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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Report Says You can Cut Carbon Emissions and Create Jobs
Photo: Clean-energy technologies are creating jobs in North Carolina. Courtesy: www.energy.stanford.edu
August 12, 2013
DURHAM, N.C. - In less than three years, Durham-based Sustainable Industrial Solutions generated $2 million in revenue and more than doubled its workforce. Its success illustrates the findings of a report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) that found that clean-energy practices can create jobs in North Carolina - an additional 9,900 jobs by 2020.
The company's CEO, Jason Massey, said the report underscores what he sees on a daily basis.
"I just see it on the ground. I'll typically get an email almost once a day, requesting job foremen or directors of business development," Massey said.
Another finding of the report is that through increasing energy efficiency efforts, customers will also see a monthly savings on their energy bills - on average a little less than $3 a month - by 2020. Critics of advancing clean-energy policies say it will lead to higher energy bills and lost jobs, two factors the NRDC report contradicts.
Nationwide, the NRDC found that more than 200,000 jobs will be generated by cutting carbon pollution. Currently the EPA is proposing steps under the Clean Air Act to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. Dan Lashof, director of the NRDC Climate and Clean Air Program, said North Carolina has more potential than most states.
"In North Carolina we find one of the states that really does well under the carbon pollution standard proposal," Lashof said.
Jobs in the manufacturing of clean-energy technologies, such as solar and wind, should expect growth, Lashof added, as well as those related to increasing energy efficiency. He said clean energy is a "win-win."
"Contrary to the claims of critics, reducing carbon pollution from power plants is not only the right thing to do, it's good for our health and good for jobs," he added.
According to the NRDC, power plants are the country's biggest source of carbon pollution, emitting about 2.4 billion tons of CO2 each year and accounting for nearly 40 percent of the nation's total carbon emissions.
The NRDC report is available at www.nrdc.org.
Stephanie Carroll Carson, Public News Service - NC
Source: http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/33932-1
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Agents: 44 gunned down in Nigeria mosque
In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, Nigeria Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday Aug. 12, 2013. The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, Nigeria Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday Aug. 12, 2013. The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, Nigerian Muslims walk past an uncompleted mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday Aug. 12, 2013. The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, a Nigerian soldier stand guards during Eid al-Fitr prayers in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday Aug. 12, 2013. The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, Nigerian Muslims walk past an uncompleted mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday Aug. 12, 2013. The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) ? Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday.
Sunday's attacks were the latest in a slew of violence blamed on religious extremists in this West African oil producer, where the radical Boko Haram group, which wants to oust the government and impose Islamic law, poses the greatest security threat in years.
It was not immediately clear why the Islamic Boko Haram would have killed worshipping Muslims, but the group has in the past attacked mosques whose clerics have spoken out against religious extremism. Boko Haram also has attacked Christians outside churches and teachers and schoolchildren, as well as government and military targets.
Since 2010, the militants have been blamed for the killings of more than 1,700 people, according to a count conducted by The Associated Press.
The news about Sunday's violence in Borno state, one of three in the northeast under a military state of emergency, came as journalists received a video featuring Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who gloats over recent attacks, threatens more, and even says his group is now strong enough to go after the United States.
The mosque slayings occurred Sunday morning in Konduga town, 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state.
A state security service agent and Usman Musa, a member of a civilian militia that works with the military, said Monday they counted the bodies at the mosque after the attack. Musa said four members of his group ? known as the Civilian Joint Task Force ?also were killed when they reached Konduga and encountered "fierce resistance from heavily armed terrorists."
Musa and the security service agent said the attackers wore military camouflage uniforms used by the Nigerian army, which they may have acquired in one of their attacks on military bases.
On their way back from Konduga, the security forces came upon the scene of another attack at Ngom village, 5 kilometers (3 miles) outside Maiduguri, where Musa said he counted 12 bodies of civilians.
Twenty-six worshippers at the mosque were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, said a security guard at the emergency ward of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. He and the state security agent both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to give information to reporters.
Nigeria declared a state of emergency in much of the northeast on May 14 to fight the onslaught after Boko Haram fighters took over several northeastern towns and villages in this nation of more than 160 million people, which is divided almost equally between the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south.
