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Yesterday, I had an epic two-hour long chat with my boss.
My boss and I get along very well. During my initial interview 18 months ago, it was apparent that we really just got each other. We have a lot in common, despite the fact that he's a white, septuagenarian Christian and I'm, well, not. Every time we talk, I feel like I learn a little bit more about the world, about relationships, and about being a good person, and I really look up to him. A few months ago, knowing that he does pre-marital counseling (along with riding to work on his motorcycle, flying his own plane, and a lot of other awesome things), I asked him if he could recommend a secular or not-uber-religious pre-marital counselor for Eric and me. He said he'd look into it, but we happened to find one in the meantime (first session is tomorrow!). Still, he knows I value his opinion on things of this nature.
Yesterday, he asked me if I had a second (I did), and then said he wanted to share something about relationships that he'd come across during his Bible study the day before. Knowing that neither Eric nor I are Christian, he also knew I'd be interested in hearing it anyway, because I like good advice, and I'm down with hearing Bible passages in certain contexts. After he shared it, we got talking some more, and somehow proceeded to talk for another two hours about relationships, religion, and so much more. It was a very candid conversation, but just what I needed yesterday; Eric and I have begun to start planning our wedding and the discussion about the guest list has been (like it is for a lot of people) really emotional. By the time I left his office, I just felt really good — smarter, more grounded, more positive about everything — and yet when I tried to explain it to another friend, I realized…Gosh, as I'm explaining what we talked about, it sounds kind of kooky and probably inappropriate, if not illegal. And yet I felt totally happy about the conversation.
Later, over dinner, Eric was telling me how his coworkers had been having a conversation near his desk that made him really uncomfortable. He didn't say anything to them, but he was regretting it. Their conversation was inappropriate for work and calling them out would have been totally warranted. Still, it's hard to be That Guy at work, even when you know you'd be justified.
Both of these exchanges made me think about how we decide what is an appropriate topic of conversation with coworkers.
My office is so small; with some of our team telecommuting, it's just a small number of us there most days. Everyone has his own office except for myself and my two coworkers, Jacob and Jesse. Our desks are spread out around the large open area of the office, but we're close enough to stand up and talk to each other whenever the mood strikes. Beyond that, we IM each other throughout the day with interesting tidbits of information, walk to lunch together nearly every day, and take a walk to the nearby gas station for some fresh air, snacks, and a mental break every afternoon. We spend a lot of time together and in such a small office, it's hard not to talk about everything; over time, we've become really close. Our relationship is very familial. We seek each other's advice, we share ideas for new projects, we give each other pep talks when we're feeling bummed creatively, we talk about the really big things in life, we have healthy debates on controversial topics, we preach to each other about controversial topics we all agree on, and we sometimes bicker and have to make up. I feel like my brain grows bigger every day from talking to these two, and I honestly can't imagine what my life or my worldview would be like at this point without having had these conversations. We're…friends.
And yet. We're still coworkers. We aren't exactly friends. There are still lines that can be crossed and sometimes I worry about that. I don't want to be the coworker who suddenly makes things uncomfortable, who puts someone else in the position where they are wondering if they should say, "Hey, that's not cool," or if they should just skip that step and talk to a superior. I wonder if we're being foolish, if these conversations are ones that could be used against us if things suddenly went sour. I don't think any of us has ever said anything that crossed the line, but then again, I'm guessing that's what everyone thinks until HR comes for them.
I tend to err on the side of "Everyone is going to be offended by me" until I know otherwise. With Jesse and Jacob, I began to get clues that they wouldn't be, and at some point, we all began dipping a toe into the "this might be an awkward topic" pool. Once we started to see that the water was fine, we got more comfortable just cannon balling in. The same thing happened between Biff and me. Sill, I can't have the same conversations with all of my other coworkers or bosses, because they wouldn't be fine in every case, and if we got a new employee, I'd feel like I needed to start the process all over again. For me, figuring out what's OK to say and what should be avoided has been a slow, careful process.
I recently read the Kindle Single Beware Dangerism!, which argues that if we don't let kids take risks, they won't learn to assess situations and actually be able to protect themselves when they need to. It left me wondering if we are doing the same thing at work or even with friends; if we aren't ever allowed to talk about certain things a frank and open way with people who come from different backgrounds than we do, then it's harder to learn what crosses the line or understand why exactly it does. I'm not saying that everything is an OK work topic, because it's definitely not, and I'd never want to subject anyone to a conversation that upset them or hurt them or made them feel trapped. I'm just wondering if we're missing an opportunity to learn from each other if we aren't "allowed" to say certain things without the fear making someone feel uncomfortable or getting sued. Still, it's a fine line to walk when one person's lunchtime conversation is another person's hostile work environment.
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EC censures Assam CM Tarun Gogoi for violating poll code
The Election Commission on Sunday censured Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for violating Model Code of Conduct during campaigning for the Assembly bye-elections in the state.
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Sunday
censured Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for violating Model
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bye-elections in the state.
The Commission, after going through the entire material,
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speeches, said the allegations made against him stand
In its order, the EC said it "censured" Gogoi, who heads
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The EC order came after a complaint was made to the
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library in the name of martyrs of a movement for creation of
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the Chief Minister on November 6 seeking an explanation from
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border areas of the state, under which Dhekiajuli falls, had
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Starving on Mars ?
