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Friday, June 21, 2013
Renewable Energy Society Seeks ?Sweet 16? of Solar and Energy ...
Nominations Now Being Accepted for 16 Innovative Residential and Commercial Solar and Energy Efficiency Solutions; Winners Showcased During September Open House Tours
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 21, 2013
Solar installers, energy experts and home and business owners County-wide are invited to strut their sustainable stuff by nominating their favorite energy efficient and solar-powered homes and businesses to be among the 16 sites selected for the San Diego Renewable Energy Society?s 13th San Diego Solar Tour.
Slated for the eve of the Autumnal Equinox (September 20-21), the two-pronged event features open house tours of energy-efficient homes and businesses that are bringing their owners ample economic and environmental rewards.
The tour introduces consumers to leading-edge solar and energy efficiency solutions that are improving property values, slashing energy costs and creating more efficient work and living spaces in a real-world, no-pressure environment that allows citizens to talk with installers and system owners about the solutions they are employing to hedge against rising energy costs.
?With higher efficiencies, lower price tags, versatile new products and a treasure trove of tax and cash incentives, today?s solar and energy efficiency solutions are as much an economic play as an environmental one,? said PURE Solar Power?s Jeff Konek.
?And with a menu of new, zero-down and pre-pay financing options ? and the availability of commercial solutions like PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing in San Diego -- the improvements showcased on this year?s tour are within reach of most any property owner,? added Konek.
This year?s CNG bus-guided 2013 Commercial Tour for property owners, building and sustainability managers takes place on Friday, September 20 and will commence with a special behind-the-scenes tour of San Diego Gas & Electric?s (SDG&E) Energy Innovation Center. Space is limited. The free, self-guided 2013 Residential Tour takes place on Saturday, September 21.
Applications for the San Diego Solar Tour are being accepted through July 31, 2013. Download tour host site and volunteer solar ambassador applications here or eMail SolarTour@sdres.org for details.
The 2013 San Diego Solar Tour is made possible by a County Neighborhood Reinvestment Program grant and a complement of sustainably-inclined sponsors and energy experts, including PURE Solar Power; ASI Hastings Heating, Air and Solar; SunUp Energy Systems; Photon Solar Power; FIGTREE Energy Financing; GRIDAlternatives; SolarRain Watery; Empower America; The East County Solar Guy; CleanTECH San Diego and SDG&E.
Sponsorship opportunities abound. Applications for volunteer Solar Ambassadors are also being accepted.
The ?Sweet 16? showcased on this year?s tour will be selected based on solution type, innovation, geographic location, architecture and the energy savings or production value of each structure. The impetus behind each participant?s decision to introduce solar and energy efficiency solutions also comes into play.
Residents and businesses with rooftop, building-integrated and terrestrial-mount solutions that manifest energy efficiency, geothermal, EV-PV, solar PV and solar water heating, cool roof and holistic zero net energy solutions are encouraged to apply.
?Hosting sites on this year?s tour allows area homeowners to see first-hand the cutting-edge solutions available to help them live more comfortably ? and sustainably -- while saving money on monthly energy bills,? said Ken Justo of ASI Hastings Heating, Air and Solar, whose company is a 7-time recipient of the BBB Torch Award for Business Ethics.
?With solar federal tax credits of 30% and an array of cash rebates and other energy-efficiency incentives, these investments can pay for themselves in very short order,? Justo said. ?How many home improvements do you know of that pay for themselves, then continue to pay dividends for years to come??
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?King Mo? wins while ?Babalu? retires at Bellator
Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal was knocked out in his last Bellator fight, which was a surprising result for the onetime Strikeforce champ. Wednesday's fight with Seth Petruzelli was his first fight since then, and he came back with a memorable knockout.
Lawal wrestled Petruzelli to the ground, then finished the fight at 1:35 in the first round with a huge right hook. He needed just one punch to knock Petruzelli out. Lawal will move on in Bellator's light heavyweight tournament to fight Jacob Noe.
"It's kind of highly emotional for me to talk about this right now, but I think maybe I've been in the cage more than everybody in this room here," he said. "I lived the life. That's what I want to say. I have no regrets. I was happy to help this sport grow."
Noe earned his spot in the semifinals with a win over Strikeforce and UFC veteran Renato "Babalu" Sobral. He lost in a third-round, standing TKO, then announced his retirement from MMA.
