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The NCCB Secretariat for the Liturgy has received requests for clarification about a number of issues pertaining to the preparation of particular calendars for a diocese or province. The first of these concerns the procedures for the inclusion of a saint or blessed in a diocesan calendar.
A number of dioceses have received requests from religious communities to place a saint or blessed of their community on the particular calendar of a diocese. In some cases, these requests originate in response to the policy statement On the Inclusion of Saints and the Blessed in the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America which was approved by the NCCB on November 18, 1992 as an internal policy statement of its standing Committee on the Liturgy (see BCL Newsletter, Vol. XXVIII, December 1992). This statement requires that before a saint or blessed may be considered for inclusion on the national calendar for the United States of America, the following guidelines are to be applied:
Requests to place a saint or blessed on a diocesan calendar are to be submitted to the local ordinary of the diocese. In the case of diocesan calendars, the inclusion of a saint or blessed requires the approval of the local ordinary. If the local ordinary approves this request, it must then be submitted to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for confirmation.
Requests for clarification have also been received for guidelines that enable dioceses to determine which saints or blessed belong on a diocesan calendar. The policy statement On the Inclusion of Saints and the Blessed in the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America states the following:
In order to determine which saints or blessed belong on the particular calendar of a nation or region, or on diocesan or religious calendars, some general norms are to be observed:
- Care must be taken not to overload the national calendar or that of a diocese or religious institute (see GNLYC 53).
- Saints and the blessed should be included on a particular calendar only if they have particular significance for the entire nation, diocese, or religious family (see GNLYC 53b).
- Other saints and blessed are to be celebrated only in those places with which they have closer ties (see GNLYC 53c).
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Intel® Embedded Media and Graphics Driver (Intel® EMGD)
BIOS and Firmware
1. What is UEFI?
UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. UEFI is a replacement for legacy system BIOS and is flexible, fast, and efficient and has no driver size constraints. The UEFI pre-boot firmware architecture can be 32-bit, 64-bit, or IA64. There is no binary compatibility. Compatibility support module (CSM) is used to boot legacy operating systems and operate with legacy option ROMs.
Intel® Embedded Media and Graphics Driver (Intel® EMGD) for the Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx series and the Intel® System Controller Hub US15W chipset supports the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) graphics output protocol (GOP) driver, which gets merged into the UEFI system pre-boot firmware. The EFI GOP driver supports fast boot capability.
2. Is video BIOS (VBIOS) the same as the graphics output protocol (GOP) driver?
No. The GOP driver (also known as EFI video driver in some Intel EMGD documentation) is a replacement for legacy video BIOS and enables the use of UEFI pre-boot firmware without compatibility support module (CSM). The Intel EMGD GOP driver can either be fast boot (speed optimized and platform specific) or generic (platform agnostic for selective platforms).
Here is a quick comparison between GOP and video BIOS:
- GOP: No 64-Kbyte limit. 32-bit protected mode. No need for CSM. Speed optimized (fast boot).
- Video BIOS: 64-Kbyte limit (Intel® System Controller Hub US15W chipset) and 127-Kbyte limit (Intel Atom processor E6xx series). 16-bit execution. CSM is needed with UEFI system firmware. Performance inferior to GOP CSM. The VBIOS works with both 32- and 64-bit architectures.
3. Can VBIOS and the GOP driver coexist on a platform?
4. How is the VBIOS Option ROM linked to the display adapter in EFI pre-boot firmware?
The VBIOS Option ROM is linked with the PCI vendor-device ID of the VGA device (typically Bus 0, Device 2, Function 0). This information is embedded in the EFI pre-boot firmware at compile time or merged into the image on the host via the firmware vendor merging utility.
5. Which VBIOS is activated when I have an external graphics card such as Matrox* and internal graphics such as internal low-voltage differential signalling (LVDS)?
The answer depends upon the EFI pre-boot firmware setting, if available. If the "PCI as primary" option is available and enabled, then the VBIOS option ROM from the Matrox card is activated. If "PCI as primary" is not enabled, then the Intel EMGD VBIOS is activated. Note that there can be only one instance of VBIOS in the platform.
6. What are the VBIOS usage scenarios under Windows* XP?
Windows XP uses the VBIOS via INT 10h for displaying the splash screen and any messages until the graphics driver is loaded. Note that during the OS boot process the OS writes to the framebuffer directly, bypassing VBIOS for display purposes. After the graphics driver is loaded, the OS transfers control to VBIOS during full screen DOS mode and during "blue screen" to display the stack information.
7. Does Intel EMGD v1.18 for Windows Embedded* Compact 7 support the UEFI-based Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit (Intel® BLDK)?
Yes, it is supported on the Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx series-based platform.
8. Why did the CED generate 127K VBIOS instead of 64K VBIOS for the Intel Atom processor E6xx series?
Intel EMGD v1.16 (and onward) VBIOS supports 127K VBIOS for the Intel Atom E6xx processor-based platform and 64K VBIOS for the Intel System Controller Hub US15W chipset series. From Intel EMGD v1.16 onward, the 64K VBIOS for Intel Atom E6xx processor series is no longer available due to file size constraints as new features were added in the VBIOS that increased the file size to over 64K. If you require a 64K VBIOS, please consider using Intel EMGD v1.10 vBIOS package for Windows* XP and Linux* OS or Intel EMGD v1.14 VBIOS package for Windows 7, Windows Embedded Standard 7, and Windows Embedded Compact 7 OS.

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In recent years, new technologies have facilitated the discovery of an expanding number of antibodies capable of neutralizing a broad array of primary HIV isolates from different clades. As covered previously on the blog, these broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) have been fished from the plasma of individuals with chronic HIV infection and, in most cases, do not seem to be present at titers sufficient to control viral load or retard disease progression; however, there are reasons to hope that if similar antibodies could be induced by vaccination, they could rebuff the relatively small amount of HIV that enters the body during a typical exposure.
A common feature of the bNAbs is that the B cells that produce them have gone through many more rounds of somatic hypermutation than is typically seen in other infections. Somatic hypermutation is the process by which the B-cell's antibody-producing genetic code is progressively revised, potentially leading to an increase in the affinity of the antibody for its target. The genetic code that the B-cell starts out with is known as the germline sequence (or unmutated common ancestor or UCA), and it is typically altered by around 5-15% to produce antibodies against common infections, whereas the range is 19-46% for the bNAbs against HIV. This requirement for extensive mutation appears to be connected to the unusual shapes the bNAbs must form to access the hard-to-reach conserved areas of the HIV envelope (Env) protein, which are cloaked by highly variable decoy targets.
In a paper published yesterday in the journal Nature, researchers report tracking the development of a bNAb response in an HIV-positive person, in parallel with documenting the evolution of the infecting virus. The study shows that the Env protein of the virus at the time of acute infection was able to activate B cells with a germline sequence that then underwent progressive somatic hypermation, leading to the appearance of antibodies with increasing breadth of activity against a panel of HIV isolates during weeks 41-92 of follow-up. Driving the B-cell somatic hypermutation process was stimulation of the cells by the ever-mutating Env protein of the infecting virus, which evolved and became more diverse over time (as is typical in untreated HIV infection). The researchers were able to demonstrate that the diversification of the Env protein preceded the appearance of bNAb response.
This brief description greatly simplifies a complicated study, but the implication for HIV vaccines is that it may be possible to try and mimic the process observed in this individual using sequential immunization with vaccines containing similar Env proteins of increasing diversity. The hope would be to initially activate the right B cell, and then push it along a somatic hyermutation pathway that would lead to the eventual generation of bNAbs.
