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Kate Mullany National Historic Site
Home of the American Labor Studies Center
Click here to visit a virtual museum designed to gather, identify and display examples of the cultural and artistic history of working people.
A comprehensive list of links to labor-related photos…
Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor – This "Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan" was developed by the staff at the National Archives & Records Administration. The well developed lesson plan contains a correlation to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Government. Once at the NARA web site you'll find many other interesting lessons. (Hine's Photos @ "The History Place")
Free The Children – Children Helping Children -
Free the Children is an international network of children helping children at a local, national and international level through representation, leadership and action. It was founded by Craig Kielburger in 1995, when he was 12 years old.
AFT Child Labor Project –
For millions of children around the world, school is a luxury. Around the world, more than 200 million children work in unspeakable conditions in sweatshops, mines and factories. Instead of their ABC's, these children are learning to weave carpets, haul bricks, sew garments, and manufacture toys they will never enjoy. The best way to stop child labor? Provide all children with free, accessible education. That's the goal of the Child Labor Project, sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers.
"Imagine opening a high school U.S. history textbook and finding no mention of —or at most a passing sentence about—Valley Forge, the Missouri Compromise, or the League of Nations…"
Resources for teachers who have a limited amount of time to incorporate labor history into their classrooms.
Traces the history of the labor movement from its beginnings to the late 20th century.
A lesson guide for teachers to accompany "A Short History of American Labor"
A description and order information for two excellent labor history films to supplement "A Short History of American Labor" - If You Don't Come in on Sunday, Don't Come in on Monday and The Inheritance
Home of the American Labor Studies Center
A standards-based curriculum for teachers for grades 5-12 by the 9/11 Tribute Center at the World Trade Center.


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Leicester City stars hope to beat illness bug
Posted: January 17, 2013|
Leicester City will be holding a sick parade ahead of tomorrow's televised clash with Middlesbrough at the King Power Stadium.
Although there are no new injury concerns, a wave of illness has been sweeping through the club.
Nigel Pearson said some players, and members of the coaching staff, were feeling unwell and suffering from heavy colds.
Pearson, who himself has just recovered from illness, said winger Anthony Knockaert had returned to training after feeling unwell, but would consider the condition of all the squad before naming his side.
"Anthony trained so he should be okay," he said.
"He had a knock in training prior to the Bristol game last week and took another knock on that area.
"He was also unwell on Saturday morning. He has suffered a bit with that since. Taking him off early was a wise decision and it has given him more time to recover, but we will see how he is.
"I think the biggest concern we have in the build-up to this game is we have quite a bit of illness in the camp, both among staff and players.
"We have had it now for the past couple of weeks so we will have to see how we are in the build-up.
"We will just have to see how one or two are. But it shouldn't affect our performance. We have had to deal with this for the past couple of weeks so we will manage it."
Pearson said defenders Zak Whitbread and Sean St Ledger were edging closer to a return to action after calf and hamstring injuries respectively.
"Zak is on his way back, as is Sean, so, hopefully, we will have more positive news before too long," he said.
Although snow is forecast for tomorrow, City do not currently have any major concerns over the fixture.
A City spokesman said: "We have more than adequate supplies, equipment and human resources to cope with the forecasted conditions and to ensure that King Power Stadium is fully operational for tomorrow's match."
Only one game has previously been postponed at the King Power Stadium, and was against Birmingham in 2007 after the roof of the nearby Holiday Inn was blown off.

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State Men's Tennis Concludes Action at Wolfpack Invite
Jan. 12, 2014
RALEIGH, N.C. - The 35th-ranked N.C. State men's tennis team completed action in the Wolfpack Invite by winning a perfect 10 of 10 singles matches against Elon on Sunday inside the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center.
Junior Austin Powell, ranked 50th in the first Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings of the year, upset No. 25 Cameron Silverman of Elon in a three-set thriller, 6-2, 5-6, 6-4.
"Austin has beaten him (Silverman) before, but ranking wise this was a big win," said head coach Jon Choboy. "They are both inside the top 50. I thought Austin did a good job. Austin has worked hard every day since he got here. He just put himself in a position to have a good opportunity to win."
No. 76 Robbie Mudge defeated Jordan Kaufman, 6-3, 6-2, while No. 83 Nick Horton edged Robert Lindgren, 6-4, 5-6, 6-4. Sophomore Thomas Weigel, listed 82nd in the ITA rankings, defeated Juan Madrid, 6-4, 6-4.
Senior Sean Weber outlasted Stefan Fortmann in three sets, 6-5, 5-6, 6-2, while Simon Norenius, Beck Bond, Ryan Newman, Parker McGuiness and Ian Dempster each recorded straight-set victories.
Next weekend, the Wolfpack will open its dual season with a doubleheader on Saturday, Jan. 18 against UNC Greensboro and NC Central. Play is slated to begin at 10 a.m. against UNCG, while the match against the Eagles is set for 2 p.m. Part of the squad will also travel to Thousand Oaks, Calif., to compete in the Sherwood Collegiate Cup from Jan. 17-20.
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"It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 -- Part 3: At Pomona"
Chris Burden, Untitled, 1966. Bronze. 6 1/2 x 5 in. (16.5 x 12.7 cm). Collection of the artist. © Chris Burden. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
Hap Tivey, Sunpainting, 1971. Window frame, paint, paper, tape, and incandescent light. 24 x 24 x 3 in. (61 x 61 x 7.6 cm). © Hap Tivey. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
Back row, from left to right: Hap Tivey, James Turrell, Gus Blaisdell, and Lewis Baltz; front row, from left to right: Mowry Baden and Guy Williams; Claremont, 1972. Photograph by Marcy Goodwin with the enlightened guidance of Lewis Baltz. Photograph courtesy of Marcy Goodwin.
Pomona College Museum of Art will open "It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973" — "Part 3: At Pomona," on Saturday, March 10 and continuing through May 13, 2012.
On Saturday, March 24, 2012, the Museum will host a conversation between Pomona College alumni Chris Burden and Thomas Crow, at 3 p.m. in Pomona College's Rose Hills Theater (Smith Campus Center, 170 E. Sixth St., Claremont), followed by the opening reception at the Museum, from 5-7 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
"Part 3: At Pomona" demonstrates how Pomona College's extraordinary community, inspired by the atmosphere created by curators Hal Glicksman and Helene Winer, developed some of the most important aesthetic currents of the late 20th century. These artists, both faculty and students, engaged the developing legacies of Conceptualism and Minimalism and forged transformations of these ideas that became prototypes for future generations. This exhibition chronicles the experimental art that emerged in the late 1960s and the role played by Pomona College in advancing these practices.
The period covered by "Part 3" roughly equates with a renaissance in Pomona's arts community that can be traced to Mowry Baden's '58 arrival as chairman of the art department in 1968 (he served as professor until 1971), and which ended, in 1973, with the mass departure of the arts faculty in protest over, among other causes, Helene Winer's dismissal due to the notorious Wolfgang Stoerchle performance seen in "Part 2." During this period, Pomona faculty and alumnus James Turrell was performing his first ganzfeld experiments and conducting flare performances; Lewis Baltz was at work on his legendary Tract Houses series; and Mowry Baden was creating interactive sculptures that would have a profound effect on his students, among them Chris Burden '69, Michael Brewster '68 and Peter Shelton '73. Burden was transitioning from architecture to sculpture to performance. Brewster was exploring the potential of light and sound as an artistic medium, while Shelton was experimenting with corrosion as a painterly medium, which would have a lasting effect on his eventual career as a sculptor.
