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Huang avenging Ling's death.
|GTA Chinatown Wars
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Payback is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, given to protagonist Huang Lee by his uncle and Lee Family head Wu "Kenny" Lee from his restaurant in the Cerveza Heights district of Dukes, Liberty City.
Huang is grieving over Ling Shan's death while Kenny complains that the street gang from the previous mission needs to be taken care of so that they can't take over Kenny's territory. Kenny sends Huang to Steinway. As Huang arrives, a gang member asks what's he doing here. Huang wants blood. The gang member escapes and runs to his two friends nearby. Huang kills all of them as their backup arrives. The last surviving member attempts to escape in a car but Huang eventually catches up to him and kills him.
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Kenny: What happened is most distressing.
Huang: I know. I cannot believe Ling's dead. First my dad, now this.
Kenny: Ling's dead? Well, yes, that's unfortunate... but I was talking about being attacked by nobodies. The shame of it!
Huang: What? ...How can you be so cold? Ling was a nice person.
Kenny: Boo fucking hoo. Stop acting like a child. People die every day. It's the nature of this life we've chosen. Your father knew that. We musn't allow death to distract us from our purpose.
Huang: ...Our purpose?
Kenny: I've run this territory for years. And now some impudent street gang thinks they can just take it away from me? Make them pay for their arrogance, Huang. And avenge Ling!
Huang: Said with true feeling, Uncle!
(At Steinway)
Gang Member: Hey, triad! What you doing here?
Huang: I'm finishing what I started in Cerveza Heights. No one fucks with my family.
The reward for completing the mission is $50. Completing the mission unlocks the mission The Wheelman.
Mission Replay description
"Ling's death kinda hit me harder than my dad's - understandable - I didn't want to fuck my dad.
Anyway, Uncle Kenny got my head together and I got payback on the gang that hit his turf ... and Ling.
I hope she sleeps easy now. Which is more than I can say for me - I've gotta get laid."


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Last week, I attended a Washington event on Arctic energy; I was hoping for some insights on the challenges ahead, namely greenhouse gas emissions, diplomatic tensions, and indigenous rights. Since Arctic exploitation hasn't yet enjoyed a "Keystone XL" level of public attention, it seemed healthy to get some first-hand information from Arctic experts, as major oil players like Shell are getting closer to full-scale commercial exploitation. After all, a generation's treasure chest often turns out to be another generation's ticking bomb.
Instead, I ended up listening to lengthy presentations by analysts, consultants, fellows and executives talking about climate change "removing constraints", "effective diplomatic work" being made, and "supply chain complexity" hampering the process, for a solid two hours. There's a saying in the marketing industry that 'eco-friendly' should be the third button to push when advertising a product, after, say, affordability or quality. In this discussion, 'eco-friendly' was clearly the fourth or fifth button, if it was mentioned at all. One should have expected this, however, as the event invitation used no apparent irony when announcing in the same sentence that Arctic experts would examine "what nations can do to protect the environment andincrease production" (my emphasis).
Still, it should at least grab some attention that Arctic energy exploration will only be made possible by a much faster warming than expected in the region – and that's saying nothing about the extraordinary Greenland ice cap melting that took scientists by surprise last week. The Arctic region contains about 13 percent of the world's oil reserves and 30 percent of its natural gas reserves. In terms of today's emissions, it is already enough to start worrying about the planet's climate balance and the health of its ice caps; but another point of concern is that the Arctic ice melts faster if it is drilled, shattered, torn apart – or in brief, exploited. Granted, icebreakers are not having a significant impact on the status of ice caps today, but as their numbers are expected to skyrocket in the next few years, the 'black gold rush' could endanger the Arctic's capacity to act as "the Earth's refrigerator" – its bright, white surface reflects some of the sun's incoming radiation, while the dark waters around it tend to absorb and trap it, thus fueling future global warming. Disrupting the ice/water balance through resource exploitation can lead to a dangerous feedback known as the "albedo effect", as ice caps represent one of the planet's main cooling mechanisms.
It took the panelists more than two hours to put Arctic energy exploitation in the context of climate change and diminishing resources, and it was only in passing. One expert asserted that "the energy transition story was more a hundred years story than a thirty years story", and left it at that. From there, it was easy to wonder: what, if not spectacular climate change occurring right before our eyes, could move the industry towards a transition to renewable energy rather than a scramble for every last scrap of fossil fuels? In a dramatic op-ed published recently, British writer and climate advocate Georges Monbiot said: probably nothing – and certainly not the global and inexorable decline of oil production, a.k.a. "peak oil". According to him, "the unlikely coalition of geologists, oil drillers, bankers, military strategists and environmentalists" predicting imminent peak oil was wrong. A boom in unconventional fossil fuels – see our analysis of carbon emissions consequences here – was indeed made possible by persistently high oil prices, creating an opportunity for previously unprofitable extraction of tight oil, shale oil, continuous oil, deep offshore oil, and of course, Arctic oil. Concludes Monbiot: "there's enough to fry us all."
