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HI Everyone!
WOW! Happy Friday the 13th! What a surprise!
As you know, we got hit with a major snow storm. Most of the area is out of commission and power is down everywhere.
So, Banchetti Rizzo's (the place the reunion was scheduled) has NO power so they had to cancel us at the last minute (Friday afternoon).
I spoke to many people who were traveling into the area from out of town and they were stuck all over. As a result, we did not want to cancel the reunion.
SO we have a new place:
Captain Cove
7726 Niagara Falls Boulevard
Niagara Falls, NY 14304
IT will be at 7:00 pm
It will include the DJ, pizza and chicken wings. Unfortunately, there was no way to get a bartender at the last minute. SO there is a bar but if you want to drink, you will have to pay for you own drinks.
Since you already paid, I will use some of it to cover the cost of the food, DJ and place. There will be money left over. I will be sending everyone who paid a refund in the mail. I am unable to figure exactly what the refund will be. I will know more after I pay Captain Cove's tomorrow.
For those that were unable to attend, you will receive a refund to. Some addresses I do not have so I may be calling you to get your address so PLEASE call me back.
Thank you for being so understanding. this was so unexpected and am I glad we just can still get together.
My power is out, so I cannot receive emails.
Thank you for your help and understanding!
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It's been a minute since Jai Wolf's debut EP Kindred Spirits dropped back in 2016 and it's good to finally have the talented producer back with his brand new single "Starlight." The single features the rich textured vocals of Mr Gabriel; and if you were a fan of Kindred Spirits, then you'll love the newly crafted sound that Jai Wolf has developed.
Truth be told, it's really hard to describe "Starlight." It's emotional and cinematic. Anthemic and triumphant. Warm synths and moving piano keys work together harmoniously to get the most out of Mr Gabriel's lush vocals. The single might be hard to place in one single 'sound,' but give it a few listens and it'll be sure to find itself a place somewhere warm and cozy inside you.


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When Bernard Shaw was writing 'Arms and the Man' in 1893-1894, Romantic ideals concerning love and war were still widely accepted and considered normal; an attitude that did not change, even with Bernard Shaw's efforts to the contrary, until the dreadful losses of the First World War. Shaw, a socialist, was greatly influenced by Henrik Ibsen who "took social themes, treated them realistically and condemned the crushing effects of society." Shaw continued in this vein, using his humour and wit to criticise "injustice, hypocrisy and self-interest." In 'Arms and the Man' Shaw attacks these ideals of love in a number of ways. He grossly exaggerates (exaggeration being the most important part of these romantic ideas), but does so to an even greater extent than normal. He gives stark comparisons between his perceived reality and that of the majority of the population, and does so among the characters, the plot and the situation.
He also makes a mockery of these ideals by eventually allowing the characters to realise for themselves the absurdity of their attitudes. Yet, strangely, perhaps because he realised that his play still had to be acceptable to a wide audience, he seems to allow Romantic ideas to re-emerge at the end.
During the Romantic period exaggeration of things such as love was common, and was, in fact, the basis of the Romantic culture. In 'Arms and the Man' there an even greater extent of exaggeration than was common. The characters, the situations and to some extent the plot are all exaggerated in some way. Of the main characters, Sergius, Raina, and Bluntschli, only Bluntschli is not of a highly romantic bearing, and even he might be considered slightly exaggerated in the opposite way.
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Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States.
Paulson is a Republican who was secretary of treasury under George Bush, he describes climate change as something that everybody must face regardless of their political allegiances. "[I]t's going to be increasingly be difficult for anybody, regardless of party, to say there isn't a problem," Paulson said. He goes on to say that we must act as we really have no choice, "the cost of inaction is quite high, because it's - it's actual radical risk taking."
"We're staring down a climate bubble that poses enormous risks to both our environment and economy. The warning signs are clear and growing more urgent as the risks go unchecked," Paulson wrote. "I feel as if I'm watching as we fly in slow motion on a collision course toward a giant mountain. We can see the crash coming, and yet we're sitting on our hands rather than altering
Paulson said it would be folly for America to remain heavily invested in a carbon-intensive economy and he specifically called for a carbon tax.
"[S]ome people that oppose it [a carbon tax] are opposing it because they don't like the government playing a big role." Paulson told Fareed Zakaria. "And, you know, the perverse aspect of that is, frankly, those that are resisting taking action now are guaranteeing that the government will be playing a bigger role, because we're seeing now and we're going to see an increasing number of natural disasters, Mother Nature acts. We have forest fires, we have floods, we have big storms and storm surges, we have killer tornadoes. And what happens? When those events occur, one part of society gets hit particularly hard, and government comes in. And that's the role of government. Government should come in, but we all pay."
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St Judes Convent School Shahkot
St. Jude's Convent School Shahkot
Malsian Road,
Shahkot - 144702
Distt. Jalandhar
Contact Detail:
Fr. George Cheruvil
Director St. Jude's Convent School
Tel: +91 - 01821-260400
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St. Jude's Convent School, Shahkot, is founded and managed by the 'Diocese of Jalandhar'. It is run by the Sisters of Franciscan Clarist Congregation, under the patronage and guidance of the Bishop of the 'Diocese of Jalandhar,' presently, Rt. Rev. Dr. Anil Jose Thomas Couto.
The Priest, who is the Director of the school, is the over-all incharge of everything. This school, being a minority community institution by Christians (registered under the Charitable Societies' Act), enjoys all the rights and privileges enshrined in the Articles 29 and 30 of the Indian Constitution. This is a co-education school, open to students of all caste and creed.
Its motto is: WISDOM - LIGHT - LOVE. Studies open the thresholds of Widsom. Wisdom enables us to find the true Light. Guided by that Light, one finds the path of Love. Every effort is being made to impart to our students a sound and all-round education, in keeping with the Nation's aspirations, thereby making them morally, physically and mentally fit to become active, useful and worthy citizens of our Motherland.
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The aim of this institution is to impart quality education, designed for the integral development of the child. Every effort is being made to give value based education and to prepare the pupils for the world of tomorrow. They are being enabled for their future life, by a careful cultivation of their mind, heart and body.
Stress is being laid on the blooming of their full potential - intellectually, morally, socially and professionally. Special emphasis is being placed on the virtues of truthfulness, honesty, politeness, simplicity, respect for others, punctuality and self-discipline.
Respect for everyone and intermingling with others, specially the less fortunate, are hallmarks of St. Jude School's education. Although it is a Christian Minority school, every student is encouraged to practice his/her religion and taught to respect the religion of others.
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BOISE, Idaho – No other candidate understands the mismanagement of our federal lands. No other candidate values the importance of the Good Neighbor Authority. No other candidate, in conjunction with the timber industry and outdoor recreationalists, has sued the federal government, specifically the Clinton Administration, on their overreach to close access to roadless lands – and won – other than Lieutenant Governor Brad Little. These are just a few of the reasons that the Idaho Loggers PAC, an affiliate of Associated Logging Contractors (ALC) which is an Idaho organization, is backing Little for Governor.
"Brad Little doesn't have to learn about our business, he gets it and he wants the timber industry to succeed. We don't have time for outsiders to learn what we do. We are making great strides to ensure that we can grow our businesses, while maintaining healthy forests," said Rich Nordstrom, Chairman of the Idaho Loggers PAC. "Our logging and hauling companies utilize modern and technologically advanced equipment and our workforce is skilled. Brad also believes in our efforts to expand our workforce, so we can keep up with the demands of today's timber industry."
Idaho is looking for a leader who will not require on the job training about the issues of private and public lands. As a life-long rancher, Little watched how his livestock allotments in the timber lands burnt because of improper federal management. He is fighting to ensure that changes are made, and our loggers once again become the front line for initial attack in forest fire suppression. As Governor, Little will work with the ALC to preserve jobs and increase incomes, grow more vibrant fire resilient forests that create much better wildlife habitat and a more self-sufficient United States Forest Service (USFS) that uses less tax payer dollars while ensuring that the USFS and loggers can go back to the days when they were able to work more productively and together.
