photo it! Good Photographs Sell Magazine Articles

The truth is that many publications, especial the slick print markets increasingly look for a perfect "package" of words and pictures. Researching and purchasing photographs or other artwork to run alongside your exotic voyage piece backpacking in outer Mongolia or first hand account of an initiation ceremony into the guild of wax effigy makers could prove both time consuming, expensive and sometimes down right impossible to source.

If you are involved in writing these kinds of articles then the quality to take decent photographs is a must! I can't promise to turn you into an over night David Bailey, but as man who commonly learns things the hard way and who is a big believer in short cuts, these tips will help get you off to a good start!

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1. "It isn't cameras that takes bad photographs but the operator behind the lens!" That was the first piece of advice I was given by the tutor of a photographic workshop I attended when I first began submitting photographs to my regional newspaper.

What he meant was, to take decent shots you must have a good comprehension of your camera so, tip No. 1, if you still have your schooling booklet, spend some time browsing and experimenting so that you are thoroughly familiar with its capabilities.

2. When you are in perfect control of the wheel you need to know a petite about picture composition. Remember the rule of thirds. Place the field of the picture about one third of the way along the frame, either horizontally or vertically depending on how you are retention the camera.

3. Newspapers in singular like faces so try and crop in as close as you can and aim for a natural pose. This is not easy if your field is shy or of course embarrassed so try and construct a cheerful banter to create a more relaxed atmosphere. If appropriate, get couples to look at each other, this can often furnish an extraordinary picture as population can't help but communicate their feelings for each other, (whatever they are!).

I recently used this at a local school when I was asked to furnish its prospectus which included taking an assortment of photographs of the children while their classroom activities. A tour of the school nature reserve gave me the chance to seat my two guides on a bench. I gave one of them a flower and told her to let the other smell it! The reaction was a delight and I'm quite proud of this photograph.

You can use this tip even if there is only one man involved, just get them to look at an object or even a pet, (especially recommended), but remember, if your description is about a person, they must be the focal point of the picture.

4. Landscapes depend a lot on mood to be of course flourishing and mood is produced to a large extent by getting the lighting right. Low sunlight creates deep shadows and glowing colours so schedule your scenery shots for early morning or late afternoon. Sometimes though, the colour draining heat of mid-day can also furnish an atmospheric shot if that is the effect you are after.

No matter how heart wringingly beautiful your scene you do need to structure the shot so as to lead the viewer into the picture. This is done by having an object a third or so of the way into the picture that will draw the eye like a stepping stone onto the next part of the picture.

For instance, a shot of a distant mountain might have a cyclist winding his way down a country road a third of the way into the picture. From here the eye simply jumps to maybe a small lake two thirds of the way into the picture and this would finally lead to the mountain itself. One of my favourite set ups for this type of picture is to have a companion in the foreground gazing into the distance. You can't help but effect their gaze!

5. The of course top glossies request a high level of competence and photographs that show some artistic merit. Obtaining this level of quality needs a lot of practise and a good comprehension of your camera's capabilities, but... Remember me talking about short cuts...? This is the one I hire all the time and although I'm a long way from being a Lord Litchfield, it of course helps! So, copy the professionals!

6. Yes you did read that right! If their poses and set ups are selling then you need to create the same kind of photographs so keep a portfolio of images that you think will be beneficial to the kinds of publications that you want to write for. Practise recreating them with your own camera. If you take your examples from photographic magazines you'll often be able to acquire the camera settings used. Write these down for hereafter reference and when you go out on a shoot take your portfolio and use it to give you ideas.

7. The big newspapers hire top rate photographers and you can learn a lot from the photographs that they include. Study the blend and notice especially how keen they are on the human interest (or animal) angle. Often these photographs will have a slightly blurred background. This is deliberate and designed to focus concentration entirely on the subject. With a 35mm camera this is achieved by adjusting the f stops. Other cameras may allow you to do it by manipulating other settings this is why it is foremost to have a good comprehension of your camera's functions.

8. Often population are so busy trying to get their subjects relaxed and in the right positions they forget all about the background so settle first where you are going to stage the shot. Be aware of intrusions, the first-rate is a tree growing out of your subject's head!

9. If you have to take large groups try and make it three-dimensional. That is, have two population in the foreground production a "frame" for those in the background. E.g. A incorporate of trombone players facing each other with the rest of the band added back and framed under their extended trombones.

10. Be realistic. Going back to the starting of this list, it is the operator rather than the camera that creates good pictures, but this is true only up to a point. A very basic camera is of course not good sufficient to furnish the kinds of photographs that consistently sell, so if you have an old box brownie do think investing in some decent equipment.

Don't forget, good quality photographs are only half the story!

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The Pallas Cat

Endangered Species - Pallas Cat The Pallas Cat is a small Asian cat fluctuating from the eastern beach of the Caspian Sea and Iran to western China, central Kazakhstan, the Altai Mountains and Inner Mongolia and reaching Tibet and Ladakha. The Pallas cat was named after a German naturalist, Peter Pallas, who discovered the species in 1778. He also noted that the cat was missing the front pre-molar teeth, giving it 28 teeth instead of 30, as found in most felines. These cats inhabit both desert and the rocky terrain and woodlands of the mountain steppe environments where they have been observed on rocky plateaus at altitudes of 13,000 feet.

Although the Pallas Cat is not technically on the endangered species list, its status is close enough. This beautiful and unique beast faces extinction due to a multitude of threats. It is globally listed as Near Threatened by the Iucn (www.iunc.org) and ranked as a Cites (www.cites.org) Appendix Ii species. In Mongolia, work done by the Denver Zoo's Mongolia schedule identified key threats to the species in 2003.

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The most severe threat identified is from farranging over-hunting and illegal poaching. Pallas cats are hunted throughout Mongolia for their fur and body parts that are sold in general to the remedial markets of eastern Asia, and are also sought for the pet trade in some international markets. Western China's yearly harvest (excluding Inner Mongolia and Manchuria) in the early 1950s was roughly 10,000 skins. yearly take in Mongolia during the early 1900s was reportedly as high as 50,000 skins per year. From1958 to 1968 harvests averaged 6,500 animals annually, and in the mid-1970s, the yearly harvest in Afghanistan was estimated to be 7,000. Harvests in the old Soviet Union declined during the 1970s, suggesting a decrease in abundance, as they also did in China during the 1970s and 80s prior to the postponement of legal safety to the species.

Mongolia became the requisite exporter in the 1980s, with 9,185 skins exported in 1987 until hunting was prohibited in 1988 and exports essentially ceased. In modern years, Pallas cats have disappeared from much of the Caspian region and from the easternmost parts of its range in China due to over-hunting. Poisoning to control pika populations have taken place on a large scale in parts of the Russian Federation (southwest Transbaikalia, Tuvinskaya, Altai Mountains) where they are determined to be vectors for plague, and in parts of China (Qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia) where they are determined competitors of domestic livestock for grass. As a result, Pallas cats face shortages of prey in some areas as well as suffering threats from secondary poisoning.

The scientific classification of this beast is: Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Order: Carnivora, Family: Felidae, Genus: Felis, Species: Felis Manual. Its binomial name is Otocolobus manual. The other name for the Pallas cat is Manual. The word "manual" was borrowed from the Mongolian language. Manual is more preferable to those who live in Russia and other Asiatic countries.

It is oldest living species of the cat family, evolving some ten million years ago and is similar to the lynx in facial appearance, with a large, sturdy body and short legs. It is roughly the size of a domestic cat with a short, broad head and large, beautiful, round eyes. Its blunt wide-set ears are set low, giving the cat an owl-like appearance. Its long, silky coat varies in color from light gray to russet brown, with white tips to its hairs giving a sparkling, roughly iridescent appearance. There are dark lines on its cheek, rings on its tail, and its lips, chin, and throat are white.

Pallas cats look much heavier than they admittedly are due to their stocky build and thick coat and are well adapted to their habitat of steppes, cold deserts and rocky country in central Asia. The thick fur coat insulates them against the cold, and the well furred tail can be wrapped around the body like a warm muff. The well developed nictitating membrane (third eyelid) may afford safety against both the cold winds and the regular dust storms which arise in parts of their range.

Peter Pallas first suggested that this was the ancestor of the long-haired Persian breeds of domestic cats because of its long hair, stocky build and flattened face. The hair on its belly and tail is nearly twice as long as on the top and sides. This keeps this wee animal warm when it hunts on snow, cold rock or freezing ground. Pallas cats weigh between 4.5- 10 lbs. I first became curious in the Pallas cat while doing some explore on the Internet and found a website called bigcatrescue.org. This club rescues abused and unwanted cats, whether domestic or wild. When I first saw the picture of this cat, I opinion it was one of the most beautiful creatures I had ever seen and I wanted to learn more. Although it resembles a domestic cat in size, these creatures are thoroughly fierce: just look into their eyes. Every picture I have seen of a Pallas cat shows a beast who will not be tamed. They are able to climb rocky crevices and cliff faces with ease. The flat head and low set ears are opinion to be adaptations for stalking prey in open areas with relatively wee cover. These cats feed on a range of small mammals together with pikas, voles, marmots and ground squirrels, as well as a number of distinct birds together with larks, sandgrouse and ptarmigan.

