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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Thursday Review: Worst First Lines
The results of the annual Edward Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (aka Worst First Lines Contest) are in. Cast a vote for your favorite with a Comment.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
2011 Results
Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.
Sue Fondrie
Oshkosh, WI
The winner of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Sue Fondrie, an associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh who works groan-inducing wordplay into her teaching and administrative duties whenever possible. Out of school, she introduces two members of the next generation to the mysteries of Star Trek, Star Wars, and--of course--the art of the bad pun.
Prof. Fondrie is the 29th grand prize winner of the contest that that began at San Jose State University in 1982. The contest challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels takes its name from the Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began his "Paul Clifford" with "It was a dark and stormy night."
At 26 words, Prof. Fondrie's submission is the shortest grand prize winner in Contest history, proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy.
As I stood among the ransacked ruin that had been my home, surveying the aftermath of the senseless horrors and atrocities that had been perpetrated on my family and everything I hold dear, I swore to myself that no matter where I had to go, no matter what I had to do or endure, I would find the man who did this . . . and when I did, when I did, oh, there would be words.
Rodney Reed
Ooltewah, TN
Winner: Adventure
From the limbs of ancient live oaks moccasins hung like fat black sausages -- which are sometimes called boudin noir, black pudding or blood pudding, though why anyone would refer to a sausage as pudding is hard to understand and it is even more difficult to divine why a person would knowingly eat something made from dried blood in the first place -- but be that as it may, our tale is of voodoo and foul murder, not disgusting food.
Jack Barry
Shelby, NC
Sensing somehow a scudding lay in the offing, Skipper Bob tallied his tasks: reef the mains'l, mizzen, and jib, strike and brail the fores'l, mizzen stays'l and baggywrinkles, bowse the halyards, mainsheets, jacklines and vangs, turtle and belay fast the small cock, flemish the taffrail warps, batten the booby hatch, lay by his sou'wester, and find the bailing bucket.
Mike Mayfield
Austin, TX
Winner: Crime
Wearily approaching the murder scene of Jeannie and Quentin Rose and needing to determine if this was the handiwork of the Scented Strangler--who had a twisted affinity for spraying his victims with his signature raspberry cologne--or that of a copycat, burnt-out insomniac detective Sonny Kirkland was sure of one thing: he'd have to stop and smell the Roses.
Mark Wisnewski
Flanders, NJ
Five minutes before his scheduled execution, Kip found his thoughts turning to his childhood-- all those years ago before he had become a contract killer whose secret weakness was a severe peanut allergy, even back before he lost half of a toe in a gardening accident while doing community service-- but especially to Corinne, the pretty girl down the street whom he might have ended up marrying one day if she had only shown him a little more damn respect.
Andrew Baker
Highland Park, NJ
Dishonorable Mention:
The victim was a short man, with a face full of contradictions: amalgam, composite, dental porcelain, with both precious and non-precious metals all competing for space in a mouth that was open, bloody, terrifying, gaping, exposing a clean set of asymptomatic impacted wisdom teeth, but clearly the object of some very comprehensive dental care, thought Dirk Graply, world-famous womanizer, tough guy, detective, and former dentist.
Basil McDonnell
Vancouver, B.C.
Winner: Fantasy
Within the smoking ruins of Keister Castle, Princess Gwendolyn stared in horror at the limp form of the loyal Centaur who died defending her very honor; "You may force me to wed," she cried at the leering and victorious Goblin King, "but you'll never be half the man he was."
Terri Daniel
Seattle, WA
Veronica, two months pregnant and attempting to get her boyfriend to notice, and Ricky, who wanted to end things with his expansive girlfriend, sat at a table-for-two around lunchtime at the Olive Garden in Columbus, Ohio, eying the bottle of house rosé which, unbeknownst to them, doubled as the portal key to Khrysandelt: The land where everything glitters slightly more than normal.
Andrew Allingham
Fairfax, VA
Winner: Historical Fiction
Napoleon's ship tossed and turned as the emperor, listening while his generals squabbled as they always did, splashed the tepid waters in his bathtub.
John Doble
New York City
The executioner sneered as the young queen ascended the stairs to the guillotine; in the old days, he thought, at least there was some buildup, a little time on the rack or some disemboweling, but nowadays everyone wants instant gratification.
Andrea Rossi
Wilmington, NC
Winner: Purple Prose
As his small boat scudded before a brisk breeze under a sapphire sky dappled with cerulean clouds with indigo bases, through cobalt seas that deepened to navy nearer the boat and faded to azure at the horizon, Ian was at a loss as to why he felt blue.
Mike Pedersen
North Berwick, ME
The Los Angeles morning was heavy with smog, the word being a portmanteau of smoke and fog, though in LA the pollutants are typically vehicular emissions as opposed to actual smoke and fog, unlike 19th-century London where the smoke from countless small coal fires often combined with fog off the Thames to produce true smog, though back then they were not clever enough to call it that.
Jack Barry
Shelby, NC
Dishonorable Mentions:
LaTrina—knowing he must live—let her hot, wet tongue slide slowly over Gladiator's injured ear, the taste reminding her of the late June flavor of a snow chain that had been removed from a tire and left to rust on the garage floor without being rinsed off.
Betsy Replogle
Nichols Hills, OK
Like a bird gliding over the surface of a Wyoming river rippled by a gentle Spring breeze, his hand passed over her stretch marks.
Patty Liverance
Grand Rapids, MI
Deep into that particular wet Saturday night ugly blues screamed out from the old man's horn like a hooker being hauled down a flight of stairs, regular thick loud thumps punctuated by nasty and erratic sharp barks.
John Benson
Carthage, MO 64836
She held my hand as if she were having a swollen barrel of fun which was off considering that my teeth were sitting on my bathroom cabinet (eight miles away, no less) and my elbow was peeling like a soggy coconut, the fine hairs of which were standing on edge in fear, as if the coconut had been reading "Dracula."
James Hearn
Canterbury, Kent, U.K.
Winner: Romance
As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand—who would take her away from all this—and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had.
