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As much as we try to avoid it, we all inevitably encounter troubles and trials, and sometimes more than we think we can handle! Jesus knew that his disciples would have to face adversity and trials after he left them to return to his Father. Jesus assured them that his departure is for their good, in order to secure a place for them in God's house – a place of refuge, peace, and everlasting happiness. Homer's Odyssey describes a moving scene when Odysseus miraculously finds his way home, after twenty years of wandering the nether world. After much struggle he convinces his dear father, son, and wife that it is really he who has returned from the "land of the lost" to the land of the living. He secures freedom for his wife and family after fighting off the suitors who have imprisoned her in her own home.
The Lord Jesus assures us of a safe passage to our true home in heaven with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. How can we find our way without a map and a guide? The scriptures speak of the way we should go. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you (Deuteronomy 5:32-33). And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it, and fools shall not err therein (Isaiah). Teach me your way, O Lord; and lead me on a level path (Psalm 27:11).
(John 14:1-12)
If there were not,would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back again and take you to myself,
so that where I am you also may be.
Where I am going you know the way."
Thomas said to him,"Master, we do not know where you are going;
how can we know the way?"
Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you know me, then you will also know my Father.
From now on you do know him and have seen him."
Philip said to him,"Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you for so long a time
and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own.
The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.
Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me,
or else, believe because of the works themselves.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do,
and will do greater ones than these,
because I am going to the Father."
What were we made for? What's the greatest thing we can aim for in this life? To know God. What is the best thing in life, bringing more joy, contentment, life and happiness, than anything else? Knowledge of God. Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me" (Jeremiah 9:23-24). One of the greatest truths of the Christian faith is that we can know the living God. Our knowledge of God is not simply limited to knowing something about God, but we can know God personally. The essence of Christianity, and what makes it distinct from Judaism and other religions, is the knowledge of God as our Father. Jesus makes it possible for each of us to personally know God as our Father. To see Jesus is to see what God is like. In Jesus we see the perfect love of God – a God who cares intensely and who yearns over men and women, loving them to the point of laying down his life for them upon the Cross. Jesus is the revelation of God – a God who loves us completely, unconditionally and perfectly. Jesus also promises that God the Father will hear our prayers when we pray in his name. That is why Jesus taught his followers to pray with confidence, Our Father who art in heaven ..give us this day our daily bread. Do you pray to your Father in heaven with joy and confidence in his love and care for you?
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Rifleman is a Fallout 76 Perk. Rifleman has 3 ranks, requires a level of 8 to use, and spends 1 point by default. Rifleman Rank 2 spends 2 points, Rifleman Rank 3 spends 3 points. Perks are special abilities in the fallout series that give unique bonus to the players taking them. These bonuses heavily affect gameplay, and are important decisions that define Builds.
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(DONNER SUMMIT, Calif) – Boreal Mountain Resort, a leader in creating exciting snow features and innovative terrain parks for beginner through elite athletes, is expanding its niche in the world of youth action sports with the opening of Woodward Tahoe, a youth action sports freeride and freeski instructional center and camp program. Woodward, long recognized as a leader in the progression of action sports will bring "The Woodward Experience" to Tahoe with a new facility that will attract riders and skiers of all abilities. The Nevada County Planning Commission recently approved plans submitted by Boreal to build a 33,000 square foot facility at the base of the resort, the largest of its kind in the United States. Woodward Tahoe is scheduled to open in the summer of 2012, and will operate as a year round facility for instruction, training, special events and camp programs.
Winter snowboard and ski partnerships are not new to Camp Woodward, as Woodward at Copper opened in 2009, a sister resort to Boreal. "What is so exciting for me is to be partnered with an organization such as Woodward that prides itself on being a premier learning center for youth and a training center for high level and professional action sports athletes in snowboard, ski, skate and BMX," said Jody Churich, Boreal's General Manager. "In preparation for Woodward Tahoe, I've had the opportunity to visit the Woodward Camp in Pennsylvania, Woodward West in Tehachapi, California, as well as Woodward at Copper in Summit County, Colorado. They all carry an incredible vibe that we cannot wait to introduce in Tahoe."
Gary Ream, President and long-time leader and creative force behind Woodward agrees. "Woodward Tahoe will bring a brand new set of experiences and opportunities to everyone who visits Boreal. As Woodward continues to grow its presence in winter sports, Tahoe is the perfect next step. We have learned a great deal from our success at Copper. Bringing "The Woodward Experience" to Boreal will be a great opportunity and an exciting adventure for all of us."
On every kid's wish list should be a camp experience at Woodward Tahoe. It will offer summer week-long camps for snowboard, ski, skate, BMX, and cheer/gymnastics with onsite lodging for campers. Woodward Tahoe will include an indoor skatepark, ski/ride ramps, foam pits, trampolines, and digital media area as well as outdoor park and pipe riding into summer. Winter will offer much of the same on a drop-in and daily program format. For more information on Boreal, visit www.rideboreal.com. For more information on Woodward, visit www.campwoodward.com or www.woodwardtahoe.com.


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Fionia Tray is Skagerak's first-ever accessory. One of our favourite classic designs. The tray is ideal for larger servings in everyday life and at parties due to its size and elegant functionality. The grip is carved into the ends of the tray and makes it easy to carry back and forth - from kitchen to bed, from bed to living room, from living room to balcony, and back.
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As difficult as Irish research is, we can overcome its hurdles if we have a better understanding of the idiosyncrasies of Irish given names, surnames, and place names. Our speaker, Judy Wight, solved the case of Delia Holland - in Ireland she was known as Bridget Houlihan. This webinar discusses situations you may encounter with names and places and provides resources for overcoming these problems.
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Stob: Something for the ladies
Overdoing the sweet sherry
Stob (Previously: Sam 'The Spam' Osborne, the notorious spamillionaire, is being surprisingly frank about the goods he pushes.)
I asked Osborne: "So are all your medical products aimed at men?"
"By no means."
He pushed a leaflet towards me. I read:
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"Are you really claiming that with these pills people can diet while they sleep?"
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"What about if she falls asleep in an aircraft at high altitude, and wakes up at sea level?" I asked facetiously, momentarily letting my inner geek run amok.
He looked at me blankly, as well he might.
"So what exactly is in this CelluNite pill?"
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I changed tack. "But you don't just sell health products, do you?"
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I followed his pointing finger to a crowded shelf at my shoulder. It was filled with merchandise. Cartons of CelluNite tablets. A dozen childproof press-and-twist bottles of KnobFood II. A presentation box with a pre-printed gift tag ("Happy Loving Holidays to the Big Man in my Life") containing twenty capsules of Viagrazine Générique pour l'homme par Kelvin Calf. ("The French touch," said Osborne proudly. "Can't beat Gallic sophistication for the Christmas market.") And, at the far end, a shoebox.
I picked it up, but it had been put on the shelf upside-down and its contents fell out. On the floor lay a snub-nosed cylinder of translucent pink plastic, about nine inches in length. Near its blunt end it had a strange appendage, like a malformed limb. It looked quite revolting.
The fall had somehow started the thing's electric motor buzzing. It slithered forward along the carpet like a wounded crab. Its 'leg' touched my foot. I let out an involuntary shriek.
"There you go. The John Bunny 7000 – it's cliterally, ha-ha, the best model we have ever made. What do you think, Ms Stob?"
I kicked the thing under the desk where it couldn't touch me and gathered my thoughts.
