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At Issue: Hydraulic Fracturing
All you need is regulation
As any Beatles fan knows, Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney have had their differences over the years. So it is striking that they are now working together to stop hydraulic fracturing. In fact, Ms. Ono has described this new method of drilling for natural gas and oil, which is also called "fracking," or "fracturing," as an "assaul[t] with dirty water." The truth is, though (borrowing again from the Beatles), that all you need is regulation. With the right regulatory strategy, we can manage the environmental risks, while reaping the extraordinary benefits of fracturing.
Those benefits were on display in 2009 when the United States passed Russia as the world's largest natural gas producer, and again last year when the world's most respected energy forecaster predicted that the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020. These developments would have seemed wildly improbable just a few years ago. But energy companies have learned to tap previously inaccessible shale oil and gas by pumping fluid into the shale at high pressure, cracking (or "fracturing") it to release gas and oil trapped inside.
The result is a massive new domestic supply of natural gas and oil. In 2000, shale supplied negligible amounts of oil and only 2 percent of domestically produced natural gas in the U.S. As recently as 2007, we were preparing to import natural gas. Yet since 2008, domestic natural gas production has increased by 25 percent. Today, 50 percent of our gas comes from shale and tight sands, with 80 percent expected by 2035. Pennsylvania has the second largest natural gas field in the world, and there are also sizable deposits in other states, including Texas, New York, Louisiana, and Ohio. As President Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union address, fracturing may generate 100 years of natural gas supply for the United States.
Fracturing has also unlocked massive supplies of domestic oil in shale. While shale produced only 100,000 barrels per day ("bpd") of oil in 2003, 2 million bpd were produced in 2012. The level is expected to rise to 4.5 million bpd in the coming years. Although U.S. oil production was in steep decline for decades, production increased by over 2.7 million bpd from 2008 to the first four months of 2013, which includes a 1 million bpd increase in 2012 alone. Although North Dakota was producing less than 1 percent of the nation's oil as recently as 2008, by 2012 North Dakota—drilling in its Bakken Shale, a 25,000–square mile sheet of embedded oil—was the second largest oil-producing state after Texas.
Economic, National Security, and Environmental Benefits of Fracturing
A cheap domestic supply of energy is a powerful engine of economic growth. According to an October 2012 study by the consulting firm IHS, shale oil and gas contributed $237 billion to U.S. GDP (or about 1.5 percent) in 2012, an amount expected to almost double by 2020. Likewise, IHS credits the shale revolution with 1.7 million U.S. jobs in 2012, and expects 3 million in 2020, representing 2 percent of total U.S. employment. Obviously, this is a significant boon to an economy that shed 5 million jobs in 2008 and has created jobs haltingly in the years since.
The shale gas boom has also enhanced consumer purchasing power by causing natural gas prices to plummet to less than one-third of their 2008 level. By contrast, natural gas prices are three to five times higher in Europe and Asia, which gives a sense of what U.S. prices would be if set by gas imports. The savings (e.g., on home heating and electricity bills) averages $926 per year for every American household—almost 2 percent of the U.S. median household income—and is expected to grow to $2,000 in 2035. Since every business spends on energy, this savings also hits the bottom line of U.S. businesses, enabling them to cut costs, increase profits, and hire more people. The most significant impact is on energy-intensive industries such as the petrochemicals industry.
Reducing our dependence on imported energy has obvious geopolitical advantages as well. Some of the world's oil and natural gas comes from nations that are either unstable or hostile to the United States, or both. The top eight oil-exporting nations are Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, Iraq, Kuwait, and Nigeria. Likewise, 70 percent of the world's conventional gas reserves (i.e., not including shale gas) are in Iran, Qatar, and Russia. Some of these regimes consistently seek to undermine U.S. foreign policy goals, and added oil and gas revenue strengthens their ability to do so. Recent events in the Middle East—the terrorist attack at an Algerian natural gas facility, the nuclear program in Iran, the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya, etc.—suggest that, if anything, the Middle East is becoming more unstable and hostile to the United States. It is fortunate, then, that the United States has gone from importing 60 percent of its oil in 2005 to 36 percent in early 2013, with further reductions in U.S. oil imports expected in the next two decades. The increase in U.S. oil production since 2005 is more than what Iran was exporting before sanctions were imposed, a fact that has made those sanctions more viable. Amazingly, the United States is projected to be 97 percent energy self-sufficient in net terms by 2035.
Shale gas is also an important component of any viable strategy to combat climate change. Natural gas burns cleaner than other carbon-based fuel, producing less carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and carbon monoxide than coal. Until recently, coal generated almost half of the electricity in the United States, but this level declined to 42 percent in 2011 and 36 percent in 2012, the lowest levels since these numbers were first tracked in 1949. This shift from coal to natural gas is one reason why U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have declined by 12 percent from 2005 to 2012 (including a 5.3 percent decline in 2012 alone), and are at their lowest level since 1994. This decline is the largest anywhere in the world, and occurred during a period when global emissions rose by 8 percent. Fracturing thus facilitates the use of natural gas as a bridge fuel, reducing carbon emissions in the near term, while solar and other renewable technologies are developed over the long term.
Air Pollution, Traffic, Water Usage, and Competition With Renewables
Yet the picture is not uniformly rosy. For example, although burning methane (the main ingredient in natural gas) releases relatively small amounts of CO2, releasing methane into the atmosphere—for instance, during drilling or from pipeline leaks—is a potentially significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Emphasizing this point, Professor Robert Howarth of Cornell has argued that shifting from coal to natural gas actually does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions when measured on a "lifecycle" basis. Yet this conclusion is not widely accepted. A number of studies fault Professor Howarth's assumptions and analysis, and reach a more favorable conclusion.
Indeed, in an April 2013 study, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that methane emissions declined by 8.2 percent between 1990 and 2011. Although this period coincides with a dramatic increase in natural gas production, methane emissions from natural gas production are down even more—by 10.2 percent.
Obviously, to the extent that methane leakage is contained, the benefits of using natural gas become even clearer. Fortunately, energy companies have an economic incentive to keep methane from escaping, so they can sell it. In addition, EPA regulations finalized in April 2012 reinforce this incentive, requiring energy companies to capture or burn methane released during drilling.
The fracturing boom also creates traffic and congestion. Fracturing itself uses significant amounts of water, although, as a recent Department of Energy study observed, "in most regions water used in hydraulic fracturing represents a small fraction of total water consumption." Fracturing may also increase the risk of minor earthquakes. Yet air pollution, traffic, water usage, and seismic activity all arise with other sources of energy, such as coal mining and conventional gas drilling, and the U.S. has experience handling them. Because these risks are familiar in other contexts, most are already governed by existing regulatory regimes.
Another concern might be that the shale oil and gas revolution could undercut the economic viability of renewable energy. This is not necessarily the case, though. Shale gas is often viewed as a bridge fuel, which will help satisfy the nation's energy needs until renewables are more competitive. In addition, since wind and solar are intermittent sources of energy, they need another source to fill in when they are unavailable, which usually is natural gas. Likewise, renewables and natural gas do not compete head-to-head, to the extent that government initiatives guarantee a percentage of the energy market to renewable energy. Nevertheless, there is some risk that cheap natural gas will undercut the political support for these initiatives and, more generally, will outcompete renewables so that they never become economically competitive.
In any event, while we agree with the goal of using taxes and other policy instruments to ensure that carbon fuel prices reflect their true social cost, including externalities, this strategy does not make sense if applied only to shale gas and oil, but not to other carbon fuels. If fracturing is banned or becomes significantly more expensive, while coal remains cheap, the result will not be more solar and wind energy, but more coal. This is not an outcome that environmentalists should favor.
Water Contamination
The most unique risk from fracturing—and the one attracting the most attention—is water contamination. There are three different aspects of this risk, and their magnitude is uncertain and intensely debated.
First, fracturing fluid can contain toxic chemicals, so it is important that it not seep into water wells after cracking the shale. Fortunately, this is quite unlikely, since thousands of feet of dense rock separates the "payzone" where drilling takes place (which is usually 5,000 to 10,000 feet down) from water wells (which are only 500 to 1,000 feet down). Fracturing fluid is also unlikely to leak into a water well on the way down, since state regulators generally require oil and natural gas wells to have thick protective layers of steel and concrete, called "well casings," extending past the water table. According to a number of studies, therefore, after more than 2 million oil and gas wells have been fractured in the United States—including thousands fractured in shale—there are no documented cases of fracturing fluid migrating into water wells during the fracturing process. "It is noteworthy," observes a 2011 MIT report authored by Ernest Moniz, the new secretary of energy, "that no incidents of direct invasion of shallow water zones by fracture fluids during the fracturing process have been recorded."
A second (and more meaningful) risk is that fracturing fluid might accidentally spill on the surface and seep down into the water table. Some spills have been reported in the media although, as EPA has observed, "the frequency and typical causes of these spills remain unclear." Surface spills of toxic chemicals obviously are a risk in many industrial and commercial activities; the chemicals in fracturing fluid are also found in swimming pool cleaners, detergents, hair cosmetics, and other products. A range of federal and state regulations already address this risk, governing the storage of chemicals and requiring spill prevention plans. Of course, by increasing the volume of toxic chemicals that are transported, fracturing makes this risk all the more significant. The bottom line, then, is that fracturing fluid needs to be transported and stored carefully.
Third, natural gas itself also can cause health issues if it migrates into drinking water. Yet the reality is that natural gas is commonly found in rural water wells because it migrates there naturally; so far, there is little evidence that fracturing increases the probability of this. For example, a 2011 Pennsylvania study found methane contamination in 40 percent of the wells tested before drilling began; the study then compared levels of contamination after the drilling, and found no statistically significant difference. After all, energy companies drill there because there's methane in the ground—and, therefore, sometimes in the water as well. Similarly, a 2013 study concluded that the presence of methane in water correlated better with topography than with shale gas production—it is more common in valleys and low areas—so that "the use of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in northeastern Pennsylvania has not resulted in widespread gas migration into the shallow subsurface."
Regulating Water Contamination
Even so, effective regulation is needed to ensure both that drilling is safe and that the public believes it is safe. We recommend a two-pronged strategy.
First, for issues that are already well understood, we would rely on command and control regulations to enforce best practices. Best practices regulation has three advantages. First, it is especially well suited to risks that are either common to all forms of oil and gas production or are familiar from other types of industrial operations, including well casing leaks, surface spills, and disposal of drilling waste. Second, the idea that a public regulatory body is "on the case" is reassuring to the public. Third, because energy companies have to make substantial investments to drill in shale, they need to estimate what regulatory costs they will face. Best practices regulation offers this predictability. The states, which are the principal regulators of oil and gas drilling, already impose a broad range of "best practices" regulations on oil and gas producers.
Second, we would backstop best practices regulations with liability rules. After all, best practices regulations are only as effective as the resources committed to enforcing them. A further limitation is that best practices regulations are less effective for novel risks, since it is impossible to mandate best practices until we know what they are.
These two pillars of our regulatory effort—best practices and liability—should be coordinated. To do so, we need three different liability rules, depending on how our best practices rules treat the conduct that caused the water contamination. First, if an energy company violates a best practices regulation in contaminating water, the company should be negligent per se. Second (and conversely), if the company complies with the relevant best practices regulations, it generally should not be liable (unless the regulations are much less protective than those in other jurisdictions). These two per se rules, working in tandem, create a powerful incentive for industry to help regulators develop protective best practices rules and to comply with them.
The third rule fills any gaps. If there is no relevant best practices rule, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur should apply. This means an energy company is presumed negligent—and thus is liable—for any water contamination it causes, unless it can show that the contamination was an inevitable accident. This difficult showing means the standard of care, as a practical matter, approaches strict liability. As a result, energy companies have a strong incentive to reduce residual risks not governed by best practices regulations, and to help regulators develop new best practices regulations.
Of course, the incentives are right only if liability assessments are accurate—that is, only if the system makes reliable judgments about whether an energy company actually caused the contamination and any resulting health effects. This will not always be easy. If a water well contains an unusual chemical, how do we know it comes from fracturing, as opposed to a natural cause or some other source of pollution? If someone who lives near a drilling site becomes ill, how do we know that fracturing caused the illness?
To generate reliable answers to these sorts of questions, we should create incentives to develop better information. The most important step is to test water quality before fracturing begins in order to establish a benchmark of water quality, and then to retest it periodically. If contaminants are found that were not present in the baseline sample, this supports the allegation that fracturing caused the contamination. But if the contaminants were already there, this powerfully rebuts such a claim.
Once landowners establish that fracturing has caused water contamination, they can recover, at a minimum, the loss in property value attributable to the contamination. If contamination goes undetected for some time it might also cause more serious injuries, such as health effects, although this will be much harder to show. We should use presumptions to help plaintiffs prove their case, while burdening energy companies to show otherwise. While this may seem unfair to energy companies, they can mitigate this risk with self-help. By periodically testing the water, they can either ensure that it is not contaminated or act promptly to clean or replace it. After all, energy companies cannot be liable for health effects unless there first is a showing that they contaminated the water.
We can refine the common law with select legislation to make it more effective as a regulatory strategy. For example, to ensure that lawyers are willing to bring cases, we can require defendants who lose to pay the other side's legal fees. We can also oblige energy companies to have insurance to cover the damages if they are insolvent. We may also want narrowly targeted prohibitions on fracturing in environmentally sensitive areas, such as the Catskills watershed that supplies water to millions of people in New York City. Some of the necessary steps may be taken by Congress, while others can be taken by state legislatures or even state courts.
The bottom line, though, is that reasonable and effective regulation is possible for fracturing. The right regulatory strategy can protect our water resources, while also harnessing the substantial economic, national security, and environmental advantages of the shale oil and gas revolution.


