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WSC nursing program succeeds with 100% pass rate in Minot and Williston
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
Posted by WSC Marketing
WILLISTON, N.D.-Williston State College had 100% pass rate in the Practical Nursing Program in Williston and Minot this year as well as the past 5 years. That is 123 students who passed the PN on first attempt.
The pass rate for a RN student is well above national average as well as the North Dakota state average pass rate.
Janet Johnson, Nursing Coordinator at WSC, says, "This shows that our site manager at Minot, Rhoda Owens and site manager at Fort Berthold Community College, Gail Raasakka and our clinical instructors at all sites are well prepared, knowledgeable, skilled, and follow the mission of WSC, 'where the people make the difference'."
This year celebrates the Dakota Nursing Program's (DNP) 10th year, with previous WSC employee Linda Tharp as the first coordinator at Williston and interim Director of the whole DNP program.
The DNP is a four college consortium consisting of WSC, Bismarck State College, Lake Region State College, and Dakota College at Bottineau. DNP educates more than 200 future practical nurses and associate degree nurses (two year registered nurses) each year at the four colleges.
The DNP is fully approved by the North Dakota Board of Nursing.
The program is structured to provide a foundation for career paths for future leaders in nursing practice and prepare lifelong learners who can demonstrate knowledge, skills, critical thinking and flexibility.
DNP faculty and staff strive to explore and utilize best practices in distance education to create environments that promote student learning.
With changes in healthcare, WSC and the entire DNP consortium are continually improving curriculum design and upgrading equipment to fit the needs of the students. All sites have simulation training with state of the art simulation rooms and mannequins.
Johnson states, "Simulation in nursing is a very positive influence with the student because they are getting exposed to an event or situation that is made to resemble an actual situation or event. In simulation we can teach theory, assessment, pharmacology, and skills as well as helping the student to use critical thinking."
For more information about the success of the nursing program, please contact Janet Johnson at firstname.lastname@example.com or 701.774.4290. For all other information about Williston State College, please call 701.774.4200, visit willistonstate.edu, or stop by 1410 University Ave.


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By Wesley Evans
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- The Southern Virginia University softball team's three-game win streak ended as it fell to No. 14-ranked Christopher Newport University in a twinbill at Captains Park, 18-0 and 12-0, Saturday afternoon in Newport News, Va.
In game one, the Captains (24-6) brought runs across the plate in each inning of play and had a 10-0 lead through two complete. The Knights scattered three hits on the day with their lone threat coming in the top of fifth as second baseman Maggielou Tafua and shortstop MaKenzie Cox singled up the middle. Both runners would reach second and third before a Katie Evans strikeout ended the opportunity.
Southern Virginia starter Jamie Pinkston took the loss in the decision, giving up 15 runs on 13 hits while walking five and striking out one. Hanah Marshal picked up the win for Christopher Newport, going the distance and giving up only three hits while striking out eight of the 17 batters she faced.
The second game saw the Captains take a 4-0 lead after two innings before their offense ignited in the third. The home team scored eight runs in the bottom half, highlighted by a Christopher Newport three-run homer over the centerfield wall by infielder Tori Clarke. That would be all the offense needed as Captain starting pitcher Krista Lewis gave up only two hits on the day.
Evans and Cheyenne Hegsted picked up the two hits for Southern Virginia (3-16) coming in the first and fourth innings, respectively.
Cassandra Pacheco took the loss in game two, giving up 12 runs on eight hits in three innings of work.
Softball will have just one day off before it hosts fellow NCAA Division III member Mary Baldwin College in a doubleheader Monday, Apr. 7 at Harvey-Dryden Field. The first pitch will take place at 3 pm.

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text: Sony Online Entertainment has released a brand new video featuring a look at a new high level encounter zone that will unlock in Wizardry Online when the game goes live on January 30th. Called "The Underground Dragoon Ruins", the zone is filled with sneaky traps, tough monsters and wicked bosses. Enjoy!


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1. Re: Bugs?shooternz Apr 28, 2012 10:22 PM (in response to Johnrh76)
Not "bugs".
Sounds like a combination of in experience, operstor error and system issues.
2. Re: Bugs?Johnrh76 Apr 28, 2012 10:29 PM (in response to shooternz)
Do you know what the inexperience or errors are?
3. Re: Bugs?Jim_Simon Apr 29, 2012 3:02 PM (in response to Johnrh76)
Without standing over your shoulder to see exactly what you're doing, it can be very difficult for us to point out what you're doing wrong.
4. Re: Bugs?Johnrh76 Apr 29, 2012 5:35 PM (in response to Jim_Simon)
Ok, I'm just reimporting a rendered file. I do the original render in either mpeg 2 with standard settings(I have tried cranking the quality bar up before also). Or when I need a web file, I lower the biterate to get a small h264 file.
Then I press import on each file. And the files come out with bars, show up on the timeline as a larger size, and the video is invisible to the encore program. Plus I have to do the original render in chunks, or it doesn't work.
I think that covers the steps. Maybe I need a better setting for render than the one that pops up with each file type option?
5. Re: Bugs?Jim_Simon May 3, 2012 10:07 AM (in response to Johnrh76)
General wisdom is not to import your exports for further reuse unless they're lossless.
6. Re: Bugs?shooternz May 2, 2012 8:56 PM (in response to Johnrh76)
Do you know what the inexperience or errors are?
Yes. Sounds like you are exporting "chunks" of your timeline because your system can not handle larger "chunks"...then you are reimporting these compressed chunks and re exporting them with other "chunks".
Basically ...you are recompressing already compressed footage. This will create a generational loss of quality.
You asked the question ..."Bugs?"
I replied ..
Not "bugs".
Sounds like a combination of in experience, operstor error and system issues.
7. Re: Bugs?Johnrh76 May 2, 2012 10:55 PM (in response to shooternz)
Yes, that is what I'm doing. Let me know if anyone has any ideas to try on getting the whole thing to render. It usually says "unknown error compiling movie". But each bit will work in chunks. It does seem to keep forgetting where one clip is and reremembering. Not sure if that is caused by a clip it doesn't like or what.
8. Re: Bugs?the_wine_snob May 5, 2012 1:15 PM (in response to Johnrh76)
9. Re: Bugs?Johnrh76 May 5, 2012 11:02 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
Thanks bill!
I'm really not techy, so let me see if I understand. Lossless codecs give you higher quality on original import, or on first export? Not sure if they are only good for making a new file, or if I can use it On an old project.
Also is there anything to be careful of with codecs, or do I just install as many new ones asI want, and they'll be on the computer( provided theyre not buggy or viruses)not sure if I need to uninstall old ones or anything.
10. Re: Bugs?the_wine_snob May 6, 2012 7:59 AM (in response to Johnrh76)
Using a lossless CODEC for intermediate files (either way) is a very good workflow. I would test both of the ones listed in that article, as some have found that for their material, one is a bit better, than the other, though I believe that the consensus is that both are much better, than other CODEC's. Note: the files WILL be large, but smaller, and easier to use, than Uncompressed. Both decode and encode quite quickly, and on a well-designed, maintained system, should not even be noticed.
As for CODEC's, I am anal about them. I ONLY install the exact one(s), that I need, when I need it/them. I also try to go to the "source," even if that one is for $, and there are other "free" versions out there. Both Lagarith and UT are free, and the URL's in the article should take you to the "source."
I never install any CODEC "pack," unless it comes from a very trused source, such as MicroSoft (once MS included all of their CODEC's in the OS install and updates, but with Vista, they stopped that, and for certain versions of the OS, required that the user download and install THEIR CODEC pack.) Not exactly sure which ones are currently included in Win7 versions.
Many/most of the free CODEC packs contain "stuff," that is not needed, and can be highly problematic. Many/most contain hacked, or reverse-engineered versions of commercial CODEC's, and will overwrite the "good" ones, with "weaker" ones. That is one reason that Adobe "hides" their MainConcept CODEC's - so that they do not get overwritten. However, some CODEC packs will change the priority of a good, commercial CODEC, to be lower, than their version. I swear them off, like a plague, though a few users have had good results, and give high recommendations.
CODEC's are the "building blocks" of AV files, and are very necessary. However, they are almost a lifetime's study, and especially as so many camera mfgrs. love to tweak existing CODEC's. One does need to learn quite a bit about them, and then try to stay somewhat current, but they can never know everything, especially as next month, there will probably be some changes. For some background, this ARTICLE might be useful, but it in no way covers all CODEC's, or all there is to know about any CODEC's.
