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| Green Energy Investment Soared in 2011 |
Global investment in clean energy reached a new high of $260 billion last year -- despite the financial crisis and the anti-environment agenda of Republicans in the United States Congress, a United Nations investors' summit was told on Thursday. Data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which tracks clean energy investment, showed a 5 percent increase compared with 2010, driven largely by a surge of money going to the solar industry. Investment in solar power rose 36 percent last year to $136.6 billion. And while the U.S. domestic political scene was riven by the furore over a $535 million government loan to the now bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra, there was apparently little immediate direct fallout for industry. The U.S. made $56 billion in clean energy investment last year, overtaking China, which invested $47.4 billion. It is the first time since 2008 that the U.S. has invested more. The surge reflected the phasing out of Barack Obama's economic recovery plan, which set aside as much as $80 billion for the green economy, once investment in high-speed railways is factored in. "The stimulus went out with a bang," said Ethan Zindler, head of policy analysis for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The analysis was presented to 500 global investors meeting at the U.N. to try to mobilize the large-scale funds needed to address climate change. The $260 billion figure includes investment in renewables, biofuels, and smart technologies. It does not include natural gas, nuclear energy, or clean coal. The summit, organized by the Ceres sustainable business group, was also aimed at giving momentum to the Rio sustainability summit, to be held in June. A separate analysis by Deutsche Bank's climate change advisors' group, which used a narrower definition of global investment in clean energy and energy efficiency, found an even more striking rise to $140 billion in the first nine months of last year from $103 billion over the equivalent period in 2010. Kevin Parker, global head of Deutsche Asset Management, said: "Investors really have no excuse any longer for dealing with climate risk because it's going mainstream." But there were also big losers in the clean energy world last year. Investment in wind fell 17 percent to $74.9 billion. Meanwhile, manufacturers of wind turbines and solar panels are being squeezed by a drop in the price of raw materials and oversupply. The same pressures led to the downfall of Solyndra, which collapsed after receiving half a billion dollars under Barack Obama's recovery plan. Republicans used the company's collapse to try to discredit Obama's entire clean energy agenda. But while those at the meeting dismissed the Republican charges as "smoke and mirrors," they acknowledged the difficulties for clean energy manufacturing.  In another such example, Vesta Wind Systems, the world's biggest turbine maker, said on Thursday that it was halting production at one factory and cutting 2,335 jobs, or about 10 percent of its staff, to try to compete with Chinese manufacturers. The company said another 1,600 jobs in the U.S. were at risk as tax credits supporting the industry expire at the year's end. That phasing out of economic recovery plans around the world could also affect prospects for 2012, Zindler said. "Most of those dollars have now been spent," he said. "What that means is that next year industry will have to be more competitive and more cost-effective without government support." But he said the "vast majority" of the $260 billion figure was private funds. And -- despite the political climate -- there remained growing demand in America for renewable power, with 29 states in the U.S. requiring utilities to generate a share of their electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. Analysts believe those mandates will create a demand for as much as $400 billion in new construction of renewable power plants -- a process underway despite the harsh Republican rhetoric against the shift to clean energy. "This is about building stuff. This is about infrastructure," said one analyst. There is also strong interest in clean energy from developing countries, with emerging economies such as India and Brazil needing more power. "They need more power generation and they don't necessarily want that to be coal," said Zindler. This story originally appeared in the Guardian. OnEarth is part of the Guardian Environment Network.
