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Fumito Ueda's Ico is hailed as one of the first mainstream games to really inspire emotion and potent characters. Sometimes to appreciate a video game it's best to frame it not only using a simple method but also looking at it from a critical angle. In this specific instance, Ico raises a really interesting question because it crosses the disingenuity barrier that Jonathon Blow describes in many games. Specifically, he refers to how a game where I'm waiting for a character to unlock a barrier while I defend them creates a disingenuous relationship. I'm hanging out with them because of circumstances, not because I care. I'm keeping them alive to open the door and keep the plot moving, not because I'm worried about their safety. How does Ico follow a similar game design and yet surpass this issue?
Ueda's two games, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, both contain interesting elements of animation that really enhance a sense of fragility in the avatar. Both of the protagonists from his games have gawky, awkward running and walking animations. Contrast this to a game like God of War or Ninja Gaiden, where the characters move like Olympic athletes and are the epitome of physical perfection. This is also highlighted by the fact that a stick is your main weapon for much of the game. When you do make the transition to a sword in Ico, it's heavy and you can tell it drags down Ico's arm. This awkwardness of presentation carries over into Yorda as well. When she climbs up stairs or a ladder, she carefully steps on the same leg to get up. When Ico is pulling her across a room at full run, her arms flail and you can tell she isn't used to moving at this pace. Contrast this to the agile and liquid fast shadows that hunt both of you while you move through the castle. A real sense of fragility, of being inferior to the monsters that hunt you is communicated through the animation. The game begins to bridge the disingenuity gap by animating the characters as fragile and thus getting the player worried about them. Contrast this to a game where you play some ultimate badass who is then handicapped with someone much weaker and you see the dilemma. If the game is making me feel like I'm a scruffy but weak kid, a different set of emotional expectations develop as opposed to being Super Death Guy.
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It's that time again. Here's today's shadow reveal. Maybe this one is a little more obvious. He looks a bit bulkier.
Hmm...who has gauntlets like that? And those boots? Place your bets now. Can you be the first to "call it"? Have we nailed down our suspicions to the other shadow figures yet?
What about that quote? Who acts without thinking about 'personal consequences'? I do wonder if we will get actual confirmation on the team members before the first issue is released. I think it would be cool if all that was "classified" in the solicits and we had to actually wait until we get to read the issue. Would Marvel be willing to make that gamble? Would people want to read a book if they're not exactly sure who will be in it? Will retailers want to order a lot of copies of a book that might contain lame characters? We'll have to stay tuned to see what Marvel will throw at us next.
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Enterprise (pop 939) is located along Rt 19 north of Shinnston, just south of the Marion County line.
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Rt 19 north of Clarksburg is a pleasant ride, but can be interrupted by large trucks going slowly (or on your butt - there doesn't seem to be a middle ground) and with lots of hidden entrances and businesses.
Historical Marker. Located along Rt 19 at junction of CR 19-2. I looked for the McIntire Blockhouse for 30 minutes before finally finding one of the 939 habitants of this fine community. He informed me they tore the blockhouse down about 10-15 years ago. Mystery solved.
From the "History of Harrison County" by Henry Haymond:
In May, 1791, as John McIntire and his wife were returning to their home about two miles above the mouth of Bingamon Creek, in what is now Clay District, they passed through the yard of Uriah Ashcraft, and in a short time after Mr. Ashcraft startled by the sudden growling and springing up of one of his dogs, stepped quickly to the door to see what had aroused him. lie had hardly reached the door when he espied an Indian on the outside with his gun presented. Closing and making fast the door, he ascended the stairs that he might better fire on the intruder, and after snapping his gun several times and discovering that there were other Indians in the yard he raised a loud shout to apprise those who were within the sound of his voice that he was surrounded by danger. Upon this the Indians moved off and three brothers of John McIntire coming to his relief they all pursued the trail of the savages.
About a mile from Ashcraft's they came upon the body of John Mclntire tomahawked, stripped and scalped, and concluded that Mrs. McIntire had been taken prisoner. They sent intelligence to Clarksburg.
It was here first ascertained that Mrs. McIntire had been killed, her scalp being found among the things abandoned by the Indians. Her body was afterwards found a short distance from where that of her husband had been previously discovered.
View northbound on Rt 19 at Enterprise. CR 19-2 is about 50 yards north and to the right.
7 generations back, on my mothers side, originally emmigrating from Canada into Ohio (not sure if he came to Canada from Scottland/Ireland prior) was a John Mc Intire.... he, along with 4 other families settled in the north coast of Ohio at the time, and gave name to this region as "The Black Swamp".