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Ife - The Assembly Hall 1970
Prev 14 of 14 NEXT The Assembly Hall and Amphitheatre occupy the south-western corner of the main core, forming an imposing boundary to the west with its wide stairs, which ascend from the main piazza towards the hall and open foyers. It is a multipurpose hall, housing 1,400 people, and is fully air-conditioned, but can also be naturally ventilated. It was conceived in the shape of a sloping saucer serving as seating platform covered by a concrete "tent" oversailing the hall area, which is supported on the outer column line and protects the hall from sun and rain. A minimum stage tower has been provided, as all Nigerian theatre relies on "thrust-stage" production. Leading off the stage tower to the north is the semicircular stage of the amphitheatre. The amphitheatre itself, seating 3,500, slopes upwards as a semicircular concrete structure over a large parking area.Read More


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Pain Medication Research at UW Medical Center and Washington State University
Overdosing on pain medication can kill and may cause pain med addiction. For COPDers though pain management isn't usually a part of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) management. Speaking as a patient – COPD isn't painful. Patients simply can't breathe to different degrees and some patients de-saturate enough to be placed on supplemental oxygen allowing them to exercise further and faster for a quality life.
Trouble is – COPD is often the beginning of gathering other diseases – Other Stuff that is very painful. Trouble is – some pain medications are known to adversely affect the respiratory system…so too often COPDers learn to live without sleep and 24/7 pain until the day comes when the thought of facing another day of such pain isn't worth it and that is when a COPDer will take a pain pill or two for relief and to sleep. Too, our physicians are afraid to prescribe pain meds for fear their patients will become addicted and I understand that.
I lived through the initial crushing left hip pain until now my body is letting me help myself into better hip health through water exercise but the ongoing debilitating cellulitis/Venous Stasis Dermatitis/Lymphedema sweeping lower leg pain finally sent me in desperation to the University of Washington's Pain Management Clinic. On one visit I listed the pain as a 9 out of 10 being the worst.
Those were a few bad years, now is now and it is better. For the Lymphedema, education was the key. Thanks Melissa. Time and exercise is helping me live in harmony with my hip… all without pain medications.
That said, UW Medicine's Alex Cahana, M.D., DAAPM, FIPP and the Division of Pain Medicine is doing ground-breaking work in pain management education for the physician and patient. He was deeply involved with the "Washington State Opioid Reform Initiative, which seeks to reduce the over-prescription of narcotics."
"Since then, we've learned of two initiatives to help providers grapple with the disparate problems of addiction and pain management. ROAM (the Rural Opiate Addiction Management) Collaborative seeks to help manage the widespread issue of opiate addiction in rural Washington. COPE (Collaborative Opioid Prescribing Education) is an online educational tool that helps providers communicate to patients about how best to manage treatment of chronic, non-cancer-related pain.
ROAM and ECHO: Defeating Opiate Addiction in Rural Washington
Until recently, rural physicians have had few tools to help their patients escape opioid addiction — an epidemic health issue in rural areas, with large numbers of unintentional overdoses, even deaths. Methadone maintenance therapy, the most common treatment for opioid addiction, is often unavailable. However, a federally approved medication called buprenorphine (also known as Suboxone or Subutex), is more readily available, and it's a viable, office-based alternative to methadone.
Despite the potential advantages of buprenorphine as opioid replacement therapy for addicted patients, however, few physicians have taken the eight-hour course that allows them to legally prescribe this medication. As of 2010, only 32 rural doctors in Washington had received the federal waiver that allows them to prescribe Suboxone.
In late March, Roger A. Rosenblatt, M.D., MPH, UW professor and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and UW Medicine's ROAM (Rural Opiate Addiction Management) Collaborative helped remedy the situation by offering the course to rural physicians and members of their practice staff in Spokane, in conjunction with the annual Regional Rural Health meetings. Physician participants are then eligible to receive a waiver from the Drug Enforcement Administration to allow the prescription of buprenorphine to treat addiction. If they wish, they can also receive further mentoring and instruction from Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcome), a bi-weekly video-conferencing program that covers issues such as patient management, staff training and clinical protocols.
For more information on ROAM — a collaboration between Washington State University and the University of Washington, funded by the state's Life Sciences Discovery Fund — contact Rosenblatt at 206.685.1361 or email@example.com.
COPE: Online Education for Chronic Opioid Therapy
UW Medicine has launched an online medical training tool for doctors and other prescribing providers who treat chronic pain. Known as COPE — Collaborative Opioid Prescribing Education — the tool is designed to improve interactions between prescribers and patients as they make shared decisions about chronic opioid therapy.
COPE was developed over the past six years by Mark Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in UW Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and adjunct professor of bioethics and humanities, and it has been clinically tested and peer-reviewed. It's a comprehensive program, one that goes beyond typical factual content by using videotaped clinical scenarios to train providers about goal-setting and communications skills. Tutorial models are in development for nurses and for patients and families to help enhance their engagement in decision-making.
COPE focuses on the management of chronic, non-cancer pain, and its interactive modules are a timely response to legislative changes concerning chronic opioid therapy. Recently, Washington State adopted a bill that requires mandatory education and use of a prescription-monitoring program and clinical tracking tool. In addition, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to issue a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) which likely will call for a coordinated risk management plan for patients taking long-acting opioids. COPE will help prescribing providers nationwide to meet this challenge."
For more information on COPE, contact Sullivan at: email@example.com.
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In a recent account of his first Knesset term, Dov Lipman writes that "Yesh Atid Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron is hard at work making major changes to improve the education system." I wonder what values he brings to that project since Piron and other Yesh Atid cabinet members gave key votes to free 104 terrorists .
Looking at Yesh Atid's statement of beliefs , one finds several sections that need to be revised and clarified given its role as a liberator of murderous Jew haters. Below are some examples with proposed revisions in italics:
"We believe that every person in Israel must have their fundamental rights met…"
Not applicable to terror victims and their families' fundamental right to justice.
"We believe it is the duty of the state to care for the health of its citizens."
Not applicable to health damage inflicted upon bereaved families by freeing their relatives' murderers—depression, loss of sleep , etc.
"We believe in a unified society and the principle which says 'all Jews are responsible for one another.' "
Not applicable to terror victims and their families.
"We believe that it is the state's responsibility to ensure the safety of its citizens."
Not applicable to incentivizing terrorism by freeing murderers.
"We believe that it is the duty of the state to care for all its seniors to enable them to live with dignity and enjoy their retirement years without worry or distress. These words are particularly focused on Holocaust survivors who live among us."
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Comic book series : Stan Lee's How to Draw Superheroes
Artist: Stan Lee
Writer: Lee, Stan
Publisher: Watson Guptill
Stan Lee's How to Draw Superheroes
artist: Stan Lee
Writer: Lee, Stan
publisher: Watson Guptill
publish date: 30-07-2013
language: English
coloring: full color
size: 267 x 217mm
pages: 224:
The third installment in comics icon Stan Lee's series showing readers how to create some of the most exciting and dynamic superheroes of all time. Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Avengers all share a common trait - these hugely popular Marvel Comics superheroes were co-created by the legendary Stan Lee. Now, Lee shows readers everything they'll need to make their own mighty superheroes, just like his classic creations. Lee exposes his secret tools and techniques for bringing strong, inspiring heroes and heroines to life.
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Google has announced that it plans to sell e-books online through a service called Google Editions. It plans to simultaneously work with and against other e-book retailers, but wants to ensure that people can read books on nearly any device.
Booksellers looking for another avenue to hawk their wares online will be able to do so next year through Google. The company has announced that its new service, Google Editions, would launch at the beginning of 2010 with around half a million books and that users will be able to buy books on a variety of devices, including their computers and mobile phones, and possibly even e-book readers.
The books will be accessible on the Web, says Google, meaning that any computer or gadget that has a browser will be able to get to the site. The way Google Editions is being pitched, it sounds as if there won't be strict DRM on the offerings—Google says that it's meant to make books accessible from anywhere and that they can be read offline after being downloaded.
Many of the initial analyses of Google Editions have pitted it against Amazon and Barnes and Noble, but such comparisons are not so cut-and-dried. For one, Google is passing itself off as a book "wholesaler," not a distributor. Google Book Search's Tom Turvey said that Google Editions is meant to allow retail partners to sell books online and that the company doesn't expect to be a go-to source for digital distribution. "We expect the majority (of customers) will go to retail partners, not to Google," Turvey said, according to the Associated Press.
