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Global Uprising is an on-line community of young activists around the world who want to tell their stories about the critical issues we all face today and share them with others around the globe. Their stories have been gathered on a website that wants to be a hub for news on activism undertaken by young people in many countries and a forum for communication.

In December, President Barack Obama signed the tax legislation that extends the US Department of the Treasury’s 1603 cash grant program for the solar and wind industries for one year. With an extension of this program now in place, the solar industry can continue its record growth, creating new employment opportunities for Americans in 2011 and growing the number of solar projects. As momentum in the solar industry continues, the industry must proceed with caution to not make rash decisions. This program could supercharge growth in 2011, but make it for difficult for integrators to plan past next year, as many 2012 projects could be pulled into 2011. Companies who are taking advantage of this grant must think about not only how it will affect next year, but also the years beyond.

This is a topic of hot debate as the December 31st expiration date for the program rapidly approaches. The Treasury Grant Program was created under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to help commercial solar property owners close the gap between the money they need and the money available from private tax equity investors. Owners can choose to recover up to 30% of their costs to build solar projects instead of taking the solar Investment Tax Credit. The grants have provided $5.5 billion of support to the solar industry and an additional $15 billion to the wind industry.

No one could have foreseen the simple white suit Lennon wore to the famous Abbey Road recording studio was destined to become one of the most recognized, scrutinized, satirized and parodied garments in rock-n-roll folklore. The iconic two piece suit Lennon wore the morning the cover shot for the 1969 Abbey Road LP was taken has recently come on the market, along with the blazer Lennon wore in the 1971 Documentary for “Imagine”, and a Chrysler station wagon from the NYC Lennon-Ono household. These important items will be selling at Braswell Auction Galleries 26th annual New Years Day sale alongside many rare and one of a kind items from other notable estates.

This is a village with a dual population -- humans live in charming medieval houses; white storks and their half-ton nests rule the rooftops.

No one could have foreseen the simple white suit Lennon wore to the famous Abbey Road recording studio was destined to become one of the most recognized, scrutinized, satirized and parodied garments in rock-n-roll folklore. The iconic two piece suit Lennon wore the morning the cover shot for the 1969 Abbey Road LP was taken has recently come on the market, along with the blazer Lennon wore in the 1971 Documentary for "Imagine", and a Chrysler station wagon from the NYC Lennon-Ono household. These important items will be selling at Braswell Auction Galleries 26th annual New Years Day sale alongside many rare and one of a kind items from other notable estates.

Michael Jackson had an arsenal of glittery gloves. But on November 21, the glove — the handmade, rhinestone-encrusted left-hand glove the late singer wore when he stunned the world by uncorking the moonwalk during the "Motown 25" special in 1983 — will be auctioned off at a Music Icons event at the Hard Rock Café in New York's Times Square.

A data center consolidation project by the state of Oregon reduces the number of divisions from 12 to one. The $20.6 million consolidation project is estimated to save the state $5 million to $10 million every year while improving the quality of the data center to a Tier-3 facility on the Uptime Institute's tier system.

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, announces it plans for London 2, a Tier-3 data centre, that will provide a state-of-the-art environment for supporting mission critical infrastructures, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that Tata Communications client’s critical systems and applications are readily available while optimizing energy efficiency. The 21,400 square foot London 2 data centre will be ready for service during the second quarter of 2009.

A new agency to be launched next month (26 January) in Bonn, Germany, aims to promote a swift transition towards the use of renewable energy worldwide.