The land was all divided up, I believe from Toledo, to Geneva, and over the years was sold off. The last of many individual parcels/properties were sold off by my mothers father,
again a John McIntire
, which included land from Trumbull in the north, to Mesopotamia in the south, and from Montville on the west, to New Lyme on the east...an area encompasing almost 200 sq miles, granted it was not all his, but a major portion still remained in the family to be sold off. He was an inventor, engineer (as was the first John I speak of) , and lived a very fruglal simple life, those acres sold for mere pennies. I do not have the original book in my posession currently, I returned it to my sister for safe keeping, but there was a book written documenting the history of these 4 families entitled "The four Families of The Black Swamp". The only other family name that comes to mind was the Caldwell family (who made their way south in Ohio, settling and originating a city of that name). I do not recall John's demise in the book, but I must admit it was pretty boring reading for me as a child (ahh what we find
to be valuable...) but there was a sepia toned photograph stuck in the book, with his and his wifes names and a date on the back.. again, I don't recall the date, but I am sure it was circa this similar time period.
Creepy part #2,
his wife was an Indian squaw
, big head, very gnarly looking, and he was a tall man in his 50's (I would suppose) , as he was sporting a full head of white hair, and awesome monsterous mutton chop sideburns.... I was always so impressed by that look that I grew mine in the same manner in my senior year of high school, and when I got flack for it, I brought the photo in and handed it to them, explaining it was a family thing...
I will have to get my hands on this book, and find out if it relates to the same person... hmmmm small world.
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Wearing Bermuda Blue today.
Nah...Never have. In fact I am glad to pass on the information. Many that I wear are not sold here anyway, so unless they travel or go online they will not be able to purchase.
I have to say that...
Because I am deeply into oils as equal as I am to the juices, I am always in the 'Lab' mixing oils and fragrances.
I have some real winners. Last week I wore Straight to Heaven Mixed with an oil...
Ok I have been rockin STH recently and I have never, ever received so many compliments from people. My My My. WOW!!!!!!!!!!! Women have been grabbing me and coming close in my orbit to get a whiff....
Welcome to New York....:D
LOL....Sorry about that. My keyboard does not have the pound key on it :).
GQ (English-January 2010 Edition) annually do a 100 Best Things In The World Right Now list. I am posting the Fragrances mentioned for your interest.
Standard Fragrance
Anything but
The following Fragrances were highlighted in the English GQ Magazine in the 2010 Grooming Awards - Best In Fragrance:
New Fragrance:
Winner: Italian Cypress - Tom Ford
"There could only be...
A*Men Pure Malt
This is truly one of the best things I have heard for a while. With all the diverse Personalities, Ages and Egos on Basenotes, the final three products should be Spectecular.
All the best on the...
Heritage - Guerlain
A*Men Pure Malt -Thierry Mugler
Havana - Aramis
Cannabis Santal - Fresh
CDG2MAN - Comme des Garcons
Trust me, I am not usually like this either but I deemed it necessay that she know. Friendship was not in our future. Her overreacting was totally uncalled for and unnecessary.
Like Laral28, I use to work with a colleague who was allergic to everything and cranky. I wore my fragrances everyday and she did her best to avoid me. I once told her just like she is allergic to my...
Stories like this just make me so mad. Yes they are doing their job but you just can't tamper and destroy folks stuff. I was finished with customs here when a Basenoter sent me 10 samples in the mail...
Well global warming has not effected these parts to much. Just extra rain which you hardly see in the summer here. Still hot and humid.
I'm still wearing my citrus and fresh scents.
I looked at the winners....sighed and moved on. I never have high expectations from awards, award shows or anything in this genre. I never expect my favs to mention, not being negative, just know how...
Oh Yeah to Havana.....Please don't mess with my Havana.
What great news. That landlord....hmmmmmm.
I do love this as well....Just wished it lasted longer.
Set Sails St. Barts
Great Weekend to all
I actually love the summer fragrances. Here's my list.
1. Mugler Cologne - All around staple. You cannot go wrong here.
2. John Varvatos Artisan
3. Virgin Island Water
4. Vetiver - Guerlain...
Soooooo tired of underwhelming. :(
Oh Lawd......What next???? Clive Christian at Pathmark?
Very Cool - Tommy Bahama
The juice no one likes.:D
My mother use to wear this exclusively. Now I have to say that when my nose first came into contact with this juice I did not like it. But as time went on I really warmed up to it and began to deeply...
Rent doubling....WOW...That's bananas. Man I was having a good day until I read this....Crap...I busted out laughing when I read were Ruggles asked Miguel if they were having a sale. Ain't gonna...
Heritage is amazing and a must-have for me. Thanks for the reminder of how wonderful this stuff is.
Today I am wearing Allure Homme Sport.
Tonight I will wear Summer Night - Canali
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A great day to all.
Clean for Men
Well first I had on West Indian Limes by Crabtree and I did not feel like that smell so I showered it off.
Restart....Now I'm wearing Allure Homme Sport. Going on a boat cruise this afternoon...
Well first I had on West Indian Limes by Crabtree and I did not feel like that smell so I showered it off.
Restart....Now I'm wearing Allure Homme Sport. Going on a boat cruise this afternoon...
Thanks for taking out the time to do this. Very much enjoyed reading it.
