The data shows, without even beginning to account for everything, that the William Penn Foundation has invested over $10 million in just these few entities with the obvious purpose of frustrating as much growth as it can—in grants intended to advocate against such things as gas drilling and fracking in the watershed. Then, there is the money pushed out to the Delaware Riverkeeper, the Clean Air Council, Penn Future and myriad other groups to do the same thing, as well as the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) itself when Carol Collier sold the agency's soul to the Foundation even as the latter sued the DRBC through the Riverkeeper a/k/a Povertykeeper. And, this doesn't account for relationships with the Rockefeller agents such as the Open Space Institute and other members of the NRDC gang.
Most revealing, though, is the choice of keynote speaker Carol Collier, former DRBC Executive Director, one-time designated member of the board of the William Penn Foundation and now its DRBC leader in exile at the Academy of Natural Sciences. The Academy is a once respected outfit (much like the DRBC before her) that she is now already politicizing and taking down an ideological road.
Yes, Carol Collier is back, having come up out of the depths of the Delaware to torment the innocent men, women and children of the Upper Delaware with a message, no doubt, that they must sacrifice themselves and their livelihoods for the greater good of environmental purity as defined by lower basin ideologues and the elitist Haas family and friends. And, their mere assertion of pollution stress is the only evidence required.
This brings us back to the future. Will Carol Collier solemnly announce she's now changed her mind and decided a ban is required after all; that her previous phony efforts to produce drilling regulations while dancing with the William Penn Foundation that immediately hired her after leaving the DRBC were mistaken? I suspect so. She'll pay back the William Penn Foundation with an impassioned mea culpa and plea to enact a ban. StateImpactPA and NJ Spotlight will be there to ensure the message is echoed throughout the media and halls of Pennsylvania and New Jersey legislative buildings. Philly.com will be there as well, I expect, also being in the Haas orbit. That's how the fractivist echo chamber works.
Will the DRBC Commissioners cooperate in this sham enterprise? I would not be surprised, but they're going to have a very difficult time defending their decision in court and especially in a massive takings claim somewhere down the line, which would be the clear direction into which landowners would ultimately be forced.
The City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital also gets its water from the Susquehanna, so, if the Governor's own glass of water isn't threatened by fracking he allows on the one hand, how is he going to credibly claim it's a threat to the water he says he wants to protect on the other?
It's simply not a tenable position, which leaves me to wonder if they'll really try this in the end. There's no doubt what the William Penn Foundation wants, though. I fully expect to use this upcoming panel discussion as the basis to launch a more formal campaign for a ban using its surrogates and the echo chamber at its disposal, all bought with the inheritance of the Haas chemical fortune. How ironic and, yet, so typical of the trust-funder set.
Hah, check out the DRBC website tomorrow.
Given the fact there's no one by your name working at the DRBC so far as I know, it appears you either lied about your name after assuring me Alphege Hamilcar is for real or you have inside information on the agency by virtue of your relationship with it; that is to say you work with some member government (DEC maybe?) or some group colluding with the DRBC (like the Riverkeeper for example). Which is it? Either way you have been deceitful but I'll give you the last word before I cut you off.
Whoa, easy there Tom I know you are upset, but this was public knowledge.
Interesting that your IP address comes up as a Bristol, Pa address, the home of the natural gas-heated Delaware Povertykeeper offices and, no, it wasn't public knowledge that something would appear on the DRBC website. You have lied repeatedly and proved exactly what you're all about and I highly doubt this riduculous litigation strategy will work. But, we'll see, won't we?


Pre-Order Monsters University on DVD and Blu-Ray for Disney Freebies!
The newest Disney Pixar movie is still going strong in theaters, but it's not too early to pre-order Monsters University and enjoy some fabulous perks while you do it!
There are some great perks included with this set. In addition to the movie itself, I want to share three great reasons to Pre-Order Monsters University Now!
3. Cupcakes and Juicy Juice! Cupcakes? Stick with me. Every Monsters University Pre-Order comes with a coupon for $1.50 off two Juicy Juice products. Use that coupon, save money and make some Juicy Juice grape Monsters University cupcakes!
You can pick up your Monsters University Pre-Order package (just like mine) at Walmart through July 19th, and your DVD/Blu-Ray set shipped to your door in Fall of 2013. I can't wait to receive mine, but I'll be enjoying the perks offered with the pre-order today!
Wait…is The Little Mermaid about to get rereleased? Squeeeeee!
It sure is! I'm sure it's going to be beautiful!


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Pedro V. Roig, Esq.
Roig holds an undergraduate and master's degree from the University of Miami and earned his Juris Doctorate from St. Thomas University. Following law school, Roig had the privilege of being mentored by a Miami legal icon, attorney Burton Young.
Roig's professional career is diverse. He is not only an attorney, but also a historian, educator, author, and champion of advancing human rights and individual liberties. At a young age, Roig fled from the communist Cuban state and is a veteran of the Assault Brigade 2506 – the group of Cuban exiles that fought to overthrow the communist Cuban regime in the battle known as the "Bay of Pigs." He has written several books including "Death of a Dream," a comprehensive history of Cuba, as well as the "Cuban War of Independence 1895—1898."
In 1991, Roig was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the National Advisory Board of Education, where he served for four years. In 2003, Roig was appointed by President George W. Bush as Director of the Office of Cuban Broadcasting (Radio and Television Marti). On June 11, 2003, Roig testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on International Relations and in September 2010 he received the Superior Accomplishment Award from the National Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) for his outstanding leadership in fulfilling Radio and TV Marti's mission. In 2011, Roig joined the Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami.

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Apple To Make Its Future Phones From 100% Recycled Material
Apple has released its yearly environmental responsibility report and pledged that future iPhones will be made from 100% recycled materials.
The company is trying to lower its reliance on the raw materials that make up its phones, tablets and computers.
However, it has admitted that it's still figuring out how to get to that point.
"We're actually doing something we rarely do, which is announce a goal before we've completely figured out how to do it," Lisa Jackson, Apple's VP of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, told VICE News .
"So we're a little nervous, but we also think it's really important, because as a sector we believe it's where technology should be going."
According to Apple's report, the firm has decreased its carbon footprint over the last twelve months by 23%.
But the company still relies on materials like zinc, copper, tungsten and colbalt. The last of those has attracted negative headlines recently due to its impact in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it's mined.
Mountain gorillas have seen their habitat destroyed as more and more workers use the land for mining cobalt.
Apple has set out plans to turn this around by shifting to recycled materials, even though it acknowledges this isn't possible at the moment.
"We are committing as a company to not necessarily having to source from the earth for everything that we need," Jackson said.
Even though it still has to make big changes to the manufacturing, Apple's report shows how it's doing in other areas. The company notes that its facilities around the world now run on 96% renewable energy.
This doesn't include third-party manufacturers like Foxconn, but Apple points out that it's trying to work with them to become more efficient as well.
"We're pushing our manufacturing partners to join us in the fight against climate change. Seven major suppliers have now pledged to power their Apple production entirely with renewable energy by the end of next year," the report notes.
"And we're making strides toward our commitment to bring 4 gigawatts of renewable power online by 2020, a key step in reducing our manufacturing footprint.
"It's clear to us that now, more than ever, we can show the way to a better future. We're constantly working to show what's possible and inspire others to create a healthier environment."
Previous commitments from Apple towards going green have involved a robot called Liam, which can strip down busted iPhones to help recover the materials that can be re-used in future phones.
Apple said that Liam, which has been under development for nearly three years, can recover materials such as aluminum, copper, tin, tungsten, cobalt, gold and silver from discarded iPhones to be recycled.
The Liam system, which is made up of 29 robotic arms, has already been installed near Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, and the company plans to build a second robot in Europe for the same purpose.
The build-up of electronic waste is an increasing problem here in the UK.
Research from the memory and storage company Crucial suggests that over 13 million computers have been binned in the last five years.
That's based on extrapolations from a survey in which a fifth of the 2,000 respondents admitted they threw away at least one working computer in the last half-decade rather than recycling or upgrading them.
"One of the leading contributors to landfill waste in the UK is e-waste, created by disused or discarded technology including household appliances like old PCs," said Jeremy Mortenson, memory product line manager at Crucial.


