World Bank, U.N. join hands in conflict zones but face hurdles |
- World Bank, U.N. join hands in conflict zones but face hurdles
- Apple Loop: Cook Unveils Mission Statement, iOS 7 Gets Colorful, New iPhone In The Fall
- World Bank, U.N. join hands in conflict zones but face hurdles
- Rockets kill one, gut historic building in Baluchistan
- VIDEO: 'A red line that has been crossed'
- Rockets kill one, gut historic building in Baluchistan
- Moderate Rohani on course for outright Iran election win
- Erdogan makes conciliatory move to end Turkish protests
- VIDEO: Working for food, not money
- The Battle For Your Energy Bill
- VIDEO: Working for food, not money
- Iran's Rowhani seeks 'constructive interaction'
- Latest results put Rouhani ahead in Iran poll
- Some Belgians Opt for the Euthanasia Escape
- In This Kind of Bowling, the Lanes Have Cars
- Facebook and Microsoft reveal data requests
- Venezuela frees judge from house arrest
- Moderate cleric Rohani leads early Iran election results
- Facebook and Microsoft Release Numbers on Government Information Requests
- Social Entrepreneur Peter Thum Is Converting Guns Into Jewelry
| World Bank, U.N. join hands in conflict zones but face hurdles Posted: 14 Jun 2013 10:10 PM PDT
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| Apple Loop: Cook Unveils Mission Statement, iOS 7 Gets Colorful, New iPhone In The Fall Posted: 14 Jun 2013 10:12 PM PDT Keeping you in the loop about some of the things that happened around Apple this week. |
| World Bank, U.N. join hands in conflict zones but face hurdles Posted: 14 Jun 2013 10:10 PM PDT (Reuters) - When the heads of the World Bank and the United Nations flew into the violence-wracked African city of Goma on a cloudy day last month, it was the first time the giants of international development had joined forces in the struggle to help the world's most fragile regions.  |
| Rockets kill one, gut historic building in Baluchistan Posted: 14 Jun 2013 09:50 PM PDT QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A rocket attack by unknown people killed a policeman on Saturday and gutted an historic summer retreat used by Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, only days after a new government vowed to end a guerrilla war there. Three rocket propelled grenades slammed into the heritage Quaid Azam Residency in the hill town of Ziarat in the early hours of the morning, district commissioner Nadeem Tahir said. A policeman died and the ensuing blaze tore through the two-storey wooden building, damaging several other houses nearby. ... |
| VIDEO: 'A red line that has been crossed' Posted: 14 Jun 2013 09:30 PM PDT The US has delivered a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon providing its latest assessment of chemical weapons use in Syria. |
| Rockets kill one, gut historic building in Baluchistan Posted: 14 Jun 2013 09:50 PM PDT QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A rocket attack by unknown people killed a policeman on Saturday and gutted an historic summer retreat used by Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, only days after a new government vowed to end a guerrilla war there.  |
| Moderate Rohani on course for outright Iran election win Posted: 14 Jun 2013 10:21 PM PDT
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| Erdogan makes conciliatory move to end Turkish protests Posted: 14 Jun 2013 09:06 PM PDT ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told protesters on Friday he would put redevelopment plans for an Istanbul park on hold until a court rules, striking a markedly more conciliatory tone after two weeks of fierce anti-government demonstrations.  |
| VIDEO: Working for food, not money Posted: 14 Jun 2013 08:31 PM PDT A restaurant in Spain is offering unemployed people unpaid work, in exchange for free meals. |
| The Battle For Your Energy Bill Posted: 14 Jun 2013 08:11 PM PDT One of the most commonly cited barriers to investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy in the built environment is that the payback is too long. Private‐sector capital commonly chases investments with paybacks between three and five years in the commercial property space and financing terms rarely exceed 10 years. Building owners on average prefer a 3.4-year payback time on energy efficiency investments when investing their own capital, according to Johnson Controls. On-bill financing and property assessed clean energy (PACE) are two prevalent program strategies for expanding access to long-term financing for clean energy investments in the built environment. The secret sauce for both strategies is the collection mechanism. In both cases, the strategies strike to "de-risk" the investment by recovering the capital on bills customers almost always pay: utility bills and property tax bills. An emerging battle in the energy efficiency space is about which bill is "better." On‐bill financing allows customers to pay back the capital costs of an energy efficiency retrofit as part of their