tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26194558178636891162024-03-18T22:42:54.980-04:00letter from new albanyG Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-21122900562721252912010-09-27T15:23:00.003-04:002010-09-27T15:23:44.079-04:00<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="506" width="640"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"/><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"/><param value="high" name="quality"/><param value="true" name="cachebusting"/><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" /><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'Rocheste1963_2_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/Rocheste1963_2/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name="flashvars"/><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="506" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'Rocheste1963_2_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/Rocheste1963_2/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}"> </embed></object>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-64624476770607384572010-06-30T18:00:00.000-04:002010-06-30T18:00:07.304-04:00<div class="time" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Chronicle of Higher Education</div><div class="time" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">June 29, 2010</div><h1 class="title" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #171717; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Waldorf-Education/25178/">Waldorf Education</a></h1><div class="byline" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogAuthor/Brainstorm/3/Michael-Ruse/142/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #004276; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Michael Ruse</a></div><div class="abstract" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/RSteiner.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 17px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">My mother died in 1953 and my father’s second wife was a German woman whose family was deeply committed to anthroposophy, the world system that had been devised and promoted by the Austrian-born seer and philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Our family was Quaker, my parents had joined the Society of Friends just after the Second World War, and by the time my step mother came along I was away at a Quaker boarding school, then university, and off to Canada in 1962. Thus I never really got much exposure to anthroposophy; but in the 1960s my father gave up his job as a bursar at a Friends’ school and went to become bursar at a large Steiner School, or as they are known, Waldorf School, where he remained until he retired (and died shortly thereafter) in the early 1990s. </div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Waldorf-Education/25178/">Continued...</a></div></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-10735179053546748722010-04-22T10:11:00.002-04:002010-04-22T10:11:57.757-04:00Happy Earth Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmtcNpWImvJhNx8HwXeR0418I-keSclX1tMFxY2wBulC1fG92Jc6K5uhE5h1_VP8kc7DJPfNt2TE32_eszdCxb6CgsyW2VvX-VPwGFPWuQU_1rWCqkxvThmYM_omuo49XDp48JQeOvQM/s1600/savethetrees.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmtcNpWImvJhNx8HwXeR0418I-keSclX1tMFxY2wBulC1fG92Jc6K5uhE5h1_VP8kc7DJPfNt2TE32_eszdCxb6CgsyW2VvX-VPwGFPWuQU_1rWCqkxvThmYM_omuo49XDp48JQeOvQM/s400/savethetrees.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-27673305831176922222010-04-20T20:51:00.002-04:002010-04-20T20:59:20.303-04:00Big Trees make Good Neighbors<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 0.9em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://news-tribune.net/local/x993506090/Asphalt-plant-protesters-threaten-lawsuit-against-Jeffersonville">Asphalt plant protesters threaten lawsuit against Jeffersonville</a></span></h3></span></div><div><br /></div>"Barrow said the problems posed by the plant were amplified when a buffer of mature trees between Quarry Road and the neighborhood was removed to make way for a proposed new road through the area."</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">All I can think is, when Mac Construction and Excavating is run out of Jeff, will the city of NA offer them our Linden Meadows or CCE. inc. sites? Pre-stripped of all life, pre-polluted, free waste disposal services from NAMU, if they promise to use tons of it. </span></span></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-54396787246934209202010-04-14T15:53:00.004-04:002010-04-14T16:06:33.049-04:00Happy Pollen Days<div>Accolade® Elm purchased at Walnut Ridge Nursery April 2008. It doubled in size the first year and we suppose this year as well. What a fine tree! This cultivar was developed at the Morton Arboretum in Chicago to be resistant to Dutch Elm disease. New Albany, like most America cities 100 years ago, was heavily planted in Elm, considered the quintessential American urban tree then. Not only is it's towering vase shape appropriate for cities, but it is very LOW POLLEN. When we replace the hardwood canopy that used to keep the ground cool here, even in summer, we'll want lots of Elms. Oh, one last thing. This particular tree cost me $125 and it was small enough I planted it myself! Check out the newspaper clipping below to get an idea of what our tree will look like in 200 years.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7i1L_CGH2AOnvJLTzWXZ-ADe-PviZ8LugGUNcz01IHOzI6TNafza5Teeq4wwwnccg0y49u7SAnsw_bzhp9a8zau2Tr17t5-4_-tYGfJrEJ_Sv9lGsevHo57FJRo68NN4uAv2-EjR5p8/s1600/IMG_2439.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7i1L_CGH2AOnvJLTzWXZ-ADe-PviZ8LugGUNcz01IHOzI6TNafza5Teeq4wwwnccg0y49u7SAnsw_bzhp9a8zau2Tr17t5-4_-tYGfJrEJ_Sv9lGsevHo57FJRo68NN4uAv2-EjR5p8/s400/IMG_2439.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460084867702464562" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; font: normal normal normal 28.73px/normal Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 29px; vertical-align: baseline; "><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34765157">240-year-old elm tree ‘Herbie’ to get the chop</a></h1><h2 style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; font: normal normal bold 100%/normal Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold !important; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">101-year-old man has cared for sick ‘friend’ for more than half a century</span></h2><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><tbody style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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color: rgb(51, 102, 153); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><img src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/dc39e343-51a9-4a44-88af-a04548f1067f.hmedium.jpg" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" title="Image: Frank Knight with “Herbie” the tree" alt="Image: Frank Knight with “Herbie” the tree" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; 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border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11.33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0.02cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Frank Knight, 101, stands in front of an elm tree known as "Herbie" in Yarmouth.