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Shell hopeful on Arctic drilling despite setback
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ? The stars lined up ? almost ? for Shell Oil to drill exploratory wells this year in waters off Alaska's north coast.
The Arctic Ocean was on record pace for low sea ice. The Obama administration gave a qualified green light to drilling. Two drill ships and a flotilla of support vessels were staged off prospects.
But as the roughly four-month open water season wound down, Shell announced last week it would limit drilling to "top-hole" work, the shallow but time-consuming preparation for an offshore well. The final straw for the decision: damage during testing Sept. 15 to an undersea containment dome, part of a spill response system that Shell put in place to reassure federal regulators that Arctic offshore drilling could be done safely.
Environmentalists cheered the setback.
Shell Oil President Marvin Odum says he considers it a temporary impediment in the long-term quest to open a petroleum frontier.
"I think you can hear the enthusiasm in my voice, both for what's been accomplished this year and what we will do moving into 2013," he said after the decision.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has spent $4.5 billion on Arctic offshore drilling, moving ahead in fits and spurts to overcome delays from court challenges and the added scrutiny that followed BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
Odum said glitches were expected and the payoff from significant resources in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas will make the trouble worthwhile.
"If they prove up the way we hope they will, and the way the U.S. government thinks they may, then this will be very much worth all our time and effort," he said. "There is still great enthusiasm for that."
Shell officials have said they would wait for a report to be completed before releasing details of how the containment dome was damaged. Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith said by email the company had no details to report Friday.
At stake are Arctic offshore reserves that could relieve U.S. dependence on foreign oil. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 130 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
For the state of Alaska, which derives upward of 90 percent of its revenue from oil earnings, Arctic offshore oil could extend the usefulness of the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, which operates at less than one-third capacity.
Critics of Shell and the Obama administration that OK'd preliminary work are not swayed. The Chukchi and the Beaufort are hundreds of miles from the nearest Coast Guard station. Roadless northern Alaska has a tiny fraction of the airport and harbor infrastructure that supported the Gulf of Mexico cleanup. Critics retain the same objections they stated when Shell spent $2.1 billion for Chukchi leases in 2008.
"We have been concerned all along about the lack of oil spill response capacity in the Arctic, and in Shell's outfit in particular, and the fact that they were given permission to go ahead and drill even before their response barge was ready to be launched was just rather shocking," said Margaret Williams, managing director for World Wildlife Fund's Arctic program.
Mother Nature and Shell's own errors conspired to slow things down this summer, she said.
"It's ancient, dilapidated response barge is still being fixed and tested," she said. "It's been one problem after another. It's just something the public should be really concerned about."
Shell says a blowout is unlikely in the relatively shallow Arctic waters and that its support fleet of more than 20 vessels could stop a leaking well. The company would first try pouring drilling mud down the hole. Its second defense is a blowout preventer, a device that mechanically seals a well. The third is a capping stack, which could be lowered from a staged Shell vessel to provide a metal-to-metal seal on a malfunctioning blowout preventer. Such a capping stack was modeled after the one that stopped BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout in the gulf of Mexico, said Shell Alaska spokesman Smith.
The containment system, which includes the dome damaged Sept. 15 off Bellingham, Wash., is the fourth line of defense. The dome is 15 feet square, 17 feet tall and 65,000 pounds. In a spill, Shell would hover the dome over a compromised well and funnel escaping oil, natural gas and water to a surface vessel, according to the company.
Odum expects Shell to work through the dome setback and send the containment system north this year.
"It's important to remember that this is a first of its kind system," Odum said. "This did not exist before our decision to put this together for the Arctic program."
The work in 2012 will be significant, Smith said. Depending on weather over the next weeks, Shell's two rigs could drill multiple top holes, a step that accounts for about half the time it takes to drill a well to total depth, Smith said.
"All of the drilling we complete this year will position us nicely for 2013," he said.
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UK's Labour to impose "real" bank split if elected: Miliband
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Britain's Labour opposition leader launched an offensive against banks on Sunday ahead of his party's annual conference, promising a "real separation" of retail and investment banking and to raise the top rate of personal income tax.
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government has said it will implement the recommendations of an independent review by Oxford University economist John Vickers into how banks should be structured in the wake of the global credit crisis.
But critics, including Vickers, have lamented the watering down of some of the proposals - including the definition of the ring fence between retail and investment arms and the ratio of loans to capital that banks can hold on their books.
Britain's banks - including Barclays, RBS, Lloyds and HSBC - will have until 2019 to make the changes with the government committed to write the new rules into law by 2015.
Labour accuses the government of caving in to fierce lobbying by the financial sector.
"Either they can do it themselves - which frankly is not what has happened over the past year - or the next Labour government will, by law, break up retail and investment banks," Labour leader Ed Miliband said.
"The banks and the government can change direction and say that they are going to implement the spirit and principle of Vickers to the full - that means the hard ring-fence between retail and investment banking. We need real separation, real culture change. Or we will legislate."