Central to this group is the under-recognized work of Mowry Baden. His interest in movement and its impact on perception clearly echoes many of the aesthetic concerns that informed works produced through Hal Glicksman's Artist's Gallery exhibition program. Baden's particular articulation of these concerns in works that require viewers to interact and physically operate the sculptures demonstrate a more performative and collaborative approach to audiences that prefigures much contemporary work today. "Part 3" will include five rarely-seen sculptures by Baden.
Another highlight of the exhibition will be the re-creation of Michael Brewster's Configuration 010 Audio Activity, an installation sound piece based on the standing-wave phenomenon. A 1968 Pomona graduate, Brewster studied with Mowry Baden, JohnMason, and David Gray. First exhibited during Glicksman's tenure in May 1970, Configuration 010 Audio Activity served as Brewster's MFA exhibition for Claremont Graduate University (then Claremont Graduate School). The work functions in the gallery as a sculptural form that is physically—but not visually—discernable as waves of sensations.
The main gallery will also include work by Lewis Baltz, David Gray, Judy Fiskin, Peter Shelton, Hap Tivey, James Turrell and Guy Williams. "Part 3" brings together for the very first time key works by Baltz and Fiskin: the complete set of Lewis Baltz's 1971 Tract House photographs and a large selection of Judy Fiskin's 1972-73 Stucco photographs. Baltz arrived in Claremont in 1969 to attend Claremont Graduate University and, after Glicksman recognized his extraordinary abilities, Baltz taught at Pomona from 1970-1973. Glicksman also gave Baltz his first solo exhibition in June 1970. "Part 3" includes the entire Tract House series which he created while teaching at Pomona. These 25 photographs of Southern California tract houses represent Baltz's first attempt to create a series of stand-alone works that hold up when viewed both individually and collectively. The Tract Houses capture empty, lifeless buildings whose lack of people and personality leave an eerie vacuum of narrative content. Divorced from their human use, Baltz's Tract Houses take on a formal beauty of their own; the houses become sumptuous structures of sharp line and soft, diffuse light and shadow.
Majoring in art history at Pomona College, Fiskin graduated in 1966 and was included in an alumni exhibition in 1972, where she first exhibited a selection of work from her renowned Stucco series. Distinctive in both subject matter and form, Fiskin's photographs showcase the less-noticed aspects of the vernacular and decorative built environment, focusing on domestic architecture. Printed in small scale in black and white with black borders and set within a field of white photographic paper, the works allude to Minimalist formalism and abstraction.
The exhibition will also feature additional rarely seen works by Pomona faculty and students, including:
- a never-before-exhibited bronze sculpture created by Chris Burden during his sophomore year at Pomona College
- two recently located Minimalist chrome and polished lacquer sculptures by David Gray
- process-oriented stain paintings from Peter Shelton's senior show at Pomona College
- a recreation of an early Light and Space work that merges painting and sculpture by Hap Tivey
- documentation of a spectacular flare performance by James Turrell
- two major paintings from Guy Williams's acclaimed "Hatch" series in which the canvas is covered with thousands of delicate "hatch" marks
The catalogue for the exhibition "It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973" provides new insight into the relationship between post-minimalism, Light and Space art and various strands of Conceptual art, performance art and photography in Southern California, while contributing substantial new information about interconnections between artistic developments in Los Angeles and New York. Featuring scholarly essays by Thomas Crow, Rebecca McGrew, Glenn Phillips and Marie Shurkus, new interviews with Hal Glicksman and Helene Winer, archival reprints, and 18 new interviews with artists of the era, the book contains 280 images, many never before seen. The catalogue is available for purchase for $49.95 through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers and Artbook.com.
Support for the "It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973" exhibitions, publication, and programming generously provided by the Getty Foundation.
About It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973
From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator of Light and Space art, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and Metro Pictures in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by young local artists who bridged the gap between Conceptual art and post-minimalism, and presaged the development of postmodernism in the later 1970s.
Providing unprecedented and revelatory insight into the art history of postwar Los Angeles, the project It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 consists of three distinct, but related, exhibitions curated by Rebecca McGrew and Glenn Phillips—"Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona" on view August 30 to November 6, 2011; "Part 2: Helene Winer at Pomona" on view December 3, 2011 to February 19, 2012; and "Part 3: At Pomona" on view March 10 to May 13, 2012. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated timeline, a 386-page publication, and a series of public programs featuring artists from the exhibition.
About The Pomona College Museum of Art
The Pomona College Museum of Art collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets works of art; and houses a substantial permanent collection as well as serving as a gallery of temporary exhibitions. The Museum (330 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA) is open to the public free of charge Tuesday through Sunday, from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursday, from noon to 11 p.m. For information, call (909) 621-8283 or visit www.pomona.edu/museum.
About Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945 – 1980
Pacific Standard Time is a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, which are coming together for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene and how it became a major new force in the art world.


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Donors recognized at Alive After Five in Oxford
The Granville County Chamber of Commerce's third and final Alive After Five event of the year was recently held in downtown Oxford.
At the event, the chamber named its new stage and recognized donors.
The stage was named "Newton Stage," in honor of William and Earlene Newton of W.I.N. Customs, Inc., who designed and engineered two eight-foot, fold-out extensions for the stage, and provided parts and labor for installation.
Also recognized were Clayton Homes of Oxford, which donated a mobile home frame; Talbert Building Supply, which donated plywood for the stage floor; A-1 Mini-Storage, which donated labor to install the floor and stage storage; and Oxford Ace Hardware, which donated paint.
North Tower Band performed at the event.


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Landa Park cards dealt to kids in Comal
By Zeke MacCormack : October 5, 2012 : Updated: October 5, 2012 10:28pm
Photo By Zeke MacCormack/San Antonio Express-News
Lamar Elementary School students Olivia Scheffel (left) and Heidi Tabbert show off decks of educational cards about Landa Park.
Photo By Zeke MacCormack/San Antonio Express-News
Olivia Scheffel, a student at Lamar Elementary School in New Braunfels, shows off the deck of educational cards about Landa Park that were distributed this week to all third graders in Comal County. The cards were created and donated by the Sophienburg Museum and Archives and the Friends for the Preservation of Historic Landa Park.
NEW BRAUNFELS — Third-graders in Comal County now have useful insights about Landa Park at their fingertips, from how it became a city park to which endangered species it hosts and what the monuments there stand for.
That's only some of the information contained in 2,000 decks of cards that were created and donated this week by the Friends for the Preservation of Historic Landa Park and the Sophienburg Museum and Archives.
"I want you to know these will be very, very helpful for our instruction," Lamar Elementary School teacher Debbie Borgfeld told the donors Friday after accepting the cards and distributing them to her class.
"They're awesome," student Heidi Tabbert, 8, said of the cards, which come in decks of 24 and feature illustrations on one side and text on the other.