Still thinking about the article on hunger in Africa which I posted about yesterday:
Even if there is a scientific return from all that money spending, I still think health care and education on Earth should be of a higher priority then checking out Mars and flying around space. Why don't we fix our planet before we go destroying others? And, last but not least, the contractor is basically the largest "defense contractor" (arms manufacturer) of the world:
An excerpt from the Wiki on Lockheed Martin:
" Lockheed Martin won the contract to build the Joint Strike Fighter in 2001 with its X-35 design. This is the most important fighter aircraft procurement project since the F-16, with an initial order of 3,000 worth $200bn before export orders "
That's it, 200 billion dollars, they only need to find another 100 and they'll be able to halve the number of starving children in Africa by 2015. Well, since we (human beings) are obviously NOT an intelligent form of life maybe on Mars we'll meet one..and probably proceed to blast it into thousands of pieces.


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Marshall thinking visits
One player who really made big strides during the summer was Nick Marshall. The 6-foot-10 center is a high level run and jump athlete who is just now tapping into his potential. With Team Thad he made major progress, and now is beginning to think about his college visits. "He had a good development from April until July," said Team Thad AAU Coach Norton Hurd. "He just started playing basketball in ninth grade, and finally really started to come around during the high school season. When we got into the April evaluation period he played okay, and then when it got to June we practiced and then in July he showed everybody he can be one of the best big men in the country." On the recruiting trail Marshall picked up schools like Mississippi State, Florida, South Carolina, Connecticut, Memphis, Indiana, and others. About the recruitment, Hurd said, "It has been good. He's really enjoyed the recruiting process, but he is kind of a country kid who has never had this much attention so at times he can get tired of it, but he is enjoying it." In terms of upcoming trips, a few schools seem in line to get visits. "We are putting together official visits," explained Hurd. "I think South Carolina will happen soon. He will take either an official or unofficial with Mississippi State, and then UConn and Indiana have also been seeing what they can do to get a visit." About the Mississippi State Bulldogs, Hurd said, "He likes the coaching staff there and he feels they are making that turn. Mississippi State feels if they can get Nick Marshall and LeGerald Vick that they would have enough athletes and would be done re-building. They have point guards, they have rebounders, they just need guys like Nick and they would be done re-building." Another school that has been very active recently is Indiana. The Hoosiers offered in July, and since then have been making Marshall a priority. "The appeal with Indiana is they had big men that were taken in the lottery in back-to-back years," explained Hurd. "Add in their development with a guy like Victor Oladipo, and it is a top five historical school in college basketball. It is pretty simple with them, it is a great program." With a national title to his credit already, Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie is also making a strong run at Marshall. "The only negative would be distance, but their alumni list is impressive," explained Hurd. "You feel you have a chance to make the NBA if you go there, and it is UConn, they just won the national title. There is a lot to like with them." South Carolina will get a trip from Marshall, and Hurd says they have been recruiting him hard for a long period of time. "Lamont Evans has been recruiting Nick for a while," said Hurd. "He's pretty comfortable with that coaching staff, and they feel if they get Nick they would have the pieces to really start rolling." For now there is no specific timeframe for decision from Marshall other than he plans to commit in the early signing period.
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Around the Farm: October 16, 2013
Around the Farm (ATF) takes a quick look at some of the daily performances by Indians prospects. This is a special fall and winter ball version of ATF that recaps all the offseason action by Indians players in the Arizona Fall League and the Caribbean Leagues. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in the game.
Arizona Fall League:
Jake Lowery (Peoria Javelinas, C): 1-for-3. In his second appearance of the fall, Lowery went 1-3 with a single. He's now 2-6 this offseason playing at most twice a week as a taxi-squad player. Defensively, Lowery gave up three stolen bases in four attempts.
Tyler Naquin (Surprise Saguaros, CF): 1-for-4, R, 2 K. Naquin led off the game with a single against Giants' top pitching prospect Kyle Crick, but was silent afterward. As was a common theme for Indians farmhands on the night, Naquin finished 1-4 (two strikeouts) with Surprise's only run scored on the night. After striking out in over 22% of his at-bats in Carolina and 25% in Akron last season, the two strikeouts are something that we don't want to see.
Joe Wendle (Surprise Saguaros, 2B): 1-for-4, K. Batting behind Naquin, Wendle followed with a single of his own in the first off of Crick. That would be his only highlight of the night as he also finished 1-4. Following up a big season at Carolina, Wendle hasn't gotten off to a good start in Arizona as he is hitting .154 in the early going.
Tony Wolters (Surprise Saguaros, C): 1-for-4, K, PB. Wolters slid back behind the plate defensively in this game. He allowed his second passed ball, but also threw out a would-be base stealer. Like Naquin and Wendle he went 1-4 on the night and raised his batting average to a mere .143 thus far.
Shawn Armstrong (Surprise Saguaros, RP): 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K. Armstrong pitched a scoreless inning in the fifth for Surprise. He struck out one, walked one, and allowed a hit in his inning of work. It's his third inning of work this fall, and even though it wasn't particularly sharp, it was his best outing yet.
Venezuela Winter League:
Jesus Aguilar (Leones del Caracas 1B): 2-for-5, 2 R, HR, RBI, K. Aguilar tallied his sixth straight multi-hit game in a row and hit his second home run of the offseason. Aguilar continues to dominate in Venezuela, leading the league in batting average and runs scored. It is this kind of showing that gives promise to the Indians search for a middle of the order right-handed bat for the big league team where maybe that guy is already in the organization.
Ezequiel Carrera (Navegantes del Magallanes CF): 1-for-4, R, HR, RBI. Carrera isn't long for the Indians organization, but he did manage his first home run of the offseason. Overall, it was just a 1-4 night for Carrera and for the first time since the Venezuela league opened, he failed to draw a walk.
