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15 October 2014
In search of Santorini's blueschist, part 2: finding fault
As mentioned last week, I took a solo field trip north of Perissa, Santorini, Greece, in search of subducted rocks.
The contact between the two main rock types (marble and schist) was prominent and visible from a great distance (see photos in previous post), but what was the nature of this contact? Did it represent conformable stratigraphy? Was it a fault?
Here's a closer look at the contact:
In places, both units could be observed to show brittle deformation…
Close ups of brecciation in marble:
This suggested to me that the contact was faulted. It may also, broadly speaking, be stratigraphic, but the deformation I observed along the contact indicated a pronounced history of shearing.
Within the schist, for instance, there were pods of marble, as seen here:
I interpret these as boudins, or perhaps more accurately as asperities of the marble, dismembered by faulting and "tumbled" into the less competent schist below.
Three other examples of this follow, with smaller marble "podlets" entrained in the schist:
This looks to me like tectonic mixing of the two lithologies. Further down, below the contact itself, the schist was more "pure," with fewer macroscopic marble inclusions. Some of the schist below the contact was grayish, some was greenish, and some was bluish. Here are a couple of exposures I saw early on, lower down the hillside:
Here is an example from the highest point on the hill that I hiked to (i.e. to the contact and no further):
That schist is blue!
Blueschist was what I was after on this excursion, given that it's a high-pressure, low-temperature sort of metamorphic rock – the kind of thing that could really only form in a subduction zone.
Image redrawn and modified by me from Figure 3 of Bousquet, et al. (2008), which is itself modified from Oberhänsli, et al. (2004), and also from University of British Columbia (1997), which is modified from Yardley (1988).
…And now I had spotted it! Here are a few samples:
As I learned several years ago in Turkey, the degree to which a rock "re-equilibrates" under high-pressure, low-temperature conditions is partly a function of those two physical variables, but also dependent on (a) the exact composition of the protolith and (b) the amount of water present and available to help facilitate chemical reactions (like the production of glaucophane). As a consequence, blueschist and blueschist-grade "greenschist" may co-exist in the same outcrop. Here's an example of that; compare the hand-sample to the bedrock it rests upon:
I collected a couple of teaching specimens of both the blueschist, and the adjacent marble.
Some of the marble contained chert nodules that weathered out in positive relief:
Also, for the structurally-inclined, here's a conjugate pair of kink bands (partly ruptured to become faults) disrupting foliation in some of the green schist:
Santorini's geologic story doesn't end with these subducted oceanic rocks, however. There is also a volcano there…
10 October 2014
Friday folds: ploudin trio from Corridor H
You many recall the putative submarine mass transport deposit that Alan Pitts and I found on Corridor H, and that I've been back to several times with Dan Doctor of the USGS. Well, last month I was out there again, to GigaPan the site. While I was there, I took portraits of some of the folded and dismembered sandstone bodies (which I dubbed ploudins, as an amalgam between the word pillows –as in "ball and pillow structure"– and the word boudins).
Here are three of the best.
And to get a sense of the context in which these things formed, consider poking around this GigaPan of their source outcrop…
…and this GigaPan of the larger road cut in which it is found:
Happy Friday!
9 October 2014
In search of Santorini's blueschist, part 1: into the Valley of the Shadow of Ash
One afternoon during my stay in Santorini last month, I went for a solo geology hike. I left our hotel in the beach town of Perissa, and walked north toward the prominent mountain where I had reason to suspect I would find marble and blueschist – the subducted remains of the Tethys Ocean basin. I headed towards a prominent cliff which had a karsty-looking hollow in which prominently sat a white church of some sort.
In the next shot, you can see the church at the upper right, but the focus shifts to the prominent geologic contact to the west (left) of it.
This is the contact, I inferred between marble (which weathers out more prominently in this exceptionally arid environment), and an underlying body of schist, which would be a valley-former:
For reasons I'll reveal later, I think this contact may be a fault.
Here's a view directly northward into the valley west of the church-cliff mountain.
There's a new geologic unit in this shot. In the middle of the valley is a light-colored, stratified, easily weathered rock unit. From a distance, I inferred this to be volcanic ash from the eruption of Santorini's volcano. Later, I confirmed this by collecting several large blobs of pumice from this unit.
So this is neat – in the most central hollow of this schisty valley, there's a nice horizontally-layered ash deposit. That means the valley already existed at the time of the eruption, otherwise there would be no topographic basin to catch and hold this ash.
Here's a Google Earth view of the valley, north of the beach town of Perissa:
Now for some annotations, to show the trace of the contact between the marble (M) and the schist (S), and the ash deposit (A) in the deepest part of the valley:
I also indicated where the towns are, and the location of that white church in the shadow of the most prominent cliff.
Looking across the valley to the west:
A final perspective, this looking obliquely northwest into the valley:
Note the little hollows ("caves") cut into the lowermost outcrop of the ash.
Okay, so now, can we finally examine the schist itself, in search of the blue variety?
Patience, grasshopper…. Next week.
8 October 2014
Lunar eclipse images from the past 2 hours
My family and I watched this morning's lunar eclipse from the deck. It was lovely. A few images…
Note the airplane track at the bottom of this one:
I love moments like this – nature acting both predictably and beautifully… and being able to share it with my family.