They hide away for much of the day in caves or hollows under stones, or may adopt the burrows of other creatures such as marmots or foxes. Like the majority of cats, the Pallas cat is largely a solitary creature. Females have territories that may cover as much as 8 quadrilateral kilometers, and males are usually free-roaming over those territories. Except for the mating season, sense between cats may well lead to fierce fights unless a local hierarchy has been established. Dens are made deep in piles of boulders, and in here females give birth once a year to litters of cubs. Females can have up to 6 to 8 kittens after a gestation of 66-75 days, and are typically born in late April and May. They reach sexual maturity around 12 months old. They have a life span of twelve years, good black and white vision, perfect smell and hearing. Their whiskers add information such as wind direction and vibration.

Unfortunately, the Pallas cat is one of the least studied wild cats in the world but that is slowly changing. In conducting this research, I have found some programs that are trying save this wee cat. The one I liked best is the Pallas Cat Study and Conservation Program. Members of this schedule are committed to conserving the Pallas' cat and it natural habitat in Central Asia, conducting explore on all aspects of the Pallas cat's biology and promoting environmental education and awareness regarding Pallas cat's habitat and species conservation. This schedule also has a number of organizations that retain their efforts to save this beautiful beast from extinction. They include: the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, the Columbus Zoo, Disney's Wild Animal Kingdom Conservation Award, Wild about Cats, Woodland Park Zoo, and Philadelphia Zoo.

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Can Harley Davidson's hidden Weapon Revitalise Your Marketing?

Imagine yourself in a helicopter over Milwaukee, Usa, on the
shiny morning of June 13, 1998.

You look down casually on the criscrossing tangle of roads on Interstate 94, and then do a doubletake. You can't believe your eyes.

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It seems like there are hundreds of keen objects on the highway below. Maybe even thousands. You watch in bad dream as a veritable sea of black advances like warrior ants into uptown Milwaukee.

You hastily reach for your binoculars and your heart goes thump, thump, thump. Thousands upon thousands of Harley bikers, swathed in trademark leather and shining chrome bikes seem to be practically invading the city.

What should you do? Maybe you should call the newspaper. The police perhaps. legitimately Milwaukee needs some sort of warning.

But it's too late. The bikers are already in the city.

Then you see the fluttering flags

The roads of Milwaukee seem to be lined with cheering people.
Flags flutter in the sunshine. The roar of the crowd seems to
drown the chucka, chucka, chucka sound of the helicopter you're in.

Down at road level, 50,000 proud Harleys roar straight through the city.
You don't know it yet, but among those riders are senior executives, Ceos, employees and long-time owners of Harleys. It's a heck of a parade and over 125,000 owners turn up for Harley's big 95th Come Home' birthday.

Wouldn't it surprise you, even appall you, to know that in the spring of 1984, just 14 years earlier, only twenty eight bikers showed up?

28 to 365,000 members: What changed in 14 years?

It's called Hog. Short for Harley Owners Group.

Harley had dug a deep financial hole for themselves in 1983. Money for advertising was kinda non-existent. Saddled with this Catch 22 situation, Harley Davidson set about creating the first Hog chapter.

Using newsletters and club magazines they built their susbcriber
base one member at a time. From one solitary chapter, the Hog has mushroomed to an spectacular, 940 chapters around the world.

Working on an advertising funds of 10 cents or less

In 1997, Harley Davidson spent just million on advertising. Before you say "Oh, I don't have a million," -- look at Harley's
advertising funds for 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992...all the way to 1984.

Zero.

A big fat zero.

All their money, squillions of dollars, went into creating an legitimately top-notch product. And then creating a community that would buy into the brand.

You were expecting some big secret, weren't you?

It's called community. Yeah, that's the big secret. Creating community among your clients. Harley does it. Sting does it. Apple does it. So why don't you do it?

It's way too much trouble, huh?

Well let's jump back to Harley Davidson's behalf line. Think jackets, boots, gloves, t-shirts, bike accessories, baseball caps. Then do the math. Don't you think each Hog member is going to spend at least to keep up his/her Harley image?

What's behalf x 350,000 members? You got it. .5 million.

Now let's look at actual figures In 1996, Harley took home 0 million. Up from million, just eight years before in 1988. Mind boggling, huh?

And we're not even counting the profits from the sales of the
Harley bikes!

So how can you do a Harley?

Let's face it. You work too damn hard in your business

Yes, you know you've got to sell time and again to a customer.
And yes you know the real behalf lies in your existing customer
coming back time and again. And that customers talk to customers and it helps to build sales.

But where the heck are you going to get the time to do all of this
community business?

If Katrina can do it, you can

Katrina runs a little dress store in a town that boasts of less than 15,000 residents. Business can be cut-throat, specially with the
big megastores within 'small Business gobbling distance.'

Yet Katrina's done a 'Harley.'

Every month, Katrina heads out for coffee. And she's not alone.
In the quaint little cafe down the road, there's a hubbub of excitement. Katrina's customers are having a whale of a time. They're laughing, chatting and tucking into cheesecake -- while Katrina picks up the tab month after month.

Do you see the word advertising anywhere?

Printing of slick brochures? Hundreds of dollars of publicity?

All it costs is .50 for a coffee. Per customer. Per month.

That's all it takes. And Katrina's community builds one customer at a time. Customers bring friends, friends bring friends and the dresses fly out of Katrina's dress store.

Why community is the most fine underground of all

1) The competition doesn't have a clue

While approved advertising and publicity is great, it costs
serious moolah. And everyone, along with competitors, can see
exactly what you're doing. Once they get their grubby hands
on your plans, they can outspend you, outsmart you and send your Business into outer Mongolia.

With community, you can see who's arrival straight through the door. And you're the doorkeeper. It gives you the opportunity to generate Super Glue loyalty, long before your competition wises up.

2) Communities give definite and vital feedback

Ja, ja. They may complain good-naturedly at times. But mostly
they'll be giving you necessary feedback. They'll tell you what they want and what is passe. Tey'll bond with you. Trust you and your judgement with each meeting.

You will no longer have to guess what your customers want.
They'll tell you even without your asking. What more could you ask for?

3) No man is an island

You've heard that phrase before. No man or woman likes to be an isolated case. Psychologically, we all like to be part of a group, a society, a country or a community of some sort. Give your clients something to cling to and watch how leaders and volunteers form within the community, dramatically lessening your workload.

Bankers call it mixture interest

Invest in an inventory now and put away a little bit every day
Suddenly before you know it, you've got gazillions in the bank.
Building community is no different. You'll have to put the pieces together, one evangelist at a time.

Ladies and gentlemen, rev up your engines. Hit the road and start construction your community. And you'll find as Harley has found with Hog.

That yes, communities do bring home the 'bacon.' ;)

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Tea's work on in Mongolia and Russia

Tea trade with the western world is ordinarily recognized as beginning with the European colonial powers in the late 1500's, but this is not exactly accurate. Prior to the western European trade and expansion, there was a great empire that surpassed even Rome in size and the diversity of countries conquered. The Mongol Empire started with the rise of Genghis Khan in 1206 Ce and ended in 1370 Ce after many civil disruptions and external pressures. While 164 years is not considered powerful for an empire, the impact the Mongols had was remarkable. Oddly, the one thing that is often forgotten in history is the one item these old habitancy took with them when their empire fell. Tea was an item of treasured by the Mongols.

The Mongolian habitancy recognized that tea was a medicine, food, drink and functional trade good. Because the Mongols retained a primarily nomadic lifestyle, coins where seen as valuable, but could only be used to trade with outsiders. Tea was valued because it was directly useful. Mongolian milk tea is still a staple of the Mongol diet today. This is a thick tea made by breaking bricked tea into boiling water. Stirring constantly for a few minutes, fresh whole milk is added until a ratio of one part milk to 5 or 6 parts tea is obtained. Sometimes served with a exiguous salt and fried mullet, this is similar to Tibetan Butter tea. Brick tea is still exported from China today to the areas inhabited by today's nomadic Mongols.

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Because of the reach of the Mongols, extending in the middle of the Sea of Japan to the Danube river in contemporary Poland and from northern Siberia to the northern reaches of India, tea became part of trade and life for many people. After the Mongol empire ended, the ruling soldiery (which ever happened to rise to power during Russia's many power struggles) attempted to separation themselves from an association with their former conquerors. Tea was seen as something "common" and ordinarily disregarded by the ruling classes. At last this changed, thanks to a Russian envoy who did not even drink tea.

