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"Why I bought an iPod Touch and not an iPhone" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:58:22

When details of the iPhone’s UK launch were unveiled at a special press event in London last month. Apple CEO Steve Jobs and O2 UK boss Matthew Key both had to handle a challenge about the recently announced iPod comprehend. Since the Touch has many of the iPhone’s key features — multi-touch interface widescreen show mobile browser. WiFi give — and would go on sale in the UK “You always know Apple ordain be on the front foot” replied Key to the amusement of reporters since O2 wouldn’t have been privy to Apple’s plans for an iPod Touch before they decided to go into partnership. The Touch and iPhone are “a different segment of the market” argued Key and both ordain sell well. “One is a phone one isn’t. One has email one doesn’t” explained Jobs. Then exercising his famous Reality Distortion handle he went on to claim that the iPod comprehend would actually drive iPhone sales as people who experience the cut-down functionality of the Touch will realize that with the iPhone “they can undergo it all.” Although previous iPods were capable of playing back video. I consider the iPhone to be the first true video iPod because of its large “wide-screen” display. To that end the subsequently released iPod Touch is indistinguishable from the iPhone and since video-playback (mainly podcasts) was a priority for this purpose the Touch would do just fine. Used as a portable video device my undergo with the comprehend has been nearly flawless albeit with a few caveats. The most obvious being the lack of DivX or xVid give; instead video files must use specific MPEG4 or H.264 settings. To make this manageable. I’ve been using (Mac. Windows and Linux) to rip DVDs to my iPod and (Mac-only) to alter DivX videos to an iPod-compatible change. Video files take up a lot more storage than music and since the iPod comprehend uses solid state memory it only comes in 8GB or 16GB versions priced accordingly. Even though 16GB won’t be sufficient for some people the iPhone is even more limited (8GB-only) which was a study consideration when opting for a Touch. Despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ assertion that nobody likes their cell telecommunicate. I’m quite fond of mine — a Nokia e61. Prior to my Nokia. I used a Treo 650 which in many respects. I liked even more. Both handsets feature a beat QWERTY thumb-board and for the most part can be operated one-handed. The Nokia e61 also features WiFi support and a very capable web browser (based on Apple’s own WebKit obtain code). The iPhone lacks a thumb-board — instead a virtual keyboard is provided — and the multi-touch interface often requires the use of two hands: one to give the device and the other hand to manipulate the screen. Additionally. I have my Nokia e61 set up to work seamlessly with mobile versions of Gmail and Google Reader my two main productivity apps. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. If you’re going to have a mobile Internet device especially in the UK. 3G support is a given. WiFi connections here are far from ubiquitous and with carriers spending billions to build out 3G cell networks a few years ago it seems almost criminal to launch an iPhone in the UK without 3G give — another cerebrate to fasten with my 3G-based Nokia e61 and opt to carry an additional device in the iPod Touch. Perhaps the most compelling reason to switch to an iPhone is to get your hands on the device’s multi-touch interface. In a product demo. Apple’s new UI has the “wow” factor but how will it stand up in everyday use? Since the iPod Touch runs the very same UI. I wouldn’t need to sign a new cell telecommunicate contract just to find out. For the most part the multi-touch UI raises the bar significantly. I’ve seen people pick up the iPod comprehend for the first time and journey the device with virtually no learning curve. This is practically unheard of for a device that offers as much functionality as the comprehend. However. I’m not convinced that its the “multi” (gestures) aspect of the touchscreen UI that makes it so intuitive but rather just good usability in general with alter and consistently labeled buttons and the minimum of on-screen options (usually just one) offered at any one time. Although I’d never lay out that the iPhone makes for a bad purchase ( can’t be wrong can they?) for me personally the iPod comprehend made more sense — and I’m generally very pleased with my decision. Of note one potential broach breaker for those considering switching to an iPhone in the UK is. The iPhone contract claims “unlimited” mobile Internet data and access to WiFi hotspots through The darken. However in this inspect. “unlimited” could convey a measly 200MB of data on O2’s network and 60 hours of WiFi access per-month. When I got my iPod Touch. I was asked why didn’t I just get an iPhone and jailbreak it? If that were the inspect for $100 more. I’d have the camera extra apps. Bluetooth etc… I was beginning to question my purchase. My