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News Of The Year | WORLD's editors rank the most significant news stories from the past year
by The Editors
Posted 12/29/09, 03:40 pm
1. Inauguration of President Barack Obama
The year began on Jan. 20, millions of Americans believed, when Barack Hussein Obama II, the first African-American elected to the nation's highest office, took the oath before an estimated 2 million onlookers on Washington's National Mall, with another 38 million watching on television. Obama pledged to "begin again the work of remaking America," but by year's end was himself looking for an image makeover: Despite winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama's approval rating of 80 percent in January had plunged to 48 percent by mid-December. (See also "Winners," Jan. 2, 2010.)
2. War in Afghanistan and Pakistan
In the face of growing insecurity and casualty numbers (from a low of 49 U.S. military personnel killed in 2002 to a high of over 300 in 2009), President Obama undertook an extensive review of the U.S. Afghan war strategy and announced Dec. 1 he would increase U.S. troop levels by an additional 30,000. The encroachments of al-Qaeda and Taliban elements in both Afghanistan and Pakistan appeared to persuade the president of the need for further armed confrontation, as he defended the war mission to cadets at West Point and, ironically, before the austere gathering of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and its guests in Oslo. Having opposed the 2007 surge in Iraq, the president reportedly told Gen. David Petraeus about Afghanistan, "What I'm looking for is a surge." The stepped-up strategy is to include expanded use of U.S. drones in border regions and increased humanitarian aid along with engagement with Afghanistan's government. (See also "Wars," Jan. 2, 2010.)
3. War in Iraq
While U.S. casualties in Afghanistan climbed, they declined in Iraq, reflecting not only overall improved security but a U.S.-Iraq security agreement signed in 2008 that saw U.S. troops pulling back from frontlines (and out of cities) in summer 2009, ahead of the anticipated pullout of all U.S. combat forces by 2010. But Iraqi forces struggled to keep the peace: Massive bombings took a toll in August and September. On Dec. 8 five simultaneous bombings in Baghdad, targeting government buildings and schools, claimed 127 lives and injured more than 500. Despite the ongoing unrest the government has scheduled nationwide elections for March 2010. (See also "Wars," Jan. 2, 2010.)
4. Climategate
The discovery in November of emails showing doubt and disagreement among the world's leading climatologists over the extent of global warming is eroding confidence in the science that led to the Kyoto Protocols and the effort to agree on a treaty controlling carbon emissions at Copenhagen. Experts who have long operated as "second-class citizens" in the climate world because they doubted the data showing a dramatic rise in world temperature in the last 100 years now are finding their voices again. That didn't stop the EPA from announcing massive new emissions standards via the Clean Air Act starting next year, but it will make it harder for the agency to find broad consensus for its directive. (See also "Wars," Jan. 2, 2010.)
It's yet to be seen if Congress can reconcile the thousands of pages of House and Senate legislation and the issues dividing not only Republicans and Democrats but dividing the Democratic Party itself in the massive attempt to overhaul an industry representing one-sixth of the country's economy. (See also "Politics," Jan. 2, 2010.)
6. Recession
By the third quarter of 2009 there were halting signs that the nation's worst recession since the Great Depression was coming to an end, as housing declines and stock market losses eased. But the economy has lost more than 7 million jobs since economists say the recession began in 2007; and in 2009 the unemployment rate soared to over 10 percent, its highest rate in over 25 years.
The continuing stall produced a historic takeover of the U.S. auto industry: an $81 billion "investment," or bailout, depending on who's talking-prompting The New York Times to use the word "nationalization" to describe what once was an iconic symbol of American ingenuity and independence. (See also "Losers," Jan. 2, 2010.)
7. Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood, and the domestic terror threat
Army officials have not said whether they will seek the death penalty in the court martial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the gunman behind the Fort Hood killings. They have said that doctors will evaluate Hasan by mid-January to determine his competency to stand trial as well as his mental state at the time of the shooting. Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shooting on the Texas Army post. He remains hospitalized in San Antonio, recovering from gunshot wounds that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Separately, U.S. law enforcement in 2009 foiled five domestic terror plots-suggesting that the threat of homegrown jihadists is on the rise. (See also "The Buzz," Jan. 2, 2010.)
8. Honduras: Triumph of Latin American democracy
What media and U.S. officials initially described as a coup turned out to be a lawful transfer of power following Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's attempts to secure an indefinite term of office. At the directive of Congress and the Supreme Court, Honduras' military arrested Zelaya and transferred him to Costa Rica in the middle of the night. A member of his own party, congressional leader Roberto Micheletti, became temporary head of state in his place. In the months following it became clear this was no ordinary "coup," as the government proceeded with elections on schedule, and Hondurans resoundingly turned away from the party of both Zelaya and Micheletti. And in the course of it turned aside authoritarian neighbors like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Raul Castro, who lobbied the court of world opinion for Zelaya's return to power. (See also "Surprises," Jan. 2, 2010.)
With long and deep rifts between the leadership of the Episcopal Church and its more conservative members over the ordination of practicing gay clergy, this year conservatives formally broke away from the Episcopal Church to form the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA)-an Anglican province that now numbers 100,000 members in 28 dioceses and 700 parishes. Before the ACNA's formation, dissatisfied Anglicans sought refuge under the leadership of orthodox Anglicans overseas-in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South America. (See also "Winners," Jan. 2, 2010.)
10. U-turn for U.S. pro-life message overseas
On President Obama's third day in office, and coinciding with the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he began a rollback of U.S. pro-life policies-first, announcing the reversal of the "Mexico City Policy," which barred abortion advocacy and procedures by groups receiving U.S. funds for development work overseas. In February he undid a Bush-enacted federal regulation offering conscience protections to healthcare professionals (see "Speak now," April 9, 2009). In March, he lifted federal limits on stem-cell research and lifted a Bush executive order that prohibited funding of embryonic stem cells (see "Stem cell reversal," March 9, 2009). In March also he reinstated funding of the United Nations Population Fund. The U.S. now contributes $50 million a year to the UNFPA, and the UNFPA spends nearly $7 million in China, where the country continues to enforce its one-child policy (see "Government-sponsored coercion," Aug. 1, 2009). A 2009 investigation by the Population Research Institute found evidence of ongoing forced sterilizations and forced abortions in counties of China the UNFPA has designated "models" of family planning. (See also "Politics," Jan. 2, 2010.)
Favorite underdogs of the year:
Chesley Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who guided Flight 1549 into a safe landing, albeit in the Hudson River, against the best odds in January. (See "Winners," Jan. 2, 2010.)