6 October 2014
Non-bedding-parallel stylolites in Tonoloway limestones, Corridor H
Often, stylolites (pressure solution seams) are bedding parallel in susceptible sedimentary rocks. They are shaped like "beds of nails," overall planar, but with pointy bits that poke up and down, perpendicular to that plane.
The stylolites form with an orientation that is overall perpendicular to the maximum principal stress direction, and the little "teeth" parallel to the maximum principal stress direction.
Often stylolites form in sedimentary rocks parallel to bedding (that is, horizontally) because the maximum stress is vertical (due to loading of overlying sedimentary layers).
But sometimes we find stylolites that cut across bedding at some angle, and these are inferred to have formed due to more horizontal (i.e., tectonic) stresses.
Here is an example (cross-sectional view, perspective parallel to the bedding plane) I found last month on Corridor H, West Virginia:
This is a chunk of Silurian-aged Tonoloway limestone. Closer in, you can see some additional detail of this structure:
Here's a view of the bedding plane ("map view"), showing the trace of the stylolite cutting across bedding:
From a study of in situ examples of stylolites like these, one can infer the maximum principal stress direction (σ1) and thus potentially the direction of tectonic transport. They are subtle things, but in aggregate, a bunch of little stylolites can tell you about regional-scale tectonics.
These rocks were deposited during the Silurian, but obviously the stylolites would have formed well after that, sometime after the carbonate mud was lithified to limestone. Probably they are Alleghanian in age – due to the collision of ancestral Africa with ancestral North America during the late Paleozoic periods called the Pennsylvanian and Permian.
3 October 2014
Friday fold: En route to Santorini over the Cyclades
Santorini's a volcanic island. But the giant volcano built itself up over a nucleus of much older material, subducted sediments (now metasedimentary rock). This rock is typical of the Cyclades, the circular-shaped archipelago north of Santorini. As we flew there from Athens, I looked out the plane window in jet-lagged wonder at the scene of dry islands in a placid sea.
Here's one that I saw:
I reckon what we see there can count as our Friday fold. Let's trace out the bedding:
That's the sort of fold you would not see from the ground – it is so big that it requires either an aerial perspective or a concerted mapping effort to detect it.
I love living in the age of Google Earth. After I got home, I was able to poke around on that fine program and identify the island I had photographed. It's a peninsula on the southern part of the island of Antiparos. Here's a Google Earth screenshot for comparison:
This sort of folding is precisely what we would expect in a metamorphic terrane. However, it's not the sort of thing we would associate with a volcano. So, we'll have to keep flying south for that…
29 September 2014
Charnockite at Swift Run Gap
Over the weekend, I ran a 1-credit field course for NOVA, on the geology of Shenandoah National Park. I was about eight minutes early getting to the meet-up location, so that allowed me to check out a promising new outcrop of rock along the road (route 33, ~100 m west of Swift Run Gap). Here are two photos of it: charnockite (pyroxene-bearing granitoid or meta-granitoid), with weak foliation:
This is what my free-time geologizing has been reduced to: squeezed in to a few spare minutes here, a few spare minutes next week. No time for any more than that…
26 September 2014
Friday fold: passively folded marble
It's Friday!
Here's Baxter, last Friday, in Athens, Greece. He's checking out some folds in the marble that's everywhere in that city:
This is a lovely example of passive folding, where all the rock layers being folded have about the same viscosity (low viscosity contrast between layers). No buckling, as a result…
Enjoy the weekend, hopefully passively!
23 September 2014
Santorini: where the Hellenic arc meets the Cyclades
Once upon a time, there was an ocean. Its name was Tethys. The Tethys was born in the cozy embrace of Pangea.
But as Pangea broke up, Tethys felt the squeeze. Subduction began to close it.
As subduction recycled the Tethyan oceanic lithosphere, magma was produced and volcanoes erupted. Seafloor and seafloor sediments were dunked into the mantle, experiencing tremendous pressures but relatively low temperatures.
The Tethys shrank in size, hemmed in on all sides by colliding fragments of the former supercontinent. The modern Mediterranean is the "last gasp" of the Tethys. And it's getting smaller and smaller over geologic time. The subduction continues. One spot where this is gloriously reflected is the island of Santorini.
South of Santorini is the Hellenic Trench, where Africa is being subducted beneath Eurasia. This subduction has been going on for a long time (since Pangea's breakup in the Triassic), and the most amazing thing about Santorini is that it reflects two different aspects of that subduction story, one ancient, one modern.
You see, Santorini sits in the middle of a geographic Venn diagram: it's where the modern Hellenic volcanic arc overlaps with the ancient subduction complex of the Cyclades Islands.
The bedrock of the Cyclades tells the earlier chapter of the story: seafloor and overlying sediments that traveled down a subduction zone into the mantle, only to rise again, transformed, to appear at Earth's surface. The volcanic arc, of course, is a line of modern volcanoes, erupting lava and pyroclastics produced during more recent subduction. And Santorini has both.
Whereas most of the island is famous (and justifiably so) for its volcanic features, I was most interested in the green blotches on the map above – the spots where the Cycladic basement rock was exposed: schist and marble that had a tale of subduction to tell…
As fate would have it, my free trip to Greece with the Fugawies had me staying in Perissa, the stretch of rock in the southeastern part of the island, right in the middle of the two biggest exposures of the basement complex.
