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The effects of alcohol are generally pleasant until they're not anymore, at which point they become blindingly painful and, in some cases, quite dangerous. Whether or not a hard-partying type is struck by a crippling hangover or a sudden desire to text his or her ex is generally dependent on how that individual metabolizes and eliminates alcohol in his or her body. A new study suggests that we could quite easily engineer our tipple to help us break down alcohol faster, reducing that morning-after sensation of intense pain (or intense regret) by simply adding more oxygen to our booze.
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You wake up with an incredible case of cotton mouth and you are very irritable. The sun seems extremely bright and every sound seems heightened to a very uncomfortable degree. Your stomach feels quite queasy and even the thought of food could push you over the line, so that whatever is in your stomach probably won't be for long. You are shaky and limp. Your muscles seem powerless and you have a headache of mammoth proportions. You have a hangover. The newest techniques for this self-inflicted condition involve using oxygen for hangovers.A very lucky 25% of the population will never get a hangover, despite every effort to thwart nature. For the rest of us, a hangover can be a grueling experience. A hangover happens when a person consumes more alcohol than the system can process. This causes stomach irritation, as it lingers in the bowels, and can cause vomiting and diarrhea, both of which leave the body very dehydrated. Alcohol is broken down through the liver, and a main component of this process is oxygen. During a heavy night of drinking, oxygen in the blood is diverted toward the areas that need it, and can result in a lack of oxygen in the brain. This is hypoxia, and that's the lightheadedness you feel during a hangover. It can also lead to headaches, and may hamper the brain's ability to function. Oxygen for hangovers has resulted as a new method for treating these symptoms.Knowing this, more and more hangover sufferers are using oxygen for hangover relief to help overcome the worst symptoms. A greater flow of oxygen into the system can increase metabolism, and will help the liver process the alcohol more quickly. Oxygen helps to detoxify the bloodstream, and will work to relieve the headache, fatigue, and nausea caused by lack of oxygen.Oxygen for hangover treatment was previously only available to those with access to the medical facilities of a hospital or to people who live near an oxygen bar. Now this oxygen therapy is available to everyone via canned oxygen. As a relief for hangovers the convenience of having oxygen on hand at home can only add to the beneficial effects claimed by its users.Oxygen4energy.com sells 99% pure canned oxygen. Most people use canned oxygen for more energy, faster recovery time, greater mental clarity & focus, hangovers, altitude sickness, jet lag, stress.
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COPPERAS COVE — The City Council will review a construction bid of about $1.6 million for the Narrows Technology and Business Park after the city's Economic Development Corporation selected its preferred contractor Thursday.
"The city will be looking at this on Nov. 12," said Polo Enriquez, the corporation's executive director.
Enriquez, who will present Gatesville-based TTG Construction's bid to the council on behalf of the corporation, is anticipating its approval of the item.
"I think this is a great bid," Enriquez said. "It is below our estimate. I think the council will like that, and then they will also like that they are a county company."
The corporation originally estimated the project would cost about $1.8 million.
"I am extremely pleased that the bid came in under projection," said Dan Yancey, the EDC's chairman. "We couldn't ask for anything better."
The Narrows site is undeveloped and sits south of Old Copperas Cove Road and east of Constitution Drive.
As part of the contract, TTG will extend Robert Griffin III Boulevard and create Charles Tillman Way to access the park.
The park is being built to attract businesses that will serve as job creators for the area. The city already zoned the park with a special designation that allows for a variety of businesses, from small manufacturers to operations supporting those businesses.
If the city approves the contractor, the corporation hopes to start construction by early December with completion by May, Enriquez said.

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The ads for both films are generous in sharing a lot of fresh footage, but fail to explain the storyline of the movies.
Another snippet for "Robin Hood" has been aired during Super Bowl XLIV. After the first ad for the film was unveiled by Yahoo! Movies on Thursday, February 4, the second TV spot for the film has come out with new footage which exposes the battle that is faced by the lead actor.
Additionally, "The Back-Up Plan" has also shared some never-before-seen scenes by debuting a Super Bowl spot. This snippet follows a couple who has a strange experience as they witness a woman delivering her baby in a pool.
"Robin Hood" centers its story on Sir Robin Hood of Locksley who tries to free his home village from tyranny and corruption in England. Starring as the titular character is Russell Crowe, with "Gladiator" Ridley Scott serving behind the lens for the upcoming movie, which eyes May 14 release date in the U.S.
"The Back-Up Plan", in the meantime, will see Zoe and Stan whose new relationship faces a real test as the leading lady has been pregnant since they start dating. Playing the couple are Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin, while Alan Poul takes the helming duty. This movie will open wide in theaters across the U.S. on April 16.
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Fresh Picks features the latest luxury properties admitted into the Kiwi Collection. This week, we follow the sun to Blue Diamond Riviera Maya.
Where: In Playa del Carmen along the Riviera Maya, less than an hour from Cancun, yet a world away.
What: In a refreshing palette of white, wood and wicker, the 128 junior suites and suites are studded along river waterways, a Mayan Cenote, and the Mexican Caribbean Sea. All come with either a balcony or terrace, and some feature private docks and pools, like their spectacular beachfront casitas. The luxury all-inclusive offers Nouvelle Fusion cuisine at their Ambar restaurant, and an oceanfront tapas bar, plus a pool bar and cigar lounge. There are also a number of other complimentary extras, including a ocean dive or snorkeling tour and a round of golf. Afterwards, hit up the spa.
Who: Better to ask who can't come here: kids. This resort is adult-only.
Why: See above. Kids are fun and all, but sometimes you just want to enjoy your margarita without getting a pool toy to the head or hearing the squeal of a mini meltdown. Also, let us reiterate that this is an all-inclusive, so that means bottomless drinks. Otra cerveza por favor.


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Well I have a ASUS laptop since 3 years and he stills works perfectly. On the opposite my brother had a Toshiba and after 2 years and 1 month (so just after the guarantee limit) the motherboard just stopped working. And it's the same for my friend's HP.
Well, my HP is 6 years old and it's still working perfectly. Never went to repair anything. Worked everyday on it. Just have to replace it cause I need something more performant.


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Steelers beat Dolphins, but miss playoffs
MIAMI -- The Steelers were hoping their season would end at Land Shark Stadium ... and it did.
However, it was a little premature for their liking.
The venue where Super Bowl XLIV will be held in February is where the defending world champion Steelers' season officially came to a close Sunday.
Even though the Steelers mustered a 30-24 victory over the Miami Dolphins, what they feared most all week came to fruition. The Steelers didn't get the necessary outside help required to make the playoffs. Victories by Houston and Baltimore ensured the Steelers would not get a chance to defend their title.
Houston (9-7) beat New England earlier in the day, and when Baltimore (9-7) held off Oakland during a late afternoon game, the Steelers (9-7) were officially eliminated before their charter plane touched down in Pittsburgh.
"It is disappointing," safety Ryan Clark said. "You look at the schedule before every season and you are like, 'dogfight, dogfight, we should win, dogfight, dogfight ...' Some of those games we thought we had a batter football team but didn't come out with the win."
What will haunt the Steelers until next year is a five-game losing streak, which included losses to oft-beaten teams Kansas City, Oakland and Cleveland.
It proved to be the Steelers' undoing.
"It is disappointing because we shouldn't have even been in this position," wide receiver Hines Ward said. "I am happy we won. We did what we had to do, but we just didn't capitalize on our opportunities in the month of November."