"I am from a mill town and I watched how Emmett suffered when the mill was closed, and our logging and trucking contractors were put out of work. Our timber mills and logging and trucking contractors are critical to the vibrancy of many Idaho towns and I am determined to watch them grow. I will continue to fight the feds because right now we are over-regulated and under-managed. I will work diligently to ensure that a plan is put in place so those who work the land, can act quickly," said Little.
The ALC was formed in 1966 by loggers and log truckers and represents 460 independent logging and wood products hauling contractor businesses, covering the entire state of Idaho.


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This BLT Potato Skins recipe with Spicy Ranch Sauce served on our BLANCO QUATRUS™ cutting board is the only Super Bowl appetizer you need to keep your guests happy! See the full recipe from Amanda at Old House to New Home below.
With the Super Bowl this weekend, it is the best time to bring out all our favorite party snacks. Potato skins are always a hit and while I love the classic skin topped with cheese and bacon, nothing beats a BLT Potato Skin. I love entertaining guests and making party food and am always trying out new recipes and fun creations for my friends. I love to take classic flavors and kick them up a notch and no one will see these BLT Potato Skins with Spicy Ranch Sauce coming.
The saying is true, bacon makes everything better but bacon and potatoes – that's the best combination of all! Whether you are cooking for a crowd or just looking for a new recipe, you will love these BLT Potato Skins with Spicy Ranch Dressing!
5 russet potatoes, scrubbed clean
10 slices of thick cut bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
5 roma tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup lettuce, diced into small pieces
3 green onions, diced
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. salt
For the dressing:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup sour cream
1/2 packet ranch dressing mix
1 tsp. chipotle powder
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Poke fork holes into the potatoes and put in the microwave. Cook for 8 minutes, flip over, and cook 8 additional minutes.
When done in the microwave, cut potatoes in half and scoop out inside, leaving about 1/4 inch of potato around the border. Brush insides and outsides with olive oil and sprinkle both sides with salt. Place face down on a baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes and then remove from oven.
Mix cheese and bacon together in a bowl. Add 1 tbsp. of bacon cheddar mixture to the inside of each potato well. Return to oven for 5 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Garnish each potato with lettuce, tomato, and green onion and any remaining bacon and cheddar.
In a small mixing bowl, mix together all dressing ingredients. Refrigerate until serving.
Serve warm with dipping sauce.
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Over half of all internet users use social media on a daily basis. Social networking is the fastest growing social behavior. Naturally, many professionals, including attorneys, have turned to social media for a number of purposes. Many attorneys use social media for advertising, educational purposes, or a mix of the two.
There are a number of ethical issues surrounding the use of social media in the legal community. Lawyers are required to provide competent representation to client was well as keep abreast of changes to the law. When posting on social media attorneys should keep these rules in mind. Posts on social media sites may be used as legal advice. In fact, there is a proposed comment change that would outline the pros and cons of the use of technology in the practice of law.
When posting, it is important to remember that a lawyer cannot disclose information relating to the representation of a client without informed consent. You should ask yourself what informed consent really means. Just because it is a matter of public record doesn't mean that you can discuss the issue. It might be sufficient to have a sentence in the retainer, but this doesn't seem like the best practice. If you are giving details about a client you should meet with them, have them sign off on the material, and show them what you are writing. As always, the rules about disclosure apply to former clients and prospective clients.
There are a number of issues specifically related to advertising. You should not make false or misleading statements. If you are advertising you MUST have the name and address of the lawyer responsible including advertising on blog postings. If you are engaging in direct contact it is imperative that you are in compliance with Model Rule 8. Attorneys should be very wary or calling yourself a specialist, see the model rules for more information.
There are a number of issues relating to adversarial proceedings. There is an increasing trend of Facebook friending people in litigation to get details about their life or other information. Many courts have said this is not ethical behavior and attorneys should not engage in this conduct or advise clients to do so. However, if it is a public profile and anyone can see the information it is fair game. You should not advise clients to delete pages or information to keep issues from being litigated.
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BRUCE Lynton Prestige Automotive raised more than $90,000 for Queensland charities at its Bruce Lynton Charity Ball in April this year.
The ball attracted 540 guests to the RACV Royal Pines Resort, receiving support from both local and interstate businesses.
The funds raised from auctions at this year's charity ball will go to Cancer Council Queensland, Guide Dogs Queensland, Surf Life Saving and Youngcare.
Beric Lynton, Dealer Principal of Bruce Lynton Prestige Automotive (pictured), says "the Bruce Lynton Charity Ball received fantastic support through the donation of silent and grand auction items, for which we cannot thank businesses enough."
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Major innovation drivers in the automotive industry span three categories: enhanced safety, a cleaner environment, and improved convenience with connectivity. To achieve these goals, automakers, automotive suppliers, governments, academia, and even nontraditional automotive players such as wireless chipset makers, mobile device makers, and wireless service providers are developing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), connected car technologies, and, ultimately, autonomous vehicles.


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Every year the Festival of Tolerance grows, gradually enriching the excellent film selection with additional contents and programs, such as various exhibitions that follow the messages of the festival with their subjects, educational mornings intended for the young or numerous discussions that accompany the film screenings. An integral part are the music nights, organized to attract the largest number of young public as possible and to introduce them to a different, maybe less known musical content.
The festival is visted by top artists both international and national, belonging to various genres - from the ever popular klezmer music, Romani music, traditional music of east European Jews with catchy jazz rhythm to electronic music and the appearances of some of the best DJs. This has confirmed to us what we already presumed - that we are a festival with the best program and selection of electronic music.


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"Hello?" the ghost boy repeated, starting to panic. "Is someone there?" He had his back to me.
I kept my voice soft, as if speaking to a cornered animal or frightened child; both applied. "Mendel. It's okay. You're not alone."
I could ease his passage, if nothing else, send him to the Mists, where…well, who knew if it was any better there than here. Probably wasn't.
"Who…who are you?" The aether warped his words.
"It doesn't matter anymore. Tell me one thing, and then I'll send you to the gods. What crime did you witness yesterday?"
The boy's translucence rippled, and I saw the fear in his face. "I…I…"
I directed my magic at him, guided it over him like a mother's touch, and saw him relax. "You can tell me."
He buried his face in his hands. "They took a…woman…into a cellar. They used dark magic on her. She screamed, but it was silent. Her mouth opened, but no sound came out. Her eyes…"
"Okay. Who did this?"
For the first time, the ghost boy looked straight at me, and he said, "Minister—"
Energy crackled behind me a fraction of a second prior to the blast. It shot past my left ear, and instinct sent me rolling to the side. But the spell hadn't been intended for me. It hit the ghost boy square in the chest and threw him back, off his feet, into mid-air.
The ghost boy screamed as his chest imploded, then was sucked into the Mists through a hole torn in the fabric of the world.
I landed on my feet in the next moment, but it was too late for the ghost boy. I shifted into hunter mode. The other necromancer had already turned tail and run, leaving an energy trail I could follow if I hurried. I sprinted.
At the end of the alley, I flew out into a wide street and stopped, scanning for my prey.
A cloud of dead air burst up around me, latched on, and would not let go. Putrid, the air contained particles that clung to my skin and clothes, lingered inside my mouth and nose, and made my eyes water. I steeled myself against it. You'd think a necromancer would be used to it, but not that smell. Your body reacts automatically. I fought back the urge to gag and searched my surroundings.
There! A black-cloaked figure slid through the shadows on the far side of the street.
I ran after the figure and was catching up when it turned another corner. I'd learned my lesson, so I slowed to a stop, crouched, and peered around the edge.
No nasty spell hit me in the face. No target was waiting for a fight. No one.
I stood slowly, and as I reached my full height, a body came up gently behind me. Arms wrapped so intimately around me that my fight or flight instincts never kicked in. Then, a knife appeared at my throat.