Slumdog Millionaire, a movie made for $15 million using children from Mumbai's slums and handheld video cameras, won eight Oscars, include Best Picture, and has grossed nearly $400 million worldwide. (See "Phenoms," Jan. 2, 2010.)


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Bishops are continuing to comment on the new health care reform law and President Barack Obama's executive order intended to guarantee that no federal funding goes to abortions under the new system. And the buzz is overwhelmingly negative.
Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, N.D., says the law's shortcomings in terms of abortion funding and conscience protections are "grave and serious matters" that are not resolved by the executive order. "Where the executive order purports to fix shortcomings in these areas, it is highly likely to be legally invalid; and where the order is highly likely to be legally valid, it does nothing to fix the shortcomings," he said in a March 30 statement. Bishop Aquila also refers readers of his statement to a legal analysis of the law and executive order by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of General Counsel.
Meanwhile, Bishop Leonard P. Blair of Toledo, Ohio, urged Catholics to look at the health reform debate from a religious/moral perspective rather than a political one. "Imagine if the political price for the passage of health care reform were the reintroduction of racial segregation in Southern schools," he writes in the Catholic Chronicle, Toledo diocesan newspaper. "This would rightly lead to moral indignation and block passage of the bill. However, the murder of 50 million unborn children in our country is seen as a legitimate 'choice' and is tossed about like a football in the political field." Read his full column here.

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He may be the only starter who hasn't been in an All-Star Game, but Carlos is an all-star in the eyes of his teammates. He's also very popular with the fans.
"Chooch" came through big time last night. He narrowly missed hitting a game-winning home run on his first swing in the 10th. The ball curled foul. Two pitches later he did it, setting of a home plate celebration and two face pies during a post-game TV interview. Wonder what it feels like to hit a walk-off home run. Guess I'll never know.
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1938: RHP Hal Kelleher, a Philadelphia native, gave up a National League record (which still stands) 12 runs in the eighth inning of a 21-2 loss to the Cubs in Chicago. The loss went to LHP Wayne LeMaster, the starter. He left the game after falling behind the first batter (Stan Hack), 3-1. Hack scored one of the four first-inning runs and the Cubs never trailed, thus the defeat for LeMaster. Attendance: 1,314. Kelleher may have felt better knowing that so few people saw his historic performance.
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Taliesin West
Added to the National Register of Historic Places: February 12, 1974
National Historic Landmark designation: May 20, 1982
Scottsdale Historic Register designation – April 4th 2006
10 acres of the 490 acre Taliesin West Campus was designated.
In 1927 Frank Lloyd Wright went to Arizona to participate in the design and building of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel. The following year, Wright was commissioned by Dr. Alexander Chandler to design a luxury resort in Chandler, Arizona. Instead of living in a rented home, as he did in 1927-28 while working on the Biltmore Hotel, Wright decided to set up headquarters ten miles outside of town at a site he called Ocotilla. The Ocotilla camp was very important in the history of the development of Taliesin West. In the construction of the camp Wright and his apprentices developed many of the ideas and techniques that would later be used in the construction of Taliesin West, such as the use of a canvas and wood roofing system. However, when the stock market crashed in 1929 work on the resort project was halted and Wright and his apprentices returned home to Wisconsin abandoning the Ocotilla campsite.
In 1937 Wright decided that he wanted to create a winter home and headquarters for the Taliesin Fellowship, an architectural apprenticeship program that he started in 1932 at the Taliesin complex in Wisconsin. He purchased 800 acres of land northeast of Scottsdale, Arizona and began developing the Taliesin West complex. The complex started out as a group of tents and wooden frame buildings with canvas roofs that were constructed by students of the Taliesin Fellowship under Wright's guidance. From the very beginning the complex was intended to be a working and living space that would incorporate Wright's architectural ideas and principles: a building should be in harmony with its surrounding environment, intimate spaces should be incorporated in its design and buildings should be human in scale. The first phase of construction began in the winter of 1937-38 was completed in 1940.
Over the next two decades, until his death in 1959, Wright continued to alter and add to the complex, experimenting with different techniques and materials. After his death Wright's apprentices, under the supervision of Wright's wife and then later William Wesley Peters, continued to experiment with the complex adding and augmenting existing building as needed.
Taliesin West is a desert complex of low slung buildings that served as Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home, architectural laboratory and school for his architectural apprenticeship program the Taliesin Fellowship. The complex is situated on over 500 acres of land and is located at the foot of the McDowell Mountains in the Sonoran Desert, twenty-six miles northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. The Taliesin complex consists of a triangular site plan with many significant buildings set at a 45 degree angle to the entrance drive on a northwest-southwest axis. The terraces that connect many of the significant structures together and a pool to the south and west of the main complex continue this triangular plan as well as establish a cross axis for the site.
The main materials used in the construction of the Taliesin complex were multicolored volcanic rocks available on site, cement, white canvas and redwood. Overtime glass and plastic were incorporated into the site. The walls, parapets and substructures that comprise the complex were hand-built using volcanic rocks that were embedded in cement through a process called "desert masonry". In this process the rocks were placed into a wooden form and cement was poured in and allowed to set. Once dried the wooden forms were stripped and reused to continue the wall as desired.
The roofs of the office, drafting and garden room, three of several rooms that comprise the main complex, were made out of sheets of canvas that were stretched over large redwood trusses. However, due to the fact that the canvas used on the roofs needed constant replacement and repair, Wright began experimenting with different materials in order to find an appropriate replacement. Eventually, appropriate plastic materials that could hold up against the elements were incorporated into these structures.
The key building/features that comprise the complex include:
Garden Room (1938): The Garden room is a spacious, well-lit room designed and built by the architect and considered the showpiece of the whole complex.
Kiva Theatre (1938): Located in the apprentice court, the Kiva is a masonry structure that served as a movie viewing area, concert hall, theater, apprentice lounge, library, storage, and currently as a classroom and conference room.
Wright's Office (1939): Wright's office was one of the first buildings constructed and serves as the "dominate architectural theme" for the complex.
Drafting Studio, Kitchen and Dining Area (1939): These three areas form a group of interconnected buildings and are the core of the Taliesin West complex.
Sunset Terrace (1939): A formal, triangular, outdoor space adjacent to the core of the complex.
Shop(1939): A craft and shop area located at the western end of the complex.
Wright family living quarters (1940): A suite of rooms that served as the living quarters for the Wright's.
Apprentice Court and Apartments (1941): A grouping of small rooms around a courtyard that served as living quarters for Wright's apprentices.
