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Offer Ends Soon, Act Now: Keystone Pipeline Public Comment Period Closes On Monday
Worried that the disaster-for-the-climate Keystone XL pipeline will get construction approval to pump 51 coal plants' worth of carbon into the atmosphere? Feel free to speak your mind.
The last day that the State Department will accept public comments on what should be done about the Keystone pipeline proposal is Monday, April 22nd. This will end a 45 day period that started with the placement of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in the Federal Register. That draft statement becomes final on June 21st, and then in a matter of months, the State Department will issue a National Interest Determination. At that point, it would be difficult to reverse a decision, so the time for the public to tell the Administration how burning tar sands oil will impact the climate is now.
Not sure what to write in a public comment? Here are some ideas:
- 51 coal plants: Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen called Keystone the "fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet." A completed pipeline would emit the CO2 equivalent of 51 carbon-polluting coal-fired power plants. The science is clear: increasing CO2 emissions is bad for the climate.
- Just 35 jobs: The Keystone Pipeline would not create 20,000-100,000 temporary jobs, as some have said. It would create 3,900 temporary ones, and only 35 permanent.
- Not a done deal: The State Department's Draft (EIS) concludes that the tar sands oil would be extracted even if the pipeline is not constructed. This is not true: the pipeline would move 830,000 barrels of oil each day, whereas moving it by rail is not feasible.
- National security pipe dream: Some say the pipeline would be good for national security, but that is a myth. Here is the reality.
- Drill here, drill now, send abroad: Though people often make the case that more tar sands oil from Canada helps American energy security, it is clear that much of this oil would just be shipped abroad into the international petroleum market.
- Incomplete assessment: The draft EIS was completed by a consulting firm paid by the pipeline's owner. There are more complete reviews of the full environmental, economic, and climate impact of the pipeline.
- Thank you for spilling: Tar sands oil spills onto American soil with alarming frequency. Some Representatives think Exxon spilling 200,000 gallons of tar sands oil from a pipeline into Mayflower, Arkansas is not a big deal — in fact, the corporation should be thanked for the whole ordeal.
- Think of the Canadians: Stopping the pipeline would be doing Canada a favor.
- Morality: Opposing the pipeline is the right thing to do for our generation and the ones that follow us. Allowing it to happen is a sign of "cowardice."
Anyone can submit as many comments as they wish. Some created a compelling video about why Keystone is "all risk, no reward," but not everyone has to do that. Some protest President Obama to let them know that this decision matters for the climate, but that tactic, while important, is not for everyone.
Making a comment is easy: the State Department asks people to address them to this mailbox: firstname.lastname@example.com. Groups like 350.org, Sierra Club, CREDO Action, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, League of Women Voters, Sum of Us, and others have made it easy to compose a letter.
Whether it is snarky or serious, weigh in below if you left a comment regarding the "biggest carbon bomb on the planet."
73 Responses to Offer Ends Soon, Act Now: Keystone Pipeline Public Comment Period Closes On Monday
If you care about the world your children and their children have to live in then say no to Keystone. If you only care about money and profits in the short term at the expense of the quality of lives and the environment in the future then you are monsters.
Keystone XL will be a desperate move in order to prop up an energy system that has no future. Please don't approve it for the sake of your children.
Read my comment
The core issue that got us into our current situation won't be mitigated by public comment or protest. Our "representatives" in Congress are owned by the big money interests including the fossil fuel industry. As we saw in the recent failure to act on gun control, they clearly don't care what the American public wants or needs.
We the people will soon receive yet another lesson in the anti-democratic operation of our federal government. While we might chain ourselves to pipelines or dump cans of oil onto the sidewalk in front of the Capitol, it won't change a thing. The current lust to exploit even more fossil fuels will only be reversed by an imminent and undeniable climatological disaster. History proves that human beings never do the right thing until all of the misguided and expedient options have been exhausted. Why should we think that anything is going to change now?
Besides all the pollution and future spills etc.,I have serious concern with our Government taking private citizen property and giving it to a corporation of a foreign country.
I am strongly against cracking and oil we have many mean's to which we can provide energy to the world with out killing it I do not believe in the religion MAXIMISE PROFIT!
I DO NOT support this pipeline – it will just mean more problems for our already endangered eco system. HALT this pipeline
I have sent this message:
"Dear Secretary Kerry:
I invite you to consider that approval of the Keystone pipeline would be divisive and lead to months or years of turmoil. There is no doubt that its construction would be the target of massive civil disobedience and non-violent protest. I personally would think such action justified, but regardless of the merits it cannot be ignored as a factor in your and the President's decision.
You are both, by temperament and conviction, conciliators. Your approval of the Keystone pipeline would ignite a bitter and long-drawn-out conflict that would be chalked up to your legacies and undermine your historic reputations. Lives might be lost; certainly some protesters would be injured and a good number serve time in jail. It is also a burden on policemen to ask them to use force to protect a private interest many of them will think insufficient.
It is sadly possible that the intense anger aroused, and the broad non-violent protest already announced, would lead fringe groups to engage in violent sabotage. A pipeline is very vulnerable to this. I'm sure that the overwhelming majority of opponents of the pipeline would join me in rejecting and condemning such tactics. Still, the possibility is a real cost of your decision.
Taking these severe risks into account is not "giving in to blackmail". If the pipeline were truly necessary to US national security, the risks should be accepted. But no case has been made that it is. The pipeline would merely allow the commercial development of a dirty Canadian oil resource to proceed, and US oil prices to stay slightly lower than they would otherwise be, at enormous environmental cost. Any benefits it offers are largely private; the harms are public.
When you weigh all the costs carefully and soberly, the Keystone pipeline is simply not worth hazarding the credibility of your office, the President, and the US Government.
Yours sincerely
James Wimberley"
As an educated person, as a scientific mind, as a defender of human rights, as part of the biosphere, as a child of mother Earth, I have the common sense to say NO to whatever may be a menace to actual and/or future generations.
There is :
– NO necessity of petroleum industry or products for any human to survive, WE lived for a milion years, oil, max 2 centuries
–> A mechanic more and more exposed of how rich parts of the world addicted the now poorer countries to the derivatives of oil for their survival at a cost, abusive, that "we" occidentals fixed for our only comfort
– NO safe and non-poisonnous way to extract/transport/transform/use/dispose of petroleum and its derivatives
–> Illnesses and deaths amongst all species around the globe, including humans, are originating from chemicals related to oil
STOP the madness.