Don't bury peak oil too soon, though – Monbiot himself has already been quite compellingly rebutted here and there. The International Energy Agency (IEA) said in 2010 that production of conventional crude oil had peaked in 2006. Moreover, unconventional sources have a typically low Energy Returned on Energy Investment (EROEI) – it takes a barrel of energy to produce four barrels of North Dakota shale oil, for example, and you can expect future Arctic extraction numbers to be even worse. In the golden days of cheap, abundant oil, the EROEI was about twenty-five times as large; scholars from the University of New York estimated that a "complex society" like ours must function on a minimum 6-to-1 EROEI ratio. Exploiters of unconventional oil must count on a triple-digit price for crude oil, face delays and hazards (Arctic exploitation being the most extreme case in point), and deal with fast-falling yield rates. They might be able to extract enough to endanger our climate future, but they will not be able to durably keep up with an ever-increasing demand. In that regard, the confidence displayed by industry executives might just be a strategy to deter future 'untapped' major oil players – Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and others – from making prospective companies pay top dollar for future exploitations.
Whether we squeeze every last drop of oil out, or leave some in the ground, will be crucial for our planet's climate balance (source: peak-oil-technology.com)
Granted, peak oil has been somewhat delayed by a handy twist in "proved reserves" accounting (now understood as the volume of total extractable resources, and no longer the sole reserves in production), and a scarcity-investment-production dynamic, but most experts (among them many retired industry executives) still believe the peak of conventional and unconventional production alike will happen, at the latest, by the end of this decade. If anything, the current boom on unconventional fuels, and in particular the frenetic push for new exploitation, can be interpreted as a way to make up for the intrinsically low returns on investment. In the end, striving to keep up with the investors' expectations might just accelerate the ultimate decline in production.
Even from an environmental perspective, however, this is not necessarily good news. Sudden and unforeseen "peak oil" would probably mean a coal and natural gas rush, not to mention a prolonged economic collapse that would likely dry up investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts. Short-sightedness could end up doing even more harm to the world's climate than greed. Not so long ago, a handful of financial institutions led the global economy into near-collapse by failing to address obvious flaws in their "unconventional" activities, and thus setting the stage for a devastating bubble. I have very few reasons to believe that mankind is currently acting more wisely with its fossil fuels reserves, and the Arctic event provided me with no evidence that convinced me otherwise. I was hoping for a comprehensive outlook of the region's energy situation; instead, and perhaps more importantly, I came away with a clearer vision of "business as usual" than I ever thought I would get.

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Feb 14, 2013, 04:15 EST
BRISBANE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterMune, Inc. (NASDAQ : ITMN ) today announced that Sean P. Nolan has joined InterMune as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer.
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Mr. Welch said, "Sean will play a key role in InterMune's future as our Esbriet sales continue to grow globally, we move closer to the anticipated approval and launch of Esbriet in the United States and as we prepare to develop our business. I am confident that Sean will provide the broad and deep commercial and business experience, energy and drive that are essential during this exciting period of growth and change for our company."
Mr. Nolan began his career at Abbott Laboratories in 1991 and during a period of 13 years served in a variety of marketing and sales leadership positions. In 2004, he joined Ovation Pharmaceuticals, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapies to treat rare diseases. At Ovation, Sean developed and implemented the commercial strategies for the orphan drug pipeline and subsequently led the organization's effort that resulted in FDA approval of the company's lead compound. Ovation was acquired by the Danish pharmaceutical company, H. Lundbeck in 2009. After leading the company integration process, Mr. Nolan served as President of the newly created U.S. entity of Lundbeck. While at Lundbeck, Mr. Nolan served on the board of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, and was co-chair of the Rare and Specialty Disease Committee of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
Mr. Nolan joins InterMune from Reata Pharmaceuticals, where he most recently served as Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer and built a commercial operation to support the company's lead product.