Babalu finished his career with a record of 37-11. He started fighting in 1997, and fought in Brazilians promotions and Rings before fighting at UFC 28. Sobral fought such fighters as Fedor Emelianenko and Chuck Liddell.
One of the more memorable moments of Sobral's career was at UFC 74. Sobral submitted David Heath with an anaconda choke, but wouldn't break the hold when first instructed to by the ref. He was later cut from the UFC and fined by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for his wrongdoing.
Sobral then went to Strikeforce and won the light heavyweight championship before losing it to Gegard Mousasi. He also fought in One FC, and then Bellator before he hung up his MMA gloves.
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LA schools to give every student an iPad
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Apple says 10 million iPads are in use in schools today.
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks.
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least expensive option that met its specifications.
The initial order is for more than 31,000 iPads, Apple said. The Los Angeles Unified School District has more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
The textbooks will be delivered through an application from Pearson, a major publisher, rather than through Apple's own iBooks. Apple and its publisher partners launched a suite of textbooks for iBooks in early 2012.
According to biographer Walter Isaacson, changing the textbook market was a pet project of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, even in the last year of his life. At a dinner in early 2011, Jobs told News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch that paper textbooks could be made obsolete by the iPad. Jobs wanted to circumvent the state certification process for textbook sales by having Apple release textbooks for free on the tablet computer.
Apple said 10 million iPads are in use in schools today. The company said that when the rollout is completed, Los Angeles will be the largest school district in the nation to provide each student with an iPad.
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Bernanke bond announcement 'inappropriately timed:' Fed's Bullard
By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard on Friday issued a sharp rebuke of his colleagues' decision this week to announce a plan to reduce the central bank's bond buying, calling the move premature and worrying the Fed is risking its credibility as a force for price stability.
Neither the central bank's own economic growth forecasts nor its expectations for continued weak inflation supported a decision to dial back soon on the $85 billion a month it has been pumping into the financial system, the St. Louis Fed said in explaining Bullard's thinking.
"President Bullard ... felt that the committee's decision to authorize the chairman to lay out a more elaborate plan for reducing the pace of asset purchases was inappropriately timed," the regional Fed bank said in a statement.
Global financial markets have sunk sharply since Wednesday when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke laid out the central bank's strategy for cutting the pace of asset purchases later this year, provided the economy continues to improve as the Fed expects.
Bullard's vote against the majority, his first-ever dissent, was one of two cast by members of the U.S. central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee. The other dissent, by Kansas City Fed President Esther George who has cast a no vote at each meeting this year, was in the opposite direction, as she worried that bond buying could stoke financial instability.
Bernanke's detailed outline of the strategy for closing out the central bank's bond-buying program, which came in a news conference following the policy statement, surprised markets. It was unusual for the committee to deputize the chairman to offer policy guidance during the news conference that went well beyond the panel's written statement.
The central bank, which has held overnight interest rates near zero since 2008, is buying bonds at an $85 billion monthly pace to put downward pressure on longer-term borrowing costs. These steps are designed to boost U.S. growth and hiring.
POLICY AT ODDS WITH FORECAST
Bullard's statement, which was issued after the expiration of a blackout on Fed officials' comments around the meeting, was not unprecedented. Richmond Fed chief Jeffrey Lacker also released explanations of his dissents when he was a voter in 2012. Lacker dissented at every meeting that year.
Highlighting an apparent contradiction, the St. Louis Fed noted that the 19 Fed officials who took part in the policy discussion on Wednesday released economic projections in which they marked down forecasts for U.S. growth and inflation in 2013, while "simultaneously announcing that less accommodative policy may be in store."
"President Bullard felt that a more prudent approach would be to wait for more tangible signs that the economy was strengthening and that inflation was on a path to return toward target before making such an announcement," it said.
In a detailed explanation, it also repeated that Bullard thought the Fed should have more strongly signaled a willingness to defend its 2 percent inflation target, in light of recent low inflation readings, which was the explanation for his dissent offered in a statement issued by the Fed on Wednesday.
Bullard worries the Fed risks losing its credibility as the chief agent for price stability if it does not take measures to drive prices upward when inflation is below its target, as well as downward when they are above it.
The so-called PCE price index, the Fed's favored inflation gauge, was up just 0.7 percent in the 12 months through April. The core index, which strips out food and energy costs to provide a better sense of inflation trends, was up just a bit more than 1 percent, a record low increase.