In 1636, an envoy by the name of Vassli Starkov was sent from the court of Tsar Michael the First to Altan Khan of the Mongol people. The Khan offered a gift to the Tsar of 250 pounds of tea, which Starkov initially refused. Thanks to the insistence of Altan Khan, the tea was standard and brought to the Russian court as a gift rather than as a Mongol primary trade good. In this form, tea had returned to Russia as a item of high court instead of a conquerors' habit.

Because the route to China was so difficult, the cost of tea was high adequate to prohibit it's general spread covering of the wealthy aristocrats. In 1679 a treaty with China was reached that involved furs for tea. The following rulers, together with Alexis I and later Catherine the Great, passed laws that tightly regulated the trade, but at Catherine's death in 1796, Russia was challenging almost 3 million tons of tea from China annually. Camel caravan straight through Siberia was carrying all of this.

The Trans-Siberian Railway, reducing the time tea took to get to Russia from 18 months to some days, At last replaced the old tea route in 1880. The last caravan ended in 1925, but the import of tea to Russia increased to the point where in the twenty first century examine has grown to over 160,000 tons per year. Tea is as Russian as caviar and vodka and, happily, more affordable.

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And You plan Just The Federal Government Was In Dire Financial Shape

Many experts from varied fields of expertise have talked about how dangerously high the Federal government's debts and spending are and how that debt and spending threaten the very solvency of the country. Just in the last three fiscal years while which the Democrats controlled Congress, including the first two years of the Obama Presidency, the national debt will have gone up about Trillion or about ,000 per U.S. Household. It is on a trajectory to go up other Trillion in the next decade and that is probably a best case scenario. This comes out to over 0,000 per household. All of the standard measures of sound fiscal policy, e.g. every year deficit as a percentage of Gdp, total national debt as a percentage of Gdp, etc. Are raising red flags of how dire our nation's Federal government finances are.

But, wait! There's more. If you thought the Federal government was in bad financial shape, reconsider some statistics for some local and state governments that appeared in a up-to-date New York Times description by David Brooks:

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- In New Jersey, employment benefit packages for state employees are 41% higher than similar benefit packages for those working for the average Fortune 500 company.

- New York City schools are in bad shape, possibly because the city has allowed over 10,000 former policemen and police women to retire before the age of 50.

- In California, a state very, very close to bankruptcy, in-state police officers receive 90% of their salaries when they retire at age 50.

- An average California corrections officer can earn over 0,000 when overtime is taken into account.

- The description points out that California spends more money on its prison system than its school systems.

- Unfunded state government pension obligations total about Trillion. Agreeing to a source quoted in the article, a political scientist at the City College of New York, government employees at all levels of government earn, on average, make more per hour in wages and benefits than their underground sector equivalents.

- Buffalo, New York has 50% fewer citizens than it had in 1950 but the same estimate of local government employees.

Want some more torture? reconsider the following facts from the November, 2010 issue of hypothesize magazine and the description that in case,granted a blueprint for financially rescue the country:

- while the Great Recession, the underground sector of the cheaper shed roughly 8.5 million jobs but all levels of government beyond doubt added government employees while the retreat to the tune of 100,000. Thus, there were fewer and fewer underground sector jobs and their taxes to support more government employees, putting mountainous strains on the government budgets below the Federal level.

- In a July report, the national consulation of State Legislators estimated that the states face a total budget gap of billion for the next fiscal year, with roughly half of all states mental that their deficits will be more than 10% of their total budgets.

- In a June analysis, the National Governors relationship estimated that the cumulative budget shortfalls for state governments over the next three years will be roughly 0 billion. Despite their own estimates, the same Governors are recommending budgets that are actual 3.6% Higher for fiscal 2011.Talk about insanity. Fewer underground sector jobs are available but state and local governments expand. Governors know they will have less money in the advent years but recommend that state government budgets be increased. Habitancy bases shrink substantially but the governments supporting substantially fewer citizens does not. It's crazy.

Why are we in this situation. Two inherent causes:

1) Mr. Brooks suggests that it all comes down to the political class looking to spend taxpayer dollars to buy votes for the perpetual re-election. Take care of the public worker unions with high wages raises while economic boom times and promised hereafter pension increases in lean times, essentially kicking the financial time bomb of pensions down the road to hereafter generations, and you will most beyond doubt get most of the union votes and a good opening of re-election, fiscal sanity and prudence need not apply.

2) The hypothesize description debunks the claims by state and local politicians that the economic downturn caused their budget problems. The description calculates that in the middle of 200 and 2008, i.e. Good economic times before the full impact of the retreat took hold, the national Habitancy grew 8% and the Cpi inflation indicator grew 25%. Thus, a rough evaluation of how much state and local government should have grown to take into list more Habitancy and inflation ( Buffalo, corollary closely) would be about 33%. However, while the good times and before the Great Recession, whole state government spending beyond doubt increased about 60%, roughly twice as much as it logically should have. Thus, the political class has no one to blame but themselves. They increased their power and statue at the expense of their taxpaying constituents well before they can blame the economic downturn. Thus, ego, not recession, got most of the states into the budget mess they are in today.

The sad part of the whole situation is that the state and local governments are now so hamstrung by these outrageous commitments to unions and pensions, they have very petite money left for helping out their citizens. By overpaying police and corrections officers, both active and retired, the state of California neglects its school systems. The New Jersey Governor recently suspended work on a new tunnel into New York City from New Jersey because it was getting too costly and also because the state has such high commitments to its public sector unions that there is petite money left over for such projects, even though the long term financial benefit of the tunnel is high. Buffalo's city government is at least 50% less efficient than it was 60 years ago plainly because it has the same estimate of public employees serving half as many people, despite productivity and efficiency enhancements in the way we live and work, e.g. Computers, communications, etc.

Mr. Brooks beyond doubt nails the basal qoute with the following thoughts:

"Many of us would be happy to live with a bigger version of 1950s government: one that ran surpluses and was dexterous enough to tackle long-term problems as they arose. But we don't have that government. We have an immobile government that is desperately over-committed in all the wrong ways.... Someday there will be a political movement that is willing to make choices, that is willing to say 'this but not that.'"

"Immobile government," what a wonderful vision that also applies to the Federal government and the political class running it. Politicians seem to spend most of their time in office running for their next re-election, never willing to say no to any group or assosication in order to scrounge up as many votes as possible, logic, reality, and fiscal sanity being thrown out the window. We never run surpluses and we never see politicians tackle long term problems. Problems like the War On Drugs, the energy crisis, failing public education, illegal immigration, impending fiscal insolvency of public security and Medicare/Medicaid, etc. Are never solved. Seems like the same dullness is also happening at the local and state level. Be scared, be very scared.

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Green Tea Ingredients

Green tea has been clinically shown to possess good benefits for your health, and is a very natural, safe avenue you can take in an attempt to have a wholesome lifestyle. It is important to note that your are not dealing with drug with remedial properties. A lot of habitancy are comfortable with products that come from nature, they tend to be safer for your digestive systems and promote total body health.

A green tea plant consist of three main ingredients that are useful to your health. These are caffeine, L-theanine and Ecgc the miracle antioxidant. They work together in the body after you consume the tea to promote good health, weight loss and beauty.

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Caffeine is found on the outer membrane of the leaf, not to wake us up in the morning but as a self defence mechanism. When insects come to eat the tea leaves they are stopped by the bitter taste. Well caffeine is important for weight loss because it stimulates the system. However, you do not want excess amounts as found in coffee that is why green tea is perfect, because it has just the right amounts.

L-theanine is the miracle ingredient because it is only found in a tea plant and a very rare mushroom that grows in Mongolia. It is a non protein based amino acid that prevents the harmful effects of caffeine on the body and also regulates serotonin so you do not feel hungry during the day. That is also how it helps you with weight loss.

Lastly, let us look at the antioxidant Egcg. When antioxidants are ingested into your body they fix damaged cells. These cells are called free radicals, and they attach onto good cells. They then multiply and can ultimately lead to cancer, heart attack, stroke, high cholesterol as well as weight gain.

However, by fascinating antioxidants you are able to fix those cells. So the more you consume the less cellular damage you have. All three ingredients found in green tea work together to keep your body wholesome at all times.

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India Expands Its Horizon - Courting Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in Central Asia and is wedged in in the middle of China and Russia. In an exertion to pay China back in its own currency the Indians have been assiduously cultivating Mongolia. Mongolia does have some fixation about its larger neighbor and India would like to sound good relations with this land locked state.

One of the fields of cooperation with Mongolia is the Military. Mongolia maintains a small defense force and concentrates on potential to deter any aggressor. Indian and Mongolia have been seeing Eye to eye on many matters. The Indian Army is conducting joint exercises with Mongolian Army, though China frowns on it.

