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pyramid_chameleon is a set of bindings that make templates written for the Chameleon templating system work under the Pyramid web framework.
Install using setuptools, e.g. (within a virtualenv):
$ $myvenv/bin/easy_install pyramid_chameleon
There are several ways to make sure that pyramid_chameleon is active. They are completely equivalent:
Add pyramid_chameleon to the pyramid.includes section of your applications main configuration section:
pyramid.includes = pyramid_chameleon
Use the includeme function via config.include:
Once activated, files with the .pt extension are considered to be Chameleon templates.
Once pyramid_chameleon been activated .pt templates can be loaded either by looking up names that would be found on the Chameleon search path or by looking up an absolute asset specification (see Understanding Asset Specifications for more information).
Quick example 1. Look up a template named foo.pt within the templates directory of a Python package named mypackage:
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def sample_view(request):
return {'foo':1, 'bar':2}
Quick example 2. Look up a template named foo.pt within the templates directory of the "current" Python package (the package in which this Python code is defined):
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def sample_view(request):
return {'foo':1, 'bar':2}
Quick example 3: manufacturing a response object using the result of render() (a string) using a Chameleon template:
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from pyramid.renderers import render
from pyramid.response import Response
def sample_view(request):
result = render('mypackage:templates/foo.pt',
{'foo':1, 'bar':2},
response = Response(result)
response.content_type = 'text/plain'
return response
Here's an example view configuration which uses a Chameleon ZPT renderer registered imperatively:
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# config is an instance of pyramid.config.Configurator
Here's an example view configuration which uses a Chameleon text renderer registered imperatively:
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Chameleon is an implementation of ZPT (Zope Page Templates) templating language. The Chameleon engine complies largely with the Zope Page Template template specification. However, it is significantly faster than the default implementation that is represented by zope.pagetemplates.
The language definition documentation for Chameleon ZPT-style templates is available from the Chameleon website.
Given a Chameleon ZPT template named foo.pt in a directory in your application named templates, you can render the template as a renderer like so:
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from pyramid.view import view_config
def my_view(request):
return {'foo':1, 'bar':2}
Two built-in renderers exist for Chameleon templates. If the renderer parameter of a view configuration is an absolute path, a relative path or asset specification which has a final path element with a filename extension of .pt, the Chameleon ZPT renderer is used. If the extension is .txt, the Chameleon text renderer is used. The behavior of these renderers is the same, except for the engine used to render the template.
When a Chameleon renderer is used in a view configuration, the view must return a Response object or a Python dictionary. If the view callable with an associated template returns a Python dictionary, the named template will be passed the dictionary as its keyword arguments, and the template renderer implementation will return the resulting rendered template in a response to the user. If the view callable returns anything but a Response object or a dictionary, an error will be raised.
Before passing keywords to the template, the keyword arguments derived from the dictionary returned by the view are augmented. The callable object – whatever object was used to define the view – will be automatically inserted into the set of keyword arguments passed to the template as the view keyword. If the view callable was a class, the view keyword will be an instance of that class. Also inserted into the keywords passed to the template are renderer_name (the string used in the renderer attribute of the directive), renderer_info (an object containing renderer-related information), context (the context resource of the view used to render the template), and request (the request passed to the view used to render the template). request is also available as req in Pyramid 1.3+.
Here's what a simple Chameleon ZPT template used under Pyramid might look like:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>${project} Application</title>

Welcome to ${project}, an
application generated by the pyramid web
application framework.

Note the use of Mako and/or Genshi -style ${replacements} above. This is one of the ways that Chameleon ZPT differs from standard ZPT. The above template expects to find a project key in the set of keywords passed in to it via render() or render_to_response(). Typical ZPT attribute-based syntax (e.g. tal:content and tal:replace) also works in these templates.
When a renderer is used to render a template, Pyramid makes at least two top-level names available to the template by default: context and request. One of the common needs in ZPT-based templates is to use one template's "macros" from within a different template. In Zope, this is typically handled by retrieving the template from the context. But the context in Pyramid is a resource object, and templates cannot usually be retrieved from resources. To use macros in Pyramid, you need to make the macro template itself available to the rendered template by passing the macro template, or even the macro itself, into the rendered template. To do this you can use the pyramid.renderers.get_renderer() API to retrieve the macro template, and pass it into the template being rendered via the dictionary returned by the view. For example, using a view configuration via a view_config decorator that uses a renderer:
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from pyramid.renderers import get_renderer
from pyramid.view import view_config
def my_view(request):
main = get_renderer('templates/master.pt').implementation()
return {'main':main}
Where templates/master.pt might look like so:
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

Hello Fred!
And templates/mytemplate.pt might look like so:
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

Chris
pyramid_chameleon also allows for the use of templates which are composed entirely of non-XML text via Chameleon. To do so, you can create templates that are entirely composed of text except for ${name} -style substitution points.
Here's an example usage of a Chameleon text template. Create a file on disk named mytemplate.txt in your project's templates directory with the following contents:
Hello, ${name}!
Then in your project's views.py module, you can create a view which renders this template:
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from pyramid.view import view_config
def my_view(request):
return {'name':'world'}
When the template is rendered, it will show:
Hello, world!
If you'd rather use templates directly within a view callable (without the indirection of using renderer in view configuration), see the functions in pyramid.renderers for APIs which allow you to render templates imperatively.
Pyramid by default will provide a set of variables that are available within your templates, please see System Values Used During Rendering for more information about those variables.
At times, you may want to render a macro inside of a Chameleon ZPT template instead of the full Chameleon ZPT template. To render the content of a define-macro field inside a Chameleon ZPT template, given a Chameleon template file named foo.pt and a macro named bar defined within it (e.g.
...
), you can configure the template as a renderer like so:
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from pyramid.view import view_config
def my_view(request):
return {'project':'my project'}
The above will render only the bar macro defined within the foo.pt template instead of the entire template.
When a Chameleon template is rendered from a file, the templating engine writes a file in the same directory as the template file itself as a kind of cache, in order to do less work the next time the template needs to be read from disk. If you see "strange" .py files showing up in your templates directory (or otherwise directly "next" to your templates), it is due to this feature.
If you're using a version control system such as Subversion, you should configure it to ignore these files. Here's the contents of the author's svn propedit svn:ignore . in each of my templates directories.
Note that I always name my Chameleon ZPT template files with a .pt extension and my Chameleon text template files with a .txt extension so that these svn:ignore patterns work.
The exceptions raised by Chameleon templates when a rendering fails are sometimes less than helpful. Pyramid allows you to configure your application development environment so that exceptions generated by Chameleon during template compilation and execution will contain nicer debugging information.
Template-debugging behavior is not recommended for production sites as it slows renderings; it's usually only desirable during development.
In order to turn on template exception debugging, you can use an environment variable setting or a configuration file setting.
