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"Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords..."
"Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords..."
"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice, not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany." The opening line of A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
I also love the last line of this book, "O God, please give him back. I shall keep asking you." I am not a Christian and I don't believe in God, but just thinking about this live sometimes moves me to tears. As does this line from The Lord of the Rings "I will take the ring, though I do not know the way."
"Are you gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie? The Outlaw Josey Wales
"For who could ever learn to love a beast?"
I couldn't get my mind off you all day.
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"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" - Cloud Atlas
"How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all." - Atonement
"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." - Fahrenheit 451
come now, my child. if we were planning to harm you, do you think
we'd be lurking here beside the path in the darkest part of the forest?
"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." - Casablanca
"Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup." - Sunset Boulevard
What would Buddah do?
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!!
I don't think were in Kansas anymore
Cough,cough...I think I have the black lung.
From the best movie ever...Zoolander.
Up to a point, Lord Copper.
(Scoop, Evelyn Waugh)
Well this is another fine mess you've gotten us into.
Olliver Hardy.
Describing a guy who'd been beaten up:
He looked like he'd been hit through the face by a sack-full of God.
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Scary Movie (after Cindy offers a homeless man a sandwich): "I said a dollar, BITCH!"
Five Easy Pieces (restaurant scene) where Jack Nicholson says: "You see this sign...?" Classic.
Zed's dead baby....Zed's dead.
"I have a gun, and I can turn you from a rooster to a hen in one shot!"
(Dolly Parton's character in Nine to Five, and I'm paraphrasing.)
Brad's Search - 70,000 words and counting!
In response to the question: "Doesn't that itch?" after falling into poison ivy.
"I feel like Lindsey Lohan's pussy."
Eating Out 4: Drama Camp
"I'll be right here...." from ET.
"Nothin's in it. It's pure ol Lipton's tea. Drink it, Rosemary." - Ruth Gordon in 'Rosemary's Baby'
"This is some shit, up with which we will not put!" - Brenda in 'Scary Movie 4'
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." - Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House
Someone asked me once how I could know that I'm gay if I've never slept with a woman. I've never shoved shards of glass into my eye, either, but I don't have to give it a shot to know that it's not for me.
Book the opening and closing lines of Tale of Two Cities. Movie Louie this beginning of great frienship/ Casablanca
"I'm not bad Mr. Valiant, I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit-Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Another great movie line for me is, "gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit?" - Happy Gilmore
"I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight, with a million stars all around."
"Goddammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!" - General Beringer, War Games
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" - President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
What gsdx said. Couldn't have chosen better movie lines. Oh, and:
"Hello, Houston, this is Odyssey. It's good to see you again." Apollo 13.
"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea." (Sydney Smith)
"By all means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me." - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada
"... You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you ..." - Colours of the Wind by Vanessa Williams
Most memorable?
Ah, I forgot about this passage. A downwardly unsettling opening passage for a novel - and surely the best ever written.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill house, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for 80 years and might for 80 more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
come now, my child. if we were planning to harm you, do you think
we'd be lurking here beside the path in the darkest part of the forest?
I forgot about this little gem from the movie Closer. Go watch it. Now. The script is fantastic.
Larry: "Alice, tell me something true."
Alice: "Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off... But it's better if you do."
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It's now well-worn wisdom that the best investment a country can make is in its women and girls. Well-worn, but not necessarily ubiquitous.
Though the concept is gaining traction through awareness raising tools such as the recently premiered film Half the Sky (a PBS documentary helmed by New York Times columnist and author of the book by the same name, Nicholas Kristof) we often struggle to find consensus on the importance of investing in women and girls as a pathway to prosperity and security both at home and abroad, rather than as an afterthought to be squeezed in if the budgetor status quoallows.
Enter International Day of the Girl Child, a newly launched campaign holding as its mission, "To help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls' lives, providing an opportunity for them to show leadership and reach their full potential."
In the UN General Assembly Resolution declaring October 11, 2012, the first annual International Day of the Girl Child, it was recognized "that empowerment of and investment in girls, which are critical for economic growth, the achievement of all Millennium Development Goals, including the eradication of poverty and extreme poverty, as well as the meaningful participation of girls in decisions that affect them, are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights." This year's theme, Ending Child Marriage, highlights the fact that an estimated 64 million women are married before the age of 18; one-third of those are married before age 16. In developing countries, the leading cause of death for girls ages 15-19 is pregnancy-related complications. And 90 percent of births to girls in that age group happen within marriage.
A few days before our first ever International Day of the Girl Child, CARE President/CEO Helene Gayle passed through Chicago in advance of her Chicago Ideas Week panel discussion on "Giving: One Matters." Before she shared the stage with Edward Norton, she took a few minutes to share her perspective on the need to invest in girls, on the importance of ending child marriage, and how we, as Chicagoans, can help put these principles into action today.
What does "International Day of the Girl Child" mean to you?
It's a great opportunity to raise awareness around the issues related to girls. There's a lot of focus on how women are making a difference in the world, but we haven't paid enough attention to the fact that if you can make a difference in girls, you have an even greater impact, because you're really looking at how you tackle things at the very initial stages. If you educate a girl, her whole future changes. It will change her family's future and it will really make her a different woman.
Why is ending child marriage a pertinent theme with which to launch this day?
One of the reason that child marriage is an important issue is that it really helps the world focus on a variety of different ways in which girls and adolescents aren't able to reach their full potential. The idea that a 13- or 14-year-old girl is forced into marriage is something that wakes people up. Within child marriage are a lot of issues: The issue of girls not having access to education, not having their life as equally valued as sons. It highlights what happens to young girls when they are married and forced into starting families when their bodies aren't mature; it often leads to things like exposure to sexually transmitted diseases, HIV or fistula. Focusing on child marriage allows us to look at these other issues as well, whether it's education of girls, healthcare, access to health services, all the things that can make a difference in the life of a girl. The approach to ending child marriage is an integrated approach.
When I attended the CARE National Conference in 2010, one of the bills being discussed was the International Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2009. That bill failed to pass, partially amid last-minute concerns that "funding will be directed to NGOs that promote and perform abortion and efforts to combat child marriage could be usurped as a way to overturn pro-life laws." Now, that bill has been reintroduced as the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2012. How do you feel about where it stands today?