Whether this is actually feasible, however, remains to be seen. Because there is a degree of randomness involved, it may be that the relatively rare individuals who develop bNAbs represent instances of B-cells essentially hitting the somatic hypermutation jackpot as a result of repeated stimulation. But, given the implications for HIV vaccines if bNAbs could be successfully induced with some reliability, it will be essential to fully pursue the idea. In addition to the Nature paper, several other recently published studies report data relevant to this pursuit (links also appended below).
Nature (2013) doi:10.1038/nature12053
Co-evolution of a broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibody and founder virus
Nature (2013) doi:10.1038/nature12091
HIV: Roadmaps to a vaccine
Science. 2013 Mar 29. [Epub ahead of print]
Rational HIV Immunogen Design to Target Specific Germline B Cell Receptors.
J Exp Med. 2013 Mar 27. [Epub ahead of print]
Engineering HIV envelope protein to activate germline B cell receptors of broadly neutralizing anti-CD4 binding site antibodies.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 22. [Epub ahead of print]
Structural basis for HIV-1 gp120 recognition by a germ-line version of a broadly neutralizing antibody. (free full text)
Cell. 2013 Mar 28;153(1):126-38. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.03.018.
Somatic Mutations of the Immunoglobulin Framework Are Generally Required for Broad and Potent HIV-1 Neutralization.
Richard Jefferys is the coordinator of the Michael Palm HIV Basic Science, Vaccines & Prevention Project Weblog at the Treatment Action Group (TAG). The original blog post may be viewed here.


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by Tom Utescher
In the calm just before the last snowstorm of January, Chestnut Hill College men's basketball coach Jesse Balcer was looking for a bit of calm himself.
Six days earlier, his team notched the first win over Philadelphia University in the history of the CHC program, but coming off that emotional high the Griffins had slumped, turning in a sub-par performance in a loss to Post University on January 22. The Griffins got back on an even keel in time for last Tuesday's conference home game, rallying from a four-point deficit early in the second half to knock off the visiting Wilmington University Wildcats, 91-78.
CHC's mainstay in the middle, junior power forward Dan Comas, came through with a game-high 22 points and 14 rebounds, and he was joined by three guards who were double-digit scorers. Sophomore Jakeem Bogans contributed 16 points and two steals, junior Uros Kovacevic had 15 points and three assists, and sophomore Mark DiRugeris added 13 points and two assists.
The Griffins went back to their dorm rooms with an overall record of 6-10 and a 3-5 ledger in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, while the Wildcats boarded their bus with a mark of 6-11, 4-5.
Wilmington began the night with three regular field goals by Robert Owens and three three-pointers by fellow forward Corye Payton, taking a 15-9 lead in the first seven minutes. The rest of the night, the CHC defense held Owens scoreless and limited Payton to three points. Still, despite 13 points from Comas and 12 by Bogans in the first half, the Griffins were behind 36-33 at the interlude.
The Wildcats went up 39-35 in the opening minute of the second half, then CHC sandwiched a score off-the-rebound by Comas between driving lay-ups by two Griffin guards, senior Brandon Williams (nine points, three assists, four steals) and sophomore Francis Ashe (six points, three assists, four steals).
Williams and Ashe each scored six points in the second period, whereas before the break they had just three points between them. Kovacevic also came on in the second half, when he deposited 12 of his 15 points.
The visitors led for the last time at 43-41. Bogans scored on a follow to tie the game, then hit a lay-up stemming from a Wilmington turnover, making it 45-43 with 16:14 left to play. A lay-up by Kovacevic and a three-pointer by senior forward Trenton Davidheiser completed a pivotal 9-0 burst by the home team.
With a little under eight minutes to go the Griffins had their lead in double figures at 65-54, but a little 6-0 run by the visitors made it a five-point game with five minutes to go. Fruitful drives by CHC's Kovacevic and freshman forward Khadim Ndiaye (seven points, four rebounds) halted the Wildcats' charge, and Chestnut Hill went on to win by 13 points.


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Beat the Streak Report: Friday, Aug. 22
Picks of the day
- 20-for-42 (.476) vs. NYY RHP Mike Mussina
- .380 AVG in August
- 6-for-12 (.500) vs. KC RHP Brian Bannister
- 10-for-22 (.455) during six-game hit streak
Yesterday's picks, results
Matt Holliday (COL), 1-for-3
Brad Hawpe (COL), 0-for-4
Top 5 current leaders
1. eduneversaydie (Matt Holliday)
2. bruinscup72 (Ichiro Suzuki)
3. jfb17 (Matt Holliday)
3. pupway10 (Jose Reyes)
5. halfogre (Jose Reyes)
5. kbarnett10 (Ryan Theriot)
BTS season leader: Robert Paradise, 48
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
BTS leader eduneversaydie inched closer to the record books yesterday after Matt Holliday doubled in three at-bats against the Reds. With his streak up to 38 games, eduneversaydie is one shy of tying the second-highest mark of the season.
Yesterday wasn't as kind to several other competitors, including knightbomb and smithdog52, whose streaks ended at 33 games with Derrek Lee unable to build on past success against Reds right-hander Josh Fogg. Also falling out of the running was hinnami, as Chipper Jones came up empty in four plate appearances.
Taking over sole control of second place was bruinscup72, who leaned on the reliable Ichiro Suzuki to push his streak to 31 games. Competitors jfb17, pupway10, halfogre, kbarnett10 also benefited from the widespread elimination, thanks to the hitting of Holliday, Jose Reyes (1-for-5) and Ryan Theriot (2-for-4).
With several competitors falling out of the running, the number of fans capable of reaching 57 games dwindled to 148.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players:
1. Derrek Lee (CHC): 8.4%, 0-for-3
2. Jose Reyes (NYM): 8.1%, 1-for-5
3. Manny Ramirez (LAD): 6.3%, 1-for-2
4. Hanley Ramirez (FLA): 5.7%, 0-for-0
5. Chase Utley (PHI): 5.5%, 2-for-3
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Both Roberts and Granderson are both having great months and both are batting over 400 in the past week.
I wouldnt be surprised if the majority of people pick these two
19 or more……
24 went with Roberts
17 with Granderson
16 with both JJ Hardy and Ichiro
8 with Holliday
that totals 81
The 2 guys i ended up thinking about are the ones who are picks of the day lol. I didn't really know granderson was that hot when i chose him though. I expected him to be more of a sleeper pick that no one was even looking at lol. Or maybe me talking about him yesterday got people picking him.
It's like 40 people a day getting eliminated. I wouldn't be surprised if there's less than 10 people left by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Are you still alive for the 57 one jweisinger? Whats your current streak at?
i have one pick at 19 and one at 18
Id like to know how many are alive that can break the season records of 48 and 49
983 people still have a chance for a 49 game streak. This is the amount of people who currently have at least an 11 game hit streak.
788 people have a chance to hit for 50 straight games.
well anyone who picked soriano is back to ZERO.
he went hitless and was pitch hitted for in the ninth inning
Brian Roberts base hit in the First!
so we know that 24 people above 19 games
are already smiling.
Looks like Granderson isn't gonna pull through. It kind of bugs me a little considering the other 4 guys i was thinking about picking (roberts, hardy, polanco , and jeter) all got hits lol. I guess my luck just ran out. I kind of realized a few hours ago that there were a lot of better picks today than granderson but the day game lock kind of screwed me too lol.
Good luck everyone who's still alive.
Keep playing though cuz if i read the rules right.
anyone over 30, i think still gets some kind of prices off any thing at mlb shop.
so Granderson took 17 people out.
dont give up
i cant believe this game turned out to be so easy!
im a 42 year old woman and i picked derrek lee today who got 2 hits which makes my new streak 28.