What does that mean? Not only can customers buy books from publishers through Google, they can also buy books from Amazon and Barnes and Noble through Google Editions. In this case, Google will keep 55 percent of the profits to split between itself and the retail partner in question, while 45 percent will go to the publisher. If a publisher chooses to go just through Google, Google will keep 37 percent and the publisher will receive the remaining 63 percent of the profits.
Google insists, however, that it has no plans to dive into the e-book reader market—that will be left for Amazon, Sony, and (probably) Barnes and Noble to battle out. Google seems to want to take a more open approach, enabling people to read books on any device they see fit. If anything, it means that publishers that are reluctant to commit to certain proprietary formats (cough Kindle cough) will be able to make money on e-books now without waiting to see who wins the war.
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Further proof Jon Lester has somehow had his genes spliced with Josh Beckett's: he stormed off the field spitting curses, then pitched a full-on screaming tantrum in the dugout yesterday, after surrendering two runs and throwing 30 pitches in the first inning. He followed up his torturous four-run, five-inning start with a sullen press conference. Not quite the snarl of Beckett, but glowering nonetheless.
April, as has been pointed out pretty much everywhere, including from behind the microphones and tape recorders jammed in his glaring face yesterday, is not Lester's month -- his record today stands at 2-5 with a 5.08 ERA in 14 career April starts.
April has continued to be a cruel mistress for Ortiz as well. He started off yesterday's game with his 10th strikeout of the season. But he followed that with one of the two Sox RBI on the day with a fly ball that ate up Delmon Young (Thanks again, Delmon!).
But it wasn't scored an error! And so Papi was 1-1 w/RISP! And whatever it is you're saying about rivers in Egypt, lalalalalalala I can't hear you!!
OK, seriously--on July 14, I would agree totally that he should be taken out of the lineup. On April 14, I say, even if it's a formality, we give him a chance. He's earned at least that much.
Meanwhile, the Sox dropped another series opener and opponents' home opener on this road swing. Maybe it was all that strange sunshine in the new outdoor Target Field. But seriously...yesterday, Carl Pavano put in 6 innings, surrendering one run on four hits. Carl Pavano?
Also, Victor Martinez has thrown out exactly one runner trying to steal this year, while three baserunners coasted into second against him yesterday -- his 10th, 11th and 12th of the season (per A.Benjamin, via JoS).I'm not expecting the Sox to go 162-0. But tomorrow I'd like to see them maintain just a little more, you know, dignity. And maybe get back to .500 again.


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Launched in April 2010, Henge Docks sold 3 months worth of inventory within the first 3 days of the launching, grew from a single product line to become the leading supplier of docking stations for MacBooks after only 8 months on the market and in 2017 enjoy one of the few direct hardware partnerships with the Apple brand globally.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Orange Sorbet
Making the sorbet couldn't have been easier. A simple syrup was made, and orange zest was added. Since the juice of a lemon was going to be added later, I zested some of said lemon and added it to the simple syrup as well. Once the syrup was cool, fresh orange juice and the juice of the lemon were added. I left that mixture in the refrigerator to chill thoroughly for a few hours before churning it in an ice cream maker. For garnish, I topped servings with a little lime zest.
The eggplant curry with coconut milk, Thai chiles, Thai basil, and green curry paste was spicy and lovely and the eggplant chunks took on all the flavors nicely. And, as suggested, following that with a cooling, citrusy, orange sorbet was refreshing and delicious. With no prompting, questioning, or fishing for a response, Kurt said he liked it. Even though he rarely dislikes a dessert, he doesn't come right out and say he likes one very often, and then we both wanted seconds of this, so I know for sure it was really good.
Posted by lisa is cooking at Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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Interesting how eggplant lead you to making orange sorbet lolReplyDelete
Cool post and sorbet making looks easy, will try it out =)
Curry and sorbet! Awesome idea... I have a green curry recipe sitting right here that I need to make! Now I need to make orange sorbet to go with it! Also, beautiful pics!ReplyDelete
This is so refreshing Lisa.ReplyDelete
Now I want to try this combination of hot and cold! It was particularly hot and sticky today; I would love to this sorbet to end the day.ReplyDelete
My mother-in-law shared an orange sorbet recipe that steeps fresh basil in the mixture while it cools - so delicious!
I just love it when eggplant turns into ice cream! Great story -- and such an elegant first photo! Looks mighty tasty (she says from the hot, humid, 112 degree middle of the country.)ReplyDelete
This is a perfect summer treat right here!!! I love it when one thing leads to another.ReplyDelete
Sounds refreshing :)ReplyDelete
Why can't all desserts start with veggies? We'd all be better off. It's a great way to cool off after a bit of spice.ReplyDelete
So refreshing and delicious! I love the color of that sorbet.ReplyDelete
'This dessert started with eggplant.'ReplyDelete
sounds like the first line of the next great american cookbook. :)
seriously, this is outstanding and inspired. oh, and refreshing. well done. :)
This is citrus heaven....I am so happy you veered away from the eggplant!ReplyDelete
How beautiful and refreshing. I love how it started with an eggplant :)ReplyDelete
*kisses* HH
This sorbet sounds like the perfect end to about any meal. Orange is just so refreshing. Love the recipe and of course the inspiration. Saw the fast and furious tweets between you and Leela and was curious as to the results.ReplyDelete
I was dreading seeing eggplant incorporated in that. Thank heavens it wasn't!! That looks delicious :)ReplyDelete
Haha. A curious case of how eggplant leads to orange sorbet.ReplyDelete
With a dessert like this after the main course, I would feel pretty insecure if I were the curry ... :)
- AnonymousAugust 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM
How serendipitous! I'm testing an Indian eggplant recipe as I type, so I just may have to make the sorbet to follow it. Since I started blogging, I often eat dinner for breakfast. :)ReplyDelete
You don't have to convince me this was delicious. I want to lick my screen.ReplyDelete
I did not know you could make sorbet out of eggplant. Interesting idea!ReplyDelete
Curry followed this sorbet sounds like such a fabulous meal! The sorbet sounds super refreshing - yum!ReplyDelete
They look very delicious and perfect to work as a palette cleanser!ReplyDelete
How beautifully refreshing Lisa! And I must admit your first line did intrigue me! :PReplyDelete
Eggplant is such a bearer of good things. Not only is it delicious, but it can deliver orange sorbet as well! Who knew.ReplyDelete
This looks fantastic and I love the idea of using it to refresh yourself after a spicy curry!
well if eggplant got you to make this lovely sorbet, eat more eggplant!!! congrats on the top 9!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 5, 2010 at 9:24 AM
Fabulous! Congrats on the top 9!ReplyDelete
Dessert started with an eggplant? Really? What a fabulous sorbet!!!ReplyDelete
How cooling and refreshing after the eggplant curry! I could eat this anytime! Scrumptious.ReplyDelete
this is perfection. I still haven't made any sorbet's with my ice-cream maker, but I have the feeling that I'll christen it with this one :).ReplyDelete
That's a scoop of sunshine! ;)ReplyDelete
yum! sorbet is still something I haven't try making at home....well...one of these days :)ReplyDelete
I'm currently melting in the Singapore heat, wish I can have a taste of your refreshing looking sorbet right now.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I bet this is delicious.ReplyDelete


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Can you believe that headline? After seeing MLS sides lose in all eight attempts to even get so much as a draw in a CONCACAF Champions Cup match on Costa Rican soil, tonight in the new CONCACAF Champions League USL-1 side Puerto Rico Islanders got a shock 1-1 draw at Alajuelense. Well USL-1 is a second division, no doubt but what does it say when your second division gets a result in its first time out to Costa Rica where MLS is 0-8 through the years in the champions cup? Fluke, or dumb luck I think the Islanders result tells us a heck of a lot about the character of USL-1 sides and why it has been unwise of many to write of the league as being inconsequential. Recall just this past week, I tipped Alajuelense as one of the my five favorites to win the competition. (Along with Saprissa and three Mexican sides) No MLS side had this tough an opening matchup, and yet neither MLS side that played Tuesday night got a result against much weaker opposition. The reality of the situation is this: MLS' squad limits and single entity structure limit the ability of its teams to compete in major international settings. In addition the MLS salary cap allows many of the middle tier of American players to star in USL while the lower tier ends up filling out MLS squads. It's simple salary cap math. So if you are an MLS Sporting Director, in order to sign a high profile player you usually have to jettison a middle salary player who instead of staying MLS ends up in USL. Puerto Rico has several such players who would still be good squad footballers if in MLS.