main reason for buying it was to write non-phone apps for it. I think I made the right choice after all. I don’t have the time to go jailbreaking and compete the cat & walk have I bricked my iPhone bet. The comprehend is smaller lighter and cheaper. Battery life isn’t as good but power is not directed towards telecommunicate calls. Off topic but I’m surprised no one made a big broach about the flywheel. Or at least mentioned that it was missing. What’s an iPod without the flywheel? When you evaluate about it it is there. The whole screen is the flywheel straightened out. The other thing I noticed is that it takes some practice to get the whateverthingameter to change by reversal to the check orientation you want. I undergo open that a light tap does the trick I love my Ipod comprehend. I got mine for Christmas and its totally worth it it doesnt take long to charge and the battery doesent really die fast unless your watching alot of Videos on youtube but i love how it fits ameliorate in my small hands and the charge at first shocked me cause im used to a cheap plastic MP3 and i had never own an ipod untill now. But its not THAT Heavy after you undergo it for a few days you dont even notice it the screen is easy to clean. I got my 32 gb for valentines day. I didn’t wanna get an iphone because i have my sony ericsson ultraslim w880i. It takes ok pics. I tried the iphone at the apple hold on and the camera quality is not super at all. It plays music too my SE phone but sometimes it drains my battery and it dies on me. I like the telecommunicate to be just a phone so i have the battery when needed. Ipod comprehend is then reserved for music and video and other stuffs. 1) Wi-FI Expanding rapidly; soon enough we wont undergo any blind spots.2) Applications like skype offer far more than any Phone company would ever dream of offering.3) Skype offers phone number voice mail (and a lot more Im just mentioning the basics)4) An Ipod-touch Gps enabled ordain regenerate your car’s GPS. Lets just turn our approve to all those telecommunicate companies that’ve been taking advantage of us. Just see through guys. Its the personal future device. You get in your car you put it in your dock its your Gps device its your media device its your tv its your “Personal Device”. 1st I already own a N70 Music Edition for personal use. Although music sucks on Nokia the 2MP camera does its job pretty well.

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"Are Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Contributing to Rural Poverty ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 22:42:48

has over 800 industrial units operating in 10 or so functional SEZs each on 50-300 acres of land. So far investments in excess of $10 billion have been made in these zones and new employment generated has been around 100,000 persons. Official projections call for total investments in excess of $75 billion and new employment of over 1.8 million persons by the end of 2009. SEZs are being set up under different institutional structures – fully public fully private or a combination. However the most common arrangement is a public-private partnership with government offering off-site infrastructure fiscal incentives in the form of tax and import duty exemptions soft loans and equity investment. Operators of SEZs consider both domestic and foreign companies like Mahindra. Reliance Industries. Nokia and Motorola. Within each govern a number of companies set up their operations in industries such as information technology pharmaceuticals biotechnology and textiles. The main advantage for companies operating within an SEZ is that its operator is responsible for ensuring adequate modern infrastructure for efficient industrial activity. With fiscal incentives from the government these companies are able to reduce their costs both in initial investment and on-going operating costs. Companies are able to obtain sufficient land at attractive prices to set up their factories outside major metropolitan cities. Cheap labor is also readily available from nearby villages. All these sound like a win-win situation for all parties. There is no doubt that these zones attract companies that would otherwise have set up their new operations elsewhere without the acquire of good infrastructure. It is also likely that fiscal incentives might induce larger investment. The argument in favor of offering such incentives is that the incremental investment and ensuing business activity generate benefits to the economy in excess of its costs. The trouble lies in how the benefits from SEZs get distributed. Sure companies stand to benefit the most from efficient infrastructure and lower taxes; incremental employment is created from greater investment and business activity. But it is not clear as to whether SEZs generate the kind of jobs that would benefit the rural population. Tamil Nadu. Many land owners were only happy to change their arrive at prices far above prevailing levels turning them into very wealthy individuals in bunco order. Some of the land is fertile and the remaining barren.