Ali Kawashima
Greensboro, NC
Deanna waited for him in a deliberate pose on the sailor-striped chaise lounge of the newly-remodeled Ramada, her bustier revealing the tops of her white breasts like eggs--eggs of the slightly undercooked, hard-boiled variety, showing a nascent jiggle with her apprehensive breath, eggs that were then peeled ever-so-carefully so as not to pierce the jellied, opaque albumen and unleash the longing, viscous yolk within--yes, she lay there, oblong and waiting to be deviled.
Meredith K. Gray
Ithaca, NY
Dishonorable Mentions:
They called her The Cat, because she made love the way she fought, rolling rapidly across the floor in a big, blurry ball of shrieking hair, fury, and dander, which usually solicited a "Shut up!" and flung shoe from one of the neighbors, and left her exhilarated lover with serious patchy bald spots and the occasional nicked ear.
Lisa Kluber
San Francisco, CA
She gazed smolderingly at the mysterious rider, his body cloaked in enough shining black leather to outfit an Italian furniture store, wrapped so tightly each muscle stood out like a flamboyant Mexican hairdresser at an Alabamian monster truck rally; and he met her gaze with an intensity that couldn't have been matched by even a starving junkyard dog in the meat aisle of a suburban supermarket.
Chris Kemp
Annapolis, MD
Winner: Sci Fi
Morgan 'Bamboo' Barnes, Star Pilot of the Galaxia (flagship of the Solar Brigade), accepted an hors d'oeuvre from the triangular-shaped platter offered to him from the Princess Qwillia—lavender-skinned she was and busty, with two of her four eyes what Barnes called 'bedroom eyes'—and marveled at how on her planet, Chlamydia-5, these snacks were called 'Hi-Dee-Hoes' but on Earth they were simply called Ritz Crackers with Velveeta.
Greg Homer
Placerville, CA
Sterben counted calcium bars in the storage chamber, wondering why women back on Earth paid him little attention, but up here they seem to adore him, in fact, six fraichemaidens had already shown him their blinka.
Elizabeth Muenster
Columbia, PA
Winner: Vile Puns
Detective Kodiak plucked a single hair from the bearskin rug and at once understood the grisly nature of the crime: it had been a ferocious act, a real honey, the sort of thing that could polarize a community, so he padded quietly out the back to avoid a cub reporter waiting in the den.
Joe Wyatt
Amarillo, TX
Monroe Mills' innovative new fabric-dyeing technique was a huge improvement over stone-washing: denim apparel was soaked in color and cured in an 800-degree oven, and the company's valued young dye department supervisor was as skilled as they came; yes, no one could say Marilyn was a normal jean baker.
Marvin Veto
Greensboro, NC
Dishonorable Mentions:
Convinced that the fabled Lost Treasure of Eggsbury was concealed within the statue of the beloved Sister Mary Francis in the village square, Professor Smithee would steal away in the darkest hour of each night to try to silently chip away at her impervious granite vestments – a vain and fruitless nightly exercise, he well knew, but it was a hard habit to break.
Rodney Reed
Ooltewah, TN
Milton's quest for the love of Ms. Bradley was a risk but no sorry trivial pursuit, yet he hadn't a clue why she had a monopoly on his heart's desires -- in fact, it boggled his mind and caused him great aggravation because, in his checkered and troubled careers, he had always scrabbled hard and it drove him bonkers that she considered life just a game
Linda Boatright
Omaha, NE
Winner: Western
The laser-blue eyes of the lone horseman tracked the slowly lengthening lariat of a Laredo dawn as it snaked its way through Dead Man's Pass into the valley below and snared the still sleeping town's tiny church steeple in a noose of light with the oh-so-familiar glow of a Dodge City virgin's last maiden blush.
Graham Thomas
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, U.K.
Sunburned and lost, Jake tightened the noose around Randy's diaper-white neck and growled, "Any last words, varmint?" to which Randy replied, "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb, Jake--that's where all the fruit is!" which marked the first and last time Jake and the boys hired a life coach to lead one of their cattle drives.
Lisa Kluber
San Francisco, CA
Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mentions
Rosy lips aquiver, Lauren drizzled with tears the wave-tousled sands of Wampauset Municipal Area Public Access Beach, hearing in every shriek of shrike and plaint of plover the ancient wail--kreeAHH, kreeAHH!--of good women widowed by the sea, as well as tonal nuances indicating the shorebirds' relative levels of copulative receptiveness, for our umber-eyed heroine is both lover and ornithologist.
Anna Springfield
Raleigh, NC
Business was kinda slow at the 'If You Build It' sperm bank.
Simon Petrie
Hawker ACT, AUSTRALIA
Day broke upon the Baroness von Hestach with the pitiable insistence of all that she despised--a gray and unattractive intrusion into her sumptuous bedchamber, much like the Baron.
Holly Kohler
Concord, MA
No one walked down Bleak Street at night—not where hobgoblins hobnobbed, skeletons skulked, vampires vamped, and the dumpster behind the Chinese buffet smelled like zombies.
Bill Hartmann
Dallas, TX
Dawn crept up like the panther on the gazelle, except it was light, not dark like a panther, and a panther, though quiet, could never be as silent as the light of dawn, so really the analogy doesn't hold up well, as cool as it sounds, but it still is a great way to begin a story; just not necessarily this particular one.
Warren Blair
Ashburn, VA
As the young officer studied the oak door, he was reminded of his girlfriend -- for she was also slightly unhinged, occasionally sticky, and responded well to being stripped and given a light oiling.
Ian Fishlock
Harrow, London
The beast lumbered toward the maiden, its fetid breath announcing its presence to her (since she couldn't see him due to the blindfold her captors had tied around her head), its jaws gaping open like a sub sandwich with too much meat, so that no matter how hard you try, you can't possibly keep the lettuce or the tomatoes from squeezing out onto the table or, worse, your lap.
Donna P. Titus
Freeland, PA
All the signs, both actual and imagined, made it immensely clear there was trouble ahead for Marlene and, yet, her childlike sense of hope that maybe he was "the one" kept her foot on the accelerator pedal of life even when she came to the "bridge out" warning hand written in Magic Marker on Myron's Polident cup.
Karen Arutunoff
Tulsa, OK
The grisly scene before him was like nothing Detective Smith had ever seen before, but there were millions and millions of things he had never seen before, and he couldn't help but wonder which of them it was.
