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California energy efficiency: Lessons for the rest of the world, or not?
Efficiency standards appear to be at the center of US climate policy. But is this policy effective? This column argues that, thinking laterally, evidence suggests that there are reasons to be suspicious. If the US is to focus so heavily on energy efficiency, we ought to have a better understanding of its effectiveness.
Energy-efficiency standards for buildings and appliances and vehicles appear to be a central component of climate policy in the US. New energy-efficiency regulations account for 44% of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions from California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, 36% of projected reductions from Massachusetts's 2008 Act, and about a third of the policy proposals in President Obama's June 2013 climate speech at Georgetown University.1 But do energy-efficiency standards work?
The highest profile piece of evidence supporting the efficacy of energy-efficiency regulations is Figure 1, which plots an index of residential electricity consumption per capita in California ? the bottom line, flat since the 1970s ? against that same index for the rest of the US (Rosenfeld and Poskanzer 2009). Many supporters of efficiency standards have cited the divergence in those two lines as evidence that California's first-in-the-nation building and appliance standards, enacted in the 1970s, have been effective. Those supporters include the World Bank, the US. Secretary of Energy, leading newspaper editorial pages, prominent environmental NGOs, and of course California's own regulators.2?
Figure 1.?Residential electricity per capita
There are, however, reasons to be suspicious. The gap between California's and other states' electricity consumption, depicted as the bottom line in Figure 2, preceded California's regulations and has grown steadily. And the five other states with the slowest electricity growth, also depicted in Figure 2, are California's neighbours: Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Hawaii. Perhaps California's relative electricity savings are the result of long-run trends peculiar to the western US and unrelated to California's regulations.
In Levinson (2013) I describe how those long-run changes can explain 88% of the gap between California's and other states' residential electricity consumption per capita, and how therefore Figure 1 doesn't prove what its proponents claim.
Figure 2.?Reasons to be suspicious
First, the population of the other 49 US states has gradually shifted to the south and west, where the climate is hotter and air conditioning more desirable, driving up electricity demand in those states. Figure 3 plots the population-weighted annual average cooling degree days in those other states over the past 50 years.3 It rose 19%, not because the climate changed but because the average non-Californian US citizen lived in a hotter place. This change by itself can explain 15% of the gap between California's and other states' residential electricity growth per capita.4 That's 15% for which California regulations cannot claim credit.
Figure 3.?Population-weighted cooling degree days in other states
Second, incomes have grown throughout the US over the past 50 years. Where the climate is harsh, income growth leads to more electricity demand for space heating and cooling, as depicted on the left side of Figure 4. Where the climate is mild, income growth leads to less of an increase in electricity use, as on the right side of Figure 4 (and in California). As a consequence, nationwide income growth has led to less electricity growth in California's mild climate than in the rest of the country. This difference by itself can explain 20% of the gap between California's and other states' residential electricity growth per capita. That's 20% for which California's regulators also deserve no credit.
Figure 4.?Residential electricity, household income, and climate
Third, there are economies of scale in residential energy consumption. Electricity use increases less than proportionately with household size, which means that electricity use per capita decreases with household size as depicted in Figure 5. While average household sizes have been shrinking throughout the US over the past 50 years, in California household sizes have remained nearly constant. California households effectively gained 0.6 members, on average, relative to other states. This change by itself can account for 40% of the gap between California's and other states' residential electricity consumption per capita.
Figure 5.?Electricity per capita decreases with household size
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Combining the effects of climate, income, and household size, accounting for interactions among them, and adding other differences between California and the rest of the US, Levinson (2013) explains 88% of the gap between California's and other state's per capita electricity consumption. Figure 1, cited widely as evidence for the efficacy of energy-efficiency standards, is thus mostly due to changes unrelated to those standards. The famous figure doesn't demonstrate what its proponents claim.
To be clear, just because Figure 1 fails to prove that California's efficiency standards worked doesn't mean the standards didn't. Other states and the US federal government followed California's early lead and enacted their own building and appliance standards, and so perhaps residential electricity growth nationwide ? in California and other states ? has been lower than it would have been without those laws. If so, that outcome cannot be seen by comparing California to other states because both lines in Figure 1 may be lower than they would have been without efficiency standards. The result in Levinson (2013) does not prove that energy-efficiency standards didn't work; it only shows that the famous Figure 1 is uninformative.
Efficiency standards appear to be at the center of US climate policy. We ought to have a better understanding of their effectiveness.
California Air Resources Board (CARB) (2008), "Climate Change Scoping Plan".
California Public Utilities Commission and California Energy Commission (2006), "Energy Efficiency: California's Highest-Priority Resource".
Charles, Dan (2009), "Energy Efficiency: Leaping the Efficiency Gap", Science 325(5942), 804-811.
Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (2010), "Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020: A report to the Great and General Court pursuant to the Global Warming Solutions Act".
Rosenfeld, Arthur H and Deborah Poskanzer (2009), "A Graph Is Worth a Thousand Gigawatt-Hours: How California Came to Lead the United States in Energy Efficiency", Innovations, Fall, 57-79, .
Levinson, Arik (2013), "California Energy Efficiency: Lessons for the Rest of the World, or Not?", NBER Working Paper No. 19123.
World Bank (2010), World Development Report 2010, Washington, DC.
1 See California Air Resources Board (2008); Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (2010), p. ES-6; www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/25/remarks-president-climate....
2 World Bank (2010); Charles (2009); California Public Utilities Commission and California Energy Commission (2006).
3 Cooling degree days are the number of degrees that a day's average temperature is above 65?F.
4 California is large and has had its own share of internal population shifts. Since 1960 California?s population has migrated to less temperate regions, with a bit more electricity use per capita. If electricity consumption per capita in each California county is held constant at its 2010 level, the increasing share of the population in more energy-intensive counties would add 4 percent to the state?s overall per capita electricity consumption from 1960 to 2010.
