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by Tom Utescher
If runners' singlets had numbers like uniforms in other sports, there's one that Springside Chestnut Hill Academy would retire without hesitation.
With the departure of the Class of 2012, the local school bids farewell to phenomenal long distance dynamo Dustin Wilson, who is taking his talents on to Columbia University.
He made observers begin to take notice when he was a middle schooler. Starting out in his varsity career at 5'4" tall and 107 lbs., the diminutive Wilson didn't get lost in the crowd simply because he was always in front of it. Each cross country and track season brought new victories and milestones.
As a senior this school year, Wilson (who has burgeoned to 5'6", 118 lbs.) started off in September at the Briarwood Invitational, winning the event with the third fastest time ever recorded by a high school harrier (and fastest of any Pennsylvanian) on the Belmont Plateau course in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. At the end of the month he finished first at the expansive Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University by nine seconds, and a few weeks later he claimed the Inter-Ac League title for the third year in a row, this time smashing the old course record by more than a full minute.
After repeating as the PA Independent Schools champion, he eventually earned a trip to the Footlocker Cross Country Nationals in San Diego, Calif., where he placed 13th in the country.
During the winter he faced another elite field at the New Balance Indoor Nationals, where he placed fourth in the 5000 meters with a time of 14 minutes, 55 seconds and was named an All-American.
In outdoor track this spring, Wilson capped his Inter-Ac League career by becoming the 1600 and 3200 meter champion for the third year in a row, setting a new meet record of 4:18.17 in the 1600.
"He's the best distance runner ever to come out of the league," stated longtime Blue Devils' coach Paul Hines, who praised Wilson not only for his physical ability, but for his unflagging commitment to improvement.
"Of the distance runners I've coached," Hines said, "Dustin immersed himself in the sport more than anyone, reading up on aspects of competition and training, communicating with people. He really understands the sport.
"I think he's also partially responsible for raising the level of distance running in our league," the coach went on. "That's something that can go in cycles with the different events, and distance is a strength right now in the Inter-Ac."
Another veteran coach in the league, Penn Charter's Stephen Bonnie, expressed his admiration, as well.
"I think he represents our league well as a runner, as a student, and as a person," the Quakers' skipper said. "Sometimes there can be some resentment of an athlete of that caliber, but I don't know anybody who doesn't really like Dustin. He's absolutely superhuman in his relentlessness and his natural endurance, and his ability to go through extremely difficult training without breaking down. Part of it is natural ability, as with any elite athlete, and part of it is his work ethic and effort, which are legendary."
From kindergarten up through fourth grade Wilson attended Episcopal Academy, then changed over to what was then Chestnut Hill Academy. When confronted with the school's athletic activity requirement as he reached the sixth grade, he felt no particular familial influence when selecting a sport. His father ran track briefly in high school, but that was about as far as his athletic pedigree extended.
One of the smallest boys in his class, he reasoned, "I would've gotten broken if I'd played football, and I didn't have the agility for soccer. Apparently, everyone played soccer when they were a kid, except for me. I would've had to learn a lot of things that other guys already knew."
Pretty much by default, he chose cross country and track.
Coach Hines remembered, "In seventh grade he began to make an impression as someone who has ability."
A year later, he was taking part in high school varsity events.
"He has a lot of stamina," Hines said. "He doesn't have a lot of fast-twitch muscle [common among sprinters and jumpers] in him; he's more of a grind-it-out distance kind of guy. He's been able to build strength by running the mile, and by getting stronger he does get some speed.
"He actually has deceptive speed," the coach went on. "He won the 800 at the league championships two years in a row, and this year in the Inter-Ac mile he ran the first two laps in 2:13 and then closed it out in 2:04. He's got some speed, but it's got to be in a prolonged kick, rather than a burst in the final 100 meters. In college he'll probably be more of a 5000 and 10,000 meter guy."
In his first varsity cross country season in 2007 Wilson, an eighth-grader, placed eighth overall at the Inter-Ac League championships. He was the second finisher for the Blue Devils behind senior teammate Ned Cunningham, who placed third. Malvern Prep junior Matt McCullough won that race, and he repeated as league champion the following year, but this time Wilson was the runner-up, nine seconds off of the winner's pace.
In indoor competition that winter, he earned a place in the spotlight on a much grander stage. At the Nike Indoor Nationals in Boston, Wilson won the freshman mile with a time of four minutes, 32.61 seconds.
In the spring, he would battle Malvern's McCullough in outdoor track. Early in the season, Wilson won a finishing sprint between the two in a relay event, but the Malvern standout came back to win both the 1600 and 3200 meter races in the regular-season dual meet between the Devils and Friars. At the Inter-Ac championships they split the difference, with Wilson taking the 1600 and McCullough winning the longer race.
From eighth grade to ninth grade, Wilson had lowered his time in the mile from five to four-and-a-half minutes, and the year after that he took another 10 seconds off his PR in the event.
From 10th grade on, he would rule the Inter-Ac in the 1600 and 3200. At the Inter-Ac meet in his sophomore year he was pushed hard in the 800 meters, but nipped Episcopal Academy's Jack Freese at the finish. Back in 1992, Penn Charter's Shawn Morgan had won all three distance races for the first time in the history of the Inter-Ac championship meet, which dates back to 1887. Wilson had matched that feat as a 10th-grader, and he did it again in his junior year. He did not enter the 800 meter race at the 2012 meet, content to win the two longer contests while setting a new Inter-Ac record in the 1600.
It was midway through high school that he committed himself to pursuing a running career that would extend into college.
"I had a stress fracture [in the right shin] at the end of my sophomore year, and I trained straight through it over the summer," he said. "In the fall, my first real race coming back was the Paul Short, where I came in third. I remember thinking that I had put all of this effort into the sport, and I couldn't see myself not doing it at a higher level after that."
Hines was always there to help him progress towards his short-term and long-term goals.