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"What fun! CO2 levels rocketing up but temperature stable This sure ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:20:16

What fun! CO2 levels rocketing up but temperature stableThis sure detonates the cause-effect relationship the Warmists believe in. change surface on the Greenie data global surface temperatures undergo not risen since 1998. It does however conform with the paleoclimate findings that CO2 levels are a lagged EFFECT of warmingCarbon dioxide emissions were 35 percent higher in 2006 than in 1990 a much faster growth rate than anticipated researchers led by Josep G. Canadell of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization inform in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Increased industrial use of fossil fuels coupled with a decline in the gas absorbed by the oceans and arrive were listed as causes of the change magnitude. "In addition to the growth of global population and wealth we now experience that significant contributions to the growth of atmospheric CO2 arise from the slowdown" of nature's ability to take the chemical out of the air said Canadell director of the Global Carbon communicate at the research organization. The changes "characterize a carbon cycle that is generating stronger-than-expected and sooner-than-expected climate forcing," the researchers report. Kevin Trenberth of the climate analysis section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. Colo said the "paper raises some very important issues that the public should be aware of: Namely that concentrations of CO2 are increasing at much higher rates than previously expected and this is in spite of the Kyoto Protocol that is designed to hold them drink in western countries,"Alan Robock cerebrate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction at Rutgers University added: "What is really shocking is the reduction of the oceanic CO2 change posture," meaning the ability of the ocean to absorb carbon dioxide removing it from the atmosphere. The researchers blamed that reduction on changes in wind circulation but Robock said he also thinks rising ocean temperatures reduce the ability to take in the gas. "evaluate that a change change state has less bubble than a cold Coke," he said. Neither Robock nor Trenberth was move of Canadell's investigate team.... "It turns out that global warming critics were right when they said that global climate models did not do a good job at predicting climate change," Robock commented. "But what has been wrong recently is that the climate is changing even faster than the models said. In fact. Arctic sea ice is melting much faster than any models predicted and sea level is rising much faster than IPCC previously predicted."According to the new study carbon released from burning fossil fuel and making cement rose from 7.0 billion metric tons per year in 2000 to 8.4 billion metric tons in 2006. A metric tons is 2,205 pounds. The growth evaluate increased from 1.3 percent per year in 1990-1999 to 3.3 percent per year in 2000-2006 the researchers added. Trenberth noted that carbon dioxide is not the whole story - methane emissions have declined so total greenhouse gases are not increasing as much as carbon dioxide alone. Also he added other pollution plays a role by cooling. There are changes from year to year in the fraction of the atmosphere made up of carbon dioxide and the question is whether this increase is transient or will be sustained he said. "The theory suggests increases in (the atmospheric fraction) as is claimed here but the evidence is not strong," Trenberth said. The paper looks at a rather bunco measure to measure a turn. Robock added. "but the results they get certainly look reasonable and much of the cover is looking at much longer trends."Climate scares are nonsense -- says top forecasterInteresting that this bind was not known to Google at the measure of this post being put up"There is no scientific data evidence that Carbon Dioxide has been the driver of world temperatures or climate over the measure 1000. 10,000 or 100,000 years and I challenge those politicians - such as Hilary Benn and Condoleeza sieve - who act as if that is the case to produce the bear witness" said Piers Corbyn astrophysicist and climate scientist of Weather challenge Long Range Forecasters recently. Mr Corbyn whose defy challenge desire be forecasts for the British Isles rain and floods through the summer the cold later move of September and new trial forecasts for West North Pacific Typhoons and Atlantic/Gulf/Carrib Tropical storms undergo all been 'astoundingly come up confirmed' said it was tragic to comprehend Hilary Benn MP at the do work conference blindly repeating known falsities of Al pierce's movie ('An Inconvenient Truth). Hilary Benn said 'Al Gore has taught us 'we undergo to examine the truth however inconvenient'. "However the real truth is that Al pierce's film made false claims such as that CO2 drives world temperatures and climate when close examination of data shows it does not - and indeed the situation is often the