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The Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water (SOASOW), in affiliation with the FreshWater Accountability Project (www.FWAPOH.com) announced plans today to form a citizens' group to hold the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) accountable to property owners and taxpayers within the largest conservancy district in Ohio. This initiative, "Stop MWCD Now," will pick up from the last organized opposition due to the property owner tax assessment that was justified because of the MWCD's claim that it provided value-added services for public benefit. "Now that the MWCD has been shown to operate more as a for-profit agency, serving the unconventional shale gas drilling industry, putting property owners' health, water quality and home values at risk, we can again mount opposition to what we see as a money making agency that cares more about serving themselves and their favored projects than those who live within the district and pay taxes for its operation," stated Lea Harper, co-founder of SOASOW.
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In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams of upstate New York. The diners are here, with their checkbooks, to support a group called Chefs for the Marcellus, which works to protect the foodshed upon which hundreds of regional farm-to-fork restaurants depend. The foodshed is coincident with the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation that arcs northeast from West Virginia through Pennsylvania and into New York State. As everyone invited here knows, the region is both agriculturally and energy rich, with vast quantities of natural gas sequestered deep below its fertile fields and forests.
In Pennsylvania, the oil and gas industry is already on a tear -- drilling thousands of feet into ancient seabeds, then repeatedly fracturing (or fracking) these wells with millions of gallons of highly pressurized, chemically laced water, which shatters the surrounding shale and releases fossil fuels. New York, meanwhile, is on its own natural-resource tear, with hundreds of newly opened breweries, wineries, organic dairies and pasturized livestock operations -- all of them capitalizing on the metropolitan area's hunger to localize its diet.
To read more or comment...Drilling companies in Texas, the No. 1 drilling state in the United States, were allowed to not disclose all chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process more than 19,000 times in 2012 through August.
Nationally, one in five wells fails to disclose all chemicals involved.
To read more or comment...Halliburton and three other large oil service companies in 2011 spent $2 billion on research and development of green drilling.
That's up 32 percent from two years earlier.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
Ergon, Inc., a crude oil processor headquartered in Jackson, MS but with operations in other states, including West Virginia, announced Wednesday there's enough crude oil flowing from the Marcellus and Utica Shale region that they are investing $78 million to add more refining capacity to their plant in Newell, WV.
To read more or comment...From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
First National Bank of Pennsylvania is offering special premium rates on CDs to people leasing land to gas drillers.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A revised set of proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing natural gas has been released by New York environmental officials who will begin taking public comment on them in December.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
A few weeks ago MDN told you about a new landowners group in Lordstown, Ohio, formed in response to requests from Halcon Resources who is asking landowners in the area to sign modifications to existing 20-50 year-old leases on their property to allow for Utica Shale drilling (see this MDN story). At the time the new Lordstown Regional Landowners Group represented 5,000 of the 31,000 acres in Trumbull and Mahoning counties (Ohio) Halcon had recently purchased the rights to.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A West Virginia natural gas driller will pay $177,500 to settle charges it disturbed wetlands and streams while building well pads and pipelines in Harrison County.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
WorkForce West Virginia issued a new report to the WV legislature on Wednesday documenting that employment throughout WV in the oil and gas industry has increased 10% since 2008, and average wages for those workers have gone up 19%. Why? The Marcellus shale, of course.
To read more or comment...From Chesapeake Energy Copr.:
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2012-- Peake Fuel Solutions, L.L.C., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK), today announced the development of a new, transformative diesel natural gas (DNG) conversion kit, a product that will help heavy-duty truck operators save up to 30% on their fuel costs.
To read more or comment...The world's largest petrochemical maker by market capitalization is eying the shale gas development in the United States.
SABIC, the Saudi Basic Industries Corp., would like to get started by building one plant in the United States.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Around 100 protesters have been escorted from a public forum over injection gas drilling in Athens in southeastern Ohio.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Several faculty members at Community College of Philadelphia say their school shouldn't be accepting funds for a new Energy Training Center from a natural gas industry trade group.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder released an energy and environmental policy blueprint.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A Colorado judge says a lawsuit that state regulators filed seeking to strike down some of Longmont's new oil and gas drilling rules can proceed.
To read more or comment...A team of scientists at the University of California, Davis has developed a system to hunt pipeline leaks by plane.
For utility companies, the benefits could be big.
To read more or comment...From U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown today:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two Ohio research institutions will receive resources for projects to advance sustainable shale development practices. Ohio University in Athens and Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus will use U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) resources to address potential issues while reducing the environmental impact of shale development.
To read more or comment...Hart Energy reports that Ohio's lack of transparency on drilling production data may slow development in the Utica shale.
Thomas Pritchard of California-based Imperial Capital LLC saidat a Pittsburgh conference that the lack of production data from Ohio is troubling, Hart Energy says.
To read more or comment...Interesting tidbit: Ohio gets 30 trillion gallons of rainfall per year.
That factoid is included in Spenser Hunt's story in the Columbus Dispatch on whether Ohio has enough water fro the fracking boom in the Utica shale in eastern Ohio.
To read more or comment...From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The Marcellus shale region now accounts for 26 percent of the country's shale gas production, according to the latest report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
To read more or comment...The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued 457 permits to drill in the Utica shale through Nov. 24.
The new permits are two in Harrison County and three in Noble County, according to the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
An outlay of revenue from drilling impact fees to address affordable housing needs in the Marcellus Shale region will be made next month by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.
To read more or comment...A Medina City Council committee is holding an informational meeting on injection wells on Tuesday, Dec. 4.
The meeting by the Legislative Committee will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room in the basement of Medina City Hall, 132 N. Elmwood Ave.
To read more or comment...From FrackCheckWV and the Morgantown Dominion Post, Nov. 25:
The state Supreme Court suggested to the Legislature that this week it take a look at surface-owner rights — in particular, possibly granting owners the right to appeal Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) gas well permits.
To read more or comment...Members of Congress are unhappy with the proposed fracking rule by the federal Bureau of Land Management, reportrs blogger Amy Mall of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Clcik here to read more.
To read more or comment...The tanker Ob River is transporting liquified natural gas from Norway to Japan via the ice-free Arctic ocean.
It is a shipping first.
To read more or comment...Low-level radioactive waste from the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process is going to landfill in Ohio and New York.
Ohio says that is not not a problem.
To read more or comment...From CNN on Nov. 23:
Hong Kong (CNN) -- If there's been one consistent thread running through the U.S. economic story since 2008, it's been the steady drumbeat of gloom.