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Accused Fort Hood shooter says 'War is an ugly thing'
By Lisa Maria Garza
FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan said on Tuesday that war is an ugly thing with death and devastation on both sides, in a brief opening statement at his long-awaited trial for opening fire at a Texas base in 2009 and killing 13 U.S. soldiers.
Hasan, who was paralyzed from the chest down and is confined to a wheelchair after being shot by Fort Hood base police who ended his rampage, is representing himself at the court-martial.
"Witnesses will testify that war is an ugly thing. Death, destruction and devastation are felt from both sides, from friend and foe. Evidence from this trial will only show one side. I was on the wrong side but I switched sides," Hasan, an American-born Muslim, said in a roughly two minute-long opening statement.
Hasan, 42, who carried out the shooting on November 5, 2009, just days before he was to be deployed to Afghanistan, has said he shot the soldiers to try to stop what he has called a U.S. war on Islam. He killed 13 soldiers and wounded 32 others.
Prosecutors took about an hour to lay out their case against Hasan, saying that he intended to kill indiscriminately.
"Evidence will show that Hasan didn't want to deploy and he possessed a jihad duty to kill as many soldiers as possible," military prosecutor Colonel Steve Henricks said.
Hasan could be sentenced to death if convicted.
Hasan spoke very little during the opening statements and during testimony of the first witnesses at the trial on the sprawling military base between Dallas and Austin, Texas.
The first three witnesses were from a gun store near the base, where Hasan bought the pistol used in the shooting. The manager of "Gun's Galore" store, David Cheadle, said he showed Hasan how to assemble the pistol while Hasan recorded him on video.
Frederick Brannen, a former sales clerk at the store, testified that he sold Hasan the gun.
When the weapon was presented as evidence, Hasan said: "Your honor, that is my weapon."
Hasan was shot by base police. The soldiers were not armed because policy does not allow them to carry arms on base.
An Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood at the time of the shooting, Hasan has since apologized for being in the U.S. military and helping the U.S. response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. He has tried to renounce his U.S. citizenship.
A review by a former FBI director found Hasan had exchanged emails with Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing. Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike.
The military judge for the court-martial, Colonel Tara Osborn, ruled on Friday that prosecutors may present evidence that Hasan was on the Internet in the days, and even hours, before the attack, searching terms such as "Taliban" and "jihad," which some radical Islamists define as a holy war.
Hasan has said he plans to call only two witnesses at trial, according to Fort Hood officials. The witnesses were not identified.
Hasan may cross-examine any witness, including survivors of the attack.
He faces 13 charges of premeditated murder and 32 charges of attempted premeditated murder. The dead included 12 active duty soldiers and a retired chief warrant officer who worked as a civilian employee at the base.
The jury of 13 Army officers includes nine colonels, three lieutenant colonels and a major.
The trial had been delayed repeatedly over procedural issues, such as whether he would be allowed to keep a beard that violates military grooming regulations, which he has said he wears for religious reasons.
Hasan had sought to use a "defense of others" strategy at trial, arguing that his actions were taken to protect Muslims and the Taliban in Afghanistan from U.S. assaults. Osborn denied that request.
Osborn rejected Hasan's offer to plead guilty in return for being spared the death penalty. A unanimous verdict of guilty is required for execution to be an option. The last execution carried out by the U.S. military was in 1961.
(Writing by Greg McCune; Editing by Claudia Parsons and Grant McCool)
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Kerry Washington's Friends Knew Nothing About Secret Wedding
Actress Kerry Washington wed American football star Nnamdi Asomugha with just her parents as witnesses.
The Django Unchained beauty tied the knot in secret in Hailey, Idaho on 24 June (13) and the nuptials were so low-key, none of their friends knew about it.
The only member of the groom's family to attend the wedding was the San Francisco 49ers cornerback's minister sister, Chisara, who officiated the ceremony with Washington's proud parents, Valerie and Earl, looking on.
A source tells Us Weekly magazine, "Nobody knew about it in advance. She told friends who found out in the news not to take it personally."
The couple had been dating for three years, but news of their romance and marriage only hit headlines last week (begs01Jul13).
The insider adds, "They dated very quietly. Kerry got to know him away from their careers and loved the real him."
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Consuming soy peptide may reduce colon cancer metastasis
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Unbeaten Scherzer gets no-decision in Tigers' win
By TOM WITHERS
AP Sports Writer
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updated 11:44 p.m. ET July 8, 2013
CLEVELAND (AP) - Nick Swisher rounded third, lost his footing in the soggy grass and fell flat on his face.
The Indians slipped some, too.
Unable to push across the winning run in the ninth inning, Cleveland lost 4-2 in 10 to Detroit on Monday night and fell another game behind the first-place Tigers in the AL Central.
The Indians dropped three of four to the defending division champions, who got a two-run double in the 10th from Victor Martinez off Matt Albers (1-2) and left town two games further ahead in the standings than when they arrived.
Detroit improved to 9-3 this season against Cleveland, which had some early scoring chances against unbeaten Max Scherzer and stranded 10 runners, including Drew Stubbs, who was left at second in the ninth.
"We left a small village on the sacks," said Swisher, who had two rough moments on the bases. "We've got to do a little better job there, but that's how baseball goes."
With the score tied 2-all, Mark Reynolds opened the ninth with a single off Bruce Rondon and Stubbs came in to pinch run. Drew Smyly (4-0) entered and his first pitch got by catcher Brayan Pena, allowing Stubbs to take second on the passed ball. Lonnie Chisenhall flied to center, but not deep enough to advance Stubbs.
Yan Gomes struck out and Michael Bourn flied out to end the inning and Cleveland's last chance to avoid extras.
Manager Terry Francona said he considered having Chisenhall bunt, and he was hoping Stubbs could steal third but said the speedy outfielder was having trouble getting traction on the wet dirt.
