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Since July 1, 2003, the California Health and Safety Code, Section 103526, will permit only authorized individuals to receive certified copies of birth records. Those who are not authorized by law to receive a certified copy will receive a certified copy marked "Informational, not a valid document to establish identity."
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In November 2005, the highly successful distribution agreement between EVI Audio and Atempo Sound and Lighting Systems in the pro audio sector, which has been in force now for several years and covers the brands Electro-Voice, Midas, Dynacord and Klark Teknik throughout Turkey, was extended to the broadcast and intercom sector with the addition of RTS & Telex — the manufacturer of world-beating broadcast and intercom systems such as the Zeus and ADAM digital matrices and the BTR-700 wireless intercom — to the Atempo portfolio. EVI Audio is pleased to have found a suitable distributor for these lines since, as Manuel Brico, Product Manager RTS & Telex EMEA, explains: "The Turkish media market is enjoying a tremendous boom at the moment and it was important to find a well-established and competent distribution partner. I'm sure that with Atempo now in our corner, we are going to be highly successful in Turkey."
The firm's proprietor, Müjdat Konuralp (above), founded Atempo Sound and Lighting Systems 20 years ago, and has built the company in the course of two short decades into one of the largest and most important companies in the Turkish pro audio and production sectors. Today Atempo, which employs 82 employees, has branches in Ankara (central Turkey), three locations in Istanbul (northern Turkey), along with an office in the southern city of Antalya, and is therefore able to offer its customers not only its considerable experience and expertise but also prompt service.sector, RTS products are set for a long run of success. Certainly in the intercom sector, the demand for high-end solutions is enormous."
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During the annual Martha's Vineyard Community Tennis Fall Classic tournament in September, an all-ages competition, a curious thing happened on the way to the championships. Five young girls — all 12 or 13 years old — emerged as victors.
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Vineyard Youth Tennis hosts a professional exhibition on Thursday, July 25, at 5:30 p.m. at the Youth Tennis Center located near the roundabout.
When Ned Fennessy began coaching the Vineyard boys' tennis team in 1991, he often found himself working with athletes who were at a disadvantage. Some lacked racquets, others lacked proper shoes and nearly all lacked a tennis background.
"I was having to teach basic fundamentals — this is how you hold the racquet, this is how you follow through," he said on Saturday, sitting on the team bus as the Vineyarders returned home from picking up their second straight state title.
Things have changed in the past two decades.
When people say that history repeats itself, they aren't usually referring to high school tennis.
But in a match that lasted just under an hour and a half last Saturday afternoon, the Vineyard boys successfully defended their Massachusetts division three state championship title with a 4-1 win against Bromfield.
A cheering crowd of Island fans greeted the Vineyard boys tennis team when it returned home Saturday carrying a trophy for the second straight year.
The boys won the division three state tournament 4-1 Saturday in a match against Bromfield at Clark University in Worcester.
Kent Leonard clinched the match at singles, 6-3, 6-3, an hour and 15 minutes into play.
Play was under way early Saturday afternoon on the courts at Clark University in Worcester with the storied Vineyard boys tennis team, in the state championship finals for the second straight year. The team plays Bromfield for the state division three title. The Gazette will be posting live accounts of the match on twitter.
Marking history in the high school tennis program, the Vineyard boys will go to the division three state finals for the second straight year following a decisive win over Weston in the semifinals Wednesday.
The team plays Saturday against Bromfield, seeded number one and winner of the central section. The game begins at 1 p.m. at Clark University in Worcester, a changed location from what was originally planned.
The Vineyard was seeded number two and won the section title Saturday.
It was only fitting that the televisions were showing the latest French Open matches on Saturday afternoon as Vineyard tennis players past and present gathered to celebrate a coach who has become an Island tennis institution.
After 23 years, several one-loss seasons, one undefeated run and one state championship title, head coach Ned Fennessy, 80, is retiring.
The boys' varsity tennis team suffered its first defeat of the season against a tough Barnstable squad Monday afternoon. The Vineyarders had not lost a match since June of 2011. Senior co-captain Justice Yennie's 54-match winning streak also came to an end.
Home sports action picks up after April vacation on Monday with boys' lacrosse taking on Dartmouth at 3 p.m. On Tuesday girls' lacrosse hosts league opponent Coyle and Cassidy at 3 p.m., and sailing takes on Barnstable at the Sailing Camp Park at 3 p.m.


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LIVERMORE, Calif. - By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have for the first time converted the highest frequency sounds into light by reversing a process that converts electrical signals to sound.
Commonly used piezo-electric speakers, such as those found in a cell phone, operate at low frequencies that human ears can hear.
But by reversing that process, lead researchers Michael Armstrong, Evan Reed and Mike Howard, LLNL colleagues, and collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Nitronex Corp., used a very high frequency sound wave - about 100 million times higher frequency than what humans can hear - to generate light.
"This process allows us to very accurately 'see' the highest frequency sound waves by translating them into light," Armstrong said.
The research appears in the March 15 edition of the journal Nature Physics .
During the last decade, pioneering experiments using sub-picosecond lasers have demonstrated the generation and detection of acoustic and shock waves in materials with terahertz (THz) frequencies. These very same experiments led to a new technique for probing the structure of semiconductor devices.
However, the recent research takes those initial experiments a step further by reversing the process, converting high-frequency sound waves into electricity. The researchers predicted that high frequency acoustic waves can be detected by seeing radiation emitted when the acoustic wave passes an interface between piezoelectric materials.
Very high-frequency sound waves have wavelengths approaching the atomic-length scale. Detection of these waves is challenging, but they are useful for probing materials on very small length scales.
But that's not the only application, according to Reed.
"This technique provides a new pathway to generation of THz radiation for security, medical and other purposes," he said. "In this application, we would utilize acoustic-based technologies to generate THz." Security applications include explosives detection and medical use may include detection of skin cancer.
And the Livermore method doesn't require any external source to detect the acoustic waves.
"Usually scientists use an external laser beam that bounces off the acoustic wave - much like radar speed detectors - to observe high frequency sound. An advantage of our technique is that it doesn't require an external laser beam - the acoustic wave itself emits light that we detect," Armstrong said.


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Medical practices and their doctors and administrators face a slew of special business and personal financial management challenges. For example:
For medical practices and their doctors and administrators, the starting point for addressing these and other financial challenges is choosing the right bank, one that is committed to serving their needs – and one that has the knowledge and service philosophy to do so.
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First Tennessee Bank has made that commitment. In January 2011, the bank formed its Medical Private Banking Group, which provides high-quality, specialized financial services to the medical community. The group takes a team approach to addressing the business credit, treasury management, and personal banking needs of medical practices and their physicians and administrators.
"Over the years, First Tennessee Bank has had a strong focus on serving the medical industry," says Michelle Hardin, Senior Vice President in the new group. "But we saw that our medical industry clients could benefit from a banking group dedicated solely to meeting their business and personal financial needs.
"Our medical practice clients can benefit from having bankers who understand how emerging laws and regulations, such as Medicare reimbursement reform, impact their finances," she says. "And on the personal banking side, we know that medical professionals work long hours and need bankers who can meet with them outside the 9-to-5 work day."
Hardin regularly meets with administrators at medical practice clients to give them what she calls a "financial physical," where she reviews their current banking practices and helps identify their pain points. Hardin then ushers in group specialists in business credit and treasury management to address the needs that emerge. She can also bring in financial planning specialists to consult one-on-one with administrators and physicians about their personal financial needs.
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The balance sheet of a typical medical practice differs from that of most other businesses because practices typically "manage to the bottom line," meaning the doctors extract the cash out of the business, Hardin explains. Medical practices also often need extremely expensive diagnostic equipment – for example, an MRI machine can cost over $1 million – and require reasonable financing terms to obtain it.
