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After a late afternoon opening to the general public on Thursday, the New York Comic Con kicked into high gear today with panels, announcements and the usual con craziness we've come to expect from big shows. Here's a round-up of comic-related news and announcements coming out of Friday. If you missed anything from Thursday, I've also got your back. I'd also point you to Brigid Alverson's rundown of the ICv2 sessions before NYCC that go deep on comic sales in 2011 and 2012 thus far, if you're into that.
• Keith Giffen returns to the stars next year with Threshold, a new DC Comics series that features Blue Beetle, Space Ranger, Star Hawkins, the original Starfire and other space heroes, with a Larfleeze back-up. Giffen also seemingly confirmed that the current Blue Beetle series is coming to an end.
• Vertigo announced several new projects today, including The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy, Trillium by Jeff Lemire and an Unwrtten/Fables event that will see the Unwritten characters wander into the Fables comic. Snyder said that American Vampire will go on hiatus after issue #34 so he and artist Rafael Albuquerque can catch up on it. When it returns, it'll jump ahead to the 1960s.
• Marvel is offering a free Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite Comic -- set in the world of the Disney XD animated series -- all weekend long on their mobile app. The story by Matt Kindt and Ramon Bachs stars the wall crawler and New York's Mayor Bloomberg. After Sunday it'll cost $1.99. Speaking of Marvel's digital plans, David Gabriel, vice president of sales, said that the company has given over $200,000 back to retailers for codes redeemed from print comics, and the kickback will continue through the launch of Marvel NOW! Also, Marvel and comiXology have developed a pre-order system for the Marvel webstore and comiXology website, allowing fans to pre-order digital comics.
In non-digital Marvel news, Peter David is approaching his 100th issue of X-Factor which will launch a storyline that he's been teasing for the last 15 years called "The Hell On Earth War." "All the various Hell lords have been waiting for this moment … the birth of the seven billionth human," said David. "This is going to be about a six issue storyline that is going to bring to culmination a number of story points that I've been teasing and dangling over the past few issue. And yet, I'm going to walk the razor thin line of making this accessible to new readers. By the end of the Hell on Earth War, basically every character in the Marvel Universe is going to be gunning for X-Factor."
• The Oni Press panel today brought a bunch of news. Joe Harris and Adam Pollina are re-teaming for a new over-sized graphic novel titled Wars in Toyland, a darker riff on the classic Babes in Toyland story. Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun is getting a spinoff miniseries co-written by Bunn and Hurtt, and drawn by Brian Churilla. And in January, Oni will turn their website into a webcomics portal, with plans to launch new webcomics from Jamie S. Rich and Natalie Nourigat; Ananth Panagariya and Tessa Stone; Chris Sims, Chad Bowers and Scott Kowalchuk; and Wook-Jin Clark in the first half of the year.
• Matt Wagner will tell the "definitive" origin story of the Shadow in Dynamite's The Shadow Year One. "For all his published history in both the pulps and comics, as well as his radio adventures, there's surprisingly no depiction of his very first adventures as the dark-clad Master of Men," Wagner said in the press release. "This series will explore the events that first drew Kent Allard/Lamont Cranston back to the States, how he began to assemble his vast network of agents and how he first adopted the famous black hat and cloak as his alter-ego's disguise-secrets that, up until now…only The Shadow knew!" Look for it next year.
• Andy Diggle will write the third arc of the Image/Skybound title Thief of Thieves.
• Nathan Edmondson and Marc Laming are working on a new graphic novel based on Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell video games.
• Dark Horse will publish a comic tie-in for the upcoming video game The Last of Us. They also have another Dragon Age miniseries in the works that continues the story of King Alistair, Isabela and Varric's search for the once-thought-dead King Maric. The company also has another Emily the Strange book in the works, and has plans to add the various Aliens, Predator and AVP series it has done to their digital comics app.
• Valiant's panel was also held today, and while I haven't seen a report, I know it included news about Harbinger #0 and probably some talk about the Shadowman movie being written by J. Michael Straczynski. I also understand that the classic Quantum and Woody will be released digitally at the end of October.


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Classroom Observations: Digital data observations in the palm of your hand!
TICAL cadre member Kevin Silberberg discusses current tools used for collecting data during classroom observations and how a handheld computer can transform this important activity.
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Using Twitter to Highlight Classroom Effectiveness
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interdependent SYSTEMS
Understanding the link between infrastructure, local action and a regional response
Our team's systems perspective on the dynamic nature of the Bay, and the interdependence between infrastructure, local action and a regional response is based on the research and insightful analysis of Mark Stacey. A key advisor to our team and expert in Bay Area resiliency, Mark Stacey is the Lawrence E. Peirano Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. Mark's decades of research, and current focus on Bay Area dynamics, demonstrates how this interdependence can have larger effects on the region. Mark's expertise and valuable insight can lead our inter-disciplinary team to identify thoughtful and effective solutions.
Local interventions with larger impact can be achieved many ways. For example, the improvement of the health and stability of the Bay ecosystem can have reverberating results and will be critically examined. We can also learn to change the community's connection with the Bay through outreach and education to shift the culture around the evolving intersection of land, water and people. Rather than a futile attempt to stop sea level rise and other resiliency threats, we favor an interdependent approach where interventions work within the existing systems. We can also have lasting effects by making key assets of the region's infrastructure more resilient and protecting vulnerable communities currently at the greatest risk. Vulnerability mapping will be multi-disciplinary and entail compilation of the most detailed, recent data on elevations, at-risk civil infrastructure, seismic zones, demographic clustering and at-risk communities.


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A new page in history
14 December 2017The popular Chester History and Heritage service is preparing to move house. The local and family history service has been based at St Michael's Church in Bridge Street for a number of years but is moving in January to the Grosvenor Museum.
Chester History and Heritage will be closing for Christmas from 15 December until the 2 January. The centre will then close week beginning 12 January as staff and volunteers start the move to the Grosvenor Museum. They aim to re-open to the public early in the spring. They will be posting to their popular Facebook page and answering emails while they are closed.
Councillor Louise Gittins, Cabinet Member, Communities and Wellbeing said: "Chester History and Heritage provides a fascinating service both looking after and sharing our history. When the team re-opens in the Museum they will continue to offer all of the previous services but look forward to seeing many new users. The Museum welcomes over 80,000 visitors a year providing a far larger audience for Chester History and Heritage.
"The team are keen to widen their reach and find ways to improve access that could include bringing the service into different buildings and sharing their exhibitions with more locations across Chester. They will be consulting with service users to help to develop the future look and feel of the service to ensure all of the most valued resources are maintained and new ideas explored."
Without the constraints of managing St Michael's Church, the move will give the team more time to work on additional projects; they already work closely with Chester Civic Trust, volunteers and owners of many historic buildings on the Heritage Festival, and the annual Heritage Open Days.
Added Councillor Gittins: "As the Heritage service moves out of St Michael's I'm very excited to confirm that following a short closure the building will re-open with a brand new history attraction run by Chester based Community Interest Company, Big Heritage. Details about this new attraction will be revealed by Big Heritage very soon.
"The Council will retain ownership of St Michael's that will benefit from their new investment. The surplus generated by the attraction will be reinvested in the attraction and activities which engage people in Chester and the surrounding area."