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I like Naquin more than Smith from the few times I saw them. But did come away impressed by Smith. Little disappointed with this bat though loved his K/BB ratio. At the start of the season, had you given me Naquin and Smith's batting lines from Carolina this year and said who would put up which numbers, I'd had them switched. Thought Smith would be showing more pop at this stage and Naquin more plate discipline.
Probably a little bit of both...
but for my money...if you line up Naquin and Jordan Smith...then actually watch them play...Naquin's not the guy that will stand out to you.
He has a better arm, but Smith is a better outfielder.
That's just my opinion...of course...but my rankings will be downgrading Naquin a bit this year...
That said...definitely doesn't look like the best pick...
The third one is you get what you pay for.
thanks front office i sure hope matthew and I are wrong about naquin. tYLER should be eating his wheaties and lifting a lot of weight and make me wrong.
Naquin has virtually no chance to become an above-average regular, and never did. At this point, it looks like a less than 50-50 shot he even becomes an everyday player. Most likely a 4th OF or a Trevor Crowe guy. Granted, Naquin signed for $1.75M and Wacha for $2.8M, which likely had a lot to do with it. I understand that strategy, but that means we're counting on Mitch Brown, D'Vone McClure, and Dylan Baker to make up the difference. At this point, none look likely to be major leaguers.
Meanwhile, Wacha looks like a top 25 starter in all of MLB.
michael wacha is pitching game 6 of the NLCS, as the cardinals try to get a ticket to the fall classic. Tyler's teammate
at TX A & M we scouted tyler and certainly scouted wacha.
Nice job Front Office sorry but you blew it and it is obvious at it can be. He better be a whole helluva lot better than he has shown in his yr and a half in our scintellating offensive farm system. Teams that make those kinds of mistakes seldom play many playoff games. My advise to Mr. Naquin is get your shit together you will see and hear a great deal about mr wacha my advise be better than you have looked in season and a half you have played. Hit the weights if you are gonna give us 100+ K's you better have a lot of home runs to balance it out. and tony you may feel i am picking on the F/O for the wacha oversight but naquin looks like guy who isnt gonna be better than average player if that good.
Also would like to know is how good is his defense at 1B? You mentioned caring a player just to DH is a waste of roster space.


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DJ Powers: The Line Dance
The true power of the line dance
All events outside the club that include a variety of ages will at some point do a line dance or group participation dance. As a DJ it took me a while to get to the point of being non judge mental about these dances. I was used to be upset that they would take all the hits and turn them into line dances. Its fine when every one in the event knows them but wastes the song when they don't. They will spend the whole song trying figure it out lol.
Well you know you will have to play that again right.
The one thing Line dances do for people
Crowd participation dances is what some call them. That means that the dance floor is guaranteed to be packed. The dances usually have instructions to them so you don't have to think once you get the steps down to the routine. One two three four five six seven and eight. Ok enough of the playing.
What is the real power of line dancing man c'mon lol
Here it is plain and simple. The dance floor is packed so no one is singled out and laughed at because of some old time dance moves. People have gotten a little older in age and in mind. There are a lot of old young people too. They haven't really kept up with the dancing and may feel a little out of place on the dance floor.
The Line dances having the instructions to them that everyone follows is the answer to that dilemma for them.
So the true power of the line dance is "Protection and security"
A line dance offers protection to those who are not secure in their 2 step game. It offers security in knowing that they will not be singled out. Sort of like when people go the gym and feel people are looking at them. They feel more secure when it's packed.
After the protection and security its just plain fun. Fun equals happy and happy equals laughter and laughter equals more enjoyment and just maybe after a couple of line dances and some drink insecurity flies out the window. Now its a party.
So hey next time they are sitting in there chairs dancing and looking shy. Offer them some protection and drop in the wobble for the ladies.
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text: The Governor's proposal to shift some of the cost of teacher retirements to local communities could weigh heavy on the Bangor school district. Superintendent Betsy Webb says Governor LePage's plan would put half of the current $28.9 million state responsibility on local schools. Webb says, if enacted it would mean an additional $337,000 burden on Bangor taxpayers next school year. Webb plans to update school committee members Wednesday night on the impact of the governor's plan, along with his proposal to cut $12.6 million in General Purpose Aid this year.Governor LePage also wants to push $18.5 million in funding meant for June into July.


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The number of earthquakes in the U.S. has risen dramatically since the advent of widespread hydraulic fracturing for the recovery of oil and natural gas. In both North America and Europe, concern that such activity could cause damaging earthquakes is rising and the debate shows signs of becoming another unscientific brouhaha fueled by ignorance and fear. It has been known for many years that fracking can cause seismic activity, as can damming rivers, mining minerals and pumping oil from underground. Is fracking being subjected to unfair criticism? Several new reports and a multi-national study, just published in the journal Science, attempt to take an objective, scientific view of the problem.
The July 12 issue of Science contains a research report by a tri-national team suggesting that sizable U.S. earthquakes may have been induced in part by nearby wastewater injection wells. Such wells are used to dispose of used fluids associated with oil and gas hydraulic fracturing operations. Adding fuel to the fire, the new study, "Enhanced Remote Earthquake Triggering at Fluid-Injection Sites in the Midwestern United States," seems to establish a link between deep injection wells and sympathetic seismic activity triggered by earthquakes in other areas of the globe.
A team of researchers, led by Nicholas van der Elst of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, linked a severe Chilean earthquake in February, 2010, to a significant earthquake in Prague, Oklahoma less than a day later. Unusual seismic activity continued near Prague for almost two years until late November 2011, when an earthquake destroyed 14 homes and injured two people. In April 2012, a major earthquake in Sumatra triggered another earthquake near Prague. Prague is the site of multiple wastewater injection wells, which the researchers say created the conditions for the remotely triggered seismic events.
