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magpie, common name for certain birds of the family Corvidae (crows and jays). The black-billed magpie, Pica pica, of W North America has iridescent black plumage, white wing patches and abdomen, and a long wedge-shaped tail. It is altogether about 20 in. (50 cm) long. Magpies build large, domed nests in trees. Nest-building is part of courtship. The female alone incubates the eggs. Magpies destroy other birds' eggs and young, and kill sickly, wounded, or newborn sheep and cows by pecking. They are scavengers, but they also eat harmful insects as well as fruits, berries, and leaves. Their reputation for collecting small, bright objects may be undeserved. Noisy, chattering birds, in captivity they can be taught to imitate some words. The yellow-billed magpie is found in the valleys of California. The European magpie is closely related to the American; other species are found in Asia and Africa. The magpie-lark belongs to a different family, Grallinidae. Magpies are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Corvidae.
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Shop Talk
Life in the Project Labs.
By Kathryn LoConte
Photographs by John Sherman
The air smells tinny. Machines hum and drone. Students wearing protective goggles weave their way among lathes and drills. Though the sights and sounds may seem familiar, this is no mere machine shop.
For decades Thayer's machine shop has taught students how to manufacture products. Today the shop is one component in a sophisticated suite of project labs where students take ideas from sketch to prototype.
"The historical mission of the shop was to provide a useful skill set for practicing engineers," says machine shop manager and instructor Kevin Baron. "The value of the workshop goes far beyond that these days. Students experience the 'doing' side of an engineering education. Every step in the manufacturing progression exposes them to important engineering considerations across a wide range of disciplines."
"A variety of hands-on experiences is critical to the education of an engineer, and the machine shop provides one side of that," says Professor Chris Levey, Director of Instructional Laboratories.
Keeping pace with industry advances in design and fabrication, Thayer's project labs and machine shop offer an array of modern materials, techniques, and resources — including rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, laser scanning, digitizing, plastic injection molding, thermoforming, and vacuum casting for silicon molds.
"These additions bump up the level and the variety of what we do dramatically," says Professor Laura Ray, who teaches ENGS 76: Machine Engineering and ENGS 146: Computer-Aided Mechanical Engineering Design.
The design and fabrication experience is integral to how Thayer educates engineers. "It gives them a connection between the classroom and the real world," says Ray. "Granted, when they go out into the workforce, they're not going to be machinists, but just to be able to understand how a machinist looks at things is so valuable."
"At every level in the workplace you get this conflict of people who have fantastic ideas but no concept of how that idea can be carried through," says machine shop instructor Leonard Parker. "But the student who leaves Thayer has built something, designed something, and carried it through to completion."
Unlike most other engineering schools, Thayer School makes these resources available to students at all levels, even non-majors. In a case of less is more, Thayer's compact size enables the personal attention that is essential for a hands-on, project-centered curriculum. "You can't run this kind of program in a school that has 5,000 engineers," says Baron.
"Most engineering schools have just a few machines run by technicians," says instructor Pete Fontaine. "Here, the students run most of the machines for themselves, and we teach them how to do what they want to do."
"Our focus is on instruction rather than simply fabricating parts to specification," says Levey. "We engage students in the entire process."
The machine shop experience ensures that education is more than the sum of parts. "We live in a world of such abundance that we forget that we stand on the shoulders of generations of engineers. The most common products — like door hinges, doorknobs, or locks — have had hundreds of years of development. It's hard to make a door that closes right, but you think it's easy because there are doors everywhere," says Baron. "The work of our machine shop is to close the gap between imagination and skill."
In the world of product development there is always a first step. For most students that first step takes place down the hall from the machine shop in the Couch Project Design Lab.
"Students need to toy with their ideas and develop an understanding of how mechanisms work," says Levey. "And that's what the Couch Lab is ideal for."
Spacious enough for project teams to spread out their work, Couch acts as a kind of home base for students throughout the iterative product development process. Most importantly, says Baron, "the room is configured with friendly materials — foam core, Popsicle sticks, wood, and paper — so students can cobble together the sort of design mechanism they want to throw their weight behind."
Getting started is trickier than some students expect. They quickly learn that they can't jump from the Couch Lab to the machine shop with half-baked ideas.
"Students have to realize they can't just hold their hands up and say they want something this long and this wide," says Parker, gesticulating with his arms. "They need to translate it for us because we don't know what they have in mind."
"The biggest challenge for some of them is just to be able to write their ideas down on a piece of paper and develop a print," says machine shop instructor Mike Ibey. "They discover that dimensioning and math and the sequencing of events are important. Some of them are dealing with real world considerations for the first time."
THE ITERATIVE PROCESS: "Product development is not a serial process that moves in lockstep from project room to design studio to machine shop. The process is collaborative, concurrent, interdisciplinary, and iterative," says Kevin Baron. "Students like to work serially, but the best designs result when students are willing to start over and over again."
The next step in the product development process brings students into the CAD labs, where they use Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, and other computer-aided design software to create precise drawings of their project components. In this step of the process, young engineers come to an important realization.
"Engineering drawings are really the communication tool for engineers concerning their ideas," says Levey. "If you want to communicate a physical design, you need to be able to draw it."
Traditionally, product designs were limited to what engineers could readily draw, says Levey. "A decade ago, most electronic products, such as computers, were very boxy, defined by shapes easy to represent in a CAD program. The diverse curved shapes of products today provide more functionality and better aesthetics, but also require more sophisticated design tools," he says.
Evolving design tools continue to open new worlds for students. "Students can build things on the rapid prototypers that they could not physically manufacture in real life," says Fontaine. "And the shift in software over the years brings the engineering students more directly in line with what's out there in the real world. People design primarily on computers now. So it pays to know this equipment."
LAB EXPERIMENTS: "Our curriculum is heavily project oriented, and because projects have a physical reality, you need a way to produce them," says Chris Levey. "Most people think of labs as the sort of traditional chemistry lab, where you have experiments and write-ups, but we see labs in a much broader context. The machine shop is part of our overall lab domain. Projects are basically open-ended lab experiments."
The last piece of the puzzle is the oldest piece: the machine shop.
Students often walk through the shop's doors with big dreams that the instructors and students must work on together to complete. But students quickly find that they can't leave the hard work to the experts.
"When a student comes into the machine shop, the instructors don't just tell the student what to do," says Ray. "They listen and they sometimes turn things back to the student and tell them what they need to think about, rather than fixing it for them. The students really learn."
"Our role here is to help them get through their projects. Keep them down to earth a little bit. We try to intercede and say that they gotta think about something a little bit more, maybe change their plans," says Parker. "Sometimes I just stop and look at them and they'll go, 'What's wrong?' And I go, 'Oh nothing.' And they'll stop and go, 'What am I doing wrong?' "
Students also quickly find that project work takes time. "A common experience of students is to discover that it takes longer to make things that they thought," says Baron.
