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Diabetes Awareness
by Buffy MacNeil, RD
Did you know that World Diabetes Day is November 14th? It is celebrated worldwide in over 160 countries and territories. It is celebrated on November 14, to mark the birthday of Frederick Banting. Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin in 1921. The World Diabetes Day logo is a blue circle. The circle is a symbol for life and health, and the colour blue reflects the sky that unites all nations and is the colour of the United Nations' flag. The blue circle signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in response to the diabetes pandemic.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic, often debilitating and sometimes fatal disease, in which the body either cannot produce insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that controls the amount of glucose in the blood. Diabetes leads to high levels of glucose in the blood, which can damage organs, blood vessels and nerves. The body needs insulin to use glucose as an energy source.
What is the pancreas and what does it do?
The pancreas is an organ that sits behind the stomach and releases hormones into the digestive system. In the healthy body, when blood glucose levels get too high, special cells in the pancreas (called beta cells) release insulin. Insulin is a hormone and it causes cells to take in glucose to use as energy or to store as fat. This causes blood glucose levels to go back down.
What is type 1 diabetes?
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and kills the beta cells of the pancreas. No, or very little, insulin is released into the body. As a result, glucose builds up in the blood instead of being used as energy. About 5-10 per cent of people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes generally develops in childhood or adolescence, but can develop in adulthood.
What is type 2 diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body can't properly use the insulin that is released (called insulin insensitivity) or does not make enough insulin. As a result, glucose builds up in the blood instead of being used as energy. About 90 per cent of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes more often develops in adults, but children can be affected.
What is gestational diabetes?
A third type of diabetes, gestational diabetes, is a temporary condition that occurs during pregnancy. It affects approximately 2 to 4 per cent of all pregnancies (in the non-Aboriginal population) and involves an increased risk of developing diabetes for both mother and child.
Diabetes Education
If you would like to learn more, join me on Wednesday, November 26th from 6:30-8:00pm to get educated on diabetes. Some of the topics we will cover include: Nutrition, Meal Planning, Exercise, Medications, A1C & Blood Glucose Targets, Risk Factors and Preventing Complications. For more information or to register, visit www.lifestylesfitnesstudio.ca or contact us at 832-4848.
Canadian Diabetes Association (www.diabetes.ca)


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Qatar Petroleum and Shell sign MoU to jointly develop major petrochemicals project in Qatar
Qatar Petroleum and Shell have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly study the development of a major petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.
The agreement was signed in Doha by His Excellency Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry of the State of Qatar, and Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer of Shell.
The scope under consideration would include a mono-ethylene glycol plant of up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum using Shell's proprietary OMEGA (Only MEG Advantaged) technology and other olefin derivatives to yield over 2 million tonnes of finished products.
HE Minister Al-Attiyah said: "This agreement represents an important step towards implementing the vision of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, regarding the optimal utilisation of the country's natural gas resources and to expand the downstream industries in Qatar. Together with Shell we aim to study and develop a major petrochemical complex which aligns with our plans of increased petrochemical production and diversification of our product portfolio."
Peter Voser said: "I am delighted that we have the opportunity to further expand our partnership with Qatar Petroleum in petrochemicals. Shell has over 80 years of experience in the global chemicals industry, playing a major part in its growth worldwide and developing some of its key manufacturing processes. This new project will combine Shell's experience and technology with the ambition of the State of Qatar to create further value from its natural gas resources."
In Qatar, Qatar Petroleum and Shell are together building Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) and Qatargas 4 LNG, two of the largest projects in the world in Ras Laffan Industrial City.
Qatar Petroleum – Mr. Sultan Al-Abdulla: +974 44946600
Qatar Shell – Mr. Simon Buerk: +974 66788447
Shell Global Media Relations: +31 70 377 3600
Shell Investor Relations:+ 31 70 377 3996
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Royal Dutch Shell plc is incorporated in England and Wales, has its headquarters in The Hague and is listed on the London, Amsterdam, and New York stock exchanges. Shell companies have operations in more than 90 countries and territories with businesses including oil and gas exploration and production; production and marketing of liquefied natural gas and gas to liquids; manufacturing, marketing and shipping of oil products and chemicals and renewable energy projects. For further information, visit www.shell.com
Cautionary Note
The companies in which Royal Dutch Shell plc directly and indirectly owns investments are separate entities. In this press release "Shell", "Shell group" and "Royal Dutch Shell" are sometimes used for convenience where references are made to Royal Dutch Shell plc and its subsidiaries in general. Likewise, the words "we", "us" and "our" are also used to refer to subsidiaries in general or to those who work for them. These expressions are also used where no useful purpose is served by identifying the particular company or companies. ''Subsidiaries'', "Shell subsidiaries" and "Shell companies" as used in this press release refer to companies in which Royal Dutch Shell either directly or indirectly has control, by having either a majority of the voting rights or the right to exercise a controlling influence. The companies in which Shell has significant influence but not control are referred to as "associated companies" or "associates" and companies in which Shell has joint control are referred to as "jointly controlled entities". In this press release, associates and jointly controlled entities are also referred to as "equity-accounted investments". The term "Shell interest" is used for convenience to indicate the direct and/or indirect (for example, through our 24% shareholding in Woodside Petroleum Ltd.) ownership interest held by Shell in a venture, partnership or company, after exclusion of all third-party interest.
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of Royal Dutch Shell. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements of future expectations that are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements concerning the potential exposure of Royal Dutch Shell to market risks and statements expressing management's expectations, beliefs, estimates, forecasts, projections and assumptions. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ''anticipate'', ''believe'', ''could'', ''estimate'', ''expect'', ''intend'', ''may'', ''plan'', ''objectives'', ''outlook'', ''probably'', ''project'', ''will'', ''seek'', ''target'', ''risks'', ''goals'', ''should'' and similar terms and phrases. There are a number of factors that could affect the future operations of Royal Dutch Shell and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements included in this press release, including (without limitation): (a) price fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas; (b) changes in demand for the Shell's products; (c) currency fluctuations; (d) drilling and production results; (e) reserve estimates; (f) loss of market share and industry competition; (g) environmental and physical risks; (h) risks associated with the identification of suitable potential acquisition properties and targets, and successful negotiation and completion of such transactions; (i) the risk of doing business in developing countries and countries subject to international sanctions; (j) legislative, fiscal and regulatory developments including regulatory measures addressing climate change; (k) economic and financial market conditions in various countries and regions; (l) political risks, including the risks of expropriation and renegotiation of the terms of contracts with governmental entities, delays or advancements in the approval of projects and delays in the reimbursement for shared costs; and (m) changes in trading conditions. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Additional factors that may affect future results are contained in Royal Dutch Shell's 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2009 (available at www.shell.com/investor and www.sec.gov – opens in new window). These factors also should be considered by the reader. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this press release, 21 December 2010. Neither Royal Dutch Shell nor any of its subsidiaries undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other information. In light of these risks, results could differ materially from those stated, implied or inferred from the forward-looking statements contained in this press release.