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; "></div></td></tr><tr style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right; line-height: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Steven Senne / AP</div></td><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; "></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="p12" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="CCol w160 fR clrR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 160px; clear: right; position: relative; float: right; "></div><div class="mR165" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; "></div></div></span>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-7450407560772671792010-04-03T14:35:00.001-04:002010-04-03T14:37:07.971-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 10px;font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;color:#111111;"><span class="pub_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><a href="http://news-tribune.net/local/x552029639/New-Albany-still-hasn-t-received-response-to-Hoosier-Panel-offer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">New Albany still hasn’t received response to Hoosier Panel offer</span></a></h3><div class="story_meta" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline- outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.25em;color:initial;"><span class="story_credit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline- outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:inherit;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By DANIEL SUDDEATH</span></span><span class="story_source" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline- outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:inherit;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Daniel.Suddeath@newsandtribune.com</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is a follow-up, I think, to earlier stories about possible redevelopment deals the city administration is promoting. It's hard to tell when the only people interviewed for the article work for the local gov't body that wants to do the deals. It could be just another Mayoral "press release" as transcribed by the "newspaper". Other than the city and the commercial interests involved, there is no community reaction reported. Just like it's always been, the only parties involved in deal-making are the mayor's office and his friends with commercial interests. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I hope someday New Albany becomes a town for residents too, not just the commercial interests and their friends. </span></span></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-38692815798747094512010-04-02T17:00:00.002-04:002010-04-02T17:02:36.111-04:00see also: Madison lesson on pollution<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><h1 class="Headline" style="font: normal normal bold 20px/20px Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin-top: 4px; display: block; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://www.wlky.com/news/23037774/detail.html">Indiana City, Ex-Manager Sentenced Over Pollution.</a></h1><div>I did not know it was a criminal offense to pollute!</div></span>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-29614412441715223902010-04-02T15:31:00.001-04:002010-04-02T15:33:30.481-04:00"Linden Meadows Ghetto"...that has a nice ring to it, eh?<div style=" font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px;color:#101010;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><a href="http://news-tribune.net/local/x552028601/State-PNC-holds-keys-to-fixing-Linden-Meadows">Linden Meadows</a></span>: File under - ghetto grows: lawlessness of property owners continues apace with new “hood joining the older more established “hoods where anything goes.</span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px;color:#101010;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">PNC is our newest "slumlord", welcome! Since they have absolutely no incentive to do anything but let the new Linden Meadows ghetto take it's course, how soon will the latest "magical developer" step in to save the city.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:small;color:#101010;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px;font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;color:#111111;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">“The only risk theoretically they’re taking on by waiting, is the risk that the real estate market continues to deteriorate according to Mike Hynes, vice president of The Housing Partnership, Inc. in Louisville."</span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-17840857539554693142010-03-23T12:30:00.003-04:002010-03-23T13:24:28.813-04:00Stark Raving Math chapter 14 - NAMU<div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#38761d;">I have in the past tried to make this point on my own. Without local government doing it's part to incentivize responsible stewardship of our eco-system, we stay a poisoned ghetto. Recently another resident protested the rate structure for our Wastewater Utility on NAC. I was curious and looked at our household bills and saw we were one of those conservation-minded homes where we were actually subsidizing the big users. So what NAMU is saying is - don't use low-flow toilets or rain barrels or plant trees, just keep the tap running, it gets cheaper as you use more! Wow, I've never used a municipal utility that discriminates against the most conservative users. </span></i></span></span></b></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#38761d;"><br /></span></i></b></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#38761d;">But then I received this email from Kathleen and she asked me to post it. The only math I can handle this week involves the IRS, so I'm happy to pass this on, just the save me time. I think the local discussion on sewer rates can and should expand to include amending the rate structure so it is fair for the environment and conservationists, not just industry.