To use an environment variable, start your application under a shell using the PYRAMID_DEBUG_TEMPLATES operating system environment variable set to 1, For example:
$ PYRAMID_DEBUG_TEMPLATES=1 bin/pserve myproject.ini
To use a setting in the application .ini file for the same purpose, set the pyramid.debug_templates key to true within the application's configuration section, e.g.:
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use = egg:MyProject
pyramid.debug_templates = true
With template debugging off, a NameError exception resulting from rendering a template with an undefined variable (e.g. ${wrong}) might end like this:
File "...", in __getitem__
raise NameError(key)
NameError: wrong
Note that the exception has no information about which template was being rendered when the error occured. But with template debugging on, an exception resulting from the same problem might end like so:
RuntimeError: Caught exception rendering template.
- Expression: ``wrong``
- Filename: /home/fred/env/proj/proj/templates/mytemplate.pt
- Arguments: renderer_name: proj:templates/mytemplate.pt
template: <PageTemplateFile - at 0x1d2ecf0>
xincludes: <XIncludes - at 0x1d3a130>
request: <Request - at 0x1d2ecd0>
project: proj
macros: <Macros - at 0x1d3aed0>
context: <MyResource None at 0x1d39130>
view: <function my_view at 0x1d23570>
NameError: wrong
The latter tells you which template the error occurred in, as well as displaying the arguments passed to the template itself.
Turning on pyramid.debug_templates has the same effect as using the Chameleon environment variable CHAMELEON_DEBUG. See Chameleon Environment Variables for more information.
It's often convenient to see changes you make to a template file appear immediately without needing to restart the application process. Pyramid allows you to configure your application development environment so that a change to a template will be automatically detected, and the template will be reloaded on the next rendering.
Auto-template-reload behavior is not recommended for production sites as it slows rendering slightly; it's usually only desirable during development.
In order to turn on automatic reloading of templates, you can use an environment variable, or a configuration file setting.
To use an environment variable, start your application under a shell using the PYRAMID_RELOAD_TEMPLATES operating system environment variable set to 1, For example:
$ PYRAMID_RELOAD_TEMPLATES=1 bin/pserve myproject.ini
To use a setting in the application .ini file for the same purpose, set the pyramid.reload_templates key to true within the application's configuration section, e.g.:
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use = egg:MyProject
pyramid.reload_templates = true
Chameleon derives additional settings to configure its template renderer. Many of these settings are optional and only need to be set if they should be different from the default. The below values can be present in the .ini file used to configure the Pyramid application (in the app section representing your Pyramid app) or they can be passed directly within the settings argument passed to a Pyramid Configurator.
true or false representing whether Chameleon templates should be reloaded when they change on disk. Useful for development to be true.
- true or false representing whether Chameleon templates should be
- have extra debugging info turned on in tracebacks it generates.
Here's an example of changing the content-type and status of the response object returned by a Chameleon-rendered Pyramid view:
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def sample_view(request):
request.response.content_type = 'text/plain'
response.status_int = 204
return response
See Varying Attributes of Rendered Responses for more information.
Chameleon supports internationalized units of text by reusing the translation facilities provided within Pyramid. See Internationalization and Localization for a general description of these facilities.
You need to add a few boilerplate lines to your application's setup.py file in order to properly generate gettext files from your application's templates.
See Creating a Pyramid Project to learn about the composition of an application's setup.py file.
In particular, add the Babel and lingua distributions to the install_requires list and insert a set of references to Babel message extractors within the call to setuptools.setup() inside your application's setup.py file:
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# ...
install_requires = [
# ...
message_extractors = { '.': [
('**.py', 'lingua_python', None ),
('**.pt', 'lingua_xml', None ),
The message_extractors stanza placed into the setup.py file causes the Babel message catalog extraction machinery to also consider *.pt files when doing message id extraction.
Once this is done you can generate .pot files derived from your Chameleon templates (and Python code). See Extracting Messages from Code and Templates in the Pyramid documentation for general information about this.
When a Pyramid "translation string" (see Internationalization and Localization) is used as the subject of textual rendering by a pyramid_chameleon template renderer, it will automatically be translated to the requesting user's language if a suitable translation exists. This is true of both the ZPT and text variants of the Chameleon template renderers.
For example, in a Chameleon ZPT template, the translation string represented by "some_translation_string" in each example below will go through translation before being rendered:

Click here
The features represented by attributes of the i18n namespace of Chameleon will also consult the Pyramid translations. See http://chameleon.repoze.org/docs/latest/i18n.html#the-i18n-namespace.
Unlike when Chameleon is used outside of Pyramid, when it is used within Pyramid, it does not support use of the zope.i18n translation framework. Applications which use Pyramid should use the features documented in this chapter rather than zope.i18n.
You can always disuse this automatic translation and perform a more manual translation as described in Performing a Translation.
When you are running unit tests, you will be required to use config.include('pyramid_chameleon') to add pyramid_chameleon so that its renderers are added to the config and can be used.:
from pyramid import testing
from pyramid.response import Response
from pyramid.renderers import render
# The view we want to test
def some_view(request):
return Response(render('mypkg:templates/home.pt', {'var': 'testing'}))
class TestViews(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.config = testing.setUp()
def tearDown(self):
def test_some_view(self):
from pyramid.testing import DummyRequest
request = DummyRequest()
response = some_view(request)
# templates/home.pt starts with the standard  tag for HTML5
self.assertTrue('<html' in response.body)
Visit http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_chameleon to download development or tagged versions.
Visit http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_chameleon/issues to report bugs.


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A Lammas Mystery: Sacrifice & Transformation of the Heart.
"Something has happened
to the bread
and the wine….
They are something else now
from what they were
before this began."
~ Mary Oliver, The Vast Ocean Begins Just Outside Our Church
Welcome, fellow traveler, to late Summer.
The grasshoppers are full-grown now, and the leaves of the trees have a cloud of goldenness around them. Trees and porches are graced with the mandalas of the orb-weavers. At some point that you didn't notice, the crickets began serenading the evening.
Lammas, almost painfully beautiful, always seems to arrive before you are quite ready for it—it always carries the poignancy of change.
All of the pagan high holidays have a mystery buried within them like treasure. But what if that central mystery makes you uncomfortable? And is one that you would like to run away from?
Lammas is the threshold of the harvest cycle, the maturity of the "adult" season of the year, after the high glory of the Summer Solstice. Lammas was traditionally the time, in agricultural Scotland, of the weaning of calves and kids and lambs, and I think that is important to this theme: it is pull-away-from-gratification, get-off-the-teat-and-do-your-duty time.
And most importantly, Lammas is the beginning of the grain harvest, and the time of the grain god, John Barleycorn, who is reaped and winnowed and transformed into bread, who gives up one state in order to become another.
One of the central themes of Lammas, one that you cannot avoid, is sacrifice.
Sacrifice is something we resist. It is a difficult, unpopular theme to come to terms with in our modern mindset. We are encouraged, both in capitalist consumer culture and also "magically" by books like The Secret, to think that we can have everything all at once. Even though we know that, linearly, that is not true. Older, more mature and magical cultures than ours, actually understood this.
Sometimes, in order to have something that you love, you have to give up something else that you love.