Next up: I'll discuss what I found there…
22 September 2014
Sea arch in pyroclastic deposits, Santorini, Greece
Last week, I did something unusual. I took a mid-semester vacation. My wife and I were in the rather extraordinary position of being gifted with a free trip to Greece, and though the timing was far from ideal for a pair of educators, we could hardly say no.
My wife's mother became friends with a group of people back in the 1970s, when they were all young and backpacking around Europe. They met one afternoon in Athens near the American Express office, and went on to have a series of rollicking adventures together that bonded them for life. They called themselves the "Fugawies."
Years later, some of the Fugawies have gone on to achieve considerable financial success, and when two of them were celebrating their wedding anniversary last winter, they decided that the treat they really wanted to enjoy was a reunion with their old friends, in the old places (plus some new ones). They decided to invite everyone for a ten-day trip to Greece, with airfare lodging, ground transport, and meals all on their nickel. Of course, the various Fugawies have grown older and had children, and in two cases, grandchildren. These descendants were considered to be part of the Fugawie fold, and were included in the extraordinarily generous offer.
So thanks to my wife's mother's friendship with these benefactors, my wife and son and I found ourselves in Santorini (Thera) and then Athens last week. I was able to see some pretty cool geology while I was there, and I intend to explore it over the course of the next week or two, as blog-composing time permits.
Let's begin with this:
That's a sea arch (~3 m tall) composed of pyroclastics from the eruption of Santorini, a massive affair that turned the once-conical island into a shattered hole in the crust. We'll talk about the details of the eruption later, but for now, it's probably enough to realize two things about this arch: (1) that the rock it's made from formed through volcanic violence, piling up during a cataclysmic eruption, and (2) gradual erosion by the limpid waters of the Aegean Sea have carved it into this lovely shape.


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While researching something for a book I was writing, I stumbled upon a concept god had for the people of Israel. Not only did he tell his people to keep the sabbath day holy, but God commanded his people to rest the land every seven years. A sound environmental message to keep the land productive. And after seven times seven years, was to be the year of Jubilee. A time when not only the land to be given a rest, but a time when slaves were to be set free and all debts were to be wiped clean. A time when the poor burdened by debt could start over. This was discontinued once the temple had been destroyed.
During the time of Jesus when Israel was occupied by the Romans and wealthy merchants had the people bound by debt.
Jesus seems to be talking more than just forgiving people, he also talked about forgiving the poor of their debts. In the Lord's prayer it takes about the forgiveness of debts, not just the forgiving of sins. Jesus seemed to be talking about reinstating the jubilee.
If anyone needs a Jubilee, we as a nation needs a jubilee.
As World's Population Booms, Will Its Resources Be Enough for Us?
By: bishop
September 21st, 2014
8:30 am
There are more than 7 billion people on Earth now, and roughly one in eight of us doesn't have enough to eat. The question of how many people the Earth can support is a long-standing one that becomes more intense as the world's population—and our use of natural resources—keeps booming.
This week, two conflicting projections of the world's future population were released. As National Geographic's Rob Kunzig writes here, a new United Nations and University of Washington study in the journal Science says it's highly likely we'll see 9.6 billion Earthlings by 2050, and up to 11 billion or more by 2100. These researchers used a new "probabalistic" statistical method that establishes a specific range of uncertainty around their results. Another study in the journal Global Environmental Change projects that the global population will peak at 9.4 billion later this century and fall below 9 billion by 2100, based on a survey of population experts. Who is right? We'll know in a hundred years.
Population debates like this are why, in 2011, National Geographic published a series called "7 Billion" on world population, its trends, implications, and future. After years of examining global environmental issues such as climate change, energy, food supply, and freshwater, we thought the time was ripe for a deep discussion of people and how we are connected to all these other issues—issues that are getting increased attention today, amid the new population projections.
After all, how many of us there are, how many children we have, how long we live, and where and how we live affect virtually every aspect of the planet upon which we rely to survive: the land, oceans, fisheries, forests, wildlife, grasslands, rivers and lakes, groundwater, air quality, atmosphere, weather, and climate.
World population passed 7 billion on October 31, 2011, according to the United Nations. Just who the 7 billionth person was and where he or she was born remain a mystery; there is no actual cadre of census takers who go house to house in every country, counting people.Instead, population estimates are made by most national governments and international organizations such as the UN. These estimates are based on assumptions about existing population size and expectations of fertility, mortality, and migration in a geographic area.
We've been on a big growth spurt during the past century or so. In 1900, demographers had the world's population at 1.6 billion, in 1950 it was about 2.5 billion, by 2000 it was more than 6 billion. Now, there are about 7.2 billion of us.
In recent years we've been adding about a billion people every 12 or 13 years or so. Precisely how many of us are here right now is also a matter of debate, depending on whom you consult:The United Nations offers a range of current population figures and trends, the U.S. Census Bureau has its own estimate, and the Population Reference Bureau also tracks us.
The new UN study out this week projects that the world's population growth may not stop any time soon. That is a reversal from estimates done five years ago, when demographers—people who study population trends—were projecting that by 2045, world population likely would reach about 9 billion and begin to level off soon after.