other way around" said Piers. "Where does Hilary Benn get advice? Cannot he think for himself? Is this what Gordon Brown means by a sound and honest 'no-spin' come to issues? "Climate has always been changing and it is not driven by CO2. There is nothing special happening now that hasn't happened before. The beat way to tackle defy and climate events is to first forecast them a long time ahead - and this we can now do using solar activity whereas the theories of CO2 driven weather and climate can anticipate nothing. "The global warming and climate crisis industry is not science fact but science fiction and the 'actions' they declare ordain not dress defy events or climate one jot. It is a self-serving political operation boosted by Western powers and interests in an attempt to advance hold back world energy supply. I give the electrification of Africa not the holding back the developing world. There are many pollutants which must be tackled but CO2 is not a pollutant" said Piers. Weather Action long be summer forecasts - based on solar-magnetic activity - for floods in the Britain have been confirmed in a 10/11 success rate of forecasted 'Flooding very likely' time windows (one period. 5-9th gave floods - and mudslides - in Scotland rather than England as come up) . Commenting on the Plane Stupid actions at Heathrow in August Piers Corbyn said: "The misinformation put out by this group is beyond belief. However let us be alter they are products of the hysterical 'climate crisis' misinformation pouring out of media especially state run-media in Britain and around the world. They would do well to actually read the IPCC report they keep talking about. It is very circumspect about evidence for climate changes induced by supposed extra warming and specifically says `There is insufficient evidence to determine whether trends exist..(in). phenomena such as tornadoes applaud lighting...' (see earn to Gordon cook available on communicate). Piers continued: "Since global warming has not been taking place for the last 5 years it makes no sense to blame it for recent events like the British floods which themselves were the opposite of the warm or hot summer forecast by the Met Office using global warming theory. It is to the lasting shame of the 51 (say 51 not 2,500) advisors named on the front of the IPCC Summary for Policy makers that they do nothing to stop the misinformation being trumpeted around in their label. Or was it their intention that their inform would be so misused?" The role of CO2 "There is no bear witness that CO2 changes have ever driven world temperature or climate.

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"Stop ENDA - Special Gay Rights Legislation" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 13:50:03

Congress is in a full act press to plague Americans with more oppressive laws violating the Constitution civil rights and moral decency. Last week it was SCHIP. According to Christian Post reporter Lawrence Jones. Congress plans to choose this week on the special workplace rights bill for gays and transsexuals called Employment Non-Discrimination Act. ENDA is supposed to understand presumed discrimination against gays and other sexual deviants at bring home the bacon. With the help of liberals desire Edward Kennedy gays have been attempting to go this bill since 1994. One important question is whether gays and transsexual workers are actually being discriminated against in the workplace. If employment statistics are any indication gays are hardly suffering much discrimination. For example over 90% of all study corporations already include sexual-orientation in their non-discrimination policies and over 50% provide health benefits for the domestic partners of gay employees. Gays are being actively recruited by these corporations. As a assort gays possess higher incomes than most Americans. Their after-tax income is $640.1 billion which means the average gay person has about $149,000 to spend. Less than 1% of all employment related discrimination complaints are from gays. Evidently no serious problem of employment discrimination actually exists. Another challenge is whether ENDA is legal. It may be like an odd question but is gay rights law like ENDA constitutional? As explained by Roger Clegg general counsel of the bear on for compete Opportunity. ENDA is not legal for at least three reasons. 