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| Gender Bending in the Rockies |
Usually, it's easy for scientists to tell male and female yellow-bellied marmots apart simply by looking. First of all, the furry cousins of the groundhog are pretty good-sized, and they have prominent genitalia. Second, boy and girl marmots behave differently: males roughhouse more, groom one another more, and stray farther from home. But Raquel Monclus, one of the biologists working on a 50-year marmot observation project at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Crested Butte, Colorado, says that the gender of some tiny newborn Marmota flaviventris can be hard to distinguish. Using a trusted method -- measuring the distance between the rodents' anuses and genitalia -- on creatures of indeterminate gender, she and her colleagues occasionally found themselves surprised in the long run. Though a longer "AG distance" typically signals a male, some marmots that at first seemed obviously masculine turned out to be females. And those females tended to have something in common -- a lot of brothers, according to a study by Monclus recently published in Biology Letters. It seems that a female marmot surrounded in the womb by males absorbs the testosterone given off by her brothers through the placenta. Not only does the hormone elongate her AG-distance, it affects her later behavior. She'll engage in more play-fights and roam farther than normal females. She'll also have trouble reproducing. (Boy marmots surrounded by sisters don't have the reverse problem, because they begin making testosterone much earlier than females do estrogen.) The discovery of the tomboy marmots shows that small hormonal changes in the womb can have effects that last for generations. And that has researchers worried that "endocrine disruptors" -- chemicals such as pesticides, the BPAs in plastics, and the PCBs in coolants and flame-retardants, which can mimic the behavior of hormones in animals and humans -- could harm marmot and other populations in unpredictable ways. Monclus says it's "not very clear" what makes some females give birth to mostly-male versus mostly-female litters, but it could have to do with their own hormonal experience in the womb. It likely also has to do with the mothers' overall health. Strong, robust females can afford to "invest" in male offspring -- which are bigger and require more energy to nurse and care for -- to pass on more of their genes. In a given year, a male can mate with many females, producing some 50 pups, whereas a female will only give birth to a litter of about five. Sons will also grow up and move away, instead of staying nearby to compete for food and nesting space with their mothers, as daughters do. On the flip side, male marmot pups are more sensitive to deprivations. Stressed females, Monclus says, tend to give birth mostly to girls, perhaps because female pups are more likely to survive with fewer resources. All that cost-benefit analysis means that a marmot's biology has to be pretty tuned in to its environment from year to year. If a harsh winter makes food scarce -- or if toxins appear -- it could change the gender, behavior, and reproductive capabilities of the next generation, and the next, and the next, in ways that scientists have only begun to anticipate. It turns out that humans may share similar concerns. A new study in the journal Pediatrics shows that young girls exposed to BPA in the womb tend to have more behavioral problems than other children -- including aggression, hyperactivity, and distractibility, which are more typical of their male peers. Do our surroundings -- as much as genes and upbringing -- make us who we are? If tomboy marmots are any indication, the age-old nature versus nurture debate is about to get a lot more complicated.
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| Shangri-La Hotels Take Shark Fin Soup off the Menu |
The campaign to reduce the demand for shark fins achieved its greatest victory to date on Wednesday when the Shangri-la hotel group announced that it would no longer serve the dish, which is decimating populations of the ocean predator.The resort company, which operates 72 hotels, took the step just days before the Chinese spring festival, the main season for shark fin soup consumption at banquets in Hong Kong and the mainland.It is estimated that between 26 million and 73 million sharks are killed each year to supply this billion-dollar industry. Almost a third are consumed during Chinese new year.But conservationists' efforts to reduce demand have gained pace and prominence in the past year, particularly since WildAid international ambassador and basketball star Yao Ming spoke out against shark fin soup.In November, the Peninsula Hotel became the first traditional hotel in Hong Kong -- the centre of the trade -- to remove the dish from its restaurants. It was followed by 112 companies who signed up to a "Say No" initiative to remove shark fin from corporate banquets.Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has now gone a step further by unveiling a "sustainable seafood policy" that also includes a commitment to phase out the use of other endangered marine species, including Bluefin tuna and Chilean sea bass.The company had previously taken shark fin off its restaurant menus, but offered the dish on demand.The move was welcomed by conservationists as a sign that some major corporations are starting to take sustainability more seriously."This is very significant. Two leading hotel groups have now sent a very strong message to the food and beverage industry and the wedding industry. I don't see why others don't follow suit," said Bertha Lo of the Hong Kong Shark Foundation.However, there is still a long way to go. The foundation's recent survey of 64 leading Hong Kong hotels found that 98 percent served at least one endangered marine species. Almost all included shark fin, which is particularly popular at wedding banquets. Very few had policies for sustainable seafood sourcing.Conservationists said corporate social responsibility programmes had improved in recent years to include energy efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions, but still usually neglected impacts on wildlife."We are seeing announcements one by one, but it is not enough just to stop serving shark fin," said Stanley Shea of Bloom Association, a Hong Kong-based NGO. "Hotels also need to put in place public policies on sustainable seafood sourcing."The government in Hong Kong has yet to act, although surveys by the Bloom foundation suggest that 88 percent of consumers want the authorities to prevent sales of products that involve killing threatened species.It is believed the mainland could move faster than the territory -- as it has done with air pollution. But most hotels in Chinese cities will continue to serve shark fin as a traditional part of the festivities to usher in the year of the dragon on 23 January.Among them is the Grand Hyatt in Beijing, which was offering a new year special spring festival banquet of 888 yuan ($141) per person, including shark fin soup. Outside of the holiday season, it offers the soup alone from 468 yuan ($74) to over a thousand yuan. "It depends on the type of shark. We have all types," a restaurant employee said.This story originally appeared in the Guardian. OnEarth is part of the Guardian Environment Network.