The Steelers went 1-3 in November and lost the first two games of December before ending the season with impressive wins over Green Bay, Baltimore and Miami.
"The season ended on a good note," said wide receiver Santonio Holmes, who caught his fifth touchdown pass of the year in the first quarter. "We won our last three games, so we are definitely excited about that especially knowing that we still had a chance at the playoffs despite losing five straight."
The Steelers had another solid performance yesterday against the Dolphins.
Ben Roethlisberger threw for 220 yards and three touchdowns, and Rashard Mendenhall added 94 yards on the ground. Rookie receiver Mike Wallace caught a pair of passes for 64 yards, including a 54-yard touchdown, and Ward caught eight passes to finish the season with 95.
The defense did allow some big plays in the fourth quarter, much like it did all season, but turned away the Dolphins twice in the final six minutes.
"I think that was good for us going into the offseason on an up rather than a down," Roethlisberger said.
That's how the Steelers will approach this offseason. They will focus on the positives of winning the final three games.
"I mean, let's be real," coach Mike Tomlin said. "There are a lot of teams capable of going 6-10 and facing the circumstances this team was faced with. They knuckled down and hung together."
Players pointed the finger at themselves as the reason they are the first team not to make the playoffs after winning a Super Bowl since the Steelers did it three years ago.
"It is nobody's fault but our own," Clark said. "We can't be upset for Houston wanting to win that game today. We should've had ourselves in better position."
Ward felt the same way.
"When you don't take care of business during the regular season, you find yourself needing a lot of help," Ward said. "Our whole goal every year is to make the playoffs. If we don't make the playoffs and win a Super Bowl ... expectations are high around here."
Cornerbacks snap drought
MIAMI -- It took the entire season, but the streak of futility finally ended.
For the first time this year - some 62-plus quarters - a Steelers cornerback intercepted a pass.
In fact, Deshea Townsend's interception of Chad Henne in the second quarter of Sunday's 30-24 victory over Miami was the first interception for a Steelers cornerback in the regular season since Dec. 14, 2008, against Baltimore, when William Gay picked off Joe Flacco on the final play of the game.
Townsend had an interception in the playoffs a year ago.
"I have always said throughout the season you should at least get some easy ones," Townsend said. "A lot of the other guys get some tips and some overthrows, but for us we didn't get any of those breaks at corner."
Townsend's interception opened the floodgates, relatively speaking. Ike Taylor picked off his first pass in 18 regular-season games when he intercepted Thigpen on Miami'a last offensive play to seal the win.
It was Taylor's first interception since the Dallas game last year.
"We just want to get wins regardless of who makes plays out there," Taylor said.
The Steelers had only nine interceptions all year, but came up with three yesterday.
"That's how some seasons go," Townsend said. "Some times they bounce your way, and some times they don't."
"It hurt to know that we had to depend on someone else to win a ball game when they might not even want us to be in the playoffs."
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Steelers receiver, said when asked about what it felt like needing help from other teams in order to get into the playoffs.
199 -- Yards the Steelers had on their first three drives.
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Update 2 - Enemalta subsidies to be retained, power tariffs will not be raised - Fenech
Updated - Adds PL, Konrad Mizzi reactions -
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said this morning that Labour was trying to deceive the people in the promises it is making to reduce energy tariffs.
The Labour Party, in a reaction, stood by its promises and noted that the government did not know how much electricity imported from the undersea cable would cost.
Speaking at a press conference this morning, Mr Fenech said the PL's 'energy spokesman', Konrad Mizzi, was making conflicting and misleading statements.
He noted that Mr Mizzi had said that a Labour government would not raise the subsidy given to Enemalta - currently €30m. This implied that in order to implement its promise, Labour would have to raise taxes, Mr Fenech said.
He said the subsidies were keeping tariffs stable and the government had decided that they would be retained in the Budget and tariffs would thus not be raised.
The minister noted that Mr Mizzi had also said that Labour would employ cheaper technologies and he had mentioned two. The first was the Sargas proposal for a floating power station about which there were many questions relating to its feasibility, the environmental implications and the fact that it would take five to seven years to commission.
The second option was to use more environment-friendly power generation plants. The government, Mr Fenech said, had carried out studies on using natural gas. However just installing a gas pipeline from Sicily would cost €334m, twice as much as the electricity cable from Sicily. This would put upward pressure on the electricity tariffs even though production of electricity through gas was fractionally cheaper. Furthermore, no one knew how gas prices would fluctuate in the future, particularly in five years' time, the minimum time required for such a project to be commissioned. By that time it was likely that gas prices would be higher than today.
The possibility of building an offshore terminal on Hurd's Bank was being investigated, but the costs would not be much lower than a gas pipeline.
Other options was to use liquefied natural gas, which would require an investment of €275 million to build huge gas tanks in Delimara, ruining the environment. Another option was to use Compressed Natural Gas which would require the purchase of at least three specialised ships and make Malta reliant on them, despite the ravages of the weather and other considerations.This was too risky for security of supply.
Mr Fenech said the government was considering the possibility of a gas pipeline, but only if substantial EU funding was available, thus ensuring that the financial burden was not transferred to the tariffs.
All considered, Mr Fenech said, it was clear that to reduce the tariffs for consumers, a Labour government would have to raise taxes for everyone. The people, he said, should not be deceived.
In a reaction, the Labour Party said Mr Fenech knew nothing about the energy sector.
It said the government had no credible energy policy and Mr Fenech was responsible for the procurement of the €157m BWSC power station which uses heavy fuel oil and does not work yet.
It would be better for the minister to await the PL electoral programme, it added.
The party also reiterated its claim that according to the EU's Autumn Economic Forecast, the government would raise the tariffs again after the election.
In his more detailed reaction, Dr Mizzi said Malta's electricity tariffs were much higher than those of other EU countries and European Union counterparts and this was putting a lot of pressure on both households and industry.
The Prime Minister had the opportunity to invest in a clean gas power station which would have resulted in lower tariffs and a significant improvement in health and well-being. Howeve, Malta had commissioned a power station fueled by heavy fuel oil after changing the country's environmental legislation.
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We just recently gave a talk about using tablets in the classroom for a Lunch and Learn session here at Princeton. The focus was to address how an instructor can not only use their tablet device for their personal life, … Continue reading
Here is the slideshow from our Technology Spotlight Session on Course Blogs. Here's the links to the two handouts for this session (PDFs): Blackboard 9 Blogs.pdf Movable Type Course Blogs at Princeton.pdf


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California Arts Council"The education programs are exemplary, a model for other organizations to follow."
Education as MissionCentral to Pacific Chorale's mission are its award-winning music education programs. Pacific Chorale intends to be a catalyst for the renaissance of choral art and music education. To accomplish that aim, Pacific Chorale has implemented many innovative, comprehensive opportunities for its current and future audiences to expand their appreciation of choral music and the creative process.
Chorus America, the national service organization for professional choruses, has recognized Pacific Chorale in both 1997 and 2015 with awards for exemplary Education and Community Programming. Pacific Chorale also received the 2002 "Outstanding Contributions to Education Award", presented by the Orange County Department of Education.
Our award-winning education programs include:Special Events
Pacific Chorale organizes tailor-made education programs interwoven with major events such as premieres to give students and the public unique access to leading composers and artists.
