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Britney Spears is back in the U.S., and she's sporting a brand new look.
Spears was photographed at the valley tattoo shop "Body and Soul" in Sherman Oaks, getting a tattoo reportedly of a pair of red and pink lips on her wrist. But the biggest change to the pop singer's style? She shaved her head bald.
Spears could be seen inside the tattoo parlor with her head fully exposed, but as she left the shop she was led by her bodyguard straight to a waiting SUV. Spears had her head covered with a hooded sweatshirt to hide her new noggin.
The sidewalk outside the shop was filled with fans, onlookers and paparazzi. Some fans that were interviewed after Spears departed declared the new look less than flattering.
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Give me a choice of this or the Libby trial, Ship, and I'll take this.
Keep it up, Brit. Murph and the Magictones are always looking for lead singers. And the new look could open up the lezbo biker bar curcuit for them...
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GORT, there's a third car parked to the left of the trailer -- it can just be seen through the windshield of the black car. However, I'm not sure it can be assumed that the car on the left is inoperable, as there's no grass growing directly in its tire tracks. On the other hand, this isn't an area on which I have much expertise.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has expressed support for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s proposed roadmap to economic recovery, local newspapers reported on Friday.
The plan involves the removal of price distortions, implementation of a social contract and a price and wage freeze. Mugabe was quoted by the official The Herald newspaper as saying that the government would implement proposals by RBZ Governor Gideon Gono. The endorsement by the president is expected to spur the implementation of the year-long program which should result in a fall in inflation. Mugabe said also of concern to the government was the need to focus more on infrastructural development such as the building of dams and roads.
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Mugabe said also of concern to the government was the need to focus more on infrastructural development such as the building of dams and roads.
...which will come right after regular eating and drinking resumes.
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I say we help out. There's gotta be millions of Gerry Ford's "WIN" buttons laying around in some dusty forgotten federal warehouse.
I say we make an all out effort to find them and send them over...
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This will work about as well as the other road map we've been hearing about.
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A couple of days ago Zimbob announced they had a Hahvahd Grad put in charge of their financial system, IIRC, Listen to him and they've got a chance.
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I say we help out. There's gotta be millions of Gerry Ford's "WIN" buttons laying around in some dusty forgotten federal warehouse.
Britain is on the brink of becoming a decivilised society in which adults are no longer able to exert discipline over the young, risking the potential barbarism of the rule-less society depicted in William Goldings famous novel, Lord of the Flies, according to a senior Conservative politician. Shadow trade and industry secretary Alan Duncan is scheduled to offer the grim assessment of British society in an address to the Centre for Policy Studies think thank. According to excerpts of his speech obtained by Britains Press Association, the Tory frontbencher will say that the country is facing a collapse of authority as teenagers lose their fear of adult institutions, resulting in some young people effectively living out the story of Goldings seminal work, in which a group of young children descent into barbarism after being stranded on a desert island with no adult presence and no established law and order provisions.
The warning comes amid national alarm over the fatal shooting of three teenagers in south London within the space of a fortnight. Stressing that the impending risk of a decivilised society is the greatest threat currently facing Britain, Mr Duncan will go on to say: We need to empower teachers so that they can exert the control that too many parents are unwilling or unable to exert. The collapse of authority cannot remain undiscussed. If there is no fear of authority, there is no respect for it. It cannot make sense in a civilised society for children of school age to face the discipline they need in court rather than in class or in the home. Mr Duncan will also say that the country must muster the gumption to confront the decline of the education system, which he believes has been eroded by apathy and a lack of desire for achievement. Behind educational degradation lies a contempt for some people doing much better than others. Olympic sportsmen are part of an elite. If education is not about excellence, then its not about anything, he will say. There can be no success without the risk of failure. Our culture of achievement in education has become corrupted.
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"Britain is on the brink of becoming a decivilised society in which adults are no longer able to exert discipline over the young, risking the potential barbarism of the rule-less society"
Ummm, "on the brink"? I thought they'd tipped over the edge a couple of years ago....
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"We need to empower teachers so that they can exert the control that too many parents are unwilling or unable to exert."
I thought they'd decided that spanking was torture. They must mean they're going to really chew out their kids. Or maybe send their teens to their electronics-filled rooms for time outs.
