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package de.lessvoid.nifty.elements.events;

import de.lessvoid.nifty.NiftyEvent;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.elements.Element;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.input.NiftyMouseInputEvent;

public class NiftyMouseEvent implements NiftyEvent {
  private Element element;
  private int mouseX;
  private int mouseY;
  private int mouseWheel;
  private boolean button0Down;
  private boolean button1Down;
  private boolean button2Down;
  private boolean button0InitialDown;
  private boolean button1InitialDown;
  private boolean button2InitialDown;
  private boolean button0Release;
  private boolean button1Release;
  private boolean button2Release;

  public NiftyMouseEvent(final Element element, final NiftyMouseInputEvent source) {
    this.element = element;
    this.mouseX = source.getMouseX();
    this.mouseY = source.getMouseY();
    this.mouseWheel = source.getMouseWheel();
    this.button0Down = source.isButton0Down();
    this.button1Down = source.isButton1Down();
    this.button2Down = source.isButton2Down();
    this.button0InitialDown = source.isButton0InitialDown();
    this.button1InitialDown = source.isButton1InitialDown();
    this.button2InitialDown = source.isButton2InitialDown();
    this.button0Release = source.isButton0Release();
    this.button1Release = source.isButton1Release();
    this.button2Release = source.isButton2Release();
  }

  public Element getElement() {
    return element;
  }

  public int getMouseX() {
    return mouseX;
  }

  public int getMouseY() {
    return mouseY;
  }

  public int getMouseWheel() {
    return mouseWheel;
  }

  public boolean isButton0Down() {
    return button0Down;
  }

  public boolean isButton1Down() {
    return button1Down;
  }

  public boolean isButton2Down() {
    return button2Down;
  }

  public boolean isAnyButtonDown() {
    return button0Down || button1Down || button2Down;
  }

  public boolean isButton0InitialDown() {
    return button0InitialDown;
  }

  public boolean isButton1InitialDown() {
    return button1InitialDown;
  }

  public boolean isButton2InitialDown() {
    return button2InitialDown;
  }

  public boolean isButton0Release() {
    return button0Release;
  }

  public boolean isButton1Release() {
    return button1Release;
  }

  public boolean isButton2Release() {
    return button2Release;
  }

  public String toString() {
    return
      "mouseX = " + mouseX + ", " +
      "mouseY = " + mouseY + ", " +
      "button0Down = " + button0Down + ", " +
      "button1Down = " + button1Down + ", " +
      "button2Down = " + button2Down + ", " +
      "button0InitialDown = " + button0InitialDown + ", " +
      "button1InitialDown = " + button1InitialDown + ", " +
      "button2InitialDown = " + button2InitialDown + ", " +
      "button0Release = " + button0Release + ", " +
      "button1Release = " + button1Release + ", " +
      "button2Release = " + button2Release;
  }
}


If you are considering transferring to a new college, you should start preparing a transfer college essay that will impress your readers. Switching to a new college is a difficult task because you are not given top priority. What's more, colleges will be quite strict with their admission process which means you need to think of a way to make an impression with the right authorities. One effective way to do this is to read college transfer essay samples.
"Before I migrated to America on my own when I was twenty-two, I lived in Japan where I was thinking the same things as the rest of the society. I was raised in a traditional family where my grandfather controlled the entire household. The same thing could be said of my education where I spent hours in studying and memorizing my subjects. I wasn't given the freedom to think for myself or the freedom to ask questions as well. If I was to ask a question, my classmates would look at me as if I was distracting them and because of peer pressure, I remained quiet in my seat. I figured that if I wanted the chance to think for myself and speak what I have in my mind I should leave behind this kind of society. So I decided to move to America where everyone is encouraged to speak their mind.
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I am Oussama Mubarak, a freelance creative coder, researcher, and Full-Stack web developer based in Berlin with over 14 years of experience in designing and developing generative and interactive media in collaboration with internationally renowned artists and creative agencies.
I have also recently obtained a PhD in computer science from Cnam (the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris) in partnership with EnsadLab (the research laboratory of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs - PSL Research University, Paris). My thesis explored art installations that enable co-located interactions, focusing on the conditions – whether spacial, material, or human – which affect the ability for participants to co-construct a common aesthetic experience in the absence of orchestration or a preannounced goal to be achieved, and proposes a set of tools and guidelines when designing such installations.
My main interests include digital art, interaction and interface design, and technology.
For more information, please refer to my curriculum vitae.


Some Ahead of the bag is packed, you need to plan where you wish to go. This is sometimes a tricky choice, particularly if performed with many people's opinions. You need to emphasise on the attractiveness of Spanish civilization while your spouse wishes to dine on exceptional French cuisine beneath the Eiffel tower.
Your Budget is going to be the largest contributing element on your destination. Some vacations are certain to be more costly than others. Ensuring you've got enough money and is able to get there and back, cover the hotel charges, all your intake and whatever that you would like to do is vital. There's not any use going anywhere simply to sit at a hotel room as you can not manage to do anything.
What you would like to see is essential. Do not go somewhere because someone else told you – move someplace you dream of traveling . That is your money, therefore it is important you see someplace where your needs are satisfied. If you're searching for a beautiful, relaxing week off, then do not book a party hotel. If you have always dreamed of seeing New York, then proceed! Be certain you have researched your destination and also understand it is ideal for you- do not squander your money and invest your time wishing you can come home!
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Parry Sound, Ontario — Wasauksing First Nation, located 160 km south of Sudbury near Parry Sound, has become the 17th First Nation government in Canada to receive a Financial Management System Certificate (FMS) from the First Nations Financial Management Board (FMB). The FMB has supported First Nations across Canada in developing sound financial and governance practices since 2006.
On their journey towards FMS Certification, the Nation developed a Financial Administration Law (FAL) and received a Financial Performance Certificate (FP) that allowed the Nation to become a borrowing member of the First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA). To achieve FMS certification, the Nation began working closely with the FMB staff to bring their FAL to life.
Most importantly, it firmly sets the First Nation on its journey towards self-determination.
"Wasauksing First Nation is looking forward to being better able to accomplish our strategic plan objectives with the help of more affordable and favorable long-term financing made available through the FNFA as a result of its FMS. The certification also provides a sound foundation for governance and enhances accountability within the community," explained Craig Brown, Chief Executive Director of Wasauksing First Nation.
Wasauksing First Nation: Is an Anishinabe/Pottawatomi community that has approximately 1,200 citizens with approximately 400 of those living on-reserve. The organization has a staff of approximately 90 and provides programs and services in a broad range of areas including health, economic development, social services, public works, housing, lands management, membership/citizenship and education.


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Zhangjiakou Weather Zhangjiakou Transportation Zhangjiakou Attractions
Zhangjiakou Weather
Zhangjiakou has a monsoon-influenced, continental semi-arid climate.Conditions are much cooler than in Beijing due in part to the elevation. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −8.3 °C (17.1 °F) in January to 23.7 °C (74.7 °F) in July, and the annual mean is 8.81 °C (47.9 °F).
Zhangjiakou has a hot, humid summer driven by the East Asian monsoon.
Autumn is dry and brief.
Zhangjiakou has a monsoon-influenced with a windy winter due to the Siberian anticyclone.
Zhangjiakou Air
Zhangjiakou Ningyuan Airport operates both civil and military aviation services. It mainly serves domestic flights, currently connecting Shijiazhuang, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Shenyang. As per the long-term plan, airplanes to Guangzhou, Xian, Chengdu, Wuhan, and Kunming will open in the future.
Zhangjiakou Train
There are two railway stations in the city. South Railway Station Located in the south of the city, the South Railway Station is a main stop of Beijing-Baotou Rail Line. By now, all trains from/to the city are operated by the station and the connecting cities include Beijing, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Xining, Datong, Hohhot, Urumqi, Handan, Nanchang, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou, and Datong. The station is open for 24 hours. Passengers can consign and store their luggage at a low price. Bus Routes: 1, 10, 11, 19, 33, 101, 301 North Railway Station The main station (North Railway Station), located in Qiaodong District, was built in 1909 and is the terminal station of Beijing-Zhangjiakou Rail Line, which is the first railway of China. After serving over 100 years, it was closed in Jul. 2014.
Zhangjiakou Long-distance Bus
Two long-distance bus stations make travels to neighboring cities and areas afar by land very convenient. General Long-distance Bus Station Located at no. 100, Xishahe Street, it operates around 200 bus routes and the buses lead to many cities, counties, and even villages in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other areas. Bus Routes: 2, 5, 10, 13, 18 South Long-distance Bus Station It is located at the intersection of Zhanqian West Street and Shiji Road, near the South Railway Station. Buses departing from the station go to Jining, Hohhot, Datong, Taiyuan, Zhangbei, Xixinying, Zhuolu, Yuxian, Zaozhuang, Xuchang and other places.
Zhangjiakou City Bus
There are 28 city bus routes in the city and buses to railway stations and long-distance bus stations are accessible. Most buses are in service from 06:00 to 21:00 (it varies from different lines) and the fare is CNY1 per person.
Great Wall in Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou is nicknamed the Museum of the Great Wall and the Mountain City out of Great Wall. This reputation can be attributed to the relics of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) in the area.
Chongli County of Zhangjiakou is a paradise for skiing. Great snow resorts in the area attract many visitors to its perfect ski fields and captivating scenery. Among them, the Wanlong Ski Resort, Yunding Skiing Park, and Changchengling Skiing Field are highly recommended.
Natural Scenic Area
Small Wutai Jinhe Scenic Area: It is nestled in the valley of the north foot of Small Wutai Mountain, Yuxian County, around 87 miles (140 kilometers) from Zhangjiakou, and 118 miles (190 kilometers) from Beijing. This scenic area is popular because of the steep mountains, rolling ridges, strange stones, limpid streams and exuberant trees. Some rare animals and plants can also be found, adding to its the mystery. The must-sees include Frog Ridge, Immortality Sleeping Rock, Black Dragon Pool, Pearl Pool and Colorful Stones Beach.

