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The Obama administration recently announced its plans to contribute more than $1 billion to the FutureGen project, a carbon capture and sequestration demonstration plant in Mattoon, Ill. As part of the deal, the FutureGen Alliance has agreed to seek 60 percent capture initially and then work up to a 90 percent capture goal. During today's OnPoint, Michael Mudd, CEO of the FutureGen Alliance, responds to criticism of the scaled-back carbon capture goal for the project. He explains why the total cost of the project may be less than previously projected. Mudd also gives his take on international competition to create a commercially scalable CCS plant.

Monica Trauzzi: Welcome to the show. I'm Monica Trauzzi. Joining me today is Michael Mudd, CEO of the FutureGen Alliance. Mike, it's great to have you back on the show.

Michael Mudd: Thank you, a pleasure being here, Monica.

Monica Trauzzi: Mike, DOE recently revived the FutureGen project, announcing it plans to contribute slightly more than $1 billion to the effort. It's a reversal of the Bush administration decision, but it's not come without controversy. We've seen Republicans come out in strong opposition as well as some environmental groups that have some concerns about it. And the enviros have begun calling this project YesterGen because it would only seek to capture 60 percent of the missions as opposed to 90 percent that the original FutureGen project would have done. Why such a dramatic reduction in the goals of FutureGen?

Michael Mudd: It's not an accurate way to put it. FutureGen will still be designed for 90 percent carbon capture. It's a very important to advance the technology. When we met with the Department of Energy there were concerns about the cost and also some aspects of the risk. So in our meetings with the DOE the idea came up why don't we start out with 60 percent carbon capture with the goal of still going to 90 percent carbon capture? That is still the key point of FutureGen and, at the end of the day, FutureGen will have 90 percent carbon capture, but to manage the startup risk and the cost we will start out with 60 percent carbon capture.

Monica Trauzzi: But aren't there are ready existing projects that are achieving 60 percent or trying to achieve 60 percent and don't we sort of have a so-what factor if FutureGen is not trying to push past that?

Michael Mudd: Right now there are no IGCC projects operating with carbon capture and sequestration, so the answer no, there are none. Now, the basis of 60 percent carbon capture is because it is basically what is the California standard which is equivalent to natural gas combined-cycle plant. So, we're still doing first of a kind. We're still advancing the technology. We're proving that you can have an integrated gasification plant that integrates gasification with coal, carbon capture and carbon sequestration, a key element to advance the technology and very necessary. So the fact that we are taking a smaller step to 60 before going to the 90 percent carbon capture is that way to ensure that we can do it right and maybe manage the risk a little bit to make it easier to get that ultimate goal of 90 percent carbon capture.

Monica Trauzzi: So, what kind of timeline are you looking at to go from 60 percent to 90 percent and how would that fall in line with a potential cap-and-trade plan?

Michael Mudd: I don't know how it really follows in with a cap-and-trade plan because, you know, there are so many variables out there. But from a technology perspective we will have a four-year window of operation of the plant. And we had come to closure with the DOE on the path forward less than within the past two weeks. So now we're looking at the schedule, looking at the plant to find out when during that four-year test window we would increase the carbon capture from 60 to 90 percent.

Monica Trauzzi: Former Energy Secretary Bodman had pulled funding for this project because of the exponentially increasing costs. And we had discussed that the last time you were on the show.

Michael Mudd: Right.

Monica Trauzzi: Where does the total cost stand now? And if cost was such a concern a year ago, why isn't it still a concern now, especially considering the current economic crisis that we're in?

Michael Mudd: Well, when we had finished the cost, the cost came out to roughly $2.4 billion. That is called as-spent money, that's including the inflation through the construction and operation of the plant and when we met with the DOE that was a concern. And, once again, I want to point out that that cost was not an increase by change of scope or change of design, but because of the very high rate of inflation that was experienced for all power plants, all chemical plants until the downturn that we had in the economy last year. Now what's interesting is that we had assumed 5 percent inflation in going forward to that $2.4 billion cost estimate. What we don't know is perhaps the cost has gone down. The cost of steel, it went up quite a bit, now it's gone down a bit. The cost of labor, it hasn't gone down that much, but right now the firms are not as busy, so the big imbalance that we saw in the marketplace between the amount of projects that wanted to be built and the resources, the people and the steel and so on, that imbalance is not there anymore. So actually the cost may go down, we're not sure. I mean we have to look and say what is going to happen to the economy as we go forward? Will the cost of steel, concrete and labor itself go up, down or be the same? That's part of the element that we'll be looking at as we go forward. In addition, knowing that we do have to find a way to bring the cost down, we're going to be looking at the basic plant design itself and in working with the Department of Energy see how we can bring that cost of the project down further.

Monica Trauzzi: So, DOE isn't handing over the cash just yet. The project needs to go under some sort of review moving forward, is that correct?

Michael Mudd: That is correct. In the terms that we came out to with the Department Of Energy we will be looking at the design of the plant and the cost from now through the end of the year and there will be a milestone decision early next year. We will sit together and look at the design of the plan, look the cost of the plant and then look at how we can fund the plant and there may be a gap between the approximately $1.1 billion that is now on the table from DOE, the $4 to $600 million that we envision bringing in from industry and say what is the best way to close that gap? And part of the work scope during this year is to look at ways that we can bring down the cost and also close that gap.

Monica Trauzzi: Dick Durbin, Rahm Emanuel, Ray LaHood., President Obama, they have all previously supported this project and they also have very influential positions in government. It looks like a pet project and it looks that way to many Republicans and Republicans have come out saying that this is plain out pork barrel spending and this is something that Democrats promised they wouldn't do with the stimulus money. So is this a fair and effective way to be spending taxpayer dollars and is this going to give the economy a boost that it needs in the short term?

Michael Mudd: We have to remember that FutureGen did not start out in Illinois. It wound up in Illinois.

Monica Trauzzi: Right.

Michael Mudd: We went through a very transparent process that we talked about when we were here the last time and Illinois became the site for FutureGen, not because of politics, but because it was the best possible site based on the business standards, based on the technical standards, based on the scientific standards, the geology and so on. So, because it is there it's because it's the best site in the country to build that plan right now. The next thing is that FutureGen has national and worldwide benefits. I mean it needs to be built. We need plants like this to prove that can be operated in an innovative fashion. So, while we definitely appreciate the strong support of the Illinois leadership I would hardly say that it would be considered a project specifically for Illinois. It is of national and world benefit, not just for the state of Illinois. Yes, it will benefit the people of Illinois. Yes, it will have jobs in Illinois, but it will also generate up to 1500 jobs, 15,000 jobs in direct and indirect jobs throughout the whole country. So it is shovel ready. It will generate jobs to benefit the country. It will help to advance coal. So it's got the elements for something that benefits our country and our world, not just the state of Illinois.

Monica Trauzzi: Final question here, you mentioned the worldwide impacts. How closely are you watching international competition on the creation of this specific technology? I mean it seems like there's a race to who can get this done first.