The Chester Heritage and Visual Arts Strategy, identifies Chester's unique built heritage as the city's greatest asset, 'the city as the stage' helping to animate the City to bring it to life.
Big Heritage's Dean Paton said: "We are really excited to be bringing a cutting-edge new attraction to Chester that will push the boundaries of engaging people with the past. It will combine some incredible digital technology with historical archives and artifacts to present the story of Chester in a whole new light.
"We intend to invest close to £1m in the project over the next 18 months, and believe our offer will be become a 'must see' for both visitors and local residents alike. We will also continue to run a visitor experience at the Water Tower on the City Walls, which will see additional reinvestment from the Big Heritage team."


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This is it! The final day of Stampin' Up! Sale-a-Bration!! I hope you have enjoyed it - I sure have. Personally I have been really creative - planning ahead for this year's craft fairs, family and friends birthdays and other special events.
Stampin' Up! have offered some awesome free products this year, which I have been highlighting recently on my blog. They also offer a great opportunity to join with a fabulous offer, which you can read more about by clicking here.
BUT remember all this ends TONIGHT!!
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So today I here with a round up of all my projects created using some the Sale-a-Bration free goodies ~
Which one is your favourite, I'd love to hear?
I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all my customers that have shopped with me during Sale-a-bration and have benefited from these awesome goodies and to those of you who joined my team :)
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Suphas Street Food, Plymouth
Suphas Street Food
Unit 1,
Easy Quay House
Sutton Harbour PL4 0HX
Tel: 01752 228513
Street food dining and a brilliant new addition to eating out in Plymouth.
Thai, Malay, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnamese dishes enjoyed in funky cool and colourful surroundings with stunning marina views and a no nosense great value lunch menu.
Great use of fresh and local food, open to view kitchen and a deli counter from which to choose your fresh fish!
A smash hit since opening so come along, drink in the views and enjoy this little piece of Asia!!
Spot on.
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60 inside. 60 outside.
Best Seats:
Window seats with the view. Sit on the terrace in high season for fantastic al fresco dinning.
Wine List:
Choice of Beers, Wines and Spirits.
Price Range:
Lunch menu from £5.00 Mains from £7.95 - £15.00.
Menu Summary:
Thai, Malay, Vietnamese and Laos Dishes from South East Asia.
Vegetarian Options:
Plenty of healthy Veggie and Gluten Free Dishes all cooked before your eyes!
Sample Dish:
Suphas is serving up seasonal produce and sharing fresh food with street-food style cooking and strong Asian influences including Thai cuisine as well as dishes from Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.


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Tue, 15 November 2016
The exposure of fabricated numbers in published papers by eagle-eyed readers has been due to sporadic serendipity. I am going to describe a semi-automated method that you can take away with you to do some sleuthing. I am going to describe what I found when I analysed over 4500 papers.
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They are words you never thought you'd hear from the president of the world's largest diet company. "Calorie counting has become unhelpful," David Kirchhoff said recently on the Weight Watchers International website. "When we have a 100-calorie apple in one hand and a 100-calorie pack of cookies in the other, and we view them as being 'the same' because the calories are the same, it says everything that needs to be said about the limitations of just using calories in guiding food choices."
With that, he and his $2.7 billion weight-loss empire deep-sixed the company's popular Points system, which since 1997 had helped millions of dieters (1.3 million in 2009 alone) lose weight by eating whatever they wanted as long as they kept portions under control. The new system still leaves room for some sin food but penalizes fat and empty calories as it tries to steer dieters toward more natural, less processed food.
It's an interesting move given that the 48-year-old company makes a lot of money selling dieters its double-chocolate muffins, mini-cheeseburgers and other snacks. The radical overhaul, which is the first major alteration to the Points program, comes at a time when Weight Watchers is trying to revive its recession-battered business. Because most members have to pay about $40 a month to go to group-support meetings and use online tools, attendance worldwide was down 7% in the first three quarters of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. "Given the choice between losing 10 pounds or paying the rent, the latter wins every time," says JPMorgan analyst Ken Goldman.
He's still neutral on Weight Watchers, but the guys at Bank of America are getting sweet on it again, largely because they think the new plan is a winner. (The ubiquitous commercials with supersvelte spokeswoman Jennifer Hudson don't hurt either.) The shift to the PointsPlus system means many longtime participants will buy new cookbooks, food scales and calculators. Plus, lapsed members like me are suddenly coming back to meetings so we can figure out how the new program works.
In December I attended my first Weight Watchers meeting in a long time. (I got down to 127 lb. (58 kg) in 2004, but several pounds had recently crept back on.) What I found there was both familiar and very different. Like the old program, the new one assigns a point value to pretty much every food item under the sun and calculates a daily ration of points based on a member's height, weight and age. But most of the point values have changed. The system now favors foods that are high in protein or fiber, which make the body work harder to convert them into energy and also leave the belly feeling fuller longer. Meanwhile, point values went up for foods loaded with carbohydrates, which are more easily absorbed by the body and turned into fat.
These changes make sense, except that not all carbs are treated equally: fructose-laden fruit and all but the starchiest vegetables have zero points under the new plan. At the meeting, some veteran dieters expressed apprehension about this. A banana used to be something you treasured, a 2-point treat, and now you could eat the whole bunch with impunity? The group leader, a friendly Australian named Murray who had lost 35 lb. (16 kg) through Weight Watchers, politely pointed out that moderation was still in order. Still, he didn't seem overly concerned. "We're not here because we ate too many fruits and veggies," he said wryly.
Marion Nestle, a high-profile professor of nutrition at New York University, agrees. "It's pretty hard to overeat things that have so much water in them and so few calories," she says. "I'm sure it can be done, but you'd have to be eating all day long." But Jennifer Andrus, an experienced dietitian whom I had consulted during my own weight-loss odyssey, is less blasé about the new fruit-is-free rule. "Unless the science has changed, a calorie is still a calorie," she says. "I think that people are going to have less dramatic results with this plan."
At a Weight Watchers meeting I attended on Jan. 2, a long line snaked out the door, filled no doubt with resolution makers. As a different group leader Josh, who had lost 170 lb. (77 kg) explained the new program in detail, I watched a young woman near me down a banana and a clementine. Later, as I read the Weight Watchers message boards, I wondered whether Andrus might be right. An Ohio woman lamented on the site that her healthy snacks (popcorn, Fiber One bars, etc.) use up more precious points than they used to. "I then resort to eating fruit and veggies since they're such a bargain, and I know that's the whole point, but then I get bored," she confessed. "The next thing I know I'm at the vending machine at work, furiously stuffing in my dollar and speed-dialing the number for pizza-flavored Combos."
I knew that temptation all too well: my extra pounds were the result of too much noshing at the office. But the new Weight Watchers program worked for me. Within a month, I was back down to a trim size 6. Yet I must admit that I'm still a little fruit-shy, limiting myself to no more than a couple of pieces a day. And zero trips to the vending machine.
This article originally appeared in the Jan. 24, 2011 issue of TIME.


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kolibro (hummingbird)
An introductory choral program for very young singers in Kindergarten and Grade 1 that focuses on tone matching, hand signs, rhythmic puzzles, listening games, creativity and singing games that are simple and fun. Rehearsals are held weekly and there is a performance at the end of the year.
No vocal assessment required. Classes are divided by age and experience - please contact the HCC Choir Office for more information here.