But now, the UN researchers who published these new projections in the journal Science say that a flattening of population growth is not going to happen soon without rapid fertility declines—or a reduction in the number of children per mother—in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa that are still experiencing rapid population growth. As Rob Kunzig wrote for National Geographic, the new study estimates that "there's an 80 percent chance . . . that the actual number of people in 2100 will be somewhere between 9.6 and 12.3 billion."
A History of Debates Over Population
In a famous 1798 essay, the Reverend Thomas Malthus proposed that human population would grow more rapidly than our ability to grow food, and that eventually we would starve.
He asserted that the population would grow geometrically—1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32—and that food production would increase only arithmetically—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. So food production would not keep up with our expanding appetites. You might imagine Malthus' scenario on geometric population growth as being like compound interest: A couple have two children and those children each produce two children. Those four children produce two children each tomake eight, and those eight children each have their own two kids, leaving 16 kids in that generation. But worldwide, the current median fertility rate is about 2.5, (or five children between two couples) so, like compound interest, the population numbers can rise even faster.
Even though more than 800 million people worldwide don't have enough to eat now, the mass starvation Mathus envisioned hasn't happened. This is primarily because advances in agriculture—including improved plant breeding and the use of chemical fertilizers—have kept global harvests increasing fast enough to mostly keep up with demand. Still, researchers such as Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Ehrlich continue to worry that Malthus eventually might be right.
Ehrlich, a Stanford University population biologist, wrote a 1968 bestseller called The Population Bomb, which warned of mass starvation in the 1970s and 1980s because of overpopulation. Even though he drastically missing that forecast, he continues to argue that humanity is heading for calamity. Ehrlich says the key issue now is not just the number of people on Earth, but a dramatic rise in our recent consumption of natural resources, which Elizabeth Kolbert explored in 2011 in an article called "The Anthropocene—The Age of Man."
As part of this human-dominated era, the past half century also has been referred to as a period of "Great Acceleration" by Will Steffen at International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. Besides a nearly tripling of human population since the end of World War II, our presence has been marked by a dramatic increase in human activity—the damming of rivers, soaring water use, expansion of cropland, increased use of irrigation and fertilizers, a loss of forests, and more motor vehicles. There also has been a sharp rise in the use of coal, oil, and gas, and a rapid increase in the atmosphere of methane and carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases that result from changes in land use and the burning of such fuels.
Measuring Our Rising Impact
As a result of this massive expansion of our presence on Earth, scientists Ehrlich, John Holdren, and Barry Commoner in the early 1970s devised a formula to measure our rising impact, called IPAT, in which (I)mpact equals (P)opulation multiplied by (A)ffluence multiplied by (T)echnology.
The IPAT formula, they said, can help us realize that our cumulative impact on the planet is not just in population numbers, but also in the increasing amount of natural resources each person uses. The graphic above, which visualizes IPAT, shows that the rise in our cumulative impact since 1950—rising population combined with our expanding demand for resources—has been profound.
IPAT is a useful reminder that population, consumption, and technology all help shape our environmental impact, but it shouldn't be taken too literally. University of California ecologist John Harte has said that IPAT ". . . conveys the notion that population is a linear multiplier. . . . In reality, population plays a much more dynamic and complex role in shaping environmental quality."
One of our biggest impacts is agriculture. Whether we can grow enough food sustainably for an expanding world population also presents an urgent challenge, and this becomes only more so in light of these new population projections. Where will food for an additional 2 to 3 billion people come from when we are already barely keeping up with 7 billion? Such questions underpin a 2014 National Geographic series on the future of food.
As climate change damages crop yields and extreme weather disrupts harvests, growing enough food for our expanding population has become what The 2014 World Food Prize Symposium calls "the greatest challenge in human history."
Islamists Misunderstand Americans
By: bishop
September 5th, 2014
6:45 am
this has gotten a little bit of discussion in the media, but perhaps not enough..
it's something that was first stated by obama, and then most directly stated by biden.. when you do something to us (americans), we will first tend to our own, and then look to kill you. some good, honest, and well-deserved vengeance.
a bit nationalist, maybe even ultra-nationalist. then again, and given our enemy, so what?
does ISIS actually create these beheading videos with the intent of scaring americans, and leading them pressure the government to appease their demands? do militant islamists/terrorists understand that out of all the groups out there that we (as americans) don't like, we like them the least - to the point where we more or less believe they need to be killed, rather than appeased or negotiated with, or anything in between? if anything, this only makes us want to bomb them even more, and exterminate them as we would cockroaches or other vermin.
we'd like to see muslim countries and people step up to beat back this virulent ideology, and those who are infected by it. but, expecting them to get with the program is also something that we have very little faith in. we also owe these people nothing whatsoever, and we've given far too much.
it's time to mow the lawn..
While President Obama admits "we don't have a strategy yet" and continues to send mixed messages about his ultimate objective in dealing with ISIS, one message from the American people is very clear:
They want war with ISIS. By a 4-1 margin.
St. Louis Cops Shoot and Kill Man in Incident Near Ferguson
By: lily
August 19th, 2014
12:14 pm
Don't the cops own any other ways to stop a suspect other than a gun?
Did they think he really meant it when he said "Shoot Me"?
St. Louis Cops Shoot and Kill Man in Incident Near Ferguson
Two St. Louis city police officers shot and killed a man who came within several feet of them brandishing a knife on Tuesday in a confrontation a few miles from the turbulent suburb of Ferguson, authorities said.