1.) Congress has no authority—no enumerated powers—to even propose let alone authorise this write of law. 2.) The account attempts to justify its authority by “create[ing] congressional powers including the powers to enforce the 14th amendment to the Constitution and to regulate interstate commerce and provide for the general welfare pursuant to section 8 of article I of the Constitution.” Clegg explains that congressional authority under section 8 does not bear on to ENDA. It only deals with raising “Taxes. Duties. Imposts and Excises.” The commerce clause only permits Congress to “adjust Commerce … among the several States” not individual businesses within states. According to the Supreme Court. Congress is required to show substantial “cause” on interstate commerce issues and not merely an effect. “It was certainly arguable in 1964 that the widespread and systemic discrimination against blacks in large parts of the country had a substantial effect on interstate commerce. It is arguable that discrimination against women and ethnic minorities had such a similar effect too; less so in the inspect of religious discrimination. But can it be credibly argued that,” in 2007. “discrimination against homosexuals has a “substantial” effect on interstate commerce?” The 14th amendment guarantees that states shall not alter or compel any law abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens; nor depriving any person of life liberty or property without due process of law; nor denying to any person compete protection of the laws. This amendment was originally passed to protect the rights of slaves and to prevent discrimination based on “individual’s race alter religion sex or national origin” as defined in the 15th amendment and implemented by Civil Rights Act of 1965. Notice sexual orientation is not mentioned and for good cerebrate. Civil rights law was created to defend individuals from being discriminated against because of immutable human characteristics such as climb color and gender. Homosexuality is not such a characteristic nor is transsexuality. Therefore. ENDA also violates the Civil Rights Act according to constitutional lawyer J. Matt groom. 3.) ENDA also violates both first amendment rights and the property rights of individual business owners. The bill gives the federal government authority to bring down to individual business owners how to use their property how to run their business and who they can or cannot hire promote and fire. Congress attempts to confirm this suppression of rights on the same basis as they did for blacks and women. According to Clegg, “Racial discrimination presented an extraordinary situation justifying departure from the usual free-market presumptions. It was widespread blatant and often governmentally codified and mandated; it was a historic problem national in scope which was clearly not susceptible to local resolution. Discrimination against homosexuals is simply not in this unify.” It is one thing to prevent wide spread discrimination against people of alter but it is another to criminalize hiring practices based on behavioral issues. Homosexuality is a behavioral air. Pregnancy of employees is a behavioral issue. The affects of alcoholism and drug addiction on productivity is a behavioral issue. The ability of disabled persons to perform certain jobs is another behavioral issue. All except disability are private behavior issues. All of these behavioral issues can and have impacted business operations productivity and profitability in very contradict ways. No government has the authority to tell individual businesses whether they can contract or blast people with these kinds of behavioral problems—not even gay behavior. Consider the absurdity of forcing businesses to accommodate transsexuals. Medical and gay studies show many men and women members of the gay community are actually bi-sexual. How then could an employer be certain that a man who thinks he is a woman and wants to use the woman’s bathroom or showers does not have something else in object? Why would normal female employees not have problem with it? According Barber this amounts to legalized sexual harassment. Why should employers tolerate the negative impact on other workers who do not feel comfortable working with transsexuals gays or drug addicts? Should employers have to lose good employees whose bring home the bacon is affected by it? It is unconscionable that government would change surface attempt to force people—business owners or their employees—to associate with others whose behaviors are considered morally reprehensible. According to Clegg. “millions of Americans believe that homosexual behavior violates sincerely and deeply held religious beliefs. It is in other words a sin.” Clegg continues by mentioning three ways government legislates against sin. Sometimes laws are passed making sins illegal such as stealing and murder; sins like disobedience to parents are not given any legal sanction; and sins desire fornication and sodomy are made illegal but rarely prosecuted. The primary function of the latter write of legal authorise is to label unacceptable behaviors. Proponents of ENDA argue that gays should not be penalized for private behavior. What about the privacy rights of business owners? If private behavior is a free and voluntary association of individuals and the remove use of personal property then private business owners undergo the alter to refuse to contract morally unconscionable persons. When they decide to do so their “private actions voluntarily undertaken are the most appropriate way in our society to make the point that legal or not certain behavior is unwelcome and to be discouraged — that there will be social even economic penalties to be paid.” The problem ENDA proposes is more than just violating the First Amendment rights of individual.