Eta: Saturday, 9-9:45AM, 10-10:45AM, or Wednesday, 6:15-7:15PM
Juna: Saturday, 11-12noon, or Monday 6:15-7:15PM
Kantisto: Tuesday, 6:15-7:15PM
Hillfield Strathallan College
299 Fennell Ave. W.
Hamilton, ON, L9C 1G3
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Grace Group
Grace Group
For carers that have recently lost the person they care for, or their cared for goes into residential care.
Many Carers find themselves alone after their caring ends. Grace Group offers the chance to meet others in a similar situation, make new friends and find a new path in life.
Last Wednesday of the month (not December) 10.30am – 12.30pm
Cosy Club, Royal Buildings, Victoria Street, Derby DE1 1ES
Contact: Derby Carers Hub on 01332 200002 for more information.


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Amid the swooning for the new Democratic president, the Right-wing presenter has emerged as an unofficial leader of the opposition, filling a vacuum exposed by Mr Obama's handsome electoral victory.
His fiery admonitions to the Republican leadership for failing to speak out against Mr Obama's $820 billion (£569 billion) economic rescue plan are credited with galvanising Congressional leaders into finding the gumption to lead a unanimous vote against the bill earlier this week.
At a meeting before the vote, Mr Obama warned Republican leaders: "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." It was part of his appeal to reject the divisive politics of old and achieve a more civil tone in Washington.
Mr Limbaugh, whose diatribes draw a weekly audience estimated at 20 million, responded with typical immodesty but with some accuracy that Mr Obama is "obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell [the Republican Senate leader]. He's more frightened of me than he is of, say, John Boehner [the Republican house of representatives leader], which doesn't say much about our party."
Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair columnist and founder of the newser.com blog, said: "Rush corralled them like sheep into a corner.
"He challenged their manhood and Obama challenged their manhood. It is the ultimate rock and a hard place."
An alliance of Democratic groups and trade unions are now endeavouring to make that awkward space even tighter, by placing advertisements in the states of seven senators whose constituents are suffering most from the economic turmoil. They are urging the senators to reject Limbaugh's anti-Obama posture.
"These radio ads are designed to put Republican Senators on notice: the public expects them to represent their interests not the interests of Rush Limbaugh," said Brad Woodhouse, spokesman for Americans United for Change.
"In November, voters made clear they want change in the way Washington works and a new direction for our economy - not the failed policies of the past or the divisive politics of Rush Limbaugh."
Republicans are aware that opposing the bill risks alienating an electorate that is desperate for help with the economy and which has heavily rejected the party in recent polls.
As senior members gathered to elect a new party chairman, Mr McConnell warned that the party was in danger of becoming a regional party - of the South.
"We're all concerned about the fact that the very wealthy and the very poor, the most and least educated, and a majority of minority voters, seem to have more or less stopped paying attention to us," said the Kentucky Republican.
Limbaugh will not be short of advice.


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This week we are in Palestine for an in-depth interview with those who have been creating debating in Palestine as well as working with the team that attended this year's WSDC in Singapore. We will talk to headmaster George Naber, coach and teacher Daisy Giacaman as well as team members Vanessa Abukova, George Khalilieh, Nora Marzouqa and Dana Eiwaiwi. Hear about their experience, how it has changed them and their hopes for how it will change Palestine.
After that, we will have a brief chat with Netherlands WSDC debate organizer Roel Becker about his work the the way this excellent team is organized.
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Members of the 3799 Aboriginal Advocacy Committee organized a tent at the Fort George Park on Friday, June 21, National Aboriginal Day. We had a great day at the Park, great weather and it was very busy! I believe that in participating in such activities we help to build a good reputation for CUPE in the community and of course for generously giving out fruit, balloons and goodies for the kids. Everyone is always appreciative.
A special thank you to Bethany Haffner, Rheanna Robinson and Kathy Shaw for helping out at the tent and making this a successful day!
Vaunda Dumont,
On behalf of the CUPE 3799 Aboriginal Advocacy Ctte.
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Elie Wiesel | 31.08.2016
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel, the Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, died July 2 this year, 2016. He was the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. To remember his extraordinary character and to honour his legacy JCR republishes his speech, given on June 5, 2009, when he visited together with US President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, where his father once was murdered.
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David N. Saperstein, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom | 31.08.2016
Special Briefing, Washington, DC, August 10, 2016.
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Ron Kronish | 01.06.2016
Why don't most Jews who come to visit or study in Israel meet local Christians or Muslims or visit their holy sites or educational institutions when they are here? Why do they persist in seeing only "Jewish " Israel, and ignore so much more that Israel has to offer in its cultural and religious landscape?
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Ron Kronish | 30.04.2016
Recently, one of my friends sent me an email, saying that his daughter just returned from a high school study tour to Poland and was shocked by the overly nationalistic messages that were propagated during that trip.
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Philip A. Cunningham | 31.03.2016
Dear Members of the ICCJ Family, The year 2016 presents the somewhat unusual situation of almost a month interposing itself between the Christian celebration of Pascha/Easter (in the West on March 27) and the Jewish commemoration of Pesach (April 22).
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Ron Kronish | 01.03.2016
At recent conferences in Toronto, Canada (sponsored by several local groups), and in Utrecht, the Netherlands, (sponsored by the Catholic Council for Church and Judaism) I was asked to offer a response to 50 years of "The Dialogue" since Nostra Aetate, not the response of the Jewish community but just my response, as a rabbi, Jewish educator and activist who has been involved in dialogue and action for the past quarter century.
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Beate Klarsfeld | 31.01.2016
Remarks given on the occasion of the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony, Wednesday, 27 January 2016, International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
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Monsignor Janusz Urbanczyk | 31.01.2016
Statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2016) of Monsignor Janusz Urbanczyk, Permanent Representative of the Holy See at the 1086th meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, delivered on January 21, 2016.
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Clare Amos | 30.11.2015
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra Aetate, one of the shortest but conceivably among the most influential of the major documents to come out of the Second Vatican Council. Its promulgation in October 1965 was controversial, and its appearance was therefore delayed. When it was finally published, its scope had been enlarged. It was no longer a document focused solely on Judaism and Jewish-Catholic relations; it also included brief reflection on other non-Christian faiths, especially Islam.
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Ron Kronish | 01.10.2015
In synagogues all over the world, we Jews will read a very important chapter from Isaiah in a few days, on the morning of Yom Kippur, on the purpose of fasting, which reminds us quite clearly that the goal of fasting is not just the ritual itself but "to lock the fetters of wickedness, and untie the cords of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, to break off every yoke, to share your bread with the hungry, and to take the poor into your home, when you see the naked, to clothe him and not to ignore your own kin." (Isaiah 58; 6-7).
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The last shop was narrow and shabby. Peeling gold letters over the door read Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. A single wand lay on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. (The Sorcerer's Stone, 82)
Of course, we later learn there are other wand makers as well, such as when Victor Krum brags about his wand: "I vos one of the last to purchase a Gregorovich vand. They are the best - although I know, of course, that you Britons set much store by Ollivander" (The Deathly Hallows, 150).
Ollivanders is the only one in Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade that is mentioned in the books and is where most of Hogwarts students get their wands.
What a monopoly!