In the 10th, Albers got two quick outs before walking Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder. Martinez followed with a drive over Bourn's head that caromed off the wall, far enough away for two of Detroit's slowest runners to score. After Fielder slid across the plate, he popped up from the dirt and swung his arm in celebration.
The Indians had been 5-0 in extra-inning games.
"For us, it's a frustrating loss," Swisher said.
Cleveland threatened again in the 10th against closer Joaquin Benoit. With two outs, Swisher singled and moved up on defensive indifference. Michael Brantley followed with a single to right, and it appeared Swisher would score easily, but his feet went out from under him and he was forced to retreat to third.
It wasn't Swisher's only moment of embarrassment.
Leading off the eighth, he hit a squibber that hugged the third-base line and eventually rolled fair. However, Swisher never left the plate area and was tagged out by Pena.
"It's just a lesson learned the hard way," Francona said.
Swisher didn't offer any excuses.
"I thought it was going to go foul," he said. "In hindsight, I should have ran."
Benoit then struck out Mike Aviles for his seventh save.
Scherzer, attempting to become the first pitcher since Roger Clemens in 1986 to open a season 14-0, finished with a no-decision. He allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings. The presumed AL starter in next week's All-Star game will take his unblemished mark into a start on Saturday against Texas.
"I don't want to focus much on that (being 13-0)," he said. "This was our best win of the year, and I was proud to be a part of it. The Indians battled so hard tonight and brought their `A' game, and we did, too.
"It was just a great team win, our best of the year."
Detroit widened its lead over Cleveland by two games on this visit, but manager Jim Leyland knows champions aren't crowned in July.
"We came in and had a very good series against a very good team, but I'm not really concerned about the standings," Leyland said. "Of course, I'd rather leave here up 3 1/2 games than up 1 1/2 games. But trust me, the Indians are not going anywhere, and we're not going anywhere, I don't think."
Cleveland came in with a reputation for beating Cy Young Award winners. The Indians have defeated seven former recipients this season, including Detroit's Justin Verlander. Scherzer is clearly the midseason favorite to win the AL honor in 2013, and while the Indians didn't hand him a loss, they did prevent him from beating them for the third time this year.
Scherzer wasn't at his best, and he was noticeably agitated on a night when the rain never really stopped. However, the 28-year-old got stronger as the game wore on. He gave up both runs - on a two-run single in the second by Chisenhall - and five hits in the first three innings, and pitched out of a couple of jams he created.
"He used to be a thrower and now he's a pitcher," Swisher said. "You've got a guy with all those weapons and he starts to figure it out, that doesn't make anybody happy."
Cleveland's Scott Kazmir went pitch for pitch with Scherzer, allowing just two runs and four hits in 5 2-3 innings.
Kazmir held the top four hitters - Austin Jackson, Torii Hunter, Cabrera and Fielder - in one of baseball's most feared lineups without a hit in 11 at-bats. The only one of the four to reach base was Cabrera, who walked with one out in the third.
NOTES: Indians 1B Mark Reynolds snapped an 0-for-24 drought with an infield single in the fourth. ... Chisenhall is batting .304 (17 of 56) with two homers and nine RBIs since being recalled from Triple-A Columbus on June 18. ... Former Indians SS Omar Vizquel was honored with a bobblehead giveaway and threw out the ceremonial first pitch to teammate Sandy Alomar Jr. ... The Indians open a three-game series Tuesday with Toronto. RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (6-4) faces RHP Josh Johnson (1-3).
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??HBT Daily: Craig Calcaterra predicts strong numbers from Phillies Triple-A call-up Darin Ruf upon replacing the injured Ryan Howard. Also, after winning five of their last seven games, will management in Philadelphia look to buy or sell at the upcoming trade deadline?
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Mexico opposition headed for election win, boosting reform drive
By Michael O'Boyle and Dave Graham
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's opposition conservatives were heading for victory in a regional election early on Monday, leaving a fragile national pact forged to broker economic reforms looking slightly stronger.
Nearly half of Mexico's 31 states held elections for a mix of local parliaments and municipal governments, but all eyes were on the race for governor in the state of Baja California, a stronghold of the conservative National Action Party (PAN).
Both the PAN and President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed victory in the state shortly after polls closed at 6 p.m. local time on Sunday, but an initial vote count showed the conservatives maintaining a consistent early lead.
With votes from over half of polling stations counted in Baja California, the PAN had a lead of over 4 percentage points over the PRI, or nearly 48 percent of the vote, preliminary results from the local electoral authority showed.
The Baja California vote is being closely watched because a defeat for the PAN was expected to rattle the 'Pact for Mexico' Pena Nieto made with opposition leaders to strengthen his hand in Congress, where the PRI has no majority.
A win for the PAN could prove more useful to Pena Nieto than a win for his own party if it helps strengthen the pact he unveiled in December.
The PAN lost control of Mexico in last year's presidential elections, and it is now the third force in Congress. But Pena Nieto needs to keep the conservatives on board to push through planned overhauls of state oil giant Pemex and the tax system.
Baja California was one of the PAN's few remaining bastions, and the first state it wrested from the PRI 24 years ago. It proved a major stepping stone to the PAN claiming the presidency in 2000 after 71 consecutive years of rule by the PRI.
During the campaign in Baja California, PAN lawmakers repeatedly accused the PRI of trying to steal the election by buying votes, and they warned that any sign of fraud could scuttle the national pact.
Both PAN chairman Gustavo Madero and his PRI counterpart said on Sunday evening that their candidate had won the governor's office, but there was no independent projection.
A few hours before the polls closed Madero was asked how he viewed the future of the Pact, and said: "the need to reach agreements is still there, it's still imperative for Mexico."
A poll late last month gave the PAN an eight-point lead over the PRI in Baja California, which borders the U.S. state of California.
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The PAN's image has been hurt by public infighting since last year's national election defeat, when voters punished the party for failing to curb violence between warring drug cartels that has claimed more than 70,000 lives since 2007.