Earthquakes can be induced by underground fluid injection, which increases pore pressure and allows faults to slide under preexisting shear stress. The increase in wastewater disposal from natural gas development and other sources has been accompanied by an increase in fluid-induced earthquakes in recent years. These earthquakes include widely felt earthquakes in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ohio, Texas, and Colorado. Although most injection wells are not associated with large earthquakes, the converse is not true. At least half of the 4.5 moment magnitude (Mw) or larger earthquakes to strike the interior of the United States in the past decade have occurred in regions of potential injection-induced seismicity. In some cases, the onset of seismicity follows injection by only days or weeks, and the association with pumping at particular wells is clear. In others, seismicity increases only after months or years of active injection.
As the authors state above, Oklahoma is not the only place that injection well rrelated earthquakes have been triggered. The paper refers to earthquakes that are promoted by anthropogenic activity as induced and to earthquakes that are initiated by transient natural stresses as triggered. By this definition, there can be triggered induced earthquakes. "A search of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) earthquake catalog gives preliminary evidence that induced seismic zones are sensitive to dynamic triggering by surface waves," they report.
The figure above, taken from the paper, catalogs earthquakes above 3.0 M between 2003 and 2013 (A). Earthquakes in red occurred during the first 10 days after the February 2010, Maule; March 2011, Tohoku-oki; or April 2012, Sumatra earthquakes. Triggering occurs almost exclusively in three injection fields, labeled Prague, Trinidad, and Snyder. (B) Stacked earthquake counts in the 10 days before and after the three ≥8.6 Mw remote earthquakes.
In the end, the authors conclude that some areas of fluid injection become sensitive to small changes in stress. This allows the passage of seismic waves from remote large earthquakes to trigger more earthquakes near the well sites. They list a number of criteria for such sensitized regions: "First, all of the triggered sites in this study had a long history of regional subsurface injection over a period of decades. Second, each triggered site was near to hosting a moderate magnitude earthquake, suggesting critically stressed faults. Last, each site had relatively low levels of seismicity rate in the immediate vicinity (10 km) before the first triggering episode."
Remote triggering indicates that conditions within an injection field have crossed a critical threshold. Furthermore, the occurrence of a triggered quake means that larger earthquakes are possible or even likely. The authors call for improved seismic monitoring in areas of subsurface fluid injection. But this paper is not the only recent journal article regarding earthquakes and fracking.A review of the subject in the same issue by William J. Ellsworth, of the U.S. Geologic Service, points out that U.S. earthquakes of greater than magnitude 3 have climbed sharply in the last decade, from an average of 21 per year before 2000 to 188 in 2011. Ellsworth's article, "Injection-Induced Earthquakes ," is a review paper, and it provides an excellent overview of the topic. Here is Ellsworth's abstract:
Earthquakes in unusual locations have become an important topic of discussion in both North America and Europe, owing to the concern that industrial activity could cause damaging earthquakes. It has long been understood that earthquakes can be induced by impoundment of reservoirs, surface and underground mining, withdrawal of fluids and gas from the subsurface, and injection of fluids into underground formations. Injection-induced earthquakes have, in particular, become a focus of discussion as the application of hydraulic fracturing to tight shale formations is enabling the production of oil and gas from previously unproductive formations. Earthquakes can be induced as part of the process to stimulate the production from tight shale formations, or by disposal of wastewater associated with stimulation and production. Here, I review recent seismic activity that may be associated with industrial activity, with a focus on the disposal of wastewater by injection in deep wells; assess the scientific understanding of induced earthquakes; and discuss the key scientific challenges to be met for assessing this hazard.
Ellsworth points out that approximately 110,000 UIC class II wells are used for enhanced oil recovery. In addition, 30,000 class II wells in the United States are used for wastewater disposal. Of these wells, most have no detected seismicity within tens of kilometers, only a few are correlated with seismicity. As the previous paper discussed, seismic activity seems more probable around wastewater injection wells.
There has been a growing realization that the principal seismic hazard from injection-induced earthquakes comes from those associated with disposal of wastewater into deep strata or basement formations. Earthquakes release stored energy when a fault slips. A fault remains locked as long as the applied shear stress is less than the strength of the contact. The problem here is that injection wells can help promote a slip, which results in an earthquake. The reason this happens is that injecting fluid into a rock formation increases what is called pore pressure. Complicating matters, changing the loading above a fault can also cause a slip. This can happen from removing oil from the ground. These mechanisms are shown in the figure above.
Ellsworth goes into great detail, including an analysis of three fairly significant induced quakes going back a half century. There is no escaping the fact the the number of earthquakes detected has risen. Below is a plot of the cumulative earthquake count for magnitude 3 and greater quakes across a portion of the U.S. As can be seen, the rate has risen in recent days above the long-term rate of 21.2 earthquakes/year. States experiencing elevated levels of seismic activity included Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. The greatest rise in activity occurred in 2011 when 188 M ≥ 3 earthquakes occurred. But is this a reason for concern?
In environmental circles and on the political left fracking is portrayed as just as bad as nuclear energy. Hollywood has already generated movies trying to do to fracking what The China Syndrome did to nuclear energy. And it is not just oil and gas production that have fallen under suspicion. Efforts to increase geothermal power production are being tainted by concern over induced earthquakes.
