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Fractivists converged upon Governor Brown's State of the State Address 2014 this morning organized by the Coalition of Californians Against Fracking including groups such as the Center for Biological Diversity, Credo Action, 350 Bay Area, Food & Water Watch, and Oil Change International, to make it known they have been watching how the oil and gas industry's win of the Cheney loophole in 2005 to skirt federal clean water laws and subsequent fracking has been contaminating water wells and supplies around the nation; and that they don't want it in California.
Fractivists traveled in from around the state as far as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Marin; and from out of the state- from as far as Colorado, and Pennsylvannia, with even some advice from New York; where yet as of last week over 2000 protested Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of the State Address despite the two year moratorium he worked with them to place.
Even more fractivists from around the nation supported the protest in days preceding with hashtags such as #fracking #unfrackcal @jerrybrowngov ranging from 'Climate leaders don't frack,' to 'sez Cali's severe drought is emergency. BUT doesn't order immediate STOP to #fracking!' -to 'declares drought emergency in #CA |LA Times < #fracking uses 4 to 6 mil gallons of #water Jerry per well!'
A landowner from Placer County shouted out "Well, we're on water wells in the foothills, and we don't want to have happen to our property values what has been happening around the nation," he said carrying a sign, wearing his cowboy hat, and sporting a no fracking sticker along with his wife carrying her own. "How do you fix a broken aquifer?"- questioned a former state water regulator who preferred not to be named.
Roofless clean energy solutions are following fracking bans and moratoriums
Locals from Davis and Sacramento questioned the wisdom of not having developed more distributed generation solar and wind in the state including lower cost loans with better terms to cover up-front costs and innovative models such as solar gardens and virtual solar. Virtual Solar legislation was passed recently however with SB43. The passage of this legislation will allow Californians to subscribe to sources of energy provided by renewable energy similar to the telecommunications industry given limitless choices of providers. The legislation will also allow those currently paying gas and electric bills to subscribe to clean energy providers without even a roof for solar panels or property for wind turbines.
But from even farther away, were landowners from Colorado, and Dimock, Pennsylvania; who had met with key State of California decision makers at the Capitol the day before. Fractivist Shane Davis was one of this coalition and had traveled in from Colorado, where the cities of Fort Collins, Lafayette, and Longmont recently enacting voter-approved fracking bans. Davis told Examiner he believes that the movement against fracking has effectively democratized the energy industry towards new forms of cleaner energies and in fact a boom.
Even more recently, a proposed amendment to Colorado's constitution was enacted that would give municipalities the power to ban or restrict fracking and other industrial activities, and would be the first of its kind nationwide if it passes. This would have immediate ramifications in Colorado, where the state's oil and gas association is suing in protest.
Davis went on record saying, "The Governor has the opportunity of a lifetime to not only be a hero for the environment, but for California and the nation to not not allow fracking in California. "I'm absolutely amazed that California is using its most valuable resource, 'water' to mine for something far less valuable, 'a fossil fuel.' "
All rivers are connected to each other
Davis furthered, "All rivers are connected to each other. Forty percent of Colorado's ground water is contaminated - why would California want water from the Colorado River to drink?"
Others at the protest had made signs regarding how earthquakes could be triggered especially given California's seismically active tectonic geology. Pennsylvania, Texas, and New York have eerily witnessed such quakes and the USGS has confirmed that an increase in pore pressure in subsurface waters can indeed lubricate even ancient thought to be inactive fault traces.
Fracking is generational suicide
Pennsylvania's Craig Stevens, 6th generation land owner was also a member of the coalition from out of state. He asserted, "I am a constitutional conservative who has been in the middle of the energy extraction technology for over 4 years and I have determined after that time that this is generational suicide. Fracking for oil & gas cannot co-exist with humans, animals, and plants. The sooner we can move to renewable energies, the sooner our children can thrive."
Stevens recently addressed the United Nations on fracking, commented further,"We have partnered with the likes of Robert Kennedy Jr, Arun Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi's grandson), Mark Ruffalo, Yoko and Sean Ono, and other world-wide peace activists, and our conclusion is this is a civil and humanitarian issue."
The most colorful of the three was Ray Kemball written about in the Rolling Stone, and even more recently, the National Geographic. "The land man came in 2006 like a professional B S wild west snake oil salesman." After 6 months of fighting with his partner whether they should take the deal, eventually Kemball signed to keep peace in the household. " We didn't even sleep together, so finally, I signed."
What Kemball's partner was sure would be royalty checks arriving worth 10's of thousands of dollars from an initial payment of $5.00 per acre for their 6 acres and then a promise of 12% of the well wound up being a single check of $5100.00 for the duration of having put up with all the drilling traffic and noise and flaring for one year and seven months. His land value "is now zero" he sighed. It also tests out for containing radioactive uranium, radon, thorium, and arsenic- all chemicals reported to have been found in various fracking cocktail mixes throughout the nation and the world given the growing list of moratoriums and bans within at least over 15 countries at various levels of governance.
