The 2013 Pollute-o-Meter, created by the Climate Institute, provides Labor with 2.5 stars out of five for its climate policies, with the Coalition lagging on one star.
Due to the long focusing distances (several tens of meters) created by the diffractive refractive optics and the higher refraction efficiency in the softer energy range, the presented set-ups are ideal for hard X-ray FEL sources.
In December, before the City Council had a chance to vote on the deal or even examine it, the mayor announced that his administration had agreed to lease city parking meters for 75 years to Chicago Parking Meters, an entity created by investment bank Morgan Stanley, for nearly $1.2 billion.
Titled Drifter, the 5 x 2.5 x 2.5-meter rectangular prism created by Dutch artists Studio Drift was presented by Pace Gallery.
In total, 60 million cubic meters of waste, created by the iron ore mines of Samarco, a joint venture of Vale and BHP Billiton, bled through the Doce river, effectively killing everything in it.
On public display was an enormous 2 meter tall by 3 meter wide calligraphy sculpture created by Ms. Dong using naturally weathered wood from Taiwan.
In her book, The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture 1860-1930 (Princeton University Press, 2012), Martin describes how 19th-century English scholars fixated on finding a distinctly English meter — a rhythmic pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables — as part of a Victorian-era glorification of English culture.
The eruption lasted for 26 days and produced an estimated 205 to 265 million cubic meters of lava; the light created by the event was so intense that one could reportedly read a newspaper in Hilo at night, 30 km away.
Mayor Richard M. Daley proposed a 2010 budget that includes borrowing some $370 million from reserve funds created by a parking meter lease and cutting more than $114 million in spending.
In 2008, as Chicago struggled to close a growing budget deficit, the city agreed to a 75-year, $1.16 billion deal to lease its parking meter system to an operating company created by Morgan Stanley.
And Barringer crater in Arizona (also called meteor crater) was thought to have been created by a meteorite 25 meters in size.