"Coach Hines absolutely knows what he's doing," Wilson said of the Blue Devils' ringmaster, a former high school and college runner who is still a regular in the Boston Marathon. "Every situation that somebody on the team might encounter – he's seen it before.
"Most of the time he'd give me the flexibility to train according to the way my body felt," Wilson went on. "Other times he'd say we're doing so-and-so, and I wouldn't be sure if that was the right workout at that time. Now I've come to the point where I say, okay, I'll just do exactly what he says, and it'll be fine."
Wilson, in his turn, was committed to the success of the team, not just to strictly personal goals. In the indoor and outdoor track seasons during his junior year, he ran the 1600-meter anchor leg for the Blue Devils' impressive distance medley relay (DMR) team, which included seniors Michael Fuery, Ian Miller, and Tate Sager. To do so, he had to forego some high-profile individual races in which he probably would have done very well.
"He realized he had the ability to take our DMR to the national level," Hines explained. "The other guys in the relay knew what he was sacrificing, and they all worked hard to bring their times down. That was our first relay to get to the national level indoors and outdoors.
"At the [New Balance] indoor nationals," Hines continued, "he ran a 4:13 and helped us qualify for the outdoor meet with a 10:31. Two days later he was in the slow heat in the two-mile and ran 9:12, so he was fifth overall and was named an All-American."
At the outdoor national meet in June down in Greensboro, N.C., the CHA foursome was slotted in the slow heat, but finished up 10th overall in 10:15.49, a time which brought them within nine seconds of designated All-American status.
For his anchor leg, Wilson said he received the baton roughly 10 seconds behind the frontrunners, and he recounted, "By the bell lap I was right with the leaders, and then I just pulled away from them coming around the bend. That was the proudest moment in my athletic career so far."
"Going 10:15 was phenomenal for a school of our size," Hines said, "and it was the second-fastest time for any Pennsylvania school last year, by less than one second."
Despite the hours of extra-curricular training Wilson did, he never fell behind in the classroom, attracting interest from a number of Ivy League universities and other prestigious schools.
Asked about his favorite academic pursuits, Wilson responded, "I think you'd have to say math and science. I took three math courses and one science course this year, which is two-thirds of my curriculum, so that kind of tells you."
Nevertheless, one of the reasons he chose Columbia is that he'll be able to start out in a broad-based liberal arts program before he focuses in on a major. Of course, it didn't hurt that during his college visit he was introduced to the university's president, Lee C. Bollinger, a running enthusiast himself.
Starting out afresh at the collegiate level should be a liberating experience for Wilson, according to Hines.
"One of the things that will benefit Dustin," he noted, "will be that there will be people who are better than he is, so he won't have to do the grind of leading the workouts all the time. On our team we had people who could stay with him for awhile, but nobody who could really push him on an extended basis. For the last couple years in our league meets, and even at most of the bigger invitationals, everybody sat back on Dustin and he had to set the pace."
Wilson said that early in his college career he expects "I'll be running cross country, obviously, and in track I think I'll be doing the 3000 and 5000 [meters indoors], and the 5k outdoors. I probably won't do the 10k until I get a better mileage base."
"I think CHA did a great job of preparing me for any challenge that will be presented to me next year," he reflected. "It's been a great place. I met people I'm probably going to be friends with for the rest of my life.
"To my knowledge," he went on, "there are very few places that are as supportive. You'll find something there that you really enjoy, you'll get involved, and you'll feel like part of something bigger than yourself, no matter who you are."


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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is a user-focused update that contains significant improvements in performance and in calendar reliability. This article contains a detailed summary of the improvements in each of these areas.
Note After you successfully install the update, the first time that you run Outlook there will be a small one-time delay as Outlook reprocesses your data files. After this initial process, performance will improve as described in this article.
Download the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 package now.
Note After you successfully install the update, the first time that you run Outlook there will be a small one-time delay as Outlook reprocesses your data files. After this initial process, performance will improve as described in this article.
Update informationThe following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 package now.
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Performance improvementsPerformance and responsiveness are key concerns for all our customers. That is why Microsoft made many performance tuning and optimization changes that are included in the 2007 Office suite Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Outlook 2007 SP2 delivers performance improvements in four major areas:
- General Responsiveness
SP2 reduces I/O disk usage and UI response time.
- Startup
SP2 removes long operations from initial startup.
- Shutdown
SP2 makes Outlook exit predictably despite pending activities.
- Folder/View Switch
SP2 improves view rendering and folder switching.
Calendar improvementsEnterprise-class calendaring has evolved into a complex system of synchronized clients and devices. Customers have multiple versions of Outlook and Microsoft Exchange in their organizations, and they also have many mobile devices that have calendar access. Each method for accessing and updating user calendars typically offers some form of read/write permission back to the original calendar, frequently by using uniquely defined validation logic. In enterprise delegate-manager scenarios, there is added complexity when many delegates are working on the same principal calendar at the same time. We recognize that customers require a high standard of reliability in these complex systems. Therefore, the Outlook team has improved the underlying data structures and general reliability of calendar updates.
This article includes a summary of the recent fixes in the "Individual bugs that are fixed" section. This should give you a broad overview of the improvements in performance and calendar reliability and of the other, more general improvements.
General improvementsIn addition to the core goals of improved performance and improved calendar reliability, Outlook 2007 SP2 contains many fixes that, in aggregate, improve stability and also address customer issues. The most important of these fixes directly target the top known issues that cause Outlook to crash or to become unresponsive. After you install SP2, you will notice increased stability over long periods of Outlook usage.
Other fixes in SP2 are spread across the following areas:
- Data File Checks
Far fewer data file checks at startup in which you see the following message:
The data file 'file name' was not closed properly. This file is being checked for problems.
