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By Bretta Grabau
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:28 AM
Andrea Becker will provide "Insta-poems" throughout the summer in Lanesboro during the Lanesboro farmers markets and special events, including Rhubarb Fest on June 7. BRETTA GRABAU/BLUFF COUNTRY NEWSPAPER GROUP
"The River" is an example of Andrea Becker's work, written during a Lanesboro farmers market earlier in May. COURTESY OF ANDREA BECKER
How many people want a poem written about a special someone or a special event in their lives? Some may write the poems themselves and others may need to ask someone else to write them. Depending on the details, these poetic works of art may take quite a bit of time.
An area artist is actually providing another option to Lanesboro area residents and visitors. It may not be exactly what people think about when they hear "poems," but it has a very interesting twist.
This summer, the Lanesboro Arts Center is sponsoring Andrea Becker from Decorah, to come to the community for special events and farmers markets to provide her specialty, "Insta-poems."
Insta-poems are poems written on demand for anyone who asks. Becker began writing poems last summer in a booth at a farmers' market with a little pad of paper. When a person approached her and asked for a poem, within five or 10 minutes, the poem was written.
She got the idea for her craft after seeing a man in Boulder, Colo., offer a similar product.
"I was visiting some friends in Boulder and I saw a guy sitting there offering 'poems while you wait,'" she said. "Another thing that influenced me to write like this is a scene from the movie 'Before Sunrise.' The main characters are hanging out in Vienna and there is a man at the dock. He offers to write a poem for them right there. It was a romantic idea."
A few years ago, a friend held some journaling workshops that Becker loved to attend. The goal was to utilize the imagination and write prose describing creatures that do not exist or telling about something that was lost - all in 10 minutes. Once the writing phase was over, each person told the others about what they had written.
"I was excited to share my stuff. I would write page after page until my hand cramped and then tell the others about what I wrote. And what I write is funny and whimsical material," Becker related.
Though she has only been writing "Insta-poems" since last year, Becker has already widened her influence from just Decorah. But interestingly, she does not do all that much advertising yet.
"The Art Haus in Decorah holds Poetry Slams every year and I try to make it as much as I can. At one slam last year, one of the directors, Kristin Underwood, introduced me and what I do at the farmers markets. Courtney Bergey was there and got my contact information, sending me an email about coming to Lanesboro," Becker explained.
"I knew it would be a perfect fit for Lanesboro and Lanesboro Arts Center programming," Bergey said. "It fulfills our mission to bring the arts to the daily lives of Lanesboro residents, ties into the agricultural traditions in our region and jumpstarts poetry programming that ties into the Lanesboro Arts Campus campaign. Plus, we can make the artistic process visible and support an independent artist, which are always great."
Bergey serves as the capital campaign assistant director for the Lanesboro Arts Center and knew Becker would be a good fit for the community and its future goals.
Becker's process for writing the poems involves talking to those who stop for a poem and asking them to give her a word or phrase they want to be included or that could serve as a theme.
"I ask for a word or phrase for a prompt," she continued. "Then I tell them to go shopping for five to 10 minutes. It is easier for me to write when they are not there, but I give myself a lot of pressure in that time frame. Still, I am able to have the poem ready for them when they come back."
The writing takes place mostly in her thinking about what the next line is going to be. Most of her editing is done in her head as she types. Becker admits she is not at all fond of editing.
Although she may not know the exact words to describe how a bird sounds, for example, she uses the next closest words she does know and tries to surprise the people.
"But sometimes I just make something up and hope they like it," she commented.
Though she works in the coop at Decorah, Becker plans to do some traveling this summer to Lanesboro and Decorah's farmers markets frequently this summer. She may even go to La Crosse for their farmers market on Fridays. But Lanesboro stands out in her opinion.
When she sets up at farmers markets, Becker has to pay for a booth to set up and write poetry for people. Because of this, she generally has to charge a slight fee for the poems. This, in turn, puts some additional pressure on her to write the poetry.
"Because I have to pay for the booth, I have to charge a little for the poems. I don't really know how much I actually get, but I have written some poems for a few people who don't have money on them and others give me more than I charge, so it balances out," Becker related. "But the thing I love about Lanesboro is that I can write free poetry."
What is so different in Lanesboro, compared to Decorah and La Crosse, is that the Lanesboro Arts Center is sponsoring Becker to come and add to the arts in the area.
"Lanesboro Arts Center has hired Andrea to be our 'Farmer's Market Poet-in-Residence' this summer, so we are paying her an artist stipend to serve our community with fresh, free poetry," stated Bergey.
Because of the sponsorship, Becker can happily supply free poetry.
"Free poetry is good because then I don't feel like I am excluding anyone who doesn't have money and there is less pressure on me because I don't have to write a $3 or $10 poem."
Rather than writing shorthand on a pad of paper or using a laptop to type, Becker uses a more historical and interesting method. She uses a vintage typewriter that is believed to have been made somewhere around the 1940s. The typewriter itself is in phenomenal condition and intrigues the people asking for poems.
"They like to hear the sounds the typewriter makes when I press the keys or the bell rings," Becker explained.
Those individuals who have seen her at the Lanesboro Farmers Market have enjoyed having the opportunity to obtain a free poem on a small piece of lined paper, typed in a style that would have been in fashion many, many years ago.
"The people loved it," Bergey concluded about the experiences of having Becker in Lanesboro. "I also had a great time yelling, 'FREE POETRY!' at passersby."
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Subject: Re: [TMG] Newbie Question about Exhibits
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:18:25 -0500
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Archives and Special Collections is open to the public from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and by appointment. All Archives and Special Collections materials must viewed in our fifth floor Reading Room to preserve these unique items for future generations. If you are interested in donating historic material related to YSU or the Youngstown community, please contact us.
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In 2004, due to a severe budgetary crisis, I was one of eighteen employees laid off from WRHS. To continue working in archives, I decided to return to school to earn my MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh. During my graduate archival studies, I focused on labor archives and worked as a student intern for labor archivist, David Rosenberg, and as a graduate research assistant for Professor Richard J. Cox. My work at the University of Pittsburgh allowed me to gain archival experience by processing a number of historical collections related to industrial relations, including records of United Steelworkers and United Mineworkers locals.
After graduation I obtained a position as a photograph archivist at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. At Hagley I was primarily responsible for providing reference and scan-on-demand services. In addition, I participated in three digitization projects involving aerial images, ship building photographs and a collection of Hagleys most popular pictures.
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Two years later I decided to make another move when I felt state budget cuts would sooner or later result in the elimination of my position at San Francisco State University. When I saw the posting for the YSU University Archivist position, I was very excited at the prospect of returning to my home state to serve a community with a very rich industrial heritage.
Since arriving on campus I have been struck by how friendly and helpful everyone has been to me. This assistance has extended from the Parking Services staff person who expedited my parking pass to virtually the entire Maag staff who often have helped orient me to various library systems even before I could ask for help. Paul Kobulnicky, the University Librarian, even offered to put me up at his home if I had trouble finding an apartment. Within two weeks, I was even able to meet with President Cynthia Anderson and Provost Ikram Khawaja who gave me several good ideas for initiating new digital archives projects and stressed the importance of providing students with meaningful work and internship experiences.
I have also been impressed with the state of the University Archives, University Records Management, Special Collections and the Rose Melnick Medial Museummy areas of responsibility. Past University Archivists and the current staffBrian Brennan, Lisa Garofali and Cassie Nesporhave done excellent work establishing and sustaining a fundamentally sound program and creating one of the largest university-based digital repositories and collections of historical medical artifacts in the country. My job will be to build on this solid foundation. One area I especially hope to improve is collaborative work with the Mahoning Valley Historical Society, Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, and the YSU Working Class Studies and Applied History programs. I also hope to develop new ways to digitally archive historically important campus and community events virtually as they happen. Overall, I would like to see the YSU program continue to develop as a national leader in digital archives, documenting the Universitys historyincluding the work of students, faculty and staffand making the industrial history of the region accessible to researchers from around the world.
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In response to the popularity of text messaging, students, faculty and staff at Youngstown State University can now ask questions and get information from Maag Library by text message.
On average, Americans text message almost twice as much as they talk on mobile phones, according to a recent Nielsen Mobile Survey, making it a preferred means of communication while on-the-go. The new service provides an easy-to-use interface for our librarians and maintains the privacy of our patrons information.
For patrons who are unable to ask a librarian in person or online or for those who simply prefer texting over talking, the Text a Librarian service provides a convenient option to get information on their mobile phone from the helpful reference librarians at Maag Library
With Text a Librarian, patrons ask questions by sending text messages with their mobile phones and librarians answer on a web-based interface, keeping a live archive of questions and answers. The service does not display phone numbers and generates an anonymous ID for each patron in order to reference conversation history.
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Librarians will answer your text almost immediately during reference desk hours. After-hour texts will be answered the following day. Hours will vary during breaks, holidays, and the summer.
The University Archives and Special Collections unit at Maag Library welcomed Ben Blake, its third University Archivist, on September 29. On the occasion of his arrival it is timely to look at the strategic role of a University Archives in todays largely digital information environment.
Ben is our third Archivist in six years. Vic Fleischer led the development of the University Archives in 2005 and Sal Barragan was our Archivist from 2007 to 2009. Through their creativity and immense talent, both individuals helped to build what is now regarded as one of the best state-of-the-art Archives units in the State of Ohio and even in the country. Our success is due, not only to the creative staff that have developed our program, but also to two other important factors.
Prior to 2005, YSU had no formal Archives program, a blessing in disguise as it turns out. Since we had no significant program in place, we did not have to change anything, but rather we started from scratch focusing on the present and the future rather than the past. Secondly, we recognized early on the impact of technology and the need to focus our practices on the archiving of documents and materials that were digital in nature. Thus, we developed important practices in digital curation, digital preservation and digital access that many now are working to emulate.
As more and more information becomes digital in nature and as traditional publications struggle with the transition from the economics of traditional scholarly publishing, more materials that form the bulk of library resources will take on the characteristics of digital archives. Therefore, Maag Library is strategically placed to build important basic collections that are responsive to the changes that are taking place in both publishing and University scholarly activities.
What was once viewed as the dusty curio section of the library is rapidly becoming its focus. To prove how successful we have been, both previous Archivists were recruited away to higher profile positions because of the work that they did at YSU. We will strive to maintain our leadership position in this critical area.
Paul Kobulnicky, University Librarian
Maag Library participated in the welcome week festivities during the first week of classes this September. Activities included a barcode drive, Plinko prize board, and free nachos with cheese. Below are some of the statistics reflecting our kick start to the fall semester.
The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which presents Islam as a self-consciously distinct religion tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in western Arabia, has been challenged by historians engaged in critical study of Muslim sources since the 1970s.
Fred Donner offers a lucid and original vision of how Islam first evolved. He argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the "Believers' movement" begun by the prophet Muhammada movement of religious reform emphasizing strict monotheism and righteous behavior in conformity with God's revealed law.