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15 Awesome Celebrity "Land of Confusion" Pictures
Do all of you remember the video "Land of Confusion" by Genesis back in the 80s? Man was that a weird video or what? Recently I stumbled across an artist by the name of Sebastian Kruger whose work is unbelievably similar to the characters in that video. The type of art is called "New Pop Realism" and I gotta say it's pretty freaky.
I think the premise is that the art accentuates certain features on the face and takes them way out of proportion. And yet you still find the face to be "appropriate?" I guess that's the right word.
In any event I chose 15 celebrity drawings from Kruger that were pretty sweet…..
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SEO & Digital Marketing
Project Description
Bancroft Engineering was looking to increase their automated welding systems business in the Midwest and throughout the United States. The goal was to increase organic search visibility of valuable keywords, improve website conversions and overall brand awareness.
Keyword research was conducted and implemented into the website optimization process. Title tags, meta descriptions, image alt-tags and body copy/headlines were added and adjusted with focused keywords on all pages of the site.
An on-going SEO strategy was implemented which included monthly content creation, email marketing and social media management.
Project Details
Client Bancroft Engineering
Date April 2018
Skills Digital Marketing, SEO, Email Marketing
View bancrofteng.com
The Results
Increase in Organic Traffic
Valuable Keyword Increases


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Routine to complex, didactic to theatric: a typology of museum exhibition design strategies
The definition 'exhibition' is a generic and vague term and in the museum context it can mean anything from a 10 square metre, six panel graphic display to a 1000 square metre, object rich, interactive exhibition, or an atmospheric and immersive experience containing no collection items at all. Ten types of exhibitions are identified in this investigation which considers a range of museum exhibition design strategies and examines a variety of interpretive and communication philosophies. In the more complex examples presented the possibility of the museum's relationship with the visitor being realised through design is considered. The comments of seven recognised designers, three practicing in Australia and four practicing in the UK are included in this illustrated presentation.
About the Presenter
Tom is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers (UK) and a Member of the Design Institute of Australia. His PhD thesis, completed early in 2016 was entitled 'The role of design in the development of museum exhibitions in Australia'.
His past design projects include the Pacific Islands exhibit at the Commonwealth Institute, London; Hellfire Pass Museum, Thailand; Al Shaqab Museum Qatar; the International Antarctic Centre at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand; the Pylon Lookout and Harbour Bridge Museum, Sydney, NSW; the Bradman Cricket Museum, Bowral, NSW; the RAAF Museum, Point Cook, Victoria; Sandakan Memorial and Interpretive Centre, North Borneo, and four major galleries at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. 'Blockbuster' touring exhibitions include Gold of the Pharaohs and Gold and Civilisation.
One of his major projects, The Wellington Museum was included in the Times of London's Top 50 World Museums list in 2013. In 2008 the Design Institute of Australia inducted him into the Australian Designers Hall of Fame.
About Critical Approaches to Museums and Heritage
Critical Approaches to Museums & Heritage is a series of seminars where researchers and practitioners introduce recent work to a critical thinking audience. All are welcome to attend.


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We are actively connecting with prominent and innovative educators, designers, business people, scientists, etc. in the Cambridge area to advise the design of The Puzzle School. Our current advisors include:
Andrew Frishman is the Co-Executive Director of Big Picture Learning; he completed his Doctorate of Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Big Picture Learning includes a growing network of schools with over 65 currently in the US, and many more around the world, all focused on putting students at the center of their own learning. Andrew has one child currently in Cambridge Public Schools and his other will enter Jr. Kindergarten in CPS next year.
Natalie Kuldell is the the Executive Director of BioBuilder and the President of the BioBuilder Educational Foundation that aims to convert current research into teachable forms. She is also an instructor at MIT in the Department of Biological Engineering focusing on developing discovery-based curricula drawn from current literature. She completed her doctoral and post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School, and taught at Wellesley College before joining the faculty at MIT.
Dr. Travis J. Bristol, a former high school English teacher in New York City public schools and teacher educator with the Boston Teacher Residency program, is an Assistant Professor at Boston University where his research focuses on supporting and retaining teachers of color and the intersection of race and gender in schools. He holds an M.A. in the Teaching of English from Stanford University; a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Columbia University. Travis has two children in the Cambridge Public Schools.
Ela Ben-Ur is the inventor of the Innovator's Compass, a simplified process for Design Thinking, and an adjunct assistant professor at Olin College. Ela worked for 13 years at renowned innovation firm IDEO where she co-founded of IDEO's Leadership Studio. Ela has also offered workshops through her alma mater, MIT (BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering), Sloan, Babson, Dartmouth and Harvard. Ela's daughter is a student in Cambridge Public Schools.
Khemenec Pantin is an adjunct lecturer at Boston College focused on developing advocacy and critical analysis of social welfare policy through a class and racial lens. He also served as an Education Analyst for the NYC Department of Education and as a Senior Policy Advisor for Intergovernmental Affairs as a part of the NYC Young Men's Initiative under the Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning. Khemenec has two children who are students in Cambridge Public Schools.
Rob Riordan, Ed.D., is a co-founder of High Tech High and President Emeritus of the HTH Graduate School of Education. A teacher, trainer, and program developer for over 45 years, he has worked with teams to develop 14 new K-12 schools. Rob taught at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, served as K-12 Language Arts Coordinator for Cambridge Public Schools, and was a part-time faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Beth co-founded the Science Club for Girls: a program that brings hands-on science clubs to 600 girls in the Boston area, working to close the socioeconomic and gender gaps in science. She also founded and directs the Mathemagics Workshop, which has created a series of games & activities designed to bring playful mathematics back into childrens' experience of math.
Alec Resnick is the co-founder of Powderhouse Studios, a new innovation school in Somerville, MA, and recent winner of the nationwide XQ prize. Powderhouse Studios grew out of the work of sprout & co, a science education non-profit based in Somerville which has designed and run in- and afterschool programs with youth and evening programs with adults since 2009. Before sprout & co, Alec worked developing educational tools and toys and studied mathematics at MIT.
"So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle."
~ Nancy Horan
"As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me."
~ Michael J. Fox
"When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle."
~ Janine di Giovanni
"I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at."
~ J. B. Smoove


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Bonnaroo reveals comedy lineup for 2014
Along with Elton John, Kanye West and the rest of the 150+ musical performers that were revealed in February, a handful of comedy stars and up-and-comers will be taking the stage at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
Among those who will be entertaining the masses this year in the festival's air-conditioned "Comedy Theatre": "Office" and "This Is The End" star Craig Robinson, "Saturday Night Live" performers Taran Killam and Sasheer Zamata, rising stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress, "Chappelle's Show" co-creator Neal Brennan and HBO's "Silicon Valley" scene-stealer TJ Miller.