Allure Homme Edition Blanche
Wall Street - Bond No 9
Set Sail South Seas - Tommy Bahama.....It's just sitting there....May as well wear it...
Sexual pour Homme by Michel Germain is definetly copying Polo Sport.
I think there is a lot of love for Mugler on Notes. It really works here in the high humid, hot summers. A must-have, well for me anyway. I enjoy the shower gel just as much. It is not popular here...
With all the Basenotes knowledge and education it does get interesting and sometimes funny with some SA's. It's easier not to get led down the garden path. I remember this fiesty SA at Macys in...
This scent reminds me of ADG...Everybody and their dog wears it. I would not wear it.
Some of those pseudo-frags I have seen in the Fragrance District (New York) have caused me to laugh out loud for real.....:D
Versailles pour Homme
Grass Oil
Bill Blass
Monogram - Ralph Lauren
Lord forgive him for starting this thread......AHahahahahahahahahahahaahaha
A Burberry Rep just returned my email saying: This year's Burberry Summer is different from the ones we had in the past.
I will see if I can gather any further info.
Well I thought it was the same as last years and I made a phone call and of course my reliable sales rep is on vacation. I spoke to two other associates and they say they are sure that there is a...
One thing you talk about a bad sales person experience and everyone comes out of the woodwork...LOL I guess it was overdue.
Well this is good news to me. Everytime I spray from my bottle I show a little frown as that is less I have to use. International Relaunch sounds good. I also hope this information is accurate.
I could not believe what I was reading when you spoke of what the SA said to the other one. I have never had any problems with Macys but I will be more cautious if I should ever conduct any...
Well the good news is that they have stopped bringing them here. The only way to get them is online or if one travels. My nephew owns a pair of crocs and he wears them to annoy me. I saw the croc...
Where do you live? No humidity....What a blessing.
Groove - Carol's Daughter
Ha....Don't hold your breath :).
Don't misunderstand me, I was just shocked at the price increases and I was not asking them to cut prices. I have been a part of Notes for a while now so I kinda know how the flow is and how folks...
I called one of the distributors yesterday and did some pricing here and was shocked at what I was told. I am not paying these outrageous prices for some of these juices. Of course you will hear all...
Cannabis Santal - Fresh
You can be on Basenotes too much???....not possible...Ahahahahaha.....This site cannot even compete with another site I visit. I swear one person on there is posting no matter what time you come on....
I really liked this one when it first came out...I warm up to citrus fragrances anyway, it just did not last long on my skin at all, which is a shame.
Burberry Summer for Men
Virgin Island Water
Allure Homme Sport Cologne
Burberry Summer for Men
Her scents don't matter....LOL.
Allure Homme Sport Cologne
Have a great Memorial Day Weekend everybody. Be Safe.
Gracious I have too many. I like different ones for different styles.
Happy Memorial Day and holiday to all of you who celebrate it.
I actually laughed out loud at this response. :laugh:
There are a gabillion threads on Notes. Do a thorough search-Many topics are covered and recent at that.
Now for the hotter weather...take a sample of Burberry Summer for Men. Everytime I have...
Tee Hee....Did not see other threads by him.
Pick-Me-Up's.....hhhmmmmm let's see... Mugler, DKNY Men (new) and Happy for Men.
I had never heard of this one. Had to go to the directory. :D
Please do not take offense to this but I would not call the above list extraordinary.
My List:
1. Eau de Santal - Floris
2. CDG2 Man
3. Rose 31
4. Tom Ford
5. Heritage
It's also a good idea to keep your juices in the boxes they come in.
The DKNY works well on my skin and I use it quite often. I would also suggest that you sample Mugler Cologne. It's a great everyday fragrance.
And you're right my brain went to Hugo Element when it said Energise. Ooops.
I read this twice to make sure I was comprehending correctly. ;)
Depends on where you are on the snobbery scale. :D
I was thinking the same thing when I saw this thread....I mean there a zillion in the thread.
D&G Light Blue for Men was one of the most anticipated fragrances a few years ago. It was a huge disappointed. The Light Blue for women was still the better choice as it really should have been a...
I am so tired of this stuff. I really am.
Bfree and Mike, I just picked up a bottle from the MAC shop. Yes I agree it is very nice. Thanks
I like this one and am wearing it today. Damn..I know I have smelled something almost identical to it, I just can't remember.
Man I use to be like that but now I just ask what one is wearing if I like it. Just ask them or you could have gotten one of the women to ask him.
DKNY Men - New
I once worked with a lady who bathed in Angel. You can imagine what we all had to put up with on a daily basis. One day I asked her to bring her bottle in to which she replied "Why?" I answered "So I...
I remember smelling this....Very Nice.
Fahrenheit all ways reminded me of bug spray. :D
No, and I am so glad it is not. :) I do get positive comments whenever I have worn it. At one point a distributor was very interested in bring Creed to the island but the interest in it was very weak...
