuclear waste importing. Then a Citizens' Jury was fed very dubious economic, health and safety information on this.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission Consultation and Response Agency, (made up of nameless people) are sending out teams to 101 cities and towns to carry the pro nuclear message to the population.
Renewable energy. In South Australia the Liberal Coalition opposition appears to be behind the feeding of misinformation on wind energy, to the Murdoch media. In other States, the Coalition attacks renewable energy, and Murdoch media continues to publicise this. Nick Xenophon wants inquiry in South Australia's renewable energy issues.
South Australia is set to get world's biggest solar + storage project. Canberra's solar farms with sun- tracking technology. Victoria to get record-breaking wind farm. Queensland: Catholic schools recognised by Vatican for solar energy success.
Let's talk nuclear waste economics, the only argument that governments find persuasive
If storing nuclear waste is so lucrative how come those countries who produce it aren't doing so?
If nuclear waste can be stored safely and effectively, won't other countries get on board and then under-cut South Australia because they can cut out shipping costs to the other side of the world?
If spent nuclear fuel is so safe how come those countries who produce it aren't storing it?
If the technology to store nuclear waste safely doesn't exist, how come South Australia thinks it can do so safely?
Why does it seem to be a good idea to store this nuclear waste in volume and concentration unheard of in the history of the planet? Surely 'spreading the risk' by each country that produces the waste making their own arrangements is better for the health of the planet.
World markets are volatile – how can any economist predict how much countries will be willing or able to afford to pay for transport and storage of this waste in 10, 20, 50 or 100 years' time?
Taking on this toxic waste and storing it safely becomes South Australia's problem for hundreds of thousands of years – how can anyone guarantee that level of safety or the untold billions of dollars that it will take to keep this storage facility safe [from geological, meteorological and even ideological [terrorist] events]?
Nuclear fuel was seen as 'the next big thing' 40 years ago and yet the technology and the take-up of this fuel has NOT advanced in the way predicted. Why would anyone believe these 'next generation' reactors are just around the corner? Even the Royal Commission itself found that nuclear production of energy is unviable for the state. As it is unviable, less money will be spent in research and development and there's less chance that 'clean' solutions to this poison will ever be found. Meanwhile, SA is left with the world's largest pile of toxic waste to maintain for perpetuity.
How much will it COST to build a storage facility?
How much will it COST to maintain this facility in perpetuity?
I believe these are very valid concerns which have not adequately been answered by the Royal Commission. However, I believe the ethical considerations have much more weight.
The State Government will lose all credibility on Indigenous matters if it goes ahead with this nuclear facility. Both the state and the federal government are treating the outback as 'terra nullis' – an empty expanse full of 'nothing' where this waste can be stored out of sight and out of mind. They pay lip service to Aboriginal concerns but do not truly grasp the idea of connection to country. All of us, as human beings, are connected to country in a very real way. We can't exist if our air and our ground and our water is polluted.
To quote EF Schumacher: The nuclear lobby "is a transgression against life itself, a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime ever perpetrated by man. The idea that a civilisation could sustain itself on the basis of such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity." Why? Because nuclear fission [and it's waste] "represents an incredible, incomparable, and unique hazard for human life" which "does not enter any calculation and is never mentioned."
Like Midas, the Royal Commission is seduced by the idea of untold riches and it lacks the ethical, spiritual and metaphysical backbone to resist the nuclear lobby.


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