To read more or comment...From Bloomberg News:
Natural gas tumbled the most in 15 weeks as revised forecasts showing an unusually warm start to December signaled reduced demand for heating fuels.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Chesapeake Energy has received the first permit in Ohio County for a labor camp.
To read more or comment...Concerned Citizens Ohio/Shalersville will test well water for free on Sunday, Dec. 2.
The tests will be offered starting at 3:15 p.m. at the King of Glory Church at Streetsboro Plaza at the corner of state Route 303 and state Route 14.
To read more or comment...The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is holding a public open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28.
It will be held at the state agency's offices on East State Street in Athens.
To read more or comment...The towering flares that turn night into day in the gaslands are becoming increasingly rare.
More operators are employing reduced-emission completions -- a "green completion" -- a process in which impurities from hydraulic fracturing are filtered out and the gas is not wasted.
To read more or comment...From FrackCheckWV and the Calgary Herald:
The energy industry is pouring vast amounts of horsepower, water and money into shale formations with little or no proof it's the most cost-effective practice, says Ron Craik, president of Horizontal Well Testing Ltd. This company has patents on testing tools he says will ultimately save money, times and reduce the environmental footprint of horizontal drilling and formation fracturing.
To read more or comment...From FrackCheckWV and Lois Gibbs of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice on Nov. 24:
The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water. The good news is that legacy contaminants are decreasing more quickly than previously reported in three of the Great Lakes, but have stayed virtually the same in two other lakes, according to new research. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the pesticide DDT and other banned compounds dropped about 50 percent in fish in Lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron from 1999 through 2009, although there were no significant changes in Lakes Superior and Erie fish, according to the study to be published this month in Science of the Total Environment.
To read more or comment...From the Cleveland Plain Dealer and reporter Aaron Marshall on Nov. 23:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Following a nearly year-long hiatus brought on by a rare earthquake, state regulators are again approving new injection well sites in Ohio, slowly moving the epicenter of waste disposal to Portage County.
To read more or comment...Longmont is the first town in Colorado to ban hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
Click here to see the New York Times story about Longmont and its move.
To read more or comment...Could natural gas be a cleaner, cheaper, more effective fuel for America's trains?
Click here to read the story from Houston Chronicle.
To read more or comment...The New York-Pennsylvania blog No Fracking Way cites a U.S. Department of Energy report that indicates that production in the Marcellus shale derops 67 percent in 105 days of production.
That means that those wells will have to repeatedly fracked to keep up production.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
If the trash truck or bus rolling down your street seems a little quieter these days, you're not imagining things. It's probably running on natural gas.
To read more or comment...From the Ohio Enviornmental Law Center:
November 20, 2012 by ohioenvirolawcenter
To read more or comment...The owner of an Williamsport, Pa, trucking company, along with two of his employees, has been charged with dumping thousands of gallons of gas drilling waste water onto the company's grounds without first getting the required state permits, according to the state attorney general's office.
To read more from the Williamsport Sun Gazette, click here.
To read more or comment...Colorado-based PDC Energy Inc. has plans to drill next spring in Ohio's Washington County.
That well will likely be drilled starting in April, the company said in its third-quarter earnings call.
To read more or comment...Colorado-based MarkWest EnergyPartners LP is operating an interim natural gas-processing plant in Ohio's Harrison County.
The plant in Cadiz began operations this week, said Randy S. Nickerson, MarkWest's senior vice president and chief commercial officer.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News and the Salem News:
CONSOL Energy's CNX Gas subsidiary is expanding its presence at the Columbiana County Port Authority's industrial park in Leetonia.
To read more or comment...The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose this week by eight, to 1,817.
In Ohio, that total remained at 26 from the previous week.
To read more or comment...Pennsylvania's environmental protection chief is defending his agency's controversial system for testing water wells near Marcellus shale operations by saying other states work the same way.
But regulators in those states say that's not true.
To read more or comment...How big a player is Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Ohio's Utica shale?
The Oklahoma-based energy company has been aggressively drilling in eastern Ohio and has 1.3 million acres under lease.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Activist investor Carl Icahn bumped up his stake in Chesapeake Energy, a company where he has already pushed for sweeping changes in governance.
To read more or comment...Gulfport Energy Corp. has drilled 10 wells in eastern Ohio and has hit the three biggest wells.
It intends to drill 50 wells in Ohio next year.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A health impact review of shale gas drilling by national experts will make it impossible to meet a looming deadline for new fracking regulations, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A state panel that is devising rules for hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in western Maryland may require drillers to have pollution insurance.
To read more or comment...The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued 453 permits to drill in the Utica shale through Nov. 17.
That's an increase of 10 permits from Nov. 10.
To read more or comment...From the Business Wire:
Huntington Bank today named Stephen Hoffman managing director, energy banking.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
An author and one-time anti-drilling activist whose family owns a historic 153-acre farm has leased the land to a gas company, saying it's better to work with the industry than to fight it.
To read more or comment...Here is a follow-up posting on the peaceful Monday protest at an Athens County injection well in southeast Ohio.
Here is the announcement that came to the media late Monday:
To read more or comment...From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pittsburgh residents consider Marcellus Shale drilling both an economic opportunity and an environmental risk, according to a study released by PittsburghTODAY and the University of Pittsburgh's University Center for Social and Urban Research.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
The University at Buffalo has closed its new shale gas research institute.
To read more or comment...An unspecified number of protestors rallied this morning at an injection well near Athens in southeast Ohio.
Here is the press release announcing the event:
To read more or comment...From FrackCheckWV:
Here's an an op-ed column that ran in the Charleston Gazette written by S. Thomas Bond, a retired chemistry professor at Salem College in West Virginia:
To read more or comment...From the Los Angeles Times:
Environmental researchers have detected excess greenhouse gas levels near the site of Australia's biggest coal seam gas field, prompting calls for halting expansion of hydraulic fracturing until scientists can determine whether it might be contributing to climate change.
To read more or comment...Three Appalachian nurses visited 14 women in southwestern Pennsylvania to talk about health problems and drilling into the Marcellus shale.
The women live in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties.
To read more or comment...One of the enduring fears about shale gas extraction is that the millions of gallons of chemical-laden water drillers pump into the ground will, over time, migrate into aquifers and contaminate groundwater supplies.
But it appears that is an unlikely scenario, according to EnergyWire.
To read more or comment...From EcoWatch on Nov. 14:
Today, SkyTruth released a database created from more than 27,000 industry reports on the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
To read more or comment...Shale gas could produce 3.5 million jobs in the next 23 years, according to a new report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy.
Click here to see an injterview with the institute's Karen Harbert.
To read more or comment...It is no secret that low-level radiation comes from the Utica and Marcellus shales during the fracking process.
