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well-organized campaign of protests over fracking in Europe and are pointing their fingers at Russia's Gazprom
engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organizations
Bulgarian government in 2012 banned fracking
opposed to it on the grounds of environmental sustainability
arrested several of its activists on a protest in the Arctic last year
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Russia Behind Fracking Protests in Europe?
posted by janrinok on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:13PM
from the claims-but-no-evidence dept.
Ting Model writes:
Andrew Higgins reports in the NYT that Romanian officials including the prime minister point to a mysteriously well-financed and well-organized campaign of protests over fracking in Europe and are pointing their fingers at Russia's Gazprom, a state-controlled energy giant, that has a clear interest in preventing countries dependent on Russian natural gas from developing their own alternative supplies of energy and preserving a lucrative market for itself — and a potent foreign policy tool for the Kremlin.
"Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas," says NATO's former secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
A wave of protest against fracking began three years ago in Bulgaria, a country highly dependent on Russian energy. Faced with a sudden surge of street protests by activists, many of whom had previously shown little interest in environmental issues, the Bulgarian government in 2012 banned fracking and canceled a shale gas license issued earlier to Chevron.
Russia itself has generally shown scant concern for environmental protection and has a long record of harassing and even jailing environmentalists who stage protests. On fracking, however, Russian authorities have turned enthusiastically green, with Putin declaring last year that fracking "poses a huge environmental problem." Places that have allowed it, he said, "no longer have water coming out of their taps but a blackish slime." For their part Green groups have been swift to attack Rasmussen's views, saying that they were not involved in any alleged Russian attempts to discredit the technology, and were instead opposed to it on the grounds of environmental sustainability. "The idea we're puppets of Putin is so preposterous that you have to wonder what they're smoking over at Nato HQ," says Greenpeace, which has a history of antagonism with the Russian government, which arrested several of its activists on a protest in the Arctic last year.
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Who has the strongest motivations? Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:29PM
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:29PM (#123257)
Putin might be a black-hat schemer, but it seems to me that the oil companies (and their cronies in country) have a lot more to lose than Putin has to gain here. So I'm inclined to disbelieve these claims. But even if they are true, I'm not too troubled by it since at worst not-drilling seems like a neutral outcome when all the externalities are factored in.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:38PM
by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:38PM (#123260) Journal
And it's not like Fracking is a GOOD thing. So? Russia takes a playbook from Soros and Koch.
Pot, meet Kettle!
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:30PM
by kaszz (4211) on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:30PM (#123271) Journal
Yeah, fracking pollutes your water resources so regardless Russian involvement it doesn't seems to bad. But of course NATO has a point.
Btw, I'm not addicted to oil, I can quite ANYTIME! ;-)
If fusion happens, then CO2 goes down and MENA + Russia is SOL.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday December 06 2014, @08:40PM
by frojack (1554) on Saturday December 06 2014, @08:40PM (#123289) Journal
Yeah, fracking pollutes your water resources
Does it?
Could have sworn [energyindepth.org] I've seen that claim debunked [colorado.edu] in recent articles [leaderandtimes.com] from multiple sources [weather.com]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
Same as the research that cigarettes doesn't affect health in any bad way?
Possibly, but the government was never behind those smoking studies, whereas they are often the authors in the case of faking.
The USGS has also pointed to fraking as a source of earthquakes.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:13AM
by edIII (791) on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:13AM (#123327)
All of those links you pointed to earlier are outright disingenuous arguments and lies.
Disclaimer: I've been in and around the industry.
They are not fracking anything, and I'm not sure that most of those US departments you outlined even have access to the data. I note particularly that from Texas a doctor spoke, but we didn't hear from the Railroad Commission [state.tx.us]. Everything under the ground, their specific plans and activities, and the results are largely trade secret and protected information. It's made so private simply because competing oil & gas companies can gain tremendous advantages by learning from their rivals expensive attempts at geological reconnaissance. So when I see a US department listed, it means absolutely bupkis to me unless they have access to the trade secret information protected by law. In actuality, none of the departments listed could probably find anything out on their own. It requires the cooperation of the specific regulatory department for that state, and for Texas, it's the same department that controls the railroads.
Drilling fluids tagged with unique markers were injected more than 8,000 feet below the surface at the gas well bore but weren't detected in a monitoring zone at a depth of 5,000 feet. The researchers also tracked the maximum extent of the man-made fractures, and all were at least 6,000 feet below the surface.
That means the potentially dangerous substances stayed about a mile away from surface drinking water supplies, which are usually at depths of less than 500 feet.
"This is good news," said Duke University scientist Rob Jackson, who was not involved with the study. He called it a "useful and important approach" to monitoring fracking, but he cautioned that the single study doesn't prove that fracking can't pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation. (emphasis mine)
Meaningless drivel until the sentence in bold. This is why I say the arguments are disingenuous at best. Even Dr. Jackson is quick to point out that his statement only supports fracking in these specific conditions. Such statements only raise the question: Is what the oild & gas companies doing considered fracking in the technical sense?
No. It isn't. Not anymore.
Dr. Stephen Holditch, Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University; member of DOE's SEAB Shale Gas Production Subcommittee: "I have been working in hydraulic fracturing for 40+ years and there is absolutely no evidence hydraulic fractures can grow from miles below the surface to the fresh water aquifers." (October 2011)
I've met the man. Dr. Holditch isn't lying, but I have to question if he has even seen the logistics, plans, and specific formations and 3D seismic for the wells in question. While he is right that the process itself is so far from dangerous that structural damage to water tables and aquifers is ridiculous, he is only referring to the process itself.
The "surfactant" chemicals found in samples of fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Fracking fluid is largely comprised of water and sand, but oil and gas companies also add a variety of other chemicals, including anti-bacterial agents, corrosion inhibitors and surfactants. Surfactants reduce the surface tension between water and oil, allowing for more oil to be extracted from porous rock underground.
In a new study published in the journal Analytical Chemistry, the research team identified the surfactants found in fracking fluid samples from Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Texas. The results showed that the chemicals found in the fluid samples were also commonly found in everyday products, from toothpaste to laxatives to detergent to ice cream.
Completely missing the point, and once again, just a debased tactic in an argument. Also, not correct either. It's not sand in most cases, and CANNOT be sand at the depths mentioned in many of the references included. It MUST be proppant, as proppant is manufactured to maintain a spherical shape in the presence of tremendous heat and pressures. You use sand on SHALLOW formations CLOSER to WATER TABLES. Sand is cheap, and it sucks. Truly not fit for purpose in most cases where fracking is desired to increase permeability.
Of COURSE the chemicals themselves are not that bad. Which, it's incredibly salient at this point to state the RECOVERY procedures used for such "safe" chemicals. We have to suck it all up back out of the ground. The EPA doesn't let you push that many gallons of crap down in the ground without an idea of how it's sequestered and monitored. We spend good money, a lot of it, paying for collection tanks and trucks to haul it off.
If you're seeing fracking chemicals in the water, in any amount, YOU HAVE FAILED IN YOUR FRACK, YOU HAVE FAILED TO KEEP THE INTEGRITY OF THE CASING, AND YOU HAVE FAILED TO SECURE THE FORMATION FOR PRODUCTION.
Among the concerns raised by the fracking boom is that the chemicals used in the fracking fluid might contaminate ground and surface water supplies. But determining the risk of contamination—or proving that any contamination has occurred in the past—has been difficult because oil and gas companies have been reluctant to share exactly what's in their proprietary fluid mixtures, citing stiff competition within the industry.
Recent state and federal regulations require companies to disclose what is being used in their fracking fluids, but the resulting lists typically use broad chemical categories to describe the actual ingredients.
The results of the new study are important not only because they give a picture of the possible toxicity of the fluid but because a detailed list of the ingredients can be used as a "fingerprint" to trace whether suspected contamination of water supplies actually originated from a fracking operation.
The authors caution that their results may not be applicable to all wells. Individual well operators use unique fracking fluid mixtures that may be modified depending on the underlying geology. Ferrer and Thurman are now working to analyze more water samples collected from other wells as part of a larger study at CU-Boulder exploring the impacts of natural gas development.
Blah, blah, blah, trade secrets tie our hands....
See? Not even the studies are worth a damn precisely because they don't represent all cases of fracking, and not all cases of fracking have data available for scientists.
Dr. Mark Zoback, Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University; member of DOE's SEAB Shale Gas Production Subcommittee: "Fracturing fluids have not contaminated any water supply and with that much distance to an aquifer, it is very unlikely they could." (August 2011)
Dr. Zoback needs to ask himself the question, "Are they performing a classical frac?" Here we come to crux of the entire argument. Unlike Dr. Zoback, I've actually seen real data from one of these "fracs" (not one I was involved with), and it showed a monstrous disrespect for ethics, science, and every regulation in the book. They are not fracking, sir. Performing near continuous fracking in the ways I have seen would instantly lead Dr. Zoback to conclude that they are effectively destroying the formations and water tables to suck up natural gas, all for greed.
The unanswered question in the subject? The motivation?
What's the ROI on a standard well? Does anyone here have any idea how fast the production falls? The reason we are having these arguments is that natural gas wells are not strong producers. Flow can be quick, but within a year it's all but gone in terms of pressure. It can take 20 years or more to properly recover hydrocarbons from a well .
The motivation is simply to pull the money out of the ground faster, and is no more ethically or culturally complicated than any of the other shortsighted behaviors we see corporations performing every single day. In this case, it will be the water tables poisoned across most of our nation by the time it's done with hundreds of years of waiting (if ever) for them to recover. In other cases, it's Wall Street stealing Main Street blind and evicting a good portion of Americans out of their houses. Not complicated, it's just shortsightedness and greed. Standard. Operating. Procedure.
Don't be fooled by the media, or these studies. Fracking is 100% perfectly safe, and I will never say otherwise. Their "Fracs" are harming the environment in the face of such truths. Therefore, they aren't fracking and something else simply must be going on. No, I can't prove any of it, precisely because all of that information is trade secret and well protected by law. If I could get my hands on any of it, I will be a whistleblower for sure.
If there is any one thing I wish for people to believe, it's that fracking really is 100% safe. It truly is. Just don't believe they are doing it please.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:55AM
by kaszz (4211) on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:55AM (#123339) Journal
Why not simple sample the water around the fracking well? or simple take when no one notice regarding these fracking fluids? and send it for chemical analyze?
Anyway it seems we have polluting psychopathic Wall street people.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Sunday December 07 2014, @06:44AM
The water directly around the well might actually be contaminated to some small degree. Drilling and oil & gas well is an amazing process, and extraordinarily dirty. It's not a question of finding the chemicals really. We can just assume that fracking chemicals and worse are present within a couple hundred feet of the well. By worse, I mean the long sequestered hydrocarbons themselves (maybe some drilling fluids). I was always told to not get that on your hands or let it stay on them. Wash it off right away. Basically, I think you will get almost nothing but false positives measuring it this strictly.
My educated guess is that the complaints mostly surround not the fracking fluids themselves, but other hydrocarbons interacting with the water supply. Which it's a good time to remember that the whole point of drilling is recovery. So a proper well with good casing should have nothing more being introduced into the environment. Failures usually indicate a problem in the lines that need to be addressed, and soon. How much of this is not from already completed wells with all of their lines connected back to whatever energy company is refining it? They certainly don't haul this stuff off in trucks :) You also need to assume that all the existing lines and completed wells are in good order and well maintained before you conclude a single operation is responsible. I know this first hand due to the costs of fixing problems in the lines and keeping production going.
According to all of the definitions of the processes involved, they are indeed safe and well engineered processes worthy of respect. What I allege they are doing instead is performing a rather violent and brutish kind of fracking where it's not a single operation done carefully. After each frac (or series) we were really taking the time to evaluate the formations and recovery process. It took months, and we spent a lot of money hauling off water and contaminated fluids. In the documentation I saw, it was very clear that it was fracks being performed successively, with massive amounts of water being pumped into the formation. From what I also understand, a lot of "horizontal" drilling through formations far shallower than the typical 8k feet in the Marcellus Shale. So most of the fracking examples are not relevant to damage in shallower water tables. The people affected aren't lying, the earthquakes need to be explained, and they're allowed to keep secrets. I allege they are being unsafe and reckless even by traditional fracking standards. Either that, or I am grossly misinterpreting what I read in those documents. It described a process that did not have a well engineered tube proceeding to the surface, but a scorched earth attempt at pulverizing the formations and sucking up the juices. I was unable to visualize their process succeeding without the water tables being completely screwed, and I say that as somebody who has visually inspected well casing, and the explosives used for perforation. No expert, but I think I've got the basic concepts as they were explained to me by the well paid experts in attendance.
If you read some of the links, the doctors are always so incredulous because it really is so ridiculous to contaminate the water supply.
In oil & gas it's not the lack of engineering that kills us. It's the timetables and financial concerns imposed on the engineering and maintenance. Guess where that comes from? I believe my instincts about rampant greed and a complete disregard for their fellow man are correct in this case. BP in the Gulf happened precisely because the engineering was heavily influenced on how much money the executives could siphon out of the company. I think it's happening on land, which is much more difficult to track since you can't see it. In some cases you're deliberately prevented by law. Oil & Gas is that well protected.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday December 07 2014, @06:49AM
