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Sittingbourne’s Favourite Hairdresser Does It Again!
- 16th February 2013
- Author: Paul W
Congratulations to Naturally....read more »
Naturally.u is an excellent Sittingbourne based hairdressers and beauty salon offering unrivalled customer care and winner of the Most Loved Business in Sittingbourne award for the past 4 years. Just check out the number of positive reviews this business has received, more than 280 people can't be wrong!
Naturally.u is the award winning Sittingbourne-based hairdressers and beauty salon offering unrivalled customer care and winner of the 'Most Loved Business in Sittingbourne' for the past 4 years.
Naturally.u hairdressers and beauty salon has been at Gadby Road, Sittingbourne for 8 years and during this time has established a fantastic reputation for hairdressing and beauty.
Take some time out to relax and unwind in our warm and friendly atmosphere - safe in the knowledge that you're in good hands. Between us we have many years of experience with all hair types. We've also got 2 award winning stylists amongst the staff. We see it as a very important part of our service as hairdressers to identify the best method for cutting, colouring or styling your hair - based upon both it’s type and condition. Our pricing structure is set so that there is something for everyone’s budget.
We also have highly experienced beauty therapists working as part of the team. We are dedicated to providing you with the perfect range of beauty & cosmetic treatments. But don't take our word for it - click the link below to check out some of the independent customer reviews that have made us your favourite local award-winning salon...
Naturally.u offer their clients award winning customer care and the following hairdressing and beauty services:
Naturally.u is a member of the Beauty Guild and the Hair Council.
The salon is open as follows;
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latest reviews
Great friendly and professional salon, Jo and her team are always welcoming and never rush your treatment, they make you feel pampered from the minute you walk in. I cannot recommend Naturally U more give them a call you will be glad you did.
Jo and her team at naturally.u are friendly and professional every time I visit.
I visit the salon every month for my hair and beauty treatments - they use such wonderful products and the therapist Bryony is brilliant. Thank you ladies.
The Naturally u staff are really helpful and provide friendly service each time I visit.
I find the team at naturally.u offer friendly service and are always professional.
My sister came here first and recommended Shannon. Although I am over 40 it is nice to have someone young giving me a nice modern cut.
The team at naturally.u are very friendly professionals!! And a great cup of tea :)
I have been visiting naturally.u since they opened 8 years ago and have always been impressed. Jo does my hair, Bryony and Vicki do my shellac nails. Lots of ladies at Slimming World compliment me on my hair and nails and I recommend them all to naturally.u
I love visiting naturally.u Shannon does my hair and always does a great job. Lovely salon environment, always friendly and professional. When I can I indulge in their luxury facials. Thank you.
Naturally U is a fantastic salon. So friendly and very current with what is needed and enjoyed. A really caring local shop, I recommend Jo and her team very very highly
Great local salon, staff are welcoming and friendly, wonderful atmosphere. Always a great service, and very flexible.
I cannot explain how wonderful this salon here. 100% customer service is met at all times. The girls and fred are fantastic and i look forward to going to my monthly appointments. Recommend to all my friends and family.Well done all.
From a male point of view I enjoy visiting this salon they are brilliant with men's hair and are quick and efficient friendly and professional
Just had a lovely facial with Bryony. Now my skin feels great. Thank you xx
Fantastic salon, fantastic staff wouldn't go anyway else. Highly recommended.
Nice staff, low charges and appointments are always available to suit me...
Friendly and accommodating. That is how I would describe the staff at Naturally U
I get on great with my therapists Nicola and Jo. They are great. Really great!
My recent visit to the naturally u salon was amazing. Quite simply amazing!
I have been going to Naturally U for over 5 years and I find the staff are always very welcoming and professional. I am always very happy with my haircut and style. I would score 5***** they are the BEST !!
I have been going to naturally u for about 3 years. I have my hair done by Jo and have never been disappointed. Such a relaxing and friendly atmosphere.All the staff are very nice and attentive but i would like to say a big thank to Sarah who does a wonderful job of destressing me.I have a facial and reflexology and it is definately my "little bit of heaven."
Absolutely the finest Hair Salon I have visited. Have just left with fabulous looking hair when I thought untold hair dye damage over the years and poor condition was going to be with me ever more.!! I googled this company after losing faith in my hair and previous stylists including really expensive London and cruise liner salons!!....booked in with Jo who I think may be the owner and cannot sing her and her teams praises enough. Courtesy, calming atmosphere, great top notch surroundings/decor and the most efficient stylists I have come across. I definitely recommend the conditioning treatment and am so pleased that I have booked an appointment for next week for a full colour application. Well done and thank you for being here in Sittingbourne xx
Finally found a salon that not only keeps up to date on all the latest treatments and styles, but also offers friendly and helpful advice on all aspects of hair and beauty treaments! Parking is free and always guaranteed and so are the endless cups of refreshments.Thank-you for the fantastic service, I always feel like a princess when leaving :)
This is a really friendly salon, which always seems to keep up with the current trends in hair and beauty. I can always know that I will be given the 5* treatment
I have worked at naturally.u since I was 14, im now 21 I have loved my time here the clients are great and my colleagues are great. We all really enjoy working here. Bryony Cross
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DID YOU KNOW?
A recent study showed that only 18% of women presenting for assistance in achieving pregnancy had knowledge of their signs and symptoms of the window of fertility.
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We will help to maximise your capacity to assist women in monitoring the unique phases of their cycle using an empirical method.
This seminar will help you optimise your patient’s chance of pregnancy before intervention.
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orangetom1999 wrote:I would immediately be branded or labeled as "Anti Semitic.
I thought this odd at the time and it took me a bit to realize it was in fact a type of censorship and attempt to defalut through and stifle dissent..ie...censorship...control...guilt manipulation.
Over time I began to realize that this control/censorship fingerprint was being picked up by many of the nations minorities in reinforcing their "Victimhood " status since public education and televisions and movies send out the message that "Victims " automatically default through at the expense and on the purse of everyone else.
I think the proper term you describe would be to "nullify", where instead of 2 valid opinions in a matter both standing with their own merits, they invoke the anti-semitic card, play the race card, or the homophobe card, to label your opinion as tainted. This effectively dismisses it, and renders it null, void, and without any merit. It is a tactic to avoid having to concede their plights may not be all that true.
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Sustrans' cycle route 72 from South Shields, Tyne & Wear to Silloth in Cumbria, taking in Hadrians' Wall en-route, and specifically the section from Hexham to Haltwhistle passes right by the door of the Boatside Inn. Why not make the Boatside Inn a stopover point for the night, its approximately 40 miles from South Shields.Check out the Sustrans web site for other appropriate routes in Northumberland, such as the "Coasts and Castles" route from Tynemouth to Berwick, or the "Reivers Cycle Route" from Tynemouth to Whitehaven.For those who want to bring their bikes just for a potter around, you can follow the section of route 72 down the path beside the railway line to Tyne Green Hexham, roughly following the river.
For mountain bike enthusiasts, Kielder Forest is probably the best place to go, and you can even hire a bike there normally.
The river Tyne is regarded by many as England's premier Salmon fishing river. You can book fishing through. Details of tariffs and beats can be found on this site. You will of course need your own rod licence, obtainable from the Post Office to fish.
Please contact 01434 602233 if you are interested in either combining a stay in the B & B or Self Catering accommodation together with your fishing
Note: The season for salmon on the English rivers is 1 February to 31 October but a "catch and release" byelaw obliges the return of any salmon caught before 16 June. There is no "catch and release" for sea trout and the season is from 3 April to 31 October.
Other well know rivers in the area include the Tweed (classed as a Scottish river), which is under two hours away, and the Coquet a little over an hour way.
There are also excellent lakes and reservoirs to fish in the area, including Kielder (recent site for the National Fly Fishing Championship) being only 30 minutes away, and Derwent a very similar distance in the other direction.
Useful links
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To contact a Bottom Drawer personal consultant, email couples @ thebottomdrawer.co.uk (please remove the spaces either side of the @ symbol if you copy and paste this - we have included them to minimise the amount of spam we get!). We promise to reply to all emails within one working day. Please remember to include your gift list number in all correspondence.
Emails are the best way to contact us as we can check into your enquiry before getting back to you. However, if your enquiry is urgent please call our dedicated Couples Hotline on either 0845 459 1705 or 0121 661 4417 and select option 2 (please use whichever is cheapest for you to call). Lines are open from 10am-5pm, Monday to Friday.
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Lines are open from 10am-8pm, Monday to Friday and 10am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Please remember to have your couple’s gift list number and surname(s) to hand.
To send a cheque (made payable to The Bottom Drawer Ltd Gift List Fund Account and in UK pound sterling only) for a reserved offline purchase, please post to:
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Is there anyone who isn't dieting these days? No carb, low carb, low calorie, low fat, Atkins, Dukan, South Beach, California, lo GI, high fibre, I could fill this article with fad diets. Often these cause water weight loss, which invariably returns like many bad pennies. Sometimes they cause real weight loss but the dieter gains a very bad mood. My father always used to say eats everything in moderation and exercise and the scales will be fine. But what if there were some foods that could tip them, just a little, in your favour. Fat burning foods? Could this miracle even be possible?
Manisha Malhotra, administrator of Mittal Champions Trust, thinks it can. She says that there are foods that can burn fat better than others. Foods that use more energy to digest work in this manner. But there is a rider. You can't eat a cartload of French fries and then munch celery sticks and hope the fat doesn't stick. It will and in all the wrong places. But if you do load up on some fat burners, then you can increase your metabolic rate that can help you shed those extra kilos. We will reveal some of these fat zappers to you but first, a little science. How does fat get deposited in all the wrong places? The body needs energy to function. The energy from foods is measured in layman terms are ‘calories'. The more calories, the more energy. The body also uses some of this energy to digest the food itself so some old energy gets used to make new energy. Ergo, the harder the food is to digest, the more energy it uses. The food consumed gives fuel to the body in the form of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. It uses what it needs and stores the rest as fat in fat cells. Now the tricky part. There are limited fat cells and when those are filled up, fat gets stored in muscle linings. The more fat deposited, the more they expand and then it becomes flab and the trouble.
Now some foods contain certain vitamins and minerals that help improve body metabolism and improves fat burning capacity. Others contain low calories but require greater digestion making what they use greater than what they give. (This is why sometimes too much of a low calorie intake often make people feel weak and tired)
Eating some of the fat burning foods, in the right quantities, over a period of time, your fat profile will reducing. Here's the list:
Citrus fruits: These are probably the number one fat burning foods. Starting the day with a breakfast of citrus foods will definitely show positive results. Citrus fruits provide easy energy to spike metabolism while supplying a vitamin C booster, which is scientifically known to bust the fat.
Oats: Oats are great foods to wolf down because a large portion of their calorific content comes from fibre. This Fibre tricks you in to feeling full and fibre makes your gut work harder.
Vegetables: Veggies like broccoli, spinach, peas, cabbage and carrots are excellent providers of minerals while being low on calories and high on fibre. One more reason to eat your veggies!
Lentils: These foods are not only filling and nutritious but also jam-packed with proteins/amino-acids; all good for keeping the fat cell count down.
Poultry: For the non-vegetarian, chicken, chicken chicken. Its lower on fat than red meats and because it is high protein, its more complex to assimilate and digest. Avoid the skin and go for leaner cuts whenever possible.
Almonds and Walnuts: Haven't you had a bowl of almonds as a bar snack and then felt too full for a big main course? These fantastic snack foods can help you feel satiated with just a fistful of these nuts. Nuts are a great factory for good fats that you should eat because people who don't consume healthy fats are more likely to gain weight than people who do.
Fish: Fish is a mine of protein and healthy fats (romega-3, omega-6), and in particular salmon, mackerel, trout and tuna are not only tasty are the ones which will help you turn the fight the flab.
Water: The world's super drink! No calories. Not one single one. And a real fat burner because it ups the metabolic rate and helps melt the fat away.
Now take your pick, mix and match, and transform in to a lean, mean fat burning machine!
ANY DIET / NUTRITION PLAN SHOULD BE UNDERTAKEN AFTER CONSULTING A DOCTOR.
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This is an image of an old candy trade from June 2007 from a good Japanese friend of mine. It’s a great example of candy that’s been tapered to Japanese tastes. The flavors shown here are Red (Adzuki) bean, Green Tea and Black Sesame, all flavors which the Japanese people associate with sweets and have been used in confections for centuries. It’s cool to see how these flavors are now incorporated into modern candy.
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hello all,
i'd love to get some feedback from those of you doing retail and using any software that maintains your recipe database and then develops the necessary ingredient list for labeling packages for collections. i've seen a number of programs out there and wondered if anyone could recommend one in particular.
i am small-time currently, so i don't need to do a nutrition label - just the ingredient list in descending weight order and allergy statement. but my collections vary frequently, so re-creating that list is cumbersome and tedious. thanks in advance for your thoughts! ALSO, i'd appreciate any negatives about software if you've bought it and hate it and wish you'd gotten something else. all info is helpful.
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I've been using the info generator on
Pretty simple to use and all they require is that you leave the url on the label.
Really, appreciate you sharing this with us. Many Thanks!
Yours in Spirit,
Julie Bolejack
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e0y2e3 wrote:This conversation, between a bald Giant, a douche, a moron and a guy who writes about The Browns for fun is still going on?
Uhg.
I'm trying to avoid actually working, so I can talk horror movies all day.
Crappy 80's music? Meh. I've now got The Reflex stuck in my head, dammit.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post8282412149834083049..comments2013-03-05T07:29:21.891-05:00Comments on The Country Cook: Classic Chocolate Chip CookiesBrandie S. wow. Am so glad I discovered your site. Lots [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post-43530445084552717552012-09-23T07:09:35.913-04:002012-09-23T07:09:35.913-04:00Goodmorning! I was coming on your site for this [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post-54837457331052451752012-09-04T11:05:05.719-04:002012-09-04T11:05:05.719-04:00These look si good! I am making them today!! I don...These look si good! I am making them today!! I don't drink milk either!!! I prefer almond milk with cereal! I also will eat absolutely nothing that swims or bottom feeds, yuck yuck and yuck!!! Thanks for sharing!!!LibertyNow cookies turned out flat. they taste great anywa...my cookies turned out flat. they taste great anyway. i may need to try one more batch at a later time to see if i can get a better result. it sure was convenient to just use cold butter. :)[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post-12670128480832637542012-06-04T21:26:33.757-04:002012-06-04T21:26:33.757-04:00These are delicious sweetie! the first time hubby ..?SerenaB made your cookies to send to school with my daug...I made your cookies to send to school with my daughter. Not nearly as time consuming as my recipeBeth C am so glad you came back and told me how it turn...I am so glad you came back and told me how it turned out! Yay! Glad you liked it (and glad you didn't toss that first batch..lol)The Country Cook loved this as a cookie cake! Since I knew I did..:)[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post-49315455202476116472011-09-23T12:20:55.265-04:002011-09-23T12:20:55.265-04:00Definitely come back & let me know how it turn...Definitely come back & let me know how it turns out for you!! :)The Country Cook, the good thing is... we have already had!! [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post-56380526088321397992011-09-23T11:12:55.046-04:002011-09-23T11:12:55.046-04:00Hi Casey! That is a really good question! Ya?<br />I would definitely suggest using parchment paper to line your round pizza pan (maybe 14 inch pan?) And then spray the parchment paper with more nonstick to make sure you can get that sucker out when it is done baking. <br />I would say bake it for about 20-25 minutes, where it is still just a bit soft in the middle, then let it cool for a bit in the pan before taking it out so it doesn't fall apart on you.The Country Cook you by any chance ever made a cookie cake? I ...Have you by any chance ever made a cookie cake? I was wondering if you thought this would be a good recipe for that... my son turns 2 on Sunday, and I have been wanting to try this recipe-I thought this might be the perfect [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post-63050777720404329282011-09-13T14:31:37.691-04:002011-09-13T14:31:37.691-04:00Oh YUUUM! These pictures make me want to RUN to t...Oh YUUUM! These pictures make me want to RUN to the kitchen and mix up a batch...so glad you shared.The Better Baker look so nice and thick,have to make these, n...They look so nice and thick,have to make these, not flat, i have air bake cookie sheets, that i love, i just put parchment paper on it no more burnt [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-4360788213738800951.post-86613325007437816012011-02-03T17:03:47.547-05:002011-02-03T17:03:47.547-05:00These just came out of the oven. (I was going sti...These just came out of the oven. (I was going stir crazy from the snow- so I baked.) :) Yum!Mama J's interesting that these cookies use cold...Lisa have a gazillion chocolate chip cookie recipes t...I have a gazillion chocolate chip cookie recipes too, but you've got to have one for each type of cookie lover (or mood, whichever you prefer).<br /><br />P.S. We're in the same boat. I don't drink milk either.Tessa chip cookies are one of my favorite thin...Chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorite things ever! I do have a ton of recipes but that's because I always like trying new ones even though I have my 'keepers.' Can't wait to give this one a try!Tawny @ The Year of The Cookie chocolate chip cookies. I grind oatmeal and ...Ilove chocolate chip cookies. I grind oatmeal and mix it with the flour. Everyone goes crazy over chocolate chip cookies. You need more than one good recipe. I found mine!Veronica Gantley chocolate chip cookie season is officially ope...the chocolate chip cookie season is officially opened. I posted today a recipe and later in the afternoon I read three other blogs that posted chocolate chip cookies these days. <br /><br />Yours look so good and the photos are stunning. <br />thanks for sharing, hope you'll have a wonderful rest of the weekA little bit of everything, My granddaughter made chocolate chip cook...Brandie, My granddaughter made chocolate chip cookies, too, as my Guest Baker. These look soo good. Like Gina said, you can never have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes;) Thanks for sharing this one.Becky, these look so soft and warm and delicious...Brandie, these look so soft and warm and delicious with a glass of milk! Wonderful recipe. I'm always up for trying a new chocolate chip cookie, and these I have to try!Georgia (The Comfort of Cooking) love this recipe, and the photos are awesome..I ...I love this recipe, and the photos are awesome..I my secret..I only drink milk with cereals, which is maybe 1/2 cup every few days:DSandra friend is living in China right now and when I ...My friend is living in China right now and when I asked him if I could send him some cookies he requested chocolate chip.. I think I may have to give this recipe a go!Evan @swEEts... i like how the tops of these cookies are cr...mmm... i like how the tops of these cookies are crackly - so ready to be gobbled up! i think i just added a new chocolate chip cookie recipe to my collection. =)lil @ sweetsbysillianah
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"This is a moment of real significance for our nation" ... Julia Gillard.
JULIA Gillard and Tony Abbott have declared today's 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings an occasion to remember the best of human nature as well as the worst.
In articles written for today's Herald, both leaders have also drawn on their personal experiences as they recounted the horror of a decade ago.
Ms Gillard, Mr Abbott and John Howard, who as prime minister led the nation in its response to the tragedy, will represent Australia at today's ceremony in Bali. The Herald can also reveal that Mr Abbott will then travel to Jakarta for high level meetings with Indonesian officials to discuss issues including asylum seekers.
Ms Gillard flew home from a holiday in Bali with her sister and nephew the day before the October 12, 2002, bombings and recounted her deep shock as she empathised with the families of those killed and injured.
''I could only imagine how my family would have felt if our holiday had been timed slightly differently,'' she wrote. ''I could picture my parents desperately trying to find out whether members of my family were safe.
''That was the torment so many Australian families went through on that dreadful day.''
Mr Abbott was holidaying in Bali in 2005 and was caught up in the second attacks. He helped tend and evacuate the wounded.
''I have never been prouder of the quality of our diplomats and defence personnel and the grit and stoicism of our people,'' Mr Abbott wrote.
Bali's police have been put on high alert for the event on the holiday island, amid warnings from one senior Bali police officer on Wednesday of specific information about a threat to VIPs attending.
Other Indonesian officials and high-level Australian sources downplayed the security concerns, however. And Australians in Bali for the service said yesterday they were undeterred by any security threats.
''This is a moment of real significance for our nation,'' Ms Gillard said yesterday.
''Ten years ago I think we would all remember where we were and how we felt, how shocked we were.
''I want to spend some time with the families who have really had to absorb such grief.
Mr Abbott wrote that the bombings could have turned Australia and Indonesia against each other. ''Instead, we turned towards each other and today have a very strong friendship, despite recent challenges for the relationship,'' he wrote.
Mr Howard made the same point yesterday. He recounted how the terrorist attacks occurred just three years after Australia intervened to liberate East Timor and relations between Jakarta and Canberra were still very fractious.
''But instead of the two countries being pushed further apart, they were brought closer together,'' Mr Howard said.
Mr Abbott has also used the anniversary to push his policy proposal to pay Australian victims of terrorist attacks up to $75,000 in compensation.
The government has agreed to adopt the measure for victims of future attacks, but not make it retrospective. Ms Gillard said the government had helped those families and victims wishing to go to Bali for the ceremony.
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Crimson Winks Squad Downs Two Opponents
The athlete's muscles rippled as he prepared to shoot the final point of the match; the tendon on his left index finger looked red and strained, but he was a true tiddlywinker and would not flinch. After a fleeting glace towards the victor's decanter of sherry, he squidged, scored, and the Gargoyles had downed Penn 26-9 in last Saturday's match.
Gargoyle captain Jim Parry described the match as a pushover, and lauded the skillful efforts of shooter John Kernochan and squopper Tom Houston, Saturday's high scorers.
Parry is delighted with the team's success, and has even gone so far as to claim that the Gargoyles could defeat Oxford's world champions in a return match.
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Most Agree, Pettit's Goal Was In
Assistant captain Tyler Kolarik scored a goal in each of the weekend's ECAC quarterfinal games, including the game-tying goal that sent the teams into overtime on Saturday night.
Same goes for his teammates on the ice. And everyone on the Harvard bench. And at least one Brown player, along with, we presume, most of the 1,528 on hand.
If majority ruled at Meehan Auditorium, Crimson senior winger Tim Pettit would’ve been awarded the game-winning goal at 1:40 of overtime Saturday night. After all, even the great Yann Danis had put his head down, seemingly conceding defeat to the Harvard skaters buzzing about him with glee.
This one was over, right?
Well, no. The two most important people in the building when it comes to such matters—the goal judge and referee Scott Hansen—didn’t see Pettit’s laser sail over Danis’s glove and pop out, quicker than you could say, “Albany.” Serves Pettit right, you might say, for possessing a vicious slapshot that can be unseeable, unstoppable or both.
“I knew it didn’t go over the crossbar, so I had the idea that it went in, but I wasn’t positive,” Pettit said. “Everyone up top saw it go in…I got all of it, that’s for sure.”
After a quick but spirited dispute, however, the teams played on. One felt as if it had been robbed. The other was thankful for new playoff life.
In the end, the team that deserved to win, won. Harvard junior Tom Cavanagh scored about six minutes later to send his team to Albany with a 3-2 victory.
With that, all was forgiven.
“I could care less now because we won. Who cares?” Pettit asked. “If we would’ve lost, that would’ve been a big hit.
“But after [the non-goal], Danis psyched himself out. It was only a matter of time before we scored.”
Pettit may have missed out on what would’ve been his first overtime winner in a Crimson sweater, but he certainly did not go home empty-handed. His parting gifts included a pretty important goal of his own—coming less than 30 seconds after Brown took a 2-0 lead in the second—and the honor of playing more games (132) than anyone else in Harvard hockey history, breaking the old mark of former captain Steve Armstrong ’88.
Both coaches agreed that Pettit’s goal, coming on a 2-on-1 with Charlie Johnson at 11:03 of the second, changed the game’s momentum. Pettit tipped it into the air, off Danis, and barely over the line for his 10th goal of the season, second of the series.
“Charlie just made a great pass, right over the guy’s stick,” Pettit said. “Danis made a great save just to stop the puck, but luckily it went over the net. It’s nice to have a lucky bounce every once in awhile.”
Pettit said he didn’t know about the record until Harvard assistant director of athletic communications Jamie Weir told him about it earlier this season.
“It feels good to have played that many games in my career,” said Pettit, also tied for 16th in school history with 136 career points. “It’s definitely something I’m proud of.”
The record is a tribute to Pettit’s durability. He has missed only two games (the Princeton-Yale road trip as a freshman) over four years. His teammates, though, joke that he has the “most games played but least amount of preseason runs” because of conditioning sessions he’s missed due to injury.
Cavanagh and Ryan Lannon recently became the first juniors to play 100 games for Harvard. Barring injuries, one or both may pass Pettit next season.
“Some guys are probably going to break it next year, but it’s nice to have now,” Pettit said. “But really, all I’m interested in now is getting on the ice in Albany. All individual things aside, the seniors just want to go out on a winning note.”
REESE LETS IT RIP
As the second period wound down Saturday, Harvard freshman defenseman Dylan Reese had the puck just inside the blue line with a clear look at the net.
But he waited too long to pull the trigger, and a defender blocked it.
“I should’ve shot the puck,” Reese lamented. “I had a lane.”
In a similar situation at a more critical stage—7:35 into overtime—he didn’t hesitate, which is one big reason why the Crimson is still playing hockey this season.
Reese was left unmarked at the point because pressure from Harvard’s forwards had forced Brown’s wingers to help down low. He saw a lot of dark sweaters in front of the goal and had “all day” to send in his wrister.
“I was having a lot of my shots blocked in that game and the first game, so I was worried about getting it on net,” Reese said. “I wasn’t looking to score. I was hoping he’d kick it out, because we had three guys in front, and he did.”
Cavanagh put the rebound five-hole to send the Crimson to the ECAC semifinals for the fourth straight season, extending what is now the longest active streak in the league.
WORTH THE TRIP
With a 7-1-1 record over its last nine games, you could say Harvard is back. Same goes for the student fan base.
Over 100 clever, crimson-clad students made the trip to Meehan Auditorium for both games and often out-chanted the home supporters. Crimson captain Kenny Smith said it was the best road crowd he has seen for Harvard during his career, and said the team appreciated it.
“Going into another team’s rink with that much support from our fans means a lot to the guys,” he said. “They were awesome. That type of atmosphere is what makes college hockey so special.”
H-Club Co-President Nicholas Shiftan ’04 said his organization plans to send a bus to Albany for the ECAC championships, beginning with Friday’s 7:45 p.m. semifinal against Dartmouth. Shiftan said the H-Club would likely send out details of the trip tonight via e-mail.
“After this weekend’s turnout, we’re very confident that Harvard students are willing to make this trip,” he said. “We had well over 100 Harvard students who arranged their own transportation and really outdid the Brown fans. You couldn’t tell the game was at Brown.”
MILESTONE AND MIDTERMS
Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni was happy with Saturday’s win for a number of reasons. In addition to clinching the series, it was also his 300th career victory.
“That just means I’m getting old,” Mazzoleni said with a laugh. “You’ve got to be around a little bit to win 300 games.”
Mazzoleni still remembers his first win: an 8-0 victory at Wisconsin-Superior in 1985, his first season at Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
“There are a lot of good memories in there,” he said.
Mazzoleni was also happy to wrap it up in two for an entirely different reason: his players’ midterms.
“Thank God we [didn’t] have to play Sunday,” he said. “It’s going to be a tough week as it is, with where we are academically.”
Cavanagh has three midterms this week.
“It’s nice to have some extra time,” he said.
BRIEFLY
Senior winger Kenny Turano, who missed almost the entire regular season with an ankle injury, was in the lineup for the Beanpot consolation and every game since, but missed both games this weekend with a leg injury sustained in practice. Sophomore Dan Murphy skated in his place and was minus-2 with two shots on goal. Mazzoleni said Turano will be re-evaluated this week…Before Saturday, the Bears hadn’t lost when leading after two since Jan. 28, 2003 and hadn’t blown a two-goal lead all season. But they are now 0-10-1 when the opponent scores three or more goals.
—Staff writer Jon Paul Morosi can be reached at [email protected].
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Obamacare Supporters Ousted in the Last Election Are Cheered by Court Ruling
Supporting the Affordable Care Act cost some legislators their seats. The court ruling provides some satisfaction, writes Allison Yarrow.
They hesitate to call it vindication. But politicians who lost office for supporting Obamacare are some of the happiest campers after the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding most of the law.
“I’m energized, and it's not just the coffee,” said an elated Tom Perriello, a former Virginia congressman, shortly after the ruling was announced.
People hold signs during a rally in Chicago on Thursday about the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act. (Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo)
“I knew in my heart that they would rule with us,” said former North Carolina congressman Bob Etheridge, who served that state’s 2nd Congressional District for more than 13 years. Etheridge likened the decision to America’s pastime, particularly for opponents: “It’s like playing baseball. You may really believe that ball coming across that plate is not a strike, but if an umpire calls it a strike, it’s a strike.”
Etheridge and Perriello are two of many senators and congressmen and women who were ousted from office in 2010, in large part for voting for the Affordable Care Act. Theirs and others’ losses were marked in part by dirty tricks—political wrangling like expensive attack ads by outside interests pitting them against seniors or for death panels, gotcha tactics, and even vandalism by alleged Tea Party radicals.
Etheridge apologized after a video surfaced of him manhandling “a couple of hired goons from the Republican National Committee” who cut him off on the sidewalk and demanded he share whether he backed the president’s agenda. The video was viewed nearly 170,000 times.
When a former Marine bad-mouthed government programs at a North Carolina health-care forum, Etheridge asked him, “Do you have health care?” insinuating the government role in providing it. The video’s poster couched the event as “Mr. Etheridge humiliating himself.”
“Here’s what bothers me about all this. People who vote to deny it are the first ones to step up to take government subsidies,” Etheridge said.
Looking back on that time, Etheridge, who ran a last-minute, unsuccessful campaign for governor in his state—he characterized the loss as “eight weeks and not enough votes”—calls the events in the videos “the kind of ugly, nasty, divisive politics I hope American people are ready to move past.” But with a House vote demanded by opponents to overturn the law—scheduled for after July 4—moving beyond the divide could still be hard.
Alan Grayson, a former Florida congressman, said he was unseated by negative ads run by 60 Plus, the conservative seniors initiative that positions itself across the aisle from AARP. The group said it spent nearly $1 million to topple Grayson and a neighboring district’s congresswoman, accusing them of cutting “$500 billion from Medicare” and willingly sticking it to seniors. He was a vocal advocate of the public option while in Congress, and said he thought that when he left office that the health-care conversation would finally be over, too. Grayson is running to reclaim his post now, and says despite opposition to the law from much of Florida, including its governor, Rick Scott, his district favors the reform and considers it sound policy.
“The constitutional arguments against the law were farcical. Nobody gave them credence until the right manufactured excuses,” said Grayson, who studied constitutional law at Harvard. “I never felt that there was any question about this. It’s good that the Supreme Court saw the light.”
“The frustrating thing about being in Congress was that facts didn’t seem to matter as much as they should,” said former Virginia congressman Tom Perriello. “Our politics are better when facts matter.”
Perriello, now president and CEO at the Center for American Progress, predicted Chief Justice John Roberts’s turn to side with the liberal justices and uphold the individual mandate, the backbone of the law, when he spoke to The Daily Beast in March. He said Roberts, who is known for caring how he is portrayed in the media, prioritized his legacy with this decision, choosing to side with the Constitution over the Articles of Confederation, the country’s founding document that empowered individuals over big government. It’s a debate that many find strange to see raging in the 21st century.
“The frustrating thing about being in Congress was that facts didn’t seem to matter as much as they should. Our politics are better when facts matter,” he said.
The bitterness hit for Perriello when alleged Tea Party activists targeted his family and threatened their safety. Authorities found a cut propane-gas tank at the home of Perriello's brother, and suspected the attack was intended for him. Perriello hails from a family of doctors, so he said there was no way he wouldn't champion sweeping health-care coverage for all.
Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu “suffered the slings and arrows of public opinion,” in 2009 and 2010, while she was still debating her position on it, according to a former aide. Her own staff members said they had no idea whether or not the senator would support the law even as she entered the chamber to vote. “I remember crafting two statements at every point,” another former aide said.
That aide remembers an August 2009 town-hall meeting in the state in which health-care-reform skeptics tailgated with Louisiana State University tents, and booed and accosted the senator and her staff before the debate could begin. This predated the Senate bill (there was only a draft in the House), and Landrieu was far from decided on whether or not she would support what would be drawn up. She even sustained attacks from multiple Republican governors while trying to keep her Senate seat, which she still holds.
When the Supreme Court ruled, former and current Landrieu staff, including those who helped author parts of the Senate bill, circulated celebratory emails, and shared moments of reminiscence—sleepless nights they now deem worth the uphill climb and opposition vitriol.
“[It] will improve health outcomes for our entire population. Now that the Supreme Court has made this clear by its ruling, it is the obligation of the states to fully implement and expedite the Affordable Care Act,” Landrieu said in a statement.
Despite all the spitball lobbing, lying, and rage unleashed on Democrats in 2010, the former legislators who supported a bill that could save some 45,000 lives and insure millions for the first time are happy about it being upheld by the land’s highest court. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that many of them want back in the game.
“Teddy Roosevelt is smiling right now,” Etheridge said.
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Paul Ryan on the Issues: Taxes, Abortion, & More
Mitt Romney may have a reputation for flip-flopping, but his new running mate is known for taking a tough stance on everything from gun control to gay rights. We break down Ryan’s position on seven key topics.|.S. government's deficit by $4.4 trillion over 10 years. Ryan's plan, dubbed "The Path to Prosperity," distinguishes itself from President Obama's budget by cutting many government programs that serve the poor in order to save money and by lowering taxes for the wealthy. Ryan’s proposal would also repeal Obamacare and make sweping changes to Medicaid and Medicare, creating voucher systems for health care. Mitt Romney applauded the budget proposal, literally, and it has recently become known, particularly by Democratic opponents, as the Romney-Ryan plan.
Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) waves during a campaign rally in front of the USS Wisconsin August 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Virginia. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
Abortion
It probably comes has little surprise that the conservative Ryan is opposed to abortion in almost all situations other than to save a mother's life. Back in 2010, Ryan wrote a paper for The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, contradicting Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels's plea for politicians to "call a truce on social issues." In the paper, Ryan declared, "You're not going to have a truce. Judges are going to come up. Issues come up, they're unavoidable, and I'm never not going to vote pro-life."
Gay Rights
When it comes to gay rights, Ryan is not exactly an advocate. While he has voted to prohibit job discrimination based on sexual preference, Ryan has also voted both to define marriage as between one man and woman and for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. He also voted to ban gay adoptions in D.C., opposed the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and opposed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a law signed by President Obama that expands the federal definition of hate crimes to apply to cases of bias against sexual orientation. The Human Rights Campaign has given him a 0-percent rating on their congressional scorecard for his anti-gay record.
Crime
In keeping with his stance on gay rights, Ryan has voted against enforcing hate crimes based on sexual orientation. When it comes to other kinds of crimes, he's pretty tough. He's voted against creating more services to help criminals re-enter society and opposed funding that would go towards alternative sentencing as opposed to building more prisons. He also voted yes to increase prosecution and sentencing of juveniles.
Financial Regulation
Unlike some of his colleagues, Paul Ryan, in his 2013 budget, does not call for an outright appeal of Dodds-Frank, the Democrat-sponsored law that set up new financial regulations in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis—though he did opposite it while it was a bill. Ryan recommends a “review” of the law. One thing he wants to get rid of is the federal government’s resolution authority, which allows it to break up big banks deemed “Too Big to Fail.” Ryan says that will only lead to more bailouts. Elsewhere, Ryan concedes that the government does have a role to play in ensuring fair markets, and at one point in 2012 appeared to express sympathy for the Volcker Rule, which prohibits big banks from engaging in risky trades.
