Iraq Finds Three New Oil Fields, Offers India Development Deal

Iraq has discovered three new oil fields and nominated India to partner with the state in their development, according to The Times of India.

This is somewhat unusual, as governments usually lobby Iraq in the run-up to bidding on partnerships of this nature.

But Iraq's Oil Ministry Veerappa Moily told reporters on Thursday: "Iraq has offered to give state-owned Indian oil firms Kifil, West Kifil and Merjan, discovered oil blocks in the Middle Furat oilfields, on nomination basis," reported the Hindu.

The Iraqis hope to partner with the Indian Oil Corporation, according to the Iraqi government statement cited by Reuters.

Moily added that Iraq is working toward replacing Iran as India's top crude oil supplier in light of the international sanctions on the Islamic Republic, reported the Hindu. The new sanctions are meant to discourage Iran's nuclear program, which Western countries fear is being used to make a bomb; Iran denies this.

Iraq is home to some of the world's largest-known oil reserves.

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What have U.S. troops been doing in Jordan?

By David Schenker, Special to CNN

Editor?s note: David Schenker is director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute. The views expressed are his own.

Weeks ago, fearing a reprise of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Washington reportedly stationed hundreds of Marines to Sicily in the event they were required to protect the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. But these soldiers aren?t the only U.S. assets in the region guarding against contingencies.

In late June, thousands of U.S. service members wrapped up a 14-day annual multilateral military training exercise in Jordan known as ?Eager Lion.? At King Abdullah?s request, 900 of these American soldiers, a squadron of F-16s, and a Patriot Missile Battery, have ? according to President Obama ? remained behind to support ?the security of Jordan,? a state increasingly threatened by spillover from the war in neighboring Syria. And should reinforcements be required, the Marine amphibious assault ship, the USS Kearsarge, is steaming off the coast of Aqaba.

While King Abdullah is no doubt pleased with the demonstration of U.S. commitment to Jordan?s stability, not everyone is applauding the deployment. Not surprisingly, Moscow ? which supports Syria?s Assad regime ? has said U.S. soldiers in the Kingdom ?doesn?t help.? Of more concern, however, is that many Jordanians themselves apparently oppose the presence of U.S. troops on Jordanian soil. Indeed, on April 22, 87 Jordanians of tribal origin ? a cohort traditionally considered the monarch?s leading supporters ? penned an open letter to the King condemning his decision and labeling U.S. troops on the ground as ?a legitimate target for all honorable Jordanians.?

Today, Jordan is home to nearly 600,000 Syrian refugees ? nearly 10 percent of the Kingdom?s population ? and faces a severe economic crisis that has prompted cuts to a broad range of food and energy subsidies. Over the past two years, the Kingdom has experienced sustained protests focused on the stagnant economy and the widespread perception of officially-sanctioned corruption.

At present, it?s unclear how widespread the anti-U.S. troop sentiment is, but if it deepens and expands, the deployment of American soldiers in Jordan could become yet another problem for an increasingly embattled King Abdullah.

In addition to opposing U.S. troops on the ground, the April letter highlighted what appears to be a growing local concern that the Jordanian army may be deployed to Syria. After all, as the note points out, ?Our first and last enemy is Israel.? Echoing a similar statement issued by the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood that month, the letter also rejected the prospect that Jordanian territory be used by ?foreign forces? to attack ?Arab and Islamic lands.?

Opposition to the U.S. presence and to a potential Jordanian military intervention in Syria is not limited to just the Kingdom?s Islamists. One of Jordan?s most prominent secular political parties, the National Front for Reform, for example, has weighed in against the deployment and called for non-interference in the conflict. But perhaps the most credible group to inveigh against the basing has been the National Committee of Retired Military Officers, an organization comprised of both tribal leaders and former high ranking servicemen.