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Recipe: Faux Shark Fin Soup
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California is One Big Step Closer to Protecting Sharks & Our Oceans
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| Double Dating or Two Timing? The State of Obama's Energy Union |
Last year, members of the U.S. House of Representatives from opposing parties started pairing off on "dates" for the president's annual State of the Union address. The idea was to provide a simple and direct visual example of all-too-rare bipartisan comity -- to show any Americans who might happen to be watching that Republicans and Democrats could, in fact, get along well enough to sit next to each other for an hour and a half, at least. As the camera would pan out into the audience for reaction shots, you might see a well-known conservative and an avowed liberal seated right next to each other, instead of across the aisle from one another -- nodding together, whispering knowing comments into each other's ears, and subtly pressuring one another to be on their best behavior. The energy portion of last night's State of the Union speech, appropriately enough, was like a Hollywood film crafted especially for couples who can never seem to agree on what kind of movie to see on date night. She likes stories about huge increases in domestic oil production? She'll love the part in this one when President Obama brags of having "opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration," and then goes on to direct his administration "to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources." But wait: he likes movies that celebrate cleaner energy alternatives? Tell him not to get up and grab another tub of organic popcorn just yet -- the very next scene is all about the recent doubling of renewable energy sources, such as high-tech batteries and wind turbines. Does she absolutely adore fracking flicks? Well, this one's a heartwarming story about how "it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock." Would he rather stay at home and re-arrange his sock drawer than sit through a movie that glorified fracking? Don't fret, my friend: in the very next scene, the stern-faced president is "requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk." It's hard to make a genre-busting movie like this one. Critics are apt to complain that the story line lacks focus, that it's trying too hard to be all things to all people, and sacrificing narrative plausibility as it does so. And there may be something to that line of criticism. To hear President Obama boast, as he did last night, that "American oil production is the highest that it's been in eight years" in one scene, only to issue an ultimatum to Big Oil in the next ("We have subsidized oil companies for a century; that's long enough") is to wonder whether you're watching a delightful romantic comedy where drillers and presidential administrations "meet cute," or an action movie where coddled petroleum giants finally get their comeuppance at the hands of a fed-up, mad-as-hell chief executive. And indeed, at least one critic on the right -- Mitch Daniels, the Republican governor of Indiana -- could be heard grumbling loudly after the closing credits. In the official GOP response to the President's speech, Daniels averred that "[t]he extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy." (Come to think of it, Daniels' allusion to the nixed Keystone XL pipeline project as something that would employ "tens of thousands" might make for a good movie itself -- in the science fiction/fantasy category. The actual number of permanent jobs that would be created, according to the State Department, is as low as a few hundred.) Meanwhile, over on the left, journalist Kevin Drum, blogging for Mother Jones, mocked the president's "all-of-the-above" energy policy as just one example of this "campaign speech on steroids." But here's the thing: This movie ain't actually over yet. Daniels may not like what he perceives (correctly or not) to be its underlying message; Drum may think that it's hollow and pandering. But there's still a chance that all these disparate plot threads could cohere into a rewarding story about bountiful natural gas that delivers on its very real promise of replacing dirty coal in a manner that's both safe and transparent -- which is to say, in a manner that allows state and federal regulators to ensure that water supplies are protected. In this script, too, the green innovations touted by President Obama start to generate real excitement and attract real capital, based on the incontestable knowledge that oil -- whether imported or produced domestically -- can't last forever, but that wind and sunlight can. The stirring climax of this Oscar-worthy feel-good movie sees the American economy rebounding vigorously, thanks in part to serious investment in domestic renewables, which grant us a competitive advantage in the global arena. In one sense, Drum is right: This year's State of the Union address was a campaign speech, as are all State of the Union addresses that take place during re-election years. The president wanted, and needed, to give any Republicans and Democrats who were out on a date last night something they could both like. He risked not making the sale with either of them. But if people who care about things like replacing oil and coal with sustainable energy sources -- or making sure that natural gas production doesn't come at the expense of safe drinking water or wildlife habitat -- demand the final cut, we can make this movie end however we want it to.
