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Two of the Premier League's biggest clubs meet at the famous Rose Bowl in Pasadena as this summer's International Champions Cup continues
Two of the Premier League's biggest clubs meet at the famous Rose Bowl in Pasadena as this summer's International Champions Cup continues
Franck Ribery netted a brace but it wasn't enough as Bayern fell to Milan on penalties after a 3-3 draw in the International Champions Cup.
The German has insisted the Reds will improve more on the training pitch than in the transfer market and work for the new campaign is well underway
Ivan Gazidis has insisted the Gunners are trying to strengthen their squad but warns that they must be 'very selective' when targeting players
The Red Devils have finally agreed Mino Raiola's compensation to tie up the signing of the Juventus star - get all the latest rumours with Transfer Talk!
Both teams, who meet in the International Champions Cup on July 27, failed to qualify for European competition and the Blues midfielder thinks they'll benefit from the extra rest
Jose Mourinho's players showed their competitive side as they faced off in the training exercise, with captain Wayne Rooney punching the air in delight after winning a point
Kit launches are all the rage during pre-season, but the Championship side took theirs to new heights with a stratospheric unveiling some 40km above the Earth's surface
The Belfast club have added the experienced Spanish striker to their squad, with Alan Kernaghan looking to restore his side to their former glory


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NASA Will Put Rocket Raccoon And Groot On Its New Mission Patch, Gizmodo
"A major mission for us here at CASIS is to find unique and innovative ways to bring notoriety to the ISS National Laboratory and the research that is being conducted on our orbiting laboratory," said CASIS Director of Operations and Educational Opportunities Ken Shields. It's also part of a secret mission that might help us get a Rocket and Groot of our very own. "The reward for us [is that] we'll actually have two characters go into space," said Mitch Dane, director of custom publishing. Then he joked, "With a little luck, there'll be a little cosmic radiation going on, they'll come back alive."
'Guardians of the Galaxy' team up with NASA: Groot, Rocket Raccoon on mission patch, Washington Times
"Director James Gunn, whose "Guardians of the Galaxy" grossed $773 million worldwide in 2014, was awed by the decision. "So cool. NASA Oasis has paired with Marvel and is using Rocket & Groot as an official emblem for the mission to Mars," Mr. Gunn wrote."
A Closer Look At The CASIS "Space Is In It" Endorsement, earlier post
"On 31 March 2016 NASA International Space Station Director Sam Scimemi sent a letter to Greg Johnson on a number of topics. Scimemi said: "We would advise caution in the lending of the ISS National Lab brand (via your "Space is in it" certification) too freely; care must be taken to that research performed on the ISS has actually influenced product development in advance of awarding the certification. Failure to do so weakens the brand and may lend an air of being nonserious in our mutual quest to fully utilize the ISS as a national lab."
Keith's note: CASIS issues a press release that mentions that Marvel comic book/movie characters at ComicCon are now ISS mascots or something. Alas NASA is there too - as @NASASocial - at the Marvel booth - and neither @NASASocial or @ISS_CASIS mention one another's presence. Apparently CASIS thinks that Groot, a giant
rock tree man thing, and a foul-mouthed raccoon are better poised to explain ISS science than ISS scientists. So - the movie director whose characters are being featured refers to "CASIS" as "OASIS" and doesn't seem to know that this is all about the International Space Station - referring instead to "the mission to Mars".
Meanwhile NASA makes no mention of this news and NASA is never mentioned in the CASIS press release. Yet news stories say that NASA is behind all of this. NASA only gets the credit from third parties - and when they get mention it is factually mangled. Nice job CASIS.
So cool. NASA Oasis has paired with Marvel and is using Rocket & Groot as an official emblem for the mission to Mars pic.twitter.com/0ox5vnMEFS— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 22, 2016
Oddly enough NASA posted a picture of astronaut @astro_kjell at the Marvel booth at ComicCom. Marvel is the same company that is sponsoring the whole Groot/Raccoon logo thing with CASIS - and yet CASIS makes no mention of NASA's presence at the same event - at their co-sponsor's booth. CASIS whines and complains that NASA is not giving them enough quality time and then they go off and mount an uncoordinated PR stunt like this without asking NASA? NASA has already expressed concern that CASIS has marketing practices that are misleading. Can we get any more dysfunctional CASIS?Categories: Commercialization, ISS News
Not My Job: NASA's Charles Bolden Gets Quizzed On 'Charles In Charge', NPR
"SAGAL: Really? And what did you say from Mars?
BOLDEN: I have no idea.
SAGAL: You don't know?
BOLDEN: No. I don't remember.
ROXANNE ROBERTS: Really?
SAGAL: You're...
BOLDEN: It was like we...
SAGAL: You recorded the...
BOLDEN: ...Come in peace or something like that."
"BOLDEN: We're going to Mars in the 2030s. So we've got the vehicle called - we're going to name it but right now we call it the Space Launch System. It's a heavy lift launch vehicle."Categories: Culture
Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Is Assessing Data on Worldwide Launch Market to Inform New Acquisition Strategy, GAO
"In February 2016, Congress asked GAO to examine what is known about other countries with launch capabilities and whether or not countries had fostered competition among launch providers, similar to what the United States is attempting to do in the EELV program. GAO responded to this request with a written briefing on the worldwide space launch capabilities and the status of the United States and global launch market."
