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Changing Planet Town Hall at Yale
Tom Brokaw joins a panel of experts at Yale University to discuss how climate change is affecting human health, economic opportunity and competitiveness and moral and religious values, as well as how young people are getting involved in finding solutions. Included in the discussion are Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC and director of Yale's Climate and Energy Institute, Billy Parish, co-founder of the Energy Action Coalition, author Katharine Hayhoe, and Linda Fisher, the chief sustainability officer at DuPont. This is the full hour-long program, the first of three "Changing Planet" Town Halls being produced in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Changing Planet Yale Town Hall - Full Program
TOM BROKAW, anchor:
Climate Change. Will it put us at greater risk for disease? What kind of an economic impact will climate change have? Could it actually create new jobs? How are concerns about climate change bringing faiths and religion together? And how different will your world be in 2050 and beyond? Welcome to Changing Planet.
Hello, I'm Tom Brokaw. We're gathered here at Kroon Hall, a truly sustainable building on the campus of the Yale University – it houses the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies here at Yale. In partnership with the National Science Foundation and Discover magazine, NBC News has gathered a distinguished panel of experts to explore the impact of climate change on our world. With me here on stage are Billy Parish, who founded the Energy Action Coalition. It's the largest youth climate advocacy organization in the world. He dropped out of Yale in the middle of his junior year to do just that. Linda Fisher is the chief sustainability officer at DuPont, which is changing the way it does business. Rajendra Pachauri – he likes to be called "Pachi" – is the director of Yale's Climate and Energy Institute. And, with us as well is Katharine Hayhoe, a research associate professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas Tech University. She's also written a book on faith-based approaches to climate change. So, let's get started. Let's begin by watching a clip about a major study on climate change from, where else? NBC News.
NBC News Clip:
ANNE THOMPSON (file): The forecast is alarming and detailed. In Africa, the most vulnerable continent, two hundred fifty million people could face water shortages by 2020. If the world's average temperature climbs just three degrees, twenty to thirty percent of plants and animals will likely face increased risk of extinction. All projected consequences of global warming, says the report creating climates of extremes.
STEPHEN SCHNEIDER: Don't be poor in a hot country, don't live in Hurricane Alley, watch out about being on the coasts or in the Arctic.
ANNE THOMPSON: There will be more strong storms, more drought, more coastal flooding, less snow cover around the world, including the United States.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're talking about significant declines in the snow pack out west that drives most of our water in our rivers, in our streams.
ANNE THOMPSON: The snow-packing glaciers are nature's reservoirs and they're shrinking, scientists say. The Southwest, already in a drought, is likely to see a decline of up to thirty percent in available water by mid-century, leading some to predict Dust Bowl conditions. Heat waves will be longer and more intense, impacting public health, particularly the elderly. Yet, rising temperatures in the first few decades could lead to bigger harvest in some places. The issue of global warming stirring up evermore controversy and projected trouble.
TOM BROKAW: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued that report back in 2007, and since then, scientists' predictions about a warmer planet have borne out. 2010 was tied for the hottest year on record, according to the NOAA, that's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But not everyone believes that climate change is a real issue.Yale University recently conducted a research study and found that American opinions on climate change break down into six categories: Fourteen percent of Americans are alarmed; thirty-one percent are concerned; twenty-three percent are cautious; ten percent are disengaged; four percent are doubtful; and eleven percent are dismissive. Our audience of Yale students and New Haven high school students has been chosen to reflect the views of the four middle groups. They were surveyed before this program began, and they will be surveyed at the end to see if there's been any shift in their attitudes.
Doctor Pachauri, why do you think thirty-one percent of the people still have doubts?
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: I think there's a variety of reasons. Firstly, I think the scientific community hasn't done a very good job of communicating the message of science. I think this is also a period when the economy is not doing too well. So, you know, if you play up people's fears by saying they'll lose jobs and the economy would get worse, they see any action on climate change as a threat to their wellbeing. And let's face it, there's also a systematic and sustained campaign by those who don't want to accept the reality of climate change to see that science is dismissed. So, it's really a combination of factors. But, I believe that in the end truth will prevail. Science will have the final say. And I'm sure public opinion will start building up once people realize the facts.
TOM BROKAW: We know that 2010 was the hottest year on record, but we're sitting here in snowy New Haven. It's been a long, cold winter in New England and across America. How much of that anecdotal impact does that have on people in terms of forming their attitudes about climate change?
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: Well, you know, the reality is that we know that when we're talking about climate change, it's not just smooth and steady increase in temperatures, but an increase in extreme precipitation events and all of this really translates into the kinds of changes that we're seeing in our entire climate system.
TOM BROKAW: Mr. Parish, the interest that young people have in energy these days, is it a lifestyle choice or is it a career choice for a lot of them? Do they see this as a chance to develop another Silicon Valley? Only this time it's not about a computer in every home, it's about renewable energy in every home.
BILLY PARISH: Absolutely, and a number of us have been advocating for a clean energy corps in this country that can give young people an opportunity to get exposed to these clean energy technologies, to go out in their communities and put solar up on roofs and retrofit people's houses and gain the skills that they need to get jobs and to create jobs, to be entrepreneurial and create new green businesses. And we need to give young people an on ramp into the green economy.
TOM BROKAW: Mr. Parish, are younger people more inclined to be concerned about climate change than older folks?
BILLY PARISH: Absolutely. You know, we've worked with young people all across the U.S. and found that they get it in a way, you know, they grew up with hearing about climate change and grew up with an environmental ethic and are much more sustainability oriented, I think, than Americans, generally.
TOM BROKAW: And do they have influence on their parents?
BILLY PARISH: I did. Yeah, there are lots of stories of political leaders and corporate leaders who became converts around the issue of climate over the dinner table with their kids, who talked about how much the issue mattered to them and how much it was going to impact their lives in the future. And, you know, "Mom, dad, what are you going to do about this? Are you going to leave this mess for us?"
TOM BROKAW: What did you have, an intellectual influence on them or are pragmatic influence on them? Do they begin to change their way of live, the kind of car that they bought; the kind of home that they had, whether they retrofitted it and made it more energy efficient, for example?
BILLY PARISH: Yeah, so just in the last couple of weeks, my mom bought a Prius for the first time and my dad, now volunteers for our local environmental organization in New Jersey, working on climate and energy issue, so.
TOM BROKAW: This has caught on in the business community, Miss Fischer, and no one was really more and involved, more central to that than DuPont, given the kind of business that it was in. It was very carbon-based business before.
LINDA FISCHER: Mm-Hm.
TOM BROKAW: Are you finding that it's not just good public relations but, in fact, it's good business?
LINDA FISCHER: We're finding it's good business in a number of ways. You were talking about the youth, let me just start there. We find our ability to recruit from campuses such as Yale and other places is greatly enhanced when people hear our sustainability story and our commitment to brining alternative fuels to the market; our commitment to Photovoltaics to alternative fuels. It really has resonated with young people. We're the kind of company people want to work for. From a growth opportunity, we've really targeted solutions to climate change. Decreasing dependence on fossil fuels is a huge growth area for the company, and it's where we're investing a lot of our research dollars.
TOM BROKAW: Katharine, you live out in the oil patch. You live in Texas, which is synonymous with big oil and drilling and carbon use. Big outfits, big hair, big hats and big appetites. Is it changing in Texas?
KATHARINE HAYHOE: Yes, it is. Every time I drive south of Lubbock, where we live, I see a new field full of brand new wind turbines. Hundreds and hundreds of them covering the plains, surrounding the rusty oil rigs that now sit in the fields.
TOM BROKAW: But we ought not to think that wind power is going to deliver us from oil tomorrow, should we?
KATHARINE HAYHOE: One of the main challenges we face is that there's no one silver bullet for climate change. Rather it's a portfolio, a collection of different solutions that depend on where we live and what we have. But what we do know is that we have ample bounty from nature to supply our energy needs. It's just a matter of what fits us best where we live.
TOM BROKAW: Well, we've heard from the panel. Now, we want to hear from our student audience. We have students, as I said earlier, from both Yale University and from New Haven. I don't know about the New Haven students, in terms of what their ambitions are. They may want to go north to Cambridge and never be able to come back to New Haven again. So we just want to alert our audience to the fact that we're going to be hearing from these high school students from New Haven and from Yale. But, first we're going to say, what is the impact of climate change on our health? That's a critical question for all of us. And we'll be back with more on that in just a moment.
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: Um, we had severe climate changes way before our time, like let's take the Ice Age, for example. Someone somewhere lived. If no one lived then, we wouldn't be here right now. Why are we so worried now?
TOM BROKAW: The species were sustained even during dramatic climate changes in the past so what makes this one more profound and more dangerous? I think that's a very good question. Let's begin with Pachi and see what he has to say about it.
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: Well, I think the issue that we really should be concerned about is the rate of change. The climate has always changed on account of natural factors. But what we human beings have done is to have superimposed a set of forces that are now bringing about climate change much faster than has been the case in the past.
TOM BROKAW: Katharine, do you have anything to say or add to that.
