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"Where is God in That?"
By: Candace Chellew-Hodge
When I am in spiritual direction with someone, this is the key question I always ask: "Where is God in that?" I usually ask this question after they have described some situation or incident in their lives that has them vexed or feeling trapped.
"Where is God in that?"
The question usually produces silence - which is a good thing - as well as a puzzled expression, which is also a very good thing. That question puts us in a place of searching, a place of questioning - a place where God can actually be heard and felt.
Usually, after some thought and perhaps more discussion, the person can place God in the situation. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned, perhaps not. Perhaps there is comfort to be found, perhaps not. Perhaps God is using other people to push them in a new direction, perhaps not. Whatever the case, my directees find the truth in what the Psalmists knew long ago:
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,"
even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
-Psalm 139: 7-12
There is nowhere that God is not. We can run, hide, flee, and even forget, but God is ever present. We may feel abandoned, left behind, or forsaken, but it's not God who has left the building. We feel forsaken when we have struck out on our own, seeking for our own glory, or showing off for others. When we fail to rely solely on God, we forget God's constant presence in, through, and around us at all times. Whether times are good or times or bad, and whether or not we feel it, God is ever present, waiting for us to simply acknowledge that presence and live into it with faith.
That's a tall order, though, for those of us in the LGBT community. We've been told so many times that God has, indeed, forsaken us and that if God is present at all it is merely to "heal" us or to urge us to "repent" of our "sins." We cannot, they say, have God in our lives accepting us, loving us, and blessing us. If we feel accepted and loved by God then that's a delusion, our anti-gay friends tell us, that only the God they believe in can dispel.
I've puzzled over this for quite awhile. I have met people who say they genuinely have "given up" being gay, or lesbian, or bisexual. They tell me that God has "healed" them from this "affliction" and they are now living as God intended them to live. Implying, of course, that I'm still not living as God has intended. While I disagree with them, and believe with all my heart that there is nothing to be "healed" within LGBT people except their own internal homophobia, I find myself slow to judge these people. They are sincere. Their search for answers has been sincere, and though I believe they are sincerely wrong, I still can't find it in my heart to try to evangelize them away from their position. Why? Because I have to trust that God is working in their lives - that God is in their situation and is working it out for the best not just for them, but for me as well. All I can do in this situation is continue to love them, just as they are.
I had a person who claims to be "healed" from homosexuality ask me recently what I would do if someone at my church told me they were no longer gay and had felt God had delivered them. It's a tough question, but here is my answer: I would love them and accept them. They would be welcome in my church. However, that person would not be allowed to create strife or disorder within the body of faith. If I were to respect their choice to not act on their sexual orientation, they must return that respect and accept me (not merely tolerate me!) as someone who sees no sin in my sexual orientation and the responsible exercise of my sexuality within the confines of my relationship.
Here's where the problems begin. Those who say they have "given up" being gay tend to evangelize for their new "lifestyle." They figure if it's God's will for their lives, then it must be God's will for everyone who is gay. This is a fallacious argument. Like my mama used to say, "If everyone jumped off a cliff would you jump, too?" Just because others do it doesn't mean it's right for you.
For those who truly believe they have set aside their sexual orientation, or have the strength to not act on it, bless you. I hope you enjoy your life and find fullness and happiness. However, that doesn't give you the right to start preaching against me or telling me I'm wrong for wanting to remain as I believe God has created me to be.
"Where is God in that?"
At this point I have to interrupt with my own key question.
Why is it that there are some people who say they no longer want to act on their sexual orientation and are happy when they don't, yet there are others who are perfectly fine with their sexual orientation, have reconciled their spirituality with it, and are happy when they use their sexuality responsibly in relationship? How can we both exist at the same time, and at the same time claim God's blessing for it? Doesn't someone have to be right and someone have to be wrong?
As I continued my conversation with this person it dawned on me: We have been clearly instructed by God to love one another - and not just love those we like, or those who look like us, or act like us, or believe like us. No, we're commanded to love one another despite everything - despite every difference, flaw, and offense.
What if, just maybe, God has created all these conflicting and contradictory human behaviors to see that if, even just for a moment, we can love one another without condition? And in that moment, perhaps, we can learn how to do it more often - to overlook our differences, to stop arguing over who is right and who is wrong, and learn how to love one another simply because we are all treasured children of the still living, still speaking God.
"Where is God in that?"
God is in, through, around, and all over that.
Candace Chellew-Hodge is a recovering Southern Baptist and founder/editor of Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians. Her first book, Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians, published by Jossey-Bass is now available at http://www.bulletproofbook.com. She currently serves as the pastor of Jubilee! Circle, a progressive, inclusive community in Columbia, South Carolina. She is also a spiritual director and is currently taking on new directees. She blogs regularly at Religion Dispatches. She can be reached by email at editor-at-whosoever.org or by using the suggestion box.
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Tiger Woods' name has been synonymous with scandal lately, as a media driven hype frenzy has eclipsed his illustrious golf career. The truth is that the man is an excellent golfer with one of the best records in both the world, and the history of golf. His entire life has been centered on the sport, and as a result, he has taken some of the biggest titles ever. Football odds.
Most recently, he has struggled a bit in the global rankings. Though his previous performances had been lacking, he has been gaining and returning slowly to his former glory. No one doubts his talent. What's more importantly is that he has now proven resilient in the face of adversity. When he opened Thursday at the Barclays with a 6-under 65, he finally looked like the Tiger of old, and was at the top of the leader boards for the first time in a long time. Football spreads.
It was his first time leading after any round on the PGA Tour since the Tour Championship last September. In a post-game interview with the press Tiger stated that this was something that was lacking from his life, and that he is excited to be back on the top. The only question that remains is – will he be able to stay there? Football lines.
Everything is pointing to a great comeback, with Tiger being on top of the golf world again. However, he has some things that will plague him in the future. The main issues with his ex-wife have not been entirely resolved. It has been a sore point for him all year long. If he can pull it off, the golf world will be extremely receptive to his comeback He has a long career ahead of him, and golf just isn't the same without Tiger Woods competing. He makes everyone play that much better. Be sure and follow it all at www.scoresandodds.com.


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The problem I see with watermarking, is when someone has their ebooks stolen without their knowledge.
Someone hacks your amazon account, B&N account or any other store account and downloads a copy of the book with your information in it. Since they used your user/pass you're the one fingered unless the IP used comes from some obscure place like china, but then, maybe you were using a proxy, prove otherwise.