I was at a conference staying at a hotel once. My sister knocks on my door and says..."I can smell your cologne outside the door and down the hallway." The kicker is I had not been out the door yet....
Regular Rotation
1. Gucci by Gucci
2. Cannabis Santal
3. Black Diamond
4. Polo Modern Reserve
5. Havana
Top Five I wear cause I want a scent that's gonna last ten seconds on me.
1. Eau de...
Fleur du Male - I had to scrub this off my arm.
Black - Bulgari
My wardrobe has not been updated in eons. :) I need to get on that. Thanks for your imput guys.
I am so out of the loop when it comes to the smellies these days. Help a juice guy out who lives on a small island were the fragrance world is so limited. I will research any examples you leave.
Havana - Aramis
I really fell in love with this one when I first tried it. The love affair still continues to this day-a fragrance I have not gotten tired of...LOL. I wish they they did a shower gel as I don't do...
No I do not and would not. Many anti-perspirants and deodorants do not work with me so a fragrance is definetly out of the question.
This is the route I am going as I lose interest in any given frag quickly as well. I probably have about 50 frags now and a gabillion oils. I have not updated my wardrobe in a stretch.
Just picked mine up.
Always loved Escape and CK Electric and that's about it. I had a slight fondness for the original Eternity but the Summer releases are just boring....Same ole same ole. None of the CK juices had any...
Hmmmm.......New Anchors, Actors or Models should be the only males....LOL. There is a guy who wears full make up here and I just wanna slug him when I see him. It irritates me.
From Lili Bermuda:
Fresh Water
I agree with you CologneJunkie....Tried it, bought it and love it. When I initially smelled it, Polo Sport came to my mind and yes it smells like some of my other juices as well. I tested Eternity...
Thanks Dani for that....I have not been on Basenotes much recently and I just saw this thread.
For what you and Grant do is beyond any words...Seriously, we are truly blessed for the dedication...


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LNG Terminals and the Environmental Unlearning of Philadelphia
The lure of fossil fuel for America's fifth largest city
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It's hard not to think of that definition when considering current plans to build Philadelphia's economic future on making it a major fossil fuel-based energy hub.
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The insanity factor here is that Philadelphia has a very long history as a fossil fuel-based energy hub — with very painful consequences. The United State's first oil wells were drilled in Pennsylvania in the 1850s. It was natural that much of the output from these wells would be processed in the state's largest city. Over the years, even into the 1970s, refineries (there were seven then, five today), petrochemical manufacturers of plastics and other fossil fuel dependent products, along with related infrastructure, proliferated in around Philadelphia.
The cumulative result of all this economic activity was a massive build up of pollution residues. Which was why Forbes magazine in 2011 ranked Philadelphia the country's most polluted large American city, the "capital of toxicity," in the magazine's own trenchant phrase.
Given that history, what could now lead Philadelphia' business and political leaders to promote a major fossil fuel-based energy hub to reanimate the city's future economy, a plan leading the press to dub Philadelphia, "the new Houston?" The answer to this question comes down to four words: Marcellus shale natural gas.
Most of the prolific production from Marcellus shale gas wells is now generated in Pennsylvania. The "new Houston" development plan envisions Philadelphia as the a major recipient of this gas, almost all of which now goes elsewhere by pipeline, primarily to processing facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. A proposed LNG (liquefied natural gas) exporting terminal in Philadelphia's Port Richmond section has in recent months become the focus of much of the debate over this whole energy hub concept.
The environmental objections to this LNG terminal touch upon its possible (and indeed likely) negative effects on local air and water quality. They also include upstream environmental issues, notably the enhanced Marcellus shale fracking that would be necessary to meet the natural gas supply needs of …more
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North Carolina Could Become Fifth State With an Ag-Gag Law
Bill sitting on Governor McCrory's desk would make it illegal to document or film animal abuse on factory farms
Whistleblowers beware. Last week, the North Carolina senate passed HB 405, a controversial "ag-gag" bill that would make it illegal to document unethical or illegal practices on industrial farms in the state. Passed by the House in April, the bill has been presented to the Governor, who has five more days to veto it. If he does nothing (or signs it) before the end of the week, North Carolina will join Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, and Utah as the fifth state with a law criminalizing undercover investigations of factory farms.
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The North Carolina bill would stifle would-be whistleblowers by making it illegal for employees to record or remove employer data or records, to record any images or sound on their employer's property, or to place an unattended camera to film the property. It would also make it illegal to seek employment for the purpose of exposing animal abuse, environmental harms, or food safety issues on farms, or for anything other than a "bona fide intent of seeking or holding employment." If the bill is signed by Governor McCrory, employees could be sued for breaching the "duty of loyalty" to their employer, and liable for $5,000 per day they are found in breach, court costs, and any actual damages caused by the breach.
In addition to North Carolina, ag-gag bills are also currently under consideration in New Mexico and Washington.