Commercial Launch: All Government Subsidies Are Not Created Equal, earlier post
"This is all rather odd and self-serving. Both Space Foundation and Commercial Spaceflight Federation depend on commercial space company membership dues. On one hand it is wrong to allow U.S. commercial payloads to be launched by India because their rockets have large government subsidies. Yet Space Foundation and CSF think that it is just fine to launch these same U.S. commercial payloads on Chinese, Russian, and European launch vehicles - all of which get substantial government subsidies. Meanwhile ULA has been getting billions a year for decades in U.S. government subsidies to keep both EELV fleets afloat (with no competition until recently) - and they will now get more money to wean themselves from RD-180 engines whose use was mandated by the U.S. government. Again, where you stand depends on where you sit."
- America's Hypocritical Fear of Indian Rockets, earlier post
- Will U.S. Companies Be Allowed To Launch on Indian Rockets?
2016 Democratic Party Platform DRAFT July 1, 2016
Keith's 7 July note: There is no mention of NASA or anything remotely close to space. No surprise. Platforms are just documents that are more focused on letting party people exercise their narrow interests than being close to anything that will ever really become a presidential administration's future policies. Besides, space is a niche issue - at best - one that usually becomes a punch line when it does creep into presidential campaigns (Newt Gingrich's moon base, John Kerry in the bunny suit, etc.) But I worked on the staff of two of Jerry Brown's campaigns (Gov. Moonbeam), so what do I know? Beam me up.
Keith's 22 July update: The revised version of the platform (as of 21 July) says: "Pushing beyond the boundaries of what we know is core to who we are as Americans. Democrats are immensely proud of all that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has done-through its achievements in science, technology and exploration-to better understand our place in the universe and inspire and educate generations of young people in this country to pursue careers in science. Space exploration is a reminder that our capacity for curiosity is limitless, and may be matched only by our ability to achieve great things if we work together. Democrats believe in continuing the spirit of discovery that has animated NASA's exploration of space over the last half century. We will strengthen support for NASA and work in partnership with the international scientific community to launch new missions to space."Election 2016
Keith's note: More than two months ago I posted news that NASA Advisory Council chair Steve Squyres had sent an email to the NAC and to NASA resigning as chair of the NAC. NASA never publicly announced Squyres' departure, never publicly thanked him for his service, etc. How creepy is that?. Now we quietly find out that Ken Bowersox is the "interim chair" of the NAC. Again, no public announcement from NASA. Who cares, I guess.
There is a meeting planned for next week 28-29 July in Cleveland. Charlie Bolden is on constant travel - often international - doing a victory lap/farewell tour - with Dava Newman doing much the same (other than photo ops that's all she has ever really done at NASA). As such, one has to ask what value-added the NAC has these days since there is no one home on the 9th floor at NASA HQ to pay attention to the NAC.
NASA Advisory Council Chair Steve Squyres Resigns, earlier postCategories: Policy
Gabby & I are excited to speak at @DemConvention on Wed. about why @HillaryClinton will make our country safer. pic.twitter.com/zquyOLJaG2— Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) July 21, 2016
Sorry, Eileen Collins: Here's why America is already great in space, Ars Technica
"But the public needs to recognize this as well, which is why I was disappointed by Collins and her pining for the Apollo era on such a big stage. The reality is that the best way to "lead on the frontier" in the 21st century is not through flags and footprints, but rather by sending people into space to stay, in a sustainable way, with the eventual aim of making space profitable. One would hope that Donald J. Trump, if he is elected president, would recognize such capitalism when he sees it."
Retired astronaut Eileen Collins endorses Donald Trump in all but name, Mashable
"In a speech before the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, retired astronaut Eileen Collins delivered a sharp rebuke of NASA's recent leadership, endorsing controversial Republican nominee Donald Trump in all but name. Collins, who was the first woman to command a NASA space shuttle mission, had been expected to deliver a nonpartisan speech, and stopped just shy of issuing a more explicit endorsement. However, the speech will be viewed as a clear critique of NASA's leadership under the Obama administration."Categories: Election 2016
NASA Viking at 40 Symposium Lectures
"This week NASA hosted the Viking Mars Landers 40th anniversary symposium. In 1976 Viking 1 and 2 were the first landers to successfully land on Mars."
"NASA's Viking 1 and 2 missions to Mars, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, became the first space probes to obtain high resolution images of the Martian surface; characterize the structure and composition of the atmosphere and surface; and conduct on-the-spot biological tests for life on another planet."
"Viking provided the first measurements of the atmosphere and surface of Mars. These measurements are still being analyzed and interpreted. The data suggested early Mars was very different from the present day planet. Viking performed the first successful entry, descent and landing on Mars. Derivations of a Viking-style thermal protection system and parachute have been used on many U.S. Mars lander missions since."Categories: History, Space & Planetary Science
Federal investigators: Cabinet secretary and potential Clinton running mate Julian Castro violated Hatch Act, Washington Post
"Housing Secretary Julian Castro violated the federal Hatch Act restricting partisan political activity by federal employees when he praised Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during an interview conducted from his government office, government investigators found Monday."
If next pres leaves NASA alone we get astronauts to @Space_Station on @Commercial_Crew + @NASA_SLS/@NASA_Orion & #JWST launches 🚀 #RNCinCLE— S. Schierholz (@schierholz) July 21, 2016
Keith's note: Stephanie Schierholz works for the NASA Public Affairs Office (PAO). Her job is to convey official NASA opinions - opinions that are guided by White House policies. She states that her Twitter account opinions are her own - yet she overtly uses that same Twitter account almost every day - during the day while she is at work - for official business - including the topics that she mentions in her tweet. Her tweet is also embedded in a popular Mashable article. Smells like a Hatch Act violation to me.Categories: Election 2016
Prepared Comments by Astronaut Eileen Collins Republican National Convention, RNC
"We need leadership that will challenge every American to ask, "What's next?" We need leadership that will make America's space program first again. We need leadership that will make America first again. That leader is Donald Trump."