</span></i></span></span></b></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>from<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> kat330 3/24/10</span></b></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Graphically explaining the issues of discrimination and conservation disincentive within New Albany Municipal Utilities wastewater charges</b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>SAMPLE FROM</b> <b>NAMU's</b> <b>CURRENT</b> <b>WASTEWATER RATE CHART</b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Wastewater Charge</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Units Used</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> =<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Rate Per Unit</b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>20.16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>5.04</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>15.12<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>5.04</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10.08<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>5.04</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10.08<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>10.08 [5.04 + 5.04 surcharge]</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Leaving 0-unit usage out of the sample for the moment (since you can't divide or multiply by "0"), it's crystal clear from the above how any "base access" or "minimum use surcharge" -- whatever you dub it -- is currently the burden <b>only<i> </i></b>of NAMU customers who strain our city's pipes and system the very <b>least</b>. <b>Every </b>billed customer at a usage level of 2 units (plus) pays <b>only</b> in parity with exact usage <b>except</b> for the bottommost tier of zero and 1-unit users. This constitutes a completely <b>regressive and discriminatory billing system</b>, which piles all additional costs onto one group of highly responsible consumers (1-unit) and on vacant properties (0 units).</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The argument presented by Skomp at a sewer board Mtg. on 3/11/10, and repeated by others, is (to paraphrase) "NAMU [and/or EMC] requires this extra minimum revenue to help pay for the system." That's precisely why a connection / access fee <b>shared by every customer </b>from the very beginning would have resulted in <b>far more</b> revenues collected, obviously, from the <b>full 17,000</b> customer base instead of 2-3,000 customers at most. More importantly, this much more common base fee billing system would have been non-discriminatory over all these years and, more importantly, the current dire need of a 36% rate hike would be mostly, if not entirely, nullified. A simple computer algorithm would probably reveal that nothing more than tiny increments in unit rates above a shared access fee would have been needed in 2010 if a fair system had been put into place from the beginning.</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now over on the NA Confidential blog, we observed a number of 3-unit users wrote in their comments how "fair" and perfectly reasonable 15.12 was for their wastewater charges. That's because <b>it <i>is</i> for you</b>! If in this city you use 2, 3, 4, 5 and on up to whatever ceiling of unit usage exists, your costs match up exactly to what you consume and <b>not a penny more</b>. So let's graphically show a switch up on the current NAMU sample above by removing that 5.04 surcharge from the 1-unit users and instead tack it onto you 3-unit users. It would look like this:</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Wastewater Charge</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Units Used</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> =<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Rate Per Unit</b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>20.16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>5.04</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>20.16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>6.72</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10.08<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>5.04</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 5.04<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>5.04</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This new rate chart points up several interesting facts. First off, the surcharge added at the 3-unit level divides out to far less of an <b>over</b>charge per unit (6.72) than how it currently divides for usage of 1-unit (10.08). Also, since the NAMU customer base contains <b>many</b> more billings of 3 units than it does of 1 unit, the collected 5.04 from each in the above group would be a tremendous boost to revenues over what's currently collected on the backs of 1-unit users. And again, a simple spreadsheet program could pinpoint which usage group is the most prevalent in any given month from among the 17,000 total and randomly stick that 5.04 surcharge onto that <b>most common usage </b>billing. After all, if it is not being considered discriminatory when it's added to the bottom usage tiers, then how could it be considered unfair when tacked onto 3- or 4- or 5-unit users? </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here is what else this "walk in our shoes" surcharge switcheroo can demonstrate. Okay now, all of you "happy what you pay" 3-unit users out there: How happy would you be to pay 20.16 for your 3 units of usage when you know the guy next door uses 4 units and pays exactly the same as you do for wastewater? Do you think he would wash his car more efficiently or wait for full dishwasher and laundry loads in order to conserve down to your 3-unit level when he knows he'll pay <b>exactly the same for 3 as he already does for 4</b>? Unless he’s the greenest of the green and among the most responsible, conscientious citizens the city has, of course not. On the other hand, do you think <b>you</b> might develop more wastrel behaviors since you wouldn't pay any more for consuming that additional unit? </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Fact is, citizens, I couldn't find another example on the Internet of a comparably-sized municipal utility with a "minimum use" billing system in 2010 that places extra charges solely on the bottom tiers of the customer base. Duke, Vectren, AT&T and Indiana American Water all use a base fee after which customers pay equitably for their usage on 1 for 1, 2 for 2, 3 for 3, etc., basis. Does an access / connection fee system still burden the lowest consumer of any service? Yes, it does. But at least these other utilities don't charge the customer who uses 1 unit <b>twice as much</b> for that unit as the customer who uses 2 units, which NAMU currently does. Our Indiana American Water bill, et al, is not identical when consuming 0, 1, or 2 units in any given month -- it's progressive in costs -- but our NAMU bill<b> is</b> <b>identical</b> in those three different usage groups. </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you want to see a 21st century wastewater billing system that wisely, progressively and greenly goes several steps beyond even the base fee system we're advocating, then check out this URL for Minnetonka, MN (comparable in size to what New Albany was before further losing population).</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">http://www.eminnetonka.com/news.cfm?story_id=MunicipalUtilityFeesChanged</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And at this URL, you can see what class action sewer suers can accomplish against rate discrimination:</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">http://www.ucan.org/water/city_sewer_department_settlement_brings_long_overdue_refunds_to_residents</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Take and give care, and try always to be fair.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-91190121434733736362010-03-22T19:01:00.001-04:002010-03-22T19:03:39.750-04:00<a href="http://www.whas11.com/news/local/New-Albany-residents-fuming-over-red-dye-spill-in-local-creek-88771782.html">see also... Red Dye in Slate Run Creek</a>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-57300813257612244542010-03-22T17:24:00.000-04:002010-03-22T17:24:45.308-04:00The formerly Green Valley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-KWwH6dvIu25B00UdgtVvB6K49t_WlT1IS4ZWWTgeSuNgJNHT5IIMYNLjD_rk9BJ8_v-Tm2620ALt6hl4wRzaZSnjgp1cKq2wFJKJ8wIPVl2nL3h2IsgsQWzVEKSFfJvow2aC-_IXaHA/s1600-h/10_full_600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-KWwH6dvIu25B00UdgtVvB6K49t_WlT1IS4ZWWTgeSuNgJNHT5IIMYNLjD_rk9BJ8_v-Tm2620ALt6hl4wRzaZSnjgp1cKq2wFJKJ8wIPVl2nL3h2IsgsQWzVEKSFfJvow2aC-_IXaHA/s400/10_full_600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Speaking of sewers...<br />
