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Rouhani, who was elected in Iran’s presidential election last year despite being opposed by many in the country’s senior clergy, said that democracy cannot be exported to another country as it is a product of development, “not war and aggression.”
“Democracy is not an export product that can be commercially imported from the West to the East. In an underdeveloped society, imported democracy leads only to a weak and vulnerable government,” he told the assembly.<|endoftext|>A teen from Vilapilasala in Kerala allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself (Representational)
The Kerala Police have begun investigations into the death of a 16-year-old boy in Thiruvananthapuram after his family raised doubts that it was due to the Blue Whale Challenge game.The school student from Vilapilasala near Thiruvananthapuram allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house on July 26. The boy's mother today told a Malayalam TV channel that her son had downloaded the game in November last."He said in the last stage of the game, one should either commit suicide or murder someone. I got scared after hearing it and asked my son not to play the game," she said.She said the boy had once hurt himself using a compass and jumped into a river though he did not know how to swim. He was later rescued.Before he took the extreme step, my son had deleted the game from his mobile phone, the woman added. The statements of the family have been recorded and investigations are on, police said.The Centre has directed internet majors - Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo - to immediately remove links of the 'dangerous' online game, which has reportedly led to suicide of children in India and other countries. On August 12, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had urged the Centre to take immediate steps to ban the Blue Whale Challenge in the country "to save precious lives".<|endoftext|>MANCHESTER, NH — A fight about a Free State Project flag led to an early morning shooting in Manchester today that left a Concord man in the hospital, a woman injured with a leg wound, and two men arrested, according to police. Michael Sirois, 22, of Chester, was arrested on Nov. 5, 2016, for first-degree assault with a deadly weapon and second-degree assault with a deadly weapon. Also arrested was Jason Gerry, 21, of Sandown, for second-degree assault, driving while intoxicated, driving without giving proof, and operating after suspension.
Editor's note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Manchester Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the name removal request process for NH Patch police reports.
According to police, officers were sent to Armory Street at just before 2:30 a.m. this morning for a report of shots fired and a man injured. Manchester Fire and Rescue teams were at the scene assisting a victim – a 36-year-old man from Concord.
"The resulting investigation revealed that parties allegedly involved in the shooting of (the victim) had fled in a vehicle," according to Sgt. Ken Loui of the Manchester Police Department. "Responding officers searched the surrounding neighborhoods and located a vehicle that matched the description of the one that had fled."
Watch the suspects get arrested here:
Police stopped the vehicle and identified the people inside as Sirois, Gerry, and a 20-year-old woman from Raymond, who was bleeding from her leg due to a gunshot wound, according to police. She was immediately taken to the hospital, and was treated and released.
"The ongoing investigation currently indicates that Sirois, Gerry, (the woman) and others had been socializing at the residence of 131 Amory St., and that an argument ensued between Sirois, Gerry, and (the male victim) over a flag that was displayed at the residence, a flag that Sirois found offensive," according to Loui. "Sirois, Gerry and (the woman) subsequently left the residence as a result of the argument."
However, due to car trouble, they found themselves back in front of the residence where Sirois and Gerry then engaged in a physical altercation with (the victim).
"This altercation precipitated the shootings of both (victims) by Sirois," the detective alleged.
Sirois is being held on $100,000 cash bail and will be arraigned on Nov. 7. Gerry was held on $6,000 cash bail and will also be arraigned on Monday. The woman was not charged at this time, according to police.
The investigation into the above matter continues; however, there is no ongoing threat to public safety. If you have any information pertaining to this incident, please contact the Manchester Police Detective Unit at 603-792-5500 or Manchester Police Crimeline at 603-624-4040.
The Free State Project is a libertarian political organization founded about 15 years in an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty minded individuals to move to the state of New Hampshire.<|endoftext|>To get an idea of what Ontario could look like a couple of decades out under Liberal energy minister Glen Murray’s “climate action plan” — which was revealed in detail in Monday’s Globe and Mail — who better to rely on than the man himself, Glen Murray?