"At First Tennessee, because of our experience working with medical industry clients, we understand their special financing needs and know what information we need to request beyond balance sheets and income statements in order to do a proper credit analysis and offer the financing that clients need," Hardin says.
Treasury management
Medical practices are common targets for check fraud, and First Tennessee has successfully worked with many practices to implement Positive Pay check fraud protection. With Positive Pay, the practice regularly reports check issuance information to First Tennessee. The bank matches checks presented for payment against that issuance data and reports potentially fraudulent items to the practice, which can then tell First Tennessee whether or not to pay the item.
Another popular service among medical practices these days is Remote Deposit Capture, which enables them to deposit patients' check payments into their First Tennessee bank account electronically without having someone from the office physically transport those checks to a local bank branch.
Other First Tennessee treasury management services being used by many medical practices include Electronic Bill Payment and purchasing cards. Electronic Bill Payment enables clients to pay for services online, which helps boost collections and gives patients an additional welcome payment option. A Visa® Purchasing Card program eliminates inefficient, paper-intensive ordering processes and can generate significant cash rebates when used for big-ticket items such as medical equipment.
Hospitals and larger practices can also address many of their receivables management challenges using Healthcare Lockbox services. Healthcare Lockbox takes remittance payments received from an insurance company (paper or electronic) and puts them into an industry-standard format that can be viewed through a secure Web site and electronically transmitted for automated posting to the provider's practice management system.
Private banking
First Tennessee offers qualifying physicians 100% financing on their primary residences, with very competitive rates. In addition, the Medical Private Banking Group includes a certified financial planner™ professional and a financial advisor who consult with doctors at no additional cost.
The bank also offers a complimentary account aggregation service, which offers an online, up-to-date summary of a physician's depository and investment accounts across multiple financial services providers – essentially establishing an easily accessible personal balance sheet. "We have staff members dedicated to setting these sites up for our medical clients," Hardin says.
The private client experience
First Tennessee's goal is to provide busy doctors with a concierge style personal banking service. "We want to make visits to the branch unnecessary," Hardin says. "We meet with doctors by phone or at their office or some other convenient location, often outside traditional working hours."
To learn more about how doctors and their medical practices can benefit from the specialized services of First Tennessee's Medical Private Banking Group, contact your bank representative.
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Keeping that enormous length of roads passable under very challenging conditions is a noteworthy achievement.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — A defiant Mitt Romney brushed aside more calls for the release of his tax returns on Wednesday and instead accused President Barack Obama of protecting his job at the expense of millions of unemployed Americans.
Intensifying his attacks as Obama focused on official meetings in Washington, the Republican presidential candidate told an overflowing Ohio crowd that the Democrat hasn't met with his jobs council in more than six months. In that time, however, Romney says Obama held 100 fundraisers.
"His priority is not creating jobs for you," Romney declared in Bowling Green. "His priority is trying to keep his own job. And that's why he's going to lose it."
For the often-reserved Romney, the fiery rhetoric marks an aggressive shift as he struggles to answer questions about his business career and personal tax returns. The former businessman, who would be among the nation's wealthiest presidents if elected, has broken from tradition so far, having released just one year of personal income tax returns and promised to release a second.
But in speeches across four states this week, Romney has thrilled supporters with aggressive attacks on Obama and charges of "crony capitalism." At the same time, the Republican's campaign has teased reporters with news that Romney's selection of a running mate could come any day, forcing new attention on what may be the most important decision of the campaign so far.
National polls suggest that the candidates are locked in a tight race less than four months before voters weigh in. Obama was expected to return to campaigning Thursday for a two-day swing though Florida.
The growing war of words between the campaigns drew a response from House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who took a rare step into the presidential race Wednesday.
Congress' top Republican told reporters in Washington that Obama's criticism of Romney's career and taxes are meant to distract from the administration's handling of the economy. Boehner said Obama's questions are an "attack on the private sector" and show that the president "doesn't give a damn about middle-class Americans who are out there looking for work."
The speaker also offered a warning for those, including fellow Republicans, who are calling on Romney to make more tax returns public. "The American people are asking, 'Where are the jobs?'" Boehner said. "They're not asking where the hell the tax returns are. It's not about tax returns, it's about the economy."
The warning didn't quiet the critics of Romney's stand on tax returns.
"If you're going to run for president, it's not necessarily comfortable but it has become a tradition and it's an important one, you make your tax returns available because you think the American people deserve that kind of transparency," Obama spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
Several high-profile Republicans joined the call for transparency, including Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who challenged Romney for the GOP nomination earlier in the year.
Perry, who released his tax returns dating back to 1992, said anyone running for office should make public as much personal information as possible to help voters decide. In an editorial, the conservative National Review also urged Romney to release more tax returns even though it agreed with him that Obama's camp wanted them for a "fishing expedition."
The Romney campaign concedes that many voters would prefer transparency but doesn't believe that the issue is important enough to sway votes in November. And it offered a multipronged counterattack Wednesday.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who features prominently in speculation about Romney's choice for a running mate, vigorously defended Romney's position.
"There is no claim or no credible indication that he's done anything wrong," Pawlenty said on "CBS This Morning."
Senior Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom refused to talk about the issue when asked about it before Romney's rally in Bowling Green. "That's been discussed ad nauseum," he said in declining to respond to Carney's comment.
The single year of tax returns released by Romney show investments and off-shore accounts scattered across the globe, including Switzerland and Grand Cayman.
But Romney's newfound aggression forced the Obama team to answer some uncomfortable questions as well. Asked why the president's jobs council has not met for six months, Carney said there was no specific reason.
"The president has obviously got a lot on his plate," Carney told reporters. "But he continues to solicit and receive advice from numerous folks outside the administration about the economy, about ideas that he can act on with Congress or administratively to help the economy grow and help it create jobs."
Romney also released a TV ad accusing Obama of sending tax dollars overseas. The ad says Obama sent stimulus money to "friends, donors, campaign supporters and special interest groups" and charges that taxpayer dollars went to projects in Finland and China.
Romney also seized on comments Obama made last week in Virginia.
Addressing the role of government in the American economy, the president said, in part: "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." He added: "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
Romney lashed out at the remarks while in Bowling Green, in keeping with a strategy his campaign says will be a theme for the week, if not longer.
"This is the height of foolishness," Romney said. "Barack Obama's attempt to denigrate and diminish the achievement of the individual diminishes us all." He continued the line of criticism during a fundraiser Wednesday evening in Canton, Ohio.
Meanwhile, speculation grew about Romney's selection of a running mate. In Bowling Green, he was asked for assurances that he would select a conservative vice president.
"I can assure you that even though I have not chosen the person who will be my vice president, that person will be a conservative," Romney said. "They will believe in conservative principles."
Earlier in the day, Romney's wife, Ann, shed some light on the vice presidential search. In an interview with ABC News, scheduled for broadcast Thursday, Ann Romney said her husband had yet to settle on a candidate.
"We are certainly talking a lot. This last week, this last weekend, there was a lot of discussion," she said, according to excerpts released by the network. "There was a lot of talk. We're not quite there yet. And we're going to be there soon."
Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman and Ben Feller in Washington and Thomas J. Sheeran in Canton, Ohio, contributed to this report.


