text: Around this time of year, the average person in Seattle craves light with an intensity approaching the sexual. Three artist-curators want to give it to you: Susan Robb, Sierra Stinson, and Jim Demetre have organized ONN/OF, an entire weekend of art, performance, installation, projection, music, food, drink, and workshops, all involving sweet, sweet light. The list of participating artists is all-star, including Claude Zervas, Katy Stone, Rebecca Cummins, Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Emily Pothast, No Touching Ground, Dumb Eyes and we could go way on. Let your pupils shrink for once this winter. (The Sweater Factory, 1415 NW 52nd St, www.onnof.us, 4 pmmidnight, free before 7 pm/$5 after. Also Sun Jan 29, noon7 pm, free)


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Pendleton is at great risk of losing its airport due to lack of use.
Pendleton is at great risk of losing its airport due to lack of use.
Potentially hundreds of loaded handguns could be making it aboard commercial flights every day, rattling the nerves of many frequent flyers, as once again they have reason to question the safety of airline travel.
Earlier last week, Transportation Security Administration baggage screeners unknowingly permitted the vice president of the New Orleans Hornets, Joshua Richardson, to board a flight to Newark, New Jersey, with a loaded .38 caliber pistol in his carry-on baggage. It was not until Richardson attempted to board a flight back to New Orleans that officials were made aware of the mistake.
Perhaps once and for all the fate of Vista Field will be decided.
Good morning all, up and at em'. Time for your Nikki Jeans trivia question. $10 coffee card up for grabs. Good luck, answer and winner at 8:20
Today, old people shooting each other, and a women removes her brain and makes a phone call to her Husband's employer. Listen to these gems and you will feel way better about yourself. We do the gump file 5 times a week at 6:10, so tell everyone you know to listen. Enjoy.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- First, Peter Forsberg watched as his
retired jersey No. 21 was lowered from the rafters at Kempehallen.
Then, after getting a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd,
the locked-out Colorado Avalanche superstar responded by setting up
the first goal and scoring the second on another power-play as his
old hometown team Modo routed Lulea 6-2 Thursday night in the
Swedish Elite League.
"We got off to a great start with two power-play goals. I think
we played much better than in the (league) opener," said Forsberg,
refering to a 3-3 tie with Brynas on Tuesday.
Forsberg, considered the world's best hockey player, had not
played a competitive game in his hometown of Ornskoldsvik in
northern Sweden for 10 years, or 3,544 days.
Modo has a star-studded team with seven locked-out NHLers, among
them Vancouver Canucks twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin. Tommy Salo, a
former NHLer who was Sweden's biggest hero along with Forsberg 10
years in the Olympic final against Canada, is the goalie.
But two other locked-out players, Vancouver sniper Markus
Naslund, who is Forsberg's boyhood buddy and the best goal scorer
in the NHL the two past seasons, and Niklas Sundstrom reportedly
will not play for Modo until early January because of tax reasons.
Forsberg, a seven-time NHL all-star and a former NHL MVP, is one
of Sweden's most popular athletes ever. He grew up playing for
Modo's junior teams. His contract with the Avs expired this summer,
making him an unrestricted free agent, but he left the window open
for an NHL return.
Forsberg has a Stanley Cup ring, Olympic and world championship
gold medals, NHL MVP honors and an NHL rookie of the Year award,
and is one of Europe's richest athletes. But he still lacks a
Swedish hockey league gold.
That was the main reason he decided to play the entire season
for Modo, even if the NHL season is saved.
Ornskoldsvik, a seaport with about 31,000, is located halfway
between the Swedish capital Stockholm and the Arctic Circle. Two
weeks ago, Forsberg announced that he will help finance a new
6,500-seat hockey arena in the city, which will be Modo new home
ice when it is completed in 2006.
Forsberg's father Kent, a former Swedish national team coach, is
in charge of the Modo team this year. Last summer, they financed
Ornskoldsvik's new golf course.
Elsewhere, Henrik Zetterberg had one goal and one assist as his
former Swedish club Timra edged Brynas 4-3.
Zetterberg led all rookies in scoring with the Detroit Red Wings
in 2002-03 and was runner-up for the Calder Trophy, which is given
to the NHL's rookie of the year.
Miika Kiprusoff, who helped the Calgary Flames to last season's
Stanley Cup finals against eventual champion Tampa Bay Lightning
and his native Finland to the recent World Cup of Hockey finals
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Why it should be Sir Van the Man for our star of County Down
One of the best photographs taken at the golf didn't even involve the golf. It was a picture taken in an hotel room of two of our greatest stars (and don't we now have a real rack of them in this place right now?) Rory McIlroy stands on one side, arms folded, that familiar cheery grin on his face.
Beside him, in much the same pose - but without the grin - is Mr Van Morrison. The arms here are more tightly clenched to the chest. At first glance the look on Van's face would suggest the grim demeanour of a man about to do battle with a traffic warden who's just ticketed him for being two minutes over.
And then you look at his eyes and you see ... mirth. Morrison is poking fun. Perhaps even at his own crotchety image.
He recently gave an interview (he doesn't do a lot of those) in which he remarked that commentators who call him grumpy and dour are well off the mark. It's they who need to get a sense of humour, he said.
He may have a point. For all the many, many millions of words that have been written about our greatest living legend (and he is) how much do people really know about the real Van the Man?
It's easy to pigeon-hole someone whose face (and a lot of us share this problem) is glum by default setting.
In that golf picture, though, Morrison belies his image of dour. Beside him young McIlroy is certainly enjoying the moment. There's a shared joke.
Rory may not have left Royal County Down with yet another sporting trophy. But the show he helped put on and the massive, open-hearted response of all those other local stars of sport, stage, screen and pantomime who rallied to make it the outstanding success it was, is an absolute credit to him. To all of them.
This small country has produced stars, real genuine-carat mega-stars of such amazing grace who remember the place they come. And never fail to do their bit to promote it.
And chief among them is the daddy of them all, Van Morrison.
Parsimonious he may be with his interviews, but Morrison is outstandingly generous with his contribution to local charity, with his time, with his music and with his heart.
In giving back to the place that nurtured and shaped him, he is truly an inspiration to that new generation following in his footsteps.
So why you have to wonder, has his contribution not been officially recognised? Possible answer - perhaps he has already been offered a gong and turned it down. But he has graciously accepted a major award for contribution to the arts.
Morrison is not an easy celeb. He doesn't play the game. Not the fame game anyway. He's happy to talk about his music but wants to keep the shutters down on his private life. Given the insatiable public interest on figures in the spotlight that was never going to be easy. How especially hellish it must have been for such a private man when his personal life has been peeled bare.
His career has been a dazzling one. Few of his generation have had a greater impact on the music of our time. In his lifetime, the boy with no advantages except his genius, has travelled a long, long way from Hyndford Street. But in coming home again he appears to have found a sense of peace.
In that picture with young McIlroy there's a reflection of that. And of the kindliness and support he has shown to other youthful stars from here. Morrison has never forgotten his roots.
So how come he has never received the official recognition lavished on others? How come it's still not Sir Van?
He is our greatest living star in every sense and a truly great man. Time we properly paid tribute to the brilliant Van the Man of the people.
No anarchy with this young man
Walking along the street the other day I was almost annihilated by a teenage lad running for the bus.
Say what you like about this surly youth but this one was a gentleman. Red in the face, he couldn't stop apologising. "I'm so, so sorry," he kept repeating. He was so polite. So mortified.
So I had a little smile as he walked off down the street and I got a good look at the slogan on his hoodie. Sons of Anarchy it read.
In this case an especially courteous Son of Anarchy.
Sam Cam's a right picture for beach
Sam Cameron is (hurrah!) beach body ready. Even though this very concept led to recent protests against an offending ad on the London Tube, it still excites the beauty editors.
Updating us on Samantha's beach body readiness, one report outlines how good she looked in her bikini when she was snapped in a resort in Ibiza "looking at ice cream". How does she do it, the same article asked? Who knows?
But maybe part of the trick is that Mrs C confines herself to just "looking at ice-cream".