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Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals Earn 2019 Leapfrog Top Hospital Award for Outstanding Safety and Quality
Riverview Medical Center was named a Top General Hospital and Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Ocean Medical Center were named Top Teaching Hospitals
Highlighting its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality, Hackensack Meridian Health hospitals earned 2019 Leapfrog Top Hospital awards for safety and quality. Riverview Medical Center was named a Top General Hospital and Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Ocean Medical Center were named Top Teaching Hospitals nationally by The Leapfrog Group.
Announced in December 2019, the Leapfrog Top Hospital award is widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive honors American hospitals can receive. The Top Hospital designation is awarded by The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on health care safety and quality. The Top Hospital Awards follow the network's six "A" Hospital Safety Grades, also from The Leapfrog Group.
"At Hackensack Meridian Health, our team members have created a strong culture that is committed to providing high-quality, safe care each day," said Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, CEO, Hackensack Meridian Health. "Our hospitals are among the best in the country, and I am proud that three of our hospitals have earned Leapfrog's Top Hospital Award for achieving outstanding quality and safety."
About 2,100 hospitals were considered for the award. Among those, Riverview Medical Center was one of 37 hospitals to receive a Top General Hospital distinction and Jersey Shore Medical Center and Ocean Medical Center were among 55 hospitals selected as Top Teaching Hospitals.
Performance across many areas of hospital care is considered in establishing the qualifications for the award, including infection rates, practices for safer surgery, maternity care, and the hospital's capacity to prevent medication errors. The rigorous standards are defined in each year's Top Hospital Methodology.
"We are pleased to recognize Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Riverview Medical Center and Ocean Medical Center as a 2019 Leapfrog Top Hospital," said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. "This demonstrates extraordinary dedication to patients and to the New Jersey community. We congratulate the board, staff and clinicians whose efforts made this honor possible and know they share pride in this achievement."
To qualify for the Top Hospitals distinction, hospitals must rank top among peers in the 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which assesses hospital performance on the highest known standards for quality and patient safety and achieve top performance in its category. To see the full list of institutions honored as 2019 Top Hospitals, visit www.leapfroggroup.org/tophospitals.


Invisalign can be used to treat the vast majority of common problems for adults and teens. Dr. Lee has been successful in using Invisalign clear aligners in all or part of just about any treatment plan. Unlike braces, Invisalign aligners have no metal bands or wires to irritate your mouth. Since Invisalign is removable, just take the clear aligners out for special events or when you're going to eat.
Cerec - Crowns in an hour!
Traditional crowns take two or more visits. The new Cerec technology allows Dr. Lee to make the impression, prepare the tooth, and generate the crown in 20-30 minutes. Each Cerec crown is more precise, better fitting, and takes less time than traditional restorations. This new technology allows the artistry and skill of your dentist to create better, stronger crowns with greater precision and ease than ever before.
Tartar Removal: Tartar is hardened plaque that has been left on the tooth for sometime and is now firmly attached to the tooth surface.
Plaque Removal: Plaque is a sticky, almost invisible film that forms on the teeth. Bacteria is the source of toxin that inflame the gums and lead to gum disease.
Teeth Polishing: Remove stain and plaque that is not otherwise removed during tooth brushing.
At All About the Smile, Dr. Lee and her staff are focused on providing your child the eductaion and tools your child needs for optimal oral health. Going to the dentist can be scary at any age. Dr. Lee understands children, and works with great care to make the experience a positive one for your child. The proof is in the reviews - Dr. Lee's young patients love going to the dentist!
A full mouth series of dental xrays is recommended for new patients, and is included in exams. The full xray series is usually good for 3-5 years. Dr. Lee utilizes digital xrays that minimize exposure to radiation by 90%. At All About The Smile, xrays are done on-site, and are instantly viewable by Dr. Lee making assessment and treatment more efficient.
We know how important it is to gain your trust by providing individualized and professional care for your dental needs. The comfort of our patients is of the utmost importance. Our team works together to deliver on the promise of positive dental experiences through expertise, training, and an environment of uncompromising safety.


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Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski na Żużlu 1956 – 9. edycja drużynowych mistrzostw Polski, organizowanych przez Polski Związek Motorowy (PZMot).

Zwycięzca I Ligi zostaje mistrzem Polski w sezonie 1956. Obrońcą tytułu z poprzedniego sezonu jest Gwardia Bydgoszcz.

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Ostateczna kolejność DMP 1956

II Liga

Kolejność DM II ligi 1956 grupa "północ"

Kolejność DM II ligi 1956 grupa "południe"

Baraże o prawo startu w I lidze w sezonie 1957

1 runda (mecze rozegrano w Ostrowie Wlkp.)

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When a show runs 43 minutes late (due to the wrong time-zone arrival of some French grande fromage, and no fault of the label), there is a lot of opportunity to speculate about the delights ahead. Thanks to an invitation illustrated by a close-up of tousled hair on a bare back, the best guess seemed to be a feminized reprise of creative director Sébastien Meunier's borderline trichophiliac menswear ode to Apollonian beauty. When at last the looks emerged, however, it became clear that his feminine cipher for next winter had fallen (and was reveling in it). Meunier said afterward the music was an important signifier. The two-entry playlist eddied between "Screen Shot" by Swans (sample lyric: "No pain, no death, no fear, no hate, no time, no now, no suffering") and a depressive cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." So . . . not upbeat. As Meunier said, "We all want to have no pain when we love, but in reality we all haveit—and it also makes life." Oof.
That translated into a long reflection on gently exploded masculine attire. Black topcoats featured yawing hemlines and the odd loose strap. The waistcoat was promoted into a metaphor for depth via carefully sculpted, counterintuitive layering. The odd metallic flash—and later slim pants and another topcoat in silver metallic fabric—provided a bit of roughage to temper the noir. So did an abstract print of out-of-focus streetlights reproduced on slim leather pants, wide-cuffed wool pants, a ribbed semi-sheer turtleneck, and—yes—another topcoat. Thai pant–style overfolding occasionally graced Meunier's trousers, and there were a few folded split skirts and dresses inserted to broaden the rubber-sole–shod silhouette a little, too. That hair tease on the invitation wasn't totally plucked from the air—the models all wore plaits of dark horsehair insinuated within the knotted disarray of their own hair. This was a collection to wear while moodily smoking 20 unfiltered Gitanes at a sidewalk café.