- Search reliability
Improved search reliability when you use SP2 together with Windows Desktop Search 4. For more information about Windows Desktop Search 4, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Fewer duplicated items
- Security
General improvements in security
- Object Model
Now contains many customer-driven fixes
Outlook 2007 SP2 performance
General responsivenessThe overall responsiveness for Outlook 2007 SP2 is significantly improved over the responsiveness of Service Pack 1. Responsiveness can be loosely defined as the application's reaction time when you use the user interface (UI). A perfectly responsive application immediately begins performing the task that is requested even if that task takes a long time.
Making Outlook noticeably more responsive was a big priority for this release.
Storage engineThe most important changes come from underlying optimizations in the local storage engine. Both Personal Folders files (PSTs) and Cached Exchange Stores (OSTs) are built upon the same underlying storage engine. In this article, PST refers to both technologies. We have improved the general reading and writing characteristics of the PST so that less is demanded from the disk to perform the same general operations in Outlook. For example, file flushing is optimized so that it interacts more efficiently with the operating system and disk write caches. We have also changed the way that new data is written to the PST. Now, it is saved much more closely together on the physical disk and requires less physical work from the drive. This speeds up the time that is required to write the same amount of data. A side effect of this data writing algorithm is that PSTs are approximately 20 percent larger than in previous releases. However, we have observed large gains in write performance and a reduction in overall writing to the disk.
For more information about possible increases in .pst and .ost file size, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
968413 Outlook 2007: PST and OST files may be up to 20% larger after the February 24, 2009 Cumulative UpdateWhereas write optimizations have been the single biggest change in the storage engine, there are also other small changes that deliver additional benefits. For example, internal storage engine optimizations were made after analyzing the most common kinds of operations that the storage engine performed during typical usage. We have also optimized the way that internal "change notifications" are processed, especially when there are many of them. Specifically, when you add significant data to the PST, lots of notifications are triggered for various data structures to be updated to accommodate the new data. Because these notifications are faster and require less I/O, the raw performance of every small operation improves. This means significant savings over time.
User interfaceIn addition to optimizing the storage engine, Microsoft spent time and resources investigating and addressing some common sources of unresponsiveness in the Outlook application layer. We have seen that some of the most frustrating instances of unresponsiveness occur when Outlook is doing work that is unrelated to any user actions. Such situations are especially frustrating because the user cannot predict when they will occur or how long they will last. Two of the more common causes of Outlook unresponsiveness that are unrelated to user action were processing updates to the message list and processing updates to other elements in the main window in Outlook. Our engineering team undertook a complex effort to change the methods in which such updates are processed to minimize their effect on Outlook responsiveness in SP2.
Some other application layer changes that we made are for scenarios that may not affect all users. However, we believe that these scenarios are a significant source of dissatisfaction to the users who are affected. For example, when the Reminders dialog box appears, the prior behavior was to process and write the changes to the store immediately when the user requested an operation, such as dismiss or snooze. Now, those changes are queued so that responsiveness is immediately restored to the UI. Therefore, you can click Dismiss as fast as you can, and when the last reminder goes away, the dialog box will immediately disappear. We also made some changes to the way rules are processed so that many client-side actions, such as moving mail from a specific distribution list to a separate PST file, leave the Outlook UI far more responsive.
We have also made changes specifically targeted at customers who use POP and IMAP servers. For POP mail users, we now retrieve the newest e-mail messages first. This should help you obtain your most important work faster. IMAP mail users will notice that downloading message bodies no longer stops Outlook from responding to additional user commands.
Starting OutlookOur approach to optimizing the startup process is fairly straight-forward. We analyzed all the tasks that Outlook queues and improved the boot time by removing a few operations that were considered unnecessary and by better orchestrating the execution of the necessary tasks.
The result is a noticeable, positive improvement. Quantifying the exact improvement is difficult because most people's experiences vary widely based on several factors. These include the following:
- Number of add-ins
- Amount of memory on the computer
- Speed of the hard disk drive
- Number of other applications that are currently running
- Size of the mailbox and size of additional stores that are mounted (overall optimizations in the PST also help here)
- Number of customizations that are made to the UI that must be loaded
Essentially, we have seen Outlook start about two times faster in many of our tests and when we run builds for our daily mail use.
First startup experienceImmediately after you install the SP2 update, the first startup of Outlook will not be fast because Outlook must update internal PST data structures that are used in SP2 performance optimizations. This is a one-time occurrence that affects only the initial startup. The upgrade process may take from several minutes to two hours. The time depends on how large your PST and OST files are and on how many PST files are mounted in the profile during the first startup. As soon as the data structures are updated, Outlook will benefit from the improvements.
We hope that as soon as the upgrade process is complete and you begin to use Outlook 2007 SP2, you see that the rewards were worth the wait. There is a new upgrade dialog box that has progress to show the optimizing work that Outlook is doing to make everything faster on the disk. The responsiveness of Outlook will improve after this dialog box closes.
Tip If you install SP2 at the end of the day, start Outlook after the installation and before you go home. In the morning, everything will be done, fast, and waiting for you.
An alternative to waiting for this first startup experienceAn alternative to waiting for this upgrade dialog to complete may be useful in cases of large data files. Instead of updating data files on the first run of Outlook SP2, you may instead download a new copy of your mailbox. This creates a new disk storage file from scratch. When you do this, the storage upgrade happens dynamically as new content is added to your new local data file. Therefore, there is no upgrade dialog box. When Outlook is synchronizing your mailbox, it will display your newest mail first. It will become responsive to user actions without the user having to wait for the whole mailbox to be synchronized. Most of the synchronization happens in the background. This lets the user work with the recent mail data. This approach may provide a better user experience than the default process of upgrading the existing data files if the user has large data files of several gigabytes or more. For instructions about how to download a new copy of your mailbox, see the "How to Create an Offline Folder File for Exchange Server" section of the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:
290857 How to use offline folders (.ost) file in Outlook 2002
Note The time to complete the new OST/PST upgrade experience will be greatly affected if your profile includes PST files that are stored on a network share. This configuration is not supported by Microsoft and is known to cause performance issues generally. There are no workarounds or improvements planned for this upgrade scenario, so be aware of this additional one-time impact if you are currently running in this configuration.
