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Some fear carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric content may grow two or three fold by the end of the 21st century, should major carbon emissions continue at their current rate and that is quite frightening, expensive and perhaps, catastrophic.
Many such statements about possible doom are broadcast all the time; however at the very least, we all need to play a role in greenhouse gas mitigation, both as an industry and on a personal level.
With respect to carbon sequestration, a major sink is geologic in nature, and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) happens to sequester significant sums of CO2, along with increased oil production so this is needed more than ever. A particularly large sector for crude CO2 usage as a liquid product is the EOR sector, by volume, compared to single volume supply to one or a few typical merchant consumers, such as food and beverage customers.
Today, due to pressure from environmental sectors, wishing to reduce CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, coupled with a strong need to produce more oil domestically, EOR and more creative means of producing oil and gas in general are very much in fashion. This big push to produce more oil via EOR is a reality and, for the (natural) gas sector, this is evidenced by all the shale formation sources that are now being developed for more gas production, and horizontal drilling. The end result is more fossil fuel for the immediate term and the foreseeable future.
This end result could also be good news for the gases business and more specifically, the CO2 sector, as explored here.
Much has been written about biofuels as a necessary component of the gasoline and diesel mix future.
Biofuels will certainly become more practical, cheaper to produce, and more available, particularly as advanced biofuels become a significant commercial factor, where these advanced biofuels are only in test, demo and pilot modes so far in North America.
The advanced biofuels are those composed of non-edible grain materials, sometimes called cellulosic fuels, of which there are algae, energy-rich sources of valuable oils for extraction, plus the algae mass for fertiliser and cattle feed.
In terms of natural gas applications for CO2, otherwise known as frac, this sector can conceivably consume huge sums of carbon dioxide for literally fracturing sub-surface geological structures, thus releasing natural gas content. With respect to this sector, single jobs for frac service can range, for example, from less than one ton to thousands of tons per job.
When the volume is particularly large, significant portable storage or large stationary vessels are brought in to serve these locations with sufficient volume on-site, and the job can take days to complete. The same can apply to EOR projects, in terms of on-site storage, depending upon mode of supply, duration and size of the job. In both cases, this downhole application requires significant pressures to achieve the goals sought, such as compression equipment on-site, and if the liquid is delivered to an EOR project, which is always a long term venture, then compressor stations may also play a role throughout the length of the pipeline.
Further, there would be possible applications in CBM, or coal bed methane projects; that would be specifically advanced CBM, when replacing the molecules of methane as natural gas production with CO2 in coal seams, coal beds, and specific coal borne natural gas opportunities. This is an excellent way, as EOR is for the sequestration of CO2; thus a dual opportunity, when working with carbon dioxide.
CO2 in the oil and gas industries
The physical application of CO2 in EOR jobs exists in places such as the Jackson Dome (in Mississippi) which is primarily operated by Denbury Resources, a Dallas area oil firm owning the majority of the massive CO2 reserves in the Dome and a company that is pursuing the ongoing purchase of regional oilfields, for the delivery of the CO2 from the dome, via pipeline.
Long-term plans are to continue EOR from this source indefinitely, we understand. Other domes which supply EOR CO2 to places include the Permian Basin, a major producing region in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico,.
Today, the opportunity for EOR is often perceived to be more viable than ever due to high prices for oil, coupled with dire needs to address carbon offsets and greenhouse gases in general. It is a safe assumption to say oil prices should remain high for a long time, more than likely.
States in the US and other world markets are now evaluating CO2 floods (another common term in EOR) for oil producing regions, sometimes where old, mature and often water-flooded fields are prime for secondary or tertiary CO2 floods. The water flood would be a primary flood, in such a case. The actual physical application of CO2 would be modelled and built upon the success of a pilot flood; using specific geological and physical data, to drive out the most oil possible from a field using this solvent.
The carbon dioxide has many benefits in the process, which of course is under significant pressure, 2,000 psig and beyond, often performing in a sweeping action while also reducing the oils viscosity, increasing permeability of the rocks and formations, reducing swelling of clays, and dissolving certain carbonates.
One particular EOR project is planning about 4,300 cubic feet of CO2 per barrel of enhanced oil production, and improving carbon storage by around 14-18%, while improving oil recovery rates by 47-50%; however, results and usage for all projects varies according to porosity, permeability, and the geology which compose the field in question. Long-term, it is a win-win situation for CO2, more today than ever before, since oil production is ever-important with high prices and scarce supplies and carbon sequestration is an essential goal everywhere.
We are in a fossil fuel-based economy for a long time to come, and incrementally biofuels and other renewable fuels will help replace fossil fuels over time. For the time being, it is essential to squeeze out what is possible from so many otherwise depleted fields.
These long-term EOR projects often operate for decades, and require a substantial investment in the infrastructure, well beyond the injection and producing wells. This includes pipelines installed at up to $1.5m per mile of construction, and significant compression along the way, plus (typically) a recycling plant to continue the recovery and re-injection of CO2.
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The recycling plant would represent a loop system; while continuously feeding additional CO2 from the pipeline and continuously re-injecting, and feeding source product. The payback is a function of operating such an EOR project over the long haul, due to this expensive capital and operational investment.
Frac has been discussed in the media today highly specific to hydraulic fracturing. However, this is separate from what has been so-called traditional fracs. Traditional fracs have often required and greatly benefitted from CO2 as an energised fluid; where hydraulic fracs have not generally called for this requirement. As for traditional frac service, this application for CO2 is generally performed by the oilfield service c
Hydraulic fracturing The exception to the rule?
I have worked with various projects which conceivably could use carbon dioxide in hydraulic fracturing, in the large major shale fields such as the Marcellus field in the Mid-Atlantic states, the Bakken in the upper plains, the Eagle Ford and Barnett fields in Texas, plus conceivably many more in the Midwest, Southeast and Middle South plus the Rockies and Southern California.
This existing and potential capacity of new natural gas from the shale fields is nothing short of amazing. However, given all this capacity from all the fields mentioned, this technology, today, does not really call for CO2 usage.