Sean Griffin
Tacoma, WA
Maggie said they were birthmarks and they very well could be, but the three very small black moles in a horizontal line just above her right eyebrow looked like an ellipsis to some, but to others who did not know what an ellipsis was, they looked like three very small black moles in a horizontal line just above Maggie's right eyebrow.
Betty Jean Murray
Richland, TX
As she downed the last Dixie cup of Listerine and let every drop of its 21.6 percent alcohol content hit her like an icy mint anti-cavity brickbat, Karen squinted at the breasts dangling like two electrocuted ospreys from the powerline of her heart and, with a despondency born of a thousand nights spent gaining a decent skill level at internet mahjong, wondered how she and they had all three sunk so low.
Anna Springfield
Raleigh, NC
Her flaming red hair whipped in the wind like a campfire, stroking the embers of passion hidden within the hearth of my heart and I began to burn with a desire that seared me to my very core – oh the things that I would do if only I weren't incarcerated for arson!
Aubrey Johnson
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Carmela's knees buckled and she (a responsible consumer) collapsed down onto the sidewalk, as her environmentally green grocery bag bounced -- spewing forth organic mixed lettuces, crispy eco-friendly cucumbers, juicy natural cherry tomatoes, home-grown herbs -- while in perfect synchronization, a recyclable plastic bottle burst open, spraying droplets of Lite-Italian dressing upon the freshly tossed salad.
Margie Parker
Weeki Wachee, FL
After five years as freelance writer, Greg finally managed to double his income, letting him add a processed cheese product slice to the baloney sandwiches he had for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Lawrence Person
Austin, TX
The mostly, but not quite, extinguished fire's dying embers writhed upon the floor like tiny little wasps which someone has just stuck in the abdomen with a needle, and they are frantically contracting around the metal protrusion in their gut in a desperate effort to remove it which, let's face it, is hopeless so they are just slowly dying and good riddance to them too, because unlike bees--which actually have some purpose in the world--wasps are just mean, ornery wastes of space, and who can blame someone for spearing them?
Darian McGee
Petal, MS
"Bleeeck!" nine-year-old prince Crawthula, lord of Undaria and heir to the vampire throne, cried as the lollypop, expertly wielded by his irksome sister, left a bright red gooey smear across his pale cheek, shattering the image of tranquility he was ineffectually trying to maintain in front of his undead ministers and beginning the tirade that resulted in them both being sent to coffin before the first human had been brought out to feast on.
Eric A. Vanderburg
Cleveland, OH
They kissed with the fury and suction of a dart that was shot onto the back of the bus driver's fat bald head by the red-headed kid that was too big for his age (the rumor was he was "held back") and everyone knew was going to end up in prison, or perhaps a prop comic if he straightened out in time.
D. Drake Daggett
Omro, WI
Awakened by a howling wind snapping branches against her new but poorly installed storm windows, Stella heard another sound she found puzzling so, grabbing her trusty Colt Python, she snuck stealthily downstairs to find an oddly-dressed gnome-like man methodically dropping breath mints onto her freshly-waxed kitchen floor.
Ann Hammack
"You're not in Kansas anymore, people!" the gruff Marine Captain bellowed as I wheeled myself along the tarmac of Planet Cliché, the only place in the Galaxy where you could mine Unobtainium, undergo the powerful Eywa ritual with a blue eight-foot-tall alien Princess, and discover a hunter-gatherer people who despite decades of human contact still hadn't developed the wheel, the composite bow, or toilet paper.
Adrian McKinty
Urgh the howler monkey was sort of the leader of his troop, though not old enough to be a silverback and not having fathered more than a couple of sons, but he did know where the good berries were and how to avoid the leopards, anacondas, and especially the hairless apes, the ones who crashed through the forest only to stand behind a tree and breathe noisily, and watch them and sometimes leave bunches of those disgusting bananas.
David S. Nelson
Falls Church, VA
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- Annie Boreson said... [Reply to comment]
Thelma, I get the biggest kick out of this! They are all worth a smile, but the one that I found the best --"Like a bird gliding over the surface of a Wyoming river rippled by a gentle Spring breeze, his hand passed over her stretch marks." Thanks for the full list!
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Like the better known Galapagos Islands of South America, Channel Islands' isolation has allowed evolution to proceed independent of the mainland. Eight plant species and one bird, the island scrub jay, are known only to Santa Cruz Island. The island fox, which wouldn't stand still for a photograph--we saw about a half dozen--lives only on the Channel Islands and is making a great comeback after numbering in the double digits in 1994!
The topography of Santa Cruz is remarkably diverse with grasslands, rocky mountain ranges (high point 2000+ ft.), pine forests, chaparral, and 77 miles of jagged coastline, with lots of sea caves, tidepools, beaches, and solitude. With over 50 miles of accessible trails and old grassy ranch roads--and no cars!--the island is a runner's paradise. :)
Montanon Ridge was surprisingly rugged. The grassland above was only minutes away from this rocky scramble.
We crested the ridge, then took a well-worn herd path almost a mile to the summit. There was even a register up there!
Some of the grassier trails were mowed, a joy to run on.
It got into the 40s at night, hence the down jacket. Daytime temps were in the 60s. This is part of the two-mile scenic loop from the campground:
Crazy trees out of the Wizard of Oz!
Part of the fox recovery plan involved the controversial eradication of non-native feral pigs. We were told that about 8,000 of them were trapped and shot--both on the ground and "Palin style" from helicopters. The last pigs were killed as recently as October 2006. We found a Golden Eagle trap (?) on stilts, next to a piggie cemetery.

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Low interest rate policies promoted by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and other central banks around the world are a key issue for the banking sector as firms dial up their risk to boost earnings, according to ratings agency Moody's Investor Service.
Moody's highlights low rates as the second biggest risk for banks in 2013 because they undermine banks' profitability, create asset bubbles, and could pressure C-Suites on Wall Street to take on too much risk by way of providing financing to clients and increasing risk tolerances in their securities portfolios.
The prospect that banks will overextend their balance sheets to finance merger and private equity deals -- and hold high yielding assets that may backfire -- is reminiscent of the days prior to the financial crisis. That is when the Fed's low rates propelled firms to finance debt-laden buyout deals of a seemingly ever-increasing size. Meanwhile, a chase for yield spawned complex financial products that carried far more risk than what banks had anticipated or could tolerate.