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Johnny Depp & Co. Premiere "Dark Shadows" in London
Giving English fans a thrill, the cast of "Dark Shadows" was in the house for the UK premiere in London today (May 9).
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Chloe Moretz, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Eva Green all turned out for the big affair, held at the Empire Leicester Square.
Of the initial idea for the flick, Depp told press that he and director Tim Burton had a very specific motivation and vision.
"Tim and I talked early on: a vampire should look like a vampire. It was a rebellion against vampires that looked like underwear models."
As for his character Barnabas Collins, Johnny noted, "I wanted Barnabas to come across as ... this very elegant upper echelon, well-schooled gentleman who's cursed in the 18th century and brought back to probably the most surreal era of our time - the 1970s - and how he would react to things. Not just with technology and automobiles and such, but actual items of enjoyment for people like pet rocks, fake flowers, plastic fruit, troll dolls, lava lamps and the macramé owls."


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Hey Gang,
So I'm going through old Email (so, so much) trying to get my act together a little better, and I found this note I wrote myself about the book Kabuki: The Alchemy by hyper-amazing artist and writer, David Mack.
The note said simply, "Buy it, dude."
Which of course, I didn't. Yet. Because I forgot about the Email until, well.
Right now.
ANYWAYS, Chuck wrote the introduction to the book. And I don't think it was ever mentioned on here? Does anyone remember otherwise?
If not, here's the Amazon link (maybe a mod can fix it so the Cult gets credit if anyone clicks-through and buys it):
Hope everyone is doing well. I plan on being "more back" here in the very near future.


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Online Catalogue | Sample Preparation | Mortar & Pestle Mills | MORTAR AND PESTLE NO 3 STAINLESS STEEL
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The Mortar & Pestle Mill no 3 is a floor standing machine. The Mortar is mounted on a driven turntable and friction between the rotating mortar and the Pestle causes the Pestle to rotate and as it is free to float up and down under its own weight it adjusts itself to feed larger particles into the grinding area. Scrapers are fitted to ensure material flows under the pestle. A lifting device for the Pestle arm along with an interlocked guard are fitted as standard. The Mortar and Pestle are made from Stainless Steel.Capacity: 7000mlMortar Dia: 508mmPestle Dia: 248mmMortar Speed: 30rpmElectrics: 400v/3ph/50HzMotor: 1500WNet Weight: 509kgDimensions (mm): 717w x 728d x 1790h
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Film director Jason Reitman and genius turntablist Cut Chemist sat down with Jason Bentley to explore songs that have inspired them and their creative process for KCRW's "Conversations through Music." Recorded at Hyundai's Re:Mix Lab L.A. last week, we broadcast a special edition just for Morning Becomes Eclectic listeners in the 10 o'clock hour.
Jason Reitman, film writer and director, @JasonReitman
Cut Chemist, @Cut_Chemist


