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EXCLUSIVE: The Truth Behind The 26/11 Mumbai Attacks! | MOB Magazine on 2009-11-20
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Sir Ken Robinson on how schools stifle creativity « Asian Correspondent on 2009-11-20
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The tragedy is that meeting the many social, economic, spiritual and environmental challenges we now face depends absolutely on the very capacities of insight, creativity and innovation that these systems are systematically suppressing in yet another generation of young people.
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Reforming these systems is not enough. The truth is that we are caught up in a cultural and economic revolution. This revolution that is global in scale and unpredictable in nature. To meet it, we need a revolution in the culture of education.
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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna songs - Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Hindi Movie Film - Songs, Soundtrack, Music, Lyrics, Videos and Trailers - Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna - SmasHits.com on 2009-11-20
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B'wood's expensive films Photos - Celeb Themes - Celebs - The Times of India Photogallery on 2009-11-20
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The SRK-Kajol starrer My Name is Khan has been picked up by Fox for a whopping Rs. 100 crores, more than double the budget of the film. It is one of the most awaited films of 2010 as it marks the return of screen's golden couple Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol.
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Energy - Salon.com on 2009-11-19
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According to the World Wind Energy Association, by the end of 2008, wind power accounted for 1.3 percent of global electricity consumption.
Doesn't sound like much, does it? But at growth rates of 30 percent a year, it can start to add up quickly, particularly in areas where wind farms are concentrated, such as Texas, or Spain. Just over a week ago, wind power accounted for over half of Spain's electricity consumption for five hours (albeit in the middle of the night, when overall usage hit a low.) Even more amazingly, as the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog informs us, on Oct 28, at about 8:30 p.m., wind power accounted for 18 percent of all of Texas' electricity consumption -- or about 6223 megawatts.
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There are many reasons why Texas is suddenly the U.S. leader in wind power -- lots of wind, fewer bureaucratic constraints on siting new facilities, generally high electricity prices that make wind power relatively more attractive. Some of these can be replicated elsewhere and some can't. But maybe the most important fact to consider about Texas is how fast the wind power marke thas grown. Ten years ago, Texas had an installed capacity of just 180 megawatts. In 2007, 4296. Two weeks ago...6223 at 8:30 p.m.
So whenever you hear someone pooh pooh the idea that renewable energy will ever account for a significant proportion of global energy consumption, just refer them to Texas. If the economics are right, change can happen, very, very quickly. If, for example, a cap-and-trade system rejiggered energy prices to make wind and solar even more competitive, investment would flow to the cleantech sector like the Mississippi flows to the Gulf of Mexico. Sure, there are storage and transmission issues, but these can and will be solved, if the prices are right.
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Riding on China's coat-tails - Q&A by Isabelle Oderberg - News - Business Spectator on 2009-11-19
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In the past two years I think there have been 110 investment proposals by Chinese companies, of which 105 have been approved without conditions with a total investment value of almost $40 billion. There are five that had been approved with conditions and a couple of very high profile ones that were withdrawn, right. The first thing to recognise is the fact that Australia has been extremely open to investment from Chinese state-owned enterprises and it’s only in a very small number of cases that conditionality has been imposed.
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This will probably require some kind of response by the government to scale back things, so I think there’s a natural equilibrium around eight per cent. However, from the standpoint of Australian resource producers, that eight per cent is going to feel more like 12 or 13 per cent because so much of that growth, about 95 per cent of that growth, is coming from fixed asset investment which is very resource intensive, so the level of investment is similar to what it was when China was growing much faster a few years ago, so I think Chinese growth in total stays around eight per cent, but it’s so investment intensive that the next two or three years it’s still broadly positive for resource producers.
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- You Suck at Photoshop, Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie Hoyle on 2009-11-19
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Capitalism Beyond the Crisis on 2009-11-19
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People's sexiest man alive 2009: Johnny Depp - Holy Kaw! on 2009-11-19
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The Drucker Institute - Claremont Graduate University on 2009-11-04
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