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In a quirky example of new media getting tripped up over history, overseas press reports Thursday claimed that Harley-Davidson Inc. had built a new factory in Milwaukee - with the writers not realizing they were taking information from a 94-year-old magazine article. Trade publications as far away as India picked up the story, which originally ran in the May 1918 issue of Motorcyclist Magazine and was reprinted in the magazine's recent issue as a historical article. Those who used the information, without Motorcyclist Magazine's permission, apparently didn't get the back-in-time angle. One automotive publication in India wrote: "To make their...

The ethanol industry took a shot on Saturday when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove funding for the expansion of ethanol in vehicle fuel. The House voted 285-136 on a measure that blocks the Environmental Protection Agency from raising the cap on ethanol from 10 percent to 15 percent. The House also voted 261-185 to remove EPA funding to help pay for the special pumps needed to dispense higher blends of ethanol at gas stations. The measures are part of the House's much larger budget resolution and must survive budget negotiations with the Senate and get a signature...

San Jose-based SoloPower announced Thursday that it is expanding -- to Oregon. The company, which makes thin-film solar cells and modules, has chosen Wilsonville, south of Portland, as the site for its new manufacturing plant. The start-up got a $20 million loan through Oregon's State Energy Loan Program, which also was announced Thursday. "The intention was always to have corporate here in Silicon Valley, and research and development here," said Peter Kesser, SoloPower's senior vice president for sales and marketing, in an interview. "But when we looked at scaling up, we looked at a number of areas, both here in...

Planned Parenthood Confirms Nationwide Abortion Expansion Washington, DC -- Planned Parenthood officials, in a new interview, have confirmed a LifeNews.com report issued Tuesday about a new mandate for its affiliates to operate at least one abortion center. http://LifeNews.com/nat-6960

— Africa can feed itself. And it can make the transition from hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation.The startling assertions, in stark contrast with entrenched, gloomy perceptions of the continent, highlight a collection of studies published December 2 that present a clear prescription for transforming Sub-Saharan Africa's agriculture and, by doing so, its economy. The strategy calls on governments to make African agricultural expansion central to decision making about everything from transportation and communication infrastructure to post-secondary education and innovation investment.

Anyone who has visited the Garden Tomb during a visit to Jerusalem will never forget the experience. I know I won't. Of the two sites claiming to be the actual burial site of our Lord, the Garden tomb, in my opinion, seems most likely. Seeing the carved slab of stone where Jesus' body was likely laid, the entrance where Peter and John once stood, and the enclosure that could not hold our Lord, was an experience of a lifetime. Imagine my horror when I learned that Muslims had constructed a 15' concrete block wall over the top of the tomb....

...Baseball commissioner Bud Selig appears to be increasingly in favor of proposing more playoff teams during collective bargaining with the union next year, which will determine the postseason format for 2012 and beyond....The first round series have been best-of-five since they began. It’s possible they could follow the path of the league championship series, which began as best-of-five in 1969, then expanded to best-of-seven in 1985...

The Recovery Is About To End Very Soon, But It's For All The Right Reasons Vincent Fernando, CFA Oct. 19, 2010, 9:50 AM Here's a nice little reminder from Deutsche Bank -- The U.S. economic output recovery (GDP) will soon be coming to an end... though not due to a double-dip but rather due to the fact that U.S. GDP will break above its last pre-crisis peak, and begin making new record highs again. The recovery will be over and expansion will begin, any time now: Moreover, there's a twist even. Since 1947 the U.S. economy has never double-dipped into...

Gene Epstein over at Barron's steps back and puts the latest U.S. GDP report into perspective. At 2.4% growth for the second quarter of 2010, the latest GDP data was a little softer than consensus had expected (2.5%), but it basically just told us what we already knew -- That the U.S. economy is still recovering but still hasn't surpassed its 2007 peak in terms of economic size (total GDP). GDP is expanding year-over-year, yet it remains lower than it was in 2007. This means that the U.S. economy is still in the process of taking back lost ground. Thus...

After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

So no PAC 16 then? Rutgers not making a trip to the big ten? The Big East is not falling apart? No SEC raid on the ACC... No 32 team mega conferences? Wow, I got excited for Nebraska to the Big10, Colorado to the PAC10, Boise to the MWC and, maybe, Utah to the PAC10? Are you kidding me? Well it's often said 'in with a bang out with a whimper' and 2010 Expansion Palooza was exactly that. As it sits right now there are one, maybe two more dominoes to fall in conference expansion and they will, at...