SU grad Eileen Collins skips Donald Trump mention in RNC speech, Syracuse.com
"According to the prepared transcript of the speech, she was supposed to end with "That leader is Donald Trump." Those words even appeared on the teleprompter at the back of the arena floor. But she didn't. Instead, she thanked the crowd and left the stage. At no point in the speech did she mention Trump by name."
Keith's update:
The take home message: Eileen Collins is mad because the Space Shuttle program was cancelled (by a republican President - shh!) and that the U.S. has no way to launch people into space (no mention of two private sector systems that will fly next year). She feels that great nations explore and that leadership in space contributes to leadership on Earth. She feels that the U.S. used to have leadership in space, that it currently does not have leadership in space, and that it needs to regain that leadership in space. There was no endorsement of anyone. Between mention in the party platform and prominence given at the RNC convention it will be interesting to see if the Democrats give space equal exposure.
Before Eileen Collins spoke the RNC aired a slick 3:44 long video about space exploration. Initially I thought it was rather odd that Collins had a professionally done, inspirational into - with a narrator and soundtrack tailor-made to introduce her when none of the other speakers had one. Indeed, all of the other speakers (except Cruz) endorsed Trump. Add in the prepared comments with an endorsement released to the media - and loaded into the teleprompter - and I get the impression that an endorsement from Collins was fully expected and that something changed at the very last minute.
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Keith's update: Note the highlighted sentences below. Between the unused endorsement in the official prepared comments and what was said, the Trump campaign clearly had a hand in what she said.
RNC releases early excerpts of Wednesday convention speeches, Politico
"Eileen Collins, retired astronaut - "Nations that lead on the frontier, lead in the world. We need that visionary leadership again: leadership that will inspire the next generation to have that same passion. We need leadership that will challenge every American to ask, 'What's next?' We need leadership that will make America's space program first again. We need leadership that will make America first again."
According to Donald Trump's official Facebook page: "47 years ago our nation did something that NOBODY thought we could do - we were the first to put a man on the moon. It is time to be number one, again! Believe me, as President, we will once again, Make America First Again! #AmericaFirst #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #RNCinCLE"Continue reading: Eileen Collins Almost Endorses Trump At Republican National Convention.
NASA's Management of the Mars Science Laboratory Project, NASA OIG, 8 June 2011
"... in February 2009, because of the late delivery of several critical components and instruments, NASA delayed the launch to a date between October and December 2011. This delay and the additional resources required to resolve the underlying technical issues increased the Project's development costs by 86 percent, from $969 million to the current $1.8 billion, and its life-cycle costs by 56 percent, from $1.6 billion to the current $2.5 billion. ... Finally, since the 2009 decision to delay launch, the Project has received three budget increases, most recently an infusion of $71 million in December 2010. However, in our judgment because Project managers did not adequately consider historical cost trends when estimating the amount required to complete development, we believe the Project may require additional funds to meet the 2011 scheduled launch date."
NASA announces plans for new $1.5 billion Mars rover, CNet, 4 December 2012
"The new rover announced Tuesday, along with the rocket needed to boost it to Mars, will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion, plus or minus $200 million, according to a rough estimate by the Aerospace Corp."
Mars 2020 rover mission to cost more than $2 billion, Space News
"[George] Tahu said that the mission also decided to add new technologies to the rover, including a system that increases the accuracy of the rover's landing and another to improve the rover's ability to drive autonomously. "Our confirmed cost today, in real year dollars, of $2.1 billion for development and launch and $300 million for prime mission operations remains consistent with the scope and cost approved at the start of the project," he said."
Keith's note: So that's $2.4 billion for a rover that was supposed to cost around $1.5 billion - a rover that was sold as being inherently cheaper because it was made with MSL spare part, lessons learned from MSL mistakes, etc. Once again JPL has ignored NASA's price claims - and NASA SMD just can't fight the urge and lets it happen. Can you imagine what will happen when NASA starts to price the whole #JourneyToMars thing?Categories: Space & Planetary Science
In announcing delegate counts Jeff Sessions mentions that Alabama is "home Of the Saturn V rocket that sent us to the Moon" #RNCinCLE— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) July 19, 2016
NASA hires cyber mainstay as CISO, FedScoop
"NASA CIO Renee Wynn selected [Jeanette] Hanna-Ruiz to officially begin on Aug. 8 after spending 20 years in public sector information security positions, according to an official release Tuesday. Hanna-Ruiz helped write the Cyberspace Policy Review that outlined the country's cyber strategy when President Barack Obama took office in 2009. She also worked at the Department of Homeland Security-National Security Agency Joint Cyber Coordination Group, and helped develop the DHS' cyber missions and capabilities. ... NASA received an F in May on a Government Accountability Office-issued FITARA scorecard, which compiled scores based on agencies' achievements in four categories: data center consolidation, IT portfolio review savings, incremental development and risk assessment transparency."
NASA Totally Flunks FITARA Scorecard 2 Years In A Row, earlier post
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- Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz, LinkedIn
"More recently, Hanna-Ruiz has traveled from January to May on a "mindfulness and meditation journey" that had her walking more than 800 miles in 100 days, and living with monks and nuns throughout France, Nepal, Thailand and other places."