In fact, Moody's indicates such a scenario is already causing banks to return to some of their pre-crisis ways, even if products like collateralized debt obligations and subprime real estate securities that got banks in trouble remain in a thaw.
"The basic point certainly is increased risk taking," says Robard Williams, a Vice President at Moody's. "Risks can be clouded by low rates," adds Williams, who notes an increasing exposure to longer dated assets and ones with increasing credit risk in a rising interest rate environment.
In a report published on Thursday, Moody's highlights low interest rates as the second biggest risk for the global banking system -- only surpassed by macroeconomic issues such as a weak global growth and continued economic stress in Europe.
"This loosening will be further encouraged by greater risk appetite from the bond market, which the banks compete against in providing financing to their clients. Another threat is that banks take on greater credit or extension risk in their securities portfolios to achieve higher yields," the Moody's analysts add.
When it comes to securities portfolios, Moody's notes that banks buying up higher risk and longer maturity assets may not fully see the risks of such investments until interest rates begin to rise.
Currently, the 10-year US Treasury yields roughly 1.83%, up slightly from one-year lows of 1.38%. Ten-year government bond yields in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany are all below 2%, and in Japan, yields stand at just 0.72%, up barely from 12-month lows of 0.684%.
In the US, a third round of monetary easing by the Federal Reserve in September targets the mortgage market and has pushed 30-year Fannie Mae (OTC:FNMA) mortgage rates near all-time lows at 3%. The Fed also expects yields to stay low well into 2015 and also after gross domestic product (GDP) growth starts to accelerate in the US.
A dangerous cocktail of increasing risk appetite and low interest rate policies may prove a negative for the ratings of US banks, were they to dial up risk too far on financing arrangements and securities holdings.
On a more fundamental level, low rates pressure the interest income and margins of America's largest banks. In fourth-quarter earnings, low rates caused interest margins to fall farther than expected for Wells Fargo
Still in its 2013 outlook for the global banking system, Moody's says this year may prove to be less of a challenge than 2012, when it downgraded the ratings of most of the largest banks in the world including JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM)
Other risks aside from macroeconomic issues and low interest rates include fragile investor confidence on the financial sector, and new regulations that may cause banks to raise further capital and liquidity.
Notably, Moody's 2012 bank ratings downgrades hinged on the assumption that the US government will be reluctant to bail out large financial institutions, were a new crisis to emerge. As regulators continue to hammer out laws to resolve troubled banks, the agency still sees the prospect of ratings pressure.
On the positive side, Moody's says revamped liquidity and a focus on increasing regulatory capital through the crisis puts US banks in a far more stable position in the wake of the crisis.
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Feline Distemper
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Bloat and Gastric Torsion
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Bloat and gastric torsion is a serious condition and your pet should be rushed to the emergency room if this occurs. Certain breeds of dogs with deep chests and narrow waists, such as hounds, bouvier des Flandres, or doberman pinschers are more susceptible to a syndrome of gastric torsion and bloat. ThisRead more
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3 Reasons Why Your Pet Could Be Coughing
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Managing Your Pet's Arthritis
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Welcome to Samaritan's Surgical Care Center's Preoperative Registration Online Portal. You have been directed to this page because you are scheduled to have surgery at Samaritan Medical Center. Samaritan is partnering with a company called ePREOP to bring us a secure questionnaire for all surgical patients to complete before their surgery or procedure. Please have your information about current medications and/or surgical implants with you when completing the form. A Samaritan Medical Center nurse will be in contact with you shortly to confirm your information and answer any questions you may have. We understand how stressful any surgery or procedure can be. This new online system will help simplify your registration process and ensure we have all of your necessary preoperative information. If you have any questions at all please contact the Surgical Care Center at (315) 779-5241 or (315) 779-5275
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A new line of electrical and voice/data products gives boat owners the style they demand with quality they can trust. Home Select is the newest innovation from Hubbell Marine, designed to fit nearly any application and with nearly any décor.
Boaters want the interiors of their craft to reflect their personal taste and style. That means even the smallest, but necessary, details like switches, plates and receptacles should be given the same consideration as other decorating choices. Hubbell's new switches still provide on/off control for lighting and appliances, but are now also available with an illuminated and/or pilot light option. Gangs with up to three switches are a handy alternative as well. Plates feature rounded corners and a snap-on version to hide hardware. Receptacles come standard or in combination with switches and pilot lights. All models are available in a variety of colors and in both Decorator- or Standard-type styles.
Hubbell's new Home Select line also includes netSelect for voice/data connectivity. Designed as a flexible system for the multimedia needs of discerning boat owners, netSelect is easy to upgrade to keep up with evolving technology. From various configurations of structured cabling and audio controls to different combinations of voice/data jacks and connectors, boaters will be able to enjoy their full range of entertainment options onboard.
Hubbell Marine has been providing electrical products for the marine industry for more than 50 years. The company continues to evolve and grow its product line to work with modern applications and as the need for more onboard electrical power increases. Hubbell Marine products are available through a network of authorized marine distributors dealers. Users can visit www.hubbell-marine.com
Contact Hubbell Marine Electrical Products, 185 Plains Rd. , Milford, CT 06460. Phone: 203-882-4800; Fax: 800-255-1031; www.hubbell-marine.com
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Switch is the dedicated and specialist streetwear area of Stitch previewing at the SS13 show this July.
Switch gives the flourishing streetwear market an open platform to showcase the innovative and pioneering brands dominating the European and International streetwear arena. An eclectic cross section of independent brands from the up and coming to the well established will exhibit in the Switch area. This creative new section will host streetwear brands from across the world including Crooks & Castles, The Hundreds, Brixton and Rook that indicate the level of brands set to show for Switch's launch season. Exciting experiential elements are planned for Switch including a barber shop, Dj's, live music artists and a tattoo parlour.
Switch is a bespoke platform within Stitch that offers the specialist streetwear brands on show a cost effective all inclusive set up positioned at the entrance of the
main Stitch area.
Based in the heart of Islington at the business design centre, Switch will be open from 15th – 16th July 2012.
