Unbelievable accuracy. Although, his style and modifications are up from a lot of controversy, it still is great marksmanship, in my opinion. No wonder he holds 18 world records on fastdraw.
A quick Wiki on him: here
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Dont worry Executives....Bailouts will Rescue
Thanks to the US Government for the new concept that they introduced recently to the financial world, "Operation Bailout". After the Lehman Brothers' well known debacle, all the famous banks of US facing the turmoil galore' in 2008, The world noticed what was the first ever, most noticed and tracked Bailout of recent times.
And then we saw another one, to the Automobile Industry this time. The funny part of this bailout is, the money was given to these companies for resurrecting their tumbling down empires (to an extent that is). Instead, GM decided that it will bail out its financial arm GMAC out of the turmoil that its going through, rather than spending most of the chunk to benefit the Automotive sector of the company. So, how did this bailout help to bailout Automotive side of GM?...hush...we don't know how. We at least know that GMAC got a good portion of it.
Well, no matter what, these new ideas will soon need to be mastered, and pretty soon there need to be coursework in B-Schools, Executive education programs, where tomorrow's business leaders and corporate inventors/investors need to taught - The concept of how to build an empire, and 'ensure' that it gets enough public attention and dependency, and finally get it massacred, so that the Govt can bail it out, due to public interest.
One should notice that the Indian Govt is quick to learn and implement, and this situation is no exception. Most of us know about the recent debacle with Satyam Computers Ltd. A service provider company from India, that pioneered and steered the outsourcing Industry for 2 decades now.
What happened: They screwed up, made tons of money, projected fictitious numbers and now confessed to people. (Look at the number of shares of the company that they have traded off every quarter for 22 times since 2001...amazing!)
And now, to protect the public and their interests, the Indian Government is considering to interfere, by doing what? - "Bail Out"!!
Full News Snippet: here
And then we saw another one, to the Automobile Industry this time. The funny part of this bailout is, the money was given to these companies for resurrecting their tumbling down empires (to an extent that is). Instead, GM decided that it will bail out its financial arm GMAC out of the turmoil that its going through, rather than spending most of the chunk to benefit the Automotive sector of the company. So, how did this bailout help to bailout Automotive side of GM?...hush...we don't know how. We at least know that GMAC got a good portion of it.
Well, no matter what, these new ideas will soon need to be mastered, and pretty soon there need to be coursework in B-Schools, Executive education programs, where tomorrow's business leaders and corporate inventors/investors need to taught - The concept of how to build an empire, and 'ensure' that it gets enough public attention and dependency, and finally get it massacred, so that the Govt can bail it out, due to public interest.
One should notice that the Indian Govt is quick to learn and implement, and this situation is no exception. Most of us know about the recent debacle with Satyam Computers Ltd. A service provider company from India, that pioneered and steered the outsourcing Industry for 2 decades now.
What happened: They screwed up, made tons of money, projected fictitious numbers and now confessed to people. (Look at the number of shares of the company that they have traded off every quarter for 22 times since 2001...amazing!)
Full News Snippet: here
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Eco News
33rd Annual Home Remodeling and DEcorating and Eco Expo Show - Salt Lake Tribune
33rd Annual Home Remodeling and DEcorating and Eco Expo ShowSalt Lake Tribune,�United States�- 1 hour agoRegister to win a new Bed Room set from Osmond Design. Visit the 15th Annual %26ldquo;Dream Room Competition%26rdquo; where you can get great ideas from Utah's best experts ...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Swap It - If you dont need it - Neat concept
Did you get a bunch of junk for Christmas and you don't know what to do with it? Or maybe you want to clean out your closet and wish you could get something in return for all the things you're planning to FreeCycle?
The SwapItShop is an online trading system that lets you trade unwanted stuff for points, which you then put towards other items on the website that strike your fancy.
The system is simple - just pick something you no longer want, post it with a photo, description, and how many point you want for it, and other people bid on it. When your item is auctioned off, you send it off to SwapItShop, and you will then have points to go towards another item on the site you do want.
It's a pretty great way to barter instead of buy, have a better selection of trade items, and to keep products in the consumer stream. But it doesn't quite beat the excitement and lower carbon footprint of taking your things to the local swap meet.
The SwapItShop is an online trading system that lets you trade unwanted stuff for points, which you then put towards other items on the website that strike your fancy.
The system is simple - just pick something you no longer want, post it with a photo, description, and how many point you want for it, and other people bid on it. When your item is auctioned off, you send it off to SwapItShop, and you will then have points to go towards another item on the site you do want.
It's a pretty great way to barter instead of buy, have a better selection of trade items, and to keep products in the consumer stream. But it doesn't quite beat the excitement and lower carbon footprint of taking your things to the local swap meet.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Europe's climate change package
Europe's climate change package - it ain't so bad after all
So it looks like Europe will get its climate change package after all.