There's numerous other ways too. Email that you sent a book to your kindle via gets hacked (that happens quite frequently and it's not always down to a mistake the owner of the email account made such as having malware on their device).
Of course I'm assuming the person involved is after much more than just your ebooks, it'd be rather unlikely for someone to do this just to get a few books to upload, but as a "bonus" for their efforts, I could see it occurring.
In all those cases, the time/cost to prove you didn't do it would be quite a burden. Likely involving turning over every device you own for investigation and that would only prove you didn't use those devices. Plus, who's going to do that investigation, since it's not really a police matter, but a court matter.
What is more realistic, is some people will be innocently fined and will just pay up and never buy digital products again.
All that said, I still favour watermarks over encrypted DRM because it's a step closer to no DRM. Only a step mind and in some ways it's a misstep.
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In the June, 1927 number of Chronicles of Oklahoma there was published an article, written by John N. Noble, entitled "Early Telephone History of Oklahoma." No one else was
as well qualified to write this story as Mr. Noble. He gave much interesting data that might have been lost forever had this
article not have been written. However, from an old newspaper article I am convinced that Mr. Noble was mistaken concerning
the date of the first telephones in Oklahoma.
In his article he says: "One of the first telephones west of the Mississippi River, if not the first, was built by E. D. Hicks
in the year 1886, or about ten years after the invention of the telephone, and ran from Tahlequah to Muskogee."
Perhaps this was the first commercial phone, but from the following clipping taken from the Cheyenne Transporter of August 30th, 1884, it would seem that this Darlington—Fort Reno telephone antedated the Tahlequah—Muskogee phone by two
"Agent Dyer and our enterprising traders clubbed together recently to secure a telephone connection with Ft. Reno, a mile
and a half away across the river, from which point telegraph communication is had with civilization via San Antonia, Texas,
and Dodge City, Kansas.
"The telephones were put in last week by H. G. Chipchase, from Caldwell, the agent of the Union Telephone company, the Darlington
connection being in Agent Dyer's office and the Reno end the telegraph office. The line works to a charm and already has proved
a great convenience. Its value for everyday business and in case of high water, cannot be estimated. The line is free to the
public, the expenses beind paid by the enterprising business men of Darlington and Reno, the stage company passing the telephone
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free to and from Caldwell. Those to first communicate over the line were Colonel Dyer, L. T. Rogers, J. H. Davis, George Bowhay,
Lafe Merritt and the telephone agent. These parties were present at the first practical operation of the line."
The above is from the Cheyenne Transporter, printed at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Darlington, I. T. August 30, 1834.
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SEC finally responds to Chicago Fed warnings on high-frequency trades
By Emily Flitter and Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 12:05 am TWN
NEW YORK--More than two years ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was pushing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to get serious about the dangers of superfast computer-driven trading. Only now is the SEC getting around to taking a closer look at some of those issues.
Critics of the SEC say the delay is part of a pattern of inaction in dealing with the fallout from high frequency trading and shows that the regulator doesn't yet fully appreciate how fears of machine-driven market meltdowns are driving investors away from U.S. markets.
Even as the SEC gears up for a meeting on Tuesday to discuss software glitches and how to tame rapid-fire trading, the eighth public forum it has had in two years on market structure issues, regulators in Canada, Australia and Germany are moving ahead with plans to introduce speed limits to safeguard markets from the machines.
One item up for discussion is whether regulators should require trading firms and exchanges to deploy a "kill switch" so that they can quickly shut down a runaway high-speed computer program. That's one of the seven recommendations the Chicago Fed made to the SEC in its March 25, 2010, letter.
The Chicago Fed said exchanges and other trading platforms should install more risk controls, even if it slowed down trading, including a "kill switch" at the trader workstation level. "The competitive quest for greater and greater speed must be balanced with appropriate risk controls so that a clearly erroneous trade does not destabilize markets by precipitating a cascade of other trades in response," the Chicago Fed's then Financial Markets Group Senior Vice President David Marshall said in the submission.
Less than two months later, the Dow Jones Industrials would plunge 700 points in a matter of seconds. The May 6, 2010, flash crash sparked a national debate over the merits of stock trading that takes place in fractions of a second, but it only led to modest action from the regulators.
Since then, there have been a series of smaller — though still frightening — events for investors, including the near-collapse of major market maker Knight Capital after a software glitch led to violent price swings in more than 100 stocks on August 1 this year. That problem lasted for at least half an hour, leading to questions about why a "kill switch" wasn't quickly employed.
And still the move towards reforms has been slow.
"So far, the SEC hasn't seemed to think high-frequency trading is a problem," said Edward Kim, a former senior vice president at the Nasdaq Stock Market and now a consultant with audit firm Grant Thornton.
Kim, who testified on Sept. 7 before an SEC panel in San Francisco on the potential pitfalls of high-frequency trading, said he's seen first-hand the fallout that the flash crash has had on investor confidence. Kim noted his father was so rattled by the rapid market meltdown he subsequently sold most of his stocks.
Institutional buy-and-hold investors also remain frustrated.
Mutual fund manager O. Mason Hawkins, who met with the SEC a month after the flash crash in June 2010 to provide evidence about how rapid-fire machine trading was destabilizing the market, has the same view today, according to a representative for his firm, Southeastern Asset Management.
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The disciples had all witnessed the betrayal in the garden. As they fled into the darkness, they quickly glanced back over
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Eight in Ten Chicago Businesses Ready for Disaster
Annual AT&T Study Finds Chicago Businesses Most Concerned About Cyber Security
Chicago, Illinois, June 2, 2008
Whether a severe storm or virtual virus, the majority of Chicago businesses are prepared to protect and maintain their business operations during a disaster, according to AT&T's (NYSE: T) annual study on business continuity and disaster recovery planning in the U.S. private business sector. Three out of four Chicago businesses — tied with North Carolina as the highest of the markets surveyed — view business continuity planning as a priority, and 81 percent have a business continuity plan in place.
More than half of the 100 local information technology executives indicated their businesses had updated their business continuity plans in the past 12 months, with 43 percent also testing current plans to ensure continued productivity amidst a disaster. As components of these plans, 65 percent of Chicago executives indicated their companies have set target recovery times for individual key business operations while 85 percent have special arrangements for communicating with executives during a disaster.
