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“I have just authorised my staff to allocate a substantial sum of money to launch an international campaign to fight your plan to surround Scotland’s coast with many thousands of wind turbines.
“It will be like looking through the bars of a prison and the Scottish citizens will be the prisoners.
“Luckily, tourists will not suffer because there will be none as they will be going to other countries that had the foresight to use other forms of energy.”
Mr Trump added of his objection: “I am doing this to save Scotland.”
The Scottish government doesn’t seem scared by Trump’s threats, and Niall Stuart, chief executive of Scottish Renewables, which represents the renewable energy industry in Scotland (take note that he’s not a neutral party either), said:
“Who is Donald Trump to tell Scotland what is good for our economy and our environment?” he said. “Offshore wind is already attracting billions of pounds of investment and supporting hundreds of jobs across Scotland, including in his mother’s hometown of Stornoway.
“He completely overblows the impact of the proposed wind farm and to be honest there are so many mistakes in the ‘trumped-up’ nonsense that it’s difficult to know where to begin.”
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“Even if the election goes well, there’s intense trouble ahead,” says Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst who advised U.S. presidents on the Middle East under Republican and Democratic administrations.
The United States has been working with Yemen’s government to target al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has expanded into one of the most menacing terror franchises in the Middle East, according to the Pentagon. American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in southern Yemen in September.
The Obama administration supported the easing aside of dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose family-controlled military has been pounding an uprising in the south. In voting Tuesday, Yemenis cast ballots for his replacement, Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Hadi inherits leadership of the Arab world’s poorest country during a conflict that has destroyed the economy, set security forces fighting against each other and allowed al-Qaeda to seize towns.
Experts say the United States and Saudi Arabia need to persuade the new government to forge a cease-fire with the south and address its complaints about unfair political representation and economic rights to help isolate al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda, “wants the chaos to continue, so it can continue to grow,” Riedel says. “It’s going to require a lot of coaxing effort, an enormous amount of Saudi money to grease the skids and American support to help make it happen.”
Saleh’s family and northern cronies dominated the country after north Yemen unified with south Yemen, once a socialist client of the Soviet Union, keeping foreign aid and control of the military in their hands, says Ibrahim Sharqieh at the Brookings Doha Center.
“That is the first thing the new government will have to deal with, the southern question, whether to keep them as part of the country, let them go on their own or have some sort of a federal system between the south and the north,” Sharqieh says.
Julie Taylor, a Middle East expert at the Rand Corp., says the Obama administration realizes that defeating al- Qaeda in Yemen will require more than killing its leaders. “That’s why they increased USAID funding in Yemen,” Taylor says.
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A team at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia discovered in a fossilized squirrel burrow in Siberia remnants of the ice-age flowering plant Silene stenophylla. The plant had been buried at a depth of 38 meters in sediments with a temperature of “7.
Radiocarbon dating of the plants seemed to show that an ancient squirrel stashed them around 31,800 years ago, just before ice rolled into the area near the Kolya river.
Scientists used growth hormone to coax silene stenophylla back to life and eventually, back to bloom. They are now, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report ” the most ancient, viable, multicellular, living organisms.”
The discoveries of this ‘ancient DNA’ as permafrost in colder regions melts is becoming a trend. Sometimes, seed finds turn out to have been deposited much later than scientists first believe, but the Soil Cryptology Lab in Moscow went to some lengths to ascertain that silene stenophylla’s seeds were really as old as they seemed to be.
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Recession has Portugal urging citizens to leave to find work has become so common

