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Study: Nuclear Power Will Be Pricier Than Other Renewables by 2020
The SMH has an article on the cost of nuclear power - Nuclear power 'failing' price test.
NUCLEAR energy will be more expensive than most forms of renewable energy by 2020 according to a paper by the University of NSW energy expert Mark Diesendorf.
The paper, to be given at a solar industry conference in Canberra today, finds the cheapest renewable energy sources – including landfill gas, onshore wind, conventional geothermal and hydro – are already cost-competitive with conventional nuclear energy power plants.
By 2020, offshore wind farms, solar thermal and solar photovoltaics are all projected to be less expensive than nuclear energy.
Dr Diesendorf, the deputy director of the Institute of Environmental Studies, said the cost of building a nuclear power plant has risen rapidly since 2002, from more than $US2000 per kw of generation capacity installed, to about $US7400 per kw.
The latest capital cost translates to about US15¢ per kwh of electricity generated, which is projected to rise to about 20¢ per kwh over the next decade, if costs continue to rise at current rates.
The figures do not count subsidies for nuclear energy such as loan guarantees, land acquired for buffer zones around reactors or decommissioning costs.
By comparison the study cites big falls in the capital cost of onshore wind power last year, from $1900 per kw to $1700 per kw, and in solar from $7000 per kw to $5120 per kw (and as low as $3000 for utility-scale projects).
None of the projections assume a carbon price.
Dr Diesendorf said the cost of nuclear energy was rising because the industry was "not expanding".
Nuclear's share of global power generation had fallen from 17 per cent in 2001 to 14 per cent last year with the main growth coming from China, Russia, India and South Korea.
Only two reactors were under construction in western countries – in Finland and France – and both were over-time and over-budget.
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Nathan Wilson says:
BillWoods, I'm sure you're correct for certain small regions taken in isolation. E.g. in Washington state, they use hydro for baseload and peaking, and more wind would extend that. However, if they used nuclear for baseload, they could export more peaking power out of state.
For the nation as a whole, there is only enough hydro for 6% of our electricity. So a nuclear/hydro/desert_solar portfolio will need much less fossil fuel supplement than would a wind/hydro/distributed_solar portfolio.
I've got no beef with solar thermal (other than the cost and land use) as long as it's built in the desert. As you move them towards the coasts, they turn back into fossil fuel plants, due to increasing use of cloudy-day backup systems.
Willem Post says:
CSP thermal solar power plants with a LOT of storage, i.e., very large solar fields, will be able to run at full load during the day and, less efficiently, at part load at night. Insolation greater than 2,200 kWh/sq m/yr of sunshine is needed. The capital costs of such plants is greater than $8,000/kW, based on Spanish data for 50 MW CSP plants.
Spain has standardized on 50 MW plants, has several in service, more under construction, they all are more than $8,000/kW
Description of an Operating 50 MW CSP Plant With Storage in Southern Spain
Andasol 1, steam turbine capacity 50 MW, output 180 GWh/yr, thermal storage system includes two tanks filled with molten salt at 750 F with a capacity of 1,010 MWh (82.5 tons of salt per MWh) to run the 50 MW turbine at rated output for 7.5 hrs (electricity out/heat in = 375 MWh/1,010 MWh = 0.37), altitude 3,650 ft, insolation 2,200 kWh/sq m/yr, occupies about 500 acres (10 acres/MW), the first parabolic-trough power plant in Europe, online in March 2009. The plant CF is 180 GWh/yr/(50 MW x 8,760 hr/yr) = 0.41
Capital cost is about 300 million euros, or $411 million ($8,220/kW). The owners' estimate of production cost is 27.1 eurocents/kWh which is about equal to Spain's feed-in-tariff for CSP. Based on the operating experience with 50 MW CSP plants in Spain, it appears the production costs of 150-250 MW plants will not decrease to grid parity in the near future, as some CSP proponents claim.
The steam turbine output is augmented using stored heat during dawn and dusk periods, when the sky is overcast, and to offset parasitic loads. The result is that hours of operation at part load are decreased and the average operating efficiency of the turbine is increased.
The plant helps meet summer peak demand primarily caused by air conditioning units. The electricity supplied from the plant is used for demand during the day, particularly early afternoon, when demand, solar radiation and power plant output are near their peaks.
CSP and PV Solar FIT Cost, Production and Capacity Factors
Spain's installed power plant capacity is about 93,000 MW and its peak power demand is about 45,000 MW. Its power production was 251,300 GWh in 2009, of which CSP and PV solar power was about 6,936 GWh, or about 2.8% of Spain's production.
As no data could be found regarding the output of Spain's CSP plants, the output for 2009 was determined from the above Andasol 1 plant: 180 GWh/yr/50 MW = 3.6 GWh/yr/MW. The 3.6 was adjusted downward to 3.0 to account for some plants being older and some plants not having as much storage as the Andasol 1 plant.
The CSP output for 2009 = {61 MW (start of 2009) + 171.4/2 MW (added in 2009)} x 3.0 GWh/yr/MW = 514 GWh.
The PV solar power for 2009 = (6,936-514) GWh = 6,422 GWh
In 2009, Spanish utilities paid 2.688 billion euros for the 6,936 GWh of solar power produced by an effective installed capacity of 3,357 MW (start 2009) + 1/2 x 238 MW (added in 2009) = 3,476 MW. The 2009 average FIT was about 2.688 billion euros/6,936 GWh = 0.388 eurocents/kWh in 2009; this average FIT is higher than the current FITs, because FITs were higher prior to recent reductions.
In 2009, Spain's PV solar average CF was 6,422 GWh/[{3,296 MW (start of 2009) + 67/2 MW (added in 2009)} x 8,760 hr/yr] = 0.22; Spain has many utility-size, field-mounted, sun-tracking PV solar systems that have CFs up to about 0.25
In 2009, Spain's CSP average CF was 514 GWh/[{61 MW (start of 2009) + 171.4/2 MW (added in 2009)} x 8,760 hr/yr] = 0.40, which is similar to that of the Andasol 1 plant.
Nathan Wilson says:
Willem, "CSP thermal solar power plants with a LOT of storage, i.e., very large solar fields, will be able to run at full load during the day and, less efficiently, at part load at night..."
This is usually only true in the summertime. The rest of the year, the output is less, hence the capacity factor of 60-70%. There is only partial correlation with load (peaks in August, but sun peaks in June); also in winter there are lots of cloudy days.
For example, the NREL trough data for Las Vegas (about the best solar resource in the US), the June average is 9.1 kWh/day/m^2; in January the average is only 3.4 with the worst/best month of 2.1/4.6 (for the 30 year study period).
Willem Post says:
You are correct.
I recently perused a study by NREL regarding wind, solar and CSP integration. The complications are mind boggling. http://www.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/pdfs/2010/wwsis_final_report.pdf
The report mentions CFs of CSP with storage of 0.90-0.95. I think your 60-70%, or less, is more correct, because of winter sun conditions. Spain's standard 50 MW CSP plants with 6-7 hours storage have CFs of about 0.40
Also NREL uses $4,000/kW for CSP with storage. No such plants exist. Spain's standard 50 MW CSP plants with storage are about $8,000/kW. Most of the CSP plants' technology is largely mature; reductions in $/kW will be minor, certainly not to $4,000/kW.
I think there is some NREL woolly thinking going on.
Nathan Wilson says:
Willem, the wwsis study used 6 hours of storage for the CSP (see p. 8 of exec summary); so the capacity factor will be close to the 0.40 number you cited for Spanish plants.
The 0.95 number is the capacity value (p. 31). This just says that it won't need fossil fuel backup during the worst of the summer evening peak. Shutting down at night or during the springtime isn't counted in this metric.
I agree their CSP cost assumption is unrealistic, especially since the production quantity is so low (basically about 2 nuke's worth of power). California may build a GW or two of CSP this year; that will give us a better idea of the price than any paper study.
Nathan Wilson says:
Diesendorf has ignored the most important reasons to choose nuclear in a world of seemingly cheap renewables.
The sun and wind are not only non-dispatchable, but the capacity factor is low. This means they always have to be used with storage (which is not economical) or fossil backup.
The cost per Watt values must be corrected for the capacity factor. A PV plant that costs $3/W peak is really $15/W average; double his claimed cost for nuclear. To this cost, add $1/W for fossil backup.
