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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At its regular quarterly meeting of the Company's Board of Directors, Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) today announced the declaration of a quarterly dividend on Common Stock of 31 cents per share, payable October 15, 2013, to holders of record at the close of business on September 24, 2013.
Conference Call
Piedmont Natural Gas will conduct its 2013 third quarter conference call, broadcast live over the internet on Monday, September 9, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, hosted by Chairman, President and CEO Thomas E. Skains. Simply log on to the web at www.piedmontng.com and click on 'For Investors'. The conference call will be archived on the Presentation page of the website within the For Investors section.
About Piedmont Natural Gas
Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial, industrial and power generation customers in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, regulated interstate natural gas transportation and storage, and intrastate natural gas transportation businesses. More information about Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/.
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The official 'We Are The Champions' music video. Taken from Queen - 'Greatest Video Hits 1'.
It's nearing 1 a.m. The lights are dim in the bar and the opening riffs of Queen's "We are the Champions" blare from the stereo. Suddenly, it seems like everyone in the bar is singing, "We are the champions, my friends, and we'll keep on fighting, till the end …"
"I was out on a night out and I saw [several] groups sort of huddled together belting out songs at the top of their lungs. And I was blown away by the all enthusiasm and vigor," says Alisun Pawley, a musicologist and lecturer at Kendal College in England.
"It had a tribal quality. What is it about this song?"
To understand why people croon in bars, Pawley visited pubs and clubs in several towns in Northern England. Over 30 days, she recorded 1,110 songs, played throughout the evening. In addition to capturing the song, she noted what lyrics roused the crowd and estimated the number of people singing when the tune reached its climax.
She and a colleague, Daniel Müllensiefen, a music psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, analyzed the most popular songs to see if they shared any particular similarities.
Paul McCartney leads athletes and audience members in what amounted to one massive sing-a-long to the Beatles song
"We looked at various aspects from their melodic aspects, the range, the intervals between notes -- I thought that maybe if [the intervals] weren't as far apart it would be easier to sing, [but] that wasn't influential," she says. "We looked at the aspect of the lyrics and how relevant they were in the context of a pub."
Pawley found that pub-goers most enjoyed crooning high-energy songs sung by male vocalists with high chest voices and fewer warbles (these qualities describe something known as an anthemic vocal performance). All the popular songs spent at least four weeks on the UK music charts. Crowds that engaged in sing-a-longs were normally younger and the later it was, the more likely it was they would sing.
"The later on in the evening, the more people sang along and we largely relate that to alcohol," she says.
While Pawley thought that songs with nonsense words such as "Hey Jude," with its "nah, nah, nah, nah" would be more popular, she found nonsense words didn't add a song's appeal. ("Hey Jude" united the world in a sing-a-long during the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, which Pawley says was "just brilliant." She believes the song was a hit with an international crowd because non-English speakers don't need to understand nah to enjoy it.)
People gravitated toward songs with some cultural significance. Even if "YMCA" isn't on a personal favorite, people know the words and it's a mainstay at festive events.
"Songs have kind of a tradition about them and very new songs haven't necessarily built a culture."
She hopes to conduct similar research in the United States. She suspects the songs might have different titles, but will share the same musical properties.
The article will be published in the journal Music Perception later this year.
Top 10 pub songs in England:
1. "We Are the Champions," Queen (1977)
2. "Y.M.C.A.," The Village People (1978)
3. "Fat Lip," Sum 41 (2001)
4. "The Final Countdown," Europe (1986)
5. "Monster," by The Automatic (2006)
6. "Ruby," The Kaiser Chiefs (2007)
7. "I'm Always Here," by Jimi Jamison (1996)
8. "Brown Eyed Girl," Van Morrison (1967)
9. "Teenage Dirtbag," Wheatus (2000)
10. "Livin' on a Prayer," Bon Jovi (1986)

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Wisconsin DNR wants wolf rules on spring ballot
The Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources wants to ask outdoor lovers what they think of new wolf-dog hunting rules.
DNR officials are set to ask the agency's board on Jan. 23 to include the rules on the Conservation Congress' spring hearings questionnaire.
The draft rules would allow hunters to train dogs on wolves during daylight hours during wolf season and the month of March. Dogs also would have to be tattooed or wear a collar with its owner's name and address. Hearing attendees would get a chance to express support on a number of different provisions in the rules.
The agency hopes to take the rules to public hearings later this year and implement them in 2014.
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A nearby star's apparent movement against the background of more distant stars as the Earth revolves around the Sun is referred to as parallax.
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Ryen Russillo, who is Scott Van Pelt's ESPN radio co-host, was suspended by ESPN for an undetermined period of time following his Super Bowl incident with a Boston radio host. A couple readers on twitter noticed Russillo's absence from SVP's show over the last week, so I poked around at ESPN and one source said Russillo was suspended, but details are being kept private. A different source says Russillo was on scheduled vacation last week, leading me to believe he was suspended Monday and today. ESPN PR had no comment when asked about the suspension.
The night before the Super Bowl, Russillo nearly got into a fight with an old colleague, WEEI's John Dennis. The two have a history dating back to their days in Boston, and each seemed eager to settle the score. Punches were never exchanged, but the incident spilled over to twitter the following day, when Russillo challenged Dennis to a fight (for charity!). Russillo deleted the tweets the following day.
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Event activity-dependence of jet production in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV measured with semi-inclusive hadron+jet correlations by ALICE
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We report measurement of the semi-inclusive distribution of charged-particle jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) hadron trigger, for p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV, in p-Pb events ...
Neutral meson production and correlation with charged hadrons in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC
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Among the probes used to investigate the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, the measurement of the energy loss of high-energy partons can be used to put constraints on energy-loss models and to ultimately access medium ...
Direct photon measurements in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment
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Measurements of the dielectron continuum in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
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'Cyber War' by Richard Clarke
Read an excerpt of "Cyber War" by Richard Clarke.
April 20, 2010 -- In "Cyber War," author Richard Clarke explores the newest front of modern war: the Internet and how America could already be on the losing side.