We have identified the growth and strength of streetwear across the globe and felt that the section of the market deserved a showcase platform in the UK.
By giving a dedicated section to these brands we can continue to support the strong streetwear offering and celebrate the International success of this sector within the menswear marketplace.
There are many reasons to exhibit in Switch
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- Expanding a wholesale account base
- Marketing opportunity with International and UK key press titles in attendance
- Inclusion in a select brand list
- Networking opportunities with the leading figures in the menswear fashion industry
- Opportunities to work with media partners
- A direct platform for buyers specifically interested in streetwear brands
Streetwear brands showing at Switch will be a carefully selected and edited list of the most cutting edge contemporary streetwear brands.
If you wish to be considered as an exhibitor please contact us or send in your brand's PDF line sheets, a link to your website, and Brand Bio to:
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Entry requirements and procedures
- Do you need vaccinations to travel to Spain?
You do not need any vaccinations against illness to travel to Spain. As in any part of the world, it is advisable to have your anti-tetanus vaccination up to date if you are going to be in contact with nature and the countryside, as well as any other official vaccination programme.
Under exceptional circumstances, the Spanish authorities can ask travellers to undergo a medical examination to ensure that they are not suffering from any of the illnesses requiring quarantine listed in International Health Regulations.
- What documentation is required to travel to Spain?
The documentation required to travel to Spain varies according to the country of origin.
If you are a citizen of a EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Lichtenstein, you will need a valid passport or ID card. Additionally, in the case of a minor travelling with an ID document, this must be accompanied by written permission from the parents.
If you come from another country:
The maximum stay in Spain is 90 days.There are a number of countries whose citizens are required to have a valid current visa in order to enter Spain. You can consult them on this list. Citizens of these countries can also travel to Spain if they have a residence permit or a long-term visa issued by another country in the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus), Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.
Citizens of all other countries must be in possession of documents which justify the object and the conditions of their stay, and be in possession of sufficient economic resources for their maintenance throughout the period they are intending to remain in Spain. The documents they are required to present will vary according to the motive of the trip. You can consult them in the "Foreign Affairs" section of the Ministry of Internal Affairs website.
It is advisable to take out travel insurance for your trip.
Given that conditions may vary, we suggest you contact the Spanish Embassy or Consulate to verify these requirements before you start your trip.
- What is required to get married in Spain?
If persons of a nationality other than Spanish wish to get married in Spain they must go to the Civil Registry of the municipality where they want to celebrate the union. There you will be informed of the specific documentation required. As a general rule, it is usually requested to present full birth certificates of the spouses along with certificates of marital status, voter registration cards (at least one spouse must be registered in Spain) and a photocopy of a national identification document, passport or residence permit in force. In Spain, civil marriages between the same sex are permitted.
- Which products can be brought into Spain?
There are no limits to what you can buy and take with you when you travel between countries in the European Union, provided what you buy is for your own personal use. In these cases you will not need to prove they will be subject to personal use in quantities below 800 cigarettes, 400 mini-cigars, 200 cigars, 1 kg of tobacco, 10 litres of liqueurs, 20 of fortified wine, 90 wine and 110 litres of beer. Furthermore, monetary amounts of over 9,999.99 euros must also be declared. Travellers may not bring foodstuffs of animal origin for their own consumption into the European Union as part of their baggage (meats, meat products, milk and dairy products). The only exceptions, in general terms, are commercially packaged baby formula, and special foods required for medical reasons. Travellers arriving from the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland may bring in small quantities of meat and dairy products for personal consumption. Other foodstuffs can be brought into Spain up to a maximum weight of one kilogram.
Travellers are permitted to enter Spain with their personal baggage, which may contain items for personal or family use, or to be given as presents. These will not in principle be considered as commercial goods, depending on the quantity or type of goods. This evaluation will be made by the customs services on arrival.
Sums of money in excess of 9,999.99 euros must be declared. Currently, over 18s are authorised to carry 200 cigarettes, or 100 mini-cigars, or 50 cigars, or 250 grams of rolling tobacco. The quantities of alcohol visitors are permitted to bring into the country are one litre of drink with an alcohol content of over 22%, or two litres with a lower alcohol content.
- Are you travelling with your pet?
There are three general rules: animals should be accompanied by their owners or representatives, must be duly identified and must have their accompanying animal health certificate, which should include a copy written in Spanish. Please take into account that all pets must be in possession of the correct veterinary certificate or passport, according to the species of animal.
If your pet is a dog, a cat or a ferret
Dogs, cats and ferrets that are less than 3 months old, and are therefore not vaccinated against rabies, are not allowed entry. Before entering Spain, your pet must fulfil a series of sanitary and identification requirements, which may vary according to the country of origin. You can consult these on the official website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing, Food and the Environment. (http://www.magrama.gob.es/es/ganaderia/legislacion/animales-compania-normativa-zoosanitaria.aspx). In most cases, your pet must be identified with a legible tattoo or microchip, and the valid passport must prove that it was vaccinated against rabies. The animal must not travel within 21 days after its first vaccination.
If your pet is a bird
Birds coming from non-European Union member states should comply with a series of control requirements for safety reasons (against bird flu). These are included on the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment official website. In all cases the animal must have the veterinary certificate written at least in Spanish, issued within the past 10 days (for European Union member states), and signed and stamped by an official vet, with a declaration from the owner or their representative (for third countries). Poultry are not considered pets.
Other species
They must all have the corresponding veterinary certificate, written at least in Spanish, issued within 10 days before the trip. Also, if you come from a country outside the European Union, on the following link from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, you will find information regarding the entry of pets into Spain, by type of pet and country of origin. (http://cexgan.magrama.es/Modulos05/Publico/InformacionMercados.aspx?proc=6) For the health certificate, please take into account that pets must be examined within 5 days before leaving the country of origin.
A few useful tips…
Make sure you have a telephone number for emergency veterinary services in the place you are planning to visit with your pet.
In addition to fulfilling all the entry requirements, you should also bear in mind the following:
• Muzzles are obligatory in some Spanish regions. • Not all types of accommodation admit animals. • Most restaurants do not admit pets. • The municipal authorities determine the places, seasons and times when dogs are allowed to enter and stay on beaches.