And worst, the low capacity factors mean that the fossil backup will always produce a greater share of energy than the wind or PV farm they work alongside. Even desert solar thermal with storage is limited to capacity factors of only 60-70%; as soon as utilities move the plants out of the desert and closer to cities (to bring the construction jobs closer to the rate payers, limit environment damage to "already disturbed lands", or to appease foes of unsightly transmission lines), the numbers will get worse.
And Diesendorf clearly knows that the dispatchable renewables: hydro, hydrothermal, and landfill gas can never be scaled up enough to power a modern society.
This recent paper is just more misleading propaganda which can only hinder the transition away from fossil fuels.
Bill Woods says:
And worst, the low capacity factors mean that the fossil backup will always produce a greater share of energy than the wind or PV farm they work alongside. Even desert solar thermal with storage is limited to capacity factors of only 60-70%; ...
I think you're overstating things a tad. Wind and solar PV don't need fossil backup to the extent that they can be backed up by hydro. Solar thermal doesn't need much backup if it's used to provide peak power, rather than in some vain attempt to provide baseload power.
A guest says:
"Wind and solar PV don't need fossil backup to the extent that they can be backed up by hydro."
That only works as long as there is enough hydro available to do the backup. At "20% by 2030", there ain't enough hydro. Also, why use the least expensive and most reliable renewable to supplement the most expensive and least reliable renewables? That guarantees increased rates, almost like a hidden tax.
However, if we use solar for daytime peaking and "wind + hydro" as available, then all we need to do is identify a source of baseload power and a source of reliable intermediate load power. Hmmmm.
Bill Woods says:
There's only so much water in the river. Wind lets you stretch it further. E.g. Grand Coulee generates about 21 TW-h per year — an average of 2.4 GW — even though it has a capacity of 7 GW.
Willem Post says:
Bill Woods,
Pumped storage hydro plants are used in Denmark (using Norwegian and Swedish hydro plants), Spain, Portugal, Hydro Quebec and the Bonneville Power Authority.
A guest says:
True. However, when combined with 2.4 GW of wind, Grand Coulee would likely generate only an average of 1.8 GW, though the water would continue to flow to meet contractual demand for water downstream.
The big challenge of hydro is continually reassessing the fraction of capacity which is "reliable", as opposed to "source of opportunity" power, as BPA has demonstrated quite clearly.
Bill Woods says:
Dr Diesendorf said the cost of nuclear energy was rising because the industry was "not expanding".
What an odd non-sequitur. If he'd said it the other way 'round, it would at least make sense. (Though the industry is expanding rather dramatically. The ramp-up in construction is starting to translate into a ramp-up in capacity. http://www.iaea.org/programmes/a2/ )
Charles Barton says:
Australian Climate Scientist Barry Brook has coauthored a peer reviewed paper that completely contridicted Diesendorf's views. Brook's paper has been extremely well recewived in Australia, and Brook wiped the floow all ove the reoom with Diesendorf as his rag, in a debate over the future of Australian energy.
Paul O says:The entire analysis by the professor seems based on older tech Nuclear, not the smaller factory built designs being considered. Again, I am in favor of a man-made, predictable baseload power source. Something not dependent on the whims of mother nature, and safe. If I thought that Nuclear was truly unsafe, or economically unwise, I wouldn't support it, that is why I am usually at odds with what I see as anti-nuclear paranoia and bias.
Dan Yurman says:
There's a huge debate taking place in Australia right now over whether to include nuclear energy in the mix.
Australia has no commercial nuclear power plants though paradoxically, it is a global leader in uranium mining. Much of the country's mined output of yellowcake is exported to the U.S., Japan, and European Union countries.
The abundance of uranium raises two issues. First, why hasn't Australia sought to move up the value chain to produce enriched uranium and fabricated fuel? Second, why has it stuck to its fossil energy profile?
The answer to these two questions may be that fossil energy is simply too profitable in the short term. The fossil energy supply chain is too influential to allow nuclear energy to compete on as a fuel source.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, in 2009 Australia was the world's largest coal exporter and fourth largest exporter of liquid natural gas (LNG).
According to figures published by the Australian government, for 2007, 46% of gross energy consumption, by fuel type, came from coal, 34% from oil, and 20% from natural gas. Renewables supplied 5% of total energy.
Rod Adams says:
Dan - you are correct about the strength and profitability of the fossil fuel supply chain.
A couple of years ago, I posted a scanned copy of a printed ad that ran as part of a political campaign in Queensland. It is one of the most straightforward and honest ads I have seen. Next to a picture of hard hat wearing miners, and under a centered headline of "Protecting Mining Jobs and Communities" there is another half page headline that says simply:
"Nuclear Power Will Kill the Coal Industry."
There is a big three bladed radiation symbol as well.
What the ad does not show is that a nuclear industry would provide plenty of JOBS for working people, not all of whom need to be nuclear engineers. In fact, the nuclear industry employs a lot of people who do work that is quite similar to the kinds of work done at all industrial activities, including at coal mines. The problem that nuclear energy poses is that it would destroy the profitability of owning fossil fuel resources - it hurts the people who have major investments in mines and the associated capital equipment NOT the people who live by earning a paycheck based on their daily effort and intellect.
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working on repairing the main downed line. Unfortunately, we didn't notice that a line had come down in our yard. When power was restored to the neighborhood, we were still left in the dark. On Friday evening, after realizing the line was down, we called PUD. By Saturday morning we had two PUD workers - Jim and Keith - at our home to fix the downed line. They were riding snowmobiles, as the large bucket truck wasn't able to traverse the slick, steep, snow-covered road. Both men worked to fix our downed line, by having one of the men climb up the power pole and the other trimming a tree and helping reconnect the line.
We want to express our gratitude and a big THANK YOU to both Keith and Jim at PUD, for doing a great job, despite the challenges. We really appreciate your help!
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Local Farmers 08 Apr 2010 07:54 pm
Joe O'Brien of Healthway Farms
Last Saturday I spoke with Joe and Rhonda O'Brien of Healthway Farms. Joe's known for his potatoes, but also grows apples and vegetables. We talked about the weather, the view from his farm, and the shopping habits of Greenmarket customers.
Where is your farm located?
Highland New York, just below New Paltz.
Tell me a little about your Farm. What's the area around it like?
From the kitchen window you can see the Shawangunk mountains. There's some New York reserve land on the other side of the road that goes up there. At the end of the road there's another orchard. We run 50% vegetables and 50% orchards.
Apple Orchards?
We have apples, a few peaches, a few apricots. Not a lot — a few trees of this, a few trees of that.
Is the farmers market your primary business?
95% farmers market.
Just in New York City?
Also in Albany and New Jersey
How long have you been at McCarren Park market?
This is our third season.
Aside from McCarren Park, do you sell in other New York Greenmarkets?
Union Square on Mondays
Do you have a crop that you consider your speciality?
Potatoes. Then we back it up with apples. You see the herbs are coming in now too. potatoes are probably number one; the fruit is number two.
Do you have potato varieties that you go with year after year? Or do you switch them up a lot?
With any new varieties we try to not copy anyone else – we try to find something that's unique.
How do you find them?
Seed catalogues, research… you gotta search them out. You notice we have Adirondack red potatoes, we got five or six different kinds of fingerlings. Yukon Golds everybody has — we're always searching to try something unique. You don't see many guys growing lettuce gardens. Everybody grows tomatoes, everybody grows apples; We try to separate ourselves. That's what we're looking for.
It's early April: what's happening on the farm?
Apricots are in bloom right now. We're starting to spray the apples. The greenhouses have been taking off real good with the warm weather. We hope to be planting peas within the next ten days: As soon as the ground dries out – we've had a lot of rain.
Shell peas?
Mostly sugar snaps. We do grow a few shells and a few snows, but mostly sugar snaps.
Do you grow anything organic?
No, its all mostly conventional growing practices. We try not to use systemic types of chemicals — more contact type, where the bug has to actually eat it, and it washes off and doesn't go into the fibers of the plant.
Has the farm been in your family a long time?
No, actually I bought this farm. I rented it before. I guess I purchased it in the late '80s.
How did you get started?
My father had a dairy farm up by Cooperstown. And I managed a potato farm after I got out of school.