by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday December 07 2014, @06:49AM (#123411) Homepage
You forgot to include a TL;DR. Perhaps "Fracking is perfectly safe when done by true Scotsmen"?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Sunday December 07 2014, @07:36AM
No, sir. I did not. I did not present you an unreasoned fallacy. What I've presented you is:
1) Fracking is a technical process and well engineered.
2) There is considerable dissent about environmental concerns precluded by the engineering associated with fracking.
3) The concerns can be addressed by transparency and scientific explorations, but are precluded by law protecting corporate secrets.
My disclaimer was at the bottom where I said that I couldn't prove it. Therefore, at a minimum the No True Scotsman fallacy does not apply. I cannot illustrate or explain the counter example to a good fracking process, as it's wholly precluded by law as well as being nonsensical to every doctor and engineer asked. In fact, I think I strongly implied that it was a fallacy unless I could prove how their fracs are conducted. So in any case, your assertion of the fallacy is pointless. I addressed the issue, AFAICT, in a more or less direct and honest manner.
Additionally, you seem to be asking for proof that fracking is safe, as if it isn't that strongly supported by the science. Do you really need me to break down the whole process? I already did here before, you can search for it. In a way, I am asking for trust that fracs are safe. Why do I have any credibility? Fair question. I was really just enjoying the catering in the moments I wasn't listening to the engineers. However, all the doctors present in those articles are generally of the same mind and you might want to listen to them. What they say is that fracking can't really hurt anything, but that they couldn't make a statement of fact regarding anything else specific to certain formations or specific operations.
If you have any specific questions about the process, just ask.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday December 07 2014, @03:50PM
by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday December 07 2014, @03:50PM (#123485) Homepage
How does your "not fracking" differ from "not a true scotsman"?
How does your "Is what the oil & gas companies doing considered fracking in the technical sense?" "No. It isn't." differ from "Is it a true Scotsman?" "No. It isn't"?
It's hard to come up with a better match for the No True Scotsman fallacy.
If what people are doing in the real world is "not fracking", then no amount of proselytising about the safety of "true fracking" is relevant to the real world.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by edIII on Monday December 08 2014, @02:40AM
by edIII (791) on Monday December 08 2014, @02:40AM (#123632)
It differs because the latter represents a logical fallacy and an intent to use it in a debate willfully, and the former is me stating that the fallacy exists and attempting to address the issue.
The true Scotsman represents behavior in a debate and unwillingness to explore the truth by simply saying that it can't be what they are doing. In one sense it's a pedantic clinging to strictly defined terms, but in another it can be to dodge the debate itself.
I intended nothing of the sort, and did not do such thing in actuality.
Which is why I'm not slamming you, and in fact, I am even responding to you at all. You have a good point when you bring it up, but it does not apply IMHO. I am attempting to explain what a true frac is, what I believe is occurring when specific exploration companies use the term, and then what may be happening in general from my experience.
That is *absolutely* not true.
Back at Slashdot I was having a debate with a user there. My experience with fracking has always led me to support it, but after my conversations with this gentleman, I began to understand that the affected people are not lying. After that, it's just Occam's Razor. Which again, I know that I have to support. I thought I had with my statements about ROI and the actual physics involved. It was a productive conversation that gave me the impetus to really see what may be going on in these fracs instead of just making the assumption that they are correct. Nothing surprised me more than seeing documentation illustrating a continuous water fracking methodology where it was not a simple one-day operation.
The true Scotsman fallacy is purely an emergent property of the designed information asymmetry. I can't actually bring you to a fracking operation and show you anything. All of that is business data, and very well protected. I can explain what it means by definition, and walk you through an abstracted view of the process. I'm unable to do anything more unless we want to spend millions of dollars performing our own frac to demonstrate water table integrity being well maintained. The laws need to be changed to allow more transparency under the ground. I can honest to God perform some of the most gnarly fracking operations possible where we shake an o-ring lose on you out there. Even with that massive amounts of energy and fluid being slammed into the ground, there will be no damage to the water table.
Likewise, as I fully admitted from the start, I cannot prove my statements of the counterexample, the anti-frack. If I could prove them, the EPA would get busy assassinating these corporations in a fervor not seen since Prohibition. The anti-frack I was seeing on paper could not be reasonably stated to not have much in common. Not without almost every safety factor removed and what can only be described as a brutish attempt at forceful recovery that could only destroy formations. Not keep them intact.
Why is it relevant to the real world? So that when people discuss it, the idea is at least in the back of their heads that the information needs to be verified. Stop taking the fracking proponents word for it and demand transparent access to the operations. It's worthy to note that they might be lying to you.
It's frustrating not being able to prove anything, but even more frustrating that people don't simply block operations or protest until a civilian review board of petro engineers from Universities sign off on it with all the data public. Review isn't perfect by any means, but it sure makes it a lot harder to get away with stuff over long periods of time. Not something as big and noticeable as damaged water tables and aquifers that supply people water. This would have been already over if we had actual access to well data and operation logs. With 3D seismic, and operational logs showing casing integrity, I feel pretty confident we could clear it up on a well-by-well basis, all the way up to piping going to the refinery. Why can't we look?
I'm just one person, but I think it's important enough to say this. It's not an unreasoned fallacy to be demanding information symmetry when people are saying that their hair is catching on fire and corporations are saying that cream cheese can't be responsible. That's literally how ridiculous it is that a frack (according the entire purpose and designed engineering) can cause damage to anything beyond the specific designs of the frack. Well since people really are having their hair catch on fire, start freakin ask that they do what you want me to do, and actually start showing people that the cream cheese is really cream cheese instead of saying cream cheese is approved by the FDA.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday December 08 2014, @09:34AM
by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday December 08 2014, @09:34AM (#123685) Homepage
Thank you for your considered reply. For reference, I could easily be in a reversed role in this exchange had the topic been security related. I could show the scientific proofs of security of protocols until red in the face while the rest of the world was implementing them with bugs, information leakage, timing attacks, and shitty PRNGs. However, because of the latter, I wouldn't even bother with the former. If everyone's doing it wrong, then the theoretical perfection may as well not exist, most of the time.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:17PM
by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:17PM (#123465) Journal
Freudian slip? ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Fracking does pollute ground water (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @09:37PM
Just ask the folks who can now ignite what comes out of their faucets.
-- gewg_
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by dlb on Saturday December 06 2014, @11:12PM
by dlb (4790) on Saturday December 06 2014, @11:12PM (#123318)
Careful with those studies. I didn't look at the rest, but the University of Colorado study was done in a lab that Agilent Technologies, Inc. gave to them. Agilent has a history of donating to energy-friendly (read gas and oil friendly) institutions.
The study found that
...oil and gas companies also add a variety of other chemicals [to fracking fluids], including anti-bacterial agents, corrosion inhibitors and surfactants
The authors of the study compared fracking fluids to "substances commonly found in homes" such as "toothpaste to laxatives to detergent to ice cream", suggesting that it's fine to drink.
Yet the authors go on to state that not all fracking fluids were tested. Just some. And that not all fracking fluids are alike:
Individual well operators use unique fracking fluid mixtures that may be modified depending on the underlying geology.
And they admit
...antimicrobial biocides used in fracking fluids are [still] important to investigate and ameliorate.
We're left wondering whether antimicrobial biocides are all we need to "ameliorate":
because oil and gas companies have been reluctant to share exactly what's in their proprietary fluid mixtures, citing stiff competition within the industry.
The kicker for me is that the study stated
But water pollution from surfactants in fracking fluid may not be as big a concern as previously thought.
Meaning that up until their "study" nobody really knew. And even at that, notice the word "may" in the above quote?
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday December 06 2014, @09:49PM
by Thexalon (636) on Saturday December 06 2014, @09:49PM (#123301)
But of course NATO has a point.
What, exactly, is that point? If Putin opposes something, does that make it automatically not a bad thing?
For those who answer "Yes", to the second question, be aware that Putin opposes ISIS, because of its attempt to take over his ally Bashar al Assad's country.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:25AM
NATO has a point in that Putin may support the anti-fracking movement. That doesn't make that movement less relevant. It's just superpower chess play abusing plebs as they see fit.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:49AM
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:49AM (#123356)
"And it's not like Fracking is a GOOD thing."
Are you sure you haven't been influenced or brainwashed to believe this by Putin's propaganda?
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:34PM
by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:34PM (#123272)
I would be more inclined to believe the story that the Russians are behind it was planted to help drum up opposition to protests in the US. The story came out in the New York Times after all. Watch and see if Fox News and the right wing blog network pick it up. Middle America still fears the "commies".
Is there any significant communism left in Russia? ;-)
They seems to practice an even more raw version of captalism than USA.
The new fear is perhaps "islamists".
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @08:09PM
Is there any significant communism left in Russia?
There is probably no significant communism left in Russia, but there is still an irrational fear of it in conservatives in the US.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @08:11PM
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @08:11PM (#123533)
i never post but on this i should. i have been to Russia several times in teh past 24 months or so. I can tell you that capitalism is booming, people think Putin is a dick, but that he truly wants to better the country. But limiting technology imports hurts the Russians more than it hurts us. Communism is alive though, as it is in what used to be eastern Germany. And by that, I really mean communism has morphed into socialism whereby healthcare, retirement, holidays and pay, money for mothers and kids, etc are demanded.
I live in Germany and have for almost 12 years. I always laugh when my right wing father screams that Obama is destroying America and making it all socialist and blah blah blah. I try to explain that he should come over here more often and see what a true socialist country is like. Now, I am not advocating the German system for America and never would, but alittle bit would go a long way in America. And I dont believe it would be a bad thing.
So, to sum it all up, communism in its traditional form is dead in Russia. However communism/socialism is alive and well.
Re:Who has the strongest motivations? Re:Who has the strongest motivations? (Score: 3) by M. Baranczak on Saturday December 06 2014, @09:48PM
by M. Baranczak (1673) on Saturday December 06 2014, @09:48PM (#123300)
The Russians have managed to implement the worst qualities of both capitalism and communism.
Mobocrati?
Not even the greek thought of that I think ;-)
Give a description (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:37AM
What parts of Communism have been adopted in Russia?
The bottom-up part? Nope.
The everyone's-needs-are-met part? Nope.
Economically, Russia was NEVER Communist.
The Soviet Union wasn't either.
Before the latest name switch, it was an example of State Capitalism.
Now, it's just Crony Capitalism.
Before any of that, it was feudal.
As for government, Russia, the Soviet Union, and now Russia again has always been dominated by top-down totalitarians.
For Communism (again, a bottom-up system) to work, there has to be a functioning democracy.
"It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes." --Josef Stalin
That's the opposite of Communism.
fear of islam? no. not at all.
getting real tired of? yes. yes the world is getting real tired of islam and their antics.
as in "we're sick of your stupid shit. fuck off and die. or else."
nice to know... nice to know... (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:51PM
by Bot (3902) on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:51PM (#123277) Journal
...as long as we don't discover later that fracking companies pay Romanian officials :)
Account abandoned.
Re:nice to know... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:29AM
Can you just explain how could the politicians of the street with a single street light be relevant?
Interesting phrasing Interesting phrasing (Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday December 06 2014, @08:47PM
by HiThere (866) on Saturday December 06 2014, @08:47PM (#123291) Journal
I'm quite sure that Russia is supportive of European anti-fracking, whether actively or not. To believe that they initiated it is ... a bit over the top. I'd need to see evidence.
A lot of people are against fracking for a number of different reasons, some of which are reasonable, and some of which aren't. This without ANY involvement from Russia. But that's not proof that Russia didn't commit some overt act to facilitate some anti-fracking group's organization or effectiveness. It also isn't proof that they did. Saying that "Someone is financing them so it must be Russia!" is a bit propagandistic. (I wish I could think of a better term for that particular kind of illogic, but there's no evidence that "xenophobic" would be accurate.)
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Re:Interesting phrasing (Score: 2) by hoochiecoochieman on Sunday December 07 2014, @03:27PM
by hoochiecoochieman (4158) on Sunday December 07 2014, @03:27PM (#123479)
The guy is a compulsive liar, former-head of one of the biggest criminal organisations worldwide and has an agenda the size of Jupiter. Fuck him. I wouldn't believe a single word that comes out of his mouth even if he told me that water is wet.
This is just an attempt to tarnish the environmentalist movements, the same way that NATO labels liberation movements as "terrorists" and psychopathic mass murderers as "freedom fighters", and then the other way around, according to its extremely short-term agendas. They always need a bogeyman to scare the dumb masses into submission. The bogeyman of the day is Russia.
Russia is only tapping into preexisting discontent (Score: 2) by CRCulver on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:19AM
by CRCulver (4390) on Sunday December 07 2014, @12:19AM (#123328) Homepage
In Romania, the anti-fracking movement has to some degree evolved from the protests against the Rosia Montana gold mine, which grew from a local interest in one county to a nationwide concern, and one of the major passions of certain well-educated people under the age of 30 or so. Rosia Montana protestors readily saw the similarity between that gold mine's ability to contaminate waterways with cyanide and fracking's ability to pollute groundwater, and the consider protest infrastructure in place against Rosia Montata could be easily turned towards fracking. I have no doubt that Russia is doing what it can to tap into and amplify this discontent, but it sprung up among a certain Romanian demographic first.