Looking at the box, which has a photo of Founders' Oak, classmate Olivia Scheffel, 9, said: "I really want to go see the Landa Park big tree, 'cause I've never seen it."
The lessons conveyed by the decks given to most third-graders in the New Braunfels and Comal independent school districts were designed to meet state curriculum requirements for social studies.
"I think there will be numerous opportunities for teachers to utilize these in their classrooms," said Margaret Hamilton, Comal ISD's instructional specialist for social studies.
The role of Comal Springs in attracting early settlers already was taught in class and on field trips to Landa Park, educators say, but the cards provide a new instructional vehicle.
"It's a great way to give the kids hands-on content, and they get to take them home and share them with their siblings and parents," said Lori Gruwell, social studies curriculum specialist for New Braunfels ISD. "Kids are funny. If something's theirs, they treasure it."
Museum supporters researched the card topics and wrote the texts, and the park supporters funded the printing.
"It's a good collaborative effort to acquaint Comal County residents with the true value and the beauty of historic Landa Park," said Tim Barker, president of the 250-member park group.
The project, begun a year ago amid 75th anniversary celebrations of Landa Park becoming a municipal holding, proved to be more work than expected.
"This was blood, sweat and tears," said Jane Miller, a volunteer with both groups, who suggested the project after seeing a card featuring Enchanted Rock.
"We call them "Kinder Kartens," she said, adding that there might be more coming.
"It's the first in what we hope will be a series" of card decks, said the museum's education coordinator, Keva Boardman, mulling historic local figures or structures as future deck subjects.
Museum director Linda Dietert, a former teacher, said: "One of the museum's main objectives is to further education through history, and we feel that this project does that."


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Financial Mines
News and notes from the business reporters for the Connecticut Media Group.
Daily Archive for November 1st, 2012
Banking and the other insurance industry's response to Sandy
Connecticut's banking sector was lauded for riding out the devastation of Superstorm Sandy with minimal disruptions. State Banking Commissioner Howard Pitkin, told The Mines Wednesday nearly all the banks are up and running with only one, The Bank of Fairfield, shut down because of a loss of power. One credit union in the New London […] [Read More]


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At the Highest Levels, by Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott
Bush/Baker & Gorbachev
At the Highest Levels: The inside story of the end of the Cold War.
by Michael R. Beschlos and Strobe Talbott.
Little, Brown. 496 pp. $24.95.
In 1989 the historian Michael Beschloss and the journalist Strobe Talbott
quietly asked a large number of American and Soviet officials if they would speak with us on a regular basis about what was happening within and between their two governments; many consented, on the condition that we not identify them as sources.
The result, At the Highest Levels, is less a book than a compilation of memos on conversations. It may also be an unprecedented triumph of tattletaling. And since President Clinton has appointed one of the authors, Strobe Talbott, as his super-envoy to Eurasia, it may be, as well, a guide to future U.S. policy. But this does not make it history.
The authors do not feel obliged to provide logical transitions between paragraphs, let alone between incidents, which follow one another without evident rhyme or reason. Nor, as they go along, do the authors make explicit judgments about whether their dramatis personae are telling the truth or lying, are judging or acting wisely or foolishly. Not until the very end do they summarily lay out their own views on the things they have been writing about. These turn out to be neither more nor less than the views of former Secretary of State James Baker and former President George Bush: namely, that the end of the cold war came about through the foreign policy of the Bush administration toward the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev. In the authors' words:
From January 1989 through December 1991, [George Bush] coaxed the Soviet Union toward worldwide surrender. He did so largely by exercising restraint and refraining from pushing the Soviet government too hard, thus never giving Moscow a pretext to reverse course.
The Bush team believed, and the authors concur, that Gorbachev swallowed the reunification of Germany and did not order Soviet troops to shoot the crowds that brought down the Berlin Wall, Eastern Europe's Communist regimes, and ultimately the Soviet Union itself because U.S. policy was so artfully accommodating. But this is sheer nonsense. In the first place, by the time the Bush team put its stamp on U.S.-Soviet relations in the summer of 1989, the Soviet regime's internal decay, aggravated by Gorbachev's incompetence, had passed the point of no return. Not the least decisive of these developments was Gorbachev's announcement that local First Secretaries, the country's centurions, would have to stand for election—an act that broke whatever still remained of Communist-party discipline. From the summer of 1989 on, had any Soviet official issued an order to make civil or international war, the order might well not have been obeyed, and surely would have plunged the regime into mortal crisis. Gorbachev, in other words, was responding far less to Bush than to a domestic situation he could no longer control.
But in the second place, the premise of this book—that the Bush and Gorbachev teams co-managed the disappearance of the Soviet Union—is the reverse of the truth. Not only did Gorbachev do everything in his power to keep the Soviet Union alive, but so did Bush. Indeed, At the Highest Levels itself shows that the administration supported Gorbachev's Soviet Union to the very end, to the point of affronting both the powerless Baltic peoples suffering under Gorbachev's crackdown and also the great mass of Russians and Ukrainians (the latter soon to become the world's third largest nuclear power). True, the authors concede that maybe Bush and Baker persevered in their commitment to Gorbachev and the Soviet Union a bit too long. But the commitment itself was anything but tactical. It was the very essence of the administration's vision of U.S.-Soviet relations.
That vision, rather than any particular results, explains the U.S. position in the negotiations chronicled in this book. These had to do primarily with arms control and Eastern Europe.
Beschloss and Talbott report the long train of U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations as a series of victories by Bush and Baker, Gorbachev and his Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, over the "hardliners" in their respective camps. At the same time, they praise Bush and Baker for forcing bold, unprecedented U.S. concessions. What were these concessions, and by what standard were they a good thing?
The U.S. entered into the armscontrol process in the late 1960's in order to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring enough warheads with the combination of yield and accuracy to carry out a disarming first strike. The Soviets then had some 300 such warheads, and there were some 2,000 points in the U.S. against which they might have been used. Hence the "bottom-line" ratio of Soviet "counterforce" warheads to U.S. strategic targets was a relatively benign one to seven.
In the 1970's, arms control earned a bad reputation when the Soviet Union, despite the treaties it had concluded with us, built up the ratio to a very threatening three to one. Then came the START I treaty (concluded in 1991), which provided for a big cut in the number of Soviet warheads but also for a proportionally bigger cut in the number of things—e.g., submarines and missile sites—against which they might be aimed. Thus, under START, even without cheating, the Soviets would have seen their ratio rise to perhaps eight to one.
During negotiations for START II, which called for still deeper cuts, the Soviet side argued that it should be allowed to make reductions not by destroying its missiles but rather by "offloading," i.e., removing five warheads from missiles that could carry six. And although it promised to do away with the most dangerous class of missile, the SS-18, it wanted to retain 90 silo launchers for them. Even Bush's National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, a devotee of arms control, objected that the U.S. had no means of knowing how many warheads were on any given missile or which silos contained missiles at any given time. The net effect, Scowcroft warned, might be to enable the Soviet military to wipe out American strategic forces with a fraction of their own.