USE the geniuses of publicity, media, mass manipulation and economy strategies to reverse this catastrophic industry that is
– bringing down agriculture with money
– poisonning soils and foods with chemicals
– giving humans cancer by all f*ck*n products
– melting the 2 biggest A/C ever : N&S poles
– wasting all our most important resources at the same time : air, water, earth, ecosystems that provide balance and allows our species to remain…
– even oil, yes, oil has extrordinary applications especially to produce unique materials
BUT it's about to disappear with its potential
BUT all derivatives are poisons for life and must be produced/used/disposed wisely
You think yourselves as the brains of this world because you found a way to get richer and more powerful than anybody?… but along the way you caused (even if you don't want to accept it) you caused harm to so many, you should suffer a guilt as severe as genocide leaders.
Real brains find new ways, they are wise enough to always perfect their own inventions, they objectively see the problems and solve them, event if it means destroying their own invention.
Don't tell us there is NO way of having everydoby eat, drink and breathe clean while still having a very lively economy that allows people to also get some luxury. Cause why techonology then?
Don't tell us it is impossible to ensure quality of life and respect of fundamental human rights while maintaining the possibility of being capitalist. Why money and economy then?
Don't tell us our parents made it to the moon only for our children to never see the stars and maybe burn under the sun.
We've seen in the last several years that the risks of environmental disaster outweigh the "benefits" of facilitating greater dependence on fossil fuels and further expansion of infrastructure.
Please say no to the oil sluts in congress and turn down this project that would forever ruin the Ogallala aquifer in the sand hills……. If you think oil is so precious, wait till you have no clean water to drink and you will be fucked!!!!! Idle No More!!!!!!
Our elected representatives also closely follow polling results and the latest polls (Rasmussen, Pew, Fox News) show that about three times as many Americans support building the pipeline as are opposed (about 66% vs 22%). If Kerry and Obama do reject the pipeline (however unlikely) expect Congress to try to approve it. Many experts say Congress probably does have the power to make the final decision.
Citizens have been protesting the pipeline in great numbers. The government knows that we do not want it. We also want gun control. I wonder if government is listening to the people it is supposed to serve, AT ALL!
Urgently, Ann Raven
No Pipeline. We need to have more respect for the earth and all of its inhabitants, and
switch to renewable energy sources. The pipeline is too toxic and risky. Obama needs to be a real leader and say no to the pipeline.
Leaks will continue no matter what promises or assurances are given.
Tar Sand oil is abrasive and can cut through seals, valves, sensors and joints.
Since this propose expansion passes right over one of our larges fresh water aquifers, the dangers are to great of a risk just to shore up the profits of the oil companies.
~80% of this oil is going to be exported to begin with AND WE get to keep the toxic waste.
No guarantee that oil companies will be compelled to clean up any spills.
No guarantee that the oil will not be shipped to other countries
No guarantee that the jobs created will offer any long-term economic benefit to the USA.
The pipeline as currently proposed goes over the largest aquifer in the country. There will be a serious problem if and when spills occur.
Please vote no on the Keystone Pipeline!!
Too many risks w/Keystone Pipeline. I vote an emphatic "NO!"
Accoring to former NASA climate scientist James Hansen, Keystone is the "fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet." A completed pipeline would emit the CO2 equivalent of 51 carbon-polluting coal-fired power plants. The science is clear: increasing CO2 emissions is bad for the climate. More C02= more global warming.
Global warming is already here, and superstorms like Sandy are going to become the norm. The ecology of our planet cannot handle the increased CO2 emissions from projects like Keystone. Earth will not be able to sustain life as we know it if Keystone is allowed to be built.
Dear Elected Representative and/or Appointed Functionary:
* The Keystone Pipeline will generate neither jobs nor revenue for the United States OR Canada.
* Spills, ruptures and other accidents in recent months have proved that in contrast to industry claims, the Keystone Pipeline is not safe.
* It has been amply demonstrated that the 'fracking' process pollutes groundwater to the point that it is unsafe to bathe in, much less drink.
* There is strong evidence that approval of the Keystone Pipeline was obtained through graft and political corruption.
Therefore, it is your responsibility to deny the right of the Keystone Pipeline to cross any portion of the United States, and to close it down where it has already begun. I look forward to hearing that you have done so.
Sent my message. The Keystone is a terrible idea.
Please don't build ths pipe, it will stop billionaire Warren Buffet from making millions by shipping the oil on his trains. We also need trains so useful idiots can stand in front of them when they realise they have beeen helping big corporations and Marxists take over the USA all along.
Hoping to get my comment in by the end of Monday specifically focusing on this:
State's Supplementary EIS for Keystone XL (KXL SEIS) is itself a very potent argument AGAINST approving the pipeline.
In order to avoid the increased emissions/tar sands expansion the SEIS goes to great lengths to (try to) demonstrate that the same volume of bitumen could reach Gulf Coast refineries through rail (and existing pipelines).
So the pipeline is not needed.
In addition, compared to rail, a new 36″ pipeline with a capacity of 830,000 barrels a day threatens far greater volumes of diluted bitumen (dilbit) spilled compared to any potential rail derailments.
One recent tar sands rail derailment of 14 cars:15,000 gallons. Another one, involving 22 cars: 16,643 gallons.
Compare those to a couple of recent pipeline ruptures.
Alberta (Rainbow) 2006 343,000 gallons. Arkansas (Lakehead) 2010: 800,000 – 1,000,000 gallons. Montana (Silvertip) 2011: 63,0000 gallons. Arkansas (Pegasus) 2013: 147,000 – 210,000 gallons.
Pipeline leak detection systems miss 19 out of 20 ruptures and 4 out of 5 large ones. What are the chances that a train derailment goes unnoticed? A buried pipeline with a slow leak can gush for months or years.
So to me the SEIS is hoist on it's own watsit.
Lastly, a pipeline designed, as the SEIS states, to ship product from Alberta to the Gulf Coast locks in a very temporary situation in terms of demand and supply, compared to rail. It also creates a maw that must be fed.
Of course no-one on the outside/our side buys the no-difference argument, but it was stunning to me to read that the SEIS essentiallymakes the case that the pipeline isn't necessary! (In section 2.2.)And yet the other shoe is not dropped.
NO to the tar sands! The profit gained is vastly out-shadowed by the damage guaranteed!
That the costs will not all be borne by those making the profit is a compelling reason to say no to this disasterous project!
You would risk the water supply of many (Ogalalla aquifer) so the billionaire Kochroaches can get richer. The US will not benefit from this oil, and you know it. It's about personal hatred of Chavez and his heavy Venezualan crude that Kochroaches refine at a higher cost than Canadian tar sands bitumen.