Some in the Conservative-led government had been concerned that punishing the financial sector could damage the competitiveness of the City of London, a major global financial center, and potentially harm a crucial part of Britain's recession-hit economy.
Miliband's warning to the banks comes ahead of his party's annual conference in the northern English city of Manchester, where he is under pressure to explain to voters how it would govern if elected in 2015.
Miliband, who replaced former prime minister Gordon Brown as Labour leader after that defeat, has struggled to make a good impression on voters so far. While opinion polls show Labour would win an election tomorrow, his own personal approval ratings languish below those of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Seeking to capitalize on a perception of Cameron's government as too friendly to the wealthy in an era of austerity, Miliband said Labour would reverse a tax cut for the highest earners in this year's budget which saw the highest rate of income tax drop to 45 percent from 50 percent.
(Editing by Patrick Graham)
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Five ways to tax the 47 percent
Gleckman offers five suggestions for reducing the portion of Americans who do not pay federal income tax.
A 2011 1040 tax form along with other income tax forms are seen at the entrance of the Illinois Department of Revenue in Springfield, Ill., in this April 2012 file photo. Repealing the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit is one way Gleckman says the government can add more Americans to the tax rolls.
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EnlargeLet?s say you are truly offended that 47 percent of Americans?don?t pay income tax.?Just complaining won?t?fix the problem. All those freeloaders are still out there, dodging their responsibilities as red-blooded taxpaying Americans. So, let?s stop fooling around and do something about it.
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Here is my modest proposal. Five solutions to make sure everyone pays his or her fair share:
?1. Repeal tax credits,?such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit. These subsidies are the major reason?many low-income working families avoid the income tax. About one-third of those who don?t pay are families with kids. Because the credits go mostly to people who earn wages and phase out?slowly as income rises, they are a strong incentive to work.
This seems like a good idea. And it?s why refundable credits were once so popular with conservatives. In fact, they were the brainchild of iconic conservative economist Milton Friedman, who proposed a similar idea (called a negative income tax) 60 years ago.
Still, we could scrap the refundable credits and replace them with a direct cash payment to low-income working families. Of course, this would require a new bureaucracy to administer the program and force working people with kids to stand in a line somewhere to apply. Or, Congress could enact a big increase in the minimum wage. It won?t be easy, but we can make sure these freeloaders pay. Yet, there are still some people who would slip through our net.
2. Eliminate the standard deduction and personal exemption: This would capture another big chunk of non-payers. The only trouble is,?7 of every 10 households, or 107 million tax units, don?t itemize. Sadly for the anti-47 percent crowd, there are millions of people who take the standard deduction but still pay income taxes. For them, wiping it out would only raise their taxes. And it still leaves millions more of those?The?Wall Street Journal?once called ?lucky duckies? who don?t pay income tax.
3. Raise taxes on old people:?That brings us to the roughly one-quarter of those who don?t pay income taxes who are seniors. Those 65 and older get an extra standard deduction as well as a special tax credit. True, in 2009, one-third of those over 65 were living in or near poverty?and nearly 40 percent of elderly women were poor. And it is also true that, for many, their only source of income is their Social Security check, which is tax free for couples making $32,000 or less or singles making $25,000. If we start taxing the first dollar of these benefits, we can substantially reduce the number of these elderly deadbeats. Now, we just need to find a politician willing to sponsor such a plan. Bueller? Bueller??
4. Fix the economy.?Many pay no income tax because they, um, don?t make any money. And many have no income because they are unemployed, victims of what you may have noticed has been a tough economy. The Tax Policy Center estimates?that if the economy gets back on track, the percentage of those who don?t pay income tax would fall by about 10 percentage points. Thus, a bit more than one-third of households would fall into the deadbeat category, instead of nearly half.
5. Keep the No New Tax Pledge.?There is, however, a small problem with the first three ideas: They?d violate the anti-tax hike pledge signed by nearly all Republicans in Congress. How could we get around that? Easy as pie. Just cut taxes on high-income households to offset those tax hikes on the working poor. Just sayin.?
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Ex-finance minister to challenge Merkel in 2013
FILE - The Sept. 21, 2009 file photo shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, left, after a meeting with the German Government's task force for finance architecture at the chancellery in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
FILE - The Sept. 21, 2009 file photo shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, left, after a meeting with the German Government's task force for finance architecture at the chancellery in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
FILE - The Jan 12, 2007 file photo show then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck smiling during a press conference in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)
FILE - In this May 15, 2012 file photo, Social Democratic politicians, from left, Peer Steinbrueck, Sigmar Gabriel and Frank-Walter Steinmeier attend a news conference in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/dapd, Michael Gottschalk, File)
FILE - The Sept. 21, 2009 file photo shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, left, briefing the media after a meeting with the German Government's task force for finance architecture at the chancellery in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
BERLIN (AP) ? Germany's main opposition party is set to nominate former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in elections next year.