"I spent at least a hundred hours in the machine shop alone and another hundred on CAD," says ENGS 76 student Aaron Gjerde, a B.E. candidate. "Our design required amazing precision. I polished parts by hand because they needed to slide against each other."
But when deadlines loom, students may try to cut educational corners. "That's the dark side of project work," says Baron. "Students sometimes see the technical staff as obstacles to their progress because we're trying to make sure they do things right, and they just want to get their projects done.
"We want to make sure that there is real learning going on and that their process is sound. While doing is important, we need to make sure that it's a knowledgeable doing."
SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY: "We have a safety orientation for students where we show them how to handle the machines and all the weird ways they can get hurt," says Leonard Parker. "We want them to have fun but we don't want them to be so relaxed that they get injured. We emphasize safety, safety, safety. We tell them to count their fingers and toes when they come in and make sure they're still there when they leave."
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It's hard to write this without sounding like an ancient prude or an echo of the overheated, we're-in-danger-of-losing-our-mortal-souls! bombast of the often-reactionary Parents Television Council.
But let's step back for a moment, take a deep (not heavy) breath and make a humble suggestion to MTV executives: When your hot new show might be in danger of running afoul of child pornography laws, perhaps it's time for a larger reassessment of your mission.
The New York Times reports that MTV has directed the producers of "Skins," the new scripted show portraying teenagers run amok, to tone things down because of fears of breaking federal law. The paper cited a scene in an upcoming episode showing a 17-year-old boy naked from behind as among the concern-raising content.
The show, based on the British program of the same name, actually employs age-appropriate actors (the youngest is 15) – unlike TV's biggest high school-set show, "Glee," where some of the performers are old enough to have graduated medical school.
While "Glee" has plenty of hormonally charged raciness, it's couched in camp. "Skins" offers a far more stark and explicit portrayal of sex, drugs and lots of other things parents of teens wish didn't exist. Last week's premiere featured an exhibitionist MILF and a girl with an unfortunate nickname, which – like some of the dialogue – isn't repeatable here.
We're willing to accept that elements of the show are realistic, even if "Skins" isn't necessarily appropriate viewing for young teens (who, of course, are among the 3.3 million who saw last week's premiere episode and the many others watching online. The Times noted that the program set a debut-show record for viewership in MTV's prime 12 to 34 demographic).
"Skins," though, feels like it belongs on some other network – say, Cinemax. Unfortunately, the show marks another example of MTV's growing cynicism toward a youth culture that it once celebrated.
"Jersey Shore" seems to have been just the start of a headfirst dive (or Snooki ball drop) into a programming strategy largely based upon young people acting foolishly. We've reached the sad point where the real-life, walking, squawking ethnic stereotypes on "Jersey Shore" come off as more cartoonish than the fictional characters of "Skins."
It's all too easy for those us who remember MTV's debut nearly 30 years ago to romanticize a past where sexist videos in which guys and gals seemed to be in a big-hair competition ruled the day. But MTV was at least a place that offered the latest music videos, pop culture news and a sense that the real world (and even "The Real World," at least in the early years) wasn't a bleak place.
We're not calling for an MTV "Up With People" marathon, and aren't quite ready to declare, like the PTC, that "Skins" is "the most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children!" But using this opportunity to think about where MTV should go from here might be nice, along with a restoration of some balance. Perhaps a little more "Rock the Vote"– and a little less rocking of beach houses.
That might be too much to hope for, with Viacom, MTV's parent company, making big money off nonsense like "Jersey Shore," and, presumably, "Skins." But as they face concerns over crossing the line into kiddie porn, the MTV suits may soon have to decide whether "Skins," in the long run, is too much to bare.
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I don't think I quite believe we're actually doing this.
I'm planning awards we're going to win while my more realistic other half is thinking about escalating interest rates, I'm mind-mapping additional services when I should be thinking about selling my flat, and I'm planning long walks on the beach with a dog we don't have, before writing emails to solicitors who we've instructed to represent us.
Focusing on the stuff that's miles ahead is safe, it assumes a certain amount of 'rose coloured glasses' thinking, it also means I can put off doing what needs to be done right now, more importantly, it assumes that the business is already a success without any of the hard work that goes into the basics.
If I'm thinking about cream teas I'm not having to think about the possibility of this failing, if I'm contemplating packed lunches for walkers I'm not considering an empty house in March, and if I'm dreaming of a dog (name: Jasper Penworthy) then I don't have to fill in a load of Excel spreadsheets or think about a business plan. I am keeping reality a safe distance away (just how I like it).
Every few hours I start doing something practical and that's when the fear hits me. That's when I start worrying about public liability insurance, cooking breakfast that doesn't send guests heading for the nearest bathroom, health and safety regulations, accounting, mortgage repayments, and just about everything else. The big picture is terrifying!
I really need to start living the 'one step at a time' theory, rather than just paying the sentiment lip service.
What's the 'next' thing I have to do… and then do it. Then, and only then, do I allow myself the luxury of thinking about the next thing (and only the next thing). It's quite hard planning for the future and living in the moment at the same time; and, just for a change, I'm struggling with that balance.
How do Buddhist retreats manage their business plans? And is that a book someone's written, as I need to buy it.


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Ever since Intel debuted its second-gen Intel Core processors aka Sandy Bridge, the question on the lips of many enthusiasts has been the seemingly deliberate segregation between the two supporting chipsets - Intel P67 Express for those who require discrete graphics, and Intel H67 Express for those using the Intel HD Graphics that's present on every Sandy Bridge processor.
On the one hand, Intel was touting the benefits of the Quick Sync video transcoding feature on Sandy Bridge, sufficient it seems to challenge even the discrete solutions from NVIDIA and AMD. Unfortunately, the design of the P67 and H67 chipset meant that you can either have discrete graphics or Quick Sync respectively, but not both at the same time. On the Intel P67, there are no integrated display outputs and the Intel HD Graphics within the Sandy Bridge processor is basically dormant. With the Intel H67, you can enjoy the benefits of Quick Sync - only if you're using the integrated graphics. However for power users using discrete graphics on the H67 board, you would have to manually switch the display option in the BIOS (and the physical display cable) to use the integrated graphics option; it's just not very convenient for the end user.
Additionally, the Intel H67 chipset locked the overclocking capabilities of Intel's 'K' SKU Sandy Bridge processors though it allows integrated GPU clock tweaking. The Intel P67 meanwhile allows CPU overclocking through unlocked multipliers, but there was no way of using and overclocking the integrated GPU. Decisions and limitations are abound as end users can't get the best of both worlds.
Enter the Z68 chipset, which merges the two - it has display outputs like the H67 and the PCIe lane configuration to support dual SLI/CrossFireX (the H67 only supports a single discrete graphics card by default). It also allows users to tweak the CPU (unlocked multipliers) and the GPU (core and memory tweaking) from the BIOS. Throw in a new feature that Intel is calling Smart Response (but is in fact a way of allowing users to install a SSD as a cache for recently used applications and files), and the Z68 chipset looks like what Intel should have released months ago.