KATHARINE HAYHOE: Sure. Um, to put it in perspective, after the last ice age, there was about a thousand years for the world to warm. A thousand years is a really long time to adapt. You know, to pick up your house and move it. But what we're looking at is we're looking at a similar size of change, a similar magnitude of change happening in less than a hundred years. And that's why it is so important.
TOM BROKAW: I think another way to think about it, if I may just add to that, is that let's say all the theories and all the facts about climate change are wrong. What's wrong with going to another way of living? What's wrong with getting ourselves off an oil diet of some kind? What's wrong with having more efficient transportation or better food production? What's wrong with lowering the chances that we're going to have infectious diseases? It's another way of working at all of this.That's a critical question for all of us. And we'll be back with more on that in just a moment.
SUZIE JING, Yale University Student [in interview]: For me, I think of heat stroke, and also famine. So, just the way that global warming is going, we're not hit as much in the U.S., but in areas of the world like Bangladesh, and in areas of the world like Ethiopia, they have nothing to eat because the droughts have been going on forever.
RAYMOND CARLSON, Yale University Student [in interview]: I know that, for example, in Kenya, there's a lot of issues with malaria resulting from mosquitoes moving to higher elevations, compared to in the past. So in a lot of ways, I think there are serious health concerns.
TOM BROKAW: We're back and talking about the Changing Planet and the impact of climate change on all of us. Last year was the wettest year on record. As Discover magazine recently reported, the combination of hotter temperatures, rising carbon dioxide levels and heavy rains is spurring a rise in allergies and asthma worldwide. In this NBC Nightly News report, you'll see that climate change is also triggering outburst of infectious diseases.
IAN WILLIAMS (file): On the frontline, the battle against the mosquitoes, which carry dengue fever can be intense and personal.
WILLIAMS: It feels like a war against mosquitoes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, yeah, it's a war.
WILLIAMS: But it's a war the world is losing. A warmer aquatic climate is triggering more outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases. Medical experts warn that more than five billion people could soon be at risk from dengue fever alone.
DR. SAMLEE PLIANBANGCHANG: Dengue will be a global problem in term of health because of the change in the climate.
WILLIAMS: Dengue used to be a disease largely of Southeast Asia. Now it's spread to more than one hundred countries, including Australia and in Africa and South America. Last month it reappeared in Florida for the first time in more than fifty years.
The number of cases worldwide now tops one hundred million per year with around twenty-five thousand deaths.
Groundbreaking research in this Kuala Lumpur laboratory confirms the potential impact of rising temperatures from climate change. It shows a rise of just four degrees Fahrenheit could almost double the speed at which the dengue virus develops in a mosquito.
DR. LOKMAN HAKIM SULAIMAN: The incubation period of the virus becomes short, so they become very effective, much faster.
WILLIAMS: Other new research suggests mosquitoes bite more frequently in hotter temperatures. And because the dengue-carrying Aedes mosquito breeds in stagnant water, a less predictable rainy season means it's now a year-round threat.
TOM BROKAW: Katharine Hayhoe has studied the impact of climate change on specific locations around the world. Besides infectious diseases, Katharine, what did you see as the impact in our overall health as a result of the changes that are going on in the climate?
KATHARINE HAYHOE: Well, we are very sensitive to extremes, both cold and hot. And what we are seeing is that our high temperature extremes are increasing, while some of our cold temperature extremes decrease in frequency. When we look at major heat waves we've had, back in 2003 they had a huge heat wave in Europe. Over here, we've had similar heat waves in Chicago and the Midwest, and in the future, we see those heat waves recurring more and more frequently to the point where, by the end of the century, if we continue on our current pathway, we could see heat waves like the 1995 Chicago heat wave occurring three times every summer.
TOM BROKAW: Katharine, you've written about climate change and the relationship that it has to your faith. You're an evangelical Christian. And, in fact, one of the phenomena of our discussion about all these is in the Evangelical Christian Movement in the country has kind of turned toward climate change in a positive fashion; they want to do something about it. How did that happen?
KATHARINE HAYHOE: It happened through a lot of hard work for many, many people. But, when you think of it, it really fits. It's a movement that many people call Creation Care. And so if you believe that the planet is a gift from God; if you believe that he created it for us, to live on, then the most natural thing in the world is to want to take care of it.
TOM BROKAW: Miss Fisher, it seems to me that the whole business about climate change and health is one more business opportunity, and I don't mean that in a kind of just monetary fashion. You can do well by doing good, it turns out.
LINDA FISHER: Well, our piece of it is really around the food and nutrition piece. And we're talking about what heat can do to people, it also can be devastating on agriculture. Greater number of droughts throughout the heartlands of America can really be disruptive to our ability to produce corn and soybean. So DuPont's been investing in seeds and crops that will be able to tolerate heat, be much more drought tolerant or heat tolerant, which will allow us to grow corn or soy beans either in areas that, today are too hot or in areas that we grow today but the temperature is going to be very unpredictable in the future.
BROKAW: Mr. Parish, briefly for young people who are concerned about climate change and looking to find their piece of it in terms of doing something: it seems to me that there are two opportunities that we've been talking about here. First of all, you might have medicine that is driven by climate change, people who become more interested in infectious diseases. And then, in the kind of Peace Corps way, they could out go around the world and help those countries with new ways of irrigation and food production and that kind of thing. Is that something that you have in mind for your movement?
BILLY PARISH: Absolutely. You know, I think it's almost every aspect of our economy is going to need to be rethought, redesigned and rebuilt. You look at cars again, you know, we're using technologies that were developed over a hundred years ago, and there are new technologies that need to be implemented all across the world. The same with energy. You know, we're using old, dirty coal-fired power plants and oil, and we can replace those with clean energy. But it's going to be a staggering amount of work and that's work that young people can help drive.
TOM BROKAW: I think we have a question from the audience.
WESTON VACCARI: Hi, my name is Weston Vaccari (ph). I'm a junior here at Yale. I'm studying economics. People are concerned right now with the rising cost of health care, and I'm wondering how will climate change affect the cost of health care?
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: Overall, I would say that the cost of adapting to the impacts of climate change will certainly lead to an increase in the health care costs, there's no getting away from it. And that's precisely why, I think, we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time? So, I think this is an economic issue quite apart from an ethical and equity issue. And I think decision makers and the public, at large have to consider these very carefully.
TOM BROKAW: We'll be back in a moment, and we're going to be talking about what students are doing to make a difference when it comes to climate change.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 1 (file): I think my generation has been more aware of it because of, like, the media, and I think our parents' generation may not acknowledge it as much. And I think it'll definitely be a problem that we'll have to deal with more as we get older, and maybe our kids will deal with.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 2 (file): There's always things to worry about in the future, as we move forward. You want to know how you're going to be affected by it, and how my kids are going to be affected. But our generation, kind of, until we feel the effects, we won't really do anything about it. We're not as proactive as we probably should be.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 3 (file): Thirty or forty years down the line, I feel like my generation will bear the consequences of global warming.
TOM BROKAW: Welcome back to the Changing Planet, here at Yale University, the Impact on the Lives and Values. During the 2008 presidential election, young Americans got very involved in the political process during that election cycle and one of their primary issues was climate change. That makes sense because climate change will have the most impact on those young people as they grow older. Now, Nightly News and this clip showing the work that some young people are already doing to try to make a difference when it comes to climate change.
JOHN LARSON (file): At a high school in San Gabriel, California, kids are working on a solar electric boat. Their classmates are tweaking a hydrogen fuel project, building a new electric bike and converting vegetable oil into bio-diesel. All, by the way, during their week off.
AMANDA MARTINEZ: A lot of these people here, all they want to do is make a difference--change the world, and I think we can do it.
LARSON: Environmental consciousness, building among young people for years is gaining momentum with a focus on global warming.
This month's Step It Up demonstration involved hundreds of thousands of Americans in more than fourteen hundred events across the nation--all to demand drastic cuts in the carbon emissions believed partially responsible for global warming.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I really want my kids to have a good life and I don't want them living in a smog-filled world.
LARSON: The event was planned by Internet savvy students at Middlebury College in Vermont, and rapidly went viral on the web with such speed it surprised even the environmental writer who encouraged the students to launch the campaign.
BILL MCKIBBEN: I think especially with young people, it's the understanding that this is going to be their lives for the next fifty, sixty, seventy years.
LARSON: Not since the sixties have campuses coordinated such a national event--student activism like the Earth itself, appears to be warming.
TOM BROKAW: Mr. Parish, are younger people more inclined to be concerned about climate change than older folks?
BILLY PARISH: Absolutely. You know, we've worked with young people all across the U.S. and found that they get it in a way, you know, they grew up with hearing about climate change and grew up with an environmental ethic and are much more sustainability-oriented, I think, than Americans, generally.
TOM BROKAW: And do they have influence on their parents?
BILLY PARISH: I did. Yeah, there are lots of stories of political leaders and corporate leaders who became converts around the issue of climate over the dinner table with their kids, who talked about how much the issue mattered to them and how much it was going to impact their lives in the future. And, you know, "Mom, dad, what are you going to do about this? Are you going to leave this mess for us?"