The support is gathering. In this time when there's so much concern around our debt and public spending, there was a lot of concern about the financial side of it (in 2010). In some people's minds, it was linked to other controversial issues. But there was bipartisan support, there was support even among fairly conservative members of both parties. Most people, when they think about a 13- or 14-year-old girl, they think about their own daughters, and whether they'd want their own daughters to end up in a situation like this.
The bill is moving forward. We're happy that there's both congressional support for the bill as well as within the administration and Secretary Clinton – her department is taking a real leadership role in looking at ways beyond just legislation [in regard to] prevention of child marriage.
What will the bill do?
One, provide technical capacity to help communities understand why this is a harmful practice and provide resources for educating girls. A lot of it is focused on educating communities, working with families, educating girls, giving them opportunities. And also looking at enforcing laws. Many of these countries already have laws that prohibit underage marriage, but they aren't upheld, citizens don't know about them, they don't know that they can hold their governments accountable for enforcing these laws. It's a comprehensive approach: looking at the policies, making sure families and communities are aware of their rights, and making sure that girls have access to education so they can have a different future.
Expand on that last point. How do you work to ensure that laws are enforced and families are aware of their rights?
First, educating communities about the harmful nature of the practice. And then, giving communities support to start looking at changing those (practices). If child marriage is something that's done within a community, within a culture, working with those communities to start understanding the dynamics of child marriage. Sometimes it's just educating a population around that, and then educating them about their rights.
It's also about working with the state department (within a country) to have child marriage something that is reported on, just like human trafficking or other things that we require countries that we do business with to report on. That's another way of putting pressures on governments to actually uphold the laws that they have on the books.
Can you share any success stories?
In an area of Tanzania where child marriage is very prevalent…by working with families, with communities and getting the girls educated, we started to see declines in the rate of child marriage. As simple as it sounds, just educating families and communities around the harmful aspects of their daughters getting married early, and then emphasizing the value of girls and why is it important to get an education so they start changing their ideas and mentalities. We've done that in Ethiopia and India, and other areas where child marriage is very prevalent: working with both the girls themselves – helping them to understand why getting an education is important, what they can do with their lives when they get an education, and using that education – and working with the families, the communities, the educational system. All those things to help reinforce the value of a girl and the value of getting an education, starting a family later in life, using that education to start earning income so that she's seen as a valued member of the community.
I see a lot of commonalities in the themes we're discussing – how education and economic empowerment can help a girl see herself and others see her as a valued part of a community – here at home. What can people in Chicago do to recognize the International Day of the Girl Child and these issues?
We do have some of the same issues here in the U.S., where sometimes girls don't value themselves highly. I think it's a good opportunity for girls in this country to start thinking about what do they want for their future – what their hopes are, what their dreams are – and how they can also start taking the same sorts of steps to have different outcomes and different futures.
And for adults?
Mentor. Take a girl out who may not be a family member, a young girl who you know might value mentorship. Volunteer. Be a big sister. There are a lot of ways men and women can give young girls a sense of hope and a sense of future.*
*If you're interested in mentoring a teen girl in Chicago to help her become confident, college-bound and carer-ready, Step Up Women's Network has Saturday mentoring opportunities available on October 13 and October 27. Sign up on our online calendar, or email Whitney at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Do you want to make Ohio.com your homepage?
XA press release from state Rep. Robert Hagan, D-Youngstown:
COLUMBUS–Mr. Ben Lupo, the man responsible for illegally dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine and oil into the Mahoning River, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for violating the Clean Water Act. State Representative Robert F. Hagan (D-Youngstown) heralded the indictment as an important step towards ensuring justice is served in one of the most egregious cases of pollution in recent memory, but questioned why an individual with a checkered history was permitted to do drilling related business in Ohio.
To read more or comment...From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
A federal grand jury in Cleveland returned an indictment against the owner of an oil and gas drilling company today, charging him with violating the Clean Water Act by dumping more than 20,000 gallons of fracking waste into a river in Youngstown.
To read more or comment...A press release received today from Ohio activists:
Columbus, Ohio—Citizens from across the state, including Concerned Citizens Ohio, will converge in the Statehouse on Wednesday, March 6, to lobby legislators on proposed fracking legislation for Legislator Accountability Day, sponsored by Buckeye Forest Council; Frack Free Ohio; Food & Water Watch; Center for Heath, Environment, and Justice; Ohio Citizen Action and Ohio Sierra Club. The groups are calling for a return of local municipal control over oil and gas activities, emergency medical right-to-know and a ban on liquid waste resulting from fracking. With the nationwide reporting on the Soinski damages to homeowners' properties and the well being of neighbors, the loss of citizens' rights have become urgent here in Portage County.
To read more or comment...At the end of 2011, 6 percent of the United States was leased for gas and oil drilling, according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
It said the 70 largest drilling companies together have leased more than 141 million acres.
To read more or comment...The law firm Benesch Friedlander Coplan and Aronoff with two Ohio offices has released its assessment of what's happening in Ohio's Utica shale.
Click here to read more.
To read more or comment...The U.S. shale gas boom has legs that will last decades, a major new study says.
The Via Meadia blog writes: "A comprehensive new study indicates that the shale gas boom will continue for decades and plateau in 2040. The study, conducted by the University of Texas, looked at 15,000 wells drilled in the Barnett Shale formation."
To read more or comment...From MarkWest Energy:
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2013--
From PDC Energy:
From Susan Phillips of NPR:
E&E Daily reports that Congressmen Lee Terry, R-Neb., and Ed Whitfield, R-Ken., want to introduce a bill that would strip the federal government of all oversight of fracking and leave it up to the states.
To read more or comment...A press release from Texas-based Western Gas Partners LP on new acquisitions from Anadarko and Chesapeake Energy in the Marcellus shale:
To read more or comment...
From the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York Inc.:
Dear Friends and Natural Gas Supporters,
To read more or comment...A press release from America's Natural Gas Alliance:
Washington- America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) today offered praise to the Bipartisan Policy Center for its new report, America's Energy Resurgence: Sustaining Success, Confronting Challenges, which highlights the critical role natural gas must play in America's clean energy future and the significant contributions natural gas is making to a resurgence in America's energy economy.
To read more or comment...Fracking the Bakken shale may be lowering teen pregnancy rates in North Dakota.
Yes, shaking your head and saying "Huh?" is an appropriate response. But a study suggests that an influx of single young men to North Dakota actually contributes to a lower teen pregnancy rate.
To read more or comment...The worker killed on Monday in a drilling accident in Carroll County has been identified by authorities.