The problem with CO2 usage in hydraulic fracturing is that most of these fractures are generally achieved via (primarily) water, then maybe a small addition of (so-called benign) agents such as sodium chloride, and citric acid; and maybe glycols would be added as well. When I recently worked with CO2 projects surrounding hydraulic fracturing in the southwest, and Middle Atlantic region, the consensus from the major service companies indicated no CO2 use currently and generally no likely need.
The exception to this may be in truly arid regions of the country with little water, and/or regions with difficulty recycling the water, and disposing of the residue from the process water. Further, there has been some mention of hydraulic frac work possibly using the CO2 in so-called clean-up operations. Therefore, based on what has been said by the major oil and gas service companies, and my work in this sector, there is not a significant market for CO2 in the service of hydraulic fracturing.
The so-called traditional frac work has, and will continue to use CO2; and this is essentially in markets and formations not consistent with the now-popular shale field production of natural gas.
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Future for oil and gas production
Some experts see todays high oil prices as cyclical, and likely to return to more reasonable levels. On the other hand, it seems maybe 15 years ago, when it was difficult to have cheap oil reach $30-35/barrel, compared to today and under $100/barrel when the producers which I worked for (some years ago) said they needed prices to be at least the mid $30 per barrel of oil to make economics favourable for EOR.
Today we are at truly much higher levels, and perhaps high oil prices will be truly sustained. Oil prices, in any event, are at a point and will be at a point in the long-term, which should precipitate viable economics for the capital investment and returns necessary to make many EOR projects economically viable, assuming all other physical data work for the project in question. Again, traditionally EOR has not been the domain of the CO2 companies, due to the oil companies controlling and operating these projects, which are only the domain of the oil producers, not the gas companies.
However, some of the government-sponsored awards for tests and pilot operations have included some industrial gas concerns. As mentioned earlier, the frac projects are the domain of the industrial gas companies, since they supply the CO2 commodity, along with distribution and portable storage and require the expertise of the service companies for compression and application. They will continue to work with the oilfield companies to achieve the ultimate end that being, selling CO2.
CBM has a way to go in terms of being applied on a successfully-broad approach; and have better definitions available to the coal beds under consideration and treatment. Long-term, both EOR and CBM will continue to be excellent forms of carbon sequestration and as the pressure mounts for Americas energy independence and a need to reduce & sequester carbon emissions, these applications will only grow.
The same applies to all other regions of the globe where imported and scarce oil are such a valuable commodity, along with the need to sequester carbon. Over the decades, with my work in the merchant trade and as a consultant, frac has been a market which has expanded and contracted according to natural gas requirements and selling prices; however, the application will always be around, and gain greater favour, when economics and demands for natural gas strengthen.
Today shale gas is in favour, along with horizontal drilling, and growth in shale gas continues to strengthen, at least for the time being. It is felt this source of natural gas will be truly bountiful and so, in the long-term, sufficient natural gas supplies will be available.
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The old line about mental problems is that if you're poor, you're "crazy," and if you're rich, you're just "eccentric." Now, apparently, we have to expand that thought to cover Donald Sterling.
The new rule seems to be: If you're rich, famous and all over TV and the Internet because of scandal, your mental problems are fair game for jokes, ridicule and all-around entertainment.
It shouldn't be like that. Let's stop laughing and gawking at Sterling and his behavior during the court hearing that may determine if he continues to own the Los Angeles Clippers.
Wednesday, when Sterling went from over-the-top belligerence on the witness stand to calling his wife Shelly a "pig," I heard giggling about the spectacle, and read chuckling web headlines, news stories emphasizing the courtroom "drama," and glib summations on Twitter. L.A.'s best-known sports columnist contrasted the Sterlings' marriage with the McCourts', cracking that "at least Frank never compared Jamie to livestock." On the website of normally dignified KPCC radio, readers were invited to try taking the Alzheimer's test that doctors gave to Sterling, as if it were the "Sunday Puzzle."
We're making sport of a sick man.
Do we know for sure that Sterling, 80, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease? No, but the neurologist hired by Shelly Sterling to examine her husband testified this week that it's "likely."
Anyway, since when is it OK to make fun of people who may be in mental or physical decline, pending 100 percent proof of their precise medical condition? You don't treat your uncle that way, or the woman talking to herself in the mall.
This is not a defense of Donald Sterling. He's the worst sports-team owner ever in Southern California. The National Basketball Association should have taken the Clippers away from him long before revelations about racist comments drew attention to his mean and miserly business practices, and raised questions about his mental state.
It's a defense of anybody suffering from dementia. It appears Sterling is among the one-third of seniors who, according to the Alzheimer's Association, die with Alzheimer's or another form of dementia.
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Of course Google will put the blame on the Uploader of the video aka Mr. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula according to its terms and conditions that no one reads
You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for your own Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. YouTube does not endorse any Content or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and YouTube expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with Content.To be honest I wish all the racist and offensive videos of Muslim radical sheikhs and Christian priests to be removed online not only that disgusting clip but I am afraid it is just a wish , a debatable one. Already this wish can be implemented if Google revises its terms and conditions , it can find a gap that can save the day.
We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).Already I think the video is hateful enough.
Anyhow as I said the 13 minutes clip now is spread across to the YouTube in different channels as well websites across the internet.
As expected people began to attack Google in Egypt and Middle East. It is nightmare for Google regional offices in the area. Wael Fakharany , the head of Google Egypt told press already in Egypt that removing the Video from YouTube is up to Google in the States and not in Egypt.
Now there are calls online among the Islamists to boycott Google led by none other than the MB big mouth former MP Hassan El Prince.
I believe Microsoft can find a golden opportunity to market Bing now in Egypt !!!!!!!
Unfortunately the attacking Google gave a golden opportunity for those who hate the Egyptian revolution and Wael Ghonim an opportunity to attack him as he is the Google Boy who incited the revolution for the sake of its Jewish owners !!!! I can not believe it and I am extremely angry !!
Anyhow before anyone declares war on Google we should not forget on who really spread the clip nationwide and called for protests that went out of control especially now people are jumping from the ship.
We have not heard from Khaled Abdullah, the infamous informant of SS back again on Salafist Islamist TV channel Al Nas who aired before anyone clips of the offensive on TV for the first time worldwide. The first public screening worldwide of that ugly clip was on Egyptian Islamist Salafist TV channel on Nile Sat.