Officials with the center-left Social Democrats wouldn't immediately confirm reports Friday in several German media outlets that the leadership had decided on Steinbrueck, 65. But the party scheduled an afternoon news conference and former Cabinet colleague Brigitte Zypries wrote on Facebook: "it's true, it's going to be him."
The choice of Steinbrueck ? one of three candidates who has been discussed for months as criticism mounted of the party's failure to settle on a challenger ? kicks off in earnest the race for the chancellery in parliamentary elections expected this time next year.
Steinbrueck earlier this week presented a plan for "taming financial markets," flagging that as a prominent issue in the party's campaign.
But polls suggest that, while Steinbrueck is relatively well-placed to attract swing voters, the Social Democrats face an uphill struggle to unseat the popular Merkel, 58, Germany's leader since 2005.
The party consistently trails her conservative Christian Democrats, and surveys show no majority for their hoped-for coalition with the Green party.
They're keen to avoid ending up as Merkel's junior partner in another "grand coalition" of right and left, the combination in which Steinbrueck served as finance minister from 2005 to 2009.
A significant source of Merkel's popularity is her handling of the eurozone debt crisis, and that's been making it hard for the Social Democrats to land blows on her. They and the Greens have criticized Merkel for what they decry as a too-little, too-late response ? before invariably supporting her plans in Parliament.
Steinbrueck has a reputation for plain speaking, which hasn't always made him popular with fellow Social Democrats. As a minister, he once remarked of his party that "we're coming over to people as crybabies" in the face of Merkel's popularity.
In 2009, he called for governments to use "the whip" against neighboring Switzerland in the fight against tax evasion and said the Alpine nation faced the threat of the "cavalry."
His successor, Wolfgang Schaeuble, has taken a more diplomatic approach, negotiating a deal with Switzerland. But with the election in sight, the Social Democrats have vowed not to let it through Parliament's upper house, where Merkel's coalition lacks a majority.
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Germany, France launch procedure to secure European financial ...
BERLIN ? Germany?s Finance Ministry says Berlin and Paris have jointly appealed to the European Union?s executive to prepare the introduction of a tax on financial transactions.
The proposal has failed to secure a majority within the 27-nation EU. Germany and France are pressing for its introduction by the legal detour of so-called enhanced co-operation, which would allow a group of at least nine countries to go ahead with it.
The ministry said Friday that Germany?s Wolfgang Schaeuble and French counterpart Pierre Moscovici also wrote a letter to their European counterparts urging them to join their appeal to the European Commission.
At a June meeting of finance ministers 10 nations, among them Italy and Spain, backed the proposal. Britain, which has the continent?s biggest financial industry, opposes the plan.
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Firstly Hi!,
So none of you know me, which is exactly what I like, as then I can get a independant opinion on a situation.
Short life story, married at 22 to first ever girlfriend, very one sided relationship (I think), I did everything for her, never complained (or very rarely), paid all the bills, arranged all holidays, date nights, birthdays etc etc, bought her everything she wanted (even to my detriment financially).
Married 12 years, 2 great kids, divorced (she had had multiple affairs and ended with one(they aren't together anymore)).
That was 3 years ago, since then I've had 2 year long relationships and a 6 week "blip" (2 girls at same time).
Now I'm engaged to a female I've "admired" from afar for 3 years (just after I got divorced). I basically chased her down and stole her from her partner (I'm not proud of this and had NEVER chassed girls down before).
Anyway now she lives with me and so does her daughter, her daughter is already calling me daddy.
She moved in after 5 days after our first date, we got engaged 2 days later (thats 7 days after we "offically" dated), Its now been 7 weeks and I'm feeling "odd", she is lazy (doesn't clean the house, leaves crumbs in the kitchen), I work from home most the time but do a 50 hour week, she works part time for 20 hours. She likes sex a certain way, it is "ok" but not really what I'm use to, we only have sex when she wants.
I'm having HUGE doubts about the wedding (which is costing me all the money I have saved and is in 2 months), I'm worried I rushed (no kidding!) and the illusion of her (i didn't really know her, it was all based on physical attraction (she is super hot)) is now going.
Am I being blinkered?, is what I feel real?, what should I do?, i don't want to hurt her or upset her or scare her away to find out I was wrong and she's great............
So none of you know me, which is exactly what I like, as then I can get a independant opinion on a situation.
Short life story, married at 22 to first ever girlfriend, very one sided relationship (I think), I did everything for her, never complained (or very rarely), paid all the bills, arranged all holidays, date nights, birthdays etc etc, bought her everything she wanted (even to my detriment financially).
Married 12 years, 2 great kids, divorced (she had had multiple affairs and ended with one(they aren't together anymore)).
That was 3 years ago, since then I've had 2 year long relationships and a 6 week "blip" (2 girls at same time).