Europe’s Endangered Soul Can the Continent survive the EU’s expansion? The European Union faces a major problem of governance, completely apart from its current difficulties with Greece. The politicians, administrators, and economists who run it, blind to the profound cultural and sociological dimensions of European society, are pushing unwise policies: expanded borders for the EU and continued heavy immigration from non-European countries. This is because the EU’s overseers, like all human beings, tend to be guided by their own interests. The bigger Europe gets, the more power, resources, and jobs flow to the bureaucracy of Brussels, and the more geopolitical...

Sources: A&M not SEC's first choice-- The Southeastern Conference, reportedly keen on adding Texas A&M amid the onrush of a Big 12 shakeup, would be just as interested in luring Texas and Oklahoma but doesn't see either as a realistic option, sources with knowledge of the SEC's maneuverings has told ESPN and ESPN.com. An SEC athletic director told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach that the SEC's first choice would be adding the Longhorns, but might consider taking Texas A&M because it expands the league's footprint into the Dallas and Houston TV markets. Given the fact that Texas A&M may be the only...

Rumors about Nebraska's pursuit of a Big Ten bid and the Colorado board of regents plotting an exit strategy Tuesday only underscored the uncertainty facing the Big 12. For the moment, there's only one certain winner – Texas. Love them or loathe them, the Longhorns will be fine however this thing goes down. "We've basically been invited to any conference we want to go," football coach Mack Brown said this week in San Antonio. If the Big 12 wins its stare-down with Nebraska, Texas will be given credit for holding the conference together, the Longhorns' preferred option. Their leadership and...

Sometime during the first quarter of 2010, I believe the U.S. economy shifted gears from recovery to expansion. There are still concerns — in particular, private sector lending continues to fall. But I believe that is likely to improve if the Fed's exit from the credit markets stays orderly. Meanwhile, we are starting to get some very strong signals on the employment front, and consumer spending and housing activity have picked up. Add to that the fact that the U.S. remains very competitive globally, and I think we may be set up for a robust recovery.

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- From geographic proximity to its membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities, Missouri in many ways is a natural fit for an expanded Big Ten. Need another reason? Try 13 million -- that's about how many extra dollars Missouri could expect to earn annually from a conference with its own television network and a revenue-sharing model that distributes equal payments to all 11 members. The Big Ten insists that no decisions have been made on expansion -- and no offers extended, contrary to a Kansas City radio station's report earlier this week. But Missouri isn't waiting...

The Big Ten expansion process will accelerate this week in Washington, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Sources tell the Tribune top Big Ten officials will discuss expansion Sunday in Washington, the site of the Association of American Universities meetings.

WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic liberals are seeking expansion of two large federal programs, Medicare and Medicaid, in exchange for dropping a government-sold insurance option from health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, several lawmakers said Monday. Under the potential trade-off with party moderates, near-retirees beginning at age 55 or 60 who lack affordable insurance would be permitted to purchase coverage under Medicare, which generally provides medical care beginning at 65. Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor, would be open to all comers under 300 percent of poverty, or slightly over $66,000 for a family of four....

Ask Pakistanis why the United States needs to expand its embassy here in the capital and you'll hear a host of alarming answers. It's a cover for the construction of a Guantanamo-like prison. It's part of a U.S. attempt to colonize Pakistan. It's the first step in a covert plan to take over Pakistan's nuclear weapons. What you don't hear is the reason cited by American officials: the need for a bigger embassy operation to better manage the increased financial aid that Washington will be channeling to Pakistan in coming months... Embassy officials have held briefings for Pakistani reporters to...

LONDON – Recent targeted attacks that killed militants in Somalia, Indonesia and Pakistan have chipped away at al-Qaida's power base, sapping the terror network of key leaders and experienced operatives who train recruits and wage attacks. Intelligence officials said Friday that the military strikes have reduced al-Qaida's core leadership to only a handful of men and diminished its ability to train fighters. This, they said, has forced al-Qaida to turn to its global affiliates for survival. The killings of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan in Somalia, Noordin Muhammed Top in Indonesia and Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan — all in recent weeks...

US fury as Israel defies settlement freeze call An ultra-Orthodox Jew prays at sundown at the 'outpost' settlement of Givat Sefer, near Modi'in Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem Israeli plans to authorise the construction of hundreds of houses in the occupied West Bank sparked furious protests from American and Palestinian officials yesterday. In a nod to US requests to suspend all building work at Jewish settlements, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, is offering a freeze on construction at a later date — a peace gambit that did little to mollify those involved in the negotiations leading to a new Middle East...