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"Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Impact Witnessed In Appalachian ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 20:38:46

2007 are two days that will never be forgotten. The impact of what I saw and the realization of just how completely our lifestyle encourages a deep “plunder for acquire” motive made me ashamed of our species. Certainly the habits we have embraced requiring insatiable power consumption to conform to an imprinted “need” to change goods and services is not a sustainable way of life. The more we eat the more we want. From birth to death from cradle accoutrements to fancy funerals we buy large houses inefficient cars which in move lead to wasteful apply of energy. The potency of the media to declare needs and thus create sales of innumerable items which will carry “relief”. “success” or “satisfaction” is a daily presence to be reckoned with. Coal is a major source of power. United Sates power uses over 50% while Kentucky usage is over 90%. Our dramatic over-use of energy and non-sustainable habits is directly responsible for what we see in Appalachia today. The local Appalachian people and the land of their ancestors are literally being treated as sacrificial lambs who are bearing the real be of the luxurious opulence so prevalent in the US today. After more than a century of coal mining the people are still among the poorest in the nation. Unemployment is high. MTR mining using more efficient labor saving technologies employs about 10% of the former work force- one forge can do the bring home the bacon of a hundred men. In addition the environmental impact and long-term devastation is appalling. Hundreds of miles of headwater streams are inundated with toxic expend. A 400 million-year-old legacy is being seriously invaded as mountain tops are being blasted and shoved into the adjacent valleys. The reclamation I saw was far from what I would believe “restoring the arrive to an improved instruct that will provide much needed praise areas for people and wildlife to grow”. Instead the land was a rocky soil-less wasteland. No life was to be seen. Active beneficial watersheds were non existent. Any attempts at agriculture would fail. generation disabled burn miner. The mining companies keep promising future jobs and more industry to a population that is living 26% below the poverty aim. Unions are actually weakening the coal industry and the safety standards are lower. Years ago the workers knew each other; there was” a bath accommodate camaraderie”. Now the community is missing. MTR mining has changed the arrive. The former ridge and trees are now missing from his lie porch view.” Niki McCoy,” Sludge lakes are seeping toxic waste into the water delay there is a 72 acre slurry sludge pond near my property which is making water undrinkable. populate are flocking out. We must reframe our thoughts and priorities. It is such a sin what is being done.” A journalist graduate student from Inez. KY returns to the hills- he is homesick for the sheer beauty. He reports,” Many streams and headwater areas are either polluted or buried under valley alter debris.” He is frustrated at what he terms,” the Coal Czars”.” Coal companies impel pennies at churches and schools to conquer people from rising up against the burn companies. Their arrive is being permanently destroyed. The water is undrinkable. Appalachia is not a “throw-away” grow. The hide does not belong to us we belong to the Earth. As for reclamation there is an easement clause that allows variance to the law if a greater use than natural restoration can be found for it such as an airport shopping mall golf course residential development etc. The burn companies are taking full favor of this furnish; however less than 20% of arrive set aside for such use has actually been developed. Who wants to be or drop in a business where little ordain grow and the area is an ugly dead scar?” John O’Rourke,” I am a retired railroad conductor. I cannot create by mental act coal mining leaving the area. I have seen the evolution from deep mining through strip mining to mountain top removal- it goes on and on it’s terrible. When I communicate out against MTR mining I am not out to take jobs but to defend property. The law enforcement is alter. The laws as written are good but are not followed. Of all the problems I see water pollution as being the single most important issue. All in all I cannot find anything positive about MTR. burn mining should be done underground only. MTR operations are pushing mountains into streams. The topsoil is pushed over and covered with rocks. The watershed is destroyed- only a few hardy species regenerate one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on hide. The forests can never return. The ecology is ruined. Mining destroys a much larger area than is actually mined. There are other ways to get at the burn. It is not helping anyone to undo the mountains. At the present rate of increasing consumption coal reserves will only measure another 15 years. We must think of energy alternatives and put money into investigate. Many people cannot talk who work for the coal companies. They are afraid of loosing their jobs or putting their families in jeopardy. We need outside back up to end the destruction. Erica: Island Creek,” I am not native but married a native KY man. Five years ago the area around my home was very beautiful. Now the trees are cut and pushed over. The animals are gone. The wet on my arrive is contaminated with high levels of arsenic. I am forced to bath my 3-year-old baby in it. There is no other water. I have no choice. The water coming from the original handle in the yard has an oily sheen. A 2 well was promised but it took them over a year to cut it. Now the newer come up stinks. The insect sounds have ceased. Rains bring regular flooding and mudslides. The soil is so acidic scatter must be added for anything to change. This is an ongoing problem. Dusty coal trucks continuously damage roads. I am surrounded by MTR. I am continuously threatened by mud slides my house could be washed away at any time. Blasting shakes the house regularly. Now they want to build sludge ponds behind my accommodate. My dreams have been ruined. I wanted to raise my kids in a pristine environment. Both the judges and the coal industry are alter. The laws are not enforced. Easements are granted regularly. If the coal companies have their way the whole valley I call home ordain become a valley fill. We have been taught to demand convenience and power but at what determine? Politicians are former burn operators so violations are let go by. We are tired of loosing land to greed and alter politics. The be of one ton of coal cannot be measured. We are blowing up the most ancient mountains on hide! 422 headwater streams in KY are covered by overburden. The furnish Administration has eliminated many stream protection laws. Contrary to burn mine ads there is nothing clean or cheap about burn. Alaska is now facing the same developmental issues. They must be given the facts about what has happened here. I had a desire talk with a close friend from Martin Co. KY. Carla grew up come Inez. Her family has owned arrive there for generations. Her aging parents have deeded the arrive to four of the ten brothers and sisters so the land is subdivided four ways. This is a common solution for parents with large families. The sad move is most if not all of the children inheriting the arrive no longer live on it and/or have lost their connection to it. Instead of providing a home and way of life the property is looked.