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The latest practice code name 'Nomadic elephant' took place at Belgaum with a two week training and active carrying out session in counter insurgency. Along with the Indian Army 30 officers and men of the Mongolian defense troops took part. It is worth noting that the practice tapered off while the visit of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to India. Perhaps it was statement of India's intent.

The troops ties in the middle of India and Mongolia are on the growth and Defense cooperation has grown steadily for over a decade. It is worth pointing out that the first joint practice in the middle of the two nations took place in 2004. After that the practice and drills has come to be a regular feature. In 2005 the Mongolian armed troops personnel took part in exercises at the Indian Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairnagte, Mizoram. an additional one practice in 2008 was held in Mongolia. The stress on the practice in Mongolia was on peace holding operations.

Joint Exercises are only one facet of the troops cooperation in the middle of India and Mongolia. Top generals and staff from Mongolia have visited India and it is followed up by the visit of the Indian army top brass to Mongolia. The previous Vice-Chief of the Army Staff Lt. Gen. Noble Thamburaj had visited visiting Mongolia last year. The occasion was the Mongolian armed troops day celebration. The Chief of the Army Staff of Mongolia also visited India to attend the Defense Expo exhibition at Delhi.

The Mongolian Defense clergyman L. Bold was one of the special invitees at the 2009 Aero India exhibition and was also a member of the Joint Working Group meeting in India.

It is good that India is cultivating Mongolia as it shows a widening of horizon and a realization that India has a global role. China won't be happy.

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Camel Fibre Used In making Sports Goods

Camels have two different qualities of hairs on their body. They are the relatively coarse outer hair and the inner down fibre. The outer hair is coarse and can be up to 37 cm in distance with a diameter of 20-120 microns. The inner down fibre produced by animals in hot desert climates tends to be coarser and sparser than from those living in a more temperate climate. The inner down fibre varies from 19-24 microns and varies between 2-5 and 12.5 cms in distance which is used in yarn production.

The fibres are collected by shearing and by combing and range during the molting season. When camels mount they don't lose all the hair at once, but lose it over a duration of six to eight weeks. The hair is sorted according to shade and age of the animal. Color varies from reddish to light brown. White fleece is most valuable but is quite rare.

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Fabrics made from camel hair are commonly left in the natural state or dyed to a darker shade of brown. The inner down fibres are used to make fine wool for over-coating, top coating, sportswear and sports hosiery. The outer coat hairs are used to make felt for the Mongolian yurts or tents and for the herdsmen's winter coats. Camel fibre has characteristics of conductivity, softness and strength.

The best fibre is found in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Technology in countries such as Australia is enhancing production of the fine fibre.Camel fibres are in examine during the winter seasons.

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How to control the World

This is a very sharp Question, but it cannot be answered so simply, it all depends on what kind of control do you want, how do you want to fetch it, and what image do you want after the control.

The sass varies in the middle of raging a global war to hypnosis.

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The mongols tried complete destruction lead by Genghis Khan and they did that with great power, destroying civilisations, together with the Chinese, Arabs, and approximately reaching Europe, but now,,, Mongolia is determined a 3rd world countries, and people live in huts in one of the coldest deserts in the world. Also Persians, Romans, Greek, and Hitler took the same path, but that led them to the same outcome, a short lived pride, then destruction of the civilization.

Conquer and Divide was the European idea, Spain, Portugal, and the famous British empire, and it was a very smart idea, They would conquer a country and divide the people within the country so that they would need a governing power from the outside, that would certify the conquering country the power, but in the long run it does not work and a great example of this is the great British empire, the empire that would never see the sun set, and now what have come to be of it? a small island (considering the past) that is a follower.

But in my belief I think the definite variables to control the world should be:

What kind of control do you want? Complete domination of the world. How do you want to fetch it? Peacefully (I can approximately see the ironic smiles and hear the ironic chuckles) What image do you want after the control?

A hero.

Now I know that these seem to be impossible variables for this equation, but with the right resources, it is possible. Everybody knows Harry Houdini, he wasn't a magician, he was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that? Misdirection, What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

This is truly the only way, set the people to your believe, make them love what you love, adore what you adore, and most importantly hate and loath what you hate and loath, that can never be done through power, it is done psychologically, without them knowing. That is made very easy through the beautiful inventions (Tv, Radio, Internet,...etc). You see before these inventions, news travelled very slow, the Muslims invented a very sharp way to carry news, they would set points from one city to an additional one and with a man in every point, a man would sprint from one point to an additional one delivering the message to the next person, that would certify the fastest delivery. But that would only be for official government mail, but now, there are hundreds of channels, thousands of magazines, millions of websites, tons of games, a message can be sent through those channels, let's take a very small example, approximately Everybody saw the movie (The Dark Night) and arguably is determined one of the best movies ever, and is the 10th best movie according to the Internet movie database, I can't disagree, in some points, the acting was very good, the output was beautifully done, but there was a small detail, which most people didn't notice, at the end of the movie the conversation in the middle of Batman and Alfred about the invasive guard technology, which was verily an safe bet defence of the patriot act. This was made in one singular scene, in one movie, imagine the impact of the mass media outputs, putting the ideas a small measure at a time, until the people start to agree with it, and a small expanding to this is,,, sex, sex all the time sells. Put sex with mass media, and you will get the exquisite tool to control the world with you being the hero at the end.

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Independents Acceptance of Gop's Alternate State Of Reality Will Be Mitigated

Independent voters turning against the President and the Democrats after the mostly prosperous implementation of the policies the President promised and they supported, shows Republican success in creating an alternate state of reality and the Democrats ineptitude in presenting what was done, why it was done, and the role Republicans played in slowing down policies to support small firm in mitigating this Great Recession. It should be noted that this Great recession is the ensue of 30 years of contribute side economics, a tax procedure supporting the transfer of wealth from the middleclass to the top 2%, lack of regulation that enabled the creation of financial instruments that while making many wealthy, almost brought down the world economic system, and the policies that facilitated the outsourcing constantly of American jobs.

Only in an alternate state of reality is a healthcare reform bill in which the deliverer of healthcare is inexpressive and the guarnatee fellowships paying for healthcare is inexpressive can it be called a government takeover. Only in a state of alternate reality can the salvage of thousands of manufacturing jobs that finally allowed the American auto manufactures to survive be characterized as a failure. Only in a state of alternate reality is a stimulus that prevented the unblemished contraction of the Us economy be characterized as a failure. Only in an alternate state of reality is the regulation of the financial manufactures that almost brought down the world economy a bad thing.

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For the last 21 months Democrats have been governing as Republicans were posturing. It is impossible to exact 30 years of economic mismanagement in 21 months. The failure of Democrats to clue the American citizens of the relatively long path it will take to get us out of this economic morass because of the structural blemish in our economy that can only be mitigated by large investments in our industries is a cause of much of the current angst in the country. As the ensue of these speculation are realized the semblance of reality promoted by Republicans will cease to have the corrosive ensue it currently has on our body politic.

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Protoceratops Facts

Protoceratops was a cerotopsian dinosaur (related to dinosaurs such Styracosaurus and Triceratops) that lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the middle of 85 million and 80 million years ago. Like its relatives, Protoceratops was a herbivore (plant eater).

Protoceratops was generally about six and half feet (2 meters) long, although some adults grew larger, perhaps as long as 9 feet (2.7 meters). generally speaking, Protoceratops was quadrapedal (walked on four legs), although it is likely that the animal may have been able to stand up on its hind legs (its hind legs are longer than its front legs). Protoceratops is recognizable by its bony neck frill, and beak-like jaws which would have been able to munch straight through tough vegetative matter. Unlike many other Cerotopsian dinosaurs, Protoceratops did not have horns on its snout or neck frill. It did any way had have a bony knob on its snout.

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Two species of Protoceratops are currently known: Protoceratops andrewsi and Protoceratops hellenikorhinus. Fossils of these animals have been found in Mongolia. Some scholars, such as Adrienne Mayor of Stanford, have conjectured that early finds of these fossils may have inspired the legend of the griffin (a mythical beast with the head and wings of an eagle, but the body and limbs of a lion). The theory goes that fossils inspired legends among the Saka-Scythian nomadic people, and these citizen in turn passed their legends on to the antique Greeks and Romans.

One other engaging fact about Protoceratops is that it is the first dinosaur for which fossilized nests were found. Protoceratops dug its nest in sand, and laid its eggs, each egg being about 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, in spirals within the nest.

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Primaries Should Go South Earlier

As you know, Huckabee won Iowa and McCain won New Hampshire. To a culturist this is very bad news. That is because both of these candidates are pro-Amnesty. That means that they are likely to naturalize illegals in terrorist cells and added erode our national sovereignty.

Perhaps, this indicates that culturists are out of touch with the American people. Polls show, however, that immigration is a top issue of concern with voters. It has been a focus of the debates. Huckabee even brought Jim Gilchrist, a founder of the minutemen, aboard to get an immigration compulsion image. I do not think that Americans are unconcerned about immigration.