Often touted as a renewable green energy source, geothermal's dark side is examined in an article, "Anthropogenic Seismicity Rates and Operational Parameters at the Salton Sea Geothermal Field," by Emily E. Brodsky and Lia J. Lajoie, both from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Although increased seismicity commonly accompanies geothermal production, induced earthquake rate cannot currently be forecast based on fluid injection volumes or any other operational parameters" they write. "We show that at the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, the total volume of fluid extracted or injected tracks the long-term evolution of seismicity." Regardless of what green energy advocates say, no source of energy is free and all have their risks.
Geothermal – green energy with a few free earthquakes thrown in.
Perhaps even more telling is one of the sites used in the Ellsworth study. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation extracts saline groundwater from shallow wells where the Dolores River crosses Paradox Valley to prevent its entry into the Colorado River system. Since 1996, the brine has been disposed of by injection into a 4.3-km-deep UIC class V well. Injection has induced more than 1500 earthquakes with M ≥ 1, including the MW3.9 earthquake on 25 January 2013, which was located 8 km northwest of the well. Sometimes earthquakes are caused by conservation efforts, not those evil oil industry types.
In the end, Ellsworth concludes that the earthquake risk from fracking itself is minimal, and even the threat from wastewater injection wells is not very great: "Long-term and high-volume injection in deep wells clearly carries some risk, even though most wells are apparently aseismic. In contrast, earthquakes induced during hydraulic fracturing have lower risk because of their much smaller magnitudes. The largest fracking-induced earthquakes have all been below the damage threshold for modern building codes."
In the final analysis, a few small tremors from fracking is nothing more than the price of our modern technological civilization. When compared to the damage caused by burst dams and unregulated air pollution the fracking threat is pretty minimal. Of course, there are those who demand there be absolutely no possibility of any danger, regardless of how slight. Those fools would have us all return to living in trees, noble savages hunting and gathering among our fellow animals.
No thanks, I like technology: fresh plentiful food year round, heating and air conditioning, city water and sewage, automobiles and airplanes, all the benefits of our hydrocarbon based infrastructure. If my bed occasionally shakes gently in the night (which it does here in central Arkansas) so be it. In fact, I find it rather reassuring. Life entails risk, only the dead are free from it.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When to slow down and retire? For most people in their 60s the decision is a no-brainer -- the sooner the better. But in the rare air of movie stardom, where careers are fueled by a mix of talent, ego, vanity and, sometimes, cosmetic surgery, it seems to be a far harder decision.
Hollywood's latest example is Harrison Ford, 65, the aging archeologist hero of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which debuts around the globe next week after its world premiere at the Cannes film festival.
But Ford is not alone in trying to maintain an image as a strapping young action hero. Movie icons from the 1960s and 1970s from Al Pacino to Sylvester Stallone still insist on winning the day and getting the girl -- even if she's 40 years younger. Even Robert De Niro has taken questionable roles lately, playing a cross-dressing flying pirate in "Stardust."
A few, notably Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Clint Eastwood, seem to have accepted the idea that their leading man status is now well behind them. Beatty is now a sort of elder statesman in Hollywood. Eastwood is an Oscar-winning director, and Nicholson is, well, Nicholson.
Ford is luckier than most. After a long string of dismal thrillers and dramas, the star is back in a role which, in three previous Indiana Jones movies that ending with "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 19 years ago, have generated around $1.1 billion at global box offices.
"Suddenly he's cool again and on every magazine cover in America," notes Leonard Maltin, "Entertainment Tonight's" film critic/historian. "But without that role maybe he'd be in the same boat as the others."
Moreover, early word on "Crystal Skull" is that Ford and creators Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have insisted "Indy" roughly match Ford in age. Some of the heavy lifting on the action front goes to Shia La Beouf, his 21 year-old co-star.
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AroundThen enables real-time interaction and engagement at events. Founder and CEO Ken Mawbey, tells EN how the tech firm started as a solution to event networking problems.
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Season tix/regular buyers probably knew it was coming, certainly. I think it's going to be the "casual'/walk up who RSE is really going to be trying to attract-depending on how much they've followed things, or not-their reactions could be anything from "I guess they had to charge for parking" to "25 dollars a game parking-I thought they were trying to encourage people to come!" (in other words, from completely subdued to completely shocked).
It's the casuals and new fans they are trying to attract that will be the determiners IMO on how much the price of parking affects the attendance.
As was mentioned before in the old thread-between now and 5 years, they are going to start paying a LOT more in parking, raised ticket prices, concessions, ect ect-and it will be seen what effect it has and whether people will start paying said higher prices.
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Combatting group think in fantasy trades
Ryan McKee explores the concept of group think and how looking ahead a few weeks can uncover excellent buy low candidates.
Combatting group think in fantasy trades
One of the most well-known cognitive biases that humans are subject to is called group think. Often referred to as 'wisdom of the crowds,' it's the notion that we are easily swayed by the popular opinion. Part of the reason why we have difficulty completing trades is that we're all dealing in a present day reality that is subject to group think. We all generally feel the same about Andrew Luck and Dion Lewis as buy lows and Travis Benjamin as a sell high.
But what if you could anticipate a future buy-low? Starting that trade conversation a little earlier than the rest of the fantasy community might give you a real chance at completing the deal before the wisdom of the crowd catches on. This is what I call seeding trades. By initiating conversation early, what you find is that you're almost creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your opponent is initially lukewarm on the idea but then sees a bad week or two and will wonder if he should pull the trigger after all. You may even find a slightly sweeter deal as he attempts to revive discussions previously had.