In June, the Retired Officers sent their own open letter to King Abdullah that touched on a long list of grievances, ranging from Royal corruption to the marginalization of tribes in the Kingdom. The letter also warned against ?dependence on foreigners? for Jordan?s defense. Instead of basing U.S. soldiers and equipment, the group advised that King Abdullah should follow the ?perfect example? of his late father King Hussein during the 1991 war in Iraq, when the Kingdom remained neutral.

More recently, Ali Habashneh, the retired general who heads the Officers? organization described the establishment of the U.S. military base as ?a black day? that marked ?the return of colonialism? to Jordan.

Amman appears to be taking the complaints seriously. On June 20, Chairman of the Jordanian military?s Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mashal al Zaben held a press conference to assure Jordanians that the American soldiers and military assets were simply there to ?help Jordan defend itself? and that their presence would not compromise the Kingdom?s sovereignty. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour is denying reports that the CIA has been training Syrian rebels in Jordan since 2012.

Notwithstanding Amman?s efforts to limit popular dissent about American boots on the ground, letters of opposition and public protests over the U.S. deployment are likely to continue. That?s because even as Jordanians largely support the rebels in Syria and hope for a quick end to the war next door, only a small minority of the Kingdom?s residents ? 12 percent according to a 2012 Pew Poll ? view the United States favorably. Alas, based on this enduring unpopularity and the open-ended deployment, U.S. troops will remain a persistent irritant to locals.

Spillover from the deterioration in Syria increasingly threatens the Kingdom. To be sure, the high profile nature of the U.S. troop deployment was intended as a message to the al-Assad regime. And in a worst case scenario, U.S. soldiers in Jordan can help the Kingdom cope with chemical weapons consequence management. Yet the American GIs in Jordan are not cost free for King Abdullah: the deployment will join a long list of ongoing complaints the King has to manage.

Given the stakes, dispatching military personnel and assets to the Kingdom was the right call. But several hundred U.S. soldiers will not insulate Jordan from its most significant threats. Jordanian stability is a casualty of the Obama Administration?s vacillation on Syria. If Washington wants to shore up King Abdullah and secure the realm, it will do everything possible to hasten the departure of Syria?s al-Assad regime.

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Turkey's Taksim Square: From tree-hugging to civil war?

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A pedestrian walks past a barricade, with the Bosphorus Bridge in the background, near Taksim Square in Istanbul on Monday June 10.

By Jim Maceda, Correspondent, NBC News

ISTANBUL, Turkey ? Fatma, a 24-year-old trained nurse, thought ?here we go again? when she learned on Twitter that the Istanbul Municipality had plans to modernize the city?s iconic Taksim Square, which includes one of the few green parks left in the urban sprawl.?

?There was lots of talk about making the square better, but I was very worried,? said Fatma, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. ?We?ve seen the government destroy other parks in Ankara and other cities.?

A few weeks ago, local papers published the plans with no public debate or discussion. But what she saw shocked her. ?They were going to pull out many trees and build this huge shopping mall around the park, covering most of it with concrete!? Fatma said.

The plans included an Ottoman-style military barracks, and a cultural center, including an opera house. If the plans are implemented, the park?s modest forest of trees would be reduced to garden-size.

Fatma rushed to Taksim to join a few friends already sitting-in to protect the trees. At dawn, without warning, riot police attacked her and other sleeping protesters with tear gas and water cannons. Several protesters were injured.

No one could have imagined then that the raid would incite days of rioting and turn a local ?green? issue into a nation-wide protest, killing three and injuring at least 4,000 in some 78 cities.?

Fatma is still in the park, but now she is treating the sick and injured in a makeshift health clinic. ?This is not just any park,? she said. ?It?s a historic park, and it doesn?t need a shopping mall at all.??

Protests that started as an outcry against a local development project in Taksim Square have snowballed into widespread anger against what critics say is the government's increasingly conservative and authoritarian agenda.

But many Turks ? indeed about half the population ? would disagree.

?The Taksim project is good for Turkey and for the people,? said middle-aged Zulfu Aycil, outside a mosque in Kasimpasa, the neighborhood where Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan grew up.

