Emperor small section score was the best thing Wade Yao Ming Zhou District nominated
From December 23 to 29 this time, James made the team record of 3 wins 0 negative, which are home win over Rockets, Heat and Wizards, the Cavaliers will be home record to 16 wins 0 negative, the results of this first home League . wow goldIn these competitions, the emperor of small field are 26.0 points and shooting 53% In addition, he also received 6.7 rebounds, and 6.7 assists. Knight current record of 26 wins 4 losses, is the best start in team history records. In the Rockets beat the game, James scored 19 second half points to be scored 27 points, scored with his victory. Heat a reversal in the game, James scored 33 points contribution and nine assists, one on the fourth quarter to be 11 minutes.
Bryant made last week with his 4 wins 0 negative record, and his average of 30.0 points and shooting 54% of the market are a few rebounds and assists were 5.5 and 4.0. One of the most significant victory in the course of a Christmas Day victory over the Celtics 92-83, the game in Kobe get 27 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists. Army Green has been the Lakers 19-game winning streak end. 130-113 victory over the Warriors in the game, Bryant 10 of 10 penalties, a total of 31 points.
The following is a concrete expression of two people:
James:
Dec. 24, James Knight 99-90 Rockets get 27 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists.
Dec. 26, James Knight Wizards 93-89 to be 18 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds and 3 steals.
Dec. 29, James Knight Heat 93-86 to be 33 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds.
Bryant:
Dec. 23 Grizzlies 105-96 Lakers Kobe get 36 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.
December 24 Hornets 100-87 Lakers Kobe get 26 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.
December 26 Celtics 92-83 Lakers Kobe get 27 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists.
December 29 Warriors 130-113 Lakers Kobe get 31 points and a season-high 4 steals.
Other players nominated:
De Weien - Wade, Rashad - Louis, MO - Williams, Gerald - Wallace, Joe - Johnson, Rodney - Starkey, Yao Ming, Kevin - Durant, Tony -- Parker, Jermaine - O'Neal.
How Green are our Green Celebrities? It is all a question of give and take!
By Jackson Kern
We love our celebrities. And more recently, we love green. So we must love our green celebrities. But in the amorous enthusiasm of our love affair have we ever halted long enough to ask: just how green, really, are they?
The answer, inevitably, is that they are in many cases not quite so green as they sometimes seem. Treehugger.com recently published an article showcasing the hypocrisies of certain celebrity environmentalists "in need of Green 101". Amongst them: Paul McCartney, Woody Harrelson, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin (along with his wife actress Gwyneth Paltrow) and, yes, Madonna. Seems that Sir Paul, while so gracious as to avail himself of a (free) new Lexus hybrid, took delivery of the hot item direct from the Japanese factory by air (though Treehugger.com is careful to note that he did not make these arrangements and apparently was less than thrilled with this choice).
Woody Harrelson was guilty of a similar crime after he opted to have his favorite vegan shoes and belt flown into Cannes when he noticed their absence from his travel bags. Chris Martin planted 10,000 mango trees in southern India in 2005 to offset the carbon footprint of "26 million in album sales". But, Treehugger.com reports, "Most of the trees died in 2006." Apparently an Estée Lauder product line which features Gwyneth Paltrow in its advertisements has been revealed to contain "dangerous chemicals." And Madonna, who graced the cover of Vanity Fair's May "Green Issue", is guilty of that cardinal sin which is gluttonous hydration, spending nearly 10,000 dollars per month to earn the moniker "The Queen of Bottled Water."
Entirely aside from this checklist of specific hypocrisies (in the shadows of which undoubtedly lurk many more), it is worthwhile to make the observation that more generally, the lifestyles of the rich and famous are hardly in perfect alignment with the message of green. In the face of often shameless greenwashing, even those producers and service providers who have genuinely achieved a green shift of some degree fail to remind us that an important part of "going green" is to consume not more but less. Though there are exceptions as there are to all rules, the incomes generally associated with celebrity in Western society are not highly correlated with the virtues of thrift and frugality.
So are green celebrities really, well, green? The answer lies in an evaluation of equity, i.e. in the question of whether or not these celebrities give as much as they take. Celebrities are uniquely positioned to channel social energy and capital toward projects and initiatives for which they are impassioned. If it is with achieving results that we are concerned, then the collective movement of celebrity environmental initiatives carries the potential to outstrip the negative effects of these amusing anecdotal contradictions.