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Obama Calls for More Clean Energy and Smart Safeguards on Domestic Drilling
Renewable Energy for America
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| Fin Win |
It's a gruesome fate for millions of sharks. Fishermen pull them from the sea, chop off their fins, and toss them back into deep waters, maimed but alive, leaving them to struggle and eventually drown. As the key ingredient of shark fin soup, a traditional dish in some Asian communities, an individual shark fin can sell for thousands of dollars. These predators have been at the top of the saltwater food chain for 400 million years, regulating the populations of other sea life, culling sick animals, and keeping prey species in check. But that vital ecological role has been threatened by the demand for shark fins. Efforts to ban the sale and trade of fins in California, one of the largest markets outside of Asia, have faced significant economic and cultural barriers, explains Leila Monroe, a staff attorney for NRDC's oceans program. Monroe helped educate opponents of the ban and mobilize supporters -- from fishermen to restaurant owners -- to eliminate the market. These efforts were finally rewarded on October 7, when Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a ban on the sale and trade of shark fins in California, joining such states as Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon.Monroe believes the success of the California campaign will spread awareness about the threat of extinction faced by sharks from other dangers, such as continued overfishing and habitat destruction. This victory, in other words, is just the beginning."
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| Data: 2012-01-12 20:12:27 |
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| NRDC: Moving Pictures |
Q&A with Daniel Hinerfeld, NRDC's deputy director of communications and director of the organization's film unit, based in the Santa Monica office. Why did NRDC start producing documentary films? It began in 2006 with Robert Redford, an NRDC trustee. He stood up at a board meeting and said that the most powerful way to communicate about nature is through film, and that we shouldn't wait for others to tell our stories visually. It was an epiphany for us, and we created a small film unit. Making our own videos and movies has enabled us to engage media, policy makers, and the public on issues that previously had been challenging to convey. A good documentary opens your mind to ideas and information, and it can help overcome prejudice. The best environmental documentaries also leave you hopeful about our ability to solve the problems we've created for ourselves. Can you give a couple of examples of that? Our film Acid Test, narrated by Sigourney Weaver, is a good example. It's a half-hour movie about ocean acidification that has aired more than 30 times on Discovery Planet Green, been featured on Good Morning America, and been screened for members of the U.S. Senate. When we started production, virtually no one outside scientific and environmental circles had even heard of ocean acidification. Sigourney, Warner Brothers, and a couple of the world's best underwater cinematographers worked with us to create a movie that succeeded in reaching a significant audience. Today, there's much broader awareness of this urgent problem. A very different example is Stories From the Gulf, narrated by Robert Redford, another half-hour film we made for Planet Green. Whereas Acid Test is about science, Stories is about people and communities devastated by the BP oil disaster. In a sense it's a rebuttal to BP and the Obama administration, which have tried to minimize the impact of this disaster from day one. What are some of your favorite environmental documentaries? A recent favorite of mine is The Last Mountain, directed by Bill Haney, a powerful indictment of Massey Energy, which is destroying large swaths of Appalachia -- blowing the tops off mountains to mine the coal within. The movie follows an inspiring group of local activists fighting to save their home, and also features NRDC's own Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been battling mountaintop mining for years. The movie draws the connections between a local conflict and the global predicament we face because of fossil fuels. Everything in nature is connected, and a good documentary can help you understand that better than words on a page.