ShutdownOutlook formerly had built-in logic that caused it to refuse to shut down when it detected that a third-party was using it for data access or was otherwise integrated with Outlook functionality. A side effect of this design was that Outlook would frequently did not exit for no apparent reason. If all storage providers support it, we have optimized SP2 to quickly shut down Outlook by stopping all server activity, flushing unsaved PST content to the disk, saving un-persisted preferences and settings, and then quickly exiting. Most notably, Outlook no longer waits for external references to be released.
Note Outlook Live Connector (OLC) 12.1 does not support this faster shutdown process. Therefore, Outlook must continue to use the slower shutdown method when OLC 12.1 is being used to make sure that data is not lost. The result is a consistently reliable shutdown, even during periods of heavy activity, such as server synchronization.
For more technical information for developers about how to update their applications to best integrate with this new shutdown model, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Folder/view switchFor folder switching and arrangement switching, we have developed a highly optimized, very compact new index of the folders' contents that is sorted by date. A date sort is the foundation of the most frequently used contents table arrangement. Being able to load a very small and always up-to-date version of this index in a short time is the backbone to a very fast folder switch experience in SP2. The new date index is much more effective, even with tens of thousands of items in a single folder.
The result is that switching to even the largest folders takes seconds, although sometimes the first switch to the folder can take longer while we build up the indexes. This, again, is a one-time cost.
Note Most of these gains appear when you use Outlook in Cached Exchange Mode together with OSTs and PSTs. Online Mode users will continue to see their view performance dictated largely by server performance and network conditions.
ConclusionOverall responsiveness has significantly improved with Outlook 2007 SP2. In our own daily usage of SP2 across several hundred computers, we have received much positive feedback about improved responsiveness.
Be aware that decreasing reading and writing demand on the disk has a positive effect on the minimum hardware necessary to maintain a good user experience. This is especially true for early generation solid state hard disk drives and for large local storage files that are frequently associated with large mailboxes or with large archive folders. To give customers more specific guidance, we are working on a more concrete numeric analysis of these improvements.
Outlook 2007 SP2 is a significant upgrade over Outlook 2007 SP1. Many of the most common tasks, such as shutdown and folder switching, are much more responsive in targeted scenarios.
Outlook 2007 SP2 calendaring Because having the same data everywhere is the foundation of a reliable calendar, it is no surprise that much of our work focused heavily on Cached Exchange synchronization. We improved the synchronization engine so that Outlook automatically resolves conflicting edits without generating alternative copies of the items in the Conflicts folder. We have also turned on the conflict resolution engine for delegates who cache their manager's calendar. By focusing heavily on synchronization, we have mostly eliminated the issues that caused problems, such as the following:
- Duplicate copies of a meeting
- Organizers have a different meeting version than attendees
- Disappearing meetings
- Reappearing meetings (usually exceptions)
- Meetings that are removed from the organizer but still remain on attendee calendars
General reliabilityIn addition to the synchronization focus, a collection of general purpose reliability fixes are also important. For example, in Cached Exchange Mode before SP2, an edit to a meeting could sometimes generate the following error message:
SP2 addresses this situation and prevents the conflict from disallowing saving. If you used Outlook add-ins before SP2, regardless of how many times that you tried to change an item, the change was never saved until Outlook was restarted. This issue is addressed in SP2. Also, add-ins that use persistent calendar transactions should be more reliable.
Changes to the meeting cannot be saved. The meeting has been updated by another person. Close and reopen the meeting, and then make your updates.
Changes to the meeting cannot be saved. The meeting has been updated by another person. Close and reopen the meeting, and then make your updates.
We have made other reliability improvements, such as keeping private items private on updates, the ability to dismiss reminders, and the elimination of duplicate recipients. Additionally, some issues that are related to the prompt for sending only to added or removed attendees are fixed. These issues generated an update to everyone on the meeting.
Time zonesTime zone definition and daylight savings definition changes are becoming globally more frequent. In response to this increasing customer need, we have changed how we deliver updates to the time zone and daylight savings tool. With SP2, updates are removed from Outlook and provided exclusively in the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook. The download tool has also been updated to include Start menu entries for increased visibility. This tool is supported in Outlook 2000, Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003, and Outlook 2007.
ConclusionWe have fixed many underlying problems in calendar use that could have previously caused unpredictable behavior. We want to make sure that everyone's calendars contain consistent information and that appointments work smoothly. We understand the importance of reliable calendaring to our customers. Therefore, we have spent much of time capturing feedback and debugging problems to improve the calendar experience.
Issues that are fixed in the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2A workbook is available that contains a list of issues that are fixed by this service pack.
Download the 2007 Office Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package now.
Known issues
- The .cnt, .osd, .vbp, and .hpj file attachments were added to the Outlook blocked extension list. For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
- Items in the mail message list shift temporarily while you are running an All Mail Item search in Online Mode.
- When you use Outlook 2007 SP2 together with Outlook Live Connector 12.1, duplicate entries occur in the Calendar and in Contacts. This is true unless all clients that are connected to the account are upgraded to SP2.

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The Fractured State of Shale Gas Development Regulation
By Guest Author, Eric Ellman, Comm. Dir., Yale Climate and Energy Institute
Five years into a prolonged recession the economic benefits of shale gas development are compelling. American shale gas reserves have buoyed the U.S. economy, reduced reliance on foreign oil and helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2012 alone shale gas and tight oil put $74BB into state and federal coffers and created 2.1 million jobs.(1) A broad-based shift from coal to natural gas has had the unforeseen effect of allowing the United States to reduce its CO2 emissions to Kyoto Protocol levels without even being party to the convention.(2)
At the local level, however, the potential negatives associated with development are less clear. Lacking that clarity, and without federal or state regulations to control the many adverse local impacts ranging from depleted groundwater to contamination, deteriorated roads and rising crime,(3) communities have responded the only way they know how, by passing moratoriums on development of the resource. And because local ability to use police and zoning laws originates with the State, there is a constant fear that courts will preempt the local action, allowing development to proceed and disregarding local concerns.