What's the biggest challenge you face?
Well the weather's probably the biggest one. And the economy right now. A lot of people, they come here and it's 'we're gonna buy potatoes today or tomatoes or corn' and 'well there's an eggplant' … there's a lot of impulse. They tend to spend more than they anticipated and they shy away the next time. Some people shop regular and they'll shop everything. But everything looks good. It's like, don't go the grocery store when you're hungry.
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Joe and Rhonda O'Brien
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6 Responses to "Joe O'Brien of Healthway Farms"
on 12 Apr 2010 at 10:35 am 1.Sophie said …
Great photos, great interview! Joe's pretty cool, huh? Glad to finally find your blog. See you at the market.
on 13 Apr 2010 at 8:59 am 2.janiejaner said …
Tks so much for this, Dave–great to know some more about Joe, who's one of our faves at McCarren. We love the little ratte fingerlings we get in the Ardeche in France, and Joe's assortment comes closest. They're great for warm potato salad!
on 13 Apr 2010 at 5:14 pm 3.daveklop said …
Jane — you should try the reds & blues. Their color is amazing!
on 13 Apr 2010 at 5:15 pm 4.daveklop said …
Sophie — thanks for weighing in — sorry you had to look so hard for the blog!
on 04 May 2010 at 3:07 pm 5.Danielle N said …
I worked for Joe and Rhonda before. There are both great people and have great potatoes, apples, corn, and many others.
on 06 Dec 2014 at 10:33 am 6.Concerned Citizen said …
I've worked for Joe and Rhonda before and had the WORST experience.
They are abusive to each other and their workers, calling them names, screaming in their faces.
They do not grow their produce, they purchase it from other farms.
If you do not believe me, go to their farm and see what you are buying!!!!!!!!


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Intriguing parties and the music they'll ravish you with
SUPER EGO One of the best things about the San Francisco scene is we don't have "hits." You can always escape that tired Kid Cudi dirge or hypothetical Ke$ha-Cannibal Corpse mashup (not a bad idea, as long as it involves rusty chainsaws) by jetting to another spot. Below is a brief survey of four of the city's most intriguing regular parties, and the music they'll most likely ravish you with.
I've got to admit I kind of lost it in a good way on the Som floor at this new weekly the last time I attended. (If I huffed down the back of your neck, I apologize.) It's one of the most diverse-crowded joints in the city, flipping to deep global soul rhythms, and yes there was a dance circle. "There is a negative stigma attached to house music," DJ and founder Carlos Mena told me. "It is not the stereotype-laden skits that appear on Saturday Night Live. It is soul-filled music, which encompasses rhythms from Africa and beyond. I want to provide a space for dancers to express themselves." Upcoming guests include Greece's Osunlade and Ezel from the Dominican Republic.
Sounds like:
DJ Spinna featuring Erro, "Butterfly Girl (Casamena Remix)" Babatunde Olatunji, "Saré Tete Wa" Ezel featuring Tamara Wellons, ""In My Lifetime (Deetron Remix)" Fela Kuti, "Ako" Afefe Iku, "Baiao"
Wednesdays, 10 p.m., $5. Som, 2925 16th St., SF. www.som-bar.com [2]
You'll want to don a fly fedora or pop a fresh gardenia in your hair for this youthful and stylish — but actually not pretentious — free weekly at the revamped Beauty Bar, which just celebrated its first anniversary. Decades of familiar retro (is that redundant?) are definitely on the carefully curated playlist, but mixed into some newer party jams by DJs Roll and Ts with the help of some stellar backup from the likes of the excellent Sweaterfunk crew. Indie, Northern Soul, boogie, glam, Brit, Mod ... the night can go in any direction. "It's always a headful of rad times!" says Roll.
Sounds like:
The Juan Maclean, "Happy House" New Order, "Blue Monday" The Ronnettes, "By My Baby" Holy Ghost!, "Hold On" David Bowie, "Queen Bitch" Wham!, "Club Tropicana"
Thursdays, 10 p.m., free. Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission, SF. www.beautybar.com/sf [3]
Tom Thump, Centipede, and Damon Bell — the "highly unlikely yet perfectly unusual" DJ trio behind this two-year-old weekly throwdown at the Make-Out Room are pure quality, mainstays on the SF scene who each light up in individual ways. Loose Joints is a gonzo sonic outlet for their funkier sides, incorporating Italo, Latin, space disco, globaltronics, and even future bass beats into a cutting-edge stew. Says Thump, "We're like an all-vinyl house party (as in your home) where everyone is so trashed they're tearing their clothes off. We're boundary pushing and blurry — but never cheesy."
Sounds like: The Bamboos featuring Lyrics Born, "Turn It Up!"
Tropical Discoteque 2, "La Rosa (Simbad and F. Francis Edit)"
Stevie Wonder, "Superstition (Todd Terje Edit)" Situation, "Goblin in the Bikini Shack" Gonja Sufi, "Holidays/Candylane"
Fridays, 10 p.m., $5. Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St., SF. www.makeoutroom.com [4]
"We've had people that dress really nice, like from a certain era — and we've had people in their underwear, ha ha," says one of my favorite club people, Primo Pitino, of the attendees at the fantastic, eight-year-old, twice-monthly, doo-woppy Oldies Night, which he puts on with DJs Ivar and Daniel. "But our party isn't a throwback party for turning back the clock, it's for playing music we used to dance around the house naked to, like 'Please Mr. Postman.' And our cute crowd has a fairly low asshole ratio." It's all true, and not a hard sell by half.
Sounds like:
Little Eva, "The Loco-Motion" Gino Washington, "Out Of This World" The Montereys, "Without A Girl" Bo Diddley, "Bo Diddley" The Metros, "Since I Found My Baby"
First and third Fridays, 10 p.m., $3. The Knockout, 3223 Mission, SF. www.theknockoutsf.com [5]
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[4] http://www.makeoutroom.com
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The 31-year-old man told police that around 3:30 a.m. today five men approached him while he was drinking at a bar and handed him a $2,400 bar tab, according to police records.
When the victim refused to pay, the five men allegedly took him to an ATM and forced him to pay, police said.
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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Day 2 caption contest. You made it tough to pick a winner, but the results are in -- commenter Odgit is going to take home the 60-day game card! We've listed the winner and a close runner-up below, and the honorable mentions after the break -- and a general hats off to everyone for all the great Matrix, Hitchhiker's, and Star Wars references and general pop culture pot pourri.
Don't forget, you have three chances to win our grand prizes as we Countdown to Burning Crusade. Grats to Odgit for taking the prize for Day 2, you've still got plenty of time to win a Leeroy t-shirt, and join us tomorrow for Day 5 of the Countdown.
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"Nerf warlocks" by Odgit
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Lazor was concerned when he stumbled upon his friend getting high. by larek
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6. "Bob, the utility of your Postmortem Levitation spell eludes me."
Posted at 3:57PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Spartacow
8. While the practice of throwing gnomes is a horrific insult to our race, the time-honored tradition of heaving your balding mother-in-law over a frozen lake after a hearty meal...well, that's just damn good fun.
Posted at 3:59PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by McLean Russell
17. Eat your heart out David Blaine, you trickless magician. THIS is how you do it!!
Posted at 4:15PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Prauche
22. "Dragonbreath Chili"
Occasionally belch flames at enemies struck in melee for the next 10 minutes.
Warning: Gnomes are advised to refrain from digesting this product as due to their physiology in combination with the potentcy of the ingredients; numerous side effects can occur such as spontaneous combustion, inceneration of the innards and escaping bodily gasses producing a lifting effect.
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Posted at 4:20PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by HalcyonGT
42. "The finals in the 2007 Dun Morogh Wrestling Tournament ended in bitter defeat for the Flying Gnomes, who were no match for the Invisible Ogres."
Posted at 4:51PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by jeremiads
59. "By Odin's great hammer, this floating body is almost as peculiar as this metallic floating hand!"
Posted at 5:08PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Marshall
60. "See, I told you the secret of flight was to fall and miss the ground."
Posted at 5:09PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Alienated
64. Sources indicate Fizzling Sinksproket merely fell asleep atop the invisible zamboni sometime around 6 am while resurfacing the lake.
Posted at 5:12PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Coanunn
113. "...and when they're done on that side you gotta flip em' over."