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It was in the depths of a gray and chill Washington winter. On a side street not far from Dupont Circle, in a brownstone filled with electric guitars and an eclectic collection of art, we gathered to remember the man who had taught us how to analyze issues of war and defense. Two dozen of his former students, now mostly in their fifties, drank toasts that February night in 2009 to Professor William W. Kaufmann, who had died weeks earlier at age ninety. Bill, as everyone referred to him that night, had taught defense analysis and strategic nuclear weapons policy at MIT for decades, and later at Harvard and the Brookings Institution. Generations of civilian and military "experts" had earned that title by passing through his courses. Bill was also an advisor to six Secretaries of Defense, sitting in the "front office" on the E Ring of the Pentagon. He shuttled between Boston and Washington every week for decades.
Behind his back, some of us had referred to Professor Kaufmann as "Yoda," in part because of a vague physical and stylistic resemblance, but chiefly because we thought of him as our Jedi master, the man who understood the workings of the Force and tried to teach them to us. As an analyst and advisor, Bill had been one of a handful of civilians who had created the framework of strategic nuclear war doctrine in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They had walked the United States back from a nuclear strategy that had called for the United States to go first in a nuclear war, to use all of its nuclear weapons in one massive attack, and to destroy hundreds of cities in Europe and Asia. Bill and his colleagues had probably prevented a global nuclear war and had made strategic arms control possible. Our conversation that night, lubricated by the same martinis Bill used to drink with us, turned to the future. What could we do to honor the memory of William W. Kaufmann and the other strategists of the second half of the twentieth century? We could, someone suggested, continue their work, use what Bill had taught us, ask the tough analytical questions about today's strategy. Another at the table suggested that today is very different from the 1950s, when nuclear weapons were being deployed without a thoughtful strategy; strategies are well developed today.
But is it such a different time? In the first decade of the twentyfirst century, the U.S. developed and systematically deployed a new type of weapon, based on our new technologies, and we did so without a thoughtful strategy. We created a new military command to conduct a new kind of high-tech war, without public debate, media discussion, serious congressional oversight, academic analysis, or international dialogue. Perhaps, then, we are at a time with some striking similarities to the 1950s. Perhaps, then, we need to stimulate learned discussion and rigorous analysis about that new kind of weapon, that new kind of war.
It is cyberspace and war in it about which I speak. On October 1, 2009, a general took charge of the new U.S. Cyber Command, a military organization with the mission to use information technology and the Internet as a weapon. Similar commands exist in Russia, China, and a score of other nations. These military and intelligence organizations are preparing the cyber battlefield with things called "logic bombs" and "trapdoors," placing virtual explosives in other countries in peacetime. Given the unique nature of cyber war, there may be incentives to go first. The most likely targets are civilian in nature. The speed at which thousands of targets can be hit, almost anywhere in the world, brings with it the prospect of highly volatile crises. The force that prevented nuclear war, deterrence, does not work well in cyber war. The entire phenomenon of cyber war is shrouded in such government secrecy that it makes the Cold War look like a time of openness and transparency. The biggest secret in the world about cyber war may be that at the very same time the U.S. prepares for offensive cyber war, it is continuing policies that make it impossible to defend the nation effectively from cyber attack.
A nation that has invented the new technology, and the tactics to use it, may not be the victor, if its own military is mired in the ways of the past, overcome by inertia, overconfident in the weapons they have grown to love and consider supreme. The originator of the new offensive weaponry may be the loser unless it has also figured out how to defend against the weapon it has shown to the rest of the world. Thus, even though the American colonel Billy Mitchell was the first to understand the ability of small aircraft to sink mighty battleships, it was the Japanese Imperial Navy that acted on that understanding, and came close to defeating the Americans in the Pacific in World War II. It was Britain that first developed the tank, and a French colonel, Charles de Gaulle, who devised the tactics of rapid attack with massed tanks, supported by air and artillery. Yet it was a recently defeated Germany that perfected the tank in the 1930s and first employed de Gaulle's tactics, which later became known as blitzkrieg. (As recently as 1990, and again in 2003, the U.S. military went to war with an updated version of the seventyyear- old blitzkrieg tactic: fast movement of heavy tank units, supported by aircraft.) Warmed by the camaraderie of my fellow ex-students, and by the martinis, I left the brownstone and wandered out into that cold night, pondering this irony of history, and making a commitment to myself, and to Bill, that I would try to stimulate open, public analysis and discussion of cyber-war strategy before we stumbled into such a conflict. This book is the down payment on that commitment. I knew that I needed a younger partner to join me in trying to understand the military and technological implications of cyber war well enough to produce this book. Different generations think of cyberspace differently. For me, looking at my sixtieth birthday in 2010, cyberspace is something that I saw gradually creep up around me. It happened after I had already had a career dealing with nuclear weapons, in a bipolar world. I became the first Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security in 2001, but my views of cyber war are colored by my background in nuclear strategy and espionage. Rob Knake was thirty when he and I wrote this book. For his generation, the Internet and cyberspace are as natural as air and water. Rob's career has focused on homeland security and the transnational threats of the twenty-first century. We have worked together at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, at Good Harbor Consulting, and on the Obama for America campaign. In 2009, Rob won the prestigious International Affairs Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations with an appointment to study cyber war. We decided to use the first-person singular in the text because many times I will be discussing my personal experiences with government, with the information-technology industry, and with Washington's clans, but the research, writing, and concept development were a joint enterprise. We have wandered around Washington and other parts of this country together in search of answers to the many questions surrounding cyber war. Many people have helped us in that search, some of them wishing to remain unnamed in this book because of their past or present associations. We had spent long hours discussing, debating, and arguing until we found a synthesis of our views. Rob and I both agree that cyber war is not some victimless, clean, new kind of war that we should embrace. Nor is it some kind of secret weapon that we need to keep hidden from the daylight and from the public. For it is the public, the civilian population of the United States and the publicly owned corporations that run our key national systems, that are likely to suffer in a cyber war.
While it may appear to give America some sort of advantage, in fact cyber war places this country at greater jeopardy than it does any other nation. Nor is this new kind of war a game or a figment of our imaginations. Far from being an alternative to conventional war, cyber war may actually increase the likelihood of the more traditional combat with explosives, bullets, and missiles. If we could put this genie back in the bottle, we should, but we can't. Therefore, we need to embark on a complex series of tasks: to understand what cyber war is, to learn how and why it works, to analyze its risks, to prepare for it, and to think about how to control it.
