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Noting that a lot of people dislike achievements, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says he's still a fan of them, and thinks they could be useful to his runaway indie hit as a type of guide leading newcomers through the game, rather than implementing a heavy-handed tutorial that stifles creativity.
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First Africans brought to Virginia.
Major increase of African slave labor in the British Caribbean for sugar production.
Massachusetts Constitution adopted with freedom clause interpreted as prohibiting slavery.
U.S. Constitution ratified with clause equating slaves to 3/5ths of a white citizen and provision that international slave trade would end within 20 years.
Great Britain abolishes slave trade.
U.S. law equates slave trading with piracy, punishable by death.
The Missouri Compromise: Missouri is admitted as a slave state, balanced by the admission of Maine as a free state, also includes an agreement to bar slavery from northern federal territories. President James Monroe orders first U.S. Navy patrol against slave ships on West African coast.
In response to petitions calling on Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, the House of Representatives implements the "gag rule," automatically tabling abolitionist petitions. The policy is repeatedly renewed over the coming years.
January: Sengbe Pieh (Cinque), a Mende, is seized in West Africa and sold into slavery.
Early April: The Portuguese slaving brig Tecora loads slaves off Lomboko, at the mouth of the Gallinas River, on the West African coast below the British Colony of Sierra Leone.
Late June: The Africans are brought to Havana, Cuba. Jose Ruiz, a Spanish planter from Puerto Principe, buys 49 adult males, paying $450 for each. Pedro Montes, another planter from the same region, buys four children, three of them girls.
June 22-26: Montes and Ruiz obtain passports to transport "ladinos" (blacks born in the New World) to Puerto Principe, Cuba.
June 28: Ruiz and Montes walk their 53 slaves through Havana, board the Amistad at 8:00pm and near midnight get underway.
July 1: Cinque and Grabeau free and arm themselves and then the others.
Late August: As it passes New York, the "black schooner" has several encounters with pilot boats, stirring up rumors of pirates.
August 25: The Amistad anchors off Long Island and lands a shore party to obtain provisions. Late in the afternoon, Henry Green and company encounter the Africans' shore party.
August 26: Early morning, Lt. Richard W. Meade, commanding the surveying brig USS Washington, seizes the schooner and escorts it to New London. They claim a salvage award for their actions.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
This Post is Gay AND Retarded
Can I just say something about the whole Rahm Emanuel brou-ha-ha?
So the guy said an idea was "fucking retarded." OK, not the smartest move for the Chief of Staff, granted.
But I'm gonna throw it out there that there are times when "retarded" doesn't mean retarded, it just means retarded.
And "gay" doesn't mean gay, it just means gay.
I know you know what I mean.
Water shoes? Are gay.
Neti pots are gay.
Shots that include Baileys? are gay.
Sending non-existent gifts on Facebook is gay.
Clay Aiken: gay. Adam Lambert: Not gay.
Christmas newsletters are gay.
Disney on Ice is gay.
Handing out raisins at Halloween: gay. And retarded.
Wearing your jeans below your butt is retarded.
Colored contacts are retarded.
Nadya Suleman? retarded.
Piercing your eyebrow is retarded.
'Flirty Girl Fitness' is retarded.
Heidi and Spencer are retarded.
Support same-sex marriage: It's OK. It's only love.
Don't agree? That's your right.
And: retarded. :)
45 comments:
- Keyona said...
You are hilarious.....and retarded!
- February 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM
- Henley on the Horn said...
According to definition, I am both gay and retarded. You go, girl!
- February 4, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- SueMac said...
Love my netipot.... love me some Bailey's... guess I'm gay.
- February 4, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- Aleta said...
OMG - I love this post...
Neti pots are gay. - really, though? I have one. LMAO..
- February 4, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- Bad Christy said...
Hey, leave my neti pot out of this!
- February 4, 2010 at 7:14 PM
- Mrs. S. said...
Seriously, how do you know when I have had a horrific day and need to laugh out loud? Now, my neti-pot and I have been close since sinus surgery, so that makes me so far out gay...that is ok...will give hubby a hoot as well!!
- February 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Shelley said...
Hey, I love shots with Bailey's! Bailey's and butterscotch schnapps. Mmmmmm. Gay.
- February 4, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Susie Q said...
Too funny........... Really, no wonder those damn politicians can't get anything done in Washington!
- February 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- Mags said...
So with you!!!
- February 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Messy Mommy said...
Haha! I can't believe people actually pay money for those gay facebook gifts!
- February 4, 2010 at 8:43 PM
- Colleen said...
I don't know if Neti pots are gay, but those strips on the nose are definitely gay.
Great post.
- February 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- Kelly said...
Agree with your retarded, gay self 110%!!!!
- February 4, 2010 at 8:56 PM
- Dezzy Lou Where Are You said...
Neti pots arent gay! Well, maybe looking ;) but theyr lifesavers!
- February 4, 2010 at 9:09 PM
- Dawn in Austin said...
Never in my life had I heard of a neti pot, until I started reading blogs. Still have never seen one and I'm glad I haven't. Cuz they're so gay.
- February 4, 2010 at 9:23 PM
love your thought, although i'm not with you on all of them. don't like the word retarded. like the word gay though and probably over use it. and you know what's really gay, a lot of the blogs i click on, way gay. too gay to even describe. "today i blah, blah, blah" lame, and gay. have a good day!
- February 4, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- Jess said...
You had me at GAY AND RETARDED so I had to stop in and see what AWESOMENESS you had posted!!!
You never disappoint me!!
- February 4, 2010 at 11:13 PM
- Swirl Girl said...
I don't think any of that is gay...only moderately happy.
- February 4, 2010 at 11:50 PM
- Travelbug Mom said...
I thought this post was HILARIOUS....I must be retarded...but being retarded is gay!
- February 4, 2010 at 11:59 PM
I agree gay is just slang! I know so many gay people who say 'omg that's gay!' Retarded, although I catch myself saying it a lot, can be reallllllly offensive. People are human beings and make mistakes but come on! This was retarded on his part...
- February 5, 2010 at 2:38 AM
- Shawna Nicholson said...