Dead is Abdal L. Audeh, 28, of Dover.
To read more or comment...State officials in West Virginia are dealing with a leak of drilling liquids into a creek southeast of Wheeling in Marsjall County.
The creek drains to the Ohio River.
To read more or comment...Carroll Concerned Citizens wil host a gas shale drilling education meeting for landowners on March 7.
The program will begin at 7 p.m. at the Church of Christ, 353 Moody Ave., Carrollton.
To read more or comment...From Gulfport Energy:
A total of 33 drilling rigs are working in eastern Ohio, and that's an increase over recent weeks.
To date, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued 531 Utica shale permits in eastern Ohio.
To read more or comment...The U.S. shale energy boom is real but will prove to be fleeting, argues Randall Udall in a column at The Christian Science Monitor.
Udall writes: "We've been told this is a new era. And that's true, it is. Since your cushy way of life is increasingly dependent on stingy rocks, you should be thankful that the industry geeks have unlocked the dregs.
To read more or comment...The energy infrastructure in the United States needs to be updated so that the shale boom doesn't fail, argues the Via Media blog at The American Interest.
Via Meadia writes: "Our refineries can't handle the high-quality shale oil now being produced in the United States, propping up demand for foreign oil despite abundance at home. And even if we had better refineries, we don't have enough pipelines running from the Midwest, where much of this shale oil is coming from.
To read more or comment...From Reuters:
The contentious $15.1 billion takeover of Canadian oil and gas company Nexen Inc (NXY.TO) by Chinese state-owned entity CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK) closed on Monday, more than seven months after China's largest-ever foreign takeover was announced.
To read more or comment...Here is a copy of a 20-page technical analysis of water availability at Ohio's Seneca Lake.
The report was compiled for the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District by the consulting firm CH2MHill.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
Another post from energy analyst Richard Zeits on the Seeking Alpha website—this time about the tremendous amount of natural gas Cabot Oil & Gas is mining in Susquehanna County, PA. Zeits says the gas Cabot is finding and selling "may be material to the U.S. supply." You read that right. One "little" oil and gas driller's efforts in rural Susquehanna County, PA may well end up influencing the entire U.S. energy picture.
To read more or comment...Last week, the Ohio Petroleum Council named its new executive director.
Tapped was Chris Zeigler, the current chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Columbus.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
If you ever (logically) thought a piece of legislation that's meant to be a budget would only deal with money issues, you would be wrong. Budget laws for decades have been used to slip in all sorts of non-money-related measures. This year's Ohio budget is no different. Tucked away in the proposed budget law from Gov. John Kasich are a number of non-budget items that directly affect Utica Shale drilling in Ohio. The measures include a ban on using brine as a de-icer on public roads, moving from yearly to quarterly production reports, lease transfer 30-day notifications, a $25,000 impact fee on each well drilled (surprise!), and testing of shale cuttings for radioactivity. And you thought budgets were just boring numbers.
To read more or comment...The possible federal sequestration could have a big impact on federal leasing.
In a teleconference with reporters, U.S. Secetary of the Interior Ken Salazar said on Monday that there could be as many as 300 fewer federal gas-and-oil leases processed if the sequestration proceeds.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
When word spread about the potential natural gas riches of the Marcellus Shale, Kimberly More saw it as the hope for saving her horse farm near Binghampton, N.Y.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Several hundred Lithuanians were protesting in the capital against the government's plan to proceed with shale gas exploration.
To read more or comment...From the American Petroleum Institute:
WASHINGTON, February 25, 2013 – Exporting some U.S. natural gas in the form of LNG would be an unequivocal plus for American workers and the economy, API's group director for upstream and industry operations Erik Milito told reporters this afternoon just before API submitted its second round of comments on the issue to the U.S. Department of Energy:
"The bottom line is that the arguments for exports are even stronger than before. An energy revolution is underway in the United States. New technology and the use of that technology are showing we have vastly more energy potential than we thought we had even just a short time ago. The U.S. is awash in natural gas with huge additional productive capacity that could be ramped up in relatively short order to fully supply domestic and likely export markets well into the future.
"The increase in supply potential undercuts the main argument of proponents of restricting exports, which is that DOE used outdated supply data in its analysis that said allowing exports would be beneficial. The most recent data from DOE confirms that supplies will be very robust. This implies there is more than sufficient natural gas to meet domestic and export needs with little adverse impact on prices – and that the net economic benefits of allowing exports are even greater than earlier thought. The critics simply didn't acknowledge what an energy juggernaut the shale gas revolution has become and that it is still growing.
"The case for more exports is clearer than ever, and consistent with basic principles of economics. Trade is good. Exports are good. And if we allow natural gas producers to export natural gas when they find opportunities to do so, American workers and our nation's economy will be better off."
API is a national trade association that represents all segments of America's technology-driven oil and natural gas industry. Its more than 500 members – including large integrated companies, exploration and production, refining, marketing, pipeline, and marine businesses, and service and supply firms – provide most of the nation's energy. The industry also supports 9.2 million U.S. jobs and 7.7 percent of the U.S. economy, delivers $86 million a day in revenue to our government, and, since 2000, has invested over $2 trillion in U.S. capital projects to advance all forms of energy, including alternatives.
From the Associated Press:
Authorities say one man was killed and another was injured in a drilling accident in Carroll County in eastern Ohio.
To read more or comment...From the Business Roundtable:
CEOs from Every Economic Sector Release Comprehensive U.S. Energy Plan
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Three deep hydraulic fracturing wells in northwestern lower Michigan's Kalkaska County have used 42 million gallons of water in the past two years, according to a published report.
To read more or comment...From ProPublica Publications:
ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten reports that Native Americans on an oil-rich reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert.
To read more or comment...Here is the official Chesapeake statement on the Oklahoma lease purchase by Sinopec:
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2013-- Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) and Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (Sinopec) today announced the execution of an agreement which provides for Sinopec to purchase a 50% undivided interest in 850,000 of Chesapeake's net oil and natural gas leasehold acres in the Mississippi Lime play in northern Oklahoma (425,000 acres net to Sinopec). The total consideration for the transaction will be $1.02 billion in cash, of which approximately 93% will be received upon closing. Payment of the remaining proceeds will be subject to certain customary title contingencies. Production from these assets (including Mississippi Lime and other formations), net to Chesapeake's interest and prior to Sinopec's purchase, averaged approximately 34 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day in the 2012 fourth quarter and, as of December 31, 2012, there was approximately 140 million barrels of oil equivalent of net proved reserves associated with the assets. All future exploration and development costs in the joint venture will be shared proportionately between the parties with no drilling carries involved. As the operator of the project, Chesapeake will conduct all leasing, drilling, completion, operations and marketing activities for the joint venture. The transaction is anticipated to be completed in the 2013 second quarter.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
The city of Kent is reaching out to Kent State University in an attempt to create a joint anti-fracking policy.