This book is an attempt to begin to do some of that. It is not a technical book, not meant to be an electrical engineer's guide to the details of cyber weapons. Nor is it designed to be a Washington wonk's acronym-filled, jargon-encrusted political or legal exegesis. Finally, it is also definitely not a military document and not written to be immediately translatable into Pentagonese. Therefore, some experts in each of those fields may think the book simplistic in places where it discusses things they understand and opaque in parts that stretch beyond their expertise. Overall, we have tried to strike a balance and to write in an informal style that will be both clear and occasionally entertaining. Lest you take too much comfort in those assurances, however, it is necessary in a book on this subject to discuss the technology, the ways of Washington, as well as some military and intelligence themes. Likewise, it is impossible to avoid entirely the use of acronyms and jargon, and therefore we include a glossary (starting on page 281).
I have been taught by senior national security officials for decades never to bring them a problem without also suggesting a solution. This book certainly reveals some problems, but it also discusses potential solutions. Putting those or other defenses in place will take time, and until they are a reality, this nation and others are running some new and serious risks to peace, to international stability, to internal order, and to our national and individual economic well-being.
The authors wish to thank the many people who helped us with this book, most important the experts in and out of governments who helped us on condition that they go unnamed. Pieter Zatko, John Mallery, Chris Jordan, Ed Amoroso, Sami Saydjari, and Barnaby Page helped us understand some of the more technical aspects of cyber security. Paul Kurtz served as a constant sounding board and helped shape our thinking in innumerable ways. Ken Minihan, Mike McConnell, and Rich Wilhelm gave us added insight from their decades in government and the private sector, Alan Paller, Greg Rattray, and Jim Lewis gave their insights and latest thinking on this complex topic. We thank Janet Napolitano for taking time out of her busy schedule to meet with us and for being willing to do so on the record. We also thank Rand Beers for his wisdom. Will Howerton helped in a major way to get this book across the finish line. He possesses a keen editorial eye and a gift for research. Will Bardenwerper also provided editorial assistance. Bev Roundtree, as she has been on so many projects over the decades, was the sine qua non.
Chapter 1: Trial Runs
A quarter-moon reflected on the slowly flowing Euphrates, a river along which nations have warred for five thousand years. It was just after midnight, September 6, 2007, and a new kind of attack was about to happen along the Euphrates, one that had begun in cyberspace. On the east side of the river, seventy-five miles south into Syria from the Turkish border, up a dry wadi from the riverbank, a few low lights cast shadows on the wadi's sandy walls. The shadows were from a large building under construction. Many North Korean workers had left the construction site six hours earlier, queuing in orderly lines to load onto buses for the drive to their nearby dormitory. For a construction site, the area was unusually dark and unprotected, almost as if the builder wanted to avoid attracting attention.
Without warning, what seemed like small stars burst above the site, illuminating the area with a blue-white clarity brighter than daylight. In less than a minute, although it seemed longer to the few Syrians and Koreans still on the site, there was a blinding flash, then a concussive sound wave, and then falling pieces of debris. If their hearing had not been temporarily destroyed by the explosions, those on the ground nearby would then have heard a longer acoustic wash of military jet engines blanketing the area. Had they been able to look beyond the flames that were now sweeping the construction site, or above the illuminating flares that were still floating down on small parachutes, the Syrians and Koreans might have seen F-15 Eagles and F-16 Falcons banking north, back toward Turkey. Perhaps they would even have made out muted blue-and-white Star of David emblems on the wings of the Israeli Air Force strike formation as it headed home, unscathed, leaving years of secret work near the wadi totally destroyed.
Almost as unusual as the raid itself was the political silence that followed. The public affairs offices of the Israeli government said nothing. Even more telling, Syria, which had been bombed, was silent. Slowly, the story started to emerge in American and British media. Israel had bombed a complex in eastern Syria, a facility being built by North Koreans. The facility was related to weapons of mass destruction, the news accounts reported from unnamed sources. Israeli press censors allowed their nation's newspapers to quote American media accounts, but prohibited them from doing any reporting of their own. It was, they said, a national security matter. Prompted by the media accounts, the Syrian government belatedly admitted there had been an attack on their territory. Then they protested it, somewhat meekly. Syrian President Assad asserted that what had been destroyed was "an empty building." Curiously, only North Korea joined Damascus in expressing outrage at this surprise attack.
Media accounts differed slightly as to what had happened and why, but most quoted Israeli government sources as saying that the facility had been a North Korean–designed nuclear weapons plant. If that was true, North Korea had violated an agreement with the United States and other major powers that it would stop selling nuclear weapons know-how. Worse, it meant that Syria, a nation on Israel's border, a nation that had been negotiating with Israel through the Turks, had actually been trying secretly to acquire nuclear weapons, something that even Saddam Hussein had stopped doing years before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Soon, however, self-anointed experts were casting doubt on the "Syria was making a nuclear bomb" story.
Satellite pictures, taken by reconnaissance satellite, were revealed by Western media. Experts noted that the site had little security around it before the bombing. Some contended that the building was not tall enough to house a North Korean nuclear reactor. Others pointed to the lack of any other nuclear infrastructure in Syria.
They offered alternative theories. Maybe the building was related to Syria's missile program. Maybe Israel had just gotten it wrong and the building was relatively innocent, like Saddam Hussein's alleged "baby milk factory" of 1990 or Sudan's supposed aspirin plant of 1998, both destroyed in U.S. strikes. Or maybe, said some commentators, Syria was not the real target. Maybe Israel was sending a message to Iran, a message that the Jewish state could still successfully carry out surprise air strikes, a message that a similar strike could occur on Iranian nuclear facilities unless Tehran stopped its nuclear development program.
Media reports quoting unnamed sources claimed various degrees of American involvement in the raid: the Americans had discovered the site on satellite photography, or the Americans had overlooked the site and the Israelis had found it on satellite images given to them routinely by the U.S. intelligence community; the Americans had helped plan the bombing, perhaps persuading the Turkish military to look the other way as the Israeli attack formation sailed over Turkey to surprise Syria by attacking from the north. Americans— or were they Israelis?—had perhaps snuck into the construction site before the bombing to confirm the North Korean presence, and maybe verify the nuclear nature of the site. President George W. Bush, uncharacteristically taciturn, flatly refused to answer a reporter's question about the Israeli attack.