Now I'm engaged to a female I've "admired" from afar for 3 years (just after I got divorced). I basically chased her down and stole her from her partner (I'm not proud of this and had NEVER chassed girls down before).
Anyway now she lives with me and so does her daughter, her daughter is already calling me daddy.
She moved in after 5 days after our first date, we got engaged 2 days later (thats 7 days after we "offically" dated), Its now been 7 weeks and I'm feeling "odd", she is lazy (doesn't clean the house, leaves crumbs in the kitchen), I work from home most the time but do a 50 hour week, she works part time for 20 hours. She likes sex a certain way, it is "ok" but not really what I'm use to, we only have sex when she wants.
I'm having HUGE doubts about the wedding (which is costing me all the money I have saved and is in 2 months), I'm worried I rushed (no kidding!) and the illusion of her (i didn't really know her, it was all based on physical attraction (she is super hot)) is now going.
Am I being blinkered?, is what I feel real?, what should I do?, i don't want to hurt her or upset her or scare her away to find out I was wrong and she's great............
Advice please?
Source: http://talkaboutmarriage.com/general-relationship-discussion/56841-do-i-want-her.html
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The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won't help you win at Angry Birds.
While Albert Einstein's genius isn't included, an exclusive iPad application launched Tuesday promises to make detailed images of his brain more accessible to scientists than ever before. Teachers, students and anyone who's curious also can get a look.
A medical museum under development in Chicago obtained funding to scan and digitize nearly 350 fragile and priceless slides made from slices of Einstein's brain after his death in 1955. The application will allow researchers and novices to peer into the eccentric Nobel winner's brain as if they were looking through a microscope.
"I can't wait to find out what they'll discover," said Steve Landers, a consultant for the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago who designed the app. "I'd like to think Einstein would have been excited."
After Einstein died, a pathologist named Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy, removing the great man's brain in hopes that future researchers could discover the secrets behind his genius.
Harvey gave samples to researchers and collaborated on a 1999 study published in the Lancet. That study showed a region of Einstein's brain ? the parietal lobe ? was 15 percent wider than normal. The parietal lobe is important to the understanding of math, language and spatial relationships.
The new iPad app may allow researchers to dig even deeper by looking for brain regions where the neurons are more densely connected than normal, said Dr. Phillip Epstein, a Chicago-area neuroscientist and consultant for the museum.
But because the tissue was preserved before modern imaging technology, it may be difficult for scientists to figure out exactly where in Einstein's brain each slide originated. Although the new app organizes the slides into general brain regions, it doesn't map them with precision to an anatomical model.
"They didn't have MRI. We don't have a three-dimensional model of the brain of Einstein, so we don't know where the samples were taken from," said researcher Jacopo Annese of the Brain Observatory at the University of California, San Diego. What's more, the 1-inch-by-3-inch Einstein slides on the app represent only a fraction of the entire brain, Annese said.
Annese has preserved and digitized another famous brain, that of Henry Molaison, who died in 2008 after living for decades with profound amnesia. Known as "H.M." in scientific studies, Molaison participated during his life in research that revealed new insights on learning and memory.
A searchable website with images of more than 2,400 slides of Molaison's entire brain will be available to the public in December, Annese said.
"There will be another Einstein and we'll do it like H.M.," Annese predicted. For now, he said, it's exciting that the Einstein brain tissue has been preserved digitally before the slides deteriorate or become damaged. The app will spark interest in the field of brain research, just because it's Einstein, he said.
"It's a beautiful collection to have opened up to the public," Annese said.
Some may question whether Einstein would have wanted images of his remains sold to non-scientists for $9.99.
"There's been a lot of debate over what Einstein's intentions were," museum board member Jim Paglia said. "We know he didn't want a circus made of his remains. But he understood the value to research and science to study his brain, and we think we've addressed that in a respectful manner."
Paglia said the app could "inspire a whole new generation of neuroscientists."
Proceeds from sales will go to the U.S. Department of Defense's National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Md., and to the Chicago satellite museum, which is set to open in 2015 with interactive exhibits and the museum's digital collections.
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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/einsteins-brain-now-interactive-ipad-app-1B6078692
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COIT, a leading supplier of specialty cleaning and disaster restoration services, is recognizing National Mold Awareness Month by reminding home and business owners that it is important to take steps to prevent mold from invading any building or structure.
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Monroe family wants to know who owns pit bull that attacked girl, her ...
MONROE, N.C. ? Taylor Ponds, 17, said she just wanted to save her dog when she was bitten on both arms this past weekend by a pit bull that attacked them both.
Taylor had taken her dog Baxter outside on Saturday when the pit bull came toward them.
"I think I startled the pit bull when I picked Baxter up and that is when the pit bull started jumping on my back," she said.
No one knows where the pit bull came from.
The family has a picture of the dog that was taken the day before the attack when it showed up at their back door.
Now, suddenly it was back and attacking Taylor, who described what happened next.