Michael Mudd: OK, I don't see this as competition. There is no competition between the projects. Our world needs many, many FutureGen type of projects. There are many different ways to do it. You can do it with IGCC like FutureGen. In Europe they're doing it with post-capture through what is called a carbon scrubber. They're doing it with a technology called oxy-fuel combustion. There are different ways to do it. Many different spots in the world are using different ways to do it. So it's not this or that or that. If we want to solve this huge problem of advancing the technology to reduce CO2 emissions it's got to be FutureGen and green gen and zero gen and there's other projects that are going on in Europe. That's how we can most rapidly advance the technology which is so important that we need to help to maintain clean energy and to ultimately reduce the CO2 emissions by burning fossil fuels.

Monica Trauzzi: All right, we'll end it right there. Thank you for coming on the show again.

Michael Mudd: Well, thank you. It is my pleasure.

Monica Trauzzi: And thanks for watching. We'll see you back here tomorrow.

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11. Papaver Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 506. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 224, 1754.

Poppy, pavot [classical Latin name for poppy; perhaps from Greek papa (pap), alluding to the thick, sometimes milky sap]

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Herbs , annual, biennial, or perennial, scapose or caulescent, from taproots; sap white, orange, or red. Stems when present leafy. Leaves: basal rosulate, petiolate; cauline alternate, proximal leaves petiolate, distal subsessile or sessile, sometimes clasping (in P . somniferum ); blade unlobed or 1-3× pinnately lobed or parted; margins entire or toothed, scalloped, or incised. Inflorescences cymiform, with flowers disposed in 1s, 2s or 3s on long scapes or peduncles; bracts present; buds nodding [erect]. Flowers: sepals 2(-3), distinct; petals 4(-6); stamens many; pistil 3-18[-22]-carpellate; ovary 1-locular, sometimes incompletely multilocular by placental intrusion; style absent; stigmas 3-18[-22], radiating on sessile, ± lobed disc, velvety. Capsules erect, 3-18[-22]-pored or short-valved immediately beneath persistent or sometimes deciduous (in P . hybridum ) stigmatic disc. Seeds many, minutely pitted, aril absent. x = 7.

Species 70-100 (16 in the flora): temperate and arctic North America, Eurasia, n, s Africa, Australia.

Papaver is rich in alkaloids, notably opiates. The genus is quite complex cytologically; in addition to diploids, there are numerous polyploid species and some that apparently are aneuploid. Most commonly, n = 7 or a multiple, and 2 n ranges from 14 to over 100. There are published chromosome counts for almost every taxon in the flora, but for the introduced species none has been made from wild-collected North American material.

The scapose poppies in the flora are native; the caulescent ones, except Papaver californicum , are introduced Eurasian ornamentals, crop weeds, and ballast waifs. All the scapose species are confined to arctic and alpine habitats. Plants of the introduced caulescent species, especially P . rhoeas , P . dubium , and P . somniferum , vary greatly in size, and surprisingly diminutive mature individuals are sometimes found, especially northward.

Kadereit, J. W. 1988. Sectional affinities and geographical distribution in the genus Papaver L. (Papaveraceae). Beitr. Biol. Pflanzen 63: 139-156. Kadereit, J. W. 1990. Some suggestions on the geographical origin of the central, west and north European synanthropic species of Papaver L. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 103: 221-231. Kiger, R. W. 1973. Sectional nomenclature in Papaver L. Taxon 22: 579-582. Kiger, R. W. 1975. Papaver in North America north of Mexico. Rhodora 77: 410-422. Kiger, R. W. 1985. Revised sectional nomenclature in Papaver L. Taxon 34: 150-152. Novák, J. and V. Preininger. 1987. Chemotaxonomic review of the genus Papaver. Preslia 59: 1-13.

1 Plants caulescent (sometimes subscapose), at least a few cauline leaves present.   (2)
+ Plants strictly scapose, leaves all basal (sect. Meconella).   (8)
2 (1) Blades of distal leaves clasping stem (sect. Papaver).   14 Papaver somniferum
+ Blades of distal leaves not clasping stem.   (3)
3 (2) Capsules setose (sect. Argemonideum).   (4)
+ Capsules glabrous.   (5)
4 (3) Capsules obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, densely and firmly setose.   2 Papaver hybridum
+ Capsules oblong to clavate, sparsely and weakly setose.   1 Papaver argemone
5 (3) Plants perennial; flowers 10 cm or more broad (sect. Macrantha).   4 Papaver orientale
+ Plants annual; flowers less than 10 cm broad.   (6)
6 (5) Peduncles glabrous or sparsely pilose; petals with greenish basal spot; stigmatic disc conic, usually umbonate; capsules distinctly short-valvate (sect. Californicum).   3 Papaver californicum
+ Peduncles hispid; petals unspotted or with dark basal spot; stigmatic disc ± flat; capsules poricidal (sect. Rhoeadium).   (7)
7 (6) Peduncles markedly spreading-hispid distally; capsules less than 2 times longer than broad.   16 Papaver rhoeas
+ Peduncles strongly appressed-hispid distally; capsules 2 times or more longer than broad.   15 Papaver dubium
8 (1) Leaf blades mostly with 3 primary lobes.   12 Papaver walpolei
+ Leaf blades with 5–many primary lobes.   (9)
9 (8) Capsules more than 4 times longer than broad.   6 Papaver macounii
+ Capsules 1–2.5 times longer than broad.   (10)
10 (9) Trichomes on capsules ivory colored.   (11)
+ Trichomes on capsules light to dark brown or black.   (13)
11 (10) Plants tall, seldom less than 2 dm.   5 Papaver nudicaule
+ Plants short, seldom more than 1.5 dm.   (12)
12 (11) Leaf blades setose.   10 Papaver alboroseum
+ Leaf blades glabrous or sparsely hirsute.   11 Papaver pygmaeum
13 (10) Leaf blades mostly with 5 primary lobes, lobes mostly simple.   (14)
+ Leaf blades with more than 5 primary lobes, lobes mostly divided.   (15)
14 (13) Primary leaf lobes oblanceolate to strap-shaped.   13 Papaver gorodkovii
+ Primary leaf lobes broadly lanceolate to ovate.   8 Papaver radicatum
15 (13) Scapes straight, erect, generally longer than 20 cm; capsules oblong-ellipsoid.   7 Papaver lapponicum
+ Scapes curved, erect or decumbent, less than 15 cm, capsules obconic to subglobose.   (16)
16 (15) Leaf blades generally green, not glaucous, primary lobes lanceolate, their apices acute to obtuse.   8 Papaver radicatum
+ Leaf blades generally gray- and blue-green, glaucous, primary lobes obovate to strap-shaped, their apices rounded.   9 Papaver mcconnellii

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Quercus sclerophylla Lindley & Paxton, Paxt. Fl. Gard. 1: 59. 1850; Lithocarpus chinensis (Abel) A. Camus; Q. chinensis Abel (1818), not Castanopsis chinensis Hance (1868); Q. cuspidata Thunberg var. sinensis A. de Candolle; Synaedrys sclerophylla (Lindley & Paxton) Koidzumi.