This year's Bonnaroo takes place June 12-15 in Manchester, Tenn. Tickets are $284.50 at www.bonnaroo.com
Bonnaroo 2014 Comedy Lineup
Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious
Taran Killam
Hannibal Buress
Neal Brennan
TJ Miller
Rory Scovel
Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments
Sasheer Zamata
Seth Herzog
Emily Heller
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Project Spraoi aims to increase physical activity, improve dietary intake and positively influence the overall health of Irish children
Skechers are extremely proud to be sponsoring Project Spraoi this year. Skechers are one of the biggest global sports brands, who promote their brand around a healthy and active lifestyle! Inevitably, Skechers and Project Spraoi were the perfect fit.
Skechers is a family brand that believes greatly in health and well-being, particularly with regards to kids. They believe kids getting out and getting active is a key factor in growing-up healthy. Skechers love the vision behind Project Spraoi, to increase children's physical activity, improve their nutrition and ultimately positively influence the overall health of Irish children. Skechers do a lot of work with kids around Ireland to help raise awareness for a healthy and active lifestyle. For example they also sponsor the SFAI National Cup, promoting kids local soccer clubs all over Ireland. Skechers also have a number of Irish brand ambassadors who would be very involved in sporting industry. Derval O'Rourke, is the main brand ambassador for this year. Derval is a sprint hurdler athlete who has competed in major athletic championships all over the world and has won gold at The Indoor World Championships! She is the perfect persona to represent the Skechers brand! Not only does she train multiple times a week, she also has her own health brand, The Fit Foodie.
Skechers was established in Manhattan Beach, California in 1992. Paul Gallagher, brought the Skechers brand to Ireland in 2010 and Skechers now have 16 stores nationwide. They have also recently won "Brand of the Year" for the U.K and Ireland at the Footwear Industry Awards. Skechers offers two distinct footwear categories: a lifestyle division which offers comfort-focused, trend-right product for men, women and kids, and the Skechers Performance Division for elite athletes and sports enthusiasts.


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Fishing Trips in Western North Carolina
Fishing Trips in Western North Carolina Spring fishing here in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee has been hot. Recent guided trips on the Tuckasegee, Nantahala, Raven Fork, West Fork of the Pigeon and the Smokies have been producing some very nice fish. Our float trips on the Tuckasegee River Delayed Harvest have … Continue reading
Guided Fly Fishing on the WNC Fly Fishing Trail
WNC Fly Fishing Trail. Hookers Fly Shop and Guide Service offers trips on many of the streams located on the WNC Fly Fishing Trail. The Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Trail features 15 different areas and encompasses 20 streams and rivers in Jackson County, NC. These streams and rivers range from small mountain streams with wild … Continue reading
Korkers Wading Boots
Hookers Fly Shop is pleased to announce that the fly shop and online store is now carrying Korkers Wading Boots as well as some of the Korkers Winter Boots. We expect our first shipment to the fly shop in the next couple of weeks. You can currently have all in stock boots dropped shipped straight … Continue reading
Fly Shop near the Tuckasegee River
Hookers Fly Shop is located in Historic Downtown Sylva, minutes away from the Tuckasegee River and in the heart of the Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Trail. We are the closest outfitter and guide service to the world famous Tuckasegee Delayed Harvest section. We work with TU and other various organizations to bring fly fishing … Continue reading
Fly Fishing the Tuckasegee River
The Tuckasegee River has been producing some nice smallmouth action as well as some fantastic trout action over the first couple of weeks of summer. We have been floating several sections from Cullowhee to Bryson City. The best conditions have been on zero release days or West Fork only releases when the water isn't too … Continue reading
Guided Fly Fishing Trips near Asheville, NC
Over the past few weeks we have been fishing and guiding on many of the small streams in the area. We have been all over the Smokies including more remote areas like Hazel Creek and Forney Creek. The Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Trail has also been a favorite of ours on streams like Scotts … Continue reading
Guided Fly Fishing Trips on the Tuckasegee River
Our guides have been busy over the past couple months guiding new and repeat clients all over Western North Carolina. One of our favorite and most productive areas is the Tuckasegee Delayed Harvest Section. Just a couple of minutes drive from the fly shop you will find one of the most beautiful and most productive … Continue reading
Overnight fly fishing trips in the Smokies
This past week we got to share one of our favorite streams in the Smokies, Hazel Creek, with several new clients. On Wednesday and Thursday Hookers Fly Shop guide, Jalen Morton and myself guided beginner fly fisherman Charles W. for an overnight trip to Hazel Creek. Despite being in the 20s overnight the weather was … Continue reading


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Darwinian justification for human speech challenged
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- The gift of speech, one of the capabilities that defines humans, appears to defy evolutionary explanations. Even now, a century and a half since Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," scientists seem to be no closer to discovering how human language developed.
But new genome research published this month in the journal Cell debunks that idea. "The situation is a lot more complicated than the very clean story that has been making it into textbooks all this time," Elizabeth Atkinson, coauthor of the paper, told Nature.
In a 2002 study, researchers theorized the mutations in the FOXP2 gene appeared to offer such a great survival benefit that a "selective sweep" occurred, making the trait common in ancient human populations. Thrilled evolutionists reportedly accepted the theory as fact and scientific literature cited it hundreds of times since, despite the fact that researchers never replicated the study, and it included the genomes of only 20 individuals.
But the study published this month reexamined the genetic history of the FOXP2 mutations using a larger data set and a more diverse population.
Researchers found that what looked like a selective sweep in the 2002 study was just a statistical error caused by the small sample size and lack of diverse genetic data. So, when it comes to human language acquisition, it appears to be back to the drawing board for Darwinists.
Human language poses a conundrum for evolutionists because, for the theory of natural selection to hold true, every genetic adaptation must in some way help the species stay alive long enough to reproduce. But the capacity to compose a symphony, understand advanced mathematics, or discuss abstract ideas would have offered no survival value for early man.
"His needs were shelter and food," biochemist Michael Denton said in a Discovery Institute documentary. Yet, we know early humans must have possessed language ability because it passed down to every single human being in every part of the world.
Evolution appears to have no explanation for a beyond-adaptive capability like human language. But if one accepts the fact of a designer, the problem disappears. The designer is "free to choose whatever He wants," Denton said.


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Democrat Terry McAuliffe has vaulted into the lead over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II in a Virginia governor's race that has left many voters sour on both candidates, according to a new Washington Post-Abt SRBI poll.
McAuliffe leads 47 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, with Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis's 10 percent suggesting an unrest among voters not satisfied with either major-party contender. In a one-on-one matchup without Sarvis in the mix, the poll shows a narrower, 49-to-44-percent race between McAuliffe and Cuccinelli among likely voters — but still flips Cuccinelli's 10-point lead from this spring.