Aycil, who voted for Erdogan?s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the last election two years ago, likes the Taksim redevelopment plan a lot, because it moves all throughways beneath the square, freeing it from Istanbul?s endemic traffic jams.

?Pedestrians will be able to shop more easily and spend more money, and that will help tourism and the economy,? said Aycil, who works in a store near Taksim.?

But the square?s battle lines now go far beyond the initial standoff between local environmentalists and city planners. The riot police?s wanton aggression struck a nerve, and Erdogan is facing his biggest political crisis since coming to power 10 years ago, when he promised to bring Turkey into the 21^st century with trappings of its Ottoman glory days.?

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticizes groups protesting his leadership on Sunday.

Under Erdogan?s leadership, most here agree, Turkey has become an economic success and a force to be reckoned with in the region.? But his construction mania and a series of new laws have angered secular Turks, even as they have pleased his growing power base ? the conservative, Islamist middle-class. ?

?People are fed up with Erdogan?s approach,? said Ali Orcunos, a 64-year-old pensioner who was protesting in Taksim Square with a group younger than his own children. ?Which is 'I decided this, so I will do it this way because the 50 percent who support me want it so; and the other 50 percent don?t count.'??

In recent months Erdogan has imposed restrictions on the sale of alcohol, a drawing down of social security, the separation of boys and girls in primary and secondary schools, and an emphasis on religious ? over national ? holidays.

And after the initial clashes, Erdogan, rather than seek a conciliatory tone, skewered the protesters, calling them looters who were ?arm in arm with terrorists.?

?I was stunned,? said Begum Uzun, one of the protesters on the square. ?I expected Erdogan to say something that would slow down the protest, to be more rational.?

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Zulfu Aycil, a supporter of Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, likes the plans for the redevelopment of Taksim Square.

Instead the rioting went viral. ?This went from something small to something huge not just because of the police actions,? explained Fatma, the medic. ?It was more a last-straw reaction by people across Turkey to Erdogan?s arrogance and policies.?

Fatma said the protest is still growing, and that protesters ? who?ve built a tent city in the leafy park inside Taksim Square ? won?t leave until Erdogan and his government resign.? But fellow volunteer medic, Gokhan Safak, 40, disagreed with his colleague.

?I don?t think this protest is going to go anywhere. It will die out,? he said. ?But we?ve already scared Erdogan ? it?s been a wake-up call. And that?s already a victory.?

Perhaps. But Erdogan shows no signs of changing course ? much less resigning. He?s said that the plans for Taksim Square will push through, and he?s now added a mosque as well. ??

During a fiery speech from the top of a bus on Sunday, he condemned the protesters.

Turkish political analyst, Cengiz Aktar, who?s known Erdogan for years, says the AKP leader isn?t capable of backing down.

?Turkey can still turn things around, despite this setback,? he said. ?But unfortunately Erdogan isn?t flexible enough to do that. It?s not his style. He?s acting increasingly like a lonely autocrat, surrounded by yes-men, and no women.?

Jim Maceda / NBC News

A banner saying "You Gassed Us," hangs over a halted construction site in Istanbul's Taksim Square.

Meanwhile, the tunneling under the square ? which began in November ? stopped after protesters barricaded all access roads to Taksim and covered the stalled construction sites with graffiti.

One banner reads, ?You Gassed Us.? And a court injunction filed by protesters has temporarily halted the pulling out of trees at the park.?

Feeling more confident, people are digging in at Taksim. Burnt-out vehicles from the first violent days have been painted over in bright colors.

But analysts like Aktar are more pessimistic. ?This national crisis could turn into a real conflict. A kind of civil war.?

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Health News - Study emphasizes birth control education, helps pay ...

By Diane Duke Williams - Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis want to know whether they can reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies at community clinics by providing contraceptive counseling that emphasizes the benefits of long-acting birth control, like IUDs and implants, and by making these methods available to women at sharply reduced costs or free of charge.