Worse yet, Kemball suffers with psychosis of the lungs, and inexplicable rashes up and down his legs."Act 13 is a doctor gag order law we are trying to overturn in Pennsylvania, it dictates that a medical doctor can not disclose to a patient that his or her symptoms are consistent with that which might have arisen from any practice related to the oil & gas industry."
Perhaps most dramatic were Kemball's Terminator like adventures with two oil & gas industry men entering his home one morning through the front door at 7 AM completely unannounced. One thing led to another and the story goes to a 45, an AR 15, and an AK 47. But that's another article, and another documentary along with now Gasland I and II, Triple Divide, Promised Land and Split Estate.
Mark Ruffalo, "Not one well."
Mark Ruffalo actually took time out of his busy schedule too, to prime some of the activists having head out to today's actions. Ruffalo does some of the narration in the new documentary Triple Divide. "Not one well," Ruffalo declared- "that is how we have dealt with Governor Cuomo in New York."
Suggested Links
- Californians push for a moratorium on fracking
- Citizens speak out against a Bay Area Refinery Corridor
- Activists protest fracking as BLM auctions off oil and gas leases on public land
- German American Solar team challenges the USA- Stop Fracking Start Paneling
- California passes the brightest renewable energy requirements on Earth


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John Krohn, a former public relations spokesperson for Energy In Depth, a pro oil and gas drilling industry front group formed by the American Petroleum Institute and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), is now Communications Manager at the federal government Energy Information Administration (EIA). Mr. Krohn, long known for his work in aggressively defending the oil and gas industry over the practice of hydraulic fracking, has been at the EIA since at least January 2014 having left his role as writer and spokesperson for the Energy In Depth advocacy group. In June 2009, the current president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, Barry Russell described Energy In Depth as, "a state of the art online resource center to combat new environmental regulations, especially with regard to hydraulic fracking".
Mr. Krohn lists his involvement with Energy In Depth on his LinkedIn profile and maintains a personal web page at http://www.johndkrohn.com/?page_id=50 but makes no mention of his work for oil and gas industry public relations group on his personal site. Selected works listed on his web site as follows:
"U.S. energy industry fights back against 'Promised Land.' Good Morning America. This is a movie that drew fire months before it even hit the theatres but now that it is there, and has begun playing, parts of the energy industry are bringing the fight inside the theaters themselves. "The movie presents an oversimplification, it really doesn't do justice to the full spectrum of benefits that we are seeing natural gas providing…" Krohn stated.
"It shouldn't come as a surprise that individuals critical of shale development, nearly half of whom are pursuing lawsuits against companies developing shale, have self-reported symptoms they associate with that activity," said John Krohn, spokesman for Energy in Depth."
On April 11, 2013, The New York Post ran an opinion piece listed as being, "By Post Staff Report" which was authored by Krohn that was highly critical of New York State's Gov. Cuomo over New York State's current moratorium on hydraulic fracking in a piece titled, "Gov. Cuomo's ugly message to biz". Krohn stated, among other things, "If this weren't such an important topic to New York's economic success, this dossier of government franticness would be humorous." http://nypost.com/2013/04/11/gov-cuomos-ugly-message-to-biz/
As a spokesperson for Energy In Depth in 2012, Mr. Krohn was highly critical of Bloomberg News in a piece he wrote titled, "Bloomberg News Follows the Wrong Fork in the Road". In his posting, Krohn stated, "Bloomberg News takes the low road through small-town Pennsylvania by siding with the plaintiffs in a natural gas lawsuit, making major factual errors and choosing sensation over substance at almost every turn." September 27, 2012 by John Krohn Washington, D.C. http://energyindepth.org/marcellus/bloomberg-news-follows-the-wrong-fork-in-the-road-2/
Commenting publically, in his new formal role as a spokesperson for the Energy Information Administration, on the agency's latest release of its Annual Energy Outlook, which stated under a certain long range optimistic high production estimate scenarios the U.S. might be able an end to oil imports by 2037, Krohn told Bloomberg News, "This is the first time the Annual Energy Outlook has projected that net imports' share of liquid fuels consumption could reach zero,".http://www.worldoil.com/US-Energy-Agency-sees-oil-imports-falling-to-zero-by-2037.html
Founded in 1977 under the Carter Administration the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a part of the U.S. Federal Statistical System "responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating energy information to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment." EIA analysis cover coal, petroleum, natural gas, electric, renewable and nuclear energy production and U.S. consumption. The EIA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Under federal Public Law 95-91 dated August 4, 1977, the EIA's reports are prepared independently of policy considerations. EIA is not allowed to formulate or advocate any policy conclusions. The Department of Energy Organization Act allows EIA's processes and products to be independent from review by Executive Branch officials; specifically, Section 205(d) says:
"The Administrator shall not be required to obtain the approval of any other officer or employee of the Department in connection with the collection or analysis of any information; nor shall the Administrator be required, prior to publication, to obtain the approval of any other officer or employee of the United States with respect to the substance of any statistical or forecasting technical reports which he has prepared in accordance with law."