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"Fluffy Bunnies" or "fluffbunnies" is a derogatory term used for Wiccans who are members of no real tradition and who mostly make things up as they go along. And not in a good way; TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed are sometimes part of the source material. Commonly associated with the works of Silver Ravenwolf, fluffbunnies drive more traditional Wiccans (most of whom have had to be initiated by people in a line back to Gardener) even more crazy than they drive everyone else.
The term "fluffbunny" derives from their propensity to take all of the "sweetness and light" aspects of neopaganism or Wicca while ignoring anything that they might consider troubling, unpleasant, or "dark."
A hallmark of fluffbunnies is that they are often singular or in small groups, not united by dogma or the tenets of Wicca at large but by emotions and the feeling of "freedom" that holding an alternative faith affords in the face of being pressured by authority figures, other faiths, or simply society in general. Overwhelmingly fluffbunny materials emphasize points that would gain favor with such people: running a gamut from fairly innocent messages of empowerment to full-blown persecution-complex-mongering. This feel-good message functions in much the same way that New Age philosophies do: complimenting the audience to encourage them to continue on.
In lieu of a coven, individual fluffbunnies often latch onto their favorite author and tout them as the be-all and end-all of Wicca, often referred to as "One-book wonders" by the Wicca community in large.
Perhaps even more than more traditional Wiccans, fluffbunnies may play up the 'origins' of their faith, linking it to shamanism, lost Druidic traditions, or ancient Roman/Greek/Egyptian/polytheistic worship. Indeed, both neopagan and Wiccan individuals may be identified as fluffbunnies so long as they are fluffy enough. In the haze of appropriated messages, validation, and mysterious wonder for ancient magick, the fluffiest may forget that Wicca was established as a faith in the 1940s.
Despite there being very clear rules and ideas about personal gain and harm unto others, and despite the fact that many fluffbunny books themselves emphasize what is-or-is-not acceptable magic, there are hundreds of beauty, glamor, love, and fortune spells made by and for fluffbunnies, as well as an infinity of hexes, revenge spells, and curses available. While any Wiccan tradition would contain some of these spells, the frequency with which they are thrown around by fluffbunnies can hint to their image-driven nature and often just sheer selfishness, without regard for consequences. Combined with the fact that many but not all fluffbunnies are teens or tend towards a more teenage mindset, such masses of spells betray cries for closure, respect, belonging, and success in a world that places severe cultural pressures on adolescents.
While fluff is often just a phase, it is not always a phase, and the notion that it's just "teenage rebellion" causes fair criticism to be dismissed as normal teen fad behavior, despite that millions of dollars are made off of exploiting said teenagers as well as other believers every year.
It's easy for outsiders to claim that criticism of fluffbunnies is merely an example of No true Scotsman in action, where members of a group try to de-legitimize their less popular, weirder-looking colleagues. It's not just about "giving paganism a bad name" (though fluffbunnies certainly do that). The existence of disaffected teenagers yearning to feel powerful has created a multimillion dollar industry to consume their disposable income.
Pseudohistory is also common, as are claims that neopagans are the perpetual victims of endless genocide.
In short, in addition to teaching impressionable young people that they have magic powers, fluffbunny authors also discourage critical thinking, respect for diversity, and the historical record. The fantastic (even more fantastic and flashy than more traditional Wicca) nature of many spells or other invocations often includes magickal beings such as Tinkerbell-style fairies, dragons and unicorns, angels, spirit guides, leprechauns, brownies, and other such things, so that in order to "work with them," fluffbunnies require a secondary belief in as-of-yet unproven supernatural creatures and phenomena. Many fluffbunny-targeted products and practices demand the "opening of one's mind" to the fantastic rather than emphasizing spirituality, making it fairly difficult to be critical of anything. The contradictory nature of many spells (harm none and do what ye will... mind control for the sake of inducing love isn't a violation of ethics, what are you talking about?) doesn't exactly scream "critical reasoning skills." Ideas such as "bodily humors" and "chakras" may be invoked in the same rituals by people who know what neither are... dismissing the long history of theory both spiritual/folk medicinal practices have. Little research is done.
There are hundreds of green ink websites and online pay-order handbooks targeted at fluffbunny neopaganism and Wicca, hawking infinite varieties of totem animals, tree horoscopes, online spellbooks, and other fluffy cruft and/or 'inspiring' pick-me-ups. These often appropriate native cultures/stereotypes of said cultures as 'ancient magick from around the world' and can get so ridiculous as to charge users for PDFs and pamphlets derived as the end-result from an online quiz. Or faux-spiritual tests that depend on clicking an image map in a particularly spiritual way. Wicca as a popular teen fad created many fluffbunnies, and with the rise of Harry Potter, Teen Witch, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and other shows in the '90s and '00s, many green ink websites date back to the same decades and follow common terrible web-design trends of the time, such as horrid animated GIFs and long unwieldy table layouts. The timecube law may or may not be invoked.
Using the catchphrase "Never again the burning times!"
Constantly implying that they have supernatural powers, especially mind control.
↑ Though there is some debate about this; even firmly established and respected traditional Wicca practitioners may be said to be ten-book wonders.
↑ While angels and saints were once more widely worshiped, modern reinterpretations often just make up 'ancient' traditions wholesale.
↑ This is not a joke. Bonus Points: The result is randomly chosen according to how many milliseconds elapsed before the visitor clicked the image.
This page was last modified on 27 December 2016, at 22:16.


Seattle Mind Camp 7 is happening at thinkspace this weekend. Mind Camp is a self-organized 24-hour unconference designed to bring creative minds of all sorts together. Seattle Mind Camp sponsor, Monster Costume will be hosting a 12-Hour Remix iOS Challenge! First, you've gotta be registered for Seattle Mind Camp 7 in order to participate, and attendance is free for all iOS developers (send an email to Andru [at] gearlive.com).
The REMIX challenge will start at 9:00pm on Saturday- it'll go through the night (don't worry, Mind Camp will have a session showing how to make your own energy drinks that evening as well!) and in the morning, Monster Costume will crown a winning team – and all three team members will win an Apple iPad 2.
They recommend teams of three – but don't worry, teams can be created in advance, or on the fly at the event itself.
At the completion of the 12-Hour Remix Challenge, the team with the most outstanding game (as determined by the esteemed panel of judges and the Mind Camp attendees) will be named the winner! Games will be measured on creativity, gameplay, and use of the iOS touchscreen feature set. If you win, Monster Costume will partner with your team to publish the game to the App Store if you choose.
To participate in the REMIX at Mind Camp, head on over to Monster Costume's registration page to enter the 12-Hour Remix Challenge!


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The piney, peppery flavor of savory has a medium intensity and nuances of thyme. Used to make classic French herbal blends like Herbes de Provence and Herbs de la Garrigue, savory makes a wonderful seasoning for poultry, fish or lamb.
Share how you like to use Savory!


Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed Mousa Dembele's exit.
An official announcement via the club's website was made on Thursday morning and the Belgium international has joined Chinese Super League outfit Guangzhou R&F F.C. in a transfer that could be worth up to £11m.
The 31-year-old central midfielder had just six months left on his contract with the north London outfit and had been linked with Beijing Guoan and Guangzhou Evergrande prior to sealing a move to the Yuexiushan Stadium.
football.london understands that Tottenham sanctioned Dembele's move now in order to prevent losing him for free in the summer. The midfielder was looking to move to a less physical league to help prolong a career which has been fragmented by injuries in recent seasons, including a chronic foot problem.
While Spurs fans would have loved for Dembele to remain in north London given he is one of the best players in the league when at his best, they do realise that injuries have sadly taken their toll on the midfielder and a move to China is for the best.


Impress your latest crush or longtime sweetheart with Valentine chocolates wrapped with romantic graphics in festive holiday colors of white, pink, and red! Stock the Valentine Candy dish at your home, school, or office with delicious treats everyone is sure to love. Make your Valentine's Day the best yet with these unique chocolate sweets!
Bag contains 4 pounds of Valentine Foiled Chocolate Candy Rounds.


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Q: Invoice Receipts in Gmail for Answers In Search I was creating code at google scripts https://goo.gl/pKUc7D to test order / invoice reciept markup from Google's own documentation at https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/order
It did not work. I could be missing something? The structured data testing tool gave me green checks for everything in the script textarea. I'm going to github the results to share with anyone else who runs whmcs billing software.

A: I'm not familiar with WHMCS billing software and how it works. I checked out your sample and I was a little confused. I see you're using:
http://schema.org/Invoice

This isn't supported in Gmail/Inbox. You'll have to follow the microdata example(s) for Order on the documentation. I noticed that even though your markup checks out with the Email Markup Tester, it doesn't mean it will be supported.
I extracted the details from your sample data and created an example for you.

        <meta itemprop="name" content="StrikeHawk eCommerce, Inc."/>

      <meta itemprop="orderNumber" content="8360"/>
      <meta itemprop="priceCurrency" content="USD"/>
      <meta itemprop="price" content="10.71"/>

          <meta itemprop="name" content="Hosting" />
          <link itemprop="image" href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U20_IAhRras/Uuqtev8Na3I/AAAAAAAAAIc/ptToUbM6cAY/s250-no/google-plus-photo.png"/>

        <meta itemprop="price" content="5.35"/>
        <meta itemprop="priceCurrency" content="USD"/>

          <meta itemprop="value" content="1"/>

          <meta itemprop="name" content="Addon" />
          <link itemprop="image" href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U20_IAhRras/Uuqtev8Na3I/AAAAAAAAAIc/ptToUbM6cAY/s250-no/google-plus-photo.png"/>

        <meta itemprop="price" content="5.35"/>
        <meta itemprop="priceCurrency" content="USD"/>

          <meta itemprop="value" content="1"/>

        <meta itemprop="name" content="Denver Prophit Jr" />
        <meta itemprop="streetAddress" content="P.O. Box 0595" />
        <meta itemprop="addressLocality" content="New Smyrna Beach" />
        <meta itemprop="addressRegion" content="FL" />
        <meta itemprop="addressCountry" content="United States" />

<link itemprop="orderStatus" href="http://schema.org/OrderProcessing"/>
<meta itemprop="isGift" content="false"/>
  <meta itemprop="discount" content="0.00"/>
  <meta itemprop="discountCurrency" content="USD"/>
  <link itemprop="url" href="https://www.google.com/+StrikehawkeComm"/>

    <meta itemprop="name" content="Denver Prophit Jr"/>

This will trigger a View Order button that will direct your customer to the "invoice/receipt." Also note, I used the discount property, which I noticed in your microdata, the discount was being recognized as an item purchased.

Oh, also, if you're trying to send a bill, set the orderStatus as:
  <link itemprop="orderStatus" href="http://schema.org/OrderPaymentDue"/>

I hope this helps.

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The importance of wilderness medicine knowledge and protocols in disaster zones is tenfold. When resources are depleted, emergency access is delayed, and safely functioning environments become austere, an urban setting ultimately transforms into a modern-day wilderness.
Debunking Myths: What Should You Do If Someone has Hypothermia?
When your core temperature drops below normal, with heat loss exceeding heat gain, hypothermia can result. It may be caused by winter weather, cold water immersion, or wind, rain and hail in summer.
It's great to stay busy with outdoor activities during the winter, but winter is also a good time to rest and get your stoke up for your next expedition while sipping cocoa.
Do You Know Your Winter Leave No Trace?
We know you're a pro at cleaning up after yourself when it's warm out, but do you know what to do when the temperatures drop?
Hypothermia is always a concern when you spend time in the outdoors, but when cold winter temperatures hit it's especially important to pay attention to how you're losing heat.
Winter doesn't stop avid campers and it doesn't stop us, either! It's easier to stay warm during the day when you're hitting the slopes or snowshoeing through aspen groves, but what about when it's time to sleep? Follow these tips to snuggle up and stay warm.
Discussing risk at the 2015 WRMC. Photo by Kirk Rasmussen.
I sat down to breakfast at a table of folks including Outward Bound Vice President of Safety Mark Vermeal. Vermeal was sharing the story of his friend, who had neglected to tie a knot at the end of his rope while rock climbing. We at the table agreed that it was not an unfamiliar story: climber is comfortable at their home crag and doesn't think to take the precaution of tying a knot at the end of the rope. Climber is injured; in this case, a broken arm. In other cases, outcomes may be far worse. It's a common mistake that is highly avoidable, and one that should drive the need to shift the climber mentality.
"So, how do we do that?" Vermeal posed to the table.


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Browser statistics pie chart (SVG)
If you have an SVG-enabled browser, then take a look at the browser statistics page, where you will see a nice pie-chart giving a visual representation of which user agents my visitors use. SVG support is currently available in Opera 8, and will be shipped in the upcoming Firefox 1.1 browser (current nightly builds already support it).
I think this is a good show of incremental browser support; only browsers supporting SVG will let you see the nice pie chart, and the others will not. Better browser? More candy :). It isn't a highly relevant section of this site anyway. I'm planning to add more fun SVG stuff later.
Opera was being a bit of a bitch about it though, because it only supports inline styles in SVG and no stylesheets (yah, yah, I know that isn't in SVG Tiny, but Opera says it can do more). I think this is because it has no clue about namespaces in its CSS implementation, something you can also see in the sortable tables of the licensed anime list. The class attribute also doesn't seem to work, which is why Pokiyhgfd! is black.
By the way, this is the first time I've added something to my website that really needs it to be XHTML :) (the MathML and SVG previously posted were demonstrations, that doesn't count). Well, to be honest, I could've also pointed to the SVG as an image, but that's half the fun and more of a bother.
Figuring out the gory details about SVG paths (reminds me of DML and MML in MSX-Basic) was a little difficult, however with the help of this PHP script it's been pretty easy.


