Marcellus Shale Seminar : Mining Drilling Impact on Local Watersheds
Marcellus Shale gas well drilling has been making big headlines as a possible boost to Pennsylvania’s economy, as long as it is done properly ... Dunlap, project manager of the West Branch Restoration Initiative of Trout Unlimited, spoke ... to access the gas, drilling companies must use large amounts of water, between 2 and 10 million gallons [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 01:42:31
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Those Who Enable the Triumph of Evil, and the Choice Before Us
I have been making one critical argument for several years. In "The Barren, Deadly Wasteland that Is Now Our Life," I formulated a foundational question this way (I include both of the following paragraphs to remind readers of key evidence for my conclusion):Meanwhile, the Democrats say that they now oppose the invasion and occupation of Iraq [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 20:33:00
Louisiana state official signs agreement needed to close the notorious MR-GO
Facing South has reported on the catastrophic impact of the federally-sponsored Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO) ... -Picayune: Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Chairman Garret Graves said he decided to send ... to look at restoring the damage the channel caused in the swampy landscape southeast of New Orleans [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 18:05:59
Restore some forests to their precolonial condition
Note: yours truly in the Main Stream Media. Special thanks to Jack Wilson, Editorial Page Editor, The Register-Guard. Restore some ... that they contain — to fire and insects. … Inaction is a much more risky option for a variety of ecological ... the Biscuit Fire (2002), the B&B Fire (2003), and last summer’s Rattle and Middle Fork Fires. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 18:34:06
Westminster Abbey's Chapter House to receive £2m facelift
Against a wintry blue sky, the damage to one of London's oldest buildings is painfully clear: above tangles of ivy there are crumbling parapets, ... in a headless stump. A £2m restoration programme will be announced tomorrow for the Chapter House ... windows from crates of medieval and Victorian fragments. The damage to the outside walls includes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:13:50
Giving Israel more Time to Weaken Hamas in Gaza
Daily Haaretz, Jerusalem (not so conservative) Israeli news paper says in their analysis: The international community, headed by the U.S ... of Israeli officials is aiming to bring about the restoration of the cease-fire with Hamas, which expired ... damage Hamas’ regime. The rationale behind such a move is that a weakened Hamas would improve [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 16:01:08
Sonoma County Clean Water Disappearing
Clean Water Rapidly Disappearing By Brenda Adelman In a national survey on planet biodiversity, it was determined that seven out of ten biologists believe that we are in the midst of a mass extinction of living beings. They rated biodiversity loss as a more serious environmental problem than the depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 19:17:50
Crisis… and Restoration
[Note from the Proprietor: Yet another entry for this month's groupwrite project, What I Learned From Stress ... are turning seriously brown, as if they’re suddenly dying or something. It couldn’t be a lack of water ... . But I digress.) Anyway, it turns out it’s the trees’ way of coping with the damage done by the high winds [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 11:00:18
Less is More
I’ll admit it up front: I like small exhibitions. I’ve seen too many monographic shows in major museums where an artist looks less interesting after an entire career is lined up than when represented by one work at a time. Besides, I’d rather spend half an hour with 20 carefully-chosen works than an hour and a half with the 350-400 works in too [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 22:56:00
Sovereign Grace Church of Chesapeake
I first heard of the situation in Chesapeake on December 23 via email. I’ve since received many emails telling me the same story. I have not been contacted by “the three couples”, so I would ask SGCC to not add this to your list of their supposed sins. As I was composing the Chesapeake story, I received an email with the following letter attached [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 03:39:17
Nutrition Supplements for Performance and Rejuvenation
Date: 2009-01-18 18:15:37
Nutrition Supplements for Performance and Rejuvenation
What is StemEnhance® and why do you need it? Stem Enhance® is a natural extract that helps the body maintain healthy stem cells ... to how antioxidants protect your cells from damage caused by “free radicals”. When circulating ... and to connective tissue or any part of the body that is in need of restoration. StemEnhance a natural botanical [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:07:39
Help for Historic Windows
One of the most wonderful aspects of our local architecture is its historic windows with their characteristic divided lite panes and historic glass ... happier replacing an old window with a new one. Companies focused on window restoration ... . The following is a description of what you should expect from a window restoration project [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 20:42:15
Hysteria over Plans to Protect Archaeological Remains of Babylon
Date: 2009-01-13 10:16:43
Flying pig alert: UNSG chastens Hamas
The UN SecGen actually issued a statement calling for Hamas to stop rocketing Israel without calling for the reduction of violence “on both sides ... to secure the immediate restoration of the calm and an urgent easing of humanitarian conditions in the Gaza ... missiles into the next Hamas rally, and take out the leadership with one shot. Collateral damag [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 23:03:17
A new wind blowing
The wind is grooming the trees. A month ago, we were in the middle of the longest stretch of snow and sub-freezing weather most of us can recall in Portland. Although not evident at the time, a great deal of damage was done to trees and other ... a lot of visible damage. Trees, like humans and other animals, grow scraggly, ragged and weak [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 05:43:46
Obama's Land Deal-- Faking the Poor Into Bad Housing
Getting the other half of his back yard for less than market price wasn't the only Obama Rezko real estate dealing ... of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 12:15:55
Ohio gun rights improved in 2008; Much more still to be done
By Jim Irvine Recently I helped our treasurer go through line by line all our donations for a campaign finance report. It struck me how many of you had donated, and how much some people donated. Thank you. It means a great deal that you put such trust in our group of leaders - who I promise will continue to work and earn that trust [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 05:10:00
Salon Radio: Anthony Romero
(updated below w/transcript) My guest on Salon Radio today is Anthony Romero, the Executive Director of the ACLU, which recently released a detailed plan for the restoration of core liberties in America under an Obama administration. We discuss the most important priorities for civil libertarians in reversing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 03:58:05
Food, Future, Famine?