The Environment
Climate-change and environmental activisits are unlikely to give high marks to Ryan, who has voted to eliminate EPA limits on greenhouse gases, cancel a ban on incandescent light bulbs, and go ahead with construction of the controversial Keystone oil pipeline. On his Web site, Ryan does note that “strong conservation programs” are important to him, but laments that federal spending in that area has climbed during the Obama administration. Ryan calls for more domestic energy production and “market-based solutions.” Ryan opposed a cap-and-trade program on energy in 2009, calling it “job-killing.”
Guns
Gun remain a hot topic in the wake of a shooting at Sikh temple last week in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin. The congressman has an A rating from the NRA, representing a firm stance in favor of gun rights. Ryan has voted to decrease waiting periods to buy guns and to prohibit suing gun manufacturers for misuse of their products. Oh, and he supports Young Guns, too: that’s the name of a 2010 manifesto, written with fellow Rep. Eric Cantor, urging reform in the Republican party.
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1. Romney: Obama Has Failed on Jobs."
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8. Penn State Pays Paterno Estate $5.7M.
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9. Measles Hit 15-Year High
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13. ‘Dark Shadows’ Star Dies at 87.”
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She belted out hits at a cancer benefit in Beverly Hills last night, but Rihanna’s lips remain sealed over the controversial photo she tweeted yesterday that shows her “cutting up” a white powdery substance on top of a man’s head at the Coachella music festival. Rihanna tweeted two pictures of herself on a man’s shoulders and a third close-up shot of the white powder on his head with a caption that read, “Memories don’t live like people do #coachella." Her fans immediately reacted to the suggestive image, with some discussing on a fan site whether she was doing cocaine. Rihanna later tweeted, “I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.”
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16. Nugent Set for Secret Service Meeting.”
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18. Judge Quits Trayvon Case.
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19. U.N. Chief: Syria Agrees to Rules
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Syria has agreed to rules governing U.N. monitors, and an agreement is expected to be signed in Damascus. Earlier, Annan accused the nation of failing to keep to the U.N. peace plan. After a brief lull, violence is once again escalating. He also criticized Syria for not releasing detainees, not negotiating humanitarian access, and not allowing U.N. observers into Homs.The agreement calls for more observers, an increase in the current team of 30 to 300.
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24. Poll: Condi Tops GOP VP List.
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25. The Sun’s Royal Editor Arrested
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30. Creator Pulls ‘Revenge Porn’ Site
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The woman believed to be at the center of the Secret Service Colombian sex scandal appears to have moved out of her apartment. Neighbors believe she was the woman who got into a heated argument with one of the agents at a Cartagena hotel over payment for sex, prompting police to intervene. Eleven agents and 10 military members are now under investigation for their involvement. The woman, who has been described as a 24-year-old Colombian, took her son with her but sent a neighbor to pick up her dog.
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33. Karzai: Troops Photo ‘Disgusting’
The Afghan government has condemned the photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the mangled remains of Afghan suicide bombers, with President Karzai denouncing the images in a statement as “inhuman” and “disgusting” and calling for a swift transition from NATO to Afghan security to prevent “any bad actions by foreign troops.” The pictures have drawn attention to a perceived breakdown in leadership and discipline during the war and heightened tensions between the U.S. and Afghanistan as the Obama administration pushes to sign a strategic deal with Karzai on foreign presence in the country. Meanwhile, the Taliban has vowed to seek revenge against U.S. troops in the country.
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Though she's currently in the news for being the jilted wife of director Rupert Sanders (who cheated on her with his Snow White and the Huntsman starlet Kristen Stewart), Liberty Ross has long been a successful force in the fashion world. She's been a Vogue cover girl and spokeswoman for brands such as Dior, Burberry and Chanel--and most would agree that she's drop-dead gorgeous. See photos of Ross in her most glamorous looks.
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A Team of Expatriates
Many of Obama's top advisers, like an increasing number of Americans, have learned and lived abroad.
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For Jarrett's family, who traveled extensively even after they returned to the United States when Valerie was six, that meant socializing with people from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. "You appreciate and are maybe more open to different perspectives," she says.
It's a common point among Obama's top aides, a surprising number of whom grew up in other countries—the insight they developed by seeing America from the outside in. The former expats include retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, the incoming national-security adviser, who lived in France for most of his childhood; Timothy Geithner, the nominee for Treasury secretary, who grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand; retired Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, a child of missionaries in Africa who is a leading contender to become the new NASA administrator; and Jarrett, a close personal friend of the Obamas' who will serve as a top domestic-policy adviser.
Obama has identified his years in Indonesia, and later travels in Pakistan, as critical to shaping his views on America's role in the world. "If you don't understand these cultures, then it's very hard for you to make good foreign-policy decisions," he told an Iowa campaign crowd in 2007. "The benefit of my life of having both lived overseas and traveled overseas … is I have a better sense of how they're thinking and what their society is really like."
Most of the world doesn't associate that kind of understanding with Americans, and with some reason. Even now, only about 22 percent of Americans have passports, while in many Western European countries the number is much higher—reaching 71 percent in the United Kingdom. But as the world shrinks, the numbers of Americans working and studying outside of the country is rising. In 2006–07, more than 241,000 Americans studied abroad, up from less than 100,000 who did so a decade earlier. The State Department estimates that more than 5 million Americans live overseas. For the generation of Americans coming of age now, some of the most significant opportunities—for work, investment, recreation and learning—will be global.
Gration left America in 1952, when he boarded a ship called the African Lightning and steamed out of New York harbor at the age of about 18 months. His parents were missionaries with the Africa Inland Mission. They were heading to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, and then inland by car to the Congo. Three times the family had to flee the Congo—after independence and a military coup in 1960, after the execution of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in 1961 and lastly during civil war in 1964. The family lost everything then, and settled in Kenya before returning to the United States in 1967. "You spend some time [in a country] and all of a sudden you can't stay in your house because the rebels are coming," says Gration. "Life itself is a gift and now you realize that freedom and life, those things we [Americans] take for granted, those values you can't put your arms around, are so precious and worth dying for."
Gration first met Obama when he was serving as director of Strategy, Plans and Policy for the European Command. In that capacity, he briefed then Senator Obama on foreign affairs, and later joined him on a trip to Africa in 2006. Last year, Gration left the Republican Party to vote for Obama in the New Jersey primary. He was attracted by Obama's interest in issues "that are borderless": the environment, trade, energy, human rights. "When you grow up as I did, surrounded by Africans, you see them as individuals—the kids I grew up with, the kids I played soccer with, [the people with whom] I went and ate around the fires," says Gration. "These were my African buddies, and so for me, when I see the strife in Darfur and when I see what's happening in eastern Congo, it's not just a problem. It's people."
Expats also learn, in a personal way, the resentments that foreigners sometimes feel toward the United States. Growing up in France after World War II, the future General Jones went to local schools outside of Paris, then to a NATO school. "In postwar France there was a lot of anti-American sentiment because of the number of bases we had and the heavy footprint we showed."
As a child and a teen, Jones would return to Missouri for two-week stints every few years, and he yearned for the kind of life where he could play baseball instead of soccer and fencing. But he also recalls watching footage of the civil-rights movement—the marches, the struggle for school integration in Little Rock, the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan—on French television. "It was absolutely just a surreal experience for me," he says. He was very proud to be American, yet also shocked and confused by what he was watching.
Relatives in the United States sent Jones care packages—blue jeans and other American-style clothes. When he rode the French buses, the locals thought he was a tourist. "What they didn't know was that I understood everything they were saying," he says. "It wasn't always very flattering." One morning, his father woke up to find U.S. GO HOME splashed in white paint on his black Chevrolet Bel Air. At other times, tensions resulted in conflict. " I got in more fights as a kid as a result of nationality than any other reason."
But Jones grew fond of France, and he also had classmates from Germany, Spain and other NATO countries. That proved useful when he became Supreme Allied Commander in Europe years later. "You develop a fine ear for listening to nuance, and to what it is people are saying, but also how they are saying it," he says. "You have to be able to look at the same problem through different prisms to be … successful in the international environment."
Now Jones encourages young people to go out and see other countries and cultures. Anyone who has the opportunity and doesn't seize it "is really missing out on one of the most important components of how to be successful in today's shrinking world," he says. "And if you're going to hold national office, I think it's an imperative." Obama would surely agree.
With Richard Wolffe and Dina Fine Maron in Washington
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It’s the Euro, Stupid: The Roots of the Euro-Zone Crisis
Europe is in a hole, and it won’t stop digging..
In a sense, the euro is still tainted by that original sin. Something that should have been an enthusiastic step toward more unity had become the product of a cold, realpolitik tradeoff. Adopted by the 12 members of the then–European Community at Maastricht in February 1992, the monetary union was put to the democratic test only twice. The Danes rejected it in June of the same year, while the French endorsed it by only the narrowest margin in September, even though every mainstream political party had recklessly campaigned in its favor. The lesson was not lost on other European governments: with very few exceptions, they conspicuously avoided any form of democratic test of the European idea from that moment onward.
There is little doubt that the euro came far too early into the European project. A monetary union implies a high degree of preexisting economic, political, and social integration in order to succeed. Clearly the Europe of 1999 did not qualify, irrespective of the flawed criteria of convergence adopted at Maastricht. Huge gaps in productivity, very different demographics, and a rather low level of internal workforce mobility combined with the absence of a federal budget or tax system could only trigger increasing levels of economic divergence rather than convergence. During the initial decade of the euro, labor costs effectively diverged by nearly 50 percent between the most and least successful countries. As a result, massive intrazone trade deficits built up, with soaring public indebtedness in the weaker countries as a consequence. As devaluations could no longer occur to rebalance these economies, some argue that deflation should have materialized instead. It did not. The weaker countries benefited from the explicit support of the European Central Bank that treated all sovereign bonds of the zone on equal footing in its refinancing operations. As such, interest rates in all peripheral countries fell to levels that could only propel excessive monetary growth in a speculative direction, further increasing competitiveness gaps.
We are now in the euro’s 14th and maybe final year. The main European governments have largely sidelined the mostly unrepresentative European institutions while denying their responsibility and, instead, blaming obscure market forces or supposedly lazy and dishonest Southern Europeans. Driven by the narrowest sense of what they perceive to be their immediate interests, they opted against any form of European solidarity. The public debt of Greece amounted to less than 2 percent of the combined GDP of the European Union. The core countries could have easily absorbed it.
In Brussels, a protester gives vent to his feelings. (Ye Pingfan / Xinhua-Corbis)
That the European states proved unable to do so illustrates how monetary unions can neither function in the absence of a prior form of deep political integration nor create it among unwilling partners. How the EU may now disintegrate is simple: once combined levels of public debt, interest rates, unemployment, external account deficits, and absence of internal solidarity make clear to everyone that several sovereign entities are heading toward default and potential exit from the euro zone, anyone with any common sense must open bank accounts in Germany and wire money outside of the threatened countries’ banking system. The peripheral central banks have then to borrow from the European Central Bank, which in turn obtains the excess liquidity accumulated by the German banking system. It is then in Germany’s interest to leave the system sooner rather than later before the size of its credit position becomes too high, while the Greek elections illustrate a desperate call toward more solidarity rather than a genuine desire to leave the monetary union. If one looks at the precedent set by the disintegrating Ruble currency area that survived the U.S.S.R., the countries that left it first were the Baltic states and not the Central Asian republics.
The other option is more European union. In an ideal situation, a common budget and tax system would ensure the reallocation of internal resources toward the weaker areas, while the adoption of common working laws; retirement, health-care, and unemployment regimes; education-system standards; official language, and governance would progressively increase the internal mobility of the workforce while promoting productivity convergence across the union.
Since the EU cannot become a federal state overnight, the situation calls for an immediate set of bold decisions. A common deposit insurance and banking-recapitalization scheme or the issuance of euro bonds would certainly help alleviate some of the immediate pressure on the European financial system but would not make the least-competitive countries effective again. As such, the long-term issues would remain unsolved, and recent events show how long-term risks increasingly tend to materialize into short-term crises at breakneck speed.
Europeans have to show more creative flexibility if they wish to maintain their union. Critically, they have to accept that a common currency does not necessarily imply exclusive legal-tender status across their entire economic area. There are historical examples of federations or empires that allowed several currencies to coexist on a more or less transitional basis, in order to adapt to local realities. The U.S. adopted its national currency as its sole legal tender only in 1857. Further back the Roman Empire let up to 350 local currencies thrive for three centuries in a status subordinate to the imperial money. Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, and Africa offer more recent examples of coexistence between a local cheaper currency and the German mark, the U.S. dollar, the euro, or the Russian ruble used as a more or less official anchor of value. Poland, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Turkey do better today than Greece or Spain.
Then, true solidarity must develop between member states. The way Greek debt was restructured was the exact opposite of what should have been done. Its private holders, mostly European financial institutions, were bullied into a degree of losses that would be unbearable to the European banking system as a whole if applied to Portugal, Spain, and others in due course. Greece was then left under a still-too-heavy burden as European public institutions shielded themselves from sharing the losses. This is the very reason why the recent Spanish bank bailout failed to improve the peripheral countries’ capital markets: investors correctly assessed they had become holders of subordinated debt. Finally, the deflationary measures imposed on Greece now benefit local passive capital holders at the expense of private-sector workers and shareholders while threatening a 1930s Depression-type situation.
Greek future financing needs should have instead been channeled toward a European mechanism with an explicit joint credit guarantee. Existing debt would have been simultaneously purchased in the market and then swapped at a discount to its notional value, achieving a significant reduction of Greek debt, as public and private holders would have been treated on a similar footing. Since Greece now enjoys a primary surplus, Greek debt would have become sustainable, and the level of risk premium bearing on the other peripheral countries would have been mitigated. European states would have collectively accepted the sovereign risk of Greece, a first step toward a federal debt, budget, and government. The core European countries would have easily withstood any resulting losses, as the area’s consolidated external accounts are balanced, while reaping the political benefits of their European engagement. In contrast, the chosen process of selfish procrastination is a sure recipe toward a monetary-union disintegration and long-lasting animosity among European nations. In any case, disintegration would cost far more than voluntarily accepted losses.
Remarkably, it may not be too late. Appropriate decisions could buy much-needed breathing time for the EU, while a firm commitment toward effective political integration would be announced in order to address the fundamental shortcomings of the current monetary union. The overall credibility of the euro would increase, compounding in return the effectiveness of any shorter-term stabilizing measure. Nothing of that sort will occur without the support of the Europeans themselves. If one lesson has to be learned from the current failure, it is that a federal compact between democratic nations cannot afford the degree of democratic deficit that has plagued the European project for so many decades. This may call for a wide renewal of the often entrenched and ineffective European political leadership. In any case, the euro occupies a status by now so central to the preservation or destruction of the European Union that it has certainly surpassed the ambition of its most enthusiastic initial supporters.
Gilles Bransbourg, an economist, historian, and former banker, is a research associate at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and a Roman curator at the American Numismatic Society in New York.
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Economic − −!
It is not so much about "fairness" as it is about reverse racism, buying the vote, and a dose of good old fashioned envy.
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Surprise, no mention of the basic problem:
"From each according to ability, to each according to need"
Creates political "arbiters of "fairness" reaping a hefty commission by pretending to arbritrade between "needs", which are ever escalating since, it is a motivational economic principle of life: You get what you encourage (sloth and "need") and punish what you discourage (productivity).
Now, the productive and potentially productive have CHOSEN - no point:
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Atlas HAS shrugged, and will remain so until "quid pro quo" and property rights are again respected. Parasites have ZERO negotiating room, by their basic position of dependency.
There is only one question that I would like answered, but the likes of Obama will not.
How many hours of my life is everyone elses fair share? How many hours of everyone elses life is my fair share? Where is this fairness?
OK, that was three questions.
screw progress, give me my country back
The DB doesn't have an information clearing house to post relevant articles to, so I'm going to dump this right here!
those Damned Germans, I just knew the Greeks were innocent... ..
This article has it all in terms of Elite memes: blame anybody just not the System, there's no room for Nationalism & sovereignty if the EU is to be saved, the Technocrats had the answers all along but nobody listened.
Did Germany sow the seeds of the eurozone debt crisis?
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Thanks.
Pertinent question to the esteemed Dr. Machan: Why does anyone believe the socialist wealth redistribution/wealth equality line? Going through the whole sordid history of state socialism going back to Jan Mattys and Jan Bockelson's prototype socialist terror state in Munster in 1534-35 down through the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, National Socialist Germany, Jonestown and beyond, when did socialist politicians ever redistribute the wealth they stole to anyone but themselves and their cronies beyond the minimum amount necessary to maintain power? Maybe in a few small Utopian communities like amongst the Shakers or Robert Owen's New Harmony, but on the level of state socialism? Even when allegedly spending their stolen wealth on the poor, a disproportionate amount goes for cushy high-paying jobs for armies of administrators while the poor are made poorer
If only, those people who demand "social justice" would understand that the only way to achieve this utopian goal is to impoverish everyone. Then universal equality is achieved as we all wait to die of starvation. (Even here, true equality remains elusive, as there will be those who can survive longer that others without food.)
The few references and examples provided are educational. But Obama so strongly believes his economic theory, that he does not wish to be bothered with "inconvenient truths." Sadly, there are many others who should know better but continue to seek the impossible utopian goals set by progressives.
Here in California, the land of fruits and nuts, our progressive legislature just missed a deadline to pass a "single payer" health care bill this year. (It passed in a previous session but was vetoed by Gov. Schwarzenegger.) It will likely be back agains next year -- and sadly, Gov. Moonbeam will likely sign it into law -- not that the progressives have any clue how to pay for it.
When I talk of these topics with some folks (who should know better) they just say, "Oh, things will work out... " That is the ultimate sadness -- these supposedly educated and intelligent folks who prefer to ignore the stark facts rather than stand up and protest.
Gov. Jerry has also lined up a series of propositions for the November ballot that will raise sales taxes and add a "millionaires'" tax to the state income tax -- a super category that "taxes the rich." The shocker is that the state that once hosted the "taxpayer revolt" and proposition 13, now polls strongly in favor of these new/increased taxes (even though most of the impact will hit the "middle class" with the sales tax).
Our Air Resources Board has decided that 14% of new automobiles must be "zero" emission vehicles by 2025 -- again with no understanding of how this will be acheived -- or how auto dealers will be able to induce someone looking for an SUV to buy an electric car. (Hint: the law is worded to "cap" non-electric car sales, so prices will rise to allow the market to clear naturally. So you can buy a $40,000 electric car you don't want -- or pay $50,000 for the SUV you do want.) The state will receive the benefit of the increased sales taxes collected through these artificially inflated prices.
As I search for another state to reside in, I'm struck by the implications that as California drives the productive private businesses and their employees to other states, that ultimately there will be nobody left here except (mostly unionized) government workers and recipients of the state's largess. Without any real (or sufficient) productive private industry, tax collections will collapse and those fat public worker retirement paychecks will no longer have any funds available to cash them. And the "poor" who get massive benefits from the state will also no longer receive that largess.
Then, the utopia of progressive policies will be achieved as those few fools who remain here will experience true social justice as they all starve in the midst of what was once one of the most productive areas in all the world.
Economic fairness is impossible: an oxymoron.
1948 to 1958 Germany , perhaps the only time in modern history , an economic fairness existed. By 1958 Germany was the richest country in the world (by population), reason being: economic Fairness. Labour and capital worked with open books.How quick we forget , or simply never knew.
Life Magazine : Special issue May 1954 and again 1958.
But in a free country, with the principle of private property rights as the law of the land, the king or government has no business engaging in wealth distribution so the issue of fairness is entirely moot.
So anyone born into a situation where ALL the Land is already owned and passed on from generation to generation within families is basically born into a caste system. This brings to mind those in India who kill and eat rats for a living; perhaps the lowest caste.
But who says we have to share the planet? Greed is good. Damned those who say we have enough for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed. Einstein and Issac Newton would disagree with your thoughts but hey I am sure Bernie Madoff would agree.
Thank You for the information.
As I follow these posts, I am struck by the absence of any mention of the credit default swap derivative products, primarily of JP Morgan, that lured the largest banks and financial institutions in the world to invest and, after a decade of profits, lose billions of dollars and euros, as the sub-prime mortgage scam opened a gash in the ship's hull reminiscent of the recent disaster in Italy. The institutional money spent on worthless financial products eventually drained capital out of each participating country's economy, making it even harder for governments to pay for the entitlements and services for which they were elected. "Blythe Masters" by Pierre Jovanovic is a superb book on the international consequences of the activities of JP Morgan, under the leadership of Mrs. Masters, whom Jovanovic calls the most powerful woman ever to walk the planet -- more powerful that Cleopatra or the Queen of England -- because she was able to bring whole nations to their knees. Jovanovic sees this as the primary cause of the global financial crisis. The book is in French and has been widely read in France. The DB, in my opinion, should have the resources to read it before it comes out in English. I eagerly await the DB's comments on it. It's the story of something that was just "too good to be true." Yet the sharp minds of multi-millionaire CEOs got suckered into putting lots of eggs into a basket whose bottom, common sense would have told them, was loosely attached.
Might be easier (less difficult) to just go get a different one, where all this garbage hasn't already taken place.
There is a reason, why the Anglosphere elite want a one world government, and that is, because, if they keep doing what they are doing, it will, in fact, be easier (less difficult) to simply leave and find a better place. But, it will have to be a place with enough natural resources, that the rest of the world cannot control it, by withholding whatever that place doesn't have.
We can go search for an uncharted continent right after we finish inventing our free energy source, so we can cloak it;)
Humans are born with hugely varying levels of abilities. The collectivist attitude is that none should be allowed to fail / die. ALL should be allowed to reproduce. We don't follow that practice for domestic animals. Nature doesn't follow that practice for wild animals.
Why should homo-sapiens be special? We can't claim that all humans should be nourished on moral grounds. That would rule out abortion. We can't claim that there is a shortage of man.
There isn't any possibility of economic fairness if there isn't any control of reproduction.
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An interesting article on the results of reproduction.
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"quick to forget" indeed, the biggest plot hole in that entire BBC article is the fact that they are laying the blame for Germany's 3% GDP blowout in 2003 on German Reunification... ... ... which occured in 1990... ... ..give my a frakking break!
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can you specify the 1958 issue?
I could not find any issue in that year that featured the state of the German economy.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance (will buy the issue of 54). United States Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, is a bureau of the US Department of the Treasury and acts as the taxing agency of the federal government of the United States of America. As set forth in section 7801 of the Internal Revenue Code, the IRS is responsible for administering the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), for assisting compliant taxpayers with understanding and paying their taxes and for enforcing compliance among those who do not willingly comply with the code..
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. Of course my new tech crush PicMonkey has a tasty one! Speaking of them.....
Here's How to Do it!
Decide does not specify a minimum size, but anything
smaller than 640 pixels wide will likely look pixilated. If
you want to play with reality by holding up an iPad or frame or line up
your Twitter icon in a special way, do use a Photoshop Template. There's
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only problem I have with it, it's too small. I like the resolution to be
a higher pixel rating but it's great to play with to get the feel of
where to line up the background images!
Speaking of zesty headers check out Mentor Mob! A great new curation tool as evidenced by the talented mind of one Dr. Joyce Valenza. I haven't had time to play with it myself, but I've seen it in action and it is SWEET!!
So...Of course I had to play with different concepts before settling on one header. Here is my most recent header and then a few other renditions.
I finally chose a background created with Go!Animate that had 2 different framed posters on the animation graphic already that I could utilize for my profile pic (which would be overlayed) and of course a QR code that when scanned brings ya right here!
Being a devoted cinephile, theatre buff, & pop culture ho - of course I gravitated towards the Cinema scene!
Here's how it looks LIVE! (Larger size) Or go check it out LIVE! Here are my first tries...
Twitter headers with my David Lanham cartoon trippy mirroresque,
Super Hero influences, QR Code (of course!), and as always a Steampunk version. Do you have a favourite?.
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Mastery and ConstraintWednesday, August 18th, 2010
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Saturday, October 6 at Elitch Gardens
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Radio station Jammin' 101.5 is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness with pink pumpkins.
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Make a donation of $5 or more and receive a limited edition Pink Pumpkin while they last.
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Detroit’s Diversity Supports A Growing Film Industry
Prayers For Bobby with Sigourney Weaver.
On January 24, 2009 at 9:00 PM, the eyes of Detroit turned to the Lifetime Television Network, searching for familiar places and faces in the background of the feature film Prayers For Bobby. Starring Sigourney Weaver, it drew 3.8 Million Viewers During Its national Premiere on Lifetime Television.
Prayers For Bobby portrays the tragic struggle of a gay teen in a conservative Christian family and the family’s attempt to “heal” him. For four years before his death, Bobby’s religious mother encouraged him to “cure” his homosexuality through prayer. Bobby Griffith’s four-year struggle with being gay and trying to live a Christian life ended on Aug. 27, 1983.
Several Detroit-area locations hosted the filming of Prayers for Bobby in the spring of 2008. It was one of the first productions to take advantage of a new tax-break program signed into effect by Governor Jennifer Granholm in April of 2008 aimed at luring filmmakers to the state.
The production brought together hundreds of men and women from the local gay community who volunteered as background extras. Affirmations, the Ferndale-based community center for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered people and allies, played an important role in getting extras for the shoot, particularly on June 17, 2008 when over 200 people packed Washington Avenue in Royal Oak for a fictitious gay pride parade. They also hosted the area’s premiere viewing of the feature, packing the community room to capacity with over 100 excited viewers.
Deborah Holbrook of Ferndale took part in filming three scenes. She watched the giant projection screen carefully to see if her face made it into the delegation at the beginning of the parade, as a funeral attendee, and as one of the onlookers in the closing scene of the movie. “I can’t wait to show people how it turned out with everyone coming together” Holbrook said before the show. “The director and other people working were very patient with everyone. It was a fun experience.”
Though filmed under the overcast skies of Royal Oak, the Prayers for Bobby story takes place in San Francisco, CA. It is based on the life of Mary Griffith whose homophobic religious attitude and behaviors drove her gay son to suicide, and the changes within her heart that followed.
“It was great to see the local gay community coming together to welcome the film industry to Michigan,” said Affirmations Communications Manager Cass Varner. “We’re especially happy that one of the first big productions was one that brought so many important issues facing the LGBT community to the surface.”
Volunteer Aaron Watkins was given the opportunity to host an Affirmations information booth as part of the action of the pride parade scene. Though in the final cut none of the individual booths are distinguishable, the volunteers felt it was a worthwhile experience.
“It was weird,” Watkins said. “They had all the floats and signs and balloons like a real Pride parade. But instead of having everyone march down the street like a normal parade, they just had them go about ten feet. Then they’d say ‘cut’ and the whole thing would have to back up to the same place and go again. It was the same thing all day long. I’m lucky I got to be one of the ones sitting behind a booth and not out in the cold street moving back and forth twenty-some-odd times.”
For many this was their first Hollywood-like experience. But for Affirmations regular Esper French, Prayers for Bobby was a second brush with fame. Esper was in the final crowd scene for the 2002 feature film Super Sucker, which was filmed near Jackson, MI.
“I hope to get my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) card so I can be in more movies, but it’s expensive.” Esper said. “I’ve got a nice memory though. They gave us these little Pride flags and I took mine around and had a bunch of the other extras autograph it.”
Brandon Reeves of Royal Oak has some great memories too. “I was in a club scene that was in Royal Oak, and in a shot where I was walking down the street when the actor playing Bobby drives by. I got to meet Ryan Kelley, who played Bobby. He came right up and introduced himself, shook everyone’s hand.”
The only downside, well known to most film professionals, is the wait in between shots. “They held us a long time before they used us,” Reeves said. “It was about eight hours. It gave me a chance to make friends at least.”
Even I got in on the action and became a big fan of the process. I have landed three more movie gigs a result of volunteering. I only went because I wanted Affirmations to be represented in the movie (I am a member of the Affirmations Speakers Bureau). But once I got there I was hooked by the process. I never even thought of acting until I went to Prayers for Bobby. Just shows the value of putting yourself out there I guess. Hopefully I’ll get a glimpse of myself in other Detroit-area productions like High School and The Prince of the Motor City!
Crystal Proxmire is a free lance writer and PR consultant providing solutions to small businesses and non profits. For more information see.
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North Dakota''s top politicians and several oil and energy industry leaders were in Dickinson on Tuesday for the groundbreaking of the Dakota Prairie Refinery west of Dickinson.
Polar PlungeMarch 24, 2013
Dickinson''s Special Olympics North Dakota chapter held its inaugural Polar Plunge on Saturday at the Dickinson Recreation Center, where 29 plungers leaped into ice-cold water in a tank to raise money for the Special Olympics.
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Bucyrus: The AftermathOctober 19, 2012
On the scene Thursday in Bucyrus, residents look over the devastation left behind by a grassfire Wednesday evening. Some searched through the rubble for personal belongs. Others sought the comfort of family and friends.
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These photos are largely contributed from readers from around the area. They depict what wind can do when it blows hard enough.
Bucyrus FireOctober 18, 2012
The town of Bucyrus, ND, burns Wednesday.
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Skyrim modders and from what I found whilst googling this issue, other modders for other games are having problems converting their audio in to XWM file (also called the XWMA file format). Which is a variation on the WMA file format windows media player uses.
Several games use Xwma (or XWM for short) audio files, but all of them appear to be console games. PC at the time of writing has little or NO support for this format outside of the Microsoft Direct X SDK and even then the solution involves a Microsoft DOS command not a app or a proper shell command as you might expect in this age of Windows 7 and 64 bit computers and electricity.
Thankfully Doombuggie and Euther found out what was needed to make converting waves to XWMs a painless experience and I slapped together this document to help those suck in the same boat we were stuck in.
Thank you guys.
For copyright reasons I cannot share the required "xWMAEncode.exe" file with you directly, but I can tell you where to get it. Always remember to check for newer versions of these distributions. The bold type above the links is the name to search for. At the time of writing (March 2012), these are the current versions.
Requirements
Microsoft's Directx SDK
Directx SDK (June 2010)
The actual file you need from that 500meg download is the "xWMAEncode.exe" and it needs the Visual C++ Runtime Libraries to work, see the link below.
Microsofts Visual C++ Runtime Libraries
Visual C++ Runtime Libraries 32bit (Dec 2010)
Visual C++ Runtime Libraries 64bit (Dec 2010)
Download Wave2XWM archive
Download the Wave2XWM archive from us here at the guild. This contains the bat file you need, or you can create this file using the instructions found at the end of this doc.
Setting things up.
Install the Microsoft DirectX SDK and the correct Visual C++ Runtimes for your system, if you do not know which runtime is right for you. Go to My Computer (or just Computer on the Windows 7 start menu) and right click on it and select properties. You will get a window up giving information that should contain something about the OS you are using, be it 32 or 64 bit.
Open up the Wave2Xma archive and you will see a folder has been packed in to it containing the bat file you need, just drag this folder to where you want to convert your files. Or make a folder of your own and drag and drop just the bat file in to that.
Now Skip to the Usage instructions, and come back to this point if nothing happens.
If you follow the usage instructions below and nothing happens, you need to move the xWMAEncode.exe in to the same folder as the bat file we provided. Search for it using windows and copy it to the folder.
Any exe in the system path will work from any location under dos, but an exe outside of the system path has to be run from the folder its stored in or moved to the system path. Hence the reason for making a copy in the folder containing the bat file.
Usage
Just copy all your wave files to the folder and click on the bat file to run it, it will convert ALL the waves to xwm in seconds for you. Also note that xWMAEncode.exe command does a lot more than just converting waves, so if you read the docs for it you may be able to adapt this to support other formats used by other games.
What's in the bat file ?
Well this one line.
for /r . %%T IN (*.wav) do @xWMAEncode.exe "%%T" "%%~pT%%~nT.xwm"
To make it, copy that to an ordinary txt file, save it and then change the extension from txt to bat and you have a bat file. This only works on normal txt files btw.
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The New York Times logo is seen on the headquarters building in New York City in this file photo. The New York Times is aiming to cut 30 positions in order to shrink the size of its newsroom, citing financial challenges. (Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)
The New York Times is aiming to cut 30 positions in order to shrink the size of its newsroom, citing financial challenges.
“These are financially challenging times,” said Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of the Times Company, in a statement, according to the newspaper. “While our digital subscription plan has been highly successful, the advertising climate remains volatile and we don’t see this changing in the near future.”
Jill Abramson, executive editor at the Times, said that she is looking for 30 managers who are not union members to take buyout packages.
If not enough people take buyout packages; Abramson said that she “will be forced to go to layoffs among the excluded staff.”
Currently, the Times has around 1,150 newsroom employees. In recent years, the company has been hit hard due to an industry downturn in newspaper advertising.
The latest earnings report shows that print advertising in the Times, The Boston Globe, and The International Herald Tribune has declined by around 10.9 percent. Digital advertising also fell by 2.2 percent.
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The Football Association celebrates its 150th anniversary next year.
To celebrate that landmark, we've broken down the National Game in numbers:-
FA150 – Supporting football since 1863
- 7m people play football, including 3.9m children.
- More than 400,000 volunteers help make the national game.
- £100m invested back into the game annually, for the third straight year.
- Charitable donations topped £20m last year.
- £54.5m invested into grassroots facilities in the past season.
- Ten years of The FA Cup has put £650m back into football.
- Green light for 9v9 games for U11s-12s, with smaller goals and pitches.
- St. George’s Park officially open, providing a new coaching hub and home to all of England's 24 teams.
- 280,000 qualified coaches, drive for more black and minority.
- More than 115,000 weekly participants in disability football.
- 185 new disability sides making football the nation’s seventh most played team sport.
- Women’s Super League has completed its second successful season.
- More than 3.5m Tesco Skills places for 5 to 11-year-olds.
- More than 100,000 people taking part in FA Mars Just Play programme
- 291 new qualified and active referees, male and female
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Entourage Recap (Season 8, Episode 3): One Last Shot
This week on Entourage; Vince negotiates with a former enemy, ‘Johnny’s Bananas’ is falling apart before it even airs and Ari goes on a date.
‘One Last Shot’ opens the same way that the season did, with Vince in front of a podium. He’s spouting the usual Narcotics Anonymous platitudes, which while contrite, I’d imagine are an integral feature of the program. Also attending the meeting is Paul Ertz, the sleezy producer (and apparent coke head, to no one’s surprise) who manipulated Vince into a bait-and-switch with the unfortunately named “Danger Beach” in the wake of the ‘Medellin’ fallout a few seasons ago. He’s interested in making Vince’s miner movie, and his proposal is not immediately jettisoned because of the delicate circumstances. There’s a social contract type deal about tip toeing around recovering addicts. Never one for niceties, when the issue’s brought to Ari’s attention, he handles it with the level of sensitivity longtime that won’t surprise regular viewers.