I froze. When you've been had, there's not much you can do but listen.
A deep voice whispered next to my ear, "Calm." I sensed no necromantic power radiating from my captor. This was someone different. "The man you're chasing is Kraig the Bleak. Magic for hire. You'll probably never see him again."
I asked, "Who are you?"
"Listen closely," the deep voice said. "There are forces at work in this city, in this world, that will take us all down if we let them. Together, you and I can make a difference."
My body was relaxing, senses expanding, and I'd finally caught my breath. "And what a positive start to our relationship." My sense of humor was even returning.
"One you won't forget. I'll be in touch. You can call me E."
Before I knew it, I was released, throat intact. I spun around, but no one was there. My captor—E—had left me standing, alone, on a moonless night, at the edge of a cobblestone street that smelled of rotting vegetables and dog droppings, and all I could think was, I need a new job.
The next day, I turned in my badge. The day after that, I took my first case as Marjory Delaqua, private investigator: I hired myself to unravel the conspiracy behind the ghost boy's murder. I haven't succeeded yet, but I will. If nothing else, everyone ends up in the Mists eventually, and we necromancers come with a large dose of patience.


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ABC's of Jamie Fraser
The idea is to list one word pertaining to the character for each letter of the alphabet, along with a brief explanation. Here's my alphabet for Jamie Fraser.
All quotes from the OUTLANDER books are copyright (c) Diana Gabaldon, of course.
A - Ardsmuir. As difficult as those three years in prison were for Jamie, caring for the other men gave him something to live for.
B - Boats. Sheer torture, for someone who suffers from seasickness as acute as Jamie's. "I hate boats," Jamie said through clenched teeth. "I loathe boats. I view boats with the most profound abhorrence." (DRUMS, Chapter 6, "I Encounter a Hernia")
C - Claire, of course. And his children -- all of them, whether they're born of his blood or not.
D - Duty. Jamie takes his duty seriously, even when it means doing things he doesn't want to do, like raising a militia company to fight against the Regulators in FIERY CROSS.
E - Eloquence. Jamie's way with words takes my breath away sometimes. "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire--I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." (DRUMS, Chapter 16, "The First Law of Thermodynamics")
F - Finger. Jamie's much-abused fourth finger on his right hand, which caused him so much pain and trouble for years, and now lies buried at Lallybroch, with Ian. "I'll keep it safe 'til ye catch me up." (ECHO, Chapter 81, "Purgatory II")
G - God. Jamie's Catholic faith is very important to him, even if he's rarely in a position to go to Mass or have a priest hear his confession. And sometimes God answers his prayers. ("Lord, that she may be safe. She and the child.")
H - Humor. I love Jamie's sense of humor, especially when he teases Claire. "I'll gie ye the rest when I'm ninety-six, aye?" (FIERY CROSS, Chapter 40, "Duncan's Secret")
I - Intelligence. Jamie is a very smart man, and a logical thinker. And he learns very fast!
J - Jenny. Say what you will about her, but Jamie loves his sister as deeply as he does Claire. What will she make of her new life in America?
K - Killing. Jamie kills when he must, in self-defense or in defense of his family or loved ones. But it bothers him. "I am a violent man, and I ken it well," he said quietly. He spread his hands out on his knees; big hands, which could wield sword and dagger with ease, or choke the life from a man. (DRUMS, Chapter 13, "An Examination of Conscience")
L - Lallybroch. I don't think you can fully understand Jamie's character without appreciating how much Lallybroch influenced him. It's sad to think that he might never go back there.
M - Memories. Will Jamie ever recall more of Culloden, and what happened with Jack Randall?
N - Nephew. Jamie bonded with Young Ian when he was only minutes old, and they've been through quite a lot together.
O - Outdoors. Where some of Jamie and Claire's most memorable "mmmmphmm" moments have taken place. :-)
P - Prestonpans. The location of Jamie's fateful encounter with the sixteen-year-old Lord John Grey.
Q - QED. Three letters that symbolize Jamie's short-lived career as a printer in Edinburgh. Will he take up printing again in Book Eight, now that he's gone to all that trouble to retrieve his printing press?
R - Red-heided. All teasing about "the nameless and abominable colour of his hair" aside, this is one of the things I liked best about Jamie from the beginning, because I'm also a left-handed redhead. :-)
S - Stubbornness. "Jamie was a sweet laddie, but a stubborn wee fiend, forbye." Jenny's voice by her ear startled her. "Beat him or coax him, it made no difference; if he'd made up his mind, it stayed made up." (DRUMS, Chapter 34, "Lallybroch")
T - Tone-deaf. One of Jamie's more endearing traits, in my opinion, and proof that he's not perfect.
U - Uxorious. Roger refers to Jamie as "deeply uxorious" in ABOSAA. It's an archaic word that according to Diana means "a man who was clearly and obviously in love with his wife."
V - Vows. The blood vow at Jamie and Claire's wedding, for one. Jamie's promise never to beat her again, for another. "I don't make idle threats, Sassenach," he said, raising one brow, "and I don't take frivolous vows." (OUTLANDER, Chapter 22, "Reckonings")
W - Will-power. Jamie has an amazing strength of will. Whether it's submitting to rape and torture at the hands of Jack Randall without fighting back, or not reacting to the presence of a pair of naked Indian girls in his bed in ABOSAA, his self-control is impressive.
X - eXample. Jamie doesn't lead by sitting back and giving orders. He leads by example, as when he takes the punishment for Angus MacKenzie's possession of a scrap of tartan at Ardsmuir. No wonder his men will follow him anywhere.
Y - Youthful. It's hard to remember just how young Jamie was in OUTLANDER, barely 22. Even in his mid-50's, he still looks remarkably good for his age. As Claire remarks, "Do you know, you haven't got a single gray hair below the neck?" (ECHO, chapter 8, "Spring Thaw")
Z - Zippers, and other oddities of 20th-century life that Claire has had to explain to Jamie over the years.
Let me know what you think, and feel free to post your own suggestions!
15 comments:
- Nenya said...
This is really great. Nicely done Karen.
- September 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- Karen Henry said...
Thanks, Nenya! I'm glad you liked it. :-)
- September 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- Lilscorpiosweetie said...
I like how this turned out! Very nice!
- September 17, 2011 at 1:28 PM
- CraftyJo said...
I really enjoyed reading this and especially "Red-heided. All teasing about "the nameless and abominable colour of his hair" aside, this is one of the things I liked best about Jamie from the beginning, because I'm also a left-handed redhead. :-)"
....- because I am too :)
- September 17, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- Karen Henry said...
Lilscorpiosweetie - thanks, I'm glad you liked it! :-)
CraftyJo - LOL! I have suspected for a while that left-handed redheads get addicted to these books faster than other people, but I could be wrong. :-)
- September 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Deniz Bevan said...
What a great idea, Karen!
- September 17, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- Deniz Bevan said...
I ought to try it with another Outlander character, next time I'm stuck on my own story...
- September 17, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- Karen Henry said...
Deniz - well, you notice that I got the idea from the September X going on on Compuserve. :-) Modified it slightly, because I really didn't think I needed more than a sentence or two per letter, but essentially it's the same idea as what they did on the forum recently.
Works great, though, doesn't it? Maybe I'll do Claire's ABC's in honor of her birthday on October 20th. :-)
- September 17, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- Lynne Sears Williams said...
Well done, Karen!
- September 17, 2011 at 7:43 PM
- Cari said...
Karen, that was lovely! I laughed out loud and cried just a little bit. :-)
- September 19, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Kristin_Texas said...
This is great! I've never seen this before now.
- October 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM
- Karen Henry said...
Glad you liked it!
- October 21, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Very well done! Way to go Karen :)
- July 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM
- Bibliomaniac said...
I know it's been a while since you published this one, but Claire's ABCs (well done, there!) sent me to Jamie's, and, well...these made my eyes a bit misty, since I'm doing a reread of the series-on Voyager at the moment-and I'd not realized how much I'd _missed_ those two in the other books. Thank you!