Before you start your trip, it is advisable to check with your chosen accommodation and transport companies about their conditions for travelling with pets.


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Chinese School Gives Honors Students the Cold Shoulder By Rewarding Them with Air Conditioning
At a school in China, hard work isn't just rewarded with success — it's rewarded with air conditioning, too.
Binhe Middle and High School in Shenzhen, China has 11 classes for 10th-graders, but only four of them — the honors classes — are air conditioned. Kids in the other classes have to sweat it out with only fans for comfort.
Students who do well on their high school entrance exams don't just get a more comfortable classroom, they also get the most experienced and competent teachers. In exchange, those elite kids are expected to later enroll at one of the country's universities.
A Binhe students said kids in the non-honors classes have offered to buy air conditioning units themselves and even pay for the electricity required to run them, but school authorities rebuffed their request, saying, "We may be put under investigation by education authorities if we allow such a practice."
But the rationale behind the refusal seems to go deeper. One teacher said kids need to learn they can't get whatever they want and that learning in a hot classroom will help them acquire the skills necessary to "overcome difficulties."
Parents of some of those children are understandably upset, with one saying, "I think the school should treat all the students equally. Students in honors classes should not be given special treatment."


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 11, 2009) - The East Tennessee State University Athletic Department received a NCAA grant in 2008 and is encouraged by the crowds that are coming out in force, at more than double and even triple the previous single game all-time attendance record for all nine home games of the 2008-09 season. The Lady Bucs' great play has contributed to the increase, as they hold a grip on the number one seed for the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament at 11-3.
The ETSU Lady Bucs joined the challenge from the NCAA to "Pack the House" in an early season match up versus the 12th-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores on November 21, 2008. The attendance of 3,459 against the Commodores eclipsed last season's "Pack the House" effort that turned out 1,236 fans on Feb. 2, 2008.
The pronounced difference is attributed to the community partnerships and game day atmosphere created by the ETSU Athletic Department grant team. The grant team has focused their efforts at a grassroots level by attracting fans through new marketing and promotion plans that include partnering with local organizations and youth groups to establish a loyal fan base. They have also included more media coverage through radio, live remotes, and television appearances. This year fans have enjoyed closer player interaction, pregame tailgate parties, and poster making.
Barbie Breedlove, the Senior Associate Athletic Director and grant team leader commented on the grant team's success.
"The team and the Lady Bucs have done a tremendous job improving our attendance level and creating awareness within the community. We have partnered with local organizations as well as targeting the ETSU student body by having special promotions for them."
The grant team is partnering with Johnson City Chamber of Commerce, Upward Athletics, Lion's Club, Boys and Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Red Hat Ladies, Mary Kay, local breast cancer support groups, and the Newcomers Club - a group that acquaints new members of the community to the area. The grant team has also focused on garnering more media coverage through radio, television, and internet.
The NCAA awarded five conferences and 12 institutions grants to grow attendance at women's basketball games. The five conferences grant recipients are the Big Ten, Conference USA, Metro Atlantic Athletic, Northeast, and Patriot League. The other 11 institutions include Arizona State, Arkansas, Columbia, Florida State, Louisville, Maryland, Oklahoma, San Diego State, Texas Tech, Washington, and Western Kentucky,
Along with Breedlove, the ETSU grant team includes Marketing and Promotions Coordinator, Sara Hacker, Assistant Director for Media Relations, Kevin Brown, Ticket Manager, Brandon Hudson, Executive Aide, Kristi Smith, and Graduate Assistant
For more information on Buccaneer athletics, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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French In Action "Families" Our two characters get names: Mireille and Robert. Mireille has two sisters. Robert is an only child; his mother is French. His parents are divorced.G
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French In Action "Portraits I" Mireille is petite, but healthy, athletic, strong, with long blond hair, and blue eyes. She's quick and has a certain fondness for poking fun.G
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Discovering Psychology "Remembering and Forgetting" Takes a look at the complex process called memory: how images, ideas, language, even physical actions, sounds, and smells are translated into codes, represented in memory and retrieved when needed.G
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Discovering Psychology "Cognitive Processes" Explores the higher mental processes - reasoning, planning and problem solving - and the "cognitive revolution" that is attracting a diverse assortment of investigators, from philosophers to computer scientists.G
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Saddle Club "Back in the Saddle" Returning from holidays to Pine Hollow, the new cast saddles up for a new season. Rivalry begins immediately between Saddle Club members and Veronica, who challenges them to a cross-country race to the lavender fields. Her reliance on a new electronic navigation device lands her in trouble.G
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Biz Kid$ "Understanding Business Ethics" Do the right thing! You'll learn with the Biz Kids as they examine several aspects of ethics in business. You'll also see the downside of not following ethical business practices. In this episode you will discover what it means for management to lead by example, and how employees must take responsibility for their behavior. D
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Cyberchase "Crystal Clear" When Digit's systems go wonky, Motherboard sends him to the caves that house the Synchronizer, the beautiful crystal that keeps all borgs correctly timed. But before he can be put back in sync, he gets a glitch and tosses his crystal synchrometer into a tunnel and then flies off the wrong way down into a deep, dark chasm. Called in to help, Jackie, Matt and Inez meet Jules, the cave's timid guard, who teams up with them to find the synchrometer (using the unique geometry of crystals) and to find Digit, who's hopelessly lost. D
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Barbecue University with Steven Raichlen "The Pacific Rim" Lemongrass pork sats with peanut sauce and cucumber relish and alder grilled salmon with citrus butter are on the menu.G
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Market to Table" Joanne's day begins at the farmer's market and she shows us a fresh sugar snap pea soup. Then she works with her student Kyle to perfect his pasta techniques making a fresh fettuccine with asparagus, prosciutto, and lemon creme fraiche. Recipes: Sugar Snap Pea Soup with Mint and Meyer Lemon Oil and Fresh Fettuccine with Asparagus Ribbons and Lemon Creme Fraiche. D
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This Old House "Barrington Project, Part 3 of 10" Builder Andy Tiplady takes host Kevin O'Connor out on the water to gather provisions for an authentic Rhode Island clambake. Later, back at the project house, he shows master carpenter Norm Abram the windows he's using and how he's installing them using a custom copper pan for flashing - his preferred method in coastal situations. Kevin visits the Hurricane Research Lab at the University of Florida to see how they are protecting buildings through research and, with the help of the world's largest portable hurricane simulator, to feel what it's like to stand in a Category 3 hurricane. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Belgium: Bruges and Brussels" Rick goes from the powerhouse headquarters of the European Union to an area of delicate lace and back-lane bike rides in small-town Bruges.G
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Travelscope "Greece - Cruising The Isles" A Greek Island cruise sounds like a bit of a cliche, but not when Joseph and the crew of Travelscope make landing on some of the Goddess Athena's special children. There's plenty of ancient history and beautiful scenic bays to explore, but the real life of the voyage is the opportunity to pull the small cruise ship right up to the docks and discover the heart and soul of the Greek isles and the people who inhabit them. There's always a story to be told and a laugh to share around a table of great food, local wine and music. D
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Road Food at Home" Bridget uncovers the secrets to perfect Slow-Cooker BBQ Brisket. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for slow cookers. Next, Chris visits Harpoon Brewery to discover the best beers for cooking. D
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Simply Ming "Julio Bermejo & Cooking with Spirits" We all love cooking with wine but how about using spirits? On this week's episode of SIMPLY MING, Ming shows how as he cooks with tequila. He'll be joined by longtime friend, Julio Bermejo, the tequila master at Tommy's in San Francisco. Looking for inspiration Julio and Ming explore amazing food stalls at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market before heading back to Tommy's to cook on the fly. D
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Beautiful colour scheme. I love brown and teal. Lynn ♥
I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful blog started by the talented Kim Prince. Kim and I will work together to make this blog an inspiring place to get new ideas, share and have fun. Kim will be running the blog and I will pop in often to add. We hope this will be an inspiring place for all.