To read more or comment...From the Public Accountability Initiative on ties beween Pennsylvania state officials and the drilling industry:
The oil and gas industry frequently argues that fracking means jobs. This appears to be especially true for former regulators and other public officials in Pennsylvania.
Michael Baach is fracking mad.
The president and chief executive officer of the Philpott Rubber Co. is strongly opposed to an anti-fracking resolution pending in Brunswick City Council.
To read more or comment...Youngstown's WFMJ has posted a 10-page affadavit by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staffer David Barlow that offers some details on the alleged illegal dumping of drilling wastes by Ben Lupo of Hardrock Excavating on Jan. 31 in Youngstown.
Click here to read the affadavit, a legal document..
To read more or comment...A Thursday press release from two players in Ohio's Utica shale:
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2013--
A grass-roots group in Ohio's Columbiana County is keeping an eye on drillers who want to to draw water from Little Beaver Creek.
The group, Save Beaver Creek State Park, is now keeping tabs on companies that want to take water from the stream, a federal wild and scenic river.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
Chesapeake Energy announced in July 2011, to great fanfare and shouts of joy, that it had hit oil in the Ohio Utica Shale (see Major Discovery – Chesapeake Energy Strikes Oil (and Gas) in Ohio's Utica Shale). Although early results were promising, by the end of 2012 Chesapeake admitted it had "misjudged" the Utica Shale fairway—the best places to drill—and their early enthusiasm seems to have subsided (see Chesapeake Admits Misjudging Ohio Utica Sweet Spot).
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
The 2012 reports continue to roll in. Cabot Oil & Gas has just reported its 2012 report and the results are extraordinary. Cabot joined two different "1 billion" clubs in 2012. First, they surpassed $1 billion in revenues for 2012, earning $1.2 billion. Second, they became the first (and so far only) company to achieve 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas production per day in the Marcellus Shale.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Limited data and unreliable estimates on air pollution from oil and natural gas production is hindering the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to police the drilling boom, the agency's internal watchdog said in a report released Thursday.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
EmberClear GTL MS has completed a technical feasibility study for a possible natural gas-to-liquids project on an 800-acre site along the Mississippi River in Natchez.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A North Carolina state Senate panel agreed Thursday to set a 2015 date for North Carolina's first fracking permits, but bill supporters vowed drilling licenses wouldn't be granted until regulations governing the controversial practice are finalized.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Minnesota lawmakers began drilling into the state's silica sand mining Tuesday with hours of testimony from advocates and opponents, the first phase of a potential fight over what role the state should play in overseeing the booming industry.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Illinois would have the strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling in the nation under a proposal introduced Thursday.
To read more or comment...A press release from Food & Water Watch:
Americans Against Fracking Opposes Dr. Ernest Moniz for Secretary of Energy
To read more or comment...A press release from GreenHunter Energy in trhe wake of a protest at its facility in Washington County in southern Ohio:
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From the Associated Press:
The Youngstown City Council approved an anti-fracking amendment for the May 7 primary election ballot -- even though there are doubts about whether it could be enforced.
To read more or comment...Chesapeake Energy Co. remains very satisfied with the results it is seeing from its liquids-rich Utica shale wells in eastern Ohio.
The Utica shale "will be solid for a lot of years to come," company spokesman Steve Dixon said Thursday.
To read more or comment...Here is what Chesapeake Energy Corp. has to report today on the Utica and Marcellus shales:
Utica Shale (eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia): Chesapeake continues to focus on developing the core wet gas window of the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio, a play in which the company holds the industry's largest position, approximately 1.0 million net acres of leasehold. As of December 31, 2012, Chesapeake has drilled a total of 184 wells in the Utica, which includes 45 producing wells, 47 additional wells waiting on pipeline connection and 92 wells in various stages of completion. Chesapeake is currently operating 14 rigs in the Utica and plans to average 14 operated rigs during 2013. Production growth from the Utica is expected to accelerate during 2013 when two new third-party natural gas processing complexes will enable the company to turn a large portion of its well inventory to sales.
To read more or comment...From the Ohio State University Extension:
Informing landowners who are dealing with shale development is the goal of a day-long workshop offered in Mahoning County by OSU Extension. "Shale and You: A Workshop for Landowners" will take place on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm, 7574 Columbiana-Canfield Road, Canfield, Ohio. OSU Extension's Agricultural and Resource Law Program is sponsoring the workshop with grant assistance from the USDA's North Central Risk Management Education Center and host support from OSU Extension Mahoning County.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Authorities say a protest by members of environmental groups temporarily shut down operations at a gas drilling waste storage site in southeast Ohio.
To read more or comment...From the Center for Liquified Natural Gas:
**NOTE: The LNG export issue was brought up during an April meeting between Obama and then-Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, although not in great detail. With an administration decision on LNG exports potentially just weeks away, Obama and [current Prime Minister Shinzo] Abe could delve into the topic more deeply when they meet, industry observers said. "I'd be surprised if it was not discussed," said Bill Cooper, president of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas.
To read more or comment...The latest state figures show that 242 Utica shale wells have been drilled in Ohio.
Through Feb. 16, the state of Ohio has issued 529 Utica well permits.
To read more or comment...From the American Petroleum Insititute:
COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 19, 2013 – The Ohio Petroleum Council (OPC) applauded Governor Kasich's third State of the State address and said that Ohio's burgeoning oil and natural gas industry is well positioned to advance the administration's goals of continued economic growth and job creation.
"Ohio's oil and natural gas industry is a proven game-changer in the state's economic resurgence," said OPC Legislative Analyst Robert Eshenbaugh. "The arrival of shale energy development and production in Ohio has brought tens of thousands of new high paying jobs and the promise of a bright economic future for hard working Ohio families. Our industry not only shares the governor's desire for progress, we are leading the way."
In 2012, more than 38,380 high paying Ohio jobs were directly attributed to oil and natural gas activity. These jobs are expected to increase to 143,595 by 2020 and to 266,624 by 2035, according to a recent study by the global information and research firm IHS.