- August 25, 2013 at 11:01 PM
- Carlita said...
Love all of them, especially the quotes!! Thank you so much for all you post. Do you have any quotes on Jamie's eyes? And any more that describe his hair?
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MEMPHIS (AP) – Tulsa quarterback G.J. Kinne had a phenomenal 2010 season, throwing for 3,650 yards, rushing for 561 more and accounting for 38 touchdowns. He ranked fourth in the nation in total offense.
In Conference USA, he is just another face in the crowd.
"Every once in a while, you get a special year like this," Tulsa coach Bill Blankenship. "You've got a lot of quarterbacks with a lot of experience surrounded by plenty of playmakers. It should be a really fun season."
Offense should be easy to find this season in Conference USA, with talented and experienced quarterbacks on nearly every roster.
Houston senior Case Keenum headlines the group after the NCAA granted him a sixth-year of eligibility following a season-ending knee injury. He's already in the NCAA career top 10 for passing yards and touchdown passes and is one of just two quarterbacks in Football Bowl Subdivision history to throw for more than 5,000 yards in two seasons.
Joining Keenum and Kinne is East Carolina quarterback Dominique Davis, who threw for 3,967 yards and 37 touchdowns. There's also SMU's Kyle Padron, who threw for 3,828 yards and 31 touchdowns. And don't forget Southern Miss' Austin Davis, who threw for 3,103 yards and 20 touchdowns. There is also Central Florida sophomore Jeff Godfrey, who threw for 2,159 yards and 13 touchdowns as a true freshman to lead the Knights to the conference title.
While all are prolific, each has a slightly different way of making his offense go.
"A lot of people are doing a lot of things," Houston coach Kevin Sumlin said. "There's a million ways to skin a cat. All you've got to do is look at the numbers and it will scare you."
It remains to be seen if one of the star quarterbacks can turn his team into the BCS-buster that Conference USA has coveted, but can't find. Houston, Southern Miss and Central Florida are the early conference favorites.
"I hope one of our schools does find a way to break onto that national stage, because it would be good for the league," Blankenship said. "But it's not just quarterback play that wins championships. You've got to have the whole package."
How they lineup:
Central Florida
Key players: QB Jeff Godfrey, RB Ronnie Weaver, DB Kemal Ishmael, DB Josh Robinson.
Returning starters: 7 offense, 4 defense.
Notes: The Knights won their second C-USA championship in four years last season, and also beat Georgia in the Liberty Bowl. … UCF set a school record with 11 wins in 2010 and finished ranked 21st in the Top 25. … UCF has led C-USA in total defense the past three seasons.
Southern Mississippi
Key Players: QB Austin Davis, K Danny Hrapmann, DL Cordarro Law, RB Kendrick Hardy.
Returning starters: 8 offense, 7 defense.
Notes: The Golden Eagles have had 17 consecutive winning seasons, which is the fourth-longest active streak in FBS, trailing only Florida State (29), Florida (20) and Virginia Tech (18) … Coach Larry Fedora hired new defensive coordinator Dan Disch, who will change the defense from a 4-3 base to a 4-2-5 formation.
Key players: QB Case Keenum, KR/PR Patrick Edwards, RB Bryce Beall, OL Chris Thompson.
Returning starters: 7 offense, 7 defense.
Notes: Keenum has already thrown for 13,586 career yards and 107 touchdowns. .. Beall led C-USA with 12 rushing touchdowns last season. .. Senior linebacker Marcus McGraw has led the team in tackles the last two seasons, with 110 tackles last season.
Key players: QB G.J. Kinne, DB Marco Nelson, PR Damaris Johnson, OL Clint Anderson.
Returning starters: 10 offense, 8 defense.
Notes: The Golden Hurricane ended the season on a seven-game winning streak, including a 62-35 victory over Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl. They finished 24th in the Top 25. .. Johnson has 7,796 career all-purpose yards, including 2,693 last season. He had 560 rushing yards, 872 receiving yards, 292 yards on punt returns and 904 yards on kick returns.
Key players: QB Kyle Padron, RB Zach Line, OL Kelvin Beachum, DL Taylor Thompson.
Returning starters: 10 offense, 8 defense.
Notes: Padron's 3,828 yards passing, 31 touchdown passes and 35 total touchdowns last season all set school records. .. Line rushed for 1,494 yards last season, which was the second-highest total in school history, trailing only Eric Dickerson's 1,617 rushing yards in 1982.
East Carolina
Key players: QB Dominique Davis, WR Lance Lewis, DB Emanuel Davis, DB Bradley Jacobs.
Returning starters: 6 offense, 7 defense.
Notes: Davis accounted for 46 of the Pirates' 60 touchdowns last season, earning C-USA Newcomer of the Year honors. .. Coach Ruffin McNeill is noticeably slimmer than last season. During C-USA Media Day, he said he had lost a "fourth-grader" since the 2010 season.
Key players: DE Vinny Curry, WR Aaron Dobson, DB Omar Brown, DB Donald Brown.
Returning starters: 5 offense, 9 defense.
Notes: Curry was one of the most productive defensive players in the nation last season with 18 tackles for a loss and 12 sacks. .. The Thundering Herd won four of their last five games last season under first-year coach Doc Holliday.
Key players: QB Bryan Ellis, OL Matt McCants, DL Elliott Henigan, RB Pat Shed.
Returning starters: 7 offense, 7 defense.
Notes: Ellis finished with 2,940 yards passing despite not becoming the starter until the fourth game of the season. .. Shed rushed for 847 yards last season and caught a team-high 47 passes for 471 yards.
Key players: P Kyle Martens, DB Travis Bradshaw, RB Sam McGuffie, LB Corey Frazier.
Returning starters: 9 offense, 9 defense.
Notes: McGuffie was one of just three FBS running backs with at least 880 yards rushing and 380 yards receiving last season. .. The Owls are the only team in C-USA to have at least nine starters returning on both sides of the ball. .. Martens averaged 46 yards per punt last season, which ranked third in the country.
Key players: RB Orleans Darkwa, LB Trent Mackey, QB Ryan Griffin, DB Shakiel Smith.
Returning starters: 7 offense, 7 defense.
Notes: Darkwa rushed for 925 yards and scored 11 touchdowns, setting school records for a freshman in both categories. .. Mackey had 124 tackles last season, which ranked third in C-USA.
Key players: DB Travaun Nixon, RB Joe Banyard, LB Jamie Irving, LB Isaiah Carter.
Returning starters: 2 offense, 9 defense.
Notes: Banyard rushed for a team-hihg 623 yards and eight touchdowns last season. He averaged 5.7 yards per carry. .. Of the Miners' nine defensive starters returning, linebacker Royzell Smith is the most experienced, with 24 career starts.
Key players: WR Marcus Rucker, DL Frank Trotter, LB DeRon Furr, P Tom Hornsey.
Returning starters: 4 offense, 5 defense.
Notes: Memphis hopes to bounce back from a brutal first season under coach Larry Porter. The Tigers finished 1-11, losing their last nine games, including the last eight by at least two touchdowns. .. Rucker has caught a pass in 12 consecutive games, and led the team with 704 receiving yards and eight touchdowns last season.
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I was happy to learn Audible books could now be synced across devices. That is, the "read to" location can be synced. I've been waiting for this. Coinciding with that new feature is Whispersync for Audio. Since Amazon owns Audible they've enabled syncing the "read to" location between Kindle ebooks and Audible audiobooks.
This has to be enabled for the title in order to work. Amazon claims over 15,000 titles are enabled. While not specifically called out, I did expect there to be an incremental cost, if not a requirement to pay full retail for both.