"Chicago's private business community continues to take critical steps to protect and preserve the world-class business operations that drive local and global economies," said Jerry Gerami, regional vice president, AT&T Global Business Services. "Chicago businesses, like others across the country, have experienced major operation changes this past year, and they lead their peers in reflecting these changes in advanced business continuity planning. It's this forward, proactive thinking that ensures the most vibrant business and residential communities here in Chicago — at anytime."
As for those threats that keep local executives up at night, 56 percent of Chicago executives viewed cyber security as a main vulnerability, with 35 percent rating it a top concern — the highest of all markets surveyed. As such, 72 percent of Chicago businesses' current continuity plans directly address cyber security threats and recovery steps. Hacking (72 percent), internal accidents (60 percent) and internal sabotage (52 percent) were top-rated concerns for the upcoming years, as businesses become more and more wireless, housing almost all essential information and operations on a central network.
Many companies in Chicago and around the globe use hosted environments as a measure of business continuity planning, housing vital business information and activity in one of AT&T's 38 global Internet Data Centers. More than complexity and customization, local executives were most concerned about hosted environments' security (69 percent), cost (65 percent) and reliability (60 percent). However, Chicago executives indicated that their companies had experienced the fewest problems (22 percent) with insufficient storage space for virtual records in a hosted environment than the other markets surveyed.
AT&T brings its own business continuity and disaster recovery expertise in running and managing some of the world's largest and most complex networks — including its own — to businesses worldwide. AT&T offers multiple business continuity services that provide enterprises with disaster planning, business-impact analysis, risk assessments, and storage, network and IT security solutions.
The company also conducts Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) exercises several times a year that test, refine and strengthen AT&T's business continuity and disaster-response services. The most recent exercise was held in May at Chicago's Solider Field. By simulating large-scale disasters and network service disruptions, AT&T can apply and refine best practices for rapidly restoring communications to a city's government and business customers. Throughout the past 10 years, AT&T has invested more than $500 million in its NDR program, which includes specially-trained employees across the United States, as well as a fleet of more than 150 self-contained equipment trailers and support vehicles.
For more information on the AT&T 2008 Business Continuity Study, visit www.att.com/biz_continuity_study.
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The 2008 AT&T Business Continuity Study is based on results from a telephone survey of 500 Information Technology (IT) executives in five U.S. metropolitan/regional areas, including Chicago, New York, North Carolina (Charlotte/Raleigh/Greensboro), Seattle/Portland and South-Central Texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston). The sample of participating companies was drawn from Dun and Bradstreet's business list of companies with at least $25 million in revenue located in each of the five areas. The metropolitan areas are based on DMAs (Designated Market Areas). Interviewing was conducted between April 2 and April 17, 2008, and the interviews averaged 10 minutes in length.
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I don't know about you but my family craves my attention all the time. I have learned that unplugging every now and then is the best thing a mom can do for her family. Put that phone away, close your computer and get out and live life without technology for a little while. Take a walk, go outside and play with the kids, do some housework without looking at your phone every 5 min. Your family and your stress level will thank you for unplugging. Not to mention you will sleep better without the light from your phone. This can be painless momma, its not forever.health and fitness tips at Greatist.com
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Okay, I totally love this.....before I saw your post, I had decided I was going to fast social medial and games on my iPhone for my church's 21 days of prayer and fasting for this exact reason......for my family. Starting day 2 and I've actually gotten a lot done! Thanks for posting this, I'm gonna share it with my friends!!!!ReplyDelete
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I had a family day today. As always because it is inevitable, I'm asked how I am. What am I doing, what am I going to do. Where am I going, when am I going. I'm afraid I couldn't give an satisfactory answer to many of those questions. But since everyone was asking me, I suppose people are interested in it. So for everyone who wonders how I am, what I'm doing, what I'm going to, where I'm going and when I'm going, here it is!
- How am I -
Considering the fact that my boyfriend/fiancé is on the other side of the ocean and I miss him, good. I'm a little lonely, but skyping with him every day, and keeping in touch through whatsapp helps. Doing things alone is the weirdest of it all. I kind of like doing things on my own, but I wish I could do it on my own WITH Michael.
But my health is good, I'm sporting twice a week. Horseback riding dressage on Monday and yoga on Friday. I bought a bike and cycle everywhere now so you could say I'm in shape! No moodiness here, no stress at work. All in all I'd say I'm doing better than some people I know.
- What am I doing -
My time mainly goes to working in the gadgets store. I sell stuff there. It's a relatively small company and with a very personal atmosphere. I feel at home there. I actually once quit and got another job which I straight up hated, and the company was so sweet as to take me back. It sounds kind of dull, working in a store. But honestly, you meet so many interesting people. It's diverse, and because it's a small company I got quite a few responsibilities bigger companies would never let you have.
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Of course I don't only work. I generally work 4 days in a week. The other days I try to get in as much time with Michael by gaming and skyping. When he's sleeping or busy, I do my sport things, game night on Thursday and walks in nature areas. I also do a lot of reading, you'd be surprised at how many hours of my week go to reading.
- Where am I going -Easy one. United States of America, Florida, Gainesville. Why don't y'all visit when we're settled!?
- When am I going -
Yikes, I wish I knew. The visa process has been going for about a month now. But you know how these things work, it can take forever. My estimation is that I'll have my visa around Christmas. So about half a year. That's quick for a visa but an eternity for me and Michael. Bureaucracy is never efficient. So it's a realistic possibility something goes wrong and it will be even longer.
I will visit Florida in between at least once though.
- What am I going to do -
Well, isn't that a loaded question? That's pretty much straight up asking me to plan the rest of my life. I have a lot of things I want to do, but whether they are realistic is another story. So the answer I give you all is the one I have hopes of actually happening.
I'm going to move to Florida to live there with Michael. I hope to get a job in the horse world there (if anyone can help me out there I'd be really happy!). Gainesville is close to Ocala (a horse area) and I will try to get a job there. Probably starting low all at the bottom of the chain as a stable hand. Then I'll try to work my way up to eventually horse riding instructor and maybe starting an outdoor trips company. I'm also interested in horse breeding, but without an equine education I'm sure that that will be impossible.
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If the horse thing doesn't fly, I'll simply work at a store there too! Hopefully there are stores as awesome as the one I work in now.
There you have it. Lot's of uncertainties. But I'm ready to go now. Not a single doubt any more. At least the slow visa process gives me enough time to fully ready myself to leave the Netherlands behind. Like the Dutch football player Johan Cruiff says: Elk nadeel heb ze voordeel (every disadvantage have it's advantage).