When you read about the sacrifices of ancient people, whether those sacrifices be bull calf or bundle of grain, they always gave their best: a calf free of blemish to have its life ended, a sheaf of full ears with no grains missing, to be immolated in the field. Lifeforms with genetic futures in them, that could have been held onto and hoarded, eaten, or bred, were offered to the gods.
Ancient people offered sacrifices in faith that next year, the harvest or hunt would be better. They restricted the gratification and comfort in their present selves in service of their future selves, and also of the people that would come after them. They didn't hedge their sacrifices. Sacrifice was an absolute leap of faith, giving up the apparent and valuable, for something yet to arrive.
"Who are these coming to the sacrifice?" ~ John Keats
Many pagan traditions celebrate Lammas with a dramatized rite of the grain god being cut down for the winter by the Goddess's harvest scythe. The Goddess takes the body of the slain god into her lap and mourns him, the form of a Pieta.
Paganism being cyclic, the ancient cycle then says that the god will be restored, rather like he is just going away for a few months on vacation.
I'm going to be a heterodox pagan here and say that is almost right, but there is a little lower layer: I think pure cyclicity belies the true nature of sacrifice. Sacrifice is not someone takes a seasonal holiday and you know they are coming back, intact and just the same. It is losing something beloved and known in a gamble with the unknown.
It is giving something up to a cause larger than yourself, without being quite sure what, if anything, you will get back in return (the Bhagavad-Gita is about this). In sacrifice, there are no guarantees. There is no real sacrifice if you know the resolution.
Instead of a circle, think of a spiral. The uncertainty of change makes sacrifice real and meaningful. The god who comes back is, but also is not the same god, just as the Phoenix who rises out of the ashes is and is not the same Phoenix, just as Gandalf the White is and isn't any longer Gandalf the Grey, just as the New Year that arrives in January is not the same year as the old, just as the Doctor, when he regenerates on Doctor Who, both is and is not the same Doctor.
As long as we are in Time, there is sacrifice of the present for the future.
For all that it is fantastic, Doctor Who is very realistic and honest about loss. Beloved characters get killed, or changed or separated irrevocably. The show introduces in a safe way the idea that certain things can never be recovered, that one set of circumstances has to make way for another because all possibilities cannot exist at once. Doctor Who is notable for its acknowledgement of the emotional component of Time.
In the episode 'The End of Time,' the Doctor names, among the painful horrors of the universe, 'the Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres.' Anyone who has ever sacrificed one time stream for another is familiar with that legion.
In Norse mythology, Odin gives up an eye to learn the secret of the runes. He gives it for its value, but even as a god, he never gets it back. He wears a patch for the rest of his existence. There is no sacrifice without loss.
Butterflies, although they seem Springlike and Summerlike in their imagery, are also of the Fall. They are creatures of sacrifice. Caterpillars have to liquefy, turn to protoplasm, before they can be reconstituted as butterflies, or moths.
They are totemic of having to surrender one state for another.
Growth occurs through sacrifice, on a material level and on the energetic plane. For carnivorous cultures, the autumnal hunts and the slaughter of the herds was bloody. The ritual hunt of the King Stag ensured the return of Summer, and the turning of the Year. The annual cull of the herd cleared the old to make room and resource for the new. One thing is necessarily given to gain another. That is why people always would sacrifice the most beautiful, healthy, whole animal of their herd—that is how badly they wanted, and what they were willing to give, for next year's fertile harvest.
I recently had to give up a relationship very dear to me. As of right now, I have more idea of how my life won't turn out than how it will.
Sometimes, something you love with all your life has to be surrendered and then you hope for the best. Can you release a beloved form, or way of being, valuable because it has value to you, to provide fertility to your future? Can you give up something you love for being able to live in your true worth?
A principle of microeconomics says that the cost of something is what you are willing to give up to get it. How valuable to you are your dreams?
"[Man] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."
~ William Faulkner, Nobel acceptance speech, 1950
The word 'sacrifice' comes from the Latin sacer, which means 'to make holy.' No matter what wisdom traditions we follow, throughout the earth and among all peoples, our meaningful, devoted actions add more light to what is already full of light.
When we are willing to take a risk on behalf of a higher good that outvoices our immediate gratification and comfort, the Universe hears us.
May what we give up be a sacrifice to our future self, to the possibilities of happiness and greater service on this Earth.
It is and is not the same god who comes back in the Spring. The spiral will continue until the end of Time, until we run out of gods.
May you forever be guarded and guided, and never lose hope! Blessed Lammas!
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6 Responses to "A Lammas Mystery: Sacrifice & Transformation of the Heart."
beautiful, Laura. thank you so much for this. it's just what i was calling to read today. i have just weaned from the most passionate love i have ever felt and imagined, and now turn this fire of me to the world…trees, bees, and all of us. thank you, i needed this reminder of Grace in our sacrifice this season. i am not the same. i am grateful for the change, holy and wholly grateful. thank you. Love, megan
Thank you for this beautiful note, Megan…. You have inspired me right back and given me the grace of your language and words to boot Love, Laura
Thank you for this gift of a powerful, moving essay, which has helped me recast current struggles in a new light. Blessings and peace to you this fall.
Oh, Leigh Anne, I'm so glad it let me write it, because it seems like something that many of us needed to hear. Thank you for letting me know that it meant something to you Love, Laura
So beautifully written, Laura!
The shape of your love and its importance through this essay has opened my eyes a little more to the mystery that was ours. I'm not sure I will ever understand completely but my hope is that you will find the meaning you seek. May you be guarded and guided, and loved.


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Well, if you idiots came through with all your promised "JOBS, JOBS, JOBS," a lot of people wouldn't need this assistance in the first place.
Step 2: take some food off their plates, too
Step 3: they'll resort to robbery to pay for heat / food
Step 4: fund the hiring of even MORE cops, to combat the increase in crime
back to those living high on hog not having any consideration for those less fortunate. Sad part is those making laws don't have to sjuffer under them.
#1: if you idiots came through with all your promised "JOBS, JOBS, JOBS," a lot of people wouldn't need this assistance in the first place.
Are you referring to the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich? The tax cuts for the rich that have been in effect for many years (pre-Obama) and were supposed to create jobs?
Those promises?
Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket
All is proceeding according to plan.
I was referring to every politician and his or her brother in recent memory who ran on the promise of creating those imaginary "green" and "shovel-ready" jobs.
For some reason I can't get Scott Murphy's blather out of my head.
Mayube if the Great wise and wonderful BO would get off his I can only vote present tookus and approve the Keystone pipeline as it was by his very own apparatchiks and allow some needed capacity and competition into the energy market it might drive the costs down so that the poor needy and working stiffs can afford it. And btw if y'all going to use the 'idiot' word, the pc police may start derossiering you.
And CP retiree is right…if BO did not dump more than 700 million into solyndra, although the treasury folks saaw the exact month Solyndra was going to fail, that 700 million would go along way towards putting some heat in houses…but only an idiot would suggest that…
#6: "Mayube if the Great wise and wonderful BO would get off his I can only vote present tookus and approve the Keystone pipeline as it was by his very own apparatchiks and allow some needed capacity and competition into the energy market it might drive the costs down so that the poor needy and working stiffs can afford it"
Is that the longest sentence ever?