"That's when he grabbed my arm. Then he lets go of my arm and grabs my dog's face and he is pulling Baxter's face towards the ground," said Taylor.
Bleeding from bite marks on her arm, the teen tried to put Baxter in the bed of a pickup truck, but the pit bull climbed in after them.
So Taylor grabbed her dog and ran into a neighbor's garage and grabbed a dust mop.
"I grab a duster and start hitting the pit bull over the head with the duster," she said.
By then, her father was there and helped close the door to the garage with the dog inside, where it remained until animal control arrived to take it away.
Taylor's mother, Laura, said she would like to know who the owners of the pit are, if only to find out if the dog ? which is being tested for rabies ? did have all its shots.
Laura Ponds also marveled at the bravery of her daughter.
"Unbelievable to me that she would think so much of her own pet that she wasn't even worried about herself," she said.
For now, the pit bull remains at Monroe Animal Services while the search for the owner continues and the rabies tests are completed.
Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/25/3555970/monroe-family-wants-to-know-who.html
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Exclusive: G20 aides say cenbanks' fix not enough - Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Group of 20 nations want governments to do more to augment central bank actions to reverse a global economic downturn, Mexican Deputy Finance Minister Gerardo Rodriguez said on Monday.
Deputy finance ministers and central bankers of the G20, which comprises wealthy nations and leading emerging economies, held two days of meetings in Mexico City on Sunday and Monday ahead of a summit in November.
New measures to boost fragile economies from the Bank of Japan, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have helped to calm markets but were not enough, said Rodriguez, who co-chaired the deputies' meeting.
"There's worry about the (economic) environment and there's a conviction that monetary policy by itself is not sufficient," Rodriguez told Reuters on the sidelines of the meeting.
Emerging market economies had not made a big issue of a possible revival of the "currency wars" which followed previous rounds of stimulus when countries tried to avoid a flood of cheap money pushing up their currencies.
"I haven't felt that during the meetings," Rodriguez said.
"It's good because the decisions of the ECB and the Fed have helped the stability of markets, but we need more government action."
Promises made at a June G20 leaders meeting to boost demand, support growth and cut unemployment might need to be implemented more quickly given the deteriorating outlook, he said.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development cut its growth forecasts for major developed economies earlier this month and the International Monetary Fund warned it was set to scale back expectations for global growth too.
OECD Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan, who attended a seminar about the world economy before the G20 gathering, said the outlook was clearly worse since the leaders' summit.
"The U.S. is weaker, the emerging economies are visibly weaker and the euro area crisis has not improved so far," he said in an interview on Friday.
Before the meeting, Brazil vowed it would not let its real currency appreciate as a result of aggressive monetary stimulus in advanced economies, but G20 delegates who spoke on condition of anonymity said other emerging economies did not raise similar concerns.
"There was an almost resigned reaction to the monetary easing - on the basis that other measures that should have been taken were not, so it was up to the central banks to do something," one G20 official at the meeting said.
"There is a perception that the spill-over effects should be smaller than the last time."
Unlike the last time the Fed undertook a round of stimulus in late 2010 and early 2011, some emerging market currencies, including China's yuan and Russia's rouble are depreciating.
Brazil has also cut rates to a record low of 7.5 percent in contrast to the 10.75 percent benchmark rate it had in late 2010, making the country less attractive as an investment destination and less likely to be the target of speculative flows.
(Additional reporting by Alonso Soto in Brasilia; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
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Builders aim for super-energy-efficient homes
Crowned with three gables and painted in hues of gray and white, the suburban home in Lake Forest doesn't look much like the domicile of the future.
But as summer heat radiates off the fresh asphalt outside, the home runs comfortably at full tilt indoors. Recessed lights shine, radios blare and air-conditioned splendor greets hot skin. Despite all systems going, the property is producing more electricity than it can consume on a warm summer day ? and that's the goal.
Unveiled late last year, the ZeroHouse model by Los Angeles builder KB Home embodies the industry's bid to move beyond the one-of-a-kind vanity project and make subdivision building a green practice. Net-zero homes such as the one KB Home has built are highly efficient properties paired with renewable energy technology such as solar panel systems, resulting in homes so green they produce at least as much juice as they consume.
California has had expansive policies mandating and incentivizing the development of greener new homes for years, but the implementation of those goals has been slowed by the weak housing market and the dearth of new construction.
With the market healing, and with builders trying to distinguish their products from homes they built as recently as six years ago, companies such as KB Home, Lennar Corp. and others are rolling out more options for consumers and increasingly making energy efficiency part of the basic package.
"For new homes, it is becoming more of a standard feature, and the reason is that builders need a compelling reason that somebody should buy a new home rather than a resale," said Patrick Duffy, principal for research firm MetroIntelligence Real Estate Advisors.