The shift in the race has come almost exclusively from female voters, who prefer McAuliffe by a 24-point margin over Cuccinelli. The candidates were effectively tied among women in a Washington Post poll in May.
McAuliffe's strength among women is probably due in part to an intense campaign to portray Cuccinelli as a threat to women and the issues they care about most deeply. A new McAuliffe ad, for instance, features a Norfolk OB-GYN speaking directly to the camera about how she is "offended" by Cuccinelli's position on abortion.
The challenge for Cuccinelli is stark: Nearly half of all voters view him unfavorably, and they trust his opponent as much as or more than the Republican on every major issue in the race, according to the poll. On trust to handle issues of special concern to women, McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli by 23 points.
"I really disagree with Cuccinelli's politics, especially his antiabortion stance," said Gina Gabelia, 32, who lives in Ashburn and works at a nonprofit group.
As for McAuliffe, Gabelia said: "His advertisements make him sound like a stand-up guy, but who knows? . . . He has a good campaign manager."
Cuccinelli has accused McAuliffe and other Democrats of waging a war on coal and working-class Virginians, but he trails by nine points among voters who were asked whom they trust more on energy and the environment. He has burnished his reputation among conservatives by opposing President Obama's health-care law, but voters favor McAuliffe by eight points when it comes to health care. Cuccinelli does best when it comes to transportation and the economy and jobs; he is tied with McAuliffe on those issues.
The poll also found voters effectively split between candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general, meaning that Democrats have a chance to sweep all three statewide offices this year for the first time in nearly a quarter-century. A McAuliffe victory would also buck a four-
decade Virginia tradition of electing a governor from the party that doesn't occupy the White House.
Republicans, however, have an immediate opportunity to reverse the momentum on Wednesday, when Cuccinelli and McAuliffe will appear in a televised debate hosted by the influential Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. The debate will be important for McAuliffe, too, who lost a high-profile endorsement to another Northern Virginia business group earlier this month amid perceptions that he was not sufficiently serious or detail-oriented.
McAuliffe faces his own challenges, according to the poll, which shows that both candidates have been marred by scandal. Roughly one-third of voters say they are less likely to vote for Cuccinelli as a result of his connection to the gifts scandal that has engulfed the man he hopes to succeed, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R). Cuccinelli was touched by the scandal because he accepted $18,000 in gifts from the Richmond-area businessman who lavished far more than that on the McDonnell family; the attorney general donated the money to charity only this month.
Even more voters, however — 40 percent — say they are less likely to vote for McAuliffe as a result of the federal investigation of GreenTech, the electric car company he co-founded.
The numbers suggest that the scandals have impeded both campaigns from offering an ethical contrast with the other side.
Both candidates show room for growth in their approval ratings; Cuccinelli is viewed unfavorably by 47 percent of voters, while McAuliffe is seen that way by 36 percent.
Yet the poll contains evidence that McAuliffe's base of support is more stable — and that he has navigated a maze of scandals and attacks more cleanly than the Republican. The Democrat is seen favorably by 48 percent of registered voters, compared with just 40 percent for Cuccinelli.
"I'm going to vote for McAuliffe, but I'm not crazy about him at all," said Elizabeth McGowan, 63, a retired federal government worker from Springfield. "It's the least of two evils in my book."
On the question of which candidate "is more honest and trustworthy," McAuliffe narrowly leads Cuccinelli, 34 to 28 percent. He also has the edge on which man "more closely shares your values." They are essentially tied on which would be a more effective leader and which "better understands the economic problems people in Virginia are having."
In addition to his lead among women, McAuliffe enjoys a healthy advantage in Northern Virginia — particularly the close-in Washington suburbs. And he is ahead across every age group.
Kem Spaulding, 68, a retired chiropractor in Charlottesville, dislikes Cuccinelli's stances on social issues and will vote against him. But don't call her a McAuliffe fan.
"I'll vote for the guy who starts with an 'M.' That's as much as I'm involved with it really," Spaulding said. "I mean, I don't want Cuccinelli. I really haven't heard anything positive out of either one of them. The ads they're running . . . are just mudslinging ads. That's not useful information."
Cuccinelli voters say they are more enthusiastic about supporting their man than McAuliffe's are, but the Republican is working from a smaller base of support as his negative ratings climb, according to the poll.
Ralph Hurst, 60, a retired consultant who lives in Hampton, takes a dim view of McAuliffe because of "a lot of his business dealings" and because "he says one thing and does another."
McAuliffe, who has received some GOP endorsements and promotes the idea that he can work across the aisle, has established more crossover appeal than his foe. He's viewed favorably by 29 percent of Republicans, while just 12 percent of Democrats feel warmly toward Cuccinelli. McAuliffe takes 6 percent of Republicans in the three-way matchup, while Cuccinelli gets less than 1 percent of Democrats.
Economic issues remain paramount for Virginia voters — but far less so than they were four months ago: 29 percent now say the economy and jobs are the most important issue in the race for governor, down from 45 percent in May. Several other issues have ticked up slightly, including a five-point bump for "ethics, honesty and corruption in government."
Sarvis, a little-known mathematician and economist running a small-scale campaign, has pockets of support.
In the largely rural region that includes the Shenandoah Valley, Southwest and part of Southside Virginia, Sarvis is getting 19 percent of likely voters — clearly hurting Cuccinelli where the Republican should be performing strongest. Sarvis also does well among younger voters, taking 15 percent of those between 18 and 49.
Third-party candidates rarely escape the low single digits in statewide elections, and it's not clear how many voters will be willing to pull the lever for Sarvis on Nov. 5. Gene Downum, a 44-year-old civilian defense employee from King George, considers himself a Republican because he favors smaller government, but he is turned off by Cuccinelli's stance on gay rights. At the same time, he thinks McAuliffe's business record is troubling.
So Downum is considering voting for Sarvis.
"I know he's not going to win," Downum said. "But I'm so lukewarm — or 'lukecold,' depending how you want to look at it — for the two major-party candidates that I may just have to throw in my protest vote."
Others polled expressed their dissatisfaction in a different way; according to the poll, far more voters say they are following the governor's race now than in May — 68 percent compared with 48 percent. Yet dramatically fewer — 60 percent compared with 67 percent — say they are certain to vote in November.
Scott Clement and Laura Vozzella contributed to this report.


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Revenge killing: Man shoots 2-year-old girl
Kenneth French glared Tuesday at the man awaiting his sentence for fatally shooting French's two-year-old daughter in what authorities said was a revenge attack.
"I just want him to know he's a coward. He's a punk," French told the court. "If he'd have left my baby out of this, it would have been done a different way."
Minutes later, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Ulysses Boykin told Raymone Jackson, 25, that he would spend the rest of his life in prison without parole. The sentence was mandatory.