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Author hopes to bring more black families to the web
For Stacey Montgomery, it wasn't necessity that was the mother of invention, it was motherhood that inspired necessity.
Three years ago the greeting card designer noticed there was a void on the Web for African-American families. "My friends were having children and I was pregnant," she says. "There weren't a whole lot of resources out there for black parents."
So Montgomery, a 37-year-old graduate of Columbia University and Boston University School of Law, created CelebratingChildren.com, a site that offers multicultural children's books, parenting tips, her own line of greeting cards, and articles on issues facing black parents. Montgomery says many of the topics, such as childhood obesity, are relevant but not exclusive to African Americans.
Conducting research for her Web site lead Montgomery to find another void in the market: information was often difficult to find and not in a single, easy-to-use source. Her solution? Black Families Online: Directory of Online Resources for Black Parents. The book, released in July, has 380 online products and services—from researching family history to educational tools designed for black audiences.
Montgomery says her 193-page book is the product of hundreds of hours of research. "I lived online night and day," the Aurora-based author says with a laugh. "I was cross-eyed by the end."
She says the book also is an attempt to get more black families online. Nielsen/NetRatings, a media measurement group, found that only about 10 million blacks use the Internet. Although that figure has grown 22 percent since 2001, blacks acount for only about 8 percent of all Web users.
Other online resources for African-American families include: www.blackfamilynet.net/soon/index.html, and www.familydigest.com.
Resources for Hispanic families include: www.elclick.com, www.latinopapi.com/html/ndx_links.php and www.solomujeres.com.
Resources for Asian families include www.askasia.org.
-- Sandra Nygaard, Medill News Service
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Open Rotator Cuff Repair
- Decompress the subacromial space to allow free passage of tendons
- repair tendon back to it's anatomical position
- ± excision outer clavicle
- Biceps tenodesis
- AC joint
- Chosen over arthroscopic technique for technical ease & better repair.
- Other options. – arthroscopic SAD + mini open repair
- Full or near full thickness tear usually of supraspinatus tendon
- Significant pain
- Loss of function
- Failed nonoperative management
- Massive tear (>5cm)
- Localised sepsis
Consent / Preop Planning
- Plain radiograph
- U/S or MRI
- Neers test +
- Exclude
- Frozen shoulder
- Cervical radiculopathy
- AC joint Osteoarthritis
- Instability in young patient
- Consent
- Deltoid detachment
- Axillary nerve palsy
- Unable to repair / Repair failure
- Loss of movement / Loss ROM / stiffness
- Persistent pain
- Weakness
- Synovial fistula
- Antero-inferior acromioplasty
- Release of coracoacromial ligament
- Complete release & mobilisation of cuff from glenoid labrum & superficial bursa ± coracoid base (coracohumeral ligament), rotator interval, & posterior interval (scapular spine)
- Tendon-grasping suture placement (eg. Mason-Allen suture)
- Secure bone fixation (eg. transosseous sutures, suture anchors)
- Minimal deltoid surgical insult & meticulous repair
- Early restoration of passive motion
- Open / miniopen / arthroscopic
- Fixation options:
- transosseous sutures, suture anchors
- absorbable, nonabsorbable
- Single row, double row
- Semi beach chair position, Lateral decubitus
- Arm drape free
- clavicle, AC joint, acromion, spine of scapular, coracoid process
- Make a 6 cm incision along langers line from the lateral aspect at the middle of the acromion towards & just short of the coracoid
Superficial Dissection
- Undermine skin edges & identify the anterior raphe in the deltoid. Divide this for a distance not exceeding 5cm to avoid the axillary nerve
Deep Dissection
- Carry the dissection across the acromion, subperiostially elevate off the acromion, ensuring full thickness flaps for repair
- Axillary nerve
- Musculocutaneous nerve
- Resect a 1cm segment of C-A ligament
- Resect thickened bursa (identifiable by unilaminar appearance & attachment to acromion)
- Use ronguere or saw to excise that part of acromion projecting anterior to the anterior border of clavicle
- Place blunt Hohmaan or Bristow to depress humeral head an resect deep part of anterior acromion, half thickness or 7mm at front & tapering back to middle of acromion
- Smooth with rasp
- Identify the tear in tendon. Debride edges
- Gouge a trough at point of insertion
- Non-absorbable sutures through tendon, then through bone
- Check integrity of repair & free passage through sub acromial space
- If deltoid attachment is thin or tenuous, it should be repaired through bone using heavy non absorbable sutures
- Routine closure
Postop / Rehab
- Immediate start of pendula exercises
- 0-6/52 Sling
- 6-10/52 Passive assisted
- after 10/52: as tolerated
Warn patient it may take up to 6 months for pain to subside
- 85-90% pain relief with acromioplasty
- Slight ↑ pain relief with repair of tendon
- Unpredictable ↑ strength with repair
Complications / Dangers
- Anaesthetic, general surgical
- Unable to repair tendon
- Infection
- Continued pain
- Weakness


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2006.410: Model-theoretic imaginaries and coherent sheaves
2006.410: Ravi Rajani and Mike Prest (2008) Model-theoretic imaginaries and coherent sheaves.
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Categories of imaginaries (imaginary sorts are the objects and definable functions are the maps) defined using positive existential formulas are shown to be equivalent to categories of finitely presented / coherent functors on the category of models. Localised/relativised versions are also proved. This is linked with interpretation functors between categories of structures. These results generalise what is already known in the additive case and include an alternative approach to an old result of Makkai and Reyes.
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Carol Leifer
Desperately Seeking Susan
Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) seeks vicarious thrills through other people's personal ads. But via a jacket, amnesia and mistaken identity, Roberta comes to believe she's Susan (Madonna), a wild Soho vamp wanted by the mob. Dez (Aidan Quinn) falls for "Susan" (Roberta); the real Susan has no idea she has a double; and Roberta's husband, Jim (Mark Blum), is thrown for a loop. Director Susan Seidelman's romantic comedy features tons of cameos.


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High blood sugarHyperglycemia - self-care; High blood glucose - self-care
High blood sugar occurs when your body makes too little insulin or when your body is not able to use insulin the right way. Insulin isa hormone that helps the body use glucose (sugar)for energy. Insulin is made by the pancreas.
High blood sugar is also called high blood glucose or hyperglycemia.
Symptoms of High Blood Sugar
Symptoms of high blood sugarcan include:
- Being very thirsty
- Having blurry vision
- Having dry skin
- Feeling weak or tired
- Needing to pee a lot
You may have other, more serious symptoms if your blood sugar becomes very high.
What to Think about When Your Blood Sugar Is High
High blood sugar can harm you. If your blood sugar is high, you need to know how to bring it down. Here are some questions to ask yourself if your blood sugars are high:
Are you eating correctly?
- Are you eating too much? Have you been following your diabetes meal plan?
- Did you have a high-fat or high-fiber meal?
Are you taking your diabetes medicines correctly?
- Has your doctor changed your medicines?
- If you take insulin, have you been taking the correct dose?
- Are you afraid of having low blood sugar? Is that causing you to eat too much or take too little insulin or other diabetes medicine?
- Have you injected insulin into a scar or overused area? Have you been rotating sites?
What else has changed?
- Have you been less active than usual?
- Do you have a cold, the flu, or another illness?
- Have you had some stress?
- Have you been checking your blood sugar ?
- Have you gained weight?
Preventing High Blood Sugar
When you have diabetes, you will learn to use diet, exercise, and diabetes medicines or insulin to prevent high blood sugar levels.
You and your doctor will:
- Set a target goal for your blood sugar levels for different times during the day This helps you manage your blood sugar.
- Decide how often you need to check your blood sugar at home.
If your blood sugar is higher than your goals for 3 days and you do not know why, check your urine for ketones. Then call your doctor or nurse.
American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes -- 2013. Diabetes Care. 2013; 36 Suppl 1:S11-S66.
Review Date: 12/11/2012
Reviewed By: Nancy J. Rennert, MD, Chief of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Norwalk Hospital, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.