Pacific Chorale's Choral Festival
This annual summer event unites singers from throughout the community with Pacific Chorale singers and alumni as well as distinguished guest artists in a free public performance.
Pacific Chorale Academy
An award-winning after-school program based on Venezuela's "El Sistema" providing free weekly music instruction and experiences to 4th-6th grade students at participating schools in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.
Concert Previews
Insightful Concert Previews give audiences a richer understanding and deeper appreciation for the repertoire being performed.
Elliot and Kathleen Alexander Memorial Scholarship
Pacific Chorale awards the Elliot and Kathleen Alexander Memorial Scholarship annually to an outstanding choral conducting student at California State University, Fullerton.
Intro to the Arts
Since 1986, Intro to the Arts has enabled more than ten thousand high school choral music students to attend Pacific Chorale concerts free of charge.
Passage to the Arts
Through their innovative Passage to the Arts program, introduced in 1997, Pacific Chorale partners with local social service organizations to provide potentially transformational concert experiences to at-risk youth, people with disabilities and low-income families at no cost.
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Re: unable to FullSimplify
Adam Strzebonski wrote:
> But this has a really huge complexity, and it still doesn't help
Hmm... Built-in FullSimplify performs exceptionally well
most of the time, i.e. it simplifies Expand[(a + b + c + d)^80],
which contains over a million leaves without any problem at all.
But it seems there is really small subset of problematic expressions.
So what's the reason for this problem?
Fundamental math, which prevents universal solution?
Or solution is possible but not desired due to performance reasons?
And the main question - how to fix it without the knowledge
of particular expression. If problematic pattern is rare and
well-defined, maybe it can be made to be "recognized" and
simplified as a "special case" without adding too much complexity?
And thanks for your detailed and insightful replies!


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We had some problems with wireless this morning, so this entry is a bit late. We don't do steenkin' wires.
Yesterday afternoon saw Damian's amazing "Life, The Universe and Everything" talk - where he mixes Conway's (no relation) Life, Klingon, Perl 6, Maxwell's Demonsa and more in a talk that you just had to be there - Damian at his best.
This morning mjd gave his talk on the dirty innards of the regex engine and the identity function. Next was Leon's talk about creating compilers for little languages using Parse::RecDescent or Parse::Yapp and abstract syntax trees; a concept with huge potential. Very exciting stuff.
And finally I had my debut as a Perl conference speaker: A lightning talk on Aspect-Oriented Perl. I was a bit nervous just beforehand, but up on stage, it quickly passed. Even Abigail liked the idea. Bodes well for my first full-fledged talk on "Handling Attributes" at YAPC::Europe.
Speaking of stages, for the last lightning talk, Damian and Brian took the stage to present Inline::Files in a Shakespeare-style play, in which, amongst other things, Damian (or rather, his character) called Brian('s character) the "puppet of an active state". It was an incredible talk and there were standing ovations at the end.
A Perl conference without Damian is no Perl conference.
Now I'm looking forward to the Perl 6 status meeting after lunch. Speaking of which...


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Felicia 'The Poetess' Morris joins Mo'Kelly in studio to introduce Morris Broadcast Media Studios.
The 1800 Square ft. facility features 3 production studios for broadcast & streaming, chroma key (green screen) and audio production. The studio will also house Radiofreqz.com, an urban online entertainment network.
The Poetess' dream is to build a communications and creative hub in the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles that will give voice to the community. The studio will also offer workshops to students that will give them an opportunity to learn radio and digital media.
To make this dream a reality she will need to raise a minimum of $150,000. Funds will cover equipment and operational costs for up to one year. They are accepting sponsorships, monetary donations and studio equipment.
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RTX New Music Beat Down: The Great Divide vs. Turnpike Troubadours [POLL]
In this week's RTX New Music Beat Down we see one of Red Dirt's most legendary bands, The Great Divide go up against one if it's brightest young stars, Turnpike Troubadours. Check out both Okie band's new singles and vote for your favorite.
First up Turnpike Troubadours. These guys have been carving themselves a nice lil' niche in the Texas/Red Dirt scene for over five years now. Three albums in, they seem to be in full stride. Their latest "Goodbye Normal Street" has already produced two hit singles: "Gin, Smoke, Lies" and "Good Lord Lorrie," and is one of my personal favorite of the past year. The third release is "Wrecked" and is challenger number one this week, check it out.
In this corner, a band that inspired their fair share of young impressionable Okie singer/songwriters. The Great Divide front man Mike McClure has literally shaped the sound of music in this scene, producing albums for Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland, Stoney LaRue, Johnny Cooper and yes, even Turnpike Troubadours. After their highly anticipated reunion show last year in Stillwater, The Great Divide are out touring lightly — with McClure splitting time between them, his own band and producing. Here is "Without You."


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Can anybody shed further light on this one, forwarded from the
firstname.lastname@example.com email discussion list on transliteration of Indic
Many thanks in advance
Best wishes
John Clews
Forwarded message follows:
> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 07:41:54 -0400
> From: Anthony P Stone <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Subject: KAN query
> To: Conv-Dev <email@example.com>
> Dear Colleagues
> Unicode / ISO/IEC10646 (at UCS+0CDE) uses the name Kannada Letter
> FA for the obsolete KAN letter which looks like a curly 'w' with
> little loops at its loose ends. F. Kittel identifies this with the
> TAM retroflex fricative which we are transliterating l_macr-b (A
> Grammar of the Kannada Language in English. Mangalore, 1903, p.13).
> On this basis, the correct position in Unicode / 10646 would have
> been UCS+0CB4, but this is empty.
> Why does Unicode / 10646 call it FA?
> Since l_macr-b is obsolete in Kannada, has the sign been given
> a new value?
> Tony
> Dr Anthony P. Stone, Project Leader, ISO/TC46/SC2/WG12
> Transliteration of Indic scripts.
> 20 Harding Close, Redbourn, St Albans, Herts, AL3 7NT, UK.
> Tel: +44 (0) 1582 792 497
> Email: email@example.com Thinking aloud on transliteration:
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/translit.htm
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Mrs. Soher began to dust a secretaire, talking all the while to her niece.
She sat down at the secretaire, and glanced over the page of figures.
secretaire, you see, and abstruse set of solid mahogany pigeon-holes, one for every letter of the alphabet.
And he tapped the veneered top of the secretaire with his forefinger.
Then she pulled out a bunch of keys from her pocket, and tried them, one after the other, on the lock of the secretaire.
She had closed and locked the secretaire and she handed the man the key.
He replaced the papers which had been deranged, and he closed the secretaire.
I replied, "I know nothing about it, except that it was in your secretaire."
It was apparent, therefore, that the secretaire had been set on fire from below.
Don Camillo Monforte was searching among the papers of a secretaire.
cabinet for private papers, 1771, from French secrétaire (13c.), from Medieval Latin secretarius (see secretary). Englished form secretary is attested in this sense from 1803.


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The Demofall show has never had quite the cache of the bigger Demo conference, but it's still a fun time, as startups from across the tech sector give their patented six-minute pitches for why their company's product will change the world.
This year's show will feature 66 companies, with products ranging from core infrastructure to enterprise middleware, security, and mobile and wireless services, said Chris Shipley, executive producer of Demo. "It's a wide-angle lens of what the marketplace is doing now," she said.
Java will be the thread that ties many of the Demo companies together. About 50 percent of vendors involved are offering products based on the platform, Shipley said.