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Andy Zaidi sits with Iraqi veterinarian Majied Abed Ahmead after presenting Ahmead with a $5,000 grant to upgrade his business with medical supplies for farm animals, Aug. 5. Photo courtesy of 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team. BAGHDAD — Nine business owners from the Zaydon, Yusifiyah, and Radwaniyah areas south of the Iraqi capital have been approved for microgrants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 to help stimulate the local economy. "[Microgrants] are a tool the commander can use to affect the local economy," said Capt. Tim O'Neil, 150th Armored Reconnaissance Squadron. "This is a rapid response to...

Scientists announced today new evidence supporting the theory that the infant universe expanded from subatomic to astronomical size in a fraction of a second after its birth. The finding is based on new results from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite, launched in 2001 to measure the temperature of radiant heat left over from the Big Bang, which is the theoretical beginning to the universe. This radiation is known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and it is the oldest light in the universe. Using WMAP data, researchers announced in 2003 that they had pieced together a very detailed...

A handful of researchers posit an alternative theory of origin — the universe has no beginning Many, if not most, people assume that certain aspects of nature’s workings are absolutely known. Outside of intelligent design circles, no modern biologist doubts the theory of evolution by natural selection; it is too well established by harmonious data across a multiplicity of fields. No credible doctor questions the germ theory of disease. And, one might think, no serious cosmologist disagrees with the standard cosmological model. The SCM is the official designation of what is informally called “the big bang�: that relatively recent but...

Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second. The discovery — which involves an analysis of variations in the brightness of microwave radiation — is the first direct evidence to support the two-decade-old theory that the universe went through what is called inflation.It also helps explain how matter eventually clumped together into planets, stars and galaxies in a...

Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-0668 Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (301) 286-7745 March 16, 2006 RELEASE: 06-097 NASA Satellite Glimpses Universe's First Trillionth of a Second Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence to support the concept of inflation. The concept poses the universe expanded many trillion times its size in less than a trillionth of a second at the outset of the big bang. This finding, made with NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), is based on three years of continuous observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the...

LONDON (AFP) – The British government will give the green light on Thursday to plans to build a third runway at London's Heathrow airport, the world's biggest international air hub, the BBC reported. Martin Salter, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour party who has campaigned against the nine-billion-pound (13-billion-dollar, 10-billion-euro), said he also expected ministers to give the go-ahead. "I am expecting a decision tomorrow. I am expecting it to be the wrong decision, with the runway going ahead," he said Wednesday. The expansion plan has pitted environmental groups and local residents concerned about the increase in emissions...

Russia anounces ‘spheres of interest’ By Charles Clover in Moscow Published: August 31 2008 18:59 | Last updated: August 31 2008 18:59 Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday announced Moscow’s intention to preserve geographical spheres “of privileged interest” on or near its borders as part of a five point foreign policy statement in a television interview. The announcement, in the wake of the recent conflict in Georgia, is likely to raise the political temperature in neighbouring states, especially those with significant Russian minorities, as they try to gauge Russia’s appetite for future conflicts in the region.

Apparently some people in America aren't too concerned about paying more than $4.00 a gallon for gas. CNS News reports that while BP wants to expand a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is fighting the expansion. So what if the expansion increased gas and diesel production by 1.7 million gallons a day. So what if the expansion created 2,000 construction jobs and 80 permanent jobs. Now, I've never driven through Whiting, Indiana, but I have driven through and stopped in Billings, Montana many times. Driving along I-90, refinery infrastructure is about all you see. I...

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2008 – China not only is a rising international economic power, but also is a rising military power with new and developing capabilities that have global implications, according to the 2008 China Military Power Report released today. David Sedney, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, announces the release to Congress of the 2008 Defense Department Report on the Military Power of the People's Republic of China, during a March 3, 2008, Pentagon news conference. Photo by R.D. Ward  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The annual report mandated by Congress analyzes China’s military development...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's counting on four wealthy Indian tribes and their expanding gambling operations to help close California's massive budget shortfall. Voters gave their blessing Tuesday to the deals allowing the tribes to add thousands of slot machines. Now the question is: will the money really make much of a difference? Propositions 94-97 give the tribes rights to 17,000 additional slot machines in exchange for promises to share hundreds of millions of dollars annually with the cash-strapped state. With about 96 percent of the votes counted Wednesday morning, the measures were leading by a margin of 56 percent...

