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American Advertising Federation of Amarillo will host its monthly meeting with a featured presentation by Ben Price on "Freelancers & Clients: Can't We All Just Get Along?" at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Amarillo Club. There is a charge for lunch.
The presentation addresses best practices for creating a successful client-freelancer working relationship. It will review the power of perception, the importance of communication and the ultimate creation of confidence between parties.
For more information about the American Advertising Federation of Amarillo, visit www
"Election Reflections" will be the topic of a talk by radio newsman James Hunt at the luncheon meeting of League of Women Voters at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Country Barn Steakhouse, 8200 W. Interstate 40. Guests are welcome. Attendees will order from the menu.
Hunt, KGNC Radio talk show host and agribusiness director, will discuss the tone of political discourse, the role of talk radio leading up to the election and the direction of the country in the future, said Rose Lee Powell, League program vice president.
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, does not support or oppose any candidate or party. It encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy, Powell said.
For more information, call Powell at 806-418-2445.
Odyssey Hospice will conduct an end-of-life education seminar called "The Journey" from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Northwest Texas Hospital Pavilion. Topics will include "The Dying Process," "The Role of Spiritual Care," "The Grief Process," Talking to Children," "Assisting Families" and "End-of-Life Options."
Account executive Brande Bigham said the seminar is open to everyone. The $25 cost includes a workbook and lunch. For questions, call Brande Bigham at 806-626-8353.
The Texas Plains Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals has announced the award winners for the 2012 celebration of National Philanthropy Day.
Area philanthropists and businesses will be honored at the Texas Panhandle's 2012 National Philanthropy Day luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the Amarillo Civic Center Heritage Room.
Honorees include Bob and Jackie Pearson, Outstanding Philanthropists; B&W Pantex, Outstanding Business/Corporation; Suddenlink Communications, Outstanding Media Award; Lone Star Ballet Guild, Outstanding Community Service Organization; Dyron Howell, Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser; Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust, Outstanding Foundation; Susie Akers, Outstanding Fundraising Professional; Junior Board, Amarillo Tri-State Exposition, Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy.
Tickets are $50 for individuals. Tables of eight are $375 for nonprofit organizations and $500 for all others. Additional sponsorships are available.
The Texas Panhandle Suicide Prevention Coalition is sponsoring a free event for people who have lost someone to suicide at 1 p.m. Nov. 17, International Suicide Prevention Day, at the West Texas A&M University Activity Center in Canyon.
The event will include speakers who also are survivors and talks by local grief professionals. There will be time for personal discussion and a question-and-answer session.
St. Hyacinth Catholic Church, 4500 West Hills Trail, will have its eighth annual Thanksgiving dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
The menu will include turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, salad and a dessert. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 6 to 11 and
5 and younger free. There also will be a bake shop and a Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, call 806-358-1351.
Hospice Care of the Southwest will sponsor a free four-week Grief Support Group series, "Understanding Our Grief," beginning Nov. 28 for those mourning the death of a family member or friend. Meetings will be 7 to 8 p.m. at Central Church of Christ, 1401 S. Monroe St. Enter from the west parking lot to Room 22.
Discussion and handouts will be on the following topics:
� Nov. 28: Introduction to our grief journey
� Dec. 5: How we deal with our changing feelings
� Dec. 12: How we cope with all the changes
� Dec. 19: How we handle anniversaries, holidays and special days
RSVP to 806-356-0026 is requested to ensure adequate snacks and free handouts.
A Christian singles dance from 7 to 11 p.m. Dec. 8 at The Maverick, 1923 S. Lincoln St., will include a live auction to raise funds to continue the dances.
Beverages are provided in a nonsmoking, nonalcoholic environment. Bring snacks to share if you wish. Admission is $7.
For information, call Shirley at 806-358-4440 or Johnnie at 806-336-1943.


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Hi, I am wondering about the meaning of "Pitch Black", it is an australian movie with Vin Diesel among others http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/ . In my country it is translated as something like "Very-very black darkness" or "Very-very deep darkness".
What is your English translation of "Pitch Black"? Is it some kind of slang in Australia or in the United States?
Thanks in advance.
Also: black as night, black as sin, black as coal, coal-black, jet-black....
FYI: pitch in the meaning of 'tar'; jet in the meaning of 'semi-precious stone'

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He looks a lot like that one actor, you know, the one that makes all the crappy movies.
This is a follow up to to Doctor Rocklove a few weeks ago, where I identified the influence of offensive sets on philosophies. If you're not familiar with offensive theory you should go back and read that. If you're a football coach you are welcome to pinch the bridge of your nose and shake your head, for this is only going to cover about 20 percent of what you know to be the basics of offensive football.
The point today is to look at some of the base plays of various offenses, and a few of the constraint plays that they use to counter, and what defenses do to counter that. In doing so I hope to
find stumble upon a better explanation of Borgesian offensive theory than the "grab bag" this space has previously suggested.
That Thing You Do
You've probably read enough college football boilerplate by now to have heard a coach talk about "what we'd like to do." This does not have to mean one play, but it often means one concept—very much like a play—which the team will be able to execute to perfection against the defense they want to see. That play is usually going to be low-risk, and if executed flawlessly against the vanilla defense it's built to beat, it will gain a consistent 5 to 7 yards. It can be run out of many formations, and you will practice it a thousand million times until you are sure it will work every time unless the opposition "cheats" to beat it.
For Vince Lombardi it was the sweep. For Wisconsin (and virtually every high school in our division in the late-'90s) it was the ISO. It could be the Triple-Option (Bo), or the Zone Read (Rodriguez), or Hitch-n-Out (Walsh) or Levels (Peyton Manning's favorite), or 62 mesh (Captain Leachbeard). With passing offenses, which is Borges's thing, it's important to note that the core concept itself can often be a package of plays which work off of each other, none particularly favored; for running the same concept will vary where on the line it will attack.
You can go crazy for your core concept. You can practice it incessantly. You can recruit players whose skills best fit what they're supposed to do on that play. You can even focus physical training on developing muscles that are used on that play. The better you are at that play—and this is a sliding scale—the more the defense has to move someone or do something to "adjust" to you. But this is a zero-sum game, so if you're moving a defender to stop the base play, he's no longer doing the thing he was doing before. He is making something else way easier than it should be. He'll do this anyway, until you make him pay.
Constraint Theory of Offense and RPS
What you choose as your core play or concept will determine much about the other things your offense does, because now you add plays to punish defenses for adjusting to your base play. That's what coaches mean by "constraint"—you are constraining the level to which the defense can react to your bread and butter. What you are essentially doing is creating an environment in which you get to run your core play, which you've practiced more than any other play, exactly how you drew it up as much as you can.
Certain concepts are almost always constraints because they won't work against vanilla defenses. Delayed handoffs work because the defensive line is closing on the quarterback as if it's a pass play. Halfback screens work well against blitzes but if a linebacker is in man on the running back, a vanilla defensive concept, you're screwed.
Defensive wins in rock, paper, scissors are rare and lucky guesses; usually a D's successes come from outstanding execution of a vanilla defense, for example if the nose tackle shoots past a playside block and forces a pitch on a speed option (as if that could happen).
Defenses have constraints too but theirs are limited by the offense's greatest advantage: whoever has the ball chooses the play (the D's advantage is so much more can go wrong with offensive execution). Defensive constraints translated to boilerplate sound like "we took away the run and made Denard beat us through the air." What they mean is the defense was cheating against the offense's base play all game but leaving themselves more open to the constraint plays, betting on poorer execution by the offense.