On similar note, I was glad to see Ari and Vince interacting again, since the two have a relatively entertaining dynamic. After they’re done referencing Vince’s inadvisable career moves, Lloyd and Vince start pressuring Ari to “get out more”. The two trading quips about their relative talents for pickup artistry may have been the episode’s high point for me; the writers’ eye for male banter is perhaps the show’s defining quality, and season 8’s first two episodes were unimpressive in that department. After a minute or two of this, it’s agreed that Ari will be going on a date with Lloyd’s hairdresser’s niece, which is quite the situation. It’s not a side of Ari we’ve ever seen before, and I’m always down for narrative progress.
The date itself, by the way, is hilarious. The girl appears to be about half his age, and acts even younger than that. At the restaurant, she claims to have never been on a dinner date before (seriously?), indicating that her “dates” usually skip that particular step, If You Know What She Means. She then suggests they do shots to “loosen [him] up”. There’s a pretty funny sequence at her apartment where her metalhead roommate (or maybe raver, I’m awful at identifying subcultures) haggles with her over condoms. Knowing what you (probably) know about Ari Gold, try to imagine him in that situation. The storyline concludes with Ari having wiggled his way out of that particular entanglement, waking up next to Dana Gordon. When he called her, she agreed to have “just one drink”, and you know what that means. Good for them. If you ask me, the two have tons of chemistry.
There’s also a good bit of focus on the ‘Johnny’s Bananas’ storyline, which is following the formulaic structure usually reserved for Vince’s film projects; it seems like a great opportunity, but complications inevitably arise. In this case, it’s Johnny’s vociferously obstinate co-star, Andrew “Dice” Clay. The man is a walking narrative conflict motivator, refusing to cooperate with anyone about anything, even suggesting that Johnny join in his ill-advised civil disobedience. His bizarre insistence that he get his contract renegotiated before a single episode of the cartoon airs is so outlandish that even the famously melodramatic Johnny wants him to pump the breaks. It goes without saying that Dice’s replacement sucks. To quote Billy “He sucks. The show sucks. I hate everyone.” Welcome back the business, Drama.
The remainder of the episode is focused on Vince and Turtle, who have made plans to open a restaurant. Turtle’s been retired from Avion, the tequila company he and Vince helped get off the ground last season, and is desperate for a new business opportunity. After liquidating their stock in the company, the two endeavor to open said restaurant, but not before visiting Paul Ertz, who claims to have struck a deal for Vince with CBS. The guy greets them in his dressing gown, obviously coked out of his mind, and plays the meeting like a strung-out used car salesman. Vince is extraordinarily empathetic, pulling out his considerable social graces to try to calm the guy down, who promptly starts doing lines of cocaine in his bathroom. Hollywood, I guess. Anyway, Paul Ertz is apparently the kind of guy to keep a handgun in his bathroom (I mean, what?), and picks this particular moment to commit suicide, which is insane and jarring. It literally came out of nowhere, one of those things that’s inherently Not Funny, but kind of makes you laugh because of its abruptness and general strange context. Before anyone can react, credits roll.
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A warm sweater for when they are living on the streets?
If you come up with a better idea, I'm looking for one for my brother ;-)
Preface:
So every family or circle of friends has got one. An absolute bum that hasn't worked in years. Who's unemployment has run out, and they replaced that source of income by latching onto and/or marrying someone to carry them. They spend each week basically laying on the couch, and Facebooking about how depressed they are -- and how they didn't sign up for this sad, sad life. They're in their mid 30's and life has just passed them by. Meanwhile they haven't made any attempt to better themself, haven't even tried to go to college or learn a trade, and just expects the world to be handed to them on a silver platter. Entitlement anyone?
Question:
If you were obligated to get this person a gift, what gift would it be? I see myself giving them a book on how to get a job, or how to write a resume -- which I know will come across pretty backhanded, but sheesh... Wake up and smell the coffee already! haha Your thoughts?
A warm sweater for when they are living on the streets?
If you come up with a better idea, I'm looking for one for my brother ;-)
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1. A Xanax prescription.
2. 1st year: Tiny fridge built to be an end table (so they don't have to walk all the way to the kitchen for a beer)
3. Next year, you can give them a matching end table w/microwave.
4. Third year: See below
(you can see, I've given this particular topic a LOT of thought . . .)
-Russ H.
Beer & Pancakes 2012-- The EVENT
"Control everything. Own nothing." -John D. Rockefeller
"Don't confuse motion with action" -Ernest Hemingway
I was thinking of giving them MJ's book, but this person has never finished a book in their life -- So I think that would be an absolute waste.
haha -- Although your suggestion seems spot on Russ, I'd hate to give them anything that would encourage them to continue living in this lifestyle that I don't endorse
- Hakrjak
Get him some new underwear...
Everyone else keeps telling them to get off their butt and get a job.
And here you would be, saying, "Yo, bro, hat's off to you! Work is so overrated, and being productive? Pfa!"
Get it?
They'd be the first gifts that he'd enjoy (if he's truly a bum), or hate (if he actually doesn't acknowledge his bum-ness).
Word of advice: NEVER do this for an in-law. It's against the rules, if you plan on staying married. Must be a blood relative.
-Russ H.
Beer & Pancakes 2012-- The EVENT
"Control everything. Own nothing." -John D. Rockefeller
"Don't confuse motion with action" -Ernest Hemingway
Give them the gift of self awareness, give them MJ's book. I finally got mine, finished reading it and it was great. Kinda disappointed though, out of all the people on these forums that bought it theres only 11 comments/rating on amazon wth? at least they all gave it 5 stars, not that it deserves anything less.
"I'm raising the bar, I shoot for the moon But I'm to busy gazing at stars" -Eminem - Not Afraid
I have an idea for you. Give him MJ's book but put a $20 bill in the middle of it. It might be worth it just to see if he is so lazy that he wont even open the book. If he doesnt it would be great verbal ammo for you at some later point.
What about an application to the local McDonald's? lol That's the best I can come up with at the moment. PS: Great Topic
"A closed mind is a stagnant pond" - Me
How about a mentoring coupon? Try and help him get motivated in doing something. The cold season is coming; maybe he can start to get ready to have a small business shoveling sidewalks? Maybe you can help him build a website. If you can get him to do something to make him feel better about himself that might be enough to push him through these depressing times.
I guess I would think about the purpose of this "gift" (if you can call it a gift; sounds like a jab at this point).
Best regards.
My question is, why do you feel obligated to get them anything?
I realize that Christmas is the time for giving but it should not be because of an obligation. Give him/her your love and acceptance for who they are, not who you think they should be.
I do like Russ' suggestion though.
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I once gave one of my sisters "how to win friends and influence people".
This sister had/has the most negative attitude about life and is truly painful to spend time with.
She opened the package, took one look at the book then threw it at me and walked out the door.
Apparently she wasn't interested in learning the lessons.
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And clearly, she knew how to influence people-- just not in a positive way.
Isn't it amazing how people make their own misery?
They whine and moan about how tough they have it. And they do their level best to shun anything that could help them get out of their ruts.
Not for me, nope. Not for me.
-Russ H.
Beer & Pancakes 2012-- The EVENT
"Control everything. Own nothing." -John D. Rockefeller
"Don't confuse motion with action" -Ernest Hemingway
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Beer & Pancakes 2012-- The EVENT
"Control everything. Own nothing." -John D. Rockefeller
"Don't confuse motion with action" -Ernest Hemingway
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Spain’s most indebted region Catalonia said on Tuesday that it needed €5 billion (£3.97 billion) emergency financial aid from a central government rescue fund as it struggles to pay for basic services such as hospitals, schools and care homes.
With Catalonia’s debt crisis worth €42 billion (£33 billion), Spain’s efforts to avoid a full bailout has been dented. Catalonia is one among the six regional governments that has turned inoperative on capital markets and needing government assistance to roll over debt and fund budget deficits.
The Catalan government has already cut public-sector wages, introduced a €1 (£0.79) charge for each medical prescription and frozen infrastructure investments as it seeks to bring its public deficit under control. Catalonia’s debt is equivalent to 21% of the region’s gross domestic product.
The Spanish government set up a fund worth €18 billion (£14 billion) to help regional governments deal with financial crunch. Valencia and Murcia regions have already approached the central government seeking financial aid.
The request for financial bailout came as private deposits at Spanish banks dropped at the quickest pace since the launch of the euro and data confirmed the Spanish economy shrank for the third consecutive quarter between April and June.
Francesco Homs, spokesman for the regional government, said that Catalonia would not accept additional political conditions over budgetary measures that have already been agreed upon with Madrid “because the money is Catalan money”. This attitude of the region risks fostering further tension with Spain’s central government after Catalonia boycotted a meeting to set regional budgets in late July.
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Myanmar Fish Farms Suffer as Hot Weather Continues07 March 2013
MYANMAR - Fish farms in Myanmar are suffering due to unusual hot weather and parasites for this time of year. The hot weather has caused many pond to dry up and has reduced oxygen levels in the water.
While fish farmers normally wait to harvest their fish until monsoon season from June until October, they are harvesting their fish now in fear that they will die from the heat or parasites, reports the MyanmarTimes.
The most common parasite affecting fish farms is dactylogyrus, a flatworm known to inhabit fish gills, the Myanmar Fish Farmer Association said.
The parasite is temperature dependent: Hotter water temperatures increase the parasite’s life cycle from only a few days to five or six months. Anti-parasitic medicine can be bought from China or Thailand and costs about K250,000 (about US$290).
“Fish farmers who did not use medicine for parasites face higher losses. I used the medicine after suffering about K300,000 (about US$350) in losses when my fish died,” U Soe Tint, the Association’s vice chairman, told The Myanmar Times.
U Than Lwin, chairman of the Association, said that throughout his 10 fish pools, each comprising 10 acres, four or five fish will die in a pool on a hot day.
“I want to advise fish farmers that if fish are dying in their pools, they should take a sample of one fish to a laboratory and have it tested at Thaketa township in Yangon. The results of the test will give evidence as to what kind of parasite has infected the fish and will indicate what medicine to use,” he told the newspaper.
U Than Lwin said that this is common in April and May as the heat rises, but an uncommon phenomenon to occur as early as February and March. It is likely to be due to climate change.
“Fish farmers can plant trees around their pools to help provide shade and oxygen, and must give their fish medicine in time,” he said.
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June 1, 2012 - 9:32am
Oven Mode
I have an Ariston (FZ51 - max temperatre 240C) oven. I just started baking and things are ok. Bread are relatively ok, but of course not great yet. More work needs to be done.
My oven is a relatively cheap Ariston that came with the rental. It hae a few modes and till now I've been using "pizza" mode. I am not sure if thats the right one. Do I need to use different modes for differnt types of bread ? (I am still waiting for the bread stone to be delivered but I use a cast iron pan for breads that need steaming... - if that make any differnce in choosing the mode)
The available modes:
Any help is appreciated.
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Correction* INSERT: �SUPERNANNY: Harmony Family� (R) (OAD: 4/03/06) � The Harmony Family has plenty of discord -- two battling brothers wreak havoc daily -- and it�s up to Jo Frost to bring peace to this household. (TV-PG,L) (CLOSED-CAPTIONED) Delete: �ONE OCEAN VIEW: Broken Trust�
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In Late-Night Metered-Market Household Averages for Saturday night:
* "Saturday Night Live," with host Martin Short and musical guest Paul McCartney (5.1 metered-market households, "Saturday Night Live" matched its highest rating since October 20 (with a telecast hosted by Bruno Mars). In the Local People Meters, "SNL" generated its highest 18-49 rating since November 3 (with an edition hosted by Louis C.K. with musical guest fun).
Saturday Primetime Results:
* At 8 p.m. ET, an encore telecast of "Chicago Fire" averaged a 0.4/1 in 18-49 and 2.3 million viewers overall.
* At 9 p.m. ET, a second rebroadcast of "Chicago Fire" delivered a 0.5/2 in 18-49 and 2.8 million viewers overall. "Chicago Fire" delivered its biggest overall audience for an encore in this time period since October 20.
* At 10 p.m. ET, another rebroadcast of "Chicago Fire" generated a 0.7/2 in 18-49 and 3.0 million viewers overall. The 10 p.m. "Chicago Fire" encore was up from the 8 p.m. rebroadcast by 75 percent in 18-49 rating, by 50 percent in adults 25-54 (to a 0.9 rating from a 0.7) and by 31 percent in total viewers.
Friday Primetime Results:
* From 8-9 p.m. ET, an encore telecast of "Michael Bublé: Home for the Holidays" averaged a 0.9/3 in adults 18-49 and 4.1 million viewers overall, and maintained 100 percent its 18-49 rating and overall audience from its first half-hour to its second.
* From 9-10 p.m. ET, "Take It All" (1.1/3 in 18-49, 4.7 million viewers overall) ranked #2 in the time period among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in total viewers for the hour. Friday's "Take It All" grew from its first half-hour to it second by 20 percent in 18-49 rating (to a 1.2 from a 1.0) and 12 percent in total viewers (5.0 million vs. 4.5 million) and built on its lead-in by 22 percent in 18-49 and 16 percent in total viewers.
* At 10 p.m. ET, "Dateline NBC" (2.0/6 in 18-49, 6.8 million viewers overall) led the time period in adults 18-49, adults 25-54, total viewers and all other key categories among ABC, CBS and NBC and earned the #1 rating of the night in 18-49 and 25-54. "Dateline NBC" reported its highest Friday 18-49 rating and total-viewer results since September 23, 2011..
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Ratings Highlights for Monday, January 7, 2013
Final National Ratings
"Switched at Birth" is Monday's #1 Scripted Cable Telecast in Females 12-34 And the #1 Scripted Cable Telecast at 8PM in Adults 18-49 and Women 18-49, Outperforming Recent Season Averages in Target Demographics
"Bunheads" Ranks as Cable TV's #1 Scripted Telecast at 9PM in Females 12-34
"Switched at Birth" (8:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
In its Season 2 winter premiere against an extremely heightened competitive environment, "Switched at Birth" ranked as Monday's #1 scripted cable TV telecast in Females 12-34 (773,000/1.7 rating), the #1 scripted TV telecast for the entire day in Female Teens (332,000/2.8 rating), and was the #1 scripted cable TV telecast at 8 o'clock in Adults 18-34 (517,000/0.8 rating), Women 18-34 (441,000/1.3 rating), Adults 18-49 (882,000/0.7 rating) and Women 18-49 (738,000/1.2 rating).
· Despite the ultra-competitive landscape, "Switched at Birth" registered gains over its prior season in target demos, including by 6% in Total Viewers (1.7 million vs. 1.6 million), by 3% in Women 18-34 (441,000 vs. 429,000), by 6% in Women 18-49 (738,000 vs. 696,000), by 3% in Viewers 12-34 (866,000 vs. 837,000) and by 10% in Females 12-34 (773,000 vs. 704,000).
"Bunheads" (9:00 - 10:00 p.m.)
In its winter return, "Bunheads" qualified as the #1 scripted cable TV telecast at 9 p.m. in Females 12-34 (470,000), and was the #2 scripted cable TV telecast in Women 18-34 (305,000) and Women 18-49 (507,000), retaining nearly 100% of its summer season audience in the key demos (91% - 96%).
Source: NTI, 1/7/13, U.S. ratings, Live + Same Day. "SAB" prior season: 9/3/12-10/22/12; "BH" summer season: 6/22/12-8/20/12.
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Woman Security office. The security guard said that Gilbert’s tshirt, which named an educational and resource Web site for gay women, was offensive.
“As an African-American and a lesbian, I haven’t been through one day without facing some sort of discrimination but this is just shocking,” said Gilbert.
She said the guard, who works for a private company hired by the Department of Homeland Security, demanded that she leave the building or face arrest.
After being kicked out of the federal building, Gilbert called her mother, Tanya Gilbert, a longtime activist for gay rights.
When Tanya Gilbert arrived on the scene she called the Los Angeles Police Department to protest her daughter’s removal. But before four Los Angeles police officers and one federal agent arrived, Lapriss was told she could come back into the building.
Paul Dumont saw the incident and made a statement to the police, in which he said the guard’s “loud, unreasonable, aggressive and angry approach to the situation almost caused chaos.”
“For her to be told to leave was completely unnecessary, especially considering how peaceful and quiet she was responding the security officers,” said Dumont. “Nobody in that office felt her T-shirt was offensive by any means.”.”
[crossposted at Lesbilicious.co.uk]
Eleanor T // Posted 26 August 2008 at 21:43
As a British Expat who recently became a USA National, I can visualise this sort of bum fluff completely. The security guards at the SSA and DHS are usually jobsworths and a bit trigger-happy, so to hear they treated a woman in this way is completely outragous. The SSA is generally a bit shit... truth be told... and the whole system needs a good overhaul. Including their security guard hiring process, apparently.
Ari W. // Posted 27 August 2008 at 15:17
I'm not so sure this is an instance of homophobia as much as an instance of over-strict 'good taste'. Would that guard, for example, have removed somebody with a t-shirt saying "sex.com" or "heterosexuals.com"? Perhaps the guard was just a prude who would have thrown out somebody wearing a rape-prevention t-shirt?
Wrong? Yes. Bigoted? Maybe not.
Qubit // Posted 27 August 2008 at 15:39
My instinct would be that this is to do with the fact that there is a common hetro male fantasy for lesbians therefore the t-shirt would be consider titillation and too explicit. This doesn't make it any less prejudice. I would imagine wearing such a t-shirt out would lead to a lot of abuse but I could be wrong. Ari W might also be right that it would happen to any website with such a name. I think their is an assumption with words such as lesbian, gay and heterosexual/straight is that since they describe a sexuality anything containing them must be about sex.
Jess // Posted 27 August 2008 at 16:42
But Ari W - I think that's a very weird set of comparisons. A t-shirt which read "sex.com" would, you presume, be a porn site. If I saw a t-shirt that read "heterosexuals.com", I think it'd probably assume it was advertising some kind of dodgy homophobic site. Not that I'd exactly advocate for anyone being thrown out of a building for wearing a t-shirt (unless it had a swastika on it, or something), but the reasons that someone might object to the t-shirt ideas you mention would be very different.
Sorry, but I just think this is a case of obvious and blatent homophobic discrimination.
Shev // Posted 27 August 2008 at 17:28
Hey y'all,
just wanted to point out that 'lesbian' does not refer to a sexual act. It refers to a political and personal form of identification.
She was not wearing a 'heterosexuals.com' t-shirt, nor was she wearing a 'sex.com' t-shirt. Therefore to say that the discrimination she experienced was only to do with a lack of good taste (and I happen to think lesbians taste great, in any case) rather than her orientation is a completely untestable and fallacious argument.
What I find most interesting about this is the security company they're using - despite the government owning the building, they are refusing to take any responsibility for this behaviour - and you can be damn sure that Paragon aren't going to care (see all those horrible cases of assault, rape etc in privately contracted security companies working for the US government - all they get are more contracts).
Anne Onne // Posted 27 August 2008 at 18:58
I guess the argument, assuming that sexuality really did play no part in this, is to what extent should another's taste dictate what someone can and can't wear? Why should someone be ejected from the building because a security guard is offended by their attire, which is neither indecent (ie they are not naked or flashing), nor insulting in terms of the language? Where does the realm of taboo end and that of taste begin? One may find a slogan tasteless, or not get it, or find it problematic, but that is entirely different to acting as if it is a personal slight.
But I don't buy that homophobia plays no part in this, simply because it's impossible to separate the offense that could be taken from the word 'lesbian' from the offense at homosexuality, ie homophobia.
The word itself is not a swearword, and no case can be made that it is itself offensive without implying that homosexuality is offensive, and that therefore the feelings of homophobes must be spared from viewing the t-shirt.
Were it a string of swear words, the reaction would be more understandable (if still far too heavy-handed), because many people, for all sorts of reasons, take offense at swear words, and the context of their use can matter greatly.
They are starred out and treated as taboo, and we can analyse the whys and wherefores, but they are luckily in a different class to the word 'lesbian'. The fact that to some people 'lesbian' is as good as a gross insult is rather telling.
Besides, I still think that the issue should stand, even if the T-shirt bears a slogan that I would consider offensive, like one of those awful rape joke/objectifying/generally misogynist t-shirts, I would not think it right to forcibly remove someone from the building for wearing one. Looking away in horror is one thing, expecting anyone with offending garments to be frogmarched off to the police station is another.
Standards of offense differ considerably, and I'd think it would have to be a pretty extreme example to warrant such action. In the end, unless there is a specific uniform for employees, people should be allowed to wear what they wish.
And ironically, we don't get lots of reports of frat boys with rude t-shirts and women with 'playboy bunny' or other lurid slogans sprawled accross their chests getting kicked out.
Qubit // Posted 28 August 2008 at 16:36
I think the point I was trying to make is that (wrongly) the majority of people when seeing a t-shirt for lesbian.com would make the assumption it was probably a porn site. I can see but disagree with the argument of asking someone to leave or cover up for wearing an advert to an explicit site.
The fact that there is the assumption that such a site will be porn or for sexual titillation is obviously a bad sign and something that should be tackled BUT I think it is there.
Joan // Posted 21 October 2008 at 22:57
We can only hope the guard loses his job and instructions are left in his employment file to advise prospective future employers that may ring to check his work history that this individual is violently discrimatory and should under no circumstances be given employment.
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DecentAmerican commented:
Wonderful! It’s about time that an intelligent and elegant man who happens to be black took a position of power in DC! But beware mr Scott, the racist Democrats will do everything in their power to destroy you, they just hate to see a smart independent thinking black American!
Congratulations, and God speed you on your journey to save this country.
Sasja commented:
Knew she would pick well. But then there is…Doococki?
donh commented:
” So shines a good deed in a weary world ” Willie Wonka
Ragspierre commented:
Excellent pick. Good news!
Gail commented:
Good choice Gov. Hayley. He has always impressed me as do most of our black conservative/independent leaders!
Gail commented:
let me correct that, as do ALL, not MOST!
Ruebacca commented:
Fantastic. We needed the real deal to replace DeMint.
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Scott better be ready to called a racist, an Uncle Tom, and be a target for not being black enough.
Tom Doniphon commented:
Let the Uncle Tom attacks begin! If they can go after RGIII, no Blacks are exempt!
DecentAmerican commented:
falcon…no doubt, but Tim Scott has impressed me by being elegant and above the fray. He is committed to making the country better. The KKK founding racist Dems will constantly be against him, but he has righteousness on his side. A wonderful day in this time of sadness, and a momentous occasion in history, when a man like Scott is recognized for his content of character!
Bigkahuna commented:
Nikki is obviously a racist since she didn’t pick a black democrat woman!
Look-Out commented:
As we’d hoped…I have an idea DeMint knew she’d make this pick.
Thank you, Governor! And we expect only the best from you, Tim Scott~
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Yay!! God speed and good luck to You Senator Scott.
A great choice because he is a capable guy, a mensch, will do a great job.
Mike commented:
This made my day. Way to go, Gov Haley!!!!
Ray commented:
He’s just a cornball brother.
Sam Stone commented:
BUT BUT BUT the GOP’ers are supposed to be racists!!!!! How can this be?
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Is Scott black enough for the left?
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So the only black senator is a republican!!! The media will have to stop talking about the shooting now and focus on destroying this guy.
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Nardwuar: Hello?
Gauntlet: Hi, can I speak to Nardwuar please?
N: This is him.
G: Hi Nardwuar, this is Peter calling from the University of Calgary Gauntlet.
N: How're you doing?
G: I'm doing quite well, how are you doing?
N: Good. Thanks for the interest.
G: No problem at all. Do you mind if I ask where you are right now, just for context?
N: I'm at my house in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
G: Doing anything special for Mother's Day today? I've heard that you're still living with your mother?
N: I'm taking my mom out for lunch, and going to get her some Harley Davidson Biker Brew Coffee that she really enjoys.
G: Harley Davidson Biker Brew Coffee. I've never heard of that, I didn't realize that Harley was into the coffee industry.
N: Yes, they're into that. It's everywhere, eh? Just like Yamaha in the old '80s used to be into everything.
G: Seems kind of odd. Anyway, the first thing I wanted to ask you about is a quote from Scratch Records that said that the Evaporators were Canada's "indisputable best live band" and that "Nardwuar is one of the best things about Canada. Is it actually indisputable, that the Evaporators are the best live band in Canada?
N: That's very nice of them to say that. Keith from Scratch records is a very nice guy, and the Evaporators have played with some of his bands over the years, so perhaps that's his firsthand knowledge. Or it's Shawn, the other guy from Scratch's knowledge as well. Shawn and Keith are also great fans of the other guys in our band. John Collins, who plays bass and is also in the New Pornographers, Dave Carswell you plays guitar and also plays in the Smugglers, because John and Dave played in a couple of tours with Superconducter, I don't know if you remember them at all. But they were Keith of Scratch records and Shawn of Scratch Records' band. So John and Dave filled in a few times. Because Superconductor were an amazing band. Also in the band was Carl, he was the singer, and Carl is now the singer of the New Pornographers, and John is in the New Pornographers. But John and Dave did a couple of tours of duty there with Superconductor, so Keith and Shawn are big fans I know at least of those guys, because they really kick it up a notch live, and they've seen that firsthand.
G: As a contrast to that, I'm sure you're familiar with Chart Magazine?
N: Yea… help me out a bit.
G: Chart magazine – the Canadian music magazine – they do annual reviews of the Canadian Music Week on their website chartattack.com. The actual quote from the review they have this time: "Nardwuar has balls the size of Nunavut, gumption to last three lifetimes and more talent than most cities. Unfortunately, the Evaporators just aren't very good... NO one cares about anyone else in the band."
N: The weird thing about that particular view, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but unfortunately the gentleman – I didn't actually find this out, Grant of the Smugglers found this out, because the Smugglers were reviewed as well – the gig that you're talking about started at 8pm, and ended at 2am, and the guy that reviewed the entire gig was there the entire night, and he later admitted to Grant of the Smugglers that he was exhausted, and just wanted to get the hell out of there. He was a big fan of a band, Death from Above, that played on that bill as well. Also on that bill were the Candidates, the High Dials, the Evaporators, the Smugglers, Death from Above. We were actually on at 1am, and believe it or not, we didn't get off stage until probably 2am. So the reviewer guy I guess unfortunately was completely wiped out, so I don't really know what would have saved him. One interesting thing about that is, he's entitled to his own opinion, is that we pulled up on stage with us Canadian heavy metal legend Thor, and Thor joined us for a couple of numbers. Unfortunately in his review, he didn't even mention that, which is kind of bizarre, since the Thor thing went out of control and haywire, for about 45 minutes. It was only supposed to be for 15 minutes, and it ended up being 45. So I'm not totally satisfied with that review in the sense that, you know it's his own opinion, but at least slag us by mentioning we had Canadian heavy metal legend Thor on stage. You don't have to try to watch the entire show, and he later talked to Grant from the Smugglers. I mean, I don't care, but Grant from the Smugglers, they got a weird review too, so Grant followed up on the guy. I just attributed it to somebody being totally tired. I mean, you're the last band on at 1am, the gig starts at 8pm, people were totally drunk. I don't know what the hell you can do. Grant of the Smugglers said that we were headlining the night, like he said "Man, you're headlining," because they went on right before us, and I said, "No Grant, we're playing clean up," you know, cleaning up the evening. So I'm not sure what anyone could have done in that situation with that reviewer. I mean, that guy's high point was several hours earlier when Death from Above played, so I don't know how anyone was going to top that.
G: And with Thor coming on, he did the whole blowing up the hot air balloon, bending steel in his mouth, that sort of thing, right?
N: Indeed. You sure have been digging around.
G: Well, you do it for your interviews, the least I could do is pay the same respect.
N: Yea, that's very nice of you, it's cool that you dug around and found those interesting tidbits. I love tidbits like that. But yes, we pulled Thor up on stage. I respect that guy's review, if he wants to say that, that's fine. And I hate to criticize someone's review, but I would say this, that he didn't seem to review the entire show because he didn't mention the Thor thing .That's all that sticks out in my mind, because the Thor thing as I said kind of went haywire, because people were drunk and grabbing him. What took 15 minutes to do in Vancouver, we did it with him once in Vancouver, took like 45 to an hour in Toronto. Our set was about half an hour as well, so it just was pretty crazy. But not including that, I don't know if you can totally take that without a grain of salt, you know?
G: Recently, the band Phantom Planet had their drummer Jason Schwartzman, who also is in movies, leave because he felt his fame was overshadowing the band's music. Do you ever get the impression that now that this MuchMusic thing has really been catching on, now that you're on Much On Demand all the time, that people are coming to the Evaporators show more to see Nardwuar than to see a good punk show?
N: Any way to get the kids out, I'll be happy. The only weird thing about it is that, sometimes I'll have a kid say "I didn't realize you had a band," and I'll say, "Yea, we actually started on February 20th, 1986," and then somebody will say, "Wow, I wasn't born until 1989." So it's kind of weird when that happens. Any chance that anybody comes to the gig, I'm totally happy. Any of the records that I've put out on Nardwuar the Human Serviette records – and this latest one is a Nardwuar slash Mint release in Canada, and it's on Alternative Tentacles, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedy's label in the United States of America – all the records have included little tidbits of interviews, so it's all been intertwined. So I'm happy if somebody comes just because they've seen me on MuchMusic, or they've heard me on CITR Radio, and I'm happy if somebody shows up because they've heard the music and know nothing about the interviews because I think it's all one giant thing. The first record I put out in 1989 had interviews on it, like interviews with Jello Biafra, as well with ex-President of the United States Gerald Ford, so it isn't just rockers, it's politicians. It's all just one giant jumble. I love it.
G: So you don't really see a separation between the two?
N: Not at all, because I include both in the presentation of our music, because its fun to offer something extra. When you buy an album, it's fun to have liner notes, its fun to have little interview snippets to be able to listen to as well. It's the entire package. Some people say its all about the music, and I say yea, it's a bout the music, but it's also about the packaging. I love packaging too.
G: If it wasn't for the packaging, you'd see a lot more people downloading music. That's one of the main arguments I've heard from my friends is that you only get the music, none of the packaging, liner notes, everything you're talking about.
N: The pathetic thing about that though, I don't think it holds too much weight because the packaging is so pathetic, that once they get it, they're like "What the fuck? There's nothing there!" You can go to Amazon.com and print off the cover, and get the credits from All Music Guide, and make your own packaging a hell of a lot better than a lot of the bands. So yes, for a lot of the bands that have really cool packaging, I think you can't really download it, but for the others, I don't think it makes any difference because people don't put any effort into it.
G: You were talking about Jello Biafra before. He was in a movie in 1999 called the Widower, which I hear you had a cameo in?
N: Yes, I played a donut boy.
G: Your name isn't mentioned on their website, or on the IMDB reference to the movie. Are they trying to hide you?
N: I don't think I had any lines. I was just in the background, although I do know that "Doot-doo-da-loot-doo" I think was dubbed in. There is actually a picture of me somewhere on my website of me as Carl the Donut boy. If you go to the Nard Gallery on my website Nardwuar.com, and there's a little search thing in Nard Gallery, type in "The Widower" or "Carl the Donut Boy" and I think that'll come up, so there is proof floating around.
G: Would you ever consider doing another movie, or is that just sort of a one-off, cameo appearance?
N: I was in that movie "A Girl is a Girl," put together by Reg Harkema who helped edit Hard Core Logo, and that was another cameo in a record store. And actually the Evaporators song "I'm Going To France" played during the sex scene, when a guy's cock was exposed, so I thought that was quite an honour.
G: I was going through the Nard Gallery, and saw a picture of you and Jello Biafra with three albums. One of them was Mae West's Wild Christmas, but I couldn't make out what the other two were, or whether he was giving them to you or just showing them off.
N: He was just showing them to us. To tell you the truth, I don't remember what the albums actually were, because I didn't get a chance to write them down. We were at his house, and he just had them floating around there. The Mae West record was an obscure record that he had got in Australia and was really really rare. But it was really neat, because we got to stay at his house and he showed us lots of his records, and I did an interview with him that you can actually listen to the most recent interview that I did with him at Nardwuar.com. And he actually put out our record, which is pretty incredible considering that in 1989, when I put him on our record, it was a compilation record I put out called "Oh God, My Mom's on Channel 10," I thought that he hated me. And he did probably hate me. But after 15 years of bugging him, we ended up on his record label, so don't give up kids. You never know what will happen.
G: That's the moral of the story here?
N: Things have come around and now he's a good friend. He puts out our records and still gives me interviews.
G: It seems like you have that kind of effect on people. A lot of them seem to dislike you initially, and then you grow on them with your persistence. Is that something that you find happens a lot, like with Courtney Love, with Chris from Sloan, and apparantly with Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys? Why do you think that people have that initial "I don't know what to make of him, I don't like him all that much" reaction to you?
N: I don't know. I mean, if I knew that much about myself, then I don't know if I'd be here right now because I'd probably be winning the lottery. I just act like myself. The only thing I can think of is that I do my radio show every week at CITR, the University of BC, and again you can hear clips at Nardwuar.com of my shows over the years, and having to do a show every week, you have to come up with something every week. So if someone comes back to town, you think "oh I might as well try to talk to them again. So if it doesn't work once, well maybe try again. I interviewed Henry Rollins before, and I thought the interview went pretty fun, I don't think he liked it. When the interview was over, he was like "You need to get fucked. When's the last time you were fucked?" Unfortunately, none of that got on tape. But he still said that "next time you talk to me, make sure you floss and brush your teeth, because your breath is really really intense." So the way he said "the next time," I thought that's an invitation. So he's come back to town a couple of times, and I emailed him, because he does answer his email, just go to his website or whatever, and you can hook up, that 2-13-61 website and you can hook up with him that way indirectly through his publicist, but he's always emailed back with "No. Your act is pathetic. Leave me alone, I don't want to be interviewed by you." And another time he said, "Ian MacKaye of Fugazi played me some interviews you've done. Some of that was good shit, but your act is tired and I don't want to talk to you. Please don't bug me again." Every couple years he'll tell me that when I ask him for an interview. So it doesn't always work. Some people I've been able to bug over and over, and somehow been able to win them over and get lots of good interviews out of them, and we've become good friends. But with Henry Rollins, I still want to be his friend, as Chixdiggit say, but unfortunately nothing has really come as a result. However, indirectly, he did inspire the song Salad Bar on the Evaporators' new record, because the song Salad Bar is inspired from his book Get In The Van, where he talks about when Black Flag are on tour and they're really really hungry, he can feed the whole band by going to a salad bar. And they don't just buy a plate – well, they buy a plate, and put the plate on a tray, and they use the tray basically as the plate, and then everyone eats of the tray, so they only have to buy one plate, and they just put it on a tray and it's a giant mound. So that's what the song Salad Bar is about, on the Evaporators record.
G: On the new one, Ripple Rock.
N: On the new one, Ripple Rock. And, if you want to see how I've related to Jello Biafra over the years, you can just pop the Evaporators CD into your computer, it's an enhanced CD, and you can watch 14 or 12 years of me talking to Jello Biafra between 1989 and 2002. It has all the video clips all included there. You can also check that out at Nardwuar.com, but it is on the CD too as an enhanced feature, which I just think is awesome, because you get videos as well. So that's an added little feature with the packaging.
G: You were saying that Henry Rollins was saying your "act" was tired. Do you think of it as an act?
N: I just go out and go for it. I just get excited, and sometimes my voice goes up a bit because I'm excited. It's like Henry Rollins. This is a guy that's had beer bottles thrown at his head and it hasn't bugged him at all, so who knows what he's going to do to me. So I just get excited, and I just go for it. I think some people just don't understand, you become a super faN: boy in front of these people. I mean, what else can you be but nervous?