To many people make this way harder then it really is i dont second guess the players my 13 year old son tells me to pick because hes only be wrong but once and my streak would be at 37 but the guy he picked was the only one the team who didnt get a hit. but whatever i hope i win.!!
how many people left and good luck
but i think im going too win this game because I dont stress over it and i just listen to my son who knows how players are hot and cold. heres a tip. never pick people who dont get a hit the day before only pick people who were say 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-5 they have 90% this year of getting a hit after getting two hits in a game well good luck!!
jweisinger, i'd really like to play more. But if i get say a 37 game hit streak to end the season, i'd hate myself lol. And the free month of mlb.tv if u hit 30 games in September would give it to u for october. I can just watch the playoff games on tv lol. I'll just wait til next year.
Bdamone…derrek lee had 0 hits the day before, you're not even following your own advice lol. It's easier said than done when it comes to winning this game. It just takes one bad game and your streak is done, gl though. I guess i'm one of the few people where second guessing actually worked for them. Had i second guessed myself today, i'd still be alive lol. I think changing my picks actually saved my streak 5 or so times now. But oh well, theres always next year for me.
i thought 30 or more was a credit at the shop area on here.
so stay and what are you thinking about tomorrow.
nothing really stands out as far as i can tell.
ON the run i am on now, i have changed a couple of times, but thats cuz i look 3-4 days ahead and make a pick if something is obvious even without all the pitchers being posted, and id always check it to see it when every pitcher is posted. . like 3 days ago I originally had Holliday tonight, however when i looked, he was like 1-for-12 against the pitcher tonight.
im thinking Ichiro on saturday


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I45Tex wrote:If you think the Middle East is a mess now, just wait till we knock its economy out from under it?
tamtagon wrote:
There's plenty of uses for oil and gas besides car fuel. But if something better comes along, the oil kings in Texas are more than foolish if they try to keep the state's industry artificially relevant. Invent a better battery, but don't politically prolong the death spiral of fossil fuels.
France Plans To Ban Sale Of Diesel And Gas Vehicles By 2040
July 6, 2017
As part of a set of ambitious new environmental goals, France expects to do away entirely with the sale of diesel and gas vehicles by 2040.
...He admitted that doing away with the sale of all fossil-fuel-powered cars in the world's sixth-biggest economy would be challenging, even to the point of constituting a "revolution," but he said French carmakers would be up to the task, according to Reuters.
DPatel304 wrote:None of this is surprising, but I'm not concerned at all for North Texas. We are pretty diversified at the moment, and that doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon. The Oil&Gas industry has been in a slump for a while, and it hasn't hurt us all that much. Houston has been hit pretty hard, but hopefully they can find a way to recover.
Cord1936 wrote:Totally agree .. whatever pain the oil downturn was going to cause Dallas has already happened ... which has been minimal. Ft. Worth has been more negatively affected as it has a greater Oil & Gas dependence.
The Dallas-Plano-Irving metro's enormous diversification has kept it soaring during the downturn.
DPatel304 wrote:Honestly, I'd say this may have actually helped DFW in a weird way. Before the downturn, it seemed like Houston was our biggest competitor (in Texas) and we were basically neck and neck with them (they may have actually been ahead, depending on what you're measuring). Texas was booming, and people all over the nation were eyeing Houston, DFW, Austin, and San Antonio. Now, Texas is still booming, but Houston doesn't exactly have the same appeal as it did a few years ago, and it doesn't help that the near future doesn't look all that hot. Seeing as how they were our closest competitor, this, by default, puts DFW in the clear front runner seat as far as Texas goes.
muncien wrote:Interestingly enough... I was riding the train (Amtrak... yes, people actually do ride it) across western Colorado last week, and the National Park Ranger who was giving the trails & rails presentation explained that over the last few months, many of the fracking wells that were closed down years ago as oil tanked are now seeing a flurry of activity again. Apparently, they have gotten the process down to a manageable cost that even with oil prices where it is today, they can make a profit. There was evidence all around... shale was about to boom once again. I'm thinking the oil industry still has some run in it for the near future. It's the middle east and Russia who are more to suffer by what now appears to be a low/stable oil price.
Cord1936 wrote:Another European country moving toward banning traditional combustion engines ... this time England with a goal of 2040.
Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040
Plans follow French commitment to take polluting vehicles off the road owing to effect of poor air quality on people's health
Anushka Asthana and Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, Tuesday 25 July 2017 17.38 EDT
Article: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/25/britain-to-ban-sale-of-all-diesel-and-petrol-cars-and-vans-from-2040
tamtagon wrote:What is Texas doing to take the economy past oil?
tamtagon wrote:What is Texas doing to take the economy past oil?
Texas' state and local budgets got $26M a day from oil industry in 2016 — and that's low
Jeff Mosier
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ene ... t-year-low
A report released this morning from the Texas Oil and Gas Association calculated the extraordinary amount of government money generated by the industry. Oil and gas pumped $9.4 billion into government budgets through taxes and royalties in 2016
tamtagon wrote:What is Texas doing to take the economy past oil?
The Permian Basin's stacked layers of oil-laden rock under the west Texas and New Mexico dirt are already so productive they've stymied efforts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to reduce supply, and brought the U.S. closer to energy independence. The field produces 3.2 million barrels a day, more than OPEC member Kuwait.
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High-performance simultaneous TGA & DTA / DSC (ambient / 2400°C) with Evolved Gas Analysis
The HIGHLIGHTS
SETSYS Evolution is the standard for high performance TGA, TG-DSC and TG-DTA application. It is based on a complete modular thermal analysis platform for – TGA, DTA and DSC – Simultaneous TGA/DTA and TGA/DSC – The key to the SETSYS TGA-DTA / DSC is Setaram's unique symmetrical balance, a highly robust and flexible furnace configuration offering unique performance and the lowest operational costs of any system available.
SETSYS Evolution offers EGA temperature controlled coupling devices, enabling simultaneous MS, FTIR or GC/MS connections. SETSYS Evolution is also the base structure of the unique Supersonic System that allows a fast transfer of the evolved molecules to the MS ionizer, avoiding condensation and recombination of the molecules.
The SETSYS Evolution can be configured to operate up to 2400°C and also use controlled humidity, vacuum and highly aggressive atmospheres.
See also:
– SETSYS Evolution DTA/DSC
– SETSYS Evolution TGA
– SETSYS Evolution TGA-DTA/DSC
Quenching / Fast heating
This option allows the sample to be inserted in, or removed from, the hot zone of the furnace during a measurement. The insertion and removal is programmed from the Calisto software.
Oxygen Trap
A gas purification system is available to remove trace oxygen from the inert / carrier gas flow. It is based on a zirconium foil placed in a slot in the hot part of the anti-convection tube above the sample.
Protected thermocouple
An alumina sleeved protected thermocouple was designed to prevent corrosion/damage from the gases evolved from the sample. It is available with or without the above mentioned oxygen probe. Various thermocouples types are available up to 1750°C.
Hook for disc shaped samples
Platinum based hooks which allow hanging of disc-shaped samples to the balance are available. Sample diameters vary between 10 and 16mm.
New ceramic crucibles
Yttria and Yttria Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) crucibles for TG-DSC and TG-DTA versions, with optional covers are available. The crucible's volume is 100 µL, diameter 5mm and height 8mm.


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Blow off: Trains horns drone on
After a long summer of passing trains sounding their 96+ decibel horns through each public grade intersection, August 12 was to be the first night of peace and relative quiet for Charlottesville residents living by the train tracks. However, even though the Federal Railroad Administration officially re-recognized Charlottesville's status as a "quiet zone," there is still no rest for weary downtown residents, as some engineers continue to sound off all the way through town.
