Will the 1966 Pontiac GTO Save the Postal Service?

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On the fence about the United States Postal Service's new line of muscle car stamps? Well, hopefully The King can convince you. This weekend, ahead of the Daytona 500, Richard Petty, his son Kyle, and Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe will dedicate a run of limited-edition stamps featuring iconic muscle cars of the 1960s and '70s.

The honoree list is a who's who's of classic American muscle: '69 Dodge Charger Daytona, '66 Pontiac GTO, '70 Chevelle SS, '70 Hemi Cuda, and the '67 Shelby GT-500. The work of California-based artist Tom Fritz features each car either from the side, laying down some rubber, or both (except for the GT-500, which looks curiously composed).

If you haven't already ordered these Richard Petty-endorsed, muscle car-emblazoned stamps after reading those first two paragraphs, then consider this: Since these are "Forever" stamps, they will be good for mailing a first-class letter until the end of time. Or, at least, until some nonsense legislation finally dooms the USPS.

Either way, there's no better gateway drug to philately than a howling V-8.

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Gov't already downsizing amid GOP demands for cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, they've already gotten much of both.

Spending by federal, state and local governments on payrolls, equipment, buildings, teachers, emergency workers, defense programs and other core governmental functions has been shrinking steadily since the deep 2007-2009 recession and as the anemic recovery continues.

This recent shrinkage has largely been obscured by an increase in spending on benefit payments to individuals under "entitlement" programs, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and veterans benefits. Retiring baby boomers are driving much of this increase.

Another round of huge cuts ? known in Washington parlance as the "sequester" ? will hit beginning March 1, potentially meaning layoffs for hundreds of thousands of federal workers unless Congress and President Barack Obama can strike a deficit-reduction deal to avert them.

With the deadline only a week off, Obama and Republicans who control the House are far apart over how to resolve the deadlock. While last-minute budget deals are frequent in Washington, neither side is optimistic of reaching one this time.

Even as the private sector has been slowly adding jobs, governments have been shedding them, holding down overall employment gains and keeping the jobless rate close to 8 percent, compared with normal non-recessionary levels of 5 to 6 percent that have prevailed since the 1950s.

"It's a massive drag on the economy. We lost three-quarter million public-sector jobs in the recovery," said economist Heidi Shierholz of the labor-friendly Economic Policy Institute. "We're still losing government jobs, although the pace has slowed. But we haven't turned around yet."

A larger-than-usual decline in federal spending, notably on defense programs, helped push the economy into negative territory in the final three months of 2012. Economic growth, meanwhile, has been inching along at a weak 1-2 percent ? not enough to significantly further drive down the national unemployment rate, which now stands at 7.9 percent.

Although federal spending is projected to decline from 22.8 percent of the gross domestic product recorded last year to 21.5 percent by 2017, it still will exceed the 40-year-average of 21.0 percent, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Spending peaked at 25.2 percent of GDP in 2009.

The budget office also said the economy is roughly 5.5 percent smaller than it would have been had there been no recession.

The Defense Department already has made deep spending cuts, and outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said 800,000 civilian Pentagon employees were notified this week they likely are to be placed on periods of unpaid leave due to lawmakers' failure to act.

The recent downsizing in government is most pronounced at the state and local levels. Most states have constitutional or statutory requirements for balanced budgets.

That means nearly all states are prohibited from running budget deficits, while the federal government is not.

Not only can the federal government run deficits, but it can print money ? through actions by the Federal Reserve ? something states are prohibited from doing.

Those calling for a smaller government mostly don't take notice of the wave of recent cutbacks. Their clarion call remains Ronald Reagan's mantra: Government doesn't solve problems, it is the problem.

"This spending issue is the biggest issue that threatens our future," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says. "When are we going to get serious about our long-term spending problem?"

And Florida Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, delivering the GOP response to Obama's State of the Union address, said "a major cause of our recent downturn was a housing crisis created by reckless government policies."

Soaring recent government deficits are partially a side effect of the worst recession since the 1930s, which took a huge bite out of tax revenues at the same time spending increased on recession-fighting programs like unemployment compensation and stimulus measures under both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama.

"The problem going forward is one of demographics and rising health care. It is the baby boom generation retiring," said Alice Rivlin, a White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. "It's the fact that everybody is living longer."

Republicans argue that entitlement programs should be on the cutting board as well as other government programs. Democrats generally have been more protective of them, although the president and many congressional Democrats acknowledge some paring of these popular programs is in order.

The federal budget deficit for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 is estimated to be $845 billion ? the first time it's dropped below $1 trillion in five years. But it's on track to rise again as more and more baby boomers retire and qualify for federal benefits and as interest payments on the national debt keep going up.

The national debt first inched past $1 trillion early in the Reagan administration and has grown in leaps and bounds ever since through both Democratic and Republican presidencies. It now stands at $16.6 trillion and is on a path toward soon becoming unsustainable, both parties agree.

Unchecked, entitlement payments will add roughly $700 billion to the debt over the next four years.

For now, though, "the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression," top White House economic adviser Alan Krueger says.