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Respectmyplanet.org (RMP) is a Michigan based 501(c)3 organization dedicated to water conservation through smarter energy production & waste management logistics. RMP, like many environmental groups, advocates for the increased adoption of wind energy and solar energy to meet the world's energy needs. RMP advocates for the adoption of fuel cell electric vehicles for cleaner air, a stronger economy, and energy independence. RMP seeks common sense energy solutions to wean ourselves off of oil & coal and to improve our economy and national security. To read RMP's thesis post on the responsible migration away from crude oil as an energy source you can click here.
RMP understands, however, coal and crude oil will be around years to come even if we try our best to adopt better alternatives for producing energy. RMP takes a rational, common sense, & global approach about energy feed stocks like crude oil & coal, which means RMP understands they'll be part of our energy mix for a long time to come. Oil & coal will not only persist for years to come, usage globally of oil & coal is likely to increase in developing countries facing energy poverty. To that end, RMP is different from many environmental groups because RMP supports Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) using Carbon Dioxide Sequestration. This post is about Carbon Capture & Sequestration (#CCS) in Michigan and RMP's exclusive new map of all #CCS wells in Michigan. Even as RMP advocates for the responsible migration away from crude oil as an energy source, RMP supports #CCS as a means to keep our American workers working as we wean ourselves off of oil and work to build clean and sustainable hydrogen infrastructure for future generations. Michigan is well poised to produce oil by sequestering CO2 and be a leader in this technology's research and development. #CCS technology learned and proven in Michigan can be exported to help poorer countries that will be burning coal for a long time to come. India, for example, on October 2, 2016 signed the Paris Climate Agreement which is almost fully ratified. Indian President Narendra Modi called on fully developed countries like ours to export technology like we have under development in Michigan to help India. Later in this post we will go over why Michigan is well suited to truly be a global leader in R&D for #CCS technology, but first let's go over the basics of #CCS.
What is Carbon Capture & Sequestration (#CCS)?
If you've been following RMP, like you should be on either Twitter or facebook, you already know what Carbon Capture & Sequestration is. Carbon Capture & Sequestration (also known as #CCS) is the capture of Carbon Dioxide from anthropogenic sources like power plants, cement manufacturing, and fertilizer manufacturing where the CO2 is piped to an abandoned oil well and pumped underground rather than being released to atmosphere. CO2 is a greenhouse gas (GHG) and there is broad consensus amongst scientists that our planet's climate is being impacted in a negative way by human activities like producing energy using fossil fuels that emit CO2 when burned. You'll often hear the term anthropogenic CO2, which means CO2 produced by human activities as opposed to naturally occurring CO2.
The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) is a great place to start if you want to learn about #CCS in Michigan or other Midwestern states. The US Department of Energy has divided North America into seven different Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs) and Michigan falls into the MRCSP. RMP encourages you to check out the MRCSP website and to read about the many things going on in our region. You can also check out the US Dept of Energy's Carbon Capture & Storage Resource Center's webpage by clicking here. I also encourage you to read Senate Bill S.3179 which is new legislation being sponsored by Heidi Heitkamp that incentivizes #CCS by offering up to a $20 per metric ton credit of CO2 sequestered into a secure geologic formation.
An estimated 1.2 billion barrels of potential oil recovery by CO2-EOR was calculated for our MRCSP region based on available data for 265 oil fields in the Midwest. Oil and gas reservoirs within the MRCSP region have an estimated storage resource capacity of 8,511 million metric tons (MMt). Based on an estimated 850 MMt per year of CO2 emissions, these reservoirs could sequester approximately 10 years worth of CO2 in our region.(1) Detailed reservoir characterization, geologic mapping, and modeling and simulation at the field-scale level are the next steps required to delineate prospective areas for future pilot floods and to plan successful CO2-EOR and sequestration projects within our region.
In addition to geological considerations, other factors that come into play when evaluating CO2-EOR potential in a region include (1) location and availability of CO2 sources (e.g., power plants, steel mills, cement plants) and proximity to oil reservoirs, (2) well spacing, (3) unitization issues, (4) location of improperly plugged wells and well-bore integrity, and (5) economic considerations.
The Department of Energy has divided the process of #CCS into three distinct phases which have been ongoing for years now. Phase 1 was the characterization phase which led to the Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the US & Canada which was last updated in 2012. Phase 2 was the validation phase where 20 small scale geologic storage tests were completed to validate reservoir simulation models, demonstrate accounting methods, and develop guidelines for future projects. Phase 3 is the development phase which is where we are now. Currently there are only six sites throughout the US & Canada that are undergoing Phase 3 long-term CO2 injection projects to validate the science on storage of large volumes of CO2. Michigan is home to one of those six sites. The Dover 2-33 well in Otsego County, which is pictured as the featured image on this post (photo credit: MCRSP) is a well in this small cadre of exclusive projects in North America. As of August 31, 2016 Michigan's Dover 33 EOR Unit (as it's called) has sequestered 580,687 tons of CO2, produced 515,284 barrels of oil, provided 170 jobs yielding more than $7.1 million dollars of income, generated $1.3 million in severance & sales taxes, and provided $3.6 million of other taxes & royalties(2). We'll talk more about what's going in Michigan with #CCS later in this post.
Why is #CCS Important?
Well-intentioned "Keep It In The Ground" types of environmentalists are unfortunately not helping mother earth with regard to climate change, air quality, or water conservation. It's ironic that the most ardent "environmentalists" are the ones setting back environmentalism through their abstinence of #STEM education and their perpetuation of junk science. RMP uses data and real science to support our work and we are patiently hoping that maybe someday those folks that make protest signs and chain themselves to pipeline equipment will someday educate themselves about energy production rather than pretending to have it all figured out without doing any homework. RMP hopes that impassioned types will understand that they could actually be helping mother earth by following RMP and learning about the hydrogen economy and how the world can become GHG Negative by advocating for hydrogen fuel cells and the hydrogen infrastructure. Junk science and witch hunts ironically only serve to set back efforts to protect our natural resources.
In the mind of a stereotypical tie-dyed environmentalist without regard for science, if fossil fuels were stopped today from producing energy, the world would be a utopia of people holding hands and singing campfire songs celebrating clean air and clean water. In reality, however, if fossil fuels were stopped overnight there would be no food, no clean water and there would be largest die off of mankind in the history of the world. This is because crude oil and coal have become an entrenched part of our economy and energy mix. Crude oil and coal didn't come about overnight and they're not going to disappear overnight. RMP is the leading non-profit research analyst organization of oil in Michigan and we take on the API on a regular basis with regard to avarice, ignobility, and their misleading ad campaigns. RMP understands, however, that ending the use of crude oil for energy will be a migration that takes time and we must protect the workers who will need new jobs as we make a transition to smarter forms of energy production. RMP will never give the API or their cohorts a free pass for misleading the public with their pro oil monopolist propaganda, but RMP will also never succumb to the empty rhetoric of the "anti" crowd who disingenuously ignores their own culpability in the energy infrastructure that surrounds us today. RMP advocates for education and understanding with regard to our own complicity of oil usage in our economy; pots calling kettles black will get us nowhere. We all must work together to learn geology and energy science to make real progress.
The truth is that most people don't understand that wind and solar energy provide zero percent of the world's base load energy. RMP advocates for the hydrogen economy and fuel cells whereby wind, solar, and solid wastes can provide 100% of the world's base load energy; but that is a long way off. Even with all the advancements of wind energy, it currently only provides 4% of US energy while providing 0% of base load needs. Solar energy is growing fast, but it provides only five tenths of 1% of US energy needs, while it provides 0% of our base load energy needs.
Do these numbers make you think? Do these numbers clue you in to why RMP is different the Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, and other environmental groups? Do these numbers help you understand why it's hard for RMP to respect certain rhetoric that comes from groups like Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch?
#CCS is a must for becoming GHG Negative and keeping American oil field workers employed while we ramp up new and less volatile jobs in a sustainable hydrogen economy. We must respect our dependency on crude oil and our own culpability in its use while we work diligently to wean ourselves off of it and find new jobs for oil workers. Producing oil from the sequestration of CO2 is one of the ways environmentalists and an oil industry in its winter years should be able to find common ground. When Sierra Club members work in concert with oil industry groups in a civil manner, RMP will have accomplished a milestone goal. We can move the ball down the field much much faster if we can bring leftists and rightists back to meet RMP in the middle.
