Dallas Business Journal - by Stephen C. Webster Staff Writer
The FutureGen Alliance, a collective of some of the world's largest electric and coal companies, has selected Mattoon, Ill., as the site for its federally-funded cleaner coal plant.
Other sites considered by the FutureGen Alliance included two Texas cities: Odessa and Jewett. The alliance of companies also passed on a proposed site in Tuscola, Ill.
"I congratulate the City of Mattoon, Illinois, on its winning bid for hosting the FutureGen project," said Texas Governor Rick Perry, in a media advisory. "And though Texas was not selected, our teams in Jewett and Odessa and our state officials deserve to be commended for developing impressive proposals to attract this project to the Lone Star State. I am certain that the public-private partnerships identified and leveraged in our bid process will be valuable as Texas looks to take on future alternative energy projects."
The FutureGen Alliance plant, said to be a near-zero emissions endeavor, would generate electricity using coal gasification. Excess CO2 would then be converted into a supercritical fluid and injected into the ground at the rate of 1 million to 2.5 million metric tons per year.
The FutureGen Alliance plant will cost more than $1.5 billion to construct. It's being jointly funded by federal, state and local government, plus a $400 million capital injection by the companies.
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FutureGen Passes on Texas for Coal Plant Site
Beast of the East
Beast wrestling tournament heads into third round
Sussex Central's Barch upsets third seed at 140
The News Journal
Updated Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Listed are the wrestlers from Delaware high schools who have advanced into today's third round of the Beast of the East national wrestling tournament at the University of Delaware's Bob Carpenter Center in Newark.
The third round will be the last round contested today in the championship bracket.
103 pounds: Sean Boylan (St. Mark's), Brandon Davis (Caravel), Chris Donaldson (Salesianum)
112: Sean Dolan (St. Mark's)
119: Colton McFatridge (Hodgson)
125: Cody Combs (Sussex Central)
130: None
135: Cody Carbine (Smyrna)
140: Vinnie Shaw (St. Mark's), P.J. Barch (Sussex Central)
145: Nick Tiberi (Hodgson), Rich Ngengwe (Glasgow)
152: Alex Meade (Caesar Rodney), Derrick Diksa (Salesianum), Brandon Hazel (Sussex Central)
160: Keith Hynson (William Penn)
171: Nick Mulderig (Hodgson), Brock Budesheim (Sussex Central), David Brower (Smyna)
189: Alex Thomas (Sussex Tech), Vinnie Ranauto (Caravel)
215: Jamar Beckett (Sussex Tech), Corey Olsen (St. Mark's)
285: John Gibson (William Penn), Warren Zeigler (Caesar Rodney)
UPSETS
Listed are the upsets of top four seeds so far in each weight class, through the second round of the championship bracket, plus those in the third round as results are made available.
FIRST ROUND
140: P.J. Barch (Sussex Central) dec. (3) Bryan Peace (Ryle) 7-2
SECOND ROUND
112: Justin Heller (Chestnut Hill) dec. (4) Jordan Glykas (Northampton) 1-0
THIRD ROUND
103: Clayton Youtz (C.Dauphin) won by tech. fall vs. (4) Cam Sullivan (Timberlane) 15-0 (4:51)
THIRD-ROUND RESULTS
Listed are updates from performances by in-state wrestlers in the third round. Winners in this round advance to Sunday morning's quarterfinals.