Under the sequester law, roughly $85 billion in federal spending would be slashed in the remaining seven months of this fiscal year and a total of $1.2 trillion in cuts over 10 years.

While entitlement programs and uniformed military personnel would be exempt, the rest of the government would be hit with indiscriminate across-the-board cuts.

Obama wants government deficits trimmed through a mix of selective spending cuts and new tax revenues, mostly by ending deductions and tax credits frequently claimed by the wealthiest Americans.

Republicans oppose any new taxes, even if for closing loopholes rather than increasing rates.

The looming spending cuts were first scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1. But they were postponed to March 1 as part of year-end "fiscal cliff" negotiations that also raised tax rates on affluent Americans. Republicans insist that's enough tax increasing for now.

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Researchers 'nanoweld' by applying light to aligned nanorods in solid materials

Friday, February 22, 2013

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or "weld" specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within the materials. Their technique, which melts fibers along a chosen direction within a material, may lead to stronger, more resilient nanofibers and materials.

Physicists Jason Bochinski and Laura Clarke, with materials scientist Joe Tracy, placed specifically aligned gold nanorods within a solid material. Gold nanorods absorb light at different wavelengths, depending upon the size and orientation of the nanorod, and then they convert that absorbed light directly into heat. In this case, the nanorods were designed to respond to light wavelengths of 520 nanometers (nm) in a horizontal alignment and 800 nm when vertically aligned. Human beings can see light at 520 nm (it looks green), while 808 nm is in the near infrared spectrum, invisible to our eyes.

When the different wavelengths of light were applied to the material, they melted the fibers along the chosen directions, while leaving surrounding fibers largely intact.

"Being able to heat materials spatially in this way gives us the ability to manipulate very specific portions of these materials, because nanorods localize heat ? that is, the heat they produce only affects the nanorod and its immediate surroundings," Tracy says.

According to Bochinski, the work also has implications for optimizing materials that have already been manufactured: "We can use heat at the nanoscale to change mechanical characteristics of objects postproduction without affecting their physical properties, which means more efficiency and less waste."

The researchers' findings appear in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. The work was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and Sigma Xi. Graduate students Wei-Chen Wu and Somsubhra Maity and former undergraduate student Krystian Kozek contributed to the work.

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Meet the Gun-Loving, Straight-Talking, 2016 Democratic Presidential Dark Horse

To catch former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, look in Georgetown. Georgetown Lake in Montana, that is, a place nowhere close to resembling the nation?s capital or anything in it. The colorful Democrat, who has been receiving plenty of presidential and Senate speculation since leaving the governorship, passes his days running his natural-resource businesses, snowmobiling, and ice fishing.

But while Schweitzer sounds uninterested in a Senate campaign against Democrat Max Baucus -- he declined to answer questions about the six-term senator in an interview -- he?s not closing the door on a future presidential run.

?That?s a long time from now,? he told National Journal about his 2016 prospects. ?Gosh, I got businesses to run right now. I?m concentrating on that right now, and what the future holds, the future holds.?

Schweitzer could be a 2016 dark horse; he was a popular Democratic governor in a red state and is no stranger to working the media and the national stage with his larger-than-life personality. This is a governor who, despite a gun ban in the state Capitol, kept one on his office wall. A governor who vetoed Republican bills by burning the word ?VETO? onto them using a branding iron. A governor who can handle Letterman.

Montana Democrats warn not to rule out him out as a viable presidential candidate, citing his mastery of the working-the-room, grabbing-shoulders, stump-speech-giving brand of politics.

?There are a lot of Beltway types that are skeptical of his ability,? says one former Baucus aide. ?If Hillary [Rodham Clinton] runs, all bets are off, no one can contest her in a primary. If she doesn?t, then Brian Schweitzer is the kind of guy who can run away with Iowa.?

Schweitzer said he?s ?been a person that believes government has no place standing between you and your physician and government has no place in your bedroom.?

As a Democrat from a gun-owning state, he?s in favor of background checks while also saying he has ?more [guns] than I need and less than I want.? When asked how many and what kinds of guns he owns, he responded, ?None of your damn business.?

He?s even hedging on his past insistence he wouldn?t run against Clinton if she were in the race. While still governor, Schweitzer had said that if Clinton runs, she?ll get the nomination and ?it?s lights out.? Now he points to the 2008 primary as a cautionary tale that the presumed front-runner doesn?t always walk away from the nomination: ?It?s tough to know. Before she ran for president last time, people thought, ?Gosh, if Hillary Clinton runs, it?ll be she or Dodd or Biden.? Someone said it could be Richardson. It?s a long time from now.?

But, he added, ?The Clintons have built decades of support, financial support. Of course these offices require a great deal of money.?

Recent buzz has centered over whether Schweitzer will indeed challenge Baucus in a 2014 -- which some Montana Democrats privately say is more rumor than reality and is intended to keep Schweitzer in the limelight. A Public Policy Polling survey showing him leading Baucus by 18 points was posted on his Facebook page (he has said he didn?t post it himself). ?The rumored primary battle is more fodder for news columns than it is real,? one senior Montana Democratic strategist says.