Platform considerations aside, there are a few companies in the "that's just cool" category this year. Among them is BuzzLogic's eponymous technology for performing business intelligence in the blogosphere. BuzzLogic gauges what is being said about a specific product, Shipley said.
Topping the "gee-whiz" category is stealth-mode startup Ringcube Technologies, which will demonstrate its MojoPac virtualization and encapsulation software that allows you to run Windows 2000, XP, or Vista from any USB 2.0-compliant storage device. Simply plug your device into a host computer, and your desktop appears, applications and file system included, with no client to install and no files left behind. Translation: Your iPod is now your desktop.
Jajah, meanwhile, is offering J2ME (Java 2 Mobile Edition) technology that uses VoIP messaging to circumvent long-distance calling charges from cell phones.
With everyone trying to muscle in on Apple's iTunes monopoly, Zing Systems and Sirius Satellite Radio are getting together to create an end-to-end service for music downloads, Shipley said.
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A Fragment - Poem by John Kenyon
Dear H---, it was you who laid it down
That up to Christmas we've no fogs in town;
And then you asked me, as I well remember,
What can the country offer in November?
To which I answer prospects, ne'er more fair,
Stream, wood and valley, seen through smokeless air;
And moon, where'er she ranges, viewed at will,
Or if chance-hidden, not by house—but hill;
And every star, for love on one to fix;
And deep, rich sunsets, between five and six,
That most convenient hour, just ere we dine,
And no bad prelude to wood fires and wine;
And trees, some stripped and some with lingering hues,
From which, at will, our moral we may choose;
And fifty things beside, that joy impart
To the quick fancy or the thoughtful heart.
E'en now I stood by a clear river's brim,
And saw red leaves like golden fishes swim—
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Noble Jones, who cut his teeth directing commercials, videos for Taylor Swift and Mary J. Blige, and handling second unit for David Fincher on The Social Network, hopes to make his feature directing debut on an updated low budget remake of American Psycho. Jones, who was Grammy nominated for his documentary 10 Days Out: Blues From the Backroads, is a Fincher protege who pitched the project months ago to Lionsgate, which holds the remake rights. Jones turned in a script about a month ago, but the project has suddenly become buzzed about because it hit the tracking reports that have become the cornerstone of trade reporting. His take was to tap the Bret Easton Ellis novel and turn it into a down and dirty new version that imagines how yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman would fare in New York today, factoring in how the world has changed since the 2000 film that starred Christian Bale. Noble's repped by WME and Anonymous Content.
Lionsgate Plots Microbudget Remake Of 'American Psycho'
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This is a terrible idea.
Hey, whatever it takes to get Noble Jones into features.
Check out his "Indestructible" video for Disturbed.
Really? Why do people have such bad ideas? I hope this remake doesn't happen
every person hates, hates, hates this idea. I don't give a fuck if this kid is Jesus Christ's protege; he's a fucking idiot for pushing this.
It's ripe for a remake.
Shia LaBeouf, Zac Efron, Ed Westwick, Penn Badgley or Chace Crawford as Patrick Bateman
"Ripe for a remake"? The original came out in 2000!
Jesus I hope that was sarcasm.
Jonah Hill as Patrick Bateman!
"I can eat a thousand now."
Are you serious? Shia LaBeouuf or Zack Efron? Have you read the book or seen the movie? I can't even believe that. Christian Bale filed his teeth to show his dedication to this role I can't see any of those two 'tween' heartthrobs showing half of that dedication to a role. This whole remake is just more proof that Hollywood is drying up and hoping that they can keep doing remakes because the teens and tweens haven't seen the originals so they can pass it off a 'new' movie. Their idea of making it original is to set it to modern times. That pretty much blows the entire book out because the book was set during a specific time period for a specific reason. This whole idea is a joke and if they do make it I hope it flops.
How on Earth does this happen? Wasn't American Psycho a low budget to begin with. Wasn't it impossible to sell to an audience? Is someone just playing favors?
No no no no no no no…NO!
Low budget is not interchangeable with microbudget. Please be more specific. Is the studio spending less than 200K on this script or not?
Microbudget is under $1 mill. $1-5 is low.
I'm a huge fan of the novel and the movie but this? No. Just no.
Once again, proof (as if we needed it) that Hollywood is officially creatively bankrupt. Enough with all the stupid remakes please!
Disagree. It's Hollywood's faith in the moviegoing public to see an original film that is bankrupt.
ANOTHER remake? I'm going to pitch a remake for Hugo and The Iron Lady.
This makes me cry inside…WHYYY??!!!!
Microbudget and low budget are not interchangeable. Please elaborate. Is the studio planning to spend less than 200K on this picture?
A remake of the best live action film ever made? No.
….just say NO.
Still waiting for the Albert Nobbs remake set in modern day with Hilary Swank
Wasn't American Psycho 2 with Shatner and Kunis good enough for these people?
In the new version he kills our economy.
Modern Day setting? Defeats the purpose…
It is a terrible idea. The original is underrated and perhaps Christian Bale's best performance of his career. Given the over top absurdity of the source material it is amazing how well the original ended up. I see no way that this will not be anything but worse or to be so different as to be unrelatable.
I think it is dangerous remaking a well done but only mildly successful film. You risk overshadowing its existence with something inferior. I realize this is going to be a very small budget but I don't see it. My problem is that this guy saw the movie and thought it could be better.
Not even close to CB's best.Not even Empire of the Sun good.
This original movie had very little to do with the book. The movie was defanged compared to the book.
Down and dirty? How much dirtier can it get. It's like remaking the Shining.
It's been done. Granted, it was a three-part telemovie, and I only watched the first 40 minutes, but it made me want to kick puppies.
Instead of rants on Phil Collins and Huey Lewis, we'll get watered down comments on John Mayer and Matchbox 20.
A modern take? Yikes…
Do you like Nickleback?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Dark Horse came out in '08, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Nickelback has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
this is one of the funniest posts i've ever read – like this x 1,000,000
Surely this scene will be the first shown in the trailer to the film.
NOOOOO. Please. Don't do this. I hate you so much. I won't go out of principle. Please, no.
You think ANYONE can outdo Bale's performance in that movie. It is like someone trying to outdo Pacino's Michael Corleone. Psycho had its flaws, but that performance was pitch perfect. You cannot catch that kind of lightening twice.
The Hubris.
Go write something original.
Oh, wait… The excel spreadsheet lovers who now decide what movies get made will only work with "branded titles."
Hollywood is so over. Movies and cinema is over.
Back to my Xbox, where the real quality entertainment product is.
Not only is it impossible to outdo Bale's performance, it's also one of the most imitated performances of that last 10 years. I mean — JEEZ! — a knock-ff of Bateman is in theaters right now — Michael Fassbender is cribbing from Bale in Shame.
i thought to be the one and only to see in Fassbender's Brandon a low-key Bateman!
This is a joke right? Or direct to video?
Yeah, good luck trying to measure up to Bale in this role! It's setting a young actor up for failure.
For the LOVE OF GOD … pleaes NO. This is a great movie and I'd do whatever it takes to NOT have Matt Kaplan ruin it.
I can't stress "NO" enough.
What, so Bateman can kill people out of work, protesting?
It is exactly this kind of soulless (even more than Patrick) enterprise that ENCOURAGES people to download movies illegally. Who would PAY to watch this, or the terrible American Psycho 2?