TOM BROKAW: When we come back, a youth movement on climate change.
KATHERINE GRUNZWEIG, Yale University Student [in interview]: As somebody who's studied the sciences, I've heard a lot about, over the past 150 years we've had a lot more carbon emissions, we're burning a lot more fossil fuels, industrialization is just increasing exponentially. And I think that that does have some sort of impact that we wouldn't have seen 150 years ago.
PATRICK PITONIAK, Yale University Student [in interview]: I feel that the Earth is going to naturally change its temperature just because that's the way climate works. And so when people are just ujumping to one side, saying, you know, "It's all our fault, we have to stop using fossil fuels," I think we have to be careful. We should wean ourselves off of fossil fuels, but it's not all our fault.
RAYMOND CARLSON, Yale University Student [in interview]: I'm definitely concerned about climate change. I feel as though really, as a student, there's very little that I can do as one individual to change it. In many ways, all I feel that I can do is use a Nalgene bottle, or you know, try recycling different things like paper, that sort of thing. But beyond that, I really feel powerless against this major global problem.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 1 [in interview]: I think global warming is happening. And I don't think enough people acknowledge that it is going on.
TOM BROKAW: Back at Yale University. Billy Parrish dropped out of Yale and he now heads Solar Mosaic, a company designed to encourage solar energy use but he got his name, galvanizing America's young people on climate change and doing something about it.
Billy, a question that always occurs to me about these kinds of efforts; you're out there working with young people, you got them fired up about it. I know a lot of work is being done at Yale. It's being done at MIT. It's being done at Berkeley and at Sanford. Do you have connective tissue among the young people in this country? Are they all working together, or are you working in pods?
BILLY PARISH: In 2004, we created something called the Energy Action Coalition that brought over fifty different youth organizations into a unified coalition to build a strong voice for young people across the country. And we've been working together in that coalition ever since. So we have state networks all around the country. We organize national conferences.
And we're now seeing it all around the world. There are coalitions and networks forming in almost every country in the world. And we're networking across borders and working to organize national and Global Days of Action to show the world that young people care and want to see this transition.
TOM BROKAW: There are hundreds of millions of young Chinese, however, who are moving from the rural area into the urban areas, a lot of them have been living kind of primitive lives. Now, they've got their first shot at having a motorcycle, or having a car, or having all the toys that we take for granted here, do you think that they are going to be any easy sell on climate change?
BILLY PARISH: Well, I think part of the answer is smarter design. We can design technologies. Motorcycles, for example, that are sustainable. They just haven't been in the past. But there are these new technologies and innovations that are solving that problem. But, I think all of us need to learn how to live in a healthier, you know, more sustainable, more balanced way. And I think the leadership needs to come from here in the U.S. where we've been consuming too much without care for the impacts.
TOM BROKAW: Pachi, you're a student of what's going on in this country, politically. You know what's happening there right now, there is a great wall that has been put up on the part of a lot of people who are coming to Washington, having been elected in this last cycle, who are saying "not another dime to be spent." Former congressman from Katharine's home state, Dick Armey is saying, get rid of all rail subsidies. And he's a big political voice at the moment.
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: Well, the fact is, you know we really need to make investments and ensure that we provide the signals through policy, by which investment's going to these areas. And a person may possess a car, but he doesn't have to use it every day to commute to work and back from work. If you have public transport as you do in Washington, DC, my God, the metro I think is a roaring success. Otherwise, can you imagine what the streets of Washington would be like? So I think we need to start looking ahead. And government has an extremely important role to play in providing the right signals for business.
TOM BROKAW: Can companies like DuPont lead the way more effectively in some fashion than the government because there's this big emphasis, at the moment, on the private sector and free enterprise?
LINDA FISHER: There is a role for subsidies as we bring new technologies on to the market. So today Photovoltaic cells cannot compete with electricity in terms of price per kilowatt hour. We need the government subsidies until we can get them at a cost competitive price, and then the subsidies should go away. So they shouldn't be there forever. So it's really a bridging.
And I think that these new technologies are going to be for the world. And we're either going to invent them here and we're going to create those jobs here, or they're going to be invented and those jobs are going to be created elsewhere. So I really see it – and we see it at DuPont – as a real opportunity for America to be the innovation leader on these alternative technologies.
TOM BROKAW: We have a question from the audience.
JERMAINE SANCHEZ: My question is, my grandfather lived to be a hundred and three years old, with population growing, how do you think global warming will affect my generation when it grows older? Thank you.
TOM BROKAW: Well, there are two questions in effect there: As they grow older, how will climate change and we are going to have a population base that is different because of the extent of life span that we have. Pachi, you want to take a shot at that?
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: Yeah. I think you need to look at population as well as consumption patterns. You know, we are adding say, three million people to our population each year. So I think the point is the rest of the world can't possibly emulate the patterns of consumption in the U.S. We have to find a different route, a different path.
TOM BROKAW: That's a tough sell in this country, however, isn't it Katharine, you know we have so many people who like to have their toys and they may intellectually understand the demands of climate change and the impact. But we've just gone through this enormous boom, in which houses went much larger, people like to have big cars. The fact of the matter is, not enough attention is paid to this: the Internet and all the new IT technology consumes a lot of electricity. I mean, it really sucks it up all day long. And we've not talked about that very much.
KATHARINE HAYHOE: It's true. We definitely have many things that the rest of the world does not. And how can we sit here and say that you cannot have what I have? That message is not really a very popular message. And I don't it's the message that we need. I think that this is about learning to do the things that we already enjoy in better, smarter ways that improve the quality of our own lives. Cars that are faster and cooler than the cars we have today. Computers that are much more efficient than the ones we have today, being able to do even more than we do today with the new, more sustainable products that we can get.
TOM BROKAW: We've got to get behind just changing the light bulb.
KATHARINE HAYHOE: Absolutely.
TOM BROKAW: Well, one of my friends who is very active in this movement likes to say, "We have to start asking the question every day. It's not what I want; it's what I really need." That's the question that we have to address to society.
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: I think that's absolutely right. I think we have to cut out waste. I mean, there's an enormous amount of waste in different parts of the world. And if we made a beginning with that, we really wouldn't be making huge sacrifices. We'd actually be able to improve our living standards because you'd have much less dirt, much less waste to manage. And I think we have to do things in a much smarter way without having to live in caves and wrapping ourselves in sheepskin.
TOM BROKAW: Well, we don't want to – but, although, on a snowy evening in Yale, that may not be a bad idea to do that.
When we come back, is there a green revolution on the job front?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1 (file): The big thing about crises are it tends to lend itself towards job creation. Like the Second World War definitely increased jobs. And I think that now the green revolution could tend to create more jobs too.
ARIANNE EASON, Yale University Student [in interview]: I think that it's going to be a long term problem, and in order to fix it we really have to work on long term solutions.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 2 (file): Businesses are only going to adjust if the government changes it or if, you know, their buyers or demand demands it.
TOM BROKAW: Every day there appears to be a new solution on the energy front: solar panels, wind, biofuels, thermal fuels. Discover magazine just reported a novel plan to harvest wind power with flying kites. How realistic are some of these ideas and what's the cost? This clip from the Today Show explores one new fuel source that was just beginning to attract attention by the big energy companies.
GEORGE LEWIS (file): At this Millbrae, California, deli, there's something cooking besides food. A project run by Chevron Energy Solutions that recycles the restaurant's grease.
Mr. BILL BROCKENBOROUGH (Chevron Energy Solutions): The pump comes on and the grease is sucked out of the truck and put into this holding tank behind you.
LEWIS: It's turned into fuel to run the city's sewer plant.
For Chevron this is one of several projects aimed at tapping into renewable sources of energy as the world's supply of oil continues to dwindle and concerns about global warming continue to mount.
This huge array of solar cells outside the San Francisco post office, plus more energy-efficient equipment inside, are cutting more than $1 million a year off the Postal Service's electric bill.
Critics say that at a time of record-high profits for big oil, Chevron's alternate energy business only accounts for 1/10 of 1 percent of total sales.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER FLAVIN (President, Worldwatch Institute): But I really see little evidence of the kind of serious strategic investment in R&D that would make the American oil companies major players in these competitive new businesses.
LEWIS: With the renewable energy business growing by 30 to 40 percent a year, oil companies may be forced to reduce their own dependence on fossil fuels or risk becoming the dinosaurs of the energy industry.
TOM BROKAW: One-tenth of one percent Chevron's alternative energy programs, that is not a major commitment. At DuPont, Linda Fisher, it's more than that. I was reading a figure that says you've gotten almost seven and a half billion dollars in revenue now from non-depletable sources that you've developed. How much did you have to change your R&D budget because DuPont was always on the cutting edge of being innovative anyway? Did you have to expand it considerably?
LINDA FISHER: We've definitely shifted our R&D dollars. Today we are investing about eighty-five percent of our research and development dollars in three major areas. One is improving our ability to grow food, increasing the productivity of an acre of land.