In the video received by journalists Monday, Shekau brushes off any gains asserted by the security forces.
"You soldiers have claimed that you are powerful, that we have been defeated, that we are mad people," Shekau says, speaking in the local Hausa language. "But how can a mad man successfully coordinate recent attacks in Gamboru, in Malam Fatori, slaughter people in Biu, kill in Gwoza and in Bama, where soldiers fled under our heavy fire power?
"We have killed countless soldiers and we are going to kill more."
He further insists the extremists' "strength and firepower has surpassed that of Nigeria. ... We can now comfortably confront the United States of America."
Shekau also said Nigeria's military is "lying to the world" about its casualties. "They lied that they have killed our members, but we are the ones that have killed the soldiers."
He apparently was referring to Aug. 4 attacks on a military base at Malam Fatori and a police outpost in Bama, both near the border with Cameroon. Joint Task Force spokesman Lt. Col. Sagir Musa told reporters 32 extremists, two soldiers and one police officer were killed. But when the Borno state governor called on the head of the task force to commiserate, Maj. Gen. Jah Ewansiah told him in front of reporters that they lost 12 soldiers and seven policemen. Nigeria's military regularly lowballs casualty figures of civilians and military.
Under orders from the military, cellphone and Internet service has been cut in Borno, making communications difficult. The military says the extremists were using cellphones to coordinate attacks. But some government officials argue that the lack of communication prevents civilians from informing them of suspicious movements and getting help when they are attacked.
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Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE: Driver clocked at 148 mph was 'airing out' his 2001 Ford Mustang
Remind me not to use this particular excuse:
Can't you just imagine the judge at the hearing?
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KARE11) - It's a number that grabs attention immediately.Seriously... 148 miles per hour.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says a man from Darwin was the champ when it came to citations during a recent statewide crackdown on speeders. Richard Bernhagen, age 41, was ticketed for doing 148 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone on a road just outside Hutchinson.State Patrol spokesman Lt. Eric Roeske says a trooper stopped Bernhagen's 2001 Mustang GT on Tagas Avenue just before 2 p.m. July 17. The trooper says Bernhagen stated "I haven't driven it in a while and was airing it out, I was wrong."
Roeske says the driver admitted to doing 135 mph...
Can't you just imagine the judge at the hearing?
"Son, you were going about a hunnert miles an hour... over the speed limit!"
Hat tips: Jalopnik and BadBlue Car News.
Source: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/08/sounds-plausible-driver-clocked-at-148.html
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Twin baby girls rescued as China maternity hospital trafficking probe continues
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Twin baby girls are the latest to be rescued from a Chinese trafficking ring
- The children were allegedly taken and sold by a maternity doctor
- A baby boy allegedly taken by the doctor was recovered Sunday
- Authorities are investigating scores of other cases
(CNN) -- Police in China have rescued twin baby girls allegedly sold by a maternity doctor, bringing the number of infants recovered from the suspected trafficking ring to three, state media reported.
They are to return them to their parents Saturday.
The provincial government in Shaanxi, northwest China, announced the twin's rescue Thursday, the state-run China Daily reported. The parents, mother Wang Yanyan and father Qi Kunfeng, of Dongcheng village, Fuping County, were scheduled to reunite with their children Saturday.
Police had earlier recovered a baby boy allegedly sold by the same obstetrician to traffickers, and reunited him with his parents Monday.
Chinese newborn, allegedly sold by doctor, is returned to parents
The doctor allegedly at the center of the scandal is Zhang Shuxia, deputy director of the maternity department of the Fuping County Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, reported state-run CCTV.
Since news of the scandal broke, police have received reports of 55 similar cases from local residents, including 26 cases pointing to Zhang, China Daily reported. Police launched investigations into five of the reported cases, and Zhang was detained on suspicion of human trafficking.
The parents of the allegedly trafficked twins told CNN that after Wang gave birth at the hospital on May 29, Zhang convinced them to give up the children, telling them that the girls had serious health issues.
"The doctor was pretending to be very anxious, telling me that my babies have congenital problems. She said the twins would be brain damaged or paralyzed," Wang said.
The couple never saw their children after the birth, they said.
"I insisted on seeing the babies, but she wouldn't let me," said Wang. They trusted Zhang. "I never suspected that she was selling my babies, because she was a family friend," she said.