Read more of this story » A new report prepared by the National Intelligence Council has projected that the world would be witnessing severe water and food shortages by 2025 and the changing climate would further strain ... would put immense pressure on highly strategic and essential resources like energy, water and food [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 16:55:02
Water Restoration
Water Restoration Categories: Uncategorized Especially now that it’s winter, one problem most homes will have is probably water damage ... Restoration 911 comes. Water Restoration 911 does exactly as their name suggests - they fix water damage ... as in the west, leaks and other forms of water damage may not be easily notice until they’ve gotten [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 23:45:50
Gettin' burned: Texas wants you to pay for their house
In a state where the insurance industry is given license to bilk, we found this amusing.The state of Texas is begging for your help. They have established the Texas Governor’s Mansion Restoration Fund, a nonprofit organization ... residents to pony up for restoration costs? Didn't y'all have homeowners insurance? Or did the policy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:40:00
"leave duality behind."
Diane through Mike Quinsey16-January-2009For many people your reality seems quite solid and dependable, and you feel bound by its parameters. Yet it is in actuality fluid and changeable being subject to your mass consciousness. This is in part why you have suddenly been plunged into chaotic conditions, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 18:49:00
Plans to restore the Saenger Theater
NEW ORLEANS, LA -- The Saenger Theater was heavily damaged by hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has remained shuttered since then with only enough work ... the theater. David Anderson, one of the partners said the restoration will keep an eye toward the theater's ... of that has been lost because of the storm damage. There is a huge amount of time and money [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:45:02
Orissa flood toll 35, Patil announces Rs.5 bn relief
Floods in the Mahanadi river and its tributaries following incessant rains have claimed 35 lives with six deaths reported Tuesday ... , according to state government officials. "It is a very big flood and has done a lot of damage," Patil told ... out relief and restoration work in the affected areas, an official of the Chief Minister's Office [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 05:13:00
Marc Rich! Again??
Matthews: Bush is Like the Cop Who Shoots an Unarmed ManBy David Neiwert - Crooks and LiarsDiscussing the Bush legacy Friday, Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball came up with a good metaphorMatthews: I found it interesting that the president, who admitted he was wrong about WMDs as a justification for war, called it a "disappointment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:23:00
NIC “Global Trends 2025″ Report: World to See Economic Growth At the Cost of Environment and Human Life
Read more of this story » Campaign politics dominated the headlines in 2008, making it a banner year for the armchair pundit and the politically uninitiated alike. 2008 was also a year that issues like energy use, climate change and carbon footprints came to the forefront of popular culture and political reality. And that’s where we came in [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 15:16:34
DrumBeat: October 13, 2008
Growth Economics on a Finite Planet Over the weekend, I asked Herman Daly, the specialist in “ecological economics” at the University of Maryland, about the recent financial turmoil. He pointed me to a short piece he wrote that was posted on the Oil Drum blog a few days ago and that he gave me permission to post below [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:00
Saving Homeowners (Con't): The Bill Hambrecht Plan
Saving Homeowners (Con’t): The Bill Hambrecht Plan By Joe Nocera Here is another idea for stopping the wave of foreclosures and doing something ... , the public will continue to lose trust in the government’s efforts to repair the damage. We feel ... market pricing of asset repurchases is key to the restoration of that confidence, and critical [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 17:08:15
The Constitution: It’s Aliiiiive!
But just barely. Matt Stoller at OpenLeft writes: Of course, the Constitution isn’t a quaint representation of some wonderful time of yore, ... , and resolve. And that’s how we’ll restore the Constitution. A restoration of the Constitution ... do us harm. In other words, undo the damage done by the Bush/Cheney administration. And you can be sure [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 21:37:29
“Scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes.”