The second one is decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels, so we would include that in our investments in better materials for Photovoltaic cells; our investments in cellulosic ethanol; our investments in biobutanol, which is another alternative fuel that we think is going to be much better than ethanol; and our investments in technologies that will improve people's safety.
So we really are targeting our research dollars. We think the demand from the marketplace is going to be there. We think it's a great growth opportunity. And your point earlier, we really believe we can do well by doing good.
TOM BROKAW: Pachi, where are businesses most responsive to this? I mean, we know that what's going on with DuPont, General Electric, which until recently was the majority owner of NBC, it's got a big program under way. Obviously, the automobile industry is trying to turn to much more energy-efficient automobiles. Is it primarily centered here? Or what's going on in China, for example, in Southeast Asia?
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: No, I'm afraid the U.S. is behind in this regard. You see what Germany has been doing. They've really been able to use renewable energy on a much larger scale. South Korea is making major investments in renewable energy, so is China now.
India has a very ambitious solar energy program, planning to set up twenty thousand megawatts of solar capacity in the next ten years. So the U.S., I'm afraid is also going to lose-out on global markets over a period of time.
But, you know, you also need government policy to move business and consumers in the right direction.
TOM BROKAW: Let's go to the audience and hear a question from one of our students either from New Haven or from Yale. If you tell us where are you from and what your name is, please?
KATE: Yeah, sure. My name is Kate, I'm a senior at Yale. And I wanted to ask what are some ways of promoting this green economy without relying on government subsidies?
TOM BROKAW: That's a good question for you Billy, what would you suggest?
BILLY PARISH: Well, you know, the most important thing is that we put a price on carbon, that's a policy that can generate huge revenues that can then be put into clean energy research and development and be put into programs to get more renewables out there. So, you know, we need to tax what we burn, not what we earn. So right now there is a lot of taxes – payroll tax and other things – on our wages, but we should be taxing the things that we want less of, not the things we want more of like wages. So taxes on coal and oil and put that money into programs.
TOM BROKAW: We have a pro in our midst here, she could be a student, but in fact she is an NBC News employee and she is our chief environmental affairs correspondentm and you have seen her in a lot of the reports here tonight. Anne Thompson. Anne?
THOMPSON: Thanks, Tom. Listening to your discussion about the transition from fossil fuels-based economy to a clean energy economy, Big Oil and Big Coal say that will come at a severe economy cost in the form of jobs, as we make that transition. And it particularly resonates in states like Pennsylvania and West Virginia and Louisiana. So, how do you respond to that? How do you tell Americans to make that transition at such a high economic cost?
TOM BROKAW: Pachi?
RAJENDRA PACHAURI: Well, actually it's just the reverse which is true. There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world, wherever people have brought about more efficient uses of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels. So, I think it's quite the reverse which is true.
And if you look at the true cost of producing fossil fuels, I mean, everyone knows there are lots of hidden subsidies. So you are really not providing a level playing field and we need to create that level playing field.
TOM BROKAW: Here is a number to think about. There's a lot of talk these days about fiscal responsibility and prudent use of the money that we have. How much do you think we spend every week on importing oil to this country? It's five billion dollars every week that we're spending, added up.
By the way, what does it mean for religion and ethics when we talk about clean and sustainable energy. We'll talk about that when we come back.
PATRICK PITONIAK, Yale University Student [in interview]: I think it's wrong when people hide behind religion when there's the facts right in front of them. We need to do something. Whether, to what degree is up for debate, but I don't think religion really needs to have any strong stance. I think it's just a global issue we have to all have to work on together regardless of faith.
SUZIE JING, Yale University Student [in interview]: I really believe that God, or the spiritual almighty put us on this Earth to take care of our neighbors. And one way we can take care of the other people on this Earth is by taking care of the world.
TOM BROKAW: We're back at Yale University talking about the Changing Planet. Religious leaders across many faiths have had a big impact on climate change and the discussion of it. They have taken their message to the pulpit, and in this clip from the Documentary Channel, one church leader describes her commitment to linking religious faith to the future of the environment.
REVEREND SALLY BINGHAM (file): Life is being threatened by our warming climate. It's the most serious moral issue of our time. I'm Reverend Sally Bingham and I serve as the Environmental Minister at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. We each have a responsibility to be a good steward of creation. How we respond to this problem of global warming, identifies what it means to be human today? What kind of humans are we? I think that global warming is the most serious issue facing our generation. We have a campaign that we're focused on called Interfaith Power and Light. It's a ministry that's dedicated to deepening the connection between ecology and faith, so that folks who profess a love for God understand that they have a responsibility for care of God's creation.
TOM BROKAW: And now to start our discussion on this part of this discussion of this evening, we want to go to the student audience. Please tell us who you are and where are you from?
NEENA: Katharine, you've written about climate change and the relationship that it has to your faith. You're an evangelical Christian. Is that a particular challenge for faith leaders who want to move their flock, if you will, over to the side of doing something about climate change but members of their parish will say, "Listen, Reverend, I've got enough trouble just getting through the day these days without worrying about that."
KATHARINE HAYHOE: Absolutely. I think for all of us the reality is, is that there are a lot of issues that we care about. And climate change is not at the top of the list for many of us. We care about ourselves, our family, our well being, our education, what we have to realize, though, is that it is fundamentally a myth that we have to choose between the planet and better lives for ourselves. Having a better environment with cleaner air, cleaner water and more natural resources available to us, it benefits us, and it gives us a better life at the same time. So it isn't "help the planet or help ourselves." It's a case of "help ourselves by helping the planet."
TOM BROKAW: I'd like to ask the audience just by a show of hands, how many of you who came in here very skeptical about the reality of climate change had your minds changed tonight in any way. Any of you? How many of you remain skeptical? You're still skeptical. How many of you thought as you came in here, "I'm kind of in the middle." Now you've move to the other end of the spectrum and you are concerned about what's going on with climate change based on what you heard? More people doing that. And finally, how many of you're going to change your lifestyle or encourage others to do that based on what you've heard tonight? That's not an order on my part, I'm just curious, how many of you will do that? So we thank you all for allowing us to share this evening with you in this wonderful setting. We'd like to thank our panelists, obviously, for being so articulate and committed to this great cause and our partners, the National Science Foundation and Discover magazine and Yale University for hosting this event. To get more information, please visit nbclearn.com, discovermagazine.com and also nsf.gov – that's the National Science Foundation. To make a difference you can visit scienceforcitizens.net. Thank you all very much for joining us here on Changing Planet.
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New Report Says FEMA Badly Underestimates Flood Risk
41 million Americans—not 13 million—are at risk of experiencing a 100-year flood, according to the study.
The Uneven Gains of Energy Efficiency
Low-income Americans are more likely to live in housing that wastes energy, which saddles them with disproportionately high energy costs.
How to Save a Town From Rising Waters
Louisiana's Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Project is the only government-funded climate relocation in the country—and a test case for more to come.
What Will Happen to the Gulf Coast If the Oil Industry Retreats?
Hurricane Harvey pummeled the country's energy infrastructure, and there are few incentives in place to promote renewables.

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As Teenage Fanclub take the stage at Birmingham's O2 Institute, Getintothis' Paul Higham considers whether the Scots provide the perfect template of how best to grow old together.
The question of how best to do deal with the passage of time comes eventually to all bands of certain age.
There are a range of options. Some live fast and burn out, exiting the stage before creaking bones and wrinkles begin to take their toll. Seared forever in the mind of their fans is the image of youthful vitality, untainted by growing old. Some will reform later in their career to cash in on a revival of popularity, seeking to monetise nostalgic reverence.
For reformed bands, it is often a question of timing. Leave it too late and it looks like an ever-desperate effort in search of that last payday, one that risks tarnishing precious memories. Such reformations too often struggle to rise above the pastiche. And for those that do reform, there remains the question of whether to produce new material.
This is too often a lose-lose scenario. Those reliant to trade solely on former glories, content to bash out decade old hits night after night for inflated ticket prices are, often rightly, scorned for their cynical approach (although if people enjoy a journey down memory lane then who are we to judge). However those that do release new material are often vilified for doing so. The inevitable comparisons are made to their career high-watermark output, with new material too often falling short (yes, we're looking at you, Pixies). Either way it is difficult to avoid tarnishing memories.
Further still, what happens if not all parties are willing to engage in a reformation. This at best calls into question the very credibility of the reformation, at worst results in intractable disputes often played out on the public stage. Elsewhere reformed bands are, in effect, little more than vanity projects of one or two members bearing only minimal resemblance to the iconic configurations of their prime.
Teenage Fanclub have been lucky. For although their output has slowed to little more than a new album every half decade or so, they have never disbanded. While members, principally Norman Blake and Gerrard Love, have participated in side-projects, these have remained, and been billed as such, very much side projects. Consequently they have neatly navigated many of the problems that have beset other bands of their generation. Equally the band has remained stable, continuing to revolve around its core songwriting triumvirate of Raymond McGinley, Blake and Love.
