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Hope Unites Globally – HUG Award

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Four Blue Hills was nominated for the HUG Award by the wonderful blog Gabrielle Angel and Autumn Sunshine.

HUG Award

HUG Award

Autumn and Gabby’s blog contains a beautiful mix of poetry, stories, recipes and a WONDERFUL sense of family.  They have a great sense of humor too!  When I read their blog I get a very strong sense of two people filled with kindness and generosity.  “HOPE” is written in every line!  I hope you take the time to visit and enjoy their blog as I have. It is well worth the visit.  Thank you Autumn and Gabby!

Award Guidelines

PLEASE NOTE:  You should send this post or a link to this post to all those you nominate to receive the HUG Award. 

Please do not change or use another image for the HUG Award Image©.  Please do not alter–by changing, shortening, or adding to–the text about the award and how to share it with others.  Either copy the entire article as it is on this page, or please include a link back to this article, when you post on your blog or share award with others.

I ask you to please honor this request and help me keep the integrity of the award as originally designed, so that future award recipients will know what an honor it is to receive this award.  Thank you, Connie Wayne

 ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES for HUG AWARD©

“Hope is an expectant desire; a confidence in a future event; a ground for trust and confidence; to think; to look forward to with trust and expectant desire.”

The HUG Award© was initiated by Connie Wayne at A Hope for Today at http://ahopefortoday.com, which promotes hope, love, peace, equality, and unity for all people.

The HUG Award© is for people with an expectant desire for the world, for which they:  Hope for Love; Hope for Freedom; Hope for Peace; Hope for Equality; Hope for Unity; Hope for Joy and Happiness; Hope for Compassion and Mercy; Hope for Faith; Hope for Wholeness and Wellness; Hope for Prosperity; Hope for Ecological Preservation; Hope for Oneness

The HUG Award© recognizes and honors those who help keep hope alive in our current world, which is plagued by war, natural disasters, and economic recession.  They nurture hope, in any of the above areas (in italics),  by the work they do, or in their personal lives with things such as blogging, public speaking, charity work, etc.

The HUG Award© is for anyone, anywhere in the world, who meets the guidelines and wants to be nominated for the award. Please leave a comment on this page if you are interested in receiving this award, or if you would like to nominate someone else for the award.

The HUG Award© is for people who, without giving up or compromising their own religious, spiritual, or political beliefs, are able to nurture hope and respect the dignity of all people.

The HUG Award© is for those who, without bias or prejudice, use their resources and gifts to make the world a better place for everyone.

The HUG Award©is for people who have a hope or an expectant desire that the work or talents they use in things such as blogging, public speaking, charity work, etc., will make a positive impact on the world.

These people do not have to actively use the word “hope” in their work or creative talents.  They only need be conscious of their desire to make the world a better place for everyone.

These people use their available resources–a smile, a hug, a helping hand, a listening ear, a voice, time, money, possessions, education, personality, talent, websites and blogs—to make a positive impact on the world and make the world a better place to live.

The HUG Award© is not specifically a website or blog award.  It can be given to people in your community, at your employment, at your place of worship, etc.  Please make sure they have a copy of these Guidelines, and please don’t forget to submit their names back to this site.

HUG AWARD© IMAGE for RECIPIENTS of HUG AWARD

HUG Award© Image:   Those who receive the HUG Award© may paste a copy of the original HUG Award© image into an Image widget on their website or blog by simply copying and pasting the following image URL into an Image widget:   http://hopesfortoday.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hug-award1.png.  As the link URL for the image, please insert http://ahopefortoday.com/2012/01/14/hope-unites-globally-hug-award-guidelines/.

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GUIDELINES for NOMINATING OTHERS FOR THE HUG AWARD©

1.  If you receive a HUG Award©, you may nominate others who also meet the above guidelines for the award.  You may nominate as many people, websites, or blogs as you want to nominate to receive the award.  I do ask that, upon receipt of the award, you nominate at least one other person.  The award is also not time limited, so you can nominate new people or sites you encounter in the future.  Please try not to nominate those who have already received the award.

2.  YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING YOUR NOMINEES and telling them you nominated them for the  HUG Award©.  AND when you contact them…

3.  Please link this page:  When you contact your nominees for the award, please include a link to this page, http://ahopefortoday.com/2012/01/14/hope-unites-globally-hug-award-guidelines/, so they will have the same information you received about the award.  Then, they also can perpetuate the award by nominating others.  AND…

4.  Please post a comment on this page at http://ahopefortoday.com/2012/01/14/hope-unites-globally-hug-award-guidelines/ with the name and the complete website or blog address of the site(s) or person(s) you nominate.