It is not difficult to imagine why the Soviet military would want such a deal. But why did Bush embrace it? Because he believed, along with the authors, that allowing Gorbachev to brandish U.S. concessions at home would mute the hostility of the Soviet military to his reforms. There is, however, no evidence that Gorbachev thought this way, or that this was the reason the Soviet military stood by as the Soviet system disintegrated from within. As for the American side, the best one can say for these militarily indefensible treaties is that the political collapse of Communism may render them irrelevant.
Now consider Eastern Europe. The authors report Bush as saying, in the aftermath of the Malta summit of December 1989, "that given a choice between the success of perestroika and German unity in the near future, he himself would choose perestroika." At that summit he also told Gorbachev, despite the official U.S. position on the subject, that he would do nothing to support the independence of the Baltic states "so long as Soviet tanks do not roll." A year later they did roll, and Bush still stuck with Gorbachev.
Before and after the Malta conference, even as the peoples of Eastern Europe were demanding the immediate withdrawal of all Soviet troops, the Bush administration was trying to negotiate long-term parity between U.S. and Soviet troops in Europe as a whole. When visiting the region, the authors tell us, Bush felt more comfortable with Communist rulers than with their democratic opponents. Thus, not only did Bush not "dance on the [Berlin] Wall," he was actually pursuing the old notion of trading an effective American acquiescence in Soviet predominance over Eastern Europe for promises of nonviolence and stability. During the 1970's this had been known as the Sonnenfeldt doctrine. Earlier, simply as Yalta.
In sum, the Bush team never understood the Soviet regime's internal troubles or how these troubles constrained Soviet foreign policy. While Bush & Co. parroted Gorbachev's talk of free-market reforms, the Soviet leader was trying to extend the state's control over black-(read, free-) market transactions. While the Bush team, echoed here by Beschloss and Talbott, was considering Boris Yeltsin beneath notice, the Russian people, as well as those of the Baltics and Ukraine, were seeing Yeltsin as their best hope against Communist tyranny. Beginning in the spring of 1990, as Gorbachev turned to the armed forces and the KGB in a belated attempt to maintain the Soviet Union the only way it could be maintained, the Bush team, seconded here by the authors, worried chiefly about helping him to succeed.
By that time even the bureaucrats at the State Department and CIA had figured out that America's interests did not coincide with Gorbachev's and that the U.S. should not try to pay for Soviet concessions which history was in the process of giving us for free. Bush & Co., however, were rejoicing that Gorbachev had shown them the "twinkle in his eye, and sometimes even an actual wink."
Not even the death of the USSR ended the attraction of U.S.-Soviet relations for Bush & Co., or for Beschloss and Talbott. To the end of its own days the administration mourned Gorbachev and resented Yeltsin. It spurned Yeltsin's January 1992 proposal that America and Russia simply stop targeting their missiles on one another, preferring instead to conclude START II. More ominously still, the Bush administration put pressure on Ukraine to surrender its nuclear weapons to Russia, mindless of the deterrent effect these weapons have had on the increasingly powerful military-industrial types within Russia who want to recreate the Soviet Union under another name, and who might be willing to wage war to do it.
As one of the Clinton administration's principal sources of ideas on Eurasia, Strobe Talbott can be expected to prescribe more of what this book endorses: the costly, incompetent, and failed policies of Bush/Baker. For that reason alone, the book he has written with Michael Beschloss is worth reading.


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30 Miles North: Something for the art lover, parent and beer geek in Greenville
No matter what sparks your urge for a short road trip, June in Greenville should have you covered. Between celebrations of art galleries, dreams-come-true for the kids or a celebration of arrogantly drinking good beer, Greenville offers a few good reasons to wear out the pavement on I-85 this month.
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Low deer numbers have Minnesota hunters crying wolfMinnesota's firearms deer harvest was down 20 percent in the northeast, and many hunters blame wolves.
By: Sam Cook, Duluth News Tribune
Minnesota's firearms deer harvest was down 20 percent in the northeast, and many hunters are raising an old cry: Wolves are the problem.
"Wolves have been the number one topic," said Mark Johnson, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association at Grand Rapids.
With 98 percent of deer registrations reported across Northeastern Minnesota, the 2009 deer harvest is down 20 percent from last year, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. And last year's harvest was down about 20 percent from the 2007 harvest.
Across the northeast, registrations were down as much as 39 percent in the International Falls area and as little as 10 percent in the Cloquet area, according to DNR figures.
Overall across the region, the adult buck harvest was down 6 percent, and the antlerless deer harvest was down 33 percent. Minnesota's firearms deer season ran from Nov. 7 through Sunday.
"This is a pretty dramatic decline," said Jeff Lightfoot, DNR regional wildlife manager at Grand Rapids. "When you put this year coupled with last year, which was pretty similar, it's a pretty significant drop."
Over the past few years, the DNR, based on public input, has been trying to lower deer populations across much of Northeastern Minnesota. That has been done to reduce impact on forests and car crashes with deer as well as to decrease deer predation on gardens and shrubs.
The winter of 2008-2009, especially across then northern tier of the state, was harsher than most other recent winters, causing significant deer mortality, DNR wildlife managers say.
But hunters are focusing on wolves.
"They are a factor," Johnson of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association. "How big a factor they are is another question."
The state's wolf population is estimated at 3,000, give or take several hundred, said DNR wolf and furbearer biologist John Erb in Grand Rapids. The wolf population is not thought to be growing rapidly.
"It's always possible that things can vary locally," Erb said, "but if you want my one generalization, it's that data continues to suggest that wolves do not have any negative regulative effect [on deer populations] — that means causing decline — from one year to the next."
Erb bases that in part on long-term studies of radio-collared deer in an ongoing DNR study by Glenn Del Giudice, DNR deer biologist at Grand Rapids.
Erb thinks that perhaps hunters, by shooting lots of antlerless deer in recent years, have helped reduce the deer population.
"What has been our goal in the past few years? To reduce the deer population," he said. "It may be that hunters have been quite successful in doing what DNR managers wanted them to do."
The DNR's Lightfoot said wildlife managers will review deer-population goals in the coming winter and spring. Johnson thinks hunters may have forgotten that goals were to reduce the deer herd.
"Are people saying that the deer population is too low — yes…" Johnson said. "Our interest in decreasing the deer herd extends until it affects our individual hunt.
"Similarly, it is pretty obvious that the public tolerance of increasing and expanding wolf numbers is nearing its limits in part because of lower deer numbers, but also due to more wolf sightings and caution caused by reports of more aggressive wolf behavior."
Hunters want a hunting season on wolves, Johnson said.
"It's a big-game species. It should be managed as a renewable resource," he said.
For now, though, wolves remain protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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Kansas Geological Survey, Public Information Circular (PIC) 36
A complete version of this PIC is available as a pdf document.
Rex C. Buchanan, K. David Newell, Catherine S. Evans, and Richard D. Miller
Kansas Geological Survey
Earthquake activity in the Earth's crust is known as seismicity. When linked to human activities, it is commonly referred to as "induced seismicity." Industries that have been associated with induced seismicity include oil and gas production, mining, geothermal energy production, construction, underground nuclear testing, and impoundment of large reservoirs (National Research Council, 2012). Nearly all instances of induced seismicity are not felt on the surface and do not cause damage.