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| Data: 2012-01-12 19:35:44 |
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| Our New Jobs Man in D.C. |
Nominees for secretary of commerce usually glide through their Senate confirmation, without the political drama of, say, a potential Supreme Court justice. John Bryson was an exception. After President Obama tapped the former utility executive to head the Commerce Department last May, Bryson drew fire from the far right for his history of environmental advocacy. Yet he was endorsed by key business groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which praised "his extensive knowledge of the private sector and years of experience successfully running a major company." For five months, though, his nomination hung in the balance. One of his fiercest opponents, Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, assailed Obama for appointing a founder of "one of the most radical, left-wing, extreme environmental groups." After graduating from Yale Law School in 1969, Bryson joined with John Adams and several other young attorneys to create the Natural Resources Defense Council. At a time when there was no such thing as environmental law, they saw a vital role for the courts in protecting our air, water, lands, and wildlife. Bryson left NRDC in 1974, but he has retained his commitment to defending public health and a clean environment. Over the objections of Inhofe and 25 other Republicans, the Senate confirmed Bryson on October 20. After the vote, the president said, "John Bryson will be a key member of my economic team, working with the business community to promote job creation, foster growth, and help open up new markets around the world for American-made goods." Sometimes called the nation's top salesman, the commerce secretary presides over a department with a $7.5 billion budget and 47,000 employees worldwide. The secretary promotes U.S. exports and ensures that imports comply with domestic law and international accords. Bryson takes the helm amid the worst job market since Ronald Reagan was president, with 14 million Americans looking for work and the unemployment rate at 9 percent. That means job number one for Bryson will be helping to create jobs, by promoting American business at home and abroad and by supporting policies that help keep U.S. companies and workers competitive in the global marketplace.The new commerce secretary knows how to recognize opportunity. He proved that during his 18-year tenure as chairman and chief executive officer of Edison International, the holding company that owns Southern California Edison. In 1990, when he assumed the top post, Bryson saw over the horizon to a future of increased electricity generation, not just by utilities but by their commercial and residential consumers as well. In California and in foreign countries from Italy to Indonesia, he helped develop cogeneration projects that let customers produce their own electricity -- from renewable sources like solar and wind or from waste heat -- that they can then use or sell to their utility company. Bryson grasped the potential of renewable energy sources, which provided 16 percent of Southern California Edison's electricity mix by the time he left his position in 2008. He helped put the company on track to install "smart meters" in more than five million homes, where they can save consumers money and reduce the need to build new electricity-generating plants. Bryson, in short, understands that the key to creating jobs and spurring growth is to embrace the future and the opportunities it presents. That's the challenge, writ large, we face as a nation as we struggle to regain our footing from the worst economic collapse since World War II. And that's the charge to Bryson as he takes the reins as our 37th secretary of commerce.
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| Lessons of the Buffalo: Author Steven Rinella on a Hunter's Conservation Ethic |
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Listen above or download. Running time: 6 minutes, 26 seconds. The author Steven Rinella talks with Emily Voigt about his book "American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon," the tragic history of North America's largest land mammal, and his personal quest to hunt one in the wilds of Alaska.More info» Read review of Steven Rinella's "American Buffalo," from OnEarth's Winter 2009 issue
Michigan Enacts (Too Weak?) Ban on Feral SwineRed Wolf Deaths Alarm OfficialsNew Research Shoots Down Justification for Wolf Hunts
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| Poet David Wagoner on the Wilderness Inside Us |
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Listen above or download. Running time: 7 minutes, 44 seconds. Poet David Wagoner recites his poems, "Letting the Grass Grow Under Your Feet" and "By A Pond," and talks with Zachary Sussman about finding belonging in a landscape and letting go of anger over environmental ills. Letting the Grass Grow Under Your FeetIt would rather not but of course it will. If you've tried standing on itlong enough, those blades will insist on a way out from under and up at lastinto the light. You don't have to let it do that because it will. No matter howstubbornly or heavily you bear down, something inside its cells doesn't believe in youand your latent energy, your postponements of action, your useless indecision. It will grow sideways and turn yellow or under pressure nearly white. It will turn to an almost all uprooted root for a while,then send those blades (in spite of how long you stand in the way) up and around you. By A PondIts face, as calm as the air,holds an inverted worldof trees and a trembling sky,and I'm looking at a gardenas far away from my eyesas if I lay under water.What the seers and sibyls learnedin their rippling mirrors no onecan say for sure. A dropped stonewould send it flying and showwhere the earth begins again.All I can ask for answersfrom what I see in my mirrorare the shades of apple blossomsover which water striderslighten the touch of beesagainst the mud of heaven.