The one thing that most analysts agreed upon was that something strange had happened. In April 2008, the CIA took the unusual step of producing and publicly releasing a video showing clandestine imagery from inside the facility before it was bombed. The film left little doubt that the site had been a North Korean–designed nuclear facility. The story soon faded. Scant attention was paid when, seven months later, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued its report. It had sent inspectors to the site. What the inspectors found was not a bombed-out ruin, nor did they come upon a beehive of renewed construction activity. Instead, the international experts were taken to a site that had been neatly plowed and raked, a site showing no signs of debris or construction materials. It looked like an unimproved home lot for sale in some desert community outside of Phoenix, perfectly anodyne. The disappointed inspectors took pictures. They filled plastic ziplock baggies with soil samples and then they left the banks of the Euphrates and flew back to their headquarters on an island in the Danube near Vienna. There they ran tests in their laboratories.
The IAEA announced, again to little attention, that the soil samples had contained unusual, "man-made," radioactive materials. For those few who had been following the mystery of Syria's Euphrates enigma, that was the end of the story, vindicating Israel's highly regarded intelligence service.
Despite how unlikely it seemed, Syria in fact had been secretly fooling around with nuclear weapons, and the bizarre regime in North Korea had been helping. It was time to reassess the intentions of both Damascus and Pyongyang.
Behind all of this mystery, however, was another intrigue. Syria had spent billions of dollars on air defense systems. That September night, Syrian military personnel were closely watching their radars. Unexpectedly, Israel had put its troops on the Golan Heights on full alert earlier in the day. From their emplacements on the occupied Syrian territory, Israel's Golani Brigade could literally look into downtown Damascus through their long-range lenses. Syrian forces were expecting trouble. Yet nothing unusual appeared on their screens. The skies over Syria seemed safe and largely empty as midnight rolled around. In fact, however, formations of Eagles and Falcons had penetrated Syrian airspace from Turkey. Those aircraft, designed and first built in the 1970s, were far from stealthy. Their steel and titanium airframes, their sharp edges and corners, the bombs and missiles hanging on their wings, should have lit up the Syrian radars like the Christmas tree illuminating New York's Rockefeller Plaza in December. But they didn't.
What the Syrians slowly, reluctantly, and painfully concluded the next morning was that Israel had "owned" Damascus's pricey air defense network the night before. What appeared on the radar screens was what the Israeli Air Force had put there, an image of nothing. The view seen by the Syrians bore no relation to the reality that their eastern skies had become an Israeli Air Force bombing range. Syrian air defense missiles could not have been fired because there had been no targets in the system for them to seek out. Syrian air defense fighters could not have scrambled, had they been fool enough to do so again against the Israelis, because their Russian-built systems required them to be vectored toward the target aircraft by groundbased controllers. The Syrian ground-based controllers had seen no targets.
By that afternoon, the phones were ringing in the Russian Defense Ministry off Red Square. How could the Russian air defense system have been blinded? Syria wanted to know. Moscow promised to send experts and technicians right away. Maybe there had been an implementation problem, maybe a user error, but it would be fixed immediately. The Russian military-industrial complex did not need that kind of bad publicity about its products. After all, Iran was about to buy a modern air defense radar and missile system from Moscow. In both Tehran and Damascus, air defense commanders were in shock.
Cyber warriors around the world, however, were not surprised. This was how war would be fought in the information age, this was Cyber War. When the term "cyber war" is used in this book, it refers to actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation's computers or networks for the purposes of causing damage or disruption. When the Israelis attacked Syria, they used light and electric pulses, not to cut like a laser or stun like a taser, but to transmit 1's and 0's to control what the Syrian air defense radars saw. Instead of blowing up air defense radars and giving up the element of surprise before hitting the main targets, in the age of cyber war, the Israelis ensured that the enemy could not even raise its defenses.
The Israelis had planned and executed their cyber assault flawlessly. Just how they did it is a matter of some conjecture.
There are at least three possibilities for how they "owned" the Syrians. First, there is the possibility suggested by some media reports that the Israeli attack was preceded by a stealthy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that intentionally flew into a Syrian air defense radar's beam. Radar still works essentially the same way it began seventy years ago in the Battle of Britain. A radar system sends out a directional radio beam. If the beam hits anything, it bounces back to a receiver. The processor then computes where the object was that the radio beam hit, at what altitude it was flying, at what speed it was moving, and maybe even how big an object was up there. The key fact here is that the radar is allowing an electronic beam to come from the air, back into the ground-based computer system.
Radar is inherently an open computer door, open so that it can receive back the electronic searchers it has sent out to look for things in the sky. A stealthy Israeli UAV might not have been seen by the Syrian air defense because the drone would have been coated with material that absorbs or deflects a radar beam. The UAV might, however, have been able to detect the radar beam coming up from the ground toward it and used that very same radio frequency to transmit computer packets back down into the radar's computer and from there into the Syrian air defense network. Those packets made the system malfunction, but they also told it not to act there was anything wrong with it. They may have just replayed a do-loop of the sky as it was before the attack. Thus, while the radar beam might later have bounced off the attacking Eagles and Falcons, the return signal did not register on the Syrian air defense computers. The sky would look just like it had when it was empty, even though it was, in actuality, filled with Israeli fighters. U.S. media reports indicate that the United States has a similar cyber attack system, code-named Senior Suter.
Second, there is the possibility that the Russian computer code controlling the Syrian air defense network had been compromised by Israeli agents. At some point, perhaps in the Russian computer lab or in a Syrian military facility, someone working for Israel or one of its allies may have slipped a "trapdoor" into the millions of lines of computer code that run the air defense program. A "trapdoor" (or "Trojan Horse") is simply a handful of lines of computer code that look just like all the other gibberish that comprise the instructions for an operating system or application. (Tests run by the National Security Agency determined that even the best-trained experts could not, by visually looking through the millions of lines of symbols, find the "errors" that had been introduced into a piece of software.)