Back in 2008, when he chaired the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, Murray — along with his acting CEO, Alex Wood, now executive director of the Ontario Climate Change Directorate — offered up a plan that looked remarkably similar to the new Liberal cabinet document. In fairness, the NRTEE document hardly offered the perniciously micro-managed prescriptions for people and businesses that Murray has graduated to now. And this new plan, billed by the Liberals as a “once-in-a-lifetime transformation” for Ontario’s economy, may also prove the end of Ontario’s lifetime of economic progress. In an era where assisted dying is the big thing with Liberals, this could be the first case where it’s tried on a province.
The leaked cabinet document, reportedly signed-off on by Premier Kathleen Wynne, lists a jaw-dropping 80 or so policies including: The eventual ban on heating new homes and buildings with natural gas, with only electric or geothermal being legal; $4 billion to be doled out by a “green bank,” funded by carbon taxes, to subsidize retrofits of buildings to get them off natural gas; the requirement that homes undergo an “energy-efficiency audit” before they can be sold; and a stack of rules, regulations and handouts to get an electric car into every two-car household within eight years, including rebates, free electric charging, and plug-in stations at every liquor store. Naturally, there will be billions more in traditional government-spending programs on public transit, bike paths, upgrades for schools and hospitals, and “research” funds and centres of climate excellence, not to mention new ethanol fuel standards that will gratify the Liberals’ top corporate donors in the biofuel lobby.
What hasn’t changed, evidently, is Murray’s confidence that a vast centrally planned government program is capable of re-engineering an entire economy through a combination of painful taxes, bans, and endless subsidies. That particular perspective no doubt fed into the Harper Conservatives’ 2013 decision to pull NRTEE’s funding. But at least its work, under Murray, was more honest than the Ontario Liberals will likely ever be about the enormous economic costs accompanying such schemes.
In assessing “investment changes in key economic sectors” resulting from carbon pricing, the roundtable bluntly projected that spending in the mineral and freight transport sector would virtually dry up due to “reduced output” (refining, too, although that’s meant as a feature, not a bug). Investment would also shrink in those “value-added” industries that provincial governments love — from cars and paper mills, to chemicals, metals, and building construction. Meanwhile, investment would come pouring instead into electricity and biofuels, largely because NRTEE estimated carbon taxes in the neighbourhood of $500 to $775 a tonne by 2026 — just a decade from now. That’s 15 to 25 times the highest carbon tax in Canada today.
As energy analyst Aldyen Donnelly points out, there are echoes of the decades-long Scandinavian climate experiments in Ontario’s effort to shift to geothermal power by banning natural gas (although Murray took issue Monday with calling it a ban, given that natural gas would still play some “role in the energy mix”). In Sweden and Norway, governments facing the prospect of shrivelling business investment ended up shifting the rising costs of their new, “green” electricity to consumers, who paid more, while businesses saw rates decrease to prevent relocations to less-expensive jurisdictions.
In Denmark, the government has mandated a shared “district heating” network since the 1980s, beginning with carbon taxes to incentivize choices, before it resorted to outright banning new furnaces and water heaters, and eventually forcing people to pay for a “mandatory connection” to the network. Danish ratepayers now pay five times as much in electrical taxes and levies than for their actual energy use. Meanwhile, reductions in the average Dane’s household carbon footprint over 20 years has been less than one-third. Ontario somehow thinks it will beat that, with 37 per cent reductions by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2050 — despite having among Canada’s weakest geothermal energy resources.
The ban on natural gas means Ontarians will either soon end up a lot colder or a lot poorer
That suggests that under the new climate action plan, most Ontario homeowners will be forced instead to rely on solar and wind electricity for home heating. Since Ontario ratepayers already pay the continent’s highest rates, thanks to the Liberals’ ideological obsession with green power, that can only mean they’ll soon end up a lot colder or a lot poorer. Union Gas estimates that heating by electricity instead of gas will inflate the average homeowner’s heating bill by about 600 per cent. As Donnelly also pointed out Monday, in European countries that have tried the kinds of economy-wide carbon-cutting schemes that Ontario aims to emulate, household debt as a percentage of income has exploded compared to elsewhere in the OECD. Denmark’s debt ratio is nearly twice as high for the average family as in Canada.