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Earlier today we saw photos of Milla Jovovich and Ali Later promoting their new film Resident Evil: Afterlife at WonderCon in San Francisco, CA yesterday and right now we get to see a few photos of Hottie McHotster Jake Gyllenhaal doing a bit of promo work at WonderCon for his new film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time … behold:
Le sigh. I feel bad for anyone (like Jerry Bruckheimer, here) who has to stand next to Jakey poo for a photo … they are always completely overshadowed by his beauteous brilliance. It's a shame that WonderCon had to take place over Easter weekend because I would've been more than happy to fly up to San Fran to attend the convention and possibly run into Jake Gyllenhaal. Ah well … mebbe next time. Jake and his Persia compatriots did more than just promote their film at the convention, they also did a bit of partying afterwards. After the jump, check out a photo of Jake at the Prince of Persia afterparty where he was gifted with a very special new toy …
Yes, folks, yesterday was a geekfest not only because it was a big day at WonderCon but also because it was Apple iPad launch day — so Jake was being doubly geeky … which I kinda love ENTIRELY :)
Le sigh, indeed.
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If Jenni Rivera's family gets its way, the late singer's daughter Janney "Chiquis" Marin would play her mother in a film about her life. The plans for such a biopic are underway, and it's just a matter of the movie's producers accepting Chiquis as an option.
"That's our plan, that's our dream. But, you know, in situations like a movie as big as this and with producers and big companies, these decisions have to be made as a team," Jenni's sister Rosie Rivera tells Primer Impacto (via Huffington Post). "We as the Rivera family will present Chiquis and hope they accept her."
Though this would be Chiquis' first film role, it wouldn't be her first time in the spotlight. She appeared on the reality show "Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis and Raq-C" in 2010, as well as other subsequent reality series' about the Rivera family. Francisco Joel Mendoza, the Jenni River biopic director, previously suggested actress like Jennifer Lopez and Angelica Vale for the role.
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Dear Tom and Ray:
I have a push-button start on my car. When I start the car, I have found that you just need to push the button and let it go, and the car starts. However, my husband insists on keeping the button pushed in until the car actually starts. I say that this is like "grinding the starter" and will eventually cause a problem. I'm tired of nagging him. Is he causing damage to my car? We never keep our cars for more than five to six years, so if you tell me it will take much longer than this to actually cause a problem, I will shut up (not). – Barbara
Ray: It's a good question, Barbara. We don't know the answer in every case, but we do have some data to report.
Tom: We took a couple of the push-button-start-equipped cars that the manufacturers were kind enough to let us test-drive for review, and went out to see if we could burn out the starters.
Ray: We held the start button down for varying lengths of time, and it made no difference whatsoever. When you pushed the start button, the starter would crank for a second or two, until the engine caught, and then it would stop cranking – no matter how long you held your finger on the button.
Tom: My guess is that all, or certainly most, cars with a push-button ignition work this way. We can tell you from experience that VWs and Lexuses do.
Ray: By the way, I'm sure both manufacturers are happy to learn that the starters on the cars they loaned us are still intact.
Tom: And Barbara, you'll be happy to learn that your husband is not doing any harm to your car.
Ray: Or maybe you won't be happy to learn that, because then you have to stop nagging him about it. On the other hand, I'm sure you can get on him for those unsightly fingerprints he's always leaving on your starter button.


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Ownership of the earth station in Andover changed hands over the years, and the technology driving satellite transmissions of telephone and television changed as well.
The radome and the horn antenna were dismantled in 1985. The original earth station employed about 100 people.
By the turn of the 21st century, only a dozen or so employees worked at the station, which continued to relay satellite transmissions with updated equipment.
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TONIGHT! Come to the Northfield Public Library's Trivia Bee and Benefit Event!
On Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Grand Event Center, the public is invited to celebrate the Northfield Public Library with an evening of trivia, music and dancing. The Friends and Foundation of the Northfield Public Library (FFNPL) will host a Trivia Bee led by quiz mistress Jessica Peterson White, along with live music and dancing to the sounds of one of the area's favorite bands, The Zillionaires. Proceeds from this not-to-be-missed event will support a wide range of initiatives and programs at the Northfield Public Library. The teams are set and ready to go. All ages are welcome to attend. There will be a suggested donation at the door.
"We decided to 'mix things up a bit' this year," notes Bill North, president of the FFNPL, an all-volunteer group of local community members who work in support of the Northfield Public Library. "Rather than a spelling bee, we thought 'Let's have a trivia bee!' Trivia is really fun -- and everybody knows a lot about 'something.' And we're really pleased to have our event hosted by none other than Northfield's much-admired quiz mistress, Jessica Peterson White."
Trivia guru Peterson White, who hosts the popular weekly quiz night at The Contented Cow, explains the format of the event: "Teams of up to four will compete by answering questions on a wide range of topics, both trivia and otherwise, from Northfield history to national news, from gardening to football, from Harry Potter to Shakespeare." Teams that survive the qualifying round will move on to compete in semi-finals and then finals, with the top three teams vying for first place in an exciting championship round on the stage of The Grand Theater. "Winning teams," promises Peterson White, "will receive a hearty handshake and the warm glow of victory -- as well as some fabulous prizes."
"Of course, the biggest winner," adds North, "will be the community of Northfield. We are so fortunate to have a top-notch public library that serves us all in so many different ways throughout our lives."
In addition to the team trivia competition, the evening will also feature audience participation events with prizes, hors d'ouevres and cash bar, and live music and dancing to The Zillionaires. "This is a fundraiser in support of the Library," says North, "but it's also a party and a time to come together with friends to celebrate this wonderful community resource." "We will also offer some fun opportunities for individual 'trivia masters' and party attendees as well." says Jessica Peterson White.
Additional donations can also be made in support of the Northfield Public Library. Please send them to FFNPL (Friends and Foundation of the NPL), 210 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057. These are tax-deductible.
The Grand Event Center is located at 316 Division Street in downtown Northfield. For more information and directions, call (507)663-1773. To learn more about the Friends and Foundation of the Northfield Public Library, contact Bill North at (507) 645-7807 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community is a labor of love, the work of my heart. It tells the story of the Inklings, a writing group that included Lewis, Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Warren Hamilton Lewis, John Wain, and others. They met in Oxford for a period of about seventeen years, reading their work out loud and encouraging, criticizing, and supporting each other in dozens of different ways.
In this book, I talk about their interaction, and I describe the difference it made to all that they accomplished. But this is not just a book about Lewis or Tolkien. Its about community, the need that all of us have to connect with others who share our dreams. Its about writing and the complexities of the writing process, the times of energy and vision and the times of discouragement and frustration. And its about creativity, and the things that help each of us to stay inventive, productive, and courageous as we press into the creative work we feel called to do.
For a publicity fact sheet about The Company They Keep, click here.
For comments and reviews, click here.
To read the introduction of the book, click here.
For frequently asked questions, click here.
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After a three-decade delay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed the first controls that would significantly curb power plant discharges of toxic coal ash and sludge into the nation's waterways, according to a report by five national environmental organizations.
The report released Tuesday by the Environmental Integrity Project, Waterkeeper Alliance, Sierra Club, Earthjustice and Clean Water Action said the regulations proposed by the EPA could reduce or eliminate the discharge of pollutants harmful to human and aquatic health such as lead, mercury, selenium, arsenic and cadmium that now total more than 5 billion pounds a year.
But the report also warns that lesser regulatory options -- inserted into the EPA proposal by the White House's Office of Management and Budget after meetings with representatives of the electric power industry -- would badly water down the controls. One of the OMB-proposed options contains no limits for the discharge of scrubber sludge that the EPA formulated the regulation to control.
Most of the pollutants discharged into the water come from smokestack "scrubber" pollutants that are removed from the smokestack emissions of coal-burning power plants -- a waste stream that didn't exist 31 years ago when the federal Clean Water Act regulations for power plants were last amended.
"As we do a better job of pulling pollutants out of the air, more and more toxic pollutants, including mercury, lead, cadmium and selenium, are being left behind and going largely untreated into our streams, lakes and rivers," Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, said during a phone news conference held to coincide with the release of the report.