About half of all pregnancies in the United States ? some 3 million a year ? are unplanned. While intrauterine devices (IUDs) and under-the-skin implants are most effective at preventing pregnancies, many U.S. women still choose birth control pills and condoms, which have higher failure rates.

Some also are deterred by the high up-front costs of IUDs and implants, which are not always covered by insurance.

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?We suspect that contraceptive counseling alone is not enough to increase the use of long-acting birth control,? said Tessa Madden, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and principal investigator of the study. ?Factors such as cost and lack of information from health-care providers may make it difficult for women to get IUDs and implants, and we want to see what happens when we remove those barriers in community clinics.?

The new initiative is a follow-up to a study reported in 2012 in the New England Journal of Medicine by the same team of researchers. That study, known as the CHOICE project, found a clear benefit to providing contraceptive counseling and free birth control to more than 9,000 St. Louis-area women. Those who opted for birth control pills or other short-term methods like the patch or vaginal ring were 20 times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than women who used IUDs or implants.

The researchers want to see whether they can match results from the CHOICE project at two community clinics in St. Louis and two in Memphis, Tenn.

The researchers will enroll 800 women who will be divided into two groups. Half will receive contraceptive counseling, including information about all forms of birth control and a visit with a health-care provider. And the other half will receive the same counseling and a visit with a health-care provider who has received special training in IUDS and implants. Participants in this group also will receive help paying for IUDs or implants if they do not have health insurance or their insurance does not cover these methods.

Women in both groups will complete surveys after visits with their health-care providers and later at six weeks, six months and 12 months. Researchers then will compare how many women had unplanned pregnancies. They also will evaluate which birth-control method women chose and how satisfied they were with their birth control and counseling.

?If this research leads to changes in how we deliver contraceptive services, we could reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States,? Madden said. ?Fewer unintended pregnancies will lead to better health for women and their families.?

Madden and her colleagues? research will be funded by a federal Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) award. All awards in this most recent round of funding were approved pending completion of a business and programmatic review by PCORI staff and issuance of a formal award contract.

PCORI is an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed health care decisions. PCORI is committed to continuously seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work. More information is available at www.pcori.org.

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Washington University School of Medicine?s 2,100 employed and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children?s hospitals. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient care institutions in the nation, currently ranked sixth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children?s hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.

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$30B energy, water spending bill passes House, 227-198

The House late Wednesday approved the third of 12 annual spending bills for 2014, passing the Department of Energy (DOE) and water projects spending bill in a 227-198 vote.

Democrats have argued throughout the week that the $30.4 billion spending bill cuts too deeply into renewable energy and science research. Those complaints led all but eight Democrats to oppose the bill in the final vote.

President Obama has also threatened to veto the bill because of these cuts, and Senate consideration of a bill that spends more means the House version is not likely to survive the upper chamber. Still, House passage allows Republicans to set down a marker on their priorities if and when a final 2014 spending agreement is reached.

Republicans admitted that the legislation focuses on what they see as the nation's top priorities ? maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile, and maintaining U.S. waterways. But even national security-related funding is cut by nearly $400 million compared to 2013 levels.

Non-security funding is cut even more, by $2.5 billion. That includes a $100 million cut to civil works programs in the Army Corps of Engineers, another $100 million cut to the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation, and a $2.1 billion cut to the Department of Energy.

Democrats took several shots during the week at restoring that funding, but they were rejected by the Republican majority. In particular, Democrats sought to restore funding to the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, which was gutted by an 81 percent cut to just $50 million in 2014.

The House did agree to one amendment from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to restore $20 million to ARPA-E, but other proposals failed.

Republicans also took a few shots at reducing spending further than the 9 percent cut already in the bill. One of these was from Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) to save $1.5 billion by eliminating DOE's renewable energy program, but the House defeated that proposal.

Near the end of the debate, dozens of funding limitation proposals were made, many of which were included in the bill. One of these, from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), would prohibit DOE from enforcing federal light bulb standards, language that was also included in the 2013 spending bill.