text: I had no problem getting xpbs and xpbsmon to compile and install on my systems (once I had all the correct tcl/tk dev libraries installed on my systems, that is). >From the crudeness of the interface, I get the impression that xpbs/xpbsmon are no longer actively developed. Prentice -----Original Message----- From: torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org [mailto:torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of Diego Vadell Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:05 PM To: torqueusers at supercluster.org Subject: [torqueusers] Compiling xpbsmon Hi all, I was asked to install xpbsmon. We use Rocks and xpbsmon does not come with it, so I downloaded torque's sources. My idea was to compile all torque and then only install xpbsmon, but however I run ./configure, xpbsmon does not get compiled or installed. I tried with ./configure --prefix=/tmp/pbs-temp \ --set-server-home=/tmp/pbs-temp/spool/PBS \ --with-tclx But when I run make and make install, xpbsmon does not get installed in /tmp/pbs-temp . I tried also adding --enable-clients and --with-gui, although I read that they were defaults. No sign of in configure's output that could tell me that tcl or tclx has been disabled. I went to src/tools and ran make and make install there, and it worked (with some minor glitches). xpbsmon *is* running now, but it let me with a bad taste in my mouth... is there an easier way of compiling torque including xpbsmon? Is it that xpbsmon is no longer an active part of torque (i.e. nobody is using it and nobody complains when it breaks)? Are there any instructions? I was using torque-1.2.0p6 in an x86_64 machine. Thanks in advance, -- Diego. _______________________________________________ torqueusers mailing list torqueusers at supercluster.org http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/torqueusers


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Roast Guinea Hens with Prosciutto and Endives
This crowd-pleasing recipe, which is also delicious made with chicken, pairs the roasted birds with caramelized endives, lightly wilted dandelion greens and crisp prosciutto.
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- 4 guinea hens (about 2 1/2 pounds each), quartered (see Note)
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 rosemary sprigs, broken into 1-inch pieces
- 8 slices of prosciutto (about 4 ounces)
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 6 Belgian endives (about 1 1/4 pounds), quartered lengthwise
- 4 ounces baby dandelion greens or arugula
- Creamy boiled fingerling potatoes, for serving
How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 425°. Season the hens all over with salt and pepper and arrange them on 2 large rimmed baking sheets, skin side up. Drizzle with 1/4 cup of the oil and scatter the rosemary all around. Roast the hens in the upper and middle thirds of the oven for 40 minutes, until cooked through, shifting the pans from top to bottom and front to back halfway through. Pour the cooking juices into a gravy boat.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat the remaining 1/4 cup of olive oil until shimmering. Arrange 4 slices of the prosciutto in the skillet in a slightly overlapping layer and cook over moderately high heat, turning once, until crisp, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel–lined plate. Repeat with the remaining prosciutto.
Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the fat from the skillet and add the butter. Add the endives, cut sides down, and cook over moderately high heat, turning until browned and tender, 12 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add the greens to the pan and cook, stirring, just until wilted, 2 minutes.
Transfer the hens to platters and surround with the endives, greens and crispy prosciutto. Serve with boiled potatoes, passing the reserved cooking juices at the table.
You can ask your butcher to quarter the guinea hens for you. Chicken can be substituted for guinea hens, but it will need to cook for about 15 minutes longer.
Suggested Pairing
Although Germany is best known for its white wine—especially Riesling—it also produces some really exceptional Pinot Noirs (called Spätburgunder there) that have lively acidity and earthiness, perfect with this dish.


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When Scars on 45 [1] started out, female vocalist Aimee Driver wasn't part of the band. That is, not until they heard her sing the Cure's [2] "Friday I'm in Love" and decided her voice would be perfect for the group. Below, watch the British indie-pop band recall that small moment and perform a cover of the Cure song that changed the big picture for their band.
"In every band's career or life, there are particular moments where something happened that spurred you on or gave you that kick on the backside to keep going, and for us, the songs were always there but there was always something that was kind of missing," vocalist Danny Bemrose recalls. "So Nova [Nowakowski] called me up and told me that he'd heard Aimee sing 'Friday I'm in Love' and he thought that her voice might work on this particular track that we were doing. We chose 'Friday I'm in Love' by The Cure because it was the moment that gave us Aimee, so to speak."
Photos: Behind-the-Scenes at Scars on 45's Candid Covers Session [3]
"Friday I'm in Love" is on Bemrose's list of pop songs that are simply perfect, standing alongside tracks by the Police and the Beatles. "Everything about it, from beginning to end, is just perfect," he says.
Scars on 45, signed to Atlantic and Alexandra Patsavas' Chop Shop record label, got their start in the states through TV syncs, for shows from "Grey's Anayomy" to "CSI: NY." For the last 18 months, they've been out on the road, readying a fanbase for the debut of their self-titled album, which has been finished for more than two years. "We're able to tour this amazing country and just be working and meeting all these amazing people at gigs and seeing such amazing cities -- we want to work as hard as we possibly can and we've been doing it for the last 18 months," says Bemrose in the band's Candid Covers Q&A.
Scars on 45's Debut Album: Listen [4]
Watch Scars on 45 perform their own "Give Me Something" below.
- Candid Covers [5]


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Mary's stubbornness is matched only by her sophistication, her boldness by her elegance.
The abundance of the fabric allowed us to cover her but retain the beauty and elegance of the garment.
I think the vampire continues to be associated with beauty, glamour, elegance, great strength, a secret benevolence, and goodness.
Don't get me wrong: I'm an Apple user myself, and appreciate the elegance of the technologies and their interfaces.
Lopez has made couture sizzle and has given near-nudity a ring of elegance.
After almost three hundred years, the "charms of her person, her elegance and kindliness of manner" are still remembered.
It is written with elegance enough; but Jane is too heroick to be pitied.
They appeared to him what they were, two honest-hearted women, surrounded by luxury and elegance.
I spoke to Wauna of the rare beauty and elegance of her dress.
Simplicity, the mother of elegance, being now the order of the day.
c.1500, "tastefulness, correctness, harmoniousness, refinement," of speech or prose, from Middle French élégance, from Latin elegantia "taste, propriety, refinement," from elegantem (see elegant). Earlier form was elegancy (early 15c.). Meaning "refined luxury" is from 1797.