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On their way down, the summit successfully bagged, Simpson fell and broke a leg. Yates, to save his own life - and according to the unwritten mountaineering code - cut the rope between them. Simpson's account of the journey - and of his own miraculous crawl back to the safety of base camp - became Touching the Void, now widely acknowledged as a classic of mountaineering literature, to stand alongside such works as David Craig's Native Stones or Heinrich Harrer's The White Spider. And Simpson - buoyed by the success of the book - went on to become an established mountaineering author.
Now, though, it looks as if his writing might be coming to an end. The Beckoning Silence, his latest, has a ring of finality about it. "The attrition of friends over the years had begun to eat away at my confidence, at my nerve," he writes. For the first time in his life, nearing 40, he was finding it "increasingly difficult to psych myself up for this climbing game".
It was only after some persuasion from his literary agent that he sat down and began to write again. What has resulted feels valedictory: a long, bittersweet farewell to the mountains he has loved and which have given his life much of its meaning.
What comes through strongest is the paradox of climbing: its danger, and yet its attraction. A single photograph - included in the plate section - encapsulates this beautifully. Four climbers - Harrer, Fritz Kasparek, Anderl Heckmair and Ludwig Vorg - laugh euphorically, arms around each others' shoulders. The year is 1938, and they have just completed the first ascent of the fearsome north face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Just to one side are the awestruck faces of two young boys, staring open-mouthed, as if in adoration.
The ascent they have just witnessed, after all, is one of the world's legendary climbs: more than 60 men have died attempting it.
For much of Simpson's life, such danger was "where you defined yourself, balanced tenuously between life and death". But then, almost destroyed by a rockfall in the Bolivian mountains in 1998, the truth dawns. "I no longer loved the mountains."
With the words of Canadian mountain poet Syd Marty ringing in his ears - "Men fall off mountains because/ they have no business being there" - he decides instead to take up paragliding. And, for a while, this suffices. "I could fly. It seemed pretty damned special." Gradually, however, he returns to the mountains and finally, unable to refuse an invitation from a friend to attempt the north face of the Eiger, he finds himself in Switzerland.
Such is the sheer difficulty of the almost sheer north face that it has become its own legend, and Simpson brilliantly splices his own preparations with the stories of those who have gone before. He also, somehow, manages to write with a winning black humour: a "peeler" or "lob", he explains, is a "scary but survivable short fall"; a "zipper" is when all your gear "rips out". "So 'bombing off ', an uncontrolled free fall, can rapidly escalate into a 'screamer', particularly if zipping occurs."
All levity disappears, however, when he and his climbing partner - halfway up the north face - are hit by a thunderstorm. During the deluge, he hears a strange, muffled sound: only later does he discover that this was the noise of the two climbers above him falling to their deaths.
Simpson retreats, beaten by the mountain, and maybe for the first time feels no anxiety about this decision, no sense of failure. He recognises, however, that the mountains will continue to exert their siren call: "There is about the mountain the beckoning silence of great height." But henceforth - if he goes at all - it will be with the painful wisdom of years, and with extreme caution.
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Tottenham are in talks with Italy and Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo over a move to White Hart Lane next summer, former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli has suggested.
The 34 year-old playmaker, whose contract with the Serie A champions expires in June next year,is has yet to sign a new deal at the Turin club amid uncertainty over coach Antonio Conte's future.
Vialli was quizzed on Pirlo's current situation while working as a pundit for Sky Italia and the former Chelsea boss claimed that a move to White Hart Lane could be in the offing.
"I heard the rumours from London that there are contacts between Pirlo and Tottenham for next season," Vialli said.
Pirlo has spent his entire career in Italy, playing for Bresica, Internazionale, AC Milan and now the Old Lady.
The midfielder revealed in his autobiography that he came close to joining Chelsea, Real Madrid and Barcelona during his time at AC Milan.
He writes: "I had already reached an agreement with Chelsea, then after Berlusconi intervened and I stayed at Milan. I was also very close with Capello at Real Madrid and nearly joined them in 2006."
"[Pep] Guardiola then convinced me to join Barcelona in 2011, but Berlusconi stepped in again."
Pirlo has 104 caps for the Azzurri, scoring 13 times in his international career.
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The Long Island Lizards made their first trade of the offseason by acquiring Midfielder Collin Briggs from the Denver Outlaws in exchange for Zack Greer. The Lizards also acquired a draft pick in the 2013 supplemental draft.
Briggs played in 10 games (including both playoff games) in his rookie season and tallied two goals and four assist. In his senior season at the University of Virginia, Briggs finished with 34 points, which was good enough for third on the team behind Steele Stanwick and Chris Bocklett.
Lizards head coach Joe Spallina on the trade: "We are excited about acquiring Briggs. A first rounder last year, who got valuable experience in his first season in the league will help to add to our young core."
Greer did not report to the Lizards this season and played in LXM. Long Island retains the draft rights to Rob Pannell, who was injured and kept a year of NCAA eligibility. They also have Tom Palasek, rookie of the year Matt Gibson, Grant Catalino and Ryan Young at attack.
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Noninvasive automatic determination of mean arterial pressure
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A new instrument for the indirect noninvasive measurement of mean arterial pressure (m.a.p.) has been constructed and evaluated in man. The instrument does not require an external microphone or transducer and determines m.a.p. rather than systolic and diastolic pressure. Instead, the method employs the point of maximal oscillations as an indicator of m.a.p. The instrument automatically inflates a standard blood pressure cuff and determines the m.a.p. by measuring the cuff pressure oscillations as the cuff pressure is reduced by discrete increments. Cuff deflation in discrete increments, instead of continuously, allows the oscillation data obtained at each cuff pressure to be tested for artefacts and averaged, greatly enhancing artefact-rejection ability. The m.a.p. is selected as the lowest cuff pressure at which the oscillation amplitude is a maximum. The instrument was tested on the bicep and ankle in a series of 28 studies involving 17 human subjects with intra-arterial catheters. Averaging the mean errors from each of the 28 studies, there was an overall mean error of — 0·23 mmHg, with a standard deviation of 4·21 mmHg. The correlation coefficient was 0·98. The instrument was found to give good results in a wide variety of clinical subjects and physiologic states.