Trees; branches and leaf blades glabrous. Young shoots reddish brown, slightly angulate. Petiole 1.5-2.5 cm; leaf blade oblong, ovate-elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 7-15 cm, leathery, adaxially silver-gray with age, base rounded to broadly cuneate and usually inaequilateral, margin from middle to apex serrulate or rarely entire, apex acuminate, cuspidate, or shortly caudate; midvein slightly impressed from base to middle and slightly raised from middle to apex; secondary veins 10-15 on each side of midvein, prominent to very slender, evident. Rachis of inflorescences glabrous. Female inflorescence ca. 15 cm. Infructescences 8-15 cm. Cupule globose to subglobose, 1.2-1.5 cm in diam., completely or almost completely enclosing nut, irregularly valved, outside yellowish brown puberulent, wall to 1 mm thick; bracts scalelike, 3- or 4-angled, sometimes only base connate, in annular umbones. Nut 1(-3) per cupule, subglobose, 1-1.4 cm in diam., tomentulose, apex mucronulate; scar basal, 7-9 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Oct-Nov.

The nuts are used for food.

Castanopsis × kuchugouzhui C. C. Huang & Y. T. Chang (Guihaia 16: 301. 1996) is a hybrid between C. sclerophylla and C. tibetana with a population on Yuelu Shan in Changsha Shi, Hunan. The bracts apically and along the sides of the cupule are 5-8 mm and spinelike, like those of C. tibetana, but among them, as well as the basal bracts, are small, triangular to multiangular, and lamellate bracts like those of C. sclerophylla.

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A Happy Heart. ~ Jessica Avila

on Jun 12, 2012
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Love is ever present, a constant on the lips, minds, hearts and souls of us all in some shape or form.

It is all pervading, touching everything and everyone at every moment. The spirit of love is our very nature, and we carry it with us in each cell and fiber of our being. Yet we all forget this at times, or disconnect from it, which is the cause of so much suffering and strife.

As we travel along our respective paths through life, all of us ultimately seeking love, happiness, fulfillment, communion and the like, at one point or another most everyone falls into the trap of externalizing the search. We look for someone or something to magically make us feel loved, happy, fulfilled, connected, whole.

But we did not start our life’s journey as anything less than whole. We did not start out as anything less than the complete and perfect embodiment of love, happiness and fulfillment, effortlessly and intrinsically connected to the source, to the one, to the Divine or whatever you’d like to call it.

This is our very nature, so when we honor love outwardly on an occasion such as Valentine’s Day or an anniversary or any other special date on the calendar of our lives, let us also remember to honor love inwardly, on that day and every other, because it is the love within us that makes all other love possible.

Nurturing and expressing your own love is what allows you to then connect to the love in others.

Understanding that you and you alone have the power to create your own happiness and fulfillment is what shifts you into a space of constant contentment because nothing external can take that from you. The people and circumstances of your life can bring many ups and downs, highs and lows, yet you have an anchor to ground you through them all.

That anchor is the love in your heart; the sense of your higher self, that nothing and no one can shake. And when you are that solid and your love is that strong, it empowers you to attract and cultivate relationships and circumstances that feed that love and sense of self in the most positive way, thus perpetuating more of that yummy, juicy goodness all around.

Love yourself first and foremost. Take full and total responsibility for your happiness, fulfillment and the connections your form. Then you will know what it is to have a happy heart.

Love and blessings, friends!

Jessica Avila is the founder of Ocean Om standup paddle yoga, as well as a Sivananda and vinyasa yoga instructor in Fort Lauderdale, FL. For her writing, like yoga, is a practice in spirituality, self-discovery and self-healing. Reach her at [email protected] and visit www.oceanom.com for more on yoga orjessavila.blogspot.com for more on what she has to say.

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  1. Eric says:

    this is beautiful, Jessica. especially liked this:
    "most everyone falls into the trap of externalizing the search. We look for someone or something to magically make us feel loved, happy, fulfilled, connected, whole."
    thank you!!

  2. Mamaste says:

    Just intro'd on FB to : WOW & Sexy.

  3. […] It is then that I realize that every moment is eternally filled with the spaciousness of love. […]

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How To Remove Obstacles That Limit Your Life.

on Apr 16, 2013
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Imagine you’re standing in front of a file cabinet and that you want to move it.

So you bend your legs, grab the cabinet and press forward. You’re straining your muscles but the cabinet doesn’t move, even when you empty the drawers. Because you haven’t developed the “lifting muscles” it takes to move the cabinet.

What about the obstacles in your life that you want to move?

To move the obstacles that limit your life takes a certain kind of “muscle”. Not physical muscles that you can develop through exercise, rather it takes the development of your attention muscle.

What is the attention muscle?

It’s really the capacity to focus awareness—and sustain that focus—when distractions arise.

Without intentional exercise, this attention muscle doesn’t develop. That’s why the mind is so distractable. When the attention muscle isn’t developed the mind is twitchy, agitated, unable to rest, and in a constant state of relative distraction.

Most people don’t realize how weak their attention muscle is until they need to focus and sustain that focus. Because without training, without development, sustained focus isn’t possible.

What distracts the mind?

It’s your emotions. Your emotional reactions to challenging events. In the face of powerful emotions, the untrained mind collapses; it can’t maintain a state of presence—of sustained focus—in the face of an emotional thunderstorm and it gets totally blown away.

And since challenging events are inevitable and emotions are natural, there is a tremendous advantage to developing your attention muscle. Because when the inevitable and natural occur—you will not lose focus. You’ll maintain presence and be able to navigate both your own emotions and the situation with skill.

So, how do you develop this attention muscle?

By cultivating a meditative practice—through the regular practice of meditation, your attention muscle develops in an organic, progressive manner.

The tool you use to strengthen your attentional capacity is called the object of meditation.

There are many possible objects of meditation: the breath, body sensations, an image, or a sacred sound. The key is to pick an object of meditation that appeals to you. Then, focus on it.

In short order you’ll discover the limits of your attention muscle.

As your mind wanders—swept away by external or internal distractions. Noticing this wandering tendency is part of what develops your attention muscle. Before meditation practice, the mind was distracted. But, the distraction was unobserved. It just happened. Now, within the crucible of practice, the distracting tendencies are witnessed, observed.

So, you simply return to the object of meditation.

And you do so, without any extra effort or emotion. It’s a gentle inner gesture of returning, re-focusing, and reconnecting to the object of meditation. The ease and gentleness with which you notice the distracting tendency and make the inner gesture of returning is the key to strengthening your attention muscle.

Cultivating this inner sensitivity to the wandering mind builds your capacity to be present.

At first, you may exert some effort but over time your noticing and re-centering occur in a context of simplicity and acceptance. You simply notice the wandering and bring the mind back. Notice and return.

The paradox of this gentle cultivation is that it develops a profound inner strength.