The FOMC estimated the PCE price index would rise between 0.8 percent and 1.2 percent this year, on average. That marked a sharp cut from March when it forecast a range of 1.3 percent to 1.7 percent.
Its 2013 GDP growth forecast came in at 2.3 percent to 2.6 percent, just a bit softer from the 2.3 percent to 2.8 percent projection policymakers had made in March.
Furthermore, the St. Louis Fed said that Bullard viewed the decision to lay out a rough timeline for scaling back bond buying, which Bernanke explained would likely come to a halt around mid-2014, was a step away from a policy that was dictated solely by economic conditions, rather than calendar dates.
(Reporting by Tim Ahmann and Alister Bull; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Chizu Nomiyama)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/feds-bullard-says-bernanke-bond-announcement-poorly-timed-105126161.html
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Germany protests over Turkish minister's comments
BERLIN (AP) ? Germany's Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador on Friday to protest after a minister accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of picking on Turkey for domestic political gain before German elections, adding to tensions over Turkish security forces' crackdown on demonstrators.
Merkel on Monday criticized the crackdown as "much too strong." The chancellor has long been skeptical of Turkey's ambitions to join the European Union; her coalition government supports continuing membership talks but this week blocked a decision to move forward the negotiations.
Egemen Bagis, Turkey's minister in charge of EU affairs, said Thursday that if Merkel is looking for "internal political material" ahead of Germany's September elections "this should not be Turkey." He also pointed to the election defeat last year of then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a fellow opponent of Turkish EU membership.
"If Mrs. Merkel follows and reviews what happened to Sarkozy, who previously tried to use (Turkey) as political material, she will see that the fate of those who mess around with Turkey is not all that good," said Bagis, who is Turkey's chief EU negotiator.
German Foreign Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told reporters that ambassador Huseyin Avni Karslioglu was summoned to the ministry Friday.
He would say only that the reason was comments by a Turkish official regarding Germany and the future of the EU membership talks, adding: "These are comments that met with incomprehension ? this is not in order."
Last month, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said he was hopeful of opening negotiations on another chapter in the membership talks before the end of June. But on Thursday, Germany and the Netherlands blocked a decision to do so.
That chapter concerns regional policies, not Turkey's protests. Asked whether the decision to block its opening was linked to the Turkish crackdown, Peschke said it was down to "open technical questions" on which he wouldn't elaborate.
However, he added that "of course, as always in life, everything is linked to everything else."
Human rights groups have said the protests in Turkey have left more than 5,000 people injured and more than 3,000 were detained, then released.
The demonstrations were sparked by a police crackdown on environmental activists in Istanbul May 31, but also criticized what some regard as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's authoritarian style of leadership.
NATO member Turkey began EU accession negotiations in 2005 but has made little progress, in part reflecting unease among some in Europe to admitting a populous Muslim nation.
Turkey's entry talks cover 35 different areas, or chapters. Only 13 have been opened, and several areas have been frozen over Turkey's refusal to allow ships and planes from Cyprus, an EU member, to enter its ports and airspace.
Germany itself is a potential obstacle to Turkish EU membership given that Merkel and her conservative party have long advocated a lesser, vaguely defined "privileged partnership," though Westerwelle's Free Democrats ? her junior coalition partners? are less skeptical.
A spokesman for Merkel stressed Friday that Germany's support for continuing membership talks remains unchanged.
"Neither the chancellor nor the government are in any way questioning the accession process," Georg Streiter said. "It's not about whether, only about how the accession process is continued."
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Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/germany-protests-over-turkish-ministers-comments-103921254.html
Ben Stiller-Produced Stand-Up Series Greenlit by Comedy Central
By Tim Kenneally
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Apparently, Comedy Central thinks Ben Stiller is a stand-up kind of guy.
The network has given the go-ahead to a new series, 'The Meltdown With Jonah and Kumail,' which counts Stiller among its executive producers, Comedy Central said Thursday.
The series, hosted by comedians Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanijani, is filmed at the back of Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard, where comedians such as Robin Williams, Louis C.K. and Ed Helms have performed at a weekly comedy show dubbed, yes, The Meltdown. Comedy Central said the series will track "today's hottest comedians on and off-stage," capturing their performances and going backstage with them.
"Of all the comedy shows on Comedy Central that are taped in the back of a comic book store, this will be the best one," Ray, Nanijani and Gordon vowed in a statement.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ben-stiller-produced-stand-series-greenlit-comedy-central-213123169.html
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