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API: IHI Study Shows Shale Gas Developments to Generate New Jobs and Revenues

API Vice President for Policy and Economic Analysis, Kyle Isakower, told reporters that an IHS study shows that future unconventional oil and natural gas development will generate large numbers of jobs and new revenue for government in nearly every state:

?Shale energy development has transformed the U.S. energy sector and been one of the few bright lights in our nation?s recovering economy. And it?s poised to do much more. The positive impacts are being realized in states with little or no energy development as well as in energy producing states.

?Shale development has also increased the affordability of energy while helping to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and strengthened U.S. manufacturing that uses low-cost natural gas, either as a feedstock, an energy input, or both. Future shale energy development could expand all of these trends. It also could encourage exports of natural gas, spurring more U.S. production and new jobs.

?While a few companies have questioned exporting U.S. energy ? particularly natural gas, believing it could raise prices for them ? analyses from Brookings, Deloitte, and others show the impact on prices at home would be minor. The U.S. Department of Energy says exports would be an overall plus for our economy.?


LNG World News Staff, January 11, 2013

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Embattled cancer agency's donor list revealed

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? Major pharmaceutical firms and individuals linked to companies that have benefited from a $3 billion cancer-fighting Texas agency under criminal investigation are among the financial contributors to a nonprofit formed to support the embattled state institute, according to a list of donors released Thursday.

Lawmakers and reporters had sought the identity of CPRIT Foundation donors in wake of the recent turmoil surrounding the state-run Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Foundation board members had been reluctant to release the list, saying they wanted to protect their donors from being solicited.

The CPRIT Foundation supplemented the salary of agency executives and helped pay for annual meetings and conferences.

"In light of recent developments associated with the institute, we believe it is appropriate to make this information publicly available at this time," said Marc Palazzo, a foundation spokesman.

The donors include drug developers including Eisai Inc. ($200,000), Pfizer Inc. ($160,000), Novartis Pharmaceuticals ($235,000) and Amgen ($35,000).

Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis, who had sought the list through open record laws and has called on Republican Gov. Rick Perry to make the beleaguered agency an emergency item of the current legislative session, said she had not yet scrutinized the donors but said it raised red flags.

"It's important that we work to connect the dots that might possibly exist between contributions and the awarding of grants," Davis said. "But the list itself certainly indicates some issues that need to be addressed."

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst also contributed $1,000 to the foundation in November, when CPRIT appeared to be emerging from months of controversy before a bombshell later that month that put the agency at a standstill ? CPRIT disclosed that $11 million in taxpayer funds were awarded to a Dallas-based Peloton Therapeutics, even though the biotech startup never had its application scrutinized or independently reviewed.

The fallout led to the resignation of the agency's executive director and chief commercialization officer, who submitted Peloton's proposal for approval. Prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into the agency soon afterward, and CPRIT is now under an indefinite moratorium from handing out any more funds.

Dallas-based Mary Crowley Cancer Foundation donated $35,000 in 2009. Its founder is the grandmother of David Shanahan, a prominent political donor and businessman who founded Gradalis Inc., which in 2010 received nearly $750,000 in funding from CPRIT.

Bill Miller, an Austin lobbyist and spokesman for Shanahan, said there was no connection between the donation and the Gradalis award. Shanahan has served as president of the Crowley Foundation, and Miller said the donation was consistent with others made to similar cancer-fighting and research efforts.

Miller added that the state funding to Gradalis was not directly obtained through the agency, but instead was in tandem with a research award to Baylor College of Medicine. He said Gradalis has applied directly to funding from CPRIT but has never been successful.

"He was absolutely involved (with the donation) and he was happy to do so," Miller said. "$35,000 is just a drop in the bucket to what they do."

Shanahan also has ties to Caliber Biotherapeutics, which received a $12.8 million grant in 2011. Miller said Shanahan only has a "small stake" in Caliber and has no title with the company.

CPRIT debuted in 2009 to widespread acclaim. The state-run agency is home to the nation's second largest pot of cancer-research money, behind only the National Institutes of Health, and has awarded more than $800 million.