According to Michael Allenby, who lives in the pink warehouse complex on South Street, it appears some engineers just haven't gotten the memo. "It's basically just been inconsistent– it's not everyone, and it's not just one in ten," he says. "I just kind of roll my eyes, but I would assume they're all going to stop at some point."
One person who doesn't share Allenby 's patience is Deputy City Attorney Lisa Kelley. Since contacting all the rail companies that use the Charlottesville tracks before the "quiet zone" took effect on August 12, she has been adamant in telling CSX and Norfolk Southern– the two railways that own the tracks– to pipe down.
"We have called them to tell them to please stop honking their horns," says Kelley. "Both of them had previously notified us that they would comply and that they are responsible."
But according to Allenby, the one time he looked out his window and saw a train making the ruckus, it didn't belong to either of those two companies– it was an Amtrak train. Although Amtrak doesn't pass by Allenby's apartment very often, the passenger-moving company does lease the tracks from the freight companies, CSX and Norfolk Southern. For that reason, Amtrak was among the rail companies that Kelley notified before August 12 and thus should not be sounding their horns through every intersection.
Though Kelley says nobody has cited that particular company as an offender, she wouldn't hesitate to get on Amtrak's case were she to receive a complaint. "I'd be happy to send a 'demand' letter to Amtrak and a copy of the letter to the FRA saying that they're not in compliance," she says.
While the City is currently exploring its legal options should the horns continue to sound, Kelley says that, in the meantime, the best way to put an end to persistent tooting is for people to call the railways themselves. "We've been giving people the public relations numbers for CSX and Norfolk Southern so they are somewhat accountable for their actions."
And if that fails, Allenby has another solution. "Maybe I'll put a sign outside reminding the engineers," he says. It can only help, as it appears that, to paraphrase a Hollywood classic, what we have here is a failure to communicate.


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Is it Time to Re-evaluate our Attitude to Religious Freedoms?
From time to time, I feel compelled to express an opinion about some matter or other. As a writer, with my own blog, I consider this the most appropriate place for such things. Please join the discussion. And, if you're easily offended, please avoid these topics.
It has happened again: a terrorist attack on people going about their normal daily business. As a result, I'm asking a question many will consider irreverent, some will see as inflammatory, and some will believe to be anti whatever faith they espouse.
It's none of these things. My question is aimed at starting a debate, a discussion on the validity of treating religion uniquely as something allowed to exist without the necessary questions being asked of it.
So, to my question:
Why is religion, of every sort, protected against serious debate by laws and attitudes that treat it as sacrosanct?
Faith is a quality that allows followers to indulge in beliefs that, on any real examination, rest on questionable foundations. Every so-called sacred text is open to interpretation, and therefore to misinterpretation. Because of this, no such text can be considered a definitive guide to actions, thoughts or beliefs. If the words of the text were, as they're claimed to be, the words of a deity, then they clearly would be given in a form that was not open to interpretation. Only a deity with a twisted approach to disciples would produce a text open to misinterpretation. Only a deity desirous of creating conflict and war would permit followers to place absolute faith in a text that can be read to mean different things to different peoples. And such a deity is surely not worthy of the worship of anyone with a heart, let alone a brain and a soul.
Every sect claims its particular interpretation of their sacred text as the 'right' one. Each sect condemns those who fail to agree with its own strict understanding of the rules, rites, rituals and events recorded therein. Since all sects disagree with each other to some extent, and it's impossible to form any neutral determination of which of the many, if any, might actually be the 'right' one, we must conclude that none of them are correct.
I won't insult your intelligence by enumerating the many contradictions that bedevil sacred texts: these are easily accessible for anyone with concern for the truth.
The very fact that holy books are open to interpretation allows different groups to claim justification for the acts of violence, injustice and terror they perpetrate on others. This misinterpretation has more recently been combined with political and financial upheaval to permit extreme groups to justify the most appalling, criminal, acts of destruction and evil on often innocent people.
If we are ever to redress the balance and open a responsible and comprehensive debate on the place of religion, its role and value in society, we must first remove every barrier to discussion. That means we must allow insult, joke, ridicule, unbiased analysis and the publication and widespread dissemination of historical truth. Whilst we should avoid permitting the spread of hate messages, we must free the subject from the bindings of prejudice, fear and ignorance that currently allow it to be abused and employed by those who would profit from the distortions and mistruths they purvey.
If we are to reduce the influence of criminal gangs of extremists over the gullible and the ignorant we must allow open discussion of the realities, without fear of prosecution under over-protective legislation that allows religion a place of privilege but fails to require it to conduct its activities responsibly.
Let's unwrap religious sensibility from its cotton wool shield and expose it to the harsh truths of the world where it can be analysed and required to explain its reality in the glare of public scrutiny, with all the fervour and passion the subject deserves, shall we?
Does religion have anything to fear from such exposure? I don't know. That's surely the point. Until we strip away the false reverence in which faith is held, how can we hope to understand it properly?
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Some of the biggest mass murders in history are due to religion. Have we forgotten the Crusades? And the Holocaust? A few bad people? Really? I agree with the fact that IF there really were a deity overseeing us, that deity would not have made the text so ambiguous that it has incited massive wars and genocides. That type of deity does not deserve the status we have attached to it. This is why I do not believe in some all powerful being giving a shit for our small, little planet.
JMPayer, thanks for your comment. You have, in your opening sentence, illustrated the point I'm making here: that discussion of religion is a minefield. My question is: why should it be? What is it about religion that separates it from all other topics of debate and prevents a rational and informed approach to discussion? If we fail to discuss something that is so fundamental to so many people then we fail to question the ideas that inform, drive and motivate many of the actions of those who do things in the name of their faith.
It's interesting that you believe that religion has nothing to do with the problems of the world. I suspect that the crusades, a cause of much death and destruction, can reliably be laid at the door of religion. That's an ancient example, of course. But people act from a set of beliefs. They pursue their passions according to a set of convictions. They rarely act alone or without motive. As things stand at present (and as they have been for many decades) many wicked acts have been perpetrated in the name of the various religions. Religion not only allows people to act on ideas that are without an evidential base, it actively encourages a mindset that praises belief without evidence. Faith is a matter of belief, not a quality arising from analysis and evidence. To promote such ideas is to give the ignorant, the superstitious, the gullible and the oppressed what amounts to approval to believe in anything they wish to believe in. It is an encouragement to the mad, bad and dangerous to acts of wickedness in the name of whatever deity they claim to follow.
Unless we remove the 'special status' that religion has garnered we cannot properly discuss these issues. And, if we are prevented from free discussion, the people who abuse this special status will continue to hide behind their defensive wall and throw bombs at others.
As you say, getting rid of religion is unlikely to be possible: it's clearly a common human need. But removing its ability to exist without fear of question and analysis, without fear of proper debate, places it into a dangerous position where it is open to abuse by those who seek power. Of course it is people who perpetrate acts of either good or evil, but they do these things as the result of being exposed to certain ideas. When those ideas are enclosed within a wall of protective silence, they become suspect and open to abuse, as has been proven time and again by the events of history.
Mick, it's certainly true, in this country, that we can discuss religion without fear of being put to death. Not so in certain regimes around the world, however. I understand that the discussion of religion is always a difficult enterprise, which is why I posted this. My point is that it should not be difficult. It has to be brought out into the open and removed from the false protection it has built for itself over the centuries. We cannot properly discuss the issues, as you have said, because of the underlying problems of prejudice, alienation, irrational passion and fear. It is religion's false claim to 'special status' that is the problem. It stifles debate and prevents the discussion of its validity and purpose. Religion is, after all, nothing more than an idea, like those that support politics, philosophy and other belief systems. But religion has built itself a protective cage, largely based on fear, to make the proper discussion of its merits and faults almost impossible, It is that cage I want to demolish, not religion itself, which is clearly a basic human need for many.