The original came out swinging, defied expectations and totally rewired Bale's career. What exactly does this dead end reanimation expect to accomplish? Why not remake 'Drive' with Zac Efron?
This is PITIFUL
Let me guess, brainchild of Matt Kaplan. PASS.


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Description: Hello guys, I'm back with some more drawing fun, and this time it's going to be on a lead singer from the band "Evanescence". Just by me writing down that one word tells you who exactly I'm talking about. In fact, just the thumbnail alone gives this lesson away. I guess there is no beating around the bush when it comes to this tutorial, because I'm sure you already know that I will be showing you "how to draw Amy Lee", step by step. I got so many requests to do this musical artist since 2008. But because I wasn't really good at drawing faces or famous people, I never attempted the sketch. Now that I'm better at drawing realistic style, I think I could basically draw any face that is thrown in front of me. Now I'm not promising that it will come out looking fantastic, but I can promise that the sketch will come out looking decent. Anyway, I'm sure almost every member here has heard of the band Evanescence right? Of course you have. Before I get into the succession of the Evanescence, let me talk a little about the singer shall we. First off, her full name is Amy Lynn Lee, and she was born on December 13, 1981 which makes her about twenty eight years old. Amy Lee is not only a singer and songwriter, she is also a very skilled pianist. She is trained to play classical type music on the piano, and just by listening to her play, you know for a fact that she's been playing for a long while. A lot of musical artist label other singers and songwriters as their inspirations. For Amy Lee, her inspirations came from people like Mozart, and Beethoven. She also has other artist of today that she holds as influences too. People like Danny Elfman, Plumb, Bjork, and Tori Amos are among the few musicians that she was influenced by. Her parents moved around a lot which gave Amy plenty of time to write music even when she was eleven years old. She had written a song called "Eternity of the Remorse" at age eleven, and during this time in her life, she had dreams of becoming a classical composer. Once the family settled down in Little Rock, Arkansas, that is when she began creating the band " Evanescence". This all happened during the late nineties, and as she began to make an impression on listening ears, Evanescence became one of the worlds favorite bands. Even today, Amy and her band perform, but instead of the last name Lee, it's now Amy Hartzler. Her last name was changed after she married her long time friend, Josh Hartzler. There is one signature mark that makes her style and look unique, and that is her dark black hair, and her ice grayish blue eyes. Anyway, I think you guys will have fun learning "how to draw Amy Lee", step by step. The tutorial image is not as big as I'd like it to be, which is why I will work on getting the size fixed later. Have fun guys, and be sure to enjoy your drawing day!
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Description: You will start this sketch by drawing out a circle for her head. Since this is just going to be a head sketch, all you have to worry about is drawing Amy's face and hair. You will add the facial guidelines, and then move to the next drawing step.
Step 2.
Description: Using the guidelines you drew in step one, begin sketching out the shapes of her eyes. Notice how the upper ends of the eyelids are darker, and bolder, and they even have some lashes attached too. When the eyes are finished you can then sketch out the beginning lining of her nose.
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Description: Continue to sketch out her eyes including the bottom eyelid, and then draw in her eyeballs, and pupils. Sketch her nicely shaped eyebrows, and then draw in the brow ring that she is best known for. Add some shading to her left eye like you see here for texture, and then draw in her mouth using a light sketch.
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Description: The next thing you are gonna want to do is sketch out the shape of her face which is very form fitting. Once that is done you can begin sketching out her hair and hair line like you see here. Add some shading around her eyes, and then shade in the cliff under her nose. Next, add some detailing and definition to her lips.
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Description: You will begin shading in the entire surrounding area of her face and head. This is going to be her hair style. Add some touches of smudged white lining to add shine to her hair, and then sketch out the ends of her hair style as well.
Step 6.
Description: All you need to do now is sketch out that one piece of bang that is hanging to the left of her face. Erase the lines and shapes that you drew in step one to clean up your sketch.
Step 7.
Description: Now that you are done, your drawing of Amy Lee is finished and it's looking good. Great job everyone, I hope you learned something new today, as well as a good time.
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Behavior of a child should always be closely monitored during his/her early development. Sometimes signs of several personality disorders tend to show up early in life. Proper monitoring of the child's behavior helps to identify the signs and properly diagnose the condition if the child is suffering from any potential personality disorder.
Here are a few facts you should keep in mind:
- You might often find it difficult to differentiate between the normal and abnormal behavior of your child. You might consult the pediatrician in this case to compare the child's general behavioral patterns with that of other children in the same age group.
- It is very important to understand your child's development process. It helps you to interpret his/her behavior and to identify signs of personality disorder.
- There are a few common behavior patterns, which tend to act as a guide to understanding the behavior of your child. Some of these patterns should be encouraged as they lead to proper behavioral development of your child while patterns of negative behavior should be discouraged.
- You should also consult a doctor if your child shows negative behavior persistently even after disciplining measures.
- Being polite, doing chores on a regular basis, following instructions should be encouraged and rewarded as it helps in the proper personality development of your child.
- Behavioral patterns like an inclination towards defensive, regressive and aggressive behavior should not be encouraged but can be tolerated in certain situations like illness or in times of stress.
- Behavioral patterns like an increased inclination to violence or an excessive competitive attitude towards their siblings should never be allowed.
- Prejudice or racism, stealing or inclination towards substance abuse, angry outbursts point towards problems in the child's mental, physical or social well-being. You are also advised to take your child to a psychological expert to find out whether he/she is suffering from any sort of behavioral disorder.
- Your behavior also plays a major role in development of your child and his/her behavioral patterns. It is often seen that if a child is subjected to excessive physical, mental or emotional abuse or is engaged in too many curricular and extracurricular activities, he/she is likely to develop several behavioral disorders over time.
I am 74 years old and I suffer from ed. I take vigora when I make sex. I take 15 days once. Can I increased per week? Will it increase sugar level. It will effect my health. Please advise.
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(Stomach pains below the ribs, pain in lower stomach (comes and goes stays for 10 to 30 mins), gas problems), (Head Ache on one side sometimes with pain in eyes (Migraine diagnosed) with Stiff Neck). I am just 22 years old and have no smoking, drinking habits and avoid junk foods.
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Sleep is the best reliever of all stress and physical pain. Not only is it important to get sleep, but also to sleep soundly and without any disturbance. The quality matters. Here are a few tips to get better sleep:
- It is important to maintain the same sleep schedule every single day. This helps to naturalize your body clock and get the best quality sleep.
- Switch off all mobile phones, laptops and other electronic devices. Their artificial glow not only hampers your eyesight, but also prolongs the amount of time your body takes to relax and fall off to sleep.
- If your back pain causes you to continually wake up in the middle of the night in discomfort, then sleep with a pillow or cushion between your legs so as to straighten out your back and relieve pent up stress.
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- Make sure your room is nice and dark so as to stimulate the secretion of a hormone called melatonin that is regulated by light exposure. Darker the room, greater melatonin, making you more sleepy.
- Those who exercise regularly and well are known to be fitful sleepers. Exercise well before bedtime. If required, do some light yoga or stretching exercises that promote sleep.
- What you eat throughout the day makes a difference to the quality of your sleep. Stay away from too much caffeine, alcohol, or a heavy meal just before sleeping. They only make you stay awake for longer and may cause heartburn or stomach trouble. Don't drink too much water, or else you will be making more midnight trips to the bathroom than clocking those sleep hours.