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On a summer morningI sat downon a hillsideto think about God-
a worthy pastime.Near me, I sawa single cricket;it was moving the grains of the hillside
this way and that way.How great was its energy,how humble its effort.Let us hope
it will always be like this,each of us going onin our inexplicable waysbuilding the universe.
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An Examen is an ancient Church practice that allows us to see God's presence in our daily experiences.
The Examen Project is a collaborative effort between the Jesuit Community at Loyola University Maryland and visitors to this site. As we maintain this page with select Examens, we call upon you for comments and contributions.
"How do things stand between me and God? Where am I coming from, and how is my life in Christ growing?" I can answer such questions satisfactorily only if I take leisure to reflect. Here is a way of examining this deep and dynamic personal relationship.
Recognize that God is intimately involved in your life, wherever you are and whatever you are doing at the present moment. Take time to recognize God's presence. God is concerned for you and about you.
Use your imagination and your senses. Be concrete in looking at the day's gifts. Just notice.
Look at your more permanent gifts that allow you to live today. How has God blessed you, and what do you contribute to others and to God? Give thanks for the many blessings of your life.
Ask for the Holy Spirit to explore the mysteries of the human heart. Ask for the freedom to look at your interior life without condemnation or complacency. Trust in the Spirit — it will lead you through pain and darkness, and into gratitude and joy.
Review your day. Look at your internal events of the day. Where was your heart divided? Do you notice the Holy Spirit or the evil spirits? Notice where you acted freely and when you were un-free. Explore the mystery of your inner self.
After reviewing your day, look compassionately upon yourself and recognize your need for God. Express sorrow for your sins. Praise God for the times you responded with charity, and ask for the desire to see God more clearly
End your prayer respectfully and completely. Say your goodbyes in a way that is comfortable for you.
Growth in friendship and intimacy takes time and constant attention. Try to give 10 minutes each day to this examination.
Cover all five points each day, but allow yourself to linger more at one point than another. Let the Spirit guide you.
Find a prayer spot and make it sacred. Make it your own.Regulate your breathing. Breath is a source of life.