If that's not enough to tempt the enthusiasts, then there's Lucid's Virtu. Introduced originally as a technology to solve the limitations of the Intel P67/H67 chipsets, Lucid is now partners with Intel in disseminating this technology to selected H67 and Z68 motherboards. The ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, the first Z68 motherboard to land in our labs, comes with this software layer, which dynamically assigns the graphics workload according to performance and system load, just like NVIDIA Optimus. Hence for a task like browsing the web, Lucid's Virtu may decide that the integrated graphics is good enough, and switch off the discrete graphics card, saving some power.
Of course, this implies that everything will be going through the integrated display outputs on the motherboard, so one has to connect the physical display cable to the HDMI, DVI or VGA outputs on the Z68 board. Like Lucid's other more well-known software technology, Hydra, users will also have to install both discrete and integrated graphics before they can install the Virtu software driver.
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Tunisia has so far enjoyed the smoothest transition in the Arab Spring. But following the murder last week of an opposition political leader, the country's progress toward democracy has veered into crisis, thanks in part to squabbling among its new leaders.
Two years after the fall of its dictatorship, they are now competing against each other to get the country back on track, with political parties huddled in talks over how to replace a widely discredited government.
Even that sort of debate is a step forward from blustery identity politics that prevailed in the wake of revolution. But critics warn that much more work remains, while ordinary Tunisians fret increasingly over a flagging economy.
On one hand, Tunisia has become a political laboratory since protests helped topple former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, says Lilia Weslaty, a journalist and commentator for Nawaat, an award-winning political blog based in Tunis.
"But it's too early to say we're a democracy," she says. "The most we can say is that we're in a post-dictatorial phase."
Shouting matches
For some, Tunisia's new troubles mirror turmoil that wracked the country following Mr. Ben Ali's overthrow. Then, continued protests prompted cabinet reshuffles as interim leaders struggled to appease demonstrators intent on purging politics of his regime.
Veteran politician Béji Caid Essebsi is credited by many with steering Tunisia through a turbulent year as head of an interim government. Yet uncertainty coupled with the eurozone crisis dented tourism and investment, with real GDP growth shrinking by 1.8 percent in 2011 and unemployment rising to 19 percent.
Politics became largely a shouting match between the moderate Islamist Ennahda party and a host of secular parties over the role of religion in public life. But after sweeping October 2011 elections, Ennahda formed a coalition government with two secularist parties, seen as an experiment in powersharing.
That government has struggled. The secularist Congrès pour la République (CPR) and Ettakatol parties have clashed with Ennahda over religious issues and accused it of hogging power. Since last summer, they have demanded that Ennahda relinquish control of key ministries, including foreign affairs and justice.
Meanwhile, opposition parties have accused the government of failing to discipline violent groups, from hardline salafi Muslims to pro-government demonstrators called the Leagues for the Protection of the Revolution who have brawled with anti-government protesters. Many Tunisians complain of persistent malaise; unemployment is still high, at around 17 percent. Editor's note: This paragraph has been edited to correct a translation error.
Anger exploded Feb. 6 after an unknown assailant shot Chokri Belaid, a fervent government critic, as he left his house. Thousands turned out in protest and even more attended his funeral in Tunis on Feb. 8. Some blamed the government for Mr. Belaid's death, and many called for its removal.
Proposals emerge
The response from leaders has been a flurry of proposals for forming a new government, with everything up for debate from the names and affiliations of new cabinet members to the way they are chosen.
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, from Ennahda, wants to replace the current lineup with apolitical technocrats, and argues that urgency warrants bypassing a potential vote by Tunisia's constituent assembly. He has promised to stand down if enough parties oppose his plan.
Some opposition parties have warmed to Mr. Jebali's proposal, including the influential Republican Party and Nida Tounes, a rising star founded last year by Mr. Essebsi.
Ennahda, however, favors a mixed approach – technocrats in most seats, but politicians continuing to run key ministries, subject to a vote by the constituent assembly, says Faycel Naceur, the vice president of Ennahda's communications office.
The CPR, Ennahda's coalition partner and the party of president Moncef Marzouki, also wants a new government subject to a constituent assembly vote. Today the party postponed possible withdrawal from the government for a week, but restated its demand that Ennahda give up the foreign affairs and justice ministries.
The Nida Tounes party could also prove a sticking point. Ennahda refuses to hold direct talks with the party, says Mr. Naceur, because it says Nida Tounes contains too many vestiges of past regimes – starting with Essebsi himself, a minister under Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba.
Yet most major parties say they must agree on a path forward. For Naceur, that attitude reflects a broader evolution in Tunisia.
"Tunisian society is progressing toward building a democracy," he says. "Even the conflicts and polemics are nevertheless a form of movement – a sign that something is taking shape."
More time needed
Tunisia has come far since Ben Ali's time, when politics amounted largely to presidential diktats behind a façade of democracy and a menacing array of security forces that bullied – and in some cases tortured – most ordinary Tunisians into silence.
Dozens of new parties – as well as a few former opposition parties under Ben Ali – competed in the 2011 elections. Tunisians are no longer afraid to talk freely. The constituent assembly is a democratic body, and while sometimes plagued by bickering and absenteeism, generally functions as such.
However, a new government may become a Band-Aid on problems of governance, says journalist Ms. Weslaty – not a cure. She expects Ennahda to try to keep control of key ministries, which could invite future squabbles, while state institutions including the police and court system still need reform.
Then there's the economy, increasingly the chief concern of many Tunisians. One is Mohamed Binzerti, a women's clothing merchant on a working class market street in Tunis. He doesn't know much about politics, he says, but he does know that business has plummeted for him over the past two years.
Could a new government – technocrat or otherwise – do better? Mr. Binzerti isn't sure. "Imagine you ran this shop for four or five years – you'd probably do alright," he says. "But let's say you came in fresh – you'd need a year to get the hang of things."


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An Anglican Guide for Christian Life and Formation
Out of the Depths is an Anglican theological resource written for Christians of all traditions; both those who are undergoing persecution and those prayerfully trying to make sense of persecution and support their Christian brothers and sisters. Out of the Depths starts with our global context and six current case studies. Religious persecution, and theological responses to persecution, is then examined in Scripture. Diverse theological responses over the centuries are explored in the sections on tradition and reason, including consideration of the theological resources of those of other faiths. Each section ends with opportunities for reflection and response and the book concludes with encouragement to bring these reflections and responses to God in worship.
This new edition of 'Land of Promise?' includes The Travellers' Guide to 'Land of Promise?' . This study guide is designed to help groups investigate the issues raised in 'Land of Promise?' and should prove particularly helpful for those going on pilgrimages to the Holy Land as well as those who wish to explore Christian attitudes to the Holy Land, with a special reference to Christian Zionism.