It gets into the fracking liquid/wastewater that must be safely handled back at the surface.
To read more or comment...Was it the smaller-than-expected campaign donation he collected from a Range Resources event and declined request for a ride to the Super Bowl that sparked the conflict between the energy firm and outspoken Democratic Rep. Jesse White?
Or, as he describes, did his shift from someone who described Range in 2009 as a company "committed to doing all the right things" to one who skeptically questions it begin when the firm exerted legal pressure on local municipalities?
To read more or comment...Shale gas will be a economic focal point for generations to come, according to Texas-based Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. CEO Bobby Turner.
Click here to read the full story on FuelFix.
To read more or comment...From the Denver-based Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development:
Commercial oil shale development in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado would require large volumes of water, threatening Western water supplies and jeopardizing fish and wildlife, according to a reportreleased Thursday by Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development.
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NEW PHILADELPHIA: The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District today said it intends to seek a drilling lease with Antero Resources for district-owned land at Seneca Lake.
To read more or comment...From ProPublica Communications:
"Since 1986, pipeline accidents have killed more than 500 people, injured over 4,000, and cost nearly $7 billion dollars in property damages," ProPublica's Lena Groeger reports. Using government data, she's mapped out thousands of these incidents -- spanning from San Bruno, CA to Allentown, PA -- in an interactive news application , which provides detailed information about the cause and costs of reported pipeline incidents going back nearly three decades.
Groeger explains that, "One of the biggest problems contributing to leaks and ruptures is pretty simple: pipelines are getting older. More than half of the nation's pipelines are at least 50 years old." Corrosion, weld failures, and unforeseen natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy also lead to dozens of incidents a year.
And while two laws established a federal role in pipeline safety in the '60s and '70s, the then-new rules didn't apply to pipelines that already existed. Older pipelines were essentially grandfathered into less stringent testing, Groeger writes, and old pipelines in rural areas are often also neglected.
She goes on to note the problems caused by "gathering lines" which lack any regulation by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA); serious incidents, like the one in Michigan's Kalamazoo River, which cost $800 million and remains the most expensive pipeline spill in U.S. history; and possible (but expensive) safety measures that may help prevent such incidents in the future.
Read the full report here - http://www.propublica.org/article/pipelines-explained-how-safe-are-americas-2.5-million-miles-of-pipelines - and see Groeger's Pipeline Safety Tracker of major pipeline accidents from 1986 to the present.
Two energy company chief executive officers defended the oil potential of Ohio's Utica shale.
The comments came from Texas-based EnerVest CEO John Walker and Oklahoma-based Gulfport Energy Corp. CEO James Palm and appeared to contradict earlier comments by Cheasapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon.
To read more or comment...The anti-fracking grass-roots group, Concerned Citizens Ohio-Shalersville, will meet on Dec. 1 with four speakers.
The program will be at 7:30 p.m. at the King of Glory Church, 1667 Streetsboro Plaza.
To read more or comment...Chesapeake Energy Corp. got a $2 billion loan, and that has a few Ohioans concerned.
Read more in a report from Crain's Cleveland Business.
To read more or comment...From the American Petroleum Institute:
API Senior Director of Federal Relations Khary Cauthen said on Tuesday that targeting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry for higher taxes could discourage new development, costing jobs, energy production, and eventually even revenue to the government. He said API was running print and broadcast advertising to help educate Americans on the issue:
"As the recent election campaigns demonstrate, Americans are paying attention to energy issues. Taxes on the industry are a key energy issue, and, as our Election Day polling showed, voters are skeptical about targeting the industry for higher taxes. Today, to encourage members of Congress who are part of that conversation with voters, we're launching new television and print advertising inside the beltway and in selected states.
"Targeting our industry for tax hikes is based on a mistaken assumption: that we don't pay our fair share of taxes and are heavily subsidized. In fact, we pay more in corporate taxes than any other sector. And we pay at higher effective tax rates. We deliver more total revenue to the government.
"The oil and natural gas industry is already an engine of revenue for our nation, and it's ready to do its part under broader tax reform. Targeted additional taxes on oil and gas are the wrong approach for what's needed to rebuild our economy and get our fiscal house in order. More energy development produces more jobs, revenue and energy. More taxes produce less of all three."
From the Associated Press:
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has added a disclaimer to its Marcellus shale natural gas reporting web page.
To read more or comment...A press releasse from Food & Water Watch:
A new report released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch takes aim at the oil and gas industry's claim that fracking and drilling for natural gas and tight oil will deliver U.S. energy security. U.S. Energy Insecurity: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas is a False Solution reveals that as of October 26, 2012 the Department of Energy has received 19 proposals to export liquefied natural gas. If approved, these projects would allow the oil and gas industry to sell huge amounts of natural gas overseas—as much as 40 percent of current U.S. consumption.
To read more or comment...Ohio's Utica shale may not produce as much oil as drillers had once envisioned, although energy companies remain very satisfied with the other products they're finding, according to Chesapeake Energy Corp. CE0 Aubrey McClendon.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that McClendon said the Utica shale under eastern Ohio is unlikely to generate a major increase in Chesapeake's oil production.
To read more or comment...The Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management has issued 443 Utita shale drilling permits.
That total is through Nov. 10.
To read more or comment...Vinyls producer Georgia Gulf is the newest company to express an interest in building a cracker facility in the United States.
The companies are interested in building cracker facilities to secure cost-effective ways to get more polyethylene feedstock.
To read more or comment...From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
A Houston, Texas-based gas processing firm is expanding its presence in Ohio and Pennsylvania with a plan to manufacture oil and gas production equipment in Youngstown, Ohio.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio began issuing its first new permits today for deep injection of chemically-laced wastewater from oil and gas drilling since a New Year's Eve quake in Youngstown prompted an unofficial statewide moratorium.
To read more or comment...From Food & Water Watch, a national eco-group. It is displeased with the International Energy Agency's oil and gas analysis:
Here is the statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter:
To read more or comment...A new report by New York water consultant against water leases by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District was released today.
The report by Paul Rubin of Hydro Quest was done for the Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water.
To read more or comment...From NPR's State Impact Texas:
Landfarms are privately-owned but state-regulated fields where "low toxicity waste" is thinly spread then tilled into the soil. The tainted waste is supposed to degrade naturally.
To read more or comment...Columbus-based Battelle will help the state of Ohio assess which technology works best in handling drilling wastewater.