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Superior upbringing not enough
Sept. 14 was a date thousands of families across the land will never forget. And for reasons having nothing to do with the election, the economy, the Arab spring or the football fall. A baby was born to them.
One of these came into this world at 8 1⁄2 pounds with three mighty advantages: health, natural-born American citizenship and a married mother and father.
The latter 2-for-1 deal grows unaccountably rarer in our time. Yet anyone who is "all for the children" ought to be united on it as on no other issue, so basic is it to national prosperity.
It means that Baby Boy (not yet named) will have two adults to guide him. Against running into the street without looking both ways, for instance. Or hitting other kids in playgrounds and taking their toys (but to fight back if it's done to him).
Very important, too, to show respect for accredited older people: parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors and police officers, while being extremely resistant to strangers offering candy.
This sort of Mom 'n' Pop training will almost surely make Baby Boy (by then What a Big Boy) "school-ready." There is no substitute for M&P training. It takes four or five or six years, and there will be missteps and tempers, yet the magic is slow but sure.
Our wee fellow citizen will learn to read, write and figure, if indeed Mum 'n' Dad haven't already introduced those skills along with singing, swimming, monkey bars climbing and ball-catching.
If school proves to be good, fine.
If not, by the time What a Big Boy is ready, maybe his elders will be wise enough to provide school choice. Which doesn't mean abandonment of the public responsibility to educate. It means applying the public's dollars to tuition at a private, parochial or superior public school, whatever can do the job best. There is no reason Baby Boy shouldn't be as lucky as his grandparents were, when most schools were good because most kids behaved, having had plenty of M&P training, even through war, depression and discrimination.
But even the best schools don't let parents off the hook. They're always there as examples, reading a book now and then, saving something for retirement, not depending totally on Social Security or the words of politicians.
Because many trials lie ahead for Look How Big He's Growing.
First and foremost, the crazy national debt his parents' and grandparents' generations piled on him before his first taste of milk, $16 trillion. Even a grown-up head can't grasp trillions, much less the grapefruit-sized kind with fuzz on top that can hardly keep its eyes open. And what if it's $20 trillion by the time he's reading? Or $30 trillion with an utterly debased dollar by the time he's ready to earn a few?
How are he and the rest of Generation Newborn ever going to pay back what a spendthrift government saddled them with? It's enough to teach boys and girls disrespect for their elders.
And then, out beyond the inevitable temptations of substance abuse, teenage folly and cultural sleaze that threaten to swamp them, they'll find a world in which millions of people keep getting whipped up to hate and destroy America. The best of all countries!
Will they have to fight for it someday? Very likely.
And will it still be the land of opportunity? Parents and grandparents will have to see to that. Baby Boy just dropped off to sleep.
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Barbara and Curt Levitan of West Palm Beach, Fla., formerly of Havertown, announce the engagement of their daughter, Erika Lauren Levitan, to Jeremy Allen Levy, son of Patricia and David Levy of Greensboro, N.C.
Erika attended the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia. She is currently working in retail management in Orlando, Fla.
Jeremy, a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., holds a bachelor's degree in aeronautical science. He is a dispatcher for Executive Connection in Orlando.
Erika is the granddaughter of Hannah Servetnick and the late Abraham Servetnick of Bala Cynwyd, and the late Abraham and Rose Levitan of Philadelphia. Jeremy is the grandson of Libby and Lou Levy of Fort Lauderdale Fla.; and Sarah Murphy and the late Pat Murphy of Greensboro, N.C.
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Micropaleontology - huh?
What do fossils and paleontology have to do with oil? You're not the first person to ask this question. Let me try and answer this from a decidedly non-geological perspective.
Face it, your room is a mess. Every day for the last month, you've come home and thrown all of your papers from school to the floor. So many papers, in fact, that your entire floor is covered in them. Of course, being at least slightly organized, you had put a date on all these papers before you carelessly tossed them to the ground. So, over 30-days time (let's say May 1 - May 30) you've accumulated quite a bit of clutter. What happens if you now decide to start burrowing through these papers, making a hole through them, in the corner of your room? What you'll find is that the papers on the top will be the most recent ones (May 30), and as you dig deeper, the papers get older and older, until the papers at the bottom are the oldest of all (May 1). This is an example of the Law of Superposition, discussed in Geology Basics under the Sedimentary Rocks section.
Let's take this a step further. You now decide (for what reason, I don't know) to tunnel another hole straight down in the opposite corner of your room. Notice that the dates on those papers are the same, and that you came across them in the same order as you did in the other hole. You can assume that, if these layers of paper cover the entire room, even though you didn't dig any more holes, that papers with the same dates, in the same order, would be found in any hole you drill. If we took out one of the walls of your room and viewed the papers from the sides, as you'd probably guess, you'd see papers from May 20th stretching in one continuous layer across the room. This layer of papers would be just below papers dated May 21st, and just above a layer dated May 19th.
OK, let's get into the world of fossils. Many people think of fossils as big chunks of rock containing a T-Rex tooth or a large trilobite. Oil geologists, however, are more concerned with tiny fossils, known as "microfossils", that may be smaller than the head of a pin. When an oil well is drilled, bits of pulverized rock come back up the surface. Sometimes, these bits of rock include microfossils. Just like the papers in your messy room we just got done talking about, the further and further down you drill, the older and older these microfossils get. Geologists and paleontologists have been able to put dates on some of these fossils. After thousands and thousands of wells were drilled, it became obvious that certain microfossils were only found in certain rock layers. These microfossils are called "index fossils". When you drill into a layer containing one of these index fossils, you are pretty sure you know the age of that rock.
So what? Well, this is a lot more important than you might think. This is because certain rock layers that may contain oil can now be more easily found. Let's say a well is drilled, and it goes through rock layers containing microfossil "A", then "B". As it goes deeper still, it encounters microfossil "C", then strikes oil. If a similar well is drilled nearby, and we hit microfossils "A" and "B", we can expect to see microfossil "C" next, and with it, possibly oil. This can be especially important if each layer of rock the well drills through all look the same. As an example, sometimes a well can be drilled through 500 meters or more of shale, and it is hard to tell how old any of these rocks are. Also, structural complications such as faulting sometimes make the interpretation difficult. In a sense, scientists can get "lost" as they drill deeper. If microfossils are found, however, it becomes easier to figure out exactly where they are in their search for sandstones or other reservoir rocks filled with oil.