In the early 2000s, concern began to grow over an increase in the number of earthquakes in the vicinity of a few oil and gas exploration and production operations, particularly in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ohio, Colorado, and Texas. Horizontal drilling in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing has often been singled out for blame in the public discourse. Hydraulic fracturing, popularly called "fracking," does cause extremely low-level seismicity, too small to be felt, as do explosions associated with quarrying, mining, dam building, and other industrial activities. Although the actual process of hydraulic fracturing has been suspected of inducing larger earthquakes a few times worldwide, the U.S. Geological Survey has found no evidence to suggest that it has contributed much to increases in the rate of earthquakes (Hayes, 2012).
Felt earthquakes associated with any oil and gas production activities are rare. In the United States, only a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of wells currently in operation have been suspected of inducing earthquakes large enough to be felt or cause damage (National Research Council, 2012). Most often, detected seismic activity associated with oil and gas operations is thought to be triggered when wastewater is injected into a disposal well. In the disposal process, waste products--such as saltwater produced with oil and gas and recovered hydraulic fracturing fluids--are injected into deep and confined porous rock.
Identifying a link between earthquakes and human activities is difficult. Complex subsurface geology and limited data about that geology make it hard to pinpoint the cause of many seismic events in the midcontinent, particularly in regions historically prone to naturally occurring low-level seismic activity. In south-central Kansas, for example, several small earthquakes have been recorded near disposal wells starting in September 2013, about three years after horizontal drilling activities in the Mississippian limestone play--and associated water disposal--had crossed over the state line into Kansas from Oklahoma. However, the region also experienced several small historical earthquakes long before the increased oil activity, making it difficult to determine the cause of the recent seismic events. Although some areas of Kansas are at greater risk of seismicity than others, whether natural or induced, none of the state is in a high-hazard earthquake zone (fig. 1).
Figure 1--Earthquake hazard maps show the probability that ground shaking, or motion, will exceed a certain level, over a 50-year period. The low-hazard areas on this map have a 2% chance of exceeding a low level of shaking and the high-hazard areas have a 2% chance of topping a much greater level of shaking (modified from USGS, 2008).
Scientists continue to monitor and evaluate possible instances of induced seismicity. In states with significant increases in seismic activity, including Oklahoma, monitoring has increased in localized areas where unusually high rates of seismicity have occurred near oil and gas production activities. To help reduce the potential for induced seismicity related to the rate of injection of wastewater into disposal wells, scientists and others have developed some best-practice recommendations that would help prevent activation of stressed faults.
Most seismic activity occurs when stress within the Earth's crust causes a fault or faults in subsurface rocks to slip and release enough energy to generate tremors. The vast majority of earthquakes are instigated naturally and generally happen where the Earth's tectonic plates interact. For the United States, that means most seismic activity is on the west coast along the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates.
Away from plate boundaries, earthquakes are most often triggered when geological processes, such as the deposition and erosion of surface rock, alter the balance of opposing stresses on subsurface rocks. Change in stress increases or decreases strain--the amount of rock deformation brought about by stress--which weakens the stability of faults confined by the stress. Faults may then slip and release pent-up energy, which rolls in waves through the Earth's crust (Ellsworth, 2013).
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates several million earthquakes occur around the world each year, although many small ones go undetected (USGS, 2014). Seismic events too small to be felt on the surface are known as microearthquakes, or microseisms.
The term "induced seismicity" is popularly used for any seismic activity linked to human activity. Some researchers, however, more narrowly define "induced seismicity" as seismicity caused solely by human activity and use the term "triggered seismicity" to define human activity that sets off a small transient event, which then instigates or contributes to a larger earthquake controlled by natural stresses (Cesca, 2012). Because the amount of influence a human activity has on a seismic event is hard to establish, that distinction is not always made. "Induced seismicity" is used throughout this circular to refer to any seismic event influenced by human activities.
Earthquakes can be measured in two different ways. One method is based on magnitude--the amount of energy released at the earthquake source. The other is based on intensity--how much the ground shakes at a specific location. Although several scales have been developed over the years, the two commonly used today in the United States are the Modified Mercalli scale, which measures intensity, and the moment magnitude scale, which measures magnitude (M), or size. The moment magnitude scale is now preferred to the older, more familiar Richter scale because it overcomes some of the limitations of the Richter scale (USGS, 2014).
Measurements on the moment magnitude scale are determined using a complex mathematical formula to convert motion recorded with a seismometer into a number that represents the amount of energy released during an earthquake. Energy released for each whole number measurement is about 31 times greater than that released by the whole number before (USGS, 2014). The smallest earthquakes recorded today have negative magnitudes (e.g., M -2.0) on the moment magnitude scale because the scale's range is based on that of the Richter scale, developed in the 1930s when monitoring equipment was less sensitive. Scientists are now able to detect earthquakes smaller in magnitude than the "0" used as the Richter scale baseline.
Measurements of intensity on the Modified Mercalli scale range from I to XII and are based solely on damage assessment and eyewitness accounts. Intensity measurements near the source of an earthquake are generally higher than those at a distance. They can also remain high in the direction the waves of energy travel and may be magnified in areas underlain by loose gravels and unconsolidated sediments. Determining intensity can be difficult in sparsely populated areas with few buildings because intensity is calculated largely on the effects that tremors have on human-made structures.
Although an earthquake's magnitude and intensity measurements are not precisely comparable, they can, in general, be correlated when intensity measurements nearest the epicenter are used in the comparison (fig. 2; Steeples and Brosius, 1996). Seismologists categorize earthquakes by their magnitude, not by their perceived intensity.
Figure 2--The magnitude (M), or size, of an earthquake does not correlate directly with intensity or damage, but an approximate comparison can be made between the magnitude and the felt intensity and damages--enumerated on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale--near the epicenter (USGS, 2014).
The majority of seismic events are microearthquakes, too small to be felt or to cause damage. The largest documented earthquake in Kansas, centered near Wamego east of Manhattan in 1867, rocked buildings, cracked walls, stopped clocks, broke windows, and reportedly caused ground to sink and endanger the bank of a canal near Carthage, Ohio (Parker, 1868). That earthquake was likely associated with the Nemaha Ridge, a 300-million-year-old buried mountain range extending roughly from Omaha to Oklahoma City. The Humboldt fault zone on the eastern boundary of the Nemaha Ridge is still slightly active (Steeples and Brosius, 1996). Based on damage and reports, the Wamego earthquake was estimated to have a magnitude of 5.2 (Niemi et al., 2004). Smaller faults and fault systems also have been identified in the state, mainly during oil and gas exploration, but none have been connected with large earthquakes.
At least 25 earthquakes in Kansas were documented in newspaper accounts and other sources between 1867 and 1976. A few of the later ones were recorded with seismic equipment. Between 1977 and 1989, the Kansas Geological Survey recorded more than 200 small earthquakes with a temporary seismic network as part of a study to identify seismic risk in the state (fig. 3). The monitoring equipment was sensitive enough to detect artillery fire at Fort Riley from 30 miles (50 km) away and large earthquakes as far away as Japan (Steeples and Brosius, 1996). Today, two seismic monitoring stations, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey, are located in Kansas. One is at Cedar Bluff Reservoir in western Kansas and the other is at the Konza Prairie Biological Station south of Manhattan in northeastern Kansas. The Oklahoma Geological Survey monitors earthquakes in Oklahoma at about a dozen seismic stations, which also pick up some seismic events in Kansas.