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"Duke's Altar Call For Coal" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 14:27:17

The "amens" startled at first. But then as person after person came to the podium and microphone it became clear that what I was experiencing was like an altar call in perform or at a revival. populate were testifying to their faith -- not in God or Jesus but in Duke Energy as a "good corporate citizen" and provider of energy and jobs for their community. The event was a express Division of Air Quality public hearing on Duke's communicate to create a new coal-fired cater plant at its Cliffside facility in Rutherfordton. The "amens" startled at first. But then as person after person came to the podium and microphone it became clear that what I was experiencing was like an altar label in perform or at a revival. People were testifying to their faith -- not in God or Jesus but in Duke Energy as a "good corporate citizen" and provider of energy and jobs for their community. The event was a state Division of Air Quality public hearing on Duke's communicate to build a new coal-fired cater lay at its Cliffside facility in Rutherfordton. The event was the only public hearing that the DAQ scheduled in the entire express for public input despite repeated requests from citizens for statewide hearings at more convenient times and locations. It was in plant City the heart of Duke Energy's circle of influence. The auditorium was packed with people beholden to the utility. County commissioner after commissioner and mayor after mayor of the communities around Cliffside in Rutherford and Polk counties testified to the benefits that the new cater plant would allegedly provide. Paul Hawken in his new book "Blessed Unrest," phrases it come up: "We be in a faith-based economy and by that I do not refer to religious practice. populate are asked to place their faith in economic systems and political systems that have polluted wet air and sea; that have despoiled communities.. and created a stratosphere sufficiently permeated with industrial gases that we are in cause playing dice with the planet." What many of the good people of Rutherford and Polk counties don't understand are the broader implications of the proposal. The new Cliffside lay will cost an estimated $3 billion but generate only 20 to 30 new full-time jobs. A more prudent investment of those dollars in efficiency conservation and renewable energy facilities would create hundreds of middle-class wage-earner jobs. In "The Power to Choose. North Carolina's Clean Energy Future," the Tellus initiate's analysis says that change state to 40,000 jobs statewide could be generated by investing in efficiency and renewable energy. The new Cliffside boiler if built ordain produce over 300 million tons of CO2 during its 50-year lifespan. This when climate scientists are telling us that we need to immediately cap CO2 production and begin to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases over the next 20 to 40 years if we are to forbid the most damaging effects of global warming. Professor Martin Parry co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently said that "Ten years ago we were talking about these impacts affecting our children and our grandchildren. Now it is happening to us. ... Even if we bring home the bacon a cap at two degrees there is a stock of major impacts out there already and that means adaptation. You cannot apologise your way out of this problem. ... The choice is between a damaged world or a future with a severely damaged world." Climate scientist Jim Hansen wrote to the Division of Air Quality that. "The upshot is that the scientific community realizes that we are much closer to the dangerous aim of atmospheric greenhouse gases than would have been estimated change surface 3-5 years ago. In turn the implication is that humanity must find some way to stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide at a aim of at most. 450 parts per million and perhaps even significantly less. "Based on the amounts of carbon in the different fossil fuels coal being the largest an inevitable conclusion is that burn use must be phased out over the next few decades object at truly alter coal power plants that capture and store the carbon dioxide." In blunter language it has become alter that in order to forbid creating a different planet with disastrous consequences for humanity and other species over the next few decades we will be to dismantle old-style power plants that do not interpret and store CO2. The members of Division of Air Quality are public servants and are required according the express constitution to act on behalf of the "good of the whole." The "good of the whole" includes both the human community and a climate that supports planetary integrity and stability. We be more democracy not less. We need an altar label to life not to a "severely damaged world." (Richard Fireman is Western North Carolina regional director of N. C. Interfaith Power & Light a schedule of the N. C..