G: You do have a considerable amount of knowledge about the music scene, you've done a lot in terms of documenting the musicians that have come through Vancouver. You try to bring awareness of older Vancouver bands. Do you feel that you're a little bit underrated, for lack of a better word? Do you ever wish that you could be more respected in the journalism community?
N: I do feel that I'm respected, because I've been able to do a show on CITR UBC Radio since October 1987, touch wood. I've been on the air continuously since then, so I think that certain people in the community have given me a chance, so I'm forever grateful for them for letting me do my show every Friday since October 1987. I figure if I was doing it wrong, they would have yanked me by now. But I think I'm just totally honored that I'm able to go there and just do whatever the hell I want, whether it be interviewing a porn star, a politician, a band, a conspiracy theorist guy, it's just great to be able to keep on going. I would however one day like to get my own TV show, that is a goal of my own. To be able to have my own show where the Evaporators play, and I come running out and sing the theme song, and sit behind a desk and interview 50 Cent or whatever, or go on remote and interview 50 Cent or Brian Wilson. That would be my goal. I do have that goal, I'd love to do that.
G: Speaking of TV theme songs, the theme for Nard Wars is also "Nard Nest" off the newest album, is that right?
N: Yes it is. Thank you for noticing that, that is amazing, and like I say, thanks for digging around for all that information. This is just amazing that you actually know all this stuff. I'm just totally blown away.
G: I appreciate that. It just seems like the least I could do considering the effort you put into interviews with other artists. The question I was going to ask, though, is about the Nard Nest itself. [The Nard Nest is Nardwuar's message board on his web site,.] You seem to have a lot more contact with your fans than most artists I can think of. Do you think it's important to keep that close of a tie with your fans?
N: The Nard Nest is pretty easy to respond to because there aren't a hell of a lot of posts. It was kept alive by basically two people, Fergo Overdrive and Zooey Katooie. These two girls, they posted amongst each other like 900 posts each, just back and forth, using it as their own personal message board. So when someone else posts, I feel that I should go out there and try to respond to it. Plus I love doing it, I love seeing what people want to know and little tidbits of information. There's hardly any posts, really, and that's why we wrote the song Nard Nest. If you listen to the refrain, its "There's four people online, all the time" and we don't even basically get that. I think the most we've ever had at one time was when there were eleven people on in 2002, and I don't know how that happened. I think some of that was like cookies, searching out the site. It has that thing on the bottom of the message board of how many people maximum have been on the site, and its really not a hell of a lot. But its fun responding to people, and also trying to get information from people. People help me out by giving me suggestions of things to ask people when I'm doing interviews, etc, etc.
G: It looked like that came up for the Blur interview, although unfortunately it didn't look like you got to use too many of the questions before your hat was stolen.
N: I did actually get to use them. I'm not sure if the entire interview is posted there –
G: I think it was just the clip that aired on MuchMusic.
N: What actually happened there was I showed up and Dave, the drummer, didn't seem to be too pleased with me, and as soon as I walked the room, he just started roughing me up. Ripped up my questions that I was going to ask him, threw away my hat and my glasses, and for all intents and purposes just stormed off. And I was like "Ok", and just continued on the interview with Damon and Alex, and it went totally normal, and I asked him pretty much all the questions. It was just weird how that happened. I think other people, if they had that happen, would've just fucked off and been like "Hey, I'm out of here, I'm not going to do this interview." But for me it was just like, hey, this is just a drummer, I don't want to really speak to him anyway. I wanted to talk to Damon and Alex, and when I talked to them they were totally normal. It was just bizarre. I had spoken to them before, and the interview went just fine, you can actually read that interview at Nardwuar.com, if you want to check that out. So I don't know why the guy would be angry this time.
G: It's not the first time you've had stuff stolen from you though, right? There was the Sebastian Bach incident, and also at one show, apparently a couple of kids came up to you and one of them stole your hat? And you and Chris Murphy from Sloan had to tackle them and ransom it off?
N: Its pretty amazing isn't it, that a guy who I interviewed in 1991, Chris from Sloan, who stormed out of the interview, ten or twelve years later ends up getting back my hat that was stolen, that he lets us stay at his house when we play in Toronto with the Evaporators, and when I had my first ever MuchMusic special, Chris was the host of it. It's just incredible that all this happened. He's just a lifesaver. I mean, that was just amazing that he was able to do that. I'm just so in debt to him for doing that. This was a guy that really didn't like me, and then all these years later he's my friend. And he's still turning me on to stuff. I mean, when we're at his house, he exposed me to the movie Office Space, which I enjoy. And also the drumming of Buddy Rich, so that was pretty cool because I never would've gotten into those things otherwise, so thank you Chris Murphy.
G: If you like Office Space, there's another movie you should look into called Haiku Tunnel, I'm not sure if you would've heard of it. It's another sort of office comedy, and it's a little bit off beat.
N: Do you play in a band yourself?
G: Not at the moment. A few high school things, and a few local bands that went nowhere and didn't play any shows. Just more of a fan of music and movies in general.
N: Had you ever heard of the Evaporators before, because we had played Calgary a few times over the years.
G: The Evaporators I'd heard of but never really checked out outside of the one or two videos on the website, which to be honest I wasn't so much into. But having heard Ripple Rock it seems like a huge leap forward in terms of songwriting, I've actually liked it quite a bit more. But I haven't actually seen you guys live before, if that's what you're wondering.
N: Yea, just curious, because we have actually played Calgary over the years a few times, including Alberta, going back a few years to the Highwood Music Festivals. Those were in '93 and '92, these giant festivals that they had with bands like the Muffs and Mudhoney and Social Distortion play, and I remember we played one year and our check bounced, so that was pretty funny.
G: So they couldn't actually pay you for it then?
N: No, not the second year. It was great exposure though. It was pretty funny too because there were bands playing at all hours of the day. There was a band Bum, who I love, from Victoria, and they played at like 8 am. They woke up out of their tent and crawled over to the stage and played, and actually there were quite a few people there to see them. Not as many as, you know, bands that played in the afternoon.
G: Not a lot of that crowd is too big on the morning shows. Now, you were given a Piss Troll, is that correct?
N: Yes I was. Oh my God.
G: Do you still have that?
N: Yes I do. It's right beside me. It was given to me by this girl Sarah, she didn't tell me if there was piss in it or not. She just said "it's a piss troll. Deal with it." I tend to believe her though, because her friend Jones, that's how I met her, is friends with this guy called Senor Amore, who is a friend of ours from Los Angeles. And Senor Amore has told us many stories about playing badminton with Lenny Kravitz and how Janet Jackson once gave him a Jackson 5 T-shirt because he went to school with Janet Jackson, so I kind of believe this Piss Troll story just because all the stuff to do with them is pretty much all true. So I haven't been able to figure out if they're liars or not. So I'm totally down with that piss troll, so it's sitting right on my desk, and hopefully its not evaporating. All the piss is not evaporating into this room. Maybe that's why I've been sick recently, hopefully the lid is on tight.
G: You haven't actually checked to see if it is piss?
N: No, I haven't. It's sealed up very nicely. And again, I'm amazed that you've dug around there, that's incredible.
G: You have said one of your favorite things to do is smelling things. This just hasn't piqued your curiosity?
N: Well I can see it now, it's just on the other side of my computer, but it's not in total view. So I think if I moved it out in front of my computer, get back to me in a couple months and I probably will have smelt it. I've just kind of got it out of sight, so maybe that's a good thing. I'd probably be picking at it right now if it was in front of me.
If people are interested in hearing the Evaporators, as you hadn't heard the Evaporators, we do have theevaporators.com where people can hear clips from the new record, and the old record, and watch some of the vids and stuff like that, and visit the Nard Nest. So and .com, in case anybody's wondering what the hell's going on, so people can read about the Sebastian Bach story there. And the Courtney Love story and the Jello Biafra story.
G: You and Mark Kleiner, who's now in the Mark Kleiner Power Trio used to have this fascination with the band Enuff Z'nuff. Is there any other band now that you'd like to bring up from relative obscurity into relatively less obscurity?
N: Again, I am just so humbled that you have dug so deeply, and brought up a band that I love so much. Thanks so much, I mean this research you've done is amazing, I mean this is really just making me very, wow, I don't know what to say, Enuff Z'nuff. Yes, Mark Kleiner, another great name to bring up. Thank you so for reminding me about Mark Kleiner, I mean how could I ever forget about Mark Kleiner? For years I would just interview punk bands, and then one day Mark Kleiner said "Screw the punk bands, go for the true alternative." And I'm like, what are you talking about? He says "Bands like Green Day and Rancid and all that punk shit, they're getting played on the radio, they're getting played on MTV and MuchMusic. All the hair metal bands have totally died off. They are the true alternative. Why don't you interview Slik Toxik?" They were that Canadian heavy metal band, I don't know if you remember, they crashed their limo after the Juno awards. And there was a rumor that they had changed the name of their band to Slack Toxik, to capitalize on generation X, you know like slacker. So I interviewed Slik Toxik, and then it was natural to go after Warrant, and then after Warrant and all these other heavy metal bands like Skid Row and stuff, you started getting into the second-tiered, double named heavy metal bands like Danger Danger and Enuff Z'nuff. And every interview that we did, we would always refer back to Enuff Z'nuff because they seemed to have gone through the school of hard knocks. They had supported Cheap Trick all these years, and yet when the Cheap Trick tribute album came out they were knocked from it. They'd been supported by Howard Stern all these years, but then when Howard Stern finally had his movie, at last minute, who got the axe? Enuff Z'nuff. So every band we interviewed, we would always mention Enuff Z'nuff. We would even make up fake rumors about Enuff Z'nuff just to get people's reactions, all these other metal bands that we interviewed. And then one day we did interview Enuff Z'nuff, and then of course I had to throw in the lyrics "LA Guns, Enuff Z'nuff, they come to mind but that's not the stuff…"
(The tape ran out at this point without me realizing it, so the rest of the conversation is lost. Basically, Nardwuar mentioned that the one thing he's consciously trying to bring back is the 8-track player, and he sells many of the Evaporators releases in this format. Following a lengthy explanation of how the 8-track works, including demonstrations highlights from Jimmy Smith's "Living It Up" on Verve records, Nardwuar realized he had to leave, and with his ever-present salutation of "Doot-doo-da-loot-doo," he was gone.)
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Jun 21 2012 Exclusive by Ben Spencer
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HIS name is Mickey, he’s a Disney star and he’s an expert magician – but illusionist Michael Barron is no mouse.
The 27-year-old American is the man responsible for bringing to life the amazing magical effects during the Disney Live! show which will arrive at the Braehead Arena next month.
But Michael told The Glaswegian he found it funny he had ended up in a job that was so similar to that of his childhood hero Mickey Mouse.
He said: “More than anyone, as a kid I identified with Mickey.
“I’ve been doing magic since I was a little kid and my dream was always to become a professional magician. When I was six, my parents took me to see David Copperfield and that was it for me.
“In the cartoons, Mickey was also a magician and when I was a little, kid my dad used to call me Mickey, so I do have this personal identification with the character.
“Little did I know that 20 years later I would be performing all over the world with Disney.”
Michael spent years practicing to become a magician and was eventually snapped up by Disney bosses after they saw him performing his own show in Orlando, Florida, near Disneyland.
In his role with Disney, he performs incredible illusions and tricks alongside beloved characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck.
Michael, from Florida, said that many audience members were amazed by the quality of the magic.
He added: “You get to see a lot of cool stuff. I’m going to be splitting a lady in two, I’m also going to be escaping from a sealed box in under a second and there’s a beautiful levitation scene where I levitate Princess Jasmine.
“There are memorable scenes from the movies like Alice in Wonderland, where the Mad Hatter pulls all kinds of crazy things from his hat. There’s also an amazing sorcerer’s apprentice scene from Fantasia.
“It’s really fast-paced and will keep everyone interested in the show.
“But for me, being able to look into the audience and see those genuine reactions from people is my favourite part.”
Disney Live! is at Braehead Arena from July 11 to 15.
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Press release from PR Newswire
WestJet reports record May traffic
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Airline flies an additional 100,000 guests year over year and reports 7.2 per cent increase in traffic
CALGARY, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - WestJet today announced May traffic results with a load factor of 79.2 per cent. Revenue passenger miles (RPMs), or traffic, increased 7.2 per cent year over year, and capacity, measured in available seat miles (ASMs), grew 1.3 per cent over the same period. The airline flew more than 100,000 additional guests this month compared to May of 2011.
"We are very pleased with this month's load factor and forward bookings are showing continued strength as we head into the busy summer flying season," said WestJet President and CEO Gregg Saretsky.
WestJet recently implemented Korean Air as its sixth code-share partner and has launched seven new interline arrangements thus far in 2012, bringing a total of 24 alliance relationships to connect its guests throughout the world. "As we add airline partners and continue to grow our fleet, we're welcoming new guests to WestJet every day," commented Gregg Saretsky. "I thank WestJetters for their continued commitment to creating a remarkable experience and for showing our guests that we are not just another airline."
In May, WestJet inaugurated new daily service to Chicago's O'Hare airport from Calgary and Vancouver and yesterday marked the start of service between Toronto Pearson International Airport and New York's LaGuardia airport, both significant milestones in WestJet's strategy to expand service to key business markets in North America.
Caution regarding forward-looking statements
Certain information set forth in this news release, including information regarding forward bookings,
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Chef.
Sure, you love butter. Who doesn’t? But how much do you love butter? Is this beginning to sound uncomfortably close to King Lear? Overwrought declarations of love on stage are one thing. But perhaps it’s a bit much when it comes to butter. Then again, maybe not. Meet Chef Devwrat Anand Jategaonkar. He loves butter. And fairy tales. Love conquers all? Sometimes, it does.
Chef. Also a fairytale. And, to be perfectly honest, we suspect a little bit of magic too. How else do you transport a delicate butter sculpture depicting Cinderella from Alibaug in Maharashtra to Erfurt in Germany.
Discussing how he worked on the sculpture for two months, Chef Devwrat says he was inspired by the fantasy and romance of Cinderella. “It’s a story everyone knows. But it’s more than that,” he says, discussing how the ‘Prince’ is a metaphor for the dreams coming true. Now, at the risk of killing some of the romance, we have to tell you that butter sculptures are actually made with margarine, which holds better. It however looks and feels like butter, with its warm colour and gleaming texture. “I like to keep it natural. That yellow is so beautiful,” says Chef Devwrat. He goes on to discuss the challenges. “The temperature has to be maintained at 20 degrees C, and you need to do it in stages, since each part needs time to set after it’s been carved.”
Transportation hurdles
However, the biggest challenge he faced was transportation. “The roads out of Alibaug are not very smooth. It took us seven hours to get to the airport, because I asked the driver to move at a speed of 10 to 15 km/hr.” He adds with a laugh, “The AC was on full blast, and we were all shivering.” When they reached the airport, it took a while to convince the airline to let the 3 ft x 3 ft x 3 ft sculpture travel. “The Lufthansa staff was shocked when I said I wanted to put it in a container with wheels and store it in the luggage hold! But I had no other option. They said it would reach in two pieces. It survived. “We checked in Frankfurt and there was minor damage, but at least Cinderella was okay!” Almost three hours by taxi later, Chef Devwrat and his sculpture were safely ensconced in a hotel room. “The temperature in Germany was perfect for the sculpture: 13 degrees.”
All the effort was worth it in the end. He won a silver in a competition featuring 550 participants. “It was so unexpected. Chefs had done amazing things. There was a sugar sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II that was so perfect it felt like she was standing in front of you. There was a chocolate warrior. And a beautiful sculpture in salt called ‘Unexpected Attack,’ showing a man on a camel being pounced on by a lion.”
Discussing how this was possible only because of the support he received from Radisson Blu, Alibaug, where he is executive chef, Devwrat says it’s a big step forward for a small town boy. “I grow up in Akola, near Nagpur. I wanted to move to Pune because it was a bigger city. But when I went there to study hotel management, it was so difficult. My English wasn’t good, my accent was different, I missed my friends and family… I almost gave up. Then I discovered carving. Made some beetroot flowers.” That’s how it all began.
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Marian Gaborik has scored 110 goals since the lockout, but could soon find his way out of Minnesota. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
Lyle Richardson
2008-10-06 13:37:07
Nikolai Khabibulin’s tenure with the Chicago Blackhawks could be drawing to a close this week.
After Khabibulin cleared waivers last week, Blackhawks GM Dale Tallon gave Jay Grossman, the veteran goalie’s agent, permission to speak with other NHL teams in hopes of finding a potential trade partner.
Grossman claimed several teams expressed interest in Khabibulin, while Tallon said he’d be exploring all options, including the possibility of loaning the netminder to a team in Russia’s Kontinental League.
Tallon would prefer to find an NHL team for the veteran goalie and even suggested if no deal could be found Khabibulin would play for the Blackhawks, but that was greeted with skepticism by most observers.
Speculation abounds as to potential NHL destinations for Khabibulin. The Ottawa Senators and Colorado Avalanche were rumored to be interested, but management for both teams dismissed those reports.
The Los Angeles Kings have been linked to Khabibulin throughout the summer, but GM Dean Lombardi has maintained he’ll be going with Jason LaBarbera as his starting goalie and will look within his own system for a backup.
Grossman and Tallon agreed it would be best for this situation to be resolved as soon as possible, preferably before the Blackhawks season opener Oct. 10.
• Boston Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli admitted he’s in the market for a top defenseman, but hasn’t had much success finding one and dismissed a recent rumor that first-line center Marc Savard was being shopped.
In addition to his search for a defenseman, the Bruins GM is also looking at ways to free up cap space to make room for promising youngsters, notably winger Blake Wheeler.
Reports out of Boston suggest winger Peter Schaefer could be on his way out. However, a $2.1-million cap hit for the next two seasons and a disappointing performance in 2007-08 (nine goals, 26 points in 63 games) could make him impossible to move.
Another possibility is veteran winger P-J Axelsson, who’s been a fixture in the rumor mill for more than a year, but has a limited no-trade clause allowing him to authorize 20 possible trade partners.
Young forward Phil Kessel was rumored to have been available last season, but his name has yet to pop up in the recent Bruins rumors. It’s believed Chiarelli doesn’t want to give up on Kessel, who has the potential to be a scoring star, but the first round draft pick’s work ethic - especially in his defensive game - has been called into question.
• The Minnesota Wild’s effort to re-sign star forward Marian Gaborik is not looking good.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently reported talks appear to be at a standstill as GM Doug Risebrough admitted he didn’t expect Gaborik to be re-signed before the start of this season.
Risebrough suggested it was possible he’d consider trading Gaborik if an impasse couldn’t be broken, but declined to say if he’s already spoken to potential suitors.
The Wild management doesn’t want negotiations to become a distraction by dragging on throughout the season, but it appears unlikely Risebrough will move Gaborik early in the year, preferring to use the time to negotiate a potential deal. If nothing appears imminent by December, he could start shopping the talented, yet injury-prone.
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Chris Neil's hit on Victor Hedman put the Lightning defender on the shelf with a concussion. (Phillip MacCallum/Getty Images)
Ken Campbell
2009-11-11 14:50:00.
I couldn’t disagree with them more. I don’t think severely penalizing players for their recklessness will automatically transform the NHL into the National Ringette League. But they do. And they’re smart, passionate men who have an enormous amount of experience at virtually every level of the game.
So the news the GMs have deferred the issue to a to-be-named committee of seven GMs who will report back with recommendations at some point certainly won’t please everyone. But in light of the fact it has become increasingly clear there will never, ever be a blanket rule banning head shots in the NHL, it’s about as much as we can expect.
There is an appetite to have the blindside hits against unsuspecting players dealt with and the GMs held up the recent Mike Richards hit on David Booth as one that is currently legal, but might be a suspendable offense by this time next year. But how exactly do you remove those kinds of hits without taking a vital element out of the game?
“I don’t think any of us knows the answer to that,” said Nashville Predators GM David Poile. “That’s why we are where we are. It is certainly in our craw that if there’s a way to get rid of those 10 hits (a season), we’re going to do it.”
So, here’s the plan. Director of hockey operations Colin Campbell will soon appoint seven GMs to a committee that will form a breakout group at the next GM meetings in March. That group will monitor hits throughout the rest of this season and be provided with data from the league. It will then spend the first day of the March meetings discussing recommendations, which will then be presented to the entire group of GMs. If adopted by the GMs, the recommendations will then go to the competition committee, then to the board of governors for any potential change to the rulebook.
Doesn’t exactly scream a call to action, does it? Perhaps not. But there seems to be a resolve among this group to get rid of the Richards-Booth types of hits where a vulnerable player who couldn’t possibly see a hit coming takes one in the head and is carted off on a stretcher.
“It’s not easy, but if I were to characterize the group, I would say that it’s more serious than I’ve ever seen it before,” said Buffalo Sabres GM Darcy Regier. “It’s viewed as being more serious than ever before and more important to work on.”
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Recent hits such as the Mattias Ohlund hit on Phil Kessel, the Chris Neil hit on Victor Hedman or the Willie Mitchell hit on Jonathan Toews will never be outlawed by this group of GMs the way they might be if there were a blanket ban on head shots. Almost to a man, they view those kinds of hits as good hockey plays that are a deep part of the fabric of the game. And maybe they’re trying too hard to justify themselves here, but they are also quick to point out the types of hits that are most heinous are the exception rather than the rule.
“Over the course of a season, there are probably about a dozen hits that we can all remember that we all wish we could have back, so to speak,” Poile said. “Over the course of a game, there’s 40-plus hits and if you multiply that out, that’s about 50,000 hits in a season. To get rid of these 10 hits, what’s the right thing to do?”
It doesn’t help that all of this is so open to interpretation. A hit one person might view as a heinous crime could be viewed by another as a good hockey play that shouldn’t even be penalized. That was certainly the spectrum of opinion on the recent hit in the Ontario League on Ben Fanelli that earned Michael Liambas a season-long suspension.
Even the Richards hit on Booth isn’t entirely clear-cut.
“There was something about the Richards-Booth situation; it was a feeling that there’s just something that wasn’t right about that hit and we’d like to change that type of hit,” Poile said. “That one didn’t sit well with the managers.”
MEETING OF THE U.S. MINDS
U.S. Olympic team GM Brian Burke used the meetings as a chance to meet with assistant GM David Poile and advisors Ray Shero, Don Waddell and Dean Lombardi on the makeup of the team for the Vancouver Games.
Burke said the team would continue to work on its roster before meeting again in December at the board of governors meeting in Pebble Beach. But he gave the impression that a good number of the decisions have already been made.
“Then we’re going to chase guys,” Burke said of the plan after the Pebble Beach meeting. “We’re going to split up and chase guys. Hopefully, we’ll be down to two or three decisions to make because the bulk of the roster is coming together in our minds.”.
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Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian: Komfortable in Front of the Kameraby Hilton Hater at .
Reggie Bush turned 24 last week.
In his honor, girlfriend Kim Kardashian said she got her man "a really nice watch," a rather mundane gift compared to what she got him behind closed doors (if you know what we mean!).
Kim also partied it up with Bush, who she told reporters has "gotten a lot more comfortable in front of the cameras."
That may be true. But he'll never kompete with the komfort Kim exhibits in front of a kamera.
Enjoy these photos of Kardashian, Bush and others celebrating the football star's birthday:
Click on the pics above - of Reggie, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian - for larger images from the party.
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I would never date the sloppy seconds of Ray J! have her tested for STD's!
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Brooke Hundley Interview Confirms Nut Job Status of Steve Phillips' Mistressby Free Britney at .:
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Michael, perfect!I agree. I'd be furious if somebody called me that!
Hellion, I laughed out loud when I read your comment! Hilarious! I needed the laugh badly, too! Thank you!
"c word" ? = conservative? - what a horrible name to be called ;-)
OMG in high school I always thought she looked like Danny DeVito as the Penguin from Batman, glad to see I'm not the only one who sees it.
Steve has the nerve to say he fears for his family yet HE'S the one who chose to fool around, yeah that makes sense? She's all sad and vicitmized, yet she had the CHOICE to NOT mess around with a married guy and now she's all hurt?? Come on. Her breaking point was when Jay Leno made fun of her yet she didn't feel bad being involved with a married guy?? That should have been her breaking point.
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"My daughter is living a true love story," Carla's mother, Marisa Borini, told France's Le Parisien today, commenting on just how serious her relationship with Sarkozy has become. "I think that she could very well end up with Nicolas."
Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy are getting very serious.
As People magazine reports, Borini told Italian news outlets earlier this month that her daughter had received a marital proposal from Sarkozy, with a New Year's acceptance deadline.
In Sunday's exclusive interview with Le Parisien, the self-described "very Italian mamma" said she participated in pre-vacation discussions with the couple concerning how they envision Bruni's future role.
"If Carla becomes the first lady of France, she'll have to keep space and time for herself to write," said her mom. "She needs to write her poems, compose music, record her albums. The same with her other obligations she may have, she'll need to arrange her time."
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The Hub is always a lively and fun place to be. This is entirely due to our team who work tirelessly to cater for our customers' needs.
Robin Love
Robin is most often found behind the Post Office counter and has the illustrious title of Post Master. Robin came to Ambleside as Post Master in 1996 after a 20 year career with the Royal Bank of Scotland. He is a familiar sight at many Lake District events including the Rotary Club, Football Club, Windermere Golf Club and thrives on being part of the community.
"I love the diversity of The Hub and knowing that we're providing a vital service to both the local community and visitors alike."
Karen Love
It's Karen we have to thank for the stunning selection of cards found at The Hub. She strives to find high quality cards that are a little bit unusual with something to fit any occasion. Before starting the business with Robin 12 years ago, Karen had a career in customer service with Nationwide Building Society. During her time in Ambleside, Karen has seen many changes in the area.
"The tastes and demands of visitors to the area have changed dramatically in recent years. Local hotels,restaurants and B & Bs have significantly upgraded their facilites to accommodate the new generation of customer. Ambleside is certainly moving in the right direction to become a world class destination with accommodation to suit every need and budget"
Mo Deluce
Mo (short for 'human dynamo') is often one of the first people you'll meet behind the Tourist Information counter. She's a former Lake District pub landlady and has been in catering for many years, she really understands what visitors are looking for when visiting the area - her local knowledge is astonishing. If thats not enough, Mo used to teach juggling and believes anyone can learn to become a competent juggler. Mo loves a challenge at work, but her advice to visitors is : "We can help you better if you plan ahead and call us in advance if you can. It gives us a little extra time to help you find the best accommodation or information that will really help you get the most from your visit"
Sharon Murray
Sharon is a familiar face behind the Post Office counter. Like many of the staff at the Hub, Sharon too has experience of the Lake District hospitality business having run a busy hotel in the centre of Ambleside. She loves the community service aspect of working in the Post Office and believes passionately in the valuable service it provides.
"Even though behind the glass counter, we do get to know many people in the local community. For some people, particularly the elderly, coming to the Post Office and having a little chat with us is the only social interaction they have. We notice if someone has not been in for awhile and often find ourselves making enquiries to check they are ok. Our job is not just about stamps and car tax, its about people and Post Offices provide a valuable service to local communities everywhere.
Elizabeth Johnson
Elizabeth joined Ambleside Post Office from the busy main Post Office where she spent 13 years. In that time, Elizabeth has come across every question and issue relating to the Post Office imaginable.
"The Post Office probably offers the most diverse range of products and services available in any one place. It's our job to advise and guide our customers so they can get the most from the service. One of the biggest issues I come across time after time, is that many people don't read the forms properly and fail to bring the right documentation for say , passport applications or car tax. My one piece of advice would be, take a little extra time reading the forms and following the precise instructions and it will save you so much time later on."
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Peace on Earth: The Catholic Case for Free Markets
Evening Lecture and Reception at Duquesne University
January 18, 2013 Register!
Join the Institute for Humane Studies for an evening lecture and reception, co-hosted by the Institute for Humane Studies and Duquesne University economics professor Antony Davies.
The program will feature author and Catholic libertarian Jeffrey Tucker examining competing moral claims made by free market advocates and socialists, through the lens of Catholic social thought.
The event is open to the public but space is limited. You are encouraged to register by January 14th to reserve a seat. Register!
Schedule
- 6:45-7:00 PM Check-in
- 7:00-8:30 PM Jeff Tucker Speech/ Q&A Discussion
- 8:30-9:30 PM Reception
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Lecture: Mellon Hall, Laura and Maurice Lecture hall
Reception: Mellon Lobby, Laura and Maurice Side
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Those who opposed this song/video are being childish and petty. If they wanted to make your own video, they are more than welcome to, as I'm sure the group that made this one would acknowledge. The right to support a political candidate through music does not stop with the, "You can't use that music because it's ours." This area is wonderfully diverse and culturally rich and that a group came together in a common cause should be applauded. If another group chooses to do the same, by all means use the medium of our wonderful music to do so also. It isn't your music, it isn't my music, it's our music.
For once, can we be a country united as well as a state united. Pettiness is how we will fall apart as a country. Thank you for being a fine example of that!
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The Indiana Supreme Court has accepted four cases on transfer, including one in which they released an opinion on the matter
the same day they granted transfer.
On Feb. 8, the justices took Mariea L. Best v. Russell C. Best, No. 06S05-1102-CV-73 and released an opinion upholding modification of physical custody of their daughter to Russell Best.
On February 10, they granted transfer to three more cases – Misty D. Davis v. Animal Control – City of Evansville, et al., No. 82S01-1102-CV-77; Mary Beth & Perry Lucas v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al., No. 28S01-1102-CV-78; and Rod L. Avery, et al. v. Trina Avery, No. 49S05-1102-PL-76.
In Davis, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed in a not-for-publication opinion summary judgment for the city defendants in this action following injuries Shawn Davis received from a dog bite. At issue was whether the defendants had immunity from this claim. The majority ruled no, and Judge Kirsch dissented, holding the underlying action falls within the immunity set forth in Indiana Code Section 34-13-3-3(8).
In Lucas, the Court of Appeals held on interlocutory appeal that the Lucases, whose home was being foreclosed on, are entitled to a jury trial on their legal claims against their mortgage holder and loan servicer. The judges relied on Songer v. Civitas Bank, 771 N.E.2d 61, 63 (Ind. 2002), to find they are entitled to a jury trial on their claims of conversion and deception, alleged violations of the Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act, and other state and federal statutory law and state common law claims.
In Avery, the appellate judges addressed an issue of first impression and held that a will contest is a civil action and a defendant in this type of action is required to file an answer or plead to a complaint as provided by the state’s trial rules.
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Parent Stews Over Son's Islamic Assignment
School Defends Hajj Writing
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Some parents of a Morgan County middle. He referenced a specific state education standard -- 7.1.4 -- as the reason Islamic studies are part of curriculum."I can give you a couple of examples that we've done. For example, these kids, when they're done with this culmination, which is a comparison of the religions that the state of Indiana has, they're going to be able to write like 'The Diary of Anne Frank,'" Bowlen said. "In class, I have had students write a letter home from the war front as if they are a soldier fighting for our country. Obviously, I am not recruiting the children for the military, but I am putting them in a position to understand what a soldier will go through."Parent Lisa Ratts said she disagrees with Fletcher and is happy that her son is being exposed to the cultures of others."What concerns me and what upsets me is that I think this is such a beautiful thing, learning about other people's cultures," she said.Bowlen said that parents who have an issue with an assignment should talk to him, and that the school is willing to be flexible.Bowlen said the Islam assignment may be adjusted in the future to include different options for students.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Murray Energy Corp. is bringing its new 60,000-square-foot headquarters to St. Clairsville to consolidate corporate operations now taking place at four separate locations.
The parent company of American Energy Corp.'s Century Mine, Ohio Valley Coal Co.'s Powhatan No. 6 mine and OhioAmerican Energy Inc.'s Red Bird West mine is moving 149 offices into a four-story structure set for construction just off National Road between Ohio 331 and the East Richland Evangelical Friends Church.
"The building will contain all of the amenities needed to provide a productive environment for Murray Energy's folks," said Joe Fraley, construction project manager, noting the structure will sit on a 16.1-acre site.
Photo provided to be built on this site west of St. Clairsville.
Land preparation is ongoing, with construction set to follow. The projected completion date is the end of May, with a planned move-in date of June 2012. A pavilion, small lake and all landscaping features will be included.
Robert Murray, founder and chief executive officer of Murray Energy, said, "Our companies have never had the money to construct a central office headquarters. If we had any money, we always spent it on a new piece of mining equipment or to create jobs."
The new office will house the corporation's central operating, engineering, maintenance, geologic, purchasing, accounting, information systems, environmental and sales staff.
In addition to the three.
"Our central staff employees are now located at four different locations in three counties in Ohio and West Virginia, and this has become very inefficient," Murray said. "We can actually show cost savings in having our key staff members at one location, providing a payback to the company for the facility."
According to the company's website, Murray Energy produces about 30 million tons of coal per year and employs 3,000 people "in some of the most economic depressed regions in the United States."
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>> did the Library Loot post with no loot to share. This week it is a different story altogether!
I may have actually cheated this week by not only borrowing books on my own library card, but also on my son's card as well! We went to the new library branch (oh, the new library smell) and there was a library full of new books, and I couldn't resist borrowing a couple of books even though I knew that I really didn't have enough room of my own. As tempting as it is, I really don't want to get into the habit of doing that too often.
Mr Linky is up at Eva's blog this week, so please be sure to share your library loot there!
My loot this week is:
Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning - This is the latest book in the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning. I haven't been blown away by the series as a whole, but I am happy enough to keep reading it until the end having already read the previous three books in the series.
The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick
I have been sent Pendragon's Banner for review. I know they say that you can read it without having read The Kingmaking, but I prefer to read books in order when they are connected.
Rumour Has It by Jill Mansell - I've read a couple of Jill Mansell books so far this year and really enjoyed them. This was the latest release as far as I can tell.
Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell
A few weeks ago The Book Smugglers held the YA Appreciation Week. In my post, I mentioned that I didn't know that many Australian YA authors, and this is one that was recommended by Ana.
Ironbark by Johanna Nicholls - It's not often that I pick up a book on impulse when I am at the shops but every now and again it happens. I saw this book at a shop a few weeks ago and I very nearly bought it, but in the end I decided against it. When I came home and checked the library catalogue they had it on order, but it has taken until now to actually arrive at the library.
Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
I am pretty sure that if Kelley Armstrong started writing on the back of toilet paper, I would still want to read it. This book has been on order for the new library for what feels like forever! I am so excited by the prospect of reading it!
The Lost Prophecies by The Medieval Murderers - The Medieval Murderers are Bernard Knight, C J Sansom, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden and Susanna Gregory. This was a totally impulsive pick up. I mean, I couldn't leave a library branch without borrowing a new book could I?
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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - I borrowed this a few weeks ago as a result of the review I read at Book Smugglers, but had to return it unread. Maybe this time!
3 Willows by Anna Brashares - I returned this unread a while ago. This time I have borrowed the audio book, and I am planning to read it during the very long trip to Adelaide this weekend. I am hoping that it will help the time pass quicker than it normally would. A ten hour drive in a car with my mother is not necessarily my idea of a good time!