The more your attentional muscle develops, the less your mind is compelled to reactivity and distraction. It’s not that obstacles don’t arise, or that emotions are wiped out. No, life continues to unfold in all its richness and creative potential.

It’s just that the mind isn’t tossed about when challenges arise and emotions are triggered.

Rather than struggle against these forces, you are able to deploy the inner strength of sustained presence.

You stay focused, grounded, in the awareness of what matters most to you in life, and through sustained focus discover how to move forward—to live with integrity—in the face of challenges.

Even if it’s a file cabinet.

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Eric Klein is one of the few people on the planet who is both a lineage holder in a 5,000-year-old yoga lineage and a best-selling business book author. You can get his free ebook & guided meditation audio "The 7 Reasons Meditation Doesn't Work (and how to fix them)" at Eric has worked with over 35,000 people to infuse greater meaning, awareness, and purpose into their work and lives. His book "You are the Leader You’ve Been Waiting For" won a 2008 Nautilus Book Award for being “a world-changing book promoting positive social change and responsible leadership.” With his wife and partner Devi, Eric is also the creator of the Healing Family Karma programs and The Meditation Habit. Eric and Devi have two adult sons, a ball-obsessed pup, and live in Encinitas, California. To learn more about their work (and access free teaching videos on meditation and mantra), go to

3 Responses to “How To Remove Obstacles That Limit Your Life.”

  1. Yes! Yes! Yes! I am a yoga teacher, and a young in experience, but passionate meditator! I get asked a lot Why? and How to Meditate? And the why to me is the part I struggle to express eloquently. This was eloquent, and lovely!

    Yes! Yes! Now I'm going to use my attention (developed from meditation) to get back to finishing some work that I don't want to do. Here I go. :)

  2. Julie Ancis says:

    Yes, this takes practice, attention to the breath, and no judgement/self-criticism. Great inner and outer peace is achievable with intention.

  3. Robert W says:

    Its difficult to express all pertinent info in a small article, but the author is clearly one whose heart is in the right place and some good basics were noted. The same instruction is available in thousands of other resources, but this short piece is very user friendly and I'm confident it will prove to be helpful to beginners. JMHO , as a Mystic born into Meditation, and Contemplation .

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9 Lessons From the Road. ~ Katie Hussong

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Travel without reflection is just tourism.

Back in Charm City and finally feeling recovered from mega-jetlag. Thailand and Bali were amazing. Just thinking about the trip brings a smile to my face. Now that I’m home, it’s time to make some sense of it all. After all, travel without reflection is just tourism.

Here are just a few lessons from the road:

1. Slow down.

America is a very work-work-work kind of place. Lots of rushing, lots of deadlines, lots of stress. (I’m sure you know what I mean.) And all for what? What are we missing in the meantime? Friendships? A new passion? The chance to make a difference?

Make a conscious effort to slow things down and you’ll begin to notice not just the world around you but also where you’re going–and why.

2. Quality over quantity.

On this trip, we deliberately chose fewer destinations. We were tempted, sure, to “squeeze in” Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma but chose instead, to stay put. Taking time to get to know the people and places around us was definitely the way to go. No stress. Just taking it all in.

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3. Do something you’re afraid of.

Romantic as it seems, I was secretly hoping my husband wouldn’t want to rent a motorbike and go exploring. Inexperience, steep hills, sharp curves and frequently rain-slicked roads seemed reasons enough to abstain. I’ll admit it; I was scared. But you know what, I felt the fear and did it anyway. And oh man, am I glad I did! Freedom to roam, breathtaking views and beaches all to ourselves–totally (frightening, exhilarating and) worth it.

4. Disconnect.

Try not to let your camera get in the way of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. From time to time, practice disconnecting. Put the camera down and simply be in the moment. (Resist taking a picture of the moment.) It is often while we’re adjusting the settings or the flash that that moment passes us by.

5. Give back.

This requires a bit of research but there are a lot of folks out there doing some pretty amazing things and you can help. We found a cooking school whose profits fund an animal welfare centre,  got massages at a women’s prison rehabilitation training centre, visited an elephant camp that promotes sustainable tourism and helps at-risk women escape poverty and spent a weekend building, cooking and cleaning alongside volunteers in the mountains of northern Thailand. Whenever possible, it feels great to be able to put your money (and time) where your heart is.

6. Find your tribe.

There’s just something special about connecting with familiar people in an unfamiliar place. Although you don’t know each other, it’s a bit like finding a home away from home–at a vegan café, in a yoga studio or during a cooking class. Suddenly, you’re connected. And the world is that much smaller.

7. Give thanks, every day.

In Bali, beautiful handmade offerings or banten, are laid out on the sidewalks several times a day. Such offerings are the Balinese way of giving thanks. The word banten comes from the Sanskrit bali, which means gift, tribute, offering–or from enten, which means to wake up or to be conscious. Taking a few moments a day to practice gratitude is medicine for the mind, body and spirit. It can change your life.

8. Reinvent yourself.

Try something new while you’re away–something you’ve wanted to try for a while but haven’t felt comfortable enough or brave enough (or had enough time) to do in your normal, day-to-day environment. Green juice? Yoga? Meditation? You never know, you may love it–and it might just follow you home.

9. Less is more.

This applies on so many levels; being on the road always gets me thinking about how little I really need–in my backpack and back home. It challenges me to consider what is truly essential in my life. Coming home, I feel the need to simplify–to let go of some of my stuff.

It’s a liberating experience.

It creates time and space for the things that matter most–like feeling loved, finding joy and making a difference.

The thrill and adventure of the road is intoxicating–and Bali and Thailand were wonderful–but one thing’s for sure: There’s no place like home.

Appreciate and enjoy what you’re coming home to.

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Rated 4 out of 5 by Very moisturizing, all around product! I have only been using Eight Hour Cream for a couple of days now, but I like it so far! I purchased mine on Amazon for half the price. A little goes a long way. I apply it to my entire face, lips, and hands every night. It doesn't smell as bad as everyone says it does. It does have an odd smell though, but it's just something you need to get use to. The texture of the cream is kind of like Vaseline, and it has a orange peachy color to it. It does soak into your skin pretty well but it also leaves a greasy after feel. In the morning I use it to brighten my eyes a little if I am not wearing mascara, I apply the cream to my eyelashes after curling them and it defines each lash a little more. I think this stuff is great! Not for $20 though, so I would try to find it some where else for half the price. Great product! 06/25/2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by Skin burns In the "old days", the eight hour cream was a known, fantastic remedy for burns: cooking, sun.........it made the burn go away and not leave a scar. I am undergoing severe radiation therapy for cancer and purchased this eight hour cream on the off chance that it will still heal the burns on my legs. I've just begun faithfully rubbing the Eight Hour cream on to my leg every night and here's hoping that the cream is successful and prevents the burns I'm expecting. 05/10/2014
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Taylor Swift has signed a multi-year deal with Keds that kicks off on October 22 with the release of new limited-edition red Champions sneakers and her latest album, Red. {Press Release}

Christian Dior has unveiled its newly renovated and expanded Milan boutique after 18 months of restructuring. {WWD}

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Monday, March 21, 2016

Hi, EFS. My name is Jack Kinsman. This week, the eighth grade was introduced to the creation piece of the IDEA Project, the part of the project in which we make something or build something. For the past few weeks, we have been sending and receiving e-mails from experts. I was excited to receive three detailed responses from professional athletes: two former NHL players, Graeme Townshend and Martin Biron, and a current PGA player, Dudley Hart.