According to various reports, heads of state will today agree a compromise deal, dispelling fears that intransigence from Poland and Hungary, and to a slightly lesser extent Germany and Italy, would scupper legislation that has been years in the making.
And yet even before the deal is finalised the chorus of disapproval from all sides has already begun.
Green groups have slammed proposals that would allow countries to meet large chunks of their emission reduction targets using carbon credits bought in from overseas, while the industrial lobby will undoubtedly claim that they deserved still more free pollution permits under the emissions trading scheme.
Friends of the Earth's climate campaigner, Robin Webster, led the catcalls, claiming that "huge loopholes" would allow big energy-users "to carry on polluting and nations to buy offset 'credits' from abroad".
The concerns over imported credits are undoubtedly valid, particularly given the mechanism for buying these credits, the UN's CDM, is itself still struggling to iron out some pretty fundamental flaws. Moreover, the whole package is likely to be dogged by similarly unsatisfactory compromises with many of the original proposals - such as the fines for car firms that fail to meet new emission standards - having already been watered down.
But politics is about nothing if compromise and there is a strong case for the green movement to focus on what is in the final package as opposed to what has been removed.
It is easy to forget when looking at the minutiae of the proposals exactly how historic they are.
The binding targets to cut greenhouse emissions by 20 per cent, generate 20 per cent of energy from renewable sources, and deliver a 20 per cent improvement in energy efficiency have been retained and will drive massive changes in the way Europe operates over the next 12 years. They really will provide the foundations on which the low carbon economy can be built.
New car emission standards, for example, mean that in five years time many of the vehicles on the road will have to be far greener than they are today, while the way we generate energy and use much of our energy is likely to change beyond recognition over the next 12 years.
Across the entire green business movement concrete certainty that there will be demand from government for low carbon products and services will allow clean tech firms to invest with more confidence than ever before. Wind turbine and solar manufacturers can continue to scale up production capacity, smart grid innovators can accelerate development plans, electric car firms can press ahead with new models, and green consultancies can start hiring, all relatively safe in the knowledge that demand for their products will strengthen.
There have also been some improvements to the package resulting from the lengthy negotiations.
The electric car sector has received an unexpected boost from its inclusion in the targets for renewable fuel use, and the proposed "solidarity fund" that has been designed to help poorer eastern European states build low carbon infrastructure is entirely right and proper.
Even where it looks like the proposals have been watered down it can be argued that the deal is not as bad as it first seems.
Allowing governments to buy in billions of euros worth of carbon credits from overseas should not become an excuse for inaction at home, but the model, flawed as it is in practice, does help accelerate the transfer of low carbon technology to the developing world.
Equally, the likelihood that more industries than originally expected will receive free pollution permits under the EU's emissions trading scheme will weaken the carbon market and deliver huge windfalls to some pretty undeserving industries. But the emission caps imposed under the scheme will still be much lower in the next phase than they are at the moment and the fears that some sectors would simply decamp to China, where they would carry on polluting at will, were genuine and had to be addressed.
But most of all, detractors should remember that any deal would have been worthless if it did not include the whole bloc.
As the UK's increasingly assured climate change secretary Ed Miliband has been keen to explain of late the low carbon revolution cannot happen unless you bring everyone with you.
Concessions simply had to be made to get everyone on board.
Deep down those politicians who believe the scientists warnings know the 20 per cent target does not go far enough, just as they know that some of the compromises agreed over the past two days are unsatisfactory. But they are equally aware that they will never get anywhere if they set targets so ambitious that some countries and businesses immediately dismiss them as impossible to achieve.
What they have delivered is a set of goals defined not just by the art of compromise but also the art of the possible - and for that this agreement should be welcomed.
Courtesy businessgreen.com
So it looks like Europe will get its climate change package after all.
According to various reports, heads of state will today agree a compromise deal, dispelling fears that intransigence from Poland and Hungary, and to a slightly lesser extent Germany and Italy, would scupper legislation that has been years in the making.
And yet even before the deal is finalised the chorus of disapproval from all sides has already begun.
Green groups have slammed proposals that would allow countries to meet large chunks of their emission reduction targets using carbon credits bought in from overseas, while the industrial lobby will undoubtedly claim that they deserved still more free pollution permits under the emissions trading scheme.
Friends of the Earth's climate campaigner, Robin Webster, led the catcalls, claiming that "huge loopholes" would allow big energy-users "to carry on polluting and nations to buy offset 'credits' from abroad".