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Barack Obama, our next President
There are 1548972 comments on the Hampton Roads Daily Press story from Nov 5, 2008, titled Barack Obama, our next President. In it, Hampton Roads Daily Press reports that:"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama cautioned. Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level, Obama smashed through racial barriers and easily defeated ...
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Thoughts from The Diplomad
"Unlike Saddam, the Taliban, or Al Qaeda, crazy old Qaddafi posed no threat to the US homeland or to our interests abroad. One of the great achievements of the Bush administration was that it defanged Qaddafi-- dismantled his nuclear weapons program and turned him into a valuable source of information on Al Qaeda. That administration basically treated Qaddafi as though he were an aged sex offender, put him under house arrest and tagged him with an ankle monitor. Qaddafi, once the darling of the left, became just a cranky old man with an odd fashion sense selling his oil to whomever wanted it. <....> [W]e had an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.
Then, Qaddafi got himself a rebellion. OK. People in Libya are unhappy. OK. He is a crazy gangster and responded like a gangster. OK. And our interests are what? Are they so pressing as to justify Obama's incredible abuse of Presidential power? <...> What is the mission? No Fly Zone, or blast Qaddafi into the arms of 72 virgins? What result will make any difference to American national interests? What are our interests in this?
Those questions never got answered, and we ended up as predicted,
The US, of course, will have to take over the whole operation when it becomes patently clear that neither the British nor the French have the capabilities needed. That, therefore, means the whole mess will be ours: the UN will back off; the Arab League will be nowhere to be seen; and the EU will be snickering behind our backs with not a word of thanks for having secured their oil supplies. And the Libyans? All of them, pro- and anti-Qaddafi, will be angry with us and our intervention."
#790999 Nov 2, 2012
Disaster Recovery Teams Turned Away in New Jersey Power Company workers turned away because they are non-union .
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Scratching For The Truth Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief
The Obama administration sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night, ignoring calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours away. It has spent the past seven weeks stretching the story out, engaging in misdirection and deception involving supposed indigenous outrage over an obscure anti-Muslim video, confident that with the aid of a docile press corps this infamous climax to four years of misguided foreign policy can be swept under the rug, at least until after Tuesdays election. Continue reading
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Christie and Obama are addressing real issues
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President Obama is working on real issues
#791002 Nov 2, 2012
Really? NOT what it says here!
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY (WAFF)- The hurricane-ravaged east coast has been receiving north Alabama help, but crews from Huntsville Utilities learned theyll be doing work in Long Island, New York instead of in New Jersey.
Crews from Huntsville, as well as Decatur Utilities and Joe Wheeler out of Trinity headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they cant do any work there since theyre not union employees.
#791003 Nov 2, 2012
Its not the news anyone wants to hear, but a coastal storm may affect New Jersey during the middle of next week.
Forecast models show the potential for a noreaster to develop and bring more wind, rain and even some inland snow Tuesday night and Wednesday. Lets be clear though, if the storm does develop it will have nowhere near the impacts of Hurricane Sandy, but could hamper recovery efforts and cause some further beach erosion along the coast.
#791004 Nov 2, 2012
Opinion: Why you should vote for Mitt Romney
I am voting for Mitt Romney. And if you are concerned about a future of freedom, prosperity, security and fairness, so should you.
The most important trait for a president to possess is leadership.
The country today faces some severe problems. The optimum solutions should benefit the majority of the people without infringing on the basic rights of any citizen.
Past presidents have accomplished this by gathering as much information as possible from both sides of a debated issue.
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For Women voters who might be a little weary of the extreme conservative movement aka American "Talibans"
#791008 Nov 2, 2012
Who Killed Lucia and Leo Krim?
On 10/25/2012 two corporate financial media bastions, MarketWatch (an affiliate of the Wall Street Journal) and CNBC, presented their readers with a bombshell. In a too-good-to-be-true lawsuit, the top echelons of the USAs banking and civilian government had been sued for racketeering and money laundering. The suit requested the return of $43 trillion to the United States Treasury. Yes, youve read that right: 43 trillionroughly 3 years worth of Americas GDP or 3 times Americas underestimate of its own national debt.
The suit characterizes itself, according to these two corporate media tabloids, as
#791010 Nov 2, 2012
You're lying again DB, but that's what you and the other right wingers on this thread do.
Obama did not have 60 votes in the Senate for two years or even a majority of those two years. The only time he did was;
 From July 7. 2009 (when Al Franken was officially seated as the Senator from Minnesota after the last of Norm Colemans challenges came to an end) to August 25, 2009 (when Ted Kennedy died, although Kennedys illness had kept him from voting for several weeks before that date at least); and
 From September 25, 2009 (when Paul Kirk was appointed to replace Kennedy) to February 4, 2010 (when Scott Brown took office after defeating Martha Coakley);
 For one day in September 2009, Republicans lacked 40 votes due to the resignation of Mel Martinez, who was replaced the next day by George LeMieux.