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Mycoplasma pneumoniae is responsible for community-acquired respiratory tract infections, such as tracheobronchitis and pneumonia, particularly in school-aged children and young adults. These infections occur both endemically and epidemically at 3- to 7-year intervals worldwide. Numerous extra-respiratory manifestations of variable severity have also been associated with M. pneumoniae infections including dermatological manifestations and neurological complications.
Detection of M. pneumoniae infections is mainly achieved using molecular-based methods, especially real-time PCR, and serology. Several tests are commercially available. Culture is fastidious, time-consuming, and lacks sensitivity.
Antibiotics with potential activity against M. pneumoniae that are used in human clinical practice include macrolides, tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones. Macrolides represent the 1st-line antimicrobial treatment. Resistance through mutation was reported for in vitro-selected mutants for all these three classes of antibiotics whereas to date, resistance in clinical isolates was only reported for macrolides.
Macrolide resistance in the M. pneumoniae species, which harbors only one ribosomal operon, is defined by mutations in the ribosomal target of the antibiotic, mainly the 23S rRNA gene. The A2058G (Escherichia coli numbering) transition in the peptidyltransferase loop of domain V of 23S rRNA is the most common mutation that is associated with high-level resistance to macrolides. Other substitutions have been reported at position 2058 (A2058C, A2058T), at position 2059 (A2059G, A2059C), at position 2062 (A2062G) and at position 2611 (C2611G, C2611A).
Before 2000, M. pneumoniae infections were easily treated using macrolides because only rare cases of resistance to macrolides had been reported in clinical isolates. Since 2000, macrolide resistance rates have been rising up to 90-100% in Asia, hindering the efficacy of common antibiotic regimens. In North America, Europe and Australia, rates of macrolide resistance have usually remained below 10%. Several molecular methods applicable directly on respiratory specimens were developed to detect macrolide resistance and to circumvent the fastidious isolation of M. pneumoniae from clinical samples.
To date, no tetracycline or fluoroquinolone resistance has been reported in M. pneumoniae clinical isolates. However, because resistant strains have been selected in vitro for both classes of drugs, ongoing monitoring of antibiotic susceptibility of this human respiratory tract pathogen is necessary.
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At Starshine, we absolutely love connections of all kinds. Check out this video on forming connections in an art installation.
The connective tissue of our body has a similar structure to this artwork. Connective tissue, called fascia, has ten times more proprioceptors, the sensory organs that help us know where we are in space, than the number of proprioceptors found in muscle tissue.
Our bones float under tension in a web of fascia, and this is how we are able to stand upright. This force called "Tensegrity" is related to the work of Buckminster Fuller. Fascia is a matrix that carries data about tension from the motion of the body and external forces like gravity.
Fascia remodels itself based on forces from the environment, movement, and posture. This matrix also reacts to emotions like fear, love, or curiosity. Fascia can even act independent of and faster then the nervous system to keep us from falling when we misplace our foot when going down the stairs!
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Watch Selma (2014) online free full movie Putlocker and Download in HD quality. The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history. Watch movie online links are given below.