"We are encouraged by the governor's focus on shale energy," said Eshenbaugh. "We will continue to work closely with the administration and legislative leaders to advance smart regulatory and economic policies for the benefit of all Ohioans."
OPC is a division of API, which represents all segments of America's technology-driven oil and natural gas industry. Its 500-plus members provide most of the nation's energy. The industry also supports 9.2 million U.S. jobs and 7.7 percent of the U.S. economy, delivers $86 million a day in revenue to our government, and since 2000, has invested over $2 trillion in U.S. capital projects to advance all forms of energy, including alternatives.
Is shale energy actually an "economic bubble"?
The web site grist.org suggests it is, citing a report by the Post Carbon Institute.
To read more or comment...A release from Chesapeake Energy Corp:
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2013-- Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) today announced that its Board of Directors has received the results of its previously announced review of the financing arrangements between co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and President, Aubrey K. McClendon (and the entities through which he participates in the Founder Well Participation Program ("FWPP")) and third parties identified as having a financial relationship with the company, as well as other matters. The review, which was led by the Audit Committee of the Board, with the assistance of independent counsel retained by the independent members of the Board in April 2012, has been substantially completed. In connection with the review, millions of pages of documents were collected and reviewed and more than 50 interviews of Chesapeake and third-party personnel were conducted.
To read more or comment...A press release from State Rep. Robert Hagan, D-Youngstown:
State Representative Robert F. Hagan (D-Youngstown) announced today that he will be introducing legislation to raise the severance tax on oil and natural gas production to 7.5%. Such a tax would raise hundreds of millions of dollars over several years and help restore cuts that were made to schools and local governments in Governor Kasich's first budget. The tax would also provide for the hiring of additional inspectors to monitor drilling activity in the state.
To read more or comment...A press release from the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a pro-drilling group based in Pennsylvania:
State of Key Pa. Rivers Growing Stronger Alongside Safe Natural Gas Production
To read more or comment...A press release received today from the Energy Policy Forum and Post Carbon Institute on the release of two reports looking at shale drilling.
Santa Rosa, CA - February 19 - Energy Policy Forum & Post Carbon Institute have released two groundbreaking reports that belie energy industry claims of U.S. energy independence as a result of newly accessible shale gas and shale (tight) oil.
To read more or comment...A press release received today from Preferred Sands:
(Radnor, PA, February 19, 2013) – Preferred Sands, one of North America's largest hydraulic fracturing sand and proppant manufacturers, today announced the launch of the first non-phenolic, resin-coating technology for proppants used in hydraulic fracturing. The proprietary technology, developed in conjunction with The Dow Chemical Company [NYSE: DOW], will expand the Preferred RCS product line by offering a high-performing non-phenolic product that is cleaner and more environmentally sensitive compared to traditional phenolic-based resins. It is the first product to be launched through a new strategic collaboration between Preferred Sands and Dow.
To read more or comment...NiSource Inc., the parent company of Columbia Gas, announced on Tuesday that it intends to upgrade its Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline network in Ohio and other states.
It also announced preliminary success in its initial natural gas wells in the Utica shale in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
To read more or comment...A press release received today from Lea Harper of the Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water (in affiliation with Fresh Water Accountability Project):
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A press release received today from the Texas-based National Center for Policy Analysis:
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From Bloomberg News:
China, consuming energy at the fastest pace among major economies, has set ambitious targets to exploit its reservoirs of shale gas, the same fuel the U.S. touts as the means to energy independence. It won't meet them.
To read more or comment...Shale is creating "Saudi Texas," people in the energy industry and elsewhere are saying.
Fuel Fix writes: "The Lone Star State is earning a new moniker: Saudi Texas.
To read more or comment...Kent State University professor Brian Lutz and Duke University professor Martin Doyle have written an op-ed column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on their study of wastewater from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.
The analysis shows that the Marcellus may produce 10 times more wastewater but it is producing 30 times more natural gas.
To read more or comment...The battle between the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Lisbon-based Patriot Water Treatment LLC is heating up.
Click here to read the latest story from the Warren Tribune Chronicle.
To read more or comment...Columbus-based American Eelectric Power Co. will spend $4 billion to $5 billion by 2020 to swtich from coal to natural gas and to comply with federal clean-air mandates.
That will enable the utilitty to cut coal consumption from 65 percent to 50 percent, the company said.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
New Mexico legislators want to link approval of state funding to their willingness to allow mineral extraction such as drilling for gas and oil.
To read more or comment...A guest submission from radio producer-journalist Sandra Sleight-Brennan of Stewart in southeastern Ohio.
Here is what she sent along:
To read more or comment...Brazil may become a shale energy powerhouse, The Washington Post and Bloomberg News report.
The Bloomberg story in the Post says: "As Brazil prepares for its first-ever auction of shale-gas acreage, it has a message for global prospectors: The country that discovered the world's biggest offshore oil finds this century may have almost twice as much natural gas onshore as is currently estimated.
To read more or comment...A press release received today:
As you continue to cover news from our company, we would like to share with you that NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage has changed its name to Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG). The new name fully integrates the company with the established Columbia brand that makes up a majority of our 15,000-mile pipeline operations—Columbia Gas Transmission and Columbia Gulf Transmission.
It's a proud day for us, as the Columbia brand has been around for more than 50 years and is recognized as premiere, safe and reliable— similarities and synergies that all of the Columbia distribution and transmission companies have. These characteristics associated with the Columbia brand and our commitment to our customers, employees and the communities we serve will remain unchanged.
CPG will continue to support the communities in its footprint through significant investments in its natural gas transmission system infrastructure and by actively supporting organizations that make these communities a better place to live and do business.
As units of NiSource Inc., the CPG companies include Columbia Gas Transmission, Columbia Gulf Transmission, Crossroads Pipeline, Hardy Storage, Millennium Pipeline and NiSource Energy Ventures. Combined, the companies operate about 15,000 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline and 37 storage fields, delivering over 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas per year. For more information about Columbia Pipeline Group, please visit www.columbiapipelinegroup.com. Connect with CPG on Facebook at facebook.com/columbiapipelinegroup.
Thank you for your continued coverage of Columbia Pipeline Group.
From the Associated Press:
A Pennsylvania health company says it has gotten a $1 million grant to study possible health impacts of natural gas drilling on the Marcellus shale.
To read more or comment...The Columbus Dispatch took a look at who is recycling what in disposing of drilling wastewater.