[The recent] 12th annual Land Use and Sustainable Development conference at Pace Law School included a YCEI-sponsored panel discussion developed with Yale Center for Law and Environmental Policy (YCELP) students and staff. YCELP identified 36 potential local impacts from gas shale development identified by communities around the nation not addressed by higher levels of government. The list and the workshop were intended to help communities develop planning and regulatory practices that protect them while allowing safe development of what could be a critical bridge fuel that lets the world meet its energy needs while minimizing atmospheric build-up of carbon dioxide.
At a pre-panel workshop to discuss that challenge, conference organizer Professor John Nolon suggested an ideal outcome: a model ordinance that financially strapped communities could use as the basis for safe and reasonable regulation, protecting them from impacts that are beyond the scope of state and federal regulations.
"A model ordinance would have made my job a lot easier," responded panelist Stephen Ross, County Attorney from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where residents had urged a moratorium to prohibit fracking in the scenic Galisteo Basis. Now the framework for drilling in Santa Fe County is established, and both residents and drillers know what to expect. For some, the new law is effectively the same as a ban: The company whose plans to drill had prompted passage of the Santa Fe Land and Gas Amendment to the Santa Fe County Land Development Code chose to explore for oil and gas elsewhere. For others the law may create new opportunities.
Santa Fe was enjoying the benefit of a strong economy at the time of their skirmish over hydrocarbons. That's not the case in New York towns that could be the scene of a land rush if and when the state lifts its fracking moratorium. "Many local governments have limited professional staff, few resources", was a common refrain among participants. Consequently, it's easy to imagine small communities embracing fracking when they see it's near-term benefits. While it's not a universal refrain, Dan Raimi, a researcher with Duke University's Energy Initiative quotes a local official telling him, "I wish we had a well on every road because the roads are so much better."
That echoes the experience of Joe Greenberg, co-founder with Todd Mitchell of Alta Resources, one of the first companies to find the sweet spots of key shales including the Marcellus and applied good engineering and hydraulic fracturing to develop them. In Joe's experience, it's communities that don't stand to benefit where opposition is strongest. Those likely to benefit from the resource, and those in states like Oklahoma and Texas where drilling is part of life's fabric, are least likely to have objections and most likely to have an efficient and centralized regulatory structure.
Others are less sanguine. Cornell Professor Susan Christopherson cited her survey showing that 67% of New York residents had low to no confidence that New York State officials will protect the economic and social stability of their communities.(4) Kate Hudson, Watershed Manager for River Keeper, a non-profit dedicated to safeguarding the Hudson River and its tributaries, is concerned about the nation's distribution network for gas shale products. Albany, New York has already become a major transshipment center for trains carrying North Dakota's Bakken oil to refineries on the Eastern Seaboard. Last December the Stenna Primorsk, an oil tanker carrying about the same 12,000,000 gallons of crude as the Exxon Valdez, ran aground en route to its destination of New Brunswick, Canada. Thanks to the double-hull design that became a requirement after the Valdez spill, no oil escaped. But, says Hudson, the accident revealed that despite the surge in tanker traffic no emergency management plan for responding to such an event on the Hudson currently exists.(5)
Panelist Jim Saiers, a Yale University hydrologist and expert on fracking offered the opinion that the most frequently vocalized concerns about water quality impacts from hydraulic fracturing can be addressed by appropriate regulations such as those conference organizers envision. A bigger question, he suggested, relates to the potential escape of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, during the drilling and production process.
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences summarizing data from 12,700 atmospheric samples collected over the United States in 2007-08 found methane levels 1.5 times higher than previously assumed by the EPA.(6) Levels over Texas and Oklahoma were up to 2.7 times higher with livestock and the oil and gas industry identified as primary contributors. Five years later, however, a joint study by the Environmental Defense Fund and the University of Texas indicates that companies following proposed new EPA "green completion" strategies reduce methane escape from natural gas wells by up to 99%.(7)
Successful reduction of fugitive methane – critical to capitalizing on natural gas's potential to satisfy energy demands with minimum contributions to greenhouse warming – is an example of how good regulations can reconcile the needs of the nation with local concerns. With climate change an issue for every community, a comprehensive model ordinance to help regulate gas shale development might include measures to assure compliance with methane management too.
1. America's Unexpected Jobs Boom. Daniel Yergin. http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/05/energy-us-jobs/
2. Rise in U.S. gas production fuels unexpected plunge in emissions. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324763404578430751849503848.
3. Controlling the local impacts of hydrofracking. Facilitated Discussion Outline. Yale Center for Law and Environmental Policy
4. Confronting an uncertain future. How US communities are responding to shale gas and oil development. Susan Christopherson and Ned Righter. National Agricultural and Rural Development Policy Center Brief 18, November 2013
5. Kate Hudson, personal communication
6. Emissions of methane in US exceed estimates study finds. Michael Wines. New York Times. November 11, 2013.
7. Study delivers good, bad news on climate impacting methane gas. Lisa Song and Jim Harris. Center for Public Integrity. September 13, 2013.
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As I'd mentioned in an earlier post, I thought I would do a quick recap of what I've been up to, in the last few months. This is presented roughly in reverse chronological order, and I've used photos to illustrate what I am talking about. (NOTE: I wrote this post in the mid of October, so it doesn't cover absolutely everything right up to the present time.)