monthly electric bill. Utilities have offered customers on-bill financing programs for various energy efficiency retrofits for years. The utilities use their capital to cover the upfront costs of projects. Customers then pay back the cost of these projects over time through a charge on their utility bills. More recently, the on-bill financing vehicle has migrated from traditional utilities to third party capital providers. For example, in January, Constellation Energy rolled out the so-called "In-Electric Rate Funding" program, which bakes the cost of energy efficiency investments into a power contract. Like on-bill financing, PACE programs recover the capital investment in energy efficiency as part of an existing payment stream. Rather than the utility bill, PACE programs rely on the property tax bills as the principal collection mechanism. One of the advantages of PACE financing is that it is not treated as a loan. If the property is sold or transferred, the tax payment obligation may be transferred with the property to the new owner. The first PACE programs were established in 2008 in Berkeley and Palm Desert, CA and focused primarily on the residential sector. In 2010, the collapse of the housing market and concerns about the PACE lien seniority over mortgages brought residential PACE programs to an abrupt halt. During the same time that residential PACE stalled, commercial PACE programs did the opposite. As of February 2013, 16 commercial PACE programs in seven states are accepting applications to finance building efficiency projects. Ygrene Energy Fund, the Santa Rosa, CA-based pioneer of privately-funded PACE programs, provides low-risk capital for commercial and residential property owners to upgrade their facilities without high upfront costs. The capital investment in these energy efficiency retrofits are repaid through annual property assessments over a period as long as 20 years. Ygrene recently launched Florida's the first PACE program in Florida and is actively pursuing similar programs for property owners in California and Georgia. |
| VIDEO: Working for food, not money Posted: 14 Jun 2013 08:31 PM PDT A restaurant in Spain is offering unemployed people unpaid work, in exchange for free meals. |
| Iran's Rowhani seeks 'constructive interaction' Posted: 14 Jun 2013 07:34 PM PDT
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| Latest results put Rouhani ahead in Iran poll Posted: 14 Jun 2013 10:40 PM PDT Figures show moderate cleric with lead of more than 50 percent in presidential election based on early results. |
| Some Belgians Opt for the Euthanasia Escape Posted: 14 Jun 2013 08:04 PM PDT The case of two Belgian twins who were euthanized last year at their request highlights an emotional battle over expanding Belgium's euthanasia law, and is reverberating in the end-of-life debate in the U.S. |
| In This Kind of Bowling, the Lanes Have Cars Posted: 14 Jun 2013 07:36 PM PDT Irish Road Bowling—a low-tech cross between golf and bowling—has been played in Ireland since the 1600s. Much more recently the sport has popped up around the U.S. |
| Facebook and Microsoft reveal data requests Posted: 14 Jun 2013 08:52 PM PDT Facebook says US requests related to 18,000 to 19,000 user accounts and covered criminal and national security issues. |
| Venezuela frees judge from house arrest Posted: 14 Jun 2013 07:33 PM PDT Maria Lourdes Afiuni was arrested in 2009 after then-President Hugo Chavez objected to one of her rulings. |
| Moderate cleric Rohani leads early Iran election results Posted: 14 Jun 2013 08:38 PM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani took a commanding lead ahead of conservative rivals in Iran's presidential election, according to initial results, but his tally appeared narrowly insufficient to avoid a second round run-off on June 21. With about 5 percent of the votes counted, the former nuclear negotiator appeared to have benefited from a late surge in support among liberal Iranians attracted by his progressive policies. Under the election rules, a candidate has to win more than 50 percent of the total votes cast to win outright. ... |
| Facebook and Microsoft Release Numbers on Government Information Requests Posted: 14 Jun 2013 07:11 PM PDT Updated at 1:40 AM ET with Microsoft numbers |
| Social Entrepreneur Peter Thum Is Converting Guns Into Jewelry Posted: 14 Jun 2013 07:06 PM PDT While University of Texas student Cody Wilson has raised controversy by creating the world's first 3D printable gun, social entrepreneur Peter Thum is taking the opposite tack. Thum has created a company that works with municipalities and law enforcement leaders to repurpose the illegal guns they seize into jewelry. The resulting pieces include two bracelets, a necklace and a ring in a unisex spike design from Philip and Courtney Crangi, the brother and sister team of Giles & Brother. Each piece of jewelry carries the serial number of a gun taken out of commission. |
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