They all look good. I just finished Dreamfever...you will need to sit on a block of ice while reading this hot and steamy book!!!
Love the cover of Everything Beautiful! The Lost Prophecies sounds so neat, and the cover makes me want to see it. :D
I just started reading Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong. Totally loving it so far!
Mmmmm.... new library smell! Everything Beautiful is an interesting book. Hope you like it!
I have the first book in the Otherworlds series and am really looking forward to reading it. Hope you enjoy all your library books this week and get a chance to read everything!
Zibilee and Linda, I liked the first book but wasn't totally enthralled by it. The series just got stronger and stronger, and now I count Kelley Armstrong among my favourite authors!
Melissa, to be honest I don't even know much about it!
Eva, I think this book is actually part of a series, but I haven't been able to figure out how they are connected, same detective? same location? Not sure yet.
Staci, I will go put a big block of ice in the freezer then!
Looks like a great assortment of books. 3 Willows has caught my eye!
Great idea for a post. It's always interesting to see what books people are reading. You will like Men of the Otherworld, though I didn't find it quite as good as Bitten. I'm currently reading from my library - Stolen by Ms. Armstrong.
I own The Name of the Wind and STILL haven't read it... One day...
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Jokowi Narrows Foke’s Lead for Jakarta Governor
Ronna Nirmala
Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo’s popularity has taken a hit in the past two months, to the benefit of his closest rival, but the incumbent is still the favorite to win the upcoming gubernatorial election, a new survey suggests.
The results of the poll by the Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI), published on Sunday, showed that 43.3 percent of the respondents said they would vote for Fauzi.
That figure was down from 49.1 percent in a similar poll carried out in late March by the LSI.
The new survey showed that of the six candidates, only Solo Mayor Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, saw his popularity rise during the past two months, going from 14.4 percent to 20.9 percent.
Toto Izul Fatah, the LSI executive director, said the findings were significant because they showed Jokowi faring much better than the other challengers and taking a big chunk out of Fauzi’s lead.
“He’s become a candidate who must be reckoned with, and the incumbent will have to watch out for him,” Toto said. “If Jokowi can build on this trend with a variety of community programs, then he will certainly threaten the incumbent.”
He attributed Jokowi’s rising popularity to his camp’s “cleverly packaged” campaign programs.
No other candidates managed to garner more than 10 percent in the LSI poll.
Toto said part of the reason that Fauzi remained popular despite Jokowi’s onslaught was that he was seen as a figure of authority amid rising security threats in the capital.
“The respondents raised concerns about Jakarta becoming more unsafe because of the proliferation of hard-line groups, as seen in opposition to the Irshad Manji book discussion and the Lady Gaga concert,” Toto said. “What the respondents are looking for is someone like [former governor] Ali Sadikin, who had the guts to stand up for diversity and put hard-liners in their place.”
Toto said the Ali comparison was important because three out of four respondents said they wanted the next governor to have the same qualities as Ali, who governed from 1966 to 1977.
He said that when polled, 41 percent of the respondents said none of the candidates had Ali’s qualities. But 22.4 percent said Fauzi came closest, followed by Jokowi at 8.6 percent.
The book discussion by Manji, a liberal Muslim advocate from Canada, was broken up in early May by the extremist Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), whose threats of violence also prompted Lady Gaga to cancel her concert in Jakarta scheduled for next weekend.
The survey also showed high approval for various programs under Fauzi’s administration, but Iberamsjah, a political analyst from the University of Indonesia, said those were all old programs and the incumbent had brought nothing new since coming to office.
“You have to understand that the programs that Fauzi’s been running all this time are those that were initiated by Sutiyoso [the previous governor],” he said.
He added that many programs introduced by Fauzi had in fact failed, including attempts to expand the TransJakarta busway network.
Toto said that the LSI’s latest survey echoed projections by the group’s earlier poll that Fauzi would not win the election in a single round and that it would go to a runoff vote.
Though the survey in March identified a range of possible opponents to face the incumbent in the runoff, this time Toto said it was looking more like a Fauzi-Jokowi faceoff.
The poll showed that if the election was held today, 49 percent of the respondents would vote for Fauzi while 27.8 percent would vote for Jokowi. The rest were either undecided or unwilling to disclose their preferences.
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Fed up with conflict over how women can worship at the Western Wall, a group of Jewish feminists has begun reconstruction of the Eastern Wall, where they expect to be able to do as they please, thank you very much.
Former prime minister and ex-Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert paved the way for the unusual arrangement through a deal his lawyers admitted was a breach of trust but not illegal. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters will also help build the wall.
Israel’s chief rabbis and 613 members of the Shas Party vowed to block the construction and initially went on a hunger strike that lasted until the smell of cholent filled their homes on Erev Shabbos. They then announced that they would refuse to bench, wash negelvasser or recite the second Y’kum Pirkun until the wall construction was blocked by the police. Later this week, however, there was word of a deal in which the haredim would relent in exchange for a modification of the new Tal Law that allowed only Litvaks to be drafted while keeping Galicianers exempt.
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Heilala Vanilla won at Food Magazine Award
Heilala Vanilla Syrup scooped up the first prize for the Best Confectionary prize during the 8th annual Food Magazine Award 2012 ceremony held in Australia.According to the Heilala Vanilla they had scooped up several awards in New Zealand and they ar...
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What in the giddy fathoms of fuck is this? Thanks to a merry band of kraken-lovers I have been sent details of a product that is available on the website of trinket-floggers Argos. Thing is, before I tell you about said product you need to be warned that I have become so hysterical with rage that the rest of this blog might set fire to your eyes. Ready? Got your shades? Good.
See, Argos is pimping a pack of two Disney t-shirts for 3 – 4 year olds girls. So far, so blah. Thing is, each t-shirt contains what looks like words but is actually distilled horseshit that’s been scrawled with the use of a rotting lollipop stick. One reads “I like boys but I like shoes more” and another reads “Three wishes: boys, shoes and beautiful dresses”. No, I’m not shitting you. Not one tiny bit. If you want to see this modern depiction of Satan’s arsehole for yourself you can click here.
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SOCKETCALLSection: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 1995-04-15
Index Return to Main Contents
NAMEsocketcall - socket system calls
SYNOPSISint socketcall(int call, unsigned long *args);
DESCRIPTIONsocketThis call is specific to Linux, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.
SEE ALSOaccept(2), bind(2), connect(2), getpeername(2), getsockname(2), getsockopt(2), listen(2), recv(2), recvfrom(2), send(2), sendto(2), setsockopt(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), socketpair(2)
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We love these covers over Thirsties fitteds or over prefolds. Over bulkier fitteds they don't work very well. I love that they have cross-over velcro tabs as well as laundry tabs. They also have great leg gussets to help keep everything in! The colors are pretty cool too!
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Dark Earth C (140) November 2008.
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Flirt in Trail Socks from Fleece Artist
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Night work may boost women’s breast cancer risk, says study
PARIS, June 20 — Night work may increase a woman’s chances of developing breast cancer by 30 per cent — a slightly elevated but “statistically significant” risk, French researchers said yesterday.PARIS, June 20 — Night work may increase a woman’s chances of developing breast cancer by 30 per cent — a slightly elevated but “statistically significant” risk, French researchers said yesterday.
This placed night work in the same order of risk as factors like genetic mutation, a late first pregnancy or hormonal treatment, Pascal Guenel, director of French health research body INSERM, told AFP.
Put into context, a smoker was eight times as likely to contract lung cancer as a woman working night shifts was to get breast cancer, he explained.
About 1.3 million women around the world are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
In a study published in the International Journal of Cancer, the INSERM-led team said an association between night work with breast cancer “was mainly observed in women working during overnight shifts, those who worked at night for 4.5 or more years and less than three nights per week on average.
“The association was stronger in women who worked at night before their first full-term pregnancy than in women who started working at night later in life.”
The scientists said more study was needed to determine the reasons.
Hypotheses include disruption of “body clock” genes, internal desynchronisation and sleep deprivation altering the immune system.
The study was conducted in France among 1,232 women diagnosed with breast cancer between 2005 and 2007. — AFP/Relaxnews
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‘SimCity’ concept art showing a casino complex. — AFP/Relaxnews picLOS ANGELES, March 7 — It’ll be the fifth main entry to the SimCity series, but it won’t be called SimCity V. Instead, 2013’s swishest SimCity yet will take the title of its oldest ancestor.
That 1989 groundbreaker famously started life as a development tool for an entirely different game, Raid on Bungeling Bay, before becoming an engrossing simulation of the urban microcosm in its own right.
It was hugely influential in popularising the city-building genre, now home to the seven-game Settlers series, Anno’s five-game world odyssey, and Tropico’s four explorations of benevolent dictatorship, eventually leading to the creation of The Sims.
Next year’s SimCity once again looks at the big picture of city life, promising to become “the most sophisticated simulation of its kind,” with the “fun, flavour and playability that has been intrinsic to the franchise.”
There’ll be nods to the modern, socially networked world, as players’ own progress can affect that of their friends, the sort of concept familiar to those who dabble in Facebook games from Empires & Allies to CivWorld.
They’ll also be able to put their heads together, trying to crack real-world problems such as climate changes, the depletion of natural resources, and — a series staple — coping with the impact of natural disasters. — AFP/Relaxnews
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Athletic Club to Induct First Class to Hall of Fame
For the first time in several years, five former Clay County athletes will be inducted into the Clay County Hall of Fame.
Russ Chadwell, Richie Farmer, Victor Hyland, Vonda Jackson, and Kim Jones represent the 2010 Hall of Fame class.
Clay County Athletic Club President Les Nichoslon was enthused about bringing back the tradition of the Hall of Fame.
“There hasn’t been an induction in quite some time, and we felt it was time to pick up the tradition and start again because some of our best athletes haven’t been inducted yet.”
Nicholson also stated he wanted to set the standard with the Athletic Club’s innagural class.
“Our committee was unanimous about these five individuals,” said Nicholson, “I think these five are some of the finest athletes Clay County has ever produced without a doubt. We wanted to set the bar as high as we could go with our first class.”
A meal will be served to honor the five inductees at 5:30 Friday night before the Bobby Keith Classic basketball games at CCHS.
Tickets for the meal can be purchased for $10 at Silverscreen Video.
The induction ceremony will take place in the CCHS Auditorium at 6.
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9 Female Characters We Wish We’d Been More Like In High School
Because teenagerdom is a mess, but some people handle it better than others.
by Jamie Frevele | 12:55 pm, May 14th, 2011
Kyle Munkittrick at Discover has an amazing essay on what Disney’s Pixar movies have taught us what it really means to be human — without being an actual human person. And not just that, but also what this means for how humans will react with other entities in the future, such as technology. The way Disney and Pixar have accomplished this is by creating entire worlds without humans as the main focus, or even present. As a result, we might be learning that it’s a bad idea to underestimate the intelligence of animals, robots, and even other humans.
Besides Disney being so successful at telling good stories that appeal to adults and children alike, their writers have also been stealthily inserting messages about humanity, all while telling stories that are not even about humans. But therein lies the question: What makes someone or something really human?
Munkittrick cites the origins of Pixar stories in The Lion King:.
But all those animals display the same emotions we do: love, anger, grief, a sense of family and pride. I know, because they are anthropomorphized creatures in a Disney movie, but hear me out for a moment.
Now that we’ve been introduced to a world without humans, now humans can be introduced. All of Pixar’s films take place in the regular, human world. Earth. However, both the non-human creatures and the humans that are featured as main characters are misfits, non-conformists. Like Linguini in Ratatouille, but also Ratatouille himself, who is shunned by his rat family for wanting to be a chef. The important thing to remember about Pixar movies is that the non-humans are just as intelligent and sentient as the humans are. (And not because of magic.) Everyone is evenly matched, everyone is feeling the same range of emotions. (If they’re not, they are probably the antagonist.) And while the odd couples might not get along at first, it’s their mission to learn to respect what each has to offer and realize that they’re not so different after all. Their needs are the same, and they just want to work together..
And this all leads to the battle for “the rights of personhood.”.
The entire essay is definitely worth a read, and you may never watch a Pixar film the same way again. Certainly, we got sentimental after watching Toy Story, which was a wonderful nostalgia trip back to childhood. But now, we can consider looking forward, to a future of WALL-Es and Dugs, and maybe even the Incredibles. And then underestimate them at our own risk!
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Capcom Finally Brings Over Monster Hunter to Wii U and 3DS: Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in March 2013
Capcom will be releasing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in March 2013 for Wii U and 3DS and will feature
online play. Is it based off of Monster Hunter 3G, previously only released on the 3DS? No idea as there has been no details revealed about it other than we’re going to Monster Hunter represented in North America yet again.
Edit:All right, maybe there is no online play.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate will allow you to play locally up to four players. The Wii U will be able to link with the 3DS to also take part in the hunt. Save data can be passed back and forth so you can take your monster hunting ON THE GO!
… Yes, I felt like saying that.
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This is a guest post by Jill Marinelli, Style and Beauty Expert:?”
Work at home these three steps:
1. Create a Style Vision Board
Vision boards are based on the law of attraction – like attracts like. They are a visual representation of things you want in your life.
Vision boards utilize a part of your brain called the reticular activating system (RAS). The role of the RAS is to filter out stimuli, preventing sensory overload. At the same time, it picks out information from your environment that is valuable to you and brings it to your attention.
Creating a vision board programs your RAS to recognize and pay attention to things that are in alignment with your goals. Your job is to take action when opportunities present themselves!
To create a style-specific vision board, cut or print out pictures of clothing styles that appeal to you from websites, magazines, and catalogs. Cut out anything you are innately attracted to, want more of, are inspired by, or just love for no apparent reason. The key is to make no judgments i.e. “that wouldn’t look good on me”.
As well, select pictures of people and words that inspire you and hold the qualities that you admire; for example, the elegance of Audrey Hepburn or the relaxed casualness of Jennifer Aniston.
The process of choosing these combinations of objects and events helps them stay in your subconscious mind and steer your choices toward making your vision real. You will notice themes emerging – colors, textures and patterns that will be excellent guides when you are shopping.
Attach your pictures to a poster board or bulletin board and place it somewhere you see it often. You want to bathe your subconscious mind with its energy – and thus, manifest your desires!
2. Clean out Your Closet
Using your vision board as a guide, go through everything in your closet. Do the items in your closet reflect who you are right now? The average woman wears 20% of her clothes, 80% of the time. Too many women keep clothing from years ago that may no longer fit or reflect their current style.
Ask yourself: Does this flatter me? If I saw it in a store today, would I buy it again? Do I feel good when I wear it? Get rid of anything that doesn’t fit, flatter or make you feel fabulous!
Getting dressed is so much easier when your closet is pared down to just the garments that make you look and feel great!
The key is to honor who you are right now – not who you were 10 years or 10 pounds ago.
3. Create a Uniform
Anyone who has kids that wear uniforms to school knows that this saves time, guesswork, and in some cases, emotional anguish for both kids and mom!.
I encourage moms to create their own version of a uniform. It should make sense for your lifestyle and be easy to throw on quickly! I like to think of a uniform as a canvas to which you can add accessories and make it unique. Accessories are an inexpensive way to experiment with a new style and can be some of the most versatile items in your wardrobe.
My uniform is jeans and a t-shirt. You’ll rarely see me in anything else. I spend a bit more on jeans because I wear them so much, and am careful to find t-shirts that fit really well. I can easily dress up my uniform with darker wash denim and a statement necklace. In summer I switch to a denim skirt or shorts.
Which step will you use to create your own sense of style? How do you define your unique style?
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There is some very good advice in this article. Thank you!
I love for discovering and developing your style. It was there I found that I truly love pencil skirts and high heels. I also discovered that I prefer deep reds, plum, and dark teal for my colors, and my preferred neutrals are charcoal or silver gray, black, and chocolate brown.
I have very few clothes, but I love everything I have and can mix and match most items so no matter what I throw on, I can feel confident that I look good. My signature style most prominently features knee length pencil skirts in different fabrics – jean, twill, etc.
Hi Revka, thanks for stopping by and sharing. Glad you liked the tips by Jill. I am definitely going to check out Polyvore.. Thanks so much for sharing it. You’re right, knowing what colors and style you love the most add a lot of confidence!
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In general, I am a laid back, easy going person. I was a follower in high school, which even carried over into my young adult life. I went with the flow even if I didn't feel comfortable with it. I think it was because I lacked confidence. I rarely stood up for what I thought was right. I didn't even have an opinion of my own since I always looked to see what others thought and did first. I'm not sure how I became that way. Perhaps, part personality, part up-bringing? Whatever the reasons there are many times today when I think back and wish I knew enough that I could have stood up for what I believed in. To be confident in who I was and have the courage to do so.
My oldest son doesn't really talk a lot. So when he starts telling me about his day my ears perk up and I make an effort no matter what I am doing to stop and listen. The other night he was telling me about the bus ride to school. He was talking about several things and then he mentioned his friend always tells this other boy to go back to his seat. Of course, me being the mom that I am need to clarify, "What do you mean go back to his seat? You are allowed to walk around when the bus is moving?" My son replies, "No mom. When the bus is stopped and we are waiting to get off at school. We are allowed to get out of our seats." Oh! Phew, I'm thinking to myself, but then I am interested about this other boy.
So I ask, "Why does your friend tell this boy to go back to his seat?" "Because he always tries to scare us, but he doesn't really scare us, he just tries to." Me, more interested, "So, is your friend mean about it? Do you tell him to go back to his seat?" He replies, "Sometimes." In my head I'm thinking, "Sometimes! What do you mean? Your friend is sometimes mean or are you sometimes mean?" So instead of verbally rattling off my thoughts and questions because I don't want to deter my son from telling me things. (We know how kids can get when mom starts asking a million questions. They get silent.)
Instead, I tell him "maybe you should try and put yourself in this boys shoes. Maybe he thinks you guys are cool or maybe he doesn't have a brother at home. That is why he tries to scare you and wants to be your friend. But, you shouldn't be mean to him and just because someone else acts one way doesn't make it right for you to do the same. Always do what you know in your heart is right." Okay, so maybe rattling off my own opinion wasn't the right approach either. In any case, my son listened to what I said.
Oh, how I want my boys to grow up being confident in knowing who they are in Christ. Knowing that no matter the circumstance or situation that they will make the right choice, the right decision. To be the leader and not the follower. To be a light in this dark world giving glory to God through their own actions.
For our children to be confident and leaders they need to know Jesus Christ. They need to know who they are in Him, where do they 'fit in' in this big world?
As parents that is our duty. We need to teach them and lead them to a relationship with Him. Teaching our children about our Creator and leading their hearts to Him will give them confidence throughout their lives.
I believe it starts with the understanding that we are sinners and we all need a savior, Jesus Christ. Romans 3:23
Second, to understand and know how much God loves us. That He sent His one and only Son as the ultimate sacrifice so that we could be re-united with God and have eternal life with Him. John 3:16 In turn, we need to love others as God loves us. We are all God's children and we are no better than anyone else. Mark 12:31
Third, to instill a servants heart by leading by example. They will eventually seek and know what purpose God has for them. Proverbs 19:21
Fourth, for them to understand God our Creator is in control. We need to submit our lives to Him and live each day by His will, not ours and that His plans are for prosperity, for hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11; Ephesians 1:11
Lastly, for our children to understand that He is a living, loving God who will never leave us nor forsake us. Deuteronomy 31:8
I started to really seek God soon after my children were born. Not only because I knew I needed Him, but I knew my kids did too. I want them to know their lives have a purpose, for them to not make the same mistakes their parents did. But most importantly, for them to grow up having a relationship with their Heavenly Father and knowing who they are because of who He is and to have that confidence to stand out from the rest of the world no matter what the circumstances are. Simply to be who God created them to be!
"For you have been my hope, Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth." Psalm 71:5
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I know what you mean Dawn. I try to teach my kids how to be leaders and to never be afraid to ask for the things they want. The worst that can happen is that they will be told no but they have seen me in action many times and find out that 9 times out of 10, you will get what you ask for. I want them to have the confidence to go after what they want and the boldness to "just ask". The most important part though is for them to trust God and stay close to him.
I remember a friend once saying, "Everything in life is to drive us to the feet of Jesus. We need to make sure our children know where to find him."
I love your four points. So very important!
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City moves forward with renovation project
The Gatlinburg City Commission decided to go ahead with a project that came in approximately $73,000 over budget due to extra details that weren't taken into account, officials said at a commission workshop Tuesday evening.
The Parkway Visitor Center Renovation Project was first proposed in November 2011, and in February 2012 the city approved a grant agreement with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) regarding the project.
During the February meeting, design consultant Steve Fritts said the cost of the project would be approximately $700,000. Of that total, over $500,000 would be provided by the TDOT grant.
But it turned out that the total cost of the project exceeded the budget by about $73,000.
"There were a number of reasons for that, mainly related to the refinement of the design," Fritts said. "If you remember, back in January (2012) we did a concept ... and that was it. We didn't have any details. ... As we refined it, things unfortunately went up instead of down."
Previously, the city planned to use around $98,000 from already completed projects to cover the renovations, but Finance Director David Beeler said the maneuvering didn't happen.
"We don't know why (the maneuvering failed to happen)," Beeler said.
Beeler said those funds still exist, including roughly $270,000 that went unspent in the Underground Utilities and Streetscape Project. Now, the city is looking to maneuver these funds to cover the cost of the renovations.
"All that maneuvering is more than enough to cover (the total cost) if you want to go with this concept as it's laid out," Beeler said.
Fritts guessed that construction may begin in late February and may be completed in June. City Manager Cindy Ogle assured that no debt would surface from the project.
The project will still retain all the originally planned renovations to the Parkway Visitor Center, located at the intersection of U.S. 321 and U.S. 441 (Traffic Light No. 3), including a splash pad, interpretive mountain areas, expanded seating areas and removal of vegetation.
Commissioner Mark McCown asked whether anything else might cause issues with the project.
"Bad soils," Fritts said. "There's a bunch of tanks that go underground for this fountain system, and until we start excavating and we see what's in the ground we really don't know what we're going to encounter from a soils perspective.
"And it's with every project, and it's what I try to tell most clients: If you've ever built a house, you know you're going to run into something that you want to change."
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A seat on the school board, or the city council, offers much more influence than you might think. You can push new approaches to education, affect curriculum and push ideas for how to run schools. You can influence zoning decisions, clamor for tax cuts and tilt policy in your town or city to favor business and other interests. Local and state officials have a tremendous influence on the lives of ordinary people, and over time, Republicans have used this to build support for conservative policies.
There’s a second reason to focus on the local and state: today’s city council members, mayors and state legislators are tomorrow’s congresspeople, senators and governors. Conservatives built a deep bench of like-minded candidates by first electing them on the local level, and then grooming them for higher office.). forty-seven years removed from the official end of Jim Crow. White supremacy was the governing ideology for the vast majority of this country’s history, and—in the broad scheme of things—we’re still in the first legs of our journey toward racial equality.
A.. a Romney presidency, there would be no federal prohibition barring health insurers from discriminating against pre-existing conditions. Instead, his administration would push reforms that help eat away at the problem. It would allow “reinsurance,” in which insurance companies pool resources for a joint plan to cover high-risk patients (essentially an insurance policy for health insurers); provide block grants of Medicaid dollars to the states while giving them flexibility to cover their uninsured population; and encourage the creation of high-risk pools.
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DUBAI // A new Municipality project is set to turn the emirate into the region’s first complete digital city, it has emerged.
The Quick Response (QR) code system will link municipal services through a single electronic system. The code is an encrypted column that can be read using mobile phones with a built-in camera and tag reader. Users take a photo of the code of required services and the proper procedures will be downloaded on the phone.
Municipality services already available include requests for building permit renewal and request for registration for new contractor. Hundreds more will soon be added, said Hussain Nasser Lootah, the municipality’s director general.
“We are moving strongly towards e-government and the major benefits are [that] it is simple and offers us quick calculations,” he said.
Each building in Dubai will have a QR code by the end of next year that can be scanned to gather required information about their specific locations, projects, field visits and outstanding fines.
The structure’s QR code will also store phone numbers, internet and e-mail addresses with a capacity of up to 4,296 characters. The codes have been implemented in cities such as New York.
Municipal officials are currently in talks with government departments such as the police, Civil Defence and the Roads and Transport Authority to connect through the codes, said Marwan Ibrahim Nasser, the head of the municipality’s Follow Up Office.
“If someone spots an emergency like a fire and they are unfamiliar with the area, they can scan the QR code of the building and get through to the right emergency service, which will then pick up the details,” said Mr Nasser.
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Assigning street addresses not a simple exercise
I would like to raise some words of caution regarding Every home in Abu Dhabi to have its own address (February 17).
I come from Germany, where urban centres have grown over centuries with no planning regulations at all at the onset.
The result is that, with very few exceptions, the street systems in urban areas are usually far removed from any helpful geometric pattern, like a chessboard or a circular system.
The streets often carry names - of persons, cities, counties, events and so on - that bear no relationship to their location.
What you need is either a very good knowledge of the local street names and their relative positions, or a map with an index and grid reference.
Compared to that, I find the major street numbers in Abu Dhabi very useful - finding a street becomes a simple counting exercise.
But there are problems, including that the buildings have no numbers; some streets have several names - for example, 7th Street is also called Zayed the First Street, and is known colloquially as Electra Street - and there is the repetition of some street numbers.
Also, a very limited number of names are currently in use, with many streets named after the same dignitary.
Under the new system, hundreds of unique, distinguishable names will be required.
J Heil, Abu Dhabi
Modelling the Abu Dhabi street system after the New York system is a good idea (New York sets a good example, February 18).
Don't use London's system. It used to be easy when they included the place's location in the city in its postcode - NW4, for example, was in the north-west - but now their codes have become incomprehensible.
Jeff Taylor, Abu Dhabi
Third time around for Indian author
I refer to your interview with Chetan Bhagat ('What I write seems to resonate with the middle class in India', February 19).
Kai Po Che is not the second of Bhagat's novels to be filmed, it is the third.
His first was not 3 Idiots (based on the book Five Point Something) but a film called Hello based on One Night at a Call Centre.
Maybe Bhagat doesn't like it to be included in his biographical data, but it is.
Neelesh Inamdar, India
Space for flexibility over parking fines
When my parking permit expired recently, Mawaqif didn't send me an SMS reminder to say it had expired, nor did it leave me a warning notice on my car.
Instead, it proceeded straight to issuing me a Dh500 fine for parking near where I live. This is steep compared to the cost of the annual permit, which is Dh800.
When I called to complain, the operator simply said: "Sorry, you have to pay."
I encountered one of the Mawaqif inspectors and asked him why I didn't get a warning ticket rather than a fine.
He told me that their hand-held computer system used to tell them if a car had a permit and when that permit expired.
The system has since been modified and they do not now receive this information. Thus, you will get a ticket as soon as your permit expires.
I think Mawaqif should give out at least one warning ticket, with no fine, when a permit expires.
If the driver fails to renew the permit after the warning , then it's OK to fine them. Ziad Q, Abu Dhabi
Over-watering linked to floods
Regarding Overflowing lake sparks flood fears (February 17), an immediate measure to alleviate the situation would be to ease back on the irrigation.
Sprinklers are on in the area every day, in winter and summer.
It stands to reason that this will increase the water table, thus increasing the level of the lake.
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Cheap hotels, budget flights lure Indian tourists into the UAE
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In his first press conference since winning reelection Sunday, President Hugo Chávez said he was willing to work with the opposition even as he doubles down on his socialist reforms.
After a vitriolic campaign characterized by insults, Chávez, has been extending olive branches to his adversaries. On Tuesday, he invited them to contribute to his Second Socialist Plan, which will be the roadmap for his next six-year term, from 2013-2019. But he accused the opposition of acting in bad faith in the past and asked them to take a realistic look at the accomplishments of his administration, which include free healthcare and government housing.
They [the opposition] have a catastrophic vision of the country. They deny everything the government does and every achievement the people make, Chávez said. This is the best Venezuela weve had in our 200-year history.
Speaking at the Miraflores presidential palace, Chávez lamented that there are still people who think hes a tyrant or dont believe the nations democratic credentials.
Chávez won his fourth consecutive presidential bid Sunday with 55 percent of the vote, versus 44 percent for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. The National Election Council said almost 15 million people voted a record turnout for this nation of 30 million.
On Monday night, a few hundred opposition sympathizers closed down a main Caracas street to protest the results.
Capriles said his team had found no evidence of fraud. And the watchdog group Venezuelan Election Observer said it had audited 300 voting centers and found no problems.
Even so, Capriles said he was always at a disadvantage as the government handed out money and houses to win votes as state-run media pumped up the Chávez candidacy.
What we had to deal with on Sunday was brutal, he said.
Chávez will get to put his political prowess to the test again in December, when his hand-picked candidates will be running for governors posts.
Nodding to Vice President Elias Jaua, who sat in the front row of the conference, Chávez assured him he would win his race for Miranda the countrys second-largest state, which includes part of greater Caracas.
But that could be a tough fight. Capriles on Tuesday said he had resumed being governor of the state and was considering running for reelection. If he does run, it could produce a dramatic opposition-government showdown.
Wearing a suit and tie and often sitting behind a desk, Chávez joked with reporters and doodled on sheets of paper as he provided his typical meandering answers.
Asked about the crisis in Syria, Chávez responded in halting English: short question, long answer.
Chávez condemned the United States and others for supporting Syrian rebels, whom he qualified as terrorists, as they try to topple President Bashar Assad.
Its a shame that the world has entered a new era of imperialism, he said. The government of the United States is one of the most responsible for this disaster. Hopefully, if Mr. Obama is reelected, he will reform and reflect.
He likened the months of violence in Syria to the ouster and killing of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya in 2011.
They killed thousands of innocents just to kill a president, Chávez said.
Chávez, was a friend of Gadhafi, and said the mans last message to him was that he was prepared to die a martyr like Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.
Chávez also said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been trying to congratulate him on his win but the phone call kept dropping.
Syria and Iran face U.N. and other sanctions, and the United States has often condemned Venezuela for cozying up to those regimes. Venezuela is also a supporter of Cuba, sending the island subsidized oil in exchange for Cuban doctors and other services.
Weighing in on the U.S. presidential race, Chávez repeated his claim that he would vote for President Barack Obama if he could, but lamented the countrys polarization. He said Obama had been called a communist just for shaking his hand.
But he said the U.S. leader he would have really liked to have worked with is former President Jimmy Carter, who he called a man of peace. A few weeks before the election, Carter had called Venezuelas voting system the best in the world.
We would have really accomplished things for this world, Chávez mused, and it wouldnt involve dropping.
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. – went into Sunday’s matchup with fourth-ranked Ohio State knowing that Thomas was the Buckeyes’ prime option. The Huskies left still aware of that fact, but without any answers as to how to stop him.
The Huskies (2-2) hung around much of the game with one of the premier teams in the country before losing, 77-66, in the finals of the Hall of Fame Tip-off tournament at Mohegan Sun Arena in front of a smattering of fans Sunday.
Thomas, a left-hander with range and funk in his game, dominated the first half. The preseason All-American can make 3-pointers, has a jump hook and doesn’t mind a 15-footer.
Washington assigned 6-foot-6 Scott Suggs to Thomas, rather than 6-foot-10 Jernard Jarreau or 6-foot-7 Desmond Simmons, at the outset, thinking Thomas was more of a perimeter player. Two minutes, 5 seconds into the game, Thomas had seven points. He hit his first five shots on his way to 21 points in the first half. Washington countered with 31 of its own.
That give-and-take left Washington in a 41-31 deficit at intermission. It would get no closer than five points the rest of the way.
When Washington cut it to 44-39 in the second half, Thomas pushed Ohio State back in front by 10 with a swift personal 5-0 run on his way to 31 total points.
Thomas’ scoring flurry was supplemented by the precision of Ohio State point guard Aaron Craft, who went about his work with the meticulous approach of a clock builder. Craft has played 107 minutes in three games for the Buckeyes (3-0) this season had,” said C.J. Wilcox, who led Washington with 18 points. “We started to in the second half, and by that time it was too late.”
Washington could also look at its own poor execution. The Huskies missed three layups in the second half and finished with 13 turnovers against.
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Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon on Wednesday set 2013 fishing seasons for the lower Columbia River that anticipate a smaller return of spring chinook salmon. Most new fishing rules adopted at the meeting take effect March 1.
After three years of strong returns, fishery managers based harvest guidelines for this year’s spring chinook season on a projected run of 141,400 upriver fish, about 25 percent below the 10-year average. Approximately 203,000 fish destined for areas above Bonneville Dam returned to the Columbia last year.
This year.
SALTWATER
Beaches: The next razor clam dig will run Thursday-Feb. 12 at Twin Harbors. Long Beach will be open for digging Friday-Feb. 10; Copalis and Mocrocks will be open Friday-Feb. 9. No digging will be allowed at any beach before noon. The evening low tide times are: Thursday, 4:22 p.m., -0.5 feet; Friday 5:11 p.m., -0.9 feet; Feb. 9, 5:56 p.m., -1.0 feet; Feb. 10, 6:37 p.m., -0.9 feet; Feb. 11, 7:17 p.m., -0.5 feet; and Feb. 12, 7:54 p.m., 0 feet.
Fly fishing: Fishing for resident coho has been off and on in the Tacoma Narrows. Searun cutthroat fishing has been good in some spots in marine areas 11 and 13. This also is a good time to try to hook a blackmouth from the beach at night.
North Sound: The San Juans remain the hot spot. Troll at 2 mph with just about any Silver Horde lures about four feet behind a flasher right on the bottom. Some of the keepers are running more than 15 pounds. Should make for an interesting Roche Harbor Salmon Classic that opens Friday.
South Sound: Marine Area 11 reopened to fishing Friday. There is plenty of bait around, so people should be able to find some blackmouth.
LAKES
American: The rainbow trout action remains fair to good. People are reporting consistent catches of fish measuring 12-14 inches. Yellow Power Eggs or Power Bait fished off the bottom remains the popular bait choice.
Chelan: Anglers are catching lake trout in the deep water above the Yacht Club and in the indeterminate flat below Wapato Point. Silver Horde’s Kingfisher Lite spoons in orange splatterback glow, Mack’s Lures Cha Cha Squidders and Silver Horde’s Ace Hi Flies baited with a piece of northern pikeminnow all have been effective. Troll at speeds of 1.2-1.7 mph with you gear within 5 feet of the bottom.
Roses: Ice anglers are using a variety of baits to catch some chunky rainbows. Pautzke’s Firebait in American wildfire is a favorite. Try using a bare 1/16th ounce jig with these floating baits to keep them down. Vary your depth in the water column until you locate the fish.
RIVERS
Chehalis: The steelhead fishing has been fair to good in the stretch between the mouth of the Satsop River and Centralia.
Olympic Coast: River conditions are good, and even with more rain in the forecast, the steelhead fishing should be fair to good this weekend.
Skookumchuck: The steelhead fishing remains very slow.
Wenatchee: The river is tentatively scheduled to reopen for a fairly short steelhead fishery on Friday. The river has not been open since November and there are fresh fish moving into the system now.
Yakima: The river should be in good shape this weekend, having come down and cleared up. Look to get your stonefly nymphs, San Juan worms or streamers on the inside of corners and in slower pools of water.Contributors: Blake Merwin at Gig Harbor Fly Shop, Red’s Fly Shop, washingtonlakes.com, salmonuniversity.com, The Evening Hatch, Anton Jones of Darrell and Dad’s Family Guide Service, Art Tachell at Point Defiance Boathouse, state Department of Fish and Wildlife..