Hallways are important spaces. They allow one to live without chaos. If it weren't for the existence of hallways, one would tromp around a home traveling through a series of rooms (i.e. a child's bedroom, then the nursery) to get to the kitchen. Luckily, hallways exist so that most of us can make a trip to the kitchen without waking a sleeping baby or intruding on a teenager.
Many reside in beautifully composed spaces, but unless the extra step is taken to design every space in one's home, an individual is merely living in a series of disjointed rooms.
When designing a hallway, know that they are ideal for a bit of fun. Use that crazy wallpaper or that bold accent color you were too timid to use in a larger space. Add some art, hooks, or a chair depending on your available width. Respect your hallways, don't forget about them.
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This past week, I started learning more about databases in class. I also finished up a final round interview with a company I really want to work for, so I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be able to get it. At the same time, I don't want to get my hopes up too high, so I guess I'll just wait and see! Regarding IDB phase II, my team has suddenly put out an impressive amount of work for how much we've been procrastinating. I think we'll be able to finish if we keep this up until Tuesday's deadline, but it'll be close.
Just the last implementation details of IDB phase II. I've been working on the dynamic generation of components and the linking between different model components, but it's been going smoothly so far. It wasn't as complicated as I imagine! StackOverflow is an incredible tool. I think we still have some tests, the technical report, the UML diagram, and a few other things in the way, but I'm glad that I've been able to watch our website come alive.
Next week, I'll be finishing up IDB phase II with my team. I'm not really sure what other homework I'll have, so maybe I can find some time to work on personal projects instead. I will also be eagerly waiting for interview results, rejection or not. I'd rather get any kind of answer than be ghosted (which is, unfortunately, becoming the norm).
What did you think of the talk by Dr. Rich and Dr. Cline?
I've always enjoyed reading articles about ethics in the tech industry. I think that it is an important subject that our department should discuss more often, especially in today's society with all these issues about privacy, automation, etc. After listening to their talk, I wish that I could have taken their class in the past, since they are both very engaging and knowledgeable lecturers. Ethics is all about understanding so many different perspectives, and Dr. Rich and Dr. Cline helped me realize why ethics in tech is so complicated.
If you went, what did you think of the talk by Atlassian?
I did not go to the talk by Atlassian.
json-server! I actually heard about this from a member of our customer team when I was telling him about how I was waiting for our back-end to be done before fully diving into the implementation of the front-end. json-server allows you to quickly set up a fake REST API so you can fetch custom fake data from the endpoints. This allowed me to start working on the front-end without a kind of waterfall methodology.


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Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
There is exactly one show currently that all three of my kids will sit down and watch together. What is this magical show that will keep a four, nine and eleven year old content? Teen Titans Go!
Over the summer these little heroes made their way to the big screen. And now you can bring all of the fun home to your very own television.
"Teen Titans GO! to the Movies" will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack for $35.99 and DVD for $28.98. The Blu-ray Combo Pack features a Blu-ray disc with the film and special features in high definition, a DVD with the film in standard definition and a Digital version of the movie.Blu-ray special features are filled with music and fun, including the "DC Super Hero Girls: The Late Batsby" mini-movie, sing-a-longs, a hilarious look at the Teen Titans characters dubbing their favorite lines in other languages in "Teen Titans GO!: Translated" plus much more!
BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
"Teen Titans GO! to the Movies"Blu-ray Combo Pack contains the following special features:
• Lil Yachty Music Video: "Teen Titans GO! Rap"
• Sing-a-long with Silkie"DC Super Hero Girls: The Late Batsby" Mini-Movie
• Red Carpet Mayhem
• Teen Titans GO! To the Movies: WB Lot Shenanigans
• "Everything is Fake": Exclusive song not in the movie
• "Teen Titans GO!: Translated"
• Storyboard Animatics:
o Storyboard Animatics:Time Cycles
o The Final Battle
"Teen Titans GO! to the Movies"Standard Definition DVD contains the following special features:
• Storyboard Animatics:Time Cycles
• The Final Battle
Our family - yes, family, this movie is hilarious- is so excited to add Teen Titans to our movie collection. It's one they can watch over and over and the parents don't mind. We might even be laughing harder.
Thanks to Warner Bros for sending us a DVD combo pack for this post. All opinions are honest and our own.


Want to learn how to sell anybody? Good. Why not learn from someone who can sell YOU? Let's choose something simple like a pen.
Let's pretend you are a prospect and, to make it interesting, your job is NOT to buy a pen from me. Remember, don't buy from me.
The prospect usually starts to laugh because he now believes he would like to sign. To not sign now seems out of character. He signs and I have another fervent convert.
As you can see, the best and only true offense a sales person has is questions. I ask questions early and often. I never presume. I simply ask questions. I always ask two or more questions but once I receive two positive answers concerning the product… I close the deal. Most sales reps sign a new customer by getting a signature on paper or an acknowledgement over the Internet. The faster you can pull a purchase agreement out or start conversing about money issues the faster the conversation will lead to a close.
You may think this approach is aggressive yet to achieve any sale you must follow these steps. You agree the longer a close takes the more things can go wrong. Another competitor could discover the potential deal while cold calling for example.
When is the appropriate time to close? Don't worry about having perfect timing or being a psychic. Start talking about price as soon as you can. You will know faster if your prospect has the funds allocated and whether he thinks your retail price is fair.
Managers who have reviewed my firms' techniques thought high-tech sales had to be long and drawn out. Consultative selling was the correct way they said. Most of my sales people had a minimum of 10 years in the shipping software integration business but we had cut our teeth in the knock-on-doors mailing/shipping arena. You will find out that once a prospect realizes you know what is best for him he will want to talk price as soon as possible. Close faster. Do it now.