Whether or not this potential will be achieved remains to be told by future generations
Demand for green energy workers to skyrocket in Canada
New nationwide project helps those looking to connect with training programs
By WorkCabin.ca Staff
Looking for one of Canada's hottest job markets? Look at the earth, wind and sun.
As millions of students return to classrooms across Canada, thousands are doing something powerful: They're giving their career aspirations a real jolt at a growing number of post-secondary institutions now offering training in sustainable energy programs. These students are the next crop of soon-to-be skilled workers for the country's exploding green energy industries.
When they graduate they will enjoy something not every grad can boast: a virtual guarenteed job and endless possibilities for growth.
But there's a dilemma: Canada needs even more of these workers today, tomorrow and in the future to help the industry meet its rapid expansion.
In wind energy alone, the demand for workers will skyrocket. Canada presently has about 2,000 megawatts -- enough to power 560,000 homes -- of wind power and 3,000 Canadians employed, but that's expected to reach more than 12,000 megawatts by 2016.
Geothermal energy (using ground temperatures to heat and cool homes) is also booming. It is estimated that there are more than 40,000 units -- mostly home-based units -- installed across Canada. In Manitoba, ranked second in the country behind Quebec for geothermal installations, the province's hydro utility estimates that geothermal units have provided energy savings that have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 35,000 tonnes annually -- the equivalent of taking 10,000 cars off the road. If you need more evidence that geothermal is hot, consider this: Google is investing $10 million in the technology in the U.S. where more than 100 geothermal power plants are either under construction or planned during the next several years.
Likewise, solar power is growing hotter too in Canada. New solar farms are pointing skyward to harvest natural energy, and a major breakthrough by a British Columbia-based company promises to make solar power even more affordable. Day4Energy has developed technology that cuts the cost of solar power by 25 per cent. It's a huge step for the industry and will bring solar power closer to many homeowners who previously ballked at the cost.
With so many sectors soaring, it's not hard to see why there's a growing need for workers for research and development, manufacturing, engineering, technicians, installation, maintenance and more.
Knowing where to turn for training has, until now, been more or less a find-out-for-yourself process. A new nationwide project, Clean Energy Classrooms (www.cleanenergyclassrooms.ca) sponsored by the British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association, green energy promotions and recruiting firm Renewable Recruits, the B.C. government, colleges and other partners, is changing that in a big way.
"From Vancouver Island to Prince Edward Island, this growing industry needs more trained and capable employees," says Randyn Seibold, project manager for Clean Energy Classrooms. "Facilitating access to Canada's clean energy programs will ensure that sustainable energy is on the students' radars when making their career training decisions."
Clean Energy Classrooms is a one-stop online directory for information and links to training options through post-secondary, industry, native and non-profit programs. A print version of the project will be distributed to secondary schools, employment centres and other locations this fall.
The initiative is already winning rave reviews from post-secondary institutions which offer programs in sustainable energy.
"The Clean Energy Classrooms project provides a way for our department to leverage scarce marketing resources to reach the audience that would be most interested in our program," says Eric Smiley, an instructor in the green building and renewable energy technician program at Vancouver Island University.
WorkCabin.ca is Canada’s premiere green outpost for green jobs
Taking It Slow
By Alternative Channel's Youth Contributor Cody Larocque
Life moves at an incredible pace in our modern world, information and ideas can travel across the world in a matter of seconds. With all this speed and instantaneous reaction to everything in our day where and when do we take the time to reflect and think about the days happenings? Traditionally, the dinner table was such a place where family would meet and discuss, but with the advent of a fast food society and fast living one organization aims to correct this direction as well as protect the planets biodiversity and adhere to the tenants of fair trade.
Slow Food International believes that everyone has the right to good, clean and fair food, as well as the pleasure that goes with it. Slow Food, believes whole heartedly that food should taste good, be organically grown there fore not harming human, animal and plant biodiversity. It also believes that food producers should be paid fairly for their hard work. Not wishing to be called consumers, they have taken the name of co-producers, because they both understand and support where there food comes from. The organization started in 1986 in Bra Italy, home of the organizations founder Carl Petrini, due to his home town’s association with wine production, white truffles, beef and fine cheeses which coupled with Italy’s love of fine food.