#CCS is the most important thing we can do right now to make an impact on reducing anthropogenic GHG emissions to atmosphere. Not only is coal going to continue to be an integral part of providing energy for American consumers for years to come, it is even more integral to developing countries around the world. Coal is also very important in the manufacture of cement all over the world. Fertilizer production is also a large contributor of CO2. It is difficult for many environmental utopia seekers to admit that there is no magic wand to wave when it comes to a carbon neutral or GHG negative economy. It seems that is much easier to smoke a joint, make a protest sign, claim self-righteousness, and ignore the science and data for so many in the "environmental" crowd. RMP recently blogged about how ExxonMobil is poised to be one of the biggest difference makers in reducing GHG emissions because of their partnership with Fuel Cell Energy using #CCS & molten carbonate fuel cells. Keep it in the ground chants and protests, on the other hand, prohibit real progress when it comes to climate change and it's time for RMP to call out some of you in our environmentalist community the same way we call out the API; bunkness is bunkness whether it be on the left or on the right. I have seen the far right and I have seen the far left and… no thank you, I'm perfectly comfortable in the middle even though it's admittedly pretty lonely.
The best analogy I can think of for the importance of #CCS while we work to develop alternative forms of energy is this: if your house is on fire, the first thing you need to do is to make sure your family and pets get out safely before you focus on construction of your new house. Getting your family out is the immediate concern. Getting your insurance claim filed and hiring contractors to rebuild is something you can worry about after everyone is out safe and is the longer term concern. This is the same concept with #CCS in the sense that the immediate concern is reducing GHGs from established sources that currently produce a majority percentage of our energy and will continue to persist for the foreseeable future. The longer term concern is developing new energy infrastructure that does not produce GHGs like wind & solar coupled with the production of hydrogen for fuel cells; remember the hydrogen fuel cell component is key to making wind and solar base load capable for those times when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.
Michigan can be a leader for #CCS technology in the world. Developing and proving out the processes of capturing and sequestering CO2 can be shared with countries like India, China, and many other countries that will not only be relying on coal for decades to come but will actually be increasing their demand and consumption of coal. RMP has written about the reality of coal and we believe protesting coal and hoping for a utopian use of 100% renewable and carbon neutral energy in the near term is the most dangerous position any environmentalist can take with regard to air quality, water quality, and climate change. According to the IEA, coal use is expected to rise for decades to come because, like it or not, billions of people who desperately want electricity and have never had it before in their lifetime will be choosing coal because…you guessed it… it's cheap and easy. You can stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, make a protest sign, or clench your fist in disagreement with the words I write, but that will not change this sobering reality: what I write & say is true; I have worked hard and I have done my homework. Nothing is so upsetting to a pretender environmentalist like having the truth put square into their face. This is why RMP remains committed to coal gasification technologies, HELE coal plants, molten carbonate fuel cells, and #CCS as well as our commitment to wind & solar; RMP takes a global approach even though we're a tiny Michigan based non-profit 501(c)3.
What Is Going On With #CCS In Michigan?
Michigan has 10 different EOR units employing #CCS made up of 37 wells. One unit is in Kalkaska and the other 9 are in the Gaylord area. You can click here to see RMP's map of all of Michigan's CO2 sequestration wells or you can scroll to the bottom of this post to see our brand new CO2 sequestration map of well units. RMP has been developing PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL software using the Google Maps API v3 for over 7 years now. RMP's new #CCS interactive Google map is one of the new showcase features we can program up that you just can't find elsewhere on the Internet. RMP's Michigan made software is becoming more powerful by the month and soon major upgrades are going to be implemented to make our maps even more user-friendly and easy to use. It's easy to make a Google Map of restaurants or store locations, but RMP's software is much different. RMP's environmental mapping software allows us to use SQL queries to map specific data that can help scientists and educators get the maps that matter.
RMP has been publishing our Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly magazine for two years now and we have been writing about a Michigan company named Core Energy LLC. Core Energy LLC is a leader in Michigan #CCS and is one of the only operators in Michigan currently capturing and sequestering CO2 into secure geologic formations. Core is the only operator in Michigan currently executing a US Department of Energy Phase 3 long term high-volume CO2 sequestration project. Merit Energy & Jordan Development are also pursuing #CCS in Michigan to a lesser extent.
In EOR using CO2, one or more wells are the injection wells and one or more wells are the producing wells. The idea is that the injection well is being used to push the oil over to the other well. Think of two straws poked vertically through the lid on either end of a shoebox where the shoebox is the hydrocarbon reservoir and the straws are the well bores. You inject something, in this case CO2, down the one straw into this closed loop system and that injection forces something out the other straw.
Michigan is a great test bed for developing #CCS technology because we have all the proper ingredients to make it cost effective. Remember RMP's philosophy: always follow the money. If things can't be done economically, they won't get done. Money always has a critical role in energy projects. The cost of developing new technology is always higher because there is a learning curve associated with it. Michigan has a lot going for it with regard to #CCS because we have an abundance of all the ingredients to help keep the R&D costs of #CCS projects low. Let's look at the fundamental things needed to make a #CCS project economical:
- You need formations that can accept the CO2 and produce oil which helps offset the costs of the R&D, labor costs, and CO2 infrastructure costs. Michigan has 800 known Silurian (Niagaran-Age) Pinnacle Reefs in our Niagaran formation from Manistee to Gaylord and then some.
- You need oil & gas know-how, infrastructure, and regulatory agencies that can oversee the safety of the project and the protection of our most valuable natural resource: fresh water. Michigan has thousands of wells drilled into the Niagaran formation, experienced operators, and we also have the MDEQ to oversee regulatory requirements to protect our fresh water.
- You need an abundant supply of anthropogenic carbon dioxide nearby to pipeline over to these Niagaran wells in order to pump the CO2 underground and sequester it. Michigan has thousands and thousands of Middle Devonian Antrim Shale gas wells very near the Niagaran wells that produce roughly 80% natural gas and 20% carbon dioxide. The Antrim makes over 1 million tons of CO2 each year that has otherwise just been vented to atmosphere.
Michigan is a prime candidate to develop #CCS technology as we meet all the main requirements very well. This is why the US Department of Energy chose Michigan as one of only six sites developing Phase 3 #CCS projects in the United States and Canada. Michigan's Middle Devonian Age Antrim Shale generates approximately 1.2 million tons of carbon dioxide each year from six central processing facilities which is currently vented to atmosphere. One of the largest gas-processing facilities in Otsego County generates about 1 billion cubic feet of CO2 each month on average over the last 10 years that has been vented to atmosphere. The average CO2 vented to atmosphere each year from this facility is about 15 billion cubic feet and the average CO2 produced from the Antrim as a whole is about 21 billion cubic feet each year. This CO2 is high quality CO2 for pipelines at about 99% purity.(3)
Let's do some math to put Antrim CO2 production into perspective: If we convert 21 billion cubic feet of CO2 to pounds or tons, which is how most newspapers write about CO2 emissions, we have to multiply by a factor of 0.1146 and we get about 2.4 billion pounds of CO2 per year vented from the Antrim. If we divide that figure by 2,000 lbs per ton we get about 1.2 million tons of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere from Michigan's Antrim Shale each year.
For comparison's sake, the Monroe Power Plant, the biggest power plant in Michigan @ 3,300MW and powered by burning coal, emits about 34.8 billion pounds of CO2 per year to atmosphere, which is about 17.4 million tons. So, the Monroe Power Plant emits about 14 to 15 times more CO2 to atmosphere than the Antrim Shale as a whole. The Monroe Plant also emits about 104k tons of Sulphur Dioxide, 32k tons of Nitrous Oxides, and 780 lbs of Mercury to atmosphere. The Monroe Plant is ranked 7th in the United States for Carbon Dioxide emissions to atmosphere according to SourceWatch. The Monroe Plant was ranked 11th in the US for GHG emissions in a September 29, 2016 @freep article you can read by clicking here.