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InterMune is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative therapies in pulmonology and orphan fibrotic diseases. In pulmonology, InterMune is focused on therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and fatal lung disease. Pirfenidone, the only medicine approved for IPF anywhere in the world, is approved for marketing by InterMune in the EU and Canada as Esbriet® and is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial to support regulatory registration in the United States. InterMune's research programs are focused on the discovery of targeted, small-molecule therapeutics and biomarkers to treat and monitor serious pulmonary and fibrotic diseases. For additional information about InterMune and its R&D pipeline, please visit www.intermune.com.
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The Company recently signs Cooperation and Commission Agreement with Swiss-based sales company GKAN Holdings SA for distribution of EasyMed's suite of products including International Medical Passport and Easy SmartCare
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 4, 2013) - EasyMed Services, Inc. (CNSX:EZM)(PINKSHEETS:EMYSF)(MUN:EY6) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a commercial agreement with Geneva-based GKAN Holdings SA ("GKAN") to target new customers.
Under the terms of the agreement GKAN will seek out and jointly market customers for EasyMed's niche products including the International Medical Passport and Easy SmartCare in specified target markets.
The markets currently targeted by GKAN include Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, the USA and China. The agreement is non-exclusive and EasyMed has the right to acquire additional distributors and affiliates to assist in the development of these markets.
Under the terms of the Agreement, EasyMed will assure the entire technological backend and support to fulfill the contracts. The Agreement includes a percentage commission for GKAN from revenues generated. The duration of the Agreement is for an initial period ending on December 31, 2014.
One of the principals of GKAN is Mr. George Koukis, an international entrepreneur, billionaire, and a current EasyMed shareholder. Mr. Koukis founded Temenos, a premier organisation in the field of banking security software, and was instrumental in setting up EasyMed's in-house software development centre in Chennai, India.
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I've never run a straight Cthulhu game. However, I have many of the modules and the monster books just because they were excellent resources for a dark world (not WoD - just a game that was placed in a tainted world) game I did run.
We use Chaosium-written modules.
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I've never run a straight Cthulhu game. However, I have many of the modules and the monster books just because they were excellent resources for a dark world (not WoD - just a game that was placed in a tainted world) game I did run.
Actually, I've never played a straight-up Cthulhu game either. I have played Delta Green, and it was one of my all time favorite TPK's.
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As a diehard, Call of Cthulhu and BRP fan, anyway I can. It seems that the Cthulhu Mythos leaks into just about any campaign I run.
I notice I'm not alone. Cthulhoid monstrousities are common place in D&D. The first published 4ed module had a distinctly Cthulhu-esque flair about it (evil cultist, portal to another world, a thing from beyond).
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The Mississippi River could be too shallow for barge traffic between St. Louis and Cairo in two weeks due to decreasing water levels.
According to the American Waterways Operators and Waterways Council, the country's busiest inland waterway is nearly too low already for barges loaded with coal, steel and other commerce.
And it is expected to dry up considerably in the next couple of week due to the summer drought and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's move to hold back water from the Missouri River.
"Of particular concern are hazardous rock formations near Thebes and Grand Tower which threaten navigation when water levels drop to anticipated, near historic lows," the agencies said in a joint release. "The rock formations, combined with the reduced flows from the Missouri River, will prohibit the transport of essential goods along this critical point in the river, effectively stopping barge transportation on the middle Mississippi River around Dec. 10."
U.S Coast Guard Lt. Colin Fogarty said the river is about two feet below normal water levels. He expects it to threaten the all-time low of 6.2 feet below normal in December. The previous low water mark was set in 1940.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in a controversial move, last week started to reduce to flow of water from the Missouri River into the Mississippi to make sure areas to the north have adequate water. "Congress and the Administration need to understand the immediate severity of this situation," American Waterways Operators President and CEO Tom Allegrett said. "The Mississippi River is an economic superhighway that efficiently carries hundreds of millions of tons of essential goods for domestic use as well as national export.
"We need to address this situation swiftly, cut through bureaucratic red tape, and prevent the closure of the Mississippi."Fogarty said the Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers are already working to try to keep the Mississippi River traffic flowing."At this point in time the Missouri River has been cut off as we have been expecting since early July," Fogarty said. "The Army Corps of Engineers has begun heavy dredging and the Coast Guard has been moving assets to St. Louis to help in any way it can."
Fogarty said he is not resigned to the idea that the Mississippi will be shut down by low water."We will not speculate when or if the river will be closed," Fogarty said. "We're doing everything we can to ensure river traffic will continue to flow. Despite the fact that we have these low water conditions, we're hopeful to keep traffic moving."
Corps of Engineers spokesperson Sue Casseau said the restrictions on the Missouri are something that happen every year to prevent it from becoming too low over the winter and spring. She said usually it isn't a problem because the Mississippi doesn't often suffer from too little water.