Posted at 6:44PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Jason
137. "And what also floats?"
Posted at 7:47PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Steve
HAND: OMG! A floating gnome!
FLOATING DEAD WARLOCK: OMG! A talking hand!!
Posted at 8:18PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Finnicks Daerkhiv
222. Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?
Posted at 2:56AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by holyterror
244. Not only druids are getting Flight Form come TBC.
Posted at 7:21AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by chillis
293. Geo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge Gnomes?
Kazaa: No, Geo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
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Double Hand Transplant for Burnt Chiropractor SuccessfulLOUISVILLE, KY.: The recipient of a rare double hand transplant says he feels "fantastic" and can wiggle fingers on both his new hands.
Richard Edwards made his first appearance on Thursday, about a week after he underwent a nearly 18-hour transplant procedure at a hospital in Louisville.The 55-year-old chiropractor from Edmond, Okla., had his hands severely burned in a fire in 2006.Edwards was the nation's third double hand transplant recipient. The surgery was performed at Jewish Hospital, the site of the world's first successful hand transplant in 1999.Doctors say Edwards' progress is ahead of other patients because they were able to route his existing nerves into the donor hands. Edwards lost seven fingers after his accident but retained most of his original hands, though they were badly burned.Source: Huffington Post
Illegal Search Warrant Exonerates Chiropractor on Drug ChargesBOWLING GREEN, OH--The Sixth District Court of Appeals has overturned a conviction of a local chiropractor. The Doc was originally charged with allowing drug abuse in her home.Huntington entered the plea after a motion to suppress evidence, filed in August 2009, was denied by a Bowling Green Municipal Court. At issue was a search warrant filed and executed while the chiropractor was away from her home. The warrant was obtained when a friend who was feeding her cat gave police permission to enter the chiropractors home.While at the home of the chiropractor "feeding the cat", the friend found items which led him to contact the police, who then obtained a warrant. The appeals court ruled that the friend "merely had (the chiropractors) permission to enter the kitchen to feed the cats on three separate days; the cat feeders presence in appellant's house could reasonably be expected to amount to no more than five or 10 minutes on each occasion."The Judge that granted the warrant presided at the chiropractor's plea agreement.The appeals court added that her friend was not staying in the house overnight and he was not given authority over the premises."We find that appellant's home was searched illegally and that the trial court therefore erred by denying appellant's motion to suppress," the panel of three judges concurred.They ruled in favor of the chiropractor's appeal and sent the matter back to the municipal court.Source: The Sentinel-Tribune
Chiropractor wins $6.3 Million in Judgement Against the State BoardINDEPENDENCE, MO--A chiropractor in Missouri has won a $6.3 million judgment in his case against former members of the Missouri State Board of Chiropractic Examiners for suspending his license.The case stems from accusations that a chiropractor, who ended up leaving Missouri after the accusations, had convinced a Mennonite farmer with AIDS that he was cured and could start a family.The patient died and left behind a wife and daughter, each with HIV infections. From the beginning, the chiropractor has denied that he ever said the patient had overcome HIV.After the case came to light in stories published in The Kansas City Star, the chiropractic board suspended the chiropractor's license for two years — although that suspension was set aside pending appeals that the chiropractor ultimately won in 2002. The board could have tried again to impose its penalties, but it never did, and the chiropractor's departure from the state would have made disciplinary action moot.But he filed suit against the former board members in 2005 to collect legal fees and losses to his business. That case went to trial last week. In a 9-3 verdict, the Cole County jury awarded damages of $6,284,759.Attorney General Chris Koster's office represented the board members, and a spokesman said the state planned to file a post-trial motion to have the verdict set aside. The chiropractor's attorneys could not be reached for comment.The case stretches back 20 years, when the patient whent to the chiropractor's office several times beginning in 1990.The patient was a member of a Mennonite sect from north-central Missouri, had hemophilia and contracted the AIDS virus from tainted blood products. He died in 1992.At dispute in the case is whether the chiropractor told the patient that the treatments cured him of AIDS. The chiropractor won his appeal in 2002 in large part because a court said he had not been given access to key pieces of evidence. One was testimony the deceased patients widow, which was given in an unrelated lawsuit involving tainted blood that caused the patients AIDS. The chiropractor argued that testimony in that case would vary from the widow's testimony that chiropractor said the patient was cured.The chiropractors' suit also contended that the chiropractic board seemed to overlook a religious anointing ceremony at the patient's church which was held in hopes of curing him, and the urging made by the minister at his wedding that the patient start a family. The chiropractor suggested those factors might have led the couple to believe patient was cured or to conceive a child even if he remained HIV-positive.The jury's verdict came against six former members of the chiropractor board — Lawrence Gerstein, Charlotte Hill, Mary Holyoke, Charles Klinginsmith, Larry Lovejoy and Lee Richardson. Ordinarily, members of such boards are immune from civil suits for their official duties. But there is an exception when a court finds they acted with gross negligence. Still, the state's legal expense fund will ultimately cover any damages.Source: The Kansas City Star
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A year ago I blogged about how to manage your build process templates using the TFS API. The main reason for doing this is that you can (and should!) store your "golden" build process templates in a common location in your TFS project collection, and then add them to each team project that requires those templates. This way, you can fix a bug or add a new feature in one place and have the change affect all build definitions.
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Well, after logging onto AIM and checking some new articles on the "AIM Today" Site, I ran across this...
Most Controversial Games of All Time
Now, my rant will follow the games in order of appearance on there, so feel free to read this while going through their list.
Mortal Kombat: Now, this isnt really included in my rant. Their reason, which is the over-the-top violence and gore is a staple of the series, and well, everyone knows about it.
GTA: Well, another game not really included in my rant at this point. Though the fact that people hate the idea of the game being based in NY City is rather annoying, specially with the upcoming "Prototype" game, which has you fiest upon and kill those around you while destroying parts of the environment, seems a bit worse than this.
Manhunt Two: Noooow this is where my ranting starts... First, let me include a small quote, which is crucial to this part.
~Manhunt games follow a killer that finds creative ways to use everyday objects as weapons of mass execution~
Now, those who have played the first game know that this is wrong. The first followed a man who was forced into some underground show, having to kill gang members and other crazies in order to reach and eventually save his family, as well as himself. The fact that he uses 'everyday weapons' to execute is really a way to convey the "Desperation" the man had, having to resort to using a simple bag, wire, or even shard of glass to survive in a place where guns are rather useless (something that Condemned took up a notch, even though it isnt on the list... maybe because the main guy in it was a cop...). Another point about the series is the unnecessary blurring effects for virtually the same thing in Manhunt. While the first game got away with its gruesome execution moves, the second game was labeled AO thanks to them, and had to include a hastily added blur to lower the rating whose difference between M and AO is one year. Now if the blurring was thought out, I wouldnt mind, but the effects seem like it was pulled from their asses, and to me, generally ruins the stealth aspect of the game. Now, a hack has surfaced that removes the blurring. Fortunately, Rockstar isnt being blamed this time, unlike the infamous "Hot Coffee" hack from GTA: San Andreas. Now, i see little difference in this. The coding for the hot coffee mod, and the models used for the executiosn of Manhunt2, were still in the game. Yet, the ESRB reacts completely differently to each aspect. While San Andreas had a recall to 'fix' the hot coffee mod, and recently this year are offering a $35 rebate for those "Hurt" by the knowledge of the mod's existence (Heh), the ESRB, for manhunt two, stated that the hacker was to blame because he altered and removed the blurring effect. Little difference between the two, no? Moving on...
Doom: Nothing to say here, though I find it laughable that people would blame the original Doom, an old shooter game and was available on floppy discs, would be blamed for the Columbine shooting, which was several years later, so I doubt those kids had even played the game. And the idea of the game being a secret military training program is also comedic, because when was the last time our soldiers had to face off against a legion of fire spewing, laser pewing, bunch of regular and cybernetically enhanced demonic beings... what's that? Never? Thought so...
Now, the next three games I have never heard of, or played. Each was a game that used fully rendered, Full motion video (FMV) scenes. An interesting concept no doubt, but met with little success, in part that though its okay to see two teens fuckin each other in a tent, then get impaled on a pole (no pun intended) was alright in a 80s Friday the 13nth movie, it isnt okay to see rape or blood in a FMV scene in a game equally as old, and, with actors who have never touched the big screens, or possibly the small screen as well heh. Now, the only game that still uses FMV scinemas is Command and Conquer, which is rather well done, despite a few actors hamming it up heh.