Another Period is a Downton Abbey-esque parody of Rhode Island's idle rich in the 1910's. It stars Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, produced by Ben Stiller's company Red Hour, and premieres on Comedy Central next week (June 23, 2015). It's a genuinely hilarious show. I wrote these tabloid headlines as part of our social media promo push.


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It's nothing new: whenever WordPress rolls out something, everybody jumps on it right away. And the Gutenberg editor is the most talked about topic in the WordPress community right now. Why not? Powering more than 28% of the web has put many to speculate what new writing experience WordPress plans to introduce.
It's nothing new: whenever WordPress rolls out something, everybody jumps on it right away. And the Gutenberg editor is the most talked about topic in the WordPress community right now. Why not? Powering more than 28% of the web has put many to speculate what new writing experience WordPress plans to introduce.
Gutenberg was announced early this year and grabbed a mixed response from the community. An obvious reason could be that people were not exactly aware of how Automattic plans to execute the project.
The most precise explanation which one could find was that not only will Gutenberg do away with the TinyMCE editor but will also replace a whole bunch of other modules — what we call as the blocks layout.
Now, if you ask a beginner or a non-tech junkie to respond, he'll probably fade away because the TinyMCE editor is the most familiarised face of WordPress. In short, it could be the end of WordPress as they can term it.
To help people understand and know more about the new Gutenberg editor, a beta version was made available as a plugin with a CTA of testing it and sharing your feedback.
Since its launch, Gutenberg caused quite a stir in the WordPress community. While considering it, a hot debate people started to brain dump their thoughts according to the best of their knowledge. However, nothing was more important than what Matt Mullenweg wrote by announcing the WordPress-React breakup.
This took the WP community by storm as well as a concern for several businesses/agencies which use React as their parent programming language. The news followed a massive response from the community and IMHO the most viral discussion forum was the Gutenberg's GitHub issue by Ahmad Awais.
It all came to peace when Facebook announced the relicensing of React under MIT license. So, Did WordPress Just Influence Facebook to Relicense React Under MIT License? Ahmad penned down his reasons for it. It's a nice write-up!
Even Matt was excited about the news and announced that 'now React could be an officially-supported option as well'.
Currently, it seems that WordPress Gutenberg is back on track allowing developers to write Gutenblocks in the library of their choice including React, Preact, Polymer, or Vue. Though the formal announcement is still not made. A lot is being discussed in Slack meetings, Facebook groups, Twitter polls, GitHub repo, etc. It is very important to be a part of this and being a WordPress user you should know where the Gutenberg is directed to.
Continues where is an interesting question which the entire WordPress community is looking forward to. To stay informed about "what's new in the Gutenberg?", you can be a part of the core development meetings.
It is scheduled on every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC in the #core channel on Slack. And as they say, anyone can join and participate or listen in!


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FDA pushes for stronger warnings on insomnia medicines
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it will now require stronger warnings about rare but serious incidents related to certain prescription insomnia medicines such as Lunesta (eszopiclone), Sonata (zaleplon) and Ambien (zolpidem).
The change comes after reports of rare but serious injuries and deaths resulting from various complex sleep behaviours after taking these medicines such as sleepwalking, sleep driving and engaging in other activities while not fully awake, such as unsafely using a stove.
The regulator reviewed as many as 66 cases reported to the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System or found in medical literature, in which patients engaged in activities while they were not fully awake that resulted in serious injuries or death. A further 46 reports of non-fatal serious injuries included accidental overdoses, falls, burns, near-drowning, exposure to extreme cold temperatures leading to loss of limb or near death, self-injuries such as gunshot wounds and apparent suicide attempts.
"We recognise that millions of Americans suffer from insomnia and rely on these drugs to help them sleep better at night. While these incidents are rare, they are serious and it's important that patients and health care professionals are aware of the risk. These incidents can occur after the first dose of these sleep medicines or after a longer period of treatment, and can occur in patients without any history of these behaviours and even at the lowest recommended doses," said FDA acting commissioner Ned Sharpless.
"Today's action is an important step in our ongoing effort to call more attention to these critical safety issues and serves as an example of our ongoing commitment to ensuring that patients and health care professionals have the information they need to make informed treatment decisions."
As a requirement of the new approval, insomnia medicines must be dispensed with a patient medication guide that explains the medicine's uses and risks.
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Affinity groups consist of people who share similarities and interests. Affinity Groups meet several times throughout the year. Opportunities for networking are included in all meetings. These Affinity Groups are open only to family-owned business members except for the Woman in Family Business which is open to all and the open Next Gen program that happens once a year.
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Peer advisory groups are small, confidential discussion groups of about 8-10 members that meet regularly and are facilitated by Next Generation Career Coach Janet Cole Cross, owner of Cole Cross Connections, LLC. The group allows individuals to share experiences and learn from each other in a safe and open environment. These groups are for those actively working in a family business or who are interested in joining the family business, are IFOB members and in non-competing businesses. Ideally, only one member of a family will be in each peer group.
Members explore family business subjects of mutual interest, provide accountability and feedback, define issues of importance for each member, and discuss what to do (and not to do) in day-to-day interactions among family, owners, employees, and board members in order to make family leadership a competitive advantage.
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When meta-analyzing proportions, it is usually advantageous to first transform the proportions into a measure that has better statistical properties (i.e., a sampling distribution that is closer to a normal distribution and whose sampling variance can be better approximated). An often recommended transformation in this context is the logit transformation (i.e., the log odds). While the sampling distribution of a logit transformed proportion is indeed better approximated by a normal distribution, the equation used to compute the corresponding sampling variance can still be quite inaccurate, especially when sample sizes are small. A transformation that works particularly well for normalizing and variance-stabilizing the sampling distribution of proportions is the Freeman-Tukey (double arcsine) transformation (Freeman & Tukey, 1950). The corresponding back-transformation equation was derived by Miller (1978).
The yi values are the Freeman-Tukey (double arcsine) transformed proportions, while the vi values are the corresponding sampling variances.
Note that one can find two different definitions of the Freeman-Tukey transformation in the literature that differ only by the multiplicative constant $1/2$. The escalc() function includes the multiplicative constant $1/2$, while Miller (1978) leaves this out. Therefore, the transformed values given in the table by Miller are twice as large as the ones given above. Whether one includes the multiplicative constant or not is irrelevant, as long as one uses the correct equation for the sampling variance. For more details, see the question How is the Freeman-Tukey transformation of proportions and incidence rates computed? under the FAQ section.
Those are indeed the individual proportions. Note that, due to the nature of the Freeman-Tukey transformation, the back-transformation requires information about the sample sizes of the individual studies. The relevance of this will become apparent in a moment.
Therefore, the estimated true proportion based on the 4 studies is $.32$ (with 95% CI: $.18$ to $.47$).
Again, the value reported by Miller is twice as large.
Therefore, the estimated true proportion is now equal to $.36$ (with 95% CI: $.23$ to $.50$).
For both studies, we obtain a finite transformed value with a non-zero sampling variance. Note the use of add=0 to explicitly 'switch off' the default behavior of adding 1/2 to the data.
A proportion equal to 0 and a proportion equal to 1 were throw in here for good measure (pun intended).
then the resulting forest plot also uses the harmonic mean of the sample sizes for the back-transformation of the individual transformed proportions, which is not correct (resulting forest plot not shown).
The resulting figure then looks like this: Now the estimated average and the results from the individual studies are correctly back-transformed.
Freeman, M. F., & Tukey, J. W. (1950). Transformations related to the angular and the square root. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 21(4), 607–611.
Miller, J. J. (1978). The inverse of the Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformation. American Statistician, 32(4), 138.
Note that the vi and sei values are still the sampling variances and standard errors of the transformed proportions.