Click here to read Spencer Hunt's story: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/02/16/fracking-recyclers-a-mystery.html
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
More tales of companies starting, companies expanding, and new millionaires being created at a rapid rate—all because of Utica Shale drilling. This time it's happening in Guernsey County, Ohio…
To read more or comment...Business professor Eric Smith urges a pragmatic approach in using shale-derived natural gas.
He writes at the web site Newgeography about shale gas and what he sees as the "Janus effect" in the environmental community.
To read more or comment...The federal General Accounting Office has issued a new report on American pipelines.
To read more or comment...The Boston Globe reports that shale drilling is boosting East Coast refineries and U.S. oil production.
Click here to read more.
To read more or comment...Ben Lupo, the Youngtown man charged by the federal government with dumping drilling wastes repeatedly into a storm sewer that drains to the Mahoning River, has a long history of dumping allegations.
The Youngstown Vindicator looks at Lupo's history.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
The head of a panel writing rules for fracking in North Carolina says state standards should prevail in any disputes with local governments.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A contractor has identified an employee who was killed in an explosion at an EQT natural gas well pad in West Virginia's Taylor County.
To read more or comment...The Bakken oil in North Dakota is changing the American drilling pciture.\
At what cost, asks the National geographic Society.
To read more or comment...The big West Virginia question is: Can coal and natural gas co-exist?
Click here to read the story.
To read more or comment...Emotions are running high in New York town where hydraulic fracturing or fracking could soon be permitted.
Click here to read more.
To read more or comment...From the OhioShale blog of Bricker & Eckler, the Columbus law firm:
Mahoning County approved a deal last week to sell Consol Energy up to 500,000 gallons of water per day at a rate of $6 per 1,000 gallons, Tribune Chronicle reports.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
A new polyethelene (PE) manufacturing plant complete with a "small" ethane cracker is coming to West Virginia, somewhere "south of Wheeling." Appalachian Resins Inc. is the company that will build the new $500 million plant with a capacity to produce 500 million pounds of PE per year. They aim to take advantage of Marcellus and Utica Shale gas and its byproduct ethane which is so abundant throughout the region.
To read more or comment...With a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling still pending regarding the legality of the Marcellus shale gas drilling law passed last year, billing documents show that the case already has cost the commonwealth more than $550,000, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazete reports.
To read more or comment...
From the Associated Press:
Wset Virginia state regulators say a worker was killed Friday morning in an explosion at an EQT natural gas well pad near Flemington in rural Taylor County.
To read more or comment...An Ohio drilling company on Friday announced that it has acquired lease rights to 2,200 acres in Wayne County.
The announcement came from the Cardinal Energy Group based in the Columbus suburb of Dublin.
To read more or comment...Ohio State Senators Frank LaRose, R-Copley Township, and Joe Schiavoni, D-Boardman, announced today that they are introducing legislation to toughen penalties for the illegal dumping of wastes from gas and oil drilling.
The legislation is in response to federal water pollution charges filed against Ben Lupo of Poland, owner of two Youngstown companies, who was cited for the illegal Jan. 31 dumping of wastes to a storm sewer that drains to the Mahoning River.
To read more or comment...Official press release from the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District:
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) Board of Directors has approved entering into an oil and gas lease in the Utica Shale region for more than 6,000 acres of its property at Seneca Lake in Guernsey and Noble counties that will prohibit any surface development on MWCD property and add protections to adjacent private properties.
To read more or comment...Here is a statement received late Thursday on a new agreement between Colorado-based MarkWest Energy Partners and Pennsylvania-based Rex Energy, a driller in Ohio's Utica shale:
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 2013--
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District today approved a $40.3 million natural gas lease for 6,500 acres at Seneca Lake in Guernsey and Noble counties.
The lease with Colorado-based Antero Resources was approved 5-0 by the district's commisioners, despite continued protests from a grass-roots group, the Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water.
To read more or comment...A statement on Youngstown dumping case from Rhonda Reda, executive director of the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program:
To read more or comment...
A statement received late Thursday from U.S. Rep. Tim Dyan, D-Niles, on the Yopungstown dumping case:
To read more or comment...
A press release from a Colorado grass-roots group, Citi9zens for a Healthy Community:
February 14, 2013
To read more or comment...From ShaleOhio blog by the Columbus law firm, Brickler & Eckler:
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a conservative legal organization, wants the Ohio legislature to repeal a law that it says pipeline developer Enterprise Liquids Pipelines is improperly interpreting in order to "threaten landowners with using eminent domain to take their private property" for construction of the Appalachia-to-Texas (ATEX) pipeline, Gongwer reports.
To read more or comment...Experts say the shale gas boom is resulting in a rash of unsafe waste-handling practices in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the ShaleReporter blog reports.
Click here to read more.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
A gas processing plant operator has agreed to pay $306,000 in fines for erosion problems that repeatedly polluted a northern West Virginia stream.
To read more or comment...Chesapeake Energy Corp. has provided a financial boost to the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail.
The Oklahoma-based energy company has donated $11,200 to the Akron-based Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition for a long-awaited bridge project on the Stark-Tuscarawas county line.
To read more or comment...(YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine joined Steven M. Dettelbach, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, to announce that a Poland, Ohio, man appeared in federal court today after his arrest for violating the Clean Water Act.
Ben Lupo, 62, is accused of directing an employee to illegally discharge brine and oil-based drilling mud into a stormwater drain which flowed into an unnamed tributary of the Mahoning River and ultimately into the Mahoning River near Youngstown.
Ohio Attorney General DeWine said: "Ohio's waters must be protected, for the health and safety of its citizens and the state's wildlife. We will not only assist with the federal water pollution prosecution in this case, we will also be working closely with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to fully address all of the other violations through civil or criminal enforcement."
The conduct took place on Jan. 31, 2013, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.
A press release from state Rep. Robert Hagan, D-Youngstown
Federal charges will be filed against Mr. Ben Lupo, the man responsible for illegally dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine and oil into the Mahoning River. State Representative Robert F. Hagan described the announcement as an milestone moment in Ohio's fight to protect against environmental degradation caused by the oil and gas industry.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
Prosecutors are charging a Northeast Ohio man with violating the federal Clean Water Act after at least 20,000 gallons of gas-drilling waste was dumped into a river tributary.
To read more or comment...Colorado's governor, Democrat John Hickenlooper, says he drank fracking fluid.