Mass Effect: Heeere we go. Now, I'm sure many have by now heard of the recent Fox Network's discussion about the games allegidly "Full frontal nudity and easily obtainable sex scene". Well, I am also sure that people have also heard about the uproar that rose directly afterwards. Though this particular game doesnt have me ranting right now, it has me grinning thanks to this little tid-bit
Thrill Kill: An old ps1 game, not even released, and yet it had such contreversy around it. A shame it was cancelled, else I'd of played it just to see what the issue was. Though apparently the game had a download leaked on the internet, I have yet to find it.
Hitman: Blood Money: Once again, let me start this off with a quote.
~The suggestion of sexualized violence against women surpassed the game's actual violent content~
Now, looking at the picture, you see a woman laid out on the bed, dead, a magazine advertisement for this game. Now, this bit is based on the 'sexist' point of it. If that was a man there, no guy would go "That's sexist! Im offended!", and why? Because, we just wouldnt. Now, women find that offensive because it's showing a woman dead. How this supports violence against women I dont know, but its those women's rights crazies that drive me insane. Though they fight and fight to be more equal with men, when something pops up like this, they go crazy. To me, they are just pulling both ways on a topic. How can women hope to be equal when they dont like pictures above. Obviously the woman in the picture wasnt complaining, else she wouldnt have done it. It's over-zealous of them to assume this picture is 'sexist'. When's the last time women have complained about all the girls getting beat up on Lifetime, or killed in a movie? Never. So why start now about a bloody advertisement in what is most likely a gaming magazine.
Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion: Now, this game was an unexpected addition to the list. The reason? A nudity mod some hacker made to let you strip the women's tops off... yeah... The blood and gore claimed to be in the game isnt enough to encourage an M rating to me, though this is coming from someone (me), who has played M rated games since he was 10. Now, I dont know about anyone else, but I personally have never heard of the said mod, but honestly who would want it? I am pretty sure the developers, while creating the skins and textures for the models, never created a full skin. Thus, this most likely means that the hacker had to further alter the game, by including full separation and the nipples, which I am sure were rather horribly done. So the major complaint? Why is this game on the list? For the same damn reason, God of War should be on there, yes its representive of ancient greek mythology and society, but it still had plenty of rendered breasts to be seen, top and topless, as well as some asses been thrown about in it. Even the sex minigames werent enough to place it in this list. How this works, I dont know, but god of war easily deserves to be on this list and not this game. I love god of war and oblivion, and to me, this is just as unfair to the Elder Scrolls game as the Fox Network was to Mass Effect.
Obviously the rant couldnt cover all the games, since some deserved it. Yet games like Manhunt, Mass Effect, and Oblivion, were unfairly treated in a market full of over-the-top violence and nudity. Hell, several games were made and rated M that's sole purpose was to see breasts and porn, such as "The Man Game" and a few others.
The main reason of this rant is also because of how crazy the media is going right now, studies popping up saying Violence in videogames are to blame, not the parents and their poor parenting skills. Like I've said, I've played M rated games when I was ten, my parents bought the game for me. Now, people have said that playing those games at that age make it hard for the kids to figure whats real and whats imaginary. Now, the most violent thing I've done my entire life has been defending myself in a fight i got dragged into at school. I havent thought I coul go around and chop off heads, or rape women, or shoot up places, and get away with it like those game characters. I know there are some people who just cant handle the violence, or have the most stable of minds, but games arent to be blamed. Parents who know their kids arent stable are, parents who have guns just laying around are, parents who dont take it in their hands to make sure their kids are mature enough, and even old enough for the game's rating are to blame!
If you've actually read this entire thing and followed along, give a hand to yourself and pat your back, this took me an hour of typing to do! XD
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SANTA ANA - An executive assistant for the Boys & Girls Clubs of La Habra will be arraigned Monday for stealing over $134,000 from the organization in cash deposits and unauthorized extra payroll. Lynette Rojas, 37, La Habra, is charged with one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement, 24 felony counts of computer access and fraud, and sentencing enhancements and allegations for over $100,000 in loss, aggravated white collar crime over $100,000, and property damage over $65,000. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in state prison. The People will be requesting $135,000 bail and Rojas must prove the money is from a legal and legitimate source before posting bond. The defendant is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in Department CJ-1, Central Jail, Santa Ana.
Beginning in April 2008, Rojas is accused of working as an executive assistant with the responsibility of preparing and submitting payroll data and completing cash and check bank deposits for the organization. Rojas is accused of abusing her position by processing unauthorized, extra payroll to herself amounting to almost $25,000. Rojas is also accused of stealing over $109,000 in cash that was supposed to be deposited into the Boys & Girls Club of La Habra account. She is accused of attempting to hide her theft by altering the organization's cash deposit paperwork. She is also accused of fraudulently signing the names of two club Directors on daily receipt forms.
The theft was discovered when it was determined that the cash deposit paperwork completed by Rojas was significantly more than the deposit receipts from the bank. Rojas is accused of stealing over $134,000 in all. After the theft, the Boys and Girls Club of La Habra laid off several employees and cut programs for needy children.
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Angela L. Malmassari, of Issaquah, died at home June 18, 2009. She was 78.A memorial service is at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 25, at Flintoft's Funeral Home, 540 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah. A reception will follow at Mary Ann and Doug's home.
Angela was born Nov. 7, 1930, in Renton, the daughter of Don and Maria Zanette. She was raised in Renton and graduated from Renton High School in 1948. She married Roy Malmassari on Aug. 4, 1951, in Renton. They moved to Issaquah in 1954.
She was a member of Century Chapter No. 66, Order of Eastern Star. She worked for Farmers Insurance on Mercer Island and the Boeing Co.
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Lebanon police are seeking a man they say has failed to comply with a Megan's Law requirement.
Mark Porter, 38, formerly lived in the 300 block of North Seventh Street, police said Tuesday. He is wanted for failure to comply with registration requirements as a registered sex offender. He failed to report a new home address to state police as of Nov. 22.
Porter is also wanted for pawning a television at a pawn shop in the 500 block of Cumberland Street, police said. The television had been stolen during a burglary in the 900 block of Steckbeck Street on Nov. 5.
Anyone with further information should call police at 717-272-6611.
crash >> A vehicle driven by Robert Kline, 86, Millcreek Township, slid off the roadway, struck a utility pole and came to rest on its side in a creek at 8:55 a.m. Tuesday near 10 Millbach Road, police said. Kline was extricated from the vehicle by emergency personnel and taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where he was released after treatment, a hospital spokeswoman said. Newmanstown and Richland Neptune fire companies, the Lebanon County Hazardous Materials Response Unit, Schaefferstown ambulance and fire police assisted police.
CRASH >> A car driven west on Lehman Street by Ralph Dechert, 70, of 531 E. Cumberland St., struck the rear of a car driven by Joel Candelario, 33, of 1095 S. Lincoln Ave., South Lebanon Township, that was stopped at North Lincoln Avenue at 3:18 p.m. Sunday, police said. No injuries were reported.
CRASH >> A car driven by Edwardo Kleber, 32, of 102 Horse Race Drive, Jonestown, was traveling south in the first block of South 10th Street when it struck a parked car at 3:32 p.m. Sunday, police said. No injuries were reported.
HIT-RUN >> An unknown vehicle struck a parked car at 444 N. Seventh St. between 6 and 9 p.m. Sunday, police said. Black paint was transferred onto the parked car.
CRASH >> A car driven west on Cumberland Street by Joshua Batdorf, 35, of 123 N. Center St., Cleona, struck the rear of a car driven by Lisa Rafizadeh, 37, of 423 N. Eighth St. at Third Street at 3:10 p.m. Sunday, police said. No injuries were reported.
CRASH >> Cars driven by Thomas Remlinger, 23, of 333 E. Weidman St. and Jennifer Richards, 38, of 433 Chestnut St. collided at East Lehman Street and North Fourth Avenue at 2:07 p.m. Saturday, police said. No injuries were reported. Both vehicles were towed.