It does seem that you have only split up if you say that you've split up. If you essentially stop making new records, indefinitely take a break from touring schedules and various band-members commit to new projects then you haven't split up. Because you haven't said you've split up, right? This is a situation that Teenage Fanclub have managed with aplomb. Despite to all intents and purposes splitting up, then reforming and then splitting up again they never actually said that they split up, so all has remained well.
We said timing was important, and so it has proved. The band have never left it too long between each of their mini-reformations. Indeed the gap between 2010's Shadows and 2016's Here has been the longest of their career – although as the average age of their fans heads ever upwards, perhaps it just hasn't felt that long – yet doesn't feel like anything other than a band releasing and touring new material. Teenage Fanclub only seem to tour when there is new material to showcase, and the new material is seen in the context of their overall career and not as a comeback after a hiatus.
Thus, Here is judged and appraised in the context of their career trajectory and not, say, against Bandwagonesque. There is thus an acceptance that Teenage Fanclub in 2016 are a very different proposition to their 1991 counterparts.
And this falls neatly into how to age.
Much like fine wines, the best bands mature and maturity inevitably involves change. Where some bands seem impervious to any awareness of time having passed, giving their best impression of having located the holy grail despite all the embarrassing, cringe-worthy, dad-dancing outward projections, Teenage Fanclub recognise that they are now approaching middle-age and have evolved accordingly.
Traditional set-closer Everything Flows opens with the lyrics "We get older every year / But you don't change / Or I don't notice you changing" and what was once a romantic ode now seems to resonate with the band's career. Except they do change. And we have noticed them change. Yet we'd rather have it this way than the other. Teenage Fanclub have grown old gracefully and this informs both their music and their live shows.
Taking the stage at the O2 Institute in Birmingham it is clear that the Teenage Fanclub of 2016 have long since abandoned the chaotic inclinations of youth. The wild and raucous elements have been replaced by jocular anvuncularity. Bottled mineral water curries favour over hard liquor. Heck, Blake even jokes about that televisual bastion of middle class civility, Strictly Come Dancing, it being a Saturday night and all.
This change has equally affected the music that the band create. Initially a band that set squalling abrasion in competition with melodic harmony, the latter has long since triumphed over the former. Perhaps this was their calling all along and the earlier incarnation was on account of the uncertainty of youth and the prevailing wind of grunge and alternative rock blowing across the Atlantic from America. Out of this conflict was born Bandwagonesque, perhaps still and quite rightly the band's most critically acclaimed record and indeed it must have been tempting to continue in this mould.
The influences of Big Star, and to a lesser extent The Byrds triumphed over that of J Mascis and Kurt Cobain. Grand Prix remains a monument to power-pop songwriting, a standard-bearer against which all should be judged, while Songs from Northern Britain charted the course the band would follow over the next two decades, lovely, easy-on-the-ear melodies that bask in a sincere beauty, revelling in their craft without ever truly challenging.
Yet sometimes we don't want to be challenged, we want to know exactly what we're going to get. The Fannies can too easily be accused of being predictable, and such accusations are not always easily rebuttable. We largely know which way their set will go. Surprises will be few. When Norman announces the next song to be the last of their main set, you just know what it is going to be. Yet The Concept can still ignite; its coalescence of coruscating guitars and melodic intent remains as compelling today as it did all those years ago, causing a swathe of ill-advised middle-aged men (in the crowd, not the band) to engage in what looked like their first physical efforts for some time.
If the moshing was half-hearted, the performance of the band was less so. New material from this year's Here, and there was lots of it, had a greater drive than on record while still retaining its mellow and seductive vibe. Interspersed were classics from their oeuvre, the power-pop romance of Norman's I Don't Want Control of You, the sheer perfection of Gerry's Sparky's Dream along with Raymond's forever-catchy ode to profanity, Verisimilitude.
What made it into our Teenage Fanclub Top Ten? Find out here
There was room for some welcome set inclusions, admittedly at the expense of jettisoned favourites like Your Love is the Place Where I Come From and Ain't That Enough. Second song, Sometimes I Don't Need To Believe in Anything from 2010's Shadows came alive with some effortlessly mesmeric playing from McGinley while Baby Lee from the same album feels as pure a song as anything that Blake has ever penned. My Uptight Life was another welcome choice.
So what conclusions can we draw from the polite, reserved and charming middle-aged Scots that we saw on stage in Birmingham. For sure they remain a much-loved and idolised outfit, the love and warmth that permeated the room was heartfelt and genuine. That growing old and maturing is allowed. Alternative experimentalism is fine and absolutely has its place, but so too does understanding what you're good at.
Here is where the ageing Teenage Fanclub excel. This is a band blessed of three songwriters, individual songwriters not songwriting partnerships, who each share lead vocal responsibilities. More and more as they get older the lines blur, the three become as if one. Their harmonies that much purer, sweeter. Their mutual understanding shines through with an effortless musicality.
It might feel a tad safe at times, but they've grown with grace. The rough edges have been smoothed, the tannins taste less harsh, there is little danger here of embarrassment or of memories being wilfully trashed. The music they now make speaks with sincerity of where they are currently and not where they long to return to. It remains an absolute pleasure to watch them grow with us. Indeed, we "love your trajectory".


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How it's haunted: In 1877, in room 106, Tchaikovsky reportedly started to compose his 4th Symphony. Guests occasionally report seeing him in the room, still working on his composition.
Why it's a hideaway: This graceful neoclassical palace is filled with rich damask wall coverings, Biedermeier antiques, leaded-glass windows, and pink-marble baths. But its best feature might just be the stunning view across the lagoon to the island of San Giorgio, with the city's signature gondolas bobbing in the foreground.
Ballygally Castle Hotel
Co. Antrim (near Belfast), N. Ireland
How it's haunted: According to legend, 400 years ago, when Lord James Shaw's heir was born, he took the baby and locked his wife in the tower. While trying to escape, Lady Isobella fell to her death from a window. She is reputed to be a "friendly" spirit who walks the corridors.
Why it's a hideaway: Set on the Antrim coast—along a hauntingly beautiful stretch known as the Glens of Antrim—this castle hotel, dating back to 1625 and renovated in 2007, has an abundance of Irish character and charm.
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Why it's a hideaway: This quaint, historic retreat is set on 2.5 riverfront acres in downtown Napa. In a town where hotels seem to be going modern, this one captures the old elegances and new luxuries of Napa Valley effortlessly, from its clawfoot tubs to its town car that's available for complimentary transportation within the city.
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Hideaways International, Inc., which operates the Hideaways Aficionado® Club, has been seeking the best-of-kind and the out-of-the-ordinary for its savvy, discerning, and well-traveled members for more than three decades. Members, who hail from around the world, range from notable celebrities, musicians, publishers, authors, captains of industry, and politicians to ordinary folks with extraordinary taste. All are part of this lively community with a passion for travel away from the madding crowds.
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LACA Presents: Institutional Papers at SF Art Book Fair 2017
Saturday July 22, 11 AM
Artists present institutional documents or letters that have changed their lives. An eclectic series of short readings accompanied by images showing the effects professionalism has on the artist's practice.
1.Ryan Jeffery (LA)
2.Vivian Sming (SF)
3.Monica Rodriquez (LA)
4.Nick Flessa (LA)
5.Jackie Im (SF)
6.Andrew Freire (LA)
7.David Kasprzak (SF)


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Monday, September 29, 2008
Blurb Books
For the detailed photographer-who wants quality printing & binding-I highly recommend Blurb's photo books! After struggling with MyPublisher for some time, it was a nice discovery to utilize more layout designs, plus be able to remove their company logo and add my own. When I noted how well my images compared to the printed interpretations, the results tossed me out of the yellow pages-going way beyond my expectations. A great experience all the way through!
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Injustice Gods Among Us Walkthrough
Our Injustice Gods Among Us walkthrough will guide you through the beginning to ending moments of gameplay with strategy tips for this fighting game on the Xbox 360, PS3 & Wii U.
Injustice: Gods Among Us is a Fighting game that blends classic Arcade style gameplay mechanics with an intriguing storyline that pits classic DC Comics characters against each other in unique combinations (hero vs. hero, villain vs. villain). The game is developed by NetherRealm Studios, and Ed Boon, of Mortal Kombat fame.
Let's start the Injustice Gods Among Us walkthrough with a story introduction video!
Please note that viewers must be at least 13 to watch, so no harm comes to those with innocent eyes. This game includes Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Batman
- Chapter 2: Green Lantern
- Chapter 3: Aquaman
- Chapter 4: The Joker
- Chapter 5: Green Arrow
- Chapter 6: Cyborg
- Chapter 7: Deathstroke
- Chapter 8: Batman
- Chapter 9: Lex Luthor
- Chapter 10: The Flash
- Chapter 11: Wonder Woman
- Chapter 12: Superman & Ending
Index of Injustice Gods Among Us Guides:
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Injustice Gods Among Us Walkthrough
What If Our Greatest Heroes Became Our Greatest Threat?
Injustice: Gods Among Us debuts as a bold new fighting game franchise that introduces a deep, original story featuring more than 20 fan favorite, and other less well-known, DC Comics icons such as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Harley Quinn, Solomon Grundy, Nightwing, Cyborg and others. Set in a world where the lines between good and evil are are blurred, players will experience heroes and villains engaging in epic battles on a massive scale.
