Der Stufenplan sieht vor, das ab dem 1 September 2009 keine Glühbirnen über 100 Watt auf den Markt gebracht werden. Ab dem 1 September 2010 gilt das Verbot dann ab 75 Watt ein Jahr später sind es dann 60 Watt.

Ab 2012 sind dann auch Leuchtkörper ab 25 Watt verboten. Schlussendlich werden dann ab 2016 die Halogenlampen verboten.

Large museums and universities have done research projects and collected at the quarry to add to their collections and preserve these fossils. Ironically most of the fossils from this quarry are in private hands and not in a museum for folks to enjoy. The quarry was once an active quarry for many years but now has been sold to a developer to create high end condos that overlook NYC.

The remaining fossils in the quarry will be forever lost if the developers are allowed to demolish the remaining section of the quarry to complete their development. No more fossils from this period will ever be able to be collected again as this is the only place in NJ that has fossils from this time period. Once this section is gone there will be no more science or fossils to be gained. There is one section of the quarry left next to Rifle Camp Park that is of scientific significance that is threatened to be lost forever due to the development of these condos.

Some of the best preserved dinosaur and reptile footprints have been found in this quarry which do not compare to any other locality from New Jersey. Dinosaur tracks and fossil trace fossils have been a very unique, rare, and are an important piece of our fossil history and deserves to be protected. The state of New Jersey has done very little to protect fossil localities compared to other states in the USA and that is why we need your help. Trace fossils are a very important part of the state of New Jersey's history just like Hadrosaurus foulki and deserve to be protected, preserved and enjoyed by future generations. Let's not make this just a memory like other fossil sites in Northern NJ.

Let's make it a preserved site forever. Time is running out and only a few months left till it is gone forever. Thanks.

We believe that a device with 64MB of RAM and 400MHz CPU has all the potential to have benefits greater than those that can be noted with WM5 / 6.

Try thinking only what PCs a few years ago allowed to do with 64MB of RAM: but our PDA doesn't have a screen of 15'' to handle...

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100611/full/news.2010.294.html

Given the many energy resource and environmental challenges facing our planet and society, it is our contention that micropalaeontological expertise is becoming more, not less, significant in industry, paleoceanography, evolution and mitigating the effects of global change. The NHM Micropalaeontological Research Group has made key, international-renowned contributions in all of these areas. The loss of this research expertise will damage both the UK and International Science community’s ability to respond to these challenges and the training of the next generation of industry and research micropalaeontologists – in terms of education and training perhaps irrevocably so.

Although we accept that NHM researchers are not directly responsible for collections management, it is extremely important to have high-level research micropalaeontologists in residence at the NHM who can interface with the many professional users of the NHM’s resources. Further, we understand that the Micropalaeontological collections manager is also to be made redundant, with no prospect of a replacement in the near future. The NHM houses one of the world's most important collections of natural history materials and an invaluable one for the discipline of micropalaeontology. We believe that the use and development of this collection will suffer long-term harm from the closure of the Micropalaeontology Research Group and redundancy of the Micropalaeontology collections manager.

Next, we will start a campaign to raise the necessary funds. Let's correct the great injustice to Tesla, and recognize him for what he contributed to humanity, and let's start rebrading Hamilton as a centre of education, technology and innovation.

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Update Oct. 6/15: Great news! Today NTEC made its presentation to the City of Hamilton Planning Committee, and the Committee approved the proposal! See today's Hamilton Spectator article. Next the proposal goes to the City Council, on October 14/15, for approval. Council typically approves the recommendations of the Committees, but this is not guaranteed. Please keep promoting the Petition, and try to get as many additional people to sign as possible by October 14'th, so that when it goes in front of the Council, we will have even stronger support!

Let's not ease up, and let's not let this success lower our guard and resolve. Let's keep working hard, right through until the new signs are up and proudly displaying the Tesla name! Thanks everyone for your continued support.