First-time commenter and I LOVE your blog...my husband thinks that laughing out loud at a computer screen is gay, but you seem to make me "gay" often, so I'll deal with it. For example, 2:20am, just finished homework (full time mommy and college student) and instead of going to bed like a smart person would do, I'm laughing at a computer screen! Thanks so much for the much needed relief!
- February 5, 2010 at 3:22 AM
- hmduey said...
I've been lurking here for a long time, but you have managed to make me come out of lurk mode and post a comment with this one. You are SO right on the gay and retarded thing. I'm laughing with tears in my eyes (at work), and that's a good thing (even though crying can be gay sometimes). :)
- February 5, 2010 at 8:12 AM
- Denise Thomas said...
I adore you, retard. Stop hatin' on the Bailey's, though.
- February 5, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- Bangs said...
Calling someTHING retarded while at a banquet honoring some mentally challenged people in my community..... retarded. Yup, that's me - retarded.
- February 5, 2010 at 10:46 AM
- Becky said...
Oh my! I found you through Twitter and I think you are my long lost soul sister. Which is so NOT gay.
- February 5, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- AmyLK said...
That was so funny! And gay....
Have a good weekend.
- February 5, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Jazz said...
- February 5, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- foxy said...
You are totally my people. Really though, isn't that the truth? I use both terms all the time - but only in the appropriate sense (which is exactly as you described).
You know, I always say you have to let yourself be totally gay for Twilight in order to really enjoy it. Surely that makes sense to you, of all people.. ???
- February 5, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Love it! Gay AND Retarded, that's me!
- February 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- A Real Housewife said...
christmas newsletters are the gayest of them all!
- February 5, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Erin from "skoots and cuddles" said...
I love the phrases gay and retarded. Those were the two key phrases growing up... since when do people take such offense? Thanks for bringing us back to reality!
- February 5, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- Jamie said...
What the shit is a netipot and you are freaking awesome!
- February 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- Carrie said...
Too funny!
- February 5, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Julia said...
Water shoes are the WORST.
Water shoes + Speedo? Such a turnoff and totally, totally gay.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM
- Julie said...
Don't cha know that raisins are "natures candy". At least that is what my child tried to tell another when she wanted to trade raisins for a brownie. but yes handing out raisins OR fruit OR a toothbrush on Halloween is both GAY and RETARDED!!
- February 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- leigh said...
ok, sue. i have to disagree with you. spencer is gay. but heidi is retarded enought for both of them.
- February 6, 2010 at 12:16 AM
- Travelbug Mom said...
hahaha ..just showed my teenagers your post..."Mom, you're a faggot, that is stupid!"...hahahhah
- February 6, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- cult leader said...
lol, your def of gay is pretty fantastic.
- February 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Working Mommy said...
I'm with Julie...fruit on the most important holiday EVER - gay...and cigarettes...are fags!!
- February 6, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- The Nice One said...
Hey, I happen to love my neti pot ;P
- February 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Momlissa said...
Thank you for my morning laugh!
and I'd just have to say that Heidi & Spencer are both "gay" and "retarded."
- February 7, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Michelle said...
Did you see the SNL skit on this last night? It was freaking hilarious!
- February 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Threeboys1mommy said...
I find that if you say re-tard, like that guy from The Hangover it kind of softens the blow.
- February 8, 2010 at 2:13 AM
- PaperCourt said...
Damn...you are funny. I'm now a follower.
- February 8, 2010 at 11:51 PM
- The Mayor said...
I'm tired of having our vocabulary hijacked for causes. Soon all that will be left is bland adjectives.
How retarded is that?
- February 13, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- Maile said...
disney on ice is sooo gay
cars... on ice... um what? they arent skating...
and skating mermaids... with feet... thats just weird
- February 18, 2010 at 6:12 PM


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Pretty good. What I was worried might be oxidation, Eric clarified as something else, a bit of botrytis. That's kind of interesting and I wonder if this is common in what people perceive as oxidized white Burgundy. Is all the later harvesting in the Côte d'Or contributing to rising levels of botrytis in the vineyards which the vignerons do not know how to handle? This led to a discussion of Thevenets wines and how they are able to manage the botrytis so elegantly. Always enlightening spending time with Eric.
2000 Vincent Dauvissat (René & Vincent) Chablis 1er Cru La Forest
A good bottle of this. Perhaps less bright and stone fruited than I would have wanted, but a good bottle nonetheless. I'd suggest going ahead and digging in. I think I liked this better a few years ago.
Is this what we've come to? I don't mind drinking my chardonnay on the early side, I like the tension and the acids, but it seems to me that Chablis from top vintages from top producers need to be enjoyed for their youthful vigor rather than their tertiary qualities? If that is the case, maybe we'll see prices drop to reflect this new reality.
3 comments:
- TWG said...
Your reasoning seems backward on pricing. Welcome back but what's the catalyst for Sharon?
And by the way tell Yixin to call the dogs off!
- July 29, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- Florida Jim said...
Had a 2000 Raveneau, Montee the other night that was wonderful. Maybe that's too young by those wanting tertiary development but Diane, myself and another woman that tried the wine all said it ruined us for any other wine that night.
And I have had both of those Dauvissats - neither thrilled me but the 2000 was much the better, IMO.
I like good Chablis young - or at least before the 3-5, 5-10, 10-20 year standards (village, premier, grand) I read about.
And honestly, Chablis is just about it when it comes to chardonnay - very occasionally a Beaune, but not often.
Best, Jim
- July 30, 2010 at 6:41 AM
- Matt said...
Without question botrytis is playing a part in what some people call premoxed Chablis. '04 is an excellent example. Many were sounding an alarm about premox within 3 years of the vintage. What they were tasting was the botrytis, which in '04 is feature of the vintage in Chablis.
I used to wonder why I had such better luck with a small percentage of spoiled bottles, from oxidation, TCA, brett, etc.
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Window placement, size and shapes will be important to consider. This view will dictate whether the bed will face the windows or not (I have seen both designed beautifully).
If you plan to have the sitting area in front of the windows, then create large floor-to-ceiling windows to maximize the view and the natural lighting. Window shapes will add character to the room and continue the spectacular effect you are aiming for.