CRASH >> Cars driven by Melina Diaz, 30, of 205 S. Christian St., Cleona, and Michelle Gundrum, 33, of 118 S. Park St., Richland, collided at Locust and South Fourth streets at 12:43 p.m. Friday, police said. No injuries were reported.
CRASH >> A pickup truck driven by Tyler Paul, 27, of 978 E. Maple St., Palmyra, was traveling east in the first block of Lehman Street and struck the rear of an SUV driven by Cynthia Nash, 52, of 1049 E. Cumberland St., at 2:26 p.m. Friday, police said. No injuries were reported.
CRASH >> City fire crews and First Aid and Safety Patrol responded to 1400 Maple St. at 4:43 p.m. Monday. No police report was available.
FIRE ALARM >> City fire crews responded to 359 N. 11th St. at 5:58 p.m. Monday.
receiving stolen property >> A 17-year-old Lebanon boy, whose name was not released, was charged after he was found on Oct. 18 in possession of a bicycle that had been stolen from the 1100 block of Mifflin Street on Oct. 11, police said Tuesday.
DOG-law violation >> Amanda Karoscik, 27, Lebanon, was charged with dogs running at large and failure to provide proof of vaccination and license after her dog was found running in the 600 block of Walnut Street at 11:51 a.m. Oct. 28, police said Tuesday.
HARASSMENT >> Carmello Rodriguez, 42, Lebanon, was charged with pushing a 45-year-old man to the ground near North Seventh and Lehman streets at 8:31 p.m. Saturday, police said.
simple ASSAULT >> Jeffrey Dimitris, 51, Lebanon, was charged with assaulting his girlfriend, causing injury, in the 100 block of South Eighth Street at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, police said. Dimitris was placed in county prison, with bail set at $7,500.
DRUG CHARGES >> Bradley Schubauer, 27, Jonestown, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while suspended after a traffic stop in the 300 block of North Eighth Street at 10:51 a.m. Friday, police said. Police found about a half pound of marijuana, packaging material and a scale in the vehicle. Schubauer was placed in county prison, with bail set at $7,500.
DEFRAUDING CREDITORS >> Yeimary Gonzalez, 28, Lebanon, was charged with defrauding secured creditors after failing to make a motor vehicle and electronic items available at an execution sale that was scheduled at 124 N. Eighth St. on Dec. 3, police said Tuesday.
North Lebanon
CRASH >> Weavertown, Friendship and Avon Citizens fire companies, city fire crews, fire police and First Aid and Safety Patrol responded for a vehicle into a pole at East Kercher Avenue and Mt. Zion Road at 6:56 a.m. Tuesday. No police report was available.
DRUG CHARGES >> Crystal Reigert, 40, of 1807 Grace Ave. and John Hlavaty, 59, of 135 S. Ninth St., Lebanon, were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia at Relax Inn, 1524 E. Cumberland St., at 9:45 a.m. Thursday, police said.
South Lebanon
CRASH >> Lynn R. Schulz, 57, Utah, was charged with careless driving after attempting to drive a 13-foot 6-inch high truck tractor and trailer through the 12-foot 2-inch railroad underpass while headed north at Prescott Road, north of King Street, at 3:01 p.m. Friday, police said. Police said the underpass was reopened upon survey of the bridge structure by Norfolk Southern.
fire INvestigation >> Friendship and Avon Citizens fire companies responded to Country Boy Manufacturing, 1601 King St., at 9:14 a.m. Tuesday.
West Lebanon
THEFT >> Jimmy Colondres-Lopez, 21, of 121 N. Ninth St., Lebanon, was charged with taking $100 from a wallet at Henry Molded Products, 71 N. 16th St., at 4:30 a.m. Nov. 23, police said Tuesday.
North Cornwall
noise-ordinance violation >> Michael Barrett, 40, Plaza Apartments, was charged after an incident at 1:50 a.m. Sunday, police said. Police were dispatched to Barrett's home twice in the last month for loud music, according to a release.
dui >> Darren Beck, 48, Quentin, was charged after an incident at 1:14 a.m. Nov. 21 in Lori Ann Court, police said Tuesday. Beck's blood-alcohol level was 0.108 percent, police said. The legal limit is 0.08 percent. Beck was also charged with a traffic offense, police said.
CRASH >> Neversink and Avon Citizens fire companies, fire police and First Aid and Safety Patrol responded to a head-on crash at Rocherty and Cornwall roads at 7:09 a.m. Tuesday. No police report was available.
South Annville
CRASH >> Campbelltown Volunteer and Lawn fire companies, fire police and Lawn ambulance responded to 2360 Horseshoe Pike at 6:51 a.m. Tuesday. No police report was available.
crash >> Lawn ambulance responded to McCurdy Lane and Mt. Wilson Road at 9:14 a.m. Tuesday . No police report was available.
North Londonderry
FIRE ALARM >> Palmyra Citizens and Campbelltown Volunteer fire companies responded to 200 Barley Lane at 2:57 p.m. Monday.
South Londonderry
THEFT >> Clyde D. Feger, 51, told police a bottle of prescription medicine was taken from his home at 2895 Horseshoe Pike on Friday. An investigation is continuing.
CRASH >> Conrad Musselman, 22, Bernville, Berks County, was charged with traveling at an unsafe speed after his pickup truck, headed west on East Rosebud Road, spun on the slush-covered roadway and struck a utility pole east of Apple Creek Lane at 6:50 a.m. Monday, state police at Lickdale said. Musselman was not injured. The truck was towed.
CRASH >> Denise D. Almond, 57, Myerstown, was charged with failing to drive at a safe speed after her vehicle struck an embankment and overturned at 8:25 a.m. Tuesday at Williams and Kutztown roads, state police at Lickdale said. No injuries were reported. Kutztown and Myerstown's Keystone Hook & Ladder and Goodwill fire companies and First Aid and Safety Patrol and Myerstown ambulance assisted police.
CRASH >> A vehicle was traveling east on I-78 when it moved into the right lane and struck the side of a car driven by Yamilette Ayala, 22, Bethlehem, at 6:38 p.m. Sunday, state police at Lickdale said. The unknown vehicle continued east. No injuries were reported.
East Hanover
CRASH >> Richard Mohn, 67, Fredericksburg, was charged with a traffic violation after his car, traveling south on Gravel Hill Road, slid on a curve on the snow-covered roadway and struck a traffic sign at 1087 Gravel Hill Road at 3:50 p.m. Sunday, state police at Lickdale said. No injuries were reported.
Berks County
Crash >> First Aid and Safety Patrol and Myerstown ambulance responded to Deck and Teen Challenge roads in Tulpehocken Township at 8:49 a.m. Tuesday. No police report was available.
Lancaster County
SHED FIRE >> Quentin, Cornwall, Mt. Gretna Community Volunteer and Lawn fire companies responded to 2147 Wisgarver Road, Rapho Township, at 5:09 p.m. Monday.
DWELLING FIRE >> Annville Union Hose, Cleona, Quentin, Lawn and Mt. Gretna Community Volunteer fire companies responded to 2649 Elizabethtown Road, Rapho Township, at 5:29 p.m. Monday.


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Prerequisite: BUSN 128. This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves create value. Topics covered include basic analytical skills and principles of corporate finance, functions of modern capital markets and discounted cash flow valuation, and risk analysis. Students learn to value start-up and existing businesses by examining factors such as market demand, market pricing, economic outlook, cash flows, competition, available funding, and risk. III.Q


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Compare and contrast; one of my high school english teachers drilled that into my head. Compare and contrast: Slave rights and gay rights; the contrasts are easy, the comparisons are profound. Slaves could not get legally married either. They could not create and sign contracts, and what is marriage mostly (legally speaking) but a huge contract with thousands of rights and responsibilities. Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights spoke there last year saying, "That just like apartheid laws that criminalized sexual relations between different races, laws against homosexuality are increasingly becoming recognized as anachronistic and inconsistent both with international law and with traditional values of dignity, inclusion, and respect for all." Apartheid: A system of laws applied to one category of citizens in order to isolate them and keep them from having privileges and opportunities given to all others. Stop gay apartheid.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) both agreed to back the pledge shortly after Mr. Vander Plaats introduce it last week.
Yawn...not much of a surprise coming from these two Christian Dominionist.
Quit calling them Social Conservatives.
This is the Religious Right.