Disclosure: The writer does not hold any U.S. securities involving oil and gas exploration companies. He is not a member of any environmental or anti-fracking group and is not being paid to write for any individuals or entities listed in this article.


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The bodies of a 6-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy were pulled from a 24-foot-deep pit in the town of Stanley, outside Charlotte, said Lincoln County Emergency Services spokesman Dion Burleson.
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Crews had been searching for the children since Sunday afternoon, when one of their fathers called 911 to report the collapse. Officials were on the scene within minutes but couldn't get to the children.
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Flashback: Thriller at the Etihad
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We look back on last season's City trip.
Sunderland's visit to the Etihad Stadium last season ended in a thrilling 3-3 draw as the Black Cats became the only team to take a league point at City's home in 2011-12.
Seb Larsson's fine finish gave the visitors the lead only for Mario Balotelli to level from the penalty spot.
However, a Nicklas Bendtner header meant Martin O'Neill's side went in ahead at the break.
That lead was extended when Bendter fed a low ball across the face of goal for Larsson, who slid home at the far post.
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Dawn Harper, the reigning Olympic Champion in the 100m hurdles, qualified for her first World Championship team on Saturday as she finished third in the finals at the USATF Senior National Championships in Eugene, OR. Harper surged over the final hurdle to sneak into the third and final qualifying spot for the world team as the Bruin alum ran 12.65. Today's win marked her second USATF Senior National crown.
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Because I read different book find there are two definition and they aren't look like a same thing.
Definition 1 from GTM27
A set is open if it's a member of a topology,
and topology is a family of sets which satisfies:
1)the intersection of any two members is still a member.
2)the union of any two members is still a member
Definition 2 from baby rudin
Let X be a metric space. All points and sets mentioned below are understood to be elements and subsets of X.
A set S is open if every point of S is an interior point of S.
and a point p is an interior point of X if there is a neighborhood N of p such that N is contained by X.
A neighborhood of a point p is a set N(P) consisting of all points q such that d(p,q)< r.
definition 2 is complex.
So I try to make it become simpler to find the relation between the two concept.
I thought a set S is open if for every point p of S there is a set N such that N is the subset of X and consist of all points q that d(p,q)
But I still don't find any similarities between the two concept.
In first definition,we know the definition of open set only depends on the concept of set.
But the second definition tell us the definition depends on point and the set.
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TC TO JOHN A. CARLYLE ; 9 January 1850; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18500109-TC-JAC-01; CL 25: 1-3
Chelsea, 9 jany, 1850
My dear Brother,
Your Note this morning was abundantly welcome, with such good news of our Mother1 &c as it brought. Often do I think of her, and how she is standing the bitter weather! It appears she does wonderfully;—and indeed you seem to have fully a better edition of the weather than we here; for the Sun rarely visits us, and we alternate between frost and abominable glar under the shadow of a firmament generally lead-coloured. Today we are falling a powdering of sleet, which glazes all manner of paths and roads; while towards Charingcross and farther inward, it will be all soft mud:—and as for light, I had to get candles about noon today, and have them burning again now a little after 3 p.m.— We have to pluister on under considerable disadvantages of weather. However, "we are all afoot still, and that is a favour." A week or two more, and there will be improvement in the weather.
Today I send two Books; one which is Emerson's Lectures2 a Book of yours, which may perhaps amuse you in a dark evg: it came here, with a Copy for myself, two nights ago. The other is Fraser for my Mother; some better reading in it than usual. An attack on my Negro Question is of very slender structure,—I do not in the least know by whom.3 By some "man of mark," Forster says the Newspapers say; by some poor hidebound dunce, I have no hesitation in replying.— Alas, this is but the first sough of the storm I shall have to raise among that class of cattle, when I do fairly open my pack, and make known to them what my mind is;—as really now must soon be done!