Players can expect over-the-top action that is suitable for players of most ages, and a single-player storyline that provides the background for the unique character match-ups possible. Addition features include more than 20 DC Comics heroes and villains, a variety of different attack levels, unique attacks for each character, multiplayer support, and more.
Challenging Yet Accessible Gameplay.
Developed by NetherRealm Studios, under Ed Boon of Mortal Kombat fame, Injustice: Gods Among Us is developed with gamers of all skill levels in mind. The playable characters are separated into roughly two categories: power based fighters such as Superman, and gadget based fighters such as Batman. In the interactive environments of the game a power character like Superman might use his super strength to lift and throw an object such as a car at an opponent, while a gadget character like Batman might maneuver an opponent close to the same car, then blow it up with a tossable explosive. Characters like Wonder Woman Woman and Nightwing have hybrid abilities that they can toggle between.
Regardless of the characters used, varied abilities makes each a possible match for the other, with their attacks broken down into heavy, medium and light varieties, and each also having a specific move that can be unleashed when the power meter that they grow throughout combat, is full. In addition, players can engage in "wager battles" in which portions of the opposing character's power can be won as a prize for victory. Taken together these mechanics promise action that is simple to pick up but challenging to master, and and which adds a distinct gameplay feel.
Key Game Features:
- A unique addition to the fighting genre in which an intriguing storyline pits the heroes — and villains — of the DC universe against each other.
- A powerful and diverse array of over 20 playable characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Nightwing, Catwoman, Cyborg, Harley Quinn, Solomon Grundy, and others.
- A variety of play areas based in the mythologies of each character franchise.
- An accessible attack system broken down into light, medium and heavy attack, with each character having their own specific attacks.
- "Wager battles" that allow the winner of the battle to collect a portion of an opponents metered power.
- Deep multiplayer play options, including local and online play, as well as tournament support.
Main Game Modes:
- Story – Combines cutscenes, mini-games, and traditional fights to deliver a cinematic single player experience unlike any other.
- Battle – The traditional arcade ladder. Defeat a series of opponents to see a character's ending. There are heroes only, villains only, poisoned (health depletion), and other variants to choose from.
- S.T.A.R. Labs – 240 Character-specific missions, ranging from special fights to mini-games.
- Single Fight – Fight against the CPU in a versus match.
- Training – Practice against a dummy with a vast array of tools and settings at your disposal. You can also record your own set-ups to then fight and figure out solutions against.
- Versus.
- Online – Includes: Ranked Match, Player Match, Private Match, King of the Hill, and Training.
In this next video Netherrealm Studios, the game's development team, talks about the enhancements to the technology and combat systems (listed hereunder) driving Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Basic Controls:
- Block = Back
- Jump = Up
- Crouch = Down
- Light Attack = Square/X
- Medium Attack = Triangle/Y
- Hard Attack = Cross/A
- Ground Bounce Attack = Forward + Cross/A
- Wall Bounce Attack = Back + Cross/A
- Throw = L1/LB or Light + Hard
- Flip Stance = L2/LT
- Character Power = Circle/B
- Use Interactive Background Object When Prompted = R1/RB or Light + Medium
- Transition To New Level Area = Back + Cross/A while doing a wall bounce near the edge of an arena
- Meter Burn Special Move = R2/RT during certain Special Moves burns 1 bar of Super Meter
- Block Escape = R2/RT during Block Stun burns 1 bar of Super Meter
- Ground Bounce Cancel = Forward, Forward + R2/RT during Combo burns 2 bars of Super Meter
- Wall Bounce Cancel = Back, Back + R2/RT during Combo burns 2 bars of Super Meter
- Super Move = L2 + R2/LT + RT burns all 4 bars of Super Meter
- Clash = Forward + R2/RT during block stun works only when you're in the red health bar, then below your character's name you'll see a yellow bar indicator.
Chapter 1: Batman
Welcome to the Injustice Gods Among Us walkthrough! Doug will be your voice-over commentator showing you how to beat the game's battles.
• "The Lines Are Drawn" battle VS Deathstroke
• "Thunder of the Gods" battle VS Bane
• "Lex Alone" battle VS Lex Luthor
• "One Last Dance" battle VS The Joker
Chapter 2: Green Lantern
• "The Same Only Different" battle VS Raven
• "Second-Rate Thug" battle VS Cyborg
• "They Know You Now" battle VS Sinestro
• "Green to Yellow" battle VS Yellow Lantern
Chapter 3: Aquaman
• "The Atlantis Archives" battle VS The Flash
• "What You Promised" battle VS Shazam
• "The Usurper and the King" battle VS Aquaman
• "Stoking the Fires" battle VS Ares
Chapter 4: The Joker
• "Insurgency HQ" battle VS Batman
• "Friends Come and Go" battle VS Harley Quinn
• "The Joker Clan" battle VS Hawkgirl
• "Pick a Card" battle VS Nightwing
Chapter 5: Green Arrow
• "Must've Been Some Party" battle VS Solomon Grundy
• "Grand Slam" battle VS Killer Frost
• "Hands on the Scanners" battle VS Wonder Woman
• "Lightning Storm" battle VS Black Adam
Injustice: Gods Among Us Walkthrough continues on Page 2 with Chapter 6.
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Post Game, Select Game 2 Interview - Wyatt Harvey
Episode Description
Wyatt Harvey plays for Team Yellow in the Select Division. He chats with us about scoring a personal best five goals in the tournament.
Keywords: Blind Ice Hockey, Blind Hockey, Hockey, 2017 Canadian Blind Hockey Tournament, Canadian Blind Hockey, Wyatt Harvey, Team Yellow, Select Division


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It's been a very long journey for Caprica and I.
Starting out in a blaze of hope and promise, I was all set to love it. The first couple of episodes astounded me, but familiarity bred boredom, frustration and, finally, contempt, with watching the mid-season finale becoming a chore which I put off for months.
I eventually got round to watching it a few weeks ago, but there was always something else to write about in the meantime – which is why I'm only getting round to posting this now. Sadly, neither the episode, nor, I suspect, my rambling about it, was worth the wait.
Although more happened in this episode than perhaps the rest of the season put together, it all came too late. Much of it should have been moving and spell-binding – Tamara setting her father free, Zoe escaping hers; Amanda giving up, Lacy giving in. Suicide, murder, terrorism, fanaticism; it could have been fascinating, important tv, but ultimately the glacial pace, the sprawl of characters, and the pompous, self-important manner of the whole thing did for Caprica. Come episode ten, I just didn't care any more about any of it.
The second half of the season has now been postponed till next year, and who knows? Maybe the new episodes will be leaner and wittier and less mind-numbingly slow. Maybe the programme will eventually turn into a worthy addition to the BSG canon. Too late for this BSG fan though; Caprica and I are finally done.


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Analytical & Scientific Databases
This specialist area brings together topics in modern data management technology, from theory to practice to implementation needed for the applied as well as the research fields.
There are two central academic outcomes to this programme. The first is to bring the students up to speed with the latest technology in Database Science and in the analysis of complex databases, in particular big data. The second aim is to introduce the students to the research active areas in the field within the context of a range of real example programmes.
Students registered in this Specialist Area are recommended to select at least fifty credit points from these courses. Please note courses are subject to availability.
|Semester 1
|Semester 2
|Core Course
|Main Optional Courses
Database Systems (20 credits, level 10)
Introductory Applied Machine Learning (20 credits)
Advanced Topics in Foundations of Databases (20 credits)
Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning (20 credits)
Notes on course styles
Unlike most MSc courses, Advanced Topics in Foundations of Databases (ATFD) is a research seminar course, assessed entirely by coursework. This course contains a mix of theory and practice. Extreme Computing is a more practical courses. Database Systems is an undergraduate course, only appropriate for those who haven't taken a course at a similar level before.
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To promote programs and studies in Jain Philosophy
at Academic Institutions in North America and to establish relations with them to promote the principles and awareness of Jainism.
Through ISSJS hundreds of students in college and graduate school as well as teachers and professors in academia have travelled to
India for Summer Studies in Jainism. Partnered with the Center for Jain Studies at Many universities. To learn more please visit www.isjs.in
To learn more please visit www.isjs.in.
Chairpersons: Sulekh Jain -
- 832-594-8005.
The Academic Scholarship Committee provides support for any bright, hard-working, goal-oriented, practicing Jain youth in
North America to be able to afford to attend an institution of higher learning where they can develop their skills and talents,
and eventually make the community, country and world a better place. This committee has created the JAINA Academic Scholarship
Program (JASP) which has provided numerous need-based scholarships for high school seniors in North America. To learn more please
go to www.jaina.org/jasp.
Chairperson: Atul Shah -
email@example.com - 630-501-4373.
The Ahimsak Eco-Vegan committee, as an expression of ahimsa, supports the reduction and elimination of activities
contributing to harm to living beings, global climate change and destruction of the planet. We support veganism as abstinence
from eating, wearing, and using animal products such as meat, eggs, dairy products, honey, leather, and silk and do not support
products that are marketed as "humane". To learn more please see www.jaina.org/ahimsakecovegan and www.veganjains.com.