So I went looking for a book to buy. I found one Audiobook I already owned was enabled and in that case it was full retail for the Kindle edition. The purchase is supposed to start on the Kindle book side, but it was easier to find the enabled books at Audible.com since they were being promoted. Then I searched for it on Amazon. There is an incremental cost for "professional narration". It varies by title but is significantly less than the full audiobook price. I found a book that was only 3 cents more for both the audiobook and ebook than it would be for the audiobook alone. ("Swarm" by B.V. Larson)
After buying the Kindle edition I was given the option to add "professional narration" for $1.99. The audiobook was currently selling at a sale price of $5 and has a regular member price of $13.96. I clicked through to buy the audiobook. I was brought to the Audible shopping cart where the book was listed to be purchased with an available Audible credit. The cash price was $13.96, no mention of the $1.99 price. So I unchecked the "use credit" box and sure enought, the price to be paid became $1.99 and I completed the purchase.
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I'm not sure how much I'll use this feature. I mostly listen to Audiobooks these days, while driving. The sync may make me use the Kindle more but I'm not sure I'll be buying both editions up front. Nice feature. I'll probably never use it.
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KOLKATA -- Sambia Sohrab, the main accused in Red Road hit and run case and son of state Trinamool Congress member Mohammed Sohrab, today confessed that he was behind the wheels of the car which mowed down an IAF officer during a Republic Day parade rehearsal, police said.
According to a top Kolkata Police officer, Sambia broke down during a prolonged interrogation being held since yesterday morning and confessed that he was driving the white colour brand new Audi on the fateful morning of 13 January which killed IAF officer Abhimanyu Gaud.
Also Read: IAF Officer Practicing For Republic Day Parade Run Down By Speeding Car In Kolkata
"Sambia has been giving us false statements to misdirect. Since day one of interrogation he has been giving us contradictory versions regarding the mishap. Sometimes, he said he was not driving the car but it was Sonu, his friend and another accused, behind the wheels. But today some strategic interrogation helped us getting Sambia's confession," the KP official told PTI.
KP sleuths have also arrested Sonu and Johnnie, two friends of Sambia.
During investigation it was found that on the night before the mishap, Sambia, his elder brother Ambia, Sonu and Johnnie along with others attended a party at Doighat in the Port area of the city.
"Sambia has also admitted that he was drunk while driving the Audi on 13 January morning," the IPS said.
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As you've probably noticed, many of the articles I write come from real world examples. Something in the gym or on the street which tells me that the public is dying for certain information. In this case, this article was sparked by some guys I saw training in the gym the other night. No, not the guy who was doing Barbell Military Press in the squat rack on a Bosu ball, that's not worth an article; it was the 2 guys working hard but wearing lifting straps for their ENTIRE workout. Are lifting straps bad? Not necessarily, but they can have their place and are definitely not needed. They aren't making you better as an athlete.
When it comes to separating yourself from other athletes, you need to start focusing on the little things that can make a big difference. In this case, what is being lost by these two young lifters is their grip. Grip strength is essential in any sport or activity in which you need to pull on anything or at the very least maintain a hold on something. So basically, grip is important for nearly every sport out there. Another way I like to look at it is, your hands are your point of contact for many actions and thus are a necessity for transferring power. Look at any climbing or pulling activity, what will monster lats or scapular retractors do when you can no longer hold on or maintain a tight grip? Nothing. The importance of a strong grip can be seen throughout most major sports. As a safety in football, tackling was a big part of my game. There are many times when saving a touchdown means pulling a guy down by his jersey. A strong grip could be the difference between winning and losing; a weak grip and the guy scores, a strong grip and they're forced to punt. So ask yourself, when's the last time you focused on your grip training?
Before I get into specific exercises you can introduce for your grip, let's first look at what you can do to your existing program to help your grip get stronger. First off, ditch the straps. The more work you do with straps, the more your grip will lag in the future. If you're training pulling exercises, all the muscles along the chain needed to be working, especially your hands and forearms. Sure, your grip is going to suffer a little early on, but how much you can hold with your hands will demonstrate your applicable/functional strength. Sure you can row 200lbs with straps on, but can you grab a 200lb running back and pull him down? Probably not, which makes your training somewhat useless. Do yourself a favour and ditch the straps and anything else that will give you an "aid". Choose bars/grips/tools that will make your grip work harder. Whenever possible, use barbells or dumbbells over machines, especially for any pulling. Next, try to use a handle that will require more grip: fat bars, added grips, towels.
If you've already started making the most of your programming but still want more grip work, you can add more exercises. One of the most underrated exercises out there is amazing for grip – Farmers Walks. Just adding farmers walks once or twice per week at the end of your workout will work wonders for your grip. Grab two fairly heavy dumbbells and do 3 sets of approx. 20 metres.
Other exercises include pull ups, Deadlifts, Romanian Deadlift, DB 1-arm row, heavy shrugs, and plate pinches. All of these excercises will place a tremendous amount of stress on your grip.
The last option to improve your grip is to incorporate new tools into your grip training.
Gripper – The first tool would be to use heavy grippers. I'm not talking about going to walmart and buying a gripper, I'm talking about Elitefts for some heavy duty grippers. Look for something between 100lb-300lb.
Rice Bucket – Find a big pail and add at least 10lbs of cheap white rice. Once or twice a weak go through a circuit of various grip exercises using the rice bucket. This is popular with strongman competitors and baseball players.
Thick Grip – These tools can be added to barbells and dumbbells to create a thick bar response without having to own multiple thick bars. Options include: Tyler Grips, Grip4orce, Fat Gripz.
Now all you have to do is take some of this information and build yourself a crushing grip!
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On successful completion of this course, learners should have the knowledge and skills to:
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Summer's on its way out, but there are still a couple months of warm enough weather to head out view the city from the water. A night on the Schooner Adirondack begins at Chelsea Piers, whose batting cages, basketball courts, soccer fields and driving range could easily fill the day before your cruise. Regardless how you pregame, you'll meet the ship about 20-30 minutes prior to a 6:30pm sail on Pier 62.
Once you're there, you'll see the Schooner Adirondack. This 80 foot beauty of a wooden boat is painted white on the outside and left with dark-stained wood on the inside. Upon boarding, the curly blonde-haired Captain Andrew will give a light-hearted speech about safety and the plan for the evening.
The boat will motor out slowly into the middle of the river where it will, one by one, start opening up the sails. Grab a cozy seat on the middle or in a small square of benches in the aft, kick back and enjoy the ride. Some of Andrew's assistants come around quickly and offer you the choice of red or white wine, or a craft beer. If you want to make this a dinner cruise, BYOF is totally accepted.
By the time you reach the Statue of Liberty, the turning around point, the sun will be sitting on the horizon with Lady Liberty, Ellis Island, and the Lower Manhattan skyline all shining from the orange sky and reflective water. One more beer or wine for the cruise back to the dock, and you've enjoyed a pleasant sunset sail aboard the Schooner Adirondack.


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Corporate Days
Avington Trout Fishery, Winchester, Hampshire, is one of the oldest Stillwater trout fisheries in the country, famous for its clear water stalking and the big fish it produces. The venue is also renowned for the varied fishing on offer, either on three lakes stocked with quality trout from our own fish farm or on a half mile double bank stretch of a carrier fed by the River Itchen.
The excellent fishing is matched by the beautiful surroundings. The lakes are set in the peaceful Itchen Valley on land once part of the adjoining Avington Estate, designed by the great Capability Brown. The three lakes are surrounded by a wide variety of mature trees and shrubs, making this one of the most attractive and tranquil fishing venues in the country.
Avington Trout Fishery is the ideal fishing venue both for individuals and corporate parties, providing a welcome escape from the pressures of everyday life. For a superb day fishing in beautiful surroundings, with the opportunity to catch that fish of a lifetime, look no further than glorious Avington, the queen of the still waters…
Recently added for your further convenience is our Tackle Shop where you can purchase anything from a spool of leader material to a new rod! Check out the latest in leader tippet material – Riverge and Grand Max! We also have a great selection of flies for sale including the Avington Special Stalking Patterns – make sure you have some in your armoury before setting out to stalk your fish for a lifetime…
Avington Trout Fishery provides one of the finest fly fishing corporate venues in the country.