Animal welfare advocates are particularly concerned about HB 405 because of North Carolina's prominent factory farm industry. The state ranks second in the country for the number of factory-farmed hogs, second in turkey production, and sixth in production of factory-farmed broiler chickens. (In North Carolina, factory farm chickens out number people nine to one.)
"For a state like North Carolina to be really shut down from investigations is very detrimental and would put billions of animals at risk," says Matt Dominguez, public policy director for the Human Society of the United States' farm animal protection campaign.
Although the North Carolina bill appears to be geared towards the agriculture industry, the duty of loyalty extends to employees beyond the agricultural sector. Opponents say the law would also apply to whistleblowers trying to document abuse at nursing homes and day care centers. Dominguez believes …more
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Latest Santa Barbara Oil Spill Is Reminiscent of 1969 Disaster
Area known as the Galápagos of the north is again choked with oil as operators exploit patchy regulation
By Andrew Gumbel
Mark Massara was eight years old in 1969, when a blowout at a Union Oil well off the California coast spilled more than three million gallons of crude along the beaches of Santa Barbara and devastated one of the northern hemisphere's most prized ecosystems.
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He remembers going to the beach with his family and throwing hay on the oil as it washed ashore — a frustratingly inadequate gesture that stayed with him as he later built a career as one of California's top environmental lawyers.
Last week, Massara was back in Santa Barbara, surveying the damage of the latest of many spills along California's staggeringly beautiful central coast and lamenting how little has changed in the past 46 years. An oil slick stretching for miles is once again choking fish and wildlife, and again local residents are flocking to foul-smelling, blackened beaches to do what little they can to help with the cleanup.
"Instead of hay, now we have five-gallon buckets and hand shovels," Massara said. "We've gotten really sophisticated."
This time, the rupture is in a pipeline running close to the Pacific coast highway near Refugio state beach, a popular spot on a long, undeveloped stretch of coastline north of Santa Barbara. The Texas-based operator, Plains All American Pipeline, has estimated that up to 105,000 gallons leached into a storm drain before the supply was cut off, and that about 20,000 gallons of that travelled the extra quarter-mile to the ocean.
The company has described these figures as a "worst-case scenario" and expects them to go down, whereas environmental activists including Massara who have viewed the 11-mile slick expect the numbers to go up, perhaps dramatically.
Almost everything about the spill — the speed with which it was discovered and the pump turned off, the pace of the response, the quality of maintenance on the pipe and the company's adherence to a knot of local, state and federal regulations — is mired in controversy and remains subject to multiple investigations. The …more
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Why Sacred Places Matter
Film series tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world
This story originally appeared in Triple Pundit.
In the last month, Native Hawaiians blockaded construction machinery headed for the top of sacred Mauna Kea, where a 30-meter telescope is to be built. Thirty-one people were arrested. In Arizona, members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe walked 45 miles to Oak Flats and occupied a ceremonial initiation site that the US Congress has handed over to a London-based mining company for a copper mine. In California, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe continues their fierce opposition to government plans to raise the height of Shasta Dam, which would flood Winnemem sacred sites.
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Sacred places are alive in the hearts and minds of native people around the world. Mountains, springs, lakes, rivers, trees, groves, caves — these are sites of ceremony, inspiration and learning for human cultures throughout time. From Mt. Fuji to Uluru, from Taos Blue Lake to the Grand Canyon, sacred lands anchor peoples' souls to earth.
The public relations push to proclaim national parks as "America's Best Idea" missed an important historic fact: Sacred places are the oldest protected areas on the planet. This is an old idea. Perhaps it has been buried by monotheistic Christian ideals that instruct man to dominate nature, or capitalist market values that dictate extraction and profit off land that is bought and sold. But long before there was a "protected area movement" to counter environmental threats, there were culturally protected places on every continent. And there still are.
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Sacred lands are more than esoteric, spiritual sanctuaries. These places protect biodiversity. The World Bank reports that indigenous people make up 4 percent of the world's population and control 22 percent of the earth's surface — and on that land is 80 percent of the planet's remaining biodiversity. People whose connection to land goes back centuries …more
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Kinder Morgan Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'
ACLU calls arrangement "flat out unconstitutional"
Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan's aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to "deter protests" in order to avoid "costly delays."
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It's unclear if the police department instructed its officers to explicitly "deter protests" but, if officers carried out Kinder Morgan's request, their conduct would clearly violate the First Amendment rights of protesters.
"It is politically and socially entirely inappropriate for a private company to be able to hire a police department and use its officers to try to intimidate protesters of one stripe or another," says David Rudovsky, a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia and a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
In a letter to the Eastern Pike Regional Police Department (EPRPD) dated May 1 2013, Duane Jones, Kinder Morgan's corporate security manager, acknowledged the "controversial nature" of the pipeline project and requested that the local police "provide a visible presence to create a deterrent effect." The officers began conducting patrols in June 2013 and were paid $54.80 an hour for their off-duty services. The patrols were terminated in October of that year.