The Real Surge in Iraq – the rapid expansion of the Iraqi Security Forces – continues. The Iraqi Security Forces is expanding with the Iraqi Army now growing to 61 planned brigades in 15 divisions while the Iraqi Special Operations Forces becomes the defacto 16th division. The latest "Measuring Security and Stability in Iraq" quarterly report was publicly released on December 18, 2007. What follows is some of the key developments of Iraqi Security Force.

PANAMA CITY, Panama - Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago. In the presence of former President Carter, who signed the 1977 treaty that gave Panama control of the waterway, Panamanian President Martin Torrijos celebrated the start of construction on two wider sets of locks being added to both sides of the canal. "We are witnesses to an exceptional and unique act," Torrijos said moments after the explosion sent up a curtain of smoke and water. The $5.25 billion expansion...

California government is in the midst of a major push into information-technology development that envisions 1,000 IT new hires over the next few years; more attention to larger, more complex contracts; and a dramatic ramping-up of the office that will ride herd on the state's computer systems. For the first time, those plans--already approved by the governor and described in his 2007-08 budget--include financing the office of the chief information officer. The budget's $7.9 million proposal includes up to four-dozen staff members, half of them to track and negotiate IT contracts, said state CIO J. Clark Kelso. Thus far, the...

Gun Owners of America Legislative Alert -- Oppose McCarthy Gun Control Bill, H.R. 297 Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Tuesday, January 23, 2007 The first major anti-gun bill of the new Congress has already been introduced, and it could prove to be the most serious threat to the Second Amendment we face under the new congressional leadership. On the first full day of the new Congress, anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy introduced H.R. 297, the most massive expansion of the Brady law since it passed in 1993. This is a bill you helped...

North Korea plans bigger military in New Year (DPA) 1 January 2007 SEOUL - Impoverished North Korea declared Monday that its goal in 2007 is to expand its military as it hailed its October nuclear test. ‘Our access to a nuclear deterrent was an auspicious event in the national history as it meant the realization of the Korean people’s centuries-old desire to have national strength no one could dare challenge,’ the hardline communist government said in an editorial carried in state-run newspapers. North Korea would build up its military this year to remain ‘an impregnable fortress,’ added the editorial carried...

In an unusual show of bipartisan unity, 50 MKs from across the political spectrum have joined forces to oppose a building plan up for final approval next month that would expand Jerusalem westward. The plan, named for internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie, who drafted the original version, would see the construction of 20,000 housing units on more than 26 square kilometers of natural woodlands and forests to the west of the capital, in one of Israel's largest-ever construction projects. The proposal, which has been on the drawing boards for much of the last decade and has the backing of the...

The Iraq inner facsistic massacres are not just "sectarian". Nor is Iran's playground: Lebanon a local "conflict". http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1222824,00.htmlTIME.com:How the Hizballah Factor Will Determine an Iraq Civil ... http://onthescene.msnbc.com/baghdad/2006/03/sunni_vs_shiite.html Sunni VS Shiite, or rather, Iran VS Iraq? http://www.meib.org/articles/0404_iraq1.htm "Iran, Sadr, and the Shiite Uprising in Iraq" (April 2004) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124835,00.html Iran presses Shi'ites to step up Iraq attacks - Times | Top News http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-12T045657Z_01_N12291036_RTRUK OC_0_UK-IRAQ-IRAN.xml Iranian Intel Officers Captured in Iraq - US & World http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2310725 ABC News: US: Iraqi Shiites Get Help From Iran http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/11/business/iraq.php Iran stokes Iraq unrest, US says - Africa & Middle East ... http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-sadr.htm Iran's Al-Madi army

My wife has a good friend who has been looking for a job. She is Chinese... my wife and the friend who is looking for a job. Her friend is a CPA and is looking for an accountant position. There is a job shortage for Chinese accountants - make that a HUGE job shortage - in Beijing. The big four - www.pricewaterhousecoopers.com, www.deloitte.com, www.kpmg.com, and www.ernstandyoung.com - are all hiring. And they desperately need accountants in China. The giant state-owned enterprises need international accounting expertise as they prepare to adopt new accouting procedures that will help them gain investor confidence....