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"Britain is on the brink of becoming a decivilised society in which adults are no longer able to exert discipline over the young, risking the potential barbarism of the rule-less society"
Nothing new here.
Physical intimidation is the only thing that works with some deprived yoofs.
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This is neither "New" or "News".
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Simple solution. International law has clearly determined that military field garrison conditions are not cruel or inhumane. This means tents, field kitchens, latrines, field showers, etc.
So the English government builds a dozen of these field camps out in the boonies. Any young person given an ASBO is sent there with what amounts to internal deportation.
The camps are managed under military discipline, and internees are issued military uniforms without insignia, just a name tape. As needed, the internees perform manual labor.
Good behavior and performance might result in being transferred to a military training facility for induction into the army.
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We've seen the progression of this for the last 40 years, both in Europe and the US. The destruction of parental responsibility by "experts", the prizing of "self-esteem" over "achievement", and the entire "juvenile delinquent" masquerade. We've failed to discipline children, we've failed to institute the idea that antisocial behavior will result in meaningful negative consequences, and that some behavior is good, some bad. This entire "relevancy" idiocy is destroying society. Notice who the people are behind it. I doubt their motives are all that sincere.
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Prediction: the Labor government forms a 'commission' to 'study the problem'. A report is issued with much fanfare. And things continue to spiral downward.
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Shipman: to a great extent like Joe Arpaio's tent jails. Not everything Arpaio has done has been wrong. His tent cities can be cited as a pretty good alternative to building endless brick prisons.
This does not mean that they need to inhumane places. It does not mean that feeding prisoners substandard food, or not enough of it, is acceptable. Nor making prisoners bury the indigent dead, nor forcing them to kill shelter animals.
I even advocate the use of tent cities for illegal immigrants, and putting such cities near the borders as internment camps while they await deportation. Nothing inhumane about it at all.
Right now England is letting prisoners go due to overcrowding. And because their government won't pay for new prisons, the logical alternative is to use army surplus equipment and make inexpensive tent cities.
Once they do so, such cities would make excellent "diversion programs" for unemployed young men who have received ASBOs. Under military discipline.
Oh, and sorry to read about your personal problem.
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Shipman: to a great extent like Joe Arpaio's tent jails. Not everything Arpaio has done has been wrong. His tent cities can be cited as a pretty good alternative to building endless brick prisons.
This does not mean that they need to inhumane places. It does not mean that feeding prisoners substandard food, or not enough of it, is acceptable. Nor making prisoners bury the indigent dead, nor forcing them to kill shelter animals.
I even advocate the use of tent cities for illegal immigrants, and putting such cities near the borders as internment camps while they await deportation. Nothing inhumane about it at all.
Right now England is letting prisoners go due to overcrowding. And because their government won't pay for new prisons, the logical alternative is to use army surplus equipment and make inexpensive tent cities.
Once they do so, such cities would make excellent "diversion programs" for unemployed young men who have received ASBOs. Under military discipline.
Oh, and sorry to read about your personal problem.
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As a teacher in a Catholic middle school,I can tell you the same problem(s) exist in the private sector also. The parents want us to do the job they can't or won't do, but only on their terms...which have been shown to be totally ineffective. Until parents are willing to accept responsibility for the lack of control/discipline/accountability/etc. they have engendered in their children, the teachers in both [ublic and private schools are fighting a losing battle.
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Mr. Chávez, whose leftist populism remains highly popular among Venezuelas poor and working classes, seemed unfazed by criticism of his policies. Appearing live on national television, he called for the creation of committees of social control, essentially groups of his political supporters whose purpose would be to report on farmers, ranchers, supermarket owners and street vendors who circumvent the states effort to control food prices.
It is surreal that weve arrived at a point where we are in danger of squandering a major oil boom, said José Guerra, a former chief of economic research at Venezuelas central bank, who left Mr. Chavezs government in 2004. If the government insists on sticking to policies that are clearly failing, we may be headed down the road of Zimbabwe.
Mr. Guerra's paying attention. Sounds like Hugo's building a secret police informer force, eh?
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also found this disturbing, lol:
Customers, even those in the governments own Mercal chain of subsidized grocery stores, are left with choices like pork neck bones, rabbit and unusual cuts of lamb.
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You have to admit Chavez is doing a great job following in the footsteps of Lenin, Stalin, etc. By the nature of communism, we should soon expect general shortages of food, fuel and clothing, as well as the creation of concentration camps.