- Try to keep your head clear of all worries and stress when in bed. Regular meditation and deep breathing can help.
There is no end to all the things you can do to sleep well and comfortably. It is important to be self-disciplined to sleep well and hence be a healthy individual.
In most diseases, early detection of the disease is the key to control the symptoms, cure, reduce progression and improve prognosis. This holds true for sexually transmitted diseases too. As soon as there is a mild degree of suspicious of having contracted a sexually transmitted disease, it is advisable to go for a test. Most of the STDs can develop into serious complications over a period of time, ranging from infertility to even death.
Complications: Why early diagnosis is important: When left undiagnosed and untreated, most STDs progress to cause severe damage from sterility to cancer to even death. Listed below are some complications associated with each of the common STDs.
- Chlamydia: If left untreated, can lead to epididymitis and testicles shrinking and infertility in males. This is a condition where there is pus formation in the scrotum. In women, it can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease which is deep-seated and unable to cure completely. This brings with it symptoms ranging from abdominal pain to uterine infections to sterility.
- Syphillis: Undiagnosed syphilis can lead to blindness and deafness. It can also be passed onto the newborn and lead to severe disabilities.
- Gonorrhea: If diagnosed early, it can be cured completely with antibiotics. However, if left untreated, it can lead to infertility.
- HIV/AIDS: Early diagnosis can help in curtailing the disease. If detected late, then the damage is quite extensive and treatment is both expensive and cannot help restore a lot of functions.
Symptoms of Sexually transmitted diseases: If there is a doubt of having contracted an STD, then it is very important to get tested for the same. Some of the most common symptoms are listed below.
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- Men: Testicular pain, urethral pain, painful urination, pain and inflammation in the prostate, sores, fever, and abdominal pain.
Prevention: Always practice safe sexual practices. When in doubt, refrain from sex until diagnosis and treatment is complete.
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2. Testing HIV-- Kits and ELISA available for testing
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4. Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea - from urine as well as swabs for culture
It is understandable that getting tested for STDs is an embarrassing situation. However, there are options available where anonymity can be maintained when getting tested for STDs. This is a wise choice to make as the risk is not just for the person affected but for the partner and in some cases even for the fetus. Early testing can help prevent complications like infertility and cancer.


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The 'X Factor (US)' judge sings her upbeat poppy love song as the lyrics appear in front of the scenery of a circus.
Demi Lovato has just unveiled the lyrics video for "Made in the USA", the second single off her latest album, "Demi". The video gives glimpses at the situation in a circus where there are a ferris wheel, tents, clown and several attractions as the lyrics pop up on the screen.
"No matter how far we go, I want the whole world to know/ I want you bad, and I wont have it any other way," she sings. "No matter what the people say/ I know that we'll never break/ Cause our love was made, made in the USA."
"Made in the USA" is the follow-up to "Heart Attack". The single is set to debut on Top 40 radio on June 27. Lovato revealed that a music video for the patriotic love song was on the way with her making a directorial debut in it. She didn't set specific release date for the music video, but fans expect it to drop sometime in July.
Lovato, whose biological father passed away over the weekend, recently thanked her fans for their support, tweeting, "I feel so humbled to have had so much support from my fans, friends, family and complete strangers.. God bless you all, thank you so much."
The 20-year-old singer will next be seen headlining "Good Morning America" Summer Concert Series on Friday, June 28.
Demi Lovato's "Made in the USA" lyrics video


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Last week, the Northern Border Regional Commission announced it will award #1,356,000 in grant funding to improve infrastructure and to encourage private sector investments in six Maine communities. These investments include two communities in Franklin County, Jay and Kingfield. Jay will receive $250,000 to upgrade a portion of a municipal roadway and encourage private investment in an adjacent quarrying operation and granite curbing plant. Kingfield is set to receive $247,000 to partially fund upgrades to the municipalities aging wastewater pump stations that will support the town's expanding downtown businesses. This is fantastic news for these two communities and the surrounding areas!
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Site tours can be arranged, and additional information requested, including deed restrictions, can be obtained by calling Rhonda Irish at 207- 645-4961 at the Wilton Town Office. The full RFP can be viewed here
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Update: Lime Gulch fire at 600 acres, thirty structures could be in blaze's path
Update: Yesterday, the Lime Gulch fire in southern Jefferson County seemed poised for enormous growth given its remote location and hot, dry weather that concerned firefighters.
Fortunately, the blaze's growth was rather modest. It only increased in size from 500 acres to 600 acres, with no homes damaged or injuries sustained. Yet plenty of dangers remain. The fire is still largely uncontained, conditions continue to be worrisome, and a slew of structures could be at risk if it really starts running.
The federal Inciweb.org page dedicated to the Lime Gulch fire estimates containment at just 5 percent, due in part to the area where it gained a foothold.
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Authorities believe it sparked to life due to thunderstorms that rolled through the area in the Conifer vicinity on Tuesday night.
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Fire crews from the U.S. Forest Service and other local agencies responded quickly and aggressively. But the hazardous terrain might it tough for firefighters to even reach the fire, let alone begin to subdue it.
That necessitated the implementation of aerial resources to supplement those on the ground.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Jacki Kelley at a press conference yesterday.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
The plan calls for crews to start establishing containment lines around the fire, with the goal of keeping it south of the North Fork South Platte River and west of the South Platte River.
Meanwhile, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office issued a mandatory evacuation notice for residents living within a three-mile radius of Cathedral Spires.
The Inciweb page calculates 410 land line phones were contacted in that zone, with another 859 land lines received calls in areas on pre-evacuation alert status -- a one-mile radius around the intersection of South Pleasant Park Road and Kuehster Road, as well as a one-mile radius of Spring Creek Ranch.
Here are the road closures in impacted Jefferson County areas, as well as Douglas County:
Intersection of HWY 285 and Foxton Road is only accessible to local residents
Intersection of Foxton Road and Running Deer is closed
Intersection of South Platte River and Southwest Platte River (Two Forks) is closed
Intersection of HWY 126 and Buffalo Creek is closed
Waterton Canyon is closed
Intersection of HWY 67 and South Platte River is only accessible to local residents Nighthawk is closed
Also, access to the Colorado Trail off Highway 126 is closed at present.
The 283 personnel working Lime Gulch right now are doing their best to keep the conflagration from heading toward what 9News estimates at twenty to thirty structures that could be in the fire's path. Meanwhile, residents throughout the metro area who can see the fire's plume and smell the smoke it's spewing out will continue watching closely for any sign of gathering momentum.
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Continue for more photos and video of the Lime Gulch fire, followed by our original coverage.
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U.S. Forest Service
Continue for our original post about the Lime Gulch fire, including photos, videos and more. Original post, 6:43 a.m. June 20: After more than a week, the Black Forest fire in El Paso County is 95 percent contained, allowing the focus to shift to repair and recovery. But there's no rest for the weary: Firefighters are currently battling a new blaze in southern Jefferson County.
Dubbed the Lime Gulch fire, it's already consumed 500 acres and forced evacuations. And because it's in a remote area, the conflagration's both difficult to attack and poised for growth today, when temperatures are predicted to be high and fire conditions are dangerous. Get photos, videos and details below.
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The federal government has already taken over management of the fire, and is updating the public on a specially designated Inciweb.org page. According to the site, the fire is near the community of Foxton on Pike National Forest land.