The facilities are second-to-none including the purpose-built Corporate Lodge for eating, drinking and prize giving, for the sole use of your male and female guests. Catering can be arranged to suit your need and budget. A BBQ and family area is set aside for those in your party who are not fishing. Combine these assets with a knowledgeable and friendly team of staff who are always on hand to ensure your day at Avington Trout Fishery is a great success and you can't go wrong.
The three lakes can be exclusively reserved for YOU and YOUR guests.
The lakes will be suitably stocked with trout varying in size from about 4lb up to double figures. Fishing tackle hire can be arranged and includes a top quality rod, reel, fly line, leaders, landing net, fly waistcoat and flies. Even if you are a complete novice one of our members of staff can show you how to fly fish.
So if you want to close "the deal", give your staff a well deserved day out, or just to say 'thank you' to your loyal customers, Avington must be the most cost-effective, yet luxurious place to do it.
Ensure your guests have a memorable day out.
Allow us to provide all your fishing equipment, such as rod, reel, etc we will then supply back to you any of your caught fish, gutted, cleaned and bagged up ready to take away, no fuss, no mess.
Capture your fishing day digitally and let us supply you with a record on disc or in photographic prints, we can supply the photographer if you want, just let us know in advance at the time of booking.
We don't provide lots of gimmicks or frills, just good quality service, our venue is beautiful, our staff are experienced and our fish are superb quality, all set in the idyllic setting of Itchen Valley.
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We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Go through these quick steps to make sure you are on the right track and doing justice to your breakfast.
• Avoid short cuts like substituting a wholesome breakfast with energy bars. Although they have some healthy grains in them, they are loaded with sugars.
• Fruit juices, energy drinks and many flavored coffee creamers are often packed with sugar. The fact is that stored juices have sugars, preserves and processing agents in them that deteriorate the quality of your meal.
• Give up on your coffee to boost your mind and brain function. Look for natural ways to stimulate your mind. If you drink coffee/tea regularly, restrict yourself to one cup a day.
• If you're often in a rush to get to work, and skip breakfast, stock up on healthy snacks. The key to healthy eating is planning ahead.
• Don't leave your house without drinking one big glass of water. This will keep you hydrated.
• Choose whole wheat/multi grain bread products in the morning to have a great start.
• Whole grains will help you stay fuller for longer plus they have more fiber which will slow down your craving for the day.
• Keep nutritious, non-sugary pick-me-ups in your desk drawer/bag/office fridge.
Keep these points in mind throughout the day, and you'll be on your way to healthy weight loss in no time! And if you still have any queries about your diet, get in touch with your Step up to life nutrition expert to get your personalized diet plan.
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Do it because you want to stand behind an organization that doesn't stop at good or better or even great. We want to be the best, for the benefit of our clients and their families, our team and our community.
Thank you to all our donors, near and far, who help us take rehab to the next level, who turn the dream of "what's next?" into a reality.
We've been taking care of the day-to-day rehab needs of our clients for more than 25 years. But we rely on our donors to take us beyond the borders of traditional rehab. Your dollars make the difference between good and amazing, between expected and visionary. Your dollars move clients from recovery to rediscovery, of their passions, their talents, and their identities.
Planned Giving
We're constantly asking ourselves what's next at QLI. How can we think beyond the borders of traditional rehab models to make rehab what it should be: innovative, individualized and inspired. If you're like us, never satisfied with satisfied, consider joining Team QLI for the long haul.
You can support Team QLI with gifts that don't affect your current income and gifts that last beyond your lifetime through planned giving. This includes gifts:
- From your will or trust
- From a retirement plan
- Of stock and appreciated assets
- Of life insurance
- Of real estate and other personal property
Gifts like these help Team QLI reach clients well into the future, ensuring opportunities to make a lasting impact.
For more information on planned giving options, contact Mike Joyce.
Corporate Sponsorships
Is your company ready to join Team QLI? We're looking for innovative, forward-thinking, energetic partners to help us help our clients get back to life.
We offer traditional corporate sponsorships at our annual fundraising events, the QLI Golf Challenge and An Evening at the Fair.
But you can do so much more here.
Our corporate partners help us break through the ceilings of traditional rehab, to help our clients experience life in the ways they were meant to experience it.
Sponsor a group camping trip or a scuba diving adventure. Help a client realize their dream of completing a marathon. Throw a client pool party or a holiday party. Have something else in mind? We're all ears. We'll help you find the right opportunity.
Contact Mike Joyce for more information.


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Business Process Management
To stay competitive, it is essential that your business is active, responsive and cost-effective at all times. The risk of reliance on manual processes is significant. Business Process Management (BPM) can take many of these processes and put them 'on autopilot'.
There are very few businesses in this world that do not rely on people. People make decisions, perform tasks and communicate with one another to get the job done. It's unrealistic to expect though, that even the most committed employee can cope with unlimited workloads, and will never fall sick, make an error, or simply forget to pass on information.
That is where Business Process Management (BPM) comes in. BPM software automates tasks that are critical to a consistent business workflow.
Using your company's existing applications, BPM software can monitor, extract, format and distribute information automatically, based on customised events or rules.
Business benefits
BPM software can deliver endless benefits to businesses large or small, but most importantly, these benefits will be unique to your company. The technology automates repetitive business processes, which in turn mitigates error, and frees up your employees' time to add value to your business. Business processes such as report creation and distribution, monitoring and reporting on KPIs and dissemination of critical information can become the responsibility of the software.


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May the Kadosh Baruch Hu, the Holy One, bless you and all those you love with a new year of good health, peace, fulfillment and the love of family, friends and community.
L'shanah tovah tikateivu לשנה טובה תכתבו
Rabbi Amy Levin
The Jewish Hero is Not the Saint, But the Mentsch!
But it does suggest that their lives are permeated by a passion for righteousness. Who knows, one of the thirty-six may be sitting next to you right now, you'll never know.
Righteousness, then, is down-to-earth, accessible, and worldly. The quintessential Jewish hero is not the saint, but the mentsch. Righteousness is something for which we can all strive. It doesn't demand perfection; it does challenge us to do good in humble and unassuming ways. Whether we walk with God or before God, righteousness is a reminder to us that we recognize our role as servants who can fulfill God's will.
Whether you strive to be a righteous person in the manner of Noah or in the
manner of Abraham, I say, go for it! The Torah says: a righteous person lives by faith. In the end, that's all we have--our faith in God and our faith in ourselves. Maybe we ought to ask ourselves, "When we look in the mirror each morning, do we like the person looking back?"
That's the true test of righteousness!
Rabbi Mark B. Greenspan


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Seismic Risk Won't Threaten the Viability of Geologic Carbon Storage
June 18th, by Bruce Hill, Ph.D., Senior Geologist.
This week's rumblings against carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a powerful means to mitigate global climate change come not from any natural geological source, but solely from an opinion piece published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) Perspectives. Despite the arguments of two Stanford geophysicists, however, there is plenty of countervailing scientific evidence that CO2 from U.S. fossil power plants can be captured and safely stored. While the opinion piece rightly raises the importance of rigorous site selection and site characterization for commercial scale storage, it falls far short in its analysis of the overall feasibility of storing commercial volumes of CO2. Here's why:
By analogy with recently experienced earthquakes resulting from brine injections, the authors attempt to cast doubt on the feasibility of large-scale geologic storage of carbon dioxide captured from industrial sources by pointing to the role of CO2 pressure buildup in the hosting formations in their potential to induce earthquakes and resulting fractures and faults. Their concern is not about the impacts of tremors nor large scale earthquakes that would let CO2 rush out, but instead, about the possibility that the induced seismicity could be accompanied by small scale fracturing that could migrate upwards and compromise the integrity of an overlying geologic seal.