Just to be clear, sent your comments to:
Just to be clear, send your comments to:
You ignored the people's will on sensible gun regulation…PLEASE do NOT ignore this threat! NO NO NO Tar Sands Oil Pipeline!
From the Energy Information Administration:
April 19, 2013
Concentration of U.S. crude oil imports among top five suppliers highest since 1997
We've been increasing domestic production since 2009, but oil imports from our five largest suppliers rose from 64 to 72 percent of the total. In particular, we got 14 percent more from Saudi Arabia than in 2011.
This to me is further proof that KXL will not get us closer to energy independence.
This pipeline would be a disaster to the environment. There was a reason that Canada didn't want it going through their parcel of land……
No pipeline!
Human error must have accountability when lives may be subjected to harm. The Keystone pipeline may be another blatant disregard & risk to the safety of civilians. There should be an option to expand the language under 'Acts of Terrorism' to include high risk companies.
This is an excellent point.
What is the best strategy to stop big oil?
It is to push for big unlimited SOLAR.
Meaning a solar feed in tariff ( FiT ) that requires Utilities to pay home owners & farmers $0.29 kwh for feeding solar onto the grid.
We need energy, so we can't just stop the use of oil,
unless we first come up with a better source of energy.
That is unlimited SOLAR.
Germany has now become the solar leader in the world, thanks to their this strategy using a FiT.
Be reasonable. Demand the US go 100% for solar & renewables, which are unlimited & Free.
This pipeline could only serve to turn our drinking water, land, and our atmosphere toxic and unsafe for us to continue to live. The Keystone pipeline will only provide 35 jobs; not the numerous jobs that the public is lead to believe would be made available. I am very concerned about potential leaking due to poor maintenance and monitoring. We have seen what can happen with oil spills, Arkansas most recently and the lack of accountability and responsibility to those that have sustained untold damage to their properties, homes, drinking water…etc. I do not want to have them fracking with either of both processes of chemically and hydro-pressured; especially the chemical infusion that includes Benzene's which caused the death of my husband. I don't want them in my atmosphere or in my drinking water…I know that after the point of infusion of benzene's in your fracking process it takes a time period of 8 years for benzene levels to come into safe compliance. I want our planet to remain inhabitable. People should not suffer because a few fat cats want to fill their wallets with an endless supply of profits. Those that are seeking to do this are clearly not concerned for our planet, the atmosphere, or the well-being of the world population. Those that are behind the development of the Keystone Pipeline are interested only in what they, a handfull of self-concerned and profit seeking persons, want; not in what is right for the planet, our water supply, our atmosphere, or the health of the other 99% of the inhabitants on this planet. Stop the Damn Pipeline!
Germany has shut down half their nukes, by using a solar feed in tariff.
Why is the US so behind the times??
Do you have a solar panel on your apartment window?
If you don't have a solar panel you should not be complaining. Get some skin in the game.
I e-mailed my comments to the Keystone site. Thanks for bringing it to my attention and motivating me to do that tonight.
If you haven't seen it yet, you can do nothing better for Earth Day than to watch the YouTube movie, "Do The Math: A Movie to Spark a Movement". It's something for all of us who are standing up and fighting for our future.
Dear President Obama and State Department Keystone Public Comment Monitors,
You will have received many letters and comments laying out all the problems inherent in the Keystone project: the science behind the horrible risks to the environment resulting from tar sands extractions and pipeline spills (which have already occurred), the insignificance of paltry new jobs gained, the alienation of many US, Canadian and First Nations people, and the betrayal of a dream of clean energy advancement set forth by your administration.
I won't repeat again all the summaries and statistics that green organizations have tried to prepare for voters like me to send to you. I have sent those before, and have sent a letter by post, and tweeted, and picketed, and considered direct protest. Above all this, I am a lover of the great wilderness still found in our beautiful country, and of the National Parks established by a previous administration. I am also a Mom, who hopes my child, and all children, will continue to appreciate the need to protect our fragile planet.
We all know that great political pressures exist to continue our use of fossil fuels. We are an oil-hungry nation, and our hunger remains greater than our collective desire to become fossil fuel independent, despite our tragic war with the Middle East. Even greater is the power of the oil company lobbyists.
You know all of this. We, the American citizens, and especially the majority of us who believed in your dream, ask you to stay committed to developing clean energies. Please reject the Keystone pipeline and any tar sands extraction. Remember your vision of new, green energy technology development for the US. Other countries are gaining ground, and we can, too.
I live in Washington State, which has developed a growing number of wind energy farms in its central areas. When I see these windmills, I think they are beautiful because they will help protect the nearby mountains and forests, which are more beautiful. I have seen reports that the US could provide for all its energy needs with a combination of wind and solar energies – if it wanted to. We CAN do this. Remember how we saw development of more energy-efficient vehicles when you supported it and when gas prices rose? Where there's a will, there's a way.
We know the opposition is great, but you campaigned on this and we supported you. The Keystone project is dangerous to the environment and has become a symbol, a line in the sand, for so many who supported you. It must be rejected. Our elected officials did not listen to the public on gun control – will you all turn your backs again?
I sent an email to the address listed and have received a confirmation back from the State Department that they have received my comments.
Homo monstrum-that about sums the Bosses up.
I don't think I can put it any better than everyone else has.
It also seems shameful we have to fight to stop something this potentially detrimental to our planet before the end of Earth Day.
Obama set to okay pipeline, former insider says, as poll shows support
The oil will be extracted even if keystone xl isn't approved, it just won't go to the gulf. Pipelines have already been proposed to take the oil to the west coast for export to China and to the east to help lower gas prices.
Canada's Globe and Mail, their headline somewhat misleading as it refers to a former Stater under Condi Rice, however the article makes a depressing case for approval if (big if but important one) Obama thinks Keystone will lower US gas prices or provide price stability.
Obama seems to think climate action/cleaner energy more expensive/too expensive right now.
I don't buy the article's argument that people in the path of the pipeline want it, that's nuts.
Next steps: yet more public education, calls to White House?
A group of Illinois Quakers sent an email focusing on the moral and theological arguments against the pipeline.
No. I do not support the pipeline.
Vote NO to the pipeline. We need to get away from fossil fuels and move to clean energy. It's said that jobs will be lost but I don't see how that can be true. The coal miners and oil workers only need to be retrained to work clean energy. If we want to save our planet it's the only way to go. It's only greed that is keeping us from making the right decision for our world. Think of your children and their children. Is that really the kind of world you want to leave to them just because of the money. What a good example to set for them. GREED
Okay, President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, have you ever heard of a solar power spill, a wind power spill? Have you seen the boreal forest pillaged to produce renewable energy? Ah, I didn't hink so.