The "trapdoor" could be instructions on how to respond to certain circumstances. For example, if the radar processor discovers a particular electronic signal, it would respond by showing no targets in the sky for a designated period of time, say, the next three hours. All the Israeli UAV would have to do is send down that small electronic signal. The "trapdoor" might be a secret electronic access point that would allow someone tapping into the air defense network to get past the intrusion-detection system and firewall, through the encryption, and take control of the network with full administrator's rights and privileges.
The third possibility is that an Israeli agent would find any fiberoptic cable of the air defense network somewhere in Syria and splice into the line (harder than it sounds, but doable). Once on line, the Israeli agent would type in a command that would cause the "trapdoor" to open for him. While it is risky for an Israeli agent to be wandering around Syria cutting into fiber-optic cables, it is far from impossible. Reports have suggested for decades that Israel places its spies behind Syrian borders. The fiber-optic cables for the Syrian national air defense network run all over the country, not just inside military installations. The advantage of an agent in place hacking into the network is that it does not cause the operation to rely upon the success of a "takeover packet" entering the network from a UAV flying overhead. Indeed, an agent in place could theoretically set up a link from his location back to Israel's Air Force command post. Using low-probability-of-intercept (LPI) communications methods, an Israeli agent may be able to establish "cove comms" (covert communications), even in downtown Damascus, beaming up to a satellite with little risk of anyone in Syria noticing.
Whatever method the Israelis used to trick the Syrian air defense network, it was probably taken from a playbook they borrowed from the U.S. Our Israeli friends have learned a thing or two from the programs we have been working on for more than two decades. In 1990, as the United States was preparing to go to war with Iraq for the first time, early U.S. cyber warriors got together with Special Operations commandos to figure out how they could take out the extensive Iraqi air defense radar and missile network just before the initial waves of U.S. and allied aircraft came screeching in toward Baghdad. As the hero of Desert Storm, four-star General Norm Schwarzkopf, explained to me at the time, "these snake-eaters had some crazy idea" to sneak into Iraq before the first shots were fired and seize control of a radar base in the south of the country. They planned to bring with them some hackers, probably from the U.S. Air Force, who would hook up to the Iraqi network from inside the base and then send out a program that would have caused all the computers on the network all over the country to crash and be unable to reboot.
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Raspberry Vodka Champagne
3.5 shots out of 5
Happy New Years Eve!! Finally the day has come, time to par-tay! You will all have to let me know what your cocktail of choice was tonight! I hope you have all had a wonderful year and that next year is even better. I do truely appreciate all of you that come to my blog to see what I've been drinking. This blog has been a lot of fun to do, but wouldn't be half as fun without all of your emails, comments and recipes!
I gave tonight's cocktail 3.5 shots out of 5. I found tonight's cocktail at tablespoon.com. I have to say, if I liked champagne more, I would definitely like this cocktail a lot more. The raspberry vodka and lime juice mixed in with the champagne make it quite an enjoyable cocktail........minus the champagne that is. I have learned from these last few days that to enjoy champagne (for me at least), I must mix something else into it. So far my Raspberry Resolution is the winner in my book, but this would be a second to that. I hope you all have fun tonight and please drink responsibly, or bring and overnight bag wherever you're going!
Here is the recipe for a Raspberry Vodka Champagne:
- 3 oz champagne
- 1/2 oz raspberry vodka
- 1/2 oz lime juice
In a champagne flute or wine glass, add all of the ingredients above and stir.
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The 2013 PFT NFL MVP is PFM.
Yes, Peyton F. Manning. We don't know whether his middle name starts with an F; for our purposes, the F stands for something else entirely.
I could elaborate on his credentials, but do I really need to? He beat the existing record for passing touchdowns by 10 percent. He set the record for single-season passing yards — even if it merits a fleur-de-lis shaped asterisk. He led his team once again to the top seed in the AFC.
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What Is Sarsaparilla Used for Today? | Dosage | Safety Issues | References
Smilax officinalis, Other Smilax spp
Vine-like plants in the sarsaparilla family are found in many parts of the world. The most common form,
Smilax officinalis, is grown primarily in Jamaica. Other common forms include
S. glyciphylla
S. japicanga
S. glabra
(Sri Lanka),
S. china
(China), and
S. luzonensis
(Malaysia). The root is the part used medicinally.
Traditionally, various forms of sarsaparilla have been use to treat cancer, psoriasis, eczema, and other skin diseases. These uses are all tied together by an outdated treatment concept known as "blood purification." It was thought that numerous ailments, including skin diseases, cancer, and other conditions, were due to impurities in the blood. Herbs said to have blood purifying properties, such as sarsaparilla, were used to correct this traditionally acknowledged problem.
Additionally, sarsaparilla was recommended for joint pain, "female problems," and syphilis.
An entirely different plant, Aralia nudicaulis, is sometimes called "Wild Sarsaparilla." However, it is more closely related to
than to the forms of sarsaparilla discussed here.
Sarsaparilla should also not be confused with
sassafras, a flavoring traditionally used in root beer.
There are no medicinal uses of sarsaparilla with meaningful scientific support.
Extremely weak evidence, far too weak to be relied upon at all, hints at possible antifungal,1 anti-inflammatory,2-4
and anti-cancer
Like numerous other herbs, sarsaparilla contains substances in the saponin family. One of these, sarsasapogenin, is often said to reproduce the effect of various hormones. However, there is no evidence whatsoever to support this claim.
Based on traditional usage, as well as ungrounded extrapolation from
test tube
findings, sarsaparilla is sold today as a treatment for
and other skin problems as well as cancer, menstrual disorders, and
asthma. Other unsubstantiated uses include enhancing sexual function, improving mental function in Alzheimer's disease, protecting the liver, and improving sports performance.
A typical dose of sarsaparilla is 2-4 g three times per day. Various tinctures are also available; these should be taken according to label instructions.
Although the use of sarsaparilla has not been associated with any serious adverse consequences, comprehensive safety studies have not been performed. Sarsaparilla is traditionally not recommended for use during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Safety in young children and people with liver or kidney disease is also questionable.
As with most substances taken orally, sarsaparilla may cause gastrointestinal distress.