Create a sitting area to accommodate two chairs or a chaise longue, an accent table and lamp. Ensure minimum 0.9 m (three feet) distance between furniture and window.
You can separate the bed from this sitting area by trying one of the following:
- Face the bed away from the window, backing the headboard onto the sitting area
- Build a pony wall for the headboard to rest against to separate the bed from the sitting area regardless of the direction the bed faces.
- Set up designer screens as a separation which is visually stunning and not as permanent.
Once you decide which way the bed will face, consider the impact created when you walk into the room. You need space to walk in and not bump into furniture.
Do not assume this arrangement works in all spaces. While your bed is no longer tightly placed against a wall, its structure is now consuming walking space. Doors need to swing, drawers need to be pulled open; make sure you have a one-metre clearance to accommodate functional access.
The wall for your headboard can be a short pony wall or a floor-to-ceiling design created out of architectural elements, such as glass blocks to encourage the natural light to penetrate.
Use your templates to determine all remaining furniture placement, and then decide on your light or fan requirements. Once you know where your headboard is placed you can centre overhead lighting and accommodate in-floor electrical outlets for bedside lamps.
Floating a bed in a room can provide a spectacular effect, but you do need adequate space for this and stunning structural details, such as windows and glass blocks to really make this work. It would be my recommendation to have a designer draw several views for this idea before you commit to building.
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To get relief, you write a farm bill amendment that clamps a lid on payments to individual farmers and multiple entities. And, for good measure, you eliminate generic commodity certificates — whatever they are — and stop payments to farmers who earned more than $2.5 million over the last five years.
It doesn't matter that the numbers those articles and TV reports were based on might be flawed — the Environmental Working Group (EWG) wouldn't mislead you, would they? — or that you might put thousands of family farmers out of business.
No, the important thing is you have your headline-grabbing legislation that will stop the adverse publicity and help with you and your colleagues win re-election this fall.
That might also be an over-simplification, but it's what happened when Senators Grassley of Iowa, Dorgan of North Dakota, Johnson of South Dakota and Lugar of Indiana steam-rolled the Grassley amendment through the Senate.
The fact that each is a midwesterner with corn and soybeans in their backgrounds did not come as a surprise to those who have followed farm policy debates over the years.
Before they joined forces with the corn growers in the Commodity Classic, I covered many of the American Soybean Association's annual meetings. In its resolutions sessions, one Iowa farmer after another would get up and demand that ASA get the government out of farming.
Back then, soybeans were selling for $7 to $8 per bushel and Iowa growers were making good money with their 40 and 50-bushel yields. When prices began falling, those farmers changed their tunes and became adept at working the marketing loan.
Lugar alluded to that during the debate on his farm bill proposal— which was defeated 85 to 11 — when he acknowledged that he was receiving $5.40 per bushel for soybeans when cash beans have been $4.10 a bushel in central Indiana.
After Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas tore into the Grassley amendment, charging it was an attack on and not an effort to help family farmers, Grassley seemed somewhat taken aback. It was if he had never considered, as Lincoln noted, that many growers on the EWG Web site are struggling to keep their heads above water.
But it was too late. Senators who don't understand the first thing about farming had a vote that would play well in the urban areas of their states, and the amendment passed overwhelmingly.
Besides the impact on farmers who are neither wealthy nor large, analysts say the amendment would be a nightmare to administer. Farmers need new legislation to be implemented as quickly as possible, but it could take USDA months to figure out what the "Ghastly" amendment means.
When Dorgan introduced the amendment, he listed Thad Cochran of Mississippi as a co-sponsor only to have to apologize to Cochran for the error a few minutes later. It says a lot about the amendment's backers that they couldn't even get the sponsors right.
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Before 1970, rock climbing was more akin to construction work than gymnastics, to which climbing is often compared today.
Basically, the climber's goal was to get to the top of something by any means. Back then, that often meant hammering a piton (a small metal wedge) into the rock, standing in stirrups attached to the piton, pounding another piton in higher and repeating the process.
This laborious style of ascent is called "aid climbing," and as destructive and unappealing as it sounds, it was the most practical way for climbers to scale sheer walls.
That is, until an 18-year-old from Wisconsin named Jim Erickson wandered into Eldorado Canyon one day in 1967.
Along with his pitons, Erickson utilized a new kind of "clean" protection -- nuts and hexes -- that could be placed in the rock without a hammer. Thus equipped, Erickson not only repeated many of Eldorado Canyon's most challenging climbs, he made an exponential leap in standards by "free climbing" them. Rather than weight his gear to make upward progress, he just climbed the rock with his hands and feet. If he fell, his gear and rope (held by his partner) would catch him.
Local climbing legend Roger Briggs was another pioneer of free climbing. As a 15-year-old climbing prodigy, Briggs made several hard free ascents in Eldorado even before Erickson arrived. But it was Erickson who encouraged Briggs to climb clean. Briggs explained to me last week, "People who didn't use pitons don't quite understand how brutal that really was. We were smashing the rock. It was horrible."
Erickson's most famous local achievement was his 1971 first free ascent of The Naked Edge in Eldorado with Duncan Ferguson. The repeated use of pitons had already scarred the route, and it became clear that piton use was unsustainable. Soon, Erickson sold all of his pitons. He thought, "It seems a little dangerous, but what the hell. I guess I'll stop using pitons." For Erickson, climbing was no longer about getting to the top, it was how you climbed that mattered.
He never carried a hammer again.
"People thought I was crazy," said Erickson. But within a few years, the free and clean movement that began in Boulder had quickly spread throughout the entire country.
As if Erickson passed the torch, Briggs took free and clean one step further. After years of important first ascents in Eldorado such as Diving Board (5.11b, with Erickson), Jules Verne (5.11b) and Scary Canary (5,12b), Briggs introduced these ethics to the Diamond of Longs Peak, a 1,000-foot vertical wall at 13,000 feet.
Briggs first climbed the Diamond as a 16-year-old in 1967. He was then the youngest person to climb the wall. But his real contribution to the Diamond began in 1976 with the first free ascent of Yellow Wall (5.11b R). Over the next 25 years, Briggs added seven more major free ascents to the Diamond, including its five hardest routes, all rated 5.12.