"There are long-term consequences to letting the Missouri get too low" Casseau said. "There are several states involved in this situation and the Corps of Engineers is responsible for serving the nation as a whole.
"Despite the Corps of Engineer's dredging efforts, there is little that can be done to deepen the channel at Thebes, where the bottom of the Mississippi is rock, not clay like it in most of the channel. The river is nine feet deep at Thebes, a town on the Illinois side of the river south of Cape Girardeau.
"Most barges need at least a 9 foot draft," Fogarty said. But oil barges and ones that carry things like anhydrous ammonia don't need as deep of a draft to get through."Fogarty said while some old wrecks have been exposed by the low water, none of them are in the channel or otherwise a threat to navigation. He predicted the low water mark record will be broken about Dec. 15.


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Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
– Matthew 11:29-30 HCSB
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
– Matthew 11:29-30 HCSB
A jewelry merchant and a tool seller simultaneously checked into a hotel. The jewelry merchant had his small case, filled with diamonds, emeralds and pearls. The tool seller had a trunk filled with hammers, saws, drills and other kinds of tools.
Both were served by the same porter. The jewelry merchant proceeded up to his room and the porter soon arrived and extended his hand for a tip. The merchant gave the man something for his efforts, but the porter cleared his throat and continued to hold his hand out, clearly indicating that it was not enough. He muttered something about the difficulty of lugging the jewelry merchant's case up the stairs and how heavy it was.
The jewelry merchant exclaimed, "If you carried up a big heavy suitcase, then that was not mine! My suitcase is very light. You've brought the wrong suitcase!"
We Christians tend to carry the wrong suitcase at times. Jesus said that being His disciple would involve a cost, that there would be a load, but that it would be a light one. But we add all kinds of baggage to the load. We start adding on our human philosophies, our corporate procedures, our rituals and ceremonies. We carry all this excess weight around and then wonder why the Christian life is so difficult!
Paul encouraged us to strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily hinders our progress. He commanded us to run with endurance the race that God has set before us. How are we to do this? By keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from start to finish.
Our labors are often difficult. Ministry is not for the timid or the weak! But because it is a labor of love, it is not considered difficult. Because it is done with Christ as the co-laborer, the time passes quickly.
My wife enjoys gardening. She attacks the weeds with great gusto. She sweats, she gets dirty, she stays bent over on her knees for hours at a time. But when she stands up and surveys her work she smiles with satisfaction. I, for one, find no particular joy out of gardening. To me it is only labor pure and simple. But that serves to illustrate the point. Jesus gave each of us a particular gift, provided us with opportunities to hone them and put them to good use, and works along beside us as we grunt through it. That lightens the load.
We are warned that on judgment day many will discover their labors were in vain because they were unauthorized. Let's make sure that we are not carrying any excess and unnecessary baggage.
For a fully referenced and hyperlinked version of this article search the archives at http://pastorpauley.blogspot.com/


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If you know (or you think) that your ancestors were from Santa Caterina dello Ionio, you could find info about your Italian family at Registrar of Vital Statistics in the City Office or at the parishes.
Registry offices in Calabria and in Catanzaro province were established in early 1800: it means that you could find information in Santa Caterina dello Ionio registrar as of that date.
Before to start your genealogy research in Santa Caterina dello Ionio, we suggest you to read our tips for your search . They are useful to search in Italy and in Santa Caterina dello Ionio too.
In the next picture you can see the demographic trends in Santa Caterina dello Ionio from the Italian Unification (1861).
It could be important to know if the last name you are investigating is a frequent surname in Santa Caterina dello Ionio. As more your surname is common in Santa Caterina dello Ionio, as more it could be difficult to find the right info about your ancestors in Santa Caterina dello Ionio archives if you have not exact dates.
It could be useful for you to know that some of the most common surnames in Catanzaro province are:
Aiello, Bianco, Caruso, Cimino, Colosimo, Cosentino, Critelli, Curcio, De Fazio, Donato, Falvo, Fazio, Folino, Gallo, Gentile, Gigliotti, Grande, Greco, Gualtieri, Leone, Mancuso, Marino, Mastroianni, Mazza, Mazzei, Mercuri, Molinaro, Muraca, Nistico, Paone, Paonessa, Perri, Procopio, Pugliese, Ranieri, Rocca, Rotella, Rotundo, Russo, Sacco, Scalise, Sestito, Talarico, Torchia, Trapasso, Vaccaro, Vescio, Viscomi.