The bloodshed has continued under Pena Nieto's rule and the campaign for the July 7 elections was marred by the murder of a number of candidates.
Jesus Zambrano, chairman of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the other main party in Pena Nieto's pact, demanded authorities clear up the killings, which have also claimed the lives of his party activists.
"In a big part of the states, organized crime is acting in favor of the PRI candidates," Zambrano said.
The PRI has persistently rejected such accusations.
Two more activists were killed over the weekend in Veracruz state, one belonging to the PRI and another to the PRD.
The Baja California election was deemed to be crucial for Madero's continuing leadership of the party. Any battle for control of the party could threaten the pact - a fact not lost on Mexicans looking to Pena Nieto to revive the economy.
"The most convenient thing would be for the PAN to win," said Pedro Feria, 32, an out-of-work lawyer who supports the PRI. "What I want is for them to focus on creating job opportunities. I've been looking for a year now."
The pact has already pushed education reforms and a shake-up of competition in the telecoms sector through Congress.
But the central planks of Pena Nieto's hopes to raise economic growth to 6 percent a year from an average of barely 2 percent since the millennium began are reforms to bolster tax revenues and open up Pemex to more private investment.
Those measures may be in doubt if the pact falls apart.
The PAN's Madero had laid the ground for a post-electoral fight, pinning accusations of vote buying, fraud and corruption against the PRI on a giant map of Mexico during the campaign.
(Additional reporting by Luc Cohen and Tomas Sarmiento; Writing by Dave Graham; Editing by John Stonestreet)
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Country singer Randy Travis hospitalized in Texas
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Country music star Randy Travis has been hospitalized in Texas with viral cardiomyopathy.
A news release from the singer's publicist says Travis was admitted to the hospital Sunday in Dallas. No other details were released.
The "Three Wooden Crosses" singer is listed in critical condition.
Viral cardiomyopathy is a heart condition caused by a virus.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Alaska Plane Crash Kills All 10 People On Board
ANCHORAGE, Alaska ? An air taxi crashed Sunday at an Alaska airport, killing all 10 people aboard, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator said.
The accident happened around 11:20 a.m. and sent the fixed-wing aircraft up in flames, said Meagan Peters of Alaska State Troopers. The victims have not yet been identified.
NTSB investigator Clint Johnson said the pilot and nine passengers were killed in the crash at the airport late Sunday morning. Initial reports had the accident happening as the plane took off.
NTSB identified the aircraft in a release Sunday as a de Havilland Otter Air Taxi, which the Aviation Safety Foundation says can seat up to 20 passengers.
The NTSB is sending a team to investigate the crash. NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said one local member of the team was at the scene Sunday evening.
For many Alaskans, flying across the state is common, exposing residents to a litany of hazards including treacherous mountain passes and volatile weather.
Alaska already has seen several plane crashes this year, including a June 28 crash that killed a pilot and two passengers on a commercial tour in the Alaska Range.
The Soldotna crash comes a day after an Asiana flight crashed at San Francisco's airport.
Soldotna is south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula.
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2 Chinese teens confirmed dead in San Francisco plane crash
SAN FRANCISCO (RNN) ? An intense investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board began late Saturday as the next phase to discover why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.?
San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee confirmed that first responders have accounted for everyone on board Saturday's fatal crash of a Boeing 777, with two confirmed fatalities.
Citing Asiana Airlines's CEO Yoon Young-doo, CNN has identified the two Chinese girls who were killed as Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan, both 16 years old. The two girls were found outside the rear of the plane, according to San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White. The girls were traveling with a group of high school students.
"I bow my head and sincerely apologize for causing concern to the passengers, families and our people," Yoon said.
CNN also confirmed the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder - known as black boxes - from the plane had been recovered from the wreckage and were on their way to NTSB headquarters in Washington, DC, to be analyzed.
A total of 307 people - 291 passengers and 16 crew members - were aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214 as it attempted to land after an approximately 10-hour flight from Seoul, South Korea.
Asiana Airlines confirmed 141 of the passengers were Chinese citizens, 77 Korean, 61 American, one Japanese and 11 others of unspecified nationalities. Among the survivors are 26 middle school students from China traveling to the U.S. for a summer camp trip, according to CNN.
The next press conference will be Sunday, and will be a joint effort involving San Francisco officials, high-ranking first responders, the FBI, the NTSB, Boeing and Asiana Airlines. The location and time has not been announced. Officials from South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will also be joining investigation efforts and are en route to San Francisco.
The flight originated in Shanghai, China, and stopped in Seoul, South Korea, before continuing to San Francisco.
The investigation into the crash will center on the condition and competency of the pilot, the flight data recorder inside the plane and the communications between the flight crew and the air traffic control tower to identify what went wrong.
The NTSB has already began interviewing the pilots of Asiana's plane, according to CNN late Saturday night. The NTSB also will be the first to delve into the pieces of wreckage along the runway of the jet.
The cause of the crash is unknown as of early Sunday, but according to the Associated Press, one aviation expert suggested that the plane approached the runway too low, and part of the plane caught the end of the runway's seawall. Yoon did confirm at a press conference that it was not engine failure that caused the crash, according to CNN.
Nine different San Francisco Bay-area hospitals are currently treating patients from the crash. The hospitals saw 182 passengers for injuries varying from bruises, broken bones and spinal cord injuries.?
"Currently our grand total of patients from this Asiana airlines accident is 52," said Rachel Kagan, Chief PIO, San Francisco General Hospital late Saturday. "This last wave or most recent wave of patients has been in much better shape than the previous three waves. Most of them can walk in on their own. They can talk. They are conscious."
CNN reported early Sunday that at San Francisco General Hospital - the area's only level 1 trauma center - six passengers were in critical condition, including a child, and five were in serious condition. Only six people have left since early Sunday morning.