In their own words: Brain Research
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Hi, I am Ellie Wyckoff and my IDEA project is on brain memory. I have learned about different parts of the brain that help with long- and short-term memory and about causes of memory loss. We have been emailing experts on our topics and I emailed Dr. Michael Merzenich, a professor emeritus neuroscientist at the University of California in San Francisco.

In his own words: Future cities
Friday, February 26, 2016

Greetings, Elmwood Franklin School community! My name is Michael McClure, and for my IDEA project I am conducting research on urban planning and city design.

Elmwood Franklin is Goin' Bald for Bucks
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Elmwood Franklin School is Goin’ Bald for Bucks to raise funds for Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Students and teachers are collecting donations to benefit cutting-edge cancer research programs and compassionate care programs for the more than 31,000 patients who receive treatment at Roswell Park every year.

In her own words: What's the big IDEA?
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Hello, Elmwood Franklin Community. When you were in school, did you ever have the opportunity to research and to become more knowledgeable on any topic of your choice? Elmwood Franklin students in eighth grade have this chance! In mid-December, students selected a topic and have since begun to perform online research.

Sixth grader recognized for her excellence in Chinese language learning
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The University at Buffalo Confucius Institute recognized EFS sixth grader Carlie P. for excellence in Chinese language learning during the 2016 Chinese New Year Celebration at UB.

Dayle Hodge '97 shares his work with seventh graders
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Our 7th grade students got a glimpse into the cancer-research lab of EFS graduate Dayle Hodge '97, a MD/PhD candidate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.

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Hello. My name is Ronan and I am in 3rd grade. Today I was Head of School for the day. I had an amazing day. It has been so fun. I felt like I was a grown-up and was the boss of everything. My day started with shaking students’ hands at the front door when they arrived at school.

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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

the year that was – 2012

It’s always interesting to look back over the blog as one way of reflecting on the 2012 year past. The most interesting thing for me is the decline in blogging that began in July, coinciding with becoming Principal. I was posting 25 times a month prior and 19 times a month after. Given that I blog as a way of reflecting aloud, it is an interesting development.

So, posts from 2012 that I like, that give some sense of the year gone

So there you are. Fascinating to look back and see the blessing as I pay attention to the natural world, the importance of creativity, the priority of mission and the ongoing opportunities to write.

The writing has been the most interesting, with a frontpage article here, this artists floor talk being requested for an international publication, along with the usual more academic book chapters (this published, this accepted for publication) and monthly film reviews.

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Friday, June 08, 2012

still blogging 10 years on

Apparently Saturday marks my 10 year blog-versary. I say apparently because my original webhost is long gone, so there’s no “public” record of birth.

My midwife was blogger, which after a few months, got hosted in as part of the Graceway church website. When I transitioned city (Auckland to Christchurch) and churches (Graceway to Opawa) at the end of 2003, it seemed appropriate to leave the resources of the blog at Graceway, but I continued to blog, using wordpress (first entry here). Going back through blogger archives, this is the earliest post I can find is dated 9 June, 2002.

Ten years ago. Before Facebook, iPhones and twitter.

I remember the day I put my first post up and within a few hours, had comments from Andrew Jones, Prodigal Kiwi and Rachel Cunliffe. That sense of amazement over a digital word and how strangers become linked.

All 3 remain friends – Rachel visiting us this Easter, Andrew stayed at our house last year, while I enjoyed a beer in Auckland with Paul last August. A virtual world, yet with enduring relationships.

I’ve often pondered whether to continue blogging. And then there will be another random connection – a comment in response to a post that gives me fresh vistas, a email asking to borrow a prayer resource. And I will be reminded of the gift of connection, the new worlds made possible through the web-verse.

I can’t picture a world in 10 years time, nor whether I will still be blogging. But I still like to remain open to the sheer wonder of human connection.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

use of social media ministry learnings from Kony12

The last few weeks in class (Reading Cultures/Sociology for Ministry) has been focused on contemporary global cultures. Last week, a student asked about the Kony viral video campaign. It seemed a case study worth processing as a class, as it was so current, and yet raised so many questions about the use of social media to bring about change.

So the class were invited to view the video for “homework.” Upon return today, I invited them to choose a place on a continuum, from “it was not right” to “great use of social media.” This produced a great discussion with those on opposite ends of the spectrum making some really insightful observations.

To help ground the discussion, I reminded the class that our aim is to help churches think about being part of effective change. And at some point, a church might want to get involved in social media. So, what might we learn from the Kony campaign.

Here is the list we created: things to consider if you’re thinking about using social media.

  1. It can be highly, highly impacting
  2. It can have real potential for educating, especially for a generation that doesn’t watch the television news
  3. Social media can emerge from anyone, especially from people with the right creative and media savvy skills
  4. Think about how you communicate. Media can be manipulative and abusive. Will you focus on head or heart? Will you try and be simple, or seek to nuance complexity?
  5. Consider the ethics of who you use, who you film and how you film them
  6. Reflect on whether your “author” and your “author’s life” is important to your story
  7. Social media can only be a starter. It needs to be supported by more information and next steps
  8. What you do can form a precedent
  9. Learn from other campaigns
  10. Be prepared for backlash
  11. You can’t control other users, and they can spin your campaign

What do you think? What else would you want to add?

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

celebrating the city

(Art by Olivia Chamberlain, used with permission)

I spoke at Celebrating the City last night. It’s an excellent initiative by Oxford Terrace Baptist, here in central city Christchurch. Four Wednesday evening lectures (February (4, 11, 18, 25) with four different speakers exploring city themes. An excellent initiative for an central city church to be taking and I really like the fact that speakers will include our local Mayor (February 11), and the sense that this is not just a church conversation.

My task was to kick off the series reflecting on the Bible and the city. The argument I made was that most of our images surrounding spirituality and prayer are rural. I took a visual flip through Christian posters and the front covers of books on prayer and how often God is imaging to us in the outdoors and the isolated and the “natural” landscapes. I suggested this makes it hard to celebrate the city, because we have lost our capacity to find God in people and in complexity and in human creation and offered some suggestions for ways forward.

Preparing was an interesting personal journey for me. I used to teach a course on Urban mission, back in 2001 and 2. So it was bit of a historical foray digging up old notes. I found things like 3.5 in disks. And colour overhead transparencies! Remember those? I remembering feeling so pleased, back in 2002, scanning images on the computer, then getting colour onto acetate transparencies.

Just seven years later, and for this lecture I was downloading and embedding video clips, with sound, all inserted into my keynote presentation. Technology is moving so fast and is just one more complexity of living today.