What are you saying?
Oates77, here in modified argement form
1. BO has a record of only voting present in the senate.
2. BO has attempted to put off the decision about the Keystone XL pipeline until after the 2012 elections.
3. The Pipeline is supposed to bring an estimated 1 million barrells of oil every day to US refineries.
4. Adding additional supply of any commodity to a market drives price down given the economic model of "scarcity" relieving upward pressures on price. This of course is simple economic theory taught in high school.
5. Lowering price allows a greater number of consumers to afford that commodity.
The presumptive corollary one may assume from the logic demonstrated is That BO is a political hack who is trying to avoid aggraviting his already fleeing base, that the pipeline will make it easier for the US populace to heat their houses, and the adjunct is that BO wasted 755+ BILLION dollars on wasteful green energy programs that were aptly called political theater
Why is the Keystone pipeline coming from Canada (a cold climate) through the Northern Plains (another cold climate) to sunny Texas? Isn't there a market in the cold climates for natural gas to heat homes???
Oh, that's right, it's for the same reason the pipelines coming out of Marcellus Shale country and cutting through New York and northern New Jersey.
Both are heading for ports so the gas companies can ship the gas OVERSEAS.
So, it seems "Drill, baby, drill," is to let the companies in North America sell OUR gas and oil to companies overseas at higher prices while leaving behind polluted groundwater, blown up homes and
And all for the almighty buck or euro.
BSMeter, The pipeline is going to the major concentration of refineries in the US that have the capacity to handle that much production.
The marcellus shale oil would go to the nearest refinery. Why ship to the deep south when there is available capacity nearer.
And as to your claims that the oil would be ssold overseas at a higher profit, you based that on what exactly?
Also, polluted water, blown up homes and who knows what disaster will be? As you recall they had similar issues in ALbany from an unproperly vented former garbage dump. There are no absolute guarantees except death and ever increasing taxes. Unless you are a Luddite, Man will continue to expand. Green energy has been a mixed failure, from Solyndra to the Chevy Volt. BO has been pushing GM to build the chevy volt, even though it has a 60% catching on fire rate.
Besides the US needs the energy, The progressives complain that the poor needy and lower middle class can't heat their houses. Here is an opportunity to provide an abundance of capacity to the market and drive prices down allowing more people to heat more.
To answer your question in # 7 above, oates77, "NO". What is emerging as the "longest sentence" is the 4 year penalty we all have to endure resulting from the 2008 Presidential election, that cannot end too quickly.
Bloomberg reported that one Volt test car caught fire in a crash test when the battery was pierced, and neither GM or the National Highway Traffic Administration could recreate the accident. The report also suggests that lithium-ion batteries can heat up when punctured, but a small puncture can take days or weeks to become problematic — a scenario easily avoided if the battery is simply drained at the scene of an accident. Consider that a gas tank that is punctured is also a dangerous scenario, and a small puncture could prove hazardous immediately… not in days. "60% catching on fire" is pure exaggeration.
And Solyndra is a relatively small failure when put into perspective — about 1.5% of national green energy investment and a contribution of 0.003% to the national debt. But I concur that President Obama showed too much zeal over Solyndra.
PlainGuy; the pipelines from the Marcellus Shale are going to seaports in New Jersey, not refineries. You don't "refine" natural gas, although there is some cleaning up to do.
So, just like climate chage, "It's going to happen no matter what, so why do anything?" Is that really what you're saying?
I don't think you can be that heartless, or have that little foresight, but I do admit, I have been wrong judging people in the past.
Moonsword, my eror, I used wrong data. The Volt however continues to have engineering problems.
And BSMeter, I was thinking of the western US Oil Sands, but where did you find the data on the u;timate disposition of the natural gas for the Marcellus Shale? If that is the case NYS needs to lean on the producers to keep the majority in NYS for NYS needs, and sell the excess.
Thanks MoonSword, it's nice of you to conclude that just a smidgen more the 1/2 BILLION dollars, of taxpayer money, was flushed down a bottomless hole so President Obama could keep one of his pet projects going.
It seems that private funding sources are just a wee bit more cautious about funding pipe dreams and look for a little more viability before risking THEIR OWN money than the Obama Administration, although in this instance even the Obama Administration raised some eyebrows. Oh, I forgot, it wasn't the Administrations OWN MONEY.
Obviously those concerns being IGNORED and loans being guaranteed to a large Obama campaign contributor must be one of those unfortunate coincidences, that sometimes bite the taxpayer on the behind
#14: Technology development takes time. Even Honda and and Toyota had their engineering growing pains.
#15: Feeling some sticker shock? Large numbers can do that.
"Thanks MoonSword, it's nice of you to conclude that just a smidgen more the 1/2 BILLION dollars, of taxpayer money, was flushed down a bottomless hole so President Obama could keep one of his pet projects going."
You're welcome. People want to see the cost of energy go down. One side of the argument is to increase supply (drill for more oil). That is an economically valid approach, but it'll be chasing the rising world demand so results may be minor. Providing a substitute product (green energy) to decrease demand is another approach. But green energy requires a lot of research and development and that costs money, probably more than the private industry would ever pony up as oil has proven quite profitable these days with high prices and all. So, if private industry won't step up, someone else has to.
"It seems that private funding sources are just a wee bit more cautious about funding pipe dreams and look for a little more viability before risking THEIR OWN money"
Oh private enterprises are very capable of flitting away their investments. i.e. GM and Chrysler, Enron, banking crash… Very popular stories with differing variations on who is the bad guy, depending on who you ask — but what they all do have in common is that loads of private money was irresponsibly handled and that irresponsibility caused a lot of financial "collateral damage" all around.
Solyndra did prove to be a bad choice. Every President has made bad choices — part of being human. At least this is a mistake measured as a pittance — as in millions and not billions like some other bad choices made by other administrations and other world governments. And yes, when many billions are on the line, millions — even hundreds of millions — are a pittance in comparison.
The problem you seem to ignore, MoonSword, is that the development necessary to discover, decide, develop and deploy which alternative energy source(s) may replace oil is likely to take a minimum of 20 years. During that interim the world, as we know it, will continue to rotate and the use of affordable energy will continue.
Irresponsible handling of loads of private investments is part of the risk private investors accept, which accomodates the rewards they enjoy when their investments provide the benefits anticipated. Governments cannot, and more importantly SHOULD NOT become venture capitalists playing with SOMEONE ELSES (taxpayer) money.
As we get a lot closer to the eventual solution, Government assistance specifically targeted for proven benefit may well become an important factor, but at this juncture, government meddling especially by inexperienced, politically motivated ideologues is simply a bad idea, as evidenced by the Solyndra fiasco.
Although a tad above 1/2 Billion down a rat hole is nothing to sneeze at, that is not "THE" problem. "THE" problem is an Administration seeking (and easily finding) Fat Cat campaign contributors only too anxious and willing to donate campaign money knowing it is likely to serve as seed money opening access doors to taxpayer funds to risk rather than private (risky) funding.