Kamiya Gross was shot in the head on July 1, 2014, outside a house in Inkster, southwest of Detroit. French and a 13-year-old girl were wounded in the attack.
Kamiya was the intended target, police initially said, in retaliation for an earlier shooting in which Jackson held the girl's father responsible.
Jackson also was sentenced to up to 45 years in prison for torture and assault with intent to murder. A jury convicted him earlier this month.
Erica Gross, Kamiya's mother, sneered at Jackson.
"Whatever happens to you, you will never know how I feel," she said. "Have a great life."
Raphael Hearn also was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Hearn helped Jackson plan and carry out the attack.
"The world's not going to miss you," French told Hearn before the sentencing. "Don't nobody care about you, don't nobody love you."
When given an opportunity to speak before being sentenced, Jackson apologised to the girl's families.
"I'd like to say that none of this was supposed to happen," he said.
The judge called the girl's slaying "one of the most heinous crimes" he's ever seen.
Jackson was sentenced to 11 months in the Wayne County Jail in September 2013 in a drug case while on parole for a 2010 drug conviction. He was released in March 2014 for good behavior, about three months before Kamiya was slain.
Before he left jail, the Michigan Department of Corrections had the option to pick Jackson up and return him to prison as a violation of parole in the 2010 conviction, but the state declined to do so, a jail spokeswoman said last year.
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In March 1965, Mrs. Bertram Jeffrey of Brooklyn, New York, sent this letter about voting rights legislation to Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Although the letter was addressed to Representative Celler, and Mrs. Jeffrey was likely his constituent, it was referred to the Judiciary Committee because it was considering the voting rights legislation mentioned in the letter. Mrs. Jeffrey wrote in favor of the bill and made the plea that "Our Democratic heritage cannot advance until all have the right to vote and participate."
Celler introduced H.R. 6400 on March 17, 1965, 10 days after police and state troopers in Selma, Alabama, brutally attacked marchers protesting the infringement of voting rights of African Americans in the South. The bill banned methods used for decades to block African-American voters from registering, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, and legally protected the right to vote regardless of race. The Voting Rights Act became law on August 6, 1965.


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The Best American Poetry 2012
Series Editor David Lehman
Table of Contents
About The Book
Edited this year by acclaimed poet and writer Mark Doty, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns.
Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition. This landmark edition includes David Lehman's keen look at American poetry in his foreword, Mark Doty's gorgeous introduction, and notes from the poets revealing the germination of their work. Over the last twenty-five years, The Best American Poetry has become an annual rite of the poetry world, and this year's anthology is a welcome and essential addition to the series.
SHERMAN ALEXIE * KAREN LEONA ANDERSON * RAE ARMANTROUT * JULIANNA BAGGOTT * DAVID BAKER * RICK BAROTt REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS * FRANK BIDART * BRUCE BOND * STEPHANIE BROWN * ANNE CARSON * JENNIFER CHANG * JOSEPH CHAPMAN * HEATHER CHRISTLE * HENRI COLE * BILLY COLLINS * PETER COOLEY * EDUARDO C. CORRAL * ERICA DAWSON * STEPHEN DUNN * ELAINE EQUI * ROBERT GIBB * KATHLEEN GRABER * AMY GLYNN GREACEN * JAMES ALLEN HALL * TERRANCE HAYES * STEVEN HEIGHTON * BRENDA HILLMAN * JANE HIRSHFIELD * RICHARD HOWARD * MARIE HOWE * AMORAK HUEY * JENNY JOHNSON * LAWRENCE JOSEPH * FADY JOUDAH * JOY KATZ * JAMES KIMBRELL * NOELLE KOCOT * MAXINE KUMIN * SARAH LINDSAY * AMIT MAJMUDAR * DAVID MASON * KERRIN McCADDEN * HONOR MOORE * MICHAEL MORSE * CAROL MUSKE-DUKES * ANGELO NIKOLOPOULOS * MARY OLIVER * STEVE ORLEN * ALICIA OSTRIKER * ERIC PANKEY * LUCIA PERILLO * ROBERT PINSKY * DEAN RADER * SPENCER REECE * PAISLEY REKDAL * MARY RUEFLE * DON RUSS * KAY RYAN * MARY JO SALTER * LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ * FREDERICK SEIDEL * BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY * PETER JAY SHIPPY * TRACY K. SMITH * BRUCE SNIDER * MARK STRAND * LARISSA SZPORLUK * DANIEL TOBIN * NATASHA TRETHEWEY * SUSAN WHEELER * FRANZ WRIGHT * DAVID YEZZI * DEAN YOUNG * KEVIN YOUNG
by David Lehman
A few years ago my wife and I moved into a New York apartment house with a flower shop on the ground level. As an inveterate anthologist who loves flowers and likes picking up a last-minute rose, I took it as an auspicious sign that the shop is called Anthology. It is a splendid name for a florist: "anthology" derives from the Greek words for "flower" and "collection." The horticultural meaning preceded the literary sense, and editors of poetry books gathered "flowers of verse" long before a French revolutionist published his "flowers of evil." It is good to have a daily reminder of this connection between poems and "glowing violets," "fair musk-rose blooms," and daffodils "with the green world they live in," for the making of an anthology is only incidentally like the art of flower arrangement. In practice it can be a pretty fraught affair. If it is successful, the endeavor will generate discussion and debate, some of it heated, even pugnacious, and more appropriate to a fight club than to a quiet bower, where "the mind, from pleasure less, / Withdraws into its happiness."
"If you want to start an argument, put together an anthology, especially one that claims to be comprehensive," a jazz reviewer notes. "No matter how noble the intent, it invites disaffection. Make the subject area jazz, and you create a minefield of sensitive historical, political, social and musical issues. It's a treacherous endeavor—as is reviewing it."1 The statement remains true if you substitute "exclusive" for "comprehensive" and "poetry" for "jazz." On the other hand, it's a sure proof that you're doing your job if your anthology quickens argument and dispute. People like anthologies—there's something for everyone. Practitioners like being in them, spectators like knowing who's in and who's out, critics like laying down the law, and malcontents like the occasion to air their grievances. As for the maker of poetry anthologies in particular, there is the gratification of reaching an educated readership for the elusive but vital art form whose death has so often been predicted. Something beyond nobility, something in defiance of disaffection and even treachery, is at work here. Pascal's aphorism has a special application to poetry and its devotees: the heart has its reasons that reason can only guess at.