I have been quite overwhelmed with rubbishy labour for two weeks or more; and only got a place of stopping, the day before yesterday; very much worn out indeed. Chapman is for a "Series of Pamphlets"—kind of Carlylese "Tracts for the Times";4—and really I begin to entertain the proposn, as one method of getting my "pack" made lighter. He carried off about 10 days ago, two "Pamphlets" to make the Printer set them up &c; and so soon as all this is settled, I believe they will come out.5 Terribly agt "voting," philanthropy &c &c. One of them has come back in type, but in a wrong shape yet: upon "Model Prisons,"—runs a redhot poker thro' all that nasty stuff, of "abolition" &c. The other which is to be the first calls itself "the New Era"; upon that I have been puddling ever since you heard last of me. I suppose the thing will have to go on;—and sometimes I am sufficiently alarmed about it! For my stomach and liver, to say nothing of all else, are by no means too strong just now.6 But I must try to husband myself. I believe I shall have to try the thing!—
Here is the acct of your Newsman. On the other side was paid: Garthwaite (14 / 1,—but where are the spats?); from Chorley7 8 / 6:—tell me what else there is; put me right, and I will clear it off;—meaning to write again to Jamie or some of you, in a day or two. At present no more. Right glad am I the shoes fit; no feet ever better deserved a pair of shoes from me than those! Our blessings on my dear old Mother, and on all of you. Ever yours
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Do you remember mid-'90s rapper Da Brat? You know, "Funkdafied," "Ghetto Love," the remix to Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby"? Well if you do, chances are your memory of the rapper, real name Shawntae Harris, probably looks something like this:
Dreads, sunglasses, camo pants, Usher-like boxer flashing. Sounds about right. Brat was not particularly known for her sex appeal, but more as one of the guys, able to throw down with any of the game's tougher male rappers. But now here comes the latest issue of Vibe Magazine, who expects us to believe that the woman in the above picture and the one below are, in fact, the same person:
Tough one. Nonetheless, it appears that the woman in the glamour shot is indeed also Ms. Harris, looking much different than expected after being released from prison this February after serving 21 months on aggravated assault charges. "I'm such a f**king lady," Brat tells Vibe. "I loved to get glammed up. I love manis and pedis. I like to go to Vicky Secrets and La Perla because I like lace and bikinis. I'm such a P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thug)."
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The Iran Nuclear Deal: RAND Experts Answer Questions About the Days Ahead
Diplomats have reached a nuclear agreement with Iran. Now, the United States faces important policy decisions that will help shape the days ahead and the relationship that emerges between Iran and the other parties involved.
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Armed Drone Myth 3: Global Proliferation Demands Blanket Restrictions on Sales
More than 70 countries have acquired drones of different classes and for different purposes. However, the number of countries actually developing
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Armed Drone Myth 2: It's Counterproductive to Develop International Norms
The challenge in establishing international norms for armed drones will be to define rules that preserve the rights of countries to use them in legitimate ways against legitimate threats (senior al Qaeda or Islamic State terrorists) while constraining illegitimate uses (political dissidents).
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Armed Drone Myth 1: They Will Transform How War Is Waged Globally
Long-range military drones are fundamentally misunderstood. Their champions wrongly contend they are revolutionizing warfare, while critics fear their spread would greatly increase the threat that China, terrorists, and others pose.
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Changing World Climate Requires a Dynamic Foreign Policy
As Secretary of State Kerry and former senator Chuck Hagel outline their thinking on the nation's strategy, let us hope that they both hold firm to the strategy that has served us well in the past and have the courage to explore a very different set of political and military ways to accomplish it, write Lynn Davis and Andrew Hoehn.
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Fortunately for the nation's capitol, Hurricane Irene and the East Coast earthquake proved to be relatively minor events, as far as disasters go. But before everyone breathes a sigh of relief, it would be wise to reflect on how people responded to what were essentially dress rehearsals for much bigger events, write Lynn E. Davis and Arthur L. Kellermann.
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TC TO JANE BAILLIE WELSH; 18 September 1823; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18230918-TC-JBW-01; CL 2:432-435.
Kinnaird House, 18th September, 1823—
My dear Jane,
If I were not a fool of some standing, I should not have vexed you on this occasion, or given you this fresh opportunity of testifying how true is the affection which you bear me. Your letter has set me a-thinking about matters which, with my accustomed heedlessness, I was letting take their course without accurate investigation, tho' conscious that a right understanding of them was of vital consequence to both of us. I honour your wisdom and decision: you have put our concerns on the very footing where I wished them to stand. So be of good cheer, for no harm is done.
When I placed the management of our intercourse and whatever mutual interests we had or might have entirely at your own disposal, making you sole queen and arbitress of the "commonweal," I stipulated for myself as much freedom of speech as you could conveniently grant, leaving to you an unbounded power of acting, then and in all time coming. It is to the terms of this compact that I still adhere in their widest acceptation. I know very well you will never be my wife. Never! Never!— I never believed it above five minutes at a time all my days. "Tis all one as I should love a bright particular star, and think to wed it."1 My fancy can form scenes, indeed, which with you to share them were worthy of a place in the heaven above; but there are items wanting, without which all these blessings were a curse, and which not your consent (if that were ever to be dreamed of) nor any influence of man can assure me of realizing. Such illusions do in truth haunt me, nor am I very sedulous to banish them. The harsh hand of Time will do it speedily enough without help of mine, and leave no truth behind that will ever give me half the pleasure. I grant it is absurd, and might be more than absurd, to utter them so freely: but what then? They give a momentary pleasure to myself, and do harm to no one. Strip life of all its baseless hopes and beautiful chimeras; it seems to me there would be little left worth having.