Chairpersons: Dr. Jina Shah - email@example.com - 650-296-3197.
The Awards Committee is responsible for providing the JAINA Recognition Awards during each JAINA Convention for candidates who have provided a significant contribution to the Jain Community. There are three types of awards that are provided: JAINA Ratna (Lifetime Achievement) Award (1), JAINA Recognition award for Adults (10), and JAINA Recognition award for Youth (5). The criteria include contributions to their local Jain centers as well as to JAINA. To learn more about the awards committee please visit jaina.org/awards.
Chairperson:Dr. Nitin Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 562-244-9035.
The annual Calendar has elevated JAINA's image as an institution working to preserve and promote the Jain heritage and ancient culture in western world. Every year it freely distributes over 15,000 copies of the Calendar available to every Jain household in North America. To learn more about the calendar committee and how you can contribute, go to www.jaina.org/?page=JAINACalendar. To view all previous JAINA Calendar online please visit www.jainatemples.org. Thanks to all the JAINA calendar sponsors and members for the wholehearted support.
Chairperson: Jayana Shah - email@example.com - 714-856-4256.
CONSTITUTION: Is responsible and accountable for revisions of the JAINA Constitution and to ensure that other Jain Sanghs abide to the By-Laws instituted in the JAINA Constitution. This committee plays a key role in the governance of JAINA and Jain Sanghs across North America.
Chairperson: Dilip Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 215-868-0381.
CONVENTION: Is responsible for creating biennial conventions. Since 1987, JAINA Conventions have become a unique
scocio-religiousevent for the entire Jain community of North America. Our Jain Monks, Bhattaraks, Scholars, and Dignitaries from all
over have graced these occaions. The 20th JAINA Biennial Convention took palce in Ontario Convention Center in California with the theme 'Jain Religion in the 21st Century'
from July 4 to 7, 2019. The JAINA Executive Commitee has appointed Mr. Haresh Shah the next convenor for 21th JAINA
Biennial Convention.
Convention Convenor: Haresh Shah - email@example.com - 302-740-9232.
EDUCATION: Provides Jain religious education and educational materials to Jain children, youths, and adults by conducting classes,
workshop, seminars, and lectures at various Jain centers in North America and other countries. Prepares Jain Educational material for children,
youth, and adults of North America. We also provide a medium for interactions among pathshala teachers of North America. The three main initiatives
under the JAINA Education Committee are the publications of JAINA Education Pathshala Books, the coordination of the Jain Academic (JAB) Competitions,
and the creation of Jain Elibrary. To learn more, go to jaina.org/education.
Chairperson: Pravin K. Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 919-889-1900.
ELECTION: Is responsible for facilitating the election process of JAINA's Executive Committee biennially. As part of the election process, this committee ensures that all Jain Sanghs' are accurately represented into the voting process.
Chairperson: Anop Vora - email@example.com - 585-473-9290
FUNDRAISING: Our goal is to make JAINA financially stronger to better serve the Jain community in North America and abroad.
It supports JAINA committees to promote the Jain way of life in North America, and allows the Jain community to serve the wider world. It is
working to reach out and connect with Jain's and non-Jains to inspire them to support JAINA and its activities. It is critical for JAINA to have
an office and a manager available to help and support Jains in North America. Funds are requested to support JAINA's many projects.
We encourage everyone to contribute generously.
Chairperson: Yogesh Shah
- firstname.lastname@example.com - 714-936-300.
This committee is successfully maintaining its relations at various levels with national
and international governments including United Nation to help Jain community and JAINA. It is working to foster interaction and dialogue with other
Jain Organizations throughout the world.
Chairperson: Prakash Mehta
- firstname.lastname@example.com - 571-331-1851.
On an international level we have participated with Religions for Peace -
International, Parliament of World Religions, World Jain Confederation, United Nations and the Roman Catholic Pontifical Council for Interreligious
Dialogue. On the national level we participate with RFP - USA, Intersection International, NCCI Calendar and others. Locally, our committee members
reach out extensively with interfaith and multifaith organizations on a regular basis as well as on occasions like prayer services on Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day, Thanksgiving Day, International Day of Peace and Human Rights Day. Visit jaina.org/interfaith to learn more.
Chairperson: Nikhil Bumb - email@example.com - 864-553-1675.
A team-based competition for young Jains which check the knowledge of Jainism, the ability for quick response, and a friendly yet competitive spirit.
Topics range from Jain scriptures, prayers, and philosophy to Jain geography, history, and Jainism in the modern World.
Chairperson: Shweta Daftary - firstname.lastname@example.com - 972-897-8030.
Our mission is to connect JAINA and all the Jain Centers in North America to strengthen the bonds between the
two, and support local Jain centers. We have arranged meetings among local Jain center presidents and directors to share experiences, share ideas,
and learn from each other. These were met with overwhelming enthusiasm from several Jain Center officers at the JAINA Conventions in 2011 in Houston
and 2013 in Detroit. In between JAINA Conventions, we have also had several teleconferences. This has allowed us to strengthen the ties between
JAINA and local centers.
Chairperson:Vipul Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 847-809-8756.
JAIN DIASPORA: Jain Diaspora is the JAINA initiative to connect all the Jain communities living in 36 countries outside of India and thereby drive
greater unity and cohesiveness in the global Jain community. JAINA feels the time is ripe for overseas Jain communities worldwide to better leverage our
common identity, views and lifestyles by reaching out across borders and continents. The Jain Diaspora Conference (JDC) was held during the 2009 and 2011
JAINA Conventions.
Chairperson: Dr. Manish Mehta - email@example.com - 734-604-7989.
JAIN DIGEST: Is published quarterly and emailed to more than 14,500 jain families in North America and worldwide.
Jain Digest communicates the activities of JAINA and Jain Centers in North America. It aims to put together in-depth articles of Jainism
and spiritually related topics. Donation of $201 is requested for Life Membership. Issues can be viewed online at jaina.org/jaindigest.
To receive your digital copy or to make any changes in your email address, please Contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chairperson: Dilip Parekh - firstname.lastname@example.com - 310-721-5947.
JAIN CONNECT: Jain Connect is an opportunity for Jain youths (age 21 and older) throughout North America and around the world to meet in person, to make friends, to engage in networking, to develop business contacts and to possibly find a life partner. Jain Connect believes in Jain family values and is working hard from last ten years to preserve these values. With Jain Connect, we hope to achieve our goal to preserve Jain traditions and values in our next generation and strengthen our community. In last ten years more than a thousand youths from all over the world have participated. Next Jain Connect is organized at the 2015 JAINA Convention in Atlanta, GA. Visit www.jainmilan.org or www.jaina.org (matrimonial) for further information.
Chairperson: Piyush Gandhi - email@example.com - 630-765-0872.
JIVDAYA: Following principle of 'Live & Let Live", Non-violence & Ahimsa are promoted. From generous donations of fellow Jains, animals in various Panjarapoles in India and USA are provided with food, shelter & medical needs and animal are saved from slaughter houses. More information is available at Jaina.org/Jivdaya.
Chairperson: Ketan Sheth - firstname.lastname@example.com - 918-812-7801.
JYEP (Jain Youth Exchange Program):
JAINA in collaboration with JITO (Jain Trade Organization) Ahmedabad is proud to
present Jain Youth Exchange program (JYEP). The JYEP is one of the most powerful ways to promote international
understanding and Jain way of life. JYEP intends to provide young students with the opportunity to meet people from USA,
India and other countries and to experience new cultures, planting the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding.
Chairperson: Kamlesh Mehta - firstname.lastname@example.com - 408-839-8996.
LOAN PROGRAM: Creates financial of ferings to the benefit the Jain Community. We will be offering a number of resources of youth and families, as we look towards 2015, we will be providing over $150,000 through our education loan program and explore ways to bring interest free loans for family assistance programs for Jains in North America.
Chairperson: Jatin Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 469-363-1396.
The Long Range Planning (LRP) Committee, a 12 member Standing Committee of JAINA, is organized under Article
V, Section 5 of JAINA's Charter. With a vision to "Live and Share a Jain Way of Life", the objective of LRP Committee is to establish long-range,
10-20 years, plans for North American Jains and JAINA. In this regard, the Committee develops and executes short-term as well as long-term goals.
The Committee supports and guides JAINA in infrastructure development and operational strategies. LRP Committee creates opportunities for leadership
development, assists JAINA EC and Board of Directors by being a custodian of certain tasks, and acts as an incubator facility for launching new
initiatives and the roll out of JAINA projects.
Chairperson: Chintan Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 608-217-4807.
Founded in 2006, the Media Productions Committee creates high quality Jain media programs. It showcases the Jain way
of life and Jains of North America, with special platform given to our youths. It is then, that Mangalam TV Show, the only Jain show of its kind, was
launched and has been broadcast on TV and Internet channel for last 7 years. It now reaches all Jains around the world. With most recent reports, more than
15,000 people are watching the show from 51 countries around the world. Upcoming programs will feature 2015 JAINA Convention, Jain Principles and introspection
about various issues related to the Jain Community. It will still have many regular features. We also produced a Mangalam Stavan CD to bring awareness of
Jain Stavans in Indian classical ragas to the North American Jain Community.