The Salafist groups and Facbeook Pages are the ones that spread in the country that the film would be screened in all US TV channels on the anniversary of 9/11 where as nobody in the States knew about it. Clearly someone lied.
The first groups and parties that called for the protests that spun out of control where Salafist Calling and its political arm Al Nour Party which now is defending itself. Here is Nadar Bakkar , the famous official spokesperson of the party defending the party.
Already there is pressing question : Where is Sheikh Hassan !!? And the money he collected from the people !?
Another important question : Where is Saudi Arabia from all what is happening ??
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Sylvia Smith — who dropped out of high school at 15, never married, lived most of her life in London rooming houses, never had a great adventure or suffered a great misfortune, and never read books by most accounts — began writing her memoirs in her late 40s, when illness and a government disability pension had allowed her to quit the last of a long series of secretarial jobs, most of them as a temp.
It was an unlikely foundation for a literary career. Just as unlikely was the literary stir she created with her first book, "Misadventures," published in 2001 when she was 55 after years of work and hundreds of rejection letters.
The book, a plainly written, deadpan chronicle of an ordinary life, seemed to push the allowable boundaries of ordinary, entering an edge-of-space world where critics quarrel over literary metaphysics. Reading "Misadventures," they were divided over whether they saw a bad joke or a kind of outsider-art masterpiece in a passage like this:
"Early in December, Carol asked me, 'What day is Christmas?' I replied, 'I don't know.' The following morning she told me, 'Christmas Day is on the 25th of December.' I replied, 'I know that, but I thought you meant what day of the week.' She didn't believe me."
In another passage, Ms. Smith described training as a hair dresser. She liked it well enough. Then one day she "got put off when I was shampooing an old lady's hair and my fingernails got caught in a growth."
One critic said the "unremitting banality" of "Misadventures" had put "another nail in the coffin of our cultural life." In the other camp, reviewers said Ms. Smith had written an existential classic, a work of dry, mordant wit that pricked the fakery in most celebrity-memoir writing.
Comparisons were drawn with George and Weedon Grossmith's deadpan comic masterpiece, "The Diary of a Nobody," and with Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones's Diary." Though not quite a best seller, "Misadventures" nevertheless sold about 15,000 copies.
Ms. Smith, who died on Feb. 23 in a hospital outside London, at 67, said she had intended her books simply to be "hysterically funny" She often laughed out loud while writing them, she said, and never gave a thought to existential philosophy.
"I just liked writing books and wanted to get published," she said.
She published two more memoirs, "Appleby House" (2003) and "My Holidays" (2004). She had completed a fourth installment of her memoirs, still unpublished, and started on a fifth when she became too ill to keep working a few months ago, said Caroline Dawnay, her literary agent. The cause of death was pulmonary disease, she added.
Ms. Dawnay had come to know Ms. Smith through Jeremy Lewis, an author of literary biographies, who in the 1990s was employed part time by a London publishing house as a reader. He was skimming through unsolicited manuscripts one day, he recalled in an e-mail on Thursday, when he plucked Ms. Smith's from "the slush pile" and started reading.
"It was a fairly unwholesome-looking document," Mr. Lewis wrote, "yellowing and dog-eared and bashed out on an old manual typewriter, and I assumed I would read a few pages at most and give it a quick heave-ho.
"To my amazement," he wrote, "I found myself gripped by this simply written, blow-by-blow account of what was, by most standards, a numbingly tedious everyday life."
Her reflection-free narratives had a convincing authority, he added. "She created a world that was — to her admirers, at least — credible, self-contained and self-sufficient." He took the manuscript to Ms. Dawnay, who shopped it around for two years before finding a publisher, Canongate, willing to accept it.
After "Misadventures," the publisher brought out "Appleby House," which Ms. Smith had written first, then consigned to a closet after repeated rejections.
As in all her books, "Appleby House" — the title comes from a rooming house she lived in during the 1980s — chronicles her life with detachment and thoroughness, like a bookkeeper keeping a ledger of lives' loose ends: the marital histories of friends, lists of gifts from Christmases past, a roster of people who had aged badly since she had last seen them at the pub, the names of childhood pets in the order of their deaths.
"There was a single bed against the far wall," she writes of her room, "and everything was shabbily furnished in either red or white, with the walls, wardrobe, wall cupboard, bedside chest of drawers and fridge in white, and two armchairs, the carpet and curtains in red."
On her first meeting with the owners: "He looked much younger than her, but I was later to find he simply looked younger than his years."
On comforting a neighbor who had lost her job: "As I couldn't help her, I said, 'Sit down. I'll make you a cup of tea.' "
About apportioning her visits to her parents, who were separated: "I would visit my father every other Sunday, as he lived alone. I would see my mother the last Saturday of each month — she shared a flat with her sister."
Sylvia Smith was born on May 2, 1945, "in a hospital in Walthamstow, six days before the end of the Second World War," she wrote in "Misadventures." "I grew up an only child, as my elder brother, who was born the year before me, died of convulsions when he was 3 days old."
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Ascot residents recorded the highest average income in Queensland in 2009-10, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
ABS Director of the Rural and Regional National Statistics Centre, Lisa Conolly said the Estimates of Personal Income for Small Areas publication uses data from the Australian Taxation Office to provide a breakdown of information such as personal income by wage and salary, investment, superannuation and annuities.
"The top five earning regions in Queensland all fall in the Greater Brisbane region with Ascot the highest with an average of $90,945, followed by Hamilton on $90,900, Bulimba on $74,206, Hawthorne on $73,928 and Bardon on $73,579.
"Outside of Greater Brisbane the highest average income was recorded in a mining region near Mackay called Moranbah which averaged an income of $75,662 per annum.
"For the rest of Queensland the highest average total incomes were in Broadsound with $64,814 and the Central Highlands with $61,361.
"Overall, the average total income for the state of Queensland is $45,844 which is lower than the national average of $48,530.
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"Almost 38 per cent (or 193 in number) of Queensland's regions had average total incomes above the state average of $45,844. Of this group, 62 per cent were located within the Brisbane metropolitan area.