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Flames NewsFlames Home > Women's Basketball Home > News
WBB Game Day Central: Charleston Southern
Game Day Central
Note: Includes all important Game Day links (live video, live audio, live stats, etc.)
Complete Game Notes
Today's Game
Liberty (11-5, 3-1 Big South) will begin a two-game Big South swing through South Carolina Thursday at 7 p.m., when the Lady Flames visit Charleston Southern (5-7, 0-3 Big South).
The "Starting Five" - Today's Top Storylines
1) Liberty is in search of its fifth consecutive road victory. The Lady Flames are 86-11 in Big South road games under head coach Carey Green, including a 41-3 mark in the state of South Carolina.
2) Meanwhile, Charleston Southern will try for its first Big South win of the year and will attempt to snap a three-game losing skid. The Buccaneers have been playing without leading scorer Rachelle Coward due to injury. Coward averaged 21.3 ppg against Liberty last season.
3) Liberty has found the Buc Dome a difficult venue in recent years. The Lady Flames dropped a 54-51 decision at Charleston Southern on Feb. 28, 2011. Liberty then had to rally from a nine-point deficit to post a 79-64 victory at CSU last season (Jan. 16, 2012).
4) Tolu Omotola played well against the Buccaneers last season, posting 12.3 ppg and 9.3 rpg during three meetings. She notched her first career double-double (11 points, 11 rebounds) during a 72-52 win over CSU in the Big South Championship semifinals on March 10, 2012.
5) Liberty will face a Fred Applin-coached team for the first time since Nov. 25, 1996. That day, the Lady Flames recorded an 85-52 win over Hampton at the Vines Center, which was Liberty's first-ever triumph against the Pirates.
Liberty vs. Charleston Southern At a Glance
Series History
Series Record: Liberty leads, 46-6.
Current Streak: Liberty has won three consecutive meetings.
Series Record at CSU: Liberty leads, 19-4.
Current Streak at CSU: Liberty won the most recent meeting.
Last Meeting Overall: Liberty 72, Charleston So. 52 (March 10, 2012 at High Point)
Last Meeting at CSU: Liberty 79, Charleston So. 64 (Jan. 16, 2012)
CSU's Last Series Victory: Charleston So. 54, Liberty 51 (Feb. 28, 2011 at CSU)
CSU's Last Series Victory at Home: Same
Coaching Matchup
Liberty Head Coach: Carey Green
Overall Record (Seasons): 321-108 (14th Season)
Record at Liberty (Seasons): Same
Record vs. Charleston Southern: 29-1
Charleston Southern Head Coach: Fred Applin
Overall Record (Seasons): 21-34 (Third Season)
Record at Charleston Southern (Seasons): 5-7 (First Season)
Record vs. Liberty: 1-1 (at Hampton)
Notes and Anecdotes
• First-year Charleston Southern head coach Fred Applin has known Liberty head coach Carey Green for many years. Applin got his start in collegiate coaching by spending five seasons (1988-93) as an assistant at North Carolina. During that same time, Green was an assistant coach at ACC rival Clemson.
• Charleston Southern 6-6 redshirt junior forward Carra Coy played for Liberty during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons, appearing in a total of 25 games.
• CSU senior Rachelle Coward was the Big South Player of the Week during the opening week of the season before suffering an injury. Coward, who averaged 21.3 ppg and 4.7 three-pointers/game against Liberty last year, has not played since Nov. 14.
• Charleston Southern is happy that Avery Warley graduated after the 2011-12 season. Warley averaged 15.0 ppg and 14.0 rpg during 10 career matchups with the Buccaneers, including three games of 20 rebounds or more. In her place, CSU will have to deal with Tolu Omotola, who averaged 12.3 ppg and 9.3 rpg versus the Buccaneers in 2011-12.
• Liberty lost at Charleston Southern by a 54-51 score during the 2010-11 season and then had to rally from a nine-point deficit to win 79-64 in last year's visit to the Buc Dome.
• Charleston Southern is looking for its first Big South win of the season and seeking to halt a three-game losing streak.
Road Warriors
Since losing at No. 3/3 Baylor on Nov. 23, Liberty has won four consecutive road games, improving to 4-3 on the road this season.
• The Lady Flames are 2-0 in Big South away games this year (vs. Radford and Winthrop), after going 9-1 on the road against conference foes in 2011-12. Under head coach Carey Green, Liberty is 86-11 in Big South Conference away contests.
• Liberty is aiming to record double-digit road victories for the fourth consecutive season.
• Devon Brown has been at her best on the road this year, averaging 22.7 ppg. In her last road game (Dec. 29 at Winthrop), Brown scored a career-high 32 points.
Party in the Palmetto State
Liberty has fared well in Big South games played in South Carolina under head coach Carey Green, going 41-3 on the road against Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, Presbyterian College and Winthrop.
• The Lady Flames already own a victory at Winthrop this season and will play at Charleston Southern and Coastal Carolina this week. Liberty is not scheduled to play at Presbyterian College this season.
A Look Back at Liberty's 75-49 Win Over UNC Asheville
• Liberty bounced back from a loss to Presbyterian College in impressive fashion, never trailing during Saturday's 75-49 win over UNC Asheville at the Vines Center.
• It was the Lady Flames' 12th consecutive victory in their head-to-head series with the Bulldogs. Meanwhile, Asheville has now lost 16 straight games against Big South opponents and 22 consecutive road games.
• Liberty has still not lost back-to-back Big South games since Feb. 20 and 22, 1997.
• The Lady Flames finished with significant advantages in rebounds (42-23) and points in the paint (40-14).
• Liberty has now outrebounded 11 consecutive opponents and kept 11 straight foes below 50 percent field goal shooting, with Asheville closing the contest at 39.1 percent.
• The Lady Flames equaled a season low with 12 turnovers and tallied 23 points off of the Bulldogs' 17 miscues.
• Ashley Rininger's career-high 17 points (which came in just 18 minutes) keyed Liberty's 32-11 advantage in bench points.
• After shooting 2-of-12 against Presbyterian, Tolu Omotola led all players in both points (19) and rebounds (8) on Saturday. She also moved into 20th place on Liberty's career rebounding chart with 530 boards.
• Devon Brown chipped in 15 points in only 18 minutes, climbing to No. 11 on the Big South all-time scoring list with 1,725 career markers.
• Despite playing just 13 minutes, Emily Frazier topped the Lady Flames with three assists. In her last four games, Liberty's starting point guard has totaled 23 assists and only four turnovers.
• No Lady Flame played more than Tolu Omotola's 25 minutes, as 11 different players saw at least 11 minutes of playing time.
Shortage of Streaks
Liberty successfully bounced back from its 51-49 home loss to Presbyterian College on Jan. 3 with a 75-49 victory over UNC Asheville two days later, keeping the following trends alive.
• The Lady Flames have not lost back-to-back home games since Nov. 14 and Dec. 7, 2008 (VCU and Auburn).
• Liberty has not dropped consecutive Big South contests (including regular-season and tournament games) since Feb. 20 and 22, 1997 (UNCG and Winthrop).
• Liberty has not lost two Big South home games in a row since dropping five conference home games in succession, spanning two seasons (Feb. 20, 1995 - Feb. 3, 1996).
Spreading the Wealth
Eleven different Lady Flames have scored in double figures during at least one game this season, including Katelyn Adams, Devon Brown, Brittany Campbell, Sadalia Ellis, Emily Frazier, Jasmine Gardner, Reagan Miller, Tolu Omotola, Ashley Rininger, Ellee Rollins and LaKendra Washington.
• This is the first time 11 different Liberty players have reached double figures in a season since 2008-09, when 11 players also accomplished the feat. Brittany Campbell scored in double digits twice that year as a freshman.
The Container is Half Empty
• Liberty has played strong defense this season, limiting opponents to 35.0 percent field goal shooting. The Lady Flames have held 11 consecutive foes below 50 percent from the field, with four of them shooting below 30 percent.
• Since the start of the 2007-08 season, only six teams have shot 50 percent against Liberty in 180 games. By way of comparison, the Lady Flames have shot 50 percent 50 times during that span.