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Its colonies in places like Brazil and Macau are gone, but laid low by recession, Portugal is telling citizens to head to its former colonies to find work.
“Recent graduates should lead a new type of emigration, different from the 1960s when Europe was the destination,” Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Miguel Relvas said recently. “In the past 20 years, Portugal has invested in a generation of people, and now we can’t give them what they need employment.”
The Portuguese government has admitted it is unable to provide job opportunities to the country’s 700,000 unemployed, especially teachers and recent graduates. Many of them have lost jobs, or been unable to find employment at all, as a result of austerity measures imposed by the IMF, the EU and the European Central Bank they bailed out the country to the tune of $115 billion last May.
Portugal’s jobless rate reached its highest level ever in December 2011 14%, according the Portuguese National Institute of Statistics. Talk of a second bailout has led to fears that there might be more austerity to come.
The credit ratings agency Fitch predicts Portugal’s economy will shrink by 3% in 2012. In contrast, Brazil’s economy grew by 7.5% last year.
The solution for Portuguese citizens, according to the country’s secretary of State for youth and sports, Miguel Mestre, is to get out of town.
“If people are unemployed they should leave their comfort zone and look beyond our borders,” he said late last year, to an outraged reaction from his increasingly frustrated fellow Portuguese, who blasted him for it via Twitter and Facebook.
Portugal’s construction and catering industries have long been a magnet for workers from the former Portuguese colonies of Brazil and Angola. But the economic crisis engulfing Europe means the old colonial “mother country” is no longer the land of opportunity it once was. Portugal is experiencing its worst economic crisis since 1975.
What seemed at first to be a public relations gaffe soon received the governmental seal of approval when Conservative Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho advised unemployed teachers to search for jobs in Brazil and Angola.
“Look to the Portuguese-speaking market as a whole and maybe find alternative (opportunities) there,” the prime minister advised unemployed teachers, according to the Correio da Manh newspaper.
Some are taking heed. Nearly 330,000 Portuguese now live legally in Brazil, compared with 277,000 in 2010.
Lawyer Teresa Morais, 28, left Lisbon for So Paulo four years ago. She decided to make the move because job opportunities at home were becoming increasingly scarce.
“There were not many jobs in Portugal when I left,” she said. “I saw my colleagues without new challenges, with routine jobs without incentives to improve productivity.”
She says that it hasn’t always been easy adjusting. “There have been obstacles,” she said. “The first was cultural the networking, figuring out the job market and getting to know how the Brazilian judicial system works.”
Meanwhile, about 200,000 Portuguese citizens are now living in Mozambique and Angola, where jobs are available in the mining and construction industries. In 2009, 24,000 Portuguese moved to Angola, compared with only 156 in 2006, according to the Portuguese Immigration Observatory.
Ana Nobre, a 26-year-old commercial manager, left her home in Rio Maior in western Portugal, a year ago for a job in Angola.
“Almost a year after I arrived here, I was promoted within the company,” she said, speaking from Luanda. “I earn much more money than I would ever earn in Portugal.”
Some see trouble with the exodus.
“When people who can actually work, entrepreneurs and people with skills and experience, as well as capital, are leaving, it is not only a problem for our economy but also for Portugal’s recovery and regeneration,” said Jos Adelino Maltez, a senior political analyst the Technical University of Lisbon.
Even so, many say there is a truism that still lingers in the country, written by the Portuguese writer E?a de Queirs in 1871: “In Portugal, emigration is not, as it is everywhere else, an overflow of population. It is a means of escape for those who are suffering.”christianlouboutlnpumpsoutlet