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The first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge was unveiled Friday at London's National Portrait Gallery — and whatever the critics say, Kate herself thinks it's "absolutely brilliant."
Artist Paul Emsley worked closely with the Duchess to capture what she calls her "natural self" which meant Kate was depicted with a smile, rather than a straight face.
"She struck me as enormously open and generous and a very warm person," Emsley said. "After initially feeling it was going to be an unsmiling portrait, I think it was the right choice in the end to have her smiling — that is really who she is."
Art critics, however, slammed the portrait, saying it looks nothing like her.
"I'm really sad to say this is a rotten portrait," said Robin Simon, editor of the British Art Journal and Daily Mail art critic.
Waldemar Januszczak, art critic for the Sunday Times, called the portrait "pretty ordinary."
"He made her look older than she is, and her eyes don't sparkle in the way that they do and there's something rather dour about the face," Januszczak told the BBC.
Emsley took the liberty of slightly changing Kate's green eye color and earring to match the blue background and the blouse she was wearing.
The Duchess had two sittings with Emsley last summer, once at his studio and again at Kensington Palace, according to the Prince of Wales website. He also used a series of photographs to paint the details of her face and hair.
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On March 26, 1945, when the island was declared secured, 6,812 Americans (10%) were dead or missing, and an additional 19,217 (27%) had been wounded. Of the defending Japanese force, only 217 were captured. The remaining 21,844 (99%) were killed.
27 Medals of Honor were awarded (13 posthumously) - over one-fourth of all the MOHs awarded to Marines in all of WWII.
I recently had the honor of meeting an Iwo Jima survivor at an assisted living facility. He summed it up this way: "The Japs would not surrender. They wouldn't come out of their caves. So, we burned them out with our flamethrowers, then shot them with our rifles. It was awful".
The picture I've included is not the one you might expect - the flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi. Rather, it is a landing craft of "average" Marines, most in their 20's, throwing themselves into the raging inferno, despite their fears and trepidations. Home must have seemed like a distant planet. We owe them everything.


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Every week, a DIY expert spares us a trip to the grocery store and shows us how to make small batches of great foods at home.This week Rachel Saunders, of Blue Chair Fruit, shows us how to make Valencia Orange Marmalade. Rachel is the author of The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook.
For me, April is the dividing line between winter and spring, and its arrival heralds the end of citrus season. Because I own a jam company, fruit defines my relationship to the seasons. Winter fruits wane by mid-April, while summer fruits have barely just begun to appear. But this doesn't prevent me from making some of my favorite preserves in April; it is in April that some of the most delicious citrus fruits are in season.We often forget that citrus fruits, like all fruits, change throughout their season. Different varieties come and go. There is a marked difference between the earliest varieties, the ones that typically show up at markets in time for Thanksgiving – satsumas and other mandarins – and the larger, more luscious fruits of early spring: pink- and red-fleshed grapefruits and Valencia oranges. These latter have been hanging on the tree, fully colored but not completely ripe, since early winter, and have by April developed a mouth-filling sweetness and rich flavor. What's especially wonderful is that, since citrus keeps so well, these end-of-season fruits can often be paired with fruits from earlier in the season.So it is with lemons. Whenever someone asks me what marmalade is and how to make it, I tell them to start with lemons. Lemons are among the easiest fruits to work with, and everyone loves them. They also have the distinct advantage of being easy to find; although we have access to them year round, their season actually starts in January. The most common varieties – Lisbon and Eureka – can be used interchangeably in marmalades, though they have somewhat different flavors. For the marmalade below, I have combined them with Valencia oranges, whose season starts in spring. In this recipe, the tartness of the lemons tempers the natural sweetness of the oranges, playing up the natural strengths of both. They make a stunning pair.This simple marmalade follows the classic 3-day marmalade technique; each day involves a single step, and stretching the process out over three days allows the flavor and pectin in the fruit to fully spread into the water portion of the mixture. On Day 1, the fruit is soaked in water; on Day 2, it is cooked down; and on Day 3, it is combined with sugar, cooked off, and jarred. The process is easy and straightforward and the fruit rests at room temperature between each step. The result is a beautiful and delicious sweet orange marmalade, studded with bright orange slivers.
Valencia Orange Marmalade
Makes 9 to 10 8-ounce jars1.75 pounds Lisbon or Eureka lemons, cut into eighths2.25 pounds Valencia oranges, halved crosswise, seeds removed, and each half cut lengthwise into quarters and sliced crosswise medium-thin3.5 pounds white cane sugar3 ounces strained freshly squeezed juice (from 1 to 2 lemons)DAY 1: Place the lemon eighths in a nonreactive saucepan where they will fit snugly in a single layer. Add enough cold water for the fruit to bob freely. Cover tightly and let rest overnight at room temperature.In a separate nonreactive saucepan, place the sliced oranges with water to reach 1 inch above the tops. Cover tightly and let rest overnight at room temperature.