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Coal in India has been mined since 1774, and India is the second largest producer and consumer of coal after China, mining  in FY 2022. Around 30% of coal is imported. Due to high demand and poor average quality, India imports coking coal to meet the requirements of its steel plants. Dhanbad, the largest coal producing city, has been called the coal capital of India. State-owned Coal India had a monopoly on coal mining between its nationalisation in 1973 and 2018.

Most of the coal is burned to generate electricity and most electricity is generated by coal, but coal-fired power plants have been criticised for breaking environmental laws. The health and environmental impact of the coal industry is serious, and phasing out coal would have short-term health and environmental benefits greatly exceeding the costs. Electricity from new solar farms in India is cheaper than that generated by the country's existing coal plants.

History

The Indira Gandhi administration nationalized coal mining in phases – coking coal mines in 1971–72 and non-coking coal mines in 1973. With the enactment of the Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1973, all coal mines in India were nationalized in May 1973. This policy was reversed by the Narendra Modi administration four decades later. In March 2015, the government permitted private companies to mine coal for use in their own cement, steel, power or aluminium plants. The Coking Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1972 and the Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1973 were repealed in January 2018. In the final step toward denationalization, in February 2018, the government permitted private firms to enter the commercial coal mining industry. Under the new policy, mines were auctioned to the firm offering the highest per tonne price. The move broke the monopoly over commercial mining that state-owned Coal India had enjoyed since nationalisation in 1973.

Pre-independence

Commercial exploitation of coal in India began in 1774 with John Sumner and Suetonius Grant Heatly of the East India Company in the Raniganj Coalfield along the Western bank of Damodar River. The growth of Indian coal mining remained slow for nearly a century due to low demand. The introduction of steam locomotives increased coal production to an annual average of 1 million metric tons (1.1 million short tons) in 1853. By 1900, India produced 6.12 million metric tons (6.75 million short tons) of coal per year; by 1920, it produced 18 million metric tons (20 million short tons). During the First World War, coal production received a boost due to increased demand, but declined again in the early 1930s. Production reached a level of  by 1942 and  by 1946.

In the regions of British India known as Bengal, Bihar and Odisha, the many Indians pioneered Indian involvement in coal mining from 1894. They broke the previous monopolies held by British and other Europeans, establishing many collieries at locations such as Khas Jharia, Jamadoba, Balihari, Tisra, Katrasgarh, Kailudih, Kusunda, Govindpur, Sijua, Sijhua, Loyabad, Dhansar, Bhuli, Bermo, Mugma, Chasnala-Bokaro, Bugatdih, Putki, Chirkunda, Bhowrah, Sinidih, Kendwadih, and Dumka.

Seth Khora Ramji Chawda of Kutch was the first Indian to break the British monopoly in the Jharia Coalfields. Natwarlal Devram Jethwa says that Other Indian communities followed the example of the him in the Dhanbad-Jharia-Bokaro fields after the 1930s. These included the Punjabis, Kutchis, Marwaris, Gujaratis, Bengalis and Hindustanis.

Post-independence

Following independence, the Government of India introduced several 5-year development plans. Annual production rose to  at the beginning of the First Five Year Plan. The National Coal Development Corporation (NCDC), a Government of India Undertaking, was established in 1956 with the collieries owned by the railways. The NCDC aimed to increase coal production efficiently by systematic and scientific development of the coal industry. The Singareni Collieries Company Ltd. (SCCL) which was already in operation since 1945 and which became a Government company under the control of Government of Andhra Pradesh in 1956. The coal industry in India was thus controlled by state-owned companies in the 1950s. Today, SCCL is a joint undertaking of Government of Telangana and Government of India sharing its equity in 51:49 ratio.

Nationalisation of coal mines

Right from its genesis, the commercial coal mining in modern times in India has been dictated by the needs of the domestic consumption. India has abundant domestic reserves of coal. Most of these are in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh. On account of the growing needs of the steel industry, a thrust had to be given on systematic exploitation of coking coal reserves in Jharia coalfield. Adequate capital investment to meet the burgeoning energy needs of the country was not forthcoming from the private coal mine owners.

Unscientific mining practices adopted by some of them and poor working conditions of labor in some of the private coal mines became matters of concern for the Government. On account of these reasons, the Central Government took a decision to nationalize the private coal mines. The nationalization was done in two phases, the first with the coking coal mines in 1971–72 and then with the non-coking coal mines in 1973. In October 1971, the Coking Coal Mines (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1971 provided for taking over in public interest of the management of coking coal mines and coke oven plants pending nationalization. This was followed by the Coking Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1972 under which the coking coal mines and the coke oven plants other than those with the Tata Iron & Steel Company Limited and Indian Iron & Steel Company Limited, were nationalized on 1 May 1972 and brought under the Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), a new Central Government Undertaking. Another enactment, namely the Coal Mines (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1973, extended the right of the Government of India to take over the management of the coking and non-coking coal mines in seven States including the coking coal mines taken over in 1971. This was followed by the nationalization of all these mines on 1 May 1973 with the enactment of the Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1973 which determined the eligibility of coal mining in India.

All non-coking coal mines were nationalized in 1973 and placed under Coal Mines Authority of India. In 1975, Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India Limited, was formed. It took over all the earlier private collieries in Raniganj Coalfield. Raniganj Coalfield covers an area of  and has total coal reserves of . Eastern Coalfields puts the reserves at  which makes it the second largest coalfield in the country (in terms of reserves).

The North East Indian states enjoys special privileges under constitution of India. The Sixth Schedule of constitution and article 371 of constitution allows state governments to formulate its own policy to recognize customary tribal laws. For example, Nagaland has its own coal policy which allows its natives to mine coal from their respective lands. Similarly, coal mining in Meghalaya was rampant till imposition of ban on coal mining by National Green Tribunal. The Nagaland Coal and Meghalaya Coal has large buyers in North India, Central India and Eastern India.

Denationalisation of coal mines
Parliament enacted the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015 in March 2015 containing provisions enabling the government to allocate coal mines through auctions. The law also permitted private players to mine coal for use in their own cement, steel, power or aluminium plants. On 20 February 2018, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) permitted private firms to enter the commercial coal mining industry in India. Under the new policy, mines will be auctioned to the firm offering the highest per tonne price. The move broke the monopoly over commercial mining that state-owned Coal India has enjoyed since nationalisation in 1973.

The Coking Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1972 and the Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1973 were repealed by the Repealing and Amending (Second) Act, 2017 on 8 January 2018.

Reserves

India has the fourth largest coal reserves in the world. , India had  of the resource. The total reserves of coal rose 2.36% over the previous year, with the discovery of an estimated . About half of India's coal reserves are proven, 42% are indicated/probable, and 8% are inferred. Coal deposits are primarily found in eastern and south-central India. Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh accounted for almost 70% of the total known coal reserves in India.

The estimated total reserves of lignite coal  were , remaining unchanged from the previous year. The largest lignite reserves are present in Tamil Nadu. Only about 16% of India's lignite reserves are proven, 56% are indicated/probable, and 28% are inferred.

The energy derived from coal in India is about twice that of the energy derived from oil, whereas worldwide, energy derived from coal is about 30% less than energy derived from oil.

Distribution of coal reserves by states

The following table shows the estimated coal reserves in India by state as of 1 April 2021.

Distribution of lignite reserves by states
The following table shows the estimated lignite reserves in India by state as of 1 April 2021.

Production

India is the second largest producer of coal in the world, after China. The production of coal was  in 2020–21, a decline of 2.02% over the previous year primarily due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The production of lignite was  in 2020–21, a decrease of 13.04% over the previous fiscal. Production of coal grew by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.19%, and production of lignite declined by a CAGR of 1.60% over the last 10 years. Coal mining is one of India's most dangerous jobs.