Figure 3--Historical earthquakes in Kansas before 1962 and seismic events recorded by the Kansas Geological Survey between 1977 and 1989 (modified from Steeples and Brosius, 1996).
Although oil and gas drilling and production, and corresponding wastewater injection, increased in south-central and western Kansas as interest in the Mississippian limestone play grew, the state has not experienced the same rise in seismic activity as neighboring Oklahoma. That may be due to the lower level of drilling and production activity in Kansas, differences in geology between the two states, or both. Oklahoma has historically had more natural earthquakes than Kansas. Also, the Oklahoma Geological Survey, which has been monitoring seismic activity for more than three decades, increased the size of its monitoring network in 2009 (Oklahoma Geological Survey, 2014). That led to the detection of a greater number of low-level earthquakes. Similar-sized events go unrecorded in Kansas.
In Oklahoma, a number of seismic episodes are suspected of being associated with induced seismicity. The largest, a M 5.7 earthquake, was recorded near Prague in 2011 (Keranen et al., 2013). Researchers are investigating whether injected fluid precipitated a M 5.0 foreshock that then triggered the M 5.7 mainshock and thousands of aftershocks along the Wilzetta fault system in central Oklahoma. The locations of the foreshock, mainshock, and a M 5.0 aftershock suggest that three separate portions of the complex fault system were activated (Sumy et al., 2014). A definitive connection between wastewater disposal and seismicity near Prague and several other Oklahoma locations with previous natural earthquake activity, however, has not been confirmed (Oklahoma Geological Survey, 2014).
Before 2013, the only documented instance of possible induced seismicity in Kansas occurred in 1989 when small earthquakes were recorded near Palco in Rooks County, about 30 miles northwest of Hays. The largest, a M 4.0, caused minor damage (Steeples and Brosius, 1996). Several injection wells used for the disposal of wastewater--extracted during conventional vertical oil well operations--were located in the area, and one well in particular may have been close to a deeply buried fault zone. Based on that well's injection history, local geology, and low level of prior earthquake activity in the area, scientists speculated that the seismicity could have been induced (Armbruster et al., 1989).
In 2013 and early 2014, several earthquakes were recorded in south-central Kansas in the vicinity of wastewater injection wells. In Harper County, a M 2.9 earthquake was recorded in September 2013, and in Sumner County earthquakes measuring M 3.8 and M 3.9 were recorded in December 2013 and February 2014, respectively (USGS, 2014). Whether oil activities played a role has not been determined. Naturally occurring earthquakes have been recorded in the region in the past, dating back to 1956. Further understanding of the complex subsurface geology in the region is needed to estimate what impact wastewater disposal might have had.
The Earth's crust is full of fractures and faults. Under natural conditions, widespread faults deep in the crust are able to sustain high stresses without slipping. In rare instances, pressure from wastewater injected into deep wells can counteract the frictional forces on faults and cause earthquakes (Hayes, 2012). In other words, fluid injected near a fault can, in effect, change pore pressure--the amount of pressure that fluid in a rock's pores exerts on the rock--allowing a fault to move.
For that to happen, a combination of human activities, natural conditions, and geologic events must occur at the same time. To begin, the Earth's crust at the injection well site must be near a critical state of stress and an existing fault has to be nearby--within about 10 km (6 mi). Most faults are small and only generate small earthquakes. For a fault to slip and release energy, the location and orientation of the fault is critical. No matter how close a fault is to an injection well, its orientation within the ambient stress field and the properties of the surrounding subsurface rocks determine whether it has the potential to fail (National Research Council, 2012). If a fault does fail, the depth at which it ruptures influences its effect.
Even when all the natural conditions are favorable for induced seismicity near a disposal well, an earthquake is not a certainty. Under most circumstances, a significant amount of water must be injected over a prolonged period to activate a fault. As fluid is injected into the porous subsurface rock, the pore pressure would then have to increase to the point that it caused the volume of the rock to expand and destabilize a fault. Likewise, a decrease in pore pressure when fluid is extracted from rock can affect fault stabilization (National Research Council, 2012).
Many of the Earth's faults are in the Precambrian-age basement rock, which in Kansas lies beneath the deep and confined porous formations used for wastewater storage. Formed 500 million or more years ago, the basement rock is overlain by thousands of feet of sedimentary rock. Injected wastewater does not reach the basement rock, but if pressure created by the injection of fluid is transmitted into the basement through surrounding rocks, the potential for induced seismicity increases (Ellsworth, 2013).
Because of their depth, faults within the basement rock are hard to locate. Oil and gas exploration companies, which provide much of the data about the state's subsurface geology, rarely drill that deep. Seismic-reflection techniques used to identify subsurface rocks and faults are expensive and difficult to employ at that depth. Until more is known about the geology of Precambrian rocks, scientists will not be able to determine with certainty what effect wastewater disposal and other oil and gas field activities have on seismicity. A close spatial relationship between a wastewater disposal site and increased seismic activity, although it raises legitimate questions, does not prove cause and effect.
Hydraulic fracturing is at the center of the debate over induced seismicity in the United States. Microseisms, usually less than a magnitude of zero (M 0), do occur during hydraulic fracturing. In fact, geologists often record them to help identify the location of the newly made fractures and to measure stress. However, felt earthquakes have rarely been linked to hydraulic fracturing, and the ones that have been are relatively small (National Research Council, 2012). Two confirmed cases of felt seismic activity caused by hydraulic fracturing have been documented--a series of seismic events measuring up to M 2.3 in England in 2011 and a series of events ranging from M 2.2 to M 3.8 in a remote area of the Horn River Basin in British Columbia, Canada, between 2009 and 2011 (Holland, 2013; BC Oil and Gas Commission, 2012). Hydraulic fracturing also has been suspected of causing a M 2.9 earthquake in south-central Oklahoma in 2011, but that has not been confirmed (Holland, 2013).
Hydraulic fracturing is unlikely to cause felt seismicity because pressurization that occurs during the process usually lasts only a few hours and affects only rocks in the area immediately surrounding the well bore (Zoback, 2012). Wastewater disposal, in which fluids are injected over a longer period, is more often associated with induced seismicity. It has long been recognized that fluid injection can trigger earthquakes. Seismic activity following wastewater disposal at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver in the early 1960s and by water injection at the Rangely oil field in western Colorado in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been well studied (Zoback, 2012). However, although a large quantity of fluids is injected into hundreds of thousands of wells every year, only a small number of those wells have been associated with induced seismicity.
There are approximately 172,000 fluid-injection wells in the United States used to dispose of wastewater or to extract additional oil out of fields nearly depleted by traditional production methods. Of those wells, designated Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class II wells by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about 20% are used for the disposal of saltwater that is produced along with oil and natural gas. In the disposal process, saltwater is injected into a deep formation selected for wastewater disposal and not into the formation from which it was originally produced. Non-potable water and chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process, which must be disposed of under State of Kansas requirements, are also injected into these wells.
Most of the rest of the Class II wells are used during secondary and enhanced oil recovery operations to squeeze additional oil out of underground rocks (EPA, 2012). For these operations, saltwater is commonly injected back into the formation from which it was produced. The injected water, ideally, moves toward the production well, transporting additional oil to the well.