Even Poker would be a much safer game to play if the taxpayer was putting up the betting money.
The problem you seem to ignore, Albert J, is that the development necessary to discover, decide, develop and deploy which alternative energy source(s) may replace oil is likely to take a minimum of 20 years and nobody in private industry who is making the decisions now, will be around 20 years from now. Besides. "I have to show a profit this year for my stockholders (and bonuses). I know, I'll just save money on R&D.
I wonder….what if Isabella had the same mindset?
Pause here for the slow-witted to say, "Whaaa?"
Isabella used government (Spain) money to finance a man's idea to "discover, decide, develop and deploy." (love your iteration).
Or, in more modern times, how about you don't use your microwave or GPS or any of the myriad of everyday items that came out of government-backed research that put several humans on the moon. After all, given your thinking, the only direct benefit of those missions was just a bagful of rocks.
Why is it that liberals always think they are so "quick witted" and smarter than everyone else. I don't have a problem with government backed research when it has a rational objective, my problem is when a government, stacked with a lot of people who have told each other just how smart and wonderful they each are, tries to involve itself in areas that are beyond their reach, but they presume they understand.
You are correct, private venture capitalists HAVE to be careful with their money, because they can actually run out of it, and when it's gone it's actually gone. You seem to have glossed over the part about these government boondoggles, coincidentally I'm sure, inevitably tracking back to some generous campaign donation to the Obama re-election campaign.
Perhaps you might consider a little BS repellant, rather than just tracking how high it registers.
Would those government "boondoggles" include a nine year, trillion dollar war in Iraq to save the world from an imaginary mushroom cloud? And btw Albert, BSmeter is much more "quick witted" than you lol.
Grand Oil Party strokes again.
Albert at #19….. ouch, that hurt!!!! You called me a "liberal," when, in fact, I don't consider myself to be either liberal or conservative (yes, Albert, there are free-thinking people in this world that can see good and bad points in many differing points of view).
I won't go into all the big political donors to Republican causes who turned around and got caught violating the law, ripping off the public, etc. There's just as many who vote Republican as there are Democrat, maybe because they donate to whomever is in power. BTW Solyndra asked for the loan when a different person was in office as president. That loan was being processed under that person's administration. It was just pushed forward too quickly by Obama looking to push his green initiative.
As to your last line, the BSmeter, while intended to give a reading on hypocracy, has never been turned on in the months I've been monitoring this site.
I've gone under the belief that "if it's round and flat, has a pungent odor and sticks to your shoes when you can't avoid walking through it, it must be BS!"
P.S. don't use fresh ones for second base!!!
Happy Holidays, Albert…..
It's very common that people think they're smarter than those around them — liberals and conservatives alike. And sure why not — I admit I think I'm smarter too. 😀
AlbertJ, I do not share your good-guy/bad-guy analysis about President Obama's public spending. Politicians of both parties accept campaign contributions for re-election. And whether it is private money or public money, that money is tied to our society and irresponsible handling has dire consequences on everyone. And considering the elements that drew us into the "great recession," meaning irresponsible handling of private money, I do not share the view that private investors are more responsible than government. It became necessary for government to intervene over the mess that private investors created! Recall that even President Bush felt it necessary to intervene with T.A.R.P.
Further, I believe that those who are profit driven will not be motivated to develop green energy until fossil fuels are so unsustainable as to be practically unavailable. The demand for energy is "inelastic" so as the price climbs — people will continue to pay it. As such, there is no pure market motivation to provide a substitute product to alleviate demand to lower prices while fossil fuels continue to be so profitable.
I don't know whose technical analysis says that green energy is 20 years away. A lot of the technology exists now, but there is still the matter of making the technology competitive in a market thoroughly dominated by fossil fuels. But those countries that manage to reduce their costs for energy will become more economically competitive.
Forgive me, Moonsword, if I gave you the impression proivate investors were, "more responsive than government". My intent is to suggest they are far more careful and cautions, because they are investing their own money, rather than blank government check.
As for the technical analysis for green energy being 20 years away, I understand there are many existing, "possibilities", my suggestion of time relates to making the alternative as readily avaialable, as current supplies, including routine distribution.
I agree with your projection, "those countries that manage to reduce their costs for energy will become more economically competitive", but that is not what I see as Obama's strategy. The current Administration is spending far more effort is RAISING the cost of existing energy supplies, hoping to justify the inflated and higher costs of "green energy", whose cost is far more expensive than the current cost of energy. Artificially raising the cost of an existing product to justify the increased cost of a replacement is a well worn and common practive.
The "good guy-bad guy" concern about public spending only applies when bad-guy politicians use their power over their colleagues to support lesser quality/greater expense commodities in return for political donations in advance. The success of this approach is heavily dependent on the donor's record of rewarding previous donors with lucrative deals and special privileges.
Obama's objective in this current round of poliotical campaign promises, is to raise at a minimmum of $1 Billion Dollars, and based on the number of political contribtuors, who provided lavish contributions and have since received specififc assignments, the practice is alive and doing well


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This unit enables students to develop an understanding of the principles and practices of television studio production. By examining the context and evolution of historical and contemporary production practices, students will develop understandings of the operations and creative possibilities associated with studio production genres. Projects and exercises will be collaborative and group based with the emphasis placed on the development of pre-production planning, production management and studio production skills.
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Article: Run your own online support center »
Recently I have opened up an online support center for my s3maphor3 software brand:
From the online support center, registered users can submit change requests, report bugs and problems, and request information concerning the software I produce. All in all, an intuitive, open, web-based service that brings structure to my change management process.
This article will explains you how to set up your own web-based support center using open source software in less than one hour. Useful for developers working on open source software, but also for a small business that sells their software over the internet.
The change management software that we will use is called Mantis, an open source bug tracker based on PHP. Mantis requires both a PHP server and a database server, where MySQL is prefered. For the full requirements of Mantis, go here. In essence, this means that you need access to PHP hosting, where you have control over the scripts that get installed to the web server, as well as the required database on the database server. PHP hosting is dirt cheap nowadays, and otherwise you always have the option to host it from your home server.
The installation effort of Mantis really depends on your PHP hoster. If you have a PHP machine that is properly configured (database creation access, SMTP routing working, etc) it is dead easy. When you have a shared hosting provider, things may be more difficult. So, let's take this step by step.
- Download Mantis. You can download the latest version of Mantis here. Once downloaded, extract it to a directory on your local machine. The directory will be called something like "mantis_1.0.5". At this point, you may want to rename this directory to something more user friendly. I have chosen to rename it into "support", since that will look much nicer in the URL once we uploaded the application.
- Upload Mantis. Provided that you have proper access to your PHP hoster, you can now upload the "support" directory to your web root. Most providers provide FTP access to do this. Once completed, we need to change the file permissions of the directory contents, because the installation script requires write access to some files. Because I could not find which files require it, I decided to give all files in the support directory this access level. If you know a better way, please let me know. Anyway, the way to grant the write access to files may differ per provider. Mine gives me a visual way to change the permissions for the uploaded files. If you have command line access only, you will need to "chmod 777" all files in the directory recursively.