Keith's note: This is interesting. Unlike the way in which most people who job hop here in DC, this is an example of someone who actually did a personal operating system reinstall and reboot. Having spent a month living at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, I totally recommend the Himalayas for wetware system upgrades.Categories: IT/Web
"The public-private partnerships between NASA, the Department of Defense, and commercial companies have given us technological progress that has reduced the cost of accessing space and extended America's space leadership in the commercial, civil, and national security spheres. The entrepreneurship and innovation culture of the free market is revitalizing the nation's space capabilities, saving taxpayer money, and advancing technology critical to maintain America's edge in space and in other fields. To protect our national security interests and foster innovation and competitiveness, we must sustain our preeminence in space by launching more scientific missions, guaranteeing unfettered access, and ensuring that our space-related industries remain a source of scientific leadership and education."
- Newt Gingrich and Bob Walker Endorse Obama's New NASA Plan, Urge Bipartisan Support, CSF (2010)
- Is Gingrich's Pro-Obama Space Policy Stance About to Flip Flop ... (2012)
Keith's note: Looks like the RNC just endorsed the Obama Administration's commercial space policy - just like New Gingrich and Bob Walker did. Then again Newt was against it before he was for it (or was it the other way around?). Of course, Mike Griffin was moving in this direction before Obama - and Sean O'Keefe before Griffin. Either way, its deja vu all over again with supporters of commercial space on both sides. Oddly, right now, Republicans in Congress are among the most vocal opponents of the current incarnation of the same commercial space policy that began in a Republican administration.Categories: Commercialization, Election 2016
COSPAR Assembly in Istanbul Cancelled
"The most recent events in Istanbul, involving a coup from a faction of the national army against the Turkish government on 15 July, require us to cancel the 41st COSPAR Assembly. This is a difficult and sad decision, taken in consultation with the Executive Director of the COSPAR Secretariat and in consideration of the advice spontaneously expressed by several Bureau and Council members as well as COSPAR officers and Main Scientific event Organizers. It also reflects the sense of responsibilities of the President, Bureau and Secretariat of COSPAR."
NASA-sponsored Travel to 41st Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey, NASA
"The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is holding its 41st Scientific Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 30 to August 7, 2016. As with previous meetings of this biennial international conference, a significant number of NASA employees and contractors have made tentative plans to attend including representatives from your organization. However, based on current US. Department of State guidance regarding offical travel to Turkey, the Administrator has determined that the Agency will not sponsor or process travel for the 2016 COSPAR conference in Istanbul by NASA civil servants or contractors, including those at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory."Continue reading: COSPAR Has Been Cancelled.
NASA International Space Station On-Orbit Status 22 July 2016
The Expedition 48 crew is beginning work on new science delivered aboard the SpaceX Dragon space freighter. More cargo is also being unloaded from the new Russian Progress 64 resupply ship.


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Why Warren Buffett Is Wrong About Cap and Trade
I am reprinting a commentary for Bloomberg by Eric Pooley. Pooley is a former senior editor of both Fortune and Time, who is writing a book about the politics of global warming. Earlier this year, he documented the media's mistakes and biases during the Lieberman-Warner debate in a must-read Harvard study [see How the press bungles its coverage of climate economics "" "The media's decision to play the stenographer role helped opponents of climate action stifle progress."]
Warren Buffett carries plenty of weight in any debate — even when he gets it wrong.
So as the Senate digs into the climate-change bill that passed the House of Representatives last month, it's worth taking a hard look at how Buffett's views on the bill went off course.
Buffett knows global warming is real and carbon emissions must be cut. But he's worried that the bill might hurt his electric utility, Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.
He may be right. But that doesn't mean this is a bad bill; it may mean MidAmerican made some bad decisions.
On another count, Buffett is simply wrong when he calls the bill a "huge, regressive tax" that would ensure "very poor people are going to pay a lot more for their electricity." Likewise David Sokol, the chairman of MidAmerican, was wrong when he testified that the cost of buying carbon allowances under the bill would drive up Iowa electricity prices by $110 per month per customer in the first year.
Opponents of the bill have latched onto Buffett and Sokol's words, trumpeting them on the House floor and in a July 7 Senate hearing. So let's examine their three basic claims:
Claim 1: It's regressive. No, the bill doesn't punish the poor. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that it would cost the average household $175 a year by 2020, while the 20 percent of Americans with the lowest incomes would come out ahead by $40 a year.
Claim 2: It's a tax. In spite of the Republican Party's relentless "cap-and-tax" talk, cap and trade isn't a tax. It is a dumping fee for greenhouse gases. The dumping permits, or allowances, are distributed to utilities and other large emitters, who can then buy and sell them.
How is this different from a tax? First, the number of allowances declines over time, guaranteeing that emissions go down. A tax can't do that. Second, since allowances can be bought and sold, capital flows to the most cost-effective technologies. A new tax means more work for accountants. Cap and trade unleashes the engineers.
Buffett and Sokol don't want cap and trade or a tax, which means there would be no price signal driving innovation. They prefer what Sokol calls "cap and no trade," which is another way of saying they want old-school government regulation. That approach would be more expensive than cap and trade.
Claim 3. It costs $110 a month. In early June Sokol told a House committee, "In Iowa, our cost increase just for"¨784,000 customers is $283 million in the first year" for buying the emission allowances that aren't given away. "That'd be $110 per month, per customer."