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Let's all take a progressive moment to ponder this day, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2010/0322/World-Water-Day-Dirty-water-kills-more-people-than-violence-says-UN">World Water Day</a>, and focus on the larger civic goal of a greener home and planet. Water and wastewater, stormwater, flooding, these are big challenges for all human civilization. <br />
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New Albany, yeah, big challenges too. Not the least of which is the fact of living in a "flood plain". Human activity over the last 200 years here has literally, completely, destroyed everything that nature had built for eons. <br />
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I'm ashamed and shocked by the total destruction of our shared eco-system. I'm embarassed to say I'm from New Albany for several reasons, but a big one is it's sheer ecological hideousness. I've seen more beautiful urban canopies in third world war zones. Trash is strewn from one end of town to the other. Our historic urban cemetery is desecrated by the people we pay to take care of it. I'm outraged the primeveal forest is gone and all the benefits that would have accured to us had it been managed for the benefit of all generations instead of one or two. <br />
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Ecological restoration of this place will take super human will and courage. So, when a resident speaks in public to the need to incentivize conservation, as well as spread the costs of our pollution equitably, and she is humiliated and basically shouted down, well I'm sure I understand why this valley is poisoned. But it doesn't make the challenge go away. <br />
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Personally, I think the sewer billing system is retarded. It does in fact discriminate against me for conserving water, et al. Why? It seems like a fair question.G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-20036329038815260812010-02-20T21:11:00.000-05:002010-02-20T21:12:45.733-05:00Willful Modulation of Brain Activity in Disorders of Consciousness<a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/7/579">duh!</a>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-62551624270495494442010-02-20T21:10:00.002-05:002010-02-20T21:10:38.169-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://www.threadless.com/submission/256213/Winter_Waves" title="Winter Waves - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More"><img alt="Winter Waves - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More" border="0" height="119" src="http://www.threadless.com/subbanner/256213/banner1.png" width="220" /></a></span>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-2957030279659277492010-01-03T13:19:00.001-05:002010-01-03T13:21:07.908-05:00Aaahhhh, we can all breathe easier.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><div id="hn-headline" style="margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px; "><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i5isaLNLqt_SF5L4vKkIYWHhbBsAD9COIVGO1">Duke settles air violations at southern Ind. plan</a>t</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(103, 103, 103); ">By RICK CALLAHAN (AP) – <span class="hn-date" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; ">Dec 22, 2009</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(103, 103, 103); "><span class="hn-date" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "></span></span>"Under the proposed settlement, the EPA said Duke Energy will spend $85 million to cut sulfur dioxide emissions at its Gallagher plant near New Albany, Ind., by nearly 35,000 tons per year. Duke said the upgrades will cost about $80 million."</span></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-81802423384934750252009-12-08T14:00:00.003-05:002009-12-08T14:19:01.124-05:00...related to our local discussion of Historic Preservation.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><div id="articleHeader"><div id="headTools"><h1 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 23px; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></span></h1><div id="articleBodyTop" style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div id="articleBodyImageH"><span id="articleImageH"></span><img src="http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/12/07/1260243197_5017/539w.jpg" title="The Duck House in the Fens was built about 1897. Designed by architect Alexander M. Longfellow, it was constructed as a “shelter house.’’" height="343" width="539" alt="The Duck House in the Fens was built about 1897. Designed by architect Alexander M. Longfellow, it was constructed as a “shelter house.’’" border="0" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " />The Duck House in the Fens was built about 1897. Designed by architect Alexander M. Longfellow, it was constructed as a “shelter house.’’ (Wendy Maeda/ Globe Staff)</div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">City spurred to tend to historic Fens structure.</span></div><div class="utility" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; color: rgb(39, 39, 39); display: block; line-height: 17px; "><span id="byline">By <a href="http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=Megan+Irons&camp=localsearch:on:byline:art" style="color: rgb(40, 81, 162); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Megan Irons</a></span><div class="cf" style="clear: both; "></div><span id="dateline">Globe Staff <span class="listPipe" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -2px; list-style-type: none; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2px; ">/</span> December 8, 2009</span><div id="tools" style="float: right; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 17px; width: 539px; display: block; clear: both; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; position: relative; "><span class="articleTextsize" style="float: right; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:100%;color:#464646;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/08/city_spurred_to_tend_to_historic_fens_structure/">full text of article</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-25180994289231249672009-12-03T17:35:00.001-05:002009-12-03T17:36:45.927-05:00and not just 'cause I like it when people make the word FiSh look funny.