Manny Ramirez close to signing with A’s what we can see from here

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ESPN first reported earlier in the day that the sides had reached agreement, speaking directly to Ramirez. The person confirmed the sides were closing in on a contract, speaking on condition of anonymity because Ramirez still must take a physical and likely another drug test.
The A’s made public their interest in the 12-time All-Star, who is due to serve a 50-game suspension for his second positive drug test before he can play for Oakland. Barring rainouts, his first game could be May 30 on his 40th birthday.
He has been working out in Florida this winter, so he will now travel to Arizona to join his new team probably in time for Oakland’s first full-squad workout Saturday.
Ramirez was expected to sign a minor league deal, which would keep him off the 40-man roster. For the low-budget A’s, Ramirez presents a low-risk bargain. They don’t have to pay him during his suspension and will give him per diem money during the club’s stint in the desert, which is shorter than usual because of two opening games in Japan next month.
Oakland sent representatives to Florida this winter to watch workouts by Ramirez, who retired from the Tampa Bay Rays last season rather than serve a 100-game suspension. For Ramirez, this could become a chance to help repair his reputation and serve as a positive clubhouse influence on a young team.
The A’s recently agreed to terms on a $36 million, four-year contract with highly regarded outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, a Cuban defector who has expressed interest in playing with Ramirez.
At baseball’s winter meetings in December, it was announced that Ramirez had applied for reinstatement. He had his suspension for a second failed drug test cut to 50 games because he sat out nearly all of last season. MLB had announced his retirement on April 8, saying he was notified “of an issue” under the drug program.
Ramirez ranks 14th on the career list with 555 home runs. He went 1 for 17 (.059) in five games last season for Tampa Bay, which had signed him to a one-year deal worth $2.02 million.
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Peanuts, as much enjoyment the other 99.5 percent of the population derives from them, are no laughing matter.
Just last year, Kroger, the supermarket chain, was forced to recall countless tubs of Kroger Deluxe Chocolate Paradise Ice Cream (sold in over 17 states) as the ice cream may contain tree nuts (strange to think that no one can be certain in this day and age) and wasn t labeled accordingly. The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a proposal severely limiting the customary distribution of packages of peanuts on airplane flights. DOT believes that a severe peanut allergy counts as a disability and federal law prohibits air carriers from discriminating against individuals with a disability, according to a DOT sponsored website. The DOT outlined three distinct options: banning airlines from serving peanuts; banning them only on flights where a person with a peanut allergy requests it ahead of time; or requiring a peanut-free buffer zone around an allergy sufferer if they ask ahead of time (many public schools already ban peanut butter and peanut-based foods out of concern for students whom suffer from nut allergies).
The motivation for these draconian measures stems from a place of relative good: an attempt to protect those with moderate to severe peanut allergies. However, some at American Department of Agriculture s Food Allergy Research Group in New Orleans believes that the source of many of these extreme and deadly peanut allergies are a collection of distinct proteins found in the nuts. Researchers studied 900 varieties of peanut, looking for naturally occurring mutations which left them with lower levels of the dangerous proteins. Out of this research came a low-risk peanut with significantly reduced levels of the allergy-causing proteins that could be massed produced. This development has the potential to bring hope, and a little bit of security, for those who live day to day in fear of what lies beyond the nutshell.
Ice cream bans, peanut-free zones, and genetically modified peanuts, all to safeguard a fraction of the population? Is this altruism and self-sacrifice or is it extreme measures that infringe on the rights of the majority? Is the peanut worth fighting for (I am sure the peanut lobby would think so) or should we keep them locked up, heavily regulated, and far away from those whom they would do harm? Feel free to weigh in.christian louboutln short shoes outlet

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A joint venture between Tyson Foods and Syntroleum is investing $150 million for a plant that will convert beef tallow and pork and chicken fat into diesel fuel. Once operational, the goal is to produce 75 million gallons of animal fat-based biofuel each year. Located at Geismar, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge the plant could employ about 300 workers.
The feedstock for the fuel production will come from slaughterhouses across the country to make a fuel that has been said to contain less particulate matter, meaning it should generate less air pollution. It also can be used in standard diesel engines.
Considering the fact about nine to ten billion farms animals are killed for consumption in the United States each year, there should be an ample supply of animal fats for such a plant. The U.S. uses about 58 billion gallons of diesel fuel each year, but 75 million gallons is less than two percent of that total. Will it make a difference?
It might be beneficial to the Louisiana economy if it turns out to be a sustainable business. Air pollution wherever the fuel is used will likely also be reduced but at this point it isn t clear how much. It was announced recently the plant already has an agreement to supply their diesel fuel to a railroad company to run trains, coach necklace outlet We look forward to working with Norfolk Southern to lower their emissions and increase the renewable content of the fuel they burn. Renewable diesel is a sustainable, ultra clean burning, high cetane fuel that reduces carbon emissions and significantly reduces particulates and NOx when combusted in existing diesel engines, said a Syntroleum official.
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Turning a Toronto Roof into an Urban Garden and Community Space and Amazing Transformer Paper Tables Used As Displays in 140 Year Old Paper Store