/begin my translation Sino-N. Korean 6 Month Visa Exemption Scrapped after 57 Years N. Korea demanded it first ... China responded in kind N. Korean suitcase merchants at Beijing Airport. The scene in front of N. Korean Koryo Air at Beijing Airport on May 11. N. Koreans, who purchased goods in China and were going back to N. Korea, are waiting for boarding process. Beijing = Kim Choon-sik It is confirmed that N. Korea and China stopped 'short-term visa exemption' measure, which they have applied to people from the other part since they established diplomatic relation in 1949. Up to...

Scientists use quantum gravity to describe the universe before the Big Bang.Scientists may finally have an answer to a "big" question: If the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe, what could have caused it to happen? Using a theory called "loop quantum gravity," a group led by Penn State professor Abhay Ashtekar has shown that just before the Big Bang occurred, another universe very similar to ours may have been contracting. According to the group's findings, this previous universe eventually became so dense that a normally negligible repulsive component of the gravitational force overpowered the attractive component, causing...

While the Army and Marine Corps bear the brunt of warfare in the Middle East, leaders of the Navy are looking west. In a sweeping report on the nation's long-range defense needs, released yesterday in Washington, D.C., Pentagon leaders laid out plans for transforming the military to fight terrorist organizations. They suggested boosting special-operations forces such as the Navy SEALs and the Marines' new MarSOC commando unit by 15 percent. They also pushed for closer participation between the U.S. military and foreign forces to defeat terrorism. The 92-page Quadrennial Defense Review, which projects Pentagon needs 20 years ahead, seeks more...

Work is estimated to be completed in about one year at an estimated cost of $29 million and will be performed by Iraqi subcontractors. BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 30, 2005 — A substation expansion project in Mosul will increase the existing capacity of the 400 kV Mosul substation to allow for an additional 400 kV transmission line between Mosul and Baghdad. The Mosul substation expansion is a critical, electric grid system element to increase the amount of available power to the entire country. The expansion provides the capacity to distribute power more reliably, thereby affecting six million people. The project serves...

China's anger at 'rude' US report on its military expansion By Alec Russell, in Washington and Richard Spencer, in Beijing (Filed: 21/07/2005) Beijing hit back immediately and angrily yesterday at a long-awaited Pentagon report that warned of an aggressive Chinese military build-up, calling it "groundless, gratuitous and rude". Reflecting mounting concern in the Pentagon over China's military ambitions and scope, the report warned of a long-term threat not only to Taiwan but also to the US forces in the Pacific and regional powers including India and Japan. China is also expanding its nuclear arsenal with missiles capable of reaching India,...

he economic expansion is in its 45th month, and the reviews are mixed. Employers are hiring, but slowly. Inflation is low, but oil is surging. Consumers are spending, but that growth is slowing. As expansions go, this is rather ho hum. That may be good news.

Last month the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Connecticut case of Kelo vs. New London, gave local governments the power to seize the homes of property owners and give the land to private companies. Florida Attorney General Charles Crist and other sources have been quoted as saying that Floridians don’t have to worry about this decision because state law provides greater protection for private-property owners than the U.S. Constitution or Connecticut law. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Florida’s Community Redevelopment Act that allows “blighted” areas to be condemned by local governments under eminent domain gives public entities unbridled discretion in...

Washington, June 10 (PTI) Asserting that it's opposition to the expansion of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was "not India-specific", Pakistan has said it rejects the concept of permanent members itself. Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri, who addressed the Brookings Institution yesterday, said "Our policy is not India specific ... We have never viewed this (issue of Permanent Membership) from the point of view of the Indo-Pakistan relationship," he said.

Back in 1995, Craig Hohenberger had an idea. A big idea. A 10-acres-big idea. So he spent the next 10 years working singlemindedly -- but nowhere near singlehandedly -- to make it happen. And today the Hilton Bialek Biological Sciences Habitat at Carmel Middle School has become a home to ever-growing populations of native plants and wildlife -- and a "classroom away from classrooms" for 550 middle school students, as well as hundreds of others in Carmel and throughout Monterey County. "It was somebody's dream," said middle school Principal Edmund Gross, referring to Hohenberger. "Somebody who had a passion about...

There has been much discussion recently about how to "manage the rise of China." The phrase itself is soothing, implying gradualism, predictability and time. Time enough to think and prepare, to take measurements of China's trajectory and adjust as necessary. If China eventually emerges as a clear threat, there will be time to react. But meanwhile there is time enough not to overreact, to be watchful but patient and not to create self-fulfilling prophecies. If we prematurely treat China as an enemy, it is said, it will become an enemy. The idea that we can manage China's rise is comforting...