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U.S. Effort on Ocean Acidification Needs Focus on Human Impacts

gold at our feet A beachgoer harvests oysters near New Kamilche, Washington. Scientists fear increasing ocean acidification as a result of greenhouse gas emissions could impair the ability of oysters and other sea creatures to grow a shell, impacting the lives and livelihoods of many dependent on the sea. Image: Flickr/cswtwo

A federal plan to tackle ocean acidification must focus more on how the changes will affect people and the economy, according to a review of the effort by a panel of the National Research Council.

"Social issues clearly can't drive everything but when it's possible they should," said George Somero, chair of the committee that wrote the report and associate director at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station. "If you're setting up a monitoring station, it should be where there's a shellfish industry, for example."

Acidification is one of the larger problems associated with greenhouse gas emissions, as oceans serve as a giant sponge for carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide is dissolved in seawater, water chemistry changes and acidity increases. More acidic seawater can hurt ocean creatures, especially corals and shellfish, because it prevents them from properly developing their skeletons and shells. Shrinking coral reefs could dent eco-tourism revenue in some coastal areas. It also could trigger a decline in fish populations dependent on those reefs.

Decreasing shellfish populations would harm the entire ocean food chain, researchers say, particularly affecting people who get their protein or paycheck from the sea. Globally, fish represent about 6 percent of the protein people eat.?

The acidification blueprint was drafted by nine federal agencies in March 2012. It establishes guidelines for federal research, monitoring and mitigation of ocean acidification. In reviewing the plan, the research council, which advises the government on science policy, recommended that federal research and action be focused on issues with human and economic consequences.?

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The panel cited the Pacific Northwest as an economic example, where high acidity levels have hampered oyster hatcheries, worth about $270 million and 3,200 jobs to coastal communities there. It is unclear if ocean acidification is the culprit, but it could be a harbinger of things to come, according to the report.

In 2011, U.S. commercial fishers caught 10 billion pounds of seafood valued at $5.3 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The panel also suggested the plan should have a clearer mission, prioritized goals and ways to measure progress.

"This plan would cost a lot of money so there needs to be priorities and ways to prove impact," Somero said. "The federal budget simply won't allow for everything that needs to be done."

In 2009, Congress passed the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act, creating a federal program to deal with ocean acidification.?

Somero said the agencies will take the recommendations and "tune up" the plan.

Ocean acidification is an "emerging global problem," according to NOAA. Over the past 250 years, about one third of the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels has ended up in oceans, according to a 2010 study. Over that time, ocean acidity has increased about 30 percent, according to the National Research Council.

Ocean advocacy groups supported the panel's recommendations.

"Ocean acidification is one of the greatest threats to marine life and fisheries," said Matthew Huelsenbeck, a marine scientist at Oceana. "We are encouraged that the Council has suggested communicating this issue to policy makers and the public to increase awareness and hopefully lead to solutions."

Julia Roberson, a director at the Ocean Conservancy, said the original plan was a good first step and she hopes government will use the council's suggestions.

Amid recommendations, the panel also offered praise for the federal effort, saying the plan does "an excellent job of covering the breadth of current understanding of ocean acidification and the range of research that will be required to advance a broadly focused and effective National Ocean Acidification Program."

This article originally appeared at The Daily Climate, the climate change news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.

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CES 2012: Casio asegura que la bater?a del reloj G-Shock con Bluetooth dura dos a?os

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Seg?n Casio, el reloj ocupa un Bluetooth especial de bajo consumo energ?tico, por lo que aseguran que el reloj funciona con una pila com?n de relojes y su duraci?n es la misma que un reloj convencional: Alrededor de un par de a?os, asumiendo que el Bluetooth se ocupa por unas 12 horas diarias.

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NRA: Biden talks push agenda, not safety

Vice President Joe Biden meets with gun owner groups today at the White House to discuss efforts to curb gun violence. (Official White House Photo)Vice President Joe Biden meets with gun owner groups at the White House to discuss efforts to curb gun violence.??

Not that there was ever much doubt, but the National Rifle Association bluntly declared on Thursday that it would not cooperate with any White House drive for gun control in the aftermath of the elementary school slaughter in Newtown, Conn.

?We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment,? the powerful lobbying group said in a statement after talks with Vice President Joe Biden.

"While claiming that no policy proposals would be 'prejudged,' this task force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners?honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans," the NRA said. "It is unfortunate that this administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation's most pressing problems."