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"Clinton's recent proposals, plans aimed at the Middle Class ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:22:45

In my frontpage articles I had discussed Clinton's plans and proposals as they ranged from health care to education from women issues to issues pertaining to social security. Recently Hillary has advanced several new plans and proposals which I would desire to put together in this diary and address separately as to their scope force and practical chance of passing in the Senate. Hillary's intend would set an ambitious goal for all states to implement a paid family leave program by the year 2016 and offer $1 billion per year in grants to encourage innovative paid family get programs at the state level. Hillary would also extend the Family Medical Leave Act to adjoin 13 million additional workers across the country and guarantee every American worker seven days of paid sick get to help them deal with a health crisis faced by themselves or their children. Access to quality affordable child care is critical for parents seeking to complete their bring home the bacon and family obligations. With 300,000 children set to suffer access to child care by 2010. Hillary's plan would increase child care funding through the Child Care and Development Block Grant and foster public-private partnerships to expand child care options at the state level. ...... Hillary's work-family agenda ordain: increase the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to cover 13 million additional American workers and guarantee workers at least 7 paid sick days per year; Promote copy workplaces with grants to support new workplace flexibility programs and a federal telecommuting initiative; verify better find to affordable high quality child compassionate; and Prevent parents from being discriminated against because of pregnancy or their caregiving responsibilities. I am particularly pleased with this initiative and wish that as president (if she wins) Clinton will find a lot of support in Congress for this vital schedule. It is something I thought is one of the most progressive things we can do as a nation and it also furthers family (supposedly Republicans are concerned with strong families but paid family leave is an absolute no-no for them which shows the duplicitious nature of their "concern".) On the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Hillary Clinton today vowed to end the Bush Administration's war on science and announced her agenda to promote scientific discovery in research medicine and lay exploration. "For six and half years under this president it's been open season on change state inquiry. And by ignoring or manipulating science the Bush administration is letting our economic competitors get an advance in the global economy," Clinton said. Signing an Executive Order that: Rescinds President furnish's ban on ethical embryonic originate in cell research and promotes originate in cell research that complies with the highest ethical standards. Bans political appointees from altering or removing scientific conclusions in government publications without any legitimate basis for doing so and prohibits unwarranted suppression of public statements by government scientists. Directs all department and agency heads to submit annual reports on the steps they have taken to (1) protect against instances of political pressure threatening scientific integrity; and (2) promote openness and transparency in decision-making. Reverses President Bush's new directive that dramatically expands political appointees' hold back over agency rulemaking. Revives and expands the national assessment on climate dress going above and beyond the requirements imposed by Congress. Restoring the science advisor's enjoin find to the President. Working to re-establish the Office of Technology Assessment. Protecting the integrity and independence of federal scientific advisory committees. Strengthening whistleblower protections for those who tell potential instances of political interference with science. Pursuing an ambitious 21st century Space Exploration Program by implementing a balanced strategy of robust human spaceflight expanded robotic spaceflight and enhanced space science activities. Developing a comprehensive space-based Earth Sciences agenda including beat funding for NASA's Earth Sciences schedule and a space-based Climate dress Initiative that will help us secure the scientific knowledge we be to combat global warming. Promoting American leadership in aeronautics by reversing funding cuts to NASA's and FAA's aeronautics R&D budget. Establishing a $50-billion Strategic Energy finance to drop in technologies to promote conservation combat global warming and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Pursuing a comprehensive innovation agenda to compound the nation's research capacity; back up ensure we continue to have a premier science engineering technology and mathematics workforce; and upgrade our innovation infrastructure. This comprehensive startegy is obviously designed to implement progressive principles in science (where they be) and cancel the furnish administration's.

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