The off duty officers were employed in addition to a 24/7 roving private security patrol.
Two weeks after Kinder Morgan sent the letter (described as a "letter of engagement for police services"), the Eastern Pike Regional Police Commission voted to accept Kinder Morgan's proposal to contract with the department. In an email from the EPRPD to Off Duty Services, a Texas based private security company that administered the contract, the department said that its attorney would "cc you a copy of the contract." In response to several public records requests, however, EPRPD has said that no contract exists.
Chief of police Chad Steward declined to comment for this story and referred me to the commission's solicitor, Thomas Mincer. Mincer also declined to comment.
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As the University of Hawai'i was cozying up to GMO giant Monsanto, one of the school's professors says that he was forced to tolerate a climate of 'bigotry, retaliation and hostility' for speaking out on risks of genetic engineering
This story originally appeared in Cascadia Times
The islands of Hawai`i are like a magnet attracting insects from all over the world. Bugs catch a ride on every ship headed to the islands, and state authorities often find bug species they'd never seen before. And the bugs stay.
As Hawai`i has no winter frost to beat back pests, over time this accumulation of bugs started to become a problem, especially for farmers. Their response: apply a heavy dose of chemicals
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A Hawai`i Department of Agriculture report from 1969 said Hawaiian farmers were using pesticides at a rate 10 times higher than the national average (in terms of pounds per acre).
In 1993, Dr. Hector Valenzuela, then a non-tenured professor of tropical plant and soil science at the University of Hawai`i-Manoa, began a long-term research project to determine whether it's possible to grow crops in the state without synthetic pesticides. Valenzuela, who in 1990 received his Ph.D. in vegetable crops from the University of Florida, established the first long-term organic farming research project in Hawai`i and the Pacific region.
Valenzuela planted 50 varieties of vegetables — including tomato, daikon radish, bulb onion, cucumber, eggplant, zucchini, bush beans, pole beans, sweet potato and bell pepper — on 2.5 acres at the university's Waimanalo Experiment Station located some 15 miles from the Manoa campus in the southeast corner of Oahu. With an enrollment of about 20,000, the Manoa campus, located near downtown Honolulu, is the largest of the 19 units in the University of Hawai`i system. The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) where Valenzuela teaches is the largest unit within the Manoa campus.
By 1999, he had initiated several long-term research projects at Waimanalo. The organic farming plots were his research laboratory.
But it all came to an end inexplicably in 1998 when Charles Laughlin, then the dean of CTAHR, shut down the organic farming research project. Valenzuela recalls the dean's exact words: "You can no longer use those plots." Laughlin had decided that a Japanese religious group would use them instead.
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'Shocking' $5.3 trillion subsidy estimate for 2015 'shatters the myth that fossil fuels are cheap'
By Damian Carrington
Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3 trillion a year, equivalent to $10 million a minute every day, according to a startling new estimate by the International Monetary Fund.
Photo by Robert S. Donovan, on Flickr
The IMF calls the revelation "shocking" and says the figure is an "extremely robust" estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3 trillion subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world's governments.
The vast sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by the burning of coal, oil and gas. These include the harm caused to local populations by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change.
Nicholas Stern, an eminent climate economist at the London School of Economics, said: "This very important analysis shatters the myth that fossil fuels are cheap by showing just how huge their real costs are. There is no justification for these enormous subsidies for fossil fuels, which distort markets and damages economies, particularly in poorer countries."
Lord Stern said that even the IMF's vast subsidy figure was a significant underestimate: "A more complete estimate of the costs due to climate change would show the implicit subsidies for fossil fuels are much bigger even than this report suggests."
The IMF, one of the world's most respected financial institutions, said that ending subsidies for fossil fuels would cut global carbon emissions by 20 percent. That would be a giant step towards taming global warming, an issue on which the world has made little progress to date.
Ending the subsidies would also slash the number of premature deaths from outdoor air pollution by 50 percent — about 1.6 million lives a year.
Furthermore, the IMF said the resources freed by ending fossil fuel subsidies could be an economic "game-changer" for many countries, by driving economic growth and poverty reduction through greater investment in infrastructure, health and education and also by cutting taxes that restrict growth.
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The A's sign Grant Balfour: Two years, $8.1 million
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UPDATE: Buster Olney reports that the deal is for two years, $8.1 million, pending a physical.
10:58 AM: Did someone mention Rays free agents signing elsewhere? Because we have another: Grant Balfour is close to signing a deal with the Oakland Athletics. That according to Jon Paul Morosi. It's a multi-year deal. We have no details on the dollars yet, but we'll update them as soon as they come in.
Balfour went 13-7 with a 2.98 ERA and 207 strikeouts in 181 innings over the past three years as the setup man in Tampa Bay. There was talk earlier this winter of the Orioles being interested in him, but their deal with Kevin Gregg scuttled that.
Balfour is a type-A free agent, so that means that this is just the latest deal that gives the Rays draft picks. Indeed, as Aaron is going to explain in a post later this morning, in that regard this has been an outrageously profitable winter for the Rays.