Considering the fact that presumably each young witch or wizard only buys one wand in their lifetime though, Hank Green brings up another great point about the pricing of wands:
Well you don't seem to have much industry
I don't understand how any business gets done
when a wand only costs seven galleons.
That doesn't seem like much to me.
Making a wand is an awful lot of work, including dangerous foraging for magical cores for the wands:
"Ah, now, this is one of mine, isn't it?" said Mr. Ollivander, with much more enthusiasm, as Cedric handed over his wand. "Yes, I remember it well. Containing a single hair from the tail of a particularly fine male unicorn...must have been seventeen hands; nearly gored me with his horn after I plucked his tail." (The Goblet of Fire, 309)
Tomorrow, a mysterious magical item will be featured on the blog: P is for Pensieve.


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A public art plan is a document that helps to guide choices about how future public art is developed and implemented. It includes research and community input to create the following:
A vision and goals for public art in the community
Examples of different types of public art projects
Suggestions for public art locations
Procedures for artist selection, design development, design review, and project management
Strategies for funding public art
Ideas for educational programs
Sample documents and policies
Laramie's public art plan will have all of these components and can be used by any public or private entity in the city and county that is interested in presenting public art. The document will be available to the public.
The Boomerang published an article about the planning process in February 2015.
How was the community involved in developing the plan?
With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wyoming Arts Council, the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, and the Laramie Beautification Committee, the City of Laramie has hired a consultant team to conduct a community-focused planning process. The team includes Renee Piechocki, Jennifer McGregor, and Laramie resident Meg Thompson. Our PSA was created to reach out to the community about the project.
Here are some of the ways community members will be involved:
Information Gathering Sessions: There will be at least three open meetings where everyone is invited to attend. During these meetings, the consultants will share examples about public art and get feedback about the types of public art that is desired in Laramie.
Pop Up Workshops: Can't sit still in meetings? No Problem. There will also hands-on activities where you can help to identify locations and provide a vision for public art.
Virtual Participation: Want to participate, but short on time? This website is a portal for members of the community to get information, learn more about public art, and give feedback and suggestions. We will also be posting surveys on the website.
Stakeholder Interviews: The consultant team will interview a cross section of members of the Laramie community to help develop the framework for the public art plan.
Committees: An advisory committee and steering committee are being developed to work closely with the consultants and provide in-depth feedback during every phase of the project.
What is the schedule for the plan?
The consultant team has developed the following schedule:
Research: December: January 2015
Community Information Gathering and Workshops: February and March 2015
Draft Plan and Pop Up Workshops: April2015
Final Draft: June 2015
Who are the consultants meeting with?
In addition to open, public meetings, there are three different groups of Laramie community members who are meeting with the consultants. These groups are a public art working group, stakeholders, and an advisory committee.
The groups include visual artists, performing artists, business owners, and representatives from the following organizations: Albany County Tourism Board, Downtown Laramie Business Alliance, the Laramie Beautification Committee, Laramie Chamber Business Alliance, City of Laramie, Laramie Main Street Alliance, University of Wyoming, Wyoming Arts Council, and others.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of Joe Rosenthal's iconic WWII photograph of six soldiers raising a flag, it was worth fourteen billion dollars in bond money, a book, and a Clint Eastwood epic. Flags of our Fathers tells the stories of the men depicted in the famous photo, and how they unwittingly became national heroes simply by raising a flag.
The film begins just as Rosenthal's photo is breathing hope into disheartened Americans everywhere, save at Iwa Jima, where the six men portrayed find little comfort only five days into battle. Within a month of the photo being taken, only three soldiers remain: Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), John "Doc" Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach), who are brought back to the U.S. hailed as the heroes of Iwa Jima. As Doc and Hayes struggle with their newfound fame, Gagnon milks the publicity for all it's worth, hoping for a future after his military career. But when the men are asked to help garner bonds to fund the war effort, the three quickly learn the true value of a hero to the US Government.
Flags of our Fathers is a powerful exploration of the creation of heroes and the way the media can manipulate a historical fact to serve a larger purpose. The problem is that Eastwood doesn't trust his audience to decipher these themes alone, and so includes corny voiceover to tell us exactly what to think. The movie becomes as obvious as screenwriter Paul Haggis' last film Crash (really, it was about racism?) and begins to drag as we see Hayes struggle with being called a hero for the fifteenth time.
While the flashes between the unforgiving war sequences and the propaganda at home make for a powerful juxtaposition, ultimately the compound structure makes character development nearly impossible. Anytime Doc or Hayes mourned one of their fallen comrades, I had to flash back several chapters just to figure out who they were talking about, which wasn't an easy task considering every single actor looks alike in uniform and the characters are only distinguished by one measly trait (Franklin is naïve, Mike is reliable etc.). The film is further broken up by vague interviews in the present between nondescript old men with Doc's son, whose identity is withheld until the third act of the film as if that's a shocker akin to the ending of The Sixth Sense. Being someone who has cried in every Disney movie, I expected an emotional hurricane in Flags, but I wound up spending more time trying to figure out who was who, rather than caring about what was happening.
Despite its flaws, the film is still very powerful thanks to an incredibly complex performance by Beach, and some especially interesting cinematography. For the battle sequences, Eastwood chose a gritty color palate that really emphasizes the stark feel of Iwa Jima, and contrasts well with the bright patriotic colors at the bond rallies. While the film could use a few more battle sequences, those present are extremely well done, rivaling scenes from Saving Private Ryan.
If nothing else, Flags of our Fathers is certainly worth seeing in order to compare it to its significantly better companion piece, Letters from Iwa Jima. Perhaps Eastwood was more successful with the Japanese perspective because he worried less about hammering a resonant political message and more about the art of filmmaking. But considering Eastwood is about two hundred years old, making a good film and then a great film back to back is still pretty impressive.
I was shocked to discover that this widescreen DVD doesn't even pretend to have special features. Instead, there are two previews before you can even get to the root menu (one for Letters from Iwa Jima, which just made me wish I had rented that instead, and one for Babel) and then... nothing!
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Notch tweeted this earlier. It's a pre-alpha video for a game called Lords of Uberdark by Aaron Bishop. The game features organically manipulated terrain, more like working clay than Minecraft's Lego style block building. It caused Notch to drool with its potential, and us too.
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- BattlefieldO report that the Battlog website is up, even though people can't use it yet.
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The Ornate Mosaics and Colorful Tiles of Parisian Floors Shared Through Photographer Sebastian Erras' Instagram Account
Photographer Sebastian Erras's Paris-based project has only one perspective—down. This vantage however, never fails to delight as it is captures the ornate mosaics of Parisian floors, brightly patterned tiles and scenes that exist underfoot. Each shot within Parisian Floors (@parisianfloors) is uniform, a cropped image of Erras's own shoes and the surrounding tile decorations. This repetitive shot ensures we keep our focus on the tiles, highlighting the exquisite forms that make their way below the photographer's feet.
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I have started GMing again, and once again it is in the Grim Darkness™ of the 41st millennium. This time we will be playing Dark Hersey instead of Rogue Trader. One of my players had a little back story for his demon world background. I thought it was neat and it got me thinking as it had a few hooks I could explore. Like why would an Inquisitor remove anyone from a demon world, and what would there life be like afterwards. I would assume the person would undergo memory blocks or manipulation to better protect the mind. So I wrote a small introductory tale to introduce the character to the other players. I liked reading the stories immensely and have decided, I will compile and chronicle the stories of this Dark Hersey game on this blog. Below is the characters background and then the introductory story I wrote for the same. I love it when characters in the game are interesting enough to inspire me to spontaneously write up some simple fiction.