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Irish And Broncos Do Battle Wednesday
by Tony Jones
Notre Dame vs. Western Michigan
(26-15 in 2017)
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NOTRE DAME, Ind. ââ'¬" A four-game homestand for the University of Notre Dame softball team is set to begin on Wednesday, as long-time regional foe Western Michigan returns to Melissa Cook Stadium for the third straight season in a nonconference tilt. The 6 p.m. (ET) contest will air live on ACC Network Extra.
Irish Slap Hits
– Notre Dame has amassed a 1,172-509-3 (.697) all-time record, 30 combined conference championships (19 regular season, 11 tournament) and 21 NCAA Regional appearances, which has included 18 straight berths into the NCAA Championship tournament.
– Notre Dame won its fourth straight Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) series by sweeping NC State 4-3, 5-0 and 5-2 last weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Irish have won 10 of their last 12 games in ACC play dating back to March 24.
– Junior infielder Morgan Reed delivered a home run in all three games against NC State, striking in the seventh inning in games one and two and in the very first inning of game three. Reed has tied a career-high with five home runs thus far in 2017.
– Notre Dame established a pair of season-highs on April 12 against IUPUI, scoring 13 runs on 16 hits in six innings during a 13-4 win at Melissa Cook Stadium.
– Senior outfielder/captain Karley Wester successfully stole her 117th career base in the bottom of the second inning against IUPUI on April 12 to pass baseball great Steve Stanley (1999-2002) as the all-time Notre Dame softball/baseball leader in stolen bases. Wester also has the most hits (301) and runs scored (210) in Irish softball history, with all three totals ranking among the top 10 of active players in NCAA Division I softball.
– The Irish have won their last 26 nonconference midweek games at Melissa Cook Stadium dating back to the 2013 season.
– Notre Dame and Western Michigan have met in all but one season dating back to 2003, with the 2014 contest between the teams canceled due to weather. The Irish have won 17 of the last 19 games against the Broncos in that span, including eight matchups on the Notre Dame campus.
– Irish softball is one of only two Notre Dame varsity athletic programs to have never posted a losing record. The softball team clinched its 28th straight season with a .500 record or better with a 43-13 final mark to close the 2016 campaign. Notre Dame's three-time national champion women's soccer program has logged 29 straight winning seasons since its inception at the varsity level in the fall of 1988.
Relentless Irish Sweep NC State
Early offense set the tone for Notre Dame in its Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) series finale at NC State on Saturday. The Irish pitching staff took the ball and ran with it, bringing Notre Dame across the finish line with a 5-2 game three win and series sweep of the Wolfpack.
The Irish completed their first ACC series sweep at NC State with the three weekend wins, avenging a series setback to the Wolfpack in 2015 at Dail Softball Stadium. Notre Dame's pitching staff held the powerful NC State batting order to five runs over 21 innings, posting a 1.67 team ERA.
Irish Finding Their Groove In ACC Second Half
A slow 1-5 start to ACC play did not deter Notre Dame to open the conference slate. If anything, the beginning of the 2017 league docket vaulted the Irish toward a strong finish in the conference's second half.
Notre Dame is 10-2 in its last 12 ACC games, which has included series victories against Virginia Tech (sweep), Louisville, North Carolina and NC State (sweep). The Irish are batting a cumulative .339 over their last 12 league contests, outhitting opponents 116-71 and outscoring foes 62-34.
Perhaps most important has been the emergence of Notre Dame's pitching staff in recent conference games. Irish pitchers have logged a 2.70 team ERA in their last 12 ACC starts, and have limited opponents to a .234 batting average against.
Reed Goes Yard In The Clutch
Notre Dame's three wins at NC State can be directly tied to the timely home runs of Morgan Reed. Rising to the occasion as the most consistent Irish run producer of 2017, Reed delivered in clutch situations.
Facing a 3-1 deficit with one out in the top of the seventh inning in game one against the Wolfpack, Reed hit her second go-ahead home run of the year in a final inning with a three-run shot to down NC State 4-3. The junior infielder added a two-run shot in the top of the seventh in the nightcap to pad a 5-0 Notre Dame win before blasting off with a two-run bomb in the top of the first inning of the Saturday series finale of a 5-2 Irish victory.
Reed has already established career-highs with five home runs and 38 RBI in her first 41 starts of 2017.
Ali Wester Scores All Day For Irish
Ali Wester led all ACC players in runs scored during a 5-0 Notre Dame week that saw the Irish score a league-high 37 runs (7.4 runs per game) against Detroit Mercy, IUPUI and NC State. The sophomore slap hitter batted .562 with nine hits, including a double, three RBI, two stolen bases and an ACC-best eight runs scored. Wester ultimately came around to score in an impressive seven of the 10 plate appearances in which she officially reached safely during the week, and her eight runs overall were more than two entire ACC squads scored over the course of the week.
After 41 games, Wester leads all Notre Dame players with a .400 batting average, 58 hits and 36 runs scored. She's reached safely in 13 of her last 14 starts dating back to March 24 against Virginia Tech, and has scored a total of 15 runs in those contests.
Brooks Finds Her Offensive Stride In April
Dating back to the first game of an ACC series at Louisville on April 1, Caitlyn Brooks has emerged as one of Notre Dame's most complete hitters. Brooks batted .405 with a home run and team-high 11 RBI over her last 11 starts, slugging at a .541 clip and reaching base at a .452 mark.
Brooks was 6-for-10 (.600) with four RBI to anchor the Notre Dame lineup in the series sweep at NC State last weekend.
KB In Charge In The Circle
Reigning ACC Pitcher of the Week Katie Beriont spun her second straight stellar conference start on April 14 at NC State, tossing a four-hit shutout in a 5-0 win over the Wolfpack. Beriont's previous ACC start was a seven-inning no-hitter, the first of her career, against North Carolina on April 8.
In her last 11 appearances (eight starts) dating back to an 11-3 win in five innings against Michigan State on March 22, Beriont is 7-0 with a 2.30 ERA and a .230 batting average against. Opponents have been held to five extra-base hits against the junior southpaw in her last 42.2 innings on the mound.
Irish Offense At Home
Over the first 10 home games of the 2017 season, Notre Dame has continued red hot production at the plate inside Melissa Cook Stadium. Irish players have batted a combined .382 as a team inside their friendly confines, outscoring opponents 68-26 with 63 RBI during the 9-1 start at home.
All nine regular Notre Dame starters are batting .286 or above in home games, including eight players who are hitting at a .313 clip or higher. Along with 25 walks and being hit by pitch seven times, the Irish compiled a .442 on-base percentage over their first 10 home starts.
Irish Against The Opposition
Notre Dame owns a 28-6 (.824) advantage in its all-time series with Western Michigan, dating back to the first meeting between the teams in 1992. The Irish are 14-3 at home against the Broncos in series history, including a 5-1 mark at Melissa Cook Stadium.
For the latest news and updates on all things Notre Dame softball, visit www.und.com/softball, follow the Irish @NDsoftball and @NDcoachGumpf on Twitter and at Instagram.com/notredamesoftball, and Like the team at Facebook.com/NDSoftball.
Tony Jones, athletics communications assistant director at the University of Notre Dame, has been part of the Fighting Irish athletics communications team since 2012 and coordinates all media efforts for the Notre Dame softball and men's soccer programs. A native of Jamestown, New York, Jones is a 2011 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, and prior to arriving at Notre Dame held positions at the University of Louisiana Monroe and with the National Football League's Buffalo Bills.
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New CSU student government, RHA joint-legislation aimed at overdose prevention on campus
Natalia Sperry
Going into their first session of the semester, the Associated Students of Colorado State University senate will vote on legislation that aims to tackle opioid abuse on college campuses.
ASCSU Speaker of the Senate Isabel Brown has partnered with Students For Opioid Solutions, a non-profit that works with student government associations across the country, as a campus captain to draft a resolution intended to prevent opioid overdoses on campuses.
Speaker of the Senate Isabel Brown listens as a member of the senate speaks. (Colin Shepherd | Collegian)
"As a pre-med student whose life has been deeply affected by family members' struggle with addiction, I immediately knew that I had to bring this special project to our campus," Brown wrote in a statement to the Collegian. "The opioid epidemic is sweeping our nation, but rarely receives the media coverage that it warrants. 52,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a drug overdose in 2015–a figure that climbed to over 65,000 in 2016."
This legislation, which is scheduled to come to the ASCSU Senate floor Wednesday, Jan. 24, involves a five-part process intended to prevent overdoses and change the narrative surrounding opioids on campus.
According to a press release from Students for Opioid Solutions, that process begins with the passing of a joint resolution between ASCSU and the CSU Residence Hall Association, the first of its kind in either organization's history, according to Brown.
"I had an immediate priority to collaborate with RHA, as they work directly with Residence Life to improve the on-campus experience for CSU students," Brown wrote.
The resolution will come before the RHA senate on Jan. 22, and marks the realization of a longtime goal of both organizations to collaborate on joint legislation, according to RHA President Kyra Ferguson.
"We're hoping by bringing this bill into both Senates we can demonstrate how much it matters to CSU students, and the steps we want to take to leave this campus better than it was," Ferguson said in a statement to the Collegian. "By recognizing each other's voices on campus, I hope it means we can become better representatives of students."
Likewise, Brown wrote that she believes this legislation will set a precedent for many joint resolutions to come.
The resolution calls upon school administrators to require that residential life and campus police officers receive training in the recognition of an opioid overdose. Specifically, the legislation will encourage residential life staff to receive training in the use of Narcan, a naloxone prescription medicine that blocks the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose, according to the CDC.
The resolution will also encourage the University to include the number of opioid overdoses and deaths in its annual drug and alcohol report. The resolution also asks that there be amnesty for students who report overdoses and includes a Good Samaritan clause protecting students who come to the aid of someone suffering from an opioid overdose.
"My ultimate goal for this legislation is simple–to empower our community to respond to emergent overdoses in a moment's notice," Brown wrote. "Every death that occurs on a college campus as a result of an opioid overdose is one too many. Rams take care of Rams."
Student-led organizations work toward sustainable future
Health Network hosts free voice workshop for trans students
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This week in ASCSU: RamWeb voting, election committee ratification
Facts of the past: Celebrating civil rights through MLK Day
Plans to phase out mandatory assistant graduate fees now underway
This week in ASCSU: Community engagement, DEI Affairs Committee
'If Rams took care of Rams, this wouldn't happen on college campuses': A survivor's experience with the Title IX justice system
This week in ASCSU: housing concerns, approval for CPR training funds
Update: Board of Governors announces Amy Parsons as presidential finalist
Housing & Dining increases student minimum wage to $15 an hour


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The Desplaines Valley News is the self-proclaimed "newspaper of record" for the Southwest Suburban Chicago communities of Bedford Park, Bridgeview, Brookfield, Countryside, Hodgkins, Indian Head Park, Justice, La Grange Highlands, Lyons, McCook, Summit and Willow Springs. Southwest Community News Group publishes the newspaper Thursday of each week.