- Run the install script. This step is crucial. When you run the Mantis install script, it will try to create the bug database and generate configuration settings. The install script will present you a setup screen once you access your Mantis installation (at address "http://yourdomain/yourdir", i.e. "s3maphor3.org/support"). The setup will ask you to provide a database name and some user credentials. If your provider allows you to install new databases from a script, simply follow the instructions on the setup screen. If the installation is indicated as a success, continue to the next step. If not, please consider the following instructions:
My provider does not allow me to generate a new database from a script. Instead, I have to use their front-end web interface to create one. Perhaps your provider gives you a phpMyAdmin interface. Either way, just manually create a database, and remember the database name, and the user name and password to access the database. Go back to the Mantis setup screen, and enter the database details of the database you just created. If installation is successfull, continue to the next step. If not, follow the instructions below:
Even when manually creating the database and entering the connection details, I got a fatal error indicating that the connection was refused. Mantis tried to setup the tables inside the database, but failed. Go back to the install script and enable the checkbox that prints out the SQL statements. Run the install script. It will now output a long list of SQL statements to setup the database tables. Copy it, and manually execute the query against your database. I did this using phpMyAdmin, but there's other software to do it. Finally, I went back to the install script, disabled the print SQL check and ran it again. This time it was successfull. I hope you don't have to do all this, consider it a worst case installation scenario.
There, the hard part is done. Now it is time to setup your copy of Mantis. When installation is successfull, you are proceeding to the login screen of Mantis. You will also see two warnings, marked in red text. Let's deal with those first.
- Change the administrator password. One of the warnings indicate that you need to remove the administrator account or change the password of it. At the login screen, log in as "administrator" with password "root". You may expect the administrator's user name and password to reflect the values you entered in the setup screen, but this is not the case. When logged in, go to "my account". From there, change the administrator password and email address. You can also change other preferences, such as email notifications from there.
- Remove the admin directory. You should really remove the "admin" directory inside your Mantis installation from the server, because anybody can access it without logging in. Before you do, you can open it as a URL to adjust the style sheet settings of your installation. Once removed, go back to the Mantis login screen. All warnings should be gone now.
- Test email notifications. Mantis has an extensive email notification feature, which allows user to track bugs. It is also used to signup new users, so it is crucial that it works. If you're lucky, it works out of the box. If you're not lucky, you need to do a bit of extra work. Let's test it. Log out as an administrator and go back to the login screen. From there, click on "Signup for a new account". Enter the details of your new non-administrator user, and provide an email address you have access to. Once you submit the form, check the inbox of the provided email address to see if the automated account activation email arrives. If it works, continue to the next step. If it doesn't, follow the instructions below:
Sending email by SMTP from scripts did not work for me out of the box, due to my providers' restrictions. In most scenarios this means that you will need to find a SMTP server address from which you can send emails. Most SMTP servers are not open, so it is likely that you also need authentication information, such as a valid username and password. Once you have collected this information, you need to manually edit a config file. The config file is located in your Mantis directory and is called "config_inc.php". Open it in edit mode, it will have the database connection details in there. We now need to add SMTP settings to make email notifications work. Here is the config file contents that I used. I have scrambled setting values to protect the security of my setup:
// database hostname. use 'localhost' if PHP and DB is one same machine
$g_hostname = 'mysql.myprovider.com';
$g_db_type = 'mysql';
$g_database_name = 'yourdbname';
$g_db_username = 'yourdbusername';
$g_db_password = 'yourdbpassword';
// use PHPMailer to send out emails
$g_phpMailer_method = 0;
$g_validate_email = 'ON';
// server address of SMTP server
$g_smtp_host = 'smtp.myprovider.com';
// user name and password to authenticate with SMTP server
$g_smtp_username = 'yourSMTPusername';
$g_smtp_password = 'yourSMTPpassword';
$g_administrator_email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com';
$g_webmaster_email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com';
$g_from_email = 'email@example.com';
$g_return_path_email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com';
Save the config file once you are done editing it, and check again to see if email notifications work. Without it, Mantis essentially is not usable.
Assuming you have successfully completed the installation and configuration steps, it is now time for the fun part: getting Mantis ready for your usage. The following instructions are suggestions to make Mantis ready for your users, but you can choose to do things differently of course.
- Create projects. You are probably setting up a support center to support applications or services. These are called projects in Mantis. By creating projects, users can assign bug reports and change requests to them. To create a project, log in as the administrator and go to "Manage". Next, click on "Manage project". From there, click on "create new project". Per project, fill out he basic details and click on "add project".
- Add project details. Oddly enough, you can only add extra project settings once you saved them. So go ahead and open an existing project in edit mode. If you are supporting complex projects, you may want to use the sub projects feature to further structure your change management.
Next, you can add "categories". These are not project categories. They are categories in which bug reporters can assign tickets. I have chosen to provide the following categories: change request, bug report, problem report and request for information. I am using this for all my projects. Once you assigned them to your first project, you can easily reuse them by using the "Copy categories from" feature. If you're supporting software, you will also want to assemble the list of versions in the project details. This way you can keep track of the bugs found in which version of your application.
Finally, you can assign user accounts to the project, only those users will be able to submit tickets for it. If you're supporting open source software, you should not use this feature, so that everybody can submit tickets.
- Customizing the appearance.
Almost done. Let's make some small changes for the sake of a better user experience. First, it is nice to post a welcome message on the main screen. This message will appear to users once they are logged in. You can welcome users and tell them about your service. To do this, Mantis has a news section. When logged in as an administrator, go to "Edit news". From there you can post your message. If you want the message to be permanently displayed, enable the "Announcement, stay on top" checkbox.
Next, you may want to customize the big ugly Mantis logo. You can do this by simply replacing the file "mantis_logo.gif" in the "images" directory of Mantis with your own logo. If you would like the supply extra formatting, or would like to rename your logo file, you will need to edit the reference to it in the "core\html_api.php" file in the Mantis directory.
- User acceptance test. We should be done now, so let's test it. Place yourself in the position of a new user. Go to the login screen, and signup for a new account. Wait for the activation email to arrive and activate the account. Report a new issue using the "Report Issue" link, upload a screenshot image in the issue and submit it. Access your support email address to see if you have an email notifying you of the new issue. Open the link in the email and see if you can access the uploaded file. Change the status of the issue and see who gets an email about it. Complete the cycle until the issue is in status "resolved". Note that users can adjust their email settings in their account settings.
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Of course, there is a lot more to Mantis than this article can and will tell you. Yet, I hope that with the help of this article you will be able to quickly set up a professional support tool for your own organization. Like subversion, it has brought tremendous improvements in the structure and professionalism of my software development. I hope it does the same to you.
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Tribal resources have always been extremely valuable to the US, Canadian and Mexican economies especially as long as those resources remained accessible for little or no cost. Indeed, as long as the US and its states scratch to find more tax revenues the confiscatory efforts will continue at both the direct extraction and taxation levels. As long a Indian governments and indigenous assemblies fail to preempt the state, counties and federal government, these governments will continue to move toward raising revenues from tribal resources.