Biden has been leading a task force with the job of coming up with recommendations for battling what President Barack Obama calls an epidemic of gun violence across America. The vice president is due to present his recommendations to Obama on Tuesday after a range of discussions with gun-violence victims groups, law enforcement officials, organizations that represent gun owners, and officials from the entertainment industry. Obama has already pressed Congress to renew the assault weapons ban and take up new restrictions on owning large-capacity magazines?two steps the NRA opposes.

"We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen," the organization said. "Instead, we will now take our commitment and meaningful contributions to members of Congress of both parties who are interested in having an honest conversation about what works?and what does not."

The statement appears to leave open the possibility that the NRA could (maybe) support tighter restrictions to keep guns out of the hands of Americans who already cannot legally own them. But the NRA's description of what it was ready to talk about with Biden did not include gun control.

"We attended today's White House meeting to discuss how to keep our children safe and were prepared to have a meaningful conversation about school safety, mental health issues, the marketing of violence to our kids and the collapse of federal prosecutions of violent criminals," the group said.

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Five predictions for the 2013 commercial real estate market in ...

The new year is shaping up as a mixed bag when it comes to commercial real estate in central Pennsylvania. Small commercial and office buildings will continue to sell well, but land could lag in a market still recovering from a deep contraction brought on by the great recession.

All this and more is according to William Gladstone, of the Bill Gladstone Group of NAI CIR. In predicting 2013 market trends, he says size will continue to matter when it comes to selling commercial real estate. The sweet spot will remain properties and office buildings that weigh in under 7,000 square feet. This end of the market is holding its value, provided the location is good, Gladstone says.

Other bright spots include the hospitality sector, including hotel and restaurant properties, which should continue to see a modest recovery. Gladstone points out that the West Shore, especially, needs more restaurants to fill existing vacancies.

On the down side, office leasing in downtown Harrisburg will remain flat. For things to change, Gladstone says there needs to be a breakthrough in the city?s debt crisis ? ?some type of resolution allowing the city to move forward.? That said, office leasing in the suburbs isn?t exactly setting records, either. Gladstone projects more of the same ? a middling pace that should see less than 10,000-square-foot of net space absorption per quarter.

As for building more office space? It will only happen when tenants are lined up in advance for a custom build-to-suit job ?- or when larger new tenants enter or relocate to Central Pennsylvania, Gladstone says.

In the industrial sector, leasing of large warehouses (above 500,000 square feet) ticked up slightly, but only when new businesses relocate here. The real demand for industrial space remains on the small end ?- buildings in the 25,000-75,000 square-foot range.

With so much existing commercial space still standing idle, it?s no wonder that Gladstone is most pessimistic when it comes to prospects for commercial land in 2013. ?The ability to finance and to purchase at a reasonable number is just not there today,? he says of land for most commercial uses. ?The only exception will continue to be land for apartment development, which are mostly larger tracts.?

All in all, the commercial real estate game in central Pennsylvania remains a challenge in 2013. Yet, Gladstone sounds as if he wouldn?t have it any other way.

?There is no doubt that in the upcoming year, real estate will be inviting, challenging and even have a sense of thrill about it,? he says. ?As we move through our future, we are hoping for the best, preparing for the worst and anticipating something in between those two positions.?


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Whew! Big asteroid no longer threat to Earth

(AP) ? Upon further review, a big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says.

Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't on a path to hit Earth on April 13, 2036 as once feared possible.

At more than 1,060 feet wide, the rock called Apophis could do significant damage to a local area if it hit and perhaps even cause a tsunami. But it was not large enough to trigger worldwide extinctions. One prominent theory that explains the extinctions of dinosaurs and other species 65 million years ago says a six-mile-wide meteorite hit Earth and spewed vast amounts of dust into the air, cooling and darkening the planet.

About nine years ago, when astronomers first saw Apophis (uh-PAH'-fihs), they thought there was a 2.7 percent chance that it would smack into our planet. Later, they lowered the chances to an even more unlikely 1 in 250,000.

Now it's never mind.

"Certainly 2036 is ruled out," said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program. "It's why we track them so we can be assured that they won't get dangerously close."

Yeomans said now the asteroid, named after an evil Egyptian mythical serpent, won't get closer than 19,400 miles. That's still the closest approach asteroid watchers have seen for a rock this large. And when astronomers got a closer look they noticed it was about 180 feet larger than they thought, but not a threat.