Founded on October 18, 1913 by A.S. Bushkevitz, the Desplaines Valley News became a fixture heralding the news of local interest to the communities surrounding the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal. Beginning with Bushkevitz and continuing through to the present day the editors of the Desplaines Valley News have also used the newspaper as a vehicle for bolstering and publicizing local business.

Bushkevits described his vision for the paper this way:

To the Residents, Business Men And General Public, We have come into your town with a Newspaper Enterprise to stay, if you will stand by us. We have asked for no bonus, nor do we intend to do so; but all we ask of you is that you give us your Patronage in the way of Job Work, Advertising, Subscription and good will. If you will give us all your work and subscribe for our Paper we will do our best to please you, and will assure you that this will be the People's Paper. We will advocate the patronage of Home Industries, and we would like to have you do likewise. It is up to you to keep this Paper before you for much good.

The News under Noonan

In 1986 the Desplaines Valley News was purchased by the soft-spoken, chain-smoking, former copy boy turned editor, John C. Noonan. Under the Bridgeport, Chicago native's leadership, the Desplaines Valley News was transformed into a kind of "working school" for aspiring local journalists.

When he was 15 years old, Noonan went to work for the Bridgeport News and got his first exposure to print journalism. While attending DeLaSalle High School, Noonan was able to get a job as a copy boy at the Chicago Tribune. Some time later he was moved to the Tribune's rewrite desk, and in 1961 Noonan became a beat reporter with the City News Bureau of Chicago. Noonan spent seven years at City News, where he was overnight city editor and broadcast editor.

During his 14-year tenure at the Desplaines Valley News, Noonan exposed a new generation of reporters to the "City News" style of journalism, training wide-eyed upstarts to think like beat reporters – be tenacious, make friends, obtain much information and make sure it's good. Noonan brought the City News maxim, "If your mother says she loves you, check it out," to Summit, Illinois.

In addition to running the Desplaines Valley News, Noonan also ran for Illinois Senate in the 24th District in 1992. He was defeated in the Democratic Party primary, but garnered nearly 10,000 votes.

John Noonan died on Sunday, October 15, 2000 at Hinsdale Hospital, Hinsdale, Illinois, after a short battle with lung cancer at the age of 58.

The News Today

The Desplaines Valley News was sold in November 2012 to Southwest Community News Group.