There is no love lost between the two Democrats -- they?ve long had a cold relationship, particularly since Baucus?s role in shepherding Obama's health care law through Congress. (Schweitzer is a vocal advocate of a single-payer health care system.) They also have vastly different styles -- Schweitzer is gregarious; Baucus is more introverted. Schweitzer declined to comment on Baucus?s record as a senator or his approval ratings.

So why not make a run for it? For one, the primary contest would be one of the few Democrat-on-Democrat Senate battles of 2014, with the eventual winner emerging badly bruised before having to take on a Republican in a conservative state.

And while Schweitzer looks well-positioned now, Baucus has loads of money (about $3.6 million on hand) and the proven ability to raise even more. His allies point to how he?s helped build the state?s party infrastructure and to his seasoned campaign apparatus.

?If there were a primary battle, it would not be pretty,? says the senior Montana Democrat. ?But I would never ever ever underestimate Max Baucus. He?s been through tough races.?

Some Montana Democrats have trouble envisioning Schweitzer even having an appetite for the job of a senator -- it?s definitely a place that has frustrated plenty of former governors who are used to being executives. And Schweitzer doesn?t hide his disdain for Washington, calling it a ?corrupt? place that he?s uninterested in becoming a part of. ("I am not goofy enough to be in the House, and I'm not senile enough to be in the Senate?, is a line he?s been using for some time.)

?Congress is motion masquerading as action. I haven?t figured out how these members of Congress--if you?re in the House, you probably have a dozen or two employees, in the Senate, you have 50 or 60, and you don?t even run anything,? says Schweitzer.

He still subscribes to his ?not goofy enough? and ?too senile? remark as describing his feelings on working in the halls of the Capitol. ?That?s the way I stand today,? Schweitzer said from his Georgetown Lake home. ?I?m looking over the lake. A snowmobile just went by. You can?t beat that.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/meet-gun-loving-straight-talking-2016-democratic-presidential-060002581--politics.html

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What do pimps, mimes and astronauts all have in common? If this psychedelic romp through a classic beer ad is any indication, it's that you've a one in three chance of turning into one by drinking Bud Light and yelling at your friends over the phone. [Boing Boing] More »

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Women Hid Boy for 8 Years, Convicted of Kidnapping

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I Cannot Take Any Nfl "expert" Seriously That Mocks A Te To The Falcons

I'm fine with a stud TE...

How many on these boards would want Gronk v. Randy Starks??

How many would want Vernan Davis v. Michael Johnson??

I see a TE having more immediate impact on this team than a DE...we have 4 guys at DE, we have 3 DTs that are a solid rotation...

If TG retires, our hopes are on Chase Coffman?? Can he even stay on the field?? or HD will pick up the slack?? There is a reason he was 4th on the team in receiving yards/targets...if he was so freakin good, he would ahve shown it and him and TG would have had similar numbers...

I guarantee you if you asked Ryan today, he would want a TE more than a 3rd WR on the field...it helps keep defenses honest on the run and pass...

Eifert is the best "receiver" in this draft...That includes TE and WE...

I would be fine if we took TE...I think we will address our DT or DE issues with a veteran in FA...it will change our whole draft outlook...

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Encryption Software To Deliver Modern Protection For Your Online ...

Since the world is becoming every day on the Internet-related products, such as encryption software, email has definitely found a market. Many observers have pointed out that the Web is likely important in the coming years, especially in the business world.

That encryption e-mail?

This is a method of security for messages sent and received via e-mail protection. In other words, the system is similar to the sending of a message code. Once you use a message, only those who know the code to read your email.

The main objective is the private information. In a world where piracy is an ongoing case, is not easy. Often e-mail are the main targets of unscrupulous individuals. Email encryption ensures that only the recipient can send messages to e-mail messages read to remain private and secure.

A world without this system is like a world in which everyone can read your e-mail to someone Friday. Anyone who has enough knowledge to groped to open someone else?s topic and read the entire contents. Such a scenario seems innocent as all electronic letters scandalous rumors. It can also be useful when it contains only trivial remember shopping lists.

In the real world, but not all sites are on trivial matters and boring. Many in the site of research and development. Others are talking about financial matters and investments. Some are also in politics and business strategy. You need more info about encryption software? maybe you can visit the link.

The combination of all these elements are also confidential or secret information. If the wrong people get their hands on him, who knows how much damage they can do. Hackers can easily steal the ideas being developed. You can also receive financial information and use it to destroy the credit of the people. Some may also decide to provide personal data and pictures are available to offer a range of people to embarrass.

When a company of this protection?

Yes, a company must have. No matter how big or small your business, e-mail and make calls, as some messages may contain information about your company. News about customers, suppliers, the development of products and services for each account.

If, for example, read the competitors in some way, you are faced with many problems. They are easy to start calling customers to offer them at lower prices. They can imitate, or more, studies for developing a better product and cheaper. If you sell a service, they can easily learn the techniques and use to your advantage.

Source: http://www.solutionsforoffices.com/encryption-software-to-deliver-modern-protection-for-your-online-business.html

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Mushroom-supplemented soybean extract shows therapeutic promise for advanced prostate cancer

Feb. 20, 2013 ? A natural, nontoxic product called genistein-combined polysaccharide, or GCP, which is commercially available in health stores, could help lengthen the life expectancy of certain prostate cancer patients, UC Davis researchers have found.

