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For Gore & Co., green is gold
A common feature in some magazines (not this one) is the matching game, in which readers are invited to match celebrities' faces to their abs, or their favorite rehab facilities, or even their movies or songs. This game came to mind as I was poring over Al Gore's green-tech portfolio: If one were so inclined, one could play a nerdy but revealing version of the matching game by pairing the companies in which Gore invests with the millions or billions of dollars they would receive under the Democrats' energy legislation.
That legislation, which passed the House last year, has stalled in the Senate because of its controversial restrictions on the use of fossil fuels — a system of emissions limits and tradable permits known as "cap-and-trade." But cap-and-trade isn't the whole program; billions of dollars in green subsidies are also packed into the legislation. So now the Democrats are considering Plan B: drop cap-and-trade, pass the rest of the bill, and declare victory. It wouldn't be the kind of victory that hardcore environmentalists want, and would confer only negligible benefits upon the environment, but it would make Gore and his venture-capitalist friends a lot richer — and taxpayers poorer.
Only a small part of Gore's investment portfolio is tied to cap-and-trade. Most of the companies in which he invests would benefit from the other parts of the Democrats' energy bill — the parts that would be much easier for Congress to pass. Congress has been subsidizing green programs for decades, and that support increased dramatically with the 2005 energy bill. But the Democrats want to pump it up still more, even though the consensus for dramatic action on climate change is buckling like a shoddy roof in a blizzard of scientific scandals. The U.S. government, facing record-setting deficits and debt, cannot afford new subsidies. Yet with "green jobs" as their rallying cry, Gore and other advocates for more green-tech largesse will push to pick the taxpayers' pockets — lining their own all the while.
Let's play the matching game. Gore is a partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has investments in a handful of green-tech firms poised to make bank if something like the House's Waxman-Markey bill, named for Reps. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and Ed Markey (D., Mass.), becomes law. For example, Altarock Energy, a firm specializing in geothermal power, would be eligible for loans at below-market rates through the Clean Energy Manufacturing Loan Program. So would Bloom Energy, a company that makes solid oxide fuel cells; Ausra, which concentrates on solar power; and Harvest Power, which markets technologies that turn garbage into biogas. These companies would also qualify for a massive piece of the Residential Energy Efficiency Block Grant Program, which would provide $2.5 billion to state and local governments to promote the use of renewable energy, including solar, biomass, and geothermal, in single-family and multifamily housing.
Then there are the ethanol makers, Mascoma Corporation and Amyris Biotechnologies among them. Corn ethanol lost some of its political attractiveness in the wake of 2008's food-price spikes, but the government's failure for 30 years running to popularize this spotty fuel hasn't daunted its champions in Washington. Ethanol boosters have transitioned smoothly from corn to cellulosic ethanol, which is derived from non-food sources such as switchgrass and wood chips. One of the biggest problems with cellulosic ethanol is that breaking down such fibrous matter requires costly processes and chemicals — and that's where Mascoma and Amyris come in. The Waxman-Markey bill contains mandates and loan guarantees that would help the producers of cellulosic ethanol buy the products they sell.
Another of Kleiner Perkins's investments, its stake in Silver Spring Networks, is already paying off thanks to the stimulus bill President Obama signed last year. That bill contained billions of dollars in grants to spur improvements of the nation's energy grid, with the goal of converting it into a "smart grid" that helps utilities more accurately gauge electricity use. Silver Spring provides software and services to implement smart-grid improvements, and its client utilities have already scored more than $500 million in grants, thanks to the stimulus. Under Waxman-Markey, Silver Spring would fare even better: The bill has an entire subtitle dedicated to smart-grid development, and billions of dollars in subsidies to fund it.
In addition to specific grants and subsidies, almost all of the companies in Kleiner Perkins's green-tech portfolio would benefit from a blanket provision in the Waxman-Markey bill that would require 20 percent of the power that utilities supply to come from renewable energy sources by 2020. This would essentially force utilities to buy costlier energy from the green-tech sector and pass the cost on to consumers.