I was also interested in how my own thinking had progressed over the years. Recent sermons on Deuteronomy and Ruth and the minor prophets were inserted in the theme of the city in the Bible. Video clips I am currently using in my missional church speaking seem to flow really well. In other words, I had this sense of remaining true to what I used to teach, yet still growing, refreshing, deepening.

I thought it was good night. Attendance seemed to exceed expectations. A good mix of people and I heard some great stories afterward. I even got to meet one of my silent blog readers, on holiday from Rotorua (!). “We came from Rotorua to hear you” and laughter all around :) So today is a shout out to my silent blog readers. Thanks for being around, even if I don’t know you :).

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Saturday, January 10, 2009

it works

It was a simple message: Am i a txtng twit?

Which led to a whoop of incredulous joy; “It works.”

From a cell phone in New Zealand I can text a phone number in the UK, which updates both on the twitter website, and on the left hand side of my website, under the TWEET TWEET heading. Isn’t technology amazing. Isn’t our world getting smaller and smaller.

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

blogs and books

i think books are different from blogs. it might just be me though. i have been blogging for a few years now. one of my categories was about church transition – doing emerging church stuff in an established setting. i was stunned to discover earlier this year that there are over 200,000 words in that blog category on my blog.

now those 200,000 words are jottings and have blessed people on the way. but i suspect there is another way to bless people; to reflect on those 200,000 words and integrate and edit them as a 45,000 word book.

is there a place in our world for multiple approaches to communication?

A comment I made on Mark Berry’s blog.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

copyright and blogs: updated

In the last 24 hrs I have had two of my blogs posts copied in their entirety on someone else’s blog. I’m not going to name them because this is not in any way a personal discussion. Rather it just got me thinking.

In a book world, you are allowed to “copy” 10% or a chapter from a book. Should there (is there?) such (voluntary) guidelines for the blog world?

Advantages of 100% copying
1. Ideas get spread. A person’s thoughts get multiplied. That is part of the new media revoluation.
2. Ideas get read more widely. Every blog audience is unique and so the readership of an idea increased.
3. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, so 100% blog post reproduction is a huge compliment.

Disadvantages of 100% copying
1. Words lose context. A blogpost gains layers of meaning because it is shaped by an author and by the surrounding posts. Reproducing a blogpost loses that context. (This is also the reason why I don’t use or like RSS feeds. They might be efficient but they strip context.)
2. The original author is more likely to be removed from any ensuing discussion (ie comments occur in another context and the original author is less likely to be aware).
3. Chinese whispers. You know that game you play where you form a line and pass a whisper down and laugh at how much it has changed. Similarly, reproducing a reproduction heightens the risk of not giving due credit or mixing up words from various bloggers.
4. Internet pollution. In an information rich world, should there be an ethical commitment to streamlining information rather than reproducing the same information?

I am not upset or anything. It just got me thinking. What do you think? What advantages and/or disadvantages do you see?

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Monday, March 13, 2006

comment denial

Sorry if you have been trying to leave a comment anytime in the last 4 days. I have been overzealous in my despamming settings. I trust it is fixed now.

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Sunday, February 05, 2006

theology of blogging

Some thoughts in process.

This blog is gift. As hobby it emerges from surplus; my time, creativity, thought and skill. A gift always costs. Every minute I blog is one less for family or for sipping a pinot.

Gift need not cost the recipient, but it costs the giver. Indeed if it has not cost, it is not gift but work.

It is the choice of a giver to give a gift. This means that consumerism is not necessarily theft of a surplus.

However, a consumer of a gift might note that while given freely, surplus is neither endless nor unlimited. By definition, for a surplus to remain a surplus requires replenishment. Such replenishment is uniquely contextual, dependant on the individual and their unique personality and makeup.

It might be financial,and so the chance to trade in Adense for the replenishment offering by a pinot or a new CD; it might be a comment that offers a new perspective; it might the encouragement of a story returned when an idea or resource has morphed into life; it might be a link or another blog offering creative resource; it might be a relational connection made, a network accessed; it might be hits on a traffic counter.

Method and mode of surplus replenishment may change over time.

Sustainability will depend on the sustainable replenishment and thus the ability to match gift, surplus and appropriately renumerated replenishment.

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Saturday, February 04, 2006

is blogging worth it?

Over my January holidays I contemplated shutting down this blog. I had started emergentkiwi to experiment with on-line community. In the early days of this blog (back in 2002-3) it felt like there was a lot of community; lots of comments, through which I learnt heaps.

Over the last year, it felt less and less like a community space. Visitor numbers tracked up, but the sense of interaction on-blog and through e-mail declined. At times I wondered if this was now a consumer space, rather than a community space. Did I need to change the way I posted in some way? It takes time and money to run a blog. I have always resisted the idea of advertising as alien to a “community” sight. But if more and more visitors are just consuming, why not?

Two weeks into my January holiday a parcel arrived, posted from the UK. With a card; thanking me for the blog and noting that I had made a post asking for input regarding spiritual practices that might help a cafe. Near 100 people had visited the post. Four had commented. I had found that depressing.

And a book, titled Church Cafes. Explored and Celebrated. (Order here). A really interesting survey of 100′s of cafes around UK.

So I’m back blogging for another season. I’m still concerned about the balance between community and consumerism and still pondering the time and effort of a blog. But I’m feeling a little less “consumed.” Thanks J. (you know who you are).

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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

can’t comment

I’ve had a number of emails saying people can’t comment. So I’ve had a bit of a tinker and I think it’s now fixed.

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Saturday, February 05, 2005

san diego

- the fact that the bar man asked for my ID!
- taking a picture of the first person who I saw brought my book
- meeting blog and email names
- American hospitality

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Thursday, November 25, 2004

did any of you have trouble accessing my blog yesterday? i couldn’t (so couldn’t post), but thought it was problems with my computer. then a friend said emails to me were bouncing …

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

media times they are a changing

Waiting for a take-away coffee today, I picked up a copy of a free magazine called the cityscape. The cover article concluded “For the full story, see” and pointed to the magazine url.

Normally print based media are very slow to adapt to internet technologies. Web use is the poor cousin. Articles are limited, wait listed or non-existent.

It’s the first time I’ve seen print media used to point to web media. Watch out magazines, the times they are a changing.

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Hallmark of new park built for eastern town of Hufouf

A massive man-made fountain in Saudi Arabia has gone into the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the largest and most attractive fountains in the world.

Guinness representatives will be among thousands of officials and citizens to mark the registration of the King Abdullah Fountain in the eastern region on Sunday night, the Arabic language daily Al Riyadh said.

The fountain is the hallmark of a new park constructed on a 500,000-metre land strip in the eastern town of Hufouf. The park has a man-made lake stretching nearly 700 metres, bridges for visitors, smaller fountains and other facilities.