The International Commission for Anglican–Orthodox Theological Dialogue began its fourth phase in 2009, under the co-chairmanship of Archbishop Roger Herft and Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia. In September 2015 the Commission completed this, its first Agreed Statement, In the Image and Likeness of God: A Hope-Filled Anthropology. The product of six years of study and dialogue, the text celebrates what Anglicans and Orthodox can say together about the human person, created in 'the Image and Likeness of God'.
This significant report on the theology of inter faith relations, produced by the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns (NIFCON) with a Foreward by the Archbishop of Canterbury, sets out succinctly some key themes of Anglican inter faith engagement, rooting this engagement in the Christian understanding of God as Trinity.
Into All the World:Being and Becoming Apostolic Churches A report to the Anglican Consultative Council and the World Methodist Council by the Anglican-Methodist International Commission for Unity in Mission AMICUM 2014 This report from the Anglican-Methodist International Commission for Unity in Mission explores theologically and biblically the shape of unity in mission. It surveys a number of places in the world where there is active ecumenical dialogue between Anglicans and Methodists. It provides some Tool Kits with practical advice for Methodists and Anglicans who want to further their relationship, and provides a number of questions that they might want to explore together. It also has some suggestions regarding ecumenical theological education.
The Report of ACC-15 Auckland, New Zealand, 2012
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) is a triennial meeting of ordained and lay people nominated by each Member Church of the Anglican Communion. It facilitates cooperation, collaboration and information exchange across the Communion. Its fifteenth meeting was in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012. Transforming Communities contains all the reports, papers and accounts presented to that meeting, and all the Resolutions that were passed.
Highly readable yet not lightweight, this beautifully written book weaves together stories of those who travelled with Jesus and stories of present-day Christians. Desmond Tutu commends this book "as a tool and encouragement in living your life of reconciliation". The Archbishop of Canterbury describes it as "an excellent book" that removes our excuses for avoiding the hard journey towards reconciliation. Reading it can get you excited about peace making and transforming our world.
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The recent centenary of the Senghenydd colliery disaster in South Wales featured quite prominently in the UK media, as one would expect for the worst mining accident in the country's history. On 14 October 1913, 439 miners and one rescuer died in an explosion at the Universal Colliery near Caerphilly. What was particularly poignant during the commemorations was how many ordinary individuals stepped up – both in the mainstream media and on social media sites – to tell moving, vivid stories of their great grandfathers, great uncles who died, and of the families left behind.
I am not aware of anyone in my own family having been involved in the Senghenydd disaster, and without passed-down accounts from within the family it would be quite hard to find out at this stage, since the lists of those who died contain to a large extent numbers of men who shared common (Welsh) surnames, combined with a fairly limited palette of first names and only the most rudimentary information on age, address and so on. I was surprised, though, when some random googling of a more unusual name from the peripheries of my family tree led me to reports of an earlier pit disaster – that of January 1879 at Dinas Middle Colliery near Llantrisant – for which the list of those killed turned up the distinctive names of two distant relatives who I'd never thought had any personal connection with one another (within their lifetimes). Their names were River Jordan and Elisha Upjohn.
River Jordan was born in 1827 at Middle Forge, Lydney in Gloucestershire. I believe he was a second cousin of my great-great-great grandfather Mark Jordan. Like many of the Forest of Dean Jordans, River was a forgeman, working in tin manufacture by 1851 and as an iron pudler in 1861, by which time he was married for the third time, had three (surviving) children plus a number of stepchildren and – in a move mirrored in many Forest of Dean families of the period – had relocated to the more heavily industrialised area of Wolverhampton. The transfer back south-westwards to the Rhondda Valley occurred some time between 1861 and 1871; by the latter date he was working as a hammerman in Aberdare. I don't know exactly when he started working in mining, nor whether it was a choice or a necessity for him.
Elisha Upjohn, the grandfather of my great-uncle Tudor Apjohn, was born in Figheldean, Wiltshire, in 1825. This was a predominantly rural area where most of the men worked in farming, and certainly up to 1871 Elisha seems to have stayed in exactly the same location, working as an agricultural labourer and raising a family with his wife Emma. Again, the exact date and reasons for him moving his family to South Wales are unclear, but he was one of many thousands who moved from rural areas to the ever expanding South Wales coalmines during this period, exchanging agriculture for industry, often attracted by the prospect of higher wages and more consistent availability of work. Statistics derived from the censuses of the period show that the population of the Rhondda Valley increased from some 3000 in 1861 to over 55,000 by 1881 (source: Wikipedia).
The chilling events of 13 January 1879 – the date coincides with Hen Galan, the old Welsh New Year celebration – that claimed the lives of 63 men and boys can be reconstructed from newspaper reports published in the aftermath of the accident. I'll quote directly from some but have included a complete list of those I consulted at the end of this entry – many details occur in more than one report, though I should also say that there are some apparent factual inconsistencies as well. Looking at them together, one can build up a picture of working conditions, the dangers involved and the precautions introduced to try to keep these in check. The special locked safety lamps used by the Dinas colliers are just one example of the precautions needed – ironically perhaps, the smokeless steam coal produced by many of the South Wales collieries was also associated with them being particularly "fiery mines", volatile environments where "firedamp" (composed mainly of methane) was a constant risk factor; even so, the Aberdare Times comments that "it is rumoured that the hitchers [shaft attendants] sometimes used naked lights". The newspaper reports also record the painful twists of fate that occurred that night and the involvement of the local community.
The regular daytime shift on that cold, wet Monday in January had been uneventful: some 100 men and boys had gone underground and returned safely at the end of the working day. Though this was only a quarter of the workforce, Mondays were "idle days" compared to others; this figure of 100 was actually higher than on many Mondays, as in this week many of the men wanted to leave early on the Wednesday to attend the funeral of the elderly widow of a former colleague. The smaller night-shift party numbered around 60, and these went down at 7pm, just before the day shift ended, to carry out necessary maintenance, remove rubble and carry out other tasks to ensure the safe working of the mine (if one can ever really talk of "safe" in this context). On this evening, they would as usual have been lowered down into the pit in a cage, ten men at a time, and with the cage descending once a minute (to a maximum depth of 427 yards, according to the Cardiff Times), they would soon have all been busy at work. Twelve horses were also sent down, in addition to the 32 already in the stable below ground. I had known of the "pit ponies" before but had no idea there would have been so many of them in one place at one time. But if they were responsible for transporting large amounts of timber plus the colliery's output of 600 tons of coal a day, I guess I should be less surprised (Wikipedia suggests that the horses would have worked 8-hour shifts and could have pulled up to 30 tons of coal each per day on the underground tramways).
All was well for the first few hours, but then events took a devastating turn, as reported by the Cambrian thus:
At 20 minutes to 11 o'clock, the engineer, John Burton, heard a crash at the pit's mouth, and going out saw that the heavy iron cap which diverts the air through the tunnel into the fan had been blown up into the pit gearing and fixed there. The banksmen [men stationed at the top of the pit to unload the full tubs of coal], William Taylor and William Webber, had also been blown away from their places, and directly afterwards there came the deep reverberation of an explosion, followed by a cloud of dust and densely sulphureous [sic] vapour.