During a press conference in Washington, DC, National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Debbie Hersman said three investigators based in Los Angeles are deploying to the scene to start the investigation. An additional team from Washington, DC, will be arriving some time late Saturday or early Sunday.
"We have a lot of work to do. When our teams arrive on scene, we're going to be looking for the cockpit recorder and see if it was working at the time of the crash," Hersman said. "We haven't determined what the focus of this investigation will be. We have to gather the facts before we can make any conclusions. NTSB investigations are very thorough."
According to the Associated Press, the plane, a Boeing 777, has a nearly sterling record, with the Asiana Airlines plane being just the second major accident in the 18-year history of the model. The Boeing 777 was introduced into service in 1995.
The first accident was British Airways Flight 28 from China as London's Heathrow Airport on Jan. 17, 2008. There were no fatalities, but 47 passengers were injured. Investigations later discovered that fuel was blocked from the planes' engines because of high altitudes, creating ice pellets in the fuel that clogged the fuel-oil heat exchange, according to the Associated Press.
"The 777 has a fantastic record," retired NTSB investigator Tom Haueter told the Associated Press.
The last fatal commercial airplane crash in the U.S. was Feb. 12, 2009, when a Continental Express flight crashed into a home in Buffalo, NY, killing all 49 people on board and one person inside the home.
According to CNN, Asiana Airlines has only had two other fatal accidents in the last 20 years: in 2011, a cargo plane crashed into the East China Sea, killing the only two on board. In 1993, a Boeing 737 crashed near South Korea's Mokpo Airport because of bad weather, killing 68 of 116 people aboard the plane.
Lee placed his emphasis on comforting the victims.
"We're deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with our friends and those affected," Lee said.
Lee also expressed his sympathy to South Korea, where the plane's operator, Asiana Airlines, is based.
All air traffic out of San Francisco International Airport was canceled for about three hours, and arriving aircraft were diverted to different airports in the region.
The FBI said there were no indications of terrorism or criminal activity associated with the crash.
Boeing tweeted a statement that said, "Our thoughts are with everyone affected by today's incident at SFO. We stand ready to assist the NTSB."
Asiana Airlines released a statement later Saturday from its Seoul, South Korea headquarters, saying, "Asiana Airlines is currently investigating the specific cause of the incident as well as any injuries that may have been sustained to passengers as a result. Asiana Airlines will continue to cooperate fully with the investigation of all associated government agencies and to facilitate this cooperation has established an emergency response center at its headquarters."
Video of the aftermath of the crash shows smoke rising from the plane and passengers leaving the wreckage using the inflatable slides attached to the plane's side doors.
Flight passenger Ben Levy recounted how the plane felt before it crashed as he left the hospital.
"It sounded like we were about to land. The nose of the plane, you know it goes up a little bit, full throttles, start hitting hard," Levy said. "We felt like we were going up again. I felt like he was going to pull one of those almost missed landings and go back up. Didn't happen we just crushed back. If we flipped, none of us would be here to talk about it."
David Eun posted a photograph on Twitter shortly after the crash showing passengers leaving the wreck. Eun, who is an executive at Samsung, said he was on board the plane during the crash.
Shortly after posting the picture, Eun tweeted, "Fire and rescue people all over the place. They're evacuating the injured. I haven't felt this way since 9/11." He also said that most of the passengers appeared to be OK.
One witness told CNN the plane spun sideways once it hit the ground.
"Nose wheel never hit the ground. There was no fireball after the initial one," Anthony Castorani, a witness at the airport, said. "There was a white plume of smoke, then after they doused it for about 20 minutes, there was some lighter smoke."
There were no first responders on the runway as the plane landed, and other planes were lined up ready for takeoff.
The weather was clear at the time of the crash, and local station KTVU reported there was little to no wind.
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Source: http://www.wave3.com/story/22775395/2-chinese-teens-confirmed-dead-in-san-francisco-plane-crash
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Bolivian president joins allies in offering asylum to Snowden
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales raises his fist during a welcome ceremony in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Thursday, July 4. Morales said Thursday that the rerouting of his plane in Europe over suspicions that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was on board was a plot by the U.S. to intimidate him and other Latin American leaders.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has yet another place to go, if only he can get there.
Bolivian President Evo Morales says Snowden is welcome in his country. He said Saturday he is making the offer as a protest against the U.S. and European nations he accuses of temporarily blocking his flight home from a Moscow summit because they suspected his might have Snowden on board.
RELATED: NICARAGUA, VENEZUELA OFFER ASYLUM TO EDWARD SNOWDEN
Morales follows Presidents Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and Daniel Ortega in making the offer. He'd earlier said he was willing to consider asylum for Snowden, the same position taken by Ecuador, which is another of Bolivia's leftist Latin American allies.
Morales did not say if he has received a formal petition for asylum from Snowden.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nydnrss/news/~3/9rYmRlELrq0/story01.htm
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Editorial: Europe?s Delayed Banking Union
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Source: www.nytimes.com --- Saturday, July 06, 2013
The Continent?s economic crisis will not end until its leaders fix its troubled banks. ? ? ? ? ...
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Philippines: 12 killed as Muslims clash with troops
?My comrade-in-arms, my pal, my buddy.?
? Oriana Fallaci
? Oriana Fallaci
?Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage when, all over the world, governments, intellectuals, churches, universities and media crawl under a hegemonic Universal Caliphate?s New Order. His achievement in the battle for the survival of free speech and dignity of man will remain as a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty.?
? Bat Ye?or
"Perhaps the foremost Catholic expert on Islam in our country."
? Fr. C. John McCloskey, National Catholic Register
?Robert Spencer is indefatigable. He is keeping up the good fight long after many have already given up. I do not know what we would do without him. I appreciate all the intelligence and courage it takes to keep going despite the appeasement of the West.?
? Ibn Warraq
?America's most informed, fearless, and compelling voice on modern jihadism.?