Sun Cottage (1948): The Sun Cottage is a freestanding structure located east of the main complex. Originally called the "suntrap", the cottage served as the initial living space for the Wright family. This living space was expanded in 1948 and renamed the Sun Cottage. In 1962 the area was enclosed and turned into a studio for apprentices.
Cabaret Theater (1951): The theater is a half sunken, reinforced concrete and desert stone theater that extends from Wright's office.
Music Pavilion (1956, rebuilt in 1964): The pavilion is a steel-reinforced building with a roof of rigid-steel frames and translucent plastic used to host meetings, performances, and exhibitions.
Realigned Entrance Drive and Citrus Grove (1958): The citrus grove and the realignment of the entrance drive to include a vertical stone monolith were the final improvements made to the complex before Wright died.
The main materials used in the construction of the Taliesin complex were multicolored volcanic rocks available on site, cement, white canvas and redwood. Overtime glass and plastic were incorporated into the site. The walls, parapets and substructures that comprised the complex were hand-built using volcanic rocks that were embedded in cement through a process called "desert masonry". In this process the rocks were placed into a wooden form and cement was poured in and allowed to set. Once dried the wooden forms were stripped and reused to continue the wall as desired.
The roofs of the office, drafting and garden room, three of several rooms that comprise the main complex, were made out of sheets of canvas that were stretched over large redwood trusses. However, due to the fact that the canvas used on the roofs needed constant replacement and repair Wright began experimenting with different materials in order to find an appropriate replacement. Eventually, appropriate plastic materials that could hold up against the elements were incorporated into these structures.
Taliesin West served as an arts and architecture community as well as laboratory community based on Wright's educational theories, architectural principles and vision of society. To Wright, architecture was "both reflective of society's ills and a cause of them" which he felt could be remedied through "harmonious design and interdependent living". At Taliesin, apprentices were expected to not only learn the principles of design and to build and experiment with their own buildings but also to contribute to the overall community by performing such tasks as cooking and cleaning. Wright also put a lot of emphasis on the arts, incorporating music, paintings, drama and philosophy into the Taliesin experience. Wright's holistic approach to architectural design and society are continued today by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and his school of architecture.
Considered one of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest architectural masterpieces, Taliesin West served as his winter home, office and studio from 1937 until his death in 1959. It also functioned as the winter headquarters for his architecture school the Taliesin Fellowship and serves as an embodiment of Wright's educational theories, architectural principles and vision of society.
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For ten years the Perl community has made it a point to recognize the many significant contributions made by the unsung heros of Perl. These volunteers often work behind the scenes, serving the community and contributing to the ongoing success of Perl. The White Camel award is intended to honor those who make noteworthy and ongoing non-technical contributions in benefit of the Perl community.
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The first White Camel recipient for 2008 is Jacinta Richardson. She has been credited for saving more than one Perl Monger group from dying and has been heralded as the "gardener of the Australian Perl Community", in the sense that she provides energy while subtly encouraging others to take responsibility. She is an active member in every Monger group in Australia, as well as many other FLOSS groups in the area. She has helped organize OSDC, Linux.com.au, and SAGE conferences. She works with Perl Training Australia in supporting the Perl community with such ventures as perl.net.au and Perl Tips.
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The third White Camel recipient for 2008 is Gabor Szabo. Gabor is also a three time YAPC organizer. He is responsible for thee YAPC::Israel conferences, OSDC::Israel 2006, and multiple Hungarian Perl Workshops. He is an active member of his local Perl Mongers group where he has worked to organize meetings and grow the group's popularity and attendance. He has contributed to the greater Perl community by way of countless weblog entries, comments, emails and support.
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Dr Maria joined Blacktown Family Medical Centre with over 14 yrs experience in General Practice and hospital Work. Maria is a graduate of University of Khartoum, Sudan in 1999. After graduating, she started her internship and later registrar ship in Paediatrics in Sudan, where she successfully obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatricians (UK) (Part 1). In 2007 she sat her AMC exams and ranked second over all the examinees all over the world. She moved to Australia soon after, and has been working as a GP for more than 5 yrs. In 2011 she was awarded the Fellowship of the RACGP. She has special interest in Paediatrics, women's health, chronic dis management as well as Mental health, she is also fluent in the Arabic language. Maria loves her work and is very dedicated to it, she is also a mother of four and is very involved in her children's schooling and sporting activities
Dr Anoma Bandara
MBBS FRACGP - Fellow, RACGP
Dr Bandara has been practicing for 26 years in general medicine with interest in Women's Health, Paediatrics and Opthalmology. She has been working in Blacktown hospital emergency department for the last 10 years.
Dr Altan Capa
MBBS FRACGP, Grad Dip Acc Fin (UTS), Grad App Fin (FINSIA)
Dr Capa has worked in general practice for 20 years in Sydney.
He has interest in men's health and internal medicine.
Dr Hemant Kumar
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Interest in minor surgicals & child health, Antenatal Shared care with Blacktown and Westmead Hospital (GPANSC).
Dr Vidya Shetty
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Dr Shetty has been practicing General Medicine for 7 years with particular interest in Paediatrics and Women's Health.
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The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence Covers the September Issue
Whether lighting up an indie or fronting a blockbuster franchise, Jennifer Lawrence is the most electric talent to hit Hollywood in a generation. Jonathan Van Meter meets America's favorite heroine.
Leave it to J.Law to choose the Odeon, a restaurant she plucked from a list because she liked the sound of its name. It opened on a corner in Tribeca long before Lawrence was even born and defined a genre: Execute everything perfectly, but don't take it all so seriously—an apt description of Lawrence herself. Indeed, Odeon has lasted for 30 years because, while it cares about great service and good food, it is committed above all else to being fun. In fact, I myself had so much early-nineties fun there that when I walked in at 1:00 p.m. on a Friday and sat down, I had a reaction that can only be described as Pavlovian: I ordered a vodka.
Jennifer Lawrence—unlike, say, Jennifer Aniston or Jennifer Lopez or Jennifer Garner—never looks the same. It's one of the reasons writers struggle to find words to describe her, and often resort to unfortunate ones, like chameleon. David O. Russell, the man who directed Lawrence to an Oscar in Silver Linings Playbook, remembers bumping into her during awards season, 2011. "I would see this tall blonde at events, and I never understood who she was," he says. "She looked like an Orange County girl—or Malibu Barbie. And I was like, 'Who is that?' And someone would say, 'That's Jennifer Lawrence,' and I would say, 'The girl cooking a squirrel on a stick in Winter's Bone?' I never recognized her! She always looks different."