Church archives in Catanzaro province may instead contain even older information, but they are far less accessible from abroad (and almost impossible by email).
Then,parishes send information not easily.
If you have the opportunity to visit Santa Caterina dello Ionio and Catanzaro province, you could plan to investigate churches' archives by yourself, but from abroad is very difficult to obtain any result unless you find a reliable local help.
Another important source of information is the "Archivio di Stato" (National archive) in Reggio Calabria.
In any case, never give up! Probably the distance from your country and Italy, some difficulties in understanding and in translation, could complicate your search but this should not discourage you.
It's important to plan your activities to carry on with simple goals (eg. search for a single date of birth, the name of an ancestor, the date of a marriage, etc.)
If you want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy research in Santa Caterina dello Ionio, or if you have questions regarding your family in Santa Caterina dello Ionio, just leave a message below
If your research is in a dead end and you need some professional advices from skilled and reliable Italian genealogists write to firstname.lastname@example.com .
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No because I just recently started contributing and it shows for me. Try copying and pasting the HTML found here: http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Take-the-myFICO-Fitness/Official-myFICO-Fitness-Challenge-Signature/...
Goals for 2013
-Raise my CS to 680 by the end of this year. Right now I'm a dumpy mid 500s.
-Get rid of the 4 collections I have sitting on each CR
-GW the lates on 2 loans
-Decreate balance on CC (right now it's almost maxed and a First Premier (yuck))
-Pick up a secure CC and keep utilization low
I've been reading everything I've come across and I'm really excited about getting this junk fixed.
Pay down balances this year to raise the score! ALSO, more difficult job, write GW and PFD letters to clean up the wifes credit!
I've been reading these forums for about 3 months now and am so glad that there are people out there willing to help each other out by sharing your stories. This year my goal to is pay down debt and increase my score rapidly. I'm in the market to buy a house and I want to get the best rate out there! I just paid of a $10,000 loan that I had from 5 years ago. It was a great feeling! I look forward to a great year!
Hello. I'm new to the Forum but have been monitoring my score obsessively since Spring 2012. I am so excited to take this challenge! My goals for 2013 are to leave the 681 CS behind and happily join the 700 club. I also want to apply for some prime credit cards.
The "Good": In 5 1/2 years, I have never been late on w/a cc payment. I have 2 Parent Plus Student loans in deferrment that total $18,400. I plan to start making payments on these loans to help offset some of the accruing interest. Mortgage is in my husband's name since he got a better rate solo.
The Bad: I have two accounts in collections. One is a chiropractic debt that I NEVER received a bill for. Just happened to check my credit report in 2009 and there it was. The second is a $79 medical bill that I am honestly not sure how it slipped through the cracks. These are my debts and I plan on paying them--just not yet. I've read that once I pay them, they will be reopened & remain on my credit report for 7 years from the date of payment as opposed to the date they were assigned to my credit report which was 4 years ago. So my plan is to leave them alone for now and build up my score and obtain my dream credit cards--then pay off the collection debt when I can "afford" to take the possible reopening hit to my credit. Does this make sense?
The Ugly: A $579 state tax lien from 2002. It is only on my Equifax CR. It dropped off of TU and EX in 2012.
At the end of January my credit card debt will be $1900 and by the end of February it will be ZERO. I'm hoping this will increase my score 19 points. I have six revolving credit cards and my total CL is $7800. Two of these cards are subprime; five if Capital One is also considered subprime.
Any and all advice/observations are welcome. Here's to financial stability in 2013!
HI Everyone:
Hope it is going well for everyone so far into the New Year. Just an update to my Credit Journey.
FICO: 599 (MyFICO), 619 (lender pull)
TU: 639 (1/23/2013-pull myself), gonna pull my equifax & wait on my myfico to update
Removed a Old Cap One CO (Yippie)
Still working!
Super day to all.
New Year, New You.
very excited about 2013 and the tHe opportunity to grow in 2013.
I learned that plants don't grow overnight only with careful Gardening.
2013 goals are continue to garden and apply for and receive Amex Platinum card.
Finishing the year with a score in the 760's-780's
Mentor any new members in helping them be debt free & credit worthy. If I did it so can you


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The third reason for concern relates to the overall (i.e., worldwide or aggregate)
economic and ecological implications of climate change. Numerous studies have
addressed aggregate impacts, particularly in the context of integrated assessment.