Colin Clark whose tenure in Dallas ended badly with a first round exit from the 2006 MLS Cup Playoffs showed his tactical shrewdness in the match. The Islanders who have been playing very well in USL-1 used the clutch goalkeeping of former Columbus Crew stopper Bill Gaudette as well as some very gutsy midfield play to salvage the draw. The Islanders feature an eclectic mix of players: full internationals like Fabrice Noel and Osei Telesford who featured in last week's CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers, as well as American journeymen players like Gaudette and Josh Hansen and Edson Elcock. The Islanders relishing the occasion and understanding tactical football on the road pulled a shock result, that MLS clubs in numerous opportunities have failed to deliver.
No one in their right mind is going to claim USL-1 has the quality of MLS. But at the same time, I have long maintained that the gap between the two leagues could be the narrowest between first and second divisions in the world. The last two nights of Champions League action where two MLS sides have discredited their league while two USL-1 sides have achieved results speak volumes to that point. For some of us this is not unexpected. Just this evening my colleague Johnathan Starling told me that he believed Puerto Rico would make match of it tonight. I told him that as much as I believe USL sides will perform decently in this event, and show more heart than MLS teams, I just couldn't see any team with American players going to Costa Rica and getting a result. I was wrong and essentially fell into the same trap I have editorialized against as recently as this morning: Overrating MLS and assuming American players like Bill Gaudette could not perform in hostile Ticos settings because so many MLS players have failed in the very same setting in the past.
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Slides: Increasing Online Engagement with Gamification
These are slides from my presentation at DATA2J, a roundtable conference hosted by Prof. Elizabeth Chambliss, Director of the Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism at the USC School of Law. In my presentation, I addressed ways to increase online engagement between the public and lawyers through the use of gamification. I based […] ...READ MORE


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The Wisconsin Elections Commission takes any allegation of election misconduct seriously, whether it is by candidates, voters, political parties, or other groups seeking to influence the outcome of elections.
Many areas of illegal election activity, however, are under the authority of local law enforcement, including police and district attorneys. In those cases, the Commission and its staff stand ready to assist in the investigation of election complaints.
As part of its mission to ensure the integrity of individual ballots as well as election results in Wisconsin, the Commission continues its commitment to working with municipal and county election officials and local and statewide law enforcement agencies to prevent errors and opportunities for voter fraud and to detect and prosecute cases of illegal voting which may occur.
While empirical evidence made available to the Commission has not documented any widespread, organized, or systemic cases of voting by ineligible individuals or of double voting in Wisconsin, the Commission has consistently maintained that evidence of any case will be thoroughly investigated and, if the evidence merits it, prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Commission staff conducted a survey of the counties' prosecuting attorney offices four months after the 2008 General and Presidential Election. The survey results revealed that a total of six criminal complaints had been filed alleging voter fraud.
Since then, Wisconsin has enacted a voter ID law in 2011 requiring electors to present an acceptable photo ID before receiving a ballot. Following a series of court challenges that delayed implementation, the law has been found to be constitutional, and has been in force since mid-April, 2015.
The Commission recognizes the importance of implementing a comprehensive system that discourages individuals from voting illegally and assists in the detection and prosecution of illegal voting cases. To that end, the Commission will continue to pursue and research the following election administration business practices:
1. Educate and train local election officials, local and statewide law enforcement, and the public regarding voter qualifications including age, residency, and citizenship.
2. Educate and train local election officials, local and statewide law enforcement, and the public regarding methods of detecting ineligible voters; and the process of referring and monitoring the prosecution of voter fraud and other illegal voting cases.
3. Encourage and ensure the ability of the public to act as election observers and administer an orderly process for challenging the registration or vote of any elector.
4. Notify the former state when a new resident registers to vote in Wisconsin, and conduct comprehensive comparisons of Wisconsin's statewide voter registration system (WisVote) database with statewide voter lists of neighboring states in detecting duplicate registrations.
5. Regularly audit records related to convicted felons, adjudicated incompetents, deceased persons, and voters who attempt to register or vote in multiple locations and match those records against the WisVote, as well as provide to local election officials, lists of convicted felons whose voting rights have not been restored.
6. Mail postcards to verify addresses of voters who register by mail, through a special registration deputy, or on Election Day at the polling place; and forward information to local prosecuting attorneys when fraud, or an error leading to illegal voting, is suspected.
7. Continue to proactively work with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, District Attorneys, and federal and local law enforcement to share information identified by the agency staff or received by the agency that implicates a violation of Chapter 12, Wis. Stats.
8. Assist law enforcement and prosecutors in specific election fraud and illegal voting cases by providing and interpreting information contained in the WisVote related to an individual's voting history and method of registration, as well as data related to special registration deputies and voters registered through that process.
9. Maintain the MyVote web site which allows law enforcement and the public to obtain information regarding any registered voter for which a date of birth is known.
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"It is the most interesting book I have ever read and inspires me to do something immediate to save our civilization." —Hanh Lien, translator for the Vietnamese edition of World on the Edge
Chapter 5. Stabilizing Climate: Shifting to Renewable Energy: Solar Cells and Thermal Collectors
Energy from the sun can be harnessed with solar photovoltaics (PV) and solar thermal collectors. Solar PV cells—both often silicon-based semiconductors and thin films—convert sunlight directly into electricity. Solar thermal collectors convert sunlight into heat that can be used, for example, to warm water, as in rooftop solar water heaters. Alternatively, collectors can be used to concentrate sunlight on a vessel containing water to produce steam and generate electricity.