I don't normally reply to posts involving religion because it's such a minefield of a topic, but felt like I needed to chime in here.
Frankly, I feel like religion gets a bad rap these days. And I don't mean a particular religion, it's all of them. In the news, internet, media, etc. Evangelical Christians are to blame for X, Muslims are to blame for Y.
Let's face it, religion has nothing to do with the problems in our world, people do. There are ten times as many amazing Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists, Agnostics, and all the other religions as there are bad people in those religions. But it's the bad people, as well as their "faith", that make all the headlines.
People do bad things. Occasionally people do bad things in the name of their faith… even when most often those actions are in direct conflict. That's a choice they've made, not their religion. In those cases, religion just becomes an excuse for a terrible act they've already decided to do. Just like you mentioned, religious texts can be read in a thousand different ways. Good, bad, ugly, people find in them what they're looking for.
Getting rid of religion (if that were possible) wouldn't change things, it would just change the excuses afterwards.
As the bumper sticker reads – "TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND SCIENCE? TRY RELIGION!"
Agree with everything you said Stuart.
Well, I know you've read my thoughts on this before, Stuart, but lets put this up and see what people think. I agree that we should be absolutely free to debate the meanings and consequences of all religions, but I do not agree that we should be free to insult them. Whether ridicule counts as insulting, would, I suppose, depend on how it is put. One reason that insulting any particular religion is foolish, is that you trample on people's sensibilities and beliefs, and no amount of legislation can prevent them from feeling aggrieved and insulted. This is one reason why some would then seek to take revenge for these perceived insults (e.g. the Charlie Hebdo attacks). Equally, you are treating them with a lack of respect. Many people believe these things without wishing to force them on others.
Obviously, we can have no real influence on the laws in most countries foreign to us, so those ones that do make it a crime to challenge a state religion will continue to do that regardless of what we think. But, more importantly, there are no laws that I am aware of that prevent us questioning these things in, for example, England. If we do it in a sensible and sober way, we are not going to risk invoking any 'incitement to hatred' laws. I am free to point out what I may perceive as discrepancies or impossibilities, for example, in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Wicca or anything else that I care to challenge, just as long as I keep my language moderate. And I think that, on balance, this is about right. Or at least as right as is practical.


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Here are today's Christmas tree ornaments:
Above left: For 1994, the (very heavy!) ceramic, church-shaped stable is hinged, so it can open up to reveal the Nativity scene. Baby Jesus is in a water-filled glass ball on one side and the onlookers are on the other side, reunited only when the stable is closed up. Purchased from David Jones' city store. The little raccoon inspects a bag of Christmas gifts. This cute little ornament was purchased from Grace Bros. in Roselands.
Above right: For 1993, this decoration celebrated that year's big animation movie, Disney's "Aladdin". When a cord is pulled, Genie raises his arms. From Grace Bros. in Roselands. The silver plastic Tin Woodsman, from "The Wizard of Oz" was found in a local "Two Dollar Shop" and was good timing, since there was a great stage show version doing the rounds at the time.
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Rule of Thumb
The Rule of Thumb is a signaling system of evaluation and approval. It works as follows:
|This gesture indicates that the item subjected to the Rule is granted approval.
|Conversely, a downward pointing of the thumb indicates disapproval.
It is the key to the smooth functioning of industry's assembly lines.
Recent scholarship has focused on the basis of the Rule of Thumb, a "British Common Law ... [which] authorized a husband to 'chastise his wife with ... a rod not thicker than his thumb.'"[1] Case law in America, based on the British tradition, stipulates that a man jam his thumb up a woman's bodily orifice of his choosing if she forgets to cook him dinner on time, or speaks to him without first being spoken to. Of course, legislation in your state may override this interpretation, so it's always best to check around first.
Case law in Louisiana is based on Napoleonic law, in which husbands are encouraged to chastise their wives with rods not thinner than the thumb. Islam's Sharia law permits men to pwn women so completely that beatings are seldom necessary.
- ↑ The fact that it refutes it completely is beyond the scope of this article.
The Roman Empire[edit]
The Rule of Thumb was used much further back in time than its current instance. Roman emperors, viewing the gladiators in the arena, used to use a Rule of Thumb of their own.
|Meant that the event was worth the price of admission and the combatant could fight again.
|Meant that technique needed to be improved, for which there would be plenty of time to practice, in the afterlife.
What was called the pollice verso in Latin was eventually banned by the early Christian church, which viewed the thumb gesture as a relic of pagan games. They replaced the Rule of Thumb with the "Rule of God," but its memory lingered on amongst the unsophisticated for the the next 1300 years.
The Interstate Highway System[edit]
The nation's magnificent system of Defense Highways was built on the unfortunate assumption that everyone had access to a vehicle. President Obama understood that the rich had commandeered most of the vehicles, and all of the really comfortable ones, nearly always by stealing them from the poor. Less well publicized than his rhetoric on wealth, he remarked in Toledo, Ohio to a cab driver named José that, "You've got enough mobility and it will be better for you if I spread it around."
Traditionally, this was achieved, willy-nilly, through the system of Hitch-hiking, where a person indicates his desire to be somewhere else with the Rule of Thumb. This Rule has the thumb pointed either upward, downward, or sideways. Fortunately, it does not matter how the thumb is pointed, as most hitch-hikers are no more inclined to follow such a Rule than they are to make car payments. The thumb usually just hangs there until someone pulls over.
Near Page 2243 of the new health care reform is language that creates the National Ride Choices Administration. It removes the stigma of hitch-hiking by having unaccountable bureaucrats decide whether that frivolous trip to take young Brittany and Bottany to tap-dancing practice is really more important than a Mexican getting to the job site to work under-the-table. Predictably, Sarah Palin and other right-wingers have ridiculed this new board as a "stranding panel."
Recent controversies[edit]
- Stumpy v. Winchester
In 2005, the town of Winchester, New Hampshire called for a vote in Town Meeting using the Rule of Thumb (show of hands). However two handless residents were unable to participate. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) required that the Town make "reasonable accommodation" for the voters' disabilities, and the Moderator allowed them to cast their vote by raising either foot. However, one thereby lost his balance and sustained major injuries, over which he sued the town.
The New Hampshire supreme court ruled that the Rule of Thumb may be discriminatory but is also vital to the democracy and freedom that the nation prides itself on.
The case was not appealed through the federal system, but is considered to be a nationwide precedent, as comparably stupid things simply do not happen elsewhere.
- Iraq
In 2004, the nation of Iraq proudly celebrated democratic voting for the first time in 5000 years — and promptly discovered that everyone on the ballot was a liar, a fence-straddler, or one of Saddam Hussein's clique who wanted to take the country back to the old ways.
Despite $740 million from the United States to buy computers, the emerging democracy decided to keep track of who did and didn't vote by pressing the thumbs of voters onto a purple ink pad. Citizens who could not bear to vote sought ways to discolor their thumbs to pretend that they had. The resulting techniques, while thoroughly disgusting, show the tremendous innovation that Iraqis will bring to future challenges under Democracy.


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Christina Taylor Green might well have made the world a better place someday. According to reports, Christina had just been elected to her elementary school's Student Council. Her neighbor brought her along to Rep. Gifford's community event in the corner Safeway parking lot. He thought it would be of interest to this young, budding public servant.
Nine years old, a ballerina, a ball-player, a student councilmember and a beloved daughter, Christina Taylor Green was felled by a would-be assasin's bullet.