Over a 40-year period, Briggs, now 61, climbed the Diamond 104 times -- way more than anyone else. "I've gone from being the young phenom ... to now (laughs). People think, 'God you're so old, how can you still be climbing?!'"
Today, Briggs is chairman of the Boulder Climbing Community, which he founded two years ago. The goals of the BCC -- stewardship and sustainability -- are an extension of the free and clean ethic that defined both Erickson's climbing career and his own. Trail building and maintenance are the BCC's top priorities. Especially in Boulder Canyon, where off-trail hiking leaves marks on the land reminiscent of the piton damage in the 1960s.
For their climbing achievements and environmental efforts, Erickson and Briggs will be inducted into the Boulder Sports Hall of Fame this Saturday evening.
"Trail building doesn't seem like anything really deep," said Briggs. "But it's how we're going to get people out there in a sustainable way -- enjoying nature rather than beating it up."
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Agenda GLD-WG telecon 09 February 2012
Thursdays 15:00-16:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 Boston, 7:00-8:00 San Francisco, 15:00-16:00 London, 16:00-17:00 Paris). Teleconferences (official participants and invited guests only): Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, or sip:email@example.com then conference code 45394# ("GLDWG") IRC channel: #gld on irc.w3.org on port 6665 An agenda is sent 24 hours in advance; minutes follow within a day.
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Overall objective of this meeting is to maintain the momentum towards our F2F2 resolution: "The GLD WG agreed to publish the first batch of First Public Working Drafts (FPWD) by end of Feb 2012 with 9 Feb ready for WG review and final decision to be taken on 23 Feb" – (see F2F2 day 2 minutes) with an emphasis on recommended vocabularies.
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- Proposal to accept the minutes from the 02-Feb-2012 meeting
- Review Tracker Actions, Issues (we'll defer most of this to the main agenda discussion of FPWD deliverables).
- Discuss any important and timely opportunities to liaise with other W3 groups
Main Agenda: FPWD WIP's (~50 minutes):
- Blog post on GLD WG
- For inspiration see PROV WG's February 2012 post
- Best Practices update, [1]
- Procurement (MikeP, George, others?)
- Vocabulary Selection (Ghislain, Boris)
- URI Construction (Daniel, Boris)
- Versioning - Point of contact??
- Stability - (Anne, Ron)
- Pragmatic Provenance - (John E) Bern/Sandro to report on PROV WG, Paul Groth's request
- People update, see People wiki page (with links to ED and Product tracker). Update on People discussion.
- DCAT Product status update, see product tracker.
- (time permitting) Data Cube and Org Product status review/discussion, see (empty) QB and Org product trackers. (If we don't have time for this, then the intention would be to focus on these during the 2/9 telecon.)
- Schedule & milestones review, Charter schedule
- Consider GLD WG F2F3 to coincide with [http://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/ TPAC in Lyon, France 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2012.
- June 2012 we have an approved talk at SemTech West titled: "Progress Report on Publication of Government Linked Data Worldwide" by Bernadette.
- Other announcements?
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If you are shipping holiday gifts to loved ones who are miles away, buying a present may be the easy part.
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1. Pick the right gift: Not only do you want to buy gift that they will like, you need to buy something you can mail easily. Even with the right packing precautions, it's always safer to buy items you know can survive a bumpy trip through the mail. Apparel, shoes and most toys are a safe bet.
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In an attempt to save money, "many inexperienced shippers—people who ship one or two packages a year—often make the mistake of using the wrong size box, or an old box, which can easily result in damaged gifts," said Scott Harkins, senior vice president of global marketing at FedEx.
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Liberty News
Liberty embarks on first residence hall in campus transformation
As Liberty University continues to make strides in its quarter-of-a-billion dollar campus transformation, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. announced in Wednesday's Convocation that the next step in this venture is the construction of a new eight-story tower residence hall in place of current residence halls 1-4 on Liberty's Champion Circle, beginning next semester.
As the process begins, students currently living in those residence halls will be accommodated at the Quality Inn on Odd Fellows Road next to the Liberty Residential Annex (formerly the Lynchburg Inn). Liberty closed on the purchase of the Quality Inn today. Students will begin the transition mid-January and will enjoy the same services as residents of the Residential Annex.
Falwell thanked the students for their patience during the move: "They're the ones sacrificing so we can make this university a world-class university in every way."
The new state-of-the-art residence facility, scheduled to be finished by Fall 2014, will be large enough to house the entire "Circle" population and will be the first of six such residence halls that are planned to be built on Champion Circle. Falwell presented renderings of the future development to the students on Wednesday.
He said the current residence halls were built in the 1970s and were intended only to be temporary — but they have now been in use for 35 years.
"We wanted the current students to have the benefit now," Falwell said of the new facility, which will feature two beds and a bathroom per room.
"The new dorms will help Liberty continue to attract the best Christian college students in the nation," Falwell said in a letter to the students. "God has given Liberty the resources to make this university a better Christian university and we feel we have a responsibility to do it while construction costs are still low due to the poor economy and to do it without delay."
Liberty has more than 60 construction projects currently under way, among them the Jerry Falwell Library, a new baseball stadium, a new basketball practice facility, and a (proposed) College of Osteopathic Medicine.