What the article does not say is that for a brittle fault or fracture zone to reach the surface it would take crossing thousands of feet of rock and shale layers that may very well, in the process, accommodate the upwardly propagating stress like a plastic substance bending like taffy --instead of fracturing. It also does not address the rate at which any CO2 affected by such small scale fracturing might migrate over time, and whether those volumes would be significant over the time scales necessary to combat global warming. Moreover, according to MIT geoscientist Ruben Juanes, there are no models or data that can predict seismicity from large-scale CO2 injections. Furthermore, CO2 injection technology is hardly new. Approximately 1 billion tons of CO2 have been safely injected (and stored) in the process of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the U.S. since the late 1970s, with no reported seismic incidents. In fact, there have been no earthquakes reported anywhere from saline CO2 injections either, according to the June 15 NAS report (Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies).
In the opinion piece, the authors paint, with a broad brush, a scenario of limited storage capacity for power plant CO2 generated in the Midwest's Illinois Basin--the U.S. locus of coal power generation. In their rush to judgment, the authors overlook numerous storage strategies that would complement local and regional storage in the Midwest:
Taken together, the weight of evidence suggests that CCS technology is viable and that a combination of storage options will provide capacity for large volumes of captured CO2. Whether all the carbon dioxide emitted by industrial activities in the U.S. and around the world can be captured and stored remains to be seen, but CCS is viable and has an essential important role to play in reducing greenhouse gases. With numerous small-scale CO2 injections and four decades of EOR under our belt, now is the time to invest in the understanding of large-scale geologic storage, rather than abandon it.
Fracking and Geologic Carbon Storage Can Safely Coexist
June 7th, 2012 by Bruce Hill, Ph.D. Senior Scientist / Geologist
A recent paper by Princeton researchers published in Environmental Science and Technology questions the compatibility of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and geologic carbon storage and has received an unwarranted amount of attention. Despite the conclusions of the paper, the overwhelming evidence suggests that geologic storage can indeed coexist safely with other subsurface activities, including oil and gas extraction and shale gas operations. Here's why:
The study is based on the simplistic assumption that where there is any overlap between a geologic carbon storage site and a shale gas site, the two activities are incompatible. Their claim rests on the assumption that a shale gas formation would necessarily be required to function as a "seal" to prevent escape of the CO2 stored in a geologic storage formation below it. In their paper, the authors represented this point with the following map that erroneously crosses off the geologic CO2 storage where there is shale gas production across most of the sedimentary basins in the U.S:
Map from Elliott and Celia 2012
The problem is that, by adopting these simple assumptions, Princeton team overlooked the third dimension – depth — and the thousands of feet of physical separation of the formations and attendant geologic complexity that typically exists below. Sedimentary basins do not consist of just two simple layers, i.e., the CO2 reservoir and the cap rock/shale gas layer. Instead, sedimentary sequences typically consist of thousands of feet of bedrock, with multiple layers of shale, sandstones, limestones (that may also be "tight" or largely impermeable). In fact, because CO2 must be injected in a fluid-like "supercritical" state, instead of as a gas, sequestration must take place a depths of over one-half mile. In the Illinois basin, for example, near the heart of the coal power industry, the nation's biggest source of manmade CO2, carbon stored in deep saline aquifers there would have to travel upwards through multiple impermeable shale layers and other formations comprising nearly 7,000 feet of rock—over four times the height of the Sears Tower in Chicago– to reach the surface.
So the authors drew the false conclusion that one would necessarily exclude the other, given that these operations can safely co-exist where there are thousands of feet of vertical separation between carbon storage and shale gas zones with multiple confining zones in-between as our schematic diagram below (roughly based on ISGS generalized IL basin geology) clearly illustrates:
To reject the safety of geologic carbon storage based on a two-dimensional overlap of projects is like saying that two airliners cannot fly in the same airspace even though they may be vertically separated by thousands of feet. There is no unavoidable collision risk there. Similarly, in most sedimentary basins, unavoidable conflict between GS and fracking would be far lower than represented in this paper. So until the analysis is done in three dimensions–incorporating site-specific subsurface geologic data–the conclusions of this study are premature at best and highly misleading at worst.
All that said, there is an important take-home from this report: regulators should pay close attention to the interplay of shale gas and geologic storage development activities. Just as airliners operating in the same airspace need air traffic controllers, subsurface activities such as geologic storage and shale gas operations require geologic review, ongoing monitoring, and regulatory oversight to avoid conflicts. With sensible safeguards, it is likely that CO2 storage reservoirs can, in many areas, safely coexist in the same space with conventional and unconventional oil and gas operations, including shale gas production and hydraulic fracturing.
Lastly, as a practical matter, there is little reason to believe that shale gas activity will impede the development of carbon capture and storage technology. The Department of Energy (DOE) in 2012, estimated that U.S. geologic formations can provide 500 years of storage for North American CO2 emissions — 2 to 20 trillion metric tonnes. (U.S. annual power sector emissions are 2.4 billion tons.) A considerable portion of this estimated storage capacity is offshore where shale gas extraction would not be realistic. Furthermore, this analysis doesn't take into account the DOE estimate of 120 billion tons of U.S. CO2 storage capacity in depleted petroleum-bearing formations that have contained oil and natural gas for millions of years. Finally, the Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that geologic storage operators must complete a comprehensive three-dimensional study of the geology and risks before CO2 injection and storage in saline aquifers can be initiated. The bottom line is that shale gas operations and hydraulic fracturing should pose no impediment to development of geologic carbon storage capacity in the U.S.
Clean Air Task Force hosts Shanghai Electric Delegation
November 18, 2011 by Pamela Hardwicke, Special Projects Facilitator
On November 10 through November 18, the Clean Air Task Force hosted a China delegation of Shanghai Electric company engineers and executives to tour US national laboratories and research institutions to learn about US efforts in clean technology.
The delegation's first stop was the Midwest Geological Consortium Sequestration's Illinois Basin Decatur Project, which is the first U.S. large demonstration-scale injection of CO2 from a biofuel production facility in Decatur, Illinois.
Next up on the tour was the Gasification Technologies Institute, a non for profit research and development (R&D) organization that focuses on new energy solutions and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. Delegates got the chance to meet with R&D directors and tour the GTI facility.
The delegates taking a tour of GTI
We then went on to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. NREL is a research and development facility of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The last stop on our delegation tour was the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in San Francisco, CA. LLNL is a national security laboratory that aims to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent and reduce threats to national and global security. Delegates got the opportunity to tour the National Ignition Facility also known as NIF. NIF aims to bring self-sustaining nuclear fusion into reality.
The delegation tour at LLNL with Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Deputy Director for Science and Technology and Julio Friedmann, Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Global Security Principal Associate Directorate
This tour not only introduced a manufacturing leader in China to some of the most highly esteemed research institutions in the United States, but will also most likely help to lay the groundwork for future clean energy collaborative efforts between the US and China.
Underground Coal Gasification – Coming Soon to Wyoming?
November 2nd, 2011 by Mike Fowler, Climate Technology Innovation Coordinator
After years of talk, things are starting to get real: developers are looking at pioneering underground coal gasification ("UCG") projects in Wyoming. Some may see these projects as first steps to finally producing truly clean energy from coal, while others may perceive them as unnecessary, risky experiments. What's the truth? Let's explore the issues.
First, some unpleasant facts. Fossil fuel use has increased dramatically across the globe (China's coal power plant fleet, most of it built in the last 10 years, is now more than twice the size of ours in the US) and appears likely to continue to mushroom (in South Asia alone there are 600 million people – roughly twice the population of the US – waiting for access to electricity). Even in the center of Europe, Germany, in its rush to move away from nuclear power, is considering building more coal power instead. And in the US, where coal usage has declined slightly, another plain fossil fuel – natural gas – has taken up the slack, with limited greenhouse gas advantages.
Many environmentally-minded people suggest that civilization should move away from fossil fuels (and nuclear power) entirely. But when experts do the math, they find that proposals to power civilization exclusively with sun, wind, and waves are just what they sound like – a seaside vacation, and unfortunately not a plausible solution to our global climate crisis. In California, a recent study highlights the difficulty in meeting even a 60% greenhouse gas emission reduction target through copious application of renewable power, since wind and sun must be complemented by natural gas or something else during the roughly two-thirds of the year when they aren't available.