Dantonio last year sent two blitzing linebackers up the middle on many occasions, taking away Michigan's bread 'n butter play "Denard-'n-stuff." This forced Michigan into our constraint, which was targeting open receivers in short zones, but then Dantonio took this away by having safeties replace the blitzing LBs. This opened up another constraint by making deep coverage completely up to the cornerbacks, but then a trash tornado covered that constraint for them.
What the constraint theory does for playcalling is create a kind of matrix of offensive adjustments to defensive adjustments and adjustments to those adjustments. For a typical varsity high school team that matrix is probably 20 plays, and for college football it's more complex, and in the NFL the adjustments are so myriad and subtle I'd have an easier time teaching EMI/RMI shielding (it sounds hard).
Because the shades of gray in such a big decision matrix make for convoluted understanding, I've tried to (over-)condense the basic constraints of four basic offenses. There is way, way more but these are a few of the constraint packages that Michigan used last year.
Offensive Concept: I'm bigger, faster and stronger than you are, so I'm gonna hit you so hard your momma cries, then evoke masculine metaphors.
Defensive Concept: Control the point of contact, win 1st down, never let the train leave the station.
|Man-on-man blocking, backs hit 2nd level at full speed running vertically. Repeated success quickly tires defenders, especially if the backs are regularly hitting defensive backs, and sets up soul-crushing play-action.
|Read and react. Have LBs who can react quickly to the right hole (5-2, 4-3 under, 3-4), or b) have superior DL beat their blocks while the LBs maintain their gaps (4-3). Zone behind that so CBs can pincer.
|Prey on the reacting linebackers by running play action, then rolling the pocket away from the point of attack and passing deep.
|Blitz their favorite gaps. The point is to control where the point of contact occurs, so the sooner that happens, the sooner one of them will take out the lead blocker, and the sooner the ballcarrier is tackled.
|Screens, draws, and quick, short passes to curl and out routes to take advantage of corners' fears of something deep.
|Back off into safe coverage--these days it's cover 2 man, meaning the cornerbacks are in man on WRs with safety help over the top. This takes the CBs out of run support but any pass deep is into double-coverage.
Offensive Concept: A symphony of route design and timing that puts defenses into a progression of impossible choices.
Defensive Concept: Throw off your timing, suffocate your routes, kill your conductor.
|Quick routes by receivers and RBs that make a zone defender commit to one guy, then hit the other guy before another defender can come up.
|Cover-2, and faster, smarter zone defenders who pass off receivers seamlessly, so that the O has to check down to nothing, throw into a super-tight window, or just runs out of time before the pass rush gets home.
|Run the ball with power, delayed handoffs and screens. Once the defense is thoughtlessly stepping backwards when the QB is, they're no longer able to react to something as basic as a RB and his convoy pointed downhill.
|Zone blitz, i.e. drop DL into coverage while random LBs and safeties blitz or squat in short zones. Reads and blocking are much more difficult, and small windows become no windows.
|Throw "hot" into the pressure, with pre-arranged hot (post-snap) reads that both the QB and his receivers make.
|Levels/Robber. Drop back in a 3-deep zone while rushing 5 (often the SLB/nickel). Robber reacts to runs/screens or replaces guy who blitzed for instant pick/scared QB.
Offensive Concept: Spread, mesh, read, and gun, so on any given play, at any spot on the field, we can put it where you ain't.
Defensive Concept: Anywhere you can get, I can get faster
|Spread to pass. The O-line is spread to basically neutralize line play (DL will break through eventually but seldom right away). Receivers run "mesh" routes against each other, then cut off their routes when they've recognized the D in order to find soft spots in the zone.
|Cover-3 zone, trusting your LBs to intelligently route receivers and react and trusting the QB and WRs can't connect on all of their 7-yard passes and that soft spots are small.
|Dynamite with a cut-able wick
|Curls, and/or bubble screen whenever the defense is obviously backing off. Dana Holgorsen has altered this to delayed handoffs and screens by using two RBs and putting one in motion to simulate the spread.
|3-5-3. The Air Raid threatens the whole field to open up the easy passes off of two crossing routes, so forget pass rushing and clog up the middle.
|(This is just mean) Four Verts: suddenly the deep receiver is no longer just a quick glance to keep you honest but a high-low with the seam.
|Press man coverage/blitz up the middle.
Offensive Concept: Reverse the traditional 7-on-6 "numbers" advantage of the defense in the running game (i.e. their front 7 versus 5 OL and a running back) by having the quarterback participate, and "blocking" an edge defender by optioning off of him instead of wasting a body.
Defensive Concept: The cat has more patience than the mouse.
|Isolate an unblocked front-7 defender against the QB and another accessible option he can go to once the defender commits.
|Change up the edge attack so the QB is reading the wrong guy or walking into a trap. Scrape exchange, slant the DL, etc.
|Fake the option and then send a quick seam over the heads of the oncoming defenders.
|Cheat extra defenders (8 or 9 in the box) into the area where the option will occur so nobody gets isolated and/or blitz into one of the options (e.g. CB blitz or MLB blitz into RB's hole) so unblocked guy can focus on one option.
|Option 3. This is the FB dive in a triple-option and the bubble screen in the spread 'n shred, and is a constraint called by alignment.
|Line up "clean" with safeties still in coverage, and if they option do what you can to delay the decision and await the cavalry.
Next time in this series: vanilla defenses, and the best offense for Michigan this year and beyond.
He looks a lot like that one actor, you know, the one that makes all the crappy movies.
...so much information to read and absorb. DAMN you Seth....I have a job, you know!
Head asplodes...
I know this essay is deliberately concise to prevent information overload, but I figured I'd add the fun part.
The rock-paper-scissors game is why every team is on the lookout for "playmakers", in as many positions as possible. The "playmaker" is the freak athlete that transcends the conventional expectations of the position. When dealing within schemes and constraints, both OCs and DCs make broad but generally safe assumptions about expectations at each position. These assumptions are based on "matches" and "mismatches". For example, a defensive lineman covering a receiver on a zone blitz is a band-aid because any receiver is expected to be much quicker and faster -- that's a mismatch. A defensive lineman will eventually wrestle past a single blocker but "not right away", as that's a match. Assuming the play happens too quickly for that lineman to do anything meaningful, the OC basically writes off the guy and focuses on someone else. So when a nose tackle shoots past a playside block and forces a pitch on a speed option, the whole play blows up. Examples of playmakers:
Mike Martin: A nose tackle who forces the pitch on a speed option. Makes QBs get in teh car. You won't like him when he's angry. Basically, he forces OCs to double-team him, which severely limits their constraints. For example, consider the "read passing" scheme. The core concept is to spread the line ("neutralize line play") and let the play develop, but you don't "neutralize" a line with Mike Martin in it. He's strong enough to tear past his single block "right away" and fast enough to cause havoc in the backfield before the play develops. Worst case, the OC has to abandon the spread concept entirely and double-team him. Michigan's D had other weaknesses that were exploited but consider a single player forced some OCs to cover their playbooks with red ink.
Charles Woodson: Cover-2 is a common defensive scheme, and like all others, it assumes a CB single-covering a wideout is a mismatch. Manball defense scissors: "cover 2 man, meaning the cornerbacks are in man on WRs with safety help over the top. This takes the CBs out of run support but any pass deep is into double-coverage." Woodson basically eliminated the need for the "scissors" because he could single-cover any single deep threat, allowing the defense to "cheat" on his side of the field.