Good luck,
11. Re: Bugs?Ann Bens May 6, 2012 8:46 AM (in response to Johnrh76)
This is getting nowhere without some basic info.
What is your source: height, width, extension and codec?
What are your sequence settings?
Is it for DVD or web or both?
What are your export settings?
What are your pc specs?
Which version of Premiere are you using?
12. Re: Bugs?Johnrh76 May 6, 2012 8:16 PM (in response to Ann Bens)
Sorry,I'll give you what I know how to answer. Its mostly 1080 hd sized down to 720, but has a big variety of Internet erc clips.its for both DVD and web-or whatever film fests ask for.ive exported in standard settings h264 and mpeg2dvd. PC is high enough quality with quad core 8 gbs of ram (previously oked). I've tried a bunch of codecs.
14. Re: Bugs?Johnrh76 May 7, 2012 2:23 AM (in response to Ann Bens)
I installed a pack plus some other different ones, when I thought my problem was not having a codec. But I did fix that problem. My screen shot of codecs is on a string i just updated called "still no audio on render"
15. Re: Bugs?Ann Bens May 7, 2012 8:47 AM (in response to Johnrh76)
Well there is your problem: codec packs are well know for there destructive nature.
Even if you deinstalled there is always something left behind.
Complete reinstall aswel as the OS is in order to get rid of the 'bug'!
16. Re: Bugs?Johnrh76 May 7, 2012 4:37 PM (in response to Ann Bens)
The only thing is, I've opened the same project on a brand new computer with a new install of pp, and had the same bugs. So I think it's not a reinstall issue.


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Paranormal State
Posted 02 November 2008 - 01:08 PM
Has anyone watched this show before and what were your views on it?
Posted 02 November 2008 - 01:21 PM
Edited by Seeker, 02 November 2008 - 01:22 PM.
Posted 02 November 2008 - 05:57 PM
gettin' it done everyday
#4 Guest_Crone_*
Posted 02 November 2008 - 07:02 PM
Posted 02 November 2008 - 07:48 PM
I actually like the show because I like anything creepy anyway (mind you, I haven't seen a lot of episodes). I haven't seen this episode, what is it called? I'll check it out.
~I'm not sure of the exact title, but it had to do with an excorcism of Laura...maybe that's the title??? I'm not sure, but maybe that's the title.
Posted 02 November 2008 - 07:49 PM
Posted 02 November 2008 - 07:49 PM
gettin' it done everyday
Posted 03 November 2008 - 01:40 PM
Posted 07 November 2008 - 12:18 AM
Posted 07 November 2008 - 05:13 AM
gettin' it done everyday
Posted 07 November 2008 - 06:51 PM
I have seen other exorcisms on YOUTUBE, but this one tore me to pieces. She was so upset at being told that she was the one that was haunted and not the house.
Also, other people have received marks on their bodies from negative energies, and nobody accuses them of being possessed.
I truly felt for Laura. Yes, there was a spirit on the property, but I didn't feel she was possessed by it. Why didn't they cleanse the house, too?
They should have at least hid her identity. If her self-esteem was already low; having the rest of the world think you were possessed would not do much for her self-esteem. What kind of after care did they provide for her?
It is one thing to go into somebody's home and tell them that they have a negative energy attached to them. However, these are real people with real problems. Her psychologist said that she was sane, but there must be something else that may have been upsetting her. Did she have a split from a husband, boyfriend, etc? Was she concerned that at 26, she was still living at home with her parents? I can believe the spirit was drawn to her, but I don't think it was a demonic. I think her vulnerability made her suseptiable (unsure of spelling) to whatever spirit was on the property. It didn't mean the spirit was demonic.
The negative energy was just drawn to her and using her, but I would not call what she had a true possession. She is a sensitive person emotionally. It could even be that she is psychic and was a beacon to the spirit that attached itself, while she was a low point in her life.
I really pray that Laura is happy now and more self-assured, although I would guess is a bit of a latent medium.
Posted 04 December 2008 - 06:46 PM
I just think in Laura's case there was a lot more going on that the show never got to reveal, or even that the family did not reveal. Something was strange to me. For example, why was she even still living at home in the first place at age 26? Is she an only child? It just seemed that she was overly dependent on her parents and extremely child-like for an adult.
At the end of the episode they showed that things were quiet for a couple of weeks but the activity had picked up again. I believe there is much more going on and that this young woman is more mentally ill than her shrink either knows or let on. It was strange to me, very strange.
I know this is already an old post, but I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts, or not.
Posted 26 May 2010 - 06:30 AM
We just visited that place last week and hit Green Lady Cemetery as well. Kids loved it and I hoped to keep the old magic alive in their imaginations.
Edited by aloha_spirit, 26 May 2010 - 07:32 PM.
Posted 27 May 2010 - 05:48 AM
The show I did see a few weeks ago that really bothered me was the 3 guys who were like the 3 stooges chasing spooks. They were EXTREME ghost hunters. They went to a prison in New Mexico and tried to resurrect the spirit of the man who had been set on fire. They felt they were successful when they saw smoke down the hall. They then went to a lake that had submerged a city underneath and floated candles on it to call forth the entity of a gunfighter who had killed a number of citizens underneath the water. These guys were geeks copying ancient and unnecessary rituals to entice spirits to come to their ritual circles.
I admit that I like these "ghost shows". They have some very good ideas and are fun to watch but to take them too seriously or as the last say in "ghost hunters" is dangerous the same as believing each show is the beginning and only way to "hunt ghosts".
Posted 27 May 2010 - 07:55 AM
And a friend of mine named Jody investigated with them once and told me it was fake to a point. And knowing its fake to a point makes it real hard to watch.
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Information about biofuels and bioenergy and peatlands.
- Historical Analysis and Projection of Oil Palm Plantation Expansion on Peatland in Southeast Asia, Report by Jukka Miettinen, Al Hooijer, Daniel Tollenaar, Sue Page, Chris Malins, Ronald Vernimmen, Chenghua Shi, and Soo Chin Liew; ICCT, February 2012. "Study using satellite mapping data of historical and projected rates at which oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia have expanded and will expand onto peat soils."
- "This study demonstrates that the area of industrial oil palm (OP) plantations in the peatlands of insular Southeast Asia (Malaysia and Indonesia, except the Papua Provinces) has increased drastically over the past 20 years. From a small area in 1990 to at least 2.15 million hectares in 2010, expansion has affected every region of Malaysia and Indonesia reviewed here."
- See also indirect land use change (ILUC). [1]
- US Report Casts Doubt On Palm Fuel Benefits, 8 February 2012 by Jakarta Globe: "Indonesia has come under greater scrutiny over its policy to encourage palm oil development, following a report by US authorities that fuels derived from the commodity were not as environmentally friendly as initially believed."
- "Last month, the US Environmental Protection Agency put out a notice that palm oil-derived biofuels such as biodiesel and renewable diesel fell short of its threshold for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings of 20 percent compared to regular diesel...."
- "[The notice indicated that] 'palm oil production produces wastewater effluent that eventually decomposes, creating methane, a GHG with a high global warming potential'...and that 'expected expansion of palm plantations onto land with carbon-rich peat soils which would lead to significant releases of GHGs to the atmosphere.'"
- "Meine van Noordwijk, chief science adviser at the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), said if more than 10 percent of palm oil originated from peatland plantations, then the EPA's standards could not be met, regardless of all other efforts."
- "In 2009, 22 percent of Indonesia's palm oil plantations were on peat soil, while in Malaysia the figure was 13 percent, according to the EPA...."
- "In 2008 the EU banned biofuels from palm oil grown from deforesting tropical forests peatlands."[2]
- Biofuel feedstocks must prove their green credentials, 12 January 2012 by Farmers Weekly: "Under the Renewable Energy Directive, which recently came into effect in the UK, mandatory sustainability and carbon targets have been set for all biofuels sold in Europe."
- "This complex regulation requires biofuel manufacturers to demonstrate that the feedstocks they use comply with minimum land sustainability standards and give at least a 35% greenhouse gas emissions saving over their fossil fuel equivalent."
- "The introduction of a 'sustainability' declaration on grain passports last season, combined with updates to the Red Tractor crops scheme...is designed to address the RED land sustainability requirement by guaranteeing crops are not grown on land with a high biodiversity value or high carbon value (eg peat land) and that the land meets cross-compliance requirements."