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Each week in the Buckeye 8, there's a game that has major implications toward the postseason.
This week's site for that one is Kettlewell Memorial Stadium in Wintersville.
The red-hot Indian Creek Redskins will play host to Harrison Central, which is trying to rebound after a bitter loss to Bellaire last Friday in Cadiz.
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HARRISON?CENTRAL'S Maurtice Hython is the area's leading rusher and will lead the Huskies into Indian Creek on Friday.
Both coaches - Andrew Connor and Justin Kropka - are stressing to their players this week that they can't get looking at the past.
The Huskies scored 28 points in the first half last week and were blanked in the final 24 minutes and fell on a last-second field goal by the Big Reds.
"I think kids get over things faster than the coaches do most of the time," Kropka said. "Our kids will be ready to play. The good and bad thing about high-school aged kids is they lose and they're ready to go again quickly, but when you win, they sometimes forget what it was that got them to that point."
The Redskins, meanwhile, are seeking their fourth win in a row since losing to St. Clairsville in Week 3. They earned a cherished victory at Martins Ferry last Friday.
"That was definitely a big win for our program," Connor said. "We were down a couple of starters, lost two more starters during the game and the kids responded. We lost the turnover battle, had some penalties, but we found a way to get it done. That's just a credit to our kids."
The Redskins made a big leap in the Division III computer rankings. They're sitting in third, while the Huskies are now holding down the eighth spot.
"We're looking at this week pretty much the same way we looked at last week," Kropka said. "We feel if we can win this week, we'll probably be in the playoffs. Creek is a really good team worth a lot of points. I just want to see us play well and play up to our potential."
Slowing the Huskies' offense - and more specifically their ground game - has been a challenge for every team. Senior tailback Maurtice Hython is the area's leading rusher with 1,367 yards and 14 touchdowns. He's been held under 100 yards just once.
Senior quarterback Rashaen Mitchell has also been solid this season. The 6-5 southpaw has thrown for 959 yards and nine touchdowns. He's also ran for 197 stripes.
Nate Maykowski and Nate Olmstead are also key contributors to the offense. Olmstead is the team's leading receiver with 17 receptions for 417 yards and four scores.
Senior standout Nick Pelegreen has proven to be a game-changer on both sides of the ball. From his tight end spot, he's caught 12 passes for 214 yards.
"We have to get as many guys to the ball as we can," Connor said. "If you try to tackle (Hython) one-on-one, he's got the advantage, so we need two two four helmets around the ball. Those are situations we'll work on this week."
The Redskins' offense starts with athletic senior quarterback Alex Young, who's been brilliant during the Skins' winning streak. He's coming off a game in which he accounted for three touchdowns.
He passed for 127 yards and ran for 60 more. He's also the placekicker, a kick returner and a standout on the defensive side.
The 'Skins offense got a boost with the return of Blake Roar in the backfield. Senior Logan Woods is also a talented ball carrier. Frankie Kamarec is one of top receivers.
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WHEELING - About 50 self-proclaimed "water warriors" flowed into Warwood Garden Park Sunday to protest GreenHunter Water's plans to build a natural gas frack water recycling plant on North 28th Street.
"Whether you are opposed to fracking or not, you should take a close look at this. It is just too close to our water plant," said Wheeling resident Deborah Sinclair. "They are saying this plant will be the first of its kind. How do they know it is safe?"
Sinclair referenced comments by John Jack, GreenHunter vice president in the Appalachian region. He said the "facility will be 'first-of-its-kind' in the country once we complete construction" during the company's announcement of the project last month.
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YOUNG?PROTESTERS?— Sixth-grade pupils Gabrielle Marshall, left, and Stormie Snider protest GreenHunter Water's planned natural gas frack water recycling plant on North 28th Street during a Sunday gathering at Warwood Garden Park.
By September, the Houston, Texas-based GreenHunter plans to build the facility, which will recycle water used for hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells, at the former site of Seidler's Oil Service, adjacent to the Wheeling Heritage Trail and a little more than a mile north of Wheeling's water treatment plant. Those on hand Sunday, including Wheeling Water Warriors organizer Erin Bowers, believe the city's water plant is too close to the proposed GreenHunter project.
"There are going to be toxic, radioactive chemicals in that water they are bringing in by truck. What if there is a spill?" Bowers asked.
"If there is any kind of a spill, Wheeling's water supply could be compromised," added resident Patricia Jacobson.
Kate Marshall of Warwood also opposes the plant.
"Anything that is radioactive does not need to be in Warwood," she said.
Some of the elements removed from the earth during the fracking process, such as radium and uranium, have shown radioactive tendencies.
"I don't want to drink radiation," added Peters Run Road resident Mark Eddy.
Jonathan D. Hoopes, president and chief operating officer for GreenHunter, has said the Upper Ohio Valley will benefit from his project because it will reduce the amount of truck traffic on roads that are not designed to handle the large water trucks used by the oil and natural gas industry. He also said residents need to realize the level of Marcellus and Utica shale drilling is going to increase in coming years, which will result in even more wastewater from drilling that will need to be transported somehow.
"What we are trying to do at GreenHunter is to put this water on barges. We are going to bring the product to the facility, recycle it, and take it back out to field. If we cannot reuse it, it could end up going out on a barge," he added, noting the Coast Guard has not decided whether to allow frack water to be shipped on Ohio River barges. If his company would not receive permission to use the barges, Hoopes said workers would continue to move water by truck.
"This facility is going to save them money, but what about us?" asked Wheeling resident Barb Heyer. "I don't see how anyone with a conscience could put something like this so close to a water plant."
"Any time you have carcinogens involved, you are going to have problems," said Warwood resident Gregory Gikas. "They are polluting the ground now. And I have been told that barges can leak, so if they put this stuff on barges, who knows what could get into the river?"
Wheeling Councilwoman Gloria Delbrugge, who represents Warwood, continues to oppose the GreenHunter plant's construction.
"They could offer me $1 million, and I still would not change my mind," she vowed. "It scares me to death to think about what might happen."
Delbrugge said the city plans to build a $33 million water plant to replace the current one. She does not want to see the new waterworks polluted by a possible spill from the GreenHunter site.
"I don't think they have applied for any permits yet, so we'll see what happens," Delbrugge said when asked whether GreenHunter had submitted a site plan to the city for review by the city Planning Commission.
Hoopes declined to answer when asked if GreenHunter had submitted a site plan to city officials, but Jack did meet with City Manager Robert Herron earlier this month.