Tragedies do happen. Innocent people, even children, are caught in cross hairs every day in this country. But these were no ordinary cross hairs. These cross hairs appeared on the website of an immensely high-profile political leader, indeed that of a former U.S. Vice-presidential Candidate. Tea Party Spokesperson Sarah Palin. This map targeted, with the cross hairs of a gun barrel, Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). And to reinforce this map of "targets," Palin tweeted to conservatives last year "Don't Retreat...Reload."
These cross hairs hung in the air when 2010 Congressional-candidate Sharon Angle, another Tea Party favorite, said in an interview that people should exercise their Second Amendment Remedies.
These crosshairs were present at a campaign stunt which Gabby Giffords' Tea Party-backed Congressional opponent Jesse Kelly. Kelly's campaign event website posted a photo of him in his Marine uniform holding his gun, advertising a target shooting event: "Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly."
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Palin, Angle, Kelly and the Tea Party neither pulled the trigger nor can be said to be responsible for the shootings. They have rightly decried the violence. The suspected shooter, Jared Lee Laughner's internet rants seem to indicate mental instability and radical right-wing delusions. But so far there is no indication that he believes he was following instructions from any particular public figures.
No, they are not "behind the shootings." But neither have they acknowledged the dangerous potential of their violent rhetoric. They have not repudiated their remarks or election tactics. They are not personally to blame for the tragedy. But can anyone say that they bear no responsibility for creating the cross hairs in which 18 innocent people were caught?
Pima County Arizona's Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said in the Press Conference following the shooting, "People tend to pooh-pooh this business about the vitriol that inflames American public opinion by the people who make a living off of that. That may be free speech but it's not without consequences."
So, no. These were no ordinary cross hairs. And in them a well-loved public servant, Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot through the brain. Six people were killed. Thirteen more were injured. And Christina, a child embarking on her own mission of public citizenship in her school, was caught in them and brutally murdered.
Incendiary rhetoric has ballooned in the past two years and has crafted the cruelest of cross hairs. This climate of hate threatens us all.


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Kentico CMS is extremely powerful when it comes to controlling the URL of a website. Right out of the box, you get the power of aliasing whatever URL you want to whatever document or resource you have in the content tree.
Heck since Kentico 4.x you can even mask/change the extension or just get rid of it all together, to get more control of your site's URLs.
I can't stress enough how beneficial this feature is when it comes to creating SEO friendly links, maintaining out of date website paths/structure, or just making it easier on your visitors to reach the pages that they need to get to.
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Way back when developers didn't do much to make the URL SEO or user friendly, you would have a typical URL like these:
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Google and other search engines see this only as one URL, …/chips.aspx, which doesn't do us very good.
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Ken Rosenthal says the deal is 7/160.
According to a person familiar with the deal, the Yankees spoke to Sabathia and his agent in recent days about structuring the deal to allow Sabathia to opt out after the first two or three years, in case it turns out he really doesn't like New York.Elsewhere, the Yankees are discussing a 4/66 deal with Derek Lowe and preparing a 4/64 offer to A.J. Burnett. ... Lowe (16.5 per year! wtf?) pitching with that infield behind him? Please, make it so!


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Even two of the world's most famous Hollywood A-listers can be intimidated when they meet a brand new co-star. Especially when the co-star in question is nearly nine feet tall and weighs 9,000 lbs.
Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson admit to being a bit overwhelmed when they first encountered Tai, the 42-year-old Asian elephant who plays Rosie, the seemingly untrainable circus pachyderm in their new film "Water For Elephants," director Francis Lawrence's adaptation of Sara Gruen's bestselling novel.
"Francis and I went out and visited Tai probably three or four months before shooting and he brought a camera," recalls Witherspoon, whose character performs stunts under the big top with her prodigious partner. "I was like 'I wonder why he's bringing a camera?' And then he took pictures of me of every moment of the first experiences I had of meeting her, and then her picking me up. And then he sent me the pictures and I was like 'Oh my gosh!' So I really had this memory of the first time. I was terrified. I screamed. I like animals but this was a completely unique experience."
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Pattinson, however, was more awestruck than fearful at first. "I don't think I was scared at all," he says. "There was only one moment when we first saw the whole pack of elephants, the herd together, and Gary, Tai's trainer, said 'Sit!' – literally as if you were talking to a dog – and she sat down in exactly the same way a dog would. And just seeing that – I mean, it's totally incomprehensible when you see it. I basically decided to do the movie at that point. I hadn't read the script or anything. It's very powerful, thinking that you can have a relationship with these huge beasts."
Pattinson's no stranger to addressing rumors about his romantic life, and he takes great pains to clarify the true nature of his relationship with Tai following frequent reports that the two were quite smitten with each other.
"This is insane – I don't know who started this thing!" he laughs. "It sounds really disturbing. It's like you've been flirting with the elephant. I think I had a relationship with the elephant and it was based purely on candy. I strategically placed mints – like I'd suck a peppermint for a minute and then stick it onto my body, under my armpits, covering my entire chest – all the time and not tell anyone. So every single time the elephant would be constantly sniffing me and I'd be like "I don't know, she just really likes me. It's crazy." I think she was just sniffing around for the treats."
Witherspoon and Pattinson also address their own on-screen chemistry in the film, which was achieved with a little off-screen aid – she's 5'2" and he's 6'1". "What's it like to kiss a tall guy?" says Witherspoon. "In the movies, they put you on a box and then you can kiss the taller guy!"
It was simpler for Pattinson, he admits. "I've got quite bad posture and she's the perfect height. I've got a big, heavy head so I just slump down and she's in the right spot naturally."
Witherspoon also admits that, after an extensive regimen of acrobatic and gymnastic training, she didn't resist donning Marlena's various sparkly but skin-baring '30s circus costumes. "I was training a lot, riding the elephant and riding horses," she says. "I've made a conscious effort all my career to not end up in a bathing suit in a movie, and here I was in this movie wearing a leotard in the majority of it. It was horrifying! But it was inspiring to have Jacqueline West designing them and they're beautiful. It was a different time when women loved their curves and enjoyed being voluptuous and all that sort of thing. All the costumes I think are very flattering for women in the film."
Pattinson's Depression Era wardrobe items aided him as well, even if they went unseen. "Authentic period underpants do actually help!" he reveals. "I actually wore them every single day. Jacqueline West's costumes were unbelievable, some of the stuff. Almost everything was real. Every pair of jeans everyone had, those were all from the 20s and 30s. It's crazy."


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How to Start Your Own Compost
"As well as helping your plants flourish, composting is a great way to reduce your kitchen waste and use up all those weeds and other garden materials."
Summer is the perfect time to start a new garden, or make your current garden even more awesome. No matter what your level of gardening expertise, you can start your own compost to enrich your soil and help your plants grow to their greatest potential. Even Bill Yosses, the White House executive pastry chef, is tossing fruit scraps from the White House kitchen into a "biocycler," a three-part composting system that's part of Michelle Obama's Kitchen Garden project.
Composting is the process of combining kitchen scraps, dry material from your yard, and other organic matter (including soil) into a big pile—and then letting it sit, stirring occasionally. The compost pile becomes very hot internally as microorganisms work to decompose the organic matter. After a time span of four weeks to a few months, the compost has turned into a uniform, soil-like compound. This is called humus, and it can do wonders for your plants.
As the organic matter is breaking down, minerals and nutrients are being concentrated into a super-soil that you can add to your garden beds. You can even grow plants directly in your compost pile, but often the compost is put to best use when spread around for maximum plant exposure. As well as helping your plants flourish, composting is a great way to reduce your kitchen waste and use up all those weeds and other garden materials.
Now that we have the basics down, let's build a compost pile.
