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Don't give electric cars the inside track

Pacific Research Institute

by Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D

December 5, 2008

With the support of Governor Schwarzenegger, the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose last week announced a $1-billion joint plan to make the Bay Area "the electric-vehicle capital of the world."

Rather than manufacture or market electric cars, Better Place will build the infrastructure to support them. According to the company, this will include 250,000 charging stations across the Bay Area by 2012. Though the cities will not offer a direct subsidy, they will provide Better Place with significant advantages over rival technologies.

Director of state's child welfare agency resigns

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

by John Iwasaki

December 3, 2008

Cheryl Stephani took the helm of Washington's child welfare agency in May 2005, a time of budgetary woes and mandated reforms. She will leave as head of Children's Administration amid similar circumstances.

Given that Stephani lasted 3 1/2 years in a difficult position, her departure announced Tuesday was not surprising, said several observers of DSHS. The state is under pressure to fulfill the mandates in the Braam case, a class-action lawsuit settled in 2004 after the state shuttled thousands of foster children among foster homes without adequate services.

MacBooks Run Slow Without Battery

tomshardware.com

by Marcus Yam and Amos Ngai

December 1, 2008

A new "Power Saving Feature" in the unibody MacBook and MacBook Pros was inadvertently discovered by Gearlog while they were doing a routine benchmark.

Gearlog was benchmarking was to test third party RAM modules for use in the new MacBook Pros, but discovered that the notebook's processing power significantly decreased after the battery was removed during the test. It was confirmed that Apple does indeed scale back the CPU processing speed while operating on AC power without a battery installed. According to this support document, Apple essentially down-clocks the CPU to prevent the system from shutting down if it happens to demand greater power than the AC adapter alone can provide...

Health Professionals Fear Web Sites That Support Theories on Mind Control

nytimes.com

by Sarah Kershaw

November 13, 2008

FOR years they lived in solitary terror of the light beams that caused searing headaches, the technology that took control of their minds and bodies. They feared the stalkers, people whose voices shouted from the walls or screamed in their heads.

When people who believe such things reported them to the police, doctors or family, they said they were often told they were crazy. Sometimes they were medicated or locked in hospital wards, or fired from jobs and isolated from the outside world. But when they found one another on the Internet, everything changed. So many others were having the same experiences.

Obama Faces an Economic Disaster

Counter Punch

by Saul Landau

November 11, 2008

One symptom of the economic malaise is the proliferation of yard sales in very middle class neighborhoods throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Even in the clean, cool air of the Sierra Nevada town, Twain Harte, the hotels and restaurants are more than half empty. During Fall, the mammoth pines and redwoods, the clear streams presumably loaded with trout, should lure city dwellers. Every other store window in Twain Harte adorns its windows with photos of bargain houses -- for vacation or retirement.

Barack Obama, Fabian Socialist

forbes.com

by Jerry Bowyer

November 3, 2008

Who needs Molotov when we've got Alinski?

Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand (nyse: IR - news - people ) during the day. In the evenings he tended bar and read books. After his funeral, I went back home and started working my way through his library, starting with T.W. Arnold's The Folklore of Capitalism. This was my introduction to the Fabian socialists. Fabians believed in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of their day, they thought that the only real way to effect "fundamental change" and "social justice" was through a mass movement of the working classes presided over by intellectual and cultural elites.

For foster children, 18th birthday could mean homelessness

TC Palm

by Geoff Oldfather

October 21, 2008

Julian Louis can't take anything for granted. For most of her young life, she has been a foster child, relying on the foster care system to navigate her way to adulthood.

Her mother was a drug addict. Louis knew she wanted a better life, but she didn't have the family support most of us take for granted. Children's Home Society provided financial aid and tuition so Louis can go to the Indian River State College's School of Cosmetology in Stuart.

Hearing on State's Child Welfare Agency

News Channel 8

by Annie Rourke

October 20, 2008

Hartford (WTNH) -- State leaders called for major changes, to the State's Child Welfare Agency, in a hearing Monday. Among the topics was the death of a baby in DCF care.

Testifying before the Select Committee on Children was DCF Commissioner Susan Hamilton. She admitted the system failed when it gave 7-month-old baby Michael Brown to 42-year-old Suzanne Listro -- a DCF employee and foster mother. There were two prior investigations of Listro for abuse.

McDonald's surrenders! Boycott declared over

World Net Daily

by Bob Unruh

October 9, 2008

A corporate executive for McDonald's restaurants who had been on board of directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce has stepped down following a boycott of the chain organized by the pro-family American Family Association.

McDonald's officials confirmed today to WND that Richard Ellis, who had been named to the "gay" chamber board after McDonald's contributed $20,000 to the organization, "made a personal decision to step down" after he accepted a new position with McDonald's Restaurants of Canada.

A crusade for NYC's foster kids

Queens Chronicle

by Matt Hampton

October 9, 2008

After spending 21 years in New York City's child welfare system, one young man has decided to stand up and fight for a cause he believes has fallen by the wayside during the last two decades in New York City.

Among the changes that Robinson wants to make are the appointment of an independent advisory committee, a tracking system whereby citizens who have aged out can be monitored, and life skills workshops. Robinson also believes that foster parents need to undergo more thorough background checks.

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