Though there is money to be made elsewhere, cap-and-trade remains the big goal of both Gore and the money men behind him — men such as David Blood, a former Goldman Sachs executive who, along with Gore, runs Generation Investment Management (thus the firm's nickname, "Blood and Gore"). Generation IM owns a large stake in the Chicago Climate Exchange, a clearinghouse for carbon-emissions permits, and Goldman Sachs has put money into the project. Not only would Gore profit directly from the expansion of this market, but the renewable-energy companies in which he invests would, by virtue of their line of work, qualify for free permits and offsets to sell to other companies, giving them yet another way to profit from climate-change legislation.
Under cap-and-trade, there are three ways a carbon emitter can stay below its cap. One, it can reduce its emissions. Two, it can purchase emissions credits from a carbon emitter that is under the cap (the theory being that the prospect of money from a sale of extra credits will give companies an incentive to cut emissions beyond what is required). Three, it can buy another kind of emissions credit, called an "offset." Offsets are not created by reducing actual emissions in the present, but by reducing theoretical emissions in the future — through products and programs marketed by the kinds of companies in which Gore invests. Here lies the potential for real money — and real fraud. As other parts of the developed world have implemented cap-and-trade systems in accordance with the Kyoto Protocols, the creation of offsets has become a big business, and Waxman-Markey would make it even bigger. A host of questionable activities would instantly become hugely profitable offset-producing enterprises, with fortunes to be made in improved manure management, reduced-tillage/no-tillage farming, and "afforestation of marginal farmlands," i.e. paying farmers not to farm, something our government has been curiously keen to do since the Great Depression.
The business of verifying whether and by how much these activities actually reduce emissions is quickly becoming a big industry in its own right. Carbon permits are on track to rival oil and gas for the title of the world's most heavily traded commodity, and accounting firms are already vying to certify renewable-energy projects.
To follow the money, follow the personnel: When the news broke that Yvo de Boer, director of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, would be stepping down in the wake of a scandal over mistakes in several climate reports, it was simultaneously announced that his new position would be with the accounting giant KPMG, to help it break into the carbon-offset business. Another example: Rajendra K. Pachauri, de Boer's colleague at the United Nations, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the unit that produced the erroneous reports that earned it, along with Gore, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. (The United Nations has launched an inquiry into the IPCC's errors; no word whether the Nobel committee plans to follow suit.) Pachauri has no formal training in climate science — his academic background is in engineering — but he has made a fortune as a climate consultant, raking in millions in fees by teaching the world's largest emitters how to use offsets.
Ironically, Pachauri got his start in fossil fuels — until 2003, he was a director of India Oil. Now he plays both sides: a sort of legal protection racket.
Maurice Strong is another former U.N. figure — and another former oil man — positioned to gain from the energy taxes he advocates. As the founding director of the U.N. Environment Program, Strong midwifed the 1997 Kyoto Treaty but stepped down from his post in 2005 after investigations implicated him in the Iraq Oil-for-Food bribery scandal. (Strong maintains that he did nothing wrong and that he resigned for personal reasons.) After leaving the United Nations, Strong relocated to China and helped set up a carbon-permit exchange. China stands to benefit from the implementation of cap-and-trade in the United States, because its dirty power plants and factories offer a plentiful and cheap source of offsets to U.S. businesses willing to pay for upgrading them. A portion of the proceeds generated from cap-and-trade would flow to climate entrepreneurs such as Strong, who also holds a seat on the board of the Chicago Climate Exchange.