Men with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, known as metastatic cancer, and who have had their testosterone lowered with drug therapy are most likely to benefit. The study, recently published in Endocrine-Related Cancer, was conducted in prostate cancer cells and in mice.

Lowering of testosterone, also known as androgen-deprivation therapy, has long been the standard of care for patients with metastatic prostate cancer, but life expectancies vary widely for those who undergo this treatment. Testosterone is an androgen, the generic term for any compound that stimulates or controls development and maintenance of male characteristics by binding to androgen receptors.

The current findings hold promise for GCP therapy as a way to extend life expectancy of patients with low response to androgen-deprivation therapy.

Paramita Ghosh, an associate professor in the UC Davis School of Medicine, led the pre-clinical study with a team that included UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Ralph de Vere White, a UC Davis distinguished professor of urology. Ruth Vinall in the UC Davis Department of Urology and Clifford Tepper in the UC Davis Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine directed the studies in mice; Ghosh's laboratory conducted the cell studies.

The research focused on GCP, a proprietary extract cultured from soybeans and shiitake mushrooms and marketed by Amino-Up of Sapporo, Japan. Researchers found that the combination of the compounds genistein and daidzein, both present in GCP, helps block a key mechanism used by prostate cancer cells to survive in the face of testosterone deprivation.

The research team had earlier shown that when a patient's androgen level goes down, cancerous prostate cells kick out a protein known as filamin A, which is otherwise attached to the androgen receptor in the cell's nucleus. The androgen receptor regulates growth of prostate cancer cells. Once filamin A leaves the cancerous cell's nucleus, that cell no longer requires androgens to survive. Thus, loss of filamin A allows these cells to survive androgen deprivation, at and the cancer essentially becomes incurable.

The paper, titled "Enhancing the effectiveness of androgen deprivation in prostate cancer by inducing Filamin A nuclear localization," shows for the first time that GCP keeps filamin A in the nucleus. As long as this protein remains attached to the androgen receptor, the cancerous cells need androgens to survive and grow. They die off when starved of androgens, thus prolonging the effects of androgen deprivation, which ultimately prolongs the patient's life.

The team's hypothesis is that metastatic prostate cancer patients with the weakest response to androgen-deprivation therapy could be given GCP concurrently with androgen deprivation therapy to retain Filamin A in the nucleus, thereby allowing cancer cells to die off.

De Vere White is now pursuing funding to begin GCP human clinical trials. Because GCP is a natural product rather than a drug, and requires fewer government approvals, it's expected that these trials will proceed rapidly once funded.

"We should know within the first eight months or so of human clinical trials if GCP works to reduce PSA levels," says de Vere White, referring to prostate-specific antigen levels, a tumor marker to detect cancer. "We want to see up to 75 percent of metastatic prostate cancer patients lower their PSA levels, and GCP holds promise of accomplishing this goal. If that happens, it would probably be a greater therapy than any drug today."

The research was supported by a Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development service Merit Award (I01BX000400) from the Department of Veterans Affairs and by R01CA133209 from the National Cancer Institute.

Other authors were Benjamin A. Mooso, Sheetal Singh, Salma Siddiqui, and Maria Mudryj of the VA Northern California Health Care System; Ruth L. Vinall, Rosalinda M. Savoy, Jean P. Cheung, and Yu Wang of the UC Davis Department of Urology; Clifford G. Tepper, Anthony Martinez, and Hsing-Jien Kung of the UC Davis Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine; and Roble G. Bedolla of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

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Cure for common hangover? 'Pill' mimics action of human liver in fighting alcohol intoxication

Feb. 20, 2013 ? In a discovery that could promise a quick fix to the common hangover, a team of researchers led by UCLA engineers has identified a method for speeding up the body's reaction to the consumption of alcohol.

In a paper published online Feb. 17 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Nanotechnology, Yunfeng Lu, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and his colleagues describe successfully placing two complementary enzymes in a tiny capsule to speed up the elimination of alcohol from the body. The enzyme combination within the capsule essentially processes alcohol the way the liver does.

Lu, the principal investigator, said the enzyme combination could be ingested as a pill, chemically altering alcohol in the digestive system, even as the liver does its work.

"The pill acts in a way extremely similar to the way your liver does," Lu said. "With further research, this discovery could be used as a preventative measure or antidote for alcohol intoxication."

Naturally occurring enzymes within cells often work in tandem to transform molecules or eliminate toxins. Lu's group assembled multiple enzymes to mimic the natural process. An enzyme known as an alcohol oxidase, for example, can promote the oxidization of alcohol but also produces hydrogen peroxide, which is toxic. Another type of enzyme, a catalase, prompts the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. Placing the two enzymes next to each other can effectively remove alcohol.

The researchers placed the two enzymes in a polymer capsule measuring just tens of nanometers in diameter. The wall of the polymer capsule is only one nanometer thick -- about 100,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. The capsule protects the enzymes and allows them to freely enter an alcohol molecule. In this way, the nanocapsule mimics an organelle, a structure found in cells that spurs chemical reactions.