Slow Food has also started several other foundations which adhere to their core beliefs, most notably are the Slow Food foundation for biodiversity, the ark of taste which aims to protect artisan foods, animal and plant breeds which risk extinction due to marginalization and loss of public interest. Slow food also holds large gatherings such as, Presidia which help to connect local and artisan food producers to accessible and public markets and lastly Terra Madre which is a world meeting of food communities, for example Cheese producers from France would meet and discuss with cheese makers from Quebec, Canada. Slow food also believes that in sustainable farming and works to set up food communities in such a way. While not opposed to research by universities in genetically modified organisms (GMO) they believe that GMOs require accurate labelling because everyone has the right to choose what they ingest and choose to support by doing so.
The organization does not only concern itself with eco-gastronomy but at a larger scale wants to change the way we think about life. The Slow Food manifesto, professes that we have lost touch with what it truly means to be a Human being, and that our speed will kill us eventually. The fast life, which is equated to a virus, will and is not only disrupting our lives but also destroying our planet through the obsession with efficiency and over productive behaviour. It is certainly and attractive option given the state of modern food production and the vast number of disease scare associated with the modern food industry. Like Ghandi said “there is more to life than just increasing its speed” So here’s to the organization which took the slow and calm snail as its symbol.
For more information please visit Slow Food.
Photo courtesy of: www.freefoto.com.
Lessons my father taught me are worth sharing
By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola
Now in the seventh decade of my life, I look back at the world of my childhood, with its shared phone lines, ice boxes, radio soap operas, and no television, and it seems like an ancient, lost civilization. And yet the ideas and values I learned as a child seem every bit as important for today’s youth, for whom rappers, billionaires, and movie stars are role models.
When I was a boy, my father was a bigger-than-life figure, a wonderful storyteller who enchanted people with his outgoing personality. He was my hero. He took me camping and fishing and instilled in me a love of nature and the outdoors. When he came home from work, he always asked me what I had learned in school, and as I recounted my lessons, he seemed genuinely interested, often amplifying my information or correcting me. I loved those sessions, and I now realize that he was reinforcing my education by making me recount what I had learned.
Dad was my biggest booster, but he was also my harshest critic. When I began in television, he followed everything I did. More than once when he couldn’t follow my narrative, he would call and bawl me out: “If I can’t understand what you are saying, how do you expect someone who doesn’t know you at all to follow your ideas?” To this day, I think of my father as my audience whenever I prepare a script or write a book.
My mother was the rock-solid foundation of the family. She was the first up in the morning and the last to bed at night, but unlike Dad, she did it quietly. I only understood how important she was as she developed Alzheimer’s disease and I watched Dad struggle to fill her shoes. I begged him to allow me to hire help for him, but he declined. “She gave her all for me,” he said, “and it’s my turn to pay her back.”
Both of my parents are now dead, and in my own dotage, I think about the important lessons I want to pass on to my children and grandchildren – and I realize they are the same lessons I got from Dad. I can’t help thinking they are not quaint ideas from the past but very modern ones that we need desperately today.
“Respect your elders,” he told me.
“But Dad,” I protested, “Mr. Saita is a fool.”
“David,” Dad remonstrated, “he has lived a long life and has had experiences and thought about a lot of things you haven’t. I know he seems opinionated and stupid, but if you listen, even he can teach you something.”
“To do well in Canada as a Japanese-Canadian,” he said, “you have to work 10 times harder, you must be able to get up and speak extemporaneously, and you must be able to dance.” Fortunately, hard work was never an obstacle for me and I entered oratorical contests for which Dad drilled me in the art of public speaking. I never understood the dancing part and was not successful in that area.
“Whatever you do, do it with gusto. Don’t do it in a sloppy, half-hearted way but enthusiastically, whether it’s scrubbing the floors, picking cherries, or playing basketball. That’s how you get the most out of life.”
“We all need money for the necessities in life, but you don’t run after it as if money makes you a bigger or better man. If someone flashes his fancy new clothes or big car, pity him, because he has gone down the wrong road.”
“Live within your means.” This important lesson is embodied in the familiar expression “Save some for a rainy day.”
“You must stand up for what you believe in, but be prepared for people to be angry and to disagree. If you want to be liked by everyone, then you will stand for nothing.”
“You are what you do, not what you say.” Kids have a different way of saying this in their taunt, “All talk and no action.”
My mother also taught me useful homilies like “Always clean up your own mess,” “Be kind to animals,” and “Share; don’t be greedy.”
Today’s youth are bombarded with news about the antics of Lindsay Lohan, Amy Winehouse, and Jay-Z, and look to them for inspiration, but that’s all the more reason to listen to the words of our elders.
Take David Suzuki’s Nature Challenge and learn more at davidsuzuki.org.
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