So different, in fact, that even after one of her two bodyguards comes into the restaurant to tell me that her arrival is imminent, when she finally walks in the door, I still don't recognize her. To be fair, she has on pitch-black Tom Ford sunglasses, and her hair is wet; she recently had it cut off into a Karlie chop, one that is half blonde and half brown. ("Too skunky?" she will ask me later. "I think I need to make a decision."). But before she even reaches the table, I can hear that raspy voice—the deep rumble of so much nervous energy. Yup, that's her.
Lawrence, who is wearing a blush-colored sleeveless top (purchased an hour ago at Topshop), slouchy black pants, and a pair of slip-on mules, immediately notices that I have a cast on my foot and a cocktail in front of me. After sheepishly explaining how I broke it (fiftieth-birthday party, dance floor, 3:00 a.m.), she fixes her blue-gray eyes on me with a face that is adorably sympathetic, sure, but is also contorted from trying to hold back a laugh. My foot is the reason all of the outdoorsy stuff we were going to do together—horseback riding, walking around Central Park—got nixed. My suggestion of going to an arcade in the West Village to shoot pool or play video games was rejected because, Lawrence says, "That's my exact demographic." So here we are. "Should we just get drunk?" she asks as the waiter sets a beer down in front of her. Perhaps it's the specter of Odeon's past—a place made famous by Jay McInerney's novel of eighties excess, Bright Lights, Big City (which she has never heard of)—that launches us into a seven-hour bender. In any case, you could do worse as the setting for such decadence.
You can learn a lot about a person in seven hours. Little things, like the kinds of food they don't like—arugula, eggplant, goat cheese ("I have the taste buds of a five-year-old"), which TV show they're obsessed with (Homeland), the strange stuff they're afraid of ("I don't have nightmares about clowns or burglars or murderers. I have nightmares about thirteen-year-olds. They terrify me"). But you can also learn things that are superspecific. For example, she got the nickname J.Law in seventh grade, but it was only this spring that she met J.Lo while hanging out at a party one night with Jimmy Fallon. "We planned out this whole thing, where we were going to spin around and over to her and go, 'Please dance with us!' But at the last minute, Jimmy pooped out, and all of a sudden I spun around by myself and said, 'Dance with . . . me?' And she was like, 'Thanks, I'm just gonna watch.' "
And therein lies the biggest surprise about Jennifer Lawrence: She has the soul of a comedian and can riff on just about anything that crosses her path. She did a 20-minute monologue about sponges: "I wake up earlier in the morning when I have new sponges. That counter doesn't even see it coming." She segued into her incomprension at people who don't share her "faith in sponges" and then finally landed on her relationship with ex-boyfriend Nicholas Hoult, with whom she's still very close (they're shooting X-Men: Days of Future Past together). "He would never wring them out. We were in the kitchen once, and I picked up the sponge, and it was soapy and wet, and I was like, 'See?' These are the kinds of things that make me think we are never going to work."
The folks who know her best (which is to say, other actors and directors, as she has lived from one film set to the next for most of her adult life) all point to this playful side of Lawrence—this "giant goofball," as one person put it—as the most important thing about her. Her Hunger Games costar Woody Harrelson says she creates an atmosphere on set of constant game-playing. "She is one-of-a-kind, man. She is so herself. I love how she doesn't censor herself. She says the most outrageous shit. Just incredible, the stuff she'll say."
As Russell says, "She grew up with these two older brothers, so she will do an off-color joke that will shock you and make you laugh so hard. And then she just moves on." Jodie Foster, who directed her in The Beaver a few years ago, agrees: "It's one of the things that I love about her the most—her rapid-fire teenage-boy-humor brain."
Moments after Lawrence first walks into the restaurant and sits down, she takes off her shoes to show me her toes. They are blue. She has been in Montreal all summer, shooting the fifth installment of X-Men, in which she plays the supervillain Mystique, a hot chick with blue skin and yellow eyes who shape-shifts into normal people in order to assassinate those involved in anti-mutant activity (hence, the video-arcade demographic). "They paint me blue every day," she says, "so this is what I'm dealing with." She sticks out her foot again and laughs. "I'm like Blue Swan."
As if one big studio franchise weren't enough, in the last year, Lawrence spent several months in Atlanta and Hawaii shooting the second Hunger Games film, Catching Fire, due out in November, after which she went directly to the set of American Hustle, the next David O. Russell film (slated for December), inspired by the late-seventies FBI sting operation known as Abscam, a near-farcical bribery scandal that brought down one U.S. senator and six congressmen. Russell's new ensemble piece reunites Lawrence with her Silver Linings castmates Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, and the actress, as a favor to Russell, sandwiched this film between shooting two of the biggest blockbuster series running, which gives you some sense of just how charmed—and peripatetic—Lawrence's life has become.
The flip side is that more than one person I spoke with about Lawrence worried aloud that she's working too hard. "Just for her sanity, I personally wish she would slow down a little bit," says Francis Lawrence (no relation), who directed Catching Fire and in October will begin shooting the final two Hunger Games films in Atlanta, back-to-back. "I think that going from one set to the next to the next will eventually take a toll. I hope at some point she gets some time off."
Lawrence was supposed to take a break between Catching Fire and X-Men, but during the Oscar-victory lap for Silver Linings, Russell asked her to play Christian Bale's wife in American Hustle—and then wrote the part of Rosalyn expressly for her. "Rosalyn is 100 percent a product of David's imagination," she says. "She's a manic-depressive alcoholic, and I couldn't wait. Plus, I got to make out with Christian Bale."
Russell can barely contain his glee at how completely his new muse embraced her first truly adult part—up to and including the oversize fur, the smoky-purple sunglasses, and the frosted updo. "It's a character who is kind of an unhinged, intense, manipulative, brilliant, but also soulful and heartbreaking Long Island housewife. And that was exciting to her. She has a genuine, in-her-blood joy in the inhabitation of other people."
More than any other young actress in recent memory, Lawrence also seems to have an almost compulsive need to take full advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. "I couldn't say no," she says. "And then when I was on set, I was like, 'This is so much more important than a vacation. It's so much better for my brain to be creatively stimulated in this way.' It reminded me: This is what I love."