If you allow the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, I will be among the thousands (or more) patriotic individuals blocking its construction. If you stop it, we have your backs.
Save our money; our air, land and water, our children's and grandchildren's future; promote healthful and SUSTAINABLE AND MORE jobs in renewable energy. Say NO to Keystone, and its psychopathic promoters, and say NO to "the tyranny of oil."
The Keystone pipeline only helps the oil companies. They don't care about the environment. The bottom line is the money they will make selling the oil overseas. It won't bring down our oil/gas prices. So Earth Day is the perfect day to say, "NO WAY".
The United States of America needs to get on with it and learn to use earth-friendly, renewable resources for power such as solar power and wind power. Our crippling addiction to oil has us tied to this industry which will eventually reduce Americans to antiquity because we will no longer be able to afford it, we won't be able to go anywhere because of our over-production of vehicles that the roads, which we are NOT paying attention to are deteriorating at a super-fast rate, and because we are polluting our land and water supplies with this GUNK that NEVER really goes away. Stop the puppetry of the oil companies over Congress and the private citizens and let's get CLEAN. DO NOT ALLOW Keystone XL to be built over U. S. Lands. There will BE NO U.S. lands left untouched by their pollution. We ARE better than this and SHOULD be better stewards of the land.
Please do not approve this pipeline…Oil spills sickens the world.
There is no benefit to having the pipeline, that can even remotely offset the imminent danger it presents. The jobs it creates are temporary, but risks are permanent.
Hands down, vote no…Please!
Please do not go forward with the Keystone Pipeline. We, the people, are rapidly losing faith in our leaders who are suppose to act for the people, not for corporations or lobbyists or in their own personal interest. It is disappointing to say the least to hear of so many recent decisions that do not take the wishes or the wellbeing of the citizens of our beloved country into account. Please help us learn to trust our government again.
There are numerous compelling reasons NOT to allow this or similar pipelines to be constructed. I know that you are aware of them, & many of them have been outlined in other comments here.
The question is not: why we shouldn't we build the Keystone XL but: WILL YOU DO THE RIGHT THING? You know very well what that is. Please think long & hard about your answer, & how you would explain to your own family the reasons for doing the wrong thing. Because ultimately, that is what it will come down to.
Your children & their children will pay the price if you choose the selfish, wealth-producing route rather than the responsible route that benefits everyone. Thank you for your consideration.
No pipeline! This is just simply a "no brainer " decision! No to keystone pipeline! No! No! No! This must not be an issue in the future, attached to some bill….. no pipeline, ever! No!
No pipeline! Time to move forward toward clean, free energy! Leave this political fiasco behind.
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Please stop the pipeline. As you know we are in the times of earthquakes in places on the earth that never had them. Where the pipeline is going- we have movement of the earth. It is not safe and will pollute our environment for All of our children if there is an accident. The risk far outweighs the benefits. This will also have an impact on your friends and relatives also.Please think. Please stop the pipeline from going in. Please for all of our childrens' sake. Thank you
I believe drilling thousands of holes in the earth and siphoning massive amounts of sludge out of the ground is one of mankind's biggest mistakes! I think that is what is causing earthquakes because if you think about it we are displacing massive amounts of sludge from under the ground, but what the hell is gonna hold the earth together as we displace tons of material that is probably there for a reason! I don't think that reason was for us to consume, I think it's there to stabilize earth! Yes contrary to conservative beliefs it isn't gay marriage that is causing earthquakes!
~What has oil done besides create war and pollute our air and oceans and land!…We have three God given energy sources that are free, clean and never ending! WATER, WIND and SUN are what we should be using not oil!!! Water, wind & sun do not pollute and there is plenty to go around!
~If a more advanced human from another planet visited here I think they would be shocked by what we are doing to our home by poking holes into her and fighting over this disgusting black liquid that was meant to stabilize our planet, but instead it is polluting it and causing wars and many lives lost and the perpetuation of greed and the perpetuation of starvation and suffering! This advanced species would probably say what the hell were you thinking!!!…Republicans don't want clean energy because they are so deep into big oil's pockets that they are getting rich by suppressing Democrats ideas for a cleaner greener America!…Faux Noise (Fox News) is the biggest liar when it comes to this topic because they are paid to push the republican agenda which is to suppress facts and scare voters on every issue!
We should be scared, scared for our mother earth and what we have done to her! And we should be scared for our future generations that have to live on this planet too!
~~Without a doubt in my mind clean energy is the way we must go!!!
No pipeline! It does not provide many jobs and it leaks and ruins people's property.People will then move away and no one will be paying property taxes to governments.
How many ecological disasters are enough? How many dead animals are enough? How many acres of poisoned land are enough? How many tens of billions of dollars spent on clean-up–instead of earth-friendly uses–are enough?
At what point do we stop putting the interests of big business ahead of all our ethics and morals, and start focusing on taking up stewardship–not dominion!–over this glorious gift of a planet?
We've seen all the leaks, sickness, and death…
We've know it isn't creating jobs…
We know that it isn't helping America financially…
We know only a few are getting rich off it at America's expense…
We also know it makes us vulnerable to accidents and sabotage…
We know it's wrong, period.
NO to Keystone
The Tar Sands project will destroy what we have left of our environment, should spills occur, and they will. Better to load it on a train to the refineries. Say no because only a few will profit and we will ALL suffer the consequences of the continued rape of the Earth.
Canada has two huge shores at the ocean, let them run their dirty mess across their OWN country! We do NOT want it here! How dare they use Eminent domain to illegally seize the property of US citizens! And why? so the filthy oil companies can make more profit, destroy more plants, animals, land and people for a few bucks. It's oil that is being sold overseas, not here. Plus it's not even really OIL, but bitumen and the oil companies get out of fines and clean up on that, thanks to our ignorant republican congress persons. Can we have the Whigs back instead of republicans?
No pipeline. Time to focus on environmentally friendly alternatives. Love your Mother!
I think it in not a good idea to run this pipeline across this country. W should invest more in solar & wind power.
It's Earth Day, 2013. Please stop this ridiculous pipeline plan. It makes no environmental sense whatsoever & crosses too many sacred tribal lands. You will be digging up resting places of our Native ancestors. Our land deserves more care and respect. Thank you
Take a pass on the pipeline…and the pollution…and the destruction of one of the few freshest water sources still left in the world! Soon our resources will be worth more than gold as other areas look for pristine waters and fertile land to grow corps that won't carry lethal substances.
We need to protect the earth and waters!
Please do what's right for our living planet instead of our rotting, overloaded pocketbooks!