Texas Congressman Joe Barton repeated the scary number during the floor debate in late June. "It's just basic math!" Barton cried.
Sokol now says he got his math wrong. The $110 figure, he told me, assumes that MidAmerican's 217,000 Iowa residential customers would bear the entire burden of buying allowances and that commercial and industrial users wouldn't pay a dime. "But it's not conceivable that the regulator would put all of this on the residential customers," he said. "So that is not a terribly useful number."
Why didn't Sokol correct the figure before Barton said it again? Sokol now says $110 equals the combined monthly cost of buying allowances plus paying for all the new technology MidAmerican will need to slash emissions over the next 40 years.
In reality, the technology cost is unknowable. It's also the sort of estimate utilities routinely exaggerated in previous environmental battles. And MidAmerican's new calculation happens to work out to the precise figure Sokol had already used — a remarkable coincidence.
Cutting carbon emissions won't be free, but Sokol hasn't helped his case by hyping the costs for Iowa consumers, who have gone 14 years without a rate increase. His revised estimate for the allowance costs comes to an average of $30 per month per customer — residential, commercial, and industrial.
That's a far cry from $110, but even it is too high, according to economist Nat Keohane of the Environmental Defense Fund, because it assumes that rate payers will foot the bill for all of MidAmerican's allowance costs — including the 30 percent of its power it sells into the deregulated wholesale market.
MidAmerican wouldn't get free allowances for that wholesale power under the bill, and I think that's the real reason Buffett and Sokol are against it. The system is designed so that free permits flow downstream to the people who pay for the power. That's good for consumers, but could hurt MidAmerican shareholders, meaning Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Bottom line: MidAmerican made some bad calls. It turned on a huge new coal-fired plant in 2007. It chose not to spin off its wholesale power business. And when other utilities were hammering out their allocation deals with Congress, Sokol and Buffett sat out the negotiation.
The Oracle of Omaha apparently didn't see this one coming. But it's not too late: the next round of negotiation is just getting under way.
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12 Responses to Why Warren Buffett Is Wrong About Cap and Trade
Is cap and trade the equivilent of exporting our carbon emissions abroad to the third world rather than to each other? If so, how can this ever be fair when they are growing economies who need to be able to offset their future growth emissions as well as offset ours!!?
Your recent article on David McKay the Cambridge, England physicist who has done excellent work on explaining energy usage in terms of the Kwh (Kilo watt hour = the equivilent of a 40W light bulb left on permanently which in 24 hours uses 1 Kwh of energy. In the UK every inhabitant consumes on average of 125 of them each and every day.
This is equivilent to 600,000 Wind Turbines or 300 Sizewell B nuclear power stations. Efficieny gains spring to mind.
This video says it all:
Any form of carbon offsetting sounds immoral if a little predictable. Surely the OECD countries should embark on new renewable energy sources and guarantee significant efficiency gains as well rather then the surely cheaper route of offsetting it ?
[JR: Currently, OECD are aggressively pursuing renewable energy and energy efficiency. I am not the biggest fan of offsets, but they can be a useful mechanism for having rich polluters pay developing countries to develop cleanly. In any case, the Europeans love them and they're not going away anytime soon.]
How can they offset cleanly when we can't hence the reason why we are offetting to them !? It sounds too odd to me and potenitally not a means of fair and equitable emissions mitigation. It sounds like develop CCS over here (if we do) and then sell it to others and hence offset your own carbon emissions as well whilst they limit their too?
Is this what it means ?
What are you people talking about? A rich polluter will simply pay for the credits and continue right on polluting. Only the poor and middle class will feel the pain. So get this part straight: The rich will not notice the cost increases but everyone else will.
And if you think that poor countries will benefit, they won't because they will be forced into the Cap&trade system too. They will pay through the nose. Remember, it's not the poor countries which will win, it's the carbon neutral countries. For example, Canada is already carbon neutral when you include it's forests (which they have not as yet). Any country will pay whether they are rich or poor, it depends on their total carbon output not their wealth.
Al Gore recently let the cat out of the bag by saying Cap&Trade is the first step to Global Governance. So the truth is out; Cap&trade is the worlds first global tax system and it is promoted by the UN, and the revenue from Cap&Trade will be used to move toward a world governed by the UN. And let me guess, Al Gore will someday be Secretary General.
Klem, this will unfold as no one has preidcted, its going to have a dynamic all of its own. I doubt its a good idea but maybe its the only workable one that the capatalist econoic of the OECD countries wil accept?
Pete, Thanks for the utube link. I had read the book but not seen the video. The part you didn't mention was that, although the UK's "125 40W light bulbs per person" sounds bad, the US is exactly double – 250 40W light bulbs. View this figure from almost any other country in the world and you can see how much sympathy the US is lilely to receive for its ultra-modest attempt at a climate bill. None. In fact, for countries like China and India, it's a carte blanche to pollute without moral hinderence.
In my view offsets stink. Effective legislation is simple legislation and the only sane way to start is to legislate for reducing the amount of fossil fuel burned in the US, period. By all means encourage other stuff but stopping coal, oil and gas burning is the mandatory bit. Stick a bill like that in front of Congress and it will fail, but at least people will have to own up to their true position on the issue, then stand back and wait for the tidal wave of critisism.