In coming years, California guidelines will call for ever more energy-efficient homes, with the goal of having all homes built in 2020 being net zero. For now, net zero remains more of an aspiration for the industry, though experts say builders are increasingly making standard some of the fundamental elements of green design, including more efficient appliances, lighting and solar panel systems.
In Southern California, KB Home has made solar systems standard. Lennar, Pulte Homes and Pardee Homes offer solar home projects. ABC Green Home of Newport Beach will be building a net-zero home to showcase green technology for consumers. Clarum Homes in Palo Alto is a custom builder that has gained praise for incorporating energy efficiency and passive solar features into homes with modernist flourishes.
Moving to Southern California from Maryland, Ray and Linda Frilot wanted to buy a new home because the resales needed too much work, from $20,000 to $50,000 worth of remodeling. They were attracted to the solar offerings at KB Home's Fox Hollow at the Crown Valley Village development in Murrieta, said Ray Frilot, a retired government worker and former military man.
Aside from a 2.25-kilowatt solar system, the home has a tankless hot water heater, some LED lighting and Energy Star appliances. Although the home wasn't advertised as a net-zero property when they bought it, he and his wife conserve so much energy from habits picked up while living in Germany that the electricity bill from Southern California Edison Co. is close to zero.
"The energy that I don't use Edison buys from me," he said. "It looks like I may not have an electric bill next year, because the electricity, all of it is going to keep on adding to that credit. I still have to pay delivery and handling charges, but that is just a couple of bucks a month."
Net-zero homes couldn't exist without this type of subsidization, called net metering. Net-zero homeowners rely on power from utilities at night but get credit for the energy they produce during the day that they don't consume.
Net metering allows homeowners to get credit for the power they produce at a retail rate rather than a wholesale rate. There is currently a cap on net metering programs for that reason. Although the cap won't be hit any time soon, experts said, the future of net metering is uncertain.
Environmentalists began pushing for California to mandate that new homes come with renewable energy systems in the early 2000s, as the technology became more scalable and available.
The effort to get builders to build green morphed into state law SB 1, which focused on incentives and created the Million Solar Roofs Initiative, calling for the creation of 3,000 megawatts of new, solar-generated electricity by 2016.
Gov. Jerry Brown has increased that goal to 12,000 megawatts, or roughly the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants, according to the group Environment California. A thousand megawatts of solar energy could power about 250,000 homes.
Also created as part of the law was the California Solar Initiative, which uses rebates to promote renewable energy use in previously owned homes, as well as commercial, agricultural, government and nonprofit buildings. The similar New Solar Homes Partnership targets new houses.
"Unfortunately, as soon as the bill was passed, we had the housing market collapse, so everything stopped," said Bernadette Del Chiaro, director of clean energy and global warming programs at Environment California. "As the housing market ticks back up again, I would expect solar to pick back up again."
In 2008, California energy regulators adopted a long-term plan that called for having all new residential buildings achieve zero net energy use by 2020 and having all commercial buildings achieve zero net energy use by 2030.
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Bodies moved from Kenya mass graves, police suspect
MOMBASA (Reuters) - Bodies may have been moved from mass graves in Kenya to prevent an investigation into a suspected slaughter of villagers during inter-tribal unrest in the Tana River region, police said.
The suspected graves were found on Monday in Kilelengwani village, the focus of fighting in the coastal area that has killed more than 100 people in the past three weeks, including nine police officers.
The scale of the unrest has left many Kenyans convinced it was politically instigated and has raised fears of serious tribal fighting before elections due in March.
The Kenya Red Cross said at least 20 people believed to have been killed were still unaccounted for, and they suspected their bodies had been buried in the graves.
Regional police chief Aggrey Adoli said only a human foot and human skin had been found after two hours of digging, however.
"The whole place appeared freshly dug and was exuding the stench of rotten flesh ... we all were surprised when nothing was found. Those who removed the bodies must have been striving to hide some evidence," he said by telephone late on Thursday.
"It is possible that the graves might have been tampered with and bodies removed before police arrived at the scene to seal it off," Adoli said.
Raiders shot, hacked and burnt to death 38 people last week in Kilelengwani and 20 people have been arrested and charged with murder over the killings. Those arrested include members of both rival tribes involved in clashes, the Pokomo and Orma.
Local human rights groups have blamed the violence on incitement by politicians seeking to drive away elements of the local population they believe will vote for their opponents.
President Mwai Kibaki imposed a curfew last week and sent extra security forces to the area to try to end the violence, intensified by an influx of weapons in the last few years.
Settled Pokomo farmers and semi-nomadic Orma tribesmen have clashed for years over access to grazing, farmland and water in the coastal region. Dams along the Tana River, Kenya's longest, supply about two thirds of the east African state's electricity.
(Editing by James Macharia and Pravin Char)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bodies-moved-kenya-mass-graves-police-suspect-102953458.html
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Breathing nanotubes pop out buckyballs like peas in a pod
"Breathing" nanotubes that contract and expand autonomously could be used to deliver drugs around the body.