The man, 23, had taken energy drinks and a package of pastries from a nearby convenience store, Police Chief Sam Dotson told reporters. He said that the man was "acting erratically, walking back and forth, up and down the street."
The chief said that the officers repeatedly ordered the man to drop the knife. The chief said the man answered: "Shoot me now. Kill me now." He said the man moved toward one of the officers and came within 3 to 4 feet.
"One of the witnesses described it as a suicide by cop," Dotson said.
36% of adults lack retirement savings, including many 65 or older
By: Corodon
August 18th, 2014
3:52 pm
Very bad news, despite the little silver lining (in boldface below). In the Los Angeles Times written by Jim Puzzanghera:
More than a third of American adults have no retirement savings, and 14% of those ages 65 and older also haven't put money away yet, according to a new study.
The low savings rate for people at or approaching retirement age is alarming, said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate.com, which conducted the survey. The results were released Monday.
About a quarter — 26% — of those ages 50 to 64 haven't started saving for retirement, the survey said; the figure was 33% of people 30 to 49 years old.
36% of adults have no retirement funds saved
More than one-third of Americans haven't begun saving for retirement, a study says.
Overall, 36% of those 18 years or older have not started saving for retirement, according to the survey of 1,003 adults.
"They still have time to start, but they still have to save so much as a percentage of their income to make up for the years they weren't saving that it puts them in a tough spot," McBride said.
Savers have been hurt in recent years by historically low interest rates caused by the Federal Reserve's attempts to stimulate the economy after the Great Recession.
The survey's findings were not all bad, McBride said. It indicated that younger people are starting to save earlier than in past generations.
Twice as many adults who are 30 to 49 years old started saving when they were in their 20s instead of waiting until their 30s, the survey said. Seniors were just as likely to have waited until they were in their 40s to start saving as they were to have started in their 20s, McBride said.
Greater awareness of the financial problems of Social Security is a main reason younger people have started earlier on their retirement plans, he said. Automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans also has helped people to start saving earlier.
This is the reason companies had pensions. Pushing savings on to the individual to handle will cause more harm to the society. Ultimately society will have to handle those who were unfortunate, unlucky, made risky choices etc.
"The burden for retirement savings is increasingly upon us as individuals, and people are aware of that," McBride said.
Still, 69% of those 18 to 29 years old have no retirement savings, according to the survey.
The Letter From A Jewish Londoner That Went Viral
By: djharkavy
August 17th, 2014
6:18 pm
I have said before that being anti-Zionist is not the same as being anti-Semitic.
But it appears that the current anti-Zionism can lead to anti-semitism.
A letter from an "ordinary middle-aged Londoner" expressing fears about growing anti-semitism in Britain has gone viral, with many taking to social media to express their own discomfort.
The letter from Stephen Spencer Ryde, sent to the Independent, has been retweeted more than 1,000 times since it was published on Friday.
It reads:
I'm just an ordinary middle-aged Londoner.Sent from my GT-P3113 using Tapatalk
I work in an office. I go to football. I like eating out. I enjoy the arts. I am a proud family man. I give up time for charity work. I try to be a decent contributing member of society. I pay my taxes honestly. But there appears to be something that sets me and my kind apart.
At park gates in East London a friend of mine gets told to f**k off for photographing a flag. At a pub in Bath my wife gets called scum when she mentions her background. In a student hall in Manchester a friend's son is asked to leave as the specially prepared food he chose to eat is not permitted because it carries a label written in a language used by a country that is "banned" by the student union.
In Belfast a historic blue plaque is removed to deny part of my history. In theatres in Edinburgh and London I am told to denounce my opinions or lose the right to perform. A sportsman in Ireland tweets if he sees my kind he'll punch us in the face and recommends others follow suit.
Protesters across the country show no shame in shouting that my historical persecutors were right and social media is rife with vitriol towards me (even from so-called friends). And in Bradford I'm told that I am not even permitted to enter the city.
What is this? Racism. Where is this? Britain and Ireland. When is this? Now. Who am I? I am a Jew.
Never again, we say, never again.
Top Organization Contributions: All Federal Contributions
By: Corodon
August 10th, 2014
6:46 am
A report from the Center for Responsive Politics is fascinating, even though it excludes 501(c) organizations.
|Totals on this page reflect donations from employees of the organization, its PAC and in some cases its own treasury. These totals include all campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties, political action committees (including superPACs), federal 527 organizations, and Carey committees. Because 501(c) organizations do not disclose their donors, contributions to those groups are not included here, except in cases where the group discloses voluntarily. Only contributions to Democrats and Republicans or liberal and conservative outside groups are included in calculating the percentages the donor has given to either party.
The evil Koch Brothers are #36.
Hamas May Not Have Kidnapped and Killed the 3 Israeli Teens After All
By: Theski
July 28th, 2014
5:43 pm
so.. war under false pretenses.. . seems familiar..
When the bodies of three Israeli teenagers, kidnapped in the West Bank, were found late last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mince words. "Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay," he said, initiating a campaign that eventually escalated into the present conflict in the region.
But now, Israeli officials admit the kidnappings were not Hamas's handiwork after all. (Update: The comments from the Israeli spokesperson in question indicate that the group thought to be responsible, a "lone cell," may not have been under direct orders from Hamas's leadership, but was loosely affiliated with the group.