The researchers used a mouse model to test how well the enzyme package worked as an antidote after alcohol was consumed. They found that blood alcohol levels in mice that received the enzyme package fell more quickly than in mice that did not. Blood alcohol levels of the antidote test group were 15.8 percent lower than the control group after 45 minutes, 26.1 percent lower after 90 minutes and 34.7 percent lower after three hours.

In a test of how well the enzyme delivery system worked as a prophylactic when consumed at the same time as alcohol, the researchers found that blood alcohol levels in the mice that received the enzymes were 10.1 percent lower than in control-group mice after 45 minutes, 31.8 percent lower after 90 minutes and 36.8 percent lower after three hours.

"Considering the vast library of enzymes that are currently or potentially available," the authors write, "novel classes of enzyme nanocomplexes could be built for a broad range of applications."

The study's lead authors included Yang Liu and Juanjuan Du of UCLA Engineering's chemical and biomolecular engineering department.

Additional authors of the research include Wei Wei of UCLA Engineering; Ming Yan of UCLA Engineering and the UCLA Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics; Mo Yin Lau, Jay Hu, Hui Han and Cheng Ji of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California; Dr. Otto O. Yang of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Sheng Liang and Hui Wang of Xinhua Hospital, affiliated with China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jianmin Li and Wei Chen of China's Beijing Institute of Biotechnology; Xinyuan Zhu of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; and Linqi Shi of China's Ministry of Education and Nankai University.

The research was partially supported by the Defense Threat Reducing Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Basic Research Program of China.

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10,000 firms approved for Enterprise Finance Guarantee loans ...

The Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme, set up to help small firms access finance, has delivered a net benefit of ?1.1bn to the economy, according to new research.

A report on the EFG by researchers at Durham University said that the initiative has helped more than 10,000 businesses access loans worth a total of ?1.04bn since May 2010.

The scheme has created an additional 6,500 jobs, which is the equivalent to 1.84 jobs per recipient business. It has also saved 12,375 positions.

In addition, every ?1 invested by the Coalition delivers a benefit of ?33.50 to the economy.

Business minister Michael Fallon has called on banks to increase lending via the EFG.

He said, "EFG loans are delivered through the banks and I want to see them making more use of the scheme.

?This latest research shows that the EFG is helping precisely those businesses who can't get finance elsewhere.

?It is getting money to where it is needed, saving jobs and delivering a huge benefit for the wider economy.?

Fallon said that there is obvious demand for this type of financial support and revealed he has started publishing EFG lending by each individual bank so businesses will know which bank they are best off approaching.

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Jeff Ciachurski, CEO of Western Wind Energy, responds to Tom Konrad's letter

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VANCOUVER, Feb. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Jeff Ciachurski wishes to personally respond to Tom Konrad's promotional news article dated February 13, 2013.

There was a series of phone calls between Jeff Ciachurski, CEO of Western Wind Energy and Tom Konrad, a contributing writer to Forbes.? After this discussion, Mr. Konrad produced an article titled "Why I'm Accepting Brookfield Offer for $2.60 per Share for Western Wind."? In this Article, Mr. Konrad makes a series of naked assertions.? To set the record straight, Mr. Ciachurski is responding to each of Mr. Konrad's subject paragraphs.? We are hopeful that Mr. Konrad will reproduce, verbatim, this rebuttal from Jeff Ciachurski.

Mr. Konrad's first paragraph is entitled "What Changed My Mind" and in this paragraph Mr. Konrad talks about speaking to fund managers and Brookfield's head of media relations.

Jeff Ciachurski responds by saying that Brookfield's Head of Media Relations can only disclose the party line of Brookfield.? Brookfield's CEO or CFO had refused to speak with Tom Konrad.? Regarding the hedge fund managers who spoke with Tom Konrad, most are "event driven" fund managers who solely purchased stock when the Company was put up for sale or when they were aware that a sales process was imminent.? Together, these event driven funds constitute approximately 13 million shares or the vast majority of the parties who have tendered.? In fact, it was these funds that contacted Brookfield and agreed to tender if the bid was raised to $2.60.? These funds became so over-weighted with our stock in a situation where they had a limited timeline, that there was no other alternative but to tender.

Mr. Konrad's second paragraph is entitled "The Situation As I Now See It."? In this paragraph, Mr. Konrad gives an opinion as to what buyers will pay; states our lack of intention to sell; declares no value to Yabucoa; states Western Wind's share price will decline significantly if the bid expires; states allegations of alienating possible buyers; and Mr. Konrad's view that he can sway the public to whether or not Brookfield wins the vote.

"What Buyers Will Pay - Why Not More Than $3"

Mr. Ciachurski replies that Mr. Konrad is unaware that hostile bids for independent power producers are virtually non-existent.? The best-suited and most efficient purchasers for Western Wind are US regulated utilities and their non-regulated subsidiaries.? Mr. Konrad fails to understand that executive committees within these utilities will not bid on a company, simply for a break-up fee and incur the public disdain within their regulated jurisdiction, of getting into a hostile bidding war against an insider such as Brookfield, who holds a below market price share position.? Brookfield knows this and the only hope of Western Wind shareholders getting a better price is by Brookfield not obtaining the minimum tender and publicly saying it is walking away.? As Mr. Ciachurski has stated to Mr. Konrad several times, this is a battle between Brookfield and the Western Wind shareholders and not between Brookfield and Jeff Ciachurski.? Mr. Ciachurski's job is to give guidance and if Mr. Konrad feels that his investment advice has overreaching logic and conclusions, this is another feather in the cap for Brookfield.