Tribal governments must impose their own taxes on businesses (non-Indian included) and use their taxation powers to promote policies that advance tribal rights, tribal member economic security and tribal jurisdiction. The movement toward such full blown exercise of governmental power has been timidly approach for more than 45 years. It is now time to institute tribal taxation with tribal regulation in accord with tribal customary laws.
Non-Indians have been making enormous profits off of tribal lands through leased and owned land and tribal governments have too often been modest about their taxation powers.
With the incoming states' governments swinging right I think we will all agree that federal legislation in all three governments to protect Indian governments from infringements and tax encroachments will not see the light of day. Indigenous governments must act themselves to preempt external encroachments.


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Out of 356 acres of land currently devoted to farming in Auroville (Farm Group), approximately 158 acres are irrigated, while the rest supports dryland fields, orchards and timber crops. It is estimated to cost 1 – 2 lakhs Indian Rupees (~ US $5,000) of initial investment per acre to convert a new area of land into high productivity farmland. Much of the existing farmland is peripheral to the designated Auroville area and was purchased in the earliest days of Auroville's growth. With relatively large land holdings, and large annual investments (as seen in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram farms), it was planned that Auroville would focus the essential energy and resources needed to realize a solid foundation of self-reliance in growing food for its population. On much of Auroville land soil quality is poor. A primary focus has been continued research into natural soil fertility enhancement.
Some of the best potential farmland in our region is beyond the Green Belt to the West / North-west, where groundwater is relatively abundant. Investments in research, comprehensive cultivation techniques, and low impact irrigation systems require continuous resourcing. In 1996 State subsidised electricity was re-valued for "education and research organisations" (i.e. Auroville), making the cost prohibitive for Auroville farmers (while still free of charge for rural farmers). This has necessitated heavy investment into alternative energy technologies, most of which is relatively expensive in India, when available.
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Auroville seeks to support ecological agriculture by providing a preferred market for its local organic produce within the community. Quantities are sold in Pour Tous food shop, while the new Solar Kitchen uses larger quantities to provide healthy and relatively inexpensive lunches for Aurovilians, school children and some of the workforce from the local villages. In the Auroville economic experiment meals are subsidised by the Central Fund (or "free" of charge), while the Auroville Farms receive subsidies and support for their ongoing financial needs.
The Farm Group maintains a direct sales outlet, Auroville Foodlink, where organic farm produce is available to the consumer at cost price plus a minimal percentage overhead cost. They also manage the distribution of goods to various shops in Auroville, and to the Solar Kitchen. Targeting of optimal demand is to the advantage of the farmers, and the economic linkage (i.e. centralised funding) between the need of the growers and that of the consumers furthers the healthy relationship between the two. In that office, statistical data are maintained on monthly and annual production figures, and on farm investments and overall finances. At present Auroville is self-sufficient only in milk and some seasonal fruits. It produces only 2% of its total rice and grain requirements, and less than 50% of its total fruit and vegetable requirements.
AuroAnnam has created a buying and selling co-op for organic cashew nuts, facilitating the processing of these and their marketing. This assists numerous cashew growers inside of Auroville (as it represents a peripheral activity for many land stewards) as well as providing an incentive for village farmers to cultivate organically and reduce health risks associated with use of pesticides. The fostering of economic incentives for local farmers to grow chemical-free food is at once of benefit to the grower and the consumer, increasing awareness of the danger of contamination of groundwater by fertilisers and pesticides. It is a healthy recommendation as well as an economic one. They have also recently begun to establish a network for marketing a variety of organically certified goods from around India under their own label.
Auroville Food Processing unit and KOFPU (Kottakarai Organic Food Processing Unit) also play an important role by developing food products made with organically grown fruits, vegetables and rain-fed millets and other crops. They produce a range of jams, syrups, pickles, chutneys and nut butters for sale in and outside of Auroville, and provide a useful outlet for surpluses of local seasonal fruits.
The risk of wasted harvests due to lack of storage facilities and marketing problems (surpluses) is a major disincentive for Auroville farmers trying to grow food for the community. Crop failures in the region are not uncommon, because the temperate growing season from December to March is short, while the summer and monsoon seasons are severe and fairly unpredictable. The low prices on external markets - based on exploitative labour practices and heavy doses of chemicals - also attract many Aurovilians away from homegrown organic foods. The technological impact of refrigerated transport and storage of food, creating the unnatural year-round availability of non-seasonal fruits and vegetables, and the popularisation of highly processed foods with long shelf life, have made a huge impact on dietary patterns and expectations.
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This easy chicken and mashed potato casserole will not only use up those leftover potatoes but will leave you whole family wanting more.
Here's what you are going to need:2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts2 cans of cream of chicken soup1/2 cup of sour cream1/2 onion, finely chopped1 1/2 teaspoons of poultry seasoning1/2 teaspoon of dried sage1 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon of pepper1 pound of frozen California Blend Vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and carrots)4 cups of leftover mashed potatoesPaprika for sprinkling on top of the casserole
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
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Cut the chicken breasts into bite sized cubes.
Stir in the chicken and onions.
Add the frozen vegetables and mix well. Bring back up to a simmer. Cover and simmer on low 15 minutes.
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Carefully spread the potatoes over the entire top of the casserole all the way to the edges.
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William S. Burroughs' unbelievable Thanksgiving Prayer—by Gus Van Sant.
My review: wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Thanksgiving Day, Nov 28,1986 first appeared in the chapbook Tornado Alley, with illustrations by S. Clay Wilson. Gus Van Sant then made a short film of Burroughs reading the text.
This poem resonates today as exposing what has gone horribly wrong in the USA, or maybe what has always been wrong.
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986
William S. Burroughs
For John Dillinger
In hope he is still alive
Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts
thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison
thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger
thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot
thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes
thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through
thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces
thanks for Kill a Queer for Christ stickers
thanks for laboratory AIDS
thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs
thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business
thanks for a nation of finks — yes,
thanks for all the memories all right, lets see your arms you always were a headache and you always were a bore
thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.
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12 Responses to "William S. Burroughs' unbelievable Thanksgiving Prayer—by Gus Van Sant."
Take Mark Twain's ''War Prayer'', this and ''The Addams Family" movie Thanksgiving play and you have a perfect trilogy for the holiday
Remember to sign off, whoever you are! ~ Waylon
There is so much negativity in the world around us. I see Thanksgiving as at least one day a year that the collective consciousness might re-focus on the positive. While this poem is full of truth, and I love irony and sarcasm, I find it something I would avoid on Thanksgiving.
Great point. I found his voice amazing and the images amazing…but you're right, I love what Thanksgiving has become—a day to gather and eat together as we used to do.
I agree and I think you put it well. Cynthia
Rachel Langsam Well that woke me up from my (veggie) Thanksgiving feast stupor- loved it!
Danbo Thirstblood Yeah, what he said!
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Rachel Langsam It's "in-your-face" truth is ballsy and admirable. Thanks for sharing it!
Cool, a bit morose, definitely can hear the echo of Alan Ginsberg in his candor. Reminds me of Howl…Maybe howl is the after effect. Like PTSD.