- "But it is the GHG saving requirement of the RED that has generated some concern, because of the use of 'default values' when calculating the total carbon footprint of different feedstocks, says Ian Waller of Fivebargate consultants...."
- "Regional carbon footprint numbers for different crops are defined in official reports for each country - the UK calculations were done for the Department for Transport by consultancy AEA. But this report (known as NUTS2) suggests only a few areas of the UK have a lower GHG footprint than the required RED threshold for oilseed rape, none of which are in prime arable regions. This casts a question mark over how easily oilseed rape from such regions could go into biofuel markets in the future, Mr Waller says."[3]
- EPA Issues Notice of Data Availability Concerning Renewable Fuels Produced from Palm Oil Under the RFS Program, December 2011 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: "he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a Notice of Data Availability (NODA) to release its lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis of palm oil used as a feedstock to produce biodiesel and renewable diesel under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. The release of the NODA provides the public an opportunity to comment on EPA's analysis."
- "EPA's analysis shows that biodiesel and renewable diesel produced from palm oil do not meet the minimum 20% lifecycle GHG reduction threshold needed to qualify as renewable fuel under the RFS program...."
- "EPA's analysis highlights a number of key factors which contribute to the lifecycle emissions estimate for biofuels based on palm oil. For example, palm oil production produces wastewater effluent that eventually decomposes, creating methane, a GHG with a high global warming potential. Another key factor is the expected expansion of palm plantations onto land with carbon-rich peat soils which would lead to significant releases of GHGs to the atmosphere."
- Palm Oil-Based Biofuels Should Not Be Called Green, New Study Claims, 5 December 2011 by Jakarta Globe: "The benefits of biofuels derived from palm oil have once again been brought into question following a new report that says the reduced emissions from burning the fuel are far outweighed by the clearing of peatland forests to grow the crop."
- "It found that for palm oil in particular, the carbon debt, or net amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of using the crop as a biofuel, was the highest at 472.8 to 1,743.7 tons of CO2 per hectare."
- "Louis Verchot, a Cifor researcher and co-author of the report, titled 'Implications of Biodiesel-Induced Land-Use Changes for CO2 Emissions: Case Studies in Tropical America, Africa, and Southeast Asia,' said palm oil-based biofuels that required the clearing of natural forest would never bring about a net emissions reduction."
- "It also found that using biofuel from oil palms planted in peatlands required the longest period of time to repay the carbon debt, ranging from 206 to 220 years."
- "The report, published in a special issue of the journal Ecology and Society, concluded that the outcomes 'raise serious questions about the sustainability of biofuel production.'"[4]
- Carbon debt for some biofuels lasts centuries, 30 November 2011 by Mongabay.com: "An innovative new study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) published in Ecology and Society has computed how long it would take popular biofuel crops to payoff the "carbon debt" of land conversion."
- "While there is no easy answer—it depends on the type of land converted and the productivity of the crop—the study did find that in general soy had the shortest carbon debt, though still decades-long, while palm oil grown on peatland had the longest on average."
- "Looking at three different types of biofuels in six countries, the study found that soy grown in parts of Brazil would require 30 years to make-up its carbon debt, which is as good as it gets. Palm oil would require 59-220 years, while jatropha would require 76-310 years, depending on the type of land that was converted."
- "The study found that these three biofuel crops could only be deemed sustainable if grown on permanent crop or pastureland that was not already in use for growing foods, i.e. was degraded or abandoned, in order to prevent leakage."[5]
- Download the report, Implications of Biodiesel-Induced Land-Use Changes for CO2 Emissions: Case Studies in Tropical America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
- Nestle Buys Palm Oil Promises of Sinar Mas, 16 September 2011 by Jakarta Globe: "Swiss food giant Nestle will resume purchases of palm oil from Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology following an 18-month halt after Smart made improvements to abide by Nestle's guidelines for responsible environmental practices."
- "The parent company of the palm oil producer known as Smart, Golden Agri Resources, has been working with environmental group The Forest Trust on the implementation of a Forest Conservation Policy."
- "Nestle Indonesia's spokesman Brata T. Hardjosubroto said that Smart, Indonesia's second-biggest listed plantation operator, and GAR had been making continuous progress and demonstrated clear action to meet Nestle's responsible sourcing guidelines."
- "Nestle, which started construction on its $200 million factory in West Java on Monday, had dropped Smart as a supplier in March 2010."
- "The decision came following campaigns by Greenpeace highlighting Nestle's purchase of crude palm oil from Sinar Mas Group, which Greenpeace accuses of destruction of rainforests and peatlands to make way for new plantations."[6]
- EU to delay action on biofuels' indirect impact, 8 September 2011 by Reuters: "The European Union's top climate and energy officials have agreed to delay by up to seven years rules that would penalize individual biofuels for their indirect climate impacts, details of the deal showed."
- "The political compromise is designed to protect EU farmers' incomes and existing investments in the bloc's 17 billion euro-a-year ($24 billion) biofuel sector, while discouraging new investments in biofuels that do nothing to fight climate change."
- "At issue is an emerging concept known as indirect land use change (ILUC), which states that if you divert food crops to biofuel production, someone, somewhere, will go hungry unless those missing metric tons of grain are grown elsewhere."
- "If the crops to make up the shortfall are grown on new farmland created by cutting down rainforests or draining peat land, this can release enough climate-warming emissions to cancel out any theoretical emission savings from biofuels."[7]
- Analysis: Land banks buffer Indonesian palm oil from forest ban, 25 May 2011 by Reuters: "Palm oil firms in Indonesia can overcome a two-year ban on forest clearing by tapping into land reserves, but they face bigger problems attracting the labor needed to work the soil and boost yields."
- "The ban, effective from Friday, limits access to sensitive peat and forest regions and removes much of the uncertainty that had hung over the palm industry as Jakarta finalized the details."
- "Plantation firms can now turn their attention to how best to bring massive land banks into rotation profitably and how to boost yields from existing acreage, industry experts said."
- "To compete with soyoil suppliers for the top vegetable oil markets in India and China, the world's top palm oil producer needs to produce more palm oil per hectare."
- "The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization data show Indonesian average, annual yields stand at 18 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches per hectare, lower than Malaysia's 20 tonnes in 2009 and keeping productivity in the region at 76 percent of estimated potential."[8]
- World Bank lifts moratorium on palm oil investments, 1 April 2011 by Reuters: "The World Bank on Friday lifted an 18-month global moratorium on lending for new palm oil investments, endorsing a new strategy that focuses on supporting small farmers that dominate the sector."
- "After meeting with 3,000 stakeholders, including farmers, environmental and social groups, and businesses, the World Bank's private-sector lender, the International Finance Corp (IFC), said palm oil investments could contribute to economic growth and reduce poverty, while also being eco-friendly."
- "Palm oil employs over six million rural poor around the globe. Some 70 percent of palm oil production is used as staple cooking oil by the poor in Asia and Africa."
- "Palm oil companies have said the industry has been unfairly vilified for cutting down forests and draining peatlands -- contributing to huge amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide entering into the atmosphere."[9]
- Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project - Final Scientific and Progress Report (PDF File), 31 March 2011 by Conservation International: "The three-year Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project...was launched in early 2008" supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The overall goal of the project was to support the development of a sustainable global biofuels industry by ensuring that biofuel crop production is not a threat to biodiversity."
- "The Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project included three components...and was implemented by teams working in the U.S., Brazil, Indonesia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Suriname."
- "Major achievements of the Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project include:"
- "[A]nalysis of areas of risk, and opportunity, for feedstock production...[in relation to] areas of importance for carbon sequestration and storage, water provisioning, biodiversity conservation, and staple food production".
- Launch of the "Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for Business website, which provides key decision-makers access to critical information on biodiversity priority sites to inform the decision-making processes and address any potential biodiversity impacts."
- "[A] carbon stock assessment, ecosystem services study, and biodiversity survey in and around a protected peat swamp surrounded by areas zoned for oil palm".
- "These results, and others outlined in the full report, have helped fill a critical need for data and information to facilitate good decisions on biofuel feedstock production, and models of successful strategies to produce feedstocks more sustainably on the ground."