"Lack of Intention to Sell - Ciachurski's Compensation"

In this paragraph, Mr. Konrad wrongly states that there will be two change of control payments.? There is only one and that was paid just before the Company's AGM as a precaution that either Savitr or Brookfield, if successful, in either the proxy battle or subsequent hostile bid, would not honor any of the employees' pre-established change of control payments.? It is standard in a hostile environment, whether by proxy battle or hostile bid, that the non-incumbent winning party, not honor any employment agreement.? This leads to years of litigation and in the case of the proxy battle, would have led to a diminished sales price.? Mr. Konrad further fails to state that Jeff Ciachurski is one of the largest shareholders and stands to benefit the greatest from any increase in value.

"Declares No Value to Yabucoa - Financing Yabucoa"

Jeff says Mr. Konrad turns on its head, the entire basic principles of project finance.? The most efficient cost of capital is bank debt.? Currently, project financed debt is available at LIBOR +2.75 therefore, the more bank debt on any project, the more superior returns to the project sponsor.? The more equity in a project, the lower the rate of return.? Equity rates of return are much higher than bank debt therefore, companies that have to sell copious amounts of corporate equity to meet a project equity requirement, are lowering the project's total yield.? No bank with an "A" rating or better, can simply increase the interest rate to meet a perceived serious risk of default.

Similar to Windstar and Kingman, the rates we received, were the lowest rates available, at that particular time, to any party.? In the case of Windstar, where we had an institutional lending group (life insurance companies), rather than banks, the interest rate is higher because it is fixed for 21 years and does not have any interest rate hedging costs, which, at the end of the day, becomes a more stable and predictable expense, yet at a total costs similar to the bank debt with swaps. In fact our audited financial statements show we have raised only $70 Million in total corporate book equity since incorporation. However we control $430 Million in assets and have a hostile bidder valuing that total corporate equity at $190 Million. This is a superior conclusion unmatched by the Yieldco's quoted by Mr. Konrad who do not trade more than their book share equity value.

"The Stock Will Fall"

Jeff says the statement by Mr. Konrad that the stock price will fall is contrary to his earlier paragraph where he states that the Company is worth more than $2.60 per share.? However, Mr. Konrad does not clarify whether he is a "value investor" or a "stock trader."? He is certainly not a pure clean energy investor.? This is verified within Mr. Konrad's February 13^th article where he states "Brookfield and Algonquin are the largest pure play renewable companies in North America."? Mr. Konrad claims to own shares of both.? According to Algonquin's financial statements and website, Algonquin is a significant fossil fuel generator and utility distributor of fossil fuels. This makes Mr. Konrad not a "pure" clean energy investor therefore; his recommendation of the stock dropping can only be that of a view from a short-term stock trader.? We cannot predict what the price of Western Wind will do in the short term but we do know that Mr. Konrad believes the shares are worth more than $2.60.

"Alienating Buyers"

Jeff says Western Wind has been public since December 23, 1999 and until July 30^th, 2012, has never agreed to put itself up for sale.? There is simply no history or record of alienating buyers.? Algonquin issued a hostile "bear hug letter" in October of 2011 and Savitr launched a proxy battle on July 31^st, 2012.? On November 23, 2012, Brookfield stated its intentions of launching a hostile bid.? For the past 16 months, Western Wind has been under hostile attempt from two parties, with the Brookfield hostile bid being proxy war 2.0.? We would like to invite Mr. Konrad to offer the public his version of "How Not to Alienate Hostile Bidders."

"Our Decision Makes a Difference"

Jeff says Mr. Konrad takes pride in the fact that his newsletter may be able to sway shareholders to tender to the Brookfield bid.? He does that by saying he would rather take $2.60 now than waiting 3-4 months for an extra 5% - 8%.? None of these arguments are supported by fact, simply Mr. Konrad's desire to cash-out on a share position unknown to the public.? The public is also unaware as to when Mr. Konrad buys or sells shares, in relationship to his "Buy and Sell" opinion letters.? Such is the field in the unregulated game of newsletter writers.?

At the end Mr. Konrad fails to state that under Jeff Ciachurski's leadership, Western Wind helped create hundreds of high paying true green energy jobs. Western Wind paid tens of millions in sales taxes, millions in taxes to the Countries in which it does business and millions per year in additional land taxes for its assets. Western Wind was a 35-cent IPO in December 1999 and even at only $2.60, is the green energy market leader with a Combined Annual Growth Rate on share value of 20% per year, each and every year since 2000. Asset growth is a staggering 60% annually since 2000.? Virtually every other green energy company has failed to meet these exceptional targets or simply failed completely.