Pete, Thanks for the utube link. I had read the book but not seen the video. The part you didn't mention was that, although the UK's "125 40W light bulbs per person" sounds bad, the US is exactly double – 250 40W light bulbs. View this figure from almost any other country in the world and you can see how much sympathy the US is lilely to receive for its ultra-modest attempt at a climate bill. None. In fact, for countries like China and India, it's a carte blanche to pollute without moral hinderence.
In my view offsets stink. Effective legislation is simple legislation and the only sane way to start is to legislate for reducing the amount of fossil fuel burned in the US, period. By all means encourage other stuff but stopping coal, oil and gas burning is the mandatory bit. Stick a bill like that in front of Congress and it will fail, but at least people will have to own up to their true position on the issue, then stand back and wait for the tidal wave of critisism.
Joe, You're fabulous. I want to have your babies.
(stands back to see if that gets put in moderation…)
[JR: Flattery will get you everywhere — though I thought your posts were more science based :) ]
George Monbiot this morning describes "why large scale carbon offsets can't work."
He writes that "new policies (adopted by the UK) will include buying up to 50% of the reduction from abroad. If this is true, it means that the UK will not cut its greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, as the government promised. It means it will cut them by 40%. Offsetting half our emissions (which means paying other countries to cut them on our behalf) makes a mockery of the government's climate change programme."
He goes on to describe in detail just how "unjust, contradictory and ultimately impossible" large scale offsets will be. A must read article.
The way things are going, the world has a faint to non-existent chance of preventing two degrees Celsius of warming. And the real tragedy is the 2C has been chosen as a "safe" level only because it just might be politically possible. In reality, this level is much too high. Look out your window; we're losing the Arctic sea ice right now. Is allowing our planet to keep heating up to 2C going to help that? What's it going to take for the many well-intentioned environmentalists who support cap and trade to recognize that this is not only morally wrong; it's doomed to fail.
[JR: The article would make a little more sense if it had also explained why "large-scale carbon offsets don't exist" at a low cost.]
Yes, I did forget to mention the average US citizen 250 Kwh per day consumption which ewuates to 600 sizewell B nuclear reactors or 1.2 million of those 2 MW wind turbines. Make wind turbines 5 or 10 MW (Horizontal designs which I have of late heard little more of – 9MW capable) and it reduces what we need for half to 75%. Its still a lot of wind turbines though but CSP in the USA is a credible candidate for some energy and the USA has four large wind corridors and they have the ability to develop deep off shore wind as have Europe.
Why are carbon offsets required again? To save rain forest but the west paying for it to offset emissions or to allow us to deploy less renewable energy due to the cost increases to each energy payer?
Oh sorry, that needs to be multiplied by another 5 due to the population diffeences making 6 million wind turbins or 3000 nuclear reactores Sizewell B size. So strike me down, no wonder a country of the USA size and energy hunger wants to export their emissions issues abroad. CCS is probably their only realisitic hope although 6 million wind turbines is only equivilent of 3 great britains. Quite possible I guess.
I'm wondering about your numbers….
The UK uses 110 TWh a year in electricity; shared by 61 million people, so that's 50 kWh a day.
A 2 MW wind turbine produces some 5 GWh a year of electricity (assuming a 30% capacity rating), so on this basis, the UK's entire electricity needs could be met by 22,000 wind turbines – not 1.2 million.
You may have been using a kWh per person number that translated ALL energy use into kWh, which is what I think David McKay did, but the fascinating thing is that when you translate regular vehicles to electric vehicles, the energy use falls three-fold, due to the vastly increased efficiency of electric drive. Likewise, when you switch from oil and gas heating to heat pumps. So overall electricity use only needs to increase by some 15% to meet most energy needs, plus some kinds of bio-fuel and bio-heat from wastes, algae, etc.
So the full demand for wind turbines for the UK might be 22,000 + 15% = 25,300 turbines, or 50 times less than you assumed.
The US uses around 4,000 TWh of electricity a year, or 36 times more than the UK, so the total wind turbines needed would be around 1 million, not six million. If everything was twice as efficient, that falls to 500,000, and no-one is assuming that 100% of the power would come from wind, anyway, but from a mix of wind, geothermal, solar thermal, solar PV, etc, moderated through a smart supergrid.
Guy, It is total energy usage and not just electrcity, after all cars wil be electric too but can flight and freight be?
Electric engines are 90% efficient but the fuel that feeds then is not, its the same as it is today so that 90% makes them less efficient than 40% of a coal fired power station or the 30% of a wind turbine relative to a ICE.
I doubt it is as simple as your numbers or as complex as mine for if all things electric are so efficient, ground source heat pumps and electric motors then cost/performance ratios would have made these technologies much more economic decades ago or are we just being lazy.
In addition to all that 5 GWh a wind turbine produces it does not come along nice and smooth but in bursts of 90% and then 10% and then 0%. Hence it requires alternatve and innovative methods of getting it to keep the grid nice and balanced as we need it.
Good figures though. The UK uses 380 TWh of electricity per annum. For 5 GWh to scale to 1 TWh would required 200 of them and hence 200×380=76000 of them and that is just for electricity. Couple onto that heating your house, cooking, and vehicles and it could end us being double that amount. SO lets call it 150,000 2 MW turbines and maybe a lot less if we can insualte houses. David McKay must be using a conversion process that does not take into account efficieny gains but does take into account all of the energy we use abroad to make our stuff and transport our food etc. Primary energy usage is a lot less than the secondary stuff.


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HOUMA -- Terrebonne Economic Development Authority's eviction from the Government Tower only lasted two days.