Worldwide, photovoltaic installations jumped by some 5,600 megawatts in 2008, pushing total installations to nearly 15,000 megawatts. One of the world's fastest-growing energy sources, solar PV production is growing by 45 percent annually, doubling every two years. In 2006, when Germany installed 1,100 megawatts of solar cell generating capacity, it became the first country to add over 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) in a year. 32
Until recently PV production was concentrated in Japan, Germany, and the United States. But several energetic new players have entered the field, with companies in China, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. China overtook the United States in PV production in 2006. Taiwan did so in 2007. Today there are scores of firms competing in the world market, driving investments in both research and manufacturing. 33
For the nearly 1.6 billion people living in communities not yet connected to an electrical grid, it is now often cheaper to install PV panels rooftop-by-rooftop than to build a central power plant and a grid to reach potential consumers. For Andean villagers, for example, who have depended on tallow-based candles for their lighting, the monthly payment for a solar cell installation over 30 months is less than the monthly outlay for candles. 34
When a villager buys a solar PV system, that person is in effect buying a 25-year supply of electricity. With no fuel cost and very little maintenance, it is the upfront outlay that requires financing. Recognizing this, the World Bank and the U.N. Environment Programme have stepped in with programs to help local lenders set up credit systems to finance this cheap source of electricity. An initial World Bank loan has helped 50,000 homeowners in Bangladesh obtain solar cell systems. A second, much larger round of funding will enable 200,000 more families to do the same. 35
Villagers in India who lack electricity and who depend on kerosene lamps face a similar cost calculation. Installing a home solar electric system in India, including batteries, costs roughly $400. Such systems will power two, three, or four small appliances or lights and are widely used in homes and shops in lieu of polluting and increasingly costly kerosene lamps. In one year a kerosene lamp burns nearly 20 gallons of kerosene, which at $3 a gallon means $60 per lamp. A solar PV lighting system that replaces two lamps would pay for itself within four years and then become essentially a free source of electricity. 36
Switching from kerosene to solar cells is particularly helpful in fighting climate change. Although the estimated 1.5 billion kerosene lamps used worldwide provide less than 1 percent of all residential lighting, they account for 29 percent of that sector's CO2 emissions. They use the equivalent of 1.3 million barrels of oil per day, equal to roughly half the oil production of Kuwait. 37
The cost of solar energy is falling fast in industrial countries. Michael Rogol and his PHOTON consulting firm estimate that by 2010 fully integrated companies that encompass all phases of solar PV manufacturing will be installing systems that produce electricity for 12¢ a kilowatt-hour in sun-drenched Spain and 18¢ a kilowatt-hour in southern Germany. Although these costs will be dropping below those of conventional electricity in many locations, this will not automatically translate into a wholesale conversion to solar PV. But as one energy industry analyst observes, the "big bang" is under way. 38
After starting with relatively small residential rooftop installations, investors are now turning to utility-scale solar cell complexes. A 20-megawatt facility completed in Spain in 2007 was the largest ever built—but not for long. A 60-megawatt facility, also in Spain, came online in 2008 and tripled the ante. Even larger solar cell installations are being planned, including 80-megawatt facilities in California and Israel. 39
In mid-2008, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), one of two large utilities in California, announced a contract with two firms to build solar PV installations with a combined generating capacity of 800 megawatts. Covering 12 square miles, this complex will generate as much electricity at peak power as a nuclear power plant. The bar has been raised yet again. 40
And in early 2009, China Technology Development Group Corporation and Qinghai New Energy Group announced they were joining forces to build a 30-megawatt solar PV power facility in remote Qinghai Province. This is the first stage in what is eventually expected to become a 1,000-megawatt generating facility. For a country that ended 2008 with only 145 megawatts of installed solar cell capacity, this is a huge leap into the future. 41
More and more countries, states, and provinces are setting solar installation goals. Italy's solar industry group is projecting 16,000 megawatts of installed capacity by 2020. Japan is planning 14,000 megawatts by 2020. The state of California has set a goal of 3,000 megawatts by 2017. New Jersey has a goal of 2,300 megawatts of solar installations by 2021, and Maryland is aiming for 1,500 megawatts by 2022. 42
With installations of solar PV now doubling every two years and likely to continue doing so at least until 2020, annual installations, at nearly 5,600 megawatts in 2008, will climb to 500,000 megawatts in 2020. By this time the cumulative installed capacity would exceed 1.5 million megawatts (1,500 gigawatts). Although this may seem overly ambitious, it could in fact turn out to be a conservative goal. For one thing, if most of the nearly 1.6 billion people who lack electricity today get it by 2020, it will likely be because they have installed home solar systems. 43
A second, very promising way to harness solar energy on a massive scale is simply to use reflectors to concentrate sunlight on a closed vessel containing water or some other liquid, heating the liquid to produce steam that drives a turbine. This solar thermal technology, often referred to as concentrating solar power (CSP), first came on the scene with the construction of a 350-megawatt solar thermal power plant complex in California. Completed in 1991, it remained the world's only utility-scale solar thermal generating facility until the completion of a 64-megawatt power plant in Nevada in 2007. As of early 2009, the United States has 6,100 megawatts of solar thermal power plants under development, all with signed long-term power purchase agreements. 44
In mid-2009 Lockheed Martin, an aerospace defense and information technology contractor, announced that it was building a 290-megawatt CSP plant in Arizona. This plant, like many other CSP plants, will have six hours of storage, enabling it to generate electricity until midnight or beyond. The entry into the solar field of a company with annual sales of $43 billion and vast engineering skills signals a major new commitment to harnessing the earth's abundance of solar energy. 45
As noted earlier, the government of Algeria plans to produce 6,000 megawatts of solar thermal electrical capacity for transmission to Europe via undersea cable. The German government was quick to respond to the Algerian initiative. The plan is to build a 1,900-mile high-voltage transmission line from Adrar deep in the Algerian desert to Aachen, a town on Germany's border with the Netherlands. 46
The first plant under construction in Algeria is a solar/natural-gas hybrid, with the natural gas taking over power generation entirely after the sun goes down. Although the first few plants in this massive new project will be hybrids, New Energy Algeria, the government firm specifically created to encourage renewable energy development, plans soon to switch exclusively to solar thermal power. These plants will likely use molten salt or some other medium for storing heat in order to extend generation several hours beyond sundown and through the high-demand evening hours. 47
The U.S. plants under development and this announcement by the Algerians were the early indications that the world is entering the utility-scale solar thermal power era. By the end of 2008, there were some 60 commercial-scale solar thermal power plants in the pipeline, most of them in the United States and Spain. Among the 10 largest proposed plants, 8 are to be built in the United States. Ranging in size from 250 to 900 megawatts, most of them will be in California. The early months of 2009 brought many more announcements. BrightSource Energy announced a blockbuster package with Southern California Edison of seven projects with a collective total of 1,300 megawatts of generating capacity. Shortly thereafter, it announced an identical package with PG&E. NRG, a New Jersey–based firm, and eSolar announced that together they would develop 500 megawatts of CSP at sites in the southwestern United States. 48
Spain, another solar superpower, has 50 or so plants, each close to 50 megawatts in size, in various phases of development. There are a scattering of proposed CSP plants in other countries, including Israel, Australia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. At least a dozen other sun-drenched countries now recognize the potential of this inexhaustible, low-cost source of electricity and are mobilizing to tap it. 49
One of the countries for which CSP plants are ideally suited is India. Although this nation is not nearly as richly endowed with wind energy as, say, China or the United States, the Great Indian Desert in the northwest offers a huge opportunity for building solar thermal power plants. Hundreds of plants in the desert could satisfy most of India's electricity needs. And because it is such a compact country, the distance for building transmission lines to connect with major population centers is relatively short.