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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 13 (1990), Issue 2, Pages 411-413
Research notes

On the coefficient domains of univalent functions

M. M. Elhosh

Department of Mathematics, The University College of Wales, Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

Received 10 March 1987

Copyright © 1990 M. M. Elhosh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Coefficient domains for functions whose derivative has positive real part in the interior of an ellipse are given in this paper.


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Naomie Harris On Skyfall Spoilers

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If you haven't watched Skyfall, click away now - to this 23 movie-strong James Bond Travel Map, for example. If you have watched Skyfall, however, prepare to enjoy this week's Naomie Harris-starring Empire Podcast, which you can check out both thisaway and at the bottom of this news story.

Ms. Harris said quite a few interesting things about Skyfall, all of which can be found in the podcast proper, but just as a teaser here are a few moments written out in text for your reading pleasure. Again, if you haven't seen Skyfall, please leave the proverbial building.

On the topic of whether Eve and Bond actually had sex after the cut-throat razor shaving scene: "That scene actually got cut short. It was originally cut so that you would know categorically that nothing happened, and then they re-edited it so they left it a bit more open." In other words, those suggestive fireworks at the casino? They did not signify sexytime.

On where she would like the Moneypenny character to go in future instalments: "I'd like her to go back into the field, I think, because I got so much stick for being a terrible shot, a terrible driver, not really a great agent. I want to prove everyone wrong."

We also asked Naomie about whether she was aware of the photo above, and in particular whether she realised what an incredible co-star she had in Incredibly Nonplussed Turkish Lady. For her response, listen to the Empire Podcast, and be quick about it...

Don't forget to check out our podcast photo gallery here and subscribe to the Empire Podcast via our iTunes page or this handy RSS feed. Skyfall is out on DVD and Blu-ray now.


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Marshmallows Gone Wild! Top 10 Summertime Uses for Jumbo Marshmallows

Maybe I’m just sheltered, but I never knew about jumbo marshmallows until I saw a large palate of them in a grocery store near the shore a few weeks ago. As a proponent of campfires and burning marshmallows to a charred, crispy, oozing sweet goodness, you would imagine that I got excited.

With the summer finally here, it’s time we break out the mallows and start toasting away. But wait…there’s more you can do with a marshmallow than toast it in a fire? Well yes, and here are ten favorite, craziest ways:

10. Chocolate and Caramel Covered Marshmallow Pops

Whenever we’re making caramel apples, I make sure no caramel goes to waste. I dip marshmallows in the caramel, then set them in the freezer. Why didn’t I think of then dipping in chocolate afterwards? I’m ashamed. The peeps (no pun intended) at the turtle’s life for me made these. A layer of crushed Oreos after the caramel and before the chocolate would MAKE these.

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9. Toasted Coconut Marshmallows

They sell toasted coconut marshmallows in stores — but I’m pretty sure they couldn’t even compare to homemade toasted coconut-covered marshmallows. Now imagine this: they are made with jumbo marshmallows. I’m thinking you can coat the store-bought jumbo marshmallows in melted butter and the toasted coconut would stick. Or just make them from scratch. Whoever said marshmallows are boring: you lose.

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8. Oreo Marshmallows

Again, they’re homemade so the first goal would be to make these oreo marshmallows double the size. Do I hear a challenge? Damn right.

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DC Dining Guide: Where To Bring Your Tea Partying Parents

With this weekend’s Restoring Honor Rally taking place in DC , we expect many locals will have friends and family members visiting from out of town. Most likely from waaaay out of town. So we here at ES thought we’d do our patriotic duty and make their trip (and your lives) a little bit easier. Here is our guide to where to dine in DC with your not-so-liberal visitors…

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ES Local: The DC Gay Valentine’s Day Guide

Valentine’s Day is the time of the year when personal displays of affection are obligatory — a day to celebrate without any inhibitions.  For the gay community this can sometimes be a challenge as restaurants are not as universally tolerant of gay couples’ PDAs. We’ve all heard the horror stories where a gay couple has been asked to leave a restaurant when either the owner isn’t happy or other customers feel uncomfortable. Yes, the gay community has its own restaurants, but there are not enough seats to fill every gay person in the city, especially this city.

Here is my guide to some great restaurants in DC where I would be happy to go on V-Day, to recommend to my friends, or to you, the readers of ES.

The First Date: 1789

As deceptive as it is great. Daniel Giusti is one of the youngest Executive Chefs in one of the oldest and grandest of dining rooms in the District,  but you’d never guess by his youthful menu — my personal favourite dish is the Oyster Gratin. Actually, my experience at 1789 was somewhat overwhelming. The food really was exceptional but the surroundings and other clientele were not my usual setting. I think of 1789 as an older, more conservative restaurant, so I’m not sure that a gay couple would be comfortable showing some love. But I would recommend 1789 for a first date — first dates are not for touchy-feely situations but more for getting to know your newfound love, and 1789 can provide that conversational atmosphere. 1789 is offering a five-course tasting in addition to its a la carte menu. 1226 36th Street NW, (202) 965-1789

Impressing a Second Date: Tabard Inn

This classic standby is no stranger to gay clientele. Bordering Dupont and 17th Street, it’s a popular choice amongst my friends for weekend brunch and I suspect it will be no different come Valentine’s Day. The hotel is offering a 3-course prix fixe menu which includes Oysters, Seared Guinea Hen and a selection of desserts to choose, albeit on the pricier side at $65 per person. 1739 N Street NW, (202) 331-8528

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Low as opposed to fully suppressed serum TSH levels in ambulant subjects; frequently a pointer to thyroid autonomy

S Chatterjee1, BP O'Malley1, DE Price2, AM Fielding2 & R Aitken1

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In laboratories employing 'front-line' sensitive TSH measurement, it is generally accepted that fully suppressed TSH levels (3rd generation assays) alongside normal free thyroid hormone levels indicate subclinical hyperthyroidism. However, low but not suppressed levels are often labelled as non-thyroidal illness.

We investigated 25 successive ambulant individuals, identified over an 18 month period as having low but not fully suppressed TSH levels (3rd generation assay; sensitivity 0.01-0.03 mIU/L) with additional free T4, free T3 and thyroid microsomal antibody levels and thyroid isotope scanning (technetium).

Serum TSH levels (mean [SD]) were 0.22[0.26] mIU/L (NR 0.34-5.6 mIU/L), free T4 levels 14.7[4.2] pmol/L (10-25pmol/L), and free T3 levels 6.1[0.8]pmol/L (4.5-7.5pmol/L). Thyroid antibodies were negative in all but one individual. On isotope scanning, 9 individuals had hot nodules and 10 individuals had multinodular goitres (MNG). Of the six with normal scans, ultrasound scanning showed a definite MNG (N=1) and early MNG (N=2).

Thus a low as opposed to fully suppressed TSH is frequently a pointer to underlying thyroid disease.

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Department of Energy Advances Commercialization of Climate Change Technology

October 31, 2006 - 9:17am

DOE to Provide over $450 million to support the deployment of carbon sequestration technologies in the U.S.