Chairperson:Dr. Mamta Shaha: email@example.com - 516-487-1852. To learn more go to jaina.org/mediaproduction.
MEMBERSHIP: To provide consitutional, educational guidelines and meterials for the forming of new jain Centers and a forum for interaction amongst different centers. Committee also guides new centers to become members of JAINA.
Chairperson:Rohit Doshi: email@example.com - 607-754-3615.
This committee is engaged in developing media package, define protocol for communications and responsible for branding and publicity for JAINA. Launched "Live & Help Live" with community up-liftment, Student Loan program and Scholarship program.
Chairperson: Hemant Shah - email@example.com - 630-933-8311.
PATRON PROGRAM: This program was initiated in 1997 to enable JAINA to meet its essential expenses. With an expense of about $100,000 yearly to maintain a headquarter, continue the publication of Jain Digest and other such activities, it is imperative for all of us to become JAINA PATRON with an annual contribution of $251 or become Grand Patron for Life by contributing $5,000.
Chairperson: Udai Jain - firstname.lastname@example.com - 832-567-2298.
We successfully finished 99 yatra to Shree Shatrunjay Mahatirth, Palitana, India from Nov 10, 2011 to Jan 9, 2012. This was first time in the history that JAINA had organized this yatra from USA to India. Participating in this unique and historic opportunity is a once in a lifetime event for Jains across North America. We look forward to arranging the 99 yatra in 2015 - 2016. To learn more visit www.jaina.org/99yatra.
Chairperson: Arvind Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 248-835-7395.
To explore housing facilities for seniors and to initiate programs beneficial to seniors.
Chairperson: Surjit Kaji - email@example.com - 510-795-7600.
To develop, operate, and maintain the Information Technology infrastructure for JAINA, JAINA Committees, Jain Centers, and Jain Community members. The scope includes JAINA web portal, JAINA Mailing List, Convention registration systems, Jain Networking Function, group emails, online payment and donation processing, domain name registration & maintenance, internet-based meeting facility, telephone conferencing, member blogs, and social media platforms.
Chairperson: Girish Shah - email@example.com - 408-373-3564.
Assist economically challenged Jain families to come out of poverty through quality education, vocational and skill enhancement training leading to higher paying jobs. In 2013 - 2014, your generous support has made significant difference in management at schools affecting nearly 1,000 children. In addition over 110 students have directly benefited from this program. Go to upliftment.jaina.org to learn more.
To promote and encourage studies in Jainism and to spread the message of V.R. Gandhi. They have created a number of projects to honor the legacy of Virchand Raghavji Gandhi including the creation of a commemorative V.R. Gandhi Stamp and the establishment of the V.R. Gandhi Scholarship Fund which awards need-based scholarships to students pursuing higher education in Jain philosophy, literature and scriptures at recognized universities and institutions. To learn more about the V.R.G. Committee, go to jaina.com/virchandgandhi.
Chairperson: Kamlesh Shah - email@example.com - 301-910-7938.
This is a program for Wellness of Jain members. We have started from Jain Center of Southern California by
challenging 500 members to stay healthy for six months employing different tools like exercise, education, cooking
classes, yoga etc. in 2012. Then Wellness committee was formed at JAINA level and we have tried to replicate model of JCSC
without much success so far. We plan to continue our efforts to help other Jain Center members in North America. We
have continued weekly challenges for our members and also did one "Sugar Free" month this year in May-June. We are
looking forward to implement such activities in other Jain Organizations.
Chairperson: Jayana Shah - email@example.com - 714-856-4256.
JAINA Women's committee has been established in October 2015. It is globally relevant , socially responsible and locally reachable to all women. Women's committee provide a platform to all women follwers of path of Ahimsa/Jain ways pf life to organize as a group and promote personal growth,social wellbeing, spiritual progress,peace and harmony at different levels - family , committee,nation and international through nonviolence/Ahimsa. To know more please vitis http://www.jaina.org/?WomenCommittee or contact.
Chairperson: Dr.Mamta Shaha - firstname.lastname@example.com - 516-487-1852.
To provide humanitarian services all around the world. WCS aims to provide medical services to disadvantaged and poor people while also being at the forefront of emergency situations such as earthquakes, famine, floods and hurricanes, among other scenarios. The WCS has helped over 65 Humanitarian Projects Worldwide. Mostly recently, the WCS sponsored a computer lab in IS 2 Egbert Intermediate School in Staten Island, NY after the destruction of Hurricane Sandy. After the devastating June 2013 Uttarakhand Floods, WCS created a "Uttarakhand Flood Victims' Relief Fund." Go to jaina.org/wcs to learn more about our initiatives.
Chairperson: Bachubhai Ajmera
- firstname.lastname@example.com - 240-328-0807.
The committee will create a uniform policy for affiliation with overseas religious or
charitable organizations that have the similar goals as JAINA.
Chairperson: Dilip Shah - firstname.lastname@example.com - 215-868-0381.
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Catholic Child Welfare Society, charity, Child protection, employment, Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Market Weighton, Sexual abuse, supreme court, vicarious liability
The Supreme Court has recently determined that for an employer to be liable for the tortuous act (wrong doing) of their employee (vicarious liability), some work related relationships are "closer than that of an employer and its employees."
In this case "the relationship differed from that of the relationship between employer and employee in that:
(i) the brothers were bound to the institute not by contract, but by their vows; and
(ii) far from the institute paying the brothers, the brothers had entered into deeds under which they were obliged to transfer all their earnings to the institute. The institute catered for their needs from those funds."
The court said that neither of those differences was material and the relationship as described (between the brothers and the institute) was capable of giving rise to vicarious liability.
It is important to remember that Vicarious liability can be imposed where a defendant (an employer), whose relationship with the abuser (the employee) put it in a position to use the abuser to carry on its business or to further its own interests AND had done so in a manner which had created or significantly enhanced the risk that the victim or victims would suffer the relevant abuse. Thus the issue of essential closeness of connection between the relationships is essential show establish a strong causative link.
It might be argued that these circumstances were unique, in that these lay teachers were abusers of children and this case is specific to the nature of the wrong.
However be defining that some relationships are closer than that of an employer and its employees" and removing some of the barriers, such as pay and reward, liability by employers can now be widened to include other areas of work that do not have a contractual but both parties are reliant on each other.
This case might be of particularly concern to the voluntary sector and other where there is an:
(i) existence of a promise to perform task, other than a contract; and
(ii) element of mutuality or care arising out of that promise.
General background
The sole issue on the appeal heard by the Supreme Court was whether the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle), whose members had been employed by the school management bodies to teach at and run the school, should be jointly vicariously liable for the abuse.
The employer was a lay Catholic teaching order whose brother members were assigned by it to teach at various schools (jointly vicariously liable with the school management body) for acts of physical and sexual abuse committed by the brothers while employed by the school management body at a residential school.
Further, that they alone, as the bodies which had been successively responsible for managing the school and employing teachers during the relevant period, were vicariously liable for acts of physical and sexual abuse of boys alleged to taken place over a period of 35 years at St William's School in Market Weighton.
Citation: [2012] UKSC 56; [2012] WLR (D) 335
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society and others
Linked cases: [2010] EWCA Civ 1106
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This is supposed to be about me. Well, to know a little about me, you only need to know a little bit.
My name is Eric Peterson. I am a Master in Social Work and received both my BSW, and MSW at Aurora University in Aurora, IL, with a few years also spent at Calvin College. I grew up in the same house in Naperville, Illinois until I was 16, and then moved to a different part of Naperville for 4 years until I moved to Montgomery, Illinois where I lived for 4 years. I then moved to New Zealand, where I practiced Social Work full time for 3 years in the youth correctional system. I have now moved back home stateside living in Colorado for the foreseeable future.
I love the outdoors (i.e. climbing, camping, hiking), I love doing crazy stuff and I'm a big movie buff. To know some more about myself, just ask, I'd be willing to answer.
As for this blog, I named it "Leaves in the Pages" many years ago after a very fortunate day when I was reading a book in Middle school. I was reading…well, I have forgotten what I was reading, but I remember that as I turned the page, there, pressed against the page, was a leaf. It was a giant, red, leaf that had been preserved in the book for God knows how long. I stopped, picked up the leaf, and immediately began thinking about who left the leaf here? When did they leave it here? What were they doing when they left the leaf here? Were they planning on coming back to this book eventually? Were they in a hurry and needed a quick bookmark, or was it a purposeful and beautiful moment preserved in the pages of story? I didn't know. What I did know was this: I was going to continue the story. I was going to write about the little things in life, the beautiful things, the important things. Stories that matter, stories that change perspective and engage learning and wonder. I was going to create a blog that exemplified all the innocent and perfect things that the leaf resembled for me so many years ago, and those stories would become…my Leaves in the Pages.