A short piece in Opposing Views doesn't say if he had it neat, on the rocks or if it went well when paired with red meat, fish or poultry.
To read more or comment...The shale energy boom is boosting manufacturing in the United States, writes Free Enterprise.
Sean Hackbarth writes: "America's energy boom is playing role in revitalizing the manufacturing sector. Having abundant, affordable energy for their operations is the most obvious benefit from the shale boom, but there's more to it. All the drilling rigs, pipes, tanks, and other materials to get energy out of the ground and move it to where it's needed have to be made. New investments are being made and new jobs created from increased demand.
To read more or comment...The Atlantic magazine asks, is North Dakota's shale energy boom over?
Derek Thompson writes about a drop-off in job growth in the state: "This is how an energy boom should go, you could argue. First come the core mining jobs and manufacturing jobs. Then you build the houses and roads to accommodate the miners and factory workers. Then you open restaurants to feed their families. And you build hotels to room their visitors and petro-tourists. That's not a bust story. It's a modern growth story.
To read more or comment...From the Marcellus Drilling News:
A for-profit company that pools acreage from both landowners that want to lease their land, and from energy companies with leases who want to re-sell those leases, is trying to get the attention of Anadarko and other drillers in the Ohio Utica Shale. Encore Energy issued a press release yesterday announcing they have land available for lease. They specifically tap Anadarko on the shoulder to tell them they have 1,300 Utica Shale acres "just 3 miles" from land they're already drilling on in Washington County, OH.
To read more or comment...From the Associated Press:
The North Dakota Senate snuffed out a measure Wednesday aimed at curbing the practice of wasting natural gas as an unwanted byproduct of production.
To read more or comment...Based on a press release:
Four building trades associated with pipeline construction will be holding a job action in Ohio's Carroll County early today where Will Bros Inc., a company from over 1,300 miles away in Houston, TX is performing work for UEO Buckeye and Access Midstream.
To read more or comment...Federal officials have called a 1 p.m. press conference today to announce federal charges in the Youngstown w


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The couple plans a May 19 wedding at 2 p.m. in the Lee University Chapel.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mabel Delaney of Chattanooga and the late Rev. Dr. William Delaney, Helen A. Green of Cleveland and the late Robert Green.
Miss Delaney is a graduate of Cleveland High School and will graduate in May from Tennessee Technological University. She is employed by Eastman Chemical Co. She is a member of First Baptist Church of Cookeville.
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Mr. Dixon is a graduate of Cleveland High School and Lee University. He is employed by Cleveland State Community College. He is a member of First Baptist Church of Cleveland.


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promises to Sudan in the lead up to the referendum. The continuance is
credited to the ongoing violence in Kordofan, Unity, and Abyei but since
that violence cuts both ways and the US lifted sanctions on S. Sudan right
after the referendum, the US rationale will look kind of weak. - CR
U.S. extends long-standing sanctions on Sudan
01 Nov 2011 22:12
WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday
extended sanctions on Sudan for another year, saying Khartoum's policies
had not yet improved enough to warrant their removal.
Obama's order maintains several sets of U.S. sanctions imposed since 1997
which restrict U.S. trade and investment with Sudan and block the assets
of the Sudanese government and certain officials.
The United States had offered Khartoum the chance to put relations on a
better footing if it cooperated with the January referendum that set South
Sudan on the path to declare its independence on July 9.
While the vote went off relatively smoothly, Khartoum and the South Sudan
government in Juba have remained at loggerheads over the main
oil-producing border state of South Kordofan, where rebels and government
forces have repeatedly clashed since June.
Violence has also broken out in Blue Nile and Abyei states, while U.S.
officials say they have not seen sufficient progress in western Darfur
region, where mainly non-Arab rebels took up arms against Khartoum in 2003
leading to a harsh government crackdown that Washington and some activists
labeled genocide.
Khartoum has denied the genocide charge, and repeatedly urged the United
States to drop punitive measures against it which include its inclusion on
an official U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The United States has so far taken some small initial steps to lift export
controls on agricultural machinery to help Sudan's struggling food sector,
but has stressed that further progress is contingent on Khartoum's
Washington has lifted sanctions on South Sudan, hoping to help the new
country gain its economic footing. But it is still seeking to clarify
implementation of sanctions on Sudan's oil industry, which is deeply
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Sudan's foreign ministry condemned the extension of the sanctions.
"The government of Sudan strongly condemns the renewal of these
sanctions," the ministry said in a statement. "The sanctions imposed by
the U.S. administration are political sanctions which were and still are
aimed at damaging Sudan's vital interests by hindering development
ambitions and plans to fight poverty."
Khartoum has always said that the sanctions hit ordinary Sudanese, who
face an economic crisis and spiralling inflation after the independence of
South Sudan, which took most of the country's oil production. (Reporting
by Andrew Quinn; additional reporting by Ulf Laessing in Khartoum; editing
by Jackie Frank)
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Some kind of random fun idea someone came up with one day in their office?
So what fun is this?
Posted 26 November 2008 - 06:40 PM
Posted 29 November 2008 - 08:30 PM
Maybe, but you know that games created out of boredom in an office turn out to be the most interesting games later.
Posted 01 December 2008 - 08:37 AM
im assuming the penguins are not small enough to choke on
Posted 01 December 2008 - 12:13 PM
I'm sure an ambitious child (or adult) can still choke on these penguins... but they are a pretty decent size.
Posted 03 December 2008 - 12:09 PM
Yeah, it's rather hard to choke on them unless the situation is set up right. It's not like those small pieces where it's easy to
Posted 03 December 2008 - 11:49 PM
The penguins are about 1 inch across and 2 to 2 1/2 inches tall. They are hollow and the tips is pointed because of the cap/pompom detail. It would depend on how desparately that kid wanted to stick a penguin in it's mouth. But there would be warning signs, they would have to chew on it first and bite marks would be noticable.
Posted 04 March 2009 - 02:56 AM
This conversation fills me with perverse joy.
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Maybe, but you know that games created out of boredom in an office turn out to be the most interesting games later.
well, most interesting to beat boredom in an office, at least
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There are times when I have to convince the love of my life to try a new game with me. This was not one of the occasions, like Black Sheep (or possibly because of it) she was eager to try. This is another game which will be making the rounds at the elementry school for rained in lunch hours.