The concerns over imported credits are undoubtedly valid, particularly given the mechanism for buying these credits, the UN's CDM, is itself still struggling to iron out some pretty fundamental flaws. Moreover, the whole package is likely to be dogged by similarly unsatisfactory compromises with many of the original proposals - such as the fines for car firms that fail to meet new emission standards - having already been watered down.
But politics is about nothing if compromise and there is a strong case for the green movement to focus on what is in the final package as opposed to what has been removed.
It is easy to forget when looking at the minutiae of the proposals exactly how historic they are.
The binding targets to cut greenhouse emissions by 20 per cent, generate 20 per cent of energy from renewable sources, and deliver a 20 per cent improvement in energy efficiency have been retained and will drive massive changes in the way Europe operates over the next 12 years. They really will provide the foundations on which the low carbon economy can be built.
New car emission standards, for example, mean that in five years time many of the vehicles on the road will have to be far greener than they are today, while the way we generate energy and use much of our energy is likely to change beyond recognition over the next 12 years.
Across the entire green business movement concrete certainty that there will be demand from government for low carbon products and services will allow clean tech firms to invest with more confidence than ever before. Wind turbine and solar manufacturers can continue to scale up production capacity, smart grid innovators can accelerate development plans, electric car firms can press ahead with new models, and green consultancies can start hiring, all relatively safe in the knowledge that demand for their products will strengthen.
There have also been some improvements to the package resulting from the lengthy negotiations.
The electric car sector has received an unexpected boost from its inclusion in the targets for renewable fuel use, and the proposed "solidarity fund" that has been designed to help poorer eastern European states build low carbon infrastructure is entirely right and proper.
Even where it looks like the proposals have been watered down it can be argued that the deal is not as bad as it first seems.
Allowing governments to buy in billions of euros worth of carbon credits from overseas should not become an excuse for inaction at home, but the model, flawed as it is in practice, does help accelerate the transfer of low carbon technology to the developing world.
Equally, the likelihood that more industries than originally expected will receive free pollution permits under the EU's emissions trading scheme will weaken the carbon market and deliver huge windfalls to some pretty undeserving industries. But the emission caps imposed under the scheme will still be much lower in the next phase than they are at the moment and the fears that some sectors would simply decamp to China, where they would carry on polluting at will, were genuine and had to be addressed.
But most of all, detractors should remember that any deal would have been worthless if it did not include the whole bloc.
As the UK's increasingly assured climate change secretary Ed Miliband has been keen to explain of late the low carbon revolution cannot happen unless you bring everyone with you.
Concessions simply had to be made to get everyone on board.
Deep down those politicians who believe the scientists warnings know the 20 per cent target does not go far enough, just as they know that some of the compromises agreed over the past two days are unsatisfactory. But they are equally aware that they will never get anywhere if they set targets so ambitious that some countries and businesses immediately dismiss them as impossible to achieve.
What they have delivered is a set of goals defined not just by the art of compromise but also the art of the possible - and for that this agreement should be welcomed.
Courtesy businessgreen.com
Save Planet
How Many Humans Does it Take to Save the Planet? - mediabistro.com
How Many Humans Does it Take to Save the Planet?mediabistro.com,�NY�- 8 hours agoby hourigan The World Wildlife Foundation (of Canada) hired DraftFCB Toronto to get you to think about what goes into making those fancy energy efficient ...
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Green Living
Plainfield to host Green Living events - Plainfield Sun
Plainfield to host Green Living eventsPlainfield Sun,�IL�- 5 hours agoFor more than a year, the village has been building its Green Village Initiative program, a plan to incorporate environmentally-sensitive practices in both ...
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Tree hugging
A Tree-hugging car in all-American garb - Danville News
A Tree-hugging car in all-American garbDanville News,�PA�- Dec 17, 2008Of course, you can get comparable fuel economy without going hybrid (if you don't want to seem like a granola-eating, Tree-hugging something or other) by ...
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Earth
NASA Marks 5th Year for Mars Rovers - Voice of America
Boston GlobeNASA Marks 5th Year for Mars RoversVoice of America�- 3 hours ago... to last three months in the harsh Martian environment, but they remain operational and are still relaying data they collect to scientists on Earth. ...The Mars Rovers' Long and Fruitful Journeys TIMEMars Rovers Still Working After Five Years ScienceBlogsMars rovers hit 5-year mark MSNBCXinhua�- Arizona Republicall 240 news articles
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Green Tips
Mischa Barton Reveals 3 Everyday Tips For Going Green - Examiner.com
EcorazziMischa Barton Reveals 3 Everyday Tips For Going GreenExaminer.com�- Jan 1, 2009As 2009 begins and millions draft resolutions for the year ahead, Mischa Barton is offering some Green Tips that just might help everyone be a little more ...MISCHA BARTON - BARTON'S Green Tips Contactmusic.comall 12 news articles
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