I doubt President Reagan would have tolerated such new developments so close to the US.
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Pretty soon, Venezuela will have nothing but poor and working classes, the workers' paradise. Venezuela, meet cliff.
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Why does everyone forget Saint Mao in desciibing Horrible Hugo? Sounds like he's poised to make a great leap forward any day now. The "people" will start outing the bourgesoise, the reeducation camps are already being started and famine is in the wind.
Stalin and Lenin, yes but let's not forget old Mao too.
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I was making a general statement, of course there will be the *ahem* Party People, who will be taken care of by their loyalty AND usefulness to the cause. Lose one of those labels and you are dead meat. Just Like Zimbobwe and so many other dictatorships.
Hugo is just getting greedy. He wants the power and he wants it all, and he wants immediate gratification right bloody now! Which will be his undoing.
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Another lesson learned from Zimbabwe, right after stealing all the assets, letting your cronies fleece the country, and cowing the opposition.
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said he will chop three zeros off new bolivar currency bills to bolster Venezuelans' perception of a strong currency in a bid to curb inflation, which is now highest in Latin America.
But not near that of Zimbabwe. You've got a ways to go, Hugo!
But an ex-central bank director said the measure may have the opposite effect because it could give people the idea they have more buying power and businesses may round up their calculations so that consumers will pay a little extra.
The bolivar, named after Chavez's 19th century hero Simon Bolivar, trades above 4,000 bolivars to the dollar on the parallel market, around double the official fixed exchange rate is 2,150 bolivars. Chavez said he wants to alter the bills so that for example, a 1,000 bolivar note would be a one bolivar coin. "This will give us higher efficiency in payment systems, consolidate confidence in the currency and produce positive psychological effects in people," Chavez said in his late-night television program "Hello President."
Look how well it worked in Zimbabwe.
Chavez, who announced the move as part of an anti-inflationary package that included reducing VAT, emphasised his point by throwing an old silver 5 bolivar coin, nicknamed the "muscle," onto his desk with a clang. He said he hoped to launch the new currency next year on February 4, the anniversary of his failed 1992 coup that made him famous.
But Domingo Maza Zavala, who this year left his post on the board of the central bank, disagreed, saying it would prompt people to spend more and allow stores and suppliers to edge their prices up. "With rounding it's always the same problem, there's never any rounding down," he told local station Union Radio on Friday morning.
Chavez has faced opposition and media criticism for last year's inflation of 17 percent and has struggled to keep food costs down despite controls that have caused distortions in supply chains and occasionally left store shelves empty.
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Hey, Hugo. I was just kidding when I said print more Bolivars. That really won't work. Even if you chop off a hundred zeroes, which I figure will be happening by 2009...
Ségolène Royal is hoping her appearance on a prime-time TV show on Monday night will win over a sceptical French public after a week of campaign traumas including an economic adviser's resignation, lacklustre poll ratings and children booing her at a sports ground.
"Maman Ségo," the first woman with a chance of becoming president of France, was supposed to have spent this week basking in glory after setting out her socialist programme to protect the nation's poor and vulnerable in the face of her rightwing opponent Nicolas Sarkozy's plans for tax cuts and free market economic reform. But Ms Royal, a mother of four who has styled herself as the mother of the nation, instead faced polls showing Mr Sarkozy stretching his 6-8% lead. The French left as a whole is now at its lowest popularity rating since 1969 as parties struggle to capitalise on a feeling of malaise after 12 years under Jacques Chirac.
Nine weeks before the first round of the presidential election, the Socialist party's bickering and infighting saw its chief economic strategist, Eric Besson, storm out of Ms Royal's campaign on Wednesday. Others have since rushed to the press with anonymous complaints about the shambles of her team, ensconced in its own headquarters decorated with fresh flowers, butterflies and designer furniture. "Their amateurism makes me despair," one party official told the daily Libération. Another warned Le Monde of a "depressing" downward spiral.
Ms Royal's image is now staked on her performance on a TV show on Monday night which political pollsters say is as important as her rallying speech last weekend. The two-hour live political show I've Got A Question to Ask You invites the public to put questions to candidates. Ms Royal's camp said she was comfortable talking "directly" to "the people". Others are worried it could turn into a kind of Mastermind in which people fire complicated general knowledge tests at Ms Royal to trip her up. She has made a series of foreign policy gaffes and recently could not give the size of France's nuclear submarine fleet. Ms Royal must also aim for ratings as high as Mr Sarkozy, who had 8.2 million viewers on the show.