Estimating the aggregate impact of climate change is an intricate task that
requires careful professional judgment and skills. Aggregate analysis is based
on the same tools as most distributional analysis and uses regional data as
inputs. Consequently, it shares with distributional analysis the methodological
difficulties and shortcomings discussed more fully in Section
In addition, analysts have to grapple with some issues that are generic to
aggregate analysis. The most important issue is spatial and temporal comparison
of impacts. Aggregating impacts requires an understanding of (or assumptions
about) the relative importance of impacts in different sectors, in different
regions, and at different times. Developing this understanding implicitly involves
value judgments. The task is simplified if impacts can be expressed in a common
metric, but even then aggregation is not possible without value judgments. The
value judgments that underlie regional aggregation are discussed and made explicit
in Azar and Sterner (1996), Fankhauser et al. (1997, 1998), and Azar (1999).
Aggregation across time and the issue of discounting are discussed in more detail
in TAR WGIII Chapter 7. Aggregate
impact estimates can be very sensitive to the aggregation method and the choice
of numeraire (see Chapter 1).
All of these factors make aggregate analysis difficult to carry out and reduce
our overall confidence in aggregate results. Nevertheless, aggregate studies
provide important and policy-relevant information.
Most impact studies assess the consequences of climate change at a particular
concentration level or a particular point in time, thereby providing a static
"snapshot" of an evolving, dynamic process. The SAR suggested that
the aggregate impact of 2xCO2expressed in monetary termsmight
be equivalent to 1.5-2.0% of world GDP. Estimated damages are slightly
lower (relative to GDP) in developed countries but significantly higher in developing
countriesparticularly in small island states and other highly vulnerable
countries, where impacts could be catastrophic (Pearce et al., 1996). The SAR
was careful, however, to point out the low quality of these numbers and the
many shortcomings of the underlying studies.
Since publication of the SAR, our understanding of aggregate impacts has improved,
but it remains limited. Some sectors and impacts have received more analytical
attention than others and as a result are better understood. Agricultural and
coastal impacts in particular are now well studied (see Boxes
19-2 and 19-3). Knowledge about the health
impacts of climate change also is growing (see Box
19-4). Several attempts have been made to identify other nonmarket impacts,
such as changes in aquatic and terrestrial ecological systems and ecosystem
services, but a clear and consistent quantification has not yet emerged.
Table 19-4 contains a summary of results from
aggregate studies that use money as their numeraire. The numerical results as
such remain speculative, but they can provide insights on signs, orders of magnitude,
and patterns of vulnerability. Results are difficult to compare because different
studies assume different climate scenarios, make different assumptions about
adaptation, use different regional disaggregation, and include different impacts.
The estimates by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), for example, are more negative than
others because they factor in the possibility of catastrophic impact. The estimates
by Mendelsohn et al. (2000), on the other hand, are driven by optimistic assumptions
about adaptive capacity and baseline development trends, which result in mostly
beneficial impacts.
Standard deviations rarely are reported, but they are likely to be several
times larger than the "best guess." They are larger for developing countries,
where results generally are derived through extrapolation rather than direct
estimation. This is illustrated by the standard deviations estimated by Tol
(2001b), also reproduced in Table 19-4. These estimates
probably still underestimate the true uncertaintyfor example, because
they exclude omitted impacts and severe climate change scenarios. Note that
the aggregation can mask large standard deviations in estimates of damages to
individual sectors (Rothman, 2000).
An alternative indicator of climate change impact (excluding ecosystems) is
the number of people affected. Few studies directly calculate this figure, but
it is possible to compare the population of regions experiencing negative impacts
with that of positively affected regions. Such calculations suggest that a majority
of people may be negatively affected already at average global warming of 1-2°C.
This may be true even if the net aggregate monetary impact is positive because
developed economies, many of which could have positive impacts, contribute the
majority of global production but account for a smaller fraction of world population.
The quality of estimates of affected population is still poor, however. They
are essentially "back-of-the envelope" extensions of monetary models,
and the qualifications outlined in that context also apply here. In addition,
they do not consider the distribution of positive and negative effects within
On the whole, our confidence in the numerical results of aggregate studies
remains low. Nevertheless, a few generic patterns and trends are emerging in
which we have more confidence:
Overall, the current generation of aggregate estimates may understate the true
cost of climate change because they tend to ignore extreme weather events, underestimate
the compounding effect of multiple stresses, and ignore the costs of transition
and learning. However, studies also may have overlooked positive impacts of
climate change. Our current understanding of (future) adaptive capacity, particularly
in developing countries, is too limited, and the treatment of adaptation in
current studies is too varied, to allow a firm conclusion about the direction
of the estimation bias.