Plants like the Monroe Power Plant and many more are what #CCS technology is really all about down the road. Companies like Core Energy can use their knowledge and expertise to help reduce the CO2 emissions of plants like the Monroe Power Plant to near zero. This is the ultimate goal of #CCS ambitions and why the Department of Energy is helping to fund projects like those undertaken by Core Energy LLC in Northern Michigan. There will be many factors in reducing CO2 emissions from large emission sources but we are closer now than ever before to making these goals safe & economically feasible.
Recently RMP wrote about ExxonMobil & Fuel Cell energy teaming up to add molten carbonate fuel cells to a natural gas power plant in our Fuel Cells 101 post. There is perhaps no greater technology to get excited about than these molten carbonate fuel cells as their CO2 capture signature is like no other diagram out there: they create energy while concentrating CO2 rather than taxing the power plant of energy to capture CO2. Furthermore, molten carbonate fuel cells are modular and can be added as necessary to the power plant depending on the size of the plant thus making their economics better too.
What's Next for #CCS Proliferation?
As we say repeatedly at RMP: always follow the money. The biggest hurdle with the ambitions of #CCS is and will always be cost. We are in the nascent stages of #CCS now but these are exciting times for advancements in the entire scope of #CCS technology. Michigan is demonstrating itself as a leader in CO2 sequestration with Core Energy LLC's work in Northern Michigan at the Dover 33 EOR Unit. Fuel Cell Energy in Danbury, Connecticut is demonstrating that molten carbonate fuel cells are a potential game changer for the mass adoption of #CCS because of their cost effectiveness on the "capture" side of CO2. ExxonMobil is providing financial support to small companies like Fuel Cell Energy to take technologies like molten carbonate fuel cells to the next level of mass adoption.
RMP has also been writing and tweeting about coal gasification technologies like what Southern Company is doing in Mississippi with their Kemper Power Plant, which is turning coal into SynGas without any combustion of the coal. The gasification of coal allows plants like Kemper to produce 562 MW of energy from American coal with 60% reduced CO2 emissions and negligible NOx, SOx, PM, or Mercury emissions to atmosphere. With the addition of molten carbonate fuel cells, plants like Kemper can capture and sequester nearly 100% of CO2 associated with using American coal for safe energy with virtually no harmful emissions. RMP is Michigan's authority on sustainable energy production and you can follow us on Twitter or like us on facebook to get regular updates as we create new energy maps and blog about sustainable energy advancements. Stay tuned as RMP continues to cover developments in #CCS and other advanced energy technologies. RMP will be writing many more posts about #CCS as news and additional information becomes available.
Check Out RMP's Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Wells in Michigan Map
RMP has been demonstrating our oil well mapping software since High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF) came to Michigan. We wanted to know where the HVHF wells were in our state and learn more about them but the maps just didn't exist. We could not get straight answers to our many questions. Sure there was the MDEQ's GeoWebFace and other mapping applications out there but we needed something more robust. That's when RMP was born. I have been working on Michigan oil well data and writing my own software for about 7 years now and what separates RMP data from other data sources is our supplemental data table and exclusive software. By creating my own table that works in conjunction with MDEQ public data, I have been able to add hooks & sorting criteria to Michigan data you just can't find anywhere else. Want to know which oils have ground water contamination issues? Want to know which wells target the Niagaran formation? Or which wells use CO2 EOR? There is no other place on the web that can match the Michigan made mapping software exclusive to RMP. Our CO2 EOR map shown below is a great example of a map you just won't find anywhere else on the internet.
RMP is a small and unfunded non-profit organization and I write this software in my free time. I have a full time job to pay my bills, but we really could use your financial support to get our organization to the next level. If RMP had funding to work full time and pay our volunteers, we could blow away any one of the other environmental organizations in Michigan when it comes to helping Michigan make the transition to sustainable energy and high paying jobs for Michigan workers. RMP is a Michigan based 501(c)3 organization so if you can make a donation to help us continue and expand our organization your donation will be tax deductible. RMP is registered with the Michigan Attorney General's office to solicit for your donations and we would really appreciate your support to expand what we do. Our overhead is next to nothing as we use all free software apps like PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, WordPress, and the Google Maps API to bring you this website for free. Our volunteers are also the best researchers in the state and every one of the "big" environmental organizations in Michigan comes to us when they need reliable fact base information. Check out the map below which shows all EOR CO2 wells in Michigan. This map will evolve as the layout changes in our state and new information becomes available. Click here if you can afford to make a tax-deductible donation to respectmyplanet.org to help our organization grow. Thank you.
RMP's Interactive Map of Michigan's Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Wells
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1. Geologic Storage Options and Capacities for Carbon Dioxide
Sequestration in the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership by MRCSP
2. Michigan Phase III Project Update by MRCSP – Note this is a dynamic link and numbers are updated monthly so the numbers quoted at the time of publication will not match the link depending on when you click the link.
3. Matthias Grobe, Jack C. Pashin, Rebecca L. Dodge, Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Geological Media: State of the Science – American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2009)


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Sheila Deeth is a top 1000 Amazon reviewer, and the author of several books of biblical fiction. So I truly value her opinion about the biblically-inspired hell in my book, and am thrilled that she focused on the woman's voice expressed in my book.
Fascinating and deeply involving prose and poetry,
July 29, 2013
S. Deeth "Sheila Deeth" (OR, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twisted (Kindle Edition)What is woman? Uvi Poznansky's four curious tales in her Twisted collection find various answers to this question. Is a woman denied existence if we hide her name, or if we define her just by relationships to man? Does the female sculpture come first or second to the creator's hand? Does death create, destroy or preserve, and can imagination fly?
A haunting story of Job's nameless wife starts this short collection and sets the tone. With pleasing plays on words and history, evoking intriguing shades of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the author renders the Biblical story of Job into a timeless world where Job's wife stands in need of a name.
It's not hard, after these pleasing Biblical allusions, for the reader to identify with a slab of clay in the next tale and share its search for the creator's purpose. But the slab is woman and the purpose is filled with beauty and pain.
From lilting poetry to feline's fearsome claw, these pieces draw the reader in, enticing with intriguing depths and surprising with sudden light. Twisted, puzzling, but perfectly put together, the collection has the feel that it was meant to be this way, no random grouping of fiction but a twisted exploration that turns and returns this reader to the singular question: What is woman?
Disclosure: The author kindly gave me an ecopy of this book with a request for my honest review.


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"Mysterium." This was the answer Leo Svirsky gave me some time ago, when I asked what his end goal with music was. Began by Russian symbolist Alexander Scriabin in 1903, Mysterium, is an unfinished musical work that the composer worked on until his death in 1915. The piece included an orchestra, a large mixed choir, an instrument with visual effects, dancers, a procession, and incense. It was to be over a week long, take place in the foothills of the Himalayas, bring about the end of the world, and replace humanity with "nobler beings." Listening to Svirsky speak about the present state of music, politics, and culture, one senses that such a spirit of upheaval is alive and kicking. Born in 1988, this young composer—much like his interviewer, guitarist and composer Michael Pisaro—pursues Mysterium's reconfiguration of the world, but by opposite means: quietude. Eschewing Scriabin's dreams of bombast in favor of meditative privacy, Svirsky searches for what can be heard in the unheard. With works for piano, orchestra, and ensemble, Svirsky lights corners of hidden musical worlds with a palm sheltering the flame.
—Britton Powell
Michael Pisaro I know you're an artist invested in political questions. Given the current situation in the US, with the gathering dread, or a sense oncoming avalanche—of persecution of minorities, deregulation of the economic culprits, rape of the environment—what kind of response do you have? Is it something that can or should take musical form? If so, how do you address it musically?
Leo Svirsky This hyper-politicized atmosphere is still quite recent. For me though, the political has always been an intrinsic part of music making. My father left the Soviet Union as part of the first wave of Jewish immigration in 1979, and my mom was part of the generation of American Jews that were activists for the rights of ethnic minorities in the USSR. So, I grew up with this normative idea of art as a kind of resistance. That's part of the culture of the thaw period—with artists and writers working in the '60s (like the painter Mikhail Chemiakhin or the poet Joseph Brodsky), but also with books published for the first time then (like The Master and Margherita). It's hard to place the importance of arts then in an American context; it's not the same as a commitment to emancipatory politics, since the art of this period is in part mourning victims of the failure of the most ambitious manifestation of that politics. It's also not necessarily art that's meant to change the political sphere, since the task of art to make sense of such a catastrophe happens when the public sphere is either non-existent or unable to accommodate these voices. There's an element of stoic humor, as in Joseph Brodsky's response to "How can one write poetry after Auschwitz?"... "And how can one eat lunch?"