Please do not expose our precious ground water, fertile farmland and heartland communities to such high risk for toxic environmental and health disaster. We have energy alternatives and the people of this country want representatives to stand up to big oil and industry money and say "no" we don't need this. We deserve justice for our future existence and the well-being of our children.
Hi Randy
Sorry to say we can run out of water. It took Millions of years for the water to seep in the ground to form the Ogallala Aquifer. It is a shallow water supply from a few feet to 1,000 feet deep. It runs under 8 western states on the plains. It supplies most of the drinking and irritation for these states. There is no way to replace this water, with out it the plain states will turn back into a desert.
Added my comment. Thanks for the article!


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Along with brothers John and Jim Harbaugh coaching against one another, the two have instilled similar football philosophies in their respective teams. Each offense presents a run-first attack and the defenses love to get physical.
Due to the nature of this game on both sides, the victor of Super Bowl XLVII will win the battle at the line of scrimmage and execute only one or two big plays. Whether it's a turnover, clutch catch or key first down, this will be a fun matchup to watch.
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The group's Consumer Reports magazine staff recommended that people immediately stop using some of the products tested.
"Our lab tests detected lead at widely varying levels in samples of dishware, jewelry, glue stick caps, vinyl backpacks, children's ceramic tea sets and other toys and items not on any federal recall list," the group wrote in a magazine report.
Lawyers' group urges death penalty moratorium
October 29, 2007 11:34 AM - James Vicini, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Bar Association said on Monday it was renewing its call for a nationwide moratorium on executions, based on a three-year study of death penalty systems in eight states that found unfairness and other flaws.
The lawyers' group said its study identified key problems, such as major racial disparities, incompetent defense services for poor defendants and irregular clemency review processes, making those death penalty systems operate unfairly.
The American Bar Association in 2001 launched its Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project as the next step toward a nationwide moratorium on executions. The study was part of that project.
German carmakers blast motorway speed limit idea
October 29, 2007 11:27 AM -
HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Imposing a standard speed limit of 130 kph (80 mph) on German motorways would have scant impact on the environment and only hurt domestic carmakers, the country's VDA auto industry group said on Monday.
"Such fixed speed limits would be an ecological zero-sum game and would damage the German auto sector," VDA President Matthias Wissmann said in a statement to Reuters.
Germany is unusual in that stretches of its motorways still have no speed limit, and the country's influential car industry has lobbied hard against any national rules.
Spain to demolish illegal coastal homes: report
October 29, 2007 11:21 AM -
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain plans to demolish illegally built homes and hotels along an eighth of its coastline to halt rapid destruction of its Mediterranean and Canary Island beaches, the El Pais newspaper reported on Monday.
The 5-billion-euro ($7-billion) plan aims to reclaim 482 miles of coastline and put an end to illegal urban development that threatens Spain's tourism industry, one of the country's biggest sources of foreign cash, El Pais reported.
The Socialist government will present the plan to regional authorities on Wednesday and promote it as a means to attract wealthy tourists who seek natural beauty rather than concrete resorts, the newspaper said.
Expert: Burma's Junta No Match For Internet
October 29, 2007 10:57 AM - Barry Bergman, UC berkeley
Berkeley, California - Darren Zook, a UC Berkeley political scientist and Southeast Asia scholar, says there is one huge difference between today's protests in Burma and those of nearly two decades ago: the Internet. The military has arrested thousands of dissidents, many of them Buddhist monks, and estimates of the dead range from dozens to hundreds; Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the past 18 years in detention, remains under house arrest. Yet the ability of a relatively few determined activists inside Burma to connect with the outside world has turned the current turmoil into a teachable moment on a global scale.
California Wildfires Destroy Animal Habitats : USFWS
October 29, 2007 10:00 AM - Reuters
Los Angeles - Wildfires that began last week and continue to burn in southern California have destroyed thousands of acres of vegetation and habitat on Hopper Mountain and San Diego National Wildlife Refuges, forced the temporary closure of the Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office, and spurred deployment of more than 40 Service firefighters to the region.
As of Wednesday, more than 1,500 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in five southern California counties. Property damage is estimated at $1 Billion in San Diego County alone. All Service employees in the affected areas are accounted for and no employees' homes have been damaged by fire.
What's the brain got to do with education?
October 29, 2007 09:17 AM - University of Bristol
Quite a lot - according to teachers in a recent survey commissioned by The Innovation Unit and carried out by researchers at the University of Bristol. Although current teacher training programmes generally omit the science of how we learn, an overwhelming number of the teachers surveyed felt neuroscience could make an important contribution in key educational areas. The research was undertaken to inform a series of seminars between educationalists and neuroscientists organised by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Croc hunter Irwin believed he'd die young: wife
October 29, 2007 07:45 AM - Reuters
Quirky crocodile hunter Steve Irwin had a sixth sense that he would die young, his American-born wife Terri said on Monday.
More than a year after the Khaki-clad naturalist died from a stingray's barb that pierced his heart, Terri Irwin told Australian television she had always tried to deflect her 44-year old husband's darker moments.
California fire victims find long path to recovery
October 29, 2007 07:38 AM - Daisuke Wakabayashi -Reuters
Sifting through the ash-covered rubble where her family's home stood one week ago, Nicole Booth combs the scorched remains of a life left behind in the wildfires that blanketed this Southern California town.
The blaze consumed the family home leaving only the concrete foundation to support the half-chewed appliances and melted metal frames. The trees and grass that once surrounded the home are now gone, replaced by barren brown fields.
Study Claims Smoking not linked to more advanced breast cancer
October 28, 2007 11:54 PM - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a study that is sure to be questioned and criticized, one research group claims that women who develop breast cancer are no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke. The study's author, Dr MatthewAbramowitz said the study did not evaluate whether smokers were more likely than nonsmokers to have complications in treatment for breast cancer or die from the disease. However, the National Cancer Institute said cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths and is responsible for most cancers of the larynx, mouth, esophagus and bladder. The group emphasizes that tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, is the most preventable cause of death in the United States.


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The Promiseby Chaim Potok
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One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an
Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he's in love, and he's studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.
One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders–now a psychologist with a growing reputation. Reconnected by their shared concern for Michael, Reuven and Danny each learns what it is to take on life–whether sacred truths or a troubled child–according to his own lights, not just established authority.