One of the oddities of Jennifer Lawrence's life right now is that the character that she is most closely associated with— Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games—is on a trajectory that is, in many ways, similar to Lawrence's own. "When Winter's Bone was getting nominated," says Lawrence, "I had only done indies, and suddenly I was introduced to this brand-new world where I didn't feel like myself. I was in these weird gowns and listening to people talk about things I didn't understand. And I remember reading that in the book and being like, Oh, my God, I know exactly what this feels like. I don't know what it's like to get ready for your death, but I do know what it's like to be almost a puppet. And then when I was making the second film, I had become more acquainted with that world, and I think that's something that Katniss experiences. She is different when she comes back. She does feel more comfortable in the Capitol; she understands the people more, and it's not as eerie and scary and unfamiliar. She kind of knows how to work the system."
Francis Lawrence, who replaced the first Hunger Games director, Gary Ross, for reasons mostly to do with scheduling, is a director known for his stylish music videos for Lady Gaga, Pink, and Missy Elliott, as well as the Will Smith film I Am Legend. Because the second installment explores the outrageous visual extravaganza that is the Capitol in more depth, one of the biggest changes the director made was to bring in costume designer Trish Summerville, whom he had worked with on music videos and who designed the costumes for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. "I thought there were amazing opportunities for some great fashion moments in the film," he says. Summerville's big coup was getting Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen to lend several archive and runway pieces, mostly worn by the mistress of ceremonies, Effie Trinket, gamely played by Elizabeth Banks, looking like Gaga's crazy auntie. "In the first film," says Summerville, "it looked like everyone shopped at the same store. I wanted to show variety. The elite, but from all walks of life. So I did fashion trends: Molded felt hats are all the rage! Plaids are in! That kind of thing."
It's interesting that Summerville has dressed both Katniss Everdeen and _Dragon Tattoo'_s Lisbeth Salander. Both are complicated characters—badass can-do chicks who are possessed of a weird inner strength that they themselves do not entirely understand. And they both represent a new kind of Hollywood heroine. "Women have never really been painted that way, as the young male hero," says Jodie Foster. "It's a long tradition—the structure of it is thousands of years old—and I think when we see women as these characters we see a real person, a real heroic path."
The actresses playing these characters share similar qualities as well. Both Jennifer Lawrence and Rooney Mara are quirky, unconventional, and immensely talented, bright young stars who were Oscar-nominated right out of the gate. And they both also have a quiet seriousness about them. They feel like indie sirens who could have had perfectly satisfying careers making smaller, more idiosyncratic films. And yet, here they are, shouldering these giant franchises.
"I've seen them working really hard," says Summerville, "the long hours, the conditions, how athletic they have to be, the stamina. It takes a lot of talent, and both of them have that. And they're both really sharp, really intelligent, really quick." That quickness translates to the screen: They each have a changeling aspect that's almost Streepian. As Summerville says, "I don't think there's a role they can't play—they can be period, they can be contemporary, they can be futuristic. These are timeless faces. You can't pigeonhole them."
Maybe two people don't make a trend, but if we are at the outset of a new, less-conservative era in Hollywood, it will have been a long time coming. "You're getting out of the kind of CW Network blandness and into these raw and interesting and nuanced performances," says Francis Lawrence. "But one thing I worry about is overexposure. A lot of the power comes from their anonymity, and I hope that these two young actresses can maintain some of their privacy."
It's not going to be easy. David O. Russell saw Lawrence's fame materialize before his very eyes. "When she first showed up on the set of Silver Linings, she was asking Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro what it's like to have people come up to you on the street," he says. "That wasn't really happening to her. People didn't really know who she was. But by the time the film was released and we did an event in Santa Barbara, it was like being at a Beatles concert. There were thousands of screaming people. It was mind-blowing."
I was admittedly thrown at first by the presence of Lawrence's bodyguards, whom we can see outside the Odeon, leaning up against a big black SUV. I had not fully internalized that the utterly guileless person sitting before me—the same rambunctious, rascally young girl I had been seeing on TV, sassing interviewers and flirting with Jack Nicholson at the Oscars while being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos after having tripped on the voluminous skirt of her Dior dress as she was heading up the stairs to receive her statuette—that that girl is the very same girl who is now stalked by paparazzi everywhere she goes because she is young and beautiful and unpredictable and has been anointed the most exciting, completely realized movie star to come along in decades.
Apparently, she has not fully internalized it either. Whenever the tenuous little bubble of privacy she has created around us—through body language, facing away from the room—gets invaded, she becomes agitated. At one point, a party of four is seated next to us, and an otherwise sophisticated-looking woman at the table spots Lawrence, digs for her phone, and then holds it straight out and starts clicking away, as if documenting her visit to the Louvre. "Can you stop?" Lawrence pleads. With her head down, she grumbles to me under her breath. Yeah, that was pretty aggressive, I say. "Me?" she says, looking mortified. No, her, I say. "I'm just really starting to feel like a monkey in a zoo," she admits.
Lawrence is well aware that no one likes to hear famous people complain about being famous. (And surely her publicist has told her that it is a losing proposition.) But it is a subject—"a dangerous topic," she calls it—that we come back to several times because she is obviously having a difficult time adjusting. "I teeter on seeming ungrateful when I talk about this," she says at one point, "but I'm kind of going through a meltdown about it lately." Not surprisingly, however, she makes a good case for a newcomer who, let's face it, probably didn't see this coming. "All of a sudden the entire world feels entitled to know everything about me, including what I'm doing on my weekends when I'm spending time with my nephew. And I don't have the right to say, 'I'm with my family.' "
It's not a secret that the Internet has created a new, more hellish reality for actors, partly because everyone is paparazzi now—e.g., the woman sitting next to us. Before you cue the tiny violins, Lawrence does have a point: "If I were just your average 23-year-old girl," she says, "and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense." What really gets to her is when people say, "You have to make peace with it." "I am just not OK with it," she says. "It's as simple as that. I am just a normal girl and a human being, and I haven't been in this long enough to feel like this is my new normal. I'm not going to find peace with it."
Listening to Lawrence get fired up about this, I could not help but think: She will find a cause worth fighting for one day, and it will not be celebrity rights and paparazzi. That just happens to be the injustice that she is experiencing now. She will get used to being famous, or things will calm down, but it is more than clear that there is a hellcat feminist firebrand lurking somewhere inside of her. I would not be the least bit surprised to see her marching on Washington one day, hand in hand with Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.
Russell also thinks that this, too, shall pass. "She loves living and having her freedom. I'm sure she'll find a way to keep doing that." Jodie Foster, who knows a thing or two about having your life upended by other people's obsessions, says this: "It wasn't the same when I was young. I never hired a bodyguard in my life. But certainly, there's a way to live your life—your real life, the life you live after 5:00 p.m.—and it doesn't have to be that way. It's a temporary thing. She's grounded and solid, with great parents and all that; they will remind her of who she is. I think she has the God-given genetic ability to be well adjusted."