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We have learned that Torque is equal to a force that is perpendicular to a radius (displacement); however, I just cannot grasp one of the study questions we received:
A hammer thrower accelerates the hammer (mass = 7.30 kg) from rest within four full turns (revolutions) and releases it at a speed of 30.0 m/s. Assuming a uniform rate of increase in angular velocity and a radius of 1.50 m, calculate the following answers.
(a)the angular acceleration: 7.96 rad/s2
(b) the (linear) tangential acceleration: 11.94 m/s2
(c) the centripetal acceleration just before release: 600 m/s2
(d) the net force being exerted on the hammer by the athlete just before release: 4380 N
(e) the angle of this force with respect to the radius of the circular motion is___
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El Dorado went 24 innings without an error. Then, the Broncos made two on one play and cost them a 3-2 14-inning loss to Wellington on Wednesday night at McDonald Stadium.
Wellington's Dalton Bernardi hit a single to left field that went through Thomas Clay for error No. 1.
Clay threw to ball to shortstop John Coen who had a good shot at getting Bernardi at third.
Coen threw wildly and it wound up in the El Dorado duggout, allowing Bernardi to stroll home with what proved to be the game-winner. The run wound up being unearned.
El Dorado wiped out a 2-0 deficit in the sixth when Tyler Ware hit a two-run homer.
Even the homer had a sour note for the Broncos. Clay had led off the inning with a single. He was picked off first, appearing to get his hand on the bag before the tag.
Broncos manager Chad Gerwick argued but to no avail. Trever Ezell followed with a single.
Ware's homer was a two-run blast not a three-run blast which would have allowed the Broncos to win in nine innings.
El Dorado, which has lost four in a row, will play host to Liberal on Friday at McDonald Stadium in a three-game series.
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Broncos pitching: Moore 5-1, Wisniewski 1-1, McGowen 3 2/3-0, Posey 3 2/3-0, Smidt 2/3-0.
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5 Basic Facts of Life (Were Made Up by Marketing Campaigns)
Nobody is naive enough to think that advertising doesn't change us. Ads, after all, convinced the world that the "coffee break" was a thing and that Rudolph was a traditional Christmas character. But no matter how cynical you think you are about the influence of advertising on things we consider traditions, it's always surprising how far it goes. Did you know that advertisers are responsible for ...
#5. Giving Us the Concept of Body Odor
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Unless you happen to be a middle-school-aged boy, applying antiperspirant/deodorant is an ingrained, reflexive part of your morning routine. And of course it is, because what's the alternative? We'll tell you what: Sweating your clothes all up, emitting the natural stench of the human body, and experiencing total social rejection from your peers. And you simply can't have that. After all, you're not some sort of savage.
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But It Actually Came From ...
The concept of using chemicals to plug up your armpit's sweat-holes goes all the way back to ... the early 20th century. That's it.
Before that, shockingly, sweating was considered simply a thing that humans did. Sure, it could be inconvenient -- on a hot day, women wore dress shields to sop up all the nastiness oozing from their pores and protect their clothing, while men simply wrung out their undershirts once in a while -- but it wasn't something that people really gave much thought to. In fact, openly discussing bodily functions like sweating was considered impolite at the time.
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"It smells like a baboon's rancid taint in here. I'm sure that has nothing to do with you, dear Meredith."
Then along came Edna Murphey with a brand new chemical developed by her dad to keep his hands dry while performing surgery (we should probably mention that he was, in fact, a surgeon). Murphey found that the product could be used to prevent sweating when slathered all over her armpits. So she bottled it up and named it Odorono (Odor? Oh no!), because naming things was not Murphey's strong suit.
Apparently, selling her new wonder product wasn't her strong suit, either, because Murphey immediately ran into a serious roadblock -- people had no idea why they were supposed to want something that stopped them from sweating. Like if they came out with a product today that slowed how fast your fingernails grew, the big reaction would be "Uh, is this really a problem that needs to be solved?"
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"Over the course of a lifetime, Nail-Ex shaves entire minutes off of your hygiene routine."
Unlike modern antiperspirants, the ridiculously strong Odorono prevented sweating for up to three days -- which many viewed as something that couldn't possibly be healthy. Add the fact that the active ingredient had to be suspended in an acid that could cause armpit irritation and literally eat holes through clothing, and the product seemed like the invention of a crazy person.
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"You can't have armpit odor if we dissolve your armpits."
But in a massive stroke of luck, Murphey paired up with door-to-door Bible salesman-cum-advertising evil genius James Young, who had one job: make women ashamed of sweat.
First, Young launched a massive ad campaign that painted perspiration as an embarrassing medical condition in need of a cure. Then, once he had established public awareness that antiperspirant was a thing, Young moved on to creating the idea that if you sweated in public, everyone around you would be whispering and snickering at you behind your back -- one 1926 ad went so far as to claim that a woman with underarm sweat "just doesn't belong," even though this had been untrue since the dawn of the species. In the 1930s -- when the Great Depression had everyone worried about, you know, being able to afford food -- Odorono ads spoke of how stinking up the office could lose you your job.
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Not to mention making it impossible to find a man, every woman's highest goal.
Thanks to Young's artist-like molding of the public psyche, Odorono went from being something that no one wanted to the product that was now required. Right now there is literally a guy somewhere leaving the house to go to work in the city's sewers where he will be standing knee-deep in human feces all day ... and before he steps out of the bathroom, he will apply deodorant.
#4. Inventing Herpes
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No, we don't mean that advertisers went into the lab and genetically engineered herpes in order to sell herpes medication. We mean they invented the idea that herpes was a thing that people should worry about.
Don't worry, only 85 percent of people can expect to catch this.
Well, how can that be possible? After all, chances are that when you hear the word "herpes," the first thing you think of isn't cold sores. No, your mind immediately jumps to oozing, pulsating sores all over your junk. On the list of places where itchy, nasty sores would be most inconvenient, your wang (or your lady wang) comes in second only to "all up in your asshole." But it gets worse -- not only are the sores disgusting, but you also have to deal with the negative social stigma that comes along with having the crotch rot. People with herpes live in constant fear of others knowing it, sometimes becoming depressed, joining support groups, even contemplating freaking suicide. Of course we should all be worried about herpes. It's a disease!
But It Actually Came From ...
Back in 1975, Burroughs Wellcome developed a drug that helped herpes sufferers by relieving their symptoms. The good people at Wellcome had one problem, though: The world gave precisely zero fucks about their new drug.
"A little blue pill that doesn't make my dick hard? No thanks."
How is this possible, you ask? Didn't people have herpes back then? Well, the disease has been around for freaking ever -- 2,000 years, if we're going by the first time someone scratched his balls and then decided to make note of it on official record -- but the thing is that herpes, both oral and genital, was never really seen as anything more than a sore in an inconvenient place, no more embarrassing than a zit. Herpes was so insignificant that common medical textbooks of the day didn't even mention it. Hence, when people came down with sores on their mouth or down where the sun don't shine, they didn't think twice about it, not even realizing that these sores had a special name.
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"I just covered up with a giant hippie bush and figured that was the end of it."
But then Burroughs Wellcome had a bright idea for how to market their drug for a disease nobody had heard of or cared about: They launched an ad campaign educating people about the difference between a normal cold sore and a "stigmatized genital infection," which would make others treat you as if you had come down with a case of radioactive crotch.
The ads worked wonders. People with herpes felt (and to this day continue to feel) ashamed that they'd come down with it. They bought the drug in droves -- a drug which, by the way, obviously did not cure herpes. Burroughs Wellcome thus came to invent what's known today as "disease mongering," which is basically making you feel like a social dipshit because of a common physical illness -- sadly, a move that likely doesn't even break the top five list of douchiest moves by pharmaceutical companies.
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"We're renaming acne 'deathface murderplague.' That should do the trick."
#3. Convincing Women to Shave Their Legs and Armpits
Even for your average non-bearded lady, shaving is a torturous task: It's time-consuming; you've got to cover, like, 30 times the surface area of your average guy's face; and that shit grows back so fast, you'd swear someone swapped your shower gel with Miracle-Gro. There aren't even any real benefits -- it's not like shaggy leg syndrome is a health risk or something. But you do it because ... wait, do we really even need to provide a "because" here? Seriously, hairy pits and legs on a woman? Come on.
"If only I could remove my legs and arms altogether."
But It Actually Came From ...
We've previously talked about how razors are pointlessly high-tech, but in reality, women's razors are just plain pointless. Beauty books and catalogs from the pre-World War I era clearly show that the majority of American women at the time didn't give two shits about underarm or leg hair.
Flavor country, circa 1913.
Shortly after World War I, however, advertisers suddenly started pretending that a hairless body was an established desire for women. These advertisements didn't explain why women should remove hair, they just offered them a product for doing so, therefore suggesting that a market for said product already existed. And women snapped that stuff up like candy -- abrasive, irritating, skin-raking candy. Of course, one need only consider that most women to this day use much of the time spent scraping the flesh off of their legs actively cursing the fact that such a market exists to see that those old-timey advertisers were full of shit.
There were a handful of upper-class women with a desire to remove superfluous hair on the face, but no one had any desire whatsoever to remove the hair from their armpits or legs, especially considering the fact that the fashions of the day didn't generally bare much skin. But that all changed when advertisements such as the Milady Decollete Gillette page in Harper's Bazaar showed a woman with hairless armpits. These advertisements, which collectively have been awesomely dubbed "The Great Underarm Campaign," are what you guys can thank for your smooth female companions, and what you ladies can thank for the only self-harm habit that won't have your loved ones booting you off to a psychiatrist.