5.  If you know, I would appreciate you informing me of the geographical location of your nominee(s) and /or their site(s).

6.  Social Media Sites:  You may also copy and paste unchanged copies of the original HUG Award© and HUG Award© Guidelines’ wording to other social media sites such as Facebook and Linkedin.  You may also print original copies for your personal use for display, etc.

7.  You may print a copy of the HUG Award© Guidelines for people you nominate, who do not have a website, blog, or social media account to which they can paste award and Guidelines.  If they have email, you may email them a copy of the original HUG Award© and original Hug Award© Guidelines.

Thank you for your help sharing HUGs (HUG Awards©) with the people of the world.  Blessings, Connie

The Hope Unites Globally HUG Award© and the HUG Award© Guidelines are the copyright of Connie Wayne – ©Connie Wayne 2012 at http://ahopefortoday.com.  They both may be copied and shared in accordance with the Guidelines established in this post.

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I am nominating euzicasa for this lovely award, along with Lady Barefoot Baroness

euzicasa must  be nominated because I love his blend of “Old World” style with a modern flair.  He seems like a very wise and caring person to me.  His “Hope” is contained within the fact that he CAN combine these two worlds with great ease. In my eyes anyway.

Lady Barefoot Baroness blog also contains hope, in a world struggling with many issues, she retains her sense of hope and wonder.  Her words pass this on to the reader.

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Strictly unusual: offbeat stories from 2011 -

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Strictly unusual: offbeat stories from 2011 – Yahoo! News.

Among offbeat and zany stories from the year just ending:

- The bad news for a group of employees in a Canadian technology company was that the firm was closing down and laying them off. The good news, received the same day, was that 10 of them had jointly won the equivalent of 7.1 million dollars in the state lottery.

- Faced with a school ban on boys wearing short rather than long trousers in hot weather, a 12-year-old British pupil registered his protest by showing up in a skirt.

- A woman in Sicily who had put off paying a three-year-old parking fine got a shock when she opened a letter telling her it had shot up to 32,000 euros, including interest. An absent-minded official had typed in the date of the violation as ’208′, rather than ’2008′, and the computer had done the rest.

- Following a trend set by Knut, a cuddly polar bear cub, and Paul, an octopus that was touted for predicting World Football Cup results, a German zoo promoted Heidi, the cross-eyed opossum. Alas, the squint-eyed marsupial died in the course of the year, but not before her photo had drawn millions of laughs on the Internet.

- Also in Germany, an enterprising cow named Yvonne escaped from a herd about to be slaughtered and spent three months evading both the police and the media in the southern region of Bavaria. When caught, she was given refuge in an animal sanctuary.

- A French government minister got his fingers in a twist while using the micro-message Internet site Twitter both for personal and public missives. “When I get home, I’m going to bed, exhausted. With you?” Eric Besson tweeted – in a message received by his 14,000 online “followers”.

- Fans of the local football team in the southwestern French town of Dax were bemused when their website was attacked by hackers sending them vengeful messages in German. The protesters had mistaken it for the official site of Germany’s main stock market index, the DAX.

- At a press conference during a visit to Chile, Czech President Vaclav Claus could not resist an elegant pen that was lying on the table in front of him. A video showing him slipping the instrument into his jacket became a viral hit on the Internet.

- British power stations recorded one of their biggest surges in energy demand ever just as live TV coverage of the country’s royal wedding was drawing to a close. Engineers attributed the excess to around a million people putting on their electric kettles at the same time to make tea.

- The central Asian nation of Uzbekistan organised a key university entrance exam for all students on a single day. Just as the event began, the country’s five mobile phone operators shut down all text-messaging services, citing “urgent maintenance” but in fact nipping in the bud any possibility for students to use them to cheat.

- Radio listeners in Israel heard their foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, being interviewed from the comfort of his home. As the interview ended, they clearly heard the sound of his toilet flushing.

- A poverty-stricken 75-year-old woman in the Caucasian republic of Georgia cut off all Internet access in both her home country and neighbouring Armenia when she inadvertently sliced through a cable while foraging for scrap metal.

- A huge electronic counter set up in London’s Trafalgar Square to provide a 500-day countdown to the start of the city’s Olympic Games not only stopped functioning, but started going backwards.

- A young girl in Australia who used an Internet site to issue an open invitation to her 16th birthday party had to cancel it after 200,000 people said they were coming.

- A Dutchman who drove his expensive sports car at almost 300 kilometers (180 miles) an hour on a Belgian highway was caught because he couldn’t resist putting a film of the exploit, along with pictures of the speedometer and commentary on the type of car, on the video sharing web site “YouTube“.