- Download the report, Sustainable Biofuel Crops Project - Final Scientific and Progress Report (PDF File)
- Norway to continue palm oil investments, 30 March 2011 by MongaBay.com: "Norway's $550 billion sovereign wealth fund will continue investing in Asian palm oil companies despite criticism from environmental groups, reports Reuters."
- "Runar Malkenes, Deputy Director of the Information Division at Norway's Ministry of Finance, told Reuters that while the fund will continue to invest in the sector, it may exclude palm oil companies that cause egregious environmental damage."
- "Last year Norway divested its holdings in Samling, a Malaysian company associated with destructive logging practices and social conflict with indigenous groups in Malaysian Borneo."
- "The fund, which invests revenues from the country's oil and gas industry, held 2.4 billion Norwegian crowns ($430 million) worth of palm oil-related stocks as of the end of last year."
- "Norway's statement comes a week after Indonesian activist group Greenomics criticized Norway for continuing to hold stakes in several palm oil companies linked to deforestation, including Golden Agri Resources (GAR), which owns PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART], a firm that had been targeted for Greenpeace over destruction of rainforests and peatlands in Borneo."[10]
- Counting the carbon cost of peatland conversion, 7 March 2011 by Nature News: "Up to 6% of carbon-rich peat-swamp forests had been cleared in Peninsular Malaysia and on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra to make way for oil-palm plantations by the early 2000s, according to a study published today. The clearances, a response to rising demand for food and biofuel, released as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the entire UK transport sector does in a year."
- "Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study is the first attempt to systematically assign a value to the carbon loss due to peatland destruction in Southeast Asia that can be attributed directly to conversion to oil-palm plantations."
- "Malaysia and Indonesia (which includes Sumatra and parts of Borneo) are the world's largest suppliers of palm oil, accounting for 87% of global production in 2008."
- "Like most forests, peat-swamp forests store large amounts of carbon above ground as biomass, and this is lost when the forest is cleared. They also store large amounts of carbon in their soils, as dead organic matter decomposes slowly under marshy conditions. Draining peatlands to create agricultural land oxidizes the soil and releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."
- "For the first 25 years after an oil-palm plantation is established in a peat-swamp forest, about 60 tonnes of carbon dioxide are released per hectare every year, according to recent research."[11]
- Palm oil giant vows to spare most valuable Indonesian rainforest, 9 February 2011 by The Guardian: "[[Golden Agri-Resources Limited has committed itself to protecting forests and peatlands with a high level of biodiversity, or which provide major carbon sinks, as part of an agreement with conservation group the Forest Trust."
- "However, the agreement announced on Wednesday will still leave GAR free to exploit other areas of forest, and land that is judged to be of lower conservation value."
- "Scott Poynton, executive director of the Forest Trust, said 'It's about going to the root causes of deforestation – we have shown that the destruction of forests is anchored deeply in the supply chains of the products we consume in industrialised nations, and we are showing we can do something about that.'"
- He said pressure from Nestlé, which last year drew up a set of sustainability guidelines and signalled that it would not accept palm oil from sources connected to deforestation, had been instrumental in bringing GAR to the table."
- "Experts in Indonesia will be asked to judge whether GAR forests have "high conservation value" under guidance from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a coalition of the palm oil industry and conservation groups."[12]
- Malaysian palm oil destroying forests, report warns, 2 February 2011 by the Guardian: "Study by Wetlands International claims level of palm oil-related deforestation in Malaysia is higher than previously thought."
- "The report claims that between 2005 and 2010, almost 353,000 hectares of peat swamp forests were cleared – a third of Malaysia's total – largely for palm oil production."
- "The clearing, draining and burning of peat swamp forests is responsible for about 10 per cent of mankind's greenhouse gas emissions, according to Wetlands International."
- "Palm oil firms in Malaysia and Indonesia are under increasing pressure by major Western retailers and consumer goods brands, many of which use palm oil in their products, to halt the expansion of plantations that lead to forest clearance."
- "Some Malaysian palm oil producers have also joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, but strong demand from India and China for unsustainably sourced oil means others can avoid doing so without necessarily harming their market share."[13]
- More Palm Oil Questions: Finnair Halts Biofuel Introduction, As Malaysia's Forests Fall For Farming , 1 February 2011 by Treehugger.com: "State-owned airline Finnair has announced that it will not begin using aviation biofuel on some of its routes this year as previously planned."
- "The announcement comes on the same day that a new assessment of the damage caused by palm oil plantation expansion in Malaysia paints a grim future for tropical peat forests."
- "Finnair had planned to begin using kerosene produced by Neste Oil from palm oil in 2011."
- "The environmental director of Finnair explained the decision to not using the aviation biofuel:'The price of the fuel and its sustainability measured against all criteria is not at the level that we would have gone into it at this point.'"
- "'An ideal situation would be for us to get biological kerosene produced from local raw materials, because there is no sense in hauling raw materials from the other side of the world. We would have wanted to start commercial flights with biofuel now, but products that are currently available have not met our sustainability criteria.'"[14]
- Indonesia puts moratorium on new forest clearing, 27 May 2010 by Reuters: "Indonesia will place a two-year moratorium on new concessions to clear natural forests and peatlands under a deal signed with Norway aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, the government said in a statement."
- Under a bilateral agreement, "Norway will invest $1 billion in forest conservation projects in Indonesia."
- "The suspension would encourage the development of new plantations 'on degraded lands rather than vulnerable forests and peatlands'."
- "Palm oil firms such as Wilmar and Indofood Agri Resources have big expansion plans in Indonesia, already the largest producer of an oil used to make everything from biscuits to soap."
- "Part of Norway's $1 billion will be spent on creating monitoring systems and pilot projects under a U.N.-backed forest preservation scheme called Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)."
- "REDD allows developing nations to earn money by not chopping down their trees and preserving carbon-rich peatlands, seen as key to slowing climate change because forests soak up huge amounts of greenhouse gases."[15]
- Nestle caves to activist pressure on palm oil , 17 May 2010 by Mongabay.com: "After a two month campaign against Nestle for its use of palm oil linked to rainforest destruction spearheaded by Greenpeace, the food giant has given in to activists' demands. The Swiss-based company announced today in Malaysia that it will partner with the Forest Trust, an international non-profit organization, to rid its supply chain of any sources involved in the destruction of rainforests." A company press release stated that "Nestle wants to ensure that its products have no deforestation footprint."
- "Nestle stated that under new sourcing guidelines it will only use palm oil suppliers that do not break local laws, protect high conservation forests and any forests with 'high carbon' value, protect carbon-important peatlands, and support free prior and informed consent for indigenous and local communities."
- "For its part, Nestle has pledged that 100 percent of its palm oil will come from sustainable sources by 2015. Currently 18 percent of Nestle's palm oil is from sustainably certified sources, but the company hopes to reach 50 percent by the end of 2011."[16]
- Related: Read about Nestle's "Responsible Sourcing" guidelines
- Indonesia could double oil palm plantation area, 2 December 2009 by Mongabay: "Indonesia has 18 million hectares of land suitable for oil palm cultivation, nearly twice the 9.7 million hectares that have already been allocated for plantations, said Agriculture Minister Suswono...at the opening of the 5th Indonesian Palm Oil Conference in Bali."
- "Roughly 7.9 million hectares of the allocated area has already been planted with oil palm."
- "Oil palm expansion in Indonesia promises to be controversial due to environmental concerns. In February the government approved a decree that will allow the conversion of up to 2 million hectares carbon-rich peatlands, a move scientists warn could trigger the release of hundreds of millions of tons of CO2."
- "[E]conomic returns from oil palm plantations could soon face competition under a scheme (known as REDD for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) that would compensate countries for protecting carbon sinks, notably tropical forests and possibly peatlands. Under some circumstances carbon conservation could outperform palm oil production....Indonesia's recent announcements about oil palm expansion across peatlands may in fact be posturing to win more compensation under a REDD mechanism."[17]
- Indonesia reopens peatland to palm oil plantation, 18 February 2009 by The Guardian: "Indonesia today acknowledged it had quietly lifted a year-long freeze on the use of peat land for palm oil plantations, fuelling fears of a rise in greenhouse gas emissions."
- "Environmental groups had pressed the government to maintain the ban but Indonesia's agriculture ministry said tighter controls for issuing new permits for growing palm oil on peat land had been set after a study during the past year."
- "To grow palm oil, the peat land that must be cleared and drained, releasing millions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. The oil is a major export product and is used in numerous foods, soaps, washing powders and as a feedstock for biofuels."