Thus then it stands. You love me as a sister, and will not wed: I love you in all possible senses of the word, and will not wed, any more than you. Does this reassure you? If so, let us return to our old position: let me continue writing what comes into my head, and do you continue acting now or forever after just as you judge best. I seek no engagement, I will make none. By God's blessing, I will love you with all my heart and all my soul, while the blood continues warm within me; I will reverence you as the fairest living emblem of all that is most exalted and engaging in my conceptions of human nature; I will help you according to my slender power, and stand by you closer than a brother: but these feelings are entertained for myself alone; let them be their own reward, or go unrewarded—that is my concern. So long as you have charity to hear me talk about affections that must end in nothingness, and plans which seem destined to be all abortive, I will speak and listen; when you tire of this, when you marry, or cast me off in any of the thousand ways that fortune is ever offering, I shall of course cease to correspond with you, I shall cease to love Mrs ——, but not Jane Welsh; the image she will have left in my mind I shall always love, for even this tho' the original is gone forever, will still have more reality than mere fantasies that would replace it. In all this I see no blame; and if there were, I cannot help it. Had it pleased Providence to plant some other standard of excellence in me, or make you different from what you are, then I should have felt and acted otherwise: but as it is, I am no free agent. For the rest, do not fear the consequence so far as I am concerned. My heart is too old by almost half a score of years, and made of sterner stuff than to break in junctures of that kind. Had it not been harder than the nether millstone it must have shivered into fragments very long ago. I have no idea of dying in the Arcadian shepherd style, for the disappointment of hopes which I never seriously entertained, or had no right to entertain seriously.
Now, in the name of the ever blessed Trinity, have I done with these preliminaries? Ass that I was in forcing you to ask them! I confess it grieves me to address you in this cold formal style, as if writing to my Taylor for a suit of clothes, and directing him where to cut and where to spare; not to my own best Jane, the friend of my soul, from whom I have no secrets or separate interests, and whom I love because she has no secrets from me. Let us forget it altogether, and be as we were! If you will part with me, do it; but not for my sake! For my sake, I call God to witness, you never shall. Again I say, let us forget it utterly, forever and ever!
These woful explanations I judged it right to send without a moment's delay: your comfort seemed to be concerned in their being given you instantly. You must not count this as any letter or your last as any: but write to me again in your own careless style, about Musäus and all that, just as if this thing had never happened. I long to be again introduced to your home at Haddington, to share in all your tasks and difficulties, to cherish your fainting hopes, and tell you a thousand times without stint or fear of reproof that you are dearer to me than aught in life, and that united we will conquer every difficulty, and be two glorious characters—if it so please the Fates.
This last proviso seems a needful one for me at present, tho' in your case I esteem it little. I appear to be fast going to the devil here; my health is getting worse every week; I sleep at the easy rate of three or four hours per night, and feel throughout the day in the most beatific humour! If it had not been that the people are kind to me as if I were their son, I had been gone ere now. They design staying here all winter: I will try it another month; and if without improvement, I mount the horse Bardolph, and turn my face back again to the plain country. I was looking out, while there, in the valley of Milk,2 for some cottage among trees, beside the still waters; some bright little place, with a stable behind it, a garden and a rood of green,—where I might fairly commence housekeeping, and the writing of books! They laughed at me, and said it was a joke. Well! I swear it is a lovely world this, after all. What a pity that we had not five score years and ten of it!
Meanwhile I go on with Goethe's Wilhelm Meister; a book which I love not, which I am sure will never sell, but which I am determined to print and finish. There are touches of the very highest most etherial genius in it; but diluted with floods of insipidity, which even I would not have written for the world. I sit down to it every night at six, with the ferocity of a hyaena; and in spite of all obstructions my keep-lesson is more than half thro' the first volume, and travelling over poetry and prose, slowly but surely to the end. Some of the poetry is very bad, some of it rather good. The following is mediocre—the worst kind.
And now my own best Jane, before leaving you, what more have I to ask? That you would love me forever, in any way, on any terms you please; that you continue while we both live to make me the confidant of all your sorrows and enjoyments great and small; and above all that you would find me means of doing you some essential service—something that might make our intercourse and affection more than a pleasing dream, when God shall see meet to put an end to it forever. Shew me, O! shew me how I may benefit you. I declare I shall not be able to die contented or sleep in my grave if I have done you no good. Write to me instantly, to "reassure me." Tell me all things that concern you—, all things. God bless you my dearest! Do with me as you like, I am ever yours with all my soul!
T. Carlyle.
This will be at Haddn on Sunday morning: I know you will not keep me waiting. Write as of old de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis [about everything and then some more]. Have you actually begun The Tales? How do you like them? Will they do? Have you arranged any hours for your studies? Do the gossips interfere with you? Are you happy? Are you? Tell me every thing: I am your B[r]other, and more than fifty brothers, to the end of time. Farewel[l]! Be good and diligent and fear not.