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So what gives? This culturist's ideas has to do with geography. Our ideas allows habitancy from Northern cities to winnow down the candidates. Iowa is one state away from Canada and three states away from our southern border. New Hampshire de facto touches Canada. Other than Maine, it is our Northernmost state. These states are less likely that Southern states to have fully encountered and understand the impact of immigration. And, in the middle of these primaries and the next round we get Wyoming and Michigan!

Our traditional season should be more geographically representative of the nation. Early inclusion of at least one state from the South or Southwest would make the process more likely to reflect the concerns of most Americans. It would be fair to start off with Iowa, then go to Arizona, then go to New Hampshire and then go to South Carolina. Not all regions of the country see the world the way the Northernern most states do.

If this culturist is correct, when we get to states added South we will see very separate results. Immigration will be a deciding factor in states that do not border Canada. In the long run, we should work to get the nomination process changes so that it does not only ask the Northernmost states which candidate reflects their concerns.

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A Vote for Prosperity

Whether you believe it or not, we are all children of God and we all have within us seeds of excellence and the capability to cultivate prosperity and success. We were all created to grow to our fullest potential, and to enjoy the bounteous blessings God has in store for us.

What does this have to do with politics? Well, I remember being in a political science class my senior year of high school. We were learning a recipe of government that was based on the installation that everybody would be well cared for. everybody would have all they needed, because the government would see to it.

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I came home confused because it seemed that it sure sounded like the right plan. But I knew my father disagreed with the philosophy, and I couldn't frame out why. I finally mustered the courage to ask him about it. "Dad, what's so wrong with it? Don't we as Christians want to make sure everybody has what they need?"

His reply was profound. He said, in essence, "Leslie, it all goes back to how God deals with us."

With that, he had my attention. He continued, "God sent us to earth to live and grow and learn. He wants us to reach our highest potential. Many choices we make lead us to bondage in one form or another, and there are many more doors open to us when we have made good life decisions. The great the choices we make, the greater our freedom."

I continued to listen.

"Now, do you think He wants us all to do what is right?" he asked.

"Of course,"

"Does He make sure that we do?"

"Not really, He's kind of left us on our own to make mistakes."

"And when we make mistakes does He safe us from feeling the pain that comes from development mistakes?"

"No, He doesn't."

"So," my father continued. "He sent us all down to earth, knowing full well that we would make mistakes and knowing full well that we would suffer for those mistakes."

"Yeah, I guess so... Seems kind of harsh."

"What happens to a child that grows up with a parent that doesn't let him get hurt, or bails him out every time he goofs up?"

"It ruins the kid," I said thoughtfully. "He grows up reasoning that life owes him something. His pain is all the time man else's fault."

"Honey, that's why we all the time look for leaders who understand that principle. Give us a leader who will safe our freedom... To succeed, and even to fail. Give us a leader who is more involved about what God thinks than what a deteriorating community thinks. Let the deteriorating souls vote for a President who promises to safe them from the consequences of their own unlawful choices, but as for me, I want a President who hopes I succeed, but will not try to save me from myself. I have lessons to learn, too. I want to become all I can be, and that requires that I learn from my mistakes."

As I belief about what my dad said, it raised more questions in my mind. As I got older, and married, and struggled straight through school and struggled to raise limited kids, I often reflected on his words. For example, I tried as best as I knew how to live the way I belief God wanted me to live. But what did it get me? We were living in poverty, and the stresses that go with financial lack sent me into anger and depression.

Our multiple attempts to rise out of the wretchedness were of no persisting effect. But I continued to vote for political leaders who represented philosophies consistent with my beliefs. I believed we could make it on our own. I believed that we would somehow find our own solution to the problems with social Security, and curative guarnatee coverage. We weren't succeeding, but I clung to the principle. I voted for what was good for us, like eating our vegetables when we'd rather be eating dessert.

Well, it isn't very coarse that population simply do what's good for them, when something more enticing is available. It's much easier to get man to eat a cupcake than a head of broccoli, right? Just as it is enticing when one Presidential candidate promises that all our needs will be met.

Give me a leader who will safe me from terrorists so that I can be free to crusade for the answers on how to provide for myself. Let me find the power within myself to solve my problems. Let me feel the pain so that I might study the remedy. Let me struggle so that I might grow. Let me fall so that I will learn. Let me be.

So what is the government for, anyway? It is to do what I cannot do. My own personal realm of affect cannot tear down the oppressive evil of tyrants. I cannot stop the dictators of the earth from violating the ownership of my brothers and sisters over the globe. But I can vote for a President who is committed to doing that. I will vote for a President who understands a government's role. It is not their job to meet all of our needs.

For example, it isn't his job to make sure we have one. It isn't up to him to pass initiatives that make me feel great about my errant choices. His role is to throw down the murderous, evil influences that threaten our capability to reach our own greatest potential. It is his job to provide us with as much free time as possible. One thing I know for sure is that the more government does to take care of its people, the higher the taxes. And the higher the taxes, the less free time we enjoy.

Both candidates do have to tax us to some extent. Pay concentration to their philosophy, though. Are they taxing us to spread the wealth more evenly, thus discouraging the ambitious; or are they taxing us primarily to provide for those who -truly- cannot help themselves, and for a strong troops force that provides the security we cannot provide as individuals? If we must be in bondage to taxes at all, let it be to buy our liberty.

My own realm of affect can discover, even create, solutions to my own problems. Let a president safe my liberty, and I'll rely on God to show me how to meet the rest of my needs and prosper.

After all, it is In God We Trust.

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Huckabee Encourages Heath Reform at the Apma National Meeting

Health care reform is on the tip of everyone's tongue this week. The debates in Congress and the endeavor to pass some kind of legislation that most Congress members have not even read, let alone understood, is the news leader. I was lucky enough this week to be gift for Mike Huckabee's keynote speech to the American Podiatric medical connection in Toronto, Canada. The previous governor from Arkansas inspired and encouraged the Apma to discuss more than condition care reform but to think of revolutionary condition reform in the United States as the talk to our condition care woes.

What does he mean by condition reform? He encouraged the physicians to stop thinking about fixing the condition care system. The principles isn't broken. It is no ifs ands or buts thought about the best in the world. If you start discussing socialized rehabilitation overseas, you will speedily comprehend that most wealthy foreigners would rather have surgical operation or cancer rehabilitation in the Us than in their own countries. We don't need to fix the system; we just need to work on unhealthy American habits. The compound of obesity, lack of exercise and smoking, lead to most of our persisting condition problems in the Us. The principles is overwhelmed by persisting disease! Why not come up with a principles that encourages salutary living, therefore decreasing persisting disease and no ifs ands or buts addition productivity in the country?

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Mike Huckabee knows a lot about unhealthy living and its consequences. Any years ago he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and was told he was now in the last decade of his life. His doctor outlined what death by diabetes looked like and encouraged him to take control of his future. He lost an incredible amount of weight, beginning eating better, and even started running for exercise. Multiple marathons later, he is no longer a diabetic and is healthier than he has been in years. Mike Huckabee took control of his condition and wants every American to sense this life-changing heath makeover.

Why do most Americans have unhealthy habits? Is it laziness? Is it hereditary? Is it social? no ifs ands or buts it is a compound of all of these things in most people. We need to encourage healthier lifestyles and teach our children the significance of salutary choices. Multiple studies have shown that regular exercise together with nearby three hours of aerobic exercise and an hour of force training each week leads to decreased depression, diabetes, heart disease and osteoporosis. This has been well documented, but most Americans are not listening.

How can we encourage healthier life styles and off load the currently overwhelmed condition care system? How about an overhaul of the condition guarnatee principles with incentives for salutary choices? I do not believe in penalizing population for obesity or smoking, but how about incentive discounts for a salutary Bmi, non-smoking and regular exercise? Just like when car guarnatee fellowships give discounts for safe driving records. We could even put an accumulative salutary point principles with sliding scale premiums for regular checkup and arresting programs.

Think of what this type of principles would look like. The current reforms of the condition care principles being discussed will lead to a two tier principles where the wealthy will have the best care and the rest will be stuck with the socialist model which has been shown not to work in many, many other countries. If we focus more of condition reform instead of care reform, we can decrease the load on the current system, decrease condition care expenditures and no ifs ands or buts have a healthier, happier, and more sufficient society. Political parties aside, call or write your representatives and let them know you are unhappy with this rushed observation of the most foremost legislation in decades. Let us not speedily put in place a agenda doomed for disaster that will significantly decrease the standard of care in the American condition care system. Let us uplift the condition of the American population instead.

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Mongolia a New Place to spend in Real Estate?

When most habitancy think of Mongolia, Genghis Khan is among the first things that come to mind. That and cold barren wasteland containing more livestock than humans. But now, Mongolia is becoming known for something else - foreign investment.