In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one's own way in the world
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OneThe county fair was Rachel's idea. She had a passion for the theater, James Joyce, and county fairs, and she could be quite persuasive when it came to those three passions. We would go on the Sunday in the third week of August, the closing night of the fair, when there would be a fireworks display. We would have a splendid time, she said. It was also her idea that we take her cousin Michael.It was warm that Sunday night and the sky was clear and filled with stars. We sat in the front seat of the DeSoto and Rachel drove carefully along the dark asphalt country roads. Michael sat quietly between us, staring out of the windshield. A moment after we reached the highway he suddenly became quite talkative. He chatted about his frogs and salamanders. He talked about Andromeda, white dwarfs, and red giants. He seemed to know a great deal about astronomy. He had a high, thin voice and he spoke animatedly and in a rushing flow of technical words. I saw Rachel smiling. She wore a yellow sleeveless summer dress and her short auburn hair blew in the warm wind that came through the open windows of the car.We came to a crossroads, bright with the neon life of a night highway, then went around a sharp curve. Set into the darkness about an eighth of a mile away, and looking as though it had carved itself into the night, was the county fair. Michael abruptly ceased talking and leaned forward in the seat.The fair lay stretched out upon a huge field alongside the highway, bathed in a blaze of electric lights and neon signs, with strings of bulbs across an entrance arch spelling out the word PARKING, and floodlights poking bright fingers into the black sky, and blurred gashes of colored lights from a moving Ferris wheel and parachute jump. The brightness formed a pale, smoky, faintly pink arc-shaped cloud over the entire area, sealing it off from the darkness beyond. In the center of the field was a roller coaster with strings of lighted bulbs following its tortuous contour.Rachel parked the car and we came out onto the graveled surface of the parking lot and to a chain-link fence with a gate. We went through the gate and into the county fair.The three of us were standing on an asphalt road that was jammed with people. Teen-agers jostled roughly through the crowd, children ran about wildly, young and old couples moved along or stood near booths playing carnival games. A thick din choked the air. I heard gongs, bells, rifle shots from a nearby shooting gallery, the music of a calliope, the whooshing roar of the roller coaster, and a steady waterfall of human noise. It seemed as if all the noise of the world's wide night had descended upon this one stretch of lighted earth."We're in the wrong place," I said to Rachel.She stood alongside me on the asphalt road, her face pale in the garish lights. Michael was staring around wide-eyed at the booths."What did you do, take a wrong turn somewhere?" I was annoyed and I let my voice show it."No, I did not take a wrong turn somewhere.""'What happened to your county fair?""It was advertised as a fair. You saw the poster. Annual county fair. In big red letters. You saw it too.""I don't like carnivals," I said."Neither do I.""What do you want to do?"She looked around indecisively, chewing her lip. I saw her glance at Michael, who stood nearby staring at the roller coaster."Why don't we call up James Joyce and find out what he would do?" I said, feeling irritated and annoyed and wanting to get away from the noise and the wildness.She gave me an angry look. "Don't be nasty," she said. "It isn't my fault.""What do you want to do?""We'll see the exhibits and go right home.""They've probably got three cows and two horses in a tent somewhere.""We'll look and go right home. So it won't be a total waste. What gall to advertise this as a fair."We found the tent. There were cows, horses, calves, pigs, roosters, hens, awkward paintings by local artists, and some prize-winning home-baked pies. The wooden floor of the tent was covered with sawdust, and the smell of animal droppings was very strong."I'm thrilled," I said. "You have no idea how thrilled I am to see rural America at its creative best.""Don't be mean," Rachel said. But she was as angry as I was."I'm not mean. I'm thrilled.""I've seen beautiful fairs.""Let's go home," I said.Michael stood a few feet away from us, looking curiously at a prize calf. He wore a rumpled white sport shirt, tan shorts, and an old pair of tennis sneakers with the laces untied. He had wild dark-brown hair that badly needed trimming and dreamy blue eyes behind shell-rimmed glasses that were too large for his narrow face.We came out of the tent onto the black asphalt road of the carnival. Michael wanted to know where the other exhibits were."That's all there is," I told him. "We just saw the whole fair. It's a carnival. They stuck some animals in and called it a fair. But it's a carnival.""We're going home now," Rachel said.Michael stared at her, his mouth dropping open."Reuven and I don't like carnivals," Rachel said.But Michael did not want to go home. Why should we go home just because it was a carnival? he wanted to know. What was wrong with carnivals? He and Rachel stood on the road, arguing. It seemed to me they argued a long time. Michael had a strong, stubborn, aggressive streak. In the end, Rachel yielded.We walked along the crowded asphalt road through the litter of pop bottles, ice-cream wrappers, soiled paper bags, popsicle sticks, beer cans, discarded newspapers. The carnival booths lined both sides of the road, and from inside the booths pitchmen shouted their games to the crowd. Some booths were large, with expensive-looking prizes on their shelves; most were small shanty-like affairs, with gambling games or tossing games operated by hard-voiced carnival people some of whom wore derbies or straw hats. The booths were on wheels and were scarred and blotched from travel. The carnival had been set up in the form of a circle, with the booths lining both sides of the curving asphalt road, and the Ferris wheel, parachute jump, and roller coaster in the center.We approached a ring-toss game operated by a short, double-chinned pitchman in a straw hat. He was chewing on a dead cigar and shouting automatically at the crowd. He took off the straw hat and wiped his bald head with a red handkerchief. There was no one at his booth. He put the handkerchief away and saw me looking at him. His voice focused itself directly upon us, and we were drawn reluctantly to the booth.We played the ring-toss game twice. Then we went to another booth and played a pitching game. Michael played awkwardly. His glasses kept slipping down the bridge of his nose and he kept pushing them back up with abrupt motions of his hand. After the pitching game Rachel told him again that she wanted to go home but he ignored her and went on ahead, moving restlessly along the asphalt road. He was a thin, narrow-shouldered, gawky boy, about five inches shorter than my own five feet ten inches, and he seemed all caught up in the tumult around us.So we continued along the asphalt road, playing the games and ignoring the freak shows. Even Michael did not want to see the freak shows. We fired rifles at wooden ducks, threw pennies into flat plates, tossed baseballs at fat-nosed clowns. Rachel won a charm bracelet from the penny-tossing game, and Michael came away from the fat nose of a clown with a pen and pencil set which he stuck away in his shirt pocket with a triumphant grin. Now he wanted to go on the roller coaster, he said.Rachel told him she did not like roller coasters."Then I'll go with Reuven," he said.I told him I did not like roller coasters either."Then I'll go alone," he said, and started by himself toward the ticket booth.Rachel looked at me helplessly."Your cousin is a first-class brat," I said. "Come on. We can't let him go up there by himself."Michael grinned delightedly as he watched us purchase our tickets. We came through the turnstile and climbed into the front seat of a car. The remaining seats filled rapidly. The teen-age boy who had taken our tickets shouted something to the man behind the ticket counter