Germany's Commission E
also reports short-term "kidney irritation" as a side effect; what this means, precisely, remains unclear.
Note that though various species of sarsaparilla are often used somewhat interchangeably; it is quite possible that some varieties of this plant are safer than others.
Finally, some sarsaparilla products have been found to contain unsafe levels of lead.8
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Xu J, Li X, Zhang P et al. Anti-inflammatory constituents from the roots of Smilax bockii warb.
Arch Pharm Res.
Shu XS, Gao ZH, Yang XL. Anti-inflammatory and anti-nociceptive activities of
Smilax china L.
aqueous extract.
J Ethnopharmacol.
Thabrew MI, Mitry RR, Morsy MA et al. Cytotoxic effects of a decoction of Nigella sativa, Hemidesmus indicus and Smilax glabra on human hepatoma HepG2 cells.
Life Sci.
Cox SD, Jayasinghe KC, Markham JL. Antioxidant activity in Australian native sarsaparilla (
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2006 Hummer H1 Alpha - First Drive
Hummer Ups The Ante With Alpha Bits
As editors of Four Wheeler, opportunities sometimes cross our desks that are just too good to pass up, especially when they are things that a normal person would never get a chance to do. When Hummer called us about the newly upgraded 2006 Hummer H1 Alpha, the phone conversation went something like this:"Hi, want to drive the all new Humme...?"
"But, I haven't told you what it is yet."
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"Do you care that it's the redesigned H1 Alpha?"
"Alpha, huh? Sounds manly ... We like manly!"
"Yes, it certainly is manly with the 6.6L Duramax in it."
"Ooooh, Duramax!?! You mean it can accelerate now?"
"Yeah, even uphill!
So with little delay, we vacated the high-rise luxury of our L.A. office and traded our sumptuously padded tweed chair for a seat on a rickety puddle jumper with floating cushions. We bobbed and weaved in the sky until we reached the beautiful resort town of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. See, there isn't anything that we wouldn't go through to bring our readers a good story. With perfect weather and eye-arresting scenery, we had to remind ourselves that we weren't here to vacation. We had work to do. Hard work. That's right, no heavy lifting of telephone handsets, or the monotonous typing on a keyboard, no sir. We were off to flex our professional expertise to wheel and evaluate the new Hummer H1 Alpha in the Pyramid Lake area of western Nevada, which so happens to be surrounded by snow-capped mountains that time of year. Hmm, doesn't sound like such a bad assignment after all, does it?
For 2006, Hummer has reengineered the H1 series and slapped on an Alpha badge to distinguish it from lesser Hummers. While all civilian H1s, save for K-series fleet vehicles, will be Alphas for 2006, on the rest of the Hummer line, Alpha will be the top-of-the-line trim and will only account for about 10 percent of each vehicle line's production. To a potential Hummer buyer, Alpha means higher performance, more horsepower, better suspension, and a level of exclusivity that might annoy drivers of other premium brands. On the H1, Alpha primarily advertises the nearly revolutionary improvement of the 6.6L Duramax turbodiesel and Allison 1000 five-speed automatic transmission from General Motors' fullsize truck line. In H1 trim, the engine makes 300 hp and 520 lb-ft of torque, a lead-foot-inspiring 46 percent and 18 percent gain, respectively.
To those of you familiar with the H1, the Alpha will look just like the same old Hummer, save for the much-upgraded interior and switchgear that appeared in last year's version, and the unobtrusive 2-inch filler panel, visible in the rear, to bridge the gap created by the body lift, which was required to fit the new drivetrain. The changes didn't stop there, as fitting the Duramax was not a simple swap and required a host of other alterations to the H1's chassis. Because of the longer length of the Duramax/Allison combo, the fuel tanks had to be shortened, but the body lift allowed them to be made taller, which resulted in an increase in fuel capacity to 28.5 gallons for the main tank and 24 gallons for the auxiliary tank, giving the H1 Alpha a nearly 600-mile, bladder-busting cruising range.
The bottom of the Duramax engine also had to be redesigned, as the original oil pan hung down 2 inches below the framerails, which was unacceptable on a vehicle designed to have all of its vitals tucked out of harm's way. So the engineers not only reshaped the oil pan, but also changed the oil pick-up and baffled it to prevent oil starvation at the extreme angles that an H1 was designed to experience.
With 520 lb-ft of torque on tap, the old CV axles were set aside for beefier pieces, which now attach to the newly enlarged inboard 12-inch brake rotors for better stopping power. A whole new cooling stack also had to be developed, this time incorporating an intercooler and fuel cooler-a change that required the mechanical fan to be run off the crank pulley and angled up to the radiators through a small gearbox.
While the engineers were evaluating the H1 chassis for areas of improvements, they decided to take some liberties in refinement. One of these areas was the geared hub assemblies, which now feature helical-cut gears instead of the straight-cut gears of previous H1s. This not only lowers noise, but also reduces the rocking sensation upon stopping, a characteristic common to older H1s.
The addition of the Duramax and all of its improvements to the H1 chassis make the H1 Alpha a better real-world machine. The Hummer H1 Alpha's crawl ratio has improved by 25 percent to 41.5:1. Acceleration from 0 to 60 dropped by 18 percent, to 13.5 seconds. And the towing capacity improved 13 percent to as much as 9,303 pounds on an open-top model.
Hopping into the Hummer reminds you instantly of its functional roots as a purpose-built machine. Each seating position only has a small cockpit space, as the driver and occupants are draped around the engine and transmission. Sightlines out the front of the H1 are generally good, but there are unavoidable blind spots to the rear. Still, the driving experience is unlike any other truck on the planet, and should you ever find yourself in one, prepare yourself for the inevitable giving of rides to all the neighbor kids, the convoy of National Guardsmen who will wave you in to their ranks on the highway, and the barrage of thumbs-up you are sure to encounter. And you thought you felt like a rock star in the H2!
On the highway, the H1's full-time 4WD system with four-channel ABS do a great job of making the Hummer easy to drive, as long as you remember how wide you are. The Duramax accelerates with authority, and the four-wheel independent suspension offers a pretty smooth ride. Using the impressive Monsoon sound system to drown out the moderate wind and tire noise, the Hummer can cruise effortlessly at 80 mph all day long without beating up or tiring the driver.