- "Indonesia is the world's leading palm oil producer and has planted palm estates of 7.1m hectares, with smallholders accounting for about 35 percent. Palm oil generated exports revenue of £7.64bn in 2008."[18]
- Indonesian NGO backs villagers in fight against palm oil, 29 January 2009 by AFP: "Deep in the forests of Indonesian Borneo, a small environmental group is using education and common sense to arm villagers against the devastating onslaught of palm plantations."
- The "spread of palm oil plantations into forests and peatlands on Sumatra and Borneo islands have helped make Indonesia the world's third-highest greenhouse gas emitter, thanks partly to the craze for 'eco-friendly' biofuels."
- "They have also wiped out habitats of threatened species like orangutans and Bornean clouded leopards."
- "But the plantations are also hurting people whose traditional communities depend on the forests and the biodiversity they contain".
- "Vast tracts of forest have already disappeared under palm plantations and the government is encouraging more despite its stated commitment to lowering greenhouse gas emissions by preserving the carbon stored in jungles."
- "In 1990 there were 1.1 million hectares (2.7 million acres) of land under palm oil plantation in Indonesia, according to official figures. This year there are 7.6 million hectares."
- "Palm oil companies have been clearing orangutan habitats on Borneo despite signing up to voluntary standards under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a talking shop for industry and environmental groups."[19]
- Biofuel Plantations on Tropical Forestlands Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity, Study Finds, 1 December 2008, by Business Wire: A study in the journal Conservation Biology found that converting tropical rainforests to biofuel plantations will significantly increase carbon emissions and threaten biodiversity.
- "The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. And if the original habitat was carbon-rich peatland, the carbon balance would take more than 600 years. On the other hand, planting biofuels on degraded Imperata grasslands instead of tropical rain forests would lead to a net removal of carbon in 10 years, the authors found." [20]
- "'It's a huge contradiction to clear tropical rain forests to grow crops for so-called "environmentally friendly" fuels,' said co-author Faizal Parish of the Global Environment Center, Malaysia. 'This is not only an issue in South East Asia – in Latin America forests are being cleared for soy production which is even less efficient at biofuel production compared to oil palm. Reducing deforestation is a much more effective way for countries to reduce climate change while also meeting their obligations to protect biodiversity.'" [21]
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Anyway, using Visual Studio to attach to the Right Edge process sounds like a great idea to me. I believe I may have used this once in the past when I used to debug sever-side ASP scripts.
Anyway, has anybody produced any step-by-step instructions on exatcly what to do?
I can use VS to attach to a process but I'm not sure what to do next in order to debug my RE systems?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Here are the steps to make it work in Visual Studio.
Load RightEdge
Load Visual Studio, do Attach to Process and attach to RightEdge.exe.
Open your system in RightEdge
Open the source file(s) to your system in Visual Studio.
Set your breakpoints and run your system in RightEdge. The breakpoints will get tripped.


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What a concept! I am soooo….wowed by intellectuality…Yes, lets all put our faith in HUMAN REASON as Sam Harris has done.
That's where his "faith" is.
Try reading the book. I think that Sam is simply saying don't put your faith in anything. As I read him Sam advocates using whatever is availabe to humans (human reasoning, human experience and information from the real world) to solve problems rather than reliance on an unsustantiated unprovable belief system.
Good response, Ray, to which I'll add that Sam's interest in examining the cognitive foundations of belief (all belief, not just religious belief) speaks volumes about his emphasis upon perception, as opposed to belief, as the foundation of rational thinking.


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CRESTVIEW � Pat Palmer believes anyone with passion can follow his or her dreams toward a successful career.
CRESTVIEW � Pat Palmer believes anyone with passion can follow his or her dreams toward a successful career.
He should know; Spy Chest, the company he built on a shoestring budget and chance 13 years ago, reportedly is worth $8 million.
Palmer started the business � which sells surveillance equipment to government agencies and consumer markets in the U.S. and overseas � with next to nothing.
"Around (the year) 2000, I was gifted $100 for my birthday," he said. It was the only money he had at the time, but he fed it to a casino slot machine in Biloxi, Miss.
"I hit a jackpot for just a smidge over $3,600," Palmer said. "This was like a pot of gold to me."
He invested $3,000 to develop the business, which included ordering materials and creating a website, www.spytechs.com.
Two years later, he profited from selling devices that monitor children and senior citizens while loved ones are away.
These days, the company � with four full-time employees and one part-time staffer � is launching Drive Proof, which adds surveillance on the inside, front and back of vehicles.
In addition to protecting from insurance fraud, theft and road rage, Drive Proof can give parents peace of mind when teenagers are behind the wheel, Palmer said.
"It provides you the information in the form of video, audio, GPS ... that is impartial," he said.
As for the future, Palmer said the company plans to expand and add more jobs.
And for those with similar dreams of owning their own business, Palmer said there is no time like the present.
"Anybody that has a keen interest or a business idea that they have a passion for, then I believe they can make that business their passion," he said.
"If you have a dream, follow it."
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Did You Know Bars Can't Advertise Beer + Malt Liquor Alcohol Content (ABV) Percentages?
Here is an interesting tidbit I never knew, thanks to Three Tides bringing it to light, bars aren't allowed to post the alcohol content of their beers and malt liquors. Why? It's the law. An old and in most people's minds it seems an outdated law.


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European peanut consumers gave two thumbs up to U.S. peanuts after evaluating peanuts from the United States, China and Argentina. The results of the consumer study coordinated by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) show that although U.S. peanuts come at a premium price, they also come as a premium product.
Timothy H. Sanders, research leader of the ARS Market Quality and Handling Research Unit in Raleigh, N.C., coordinated the project, which is called the European Peanut Consumer Research Study.
U.S. peanut growers produced about 4.1 billion pounds of peanuts during the 2003-2004 marketing year. Of that, just over one-tenth — 516 million pounds — was exported.
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The U.S. peanut industry will use the findings to maintain current purchase levels by overseas buyers. And U.S. peanut exporters will use the findings for outreach in foreign markets.
Europe is the United States' largest export market. The European flavor test was conducted with 100 peanut consumers — screened for being "regular" buyers of peanuts or peanut products — each from London, Berlin and Amsterdam.
The combined study data show that the likelihood of consumer complaints about the flavor of U.S. peanuts would be virtually none. The data also indicate that European consumers would likely identify about 70 percent of Chinese lots and 40 percent of Argentine lots as problematic.
Read more about the research in the August 2005 issue of Agricultural Research magazine, available online at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/aug05/peanut0805.htm


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Bangalore to Munnar by road[edit]
Hi, We did a trip to munnar by road during August 2013. Planning for the entire road stretch from bangalore to munnar by road on car.
If you go by the google maps you would find 3 ways of going to munnar from bangalore.
While coming to from route Bangalore-salem-Erode-tirupur-munnar the road is fabulous till the point you reach chinnar wildlife santuary. You look on to your GPS & say hey that was a supereb driving from bangalore & you are just 80 kms from Munnar. The excitement mellow down as soon as you enter the chinnar wildlife santaury & your car suspensions start creaking. I can relate these roads to what bangalore people can relate to koramangala roads (bumpy & pot holes) or if you have been to Nagarhole national park.
If you like the greenery to the cost of repairs of your car then go for it! The road is your paradise.
The 2nd route Bangalore-tirupur-munnar. This route is same as at a point you coinside with the same route as mentioned in 1st route.
The 3rd route Bangalore-salem-dindigul-munnar. Ok now if you calculate the timings you would be surprised to know that this route is the longest, but in terms of timings the shortest. I am writing this article from munnar. Will follow this route and update the travelogue. Keep you posted!


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Dazza03 replied to Cst101's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI think its next to the battery? Daz
Central Locking
Dazza03 replied to Berghii's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubMine is the 2003 Pre face lift. Its the 1.4 TDCI LX and mine has the remote central locking. its got the one remote locking key and the programing key as a spare. My car has aircon to. I would of thought that yours would have it mate.