What Kind of Container
While you can just heap your compost in the backyard, most people will build the pile in some sort of container to keep things orderly and more aesthetically pleasing. If you use a container, pick one that's at least 3x3x3. It's best if there are holes or slats on the top and sides to aerate the pile. Make sure you can reach over the top of your container, to stir the compost and access the mature compost at the bottom.
What Goes Inside?
So, what do you put in your compost pile? The basic components of any compost, however, are "brown" and "green" materials. Brown materials include things like dead leaves, twigs, and branches. Green material includes vegetables scraps, live plants like weeds, and fruit peels. There are differing opinions on what order you should add the ingredients to your compost recipe. But at the most basic level, you can throw down a bunch of brown material, add a little water to keep things moist, and then start adding soil and green materials.
What Does NOT Go Inside?
There are certain things that you should not add to your compost pile. For instance, diseased plants are a no-no. It's generally a good idea to limit the amount of animal fat or grease you're adding. Dairy is a bad idea—it can rot and give off an odor, or attract rodents.
And if you do add paper, try not to add paper that's been printed on with non-soy-based ink. Basically, apart from dairy, if you wouldn't want to put something in your mouth, don't put it in your compost.
How to Speed Up the Process
Your composting process can be accelerated by stirring the compost to ensure even decomposition. If you keep a regular eye on your pile, you can have mature compost in as few as four weeks. Take a more hands-off approach, and it may take a few weeks longer. But either way, your plants will be happy when the process is complete!
For more information on how to compost, the United States Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency have good starting guides!
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Shale gas industry expected to have huge impact on US economy
According to a study by international consulting firm, IHS Global Insight, the natural "shale gale" that started in the Barnett Shale is having "profound economic impacts" on the US economy.
It was helping create jobs, reduce consumer costs for natural gas and electricity and escalate federal, state and local tax revenues, the study added.
Shale gas which now accounts for 34 % of US natural gas production is expected to account for 43 % by 2015 and 60 % by 2035, the firm says.
According to the study, shale gas development contributed $ 76.9 bn to the US economic output in 2010, and would add $ 118.2 bn in 2015 and $ 231.1 bn in 2035. In 2010, the shale gas industry supported 600,000 jobs and the numbers were likely to grow to nearly 870,000 by 2015 rising to 1.6 mm-plus by 2035.
Savings from lower natural gas prices, as well as associated lower prices for other consumer purchases, would add an average $ 926 in disposable income per household annually from 2012 to 2015 and over $ 2,000 annually by 2035. Jobs in the shale gas industry and related fields paid higher wages -- an average $ 23.16 per hour -- than those in manufacturing, transportation and education.
Though the study was commissioned by industry group America's Natural Gas Alliance, according to IHS it made an "independent assessment" and was "exclusively responsible" for all the study's analysis and conclusions.
The extraction of shale gas is done by a process of hydraulic fracturing, a process in which of gallons of chemically treated water and sand are pumped underground, to release trapped gas by breaking up rock. According to environmental groups, the process also called fracking, had tainted drinking water in states such as Pennsylvania, where 4,100 wells had been drilled.
Food and Water Watch, which is pushing for a ban on fracking, said IHS had failed to provide a detailed methodology, making it impossible to validate the projections. The report also ignored potential job losses, it added.
According to critics of the study, payments to landowners seemed to have been charged as capital expenditure by the gas industry for creating direct jobs. They point out that lease and royalty payments did not create direct jobs and did not lead to any indirect jobs.
Emily Wurth, water policy director for the Washington-based Food and Water Watch, said that it had found in a November report that projections for the number of shale-industry jobs in New York had led to a ''gross exaggeration'' of the gains. According to Wurth very few people had analysed the reports which was unfortunate as a lot of elected official took the studies as factually based.


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What could they be? Where could they be? Overseas?
Nope. They're here. They're everywhere. They're in all fifty states. My state, Idaho, has at least one, up in Boundary County, and a really big one is reportedly being set up right now, near Boise. 30,000 acres. The land inside these foreign trade zones is no longer American land. It's sovereign foreign territory.
I called the Boundary County Commissioner's office up north to get some official version, because a commissioner there named Ronald Smith is the contact man for FTZ 242. The reader can do the same thing in his or her FTZ.
Most of the top Fortune 100 companies are in these zones, even though they're "American."
Here's some Ray Bradbury-style material from FTZ 9, in Hawaii:
Really, it's like something out of FARENHEIT 451.
Here's the information many of us received yesterday, edited somewhat:
"This is an urgent message! Read this and spread the word! Subject: Foreign Trade Zones. This is unbelievable at first, but you will soon realize that there are several motives for the global communists to physically weave our United States territory together with communist China. Read On! Here's what is going on!
Each and every one of our state governors has approved and allocated a certain amount of acres of their U.S. state land to be inhabited by Chinese communists –communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here, supposedly for the purpose of producing Chinese products for sale in the U.S.A. The land the states are giving them for their little towns will be considered "foreign territory"!!! We are told that the laws of the state (in which these Chinese communists dwell) will apply to the communist Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). Comment: If so, why are they allowed in here!??! Isn't the whole set up unlawful??? There are 257 of these little communist towns to be built all over the United States. Go to this website and see the list of the states, and how many FTZ's are to be erected in each and every state! Our nation is being peppered all over with these communist closed towns called "zones"! This insane brainstorm by Washington, D.C. officials was just recently discovered by alert citizens in the State of Idaho, where an FTZ is being built there, just south of Boise, Idaho, possibly 30,000 acres of Idaho is going to be used for that FTZ. Check this site quickly before it is removed.
When you get to this website, be prepared by having enough paper to print 40 pages, listing all the FTZ's to be built over the whole United States! 257 of these FTZ's! It is absolute insanity!! How gullible are we??? The excuse given for creating communist towns all over our nation is that these Chinese people will produce products for sale in the United States, and the FTZ will eliminate overseas shipping costs of the products they create! A bizarre excuse!!! Can't we manufacture our own products anymore with American workers? How foolish are we to allow this??? Remember the hard-learned lesson taught to gullible people back in ancient times, when the Trojan Horse was built and they pulled it past their protective gates??? Do we Americans look THAT STUPID to the Chinese and to our Washington,D.C. leaders???
It will not mean jobs for Americans. All the help will be Chinese! Besides, it is to be classed as "foreign territory", remember! You won't know what is really going on inside the enclave. Is there any danger for Americans to allow this? What do you think?"
The reader may have noticed that the things I write about usually have to do with some sort of revisionist history. My usual purpose is to put a different slant on what happened to justify the drastic sort of action I'm known for advocating. I generally don't write about really current things because I'm kind of a slow learner and I want to try to understand what actually happened before I comment on it, especially if I'm suggesting drastic action because of it. For example, Gordon Duff was able to look at Wiki-leaks and identify it as an intelligence deception back in October, which still amazes me. If it weren't for his provocative and extremely accurate warnings, I would still be in the dark.
But this Foreign Trade Zone business is so bad that even I can comment without having to think about it too much. I don't claim yet to understand it but there's no denying it exists. Just do a search on Foreign Trade Zones and see what you get. I'm not sure about the Chinese part.
Now, not to be hypocritical, but this is kind of what I was trying to do back in '71, when I was sent to British Honduras, South Africa and Rhodesia, to set up a trade zone that was exempt from taxes. The idea was to bring productive people to the new country, a free port, who would improve people's lives through trade and increased employment and allow Americans and others to escape the punitive taxation that was robbing them blind and putting them out of business.
This thing, however, is different. What they admit to is that corporations producing whatever they produce can manufacture and export products tax-free, but if the products made in the FTZs are sold in the US, taxes are paid! By us! It's like a reverse tariff! Americans are punished for being Americans but foreigners get a free ride. And "American" corporations get a free ride. This article claims that all the workers in the FTZs are going to be Chinese, which I find hard to believe. That remains to be seen, and I will find out from Mr. Smith up north about that.
