Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A Phoenix Police Department helicopter was searching for man on Piestewa Peak in north central Phoenix around 4:45 p.m.
After Armageddon (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Jerry Erwin As a peak oiler myself since 2002, I have often wondered why most of the prominent peak oil authors and activists dismiss the survivalist movement. It seems that many of the peak oil heavyweights, including Richard Heinberg and Dmitry Orlov, in particular, despite their own ingenious contributions to analyzing our current predicament, seem to blithely dismiss survivalism....
0-60mag.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
8,500 lbs of go-fast thrills.
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Breckenridge, CO - The Crystal Peak Lodge opened in November as the centerpiece of Breckenridge Ski Resort's new Peak 7 base village, featuring a Mediterranean-themed dining experience at Sevens restaurant, a ski and ride school, a rental and retail shop, and lift ticket services. The lodge and new base village buildings are located steps from both the high-speed, six-passenger Independence...
Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | yesterday
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has decided economic activity peaked last year and that December 2007 marks the beginning of the current U.S. recession. That means all my charts (with the recession starting in Dec '07) are correct. From NBER: Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research...
ArmsControlWonk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, I don’t know that its at its peak, perhaps the payload continued on for quite a ways. But what interested me about this picture (other than its really cool and it indicates that Iran is definitely studying its “staging” procedures using rocket-cams) is the possibility that this picture could be used to tell how high the Kavosh went. However, when I think about it, there doesn’t seem to...
CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's not just gasoline (-56%) and oil prices (-66%) that have plunged since the July peak (see top chart above), but natural gas prices have dropped as well, with futures contract prices falling -56% from the July peak and more than -20% since the first of the year ( EIA data here ).
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Wellington - Searchers failed to rescue two Japanese mountaineers overdue on New Zealand's highest peak, the 3,754-metre high Mount Cook, on Tuesday, but established that at least one of them was alive, news reports said. Two helicopters searching fo...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Posted 1 December 2008 on DocuTicker: + Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity (National Bureau of Economic Research) + Eurostat regional yearbook 2008 (Eurostat) + Symantec Report on the Underground Economy (Symantec)
Japanese Green Cars (Free subscription) | yesterday
The power of Hybrid Synergy Drive now brings you three buttons to make your obsession with fuel economy a little more engaging. Source: PriusChat.com
beSpacific (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity: "The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic...
Peak Energy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alex Steffen at WorldChanging has a post on population trends that includes Kim Stanley Robinson's great line "empowering women is the best climate change technology" - Peak Population and Generation X . The babies born between 1965 and 1970 were historic. They were part of the highest global population growth rate ever achieved, 2.1 percent a year. As Joel Cohen writes, Human population never...
Stone Soup Station (Free subscription) | yesterday
... economists at the private National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday. The economy reached a peak of activity in December 2007 and has been declining since, according to the business cycle dating committee of the NBER. The government, academics and the private sector generally defer to the NBER's judgments about recessions. The committee does not judge a recession as two consecutive...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity Source: Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met by conference call on Friday, November 28. The committee maintains a chronology of the beginning and ending dates (months and quarters) of U.S. recessions. [...]
Tech Lime (Free subscription) | yesterday
The PC audio industry has been kicked into high gear even though there have been some minor speed bumps along the way. This is great for the audio fans since it provides a plethora of new products offering features never before seen on any sound card. Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Hardwarecanucks