The Best American Poetry 2012 is the twenty-fifth volume in the series—twenty-sixth if you count Harold Bloom's 1998 distillation, The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988–1997. The books have provided a template for similar annuals from other nations. On my desk as I write, I have the 2009 volume of The Best Canadian Poetry in English (ed. A. F. Moritz, series ed. Molly Peacock) and The Best Australian Poems 2011 (ed. John Tranter), each with its compelling new voices. The Best Irish Poetry 2010, ed. Matthew Sweeney, joins the famous (Seamus Heaney) and the emerging (Leanne O'Sullivan) in the time-honored fashion. The Best New Zealand Poems, which got its start in 2001, explains on its home page that "We have shamelessly modeled this online project on the successful US paperback anthology, The Best American Poetry. Each year we publish twenty-five poems from recent literary magazines and poetry collections, where possible including notes about and by the poet, as well as links to related publishing and literary websites. In this way we hope that readers will be able to follow up fresh discoveries. There are plenty to be made." Last year brought a welcome newcomer, The Best British Poetry 2011 (ed. Roddy Lumsden). Other than consisting of seventy rather than seventy-five poems, the venture employs the identical structure and even the same typeface and design as The Best American Poetry. If there is one assumption common to all these "best of" books, it is that poetry has managed to thrive in the face of all the technological changes that seem, on the surface at least, so hostile to the muse.
Reporters are interested in trends, and you, cornered, may feel the impulse to invent one out of whole cloth just to please an interviewer. But I feel confident in my prediction that more and more arranged marriages will be taking place between poetry and video—confident enough to call this development a trend. Tom Devaney's online ONandOnScreen is devoted to poets' pairing their work with a video of their choice. The aim is a dialogue between "moving words and moving images" in the expectation that the "essential strangeness" of each medium will be enhanced. In 2011, The Best American Poetry partnered with Motionpoems, a Minneapolis-based poetry and video initiative founded by Todd Boss, himself a poet whose work has appeared in this series, and the animator Angella Kassube. Motionpoems commissioned video artists—commercial and freelance animators, filmmakers, musicians, sound designers, and producers—to make short films of poems chosen from The Best American Poetry 2011.2 Where the poets choose their visual accompaniment in Devaney's project, Motionpoems reverses the order. The animators pick the poems and take it from there. To this observer, the dozen Motionpoems screened in October 2011 vindicated the concept of such "passive collaborations" between poets and visual artists, passive only in the sense that the poet's job is done after writing the poem and the video-maker is on his or her own. The idea of basing a video on a poem may one day seem as natural and inevitable as the setting of poems to music used to be.
While I am not sure that it constitutes a trend, exactly, I believe that the "uncanny" is a category too little invoked in discussions of American poetry. The poets of our time are drawn to ghostly demarcations, spectral presences. There are ghosts in the machine, ghosts in the martini, and they turn up regularly—angelic or demonic, benevolent or cruel—in poems. When, in late December, a senior editor at National Public Radio asked me to name three of my favorite poems of 2011 and to record some thoughts about them, I noticed only after assembling the trio that they share this quality of mystery and the uncanny, offering a spooky but also exhilarating glimpse of a spiritual world beyond our own. Mark Strand's "The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter," a prose poem, owes something of its effect to its brevity; it contains all of ten sentences, most of them short. The poet tells us about arriving home one night after a grueling day at the office. On the table he sees an envelope with his name on it. "The handwriting was my father's, but he had been dead for forty years. As one might, I began to think that maybe, just maybe, he was alive, living a secret life somewhere nearby. How else to explain the envelope? To steady myself, I sat down, opened it, and pulled out the letter. 'Dear Son,' was the way it began. 'Dear Son' and then nothing." The poem ends there, as eerie as a dream visitation from a deceased parent or lover.
Like Strand's poem, Stephanie Brown's "Notre Dame" was chosen by Mark Doty for The Best American Poetry 2012. Though not in prose, Brown's lines approach plain speech, an unadorned directness, eschewing the glamour of rhyme or traditional form. Brown describes staying with her family in an apartment near the great cathedral in Paris. One morning she wakes up and apprehends "two angels hovering" to protect her younger son. Only when the poem ends do we get the full context of this vision or waking dream: "It's sad to walk around the Seine when you are getting divorced while everyone else / Is kissing and filming their honeymoons or new loves. Even / My husband, after we got back together, laughed at that. / Because he, too, had been heartsick on another part of the planet."
My third pick was Paul Violi's "Now I'll Never Be Able to Finish That Poem to Bob" in the Brooklyn-based literary magazine Hanging Loose.3 The poem is jolly and even madcap, featuring "a man in a chicken suit / handing out flyers on Houston Street" among other urban wonders. "It would have been a long poem," the poem concludes, "and it would have made a lot of sense / and shown why I believe Bob Hershon is a wise man." (Hershon edits Hanging Loose.) What makes the poem almost heartbreaking is the knowledge that Violi wrote it in the face of his own death. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2011, this amazingly inventive poet died on April 2 and yet was able to infuse the writing of this, his last poem, with such high spirits that it almost becomes a cheerful missive to us from that other world from which no traveler has ever returned.
Our poems are haunted, as our lives are, by that unknown territory on the other side of a wall too high to climb and see over. In The Best American Poetry 2012 the "spirit in the dark" comes to light in poems that consider "The Gods" and "The Afterlife," the stories of Magdalene and the road to Emmaus. The poems wonder where "we go after we die"; they whisper rumors of the other side, about which all we know for certain is that it is "something entirely else." Mark Doty, who chose the poems for this year's volume, has a keen ear for the poetry of the uncanny. In his poems he has explored heaven as an earthly possibility, has delved into the realm of dreams more real than waking life, has encountered the apparition of a deceased poet obliviously enjoying his lunch at "the Eros Diner, corner / of 21st Street." Doty has won acclaim for his poetry (Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008) and his prose (Dog Years was a New York Times bestseller in 2007) not only in North America but in the United Kingdom, where he is the sole American ever to receive the T. S. Eliot Prize. He cares deeply about poetry and poets, loves the language, values good writing. He is as sympathetic a reader as I could have wanted, as generous, and as open to new voices. Mark writes about poetry with passion and acumen. Read him on Hart Crane or May Swenson, on William Blake's "Ah! Sunflower" and on Alan Shapiro's, in his book The Art of Description, and you will see why I felt he was an irresistible choice to edit this volume of The Best American Poetry.
To write poetry, to read it, to go to poetry readings, is a way of being in the world, and there will always be those who get suspicious and feel that maybe Plato was right to exclude the poets from his ideal Republic. Poetry, as they see it, is a form of "divine madness" that can lead you astray like a drug. It may be that all criticism has its origin in this rationalist rejection of the poet's way of being in the world. Faced with uncomprehending or dismissive criticism, the young poet might take heart from something T. S. Eliot once wrote: "Upon giving the matter a little attention, we perceive that criticism, far from being a simple and orderly field of beneficent activity, from which impostors can be readily ejected, is no better than a Sunday park of contending and contentious orators, who have not even arrived at the articulation of their differences." To counter the din of contentious oratory, very little of which will help the writer (or reader) in any useful way, I turn instinctively to the rhetorical question that animates Shakespeare's sonnet sixty-five: "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?"