The Great Oyster CrashThe Labyrinth Below the ForestTrees are dying in the forests--is anyone listening?
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| City Girl in the Country: A Conversation with Poet Roberta Swann |
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Listen above or download. Running time: 10 minutes, 47 seconds. Poet Roberta Swann reads her poem, "Looking Back," and talks with Zachary Sussman about weekend naturalists, fashionable insects, and what one may see in a fly's hundred eyes.Looking BackYou can take a city girl to the country,and get her to get on with worms, a plague of caterpillars even, this year's ladybugs--who doesn't like a ladybug? But heaps, everywhere?Back on the deck, breaking in another bikini, she sunbathes, watching hummingbirds chase one anotherfrom the feeder, until a chickadee runs them bothout of town--tourists anyway. He's offplanting heirlooms, while crows hang in pines, waiting for action. Everything is la di da, untila neighbor starts shooting off guns and firecrackers. And flies arrive. Slap. Spray. Pray. Plead. Read labels. Realize repel and discourage are code for: Good Luck!The only way out is in. So she slips into somethingless comfortable and takes a walk. That neighborroaring by on his ATV calls out: " Happy Memorial Day!" She recovers on a rock. Listens to wind. La di da. Until flies arrive. She sprays. One dances on the nozzle, slim legs tap-tapping high heels on marble. Such footwork! Who could hate such a fly? She looks closer. Takes off rose-tinted Gucci glassesand sees its hundred eyes looking back.
Little Body, Big SoundThe Summer I Got BuzzedAll the News That's Printed to Fit
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Secolul al XX-lea, in care transmiterea rapida a informatiei era esentiala, a facut un pa...
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Review-uri I.T. hardware
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Fiind bazata pe noile chipseturi Intel P45, Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R este un model din clasa de ...
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Tom s Hardware
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Welcome to the year's first SSD recommendations. We updated our list to reflect recent price ...
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Extremetech
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3D printing is a method of manufacturing everything from tools to shoes to jewelery, or even ...
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ZDNet
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New laser printers and multifunction devices are targeted at SMBs that produce their own marketin...
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Se cauta Product Manager (HVAC)
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Inchirieri masini in Bucuresti si in alte 40 de orase
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Despre articolul 53 din Constitutie...
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Re: Candidatul la vanatoare de nehotarati...
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Despre democratie si simtul nesimtirii...
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Inchirieri Masini - acum la un loc
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Pasaportul electronic VS. Cipul biometric
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Re: Inchirieri masini la cele mai mici preturi din Romania
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Educatie
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KTurtle 0. 7
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KTurtle is a Logo programming language interpreter for KDE. The Logo prog...
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Information-Management
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Tripoli 0. 3. 1
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Tripoli project is a Python triplespace is a Python implementation of a tri...
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Chat
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Wooden Fish Messenger 1. 0 beta1
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Wooden Fish Messenger is an instant messenging client application based on th...
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E-mail
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Infotrope Polymer 20051017
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Infotrope Polymer is an experimental, but usable, client for IMAP,...
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File sharing
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RwdTorrent 0. 04
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rwdtorrent is a BitTorrent client. It can view metafile information local...
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Audio
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Guerrilla ElibeRadio
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De toate...
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Posturi romanesti
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Radio Prahova 99 2 FM
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E local, dar se comporta ca un national. E ploiestean get-beget, ...
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BBC
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Analysis Extra: A Price Worth Paying? 28 Nov 11
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Banks are underwritten by the government in Britain. But should the taxpa...
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Jocuri
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Imperia Online
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Imperia Online is a web-based massively multiplayer rpg strategy online game&...
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