150+ Days at the Gym
Looks good, no? I'm quite proud of that photo! I started going to the gym at office in mid-December 2011. For whatever reason, I kept count of the number of days I was actually working out, and that count has crossed 150 by now. I go to the gym on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday (since on Thursdays I attend Guitar class), so typically the count gets incremented by 4 every week, less than that if there are office holidays or I am travelling.
You could say this is a new hobby of mine and just like posting my drawings or photos, I'm uploading pictures taken at the gym to mark milestones. I posted the below one to mark Day 100, and that got a lot of Likes and comments on Facebook.
I was going to post one more when I hit Day 150, but towards that date, I knew there were going to be a few breaks since I was travelling for campus recruitment. Therefore, I posted the below photo when I reached Day 146.
I'd have left it at that but the Day 148 picture just kind of happened… and it looked good so that's my current Facebook and Twitter profile picture.
On a related note, here is a very useful link with a workout that you can do even if you don't have access to a Gym: Beginner Body Weight Workout from Nerd Fitness.
Covering events at office
Over the last few months I seem to have become an 'unofficial official' photographer for several events at work. It's been a great experience for me and a lot of fun.
Covering these events teaches you a lot – how to get better at not missing important moments, how to plan in advance about what kind of shots you want to get, the importance of getting the photos right in the camera, and the importance of selecting the shots that you want to show to others.
For no particular reason, while I was working on the photos from one particular event, I decided to tweet about the process of selection (read the tweets from bottom to top) –
As you can make out from the tweets, I shot more than 1300 images during the four hour event, and made a selection of around 250 images to show to others. However, out of that set, I further filtered images and only uploaded the 180 best ones to Facebook.
At one of the events, apart from being the photographer, I also played a small bit of music on guitar.
I later recorded a video of what I played that day. Here it is –
This was recorded at home with my Nokia 808 PureView phone, and as you can make out, the audio quality is really great! I edited the video on kdenlive and Windows Live Movie Maker. The old videotape-type font is called "Camcorder" and you can get it here.
Pecha Kucha Night Hyderabad
I attended Pecha Kucha Night Hyderabad Volumes 8, 9 and 10 in the recent past. I took photos at each one of them. I believe I may have put links to a couple of the albums in earlier posts, but for easy reference, here are the links (all are albums on Facebook) –
- PKN Hyd Vol 10 (1-Sep-12)
- PKN Hyd Vol 9 (30-Jun-12)
- PKN Hyd Vol 8 (31-Mar-12)
Two of the photos I took at PKN Hyd Vol 9 got printed in The Hans India newspaper.
(Both photos in that article are mine – you can see them on the Facebook album.)
Speaking of this, earlier (in May 2012), my Pecha Kucha presentation from November 2011 got mentioned on the Pecha Kucha Daily blog. My presentation is also there on the global site.
Blue Moon and Hard Disk
I took a photo of the Blue Moon from 1-Sep-12 – this is probably my best Moon shot yet.
At around that time, I also welcomed a new 1 TB hard disk to the family –
In the beginning of August, I went on a short trip during a long weekend to Mumbai. I stayed at my cousin's place, visited TCS Gateway Park office, met my friend Rajith there, watched Gangs of Wasseypur II, and participated in the TCS Fit4Life – 5 km Run with the CEO.
Here are the two Facebook albums that show photos from this all-important trip –
Two notable pictures – the below one shows me, Girish and Vrushodh – the crew behind the Gods of Galactica podcast (earlier known as Galacticast)…
…and here is a photo from the 5 km Run. This was the second 5 km Run I've ever participated in.
Secret Lake Photo
From earlier in August, here is a photo of Durgam Cheruvu, the "Secret Lake". This was shot from Inorbit Mall one afternoon when I went there for lunch, on my PureView phone.
After I wrote that long post about the Nokia 808 PureView, I tweeted it to the official Nokia account (@nokia). It was really nice of them to retweet it – and they mentioned they liked the post. I felt very happy about that.
I did the below drawing as a gift for my cousin on his birthday. I also got it printed on a t-shirt (that's what Girish and I are wearing, in the Galactica crew photo above).
Star Wars fans will know the background of this. For the uninitiated, here's the explanation in short. In the original Star Wars movie released in 1977, there is a scene in which the character Han Solo played by Harrison Ford, is confronted by the gangster Greedo in the Mos Eisley cantina. Greedo points a weapon at Han and says that Han owes money to the ruthless Jabba the Hutt. Han then shoots Greedo and exits the cantina.
In the 1997 "Special Edition" re-release of Star Wars, this scene was slightly altered, to show Greedo shooting first and missing Han (at very close range), and Han shoots Greedo after that. This alteration (though made by the movie's creator, George Lucas) was not looked at favourably by fans.
My cousin has a long post on this here. This is why I made this t-shirt for him!
On the topic of the alterations made for the Special Edition of Star Wars, it is to be noted that a fan called Harmy has created high-definition "despecialized" versions of all the movies in the Star Wars original trilogy. This is an assembled edit from various sources, since LucasFilm had not released the unaltered versions on Bluray.
More details at the below links –
Blue Sky at Hyderabad
Early in the month of June, there were a couple of days when the sky was a wonderful blue colour. A great opportunity for photography –
Here is the Facebook album with some more photos – Blue Sky.
Electric Guitar
For my birthday on May 15, I was lucky to get a great gift from my family – an electric guitar! I uploaded some photos of it on this Facebook album, and posted a short video of me playing it.
Rooftop Shooting Challenge
I had earlier written about a photo shooting challenge I'd done, of taking only B&W photos in my room at home. I tried a different challenge sometime later, of shooting with just one lens on the rooftop of my house.
Here is the link to the album on Facebook: Rooftop Shooting Challenge.
I believe I have covered most of the important events from the recent past in this post! More to come later.


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S.F. would feel Manningham's absence
On Wednesday morning, 49ers wide receiver Kyle Williams said, via Twitter, that he was about to undergo surgery for the season-ending ACL injury he sustained Nov. 25.