DAY 2: Prepare the cooked lemon juice: Bring the pan with the lemon eighths to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to medium. Cook the fruit at a lively simmer, covered, for 2 to 3 hours, or until the lemons are very soft and the liquid has become slightly syrupy. As the lemons cook, press down on them gently with a spoon every 30 minutes or so, adding a little more water if necessary. The water level should stay consistently high enough for the fruit to remain well-submerged as it cooks.When the lemons are finished cooking, strain their juice by pouring the hot fruit and liquid into a medium strainer or colander suspended over a heatproof storage container or nonreactive saucepan. Cover the entire setup well with plastic wrap and let drip overnight at room temperature.Meanwhile, prepare the orange slices: Bring the pan with them to a boil over high heat, then decrease the heat to medium and cook, covered, at a lively simmer for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the fruit is very tender. If necessary, add a little more water during the cooking; the fruit should remain submerged throughout the cooking process. When the oranges have finished cooking, remove the pan from heat, cover tightly, and let rest overnight at room temperature.DAY 3: Place a saucer with five metal teaspoons in a flat place in your freezer for testing the marmalade later.Remove the plastic wrap from the lemon eighths and their juice and discard the lemons. Strain the juice through a very fine mesh strainer to remove any lingering solids.In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, cooked lemon juice, fresh lemon juice, and orange slices and their liquid, stirring well. Transfer the mixture to an 11-quart copper preserving pan or a wide nonreactive kettle.Bring the mixture to a boil over high heat. Cook at a rapid boil until the setting point is reached; this will take a minimum of 30 minutes, but may take longer, depending on your individual stove and pan. Initially, the mixture will bubble gently for several minutes; then, as more moisture cooks out of it and its sugar concentration increases, it will begin foaming. Do not stir it at all during the initial bubbling; then, once it starts to foam, stir it gently every few minutes with a heatproof rubber spatula. As it gets close to being done, stir it slowly every minute or two to prevent burning, decreasing the heat a tiny bit if necessary. The marmalade is ready for testing when its color darkens slightly and its bubbles become very small.To test the marmalade for doneness, remove it from the heat and carefully transfer a small representative half-spoonful of marmalade onto one of your frozen spoons. It should look shiny, with tiny bubbles throughout. Replace the spoon in the freezer for 3 to 4 minutes, then remove and carefully feel the underside of the spoon. It should be neither warm nor cold; if still warm, return it to the freezer for a moment. Tilt the spoon vertically to see whether the marmalade runs; if it does not run, and if its top layer has thickened to a jelly consistency, it is done. If it runs, cook it for another few minutes, stirring, and test again, repeating more times if necessary.When the marmalade has finished cooking, turn off the heat but do not stir. Using a stainless steel spoon, skim off any surface foam and discard. Pour the marmalade into sterilized jars, processing according to the manufacturer's instructions or another method of your choice.
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Fifty Years of Night
Chapter 6: Coal jobs gone, perhaps for good
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In 1963, Harry Caudill of Whitesburg published "Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area," which shone a spotlight on the plundering of the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The book forever changed Appalachia. On the eve of the book's 50th anniversary, the Lexington Herald-Leader launched a yearlong look at the region's struggles since Night was published.
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HINDMAN - Kyle Thacker's bloodline in the underground coal mines of Eastern Kentucky goes back decades.
His grandfather Willard Thacker raised 16 children on a miner's pay, beginning in the days when the back-breaking job involved blasting down coal and loading it into carts with a shovel.
Thacker's father, Curby, went to work in the mines in the 1970s. He was rarely out of work during his 35 years underground.
"You could quit one day at one mine ... and you could get a job the next day at another one," said Curby Thacker, 66, of Knott County.
All five of Curby's sons followed him into the mines, but their experience has been different. All five were laid off in 2012; Kyle, 26, the youngest, lost his job in June and hasn't been able to find work at another mine.
"I've looked about everywhere. You can't pay them to let you work now," Kyle Thacker said.
Thacker, who is married and has two young children, cashed out his 401(k) retirement account to pay off some bills. He had started remodeling his front porch but stopped when the money ran out, and he is going without health insurance because it would cost more each month than he receives in unemployment payments. He might have to let the bank take back the white 2011 Ford Taurus he bought when times were better.
Thacker and thousands of other miners are confronting the latest in a century of booms and busts in the Eastern Kentucky coal industry. This time, experts warn, the backslide looks permanent.
Driven down by competition from cheap natural gas and other factors, coal production fell 27.6 percent throughout Eastern Kentucky in 2012, to the lowest level since 1965. The slide in Knott County was worse: 45 percent.
The downturn wiped out more than 4,000 mining jobs in Eastern Kentucky; employment at coal mines in the state's eastern coalfield dropped nearly 30 percent, from 13,608 in 2011 to 9,540 in 2012, according to the state Energy and Environment Cabinet.
In Knott County, 63 percent of coal jobs disappeared in 2012. The loss hurt worse than in most other places because coal had been the backbone of the local economy for decades, accounting for a larger share of local wages some years than in any other county in Kentucky.
The sharp decline is an echo of the early 1960s, when Harry Caudill, a lawyer from neighboring Letcher County, wrote his landmark book Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area.
Coal production in the region was at the lowest point in decades at the time, and Caudill predicted that trend would not change. Within a few years, "tireless nuclear reactors" would replace much of coal's share of electricity production, and coal "is unlikely ever again to be a prime industry," he wrote.
Some of Caudill's predictions were wrong — nuclear power didn't become predominant, and coal had more than one comeback in the past 50 years — but his ultimate diagnosis of decay for Eastern Kentucky's omnipotent industry now looks more likely than ever.
"I think we're going to stop mining in Eastern Kentucky with coal still in the ground," said Len Peters, secretary of the state Energy and Environment Cabinet.
Mining came late
Large-scale mining came later to Knott County than most of southeastern Kentucky.
In nearby counties, out-of-state corporations built entire towns from scratch in the 1910s and '20s to house workers for the underground mines fueling America's growth at the dawn of the century.
Coal production in Knott County, hindered by a lack of railroads, didn't top 1 million tons until 1946, during the lingering boom from World War II demand. That was more than three decades after several other Eastern Kentucky counties first hit the million-ton mark.
Knott County, however, would soon be ensnared by the cyclical swings of coal production that already bedeviled many of its neighbors.
Demand for Eastern Kentucky coal dropped after the war, when railroad locomotives began guzzling diesel fuel instead of coal, and other energy sources gained popularity in factories and homes.
Coal production had reached 1.85 million tons in Knott County in 1950 but bottomed out at 722,198 tons in 1954, and it wouldn't return to previous highs for more than a decade, according to state records.
In the Eastern Kentucky mines still running, machinery robbed jobs from men. A machine called a continuous miner, which grinds coal out of the seam, became available in 1948, and a national labor agreement in 1950 encouraged wider mechanization, forcing many smaller mines out of business, Appalachian historian Ron Eller wrote in his 2008 book Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945.
The effect of the downturn was evident by 1960. Coal jobs in the region plummeted by more than half in the 1950s; 76 percent of Knott County residents lived in poverty, more than three times the national poverty rate.
"Hunger, lack of clothing, inadequate housing — these are all too prevalent," a local committee said in a December 1960 report, now archived at Berea College.
Knott County lost nearly 15 percent of its residents between 1950 and 1960 as hundreds of thousands of people left Eastern Kentucky to look for jobs in the industrial Midwest.