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Formula DRIFT Veteran Kyle Mohan Joins GT Radial Team
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA (March 28, 2014) – Just weeks after announcing its status as an official tire supplier for the 2014 Formula DRIFT series, GT Radial has added a second driver to the team, Kyle Mohan, who will be competing in a turbocharged Mazda RX-8.
An eight-year veteran of Formula DRIFT, Mohan joins fellow Mazda driver, rookie Tyler Wolfson, on the GT Radial roster. An independent team based in Signal Hill, CA, Kyle Mohan Racing routinely qualifies in the top of the Formula DRIFT field, making regular appearances in the series' main event, the top-16 tandem competition. Competing against a field of V8 engines, Mohan's turbocharged Mazda with its rotary engine regularly delights the fans as it screams around turns howling to nearly 10,000 RPM.
New for the team in 2014 is a three-rotor, 20B power plant which will produce in excess of 800hp. Mohan's Mazda RX-8, designed and developed with Mohan's longtime sponsor, Mazdatrix, will run GT Radial Champiro SX2 265/35ZR18 tires on the rear and Champiro HPY 255/35ZR18 tires on the front.
The 32-year-old driver, who lives in Long Beach, CA, is a three-time winner of the Long Beach Team Drift Challenge. He was also the 2010 Redline Pro Time Attack Drift Class Champion and was invited to the Red Bull World Championship in 2008 where he qualified in the top 10.
"It's a thrill for me to partner with GT Radial for this year's Formula DRIFT Pro Championship," said Mohan. "Everyone at KMR has worked hard over the off-season to rebuild our Mazda RX-8 with a new, three-rotor engine and I can't wait to see how we perform on our new GT Radials at Long Beach next weekend. We know based on their success around the world that the GT Radial Champiro SX2 is a great drifting tire, and we plan to showcase that in Formula DRIFT."
The Champiro SX2, introduced recently to North America, was developed for driving enthusiasts who want higher levels of traction, response and driving control in dry and wet conditions. An outstanding performer on the street and the track, the Champiro SX2 has already experienced considerable success in Formula DRIFT Asia, with drivers such as Josh Boettcher from Australia who placed 3rd overall in the 2013 championship.
"Kyle Mohan is a great addition to the GT Radial Formula DRIFT roster," said Armand Allaire, vice president of marketing for Giti Tire USA, which markets and sells GT Radial tires in North America. "He's a proven competitor, and like Tyler, will be a great brand ambassador for demonstrating the world-class technology and performance of the GT Radial brand to North American drivers."
This will be Wolfson's rookie season in Formula DRIFT following back to back feeder series championship wins on GT Radial tires. The San Diego driver and his GT Radial/SAE Motorsport Mazda RX-7 will compete in the full seven event calendar of the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship, as well as the four event calendar of the Formula DRIFT Pro2 Series.
Both teams will be ready for the kick-off of the 2014 Formula DRIFT season on April 4-5 at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Street Course.
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Chelsea Denofa and Bergenholtz Racing join Forces!
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Two-Time Drift Champion, Chelsea Denofa and Bergenholtz Racing are joining forces. Chelsea will be driving the Nitto Tire BC Racing Mazda RX8 for the remainder of the 2012 Formula Drift Championship Series. "Chelsea is an amazing driver. His aggression and determination to win isreflective of his actions on track. We feel that this bold new partnership will increase the chances to win." Said Ron Bergenholtz Team Manager of the Nitto Tire BC Racing Mazda Drift Team.
Posted in FD News | Tagged bc racing, Bergenholtz Racing, chelsea denofa, drifting, Formula D, Formula DRIFT, Mazda, RX-8
BMI Racing 4-Rotor Snap-On RX8 Video
BMI Racing. Four Rotor RX8. Snap-On Tools. And a lot of noise… from Mark Lenardon on Vimeo.
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DRIFT ALLIANCE ACE BRIAN WILKERSON TO DRIVE BMI RACING 4-ROTOR RX-8 IN LONG BEACH
TORRANCE, CA (April 4th, 2010)- BMI Racing is happy to announce that Drift Alliance Ace Brian Wilkerson will drive the BMI Racing 2009 Mazda RX-8 4-Rotor drift car at Formula Drift Round 1: Streets Of Long Beach on April 9-10th.
Brian Wilkerson has been a constant presence in the east coast grassroots drifting scene for years, competing in several amateur and semi-professional events since 2006 with impressive results. Brian has renewed his Formula Drift competition license for 2010 and is looking to punch a hole in the pro-drift circuit and show that he has what it takes to be a serious contender among the world's best drifters in the top level American drift series.
BMI Racing is currently finishing up prep-work on their one of a kind 2009 Mazda RX-8 powered by a rare 4-Rotor engine. BMI Racing is the first performance shop to successfully install a 4-Rotor engine into an RX-8 chassis. Since the car's completion it has been an internet sensation and has received over 80,000 video hits combined on YouTube.com and StreetFire.net as well as over 200,000 total impressions due to coverage on Autoblog.com and Mazda USA's corporate website.
While both BMI Racing and Brian Wilkerson have years of experience in their respective specialties both parties are relatively (Brian competed in Round 2 in Atlanta in '09) new to Formula Drift and expect tough challenges ahead. However, Brian and BMI Racing are also confident that together, they can make a strong impression at Long Beach.
For further information on BMI Racing and Brian Wilkerson you can visit http://www.bmiracing.net and www.brianwilkerson.com.
If you have any inquires on BMI Racing feel free to contact Andrew Beckford ([email protected])
ABOUT BMI RACING:
BMI Racing consists of Adam and Sarah Burgess a happily married couple that moved from Australia to the USA to pursue their shared passion for motorsport, and with over 25 years combined experience they have built extreme and diverse performance vehicles.
BMI Racing has successfully built the World's only 2009 Mazda RX-8 4 Rotor, a naturally aspirated beast that has a unique engine sound that can only be compared to that of a Formula One car. The RX-8 4 rotor has been well received wherever it has been on display, including shows such as Seven Stock 12 held at Mazda Headquarters Irvine, the final round of Formula D at Irwindale, and the world largest automotive show – The SEMA show held in Las Vegas.
Posted in Behind the Wheel | Tagged 4 Rotor, BMI Racing, Brian Wilkerson, Formula D, Mazda, RX-8
Kyle Mohan RX-8 Build for 2009 Season!
Check out Kyle Mohan new Mazda RX-8, that he's building for the new 2009 Formula Drift Series! Here's a few pictures from their blog via http://kylemohanracing.com/blog
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Walter Benjamin's Radio Plays for Kids (1929-1932)
in Philosophy, Radio | November 1st, 2014 Leave a Comment
Image by Walter Benjamin Archiv, via Wikimedia Commons