Researchers have previously created molecules capable of automatically forming into tiny tubes, but these are just inert pipes. Now Myongsoo Lee of the Seoul National University in South Korea and colleagues have designed nanotubes that can expand and contract.
The tubes are built from layers of six bent molecules that self-assemble into the shape of a hexagon. When placed in water, the interlocking molecules of each hexagon slide closer together when heated and expand again when cooled, so variations in temperature cause the tubes to pulsate. "Our tubule is the first example that undergoes expansion and contraction without changing its tubular structure," says Lee.
Changes in the tube's thickness are due to the central element of the bent molecules, a substance called pyridine ? a hydrocarbon with a nitrogen atom attached. The nitrogen atom attracts a cluster of water molecules that force the tube to expand. This attraction is disrupted when the tubes are heated to 60 ?C, causing the tube to shrink from a thickness of 11 nanometres to 7 nanometres. Cooling reverses the process.
To test the tubes' new abilities, Lee and colleagues filled them with buckyballs, spherical carbon molecules, so they had something resembling peas in a pod. When the tubes were heated and shrunk, they spat out some of the buckyballs, suggesting they could be used as a nano-pump.
"If you can close off one of the ends you would be able to pump fluid or have a controlled release of the content," agrees Jan van Hest, a chemist at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. "Drug delivery would be a possibility" he says, but points out that the biocompatibilty of the nanotubes would have to be investigated first.
It may also be possible to design similar nanotubes that react to changes in pH, rather than temperature, which would make them even more versatile, he says.
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The TechStars Model Comes To India: GSF Accelerator Partners With Dave McClure, Others For Three-City Mentoring/Funding Push
With VCs like Sequoia and Nexus Ventures pouring money into India's startup scene, it was only a matter of time before those focused on early-stage funding would follow. Today, GSF India, in partnership with some 30 other investors including Dave McClure's 500 Startups, announced a new initiative called GSF Accelerator. Set to take off this October, GSF Accelerator will be mentoring and offering seed funding of reportedly up to $550,000 to 12 tech startups across Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, four in each city.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/VxxXBmqviRk/
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Jets CB Darrelle Revis cleared for contact
In this Sept. 9, 2012 photo, New York Jets' Darrelle Revis (24) is ecsorted off the field after being injured on a play during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The star cornerback suffered what the team called a "mild concussion." (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
In this Sept. 9, 2012 photo, New York Jets' Darrelle Revis (24) is ecsorted off the field after being injured on a play during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The star cornerback suffered what the team called a "mild concussion." (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ? Darrelle Revis is back in action for the New York Jets.
The All-Pro cornerback was cleared Thursday for contact in practice for the first time since suffering a concussion in the team's season opener.
Coach Rex Ryan was optimistic about Revis' chances of playing Sunday against the Dolphins in Miami, but is leaning on the team's doctors before saying the cornerback will definitely be on the field.
"If it's not the final hurdle, I don't want to be saying something that isn't true," Ryan said. "Hopefully he'll play, but I guess we'll see."
Revis was expected to practice fully Thursday after passing all required tests. He needed to be cleared by the team physician and an independent neurologist to participate in contact drills. Revis was injured Sept. 9 against Buffalo when he was accidentally kicked in the head by teammate Bart Scott while attempting a tackle.
He'll be re-evaluated after practice Thursday and Friday, but barring a setback, Revis will be back in the Jets' secondary on Sunday.
"I think you feel good when you have the best player on the field," Ryan said. "That can't hurt you. ... There's only one Darrelle Revis. I know I feel great about it. It's hard not to smile. You feel great as a playcaller."
Revis didn't travel with the Steelers for the game in Pittsburgh after not being cleared for contact late last week. He said he felt as though he were in "a fog" right after he was injured, but progressively felt better.
Tight end Dustin Keller (right hamstring) and safety Eric Smith (hip/knee) were upgraded Thursday to limited after not practicing Wednesday.
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Worker stabbed to death at Chrysler plant in Detroit
DETROIT (Reuters) - A worker was stabbed to death on Thursday morning after an argument inside a Chrysler Group LLC plant in Detroit, and a coworker suspected of killing him was later found dead, apparently having shot himself, police and the company said.
Work at the Jefferson North Assembly plant was quickly suspended for the first shift and the plant was locked down.
Employees were released at around 10 a.m. once police determined it was safe for them to leave the plant, Chrysler's manufacturing chief Scott Garberding told a news conference.
Chrysler also canceled Thursday's second shift that normally reports in the late afternoon. Grief counselors were called to the plant on Thursday, and production was due to resume on Friday.
The two workers, who were not identified by Chrysler or Detroit police, had an "ongoing" dispute, but Detroit Police Inspector Dwane Blackmon said the nature of their problems was unclear.