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Drilling Industry Says Diesel Use Was Legal
After three members of Congress found that drilling companies used more than 32 million gallons of diesel fuel to hydraulically fracture oil and gas wells between 2005 and 2009, the industry is fighting back, not by denying the accusation, but by arguing that the EPA never fully regulated the potentially environmentally dangerous practice in the first place.
Nicholas Kusnetz contributed to this report.
After three members of Congress reported this week that drilling companies have been injecting large amounts of diesel fuel underground to hydraulically fracture oil and gas wells, the industry is fighting back -- not by denying the accusation, but by arguing that the EPA never fully regulated the potentially environmentally dangerous practice in the first place.
According to a letter to the EPA from Henry Waxman, D-Calif., Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Diana DeGette, D-Colo., 14 fracking companies injected more than 32 million gallons of diesel fuel into the ground in 19 states between 2005 and 2009. And they did it without asking for or receiving permission from environmental regulators in those states. Diesel fuel contains benzene, a known carcinogen, which has been detected in water supplies near drilling facilities across the country.
At first, the lawmakers' findings look like the prelude to a slam-dunk criminal case.
The 2005 Energy Policy Act states that hydraulic fracturing using diesel is subject to federal regulations that protect drinking water by governing the injection of materials underground. Those injection regulations, contained in the Safe Drinking Water Act, say that companies need a permit before they put anything down a well.
By the lawmakers' reading of these statutes, the drilling companies broke the law.
But the energy companies now say there was no law to break.
"We are not questioning that EPA has the authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act if diesel fuel is being used. It's the fact that there are no rules to do that," said Lee Fuller, vice president of government relations for the Independent Petroleum Association of America and executive director of industry-funded Energy in Depth.
An e-mail that ProPublica received from Halliburton, which the lawmakers said used 7.2 million gallons of diesel fuel in violation of federal requirements, supported that view. The company said it had not violated any laws, "because there are currently no requirements in the federal environmental regulations that require a company to obtain a federal permit prior to undertaking a hydraulic fracturing project using diesel."
So how can the two sides be so clearly divided in their interpretation of the law? The conflict goes back to a series of agreements and reports that over the years have tried to address the environmental risks inherent to diesel use and hydraulic fracturing but have never succeeded in settling the essential questions.
The effort began in 2004 during the Bush administration, when the EPA last published a study of hydraulic fracturing. That report, which has been criticized by scientists and environmentalists as incomplete, concluded that hydraulic fracturing did not pose a threat to drinking water. But it was clear about one exception: When diesel fuel is used, hydraulic fracturing is not safe and could indeed endanger drinking water.
Based on this, the Bush administration took two steps to limit the use of diesel.
First, it sought a voluntary handshake agreement by the three largest drilling contractors then responsible for some 95 percent of fracturing operations in the United States. The companies -- Halliburton, BJ Services and Schlumberger -- all volunteered to stop using diesel fuel in coal bed methane gas wells, according to a signed memorandum of understanding. At the time, gas wells drilled into coal beds were the focus of the EPA's consideration, because they are often near shallow aquifers.
Second, the Republican-led Congress wrote in an exception to the so-called "Halliburton loophole" in the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which stated that hydraulic fracturing could not be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. According to the language of that law, the use of diesel fuel for fracking would still qualify for regulation.
The drilling industry appeared to accept not only the finding that diesel was dangerous in fracking, but that the federal government was going to regulate it. And it was widely assumed that diesel fuel had largely been eliminated from fracking as a result.
When pressed on the issue last just year, for example, Energy in Depth, which is run by Lee Fuller, the man now arguing that the EPA has no regulatory standing, wrote on its website that diesel use shouldn't be a concern, partly due to "the fact that federal statute explicitly identifies diesel fuel as a substance that, if used, immediately lands that operation under the regulatory authority of EPA."
All sides seemed to be in agreement.
"We knew at the time the [voluntary agreement] was signed that these service companies made up 95 percent of service operations taking place ... and that they discontinued the use of diesel fuel and they continue to report that they do not use diesel fuel," an EPA hydrologist who worked on the 2004 report, Jeffrey Jollie, told ProPublica in 2008.
Ben Grumbles, the EPA's former assistant administrator for water, said last year in an interview with ProPublica that "this was a positive step, and a sincere step forward for us to make sure that... they knew we were watching this and knew that it could be a problem if they used this sort of a process."
When ProPublica questioned industry representatives about diesel in recent years, they responded in a chorus, strongly implying that the EPA agreement had effectively forced the industry to widely adopt best practices.
In July 2009, David Dunlap, then the chief operating officer for the fracturing company BJ Services, which has since been acquired by Baker Hughes, told ProPublica that after the 2004 agreement forced BJ Services to stop using diesel in coal bed methane wells, "it really was a practical matter" to phase it out in all wells. It didn't make sense to have two different systems, he said, so the industry was gradually phasing it out. "It's probably the biggest single move the industry has made to get greener," Dunlap said, referring to the ripple effect of the agreement.
"I can't speak for every fracturing company in the U.S., but we have gone strictly to mineral oil slurries," he added, referring to the mixture of fluids pumped underground. "We don't use diesel in any slurries in the U.S. today. None."
Others were equally adamant. "Yeah, there used to be diesel," David Holcomb, director of research for the Texas-based drilling chemistry company Frac Tech, told ProPublica in 2009. "We never added benzene to a fracturing fluid, we never have and never will. We don't do that anymore."
The lawmakers report that in fact BJ Services injected 11,555,538 gallons of diesel fuel between 2005 and 2009, and that Frac Tech injected 159,371 gallons in that period. Waxman's office did not respond to ProPublica's questions about exactly when those injections had occurred, so it is impossible to know if the injections were made after Dunlap's and Holcomb's statements. Dunlap, who now works at Superior Energy Services, did not respond to a request for comment. Holcomb said the lawmakers didn't understand the information they had collected, and that Frac Tech might have used diesel to clean its lines, but that it had not used it in fracturing fluids.
Now, however, the industry seems to be abandoning its stance that diesel fuel has been phased out for a new one based on the legal readings. That means the diesel revelations are now more likely to land the simmering 15-year debate about the interpretation of hydraulic fracturing regulations -- which began in a mid-90s Alabama lawsuit -- back in court.
A spokesman for Baker Hughes -- the drilling firm that acquired BJ Services -- said that his company hadn't violated any laws, arguing that the EPA agreement not to use diesel applied only to coal bed methane wells and that the EPA never articulated its rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act for other applications.
"The regulations did not expressly address or prohibit the use of diesel fuel as fracturing fluids," he said, adding that the company phased out diesel fuel sometime before 2010. "We believe that retroactively creating a permitting requirement is clearly improper... there was nothing in the federal regulations –--it neither addressed it or prohibited it."
And there is the kernel of the fight. In July the EPA posted an updated page to its website clarifying that it expects drilling companies to file for permits before using diesel-based fracture fluids. The IPAA immediately filed objections in court, arguing that while the Energy Policy Act of 2005 gave the EPA the right to regulate diesel fracturing, it didn't specify when or how it should do it. The agency is only now laying out the rules that would put the law into action, and it is doing it retroactively and arbitrarily, according to Fuller, the IPAA vice president. He said the EPA's website clarification is "not proper rule-making."
"What they should do if they are going to set up a rule structure is they need to go through the normal rulemaking process," he added. "You submit a proposal, go through public comments, then review those comments."
The Obama administration is arguing, according to court filings, that the law always obligated the EPA to enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act and that a website change articulating that policy does not amount to a change in regulations at all.
It is not yet clear whether the government will launch a criminal investigation into the diesel use reported by the three Democrats, or wait for the legal issues to be ironed out by a judge. When asked, an EPA spokeswoman would only say that the agency is still reviewing the information it received from the lawmakers.
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It may not be entirely clear exactly what the legalities are, but this much is clear: the companies that injected diesel are not concerned about contaminating water or harming human health.
See what happens when you operate on the "good old boys hand shake agreement—wink, wink." Someone once famous said it best "mission accomplished."
Amen Mary Sweeney, Amen.
For those who haven't seen the documentary "Gasland" now's the time.
Hmm, the "Halliburton loophole" opened in 2005. You don't suppose Dick Cheney had anything to do with that? Naw, couldn't be, after all in 2005 we had a Republican administration dedicated to compassionate conservatism, honesty, the rule of law, and don't forget, free markets.
Why, why, WHY would ANYONE think it was okay to inject a highly flammable toxic chemical UNDERGROUND where there's a darned good chance it would come in contact with the water people DRINK?!? Why does it matter that there "was no law to break"?
Apparently common sense and decency no longer exist unless there's a law that specifically states common sense MUST be used when making business decisions. It shouldn't take a government mandate for a company to honor the health and well being of the citizens of this planet, and our right to a clean environment.
Sadly, I envision scenes like the following taking place every day: Inside a posh conference room at a large corporation (which will remain nameless), a group of top executives and other high level 'decision makers' sit around an intricately carved Mahogany table. After a few moments, a rather large, cigar smoking, smooth talking executive begins to speak. "Gentlemen, the little people matter not. The sooner we get to the cash, regardless of the human and environmental toll, the better."
Why am I having flashbacks to the movie Avatar?
Shame, shame shame on these greedy corporations and the politicians who knowingly turn a blind eye to their behavior so that they TOO can make big mounds of cash, in the form of 'campaign donations'.
The changes of injected wastewater coming in contact with groundwater is miniscule. IN fact it has never happened in America, despite 1.1 million wells being fracked. Do you not think state and federal regulators, and the scientists and geologists who have been fracking wells for 60 years, have thought of this? Just because fracking is new and misunderstood by the public does not mean it is new and misunderstood by those who work in the industry, and those who regulate the industry.
If you don't like fracking then please dissacociate yourself with eveything in your life that is produced as a result of fossil fuels: your car, your home, your clothes, your tupperwear, your skin lotion, your grocery stores, your lawnmowers and snowblowers, and the airplanes, buses, bicyles and trains you use to take you places.
By "wastewater" do you mean carcinogens, like benzene and other equally toxic chemicals unfit for human consumption and reproduction continuum? (Meaning will my children have two eyes, two arms and two legs, etc.) Does YOUR family and children live down stream from suspected or fracked aquifers?
Can YOU prove your claims with absolute certainty? Your name implies you're a fracking industry shill!
It's time for We The People to COMPEL Congress to call an Article V Amendments Convention so THE PEOPLE can write constitutional law beyond the tampering of industry lobbyists, overpaid CEOs, their fancy lawyers, and the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the government.
Google Article V Convention: About 7,870,000 results in 0.14 seconds!!! It's About Time.