Even though the Hummer is more refined on the highway, the H1 Alpha's main mission objective is to tackle the toughest terrain and bring its occupants home safely and reliably. Despite the refinements, the H1 Alpha is as capable as ever and can still climb a 22-inch vertical wall, cross a 60-percent grade, traverse a 40-percent side slope with 2500 pounds of payload, and ford 30 inches of water. With the Central Tire Inflation System (CTIS), you can air up or down on the fly, and if you happen to get a flat, the run-flat bead-lock system will get you safely off of the trail. Front and rear Eaton E-Lockers are even offered as a factory option.
Until you have experienced it first-hand, it is hard to explain just how right one of these iconic machines looks while sailing across a mountainous plain. They exude so much character, and are capable far beyond any level most civilians will ever experience. If you have that spirit of adventure calling, and you are one of the lucky 500 or so a year to buy one, it won't take you long to realize what makes the H1 so genuine and why we consider it one of the best factory-built wheelers of all time.
Vehicle model: '06 Hummer H1 Alpha 4-Door Wagon
Base Price: $140,796
EngineType: Duramax 6600 V-8
Displacement (liter/ci): 6.6/403
Bore x stroke (in.): 4.055 x 3.897
Valvetrain: OHV
Compression ratio: 17:1
Aspiration: EFI, turbocharged, air-to-air intercooling
Mfg.'s hp @ rpm: 300 @ 3,000
Mfg.'s torque (lb-ft) @ rpm: 520 @ 1,600
Transmission: Allison M74 1000 series five-speed automatic with tow/haul mode
Ratios (:1)
First: 3.10, Second: 1.81, Third: 1.41, Fourth:
1.00, Fifth: 0.71, Rev: 4.49, Torque Converter: 2.0
Transfer case: New Venture Gear 242
Axle ratio: 2.56:1
Geared hubs: 1.92:1
Low range ratio: 2.72:1
Crawl ratio: 41.5:1
Frame/Body Frame: Steel box section with five crossmembers
Body: 6061 T6 hardened aircraft aluminum
Front: Independent, with A-arms, open coils, and shock absorbers, stabilizer bar
Rear: Independent, with A-arms, open coils, and shock absorbers
Type: Power assisted
Turns (lock-to-lock): 2.5
Turning radius (ft.): 25.5
Front:12-inch inboard mounted vented disc, ABS
Rear: 12-inch inboard mounted vented disc, ABS
Wheels: 17-inch two-piece forged aluminum with dual bead locks and run flats
Tires: 37x12.50R17 load-range E Goodyear MT/R
Fuel Economy
EPA city/highway mpg: N/A
Base curb weight (lb.): 8,114
Wheelbase (in.): 130.0
Overall length (in.): 184.5
Overall width (in.): 86.5 (without mirrors)
Height (in.): 77.0
Track f/r (in.): 71.6
Ground clearance (in.): 16.0 (at differential)
Approach/departure angles (deg.): 72/37.5
GVWR (lb.): 10,300
Payload (lb.): 2,186
Maximum towing capacity (lb.): 9,036
Fuel capacity (gal.): 28.5 (main), 24 (aux)
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Flour Noodle Soup 清汤板面
home made flour noodle (portion for 4)
I also love pan mian very much and yours looks so delicious.Anymore left?
Anncoo, hahaha...I cooked this quite sometime ago. You say ler?
Your ban mian look delicious. I'm so hungry looking at this noodles...
Zoe, this is the result after a series of hard work, hehe...worth it?
I am so proud of you too and I am full of envy right now. Homemade Pan Meen, with fried anchovies etc. *drool*
Thanks for joining us at PPN #187 :)
I love pan meen.
Since I don't own a roller, I just roll it with a rolling pin and cut with knife.
Seeing urs make me itch making some again, but lately very very lazy.
tigerfish, it is my pleasure to share the dish with PPN. :)
wendy, I'm glad that you're influenced by me, hehe...
Oooo... I can't wait to have a bowl. :)
Gorgeous and delicious - I even love the bowl! Thanks for sharing with Presto Pasta Nights.
Chemical and preservative free and filled with so many delicious flavors! Can't go wrong there.
Siew Lay, your 板面 looks so so good!! I feel like licking the screen now!! Could have guessed about the al dente texture just by looking at the pics. Man, so good!
I'm so proud of you, too! Your hubby is darn lucky to have married a wife like you. When my kitchen is fully ready, I'll make some pasta/noodles too! Thank you for the reminder!
My grandma used to make this a lot! I miss this!
so nice and look delicious!
may be better than pan mian i do now!!!
I want I want!!! Pan Mee looks soo good! I really haven't had it for so long!!
Oh, noodles! How I do love thee? What, I wasn't writing a poem about how delicious this looked or anything (smile). That would be so dorky of me;)!
New Kid, finished liao wor...haha...
Ruth, thanks. It's fun sharing the dish with your PPN. :)
Joanne, this is good for those health freak, haha...
Pei-Lin, thank you. I pamper him a lot with my home cooked food hor?
Ok, will look forward when your kitchen is renovated.
pigpigscorner, grandma use to make this by hand pull, right?
Bean, haha...this is just my first trial, and I'm happy that it turned out so great. :) I can see you have quite a wide range of pan meen. I learned some from TV show too...I'll try making some special pan meen when I'm free.
mycookinghut, did I make you drooling? LOL.
Stella, not at all, hehe...Have a nice day!
Yum! It looks so delicious.
I like homemade panmee too, can put any ingredients that I like
What a lovely version!!! I like what u said in your previous most about the pasta maker being an "investment" ;p I say that often to my hubby.. hahaa. but ended up storing my cooking items! doh!
I love what u have done little inbox! Such a healthy and wholesome meal!
hAHA - I just had mine - Nice pan meen :) Again one of your many experiment?
Keng! I could that see that these 4 bowls full of hardwork behind the scene!!
never had this but it looks soooo soul satisfying. yum.
I don't know if I would go to the work of the noodles but I sure want to make the soup, and probably buy a fresh noodle. Thanks so much for the recipe to try.