Braylon Edwards: The opposite of a playmaking CB is a playmaking WR, of course. If single-coverage is generally a mismatch that favors the offense, double coverage (of course) favors the defense. Enter the playmaking receiver, who can catch passes opposing DBs can only wave at. With pass interference being illegal (and jamming a playmaker not very smart) about the only thing the defense can do is hit the receiver after the catch and pray he drops the ball -- not a very attractive choice for a DC. They also tend to have breakaway ability so you have to double-cover ANYWAY (or every catch is potentially a TD) but this means the defense can play rock-paper-scissors perfectly and still be unable to stop the offense because you can never completely take away the choice to throw to a playmaking receiver.
Open to discussing other favorite playmakers and what they do to "rock-paper-scissors". . .
Playmaker - Denard: Try to rock paper scissors that.
Denard's good, really good. But I don't know if he fits my "technical" definition of "playmaker" because as an option QB he's rather conventional -- he's small and quick with questionable throwing ability. My point is that within the context of this discussion Denard's not a "playmaker" in that he blows up the rock-paper-scissors game. You defend him like you'd defend any option QB -- contain the edge and make him beat you through the air. Weaker defenses had to bring up extra help at the expense of pass coverage, but good defenses generally got decent results going by the book.
If I didn't limit my examples to Wolverines, a "playmaker" (in the "I can't rock-paper-scissors this" sense) option QB would be Tim Tebow. He was an option QB with the strength of a tight end. Without that he's a prototypical option QB with good speed (at least good enough to outrun any single down lineman and usually a good deal faster) and mediocre throwing ability. But his strength meant if you used a small (quick) linebacker or defensive back to chase him down he'd just barrel through your guy, usually with nothing but open field behind him. You also couldn't "hit him out of the game" like defenses would try with Denard. The fact that he was generally STRONGER than average FBS linebackers and FASTER than average FBS defensive backs means no single defender could take him down. . . which made Florida's spread option a nightmare. He racked up insane passing stats because it pretty much took an entire average FBS defense just to keep him from running into the end zone.
Too much, but Tebow, combined with another playmaker, Percy Harvin = Nat Champs. (A pretty good defense also helped that).
Good point you brought up about the playmaker. It seems so obvious: you want the best talent possible. But to be able to utilize that talent to the extreme, making him a playmaker within your offense/defense/special teams(?), maybe isn't as "easy" as one thinks. I think you started to hit the nail on the head as to why that is. A playmaker must also "fit" within your "scheme", not just be athletically gifted.
This is a fantastic addition! You should turn this into a diary-- I wish I'd thought of doing it as part of the series.
A few I can add:
Brandon Graham: Running against the strong side of a formation is an important part of any run-based offense--otherwise the defense will just key on the same holes you're always attacking. With man or zone blocking usually that strongside end is the recipient of a double-team: the tackle plus a pulling guard or a cracking down tight end. The play can then stretch as long as it takes for the weakside end to flow down and tackle from behind, or the safety to come up from coverage and stick the tackle.
If you're committing two blockers to one guy, you'd better be able to handle that one guy. An SDE who can stand up to a double-team, shed his block and make the tackle or meet the pulling guard in the backfield is a big cog in the running game. Now your "rock" has lost half of its attack power and the defense will be having their linebackers cheat to protect runs to the weakside, knowing they'll have time (provided they diagnose the plays on schedule) to react and flow to the ball from a defense that is completely sound against your paper and scissors.
Michael Vick/Tim Tebow/Denard Robinson: A QB who can make all of the passes AND is one of the best running backs in the country is virtually unbeatable in a Spread Option or a Spread-to-Power offense. This is because you're getting most of the function of a power running game that you normally get from 2 plays (the QB and RB) out of one player, meaning you now have an extra guy to use as a blocker or receiver or decoy. If you align to a 10 or 11 personnel you now have 6 in the box against a ManBall Rock. If you align against rock you now have just four pass defenders against a deep attack.
Well that is it for learning this week. Maybe with a vision quest and some Kate Upton Gif viewing I'll be able to recover from that.
A very informative post, good job Seth. Now I can help my son out when it comes time for him to play football (I never did).
plus all the points for a demitri martin reference.
The more posts like this I read, the more I realize how little I really understood about football.
You've motivated me to learn even more. So I'm soaking this stuff up.
Thanks ... you and others who demystify this thing called football.
Ladies and gentlemen of the board, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your undergrad scientists. Your football frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the applauding of your fans makes me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into Bloomfield Hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a written committment on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when a man like Seth breaks down the versions of offensive football, then he is entitled to no less than two million MGoPoints, and two million pats on the back. Thank you.
...that this is just a fantastically layered shorthand for the game.
Great work. Looking forward to more!
I find these kinds of posts utterly fascinating ... but I can't seem to find a way to find a catalog or listing of all the like-minded posts that have appeared on MGoBlog.
Suggestion -- these kinds of posts chock-full of technical explanations of football ought to be offered in some kind of master table of contents or something. Off the main banner. Hell, it ought to be published as a freakin' book, because I'm telling you there's nothing better on the web.
But they roll by and then I lose track of how to find them. Maybe it's me. Maybe it's the booze. Don't really know. All I know is I wish I had a listing of all these technical football articles so I could read them when I'm in the mood to learn more about all this cool football stuff I never knew existed.
Our cataloguing is done using the tags on top. I recently created a "football hmmm" tag for this sort of thing but i haven't gone back and added the tag to older stuff. if you find any let me know and I'll go back and add the tag.
Chris Brown's blog Smart Football is all about this stuff. Usually when we cover it, that's because we're trying to relate something technical that Michigan is doing. The Picture Pages series that Brian does is often used to explain these things.
http://smartfootball.com/ -- ooooh, nice! Thanks for the pointer to that.
I'll start with the "football hmmm" tag and work from there. If I spot untagged orphans I'll try to let you know here.


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Role of Corporate, Government and Non-Profit Institution Counsel (LAW-795IH-001)
Negroni, Buckley
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Corporations, non-profit organizations and government provide excellent employment opportunities for lawyers, with attractive salaries, sophisticated work and increasing prestige. This 2-credit course will acquaint students with the role of the chief legal officer (CLO) in these types of institutions. The legal duties and ethical responsibilities of the CLO, the practical aspects of the job, and the consequences of lawyers' and law department failures to steer their organizations away from risk will be addressed. The CLO's role in corporate governance will be considered, along with the increased prosecutorial willingness to sanction corporate officers, including attorneys, for institutional wrongdoing. In international companies, the CLO is additionally challenged to deal with foreign regulators and comply with the laws of foreign countries. Guests including corporate general counsels, general counsels of government agencies, and other experts will share real-life examples of the principles discussed in this course. Prerequisites: Contracts, Legal Rhetoric, and Business Associations or its equivalent. Legal Ethics and White Collar Crime or Corporate Crime are recommended, but not required. JD class, LLM by permission space permitting.
The course will acquaint students with the history and present day role of the chief legal officer (CLO) and other attorneys working in corporations, government agencies and non-profit institutions, focusing particularly on the challenges facing CLOs based on the many hats they wear in modern corporations. Performance of multiple roles presents risks for in-house attorneys, including the risk of government investigations and claims under D&O liability insurance policies. Students will receive an overview of the substantive legal duties and ethical obligations of the CLO, the practical aspects of the job, such as managing staff attorneys, budgets, and outside counsel, and the consequences of the law department's failure to steer the organization away from sanctions, prosecution and other legal risks, including reputational risk.