Yesterday, air support was being provided by two heavy tankers and a Type 1 helicopter -- and more airborne assistance has been ordered for today. Also coming is another fire team, this one based in Dallas. The crew is slated to take command of the operation at 6 p.m. today.
In the meantime, an evacuation has been ordered for residents in a three-mile radius of South Foxton and River roads.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, which is doing a good job of informing folks about the progress of the fire on its Facebook page, offers this map featuring the evacuation area, seen in gray:
Click to enlarge.
At this point, we have no reports about homes or structures lost -- or, more importantly, injuries or fatalities. But the smoke plume is clearly visible to a populous portion of southern Jefferson County (I can see it clearly from my house, in the Ken-Caryl Ranch area), causing plenty of frayed nerves to go along with the partially blackened air.
Look below to see more photos of the fire courtesy of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, followed by a number of videos.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Continue to see more photos and videos of the Lime Gulch fire.
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Continue to see more photos and videos of the Lime Gulch fire.
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RFA Report Shows Ethanol a Minor Factor in Land Use Changes
Date Posted: November 12, 2008
Washington, DC—The amount of agricultural land required to produce 15 billion gallons of grain ethanol in the United States by 2015, as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), is likely to be less than 1 percent of total world cropland, according to a new report released November 12 by the Renewable Fuels Association.
According to the report, "Understanding Land Use Change and U.S. Ethanol Expansion," gains in agricultural productivity, coupled with the contribution of feed produced as an ethanol co-product, are expected to significantly mitigate the need for conversion of non-agricultural lands to support expanded U.S. biofuels production.
"Using unsupported assumptions, imprecise economic models, and questionable logic, some have suggested growth in U.S. biofuels like ethanol would indirectly cause significant conversion of forest and grassland to agriculture in the United States and abroad," said the report.
Moreover, there is no empirical evidence demonstrating land conversion abroad is a result of U.S. biofuels production.
"Unfortunately, the current state of land use change science is far from conclusive and no consensus exists on how best to analyze the potential indirect land use impacts of expanding biofuels production," continued the report.
In addition to examining projections from Informa Economics on future global agriculture land use, the RFA report cites studies and findings by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other researchers and research organizations. The report analyzes historical cropland and crop utilization trends, explores the complex and multifaceted nature of land use changes, and discusses the uncertainty of current land use change modeling approaches.
The debate over the causes and effects of land use change has serious implications for the future of the U.S. biofuels industry.
As required by EISA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is establishing a methodology for determining the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the production of various biofuels, including GHGs from so-called indirect land use changes.
According to the RFA report, the models currently used by EPA and others to assess potential indirect land use changes unfortunately "... have numerous limitations and cannot possibly predict with any certainty the extraordinarily complex causal interactions that drive land use change decisions."
As the report notes, several factors must be considered by those seeking to accurately determine the causes of direct and indirect land use changes.
Those factors include:
Minimal use of farmland for biofuels production.
"Despite increases in the amount of coarse grains being used for ethanol, the amount of land dedicated to coarse grains (corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, rye, and millet) production globally has decreased over the past 30 years.
"Global area for coarse grains has decreased 8 percent since 1980, while world grain ethanol production has increased dramatically. Global coarse grains area peaked at 349 million hectares in 1981 and is estimated at 313 million hectares in 2008," according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In fact, the total net amount of cropland dedicated to American ethanol production in 2007 was just 0.6% of total cropland worldwide, an area roughly the size of West Virginia.
Global agriculture's increasing productivity is meeting rising demand.
Production agriculture, particularly in the United States, has dramatically increased its productivity through the use of technology. For example, using average global corn yields from 40 years ago (1967), more than 330 million hectares would be required to produce the world corn crop grown on 158 million hectares in 2007.
In other words, it would have taken more than twice as much land in 1967 to grow a crop equivalent in size to the 2007 world corn crop.
Arable farmland is available for sustainably increased production.
Though it seems unlikely that significant amounts of land will be needed to support future growth of the U.S. biofuels industry, vast amounts of land are available, if needed, for agricultural expansion.
A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. found:
"There is still potential agricultural land that is as yet unused.
"At present some 1.5 billion [hectares] of land is used for arable and permanent crops, around 11 percent of the world's surface area.
"A new assessment by FAO and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) of soils, terrains and climates compared with the needs of and for major crops suggests that a further 2.8 billion [hectares] are to some degree suitable for rainfed production.
"This is almost twice as much as is currently farmed." Together with increases in productivity, global agriculture can continue to meet demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel.
Ethanol feed co-products contribute substantially to the global feed market and provide a considerable land use "credit."
One hectare of corn used for ethanol produces more than 1000 gallons of fuel as well as an amount of feed equivalent to the volume of corn coming from 30 percent of a corn dedicated hectare and the amount of soybean meal from 50 percent of a soybean dedicated hectare.
Many factors drive land use changes around the world.
"One of the primary causes of global environmental change is tropical deforestation, but the question of what factors drive deforestation remains largely unanswered."
Helmut Geist, one of the world's foremost experts on deforestation. H. J. Geist, E. F. Lambin, BioScience. February 1, 2002.
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No more secrecy -- Christmas must be destroyed!
Research ››› ››› SIMON MALOY
This is both a confession and a call to arms. For the past several years, I have been secretly involved in a secret scheme to secretly force religion -- Christianity, in particular -- from the public square. This secret has been laid bare, however, so now I can publicly and proudly proclaim that I am a member of the secular-progressive plot pithily dubbed "The War on Christmas," and have been authorized by the founder and leader of this movement, George Soros, to acknowledge its existence and call upon our fellow Christmas-haters to make themselves known and to take our no-longer secret campaign to the streets. Down with Christmas!
This is both a confession and a call to arms. For the past several years, I have been secretly involved in a secret scheme to secretly force religion -- Christianity, in particular -- from the public square. This secret has been laid bare, however, so now I can publicly and proudly proclaim that I am a member of the secular-progressive plot pithily dubbed "The War on Christmas," and have been authorized by the founder and leader of this movement, George Soros, to acknowledge its existence and call upon our fellow Christmas-haters to make themselves known and to take our no-longer secret campaign to the streets. Down with Christmas!
We have to give credit where credit is due. If it weren't for the dogged investigations of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, as well as John Gibson's scathing exposé, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought (Penguin, 2005), average American Christians wouldn't have thought there even was a "War on Christmas," and they certainly wouldn't have thought it was worse than they didn't think it was. And while I reluctantly concede that they blew the lid off all our clandestine activities, I have to admit that I am a little puzzled at, and certainly suspicious of, just how accurate they were in explaining our tactics and motives.
I remember when the anti-Christmas movement first got started. Soros had just finished discussing with Hillary Clinton how they were going to use their Mafia connections to control the Democratic Party, and they had concluded that in order to implement all of the secular-progressive policies we hold so dear, we first had to eliminate religion in the United States -- just like Hitler had in Germany, and Stalin in Russia. With religion in place, there was no way we could ever hope to see three gay cousins marrying each other while legally smoking hashish next to the deathbed of their euthanized grandfather. So we secretly declared war on Christianity and decided that Christmas would be the central front in this war, wrongly assuming that it was the most Christian of all the Christian holidays. (Turns out that's Easter. Oops!)