The Terrebonne Parish Council reversed an earlier decision and voted 8-0 Wednesday to allow the new economic-development agency to use vacant office space on the seventh floor of the tower until March 1. Councilwoman Teri Cavalier missed the meeting because of a longstanding family commitment.
Because of concerns over whether it was legal to offer TEDA the office space, the council did not approve an intergovernmental agreement with TEDA at Monday's Budget and Finance Committee meeting.
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Queen of the Night (song)
|"Queen of the Night"
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|October 13, 1993
|CD single, cassette single, 7" single, 12" single
|Whitney Houston singles chronology
"Queen of the Night" is a song co-written and performed by American pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston. It was the fifth and final single released from her multi-platinum soundtrack The Bodyguard, and it is played during the closing credits of the film.
"Queen of the Night" is an uptempo pop rock/dance number, with Houston expressing how she "rules the club scene", proclaiming herself "queen of the night". It was not released as a single in America, but it received such substantial radio play that it rose to number 36 on the Hot 100 Airplay. However, because of Billboard magazine rules at the time (which have since been modified), a song with no commercial single available could not chart on the main Billboard Hot 100. The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, becoming Houston's fifth number 1 dance single. It was released in several other countries, peaking at number 14 in the UK.
The music video for "Queen of the Night" is the full performance Houston gives in the motion picture The Bodyguard. In the film, the performance is interrupted by violence.
In live performances by Houston, the song's arrangement was faithful to the 1993 CJ Mackintosh remix, which was used during Houston's 1993-94 The Bodyguard World Tour and also for her performance at the 1994 Soul Train Music Awards.
Critical reception[edit]
Chris Willman of the L.A. Times wrote a negative review: "The only obvious dud (on the album) is "Queen of the Night," a silly stab at hard-rock that's almost a dead ringer for En Vogue's "Free Your Mind," particularly where her vocals are multitracked."[1] Also, Stehen Holden of NY Times wrote a similar review: "Only "Queen of the Night," a run-of-the-mill dance tune" which falls below the par.[2] A positive review came from Allmusic: "Queen of the Night" is first-rate urban pop song that skillfully captures Houston at her best.[3] Popdose compared its production to Janet Jackson's "Black Cat."[4] CD Universe review is also positive: "Elsewhere Houston continues to mine her rich vein of ornate balladry and pop-flavored dance workouts, on her own "Queen Of The Night," with its percolating upbeat production a la L.A. Reid & Babyface."[5] USA Today editor Larry A. called this song a surprise and "rocking" tune.[6]
Track listings[edit]
- CD single
- "Queen of the Night" (CJ's Single Edit) – 3:21
- "Queen of the Night" (Album Version) – 3:06
- CD maxi-single
- "Queen of the Night" (CJ's Single Edit) – 3:21
- "Queen of the Night" (CJ's Master Mix) – 6:35
- "Queen of the Night" (CJ's Instrumental Mix) – 9:35
- "Queen of the Night" (Mackapella Mix) – 5:21
- "Queen of the Night" (Dub of the Night) – 5:21
- Additional mixes
- "Queen of the Night" (CJ's Single Edit) – 3:13 (UK cassette single)
- "Queen of the Night" (CJ's Single Edit) – 4:04 (UK 12")
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Year-end charts[edit]
Chart precession and succession[edit]
|Preceded by
"I Love Music" by Rozalla
|Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single
January 29, 1994
|Succeeded by
"Joy" by Staxx of Joy featuring Carol Leeming
Popular culture[edit]
This song was covered by American Idol contestant Haley Scarnato in 2006. This song was covered during Australian singer Delta Goodrem's Believe Again Tour at various locations throughout Australia in 2009. The 2009 X Factor contestants also performed this song on Sunday, October 18, 2009 as a group performance. Contestant Stacey Solomon, who came third, performed this song on The X Factor Live Tour 2010. The independent, web-based, electronic/dubstep artist known as Futret released a remix/crossover-cover of the song in early February 2012.[1] The song is also mentioned in the show Bob's Burgers, the episode O.T.: The Outside Toilet in which the character Gene talks to an expensive talking toilet, who can answer any of your questions. Gene asks "Who is the queen of the night?" and the toilet responds saying "Whitney Houston". The song was covered by Monika Linkytė in week two of "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka.[19] Madame Tussands Hollywood's wax figure of Houston depicts her performance of the title song in the bodyguard
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-22/entertainment/ca-1891_1_whitney-houston
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/20/arts/record-brief-944292.html
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-bodyguard-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000180918
- ^ "'Face Time: Whitney Houston, "Queen of the Night"". Cass, Giles, Heyliger (Popdose.com). 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
- ^ http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1110178&style=music&fulldesc=T
- ^ http://www.whitney-fan.com/music/reviews/36/65
- ^ Belgian Singles Chart Archived February 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.. Ultratop.be. Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ Dutch Singles Chart Archived March 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.. Dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ French Singles Chart[dead link]
- ^ German Singles Chart Archived 2012-08-07 at WebCite. Worldcharts.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ The Irish Charts Archived 2010-02-01 at WebCite
- ^ Swiss Singles Chart Archived February 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.. Hitparade.ch. Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ UK Singles Chart Archived March 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Hot 100 Airplay. Billboard.com. Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ Hot Dance Club Play. Billboard.com (2012-02-11). Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. Billboard.com. Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
- ^ Billboard.BIZ. Billboard.BIZ (1994-12-31). Retrieved on 2012-02-16.
- ^ ""Eurovizijos" atranką paliko pirmieji dalyviai". LRT (in Lithuanian). 10 January 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.