Focus on corporate governance has thrust many CLOs into the spotlight in the post-financial crisis economy. Emerging corporate governance principles and legal provisions, such as those found in the Dodd-Frank Act, raise the legal bar for corporations. Because a CLO cannot be an expert in every area of law relevant to the company, risk assessment, development of compliance programs, and management of internal investigations often fall within the CLO's domain. The course will consider how a CLO manages these functions. We will review the CLO's decision-making duties, ranging from advising the board of directors to hiring and deploying in-house attorneys and outside counsel, managing a law department budget, adopting and implementing alternative fee arrangements with legal service providers, and managing corporate communications that involve legal matters.
We will consider the global reach of many corporations, the applicability of the laws of many countries to a single company, and the implications for the CLO and the law department, including retention of lawyers in other countries. Challenges to be considered include dealing with foreign regulators, offshoring, and complying with laws such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and its foreign-country equivalents. The course will also consider how and why some corporate lawyers make the transition from the law department into business management functions.
Several sessions will focus on the practice of law within government agencies and non-profit institutions, with their specialized needs. High-level government attorneys, including political appointees, will share their perspectives on advising various branches of government.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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"Indispensable Counsel, The Chief Legal Officer in the New Reality," by E. Norman Veasey and Christine T. DiGuglielmo (Oxford University Press, 2012) (available in hardback and a Kindle edition); "The Pivotal Role of the General Counsel in Promoting Corporate Integrity and Professional Responsibility," by Sarah Helene Duggin, 51 St. Louis U. L.J. 989 (2006-07); Chapter 8, "From Warfare to Lawfare," in "Kill or Capture" by Daniel Klaidman (2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.)
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Guest artist Richard Cummings will be the final artist to be featured this semester in Ouachita Baptist University's Hammons Gallery. His series, "Bits of Redemption," will be displayed Nov. 22-Dec. 15.
"We have chosen to have Richard exhibit at this time because he is the last installment in a series of exhibits focused on either assemblage, graphic design or a combination of the two," said Donnie Copeland, OBU assistant professor of visual arts.
"Cummings makes collecting and reusing – or as he calls it 'redeeming' – the subject of his works," Copeland added. "The act of piecing together parts which have nothing in common other than their collective status as rubbish and debris is a symbolic gesture of reinvesting worth in the substance of both our and nature's past."
"His rhetoric is also religious in temperament," Copeland noted. "He extends the meaning of his intended metaphor to the Christian idea of redemption."
Cummings is a professional artist and designer and serves as associate professor of art at the College of the Ozarks. He is also the director of the College of the Ozarks' Boger Gallery. Cummings specializes in designing for non-profits and has been featured in Christianity Today online.
Ouachita's series of exhibits focusing on found objects and graphic design has also included work by three well-known logo designers, Rolando Murillo, Tom Nynas and Brian Owens, and most recently of artist Matthew Tullis.- By: Lori Hilburn
Visit His website at www.richardwcummings.com or his facebook page for his art "Bits of Redemption ".


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former QB Jeff Garcia says he's ready if the browns can use him. uh no
Garcia, the 43-year-old quarterback who hasnt thrown an NFL pass in five years, is interested in a comeback with the Browns.
Garcia told 92.3 The Fan in Cleveland that he would be interested in playing for the Browns, who are currently deciding between Brandon Weeden and Jason Campbell as their starter.
I actually reached out to the Browns and said work me out, take a look, Im open to the opportunity, Garcia said, via Keith Britton.
The Browns were apparently not interested, which is not surprising, considering the last time Garcia threw a pass in the NFL was in 2008 for the Buccaneers. Garcia (who played for the Browns in 2004) has attempted to stay in football into his 40s and has spent time with the Raiders, Eagles and Texans along with the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.
When we last heard from Garcia he was working with JaMarcus Russell and talking up Russells chances of returning to the NFL, but Garcia didnt sound too high on Russell when speaking to 92.3 The Fan today. Garcia said he helped Russell get into shape early this year and believed that Russell was serious about an NFL comeback, but according to Garcia, Russell got soft after they stopped working together.
I just dont know if that fire, that hunger, continued to burn, Garcia said of Russell. Thats the unfortunate thing because that three months that he was with us, he really committed himself.
It sounds like we can safely say neither Russell nor Garcia will return to the NFL.
in other news I read the Vikes are talking with Brett Favre about a come back. yes, no ???


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Hello All,
We are in the process of building our home, and are leaning towards one of two water softener systems; either Hague or Kinetico.
The Hague system has a carbon filter built-in, whereas, as far as I am aware, the standard 2040 from Kinetico does not have any carbon filtration. We are on municipal water (however, do not know chlorine levels), and I am wondering on whether or not I should spend an additional $500, if I go with Kinetico, to install their carbon filter.
We will be installing an RO system in the house, so my concern with the chlorine is not so much with drinking. I did hear that if a chlorine filter is installed pre-softener, that the life of the softener will be extended because no chlorine will be running through it... something about the resins, not really sure, I am a complete newb on this topic. Basically, my questions are - is the $500 investment in the carbon filter worth it? Will I receive added benefit by filtering out the chlorine during bathing (we have two infants), laundry, etc?
Thanks in advance for your response!


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Heh... at work today there was an misfire at the butt. Gun but, that is. Jammed guns are kinda funny.
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My SO and I are really into computers. We build them, install everything ourselves, troubleshoot. But the funny comes with a very basic function: installing a wireless device.There's just something vaguely... unseemly about telling your SO: "Now, just grab your dongle and make sure it fits snugly in the slot"
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The lights are on
With Microsoft revealing
its next system on Tuesday, the time is ripe to explore what Microsoft did
right with the Xbox 360 and where it could have improved. Whether or not the new console carries on the legacies of its predecessor, it's fun to reminisce
about these hits and misses as Microsoft prepares to pass on the torch.
Microsoft impressed many
with its 360 controller; the trigger buttons were ideal for first-person
shooters. The controller was not only much more comfortable than the original
Xbox's S, it also sported superior button placement. Unfortunately, the d-pad
was its weak point, but fixes are available, and Microsoft even released a 2010 silver
controller with a twist-up d-pad to help the issue. While the issue was never
completely dissipated, at least attempts were made to fix the shortcoming.
Xbox Live
Gamers have always been
skeptical about paying for an online service, but once they experienced Xbox
Live's superior quality, it convinced many it was worth it; currently, it has over
46 million subscribers. Connecting to matches is quick, drop rates are
low, and chatting with friends is smooth for the most part. It could be said
that the service brought gamers together in a new way with its accessible
features. Microsoft figured out the recipe to creating a solid online community
well before Sony by including a headset with consoles, encouraging
Accessing Genre
When Microsoft released
the first Xbox, it became a destination for first-person shooters, especially
with its Halo franchise riding strong. But Sony remained on top with a stronger
variety in its library. For the Xbox 360's beginnings, Microsoft targeted the
RPG genre, something Sony's PlayStation 2 catered to more, especially in
regards to JRPGs. Microsoft secured games like Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Tales
of Vesperia, and Eternal Sonata. Microsoft even shocked people by getting
blockbuster Final Fantasy XIII, a series previously exclusive to Sony. While it
didn't by any means win the RPG war, it still measured up, and Microsoft's
library is much more diverse than it was in the previous generation.
The Multimedia
You could say an app
exists for almost everything on the Xbox 360; tailoring your console to your
interests is easy. In 2008, Microsoft brought in Netflix fans with a year
exclusivity deal and then continued to grow from there with Hulu, HBO Go, and a
wealth of other apps. It made the 360 more than just a gaming device, but also
an entertainment hub, where with a touch of a button people could access tons
of TV, movies, and music.