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And to the truth of my report, there are one hundred respectable gentlemen in Knoxville who will make oath upon the Holy Bible.
Never before has the Holy Bible been so exalted, so taught, so applied, and made so interesting as now.
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Several millions of fellow beings in our midst, not one in twenty of whom can read the Holy Bible!
The altar is upholstered in velvet, and on it rests the Holy Bible.
In a fine frontispiece, prefixed to the Holy Bible of the bishops' translation, printed in 4to.
The Holy Bible is the first book, and the only book, as I reckon it will be the book that'll live longest.
Its morality and happiness are absurd in the tradition of the people, but are admirable in that of the Holy Bible.
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2010/9/22 Michael Smith <mikesmi at nc.rr.com>: > [...] > I am a Mac user and have just started to learn Scheme. Many apps on the Mac > are scriptable via Applescript. Is there any Scheme way to leverage this > capability, like an Applescript bridge? > [...] Hello Micheal, it should be possible to control other Mac applications from Racket using Racket's Objective C FFI to access the Cocoa scripting bridge. It should also be possible to use the NSAppleScript class through the Objective C FFI in order to embed AppleScript code into a Racket application. Finally, it should be possible to use the C FFI or the Objective C FFI to manually send AppleEvents to other applications to control them (which is how AppleScript is implemented internally). Check out http://docs.racket-lang.org/foreign/Objective-C_FFI.html http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ScriptingBridgeConcepts/Introduction/Introduction.html I don't have a machine running MacOS X at hand, so I can't try this out, but the code you will need would probably look something like this: #lang racket (require ffi/unsafe ffi/unsafe/objc) ;; String conversion helpers (import-class NSString) (define (string->nsstring str) (tell NSString stringWithUTF8String: #:type _string/utf-8 str)) (define (nsstring->string str) (tell _string/utf-8 str UTF8String)) ;; Get started by loading the Cocoa scripting bridge bundle. (import-class NSBundle) (define sb-bundle (tell NSBundle bundleWithPath: (string->nsstring "/System/Library/Frameworks/ScriptingBridge.framework"))) (unless (tell _BOOL sb-bundle load) (error "failed to load Cocoa scripting bridge")) ;; Now import the scripting bridge class and connect to the target (import-class SBApplication) (define iTunes (tell SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier: (string->nsstring "com.apple.iTunes"))) ;; Do something with the target (when (tell _BOOL iTunes isRunning) (printf "Now playing: ~a~%" (nsstring->string (tell (tell iTunes currentTrack) name)))) I hope this helps :-) Ciao, Thomas -- When C++ is your hammer, every problem looks like your thumb.
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When we are small, we never seem to think about the consequences of our actions. My sister and I experienced a great example of this when we were younger. Playing in our small neighborhood, we never thought horrible accidents could happen to us but one dreadful, hot, summer day one did. It was one that we would never forget.
Many years ago, my sister and I decided we wanted to take our four-wheeler for a ride around our small, Southern neighborhood. My mother had strictly forbade us to ride it without supervision, but we were young my sister was eight and I was six, and thought we knew everything. We hopped onto the large machine, my sister in back and me in front. I was going to drive but my sister was holding onto the handlebars to avoid falling off the back when we began to move. We were just planning to take a short ride up and down the rough, steep, uneven road two or three times. I was having fun until my sister decided to stand up and shake us back and forth. Because she was holding onto the handlebars, the four-wheeler began to take a sharp, right turn and then we flipped over. I came crashing down on my back so violently that the breath was knocked out of me. Before I could get to my feet or cry for help, the large vehicle had rolled on top of me and pinned me to the black pavement. The hot, smoking engine was still running and I was trying with all my might to push it off of me. My forehead touched the hot engine and still to this day I have a scar from the burn. My sister was flung off the back with so much force that she went sliding down the pavement. Her injuries were much more extensive than my own. She required plastic surgery on her nose and the inside of her lower lip. All I had was a couple of bleeding knees, elbows, hands, and a burnt forehead. This is a perfect example of my sister and I not thinking what our actions could lead to. If we had just obeyed our mother this would not have happened.
The accident affected me so much that even today I cannot ride or see anyone I know ride a four-wheeler or any type of vehicle similar to it. Just seeing someone riding on one brings back all the terrible feelings and thoughts of that dreadful day. I can still see very vividly my sister sliding down the asphalt and not being able to help herself or me. I just imagine that heavy machine being on top of me and not being able to push it off. It brings back a flood of memories and I can feel tiny beads of perspiration starting to form on my forehead. Sometimes, I become very nervous and my hands begin to shake so violently that I have to stop what I may be doing at that moment and take a slow, deep breath. If my sister and I had listened to our mother's instructions and thought about our actions, we would never have had to experience this terrible ordeal.
This accident always gives my entire family something to talk about at family gatherings. It never fails someone always has to bring up the bad accident memories. My mother always has the chance to say, "I told you so" or my aunt to say " If you had only listened to your mother." Then my mean, loudmouth, brother can laugh and call us stupid, and my sister and I will spend the entire night fighting over whose fault it was that we flipped. We both deny it being any fault of our own. Finally, we admit that we were both acting stupid and should not have taken the four-wheeler out without supervision, just like our mother said.
Even though this accident happened almost fourteen years ago, I still get weak in the knees and shaky just thinking about that awful day. One thing I learned from it was always to follow instructions and think about what may happen to me before I do something. This terrible accident could have been avoided if my sister and I had just done this one simple thing but when we are small we never seem to think about the consequences of our actions. I learned a very hard lesson on that hot, summer day.


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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney admits handing in a transfer request two years ago was a big mistake.
Rooney indicated he wanted to leave United in a statement issued in September 2010.
The England international later performed a U-turn and signed a new five-year contract with the Red Devils.
In his latest autobiography, which is being serialised by the Daily Mirror, he recalls: "In September 2010, my ankle puts me on the sidelines.
"I get frustrated with myself, my game, my injury, and everything around me.
"I'm stuck in a cycle of bad form but I can't get out of it.
"And that's when I make the biggest mistake of my football career.
"In October, I release a statement which publicly questions my happiness at Old Trafford. Am I better off elsewhere?
"Everyone makes a fuss. There are discussions inside United to sort out the issue, people outside United chuck their opinions around, but the thing is, nobody really knows what's going on in my life.