? Andrew C. McCarthy, Senior Fellow at National Review Institute
?Robert Spencer is the leading voice of scholarship and reason in a world gone mad. If the West is to be saved, we will owe Robert Spencer an incalculable debt.?
? Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
"The consummate Islam critic and expert." ? Bruce Bawer
?Over the years, we have become friends, and I have received his assistance on several pieces of legislation I proposed.?
? Former Congressman Tom Tancredo
?Few people are capable of applying scholarship, analytical reasoning, and objectivity to their topic -- while simultaneously being readable and witty -- as can Robert Spencer.?
? Raymond Ibrahim
?A national treasure...The acclaimed scholar of Islam.?
? Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy
?I am indeed honored to call him my friend.?
? Brad Thor, novelist
?A top American analyst of Islam....A serious scholar...I learn from him.?
? Daniel Pipes
?A brilliant scholar and writer.?
? Douglas Murray
"One of my best teachers."
? Ashraf Ramelah, Voice of the Copts
?Thank God there?s at least one man with balls left in the West.?
? Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury
?I read people like [Mark Steyn] and Bob Spencer and the rest of them, and I say, ?Boortz, you?re pretending you?re an author. These people really are. They really write some entertaining, some standup stuff.??
? Neal Boortz
?Robert Spencer is the Stephen King of Jihad.?
? Chris Gaubatz, Muslim Mafia
?Armed with facts and fearlessness, Spencer stands up for Western civilization.?
? Michelle Malkin
?Widely read in conservative foreign policy circles.?
? New York Times
?Widely read in many quarters in Washington.?
? Washington Post
?A canny operative who likely has the inside track on the State Department?s Middle East affairs desk should the tea party win the White House.?
? New York Magazine
?A hero of the American right.?
? Karen Armstrong
"The leading anti-Islamic intellectual in the United States....The go-to Islam expert for the right wing."
? Salon Magazine
?Robert Spencer is an Edward Said turned upside down.?
? Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
?One of the nation's most notorious Islamophobes.?
? Hamas-linked CAIR
"Geller and Spencer are probably the most important propagandizing Islamophobes in the world. These people's voices speak very loudly ? not just here in the United States but overseas."
? Heidi Beirach, Southern Poverty Law Center
?Satanic ignoramus.?
? Khaleel Mohammed
?The Likud anti-Christ.?
? Dar al-Hayat newspaper (Saudi Arabia)
?Zionist Crusader, missionary of hate, counter-Islam consultant.?
? Al-Qaeda?s Adam Gadahn, ?Azzam the American?
Source: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/philippines-12-killed-as-muslims-clash-with-troops.html
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Mayor Landrieu needs to re-think his choice for a new city hall
Mayor Mitch Landrieu has embraced the upcoming 300 year anniversary of our city.? In less than 5 years New Orleans will celebrate its tricentennial and the mayor will try to establish his legacy.? We know about the nearly $1 billion all-new terminal building at Louis Armstrong International Airport.? We also know the mayor is about to decide on one of three proposals for the old World Trade Center site on the riverfront.? Now the mayor wants to add to that legacy and move City Hall.
The mayor is right about abandoning City Hall and moving to a new facility.? The present City Hall, built in the ?50s, costs about $1 million per year just for maintenance and upkeep.? But the mayor is wrong about his choice for the new City Hall.
Landrieu wants to move City Hall and the Civil District Court down Lasalle street a few blocks to Tulane Avenue and the old Charity Hospital building.? With the new VA and Charity Hospitals coming on line in the next few years, the old Charity building would most likely get gobbled up by private investors looking to add support facilities to the new hospital district.? Doctors offices, laboratories, or even housing for nurses would seem like a natural.
Why not locate the new City Hall in a part of New Orleans near the CBD that needs a leg up, where no private investors would likely go?? Like crime ridden Central City.? It?s literally right next door to downtown and is an area that is in desperate need of investment.? A new City Hall in Central City will immediately clean up that neighborhood and bring much needed outside investment into that area.
The mayor is right, a new City Hall is long overdue.? Just put it in an area that needs help not in one that is already economically viable.
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Bahrain jails 29 for trying to reach uprising hub
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) ? A defense lawyer in Bahrain says 29 protesters have been sentenced to one month in prison for trying to enter a heavily guarded area that was once the center of the Gulf nation's anti-government uprising.
The court decision comes as some opposition groups, inspired by Egyptian crowds that helped topple President Mohammed Morsi, are calling for stepped-up protests.
Lawyer Mohamed al-Wasti said Friday the group was convicted of trying to bypass security cordons last year to reach Pearl Square, the hub of protests in early 2011.
Al-Wasti said the protesters plan to appeal Thursday's court ruling.
Bahrain has faced nearly 29 months of unrest as Shiite-led protesters seek a greater political voice in the strategic Sunni-ruled kingdom, which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bahrain-jails-29-trying-reach-uprising-hub-123731407.html
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Poll: Majority of U.S. primary dealers see Fed slowing bond buying in Sept
By Chris Reese
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is likely to begin shrinking the size of its debt purchase program, intended to prop up economic growth and support the labor market, by September of this year, according to the majority of economists at large Wall Street firms.
Economists at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan specifically cited the government's announcement earlier on Friday of stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs growth for June as a factor in bringing forward their expected timing of the Fed slowing.
Goldman and J.P. Morgan are two of 21 U.S. primary dealers - the large financial firms that do business directly with the Fed - that were polled by Reuters on Friday.
Of 17 dealers who answered a question on the expected timing of a reduction in purchases, 11 called for September, while three said October, two said December and one said it would happen in the first quarter of 2014.
In a similar poll conducted June 19, seven of 17 dealers called for a slowing in September. One dealer in the previous poll had called for the slowing this month, while three said October, one said November while four said December, with one still forecasting the first quarter of 2014.
Friday's poll was conducted after the government said U.S. employers added 195,000 new jobs to their payrolls last month, and revised its count for April and May to show 70,000 more jobs created than previously reported. Economists had been looking for 165,000 new jobs in June.