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Trump Shutdown Priorities
January 18, 2019 Seth Anderson0 comment
As the Trump shutdown lumbers on, The Washington Post reports:
On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management changed its plan to allow for 19 percent of its 9,260-person workforce to continue on the job during the shutdown.
According to BLM officials, employees who are back on the job are working on activities including law enforcement, grazing activities and preparing for March lease sales that will take place in several Western states.
Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, for its part, has also brought back employees to avert any delays in its March auction for offshore oil and gas drilling.
(click here to continue reading State Dept. employees ordered back to work as Trump nixes Pelosi trip and Davos delegation, citing shutdown – The Washington Post.)
Priorities. The most important thing to accomplish for the GOP is selling off the public's land and drill, baby, drill. Jerks.
But some Democrats and environmental groups attacked the decision as political and dangerous.
On Wednesday, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) led a group of House Democrats in calling the assistance to the oil and gas industry "an outrageous step," with a "farcical" justification in a letter to acting Interior secretary David Bernhardt.
"One of the most striking features" of the shutdown, the lawmakers wrote, "is the way the administration has bent over backwards to ensure that the pain of the shutdown falls only on ordinary Americans and the environment, and not on the oil and gas industry."
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Low Oil Prices Pose Threat to Texas Fracking Bonanza – The New York Times
August 15, 2015 August 17, 2015 eggplant0 comment
Earlier today…
Record production in the United States, along with a drilling frenzy in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, as well as the prospect that Iranian oil will again flood world markets, have spooked traders into abandoning their positions. What's more, the very productivity here in the heart of the Eagle Ford shale fields, and the efforts by the oil companies to make them increasingly efficient, are contributing to the glut as well.
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Is Fracking About To Burst The Economy?
The Myth of Trust
I ran across a quite interesting discussion of the history of the Oklahoma oil boom in the 1970s and its subsequent bust in the early 1980s, which is linked with the story of Penn Square Bank. There is a book by Phillip Zweig specifically on this topic, called Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank, I think I'll have to look for a copy.
If you have a moment, you should read the entire essay.1
History aside, what about the current situation with oil prices cratering? Are we in trouble?
Now of course a debacle of the Penn Square variety requires at least one other thing, which is a banking industry so fixated on this quarter's profits that it can lose track of the minor little fact that lending money to people who can't pay it back isn't a business strategy with a long shelf life. I hope none of my readers are under the illusion that this is lacking just now. With interest rates stuck around zero and people and institutions that live off their investments frantically hunting for what used to count as a normal rate of return, the same culture of short-term thinking and financial idiocy that ran the global economy into the ground in the 2008 real estate crash remains firmly in place, glued there by the refusal of the Obama administration and its equivalents elsewhere to prosecute even the most egregious cases of fraud and malfeasance.
Now that the downturn in oil prices is under way, and panic selling of energy-related junk bonds and lower grades of unconventional crude oil has begun in earnest, it seems likely that we'll learn just how profitable the fracking fad of the last few years actually was. My working guess, which is admittedly an outsider's view based on limited data and historical parallels, is that it was a money-losing operation from the beginning, and looked prosperous—as the Oklahoma boom did—only because it attracted a flood of investment money from people and institutions who were swept up in the craze. If I'm right, the spike in domestic US oil production due to fracking was never more than an artifact of fiscal irresponsibility in the first place, and could not have been sustained no matter what. Still, we'll see.
The more immediate question is just how much damage the turmoil now under way will do to a US and global economy that have never recovered from the body blow inflicted on them by the real estate bubble that burst in 2008. Much depends on exactly who sunk how much money into fracking-related investments, and just how catastrophically those investments come unraveled. It's possible that the result could be just a common or garden variety recession; it's possible that it could be quite a bit more. When the tide goes out, as Warren Buffet has commented, you find out who's been swimming naked, and just how far the resulting lack of coverage will extend is a question of no small importance.
At least three economic sectors outside the fossil fuel industry, as I see it, stand to suffer even if all we get is an ordinary downturn. The first, of course, is the financial sector. A vast amount of money was loaned to the fracking industry; another vast amount—I don't propose to guess how it compares to the first one—was accounted for by issuing junk bonds, and there was also plenty of ingenious financial architecture of the sort common in the housing boom. Those are going to lose most or all of their value in the months and years ahead. No doubt the US government will bail out its pals in the really big banks again, but there's likely to be a great deal of turmoil anyway, and midsized and smaller players may crash and burn in a big way. One way or another, it promises to be entertaining.
(click here to continue reading The Archdruid Report: Déjà Vu All Over Again.)
We'll see, but it might be a good time to start putting a few Krugerrands under your mattress…
The bank is often cited as being partly responsible for the collapse of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, which had to write-off some US$500+ million in loans purchased from Penn Square. [↩]
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Keystone XL Pipeline and Carbon Keynesianism
January 12, 2015 January 12, 2015 Seth Anderson0 comment
Twists and Turns.
During the very first week of the 114th Congress, the new agenda was made clear: Bills to end the Affordable Care Act, to restrict abortion rights, to stop Obama's immigration plan, and a bill to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
New Approved Keystone XL Pipeline Route
Paul Krugman laughs, and points out the absurdity of the GOP's Carbon Keynesianism…
It should come as no surprise that the very first move of the new Republican Senate is an attempt to push President Obama into approving the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canadian tar sands. After all, debts must be paid, and the oil and gas industry — which gave 87 percent of its 2014 campaign contributions to the G.O.P. — expects to be rewarded for its support.
Building Keystone XL could slightly increase U.S. employment. In fact, it might replace almost 5 percent of the jobs America has lost because of destructive cuts in federal spending, which were in turn the direct result of Republican blackmail over the debt ceiling.
Oh, and don't tell me that the cases are completely different. You can't consistently claim that pipeline spending creates jobs while government spending doesn't.
Consider, for example, the case of military spending. When it comes to possible cuts in defense contracts, politicians who loudly proclaim that every dollar the government spends comes at the expense of the private sector suddenly begin talking about all the jobs that will be destroyed. They even begin talking about the multiplier effect, as reduced spending by defense workers leads to job losses in other industries. This is the phenomenon former Representative Barney Frank dubbed "weaponized Keynesianism."
And the argument being made for Keystone XL is very similar; call it "carbonized Keynesianism." Yes, approving the pipeline would mobilize some money that would otherwise have sat idle, and in so doing create some jobs — 42,000 during the construction phase, according to the most widely cited estimate. (Once completed, the pipeline would employ only a few dozen workers.) But government spending on roads, bridges and schools would do the same thing.
And the job gains from the pipeline would, as I said, be only a tiny fraction — less than 5 percent — of the job losses from sequestration, which in turn are only part of the damage done by spending cuts in general. If Mr. McConnell and company really believe that we need more spending to create jobs, why not support a push to upgrade America's crumbling infrastructure?
So what should be done about Keystone XL? If you believe that it would be environmentally damaging — which I do — then you should be against it, and you should ignore the claims about job creation. The numbers being thrown around are tiny compared with the country's overall work force.
(click here to continue reading For the Love of Carbon – NYTimes.com.)
"The worship of Mammon" by Evelyn De Morgan – [1]. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Infrastructure improvement? Blasphemy! Spending money to fix bridges, roads, water supply pipes, commuter rails – that's Socialism! But building a massive pipeline to ship oil from Canada to China via the Gulf of Mexico is God's commandment. If you consider Mammon a God that is…
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Oil Trains Hide in Plain Sight Waiting To Kill Us By Exploding
December 4, 2014 Seth Anderson0 comment
You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine.
Big Government, saving you from an oil tanker blowing up in your neighborhood. What a travesty! Shut it down!
While the existence of this virtual pipeline is obvious to its neighbors—trains are visible from homes, the local commuter rail station, a park and a popular jogging trail—it is officially secret. Delaware Safety and Homeland Security officials contend that publicizing any information about the oil trains parked there would "reveal the State's vulnerability to terrorist attacks," according to a letter to The Wall Street Journal.
Finding the locations of oil-filled trains remains difficult, even in states that don't consider the information top secret. There are no federal or state rules requiring public notice despite several fiery accidents involving oil trains, including one in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people.
The desire for secrecy seems wrongheaded to some experts. "If you don't share this information, how are people supposed to know what they are supposed to do when another Lac-Mégantic happens?" asked Denise Krepp, a consultant and former senior counsel to the congressional Homeland Security Committee.
She said more firefighting equipment and training was needed urgently. "We are not prepared," she said.
In May, federal regulators ordered railroads to tell states about the counties traversed by trains carrying combustible crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota so local first responders could be notified.
The Journal submitted open-records requests to all 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia and received at least some information from all but 14: Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia.
Mapping data received from the disclosing states, the Journal found a lot of other cities in the same situation as Newark. On its way to refiners on the East Coast and along the Gulf of Mexico, oil often sits in tank cars in railroad yards outside Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Penn., and passes through Cleveland, Chicago, Albany, Seattle and a dozen other cities.
(click here to continue reading Oil Trains Hide in Plain Sight – WSJ.)
I've been looking for a while to take a photo of one of these oil tankers in Illinois, but haven't found one yet. Do you have a photo?
The Bakken crude contains a lot of butane, making it volatile but useful for mixing with heavier oils or as a refined byproduct, said refinery manager José Dominguez. On a recent afternoon, the refinery was running mostly Bakken oil, along with some diluted crude from Canadian oil sands and a ship's worth of light sweet oil from Basra, Iraq.
When Norfolk Southern began routing crude trains through Newark, it didn't notify the local emergency officials. Last March, a year after trains started turning up, Fire Chief A.J. Schall sat down with officials from the railroad and refinery to discuss the crude shipments.
"It shows a lack of communication," he said. By the summer, Norfolk Southern and PBF paid for Mr. Schall and another local fire chief to fly to Colorado and attend a three-day class on crude-by-rail trains.
Ok, problem solved, just fly local officials to Colorado, and give them a cannabis stipend…
Oh, and in case it isn't clear, I'm a liberal who believes government is frequently the solution to our nation's problems which puts me radically at odds to the flame throwers like Ted "Calgary" Cruz who want to shut the government down because they are opposed to some policy or other.
Continue reading "Oil Trains Hide in Plain Sight Waiting To Kill Us By Exploding"
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Congress Extends Itself Tax Extender Style
November 17, 2014 Seth Anderson0 comment
Gail Collins provides a good elevator pitch description of a tax policy tool called tax extenders…
One of the very, very few things the current Congress seems determined to deal with before it vanishes into the night is the problem of "tax extenders." Extenders are strange but much-loved little financial mutants. Sort of like hobbits or three-legged kittens.
Congress, in its wisdom, has created a raft of temporary tax breaks for everybody from teachers to banks that make money overseas. Most are really intended to be permanent. But calling them short-term measures tricks the Congressional Budget Office into underestimating how much they cost.
"If you pass a new tax cut, you've got to find offsetting spending cuts. But these are in a sense free," said Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center.
After the election, both parties appeared inclined to just extend all the tax cuts for two years while making principled mumbling about reform down the line.
But then the Koch brothers roared into the picture. They feel that it's wrong for the government to give a special benefit to an industry that's one of their competitors. Especially a government that they and their associates devoted nearly $60 million to getting into office. Politico reported that their representatives have been meeting with Speaker Boehner's staff.
And you know, they have a point. If Congress actually wanted to do serious reform, it should get rid of special tax breaks for the wind and solar energy sectors. While, of course, also removing all the tax breaks for drilling oil.
(click here to continue reading Congress Extends Itself – NYTimes.com.)
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Still Sorry Somehow was uploaded to Flickr
April 21, 2014 eggplant0 comment
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China Reaps Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom
June 4, 2013 June 4, 2013 Seth Anderson0 comment
A Couple of Jokers
Oh, dandy. Aren't you glad that Bush Cheney and that merry band of war criminals decided to piss away trillions of dollars and uncounted lives in the sands of Iraq in order to free Iraqi oil from Saddam Hussein?
Since the American-led invasion of 2003, Iraq has become one of the world's top oil producers, and China is now its biggest customer.
China already buys nearly half the oil that Iraq produces, nearly 1.5 million barrels a day, and is angling for an even bigger share, bidding for a stake now owned by Exxon Mobil in one of Iraq's largest oil fields.
"The Chinese are the biggest beneficiary of this post-Saddam oil boom in Iraq," said Denise Natali, a Middle East expert at the National Defense University in Washington. "They need energy, and they want to get into the market."
"We lost out," said Michael Makovsky, a former Defense Department official in the Bush administration who worked on Iraq oil policy. "The Chinese had nothing to do with the war, but from an economic standpoint they are benefiting from it, and our Fifth Fleet and air forces are helping to assure their supply."
(click here to continue reading China Reaps Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom – NYTimes.com.)
Six Thousand Thirteen Too Many
Especially when it turns out Exxon Mobil and their ilk expected to be able to reap their usual massive profits…
Notably, what the Chinese are not doing is complaining. Unlike the executives of Western oil giants like Exxon Mobil, the Chinese happily accept the strict terms of Iraq's oil contracts, which yield only minimal profits. China is more interested in energy to fuel its economy than profits to enrich its oil giants.
Chinese companies do not have to answer to shareholders, pay dividends or even generate profits. They are tools of Beijing's foreign policy of securing a supply of energy for its increasingly prosperous and energy hungry population. "We don't have any problems with them," said Abdul Mahdi al-Meedi, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official who handles contracts with foreign oil companies. "They are very cooperative. There's a big difference, the Chinese companies are state companies, while Exxon or BP or Shell are different."
China is now making aggressive moves to expand its role, as Iraq is increasingly at odds with oil companies that have cut separate deals with Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region.
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How Republicans Killed Own Pet Oil Pipeline Project
January 19, 2012 January 19, 2012 Seth Anderson2 Comments
Gas At Last
The GOP only cares about symbolic victories, not about actual governance. For example, the infamous Keystone XL pipeline. Obama would have happily punted on the decision until after the election, but the GOP was more interested in scoring political points, so they forced Obama's hand.
At the peak of December's payroll tax cut showdown on Capitol Hill, two top Republican aides discussed with me the pros and cons of making the Keystone XL pipeline a centerpiece of the debate. They relished the idea of forcing President Obama to take a public stand on the pipeline early in an election year, instead of after the election as he had wanted. And they were eager to force him to choose between supporters in the labor movement, some of whom are pushing for the pipeline, and others in the environmental movement who vehemently oppose it. So they decided to go for it.