Zarkov has no memories before the age of 8, when he awoke on a Black Ship headed to Holy Terra where he and many other psykers would be tested. Surviving the arduous testing and training process, he graduated from the Scholastia Psykana and was deemed fit to serve the Adeptus Astra Telepathica as a sanctioned psyker. Instead of being sent to some far away planet to serve as an astropath or serve aboard a ship as its navigator however, Zarkov was transferred to the personal retinue of a mid-ranking noble on the hive world of Scintilla. Kept more as a status symbol than for his astropathic abilities, Zarkov is more or less free to come and go as he pleases due to most people wanting nothing to do with him. This was not the first time an unusual arrangement had been organized behind the scenes in his favour, and Zarkov wonders who or what has been looking out for him. (sic)
Kozel Zarkov was having the dream again. A city burned and people screamed, the lights in the sky had gotten closer. So close they had begun to kiss the buildings of the city, and sometimes the ribbons of light even wafted down to the streets. The shadows were there stalking the fleeing citizens. Kozel Zarkov was there too but his name wasn't Kozel Zarkov. His name was... My Love. He tripped and grazed his knee his young legs unable to keep up as his tiny hand slipped from the woman's grasp. The man picked him up slinging him against his chest with one arm as the other grabbed the woman by the wrist. They ran again. Hot tears streamed down My Love's face. The woman wiped them with the sleeve of her dress as they ran.
'Don't cry My Love.'
Suddenly they stopped. They were at the house where everyone came together and sang. Many people were there the tall doors were closed and the people couldn't get in. They were hammering their fists against the doors and shouting. The woman held him now. Her warm embrace comforted him despite the hammering and the shouting.
'It's ok My Love. It's ok.'
The shadows were close again they sulked along the edge of My Love's vision he could hear sick laughter and hungry growls. Their shapes blurry and streaked like a pict that has had recaf spilled on it and wiped off. The forms smudged and the colours washed out. The shadows hungered for the crowd of people but were unable to approach. Fear washed over the crowd and the hammering intensified fists pounded the doors hard enough to crack skin, fingernails split as people tried to claw their way through. The woman held My Love tight and turned so he face away from the shadow things to the front of the song building. Above its door was the eagle shining bright, he never noticed it shining like that before despite all the times he had stared at it wondering about the heads. Why two, and why was one blind? The light intensified and he realized that the eagle was what was holding back the shadows. As the blurry shadows crept closer the brass eagle's light was incandescent like the filament of a glow globe. Until the brass was smouldering and the heat washed over the crowd. Suddenly it began to melt. Liquid fire began to drip and then run freely in streams off the surface of the sculpture. Where the molten brass touched the crowd clothing combusted and flesh evaporated into steam and smoke a crescendo of screaming ended the drumming of panicked fists against the doors.
The woman removed a wooden pendant from around her neck pressing into his tiny hands.
'Run my love. Run!'
Kozel Zarkov awoke in his champers someone was outside his door about to knock. A member of the household staff. And... An Arbitrator Enforcer. The servant was nervous she didn't want to disturb Kozel and she had never seen the grim face of an Arbitrator mirrored helmet before. The door opened without her knuckles making contact with the door.
'You can go Sarifinia.'
As the relieved girl turned and quickly retreated down the hallway Kozel Zarkov addressed the Arbitrator
'Officer. How may I serve?'
He wore the standard uniform of all Arbitrators but had the precinct medallion of the Bastion Porphyr. He unrolled a scroll as he handed it over.
'Your services are required elsewhere Senior Astropath Xiao has reassigned you'
Kozel Zarkov was a little intrigued. He normally wasn't required to perform any taxing labour. He infrequently sent messages his employer deemed urgent or sensitive enough to be sent directly to the astropathic choir at the Bastion Porphyr instead of using a courier. He knew that sending directly to the bastion was unpleasant for the choir as they strained their senses listening for whisperers that the bastion astropathic relays amplified and enhanced. His messages sent from within the same hive and not across the gulf of the universe were like a man shouting in a library. Reassigned? Xiao had the authority as the representative of the Adeptus Telepathica on Scintilla to direct Kozel's actions as he sought fit. Perhaps this was Xiao's way of punishing him. Kozel sighed.
'One moment let me get my things.'
After I emailed this around another player who is playing in the grim darkness of Games workshops far future universe for the first time also supplied his own starting fiction for his tech-priest character. I this its excellent and really captured the themes of Dark Hersey and 40k. I love the fact he researched some wikis so his story sounds authentic.
Iacomus fidgeted. Unconsciously. His broad hands rubbed against each other, knuckles were flexed and cracked, his head nodded, his short, sturdy body rocked back and forth. His mechadendrite limbs whirred and clicked in almost perpetual motion - straightening folds in his robes, twisting to view the oddities of Hive Sibellus through the tube-train windows, scratching at phantom itches in his flesh. Wretched, pitiful flesh he corrected. He breathed deeply and started reciting a litany to the Omnissiah to calm himself and caught himself enjoying the relative freshness of the air. As a native of Lathe-Hesh, he had been fitted with respirator filter implants from the moment he had left the cradle-hab, implants that were necessary to filter the miasma of toxic chemicals that permeated the atmosphere on Hesh. Of course, they could not remove the scent. Newly arrived on Scintilla, stepping from the Arvus Lighter shuttle into the passenger terminal, it was the very first thing he noticed. And so far, it was his favourite thing about the bustling hive.
His duties on Hesh had been very different from those assigned to him more recently. He had been a simple rune priest and his days were mostly spent in huge marshalling yards - operating and communing with the Chimera transports and Leman Russ Battle Tanks newly constructed and ready for deployment with Imperial Guard regiments, or sometimes performing rites of repair on damaged weaponry and armour. That changed once he met Brother Zebediah, a fellow adept who had befriended him during their acquaintance at work. Most of his colleagues left him well alone, which suited Iacomus fine since he enjoyed the solitude, but Zebediah engaged with him about his affinity for the great warmachines, his interest in obscure technologies and he seemed attentive and smiled at those moments that Iacomus let slip his excitement. Soon Iacomus learned that Zebediah was a member of an exclusive and very devout sect, The Scions of the Iron Sphere, and was invited to join them at their meetings. He had felt welcome there among his brothers. Although he had not been among them long, he came to know some of what believed. His brothers had engaged him in long and fervent discussions on the limitations of the body and the path of devotion to the Omnissiah, a gradual replacement of flesh with sacred cybernetics. He recalled the impassioned sermons, the devotion on the faces in attendance... although when tried to recall the words that had been spoken his mind was strangely blank. Peculiar. Nevertheless, he was here because the Elder Scion had given to him a great honour. He was going to be summoned to Scintilla, to the sector capital, to assist the Imperium and bring honour to the Mechanicum. It had sounded strange at the time but the next day his supervisor delivered the same news. The Mechanicus were sending a contingent of emissaries to Scintilla, to be assigned within the Adeptus Terra as required. The Lexmechanic seemed as shocked as Iacomus. "Explorator Makhana, do you know your task?" "Yes," was all he could mumble.
