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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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While in the corporate bond world, the credit ratings agencies rated the bonds of thousands of companies and were not dependent on any one company for fees, subprime mortgage-backed credit derivatives were being produced by a small number of banks. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link].

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. I want it to be all of California.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. No other publishing package then available used the same software for different output devices.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. It appeared in the September 1989 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. and a major user of microprocessors, was looking for a vice president of corporate technology. You’re crazy.”

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.