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This is unfettered greed in action. No wonder diesel prices have been consitently higher. Polluting the earth with fuel, to extract fuel.
I was wondering why the number of API commercials on the air here in frack-happy western Pennsylvania had soared over the last couple of weeks.
It's a telltale - those commercials increase, and I'm safe in concluding that the hydrocarbons industry is aware that another one of their murder-for-money schemes is about to be exposed to the public.
(*Murder-for-money is what it is…you knowingly inject poisons into the ground and previously uncontaminated groundwater shows traces of those contaminants [whether in whole, in part, or transformed into some other molecular configuration as a breakdown product], then you've got what would be prosecuted as attempted murder if you were to dump the same chemicals into, say, a former President of Halliburton's glass of French bubbly.)
@ibsteve2u: Exactly.
When diesel fuel spills on the ground or leaks from a tank at a gas station and gets into the groundwater or sewer, really bad things happen.
But these big energy conglomerates say its not dangerous for fracking rigs to inject a toxic mix of Only-the-Gods-of-Fracking-Know-What into the rocks under the ground, because, you see, there have been "geological surveys" conducted, and they show that there is no way the fluid can POSSIBLY get into the groundwater.
Which begs the question: How easy is it to see what is REALLY going on under all those yards of dirt and rock once they start injecting? No one has control over how those rocks will fissure under the pressure from fracking fluid. And unless they have workers with X-ray vision…well, I think you get my point.
We need federal regulations to set the uniform requirements upon this industry. The regulations must be backed with staff to enforce, and penalties to make the companies suffer real consequences, including up to revoking their licenses to operate, plus serious, if not crippling fines, plus imprisonment where appropriate.
Certain corporate behavior needs to be criminalized well beyond "white collar" status.
It is absolutely clear that this type of approach is the only path to take, and that the industry has no word to take at face value. Lee Fuller is a smarmy propagandist who has no credibility. He, and his organization, are the lying attack dogs the industry sends to bash anyone and everything that undermines its delusion of reality, whether it be Gasland the movie, or the Congressional Committee headed by Waxman, Markey and DeGette.
They desperately fear federal oversight, and a strong EPA that is actually doing its job. At the same time, they deny they have ever received exemptions from federal law (Halliburton loopholes), and that federal rules would be redundant to those of the States.
These people (corporations included, unfortunately) are pathological liars. They literally must be nailed down.
Now we know why diesel is more expensive than gasoline
It is this kind of pollution caused by crafty corporations that justifies NATIONAL HEALTH CARE. People who get sick from this fracturing with oil and other poisons PURPOSELY spread out over our environment should have free medical care paid for by the polluting SOBs. But what did we get, a health care law that may be declared unconstitutional. And then who did I see on TV attending yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast (sponsored by The Family and C Streeters, those fundamentalist who practice Jesus plus zero) but our President Obama. I supported him in 2008, but no more. He has caved in to the special interest. BAH!
Please keep in mind that the formations that are being fracked already have oil and natural gas in them, and they are not and never will be fresh drinking water source zones. The oil and natural gas in these formations contains naturallly occurring benzene and other contaminants, which were there before the zones were ever treated.
The oil companies are not injecting diesel and other chemicals into fresh water drinking zones. The fresh water zones are usually thousands of feet above the zones that the oil companies are treating, and they are isolated by multiple stings of steel casing and cement barriers. So the zones that are getting treated are already naturally dirty, and never could be a source of drinking water.
The incidence of damage to any fresh water sources is so low that in my opinion, the risks are worth it so that we can drive cars and heat homes. Without frac jobs, the flow of oil and natural gas in this country will cease, and in my opinion the risk are manageable.
Andy Peterson - the problem the American people have is the same problem exposed by this story.
I'm not trying to engage in an ad hominem attack when I observe that all you have to say is that you're working for or representing a drilling company, Big Oil, the natural gas industry, the drilling supply industry, or an industry lobbying and advertising group such as API and the American people instinctively - and as this story makes clear justifiably - assume that they're being lied to.
People who have nothing to conceal don't artfully guide the public and the government into assumptions that are favorable to the industry and then turn right around and claim that hey, their behavior wasn't flat-out illegal so all risks and consequences of their behavior are on the unwitting public when they're found out.
An industry that hides its behavior does so for the same reason a criminal does: They know that what they're doing will not be viewed as being in the best interests of the American people.
And - at the risks of repeating myself - jobs for a handful of Americans are not viewed as offsetting the possibility of poisoning hundreds of thousands or even millions of Americans. It never has been and the frackers know it, which is why the frackers concealed the fact that they were injecting diesel fuel directly into underground rock formations with no way to guarantee the stability or direction of travel of the resulting accumulations of known carcinogens and biological poisons..
(P.S. The oil and gas industry really needs to stop trying the public's patience with the claim that those subterranean formations where they inject chemicals are somehow permanently isolated from underground drinking water supplies.
It…won't hold water…not in modern American, not when anybody can download a copy of the Marcellus shale formation
and download and overlay maps of seismic activity in the area
and remember that gee, earthquakes don't occur and so restrict what they move and jumble around to our atmosphere - they're rockin' and sloshin' the geological formations under our feet at depths from a thousand to tens of thousands of feet down.
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I don't know why the industry keeps trying to tell the public there is no danger to injecting diesel et al into underground rock formations because - they imply - those formations are geologically isolated from the formations that are being tapped for drinking water.
A person could get the impression that:
a) The industry thinks the American people don't understand that earthquakes can rearrange rock formations any way they want to any time they want to
b) The industry thinks the public is too..witless…to do a web search for a map of, say, the Marcellus shale formation and then do a web search for maps of recorded earthquakes in the same areas - perhaps from Pennsylvania's DCNR or the federal government USGS - and overlay them
c) The industry thinks the public is too dull to grasp that gases and fluids migrate…so dull, in fact, that they've forgotten why there is heat and smoke coming from the ground under what used to be Centralia, Pennsylvania.
The industry has a big problem: When they continually try to B.S. the public, they only grow their reputation for untrustworthiness - and they're the ones who apparently don't have the wits to grasp the consequences.
(loolllll….all I probably succeeded in doing was getting API to consider funding efforts to "shape traffic" on the Internet - or turn it off completely.)
Our community has successfully fought off the forseeable arrival of coal bed methane companies who wanted to frack here in northern BC,with water. I cannot imagine how any American citizen would allow the practice near their home with diesel.
We are foreigners (CDNs), yet we have had the privilege of travelling your country from coast to coast from Mexico to Alaska. You have such an unbelievably beautiful country. However what you are doing in the American midwest and in Alaska in the pursuit of cheap energy ....I dont understand it. For you to think you are being offered the choice of freezing to death in your sleep or consenting to such destructive practices makes me question my regard for American common sense.
@slockwood: I think you have to remember the great change that has occurred in America over the last 30 years…
Namely, too many of our "news" sources have discarded their obligation to restrict themselves to the facts and truth. As a consequence, the American people are inundated with lies intended to turn them against their own best interests around the clock each and every day…yet far too many of us don't understand - don't want to accept - that so much of television and the other forms of media not only could be but have been hijacked and transformed into the vehicles of propaganda.
I.e., growing up with Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite left too much of America ill-prepared to accept that our press and media - long associated with the creation of this nation due to our Founding Father's understanding that a free press is vital to democracy - can betray us…too many Americans just cannot differentiate between the historical honor and integrity of the press and the modern reality of the entities which - while still claiming to be "the news" and demanding the respect and privileges we have traditionally endowed "the press" with due to their service to democracy - appear to me to have been purposefully transformed into weapons meant to enable the wealthy few to attain their goals regardless of the damage their greed inflicts upon our people and our nation.
Once we "boomers" and the other older generations that place an undue faith in traditional forms of "the news" are gone, I suspect America will again display good, old-fashioned "common sense".
Assuming isn't too late…which, I'm sorry to say, is looking more and more like a bad wager every day.
WHERE did the diesel come from in the first place?
They bring the diesel in on tanker trucks…and since they already and always use diesel to power construction and drilling equipment and they're always bringing in lots of tanker trucks of water, an increase in the ratio of diesel-to-water tankers - assuming the former are correctly marked with the ICC warning flags to begin with - goes unnoticed by the residents (the people who use the area's water and will thus be frist to "benefit" by the frackers' addition of "supplemental" diesel to what they drink) amidst the general turmoil.
I'm sitting here watching a "Daily Show" rerun with T. Boone Pickens as the guest. The guy is saying that he has never heard - after having fracked multiple thousands of wells himself - of an aquifer being contaminated by the process.
Now the guy is likable, and I dearly want to believe him. I dearly want to believe that there is one - just ONE - person in the oil and gas industry who is both honest and keeps the well-being of the American people and the future of my country near to his heart.
But how can I? What evidence can I point to that shows anybody in the oil and gas industry ever putting the American people or my nation before their personal greed? Where is the stack of facts that I can lean upon - that will have my back - should I say "Trust the oil and gas industry!"???
I am quite sure that America's prisons are full of people who would want me on their parole boards should I display a tendency to believe when that belief must fly in the face of all known facts.
And I sue that comparison knowing full well that my allowing that one unrepentant, unreformed murderer out of prison would not - could not - have nearly the massive negative consequences that have ever accompanied trusting the oil and gas industry.
I'm afraid the Cretins have spewed the lie so long, they believe it themselves. There is NONE so blind as he who WILL NOT see.
They wouldn't recognize the truth if it jumped up and bit them in the mouth.
But if it's any consolation, they will die in their ignorance, right alongside the ones they poison.
Let the owners of the gas companies be the first in line to drink the water they contaminated with diesel fuel and benzene, etc. It's not the first time they were invited to take a drink of the water they contaminated, and they always refuse. If they contaminate the water, then they should be forced to drink it, after all, they don't care that they have poisoned peoples water.
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Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat
The promise of abundant natural gas is colliding with fears about water contamination.
The Story So Far
The country's push to find clean domestic energy has zeroed in on natural gas, but cases of water contamination have raised serious questions about the primary drilling method being used. Vast deposits of natural gas, large enough to supply the country for decades, have brought a drilling boom stretching across 31 states. The drilling technique being used, called hydraulic fracturing, shoots water, sand and toxic chemicals into the ground to break up rock and release the gas.