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BERLIN -- Mohamed ElBaradei, the departing chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, said Iran's continued refusal to accept tighter scrutiny of its nuclear activities would likely force the international community to impose new sanctions.
Though he described sanctions as a "grievous violation of human rights" that "affect the weak" and "do not solve problems," Mr. ElBaradei said Iran's continued intransigence regarding its nuclear program would likely lead world powers to increase their pressure on Iran.
"The ball is in Iran's court," Mr. ElBaradei said in a brief interview after delivering a speech on his 12-year tenure as the International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General.
Mr. ElBaradei, who is set to retire from the agency at the end of November, said he still hoped Iran's leadership would accept a plan to address concerns about its nuclear activities but acknowledged that it was "a fleeting opportunity."
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"We can threaten to use force, but this is a bridge to nowhere," Mr. ElBaradei said.
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Mr. ElBaradei's remarks came as top officials from the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- the U.S., U.K., France, Russia and China -- plus Germany, met in Brussels to discuss the standoff with Iran.
The group issued a statement expressing disappointment that Iran had failed to respond to proposals aimed at calming worries about its nuclear ambitions. They urged Iran "to engage seriously with us in dialogue and negotiations."
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The officials said they would meet again soon to decide about next steps.
International criticism of Iran's nuclear program escalated in September after the existence of the Qom facility came to light. President Obama has said the facility appears to be designed to produce fuel for a secret military program.
Mr. Obama has called for a two-track policy of negotiations backed by the possibility of sanctions, should the talks fail to lead to an agreement that would restore confidence in the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program.
At the U.N. Friday, Iran drew criticism for how it handled the aftermath of the country's disputed presidential election. The General Assembly's human-rights committee passed a resolution condemning Tehran's violent response to protests against the results of the June balloting as "serious ongoing and recurring human-rights violations."
Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's ambassador to the U.N., called the Canadian-sponsored resolution "politically charged and motivated."
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TE CONNECTIVITY - Berwyn, PA
Segment / Business Unit Strategy (60%) Support the design and deployment a growth process / management operating system to drive consistent execution of the BU...
Director, Strategic Programs- Customer Experience
Comcast - Philadelphia, PA
Leads the development and management of program plans, critical path and key milestones. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and...
Account Sales Executive - Philadelphia
CDK Global - Philadelphia, PA
We believe that diversity in all aspects of business leads to strength. Must have Automotive Retail experience, ideally 3-5 years, and/or must have 5-7 years of...
Director, Business Process Management
Comcast - Philadelphia, PA
Support the VP, Business Process Management and Senior Director, Business Process Management in developing and executing the strategic vision for compliance...
Director of Sales
Sunrise Senior Living - West Chester, PA
We offer best-in-class leadership development programs designed to grow our leaders. At Sunrise, our Director of Sales is responsible for building relations and...
Client Service Manager
IMS Health - Plymouth Meeting, PA
Account Development / Management Skills. 75% of the role is to ensure overall client satisfaction as prerequisite for further successful business development...
Regional Sales Manager (Home Office)
Partners Crackers - Philadelphia, PA
Business Development Manager*. Partners Crackers, headquartered in Seattle, WA is looking to hire a Business Development Manager / Regional Manager in the...
Director, Business Development
Superior Vision - Philadelphia, PA
To be a good fit for the Director, Business Development opportunity, you also should have:. Earn Top Comp for Executing Business Development Strategies as We...
Director of Quality Improvement
Melmark - Berwyn, PA
Bachelor's Degree in Human Services, Business, or related field of study. Development of standards and systems for programmatic, environmental and individual...
Marketing Director
Spring EQ - Philadelphia, PA
Direct Mail Business Development (e.g. Spring EQ, a start-up, technology-based originator of home equity loan products located in Center City, Philadelphia, is...


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Driving past the Refuge entrance sign last week, a group of boys gathered nearby caught my attention. It's an unusual hangout spot, so I stopped to check that everything was OK.
Author's note: This column first appeared in the Clarion on Aug. 16, 2002. I've edited it for clarity.
In years ending with an even number, such as 2016, the Kenai River is blessed with vast numbers of pink salmon, bound for their spawning grounds.
A family trip in the Alaska wilderness can turn sour in a hurry if the proper precautions are not taken against the unassuming but dangerous plant known as "pushki.
If you saw my strawberry bed, you might think I don't like strawberries. The leaves have been lopped off, some plants were ripped out of the ground, and those that remain are partially buried in dirt.
It's not a pretty sight.
With early morning settling in on the bright blue waters of the Kenai River, Andy Foor was prepared for a long morning of fishing when he heard screaming.
Anglers may have to work a little harder this week on the Kenai River as the fishing has slowed down.
Coyotes are perhaps the most adaptable carnivore in North America, ranging from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts and from Central America north to Interior Alaska.
Back when I did more crazy things than I now do, I used to fish the Kenai far more than I now do. I didn't give a hoot what the river was doing. I fished when it was muddy enough to plow. I fished during floods.
Mid-summer is shirt-sleeve weather, an enjoyable time of year to be out and about with family and friends. But it also is the heart of mosquito season, so beware the escalating health risks caused by their bites.
The No.
ANCHORAGE - A basic rule on what to do when encountering a bear in the wilderness is so common, it's long been a mantra: "If it's brown, you lie down. If it's black, you fight back."
But there's a caveat for run-ins with brown - or grizzly - bears.
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