When I tell Lawrence that it's been a while since I've profiled an actress, she looks at me. "Oh, no," she says. "You're rusty?" I can't help wondering where the funny comes from. Her parents, Karen and Gary, raised her and her older brothers, Blaine and Ben, in Louisville. Were they funny? "My mom is big funny," she says. "She's loud funny. And my dad is the opposite—the funniest person you will ever meet, but he never raises his voice. He's just really quick. Very subtle." She pauses. "We definitely grew up funny." Another pause. "You have to be funny in our family, to survive, because we are so mean to each other."
Although she jokes about it ("I think all mothers are a nightmare—I don't think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind"), she is close to her parents. Her mother owns a summer camp (Blaine runs it now), and her father was in construction. (Ben designs Web sites.) The story of how their daughter was discovered—photographed in Union Square in New York City by a model scout when she was visiting the city on spring break at the age of fourteen—has been written about so much that, even though she's only 23, it has already ossified into myth. Could it be true? Had someone so obviously gifted never really thought about acting? "Look," she says. "I grew up in Kentucky, I have brothers, we had to do sports, I was a horrible student, and I kept getting grounded every time my report card came out. Acting was never an option. It wasn't like, 'Oh, well, you got a C in math; you're grounded. But you can be an actor!' "
All throughout our lunch at Odeon, the part of Lawrence that never let up was a kind of intense engagement with the world or the person in front of her. You could practically see her brain scanning the room, sifting through the data, and then spitting out something dryly observed, perfectly timed, or oddly profound. (At one point she picked up my RadioShack tape recorder and examined it: "This thing is archaic. Are you going to write this whole thing out longhand, with, like, a pen?") If there is a downside—and I didn't experience it as such—it might be that she's so busy connecting and processing that it overwhelms her. There were many moments when she was so excited to share the seven things that just popped into her head that it would render her breathless and momentarily incomprehensible. As Jodie Foster says about directing her, "It's hard for her to be superficial, to be girly and silly and unaware. And so my direction was often stupid things, like 'Move your hands a lot' or 'Giggle,' just trying to loosen her up so she wasn't as aware of her own significance."
Given her intensity, it does not come as a surprise that Lawrence describes her childhood as an "unhappy" one—exceptional, excitable, hot-wired kids are often misunderstood and full of anxiety. Lawrence herself was so anxious that her parents found her a therapist. "I was a weirdo," she says. "I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in. I've always just had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn't like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And," she adds, "I had a very different sense of humor." I ask Lawrence how that manifested itself in, say, junior high. She launches into several tales as examples. Like the time she decided it would be funny to jump out of the emergency exit of a moving school bus; or the time she thought it would be really funny to announce to the entire seventh grade that she wet the bed; or this: "My family went on a cruise, and I got a terrible haircut. FYI: Never get your hair cut on a cruise. And I had, like, this blonde curly 'fro, and I walked into the gym the first day back in seventh grade and everyone was staring at me, and for some reason I thought, I know what I need to do! And I just started sprinting from one end of the gym to the other, and I thought it was hilarious. But nobody else at that age really did. It was genuinely weird."
David O. Russell mentions a story that Lawrence told him about how when she was ten years old, she would ring her own doorbell and then pretend to be someone else when her family answered: "Hi, my name is Susan. My car broke down up the street, and I'm wondering if I could come in and use your phone." Given all of this, it's hard to believe that Lawrence—or her parents—didn't have some inkling she was destined for show business. "I've never said this before," she says, "because there is no way to say it without it being completely misunderstood, but ever since I was really little, I always had a very normal idea of what I wanted: I was going to be a mom and I was going to be a doctor and I was going to live in Kentucky. But I always knew"—here she lowers her voice—"that I was going to be famous. I honest to God don't know how else to describe it. I used to lie in bed and wonder, Am I going to be a local TV person? Am I going to a motivational speaker? It wasn't a vision. But as it's kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: Of course."
Lawrence left school when she was fifteen to pursue acting in earnest, and by 2006, she was living in a condo in Santa Monica with her mother. She quickly got cast in the TBS comedy The Bill Engvall Show, which lasted only three seasons. "I know it sounds so stupid," says Lawrence, "but it was kind of like I finally found something people were telling me I was good at, which I had never heard, ever. And that was a big reason why my parents let me do this. One time, my mom was on the phone with my dad, saying, 'We're paying for therapy and all this medication, and we don't need it when she's here. She's happy.' "
Lawrence made a series of independent films, including Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, The Burning Plain, with Charlize Theron. And then, just before she turned nineteen, she shot Winter's Bone, the deeply affecting low-budget film about a family of crystal-meth addicts in the Ozarks, directed by Debra Granik—and got her first Oscar nomination. "She has such a pure talent," says Foster, who cast her in The Beaver based on a few minutes of footage she saw of Winter's Bone in the editing room. "She has this really quiet talent that in the beginning I don't think she even understood she had."
"Whatever it was that happened to her when she was young, when she figured things out," says Russell, "she transmuted all that energy into the soul and the freedom that she puts into acting." During the filming of Catching Fire, Francis Lawrence was "blown away by the seemingly small amount of work that goes into a performance and how instinctive everything is," he says. "It's all spontaneous; it all comes out of her gut, in the moment. I've never seen anything like it."
Russell was constantly taken aback by her seeming nonchalance. "I remember Bradley Cooper and I saying, 'Is this kid even paying attention?' Because she's goofing around or eating my potato chips or making fart jokes. And then all of a sudden, she comes in, and bam! She's like a lot of great athletes. You see that they stay loose, and that's how they can be so in-the-moment while under enormous amounts of pressure. If there's two minutes left in the game, they can come in and do something extraordinary because their jaw is not getting clenched. Jen stays loose. And then she hits a three-point shot from some ridiculous distance and we all just look at each other and go, 'Wow.' "
After four hours at the Odeon, we gather our things ("Don't forget your nineties car phone," she says) and then head outside. We pile into the SUV and immediately get caught in a bumper-to-bumper snarl ("There's too much traffic," she says to the driver. "You're fired"). We are heading back to the Greenwich Hotel (owned by Lawrence's pal De Niro, whom she bumped into last night), where she is staying for the weekend, in a huge suite on the sixth floor. We stand at the big windows as a summer thunderstorm rolls through and drenches all the hapless people on the street below. "Right now I'm just a big fan of windows," she says. "I stand at my window at my hotel in Montreal. Like it will be hours. It's the only time I can look at big groups of people, and they're not looking at me."