The Royal camp yesterday played down the resignation of Mr Besson, the party's national secretary on economy and taxation and author of a recent report branding Mr Sarkozy, an American-style neo-conservative. He left after costing Ms Royal's programme at 35bn (£24m) while her team sought to avoid public debate over figures. "Everyone must show a bit of discipline," Ms Royal said. Her motherly image was weakened when children booed her as she visited a training ground of the French rugby side. Her minders said the children were merely angry at being kept off the pitch by rain.
Ms Royal sparked a new policy row with Mr Sarkozy yesterday by saying she would rather invest more money in education than go ahead with a proposal to build a second aircraft carrier for France. Mr Sarkozy, campaigning on the Indian ocean island of La Réunion, questioned how Ms Royal could "rally" France if she couldn't rally her own party behind her.
Commentators warn that an unconvincing campaign could bring a repeat of 2002 when the Socialists' Lionel Jospin was knocked out at the first round by the far-right's Jean-Marie Le Pen. Ms Royal is well above Mr Jospin's poll ratings as at this stage of the 2002 election but faces a new challenge as the centrist candidate François Bayrou advances in the polls.
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The French left as a whole is now at its lowest popularity rating since 1969 as parties struggle to capitalise on a feeling of malaise after 12 years under Jacques Chirac.
I don't get it, wasn't Chirac in theory of the right?
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I don't get it, wasn't Chirac in theory of the right?
Yup, shiraq, the man who said that "libéralisme" (IE free-market policies) were as harmful as communism, that Europe's roots were as muslim as they were christian, is the head of the conservative right since 30 years or so... the struggle here refers to the fact that at each successive election since 1974, the french electorate (with an ever increasing bloc of non-voters who don't see the point of playing along with this deadlocked system) has put the majority into the opposition and vice-versa, as both the left and the right are unable and unwilling to stop and reverse the death-spiral of France.
Now, there's so much desillusion with both camps that even if the "right" is completely discredited, the left doesn't benefit from it. So, the "anti-system candidates" are the only ones expected to increase their share of the vote. Still, since also the polls have been systematically wrong since 1981, with a surprize victor, there will be a surprize this time too.
It could be that this time there won't be a surprize, and the System's two main candidates will square off at the second turn, or maybe that none will be, and that the outsiders will, or a mix of both options. Frankly, who cares? Not me, for sure.
(AKI) - Belgrade's district court on Friday sentenced nine people to over 99 years in jail for a staged traffic incident in which four of current foreign minister Vuk Draskovic's aides were killed in October 1999 when Draskovoic was a leading opposition figure. One of the main indictees, Milorad Ulemek Legija, a former commander of a special police unit called the 'red berets' is also on trial - together with others from the 'red berets' unit - for the March 2003 murder of Serbia's late prime minister, Zoran Djindjic. At the time of his death, Djindjic had reportedly been planning a crackdown on organised crime.
Legija and the other main indictee, police official Nenad Ilic were sentenced to 15 years each - 25 years less than in a previous indictment - for the killing of Draskovic's aides. It was the third ruling in an eight-year long trial, whose two previous verdicts were overturned on appeal by the Supreme Court.
Friday's court ruling is likely to provoke a renewed outpouring of rage from Draskovic, who has called the incident a "political murder," and has fingered Milosevic, who died last March in his prison cell at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague just months before he was due to be sentenced.
Draskovic was slightly injured in the faked accident when a truck driven by Ilic struck his motorcade on a road near Belgrade on 3 October 3, killing the four aides.
Four other former members of Legijas unit, Dusko Maricic, Branko Bercek, Nenad Bujosevic and Leonid Milivojevic were each given prison sentences of 14 years. Former head of the state security Radomir Markovic, and former customs director Mihalj Kertes got eight and three and a half years respectively, for aiding the perpetrators after the murder. Three other indictees got jail terms of less than one year, while former chief of Belgrade police Branko Djuric and security boss Milan Radonjic were acquitted.