Many novelists and poets—from Oscar Wilde to Neil Gaiman—have excelled at reaching adults as well as kids, but it's incredibly rare to find an academic who can do so. Two of the few exceptions that come to mind are the ever popular C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, both well-respected Oxford scholars and more-than-able children's authors. We can add to that short list a rather unexpected name—that of Walter Benjamin: apocalyptic Marxist theorist and literary critic, student of mystical Judaism and Kabbalah, mentor and friend to Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, and Herman Hesse, and children's radio host. During the years 1927 and 1933, while working on his monumental, and unfinished, Arcades Project and teaching at the University of Heidelberg, Benjamin also maintained a lively presence as a broadcaster, where "he found himself," Critical Theory tells us, "writing on a variety of topics for… all ages, including children and adolescents."
Benjamin's youth and adult programming has been collected by Verso press in a new book entitled Radio Benjamin, which "brings together some of his most accessible" thinking. "Fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture," writes Verso, Benjamin "wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio." Between 1929 and 1932, he delivered around 30 broadcasts he called "Enlightenment for Children" (Aufklärung für Kinder), many of which you can hear read in the original German by Harald Wiesner at Ubuweb (German speakers, listen to an episode above). These, Ubuweb informs us, focused on "introducing the youth to various, some of them classical, natural catastrophes, for instance the Lisbon earthquake of the 1750's that so shook the optimism of Voltaire and the century."
https://ubusound.memoryoftheworld.org/benjamin_walter/Childrens_Radio/Benjamin-Walter_Childrens-Radio_CD01T02.mp3
Another of Benjamin's subjects was "various episodes of lawlessness, fraud and deceit, much of it recent." During one such broadcast, "The Bootleggers," Benjamin wonders aloud rhetorically, "should children even hear these kinds of stories? Stories of swindlers and miscreants who break the law trying to make a pile of dough, and often succeed?" He admits, "It's a legitimate question." He then goes on to elucidate "the laws and grand intentions that create the backdrop for the stories in which alcohol smugglers are heroes" and tells, in fascinating detail, a few "little tales" of said heroes.
Benjamin, writes Critical Theory, played the role of "a German Ira Glass for teens," with a kind of pop sociology that also taught lessons about language, philosophy, and class prejudice. In another episode, "Berlin Dialect," he "celebrates 'Berlinish," a crude dialect of the working class that was ditched as Berliners sought to become more 'refined.'" "Berlinish is a language that comes from work," he explained, "It developed not from writers or scholars, but rather from the locker room and the card table, on the bus and at the pawn shop, at sporting arenas and in factories."
The typescripts of Benjamin's radio plays for children were seized by the Gestapo after his suicide in 1940 and "only escaped destruction by bureaucratic error." They were only published in German in 1985. The high theorist himself apparently looked down upon this work but, Verso writes, these "plays, readings, book reviews, and fiction reveal Benjamin in a creative, rather than critical, mode… channeling his sophisticated thinking to a wide audience." As such, these radio broadcasts may—as Jeffrey Mehlman argues in Walter Benjamin for Children—help us better understand "one of this century's most suggestive and perplexing critics."
via Critical Theory
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St. Catharine College offered for VA hospital
Sheldon S. Shafer
@sheldonshafer
An 11th-hour offer surfaced Wednesday, the final day for public comment, as a site for the long-planned replacement facility for the aging Robley Rex VA Medical Center in Louisville.
The latest proposed site was to develop the hospital at the vacant St. Catharine College in Springfield. The college fell on hard times and closed last year. It subsequently has gone through foreclosure and liquidation proceedings.
Steve Hale, operator of a realty and auction company in Springfield and a St. Catharine alumnus, said more than 90 acres would be available for the hospital. He said he is working with Washington County economic development officials and with the realty firm CBRE in marketing the campus.
He said Springfield is "at the crossroads of the whole state of Kentucky," roughly halfway between Louisville and Lexington. He said the campus buildings are nearly all capable of being reused.
►BACKGROUND: A decade later, new VA hospital plans uncertain
Recruiting the VA facility "is not a pipedream," he said.
The new offer came on the final day that Veteran Affairs officials had set for commenting on a site for the replacement hospital and also on some environmental-impact conclusions about the hospital being built at Brownsboro Road and the Watterson Expressway — a site already purchased by federal officials for the nearly $1 billion medical complex.
There have been numerous proposals for a site for the facility that is intended to replace the VA Medical Center located off Zorn Avenue. But VA officials have shown little inclination to back away from the site off the Watterson near Holiday Manor — even though many residents in that area have serious concerns about traffic congestion and environmental issues they fear would accompany the facility.
VA spokeswoman Judy Williams affirmed Tuesday that the VA remains focused on building the hospital at the Brownsboro Road site — "until something changes. And we have had no indication of that."
►READ MORE: Report: Beshear officials coerced workers for contributions
►READ MORE: City ready to settle years of JBS stink gripes
Meanwhile, other offers have poured in. Earlier this week Reed Benet, the Michigan-based founder of an organization called Hero Homes, said he and partners have under contract a 507-acre site along South Park Road near I-65 in southern Jefferson County that would be available for the hospital.
Benet said his vision is to donate land for the hospital and then try to develop most of the rest of the site with housing — primarily for veterans — along with some job-training facilities.
Previously, the city of Radcliff in Hardin County offered a vacant 147-acre parcel for the facility, and Bullitt County officials proposed 42 acres free of charge that the county owns at Exit 112 off Interstate 65 and Preston Highway.
Support has also surfaced to develop the new hospital at the former Foodport site near Market and 30th streets in western Louisville. Southern Indiana has been mentioned as a possibility, and support has been expressed to put the new facility in or near the existing medical center in downtown Louisville. Many veterans have said they like the current hospital site off Zorn, mainly because of its accessibility.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer recently sent a letter to the VA expressing serious doubts about the Brownsboro Road location, including potential traffic problems and environmental concerns. He said his administration would help find a more suitable location.
Once all the comments have been submitted, VA officials in Washington will consider the comments, before making the final site decision.
Written comments may be submitted through Jan. 11 online at www.Louisville-EIS.com, by email to LouisvilleReplacementHospitalComments@va.gov, or by regular mail to Robley Rex VAMC, Replacement VAMC Activation Team Office (Attn: Judy Williams), 800 Zorn Ave., Louisville, KY 40206.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is available for public review online at louisville.va.gov/newmedicalcenter and at the Westport, St. Matthews Eline, and Main Branches of the Louisville Free Public Library system.
Reporter Sheldon S. Shafer can be reached at (502) 582-7089, or via email at sshafer@courier-journal.com.