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In front of the Whole Foods, at 2201 Westlake, there was a fixie, electric bike, and dutch cargo bike, all in close proximity. The photos are merged here and also available in our photostream.
From what I'm hearing, the traffic, it's not so bad. But remember it's just getting started …
"The bike commute was about 2x as crowded as usual but not a hindrance at all. I did notice light auto traffic the entire way from the lower bridge to Pike Place, so if you all get stuck in future days during "The Clog" you may want to consider the Avalon/lower bridge/Pike Place route."
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Just spotted the "affordable, cool, and cheap city bikes" in Fall Colors from importer J&O. They're also available from Dutch Bike Seattle, and at this rate, wherever fine bikes are sold.
For another flavor of Dutch Bikes, Seattle Bike Supply has Batavus in stock now and they're shipping to their dealers after a delay.
Mercer, Wisconsin is trying to get their kids to school - by bike. I remember riding to school a couple times a year, but never made much of a habit of it. It's a great opportunity to open kids up to the sport and better yet - to a healthy lifestyle. Anything we can do to help pull them away from the XBox or PS3 is good by me.
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Microsoft Word 2013: Advanced Formatting Techniques
For anyone already using Microsoft Word, this course highlights functionality incorporated into the word-processor that allows you to easily work with multiple page documents. Most people use the simple formatting and manual editing that is appropriate for small documents, like letters and simple reports, for much larger documents but by doing so make it difficult for themselves and others who may have to edit such documents in the future.
Automated tools incorporated into Microsoft Word 2010 allow standardised documents to be created and whilst these tools can be used on all types of documents they are particularly designed to maintain control over the layout and formatting of larger, structured documents.
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You must be familiar with the day-to-day use of Microsoft Word and be able to create and format everyday documents. It is advisable that you have attended the Microsoft Word: Creating and Updating Everyday Documents course to ensure you have this required knowledge but with word-processing being such a common task for most people nowadays, basic use of an up-to-date version of Microsoft Word will be an everyday task for many.
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Wisconsin native Linda Rice will attempt to become this first woman to train a Preakness winner with 20-1 shot Kid Cruz this Saturday. Although 14 have tried since 1968, only Nancy Alberts came close with second place finisher Magic Weisner in 2002. Still, Rice (who now lives in Floral Park on Long Island) is the country's most "distinguished" female trainer, having saddled more than 1,200 winners to date, including Kid Cruz, who has come from far back to take command of his last two races, both at Maryland tracks The first was the 1-1/16-mile Federico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico by 3-1/2 lengths, and then the 1-1/8- mile Private Terms at Laurel by 4-lengths.
Named for Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz, Kid Cruz may not have his namesake's talent for quick acceleration out of the gate, but he has proved he can run. And even if the one-time claimer (who finished 7th in his career debut on the turf) can't beat favored California Chrome, his owners at Black Swan Stable (which bought him, sold him and bought him back), hope this son of 1999 Belmont Stakes winner Lemon Drop Kid, can bring home a big paycheck.
"Going from a maiden claimer to a Triple Crown race adds a little excitement," stated Rice. "Sort of rags to riches."
Kid Cruz will break from the 7th slot this Saturday, and is currently at odds of 20-1. In the meantime, Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome will leave the gate from post position 3, and is the 305 odds on favorite to take the second jewel in thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown. The remaining horses in the field for the Preakness are: Dynamic Impression, post position 1 at 12-1; General a Rod, post 2 at 15-1; Ring Weekend, post position 4, 20-1; Bayern, post position 5, 10-1; Ria Antonia, post 6, 30-1; Social Inclusion, gate 8, 5-1; Pablo de Monte, gate 9, 20-1; and Ride on Curlin, post position 10, 10-1.


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This is is part two of a series of articles that walks through the A Little Productivity application and its source. In this article I talk about the data first approach I took in creating the business entities used in the application.
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Jetwing Lighthouse Hotel is conducting Whale and Dolphin watching Tours (Marine mammal safari) in Mirissa, Galle, Kalpitiya and Trinco - Sri Lanka. We highly recommend November to April months. Jetwing Lighthouse Naturalist - Anoma Alagiyawadu come on board (he is the most experienced Whale and Dolphin Watching tour handling Naturalist in Sri Lanka).
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Skippers and all crew members from fishing families with generations of experience. Jetwing Lighthouse Naturalist Anoma Alagiyawadu (he is the most experienced Whale and Dolphin Watching tour handling Naturalist in Sri Lanka) is conducting and guiding all the tours.
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The event offers more than just the average festival fare with the delectable red berry sweetening everything in sight from lemonade, funnel cake and shortcake to smoothies and ice cream. Nage and Abbott's Grill will be on-hand with gourmet burgers and the competitive barbeque team The BBQ Grilles, will be firing up their grills with some of their infamous barbeque.
A strawberry recipe contest will also be held for all the budding berry chefs out there. Recipes need to be submitted by 11 a.m. for a chance at gift certificates and Fifer aprons.