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Chalet Hotel Hermann Reviews
Location was great for us as situated above the town meaning great views and quiet at night - truly appreciated on New Years eve when we were able to watch the fireworks display from the balcony and avoid the somewhat raucous behaviour exhibited in the centre. Not ski in ski out and walk to the nursery slopes in ski boots takes a good 10/15 minutes but from there you can ski down to the gondola or catch the funicular that runs until 11pm. You can ski back down a red and off piste across a field but only for those more advanced. The number 56 bus runs from outside the hotel and Mike kindly gives lifts, alternatively a taxi up the hill costs E10. Rooms were simple and traditional in decor. We had four rooms and the one on the top floor was noticeably quieter, however the views from all were fantastic. Like the rest of the hotel rooms were kept clean and tidy and the 'fact of the day cards' were a nice touch. Every member of our party requested an additions, pillow after the first night as initially you're only given one and even with two you somewhat sink through! Only slight gripe would be the towels as unless requested are not changed and are very small in size. Bar was great, good choice of drinks that can be put on tab and paid at the end of the week. Lounge area was recently decorated, clean, modern and comfortable. Dining area was good, we found the table we were first allocated a little cold and by the next night Clare sorted this and brought in extra heaters. Spa didn't seem to be used frequently but for no negative reason as the sauna and steam rooms were lovely. Staff really helped make our holiday. All were lovely and very attentive (particularly topping up wine at dinner!). All the barman was great (so great he was over the river) and the traditional style bar became our evening hq. Thanks Al for keeping us entertained in an evening! Other thanks to William who waited our table most evenings and made us feel very welcome from day one and offered some great advice on the best runs/off piste areas and nightlife. Breakfast as you'd expect, choice of cereal, fresh bread or the daily hot. We didn't use the device but on offer for E6 was a poste picnic. We ended up spending E40 on lunch each day in various mountain restaurants so this could be a good alternative. The restaurant at the top of the gaislachkoglbahn had extensive choice but between 12-1.30 was nigh on impossible to find a table. Afternoon tea including cake and soup served at 4 was a pleasant welcome home and very much appreciated. Dinner is where the chalet really shone. Each evening, bar the first, you are given the menu for the following night to chose from and are thus given a degree of choice to suit individual taste. No meal could be faulted, sincerest compliments to the chef; best food we've experienced on a ski holiday. Special mention to the five course banquet on New Years eve, catered for by only 4 kitchen staff - amazing! We were lucky to have great snow all week and unlike other resorts we've visited during peak season, did not face lengthy ques at lifts (tip:Giggi lift much busier than thr gaislakokl). Definitely recommend the day trip to Obergurgl that can be reached via the free ski bus or E15 pp for a pre arranged coach that picks up at 8.30 and drops off at 6. Transfer was seamless and we were met by Clive who offered some helpful advice on the short (bonus!) transfer from Inspnsbruck to Sölden. The glacier was only open 2 out of 6 days we skied as lifts are quick to close in wind or snow so make the most of the fantastic runs up there if you get a blue sky day! Overall this is a lovely traditional chalet hotel and really made our holiday more enjoyable and comfortable. Nothing was too much trouble and service was with a smile. Definitely recommend and If we didn't venture to new resorts each year would certainly return.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory sector turned in its best performance in five months in May, a preliminary HSBC survey showed on Thursday, though overall manufacturing growth still contracted slightly in a suggestion that the outlook remains murky.
The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) recovered to 49.7 in May from April's final reading of 48.1, beating a Reuters' poll forecast of 48.1.
But the data is a touch below the 50-point level that separates a monthly growth in activity from a contraction, indicating that manufacturers actually experienced a slight drop in business.
Still, those hoping for any sign of stabilisation in China's wobbly economy may find some welcome relief in Thursday's report.
Asian stocks and emerging Asian currencies extended early gains after the report, while the Australian dollar edged higher.
A breakdown of the survey results showed the handful of closely-followed indices that measure output, domestic and foreign demand all improved substantially in May to rise above the 50-point mark, from sub-50 levels in April.
New export orders, a proxy for foreign demand, showed the biggest turnaround. The index climbed a hefty 3.4 points to 52.7, a level not seen in nearly 3-1/2-years.
"The improvement was broad-based with both new orders and new export orders back in expansionary territory. Disinflationary pressures also eased over the month and output prices increased for the first time since November 2013," said Qu Hongbin, chief economist for China at HSBC.
"Some tentative signs of stabilisation are emerging, partly as a result of the recent mini-stimulus measures and lower borrowing costs. But downside risks to growth remain, particularly as the property market continues to cool. We think more policy easing is needed to put a floor under growth in the coming months."
He also noted the employment index fell further to 47.3, which implies that this month's uptick in sentiment has not yet filtered through to the labour market.
Of the 11 sub-indices in the survey, all but those for employment and stocks of finished goods rose compared to April.
In the case of employment, the index fell over a point to stand well under 50, the 13th consecutive month that jobs have been lost in the manufacturing sector.
Any marked weakening in the labour market would raise alarm bells for China's government, which regards healthy employment levels as a top policy priority and an important condition for social stability.
Premier Li Keqiang said in March that it is all right if economic growth comes in slightly below the government's 7.5 percent target, as long as the job market holds up.
Hit by unsteady global demand, slowing domestic investment growth and a cooling property market, China's economic growth fell to an 18-month low in the first three months of this year.
Economists polled by Reuters believe growth in the world's second-largest economy will dip to a 24-year-low of 7.3 percent this year — just ahead of the 7.2 percent expansion that Premier Li has said is necessary for a robust labour market.
Japanese manufacturing activity also contracted in May but at a slower pace than the previous month, a similar preliminary survey showed, in a sign of tentative recovery after a sales tax hike in April led to a slowdown in consumer spending.
The Markit/JMMA flash Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to a seasonally adjusted 49.9 in May from a final reading of 49.4 in April.
Unlike China, however, the index for new export orders fell to a preliminary 48.2 from a final reading of 49.1 in April.
Exports have been a soft spot for the recovering economy and policymakers have been counting on a rebound in shipments to offset the expected drop in consumer consumption in the immediate months after the sales tax increase.
But there is growing evidence that any damage from the tax hike will be limited. A Reuters survey showed companies expect sales to bounce back and are more willing to raise wages.
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Musk Says Tesla Could Scale Up Powerpack/Solar To Untie Puerto Rico From Grid, Talks Could Soon Be Underway
Following tragedy in Puerto Rico, the electric grid has been called into question.
In steps Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
When asked if Musk could go in and rebuild Puerto Rico's electric system with Power Packs and solar, Musk responded with one of those new, longer Tweets:
The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too. Such a decision would be in the hands of the PR govt, PUC, any commercial stakeholders and, most importantly, the people of PR.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 5, 2017
Musk's response was met with positive vibe. Even Ricardo Rosello, the Governor of Puerto Rico & President of the New Progressive Party, chimed in:
Rosello then Tweeted again this morning:
And Musk responded:
If Tesla takes on this task, there's no doubt it will become among the largest such installations in the world. And it will surely pave the way for other islands to follow.