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I have a registration website for an upcoming event. I have a link (itinerary) on the page that takes them to another page showing them the itinerary for the event. The problem is, I don't have anything there yet. It's a three day event and I need a good design idea on how to display the itinerary for the 3 days for the user. I've thought about using Google calendar but it doesn't really play well with the theme of my page, which is dark. I've been searching everywhere (dribble, jQuery plugins, etc.) but no luck. Does anyone have any good ideas on a nice design for an events calendar?
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It depends on the kind of event you're helding.
Usually, an event like this needs a one-off design - it's not that it cannot be done procedurally (like with a jQuery plugin), but as it's unlikely to be modified after the initial upload, it's fine to create it as a static page.
A simple table or even a list would do, depending on the breath of a conference.
Usually, such an event has 3 main dimensions:
and together they define a session.
A session has the following arguments:
A big question is, wether the participants are more important than the topics themselves. For example, if you invite famous people who speak, it doesn't matter sometimes what they're speaking about.
Here's an example.
Usually, vertical gutters ("cell-borders") should be larger than horizontals (as topics within a room have more to do with each other than topics at the same time), and perhaps the cellpadding should be larger than what's seen here as well.
Please note: dimensions are clearly maintained: downwards is time, leftwards is space, in size of scale and importance.
Some people say it's an unnecessary information overload to present programs of 3 days on a single page, so you could create a tabbed menu out of it:
The visuals can be literally designed in Excel.
What kind of interactivity is needed? Depends on the topics.
Here I created a simple detail balloon instead of listing them inside the table. Please note, sessions have to show clickability then.
Users may also subscribe to / bookmark an event, perhaps filter them with keywords.
Perhaps, if the site is connected to facebook, it could be shown if my friends signed up for a given session.
A website is a hyperlinked, navigatable place.
Usually navigation exists for:
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So does the Texas Parent PAC actually support the interests of parents? Its founder denounced the renewal of attempts to expand school choice in Texas because vouchers "can be just so destructive and harmful to public education" ("School vouchers battle renewed," Page A1, Friday).
Many polls show that large majorities of parents do not share that hostility. In May, a poll done for the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options and other groups found that 85 percent of likely voters and 91 percent of Latinos in five states favor programs such as vouchers and scholarship tax credits that enable families to choose a private school.
And a national poll done by Braun Research for the Friedman Foundation found that 71 percent of moms favor vouchers being available to all families, not solely to the disadvantaged.
Perhaps a more accurate name for the anti-voucher outfit would be the Texas School-Monopoly Preservation PAC.
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I'm planning to go to Iceland this summer. Since I've never been so close to Greenland before (except on a plane), I'm thinking about going to Greenland too. Is there any ferry or plane that goes from Iceland to Greenland? If yes, how much time will this need? How much does it cost?
According to the official Greenland tourism site there are two places you can use as your source. Rejkjavik and Copenhagen. There are 2 airlines servicing the island: Air Iceland and Air Greenland. The price Air Iceland is currently quoting for destinations in Greenland is 161 EUR (Kulusuk) and 193 EUR (Nuuk). I guess the further north the more expensive it gets since you will probably need a helicopter ride.
Could not find the ferries but there are cruises from Europe that will take you around Northern sites including Greenland.
There are multiple sites referring to that but they may be exactly the same cruise:
For flights, you can arrive from three countries:
By boat to/from Nuuk (the capital): - Arctic Umiaq Line has a passenger terminal to Maniitsoq-Sisimiut-Aasiaat-Uummannaq and Paamiut-Qaqortoq-Narsaq-Narsarsuaq.


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I'm guessing I should plan for low resolution and big fonts? Any good examples out there?
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If your site has a high contrast accessible version (such as BBC sites do) you could likely use that and the principles they use to design for projectors. Try treating the projector like a user who can't see very well.
See the BBC's Accessibility guidelines for more info.
Projectors usually have quite a bad contrast ratio, so you should have hard contrasts and you shouldn't use any soft colors or gradients (they can look really nasty on projectors).
Hope that helps, Phil
Orange and brown especially can look like feces.
General rule of thumb is to use highly contrasted colors. Dark on light (text) and vice versa. Avoid the light blue on a dark blue, etc.
If you plan on using soft colors and gradients, consider having a few print outs of the intended color, so that if and when it is rendered horribly, you can show them what it should actually look like.
Edit: Also if you have the luxury of using the projector a few minutes before the presentation, adjust its contrast, brightness and color setting if available, they are usually set to high contrast values.
2nd Edit: After learning this is a site to be mainly used on projectors, I would suggest using black and white, along with 1 bold color, to minimize the amount of poor rendering present.


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Was browsing the web of course and came across a few freelance sites but they all seemed to have one thing in common they have people from over seas, as I am in the USA I rather work with some in the USA or hire someone in the USA and then I came across this site uLance2.com and wondering if anyone has tried it out?
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I read your introduction and you seem to be a freelancer and so you should be knowing the best freelance site in the business like rentacoder.com and elance.com and so I would not even dare to look at that site. Is that your site ?
I prefe RAC.
There is no substitute to elance.
how about scriptlance and getafreelancer.
newhand, probably you should also add sites like elance.
Originally Posted by shabbirnewhand, probably you should also add sites like elance.
No frankly speaking not till the time of writing. But in my online marketing career of six years, i have worked with some great players in the freelance domain. Elance is the oldest in the list. Odesk is most comprehensive, LimeExchange is one year old with some very good features like limestand and so getting projects is easier here.
I am freelance writer and I have been using these freelance job websites to get work. I also came across this new website called LimeExchange they have really good projects to offer from global clients.