"With solid job gains through the first half of the year, the recovery appears to be overcoming the worst of the fiscal headwinds now at peak force. Fed officials are likely to keep tentative plans to start scaling back (quantitative easing), probably in September, barring a major upset," said Peter D'Antonio, economist at Citigroup in New York.
The Fed is currently buying $85 billion per month of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, and the median of forecasts from 13 dealers in Friday's poll was for buying to initially be scaled back by $20 billion per month. Forecasts ranged from a reduction of $10 billion per month to $28 billion per month.
The median forecast for an initial reduction of $20 billion per month was unchanged from the June 19 poll.
Of 16 primary dealers who answered a question on the timing of the end of the latest bond purchase program, 14 said it would happen on or before the middle of 2014, while two said September 2014. Those results were little changed from the June 19 poll.
Many analysts had been reeling in their forecasts for the timing of the beginning of the end of Fed purchases, after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said at a press conference on June 19 the economy is expanding strongly enough for the central bank to start slowing the pace of its bond-buying stimulus later this year.
Friday's payrolls data added to sentiment that the Fed could slow purchases sooner than originally expected.
"Coming into today, our call for a December first taper was already probably a little underwater, and after today's report we are moving to a call for a first reduction in asset purchases at the September (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting," J.P. Morgan economist Michael Feroli said in a note to clients.
The median of forecasts from 13 dealers called for the latest round of quantitative easing, known as QE3, to total $1.3 trillion of purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. That was up marginally from a median of $1.255 trillion from 12 dealers polled June 19.
Economists at 13 of 14 dealers forecast the Fed will increase interest rates from the current ultra-low level near zero in 2015, while one said it would happen in 2016.
(Additional reporting by Alison Griswold, Pam Niimi and Luciana Lopez; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/poll-majority-u-primary-dealers-see-fed-slowing-195719832.html
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One man's life under Google Glass
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Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/glass-515726-parks-google.html
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Cabot Institute blog: Brinkmanship, flood insurance and science
The ?Statement of Principles? on flood insurance agreed by the UK Government and the Association of British Insurers as a temporary measure in the year 2000 is due to expire on 31st July 2013. At the heart of this document is an undertaking by insurers to continue to provide cover for domestic property and small business customers as long the Government continues to manage the risk adequately.?
Specifically the agreement says that cover will be provided for properties built before 2009 either if the risk is low or there is a commitment by the Environment Agency to reduce it to low within 5 years.??Low? risk is arbitrarily defined as a property having a less than 1.3% annual chance of flooding, of which there are believed to be ~200,000 in England and Wales. In other words properties need to be protected against the 1 in 75 year event.?
Premiums can still vary with risk and the Statement makes no explicit provision for affordability, but the agreement does allow owners of some at risk properties to continue to obtain cover (and hence for buyers of these properties to obtain mortgages). An implicit assumption is that for properties built after 2009 the planning system has been operating effectively and has only allowed development in low risk zones.
Negotiations over a replacement were clearly going to the wire but today a Memorandum of Understanding was agreed between the ABI and the Government. This involves the setting up of a flood insurance pool known as ?Flood Re? for the ~200,000 ?high risk? properties. Premiums for the ?high risk? properties will be set based on council tax band. Flood Re will charge member firms an annual charge of ?180 million which equates to a levy of ?10.50 on annual household premiums.
This represents the estimated level of cross-subsidy that already exists between lower and high flood risk premiums. The scheme will be up and running by summer 2015 and in the meantime, ABI members will continue to meet their commitments to existing customers under the old Statement of Principles agreement.
Clearly the questions most commentators have fixated on are ?who pays?? and ?how much??. However, as a flood scientist a far more interesting question is ?how will we know?? and this applies as much to the existing Statement as to any new agreement. To put this another way: are we confident that we can determine to reasonable accuracy which properties are ?at risk???You might think this is typical academic hand wringing, but actually answering this question is, in my view, critical to running an effective flood insurance business.
For any given site the 1.3% annual chance flood will not have been observed and the Environment Agency and insurers use computer models that simulate flooding to calculate what such events look like. To use these you need to know how big the 1.3% annual probability flow is and to have a detailed 3D map of the terrain. The model then uses more or less complex variations on Newtonian physics to determine how this volume of water moves over the land surface.
At particular places such models can be great, but all predictions have error and because of uncertainties in both data and models this is certainly the case with flooding.?How big can these errors be? Well, in a recent study we found the plausible range for the current 1% annual probability flow for the River Avon in Warwickshire to be between 310 and 425 m3s-1: enough to make a significant difference to the area predicted as inundated. Ok, this isn?t the 1.3% level exactly, but you get the idea. Models also get worse as you zoom out because to be computationally tractable at regional to national scales they have to simplify the representation of terrain and flow which introduces errors.
Irrespective of what the ABI and the Government do in the future, this situation doesn?t change. The question of how good national scale flood risk assessments need to be to confidently manage risk and set insurance premiums is still unanswered.
Source: http://cabot-institute.blogspot.com/2013/07/brinkmanship-flood-insurance-and-science.html
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SAfrican government denies Mandela is "vegetative"
Oamohetswe Mabitsela, 4 months old, is placed by his mother next to a picture of Nelson Mandela for her to take a photograph of him with her camera phone, outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Thursday, July 4, 2013. The remains of Nelson Mandela's three deceased children were reburied at their original resting site on Thursday, a day after a court ordered their return two years after Mandela's grandson moved the bodies. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Oamohetswe Mabitsela, 4 months old, is placed by his mother next to a picture of Nelson Mandela for her to take a photograph of him with her camera phone, outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Thursday, July 4, 2013. The remains of Nelson Mandela's three deceased children were reburied at their original resting site on Thursday, a day after a court ordered their return two years after Mandela's grandson moved the bodies. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Children and other well-wishers release balloons to mark former South African President Nelson Mandela completing his 27th day in hospital Thursday, correlating with the 27 years he spent in prison during the apartheid era, outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Friday, July 5, 2013. The former president's health is "perilous," according to documents filed in the court case that resulted in the remains of his three deceased children being reburied Thursday in their original graves. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Children, a choir and other well-wishers hold balloons to release them to mark former South African President Nelson Mandela completing his 27th day in hospital Thursday, correlating with the 27 years he spent in prison during the apartheid era, outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, July 5, 2013. The former president's health is "perilous," according to documents filed in the court case that resulted in the remains of his three deceased children being reburied Thursday in their original graves. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Nelson Mandela is in critical but stable condition, the South African government said Friday, while a close friend said the anti-apartheid leader was conscious and responsive earlier this week.