Before his departure there had been a great ceremony, a 'Rite of Pure Thought' the Elder Scion had called it. They had arranged for him to be fitted with wondrous and sacred technology, "to assist with the task ahead" it was explained to him. The snakelike mechadendrite limbs protruding from his spine were part of that gift. The other part ... Iacomus absently rubbed the scars on his temples as he thought of the memorance implant. He thought of the ceremony, the darkened room, the hooded faces. Strangely, his mind blanked again when he tried to recall the particulars of that night. Maybe an aftereffect of his recent surgery. "Please do keep in touch, Iacomus! We should all love to hear of your exploits." insisted the Elder Scion with a knowing smile. The gathering crowd of acolytes were all smiling too, offering their own well-wishes and prayers. He had left Hesh then, first aboard the Maccabeus Quintus, a Tarask class Merchantman carrying chemical goods from Landunder between The Lathe-Worlds and the Malfi system. Then he was transported to a Vagabond class mercantile voidship, Expedior, for the final part of a 6 month long journey to Scintilla.
The last missive received from the Mechanicum was a directive to attend at the Magistratum Precinct Fortress, Licinanus Inferior, CCLXVII by request of the Administratum of Scintilla. Spotting the chrono display above the doors of the tube-train, Iacomus realised he would have time to review the information he had compiled on his new home. And so he did, barking soft recitations of Techna Lingua from the databanks of his memorance implant and avoiding the quizzical looks of his fellow passengers as the train brought him closer to his destination.
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I get a little restless this time of year. Winter has me longing for things I can't have or do, such as: spending warm, late nights outdoors sipping iced tea while the kids play ball; leaving the house with my hair wet without freezing half to death; having a backyard full of herbs and tomatoes at my disposal. *Sigh.* That last one is the one that always gets me.
Maybe it is because I grew up in a NYC apartment that I am so in awe of things that grow. It is a wondrous thing for me to be able to open my backdoor and pluck good things to eat. It is nothing short of a miracle that the simple combo of soil-seed-water-sun can produce, well, produce.
Don't get me wrong—I love winter. It is one of my four favorite seasons. But there are things that I long for that make me stare wistfully out the back window, knowing it will be a while before anything green appears.
The grocery store tomato is in a sad state these last few months—mealy, green, and tasteless, despite its rosy red hue, probably genetically engineered to trick the buyer. But I am not fooled.
This last week I did three television segments on local news shows involving tomato products. Oh, how I wished it was summer so I could proudly use fresh tomatoes but instead I shamelessly used canned in my demo. Why? Because there is no dishonor in using canned tomatoes, especially in the winter. They are picked, processed and canned in their height of ripeness; preserved with all of their summery goodness, their flavored locked in. If I had any desire to can I would have done it myself months ago, but I am not so much of a country girl.
Instead, the freezer is my idea of a cold pantry, already filled with pesto, strawberry jam, and curry sauce, made with things so glorious in their season that I wished to hold on to the moment for as long as possible. The mason jars line my freezer shelf like a small army. Filled with my favorite pesto—made with basil I've grown and picked, spoonfuls of lovely green-tinged extra- virgin olive oil, toasted pistachio nuts, sheep's milk Italian cheese, fresh garlic, and mounds and mounds of sweet young basil leaves, all taken for a whirl in my Cuisinart, and encapsulated in jars in the freezer. Strawberries–picked by my little ones in the summer heat, mashed, sweetened, and thickened with pectin, held in jars, ruby red and gleaming, also nestled in the depths of the freezer. And a large batch of bright yellow curry sauce with vegetables, sunny-hued, and sprinkled with Penzey's Sweet Curry, given a few hours notice to defrost, waiting to be poured into a pan with sliced chicken and served over fluffy basmati rice.
But recently, I longed for tomato sauce, rich, and deep, and flavorful. There is no jarred sauce on the shelf at the store that could live up to my craving. At first I made a smaller batch using organic canned tomatoes and it was heavenly. But then it was gone.
So I greedily purchased restaurant sized tins of tomatoes, both whole and crushed, and went to town. I lugged my giant All-Clad pot up from the basement. The pot, which I save for special occasions such as soup or chili or pasta for a crowd, is always a happy sight waiting on the stove. And then I went to work.
I poured in the luscious olive oil, sautéed the onion, the garlic, the dried herbs, the crushed red pepper, just a touch, and added a generous sprinkle of kosher salt. I poured in the juicy crushed tomatoes, the bright red whole tomatoes and their juices, the tomato paste, and brought it all to a lively bubble. The transformational moment however, was when I poured in some leftover Cabernet Sauvignon, and within minutes my house smelled like my favorite Italian restaurant in Queens and I realized I discovered their sauce's secret–wine!
I happily let the concoction simmer away for an hour and a half while my windows became steamy and fog-coated, shutting out the grey day outside, and for a while, it was just me and the sauce. Stirring occasionally I began to see a change—the whole tomatoes melted into the voluptuous rosiness , the molten liquid thickened, even the sound of the bubbling changed. I started to see the world differently as a place where time travel is possible, to go back to summer, or to launch ahead, but unnecessarily so, as the present was a mighty fine place to be in too.
Letting the sauce cool and ladling it into seven quart-sized mason jars felt like I'd won the grand prize. Admiring my efforts, bright and cheery, awarding me with simple joy, jars sitting on the counter waiting for their marching orders.
Well, six, into the freezer they went, and the seventh stayed behind to be devoured that very night for dinner by the five of us spaghetti-slurpers. The rest will have to patiently wait their turn for their moment of glory at my table.
The recipe below will make a nice sized batch of sauce, but to prolong your happiness, triple the recipe and store in the freezer for long winter days to come.
Homemade Winter Tomato Sauce
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 6 cloves fresh garlic, chopped
- · 1 teaspoon each: dried oregano, basil, and marjoram
- · 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- · 1-28 ounce can whole plum tomatoes packed in juice
- · 1-28 ounce can crushed tomatoes
- · 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- · ½ cup red wine, such as Cabernet Sauvignon
- · 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt or to taste
1. In a large saucepan heat the olive oil on medium heat. Add the onion and sauté until tender and translucent but don't let it brown (lower the heat if it begins to brown). Add the garlic and cook for 2 minutes stirring often. Add the oregano, basil, majoram, and crushed red pepper, stirring to combine.
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DHEC fuel tank cleanup program falls short
The state's environmental agency has known for years that leaking fuel tanks are the culprit in 80 percent of the polluted groundwater cases across South Carolina.
But the agency consistently has failed to make cleaning up the mess a budget priority — in a state where one in four residents drinks from a well, records show.
Only once since 1997 has the state Department of Health and Environmental Control listed underground storage tank cleanups on its list of budget priorities to the S.C. Legislature. In that case, DHEC asked for only a fraction of the $40 million it needs to clean up a backlog of poisoned sites.
Just eight states have more sites awaiting cleanup, according to a 2008 federal report. South Carolina has roughly the same number of sites polluted by leaky tanks — about 3,000 — as it did in the mid-1990s.
Many of the tainted sites were contaminated by older tanks that aren't as sturdy as those installed today. They were buried years ago to dispense gasoline motorists buy at the pump. The state cleanup effort, begun in 1988, was supposed to make sure pollution didn't linger, because many gas station owners could not afford the high clean up costs.