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SendGrid Supports Hack4ColoradoJillian Wohlfarth
The following is a guest post from SendGrid's Events Team.
We're excited to be sponsoring and providing mentorship at the upcoming inaugural Hack4Colorado (part of the National Day of Civic Hacking) this May 31-June 2nd at Galvanize. We're always looking for the next great idea, app, or startup to spring forth from the great minds of the Colorado entrepreneurial community, and this hackday presents the perfect storm for that discovery.
On June 1st and 2nd over 5,000 hackers will be participating in 87 events across the country to "collaboratively create, build, and invent using publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country." We love the idea of being able to see more great ideas blossom from a nationwide day focused on collaboration and change. And as a graduate of TechStars-Boulder, we appreciate the importance of community support, in turning an idea into a hack, which might just evolve into a product.
We also know that a lot of these great ideas will need to rely on email to fuel their product. (For inspiration, check out how one of SendGrid's customers, TapGram, helps stroke victims send email.)
SendGrid Developer Evangelist, Brandon West, will be on site throughout the event to mentor the participants and to help his fellow developers implement SendGrid's robust set of APIs.
To get a jump start on the fun, join Brandon and other representatives of the APIs and data sets that will be on site at the hackday during a Google Hangout info session this Friday, May 17th from 12-1pm Mountain Time.
We love the startup community here in CO (who'll be joining us at Boulder Startup Week this week?) and think that this event will really showcase the talent and ambition that makes our community tick. Even better, all of these hacks will be for the betterment of CO with themes that include:
- Sports and Fitness
- Health and Wellness
- Sustainability
- Veterans
- Tourism and Education
As citizens of this great community, we all can surely appreciate the potential for civic development within these tracks and others, and, like you, we can't wait to see what the teams create.
Now is the perfect time to register…it's free! Keep an eye out for SendGrid at the event and catch us tweeting about it with the hashtags #hackforchange and #hack4CO. See you there!


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One Direction Play With Puppies at St. Patrick's Day Acoustic Performance
One Direction stopped by a radio interview and acoustic performance on St. Patrick's Day (March 17), which isn't that unusual. However, it was even more adorable than usual, because the band got to play with puppies onstage!
Before they were treated with the rescue pups, the band sat down for a chat. Niall Horan, 19, is Irish — and was bummed that the legal drinking age is 21 in the U.S., because it made imbibing on St. Patrick's Day difficult! Another holiday they missed? Mother's Day! (It's celebrated in March in the U.K.)
The guys were still festive, though. Horan revealed that after a trip to see 'Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark' on Broadway, the band went to Foot Locker. "We literally bought everything that was green in there," Horan laughed. "Foot Locker got raided!" Harry Styles added.
Zayn Malik revealed that the band still gets stage fright. "When we did our first auditions, I think we were all massively nervous," he said, "because you're by yourself onstage. I think it helps being in a group, because you don't get as nervous because we're making each other laugh backstage," he explained of the difference in dynamics. "We still get nervous before a big show like, right before we go on, but we don't have that pre-stage sickness," he said, motioning to his stomach. Uh oh — sounds like some of our boys had the pukes prior to 'X Factor!' "It's the good sort of nerves," Liam Payne quipped.
The band goes on to reveal their favorite apps (Louis Tomlinson in particular is a fan of 'Draw Something'), who the biggest food thief is on tour and what celebs they'd love to 'punk.'
Check out the video below of the band's full interview and performance, including 'What Makes You Beautiful' — with puppies!
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"If there's one goal of this conference, it's to dispel the myth that bullying is just a harmless rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up. It's not," President Obama said in a press statement. "Bullying can have destructive consequences for our young people. And it's not something we have to accept. As parents and students, teachers and communities, we can take steps that will help prevent bullying and create a climate in our schools in which all of our children can feel safe."
Opening remarks by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama can be seen livestreamed at www.whitehouse.gov/live at 10:30 this morning.
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In the coming weeks, Facebook plans to unveil a new social reporting system so that content violating Facebook policies can be removed and parents or teachers can be informed, according to the White House press release.
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Liszt Concert for Organ and Chamber Choir:
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|March 10 - 20, 2011
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|March 21, 2011
SJU Men's Chorus Home Concert:
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|April 17, 2011
Cathedral of Saint Paul Music Series:
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Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit on behalf of Liberty University Tuesday as President Barack Obama signed the national health care reform bill.