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I saw this movie roughly 15 years ago, although it was in black and white. It's about a woman(call her Molly for now, though I doubt that was her name) who lives alone, until some relative(sister or cousin, I think) comes in. Throughout the movie, the relative is trying to convince the Molly that she's (Molly) is crazy. If I recall, the motive was to have her committed or something so she can gain some sort of inheritance. I vaguely remember one scene where Molly is in a room, and a decapitated head rolls across the floor. It may have been a skull, or full head, I can't remember. Thanks for any help.
After some more discussion with the wife, we've come to the conclusion that the relative of "Molly" is a female, and that we THINK it takes place in a southern state.


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I have a graph named $G$. degree of each node in $G$ is at most $10$. I need to find an algorithm to determine that this graph has any cycle with length less than $20$ with $O(n)$ .
I think it can solve with any theorem related to $Δ(G)$ and cycle in $G$ (but I'm not sure) .
I search it in google and stackoverflow , but I can't find any solution.


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On behalf of the Provost, the Executive Vice President, and the Chief Financial Officer, I am pleased to share with you in the pages that follow the key elements of the budget for New York University∗ for fiscal 2012 (which covers the period September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012).
An institution's budget is a balance of resources and needs. The budget for fiscal 2012:
Financial pressures continue to be experienced by most institutions of higher education; this is especially true for tuition-dependent universities such as ours. NYU will remain vigilant about its budget to ensure that support of academic excellence remains our highest priority. I hope you will find this outline of NYU's fiscal 2012 budget to be informative.
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We have to analyze this video
- An applied net torque due to the wind on the windmill is equal to 1500 N*m.
Each (of the 3) propeller props weighs approximately 45 Kg and has a Moment of Inertial equal to about 65% of that of a rod of the same mass being spun about its end.
This torque is applied for approximately 45 seconds before the explosion, prior to which the windmill was at rest.
Question: What was the angular acceleration caused by the torque?
So here's my attempt at it: T=Ia (a is alpha) T=ML^2/3 * a * .65 (due to the whole 65% thing. Actually not sure if I should put 3*M for each propeller)
And so this is where I get stuck. I'm not given L, so I'm not sure how to work around this. I could also use $T=1/2MR^2\times a$, but then I dont know R.


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I have a DBGrid with a column based on a lookup field.
How can I set it up so that when a user clicks on the column title, it will sort by that field.
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I'm using Absolute Database for this, but most things that work with the BDE or TClientDataSet will work with Absolute.


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The act of deceiving another. An action used for personal gain by lying to someone. If you tell are lie, and they believe you, you are deceiving them; deception.
The art of successfully using deception is a skill worth mastering if you know how to use it.
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It's when you're doing a chick from behind and before you break off, you spit on her back (thereby 'deceiving' her into you thinking you are done) and then when she turns over, you blast her in the face.
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When you get your ass kicked when you are expecting something and it turns out to be the shittiest thing ever.
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We (my group and I) figured out, that in Pathfinder you can use True Resurrection for a price of 25,000 gp but Raise Dead works for 5,000 gp and you can remove the negative levels with Restoration (two times) for 1,000 gp. So the party can resurrect for 7,000 gp. That doesn't work if the corpse is destroyed or damaged, but in the other cases it is a much cheaper possibility. What are the disadvantages of this combination? Should I disallow that as a gamemaster?
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The combination of raise dead and restoration in Pathfinder RPG is not only reasonable, it's intended.
The price difference is a holdover from D&D 3.5, where the combination of raise dead and restoration was actually much weaker than true resurrection. In D&D, raise dead caused a full level loss instead of a negative level, and restoration could not restore the lost level. As the only spell able to revive a character without level loss, true resurrection was significantly more valuable.
In Pathfinder, restoration was explicitly given the new ability to recover permanent negative levels, at the increased price at 1,000gp per level. This suggests that the designers intended for the combination to be available.
Even so, true resurrection still has advantages:
I think you've answered your own question.
As long as you have the corpse, and it is in good condition, there is no reason not to use Raise Dead.
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I regularly find myself reading about the Pareto principle in productivity literature. Generally, it's quoted as '80% of the results come from 20% of the work', or more popularly, '80% of the sales come from 20% of the customers'. A particular offender of this line of thinking is Tim Ferris, who spends a lot of the four hour workweek recommending that people drop the 80% of time they spend on work and take the financial hit of 20% loss of sales (he says at lot of other things, but this is simple an aspect I'm having trouble with).
Here's my issue.
Let's say I'm a normal everyday salesman, working 40 hours and selling $1,000 worth of stock a week. I find out which 20% of my customers are providing 80% of the profit and I ignore all others. I now find myself working 20% of the hours (so 8hours a week) and selling $800 worth of stock. Yay!
One year later, I decide to look again at my customers, and pick out the 20% of the remainder that are providing 80% of the remaining value. Again I drop the 80% of customers I decide I don't need. If the Pareto Principle is a genuine thing, I should now find myself working two hours a week for $640.
Next year I do the same again and I'm now working for just over 20 minutes for $512.
I realise I have time to get my old job back and start again except, this is clearly getting silly. Have I misunderstood something? Or is this one of those times where a scientific observation is being invoked in name only to make an unrelated point?
Okay, I don't think I was very clear - (althought @jay's answer appears to cover) - I wasn't asking what the advantages were, or suggesting the method - I was asking if the Pareto principle as generally quoted is in any way related to the Pareto principle as it was formulated and should be used. (For example, I wouldn't have been suprised by an answer which said "The Pareto principle was formulated for countries/companies/fruit, and thus does not make any sense to overgeneralise to a list of jobs"


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Ext 4.1: Nested droptargets
Problem with nested DropTargetHi,
I have panel A which contains two panels (B and C).
All Panels (A, B and C) are configured to be droptargets for treenodes.
I would expect that the drop event would occur on the innermost panel (in this case B or C) when I drop something on them, but the drop event occurs on the outer panel A only.
Looking at the code of DragDropManager I gather that he iterates over all droptargets and returns the first one with matching coordinates. In my case this happens always to be the outermost container.
I would expect that the inner panels get preference in receiving the drop event!
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This might be something we'll look at addressing in Ext 5, the DD code is a bit clunky at the moment, so this is likely something to be improved then.Evan Trimboli
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22 Oct 2012 6:08 PM #4
You can create one DropZoneA to cover B an C, each B and C is a node inside DropZoneA, for A-B-C you need to implement following methods
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I'm on a tight deadline here. I assume Ext 5 isn't due for some time?
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Don't be afraid of the source code!
22 Oct 2012 11:53 PM #8
Yeah well, It's a dashboard with individual items on it which can contain other items. Not really a way around it design wise. I was relying on Ext handling the dragdrop in a logical way.