Budget documents reviewed by The State show DHEC considered other needs, including building renovations and beach renourishment, more important priorities than cleaning up the toxic aftermath of leaking fuel tanks. The agency, for instance, sought more than $8 million for beach renourishment during the decade it failed to make tank cleanups a priority, records show.
Michael Fields, director of the S.C. Petroleum Marketers Association, said DHEC hasn't been aggressive in seeking cleanup money. His members include gas stations and convenience store owners with underground tanks.
In an October 2007 letter, DHEC told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency it would seek $8 million annually for five years from the Legislature to speed the pace of cleanups. But its official budget request that year was for $278,000 — and that was for staff, not for cleanups.
DHEC "negotiated a deal with the EPA to get $8 million and did not include" tank cleanups as a funding priority, Fields said. "That's been my biggest frustration."
DHEC Commissioner Earl Hunter defended his agency's effort. He said the state has been better at locating buried tanks than other states. Hunter said the agency has many needs to juggle when setting budget priorities.
"You have to make judgment calls of what you're going to include" on the priority list, he said.
Hunter said DHEC has focused on other budget priorities because it knew industry groups were taking up the cause with lawmakers.
But Fields said his trade group shouldn't have to go it alone in lobbying lawmakers.
Bill Truman, who oversees the EPA's tank cleanup program in the Southeast, said he believes the agency has good regulators and is making a good-faith effort to find more cash.
Still, he said, identifying the tanks is not the problem — getting polluted sites cleaned up is.
"They need a transfusion of money," Truman said.
Landowners and petroleum industry officials say something should have been done long ago to attack the backlog.
A pinhole in an underground storage tank can spill 400 gallons of fuel in a year, a 2005 Sierra Club report said.
Gasoline and other fuels often contain benzene, a cancer-causing chemical compound, as well as MTBE, a gas additive. MTBE is under increasing scrutiny for its effect on people's nervous and digestive systems.
No one knows how many people are sickened each year from bad water attributable to leaky tanks. But underground tanks have caused pollution at 3,700 of the 4,400 places in South Carolina with contaminated groundwater, according to a recent agency groundwater pollution report.
That includes a neighborhood in Richland County's Hopkins community that has suffered extensive groundwater contamination. DHEC has spent $2.3 million on cleanup since the late 1980s.
James Randolph, who raised two children in the area, said he noticed a foul odor and taste in his drinking water more than 15 years ago. He eventually chose not to drink it. By 2001, DHEC verified that an old gas station was polluting about three dozen wells in his neighborhood.
DHEC supplied filters to remove contaminants from the water. But Randolph and others say polluted water is something no one should endure. For years, the family drank bottled water but bathed with tap water.
"It is not decent enough to take a shower in," he said. "You smell something like that and you don't even want to put it on your skin."
Randolph since has run a water line from his mother's well, next door, to his home. It supplies cleaner water, he said.
In larger urban areas, which almost always draw their drinking water from lakes or rivers, leaks pose less of a health threat but complicate redevelopment and threaten property values.
A 2006 study of 70 contaminated S.C. sites showed tank pollution lowered land values by about $41 million. Each leak tainted an average 4.3 parcels of land, for an average loss of nearly $600,000, according to the Cleveland State University study.
Polluted sites "can create blighting economic dead zones," the study warned. "If the contamination has spread beyond the source site, affected properties may sit vacant for years," awaiting cleanup.
Robert Simons, the study's author, said contamination can make it difficult to buy a site.
"The bank says, 'Sure, we want to make the loan, but if we have to take the property back on foreclosure, it wouldn't be worth the (money) we loaned,'" he said.
Columbia real estate developer Travis Butler said pollution from leaky tanks wasn't the only reason he decided last year against building a retail complex at Harden and Gervais streets. But it was a factor, he said. The contamination, discovered in 1991, has spread from the corner's Exxon station to several other properties.
"I can't get a construction loan to build unless I've got a clean bill of health from DHEC," he said.
Exxon spokeswoman Prem Nair said a local distributor now owns the station but her company agreed to clean up the pollution. Work began in 2005, she said.
South Carolina's problem is both significant and long-standing.
About 75 percent of sites awaiting cleanup were discovered more than a decade ago, DHEC records show. Richland County has one of the biggest backlogs.
A 2005 Sierra Club report said the state had cleaned up 59 percent of polluted sites. The national average was 71 percent. Twenty-five to 30 percent of South Carolinians drink from public or private wells supplied by groundwater, DHEC studies show.
Squabbles with some cleanup contractors and DHEC's failure to closely monitor some of the work have contributed to the backlog. For example, some Department of Transportation maintenance yards have taken more than a decade to clean up because of disputes, records show.
But the EPA says money is the biggest issue.
DHEC officials say they have tried to get more money over the years.
The agency sent a "factsheet" to lawmakers last year that said DHEC "pursued several initiatives" that failed in the 1990s.
The State asked DHEC officials several times to elaborate and was told that DHEC had backed the failed attempt to raise the gas tax in 2007.
DHEC says it is making slow progress — but the effort isn't easy.
"The work on these sites is complex and cannot be rushed simply to meet some arbitrary deadline," Stan Clark, an assistant chief in DHEC's bureau of land and waste management division, wrote in an e-mail to The State.
Like most states, South Carolina has a state fund that pays for the bulk of the underground storage tank cleanups. The fund acts as a kind of insurance pool for gas stations and convenience stores with problem tanks.
A half-cent of the state's 16.75-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax goes into the fund.
The tax generates $17 million to $19 million annually for the fund. But the state needs at least $8 million on top of that each year for the next five years, according to the EPA.
Fields is skeptical DHEC will carry out the plan to seek $8 million annually over the next five years because of the slow economy.
Tank owners also pay a small fee to help with cleanups. But without DHEC's help to get additional money, petroleum marketers now are considering paying higher fees to clean up the backlog of polluted sites, Fields said. Fields' group is suggesting lawmakers raise the annual fees tank owners pay the state. He proposes raising the fee for each tank from $100 to $500 over five years.
The EPA, meanwhile, has launched a study to determine why South Carolina's cleanup pace is so slow. The study also is looking at 16 other states.
DHEC's handling of the backlog has irked some lawmakers who say DHEC asked them at the 11th hour last year to bail out the program before the EPA cracked down on South Carolina.
DHEC was supporting a gasoline tax increase to get the $17 million it told lawmakers it needed.
State Rep. Mac Toole couldn't believe what he was hearing. Toole said he thought the cleanup program was making progress.
"One of my issues was, 'Why was this not brought to us before?'" the Lexington County Republican said recently. "I was caught off guard and was very uncomfortable with the plan."
The effort to raise money failed, in large part because surprised lawmakers such as Toole didn't want to increase the price of gasoline for motorists.
In the past two years, however, lawmakers have allotted $9 million toward cleanups, in large part because of the Petroleum Marketers Association's lobbying. The EPA has said the state needs to commit at least twice that every year.
Lawmakers say DHEC officials should have been more forceful in describing the problem if they needed the money.
Last year, for the first time in at least 11 years, DHEC listed the tank cleanup program on its list of budget priorities for this year. That's when it asked for $278,000.
Sen. Thomas Alexander, R-Oconee, took note during a Senate finance subcommittee meeting in February. He wanted to know why tank cleanups were so low on the list — they were No. 19 of 19 items.