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.news-tribune.net/opinion/local_story_337003933.html?keyword=topstory">HARBESON: Columnist goes FIsHing for an explanation</a></span>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-82707774808231465252009-12-02T13:27:00.002-05:002009-12-02T13:32:00.161-05:00<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b></b></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">CASH LEAKAGE AT CITY/COUNTY </span></i></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">MONEY SIEVE </span></i></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">BLOWS A NEW HOLE. </span></i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 13.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">City Officials call meeting with wet residents - promise to bring city cash drawer.</span></i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 13.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mayor: I’ll rip the last copper pipe off the Tabernacle building if I have do, </span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">people are hurtin’. They got sewer water in their basements.</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“FEMA - NO”</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“City’s insurance provider also turned down about 25 tort claims.”</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; min-height: 13px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><a href="http://www.news-tribune.net/archivesearch/local_story_334225251.html">“New Albany meeting set for discussion over city aid for flood victims"</a></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>By DANIEL SUDDEATH</b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #1f00a7"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="mailto:Daniel.Suddeath@newsandtribune.com">Daniel.Suddeath@newsandtribune.com</a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">City officials will meet with New Albany residents affected by the Aug. 4 flood Wednesday to discuss the possibility of tax dollars being allocated toward repair costs. ... </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">... In fact, it would be the first time the city has voluntarily paid residents for disaster-related damages, Coffey said.<br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-14541670738084116652009-12-02T13:17:00.000-05:002009-12-02T13:17:17.773-05:00Another reason to support your local merchants this season!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://www.news-tribune.net/local/local_story_335233440.html">The Wal-Mart in Clarksville had to be partially evacuated early Sunday morning after a man wearing only boxer shorts reportedly carried a gun inside the store</a>.</span>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-77344350114331294852009-12-01T18:58:00.001-05:002009-12-01T19:10:21.412-05:00FresH off the Bulletin Board!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhubgHb9N54TuAZgzoTcYtk6UbKvjKo_B0vt-phnTygAN6vZGYC7c9llRGoEvjlMmVAFtqOOb4mQPCp1Aw1tFbXXR15K34LbTobwBpk1W5E4T1Bnt4EScCtJhoV_Xn7-ULuXYIPLqadRMc/s1600/swim.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhubgHb9N54TuAZgzoTcYtk6UbKvjKo_B0vt-phnTygAN6vZGYC7c9llRGoEvjlMmVAFtqOOb4mQPCp1Aw1tFbXXR15K34LbTobwBpk1W5E4T1Bnt4EScCtJhoV_Xn7-ULuXYIPLqadRMc/s400/swim.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410424317270220050" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Deep Sea Invertebrates can now be safely housed in Floyd County</span></i>.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><b><a href="http://www.news-tribune.net/floydcounty/local_story_334224720.html">Techshot awarded $400,000 contract</a> </b><br /><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span>"Techshot, Inc., has earned a $400,000 two-year contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to advance the company’s system for retrieving animals from as deep as 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) under the sea and safely bringing them to surface laboratories for study. It is the second contract within a year awarded to Techshot for such work.<br /><br />“For more than 20 years we’ve been developing custom laboratory equipment for earth, air and space research,” said Techshot Executive Vice President and COO John Vellinger. “This project represents our first significant step into providing research equipment for scientists studying marine life.”<br /><br />The physiology of deep sea fish and invertebrates is poorly known due to the difficult challenges of bringing up live specimens from high-pressure environments. Animals that thrive far below the surface cannot survive in the relatively low-pressures available in research laboratory enclosures.<br /><br />When completed, Techshot’s high pressure specimen chamber is expected to be the only one of its kind capable of capturing and hosting creatures of the deep in conditions that sustain life and maximize research laboratory data gathering. Some of the first prototypes will be delivered to the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory for evaluation. Established by NOAA and the University of Hawaii, its mission is to study deep water marine processes in the Pacific Ocean.<br /><br />Founded in 1988 in Greenville, Techshot engineers, scientists and technicians specialize in providing integrated mechanical, electrical and software solutions to the technical needs of a diverse spectrum of industries.<br /><br /><i>— Contributed"</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">As a scientist and lover of deep sea invertebrates, this is one tasty news nugget. First time I've heard of this outfit, hopefully not the last...</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span></i></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-72349639125683303562009-11-27T16:43:00.001-05:002009-11-27T16:46:16.357-05:00“To err is human, to forgive, canine” ~ Anonymous<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRMENlqI7uX7bxSLe4kLGaJvIygQd4zzqXeN7j4IFDiUgjJ2QAkVRdo7K5_FRfhn6AT_4PERO3rljmOB3EmjIPvP4ABSf0CpZFgazS0t5hOBMr6cPR_kOxlgt2ClnB6NVKDRVPw0uXGU/s1600/IMG_1970.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRMENlqI7uX7bxSLe4kLGaJvIygQd4zzqXeN7j4IFDiUgjJ2QAkVRdo7K5_FRfhn6AT_4PERO3rljmOB3EmjIPvP4ABSf0CpZFgazS0t5hOBMr6cPR_kOxlgt2ClnB6NVKDRVPw0uXGU/s400/IMG_1970.