- apbaguy - Jan 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM
There are two reason's for Beane pursuing a Type A free agent: 1) the A's will keep him until they prove to themselves that they are in or out of the West race, and 2) if they drop out of the race, they can trade him to a contender and get that #1 pick back. The A's rotation is felt to be strong, but last year the bullpen was shaky, with injuries (it's the A's) and fatigue. Balfour is insurance, not necessarily an upgrade, and his recent health is better than many of the A's bullpen.
- Loren - Jan 14, 2011 at 11:42 AM
I just checked where the A's drafted this year, figuring it must be in the top 15 so they would only lose a second rounder, but they draft 18th. I just can't see how it's worth it to give up the 18th pick in a stacked draft for a middle reliever, especially for a team that lives and dies through the draft.
- scottp9 - Jan 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM
It's a protected pick. The A's were (barely) in the bottom half of the 30 teams last year. The pick is pushed down from the original #15 because of extra picks added to the round for unsigned 2010 draftees.
- Loren - Jan 14, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Thanks. That makes me feel a little better.
- kinggeorge96 - Jan 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Is it just me, or do we hear a lot about the 3,000,000 free agents the Rays have lost to free agency and their being able to pick every player in first round of the draft, but nothing about the players they are being replaced with? I might have exaggerated that number a bit, btw…
But seriously, are they going to put out the farm team in Rays jerseys next year? Or are the draftees going to be suiting up in the majors next year.
- BC - Jan 14, 2011 at 12:21 PM
$4 mil a year to Balfour? Wouldn't it have been smarter to spend that money on someone who can, you know, actually hit a baseball once in a while?
- scatterbrian - Jan 14, 2011 at 12:30 PM
That would be nice, but who would you recommend exactly? I don't see any viable options just sitting around waiting for a phone call…
- BC - Jan 14, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Manny. I bet they could have had him for 1 year, $8 mil.
- clydeserra - Jan 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM
There are no hitting options. Manny may still be able to hit, but it would all be given back when either him or Matsui has to play left.
- scatterbrian - Jan 14, 2011 at 5:21 PM
The A's already have a cheaper and comparable DH, and there's no way Manny would play in the field.
- raffy7 - Jan 16, 2011 at 12:13 AM
While I do think $4mil is a bit steep for Balfour, the A's did add Dejesus, Willingham and Matsui this offseason, so their lineup will be much improved
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Prominent participants at the symposium will include Mary Helen Carlson, deputy assistant legal advisor for private international law at the U.S. State Department and the head of the U.S. delegation on the UNCITRAL Working Group that drafted the convention; Jose Angelo Estrella Faria of UNCITRAL's International Trade Law Division; and Lizabeth Burrell, the president of the Maritime Law Association of the United States.
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In 1967, as American casualities in the Vietnam War mounted, and no end to the conflict seemed to be in sight, anti-war demonstrations that had been escalating for several years took on a new size and tone. Rather than being a few hundred or a thousand college students here or there, the new protests, like this one in Washington DC, featured more than 100,000 protestors. Not just students, these protestors included returned Vietnam vets, and celebrities such as boxer Muhammad Ali and pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock. Among the Vietnam vets against the war was future Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry.
By 1970, local authorities and the Nixon administration were at their wits' end trying to deal with the overwhelming tide of anti-war sentiment. The May 4, 1970 killing of four unarmed students by the National Guard at Kent State University in Ohio marked a nadir in relations between the protestors (plus innocent passers-by) and the authorities.
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What will you do with those results? If there was ever a question to be asked, this would be it. If there is a likelihood that the results you generate will not be acted upon, then why would you conduct the survey to begin with? During my time in the market research space, I have seen many studies,...read more
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How long is too long? This is a question being asked more frequently in market research circles. It is certainly a topic I have devoted much time to, for the simple reason that lengthy and complex surveys make it more difficult for all researchers to collect valid and reliable data. I delve deeper...read more
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Bike to Work Day. Teacher Appreciation Week. American Heart Month. Lately, there is an observance for nearly every major cause and CX Week (May 11-15) is no exception. Every year in May, customer experience professionals from around the world unite to celebrate their love for customer experience –...read more
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John Koch: Didn't the storm tide subside after the peak on the night of October 29? The photo suggests that Battery Park was still under water on the night of October 31, when Baan is supposed to have shot the picture from a helicopter holding a Canon 1D X by hand and using a 24-70mm lens on full open aperture, 25,000 ISO, with the shutter at 1/40. Plausible?
How do people get assignments to fly over Manhattan two days after a catastrophe, when half the people have no power, then fly off to Haiti, where more than half never had it?
Well, other Dutchmen do some miraculous flying about too.
You obviously don't have a clue who Iwan Baan is, and what he does (and did) in the architectural photography business... ;-)
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I think Nikon isn't made for 'fanboys'. Nikon is for people that don't have many connections with fanboy-behaviour. Nikon may be slower then the competition, but then again; what they make, they make it right.