The twins' father, Qi, told CNN that the loss of the children had a profound impact on the couple.
"Every night for two months my wife would cry, and she couldn't eat from worry."
Of Zhang, his former friend, he said: "I think she is evil. She is a terrible person."
"We trusted her so much. How could she be so cruel to sell our babies?"
First baby returned
Authorities returned the first rescued baby Monday to his parents, who were overcome by emotion. Its identity was confirmed through DNA testing. As family members wept, the parents knelt to thank police for recovering their son, the state-run China Daily reported.
Fuping County authorities said Zhang sold the baby boy for 21,600 yuan ($3,527) on July 17, the day after he was born. The baby was then sold two more times in ten days' time.
Police said Zhang told the child's parents, Dong Shanshan and Lai Guofeng, that their son had contracted syphilis through the mother, and convinced them to surrender the boy into her care, reported the state-run People's Daily.
But the mother subsequently tested negative for syphilis and grew suspicious. She went to the police. The infant was found Sunday in a good condition in a town in neighboring Henan Province.
Most of the affected families hailed from the same village as Zhang and her mother, CCTV reported.
Zhang made false claims that the children had serious ailments, from heart problems and cerebral palsy to missing genitals, to convince parents to part with their babies.
Officials sacked
Another couple from the area told CCTV Zhang had convinced them to give up their baby son at the hospital in 2008, after telling them shortly after the birth that the infant had stopped breathing.
"The whole delivery was around 10 minutes, natural birth. And then she came out and told me that the baby wasn't breathing," recalled Dong Pengfei, the father. "I was overwhelmed by that time, and I didn't have second thoughts. But after that I've been thinking why she would refer to it as a 'kid' if it wasn't breathing."
"I couldn't stop crying ever since I gave birth to my boy," his wife told CCTV. "I feel like crying when I see kids from other families."
Two government officials and three hospital officials have sacked over the scandal, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. China's state health commission has called for severe punishment for those involved.
A CNN crew was tailed by officials and told to stay away from local residents while reporting the story.
Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_mostpopular/~3/GS6mD5j-BGQ/index.html
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
'Bitcoin is a currency': Federal judge says the virtual cash is real money
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Physical Bitcoins created by Casascius, a bitcoin enthusiast based in Utah. Each has a unique code that can be used to retrieve a number of Bitcoins online.
Is the "online crypto-currency" Bitcoin money like dollars or is it no more the business of government regulators than virtual gold pieces in an online game? A federal judge may have ended the controversy with an opinion issued in a Bitcoin-related fraud case ? and the verdict is: It's money.
The defendant, Texan Trendon Shavers, is accused by the SEC of committing fraud in the form of a Bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme worth millions of dollars in today's Bitcoin market. But Shavers challenged the authority of the U.S. District Court where he was being tried, on the grounds that Bitcoins do not actually meet the definition of money, and therefore could not be the basis for a fraud charge.
In response, Magistrate Judge Amos Maazant of the Eastern District of Texas federal court examined the evidence and concluded otherwise. He explains his sources and reasoning in a remarkably concise and readable memorandum (PDF). Here are the most important bits:
Shavers argues that the BTCST investments are not securities because Bitcoin is not money, and is not part of anything regulated by the United States. Shavers also contends that his transactions were all Bitcoin transactions and that no money ever exchanged hands. The SEC argues that the BTCST investments are both investment contracts and notes, and, thus, are securities.?
It is clear that Bitcoin can be used as money. It can be used to purchase goods or services, and as Shavers stated, used to pay for individual living expenses. The only limitation of Bitcoin is that it is limited to those places that accept it as currency. However, it can also be exchanged for conventional currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, Euro, Yen, and Yuan. Therefore, Bitcoin is a currency or form of money, and investors wishing to invest in BTCST provided an investment of money.
The way Judge Maazant characterizes Bitcoin, notably, is not akin to a dollar or ruble, but rather like a precious metal or some other valuable resource. Jon Matonis, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, an advocacy organization, suggests this is an important and logical step.
"The ruling is interesting," he wrote in an email to NBC News, "because it highlights the fact that Bitcoin is becoming recognized as commodity money in the same way that gold and silver are recognized as money."