One thing is pretty clear from all the official literature online and that is the FTZs are autonomous territories, exempt from CBP, which is Customs and Border Protection. That means they've got their own police forces, their own laws. If foreigners ARE brought in to do the work, no matter where they're from, these FTZs will become, sooner or later, swollen with low-paid workers from who knows where, resembling the maquiladora factories along the Mexican border. Here's what that means:
A maquiladora or maquila is a concept often referred to an operation that involves manufacturing in a country that is not the client's and as such has an interesting duty or tariff treatment. It normally requires a factory, that may import materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then "re-exports" the assembled or manufactured product, sometimes back to the originating country. A maquila is also referred to as a "twin plant", or "in-bond" industry. The principal examples of this sort of operation occur in Latin America, but also occurs in other countries in the world, that have adequate legislation. Currently about 1.3 million Mexicans are employed in maquiladoras.
A maquiladora is an FTZ. So that's what this is, 257 maquiladoras in all fifty states. They're designed to make the corporation a lot of money by employing poor people and keeping them poor. Kind of like Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is Red China's main outlet for slave-made goods.
The purpose of World War II in the Pacific, it turns out, was exactly what we have today. The Council on Foreign Relations wanted Mao Tse-Tung to become the leader of China. Japan interfered with this plan by invading and occupying Manchuria in the 1930s, and by occupying much of China itself. So Japan had to be destroyed and prevented from ever interfering with the Rothschild/Rockefeller plan to communize China and turn it into the perfect industrial slave state.
The CFR supported the anti-Communist Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek through the war, but kept demanding that Chiang join forces with his deadly enemies, the Communists. At war's end, Chiang's forces were disarmed by George Marshall and all the captured Japanese weapons were given to the Communists. Defenseless against the heavily armed Reds, the Nationalists were forced out of China to the island of Formosa, which became Taiwan.
On the mainland, the Communists, agents of the Council on Foreign Relations, began slaughtering their own people, people whom Communists called landlords, exploiters and whom we would call "middle-class." People who had gone to school beyond the 2nd grade. The US Congress reported in 1964 that Mao Tse-Tung had murdered 64,000,000 Chinese. The survivors were mind-controlled zombies, paralyzed by twenty years of state terror. Eight years later, the CFR sent its agent, President Richard Nixon, to Beijing to toast Mao Tse-Tung and signal US corporations that it was time to begin the transfer of American industry to China.
Wal-Mart is the end product of America's war in the Pacific and the CFR's population reduction program in China.
Anyway, here's what I've discovered about our own FTZ 242, which again, is located up on the Canadian border around Eastport, Idaho. However, FTZ 242 is spreading out! As you can see in this website
there is Order No. 1640…
Order No. 1640, August 5, 2009 (Docket 53-2008)
Approved, with restrictions, the application of Boundary County, Idaho, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 242, to establish Subzone 242A at the manufacturing facility of Hoku Materials, Inc. in Pocatello, Idaho. Signed by Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate Chairman of the Board (74 F.R. 41382; August 17, 2009).
That is, there's a new Hoku factory in Pocatello, down here in the southern part of the state, that manufactures polysilicon for use in solar panels. This polysilicon is mined here and manufactured here but shipped to China for the manufacture of solar panels to be sold through Hoku in Hawaii. Hoku is owned by BaodingTianwei Group in China.
So, even though the Foreign Trade Zone 242 is way up north on the Canadian line, this polysilicon factory here in Pocatello is ALSO Foreign Trade Sub-Zone 242A, also considered foreign, sovereign territory. The material is, again, sent out of the country for the profit of the Communist Party of China .
Mr. Smith has not returned my calls to his office in Boundary County but I did get some preliminary information from his office staff, who say they do not know how big FTZ 242 is but that nothing much is going on up there. No, what's going on is happening down here in Subzone 242A, at the Hoku plant in Pocatello, for now.
And this is just one of 257 FTZs in this country.
It has been reported for years that the Chinese Army has a plan to wipe out Americans and bring Chinese soldiers and slave workers to this country and take it over. Nothing we're now seeing with these outrageous Foreign Trade Zones makes me think that this "wild rumor" is so wild. I can't say that the report yesterday that prompted this hasty investigation is true with regard to all FTZs being Chinese. But the one here in Idaho definitely is.


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It's heartbreaking to hear from boys who acknowledge that how they often act is sexist, chauvenist, and disrespectful of girls/women. And then acknowledge that they will probably return to school and continue to act that way. Because it is so engrained in who they are and how they move through the world. Literally, gender norms have bound them and are a stronger force in determining their behavior than any of their thoughtful self-reflections.
Chasnoff explained that she made the film out of a desire to shed light on the homophobia that is latent throughout society and that so powerfully shapes many of the gendered norms that many of us take for granted. I appreciated her pointing the finger at homophobia as a root source here. The connection is so clear, yet I think it often goes unspoken.
This film is winging its way around the country. See it. Bring friends. I think that it can play a huge role in loosening the grip that gendered norms have on all of us.


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It is unclear whether Monday's vote means the controversy will advance to a state administrative law judge, an appeals court or federal court.
On Thursday the DHEC board approved the compromise conditions that had been presented to them by DHEC agency staff as part of the ongoing effort to deepen the Savannah River from 42 feet to 48 as part of the Savannah harbor deepening project. The environmental board's action came after the staff had recommended on Sept. 30 that the Corps' request be denied.
The compromise agreement must be signed by environmental board chairman Allen Amsler by 5 p.m. Tuesday or the corps would get the permit by default. The agency's staff drafted the agreement and planed to have him sign it Tuesday.
Mike McShane, former chairman of South Carolina's Department of Natural Resources board, told the river commission Monday the Savannah River is "already a river under stress."
He called a proposed oxygen-injection system designed to counteract damage to the river "speculative technology" and said, "It's not measurably going to help the dissolved oxygen levels in its current state, much less with (proposed) additional depth."
He said Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline adds urgency to the situation.
As for Thursday's concession by Georgia to preserve an additional 1,500 acres of marshland to offset habitat that will be affected by the dredging, McShane said a number of concerns remain about how that would be done.
He also pointed to DHEC's deferral to the National Marine Fisheries' declaration that the deepening project would not harm the shortnose sturgeon.
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Exclusivo: Esta es la Typogami
Te lo habíamos prometido y hoy cumplimos. En las redes explotó una tipografía basada en el viejo arte japonés de doblar papeles. Se llama Typogami y es una font animada que creó el diseñador o holandés Jeroen Krielaars, del estudio Calango. Está realizada en After Effects. A continuación, una breve charla con su creador, exclusivo para Visualmente.
1. How did you decide to make a typeface based on origami?
I always draw a lot of inspiration from Japanese culture. I did some tactile typography with origami once. After the success of Moshun I decided to combine the idea of origami and kirigami with animated typography.
2. How was the creative process? He worked with pencil and paper?
I used some pen and paper for the first sketches, but I quickly moved to illustrator and after effects to create the typeface. It was all very clear in my head from the start, so I could move straight into production.
3. Long did it take to finish?
It took about a week from the first sketches to the end result. I already figured out how to ste everthing up during the production of moshun.
4. What you think would be best to use?
It could work really wel for titles and stuff like that. But in the end, it all depends on the users creativity.
5. What is the best letter finished?
Not sure. I like the letter B myself.
6. How did you decide that you can customize?
The typeface is meant for motion designers to use. As a motion designer myself, I know I like to have some freedom to make things my own. It would not be any fun if every project with Typogami looks the same.
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