At the same time they knew he'd likely have to reject the project, and for them that created a dilemma.
"It's a question of whether we'd rather have the pipeline or the issue," said one of the GOP aides. Black or white.
In the end they chose the issue.
On Wednesday, as expected, Obama shutdown the project, dooming it unless the Canadian company angling for the project goes through the costly process of reapplying and winning approval next year.
Pipe Tool Industrial
All to generate some talking points, and talking points based on lies…
The political attack here is based on a number of false and exaggerated claims — including that the pipeline construction would have created 20,000 jobs (the only independent study of the project concluded that the true number would've been much lower) and that the oil is now destined for China instead of the U.S.
At her own Capitol briefing Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took issue with these claims.
"If the Republicans cared so much about the Keystone pipeline, they would not have narrowed the president's options by putting it on the time frame they did," Pelosi said. "They left him very little choice…. This oil was always destined for overseas. It's just a question of whether it leaves Canada by way of Canada, or it leaves Canada by way of the United States. So without taking a position on the pipeline, I don't agree to the stipulation that this is oil that's going to China now instead of the US. It was always going overseas. I don't know where to, but it wasn't for domestic consumption. And that's really an important point because the advertising is quite to the contrary."
(click here to continue reading How Republicans Killed Own Pet Oil Pipeline Project | TPMDC.)
Not to mention this little under-reported factoid:
In the meantime, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) launched a "countdown clock" that ticks off the time until the permitting deadline expires and posted a video on YouTube that touts the pipeline as a chance to create jobs with private investment. Playing off Obama's mantra of "We Can't Wait," the video flashes phrases across the screen including, "We Can't Wait for Leadership. We Can't Wait for Jobs." Environmentalists note that in December 2010, according to Boehner's financial disclosure forms, he invested $10,000 to $50,000 each in seven firms that had a stake in Canada's oil sands, the region that produces the oil the pipeline would transport. The firms include six oil companies—BP, Canadian Natural Resources, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy and Exxon—along with Emerson Electric, which has a contract to provide the digital automation for the first phase of a $9.4 billion Horizon Oil Sands Project in Canada.
Bill McKibben, a climate activist and co-founder of the group 350.org, wrote in an e-mail that Boehner has received more than $1 million from fossil-fuel companies, "and now we find out that he's got extensive personal investments in companies dependent on tarsands oil."
"He was willing to shut down the government in part to prevent enough time for serious environmental review," McKibben added. "In any other facet of our public life . . . this whole list taken together would be seen for the gross conflict of interest that it is."
(click here to continue reading Daily Kos: John Boehner's Keystone XL conflict of interest.)
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Traders Blamed for Oil Spike
July 28, 2009 Seth Anderson1 Comment
Speculators like Goldman Sachs taking advantage of pliable politicians and regulators to change rules? Amazingly, this is what Matt Taibbi described a few months ago. Perhaps someone in the Obama administration reads Rolling Stone?
[Do Not Oil This Index]
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to issue a report next month suggesting speculators played a significant role in driving wild swings in oil prices — a reversal of an earlier CFTC position that augurs intensifying scrutiny on investors.
In a contentious report last year, the main U.S. futures-market regulator pinned oil-price swings primarily on supply and demand. But that analysis was based on "deeply flawed data," Bart Chilton, one of four CFTC commissioners, said in an interview Monday.
The CFTC's new review, due to be released in August, adds fuel to a growing debate over financial investors who bet on the direction of commodities prices by buying contracts tied to indexes. These speculators have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts that were once dominated by producers and consumers who sought to hedge against oil-market volatility.
[Click to continue reading Traders Blamed for Oil Spike – WSJ.com ]
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The debate over speculators underscores the shifting nature of commodities trading in recent years. Before the mid-1990s, these markets were dominated by entities that had physical dealings with the underlying commodity, and "speculators" who often took the opposite position, providing liquidity to markets.
But a new group of investors has emerged in recent years. Those who want to bet on commodities prices have increasingly put their money in indexes that track the value of futures contracts, in which investors promise to pay a certain amount in the future for oil and other commodities. As of July 2008, financial investors had about $300 billion riding on these indexes, roughly four times the level in January 2006, according to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based watchdog.
Separately, these investors may buy derivatives, not directly traded on futures exchanges, that let them make contrary bets to offset their risks.
Crude-oil prices surged in July 2008 to a record $145 a barrel, then dropped to about $33 in December. Oil now trades at around $68 a barrel.
Of course, Goldman Sachs is not mentioned by name in this article, why would they be? They are just one the single largest futures speculators
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The Great American Bubble Machine – Gasoline
Matt Taibbi's putdown of Goldman Sachs is finally online if you didn't get a chance to read it yet. He places Goldman Sachs at the scene of several crime scenes, also known as stock market bubbles. For instance, the summer of 2008's massive gas price increase. Reserves of crude oil were as high as they had ever been, demand was lower because of a world-wide economic slowdown, why then did gasoline prices exceed $4?
Taibbi explains:
As is so often the case, there had been a Depression-era law in place designed specifically to prevent this sort of thing. The commodities market was designed in large part to help farmers: A grower concerned about future price drops could enter into a contract to sell his corn at a certain price for delivery later on, which made him worry less about building up stores of his crop. When no one was buying corn, the farmer could sell to a middleman known as a "traditional speculator," who would store the grain and sell it later, when demand returned. That way, someone was always there to buy from the farmer, even when the market temporarily had no need for his crops.
In 1936, however, Congress recognized that there should never be more speculators in the market than real producers and consumers. If that happened, prices would be affected by something other than supply and demand, and price manipulations would ensue. A new law empowered the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — the very same body that would later try and fail to regulate credit swaps — to place limits on speculative trades in commodities. As a result of the CFTC's oversight, peace and harmony reigned in the commodities markets for more than 50 years.
All that changed in 1991 when, unbeknownst to almost everyone in the world, a Goldmanowned commoditiestrading subsidiary called J. Aron wrote to the CFTC and made an unusual argument. Farmers with big stores of corn, Goldman argued, weren't the only ones who needed to hedge their risk against future price drops — Wall Street dealers who made big bets on oil prices also needed to hedge their risk, because, well, they stood to lose a lot too.
This was complete and utter crap — the 1936 law, remember, was specifically designed to maintain distinctions between people who were buying and selling real tangible stuff and people who were trading in paper alone. But the CFTC, amazingly, bought Goldman's argument. It issued the bank a free pass, called the "Bona Fide Hedging" exemption, allowing Goldman's subsidiary to call itself a physical hedger and escape virtually all limits placed on speculators. In the years that followed, the commission would quietly issue 14 similar exemptions to other companies.
Now Goldman and other banks were free to drive more investors into the commodities markets, enabling speculators to place increasingly big bets. That 1991 letter from Goldman more or less directly led to the oil bubble in 2008, when the number of speculators in the market — driven there by fear of the falling dollar and the housing crash — finally overwhelmed the real physical suppliers and consumers. By 2008, at least three quarters of the activity on the commodity exchanges was speculative, according to a congressional staffer who studied the numbers — and that's likely a conservative estimate. By the middle of last summer, despite rising supply and a drop in demand, we were paying $4 a gallon every time we pulled up to the pump.
[Click to continue reading about the gasoline bubble: The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone ]
Read the entire article here
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Circumstances Beyond Our Control – oil paint
May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009 swanksalot0 comment
Circumstances Beyond Our Control – oil paint, originally uploaded by swanksalot.
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Parting Gift to Oil Companies
Speaking of last minute jabs to the eye, Bush has a parting gift to his buddies at Exxon and elsewhere
The Bush administration, in one of its final acts, is proposing to let oil companies drill for oil and natural gas in half a dozen areas of the outer continental shelf that had been previously been off limits to drilling, a move that will reopen the debate over offshore drilling for President-elect Barack Obama.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the director of the federal agency that manages the nation's offshore oil and gas reserves said his agency would formally open a 60-day public comment period Friday on whether to allow leasing for oil and natural gas in all of some portion of 12 areas of the shelf, including four areas off Alaska, two off the Pacific coast, three areas in the Gulf of Mexico and three more along the Atlantic coast.
Six of the sites — those located off California, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and along the Atlantic seaboard — had previously been off limits to development under a quarter-century old federal moratorium that congressional Democrats allowed to expire last fall amid intense voter anger over high gas prices.
While none of the sales would occur before 2011, the proposal puts some pressure on Mr. Obama's administration to decide what additional areas of the outer continental shelf, if any, should be open to oil and gas production
[From Bush Administration Proposes Letting Oil Companies Drill Offshore – WSJ.com ]
There's not even a joke appropriate for these clowns
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Michael Pollan's Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief
October 28, 2008 November 20, 2008 swanksalot2 Comments
"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" (Michael Pollan)
Michael Pollan1 wrote a fascinating open letter to the upcoming new administration.
After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy — 19 percent. And while the experts disagree about the exact amount, the way we feed ourselves contributes more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than anything else we do — as much as 37 percent, according to one study. Whenever farmers clear land for crops and till the soil, large quantities of carbon are released into the air. But the 20th-century industrialization of agriculture has increased the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the food system by an order of magnitude; chemical fertilizers (made from natural gas), pesticides (made from petroleum), farm machinery, modern food processing and packaging and transportation have together transformed a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food. Put another way, when we eat from the industrial-food system, we are eating oil and spewing greenhouse gases. This state of affairs appears all the more absurd when you recall that every calorie we eat is ultimately the product of photosynthesis — a process based on making food energy from sunshine. There is hope and possibility in that simple fact.
[From The Food Issue – An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief – Michael Pollan – NYTimes.com ]
Reading around the blogosphere2, there are already calls for Obama to hire Pollan as Secretary of Agriculture, or similar.
oops, never posted this article3, and now Obama claims to have already read the open letter:
was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it's creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That's just one sector of the economy. You think about the same thing is true on transportation. The same thing is true on how we construct our buildings. The same is true across the board.
[From Swampland – TIME.com » Blog Archive The Full Obama Interview « ]
So there you have it…
Pippen reading Omnivore's Dilemma
who we've mentioned a few times before [↩]
yes! phrase coined by skippy [↩]
probably because it's pretty half-baked, and never going to be fully baked. Regardless, read the piece [↩]
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The True Cost of McCain's Oil Industry Subsidies for Every State
August 14, 2008 Seth Anderson0 comment
McCain likes giving his starving oil buddies federal tax dollars: Republican corporate welfare helps keep McCain in office.
Oil and gasoline prices are setting all-time records, helping the five biggest publicly traded oil companies in the world earn a staggering $148 billion in profits over the past year. At the same time, the U.S. government continues to provide massive subsidies to oil companies.
These subsidies for some of the most profitable companies in the world, given directly and through the tax breaks, are a waste of taxpayer dollars and continue tax dollar investments in oil instead of shifting incentives to clean energy alternatives. Subsidies for the oil industry preserve our dependence on oil, which leaves our economy vulnerable to price surges, our security vulnerable to hostile oil-rich nations, and our climate vulnerable to greenhouse gas pollution.
If elected president, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would provide $39 billion in federal help for oil and gas companies over the next five years. Some of these subsidies already exist: McCain supports the continuation of many of the current subsidies, which will total $33 billion over the next five years according to a study by Friends of the Earth, "Big Oil, Bigger Giveaways." While McCain would repeal some of these subsidies, he would also pass a corporate tax cut that would be worth more than $22 billion to America's five largest oil companies over the next five years.
[From The True Cost of McCain's Oil Industry Subsidies for Every State ]
It isn't as if the federal government needs money, no not at all.
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1. Share experience from your personal life.
Even if you haven't managed anyone before, there are ways to demonstrate you've been a good leader. Think about examples from your personal life.
When I was first starting out in my career, I was asked during an interview how I would handle a sensitive situation. I described a time when 15 friends and I rented a beach house and because of excessive cars and street parking issues, had to deal with ongoing visits from the police. In response, I created a system where we took turns parking in a nearby public lot. It wasn't popular at first, but eventually, I was able to get buy-in and the process worked. Volunteering to be the first person to park my car in the lot helped.
The President of the company hired me. The example showed my ability to manage peers through a difficult process while demonstrating my willingness to do what was unpopular for the best of the team. Don't be afraid to use personal examples to showcase your leadership skills and potential.
2. Use real-life examples of leadership qualities.
If you don't yet have official, professional experience, talk about other ways you have demonstrated leadership. Hiring managers are likely open to a variety of examples; captain of a sports team, organizer of social events or being the lead on personal projects like a volunteer opportunity or a big vacation with friends. Even something like pulling together the softball team at work shows a lot about a person.
You can convey other leadership qualities, too, like communication and persuasion. One quality of an effective leader is the ability to communicate with different levels and different types of people, and to adjust cadence and style based on the situation. You may have a more relaxed style with a close peer and step it up for senior leaders.
Being persuasive is also a desired skill. Without being a bully or using intimidation, a hiring manager wants to see your ability to state your case, share the benefits, hear others' opinions and steer the group to consensus.
3. Show you can be hands-on and do the work.
Most first-time managers are "Player/Coach," meaning they need to produce as well as lead the team. If you are interviewing for this type of role, first demonstrate you can do the parts of the job that are not management. Interviewing for a sales manager role? Show the hiring manager you will be a strong sales person, then demonstrate how you can be a successful leader.
In addition to contributing to the team, you will show that you can lead by example and put in the hard work you are asking of the people you will be managing.
4. Be prepared for commonly asked questions.
Prepare for your interview by anticipating potential questions. The more you plan, the more confident you will be during the interview. Some of the questions often asked of people interviewing for manager-level roles are below, and can be tweaked when I know the person is interviewing for their first management position.
Are you a micromanager? Give examples of how you are or are not.
What qualities do your most successful leaders possess?
How are the leaders in the organization supported?
Interviewing for your first management role is an exciting time to think about your strengths and accomplishments as a leader, and to make sure those points are articulated during your interviews. Don't let your lack of professional management experience deter you from going for it.