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By Risa Brown, National Data and Targeting Director, Faith in Action
Voting is one of the most sacred responsibilities we have as Americans. On November 3, 2020, we will have the opportunity to seize our power as citizens and change the course of history. Even so, every election should inspire us to make our voices heard.
However, enthusiasm for participation in the political process has fallen victim to a range of measures designed to disenfranchise the American people, especially targeting communities that are traditionally disadvantaged and discriminated against. The purging of voter rolls and so-called "voter access laws" are the latest manifestation of the same white supremacist legacy that brought literacy tests to voter registration in the South (only ended by the Voting Rights Act of 1965). Right now, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to create barriers like fees and fines – a modern day poll tax – for returning citizens that have been granted the right to vote in a state constitutional amendment.
These policies today make it so that enthusiasm and eligibility for voting alone is not enough to ensure that the American people can access their rights and hold their representatives in government accountable.
At the same time, we have also been targeted by a long con, a systemic deception that has convinced us our voices don't matter. How many times have you heard that all the candidates are really the same, or that because of the electoral college your vote in a solidly blue or red state doesn't matter? Make no mistake, this narrative is malicious and intentional, designed to discourage participation by those who would disrupt the status quo with their electoral choices. It nudges people to not care about the state and local elections that will directly impact their lives. And it keeps vulnerable communities from standing up for what they need because they are led to believe that no government representative will ever stand with them. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And because of both malign policies and this dangerous narrative of powerlessness, voter turnout in this country lags behind our peer nations around the world in every election. In 2016, only about 55.5% of the voting age population participated in the presidential election, leaving nearly 92 million eligible American voters without a voice. And turnout is historically lower in midterm and state and local elections. What can be done to reverse this trend and reclaim our democracy?
That's where National Voter Registration Day came in. At first glance, it may have seemed like just another feel-good note on the calendar that doesn't get you a day off of work. But if you considered that registering to vote is the entry point to wielding your power as a citizen of the United States, it became clear that this was no ordinary day.
Recently on National Voter Registration Day volunteers around the country conducted voter registration outreach in their own communities – at work, at school, and on their block with their neighbors. The conversation also moved online where we connected our Facebook friends and Twitter followers to resources about how to get registered in their state of residence and stay informed about elections. As we head toward 2020, Faith in Action is working to flip the formula on voter engagement by engaging communities on the issues that matter to them most. Our colleagues will continue to build enduring power for people of color and working families that translates into more freedom, less fear and more opportunity to thrive. This new formula is not ambivalent; it is a bold and conscious set of choices to do our political work differently that is bringing those on the margins of our democracy to the center.
Over the last thirteen years I've registered voters in a variety of communities: on the streets of Newark and in the suburbs of Los Angeles, in Black, Latinx, AAPI neighborhoods. I've registered young people getting ready to graduate from high school and retirees who have been anchors in their communities for decades. Regardless of where I worked, there was always a story about how people were removed from the vote. It was heartbreaking to hear how people didn't know they could register to vote. Some people thought they were registered and I had to tell them they weren't. So many communities are disenfranchised from taking the most basic and most impactful way to change their communities: voting.
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There is a primary factor that tells us to what extent the soil in front of us would be suitable for growing our food. And that factor consists in evaluating the proportion of the different sizes of soil particles: the grainy sand, the intermediate silt, and the fine clay.
To do this, just take a look. Nothing else. You take a glass jar, fill it with soil up to a third of its volume (excluding excessively compact clouds, stems, and leaves), and finally, the jar is filled almost to the brim with water.
How do physical properties affect crop development?
The physical properties of soil are the result of the interaction that originates between the different phases of the same (soil, water, and air) and the proportion in which each of these is found. The physical condition of soil determines its support capacity, ease of root penetration, air circulation, water storage capacity, drainage, nutrient retention, among other factors.
The main physical properties that influence the development of crops are the following: Figure 1. The physical properties of the soil strongly influence the development of crops. Photo: Spradley, 2014. Soil color. It is one of the characteristics that allows describing the different types of soils. Soil color does not have a direct effect on plant growth, but it indirectly affects soil temperature and humidity. The greater the amount of heat energy found in the soil, the higher the temperature and evaporation.
It has been proven that dark soils under the same environmental conditions and without vegetative cover, tend to dry out faster. On the other hand, humid soils are darker than those that are dry, in addition to absorbing a greater amount of light that helps to increase soil temperature and more accelerated development of the crop. The color of the soil can also indicate its current state in a general way. When considering the color of the soils it is important to know if it comes from a recent formation process or it is a color from the parent material.
Soil color can serve as a starting point to interpret soil properties in terms of aeration, drainage, or organic matter (OM) content.
Soil compaction refers to the reduction of the porosity of the soils, increasing its apparent density. Therefore, the compaction phenomenon limits the space for the storage or movement of air and water within the soil. It is also one of the main causes of physical restriction for the radical growth of crops. The soils with the greatest tendency to compact are medium-fine textured soils compared to coarse-textured soils. Similarly, soils with low organic matter content or high moisture content are more susceptible to it. The greatest compaction damage is found in agricultural fields where intensive agriculture is practiced (high use of agricultural machinery).
"How can I tell someone to start managing nutrient solutions when I am not sure that the environment for the root is adequate, the soil structure is appropriate and irrigation management is optimal? The most energy-demanding plant process is the assimilation of nutrients. If we can make this happen passively, the plant will be nourishing itself with very little energy expenditure. However, to achieve this we depend on achieving a correct growing medium, adequate root development, and good irrigation management. If we achieve that, we can build good nutritional solutions "
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Low oil prices have pushed the fracking industry into a corner, as high drilling costs have sidelined rigs and caused oil production to decline month-over-month in the second half of 2015. Augmenting these troubles is the fact that the life of any given well may be limited, with fracking able to reach only about 10 to 40 percent of the original oil in the reservoir through primary and secondary recovery efforts, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Consequently, the thirst for an effective method to enhance oil recovery is strong.
Plasma Pulse Technology is now making an entrance to the North American enhanced oil recovery market, and its developers claim that the technology is capable of reaching previously untapped oil reserves using a method that is cleaner and cheaper than current hydraulic fracking methods. The technique is able to initiate resonance of plasma waves within an oil reservoir that then enables oil to move with greater fluidity through smaller fractures in the earth. Proponents of plasma pulse technology say that it is able to tap into previously unreachable oil without the use of controversial chemicals or large volumes of water.
Novas Energy North America is the exclusive North American licensee of the technology. Since 2010, Novas Energy has been rolling out its Plasma Pulse Technology worldwide in China, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Middle East with more recent applications in the U.S. in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas and Colorado. Next up is the vital Texas market, where the company is now signing contracts.
"Are we going to replace hydraulic fracking? We think we'll be complementary," Novas Energy North America President and CEO Ken Stankievech tells The Fuse. "But as the industry costs and the environmental pressures drive oil and gas production companies away from fracking, plasma pulse technology will have a significant piece of the EOR market."