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408902927986889138" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(80, 73, 69); font-family:tahoma, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><br /></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><a href="http://bullmarketfrogs.com/blog/2007/06/american-staffordshire-terrier-involved-in-incident-with-child-at-akc-event/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER INVOLVED IN INCIDENT WITH CHILD AT AKC EVENT" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; ">AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER INVOLVED IN INCIDENT WITH CHILD AT AKC EVENT</a></h2></div><div class="cover"><div class="entry" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; line-height: 18px; "><div class="ad1" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; float: right; "></div><p face="Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif" size="13px" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">AP NEWS: BERRYVILLE , VA APRIL 5 2007</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER INVOLVED IN INCIDENT WITH CHILD AT AKC EVENT</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Police were called today to the Clarke County Fairgrounds to investigate an incident involving an American Stafforshire Terrier dog and a 9 year old child. The American Kennel Club sanctions the event, held by the Clarke County Kennel Club annually. Thousands of exhibitors and spectators attend yearly.<span id="more-9"></span></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">According to witnesses, the child was walking near the show rings unsupervised when she suddenly came face to face with the 70 lb American Staffordshire Terrier dog. The child threw her arms around the dog’s neck, reports say, when the unthinkable happened. The dog began enthusiastically licking the girl’s face as his tail wagged briskly.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">“It was awful”, said one bystander, “there was nothing we could do. That dog was just giving that child every ounce of love he had and no one did a thing to stop it”.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Another witness, who took video of the event, said “This happens all the time, I don’t know how it hasn’t made the news before now”. One spectator, who declined to be named in this interview, told reporters, “The sounds were just heart wrenching, all that laughing and giggling. It made me smile so hard my face hurts. I plan to sue for pain and suffering”. The handler of the dog admits this is not the first time such an incident has occurred, and that the owners were “well aware of the stable, loving and patient temperament of this dog”. The owners were unavailable for comment.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Police state that the handler, who was noticeably unrepentant, was cited for Reckless Entertainment. The dog was given roasted chicken treats and was not taken into custody.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, 'century gothic', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">“To err is human, to forgive, canine” ~ Anonymous</p></div></div></span>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-75846547289572709892009-11-10T11:00:00.001-05:002009-11-10T11:03:23.800-05:00Why fundamentalism will fail<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><div id="articleHeader"><div id="headTools"><h1 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 30px; line-height: 23px; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The Boston Globe:</span></h1><h1 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 30px; line-height: 23px; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Why fundamentalism will fail</h1><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 24px; line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">A seemingly unstoppable force is being undone from the inside</h2><div class="utility" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; color: rgb(39, 39, 39); display: block; line-height: 17px; "><span id="byline">By <a href="http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=Harvey+Cox&camp=localsearch:on:byline:art" style="color: rgb(40, 81, 162); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Harvey Cox</a></span><div class="cf" style="clear: both; "></div><span id="dateline">November 8, 2009</span></div><div class="utility" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; color: rgb(39, 39, 39); display: block; line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div class="utility" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; color: rgb(39, 39, 39); display: block; line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">IN 1910, A COHORT of ultra-conservative American Protestants drew up a list of non-negotiable beliefs they insisted any genuine Christian must subscribe to. They published these “fundamentals” in a series of widely distributed pamphlets over the next five years. Their catalog featured doctrines such as the virgin birth, the physical resurrection of Christ, and his imminent second coming. The cornerstone, though, was a belief in the literal inerrancy of every syllable of the Bible, including in matters of geology, paleontology, and secular history. They called these beliefs fundamentals, and proudly styled themselves “fundamentalists” - true believers who feared that liberal movements like the social gospel and openness to other faiths were eroding the foundation of their religion. <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11/08/why_fundamentalism_will_fail/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed7">full article.</a></span></div></div></div></span>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-64354063397455285112009-10-31T20:20:00.003-04:002009-10-31T20:27:37.772-04:00Redeveloping a concept of local government...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AFo59AbPa6JI66-SMpGbA_BfI2RjEr4qWmauxCGQpKsnjqeWRAf3TmmrKEkh8HRAIpLwKhMqLDlzp8qIEmtXxJREYNak3Rm0vz1KmPG9sOUA3IufC36Uf__IcBrnT5zL8Rl0ey3HVow/s1600-h/chdo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AFo59AbPa6JI66-SMpGbA_BfI2RjEr4qWmauxCGQpKsnjqeWRAf3TmmrKEkh8HRAIpLwKhMqLDlzp8qIEmtXxJREYNak3Rm0vz1KmPG9sOUA3IufC36Uf__IcBrnT5zL8Rl0ey3HVow/s320/chdo.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">...or</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What to do about CHDO?</span></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Last week a notice was posted on the City Government Bulletin Board (NATribune) about the latest quagmire of resource depletion, the Linden Meadows project. No, sadly, the project’s goal was not creating a Linden meadow abutting I-64. It’s conceptually flawed goal was to create affordable housing. But in fact it destroyed a park, a linden meadow? to make way for the project. This “Linden Meadows” could now be named “Erosion Field”. </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">From what I read, the city has proposed handing 1/2 million dollars to a big bailed-out bank, so they can add 18 blighted properties to the towns glutted inventory of blighted properties. Given the already $600 million National City sucked down at the taxpayer bail-out trough in 2009, just remember, you’ve already bought Linden Meadows. Why pay twice?