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Mikey is back with a feature video clip previewed here first at Bungalow-B! The Screening room is once again up and running to show you Michael in action!!...
- Jan 21 2005
- Jan 21 2005
So we brought you 'Home' to Bungalow-B 'Feeling Good' and now you will feel even more delighted to hear that on Sun. 1/23 we bring you 3 more full length tracks just for our Bungalow-Bees. Don't forget the album will be out Feb. 8th and we here at the Bungalow are planning a special listening party to preview all the tracks before the album comes out!
- Jan 19 2005
We have some more brand new Buble' for our exclusive members with his second track off the new album 'It's Time.' The screening room is now up and ready for you to hear the new track 'Feeling Good.'
- Jan 11 2005
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Sitting elbow-to-elbow at one long table, guests enjoyed an autumnal meal of bean & farro soup prepared by chef Mona Talbott in the kitchen at The Green Table, using ingredients from New York State farms and served alla Romana with spicy olive oil. To keep the meal simple and affordable, tickets were priced at $5, in part so that guests could take part in the $5 Challenge by Slow Food USA.
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"Like the High Line, the table is a place to gather together. We wanted to bring together neighbors and visitors, friends and newcomers, to share a feast and celebrate fall on the High Line," says Melina Shannon-DiPietro, director of High Line Food and Revenue Programs at Friends of the High Line. "A hearty bowl of soup, served family style, with the ingredients sourced from New York farms – this meal was a reminder that the best meals can be affordable, nourishing, and sustainable."
What's more, the soup was delicious too. Working with interns from the Rome Sustainable Food Project, Chef Mona Talbott used several types of beans from Cayuga Pure Organics farm in Brooktondale, New York to create a hearty dish for the guests. The soup was served alongside rye and Persian flat bread from Hot Bread Kitchen, and Ashmead's Kernel apples from Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook, New York. Guests were given the soup's recipe, which you can find in Mona's new book, Zuppe: Soups from the Kitchen of the American Academy in Rome.
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- Our first visit to the High Line; our first ever communal feast. We leave full and with a renewed faith in mankind. Anonymous
- What an amazing experiment. Keep doing it! Just all-around GOOD. Can't think of a better way to bring people together over a bowl of warm soup on an autumn day. Taylor
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NIAGARA FALLS – Canadians always seem to be the trailblazers when it comes to development in Niagara Falls.
They built the casinos, the glitzy hotels and the jam-packed downtown of neon tourist attractions.
Now the Canadians are at it again. But this time, they're focusing on the American side of the falls.
Three groups of big-name investors – some who shaped the Canadian skyline more than a decade ago – have been scooping up hotels in Niagara Falls, N.Y., turning them around and injecting some $100 million in new investment into the city.
It's the first step, they say, in making the former Honeymoon Capital a welcoming place for tourists and getting Niagara Falls back on its feet.
"Things are happening," said hotel developer Michael DiCienzo. "A lot of things have changed. More than ever, we have a stronger interest in reinvestment in this area."
DiCienzo's family spent an estimated $800 million on projects in Niagara Falls, Ont., over the past two decades, namely the high-rises that offer unparalleled views of the falls.
Until recently, little of that money was invested in the American side, which has been marred by population loss, infighting and dysfunction for decades.
But that has started to change.
DiCienzo's convention hotel across from the Seneca Niagara Casino has seen $34 million in recent investment, upgrading from a Holiday Inn to a Crowne Plaza to a Sheraton. DiCienzo is also embarking on a $10 million upgrade of a nearby Days Inn just across from the Rainbow Bridge.
And he isn't alone.
Faisal Merani, also of Canada, has poured $8 million into a burned-out hotel near the North Grand Island Bridge, turning it into a Four Points by Sheraton with access to the Niagara River.
He has $25 million in other projects in the works, including the transformation of a vacant conference center into a six-story hotel at the edge of Frederick Law Olmsted's state park.
"We've had seven years of steady growth, which is pretty unheard of, especially considering the recession," Merani said. "In Canada, I think we hit that peak already. It's really leveled off. But on this side, there's going to be a lot more growth."
A number of factors are driving the turnaround, developers say.
Favorable exchange rates have Canadian shoppers streaming over to American shopping malls or the Fashion Outlets at the edge of the city.
And tighter border restrictions since Sept. 11, 2001, have slowed the flow of traffic to the Canadian side – the same phenomenon that has led to the decline of casinos there.
"It created a perfect storm where the Canadians with passports were still coming across the border, but the family from Pittsburgh that doesn't have passports comes and stays on the American side," Merani said.