India targets to increase its coal production to  by 2023-24.

Washing
Coal washing is an integral part of the coal production process in which raw coal from mines is washed to remove the ash content to make it fit for feeding into boilers such as those in steel plants. Coal washeries are generally not a part of coal mines in India, with some exceptions.

There were 60 coal washeries (19 coking and 41 non-coking) in India as on 31 March 2021 with a total installed capacity of 138.58 million tonnes per year, of which 108.60 million tonnes are non-coking and 29.98 million tonnes are coking coal washeries.

Consumption

India is one of the largest consumers of coal in the world. The country consumed  of coal in 2020–21, of which 79.03% was produced domestically. Coal consumption grew at a compound annual growth rate of 3.96% over the previous decade. Due to high demand and poor average quality, India is forced to import high quality coal to meet the requirements of steel plants. India imported  and exported  of coal in 2020-21. Net imports of coal declined by 13.39% over the previous fiscal. India's net imports of coal grew at a compound annual growth rate of 8.62% over the last 10 years. India is the second largest coal importer in the world, after China.

The electricity sector is the largest consumer of raw coal in India and accounted for 64.07% of the total coal consumed in the country in 2020-21. Other significant consumers include the steel and washery industry (6.65%), the sponge iron industry (1.06%), the cement industry (0.75%), and fertilizers and chemicals (0.19%).

Consumption of lignite stood at  in 2020–21. Electricity generation alone accounts for 84.46% of the total lignite consumption. Other significant consumers include the paper industry (5.55%), the cement industry (2.18%) and the textile industry (2.01%). Lignite consumption declined at a compound annual growth rate of 1.30% over the previous decade.

Electricity generation

Coal generated over 73% of electricity produced in 2020–21, while lignite accounted for 3.6% of electricity generation. India's electricity sector consumed over 70% of the coal produced in the country in 2013. In 2020 think tank Carbon Tracker estimated that 17% of coal-fired plants were already more expensive than new renewables and that 85% would be by 2025. It has been suggested that no new coal plants are needed, but that existing plants could be retrofitted to operate more flexibly together with wind and solar.

A large part of Indian coal reserve is similar to Gondwana coal. It is of low calorific value and high ash content. The carbon content is low in India's coal, and toxic trace element concentrations are negligible. The natural fuel value of Indian coal is poor. On average, the Indian power plants using India's coal supply consume about 0.7 kg of coal to generate a kWh, whereas United States thermal power plants consume about 0.45 kg of coal per kWh. This is because of the difference in the quality of the coal, as measured by the Gross Calorific Value (GCV). On average, Indian coal has a GCV of about 4500 Kcal/kg, whereas the quality in most other countries is much better; for example, in Australia, the GCV is 6500 Kcal/kg approximately.

Health effects

The health and environmental impact of the coal industry is serious in India. One study found that 90% of households surveyed in a village near a coal mine reported health problems in the last year, compared to 52% of households from villages at least  away from a mine. Additionally, the villages closest to the mine had the greatest incidence of self-reported health problems. Health effects of coal ash are also a problem. Air pollution from coal-fired power plants is linked with asthma, cancer, heart and lung ailments, neurological problems, acid rain, global warming, and other severe environmental and public health impacts.

Environmental effects

In 2020 UN secretary general António Guterres said that India should stop building coal-fired power stations before the end of the year and end fossil fuel subsidies. According to BloombergNEF excluding subsidies the levelized cost of electricity from new large-scale solar power has been below existing coal-fired power stations since 2021.

Coal mafia
The state-owned coal mines of Bihar (now Jharkhand after the division of Bihar state) were among the first areas in India to see the emergence of a sophisticated mafia, beginning with the mining town of Dhanbad. It is alleged that the coal industry's trade union leadership forms the upper echelon of this arrangement and employs caste allegiances to maintain its power. Pilferage and sale of coal on the black market, inflated or fictitious supply expenses, falsified worker contracts and the expropriation and leasing-out of government land have allegedly become routine. A parallel economy has developed with a significant fraction of the local population employed by the mafia in manually transporting the stolen coal for long distances over unpaved roads to illegal mafia warehouses and points of sale.

The coal mafia has had a negative effect on Indian industry, with coal supplies and quality varying erratically. Higher-quality coal is sometimes selectively diverted, and missing coal is replaced with stones and boulders in railway cargo wagons. A human corpse has been discovered in a sealed coal wagon.

Just transition away from coal

Planning a just transition is important because many poor people rely on coal.

See also
 Ministry of Coal
 Indian Coal Allocation Scam
 1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster
 Mining scams in India
 Carr, Tagore and Company

References

Further reading
 Adjusting to transition Brookings Institution

External links
 Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air

Coal mining


Today I took Pella to watch the sunset at the beach! it was beautiful, and even though she didnt really "know" or could "appreciate" the beauty, it was a special time for her and I. I found joy in watching her touch the sand and squeeze it. I laughed watching her kick her feet and look back at me to see my reaction. Shes been having a ROUGH couple night with teething, waking every couple hours, whining and needing me...so I figured maybe being in a relaxed setting would help ease her "wildness" a tad! lol Tonight was the first night in 3 nights of her taking a bottle without a fight and letting me lay her down in her crib! I hope the night is more restful for her, we are BOTH EXHAUSTED!
I miss California so much! Ugh, screw AZ!
i love these pictures :] hope peej feels better soon.
The pics of the hands and feet are SO sweet.


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March 13, 2022 Ash Routen Adventure Travel
Hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Photo: Shutterstock
When we're not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Sometimes we're a little too plugged in and browsing adventure reads can turn from minutes to hours. To nourish your own adventure fix, here are some of the best adventure links we've discovered this week.
Alone on the Ice: In 2015, German explorer Martin Szwed claimed to have shattered the speed record for a solo ski to the South Pole. He revealed no GPS data, no photos — no proof whatsoever that he even attempted the journey. As polar guide Eric Larsen reminds readers in this story, ExWeb investigated at the time and concluded that Szwed was just another of many polar hoaxsters. On his return from the icy continent, Szwed lost his house, job, and sponsors and was the subject of two investigations by the German government.
Murder on the Appalachian Trail: Over three decades ago, a grisly double homicide on America's most famous hiking route shocked the nation and forever changed our ideas about crime, violence, and safety in the outdoors.
Treasure hunt meets manhunt
A Deadly Hunt for Hidden Treasure Spawns an Online Mystery: An epic riddle. An eccentric storyteller. A missing person. When a man vanishes in the wilderness, his family takes to the internet to find him.
Huaorani Indians in the Yasuni National Park. Photo: Shutterstock
Ecuador: The Hothouse Heart of The Jungle: Stepping into Yasuni National Park isn't a toe-dip into the wilderness. It's a full-on dive into the rainforest, where the air is heavy with the scent of wet leaves, and the darkness of night tightens around you like the coils of a python.
Exploring the temples and traditions of Chiapas, Mexico's Maya heartland: Whether lost in a bat-filled underground labyrinth or caught up in an unexpected sacrificial ritual, you can feel the hand of the Maya on your shoulder in Chiapas, southeast Mexico.
Rebecca Coriam: Lost at Sea: When Rebecca Coriam vanished from the Disney Wonder in March 2011, hers became one of the 171 mysterious cruise ship disappearances in the past decade. So what happened? Jon Ronson booked himself a cabin to find out…
Life on an Arctic oil rig
An offshore rig in the Arctic. Photo: Shutterstock
Empire of Ice: On a $500 million man-made island in the frozen Arctic Ocean, just off the coast of a vast, uninhabitable tundra known as Alaska's North Slope, a pipeline begins. In temperatures that hover around -45˚C, in perpetual darkness, a tight-knit band of roughnecks spends 12 hours a day, seven days a week, drilling down, down into the earth and pulling up precious crude. If you want to know how badly we need oil, here is your answer.
Finally Seeing the Forest For The Trees: After a spate of trauma and loss, Maura Kelly, who grew up in suburban New Jersey, retreats to the Hudson Valley where she is converted into a "nature person".
Two Months, Ten 6,000m Peaks In The Andes
In less than two months, a pair of European...


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František Stránský (20. září 1869 Zadní Ždírnice – 22. prosince 1901 Královské Vinohrady) byl český akademický sochař.

Život
František Stránský se narodil v obci Zadní Ždírnici na  Trutnovsku do rodiny hostinského Ignáce Stránského a jeho ženy Marie, rozená Poláčkové. Záhy opustil své rodiště a zamířil do Prahy, kde studoval na Uměleckoprůmyslové škole u prof. Josefa Václava Myslbeka.

Již před rokem 1891 vytvořil svojí významnější dílo Tanec.

V letech 1897-1900 byl členem Spolku výtvarných umělců Mánes.

V prvním červnovém dni roku 1896 se oženil s Olgou Absolonovou a později měli spolu syna Antonína a dceru Drahomíru (1899–1964), která byla etnoložkou a působila v Národopisném oddělení Národního muzea, v Náprstkově muzeu a vyučovala na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy.