That "witches brew of pollutants," she said, is linked to a variety of human health problems, including increased cancer risks and lower brain functioning in children. Mercury accumulates in fish, making them unsafe to eat and causing many states to issue voluntary fish consumption advisories.
"EPA is finally waking up and proposing rules that should have been in place 30 years ago, and that will reduce power plant water pollution by more than 50 percent," said Eric Schaeffer, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project. "But several of the options inserted by the OMB are pitiful and would do little or nothing to reduce pollution and meet the legal requirements of the law."
Mr. Schaeffer, a former EPA regulator, said the control technology to clean up the power plant discharges into waterways is available and affordable. EPA study estimates put the cost of effective pollutant controls at less than 1 percent of the annual revenues for most coal plants, and, if passed along to electric utility customers, would cost approximately 2 cents a day.
According to official White House meeting logs cited in the report, industry representatives met with the OMB on four occasions in March and April and with environmental groups once. An expanded roster of regulation options, including several the report judged far weaker than the EPA proposed options, were published in the Federal Register June 7, kicking off a public comment period that will end Sept. 20.
Ari Isaacman Astles, an OMB spokeswoman, declined to comment on the specifics of the meetings involving the electric power industry, citing OMB policy.
The EPA, which has acknowledged that existing regulations have not kept up with electric utility industry practices, is working to establish the new regulations under a court order requiring it to take final action by May 22, 2014.
EPA estimates that the regulations, which would focus on the nation's approximately 500 coal-fired power plants, would reduce pollutant discharges by 470 million pounds to 2.62 billion pounds annually and reduce water use by 50 billion to 103 billion gallons per year.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president of the Riverkeeper Alliance, and representatives of the other four environmental groups, said they would go to court to ensure that strong controls on toxic wastewater discharges are adopted by the EPA.
Power plants that are smaller than 50 megawatts would not be subject to the controls.
"It's time for power plants to stop using rivers, lakes, streams and bays as open sewers to dump their toxic waste," said Robert Wendelgass, Clean Water Action's president and chief executive officer. "Worse still, three quarters of these plants are operating without a permit to limit the amount of toxic metals they can dump in the water. The EPA must end the power plant industries' free pass to pollute into already damaged waterways and other vital waters that are sources of drinking water for millions of Americans."
Kevin Sunday, a DEP spokesman, issued a statement saying the department "is reviewing EPA's proposal and intends to submit comments to assist the agency in crafting a sensible final rule making."
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In the spirit of full-disclosure, I should warn you at the outset of this review that I am a huge admirer of the Nine Inch Nails rock show, and am firmly of the belief that objectivity (whatever that means) is a hugely over-rated virtue when it comes to the assessment of works of art. In my opinion, if you don't love it a little, it's probably best to keep your trap shut.
I've long been a slave to Trent Reznor's simultaneously thrilling and terrifying grind, and after years of waiting, I was looking forward to these performances with the kind of anticipation that is usually reserved for things like finding water after 40 days and 40 nights in the desert. Having said that, I was not without reservations heading in.
I had whetted my appetite for the current incarnation of Nine Inch Nails in early May at Coachella, where it was clear that Reznor, who looked like a million dollars, was undeniably capable of bringing the rock; but something was different. Having last seen Nine Inch Nails in 1994 and 1995 on the now legendary "Self Destruct" tour, it seemed, at Coachella, that something like an order of magnitude had been lost, along with all the dirty transgression and general insanity of his performance in those days. Suffice it to say that while I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Reznor look so well at Coachella, and was extremely pleased to see that he still roars, I had also been just a little dismayed, and could not quite conceive of how he would manage to achieve the power he once wielded. The concern that he simply could not made me nervous like only the anticipation of a favorite artist's new work can.
Those worries were not in the least allayed by the absolutely brilliant warm up performance of href="http://http://www.dresdendolls.com/">The Dresden Dolls. Calling themselves "Brechtian Punk Cabaret" the Dolls feature the absolutely scorching Amanda Palmer on pounded piano and vocals, and the equally staggering Brian Viglione on drums.
Palmer and Viglione took the stage in white cake make-up and proceeded to deliver one of the most original, authentically incandescent performances I have ever seen. Palmer straddled her bench and rocked the piano as if it were a flame-throwing guitar in the cocksure hands of a metal god, and Viglione, all sharp cheekbones in a bowler hat behind his kit, punctuated her every word with a combination of raw power and gorgeously expressive sensitivity. Midway through their fiery cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" I had to admire Reznor's confidence in asking an act this bewilderingly good to precede him, and started wondering how Nine Inch Nails could possibly top their singular genius.
I never should have doubted him.
After more than a decade on the Nine Inch Nails tip, during which I have witnessed the thrillingly willful destruction of all bad shit, a horrific and terrifying destruction of self, and years of ominous silence from The Empire of Dirt, it's with the greatest possible pleasure that I say that this week's Nine Inch Nails rock show in San Diego was nothing short of joyous and celebratory.
Gone entirely is the old sense of watching a man eat himself alive, but Reznor ripped through a crowd-pleasing retrospective delivering all the old numbers with no loss whatsoever in ferocity or emotion, but with the feeling that the whole project had been re-imagined and reclaimed by a new man — one who likes himself, loves his work, and who is trusting the raw fact of his own immense talent perhaps for the first time.
Where real desperation and filth once ruled Monday evening's opening salvos "Wish" and "Sin", here there was a sense of masterful theater in Reznor's howling rage and transgressive desire. Where tearful pathos once bathed "Something I Can Never Have," and Reznor squeezed and stroked himself in exactly the way he always has while singing it, there was a new effectiveness in his controlled performance that in no way undermined the authenticity of his genuine emotion, but instead strengthened it through undiminshed, and consciously intended performative commitment.
As for his new songs, I'll spare you the string of superlatives: they rule, and I can't wait for him to work more of them into the show.
For me, the most memorable moment came late in the second night's performance, as Reznor rocked his latest single, "The Hand That Feeds." At one point, standing back on the stage for a moment, Reznor looked out at the roiling tumult before him, all sweaty crowd surfers, raised fists and devil horns aloft, every voice raised in unison with his, and seemed to pause for a moment in his mind to really see it. Then, he smiled – just the tiniest upturn at the corners of his mouth – as if he were just in that moment taking in what he had wrought, and seeing that it was good, before baring sharp teeth and choking his somewhat battered guitar to pound his head-banging rock with renewed abandon, and what looked unmistakably like pure pleasure.
The notion that keeps blooming in my mind, more than any other, is that of Reznor's enormous generosity as a performer. I was struck by his respect for his own work, and for himself as an artist, and as an extension of that, for his audience.
There is no way that Trent Reznor would ever take the stage without being prepared to give it up with total commitment and savage seriousness. In saying that, I don't mean to say that he is humorlessly self-serious, because that widely-held misconception concerning the alleged relentlessness of his angst need to be put to rest in the worst way. I mean to say that, essentially, he truly and soulfully stands behind everything he does, and ever has done, with every single part of himself, and that is pure gold. You can't ask for more.
Reznor takes Nine Inch Nails on to a festival tour in Europe this summer before returning to the states for an arena tour this fall. If you know what's good for you, you won't miss it.
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Ivelin Popov's second-half goals were the difference between the two sides at Fir Park and he twice finished off passes from dangerman Ibrahima Balde to give the visitors a perfect introduction to European football.
Motherwell had responded well to Popov's opener but they were cut open on the break in the 77th minute of the third qualifying round first leg.
Motherwell lost 2-0 at home to Panathinaikos and Levante last season to see
their UEFA Champions League and Europa League campaigns effectively ended before the second leg.