Curby Thacker was a little boy in the 1950s, but he remembers lean times. His father put out a big garden and kept hogs, chickens and a milk cow to help feed the family, Thacker said.
"They just raked and scraped to get by," he said.
Hillsides full of jobs
In the 1960s, industrial expansion and electricity-sucking suburban homes kick-started coal consumption. Knott County got a new rail line just in time to benefit.
A new railroad spur pierced the Caney Creek area in 1962, according to a book of local history. National Mines opened several operations along the spur, and those mines ultimately employed more than 2,000 people, according to the history book.
Coal companies in Knott County, as in the rest of Central Appalachia, also got a boost when Middle Eastern nations decided in the early 1970s to cut the flow of oil in retaliation for U.S. support of Israel.
Coal production nationwide shot up 14.4 percent between 1973 and 1976, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and much of that coal was wrested from Central Appalachian mountains.
The boom lured Curby Thacker away from his job as a telephone lineman and into the mines, following in his father's footsteps. Hollows around the county were pocked with portals to underground mines that honey-combed the hills, Thacker said.
On one warm day, as Thacker sat with his retired father on a roadside rock where he often whittled, three coal operators stopped by to offer Thacker a job, each promising $1 an hour more than the one before, he said, laughing as he recalled the story.
"There was jobs all over these hillsides," Thacker said.
For much of his career, Thacker ran a machine that drove bolts into the roof of the mine to keep it from falling and crushing miners. His father thought the old way of shoring up the roof with pieces of wood was better, Thacker said.
"He said, 'You'll get killed, son, if you don't set you some timbers," Thacker said.
Coal exports from the region more than doubled by the end of the decade, boosting jobs and small-business growth and, for a time, reversing out-migration, Eller wrote. The poverty rate in Knott County dropped by more than half in the 1970s.
"It was obvious that the economy was better; there was more money," said Robert Morgan, who was Knott County attorney in the 1970s before becoming a judge for more than 25 years.
From 1,300 jobs to 330
Coal production has swung wildly in Eastern Kentucky for a century, thanks to changes in market conditions, technology and regulations. Coal operators have sometimes exacerbated the boom-bust cycle by opening too many mines during good times, leading to overproduction.
"If they've got a little boom, everybody in the world gets into it," said Ray Slone, who has mined coal in Knott County since 1974, first as an employee and later as a contract mine operator.
The 1970s boom led to "long-lived excess productive capacity" in the coal industry, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
With the flow of Mideast oil restored by the early 1980s, the number of surface and underground mines in Eastern Kentucky dropped from more than 1,700 in 1985 to 382 in 2000, and mining jobs dropped from more than 34,500 in 1980 to fewer than 13,000 in 2000, according to state and federal sources.
In the early 2000s, Knott County saw the pendulum swing again, recording job and production gains as red-hot growth in China, a U.S. economy and other factors supported demand for coal, according to state statistics.
The relative good times didn't last long.
The county suffered an economic blow in summer 2009, when Consol Energy closed its underground mine on Jones Fork, laying off more than 150 people, but that was only the leading edge of a tsunami that wiped out local coal jobs in 2012.
There were only 330 people employed at coal mines by the end of the year, down from more than 1,300 a decade before, according to the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet.
Kyle Thacker and two of his brothers were among the Knott County miners who lost jobs when Arch Coal closed several underground mines among the steep-sided mountains along Caney Fork. Two others lost their jobs at other mines.
One morning in late June, as Kyle Thacker and other miners arrived to don their work gear for the day shift, officials from Arch Coal headquarters in St. Louis told them that the company was mothballing the mine.
"When I showed up, they said don't even worry about putting your clothes on," Thacker said. "They just said they couldn't sell the coal."
Who to blame?
A sign in County Clerk Ken Gayheart's office, and many others around Knott County, says "Stop the War on Coal" — an expression of the widespread local opinion that federal environmental regulations pushed by President Barack Obama are to blame for gutting production in Central Appalachia.
"That's the way the people in our county feel — the regulations has gotten so tough," said Gayheart, whose five employees include two who are married to miners. "We still have coal, but they've stopped us from mining it."
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has held up permits for dozens of surface mines in the region because of concern over their potential to damage streams and water quality.
On another front, tougher federal clean-air rules — along with the potential for more — have helped to motivate utilities to close older, coal-fired power plants that produce relatively high amounts of pollution in favor of cleaner-burning natural gas plants.
Those developments dampened demand for Central Appalachian coal for production of electricity — called steam coal or thermal coal — and will continue to do so.
However, the chief force behind the coal industry's precipitous slide in Eastern Kentucky was very cheap natural gas, which enticed utilities to switch from coal to gas, analysts said.
Developments in drilling technology have unlocked vast reserves of natural gas in recent years that were once inaccessible, driving down the price. Natural gas at the benchmark distribution hub in the U.S. averaged $4.12 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2011 but only $2.83 in 2012, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
An abundant supply of cheap natural gas was "the dominant fact" fueling coal's demise in Eastern Kentucky, said Peters, the Energy and Environment Cabinet secretary.
In April 2012, the share of electricity generated using natural gas reached 32 percent, matching coal for the first time since the federal government started keeping records in 1973.
Two months later, Arch Coal cited the "continuing decline in demand for steam coal" from Central Appalachia when it announced that it was closing mines in Knott and adjoining counties and laying off more than 400 people, including Kyle Thacker.
The price of natural gas has gone back up some in 2013, helping coal regain market share, but that hasn't sparked a significant resurgence in Eastern Kentucky.
Knott County and the rest of the Central Appalachian coalfield face other challenges, including competition from other coal-producing regions and higher production costs.
In 1973, six Western states accounted for only 9 percent of all coal mined in the country, but that figure had jumped to more than 50 percent by 2010, according to EIA figures.
Most of that Western U.S. coal comes from thick, low-sulfur beds in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, which are easier and less costly to mine than the coal in Central Appalachia's mountains.
In mid-April, the spot-market price for Powder River Basin coal was $10.55 a ton, compared to $67.27 for Central Appalachian coal, according to the EIA. Eastern Kentucky coal burns hotter, but the price difference is a disadvantage.