Seasoned overseas property investors know the time to invest in a housing market is before the rush. This fact means that some emerging markets may have not quite developed in terms of infrastructure. When economic indications show that improvements are on its way coupled with demand for housing investors need to sit up and pay attention. Profits are made on the buy price and buying real estate before the demand can be a rewarding business.

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The lasting economic increase in China has ultimately reached Mongolia where, the economy grew over 10% in 2004. Solid economic increase is thinkable, over the next few years, especially in the mining industry, which accounted for 12% of Mongolia's Gdp in 2004.

The possible for increase over time is great, as the housing market has not caught up with demand. almost half of the Mongolians who live in the capital city of Ulan Bator still live in customary nomadic dwelling called ger. And despite building 3,500 units last year, there is a shortage of residential units available.

Between the influx of foreign personnel and the demands of the native population, it is unlikely that the housing market will suffer from oversupply of units anytime soon. Residential amelioration is not occurring that quickly, and the market has not become a focus for foreign investment. And since demand will almost of course continue to outstrip amelioration over the next few years, returns on invest will probably remain solid over that time.

Average rental prices are also solid, allowing foreign investors a quick return on investment properties which regularly generate safe bet earnings equal to a requisite division of the total investment. Luxury developments rent at about Us0 at the low end and may go as high as Us,000.

This means that opportunities for foreign investment in and amelioration of residential units could prove to be lucrative over the long haul. And in fact, capital increase of property prices and strong rental returns has begun to draw foreign investors from Britain. The Times newspaper from the Uk reports that high property costs at home are encouraging investors to look abroad for better returns on their investments. And some of those investors are seeing at countries such as Mongolia.

While this singular market may not be for everyone, investors who have some money they can use for higher-risk investments may wish to consider the Mongolian housing market for investing in residential development. But leave the goats at home.

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Capitalism Failed - The solution Is Reinvesting In America

The current implementation of capitalism has failed. There is much that needs to be done.

Our infrastructure needs rebuilding. Drive nearby any city or country road in the United states and one would see bridges in the state you would only expect in a third world country. Many of our roads are in such state of disrepair that they damage our automobiles. With states losing tax revenues because of the unemployment and underemployment rate as well as the loss in property values, this is likely to get much worst We need more teachers in the classroom. Teachers more than ever are needed for the change forthcoming for preparation current and hereafter generations for the new professions and methodologies that will be needed in our cheaper going forward. We need immediate and gargantuan investments in explore and development in alternative vigor sources.We need a real artificial fuel program on the scale of the Manhattan Project. In increasing to increasing employment it would enable the discount of our trade deficit, allocation deficit. And troops allocation (less shipping lanes and countries to defend to ensure our vigor supply). We need to build out our vigor infrastructure for today's technology. The power grid needs to be expanded to places where we can take advantage of local vigor sources flushed with geo-thermal energy, wind energy, and solar energy. We need to make the term Made In America a national protection issue. The systematic exporting of our jobs because it makes financial sense for the profits of corporations is the illustrative example of ho our implementation of capitalism is anti-American interest.

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That we have a 10% unemployment with all the work that needs to be done in the country with the enumerated problems above, is proof inevitable of a failure of our brand of capitalism. Given that the hidden sector is unable to match this unbalance of work to those seeking work it is imperative that some alternative ideas provide the catalyst to do so. The only entity capable is the government. 

Let me be clear, the hidden sector current has the funds to invest and employ. However because of their unlimited desire for behalf maximization at all cost, even the cost of the well being of the midpoint human being they fail to act. The government of the population and by the population must.

Government must originate a bank to compete with hidden banks and lend. This is deficit neutral as the loan money is capital the government owns.

The government should print money to build out new vigor infrastructure. This can be deficit neutral or wage inevitable if it is then sold to new secretly formed corporations after build out.

The government must spend profusely to rebuild our roads. While in the long run deficit spending may cause inflation, said inflation will be a good thing to devalue the debt owned by many who bought said debt with tax cut dollars reaping a duplicate bang from deficit spending previous.

Mathematically this must work though the laissez-faire capitalists will hate the operate they've lost to conclude the allocation and use of resources they claim their god almighty, the market, dictates.

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sufficient Palm Card article For Your election Campaign

A palm card, or push card, is a handout that every political candidate should have in their campaign arsenal. These materials are similar to rack cards for businesses. These political promotional products are a gigantic part in communicating your campaign message to the community as part of your voter sense program.

Political handouts, sometimes referred to as palm cards; so called because the campaign materials are traditionally distributed door-to-door, giving the campaigner a occasion to meet his voters face-to-face. These can also be delivered to citizens via mail as a postcard if the contender wishes to cover a formidable area in an optimal number of time.

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The first step in designing your push card is to conclude what data to include. That is, what do you want your voters to know about you the most? This data ordinarily consists of your educational background, sense gained in the field/office you are seeking to obtain, house and in some instances your community involvement, or ties to the community. You should also place 3 or so of the most foremost issue positions on your card, outlining your campaign agenda.

The proper size of most palm cards is 3.5" x 8.5", which easily fits into the palm of your hand. This is also the same size as rack cards for businesses. When deciding the key facts to consist of on your product, take into notice the size that you have to work with and keep your points short and compact. Your voters are more likely to read the condensed points than paragraphs upon paragraphs of data that seems to drone on. Using bullet points or check marks also gives your push card a more clean and defined look. After reviewing your information, you may need to trim down your content and make your talking points more condensed.

Furthermore, search for together with a consolidate pictures. A headshot on the front and a nice house portrait on back is a classic. Also think using some "action shots" such as the candidate and senior citizens or children taking an active role at the community center.

There are many layout and establish options available when considering content for your card, but you must take your quantity of data into account when deciding which layout is going to work best for you.

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President Elect Barack Obama Makes History Tonight

At the young age of 36, I never opinion I would see an African American President in my lifetime. As an elementary school student I discovered how the world worked. Parents and teachers told us we could be whatever we wanted to be even the President of the United States of America. Some of us looked at each other and rolled our eyes because we couldn't even get an African American class president elected.

However, last night I saw for the very first time an African American man elected as the next President of the United States of America. And that man was Barack Obama.

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In the sea of faces that were gathered in maintain of President-Elect Barack Obama were African Americans, Caucasian Americans, Asians Americans, Hispanics Americans, and those of Middle Eastern descent in the crowds. And the same tear that was rolling down my cheek was rolling down the cheek of several other ethnic groups. You could see that all Americans wanted turn and that was the key to winning this election.

We want a government that will fight for us and that's what most Americans believe they have found in President Elect Barack Obama. turn healthcare and schooling in this country and to that I say, "Yes we can."

It's time to repair this economy and focus on bringing our soldiery home. And to that I say again, "Yes we can."

I'm fully aware that turn doesn't happen overnight and that we will have to continue to fight for turn in this country. But what we now have on our side is a President that wants turn too.

So when President Elect Barack Obama spoke of the 106 year old woman and what she has seen in her lifetime and what historical event she witnessed tonight. I say shame on me for not believing, shame on me for not dreaming.

Now when I look into my children's faces and say, "You can be whatever you want to be even the President of the United States of America." I know that they know what mommy is saying is the truth.

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Bill Clinton - The First White House Baby Boomer

Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was born William Jefferson Blythe Iii on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father died in a traffic emergency three months before he was born. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton. Bill took the Clinton family name at age 14.

Clinton excelled both as a student and as a saxophone player, and once carefully becoming a expert musician. In high school, he was a delegate to Boys Nation and met President John Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden. That meeting gave him the desire to pursue a life of group service. Clinton graduated from Georgetown University, and then in 1968, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. After receiving a law degree from Yale University in 1973, he entered politics in Arkansas. He was defeated in his 1974 campaign for Congress in Arkansas. The next year he married Hillary Rodham, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School.

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Born: August 19, 1946

Died: --

Famous For: 42nd President of the United States, second president in U.S. History to be impeached.

Key Accomplishments: Rhodes Scholar, first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term, helped bring an end to the Cold War.

Significant Quote: "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right with America."

Fun Quote: "I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale."

Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney general in 1976, and then went on to become governor in 1978. Elected to office at the age of 32, he was the youngest governor in the country. He lost a bid for a second term, but was re-elected four years later. He served as governor of Arkansas until he defeated then-President George Bush in the 1992 presidential race. His running mate was Tennessee Senator Al Gore, Jr. Clinton became the third youngest president in history, following Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He went on to serve two terms (1993 - 2001). In 1998, Clinton was impeached as the succeed of allegations of sexual indiscretion with a young female White House intern. He was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation and continued to have overwhelming approval ratings as president, even though many Americans questioned his morals and ethics.

During Clinton's presidency, the nation enjoyed more peace and economic security than at any other time in its history, the bottom unemployment rate in modern history, the bottom inflation in 30 years and the highest home proprietary in the nation's history. Crime rates also dropped in many cities and unemployment rolls were reduced. While his administration, he proposed the first balanced allocation in years and achieved a allocation surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, he called for a national initiative to end racial discrimination.