According to the Aberdare Times, the explosion occurred in the mine's so-called middle pit, more precisely in the four-foot "polka" seam located 80 yards above the bottom of the 430-yard-deep pit. The paper also portrays the immediate community response:
The shocks of the explosion shook the cottages adjacent and the echoes were heard miles away. The inhabitants of the district came rushing down to the mouth of the pit, some only half-clad and others scarcely clad at all, just as they had tumbled out of bed. On learning what had happened they became frantic with grief, and the scene was truly heartrending. Women and children shrieked with terror, and many wives and mothers were carried away in a fainting condition.
For the sake of balance, however, I want to contrast this with the altogether much more sober account provided by the Cardiff Times:
Perhaps one of the most striking features of the occurrence is the absence of outward demonstration on the part of the bereaved relatives. All those whose business has led them to the mine state that neither on the day of the explosion nor since have the people flocked to the pit in that grief-stricken state, and with those unreasonable demands which so often intensify the terrible nature of these calamities. This is not attributed to any want of feeling however—far from it—but to the probability of the dreadful news having been sympathetically imparted to the sorrowing relatives, accompanied by such judicious advice as would lead them to become resigned to the unfortunate state of things.
Take your pick as to which account you find more convincing, but differing degrees of dramaticisation aside, the reports seem fairly consistent in suggesting that numerous managers from this and other local collieries had arrived by 1 or 2am and were engaged in grave discussions about what to do. Attempts to go down into the mine were made impossible by the continuing escape of noxious fumes ("afterdamp"), and it soon became evident that the volume of rubble that had fallen had all but cut off any air supply that might have existed. Rescuers, under the technical leadership of the engineers and including several local medical professionals, did what they could to insert ventilation tubes, but the prospects were pretty grim, as described in the Cambrian:
They gave small hopes indeed of a single individual being recovered alive, but thought there might be the barest possibility of some of them retiring into the remoter workings, where the air would be purer. There was not much consolation in that they said, because miners overtaken by an explosion of fire-damp invariably made their way to the pit's mouth if they could, and if the poor fellows did so in this case, those who escaped instant death would only be rushing upon a cruel doom.
It was Wednesday before anyone could safely attempt to go below the surface to assess the situation further. In the meantime, any attempts made by any survivors to make themselves known to those on the surface would also have had mixed success, as the Aberdare Times explains:
The signal wires of the pit are broken, and the men could not consequently, if alive, communicate with those above but no hopes are entertained of their safety, as they would, it is believed, have shouted for help if they had not succumbed, and their shouts would probably have been heard.
Initially it was thought that 59 had died, this figure based on the number of safety lamps issued for the evening shift. Within days, this figure had been revised upwards to 63 after it transpired that a few men had collected their lamps earlier and/or taken them home with them after a previous shift. The Gwladgarwyr reports that 45 of those who died were married, 4 widowers, and just 14 unmarried (some of whom would have been mere boys). It tells us further that Evan, David and John Jenkins were brothers, as were John and James Edwards and John and James Rounstable. Octavius Wheadon and Charles Wheadon were father and son, and River Jordan was father-in-law to one of the Jenkins brothers (the article doesn't specify which). It does not mention – though I have confirmed this through genealogical research – that another man killed, Thomas Richards, was the husband of River's stepdaughter Louisa. As the Cardiff Times reported, "The colliery being a very old one [it was in fact the oldest and deepest in the Rhondda], many of those who work at it have lived in the neighbourhood for years, have intermarried, and so become related". Several of the newspapers also give details of how many children each man had, though adult children that existed in the cases of River, Elisha and some of the other older men are not included as, presumably, they would not have been (as) dependent on their fathers. Nevertheless, this means the number of all those who lost a father that day far exceeds the number printed.
The Cardiff Times, in a bid to offer some slight relief, recounts the story of one man who had a lucky escape that night:
One man, a middle-aged miner, had one of those escapes which on such occasions always seem to indicate the intervention of Providence. He was not particularly well on Monday night, but did not think of staying away from the pit. His wife, however, though thinking her husband but slightly indisposed, was, as someone forcibly remarked, "dead set" against his going to work; and yielding to her persuasions he stayed at home. How much he has to be thankful for he himself now knows.
It also makes reference to a number of men who had recently been laid off, who it suggests might also have reassessed their situation somewhat in the light of the disaster. However, it also reports that one of those who died was a 15-year-old boy who was working in the pit for the very first time on that occasion (in the interests of accuracy, though, the youngest on the list accompanying the article, Evan Jenkins, was 16).
In addition to the loss of human life, the 44 horses underground at the time of the explosion also all died.
The inspector of mines established that defective ventilation had caused the disaster: a significant blockage in the air supply in or out of the shaft would have allowed for a rapid build-up of explosive gas. It is well worth noting that only two months before the explosion occurred, the colliery manager, a Mr John Chubb, had had his manager's certificate suspended for six months for negligence, after it was found that inadequate or improper ventilation had led to a build-up of gas underground on two previous occasions. Mr Chubb's cousin Robert, a married father of five, also died in the accident.
The recovery of the bodies must have been a particularly arduous, harrowing and time-consuming task, and I am not certain whether they ever found or formally identified all the bodies. The deaths of River and Elisha were both registered in the September quarter of 1879, i.e. in July, August or September, so some months after the explosion.
And what about the families they left behind? Maria, River's widow, who was 54 when he died, was living with her daughter Sarah and family in Aberdare in 1881, and she was still with them in Pontypridd in 1901. I wonder if she was relieved that her son-in-law, William Evans, was a tailor and not down the mines. I have not been able to trace River's daughter Mary who was also left a widow after the disaster – maybe she remarried and/or moved away. His other two children, Thomas and Fanny, were back in Lydney living next door to one another with their spouses and young families by 1881.
Emma Upjohn found her way out of widowhood rather quickly – a move, I should stress, that was just as likely to be prompted by economic necessity as by any other possible factors! – as she married a sawyer called Isaac Williams in early 1880. Of their children, I know that Elizabeth Anna had married a stonemason, Thomas Longhurst, by 1881 and like her mother and brothers, Harry and Frank, was still in the Pontypridd area. Harry was a butcher by now and was boarding with the parents of his future wife, a school teacher. Ultimately they changed their surname to the more Welsh sounding Apjohn, and one of their children, Tudor, born in 1891, was later to marry a Jordan, my great-aunt Marion. I have distant memories of visiting them in Whitchurch near Cardiff.
Finally, I think Elisha and Emma's son Frank's story is at once the happiest and the saddest: in October 1880 he married Louisa Richards, the stepdaughter of River Jordan who had been left a widow aged just 20 after the Dinas Colliery Disaster. Rather tragically, Frank died in 1882 before the birth of their second child, though Louisa married again the following year and had two further children before she herself died in 1891.