Millennials' Political Views Don't Make Any Sense
By: Tom Servo
July 21st, 2014
3:04 pm
Millennials' Political Views Don't Make Any Sense
That's not a harsh assessment. It's just a fair description.
Derek Thompson Jul 15 2014, 7:56 AM ET
Millennial politics is simple, really. Young people support big government, unless it costs any more money. They're for smaller government, unless budget cuts scratch a program they've heard of. They'd like Washington to fix everything, just so long as it doesn't run anything.
That's all from a new Reason Foundation poll surveying 2,000 young adults between the ages of 18 and 29. Millennials' political views are, at best, in a stage of constant metamorphosis and, at worst, "totally incoherent," as Dylan Matthews puts it.
- Millennials hate the political parties more than everyone else, but they have the highest opinion of Congress.
- Young people are the most likely to be single parents and the least likely to approve of single parenthood.
- Young people voted overwhelmingly for Obama when he promised universal health care, but they oppose his universal health care law as much as the rest of the country ... even though they still pledge high support for universal health care. (Like other groups, but more so: They seem allergic to the term Obamacare.)
1. Millennials are more liberal than the rest of the country, particularly on social issues, but they get more economically conservative when they make more money.<snip>
2. Millennials don't know what they're talking about when it comes to economics.<snip>
3. Far less important, but entertaining nonetheless: Millennials don't know what socialism is, but they think it sounds nice.
American misunderstanding of the Supreme Court
By: PTPLauthor
July 19th, 2014
7:17 pm
With the recent decisions in Hobby Lobby, FEC v. McCutcheon, and Citizen's United, overall public opinion of the Supreme Court has been very low. However, I would hazard a guess that the Supreme Court could give a rat's furry behind what the public opinion polling says.
Americans do not seem to understand the Supreme Court or the judiciary as a whole nearly as much as they think they do. Whether this is a result of the prevalence of shows like Law & Order or courtroom "reality" shows like Judge Judy, or simply due to a lack of ignorance on the part of the American public, I do not know.
What I do know, is the people doing the most criticizing have the least knowledge, and have not read the decisions they're criticizing.
Take, for example, the Hobby Lobby case. That case dealt with, at its core, a person's rights, albeit a juristic person, in conflict with federal law. Strictly speaking, there was not an issue of a human person being denied access to birth control by a company. Another case will undoubtedly wind its way to the Supreme Court that will settle that issue. I disagree with Hobby Lobby's decision, but for an entirely different reason than that which has been given the most attention. In deciding the case, the Supreme Court has affirmed that Congress can decide the outcome of a case by determining which level of scrutiny the Court must apply. Without the RFRA, the statute that caused the decision, the Supreme Court would have likely used rational basis review in deciding the case, which would have made the decision less likely to go for Hobby Lobby.
The only good thing that can come from the Hobby Lobby decision is that now the Supreme Court doesn't have much of a leg to stand on when using a separation-of-powers argument to prohibit Congress from requiring Supreme Court cases be televised. I think something like that would do nothing but good.
In dealing with McCutcheon and Citizens United, the Supreme Court had to deal with the fact that the Constitution was written for a time when political parties were not organized, and thus had to apply the vague language of the Constitution to modern controversies the Framers wouldn't have ever imagined.
Yesterday, when the Supreme Court announced that Utah's application for a stay in their same-sex marriage case was granted, many people on Facebook acted as if they had decided the entire case. When I tried to explain that it was just a procedural step in every case, that a judgement does not go into force until the appeals process is exhausted, I was largely ignored.


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Isle of Man TT 2014: Karl Harris Dies in Superstock TT Crash
The Isle of Man TT has claimed another life as Karl Harris died in a crash during the Superstock TT.
Michael Dunlop won his second race in the 2014 Isle of Man TT and ninth in his career, taking the RL360 Superstock TT on a BMW S1000RR. Dunlop also won the Superbike TT earlier, giving BMW its first two wins on the Isle of Man since 1939.
Meanwhile, Supersport TT 1 winner Gary Johnson was injured in a crash on the opening lap while running second behind Dunlop. Johnson was airlifted to hospital where he was reportedly treated for fractures including a broken collarbone.
The crash gave Dunlop some breathing room, completing the first lap with a 6.7-second lead over Kawasaki rider with Bruce Anstey on his Honda another four seconds behind in third.
Dunlop increased his lead on the second lap to 13.3 seconds over Harrison, thanks to a race-best lap time of 17:26.621 before the lead riders headed to the pits to fuel up for the final two laps. Returning to the track, Harrison gained some time, cutting Dunlop's lead to about nine seconds through Glen Helen. Dunlop found another gear as well and by the end of Lap 3 his lead grew to more than 18 seconds.
Not resting on his lead, Dunlop again led all riders with the fastest time on the final lap for the win.
|2014 Isle of Man TT: Superstock TT Top Five Results
|Michael Dunlop
|MD Racing BMW
|127.216 mph
|Dean Harrison
|RC Express Kawasaki
|126.620 mph
|Bruce Anstey
|Valvoline Racing Honda
|125.936 mph
|David Johnson
|Lloyd and Jones PR Kawasaki
|125.424 mph
|Lee Johnston
|Miles Kingsport Pirtek Honda
|125.244 mph
[Source: IOMTT.com]


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Sometimes I sit at home and wonder how it'd be
If he had loved me
Truly loved me yes
I learned a while ago that kind of thing
Never happens for me
And so I go around
And just pretend
Love is not for me
I play the circus clown around my friends
Make them laugh and they won't see
That you never let them see you sweat
Don't want them to think the pain runs deep
Lord knows it's killing me
So I put on my make-up
Put a smile on my face
And if anyone asks me
Everything is okay
I'm laughing cause no one
Knows the joke is on me
Cause I'm dying inside
With my pride and a smile
On my face
On my face
Singing lalala...