COLUMBUS, OHIO- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary Jeffrey D. Jarrett today discussed the Department's decision to fund $450 million over the next 10 years to support seven tests in the United States designed to advance carbon sequestration technologies.  He discussed the effort while attending the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate.  The studies are designed to validate whether the large scale capture, transportation, injection, and long term storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) can be done safely, permanently, and economically.

"Carbon sequestration will play a key role in the United States' effort to mitigate climate change and holds the key to the continued environmentally-responsible use of coal," Assistant Secretary Jarrett said.  "These tests, the next step in demonstrating that sequestration technologies are ready for commercialization, will help us achieve the President's climate change initiative by confirming that the geology of North America is suitable for the permanent and safe storage of CO2 for millennia."

The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate is a unique public-private initiative among government and private sector partners from Australia, China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States.  These six countries account for about half of the world's population and more than half of the world's economy and energy use.  The First Ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership took place in Sydney, Australia, in January 2006.  At that meeting, the ministers agreed to a Partnership Communiqué, Charter, and Work Plan that established eight public-private sector Task Forces.

Carbon sequestration technology has been successfully accomplished during smaller scale demonstration projects.  If successful on a large scale, it could play a significant role in achieving President Bush's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 18 percent by 2012 and ensure that sequestration technologies will be ready for broad use in the near future.  As part of this effort, DOE will work with the existing Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships to develop these large volume sequestration tests.  The partnerships have already been working to characterize their regions' opportunities and existing infrastructure for carbon sequestration.

Results obtained from the tests will be crucial to the development of DOE's FutureGen power plant, which will produce both hydrogen and electricity from a highly efficient and technologically sophisticated coal-fired power plant, and do so with virtually no emissions.  The geologic structures that will be tested during these large volume sequestration tests could be candidate sites for FutureGen like plants.

The Partnerships have preliminarily identified sequestration opportunities across the United States and estimate that they have the potential to store more than 600 billion metric tons of CO2, the equivalent of more than 200 years of emissions from energy sources in the United States.  They are currently implementing a number of small field tests designed to validate the estimates.

The network of Regional Partnerships includes more than 300 organizations in 40 U.S. states, three Indian nations, and four Canadian provinces.  The collective data generated by the Partnerships has been integrated into an information gateway called NATCARB, developed by the University of Kansas, to consolidate geologic and terrestrial data on sequestration sites.

More information about the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships selected for the large volume sequestration tests and links to their current activities are listed below:

Partnership Organization
Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership        Battelle Columbus Laboratories, OH
Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Illinois State Geological Survey
West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership California Energy Commission
Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Montana State University
Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Southern States Energy Board
Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership University of North Dakota
Energy and Environmental Research Center

DOE expects to make the official awards to the Partnerships in fall of 2007.  Results from this Phase will identify significant deployment opportunities for carbon sequestration technologies throughout North America.

Additional information about the Partnerships can be found on the Carbon Sequestration Regional Partnerships page.

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DOE Seeks Expression of Interest for Carlsbad Technical Support Services

July 10, 2014 - 12:00pm

Cincinnati – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) today issued a Sources Sought Synopsis/Expression of Interest seeking small business concerns with the capabilities to provide Technical Support Services to the DOE Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. It is DOE’s intent to assess set-aside possibilities as a result of this Sources Sought/Expression of Interest.

The CBFO Technical Support Services contractor will provide expert technical advice and assistance in the areas of:

  • Quality Assurance (QA),
  • Audits and assessments,
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site operations,
  • Environmental and regulatory compliance,
  • Scientific and international programs,
  • Transuranic (TRU) waste characterization and certification,
  • TRU waste transportation and packaging,
  • General business operations,
  • Information technology, and
  • Technical support

The current contract ends July 2015 and any future contract is anticipated to be for multiple years.

This Sources Sought Synopsis/Expression of Interest is for market research purposes only and no proposals are being sought. The DOE EMCBC will post the Sources Sought Synopsis/Expression of Interest publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website at:

Responses are to be provided via email to Chris Lockhart, Contract Specialist, at no later than 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on date specified in the synopsis. All questions pertaining to the announcement should be directed to Chris Lockhart at the email address specified above or by telephone at 513-744-0996.


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EA-1647: Finding of No Significant Impact

Construction and Operation of a Proposed Cellulosic Ethanol Plant, Range Fuels Soperton Plant, LLC (formerly Range Fuels Inc.), Treutlen County, Georgia

The Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzes the potential impacts associated with the construction and operation of a proposed cellulosic ethanol plant in Treutlen County, Georgia. The Department of Energy has issued this Finding of No Significant Impact.


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The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) offers interest rate reductions to home buyers purchasing new and existing homes with 6 Star and 5 Star Plus energy ratings, or making energy improvements to existing homes. All homes constructed after 1992 must meet the AFHC Building Energy Efficiency Standard (BEES). New construction must exceed the minimum BEES requirements. Any property that can be energy rated and is otherwise eligible for AHFC financing may qualify for this program.

For new and existing home purchases that are rated 6 Star or 5 Star Plus, applicants are eligible for an interest rate reduction for the first $200,000 of the loan amount, with a blended interest rate applying to the remainder of the loan amount. The rate reductions are dependent on a property's access to natural gas and the energy rating of the home. Homes without access to natural gas receive a greater interest rate reduction than homes with access to natural gas.

For existing homes making energy improvements, a rate reduction is available for applicants, based on the number of steps of improvement to the energy rating of the property. An applicant should have the lender contact AHFC to inform them that the borrower intends to participate in the rate reduction program. After loan closing, energy improvements should be completed within one year. After an energy rating has been completed, AHFC will modify the interest rate accordingly. The program is available through AHFC-approved lenders.

Homeowners may also apply independently for the Home Energy Rebate program if applying for interest rate reductions.


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Europe ‘Gas Bags’ Turn Dirty Problem into Clean Energy

September 2, 2014 By Karen Henry

united-utilities-logo-energy-manageBritain’s United Utilities Group has turned a human waste problem into a clean energy boon. When the amount of waste produced each year across the utility’s North West region reached problematic levels, it looked for a solution that wouldn’t involve dumping the waste into the Irish Sea, as had been done in the past.

The new Davyhulme sludge treatment plant in Manchester is addressing the problem, Bloomberg reports, by turning human waste into clean energy. The sludge recycling center, built by Black & Veatch for the utility, uses a process called thermal hydrolysis (THP) to improve the amount of energy produced from the sludge. The plant produces enough energy to be 96 percent energy neutral and can even export surplus power to the UK grid.

Sludge is digested to generate biogas, which is stored in two giant green “gas bags”—Europe’s largest inflatable gas holders. The biogas is then cleaned and used as fuel for five CHP engines and three steam boilers. The bags generate about 60 GWh of energy a year, according to the utility.

Enough heat is recycled from CHP engines that the plant’s steam boilers rarely need to be fired up to heat the reaction vessels, so almost all the gas produced is used for generating electricity.

United Utilities is capitalizing on its THP success with the world’s first sludge-powered data center, due to be completed at Davyhulme next month.

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