</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Then these dots started connecting, in that stark-raving math kinda’ way in my head. </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If the redevelopment wing of local government buys more ghetto, it can turn around and say we need to pay them to redevelop the ghetto! If the city just keeps using tax money to buy more distressed commercial properties, the ghetto grows, and so presumably does the need for “redevelopment”. So then I flip the equation backward and it reads: 50 years of “redevelopment” has created the ghetto NA is today! </span></i></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Well then, my simple math says if we stop pouring money into government redevelopment fiascos’, and instead force them to use the money for public safety, infrasturcture, and education, the ghetto would go away!! Wow, so simple. So Zen. Reduce city government by better use of technology, eliminate the pretense of gov’t redevelopment, focus on basics, and boom - ethical, sustainable growth.</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here are my personnel pruning shears, let’s see where to start - </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Building Commissioner</span></b></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Carl Malysz</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Plan Commission</span></b></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Carl Malysz- Director of Community Development<br /><br />John Rosenbarger- Director of Public Facilities Projects</span> </span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Scott Wood- Chief Planner</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Krisjans Streips- Planner</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Redevelopment </span></b></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Carl Malysz - Director of Community Development</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">John Rosenbarger- Director of Public Facilities Projects</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Cyndi Krauss- Financial Compliance Mng.</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sherrie Holmes- Public Service Specialist </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Deputy Mayor</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br />Carl Malysz</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wow, a quick cut-n-paste of the NA org chart and the first thing I see - the Mayor doesn’t have a job. So then, you eliminate all the positions above, and give them to the Mayor, then he’d have a full time job. I know - he has no plan or ideas of his own. OK, since his only vision for New Albany seems to be a full pension and expensive free health care for himself, he’ll just have to sit at his desk and make rubber bands balls till his term ends. At least he won’t be out wining and dining every distressed commercial extractor who can stand to spend a lunch with him selling out the city. Mr. Maylsz could go back to the private sector, maybe jump over to the development side, now that he knows how to manipulate the levers of gov’t, there are no doubt countless private entities that would pay market rates for his advice. All the other “redevelopment lifers” downtown can finally go over to the private sector and make real money managing real world redevelopment projects. It’s a win-win for all.</span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Evansville has combined all community development areas, including especially historic preservation, into one department! Now, there’s an idea. As now configured, our NA gov’t is set up to work against the interests of historic preservation. Maybe a crime like the Tabernacle wouldn’t be repeated if redevelopment and historic preservation were in the same office, working toward mutually beneficial goals? Those are mutually beneficial goals here, right? </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ok, we can have one office downtown that is an umbrella for all community development stuff. But I promise we won’t need half of city government to accomplish helping businesses with permits. </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Another positive from shrinking the mandate of our local govt, would be to relieve the need to construct a new city-county building, or at least reduce the additional space needed in the next 1--20 years. A little technology and know-how from the 21th century would go a long way to addressing our over-staffing problems. </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">One of the solutions to sustainable economic development in New Albany is to get the local government the hell out of it. CHDO, CCE, anything to do with development or redevelopment. God forbid the friggin hospital had just paid to tear down those houses. Now, years and millions later, the hopeful outcome is to return the park to nature and the neighbors. But what is the larger lesson from this disaster? </span></span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">When I moved back here a few years ago and noticed NA had quite the robust local government redevelopment component, I thought it was a joke. I mean, could people actually preside over the destruction of our town, from what I remember in childhood, and get paid for it? Year after crumbling year? That verges on criminal. The very least a rational person would see is the town has been UN-developed. That is the opposite of developed. Linden Meadows is just the latest and most obvious redevelopment disaster. But I’ve only been paying attention for 40 years. </span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In less than 6 months, this administration has proposed no less than 3 new ways to bail out the private sector and their governmentally enabled abuse of this town. ENOUGH! Your hands should be full figuring out how to deal with the budget mess, or the sewer mess, or the storm mess,...</span><br /></div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div></span><br /><div><br /></div></span></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-62182936074374310632009-10-27T13:33:00.007-04:002009-10-27T15:10:14.437-04:00Welcome to our NOT Haunted Cistern. Come on in, the waters fine...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Having lived many different places, I will say that the water that comes out of the taps here is disgusting. I don't give it to the animals or plants, much less my family. Unfortunately we do have to bathe in it. Bleh ... makes my skin and hair crusty. So I've been experimenting with ways to capture as much of our rain water as possible. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I know, the E.P.A. and Indiana American Water both say the water is safe. Me, I use the old fashioned sniff and taste test. If it tastes and looks skanky, it is skanky. But fortunately we have an alternative. Most of the big old houses pre-1900 in NA were constructed with their own cisterns. We still have ours, though it's just brick and not capable of holding water at present. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEyWcHHKxvjXttacww0mAiw03rN2Jq32oM8MecxhNd7qiYg_BkpdjpsHIMglJnPlMLnml-ODEUv2cq7UaWqitqKPd2v1ClHW6_tshq36dKNSLY95YnziIke76PrUyb5mVHgCQpN7lXV4/s1600-h/IMG_2006.