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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Energy Deregulation
Major Dust Storm
SYDNEY (AFP) – A giant dust storm swept eastern Australia on Saturday, turning Sydney's air yellow and causing breathing problems just days after the worst such incident in decades caused apocalyptic scenes in the city.
Howling winds pushed the 200-kilometre (125-mile) wide cloud of desert dust through Sydney and up the coast to Brisbane, prompting a rash of emergency calls as residents choked on gritty air.
While Sydney's early-morning visibility was sharply reduced, the storm did not approach Wednesday's doomsday situation, when the city awoke to an unearthly red glow and was coated with a fine layer of grit.
Satellite pictures showed the thick band of dust sweeping from central Australia towards the east coast, with visibility in Sydney limited to five kilometres, said forecaster Barry Hanstrum.
"We've got an area of widespread dust but not as thick as it was on Wednesday," said Hanstrum.
Sydney's air quickly cleared in blustery conditions as the storm headed north. However, emergency services registered a sharp increase in call-outs for people with breathing problems.
"Thankfully, it's not as busy as it was on Wednesday with the amount of dust that has been around," Sydney paramedic David Morris told public broadcaster ABC.
"But between seven and eight o'clock this morning we still had double our jobs for breathing problems compared to yesterday," he said.
Wednesday's storm, which was visible from space and left hundreds of people needing treatment for breathing problems, was reportedly Australia's worst in 70 years.
The storm was estimated to have dumped millions of tonnes of dust on the east coast with particles later landing in New Zealand -- around 4,000 kilometres away over the Tasman Sea.
Weather bureau forecaster Jane Golding said it was extremely rare to see two large dust clouds so close together.
"(It would be) be pretty unusual if we get another one any time soon," she told ABC.
The storms have been whipped up by strong winds following the hottest August on record, gathering dust left by southeastern Australia's crippling, decade-long drought.
Residents of Young, west of Sydney, said plumes of dust whirled through the country town early on Saturday.
"Standing outside my place now looking at the clock tower, it's about half a kilometre away. You can just see it, with the thickness of it, you can just see the town lights," said Young resident B.J. Wyse.
"It's just like a red glow. I just talked to a friend of mine in Cootamundra and it's going through there as well, so yep, it's back again," he told state radio.
Saturday's storm hit with residents still clearing their homes and cars after the first, and as Queensland state firefighters battle a number of bush blazes.
Oil Market
NEW YORK (AFP) – Oil prices rose Friday as rekindled tensions over Iran's nuclear program overshadowed concerns about energy demand and the pace of economic recovery.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for November delivery, rose 13 cents to close at 66.02 dollars a barrel.
Brent North Sea crude for November delivery climbed 29 cents to settle at 65.11 dollars in London trade.
Prices swung higher as world leaders demanded that nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) be granted access to a previously secret Iranian plant and threatened to impose tough new sanctions on Tehran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brushed off the criticism and said the facility had been disclosed to international inspectors and was "perfectly legal."
"Traders have to beware if this evolves into a military conflict because Iran sits on the straits of Hormuz, where 20 percent of the world's oil flows though on a daily basis," said Phil Flynn at PFGBest Research.
"If this had happened three years ago, oil might have run up 10 dollars a barrel or more. Yet now, the impact will be much less as a world awash in oil and spare production capacity can more than make up any loss of Iranian supply."
US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that Tehran had admitted to the United Nations nuclear watchdog that it had built a second uranium enrichment plant.
The Western leaders made it clear that they did not believe the site served civilian purposes, with a US official describing it as having "the right size" to produce weapons grade uranium but of no use for nuclear fuel production.
Some analysts said oil was helped by news emerging from the Group of 20 summit of leading industrialized and developing nations that leaders would maintain emergency economic stimulus measures until a sustainable economic recovery manifests itself.
Prices were also supported by a research note from Goldman Sachs, which maintained forecasts for crude at 85 dollars by the end of the year and an average of 90 dollars in 2010.
Oil closed down more than three dollars on Thursday, as mixed US economic data and signs of sluggish US energy demand highlighted fears about a tepid recovery from the global recession.
Prices have also been pressured by this week's data showing a large jump in US crude oil inventories -- a sign that energy demand remains weak.
Energy demand has plunged after the global economy slipped late last year into its worst recession since the 1930s.
This sent oil prices tumbling from historic highs of more than 147 dollars in July 2008 to around 32 dollars in December.
Prices have since recovered somewhat but investors remain concerned over the pace of the upturn.
Health Care
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday resumed his push to overhaul the health care system, telling a Congressional Black Caucus conference that there comes a time when "the cup of endurance runs over."
"We have been waiting for health reform since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. We've been waiting since the days of Harry Truman," he said in remarks at the caucus foundation's annual dinner. "We've been waiting since Johnson and Nixon and Clinton."
"We cannot wait any longer," Obama said.
Obama spent the past week largely focused on global and economic issues in meetings with world leaders in New York and Pittsburgh.
At the G-20 economic summit that wrapped up Friday in Pennsylvania, Obama told a story about an unnamed foreign leader who privately told the president he didn't understand the at-times contentious debate over changing the health care system.
"He says, 'We don't understand it. You're trying to make sure everybody has health care and they're putting a Hitler mustache on you. That doesn't make sense to me,'" Obama said, quoting the world leader he declined to identify.
The reference to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was to signs some people have waved outside of often testy town hall meetings around the country this summer where lawmakers discussed Obama's health care plan.
In the speech, Obama described his plan as one that would not require people with coverage to change anything but would make health insurance affordable for the millions of people who don't have any. Republicans dispute those claims.
The Senate Finance Committee is in the process of amending a health care bill introduced by Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.
Before becoming president, Obama was the only senator in the all-Democratic caucus, which now has 42 members. He wasn't particularly active in the group and isn't especially close to many of its members.
Animosity toward the president and his policies has bubbled up in recent weeks, most notably with Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouting "You lie!" at Obama during the president's recent health care speech to Congress.
Democrats from former President Jimmy Carter on down have blamed the increasingly harsh criticism of Obama on racism.
Obama says it's not racism but an intense debate over the proper role of government.
Before he began to speak, Obama walked to a podium facing the audience from the right side of the stage before he was directed to another one — the one affixed with the presidential seal — on stage left.
"They don't want me to be on the right," he joked. "This is the CBC."
Brain Teaser Answer
It must still equal 550.
5 + 5 + 5 = 550
The answer to the Brain Teaser is :
545 + 5 +550
Friday, September 25, 2009
Teaser!!
It must still equal 550.
5 + 5 + 5 = 550
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