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Campus-Wide Performance Appraisals
Led by HR, a cross-functional team met this fall, charged with the task of developing a performance management process and appraisal tool that could be used by all non-faculty employees at Augustana. It was a daunting task, but this spring will mark the debut of this new tool and process. The goal is to create consistent performance feedback and discussions to help all employees towards continual improvement.
Managers are currently attending training sessions and are expected to complete all appraisals between March 15 and May 15. An optional self-appraisal is a feature we are encouraging all employees to take advantage of. Employee meetings to offer best practices for the self-appraisal will be offered next week and the first week of April.
ITS created an automated tool that will streamline notification and create robust reporting capabilities. All employees will be evaluated using the same tool, and will have the opportunity to add comments.
Though the task force put much time and effort into creating this new system, some refinements may be necessary once we experience the "real world" of the process. HR looks forward to implementing a tool that fosters greater consistency and open communication about the quality of our employees' work, and will seek your feedback over the summer.
At the bottom of the employee information page, you'll notice the new "Performance Management" bar. This is the entry site for managers to access the database and also contains print and electronic versions of the self-appraisal as well as a performance appraisal worksheet. HR will continue to add resources to this area to help all employees with this new process.
Questions may be directed to Laura Ford at (309) 794-7452.


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ATLANTA -- The most troubling thing to come out of the Falcons' 30-28 victory over Seattle on Sunday might have been the ankle injury to John Abraham.
The veteran defensive end tweaked an already-injured ankle in the second quarter, left the game and did not return. I don't think it's any big coincidence that the Seahawks scored zero points while Abraham was in the game and 28 after he left.
Abraham is, by far, Atlanta's best pass-rusher and a player that any offense has to account for on every play. Backups Cliff Matthews and Jonathan Massaquoi have some potential, but they're not Abraham.
The Falcons need Abraham on the field for Sunday's NFC Championship Game with San Francisco. Immediately after the Seattle game, coach Mike Smith said it was too early to give any projection on Abraham's status.
We'll find out more as the week goes on. But I'm expecting to see Abraham play against the 49ers. He's a competitive guy and, at 34, he knows you don't get too many chances to play in the NFC Championship Game. That's why Abraham is expecting to be ready to go against the 49ers.
"Oh, yeah, you know me, you can't keep me out of that game," Abraham said. "We're going to treat the [heck] out of it."


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