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(AKI) A Bosnian court sentenced on Friday Gojko Jankovic to 37 years in jail for crimes against Muslim civilians during Bosnias 1992-1995 civil war. Jankovic, a Bosnian Serb, was indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes committed in the southeastern town of Foca, but the ICTY, which plans to complete its work by 2010, has turned the case to a local court.
According to the indictment, Jankovic commanded a Serb paramilitary unit in Foca in 1992-1993, and is responsible for several murders, the forced resettlement of local Muslims and for the rape of at least one Muslim woman.
The ICTY has indicted over 150 people, mostly Serbs, for crimes allegedly committed during last decade Balkan wars, and more than thirty have been convicted so far. In an effort to clear its docket and end work by 2010, the tribunal has turned five cases to local courts and Jankovics verdict is the harshest sentence pronounced so far. His lawyers said they would appeal the sentence.
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Waving blue campaign signs and cheering their support, thousands of people gathered to hear Sen. Barack Obama on Friday evening as the Democratic White House hopeful made his first presidential campaign visit to South Carolina. Obama was keenly aware of the significance of appearing before a crowd in Columbia just a few days after a black South Carolina legislator said if Obama won the nomination, it would lead to losses for Democrats in Congress and governorships. "Everybody's entitled to their opinion," Obama said. "But I know this - that when folks were saying we're going to march for our freedom, somebody said we can't do that."
And when others said blacks couldn't sit at lunch counters, blacks did that, said Obama, who ended his thought with: "Yes, we can." The crowd then started chanting the line. Obama also touched on the diversity of the nearly 3,000 people at the event, saying a generation ago, blacks were harassed if they walked across the Statehouse grounds a few blocks away. "Twenty years ago, nobody would have believed this crowd right here in South Carolina," Obama said.
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Cheap smokes in SC, Barack?
And Deval Patrick is pissed you stole his schtick...
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"It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power" Robert Mugabe
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I keep having a vision of this shill in front of a line of beater-mobiles, wearing the white belt and shoes and plaid coat. Course he won't be smoking a cigar, since he had his neighbor in DC shut down for doing the same thing; but this guy has more lines than fisherman. Sad thing is a lot of fish are biting.
Having spent £13,000 on installing a wind turbine at his home, John Large is disappointed at the return on his investment, which amounts to 9p a week. At this rate, it is calculated, it will take 2,768 years for the electricity generated by the turbine to pay for itself, by which time he will be past caring about global warming.
The wind turbine was installed at the engineers home in Woolwich, southeast London, four weeks ago and has so far generated four kilowatts of electricity. An average household needs 23kw every day to power its lights and appliances.
Mr Large said that his difficulties highlighted the problems faced by consumers who wanted to buy wind turbines to save money and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Like many small turbines, the model owned by Mr Large puts power directly into the national grid, but the requirements of the grid mean that power can start being transferred only once blades have been turning fast enough for several minutes nonstop.
Despite the wind usually being sufficient to turn the blades of Mr Larges turbine, it has been unable to generate a constant supply that can be put into the national grid. Unless a minimum generating capacity has been met, all the power that the turbine is capable of producing is lost.
Mr Large questioned the ability of the micro-generation industry to make clear to the general public all the pitfalls. Highlighting the range of turbines available, the need for planning permission, the difficulties in receiving grants and the electronics that need to be installed with the mini-wind-mills, he said: Im an engineer and Im generally au fait with it, but when you put all these together you get a load of huff for very little puff.
Mr Large says that the turbines performance fails to match its specifications. This claim is dismissed by the manufacturer, Proven Energy, which along with the installing company, Sundog Energy, says that Mr Large ignored advice that the site was unsuitable. Mr Large denies this claim, but he and Sundog are in agreement that more and better information about wind energy needs to be made available.
Martin Cotterill, of Sundog Energy, said that, although turbines generally worked well in exposed places, it was difficult to find suitable sites in urban areas because of turbulence and obstructions blocking the wind. He said that it was a common misconception that wind that was sufficient to make the blades go round would always generate power. Just because a turbine is turning does not necessarily mean its a turbine generating, he said.
Mr Cotterill said that the industry had been encouraged to try to establish international standards for wind turbines. Groups such as the British Wind Energy Association were trying to agree standardised data so that consumers had information on performance that was easy to understand. He added: Theres been a massive increase in the number of people wanting wind turbines. We take a lot of calls from people then we have to explain that its inappropriate for them. Solar panels are much better for an urban setting.