One key reason it costs more to mine coal in Eastern Kentucky is that the region has been mined for a century. Coal companies went after the best, easiest-to-reach coal first, meaning higher costs and lower productivity when the remaining thinner seams are mined. Mining productivity dropped 45 percent in Central Appalachia between 2000 and 2010, the EIA said.
Analysts project that coal production in Eastern Kentucky and throughout Central Appalachia will continue a steep slide in the next few years regardless of the mix of environmental rules, said Sean O'Leary, an analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy.
"It's too expensive to mine, with or without the environmental regulations," O'Leary said.
The EIA projected in April that coal production in Central Appalachia will plunge from 184.9 million tons in 2011 to no more than 104.3 million tons in 2021, with only a modest recovery after that.
A May report from Downstream Strategies, a West Virginia consulting group, pointed out a key reason for concern in Kentucky: 60 percent of all Central Appalachian coal that was shipped in 2011 to power plants slated for closure came from Eastern Kentucky.
The study said total coal-industry employment in Central Appalachia could go up over the next two decades because more miners might be needed to get harder-to-reach coal. The increase will be patchy, however; some counties are likely to see increases in jobs and coal-tax revenue, but most will probably lose out, the report said.
The study predicted that Knott, Pike and Letcher counties in Kentucky and Wise County, Va., are the most vulnerable, based on factors including where their coal goes.
"The expectation would be that those counties will experience economic losses," said Rory McIlmoil, one of the report's authors.
The bottom line is that structural changes in the economy have forever altered the Central Appalachian coal industry, Peters said.
There might be mini booms and busts in the region in coming years, and exports could prop up some production, but the overall trend will be down, he said. Higher natural gas prices could be a factor in slowing the decline, but they won't reverse it, he said.
"We think it is clearly on a downhill slide," Peters said of Eastern Kentucky coal production. "If it comes back, it's going to be ephemeral."
'You can't pay your bills'
The crash in coal production was evident by the time Greg Mullins, a retired state trooper, took over day-to-day oversight of Knott County's government in early December after Judge-Executive Randy Thompson went to federal prison in a vote-buying case.
The county had come to depend heavily on a severance tax that coal companies pay based on the amount of mineral they pull from the ground. County officials used the money for employee salaries and benefits and a range of programs, including fire departments and community centers.
Severance-tax revenue had dropped so sharply and so quickly in 2012 that the county was on track to finish the fiscal year nearly $1 million in the red, officials with the state Department for Local Government told Mullins and members of the fiscal court at a meeting in late January.
"You can't pay your bills at this point," Andrew Hartley, staff attorney for the agency, told the fiscal court.
It was bitterly cold outside, but the meeting room in the Depression-era county courthouse was packed as Hartley explained the county's options: enact an occupational tax or a tax on business profits; cut spending; or approve a combination of spending cuts and tax increases.
Hartley said the county would probably be left with a skeleton government if magistrates tried to balance the budget through cuts alone. When magistrates opened the floor for comments, however, retiree Roy Jent stood and said he opposed any tax increase. There weren't enough wage-earners in the county to justify an occupational tax, he said.
"You pass an occupational license tax on everyone working in this county and you won't raise enough money to make a payment on the Sportsplex," Jent said, referring to a large county-owned recreation center built with coal-severance money. "We're a poor county."
Over the next three weeks, a budget committee and the fiscal court wrangled over how to deal with the budget shortfall. In one meeting, magistrates rejected both a tax increase and proposed cuts, leaving the budget in limbo.
On Feb. 6, the day the Department of Local Government had ordered magistrates to put a new budget plan in place or face court action, the fiscal court met again. They went through the budget line by line, discussing everything from potential cuts in computer service to vending-machine supplies and uniform rentals for county employees.
In the end, magistrates voted 3 to 1 for significant budget cuts, including layoffs or reduced hours for a quarter of the county work force; deep reductions in the contribution for employee health insurance; and a reduction in hours at the Sportsplex.
Magistrate Jamie Mosley, a former county dog warden, said afterward that he didn't think it would be right to levy a tax on jobs, especially when so many were out of work. He also said the county payroll had grown bloated.
"We've got two, three people doing one job," Mosley said.
One painful result of the budget cuts was fewer hot meals for older people who need help. The senior citizens center had to reduce home deliveries of meals from more than 50 a day to 19, director Eva Huff said.
The county receives federal money to provide some meals, but it had used its own money since 1999 to feed more people.
The nutritious meals weren't the only benefit of the program, Huff said. Delivery people helped clients with chores, such as taking out the garbage, and they were the only people some residents saw all day.
Pearl Maggard, 70, was among those dropped from the meal program. Maggard said she has taken care of her husband since he suffered a stroke 17 years ago. She can fix a meal, but getting food delivered was a great help as she attended to him.
"It adds to each day's burden," she said of being dropped from the program.
Business is down
In some ways, the sharp downturn in 2012 leaves the county facing the same dilemma it did in December 1960, when a group of nearly 100 local leaders and residents gathered on a cold night to seek help from the administration of President-elect John F. Kennedy.
The group wanted it known that there had been progress in the 1950s, such as electricity installed in all but one school and telephone service that had grown from 80 phones in 1950 to 900.
But, the group's report said, "Knott County desperately needs JOBS."
When coal ultimately brought more jobs, the industry had an outsized impact on Knott County's economy because there were few other opportunities for good-paying work. The county has no hospital, no motels and few restaurants, and with a population of about 800 in the one-stoplight county seat, the retail base is small. There is no Wal-Mart.
In 2011, mining accounted for 50 percent of the payroll in the county — the highest percentage in the state, according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training. When coal jobs disappeared, so did the local economy.
Many of the laid-off miners got severance packages, softening the initial blow of the layoffs, but they cut spending when smaller unemployment checks replaced their severance pay, said Russell Bentley, a former state representative who owns a small market at Topmost.
"I think everyone in the area is seeing the impact right now," he said. "I know my business is down. People are really cutting back."
Bill Kitchen, who runs a jewelry story in Hindman's small shopping center, said he couldn't remember a worse economic time since he moved to the county in 1970.