and pushed down a long lever set near the tracks. There was a faint hum of machinery. The car moved forward. Michael sat to my left, talking excitedly about the last time he had been on a roller coaster years ago in Coney Island. He had been scared half to death, he said, grinning at me and pushing the glasses back up on the bridge of his nose. Rachel sat to my right, looking a little frightened. The car climbed slowly up a steep incline. Then we were at the crest and with a suddenness that pushed me back against the seat and took the air from my lungs we dropped wildly into the night.The car hurtled downward on roaring wheels between lights that blurred into quivering lines. Michael held on tightly to the support rod, his body rigid, his teeth clenched. Rachel gave me a resigned look. We rose and fell and rose again and fell again. On the ground below, the carnival heaved and undulated like a garish blanket in a windstorm. There were screams and shouts from the other passengers and the fierce crescendo of racing steel wheels. Michael sat with his eyes narrow against the whipping of the wind and his mouth open as though gulping the air that beat against him. Then, with an abrupt motion, he stood up in the car.Immediately Rachel shouted at him to sit down.He stood there, holding tightly to the rod, his body swaying with the wild motions of the car, and ignored her."Sit down!" Rachel screamed.He turned his head and looked at her and laughed.Rachel gave me a frightened, pleading look. I struggled to my feet and stood next to him, holding on to the rod and feeling my arms strain and pull against the sudden force of a drop that almost lifted me from the floor of the car. Then we were out of it and the tracks leveled and slanted off to the right and we seemed to be on our sides as we hurtled along the rim of the coaster over the booths and the lights and the asphalt road below. I heard Rachel shout at Michael again to sit down. He ignored her. We were climbing again. I turned my head to glance at Rachel. She was white-faced. I started to reach for Michael's shoulder to pull him into the seat, but we had climbed to another crest and were falling again and I needed both hands on the rod. We fell a long time and I saw Michael release one hand from the rod and brush at his nose, then clutch quickly at the rod as the drop curved into a wildly slanting turn. I looked at his face. There was a faint dark smear on his upper lip. I saw him brush again at his nose, and now the smear was darker, moving liquidly across his face, and the wind lifted it and blew it against his cheeks and onto his shirt and out behind him into the night. We came out of the turn and straightened and dropped again down a long straight slope that looked like a ski jump, then looped upward into another climb. Michael stared at his hand. It had come away from his nose stained with blood. He sat down quickly."He's got a nosebleed," I shouted to Rachel above the noise of the wheels. I turned to Michael. "Lean back. Put your head back." I took out my handkerchief and wiped away some of the blood. It trickled strongly from his left nostril, a dark stream against the whiteness of his narrow face."Press down on his upper lip," Rachel said, shouting into the wind.I put my forefinger across his upper lip and pressed down hard. Michael stared up at me. The next drop lifted my finger from his face and threw me against him, and I felt him squirming beneath my weight. Then I was sitting next to him, holding him and pushing down hard on his upper lip. He reached up and put both his hands on my arm and I thought he was using my arm to support himself in the seat, but he was pushing against me instead, pushing my finger away from his face. He took out his own handkerchief and held it to his nose, looking at me intently, a strange calm in his eyes. The car slowed, ran level for a moment, then came to a stop.We climbed out. Michael held the handkerchief to his nose. Some of the passengers looked at him as they passed by. We moved away from the car and stood on the asphalt road near the roller coaster ticket booth."Are you all right?" Rachel asked him. Her voice was faint and she looked very frightened.He took the handkerchief away from his nose. The bleeding had stopped. The handkerchief hung limply from his hand, stained with blood. He stuffed it into a pocket."What was that all about?" I said.He grinned at me. There was a strange sly look on his narrow face."That was a stupid thing to do. What were you trying to prove?""I wasn't scared," he said, grinning. "I enjoyed it.""You scared hell out of me and Rachel.""Let's play some more of the games," he said.Rachel said she wanted to go home."In a little while," Michael said.Rachel said she wanted to go home right now.Michael ignored her. He was looking at the booths alongside the road beyond the roller coaster. Then he started on up the road, walking quickly, as if he were by himself now."He's turning into a royal pain in the neck," I said.Rachel stood there, looking a little dazed and watching Michael go up the road."We should have gone home right away," she said."Come on," I said. "We'll lose him in a minute.""We should have gone home right away," she said again. Then she started quickly along the road. I walked beside her.
Meet the Author
Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Potok's first novel, The Chosen, published in 1967, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. He is author of eight novels, including In the Beginning and My Name is Asher Lev, and Wanderings, a history of the Jews. He died in 2002.
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All i can say is that this man is great. i have never read anything that had such profound effects on my emotions. i was angry when there was need to be and i was heartbroken at other times. this book is not only for the jewish reader, i myself am roman catholic and i feel like by reading this i have come into a deeper understanding of my own religion 5 stars mr potok.
The promise is written amazingly. The plot is complex and the characters have depth to them. Everything is described so well and i can vividly picture it in my mind. I've probably read this book 100 times and would recomend it to somebody any day
With "The Promise", Chaim Potok continues the explorations of growing up Jewish in 1950's Brooklyn that he began in "The Chosen".
While this book brings more of the secular world into its plotline than its prequel, it does so in a way that is completely logical and understandable. As the country entered the 1950's, the religious and secular worlds started to undergo a change and a blending the like of which had never been seen before, and probably will never be seen again.
This process is seen in microcosm as Potok continues his story of Reuven Malter, now studying to become a rabbi, and his best friend Danny Saunders, the Hasid turned psychology student.
The most interesting thing about this story to my mind is that the roles of the two main characters are, to some extent, reversed. In "The Chosen", Danny was the religious one - rebellious in his own way, but still religious; and Reuven was the more worldly one. Here, Reuven is moving into the religious world, and Danny is becoming more and more secular - so much so, in fact, that he becomes engaged to and eventually marries a woman he falls in love with, rather than the arranged marriage that his family would have set up for him.
The secondary plots of Danny's prospective cousin-in-law and his emotional problems, and Reuven's conflict and bonding with his Talmud instructor, are also interesting, but it is still the interplay between Danny, Reuven, and their fathers that is the reason to buy this book. Even if you're not Jewish, this story will speak to you.
The depth Potok gives his characters is incredible. They each have an interesting background- no boring, two-dimensional characters in this novel at all. The plot was good, nothing shocking or new. However, the way that Potok tells the story is incredibly captivating. Potok, through is characters, displays important truths and lessons about life and others. Although not necessary, I strongly suggest reading THE CHOSEN first to better understand Rueven Malter and Danny Saunders.