Suddenly, her assistant and best friend of four years, Justine, walks in. She's just come back from having lunch with an ex-boyfriend, and they parse the meaning of every exchange. Then Lawrence gives her friend the once-over and says, "P.S. Perfect outfit. And your butt looks great in that skirt." They met four years ago, shortly after the Winter's Bone shoot, in Los Angeles, and it was love at first sight. Back at Odeon, when I was asking Lawrence how she stays sane while working so much, she said, "Justine is with me. So it's kind of like, this consistent thing in my life. I'm still doing what a 23-year-old should be doing, which is hanging out with my friend and being normal. I still have to put the dishes away. And I still have to listen. When you've been doing press for a very long time, you talk about yourself constantly. My biggest fear is that I'm going to take that into the real world."
Justine says, "What did you guys talk about for four hours?" I mention that one of the things we discussed is how odd it is that the press makes such a big deal over how "refreshingly unfiltered" her friend is, just because she has opinions and is funny.
"I just think when you're famous, everything is exaggerated," Justine says. "It's because she's honest. It sounds a little cheesy, but she has a real person's body, she cusses and says the wrong things on television, and she's just herself. Literally everyone else is playing the game, but she is not. And I don't think she's capable of playing it, frankly." She goes on, "The number-one question I'm asked is 'Has she changed?' And I get such pleasure in being able to say, 'No. If anything, she's gotten more grounded, more normal.' "
It's perhaps no accident that the actor Lawrence gets most "starstruck" by is her X-Men costar James McAvoy, "because he knows what's important: He has a wife, he has a baby, and he has a calm peacefulness about him that comes from just knowing that this is what life is about." Lawrence appears determined to keep a sense of herself, too, despite the craziness of Hollywood, where people regularly tell her she should date somebody "on her level." "Like, what is that level?" she asks. "That doesn't mean anything to me, as a person."
Lawrence seems very aware that she's a girl from Kentucky with uncanny talent who happens to be riding a huge wave. At one point back at Odeon, I asked her if she was enjoying Montreal. "A little bit. I mean . . . uh . . . yeah? Yes and no. It's just that I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes . . . that it changes so fast. So I've kind of been a big homebody lately. But I think eventually, one of these days, I guess when the next franchise starts and I'm not in it, and the new Jennifer Lawrence is born, then I'll be able to go outside."
In the meantime, she has no plans to slow down anytime soon. One of the projects she's most excited about, she says, is producing the film version of Jeannette Walls's blockbuster memoir The Glass Castle. When I mention that I've always thought of Walls as an old-fashioned forties throwback, with her coiffed red hair and big, toothy smile, she says, "Yes, those are the things I'm trying to take out of the movie." I ask her to explain, and it turns out that Lawrence is going to bring some of her own true-grit authenticity to the part. "Jeannette wanted to fit in a polished world, so she'd shower all the time because she never felt clean," Lawrence says. "I find that, to watch somebody for two hours, you want her to have a little dirt on her, to be a little tacky, you know? I feel like you like those people more."
Jodie Foster, the original lovable kid with the dirt under her fingernails who moved effortlessly between seventies art-house cinema and studio blockbusters—not to mention practically wrote the book on how to be both dangerously famous and stubbornly private—understands those kinds of dichotomies: "Like me, she's not afraid of her serious side. But she's also fun and full of life, and in a way, that's the part that's going to save her. That she has both sides. She can see the tragic and the comic side of her life."


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Bill Cowher met with the assembled meeting on Tuesday, and thanks to the miracle of the internet Pittsburgh Steelers Fanatic was there. Here is a portion of what Mr. Cowher discussed.
- Injuries: Verron Haynes (ACL -- surgery on Wednesday) and Arnold Harrison (ACL -- surgery date TBD) have been placed in injured reserve, and are out for the remainder of the season. Roster moves are expected to be made this week. Four other players are out of the Denver game: Mike Logan, James Harrison, Willie Reid, and Jeff Hartings (MCL sprain, week-to-week). Several additional players are questionable, and still more are doubtful.
- 2-5: Mr. Cowher acknowledged that there is a great deal of frustration at having lost so many games, and he accepts responsibility for where the team is at seven games into the season.
- Coaching Status: He doesn't feel as though the uncertainty surrounding his status is having an affect.
- QB Play: One of last Sunday's interceptions was understandable -- Coach Cowher saw what Ben Roethlisberger saw -- but the other three are on Mr. Roethlisberger. Of course, not being able to run the ball in from the 1-yard line didn't help matters at all. But in the final analysis, Ben Roethlisberger is a good football who is going to bounce back.
- Concussions: Ben Roethlisberger felt fine, and was ok to play. However, Mr. Cowher understands the interest in his quarterback's situation, as well as his own situation (i.e. is Coach Cowher going to return for the 2007 season?), and "is going to deal with that."
- Chukky Okobi: He's a consistent, capable player. Marvin Phillips is going to get some extra work, as will Kendall Simmons (at center).
- Fourth Down Play Versus Oakland: Ben Roethlisberger would not have scored on the fourth and goal play, if he had run; and Coach Cowher has not seen any reluctance to run in Mr. Roethlisberger this season.
- Denver: The defense is one of the most talented groups in the league. They are not a very big group, but they have excellent team speed, and are aggressive to the ball.
- Special Teams: The Steelers are languishing near the bottom in several of the categories (e.g. kick coverage, punt return). He offered no explanation or excuses as to why that might be happening.
- Inconsistencies: Different areas have been inconsistent at different times, so it wouldn't be fair to point out any one area.
- Turnovers: The Steelers have turned over the football 18 times in 7 games -- that's a big problem.
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Can anyone please help me with any information on Thomas Johnson from Mount Crawford/Lyndoch Adelaide, South Australia,Thomas was born abt 1874 his fathers name was William and he married Alice Howe who was born in Thebarton Adelaide. He was a Dairyman at Gawler Plains on the 28 Jan 1896 when his first child was born (Bridget Johnson)Thomas and Alice got married at Saint Augustine Church Salisbury on the 20 Jan 1896.Tomas worked as a waterworker before his death in 1932. In 1905 to 1907 Thomas changed his name to Johnstone.