One afternoon in early April, Kitchen was watching golf on television as he waited for a potential customer. One man had looked at a pair of earrings and talked of coming back to get them later for his girlfriend, but he hadn't showed up by the time Kitchen closed.
It's not unusual to go all day without a sale, he said.
"All these stores, I'm sure, have 0 days," he said of surrounding shops. "If they're paying their bills, they're lucky right now."
Sam Godsey, who owns a local trucking company, said he had only enough business in March for four tractor-trailers, down from 12 a year earlier. He parked his eight other trucks and didn't re-license them, which will mean less tax money for local and state governments, in addition to the lost jobs.
"I'm a pretty optimistic person, but I don't see it," Godsey said of a comeback for the local coal industry.
No future
Kyle Thacker said that after high school, he thought about training to be a mechanic, but he decided instead to follow his father into the mines. That was in 2007, when there were plenty of mining jobs, and they paid far more than anything else available in the area without a college degree.
"I seen that money sign and I didn't look to the future," Thacker said.
He mined for five years, running a roof-bolting machine at times like his father. He went through some periodic layoffs, but they didn't last long and he didn't mind having a little extra time for hunting.
By mid-May, however, he was sick of the "vacation" that had lasted nearly a year.
Thacker, often dressed in his blue miner's pants with reflective tape, has searched for mining jobs across the region. He received one offer at a mine in northern West Virginia, but he didn't want to work that far from home.
An official at a coal company two counties away took his application in early May and wished him good luck, but nothing more. Not long after, Thacker thought he had a job lined up at a small mine, but then federal regulators shut it down after a surprise safety inspection.
Discouraged, and with the end of his unemployment looming, Thacker signed up in May for public assistance with his mortgage and began searching for jobs outside the mining industry.
"I'm open to anything that pays decent, that I can pay the bills on," he said.
Thacker still thinks the coal industry in Eastern Kentucky will eventually rebound, but he doubts there will be a mining job waiting in Knott County when his 2-year-old son, Taylon, joins the workforce. Even if there is, Thacker said, he'll try to talk his son out of relying on coal for his livelihood.
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The one existing model for dS/CFT in a world of realistic dimension (3+1) involves a more symmetric cousin of General Relativity, known as higher-spin gravity. This model allows one to compute a preferred state for the quantum-gravitational universe in the infinite past or future. However, it isn't clear how to extract dynamics, and in any case such a state of the entire universe is unobservable, due to the same horizons that make de Sitter space interesting in the first place.
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State and local investment incentives that were offered two years ago to LG Chem Michigan to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles in Holland are still valid, although the new plant has not begun production yet and the company cannot state when it will.
Kathy Fagan, a spokesperson for the Michigan Economic Development Corp., said LG Chem Michigan was granted a $25.2 million state tax credit in return for creation of jobs and a state tax credit valued at $100 million as an incentive to produce advanced battery cells for electric vehicles.
"They have until the end of the year before they can start collecting on either one of those," said Fagan.
LG Chem Michigan has drawn no money on those yet and "they are not out of compliance at this point," said Fagan.
The city of Holland also approved a Renaissance Zone designation for the LG Chem property, which exempts the plant from most local taxes for several years. According to the Renaissance Zone Development Agreement for Renewable Energy Facility, on file at Holland City Hall, LG Chem must invest $302 million in the plant by December 2014, and create 300 new full-time jobs there by December 2015.
Holland City Manager Ryan Cotton said "they seem to be within the terms of the agreement," referring to LG Chem Michigan.
One-half of that $302 million investment would ultimately be repaid to LG Chem, as an incentive from the U.S. Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program to encourage development of batteries in the U.S. for electric vehicles.
In a statement provided to the Business Journal by LG Chem Michigan, the company said it has invested more than $150 million in the plant and created 200 jobs. However, the employees are now on "rolling furlough" in which they work 75 percent of their normal hours, and the plant has not yet begun the planned production of advanced batteries for electric vehicles GM is making.
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German consumer confidence rose to its highest level in six years heading into October, supporting expectations strong consumer spending will help Europe's largest economy to post moderate growth in 2013.
GfK market research group said on Wednesday its forward-looking consumer sentiment indicator, based on a survey of around 2,000 people, rose to 7.1 going into October from an upwardly revised 7.0 the previous month.
The original September figure was 6.9 and analysts in a Reuters poll had forecast the October reading at 7.0. The strengthening data chimed with other recent releases suggesting gradual but steady growth for the end of the year.
"German consumers are expecting the economy to gain momentum in the next few months," GfK said in a statement. "There is a clear upwards trend."
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Germans, traditionally savers, became more willing to spend in September than at any point since December 2006, encouraged by an essentially stable job market and historically low interest rates. Saving appeared less attractive as inflation overtook bank interest rates.
A sub-index tracking consumers' income expectations eased, albeit from a high level, due to rising food prices, which dampened perceived purchasing power.
"It's also possible that some consumers fear further financial burdens due to the euro crisis or tax hikes," the GfK said, referring to the outcome of the German election which was still uncertain at the time of the survey.
Angela Merkel's conservatives romped to victory in Sunday's election, winning 42 percent of the vote, but are in need of a coalition partner after falling just short of a parliamentary majority.
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The chancellor appeared headed towards coalition talks with her main center-left rivals the Social Democrats (SPD), who had campaigned on a platform of tax increases for Germany's highest earners.
Concern over income was offset by strong willingness to buy, which the GfK dubbed "euphoric".
The GfK reiterated its forecast for private consumption to grow by around 1 percent in real terms in 2013, a sign that the German economy is on track to grow moderately this year.
The Berlin-based economic think tank DIW forecasts that the economy will expand by 0.4 percent in 2013, and 1.7 percent in 2014.
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A bastion of strength in the early stages of the euro zone crisis, the German economy shrank at the end of last year and narrowly avoided recession early in 2013 before bouncing back.
Recent data from Germany has been mixed, with the private sector expanding, unemployment falling and business sentiment brightening, though industrial data has been weak and exports have dropped.
Consumers' view of the economy in September improved significantly from the previous month to hit 10.7 points, its highest level since May 2012.
Separately, according to the Ifo Institute business morale improved slightly to its highest level in 17 months in September
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