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Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/310337-house-passes-30b-energy-water-spending-bill

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Sky Sports iPad app gets Ashes makeover with Hawk-Eye access

New Sky Sports Ashes Event Centre lets you analyse decisions and rewind the action so you don't miss a single delivery.

Cricket-lovers planning to tune into the Ashes on Sky Go via an iPad will be able to access the new Ashes Event Centre to play with new features while you watch the action unfold live.

In what Sky Sports is calling a ?second-screen cricket experience?, the Ashes Event Centre will let users view the same statistics that the Sky Sports commentary team will have access to during the five test series.

You?ll also be able to use the Hawk-Eye review system to do your own analysis on the game-changing decisions made by the third umpire.

If you happen to miss a wicket or a face-off between Joe Root and David Warner, the new timeline feature will let you re-watch the action simply by stepping back in time.

Forming part of Sky Sports? comprehensive coverage of the Investec Ashes Series 2013 this summer, the Ashes Event Centre can be found inside the current Sky Sports app and will be free to download for Sky Sports subscribers.

If you don?t have Sky, but do own an iPad, you?ll need to pay ?4.99 to unlock the Ashes content from the in-app purchases section. If you don?t own an iPad but do subscribe to Sky Sports, you can get check out the new features via the Sky website.

The Ashes iPad app follows in the footsteps of similar offerings introduced by Sky Sports to accompany its coverage of Formula 1 and Premier League football giving users access to the same stats and tools used by Sky Sports presenters and pundits. ?

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FBI nominee says surveillance can be valuable tool

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration's nominee to become the next FBI director, James Comey, told members of Congress on Tuesday that federal judges who oversee government intelligence programs are "anything but a rubber stamp." But Comey also agreed to work with legislators to improve the laws governing surveillance activities.

Comey said he wasn't familiar with the details of the government's phone and Internet surveillance programs that recently became public, but he said that collecting that type of information can be "a valuable tool in counterterrorism."

"Folks don't understand that the FBI operates under a wide variety of constraints," Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering his nomination for FBI director. He added that when critics discount the oversight of federal judges and call them a rubber stamp, it "shows you don't have experience before them."

Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the expansive scope of the surveillance programs raises the question of "when is enough enough?"

"Just because we have the ability to collect huge amounts of data doesn't mean that we should be doing so," Leahy said.

The senator asked Comey if he would be willing to work with legislators "to enact some common sense improvements to our surveillance laws," and Comey agreed to do that if confirmed as FBI director.

In the aftermath of the uproar over NSA spying, Leahy has introduced legislation that would improve privacy protections and strengthen oversight and transparency provisions in U.S. surveillance programs.

Comey spent 15 years as a federal prosecutor before serving in the George W. Bush administration, where he is best known for facing down the White House over a warrantless surveillance program. The White House made changes in the program when Comey and current FBI Director Robert Mueller threatened to resign.

Comey got a warm reception from the both Democrats and Republicans on the committee, who repeatedly referred to his independence in standing up to the Bush White House.

Civil liberties groups have nonetheless expressed concerns that Comey signed off on abusive CIA interrogation techniques for terrorist suspects during the Bush administration, when he was the Justice Department's No. 2 official.

Comey told the committee that he argued strongly within the Justice Department against the interrogation techniques, telling the attorney general that "this is wrong, this is awful" and insisting that his arguments be presented to the White House. But his objections were overruled.

The FBI Agents Association has told Leahy that it supports Comey's nomination.

The FBI is investigating Edward Snowden, the former NSA systems analyst who has admitted leaking details of the surveillance programs to the news media. Snowden is charged with two violations of the Espionage Act and theft of government property. To date, he has stayed out of the government's reach. He is believed to have been holed up in the transit area of Moscow's main airport since he suddenly appeared there on a plane from Hong Kong two weeks ago.

Civil liberties groups on Monday called on the government to release any reports by the Justice Department's inspector general on the collection of Americans' telephone records. If the inspector general has not previously reviewed the program, "We ask that it do so now," the groups said.