Let's face it; we all
love that little blip sound as we gaze at,"Achivement Unlocked." Having a
gamerscore to show off the fruits of our labor not only gave bragging rights,
but also provided new reasons to experience games. Whether it was collecting
hidden items or winning battles without taking damage, we worked to obtain that
perfect 1,000 gamerscore. While developers struggled initially at what to give
achievements for, as time went on, they got smart and made gamers do more
creative tasks all for the thrill of watching their gamerscore grow.
Non-Intrusive Updates
Updating a system can be
a pain, locking the player out for some time. But Microsoft made these updates
go much faster, smoother, and less frequent than Sony ever did with the
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who wants to wait any longer than they to to dive into the next big release?
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Resisting change can be
a company's biggest downfall, but Microsoft wasn't afraid to update its
interface to fit with the times. Keeping navigation and its app-friendly
structure in mind, the 360 has seen a number of dashboard redesigns, and each
time, it attempts to keep its growing sections, such as movies, music, sports,
and downloadable games, easily accessible. Its biggest achievement? Not
bombarding the player with too much when loading up the console.
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Right-hander Brad Peacock and catcher Max Stassi also went to Houston in Monday's deal.
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While much of the Christian and post-Christian worlds were busy rushing about in last-minute preparations for Christmas celebrations, an important event took place in Brussels, Belgium, that went largely unnoticed and unreported. Leaders of the European Union and Russia met in Brussels on December 20 and 21 for the 30th EU-Russia Summit, continuing a process of convergence and interdependence that is leading toward political, economic, and social merger.
In his remarks at the conclusion of the summit, Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, made repeated reference to progress toward the goal of "global governance," which has always been code in globalist circles for world government. Van Rompuy stated:
By working together, the EU and Russia can make a decisive contribution to global governance and regional conflict resolution, to global economic governance in the G 8 and G 20, and to a broad range of international and regional issues. I would like to congratulate President Putin for taking over the presidency of G 20.
As we have reported in this magazine many times, the term "global governance" is an intentionally deceptive term, used by political ruling elites because it is more vague and mushy and sounds less threatening than "global government" or "world government." Hence, there will be less political opposition mounted to "global governance" than "world government."
"Global governance" came into vogue in the late 1990s, following the publication in 1995 of Our Global Neighborhood, a report of the UN-appointed Commission on Global Governance. That report attempted emphatically to assure readers that they had nothing to fear; they were not proposing world government. It claimed:
Global governance is not global government. No misunderstanding should arise from the similarity of the terms. We are not proposing movement towards world government.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan practiced the same semantic sleight-of-hand and false assurance at the UN Millennium Summit in New York City in 2000. In his report We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, Annan called for "new forms of global governance," "a new ethic of global stewardship," "global norms," and "global rules" — all of which assume a role for the UN as global legislator.
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Defoe started the season in excellent form for Spurs, and he had reached 15 goals by December.
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The 30-year-old was at his predatory best on Friday however as he bagged a brace to help England stroll to an easy 8-0 win over San Marino.
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How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around? Damned hippies lied to me again.
Just put a turbine on top of the train so it can power itself when it moves forward. Dah.
High voltage DC power lines. The EU is planning to run them from north Africa back to the mainland. Scotland is already exporting large amounts of electricity.
The problem has been solved, we just need to build the infrastructure. Fortunately we already have a pretty good network of over-ground pylons to use.
China took our solar tech, mass produced panels at a loss to flood the market, and drove the innovators out of business. Now we're stuck with 5-year old tech because China is the only game in town, and they're not innovating. If China competed fairly, the innovators would have found ways to get panel production costs below what they currently are. The price of panels would be even lower than the Chinese price, which is losing them money.
Hopefully, the new tariffs on Chinese solar panels will help correct
It also doesn't help that while the government subsidizes solar power companies to an extent; it's a paltry level of support compared to the oil company subsidies. It's unlikely that solar by itself will be able to replace carbon fuels anytime soon, but we it could easily provide a much greater percentage of power than it does if it got a little support.
It also doesn't help that while the government subsidizes solar power companies to an extent; it's a paltry level of support compared to the oil company subsidies.
Oh, really? What "subsidies" are the oil companies getting?
Name two of them. Please.
Oil field privatization in IRAQ due to war spending, CIA coups to overthrow leaders that interfere with US owned oil interests. Oh, also the tax breaks for exploration: http://www.us.kpmg.com/microsite/taxnewsflash/2012/Jun/061812%20GG%20and%20IDC%20Part%20II.pdf [kpmg.com]
In case you missed it, U.S. Oil companies lost out badly when it came to getting drilling rights in Iraq.
And then we have the standard, "we're not taking as much money from you as we could, so it is a subsidy" line of thought.
I could have sworn that us companies got more than $0 in drilling rights in Iraq, but you are suggesting otherwise. Would you prefer that the solar power companies and everyone else get the same tax reduction as well?
You have to be making money and paying taxes before they can reduce your taxes.
Maybe I just jinxed it and some idiot will introduce earn income tax credits for companies.
You do realize that no US oil corporations were awarded any of the top tier contracts in Iraq as the result of the war? Oh, I'm sure there will be some US sub-contractors who make some money by providing engineering and operational services.
And how does the CIA overthrow a country? Do they have some secret million man army to do it? Do they say "do what I say or we will nuke you?" During the cold war and even today the smaller nations always play one greater power off another to make sure they get the best
I think this is a good primer:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/26/news/economy/oil_tax_breaks_obama/ [cnn.com]
What subsidies do the oil companies get to make oil/gasoline/diesel cheaper?
"It also doesn't help that while the government subsidizes solar power companies to an extent; it's a paltry level of support compared to the oil company subsidies."
We subsidise the research into solar panels, we subsidise the production of solar panels, we subsidise the purchase of solar panels, and we subsidise the price utility companies pay for the electricity the panels produce. We also subsidise the training of the workers that install and maintain the solar panels.
What are the massive oil
You forgot the lack of a carbon tax or cap and trade system for co2 emissions. That's a massive subsidy of today's oil companies by future generations who will be paying to re-do the economy as a whole in a world of greatly warmed climate, shifted arable zones, an acidified ocean, and enviro-wars.
The lack of a tax is not a subsidy.
unless the levels of taxation are assymetrical; i.e. unless there are more categories of deductions and greater levels of deductions for one industrial sector compared to other sectors of the economy. Then it would be a subsidy. I think if you study the details there is a a subsidy by this definition for the fossil fuel industry.
I don't understand this belief that the U.S. could build solar panels cheaper than China. We can't build iPhones and other electronics cheaper than China.
They come at it backward.
Start by assuming the Obama admin's solar company loan guarantees were not kickbacks to his supporters then make up 'facts' to support your position.
There is no 'solar tech'. China mass-produces standard panels for the most part, and those plants produce large quantities of toxic byproducts in doing so which they pretty much just dump into the environment. The solar industry in China also seriously over-produced their panels and wound up with piles of them as other countries (aka Europe, Germany in particular) pulled back subsidies for various reasons.
Solar panel companies in the US simply cannot compete against that, not unless you want to create env
Your cheap Solar Panels are in China, waiting to be shipped over on request.
Anybody who is even SLIGHTLY aware of the reality of solar panel prices has seen the price per watt decline to under 2 dollars.
The only reason US companies are going bankrupt is because Chinese subsidies are impossible to compete with.
Thanks for paying attention.
But maybe, if we borrow ever more money from China, we can figure out some way to make simple, labor-intensive products like solar panels as cheaply as China - the first steps will be to lower worker wages and forget about those silly environmental concerns... In order to beat China at their own game we need to become China.