In the corporate world, many large businesses are trying at least to hedge their exposure to new energy taxes and regulations — and some are going all-in for cap-and-trade. Among the latter group, General Electric stands out. As Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner has noted, GE has expanded aggressively into wind turbines, coal gasification, solar power, and high-efficiency gas turbines, all of which Congress would heavily subsidize under Waxman-Markey. Not only does GE engage in lobbying for legislation that would tax most of the economy while benefiting its shareholders, its television networks — NBC, MSNBC, and their cousins — participate in a blatantly advertorial "Green Week" each year to promote policies from which GE stands to gain.
Government funding enacted under Democratic auspices usually comes with strings attached to benefit organized labor, so it is no surprise that groups such as Change to Win, a coalition of labor unions, support robust subsidies for so-called green jobs. And here as elsewhere, one finds advocates of carbon caps moving into the profitable world of offsets. Chris Chafe, the executive director of Change to Win, has announced that his next move will be to form an enterprise that aims "to create a more integrated job-creating, climate-capturing, return-generating process that brings all of the incumbent assets from labor, business, and environmental leaders into a common planning process, so we can capture jobs and capture climate goals." Which is to say, he's going to make a killing in the climate-subsidy racket.
All these opportunities for private-sector profit stand in addition to the billions in research money at stake for universities and nonprofits — many of them closely tied to profit-seeking green ventures. The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — the epicenter of the scandal involving leaked e-mails that showed the world's leading climate scientists to be fudging data and bullying skeptics — hauled in around $20 million in research grants under former director Phil Jones, who stepped down over the embarrassing revelations. And President Obama has made sure that federal agencies are now entitled to a larger and more explicit share of the global-warming pie: The stimulus included $450 million for NASA "climate-research missions" and $600 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to study climate change.
This is not to suggest that Al Gore or his allies have spent years warning of a climate catastrophe merely for the promise of a big payoff at the end. Gore either sincerely believes his alarmist theories or performs an utterly convincing imitation of someone who does. As for the investments, he says he's simply putting his money where his mouth is, and he pledges to donate his gains to his nonprofit foundations — which will use them to campaign for even more green subsidies and global-warming regulations, of course. But Gore's involvement in these ventures shines a light on the fact that private actors have bet a considerable amount of money on Washington's willingness to continue transferring wealth from taxpayers to politically connected green-tech companies that probably would not survive, let alone thrive, without government support. Those business interests will keep exerting considerable pressure to keep the cash flowing.
And in the long run, these green politics are potentially disastrous. Consider Spain's "solar bubble." In the years before the financial crisis, the Spanish government quadrupled subsidies for solar power, thinking it had found a winner on the environment, the economy, and jobs. But when the crisis forced a reordering of budgetary priorities, the Spanish government cut back on the handouts, and the solar bubble burst. The sector proceeded to shed thousands of jobs, contributing to Spain's current 19 percent unemployment rate. The green lobby may talk about alternative energy and green jobs as though they were cost-free propositions, but there is no greenwashing such an example.
Nor can we wish away economic realities closer to home: After the United States mandated the use of ethanol in gasoline in the 2005 energy bill, investors poured into the sector, thinking the mandate would spark real demand for the product. It didn't. Refiners didn't want any more ethanol than they were forced to buy. Excess investment produced a glut, which left ethanol makers clamoring for an expansion of the mandate in 2007. Congress came through, but the increase wasn't enough to save an industry that made a product for which there was no real demand. Due in part to a spike in corn prices, and in part to bad business decisions made by managers accustomed to government protection, a raft of ethanol companies went bankrupt in late 2008 and early 2009. The industry then had the gall to ask for a bailout on top of all the subsidies it had gotten. (They didn't get it, but they got lots of stimulus goodies.)