In the afternoon, wideout Mario Manningham missed practice because of a shoulder injury that forced him out of Sunday's loss to the Rams.
Yes, the wide receiver woes are mounting.
If Manningham can't play Sunday against the visiting Dolphins, the 49ers' wideout corps will consist of Michael Crabtree, Randy Moss, Ted Ginn Jr. and A.J. Jenkins. Ginn has two catches for 1 yard this season. Jenkins, the team's 2012 first-round pick, has yet to play a snap.
Manningham, who missed a game earlier this season with a shoulder ailment, left in the fourth quarter of a 16-13 overtime loss at St. Louis. It is not known if his latest injury is to the same shoulder.
Cornerback Tarell Brown (hamstring) also missed practice. He was on the field for all of the 49ers' defensive plays Sunday.
Bad play resonates: Three days after Colin Kaepernick's bad pitch on an ill-conceived play swung the momentum in Sunday's overtime loss, head coach Jim Harbaugh said it still stung. And he did so in graphic terms.
"It feels like somebody just reached into your chest and stomach and started pulling the innards out without using any anesthesia," he said. "But all you can do is learn."
Harbaugh, again, took the blame for not vetoing the play call of offensive coordinator Greg Roman. And Harbaugh acknowledged Kaepernick compounded matters by forcing the wayward pitch to Ginn.
"The play we called in the huddle was a loser, and we didn't have an audible for that play," Harbaugh said. "But also, once the play's going bad, to try not to make it any worse. It's a good thing for him to learn, too."
The play was so disastrous that it drew a seemingly derisive comment from Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who wondered what the 49ers "were trying to accomplish." Harbaugh said Fisher's quizzical response was understandable.
"The way it turned out, that's some low-hanging fruit, 'What the heck were they doing?' " Harbaugh said. "Again, you learn from it."
Eric Branch is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.


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I'm so excited to be co-hosting The View again this week! I'll be on THURS & FRI (7/25/ & 7/26)
Also, I would LOVE to be a permanent co-host and I've been making videos to show everyone just how much I want it!!
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Master teachers Allan McCormick and Adele Binelli will each be giving master classes at the Rock Center for Dance on May 11 and 13, respectively. Allan's classes are slated for 2-3:30 and 6:30-8 p.m. on Friday, May 11, and Adele will be teaching on Sunday, May 13, from 2-4 p.m.
Both artists are known for their contemporary flair and invigorating classes (and impressive resumes, if you're into that), so grab your game face and come on out.
If you're interested in seeing more work, check out Adele's YouTube channel here and some of Allan's choreography here. For more information about adult classes at the Rock, click here.
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The bats continued to sleep as the Phils lose to the Braves, 9-1.
The Phils continue having a hard time getting hits as they lose their second straight spring training game to the Braves, losing 9-1.
The game stays a 0-0 tie until the bottom of the fifth as Dan Uggla hits a lead-off home run, his second home run of the spring, giving the Braves a 1-0 lead. The Braves would increase their lead in the bottom of the sixth as, with a runner on first, and with nobody out, Edward Salcedo hits a two-run home run, his first home run of the spring, knocking in Jason Heyward, who had started the inning off with a single, giving the Braves a 3-0 lead. The Braves would make it a 4-0 lead five batters later as, with two men on, and with two men out, Andrelton Simmons hits an RBI single, knocking in Jose Constanza, who had earlier singled, then stopped at second base on Uggla's infield single, while sending pinch runner Philip Gosselin, who was pinch running for Uggla, up to second base. The Braves then made it a 6-0 lead as Jordan Schafer hits a two-run triple, knocking in Gosselin, and pinch runner Elmer Reyes, who was pinch running for Simmons. The Phils would get a run back in the top of the seventh as, with two men on, and with two men out, Kevin Frandsen hits an RBI single, scoring Tony Gwynn, Junior, who had started the inning off with a walk, then moved up to second base on Marlon Byrd's walk, making it a 6-1 Braves' lead, while sending pinch runner Clete Thomas, who was pinch running for Byrd, up to second base. The Braves would get the run back in the bottom of the eighth as, with a man on third, and with one man out, Gosselin hits an RBI single, knocking in Evan Gattis, who had started the inning off with a ground-rule double, then moved up to third base on Constanza's ground out, 4-3, giving the Braves a 7-1 lead. The Braves then made it a 9-1 lead two batters later as, with a man still on first base, and now with two men out, Todd Cunningham hits a two-run home run, his second home run of the spring, scoring Gosselin. That would end up being the final score as Cory Gearrin threw a 1-2-3 ninth.
David Buchanan threw three scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk. Sean O'Sullivan took the lost (1-1, 7.04) as he pitched two and two-thirds innings, giving up six runs on eight hits, while he struck out a batter. Kyle Simon pitched a third of an inning, striking out the only man whom he would face. Antonio Bastardo pitched a 1-2-3 inning, striking out a batter. Jake Diekman pitched an inning, giving up three runs on three hits, as he struck out a batter. Julio Teheran pitched four 1-2-3 innings, striking out three. Atahualpa Severino (1-1, 11.25) got the win as he threw an inning, plus one batter, walking a batter. Anthony Varvaro collected his third hold of the spring as he pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Craig Kimbrel pitched an inning, giving up a run on a hit and two walks, while striking out a batter. Juan Jaime and Cory Gearrin combined for two scoreless innings, giving up a hit (Jaime), while striking out a batter (Gearrin) between them.
The Phils had only two hits in the game, an RBI single by Kevin Frandsen and a single by Reid Brignac. The Phils also had three walks (Tony Gwynn, Jr., Marlon Byrd, Cody Asche) in the game, while the defense performed a doubleplay.