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New D Street overpass lanes could ease traffic
Two lanes of the renovated State Route 543 truck route north from H Street to the border will be paved and open for traffic by July 19, according to assistant project engineer Patrick Fuller of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). That will allow north and south-bound traffic to be re-routed under the eastern half of the new D Street overpass, itself set to be completely open in late August.
The overpass consists of two bridges that meet where the highway’s north and south bound lanes once crossed D Street. Those lanes are being re-worked into ramps providing access for traffic between D St. and SR 543.
When the project is completed in 2008, two new southbound lanes and three northbound lanes will pass under the two new D Street bridges on either side of the center access ramps. The right-hand northbound lane will carry trucks through a new access driveway directly to a three-lane queuing area and dedicated truck customs crossing, something that’s expected to expedite traffic as well by separating the trucks from the non-commercial traffic
Imco Construction began removing dirt from under the eastern half of the D Street overpass last week, and once the paving and striping is done on the new lanes then they’ll begin working on removing the dirt under the west side of the overpass. Much of the traffic now being detoured through the Allan Street neighborhood will be able to stay on SR 543 for access to border businesses.
The project has fallen about a month behind the proposed schedule when work began last year, according to WSDOT project engineer Chris Damitio.
The project’s design calls for concrete paving from H Street north to the border because of its durability. Aside from running into some very large granite boulders that delayed the work, construction schedules are also subject to weather delays. “If we get a rain day, then that puts us one day behind,” he said.
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BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's president insists there is no civil war in his country - rather, a new kind of battle he calls "terrorism through proxies."
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WASHINGTON - Katie Sepich was a radiant beauty of 22, a graduate student at New Mexico State University, when she was brutally raped and strangled and her body set on fire in 2003. Despite DNA evidence, it took three years to identify Gabriel Avila as her killer. By then, he had committed other crimes.
Dwayne Jackson was 18 when he was convicted for a violent robbery in Las Vegas in 2001. Thanks to DNA evidence, he was imprisoned for nearly four years - until a laboratory error was discovered that revealed his innocence. In 2011, he won a $1.5 million settlement.
On Tuesday, those stories and others will resonate inside the Supreme Court, where the justices will be asked to rule on the use of DNA in law enforcement. At stake is the widespread police practice of taking DNA samples from people arrested but not yet convicted of serious crimes - a practice fueled in part by the persistent advocacy of Katie Sepich's parents.
If the justices rule later this year that it's constitutional, says Jayann Sepich, "I think the impact will be monumental, and I believe there will be a tremendous number of lives saved."
But civil liberties advocates worry that allowing police to take DNA samples before conviction increases the possibility of errors such as the one that stole four years of Jackson's young life. While DNA is effective in law enforcement, they say, it's also subject to contamination, misinterpretation, sample switches and outright fraud.
The justices should uphold the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, says New York University law professor Erin Murphy, and "not be so dazzled by the technology in question."
They weren't so dazzled by a GPS tracking device last year, holding that police could not attach it to a car in order to monitor a suspect's movements. Last week, the court split on two more Fourth Amendment cases, ruling that using a drug-sniffing dog with reasonable suspicion was OK, but executing a search warrant after a suspect has left his home was not.
Modern technology presents a problem, however, particularly for justices who try to adhere to the Constitution. The framers didn't have GPS or DNA to contend with in the late 18th century.
Last week, the court grappled with the patent rights of self-replicating soybeans. In April, justices will debate a breast cancer detection technology that comes from human genes.
In Maryland v. King, the justices will decide whether a law enforcement tool used since the 1990s to help states and the federal government solve crimes is constitutional. It was then that Louisiana became the first state to take DNA from those simply arrested on felony charges, but not convicted. A few more states followed, but the trickle became a flood after 2005, when a federal law allowed the states' cases to be uploaded to a national database.
New Mexico became the sixth state to pass the law in 2006, the same year that Katie Sepich's killer finally was charged with her murder. "It took three years, which were very agonizing years for the family," says New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, who prosecuted the case as district attorney at the time.
The statute was dubbed "Katie's Law." In the years since, Jayann and Dave Sepich have taken their cause nationwide, creating the organization DNA Saves to advocate for collection upon arrest. Today, more than half the states have passed their own laws, greatly expanding the number of DNA profiles available to law enforcement agencies in the national database.
"It's amazing that they have the strength and conviction to do this in the name of their daughter," Martinez says.
Last year, Congress passed the Katie Sepich Enhanced DNA Collection Act, which President Obama signed last month. It creates a grants program to help states pay for the expanded system.
"It's the right thing to do," Obama said of taking DNA from arrestees in a 2010 appearance on America's Most Wanted. "This is where the national registry becomes so important."
The bolstered federal database has helped solve thousands of crimes by linking DNA evidence at old crime scenes to newly arrested people.
"Behind every number is a human story, a case in which a buccal swab sample collected from a felony arrestee played a crucial role in solving a violent crime," says a brief submitted by all 49 other states backing Maryland's law.
On the other side is Alonzo Jay King, who was arrested on assault charges in 2009. Police collected DNA from a simple cheek swab and matched it to a 2003 rape case, for which King then was convicted. The Maryland Court of Appeals reversed that decision, ruling that the cheek swab constituted a search without either a warrant or suspicion of another crime. Now the state, backed by the federal government, is challenging that ruling.
Kannon Shanmugam, the lawyer who will argue King's case in court Tuesday, contends the cheek swab was a bodily intrusion requiring a search warrant. Because there is no Supreme Court precedent on DNA, he says, the decision will be one of the court's most significant Fourth Amendment rulings in years.
"There are over 12 million arrests in the United States every year," Shanmugam's brief says. "Virtually all of the arguments advanced by petitioner and the United States would justify the blanket collection and retention of DNA from ordinary citizens."
Maryland argues that DNA is just an extension of fingerprinting and other tools for identifying suspects, "the Fourth Amendment legitimacy of which has never been seriously doubted."
But opponents note that taking DNA from people upon arrest is to help in other investigations, not to identify the person already under arrest. They fear the DNA swabs will lead to more false hits and wrongful convictions.
Advocates of the federal-state database say plenty of privacy safeguards exist. If the system works as it is supposed to, 13 DNA markers are uploaded, incapable on their own of providing sensitive genetic information. Only upon conviction is a second swab taken for further testing. If the arrested person is acquitted or the case thrown out, the DNA information is destroyed and the records expunged.
Jayann Sepich is so convinced the information is harmless that she includes hers on the back of her business card. "There's nothing on those 13 markers that discloses anything private," she says.
As for the merits of collecting DNA at felony arrests, Sepich says she became more convinced after reviewing the case of a California man arrested 21 times over 15 years without being convicted of a crime requiring a DNA swab. When he finally was convicted of rape, his DNA was matched to 12 other rapes and murders of women, dating to his first felony arrest.
"When I look at that list of names, I don't see names," Sepich says. "I see daughters, and I feel the heartbreak of their mothers who had to bury them."
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DENVER - Legislation creating legal recognition and protections for couples regardless of gender in Colorado gained final approval Tuesday in the state Legislature.
Last year a similar bill on civil unions for gay couples with support from a handful of GOP representatives appeared poised to pass before leaders in the Republican-controlled House blocked it. In November, Democrats regained control of the House and designated Mark Ferrandino of Denver as Colorado's first openly gay House speaker.
Ferrandino sponsored civil unions legislation that failed each of the past two years and this year's successful version of the bill.
"It's about love. It's about family. It's about equality," he said.
Once the measure is signed, Colorado will join a dozen other states that have civil unions or similar laws.
The incarnation of the bill that passed does not include religious exemptions for adoption organizations that last year's proposal contained.
Opponents seized on that change and said they foresee legal challenges in court to that aspect of the legislation.
The bill passed 39-26 with each Democrat and two Republicans supporting it.
"The time has come," said Rep. Joann Ginal, a Fort Collins, Colo., Democrat who is openly gay. "Please support equality for everyone."
Rep. Cheri Gerou, a Republican from Evergreen, Colo., was one of the Republicans who voted in favor of the bill. She said the GOP missed its chance for compromise on religious exemptions when it blocked the civil unions vote last year.
The bill's approval marks a significant political shift in a western state that traditionally has had deep, conservative roots but has become more moderate in the past decade.
Colorado voters banned gay marriage seven years ago. That means civil unions are the only option in the state, but a U.S. Supreme ruling on gay marriage laws could change that.
Among the default rights that civil unions will extend to gay couples under Colorado law would be medical decisions for partners, hospital and jail visitation privileges, property succession rights through inheritance, joint adoption and provisions for dissolution of a relationship, including division of property and shared responsibility for and visitation of children.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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11.14 Road construction projects schedule — may delay traffic
The following projects may cause traffic delays on Road Commission for Oakland County roads between Thursday and Nov. 21 or may start shortly thereafter.
- Livernois Road bridge over the Clinton River just south of Avon Road in Rochester Hills is finished and open to traffic, but outside lanes remain closed.
- Commerce Road, Carroll Lake Road to Union Lake Road in Commerce Township will be under construction through Nov. 21, weather permitting.
- Lahser Road from 11 Mile Road through the 12 Mile Road intersection in Southfield will be under construction through November.
- 14 Mile Road, from just west of Campbell to just east of Stephenson Highway on the Madison Heights/Troy border will be under construction through Nov. 16.
- Crooks Road from Star Batt to Bonnie Brae north of Hamlin in Rochester Hills will be under construction through Nov. 21.
- Pontiac Trail, West Maple Road to South Commerce Road in Walled Lake will be under construction through Nov. 15.
- Gunn Road between Sheldon Road and Knob Creek Street in Oakland Township will be closed through Nov..
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5/14/12 12:00 AM
200COLUMBUS AND THE OHIO MACHINE HOST
“LACROSSE LAUNCH PARTY” AT COLUMBUS COMMONS
Event to Feature Four Food Trucks, Live Music from Earwig, Ohio Machine Lacrosse Players, Special VIPs and World Record Attempt.
COLUMBUS(May 14, 2012) – The Ohio Machine, Ohio’s newest professional sports team and first Major League Lacrosse (MLL) food trucks offering local delights for purchase on the lawn, including: Cheesy Truck, Hungry Monkey, Mikey’s Late Night Slice and Tatoheads. Live music will be performed during lunch and the game by 200Columbus Song Contest contestant Earwig in the new Columbus Bicentennial Pavilion at Columbus Commons.
Some of the best lacrosse players in the world from the Ohio Machine players including MLL All-Star and Brown University alum Chazz Woodson, MLL All-Star and Upper Arlington High School alum Brett Hughes and Connor Martin, the only Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association player to see field time in the MLL, will be available for autographs and provide exclusive lacrosse demonstrations and tricks on Lawns 1 and 2 of Columbus Commons. Lacrosse players from many of the area’s colleges and club teams have also been invited to participate.
A short program will take place before the game with remarks from City of Columbus Council Member Zach Klein, 200Columbus the Bicentennial Program Manager Jamie Green and Ohio Machine President and General Manager John Algie. Mike Todd will emcee the event and other VIPs attending will include Columbus Crew Brand Ambassador Frankie Hejduk andDerek Grosso, President & CEO of the Columbus Young Professionals Club.
At approximately 12:45 p.m. the Machine, 200Columbus, the Greater Columbus Sports Commission, Experience Columbus and event attendees will attempt to set the world record for the largest lacrosse game played with “200” total players. There will be four shifts of two teams consisting of 25 players on each team, with the shift lasting approximately five minutes.
Participants who bring their own lacrosse stick can preregister at and receive two (2) complimentary tickets to the Ohio Machine’s home opener on Saturday, May 19th at 8:00 p.m. against the Rochester Rattlers at Ohio Wesleyan’s historic Selby Stadium. Each of the 200 participants in the game will also receive a Bicentennial T-shirt from the team.
Ohio Machine season tickets at only $100 and mini-plans at $45, as well as single-game tickets at $18, are now on sale by calling the Machine at (614) 754-1973 or visiting.
About the Ohio Machine:
The Ohio Machine, the men’s professional lacrosse team based in Columbus, OH, has begun its inaugural season in Major League Lacrosse and will play its home games at historic Selby Stadium starting on May 19. All Machine games broadcast on SportsTime Ohio and CBS Sports Network. The 2012 MLL season will run from April 28 to August 12 with the 2012 Sports Authority MLL All-Star Game on June 30 and the 2012 MLL Championship Weekend presented by Warrior on August 25 and 26. For more information on the Ohio Machine, visit, or follow the team on Facebook and Twitter: @MachineMLL.
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Reflections from ASPO: Contradiction, EROI, and Future Energy Supplies
Posted by David Murphy on October 28, 2009 - 10:26am
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: aspo, david murphy, gas, marcio mello, oil, original [list all tags]
One subscribe.
This is precisely why we need to engage the brain trusts at the USGS and places like the Colorado School of Mines, especially when the ASPO circus comes to town. These people are our acedemic leaders, movers and shakers.
This is "economic geology". Anyone wonder what "economic geology" really is? What flavor of economics? Isn't "economic geology" a contradiction? A word salad?
Why not engage top geologists in their field - how about top "economic" geologists? Get one of them to explain the "economics" perhaps?...
Try flipping through a copy of "Economic Geology". Lots of good geology (science) but wheres the "economics"?
Um! First off there are other schools than Colorado School of Mines that some of us might suggest are at least as good, if not, by some measures better. Secondly economic geology is largely what the title suggests. It teaches how to assess how much of the valuable ore is there and, depending on who is teaching it, it may get into some geostatistics, which helps predict based on current known locations and grades of ore, where to look for more.
I'm thinking that, since the Denver ASPO was in Denver, then some of the local stars could have shown up.
Here is a list of officers and editors at "Economic GEology"
Some of these folks are local to any Denver event. Lets task them.
As to CSM, not only are the extremely local to any Denver event, they make this claim:
I think if such an influential institution is going to make such extrordinary claims, they have to back it up.
Try walking onto the CSM campus, even into the brand new petroleum building and asking where the M. King Hubbert Center for Petroleum Studies is.
A few years back I spent a Sunday afternoon in the CSM library and found that they had no hard copies of the Hubbert Center Newsletter. I did leave notes suggesting that it be added to their collection.
I think PDV and Robert have a point here. The field does seem to be more about exploitation of resources rather than stewardship. If somebody in the research area had actually wanted to or had the charter to, they could have done an impartial study of resource depletion based on some rather simple models. The fact that a branch of this field is called "geostatistics" makes one think that somebody must be doing original research.
But then you find that a web-site exists called .
The guy who runs the site says the specialty of geostatistics consists of "voodoo statistics" and "scientific fraud". Granted, it looks like this is mainly in the context of mineral mining and perhaps petroleum extraction is not really a part of this field, but it makes you wonder what exactly constitutes research.
I am curious what HO thinks about these charges. Here is a sample:
Wht,
Whoever wrote the quote "degrees ...investors" must be an idiot.There is no way that aggregation of words can be read in any way that makes any sense at all.
I don't know about the idiot part. Yet, it indeed does kind of read like William Faulkner if Faulkner had an engineering degree.
Actually the guy writes in a mix of very active voice and some passive constructions. See the language E'prime:
I usually can spot E'Prime writers and to me they make perfect sense because every subject has an action and the writer leaves no ambiguity as to who said what. This guy doesn't quite make the grade -- he appears to try, yet it comes out too flowery.
I wrote more here on the junk science:
I leave you with more of this guy's genius takedown:
"valuable ore"
How do you define "valuable"? one ounce of crystaline Au vs one ounce of crystaline H20 vs one ounce of phosphorous. Which one is more "valuble"? in terms of "money" or ..? What brand of economics will you rely on to asses the value of your ore, Hobbsian? Keynsian? Miltonian? Malthusian? Hall? Will you adhere to zero-sum or will you hoard? I think "economic geology" is a word salad. "Economics" has become "politics". That is why there is no "economics" IN "Economic Geology", outside perhaps some politics.
We need to work on our "system" of "valuation"; our "priorities" if you will.
We've covered this point before but it might bear repeating for those that missed the discussion.
Emphatic truth: there are hundreds of TCF of NG in the shale gas plays in the US. First, my model estimates we can recover, with existing technology, over 120 TCF of NG from these plays. Second, my model estimates we can recover, with existing technology, 10 TCF of NG from these plays. Both of these statements are undeniably true. No one deny the accuracy of my model. It is a proven methodology.
Of course, both model results are based on a set of assumptions. All the assumptions in both models are identical. Except one: the anticipated price of NG. The first model assumes $25/mcf. The second assumes $5/mcf. No geologist or engineer can argue against my model. One can choose different price structures but this is an assumptive factor and you cannot argue its validity. It is an assumption...not a prediction.
As been said before: any projection of the recovery of any commodity that does not include the associated price assumptions is a meaningless value and does not merit discussion IMHO. Mr. Mello may be right about there being 500 billion bbls of oil in the various DW trends. I see no point in debating its validity. Just accept such numbers because they are meaningless to a degree. The question is: how much of that oil is recoverable? Easy to answer actually (if you first assume that oil is actually out there). Just run an economic model using the appropriate cost estimates. And then vary the assumptive price of that future oil. At $300/bbl the recoverable reserves from these plays could be hundreds of billions of bbls (again, if they actually exist). And at $50/bbl the number could be a couple of billion bbls. And both model outcomes are correct and undeniable because they are models with price assumptions...not price predictions.
My analysis has no bearing on Mr. Mello's model predicting the existence of this oil. That's another model I assume he's generated. This analysis has no bearing on anyone's model for predicting the future price of oil either. The conversation gets very messy when we try to discuss validity when the different models are lumped together to extract a prediction. We tend to lose sight of the trees for the forest IMO. I haven't been able to review all the presentations at the conference. But from what others have posted I see no obvious contradictions in as much I haven't seen the underlying assumptions.
ROCKMAN, I really appreciate your no nonsense clear explanations.
A few years ago I had the opportunity to work with a software company that marketed a high end scientific graphics application with advanced capabilities including GIS, CGM, Seismic data analysis (PIP), to both major and minor players in the Petroleum Industry, I had many geologists and Landsmen as customers. I often had to trouble shoot their data files so I saw a lot of proprietary information. I wish many more of them had had your grasp of the bigger picture. It might have saved them a lot of headaches.
You're welcome FM. I'm not so sure it's a better grasp of the "big picture" as it is a different perspective. I tease westexas about being a crazy wildcatter. But you have to give those guys a lot of credit: stand up in front of someone and recommend they spend $10 million to drill a well that will probably be a dry hole. And then drill a dry hole and go back and ask for another $10 million to drill another prospect. Got to have nerves of steel (and complete lack of shame genes) to play that game. Explorationist have to have unbridle optimism to take on Mother Earth every day. I work on the development geology/engineering side of the fence and thus deal with more concrete data. Thus I have a much clearer picture of what is real and what's not...unlike westexas.
Interesting you bring this up. I'm starting to realize that there is such a thing as a EROEI for money.
Often this wall is viewed as inflation. For example flooding the US with cheap credit over the last decade primarily drove up housing prices. Perfectly good homes and decent shelter became a multiples of its former value. Very little real increase in wealth was created while the notational debt ballooned.
Deep down underlying all of this there seems to be a sort of law of economics and energy.
You cannot expand using lower value more expensive resources without going into debt.
As usual for me asserted without proof but think about it.
If NG was at 25 vs 5 and we wanted to keep the precentage costs devoted to energy constant then in the 25 dollar case the economy would have to be five times larger than in the five dollar case. How do you do that ?
The only way to do this if resources are getting more scarce and expensive is to expand the amount of debt in the system to allow it to grow.
The hope of course is that this new larger economy will create new ways to create wealth (computers) and this new wealth will offset the decline in resource quality. In general however it also creates bubbles which make this sort of growth very inefficient requiring even more debt.
Nate Hagens explains this as chaining many low EROEI sources together i.e instead of one 100:1 source you have several say 10:1 sources. As long as the resource base is large the decline in EROEI does not look all that bad. However you still have to grow to keep the magnitude of the extra effort constant. Exploiting a larger base of lower value resources requires growth !
There is a saying that came out of the .com era that we will sell at a loss and make it up in volume.
Thats exactly the game you have to play as you use the infrastructure developed with high EROEI resources to exploit lower value EROEI resources. However no matter what you do the debt side continues to grow.
Assuming you start with no debt or even a significant pile of wealth and that some of the growth does capture real value i.e the expanding economy esp with technical advance does indeed innovate then the expansion of debt can be done for a long long time as resources become depleted and more expensive.
But it turns out your simply delaying the end. The only real answer or way out is to develop viable alternatives as it becomes obvious that debt expansion is taking place. Literally the moment that its clear growth is impossible without expanding the debt you have to stop and pour resources into bootstrapping other energy sources.
We actually did this but only partially with our expansion into coal and NG and it helped for a while but these are also finite and eventually started slipping down their own EROEI curve. And the rate at which debt increased increased.
Well it turns out that money actually is not infinite it can't pretend to create wealth via expanding the debt forever eventually you have a run on the bank as it dawns on people that very very very few will ever get repaid. Expanding debt is a confidence game and when it fails the system fails.
This is important because it means our economic system has not been viable for decades. Trying to use our economic model to predict the reserves available from low quality resources is useless.
Instead we will extract what we can as long as we can expand debt without a run on the bank but our real resource base capable of creating real wealth was used up decades ago we have been out of true resources for a very long time.
Not only is there nothing left we exhausted the resource base useful for real expansion without debt expansion decades ago. All thats left now is to see how long we can go before the debt bubble implodes on itself.
Once this happens then the actual resource base is minute so much lower than our current assumptions as to be treated as zero. Although small what can be exploited it may or may not be valuable but it will if extracted at all be extracted under a completely different economic system that has no bearing with the current one.
Of course we managed to live in a dreamworld for so long that its now practically impossible for people to wake up and realize what we have done. For many of us this means the world we grew up in was already toast back when we where children or teenagers. Its all we know and for most they simply can't accept that its been a lie the entire time.
From now on out given we seem to be in the end stage of the debt bubble declining resources will only hasten the speed at which we collapse further attempts to grow to utilize more expensive resources will do the same.
Checkmate.
Good explanation.
How does price volatility play into your recoverability through barrel price model?
This includes the assumption will be seeing a lot more volatility in the future as well - at least after a real economic recovery starts.
With my limited experience, project financing managers hate volatility more than anything, because it throws their payback calculations around like a dead rat in a washing machine.
What's your take on this?
Good question. I'd argue the volatility is itself the signal the system is already in collapse mode.
The whale oil papers show this.
However be careful about assumptions using the past to predict the future. The only certain thing you can take away is that volatility is a key signal to the start of collapse past that the evolution of the system is really really hard to guess.
I guess other people guess one of the guesses will be right but the truth cannot be known until after the fact.
One could argue the Roman Empire was doomed the day the republic ended but the longest measure has it ending after Constantinople fell. Even then a fair amount of absorption took place into the new Moslem Empire and back into the older Barbarian empires of the west.
Or it can crash fast like the Soviet Union with a fair number of people actually born before and living after its existence. So and empire rose and fell in the span of a human lifetime or Franco's Spain or Mao's China.
If you notice the pace has quickened then it stands to reason a Roman like centuries long fall is probably not going to happen.
Price and money itself are going to be wrapped up in a mix of volatility and the rate of actual collapse.
As far as I can tell I expect intervals of low prices where collapse itself has ensured supply meets demand will be short. Obviously we managed to have one such event happen although it already seems to be starting to end.
Its not clear at all that the circumstances will result in another such event. Maybe but again depending on how you model maybe not.
Obviously my model is pretty simple we enter a period of stronger and stronger price increases for oil and NG and the system tries to keep from collapsing via ever more rapid expansion of debt but implodes. I don't see us making it through the next one and I also feel that from here on out attempts to keep the system together will generally only cause it to deteriorate even faster. Way way to many bombs or landmines or what have you are now armed with hair triggers littering the ground and also pressure triggers ready to go if anything goes.
So what I see is volatility on a rising trend then as some point maybe in the very near future a rapid surge in oil prices and a bit later on NG and then a new event not yet seen where the fiat currencies begin to collapse sending prices even higher in addition to whatever changes in production rate are causing. From that point on who knows the system is in a death spiral. If I'm right both about the price spike and it initiating a fiat money collapse then its one and done.
Theoretically the US could avert such a event by rapidly increasing interest rates and rapidly reducing the money supply and hopefully not collapse because of the resulting defaults. This should moderate energy prices if not initiate another price collapse and we could potentially sort of slide along the bottom for quite sometime in a deep depression. However given the quick way prices rebounded after our last collapse its note even clear if this will really work. There may be no bottom to the whole even going this way.
Or of course my assumptions are wrong we have more rope left but this simply means we will continue BAU undulating between those two extreme outcomes for a bit longer before finally picking one of the paths. I'd argue that outside of my extreme view its really really hard to guess what happens as some fairly slight difference can lead to longer term changes. This of course signals that if we are not yet at the point of collapse right now then the system is chaotic effectively tumbling between the extremes without falling into them on a very unpredictable path.
By chaotic what I mean is that the problems we face may not cause collapse but they may cause the system to change course fairly dramatically over a fairly short period of time as its in a sense trying to dodge between the two certain collapse scenarios. This almost certainly means extreme volatility with prices. Think of a ship sinking with the passengers running back and forth from one side to another rocking the boat. Which way it finally rolls depends on a very subtle change in sink rate and where the passengers are but the boat rocking game is not changing the outcome.
Of course volatility on this scale is itself very stressful so its tough to believe that even this won't fail fast probably with only a short delay.
Hopefully you can see the role volatility plays once the system becomes unstable and volatile its really hard to come up with a way to dampen it in such a way that you don't end up in collapse.
As and example the great homebuyer tax credit simply created another foreclosure bomb thats literally going off even as its working.
Here it is
Given median home prices and base cost of living issues and the fact we are now in a weak to declining economy this is simply creating a bomb that in my opinion will start going off before the ink dries on the last credit request.
I suspect a significant number of these loans are already delinquent with many buyers losing their jobs shortly after purchase others quickly hitting the wall as they are in over there heads. Expect credit card defaults to rise sharply with this program.
So not only do I not think this program helped in my opinion it actually accelerated the collapse process esp given its pulled forward demand from people that might have been able to purchase a house in a few years or months if they got their personal financial houses in order.
Also it certainly accelerated the fall in rents as these people where renters. Moving them to vacant houses they cannot afford not only did not solve anything it made matters worse the moment it had enough of a effect to cause macro economic changes.
And this is just one of a long long list of things happening now that not only lead to larger longer term problems but cause and almost immediate short term problems to accelerate.
Heck the 0% interest rate for example has ignited a carry trade on the US dollar.
Pension funds, Commercial real estate ??? The list is endless.
Given this and even assuming I'm remotely close or even just Westexas's export land then one in done seems obvious.
If I'm closer to correct it just means we have a 50 megaton nuclear explosion going off instead of a 10.
Given most of us are at ground zero I'm not sure the difference matters.
Oh I forget Pruis's and plugin EV's windmills and NG powered diesel trucks are going to save the day nothing to worry about. All I can figure is they must work just as well driving over radioactive glass as they do on asphalt.
Sam -- Excellent point. In the basic economic model the industry follows you enter a price deck. A starting price with, perhaps, some inflation built in. The starting point is always close to current pricing. If we're in a high price period we'll tend to use a lower number. But seldom use a higher number in a low price period. The economic model uses the recoverable reserve model to supply an asset volume. It's not uncommon to give this volume a "hair cut" to allow a more conservative out come. So such a model might yield a ROR of 7 to 1. Now this is where it can be a little confusing to outsiders. We then consider the probability of success of the project. Two projects can have identical ROR but one has a PS of 80% and the other a PS of 20%. Yes...some risk adjustment within the ecomodel but that's just a "shading effort". Obviously one would chose the higher PS project if these are your only two choices. What you seldom see (on paper, anyway) is the price volatility risk you mention. I've seen as many companies fail as a result of price volatility as drilling too many dry holes. As you imply, a project might be a technical success but the company fails because it doesn't receive the anticipated price. The recent shale gas play is a great example. My client was one of the most successful players. But that success turned into an anchor that nearly sunk them when NG prices collapsed. In fact, their exploration model exceeded expectations a little. In 34 years I've seen many different efforts to risk a project. I have never once seen a price collapse used in any evaluation. Make sense though: would you climb out of bed this morning if your model showed you getting hit by a bus today. And why would you put all of your 401k into the stock market if you anticipated a market crash? Oh...yeah...that greed motivation thing.
This gets to the root of the point I was trying to make elsewhere. The reserve recovery models are not predictions of how much oil/NG WILL be found or IF the effort will be profitable. They are just geological models based upon a set of assumptions. The ecomodel doesn't predict how much oil/Ng will be found or if there will be a profit. It just offers a ROR based upon the assumptions made. Now there is a whole different world of models one can construct to PREDICT the future price of oil/NG. And models to PREDICT how much oil/NG might exist in a region. I know these sound like subtle differences but to the oil industry they are easily separated. Dr. Mello may have a geologic model indicating 500 billion bbls of oil. And it may be a very sound model. But such models typically don't include the probability factor. Dr. Mello might characterize the PS of his 500 billion bbl model as 10% or 90%. But that won't change the model...it's still 500 billion bbls of oil. And this is where I see us often debating apples and oranges. I might have no problem accepting the validity of Dr. Mello's 500 billion bbls model if I saw the details. But I can offer that there's not a freaking chance those bbls will ever be produced. Two different questions... two different answers... apples and oranges.
Thanks! I think I get the gist your argument about how hard it is to value Dr Mello's assessment. I'd also take a wild guess that he couldn't reveal his cost estimation and profitability calculations even if he wanted. And I don't think he wants.
Coming back to your point about volatility assessment. In the energy utility trade price volatility is of course part of the daily bread and butter - not that they necessarily do it great either (most of them use Black-Scholes formula derivations for their options hedging strategies - not the most robust approach out there as last yeas have shown, but allows one to fall back on the 'gold standard' excuse if things fail). Regardless, they do make an attempt to factor it in - especially since 2007.
Now, why don't the upstream players use volatility hedging cost estimation as part of their projected costs? Would it be too prohibitive? Would it result in the 'why get out of bed' outcome in too many cases? Or is it because historically it has been such a small factor compared to the PS you refer to? If the latter, I think people ought to start re-evaluating their historical position on that. Then again, who am I to tell them that.
And yes, in the end, recoverability is what we are all interested in. My second wild guess would be that one way or the other, we'll end up pumping oil through genuinely loss making activities for quite some time in the future. Price externalities are a useful invention in that regard. But that's another topic, for another time.
sam -- I suppose the short answer is that you can't hedge what you haven't found yet. Most companies hedge,to some degree, on the existing production. I've never seen an operator work hedging into the drilling economics. And, as we both know, hedging can hurt your revenue stream as well as help.
No..I think price shocks (especially on the order of a Black Swan) are one of the biggest unconsidered risks in the economic evaluation in some type of plays. In a conventional play a dry hole loses money regardless of the price of oil/NG. I've seen many operators talk themselves into drilling poor prospects because of high price expectations. Doesn't matter if oil is selling for $120/bbl if you're plugging a $148 million dry hole (something I watched first hand last year in the DW GOM).OTOH, in plays like the shale gas where you have a high probability of making a well operators used high NG price expectations to justify those high lease/drilling/completion costs. Thus even when they found the NG they were drilling for, the eventual low prices broke their backs.
Given that NG seems to have bottomed out it looks like we will actually find out what happens next.
My own experience is investors hate volatility. They don't mind risk so much if the risk and rewards can be understood if inflated. They are used to everyone inflating the upside. This is in software which is a very volatile business esp for smaller startups. Always has been one reason investors got wiped out in the .com crash is they walked into a very volatile business they did not understand and thought it was always going up. They found out later.
Also and a lot of people don't realize a lot of the money lost was with established companies telecoms software companies etc. The actual amount lost at the start ups was substantially lower. However after the boom investment dries up in the startup area and from experience in a matter of days if not hours. Investors try to extract their money and generally kill the companies. The only thing worse than a company run by a incompetent management team is one run by a incompetent management team and incompetent investors. Generally the turn around artists are really people who managed to kill companies that had strong business's but short term cash flow issues and extract money in the process.
In the whole process the concept of actually making a product people want and selling it and making money seldom if every enters the picture.
After this you get the big shake out but more important you never ever get capitol input at near the level it was during the big boom. Maybe if you wait decades it might come again but don't hold your breath. Thats not to say you can't raise money but its what I call cautious capitol and it takes a long time to strike a balance as the new risk factors or realistic risk factors are determined via experiment for the most part. For the software industry most of the investment capitol for startups is now coming from successful .com's and venture capitol firms in the last boom.
They of course think they are smart realistically for the most part they just got lucky. Regardless they put the money in.
I don't see any reason why the shale plays won't follow this same model it seems to be a basic one for boom/bust business cycles. This means of course that your in a bit of a catch 22 since investors will be slow to invest in general and want to see handsome profits before expanding their investment which means shale development will probably slow down substantially.
Now of course at this point what happens next depends on the product. In software we have a sort of analog to shale its the bazillion social networking sites some make it some don't most of the time they get big fast then fall off just as fast as something new comes along. In a sense the group of people willing to support the next cool thing is finite so they effectively steal each others customers the actual customer base grows slowly. The twitter guys are not using facebook as much any more etc.
I don't know the shale business well enough but my guess is its more about investors the investors willing to invest are a finite group now and the shale players will compete for them.
Next these investors are not just seeking profit they are seeking maximum profit to justify the current investment. In general further investment will come for the profits of the current round. Pretty much just like software where the investment money is driven by the few profitable companies the survived the .com era.
And its smart and scared money a whiff of volatility and its gone.
I think the overall investment side is probably going to be pretty close to what I've seen and it will certainly be interesting to see how it interacts with the shale plays.
I've said for a long time that I think that they will provide a slow and steady stream of NG once both the business model matures and the development of shale itself matures.
For shale at least given that conventional NG plays are declining the issue becomes LNG imports obviously if LNG imports under price shale then no shale development. This is similar to the relationship between North American oil production and imports. Its expensive today to produce oil in North America and development is pretty much controlled by the global price. This obviously slows things down. And the big oil bust is a reminder of that.
My opinion is not a lot really happens until our NG prices stabilize with global NG prices. Enough LNG is being exported today to ensure that the NA market is not longer isolated its just a matter of when prices reach the point you have liquidity. The software industry has an analog in the form of outsourcing.
This suggest that longer term NA shale won't really expand until its competitive with LNG from other sources.
However given the nature of the plays one has to wonder what the world is like when shale is one of the better plays to expand. Of course there are some large discounts that change matters but still.
So overall assuming the business and financial model follows what happened in software you simply can expect much from shale for the foreseeable future. It will be developed as it makes sense but the bulk probably won't really be exploited until global LNG supplies become a issue.
We have another example and that the Venezuela heavy oil deposits and the Canadian tar sands at some point in both cases they are or will eventually be exploited at some steady but relatively low rate vs the resource base and they probably will remain there until they are closer to the only choice and all other choices are reaching exhaustion.