Police said that at around 7:50 a.m., one worker confronted and stabbed the other, a former union shop steward, near a loading dock. The suspect in the stabbing quickly left the plant. "Based on what I believe, there was a definite intention on stabbing this individual," Blackmon said.
The stabbing victim died at the plant. The suspect was later found dead in a black Jeep parked on Belle Isle, an island park on the Detroit River. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot, Blackmon said.
Blackmon described the incident as "isolated." Chrysler does not have metal detectors at the plant, but Garberding said the company would review its safety procedures.
Chrysler makes Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Dodge Durango sport utility vehicles at the plant, which was built in 1991.
(Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman and Bernie Woodall; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Claudia Parsons)
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University of Houston India Studies Program presents 'Circuits of Empire: India as Metropole'
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Keynote speaker and Bollywood movie address
University of Pennsylvania professor Ania Loomba will speak on "Caste, Sexuality, and the Limits of Liberalism" at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 in conjunction with a presentation of Milan Luthria's Indian film, "The Dirty Picture." A panel of film experts will conclude the program at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 at the University of Houston (UH) Dudley Recital Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.
"We decided to invite Ania Looma because she is a widely respected Indian scholar who specializes in postcolonial studies, empire studies and Shakespearean studies," said Lynn Voskuil, associate professor in the department of English at UH. "Postcolonial and Empire studies are particularly import to the Empire studies group of faculty in the English department who planned the event.
We selected 'The Dirty Picture,' because it is a recent Indian film specifically, a Bollywood film that would attract a wide public audience and promote good discussion among viewers. A critical and commercial success, the film has won many awards in India, including three National Film Awards and six Screen Awards. The film raises interesting questions about gender issues in contemporary Indian society."
Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her doctorate from the University of Sussex, U.K. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. Loomba is also faculty in comparative literature, South Asian studies, women's studies, and Asian-American studies.
The goal of the India Studies program at UH is to promote teaching and scholarship focused on the history, politics, economics, languages, religion and culture of India. UH began offering minors in India studies and comparative cultural studies in the fall 2012.
The event is co-sponsored by the UH department of English and Indian Studies program.
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WHAT: "Circuits of Empire: India as Metropole"
WHEN: 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20
"Caste, Sexuality, and the Limits of Liberalism," a lecture by Ania Loomba
1:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 "The Dirty Picture," a Bollywood film directed by Milan Luthria.
Followed by a panel of Indian film experts:
Nandini Bhattacharya, Texas A&M; Sucheta Choudhuri, UH Downtown; and
Subramanian Shankar, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Refreshments following panel.
WHERE: University of Houston, Dudley Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building
Entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard (near intersection with Elgin)
Metered parking is available in lot 16B, across from the Arts Complex
HOW: Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Lynn Voskuil at lynn.voskuil@mail.uh.edu or Anjali Kanojia at Indiastudies@uh.edu
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Share ] Contact: Melissa Carroll
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University of Houston
Keynote speaker and Bollywood movie address
University of Pennsylvania professor Ania Loomba will speak on "Caste, Sexuality, and the Limits of Liberalism" at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 in conjunction with a presentation of Milan Luthria's Indian film, "The Dirty Picture." A panel of film experts will conclude the program at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 at the University of Houston (UH) Dudley Recital Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.
"We decided to invite Ania Looma because she is a widely respected Indian scholar who specializes in postcolonial studies, empire studies and Shakespearean studies," said Lynn Voskuil, associate professor in the department of English at UH. "Postcolonial and Empire studies are particularly import to the Empire studies group of faculty in the English department who planned the event.
We selected 'The Dirty Picture,' because it is a recent Indian film specifically, a Bollywood film that would attract a wide public audience and promote good discussion among viewers. A critical and commercial success, the film has won many awards in India, including three National Film Awards and six Screen Awards. The film raises interesting questions about gender issues in contemporary Indian society."
Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her doctorate from the University of Sussex, U.K. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. Loomba is also faculty in comparative literature, South Asian studies, women's studies, and Asian-American studies.
The goal of the India Studies program at UH is to promote teaching and scholarship focused on the history, politics, economics, languages, religion and culture of India. UH began offering minors in India studies and comparative cultural studies in the fall 2012.
The event is co-sponsored by the UH department of English and Indian Studies program.
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WHAT: "Circuits of Empire: India as Metropole"
WHEN: 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20
"Caste, Sexuality, and the Limits of Liberalism," a lecture by Ania Loomba
1:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 "The Dirty Picture," a Bollywood film directed by Milan Luthria.
Followed by a panel of Indian film experts:
Nandini Bhattacharya, Texas A&M; Sucheta Choudhuri, UH Downtown; and
Subramanian Shankar, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Refreshments following panel.
WHERE: University of Houston, Dudley Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building
Entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard (near intersection with Elgin)
Metered parking is available in lot 16B, across from the Arts Complex
HOW: Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Lynn Voskuil at lynn.voskuil@mail.uh.edu or Anjali Kanojia at Indiastudies@uh.edu
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