This may lead to it being recognized more widely ? Matonis speculates that it could even get a nod from the International Standards Organization under ISO 4217, a classification for "non-national" commodities that don't need to be issued or backed by any government.
Indeed, Bitcoin seems to be traveling on the road towards legitimacy, though that legitimacy may bring as many challenges as it does benefits, as recent struggles by Bitcoin exchanges and businesses show.
Shavers' day in court is not over yet, so this opinion may yet be nullified ? or overturned in an appeal or new case. This legal determination may seem a mere nicety considering Bitcoin's already-significant user base, but if it is to be adopted as a real international online currency, such measures are necessary and desirable.
??via Ars Technica
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
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Friday, August 9, 2013
Economy Chinese Shackle - 7/16" - 649IMP
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gdgt's best deals for August 7: Best Buy gift cards with Xbox 360, Wii ...
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Today's hottest deals both come from Best Buy, which is offering big-ticket gift cards to those who purchase the latest Xbox 360 iteration or a Wii U. There's also an appealing offer out there for those who crave DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket Max app. Join gdgt and add the gadgets you're shopping for to your "Want" list. Every time there's a price cut, you'll get an email alert!
Price: $299.99. Free shipping.
Buy: Best Buy
Microsoft's latest refresh of its 2005 console has hit shelves, and Best Buy is helping it hop off those shelves with a gift card worth enough to cover a fresh new game. Naysayers may warn against buying a console that's soon to be outmoded by the Xbox One in November, but bear in mind that you'll need a current-gen console to play the ballyhooed Grand Theft Auto V, which comes out September 17. Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 lack backwards compatibility, and GTA V is only coming out on current systems.
Price: $349.99. Free shipping.
Buy: Best Buy
Those skittish about buying an Xbox 360 in the wake of its coming replacement can go a little more future-proof with Nintendo's 2012 console. The drawback of the Wii U, though, is that the software lineup is distressingly thin, and third parties aren't doing much to thicken it up. At least the long-awaited Pikmin 3 is out now, and reinforcements are on the way. Most Wii U games (but not Pikmin 3) are $50 or less, so the gift card should help you kickstart your library. It's also worth noting that the console comes with Nintendo Land.
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Buy: Microsoft Store
After cutting the price of its Surface RT tabs last month, Microsoft has given its high-end Windows 8 models a similar goosing. As the product's gdgt Score of 75 indicates, reviews were generally positive but somewhat mixed. Tech writers praised the Pro's 1080p touch screen and ability to handle the sizable slate of Windows apps, functioning well as a laptop with the purchase of its keyboard cover. They questioned its value proposition, but those concerns should be mitigated by the price cut.
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Buy: Newegg
It's tough to find an 802.11ac wireless router at this price. D-Link's oddly-shaped AC1200, which we likened to a Thermos container, has drawn strong reviews from the discerning Newegg crowd, earning an average of 4 stars (out of 5). The router offers blazing speeds, cloud management software and compatibility with older devices.
Madden NFL 25 Anniversary Edition with NFL Sunday Ticket Max (Xbox 360, PS3)
Price: $99.99 preorder (NFL Sunday Ticket Max value is $300). Free shipping/Prime. Game releases Aug. 27.
Buy: Amazon
If you're ravenous enough a football fan to cough up $300 for a subscription to DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket Max service, which lets non-DirecTV customers watch Sunday afternoon games on computers or mobile devices, this is a no-brainer buy. Even if the game means nothing to you, the voucher will save you $200 on Sunday Ticket Max. The code is only in the Amazon-exclusive Anniversary Edition, which also includes Madden Ultimate Team DLC.
Bond 50 (Blu-ray)
Price: $109.99 (Regularly $245). Free shipping/Prime.
Buy: Amazon
This set rounds up the first 22 mainline movies in the 007 franchise, which go from Dr. No (1962) to Quantum of Solace (2008). Just about every Bond movie is here. But missing are the 1967 Casino Royale spoof, Never Say Never Again (1987), and Skyfall (2012). HD disc versions of 22 generally awesome spy flicks at $5 a pop is a sweet deal, although it would have been easier to recommend the set had it included digital copy vouchers for the films.
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