103 pounds
Dolan: won by maj. dec. 8-0 vs. Matt Sausman (Camden Catholic)
Davis: lost by dec. 4-5 vs. (7) Rob Jillard (Delsea Regional)
Donaldson: lost by pin in 1:09 vs. (2) Devin Carter (Christansburg)
112 pounds
Dolan: won by pin in 1:03 vs. Allen Phillips (D.Brearley)
119 pounds
McFatridge: lost by pin in 0:57 to (5) Andrew Bannister (Bishop McNamara)
125 pounds
Combs: lost by dec. 0-3 vs. (2) Chris Villalonga (Blair)
140 pounds
Shaw: lost by dec. 2-6 vs. (4) John Guzzo (Blair)
Barch: won by technical fall 15-0 (3:13) vs. Tyler Wilton (Jackson Memorial)
145 pounds
Ngengwe: lost by pin to (4) Peter Bronder (Noble)
152 pounds
Hazel: lost by dec. 3-4 to (7) Jonathan Weibel (Quakertown)
171 pounds
Budesheim: won by dec. 10-8 vs. Colin Lenhardt (Gloucester)
For full tournament details go to www.beastwrestling.com
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Marcia Cross Nude Photos Splash Online
Marcia Cross Nude Photos Splash Online, Desperate Housewives Star Fumes
By Susan Hatch
Dec 15, 2007
It's been a bad week for the stars of Desperate Housewives. Eva Longoria is busy defending her husband Tony Parker against accusations of infidelity and Marcia Cross is fuming over some wild photos of her taking a outdoor shower in the buff that have been leaked online. Her husband may have been partially responsible as they were dumped in the couple's garbage and then later found by a company they hired to remove their trash.
Marcia Cross Photos Splash Online, Desperate Housewives Star Fumes
Marcia Cross Photos Splash Online, Desperate Housewives Star Fumes
That almost sounds like two separate plot lines for the show and perhaps could be if the writers were not on strike. For Marcia the story is that somehow her photos wound up in the trash outside of her house. That's right, they were dumped in the trash. There were more than two hundred photos according to one report, however not all of those are of Marcia showering.
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Now it is a property battle and Marcia is furious that she has been posted all over the World Wide Web in all her glory. One man's trash certainly is another man's treasure at least when it comes to pictures of Marcia. So now what - will the photos be sold to a tabloid?
It's hard to say, the battle over the racy snaps began over a year ago and none have purchased them yet. Will the Internet buzz be enough to push someone to purchase them? The photo link is here (the first link is safe but the link contained within the blog entry will take you to the wet and wild snaps of Marcia in the buff so obviously they will not be).
source: http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272617722.shtml
Pay Per Click Obsolete!?
Pay-Per-Play is Set to Revolutionize Internet Advertising!
Whether you are an aspiring webmaster or the CEO of a fortune 500 company, you don’t want to miss a word of what this report will reveal and the impact it will have in the Internet Marketing Industry.
Major television networks have been in control of what you watch, when you watch it and how often you watch the programs that interest you. With the social boom caused by web 2.0 including social networks and online movies and video, major television networks can no longer confine your mind to their broadcasts for entertainment.
NetAudioAds Pay-Per-Play (PPP) advertising is an advertising channel that is set to take the web by storm. Because of the size and scope of this deal (backed by one of the BIG 5 search engines), PPP advertising will become a world wide business media event.
PPP works on a bid management system similar to Google AdWords and will compensate publishers just like Google AdSense but with one critical difference
Publishers (website owners) will earn revenue on 100% of their traffic... no clicks necessary!
The launch of Pay-per-Play
ads presents a major new revenue opportunity for website owners with decent traffic.
How much of your traffic are you able to monetise currently? 1%? 5%? 15? More? That's great...
But how about getting paid for every visitor to your site?
Can PPP do that? ...Yes, online PPP audio ads enables 100% visitor monetising!
PPP is:
* a very short audio ad - lasting 5 seconds
* played when a visitor arrives at the website hosting the audio ad
* purchased by major brand media buyers and direct response content advertisers
* charged each time the ad is played to a web site visitor
* priced using a bid management system like Google Adwords.
* website owner receives a % of the advertiser's cost per play
What's in it for you is that the web site owner or publisher hosting the ad (you) gets paid even if your visitor takes no measurable action.
Pay-per-Play (PPP) audio advertising is based on the TV advertising cost model for major brand advertisers - cost per viewer.
Read more about Per-per-Play here!
How to Find Healthy Toys for Your Children Online
Healthytoys.org is an online resource built by the Ecology Center to help educate parents, holiday shoppers, to identify non-toxic toys that might show up on their Christmas list.
In other words - no more bum toys that can be blamed on Santa, Jo-Ann Stores, Marvel , Mattel, Fischer Price or Dollar Stores.