Their political stances are religiously motivated.
The absurd bigots deserve a shred of credit. When a person makes a mistake, it is up to them to correct it, and the bigots corrected a racist error they made. It is too bad they believe their hoary, sexist attitudes are acceptable. They should know that they are as equally disgusting as their flamboyant racism that they've recently aired out. Christianists are pathetic.
The issue seems to me that the states continue to recognize a religious artifact of the European system in which the governments were interwoven with the Church. End it by making states clearly define the civil union contract (or more appropriately unions since there could be contracts with varying levels of individuality retained). Where else is such a vague contract supported by a court? It could certainly clear up the issues of divorce when the requirements for communal decisions and activities are known and not the suppositions of tradition and superstition.
It took criticism to remove the slavery portion of this ridiculous pledge. Listen you insensitive morons the damage has already been done and your true colors have already been illuminated. Just admit that it was wrong an completely out of line. I dont think any God fearing man with any sort of compassion misconstrued this message you all were trying to convey. Again we see underlined racism rearing its ugly head!
Anonymous at 9:36 believes that he is the arbiter of how all people and all positions are to be defined. How arrogant. I'm sure he would be livid if someone decided to define him and his positions according to their contrary perspectives. Perhaps he lacks the intellectual capacity to comprehend positions other than his own.
Is a reference to slavery racist? That should depend on how the reference is made. Unfortunately, it seems to instead depend on who makes the reference.
There was nothing racist about this reference, and it is shameful that it had to be removed. It shows that certain people still can't have honest conversations.
"There was nothing racist about this reference..." JD @ 12:32 -
Favorably comparing humans-as-property to ANY current condition is, by definition, racist, and profoundly morally blind.
The "shame" is not in removing the offending reference, it's that two "serious" candidates for president - moral chest-thumpers, at that - didn't recognize their tacit endorsement of slavery until after the fact.
JD, any mention of slavery should be made with the greatest care. In this instance, given the context, the writers of the original draft were insensitive--the usual right-wing tone-deafness--because of the implicit suggestion that African-Americans were in some ways, at least, better off under slavery. The dishonesty here is on the part of the writers of the statement, couching their repugnant nostalgia for a time when minorities knew their place, in language constructed to propagandize for an equally bigoted cause--the fight to prevent homosexuals from entering into legally recognized relationships.
Your logic is flawed, and your agenda seems to be biasing it. Saying "proposal X would make things worse than they were under bad condition Y" is not an endorsement of bad condition Y. In the general case I am sure you understand that. In this case, you seem to be deliberately not understanding. If you said "Sarah Palin would be a worse president than Bush", should I interpret that as an endorsement of Bush?
You choose to assume ulterior motives out of your own hatred for those who disagree with you. It is your shallow closed-mindedness that forced the removal of the sentence, not any flaw in the sentence itself. The authors correctly realized that immature people like you would latch onto the reference and distort it into something very different than what it is, and they were forced to redact a valid point to protect themselves from your dishonesty. Such are the sacrifices that mature people must make to deal with the adult children among us. It seems we are fools if we attempt to use logic too long for a bumper sticker.
JD, the statement in question is this: "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President." Logic has nothing to do with rhetoric in this; "yet sadly" is the kind of rhetorical sleight-of-hand employed to provide cover. It's implicit meaning--not explicit, not logical--is that no matter how awful slavery was back then, well at least they had two-parent families, which is a lot better than the situation today. That's how I read it. That's how most people will read it. Why bring in the reference at all? Does anyone really believe that live under the slavery--for the enslaved--was better than life after slavery? Your friends apparently do, having clearly spent so much of their lives in shackles, owned and working for the man.
bachmann and publicity seekers of her ilk would tahe a crap on the dome of the Iowa capital building if it would get her publicity....best to ignore the fringes and pay attention to the fabric!
I think this part of the pledge is just about the declining of African American families, which is true. maybe they should have a better wording, that's all.
I'll just repeat my "Palin would be worse than Bush" analogy. They're the same. The intent is clearly to say that some new thing is even worse than some bad old thing. There is no implied endorsement of the bad old thing in such a statement. The bad old thing is referenced to provide context, to describe just how bad the bad new thing is. You attempt to circumvent the point by taking it out of context, by extending the issue of children being raised by their parents to a broader, general quality-of-life comparison. Why? That's just a cheap rhetorical trick designed to avoid confronting the point made, which is true.
The exact same quote could be made by a black group advocating family services with no reference to gays whatsoever.
Precisely, JD. If, as you write, "the intent is clearly to say that some new new thing is even worse than some bad old thing," then we are in agreement. The problem is that I disagree with the statement itself: A higher proportion of two-parent households is worse than slavery. Ah the good old days. I, for one, miss smallpox, fleas, seasonal famines and clergy-only literacy, too.
Good thing the copy about the Jews never made it past draft stage!
Wasn't the life expectancy of a slave 30 years old vs. 70 now.
I know, right?
It's always interesting to see people "defending marriage" by keeping people who obviously value marriage from entering into it.
I think it's ludicrous to outlaw an analogy to a specific aspect of a past condition if the analogy doesn't apply to the entire past condition. You're banning a very common tactic.
Suppose you're a big Obama worshiper. Suppose you hate Bush more than anyone. Now suppose someone suggests that Obama should nuke Iran. Would it be fair for you to respond to the suggestion by saying, "That would be a bigger mistake than Bush's decision to invade Iraq"?
I would consider that response fair. However, you're suggesting that one cannot make that response without also claiming that all other things Obama are worse than all other things Bush - a point you would presumably not want to make. I think that's ridiculous. One can absolutely single out an aspect of a situation and say, "In this area, X is even worse than it was during horrible period Y". It's a valid way of making a point. The only reason one wouldn't be able to make it is if one's audience is so immature that they cannot abide any discussion of Y, and must distort the point wildly and attack the speaker whenever Y is invoked.
Okay so this is what is tearing this country apart this argument about Democrats VS Republicans and the people we HIRE If any Politician is reading this let me remind you again the American People have HIRED YOU!!! To do your job. Leave the word Slavery in the History Books, that is like trying to say that all of WWII Did not happen, and a nation almost fell apart because of this. And this Gay Marriage thing... Divorce is up to 30% And above. I had a Girl say that I am not grown up because I did not get married and have my first stinking divorce. WHAT IS THE VALUE!!!
If you want to cast rocks in a glass house I suggest you make sure no one lives there and you have protection from falling glass. IE if you are going to say you want to get rid of Slavery in the History Books... Check with the American People... I am not talking about Democrats or Republicans I am not talking about rich or poor. I am talking PEOPLE!!!
And as for the Marriage thing, I think the only way anyone can talk about Gay Marriage being wrong is if the divorce rate drops to 25% and infidelity is not praised on television After all if this is taken care of then feel free to talk all the trash you can dig up. Other than that I think there may be a fear that same sex marriages might last longer than a marriage between a Man and a Woman. And if there is a Chance of Bringing God into this then remember when the man and woman walked down the lane they made a vow to God to stay together. Not stay together until they get board or the first sign of trouble!
Were slaves allowed to marry? No.
Was marriage between slaves or to a slave recognized? No.
Were slaves "bred" for profit? Yes.
Did "masters" impregnate slaves whether or not a "partner" existed? Yes.
The premise is false to begin with.
Sounds like someone copied and pasted an older document without reading. Why on earth would the word slavery even come up in 2011? I'm glad they took it out.
Now for the pledge. WHY? I don't care if Senator John cheats on Sally, if it doesn't affect his work, his private life should be just that - private. That is a marriage problem and not work related. For them to sign this for their jobs seems unconstitutional to me - to tell someone how to act if freedom? I don't see it.
Anther thing - who am I to say Congressman Dave and Congressman Bill don't make a great couple? The entrie marriage thing has gotten completely out of hand. A marriage is a private life moment - again it does not affect job performance, so why should I care?
I think this entire country, nay world, is nuts. Let peole live a personal l life. When their personal life crosses into their ability to make a business decision - then and only then should we react. Most of the time your home life does not come into your career (except desk pictures and summer picnics). I cannot believe that this pledge even has to exist. A waiste of talented minds to come up with it to begin with. They could apply their talents to things that need the country's attention.