I read the prelude to The Promise, called The Chosen, this past semester during Judaism class. I must say that The Promise is just as good as the original, because Potok does a good job of describing the scenary to the point where you feel like you are part of the action, and a part of the character's lives. After reading these books, I can trully say that The Chosen and The Promise have taught me more about living in society, and how our choices reflect the type of individual that we are.
This book was one of the best I've ever read. I would recommend it for anyone who has read the prelude to it , The Chosen. They really go together.
The Promise is an inspirational novel. Chaim Potok has definetly delivered an outstanding piece of work. It's even better than its prequel, The Chosen. The Promise is narrated by Rueven Malter, a young man studying in hopes to recieve his smicha (rabbinic ordination). At the same time however, he must decide on where he stands, with his father and Abraham Gordon, or with his teacher. The two sides are opposite of each other in struggle on how all Jews should be practicing their religion. And during all this, he must help save Micheal Gordon, the son of Abraham Gordon who is suffering phsycological problems. The Promise will bring you joy, tears and everything in between!
I did not like this book at allcompared to The Chosen!
This book is not good at all. I was annoyed by the Michael character. The events and relationships in this book seem much more shallower and diffiult to believe than in the 1st book, 'the chosen.' This book was a huge disappointment and poor follow-up to 'The chosen.'


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Tennessee keeps answering every challenge to its No. 1 ranking in women's basketball.
The Lady Vols led The Associated Press poll for the fifth straight week on Monday after defeating two more ranked opponents -- the 101st time Tennessee has been No. 1. Connecticut is next with 94 appearances in the top spot.
In a poll that had no newcomers, Arizona State joined the Top 10 for the first time in nearly 23 years and matched its highest ranking ever at No. 9.
With Tennessee (12-0) setting the pace, the top six teams remained the same after a week in which no one in the Top 25 lost to an unranked opponent. There were seven games between ranked teams, with the higher-ranked school winning four of them.
Tennessee continued tuning up for Southeastern Conference play by beating then-No. 22 Temple 75-50 and No. 12 Notre Dame 62-51, both on the road. The Lady Vols received 34 of 45 first-place votes from a national media panel and had 1,113 points -- 31 more than No. 2 Duke.
Duke had nine first-place votes and No. 3 LSU received the other two. Defending national champion Baylor remained fourth and was followed by North Carolina and Maryland.
The top six had a combined record of 69-1 through Sunday. Maryland had the only loss, 80-75 to Tennessee in its fifth game of the season.
Tennessee has also defeated Top 25 teams Michigan State, Texas and Stanford. The Lady Vols have another ranked opponent coming up this week, hosting No. 7 Connecticut on Saturday in their annual regular-season grudge match. UConn has lost only to North Carolina.
Ohio State's loss at Purdue on Sunday dropped the Buckeyes from seventh to 10th, enabling Connecticut and No. 8 Rutgers to move up one spot each. Arizona State, 3-0 in the Pac-10 for the first time, climbed two places to ninth.
It's the Sun Devils' first Top 10 since they were 10th the week of Feb. 20, 1983. They were previously ranked ninth on Jan. 9, 1983.
Michigan State slipped one spot to 11th after going 2-1 during the week. The loss was to LSU.
Notre Dame held at No. 12, DePaul remained 13th and Purdue jumped four places to 14th, the Boilermakers' highest ranking this season. Then it was Minnesota, Stanford and Georgia, followed by Oklahoma, Boston College and Vanderbilt.
New Mexico, Utah, Texas, Temple and Virginia Tech held the final five places.
A loss at Boston College dropped Stanford from 14th to 16th. The Cardinal then flew back across the country and beat Southern Cal and UCLA at home.
Oklahoma gained two places to 18th after beating New Mexico for the second time this season. New Mexico dropped from 16th to 21st, while Texas fell four spots to 23rd after losing at Rutgers.
Texas is just 6-4, but all four losses have been to ranked teams -- Rutgers, Tennessee, Duke and New Mexico.
Tennessee-Connecticut is one of several marquee games this week. Maryland plays at Boston College and New Mexico is at home against Utah on Thursday. On Saturday, LSU hosts Minnesota, Baylor entertains Texas and Rutgers goes to Michigan State. On Sunday, it's Duke at Maryland and Boston College at Virginia Tech.


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This is another character I am developing for my webcomic. Her arms are supposed to be that long, it is part of her design. Right now she is utilizing an old model cyborg body. I was working on a few color variations and ended up using this light green version. She is essentially a revised version of my previous lone wolf pieces which are found in my gallery.


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A few days ago, I was sitting with my kids as we were talking about Father's Day, and how we would have some family over to the house for Father's Day. Both my husband and I have parents who divorced, so my children have many grandparents, some of whom they have biological connections to and others whom they do not. As we talked about who was coming over, my seven year old tried to clarify exactly "who" Father's Day is for. When you have eight grandparents, half-aunts, and somewhere in the range of forty second cousins, these kinds of conversations take time.
We started at the beginning, which is often where one starts when you are talking about family. We talked about how when babies are born, there is one man and one woman that are part of how they are made. And then we started talking about what happens after the baby is born, and about how sometimes, the picture shifts. About how sometimes a baby that is made by a man and a woman will go to their home with their parents, who are not the same people who made them, but is just as much their family through adoption. Sometimes, that family though adoption is another man and a woman, or sometimes it is two women, or two men. We talked about how sometimes, even after grown ups think they are going to be together forever, things change in ways they never imagined, sometimes a mommy or daddy might not be around the way they could be. And about how sometimes, like his grandparents, people remarry, and then a child sometimes has even more parents then they started out with. Let me tell you, my children have a lot of questions about family constellations, and apparently last week was the day that we were going to air every.single.one. of them.
At one point in our conversation about all these different kinds of ties, my son shook his head in some disbelief. "There sure are a lot of people in our family…." he said. "But what is important is to love each other, right? That's what makes a family most of all."
That moment, just a few days ago, was an important teaching lesson for me. I was pretty darn close, at one point in our conversation, to getting out a long sheet of paper and colored pencils to try to detail more clearly how we were related to various people! My son showed me that in some ways, I was trying to explain family in a way that was much too narrow. The biological and marital connections matter, to be sure. But there is more to family than those connections - as my little boy said so clearly. What makes a family is love. Most of us today have what might be known fifty years ago as "complicated families." I used to think that was less than ideal. But as I have grown and thought more about what it means to be in relationship with people, I have learned that "complicated families" is another way of saying our circles are wide, and that love passes the boundaries we try to place on it. To love is to make a family. I hope you all had a blessed Father's Day!