Sometimes I sit at home
By the phone hoping he might call me
But he don't call me
But then I realize
Dreams come true aren't for girls like me
Not like me
And so I go around with my head up
Like it ain't no thing
And when the boys are out with all my friends
I'm into other things
Cause you never let them see you sweat
Don't want them to think the pain runs deep
Lord knows it's killing me
And so I put my make up (Put it on, put it on)
Put a smile on my face (A smile on my face
And if anyone asks me (Oh, yeah
Everything is okay (Oh, I'm laughing)
I'm laughing cause no one (No one, no one)
Knows the joke is on me
But I'm dying inside
With my pride and a smile
On my face
On my face
It's not an easy (Thing to do)
Sometimes it's hard to (Face the truth)
It's not the life that I would choose (That I would choose)
But what else can I do?
If he don't love me
If he don't want me
I'm not about to sit around
Let myself go
So I put on my make-up
Put a smile on my face (I put a smile on my face)
And if anyone asks me (everything is ok)
Everything is okay (Oh, I'm laughing)
I'm laughing cause no one (No one, no one)
Knows the joke is on me (But I'm dying inside)
Cause I'm dying inside
With my pride and a smile
On my face
On my face
Singing lalala...
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|this song is great i had gotten a bootleg &put every body on to it
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|AWWWWWWWW I 3 THIS SONG =*( one of my FAV songzz* it reminds me of me...i tell my friends that love isnt just for me ... and deep down .. im still heartbroken from the last time i was in love /3
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|Never heard of Tamia before, but since I've got this album this song is one of my favourites in these days. And it's so sad!
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|I luv this song!!!! its like my favorite song off her CD. but it is sad. it kinda makes me wanna cry sometimes
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NEW YORK Tubular production at Evraz Plcs North American operations dropped 11.9 percent quarter over quarter amid increasing imports and lower drilling activity, the London-based steelmaker said in its second-quarter production report.
The companys North American arm also "adjusted crews and undertook initiatives to optimize work-in-progress and finished goods stockpiles," the steelmaker said in the report.
Tubular output in North America fell to 199,000 tonnes in the quarter from 226,000 tonnes in the first quarter and was 5.7 percent lower than during the same 2012 period, according to the report.
Average selling prices for tubular products in the region fell 4.3 percent quarter on quarter to $1,322 per tonne and were 15.6 percent lower than the $1,566-per-tonne average price recorded during the same period a year ago.
Evraz recently joined a petition by domestic steel producers to impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties against imports of oil country tubular goods (amm.com, July 2).
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Evrazs North American total crude steel output fell 10.6 percent to 551,000 tonnes in the quarter compared with the same 2012 period due to unplanned maintenance work at its Pueblo facility in Colorado, according to the statement.
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Before departing, Mahavira said to his disciples, "Whenever five of you will be together in meditation, there will also be a sixth - invisible though he will be. You may not be able to see me, but I will be able to see you, and that's what really matters. I have been with you for eighty-two years and you have not seen me; I have been in a material body and you went on missing me. So your seeing is unimportant; what is important is my seeing you.
"But you will feel my presence more because I will be no longer confined in my body; I will surround you like a cloud, I will overwhelm your hearts, and you will know I have come because suddenly the whole climate will be different. The moment I am present amongst you, you will become absent. My presence will dispel your presence just as light dispels darkness." And these were the people who had tried many times to kill him.
And the same is the story in different contexts, but again and again. Man seems to be stubborn, adamant, but the mystics are more stubborn and more adamant than you are; whatever you do is not going to prevent them. They will go on working for the evolution of your consciousness - they are still working, and you are still doing the same stupid things you have done before. It is a strange story of love and hate. From the side of mystics, it is love; from the side of the masses, it is hate. But it cannot be changed.
Perhaps it is a law of nature: the masses don't have anything else to give. They are so full of poison that they can give only poison. And the mystics are also helpless; they are so full of love and nectar of life that they can give only that.
The story between the masses and the mystics has never been clearly unfolded - what has been happening? Why did you have to poison a Socrates? Why did you have to kill a Jesus? Why did you have to murder a Mansoor? Not that you were aware of doing it; if you had been aware, it would have been impossible to do it. In your sleep, in your unconsciousness, you go on doing things that are ugly, degrading to humanity, not worthy of man. And out of the mystic's superconsciousness he goes on showering flowers on you, irrespective of what comes in return.
Fare you well, people of Orphalese. This day has ended. I am going; my ship is ready, I am ready. I lingered long enough amongst you, hoping that somebody may hear, somebody may be touched, somebody may become aware that the stranger is not a stranger - he's the very heart of your hearts, that he's not only outside you, he's inside you too.