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Original: The City of Hamilton was once know as The Ambitious City! It was the industrial heartland of Canada. It was the Steel City of Canada, as Pittsburgh was once the Steel City of America. But, as the steel industry, and other manufacturing, declined, so has the City of Hamilton. It is time for Hamilton to reinvent, and re-brand itself. Just like Pittsburgh, it is time to embrace education, technology and innovation.

What better way to start than to re-establish links and association with Nikola Tesla. This man was a world famous inventor, innovator, and genius who changed the world, and influenced the industrialisation of Hamilton. His name and ideas continue to be relevant today, and are associated with creativity, education, invention, innovation, technology, wireless, electric cars, renewable energy, sustainable development, etc. Let's associate Hamilton with Tesla, and those attributes, and reinvent this city. Let's be "The Ambitious City" once again!

The Nikola Tesla Education Corporation (NTEC), is a Registered Canadian Charitable organisation, with the mission to educate the public about Nikola Tesla’s work and to inspire the youth to understand his work, and to pursue his innovative spirit and higher education. NTEC, in an effort to raise awareness of Tesla, has committed to raise funds and pay for the costs of highway and street sign changes required for the name change, so that this can be done at NO COST to the City of Hamilton. Our goal is to inspire youth, but for that we need the youth to be aware of Tesla, his inventions, and to be informed of his significant contributions to the world, to Hamilton, and to the way we live today! Think how much electrical distribution, the electric motor, and wireless transmission have made our life better. This is all attributable to Tesla. We want to make sure the youth know that, and are inspired by him. See more at NTEC

Why Hamilton? Why Burlington Street? As mentioned before, Tesla helped Hamilton become industrialised in the first place! The city of Hamilton was the 1'st major city in Canada to have AC electrical power, which was received from DeCew Falls, Generating Station No. 1. Built in 1898, DeCew Falls 1 is the oldest continuously running hydroelectric power generating station in Canada, and one of the first to recognise and implement Nikola Tesla’s 1888 invention, “Polyphase Alternating Current”. The station was built by the “Five Johns” of Hamilton (Dickenson, Gibson, Moodie, Patterson, and Sutherland). The Cataract Power Company, assembled the hydro-electric generating plant about 35 miles from Hamilton in 1898. Current flowed to the city for the first time on August 25, 1898. See The Hamilton Spectator August 26, 1898 article “Power Turned On”

The City of Hamilton prospered immensely in the early 1900’s, with major manufacturing companies being established or opening branch plants in Hamilton. The massive investments in plants in the east end of Hamilton resulted in an increasing need of workers. The population doubled in the first 14 year of the 20th century. The Five Johns were successful in transmitting the power over a great distance, the second longest transition in the world at the time. Hamilton reaped the rewards of their achievement and was known a “The Electric City”. The city advertisement of “Hamilton’s cheap electricity” attracted even more industries. The existing steel related plants quickly converted to electrical power as it was cheaper than other forms and sources of power. With the abundance of the steel from the mills, other plants that required the steel established plants in Hamilton, in the North End, around Burlington Street. And, the rest is history!

Hamilton can once again become a prosperous, relevant and growing city, an ambitious city, by embracing education, innovation, and technology. Tesla's ideas remain relevant, and even futuristic. His name is associated with creativity, education, invention, innovation, technology, wireless, radio, x-ray, electric cars, renewable energy, sustainable development, etc. Let's re-establish our link with Tesla, through this initiative, and re-establish a link with these attributes to the City of Hamilton.

Let's reinvent and re-brand the City. If we start looking at our city differently, so will others. Let's be the Ambitious City once again! Let's rename Burlington Street to "Nikola Tesla Expressway", so that millions of people that drive along the Queen Elizabeth Highway to Toronto, or to Niagara Fall, where Nikola Tesla built the first hydro electric generating station, can see our pride and ambition loud and proud!