Despite so little power being generated by his new turbine, Mr Large remains enthusiastic about the potential for power production by micro-generators. Im undaunted, he said. I feel like Ive been sold a pup but its not a bad experience its a learning experience. Maybe I was a little bit ambitious.
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I've personal experience with wind turbines, I made my own and used it to partly power my home, The Big mistake he's making here is trying to sell power back to the grid, they only pay wholesale rates, much less than the price he pays to buy power, average is 3 to 4 hours of generated power equals one hour of purchased power.
To make the system work profitably, you need to use a Direct Current system, store "Your" power in Batteries, and use it yourself, either by converting it to AC with an inverter, or using it directly to power such things as light bulbs that don't care if they run on AC or DC, it's more expensive initialy, but works far better in the long run.
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Four weeks in mid-winter doesn't seem like a long enough 'trial period'.
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"...the manufacturer, Proven Energy, which along with the installing company, Sundog Energy, says that Mr Large ignored advice that the site was unsuitable."
The title should be "Engineer makes gross conceptual error in wind turbine project. Blames others for his incompetence."
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One other problem with wind turbines is that if the wind is TOO strong, you lose your turbine. We had gusts to 60MPH here in Colorado Springs, and some places along the Front Range had gusts to 120MPH. That does a job on your turbine.
The whole "alternative energy" schtick has massive problems that are being glossed over by its proponents. What we really need is to convert as much as possible to nuclear power NOW, and work on sustainable alternative energy until it's perfected. We also need to find a way to keep wind turbines from killing birds and other creatures, as they're doing in many places.
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You would rather have Live Birds, and no lights? OK Fine by me. When your ass is freezing because there;s ni power to run your gas or oil furnace, and enviro regulations prevent building a fire in your own fireplace, then I hope you'll realize the stupidity, but I believe It'll take something serious, such as the death of a loved one before you wake up and realize the stupidity of putting beliefs before survival.
on the other hand, if you're willing to say "Screw the Laws, and light that fireplace, then there's hope for you.
Decide now before the decision is taken too far and too late, it's called foresight, and planning. Decide what course you'll take NOW, survival, or stupidity.
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Let the wind turbines work by Darwinian selection.
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Goodness, Redneck Jim, are you sure you want to say all that to Old Patriot, of all people? I read his post as advocating going all out for nuclear power in the short term.
Disney, together with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, have purchased the rights to make Jihadists in Paradise. The film will be based on an Atlantic Monthly article by Mark Bowden, who will also write the script. As Variety reports, Bruckheimer and Bowden have worked together before, specifically on Black Hawk Down which was based on Bowden's book.
Jihadists in Paradise is about the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, which is based in the Philippines, and how one of its leaders made a name for the Islamic group by taking 20 hostages at a resort, eventually beheading one of the American hostages and dragging the other two Americans (missionaries) through the jungle for over a year.
Bowden has other projects in development, including Guests of the Ayatollah and Killing Pablo (both based on his books and articles), as well as another film that he's scripting about "extraordinary rendition" (the effective questionable method of sending suspected terrorists to other countries for interrogation and/or incarceration).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Britain is on the brink of becoming a decivilised society in which adults are no longer able to exert discipline over the young, risking the potential barbarism of the rule-less society depicted in William Goldings famous novel, Lord of the Flies, according to a senior Conservative politician. Shadow trade and industry secretary Alan Duncan is scheduled to offer the grim assessment of British society in an address to the Centre for Policy Studies think thank. According to excerpts of his speech obtained by Britains Press Association, the Tory frontbencher will say that the country is facing a collapse of authority as teenagers lose their fear of adult institutions, resulting in some young people effectively living out the story of Goldings seminal work, in which a group of young children descent into barbarism after being stranded on a desert island with no adult presence and no established law and order provisions. 
Waving blue campaign signs and cheering their support, thousands of people gathered to hear Sen. Barack Obama on Friday evening as the Democratic White House hopeful made his first presidential campaign visit to South Carolina. Obama was keenly aware of the significance of appearing before a crowd in Columbia just a few days after a black South Carolina legislator said if Obama won the nomination, it would lead to losses for Democrats in Congress and governorships. "Everybody's entitled to their opinion," Obama said. "But I know this - that when folks were saying we're going to march for our freedom, somebody said we can't do that."