Solar thermal electricity costs are falling fast. Today it costs roughly 12–18¢ per kilowatt-hour. The U.S. Department of Energy goal is to invest in research that will lower the cost to 5–7¢ per kilowatt-hour by 2020. 50
We know solar energy is abundant. The American Solar Energy Society notes there are enough solar thermal resources in the U.S. Southwest to satisfy current U.S. electricity needs nearly four times over. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the agency that manages public lands, has received requests for the land rights to develop solar thermal power plants or photovoltaic complexes with a total of 23,000 megawatts of generating capacity in Nevada, 40,000 megawatts in Arizona, and over 54,000 megawatts in the desert region of southern California. 51
At the global level, Greenpeace, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, and the International Energy Agency's SolarPACES program have outlined a plan to develop 1.5 million megawatts of solar thermal power plant capacity by 2050. For Plan B we suggest a more immediate world goal of 200,000 megawatts by 2020, a goal that may well be exceeded as the economic potential becomes clearer. 52
The pace of solar energy development is accelerating as solar water heaters—the other use of solar collectors—take off. China, for example, is now home to 27 million rooftop solar water heaters. With nearly 4,000 Chinese companies manufacturing these devices, this relatively simple low-cost technology has leapfrogged into villages that do not yet have electricity. For as little as $200, villagers can have a rooftop solar collector installed and take their first hot shower. This technology is sweeping China like wildfire, already approaching market saturation in some communities. Beijing plans to boost the current 114 million square meters of rooftop solar collectors for heating water to 300 million by 2020. 53
The energy harnessed by these installations in China is equal to the electricity generated by 49 coal-fired power plants. Other developing countries such as India and Brazil may also soon see millions of households turning to this inexpensive water heating technology. This leapfrogging into rural areas without an electricity grid is similar to the way cell phones bypassed the traditional fixed-line grid, providing services to millions of people who would still be on waiting lists if they had relied on traditional phone lines. Once the initial installment cost of rooftop solar water heaters is paid, the hot water is essentially free. 54
In Europe, where energy costs are relatively high, rooftop solar water heaters are also spreading fast. In Austria, 15 percent of all households now rely on them for hot water. And, as in China, in some Austrian villages nearly all homes have rooftop collectors. Germany is also forging ahead. Janet Sawin of the Worldwatch Institute notes that some 2 million Germans are now living in homes where water and space are both heated by rooftop solar systems. 55
Inspired by the rapid adoption of rooftop water and space heaters in Europe in recent years, the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) has established an ambitious goal of 500 million square meters, or 1 square meter of rooftop collector for every European by 2020—a goal slightly greater than the 0.93 square meters per person found today in Cyprus, the world leader. Most installations are projected to be Solar-Combi systems that are engineered to heat both water and space. 56
Europe's solar collectors are concentrated in Germany, Austria, and Greece, with France and Spain also beginning to mobilize. Spain's initiative was boosted by a March 2006 mandate requiring installation of collectors on all new or renovated buildings. Portugal followed quickly with its own mandate. ESTIF estimates that the European Union has a long-term potential of developing 1,200 thermal gigawatts of solar water and space heating, which means that the sun could meet most of Europe's low-temperature heating needs. 57
The U.S. rooftop solar water heating industry has historically concentrated on a niche market—selling and marketing 10 million square meters of solar water heaters for swimming pools between 1995 and 2005. Given this base, however, the industry was poised to mass-market residential solar water and space heating systems when federal tax credits were introduced in 2006. Led by Hawaii, California, and Florida, U.S. installation of these systems tripled in 2006 and has continued at a rapid pace since then. 58
We now have the data to make some global projections. With China setting a goal of 300 million square meters of solar water heating capacity by 2020, and ESTIF's goal of 500 million square meters for Europe by 2020, a U.S. installation of 300 million square meters by 2020 is certainly within reach given the recently adopted tax incentives. Japan, which now has 7 million square meters of rooftop solar collectors heating water but which imports virtually all its fossil fuels, could easily reach 80 million square meters by 2020. 59
If China and the European Union achieve their goals and Japan and the United States reach the projected adoptions, they will have a combined total of 1,180 million square meters of water and space heating capacity by 2020. With appropriate assumptions for developing countries other than China, the global total in 2020 could exceed 1.5 billion square meters. This would give the world a solar thermal capacity by 2020 of 1,100 thermal gigawatts, the equivalent of 690 coal-fired power plants. 60
The huge projected expansion in solar water and space heating in industrial countries could close some existing coal-fired power plants and reduce natural gas use, as solar water heaters replace electric and gas water heaters. In countries such as China and India, however, solar water heaters will simply reduce the need for new coal-fired power plants.
Solar water and space heaters in Europe and China have a strong economic appeal. On average, in industrial countries these systems pay for themselves from electricity savings in fewer than 10 years. They are also responsive to energy security and climate change concerns. 61
With the cost of rooftop heating systems declining, particularly in China, many other countries will likely join Israel, Spain, and Portugal in mandating that all new buildings incorporate rooftop solar water heaters. No longer a passing fad, these rooftop appliances are fast entering the mainstream. 62
Thus the harnessing of solar energy is expanding on every front as concerns about climate change and energy security escalate, as government incentives for harnessing solar energy expand, and as these costs decline while those of fossil fuels rise. In 2009, new U.S. generating capacity from solar sources could exceed that from coal for the first time. 63
32. EPIA, op. cit. note 10, pp. 3–4.
33. Prometheus Institute and Greentech Media, "25th Annual Data Collection Results: PV Production Explodes in 2008," PVNews, vol. 28, no. 4 (April 2009), pp. 15–18.
34. IEA, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006); "Power to the Poor," The Economist, 10 February 2001, pp. 21–23.
35. Sybille de La Hamaide, "Bangladesh Seeks World Bank Loan for Solar Power," Reuters, 26 April 2007.
36. "Solar Loans Light Up Rural India," BBC News, 29 April 2007.
37. Emissions include kerosene and other fuel lamps, from IEA, Light's Labour's Lost: Policies for Energy-Efficient Lighting (Paris: 2006), pp. 201–02; DOE, EIA, International Petroleum Monthly, at www.eia.doe.gov/ipm/supply.html, updated 13 April 2009.
38. "PV Costs Set to Plunge for 2009/10," Renewable Energy World, 23 December 2008; "PV Costs Down Significantly from 1998–2007," Renewable Energy World, 23 February 2009; Christoph Podewils, "As Cheap as Brown Coal: By 2010, a kWh of PV Electricity in Spain Will Cost Around 9¢ to Produce," PHOTON International, April 2007.
39. Ines Rutschmann, "A Country of Megawatt Parks," PHOTON International (September 2008), pp. 32–39; Cleantech America, Inc., "KRCD Enters Long Term, Zero Emission Solar Power Plan," press release (San Francisco, CA: 6 July 2007); Ehud Zion Waldoks, "IEC Approves Arava Company's Proposal for World's Largest Photovoltaic Field," The Jerusalem Post, 15 February 2009.
40. Matthew L. Wald, "Two Large Solar Plants Planned in California," New York Times, 15 August 2008.
41. China Technology Development Group Corporation, "CTDC to Build 30MW On-Grid Solar Power Station in Qaidam Basin," press release (Hong Kong: 2 January 2009); EPIA, op. cit. note 10, p. 10.
42. Svetlana Kovalyova, "Italy's Solar Power Flourishes with State Help," Reuters, 12 March 2009; EPIA, op. cit. note 10, p. 8; "Chapter 8.8: California Solar Initiative," in California State Legislature, Statutes 2006, SB1, Chapter 132 (Sacramento, CA: 21 August 2006); California Public Utilities Commission, California Solar Initiative Program Handbook (San Francisco, CA: January 2009), p. 91; Sara Parker, "Maryland Expands RPS: 1,500 MW Solar by 2022," Renewable Energy Access, 12 April 2007; New Jersey's Clean Energy Program, "FAQ: NJ Solar Financing Program," fact sheet (Newark, NJ: New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, 12 September 2007).
43. Calculated from EPIA, op. cit. note 10, pp. 3–4; people who lack electricity from IEA, op. cit. note 34.
44. Rainer Aringhoff et al., Concentrated Solar Thermal Power—Now! (Brussels, Almeria, and Amsterdam: European Solar Thermal Industry Association (ESTIF), IEA SolarPACES, and Greenpeace International, September 2005), p. 4; NREL, U.S. Parabolic Trough Power Plant Data, electronic database, at www.nrel.gov/csp/troughne/power_plant_data.html, updated 25 July 2008; "Largest Solar Thermal Plant in 16 Years Now Online," EERE Network News, 13 June 2007; Solar Energy Industries Association, US Solar Industry Year in Review 2008 (Washington, DC: March 2009), pp. 1, 7.
45. Lockheed Martin Corporation, "Lockheed Martin to Support Utility-Scale Solar Power Plant in Arizona," press release (Moorestown, NJ: 22 May 2009); Arizona Public Service, "APS, Starwood Energy to Collaborate on Major Concentrating Solar Plant," press release (Phoenix: 22 May 2009).
46. "Algeria Aims to Export Power," op. cit. note 4; Maclean, op. cit. note 4.
47. "Algeria Aims to Export Power," op. cit. note 4; Maclean, op. cit. note 4; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "New Energy Algeria (NEAL)," at www.ornl.gov/sci/eere/international/neal_index.htm, viewed 17 April 2009.
48. Douglas Fischer, "Solar Thermal Comes Out of the Shadows," The Daily Climate, 20 November 2008; Jonathan G. Dorn, "Solar Thermal Power Coming to a Boil," Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 22 July 2008); "NRG Energy to Develop 500 MW of Solar Thermal," Renewable Energy World, 25 February 2009; Vanessa Lindlaw, BrightSource Energy, e-mail to J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute, 3 June 2009.