- A 36-year-old woman in Italy filed for divorce just a month after getting married. The reason: her new husband had insisted on bringing his mother along on their honeymoon.

- Chinese TV viewers thought there was something familiar about a sequence on the news supposedly showing the country’s warplanes going through their paces. And there was: it turned out that the footage was from the hit US film ‘Top Gun’.

- A group of white doves released from the Vatican during a sermon by Pope Benedict XVI refused to play their roles as symbols of peace. Rather than soaring up into the air, they simply flew straight back in through the window.

- A man arrested for credit card fraud in South Korea was found to have kept a detailed diary of a long career of burglaries, containing the addresses of houses he had broken into and details of what he had taken. His home also contained many of the stolen items.

- Students attending a class on human sexuality in a Chicago university found themselves watching a real life demonstration involving a naked man and woman and an electric vibrator.

- The organisers of an arts festival in Australia were red-faced when a huge helium-filled balloon sculpture representing clouds was torn from its moorings and soared off into the sky.

- Attendees at a United Nations meeting were bemused to hear the foreign minister of India waxing lyrical about Portuguese-speaking countries. It was only after speaking for three minutes that he realised his text had got mixed up with that of his Portuguese opposite number.

Wyoming Asks National Lab to Review Coal Plant – ABC News

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Wyoming Asks National Lab to Review Coal Plant – ABC News.

The Wyoming Business Council has asked the Idaho National Laboratory to review a private company’s plan to build a coal-to-gasoline plant in Carbon County.

DKRW Advanced Fuels has asked Wyoming to purchase up to $300 million in industrial development bonds to help finance the $2 billion project

The company intends to build the plant near Medicine Bow, a town of some 300 people about 100 miles west of Cheyenne.

Robert Kelly, chairman of Texas-based DKRW, stated in the company’s application that construction could begin next year and be completed by 2015. He said it would use a proprietary process to transform coal mined underground at the site into 10,600 barrels of gasoline per day to serve the Denver market.

In an interview Monday, Kelly emphasized the project’s technology is licensed from energy industry giants Exxon and General Electric and has been proven at industrial sites around the world. He said he welcomed the Idaho National Laboratory review.

Tapping the nation’s massive coal reserves to help quench its thirst for gasoline is critically important, Kelly said. It’s only natural that Wyoming, the nation’s leading coal-producing state, should invest in the project, he added.

“Where do you want to get your gasoline from? … Do you want to get it from the Middle East? Do you want to get it from Canadian oil sands?” Kelly asked. “Or you want to get it from the U.S. with U.S. jobs? Why not us?”

Kelly said investors have put in $100 million for the project so far. He said DKRW is eyeing private and public funding sources for the rest of the money and said the project will proceed regardless of Wyoming’s financial support.

The U.S. Department of Energy in 2009 notified DKRW that the project had cleared preliminary review to qualify for a $1.75 billion loan guarantee. Kelly said there’s been no recent progress on that.

The Obama administration’s support for alternative energy projects has been under increasing fire from Republicans since California solar panel maker Solyndra LLC filed for bankruptcy court protection in September. The company, which received a $528 million federal loan and was touted by the Obama administration as a green jobs creator, cited low panel prices as responsible for its troubles.

In addition to asking Wyoming to purchase up to $300 million in industrial development bonds, DKRW has asked Carbon County to endorse the issuance of other tax-exempt bonds totaling $245 million. Repayment of the tax-exempt bonds would be guaranteed by the project itself without the county or the state being financially responsible for them.

The Carbon County Commission on Tuesday voted to delay action on DKRW’s request until its lawyer can review the matter.

Michael Kelly, deputy Carbon County attorney and no relation to Robert Kelly of DKRW, said Tuesday all three county commissioners expressed strong support for the project. But the lawyer said the commissioners didn’t sign the bond resolution because the county had received some documents only the day before. He said the commission could act on the resolution as soon as Jan. 3.

Robert Kelly of DKRW said Monday he’s hopeful the state can finish its review of the project and endorse purchase of the industrial development bonds before the Legislature convenes in mid-February. State purchase of over $100 million of the bonds would require legislative approval.

Mike Martin, manager of business finance at the Wyoming Business Council, said last week that DKRW will pay for the review of its plans at Idaho National Laboratory. He said it will cost over $130,000.

Martin said officials at the national lab intend to finish their review before the Wyoming legislative session but its completion date could depend on how fast it gets some additional information from the company.

Council staff then plans to make a recommendation to the council board. The proposal would then go to Gov. Matt Mead and possibly on to state Treasurer Joe Meyer.

“The final determinant will be me,” Meyer said. “And unless the business council recommends it, I don’t consider it.”