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General Dynamics and its Dynamic Generals
BIG 5 DEFENSE CONTRACTOR GENERAL DYNAMICS AND ITS DYNAMIC GENERALS
Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 28: Communication 1
14 Oct 2011 (g1a2d0028c1)
Part 1 of 4: National Security Inc.
"The evolution of General Dynamics was based on one simple strategy: Follow the money. The company embraced the emerging intelligence-driven style of warfare. It developed small-target identification systems and equipment that could intercept an insurgent's cellphone and laptop communications. It found ways to sort the billions of data points collected by intelligence agencies into piles of information that a single person could analyze. It also began gobbling up smaller companies that could help it dominate the new intelligence landscape, just as its competitors were doing. Between 2001 and 2010, the company acquired 11 firms specializing in satellites, signals and geospatial intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, technology integration and imagery. On Sept. 11, 2001, General Dynamics was working with nine intelligence organizations. Now it has contracts with all 16. Its employees fill the halls of the NSA and DHS. The corporation was paid hundreds of millions !
of dollars to set up and manage DHS's new offices in 2003, including its National Operations Center, Office of Intelligence and Analysis and Office of Security. Its employees do everything from deciding which threats to investigate to answering phones."
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/national-security-inc/1/
Part 2 of 4: General Dynamics Elects General James L. Jones to Board of Directors
"General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) board of directors has elected retired U.S. Marine Corps general James L. Jones to be a director of the corporation, effective Aug. 3, 2011. Jones, 67, is currently president of global consulting firm Jones Group International and served as National Security Advisor to the President of the United States from January 2009 to November 2010. Previously, he was Supreme Allied Commander of the U.S. European Command and served as the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps, which he served for more than 40 years until his 2007 retirement. Jones is also on the boards of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Atlantic Council of the United States, among other institutions."
http://www.govconwire.com/2011/08/general-dynamics-elects-gen-james-l-jones-to-board-of-directors/
Part 3 of 4: From the Pentagon to the private sector
"Retired General William S. Wallace, who ran the Army's Training and Doctrine Command before retiring in 2008, said he was not representing one of the prospective bidders at the time of the meeting. Like the other participants, however, one of the ethics questions he was asked to answer, according to a blank copy, was whether he intended to consult in the future for a client that may have a direct interest in bidding on the new tank… Wallace declined to say how he answered that question. Wallace confirmed that he is now a consultant for General Dynamics Land Systems Division, which is seeking to win the ground combat vehicle contract."
http://articles.boston.com/2010-12-26/news/29319170_1_generals-defense-firms-private-sector
http://articles.boston.com/2010-12-26/news/29319170_1_generals-defense-firms-private-sector/2
Part 4 of 4: Dynamic Generals
"Nothing lubricates the wheels of defense commerce better than to have General Dynamics' boardroom filled with retired generals and admirals?
* Jay L. Johnson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer – Retired Admiral, U.S. Navy. Chief of Naval Operations from 1996 to 2000.
* George A. Joulwan, Director and Chairman, Compensation Committee – Retired General, U.S. Army. Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, from 1993 to 1997. Commander-in-Chief, Southern Command from 1990 to 1993.
* Paul G. Kaminski, Director and Chairman, Finance and Benefit Plans Committee – Under Secretary of U.S. Department of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from 1994 to 1997.
* John M. Keane, Director – Retired General, U.S. Army. Vice Chief of Staff of the Army from 1999 to 2003.
* Lester L. Lyles, Director – Retired General, U.S. Air Force. Commander of the Air Force Materiel Command from 2000 to 2003. Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force from 1999 to 2000.
* Robert Walmsley, Director – Retired Vice Admiral, Royal Navy. Chief of Defence Procurement for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence from 1996 to 2003.
[The] key nodes in the corrupt government-corporate nexus are clearly at the highest levels where tax dollars get siphoned into private bank accounts by retired generals and former government officials who smugly regard the practice as the way Washington works. Indeed it is – and it is the way capitalism corrupts democracy."
http://warincontext.org/2010/07/20/dynamic-generals/
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ExxonMobil: High Earnings, Low Taxes, No Ethics
EXXON MOBIL: HIGH EARNINGS, LOW TAXES, NO ETHICS
Exxon Mobil Corporation is the the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly and – along with BP, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, and Total S.A. – one of the five global oil and gas 'supermajors'.
"Over the past two years [2009-2010], ExxonMobil reported $9.91 billion in pretax U.S. profits. But it enjoyed so many tax subsidies that its federal income tax bill was only $39 million – a tax rate of only 0.4 percent."
http://www.ctj.org/pdf/energy20110429.pdf
"Even when Exxon Mobil had a record profit of $40 billion in 2008 due to record oil prices it had only a 31 percent effective tax rate. That's 13 percent lower than the maximum 35 percent despite being Exxon Mobil's fifth year as the top corporate earner in Fortune 500's annual listing. The company paid NO TAXES AT ALL to the U.S. federal government in 2009 on its domestic profits of nearly $2.6 billion. It appears that they avoided the tax man that year by legally funneling their profits through wholly owned subsidiaries in countries like the Cayman Islands, and reinvesting their earnings overseas… More striking still is the discrepancy between Exxon Mobil's rates and those of most American breadwinners. The company's effective rate of 17.6 percent is nearly 16 percent below the average individual federal tax rate, which according to the Congressional Budget Office was 20.4 percent as of 2007."
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/05/tax_man.html
It is not by accident that one of the world's largest and most profitable corporations gets to keep so much of its earnings. In 2010 alone, Exxon Mobil spent $12.45 million keeping an army of 50 mostly 'revolving-door' lobbyists marching up and down the halls of Congress maximizing its federal income tax loopholes while minimizing all those pesky environmental protection and anti-trust regulations:
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientlbs.php?id=D000000129&year=2010
This of course leaves them with plenty of cash for PR propaganda campaigns aimed at whitewashing their corporate image to not only wipe away unpleasant memories of the Exxon Valdez oil spill but also distract attention from inconvenient truths like their #2 ranking among the Toxic 100 Air Polluters in the U.S.:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index/
That disclosure of course tags Exxon Mobil as a key contributor to the larger "Inconvenient Truth" of Global Warming, and the response of their spinmeisters has been to flood our corporate-controlled media with authoritative-sounding denials that such a thing even exists. And while Wikipedia entries are often incomplete, inaccurate or subjectively skewed, in this case the supporting references that follow indicate they got it right:
"A recent analysis by Carbon Brief from 2011 concluded that 9 out of 10 climate scientists who claim that climate change is not happening have ties to ExxonMobil. The results showed that out of the 938 papers cited by climate sceptics, 186 of them were written by only ten men, and foremost among them was Dr Craig D. Idso, who personally authored 67 of them. Idso is the president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, an ExxonMobil funded think tank. The second most prolific was Dr Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, who receives roughly 40% of his funding from the oil industry."
http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate-change-papers-exxon-mobil/
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/04/900-papers-supporting-climate-scepticism-exxon-links/
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/dirty-money-climate-30032010/
http://ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Big_Oil.png
http://ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/ExxonMobil_GlobalWarming.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUyQMYiRCcw *
* "Two days after [this report] was published, [Philip] Cooney resigned his position as chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality and got a job at ExxonMobil. However, his resignation was planned months before the memo was leaked and he had already accepted the position at ExxonMobil."
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BP PLC: Politics, Payola and Petroleum
IronBoltBruce's Kleptocracy Chronicles: 16 Oct 2011 (g1a2d0030c1)
If you rank our federal government's Top 100 contractors according to their total reported instances of misconduct since 1995, the number one spot turns out to be a three-way tie at 57 between Lockheed Martin, Exxon Mobil, and BP P.L.C. (formerly "British Petroleum", now simply "BP"). Between them, however, BP is the winner in terms of their associated misconduct dollars for the period, which totalled over $2.65 billion:
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm?sort=3
Yet despite their responsibility for the worst oil spill and ecological disaster in Gulf Coast history, which capped off a litany of repeat offenses involving multiple charges of Clean Air Act violations, hazardous waste violations, employee safety violations, anti-trust violations and other white collar crimes, BP is perennially "awarded" megabucks government contracts by Uncle Sam, including over $1 billion in new contracts last year:
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm/1,73,221,html?ContractorID=61&ranking=65
Given that their principal product – petroleum – is an undifferentiated commodity for which they possess no exclusivity, one might question how a "foreign" corporation with such a deplorable reputation is able to keep their snout in the Washington trough. The answer is that since its genesis circa 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company, the history of BP has been as much about politics and payola as it has about petroleum. Some say the grease started flowing in 1923 when a young Winston Churchill "…secretly accepted 5,000 pounds – the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money – from Burmah Oil to lobby the British government to allow Burmah to collar Persian [i.e. Iranian] oil resources."
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/the-greatest-20th-century-beneficiary-of-popular-mythology-has-been-the-cad-churchill-1876680.html
Whenever it began, BP's political payola still gushes to this day. From 1989 to 2010, BP contributed $3,437,884 to U.S. candidates on both sides of the political spectrum, with Barack H. Obama blowing by George W. Bush to take the top recipient slot. And what their puppets got directly was chump change compared to the $62,010,584 BP has funneled to (and through?) Washington lobbyists since 1997. And to make sure the beneficiaries of all that generosity know exactly what is expected in return, since 1995 no less than 24 BP employees have been seated on no less than 24 key federal "advisory" committees:
http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/bp/6677c9b020c94e25b05168fe3e6e8aa2
http://ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/BP_Billionaire_Polluters.jpg
