steve2470
steve2470's Journal-40 F in Fort Smith, NWT, CA !
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=61.25666809,-124.46833038&sp=CXDKIf it's THIS cold in late November, what does January bring ?
Shiver me timbers !!!!
Stay warm, Canadians !
White House Student Film Festival
Call for Entries
We are happy to announce that from now through January 20, submissions are open for the second White House Student Film Festival. The theme of this year’s festival is The Impact of Giving Back, and it’s open to U.S. students, grades K-12. So tell a story about paying it forward, about community service, or what making a difference looks like in your eyes and through your lens. It can be a fictional story or a short documentary, so break out the lights, write a script, get the camera ready, and show us your passion for service and giving back. We can't wait to see what you will make this year! For inspiration, take a look at the official selections from last year's White House Student Film Festival, when the theme was the power of technology in education.
Films can be short – in fact, they must be 3 minutes tops. The official selections will be featured on the White House website, and shared across the world on White House sites and official social media accounts. If selected, you may have a chance to attend the film fest yourself at the White House.
Submission Guidelines:
All films must be shorter than 3 minutes.
All films must be made by students in grades K-12.
No film may use copyrighted material including music, TV shows, or movies.
All films must be uploaded to YouTube
All film submissions must be received by 11:59 p.m. EST on January 20, 2015.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/filmfestival
More info at link above.
Leaked: The Oil Lobby's Conspiracy to Kill Off California's Climate Law
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-25/revealed-the-oil-lobbys-playbook-against-californias-climate-law?hootPostID=f9759c7b5a6cf106201ed9aac1b90765You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of his neighbor, Sarge the Army Jeep, Fillmore greets each new day with Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock rendition of A Star Spangled Banner—“respect the classics, man”—and is quick with a conspiracy theory about why biofuels never stood a chance at America’s gas pumps. Perfectly voiced by the late, great George Carlin, Fillmore has a slight paranoiac edge, as if his intake of marijuana may exceed what’s medically indicated.
Well, as they say, it’s not paranoia if they really are out to delay, rewrite, or kill off a meaningful effort to reduce the build-up of carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere. A Powerpoint (MSFT) deck now being circulated by climate activists—a copy of which was sent to Bloomberg Businessweek—suggests that there is a conspiracy. Or, if you prefer, a highly coordinated, multistate coalition that does not want California to succeed at moving off fossil fuels because that might set a nasty precedent for everyone else.
Created by the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), one of the most powerful oil and gas lobbies in the U.S., the slides and talking points comes from a Nov. 11 presentation to the Washington Research Council. The Powerpoint deck details a plan to throttle AB 32 (also known as the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006) and steps to thwart low carbon fuel standards (known as LCFS) in California, Oregon, and Washington State. Northwest Public Radio appears to have been the first to confirm the authenticity of the deck, which Bloomberg Businessweek did as well, with WSPA spokesman Tupper Hull.
Specifically, the deck from a presentation by WSPA President Catherine Reheis-Boyd lays out the construction of what environmentalists contend is an elaborate “astroturf campaign.” Groups with names such as Oregon Climate Change Campaign, Washington Consumers for Sound Fuel Policy, and AB 32 Implementation Group are made to look and sound like grassroots citizen-activists while promoting oil industry priorities and actually working against the implementation of AB 32.
(North Dakota) State officials denounce New York Times report (on fracking)
http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/state-officials-denounce-new-york-times-report/article_b88a6c20-74f8-11e4-8887-535e3a5d91c8.htmlState officials Tuesday denounced a months-long investigative report conducted by the New York Times that ran last weekend as being an inaccurate portrayal of how state has regulated the oil and gas industry in recent years.
Multiple North Dakota landowners were featured, one who said the report revealed a side of the industry most North Dakotans either aren’t aware of or choose to ignore.
The New York Times story paints a broad, negative picture of North Dakota’s regulatory regime as being overly lenient toward industry. It alleges a cozy relationship between industry and the Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s office as well as with the North Dakota Industrial Commission, the Department of Mineral Resources and the Department of Health.
Dalrymple’s office issued a statement Tuesday taking exception with the story.
part of ABC interview with Darren Wilson
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2b2kzu_darren-wilson-was-interviewed_newsalso posted in Politics 2014.
This link is the full interview, it says: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2b33c7_darren-wilson-interview-with-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-full_news
Thunder and rain in Florida
However, I'll gladly take this over 6 feet of snow a la Buffalo.
News conference at 130 AM Ferguson time, don't know which officials....
per live news broadcast on Reuters live blog, KSDK television out of St. Louis.
http://live.reuters.com/Event/US_Live_Blog
eta: "Unified Command" at the press conference.
front view of Darren Wilson's face, from Reuters live blog
from here: http://live.reuters.com/Event/US_Live_Blog
Live Reuters feed from Ferguson here
http://live.reuters.com/Event/US_Live_Bloghm, looks like the feed is over now.
Profile Information
Gender: Do not displayMember since: Sat Oct 16, 2004, 01:04 PM
Number of posts: 37,457