Can these transfers of wealth be stopped? Cap-and-trade may go by the wayside because it is unpopular and because it is seen as radical, but most of the green-energy programs beyond cap-and-trade are simply extensions, albeit massively expensive ones, of programs that Congress has already created. The 2005 energy bill mandated the use of ethanol in gasoline only because decades of subsidizing it hadn't worked. The 2007 energy bill — a result of both the Democratic takeover of Congress and President Bush's pledge to end America's oil "addiction" — increased the ethanol mandate and added billions in subsidies for renewables. And President Obama's first stimulus package made down payments on many of the programs contained in Waxman-Markey. "Cap-and-trade is controversial. Spending money in Washington is not," says Marc Morano, a former Republican Senate aide, now editor of CimateDepot.com. "And I think that's the direction this is going."
If the Democrats are willing to give up cap-and-trade, Republican votes for the rest of Waxman-Markey's boondoggles will probably prove sadly obtainable. Even though Republicans were mostly united behind a 2008 effort to kill the congressional ban on offshore oil drilling, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and four other Republicans almost brokered a compromise that would have opened only a tiny sliver of the Gulf of Mexico to drilling — in exchange for a vast expansion of subsidies for alternative-energy programs, especially ethanol. (If you need Republicans to vote for a big spending bill, just add subsidies for ethanol and watch bipartisanship bloom.) Now Graham is at it again, telling New York Times green-economy obsessive Tom Friedman that we need to "price carbon" in order to gain our "energy independence" — and to create jobs for his constituents in South Carolina, where GE manufactures its wind turbines. The measures Graham supports would not result in energy independence: We import two-thirds of our oil and would have to make fossil fuels intolerably expensive to make a dent in our consumption of them. Nor would these measures result in more employment: They almost certainly would kill more jobs than they would create. But the benefits are concentrated and the costs dispersed.
Other Republicans are susceptible to green suggestions. According to the New York Times, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine supports something she calls "cap-and-dividend," which would be similar to cap-and-trade but would apply only to certain industries rather than to the entire economy, with all the money from the sale of permits rebated to energy consumers. Such an approach is baffling: Carbon emitters would pay the government for emissions permits and pass the costs on to consumers, who would then receive reimbursements from the government and go on using as much energy as before. Where is the incentive to emit less?
At this point, there may be too much money at stake for Congress to turn back. Too many people have made giant bets on this frivolous enterprise. Nevertheless, it should be opposed. Like Spain with its solar bubble, the United States will face a turning point at which severe fiscal constraints force a reordering of its budget priorities, and at that time retrofitting suburban houses with solar panels probably will not make the budgetary cut. And while lost jobs at the windmill factory may sting, the real economic threat is the possibility of a bursting investment bubble in the market for carbon permits and offsets. Simply put, the industry remains dependent on government money — and the government is going broke. It's a business model that is, to borrow a term from the green movement, unsustainable.


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A 30-Year Feud Divides Experts On Meteorology
Published: October 24, 1989
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But by the late 1950's and early 1960's, things started to sour. Dr. Bryson had always been interested in history, having once considered a career in archeology. Now he wanted to move the department in that direction, looking not only into the short-range phenomena that make up the weather but climatic patterns over the millennia.
Dr. Suomi, meanwhile, was becoming ever more fascinated with current weather patterns from space, inventing new gadgets to measure them. He joked with students about the ''ignorosphere,'' an area like the Earth's troposphere and stratosphere that scientists knew nothing about because they had failed to measure it.
Some of the first disputes had do with hiring faculty, each man wanting to make an imprint. ''When you have to make a decision and you disagree, either one or the other is not going to like it,'' Dr. Bryson recalled. ''We had our differences.''
Then came debates over how science should be done and what was the correct interplay between gathering data and theorizing. Raised voices often gave way to tense silence.
As the two avoided each other more and more, their fields of interest drew increasingly apart. ''We decided to work in mutually exclusive areas so we wouldn't tread on the other guy's territory,'' Dr. Bryson said. Dr. Suomi pioneered observing the earth's atmosphere from space. His first invention was a radiometer that measured the amount of heat the earth gives off. It was launched into orbit on the Explorer 7 satellite in 1959.