Given that as NG prices go up LNG is likely to expand steadily increasing the liquidity of the NG markets and globalizing them shale ..
And of course this means the global economy will eventually have to absorb higher NG prices until the market becomes very fungible if you will and my opinion on that happening at the global level is its questionable and I'll leave it at that.
I agree memmel. It's difficult to be optimistic about SG activity regaining anywhere near its former level anytime soon...maybe never (never being in 10 years or so). As far as private investors sources for SG I'm not sure they played a big role. The big SG players were big public companies. Their investors, per se, were the bankers extending them credit. I suspect that source will return very slowly to the mix.
We won't get anywhere close to SG. In fact, we won't even drill for lower quality conventional NG reservoirs. Fortunately for us there are viable NG plays with high quality/high flow rate reservoirs. And even more fortunately there is little competition for such prospects. If NG were selling for $10/mcf right now we probably could buy just 10% of the deals we've taken. And they would have cost more to acquire and drill.
As the man said...it's good to be King.
If you have the money then I see no reason for it not to be a lucrative area for a long time.
Even in end of the world type scenarios you have to have X amount of NG if you don't want to end in the stone age.
The difference between maintaining BAU and keeping things from collapse is huge. All kinds of intermediate possibilities exist.
Markets for natural gas and oil will exist as long as they can be supplied once you give up on "cheap" NG for the mass market use cases we have today plenty of demand remains which means supply. There is reasonable demand for NG well out the price curve. Bottled propane for cooking is sold at a nice profit all over the world for example.
In economics you have the velocity of money which is the number of transactions occurring. What I see going forward is decent low "velocity" demand for NG well into the future barring complete economic collapse. Its not going to build to offset falling oil supplies simply because we cannot afford it. BAU is dead but multiple niche markets less price insensitive can and probably will drive a more sedate but stable NG market or likely markets. One has to think that a return to vertical integration may become important with NG developed buy unified utilities that also balance with say wind or other alternative energy sources or coal or nuclear. Or fertilizer manufactures will move to directly control NG production etc.
What I saw in the third world was that companies tended to be vertically integrated or horizontally split on intrinsic market divides what one would call natural markets. I.e your typical village market. Loss of a fairly open market for bulk sale of NG does not mean you won't have vertical customers and direct sale markets. I consider both natural markets in the absence of open exchanges and the ability to mesh NG sales across countries and even the world via LNG.
The end of BAU suggest we would probably see the end of these national and international meshed markets however "natural markets" remain and price supply demand all work like they always have.
There won't be a price for NG like we have today just like there was no global price for salt back in the old days or any other commodity price will vary and the ability to transport enough product between markets to level prices will be limited but this means of course just as the salt caravans of old made steady profits century after century the NG industry should as long as the demand remains and supply is reasonably there.
So if you think about it as a fundamental change in how NG is marketed and sold then the strange situation of high prices not resulting in rapid expansion of production makes sense. The markets are localized and these more local markets constrain the situation. Lacking a large growing market there is simply no reason for supply and demand to not find its equilibrium at some price point and it does not have to be a infinite growth solution others are viable and work.
So to be clear when I suggest like I did in a previous post that there is no market for 25 dollar NG I mean there is no meshed NG market like what we have now. Instead there are fragmented markets some working on 2 dollar NG some on 50 or 100 NG many on none. The volume of NG produced is significantly lower than today but its simply different and works under different rules and its hard to even guess how things will play out.
And I suspect ROCKMAN will profit handsomely off of this :)
Investors well eventually some will win but probably many lose in the process but thats what happens with investment.
memmel -- I had not thought about vertical integration for a while. Back in the late 70's that became all the rage for the utility/pipeline companies. They bought into NG drilling programs as a working interest partner and, in some cases, actually started their own prospect generator shops. With very few exceptions they were slaughtered. Combination of two simple factors: NG exploration wasn't their specialty and, more importantly, they couldn't tell good operators from the wolves who were more than ready and willing to exploit their ignorance and slaughter them on the spot. I worked with Transco P/L back in those days. Poster child for what I'm describing. In one joint venture they bought into 18 NG drilling projects from an independent operator. Result: 18 dry holes and the principal players for the operator retired millionaires. It's easy to imagine these events repeating themselves when the end users once again see the "benefit" of vertical integration. Like any good idea it all hangs on the execution and not the validity of the plan.
My $25/mcf value was obviously a gross over statement of where prices could go. Just part of the absurdity, IMO, of undue expectations of the SG plays being the great PO solution. As you say, big variance from local market to market. What I'm focused on right now is how to deal/benefit from the absurdly short cycles should they persist. When I started 34 years ago the boom/bust cycles were on the order of 10 to 15 years. Just look at the last 2 years: oil -- $50 - $147 - $38 - $75. We stared our program thinking in terms of hitting the liquidation phase in 4 or 5 years. Now I'm thinking in terms of 18 to 24 months. And then would require us to drill even faster. And that also means ramping up exposure that much quicker. And that often leads to failure. My cohorts and I will benefit handsomely if we get it right. And we will be dumped in a heartbeat if we don't perform adequately. That's the deal and we were all happy to let our abilities determine our outcome.
Pretty much every analysis I've seen recently indicates that short term there is about a $5 cap on North American gas and a low end around $3 - $4 that LNG still can't displace simply because there are competing markets and not really enough regas facilities in the US. The shale gas players have been responding by lower costs....the breakeven for Haynesville is now around $2.50 for Marcellus around $3 as compared to an average for North American conventional gas of around $7/Mcf. Continued low prices will cause greater efficiencies but certainly you will see additions only from the best or Tier 1 acreage of the various shale plays. Gas will get shutin as the hedges roll off (a lot of companies are still well hedged) and eventually the price will rise again towards the marginal cost of conventional gas at which point the shale gas plays will ramp up once again. The company I work for is projecting $6/mcf long term, consistent from what I've seen from CERA. A lot of companies can make hay at this price in shale gas plays, specifically those that have learned the manufacturing approach.
Rock, after all the knobs are turned, what you really have is some sort of curve, ulimate recoverable reserves versus (inflation adjusted) price. But of course both geologic and technical assumptions went into making that curve.
So we have multiple sources of uncertainty: What is really under the ground? How much will the market pay to extract it? How tough (expensive) will extraction of X percent cost?
enemy -- So true. I could never document the number but, based upon my personal experience over 34 years, there has been more money invested in oil/NG then has ever been recovered. Thanks to optimism/greed I've had a career.
Maybe I'm missing something but I'll ask anyway:
You say 'with current technology we can recover' but does that mean we can recover that much with a positive EROI or just that we can get the gas out the rock if we want too but with a negative EROI for the last bit?
We know there is still a lot of FF in the earths crust, as is e.g. uranium. But if we use these resources mainly for burning it to get energy, then recovering it has only any use if the EROI is (at least) several times larger then 1. Can we still get the 120 TCF of shale gas out? Same with the 500 billion barrels of oil between S. America and Africa?
Also, the EROI only applies to the situation where we burn the resource. For other uses like production of plastics and other products it's only the monetary ROI that counts right?
Styno -- I can't answer you in terms of EROI. The oil industry never has and will never base drilling decisions on EROI. Not that there isn't a relationship. But we just deal in $'s. The NG is there in the SG plays. Whether it's 100 or 80 or 120 TCF I don't really know. But there is a huge amount PROVEN IN PLACE NG. And current technology can recover all of it. The big IF, of course, is IF the price is high enough. And it might well reach a point when the profit to do so is there but you might actually have a negative EROI. But I don't think such a time, if it ever did occur, would persist very long.
The 500 billion bbls in the Atlantic is a whole different story. I still haven't seen Dr. Mello's complete presentation but I'll stick my neck out and say he doesn't have specific data showing that amount of oil exists out there. I take it his number comes from a model. IOW, what could be out there. That number may be right or off by 300 billion bbls...time will tell. And, again, not knowing the details, even if that's his estimate of the amount of oil out there that could be produced his number is totally bogus if he doesn't include a pricing assumption. Just like shale gas, the 100 TCF recoverable number is only valid at a certain price assumption. But to be practical I see no potential for NG prices to reach $25/mcf (2009 $'s) and stay at that price long enough to cause a sufficient number of wells to be drilled to recover anywhere near that volume of NG. The economic feedback loop is just way too efficient these days.
Thank you for your insight and time.
So what is the likely EROEI of Mr Mello's 500 BBL secret? I watched his presentation on video, and I have to say, high marks for showmanship. For the sake of the peak oil crowd, he made a big deal about being conservative in his estimates.
Jeremy Gilbert said the very next morning that we would be lucky to get 10 billion barrels out. As for the EROI, I am not sure, but we might be working on that in the not to distant future...
David -- As per my thoughts above did Mr.Gilbert offer a price assumption for his 10 billion bbl of oil prediction?
Rockman,
No, he did not. He was acknowledging the fact that Mr. Mello was reporting resources in existence, not proved reserves, to which Mr. Gilbert said might be about 10 billion.
But I think the situation is more complicated than you discuss. I agree that in the "net present value" sense that the price of oil will determine what is recoverable and what is not - economically speaking. However, you are assuming that all of the resources, financial and otherwise, are available to these firms as long as the price signal says that they will make a profit.
I get your point David. But my economic model makes no assumptions "that all of the resources, financial and otherwise, are available". That's the point I was trying to make. This is where we can get lost in our conversation. My model isn't dependent upon the factors you mention because my model isn't a prediction of what will or won't happen. It's just a model...not reality. Your factors are critical, of course. But they would be projected based upon other models: future capital availability model, future political model, future consumption model, etc. All such models could be used to predict future conditions. But, by in large, each model is independent of each other. My hypothetical model is valid whether there is every another $ to spend drilling wells. As I said, it's just a model...not a prediction of the future.
As I was trying to imply we have a tendency to debate models when we're really debating what appears to be predictions used in these models. That's why I struggle to make the distinction in our conversations between assumptions and predictions. You cannot argue that someone's model assumptions are wrong. But we can vigorously debate whether one prediction or another is correct. In Dr. Mello's case if he has a model that shows 500 billion bbls of oil then it's 500 billion bbls of oil. We can discuss if he's staying within the realm of geologic reality or not. But if he predicts that we will prove up 500 billion bbls then that's a completely different matter. Perhaps I come to the subject with a very prejudiced view. I look at proposed drilling projects daily and it's very easy for me to judge a project's model as being valid but the reject the deal because it doesn't have a chance of working. For me models and predictions exist in two different worlds. I hope that makes sense.
Rockman,
I understand the difference between assumptions and predictions and I agree with your general opinion, i.e. assumptions should not be argued over. But we are fundamentally asking different questions, though. You are answering the question in your model: "how much of a resource can we get, based on assumptions of X price for natural gas?" I am asking how much of that gas will be gained at a significant energy profit? That is a much different question.
Also, models are defined as a simplification of a real system (Hall and Day 1977). Your model is a simplified version of some system that makes predictions based on a set of assumptions. You predict that 120 TCF of natural gas are recoverable from shale plays given your assumptions. Until you can validate empirically your model, than your predictions remain predictions, and are not "truth" of any sort.
No David. My model is not a prediction and is quit valid. I have no idea if we'll every produce that much NG from the shale plays. Thus I would never make a fool of myself with such a prediction. I can recover 120 TCF of NG today if my pricing assumptions existed today. That's not a prediction...it's a fact. I spent last year doing just that. Unfortunately the price support went away. I know the reservoir characteristics, the cost to drill and complete and the economic requirements of the operators. I run my economic model daily on drilling prospects. It's about as standard as it gets. Again, I'm not predicting I can get 120 TCF...I'm saying I can do it today. All I need is the price support. I can also recover 100 million ounces of gold out of sea water today. That's not a prediction. It's a fact based on a recovery model of gold from sea water. All I need is the price support of gold to be suffciently high enough to make it profitable. Again, I have no idea if gold would ever reach the price needed to make the process work. But, once again, I'm not predicting we'll ever see that price. My model just says that it's possible to recover all that gold with existing technology.
Rockman,
How do you know you can get 120 TCF. How do you know it isn't 110 TCF or 130 TCF? I realize that it is "technically" possible to get gas (or gold or whatever) if you have the proper price support, but how are you getting 120 TCF as the exact amount of recoverable reserves? Is there ANY uncertainty in your model? If so, then it is not "truth" or "fact", but a probability, and much like any other model it needs to be validated (i.e. tested). I understand that you have probably been using this model for years, and if so it has been "validated" numerous times before and there is no reason to suspect it would be wrong now. However, models are models, they are not "truth" or "fact". It is a semantic argument, but an important one.
When NG was over $10.00 mcf, shale gas was much more feasible. If NG goes to $1.50 you might not see the drilling boom that $10.00 mcf gas will bring. Much depends on the price of a lease in the Haynesville or the Marcellus. Some people looked at operating costs, but did not include fixed costs, employee benefit plans, health insurance, pipeline tarrifs etc. in the price of gas. Some companies hedged their production and had cash flow to continue drilling to keep their leases that they spent many dollars to attain. There is a potential problem if a financial institution hedges wrong like Enron did. It could take down a company. Naked derivatives are yet a potential problem as we saw with the 100 billion dollar collapse of AIG. To make it in the oil/natural gas patch you might need to known the bottom line, the odds, and the rocks.
Oops, that is substantiating Rockman. If you are questioning delta errors below and above the estimate, Rockman has provided a very good model with no bias, and unstated variance. Apart from the missing variance, that is a great model in my book. Rockman is basically stating the most probable estimate. With the variance included, this is the value that will occur most frequently if you could run the experiment many times.
In other words, if the number was 110, so what? If the number was 130, so what? Unless this was some over/under sports gambling enterprise, does it really matter?
This is the only good way to look at a model result. If someone presents you with a model that aggregates lots of information, immediately assume that the result is the most probable estimate, and most errors will be symmetric above and below this value. This is in accordance with the central limit theorem. If, on the other hand, you know that the model is a fundamental measure of some physical process governed by entropic considerations, assume the variance is equal to the mean squared, and take your chances.
David -- Is it 110 TCF or 110.1 TCF? Don't split hairs with me son...I'm a geologist. Old joke: question -- what's 2+2 equal? Engineer: 4.0000. Lawyer: what do you want it to be. Prostitute: depends on how much you're willing to pay (not to unlike the lawyer's answer). Geologist: somewhere between 3 and 5.
No..there is no uncertainty in my model. That's because there are no predictions in my model. There are only assumptions. And I can change those assumptions and generate 100 different models. I actually don't think our thought processes are that far apart. Semantics perhaps. I consider that models are facts. Whether they represent the "truth" is of no concern at this level of analysis. But truth(probability of success or being correct) is critical in the risk analysis phase. And that's my point: Dr. Mello's 500 billion bbl model may well be valid. The fact that I might think there's not 1 chance in 100 that this oil will ever be produced doesn't stop me from accepting his model.
I suspect my analysis may be a little too anal for TOD. My apologies if that's so.
Rock,
Apparently what I call a model is what you call fact. Ok. done.
And I believe Mr. Gilbert talked about a three letter word beginning with "L."
@David Murphy
That means a recovery factor of 2% !!!??? Why is the recovery factor so low for this particular oil? To the best of my knowledge, it's currently between 15-50% for most wells, using primary and secondary techniques. I'm guessing secondary techniques would be a serious challenge that deep under-water, so even if that is out of the question, the recovery factor is still between 15-30% isn't it?
Is it not conceivable that with the world facing collapse, enhanced-recovery technology will flourish? Can we not have at least a little faith in new technology? Mr Mello also mentioned that the layer of rock has good porosity, which should be a good help.
I acknowledge that it won't change peak oil, but if 100-200 BBL can come to our rescue, we can have a nice big bump in the decline part of the curve.
Shox,
I am not a geologist or petroleum engineer, so I cannot speak to recovery factors at length. However, it seems that the recovery factor is the % of the original {what - EUR?} that is actually recovered in the end, right? Mr. Mello was speaking about oil that he has found, many miles beneath the surface of earth, so my guess is that Jeremy Gilbert, a petroleum engineer, was speaking from many years of experience. In fact, he spoke the disconnect between what geologist would find and what engineers were able to get out. Sorry I can't answer is detail...
That's not a bad answer David. Except I might qualify it a little: what Dr, Mello THINKS will be found and not what he has found (I think that's his position). Also, I would tend to say "what the geologist THINKS he has found" and what the "engineer THINKS he will recover". Even when you have all the facts in front of you there's still a potential for significant variance.
Agreed...this year's conference (my second) truly was put together well for exactly the reason you mention: opposing points of view make the discussion much richer!
I would add two more fundamental concepts to EROEI (net energy) that we need people to understand.
First, the net export problem, which is so basic it's hard to see how so many people are completely missing it. As producer country consumption goes up and their top line production goes down, there is less oil for oil importing countries to purchase.
The right-half of the age of oil, when viewed from an oil-importing country's point of view, is going to look much more like this:
The curve would be even steeper if declining EROEI were added to it. Thanks to Jeffrey Brown and Sam Foucher for waking me up to this issue.
The second concept deals with the mess we've gotten ourselves into with our monetary system. Although economists (and the population in general) relate to accumulated paper currencies as wealth, because they are a claim on future planetary resources they are actually a liability to the planet. Of course the planet, which last time I checked was finite, cannot have infinite liability put against it. However, the monetary system, being virtual, can increase forever until something stops it from doing so.
This disconnect between what we think is wealth and what the planet can actually provide is growing by the day and has only one way to end (in my view) and that is collapse of paper currencies. There won't be an event to point to that will demonstrate that this weakening relationship was one of the fundamental problems that caused the collapse. It will simply be like sand washing away from under a building foundation until the foundation fails.
Thanks to Chris Martenson for pointing out this doozy of an Achilles heel to me.
I like the way Charlie Hall puts it, it's a race between technology and depletion and depletion is winning.
Actually, it isn't even a race. Fossil fuel resources are limited. Depletion is always going to win, hands down.
Only a switch to using renewable resources can give technology the winning hand.
I completely agree but would the add the following tweak to the sentence below:
It is not that paper currencies will collapse, it is that the belief that they will go on representing a claim on the future resources of the planet and future sweat of humans which will collapse. And ultimately it will be the specialised economic ecology which will disappear as without abundant net energy, and without the ability to pay for it early in the day (ie, cheap) then all other labour and sweat during that day will not be enough to satisfy the interest on the debt holding the currency up.
Once one's eyes are open to these basic truths, one never views the world quite the same again!
Hi, HACland.
Fair enough, the belief collapses first then the currencies. But since the currencies are not real (they aren't anything physical), isn't it ultimately the same thing?
HACland wrote:
Indeed. This speaks to an important distinction between fiat currencies on the one hand and debt-based currency creation on the other - particularly fractional reserve systems.
aangel wrote:
No, because you can have a fiat currency that isn't a debt-created currency and vice versa. (Some local currencies are fiat without being debt-based, for example.) The fact that we don't see a fiat currency not created via debt doesn't mean they can't exist; we just live in a world where all state currencies are based on the fractional-reserve system.
Even when a currency is backed by something "real", like gold, if it uses a fractional reserve system then debt can still expand beyond what the economy can support (i.e. claims on future wealth can expand beyond what real growth in production will support). This is the financial system the world had until most countries left the gold standard around ~1919-1939. There was never enough gold to cover all the paper currency because the fractional reserve system ensured that gold reserves would always be some "fraction" of them. This worked basically because only a fraction of the paper was ever asked to be converted into gold at any time. That also meant it only worked until lots of people asked for their gold deposits back at the same time. This was the cause of bank runs and the original argument for central banks: financial stability - which also happens to come at the cost of moral hazards on the part of lenders (oops!).
If the issuance of debt is instead coupled with someone actually lending pre-existing currency (e.g. when you make a term deposit, buy a bond, etc.) - where the debt-note isn't also usable as a medium of exchange, as the gold-backed bank notes were - then claims on future wealth would exist independently of growth in the money supply. (Those instruments of debt, if usable as a medium of exchange, would otherwise act to increase the supply of "money-equivalents.") Modern banks end up "creating money" because whenever they receive a new deposit, the fractional reserve system generates new loans up to {(the deposit) divided by (the target reserve ratio)}, typically a very large multiple of the original deposit - i.e. in Canadian banks with a target of ~0.5%, it's something like 200 times the original deposit amount.
Bank loans that create money act not just as a claim on future wealth - because they must be paid back from future income - but also on existing wealth - because they are used to make immediate purchases with money that would not otherwise exist, thereby competing with existing currency. On the other hand, a fiat currency need not be created via debt; it could be created by e.g. government expenditures - say, on infrastructure or a progressive tax rebate. This would only act as an increased claim on existing wealth; it would still generate inflation if the economy wasn't also growing at an equal or greater pace, or deflation if it wasn't growing as fast as the economy. However, that's just an argument for why it should be limited to the rate of economic growth.
Coupled with a lending system that depended on banks to act only as mediators between people looking to lend money and those looking to borrow - and not creating money out of nothing - it's unlikely you would see lending so out of touch with reality. If banks wanted to make so many loans they would have to raise interest rates to attract the money, but that would also undermine people's willingness to borrow. On the other hand, if people wanted to lend lots of money, interest rates would decline and fewer people would want to lend.
Adrynian,
all that is true but my question still points to the fact that our currencies happen to be both fiat and debt-based. So for our situation, losing confidence in the currency amounts to the same thing...a distinction without a difference.
Fair enough. I was partly reacting to the sentiment you appeared to be displaying - one that I see many people express, most frequently on other sites but also on TOD at times - that simultaneously denigrates all fiat systems, conflates them with fractional reserve systems, and pines for the return of "the good old days" of gold-backed currency.
Going back to gold - or any other physical/non-fiat/commodity-backed medium of exchange - won't prevent the problems we're currently facing so long as we retain the fractional reserve system. That is the real problem with our financial system.
I apologize for reading into your post, and for using it as a launching pad for this topic, but I felt it was important to explicitly differentiate fiat and fractional reserve systems, particularly since you seemed confused about the difference.
It's not that the "currencies are not real" (i.e. they're fiat) that makes them problematic; they're problematic because they exist via debt-creation which cannot be supported if our economy experiences sustained economic decline. It's grow or implode; no middle ground is possible.
Excellent. Two thumbs up.
Nice graphs.
However see my post above it was game over once debt started expanding and EROEI declining.
Shift everything to the right and add in 30 years of the surreal twilight-zone dreamland period and you got it.
Its a bit interesting that the last decades after WWII have been labeled as the American Dream period of suburbia etc.
Turns out to be a 100% perfect label.
Thanks.
They are animated if you watch version 2.0 of my video:
I think it's possible to go much further than that. This game was over before it even began simply because the fiat currencies were never tied to energy. Of course population growth was still a background pressure, but that's a separate (equally important) issue.
I think the relationship we created between our currencies and real wealth is fundamentally flawed by design. There is/was no way to prevent collapse with this system. Eventually the disconnect catches up to you for whatever reason (dropping EROEI or exponential debt or population pressure) and there is no way to avoid that unless there is some constraint on the increase in money supply.
It might be possible to have designed a poorer system, but it escapes me exactly how.
Note: Link fixed.
Aangel -
! Post Pea is something completely different!!
Whoops, must have been typing quickly, thanks. (Reminder to self: always check links!)
I concur there are other game changers involved i.e oil/debt was not the only one.
However if your willing to tackle the population issue its addressable even at fairly high population levels not easy by any means but addressable to a point. Where that point is is unknown but in the end the key constraint on population is generally water and aquifer depletion. However if allowed migration could actually help even in that regard. Even now our population could be redistributed move to renewable use of our agricultural system and wind itself down without tragedy. I think significant shifts are needed crossing many borders but its even at this late date doable.
Given there are graceful failure modes for population I continue to maintain hope against all odds that we will eventually adopt a wind down thats what I call dignified. In general it means a heck of a lot of intensive organic agriculture at the subsistence level for many but given the alternative its not bad. The natural cycle of agriculture ensures some time is available at points in the years to both enjoy yourself and create something besides food to increase your standard of living although slow it does not have to be a zero/negative lifestyle. And as population pressure reduced then the overall system improves.
However all the solutions I seem to be able to come up with involve low tech innovative use of local resources and corrected population patterns with a fairly small amount of high tech to enhance the quality of life.
And even here its clear we have not even scratched the surface of providing "high tech" to subsistence farmers.
Right now the monetary system effectively precludes this but once its the only game in town then I think the situation can change rapidly.
Hopefully you can see that even now at this late date if your willing to give up on the old system and forget about it and focus on how to build a new system focusing on reducing the population with dignity we can still change.
Of course its not so late that its impossible to transition the "old" its toast but the right answer has never changed its just a bit harder to execute now than it was 40 years ago. But the basic things that need to be done are the same and the solution is the same. Rebalance the distribution of the worlds population to achieve sustainability and wind down growth and use technology to increase the quality of life for everyone. It does not matter if its 1,2,4,?? billion people however your obviously getting into the danger zone as you pass four not impossible but exponentially more difficult to pull off.
Surprisingly given I often come off as a super doomer I think the way out will remain open even as our current economic system crashes I think that the opportunity to change exists and the door if you will to make that change will remain open regardless of what happens to the existing system. Maybe its not wide open now but its still not closed and won't be no matter what.
Funnily enough the rapid concentration of wealth at the top which is the intrinsic reason we crash "early" also means our other options are still open.
So by being too greedy we have left a window or door or escape route open if we choose to take it.
Its sort of like someone harvesting trees clear cutting as fast as they can and leaving the ones in ravines and steepest mountain side that are too difficult to get when the clear cutting is done and the business collapses you still have the trees in the ravines and you can responsibly use them to restore a balanced forest. Right now we see these last trees as resources available to the clear cutting civilization they are not however maybe just maybe its enough to create a new civilization if your careful.
I will always agree that it is theoretically possible to sort ourselves out. It would require:
So, yes, it's theoretically possible that all this could happen before collapse arrives.
You should get right to work on that, Mike ;-).
Seriously, I once believed this could be done, but no longer. Here is an email I sent to Chris Nelder, Jeff Jelten and Jason Bradford about a month ago that explains my view now:
Well I'm dabbling in alternative energy. Finally putting my chem degree to use.
This is based on liquified gas as a energy storage preferably liquid nitrogen if I can get it to work.
Not because its the "best" but because I think it can be done cheaply and has a number of benefits.
Cold is good stuff.
Polishing off my alternative software platform designed to provide a rich experience on cheap devices.
Sort of a uber next next gen webbrowser.
And I joined the local currency group in Portland. The end of the national/international fiat money regimes does
not have to be that painful simple credit clearing is more than enough to support a robust local economy.
They may not take off until after the system collapses but it turns out that done correctly local currencies seem
sound and if abused fail rapidly. Money turns out to be and almost trivial problem if your trying to live within your means. I think that only the larger number of bank failures that occurred during the depression prevented a return to local currencies people where hurt so bad they where simply mentally unable to trust the creation of local currencies.
This time around although I think people will be burned we have lived with credit long enough to understand its both good and bad and won't react quite the same way. Thats my hope at least.
Certainly I continue to watch as things unfold but its more as a sort of voyeur almost :)
At some point you just have to treat it as what it is a sad historical event playing out in real time.
The "real world" or what happens next has already started to grow and form it does not take much to find a way to turn your back on the last of the historical melodrama and focus on the future. I'll admit I still watch out of morbid interest but mentally and even physically I've already moved on to look past todays events as best I can.
Plenty of places to find your niche in the transition town movement.
I'd say about the only reason I still write is in vain hope that perhaps Obama might go on national TV and explain to all Americans how badly we have screwed up and give us a chance of taking our lumps and getting through to something real and sustainable or crashing. Crazily enough I have this small hope that he will default on the dollar stop all the insanity dismantle the Fed and help America refocus on itself and its closet neighbors. In the end the only solution is for US to follow in the footsteps of Japan and effectively seal ourselves off from the world and let our absence both give us a chance to heal and the world a chance to succeed or fail with out either our help or meddling.
Sure it means we default on our current obligations and it will hurt like hell but its not deadly we and the world would survive and eventually once the wounds heal prosper again.
But thats just the nation doing what the transition town movement is doing so why not start early and hope that the nation will follow ?
Bwaha. Cold is bad because efficiency is related to differences in temperatures. When the phase transition occurs, the area gets cold and efficiency plummets. Compressed nitrogen is loads better than condensed. Majorian can explain it to you.
I suggest you straddle a LN2 cannister and take a sledgehammer to the nozzle. If you have it pointed in the right direction and hold on tight, you have a remote chance of making it to the moon. Good luck.
Bwaha squared.
LOL
That would get you the worlds fastest ice rink. I've poured LN2 over the floor many times. It cool as hell of the top of my head I forget the effect but you get a gas barrier forming and it literally dances over the floor.
It not cheap so I never dumped a full container but you should get a killer ice rink. Need to resurface just dump some more.
Dang can't remember the name of the effect you can get it with water and a hot griddle also arghhh google is not helping.
And generally there is no nozzle just a foam cork and that is generally open to allow boil off.
And of course this highlights things that modern engineers miss cold is very very useful as much as energy itself.
All kinds of processes use cold not to mention storing food. Getting energy out the other in is really a freebie.
And forget about electricity why ?
Use air powered motors. 200 psi is more than enough to power tons of other uses say a full machine shop.
The machine shop itself can make everything locally for the entire system given the right alloys even bearings if you had to.
Your actual electrical usage is down to your telecomunications gear and a few lights.
And compressed air can make heat ..
Hot enough to boil water.
Obviously you can condense all the clean water you want so theres your water supply no contamination no disease.
I just outlined a way a community could live a very nice lifstyle with all the amenities of our modern homes with practically no electricity only if you want light bulbs and computers. If you don't want those then none is needed and except for a few air powered motors readily created except for a few bearing by any machine shop your done.
And the shop itself can avoid large castings for its tools using concrete or even stone or synthetic stone for the beds leaving just the fixtures for a single lath and mill and the required tools as input.
Certainly lots of knowledge needs to be transmitted and skills acquired but with some fairly small inputs a farming village in India could dramatically increase its standard of living on its own rivaling if not better combined with other concepts the "American Dream".
Obviously I don't see a lot of reason for using much electricity outside of lights if you want them and things like computers and televisions which can be made very energy efficient.
I'm not aware of a good non electrical source of lighting but certainly its doable just I think no one has really looked. Obviously good old fire works. But once your down to your computer and lights as all that requires electricity then I'd say who cares. PV and some air power are more than enough to power these use cases esp with some more work on efficiency.
Of course since its not efficient for generating electricity there is no sense in thinking about what could be done with LN2 to create a enhanced high quality lifestyle so ...
Its actually a bit sad that people today don't think a lot about how to create all the creature comforts you could want doing away with almost all of the crap we have made today. Turns out 99% of it can be tossed out the window if you think about it a bit.
And this is not even considering passive solar homes simple solar water heaters etc etc etc.
Other paths exist that may very well prove to be better than the ones our society and civilization chose. I've reached the point that now I see electrical generation as a very minor need that can be met in any number of ways.
So while everyone else runs off and tries to figure out how to make electricity to power their EV's to their electrical everything McMansion I'll follow in the path of the Amish and hopefully extend the road they are taking.
Unfortunately I have to respond to the software comment my full name is Michael Emmel it won't take you long to find the software I've written. Try WebKit and Michael Emmel or Gtk DirectFB Michael Emmel or Cairo and of course DirectFB be careful about laughing at people without googling and theres a lot more back in the past with Java. I ported Java to NeXT so ...
Digging I actually found my first big project sniff been a long time.
I love it because I wrote a complete way to call any native code on the platform entirely in the Java language.
Most people would claim this is impossible but most people don't think outside the box.
I hate to bring this up but I've been making very significant contributions to open source for years most of it for no monetary compensation. Of course you could have googled anytime you wanted and figured this out my damn email address is splattered everywhere in a crap load of open source :(
Hacking is a very noble hobby.
Given some of my code is used in this project and similar ones.
I'd say its a lot more than a noble hobby. I hope that I've helped change someones life for the better.
Opensource software has helped a lot of people around the world from poor children to providing a platform for programmers after the Soviet Union self destructed. I work with many people from the FSU who where able to turn their lives around working on linux and eventually getting well paying programing jobs.
Linux is helping untold numbers of software engineers in China and India to advance their understanding of real software to the point they can compete with US programmers on par. Not just cheap programming labor but first class talent.
They command top salaries in their home countries and this pulls up their peers salaries and encourages more to learn how to really program and not just go to the right school as its done in Asia. If they don't get paid they go to a country that will pay them for their abilities. And these are not H1B's fresh off the boat that don't know jack.
Its globalization done the right way with equality and choice amongst people with equal talents.
You can call it a hobby if you wish but this means you don't understand the political aspect theres a lot more to it than that and its the reason why people write open source. Programming a computer happens to be one of the few professions possible in many parts for the world regardless of who you are with a reasonable investment.
Its provided a road out of poverty for many and open source has and will continue to be a political movement.
This hobby has already upset America's stranglehold on software and its not even close to its goals.
In fact its starting to dawn on many that open source developers are not just hobbyists we know exactly what we want to achieve and have already accomplished a lot. Its no just hacker software any more its hardware and industrial software like CAD/CAM systems etc database the list is endless.
One example of many and this is just one CNC package.
A hobby ?
Hell a good bit of the "establishment" now runs on our communist anti-commercialism rabidly political software.
The US government cannot afford to piss of the open source hobbyists these days.
Your new filing technique is unstoppable.
WHT,
Memmel DOES tend to ramble but electrons ARE cheap-and there are some real nuggets in there sometimes.
Open source software is one of them-in the past copy righted programs were really worth the money but nowadays the free stuff is capable of handling most day to day computing needs just fine-and the savings for people who need only the basics can be huge.
I have little doubt that before too long open source will be taught in conjunction with copy right stuff such as Microsoft and Mac put out-the time is right.There are lots of businesses paying out MEGAbucks for Windows simply because thier employees haven't learned Linux -YET.
That dam will break one day and you will have to have your introductory os course under your belt to get a clerical job thereafter.
Of course Bill Gates marketing people are among the best and they may manage to hold onto thier near monopoly for a while yet.
The problem is that Emmel used that open-source rant as an "appeal to authority". This is one of the oldest tricks in the rhetorical book. I knew right away that his appeal had nothing to do with the argument at hand, so I just had to mock him.
A safety alert is in order for nitrogen, liquid or gas. It is very easy to get asphyxiated with nitrogen because it is odorless. All that is required is for the oxygen level to fall below 15% from the normal 20.95% and breathing it will cause unconsciousness.
As a process engineer I always tested the air in enclosed spaces before allowing workers to enter. At a facility in Arkansas a worker stuck his head through a manhole in a tank and inhaled a couple of breaths of low oxygen air and collapsed in front of fellow workers who were unable to revive him.
I am not crazy about using EROI for comparing one fuel with another, because their use is really part of a system, and that has not really been evaluated. But if one does look at EROIs, the one that is far and away better than the others is coal, at 80.
The high EROI implies that this is a place we are getting quite a bit of our net energy from. If we decide we don't want this net energy (very possibly for good reason), it is going to be a lot harder (and more expensive in terms of energy) to get the net energy elsewhere.