Developers say the American side of Niagara Falls has long been ripe for development, a blank canvas of prime parcels located just seconds from a natural wonder.
But for years, obstacles like a toxic political climate have kept away serious investors who were wary of doing business here.
"The city's gotten better," DiCienzo said, citing Mayor Paul A. Dyster as an example. "You've got a mayor that's pro-development, he wants to see things through. His first question is always, 'What can I do for you to make it easier?' Not roadblocks. Before, we wouldn't even go to City Hall because it was just a waste of time."
The impact of federal prosecutions of Niagara Falls' labor unions – and the disruption of their ties to organized crime – has also had an effect, developers say.
"The good criminals are gone," Stinson said. "The current criminals are amateurs. I haven't run into someone who's given me icky vibes. Nobody threatened or ordered anything."
Merani, who owns two hotels on the Canadian side, had also heard whispers about the way business had to be done in Niagara Falls.
"I've heard a lot of horror stories about the way it used to be," he said. "Everyone says, 'The Falls, it must be hard to build there.' But it wasn't. It's simply not been that bad."
Generous county and state incentives helped persuade developers to take a chance on developing parcels that had decayed for decades.
"In Canada, it's more, 'You're on your own. There aren't any handouts,' " said Toronto developer Harry Stinson. "Here, it's like you just show up and ask."
Stinson, who has been called "Canada's answer to Donald Trump," is heading perhaps the most ambitious project on the American side. He plans to pour $26 million into a restoration of the city's grand Hotel Niagara, a Statleresque hotel that dominates the American skyline.
The Hotel Niagara once had guests such as Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. But like the city's other hotels, it has seen better days.
"Millions of people come [to the falls] each year, but yet there's a serious void in the hotel market," Stinson said. "To me, that's a no-brainer."
Most importantly, developers say Niagara Falls is finally correcting the urban planning miscues that set it back for decades.
DiCienzo invested in the Sheraton after the state razed the Wintergarden arboretum, which blocked the flow of traffic from Niagara Falls State Park into the city. That move created more foot traffic on Old Falls Street, where he set up a Starbucks Coffee and TGI Fridays restaurant. It also led to the development of the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute, which is filling a restaurant void and bringing hundreds of young people downtown.
Farther up the Niagara River, the state has decided to remove a key section of the Robert Moses Parkway and install walking paths linking pedestrians to the river.
That has persuaded Merani to turn his Fallside Hotel project from a small renovation to a major reconstruction.
"With the Moses, it took us from spending X amount of dollars on this to saying, 'OK, let's blow this up and spend some money on this,' " he said. "It will be a riverfront hotel right on the water."
But despite the construction, there are no plans to build a towering skyline of fancy buildings like that in Niagara Falls, Ont.
That's because a "geographic difference" exists between the two cities, said Christopher J. Schoepflin, president of USA Niagara Development.
"The view of the Horseshoe Falls is only on the Canadian side, and so that is really what's driving their vertical building," he said. "On our side, we have other advantages, which is adjacency and the ability to get very much on top of and into the natural wonders, whether the waterfront or the river gorge."
That's just fine with the developers, who have little desire to mimic what they have already built in Canada.
"What it should be is emulating Niagara-on-the-Lake, and not Niagara Falls, Canada, which has its own problems," Stinson said. "Be something different – that will flourish. Trying to emulate the other side when you don't have the view is not the right approach."
At Merani's hotel, for instance, visitors leaving the downtown area can retire to an enclosed lounge with spectacular views of the upper river, or play around at a new boat dock outside.
"A lot of people like that it's not so busy on this side of the border," he said. "They want things to do, but they're on vacation, they want to be calm and relaxed when they stay here."
Development officials estimate the American hotel market could hold up to 1,000 new hotel rooms in the next four years – most in the upscale marketplace.
"A hotel is to the tourism industry what a factory is to manufacturing," Dyster, the mayor, said. "Lots of other good things spin off of that piece, but you have to have the central piece there in order to be a player."
The next step, he said, is for the investors to develop the attractions that could expand a family's average stay from a few hours to two or three nights.
"It suggests that when we get the other pieces of the puzzle in place, the Canadian investment community is watching closely and is going to be willing to come on board and get the capital projects done we need to get done," Dyster said.
That would make Niagara Falls into the kind of place it always should have been.
"It's on the bucket list," Stinson said. "Disney, New York City, Las Vegas, Niagara Falls, it's one of the places to go.
"Right now it's not considered an option," he added. "I think in the next three to four years, it will be considered an option."
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