The EPA regulates the licensing and operation of Class II disposal wells under the Safe Drinking Water Act or delegates authority to state agencies. The act is primarily designed to protect aquifers and other drinking water sources from contamination by injected fluids. Class II well operators submit a form annually indicating total monthly injected volumes and the maximum monthly recorded surface injection pressure.
The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) regulates the approximately 16,800 Class II wells in Kansas. About 5,000 of those wells are for wastewater disposal and 11,800 for secondary and enhanced oil recovery (KCC, 2014). Class II wells are used only for the injection of fluids associated with oil and gas production. Hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste, regulated by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), is disposed of in UIC Class I wells. There are 47 Class I wells in Kansas (KDHE, 2012).
In general, waste fluids from oil and gas production in Kansas are injected back into deep subsurface formations "under gravity." That is, because the formations can accept substantial amounts of fluid, fluids are not injected under additional pressure but are simply allowed to flow into these rock formations under the force of gravity. Gravity injection limits the possibility of pressure build-up in the disposal formation and reduces the potential for fault slippage. Often, any pressure increases that do occur from gravity injection are limited to the vicinity of the well, although the effects of gravity injection may extend farther out than anticipated. Force from fluid weight, independent of injection pressure, also can have an impact.
When fluids are pumped into a rock formation under pressure, rather than being allowed to flow more slowly under the force of gravity, the added pressure may lower the frictional resistance between rocks along an existing fault system. That allows the rocks to slide. In the Rocky Mountain Arsenal case, where chemical fluid waste was injected under pressure numerous times, seismic activity continued for several years after injection was discontinued (National Research Council, 2012).
The authors of a National Research Council (NRC) report and others have suggested steps that could be taken to alleviate induced seismicity associated with Class II wastewater disposal wells. The recommendations are based on a protocol advanced by the U.S. Department of Energy to address induced seismicity associated with enhanced geothermal systems. To establish a protocol in a specific location, an evaluation would first have to be made to determine whether following suggested recommendations would be feasible in that location. Enactment would require coordination between industry, government agencies, and the research community; monitoring seismicity and collecting data; assessing hazards and risks; and developing mitigation plans (National Research Council, 2012).
The protocols are often referred to as "traffic light" systems. Under the systems, operators would continue injection as long as earthquakes did not occur (green light), would slow injection rates and take other precautions if seismicity occurred (yellow light), and would abandon wells if seismicity associated with injection did not slow significantly or stop after precautions were taken (red light). In instances of suspected induced seismicity in Arkansas and Texas, injection was terminated and seismicity subsided (Zoback, 2012).
An essential element of the traffic light system is the capacity to monitor seismicity and collect data. The current monitoring network in the United States, with its widely spaced stations in Kansas and many other states, can detect moderate to large earthquakes. However, it is less effective at pinpointing the epicenters of, or even recording, smaller events far from monitoring stations. Determining whether a connection exists between recent earthquakes and fluid injection wells in Kansas and elsewhere will require increased and more densely spaced monitoring stations closer to injection sites. Increased access to data pertaining to the injection process, especially the volume of fluid injected over a specified period and the amount of pressure used to inject it, is also vital.
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Enhanced oil recovery--Production of trapped oil left in the ground following primary and secondary recovery operations. Gases, steam, or chemicals are injected through a Class II fluid-injection well into a producing formation to lower the viscosity of the remaining oil and allow it to flow to the producing wells.
Horizontal drilling--Drilling that starts out vertical then gradually turns in a horizontal direction to extend a greater distance into a known oil-producing zone.
Hydraulic fracturing--Injection of fluids and sand into a well to fracture oil-bearing rock layers. Colloquially called "fracking," especially when used in conjunction with horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing increases permeability in rocks to free trapped oil.
Mississippian limestone play--A complex group of oil and gas reservoirs within a shared geologic and geographic setting that extends from north-central Oklahoma into south-central and western Kansas.
Rangely oil field--An oil field in northwestern Colorado where the U.S. Geological Survey experimented with adjusting fluid pressure in injection wells between 1969 and 1973 to determine how changing injection rates could control seismicity.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal--Established in WWII, the RMA north of Denver was used by the U.S. Army to develop chemical weapons and was later used to produce agricultural chemicals. A deep injection well drilled there in 1961 for the disposal of hazardous chemicals was abandoned in 1966 after 13 earthquakes of M 4 or larger occurred. Earthquake activity declined but continued for two decades (Ellsworth, 2013).
Sedimentary rocks--Rocks formed from sediment, broken rocks, or organic matter, often deposited by wind or water and then compacted into layers after being buried under other sediment.
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Villa Lark, budget luxury, surf beach 550mtr, Cang
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Villa Lark offers boutique style luxury accommodation. It is located 550 meters from the surf break of Pantai Pererenan and the famous 'Echo Beach'. Great for families or a group of friends. A couple travelling alone & sharing one bedroom only will receive a discount off the seasonal rate, ask the owner. Villa Lark is a relaxed, secure, comfortable private retreat 5 minutes walk to the beach, where guests can experience the authentic Balinese setting of a traditional village and rice fields, and only 25-30 minutes away from busy Seminyak & Petitenget with it's beautiful shops and wonderful world class restaurants. The villa decorated ...Read more
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Villa Lark, budget luxury, surf beach 550mtr, Cang Canggu, Bali, Indonesia
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Experience the traditional village life- style, markets, and fabulous surf beach within a walking distance or the car and driver can bring you to the centre of the touristy hot spots in Seminyak, or nearby attractions ; 15 minutes to the Beautiful Tanah Lot Temple and Nirwana Golf Course, 25 minutes to the 2nd oldest temple in Bali, on route to Ubud, 45 min away. Other interesting things for guests to do nearby include Spa treatments, surfing and boggy boarding at the nearby famous surf breaks ; for horse lovers, a ride on the beach at sunset, the Equestrian Centre is 5 minutes walk ; or for the adventurous spirit visit Treetops Adventure Park, Waterbom Water Park, take surf lessons, go white water rafting ; take a cycling tour through the rice paddy fields under the volcano, visit local coffee plantations to sample luwak coffee ; ride an Elephant at the Elephant Sarfari, etc. Enjoy fabulous local dining options within 3-10 minutes of the villa that offer a tasty selection of Indonesian, Thai, Indian, Mexican, Spanish or western style cuisine at Pererenan Beach, Echo Beach or Tugu. Alternatively, pour a glass of wine, relax on the balcony, watch the sun go down and dine in. Invite the private chef to prepare some amazing local cuisine (by arrangement with owner only) or the local restaurants, Ombak Café and Red Salt will deliver to your door tasty local or western cuisine! A car, motor bikes or private transport and driver can be booked though the owner by arrangement prior to your visit. Please email the owner with any requests or information.
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Mick --- Houston, Tx ----- STOC# 1134
'05 ST1300A, '09 Suzuki Bandit 1250 ABS (sold), '01 ST1100A (sold), '99 ST1100A (sold), '97 ST1100 (sold), '00 VFR (sold), '99 VFR (sold), plus 8 other assorted bikes.