Asteroids circle the sun as leftovers of failed attempts to form planets billions of years ago. When asteroids enter Earth's atmosphere, they become meteors and when they hit the ground they are meteorites.

This is the second time in as many months the asteroid watchers have had good news for Earth. Last month, astronomers got a closer look at a smaller asteroid that they had previously calculated had a 1 in 500 chance of hitting Earth, this time in 2040. And they decided the 460-foot asteroid was no longer a threat.

If you still want to see a space rock come cosmically close to Earth, there's always next month.

On Feb. 15, a small asteroid, only 130-feet wide, will come close to Earth, about 17,000 miles above the equator. That's so close it will come between our planet and some of the more distant satellites that circle the globe. But it will miss Earth.

"This will be the closest passage of an object this size," Yeomans said.

That asteroid, called 2012 DA14, should be visible with smaller telescopes and binoculars, but mostly in Eastern Europe, Asia and Australia, he said.

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Yoda statue among features of new N. Calif. park

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (AP) ? A Northern California park being built on land donated by filmmaker George Lucas will feature statues of Indiana Jones and Yoda, two of his most popular characters.

The Marin Independent Journal reports (http://bit.ly/Ws4CcS ) that the San Anselmo Planning Commission voted unanimously Monday to approve the downtown park. It could be completed as soon as June 1.

Lucas donated land for the 8,700-square-foot park. A commercial building on the site will be demolished at Lucas' expense, and a historic fresco will be relocated.

A fund is being established by a community foundation to pay for the park's ongoing maintenance and care.

The park's Yoda fountain will be similar to the one located at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco.

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Information from: Marin Independent Journal, http://www.marinij.com

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Netanyahu takes on the world in Israeli election campaign

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It's Bibi against the world on a campaign trail that took the combative Israeli prime minister to a Jewish settlement on Tuesday.

Enjoying a wide opinion poll lead before a January 22 election, Benjamin Netanyahu has been lecturing the international community - vocal in its criticism of settlement expansion on occupied territory and his hints of military action against Iran - about what it should really be worried about.

The right-wing candidate, known by his childhood nickname "Bibi", has been striving in campaign appearances to strike a common chord in a country where a song titled, "The whole world is against us", was once a hit.

"The great danger to the world is not from Jews building in our ancestral capital in Jerusalem, it's from nuclear weapons in Iran," Netanyahu said on Monday in a speech in the holy city, to which both Israel and the Palestinians stake claims.

A day later, he travelled to Ariel, a major Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, where his government's granting of university status to a college last month drew international condemnation.

Tweaking his message to match the locality, Netanyahu said: "The danger to the world is not from the university in Ariel or Israeli construction in the neighborhoods of Jerusalem. The danger comes from Iran, which is building nuclear weapons."

Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy only.

Netanyahu has long been at odds with even Israel's closest Western allies over settlement building in the West Bank, territory captured in a 1967 war that Palestinians seek as part of a future state.

His tough talk on Iran, hinting heavily that Israel might attack its nuclear facilities unilaterally unless international sanctions persuade Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, has raised the alarm in world capitals.

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

The civil war in nearby Syria and Israeli fears that Syrian chemical weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist rebels also figure high on Netanyahu's campaign list of eye-openers for foreign leaders.

"I call on the world to wake up. History will judge severely those who equate democratic Israel, which is establishing a university (in Ariel), to those tyrannical regimes slaughtering their countrymen and possessing weapons of mass destruction," he said during his visit to the settlement.

Running under the campaign slogan, "A strong prime minister, a strong Israel", Netanyahu's Likud party, allied in the election with the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu faction, has lost some ground to a start-up far-right party led by high-tech millionaire Naftali Bennett.

But opinion polls still count Netanyahu as a shoo-in to enlist right-wing parties after the vote and form the next coalition government. In Israel, no single party has ever won a parliamentary majority.

Bennett, a former settler leader, opposes a Palestinian state and wants to annex about 60 percent of the West Bank.

Netanyahu is still formally committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of a peace deal with Israel, while raising conditions - many of them already rejected by the Palestinians - for its creation.

But he has been making clear to voters that he intends to plough ahead with settlement construction, suggesting it is a sacred duty.

"We remain loyal to our homeland will continue to protect our citizens, develop our country and build in our land," Netanyahu said in Ariel.

"With God's help, we will build and we will succeed."

(Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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