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Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press file photo
Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press file photo
DENVER � The West�s 2012 wildfire season exploded in earnest last month with a wind-whipped blaze that killed three people in rugged alpine canyon country near Denver. It took a 700-strong federal firefighting team a week of labor, day and night, to tame the blaze � and other states throughout the West took notice.
Fire experts say this year�s drought, low snowpack and record-high temperatures in much of the West portend a dangerous installment of what has become a year-round wildfire threat.
Wildfires burned more than 1,500 square miles in Arizona last year and have already torched about 12 square miles this year. Most were caused by people, and fire officials hope the public has learned some lessons from the Wallow Fire, the worst in state history. Campfire embers ignited a blaze that forced nearly 10,000 people to evacuate their homes.
New Mexico also experienced its two biggest-ever wildfires in 2011, consuming 245 and 160 square miles, respectively.
�We are approaching this as a season where we still have very high fire danger, and there are millions of acres around New Mexico that could burn,� said Dan Ware, a New Mexico State Forestry Division spokesman.
January and February were the driest on record in California, where the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has battled 679 fires in its jurisdiction � about a third of the state � since Jan. 1, compared with 210 during the same period last year. Fire threats are expected to be above normal in the mountains, the central coast and inland areas such as San Bernardino County, said department spokesman Daniel Berlant.
Nearly all of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah have drought conditions that should persist at least through June, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Neb.
For much of the West, snowfall this winter was disappointing. Snowpack in Colorado and Utah is only half of average and diminishing fast. Salt Lake City reported its fourth-driest March ever; Denver had a trace of precipitation in what traditionally is the snowiest month of the year.
�Things are heating up and drying out,� said Jason Curry of the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands in Utah, where fire officials monitor parched high grasses left over from bountiful 2011 precipitation. �We�ve got our eyes on the hills.�
In many areas, grass, brush, timber and other wildfire fuels didn�t get a winter soaking that allows them to retain water. California had a few storms in March, but �when you miss three or four months without any rain, it just becomes too late,� Berlant said.
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, expects to issue its comprehensive regional outlook May 1. Jeremy Sullens, a wildfire analyst with Predictive Services, an interagency group affiliated with the center, said many states are still waiting as the spring green-up � the growth of grasses and plants that provides initial fuel for forest and rangeland fires � is just in the early stages.
�One of the major factors for the fire season is how precipitation patterns develop through the spring,� Sullen said. �So even if we�re seeing warmer temperatures in many states across the West, it�s all really variable at this point.�
The West�s typical wildfire season has run from May to October, peaking in summer months. But climate change and the decades-old practice of putting out fires that nature intended to burn � eliminating fuels � has created a season that starts earlier and sometimes runs longer, said Tim Brown, director of the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nev. Fire managers first noticed the trend in the 1990s.
Idaho is one state that expects a mild wildfire season � at least for now. Its mountain ranges are at normal snowpack levels, reservoir managers are dumping water to make room for snowmelt, and the first weeks of spring have brought more snow and rain, even to the desert-like climate of southern Idaho.
Elsewhere in the northern Rockies, fire officials expect a normal 2012 after last year�s cool weather and spring floods all but eliminated fire season. Snowpack in Montana and northern Wyoming is at historically average levels, and barring a rapid warm-up, fire season is expected to start in mid-July, said Bryan Henry, a meteorologist with the Northern Rockies Coordination Center�s predictive services.
The exception is the plains of eastern Montana, where snow was less than usual this winter, and brown grass is standing tall as potential fuel before the spring green-up.
�A couple of dry, windy days, it will be ready to burn,� Henry said.
It did already in Colorado. High winds fanned a 37-square-mile grassfire on the eastern plains in March, creating blinding clouds of dust and smoke and injuring three firefighters as they tried to escape a stranded fire truck.
The millions of acres of pine forest, from Canada to Colorado, scarred by the telltale red needles of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle pose another fire uncertainty. Residents of small towns worry about firestorms erupting in beetle kill on surrounding mountainsides. But it isn�t known whether the red forest canopies pose a more serious threat.
Matt Jolly and Russ Parsons, U.S. Forest Service ecologists, suggested last year that dead needles can ignite up to three times faster than the green needles of a healthy tree. Beetle-killed trees can burn more intensely and carry embers farther, Jolly said.
Jolly and Parsons are using the data to create models to better predict how a fire will act in stands of beetle-killed trees, but those models aren�t ready yet, Parsons said.
Ed Andrieski/Associated Press file photo


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Drinking Games: Truth and Consequences
In many college environments, drinking is less expensive than most other forms of entertainment. Students say it is cheaper to go to a bar with drink specials than it is to go to a movie. "They have like quarter shot nights and stuff, you know, and it's ridiculous," said one of the student advisors to Panel 1.
Many college students enjoy playing drinking games that encourage excessive alcohol consumption. The games are considered good icebreakers and are sometimes used to reduce social anxiety and get to know people at parties. These games typically involve a set of rules designed to ensure a large consumption of alcohol. Drinking games include board or commercial games such as BEERchesi, BEERgammon, and Beer Softball; coin games such as Psycho, "Quarters," and Beer Battleship; card games; and dice games. These games are now available on the Internet, where Web sites invite users to share their favorites. Researchers who have studied drinking games found that participants in such games report increased levels of drinking and drinking-related problems compared to nonplayers (Engs and Hanson, 1983; Newman et al., 1991; Wood et al., 1992).
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BELTON (February 6, 2013)--The Belton Youth Advisory Commission is accepting applications through Friday for community service projects.
Window washing, yard work, minor home repairs and other service projects will be reviewed and considered after consent is given by the homeowner.
The projects will be performed by the youth and other community volunteers during One Community One Day April 6.
The goal of the event is to engage residents to spend a day (about four hours) helping a neighbor while beautifying the city.
Applications can be filled out online or at the Harris Community Center on N. Alexander Street.


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Michelle Slatalla
Recent and archived news articles by Michelle Slatalla of The New York Times.
The Real Skinny on Freshman Year
The stuff you've been told all summer about the first year of college is well intentioned. But there's a huge amount of misinformation out there. Here's some of it.
August 2, 2015, Sunday
Empty Nesters Still Need a Place to Sit
A simplicity craze leaves the author with little to no furniture when she needs it most.
April 1, 2010, Thursday
One Last Nap Amid the Flowers
When the family dog dies, a garden fairyland loses its benevolent dignified (and tired) ruler.
March 25, 2010, Thursday
Life's Journeys, a Lot Less Mysterious
One of the new values that technology has imposed on daily life is the idea that it is important to know exactly where you are at any given moment.
March 18, 2010, Thursday
Hand-Me-Down Memories? Not Here
A mother is forced to deal with sentimentality after losing all the talismans of her youth.
March 11, 2010, Thursday
Fast Forward to Old Age, Please
To be fair to menopause, it would have been impossible for this particular phase of life to meet my expectations, given that I hoped never to have to experience it. Ever.
March 4, 2010, Thursday
Everything's Breaking. Is It the Weekend Yet?
Having a long-distance spouse is not the most convenient situation, especially when your spouse is Mr. Fix-It.
February 25, 2010, Thursday
The Waste-Free Priestess
MY neighbor Bea produces no garbage. I am serious. None. It's like some kind of amazing magic trick. Bea has a husband, two sons (ages 10 and 8) and a dog, and yet her household generates no empty containers, no food scraps, no dirty paper...
February 18, 2010, Thursday
A Visit From the Priestess of Waste-Free Living
With the aid of her zero waste friend, the writer liberates her household from garbage.
February 16, 2010, Tuesday
Beep! Chime! Buzz! Now, Juggle!
The author explains how high-tech devices have helped her refocus instantly.
February 11, 2010, Thursday
Rss Feeds On Michelle Slatalla
Subscribe to an RSS feed on this topic. What is RSS?