Then came the weather camera, which ingeniously took rock-steady pictures even though it was spinning rapidly as the satellite rotated. First lofted in 1966, the camera is still used on weather satellites today. Yet another invention, first shot into space in 1980, measures the atmosphere's temperature and water vapor. 'I'm Basically Lazy'
Hands clasped behind his head, Dr. Suomi said his chosen field was scientifically simple. ''It seems complicated to the person who doesn't understand technology,'' he said. ''But it's not. I'm basically lazy. I want to get as much out of this as I can with the smallest amount of work.'' His simple technologies, for instance, have produced reams of useful information that have kept thousands of scientists busy.
By contrast, he said, Dr. Bryson's field, climate prediction, ''is a tougher job'' because complex changes in the earth's atmosphere over time make it difficult to accurately deduce past or future climatic states. ''We aren't able to do it well now. I mean, there are hints that you can do something. But not that much.''
While Dr. Suomi takes pride in how his work has improved short-range weather predictions over days and sometimes a week or more, his scientific conservatism is such that he avoids forecasting. ''I like to observe more,'' he said, ''to see what's out there.''
By contrast, Dr. Bryson became fascinated with tying together disparate observations to make discoveries and predictions that were inherently unobservable. He founded the Center for Climatic Research in 1963 to fathom the unseeable. For instance, he deduced past climates from analysis of ancient tree rings. In another case, he analyzed primordial pollen gains to discover that arid and dusty parts of India had previously been much wetter, and he devised a system of land use that helped reduce the overgrazing that had caused the dryness.
Dr. Bryson also helped pioneer the use of computers for long-range climatic forecasts. In contrast to Dr. Suomi, who exhaustively tried to gather facts, Dr. Bryson fixed his computer models so they would single out one factor, like the slow wobble of the earth's axis or the dust from volcanoes, to see if these influenced past and future climates.
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One way to foster leaps of logic is to study many different fields, he said, so new connections come into view. But such ''integrators'' face career risks, he said. ''You'll never get a Nobel Prize, for example,'' he said. ''For that you've got to be in a single discipline.''
But there is a satisfaction in accurate predictions, he said. For example, he noted that the long-range forecasts he made in the 1970's of continued drought in Africa have turned out to be correct, and if taken seriously might have helped relieve the continent's suffering. ''Remember the big famine in Ethiopia?'' he asked. ''In 1973 I said that famine in that band across Africa could continue. I said the rains will not come back normally in this century. All kinds of people said, 'You can't say that!' Fact is, the rains haven't come back.''
Today, each scientist is in hot pursuit of characteristic projects. Dr. Bryson is writing a book on climate and human ecology in collaboration with an archeologist. Dr. Suomi is helping the space agency gather and analyze data from distant planets, most recently, from the Voyager flyby of Neptune.
And each scientist says their feud, though intense years ago, has left few hard feelings.
''Heavens,'' Dr. Suomi observed, ''we're neighbors to this day and don't fight.''
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Success rests on knowing what to buy and where to give your home (and garden) an uplift. And if we have all resolved not to increase the carbon footprint then it's the fun DIY that you should be doing, that's to say things you can do in a weekend.
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A Japanese man filming a lightning storm in Japan's Noborito district instead caught amazing footage of a lightning bolt striking a Japanese Train! It's already been a rough year for trains, as well as a year featuring insane weather. Put those two together and you end up with this amazing video of lighting striking a Japanese Train. The big bolt strike happens at 1:20, near the end of the video.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out what caused the lightning to strike the train in the video. Trains are made of metal, and are usually surrounded by track that is much lower to the ground than the train. Lighting seems naturally inclined to strike giant pieces of wet metal. It's actually surprising lightning strikes like this don't happen more often.
According to Japanese news, everyone was safe on the train. It's likely that the lightning bolt traveled down the metal rails of the train to the ground. Luckily, the Japanese lightning didn't go through the train's plumbing system, or someone showering may have been totally owned.