"It just makes it look like it's not necessarily a priority for you," Alexander told DHEC's Hunter during the hearing.
Hunter told him the agency had many needs at a time of tightening state budgets. Bigger priorities were anti-smoking programs, children's health care and laboratory upgrades, last year's budget request shows.
"We don't want to waste y'all's time, knowing that you have limited resources and have to make some tough choices," Hunter told the Senate Finance Committee panel.
Rep. Dan Cooper, R-Anderson, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, said recently that it's important for DHEC and other agencies to put their needs on official budget priority requests each year.
"If it's not on the priority list, I don't know how it would come to our attention," he said.
Reach Fretwell at (803) 771-8537. Reach Monk at (803) 771-8344.


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wiring portable generator into two house panels
Hello, Having to deal with lots of power outages of late, I've decided to purchase a portable generator and have it on hand for emergencies. I think I've got the size and wattages figured out but have questions on how to intall the wiring to the house.
My house has two electrical panels (it's kind of a big house!) One 200amp panel, one 100 amp panel. Unfortunately, I want to power up stuff on both panels during an outage.
My question is, how do I split my circuits coming in from the generator? Can I simply splice from the power inlet box? The generator has two 30A outlets on it. One 30A, 120V three prong. And one 30A, 120/240V four prong. Should I send one line to one box and one line to the other? Will this help balance the load on the generator or is that not applicable?
Any suggestions would be great!
You are going to need to install transfer switches to prevent any possible backfeed of power from the genset onto the utility lines.
It does not sound like you will be able to power much for the portable genny. Have you looked into a standby genny powered by natural gas or diesel?
Let's assume I have two transfer boxes. One for each house panel. And that I have enough power from my portable genny to get er' done!
The question still remains of how to get juice to both transfer boxes? Can I just run one cable from the generator and split into both transfer boxes? Or so I have to run two seperate cables from the outlets on the genny's panel?
There also is an alternative now available in some places called a "connection hub" that can be used in lieu of transfer switches, but it performs the same function...safety. It's connected to your existing panel through your meter.
I have this on my home (installed by my power company contractor) and you control your existing panel(s) through it and it serves the same safety purpose as transfer switches. Costs about the same or less I think.
I have a single residential 200 amp breaker panel. When I lose power and want to switch to my 5500w portable gen, I just turn off all 220v breakers (including HVAC and water heater) and it runs all of my 110v circuits through my existing panel. When I need hot water during a prolonged outage, I turn off all of my 110v breakers and turn just the water heater breaker on and run it long enough to heat up the 50 gal heater tank.
Works like a charm. It will handle up to a 12kw automatic gas-powered gen. Just something to look into. Do NOT hookup a gen to your service without protection for the line crews working to restore power.
We had two out-of-state linemen (from MS I think) killed restoring power after the last hurricane here due to some nitwit hotwiring a generator. Even if the panel main breaker is off, backfeed from a small gen can kill people.
My guess would be that you only need one transfer assembly. Is not the 100 amp panel a sub panel fed from the main 200 amp panel?
No. I don't think so. The meter has two seperate lines coming in from outside the house going to each panel.
I use something similar to this:
at my house. It is a 6 Circuit EmerGen Manual Transfer Switch connected to one box, If you know that your generator can handle the amount of Wattage that you will be pulling, I don't see why you can't connect two boxes to one generator. Just make sure that one outlet can cover the amount of wattage your one breaker box needs and the other outlet can cover your other box. Don't go over your total wattage.
The simplist way is to connect via a transfer switch,
at the point where both panels draw there power from.
But there are other issues to consider,
such as how to isolate the loads the genny cant power.
Usually they are switched out via the transfer switch.
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Last week I asked my coach if I could take this week off. I have been mentally and physically exhausted and just needed a minute to catch my breath. She only half listened to me and still had me do 2 runs this week. I shouldn't be complaining, but when I say I need some time off I need some freaking time off! Tangent over…here's what I ended up doing this week.
Tuesday: 30 minutes at 11:04 pace for 2.72 miles. I took the dogs today and it was so foggy in the aftermath of the nasty weather we had yesterday. Sweat and air moisture make for one soggy run. 15 minutes stretching / foam rolling that night.
Wednesday: Rest day! I was going to get one more run in this morning but my stomach has been acting up all last night and this morning so I decided not to chance it since I have a flight later this afternoon. Layover in Chicago equals Garrett's popcorn!!!
Thursday: Rest day! But I did walk about 6 miles around Charlotte! It was a beautiful day and I had my trusty tieks. Oh and I took this with my GoPro! Still getting the hang of how to use it but pretty cool right?!
Friday: Rest day! We got up really early and headed to Ashville to visit the Biltmore Estate and go up into the mountains. Unfortunately it was raining all day so we didnt get to go hiking but we did drive up the Blue Ridge Parkway for some pretty cool views. At the Biltmore we walked about 5 miles just seeing the gardens and house. Its a huge estate people!
Saturday: Rest day! Another early morning again this time we drove to Charleston to see the pineapple fountain, decided we didn't like the city very much then headed to a local beach where we got eaten up by bugs then drove to Myrtle beach and spent the rest of the day there. Wow that's a lot of driving but we saw a lot. Didn't walk very much today, ended with just shy of 4 miles.
Sunday: Rest day! Thank God because it was a 3:45am wake-up call, a connecting flight and grocery shopping. I only got a 30 minute nap today but dang was i going to sleep well tonight! Plus puppy snuggle time is always the best way to spend the day.
Monday: 3 mile run with a 11:06 pace. It was so hot and humid out today getting back into running was a little brutal but run complete none the less. I'm not quite ready to get back into the swing of running, but hey I have races to prep for! 15 minutes stretching / foam rolling / yoga poses that night.
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I love backbending. Wasn't born with one of those super flexi spines, but the exhilaration that rises when I'm in wheel is unmatched. Yoga has opened my tight right shoulder and chaturanga has given my back strength.
When I draw my shoulder blades down in a pose like salabhasana interlock my fingers behind me and glue my hands together I can lift my chest almost a foot higher.
I feel invincible. I feel strong.
Oddly enough this love of backbends and strength means nothing when I do ustrasana. To me, Camel is elusive and confounding.
Ustrasana amplifies my subconscious, stress that I work so hard to tamp rises hot and aware. The first time this happened I was caught off-guard and tears rolled down the sides of my eyes. In child's pose I had to tell myself not to cry my eyes out on the mat. When the teacher mentioned that Camel Pose can bring up emotions I grumbled, now you tell me.
It was the first step to healing an emotional wound and I've been using it as medicine ever since.
There are plenty of times these days that opening up in Camel leaves me elated. When this happens I have to breathe in and out to prevent a spontaneous dance party in the middle of class.
Happy, sad, angry or glad – Camel pose will not leave you feeling neutral.
I've read that the opening of the heart chakra is what facilitates this opening of the emotional floodgates. But when I looked at the illustration below- it seems that when you do Camel properly aligned (hips forward, heart lifted) you can push on almost every chakra.
It seems that you get a chance to unblock or at least stir up anything that needs to come up.
Camel pose makes the body say- slow down mama and take it all in. I just want to make sure you don't miss a thing.
And while I get a little annoyed when I am forced to deal with a feeling that I've been avoiding- it's so nice to get it out of the way. This is part of the journey I guess.
This is yoga. And I embrace feeling all of it.
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