As a teenager, the first friends that shared an interest in contemporary or experimental music were people I met in the DC punk and hardcore scene. Music wasn't a separate sphere at all, rather, being in a band and going to shows meant an explicit commitment to political activism. Concerts and festivals would have vegan food, skillshares, and workshops in civil disobedience. For me, this coincided with a deeper understanding of American history and world politics, but nonetheless, the subordination of an artistic project to a political one (which I fell into wholeheartedly) is actually quite terrifying for people who remember life under "real existing socialism."
Classical musicians and advocates for classical music often describe Bach or Mozart as the feeling of everything good and whole and in the world, but, while I still love that music, I hear it as something complicated and morally ambiguous. The music that really gives me that feeling is John and Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, or Horace Tapscott. It's significant that while European avant-gardes were hoping for a clean slate, a break from the past and tradition, these musicians were interested in establishing themselves as part of a lineage—for example in the Art Ensemble of Chicago's use of "Great Black Music," or the Arkestra's effortless blending of all parts of canonical jazz history with new textures and tunings that still sound surprising and radical decades later. I mean, you can see a direct a line between "strange strings" and Antoine Beuger's approach to writing for strings! Activism always involves a kind of coalition building, but the kind of community art is capable of building extends further, to the dead and the unborn.
Historian Alexander Etkind refers to these as "software monuments" in contrast to "hardware monuments" (statues, museums). They exist because the circumstances that would permit "hardware monuments" are not there yet. Historians aren't close to knowing how many victims there were of Soviet terror, or of American slavery (and the 100 years of terror that followed), let alone their names and genealogies. The Russian state still uses the language and iconography of Stalinism, and ethnic minorities in the US are still murdered with impunity. The DAPL is violating treaties made in the 1850s! I think about Joe Hill's phrase "Don't mourn, organize," and I wonder if organizing isn't the work of mourning, or if organizing isn't what's necessary to create the conditions that make mourning possible.
Morton Feldman described his musical world as a "haunted house with no ghosts," but for me making art, especially sound-based art, means living with ghosts; it's vibrations call forth spirits. That doesn't mean it's possible to speak for them. Stanislaw Lem, at the end of His Master's Voice, describes this as an indecipherable howling, but music is the sphere of activity that creates a space where it's possible to listen. That might be the most radical idea coming from Pauline Oliveros (or Wandelweiser), that music making is foremost an art of listening, or helping others to listen. What you describe in your question is a kind of apocalypse, and in thinking of an impending apocalypse it's important to remember it's dual meaning, not just an end, but a revelation, the vindication and resurrection of the dead.
MP I'm curious about the degree to which you think direct political consciousness should inform a work, if that can at all be stated.
LS Art making always involves asking other people for their attention and, in the case of duration-based work, their time. There's a real responsibility that comes with that, which I think can only be understood in political terms. Art is always made relying on specific practices that have their own histories, that are kept alive by specific people, cultures, and institutions. The choice of which practices to use, and which ones to avoid is also deeply political. Art contains what anthropologist James C. Scott calls "hidden transcripts," shades of meaning readable to certain social groups, but not to others. At the same time, politics involve a specific delineation between saying and doing, and in art, saying is always a form of doing, so there is a kind of opaqueness and ambiguity that creeps into speech as soon as it's referred to as part of an artistic practice. There's a kind of oblique language at work even in the most "directly" political pieces, like Frederic Rzewski's "Coming Together." The real subject of the work, the Attica riots, isn't mentioned once; it appears by implication in the disjunction between music and text, in the knowledge that the author will die soon after the text is written.
Of course I think there's power in using deliberately "direct" language, but it tends to always contain an element of the anti-aesthetic. It stands in contrast to an imaginary poetic and oblique speech that we expect (like in the Anohni album, which I love), but that contrast itself puts it back into the paradox of aesthetics.
MP I like this phrase of yours: "I wonder if organizing isn't the work of mourning." Can you expand upon that a bit? I tend to agree that "software monuments" (perhaps akin to what Beuys called "social sculpture") represent the kinds of relatively local activities that art does well. You imply that this goes beyond making and performing work. Are there new ways of envisioning this that go beyond, or at least renew, the sense of a larger commitment to alternate ways of living, which is, I think, something we both experienced in relation to various American punk movements?
LS Absolutely, mourning also involves an element of celebration, an obligation to keep memory alive through practice. Making art also involves the logistic work of organizing your life in a way that makes it possible. There's an open secret that DIY music is only possible because it involves a lot of people breaking a lot of laws (zoning laws, liquor laws, housing laws), which also makes these practices and spaces vulnerable. The kind of music we're involved in relies on "low stakes" gigs, where it's possible to fail and take risks, which automatically pits you against the logic of running a commercial venue, which basically relies on selling alcohol. Of course, the other reason people get away with breaking these laws is because these spaces are socially coded as white (which doesn't mean they're exclusively or necessarily majority white, though that's unfortunately the case in many places as well), which also points to the limits of this kind of prefigurative politics.
One of the more powerful legacies of free jazz is the idea that a sonic practice can transform a space. The kind of extreme, ecstatic dimension of that music actively transforms a white-owned bar into a kind of temple. Or in contrast, Pauline Oliveros's Sonic Meditations were not even meant as concert pieces, but more as self-care, a radical shift of the category of composition from a public to private space. So, I always see making radical music as part of a struggle for dignity and autonomy, control of one's space and time. This means being aware that we're not the first, that our practices were made possible by many people devoting their entire lifetimes in environments that were unimaginably more difficult than our own.
MP You're absolutely right, in my view, when you say there are opportunities in an anticipated apocalypse for significant, even radical change in a positive direction. A certain dreaded future, whether it comes to pass or not, seems to create a corresponding need to imagine other futures. Do you see any of these positive projected or imagined futures in the present moment?
LS My friend Andrew Bernstein of the band Horse Lords said it best: "Radical music isn't just for fun." I feel really alienated every time I hear something like "Punk will get really great and political again," because so many artists did powerful and political work all through the Obama years. But I do feel something is different, which is a growing sense of our own power and resonance. Agamben characterizes politics as the gap between law and life, and certainly this gap is widening. As a culture, we tend to look at history as a teleology, or an incremental progress, but this continuously underestimates the role of contingency, of senselessness and stupidity. It's precisely because of senselessness and contingency that there's a possibility of acting.
MP Most of your music seems to come from a place deep in the heart of a radical romanticism. This is not just a question of tonal chromatic harmony, but, to my ears, a sense of longing—possibly even of transcendence, if that's the right word. I think of figures like Hölderlin, or Caspar David Friedrich, or even Bertolt Brecht. In other words, it strikes me that rather than anything "neo" you are actively trying to resurrect that spirit in thoroughly modern terms. Do you see it that way?
LS Radical romanticism is spot on, especially the radical part. But I don't see it as a question of resurrection, and for the same reason I see neo-romanticism as a kind of impossibility. My perspective on the arts is that romanticism never really went away. At the most basic level, the instruments we use (with a few exceptions) were built for the performance of romantic music; they weren't substantially modified for later aesthetic purposes. At the same time, the ideology of the avant-garde in some of its most radical and seemingly anti-aesthetic manifestations (Allan Kaprow, Situationist International) still comes from Schiller's idea of aesthetics as foremost a radical strategy for living. To be honest, I don't know the work of Caspar David Friedrich at all, or Hölderlin's well enough.
Romanticism is important not just for its continued presence, but also for its danger. I think of tonality as more or less a technology for the mobilization of affect toward national or religious feeling. It's precisely because of this that mid-century composers avoided it; it was dangerous. That's why older intellectuals, like Adorno, were more terrified by than sympathetic to the student movements of '68. There was a resurgence of romanticism, and it was a populist romanticism that led to fascism.