How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt?
Well, that's what those tree-huggers get for relying on government subsidies.
Oh, wait...
How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt?
For one, Koch Bros., and others like them, pretty much own the Republican party in the USA. It comes in handy when you want to make sure emerging technology doesn't threaten your empire.
Secondly, too many people just don't care and more would rather eat up lies and witch-hunt drama because it's easier than figuring out the facts. This keeps seats in the senate full of corporate sponsored asshats who in turn pass votes to allow things like alternative energy solutions to be derailed before posing a threat to the oil empire.
I had a 100MPG carburetor and the Koch brothers bought it from me fro $100,000.
I tried to sell them my engine that ran on water but they said they had one already.
Koch Bros.?
Those are the evil task-masters that are controlling the world energy markets?
Let's compare federal government subsidies for solar and wind power to the entire revenue stream of Koch Bros... Which is greater?
How can little-old Koch Bros. control the world oil/energy market? They have near zero influence over the President/Senate...
According to Rolling Stone magazine [rollingstone.com], the Koch Brothers have poured about $100 MIllion over the past 30 years into supporting organizations, politicians, and think tank
Ah yes, because political propaganda and industrial investment are the same thing, right?
Politicians are cheaply-bought whores; kickstarting bricks-and-mortar businesses from research through to production is very expensive.
dropped the price of natural gas that even coal plants ramp down. Solar was barely approaching the old price point of power generation and then fracking hit. Combined with the nuclear scare and countries exploring alternatives the money landed on wind power because its currently a better option than solar.
Fracking has been used since the 1950's. The only thing that really has increased the use of fracking is that oil prices have gone up enough to support spending several million dollars per well to complete the job.
Now that the shale gas people have done such an excellent job dropping wells, there is a relative glut and the price goes down. Enjoy it while you can - won't last terribly long. Big problem with shale (either oil or gas) is that the depletion rates are quite high - you pump out a well in years
"How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt?"
Because solar panels are not cost-effective, not yet anyway, and the massive government subsidies are being poured into "production facilities" not basic research.
It reminds me of the bee in "The Bee Movie" that kept slamming into the glass [youtu.be] because he didn't understand the concept of glass "Maybe this time," "Maybe this time," "this time," this time..."
Solyndra was the quintesential example of
Because the oil and gas companies already have distribution and logistic systems in place. Plus solar panels can be described as risky when used to power critical systems. Home solar power use would require homeowners to spend quite a bit of money to convert. Just like alternative fuels for automobiles would require car owners to either purchase new cars capable of using bio-filters and natural gas as a power source. I honestly beleive there will come a time when oil use will decline but it will most likel
If you want cheap solar panels, you'll have to smuggle them from China. Those idiots in the federal government can't decide which political constituencies to pander to, so they've slapped ridiculous tariffs on solar cells made in china.
How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around? Damned hippies lied to me again.
What is really sad about solar is that is paying no taxes, highly subsidized because it has not ROI, and still fails.
How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around? Damned hippies lied to me again.
Maybe you should try listening to something beyond fox "news" since the solar industry has been growing, and not that many of the companies in the industry have gone belly-up. That said, the hydrocarbon industry is spending a lot of money to get politicians to continue giving them subsidies while seeking to prevent renewable energy developer from succeeding...
You may as well be discussing the pros and cons of the new heroin shipping routes.
The fossil fuel addiction is just as destructive and involves the same level of denial of reality.
Specially for tech people. Get off the obsession with oil based technology and make us some seriously steampunk alternatives that work.
Fossil fuels are a lot more than just fuel.
Petroleum is the starting point for all our organic chemistry.
Whatcha gonna do about that?
Which says to me that we gotta stop wasting it by burning it up.
All we need is a reliable, compact, and cheap way to store a week's electric energy for a typical household.
So how do you convert electric energy into fossil fuels?
Molten salt works pretty well.
An overhaul to the US energy transportation network.
Not the energy production methods, no, just the way we transport it around.
Yeeeeeeah. I'm wondering what codename this initiative has. "Operation Ignore Those Damn Godless Commie Hippies At All Costs"? "Operation Fingers In Our Ears And Singing Loudly"? "Operation Deck Chairs On The Titanic"?
Steampunk? And from where will that steam get its energy?
http://blog.google.org/2011/10/new-geothermal-map-of-united-states.html [google.org]
or maybe even:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/03/bc-fusion-energy-project.html [www.cbc.ca]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion [wikipedia.org]
Heroin addiction is far less a problem than the legal consequences creating a vastly profitable black market, Government REACTION to heroin creates far worse problems then would a supply of cheap, clean smack .
In contrast, fossil fuel addiction doesn't have a "safer mode".
... leaving pools of crude and gas stranded...
The very best part of the Houston Chronicle article comes after the end, in the "We Recommend" section:
"Tokyo man cooked own genitals, served to diners"
I'd click on it, but I'm at work.
I'd click on it, but I'm at work.
What's the issue? Do you eat in the company cafeteria?
You know, we have the technology to build pipelines that won't leak. We use them in chip fabs, where they use materials that can slaughter everyone for miles downwind. It would increase the cost by more than a factor of two, but the environmental cost of leaks is nothing to sneer at.
Yeah. It's called ASME B31.
http://www.asme.org/products/books/process-piping--the-complete-guide-to-asme-b31-3-- [asme.org]
but the environmental cost of leaks is nothing to sneer at.
It is when you won't be paying for it.
It is when you won't be paying for it.
We all pay for it.
The current state of affairs has managed to keep gas prices down in the US because the crude price is depressed.
With the pipeline, gas prices will go up because the price of WTI will rise to the same level as Brent.
So I say don't build the pipeline. All it'll do is increase the profits of the oil producers, at the cost of the consumers.
Oh... I thought this was about burying power cables... so that you stop getting blackouts every time a whiff of wind topples some tree along the street!
Hippies: Don't build a pipeline, it will destroy the environment
Oil Companies: Fine, we'll put it on a train, create more CO2, and refine it anyways.
People: Look, gas is down to $2.75 a gallon!
Taxpayers: Sure, you can have your pipeline... if you want to pay for it yourself.
Oil Companies: Fuck that, without your money paying for it, that shit's too expensive! We'll just buy more trucks to run on existing infrastructure. People: Look, gas is down to $2.75 a gallon!
Taxpayers: Sure, you can have your pipeline... if you want to pay for it yourself. Oil Companies: Fuck that, without your money paying for it, that shit's too expensive! We'll just buy more trucks to run on existing infrastructure. People: Look, gas is down to $2.75 a gallon!
Oddly, I can find no real evidence that the oil companies want anything from the taxpayers other than to get the permits approved allow them to build the pipeline.
Note, by the by, that 2000 rail cars, plus the fees associated with
Taxpayers: Sure, you can have your pipeline... if you want to pay for it yourself. Oil Companies: Fuck that, without your money paying for it, that shit's too expensive! We'll just buy more trucks to run on existing infrastructure. People: Look, gas is down to $2.75 a gallon!
Oddly, I can find no real evidence that the oil companies want anything from the taxpayers other than to get the permits approved allow them to build the pipeline.
Think subsidies, tax abatements, right-of-way waivers... lots of ways to get at taxpayer monies indirectly.
Why not build an actual pipeline [torontosun.com] from the middle of the country to the Gulf region, where the refineries are?
I don't know how far the transportation network extends, but the first sentence of the summary goes on, and on, and on...