Considering everyone on the Japanese train struck by lightning stayed safe, seeing this footage makes me miss some crazier weather. I've been here in Northern California for about three months now. The weather has varied from "cloudy and hot" to "less cloudy and very hot". I'm used to being in New Orleans around now and fighting off hurricanes with my fists! Instead, I have two months of "hot with a chance of fire" and then five months of "cold, cloudy, but not that rainy."
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Located in the McWilliams (Forge) Technical Park, TRI-STATE STONE & TILE INC. has emerged as New Jersey's PREMIERE stone fabricator. TRI-STATE STONE & TILE INC. has a friendly and courteous staff to help you with your design and color selections for your countertop, bathroom, outdoor kitchen or fireplace project.
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We encourage our customers who have chosen a natural stone slab to lay out their countertop project with us after a template has been made. This service allows you to view how your countertop will look like before we fabricate it. Your involved with designing how your project will be cut. We invite you to visit our 10,000 square foot facility and learn more about our family operation and the many ways we can help you make your project easier for you.
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Bad start for me. I was prepared to fly over the Classic launch, had two cameras and my iPhone for Basscams all charged and at the ready, but alas, dangit, pilot Paul Barth determined it was too cold pull off the door and fly.
Barth and cameraman Steve Cassidy recently tried it and found some instruments, including Steve's $500,000 camera, didn't fare so well.
It was disappointing to say the least. Making matters worse, it was a long walk to and back from our Classic media operations headquarters near the launch ramp. Bundled for the 80-mph windchill and lugging two big cameras, needless to say I came back hot.
Adding insult to injury, as I was trying to take an image of the four-deep line of fans I dropped my glasses.
One fan pointed them out and I turned to retrieve them. As I was two steps away, a gentlemen, well a dude with a heavy foot, began to walk and I watched in dismay as his gait took his right foot directly atop them.
They're bent up a touch, and I worried the left arm would snap right off as I straightened it out.
Ugh. I can't be too down -- the Classic is almost under way and I'm warm.
Also, Barth said I can back later today when it warms up. I said OK.


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Chapter Summary:
The Outsiders
Chapter 1
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The Outsiders is narrated by the main character, Ponyboy Curtis. The story is placed in Oklahoma during the 1960s.
In the first chapter, Ponyboy introduces himself and gives a brief history of his family. He also describes the relationships between his gang members, and the relationships within his own family. Ponyboy's parents were killed in an automobile accident, leaving him and his two brothers on their own.
Ponyboy is the youngest at 14, Sodapop is 16, and Darry is 20. The authorities allow the three brothers to stay together as long as they "behave." Ponyboy resents Darry and the total control that he attempts to wield over his life; he views their relationship as adversarial and looks to Sodapop for understanding and love.
The brothers consider their gang members — Steve Randle, Two-Bit Mathews, Dallas Winston, and Johnny Cade — to be family. All of the members come from dysfunctional homes and need the gang relationship as a substitute for what is missing in their own families.
As Ponyboy walks home alone after going to a movie, he realizes the inherent danger of doing so. He explains that he is a greaser, a term "used to class all us boys on the East Side," which is the poor side of town. Greasers are known for their long, greased hair. Walking home alone is dangerous because the rival gang, the Socs, could easily attack him. The Socs, short for Socials, are "the jet set, the West-side rich kids," who are from upper-middle-class families. Ponyboy explains that the gangs are "just small bunches of friends who stick together, and the warfare is between the social classes."
As if foreshadowing Ponyboy's own poor decision to walk alone, a carload of four Socs arrives, and one pulls a knife on him. As he attempts to fend off his attackers, Ponyboy hears the pounding of footsteps and the attack turns into an all-out fight as his gang arrives to rescue him from the Socs' attack. Ponyboy's two brothers, Darry and Sodapop, along with their four other gang members, chase the Socs away; Ponyboy escapes with cuts and bruises.