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Festivalgoers should also bring their appetites for fun. There will be hayrides, pony rides, face painting, barrel train rides, a petting zoo and a rock-climbing wall.
Live music, on the stage and in the patch, will be loud and clear all day long. George and Ossi and the Stoney Run String Band will be delighting from the stage while Miss Jackie and John Sell will offer music to work to out in the patch.
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Photos of the foods we enjoyed in Beijing and detailed reviews of the restaurants we visited.
My wife, Audre L. Engleman, and I retired in 1995 (at 49 and 54) and have been slowly traveling the world 365/24/7 ever since. We've been to many countries where we've enjoyed hiking, mountain biking, swimming, skiing, kayaking, learning the culture, making friends and especially eating. We love being homeless, stuffless, and careless (well, carefree anyway...). We like to call ourselves Global Meanderers.
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Amazing! Just because those food on pictures have cost my mouth juice so much, I think I should get the book for a reasonable discount!
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The U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose a healthy 3.5 percent in the third quarter, and everything is swell again. Employment and consumer confidence should be rising right behind it. Right?
Maybe not, said Michael Mandel, chief economist at BusinessWeek. Mandell calls the GDP an outdated measure of the economic performance and argues that it relies on factors, like auto sales and construction, that have little to do with a knowledge-based economy.
In effect, government statisticians are trying to track a 21st century bust with 20th century tools. Not only is that distorting the critical data that investors, policymakers, and corporate executives use to evaluate the economy, but it might also be creating a false sense of relief as Americans battle a brutal recession.
A better measure of the new economy would be factors like venture capital funding, product development, research and development and worker training paid for by companies. Almost all of those have been frozen or cut since 2008 and a GDP based on those factors would still be rising, but more slowly, Mandel said.
U.S. companies spend an enormous amount on worker training—$134 billion worldwide—but they have been cutting back. The drop started in 2008, when employers reduced their per-worker "learning expenditures" by 3.8%, according to the American Society for Training and Development. No data are available for 2009, but "from anecdotal evidence, obviously there's a lot of cutback," says Pat Galagan, executive editor of publications.
Ideally, a big burst of training would occur during a period of creative destruction such as this so that people can acquire the skills needed for the jobs of the future. The problem is how to pay for that training, since unemployed people don't dare spend money on long-term training when they're worried about short-term survival.
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A baby boy has died in Castillejos, Zambales, Philippines the same day as receiving a vaccination for the measles, ABS-CBN reported Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. While the child's mother blames the vaccine, authorities claim the child simply died as the result of choking.
According to the child's mother, one-year-old John Rogie Cudal was taken to a medical center to catch up on the vaccine which he was unable to get at the recommended age of nine months.
The mom says that little John was still cheerful and alert immediately after receiving the vaccine, but later that evening is when she started noticing that he was having trouble breathing. The child was taken to a local hospital where he died that night.
Official reports indicate that the child's cause of death was cardiac pulmonary arrest and aspiration. In other words, he choked and his heart stopped.
The mother feels her son's death was caused by the vaccine he received earlier in the day, but authorities do not agree. They believe that at some point during the night, the child choked, probably while he was playing with his mother.
The local government wants to do an autopsy on the child, but at this point the still grieving parents are refusing to allow it.
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As a journalist, often time I face two extreme cases of either too little information or too much information. Actually, the first scenario is not that terrible. I just have to dig deeper and work harder to seek out more data. The second scenario can bring upon a real headache. Since I am not writing a book, it is always a battle within to decide which topic to choose and what material to use. There were instances that I ended up sitting on a story for a while before I was able to hone in on an angle. Recently, I attended Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei's Tai Chi Light workshops. I am still in awe of what I witnessed and learned during the four days of training. What was demonstrated and taught by Grandmaster Chen was so profound that it is extremely challenging to articulate the level of mastery he possesses and the supremacy of the art of Tai Chi (Taiji). Additionally, there was massive amount of information presented during the workshops.
Grandmaster Chen, a 19th generation of Chen family descendent and lineage holder, 9th Duan marital artist, and one of the Top Ten Martial Artists in China, has been teaching Tai Chi to millions in the world directly or indirectly more than thirty years. He has over 500 disciples and has trained thousands of instructors. As the origin of the modern Tai Chi, Chen style is the most complete system with at least four basic bare-hand forms, 19 weapons forms, and five Push Hands forms. To continue his effort of passing on the art and elevating the knowledge and skill levels, Grandmaster Chen decided to host International Tai Chi Light workshops for his disciples and senior instructors overseas. At invitation, sixty disciples, senior instructors and practitioners from China, U.S., U.K., Canada, Peru, and Iran attended the second International Tai Chi Light held on June 15 – 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
At the opening ceremony, Grandmaster Chen reminded students that Tai Chi is not just a martial art. Practitioners should internalize the philosophy of Yin and Yang and learn how to seek tranquility among surrounding chaos or noises. Training in Las Vegas could be a literal application.