Battelle will be working with the Ohio Environmental Proptection Ageny and the Ohio Department of Natural resources.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
At a meeting of the uber-large Associated Landowners of the Valley (ALOV) landowner group last night in Youngstown, Ohio, lawyer Alan Wenger warned the 500 landowners in the audience that landmen are knocking on doors once again, this time asking landowners already signed to modify their leases.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
A recent shale gas conference held in Cambridge, Ohio on Nov. 10 turned up some surprising and interesting facts. One of those facts: Almost 100 percent of the land in Carroll County has been leased for possible Utica shale drilling, or is being held by production.
To read more or comment...From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
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To read more or comment...from the Marcellus Drilling News:
Very important for landowners in and around Trumbull County, Ohio: Halcon Resources, which took possession of some 31,000 acres of 20-50 year old gas drilling leases in northeastern Ohio, is approaching landowners about amending their leases to allow drilling in the Utica Shale. It's a good opportunity for landowners to make money from drilling, but also a good opportunity to negotiate new protections.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
One month ago Halcon Resources purchased Carrizo Oil & Gas' northern Utica Shale acreage (15,000 acres) for $43 million (see this MDN story). Halcon is not letting any grass grow under their feet. They are already working on their first Utica Shale well—preparing the site—in Trumbull County, OH. When completed, it will be the first active Utica Shale well in the county:
To read more or comment...From FrackCheckWV:
The Responsible Drilling Alliance is planning a series of regional membership meetings; the kick off scheduled for the southern tier this Tuesday November 13th in Montgomery, PA, which is in Lycoming County adjacent to Williamsport, PA.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Oil and gas industry supporters in Colorado say there is conspiring against the gas drilling industry.
To read more or comment..."Ohio's Oil and Gas Opportunity" is the title of a program on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the Ohio School Board Association's conference in Columbus.
A panel of four speakers will explain to school administrators and board members what's happening in the Utica shale in eastern Ohio.
To read more or comment...From the Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, responding to the re-election of President Brack Obama, said his biggest fear is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon try to regulate hydraulic fracturing or fracking in Ohio.
From the Associated Press:
Glenn Paulson, the EPA's science advisor, said Friday that a progress report on the study — mandated by Congress in 2010 — should be released before the end of the year, and a final report in 2014. He spoke at a University of Pittsburgh conference on health impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
The U.S. Department of the Interior scaled back a Bush administration plan Friday to lease Western range lands for development of oil shale and tar sands, the unconventional sources of oil found in pockets of the Rocky Mountains.
To read more or comment...A Texas-based energy company and its parent are working to complete the sale of a key portion of eastern Ohio holdings, but the deals on an estimated 539,000 acres at the heart of Ohio's Utica shale are not yet finalized.
EV Energy Partners LP, the publicly traded arm of privately held EnerVest Ltd., expects to complete the sales before Dec. 31, founder and executive chairman John B. Walker said Friday in a teleconference about the company's third-quarter earnings.
To read more or comment...From Columbus Business First and reporter Jeff Bell:
Ohio's hopes of landing a coveted "cracker" plant and the jobs and capital investment it would generate may not be dead after all.
To read more or comment...The Ohio Energy Resources Alliance and Energy in Depth-Ohio will be in Akron on Monday, Nov. 12, to thank members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 18.
The union members will be hailed for their leadership in working to maximize job opportunities in Ohio's Utica shale.
To read more or comment...Buckeye Mineral Development will hold an invitation-only meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in Youngstown.
The meeting of several thousand Ohio landowners will be held at the Covelli Centre.
To read more or comment...From Columbus Business First and Jeff Bell:
Ohio has entered the same league as western Pennsylvania and West Virginia when it comes to drilling activity for shale gas and oil.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
PITTSBURGH — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say a water quality problem in the Monongahela River that may have been linked to Marcellus shale natural gas drilling is going away.
To read more or comment...From the Denver Post:
A western Colorado water district is fighting for rights to divert and store huge amounts of water from the White River — enough to sustain a large city — for uses that include oil shale industrial development.
To read more or comment...From the Cleveland Plain Dealer and reporter Robert Schoenberger:
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An influential shale gas researcher said his early estimates of 1 million U.S. manufacturing jobs created by the ongoing energy boom may have been overly conservative.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
Bill Powers, editor and writer of the Powers Energy Investor newsletter and someone who has sat on the board of three oil and gas companies and has been an active investor for 25 years, says shale gas supplies in the U.S. have been vastly overhyped.
To read more or comment...Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, have installed a new billboard to attempt to sway New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The message from Artists Against Fracking is: Governor Cuomo, Imagine there's no fracking.
To read more or comment...Case Western Reserve University School of Law is holding a day-long look at legal issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing or fracking on Nov. 16.
The program, "The Law and Policy of Hydraulic Fracturing: Addressing the Issues of the Natural Gas Boom," will run from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the moot courtroom (A59) at the law school on Cleveland's east side.
To read more or comment...1. Gulfport Energy Corp. reports that its first six horizontal wells in Ohio's Utica shale are averaging


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Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport
Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport is the busiest airport in Poland, handling more than half of the nation's air traffic, with over nine million passengers passing through the airport annually. Located just 10 km (6 miles) south-west of central Warsaw, journey time to the centre often hinges on the traffic, although it will rarely take more than 15 to 30 minutes.
Distance from city centre
10 km (6 miles) south-west of central Warsaw.
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The airport has four car parks, including short stay and long stay; all four are within five minutes' walk of the terminal. Charges range from Zl6 for one hour in P3 to a good-value Zl140 for eight days of parking in P4.
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+48 22 650 4220
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KLM operates out of Terminal A, with flights bound for Amsterdam. Fly to Amsterdam Schiphol to connect with long-haul and pan-European flights.
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Terminal A handles all flights from three gates designated North, Central and South Piers.
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Hello Forum, Uberman here with some news. Two days ago I got bored and went to Incredipede.com and emailed Colin to see when it would come out, he then said:
Incredipede will be released at the end of October! I'm really excited about it. The game is playing and looking really good.
There will be a preview article in PC Magazine at the end of August. That'll be the first place you can get a look at the new graphics.
Hope everyone is excited for this release.
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, Jan. 31) Research on a decade of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. shows 46% were caused by produce, with produce accounting for 23% of food-related deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Data from 1998-2008 is included in a paper written by CDC officials and published in the journal "Emerging Infectious Diseases" online at tinyurl.com/CDC-foodborne-report.
However, another recent report from CDC included good news about food-related illnesses. It says the number of foodborne disease outbreaks reported in 2009 and 2010 declined 32% compared with the mean of the preceding five years.
The information in the CDC's so-called illness attribution report needs to be considered in context, said David Gombas, senior vice president of food safety and technology for the United Fresh Produce Association, Washington, D.C.
Gombas"It is important to get this information out," Gombas said, "but consumers need to remember that the industry has put a lot of new provisions in place since 2008 to improve food safety."