In both ties Motherwell had plenty of possession but were undone by clinical
opponents who both scored their killer goals on the break after good spells of
home pressure, and manager Stuart McCall was determined not to suffer the same fate again.
To that end, he named a more cautious line-up with John Sutton the lone striker and left-back Zaine Francis Angol on the flank of a five-man midfield.
The game plan looked to be working reasonably well and Sutton had a first-half penalty appeal turned down, but it was the class of Ibrahima that undid last season's Scottish Premier League runners-up.
The Senegal striker's pace, movement and close control proved too much and he could have had a first-half hat-trick before his penalty-box trickery allowed
Popov to net in the 52nd minute.
Motherwell hit back with a sustained spell of pressure but last-man Stevie
Hammell gave the ball away after Kuban cleared a corner and the hosts were
punished with a swift and brutal counter-attack.
There was more misery for Motherwell in stoppage time when Sutton headed
against the post from Francis-Angol's cross.
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Do Americans Read Literature in Translation?
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Posted by Erin Brown in books world literature
Literature in translation has long been regarded as a remote and economically challenging niche in American publishing. There is a common perception, both in the United States and abroad, that American readers simply cannot be bothered with books that don't originate in English.
Horace Engdahl, a Swedish literary historian and critic, who presides over the Nobel Prize jury, caused quite an uproar last fall when he remarked to the Associated Press that American authors were not in real contention for the most prestigious international award in literature. "The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature . . . That ignorance is restraining." Indeed, the Nobel Prize has not gone to an American author since Toni Morrison received it in 1993.
A week after Engdahl's inflammatory comments, the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Le Clézio's books, it so happens, are not widely available in translation in the United States. The Prospector (1993), a translation of Le Clézio's Le Chercheur d'or (Gallimard, 1985), is published by David R. Godine, Inc., a small, independent press in Boston whose recently launched series, Verba Mundi, features some of the most prominent names in world literature. (Other publishers of recent Le Clézio translations include the University of Chicago Press, The University of Nebraska Press, and Curbstone Press.)
Is it only the so-called provincialism of American readers that's to blame for the stunted growth of literature in translation in the United States? Champions of the neglected genre point out that the lack of multilingualism among American editors (by comparison to their European counterparts) makes it hard for them to judge with confidence which foreign language works have promise. Others note that translated works are seldom backed by vigorous marketing efforts—such that lackluster sales become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Next week I will revisit the question of "focused, long-range editorial vision," the principle upon which Europa Editions is founded.


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Stolen from a post on Democratic Underground. I think this demonstrates the true nature of the disease called the tea party.
Nothing works better to force a radical out of office than using their own words against them. The right wing is very organized in this area and it has shifted politics in America. I think the left finally has had some wins lately with using public opinion to sway politics. Quite a few Teabaggers have had to resign recently because the general population has demanded they step down. I offer these examples:
Rep. Martin Harty NH said the disabled should be sent to Siberia to freeze and die. RESIGNED after public outrage prompted massive calls, letters and emails.
Carlos Lam, a deputy prosecutor in Ind., sent email encouraging Gov. Scott Walker to fake an attack against himself. RESIGNED
State prosecutor, Jeffrey Cox, tweeted they should use live ammunition on Wisconsin protesters. RESIGNED
Joyce Kaufman, Allen West's named Chief of Staff, RESIGNED after the backlash to her calls of violence.
OUR LETTERS, EMAILS and PHONE CALLS REALLY DO MATTER!!
I think we should make sure that letters, emails and phone calls continue to be sent to Tea Baggers when they go too far. If you have some suggestions of others who need to hear from us then add their contact info and we can drop them a message. How about this for a start: (google their names and their stories pop right up so you can fact check)
Florida Republican Kathleen Passidomo blamed an 11 year old girl and her family for her rape by 18 males. Here is her contact info:
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1003 State Capitol,
Florida 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-4487
Fax: (850) 922-0806
Her boss:
The Honorable Dean Cannon, Speaker
Florida House of Representatives
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Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300State Rep. Virgil Peck (R-Tyro) suggested shooting illegal immigrants like feral pigs to control them. Here is his contact info:
(from his state rep page) (his personal website is down)
Home Information
P.O. Box 277
Tyro, Kansas 67364
Phone: 620-879-2334
Business Information
Occupation: Insurance Agent
Phone: 620-879-2334School board chairwomen Ann Murray referred to the upper seating at SunLife Stadium as "n—- heaven." Here is her contact info:
James F. Notter Superintendent of her District
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He should have kept his big trap shut. I guess he thought the people would have sympathy and it would all blow over and go away.
What a snakey slimey weasel of a man he is.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/21553680The US government has joined a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong after talks with his lawyers broke down.
The suit argues Armstrong defrauded the American public by insisting he was not using drugs while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team.
Last month, Armstrong admitted using performance-enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour de France wins.
The suit, filed by his former team-mate Floyd Landis, aims to recover sponsorship money from Armstrong.
"Lance Armstrong and his cycling team took more than $30m from the US Postal Service based on their contractual promise to play fair and abide by the rules - including the rules against doping," said Ronald C Machen Jr, US Attorney for the District of Columbia.
"The Postal Service has now seen its sponsorship unfairly associated with what has been described as 'the most sophisticated, professionalised, and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen'.
"This lawsuit is designed to help the Postal Service recoup the tens of millions of dollars it paid out based on years of broken promises.
"In today's economic climate, the Postal Service is simply not in a position to allow Lance Armstrong or any of the other defendants to walk away with the tens of millions of dollars they illegitimately procured."
Armstrong's legal team had tried to convince the US government not to join the so-called 'whistleblowing' lawsuit filed by Landis, who himself admitted using drugs throughout his career.
"Lance and his representatives worked constructively over these last weeks with federal lawyers to resolve this case fairly, but those talks failed because we disagree about whether the Postal Service was damaged," said Armstrong's counsel Robert Luskin.
"The Postal Services's own studies show that the Service benefited tremendously from its sponsorship - benefits totalling more than $100m."
By flagging up allegations of fraud, Landis could receive a substantial share of any money recovered from Armstrong under the federal False Claims Act. The law, introduced by President Lincoln in 1863, stipulates the person bringing the lawsuit can receive 15-25% of any damages.
Armstrong ended years of denial in January during an interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey in which he described doping as part of the process of winning the Tour.
The 41-year-old has since said he will not agree to be interviewed under oath by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada).
Armstrong was charged by Usada in June 2012 with using performance-enhancing drugs.
He filed a lawsuit against the organisation the following month, accusing it of "corrupt inducements" to other cyclists to testify against him.
However, Armstrong then announced in August that he would not fight the doping charges filed against him, and was given a life ban by Usada and stripped of his Tour de France titles.
Armstrong won seven Tour de France titles between 1999 and 2005. The US Postal Service sponsored the team between 1996 and 2004.
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US government to sue Lance Armstrong
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From what I have also heard is that he was a severe a-hole to the people he worked with as well...never been a fan of him to begin with...
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02-23-2013 #3
Bet it will be a net loss for the US Government when it's all said and done.
"you are both the product and the architect of your environment"
02-23-2013 #4
So glad this $#@! has lost his legacy and will go down in history as a fraud. $#@!ing asshole...Good job!
02-23-2013 #5
I'm sorry but "performance-enhancing" drugs do not give you talent.
02-23-2013 #6
True, but it does give u an edge in physical abilities and what Amstrong does for a living( or any other sport ) require no/minimal amount of talent. Just mainly physical abilities, and that is why I still don't understand why Athletes get pay more than Engineers.
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Cycling was basically a PED contest for a long time. Who has the best doping program? Answer..... Lance!
"you are both the product and the architect of your environment"
02-23-2013 #9
You are right they do not there has to be at least some talent there.