In a preamble to the leaked cabinet document, Wynne promises “a transformation that will forever change how we live, work, play and move.” Forever is an awfully eternal commitment for a single premier to lay claim to. Perhaps the Wynne government thinks it can pile on rigid bans and crushing carbon taxes on households and businesses both, and still somehow permanently keep people and investment in the province. Or maybe, the government has accepted that Ontario’s fate means sacrificing the latter. Statistics Canada’s Capital and Repair Expenditures Survey last week showed investment in manufacturing and finance in the province at half its pre-2008 recession levels. With Ontario’s economic demise now “reasonably foreseeable,” the Wynne government may have come to terms with the inevitable, and is ready to embrace an extreme green plan to hasten its own economic suicide. If only there were a way it could be a bit less agonizing.<|endoftext|>Newlight Expands Production Capacity For Sustainable Bioplastics Made From Greenhouse Gases
100,000-pound per year capacity expansion to meet customer demand for Newlight's cost-effective, high-performance, sustainable plastics
Irvine, CA /PRNewswire/ -- Newlight Technologies (www.newlight.com) announced today the addition of 100,000-pounds per year in new production capacity on the company's advanced-generation gas-to-plastic production line, which converts air and greenhouse gases into high-performance bioplastics that can significantly out-compete oil-based plastics on price.
Newlight's expanded line is fully operational, and incorporates a range of patent-protected and patent-pending technologies, including the company's most advanced resin functionalization and performance modification technologies. Plastics made from the line are currently being sold to customers with applications ranging from furniture parts and storage containers to film applications.
Founded in 2003 out of Princeton University and Northwestern University by Mark Herrema and Kenton Kimmel , Newlight has developed, patented, and commercialized a groundbreaking technology that pulls carbon and oxygen molecules out of air containing greenhouse gas and converts those molecules into high-performance, sustainable plastics at ultra-high-efficiency. Newlight's technology is operable using a wide range of carbon sources, including greenhouse gases derived from wastewater treatment systems, landfills, and energy facilities. The company's plastics require no oil, no food crops, and, of equal importance, can out-compete oil-based commodity plastics on price.
"The addition of this new advanced-generation capacity is the result of a singular focus: to manufacture plastic resins from air and greenhouse gas that match or exceed oil-based resins on performance while significantly out-competing on price," stated Newlight CEO, Mark Herrema . "This line is an important milestone for Newlight, because it achieves those objectives in resounding fashion, and provides a powerful stepping stone on our path to commodity-scale volume."
Capabilities of Newlight's advanced-generation line include the ability to produce the company's most advanced-performance grade resins, including resins that can supplant otherwise non-sustainable grades of polypropylene, polyethylene, ABS, and TPU.
Overall, the line also incorporates Newlight's breakthrough achievements in three critical areas that have been long-standing impediments to gas-to-plastic conversion, including: 1) a 500% increase in biocatalyst-to-polymer efficiency, enabled in part by the company's proprietary epigenetic modification mechanism; 2) an order of magnitude in cost reduction in downstream processing; and 3) proprietary polymer functionalization to render PHA-based materials performance-competitive with oil-based plastics.
With key performance and price benchmarks achieved over multiple years of operations, the company is now preparing for significant near-term capacity expansion, with progress underway to add new multi-million pound per year capacity within the coming quarters.
"We have been working to bring our technology to commodity scale since 2003, so it is exciting for us as our growth curve accelerates," said Newlight CTO, Kenton Kimmel . "A combination of key breakthroughs, skilled partners, and years of innovation have led us to this place. We are proud to be here, but this is just the beginning."
About Newlight
Founded in 2003, Newlight Technologies, LLC has invented, patented, and commercialized a game-changing carbon capture and plastics manufacturing technology. On a large-scale, continuous basis, Newlight converts air and greenhouse gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide (which can be derived from a range of sources, including wastewater treatment systems, digesters, landfills, and energy facilities), into PHA-based plastics that can match or exceed oil-based commodity plastics on performance while significantly out-competing on price. Newlight's plastics require no oil, no food crops, and can be made into biodegradable products that offer revolutionary recyclability: starting, finishing, and recycling as greenhouse gas. Newlight currently sells the company's sustainable plastics to customers with applications ranging from furniture parts to storage containers to packaging films, and is currently expanding commercial production capacity towards the company's objective of commodity-scale operations. Cost-effective, high-performance, sustainable, patented, and proven.