Sources (all accessed via NLW's Welsh Newspapers Online):
- "Terrible colliery explosion in the Rhondda Valley", The Cambrian, 17 January 1879
- "Disastrous colliery explosion in the Rhondda Valley", Aberdare Times, 18 January 1879
- "Tanchwa ddychrynllyd Pwll y Dinas", Gwladgarwyr, 24 January 1879
- "Terrible colliery explosion at Dinas", Monmouthshire Merlin, 17 January 1879
- "Terrible explosion at the Dinas Colliery", Cardiff Times, 18 January 1879 – this is by far the most detailed article I have read on the topic


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6. What doesn't work. A dirty air filter might once have dinged your mileage, but modern engines regulate air intake with computers, so changing the filter won't help. And don't worry about filling up at a cooler time of day to avoid gas evaporation -- the temperature of the gas coming out of the pump changes very little. Most important, unless your manual says "premium gas required," you may use a lower grade. You might experience slightly slower acceleration, but knocking is a thing of the past, thanks to engine knock control systems.


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Dwight Howard Dunks on Giant Stuffed Giraffe [VIDEO]
With the lockout continuing, NBA players have been forced to look elsewhere to fulfill their basketball jones. In the case of Dwight Howard, this journey took him to Japan, where the Orlando Magic center recently dunked on an 11-foot hoop which had been attached to the neck of a 12-foot stuffed giraffe, during an exhibition at a Tokyo mall.
Yes, it all sounds a bit strange, but the crowd gets really into it.


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Recent acqusitions: Courtauld alumni and staff publications
While visiting the Courtauld Book Library, you may have noticed the three recent acquisitions displays to the side of the issue desk. The library staff see dozens of new acquisitions arrive every week, and these displays are a wonderful way to showcase a selection of these items before they are shelved with the rest of the collection.
In addition to the New Book and Current Exhibition Catalogues displays, there is a themed display, which changes every two weeks. Previous themes for this academic year have included fashion, photography, drawing, and women artists. Our current selection features titles by Courtauld alumni and staff.
À l'avant garde! art et politique dans les années 1960 et 1970
features an essay by Dr. Jacopo Galimberti, who completed his PhD at the Courtauld in 2013 and is now a visiting lecturer.
Bergson and the art of immanence: painting, photography, film
edited by John Mullarkey and Charlotte de Mille, Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld; with contributions by Professor Sarah Wilson and PhD candidate James Day.
Capital cities at war: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919 (volumes 1 and 2)
by Jay Winter, Research Forum Visiting Professor and Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University.
Medieval and later ivories in The Courtauld Gallery, complete catalogue
by Professor John Lowden, with an essay by Dr. Alexandra Gerstein, Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Courtauld Gallery.
Museums Matter: in praise of the encyclopedic museum
by Professor James Cuno, Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art from 2002 until 2004, and current president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Painting in Cappadocia: a guide to the sites and Byzantine church decoration
by Dr. Cecily Hennessy , who gained a PhD in Byzantine art in 2001, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Christie's Education.
Pleading in the blood: the art and performances of Ron Athey
edited by Dr. Dominic Johnson, who completed his MA and PhD at the Courtauld (2003 and 2007), and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.
The Routledge Companion to music and visual culture
with contributions by Charlotte de Mille, Visiting Lecturer ; William L. Coleman, who completed his MA in 2008; Ayla Lepine, former Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow; and Dr. Sheila McTighe, Senior Lecturer.
21st-century portraits, National Portrait Gallery
by Andrew Graham-Dixon, who studied as a postgraduate at the Courtauld.
The versatile image: photography, digital technologies and the internet
edited by Dr. Alexandra Moschovi, who completed her PhD at the Courtauld in 2004 and is currently Lecturer in Photographic history and theory at the University of Sunderland; Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez; with a contribution by Rachel Wells, who completed her MA and PhD (2004 and 2008) at the Courtauld, and is currently Lecturer in Art History/Theory at Newcastle University.
Visual cultures as seriousness
by Professor Irit Rogoff , who completed her PhD at the Courtauld in 1987, and is currently Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Wonderful things: Byzantium through its art
edited by Dr. Antony Eastmond, AG Leventis Reader in the History of Byzantine Art.
Caitlin Peterson and Bobbie Winter-Burke


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Child struck killed by hit-and-run driver, police say
Police stop driver nearby
A child was struck and killed late Wednesday afternoon by a hit-and-run driver, Milwaukee police said.
It happened at 4:22 p.m. at Sixth Street and Hayes Avenue.
Police said a 21-year-old mother was holding her 18-month-old girl while walking across South Sixth Street in a crosswalk. They had just gotten off a Milwaukee County bus.
"I go down there to see if they need help or anything, and then I see the little girl in the street, there was blood, and it just wasn't a pretty sight so I call the cops immediately," witness Kayla Copus said.
A rental truck turned onto South Sixth Street from Hayes Avenue, hitting the mother and child.
Police said the child's mother was taken to Froedtert Hospital with a non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the rental truck was stopped by police nearby, and the 26-year-old driver was taken into custody.
Dawn Marowsky told WISN 12 News the mother was bringing her daughter to the Guarding Your Angels Daycare across the street.
Marowsky said she rushed out to stop traffic and throw blankets on the mother and child.
She wants the city to know how dangerous the intersection is and that something should be done about it.
"We sincerely do hope that this is going to be the wake-up call that they need to take this situation to heart and not let something like this happen again," Marowsky said.
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If you might recall,
(and I'm sure you can Google the time-stamped links),
"that nearly 1.2 million people would be infected by about ohhh…
…well the not-funny joke is on all of You,
who keep believing this fear porn they continue to shove down your throats….
…do YOU wanna know the real numbers?
BBC News – Ebola: Mapping the outbreak – BBC.com
As you will see,
as of a day ago,
there are barely over 20,000 infected,
bout half of that dead.
If you know how to do math,
divide 20,000 into 7.5 billion…
….and here's what you get…
…if my math is right…
0.00000266666% of the global population infected.
More people died today in their cars on the way to work.
So don't buy into the fear porn machine,
that they have clearly amped up a notch or two…
…and suddenly Ebola just disappears…
Yeah, right…
…the numbers don't lie and the link is above.
More to come.
Love to all.


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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its July 2012 art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to view online. The theme for this art exhibition is "Abstracts" and artists were reside to apply to this competition by submitting their best non-representational for inclusion into the gallery's July online group exhibition.
An art competition was held in June 2012 which determined and judged the art for this exhibition. The gallery received submissions from 21 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 34 different states. Overall, there were 900 entries from 246 different artists that were judged for this art competition.
Congratulations to the artists who have been designated as this month's category winners, along with the winning Special Recognition artists. The gallery commends all of the winning artists for their artistic skill and their creativity, as this online art exhibition is indicative of their creativity.
To proceed to the gallery's "Abstracts" online art exhibition follow this link: http://www.lightspacetime.com/newsletter/abstracts-art-exhibition-july-2012


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This is not a tabloid story about a star whose career has seriously gone off the rails, but an explanation of John C. Reilly's facial hair in his next part -- the eccentric Gershon in "The Extra Man."