Embedded in the concept of "experimental" music is a deep distrust of affect, and of symbolism—that making a sound "stand" for something hurts our ability to really "hear" it. I'm especially interested in how sound as symbol can also access different kinds of hearing—for example, Beethoven described the first recognition of his deafness as being unable to hear a distant Shepherd's flute. What is the motif of this shepherd's flute or the pastoral mean but a way of relating perception and distance, a "disappearing music"? Paul Valéry describes poetry as something "between sound and sense." For me, music involves this play and destabilization of the two. When does sound become symbol and vice versa.
MP While I definitely understand the mid-century avant-garde position on tonality, what if they were wrong? What if it's simply one tool among many that deal with affect? In retrospect, I think that association of tonality with nationalism and, more broadly, manipulation was an attempt to distance the composer from responsibility for human catastrophes. Should we accept some of this responsibility? And what forms should this responsibility take, perhaps going beyond symbol into action?
LS I guess seeing tonality as a tool is a bit misleading. Embedded in it is a way of seeing the world, an idea of listening, and a relation of subjectivity to the social body—a kind of political theology. There is a real power in this, as accessed in the work of Albert Ayler, in the hymn quotation in Julius Eastman's "Gay Guerilla", or in the powerful reminiscences of Wagner in the memoirs of both Emma Goldman and WEB Dubois. It's a pity to lose access to this dimension of feeling.
At the same time, I hesitate to criticize the post-war generation. I think their suspicion of national feeling and martial rhythms was more of a personal, visceral thing. It's very hard to imagine the kind of power and trauma those sounds evoked for that generation, because they're rendered almost harmless by the distance we have from those forms of media—the hiss of old records and radio broadcasts captures more of our attention than their content, and in a way shields us from their real power.
This is true of tonality as well. As a listener, though, I can't listen to music from this period without hearing the shadow of tonal common practice, an uncomfortable absence as an uninvited guest. I like working with tonality as a kind of obsolete technology, as an archaic way of hearing and communicating, but also because it involves "getting your hands dirty," getting involved in the symbolism of a supposedly old world that's now rearing its head. I'm inspired by the way in which earlier discussions of representation in the arts (of the late 1960s–'70s) were framed as inseparable from discussions of practice—that, it didn't just matter who the composer was, but rather how oppression was embedded in the way "composers" related to their performers, audiences, and the world around them.
Leo Svirsky's new album Heights in Depths is now available from Catch Wave Ltd. He will be performing in England this month—at Post Paradise in Birmingham, Cafe Oto in London, Another Timbre in Sheffield, and Coach House in Brighton.


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One day, Jaime Elizondo will pull the lid completely off the Argonauts offensive playbook.
But the Argos offensive co-ordinator is a lot like Cleo Lemon, his starting quarterback: Hes learning on the job, and knows that without patience, the plan wont come together.
As a co-ordinator, I would like to be considered aggressive (on offence), Elizondo said after the Argos practised on Wednesday in Mississauga.
Thats the philosophy I have.
I want to take shots. But with the development of not only Cleo, but the receivers, it has been a process of making sure we have controlled success in the passing game, before we can start opening it.
The Argos have accumulated the fewest yards on offence through six weeks. But theyve been able to win four times, and running back Cory Boyd has been a major factor.
For Elizondo, a 38-year-old native of Mexico, Boyds overall performance not only has been that of a game-changer, but Boyds presence has meant that other parts of the offence hasnt had to get ahead of itself.
There is no question, it has been the biggest blessing for me to be able to bring Cleo and the receivers along, Elizondo said. But we need to be better, and thats the big message we are sending to everybody.
In 2002, Elizondo completed a law degree at Washington College of Law at American University. He specialized in three areas international trade law, international business and intellectual property and had a solid job offer upon finishing school.
But he had football in his upbringing. That process began as a child, when his father passed away and his mother settled in Texas, where football is king, after remarrying.
I made a decision not to follow law, Elizondo said. To me, the most important thing in life is following your dream. I think a lot of coaches do it because they have to. I dont. Im fortunate I get this opportunity, because once you invest yourself, its in your blood.
During his days as a Terrapin, Elizondo got a job as an assistant recruiting co-ordinator at Maryland. Roles at other colleges followed, and a three-year stint at Hofstra University led to an assistants position with the New Orleans Saints in 2007.
Elizondo learned under Marc Trestman with the Montreal Alouettes two years ago as the wide receivers/assistant special-teams coach, and in 2009, he was the wide receivers coach at Syracuse University.
Along the way, Elizondo forged relationships with men whose life revolved around the sport. Elizondo once called San Diego Chargers defensive co-ordinator Ron Rivera out of the blue to get some ideas on how the Chargers defended routes. New York Giants quarterbacks coach Mike Sullivan is a friend, as is Philadelphia Eagles wide receivers coach David Culley.
Elizondo said his one year under Saints head coach Sean Payton helped instill his approach to the game.
Just the way he is, the way he carries himself, Elizondo said.
Thats what a lot of coaching is, is being a good teacher. And I like the way he taught. I have picked all of their brains.
With the Argos, Elizondo has 135-140 plays for each game. Having head coach Jim Barker, another man whose background is in offence, on the sideline has been a bonus, but Barker does not get in Elizondos way, letting his offensive co-ordinator call the plays.
Its just a matter of getting through the playbook. Elizondo knows it is coming.
You like a play and you know it is good, but is it a matter of can we protect long enough, can we run the route the right way, is the quarterback going to feel a receiver coming out of the break at the right time? Elizondo said.
And that is chemistry. There are always great plans in place, but it is has been a process of making sure we have some success and that we dont overlook that. I would like to continue to not say expand but get to our offensive package, because it is pretty vast.


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As a United Methodist, concerned about civil liberties, I share the group's intentions (and, in fact, joined the group when it was just a few thousand strong). As articulated in the denomination's Social Principles, the people of The United Methodist Church "hold governments responsible for the protection of the rights of the people . . . to the right to privacy. . . . We also strongly reject domestic surveillance and intimidation of political opponents by governments in power and all other misuses of elective or appointive offices."
Because I think the use of governmental power is a spiritual question, I am reproducing the open letter written by leaders of the aforementioned group of concerned Obama supporters.
- The group on my.barackobama.com
- Social Principles of The United Methodist Church, The Political Community
An Open Letter to Senator Obama
From the 15,000+ (and rapidly growing) members of the my.BarackObama.com group
"Senator Obama – Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity – Get FISA Right"
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From the 15,000+ (and rapidly growing) members of the my.BarackObama.com group
"Senator Obama – Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity – Get FISA Right"
recommended tags: fisa, Obama, myBO, getfisaright
and once you do, please add the link to the open letter repostings page
Dear Senator Obama,
On October 24, 2007, your campaign spokesman said, "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies."
On June 20, 2008 you said, of retroactive immunity, "I will work in the Senate to remove this provision so that we can seek full accountability for past offenses."
As the largest grass-roots group on your campaign website, my.BarackObama.com, and in the spirit of your open/responsive government campaign pledges, we wish to share our ideas for how we may work together to further the goal of eliminating retroactive immunity from the FISA legislation scheduled for debate in the Senate next week. Although this is only one of the problems we see with legislation which allows the government to wiretap the communications of its citizenry without a warrant, it's the area we think we can help you with the most.
First, Senator Obama, we ask that you make the same tools that we used to call undecided voters in Iowa and New Hampshire available for us to call our fellow citizens in West Virginia, Nebraska, Delaware, Florida and other states that have Senators committed to voting against the amendment that would strip telecom immunity. You have the tools and we have the people power. Together, we are confident we can bring Change; we can make the government listen to the people instead of the telecom lobbyists.
Second, Senator Obama, we ask that you attend the Senate debate and schedule floor time to speak about the violence done to the rule of law when Congress retroactively immunizes the illegal conduct of a special interest. We know you understand that justice should not be sold to the highest special interest bidder; we also know that you can persuade other Senators that are not so clear on the issue. Of course, if you do this, our committed members will surely capture the video of your inspiring oratory, load it to YouTube and spread your words to our friends and family far and wide. We trust in your ability to bring a new way of doing business to Washington and look forward to helping you make that Change a reality.