49. Alok Jha, "Power in the Desert: Solar Towers Will Harness Sunshine of Southern Spain," Guardian (London), 24 November 2008; proposed plants from Dorn, op. cit. note 48; EER, "Global Concentrated Solar Power Markets & Strategies, 2009–2020," study announcement (Cambridge, MA: April 2009).
50. Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables 2007 Global Status Report (Paris and Washington, DC: REN21 Secretariat and Worldwatch Institute, 2008), p. 14; DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), "Concentrating Solar Power Funding Opportunity Announcement," news release (Washington, DC: 25 May 2007).
51. Mark S. Mehos and David W. Kearney, "Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Concentrating Solar Power by 2030," in Charles F. Kutscher, ed., Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.—Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030 (Boulder, CO: American Solar Energy Society, 2007), pp. 79–90; U.S. electricity consumption from DOE, EIA, Electric Power Annual 2007 (Washington, DC: January 2009), p. 1; U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office, "Energy," Arizona State Office, "Arizona, the New Frontier!" and California Desert District, "Solar Energy Projects," all at www.blm.gov, updated 19 March 2009.
52. Christoph Richter, Sven Teske, and Rebecca Short, Concentrating Solar Power Global Outlook 2009 (Amsterdam, Tabernas, and Brussels: Greenpeace International, SolarPACES, and ESTIF, May 2009), pp. 53–59.
53. Werner Weiss, Irene Bergmann, and Roman Stelzer, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2007 (Gleisdorf, Austria: IEA, Solar Heating & Cooling Programme, May 2009), p. 21; "Sunrise or Sunset?" China Daily, 25 August 2008; Ryan Hodum, "Kunming Heats Up as China's 'Solar City'," China Watch (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute and Global Environmental Institute, 5 June 2007); Emma Graham-Harrison, "China Solar Power Firm Sees 25 Percent Growth," Reuters, 4 October 2007.
54. Rooftop solar water heaters have a capacity of 0.7 kilowatts per square meter and a capacity factor similar to rooftop photovoltaics (22 percent); nominal capacity from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op. cit. note 53, p. 4; capacity factor from DOE, NREL, op. cit. note 1.
55. Ole Pilgaard, Solar Thermal Action Plan for Europe (Brussels, Belgium: ESTIF, 2007); Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op. cit. note 53, p. 21; U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 23; Janet L. Sawin, "Solar Industry Stays Hot," in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 2006–2007 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006).
56. Pilgaard, op. cit. note 55; Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op. cit. note 53, p. 21; U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 23.
57. Uwe Brechlin, "Study on Italian Solar Thermal Reveals a Surprisingly High Contribution to EU Market: 130 MWth in 2006," press release (Brussels: ESTIF, 24 April 2007); Sawin, op. cit. note 55, p. 38; Les Nelson, "Solar-Water Heating Resurgence Ahead?" Solar Today, May/June 2007, p. 28; Pilgaard, op. cit. note 55; Ambiente Italia, STO Database, ProSTO Project Web site, at www.solarordinances.eu, viewed 3 June 2009.
58. Nelson, op. cit. note 57, p. 27; Larry Sherwood, U.S. Solar Trends 2007 (Latham, NY: Interstate Renewable Energy Council, August 2008), p. 9; Jackie Jones, "Such an Obvious Solution," Renewable Energy World, 2 September 2008.
59. Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op. cit. note 53, p. 21; incentives from Jones, op. cit. note 58.
60. If in 2020 the 5 billion people in developing countries outside of China match China's 0.08 square meters of rooftop water and space heating capacity per person, this would add 400 million square meters to the world total. Assumptions based on Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op. cit. note 53, p. 21, and on U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 23.
61. Nelson, op. cit. note 57, p. 26.
62. Ibid., p. 28; Ambiente Italia, op. cit. note 57.
63. EPIA, op. cit. note 10, p. 6; Richter, Teske, and Short, op. cit. note 52, p. 83; Shuster, op. cit. note 31.
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DETROIT (AP) — After initially defying federal regulators, Chrysler abruptly agreed Tuesday to recall some older-model Jeeps with fuel tanks that could rupture and cause fires in rear-end collisions.
But the recall, which came in an 11th-hour deal between the automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, covers only 1.56 million of the 2.7 million Jeeps that the government wanted repaired. The rest are part of a "customer service action" and many may not get fixed.
By giving in to government pressure, Chrysler sidesteps a showdown with NHTSA that could have led to public hearings with witnesses providing details of deadly crashes. The dispute could have landed in court and hurt Chrysler's image and its finances.
The deal still leaves some Jeep owners with gas tanks that NHTSA just two weeks ago said were risky. Chrysler maintains that they are safe and need no repairs.
Earlier this month, the automaker publicly refused the government's request to recall Jeep Grand Cherokees from model years 1993 through 2004 and Jeep Libertys from 2002 through 2007.
NHTSA, the U.S. agency that monitors vehicle safety, contends that the Jeep gas tanks can rupture if hit from the rear, spilling gas and causing a fire. NHTSA said a three-year investigation showed that 51 people had died in fiery crashes in Jeeps with gas tanks positioned behind the rear axle.
Chrysler had until Tuesday to formally respond to NHTSA, but the deal made the response unnecessary.
Here's how the recall will work, according to Chrysler:
— The company will recall 1.56 million Libertys from 2002 through 2007 and Grand Cherokees from 1993 through 1998. If they don't have factory or Chrysler "Mopar" trailer hitches, dealers will install them. The heavy metal hitches bolt to the frame and help bolster protection for the gas tank.
— About 1.2 million Grand Cherokees from the 1999 to 2004 model years will be part of the "customer service action." Owners will get notices saying their vehicles are fine if they have factory or Chrysler trailer hitches. Dealers will inspect other trailer hitches to make sure they're secure. But if the Jeeps don't have trailer hitches, Chrysler won't do anything, maintaining that the Jeeps are safe and do not need any changes. A Chrysler spokesman was not sure how many of the SUVs are without trailer hitches.
In a letter to Chrysler dated June 3, NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation told the company that all of the Jeeps should be recalled. "The defects present an unreasonable risk to motor vehicles," the letter said, "because people ... have burned to death in rear impact crashes."
A NHTSA spokeswoman said Tuesday evening that she was checking into details of the recall.
Chrysler Group LLC, which is majority owned by Fiat SpA of Italy, wouldn't say how much the hitches would cost, although they sell for about $200 each on websites.
Erik Gordon, a law and marketing professor at the University of Michigan, said Chrysler realized it was headed for a public-relations disaster and decided to reverse course.
"What happened is they get surprised by how loud the hue and cry is," Gordon said.
Chrysler's image will still get dinged a little "because it looks as if they have done the right thing only because they were forced to," he said.
Chrysler executives probably realized that their chance for success was slim because courts have given wide latitude to government regulatory agencies, said David Kelly, former acting NHTSA administrator under President George W. Bush.
"They have some very smart people at Chrysler and probably looked into a crystal ball and didn't think this would end the way they wanted it to," Kelly said.
NHTSA said in a statement that it's pleased with Chrysler's decision. The agency plans to keep investigating the issue as it reviews recall documentation from Chrysler.
NHTSA began investigating the Jeeps at the request of the Center for Auto Safety, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group. Clarence Ditlow, the center's director, said the trailer hitch remedy should be tested by NHTSA before the repairs are made. He's cautiously optimistic that the solution will make the Jeeps safer.
"We're no longer arguing over whether Chrysler is going to do a recall, but we're now discussing what we're going to do," he said.
Ditlow urged Chrysler to add Jeep Cherokee SUVs from 1993 through 2001 to the recall. The Cherokees are under investigation for the same problem.
Chrysler will begin notifying owners about the recall in about a month, the company said.