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Dazza03 replied to fabiavrs's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubMine has only done nearly 67K but still drives like new
Clutch on mk6 fiesta
Dazza03 posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubThe clutch on my MK6 1.4 TDCi fiesta is slipping. Can anyone tell me if it is a big job to replace and how long you think it would take to replace. Also what kind of cost would i be looking at. I only bought the car 2 months ago from a main dealer. The car is 2003 (03) with 66,000 miles on the clock. The car is still within its 3 month warranty and in the booklet it says it covers clutch parts. Do you think they will replace it under warranty with me only having it 2 months ago or do you think they will say its wear and tear and try charge me? Cheers, Dazza
I never knew this...
Dazza03 replied to Mark M.K's topic in Ford Fiesta Clubsame here. Had the car 2 months before i found it lol
Dirty Pics
Dazza03 replied to MichellefromEssex's topic in Ford Fiesta Clubnice car, really like the new fiestas. Its pretty clean considerin its white.
Sounds like u need a new dial cluster mate, they are about £30 on ebay i think
in the dial cluster they are all LED's apart from the indicator lights which are bulbs
rear knocking
Dazza03 replied to Tom Lee's topic in Ford KA / StreetKA Clubare u sure its not the fuel sloshing around in the tank. Noticed this on my fiesta and this is what it was
Fitting an aftermarket cd player to the fiesta mk6
Dazza03 replied to Dazza03's topic in Audio & Electronicsyes mate thats the cd player i have. Will look into replacing it now then, Cheers
Fitting an aftermarket cd player to the fiesta mk6
Dazza03 posted a topic in Audio & ElectronicsHi all, Please can someone tell me what i would need to fit an aftermarket cd player to my fiesta mk6 (03 reg). Do i just need the fascia or would i also need a wiring adapter? Can someone also tell me if i require a special tool to remove the standard cd player? Thanks Daz
I agree. The company car was fixed with a new fuel pump.
Hi Mate, Had this problem with a ford mondao at work, turned out that it was something to do with the fuel pressure being to low. The kangarooing is apparantly because when you accelerate there is not enough fuel going to the engine. Failing that mate it could be the EGR valve. Hope this helps Daz
ford fiesta odd noise
Dazza03 replied to ilovefiestas's topic in Ford Fiesta Clubim havin this trouble, any idea on the cost of this?
TDCI Engine Mileage, how many miles has your car done?
Dazza03 replied to Matt_Arnold's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHi, Mine has done 65k and its a 2003 reg. He probably just wants you to buy a new car. I have a friend who has done about 180k in theres with no problems, it passes every MOT and doesn't use any oil. Daz


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Three Police Officers Injured In Seaside Accident
Three police officers were seriously hurt when they fell off a military transport truck leaving the area of the boardwalk fire in Seaside Heights.
Governor Chris Christie during a press conference said that the officers sustained head injuries but did not give any other details. WCAU TV reports that the incident took place at 9:30 a.m. at O Street and Ocean Avenue
Two of the officers were were flown to a hospital via medical helicopter according to Jersey Shore Hurricane News.
The two men and a woman were sitting on a bench that came loose dropping the officers onto the street after working all night to secure the area of the fire.


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"Saturday at San Diego saw Disneys plans for JM DeMatteis and Mike Ploogs Abadazad explained and clarified at a panel dedicated to the former comic book series and soon to be young adult novel series from Hyperion.
The panel was hosted by Disney Adventures Rich Thomas, and included Brenda Bowen, VP, and EiC of the Disney Childrens Book Group, and DeMatteis.
Beginning by discussing the life of the Abadazad property, DeMatteis explained that the short came form his desire to create comics for kids. The writer said that as he had surveyed the comics landscape a few years back when Abadazad was in its formative stages, he found the bulk of the Marvel and DC titles to be inappropriate for children, which bothered him, both as a comic creator and a parent.
A fan of CS Lewis Narnia titles, as well as the Oz series, DeMatteis said that he wanted to create something in that vein more literate and upscale in regards to a story and world something that would move toe straddle the line between a childrens comic book and childrens literature.
Once the property was created, and DeMatteis had it in pitch form though, the writer said that he had many doors slammed in his face until he reached CrossGen, who picked it up immediately. Three issues were released from the former Tampa-based comic publisher of course, before CrossGen became mired in financial problems, and eventually declared bankruptcy and ceased operations.
Picking up the story from there, Bowen explained how, as a group, Disney publishing came to last years Comic-Con, where she first became aware of the property, and found it to be something worth pursuing for Disney/Hyperion. As she investigated further, as Bowen explained, it was pointed out that if she wanted the comic, she/Disney would have to buy the company. Bowen said that she felt strongly enough about the story of Abadazad to make the commitment, and took the plunge. Since that time, through the development process, Bowen has been carrying dummy copies of Abadazad volume 1 and 2 with her (covers of the first two issues of the comics reduced and resized to fit as book covers over copies of Spiderwick volumes. Bowen said that the response to just the dummy volumes has been amazing, with people wanting to know where they could get their own copies, solely based on Ploogs illustrations.
From the start, Bowen had a vision for Abadazad, one that combined Ploogs illustrations, comic panels, and text into something she felt would be an entirely new form of book. DeMatteis joked that Bowen had to explain the format a couple of times, as he and Ploog thought, when contacted about continuing Abadazad by Disney, that they would return to creating the comic series. Bowen noted that DeMatteis has just delivered his first manuscript for the first book, due out in early 2006.
Further explaining her decision of the books unique format, Bowen said that she sees the Abadazad novels fitting into a certain place of the book market, noting that it was a necessary change/adaptation as the book market isnt yet ready to deal with large volumes of graphic material. As Bowen explained it, by making the book a hybrid, she hopes (and plans to make sure) it will be placed directly in the childrens section of bookstores, rather than mired in the graphic novel section.
Asked if Disney had any plans to continue Abadazad as a comic book series, Bowen said not at this time (which was met by general disappointment from many of the assembled fans). Expanding, Bowen said that since Disney doesnt have a monthly comic division (and the propertys creators are involved with bringing the stories out, albeit in another form), it wouldnt make sense right now. Bowen didnt rule out a return to comics down the road, but for now, the novel series is what she, DeMatteis and Ploog are focused upon. To those ends, Bowen said she didnt see any reason why the Abadazad novels wouldnt be offered via Diamond for sale in comic shops.
Speaking of the content of the novel, DeMatteis said that the first novel will encompass roughly the first two issues of the comic series, but in greatly expanded form. Four books are planned right now, and as for how many are ultimately planned? Four, DeMatteis said, and if they tank, thats all youll see.
Chuckling, Bowen said that for now, the optimal plan is for 12 volumes in the series, with each book running roughly 160 pages.
Given that the property is now owned by one of the worlds largest media/entertainment companies, Bowen said that it would be the fulfillment of her hearts dream fulfilled to see Abadazad move to film, however, the property needs to start with a firm footing somewhere, and she feels its her job, that if the series would one day be turned into film, to create a book series that is irresistible to Disney or other studios. Bowen added that Disney has expressed interest in the property as a possible film, but want to see them start as books first.
As for who Bowen and DeMatteis see as the primary readership for the Abadazad titles, Bowen said that DeMatteis has created a story that any parent will enjoy reading to a child, and any child will eagerly seek out on their own, once they know its out there. While Bowen said she doesnt see Abadazad as having major crossover potential (moving between childrens and adult literature, with a respective sales to each audience), DeMatteis agreed, but added that he enjoys reading classic stories that are categorized as childrens literature, because a good story is a good story.
Bowen confirmed that both Hyperion and Disney will make sure that Abadazad gets a push into schools, both via libraries and by other avenues. Bowen noted that Disney has been working with the Maryland Board of Education to distribute Disney comics in the schools of that state, not as marketing material, but as literature and reading material that children will want to read. Bowen said that she has already been talking Abadazad up at librarian and teacher conventions.
Asked about the possibilities of other former CrossGen properties returning, and if any returns would be contingent on the success f Abadazad, Bowen said that future development of the collection of properties acquired by Disney would not be contingent upon this project at all, noting that Way of the Rat is optioned at Castle Rock, and Ruse is optioned at Beacon. Bowen also named Meridian as a property she felt would be work a second or third look in terms of future development. Along with saying that there are four to five other former CG properties she would like to explore, Bowen said that both Buena Vista Games and Jetix are interested in developing the CG properties as well, and Disney has been approached by comic book companies who are looking to license out the properties, both to reprint the older material, and to create new, ongoing series.