JEFFREY CIACHURSKI
Shareholder of Western Wind Energy Corp.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT ON FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

Certain statements contained in this news release may constitute forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities legislation.? These statements relate to future events and are prospective in nature.? All statements other than statements of historical fact may constitute forward-looking statements or contain forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "may", "will", "project", "predict", "potential", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might", "seek", "anticipate", "should", "believe" or variations thereof.? Forward-looking information may relate to management's future outlook and anticipated events or results and may include statements or information regarding the future plans or prospects of the Company.

Forward-looking information is based on certain factors and assumptions regarding, among other things, the outcome of a hearing before the OSC, if such hearing occurs, the results of a valuation, if obtained by Brookfield , and the availability of a financially superior offer,.? Several factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: the outcome of a hearing before the OSC, if such hearing occurs, the results of a valuation, if obtained by Brookfield, may not be as anticipated by the Company, actions taken by Brookfield, actions taken by the Western Wind Shareholders in relation to the Offer, the possible effect of the Offer on the Company's business, the outcome of the Company's previously-announced sale process, and the availability of value-maximizing alternatives relative to the Offer.? Additional risks and uncertainties can be found in the Company's MD&A for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the Company's other continuous disclosure filings which are available at www.sedar.com.

Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated.? Forward-looking information is subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements including, without limitation: the risk that the outcome of a hearing before the OSC will not be in the Company's favor, the results of the valuation, if obtained by Brookfield, will not be as anticipated by the Company, the progress of Western Wind's sales process, and, assuming the Company receives an expression of interest from a prospective purchaser, whether a financially superior offer for Western Wind emerges, whether the Company is able to successfully negotiate a prospective sales transaction and whether the conditions of any proposed transaction, including receipt by the Company of all necessary approvals, are met.

The Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that they will prove to be correct.? Actual results and future events may differ materially from those anticipated and accordingly forward-looking statements should not be unduly relied upon.? Forward-looking statements contained in this document speak only as of the date of this news release.? Except as required by applicable law, Western Wind disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking information.

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February 17, 2013; 11:07 AM

Nearly one week after a major winter snowstorm hit New England and Atlantic Canada with heavy snowfall and hurricane-force winds, a blizzard will close out the weekend in parts of Atlantic Canada.

Conditions will continue to worsen across Atlantic Canada through tonight into a south-to-north fashion as the potent storm that brought snow to the Carolinas arrives.

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Green Blog: Gas Pipeline Draws Last-Minute Protests

In a last-ditch effort to block construction of a controversial natural gas pipeline in northeastern Pennsylvania, campaigners urged an interstate regulator on Friday to review the project?s environmental impact.

The 44-mile section of pipeline, the Northeast Upgrade, would become part of a longer pipeline moving natural gas extracted from the Marcellus Shale in northern Pennsylvania to a terminal in Mahwah, N.J. In a letter, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, an environmental group, urged the Delaware River Basin Commission to study the potential impacts, arguing that the project will result in the loss of forest and the degradation of wetlands if construction is allowed to begin.

Opponents argue that in approving the project, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did not conduct a thorough environmental review. Last week they suffered a setback when the federal Court of Appeals in Washington denied an emergency motion by Delaware Riverkeeper and others for an injunction to rescind FERC?s approval of the plan.

While a court challenge to the legality of FERC?s approval for the Northeast Upgrade is still pending, the outcome may only apply to future pipelines once construction of the new segment gets going, said Maya K. van Rossum, who heads the environmental group.

Ms. Van Rossum said the Delaware River Basin Commission, controlled by the governors of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware and the federal Army Corps of Engineers, was therefore the group?s last hope. The commission is charged with maintaining water quality and managing water resources in the 330-mile long basin.

?Exercise of this jurisdiction? could ?avoid and minimize the incredible level of harm the traditional method of pipeline construction used in our watershed to date has inflicted,? Ms. Van Rossum wrote in the letter. The commission, which had refused to exercise its authority, recently revrsed itself, saying that it would review the TGP300 pipeline, of which the Northeast Upgrade is a part, but not the Upgrade itself.

Unless the commission steps in, tree-cutting for the section of the upgrade that falls into the Delaware watershed on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey sides of the river could begin as soon as next week, Ms. Van Rossum said.

On Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved tree-cutting for a section of the Upgrade that falls within the Delaware River basin. A spokesman for the commission did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Critics of the project also accuse the operator of the company Tennessee Gas Pipeline of avoiding a thorough review of the project under the National Environmental Policy Act by seeking permits for separate sections of the pipeline rather than for the line as a whole. In court documents, they argue that the company ?evaded? a comprehensive environmental review and that FERC ?unlawfully? segmented the analysis required under the National Environmental Polcy Act.

FERC maintains that it was legally entitled to conduct a segmented analysis of the project.

Richard Wheatley, a spokesman for Kinder Morgan, the parent company of Tennessee Gas Pipeline, said the upgrade project was proceeding despite legal challenges because FERC has rejected them, mostly recently on Jan. 11, as have federal courts in Pennsylvania and Washington.

?The January 11 order is reflective of a diligent review of claims dealing with environmental issues, right-of-way routing, late filings by numerous individuals and entities? and other issues, Mr. Wheatley wrote in an e-mail.