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That'd be wonderful!
Realistically, Puerto Rico can better distribute its grid, but at 4TWh of consumption going entirely PV-battery, like Kauai or American Somoa, isn't likely (3,000-6,000 acres of panels?).
EIA notes $.20/KWh rates, only half from fuel oil (not all). Then, they're big enough that their rates can be lower on 34% service from cheap natural gas. So, the economics aren't quite as easy to beat as 25-30+ cent rates.
Still, even as part of the solution solar-battery from Tesla could be fun to watch. Whose gonna lend?
..bad math. @3acres per 1MW STC, and @20% conversion factor, you'd need closer to 60,000 acres to get up to 4TWh. No?
Ooops, scratch that – 6,000 acres about work. 6000/3=2GW. 2GW@20%CF=400. 400X352X24 = ~3.5TWh Sorry for the bandwidth.
Your links says 20 TWh, not 4. The US is 4000 TWh per year. That is only 1/200th of the US. While smaller, it is quite a lot.
Thanks, good catch. I read the "4,103 billion kWh", as PR's 4,103 mn kWh. -Too many commas in electric math. 😉
The number doubles-down on the point. 20TWh beats a number of states.
Islands don't get cheap nat gas or any other fossil fuel for that matter.
Yeah, but now looking deeper, PR can unload LNG. Japan's average fell in half (~$5/mmbtu), since the U.S. began exporting natural gas this way. Some of it does (or will?) come all the way from Cove Point (Dominion's east coast facility). So, on cost that means PR may be able to get it cheaper?
There's a scale, where >$1bn dollar LNG facilities begin to make sense. The other 47% (EIA), that is petrol fired, is where PV-battery still has more room to work.
Doesn't the Jones Act prevent Puerto Rico from importing LNG and other fuel at an acceptable price? Because of the U.S. transportation monopoly Puerto Rico is an expensive location. Might therefore be well positioned as a showcase for the Musk/Tesla solution. If the U.N.O. carries some of the cost ….
The Jones act only limits the carrier of the natural gas can't be transported from the US to another US location (or territory) by a foreign carrier as in airline or ocean liner. Nothing to do with imports from another country.
Repeal the Jones Act!
It is in our national interest. Without it, American ship building would die altogether. This would mean that it would become very, very difficult to build our own warships. We would become even more dependent on foreign countries and foreign contractors to build our future navies.
If we want to keep the ability to build our own warships here, we need to preserve our pathetically small ship building industry where it is. Globalism is a bitch. Makes some of us rich on one hand, but destroys our country on the other. I guess at some point we might as well work out our surrender terms to China now before anybody has to needlessly die.
Trinidad exports LNG. Closer than Louisiana LNG. LNG from Trinidad to PR can go in foreign ships unlike LNG from Louisiana or Texas.
Is EM going to build hurricane proof solar panels????
Power packs best be in a rebar reinforced concrete bunker too.
Yeah, like the del Morro fortress pictured above. They will probably want a debris fences and inflatable flood barriers.
Looks like most of the panels survived the storm on this farm…
Being an island boy myself, I am intensely interested in the survive-ability of solar PV arrays in this region. I see these storms as learning experiences for the rest of us. I have searched for before and after photos of as much arrays as I could find and there is definitely a wide range of outcomes for arrays that all experienced similar wind speeds.
After Irma, the array near the airport in Anguilla was a total loss, while the one on Richard Branson's Necker islands looks relatively unscathed. Even within the island of Puerto Rico there was a huge difference in outcomes after Maria. There definitely needs to be an examination and comparison of the arrays and farms that survived versus those that were badly damaged.
Most isn't enough. I look at that picture and the losses look high enough that if we saw this every few years it would ruin the chance of financial payback on those installations. The labor costs of fixing part of the array is higher than the per-panel cost when putting them in the first time and so even 10% damage like that could be a killer.
I agree that this hits the payoff time badly. Obviously the danger here is hurricanes and with these you get a few days of warning and you can prepare. On residential installs the panels are plugin these days and can be easily taken down in minutes.something similar could be implemented for solar farms and save them from damage.
Maria hitting Puerto Rico is not an 'every few years' type event. Maybe every 50 years.
Still, I think you can build for survivability in 140 mile winds, which would have protected most of the island.
Inverters need to be replaced in the 15-20 year time frame anyway. So, maintenance even if modules live past 20 years requires some costly repairs. Plus, modules lose output capability every year, as do battery subsystems. Looks great in the beginning but down the road, the next-administration on the island has to keep re-paying for new replacement parts. Think "Printer Ink" ongoing. Gets worse when arrays are wiped out and you were relying on it. It is easier to restart or replace a large barged-in generator than re-lay 5000 acres of solar. Do some of both.
"Musk Says Tesla Could Scale Up Powerpack/Solar To Untie Puerto Rico From Grid"
Exactly which "grid" is PR "tied to"?
PR has its own internal grid.
Musk is talking about using solar pv/wind, etc. plus batteries/other storage to start moving towards a distributed grid/micro grid because its much more survivable and away from the PR's conventional grid that gets nuked every 10 years or so from storms:
But hey, any EE worth their salt should already know what this is.
You sure spent a lot of words saying, "Harumph!"
He may sound cranky, but his experience working on islands is the same as mine. It's shocking how inept and a bit corrupt most islands become. I'm not sure why, but it's a real thing.
It's no different than urban inner cities here stateside. Perpetual generations of people living near, or in poverty leads to a feeling of entitlement, that they are "owed" something. If they don't get big government hand outs, then they will take their own however they can.
The feeling is, every man for themselves, money is paramount, your concern only exists as far as friends and family and some of those are suspect. The concept of the "United States of America" is a joke and means little.
Unfortunately, or President's idiotic visit to Puerto Rico and our country's ignorance and lack of concern for it's territories just reinforces these beliefs. There is the United States of America and then there is the poor people that live inside the United States of America. Two very different places.
Yea! Get off my lawn!
Thank you very much for taking the time to write up that report/analysis.
When the voice of experience speaks to something so central to the discussion here, then the peanut gallery (I'm looking at you, KumarP) should pipe down and listen.
All hail Elon Musk (blessed be his name)!