To some - most? - the reality of marriage is hidden behind a dogmatic fantasy called marriage which is builded on a foundation of lies. The belief by some - most? - that homosexuality is a choice is based on ignorance. How can such a person accept same sex marriage? (btw: In the cultures where bible stories were written young boys were - are still - considered the same as women sexually.)
JD the things you miss are that slaves were not permitted to marry. So while the children may in theory have been living with a man and a women very often neither was their true parent. Usually one or the other (or both) had been sold off. Very often the child's father was the slave-owner or one of his son's or brothers.
You also have to wonder about Ms Bachman's claim that she did not read the whole document (all four pages). If she could not read it, you have to wonder at her ability to read through treaties or laws that the US would enact, during her time as President, in the unlikely event she is elected. In her unending enthusiasm to deny Gay people even the smallest measure of equality, she rushed to sign a document, that is basically the anthesis of what America stands for.
These people are trojams for various religious groups ---among them the Roman Catholic Church who needs to be kicked out of the United States for its political actions and political actions. The First amendment says that Church and State are separate--which these people are violating; The amendment also says that people have the right to free worship but this is not absolute---one cannot do human sacrifice simply because religious canons call for it. The Constitution gives the Goverment and the People the absolute right to be FREE of religion and its influence on Government. The Consitution also says that everyone is equal under the law and that said ---same sex couples as well as opposite sex couples have the right to love, marry and form family units with or without children with whomever they wish without reservation as to gender, sexual orientation et al. Why is it that some people wnat to scream about denying others civil rights when they do not realize that their rights can be taken also if they take the rights of others. It is time that the oppressors and repressors be hauled into the courts to answer for their denial of civil rights to everyone they object to for marrying and loving another person of the same gender. Furthermore , the Supreme Court has upheld that marriage is a civil right under Loving vs Virginia which gives people the right to marry and love anyone without regards to race, religion, gender et al.
As far as slavery is concerned---it is still with us and yes within these United States---with the importation of illegals and other such criminal actions such as the man who held a young kid a prisoner until she was well over 20 forcing her to have sex wtih him and bearing his children. Slavery needs to be completely abolished in this country---it was only half abolished when Jefferson left a loop hole in the Constitution which allows those convicted of crimes et al to become slaves. Jefferson's hand was forced into this because South Carolina, Georgia et al would not sign the Declaration of Independence if slavery were not allowed. Jefferson, himself, was torn about this issue---on one hand he was against it and on the other he kept slaves and only in two cases gave them their freedom. Slaves were allowed to marry but it was never a legal marriage since they were considered property just like cattle and bred accordingly according to the masters ideas of improving stock and sold if he so wish (sorry women had little or no rights back then and therefore could not be legal slaveholders even though they may have controlled such estates and slaves). Like it or not; one of the benefits of this horrid practice was to bring about people who were able to do harder work than their masters and in some ways more intelligent than their masters.
The Idea of trying to tell people who they can marry, love and forrm family units with goes against human and civil rights, speaks of fascism, nazism and unamericanism. We may not like our neighbor but it is our duty, in order to preserve our Freedoms, to respect his right to be as he or she wishes and live and let live. Otherwise we could find ourselves as individuals like the Jews of Nazi Germany on Krystalnacht---all our rights and freedoms taken away. In this regard we must be on guard against extremists such as NOMI, Famly Research Council, The Family Leader, and other such anti-freedom, aniti-constitution, and un-american organizations who want to not only take the rights of gay people away but your rights also. We have already seem some of these groups in their protests and success with the FCC in telling you what you can read and watch on television. Enough is enough and it is time to send these groups packing before our freedoms erode to nothing.
Ye know not what of ye speak. Ye speak of the exception, not the rule. Slaves were married, though not legally recognised, they were by the largely Christian South. The great Nathan Bedford Forrest, yes that Forrest, went the extra mile to keep Black families together, when he bought or sold slaves. General assumptions, based on the Marxist teachings for the past 80/100 years that all Americans have suffered under, and I was one of them, have done nothing except to keep the truth of the matter from the American public, not to mention keeping the peace with the strangely deluded Negro.
In perusing the posts of others here; I am amazed at the ignorance of many of these posters about the History of these great United States who seem to not know that slavery is taking place right under their noses---especially among farm workers, women brought here under the guise of culture exchange and their children (one such case was in Fairbanks, Alaska a number of years ago, illegals smuggled into this country by smugglers of human cargo.
In perusing the posts of others here; I am amazed at the ignorance of many of these posters about the History of these great United States who seem to not know that slavery is taking place right under their noses---especially among farm workers, women brought here under the guise of culture exchange and their children (one such case was in Fairbanks, Alaska a number of years ago, illegals smuggled into this country by smugglers of human cargo. The word 'conservative' these days is a much abused word. Usually it is a euphemism for saying that one is a bigot stuck in the mud kind of person--especially when they claim to be a social conservative.
FYI, Marriage is NOT a religious issue because the State has the absolute right to marry people and issue marriage licenses. IF one does want religious recognition; then certainly a religious ceremony and recognition can be arranged by and for the religious body if it is agreeable with the religious body. However, no religious body could or should be forced to give religious recognition to any marriage or marry anyone within their providence if it goes against their canons and this means both heterosexual and same gender couples.
The 1st Amendment says absolutely nothing, not one thing, about the separation of church and state. No where can it be found in the Constitution. What was intended by the 1st Amendment, as far as it concerns religion, was that there would be no top down imposition of any brand of religion upon the people or the several States. As in any sort of national religion which had rent so much trouble in Europe over the previous centuries.
In fact, since it specifically reads, "Congress shall make no law..." it was understood that the individual States could have State religions, since it was a State issue, and not a national one.
Black families were routinely torn apart for profit under slavery. These marriages, to the extend they were allowed to exist, had no legal standing or protections. Also, since blacks were considered property, in many cases such unions would not have been even documented. Where are they getting their facts from? Why are these candidates making things up? Racism, perhaps? Race baiting?
In addition, many of the white owners fathered black children out of wedlock while owning their slave mothers. Not exactly family values!
No, they're still amoral scumbags. They wouldn't *dare* criticize black people but they will dare to criticize gay people, leaving this "document" of theirs as useless as it was with the slavery line intact. The document is useless, and it is an attempt to rape a minority of its rights. The end.
Its sad in this day &time the GOP never seems to amaze thecAmerican public with their biase and ignorant comments. It is obvious that their apples must not fall far from their ignorant family tree.
Anybody who signs this piece of crap is no friend of mine. Sorry, but I think we all have bigger issues to worry about than telling people who can marry who. This is a total non-issue for everyone except the religious wackos and it makes me sick that this is STILL -- in 2011 -- a point of contention in the United States. There are few people in this country who are LESS appealing to me than Rick Santorum and that dingbat Michelle Bachmann.
Here we go again.....If White people think that Blacks had it good during Slavery, why don't they try it sometime.
If anyone has any doubts about the heinous suggestion implicit in the statement, consider if it had said:
The Third Reich had a disastrous impact on the world, yet sadly, a German in 1936 had a better chance of getting a job within a year of graduation from collage than he or she does now.
Or how about:
The oblivion of death has a disastrous impact on life, yet sadly, the probability that you will have to work to pay bills is 100% greater when you are alive than when you are dead.
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On the structure and oxygen transmission rate of biodegradable cellulose nanobarriers
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Nanoscale Research Letters 2012, 7:192 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-7-192Published: 19 March 2012
Cellulose nanofibrils have been proposed for novel barrier concepts, based on their capability to form smooth, strong and transparent films, with high oxygen barrier properties. A series of cellulose-based films were manufactured and tested with respect to their oxygen transmission rate (OTR) capabilities. The obtained OTR levels were considerably better than the levels recommended for packaging applications. Part of the nanofibrillated material applied in this study was produced with 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxyl (TEMPO) mediated oxidation as pretreatment. Films made of TEMPO-pretreated samples yielded lower OTR values. The minimum obtained OTR value was 3.0 mL m-2 day-1 atm-1 with a corresponding oxygen permeability of 0.04 mL mm m-2 day-1 atm-1, tested at 50% relative humidity. The good barrier properties are due to the compact and dense structure of the films, as revealed by field-emission scanning electron microscopy. A relationship between OTR and the structure of the corresponding nanofibril-based films was confirmed.