On a separate surveillance issue, Mueller told Congress last month that the FBI on rare occasions uses unmanned drones for domestic surveillance. The disclosure has prompted questions from members of Congress in both parties.

Meanwhile, the FBI has been conducting investigations of the Boston Marathon bombings and last year's attack at Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. The Boston bombings probe resulted in a 30-count indictment against suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The Benghazi probe is ongoing.

After leaving the Justice Department, where he served as the agency's No. 2 official, Comey was senior vice president and general counsel at defense contractor Lockheed Martin. He later became general counsel at hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. His financial assets include $5.2 million in securities and a home in Westport, Conn., valued at $3 million, according to financial statements filed with the Senate.

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Blue Star Infotech Moves To Cloud With Microsoft Office 365

Blue Star Infotech Limited, the global software services and solutions provider, has moved to cloud with Microsoft Office 365 to take advantage of an unsurpassed productivity experience. The adoption of cloud is part of a global IT transformation strategy to increase collaboration amongst employees and reduce costs for better business results and to gain a competitive edge.
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With operations in USA, UK, Europe, India and Singapore Blue Star Infotech is transposing from multiple IT collaboration and messaging solutions to Microsoft Office 365 to provide a single platform for productivity, communication, collaboration and enterprise social in the cloud.? Office 365 benefits Blue Star Infotech by allowing its employees to confidently share information with their customers and colleagues knowing that Office documents are commonly accepted inside and outside their organisation. It further allows the employees to access their content virtually anywhere across PC, phone, and browser. The deployment is also expected to reduce the total cost of ownership as the company didn?t have to deploy servers in-house. Microsoft partner PC Solutions smoothly completed the Office 365 deployment transition in just one month enabling employees to use the enterprise class capabilities.
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?We provide the most advanced technologies to our employees across the globe. Our IT roadmap is aligned according to the latest technology trends in the market cloud, social and mobility. Microsoft Office 365 will help us to take full advantage of these trends by enabling us to move to cloud on our own terms. It will help us to enhance employee productivity and to enable better collaboration amongst employees using SharePoint integrated with Yammer. It will also provide employees operating from different parts of the world access to all their official data from any location by seamlessly integrating multiple devices like tablets, PCs, phones, hybrids, etc., thereby making the overall value all the more compelling,? said Mitul A. Shah, Head ? IT, Blue Star Infotech Ltd

?With Office 365, Microsoft has combined the familiarity of Office with the capabilities businesses need, delivered as a cloud service they can trust. The migration to Office 365 by Blue Star Infotech Ltd. will empower the business to bring its people together across geographies to drive innovation and reduce costs through unified communications,? said Ramkumar Pichai, GM - Microsoft Office Division, Microsoft India.

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Vote looms in Ga. over solar power usage

ATLANTA (AP) -- A political group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch wants Georgia's utility regulators to reject a plan requiring Southern Co. to buy more solar energy, but an Associated Press review ahead of a vote on the issue finds that it has used misleading figures to build its case.

The Georgia chapter of Americans For Prosperity has said in mass emails and on Twitter that a proposal requiring Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power to buy more solar energy could raise energy bills by 40 percent. A review of those figures shows the claim is misleading, and there's a debate over how much solar energy might cost.

Georgia's Public Service Commission will meet next week to vote on the utility's plan for meeting Georgia's energy needs for the next two decades. Georgia Power has already agreed to add 270 megawatts of solar energy to its system and did not propose adding more in its latest plan. Commissioner Lauren "Bubba" McDonald Jr. wants a vote on a plan requiring Georgia Power to add another 525 megawatts of solar energy.

McDonald's plan has support from a group of solar developers earlier spurned by Georgia Power and organizers of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots.

"It's an opportunity for the consumers," McDonald told the AP. "It's an opportunity to utilize what God has given us, and that's the sun."

The Georgia chapter of Americans For Prosperity wants McDonald's plan rejected over concerns it will raise costs.