Since leaving office, Clinton has been involved in group speaking and humanitarian work. He founded the William J. Clinton Foundation, which promotes international causes, such as treatment and arresting of Hiv/Aids and global warming. In 2004, he released his autobiography, My Life. Clinton currently resides in New York with his wife, Hillary, the Junior U.S. Senator for the state. They have one daughter, Chelsea, who was born in 1980.

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Martha Nussbaum Instructs Europe on What Religious freedom Requires

Martha Nussbaum is a foremost American philosopher with a strong interest in Us constitutional law and free time of religion who recently published a book on "Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality". She has recently been promoting the tradition of religious accommodation she finds in American legal and political history to Europe (for example at the Unseld Lecture at the University of Tübingen June 2010). But is it as easy as she thinks to take her righteous American message to a European audience? Or does she need to some some homework first on properly comprehension Europe's circumstances and history?

Nussbaum argues that i) the world is difficult and deep and people's transcendental striving to understand the meaning of life should be respected; 2) this 'conscience' is a fragile capability that is very vulnerable to external destruction and oppression by state institutions; 3) fairness requires treating citizens equally and that means the state should actively ensure people's effective free time of conscience by development sure that by religious habitancy do not face undue burdens for keeping their beliefs. Following Roger Williams - founder of Rhode Island and the American tradition of religious pluralism - Nussbaum characterises state restrictions on practising one's religion as 'imprisonment' and laws requiring one to go along with an official religion as 'soul-rape'.

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What does this mean? Nussbaum interprets equal security of the liberty of conscience to want states to 'accommodate' the requirements of separate religions (unless there is a compelling presume of state or disagreement with other core rights). Accommodationism means that Quakers can claim exemption from compulsory troops service, since it would place excessive and unequal burdens on them, given the centrality of their beliefs about pacifism in their lives. Similarly, members of religions with non-standard religious holidays cannot be required to work on them; religions that want extra dress, sacramental drug use, animal sacrifice, etc. Will all get extra exemptions from general laws.

Bringing this tradition to Europe, Nussbaum argues that American accommodationism is the right way to go, and particularly criticises the established (national) churches that are still tasteless in Europe. She argues that even in a weak form they still subordinate members of non-majority groups ('soul-rape').

In response I have 3 main points: 1) that the American doesn't nothing else but understand the European situation; 2) that liberty of conscience can be seen as a strong presume for restricting liberty of religion; 3) that equal liberty of conscience requires equal treatment of non-religious and religious claims straight through better general laws rather than extra accommodations.

1) The American liberal tradition that brought about the accommodationist interpretation of the 1st Amendment security (which is not the only way that American legal scholars clarify it!) industrialized in the context of competition between religions who each view they were right. Even now American atheists only estimate between 5-16% (depending on whether you take self-professed atheists only or also those without a professed religion). But in Western and Northern Europe the infamous 'secularisation thesis' nothing else but happened: we have seen a transition from a state majority religion (a la Westphalia) to polities with an absolute majority of non-religious citizens. Although many European states still have a formal religious establishment, our societies are overwhelmingly secular; in discrepancy America is formally secular but has an overwhelmingly religious (Christian) society. That the Us president has to be a Christian seems very strange to us.

That discrepancy is primary because our contemporary religious tensions are not nothing else but between say Islam and Christianity, but between religious piety and secularism. What European states are struggling to get to grips with is an influx of habitancy who claim to nothing else but care about religion (although it is true that if they were Christian our cultural background might make it slightly easier to understand them). To the secular man living in a secular society, religion is hard to distinguish from culture, and claims about the transcendent go right over our heads. To us the very characterisation of conscience as private transcendental striving seems rather closer to protestant ideas of the character of religion (naturally preeminent in American history) than an anthropologist's 'culture-neutral' understanding. In addition, Nussbaum's framework presupposes religions to have a obvious organisational form (basically Christian analogous churches) to bring these legal claims effectively, which is again easier for some religions than others (like Daoism). Thus the idea that personal transcendental struggle, organised in church-like groups, is a excellent kind of performance that should get some kind of extra rights, privileges or resources seems rather fishy to the European liberal and not very equal at all.

2) Furthermore, in the European context we are far more aware than Nussbaum appears to be of how fragile conscience is, not only to state oppression but also to oppression and subordination by house and community. habitancy retell to each other, not only to the state. Much of our scepticism of the new waves of religiosity is therefore nothing else but implicated with the position of vulnerable 'members' (particularly women and children, but sometimes - with 'religions' like Scientology - everyone). We take the state's role in protecting liberty of conscience to sometimes want actively protecting habitancy from religion (e.g. By development sure everyone nothing else but has the effective free time and resources to leave their religious community) in order for the free time to practise one's religion to have any credibility and legitimacy. (Of policy this position can blur into a secular prejudice against religions one doesn't understand, as apparent in e.g. Debates about the headscarf and women's rights. The Usa also provides some prima facie evidence, in its successful store for religion, that religious upbringing in a pluralist environment is not necessarily all-determining, although it seems obvious that it can still be quite traumatising, though Nussbaum prefers 'character-building'.)

3) ultimately the European liberal finds it very difficult to understand the Us accommodationist position as liberal. nothing else but this whether privileges members of religions or treats them as if they were disabled. It privileges them by giving extra exemptions, from general laws that go against their principles, which are not ready to lowly citizens who might still find the law appalling. Quakers get out of troops assistance automatically but the rest of us have to demonstrate independently a coherent sophisticated 'personal theology' that satisfies a troops retell panel (sounds as demanding as a PhD defence!). It seems to treat them as disabled by interpreting general laws as particularly burdening them (like the current set up of our public converyance system places singular burdens on those without majority-standard bodily capacities). The European liberal does not see accommodationism as the right solution on whether perspective.

The European liberal doesn't think the contents of a person's beliefs to be appropriate matter for a court to value - they have sufficient issue with the relatively easy concepts of motive and intention. In general the state should stay out of people's heads and law courts in singular don't seem to have the relevant expertise in science of mind or theology that would make them an effective or fair instrument for such tests.

We care about system and persons - not singular religions - and our general laws should reflect that. If anyone can show give good arguments against their general reasonableness, we should change those parts of the law, not grant that singular man a extra exemption. John Locke proposed a principle of state neutrality that remains influential: If Latin is legal in schools, it should be legal in church. The European liberal simply inverses this principle to add that if Latin is legal in church, it should be legal in schools. E.g. If the sacramental use of peyote is to be permitted for anyone, a way must be found to make its legalisation a matter of a generally accessible principle i.e. ready to all who wish to use it in a sacramental rather than recreational setting, without added exam of personal beliefs. The religious can thus be seen as pioneers whose sophisticated theology comes to the assistance of testing bad laws and generating new liberal principles, rather than as the foundation for a divisive identity politics.

Considering religions as disabilities, the European liberal sees accommodationism as potentially stigmatising, since the state identifies a man by their religious identity and the extra burdens they bear. It is also gives an odd impression of religions, as something that just happens to you (like being hit by a truck and losing your legs), but also primary to the private (so society shouldn't try to cure you but cater to your new extra needs). But leaving that contentious issue of free will and religion aside, it is nothing else but far better to try to amend the failings of our public infrastructure towards a more universally accessible produce (as we are now belatedly doing with our bodily infrastructure in response to the legitimate challenges of the physically disabled). Accommodationism, which is strongly associated with judicial interpretation, would therefore be a last resort, after trying changes to general laws (and constitutions) with the pleasing democratic legitimacy that entails.

Nussbaum's response

i) How does Nussbaum sass to these concerns? Not well. She first accuses Europe of having 'majority-blindness' in that the legitimate demands of members of the majority religion are imperceptible because already integrated into the institutions of the state. Even Denmark apparently, where only 4% of the habitancy goes to church regularly, is to Nussbaum a majority Christian country because habitancy still have church weddings and funerals. This nothing else but is not an sufficient response to the empirical fact that most citizens in W. Europe don't give a sh*t about religion and are nothing else but baffled by those who do. Even Turkey is going straight through the same phenomenon, with pious Anatolians sweeping into Istanbul and upsetting the political mainstream's secular identity.

ii) Nussbaum then switches from religion to ethnicity in a troublingly simplistic way and accuses Europe of being in the grip of an anti-immigrant reaction of fear and disgust, of having a "complacent love of homogeneity that is scared of real difference". nothing else but some of the populist reaction to immigrants in Europe has had that character (although a up-to-date Gallup poll suggests that in many European countries, Islamic citizens nothing else but have more faith in their governments than the median citizen), but then her whole conference about religion - and its extra transcendental capability and centrality in the lives of habitancy goes out of the window. At points like this, Nussbaum's basic (American liberal) concern that members of minority groups need group ownership associated to group beliefs to protect them from discrimination and lack of respectful toleration by majorities bears a troubling resemblance to the rhetoric of those arguing for security from religious defamation. (But only the rhetoric, of course. Nussbaum doesn't think free time of speech is any less foremost than religious freedom.)

iii) On changing laws rather than granting accommodations, Nussbaum simply says that it is impracticable. Although when she is talking about disability she takes it for granted that we can and should redesign our public architecture towards universal design, and can changing a few laws be any more complicated or expensive than that?