The last time an automaker defied a NHTSA recall request was early in 2011, when Ford refused to call back 1.2 million pickup trucks for defective air bags. Ford later agreed to the recall after NHTSA threatened to hold a rare public hearing on the issue.
In a statement on June 4, Chrysler said its review of nearly 30 years of data showed a low number of rear-impact crashes involving fire or a fuel leak in the affected Jeeps.
"The rate is similar to comparable vehicles produced and sold during the time in question," the company said. It also said NHTSA left some similar vehicles out of its investigation.
But NHTSA found at least 32 rear-impact crashes and fires in Grand Cherokees that caused 44 deaths. It also found at least five rear crashes in Libertys that caused seven deaths. The agency calculated that the older Grand Cherokees and Libertys have fatal crash rates that are about double those of similar vehicles. It compared the Jeeps with the Chevrolet S10 Blazer, Ford Explorer, Toyota 4Runner, Isuzu Rodeo, Isuzu Trooper, Mitsubishi Montero, Suzuki Sidekick and Suzuki XL-7.
Among the 51 deaths was Remington "Remi" Walden, a 4-year-old boy from Bainbridge, Ga., who was killed when a 1999 Grand Cherokee driven by his aunt was hit from behind by a pickup truck in March, 2012. The child was on his way to a tennis lesson when the SUV was struck. The fuel tank leaked, engulfing the Jeep in flames and killing the boy, according to a lawsuit filed against Chrysler by his family.
"Numerous witnesses saw Remi struggling to escape and heard him screaming for help," the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit alleges that Chrysler placed the gas tank in a "crush zone" behind the rear axle and knew the location was dangerous, and that the company failed to protect the gas tank against rupturing.
In court papers, Chrysler denied the allegations and said that the pickup truck driver's negligence was the sole cause of the boy's injuries.


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1. Re: How to pass data from valve to login module?j4m3s Apr 24, 2012 12:01 PM (in response to herb)
Did you find an answer herb? I need to access the sessionID from my login module.
Thanks, James
2. Re: How to pass data from valve to login module?j4m3s Apr 25, 2012 4:57 AM (in response to j4m3s)
found it here: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/WebAuthenticationUsingHTTPRequestParameters
I'm using maven so needed to add the following to my dependencies:
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(I've not got a version number in there because I imported the jboss bom which specifies 1.0.0.Final for me)
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I found a jacc method to retrieve HttpServletRequest in my login module:
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Alright, dudes. It's time to get things moving. I know I'm going to write this slightly frustrated, toe-tapping review this week and then next week something insane will happen—Tywin will turn into a dragon and eat Joffrey, and Jon Snow will fight a thousand zombies on a mountaintop, and Arya and the Hound will get an awesome spinoff that's just a remake of Simon & Simon. And it's not like this episode was lacking in holy-shit moments. That closing scene, with Sam confronting the White Walker successfully this time, was astounding.
But still, this episode left me a little frustrated. I know that what we're seeing is the first half of the third book, and I'm more and more afraid that there isn't going to be quite as devastating a closing punch as there was in the last two seasons, because we're going to be closing on the middle of a book. Ugh, I can feel myself eating my words as I type this, so I'm just going to stop, because David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (and George R.R. Martin) know what the fuck they're doing, and they haven't let me down yet.
Plus, hell, this episode had a lot of Stannis in it, and if you want to make David Sims happy, write an episode where Stannis doesn't just brood and look out onto the sea. Sure, he's always going to do a bit of that, but his reunion with Davos was played very nicely and gave us another glimpse into what's going on behind that sour visage.
Melisandre has procured Gendry (who, by the way, she found and spirited back very easily—further testament to her powers, or lazy storytelling?) and wants to use his blood for her dark rituals, saying it has power because Robert Baratheon is his father. Since Stannis' machinations are against the other false kings, there's a weird sense to her magic as ever, but Davos immediately guesses that Stannis is uncomfortable with the arrangement and wants his counselor to provide some contrary advice.
So Davos is out of jail, thankfully, and has even learned to read a little bit during his downtime. He's immediately back to hating on Melisandre and telling Stannis not to kill his own kin (offing Renly was okay because he had betrayed him, apparently). So we get a long, somewhat dull but nonetheless tense scene where Melisandre undresses and seduces Gendry, ties him to the bed, and leeches his blood, some sort of compromise aimed to bring down Robb Stark, Balon Greyjoy (whom we haven't heard much of in quite a while), and Joffrey.
Who knows whether it'll work, but as Stannis points out, she did give birth to a shadow assassin before Davos' eyes, and she has shown him crazy visions in the flames. It's tough for him not to believe, even though to our contemporary eyes he's a stereotypical fanatic, shaping facts to fit his desired truth and ignoring anything that contradicts it. I think I've said this before, but I get it—especially with the new revelation this year that the Lord of Light can bring people back from the dead, well, heck, I'm a believer.
We finally got a wedding this week, the first of many that have been planned all season, and, well, it's a bit of a bummer from start to finish. Sansa remains terrified of Tyrion, but he's 10 times more terrified of her, refusing to bed her and getting so heroically drunk that he openly threatens to castrate the king in what is probably Tyrion's finest moment of this whole season. He's been a depressing character after running the show last year, and he's still a bummer to watch, but "you'll be fucking your bride with a wooden cock"? I stood and I applauded.
Do I buy Tyrion not doing his husband's duty with Sansa? Of course I do, even though this is a world where grown men are married to 14-year-olds without much objection. I don't think he's just being soft-pedaled because the viewing audience would be horrified at such a turn of events. Tyrion's been there for all of Sansa's mental torture and anguish at the hands of Joffrey; he knows the last thing he wants is to add to that.
Joffrey keeps giving us new reasons to despise him, as if we needed more, and his behavior at the wedding with Tyrion and Sansa is a masterclass in utter villainy by Jack Gleeson, whom I don't give enough credit for just nailing that sniveling, preening fucker. He's so good it's scary, and I'm sure he'll suffer the consequences for the rest of his acting career. I was less taken with Cersei's interaction with Margery, though. She seemed to be tipping her hand a bit too much—if the story of the Lannisters wiping out a rival family wasn't enough, she said she'd have her killed for calling her sister. Maybe we're supposed to think that Cersei doesn't know what she's doing? Because that felt like an incredibly stupid move from a court intrigue angle.
Daenerys' story took a turn that probably had to happen but will likely slow things down even further—she got a love interest, someone her own age whom she isn't being sold to as part of a military alliance, and someone who I'm sure will cause trouble in the weeks ahead. His name is Daario and he's played by Ed Skrein, and he's very handsome and has the "I take what I want" attitude that Daenerys finds so alluring.
On the one hand, that's fine. Daenerys' storyline had become very one-note: She goes to a city, she gets notes of caution from her advisers, she is a badass with dragons. A new character will help complicate things in a different way. On the other hand, it's going to be tough to watch Daenerys entangled in such an… ordinary mess. If such a mess is on the horizon! Their scene together with the bathtub just suggested sparks flying to me.
The most crucial, fascinating, electric moment of the night came from Sam and Gilly's final scene, something I hardly expected to be typing, but there you go. I didn't really expect that to be the end of Sam's story, chased down by a White Walker, but I still love that he got his hero moment after failing in the season opener. Plus, now we have a new weapon against those undead fuckers. We've long known about burning them, but the ancient weapon Sam uncovered turns them into ice and SHATTERS them. If anything bodes well for next week (two weeks actually, because of Memorial Day), it's that.
Stray observations:
- Arya and the Hound bodes very well for buddy comedy.
- Daenerys' translator telling her that she doesn't speak Dothraki as well as she thinks she does was a nice little wink at how much Drogo was obsessed with her in season one.
- As a kid who grew up in Britain, I can't believe it took me this long to figure out that the guy playing Bronn was in Robson & Jerome. My mind is forever blown by that.


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