Senator Obama, the my.BarackObama.com caption reads, "I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington… I'm asking you to believe in yours." We're ready to put these words into practice
Thank you.
The 15,000+ (and rapidly growing) members of
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Authorities were called to the busy shopping center shortly after 7 p.m. on a report of a suspicious package, which reportedly was in an overnight box with no return address and was making unusual noises.
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The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11
By John Yoo
Univ. of Chicago. 366 pp. $29
John Yoo deserves much credit for helping open up a secretive subject for public discussion, even when it has meant unpleasantness for himself. As the apparent author of many of the Bush administration's post-9/11 policies, including those that authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) to violate the wiretap statute and strip Geneva Convention protections from anyone suspected of affiliation with al Qaeda and the Taliban, Yoo lives in a firestorm. In the past few months alone, international lawyers have called for his criminal indictment, students have broken into his classroom at Berkeley (where the former deputy assistant attorney general now teaches law) to stage a mock detainee hearing, and lecture halls where he is scheduled to speak have been boycotted. Such political grandstanding is shameful behavior; in fact, Yoo should be commended for not hiding behind the standard Washington clich of saying, "That's classified; I can't talk about it."
Of course, much of Yoo's work for the Justice Department is indeed still classified, most important his opinions on NSA spying and those justifying the legality of a military trial system at Guantanamo Bay. Nevertheless, Yoo's new book is marketed as a defense of the administration's post-9/11 conduct. Yet the book doesn't really accomplish that, or even attempt it. Rather, it is a sometimes careful, academic work about presidential powers in wartime.
In particular, the book argues that the Constitution gives the president a much larger role in foreign affairs and military operations than the other two branches of the federal government, that the president does not need a congressional declaration of war before placing troops on the ground and that treaties ratified by the Senate have no legal impact unless Congress explicitly passes laws saying that they do.
In advancing these claims, the book is burdened by its strange attempt to mix constitutional claims grounded in the Founders' intent in 1787 with the practicalities of living in an age of terrorism. Either one can take the position of such conservative icons as Robert Bork and Justice Antonin Scalia -- that the original intentions of the Constitution's authors bind us today and changes can only come through amendment -- or hold the view of more liberal figures such as Justice Stephen Breyer that practical, functional considerations create a living Constitution that adapts as times change. Both are perfectly plausible. What isn't credible is a theory that cherry-picks from the two to advance a particular thesis. And that's exactly what Yoo does at times.
Yoo is at his best in skewering the academics who believe that Congress must formally declare war before the president can engage in military operations. After all, hundreds of U.S. military operations have occurred without a declaration of war. Yoo's argument here, and the history he marshals, is contribution enough. There have been no declarations of war since World War II, yet a majority of academics today still adhere to the position that such a declaration is required before troops can be deployed.
Unfortunately, Yoo goes further, explaining that the president would not be made all powerful by such a broad reading of his war-making power because Congress could cut off funds or pass legislation to end the war. Yet it isn't remotely plausible that Congress's funding power can check the president. As Yoo's main academic opponent, former Stanford Law School dean John Hart Ely explains in his book War and Responsibility , "Once the president had committed 'our boys' to the battlefield, it would become emotionally and politically difficult to vote to cut off their 'support.' " If the legislative branch really did use its funding power in the way Yoo advertises, it would destroy his thesis, which is built on the speed, unity and decisiveness of the executive branch compared to Congress. It is jarring to watch a sober realist like Yoo ignore the obvious reality that Congress is incapable of defunding a war when troops are already engaged.
In the end, the most glaring failure of the book is its one-sided attack on the courts and Congress, with no real attention paid to the failures of the executive branch. The underlying message is that the executive doesn't need checks on its activities, but that the other branches consistently do. Yet presidents of both parties have made tremendous mistakes, and recent events have shown that claims of unchecked power can lead to massive abuse. Yoo even unwittingly refers to at least one recent miscalculation, in words that already date the book, by stating that Iraq was "potentially armed with weapons of mass destruction."
If scholars like Yoo want to exalt the executive, they will have to do a better job of figuring out ways to develop checks and balances inside the executive branch. Otherwise, faith in the executive is little more than a recipe for unaccountable and poor decisionmaking. This wasn't the way the Constitution was written; and I, for one, have more faith in our Founders than that.
Neal Katyal, a professor of law at Georgetown University, represents, pro bono, a Guantanamo Bay detainee. He served as national security adviser at the Justice Department in 1998-1999.
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I have combo box in my form which have 2 columns "value" and "text" but "value" is hidden.
I write some code in VBA and I need select only "text" from my combo box, how can I do it using VBA?
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You can retrieve the content of any column of the selected row using the Column property of a combobox (or a listbox) using:
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Hopefully you have come to trust my judgement in music over these past 4 or 5 months. Well, today I got another treat for you. Elbow, a band from the UK, was a great find for me and glad that my buddy Jeremy Stanley told me about them. I have been digging their stuff for the past 2 weeks and I think you will as well.
They have a very soothing sound, that combines some very interesting vocals. Honestly, I do not know why this band is not bigger. They have been playing music since 1990 and are big favorites of bands like Radiohead, Coldplay, Blur, R.E.M. and U2. Well today we get to get in on the fun and be cool like all the hipsters with their indie music that no one has ever heard of. I mean think about that conversation that you can have with your local coffee shop barista: "Oh I hear you are playing some Arcade Fire today, that is cool. Ya I have been listening to this band Elbow, they are pretty legit."
The album below from Elbow is entitled: The Seldom Seen Kids" which kind of summarizes their career. But i think you will be listening to a lot more of their music in the future.
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10 Things I Didn't Know About Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
Three days ago, on April 8, 2013, The Baroness Thatcher passed away from stroke.
Apart from being the longest serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman who held that office, I don't really know much about this fascinating, yet quirky, woman.
She was famous for her uncompromising politics and strict leadership style. She had a knack for polarizing opinions. Either you loved her. Or you hated her. They even have a brand name for the kind of politics she so fervently fought for and implemented during her time as Britain's Prime Minster as Thatcherism. She was a force of change who transformed British politics and economics with absolute conviction, passion and at many times, intense stubbornness.
But if you strip away the coat of politics, Margaret Thatcher was first and foremost, a lady (and I don't mean the title Lady Thatcher she was given after serving as Prime Minister). How do I know?
Simple. She does not go anywhere without her handbag.
But what was she really, really like? For the sake of this post, I will refer to The Right Honorable Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven simply as, Thatcher.
#1: Her Handbag Had A Life Of Its Own
God only knows how and when Thatcher caught the handbag bug, but her arm champion literally had a life of its own. Known as the Asprey bag from London (where else), her handbag was always black and square. It was a symbol of her power as an uncompromising leader. A Conservative minister once remarked that 'she carried the authority of the office in her handbag'. Though she has been witnessed countless times fishing through her handbag for the most momentous items at the best of moments, what the handbag actually contained remains a total mystery.
For instance, in the middle of her first leader's speech to the Conservative Party conference in 1975, someone in parliament began quoting Abraham Lincoln. At that precise moment, Thatcher reached into her trusted handbag and pulled out a piece of aged newsprint with the same Lincoln quote. She was later quoted to say 'It goes wherever I go'.
#2. She Loved Her Pearls
She has worn one particular set (or at least style) of pearl earrings and necklace since the early 1950s. More than 60 years later, those pearls were still where they had always been – on her. One reckons if she ever took them off, ever. Her attachment to pearls made a lot of sense – the epitome of traditionalism, expensive but not frivolous, classy but not decadent, the portray of reliability and conservatism. In many ways, she was what she wore.
#3. She Could Not Live Without Her Hairspray
There was a time in the 50s to 70s that Thatcher went through a few subtle style changes. But one thing that remained constant (apart from her pearls) was her perfectly coiffed hair. She almost always wore it like a helmet – swept up and back from her face held immaculately together by several cans of hairspray. Her hairdo has been said to withstand even a 4-hour nap on a plane!