In this context, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has an important role to play in treating the emissions of CO2 at the source, just as sulfur scrubbers have helped reduce acid rain in the past. We know CCS will work with fossil fuels to provide baseload power, because the components of CCS systems have been used at commercial scale for decades in industry. Unfortunately, though, CCS currently increases the costs of utilizing fossil fuels, and consumers are generally reluctant to shoulder this additional burden, especially during challenging economic times. This is where UCG comes in.
Underground coal gasification is the process of injecting air (or oxygen) through a well into a deep coal seam to support chemical reactions that convert the coal to 'syngas' (a gaseous fuel primarily containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide). This syngas is then extracted through additional wells, and can be used to fuel a power plant. CCS can be applied to UCG by removing carbon from the syngas using conventional processes (read more here) and sequestering the CO2 geologically (more here). But in the case of UCG, the costs for this may be significantly lower because there is no need for coal handling and processing equipment, no need to construct a massive steel gasifier, and the raw gas may be considerably cleaner to start with (some sulfur and quite a bit of inorganic material may stay below ground, for example).
Although UCG is a novel technology, preliminary CATF analyses indicate that the cost of producing UCG power WITH CCS close to the cost of producing power from a conventional coal power plant without CCS. Our analysis is summarized in the figure below. If these costs prove true, this could be a game-changer for CCS utilization, especially in the developing world.
UCG has other potential advantages as well. The coal that fuels the process is not mined, reducing the surface impact of the energy source. And the spatial footprint of UCG operations could be significantly less than the footprint necessary to extract an equivalent amount of energy from coal bed methane and similar technologies. Also, a UCG project may be a net producer of water, as opposed to net consumer, depending on the circumstances of an individual project. For these reasons and more, there is cause to believe that UCG could hold considerable promise as a cost-effective path to cleaner coal.
UCG is not without its risks, however. There have been several dozen small UCG trials since the 1950s, and in a handful of cases groundwater contamination and surface subsidence resulted. Based on this history, communities likely will be cautious about proposals for new UCG projects in their area. But several points are important here: UCG cannot result in underground coal fires (1000 feet or more below the surface, only oxygen intentionally supplied through a well will support combustion); properly done, UCG won't result in surface subsidence (in part because of the depth); and finally, new site screening and operational methodologies and technologies promise greater site isolation (and hence groundwater protection) than in previous trials.
There is a lot yet to learn about the pioneering UCG projects in Wyoming. Many risks and benefits depend on site details. Transparency on the part of developers and permitting authorities will almost certainly be important for local communities evaluating the projects. But the big picture remains: if we can bring down the costs of CCS, we have a much better chance of preventing climate change. CATF analysis suggests that UCG, operated safely, could be a critical part of that global effort.
July 19th, 2011 by Kurt Waltzer, Carbon Storage Development Coordinator, and Conrad Schneider, Advocacy Director
This posting originally appeared in the National Journal's Energy and Environment Experts blog.
We have no choice but to develop low carbon coal technology. By 2015 China will have more than 950GW of coal power – three times the level in the U.S. Unlike plants in the U.S. though, the vast majority of the Chinese coal plants are brand new and will likely be around for half a century or more. India is right behind. If these new coal plants do not capture and store their carbon emissions, it's game over for having any hope of fighting climate change.
Scientists now say that we need to virtually zero out our carbon emissions from the production of electricity by mid-century. To have any shot, we must rapidly commercialize low carbon fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage (CCS). But the announcement by American Electric Power to shelve its project at Mountaineer is another example of how our policy to move this technology has been ad hoc and woefully inadequate.
Its not like the technologies that make up CCS are new. Carbon capture for industrial facilities has been around for decades. And the oil industry has injected and stored over a billion tons of CO2 since the mid 1970s as part of its efforts to recover additional oil from depleted oil fields.
But we've failed to adopt the necessary regulations and incentives to push these technologies together (carbon capture AND storage) to drive deployment and lower costs. In part, this is because CCS has been rejected by those who believe that that climate change can be "solved" with renewables and efficiency and by the deniers who find it difficult to even acknowledge the existence of climate change.
In AEP's recent announcement on Mountaineer, CEO Mike Morris noted that without greenhouse gas regulations, its impossible to recover the cost of installing carbon controls, despite the fact that the smaller scale CCS pilot at Mountaineer validated the technology.
We need a responsible approach to climate that recognizes CCS is essential for all fossil fuels (i.e., coal and gas). The U.S. can play a key role in CCS deployment and cost reduction in the following ways: First, the Obama Administration should propose strong new source performance standards in September that send the clear signal that CCS must be deployed on future and existing fossil power plants over a reasonable period of time. Second, the Department of Energy should reform programs like the Clean Coal Power Initiative so that award recipients receive enough funding to move projects forward. Finally, Congress should adopt significant incentives for CCS – Senators Lugar, Conrad, Bingaman, and Rockefeller have each developed a package that will encourage industry to take the necessary steps.
We can do this – all it takes is the right regulations, sufficient incentives, and the political will to see it through. Because if we don't, pure and simple — we just won't avoid the worst consequences of global climate change.


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"We're able to better guarantee success through managing quality because now we have far greater insight in terms of the performance of the projects which ultimately impacts the finished product for the customer as well as delivering the project on-time."
That was the opinion of Balfour Beatty's Prinicipal BIM Integrator, Kevin Lloyd who is one a handful of their team featured in a new video published by Autodesk.
Balfour Beatty are currently transforming London's former Olympic Stadium into a new home for West Ham United Football Club, amongst other roles including playing host to the 2017 IPC Athletics World Championships.
The global infrastructure giants were awarded a £154 million tender to act as contractor for the redevelopment, and to construct a new roof, which itself is valued at £41 million.
In a new video published by Autodesk, the Balfour Beatty team explains the benefits of utilising Autodesk's BIM 360 product. Dean Banks, Balfour's Managing Director for UK Construction Services comments on how going digital is benefitting his team: "Digital allows you to become leaner in the things you do. It helps you become more informed in terms of decision making because it gives you access immediately to real-time data."
BIM 360 has helped Balfour to assign work to subcontractors too. One of their BIM Managers, Stanley Nwokoro explains: "We've seen the benefits in the sense that our quality engineers and package managers are able to raise 6,000 snags and assign these snags to the subcontractor."
Elaborating on that positive, Technical Support Manager, Ife Aderoba says: "We all have a common place to go to look at the issues. I found that two thirds of all snags were actually allocated to one particular subcontractor so by identifying trends, you can deal with those issues a lot sooner."
Watch Autodesk's recently published video below.
For more on Autodesk's BIM 360 platform, visit the official website and follow the team behind the tool on Twitter too.
RELATED: BIM implemented on Samsung Lions baseball stadium development in Korea


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Eurodad member Christian Aid Ireland has commissioned TASC to produce a new report on tax incentives and tax dodging comparing the situation both in Ireland and at global level and showing the parallels.
The report considers tax breaks and incentives in Ireland and also looks at the international financial architecture that facilitates mass tax avoidance and evasion, and Ireland's role in that architecture. The report makes the link between the Irish and the international situation. Before making recommendations for how this situation could be addressed TASC recommend equality proofing and equality auditing in government budget making process this entails "a robust evidence-based process of minimising inequity and ensuring the progressivity of the overall tax system, in order to increase income and wealth equality in society. Progressivity – where those on higher incomes pay proportionately more than those on lower incomes occurs in the income tax system but, from an equality perspective, this principle should extend to the tax system as a whole." They also recommend a Financial Transactions Tax, Transparency and automatic exchange of information between tax authorities.
TASC an independent think-tank dedicated to addressing Ireland's high level of economic inequality and ensuring that public policy has equality at its core.
Read the full report: Tax Injustice Following the Tax Trail


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