Jo-Ann Stores recalled over 100,000 children's toy gardening tools in October.
Two different companies recalled 760,000 toy cars and action figures sold at Dollar Stores in November
Marvel Toys recalled 175,000 Curious George plush dolls.
Mattel recalled 675,000 Barbie dolls.
Fischer price recalled one million Chinese-made Dora the Explorer and Sesame Street Character toys.
Legal responsibility for toy safety may belong to the toy sellers in the United States but ultimate safety for kids belongs to the parents. That's you and me.
Healthytoys.org might be the online tool parents need to check up on Santa and his factories.
What's on your shopping list?
Source:http://www.thebizofknowledge.com/2007/12/educating_parents_on_safe_toys.html
The Weigh Down Workshop: Faith and Losing Weight
Over one million people have applied the principles of Weigh Down Workshop faith based weight loss program (via book, etc.) and have experienced major life changes, including weight loss, and freedom from substance abuse, smoking, overspending, eating disorders, sexual addictions, and various other strongholds. The Weigh Down Workshop was established over 15 years ago. It has been held in over 30,000 locations all over the world. It was originally considered one of the largest faith-based seminars in the world at one point in time. After holding the position for approximately a decade, many faith-based programs were spawned from many different denominations. However, Weigh Down continues to be unique. From what we have gathered, most of the newer programs have still been based on changing the content of the food. Weigh Down has always been based on the principle that diets have CAUSED or exacerbated overeating in this country. It has given people false hopes, and then failed them - making most people feel like failures. What is beautiful about Weigh Down is that it teaches people to depend on and to turn back to their Creator for help. We all need hope, and we all need help. Another source of help has been encouraging people to turn to the Word of God and to Godly fellowship. There is a growing army of permanently thin people who are helping others to let go of the magnetic pull of food. Weigh Down is a ministry and scholarships many people, and we pray that we are making a real impact on the plague of overweight/obesity in this country. Some of the latest positive statistics have been on children through the youth oriented program called The Last Exodus. It's amazing how much faster children will conquer this urge to eat when their body is not calling for it. The most recent video series entitled EXODUS out of Egypt: The Change Series is producing unprecedented results. Another unique thing to know is that the founder has been thin since she started these principles in 1986. There truly is a mindset where people have no desire to overeat anymore. We are convinced that Weigh Down has more permanent weight loss testimonies than any other weight loss program on the face of the earth. And these people would all be willing to come forth. Weigh Down holds the keys to not just weight loss, but to ending the desire to overeat. • The Weigh Down Diet (Doubleday), written by founder Gwen Shamblin, sold over a million copies. • Rise Above, the follow-up book by founder Gwen Shamblin, takes the basic issues from The Weigh Down Diet and expounds upon them. It is equipped to facilitate the struggler. • The Weigh Down Workshop has been around over 15 years. It has been held in over 30,000 locations all over the world. • This program bridges the gap between spirituality and health; there is a spiritual link between spiritual health and addictions. Weigh Down has been a powerful tool to show the link between them. • Weigh Down is REVOLUTIONARY. It is not a diet. We would like to challenge any weight loss program to prove that it can produce more results, come up with more significant weight loss, and permanent weight loss than those of the Weigh Down Workshop. It does not change the food; it directs behavior modification toward the heart of man. • THIS IS THE GENUINE ARTICLE. It deals with the root problem - the heart. We lovingly work with the heart and the genuine desire not to overeat.
Should You Watch "Super Skinny Me"?
'Super Skinny Me' isn't heavy
No, wait. That's what the documentary would have been about if it had been made in the U.S., where dieting is an obsession, a national hobby and often a competitive sport. But "Super Skinny Me" is British, and so, rather than glamorizing the quest for thinness for the audience, the emphasis is what happens, physically and psychologically, to two women who have never been on diets before as they make their way through a regimen of cleansing drinks, rigorous workouts and colonics. (Hint: nothing good.)
You can tell this is not an American production right away, and not because of the accents. First off, can you imagine finding two female American journalists who had never ever been on a diet? Can you imagine a 28-year-old American woman saying, as Louise Burke does, that at size 4 she felt too skinny? Really, it's worth watching for the contrast in cultures alone.