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Cast: Kevin Conroy, Loren Lester, Effrem Zimbalist Jr., Bob Hastings, Robert Costanzo, Melissa Gilbert, Mark Hamill, Arleen Sorkin, Paul Williams, Adrienne Barbeau, Richard Moll
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- Air Dates: September 1992 - January 1999
"Batman: The Animated Series" was an animated series that premiered on September 5, 1992. The series was based on the popular Batman comics created by Bob Kane. The series focused on the adventures of Batman, the secret identity of millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and a dark vigilante hero who defends Gotham City from a variety of costumed villians that include The Joker, The Penguin, Catwoman, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, The Scarecrow, Ra's al Ghul, The Mad Hatter, Bane, Killer Croc, Harley Quinn, Clayface, Maxie Zeus, The Ventriloquist, The Clock King and more regular mob criminals like Rupert Thorne and Roland Daggett.
The highly successful series merged revolutionary animation and great storytelling. The series was so successful that three feature-length films have been created using the characters, voice actors and animation. The first 65 episodes of the series focused mainly on the adventures of Batman alone with occasional help from Robin and Alfred.
The next twenty episodes were retitled "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" and focused on the adventures of both Batman and his younger crime fighting associate Robin. The series was followed by a spinoff utilizing different animation entitled "The New Adventures of Batman" which was broadcast in 1997 and lasted for about two dozen episodes.


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The ability to focus.
In this modern world of tweeting and texting, channel surfing and Web browsing, instant messaging and status updating, that may just be the most vital skill necessary for success.
It is also, alas, something I entirely lack.
For instance, the astute reader of this blog (yes, I understand there should be readers first before I attempt to categorize them) will notice that this post is being written several months after my last post, a pace that is quite shameful.
Let's just use very round numbers and say it's been 80 days since my last blog posting. That's 1900 hours. Let's assume that 17 of them every day (less on the weekends, more on the weekdays) are consumed by necessary activities (e.g. child care, working, housework – no snickering, mrs. deadman – sleeping, showering, eating, etc.), which leaves about 560 hours of free time. Here's how I believe a reasonable breakdown of that time was spent:
- Facebook games – 100 hours.
- Other Facebook activities – 20 hours
- Fantasy Football/Watching Football (or other sports) – 240 hours
- Other non-Facebook, non-fantasy football Internet activities – 100 hours (and only some of that porn!)
- Dumb, mindless TV – 70 hours
Ok, maybe i kid a bit, but even if I'm in the ballpark, that leaves less than an hour a day for what I would consider productive use of my free time: exercising and playing sports, reading, thinking/meditating, going out with friends, doing crossword puzzles, watching intelligent TV, chatting with the Mrs., having sex, chatting with the Mrs. while having sex, etc. Totally pathetic and certainly not enough time for me to devote to maintaining an interesting and regularly updated blog, let alone to getting me anywhere closer to achieving my long-held dreams of being a successful fiction writer.
When I was in high school, I had this classmate and baseball teammate who wasn't the most intelligent, or the most athletic, the most intellectually curious, or even the hardest working, but he seemed to excel at most everything he did because he could be extremely focused when he needed to be. I mean, how's this for focus: In a math class during our senior year, he showed me his dayplanner, which really was more like a lifeplanner because in it he had mapped out a great deal of what he expected the rest of his early years would look like. Among the predicted highlights: President of the United States in 2020.
Now so far, the guy hasn't been elected to any public office, but given Barack Obama's meteoric rise, there's still time. And his resume sure is an ideal one for the job. Here's just a brief, incomplete synopsis of what he has accomplished so far:
- Graduated from Duke University as an Angier B. Duke scholar
- Worked as an undergrad helping war refugees in Croatia and Rwanda
- Became a Rhodes Scholar and got his master's and Ph.D. from Oxford
- Won numerous amateur boxing medals (and has run a sub-3 hr marathon)
- Joined the Navy as an officer in 2001 and became a SEAL in 2002
- Deployed four times as Lt Cmdr, including stints in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Earned numerous military awards, including the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
- Started and still serves as CEO of a charity/mentorship program for returning veterans.
- Has written a couple of books, including a NY Times Bestseller on his experiences as a SEAL and humanitarian.
Clearly, focus doesn't have to mean just being engaged in one activity. You can still have – and be successful within – a broad array of interests, but I guarantee you this guy wasn't spending much time watching reality TV or playing Farmville when he was writing his thesis, or training for his boxing tournaments, or fighting in Iraq.
Now I'm sure the ability to focus has always been an important skill to have, but advances in technology have without question made it even more necessary. We're now always connected. Distractions are everywhere. Hundreds of TV channels to watch, thousands of emails to read, millions of Web sites to visit (and now the ability to watch, read and visit them at nearly any time on nearly any device from nearly anywhere).
Perhaps the economists are right that technology has made us more productive at work – certainly it has allowed me as an investor to do tons of research much faster than was ever before possible – but I believe it has also eroded our ability to focus, especially over longer periods of times. I actually sometimes feel like modern technology is this actively negative force, maliciously keeping us from focusing on the things in life that truly matter. Technology perhaps helps us engage more fully with the world around us, but it also keeps us from engaging more meaningfully, making us like addicts who now crave – indeed, cannot function without – the quick cuts, the flashing lights, the 140-word summaries, the instant gratification.
I think at times about pulling the plug, going somewhere far away (at least a metaphorical move if not an actual physical one) and getting back to the basics: Reading, writing, raising a family, and just trying to find more productive ways to spend the precious days which remain. I think about that at times, but then I think about how much I'll miss all the diversions, even if they're fleeting, and all the connections, even if they're only surface deep. And then I think … and then I think … now where was I?


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Norah's Knits: Preparing for Fall '14
It's that frenetic time again. In only a few short weeks we'll be photographing our next fall line. Every season I swear I'll cut back and not knit as much – especially at the last minute – but when it comes down to it, I can't help myself. Read more


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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
Reporting Fraud
The DOE OIG promotes the effective, efficient, and economical operation of DOE's programs and operations through audits, inspections, investigations, and other reviews.
THE DOE OIG investigates any fraudulent acts involving DOE, its contractors or subcontractors, or any crime affecting the programs, operations, Government funds, or employees of those entities.
Please use the following if you want additional information or want to report wrongdoing: Internet: www.ig.energy.gov E-mail: email@example.com Telephone: 202-586-4073 Hotline: 1-800-541-1625 Fax: (202) 586-5697
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Combating Fraud
What types of fraud are found in the SBIR/STTR Programs?
Knowing the Rules
Which SBIR rules should you be particularly familiar with?
What happens if you break the rules?
2011 SBIR Fraud Case
Former UF professor sentenced to six months in prison for fraud
Dec. 11, 2011A former UF nuclear engineering professor was sentenced to six months in prison Tuesday. Samim Anghaie, found guilty of fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in government contracts in February, will go to prison Jan. 9. His wife, Sousan, was sentenced to six months of home confinement for her role in the crime.
The couple must pay the federal government $390,252 in addition to $100,000 in fines each. The Anghaies were convicted in February of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and more than 24 counts of wire fraud. The maximum penalty for each count of wire fraud is 20 years in prison.
The couple was accused in 2009 of submitting false information to obtain contracts from NASA and the U.S. Air Force. Some of the false information included research taken from UF students without their knowledge. The Anghaies were the targets of a federal investigation that included a search of Samim Anghaie's UF office. The university placed Samim Anghaie on leave in February 2009, and he resigned in November of that year after an additional internal investigation, said UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes. Had he not resigned, he would have been terminated, she said.
The Office of Science (SC) is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.