The web is awash with conspiracy theories involving BP, Halliburton, Transocean, Goldman Sachs and others having to do with intent or foreknowledge of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig catastrophe, selling and short-selling of impacted stocks prior to the Gulf Oil Spill disaster, the application of deadly dispersants and the disappearance of whistleblowers afterwards, and more. We have neither investigated nor verified any of these, and include this video reference only for your awareness and speculation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZuxYSjZ3-k
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Time Warner Cable: Buying Legislators and Selling Legislation
Many Americans think that at the state level a bill becomes law only if it is passed by both House and Senate and signed by the Governor. Not so. Across our 50 states we have no less than 63 ways a bill can become "law without signature" by a Governor looking to avoid controversy or accountability that might quash their Presidential hopes or land them in jail:
http://tinyurl.com/3euvua9
One such bill was North Carolina House Bill 129 (NC H129), which on 21 May of this year became North Carolina Session Law 2011-84 (SL 2011-84) without the signature of Governor Beverly Eaves "B" Perdue … whose last name is actually that of her dead ex-husband … whose middle name is her current husband's last name … and the "B", well, ask Andy about that.
http://tinyurl.com/43p4hrf
Anyway, with Aunt B's inaction the "Level Playing Field/Local Government Competition" bill – like the USA PATRIOT Act of a decade before – was passed into law with covenants that were the exact opposite of its Orwellian cover. Opponents like the Institute for Local Self Reliance referred to NC H129 as the "Time Warner Cable Monopoly Protection Act", and with good reason.
http://tinyurl.com/3s3knvj
As Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn warned, "Do not let the title fool you. This measure, if enacted, will not only fail to level the playing field; it will discourage municipal governments from addressing deployment in communities where the private sector has failed to meet broadband service needs. In other words, it will be a significant barrier to broadband deployment and may impede local efforts to promote economic development."
http://tinyurl.com/3bdb4f6
Another reason the Time Warner Cable logo should have been on the cover of NC H129 is that, according to industry watchdog StopTheCap.com, it was Time Warner's lawyers and lobbyists who actually drafted th legislation and assigned it to State Representative Marilyn Avila to sponsor. And sponsor it she did, despite the fact that it was opposed by many of her own constituents:
"Raleigh's City Council adopted a resolution opposing Avila's legislation, written on behalf of Time Warner Cable. H129 will destroy North Carolina's community-owned broadband networks and prevent new ones from launching. Council Member Bonner Gaylord, who authored the resolution, says passage of these kinds of anti-competitive bills would stop local governments from providing needed communications services, especially advanced high-speed broadband, and deny local governments the availability of federal grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to assist in providing affordable access to high-capacity broadband service in unserved and underserved areas."
http://tinyurl.com/4y8z3sy
But despite a thumbs down from industry watchdogs, and over the protests of the cities and people of the state, NC H129 still received the support of enough legislators to become law. And how did Time Warner Cable garner the necessary votes? They bought them, as Joey Mornin explains:
"If you're like most Americans, you probably buy your Internet service from one of a small handful of corporate providers. The big incumbent broadband providers – like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable – often enjoy monopoly or duopoly privileges in the areas they serve. Recently, some communities have started to implement their own municipal broadband networks. These community-owned networks are often faster, cheaper, and more reliable than the corporate alternatives. In North Carolina, for instance, community-owned networks like Fibrant and Greenlight consistently outperform the commercial offerings from Time Warner, AT&T, and CenturyLink. Similar municipal broadband projects are taking root across the country. Their expansion, however, threatens the comfortable markets that corporate broadband providers have come to expect. In what could become a typical case, Time Warner is supporting a bill in the North Carolina state legislature that would impose sharp limits on the growth of municipal broadband networks. Despite widespread opposition, the bill recently passed in both chambers of the state legislature. Time Warner, which reported $26 billion in revenue in 2010, has donated over $6.3 million to North Carolina politicians over the last four years."
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Chevron Oil: Big Boat for Condi, Big Bucks for Bushbama
"In 2001, Chevron acquired Texaco and became the second largest oil company in the United States. The company produces nearly 3 million barrels of oil a day and has operations in 120 countries. In addition to oil, Chevron also owns a chemicals subsidiary and holds a stake in Dynegy, a power company. Chevron lobbies on all energy issues, including the proposal to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. After never before spending $10 million on federal lobbying efforts, Chevron spent nearly $13 million in 2008, followed by lobbying expenditures of $20.8 million in 2009 and $12.9 million in 2010."
http://tinyurl.com/3tmgk9k
Like every corporate giant we investigate, Chevron's political campaign contributions end up in the pockets of both Democrats and Republicans. Historically, however, the Red team has been heavily favored over the Blue. This is understandable, given Chevron's long-standing ties to the Bush family, as exemplified by this 2005 quote from the Washington Post: "Wayne L. Berman, a principal lobbyist for Chevron, is a Bush 'Ranger [personal fundraiser]', having raised at least $200,000 for the president's campaign. His wife, Lea, is the White House social secretary."
http://tinyurl.com/cy7db
Dubya's Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice pushed through the Chevron/Bush BigCorp/BigGov revolving door more than once. After serving on Bush senior's National Security Council from 1989 to 1991, in 1992 Chevron brought her onto their Board of Directors to leverage her taxpayer-subsidized political contacts to land a $10 billion contract in Kazakhstan. She must have done a good job, because the next year Chevron named a 129,000-ton supertanker in her honor, the SS Condoleeza Rice. For obvious reasons, shortly after Rice joined the second Bush administration in 2001 her big boat was quietly renamed the SS Altair Voyager:
http://tinyurl.com/3q447xb
According to Influence Explorer, Chevron shelled out $12,053,212 in campaign contributions between 1989 and 2010, and they have spent a staggering $82,144,825 on lobbying since 1997. They gave to both Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) and Gray Davis (D-CA), and to both John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL), favoring the Republicans in each case:
http://tinyurl.com/3zx8jjk
The 2008 Presidential election in isolation, however, was an exception. In that cycle, Chevron as well as BP and Exxon gave more money to Democratic candidate Obama than they did to Republican candidate McCain:
http://tinyurl.com/3ceq4yr
Perhaps they sensed that "change" was coming, and they wanted to make sure that change was – as it turned out to be – in name only. Or perhaps, they wanted all bases covered because they knew this was coming:
[20-Sep-2011] "Ecuadorans suing Chevron Corp. over pollution in the Amazon rain forest are one step closer to collecting a $9.5 billion judgment against the San Ramon company. A U.S. appeals court on Monday lifted a lower court's order that had blocked the Ecuadorans from collecting money in the long-running lawsuit. In February, a judge in Ecuador ruled that Chevron should pay to clean up contamination in the oil fields where Texaco, bought by Chevron in 2001, once worked. But the company persuaded a U.S. judge to block enforcement, arguing that the verdict was the result of fraud. Chevron even filed a criminal conspiracy case against the Ecuadorans. Monday's order by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York put that case on hold. It also lifted the injunction, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, that had prevented the Ecuadorans from collecting the massive judgment against Chevron."
http://tinyurl.com/42b3jyf
http://truecostofchevron.com/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yWsqcNOHY0
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Royal Dutch Shell: The World's Dirtiest Oil Company
Part 1 of 3: Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
"[Royal Dutch Shell PLC a.k.a. Shell Oil Company a.k.a.] Shell is a corporate member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as of 2011. G. Edward Pickle, Senior Government Affairs Counsel of Shell Oil Company, is Shell's representative to ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force. It was a 'Chairman' level sponsor of the 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Conference, which in 2010, equated to $50,000. Shell also sponsored the Plenary Session speeches on August 4th, 2011, by ALEC 'scholars' Arthur B. Laffer and Stephen Moore… ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve 'model' bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovation – without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a 'unique,' 'unparalleled' and 'unmatched' organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at http://ALECexposed.org "
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shell_Oil_Company
Part 2 of 3: The Oil Spill the World Forgot
"As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to dominate headlines around the world, public outrage is being focused more intensely upon BP and its gaffe-prone CEO Tony Hayward. But amidst this crisis, the public should not forget the atrocities committed by other massive oil companies. For example, Royal Dutch Shell's drilling operations have been spilling oil into the Niger Delta in Nigeria since 1958. Because Nigeria is an impoverished nation and oil revenues fund a majority of government operations, Shell and other companies have been able to drill and pollute without serious oversight for all these years. It is estimated that 13 million barrels of oil have spilled into the delta, making life even more difficult for the region's destitute residents. Shell blames the constant spills on attacks from "rebels," who are in fact minority ethnic groups who feel they have been exploited and displaced by foreign oil companies. But Shell would never consider pulling out of the region or finding ways to avoid ethnic strife. Instead, Shell has proceeded with business as usual, and spilled a record 14,000 tons of crude oil into the delta last year [2009]."
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2010/06/9164/oil-spill-world-forgot
Part 3 of 3: Shell's Big Dirty Secret: Insight into the world's most carbon intensive oil company
"This new research paper rates the carbon intensity of the top international oil companies, revealing that Shell is now the most carbon intensive oil company in the world based on its total resources. This report documents Shell's record investment in dirty forms of energy, and it illuminates the corporate strategy and lobbying for regulations that indicate it intends to profit from that position for a long time to come. Our key conclusions are:
* Shell holds more carbon in its resources, per barrel of future oil equivalent, than any other major international oil company. Shell is therefore the world's most carbon intensive oil company;
* The average carbon intensity of each barrel of oil and gas Shell produces is set to rise dramatically, increasing 85 per cent on today's figure;
* This sharp increase is caused by Shell's move into oil sands, its reliance on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and its continued gas flaring in Nigeria;