Gombas also said the research demonstrates how much work is left to be done, especially in the area of education for those in the industry, as well as consumers.
"A lot of produce-related illnesses result from mishandling by consumers — the so-called church supper symdrome," Gombas said, referring to foods being left at room temperature too long.
Kathy Means, vice president for government relations and public affairs for the Produce Marketing Association, Newark, Del., agreed with Gombas about the context of the CDC information.
Means"This isn't news news," Means said. "It's just packaged differently.
"Outbreaks linked to produce have spurred us to make food safety a top priority and to put that commitment into action. In the intervening five years, we've made great strides in food safety."
Means pointed to the founding of Center for Produce Safety (CPS) at the University of California-Davis and millions of dollars the industry has invested to discover practical solutions to food safety.
The executive director of the CPS, Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, said the timing of the CDC's information is fortuitous.


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Downtown NYC edge defines Monica Botkier's luxurious collection of designer handbags and rebel-chic women's footwear. A native New Yorker and photographer by trade, Botkier derives inspiration for her leather totes, hobo bags, satchels, and seductive boots and shoes from the sights and sounds of Manhattan, in rich shades like burgundy, emerald and wine. Styles like the Trigger — a metallic Italian cowhide crossbody bag — and the Valentina, available as either a shoulder bag or a satchel, feature roomy interior pockets and just the right amount of decorative metal hardware. Botkier's celebrity fans include Blake Lively and Angelina Jolie: two women who bring out the bad-girl wannabe in more than a few of us. But Botkier's more about doing good than being bad, designing pieces to benefit arts and children's charities. Though she shifted her career focus in 2003 from photography to fashion and accessories design, Botkier still shoots all her ad campaigns herself.


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Who should attend: CKS students, alumni, lay ecclesial ministers, deacons, religious, priests and others wishing to come to the seminary's peaceful setting for a special encounter with the Lord. Those who minister to other people need to minister to themselves.
Retreat Directors: Scheduled directors include Sr. Mary Ellen Twist, RSM, Rev. Richard Reina, and Rev. Msgr. James Wall, who are highly trained and experienced in Ignatian-style retreats. A period of time is set aside for you to meet with your director each day.
Program: This is a silent retreat. There is flexibility in the program to meet your unique needs. Optional daily activities include Eucharist and evening prayer. The campus offers beautiful natural spaces with trails, open fields and woods in which to walk and meditate.
Accommodations: Most, but not all, of the rooms are air-conditioned.
ScheduleSunday, July 64:00 – 5:30 pm Arrival5:30 Dinner7:00 Opening Gathering
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When your children imagine that they're parents to their own kids or just adults running errands, give them toys that support their imaginative play. Big wheels might do the trick for tiny toddlers, but once they start growing they want toys that excite them. Powered vehicle toys are the perfect solution. Sears carries battery operated cars that are kid-size replicas of actual cars on the road. Choose from brands like Mercedes and Ferrari, and models like the Camaro and Escalade to bring a real-life driving feel to playtime.
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Zebra chip disease doesn't pose a serious threat to the Idaho potato crop, but the industry is focusing efforts on it since it has been found in scattered Idaho potato fields this season.
It's just another pest, such as late blight or Colorado potato beetle, growers will have to learn to manage, said Erik Wenninger, assistant professor of entomology at University of Idaho Kimberly Research and Extension Center.
"Growers have been hit with one problem after another over the years, and this is just another issue that we'll have to learn to live with," he said.
Wenninger said he didn't believe zebra chip in Idaho would be as serious a threat as it is in Texas, where potato psyllids — the insects that spread the disease — are present most of the growing season. As a result, the plants can be infected at a much younger age, increasing damage.
Still, Wenninger said he and fellow researchers have a lot to learn about the pest's behavior in Idaho.
Joseph Munyaneza, Agricultural Research ServiceZebra chip disease affects the way potatoes store sugars and starches, creating discoloration when the tubers are baked.Until last year, for example, they believed potato psyllids didn't overwinter in the Pacific Northwest, instead migrating into the region during late summer.
Whether because of last year's mild weather or another factor, potato psyllids overwintered from 2011 to 2012, he said.
Zebra chip 101
Potato psyllids — insects about the size of green peach aphids — spread zebra chip when they feed on an infected potato plant, pick up the bacterium and then feed on a healthy one.
The zebra chip organism, known scientifically as Liberibacter solanacearum, changes the way the potato plant stores starches and sugars in tubers. It is harmless to humans or other animals.
When potatoes are cooked at high temperatures, such as during frying, the sugars caramelize, causing brown stripes.
The disease also affects plant growth and reduces overall tuber yield.
When the disease was first confirmed in Texas in 2000, many considered it a chipping problem or a Texas problem.
Since then, both the disease and the potato psyllid have spread to most potato-producing states and have been found in fresh-market, processing, chipping and seed potatoes.
Research conducted by Texas A&M University also has shown that no potato variety is resistant to the disease, although some varieties are mores susceptible than others.
The University of Idaho received a $109,000 grant this fall from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help monitor potato fields for psyllids.


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Investigate the sudden and mysterious disappearance of a carnival magician in Clairvoyant: The Magician Mystery! Use your clairvoyant instincts to lead you through a dark carnival atmosphere as you interview shady characters and play carnival games unraveling the truth behind the three-ring mystery in this colorful Hidden Object game!
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Six Flags Great Escape is the premier amusement park in the Adirondacks. The Motel Montreal sells discount admission tickets up to 40% off the gate price. Savings vary by date and age. Call the hotel at (518) 668-5439 for more information and to take part in this great deal.
There is nothing quite as marvelous as taking-in the scenic views of Lake George from the bow of the Minne-Ha-Ha or one of her sister ships. The Motel Montreal is a proud distributor of the Lake George Steamboat Company's cruise tickets at discounted prices. Inquire at the hotel's front desk and save some money on your Lake George cruise.
Fort William Henry has attracted visitors to Lake George Village since its construction in 1755 and was made famous by James Fenimore Cooper in the Last of the Mohicans. The museum is a short distance from the hotel and offers guided tours and antique munitions demonstrations.
Beat the heat and cool down on one of Water Slide World's 35 slides. The park is located on the southern end of Lake George Village,a short distance (about 5 minutes) from the hotel. We sell discount tickets to Water Slide World, so inquire at the hotel's frontdesk and save some money during your vacation to Lake George.