What they are is a crutch for those that do not want to go the extra mile to gain the edge so they juice themselves up.
Just to let you know, Lance Armstrong wasn't the only person doing "performance-enhancing drugs" when he was competing. He is a douche nozzle, though.
With reports of team mate saying he pressured them into taking drugs or he will have them removed from the squad.
There is a word for people like him. Narcissist I think fits him well.Last edited by keefy; 02-23-2013 at 16:30.
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Lance days have been numbered for a while. When the Feds got hold of Cheryl Crow I knew it wouldn't be long before he would fall. She knew he was juicing and her statement after he confessed proves it.
02-23-2013 #11
nice one karma
02-23-2013 #12
can we let this guy be ?? this guy bike to the moon and singed this is a wonderful world at the same damn time
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Why did LAnce do the Oprah show?
Any more Lance jokes?
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and what might that be?
99% of athletes in every sport are on peds. nba, nfl, baseball, cricket, ufc/mma etc. a friend of mine who is natural was contacted by a large company asking him to became a representative for them a.k.a sponsorships. but only under the condition that he starts taking AAS but claim that he's natural. once you publicly say you aren't natural and take/taken steroids, you're automatically put on the blacklist for sponsors.
how is lance narcissistic? he likes competitive cycling and had ambitions to get to the top and he was willing to do whatever it takes. in hollywood actresses (im not sure about the guys) have to $#@! their way to the top. in professional sport they have to take peds. how else do you think records are being broken every year?
the only reason why lance is getting all the $#@! for it is because he's the one coming first. all the people that lost to him want to get rid of the competition not because they want a fair race.
all of the pressure put on athletes to give a good performance and do things the human body wouldn't ever be capable of doing naturally was put on by the audience and the money that they'd be willing to spend to go across the world to see them perform.Last edited by x6teen3; 02-24-2013 at 05:38.
02-24-2013 #17
They're not a crutch, nor are they some miracle magic. If someone sucks they're going to suck even after juicing. Talent isn't a small part of it, it's a large part of it.
It's kind of like Venom's embryonic alien suit. When it left him and attached itself to Spidey, Spidey got some enhanced powers, but he was still the same size and wasn't really all that much better. But attached to Eddy Brock, Eddy Brock became a huge effing beast because he was an Olympic weightlifter in his normal life. The suit only served to enhance what was already there.
I thank you for taking the time to read my nerdy analogy.
Now here's an awesome image of Venom and Carnage molesting Spider-Man and Iron Man:
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02-24-2013 #18
The aggregation of marginal gains.
They are a crutch.
A "clean" person will have to put a lot more effort into the training to gain a tenth per lap than if they were on the drugs.
If they didn't make it easier and enhance performance people wouldn't use them.Last edited by keefy; 02-24-2013 at 17:01.
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I think you guys use such things. Thats what I think.
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Yet another technical update
We haven't had any resource problems for the past several hours. I'm cautiously bringing the main index back online. If it starts to flare up again, I may have to go back to the barebones index.
Dumb (Technical) Question
Is there a program or utility that will tell me what parts of T & S are using server resources? Right now, I've got cpanel, and that's it. So I can watch our resource use spike, and I can turn off plugins. And I can pull the index offline. And see if that helps any. But it would be nice if I could get a more exact picture. (i.e., "server use – 10. Breakdown: 2.0 for index.php, 1.0 for wp-comments-post.php, and 7.0 for blacklist.php" which would tell me "aha, the blacklist is what's tying up resources"). Suggestions?
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Okay, that didn't work. We spiked again, knocked out Apache again. I took down our index file and reverted back to the out-of-the-box default wordpress index. (Pretty, huh?) We'll see if that helps. Maybe there's a script in our index that's crashing the site.
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We just had a technical mini-crisis. I think it's past.
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Hi. We've been experiencing some major technical problems, as you've probably figured out by now. Our new host didn't handle the site. We're pointing the DNS back to the old host, which has the posts and comments through last Thursday. Once this is back up and running (DNS resolved everywhere) we'll try to get a hold of the new material and drop it back in. It may be rocky for a day or two, but we should be up and running relatively shortly. Thanks for your patience!
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The Gateway Blog – Part 1
Growing up, I always knew better than to mess around with blogs. My parents would tell me, "If you only remember one thing, remember this — stay off of blogs!" And this was easy through high school and through my mission. No one was offering me blogs. In fact, they hadn't been invented yet (which I must say made compliance with that rule really quite easy). But unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to stay blog-free forever. The culprit, of course, was Times and Seasons . . . "the gateway blog."
Quick technical note
We've moved the site from the /wp directory to the root directory. (This move may help restore our burnished Google-rank).* The site is now fully running at the root directory. (Yeah, there was a brief period where it, uh, wasn't. Sorry about that). There's also a .htaccess rewrite in place to route people to the new digs, and I'm not anticipating any further hitches. If there are, please let us know.
Power to the People
You may have noticed that we're tinkering with some template ideas. In particular, drop-down menus look fun and promising. However, they can't be everywhere. (Or can they?).
Aesthetic Changes
We're doing some slight tinkering. Any feedback is appreciated. (Also, if we break something, please let us know, along with any relevant details — "I can no longer load the page in Netscape" or whatever.) Thanks!
RSS feeds
Ours is was broken. Now it's better. Thanks, as usual, to Bryce for able assistance. If anyone continues to have problems with the RSS feed, please make a note in comments, or send an e-mail. Thanks.
Virus Concerns
Ryan Bell has just posted about some fishy virus-containing e-mails that he received, allegedly from Greg Call, Nate Oman, Daniel Bartholomew. It looks like there is a virus somewhere in the bloggernacle. This could be as simple as a bloggernacle participant using an infected machine that is sending virus e-mails with false "From" data. Or it could be a more serious issue. For the moment, bloggernacle participants are warned to be very careful opening e-mail purporting to come from Nate, Greg, or for that matter any bloggernacle participant. And as a general matter, bloggernacle readers (like all computer users) should at the very least have up-to-date virus protection on their computers.
Quick admin note
Following a string of spam attacks, I'm tinkering with the settings to try to allow it to catch more spam. I've tightened a few controls to "wait list" comments that might be spam. (These aren't deleted, but they're kept in a queue until they can be individually approved). I'm trying to keep the settings right, and I don't think that I'll be catching many legit comments, but there's a chance that your comment will be put on a wait list, as I figure out how best to work with spam fighting tools. I'm not sure if this particular tool is going to work well. Apologies in advance for any inadvertent wait listing.
Quick admin note — comments restored
In the switch to WP, certain threads lost some comments. I've just fixed all of the threads that lost any comments.
Our Times, Your Seasons
A retrospective, an announcement (or two), and a thank you.
Very Serious Reflections on the occasion of our first anniversary.
Times and Seasons has turned the searching glare of its inquiry onto itself. We don't know exactly the question that was asked, but whether the answers are self-parody or just self-indulgence is up to you. Enjoy.
A technical hiccough
Our internet host is having some problems keeping up with traffic on this incredibly busy day. The problem is exacerbated since they're also hosting some official election supervisor sites in Florida. We've had one hiccough so far today — about an hour and a half of down time — and we may see more. Just an FYI.
Quick note
We've been getting a ton of spam lately from a new batch of spammers using new .info sites. So I just added a general moderation rule for any .info sites. I also added a specific unblock for danithew's site — his posts should go through okay. I don't think we have any other real commenters who use .info sites. If so, I can unblock them as well. (And this isn't a true block, it just directs these comments into the moderation queue for individual approval or deletion).
Another technical problem
There seems to be a minor bug in one of the comment scripts, which is causing error messages when people enter comments. As usual, our crack team of elite experts (hah!) is investigating. In the meantime, as far as we can tell, all comments are going through just fine — it's just giving an error message afterwards. So rest easy, your comment should be fine. And we'll get this fixed, like all of the other little bugs that crop up around here from time to time.