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Here is my two cents. After you looked at everything that was suggested look hard at all of the steering components...I look at mine tomorrow to see exactly how its built. My guess would be that something is loose or worn in the steering..like why it goes straight THEN leans into the turn. Even check the steering fluid, if its low you could possibly get air and when you turn the fluid is under pressure so if there is air it will compress to the pressure of the fluid trying to make it move (hence going straight then turning.) All of the joints like people have suggested would most likely give you a "shaky" feeling. And also if low fluid or something internal with the steering is wrong it is not something you wold readily see when the truck is off and on a rack.
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Strip-Searched Indian Diplomat Arrested in Error: Lawyer
Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The lawyer for an Indian diplomat whose treatment in U.S. custody ignited a diplomatic uproar between the two countries last week claims the case is based on a series of mistakes.
Daniel Arshak, the lawyer for Devyani Khobragade, 39, who is charged with lying on a visa application about the wages she paid her Indian babysitter, said an agent with the U.S. State Department misread a form the diplomat helped the babysitter fill out, along with related documents.
Arshak said Khobragade, who was trying to help the babysitter get into the U.S., entered her own monthly salary on a non-immigrant visa application, a figure the agent interpreted as being what she paid her babysitter.
"This case should never have been brought," Arshack said in an e-mail Dec. 23. The "agent who processed the arrest and drew up the affidavit to support the charges in this case, simply made an error in reading the" form.
Khobragade was charged Dec. 12 with visa fraud and making false statements. Arrested in front of her daughter's school on West 97th Street in Manhattan, she was held by U.S. marshals in the federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan. While there, she was strip-searched and held with other female suspects. Later that day, she was presented before a U.S. magistrate judge and released on a $250,000 unsecured bond.
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News of her treatment triggered a furor in India, and was followed by government officials there scaling back security outside the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and protests demanding a ban on U.S. goods.
Arshack said the DS-160 form, which was prepared and submitted online, called for Khobragade's salary, not that of the babysitter. Khobragade wrote $4,500 per month, whereas the babysitter made about $1,560 a month, the defense attorney said. The U.S. alleged the babysitter in fact made closer to $500 per month, below minimum wage, citing one of two contracts between the two women and the babysitter's statements.
Arshack said the U.S. government also misconstrued the different payment terms in the two employment contracts.
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In a contract prosecutors said Khobragade submitted as part of the visa application, the diplomat said she paid the babysitter $9.75 an hour -- above minimum wage as required by law, State Department Special Agent Mark Smith said in the criminal complaint. In a second contract, the diplomat agreed to pay the babysitter 30,000 rupees a month, or approximately $573, the U.S. said, which came out to about $3.31 per hour. New York minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
Arshak said the second contract spelled out payments that were to be deducted from the babysitter's pay and sent to her husband in New Delhi.
After the arrest, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said the nation was "shocked and appalled by the public embarrassment of the diplomat" and called for an immediate apology.
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"Khobragade was subject to the same search procedures as other USMS arrestees held within the general prisoner population in the Southern District of New York," the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement.
The visa fraud charge against Khobragade carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison if she's convicted, according to the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. The maximum for the false statements charge is five years.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department referred calls to the Department of Justice. Jerika Richardson, a spokeswoman for Bharara in Manhattan, declined to comment on the claims.
Khobragade was recently named by her country to serve as a member of its permanent mission to the United Nations, a position that gives her a higher level diplomatic immunity than she enjoyed as deputy consul general.
Jen Psaki, a State Department spokeswoman, said Dec. 20 that the diplomat's new posting wouldn't "nullify any previously existing" charges.
The case is U.S. v. Khobragade, 13-mj-02870, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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For every person who draws strength and direction from the Bible, there are many more who struggle with it. Some call it a long book with fine print and obscure meaning. Some call it a mystery. A chore to read. An undecipherable puzzle.
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Although Pittsburgh is best known for the many steel mills that have dotted its landscape, it has also been a major center for the brewing of beer and ale throughout its history. Since 1765, when common beer was first brewed for British soldiers at Fort Pitt, the city has produced a tremendous amount of beer to quench the thirst of steelworkers who toiled in the city's mills.
Brands like Iron City, Duquesne (or "Duke"), Rolling Rock, and Stoney's are still known in the area today, while old-timers might remember names like Fort Pitt, E&O, Carnegie, and Dutch Club, among others. Many towns surrounding Pittsburgh, such as McKeesport, Latrobe, and Aliquippa, were also home to breweries that thrived for many years.
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A collector of Pennsylvania beer memorabilia since 1976, Robert A. Musson, MD, has researched the history of the brewing industry of Ohio and Pennsylvania for two decades. He is the author of Arcadia Publishing's Brewing in Cleveland and has self-published numerous books on the brewing industry, such as Fort Pitt, That's It! and Brewing Beer Since 1829.
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