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEyWcHHKxvjXttacww0mAiw03rN2Jq32oM8MecxhNd7qiYg_BkpdjpsHIMglJnPlMLnml-ODEUv2cq7UaWqitqKPd2v1ClHW6_tshq36dKNSLY95YnziIke76PrUyb5mVHgCQpN7lXV4/s400/IMG_2006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397340511679107410" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ye old cistern, back o' the basement</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I've estimated we could store 1000-2000 gals of water in our old cistern, once it's been lined with a plastic tank. The rain from the back 1/2 of our roof area drains to it. It sit's under what is the kitchen, both original and now, so can easily be delivered by pump straight up. According to Ind/American Water, our household uses approx 3000 gallons of water a month. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMupGYU6XIVVGvOnnPoS36m56h5gXUW9AAmgW9Msb_6j6i_nLF94TqtUXAH2xDqxv_Xk2XPHm58w6WXdainLrdvB04Rl5IuHFSskyH2QGtDbenU5dGX3b9di7RahbY20HEzcwCPUxC24/s1600-h/IMG_2007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMupGYU6XIVVGvOnnPoS36m56h5gXUW9AAmgW9Msb_6j6i_nLF94TqtUXAH2xDqxv_Xk2XPHm58w6WXdainLrdvB04Rl5IuHFSskyH2QGtDbenU5dGX3b9di7RahbY20HEzcwCPUxC24/s400/IMG_2007.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397340267887782850" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">old cisterns are usually round, like this one</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Not only are we aware of our usage, we have a goal of lowering it over time. Hence the brilliance, once again, of simply reverting to the original water storage system! As water becomes increasingly polluted and the rates rise in a futile attempt to clean and deliver it (remember, Mother Nature bats last), our household will have created it's own fresh water supply. Not to mention saving thousands and thousands of gallons of rainwater from the storm drain system where it overwhelms the sewer lines and spews toxic water in our streets.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If global warming is too abstract a concept for city planners to embrace, then just grasp the issues with safe water looming. Polluted groundwater + antiquated delivery system + increased demand = ? </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Weigh in with the state commission who set water rates, or go buy a rain-barrel. Or do both.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><blockquote><a href="http://www.news-tribune.net/floydcounty/local_story_299203531.html?keyword=topstory"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Those who couldn’t make it to the meeting have 10 more days to submit testimony on the matter. Written comments — which will be weighed equally with those delivered orally — can be sent by mail, fax or the Internet. Those comments should include the consumer’s name, mailing address and a reference to IURC Cause No. 43680.</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br />They can be sent to Consumer Services Staff, Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Council, 115 W. Washington St., Suite 1500 South, Indianapolis, IN, 46204; Fax: 317-232-5923; E-mail: uccinfo@oucc.IN.gov" NATribune</span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></blockquote></i></span></span></div></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-21219767229545267962009-10-24T10:47:00.003-04:002009-10-24T17:16:31.918-04:00Today is 350 Day! Come make a statement at Riverfront Park<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9PCL0qP1ag4ndSnVk2U2RDX8UKRZhZcII07ZLZJH_83sZmb9bw2Zuw1q4hP97orAnn76qzx5Qjd_RN4XRlk0djOpigJVmysNUqbjhfnbs9sXa24AGl-NvvJGOyMXn7FG7PQhc5lDODo/s1600-h/350350.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9PCL0qP1ag4ndSnVk2U2RDX8UKRZhZcII07ZLZJH_83sZmb9bw2Zuw1q4hP97orAnn76qzx5Qjd_RN4XRlk0djOpigJVmysNUqbjhfnbs9sXa24AGl-NvvJGOyMXn7FG7PQhc5lDODo/s400/350350.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396278433372257490" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-size:large;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">"We will assemble and spell out "350" with our bodies at 3:50 PM. There will be music, speakers, exhibits, puppets, theatre, and an aerial flyover to take a photo for the worldwide 350 event. Come be part of the solution! Everyone is welcome!"</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span><a href="http://louisville.sierraclub.org/350/">The Louisville 350 Coalition</a></span><span style="font-size:medium;">,</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"> an affiliation of local environmental, peace, and social justice groups, will hold</div><div style="text-align: center;"> a 350 event on the</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:large;">Great Lawn Waterfront Park Saturday, October 24 </span><span style="font-size:medium;">at </span><span style="font-size:large;">2:30</span><span style="font-size:medium;"> pm</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Cambria;">As part of a <span style="color:#33cc33;">worldwide effort</span> to enhance public awareness of the consequences of global climate change.</span> </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"><br /></span></div></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619455817863689116.post-69272702096350797592009-10-23T13:28:00.005-04:002009-10-23T16:17:18.005-04:00O-MI-GOD - it's already here and I forgot to get out the word 'cause I was sooo busy winterizing my house!<span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><div><br /></div>It's probably too late to register your name at the site, it was crashing from so much traffic this morning, but try anyway, or google "350" in case there is an ACTION event tomorrow near you. For the Louisville area:</span></b></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"></span></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><h4 align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:6;color:#33CC33;">CLIMATE ACTION</span><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:180%;color:#0000FF;"><br />Great Lawn Waterfront Park, Saturday, October 24,<br /></span><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:130%;color:#0000FF;">2:30 PM</span></h4></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color:#073763;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><a href="http://www.350.org/">http://www.350.org/</a></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><a href="http://www.350.org/"></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#073763;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In a nutshell(one of those tasty "walnut ones" dropping now) - </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#333333;"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><div class="text_exposed_root" id="id_4ae1e6dd7d70b3a804885" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the movement is advocating bringing CO2 levels down from 420 per million to 350 parts per million, which is the level at which we don't permanently F@%k-UP our planet. </span></span></span></span></div></span></h3><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/23/mr_obama_be_tough_on_climate_change/">Todays' Boston Globe Editorial Page link</a></span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I mean is it too much to ask, to lighten our load on old tired Mother Nature?</span></i></b></span></div></span></div></div>G Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02685211002248241357noreply@blogger.com0