"Super Skinny Me" is billed as a "Super Size Me" in reverse. But whereas Morgan Spurlock was willing to go to extreme lengths to make his point about the harmful effects of junk food -- growing bloated and pale and sweaty right before our eyes -- the creators of "Super Skinny" play it very safe. This is good for the mental and physical health of the participants, of course, but bad for the documentary.
When, after four weeks, Kate Spicer, 37, develops a fondness for colonics and has some binge issues -- her eating is described as "chaotic" -- she is taken out of the experiment. The decision is obviously the humane one, but it requires an appreciation for subtlety that is not what we expect from documentaries like this one. To an American eye, at least, Spicer's "chaotic" misery over drinking yet another glass of cleansing lemonade or sudden surrender to a dessert looks normal enough for a woman trying to squeeze down several dress sizes. This may be a sad reflection on the state of eating, or perhaps television, in America, but it seems something a little more dramatic is called for -- fainting, or meltdowns or something. Frankly, I've seen more physical and emotional deterioration on "Project Runway."
The very nature of the project makes it perhaps not the best choice for film. Although there was a wince-worthy fascination with watching Spurlock shove Big Macs in his face, it is not terribly exciting to watch women not eat. Five weeks may be a long time to exist on protein shakes, but listening to the women complain of fatigue and crankiness was a bit like listening to every woman I know, including myself, at some dieting point in their lives. Suck it up, I wanted to say, that's why it's called dieting.
Of course, the point is that these women didn't need to lose weight -- their weight, size and body-fat levels were all healthy. So right there you lose half of the obesity-prone American audience. What the filmmakers are saying -- that so many stars and, by extension, young women are obsessed with being very skinny -- is obviously valid. But neither of the women come close to the skeletal images of Nicole Richie or Keira Knightley. The visuals are not exactly startling, no hair loss or ashen skin, no cessation of menstrual periods. In fact, the women look pretty darn good after the five weeks, though, of course, that may be my media conditioning speaking.
All of which makes me wonder if this wouldn't have been a better newspaper story. The strongest moments came when the women were discussing how they felt on the diets -- exhausted or irritable or out of control. How it put a strain on their relationships, how it made them measure their self-worth in pounds (or stones). What was occurring internally was more interesting than what was happening externally. When Louise says straight out, "I don't think I've ever been so unhappy in my life," it's a little hard to believe. Yes, we've seen her slumping at work, but we haven't been made privy to her depressive thoughts.
And she's even pretty excited when those size-0 jeans slide on so nicely.
mary.mcnamara@latimes.com
World AIDS Day - Benefit Concert is Under Way
| Leaders Claim Success on World AIDS Day | |
| 01 December 2007 |
Health activists around the globe are using Saturday's annual observance of World AIDS Day to focus attention on efforts to combat the pandemic.
The U.N.-sponsored Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria says it has provided drugs for nearly 1.5 million people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Thousands of people have gathered in Johannesburg where a benefit concert hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela is underway.
Some 50,000 people are expected at the concert which features international artist such as Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel and the Goo Goo Dolls. It is the fifth annual event hosted by Mr. Mandela to help fight AIDS.
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| President Bush, right, accompanied by U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador Mark Dybul |
The president started a five-year, $15 billion-initiative in 2003 to provide life-saving drugs to AIDS patients in 120 countries, with an emphasis on 15 nations, mostly in Africa.
U.S. officials say the number of people receiving treatment in sub-Saharan countries has risen from 50,000 to 1.5 million.
During a World AIDS Day event Friday, Mr. Bush announced that he and his wife Laura will travel to sub-Saharan Africa early next year to get a first-hand look at U.S.-sponsored AIDS programs.
The head of UNAIDS, Peter Piot, said there is still a serious shortfall in resources for fighting the disease, and that those afflicted with AIDS continue to be stigmatized and suffer discrimination.
UNAIDS now says 32.7 million people were living with the virus in 2006 - nearly seven million fewer than previously estimated.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