As an added bonus, renaming only the upper portion of Burlington Street, and making it distinct from the ground level portion of the street, would also make the road safer for Emergency Service. We have been told that numerous times there was confusion as to where the emergency is occurring, on the upper or lower portion. This would help avoid confusion, save minutes when they really matter, and potentially save lives. With NTEC's stated goal of funding the costs of the change, this additional benefit would come FREE to the City of Hamilton.

The City Council of Hamilton is scheduled to hear the proposal on Tuesday, October 6'th, 2015. Please show your support by signing the below petition, and, if you can, make a pledge to offer financial help to pay for the street sign change. All donations will receive a Canadian Charitable Organisation Tax Receipt.

Please spread the word and let all your family and friends know about this initiative and ask them to sign the petition.

Thank you.

Instead, trees developed using newer forms of biotechnology, such as gene editing and genetic engineering, currently are banned from forests that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), and nearly every other Sustainable Forest Management System (SFM).

The bans prevent organizations certified under FSC and PEFC from using biotech trees for any reason — even to save a species against an invasive pest. These trees may not be planted on certified lands, thereby impeding critical scientific research and limiting their ultimate use by society.

Forest certification systems are widely used to help ensure that forest management and derived goods are produced using environmentally and socially desirable methods. It is critical to base certification criteria on sound scientific principles and evidence to promote consumer confidence in certified products. A strong science foundation is also essential to ensure that certification systems do not recklessly impede research and innovation.

In 2001, France and Germany initiated a process in the UN General Assembly to negotiate an international treaty banning the reproductive cloning of human beings. The three-and-a-half year negotiation that followed was intense and charged with religious overtones about the 'moral status' of the human embryo and the ethical and legal appropriateness of human embryonic stem cell research. Two distinct camps emerged: (i) those states, including the United Kingdom, favouring a narrow ban limited to cloning for reproductive purposes; and (ii) those, including the United States and the Holy See, insisting on prohibiting all forms of human cloning, including for 'therapeutic' purposes.

The General Assembly ultimately adopted Resolution 59/280, containing the United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning, on 8 March 2005, by a recorded vote of 84 to 34, with 37 abstentions. The text of the Declaration calls upon member states both to adopt all necessary measures to protect adequately human life in the application of life sciences and to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life, while avoiding the distinction between cloning for reproductive as opposed to therapeutic or research purposes.

Several countries pointed to the ambiguity of the text as a reason for not supporting the Human Cloning Declaration, including the United Kingdom (which stated that the reference to human life 'can be interpreted as a call for a total ban on all forms of human cloning'), China ('the Declaration's wording is too confusing'), Spain (which deemed that the term human life 'is imprecise and could be subject to various interpretations'), India (which voted against the Declaration 'because some of its provisions could be interpreted as a call for a total ban on all forms of human cloning'), and South Africa (which 'would have preferred much clearer language that would clearly permit therapeutic cloning'). UN Doc. A/59/PV.82, at 4-7 (2005).

UN declarations are not binding but this is not to say that they are devoid of normative content. Given the almost universal representation of the United Nations, a common understanding at the international political level as to the basic policy position on a particular issue invariably exerts normative 'weight' on the subsequent development of binding legal rules. The fact that the Declaration has a certain normative value was cited by supporters of the comprehensive ban, including Costa Rica ('we have listened with concern as some delegations have understated the value of the new Declaration … we must recognize … the undeniable moral and political authority of its recommendations'), Nigeria (which 'cannot help but see it as only a stepping stone to a comprehensive convention on the total banning of human cloning') and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ('This is a step forward towards a future convention that would prohibit all forms of human cloning'). UN Doc. A/59/PV.82, at 8-10 (2005).

