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The following is a presentation made during the Global Green Growth Summit held in Seoul May 10-11.

By Christian Friis Bach

When I was a teenager, and that is of course a few years back (apparently a joke), my father erected in Denmark one of the new windmills with a capacity of 55 kilowatts. When you compare to the 40 windmills that the company is running each of which is more than a hundred times that.

And I say that to point out that we have had a technological revolution in terms of renewable energy in the 20 or 30 years.

And how did t come about in Denmark? What happened? How did you get these windmills developed? We did so through a lot of research, a lot of support...

Dr. Troy Shoemaker

» Age: 45.
» Title: President of Pensacola Christian College, the second president since the college was founded in 1974.
» Family: Wife, Denise; three children.
» Education: Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education, PCC, 1989. Master?s degree in educational administration, PCC, 1994. Specialist in curriculum and instruction (a graduate degree that?s between a master?s and a doctorate), University of West Florida, 2001. Doctorate in curriculum and instruction, PCC, 2007.
» Career highlights: 22 years in teaching and leadership positions at PCC and at Pensacola Christian Academy. Concurrently spent 14 years as chief academic officer for A Beka...

MILAN (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mario Monti has turned to the Internet to ask Italians for tips on how his government could cut public spending as part of efforts to save 4.2 billion euros ($5.5 billion) before the end of the year.

Suggestions can be sent to the Italian government through a simple on-line form on its website (www.governo.it), which has attracted around a thousand responses since launching on Monday.

Monti launched a tough austerity program including tax hikes and pension reform at the end of last year, and is now looking to cut mammoth public spending, hoping to delay a planned further increase of value added tax.

His government is boosting the use of web technologies...

Drug spending by Canadians in the public and private sectors slowed in 2011, reaching an estimated $32 billion, according to a new report.

The Canadian Institute for Health Informations report, Drug expenditure in Canada, 1985 to 2011, showed drug spending is still increasing but the annual rate of increase is the lowest in 15 years.

The slowing in spending may reflect recent patent expiries of blockbuster brand name drugs used to treat high cholesterol and high blood pressure, said Michael Hunt, the institute’s director of pharmaceutical and health workforce information services.

The share of total health dollars spent on drugs was an estimated 16 per cent last...

As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez clings to power while battling cancer, the countrys future is further clouded by unbridled government spending.

The Kansas City Board of Trade is expanding electronic trading hours for hard red winter wheat futures and options.

The change takes effect on May 20 for the May 21 trading date.

Monday electronic trading sessions will last from 5 p.m Sunday to 4 pm Monday. Trading hours for Tuesday through Friday sessions will be from 6 pm until 4 p.m the following day.

Daily settlements still will be based on a 1:15 pm close each day.

Wheat futures and wheat options will continue to trade by open outcry from 9:30 am to 1:15 pm Monday through Friday.

A record 31 billion bushels of wheat changed hands at the Kansas City Board of Trade last year. Hard red winter wheat, the primary...

May 3, 2012 

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged Beijing to let its tightly controlled currency strengthen and open its markets wider amid trade strains at a high-level economic dialogue Thursday.

Chinese officials denied the yuan is undervalued and pressed Washington to ease controls on exports of high-tech goods.

Beijing has allowed the yuan to rise gradually but Washington and other trading partners complain it still is too weak, giving Chinese exporters an unfair advantage and hurting foreign competitors. Some American...

The United States aims to promote stability in Central Asia by encouraging trade in the region, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton told CNN.

The American strategy focuses on bolstering north-south trade, linking India and Pakistan via Afghanistan to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.

“If people are trading with each other, if they are investing in each others countries, if they are engaged in commerce of all kinds, there develop relationships and, frankly, stakes in peace and security that are desperately needed,” Clinton told CNN’s Jill Dougherty.

“Security yes, we have to work on that, but what is really promising is the economic...

The Eagles are reportedly in negotiations to trade cornerback Asante Samuel to the Atlanta Falcons before the NFL draft begins Thursday. THE NEWS JOURNAL/GINGER WALL

1911 amusement ride buildingboom

• Posted By: Scott Harrison
• Posted On: 1:17 pm | April 22, 2012

July 23, 1911: A spiral ride dominates the Pike in Long Beach.

An amusement ride construction boom swept Southern California 100 years ago. This image accompanied a Los Angeles Times July 23, 1911, story reporting:

A careful calculation shows that upwards of $4,000,000 has been invested within a few years in various amusement devices at the beaches near Los Angeles.

This sum covers only the roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels, pier attractions, houses of mirth and similar contravenes...