Looking for something exciting for the whole family? How about a night at the Painted Pony Rodeo? Kick-off the evening with a BBQ Buffet, then dust off your boots and mosey on over to the corral for a real rodeo. The Painted Pony Rodeo is located just outside of the village in Lake Luzerne, New York and is a 10-15 minute drive from the hotel. The hotel sells discount tickets to the Painted Pony Rodeo.
The mountains surrounding Lake George Village offer short hikes with stunning views of the Adirondacks. The Adirondack Park spans a large portion of Northeastern New York State and is a perfect place to view the fall foliage. The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York are a haven for outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds. Visitors can hike the nation's largest trail system, with amazing Adirondack scenery and mountain summits, cascading waterfalls and forest glades. Visitors can canoe, kayak, boat, swim, and fish the Adirondack Park's 3,000 lakes and ponds, rivers and streams.
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The hotel is 200 feet from the Lake Avenue Beach, a small but secluded beach that only Lake George natives know about (until now). Just a short stroll from the hotel is Shepard's Park Beach. Shepard's Park Beach is centrally located near all of the Lake George Village restaurants, shops, museums, arcades and amusements. Travel further down the road and you will find Million Dollar Beach, a family friendly beach in Lake George Village with trained lifeguards on duty and a boardwalk with pizza, ice cream, miniature golf, archages and other amusements.
When the sun goes down, the village heats-up. Dance the night away to live music or relax on a deck overlooking the lake and enjoy the Thursday night fireworks. The hotel is within walking distance of all the shops, restuarants, arcades and amusements that Lake George Village has to offer.
Adirondack Water Ski & Wakeboard School is the premiere water sports school located on Lake George. Whether you are looking to try water skiing, wakeboarding, wake surfing, wake skating, or go tubing for the first time or you have been doing it for years, their certified instructors can improve your technique in a safe and enjoyable environment.
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The Jews reproved for their idolatry. (1-8) Yet deliverance is promised them. (9-15) Solemn warnings of judgment upon those who persisted in evil. (16-22)
Verses 1-8 The Jews valued themselves on descent from Jacob, and used the name of Jehovah as their God. They prided themselves respecting Jerusalem and the temple, yet there was no holiness in their lives. If we are not sincere in religion, we do but take the name of the Lord in vain. By prophecy they were shown how God would deal with them, long before it came to pass. God has said and done enough to prevent men's boasting of themselves, which makes the sin and ruin of the proud worse; sooner or later every mouth shall be stopped, and all become silent before Him. We are all born children of disobedience. Where original sin is, actual sin will follow. Does not the conscience of every man witness to the truth of Scripture? May the Lord prove us, and render us doers of the word.
Verses 9-15 We have nothing ourselves to plead with God, why he should have mercy upon us. It is for his praise, to the honour of his mercy, to spare. His bringing men into trouble was to do them good. It was to refine them, but not as silver; not so thoroughly as men refine silver. If God should take that course, they are all dross, and, as such, might justly be put away. He takes them as refined in part only. Many have been brought home to God as chosen vessels, and a good work of grace begun in them, in the furnace of affliction. It is comfort to God's people, that God will secure his own honour, therefore work deliverance for them. And if God delivers his people, he cannot be at a loss for instruments to be employed. God has formed a plan, in which, for his own sake, and the glory of his grace, he saves all that come to Him.
Verses 16-22 The Holy Spirit qualifies for service; and those may speak boldly, whom God and his Spirit send. This is to be applied to Christ. He was sent, and he had the Spirit without measure. Whom God redeems, he teaches; he teaches to profit by affliction, and then makes them partakers of his holiness. Also, by his grace he leads them in the way of duty; and by his providence he leads in the way of deliverance. God did not afflict them willingly. If their sins had not turned them away, their peace should have been always flowing and abundant. Spiritual enjoyments are ever joined with holiness of life and regard to God's will. It will make the misery of the disobedient the more painful, to think how happy they might have been. And here is assurance given of salvation out of captivity. Those whom God designs to bring home to himself, he will take care of, that they want not for their journey. This is applicable to the grace laid up for us in Jesus Christ, from whom all good flows to us, as the water to Israel out of the rock, for that Rock was Christ. The spiritual blessings of redemption, and the rescue of the church from antichristian tyranny, are here pointed to. But whatever changes take place, the Lord warned impenitent sinners that no good would come to them; that inward anguish and outward trouble, which spring from guilt and from the Divine wrath, must be their portion for ever.
Isaiah 48:1-22 . THE THINGS THAT BEFALL BABYLON JEHOVAH PREDICTED LONG BEFORE, LEST ISRAEL SHOULD ATTRIBUTE THEM, IN ITS "OBSTINATE" PERVERSITY, TO STRANGE GODS ( Isaiah 48:1-5 ).
1. the waters of Judah--spring from the fountain of Judah ( Numbers 24:7 , Deuteronomy 33:28 , Psalms 68:26 ; Margin). Judah has the "fountain" attributed to it, because it survived the ten tribes, and from it Messiah was to spring.
swear by . . . Lord--( Isaiah 19:18 , 45:23 , 65:16 ).
mention--in prayers and praises.
not in truth--( Jeremiah 5:2 , John 4:24 ).
2. For--Ye deserve these reproofs; "for" ye call yourselves citizens of "the holy city" ( Isaiah 52:1 ), but not in truth ( Isaiah 48:1 , Nehemiah 11:1 , Daniel 9:24 ); so the inscription on their coins of the time of the Maccabees. "Jerusalem the Holy."
3. former--things which have happened in time past to Israel ( Isaiah 42:9 , Isaiah 44:7 Isaiah 44:8 , 45:21 , 46:10 ).
suddenly--They came to pass so unexpectedly that the prophecy could not have resulted from mere human sagacity.
4. obstinate--Hebrew, "hard" ( Deuteronomy 9:27 , Ezekiel 3:7 , Margin).
iron sinew--inflexible ( Acts 7:51 ).
brow brass--shameless as a harlot (see Jeremiah 6:28 , 3:3 , Ezekiel 3:7 , Margin).
6. Thou, &c.--So "ye are my witnesses" ( Isaiah 43:10 ). Thou canst testify the prediction was uttered long before the fulfilment: "see all this," namely, that the event answers to the prophecy.
declare--make the fact known as a proof that Jehovah alone is God ( Isaiah 44:8 ).
new things--namely, the deliverance from Babylon by Cyrus, new in contradistinction from former predictions that had been fulfilled ( Isaiah 42:9 , 43:19 ). Antitypically, the prophecy has in view the "new things" of the gospel treasury ( Solomon 7:13 , Matthew 13:52 , 2 Corinthians 5:17 , Revelation 21:5 ). From this point forward, the prophecies as to Messiah's first and second advents and the restoration of Israel, have a new circumstantial distinctness, such as did not characterize the previous ones, even of Isaiah. Babylon, in this view, answers to the mystical Babylon of Revelation.
hidden--which could not have been guessed by political sagacity ( Daniel 2:22 Daniel 2:29 , 1 Corinthians 2:9 1 Corinthians 2:10 ).