There childrens names, year of birth and area of birth are Bridget Ann (Annie) 1896, Ellen (Nellie)1897 Para Plains, Esther 1900 Rosewater,Margaret Alice 1901 Died 1902, Irene 1904 died 1911 Rosewater, Alice Winifred ( Winnie) 1905 Rosewater, Mary (Molly)1907 Rosewater, John Thomas (Ted) 1908 Wingfield, Charles Edward 1910 Dry Creek, George William( Bill) 1912 Dry Creek.
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Egyptian social activist Wael Ghonim said, "If you want to liberate a society just give them the Internet."
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Capped off by Lauren Boser's towering grand slam, UC Santa Barbara blew away Portland State 13-2 in six innings at Campus Diamond for its seventh straight win.
The Gauchos are now off to their best start in program history at 18-5 and currently sit atop the Big West standings. The last season they have had as a prolific a start through their first 23 games was in 2007 when they were 16-7. It was also the last season UCSB competed in an NCAA Regional.
While three Santa Barbara pitchers contributed in the circle, it was Andriana Collins who was credited with the win after tossing two scoreless innings. With a 7-1 record, the senior is now tied with Shelby Wisdom for the most wins on the team.
Leading the Gauchos at the plate was Boser who went 3-of-4 for three runs and five RBI, all highlighted by her walk off grand slam that she sent soaring over left-center field. Earlier in the contest, the senior hit a leadoff double against the left field wall and inspired a pitching change for the Vikings. Despite Portland State's fresha arm, Boser would still reach home plate and put her team up 5-2 thanks to a throwing error from the second baseman.
The game remained close until the Gauchos lit up the scoreboard with a four-run fifth inning.
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UCSB came just one run shy of mercy-ruling Portland State in the fifth, but Santa Barbara would make it sure it had a chance to end the game later in the sixth inning.
Wisdom's number was called into the circle to open the sixth and made quick business of the Vikings, as she forced them to a three up, three down inning with a pair of lineouts and a groundout.
Overall, three Gauchos came away with three hits, as Kristen Clark and Pilpil matched Boser's total. Clark also picked up her 18th stolen base of the season, which ranks her second in the Big West. Pilpil went a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate and scored a team-best four runs after hitting a triple, double, and a single. As a team, UCSB now leads the conference with nine triples.
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The Obama administration on Wednesday authorized a fourth company to broadly export U.S. natural gas, giving Dominion conditional approval to sell the fossil fuel abroad after processing it at a Maryland facility.
The Energy Department's decision means that as long as it secures other required permits, Dominion Cove Point will be able to sell as much as 770 million cubic feet of natural gas per day for the next 20 years to Japan and other countries that do not have free-trade agreements with the United States.
With the Dominion Cove Point decision, the Obama administration has now authorized 6.37 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas to be sold to non-free-trade nations. Previously, the Energy Department has given export licenses to a Lake Charles, La. project, as well as the Freeport LNG project on Quintana Island, Texas, and, in 2011, Houston-based Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass facility in southwest Louisiana.
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, urged the Obama administration to be more skeptical of future proposals to export natural gas harvested in the United States, lest the foreign sales drive up prices at home. Analysts broadly have predicted total U.S. natural gas exports might settle somewhere between 5 and 10 billion cubic feet per day.
"The United States is now squarely in the range that experts are saying is the most likely level of U.S. natural gas exports," Wyden noted. "If (the Energy Department) approves exports above that range, the agency has an obligation to use most recent data about U.S. natural gas demand and production and prove to American families and manufacturers that these exports will not have a significant impact on domestic prices, and in turn on energy security, growth and employment."
Critics of expanded natural gas exports — including some large industrial users of the fossil fuel — say more foreign sales could cause the domestic price to climb, hiking energy bills for manufacturing plants as well as households. Manufacturers who use the fossil fuel as a building block for plastics and chemicals also say higher prices could blunt a competitive advantage that has spurred them to move facilities to the United States.
But a government-commissioned study last year concluded that the United States would score big economic benefits by broadly exporting natural gas, with only modest domestic price increases for the fossil fuel.
And export enthusiasts say more foreign sales of natural gas would ensure new markets and demand that are essential to sustaining the current U.S. drilling boom. The government's Energy Information Administration has predicted the U.S. will produce a record-setting 69.96 billion cubic feet of natural gas on average each day this year, driven largely by hydraulic fracturing techniques that involve blasting sand, water and chemicals underground.
Dominion aims to convert its existing Cove Point facility so it can liquefy natural gas and load the super-chilled product onto tankers. The facility was originally built as a terminal to receive and regassify tanker shipments of LNG, before today's surge in domestic natural gas production largely negated the need for those imports.
The Energy Department's action on Dominion comes roughly four weeks after the last LNG export authorization, a swifter timeline than some had anticipated, especially as analysts expect the bar for approvals to climb with each new approval.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who has championed broader LNG exports, said she was "encouraged that the Department of Energy seems to have picked up the pace of its reviews." But she noted that the Cove Point approval came nearly two years after Dominion first applied for the export license.
"The United States has a narrowing window of opportunity to join the global gas trade," Murkowski said. "In order for us to take advantage of the geopolitical and economic benefits offered by selling American gas to our friends and allies overseas, projects like Dominion's Cove Point must be approved without unnecessary delay."
Dozens of LNG export facilities are planned around the globe, as companies in the U.S., Australia, Canada and other countries clamor for a foothold in Asian markets hungry for natural gas.
Environmentalists questioned the wisdom of the Dominion approval, saying it would tether the U.S. to fossil fuels for decades.
"Exporting LNG to foreign buyers will lock us into decades-long contracts, which in turn will lead to more drilling — and that means more (hydraulic fracturing), more air and water pollution, and more climate-fueled weather disasters like record fires, droughts, and superstorms like last year's Sandy," said Deb Nardone, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Natural Gas Campaign.
Twenty other export proposals are pending at the Energy Department, which is vetting the applications on a case-by-case basis, following an order that was set in December. In announcing its decision Wednesday, the Energy Department vowed to continue processing the applications individually, even as it continues "to monitor any market developments and assess their impact in subsequent" decisions.
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Next in line is a second application from Freeport LNG to export 1.4 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas, followed by a proposal from Cameron LNG for 1.7 billion cubic feet per day.
A federal law dictates that the Energy Department must affirm proposed exports are in the public interest before granting licenses to sell the fossil fuel to countries that don't have free-trade agreements with the United States — a benchmark that tilts in favor of the foreign sales.
Even after companies have approvals and secure financing for the massive, multibillion-dollar liquefaction facilities, it can take years to build them.


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