"None of them understand where I am in my career. They don't know where my head's at.
"The only person who really knows what's going on in there is me, but even I'm not sure what I want."
He continues: "Then the manager has his say. 'Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you have in your own field. And it never really works that way'.
"He's saying the grass isn't always greener, and he's right.
"I like what's in my field. I'm wrong. United want the same as me: trophies, success, to be the best."
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What motivates the people who visit any website to buy?
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So what motivates people to buy?
It is often said that you should give people what they need, because that is what they are going to buy. That may well have been the case once but sadly today society has changed and people no longer buy what they need.
Instead they buy what they want and what they crave – hence people struggling to put food on the table, but have a 42" plasma TV, satellite system and a bottle of Jack Daniels!
You need to pitch your product not as something they need, but as something they absolutely must have; make it so they crave your product and absolutely must get their hands on it.
People also buy because they want to get pleasure from what they buy. Someone doesn't walk into a car dealership and buy a top of the range Mercedes because they need it; a Skoda or Toyota would have done the job just as well.
They buy the Mercedes because they want the pleasure that goes with it. Whether this is the comfort of the car, the joy of all the gadgets, or the fact that it is a status symbol – they drive a Mercedes! Whatever their reason it will be because they have associated pleasure with owning a Mercedes and so they buy one when they could have saved tens of thousands of dollars and bought a cheaper car!
Another reason people buy is because they want to avoid pain. Volvo are one of the best selling cars in Europe. Why? They are not the prettiest of cars, nor that expensive, nor are they of the perceived class of a Jaguar, BMW or Mercedes.
Volvo's sell well because people want to avoid the pain associated with car accidents. Volvo's are some of the safest cars on the market and as such appeal to people who want to protect their family and passengers.
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Goalie trade? What goalie trade?
That was the public attitude of James Reimer and his fellow Toronto Maple Leafs as they went back to work Thursday, one day after general manager David Nonis just missed landing Miikka Kiprusoff and Roberto Luongo by the NHL's trade deadline.
Nonis actually had a deal in place with the Calgary Flames for Kiprusoff but he decided Wednesday morning to stay in Calgary. Then the focus switched to Vancouver, where Nonis was willing to give up a second- and third-round pick plus Leafs backup goaltender Ben Scrivens for Luongo, but the deal fell apart when Canucks GM Mike Gillis reportedly would not pay part of Luongo's humongous contract, one the veteran goaltender famously said "sucks" in a post-deadline press conference.
The drama built to an anti-climax with the Leafs on a four-day break, giving youngsters Reimer and Scrivens lots of time to agonize over the fact their bosses were looking elsewhere for goaltending help. But as the Leafs prepared for Thursday night's game against the Philadelphia Flyers, Reimer, who will start, brushed aside any suggestion he is the sort of delicate flower whose feelings were bruised by the dances with Luongo and Kiprusoff.
"I wasn't too worried about it and I'm glad I wasn't," he said after the Leafs' game-day skate. "If I was, I would have wasted a couple of good days."
Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle said he did not notice any angst on the part of his incumbent goalies.
"Their work ethic and personalities didn't change," he said. "I didn't see them sitting in the corner and fretting."
The newest Maple Leaf, defenceman Ryan O'Byrne, was still making his way to Toronto from Colorado Thursday morning and missed the skate. Carlyle said he was not expected to arrive until the late afternoon and wasn't sure if he would put O'Byrne into the lineup.
"I don't know if it's the right thing to do, pull him off an airplane and put him in the lineup," Carlyle said. "That's a decision we'll make tonight. It is an option."
If the 6-foot-5, 234-pound O'Byrne is put into the lineup, Leafs fans will find that he is a physical defenceman who takes care of business in his own end, according to John-Michael Liles, who was his partner with the Colorado Avalanche and is expected to be reunited with him.
"He's an easy guy to play with," said Liles, who is the exact opposite of O'Byrne, a small defenceman who is slick with the puck. "He's big but still moves pretty well for a big man. He communicates well and I liked playing with him."
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Age: 46.
Previous occupations: Title abstractor, landman, private business owner, college professor.
What is your main goal for the Village of Byesville? Being a native of Byesville, I have worked very hard for new business (300 new jobs in the last four years), and a renewal of the proud spirit we in Byesville have. I have heard others want to turn it back the way it was. Move ahead; or wilt on the vine. Prosperity and cooperation in this area is making us a leading area in the Ohio.
We are going up, while others go down. This upward trend translates into jobs here and families staying here. We have just started, but the prospect just in this next year are so promising. I want to work hard to make a better tomorrow four our kids and so we are no longer rooted in the past, but have a great future.
Why are you the right person for the job? When I became mayor, we had just gone through the Flood of '98, the divisive issue over the police department and we were under orders of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Since then, we have worked hard to make the village government more efficient and business-like. We are succeeding in many areas and are correcting many of the problems that have plagued the village for years. Good, quiet, efficient government, working within its means. I have prepared and managed good time budgets and bad, but each year we have managed to get the job done.
How do you view the job? What is the role of mayor? As we all know, the mayor is the administrative head of the village government. But, more than that, the mayor has to be the cheerleader, the final arbitrator and the figurative head of the village.
Many hours have been focused on building this new water plant on time and under budget, but also many hours have been dedicated to meetings, charities and other events, making sure Byesville is represented and part of the growing community around us. I love my job as mayor. It's really fun and satisfying to see things accomplished. Sometimes being out on point, you get sticks jabbed at you, but the reward of some planned event getting done properly is the outstanding upside.
Name: Willard Tipple
Age: 75.
Previous occupations: U.S. Navy during World War II, served aboard the heavy cruiser USS Macon in the North Atlantic as a first class radio operator. Most of my working career (31 years) was with the Bell system.
What is your main goal for the Village of Byesville? Other than the obvious, that is, complete construction of the new water treatment plant, hold all contractors and engineering corporations accountable for every dollar spent in completing the new plant.
Have the "guts" to correct the inherently unfair surcharge now added to the village sewer rates. Find a way to finance a paid fire department and emergency medical squad and end the incessant bickering we now have with a volunteer fire department.
Why are you the right person for the job? Eight years on the village council, six years as council president and president pro tem.
More than 16 years in supervisory and management position in three Bell system entities: AT&T Long Lines Department, Bell
Telephone Laboratories and AT&T Corporate headquarters. Many years of human relations training -- both formal and informal.