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Talking trash
One mom fights foul language – with consequences for the whole family.
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"Meg," I say to my 7-year-old, "did you call Julia and Hannah 'douche balls'?" Their mother had just telephoned, and she and I couldn't help laughing at Meg's choice of phrasing. But now, with Meg, I keep my serious face on.
Meg looks a little shifty. "I didn't hear that word," she says. "And if it came out of my mouth, I would have heard it."
Irrefutable logic, but I'm not convinced. I strongly dislike off-color language tripping out of the mouths of my three children, especially my youngest, even if she didn't get the epithet right and doesn't have the slightest idea what it means.
Until they were 10 and 8, my oldest children were convinced that "the S word" was "shut up" and "the F word" was "fart." That was one of my greatest parenting triumphs with these two – now 15 and 13. But things are different for my third. She learns bad words from her older siblings and their friends, their Facebook pages, TV, and YouTube. These words are everywhere. How can we parents hold the line?
"In this day and age, it's essentially impossible to shield kids from swearwords," says Dr. Claire McCarthy, assistant professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, herself a mother raising five children from preschool age to college. "Kids really don't know which words aren't OK to use unless you teach them, so parents need to identify words as 'bad' when they come up.
"Kids learn more from what we do than from what we say, so it's crucial that parents watch their own language," she adds. "I also think that parents need to be clear about their own family standards for language – teens shouldn't be allowed to use language you don't want younger kids to use."
So I've instituted a new family rule: Saying a bad word will result in an hour's work around the house. Two bad words, two hours of enforced cleaning. And so on. This includes the parental units, so I hereby vow to keep it clean the next time I accidentally hit my finger with a hammer.
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Homestead al Gusto: The First-Ever Food Truck Chef's Challenge (Photos)
Homestead Main Street organized Homestead al Gusto, a food truck festival this past weekend that included a chef's challenge. Local farmer's donated veggies from their first crop and the food truck chefs picked out which ones they wanted. Then they had exactly one hour to prepare a dish worthy of the title Homestead al Gusto Champion. The winner would receive a plaque from the Mayor of Homestead himself.
Short Order was there to take it all in and describe it in pictures.
It was a close race but the winner was Palate Party Food Truck. Their winning plate was a surf and turf yellow snapper with romesco sauce over haricot vert. The dish had eggplant stuffed with cotija cheese and breadcrumbs, with a main of perfectly cooked lamb sitting on top of chard, wilted basil and bok choy.
As for the event, it was masterfully orchestrated. Expect the next one to be held in February, surely with even more produce.
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Juventus managed to maintain their unbeaten run but things could have been different if not for a questionable decision from ref Andrea De Marco
Juventus started the match brightly and looked the more dangerous of the two sides, and in the third minute the in-form Claudio Marchisio tried to find Mirko Vucinic in the box only for Stefano Sorrentino to claim the ball and clear the danger.
On the 20 minute mark Cyril Thereau found the net for the hosts, but unfortunately for the Frenchmen, his effort was ruled out controversially for a questionable foul on Andrea Pirlo, leading up to his strike, to make matters worse the striker was also booked for putting the ball away after the whistle had gone.
The game opened up in the second half and on the 50th minute Marchisio almost put the visitors ahead with a powerful drive on the edge of box before substitute Emanuele Giaccherini went close to grabbing his first goal for the Bianconeri with another thunderbolt.
The visitors were now starting to control the game and with 20 minutes to ago Alessandro Del Pierro,who had just replaced Marchisio, struck the woodwork with a powerful header after a great cross from Simone Pepe.
Juventus kept its place at the top of the table with Udinese also failing to win this week but will be looking to get back to winning ways at home to Genoa. Chievo will be happy to take the point against the Serie A leaders and will hope to continue its impressive start to the season next week away to Inter.