For more information, visit www.newlight.com.<|endoftext|>Petardo, firecracker in Spanish, is a Special 1993 Ducati 900SS and constitutes El Solitario's most aggressive bid so far. An explosive Hot Rod of excessive proportions. Built one year ago, ESMC's tenth bike, reflects our anime at this stage: Destroy the current trend that dictates a minimalist approach to electronics & other components in a custom motorcycle. In fact, we now believe that hiding all the necessary equipment that makes a motorcycle fast is a coward-ish, hideous, pointless job…
All organs like the gas tank, switches, pumps, coils, regulator, cables, hoses are on the outside and linked in dadaist un-harmony. We wanted to Embrace/Empower the veins & arteries that move the body!!!! Same happened with the instrumentation and lightning equipment. Lambda Sensors that calculate the air/fuel ratio on each cylinder, fuel pressure, oil pressure and temperature, voltmeter, exhaust gas temperature… Obviously they are all things, a well informed man (or an intrepid woman), should never leave his garage without knowing...
Tired of the never ending flock of internet customs with the same ironing-board-like seat, fake bates headlight and wi-fi-electrics… We needed to do the contrary and make fun of it… Petardo is wild, overpowered, over informed, over blacked, oversized... in sum, it is EXCESSIVE with capital letters. The sounds of the custom stainless pipes remind of a deafening baritone on steroids (You can listen to it on your own with a click, (On the right), on our sound plugin!@#), & the riding position is exotic, sporty, but not tiring at all…
Overall, we can say that a spin on Petardo is The closest thing you'd ever imagine as what riding on a thunders's back could be… BRRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRR… BRAAAP... BRAAAAAAP!!!!!!!&&$$
Believe that this bike has constituted a milestone for us and we will never go back to what we did before… for good~!#@<|endoftext|>Robert Saunders (RobertJSaunders.com)
A Montana Republican has threatened to sue his opponent for defamation after she used his accurately quoted statements to make him look bad.
Robert Saunders, who is challenging state Rep. Jessica Karjala (D-Billings) for Montana’s 48th District seat, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the incumbent lawmaker over a comment she says he made online, reported Last Best News.
Karjala had highlighted an online chat the 27-year-old Saunders, a graduate of the evangelical Patrick Henry College founded by the Home School Legal Defense Association, took part in back in March, when he claimed the Founding Fathers had intended to restrict voting to only wealthy Americans.
“Is it a desirable condition that between 40-50% of the members of the US Congress have more than $1 million dollars in assets, when less than 1% of the population of the USA has that level of wealth?” a participant asked during the discussion, which is hosted online by Quora.
Saunders, who worked for his family’s builder supply company before founding his online retail fastener business, said wealth inequality was intentionally baked into the U.S. constitutional system.
“The Founding Fathers thought so,” Saunders said. “Our form of government was designed so that only people with a stake in the country’s future could vote. In the early days, this meant that only people who owned property could vote – just like today, in business, only shareholders in the company can vote.”
“Likewise, only people who owned property could run for public office. Know why?” Saunders continued. “Because the Founders (rightly) believed that the people with the most to lose would be the least likely to screw up. People with money have the time and opportunity to educate themselves and a vested interest in doing so. Transients, college kids, and others without a dollar to their name have nothing to lose and are thus extremely unsafe custodians of power, being more likely to ‘experiment,’ often with catastrophic results.”
He cited Bernie Sanders and the Soviet Union as examples of those “horrible” political experiments.
“That’s why people think it’s a good thing that our leadership is generally relatively wealthy,” Saunders said. “Life under the leadership of people with lots to lose – while certainly not perfect – has always been proven to be better than life under people with nothing to lose. Order, stability, and the rule of law is definitely preferable to the alternative.”
Karjala spoke to two voters about her opponent’s historically dubious statements, and Saunders refers to one of those voters, identified only as Alex, in a cease-and-desist letter sent by attorney Emily Jones of the law firm Matovich, Keller and Murphy.
The GOP candidate’s complaint is limited specifically to Karjala’s alleged claim that Saunders believes voting should be restricted to only those worth $1 million or more.