Cast against a background of rapid developments in the science, the negotiations on the proposed ban on the cloning of human beings revealed significant differences in world view. The Observer for the Holy See said: 'Regardless of its purpose and goals, human embryonic cloning was an assault on the integrity of the human person. Cloning a human embryo while planning its demise would institutionalize the deliberate, systematic destruction of nascent human life in the name of the unknown and questionable "good" of potential therapy or scientific discovery.' UN Doc. A/C.6/57/SR.16, para. 50 (2002).

For state supporters of research into the possible therapeutic applications of human embryonic experimentation, questions of the moral and legal status of the human embryo had to be balanced against considerations of, inter alia, freedom of research and the prospect of finding cures to major diseases. Ethical considerations were also referred to in support of embryonic stem cell research. The United Kingdom maintained that it would be 'indefensible to stop [stem cell] research and deny millions of people – and their families – the chance of new treatments which could save their lives'. A number of US and European medical and scientific groups expressed dismay over the adoption of the Declaration. It is important that a message is sent to the United Nations, making it clear that a declaration on human cloning for therapeutic reasons is needed.

It is useful to also go to the official UN website to find out about the Ad Hoc Committee on an International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings at: http://www.un.org/law/cloning

To learn more about human embryonic stem cell research, please visit http://www.isscr.org

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HOW CAN I HELP?

Currently, we need your help in putting political pressure on the United Nations body to establish a timetable for a declaration on human cloning for therapeutic reasons. The petition below calls for this essential declaration, so that progress in this promising medical research, the goal of which is to alleviate human suffering and to treat disease and disability, is not undermined by ideological and religious beliefs. The letter you are being asked to sign will go to each of the members of the UN Sixth Committee and to UN member states that support human embryonic stem cell research.

We will also be sending this to other key UN persons of influence, such as UN Secretary-General, Dr Ban Ki-moon; the Secretary of the Sixth Committee, Ms Mahnoush H Arsanjani; as well as the President of the UN General Assembly, His Excellency Mr Jean Ping.

Should you wish to support this action, kindly sign onto the letter with your name, e-mail address (confidential), and your country. In this way, we can include you as a signatory.

There are outstanding issues with this device can can only be resolved by Boxee once Intel release the updated SDK for the Intel Atom CE4100.

This has been stated numerous times by Boxee and has most recently been mentioned by Boxee CEO Avner Ronen when asked what was holding up availability of the Netlix UK app as part of a question and answer session with Boxee users that took place on 4th April 2012 which can be viewed at: http://www.spreecast.com/events/boxeechat

At 18:14 Avner's response is:

"So Netflix in the UK, newer version of flash, 3TB drive support, those are three issues that we hear a lot, those are three issues that are, can only be addressed when we move to a new SDK from Intel and that is a much longer process than we would want to and takes much more time than we would want to and resources and we still don't have a set date for it but that's what's holding it up."

It's also believed that a Netflix app for other non-US regions can only be released once Intel release the updated SDK.

At 29:22 it's also stated that the HD Audio drop out bug can also only be resolved once a new SDK from Intel is released.

"Without the new intel SDK it won't be resolved, so its going to take us time if and when that SDK will be something that we will be able to launch I think thats the only hope to solve it."

Intel discontinued support for the Atom CE4100 in October 2011. However it was also reported that "The CE4100 will continue to be sold and supported by Intel, and it will also remain - albeit more anonymously - in set top boxes."
(source: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/intel-ditches-smart-tv-division-1033610)

The 200,000+ users of the Boxee Box powered by this Intel chipset some of whom are part of the 2,815 active Boxee Box Forum users (as of 19th May 2012) have been waiting patiently for news from either Intel or Boxee that the new SDK has been released so Boxee can implement fixes for the issues mentioned above and this has yet to happen.

The Boxee Box is featured on Intel's website at:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/smart-tv/smart-tv-devices-with-intel-inside.html

Intel Smart TV facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/intelsmarttv
Twitter: @intelsmarttv

I believe Boxee users agree by not releasing the updated SDK, Intel isn't offering support for this chipset.