To summarize -- it's fake, but still highly effective.
"Every day he put that on," co-director Shari Springer Berman told PopcornBiz when inquiring about the prodigious growth. "John had the hair, but he didn't have the beard."
Reilly plays the neighbor of the equally eccentric, but well-groomed Kevin Kline in the movie opening July 30. The hair came with the gig along with the character's extremely high speaking voice. Reilly took both very seriously.
"He wouldn't even block a scene without the beard," says co-director Robert Pulcini.
The well-attached appendage even passed its biggest test: a key scene where Gershon dances on a beach in the winter. The scene was shot on New York beach on one of the windiest, coldest days of the year. "But that thing really held on," says Pulcini. "It was amazing."
The beard also passed the scare-the-hell-out-of-kids tests.
Berman recalls watching Reilly, still in character, walk down the street in New York City off the set. "I saw this little girl run away crying," she says. "She was like 'Mommy!' "
"It was like, 'My God, John is scaring the neighborhood kids."
While it's hard to applaud anything that's not authentic, Reilly does get points for his method-beard acting and just the sheer volume of the creation. So two hairy thumbs up.


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A year after we discovered a trademark registration for it, Majesco is finally ready to make Crafting Mama official. The woman with the most free time in the world returns this fall with a whole new bag of domestic tricks.
She's taught you how to cook, helped you cultivate your garden, and now she's going to show you scrapbooking! Your DS stylus is a universal crafting tool in Crafting Mama, allowing you to glue, cut, paste and sew your way through a host of new mini-game challenges, including quilt making, candle making, birdhouse building and jewellery craft. If you've tripped over it at your local Hobby Lobby, it's likely you'll find it in Crafting Mama. You'll even be able to use your creations, for instance, you can sew Mama a new apron and then dress her up in it, or decorate her house with the items you create.
Yes, you are now Mama's little crafting bitch.
"Crafting is a natural extension of our most successful franchise," said Jesse Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, Majesco Entertainment. "Much like last spring's Gardening Mama, Crafting Mama combines the award-winning Mama formula of addictive stylus-based activities with a popular pastime that has been underserved in video games. We're looking forward to sharing Mama's newest hobby with her vast and diverse group of fans this holiday season."
The game will ship with more than 40 craft projects, along with a scrapbook in which you can save pictures of your creations. You can even team up with a friend via local multiplayer, if the crafting gets too tough for you alone.
Look for Crafting Mama to hit the DS and DSi sometime in the second half of 2010.


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(CNN) -- The battle over hydraulic fracturing in the state of New York pits farmers against environmentalists, neighbor vs. neighbor, as gas companies wait to find out if they'll be able to unlock the natural gas trapped in the Marcellus Shale formation thousands of feet below the earth's surface.
As a panel appointed by New York's governor looks into whether it can be done safely in New York, landowners look with envy toward neighboring Pennsylvania, where gas companies are paying in excess of $1,000 per acre plus royalties for the right to drill for natural gas on a property.
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, involves injecting a mixture of water and chemicals deep into the earth. The pressure causes shale rock formations to fracture and natural gas is released in the process. The fluid is then extracted and the natural gas is mined through the well. Some fracking operations have been linked to the contamination of drinking water supplies, and that led to a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in New York.
Judy Whittaker hopes to one day have a drilling rig on her property if and when that moratorium is lifted. The 1,000-acre dairy farm in Whitney Point, New York, a small rural town, has been in her family for more than 100 years.
"We hope that our farm would be able to be sustainable in the future ... for our grandchildren to be able to be here and make a profit at farming, at the thing that we all love," said Whittaker.
While Whittaker's family has been milking cows for four generations, they still struggle to get by year after year. The added income from a natural gas lease on her property holds the promise of financial security.
"If we were able to get natural gas drilling I think it would definitely make a less stressful life for those in the future that are on this farm, not having to worry so much about the price of milk and where the money is coming from," said Whittaker. "They would have something to fall back on."
The opposition to fracking
Opponents of fracking raise concerns about its impact on drinking water. Whittaker isn't worried. "I believe that we know our land the best so we ought to be the ones choosing the best use for our land."
She said she's confident that with proper oversight fracking can be done safely.
"I'm very comfortable with the regulations that they are proposing. It's tough laws now and it's going to be even tougher if implemented fully the way it will be."
No one says a fracking operation is completely risk free. About an hour's drive southeast of Whittaker's farm lies New York City's protected watershed in the Catskill Mountains. It's part of the source of 1.1 billion gallons of water that flows to the city each day.
"It's too much of a risk ... not a risk the city of New York is willing to take," said Paul Rush, deputy commissioner at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. It's his job to assure that every drop of water that makes it to a faucet in New York is as clean as possible.
"We have 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes in the New York City system with a capacity of 580 billion gallons."
As Rush watched water pouring into the massive Rondout Reservoir, he said, "The possibility of chemicals getting into the water table, the possibility of chemical spills in the watershed itself, the disturbances in the watershed changing the character of it, deforestation for the construction of roads, are all potential impacts on our system."
The Department of Environmental Protection does not use water filtration systems. Instead, it relies on natural filtration and keeping the water clean at the source. It only adds a few chemicals, to kill any remaining pathogens and to strengthen tooth enamel, before water reaches faucets in the city 100 miles away. It's some of the cleanest municipal drinking water in the world and in order to keep it that way, the governor's panel on fracking is effectively banning gas mining in the New York City watershed.
New York governor pauses 'fracking'
The debate over fracking in New York is heated. More than 65,000 comments were submitted by the public during the state's environmental review process. Kate Sinding, an attorney with the environmental group the National Resources Defense Council, is among those leading the fight against fracking.
"What we've seen in state after state is that as this activity comes into the places where people live, comes into communities, there are tremendous impacts or potential impacts on people's drinking-water supplies if it's not properly regulated or evaluated," Sinding said.
New Yorkers only have to look over the border in Pennsylvania to find an example of a fracking operation gone wrong.
"In the community of Dimock, Pennsylvania," Sinding said, "an aquifer was contaminated by bad drilling and fracking practices by a gas company. In addition to which there were a huge number of spills. It was a sort of horror story of what goes wrong when an industry isn't effectively regulated."
A pair of university studies that came out over the past few months, one from the University of Texas and the other from Stanford, showed the process of fracking itself doesn't appear to pose a risk to drinking water. The studies found no record of a drinking water supply being contaminated by fracking fluids injected into shale formations several thousand feet below the Earth's surface. But the studies reported that shoddy drilling practices, accidents and poor oversight above ground have led to contaminated water wells.
"I'm not trying to deny the existence of contamination, but the mechanism by which that contamination occurred is not the hydraulic fracturing mechanism," said Mark Zoback, a geophysics professor at Stanford University who studied this form of drilling for natural gas. He also served on the Energy Department's committee that examined fracking.