By the way moron, it's not the President who submits a budget it's the responsibility of Congress and there is nowhere in the Constitution that even requires a budget. The 1921 Budget and Accounting Act requires the President to submit a budget to Congress and Obama has in fact submitted one every year he's been in office.
You're an idiot DB.
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The official account from the CIA says you're a liar and a complete idiot DB.
abcnews.go.com/.../new-detailed-account-of-be... ...
Thge use of a C-130 gunship would have been stupid since there were no viable targets and would have resulted in a largfe number of civilian deaths. But hey, they're just a bunch of Muslims and that would be okay to a morally repugnant POS like you.
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Yes People don't care. They just wanted a black president. Period.
You're right, they have no one to blame but themselves when taxes skyrocket and the military becomes downsized, leaving us vulnerable to attacks.
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There were targets, you moron.
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#791018 Nov 2, 2012
Just saw a Romney ad put out by Romney.
He drags out the blatant lie about Obama gutting the work requirement fr welfare.
He implies that Obama added 6 trillion to the debt.
Mitt Romney is a blatant liar.
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#791020 Nov 2, 2012
I can only hope. The bigger question is will the offense play any offense.
#791021 Nov 2, 2012
So is obama , I just hope my liar gets more votes than your liar .
#791022 Nov 2, 2012
Mitt Romney's Italy Comments Spark Anger
After riling Londoners over the summer with his critiques of the 2012 Olympics, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney managed to offend a different part of Europe with remarks he made at an event Thursday.
Italians reacted ferociously after local news agencies reported that Romney used the country as a negative example for what America's economy could become if it continues on its current trajectory.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Virginia, Romney reportedly asked the audience:
If you're an entrepreneur and you're thinking of starting up a business, you need to ask yourself: Is America on the same road as Greece? Are we on the path to an economic crisis like that we're seeing in Europe, in Italy and Spain?
Italian politicians were quick to rebuff the candidate's statements, which were, the Guardian noted, given "front-page prominence" there. HuffPost Italia reported on the local reaction.
Romney says he doesnt want to end up like Italy? Well ... the U.S. did already end up like Italy, or is actually doing worse, considering they have the same bad things as we do, like the deficit," Gianfranco Polillo said, according to HuffPost Italia. "But they dont have our good things, like the quality of life, he added.
According to Valter Verini, deputy of the social-democratic party, Romney's political culture is to blame for the world economy's downfall in the first place. "Its hard to believe that who caused the worst has solutions for the future. It would be better for Romney to think about the consequences of liberalism with no rules. Everyone can give lessons but him," Verini said.
Osvaldo Napoli, deputy for the center-right party, accused the Republican candidate of lacking experience in governing. "Romney has no appropriate knowledge of the situation in Europe. Any comparison between the American situation and ours is a primary error from someone who never ruled before, he reportedly said.
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Noreaster heading up the coast for next week.
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Wow, you brag abut the number of posters here that are as stupid , ignorant & uninformed as you to be some kind of measurement of the truthfulness of my posts.
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Cuba hopes for more investment as Chinese president arrives
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HAVANA, July 21 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a two day visit to Cuba on Monday evening, stirring hopes on the island that China will finally invest in the country after a number of important deals never materialized.
Xi was to meet with President Raul Castro on Tuesday and then fly to Santiago de Cuba to see plans to improve port facilities and recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy, which devastated Cuba's second city almost two years ago.
Xi was in Brazil last week for a summit of the BRICS nations, which also includes Russia, India and South Africa. He then traveled to Argentina and Venezuela, signing a raft of multi-billion dollar credit and investment agreements, before stopping in Cuba on his way home.
Communist-run China and Cuba are close political allies. Generous trade credits have made China the island's largest creditor and second biggest trade partner after Venezuela at $1.4 billion last year.
China has rescheduled Cuba's government and commercial debt, believed to top $6 billion. But large investment agreements for the nickel industry, signed in 2000, another in hotels, and a deal to expand an oil refinery agreed five years ago, have not materialized.
Chinese-made cars, buses, locomotives, ships and household appliances are increasingly prevalent in Cuba. China's flag flies from leased oil rigs along the northwest coast and a modern container port boasts Chinese equipment, but direct investments are limited to a communications venture established 15 years ago and an onshore oil block in Pinar del Rio province. Continuación...


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Quantitative trait loci controlling water use efficiency and related traits in Quercus robur L.
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Genetic variation for intrinsic water use efficiency (Wi) and related traits was estimated in a full-sib family of Quercus robur L. over 3 years. The genetic linkage map available for this F1 family was used to locate quantitative trait loci (QTL) for Wi, as estimated by leaf carbon stable isotope composition (δ13C) or the ratio of net CO2 assimilation rate (A) to stomatal conductance to water vapour (gw) and related leaf traits. Gas exchange measurements were used to standardize estimates of A and gw and to model the sensitivity of gw to leaf-to-air vapour pressure deficit (sgVPD). δ13C varied by more than 3‰ among the siblings, which is equivalent to 40% variation of Wi. Most of the studied traits exhibited high clonal mean repeatabilities (>50%; proportion of clonal mean variability in global variance). Repeatabilities for δ13C, leaf mass per area (LMA) and leaf nitrogen content were higher than 70%. For δ13C, ten QTLs were detected, one of which was detected repeatedly for all 3 years and consistently explained more than 20% of measured variance. Four genomic regions were found in which co-localizing traits linked variation in Wi to variations in leaf chlorophyll and nitrogen content, LMA and sgVPD. A positive correlation using clonal means between δ13C and A/gw, as well as a co-localisation of QTL detected for both traits, can be seen as validation of the theoretical model linking the genetic architecture of these two traits.


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