The Boston Globe (Jan 2, 2009): How the city hurts your brain …And what you can do about it By Jonah Lehrer THE CITY HAS always been an engine of intellectual life, from the 18th-century coffeehouses of London, where citizens gathered to discuss chemistry and radical politics, to the Left Bank bars of modern Paris, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:42:49
Top Five Options for Tooth Restoration
A chipped tooth, gaps in your teeth and missing teeth may be making you self-conscious about your smile; fortunately, there are several tooth restoration options available that can give you a more attractive smile ... procedures such as dental implants, veneers and inlays can help restore teeth after extensive damage, injury [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 05:20:10
A Picture of My Frustration
bunny leeks , originally uploaded by Wanda and Chet. This month has been a lesson for me in patience. We have had rabbit damage in the garden and it has begun a war I was not prepared to make ... and more damage. Now, the vegetables that many were relying on for the winter - the leeks, the broccoli [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 06:20:23
What?!!?! Kirstie moved OUT?!!?!!?…..and other Amazing Stories
Well, hello! It’s been a while since I’ve written and for that I apologize. I have plenty of excuses for this lack of action here, but I won’t put you thru the boring steps of reading them……First, some business:Today is my Aunt Kay’s Birthday! Special shout out to my favorite Aunt! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:55:02
Date: 2008-11-09 14:12:58
An open letter to the smart growth community
There is no way we should be settling for, or applauding, this . . . When we should be advocating this: [ green transit on the Atlanta Beltline ( [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 15:32:19
Celestial Focus Change Nerfs Balance PvP A Bit
In the latest PTR patch notes for patch 3.08, balance druids got the news that their talent Celestial Focus will no longer work with Starfall ... to get to 80 faster then I’ll be switching to Restoration. But I do know that that the stuns ... questioned Starfall’s viability as a 51 point talent. Starfall’s alleged horrible damage output and the fact [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 03:14:29
Water Restoration 911
Have you ever had an experienced where you have stepped on wet floor in your home or even in the place where you are working? Wasn't it debilitating? ... , If you ever need a company that will help you with water damage, water restoration, Wet Basement, basement ... to act fast! Water damage in your basement is a serious problems and if not treated molds [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 05:49:38
Open Letter to Dr. Steven Chu
By Joseph Kleinman, Skyhorse Media Renewable Energy World Dear Dr ... to incalculable worldwide damage. Sorry, I don't mean to accentuate the negative. In fact, I'm ... is a veteran forestry expert and proponent of Restoration Forestry. Like those most experienced [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:52:46
The World in Depression: Lessons from the Great Depression: Part XXIV: Economic Crises Around the World in Synchronization.
To assume that the worldwide depression in banks and global equity markets started here in the United States dilutes the magnitude of our current predicament. The interconnectedness of our global markets makes good and bad ideas spread faster, with deeper and more profound implications than say a half century ago [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 07:51:32
Endorsements And Excuses
The Powell endorsement isn’t all that surprising, and like most endorsements it will have no meaningful electoral effect ( ... hope not so much of transformation but of restoration of establishment credibility. Obama ... of repairing some of the damage that national political institutions and officials, including Powell himself [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 15:59:18
Just in case you were looking for equal time..
In keeping with my recent obviation from character, here’s some highlights from President Nelson’s latest letter regarding Thomas More College of ... , without editing or moderation. In fact, I’ll stay out of it. let’s see how Nelson holds up against [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 10:26:23
Water Damage
We all know as home owners that there is a reason why we maintain insurance on the property ... like floods, hurricanes, and fires do occur and what comes with it is water damage ... back to normal. Have you every thought of who does it though. The folks at Water Restoration 911 [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 05:20:11
Deluxe Compact ESV in Tan Pigskin by Leonard's Book Restoration
I get a lot of e-mail asking questions along these lines: "I've just purchased the amazingly beautiful new Bible you recommended ... sheen, but because the resulting damage will make the idea of "taking care of" your new Bible seem ... you to an excellent rebinder: Leonard's Book Restoration. Deluxe Compact ESV in Pigskin - Comparison [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 02:01:27
As we hear astonishing new revelations of gov't misconduct in the Siegelman case, Russ Feingold emphasizes the need to restore the rule of law
"Whoever is the new attorney general has to be strong enough to weed out the Karl Rove clones who have been embedded in U.S. attorneys' offices throughout the United States. If not, it is going to eat at our system for years to come."-- former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, in a TPMmuckraker interview" [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 14:00:00
Natural Stem Cell Enhancement Nutrition for Optimum Health and Performance
Date: 2009-01-16 20:32:18
Autzen Foundation supports the Jefferson Artworks
Jefferson High School has received a grant of $5000 from the Autzen Foundation for the conservation and restoration of the Jefferson Artworks ... has volunteered to manage the restoration of the Jefferson Artworks.Five thousands dollars is a big push ... - and more.Our goal is to raise $27,000. This full amount will secure these artworks from damage cause [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 15:09:56
Solution For Water Damage
Owning a beautiful home is not easy in this present economical situation prevailing throughout the world ... . In order to preserve your home from Water Damage, contact the toll free or hotline number of Water ... you may have leakages in your pipes and water stagnant on the roofs and the garden. To come [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 08:54:26
The Weekly Carboholic: carbon offsets hurt tropical forests
carboholic Carbon offset markets hurt tropical forests Salt water marsh restoration may efficiently sequester carbon Shallow ground water ... number of environmental activists oppose the practice. ———- Salt water marsh restoration may ... more or less simultaneously. Take clean water, shoreline restoration, wetlands protection, and climate [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 12:30:59
This Day January 17 In Jewish History
Date: 2009-01-16 20:32:00
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