I'd be interested in seeing a good analysis of exactly WHY something like the Keystone XL pipeline (or the OP's huge number of railcars) is necessary for shipping crude to the Gulf Coast.
I realize that 80% of the US's refineries are on the Gulf, but, given a couple of things:
Something similar goes for the various Shale gas extractions - I would think that it would be far better to build power generation (since that's where 90% of the gas is going to go) right near the gas fields, and then spend money on an upgraded Power Grid, rather than try to ship the gas around to existing power stations.
Basically, I think we're falling into the trap where we just assume that transportation is less expensive than co-location of end use. I'd far rather pay for another refinery and gas power stations (added capacity) AND a better power grid, than cough up the same amount for just another couple of pipelines (which, frankly, all they add is environmental disaster potential).
Even with the pipeline, refining close to the point of extraction really makes sense for tar sands.
The stuff is heavy and nasty and the "dilbit" or diluted bitumen that has to be made out of it so it can flow is much, much worse than normal crude.
It's more corrosive to the pipe and more noxious and toxic when spilled.
The raw output from the tar sands is way too heavy to be refineable, it still needs to be diluted with light natural gas liquids first... the same stuff they use to dillute it for pipeline transport, minus a few refinement stages (btw, the US exports some of the lighter NGLs coming out of the shales to Canada for this purpose).
But it makes no sense to refine the output up there far away from consumers. What are they going to do, truck the gasoline down several thousand miles? They'd go out of business try
Just depends on which is easier to transport - oil or electricity. One would think that pushing electrons would be more efficient and cost effective than hauling hydrogen-carbon chains across the continent, but that isn't necessarily true.
Stupid submit button...
The other part of the equation is that it's hella expensive to build a refinery from scratch. AFAIK, there have not been any completely new refineries built in the 'developed' world for decades - there is simply too much opposition for it. The only new refineries are in China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela and similar places where you can push through large developments easier.
I'd far rather pay for another refinery and gas power stations (added capacity) AND a better power grid, than cough up the same amount for just another couple of pipelines (which, frankly, all they add is environmental disaster potential).
- you know what's funny, years of comments here, explaining that the real infrastructure cannot be built artificially by government, it has to come from the actual market need, and then a company wants to put down a freaking pipe and everybody is yelling about it.
A pipe is infrastructure, it's PRODUCTIVE infrastructure, unlike bridges and overpasses to nowhere. Environmentally speaking, the companies that are building the pipeline should have to buy or rent the land they are using from private owners, not
It just seems odd. This is more a business article than anything else, and there is nothing new and cool about buying rail cars.
Our domestic pipeline infrastructure has been on a building spree for a decade. If any of you are investors, that's been the basis for the Oil&Gas MLP buildout that has been maturing at a very fast clip since the mid-2000's, continued right through the crash, and continues to mature at a modestly fast clip today and probably for another 10 years at least before the core-buildout slows down.
Generally speaking transport for OIL and NGLs (Natural Gas Liquids) can start out in tankers and rail cars but ultimately cost efficiency requires a pipeline to be built. And you have no choice for natural gas... its pipeline or nothing pretty much since compression to CNG or LNG levels is way too expensive (and way too dangerous) for domestic transport.
But it takes several years to build a long pipeline, costs billions of dollars, and requires both shippers and receivers to enter into long term 10-year+ contracts with guaranteed volume flow or investors wouldn't finance the pipeline in the first place. Because no actual revenue flows until the pipeline is complete.
There are a dozen major producing areas but in layman's terms the bottleneck is mainly in the North->South direction these days. EastWest has capacity now (though numerous major cities on the east coast still have bottlenecks). Existing pipelines in the north-south direction are essentially maxed out.
The Keystone pipeline saga is your typical talking-head/exaggerated/public-unaware crap. Pipelines criss-cross the U.S. already, there are already numerous (but maxed out) pipelines coming down from Canada all the way to the gulk, and Canada is a major trading partner whos major oil and gas reserves are essentially land-locked. Sure, they have some transport to the coasts for export, but they need to be able to drop down through the border into the U.S. markets and we also have an export market of our own going northward of light NGLs which the Canadians use for a multitude of purposes in their oil-sands operations. It's as much a diplomatic issue with our northern neighbor as it is anything else.
The Gulk of Mexico.
I kinda like that.
http://youtu.be/lkswXVmG4xM [youtu.be]
I'm not saying it's true. But what if it is? What are the implications? What if these petroleum corporations would put their billions of dollars into researching and developing technology that's just waiting to be used?
These people who claim to be witnesses were trusted to the utmost, including some who were trusted with nuclear launch authorization codes. No nuts would be given a job like that.
There's a reason Warren Buffett bought a railroad and GE (makes the engines...)
Back, meet scratcher.
The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add. -- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court


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|10 years ago :: Apr 25, 2008 - 3:16PM #1
Genesis tells us that both male and female were created in God's image. The prophets and gospels tell us that Jesus was (is) a Man. Does God really have the male 'gender' or is he without gender? Why is he referred to as male (as in he and him)?
And is Satan a he? Do the angels have gender? Why is he referred to as he?
Is it possible that the antichrist of the book of Revelation may be a female?
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|10 years ago :: Apr 26, 2008 - 10:21AM #2
...I suppose therein are "answers", but as a side issue, I'll never forget of how when I was in the Spirit, and of how I "was" a mother trying to quard her child from flaming darts, and of how I dispaired knowing that not even my body over my child would protect my child...the love was so rich and taken into such hoplessness....and God came in a Wind........anyway, i know that there is no hyperbole in the Body of Christ, being a bride.........and for me a man, to relize the beautiful weakness that a woman truly is, and not only that but to interact such a thought with the ahh seemingly superioity of the male form over the female....but a God allowed appreciation of what a woman is, for God created what is woman, and for the time He allowed me in the Spirit communion with what a womens heart is, it was very, very pleasant.....there are so many divine mysteries, and I remember years ago hearing someone say that a root meaning of one of Gods Names was the "breasty" one.....
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|10 years ago :: Apr 26, 2008 - 1:29PM #3
God is referred to as "he" because the English language does not happen to have a gender nuetral pronoun for the human person, and God cannot be reduced to an impersonal "it.."
The Hebrew Bible sometimes use names to describe God that are feminine. These do not translate with genders, because English does not have gender-specific nouns as do other languages.
The Bible also sometimes uses feminime imagery to describe God (such as a hen longing to gather her chickens under her wings.)
God is without gender, but he was incarnated as a man on earth with gender.
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|10 years ago :: Apr 26, 2008 - 5:45PM #4
The actual higher power I would think would have no gender but the christian god seems like it was just a deity like any other that got confused with the actual higher power if he is responsible for are creation though he would have needed to have a female counterpart because no male no matter how almighty god can create life without the assistance of a female.
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|10 years ago :: Apr 28, 2008 - 4:16PM #5
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Genesis tells us that both male and female were created in God's image. The prophets and gospels tell us that Jesus was (is) a Man.
Does God really have the male 'gender' or is he without gender?
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Through out the Bible, God is described as a He, never a she or an it. While people do refer Him as a she or an it, the Bible does not teach that. There are many verses in the Bible that describe Him as masculine and not femine. In John 4:24 we read that God does not have a body like we do. He is without gender! If you notice in the Gospels, Jesus repeatly says "He".
This is just to show you God is a He and not a she or an it.
Why is he referred to as male (as in he and him)?
Your question has been answered above!
And is Satan a he?
Yes, because Jesus in John 8:44 calls a 'he'.
Do the angels have gender?