The Phils (2-10-2) play their next spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles (9-3), at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Florida. The game is to start at 1.05 pm EDT. The Phils plan to send to the mound A.J. Burnett (0-2, 12.60) who be trying to recover from his previous spring training start. The Orioles plan to counter with Ubaldo Jimenez (1-0, 0.00). The Phils will be trying to get out of their present hitless funk, before it can get any worst.


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Coker had an off night in all aspects of the game, shooting just 26.2 percent from the field, 68.4 percent from the free throw line, while also committing 27 turnovers.
Leading Coker was Rebecca Kolbeck with 11 points and three rebounds, while Henna Koponen had seven points and five rebounds.
Coker returns to the floor on Monday, as they host


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The following is from a letter sent to me by my old good friend Dave, about a famous building (see above) in the great European city of Vienna where he lives. As he says:
"It's called Karl-Marx-Hof (Karl Marx Court), and is the longest residential building in the world. For its time incredibly advanced for council housing.
"Well, it was of course renamed under the fascists (from 34 to 45) and at the end of the war the American commander of that section of Vienna (like Berlin divided into British, French, Russian and American zones) was a little bit worried about the locals' plans to restore the original name.
"So he called on the expertise of an emigre Austrian, Joseph T Simon, who was then an officer in the US army. According to Simon's autobiography, he was asked, among other things, "Did you know this Karl Marx personally?" "Was he a member of the communist party?" "What was his position on the Soviet Union?"
"Simon, who had been a member of the revolutionary socialist (social-democratic)youth movement in the 30s replied that, no he didn't know Marx personally and since Marx died in 1883 he obviously wasn't in a position to know anything about the Soviet Union, but that he was highly appreciated by social democrats.
"The army commander then sent out an internal army mailing saying that Mr Simon was extremely well informed about Marx and that he credibly argued that Marx wasn't a communist at all, but was closer to the Viennese Social Democrats, so there was no reason to change the name of the building --- so it's still called the Karl Marx Hof to this day."
Thus Karl Marx lives in the name of public building in Vienna.
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Havas Sees More Upbeat U.S.
Havas CEO David Jones sees more confidence coming back in the U.S. economy this year, and even in Europe. WSJ's Grainne McCarthy speaks to him at Davos. Photo: Getty Images
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Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI and three other firms were fined a record 1.47 billion euros ($1.92 billion) by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes for more than two decades.
The biggest penalty, of 313.4 million euros, was imposed on Dutch-based Philips, followed by LG Electronics with 295.6 million euros.
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The European Commission fined Panasonic Corp 157.5 million euros, Samsung SDI 150.8 million euros, Toshiba Corp. 28 million euros, and French company Technicolor 38.6 million euros.
Two Panasonic joint ventures were also fined. Taiwanese firm Chunghwa Picture Tubes blew the whistle on the cartel and was escaped a fine.
"These cartels for cathode ray tubes are 'textbook cartels': they feature all the worst kinds of anticompetitive behavior that are strictly forbidden to companies doing business in Europe," EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement.
He will hold a news conference on the case at 1130 GMT on Wednesday.
The Commission raided the companies in late 2007.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — A United Nations investigator on Tuesday urged Chile's government to stop using an anti-terrorism law against Mapuche Indians who are fighting to recover their ancestral land.
Violence in the Mapuche struggle escalated last year with a string of arson attacks, including one that killed an elderly couple. Their deaths shocked Chileans and raised questions about the inability of President Sebastian Pinera's government to meet the demands of Chile's largest indigenous group and his administration's vow to continue using tough dictatorship-era measures to curb violence.
Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special investigator on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the situation is "volatile" in the southern regions of Araucania and Bio Bio, where most of the nearly 1 million Mapuche live.
Speaking after a two-week visit to Chile, he warned "that it could turn into a major regional conflict unless urgent action is taken to deal with the acts of violence."
He said Chilean prosecutors have enough legislation "at their disposal to investigate and punish crimes" without the need to use the terrorism law that dates from Gen. Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship.
"The anti-terrorist legislation has been used in a way that discriminates against the Mapuche. It has been applied in a confusing and arbitrary way, which has turned into a real injustice that has impaired the right to a fair trial. And it has been perceived as stigmatizing and delegitimizing of the Mapuche territorial demands and protests," Emmerson said.
There was no immediate response from Chile's government.
Emmerson said Chile should come up with a strategy to solve the dispute, recognize the Mapuche under the constitution and speed up the return of their lands.
"The preliminary conclusions of the U.N. official go along with what we've been saying: that there's no terrorism and that this is a disproportionate law that only creates more tensions," said Aucan Huilcaman, a Mapuche leader.
"If Chile really wants to show its democratic side it must recognize the Mapuche people," Huilcaman added.
A radical faction of the Mapuche have occupied and burned farms and lumber trucks to demand the return of lands. Werner Luchsinger, 75, and wife, Vivian Mackay, 69, were killed last year when attackers torched their home in the heart of the indigenous land conflict. The only man arrested for the crime is a Mapuche.
Police have also been accused of violent abuses, including storming into Mapuche homes during raids and shooting rubber bullets indiscriminately at women and children.
Emmerson, who was invited to Chile by Pinera's government, said the Andean country must put an end to violence by police against the Mapuche.
Members of the Mapuche have gone on lengthy hunger strikes to protest the anti-terror legislation. Human rights groups say the law is abusive because it allows for suspects to be held in isolation without charge and for the use of secret witnesses and telephone taps.
The Mapuche, which means "people of the land" in their native Mapudungun language, resisted the Spanish conquest for 300 years and their desire for autonomy remains strong. It wasn't until the late 19th century that they were defeated militarily and forced into Araucania, south of the Bio Bio river, about 550 kilometers (342 miles) south of the capital.
Most live in poverty on the fringes of timber companies or ranches owned by the descendants of those who arrived to the region in the late 1800s from Europe.
Associated Press writer Luis Andres Henao contributed to this report.


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