7. Not like natural results from existing causes, the events when they took place were like acts of creative power, such as had never before been "from the beginning."
even before the day when--rather [MAURER], "And before the day (of their occurrence) thou hast not heard of them"; that is, by any human acuteness; they are only heard of by the present inspired announcement.
8. heardest not--repeated, as also "knewest not," from Isaiah 48:7 .
from that time--Mine anger towards thee. Omit "that." "Yea, from "the first thine ear did not open itself," namely, to obey them [ROSENMULLER]. "To open the ear" denotes obedient attention ( Isaiah 50:5 ); or, "was not opened" to receive them; that is, they were not declared by Me to thee previously, since, if thou hadst been informed of them, such is thy perversity, thou couldst not have been kept in check [MAURER]. In the former view, the sense of the words following is, "For I knew that, if I had not foretold the destruction of Babylon so plainly that there could be no perverting of it, thou wouldst have perversely ascribed it to idols, or something else than to Me" ( Isaiah 48:5 ). Thus they would have relapsed into idolatry, to cure them of which the Babylonian captivity was sent: so they had done ( Exodus 32:4 ). After the return, and ever since, they have utterly forsaken idols.
wast called--as thine appropriate appellation ( Isaiah 9:6 ).
from the womb--from the beginning of Israel's national existence ( Isaiah 44:2 ).
9. refrain--literally, "muzzle"; His wrath, after the return, was to be restrained a while, and then, because of their sins, let loose again ( Psalms 78:38 ).
for thee--that is, that--omit "that": "From thee."
11. how should my name--MAURER, instead of "My name" from Isaiah 48:9 , supplies "My glory" from the next clause; and translates, "How (shamefully) My glory has been profaned!" In English Version the sense is, "I will refrain ( Isaiah 48:9 , that is, not utterly destroy thee), for why should I permit My name to be polluted, which it would be, if the Lord utterly destroyed His elect people" ( Ezekiel 20:9 )?
not give my glory unto another--If God forsook His people for ever, the heathen would attribute their triumph over Israel to their idols; so God's glory would be given to another.
12-15. The Almighty, who has founded heaven and earth, can, and will, restore His people.
the first . . . last--( Isaiah 41:4 , 44:6 ).
13. spanned--measured out ( Isaiah 40:12 ).
when I call . . . stand up together--( Isaiah 40:26 , Jeremiah 33:25 ). But it is not their creation so much which is meant, as that, like ministers of God, the heavens and the earth are prepared at His command to execute His decrees ( Psalms 119:91 ) [ROSENMULLER].
14. among them--among the gods and astrologers of the Chaldees ( Isaiah 41:22 , 43:9 , 44:7 ).
Lord . . . loved him; he will, &c.--that is, "He whom the Lord hath loved will do," &c. [LOWTH]; namely, Cyrus ( Isaiah 44:28 , Isaiah 45:1 Isaiah 45:13 , 46:11 ). However, Jehovah's language of love is too strong to apply to Cyrus, except as type of Messiah, to whom alone it fully applies ( Revelation 5:2-5 ).
his pleasure--not Cyrus' own, but Jehovah's.
15. brought--led him on his way.
he--change from the first to the third person [BARNES]. Jehovah shall make his (Cyrus') way prosperous.
16. not . . . in secret--( Isaiah 45:19 ). Jehovah foretold Cyrus' advent, not with the studied ambiguity of heathen oracles, but plainly.
from the time, &c.--From the moment that the purpose began to be accomplished in the raising up of Cyrus I was present.
sent me--The prophet here speaks, claiming attention to his announcement as to Cyrus, on the ground of his mission from God and His Spirit. But he speaks not in his own person so much as in that of Messiah, to whom alone in the fullest sense the words apply ( Isaiah 61:1 , John 10:36 ). Plainly, Isaiah 49:1 , which is the continuation of the forty-eighth chapter, from Isaiah 48:16 , where the change of speaker from God ( Isaiah 48:1 Isaiah 48:12-15 ) begins, is the language of Messiah. Luke 4:1 Luke 4:14 Luke 4:18 , shows that the Spirit combined with the Father in sending the Son: therefore "His Spirit" is nominative to "sent," not accusative, following it.
17. teacheth . . . to profit--by affliction, such as the Babylonish captivity, and the present long-continued dispersion of Israel ( Hebrews 12:10 ).
18. peace--( Psalms 119:165 ). Compare the desire expressed by the same Messiah ( Matthew 23:37 , Luke 19:42 ).
river--( Isaiah 33:21 , 41:18 ), a river flowing from God's throne is the symbol of free, abundant, and ever flowing blessings from Him ( Ezekiel 47:1 , Zechariah 14:8 , Revelation 22:1 ).
righteousness--religious prosperity; the parent of "peace" or national prosperity; therefore "peace" corresponds to "righteousness" in the parallelism ( Isaiah 32:17 ).
19. sand--retaining the metaphor of "the sea" ( Isaiah 48:18 ).
like the gravel thereof--rather, as the Hebrew, "like that (the offspring) of its (the sea's) bowels"; referring to the countless living creatures, fishes, &c., of the sea, rather than the gravel [MAURER]. JEROME, Chaldee, and Syriac support English Version.
his name . . . cut off--transition from the second person, "thy," to the third "his." Israel's name was cut off "as a nation" during the Babylonish captivity; also it is so now, to which the prophecy especially looks ( Romans 11:20 ).
20. Go . . . forth . . . end of the earth--Primarily, a prophecy of their joyful deliverance from Babylon, and a direction that they should leave it when God opened the way. But the publication of it "to the ends of the earth" shows it has a more world-wide scope antitypically; Revelation 18:4 shows that the mystical Babylon is ultimately meant.
redeemed . . . Jacob--( Isaiah 43:1 , Isaiah 44:22 Isaiah 44:23 ).
21. Ezra, in describing the return, makes no mention of God cleaving the rock for them in the desert [KIMCHI]. The circumstances, therefore, of the deliverance from Egypt ( Exodus 17:6 , Numbers 20:11 , Psalms 78:15 , 105:41 ) and of that from Babylon, are blended together; the language, while more immediately referring to the latter deliverance, yet, as being blended with circumstances of the former not strictly applicable to the latter, cannot wholly refer to either, but to the mystic deliverance of man under Messiah, and literally to the final restoration of Israel.