The Bible describes as male!
My reply:
In the Bible, there are angels described as males. In Gen 19, Abraham meets three male angels, the angel of the LORD is described as a male, in the book of Daniel, Michael the archangel, the miliatary leader of angels, is a male and in the Gospels when Gabriel appears to Joesph in a dream, he is describe as a male.
Why is he referred to as he?
My reply:
That's what the Bible teaches!
Is it possible that the antichrist of the book of Revelation may be a female?
My reply:
No, because the Antichrist is described as "the son of perdition" and not "daughter of perdition".
Hope that helps any more questions, feel free to ask!
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|10 years ago :: Apr 30, 2008 - 5:22PM #6
Hi An,
Jesus Christ is man at His incarnation. He was born a male. Yes, He is God (hypostatic union) but the human aspect of Him is male.
Apart from that, the Bible says God is Spirit. He does not have a phsyical body.
Angels are masuline beings; there are many examples in the Bible. Additionally, I believe because they are all masculine, this is the reason there is no marrying allowed amongst them.
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|10 years ago :: May 01, 2008 - 2:00AM #7
I really do not think there is any evidence suggesting that there is any gender specific references to God or angels. In each case the scriptures use the male as a generic term.
God is sexless as are the angels. Jesus implies this when he talks about the Saducees question of the woman who married a number of brothers when they asked whose wife would she be in the resurrection. We will be like the angels where marriage is not part of their creation. On the other hand I think it is wrong to imagine heaven will be just a bunch of perpetual negatives: no sex. no movement, no food, no drink, no mirth, no time, no art. How far the life of resurrected humanity will be sensory we do not know. But I surmise that heaven will be different from the sensory life we know here, not as emptiness differs from water but as a flower differs from a bulb
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|10 years ago :: May 06, 2008 - 3:39PM #8
I think angels can appear to us as male or female although they have no gender.
I've heard the Shekinah glory is the female aspect of God.
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Ronald Teneycke walked out of the Penticton Court House a free man on Friday, after a judge found him not guilty of sexually assaulting a Penticton woman on July 31, 2011.
Justice James Williams said that although both the testimony of the accused and the complainant lacked credibility, the woman's testimony was more unreliable because of her level of intoxication that day. Ultimately he was left with reasonable doubt, resolving the case in the defendant's favour, he said.
"It cannot be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt," he said. "Simply the conclusion is the standard of proof is not met."
Teneycke, 50, was found not guilty of sexual assault with a dildo, sexual assault with a weapon (knife) assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement and breach of probation.
The woman, he said, was in a bad state at the time, a recovering alcoholic who was drinking, using cocaine and under the influence of an antidepressant.
When the woman who was hitchhiking from Penticton to Keremeos on July 31, 2011, got into Teneycke's car, she had already consumed three to four beers at home and had a number of beers in her purse. After purchasing a half gram of cocaine in Keremeos, she claimed she shared it with the defendant, but the judge said he believed she did it all.
She also took a bad fall over a barricade, ending up in a shopping cart corral at the bank the pair stopped at in Keremeos .
As a result of the intoxication, her ability to recall the events is highly problematic and she repeatedly said she was unable to remember what happened, the judge said.
Also because of her strong desire to get to Keremeos that day and party, she acted in a decidedly flirtatious manner toward Teneycke, the judge concluded.
In the matter of the homemade dildo, said to be used in the sexual assault at an old pump house near Okanagan Falls, the judge said she knew certain details of the device in an early interview, in contrast to her testimony during the trial, when she said it was too dark to see.
The judge accepted some portion of what Teneycke said in his testimony as being truthful, such as his description of events in Keremeos. But in regards to the central event at the pump house, he said he was less inclined to attach credence to his testimony.
"His explanation verged on nonsense, said Williams. "I have a suspicion it was tailored to match what was said in court."
Evidence provided by the doctor who performed the sexual assault examination was consistent with rough sex but not enough to prove the act was non-consensual, he said. Also DNA evidence did not prove the sex was non-consensual.
Still the judge stated he strongly suspected the sex act was non-consensual but there was not enough evidence to justify a conviction.
As Teneycke left the court house Friday he said he he felt sorry for the woman because she is a crackhead. He blamed the media for getting him into the situation he was in and asked if reporters would keep the attention on him low key.
"The judge said not guilty and I spent 15 months in jail for something I didn't do," he said. "I ask the media to leave me and my family alone."
He said he was unsure of where he would be living and that he hoped to get back into teaching native culture.
His aunt Terry Berg said outside the court house that she was happy with the outcome. It is her understanding her nephew will return to his mother's home in Okanagan Falls where he lived prior to the arrest.
"I suppose he now has a chance to build a better life," she said.


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That's how long since Troy Tulowitzki played in a major-league baseball game that counted in the standings.
Judging by the smile that rarely left his face during the final week of spring training, Tulo can't wait to begin anew. He wants to make his signature play; that balletic throw across his body from the hole between shortstop and third base. He'll be overjoyed to step into the batter's box and take his cuts as the Rockies' cleanup hitter.
He can't wait to do it all, free of pain.
"All systems go," he said. "I really like where I am physically."
But when Tulowitzki takes the field at Miller Park this afternoon to open the 2013 season, the stakes will be enormous. He must prove that, as a 6-foot-3 shortstop with a history of leg injuries, he can stay healthy. To regain his place as one of baseball's premier players, he must hit for power and average. He must attempt to lift the Rockies out of the dark shadows of their 98-loss 2012 season.
"He has the ability to turn hits into outs and the ability to do a lot of things offensively," new manager Walt Weiss said. "We all know that for us to make a run, we have to have Tulo out there."
Tulowitzki says heunderstands the expectations, but he refuses to be buried by the weight of them.
"One thing I have learned is this game, in the short time I've been in the big leagues, is that you can't make any other year bigger than another," he said.
"I think more than anything, I'm excited just to be out there on the field and playing again. So in that sense, this opener is important and very meaningful. But I am just going to go out there and have fun and play my game. If do that, I like my chances to succeed."
Tulo's 2012 season was a bust. In the second game of the season, a loss at Houston, he injured his left groin turning a double play. He continued playing until he could play no more, eventually undergoing surgery on June 21 to remove scar tissue from his injured groin. Tulowitzki batted .287 with a .360 on-base percentage, hitting eight home runs in 47 games, the fewest he has ever played in a season.
Lost in the haze of last season's disaster is the reality of Tulo's special talent. In 2011, he won his second gold glove, hit .302 with 30 home runs and 105 RBIs, becoming just the second National League shortstop to have a 30-home run, 100-RBI season. The other was Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, who accomplished the feat five times.
Teammate Carlos Gonzalez, who will hit in the No. 3 hole in front of Tulowitzki, predicts a big rebound season.
"Tulo's had some injuries in the past and the next year he's come back and put up monster numbers," Gonzalez said. "I would not be surprised if he puts up MVP numbers this year."
In 2008, for example, Tulowitzki suffered a left quadriceps tear and had two stints on the disabled list, limiting him to 101 games. He returned in 2009 to hit .297 with 32 homers and 92 RBIs.
For right fielder Michael Cuddyer, Tulowitzki's return means the Rockies will play with more of an edge.
"I think Tulo will play with a bit of a chip on his shoulder," Cuddyer predicted. "That's a good thing. Every team needs some players with a nasty attitude. You need that intense guy, both on the field and in the clubhouse. Tulo brings that."
Said Gonzalez: "Any team would like to have a guy like Tulo in their lineup. The way he plays the game motivates everybody else. He plays with passion."