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		<title>The Great Salmonella Outbreak of 2010</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=399</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is certainly great to know that the United States food and disease oversight can pick up on a common food contaminant (salmonella, spp) increase and trace it back to a commonly accepted source, namely chickens.  This previous farmboy knows that you have to be very careful of this pathogen because it is everywhere.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellaneous Energy and Climate References</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, a number of people have asked for references and charts.  Here are hotlinks to a number of them.
Wind Power: Bonneville Power Administration Balancing Authority Wind/load chart.  http://www.transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/wind/baltwg.aspx and this blog, August 29, 2009.
Climate: Arctic Sea Ice extent:   http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Solar/Sun  spots: (this year has been running 15-19% void, better than last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Yucca Mtn. and US Nuclear Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has chosen to direct the Department of Energy to abandon the Yucca Mtn. geologic repository for discarded nuclear materials.  In addition, President Obama has commissioned a two year &#8216;Blue Ribbon&#8217; panel to evaluate alternatives and nuclear energy in general.  After a brief tour of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Souteastern Washington State , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ocean CO2 Acidification Impact Questioned</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=362</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CO2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gauntlet was thrown on climate change when the sound bites of ‘the science is settled’ and ‘consensus of scientists’ were uttered.  Long before that, this scientist was aghast at the pontificating that man can change the weather, at least to the extent of catastrophe.  As a result of the bites and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing health care plan premiums</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=358</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A current item on the internet is the &#8217;sudden&#8217; discovery in the new federal health care legislation that employer funds for health care premiums are going to be included in employee &#8216;total&#8217; pay and thus subject to taxation or tax bracket creep.   Let&#8217;s do some thinking about this.
First, does anyone know of any employer who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Electric Car Conundrum</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=350</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[US energy independence is really anchored into the transportation sector.  Therefore, our huge domestically supplied electrical system can only help if that power somehow leaps into the fuel tank.  Electric cars with rechargeable batteries come quickly to mind.  But here is a twist:
&#8221; &#8230; Avoiding the ugly: Swapping coal for oil?
The biggest battle  in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer patient experiences lack of &#8216;dye&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=346</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical Isotopes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shortage of medical isotopes puts patients at risk.  It's happening now due to historical lack of political support for modern medicine techniques.]]></description>
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		<title>British Review of Climategate</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=332</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British House of Commons&#8217; Science and Technology Committee has just completed its review of the culpabilty of University of East Anglia&#8217;s Professor Phil Jones regarding &#8216;hiding the decline&#8217; emails and related correspondence.
 
The response is well crafted, winding around the very obvious that, yes, these principals were hiding data.  One could say that they were hoarding, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyoming passes tax on windpower</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=325</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windpower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A logical evolution as an industry &#8216;matures&#8217;.   The Wyoming legislature has just passed a $1 per Megawatt generation tax on windfarms in existence for 3 years or more.  With double depreciation and federal subsidies for implementation completing, it&#8217;s logical to apply this measure as that state  does on energy sources such as coal, natural gas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Local Impact of Yucca Mountain</title>
		<link>http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=321</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three local leaders (Tri-City Herald, Feb 19, 2010) are advancing concern about violation of law with regard to the present federal administration&#8217;s canceling of funding for Yucca Mountain nuclear material storage licensing.   Missing from this gray cloud observation is the silver lining that the US now has an opportunity to revise all used nuclear fuel [...]]]></description>
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