Attacked by the forces of evil
We have been infected with spyware. I'm working on eradicating it. It's gone.
Blogroll changes
Over the next little while, I'm going to be trying to implement the new blogroll feature from WordPress. There will be a bit of lag time as we get our blogroll moved over. During this lag, the new blogroll will only be partially complete. However, it should load a lot faster as it's not getting data from two other websites.
Kaimi Blows up the Blog, Again
Apologies to all who have tried to comment this morning. Kaimi was messing with comment moderation settings (where we can put "questionable" comments into a queue for individual approval) and accidentally added an extra blank line to the list of questionable comment flags. The software apparently interpreted this as a blank space, so any comment with a space in it was marked questionable. This has been fixed, and everyone's "questionable" comments have been released from comment jail. (I hear they're considering a class action lawsuit, alleging unconstitutional conditions).
Filtering software
We've just got a new filtering software, WP-Blacklist, installed. This should save the bloggers lots of time and energy deleting spam. Filtering software is an imperfect tool. Kaimi just noticed fixed a bug in the software that caused certain entries with multiple dashes to erroneously show up as spam. If anyone notices any other glitches or problems commenting, please let us know. (Thanks!) Meanwhile, if anyone wants to see what happens to comment spammers, try making the following comment. "online-casino" . Enjoy!
It's 4 p.m. Do you know where your blogchildren are?
Readers may have noticed a new feature on the sidebar — under the blogroll, we've got a link to a list of our blogchildren. What are blogchildren? As noted in the link, they are the "blogs and bloggers who have stated that they were inspired to start blogging after reading Times and Seasons, and/or who have stated that they modeled their blogs (in whole or in part) after T & S."
Move to Word Press
I think this is now running. It looks like we just plain outgrew MT. I guess all of the earlier time outs were a warning. Apparently, it doesn't handle particularly well when there are 1000 entries and 20,000 comments (3 MB of entries and 20 MB of comments). I would have preferred to have kept things in MT, having already done a lot of work in that software, but it looks like we hit the limit. There are still some changes to be made.
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================================ Scheduled: Carol Armga: May 1-14 Patrick Mason: June 12-26 Jonathan Green: July 7-21 Carrie Lundell: August 1-15 Jill Mulvay Derr: End of August ================================ Accepted invitation, no date yet set: Jeremiah John (Adam) (on long-term hold) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Julie) Terryl Givens (Fall) (Jim) Jon Wilson (aka Ebenezer Orthodoxy) (Matt) Aaron Brown (Matt) Richard Oman (Nate) ================================ Invited, awaiting response: Mother of Ebenezer Orthodoxy Rob Daines? ================================ Approved by bloggers, not yet invited: Rob Fergus (post-post-post-election) Brother Haglund Sally Gordon Brent Andrewsen? Sarah Aldo Edwards Gray & Young (12Q?) Kristin Smith Dayley Christine Durham (12Q?) ================================ Invited, not accepted Keith Lane (possibly in 2005) (said no, for now). (And Jennifer Lane?) Randy Butterfield (no). ================================ Under review John Fowles ================================ Other thoughts and possibilities: J. Scott Craig Bryan Earl Matt Fairholm Robert Kirby Tuan Samahom Alden Stradling Emily Tippets Laurie Uriquiaga Cheiko Okazaki (Kris) Matt Asplund Tony Kimball Zina Peterson Melissa Inouye McMullen Katie Blakesley Nancy Dredge Heather Clayton…
Quick Note on the Blogroll
We're trying out Bloglines, which has some advantages over our old blgoroll program, Blogrolling. For example, it allows us to categorize blogs. Also, it allows us to read posts in one place (aggregation). It has a few differences, however. The main difference is that it requires an RSS feed. Non-RSS blogs are, for the moment, clumped together in a group at the end of the blogroll. In addition, I should note that (1) The determinations of category were made on the fly by Kaimi, and should not be viewed as etched in stone. If you think that your blog is more accurately described as "political" or "journal" or "Mormon-themed" or whatever and it is currently in another category, you can let me (or Nate, or Gordon) know. We're likely to agree with you. (And new categories may always arise, as we tinker with this feature). (2) I couldn't export blogs, so I had to re-enter them all. I may have…


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I do remember our first stop and that was for Gumbo at Antoine's, one of the oldest restaurants in the French Quarter. The picture doesn't do it justice as the gumbo was quite good. I might give the slight nod to Poppy's seafood gumbo the day before but regardless, I might have become a gumbo fan just from this trip alone.
Gumbo at Antoine's |
We were really fortunate to have a gorgeous day for our walking tour.
Part of our tour included visiting a private home in the French Quarter. I took a lot of pictures but I hesitate to post so many pics of someone's home for privacy reasons (even though it was part of the tour) so I'll compromise with one picture. This is one of the rooms in the back part of the house. The front and back houses are separated by an enclosed patio which houses patio furniture and lushly growing plants. The house itself is full of history and portraits of family ancestors and days gone by.
After the walking tour, we were taxi'd over to the Southern Food and Beverage Museum which showcases exactly what it says it does - the origins and representations of food and drinks from the South. One of the staff gave us demos of several drinks, including Cafe Brulot where you set the alcohol in coffee on fire. They really like to set things on fire here, lol. It's an interesting place and if culinary history captures your imagination and interest, it's worth at least a quick visit.
The final stop of the tour included dinner at Cochon - a restaurant that specializes in traditional Southern Cajun cooking. We sat in tables of 5 and 6 and ordered dishes to share. Well, at least as much as any of us could eat since I wasn't the only one hitting my caloric limit. Not that I didn't give it my all....
Appetizer: deep-fried sausage balls (I'm sure they had a more elegant name) |
And my Mac and Cheese side dish which was - wait for it - yummy!
Dessert was based on the waiter's recommendation of pineapple upside down cake with dulce de leche. The cake was served warm and was nicely complemented by the ice cream and chunks of fresh pineapple.
Anne had the chocolate cake layered with ganache and I think that was toffee. I was in a food coma by this point and my cognitive brain functions weren't processing much :).
Thus ends the culinary tour of Tasting New Orleans. It was a fun, albeit brief, trip and I'm so glad I went. Some of the best vacations are where you didn't get to do everything you wanted so that you have a reason to go back. I definitely have many reasons to return to NOLA, not the least being I didn't have three stomachs to consume all that delicious food and try all the restaurants my friends swore I had to try. Definitely next time.


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Should the World Increase Its Reliance on Nuclear Energy?
The Fukushima nuclear disaster last year in Japan changed the discussion of nuclear power. Suddenly, for many people, the dangers of a nuclear accident overshadowed the promise of nuclear power as a clean, readily available source of energy. Around the world, public opinion and many government officials turned against nuclear power.
More recently, growing concerns about Iran's nuclear-energy program have fueled opposition to the spread of nuclear power around the globe.
Proponents, however, say the backlash is overblown. They argue that nuclear power is the best way to meet the world's voracious and growing demand for electricity without creating massive amounts of greenhouse gases. No other form of renewable energy is up to the task, they say, and the dangers of nuclear power can be managed.
Others aren't convinced. In addition to the safety worries highlighted by Fukushima and Iran, they point to the tremendous expense of building nuclear plants. There are other options, they say, that are far less expensive and much less dangerous.
Mark Lynas, a climate-science author and visiting researcher at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, favors a much greater reliance on nuclear power. Peter A. Bradford, an adjunct professor at the Vermont Law School and former commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, argues for the alternatives.