Retires with AT&T Corporate Headquarters as a fifth level staff manager in the legal department.
How do you view the job? What is the role of mayor? Byesville is a statutory village (regulated by state statute). The mayor is the chief executive officer of the village. But, it is a part-time position, as it should be. The day-to-day operation of the village should be handled by supervisory and management village employees and should not be micro-managed by the mayor. The mayor should make executive decisions and direct and guide the full-time village employees as needed. The mayor should also be ultimately responsible for all expenditures made by village employees.
Name: Ed Pierce
Position vying for: Mayor of Byesville.
Why do you want this office: If elected, I propose the following become reality: Maintain an open door policy with residents, "your issues -- my concern." Appoint a mayoral advisory board with members consisting of village residents. Improve communications and linkage with local civic organizations, economic and community development agencies that will assist with the growth of Byesville and increase of business and prosperity. Byesville is a beautiful community with good people residing in and around it. I will listen to your ideas and concerns and be a voice for you. Byesville is a great place to raise a family, work and enjoy the future. It is time we stand together, raise up our heads and proudly say, "We are from Byesville, and this is our town." It is time our people have a say in local government. It is time to be allowed to let your voce be heard and actually be listened to and taken seriously.


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Based in the electronic hotbed that is, and always has been, the city of Leeds, Tom KC is earning himself a name as a prodigious new house talent and as someone with a genuine DJ know-how. Starting out playing at private and underground parties, he quickly earned himself many fans for his finely balanced sets and viciously interwoven grooves. Promoters have been so impressed with Tom's skills they have invited him to play at various venues in and around Leeds leading to many successful sets up and down the country alongside some of the biggest artists on the scene. All those hours playing alongside the best rubs off you know. With raw talent to challenge even the best of them, his beat selection and live remixing distinguishes him from the run-of-the-mill competition as someone with a genuine, well-honed talent behind the decks, whilst Tom's productions are beginning to turn heads, too, with 'Latin Adventure (Original Mix)' Signed to Bikini records for release 07/2010 and already some of Tom's other tunes have been lapped up by the likes of Nicky Romero, Riley and Durant, Drew Scott and Josh Demello. As one of the freshest DJs around with a cutting edge sound it's no wonder club brand Glasshouse have snapped him up as a new resident whilst the people at Gatecrasher also keep him locked in as resident as part of Noise Control. Make sure you fill your ears with the sounds of Tom KC at the next possible opportunity.
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Many people write to ask about the fact that, from Earth, we see only one side of the moon. The moon rotates about once a month, in contrast to the once-a-day rotation of our own planet Earth. It's the moon's monthly rotation that keeps us from seeing the back side of the moon.
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I have two engines one from a John Deere 4x2 gator and another from a John Deere AMT622. The engines are both fe290d but the primary clutches are different design. The AMT clutch actually sits farther away from the engine. About one inch while the 4x4 is only maybe 1/4 of an inch.
You mention taking the cover off. Is this the cover that actually mounts onto the engine?
What I would like to do if possible is take the cover off the engine that the shaft goes through and then put that cover on the other engine. Basically I am trying to combine two engines into one to save some money in having to rebuild or buy another engine.
So can this be done without using any special tools?
If not do you happen to know if the shaft on the 4x2 gator is tapered? I am trying to find an engine that I can use to replace the 4x2 gator engine.
I have found an engine to replace the engine for my 4x2 at
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But I am hoping to use the engine from the AMT622. I guess I won't know for sure if it will work until I take it into a John Deere dealer to have the clutches removed. But from pictures it looks like the shaft is longer on the AMT engine.
The compression on the engine I am removing is only 60 pounds. The one I hope to use is only 120 but it should be useable for awhile. Though is does use oil.
Do you think it is possible to take the shaft, engine cover and clutch in all one piece, of one engine and put it on the other? I don't know how it attaches inside the engine itself?
This in theory would eliminate having to remove the clutches. The John Deere dealer here are not always the cheapest to use. But that may be my only option.
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Platinum-selling recording artist Cole Swindell kicks off a new year with the release of his new single "Flatliner" featuring his mentor/good friend and 2017 tour mate, Grammy nominee Dierks Bentley. The song goes for official adds January 23. "Flatliner," written by Swindell, Matt Brownleewe Read More
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Sony has finally confirmed what I think many of us had already suspected: their original plan was to bundle the Playstation Camera in with the Playstation 4, in much the same way Microsoft is bundling Kinect with the Xbox One. Plans changed when they couldn't hit what Sony Computer Entertainment senior vice president Masayasu Ito calls "the magic price" of $399 while bundling in the camera, according to Business Spectator. Rather than sell at too great a loss (even without the camera it is estimated that Sony is losing $60 on every PS4 it sells) they decided to make the camera an optional ($60) accessory. Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House suggests that early in the life of the PS4 most buyers will be core gamers who aren't all that interested in camera peripherals anyway:
"Certainly for the earlier part of the lifecycle, the vast majority of the audience that we speak to tells us that their primary wish is for the full controller interface and there's not necessarily a huge emphasis being placed on camera interaction."
Business Spectator suggests that as the cost of the tech drops over the years we'll see the camera being packed in for the more casual crowd. I think they've got that right. What Sony still isn't admitting is when they decided that $399 was the magic price. Many speculate that it was a snap decision intended to undercut Microsoft, but way back in July Sony's Jack Tretton told CNN Money that wasn't the case.
CNN: How early in the planning process did Sony (SNE) settle on the $399 retail price?Tretton: You look at the feature set first. Then you look at manufacturing costs, and you're trying to manage P&L. You're trying to get to the most consumer-friendly price you can. The goal is to always get as low as you can without breaking the bank. At $399 we had a proposition consumers would respond favorably to. We honestly didn't know whether that was going to be more aggressive or less aggressive than competitors.
However it came about, I think Sony made a smart move separating the camera from the console. Not everyone is interested in motion, or even voice, controls, and forcing them to purchase something they don't want...well it doesn't seem to be making Microsoft many friends. The flip side of the argument, of course, is that an optional peripheral is a peripheral that no game developer is going to support. I'm still not sure that's a bad thing. I'd prefer to keep both hands on my controller and not have to wave at my TV in order to interact with the game I'm playing. That's my opinion though; I'd love to hear yours. Did Sony blow it by not including the Playstation Camera with every PS4? Read more of Peter Smith's TechnoFile blog and follow the latest IT news at ITworld. Follow Peter on Twitter at @pasmith. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook.