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The CSI has teamed up with the About Face Collective, SKETCH: Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and Skate4Cancer to make the dream a reality: the “Everything Roof.” The space will be designed by local artists, who will use recycled and reclaimed materials to make it into a functioning garden.
Food grown on the Everything Roof will be sold at local farmers’ markets and to nearby restaurants, and workshops will be held to encourage the public to learn how to garden and get them involved. In addition to producing local, healthy food, the roof will have other environmental benefits: The removal of the black tar currently covering the 2200 square feet will reduce the heat island effect; it will limit stormwater runoff and include a rain water collection system.
But the Everything Roof isn’t just about the environment: “We really want to make this as much a community space as an urban farming education project,” says Natalie, from the About Face Collective. As well as educational workshops, the roof will host community gatherings.
But to make it happen, they need to fund a $240,000 budget that includes the required planning and infrastructure as well as wages for the local youth and artists who will be doing the work.
Designer Hiromitsu Konishi of Miso has developed an award winning display system of tables for a 140 year old paper company’s store in Ise City. The tables unfold like a traditional Japanese paper fan.
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A Visit to London’s Inspiring Olympic Velodrome and bring you the amasing view

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Designed by Hopkins Architects,the outside is clad in 5,000 M2 of Western Red Cedar timber to draw a parallel with the timber track inside the venue. The double-curving roof structure was designed to reflect the shape of the cycling track.
Natural ventilation is achieved through openings in the external timber cladding of the venue resulting in substantial carbon emission reductions. Air flows across the 6,000 stands of seats and through the top, being replaced by cool, fresh air from below.
Theoretically that sounds great, but the place felt pretty warm after an hour or two of sitting with 5,999 people. Come summer this will definitely be an issue. Of course, now is the time to work out all the wrinkles, so hopefully this problem will be solved.
The use of abundant daylight through strategically positioned rooflights reduces need for artificial lighting.
The Velodrome has been designed with the aim of creating the worlds fastest cycling track by tailoring its shape and angles to create record-breaking conditions. Renowned track designer Ron Webb oversaw the design and installation of the 2012 track having previously worked on the Sydney and Athens Velodromes.
The interior has seating all the way round the track to create the best possible views for the crowds. In fact the sensation of peering over the railing at the track is almost like being on a ship and leaning over to watch the fish. The curves rise and fall and the cyclists whiz by; it’s all very exciting.
The British deemed it to be the best cycling track ever and they have been doing very well, with two golds and a pair of new world records. To everyone’s surprise, the Canadians led the way.
A team of 26 specialist carpenters installed the track over a period of 8 weeks. 56km of surface timber from a sustainably-sourced Siberian pine was laid to form the track surface, fixed into place with more than 300,000 nails.
The track is delicate. After one serious clash of bicycles the race was stopped and two men ran out to replace bits of wood that had become unstuck. Then they sanded the repairs, swept away the sawdust, and the race started again after a 10 minute break.
The building will have a lasting legacy. After the Games, a road cycle circuit and mountain bike course and reconfigured BMX circuit will be added to the Velodrome to create the Lee Valley VeloPark, combining cycling facilities across all disciplines in one cycling ‘hub’. It will be owned and operated by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.jimmy choo wedges shoes on sale

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Shown off on Instructables, the Sugru team lays out how to transform a beat up old book into a holder for a tablet device — your only requirements are a book of the appropriate size, your device, and some Sugru.When selecting a book, make sure it’s one you definitely don’t mind tearing apart. Something that is ready to be retired anyway is a must. Also, be sure it’s the right thickness — you’ll need a little more room than you think once you factor in both the device and the holders fitting over it:
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Mark your spots, add some Sugru to the corners, and then start forming the holders. Think scrapbook corners when making them — not too bulky but enough to keep it held in place.
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