In regards to this last possibility, Bowen again said that Disney itself does not publish comics in the United States, but this kind of relationship would be more within the realm of possibility, as Disney does license out its content to other publishers. Bowen also mentioned that the CG properties may see life in Europe via Disneys Italian publishing arm.
Asked if the could possibility be tie-ins between Abadazad and Disney Adventures as the titles get rolling, both Bowen and Thomas said that sounded like a very good idea."


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Unreliability of the Christian Bible
The Gospel of Matthew 2:13-18 tells the account of Herod's slaughter of the innocents in an attempt to hopefully kill the child Jesus in the slaughter. There is, however, not one contemperaneous account of this event outside the Bible, not one from the time when it happened, Josephus decades later made no mention of it, though Antiquities of the Jews mentioned Jesus, now recognized to be a spurious interpolation added long after Antiquities was written. Seutonius didn't make mention of it, neither did Tacitus.
Why might this be ? Why is this account found in the Bible alone, and no one else makes mention of it ? Could it likely be that the slaughter of the innocents simply never happened, that some unknown redactor interposed that into the story of Jesus decades after Matthew was originally composed. Maybe even as much as three to four centuries after Matthew was penned.
Archaeologists digging in the Sinai Peninsula have dug deep enough to find hunter gatherer tools and weapons, but have been unable to find any trace of any Hebrew encampments in the Biblical desert wilderness, they have found no traces wherever they have looked in Sinai. Jericho was not an inhabited city when Israel would have come to it. It was destroyed hundreds of years earlier. Archaeologists find no evidence that the Hebrew kingdoms of David and Solomon ever existed.
There are no traces of a Hebrew presence in Egypt. And if you look for evidence of Noah's global deluge in the earth's strata you won't find it. The geolgic column is properly ordered and not jumbled and mixed as they would be if there had been a catastrophic global flood. The geologic column is a geologic record of the progression of life from simple to complex. The Christian Bible is just not reliable.
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"Brainwashed religious people can just ignore this. They just use the excuse that we can't know all of gawd's ways. Cognitive dissonance. Or, just stubbornly clinging to anything so they don't have to give up their "beliefs."
One of my books talks a lot about what you say. Christians and Muslims claim that God is incomprehensible to us, so we cannot understand his ways. The book shows how that makes no sense and makes God's existence untenable.
Indeed - Not everything in the religious texts is made up, just most of it. The bits that aren't are usually garbled references to things that actually did happen. I think that the flood legend is an embellishment of the lingering folk memory of the raising of sea levels immediately after the last ice age. The Plagues of Egypt story is, I believe, a record of events in the eastern meditteranean following the Santorini eruption, written centuries after the event, with the required embellishments neccessary to turn this into a story of something brought on by God.
I have studied the teachings of Jesus (Biblical) in-depth, referring to more ancient koine greek texts as well as modern re-tellings of a most dissimmilar story about Jesus' teachings, and I am of the firm conclusion that Jesus was not a Jew and he didn't believe in the existence of the Jewish God. In fact, his mission was to discredit that same God. But the texts were changed. As word gets out about the original story, Christian groups are creating new dictionaries to spread lies on line. In fact, the newest Bible (NIV) actually changed the name of Jesus to account for the fact that the original gospel says that in the balcony scene, bar abba rather than Barabbas was released unharmed. (Bar abba is a term rather than the name Barabbas that didn't come into existence until the 3rd century) So now, Jesus' name is Jesus Barabbas even though there is no mention of the name Barabbas until hundreds of years later.
I actually did the math for Noah's flood. For the story to be true, it would have to have been raining harder than is physically possible. In other words, there would have to be more water per cubic foot than will fit in a cubic foot of water. If that were the case, the ark, with its windows, would have been instantly under water. If the flood was salt water, all fresh water life would have gone extinct. If it was raining fresh water, then ocean life would have become extinct. If the globe was a world of water, its gravity would have been increased to the point where things would have been drawn to the center of the earth, and the weight of all that water would have crushed every living thing to the point where no skeletal remains would be found.
So far, all researchers looking at the exodus have concluded that it didn't occur. Not only is there no evidence of the Jewish slaves in Egypt, but there is evidence that there was never a mass exodus of slaves. There was no reduction in crop output of taxes paid, as there would have been if the massive slave population was suddenly gone. There have been settlements found in the ancient land of Canaan. These pre-date the exodus and appear to be the remains of the ancient Jews because certain settlements did not have any pork bones whereas others did.
One day, while thinking about the first chapter of Genesis, I realized that it sounded more like geometry told in the language of myth. So I pulled out my trusty compass and a straight edge and started following what sounded like instructions. I'm pretty sure that I found the original schematic for the great Pyramid at Giza. All the rooms and pathways line up perfectly. The rendering explained the boats. The story being theorized about the "king's chamber" and the "queen's chamber" with its 3 balls is suddenly seen in a very different light.
The story of genesis is a story of a multi-dimensional world laid out in a language. The story itself is multidimensional in nature, and it tells of photons, bosuns, fermions, matter and antimatter, relativity and the speed of light, evolution, and much more. It shows time as being very different from what we understand today - being something that goes forward and backwards. There was a part that I couldn't translate because I don't know of any science that compares with it, but there is a discovery of a patch of antimatter in space that may account for it. It's really the story of what we are - and it is not at all about a God. It's a story about an idea of magnificent proportions. It think it's the story of the singularity as a sentient being that became a super-positioned living relationship (powerless unto itself except as a communication device) among its various aspects who derive their own power from it. I call it living energy. New science calls it the energy field, the morphic field, the unified field and other names.
I feel sorry for the Christians who are afraid to think and ask themselves questions for fear of going to hell for merely asking or thinking.
What you have to say is interesting to say the least. But where did you come up with these ideas ? Also, are you some kind of mathematician ?
That's a L-O-N-G story, but I'll give you snippets.
I learned about Jesus in an attempt to be a better Christian - that eventually led me to be a spiritual atheist. ( http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/i-became-an-ex-xtian-as-a-... )
During that time, I learned that bar abba (bar-abba in Koine Greek) is a term meaning something like "son of papa" or "son of dada". There is absolutely no reverential connotations whatsoever. (bar = son and abba = papa). The one called bar abba was released.
The abba that Jesus talked about, and that he said is the source of our power, is so loving that no matter what you ask for, if you believe it is here now, then it is provided. Ask and it shall be answered. Ask for (in this way) and it shall be given. This would make the more appropriate ancient to modern English translation into abba is a "sugar daddy".
I also learned that Jesus didn't speak of repenting. He spoke of Metanoeo and Metamellamai which mean "change your way of thinking" and "change your way of emoting" respectively.
He didn't speak of sin. He spoke of hamartia - meaning spiritual ignorance causing harm - to self or others.
He didn't speak of Hell. He spoke of Gehenna - the garbage dump outside of Jerusalem's gates, where those with the most wretched of lives eek out a miserable existence.
So if your life is wretched, you need only overcome your hamartia through Metanoeo and Metamellamai. Believe these words (believe in me), he said, and you can have all that you desire. You will also find the kingdom of heaven from whence all and more comes. the kingdom of heaven is within you (which I take to mean consciousness).
The flood part began with someone telling me they had done the math and computed the volume of the earth if water levels raised to cover to top of Mt. Everest, arriving at the rain rat of 9 meters per hour. From that, it wasn't hard to find a web site talking about the volume of raindrop in a torrential downpour to see that even if there were mere raindrops, they would exceed the boundaries of a square meter of water. The rest of the ideas came after I did the computations and realized the sheer lunacy of the ideas.
As to Genesis 1 being told in the language of geometry laid bare by a story, that simply came to me one day.
I was intrigued when, on the 3rd day, I had drawn a tree (6 pointed star with a stem) along with grasses (long straight lines) and herbs (intersections of those lines) forming crooked lines.