Non-invasive enhanced oil recovery
"How does an opera singer fracture a glass without hitting it? Why does the molecular structure of the glass break down? It is the unique resonance of the sound wave," Stankievech says. "We take the basic hydrocarbon molecule and break the molecule chain so that it becomes smaller and flows through smaller openings—rather than trying to make bigger holes. That's the secret to permeability improvement."
Stankievech says that the plasma pulse technology differs from traditional fracking in that rather than breaking up the rock itself, this method changes the ability of the hydrocarbon to adhere to the rock.
"We take the basic hydrocarbon molecule and break the molecule chain so that it becomes smaller and flows through smaller openings—rather than trying to make bigger holes.
The plasma pulse operation is a much smaller, less invasive method of oil extraction than methods such as refracking. Using a 275-pound tool that can be moved by two workers by hand, the site employs a standard wire-line truck to put the tool to work. Furthermore, in spite of the seemingly large task of creating underground pulses that can have an impact on oil in rock, Stankievech says that the energy requirements of plasma pulse technology are quite small—largely thanks to the fact that the pulses themselves last only a nanosecond.
"It doesn't require massive source power because it's stored in high energy capacitors in the tool. We can run it off of a 110V power [outlet]," he says. "We use a 3500W generator which is about the same as the ones you see in RVs… It's a very small footprint. No big rigs, no sand trucks, no pumping trucks. You can visualize how there's a very limited amount of people and equipment on our job sites."
Consequently, Stankievech points out that the cost differential between his technology hydraulic fracking jobs is substantial. On a vertical well, he estimates that plasma pulse technology is 75 percent cheaper than an equivalent hydraulic fracturing job. On a horizontal well, depending on the lateral leg length of the project, he says plasma pulse technology can be 90 percent cheaper than a traditional job. When it comes to capturing industry support for an environmentally-safe method of oil extraction, these cost differentials are the primary selling point—especially with the current oil price slump.
"Because we are cost-effective at $37 per barrel as it was [this week], we can keep our customers' base rate up while being responsible for the environment and efficient in our recovery of oil and gas," Stankievech says.
Not a substitute for fracking
But when evaluating the promise of the plasma pulse technology, Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute tells The Fuse that it's more valid to compare it to other enhanced oil recovery techniques than traditional hydraulic fracking. In fact, Smith does not see the technology as being particularly effective as a standalone option to oil extraction—instead, he sees it as requiring the existing infrastructure of a fracking site to do its job.
"It's not the answer to the maiden's prayer. It's just a nice way to get a little more oil for a little less pollution. And that's if it works on a repeatable basis," says Smith.
Dr. Smith compares plasma pulse's net benefit to companies that use water flooding to retrieve oil and then recycle the water on another project. He also noted that there are other companies using different technology to attempt to capture the same benefit: He cited Denbury Resources' use of liquid CO2 in enhanced oil recovery as competitive and proven in that space.
When it comes to capturing industry support for an environmentally-safe method of oil extraction, these cost differentials are the primary selling point—especially with the current oil price slump.
"It might well be possible to use this plasma pulse technology to reenergize these existing fractures once they've been created. So instead of having to drill new wells every three years I can go back in and use the technology in the horizontal format and start production back up on these older wells that have peaked out and get an extra 15 to 20 percent. That would be a boon because that means there are fewer wells I have to drill," says Smith. "I don't see any problems with it… but you need someplace to start and you're going to start with the wells that were conventionally fracked to begin with. Maybe they're taking a well that would have played out in two-and-a-half to three years and extending its life to five years."
While Smith primarily sees the environmental benefits of the plasma pulse technology coming from the fact that it would mean fewer wells need to be drilled, Stankievech is open about the fact that there is still a lot of room for the innovation to grow and adapt to the market.
"We've only done 400 wells worldwide. That does not make us a world expert," Stankievech acknowledges. "We've learned a lot in the last 100 wells we've treated to best utilize what we have and what types of formations are best examples of improved production [using plasma pulse technology]. We like to believe that we have a lot to learn as we adapt to an industry that we can have a huge impact on. It's a great space for us to be in when things are tough in the oil and gas industry."
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Roel Pacquiao loses box full of gadgets, watches at NAIA
HIGHLIGHT: The balikbayan box of Roel Pacquiao, the younger brother Manny Pacquaio, was picked up by a person who cannot be identified from the CCTV footage of NAIA Terminal 1.
The younger Pacquiao was part of the champ's entourage that arrived at the airport at 5 a.m. from Los Angeles, California via Philippine Airlines flight PR 103.
Upon arrival, Roel checked on his LBC balikbayan box at the baggage claim area, only to find out later on that it has been picked up by another person.
Through the help of NAIA police Aviation Security Group (AvSeGroup), the brother of Manny reviewed the closed-circuit television camera (CCTV) footage and saw a person took his box full of rubber shoes, cameras, iPhones and watches.
Unfortunately, the blurry image on CCTV makes the person unidentifiable.
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) has earlier said that it has intensified campaign against baggage pilferage through "Oplan Dukot Bagahe" launched last year.
General Manager Jose Angel Honrado advised passengers, "As much as possible let us avoid putting valuable items in our luggage. If it cannot be avoided, do not put them in front pockets and pouches where they can be easily identified by simply feeling them. They become tempting to certain people," Honrado said.
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The U.S. hacking codes were previously released in a leak by an online hacking collective that identified itself as Shadow Brokers.
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"With regard to the source of these threats, then I believe that Microsoft has spoken directly about this," Putin said. "They said that the first sources of this virus were the United States intelligence agencies. Russia has absolutely nothing to do with this."
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Tom Bossert, a homeland security adviser to President Trump, said Monday that the cyberattack is "under control" at the moment in the United States. But Bossert told ABC's "Good Morning America" that the malware is an "extremely serious threat" and could lead to copycat attacks.
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Azealia Banks is under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department for criminal battery after allegedly assaulting a security guard at a nightclub, according to TMZ.
The gossip site obtained video of the incident, which took place at Break Room 86 in Los Angeles late last month. Banks and her friends were asked to leave the club because of "unruly behavior," and on her way out, the rapper reportedly tried to pull the fire alarm.
At that point, Banks was grabbed by a security guard, after which members of her party rushed to pull him off her. Banks can then be seen jumping the guard and hitting him repeatedly along with her friends until another security guard arrives to break up the scuffle.
News of the incident surfaced one day after Banks canceled a handful of November tour dates. As Pitchfork reports, the shows were originally rescheduled in August after co-headliner K. Michelle dropped out.
In a note on Twitter, Banks wrote, "I'm very busy at work. Your coins will be refunded and I will be back in January." She's still scheduled to play Terminal 5 in New York City on November 19th.
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