Hi Pam, thanks. Welcome to my blog!
choi yen , yes, and the noodle can be cooked into many many ways.
daphne, hehe...I'm glad that I get the pasta maker to work, otherwise, the investment is not worth. I'll use it more frequent from now on.
MRC, yes and this is one of my success at the first attempt. :)
cariso, yalor...go through long processes in order to prepare the 4 bowls of pan meen. Others may think dine out can save all the energy, hehe...
MIRA, this is something light and yet flavorful. Thanks for dropping by.
Medifast Coupons, it'll be fine with ready made noodles too.
Pan mian is always my favourite. Yours looks absolutely delish!! Worth the extra efforts to homemade it. I really salute you!!
My mom, sis and I will cook pan mee together at home very often when I was a little girl. It was our favourite. Very lazy to make and always buy from outside nowadays. Maybe because my kids are still very small, not fun doing it all by myself, hee hee.
Nothing beats homemade noodles..no preservative and fresh too :) Love your handmade pan mein. Will look out four one when I next drop by Carrefour KL. Can you recommend a specific brand. One that can roll out pasta too :)
my favorite hawker noodles!! look so delicious!! now making me hungry in the middle of night by looking at your pix! lol!
You're amazing to have made your own ban mian.. wow... Must have tasted so good!
Hi there, I have an award for you. Please feel free to hop over to collect it. Btw, going to get the pasta maker this weekend. It's a nightmare making pasta or noodle without a machine. ha! Hope you're enjoying your day.
Thanks LK. I can make this only when I'm in good mood. Not always. Haha...
Belly Good Cooking, I'm lazy too if you ask me to make it now, hehe...
Elin, the noodle maker that I have currently is just limited to 2 dimension of width. One is like the pan mein I made, the other one will be as thin as egg noodle. But, the thickness is adjustable from 1 to 7.
My Asian Kitchen, oppsss sorry. Anyway, thanks for dropping by.
Hi Clare, yes, it tasted good. :)
Kristy, ok will do so and I'm looking forward for your home made noodle then. :)
This is my Mum's favorite. I think she has tried all the pan mein stores in town haha... I showed her your photos and she asked, where is this place? I told her she can't go because it is by invitation only haha. Great photos!
Oh wow..delicious looking pan mee. Makes me want to have a bowl now. I like my pan mee served dry instead of soup style.
Yes!! You made me drool... ;)
i love ban mian! this recipe looks very do-able. yum!
wow this soup looks amazing and even better that you handmade the noodles wow
thanks so much for visiting my blog, following yours to learn some new recipes Rebecca
Looks delicious! Have not had this in a while.
I can eat such a bowl of noodle soup every day...! I just ate something similar for my dinner today, but the spicier version :)!
Quay Po Cooks, haha, LOL. I can see your mum is addicted to pan mee. :)
Thanks for dropping by.
Mei Teng, when dine out for pan mee, most probably I order the dry version too. :)
mycookinghut, haha, opsss...sorry!
LimeCake, yes, get it practiced, and you'll know this is very doable. :)
Rebecca, thanks for following my blog. Hope to see you more often.
Hi Biren, thanks for dropping by.
Cooking Gallery, oh i see. I like spicy version too. :)
This looks super duper! I've always wanted to make my own Pan Meen and now your photos have convinced me to, hehe
noobcook, ok ok, I'm anticipating to see your version of pan meen. :)


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Greg Sheridan is Foreign Editor of The Australian – and thus obviously not an expert on climate science or energy policy. But as best I can tell, he gets the Aussie politics right in this editorial:
(…) There is also something profoundly offensive to democratic practice in the way the Gillard government has shovelled out vast amounts of public money to long-term friends of the Labor Party, such as Garnaut and Tim Flannery, so that, with a wholly spurious and confected institutional credibility, they can declare: government good, opposition bad.
Garnaut tells us that Australia is a laggard on climate policy, in danger of being left behind, that we have done less than other developed countries. But the Productivity Commission, restricted to surveying a group of countries already skewed towards those who would do more on greenhouse emissions, finds that we are about in the middle, that our efforts are fully commensurate with the US and China.
These conclusions cannot both be true. One is right, one is wrong.
Like Garnaut, I have no qualifications or expertise in climate science, but I have followed a lot of international agreements through several decades of work in international affairs. One thing I know for sure is that grandiloquent pledges to lofty goals are never met. Part of the dishonesty of the Garnaut report is that it takes the windiest, or to put it more politely, most ambitious, pledges of other countries and accepts them as proven policy.
(…) I travel a good deal in Asia, the US and the Middle East, and climate change barely figures in the popular debates in those countries, which means that their governments are not under much pressure to do anything.
As with the illegal immigrants debate, you have to triple-check everything the government says to you on this matter. Canada is listed in the government's Fact Sheet as having a carbon price. In fact, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper just won the first clear-cut victory for the Conservatives in 25 years by promising no carbon tax or ETS. The Fact Sheet is referring to vastly less effective state-based carbon taxes within Canada. The same is true for the misleading material about the US. The Fact Sheet begins with a lie. It says: "All countries – and all the major emitters – are acting now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." Later on it sheepishly admits the contradictory reality, that China's emissions are set to continue to rise massively for many years to come. Japan has delayed an ETS indefinitely and South Korea is not planning to introduce one for several years, yet both are frequently presented as though they do have such schemes.
Read the whole thing. If Greg had just finished reading the Hartwell Paper I think his theme would have been much the same. When I first scanned his column I thought "he must have been reading Roger Pielke Jr."
For some more background on climate/energy policy that will actually work, please see my recent post "Why will China buy your plan?"


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With the crisis in Syria escalating by the day, a leading religious figure from the region paid us a visit today at our New York office.
He's Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop George Bakhouny of Tyre, Lebanon, who is making his first visit to the United States. Msgr. John Kozar, CNEWA's president,met the archbishop during his visit to the Holy Land last year.
The archbishop described the situation in his homeland as "stressful" — the stream of refugees arriving from Syria is becoming a flood—but he repeatedly expressed the hope that a peaceful end to the crisis in Syria can be found. "We don't want a military solution," he said. "We want reconciliation."
He said he sees the church's role as being a "mediator," to help facilitate "conversations" between factions.
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