In Milford in northeastern Pennsylvania, opposition is focused on plans to clear a seven-mile swath of forest where the pipeline would be built rather than using an existing right of way that would not require cutting trees.

Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, has meanwhile urged the Army Corps of Engineers, which must approve any projects that cross wetlands or waterways, to consider alternative routes.

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AP Source: Miami tests baseball team for HGH

CORAL GABLES, Fla. ? Every University of Miami baseball player underwent testing recently for performance-enhancing drugs, including human growth hormone, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

The testing for HGH is not typical for the school, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the university has not authorized the information's release. But these are not typical times for the perennially strong program, which has been linked to Major League Baseball's latest drug mess.

The school is awaiting the results, the person said. University officials not only took the unusual step of ordering the HGH tests for the players, but said last week that 10,000 tests performed on student-athletes since 2005 resulted in no positive tests for steroid usage.

"There's a very thorough investigation going on within the program to try to find out what they can find out," said Miami coach Jim Morris, who could not provide many details of that probe because of university policy. "I feel very sure that our current players are not involved in anything. I think we have a very good system intact. Other than that, the outside, I don't know what's going on outside."

What's going on outside is this: The university's best-known trustee is New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. The name of baseball's highest-paid player adorns the Hurricanes' ballpark, thanks to his pledge of $3.9 million for renovations several years ago. Rodriguez was the headliner in a story published by Miami New Times last month, alleging big leaguers got performance-enhancing drugs from a now-closed clinic not far from Miami's campus.

Several other players were named in that story and others that followed, including many with ties to Miami, such as former Hurricane and 2011 NL MVP Ryan Braun and former signee Gio Gonzalez, now a star pitcher with the Washington Nationals. Former Miami player Yasmani Grandal, now a catcher for San Diego, also was implicated in the story.

Jimmy Goins, a strength coach at Miami who worked primarily with the Hurricanes' baseball and cross country teams, also was named in the New Times story, which was based on documents that the alternative weekly paper said was provided by a former employee of the clinic.

"He has been an exemplary employee of the university and categorically denies any allegation or inference of wrongdoing," said Michelle White, Goins' attorney.

Rodriguez, Braun and Gonzalez all have issued denials as well, as have other players.

Four years ago, Rodriguez - who is expected to miss a big portion of the 2013 season while recovering from hip surgery - admitted using PEDs from 2001-03 while with the Texas Rangers. Morris said he has not talked with Rodriguez about the latest allegations, but acknowledged that he was disappointed.

"Of course," Morris said. "I was disappointed seeing anybody's name. He's not guilty until he's proven guilty. I haven't seen Alex in forever. He's doing rehab and not working out."

MLB is investigating the New Times report and hopes to acquire the documents the paper used to build its story. Other reports have suggested that the Hurricanes' program is also the subject of an MLB probe, though Morris said he has not been questioned by anyone from the pro game.

"Not one word," Morris said.

All this comes with the university still dealing with an NCAA investigation stemming from claims that a former booster provided impermissible benefits over an eight-year span to the football and men's basketball programs. That process - which has already dragged on for about two years - is further delayed while the NCAA awaits the results of a probe into whether its investigators broke the college governing body's own rules in how they gathered information.

Once the NCAA releases that report, Miami's notice of allegations is finally expected to be released quickly.

There are many anti-aging clinics in South Florida, and this isn't the first time that Miami has been mentioned as a hotspot in baseball's battle to clean up the game. The AP has not been able to reach Anthony Bosch, who allegedly ran the Biogenesis clinic, and a one-time associate of Bosch's said it's believed he has been out of the country "for a long time, like a few months."

The Hurricanes bristle at the topic of a connection to Biogenesis. So does the city's pro team, the Miami Marlins.

"Before I moved to Miami, I always had the view that Miami was the epicenter of everything, like the hanging chads and Elian Gonzalez," Marlins President David Samson said. "There's always something going on in Miami. And now that I've lived here for 10 years, it really is true. There's always something here. So it didn't shock me when I read about that laboratory."

It also isn't the first time the Hurricanes' program has been tied to PED issues.

In 2010, a since-departed Miami baseball player was arrested and charged with trying to sell marijuana to undercover officers on university grounds, and police later found 19 vials of HGH at his apartment. Frank Ratcliff played last season at Pensacola State College and is now on the roster at the University of Houston.

Ratcliff did not respond to an email request seeking comment. It's a topic everyone in the game seems tired of talking about - and hearing about, for that matter.

"Same guys, same names pop up here and there," said Marlins hitting coach Tino Martinez, the longtime Yankees star. "It's frustrating. It's bothersome and it bothers me to hear and read about it. You want to stop reading and hearing about it. The only good thing that comes out of it is this drug-testing stuff is working. Guys are getting caught now. Now guys are saying, 'It's not that good of a plan.'"

Meanwhile, the Hurricanes have a season to play.

"I think our school, as a university athletic department, does as good a job as any school in America at monitoring drug testing," Morris said. "I don't think anybody spends more money and is more cautious than we are to make sure we're doing things the right way. What's going on in Major League Baseball, I have no idea."

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