TWICE is introducing a new section of the publication in its May 22 issue and has shifted some editorial responsibilities, effective May 1.
The new section, Portable Digital Devices, will cover the growing phenomenon of handheld entertainment devices such as MP3, iPod, cellphones of all types, portable satellite radio devices, portable media players, some portable navigation systems and handheld video game devices. Content, as it applies to cellphones and handheld devices, will also appear there.
Senior editor Joseph Palenchar will edit and provide coverage along with fellow senior editor Amy Gilroy.
Communications will now center on VoIP, cordless handheld phones and FRS/GMRS two-way radios. This section will alternate with Digital Imaging every other issue.
Gilroy will continue to edit the Car Electronics section, and Palenchar will continue to edit the Home Audio and Custom Networking sections.
Greg Scoblete, who has been with TWICE since 2000, most recently as senior editor, becomes a contributing editor. He will continue to edit the Digital Imaging section and is now the editor of the new Communications section. Scoblete's e-mail remains the same, gscoblete@reedbusiness.com, and his new phone number is (609) 601-5257.
Jeff Malester, who has ably edited the Accessories and Business News sections during the past six years, is leaving TWICE as of April 30.
John Laposky, managing editor of TWICE, will now edit the Accessories section along with Lisa Cervini, who was recently promoted to associate editor. Laposky can be reached at (646) 746-7009 or jlaposky@ reedbusiness.com. Cervini can be reached at (646) 746-6984 or lisa.cervini@reedbusiness.com.
Editor in chief Steve Smith will edit the Business News section.


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