It is closing upon us even as the water-lily upon its own tomorrow. He has used a beautiful metaphor - the water-lily opens with the sun. As the sun rises in the morning, the water-lily opens its petals. When the sun comes in the middle of the sky, the water-lily comes to its full opening, and as the sun starts descending, the water-lily starts closing. By the time the sun sets, the water-lily closes its petals upon itself - "upon its tomorrow," says Almustafa. But the sun will rise tomorrow again, so nothing is lost if this day is lost.
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You'd think being a core part of Linux would be a good thing for a filesystem, but if you want to make any money off it, things get tricky. To get round this problem, the company behind the Ceph filesystem, Inktank, announced today that it hopes to bag cash from the distributed object-storage technology by offering support, …
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I'm not familiar with it, but Pizza Port does brew their own root beer, though of course root beer isn't unique to San Diego.
Outside of that the only thing I can think of that's non-perishable and non-alcoholic, but IS NOT a beverage, but is very much associated with San Diego (OK, technically Escondido) - is Dr. Bronner's Magic All-in-One pure castille soap!
Ballast Point makes a bloody mary mix that does not have alcohol in it. If you are a tomato juice drinker, that could be good. If youa re OK with non-beverage liquids, Stone Brewery makes a line of condiments, including mustard, hot sauce and bbq sauce.
Non-perishable, non-alcoholic liquid associated with San Diego ... sea water? Oh wait, beverage...
Mexcian cane sugar Coca-Cola (or other sodas) is really the only thing I can come up with off the top of my head. I know it's not *technically* from San Diego, but most people in most parts of the country associate us with the border..
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Yes, but I don't think the cider travels entirely well, and my experience has been that the cider quality degrades pretty quickly. If I let an unopened half gallon go even 5 days before opening it, it is nowhere near as good as it would be if opened immediately. Certainly, you have to keep it refrigerated.
I'm still irritated that cherry-apple cider was entirely gone from the Wynola Valley Orchard (formerly known as Meyer's) and Mom's before noon Sunday.
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Here's why I don't think there exists such a thing here: without alcohol as a preserving agent, for a beverage to be non-perishable means its going to have to have preservatives and/or be a sugar water sort if thing with no real food-ish ingredients in it , just "flavor" from very limited (probably chemical) sources. So really, it could only be a soda pop or heavily processed fruit drink, and unlike some cities, we don't have anything unique like that made here. I agree with the poster who suggested that Mexican coke (and, I also think, other Mexican soft drinks like Jarritos and Fanta in various flavors and in glass bottles) is the closest thing we have to a "regional" soda, even though drinks like these are imported.


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Naturally, Manitoba and Canada are hugely proud of Skip Jennifer Jones, lead Dawn McEwen, second Jill Officer, and third Kaitlyn Lawes.
Jennifer Jones and her team cause my parents a lot of stress. They don't know Jennifer or any of the teammates, but they love curling: watching it, playing it, and if there were curling training cards they would most likely collect them.
Canada also won the gold medal in men's curling, as it should be! Although the team was not based in Manitoba, the third on the team is Ryan Fry, a former Winnipegger.
Of course we have to mention that other team sport of hockey. Everybody knows Canadian women are the best hockey players in the world, although it would have been better for all Canadians' stress levels if they would just win the game and not tease us by falling behind and coming back with two goals to tie and to win in overtime. This is not Hollywood. It's Canada, so we just need the results without the drama!
In men's hockey, a 5 a.m. wake-up call on a Sunday morning is what everyone needed to start the day. It's a good thing many of us could go to church afterwards and fall asleep with a good reason. Again, Jonathan Toews stood tall for Manitoba.
The order of the universe has been stabilized with four gold medals for both the women's and men's curling and hockey teams.
But I have a question, which sport is more popular in our area? Hockey or curling? Let's leave the Jets out of this, we all support them. At an amateur level, which sport is played by more people in our community? Which sport is watched by more people? Hockey or curling? The answer is not obvious, therefore I am going to have a poll on my website (www.stevenfletcher.com) with these questions.
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Going in for an ultrasound this morning to check for cysts. If all is clear, my Dr will prescribe my 2nd round of clomid, 100 mg. I will start taking them tonight. Hoping this will be my cycle! DH just got a fantastic new job, so maybe now that something good happened, something else good will too! is that weird logic?
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Good luck with your ultrasound....I hope it comes up cyst free!
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We have some exciting things in store for you in the coming patch, so to ensure that we devote the time necessary to upholding the highest standards of quality were releasing our upcoming champion in a week, pending some additional polish work. During this time well be gathering additional feedback, and iterating rapidly on all aspects of the champion. We apologize for the interruption to your regular gameplay schedule, but we think that once you get your hands on this community-desired champion, youll agree that it was worth it.
The next champion too, will require more time for development, testing and iteration; so the target release date for the next champion will be following the same three week time frame to ensure quality.
Thanks for your patience, summoners, and thanks for playing League of Legends!
Senior Member
i dont get it
is this another delay
i had a feeling the cycle would be broken and i'm actually glad too.
is this the Champ that Morello or Guinsoo did a Poll Thread for the community to pick from, like almost a year ago?
if i could only find the threads... RAWR
Who will it be?
I hope its a good champ
duck champ inc
For the next 2 champions, we are spending more time to make sure they are awesome.
Well, i have high expectations for the new champ.
1 more week to make it even better.. Hopefully.
Doom Machine
could the legends be true???
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