Solar power has historically been pricier than traditional fossil fuel sources for around-the-clock energy, though costs have fallen and developers argue it is now more competitive. Better figures will emerge once Georgia Power signs contracts as part of earlier pushes to obtain solar power. The company expects to pay no more, if not less, for that solar power than it would pay to get it elsewhere, Georgia Power spokesman John Kraft said.

Even if costs are higher, the total solar power that has been proposed or added to Georgia Power's system is the equivalent of 1 percent of its current electric fleet, according to AP calculations based on the capacity of the company's power plants and a federal study predicting how reliably different types of power plants can produce electricity. As a result, it is unlikely so small a resource could have a 40 percent impact on monthly bills.

In an email to supporters, Georgia director for Americans for Prosperity Virginia Galloway wrote, "What if I told you something you're not even hearing about in the news is about to raise your electricity bill by more than 40 percent and reduce the reliability of every appliance and electronics gadget in your home? That's what will happen when your Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) votes on July 11th if you don't take action today!"

AFP made a similar claim on Twitter.

To support her claim, Galloway cited a study by the Institute for Energy Research showing that customers in states that require utilities to buy renewable energy paid an average of 39 percent more than customers in states without those rules, such as Georgia.

That is not an exact comparison because many factors ? not just solar technology ? influence prices. The demand for energy and the available supply affect prices. So does local weather. So does choice: In some places, consumers can pick their own electricity provider. In other places, they must rely on a monopoly. And renewable energy requirements vary greatly among the states that have them.

"It's hard to say it would be fair to apply that across the board," said Liz Coyle, deputy director of Georgia Watch, a consumer advocacy group that supports renewable energy but is wary of consumer cost increases.

Galloway acknowledged in an interview that the pending proposal would "probably not" raise bills by 40 percent, though she said cost increases are possible. She said Georgia Power already has too much spare electric capacity ? a point raised independently by other observers ? and said that government mandates can create extra expenses in the long run.

"I don't think that everyone should be forced to pay more for a questionable thing," she said.

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George W. Bush on Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Why Obama Kept His Terrorism Policies

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?Umami? Was Coined by the Inventor of MSG to Describe Its Taste

In 1908, Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda isolated and patented monosodium glutamate, more commonly known to English-speakers of the 21st century as the often-maligned MSG. Ikeda thought that his discovery was so special that the taste deserved to be described with a brand new word, a word that a century later has become quite popular among food critics and even graces the signs of a burger chain here in Southern California. Ikeda's word was umami.

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Dangerous chemicals found in south China river

BEIJING -- Residents and water plants along a river in southern China that is used as a drinking source have been warned not to use the river's water after authorities detected excessive amounts of two dangerous chemicals.

Tests by authorities detected the chemicals thallium and cadmium in a section of the Hejiang River in Guangdong province after dead fish turned up in the water, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

The Fengkai county government warned downstream water plants and residents against using the water or eating anything from the river, Xinhua said. Cadmium is considered an environmental hazard, and thallium is extremely toxic. No illnesses have been reported.

Xinhua said the pollutants were believed to have come from upstream, and later reports said excessive amounts of the chemicals were detected in the upstream Guangxi region. The reports didn't say how the pollutants got into the stream.

Hejiang is a major tributary of the Xijiang River, which serves as the primary water source for Macau and the city of Zhuhai.

Water pollution is a serious problem in China due to unscrupulous industrial waste disposal.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/06/3487518/dangerous-chemicals-found-in-south.html

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Windows 8.1 Flyout Placement improvements

I like new Flyout control that has been introduced in Windows 8.1 but I think Placement property should be improved since I cannot show a Flyout at the bottom-left or bottom-right of a button (like logged menu Flyout in Windows).

I think Placement should be splitted in HorizontalPlacement (Left, Center, Right) and VerticalPlacement (Top, Bottom) to have more flexibility.

Source: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/4140418-windows-8-1-flyout-placement-improvements

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