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All over London, so-called sheds with beds have been cropping up like toadstools, presented to planning authorities as family home extensions but then surreptitiously rented out to strangers. Many of these are poky warrens let out to the desperate, part of the growing number of Londoners who have lost hope of gaining social housing and are forced to make do with whatever they can get. The government has vowed to tear down these new shanties, with UK housing minister Grant Shapps and some press cameras even joining in a raid on one. It is unlikely that they would be such a problem, however, if the government hadn't cut funding for social housing by 50 percent, pushing poor renters into the private sector.


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roadburner Posts: 7,051Did it crack where the light sensor fits?
If so, it is a known fault on MZ3s of that age. The piece that cracks has been superceded by a new reinforced part that supposedly fixes the problem for good.Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport 1975 2002A 2007 Mazdaspeed 3 1999 Wrangler 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2009 328i Son's: 2004 X3 2.5
gneff Posts: 3The dealer said he's been seeing it on 2006 models too. I live in Phoenix so the heat may play a part. A friend in southern CA bought one a month after I bought mine and hers is still okay. The dealer said that if it had happened during the warranty period they'd fix it. Unfortunately my car has passed that up and the extended warranty I purchased doesn't cover it.
aviboy97 Posts: 3,159i just bought a 2006 mazda 3 sp and every time i do a u-turn a light comes up on the dash..it's a steering wheel with an exclamation mark next to it..
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corbitt Posts: 1Gneff Cracked dash
I bought a 06 mazda3 hatchback on sat.
Today (wed) the dash cracked in the middle above the vents for NO REASON
can't believe it.
there were 2 screws missing in right wheel well liner where it attaches to bumper.
Had to BUY from dealer..installed screws , next day new noise from right side
today dash cracked all the way from the vents to the window...crap!!!!
I've owned an acura for over 200,000 miles plus...no cracks...this sucks.
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ntcn22 Posts: 1Hello,
I got a new "used" dashboard from a junk yard to have mine replaced because it was not working properly but it appears that the new "used" one does not work with the same ignition keys? Something about the locking system having to be reprogrammed or something?
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sherryd1 Posts: 2Cracked Dash!
I just noticed that my dash is cracked on my 06' Mazda 3 hatchback too. I'm so mad. My husbands 20 year old piece of junk trunk doesn't even have a cracked dash.
The crack is right in the middle of the dash , on either side of the sensor.
Want to see who else has this issue.
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conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600sorry for the delay, been away for a few weeks. No I don't have it, I traded it last November on a 2012 Soul 4u. Purchased from the same dealer - they have treated me very well over the 4 years I owned the Rondo. The Rondo was great and very reliable which was the reason I bought another Kia, didn't even consider anything else.
some specs I've found for the 2014 model comparison to the current 2012 Rondo.
Length - 178.1" vs current 178.9
Width - 71.1" vs 71.7"
height - 63.4" vs 65.0"
ground clearance - 5.9" vs 6.1"
wheelbase - 108.3" vs 106.3" -
conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600this new version will be available in Canada, here's a quote from Kia Canada on there latest sales announcement:
Kia also revealed the all-new 2014 Rondo Urban Utility Vehicle at the Paris Motor Show last week. The all-new Rondo will be launched next year, as a Canadian-specific model in North America, offering the flexibility of up to seven passengers and versatility to meet the needs of growing families -
conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600unveiling at the show and will be available with a 6 speed manual standard
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conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600(these standard features it would seem, you had to get the EX model before), so maybe there will no longer be a LX model?
Standard features:
- 6 speed manual transmission
- manual air conditioning
- 2nd row heating and cooling vents
- power windows
- heated front seats
- 6 speaker audio system
- keyless entry with power locks
- black cloth
- flex-steering (3 settings)
Available features:
- heated steering wheel
- heated 2nd row seating
- cooled ventilated drivers seat
- auto dual-zone climate control
- 10-way power drivers seat with extendable cushion optimizing thigh support
- supervision instrument cluster
- large LCD screen
- integrated side window blinds
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conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600I would presume so, the lower height is about the same as my Soul, which also has the high seating position and one of the main reasons I like it (and also the Rondo which I owned before). However, as I was unable to sit in it at the Toronto Auto Show so I can't confirm.
It does have much more flexible seating compared to the old model and a 2" longer wheelbase to help with interior space. -
lumberjack4 Posts: 2Thanks conwelpic. Almost bought a Rondo in 2008, but really didn't like the front end styling -grille headlights etc - ended up buying a SUV (Santa Fe),
mainly to get a higher seat. We really just need a compact hatchback with
occasional seating for 5, and space for the dog in the back, but as seniors
with arthritic knees and hips, we need a higher seat for easier entry/exit.
This new Rondo looks very promising. -
conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600you almost fit my description as I too am a senior and wanted that higher seating with ease of entry and exit. However, I did buy the 2008 Rondo EX with the 2.4L, as at the time I just found the Sorento and Sportage too big a vehicle (bulk-wise) - still do.
I presume you are located in Canada -
bgw Posts: 116Conwelpic my old friend, did you take these photos yourself? Well done, nice and clear with especially good lighting so we can see the details of the interior. Nice looking machine. I especially love the idea of a 6sp manual, about the only thing I wish our 07 and 11 Rondo's were available with. But no V6? It seems the movement to smaller engines is well underway.
conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600hi, its been a while Yes I took those photos at the Toronto auto show. It was a bit awkward as it was locked with just the front windows open and surrounded with a glass fence. I was looking forward to going over it in detail due to my past ownership of one.
I was checking back and my '08 Rondo with the 2.4L was only 162hp at the time and never encountered any power problems with it but then mine was only a 5-seater model. I have heard rumours that a 2.4L maybe an optional engine but at a later time, but no confirmation on that. Still haven't see the Canadian specs for this new model but will post as soon as they become available to me.
Hard to compare old to new as they are so dramatically different vehicles, the only carry over is the name. That front windshield has a massive slope on it (one thing that really stood out to me when I first saw it), so they must have done extensive wind tunnel testing on it. It's the same height as my Soul, its the virtually the same length as the old one but with a 2" longer wheelbase which has got to help with interior room. -
conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600new microsite on the all new Rondo http://www.kia.ca/rondo/index.html
conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600Sorry but no V6 anymore, just one engine now the 2.0L Nu GDI and also the 6 speed manual will only be available in the base LX 5-seater model. The 6 speed auto does have the manual shift capability like the older previous transmission. However the new model is 300 lbs lighter than the previous one. I have full details info, so any specific question just ask.