Conclusion

I think before trying to propose us guidance Nussbaum has to recognise that Europe has a separate association to liberalism and religion than her American tradition. Since she claims to be a 'political liberal', committed to finding an overlapping political consensus rather than development unabridged claims based on a controversial religious doctrine (i.e. Us liberalism), she would do well to take a harder look at the separate components ready in European liberalism for an overlapping consensus on the security of equal liberty of conscience. It will necessarily take a separate form from America's: less religious, less sweeping, and less accommodationist.

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Hugo Chavez - I Am The State

Hugo Chavez is manufacture it clear that his vision, and only his vision, will dominate in Venezuelan media. If any proof is required of his intention, one need only look at the crackdowns and threats that have been directed at secret media outlets.

Criticism of Chavez comes with a price. A secret station, Rctv, was recently shut down. The tactic used was to naturally allow the license to expire, something Chavez has been threatening to do for years. Nearby 5,000 protesters who took the streets to oppose the Rctv shutdown, were subjected to tears gas and rubber bullets.

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Chavez doesn't like to be criticized. Like a lot of authoritarian leaders he wants television to bask in his image and sing his praises. It seems most of the media in Venezuela is dutifully heading in the direction of becoming the mirror of El Presidente.

When Chavez was first elected back in 1999, there was only one government controlled Tv channel in Venezuela. There are now four, together with the international news channel Telesur and seven radio stations. Chavez even has his own show, Alo Presidente. His image is everywhere on the small screen. His own personal show can run for as long as five hours, manufacture it more like a marathon homage session.

Part of the larger question in Venezuela is the lack of any media outlets that come close to exercising impartiality when it comes to the nation's business. The country is polarized politically - much as if a fault line had divided the nation into two. Pro-Chavez and anti-Chavez factions dominate the scene, with exiguous in-between. Citizens who want a more or less balanced view of what's going on in their own country have to resort to Bbc world service, Cnn or similar outlets.

Chavez seems to fancy himself as a bit of a cultural guru. He founded the Villa del Cine foundation in reaction to what he described as the "dictatorship of Hollywood". He has exiguous understanding of culture freed from the sway of ideology. As with everything else he touches, culture is appropriated to serve the needs of the political agenda. The Argentinian firm daily, Ambito Financiero, described Chavez as a sort of proletarian Louis XlV of France. The daily unbelievable that his reign will be marked by "a concentration of power without precedent in Venezuela". A paramount phrase attributed to Louis XlV - "L'Etat, c'est moi" (I am the State) - could equally be applied to Chavez who sees himself as the personification of all things Venezuelan.

It would be a mistake to paint Chavez as a socialist revolutionary along early Castro lines as some on the right try to do. He's not averse to doing firm with capitalists. Some of his personal favorites have had secret media channels arranged for them - habitancy such as whisky importer Arturo Sarmiento. Chavez also made a deal with Gustavo Cisneros, maybe the richest man in S. America, in order to get the Tv channel Venevision up and running.

At root with Chavez it's as much about personality as whatever else. He has a deep need to be loved and appreciated. Part of his issue with opposition media channels is the derision they heap on him in a very personal fashion. Some commentators have even been known to make fun of his dark skin and lowly class origins. So this media war in Venezuela also has a marked grudge element to it.

The last remaining secret media outlet, Globovision, is on shaky ground. Chavez has accused it of attempting to incite his assassination. This is a bit far fetched. The evidence offered to back the claim, was footage aired by the center of the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope Paul ll, accompanied by the song "Have faith, this doesn't end here." Chavez even went so far as to label the center "an enemy of the state". An attack on his person is clearly synonymous in his mind with an attack on the State.

The carefully adoration some on the American left continue to express for Chavez is becoming increasingly odd. The reformer and idealist is slowly morphing into something we are all too familiar with in S. America, and even 'new-style' dictators are still dictators when they take the predictable route of strangling the voice of opposition.

Some observers claim Chavez has come to be paranoid and looks for conspiracies Nearby every corner. He is indeed going the extra mile to silence his critics. If he keeps intriguing in the same direction, the "enemies of the state" will have to move underground, because as a spokesperson for Reporters Without Borders put it ... "Besides Globovision, what media is left that can criticize Mr. Chavez?"

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Coal to Oil - Same System, Nothing New

Stumbling over the description "Coal Producer to Make Liquid Fuel in 2008" on the Xinhua News agency website, I decided to use the description as my enterprise class conversation topic for the day. A new coal-to-liquids (Ctl) scheme in E'erduosi City, Inner Mongolia, is 95 per cent unblemished on the first output line. One of my students, from Inner Mongolia, knew right away where the scheme is located. She used such phrases as "China's Kuwait" and "China's Sea of Coal" to quote the region.

It is a random story about alternative energy that will not have a great impact on the world's energy supply. But consider it in the context of this statement from government sources: "During the 11th five year plan, China will convert the status of overdependence on primary energy and improve the proportion of renewable energy in primary energy generation." This statement gives the story a whole new meaning. Translated into everyday English, here is what it means: beginning now, the Chinese government will withhold going into Ctl projects full throttle, country-wide. It must do so to sell out oil import dependency and give itself a source of fuel oil or feedstock for products we compose everyday.

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Today's rising oil prices and cheaper Ctl technologies make oil substitution economically viable. output costs in China are estimated at - per barrel of oil, rising to - once distribution costs and taxes are included.

At E'erduosi, China's largest coal company, Shenhua Group, will produce fuel from coal next year. The first year it will use 3.45 million tons of coal to make 1.08 tonnes (7.56 million barrels) of liquid products. These will consist of diesel oil, naphtha, hydroxybenzene plus liquefied petroleum gas (Lpg). Presently 10,000 workers from over China are constructing the huge project. The first phase of the scheme involved capital spending of .6 billion - a high price to pay for that much goods per year.

Fast forward to 2010 and the output levels are forecast to be 4 million tonnes of liquids (28 million barrels), a four-fold increase. Projections show 50 million tones (350 million barrels) in 2020. That would be a huge jump indeed.

These leaps and bounds in output need capital investment, which would elucidate the move by China Shenhua energy to sell as many as 1.8 billion yuan-dominated A-shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. China Shenhua energy Co. Ltd. (1088:Stock replacement of Hong Kong Limited) is a fully state-owned enterprise and is the sole large-scale energy group in China, with integrated businesses fluctuating from coal, power, railway, port facilities, coal-liquefied oils and coal-based petrochemical industries.

Key State Project: Coal-to-liquid is listed as a "key" state scheme to help deal with China's petroleum protection concerns. It becomes even more key now that ethanol output has been halted in the wake of low grain harvests and rising food prices. According to Chen Liming, executive vice president of Sasol China, "For a country as rich in coal resources as China, the Ctl manufactures would be encouraged by the government".

Shenhua Group is not the only player in the Ctl game, nor are these projects tiny to Inner Mongolia. Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenhua Group, plans to compose two Ctl plants using Sasol's Fischer-Tropsch technology. Shandong Yankuang Group Co., Ltd the only domestic challenger to Shenhua has started its building in Qinhe Township, Yulin City, Shanxi Province. Salim Group of Indonesia and Yitai, the largest incommunicable enterprise in Erdos city have invested in Dalu Coal Chemical market Park, Zhungeer County of Erdos City. These groups and associates are the beginning of the Ctl expansion bandwagon. No doubt the arrival years will see a large whole of Ctl projects over China in every province with exploitable coal reserves, all with the blessing of the central government.

I have a query about all this. Where are all of the new inventions and renewables that were supposed to appear as a succeed of high oil prices? I have been sold that line for years now - since I was a child, actually. Clean energy will replace oil when prices get high and stay high. A plethora of new inventions will help us transition away from the last ideas that left our community dependent on a singular substance.

Invention because of high prices is turning out to be an illusion - just as ethanol output was supposed to save the day. What we are looking in China is more of the same: Researching and developing new ways to get oil from coal and energy from plants. Same system, different method of production. Nothing new.

I also wonder which country will be next to dangle ethanol output because of crop failures and rising food prices, and which nation will succeed China in the "plan C" rush to Ctl production, side-stepping whatever renewable at all. The stark reality is that renewable and new energy sources will arrive only after ethanol is proven unreliable by interfering with food output and coal provide is constrained. Research and amelioration of Ctl technology will cost thousands of times less than arrival up with an entirely new energy source from something other than coal, oil or natural gas.

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