I love this. Anger and sarcasm have a place in this world. I believe that literature is one of the best places for them.
i was lucky to get to go to one of mr. burroughs' classes once. i think of him as a cynical realist. he inspired my own cynica realism. happy thanksgiving, people….
cynical. i meant to say cynical.
Imagery is incredible! Thanks for sharing x
What does he mean by "laboratory AIDS" ???? Anyways, I feel sad that he had nothing he was truly grateful for.


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I'm excited to introduce a new metric I affectionately call… "Refresh Rate." After you're done cheering and ask "what the heck is refresh rate" you can read on for the full scoop. The more exciting thing is that I've collaborated with Jeremy Aube at the Google Analytics Authorized Consulting firm ROI Revolution to integrate this metric into the Google Analytics Report Enhancer, a Greasemonkey-based script provided by ROI Revolution for those using the Firefox browser that adds nifty features to the Google Analytics interface.
Finding the proverbial Needle in the Haystack
Many in the Web Analytics claim that Google Analytics is arguably a bit lean when it comes to content analysis. Features like full path analysis are absent, content doesn't report visits or visitors but instead only pageviews, unique pageviews (to clarify, unique pageviews is visits on a per-page basis) and some other value metrics.
When working with clients to analyze and understand the value of pages within their sites I've often struggled to find pages that jump out as problem or pints or highly valuable content. A few months back I was experimenting on analysis and calculated a simple number, pageviews/unique pageviews, which I've come to call "Refresh Rate".
Defining Refresh Rate
What is "Refresh Rate"? I loosely define it as "the average number of times a given page is viewed during each visit." It is a simple ratio of the number of pageviews divided by the number of unique pageviews (or visits) to the page. Why is this important? Because if a page is viewed more times during the average visit it says something about that page: either it is a page frequently traversed (cross-over) between other pieces of desirable content, or it is a page that visitors just can't get enough of or find particularly challenging to deal with. In any scenario, it's an important figure to spot.
I applied some color-coding in Excel 2007 and suddenly my report went from the equivalent of an early Atari display console to an HD flat-screen. Ok, well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but here's what I became excited about:
Note how the third column, Refresh Rate, shows a starkly different picture of content than the other columns, interesting as they may be. Using refresh rate I'm able to spot several pages with abnormal characteristics. Something about the Sierra and Kyle 2008 recent weddings page keeps people coming back at a much higher rate then they do to other pages. Could something on this page be more interesting than on the average page?
Refresh Rate within the Google Analytics interface
Calculating Refresh Rate in Excel is nice, but it takes a lot of work. What about seeing this number in context within the Google Analytics interface? It's an easy calculation, but mentally calculating the number is a tough trick to do all day long. Enter GAREnhancer from ROI Revolution. I've worked with Jeremy on the ROI team to build this metric into the Google Analytics interface through use of the GAREnhancer Greasemonkey script. You'll see:
- Refresh rate on Top Content, Pages by Title, and Content Drilldown reports
- A nice scorecard tab that shows Refresh Rate for all the data rows within the particular report you're viewing
- A column showing Refresh Rate for each page
Using Refresh Rate in everyday analysis
There any number of ways using Refresh Rate can be valuable to conducting analysis. Here are a few that I've come up with so far. If you have other ideas I'd love to hear about them!
1. Refresh Rate in-context within content reports
First, simply seeing it listed after pageviews and unique pageviews gives some context to how interesting a given page may be.
By analyzing content in the context of refresh rate within the GA interface you can easily spot pages that are outside the norm, or at least are viewed at an unexpected refresh rate.
2. Sorting by Refresh Rate
Second, you can sort rows based on descending or ascending refresh rate values and see pages with the highest refresh rates listed easily at the top.
3. Comparing Refresh Rate between segments
Third, when you apply advanced custom segments, you can easily spot the difference between refresh rates for various segments.
In Conclusion…
I've found calculating custom metrics can be a great way to gain extra insights into website use when using Google Analytics. If only we could create custom metrics on-the-go within the interface… Google, are you listening?
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In her "From Your Councilor" column last week, Precinct 1 councilor Ann Canedy explained her frustration with the council's recent history of what she deems as disrespectful behavior among its members.
Canedy was approached by some of her fellow councilors with respect to comments written about the discussion and voting process for a water easement given to the Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District, especially with respect to the correctness, or incorrectness, of the map referenced in the final vote. In the end, the council required subsequent action to correct the map reference.
"Regardless of what the origin of the map was, the fact remains that there were two maps and confusion arose from that," Canedy said this week. "Any inference that I'm accusing COMM of an intentional bait and switch (with regard to the maps) is absolutely not the case."
Canedy also acknowledged that her representation that there was a motion to amend the map on the floor during the original voting in April was not accurate.
Even so, she does not consider the example of the map as the main message of her column.
"Not having all of the facts on the table understood is disrespectful to the process and the citizens of Barnstable," Canedy said.
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This condition is an autoimmune disorder in which the body's immune system attacks a thin tissue that lines the joints called synovium. The attack causes fluid buildup and pain body wide. There is no cure for this chronic disease but the nature of the disease is cyclical with periods of remission and flare ups.
Symptoms may include joints that can be warm to the touch, decreased range of motion, swelling of the joints. One point with Rheumatoid Arthritis is that if the right knee has the disease, so will the left. And because the condition is body wide, one might experience fatigue, loss of appetite, low grade fever and anemia.
Unfortunately, this disease is progressive. The damage caused by this disease to the membrane of the joints can cause deformity and disability. Lumps usually develop in the joints of the fingers, spine or heels. Over the course of time it can also damage organs.
Of the nearly 1% of the population that has this chronic disease, women are three times more likely to be effected than men. Women are generally diagnosed between the ages of 30 to 60 and men are generally not afflicted until late in life. Unfortunately, the cause of the disease is unknown except that it is thought to be a combination of genetics and surroundings.
As with all diseases and illnesses, a doctor must be the one to diagnose it. Some of the tests that could be used to test for this condition include the following: 1) Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (screen for inflammation); 2) Complete Blood Count (CBC) (elevated white cells could mean inflammation); 3) Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Factor (high levels are found in 80 to 90% of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis); 4) Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) (checks for autoimmune disorders); 5) C-Reactive Protein (CRP), Quantitative (a test for inflammation); and/or, 6) Lyme IgG/IgM Antibodies (Lyme disease can mimic Rheumatoid Arthritis).
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Those visiting Ponca State Park in northeast Nebraska next month can participate in the park's "Marsh Madness" spring migratory celebration.
Visitors can experience bird-viewing and others activities, including guided tours with members of the Loess Hills Audubon Society throughout the month. The tours give participants a chance to view the spring plumage and courtship displays of geese, ducks, bald eagles and other raptors following the northern migration.
A variety of resident wintering nuthatches, woodpeckers, cardinals, finches and sparrow also can be seen at the park's bird feeders.
The park comprises 2,400 acres and sits astride the Missouri River and is listed by the National Audubon Society as an important bird area, with nearly 300 bird species having been reported.
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