Sochař František Stránský strávil většinu svého aktivního života na Královských Vinohradech, kde měl v v Blanické ulici 8, čp. 750 svůj atelier, kde pracoval až do své smrti.

Výstavy

Kolektivní
 1895 Umělecká beseda: 7. vánoční výstava, Topičův salon, Praha
 2016 Neklidná figura: Exprese v českém sochařství 1880-1914 / The Restless Figure: Expression in Czech Sculpture 1880-1914, Městská knihovna Praha, Praha

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 1936 Kulturní adresář ČSR (Biografický slovník žijících kulturních pracovníků a pracovnic)
 1993 Nový slovník československých výtvarných umělců (II. díl; L - Ž), Výtvarné centrum Chagall, Ostrava

Externí odkazy

 Encyklopedie Prahy I2, František Stránský
 BSČZ, Biografický slovník, František Stránský 20.9.1869-22.12.1901

Čeští sochaři
Narození v roce 1869
Narození 20. září
Úmrtí v roce 1901
Úmrtí 22. prosince
Úmrtí na Vinohradech
Pohřbení na Vinohradském hřbitově
Muži


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Ramón Allones Phoenicio 40 Humidor Series Hits the Market
October 6, 2021 Alexandre Avellar
One of the most anticipated cigars of the Habanos Regional Edition series, the Ramón Allones Phoenicio 40 Exclusivo Líbano (165 x 21.4 | 6 ½ x 54), finally hits the market with a limited series of humidors.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Phoenicia Trading, the company released five limited lines and a numbered series of humidors containing 40 cigars each and accompanied by a matching ashtray and lighter set. They are designed by master craftsman Jean-Philippe Martin, who designed the previous Cohiba 50 and Cohiba Behike 40 anniversary humidors, and are produced by one of the most coveted humidor and accessory producers in the world, Elie Bleu of France.
Of the five lines, four have a production of 100 humidors each and are called Phoenicians, Mediterranean, Volutes, and Horizon. The series are being sold at the La Casa del Habano in the duty-free area at the Beirut international airport at the current price of USD 24,000. Around 300 of the 400 pieces were already sold when they were first released.
The fifth humidor line is even more limited. The Journey humidor set is around USD 45,000 and La Casa del Habano have already sold all 40 units produced.
"The Ramón Allones brand has always been linked to Phoenicia, with all our previous anniversary regional editions having been produced under the brand," says Walid Saleh, CEO of Phoenicia Trading. "So based on our experience, especially with the previous Phoenicio 30 that was received with great success, we realize that these new, limited humidors will definitely reach sky-high retail values."
The special releases of Habanos and their distributors are getting a lot attention from the collectors' market, and usually the prices go far above the original sales value. Shops and La Casas del Habano in Dubai, Kuwait, Greece, Italy and Honk Kong have already bought some of the sets, and the prices should increase because the availability is becoming more limited.
For customers that do not have the budget to afford these limited humidors, the Phoenicio 40 Exclusivo Líbano will also be sold in boxes of 10 and 20 units. The boxes are expected to hit the shelves by the end of the year.
Alexandre Avellar
Alexandre Avellar is considered Brazil's main reference in cigars. In 2010 he founded the Conexão Tabaco/Tudo Sobre Charuto, the country's #1 cigar news website. He also writes for many cigar publications around the world. He has been nominated to the Habanos S.A. the Hombre Habano del Año (Habanos Man of the Year) trophy for Communications in the 15th and 16th Habanos Festival. He travels around the world covering the main events and promoting the culture of smoking cigars.
Phoenicia Celebrates its 40th Anniversary with Habanos releases
Cyprus, Lebanon and Dubai hosted their preliminaries for the HWC


I will never be a hipster. Lord knows, I would love to be the adorable hipster girl constantly surrounded by a cornucopia of old (sorry, vintage) knickity knacks of equal parts irony and instagramability.
I used to exist under the disillusion that I had untapped hipster potential, but I've accepted that I don't. There's a fairy that glides over South Williamsburg tucking all the hipsters into bed and bestowing magical ideas upon them. That fairy is unfamiliar with the Central Jersey area. I write this for the purpose of telling all those who are like me, that's it is okay. You do you, YOLO, be your own person. Hopefully the Hipster Illuminati will not off me for authoring this article of insurgence.
What follows is an enumerated recounting of my failed experiences desperately trying to join the church of hipsterism.
I go to Urban Outfitters, the natural habitat of the hipster. I can't say I SHOP at Urban Outfitters, but I go. I only understand approximately 50-53% of their merchandise… Why overall shorts? Furthermore, why overall shorts for $98? Why am I to pay such a premium for clothing I was once mocked mercilessly for wearing as a young homeschooled child?
Anything I like, I like unironically. I watch the Golden Girls, because the Golden Girls are amazing and they inspire me to someday kill off my three best friend's husbands so we can all live together and share clothes. I do not mockingly scoff at Justin Bieber for sport, I don't care about Justin Bieber, so I don't bring up Justin Bieber.
It's exhausting to not only know all the music, but to know it before all the other people. The second I'm patting myself on the back for getting on board with Bon Iver, it's all like "Bon Iver? Nah, we are going to the Disco Biscuits", and I gotta be like "Ohh yeah the Disco Biscuits… I'm so totally already over them that I don't even want you to ask me to name one of their songs." Then I resume listening to Coldplay, because Strawberry Swing is my jam and ain't nobody got time for all this.
None of my foods are worth instagramming, not that that has ever stopped me. I really enjoy string cheese and Campbell's classic chicken noodle soup.
I care. There is little to nothing that I'm indifferent about, I can rant on any given topic for 15-24 minutes. This can be exhausting. My ulcers are not hipster.
I could get on board with this if thrift shops emailed me weekly 15 "must haves" that I could just clickity click into an online shopping bag and have delivered to my doorstep, preferably with free shipping. I'm not a shopper by nature, I have a hunt and gather mentality… I need a sweater, so I buy a sweater. I have no urge to spend my weekends getting all hot and bothered over telephones that look like telephones.
My perception of tea is as follows: acquire leaves, do something called "steeping". We can stop right there. I don't drink anything that "steeps", because that sounds an awful lot like "seep" …as in, "Guys, my wound is currently seeping crusty puss". What I do appreciate about tea is that I may also find myself in a position to also receive an accompanying scone. Scones I do like. I'm pro-Reaganomics and pro-scones.
I don't enjoy cats, or pictures of your cat, or even cat memes. I generally tell people I'm allergic to cats to avoid obligation to awkwardly attempt to forge a relationship with your cat. Added bonus: when he jumps on me you will promptly remove him and apologize, which is the reaction I'm looking for regardless of nonexistent allergies.
Where do hipsters get the money for this?! I have a 401k and I still cannot afford to spend $6 on strawberries. Us poor folk can only afford to ingest the pesticides. Is that why my pores don't glow? I will have to accept this.
I'm convinced in about 5 years half the hipsters of 'merica will be impotent. I specifically take issue with Fixie bikes. When I am going too fast I panic, and I try to stop. The stopping will not happen because I don't instinctually try and stop my speeding bike with my hands. I don't care if gears are for conformists. GIVE ME GEARS OR GIVE ME DEATH. Better yet, give me a gel seat and send me on my way to SoulCycle. It's a party in there, and I can afford it with all the money I save by subsiding exclusively on non-organic produce and Polly-O.
The majority of my happy hipster friends are now living in places called "Southern southwest Williamsburg" "Bushwick" and "HARLEM". They tell me, "Oh, it's much better here now". Good. I'm glad for you that it's much better there now. Unfortunately, I cannot be your roommate because I tend to make eye contact with almost everyone I pass on the street and I fear for my life when it isn't even in any remote danger. I live in a suburb that is shamelessly suburban and I will still look behind me as I run up a dark flight of stairs with my shih tzu. I will send you Merry Christmas cards from my home.
You can read more from Jessica Beckett on her blog.