While I don't think them having PV and battery storage is a bad idea this article seems to suggest that PR homes and businesses won't be tied in to some grid.
Regardless of where the power comes from unless it is truly distributed at each and every home/business the hurricane and it's damage would have resulted in a similar catastrophe.
Realistically traditional power plants are better equipped to handle hurricanes than huge fields of solar panels. With PRs transmission and distribution lines being obliterated as well had their been some big solar plant (that would have been destroyed) and even regionally distributed power packs which is likely what they would have done the result would be very similar. Heck, it could even be more dangerous if they've got live current coming through the wires.
This and they can't even fill Powerwall orders in a timely manner. Exactly how are they going to supply such a project and ya who is gonna lend PR the $ to do this.
What about tidal and offshore wind?
I was going to post about wind energy but then I thought this whole scenario is because of all that wind…..lol
Maybe if the turbines can duck and hide before the hurricane comes they'll be safe???
Retractable turbines?
I'm sure there are other images, but a frame within a post-storm CNN video showed straight windmill towers and major rotor destruction (like one, in three, blades intact).
Making a wind turbine with a mast that can be folded flat in case of high wind is obviously not impossible, but how much would that add to the cost? Would it be cost-effective?
It's hard to do an effective cost/benefit analysis without knowing how frequently PR is going to be facing storms like this. Hurricane specialists have said that global warming makes hurricanes more destructive, but slightly less frequent. "Less frequent" certainly doesn't look like what happened this year! Is the 2017 parade of hurricanes something that is extremely unlikely to ever occur again? Or does it portend similar "parades" in the near future? Was this year's parade a freak occurrence, or are hurricane specialists be wrong about decreased frequency?
The tough engineering questions will dwarf in comparison to the political agenda of the trump administration. This will probably be another completely wasted opportunity. I hope I'm wrong.
Well, because of the massive negative consequences of global warming (which unfortunately too many fools keep denying or obfuscating to everyone's detriment), these kinds of disasters will keep accelerating and everyone pays for it through taxes/debt and higher insurance costs.
Pretty simple really:
Pay now or pay a lot more later and over and over (and over) again.
With the climate denying oiligarchy Trumpster and his useful idiots running the country into the ground I don't expect any progress or anything positive here.
But I hold out hope that in the future they will be held accountable for their actions and non-science denying, smarter people will start making the mostly right, (scratch that), correct choices.
I'm not sure why anyone thinks separating customers from the grid would be a win. If you set up a customer with a microgrid sized for their current use it means they cannot grow their use without large capital outlay. In other words, they cannot get an EV.
And this is all before we talk about how expensive a year-round self-sustaining system would be for a house. It would be less affordable there due to their standard of living than on the US mainland. And you don't see this taking off on the US mainland due to the costs.
Resist Musk hype. Come on insideevs, you know you can do it. Remember? No plug, no story?
I will resist your hype and dodging of the issue.
About every 10 years (and sure to accelerate with global warming) PR has its grid destroyed by storms and it has to be rebuilt everytime.
That costs a lot of money and will continue to do so.
It would be cheaper in the longer term to setup more survivable microgrids that can island themselves then to keep rebuilding the grid over and over.
And since solar PV costs keep going down and are the cheapest way to generate electricity all that needs to be solved is the storage issue in which battery storage can play a role.
No, it would be cheaper in the long run to build a centralized power grid using nuclear power, and buried power lines which will survive a hurricane. I think Unlucky has a valid point about local/neighborhood distributed power making it more difficult, and more costly, to provide supply for increased demand in a given neighborhood.
I'd like to see a cost analysis, but common sense suggests both the economy of scale and the need for flexibility favor large electrical grids, not micro-grids.
It's too bad that new, failsafe nuclear power systems, such as NuScale's SMR (Small Modular Reactor) system, are still in development. For long-term planning, that would be the best solution for PR; nuclear power plants can be far more easily built to withstand a hurricane than solar farms and wind farms!
It's also too bad that public hysteria over "RADIATION!!", hysteria strongly promoted by the traditional news media, results in so much activism and NIMBYism, blocking the building of new and much safer nuclear power plants. 😥
Your still taking about a nuclear power plant. A 1,000 MW unit would cost at least 8 billion dollars. Take years just to get designed and another 10 years for construction to be completed. Two Units #3 and # 4 at V.C.Summer in South Carolina and two more units at Vogel in Georgia have halted construction and caused Westinghouse, Stone and Webster to file for bankruptcy and Toshiba to be close already loosing 7 billion dollars and forced to sell there chip building subsidiary. The promise was these new advanced nuclear plants would be cheaper and safer.
A combination of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and Fuel Cell power plants. Fuel Cell Energy from Connecticut can provide power from waste water treatment plants. All of these systems combined could provide a more reliable cheaper distributed grid.
Having Musk providing his knowledge and insight would be incredibly valuable.
Silly topic at this point in time.
Who would finance such a project? PR has lower per capita GNP than any state (~$28K/yr). Currently, only 2% of its electricity generation is renewable. Forget the batteries, for a large renewable-based island grid they'd need a _huge_ investment in utility scale wind & solar before anything else. Tesla can't help with that; PR's economy is completely in the dumps since they lost the taxation benefits they had about a decade ago: There's no RoI in making long-term large investments in the local economy.
And Hawaii isn't a good comparison… They have hydro and geothermal sources, almost twice the GDP, much higher fuel costs due to very long shipping distances, so it makes much more economic sense to switch to renewables & EV cars.
Solar City has leases, don't they?
Elon will just sell the debt to Wall Street to finance it.
Better do it before interest rate is up!
Sure, sell bonds to finance building a state of the art, renewable, flexible, distributed power "smart grid" on an island that's so poor it can't even afford to bury power lines to protect them from hurricanes.
What could possibly go wrong there? 🙄
The gird is laying on the ground now so someone is going to have to bad to get PR up and running again. I would imagine most of the transformers and much of the existing electrical equipment is shot. So if your going to rebuild makes sense to do it right.
Tesla products can help Puerto Rico (PR). Tesla products can't remotely rebuild the PRan grid by themselves.
If you are a wealthy property owner in PR, a Tesla home would be very sweet right now.