Yes: Climate Change Demands It
By Mark Lynas
In a world with limited need for energy and no danger of climate change, it would be fine to be antinuclear. However, this isn't the world we inhabit.
In the real world, a growing population of seven billion will reach as much as 10 billion by midcentury, most living in the emerging countries whose dramatic economic progress requires vast quantities of cheap energy. If this energy comes primarily from fossil fuels, we face a devastating degree of global warming.
Most nuclear opponents persist in the belief that all this future growth—together with continued high energy use in the industrialized world—can somehow be accommodated by wind, solar and other yet-to-be-developed renewables. Undoubtedly some can. But there is not the remotest chance that renewables plus energy efficiency alone can do the job. Currently wind and solar together add up to less than 2% of global electricity production. That proportion can and should increase, but sustainable declines in carbon emissions will require much more.
There are only two proven technologies that can deliver large-scale, predictable electricity without carbon emissions. One is hydroelectricity. It's relatively safe, but big dams impose substantial ecological and social costs, and hydro can't be scaled up much more because of geographical limitations. The second is nuclear power. Much misunderstood and long opposed by greens, it has the potential to scale up quickly and substantially enough to make a significant contribution to tackling both climate change and energy security.
Overstated Danger
Most antinuclear arguments are either overstated or complete myths. One is that radiation at any level is life-threatening. In fact, radiation is a relatively weak carcinogen and one our bodies are well-accustomed to dealing with because of natural radiation from rocks, the atmosphere and space. Routine emissions from nuclear-power stations are so infinitesimally trivial by comparison that they cannot possibly affect anyone's health.
Even when the worst happens, the effects are overstated. Not a single fatality can yet be ascribed to radiation released in last year's Fukushima disaster, and 26 years after Chernobyl, scientists tracking those exposed to the radiation from that disaster have found no greater amount of birth defects or fatal cancers than those in the general population.
Most people also seem to assume that reactor technology has stood still over the years. In fact, modern reactor designs incorporate significant safety advances, and similar progress is being made in the disposal of nuclear waste. New reactor designs even enable existing waste stockpiles to be burned to generate low-carbon power, leaving a much smaller amount of less dangerous unusable material.
Worth the Cost
There are currently 400 or so operating nuclear reactors in the world, generating about 13% of global electricity. We need many more, but there are real challenges that need to be overcome. The first is ill-considered opposition from environmentalists, which has distorted public policy for decades in many countries, notably Germany and the U.S.
The second is financing. Both nuclear and renewables share the problem of high capital costs, whereas competing fossil-fuel plants are cheap to build and relatively cheap to operate. It is important to remember, though, that while all low-carbon options will need substantial government support if they are to scale up sufficiently—and all should be pursued—nuclear holds the most promise for meeting the world's energy needs in the decades immediately ahead.
The third challenge is nuclear proliferation. Ideally the entire fuel cycle in every country would be under international supervision in order to avoid the possibility of fuel being diverted for bombs.
There is much to do and little time to do it in. Let's avoid repeating decades-old rancorous debates and instead look at solving the problems of climate change and rising energy demand using the best technologies available. Today that means nuclear power is an essential part of the mix, and its use must grow substantially.
Mr. Lynas is a climate-science author and visiting researcher at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
No: It Is Costly and Dangerous
By Peter A. Bradford
If asked whether we should increase our reliance on caviar to fight world hunger, most people would laugh. Relying on an overly expensive commodity to perform an essential task spends too much money for too little benefit, while foreclosing more-promising approaches.
That is nuclear power's fundamental flaw in the search for plentiful energy without climate repercussions, though reactors are also more dangerous than caviar unless you're a sturgeon.
How dangerous? The full impact on people's health from last year's disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan won't be known for years, if ever. But other impediments to relying on a vast nuclear expansion to fight climate change are already clear: Thousands of Japanese may not return to their contaminated hometowns for many years, if ever. The world's largest private utility is a ward of the state. The Japanese government at the time of the accident has fallen. Four reactors were destroyed live on world-wide television. All of this happened on the watch of a safety regulatory regime thought to have been a world leader.
Iran, like several other nations, has used its civilian power program to justify activities bringing it closer to assembling a nuclear bomb. Enthusiasm for spreading reactors among new nations should remind us that the Shah of Iran's nuclear-power program was featured in 1970s nuclear-industry advertisements. If the next nuclear-power-related catastrophe is a bomb going off in a city, what will happen to a climate strategy based on rapid expansion of the "peaceful atom"?
Of course, new reactor designs are safer. However, safety depends on more than design. A world more reliant on nuclear power would involve many plants in countries that have little experience with nuclear energy, no regulatory background in the field, and some questionable records on quality control, safety and corruption.
But safety isn't why the U.S. stopped ordering new reactors in the mid-1970s. Nuclear power is so much more expensive than alternative ways of providing energy that the world can only increase its nuclear reliance through massive government subsidy—like the $8 billion loan guarantee offered by the federal government to a two-reactor project in Georgia approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission earlier this year. That one loan guarantee amounts to $100 in risk exposure per U.S. family. And then there's the quasi-tax that Georgia's government has imposed on its utility customers in the form of early rate increases to help the utility avoid invoking the loan guarantee.
Many more such direct government subsidies will be needed to scale up nuclear power to any great extent.
There are better choices. John Rowe, former chief executive of Exelon Corp., an energy company that relies heavily on nuclear power, recently said, "At today's [natural] gas prices, a new nuclear power plant is out of the money by a factor of two." He added, "It's not something where you can go sharpen the pencil and play. It's economically wrong." His successor, Christopher Crane, recently said gas prices would have to increase roughly fivefold for nuclear to be competitive in the U.S.
Exelon's current low-carbon plan makes clear that many combinations of energy efficiency, renewables and gas beat new nuclear units. In these conditions, governments don't know precisely which technologies will best achieve an energy supply that threatens neither security nor the climate. They should focus on implementing policies like carbon taxes (for climate) or oil import fees (for security) and accept the market's verdict as to which energy sources fit the resulting bill.
Countries that choose power supplies through democratic, transparent and market-based methods aren't building new reactors. Only two are under construction in Europe. The U.S. "nuclear renaissance" has collapsed from 31 announced reactors in 2009 to five now likely to be built, none in states that rely on competitive power markets.
In a world in which nuclear-power policy serves an energy policy that serves the public (not the other way around), countries will steer by "right principles, not the gift of prophecy," as George Kennan wrote half a century ago. That won't be good news for new reactors.
Mr. Bradford is an adjunct professor at the Vermont Law School and former commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Is OPEC Still Relevant in Energy Markets?
The group recently agreed to production cuts to try to prop up low oil prices, but left details for later.
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Should Federal Fuel-Economy Standards Be Relaxed?
Proponents say standards are good for the environment, auto industry and consumers. But opponents say the environmental impact doesn't justify the costs.
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Is It Time to Deregulate Electric Utilities?
Supporters say market forces are the best way to lower costs and foster innovation. Opponents say so far, deregulation has delivered little benefit to customers.
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Are Low Oil Prices Good for the Economy?
Some say low prices are a net positive since they give consumers more money and cut manufacturing costs. Others say damage to the oil sector cancels out benefits.
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Does the Oil-and-Gas Industry Need Tax Breaks?
Those in favor say incentives have benefited a sector critical to the U.S. economy, while opponents say the deductions shift the tax burden to others.
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Nuclear Power and CO2 Emissions Targets
Supporters say nuclear plants are the best way to transition to a low-carbon future. Others argue the plants are too risky to keep in operation.
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The Best Way to Finance New Energy Technologies
A roundtable discussion with Jim Rogers, former chairman of Duke Energy; Severin Borenstein, from Berkeley's Haas School of Business; and Jesse Pichel, managing director at Roth Capital Partners.
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