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Thunderbird Aquatic Club Head Coach/Youth Aquatic Manager
Level of Commitment Full Time
Position Type Head Coach
Level of Team Club
Minimum salary $42000
Maximum salary $50000
Location 1603 22nd Street, Anacortes, WA, USA
Fidalgo Pool and Fitness Center
We are located in Anacortes, WA, a city of 16,000 situated on Fidalgo Island, which is connected to the mainland via state highway. We offer scenic views, a pristine environment, great schools, over fifty miles of maintained forest trails, fishing, kayaking, and whale watching, as well as easy proximity to a variety of cultural destinations—Seattle is ninety minutes to the south; Vancouver, BC a similar distance to the north. We are the terminus for the San Juan ferry system year-around and the Victoria ferry in the summer. Our summers: 75 degrees, no humidity, no bugs. Our winters: mid-40s, traces of snow, with sun breaks. Average annual rainfall is 26 inches. Put simply, Anacortes is a beautiful spot to lay down roots.
FPFC is managed by a Parks & Recreation District, a taxing authority created in 1975 under WA state law. We offer the public a 280,000-gallon 25Y x 25M "T" competition pool, six lanes with a dive tank. In addition to swim lessons, recreation- and lap-swimming, we also host several high school teams, as well as an in-house USA swim program—Thunderbird Athletic Club ("TAC"). TAC has been in existence since 1978 and is currently at its historic height with 120 active swimmers, ranging in age from six to eighteen. TAC hosts four home meets per year and participates in many more. The program is well-managed, with enthusiastic support from parents, an active booster club and pool management. Our head coach, who has been with us for the past seven years, will be departing to begin coaching a university-level program mid-summer.
We seek an experienced head coach who can help take the program to a new level. The ideal candidate will exhibit years of proven performance, with a proven ability to inspire young swimmers and help them reach their goals, coordinate training schedules, work collaboratively with supporters and other programs, and oversee an active summer program, as well as a number of annual team events. A team-player and self-starter, our new coach will actively encourage and positively reinforce paths to success. The position works closely with the TAC board of directors, while reporting directly to the FPFC Executive Director.
History of the Pool
Fidalgo pool was a long time in the making and took many years to get funded and built. It all began with the "Luvera plan," named for Paul Luvera Sr., who was considered a visionary for the community pool. His persistence in generating community support brought the swimming pool from an idea to a reality.
In January 1972, over 100 people attended the Anacortes pool town meeting. By the time the meeting was over a 14-member steering committee was elected to take the plan from a petition to an election. The pool levy actually failed in Anacortes at four different elections, but in November 1975 the pool was built and the doors were opened.
The thunderbird totem pole on the wall in the main entry of the building was carved and donated by Paul Luvera, my grandfather. He also carved the thunderbird trophy awarded every year at the swim team banquet. He was the most positive, hard working man I have ever known and he would be incredibly proud of the TAC swimmers accomplishments over the years at Fidalgo pool. This pool is one of his many achievements in his life.
Susan Luvera-Chiabai
Mission/Objectives/Expectations/Philosophy
Care, Commit, Be the Best
Build the base
We seek to expand our membership in order to share our sport with as many other people as possible. We are especially committed to sharing the values of our sport with young people who may discover that swimming is an activity they can enjoy for their entire life. Parents looking in from the outside should see a positive environment and want to join our program.
Promote the sport
We want swimming to receive as much publicity as possible because we believe that the more people learn about our sport the more inclined they will be to join the ranks of our membership. We are proud of our sport and we seek to celebrate it whenever possible.
Achieve competitive success
TAC has a history of fast swimming and we wish to continue and surpass that success. When our elite athletes are successful in fulfilling their goals other young swimmers will be inspired to raise their sights a little higher and push themselves to even greater success. To achieve this we will ask a lot from our swimmers and expect them to make that sacrifice to succeed.
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Applications due 07/03/18
Location: 1603 22nd Street, Anacortes, WA, USA
Thunderbird Athletic Club ("TAC") has an immediate opening for an experienced, dynamic, highly-skilled and energetic Head Coach.
Title: TAC Head Coach
Reports To: Fidalgo Pool & Fitness Center ("FPFC") Executive Director
Position Status: Full-time – Exempt
Please check out these links for additional information on Anacortes:
https://anacortes.org/
https://www.anacorteswa.gov/
Info on Anacortes Schools:
www.asd103.org/
Info on Fidalgo Pool & Fitness Center:
www.fidalgopool.com/
About TAC:
TAC is seeking a dynamic, motivated, highly-skilled Head Coach for its year-around competitive swim program.
We are seeking an ASCA level 3 or higher Head Coach for our competitive swim team, but may consider the right candidate with a lower ranking. TAC is a USA swimming affiliated team with a 40-year history. We currently have 120 swimmers in five progressive training groups: Bronze, Silver, Gold, & Senior A/B that train year-around with a staff of four certified coaches. These groups are designed to provide athletes with a fun team atmosphere where swimmers of similar ability and commitment practice together—utilizing both pool and dry-land conditioning–and TEAM is emphasized in a competitive setting.
TAC has swimmers from beginning age groups to ranked athletes and relays. Many of our graduates have gone onto successful intercollegiate careers at top-ranked universities. TAC is a nonprofit 501(c) organization under the direction of a volunteer parent-run Board of Directors elected annually by membership.
Establish an environment that fosters positive team attitudes and encourages discipline, sportsmanship and responsibility.
Develop and maintain plans for the progression of our age-group program, utilizing innovative techniques that drive success, improvement and promotion.
Develop and implement team and individual goals with the swimmers and the Board of Directors, monitoring the progress of these athletes and team relative to these goals.
Design appropriate swimming and dryland curricula for all TAC roster levels to promote stroke development and physical conditioning, relative to maturity levels, while maintaining an appropriate level of challenge necessary to produce improvement in speed, fitness and progression to the next team roster level.
Provide social/emotional support for athletes and differentiated programming to meet each athlete's needs.
Demonstrate a cooperative, responsive and respectful communication style with swimmers, parents, community members, staff and the Board.
Effectively supervise and delegate responsibilities to assistant coaches—practices and meets.
Through Team Unify software applications, ensure that club fees are collected on a timely and accurate basis from all enrolled swimmers and their families.
Practice continuous improvement and professional development.
Oversee all aspects of daily club operation in support of swimmers, membership and team mission and values. Strong organizational skills are a must.
Prepare and present monthly Coaching report at Board meetings.
Conduct frequent staff meetings with assistant coaches.
Communicate with other teams and with PNS regarding meet participation and entries.
Work collaboratively with the aquatics director re: pool scheduling.
Maintain accurate records of individuals and relay performances, meet participation, practice attendance, etc.
Act as a TAC ambassador, actively promoting the program to all concerned.
Update and maintain TAC policies and procedures.
Maintain professional standard of safety, appearance and dress.
Facilitate and participate in club fundraisers.
Must be CPR/AED certified and maintain current coaching certification.
ASCA level 3 but may consider the right candidate with a lower ranking.
Strong track record as an outstanding technical swim coach with demonstrated leadership and communication skills.
Advanced experience coaching various ages and skill levels in a competitive environment.
High-level swimming experience at the club and collegiate level.
Experienced with Team Unify.
Ability to set and achieve individual and team goals and encourage others to do the same.
This is a full-time, salaried position. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience with an annual range of $42,000-$50,000. Full health benefits. Participation in state-administered PERS retirement system.
Position is open until filled. For priority consideration, submit materials by July 2, 2018. All application materials should be sent to FPFC Executive Director Mitch Everton at [email protected]
A complete application consists of:
Letter of application detailing relevant experience and how the applicant is prepared to fulfill the responsibilities of the position.
Statement describing applicant's coaching philosophy.
Current resume.
List of three current references, with contact information.
Salary expectations.
Email material to [email protected]
Mitch Everton
1603 22nd street, Anacortes WA, 98221


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Walter Meneses ist ein ehemaliger costa-ricanischer Fußballspieler auf der Position des Stürmers.

Leben
Nach einer Spielzeit für Puebla (1944/45) stand Meneses zwei Jahre in Diensten der UD Moctezuma, mit der er 1947 sowohl den mexikanischen Pokalwettbewerb als auch den Supercup gewann. Anschließend wechselte er zum Stadtrivalen A.D.O., bei dem er bis zu dessen finanziell bedingten Rückzug aus der Primera División 1949 unter Vertrag stand. Mit insgesamt 32 Treffern, die er in diesen beiden Spielzeiten erzielte, avancierte er zum besten Stürmer in der Erstligageschichte der A.D.O. neben dem Peruaner Tulio Quiñones, der im selben Zeitraum mindestens 29 Tore erzielen konnte. Das erfolgreiche Sturmduo schoss rund die Hälfte aller 124 Tore, die A.D.O. in diesen beiden Jahre erzielte und trug maßgeblich dazu bei, dass A.D.O. nicht mehr in den unteren Tabellenrängen angesiedelt war wie in den Jahren zuvor.

In den nächsten Spielzeiten stand Meneses für jeweils eine Saison beim Club Asturias (1949/50) und bei seinem Exverein Puebla FC (1950/51) unter Vertrag. Anschließend spielte er jeweils zwei Jahre beim Club Marte und beim Club Atlante, bevor er 1955 zum Club Deportivo Oro wechselte, bei dem er 1959 seine aktive Laufbahn beendete.

Erfolge
 Mexikanischer Pokalsieger: 1947
 Mexikanischer Supercup: 1947

Quellen
 Deportes Nacion.com: Die 23 costa-ricanischen Fußballspieler, die in Mexiko einen Titel gewannen (spanisch; Artikel vom 11. Juli 2001)
 Die mexikanische Liga bei RSSSF

Person (Orizaba)
Fußballspieler (Club Puebla)
Fußballspieler (UD Moctezuma de Orizaba)
Fußballspieler (Asociación Deportiva Orizabeña)
Fußballspieler (CF Asturias)
Fußballspieler (Club Marte)
Fußballspieler (CF Atlante)
Fußballspieler (Oro de Jalisco)
Costa-Ricaner
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
Mann