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Have you guys heard about the proposed coal-fired power plant in Midland?

Midland Daily News article

Having watched this episode of Real Sports on HBO last year, coal-fired power plants don't give me postive thoughts, especially since my 4-year-old has respiratory issues and perhaps athsma.

A question for the Catholics among us...

I read in a review of Ratzinger's new book (link) that:

"After finishing a 400-page manuscript last fall, Pope Benedict XVI decided to publish his argument under his given name, as a theologian-scholar rather than as the church's "infallible" voice on doctrine. "Everyone is free, then," he writes, "to contradict me."

2007

July 22: profile of an actor and resident of Los Angeles, a mechanical engineer by training, who is now "Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's advisor on judicial matters and executions and the go-to man for all things gallows" - link  

NEW YORK (Reuters) - World oil prices jumped briefly on Wednesday after a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the No. 62 U.S. media market -- posted an erroneous story about a refinery fire on its Web site.

At 10:14 EDT (1414 GMT), CBS affiliate KOTV reported that a lightning strike had caused a fire at an Oklahoma refinery -- sparking a flurry of excitement among energy traders and boosting U.S. crude prices 40 cents.

The refining company announced the story was "completely wrong" and the station withdrew the story.

Just reading an article about various approaches to track and monitor your child.  GPS enabled cell phones seem to be generally available.I read a couple of stories about kids kept out of trouble because of these devices. Any opinions?    JS

I saw a program that showed evidence that warm temperatures always precede rises in CO2 and not the other way around.

Let's find this Temp vs. CO2 data.

Otherwise, what's the evidence for long-term global warming?  (not opinionated, just seeking the actual evidence, not interested in politics on this one)

China,

I admire the Chinese. 

They are entreprenurial, capitalistic, and parctical.  Simultaneously, some of the best poetry I have read was from Chinese authors.  The Chinese seem impassioned about life, learning, and moving forward.  This great dragon is waking up, just as the rest of the world is going to sleep.  If they take Tiawan there will be no challengers.

I see a personal note from Stephen.  Should I upgrade?

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