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Staver highlights that the Taxing and Spending Clause and the Commerce Clause are the only primary provisions of the Constitution that allow Congress the power of taxation and control over commerce. These provisions, however, do not allow for Congress control in such a case as the pending health care bill, which imposes requirements on individuals and private employers who refuse to follow the bill's mandate.
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That API's ideas might be more appropriately grouped with fantasy solutions is illustrated by the organization's own recent television advertising campaign. The campaign includes four separate ads. Two of the ads offer a defense of oil industry profits. One touts the broad ownership of oil company shares by pension funds and implies that viewers' pensions might very well be benefitting from the superb financial performance of the energy industry. The other ad suggests that oil companies really don't make that much money when compared to other industries in America. This would presumably make oil companies poor investments for one's pension fund. But no matter, to avoid confusion the two commercials are probably never scheduled to run back to back.
The remaining two spots deal with the energy crisis. In one a professionally-dressed woman tells us that "we have substantial oil and natural gas resources right here," as she walks across a map of the lower 48 states. "Enough to power 60 million cars and heat 160 million households for 60 years," she continues. The reason for her optimism is that "with advanced technology and smart policies, together we can secure America's energy future."
It's hard to put footnotes into a 30-second spot though API had no trouble footnoting the U. S. Energy Information Agency and the International Energy Agency when it wanted to make the point that 45 percent more oil and gas will be needed by 2030. Let me propose some of my own footnotes. Here is the full text of the ad with my footnotes added below:
Oil and natural gas powered the past. But the future? Fact is a growing world will require more, 45 percent more by 2030 along with greatly expanding alternatives. We have substantial oil and natural gas resources1 right here [NARRATOR STROLLS OVER MAP OF THE LOWER 48 STATES].2 Enough to power 60 million cars3 and heat 160 million households for 60 years.4 With advanced technology and smart policies,5 together we can secure America's energy future.6 Log on to learn more.(1) Only of fraction of those oil and natural gas resources are ever likely to be recovered for both economic and technical reasons. There is no guarantee that those that we do recover will come out at the rate we want them to.
(2) Includes all offshore areas such as Cape Cod, Hilton Head, Miami Beach, the Gulf of Mexico and the California, Oregon and Washington coasts. Also included are all wilderness areas of Alaska (not pictured).
(3) 60 million cars sounds like a lot, but that represents only a fraction of the more than 250 million highway vehicles currently registered in the United States.
(4) The "60 years" claim is theoretical (and perhaps mere fantasy). See footnote 1. Also, powering cars and heating homes assumes that the highest and best use of oil and natural gas is to burn them notwithstanding their high value as feedstocks for thousands of chemicals and others products that are critical to the modern world.
(5) "Smart policies" is shorthand for opening up all public lands and offshore areas in the United States to drilling.
(6) This doesn't mean energy independence. The U. S. will still be importing more than half its oil by 2030 according to the U. S. Energy Information Administration. We won't really be secure.
In fact, by suggesting that domestic oil resources could power 60 million cars, API is admitting that energy independence is a false hope even as they confuse viewers with the notion that we Americans will be more secure.
Of course, if all my footnotes were required, say, in the manner of warning messages included in prescription drug ads, viewers might be just as queasy about API's plan for America's energy future as they ought to be about some of the drugs they see advertised on television.
What might make viewers even more queasy is a second API ad which claims that we get two-thirds of our oil and natural gas from North America. This is a rough but reasonable estimate of the heat value of the oil and natural gas combined. But, once again we find ourselves watching API's spokeswoman walking across a map of the lower 48 states as she delivers her message. Perhaps Canada and Mexico from whom we import significant quantities natural gas and oil are too large to represent on the map. Or perhaps it would be a little impolitic to treat Canadian and Mexican oil and natural gas as if it belonged to the United States. Better to leave both countries off the map and hope that nobody notices. People might begin to think inconvenient thoughts such as, "Why should the Canadians and the Mexicans simply sell us all the oil and natural gas we want? Maybe they'll need it for themselves. Oh, and by the way, didn't I hear that Mexico's oil production is declining and Canada's natural gas production is flat?"
Those who ignore the borders between Canada and the United States and the United States and Mexico must not like the inconvenient facts of sovereignty. Jerome a Paris, writing on The Oil Drum: Europe put it this way in a recent article:
One is to think that political obstacles are minor, i.e., that it will be easy to force Russia or Saudi Arabia (or Venezuela or Iran or even U.S. politicians) to open their door or the spigot. This perpetuates the narrative that other countries [on] the planet are here to provide us with the necessary goods or services, independently of their own priorities or needs; it conveys that their sovereignty is a fiction that we tolerate with just a bit too much patience, but that we could push out of the way if it really became necessary.
Two years ago some readers balked at my idea that the United States and Canada could enter a period of bitter tension (although probably not open conflict) as energy resources, especially natural gas, become scarce in North America. But can such an idea be far from the mark when API is telling us that we can get whatever energy resources we want from Canada and Mexico?
One of the most important facts which API omits from its television ads, but does mention obliquely in a policy piece on its website is that the vast majority of the resources to which they refer are "undiscovered." The group isn't even talking about known deposits waiting to be assessed for their potential. API states that "federal lands hold an estimated 656 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas" and "an estimated 112 billion barrels of recoverable oil." This probably refers to what the government calls technically recoverable. Rocks from the Moon are technically recoverable, but they are very expensive and difficult to get. And so, none of this tells us whether this undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas will ever be found and tapped.
There is likely to be some economically recoverable oil and natural gas on federal lands. But is it wise to make public policy on such an important issue as energy based on estimates of oil and natural gas that have yet to be discovered? The Bakken Formation in North Dakota, Montana and Saskatchewan has been touted as having 3 to 4 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil reserves. But it seems doubtful that we will ever get that much oil out of it. And, even if we did, it is worth remembering that at the current rate of consumption, these barrels would last the world somewhere between 36 and 48 days (12 days for each billion barrels).
In this environment of high oil and natural gas prices, those who have a vested interest in drilling will naturally lobby for the right to do so. This really shouldn't strike anyone as strange. What we should not do is base our energy policy on the outlandish pronouncements of industry players about the success they expect.


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