The four-day workshops started with Chen's Tai Chi for Health and Wellness. Aside from Joint Flexion, Spiral Rotation (or Silk Reeling), Qi (internal energy) Nurturing, attendees refreshed their knowledge and skill of Essential Chen Tai Chi 18 Form for Health, which is the most popular form worldwide and is practiced by people of all ages with various physical conditions. Even though Grandmaster Chen created this form to promote health, this short form can be used as a gateway to serious Tai Chi study since the form adheres to Tai Chi fundamentals and embodies several martial art applications. Grandmaster Chen thoroughly reviewed some of the key movements like "Lazy about Tucking the Robe" and "Fair Lady Works in the Shuttles".
Chen Style's Old Frame Routine One, or Lao Jia Yi Lu, is the foundation of all Tai Chi forms. Grandmaster Chen learned it from his late uncle Grandmaster Chen Zhaopi, who made Chen Zhenglei and others practice it daily for 15 years before teaching them a second form. Chen Zhenglei said with a solid foundation of Lao Jia Yi Lu, he learned all other forms in 2 years. In 2002, Grandmaster Chen started to collaborate with Dr. Shin Lin, Professor of University of California-Irvine, for eight years to conduct multiple bio-medical studies on Tai Chi's health benefit. It is proven that Lao Jia Yi Lu can deliver amazing health effects. But if you think Tai Chi Chuan is only good for health, you may be deadly wrong.
Lao Jia Yi Lu is known for its expansive frame with deep rooting. Practitioners need to make sure that their upper body moves in sync with the lower body, the external actions unify with the internal energy, or Qi circulation. Qi flows through the entire body in a sequential manner, and ultimately the intent, or Yi, leads Qi, which in term directs the body movements. The form seems smooth and flows like a running creek but looks can be deceiving. "Single Whip" alone has over 20 different martial art applications. Grandmaster Chen first demonstrated it in a slow motion to clearly depict the complicated applications one by one. Students were totally intrigued by the subtle movements of the various body parts. In other words, Grandmaster Chen employed his fingers, hands, palms, fists, wrists, elbows, shoulders, back, waist, Kua (hip joints), legs, knees, and feet so freely and effortlessly in a coordinated spiraling fashion to generate exceptional power. Later when he summoned his internal energy, or Jing, and demonstrated various applications fast, his body acted at a speed of light with explosive moves, which caused jaws to drop followed by loud applause.
New Frame Routine One, or Xin Jia Yi Lu, was created by a 17th generation Grandmaster Chen Fa-Ke using Lao Jia Yi Lu as the base. The most visible feature of the form is its richness of internal and external spiraling motion of the hands, wrists, arms, elbows, shoulders, trunk, kuas, legs, and Dan Tian. Some of the reeling movements are continuous folding and unfolding to unleash explosive power. Song (relaxation), Huo (flexibility or agility), Dan (springiness), and Dou (shakability) are the requirements of this form. According to Tai Chi theory, every body part can be maneuvered as a fist, and the Xin Jia training provides the best how-to. Grandmaster Chen bent his body like a rubber band and delivered fists like a pistol. It is crucial to totally relax the body before practicing Xin Jia. With that in mind, Chen taught students a series of basic drills to soften and calm the body. Due to time constraints, only two segments of New Frame were reviewed and taught in detail.
Aside from bare-hand form training, students had opportunities to learn Push Hands and practiced with partners. Grandmaster Chen stated that hand form practice is a means in which we learn about our body and skill, while Push Hands is a way to learn or sense an opponent's strength and energy. According to the quintessential battle strategy the Art of War, only a person knowing himself and others cannot be defeated.
Aside from the instruction of Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei, his in-chamber disciples Masters Chen Juan of China, Chen Bin of China, Jack Yan of Canada, and Hai Jun Wang of England were on site to assist teaching and made the workshops more effective.
In the Tai Chi learning process, there are roughly three stages: Xin Ming, Ti Ming, and Sheng Ming. Ming denotes understanding. Xin denotes the heart, or the brain in this case, and Xin Ming means a practitioner has a good understanding of a movement and memorizes the details. Ti denotes the body, and Ti Ming means the body has a good understanding how to move and muscle memory has developed through long diligent practice. Sheng denotes the spirit, and Sheng Ming means a practitioner understands the art of Tai Chi at a spiritual and philosophical level. After the workshops, participants felt that they had a much deeper understanding of the art and grasped how some of the intricate movements should be executed. They admitted that it would take them a long time to fully reach a stage of Xin Ming and completely understand all nuances of Tai Chi principles and movements; needless to say, it will take some of them decades to practice in order to ascend to the stage of Ti Ming. But this reality does not scare the students away because they all recognize that learning Tai Chi is a lifetime effort.
Disclaimer: I am a disciple of Grandmaster Chen, and as such, this article may include biases.
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