The high EROI of coal implies that a very high price must be put on carbon emissions, in order for coal production to shift to other fuel sources. The EROI table would seem to suggest that with a cap and trade system, coal use would shift to the next lower EROI, which is wind, but I think coal use would shift to the next lower cost (in the US) energy source, which is natural gas. (For wind, I don't think EROI picks up major parts of the costs, including financing and necessary add-ons to the transmission system, so it is not really comparable to the other EROIs.)
So we are talking about going from an EROI of 80 for coal to an EROI of about 10 for natural gas. This is a huge drop. It is not clear that we have enough natural gas to replace coal either. I wish there were a good solution. With debt becoming harder and harder to get in the future, I think both wind and nuclear will be increasingly out of reach.
No and I can prove it.
The total amount of energy we can get out of an energy resource is
Eo + Einv.
Ebase resource x DE direct efficiency = Eo + Einv
Eo/Einv=EROI; EROI ranges from 1 to infinity(EROI less than 1 is net energy negative).
Therefore Eo/Ebr = (EROI x DE direct efficiency)/(EROI+1)= OE overall efficiency.
If EROI = 1 then OE = DE/2.
If EROI = infinity then OE = DE.
So the effect of falling EROI is to reduce the conversion efficiency of base resources to E output to up to 50% (at EROI =1).
If we can increase our direct efficiency then we can get by fuel produced by low but net energy EROI sources.
The limitations on increasing direct efficiency is due to our reliance on heat engines to produce mechanical work where theoretical efficiency is determined by temperature differences
according to Carnot's law direct efficiency of turning heat differences into work is DE = (Thot-Tcold)/Thot.
In order to raise direct efficiency you must raise the operating temperature but the physical limitations of materials is the problem.
Batteries and fuel cells are not heat engines but do require inputs of 'finished energy' to work.
Wind and solar PV also are not heat engines but have physical limitations as well.
EROI lowers the overall efficiency OE by up to 50%.
So the effect of 500 billion barrels of oil at an EROI of infinity would be the same as 250 billion barrels at an EROI of 1.
Considering the huge amounts of oil sands about(600 Gb?), oil shale(800 Gb?) and heavy oil(400 Gb?) it seems logical that they will be developed assuming 'complexity' doesn't do use in.
resources
I welcome any paper that you write or have written discussing the problems with EROI, my email is attainable through this website, but I do not understand what you are showing in the above mathematically relation (please don't write a 1000 word post explaining so - put it in more formal writing and email it to me, thanks!).
Sorry, I'm not understanding how this assertion could be true. The system stops working well far sooner than when we reach an EROEI of 1. The only reason we are using biofuels that are this low is because they are piggybacking on an infrastructure that was created with energy sources far higher than an EROEI of 1.
Despite your math and your claim that Dave's comment doesn't hold, in the real world such practical considerations make a difference. In my view, Dave's statement is entirely valid:
What Majorian is saying is that theoretically you can bootstrap the process.
For example, say hypothetically we created a nanotech replicator that works by feeding on the energy it finds (this has other problems, see Bill Joy's "gray goo" problem). No humans are involved so that no money is involved. Financial considerations are irrelevant. All that matters is the physics of Carnot engines and thermodynamic efficiencies that Majorian mentions. Profits are automatic. QED.
Of course the reality of this borders on the South Park underpants profit scheme, but so be it. Theoretically it is a real possibility.
High school algebra is bootstrapping?
Hooboy.
WHT,
You are dangerous.
Algebraically removing the effects of money?
Afaik, the Carnot cycle only applies to situations where you convert one energy form to another (say heat to mechanical movement to/or electricity). If you use the heat that is not converted by this conversion for heating greenhouses, houses, or industrial processes that can do with low heat sources then the efficiencies can get much higher.
That's why modern power plants start to use the combined heat and power CHP method. In the Netherlands in some places even the CO2 from the burning of FF is fed to greenhouses which makes some plants grow faster and yield higher production.
The definition specifically refers to work, i.e. force applied along a distance. Since changes of temperature is just a difference in entropy then of course the application of the law differs.
Natalie Angier's book is The Canon
change made :)
The EROI table is telling; I found that especially useful. I suspect the EROI on coal may be artificially high, however, as the world depletes high-grade coal and moves toward coals with a lower BTU content; I'm speaking specifically of the importance the Gillette field plays in our current base-load power generation as it displaces the energy-dense (and depleting) Appalachian coal. It will be even lower as cap-and-trade comes into play, or we seek to sequester the carbon dioxide generated by coal combustion.
My point (and I am biased against fossil fuels) is that one's instinct may be to support coal to maximize EROI. However, given that much of our coal reserves aren't as energy dense as they were in the past and are located in increasingly difficult terrain, I think our efforts would best be put towards developing technology to increase the EROI of nuclear and renewables closer to the 18:1 or 20:1 ratio.
speaking of coal on that table....the magnitude value looks low. Is "mine mouth" specific to hard rock (or whatever non-strip mining is called?). The units look like work to to convert to tonnage, but the fact that coal is the same as wind (5 EJ) and slightly more than half of nuclear is puzzling.
I don't have the sources at hand but it's said that one of the most expensive renewable sources of energy, PV, has an energy payback time of about one year. Now, assuming that a solar panel will continue to produce renewable energy for another 30+ years with only very little maintenance, it is without a doubt that PV has one of the highest EROI available: +/- 30. So why does that table only show 6.5?
Production of ever thinner cells, thin film, higher levels of automation, roll to roll, and other positive scale factors makes the EROI increase every year (in contrast to all conventional energy sources). At the same time price will go down because of the same factors.
It seems to me that it's not a question of if PV will become one of the most important primary energy sources but when.
Absolute true. Electric energie helds by fare more exergy than for example chemical energie in crude (with by fare more anergy), it is allready no prob to build an electric car, perhaps it may not run 100 mph for 500 miles and it will cost a little more (but with a declining cap) than a conventional car...
It will be absolute no prob (but not with the american suburb lifestyle) to support even 10 billion by solar-energy (the true problem - as i statet in another post - is not overpopulation but dysgenic tendencies). Also an electric harvester does his job, maybe a little less efficient or better said a little less fast but not sooo much poorer. I know this will not work with airplanes but for that special task there will be at least some BTL or in the end (2050+) fluid hydrogen made of solar power.
The problem is infact the storage of wind- and solar-energie when the winds are low and there is allready night. Maybe this (see link) or hydrogen-cells will be a solution but we actually have no adequate awnser - thats not so nice...
Sorry Majorian, I don't get that. ERoEI is straight physics, either side of the see-saw.
I get scared every time infinity or zero get introduced into a discussion, especially a comparative one...
You seem to be saying that at any rate of energy gain, it is worth extracting energy.
Fair enough in a physical sense, but not with our current fiscal constructs, and not with sequestration done properly.
Just like Lehman Bros, you run(with exponential rapidity)into the law of diminishing returns :)
Good post David, this is what most have been battling with for the past years. There's always some thing "X" that should change the game according to people who haven't thought about PO that hard. It's difficult to argue against some simple "X", when you own argument is systemic, and not always distillable to a single five word sound-bite.
One way of going about this could be the classic Popper style falsification with ruthless Feynman style: try to prove yourself wrong as fast as possible. Hard data, models, systems models and probability analysis.
In fact, I'd like to see a good, well-researched group-think post on debunking Peak oil from us at TOD. Not from naysayers, not from CERA, but the cream of the crop of people at TOD.
Yes, we've been doing it on-and-off here and there for the past year. But not as a concentrated and focused group effort.
If somebody should know enough peak oil data to debunk it, it should be the most knowledgeable and analytic peak oil people themselves.
They just need to methodologically put on a devil's advocate hat and start shooting all sorts of probability holes in the theories.
Once those are done, some really distilled gems of counter-arguments may emerge against the debunking arguments. Good models, nice graphs, clear metaphors, some single sentence PR rebuttals that will drop Daniel Yergin's heart an inch the next time he starts talking about P3 reserves and P/R ratios or some other silliness.
Anybody up for this game?
And before anybody misreads, no this does not mean that I've started a yearly subscription to CERA or that I've become a 'creamy-nugget-core-of-abiotic-oil' convert :)
SamuM
"Know thy enemy" JK
Could be a good post - a compilation of the top ten arguments against PO or something like that...
I've started this process with Part 2 of my video "Rebuttals."
I expect to keep expanding it and I'm very open to new rebuttals that should be included. For the moment they are going beneath the video player as a note until I begin work on Version 3.0 of the video, which will be sometime in the new year.
The most convincing rebuttal to me is simply the uncertainty of what is under the ground in many countries and many areas. Related to this is the likelihood that companies and corporations are not giving completely accurate data, for various reasons.
This of course can cut both ways. Most PO'ers recognize that the sudden major "adjustments" in reserve estimates of OPEC countries in the '80s strongly suggests hanky panky. But what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander--if we base our doom partly on likely inaccuracies, others may well claim that countries and companies could have something to gain by understating the amount of oil they have.
I can think of a variety of counterarguments, but when you are dealing with basic distrust of the data, articulate argumentation gets tricky.
Hi, dohboi.
I wouldn't go down that path, myself.
I've always had the view that there is now more than enough data to go on to draw some conclusions. I think a lot of people (I'm not saying you) use the line "well, there isn't enough data to go on so we should do nothing" more as a way to get away with being lazy or because they see that their position can't be supported. Both are quite common.
It's not easy to call someone on being lazy without them getting their knickers in a knot, so generally it's a successful technique on their part to kill the inquiry. One has to be in a teacher or coaching role (or the boss) to be able to get away with telling someone "stop being lazy, let's dig into the numbers." Without that relationship, the person will become quite testy and defend their view to the death despite knowing full well that the real reason they are saying there isn't enough data is because the answer will take some work to get to and they can't be bothered.
It seems the UK Energy Research Centre in their recent report has the same take on things as I do:
Good point, and I really appreciate all your work. I plan to use some of it with students.
My post was in the spirit of answering the question, "What kinds of reservations might (at least marginally) reasonable people raise when they first hear about peak oil?"
I think our assumptions are correct, but I know many people deeply distrust the oil industry in general (often for good reason), and specific countries in particular (particularly Saudi Arabia, not the least given that bin Laden and most of the 9/11 crew were Saudis).
My main take away from Simmons work is more that we do not know what is under the Saudi sands than that we know for sure that their productive capacity is at a certain point. The kind of proxy data we have to depend on may be convincing for you and me, but it is an area where reasonably reasonable people may have at least some serious questions.
Thanks again for all your great work.
You're welcome.
The goal of the video is to put in one place a coherent narrative that hits enough of the main points that a generally open minded person would be persuaded that peak oil is both imminent and a problem. It won't persuade everyone but such is life. (We're still arguing over climate change, for lord's sake.)
Thanks André. I've looked and sent to others your videos. They are clear, concise and illustrative. Your work is excellent, thanks for sharing!
What I'm after is perhaps something more quantitative, decision-maker based all-out debunking (and subsequent rebuttals to these), sub-divided into parts:
1) URR - I think this theme is well-discussed quantitatively during the past 10 years and can be summarized using various different results and then applying probability analysis to show the range and probability density function. Should be the easiest to complete. All it needs is data compiling and some runs of basic functions.
2) Flow rate. We know this is what it's all about, but the opinions on this differ, depending on how people weigh post-peak decline rates, EOR, investments, pricing, volatility, etc. A simple price/investment/cost/volatility/demand model might suffice. That's 5 variables. Based on a stock model from 1 of course.
3) Exportability. This is of course what mattes to most of OECD and to China + India as well. ELM could be a starting point here, but again, the approach would perhaps need to be more probabilistic and needs as an input no.2 at the very least.
4) Investments. This is the favourite area of IEA (since 2008) and Matt Simmons. How much does it cost, what is the time horizon, risks, incentives, etc. Again IEA / Hirsch (DOE) figures could be a starting point, but need more variance in there along with some probability weighting (how?).
5) Economic price impact. This is more about oil price demand elasticity, price to gdp ratio-threshold for economic growth, demand adjustment vs demand destruction and volatility. Again, perhaps using historical data from 70s and the recent spike as a starting point. Not much of a data source to sample, but better than nothing. Based on this, one could give safer ranges, show what kind of shocks economy can tolerate for how long, etc.
6) Savings / alternatives scaling. This should be fairly easy and I'd probably just use bio-physical limits (land area, biomass) and efficiency ceilings (biomass to liquids conversion eff max) as the ultimate limiter rather than going to endless economic price fights about probability. In the end the outcome at max will probably be so small in terms of flow rate anyway that it doesn't matter in the scale of things. Would be happy to be proven wrong by this exercise though. Everything below those is the most likely outcome.
7) Gap consequences. This is for the policy wonks. Not so much about price per se, but more about loss of availability of fuel and petroleum products in general. Drop speed, magnitude and timing compared to daily operations of a society and against economic growth. Again, there is some scenario work on this already, but haven't seen probabilistic models on this.
That's roughly seven sub-areas. One can then walk a decision maker through them one-by-one. Of course, ideally at least the biggest feedbacks, esp. negative ones would need to be factored in (for debunking purposes). It is a system after all. Some people here (can't find the posts now) have already proposed something like this several times. These are not my ideas - I'm just pulling stuff together from many sources (you know who you are).
This would be a fairly sizeable undertaking. I don't have the skills or the time to complete that kind of thing myself. But I would be willing to participate and work as free slave labour for the common good though.
But it calls for a project leader with a better big picture view than I have and more analytical-statistical skills.
The trouble is, where do we find one - or does anybody else thinks this would be a worthwhile effort to begin with. I fully understand those people who are now diverting the time they are using more towards preparation, practical arrangements and post-peak planning/education in general.
One could of course just start with one. After all I think (1) is pretty much completed, it just took way too long to get there. We need to accelerate the other 6 if we are ever to make the point across in terms of decision making.
Is there such a need for decision makers? After having talked to some local national people in the know about these issues recently, I do think that they are not properly informed on the subject and their ability to do robust decision making on this issue is severely limited. In plain English: they are flying blind based on historical altimeter readings about energy, feeling pretty hopeful there won't be a mountain anywhere near the horizon.
To me, hope is not a strategy.
Hi, SamuM.
I think that some of the debunking areas you mention are good to look at (the investments and alternatives scaling in particular), and I'm likely to tackle those in Version 3.0.
My challenge now is to keep the video a "reasonable" length and not too techy. It's already getting into the techy zone with R/P ratios. Personally, I have no trouble making the case with a bit of math (trained as an engineer), but most people's tolerance for math is very, very low.
If you do get your project going and treat each topic in depth (a good idea), I think it would appeal just to people comfortable with numbers. Now, that's still a lot of people and they have to come onside eventually because the people uncomfortable with numbers (sometimes) defer to their judgement.
The other really big problem with explaining our energy predicament is that it's, well, a really big problem. It's taken me years to get my arms around everything there is to know well enough to discern what is important to talk about and what isn't.
Add to that that everyone thinks they are an expert in energy and it's a very, very steep hill to climb to get them to see something new.
I am all for this. The way I see it, what gets us in trouble is using heuristics taken from equations that describe the wrong problem. These are basically sunk-cost heuristics that we are afraid to debunk because it makes us look indecisive, and we have invested too much in trying to defend them. Unfortunately, as you say, that is not the way that science works. Science works by questioning itself and reinventing itself when necessary.
Plus you are right, I see absolutely no probability analysis. You mentioned Richard Feynman; well, he essentially lived in the world of probabilities and was able to demonstrate the most amazing results, and moreover he educated an entire generation at how to think differently about a problem.
As I found out earlier in this thread, the field of Geostatistics seems particularly misguided about how to interpret probability and statistics. I wrote this up.
“The quantity of oil, gas, coal, or any other energy bearing resource that is left in the Earth is not the question, all that matters is that portion that can be exploited at a significant energy profit.”
It is profit that matters, not energy profit, though of course, zero energy return does imply a profit of less than zero (i.e. a net economic loss).
Suppose we had two reservoirs of energy one of magnitude M which could be exploited at EROI=20 throughout it life time and a second reservoir of magnitude 2M which could be exploited at EROI=2 throughout its lifetime. The first reservoir will provide us 0.95M units of net energy and the second will provide us 1.0M units of net energy.
What determines whether the second reservoir is economically exploitable and the rate at which we are likely to exploit it? This question cannot be answered without knowing the total resource cost of exploitation including non-energy inputs. If the value of the non-energy resources expended is equal to the value of the net energy gained then we are economically dead in the water. You cannot determine the profitability from energy balance alone even in lowest order.
If you make the assumption that the associated non-energy resources which are consumed along with a unit of input energy are of equal value for different energy production processes, then you can you use the ratio of net energy to input energy (NEROI=EROI-1) as a figure of merit for the resource productivity.
For example if one energy process combined 10 hours of labor with 1GJ of energy to produce 2GJ (EROI=2) of energy then the labor productivity is 0.1GJ(Net)/hour. If a second process combines 1GJ of energy with 10 hours of labor to produce 10GJ (EROI=10) then the labor productivity is 0.9GJ(Net)/hour. The productivity of the second process is 9 times greater than that of the first not, five times greater as would be suggested by using EROI as a figure of merit.
However, the assumption that the value of the non-energy inputs is related to the input energy by a universal multiplicative constant is incorrect. For example the high opportunity costs of water consumption used by CSP plants in the desert might economically outweigh energy balance considerations when comparing this method of energy production to some method which uses a less scarce resource. The value of the non-energy inputs is not a second order effect. If you think so then you have not thought through the problem carefully.
Roger,You have made some good points here.
I have a couple off topic questions relevant to some eroi problems.
Somebody here should know the answers.
Could only partially treated(solids and maybe some solutes filtered out) waste water be used to cool cpv power installations in part or in total?
This might make a considerable difference in both the energy budget and in the financial budget of such an installation.
I am also wondering if a desalination plant can be operated on intermittent power(wind) without damaging the equipment or taking so long to ramp uo and down that only base load power works satisfactorily. If a desalination plant can be operated at varying power input levels it would be a good way to use up any excess renewable energy which will be available from time to time, especially from the wind but maybe also from csp later on..
No particular reason you can't do pumped storage with salt water.
I'm not sure about the utility of a desalination plant in general. Your probably better off with some sort of very simple thermal/solar distillation solution.
Maybe a
Coupled with evaporation of ponds of salt water at the base and natural cloud/condensation at the top if its tall enough.
Effectively a man made rain cloud. Hot humid air enters at the bottom and condenses at the top....
The ponds themselves or some of them could also be of the salt gradient form.....
The solar tower itself could double as a water tank/pumped storage i.e the top of the tower could be your almost traditional water tank with a hole in the middle and the large mass of water would certainly help cool the rising column of moist air its just a glorified condenser. Done correctly you might even get most of the condensation to occur above the tank and its basic gravity feed off brush like collectors into the tank no mechanical pumps.
This probably means the bottom half or so of the tank is insulated from the tower with the heat exchangers near the top. This means you probably need some sort of simple swamp cooler like setup on the top.
You might be able to get away with using variants of the capillary effect to cool. Other possibilities exist.
A super simple and neat way to create a pump can be done using a simple water bottle.
Fill a bottle with water and plug the end with a paper towel and hang it upside down. Overtime as the water evaporates a decent vacuum forms which can be used to power anything.
If your condensation results in a net water gain then this is automatic no moving parts. The air for evaporation of the vacuum system could be the cold dry air above the condensation zone and this could even be feed back down the tower and across the evaporation ponds if its worth it.
The whole thing if done right would set there and do its thing maybe for centuries with little maintenance.
Perhaps not the most efficient solution but dead simple cheap materials and low maintenance.
Memmel,
Thanks these are interesting ideas that I can understand in principle-whether they are financially feasible and scalable I have no idea.
My basic idea concerning my original question was to find out if desalination can be effectively coupled with intermittent wind and solar power -there will eventually be an occasional surplus of both in some places near big cities with major water problems-such as southern California.
Any short term excess of desalinated water could be pumped into a reservoir and would thus serve as a defacto battery-of course if the reservoir were locted in such a place that t could be used to generate some pumped hrdo power that would be another plus.
I don't know if a suitable reservoir exists in southern California.
But there must be a number of places in this country where any temporary excess wind and solar power can be used to pump water efficiently, thereby helping justify the expense of the installations.
It would be interesting to see a reasonably comprehensive list made up of ways to use such temporary surpluses effectively.
Another way that might be cost effective would be to heat a large amount of stored water inside large buildings such as hotels which could them be distributed as hot water to the kitchen and rooms or even circulated thru radiators during the winter.
I have a feeling that lots of such schemes that are currently not practical will make good sense in the fairly near future.
If for instance you are building a new house it might pay to excavate the basement a few feet over size and install insulation three or four feet away from the walls, thereby enclosing many cubic yards of back fill.Any excess output from a solar system either thermal or electrical could be used to heat this backfill and thereby greatly reduce the amount of purchased energy needed to heat the house.
Or a smart grid could feed wind generated electricity into the system during off peak hours, heating the fill,thereby leveling the heating load of the house-it might be possible to use off peak wind to supply the entire heating load if the heat sink is large enough-say big enough for a whole week.
I have had some first hand experience with excavation work and there is no reason that creating such a heat sink should cost a great deal if the ground is favorable.
Some neat ideas tonight, Mac.
Your desal (and Memmel's) seems like it might invite being comprised of numerous smaller units which can start/stop with less individual inertia, all contributing individually to the water supply.
For heating storage, it might make sense to excavate the cellar space and leave bulkhead access for another storage medium, like water, oil or glycol. Up here in Maine, people are getting rid of their oil tanks, and I only wish I had enough yardspace to extend the basement for a five-hundred to a thousand gallons of heatsink like that.. of course, the soil is already there, and free, and doesn't leak, so the loss of a bit of energy-density comes at a great savings..
Hi Johkul,
Living in an existing house can definitely put some limits on your options.We own a considerable amount of land but our house is situated close to the property line and we are in bad shape for morning sun especially in the winter, and there are shade trees on the west side that are worth more keeping us cool here than the output of a roof mounted solar system, considering that we would have to cut the trees and build the system.
We heat with wood and use only fifty to seventy five gallons of oil per year to back up the wood heat.Space is tight inside the house but I'm trying to figure out a way to use the wood stove to preheat our domestic hot water without running a lot of pipes and taking up living space.
A while back I tried an experiment with a little homemade wood stove that I made out of piece of ten inch diameter pipe years ago-it is about eighteen inches high , has tripod legs, and a hinged top that must be raised to put in wood or take out the ashes,as well as a built in chimney about two feet high.I made it years ago out of scrap between times on a winter time welding construction job and we used it warm up and make coffee and so forth-you can put a pot or frying pan on the top, which is flat.
So we were doing some insulating in the barn and I decided what the hell-lets see how long she will stay hot ON TOP on one charge of wood if we INSULATE the bottom and sides.
So we filled her up and then we wrapped her up in fiberglass-the stuff most people call rock wool-and fastened the insulation with a few turns of tie wire-the whole job took only fifteen minutes or so.Set the draft at about a third of the normal opening and put a pot of water to boil on her.
I estimate from this down and dirty experiment that insulating a wood stove -except for the cooking surface of course-can effectively cut the amount of fuel needed for cooking by half or more-and at the same time the cook would be much more comfortable if the weather is warm or hot.
Maybe some of the do gooder organizations will pick up on this idea and incorporate it into the stoves they are sending to the third world where fuel is really scarce. Of course they may already be doing this-but a few minutes spent searching the subject leads me to think they aren't.
Why limit yourself to installing solar panels on the roof?
Perhaps just have a solar gazebo instead, where it is sunny?...
I don't think it can be made that small. All its really doing is capturing a rising thermal and its based on dropping air pressure. This means tall at least ten stories or so just guessing. That tall or taller by definition cannot be small. It would be designed a bit differently from the cooling towers often used with nuclear reactors but would be on a similar scale. Smaller scale designs would probably have to use some other way to condense the water. And of course it all depends on the input temperature. You could probably make a decent test rig with just pvc pipe and some plastic sheet. I'm in Oregon and right now water is not exactly a issue and sunshine is rare :)
Here is a very simple variant same basic idea....
However there is no air flow in the small designs and to get the flow you need a chimney to get the water to condense before the air exists the chimney means some sort of condenser. If you have the water stored at the top aka a water tank then you get both and your using the thermal energy to both pump the water and desalinate it.
As far as other solutions such as reverse osmosis etc they are expensive the filters are far from cheap the electrical equipment etc etc. This is something that can be built with one professional and a lot of unskilled labor. I suspect brick would work or better tile.
This method creates some impressive and light vaults however I can't see why with some simple modifications you could not also create a very tall tower out of nothing but clay tiles. Potentially the heating area could be done using black tile vaults over the water also.
The tiles themselves could potentially be fired in a solar kiln.
Obviously you can keep on making tiles after your evaporator is done. These could be used for example to make sealed water piped and with some thought I suspect you could create a drip irrigation system.
Outside of knowledge and excessing the right clays and other materials and whatever you need to build the kilns the rest is local resources and labor.
The concept is very similar to ancient designs.
In effect almost the reverse of the windcatchers. Natural wind and a good design could make it even easier to make.
You have to work through the engineering and put the numbers in but is very doable. And your talking a structure that would last for centuries or longer with little or no maintenance.
Might as well stick in another idea I've been rolling around :)
Instead of using mortars I've been thinking about creating a brick that has a frit edge or porous edge.
This can be done by mixing in sawdust and firing the brick the organic matter burns away and leaves pores.
Next the fun part you mix up some thermite
And soak our paint the brick edges.
Place the brick where you want it and then set off the thermite. Normally the is done with magnesium but I bet it can be done with concentrate solar energy aka a magnifying glass.
This will melt the porous part of the brick or tile and create whats effectively a ceramic weld.
Hopefully very strong.
Only the aluminum needed is a bit of a issue but not really these days and of course its a fairly small amount overall.
Of course being a chemist I've carried the idea to and extreme and having actually come up with a valid reason to make thermite generally you do it for no reason at all :)
If this works I'm thinking about slap welded bricks. After the thermite layer is put on you paint with a thin layer of aluminum perchlorate maybe even mix in a touch of magnesium :)
Set the brick or tile in place ( fast before it dries ) then you just wack it with a hammer and off it goes.
Of course there are some saftey issues to work out with the last method but having come up with a valid reason to make both thermite and aluminum perchlorate I have to be on to something :)...
Now to extend the concept to make fluorine perchlorate mentioned in the article I'm getting there :)
Assuming you survive the experimental stage I suspect that thermal welding of ceramics using the right materials might prove to be a route to allow the creation of super strong structures with fairly primitive methods.
Do you say every little inconsequential thing that pops in to your head? I scan just to find the non-sequitors.
Larry King: "Kumquats... Now there's a weird fruit!"
Groan ...
Cement and mortars are a huge usage of both energy and significant source of C02 pollution.
Bricks even simple sun dried ones are easy enough to make. I feel a solar kiln is doable.
However mortar turns out to be problematic. Moving away from traditional solutions is certainly worthy of research.
And this.
A nice description of frit bonding its not exactly unknown and used in all kinds of industrial processes.
The nice thing about frit bonding is its "natural" if you can figure out how to melt the frit.
Thermite :)
Replacing a large scale fuel intensive industrial process with one that only depends on aluminum most often made via hydroelectric power is not a bad thing to think about. Frit bonding is something that to my knowledge has not been explored for building applications because of the required temperatures.
Thermite is the simplest way to create a high temperature over a region certainly literally gobs of other choices exist but they are more complex to manufacture.
And its not exactly a new idea just the application.
And no it did not just pop in my head I'm aware of all of these facts. My original concept was to simply used focused light on the frit but this does not seem viable for anything but the thinnest frit bond. The thermite approach which works makes it in my opinion worth talking about.
And more important the entire point is there are plenty of other ways to do things from the way we do them today.
Lots and lots of ways to solve problems. Glueing bricks together in and evironmentally distributed technology way that does not need heavy industry or lots of fuel is one of the basic problems it would be nice to have and alternative approach for.
Of course plenty of other choices also exist but like I said they many times are either fuel intensive or require advanced expensive synthetic compounds.
Developing a way that a poor subsistence farmer could build strong walls with local resources is a problem that I'm concerned about and its important. Given that billions live in squalor now and many more might be joining them working out ways they can create a good life for themselves is in my opinion important.
And although it may not sound like much gluing bricks together is a big problem. If this approach say only turned out to work for creating a solid floor to replace packed dirt in huts the increased hygiene alone could save thousands of lives. Frit bonding could or could not be the solution damn sure worth a try.
Memmel, being the great open-source coder that he is, essentially has written a software automaton that responds with drivel any comment that is directed at it. Let's see how it works this time.
WHT, I find your comment snarky and uncalled for (IMHO) and better left unsaid.
Huh?
What bee is up your bonnet? I enjoy reading memmel's posts. I don't always agree with everything but often he looks in places others don't.
I don't agree with anything he says. On one post this week, I took apart every paragraph he wrote and basically debunked every statement he made (save maybe one).
I wish someone was as harsh with the stuff I write, it eventually makes the argument more solid. However, it only works if the underlying argument holds some promise. Unfortunately, nothing that Memmel writes make sense at any level. If you can dig up a reasoned piece, let me know.
There are lots of things that he has said that makes sense.
But I have no intention of engaging you in this because your ego is clearly what is doing the talking right now and there is no real conversation possible when that's the case.
When you get off your high horse I'm happy to have a conversation.
My ego only talks when it gets bruised. So far that ain't happening.
Most people confuse confidence with ego, and they fear to engage with someone who shows confidence.
Look at how all the Rethugs quake in their boots when someone like Alan Grayson shows up. You can say that Grayson has a big ego or you can say that he is confident in his approach. I believe the latter. I won't let crap like Memmel flings around go unchallenged. His unremitting white noise is just as bad as if we had a cornucopian going wild on this forum without someone challenging him.
Wind powered reverse osmosis desalination plants are highly feasible and are being developed in use in various areas that lack drinkable water.
You don't need batteries or backup diesel generators because you can just store the desalinated water until needed. You can even leave out the electrical generator and drive the reverse osmosis unit directly off the wind turbine.
Here's an article about a pilot project in West Texas that can produce 30,000 gallons per day of drinking water from brackish ground water:
Here's an article about a Dutch direct-drive unit with no electrical generator:...
There are some areas of this discussion where I THINK I am clear on and others that I would love help on.
Clear: The U.S. in particular has now shown the world a poor example in increasing the money supply and debt to keep citizens happy. The world is learning (China's recent stimulus was larger than the U.S. stimulus) that they can print money also. Of course other countries would figure this out.
Clear: The U.S. along with many countries has inordinate debt, currently 53 trillion and growing, and when other countries are unwilling to continue to lend (which will happen)to the U.S., the U.S. will monetize the debt, creating inflation, so the debt can be paid off with cheaper dollars. Also, it is always more politically expedient to have inflation than unemployment. Interestingly reporting on M3, some say the best measure of total liquid funds, was simply discontinued recently.
Clear: Weak currencies and inflation will make energy more expensive in some countries than others. The price may go up everywhere but relatively much more in countries with weak currencies. This along with our inordinate energy useage will force relatively more change in the U.S. This is also likely why the dollar and oil are now so inversly tied togeather, a likely continuing negative feedback loop in terms of the price of oil in dollars.
Unclear/anyone who can help would be appreciated: The cost estimates I see on natural gas are all over the map. Credit Suisse had a recent estimate that $7 was required to cover costs and a reasonable profit margin and $13 for shale gas. On the other hand I keep on hearing about companies that say they can make a profit, even on shale gas, at perhaps $4, can anyone help?
Just entered the numbers for US (imported) oil from this table into Excel, plotted a chart, and got a worrying picture.
Year - EROI
1930 - 100
1970 - 30
1999 - 35
2005 - 18
2007 - 12
The chart predicts that EROI on imported oil will hit rock bottom (0) before 2012 if nothing changes and you just follow the trend. That means that the US might be able to still import oil and use the energy in that oil but that the world is draining energy if it keeps exporting to the US.
The US economy is being kept on life support, courtesy of the creditors (especially foreign creditors) who are funding our federal deficit. A question I have posed before: What happens when our foreign creditors decide that our high levels of oil consumption represent a bigger threat to the creditor countries than the benefit they get from selling us stuff (which we are basically buying with vendor financing)?
"what if they decided to husband their resources?"
Minerals, same same. Exports of REEs from China dropping, we're scrambling.
Vendor financing issue could be part of the problem and it would come out as a weak dollar (so the cost could be exorbitant anyway). I believe the Saudis in particular depend on us for both their food supplies and military protection. We get a lot of oil from nearby Canada (which is very tied to the U.S. for trade) and about 7% from nearby Mexico (while they have it).
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Ok, as promised (from a couple of requests back home) I'm finally reporting on some of the holiday festivities that are going on around Florence! (complete with photos as usual!) Just after Halloween we began to see the stores putting up new window displays and the toy store that is next door to our apartment has a great display with a snow machine and miniature village that attracts crowds throughout the day. A couple times I've even had to push my way through just to put my key in our outside door. Then about 2 weeks ago we started seeing city workers with their large ladders putting up Christmas lights across many of the streets in the center. I kept wondering when they would finally turn them on, and then last weekend when our friends were visiting we saw the first ones lit! The major streets were not turned on yet, but at least it was a start. Then mid-week this week we saw Via Calzaiuoli (the main shopping street between the Duomo and Piazza Signoria - *see photo) finally gleaming with thousands and thousands of little sparkles. So now our evening walks are filled with beautiful Christmas lights, holiday store windows, and the occasional Christmas song coming from a street musician or cafe.
Also this week opened a German Christmas festival in the square at Santa Croce, one of the most famous churches in town. It is full of sausage, pastries, cheeses, candy, toys, and lights! We went one evening and had a fun time browsing at the stalls, but because this market will be held for another week or so, we will definitely return because I had my eyes on some tasty-looking donut things! There is even a cafe on a merry-go-round (that, fortunately for those stuffing big Wurstel in their mouths, doesn't move!)
We haven't decorated in our house yet, but I do think that we'll be shopping for some lovely Fiorentine paper this week to make a string of paper snowflakes for our livingroom. It's crazy to me how the time really is flying by here, and I'm forgetting how close Christmas really is...it's different not being around family and our friends from Florida. Today we played Christmas music for most of the time just for a reminder. We only have 2 weeks left of classes until we are off for a 3 week holiday. This week, there are several to-do's on my list, including getting Christmas cards made, deciding on where we want to go for several days during our break (we've narrowed it down to about 4 Italian excursions), and buying a couple of small gifts for exchange parties coming up.
...lots more to come, including the best tree we've found so far in the city!
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Aren't decorations fun? well, as long as you're able to get to open your door :)
This year I've actually gotten to enjoy the holiday season more than the previous years... but like you said, time's flying by!
Erin - I love your pictures - but can you post them a bit bigger??? I love those in-your-face pics and I would love to see more detail of yours - they seem great!
Your photos have helped me get into the Christmas spirit. I know I have some lights around here somewhere.
Wonderful photos! Thank you!
Sara: funny you mentioned the photo enlarging b/c just this week I've been searching through other ways (without using Flickr, which I may have to revert to) where I can store hi-res photos b/c we're running VERY low on our personal website bandwidth (which I used to post on there b/c people could enlarge them...)
so hopefully soon we'll find a solution :)
christmas time in Florence (or flotown as we call it) it wonderful...Italians are so festive :-)
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