I think we can build to withstand 140 mph wind. That would have been enough for most sites in PR.
While it's nice to dream, this needs a reality check:
One of the reasons why Puerto Rico's power grid was so completely destroyed by the hurricane — perhaps the primary reason — is because the island is too poor to bury its power lines. They were all up on poles, where the wind could tear them away.
Rebuilding PR's power grid using wind & solar plus substantial battery backup would make it even more expensive than a normal power grid with buried power lines.
PR is going to have enough problems as it is getting the funds to rebuild any sort of working power grid to cover the island. The more expensive option using significant numbers of solar panels and Tesla PowerPacks is almost certainly not gonna happen unless multiple billionaires step in and make very substantial donations to the cause.
Well they do have a 10% unemployment rate but I read that the mainland may experience pharmaceutical drug problems because many drugs are made in Puerto Rico and som only in Puerto Rico.Apparently pharmaceutical companies employee 100,000 people in Puerto Rico.
Buried power lines are an expensive luxury. They increase maintenance. Metal & concrete poles with extra steel in the conductors can withstand high winds. Puerto Rico had few of those.
Puerto Rico, Per NREL, has 840 MW of wind potential but only 120 MW Installed. This is sea breeze wind which peaks around dawn & sunset, an ideal match with solar power & reducing battery storage required.
I don't think anything will come of this. The PR governor is clearly pushing hard on the "opportunity" Tesla has to showcase their technology. What this means to the unwashed is "We would love to have a modern Solar electric system, but of course we can't afford any part of it. But if you want to donate one, we would be happy to allow that."
Picture having an entire state on welfare, complete with corrupt alt-left libtard administrators. Do nothing for themselves, and insistently demand that someone do something for them. Their debt is already so high they are essentially bankrupt. Picture Flint MIchigan on steroids.
All of Puerto Rico isn't all on welfare there are 100,000 people employed in the pharmaceutical industry I would imagine good paying jobs. If all those companies invested in roof and ground top solar Plus wind. The airports and the companies the airlines that use the airports. Shopping centers, hotels, Remember tourism is a big industry in Puerto Rico.
Thinkers find solutions Musk can do it and he will be able to get people on board.
It is a poor title to "grab eyeballs". PR is not connected to the US grid. It is self-contained.
As mentioned above, the distribution grid in Puerto Rico was destroyed, not the generating plants. Is it crazy for PR to depend on fuel when sun and wind are so abundant? I think so. So, I applaud Mr Musk's efforts to bring substantial clean generating capacity to PR. But, Who's going to rebuild the grid? Is rebuilding distribution every 10 years or so less expensive than burying the lines underground? I hope they choose right.


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Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. announced in convocation today that Liberty University is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by Liberty Counsel challenging the legality of the healthcare reform bill signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday. This act of litigation makes Liberty the first private organization to pursue legal opposition to the bill.
"We here at Liberty believe that the healthcare bill that was signed into law this week is an attack on our freedoms and our liberties that our founders fought and died to secure," said Falwell. "This university is named Liberty for a reason. We believe in defending the liberties that are guaranteed by our Constitution."
Falwell said another pending piece of legislation, the reconciliation bill, is expected to be signed in the coming days and will give the government control over the student loan industry.
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Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law, cited several additional reasons for Liberty's decision to pursue a legal action against the bill.
"There has never been another time in American history where federal government bureaucrats have told you that you must buy a particular product, let alone a particular insurance product," said Staver. "We believe that this legislation is unconstitutional."
Staver stated that the healthcare reform bill will penalize Liberty — a private, non-profit organization — for each staff and faculty member along with their spouses and dependents covered under the university's insurance plan. These fees will increase the cost of insurance, which will in turn affect faculty, staff and students in many ways, including the possible reduction of student workers the university will be able to employ.
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Staver said Liberty is taking the lead on this lawsuit because of the Chancellor's commitment to the protection of individual rights according to the United States Constitution.
"Liberty's became the first private lawsuit in the nation … sending the message that Liberty University will stand for its name of Liberty, will stand for its students, will stand for freedom, and Liberty intends to make sure that this law is ruled unconstitutional."
Chancellor Falwell closed by encouraging students to register to vote in local elections in the coming days and influence local government decisions.
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Leigh Price Papers and New Correspondence Regarding the Bakken FormationThe Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) received a research paper entitled "Origins and Characteristics of the Basin-Centered Continuous-Reservoir Unconventional Oil-Resource Base of the Bakken Source System, Williston Basin" by Leigh Price. This paper contains valuable, comprehensive information about the potential oil resources in the Bakken Formation within the Williston Basin of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. The paper represents work as it stood at the time of Leigh Price's death.
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In April 2012, Mr. Bardin provided the EERC with several additional items to accompany the research paper, given the strategic importance of the Bakken oil resource to the American economy and energy supply.
Together, these documents provide key insight for policy makers and for all who choose to read them. These insights relate to the importance of exploratory research regarding unconventional energy resources and the technology to enable their production and the need for visionary policy to realize the potential of those resources, furthering the goal of energy security:
- Letter to Secretary of Energy O'Leary and Enclosure A - March 6, 1993 (254 KB PDF), regarding the significance of Dr. Price and North Dakota Geologist Julie LeFever's work.
- Does Bakken Horizontal Drilling Imply a Huge Oil-Resource Base in Fractured Shales? (Enclosure B) – 1992 (1.17 MB PDF), a seminal, peer-reviewed Price-LeFever paper.
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- U.S. Department of Energy Correspondence Close-Out - April 12, 1993 (51 KB PDF), concerning the O'Leary letter.
- Correspondence with EIA Administrator, The Honorable Guy F. Caruso – November 30, 2005 (267 KB PDF).
- Letter to Secretary of Energy Bodman and report - December 18, 2005 (848 KB PDF), regarding Bakken crude oil resource of the Williston Basin and calling for a fresh look at resources in place, recovery factors, state-of-the-art best practices, and how to push them forward to the next logical step.
- Letter to Acting USGS Director Leahy and attachment - February 24, 2006 (523 KB PDF), requesting that USGS release unpublished Leigh Price paper (posted above) to the public.
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