I did get stuck on the 4th day until I looked up how to use a compass and straight edge to create a perfect pentagram, (5th day) and the instructions required me to draw what had already been drawn as the 4th day, and then to extend the 4th day so that the rendering matched what I was supposed to see on the 4th day. (Two lights - the greater and the lesser - and a field of stars appeared on my paper. Another circle was between the light with a star in it (the sun) and the lesser light - the circle with no star in it). At that point, and I don't remember how I got there, I realized that the first three days are time going forward, and the last three days are time going backward, because the 6th day had to eventually be created before I could place the 5th day in the proper position)
It's not that I'm a mathematician. It's that I'm an avid life-long learner. I will learn anything that interests me. I will spend as much time as it takes to understand even a minor curiosity. This frame of mind has sent me on a journey that is extremely fascinating. My hope for humankind is that everyone will someday discover the joys of learning. Only when willful ignorance leaves this world will we be able to make the necessary change that will end all of humanity's social ills in far shorter order than most would anticipate.
you sound more like a mystic than anything, perhaps neither a theist nor an atheist, nor an agnostic. In fact, you sound a little like a gnostic. I don't mean any of this in a bad or derogatory way. But to be honest I just don't agree with your view, and that's not a bad thing either, as everyone is different and unique. As for me, I am a pure materialistic atheist. I don't believe in anything beyond matter (which, of course, is energy in another form as implied by the first law of thermodynamics). I possess no belief in any spiritual reality, nothing that contradicts or goes beyond the laws of physics. But I find you a likable person, and you are quite welcomed as a member of Atheist Nexus as far as I'm concerned.
Well, thank you. And I have no objection to your materialistic view of reality. I'm just happy to have found a group of sane people who dare to use their minds - wherever their minds lead them. Where there is something to learn, I am happy to be in the presence of interesting ideas.
Nova's "The Bibles Buried Secrets" is excellent but apparently not well received by some Jews and Christians
because it questions the verasity of their holy book.
For reasons that escape me some people are just more deep thinkers than other people. When it comes to religion many deep thinkers are able to free themselves from the shackles of the delusion that is religion. You are one of those deep thinkers, and you must realize that faith is the antithesis of reason. Faith is believing even in the face of overwhelming evidence against the propositions of faith. The word delusion is defined as: In psychology, a rigid system of beliefs with which a person is preoccupied and to which the person firmly holds, despite the logical absurdity of the beliefs and a lack of supporting evidence.
To quote Michael Specter: "People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free".
Some believers just cannot be freed from their religious dogmas. I've met many who, even in the face of every disaster or setback, refuse to see that the argument from evil is one of the strongest proofs against the existence of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. They've taken the position of Job in the Bible: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him." Job 13:15 KJV. Nothing will sway these kind of believers. The best we, as atheists can do in such cases, is plant seeds in their minds and hope somehow they will eventually take root.
Most believers are harmless, but there are those who are violently fanatical, and it is for this reason we must keep up the good fight using the only weapon we have...rationality and reason.
"Not even the truth will set them free"
Are you listening American Atheists? I think we've found your next billboard. Harsh? Sure, but why not?
I'm on a roll here. I might as well continue to hijack this thread.
I heard a brilliant line in a horrid movie (Goonies) that my kids were watching the other night.
"Brand, God put that rock there for a purpose... and, um... I'm not so sure you should, um... move it..."
Take my wife...please.
I'll be here every night this week, next week, until the rapture.
"I'll be here every night this week, next week, until the rapture."
I'm a little confused. Are you an atheist being facetious, or are you a theist being serious ?
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Some of the big stories this week included Steve Ballmer saying Android isn't free, Bruce Byfield talks about Ubuntu's real contribution to FOSS, Google makes aggressive counterclaims in the Oracle suit, Glyn Moody asks; Is Microsoft running out of steam? and last but not least Scott Charney, a Microsoft VP says that infected PCs should be banned from the internet. You have to read it to believe it. Enjoy!
Fork You, Oracle!: The open source community viscerally reacts to Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Well it finally happened, as we all knew it would. Oracle bought Sun and promptly pissed off a lot of people with its heavy-handed ways. Anybody who has followed Oracle's past antics shouldn't be surprised by its behavior since acquiring OpenOffice, nor the reaction from the open source community which can be simply summed up as follows:Ballmer: Android ain't free. Microsoft gets paid.: On the back of the news that Microsoft (MSFT) is suing Motorola (MOT) for patent infringments related to Android, Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal that HTC is paying a license fee for its use of Android…and that other Android manufactures may be forced to do the same.
The OpenOffice fork is officially here: It's not that Oracle wishes ill of The Document Foundation and its take on OpenOffice, LibreOffice. Oracle just isn't going to be having anything to do with it. When The Document Foundation released the beta of LibreOffice, the group wanted to speed up the rate of changes to the notoriously slow OpenOffice office suite software project and make significant improvements to OpenOffice, such as adding Microsoft OpenXML format compatibility to the program. This suggestion received support from all the major open-source and Linux powers: Red Hat, Novell, and Ubuntu. Even Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced that they'd place LibreOffice in next spring's update of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu's Real Contribution to Free Software: Reactions to Ubuntu are rarely balanced. Too often, people love or hate it so extravagantly that the opinions negate themselves. Often, the reactions are so extreme that a fair assessment of the popular distribution is difficult. Add some genuine mis-steps, and the assessment seems almost impossible. So exactly what does Ubuntu contribute to free software? The answer, I think, is different from what those in either extreme seem to believe.
Google Answers Oracle, Counterclaims, and Moves to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Claim: Google has filed its Answer with Counterclaims to Oracle's patent and copyright infringement complaint, and how! It's a very aggressive and confident response to Oracle's complaint. Google asks that Oracle's complaint be dismissed, for a judgment in favor of all its counterclaims, for a declaratory judgment that Google has not infringed or contributed to any infringement of any of the patents, a declaration of the invalidity of all the Oracle patents, and a declaration that all Oracle's claims are barred by laches, equitable estoppel and/or waiver, and unclean hands. It wants Oracle to have to pays its costs and expenses of this litigation, including Google's attorneys' fees and expert witness fees, asking for a judgment that this is an exceptional case warranting it.
Is Microsoft running out of steam?: People forget that the central purpose of patents is to encourage real innovation, not simply reward people for being the first to file for even obvious ideas with over-stretched patent offices that set incredibly low bars. The world of patents has become perverted in recent years: patents are seen as valuable things in themselves – the more the merrier – irrespective of whether they do, truly, promote innovation. Worse: in the world of software, they are actually brakes on that innovation, particularly as they begin to interact and form impenetrable patent thickets.
One Billion Dollars! Wait… I Mean One Billion Files!!!: The world is awash in data. This fact is putting more and more pressure on file systems to efficiently scale to handle increasingly large amounts of data. Recently, Ric Wheeler from Redhat experimented with putting 1 Billion files in a single file system to understand what problems/issues the Linux community might face in the future. Let's see what happened…
Whither the weather? Linux CLI solutions: Command line weather app is example of why the cli is good. The command line is a great place to get weather information. Here, I discuss one cli-app for current conditions and forecasts, in the larger context of why you would ever want to use the command line anyway. There are several ways to use your computer to check the weather. One is to use the Nakob Weather Rock method. Suspend the computer using a rope from a tripod of sticks. If the computer is swaying, that means it is windy. If the computer is wet, that means it is raining.
Mozilla upsets net world order with Bing on Firefox: The Firefox 4 search toolbar will offer Microsoft Bing as an alternative to Google, as Mozilla takes another step towards its traditional nemesis — and apparently hedges its bets against its traditional sugar daddy. As Mozilla announced this morning with a blog post, the latest English-language version of Mozilla's open source browser — due for release in November — will retain Google as the default search engine. But for the first time, Bing will be listed in the pull-down that lets you change the default. Google will be first on the menu. Yahoo! — now powered by Bing — will be second. And Bing will be third.
Are there too Many Consortia?: Companies that participate in hundreds of standard setting organizations (SSOs) often bemoan the continuing launch of more and more such organizations. Why, they are wont to ask, are so many new ones being formed all the time? And indeed, the aggregate participation costs for such companies in terms of membership dues and personnel are very high.
Sick PCs should be banned from the net says Microsoft: Virus-infected computers that pose a risk to other PCs should be blocked from the net, a senior researcher at software giant Microsoft suggests.


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Once again, Hucci is participating in the monthly event called Collabor88. Just in time for the deep, cold days of winter, Eboni Khan brings you the unrigged, modify mesh Vail Boot. At just 88L each, you can buy more than one pair! Pick your boot in either white or black fur, then decide on twelve boot colors such as midnight, pink flambe, winter white, or blue chill. Being cold has never been this fashionable.
Collabor88 is usually very laggy in the first few days of the new collection (it opens the 8th of every month). I would suggest waiting a day or two for the crowds to die down. Luckily you have the whole month to check out the event. In the meantime, you can demo these boots on the marketplace by visiting the Hucci store.
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