The government reiterated that Mandela is not in a vegetative state, contrary to recent court documents.
A court paper filed June 27 concerning Mandela family graves said affidavits would be provided from his physicians to show that Mandela "is in a permanent vegetative state." A later filing dropped that phrase. Both court filings, however, said that Mandela's breathing was machine assisted.
A close friend of Mandela's, Denis Goldberg, told Sky News on Friday that he visited Mandela on Monday and that Mandela was conscious and responsive to what he was saying. Goldberg also quoted from something Mandela's wife told him.
"There is no sign of a general organ collapse and therefore they do not recommend switching off the machine because there's every chance that his health will improve," Goldberg quoted wife Graca Machel as saying. "The matter has been discussed and the decision was against."
A "persistent vegetative state" is defined as the condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without detectable awareness, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Goldberg said the legal papers that said Mandela was "vegetative" might have been written when Mandela was in a coma or unconscious, and that perhaps Mandela then improved.
"Maybe he's recovered a bit and that's what I assume," he said. "The lawyers can say what they like. I'm telling you what I saw."
Still, Mandela's situation is grave. Another court affidavit said that "the anticipation of his impending death is based on real and substantial grounds." A South African doctor, Adri Kok, said it was unlikely that a person of Mandela's age ? he is 94 ? can be taken off mechanical ventilation, another word for life support, and recover.
The court filing came in a case brought by 15 Mandela family members against a Mandela grandson who had moved the remains of three Mandela children from their original burial site. A court ordered the bodies to be moved back to Mandela's hometown of Qunu.
The family feud drew a rebuke late Thursday from retired archbishop Desmond Tutu who appealed to the family of Mandela, also known by his clan name Madiba, to overcome their differences.
"Please, please, please may we think not only of ourselves. It's almost like spitting in Madiba's face," Tutu said in a statement released by his foundation. "Your anguish, now, is the nation's anguish ? and the world's. We want to embrace you, to support you, to shine our love for Madiba through you. Please may we not besmirch his name."
The leader of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, Mandela spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990 and became South Africa's first black president in 1994.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
History of the World, Winged Camels, and an Israel-Palestine Peace
Tel Aviv, Israel? Israel?s military is unusual in many ways, but start with this: A patch on Captain Omri Levy?s sleeve alludes to a Mel Brooks joke. The patch reads: ?It?s good to B200 King.?
The B200 King is a Beechcraft used by the Israelis for reconnaissance. ?It?s good to be the king? was a laugh line delivered by Mel Brooks in his 1981 film History of the World: Part I. The phrase entered American pop culture, where it has remained ever since. To take just one example: Jeffrey Goldberg used it as the lead for his recent Atlantic profile of Jordan?s King Abdullah II.
Captain Levy, however, was born in 1986 and is not familiar with the comedic stylings of Mel Brooks. So I ask about another patch on his uniform, one that shows a camel sprouting wings. This story he knows well: Back in 1947, Egyptians, Syrians, and other Arabs planning to go to war to prevent the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab nations ? the original two-state solution ? scoffed at the prospect of a Jewish air force, saying that it would come about ?when camels learn to fly.? And so, the following year, the first squadron of the Israeli Air Force took the winged camel as its symbol.
I?m at a military base in north Tel Aviv, among a group of American journalists being briefed on Israel?s use of air power. The Israelis use both drones and piloted aircraft to gather ?visint? ? visual intelligence. But their mission is not just to identify targets. They also do everything they can to avoid collateral damage. ?We make sure there are no civilians around the targets,? the briefer tells us. ?We want to destroy Hamas?s ability to shoot rockets at us ? but we?re not trying to kill people.?
We?re shown a film, taken from a B200 King, of two shadowy figures apparently preparing to launch a rocket from Gaza into Israel. As soon as the figures move away, the rocket is destroyed from the air. I ask whether those seen in the film were targeted later. No, the briefer says, they were allowed to get away because there was a chance ? however remote ? that they were not terrorists, that they stumbled upon the rocket and were examining it out of curiosity.
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A Map of the Entire Internet, 1977
Once upon a time, you could draw a map of the known Internet. Here's what the world of networked computers looked like in 1977 when ARPANET was still just a huge government-funded science project. It's actually incredible that the network proliferated this much in the eight years after the first four-node network was established back in 1969.
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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/5BKxiipRoro/a-map-of-the-entire-internet-1977-677668943
Spotted: Alessandra Ambr?sio and Her Stylish Tots
The model mom stylishly steps out with her adorable kids in Beverly Hills.
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'Jobs' movie poster released in all its technicolor glory
The 'Jobs' movie starring Ashton Kutcher launches officially in August, and here we have the first official poster shared by. Shared by Moviefone It features an almost unrecognisable Kutcher in full Steve Jobs attire, footed by a simple tagline:
"Some see what's possible, others change what's possible"
Ahead of the movies opening on August 16, the producers, Open Road Films, has released some new still images of Kutcher and co-star Josh Gad as Jobs and Steve Wozniak. We have to admit at this point, we're pretty curious to actually, finally see this movie. How about you guys?
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