* Shell continues to expand investments in oil sands and oil shale, relying on the dirtiest technologies to establish itself as a leader in the industry;
* Shell has stopped its investments in renewables, except for biofuels, which pose a whole new set of environmental problems;
* Internal documents obtained in the discovery process of Wiwa v. Shell reveal that although Shell could have ended gas flaring in the early '90's, it decided it was more profitable not to;
* Shell continues to flare gas in Nigeria at levels which, according to its own figures, are only 12% less than those of 1999 after accounting for the reductions due to community unrest;
* Because of all of the above, Shell is more vulnerable to carbon pricing and subject to greater carbon risk than its peers.
* Therefore, Shell is leading industry lobby efforts in Washington, Brussels, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to weaken and neuter legislation and regulation to tackle climate change."
http://priceofoil.org/educate/resources/shells-big-dirty-secret/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2in7L0VFsrM
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Koch Industries, Keystone XL and Killer Kleptocracy
Koch (pronounced like "Coke") Industries is a private corporate conglomerate controlled by two brothers – Charles G. and David H. Koch – each of whom own 42% of the company. Diversfied in chemicals and refining along with consumer products and commodity trading, the company's subsidiaries and brands include many household names such as Georgia-Pacific (Dixie Cups and Tableware) and Invista (Stainmaster Carpets). With over 70,000 employees and over $100 billion in annual revenues, Forbes ranks Koch Industries as the second largest privately-held company in America:
http://tinyurl.com/626tuoe
Worth an estimated $25 billion each, the Koch Brothers share the #4 position on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in America. Their individual net worths are exceeded only by those of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Larry Ellison. Forbes also ranks Charles Koch and David Koch among the world's 68 most powerful people:
http://tinyurl.com/4dena48
http://tinyurl.com/268cvag
The Koch Brothers have wealth, power and an insatiable appetite for more of both. And what they cannot earn through free enterprise, they acquire through other means. Each year they pour millions of dollars into the financing of several "Astroturf" grassroots organizations, and a complete list of the politicians they bankroll at both the national and state level might read like a Who's Who of American politics, e.g.:
http://tinyurl.com/5w7lgo6
The Koch Brothers play to win. If they can't win by the rules, then they elect politicians willing to pass (or block) the legislation they need to change the rules. And if they still don't win, then they just ignore the rules. This shocking 3 October 2011 Bloomberg exposé entitled "Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales" shows just how far they are willing to go to complete their agenda – which has absolutely nothing to do with making the American people more prosperous, or making our nation a better place to live:
http://tinyurl.com/6doxrfz < – THIS IS A MUST READ
A major item on the Koch Brother's agenda is garnering all the approvals needed for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which if built would increase the import of heavy oil from Canadian oil sands to the U.S. by up to 510,000 barrels a day. A 10 February 2011 Reuters release entitled "Koch Brothers Positioned To Be Big Winners If Keystone XL Pipeline Is Approved" disclosed the following:
"Proponents tout [the proposed Keystone XL pipeline] as a boon to national security that would reduce America's dependence on oil from unfriendly regimes. Opponents say it would magnify an environmental nightmare at great cost and provide only the illusion of national benefit… A SolveClimate News analysis, based on publicly available records, shows that Koch Industries is already responsible for close to 25 percent of the oil sands crude that is imported into the United States, and is well-positioned to benefit from increasing Canadian oil imports… A Koch Industries operation in Calgary, Alberta, called Flint Hills Resources Canada LP, supplies about 250,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day to a heavy oil refinery in Minnesota, also owned by the Koch brothers… Flint Hills Resources Canada also operates a crude oil terminal in Hardisty, Alberta, the starting point of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline… Koch Industries also owns Koch Exploration Canada, L.P., an oil!
sands-focused exploration company also based in Calgary that acquires, develops and trades petroleum properties."
"[All] eyes had been on Hillary Clinton and the State Department, which is officially weighing the pipeline permit. The application was cruising toward a swift and barely noticed approval early last year, but the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico provoked a closer look as environmental security became a national concern… The 1,959-mile pipeline would cut through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma to refineries in Texas, and crisscross the Ogallala Aquifer, which [millions of] Americans living in the Midwest rely on for fresh drinking water as well as irrigation… Last July, the EPA rolled up its sleeves and called a time out. The agency deemed the State Department's environmental review of the Keystone project as 'inadequate,' the lowest possible ranking. EPA raised concerns over a potential oil spill over the Ogallala aquifer."
http://tinyurl.com/3e4uqlc
According to Wikipedia, "The Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High Plains Aquifer, is a vast yet shallow underground water table aquifer located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. One of the world's largest aquifers, it covers an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 sq km) in portions of the eight states of South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas… About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system, which yields about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation. In addition, the aquifer system provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary."
http://tinyurl.com/yrz6vh
There is no such thing as an oil pipeline that won't leak. And when the Keystone XL pipeline starts releasing its toxic contents into our heartland's lifestream, it will be too late for the American People to say they'd prefer water to Koch.
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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=koch+brothers&aq=f
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2012 NBA Draft: Will Barton Scheduled To Workout For Hawks, According To Report
By Kris Willis@Kris_Willis Jun 12, 2012, 8:47am EDT
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Memphis sophomore guard Will Barton's stock is on the rise after a solid showing at the Chicago pre-draft combine and has a scheduled work out with the Atlanta Hawks who have the 23rd pick in the first round. Barton was Conference USA Player of the Year last season in which he averaged 18 points and eight rebounds a game.
Before the combine Barton had been projected as a second round pick. Now his stock is on the rise and he has already worked out with a number of teams that have late first round selections like the Boston Celtics, Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls.
"I just want to go out there and showcase my talent, show everything I can do," Barton said. "Not just on the court, but off the court. Show that I'm a good person, a professional and just how well-rounded I am. I shot the ball real well (at the combine). That's something I've been working on, just staying consistent with my shot. I feel like when I'm consistent with my shot, it's hard to contain me."
Barton also has upcoming workouts scheduled with Atlanta, Denver, Milwaukee and Indiana leading up to the draft. The Hawks could look to draft the best player available at No. 23 given that they only have six players under contract for next season and could use anyone that would provide depth. Reserve guards Kirk Hinrich, Jannero Pargo and Willie Green are all free agents so a player like Barton could conceivably slide right into the rotation.
For more on the NBA Draft, check out SB Nation's NBA page. Atlanta Hawks news and info can be found at Peachtree Hoops.
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Raies: The best way to protest Jeff Sessions is by ignoring him
Roman C. Raies,
Jeff Sessions is an awful human being and a terrible politician. The former U.S. attorney general and Alabama senator has a homophobic, racist and xenophopbic agenda that could have damaging, real-world consequences for the most vulnerable in our country.
Many have acknowledged that conservatives should be welcome to speak on campus—but Sessions is not a normal conservative. He stands for corruption and loyalty to Donald Trump's cult of personality, not rule of law or individuality. So it's natural to want to protest his very presence on campus. But we are all going about it the wrong way. The best way to protest would have been to simply to ignore him.
Here's the thing. If you are going to protest, you should protest for a specific cause. Thankfully, what was once a general "Protest Jeff Sessions" Facebook event has now changed its description to a "night of action," where speakers and other political groups are set to encourage civic engagement with voter registration materials and campaign information.
This is certainly good news, but wouldn't it have been wonderful if, instead of spending time and energy to protest one bad speaker, everyone had just not given the reaction he surely wants? Sessions and everyone in College Republicans, the club that invited him to campus, are probably relishing that a bunch of "triggered" liberals are showing up to scare away a lone conservative from his treasured right to free speech, playing into the narrative that Sessions loves to push.
After all, it's not as if Sessions has a massive youth following. I certainly don't think that the average young conservative is going to sleep at night wishing to be like him, pining at the Jeff Sessions poster in his room—at least ... I hope not. The reason a former member of a presidential cabinet is showing up to discuss the agenda of that president (who forced him out of his role!) is really just a pathetic PR stunt to save Trump's failing presidency as support for impeachment in the polls continues to rise.
Sessions is irrelevant. Protesting him is like protesting the presence of one online, alt-right troll. Attend the night of action to get politically engaged in a positive way, but give Jeff Sessions himself the inattention he deserves.
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Q: web scraping from site that generates csv file from form (http://njdep.rutgers.edu/continuous/data.php) I am interesting in scraping the dataset from http://njdep.rutgers.edu/continuous/data.php in order to create a shiny app that allows one to search through the data contained at that site.
Once you fill out the form on the site, it can generate a .csv file. Is there anyway to find out where all of the data from the earliest date to the most recent state is stored and extract it using an R package or python package?

A: In a browser you can right click and inspect the page. When you click the download button, you can see the underlying rest api in the network tab. It should look something like this:
http://njdep.rutgers.edu/continuous/data/downloadData.php?affiliation=NJDEP+-+Marine+Water+Monitoring&project=-1&huc14=-1&county=-1&munis=-1&station_type=-1&station=-1&start_date=&end_date=&params=

If you change the various form parameters you can get an idea of how to change the url to get different variations of data. Then you could use a package like requests to get the data in python.
import requests

url = 'your_modified_url'
res = requests.get(url)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.content

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