22. Repeated ( Isaiah 57:21 ). All the blessings just mentioned ( Isaiah 48:21 ) belong only to the godly, not to the wicked. Israel shall first cast away its wicked unbelief before it shall inherit national prosperity ( Zechariah 12:10-14 , Zechariah 13:1 Zechariah 13:9 , Zechariah 14:3 Zechariah 14:14 Zechariah 14:20 Zechariah 14:21 ). The sentiment holds good also as to all wicked men ( Job 15:20-25 Job 15:31-34 ).


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Our Brooks rep Scott Young came in to show us the spring 2010 lineup of Brooks shoes this past week and the overall impression was very good for the updated models.
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The wooden soldiers are lined up straight — for now — in one of the classic routines from the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular."
When: Through Dec. 30
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I was living in New York City, and not yet in kindergarten, when my mother and I took the subway from Queens to Manhattan for my first encounter with the "Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular." At that time, the stage show by the Rockettes came paired with a movie. Oddly enough, I remember very little of the live show, but the movie — the premiere of "Hans Christian Andersen," starring Danny Kaye — remains etched in my imagination.
I recalled all this as I watched the brief video history of the Rockettes that is part of the the touring edition of the "Christmas Spectacular" running through Dec. 30 at the Akoo Theatre in Rosemont. As it unspooled in a decidedly Midwestern suburban venue this weekend, I also realized that my initial experience of this enduring showbiz artifact came during its heyday — a time when New York itself seemed to be the eighth wonder of the world. Radio City almost went bankrupt in the socially shifting 1970s but was soon reborn like the proverbial phoenix.
To be sure, it is the Rockettes that have left a lasting impression this time around. A number of high-tech enhancements have been added to the show involving projections on a 50-foot LED screen, and they serve also as a supremely shrewd advertisment for New York tourism, as well as a brief if shameless advertisement for a sponsoring bank and insurance company.
But it is the astonishing technique and almost superhuman synchronicity of these impossibly leggy dancers that provide the real dazzle. Look carefully and you will notice that its 18 dancers are indeed quite individualistic in looks and personality, but their movements — every kick, every turn of the head, every bend of the knee, every placement of the arm, every meticulously calculated step, every flash of the eye, every seamless shift into formation — are flawless. And their Marine-like precision comes with flashing smiles (and what can only be assumed to be a harakiri impulse in any dancer who missteps).
There also are deliciously deadpan stares in that ever-enchanting early classic, "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," so brilliantly choreographed by Russel Markert (though it's even better when seen with 36 dancers on the line); winking looks in the opening "Sleighride" (in which the Rockettes are decked out as Santa's glowingly antlered reindeer); grins of goofy mischief in Scott Salmon's now shopping mall-infused "Ragdolls" number, and pure, high-intensity tap antics in "Twelve Days of Christmas."
Linda Haberman's "New York at Christmas," the show's big "new number," finds the Rockettes cavorting on a bright red double-decker sightseeing bus that appears to travel through midtown as it leaves Radio City, drives along Fifth Avenue, passes Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral, enters a snow-dusted Central Park, and then heads back down Broadway to Times Square. The engaging ensemble of 12 non-Rockette dancers arrive for this number in a deft mix of street clothes, providing the show's only nod to ethnic diversity. They also are at the heart of the "Nutcracker" number in which they incongruously dance the ballet classic in giant bear costumes.
The Nativity scene is kept relatively brief, but is awash in pageantry and a parade of lavish jewel-toned costumes that seem lifted right off the most ravishing of Renaissance canvases. It's the New Testament story, with no attempt at all-inclusive religious/political correctness. Downright "vintage," you might say.
One off-key note: While the New York production of the "Christmas Spectacular" features a live, 40-piece orchestra, here, all the music is canned. It's up to the Rockettes to generate their own terrific vibrations.


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The mystery of Donald Frizzle, solved.
After I posted this morning, about the telegram exchanged between Kay and Donald, I went on my merry way. I visited the local TARGET and post office. When I came home, there was a comment from my friend and reader, Kate.
Kate had located, through the power of Google, the obituary of Donald Frizzle. I knew things like this weren't impossible, considering the wealth of information online, but it was very exciting to learn about him. I began reading, immediately. I became immersed in the story of Donald and his life, his childhood, his enlistment in the US Air Force and his eventual attendance at Trinity University, in Texas.
And then I saw it.
While at Trinity, Donald met and married a woman named Kay.
It was her! They were in love and I had solved a piece of the mystery!
But I read on. I knew this story wasn't over and I could feel that-I knew something else would happen.
At the bottom of the obituary, it said that he was survived by his wife Kay B. Frizzle, of Sedona, AZ. There was a chance she was still alive and so I drew a deep breath and googled her. Instantly, I found a few addresses and phone numbers. One of the listings had a Donald Frizzle as the next of kin and so I took that as a safe indication this was the right one, so I picked up the phone. I drew another breath {much deeper than before} and dialed the numbers.
Much to my disappointment, the number had been disconnected. I was sad, but knew that to learn of Donalds life was enough and I was very content to have read about such a interesting and special man.
Even still, I couldn't help but do another search. I felt that there had to be more out there. And there was. I found an alternate number. Still in Arizona, but different.
Again, I dialed and this time.....someone answered.
A weak and fragile voice said, "Hello?"
I began to cry when I asked, "Is this Kay Frizzle?" and she quietly answered, "Why yes it is."
I was talking to Kay.
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"Well, I can't believe it. I can't believe you have that and it made its way to you."
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"I am so sorry" was all I could think to say. I followed with, "Would you mind if I sent this to you? Please?"
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And so tomorrow, I will go to the post office, with a package for Kay.
But today. Today I experienced so much joy that I want to hold on to for a very very long time. Today I was reminded that just because something is old, unused or left for trash, doesn't mean that it isn't of immeasurable value to someone else.
We just need to be the ones that are willing to see its beauty, amongst the rubbish.
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- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Hi Rachel, This story had me crying from the get go! What an amazing story... And good for you for going to the effort to track down Kay. What a huge blessing for you to be the person to bring Kay a little joyful memory.
I'm a real life friend of Janna-we live in the same town-and I've been following you at No.17 when Joanne posted about her visit with you a few years ago. Janna told me you were blogging again--so I was thrilled to find you creating on-line.
I had probably 20 international pen pals as a teenager and kept in touch for a decade. Now a few of us are email pals. Nothing beats a personal letter! That's why I love Christmas cards. Running to the mailbox and seeing a personal handwritten address makes my heart skips a beat. Thanks for the inspiration! Paula Romer - AnonymousFebruary 20, 2013 at 7:15 PM
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