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A key difference of DTrace from other tracing frameworks (e.g., syscall tracing) is that DTrace is designed to be production-safe, with minimized performance overhead. One way it does this is by use of per-CPU kernel buffers, which improve memory locality, reduce cache coherency overheads, and can remove the need for synchronization locks. ... DTrace also provides a set of actions that can summarize and filter data in-kernel, which also reduces data overheads.
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the sky's the limit on what can cause a red face and peeling...could be a large number of conditions...time to see your doctor
Deep Red Face and Peeling Skin: Moisturizers Don't Help - Is This Rosacea or a Skin Disease?
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the sky's the limit on what can cause a red face and peeling...could be a large number of conditions...time to see your doctor
Redness and Peeling should be evaluated by your dermatologist
There are sevearl potential causes of redness of the skin. It would be best to see your dermatologist for further evaluation and treatment. If the underlying cause is Rosacea triggers would include: Stress, drinking alcohol, extremes in temperature and sometimes spicy foods. It also helps to look for products that are free of fragrance and it may help to avoid ingredients that may irritate the skin such as glycolic or salicylic acid. Soothing ingredients to look for are niacinamide and hyaluronic acid.
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Mine Safety and Health Administration
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Diesel Particulate Matter Exposure of Underground Metal and Nonmetal Miners; Delay of Effective Dates
AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective dates and conforming amendments.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum dated January 20, 2001, from Andrew H. Card, Jr., the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled "Regulatory Review Plan," published in the Federal Register on January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7702), the Mine Safety and Health Administration is delaying for 60 days the effective date of the rule entitled, "Diesel Particulate Matter Exposure of Underground Metal and Nonmetal Miners," published in the Federal Register on January 19, 2001 (66 FR 5706). This temporary delay will allow the Department an opportunity for further consideration of this rule.
EFFECTIVE DATE: The effective date of the rule amending 30 CFR Part 57 published on January 19, 2001, at 66 FR 5706 is delayed from March 20, 2001, until May 21, 2001.
In the final rule that addresses the exposure of underground metal and nonmetal miners to diesel particulate matter, the effective date of the rule is delayed. The rule will become effective May 21, 2001. Section 57.5067 will become effective May 21, 2001. However, Sec. 57.5060(a) will continue to apply on July 19, 2002 and Sec. 57.5060(b) will continue to apply on January 19, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David L. Meyer, Director; Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances; MSHA, 4015 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203-1984. Mr. Meyer can be reached at
firstname.lastname@example.com (E-mail), 703-235-1910 (Voice), or 703-235-5551 (fax).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 19, 2001, MSHA published the final rule addressing diesel particulate matter exposure of underground miners. The final rule establishes new health standards for underground metal and nonmetal mines that use equipment powered by diesel engines and requires operators of these underground mines to train miners about the hazards of being exposed to diesel particulate matter.
In accordance with the January 20, 2001, memorandum from Andrew H. Card, this notice announces the 60-day delay of the effective date of certain provisions of the final regulations.
I. Delayed Effective Dates
To the extent that 5 U.S.C. 553 applies to this action, it is exempt from notice and comment because it constitutes a rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A). The Department's implementation of this rule without opportunity for public comment, effective immediately upon publication today in the Federal Register, is also based on the good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3), in that seeking public comment is impracticable, unnecessary and contrary to the public interest. The 60-day delay in effective dates is necessary to give Department officials the opportunity for further review and consideration of new regulations, consistent with the Assistant to the President's memorandum of January 20, 2001. Given the imminence of the effective date, seeking prior public comment on this delay is impractical, as well as contrary to the public interest in the orderly promulgation and implementation of regulations.
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II. Revisions to the Regulatory Text of the Final Rule Addressing Diesel Particulate Matter Exposure of Underground Metal and Nonmetal Miners
List of Subjects in 30 CFR Parts 57
Diesel particulate matter, Metal and nonmetal, Mine safety and health, Underground mines.
The final rule published on January 19, 2001 (66 FR 5526) is amended as follows:
- 1. The authority citation for part 57 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811, 957, 961.
- 2. In Sec. 57.5067, paragraph (a) is amended by removing the date
"March 20, 2001" and adding in its place "May 21, 2001."
Acting Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health.
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Using Biosphere Reserves to Promote Biodiversity Conservation in SIDS
As part of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB), the World Network of Biosphere Reserves comprises (in mid-2006) 482 sites in 102 countries and territories, including Cuba, Dominica, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau and US Virgin Islands. At best, biosphere reserves are sites of excellence to explore and demonstrate approaches to conservation and sustainable development on a regional scale, with associated research, monitoring, training and education and the involvement of local people as the driving force for conservation.
Pacific. In June 2005, the first two biosphere reserves in Pacific island countries were approved by the MAB Bureau: Utwe (Federated States of Micronesia) and Ngaremeduu (Palau).
The two sites are ground-breaking not only in being the first of their kind in the sub-region, but in their being entirely locally conceived and driven. In both sites, the emphasis is on community-level approaches to conservation and sustainable development of coastal-marine ecosystems as well as land areas. Support to the development of both sites has been provided through the ASPACO initiative (Asia-Pacific Co-operation for the Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources in Biosphere Reserves and Similar Managed Areas).
In December 2005, a representative of UNESCO-Apia visited the two sites to award local communities with the official UNESCO Biosphere Reserve certificate. A year later, from 12-14 December 2006, a workshop to develop the Pacific Island MAB Network was held in Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia). This workshop also served to launch an illustrated 'discovery kit' guide to the island biosphere reserves of the Pacific (ccomprising an atlas, activity booklet and poster). This interactive learning resource is intended for upper primary and lower secondary students in the Pacific and Pacific Rim countries, and details and explains the new and emerging biosphere reserves in the Pacific region.
For further information on existing and potential biosphere reserves in the Pacific region, contact the UNESCO-Apia office at apia(at)unesco.org.


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Hey BB,
Very good memory! I left a basement window open and I think the heater failed on top of that. Yes I still have the poor lone fish, and I tried catching him once to put him in another tank, needless to say, he won:) Man is he fast. As far as changes, I would have to say he is the same, not much larger and the pattern is unchanged. The fish spends 95% of the time under a log so honestly I don't see it much. Now that you mentioned it I will have to go downstairs and take a closer look when I feed tonight.
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