#4. Daddy's Girl
Her father, Alfred Roberts, who ran a grocery shop above where she was brought up was probably the single most influential person in her life. As a working class shopkeeper, he worked long hours with few holidays to make a living. His hard work gained him enormous respect from the community, and he subsequently became major of the town. He taught Thatcher the value of hard work, self-discipline and thriftiness. These character building values engrained in her younger days became the very foundation of the person she had become.
#5. She Loved Poetry
Although she was an accomplished pianist from a young age, Thatcher always loved poetry. She would often quote them in parliament, and her favorite poet was Rudyard Kipling, the patriotic poet of the British Empire. However in death, Thatcher chose William Wordsworth Ode: Imitations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood.
#5. She Changed Her Voice For Politics
One of the problems for being a woman in politics is that a man can shout, but if a woman increases her voice, she tends to squawk. For years, Thatcher took voice coaching lessons to lower her voice from its original rasping high pitch to a more commanding contralto.This was necessary to make her sound less harsh, and more feminine.
#6. She Embraced Being The Iron Lady
Thatcher's greatest reputation triumphant came when she was busy criticizing the Soviet Union. The Russians later dubbed her 'The Iron Lady'. What they didn't know at the time was that they had branded a legendary icon into the books of history. She loved it so much that she trumpeted the role by addressing a public meeting saying 'I stand before you tonight in my Red Star chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up and my fair hair gently waved as the Iron Lady of the Western World!"
#7. Margaret And Reagan
As architects of a golden age of conservatism, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were kindred spirits bound in the highest echelon of political marriage. He has called her 'the best man in England', and she has called him 'the second most important man in my life'. However, they did disagree on some things. For one, the former American President tried to persuade Thatcher to stop the Falklands war. Once, he interrupted a meeting in the Oval Office to take a call from her. Putting a hand over the mouth piece, he held up the phone so the others could hear her lambasting him. 'It's Margaret' he said amusingly, 'Isn't she wonderful?'.
#8. Everyday Was Sunday
For Thatcher, everyday was Sunday when it came to fashion. She was never, and I mean never, seen in trousers. Her love for formal clothes has her wearing them even at home and to Sunday church.
#9. She Knew Fashion
Although she was not known for her cutting-edge fashion sense, Thatcher knew the technical aspects of fashion at the back of her hands. Her mother was a seamstress so she knew exactly how clothes should be made, how hems should be turned and how stitches should be done. She even named every one of her outfits according to the place where it was first worn. Madrid Pink, Prague Green and Waddesdon Navy all lived in her tidy, well-organised closet.
#10. And A Few Other Things Taken From Those Who Knew Her Best
- She used to read the odd thriller novel, although she was most glued to CNN 24/7 (Not BBC?).
- She was a fanatically neat person, and would spend a little time everyday tidying her wardrobe and cleaning her shoes.
- Unlike Reagan, she had a real bone-dry sense of humor. It was so dry, it was always missed.
- She lived a very serious life filled with serious conversations. She ate, lived and breathed politics.
- Her personal motto was 'Do your very best, and never follow the crowd'.
- Though she could, she was never one to multi-task. She believed in doing one job at a time and with full and complete concentration.
- She regarded food simply as fuel for the body and never claimed to be a foodie.
- Her home was very do-it-yourself. Don't expect to be served when you visited.
On paper, Margaret Hilda Roberts had little going for her. Born a girl in a lower-middle class family who lived modestly in the remote Lincolnshire market town of Grantham and with very few (if any) influential friends.
Those strikes turned out to be her saving grace – helping mold this small town English girl who eventually became one of the most influential Prime Ministers of the last century.


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As it took the field to begin its 2012 season, the Skaneateles baseball team knew that early success was crucial if it wanted to challenge powers like Marcellus and Westhill within the OHSL Liberty division.
And after claiming a pair of league wins, the Lakers made an even bigger statement on Saturday, knocking off long-time power Bishop Ludden by a score of 5-3.
Better yet, Skaneateles did so after spotting the Gaelic Knights a 2-0 lead thanks to single runs in the first and second innings earned off pitcher Ryan Prochna.
The Lakers got on the board with a run in the bottom of the second. Then, in the third, it got to Ludden pitcher Ryan Poplawski, scoring four times to take the lead.
Ryan Sherman sparked the attack, belting a home run and single, scoring twice and finishing with three RBIs. Brandon Barron doubled and drove in a run, while Tyler Saunders also had an RBI. Luke Drancsak scored a run.
Settling down, Prochna would allow just one more run in his last five innings of work. Prochna's complete game included 11 strikeouts against three walks and six hits allowed.
Before all this, it proved to be a wild season opener against Cazenovia, as the hosts twice squandered the lead, but still made the last surge to win the battle of Laker teams by a 10-8 margin.
All went fine in the early going as Skaneateles steadily worked its way to a 6-2 lead through three innings, but Cazenovia tied it, 6-6, with four runs in the top of the fourth.
They continued to go back and forth, Skaneateles inching ahead 7-6, but the visitors scoring twice in the top of the sixth to go in front 8-7.
By this point, Skaneateles had four errors, but it shook them off and, with three runs in the bottom of the sixth, finally took the lead for good.
Drancsak, Sherman and Barron each scored two runs. Sherman added two hits and an RBI, while Connor Herr also picked up a pair of hits. Martin drove in a run, too.
So began a season-opening homestand that continued Wednesday, against Jordan-Elbridge, with a much more satisfying result as the Lakers shut out the Eagles 11-0.
Three pitchers – Herr, Drancsak and Paul Musso – combined on a five-hitter, the trio racking up eight strikeouts. It was made easier by the Lakers exploding for seven runs in the bottom of the second inning to take command.
B.J. Kerr drove in two runs, while Herr tripled and scored twice and Drancsak crossed the plate three times. Musso, Martin, Austin Amory and Kieran Daley had one RBI apiece.
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DC FOODIES February brunchytimes
As much as I'd like to make another "LET'S JUST GO TO COMET" shitpost now that James bloody O'Keefe of all people is going after them (it's a long story, google it) I think...I think we should do brunch in February! the thought-fox's suggestion of Yayla (Turkish, near East Falls Church metro) sounded really tasty, and we haven't done Middle Eastern yet. Let's go on the 25th at noon! [more inside]
DC FOODIES November Pizzaventure
Since our last location apparently wants to make America great again (eyeroll), let's focus on what makes DC great right now. Comet Ping Pong is a DC institution and currently under fire from conservative internet nutjobs for stupid reasons. Let's give them dollars for their pizza. Also I want to keep the #cheesygoodness hashtag I used before. [more inside]
zippy comes to venice beach and eats donuts
I'm visiting. Come have donuts with me at Primo's Saturday Apr 18 @ 11am!
BBQ/Cocktail meetup
It's BBQ Time again! Also, at a recent meetup someone mentioned that another cocktail event would be fun - so let's combine the two! [more inside]
HEY CHICAGO: Possible TINCC Garage/Yard Sale?
I don't have a garage (or a yard), but does anyone else in the Chicago Cabal (TINCC) have the facilities (and the desire) to do something like this? [more inside]
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:: Rayearth - Umi :: by AidelonWatch
©2005-2017 Aidelon
Magic Knight Umi (the water/blue one) from Magic Knight Rayearth. I have only seen a few episodes of this series, but i'm loving it so far.. I will more than likely be trying to draw the other two as well as color this one after I get it inked. ENJOY!
good job on Umi! You have really kept the traditional Clamp style
This is beautiful. I love the softness of the lines and her flowing hair, the overall action you've captured hehe i love umi, she's the coolest lol.
Very cool! THe pose is great! Did you use a reference or did that come from yer noodle?
it was a reference.. wish i could take credit for it... but i cant.. lol... my anime form for bodies isn't good enough yet to work without a reference... but i'm working on it...
looks ace will be nice to see this when its coloured and inked will look awesome i bet keep up the good work
I have to reccommend you the manga too, it's so much prettier (if possible) and just as crazy/funny/cute. Nice work on Umi, you did a great job getting the watery flow of her hair captured on paper.
Thanks! I'll have to check out the manga! I'm totally manga crazy right now... so that is good I have another recommended titled to look up!
oohh.. i like. very sharp, great detail.


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