I have had my Scala Q2 since June, and use them year round with Florida weather.
There was only one post mentioning they had battery charging issues, and that was during a test period where they would try, and evaluate, and they might be guessing that the non-replaceable (?) battery would get worse over time.
How would they know results if they only borrowed a pair to test for a very short test, then returned them?
I agree with response from webbikeworld that the poster probably had a defective battery.
(I also don't know what the poster meant by needing to yell to activate. A slight cough is all it takes, or just do it manually).
In fact, the complete opposite battery life here.
What started off as maybe 6-7 hours, is now close to 10 hours of nearly constant open intercom channel (normally turn off VOX and just leave channel always open for talking).
The batteries seemed to condition themselves over time, and have only got better.
Sometimes I run them down all the way.
Other times I recharge after a couple hours use.
Never babied them.
Looking at others comments and a common thing does pop up.
Low audio.
You MUST get the speakers exactly right in your helmet, otherwise you will get very poor results.
I'm talking 1/2" off can mean double the audio sound that you will hear!
I have now used these in several helmets, and when properly positioned, you can talk and hear fine at highway speeds. On one ST1300, I did find that windshield up during phone calls helped a lot, and when up, we could do 85 MPH and still talk fine.
Also, when properly setup, FM does work great (for mono), and is one of the reasons to get a Q2.
Ed W.,
No, you can not pair to another pair. You can only use them as 1, 2 or 2 1/2 (I'll call it when a 3rd unit is tied in). The 3rd unit and 2nd unit can not talk to each other, they can only talk to unit 1, which is why I stated 2 1/2.
Last edited by RobsTV; 03-31-2009 at 02:25 PM.
I was just recently looking at the Scala Q2.
One comment the vendor (BMW dealer) made to me, was about volume. Guess they spent some time with several units and the manufacturer, dealing with customers who where complaining about low speaker volume.
It seems that the Scala has an ambient noise sensor that adjusts speaker output. The key to setting up the system is to preform initial set up in a noisy environment.
Too many people where performing initial set up in their house where it was nice and quiet.
The dealer now provides to set them up, in their shop with one of those large fans blowing air & making lots of background noise. So far, all their customers are extremely satisfied with proper set up.
Mark STOC #6674
Thanks for your comment about battery life. It's helpful to have a positive data point based on experience.In fact, the complete opposite battery life here. What started off as maybe 6-7 hours, is now close to 10 hours of nearly constant open intercom
Welp, just pulled the trigger on the Scala Q2 Multiset. Should be here by the weekend. God only knows how long it will take for me to figure out the pairing, etc.
My son and I bought the Q2 Multiset last Sept for a 4000 mile trip. We both wear ear plugs and the volume is fine while listening to each others voice calls, while listening to my Bluetooth phone and I also tune the FM receiver to the FM output of my Sirius satellite radio with great results.
However, the MP3 input is useless. It definitely has low volume. We tried 3 different MP3 players with each of our headsets and none put out enough volume to listen to while riding. I put that comment on my registration card when I sent it back to Cardo and hope they paid some attention. When we bought the Q2 Multisets last Sept, that was the first model with the MP3 input, which is one reason we got the latest model. Perhaps they have addressed that problem on newer units?
That being said, I still love the Q2. I use it on my KLR to listen to my Sirius and have Bluetooth phone connectivity, as well as bike to bike when travelling with my son. I use it exclusively on my ST1300, even though I have an Autocom setup in it that I used to have wired to the output of my Sirius and radar detector. The Autocom is stereo, but doesn't have Bluettoth, so I no longer use it.
Someone asked if 4 people with Q2's could talk to each other. As I read the instructions, you can only have 3 people linked to each other.
Fred Z
Has anyone mounted one of these in the Shark RSI helmet? I'm thinking about getting a Shark RSI but there doesn't appear to be much room for helmet speakers.
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It`s sad to see how little historical perspective people have. Lars paved the way for generations of drummers. Lars has never claimed to be the best and if i remember correct he has shyed away from clinics cus he`s not confident enough in he`s abilities and feels that it would be stroking he`s own ego too much.
And as for the whole napster thing, many of the forum members again seem to be ignorant of history. The whole thing blew up into a greed issue, when the fact of the matter was that it was a question about artists owning the rights to their own music.
The napster issue just proved that long after metallica was deemed viable. They were still leading the pack.
It is amazing that artists (as i recon many of the forum members are) don`t see the importance of artists owning the rights to their own music.
If you are going to pursue music profesionally; how are you going to support yourself and your family if you can`t make money of your music?
As for Lars abilities the later part of 2000 it seems that age and family life has taking it`s toll on the man. He is a mere shadow of himself with regards to technique and he has been quite stagnant in he`s playing, but so has the rest of metallica.
I still get a kick when i listen to metallica, Lars has (had...) a unique style, almost symphonic in the way he`s drumming followed James guitar and vocals.
Regarding what you said about the artists and their rights, no one would disagree with you. I just remember Lars being a dick and extremely unlikable. He definitely didn't connect with the younger generation. At that point it didn't matter what his message was.
Now that I'm older and more mature, he just seems like an interesting guy. I definitely have no negativity towards him these days.
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I must have the worst luck of any DISH Network customer. I finally called a week ago because we still have been having to power cycle very morning with the 722k. To their credit, a replacement 722k arrive quickly, I finally installed it this afternoon and after scanning local over the air channels for the module, it would not get any satellite channels. So, the replacement is going back and I am back to the old one. Is there any way to get DISH to test these before they send them out? I feel like I am playing roulette when I order a replacement 722k!
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Observing the Twentieth Anniversary of the Riverport Riot with the Ten Best Concert Brawls
5. Nirvana: It's a State of Mind
An overzealous security guard got a little too rough trying to fish Kurt Cobain from the crowd. The prophet of grunge responded with a Fender to the head. It went downhill from there.
4. Glen Danzig Gets KTFO
It's a bit difficult to maintain that edgy, evil persona after the world sees you get dropped from one punch. However, Danzig later explained that he let the guy knock him out so he could avoid getting sued if he retaliated. Sure you did, Glen.
3. Keith Richards is Hardcore, Period.
Besides his superhuman tolerance for pharmaceutical delights, Keith also enjoys snorting his dead father's ashes, sailing with pirates and swinging his guitar like a freaking battle axe at wayward fans.
2. You Just Got Owned by Billie Joe Armstrong
Who says Green Day is more pop than punk? Okay so maybe a lot of people do, but watch this video as Armstrong goes full on kamikaze and dive bombs an unruly fan with an epic dropkick from the stage.
1. The Maynard Choke
Many fans of Tool may not know that frontman Maynard James Keenan has his purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Rickson Gracie and that he's even been featured in Black Belt Magazine. Obviously, the fan in this clip wasn't aware of that.
However, this video earns the top spot for its uncanny marriage of song and action. A young man rushes the stage during Pushit, whose lyrics include the following:
I will choke until I swallow...
Choke this infant here before me.
What is this but my reflection?
Who am I to judge and strike you down?
And what happens? Maynard Judo flips the kid to the ground before securing a rear naked choke and squeezing the air right out of him. Now that's a wicked case of life imitating art.
Keenan never misses a beat either. He just keeps performing. Classic.
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