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We went to see this store, which also has a large museum and an underground interactive factory visit which is like a Sound n Light Show. A forty five minute tour that explains the journey of a gem from the raw material to the finished product stage. Interesting, must say!
Then walked around the large showroom which displayed various gems, and for the ones who believe in astrology and the effects of stars and planets on your destiny through gemstones, they also had a chart explaining your birthstone and how the presence or absence of these gems can affect your life.
I found out that Yellow Sapphire is my birthstone, so ended buying a ring which also came with a certificate of authenticity.
They have a nice restaurant which serves lovely coffee....try it.
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Nomination was born in 1987 when Paolo Gensini created a modular charm bracelet made from interchangeable stainless steel links decorated with letters in 18k gold. His invention was the start of an exciting new jewellery adventure which captured the imagination of international superstars and jewellery lovers around the world. With the Composable range you can choose a personal and precious way to celebrate the special moments in your life and all those yet to come. Nomination jewellery and charms are made in Italy with love and passion. Shop the Nomination Composable collection today!
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A Little Yarn from the Kitty Cat Barn Down on the Farm
Where mischief is charm and never does harm!
by A SpaceyQT Creation
Related Editions
Ebook, Apple iPad format
About the Book
That's a rap Kitty Cat! A special thank you to my sister, Robin, for all the times she helped to care for the feline crew. Sending many thanks to Robin also, for inspiring the creation of this book! :)
Features & Details
- Category Children
Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
28 Pages
- Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9781320059312
- Softcover: 9781320059305
- Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9781320059329
- Publish Date Apr 25, 2013
- Language English
- Tags country, charm, farm, cat, kitty, barn, animals, garden, vegetables, poetry, riddles, rap, stories, graphics, children's, designs, fun, summer, kids, humor, yarn, mammaw, grandma, cows, pigs, love, chaos, art
About the Creator
Write me! I started writing in 1997. Not that I wanted to write; I always had other plans! Life ..where was it leading? I found myself doing anything that would keep me from slipping back into the superficial existence I felt trapped in. I needed something more, something that would provide greater freedom to be myself; something both fascinating and meaningful. I was determined to never again trap myself, determined to never again lose myself at the sake of my own individualality. Truth inspired me, depth inspired me; Color, creativity, and imagination intrigued me. Where would I find what I searched for? I waited and wondered, keeping up with the pace of what needed to be done. To keep myself busy I began putting my mother's writings from her many journals into books bound with ribbon. Little did I know I was a writer in training. My own heart eventually opened up to a new world; a world full of truth, creativity, and dreams! Writing takes me as far as I am willing to travel!
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AECL welcomes the announcement of a new national information standard for free range egg farming by the Federal Government.
After many years of debate and consultation, the information standard will bring greater certainty and confidence to egg farmers and consumers across the country.
The new information standard requires eggs sold as free range to be laid by hens that have meaningful and regular access to outdoors during daylight hours, that are able to roam and forage outdoors, and that are subject to a stocking density of a maximum of 10,000 hens per hectare (1 hen per square metre).
To help people understand more about free range egg farming, AECL partnered with a free range farmer who operates at 10,000 hens per hectare to discuss their approach to egg farming and different stocking densities. The video can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=BQDZJ679PNE
The information standard also requires farmers labelling eggs for wholesale or retail sale to ensure that the outdoor stocking density is prominently displayed on the packaging. This way consumers who are interested in outdoor stocking densities will have all the information they need to make an informed decision.
Further details on the information standard are set out in the Eggsplainer.
The ultimate output of AECL's Salmonella Initiative will be a through-chain risk idenitification report that includes research-based knowledge to be used as the basis for management of each risk which will also identify knowledge gaps that can be filled through the AECL R&D program.
Through the Salmonella Initiative AECL has been collaborating with relevant through-chain stakeholders (producers, retailers, health departments, regulators, food service operators, chefs) to identify appropriate controls measures at various stages through chain. For further information, please click here.