While tens of thousands of gas wells have been drilled across the country in recent years, he says there have been relatively few cases of chemicals contaminating drinking water supplies. "The number is more like dozens," said Zoback.
University of Texas Geologist Chip Groat also studied fracking. His findings back up much of what Zoback reported.
"We didn't find (anything) happening related to shale gas that called for draconian measures in terms of regulations or prohibitions," Groat said.
Sinding believes Zoback's and Groat's findings don't reflect reality. She says in many states regulators have close relationships with the gas industry and they don't fully investigate claims of contamination.
"The other issue is one of the gas companies settling with people and then subjecting them to nondisclosure agreements, which is the industry standard." Sinding said such arrangements result in cases of contamination not being fully reported to local municipalities.
Sinding and Zoback agree on one thing: The best way to assure that there is no contamination from a fracking operation is to make sure there are very stringent guidelines in place and that the drilling companies are closely monitored by state agencies with frequent inspections.
"That seems rather mundane," Zoback said, "but the way the well is drilled, cased and cemented, the way those processes are required and regulated and inspected and assured, are the most important things we can do to prevent potential problems either in the near term or the long term."
While multiple studies found no evidence of water wells contaminated by chemicals injected into shale formations several miles below ground, the National Academy of Sciences reported findings that show an increase of methane gas in some water wells near fracking operations across the country. The academy recommended more testing be done to determine the "potential health consequences of methane" and increased testing of water wells as well as strong regulations for fracking operations.
Addressing the issues
Drilling companies say they've taken steps over the past few years to address these concerns. "The industry I think is in a far better place today than we were many years ago," said Matt Pitzarella, a spokesman for Range Resources, one of several companies mining Marcellus Shale natural gas in Pennsylvania.
"There's a cartoon character out there that we are somehow a bunch of Texans that are poking holes in the ground and hoping that we strike it rich," said Pitzarella. But he said that's not the case. Range Resources was the first company to drill for gas in the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania.
Oil and gas drilling is not a recent development in the state. "There are 384,000 oil and gas wells that have been drilled in the state of Pennsylvania and more than 150,000 of those wells have been hydraulically fractured," said Pitzarella. He said he believes drilling techniques have improved dramatically over the past few years, especially as they pertain to isolating the drilling operation from the surrounding layers of rock and sediment.
"You are now required to have multiple layers, four layers of steel that is fully encased in concrete all the way down (the) hole, all the way up to the surface," said Pitzarella. "There's 3 million pounds of steel and concrete that travel literally tens of thousands of feet." The state requires testing throughout the process.
Pitzarella said his company has every incentive to drill in a safe way and not affect the environment. "We can only drill if people are choosing to sign leases with us. So if the general public is not comfortable with it they're not going to sign a lease."
Pitzarella said there could be cases of methane gas migrating into water wells, but, "You're talking about fractions of a percent of likelihood." He said many water wells in Pennsylvania already contained methane gas before drilling started. Drilling companies are now required to test local water wells before any gas mining takes place. "What we find is that more than half ... already have methane in the water," and Pitzarella said it was naturally occurring.
There are concerns that state agencies aren't equipped to properly oversee fracking operations, especially when one considers how quickly they dot the landscape once an area has been opened to drilling for natural gas.
"You might ask questions about the intensity of the development, the rate of the development and the capacity of the existing regulatory agencies," Groat said, "to put the human power into the inspections and into the surveillance that needs to be there."
That's why the defense council's Sinding is trying to place strict limits and guidelines on fracking in New York. "We think this is just an area where being as cautious as possible is the only course that makes any sense."
Other than water contamination, drilling for natural gas raises another concern: A few, small, repeated earthquakes have been linked to some aspects of a fracking operation. Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Oberservatory found that several small earthquakes near Youngstown, Ohio, in 2011 were likely caused by the injection of fracking wastewater into containment wells deep below ground. Scientists in England believe hydraulic fracturing triggered several small earthquakes near Blackpool in the northwest of the country last year. "They are extremely small earthquakes," said Zoback. "Magnitude 2 earthquakes are almost never even felt."
"Things can move around and there are faults that we know cross our tunnel. We have maps that show those," said New York's Rush. "What we found was there's not a direct risk to have a major event that could cause a total collapse of a tunnel but there is a potential for damage to our infrastructure."
One of the city's water tunnels, the Delaware Aqueduct, already had some cracks before fracking started. At 85 miles, it's the longest tunnel in the world. Rush is concerned that repeated shaking could cause more damage and foul the water running through it.
The Department of Environmental Protection is recommending to the governor's panel examining fracking that no drilling be allowed within 2 miles of any water tunnel. The National Resources Defense Council would like that ban to be extended to 7 miles.
Other questions have been raised about fracking. Environmentalists express concerns over whether the hydraulic fluid that remains in a shale formation after the natural gas has been extracted could migrate into the water table even though the two are often separated by several miles of bedrock.
While farmers in economically depressed regions of New York await the fracking panel's recommendations, some communities have banned fracking. In late February, a New York state judge ruled that the town of Dryden could bar the practice in its municipality.
That's troubling for farmers like Whittaker, who see fracking as a way to keep agriculture viable in tough economic times. "We want what's best for the future of our land, for the future of our lands," Whittaker said, "so that our grandchildren can have a farm here."
Natural gas mining would not be an endless source of income for farmers like Whittaker, though. Estimates vary as to how much natural gas is locked in the Marcellus Shale formation. The U.S. Department of Energy reported there is the potential for a 100 year supply of natural gas to be unlocked from shale rock formations across the country.
In the end, New York's panel on fracking will have to determine how much risk is acceptable in exchange for the promise of economic gain.


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Jewel may be sporting a toned physique these days, but when she first burst on to the scene, she was labeled the "chubby Renee Zellweger," something the singer said crushed her spirits.
"My feelings were so hurt by that story, I ended up bingeing on an entire cake," the 35-year-old told the July 2010 issue of Shape magazine, on the cover of which she appears in a bikini, looking better than ever.
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Bingeing led to something else – an attempt at purging, followed by a major realization.
"Afterward, I actually tried to throw it all up, but thankfully I couldn't do it. It made me think, 'I can't go down this road,'" she told the mag. "I had seen so many performers develop eating disorders or try to control their weight with drugs, and I decided I would do no harm to my body."
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While she realized what she was doing, Jewel couldn't entirely stop the food train.
"It became a self-fulfilling prophecy. The worse I felt about myself, the more I overate," she added.
So how did Jewel turn things around? She realized abstaining from cravings didn't do her any good.
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"I try to stay away from an all-or-nothing mentality when it comes to food," she told the mag. "It's like a pendulum: The more extreme I am — like saying, 'I'm not going to eat any carbs'— the further it's going to swing to the other side and I'm going to binge."
Jewel said sometimes it's hard to eat well, especially considering that her husband, rodeo champ Ty Muray eats whatever he wants, but she manages.
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"I'm living proof that even if your spouse isn't into your way of eating, you can still be successful at it!"
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