We even formulated a three-tiered structure to ensure that the plan would be effectively implemented. Basically, Soros would give a whole bunch of money to the American Civil Liberties Union so it could file lawsuits and intimidate everybody who said "Merry Christmas" in public, and websites like Media Matters would attack and demonize anyone who dared to speak in defense of the holiday. It was perfect. We even had an inspirational quote from Ebenezer Scrooge on the wall of the Christmas war room: "If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"
Well, you can imagine our surprise when O'Reilly, on the November 28, 2005, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, said:
O'REILLY: Just a reminder: George Soros and Peter Lewis are the far-left, secular-progressive billionaires who have funded -- they pour money into the ACLU, they pour money into the smear websites, you know, they buy up a lot of the media time. And they basically want to change the country from a Christian-based philosophical country to a secular-progressive country like they have in Western Europe. OK? Now, the ACLU is their legal arm, and the smear websites are their media arm. And they pour a lot of money into both. And the ACLU runs around the country suing everybody and intimidating people.
O'REILLY: And in tandem, you use your left-wing smear websites to go after anybody who stands up for Christmas. If you stand up for Christmas, they come after you. So the tandem intimidates. The tandem intimidates. Suing on one hand; smearing on the other hand.
O'REILLY: There's a very secret plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, "Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy in the USA because we want X, Y, and Z." They'll never ever say that. But I'm kind of surprised they went after Christmas because it's such an emotional issue.
O'REILLY: In every secular-progressive country, they've wiped out religion.
O'REILLY: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, all of them. That's the first step. Get the religion out of there, so that we can impose our big-government, progressive agenda.
Gibson was also onto us. He wrote on Page 160 of his book:
The war on Christmas is worse than I thought -- and perhaps than you thought, because it's really a war on Christianity. In all the dramas described here that have played out over bans on the public celebration of Christmas, the plaintiff's reason is always that Christmas is Christian, and symbols of Christianity can't be permitted in public places.
I really don't know how Gibson figured this out. I can only assume that he is incredibly crafty. In fact, John Gibson is so crafty that he covered all his bases by writing in the book's introduction that the "War on Christmas" was worse than he or anyone else thought for the exact opposite reason he described in the above passage. From Page xviii of The War on Christmas:
You might think that the war on Christmas is being fought on the grounds that overtly religious symbols in public -- such as nativity scenes and crosses -- violate the separation of church and state that many judges have read into the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
But again, you'd be underestimating the war on Christmas. It's worse than you think. Liberals' attacks now focus on symbols regarded by most Americans -- and even by the Supreme Court of the United States (in its Lynch v. Donnelly ruling) to be secular symbols of the federal holiday that is Christmas. Wannabe constitutional lawyers in local government offices all over the country are declaring unconstitutional normal and traditional Christmas representations such as Christmas trees, Santa Claus, treetop stars, wreaths, the singing of and listening to Christmas carols or Christmas instrumental music, attending a performance of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, the publication of the word "Christmas" itself, and even the colors red and green!
Do you see how tricky this is? I wonder now why we ever thought we could keep the plan concealed from these guys.
Fox News had figured out our game, so we decided that it was time to get some of the media on our side. Given that the entire mainstream press is liberally biased (whoops, another cat out of the bag), we had our pick of literally thousands of media outlets through which to hammer home our secret, anti-Christmas message. The only catch was that we had to choose an outlet that was far-reaching and influential enough to effectively counter Fox News. Almost immediately, we chose the media in Madison, Wisconsin -- not only because of their reach, but also because they privately worship Satan, and we figured that Satanists would be an effective ally in a campaign against Christianity.
But, again, O'Reilly was on to our scheme from the get-go. He nailed us on the December 2, 2005, edition of The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: All right, well, listen, Jackson, we respect your opinion, but you're dead wrong on this one. Now --
JACKSON BAIN: Well, maybe.
O'REILLY: -- in the South, Richmond Times[-Dispatch], for example.
BAIN: Right.
O'REILLY: Now, this is a conservative city, Richmond. I mean, this is not Madison, Wisconsin, where you expect those people to be communing with Satan up there in the Madison, Wisconsin, media.
BAIN: Sure.
O'REILLY: All right, but not in Richmond. Richmond. "Bill O'Reilly: Christmas Lies Under Siege. Unless defended, it could even disappear." That's a lie, and they know it's a lie.
The whole thing was beginning to unravel. It seemed as though O'Reilly and Gibson were two steps ahead of every effort at secrecy we tried to make. But there remained one great hope. Our attempts to covertly destroy Christmas through litigation and the media had been exposed, but there was still one key medium we could exploit -- retail. While it is possible to kill Christmas with just lawsuits and editorials, we figured out that the best way to significantly damage the holiday is to make sure that storefront displays and employees at big retail chains, as well as online stores at big news organizations, use only the phrase "Happy Holidays." This phrase is remarkably insulting to Christians, and if it is repeated enough times to shoppers, they will eventually forget that there is a specific holiday known as "Christmas."
But we just couldn't beat back O'Reilly's Yuletide of truth:
O'REILLY: See, I think you're, I think you're crazy. And here's why. I think the backlash against stores that don't say "Merry Christmas" is enormous because now people are aware of the issue. There's going to be -- it's like the third or fourth year that we've reported it. I know everybody's hypersensitive about are they going to say "Merry Christmas"? Are they going to say "Happy Holidays"? What are they going to say? Are there decorations that say "Merry Christmas"? They're hypersensitive. And when you walk into a secular environment, most Christians are looking around, and they're really aware of it. Now, the other thing is, I don't believe most people who aren't Christian are offended by the words "Merry Christmas." I think those people are nuts. I think you're crazy if you're offended by the words "Merry Christmas."
The final nail in the coffin was hammered in just recently, when our top-secret "Operation Crate & Barrel" was compromised. Crate & Barrel was our last and most promising retail stronghold. Not only do they hate Christmas, they also allow people of non-Christian faiths to practice freely in their stores. The double whammy of a shopping environment that is both Christmas-free and non-Christian is more than even the most stalwart defender of Christmas can withstand. Unfortunately, fate and the Transportation Security Administration intervened, and six imams were removed from an airplane in Minnesota after other passengers saw them praying in the airport terminal. This gave O'Reilly the hook he needed to tear us down for the last time:
O'REILLY: In the "Impact" segment tonight, most American retail stores are saying "Merry Christmas", as we mentioned, but not Crate & Barrel and Best Buy. Incredibly, Crate & Barrel spokesperson Cathy -- I'm sorry, Betty Kahn -- Betty Kahn told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, quote, "We would definitely not be saying [sic] Merry Christmas." Wow.
Also in Minneapolis, six Muslim clerics booted off a US Airways jet because some passengers were nervous. The men were handcuffed, questioned for more than five hours before being released.
O'REILLY: I don't know. Maybe the imams who got thrown off the plane shop there.
MICHELLE MALKIN: Well, there you go.
O'REILLY: All right? I bet you they wouldn't get handcuffed in Crate & Barrel if they started chanting stuff.
There you have it. Fox News has exposed every last shady piece of our secret campaign to kill Christmas. Now we must continue the "War on Christmas" in full view of the public, and figure out just how it was that Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson had such intimate and detailed knowledge of our plans and tactics. Were they leaked secret documents? Not likely. Gibson does not condone reporting based on "embarrassing" leaked documents. Did they have a mole operating on the inside? Probably not. O'Reilly only assigns undercover correspondents to report on college sex parties. And yet, they must have had solid evidence and unimpeachable facts to make the assertions and linkages highlighted above. I mean, they can't just be making all this up ... right?
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