The Last Refuge of Failure is Myth: The REAL Ronald Reagan
The Last Refuge of Failure is Myth: The REAL Ronald Reagan | Addicting Info
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Are Psychiatrists Inventing Mental Illnesses to Feed Americans More Pills? | | AlterNet
Are Psychiatrists Inventing Mental Illnesses to Feed Americans More Pills?
Mental health professionals say new diagnoses will lead to overmedication.
Are Psychiatrists Inventing Mental Illnesses to Feed Americans More Pills? | | AlterNet
Mental health professionals say new diagnoses will lead to overmedication.
Are Psychiatrists Inventing Mental Illnesses to Feed Americans More Pills? | | AlterNet
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Small wineries want opportunity - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
As a old time moderate/progressive type who believes in Free Enterprise, and much less government intervention, patronage systems such as the PA Liqueur Control Board should go, and if Tea Partiers are serious they should start their endeavors here, not in the taxation and Commonweal programs they are attacking.
I have traveled intensively in my career, but I will only talk about the US part of that when it comes to choice.
In states that have privatized and reformed their systems, there IS more choice, more outlets, and usually lower prices or prices competitive to PA.
Sure the convenience stores have less of a selection, but they cater to a clientele that opts for that, the stores won't sell what doesn't make a profit. There are speciality retailers that have large and diverse collections in these states that can provide product.
I can go into stores in Ohio, Alabama, and a few others and pick up excellent domestic and imported wines for less than $5.00 a liter. Local wines and even private label are available for even less. I remember years ago seeing NY state wines for sale in PA's system, but not wines from Erie, wines that I either had to drive to purchase or buy in NY for consumption there.
While we are at it, allow restaurants & pizza shops to deliver beer and wine to hotels to accommodate the traveler eating in or even delivery to homes for consumption. In the past, it has been great working in a state that allowed a bottle of beer to be delivered with my sandwich or a multi-pack with my pizza.
Bring back freedom of choice!
Small wineries want opportunity - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
I have traveled intensively in my career, but I will only talk about the US part of that when it comes to choice.
In states that have privatized and reformed their systems, there IS more choice, more outlets, and usually lower prices or prices competitive to PA.
Sure the convenience stores have less of a selection, but they cater to a clientele that opts for that, the stores won't sell what doesn't make a profit. There are speciality retailers that have large and diverse collections in these states that can provide product.
I can go into stores in Ohio, Alabama, and a few others and pick up excellent domestic and imported wines for less than $5.00 a liter. Local wines and even private label are available for even less. I remember years ago seeing NY state wines for sale in PA's system, but not wines from Erie, wines that I either had to drive to purchase or buy in NY for consumption there.
While we are at it, allow restaurants & pizza shops to deliver beer and wine to hotels to accommodate the traveler eating in or even delivery to homes for consumption. In the past, it has been great working in a state that allowed a bottle of beer to be delivered with my sandwich or a multi-pack with my pizza.
Bring back freedom of choice!
Small wineries want opportunity - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Monday, April 11, 2011
EU plan to phase out 'conventionally fueled' cars by 2050
The European Commission has released a white paper detailing ambitious plans to transform Europe's transport infrastructure by 2050. The roadmap for a Single European Transport Area includes forty initiatives for road, rail and air travel that aim to increase mobility, reduce reliance on oil imports, cut emissions by 60% and combat congestion by halving the use of "conventionally fueled" cars in urban transport by 2030 with a view to phasing them out in cities by 2050.
EU plan to phase out 'conventionally fueled' cars by 2050
EU plan to phase out 'conventionally fueled' cars by 2050
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Medicare to pay for $93,000 prostate cancer drug - Yahoo! Finance
This is so wrong when health care for the poor and children is being decimated.
A US sedentary lifestyle has more to do with prostrate disease than anything else.
Look at the active men versus the couch potatoes and desk jockeys and then look around the world.(
4) months extra surreal and not to good of a life for $372,000.
How many children could that insure?
Medicare to pay for $93,000 prostate cancer drug - Yahoo! Finance
A US sedentary lifestyle has more to do with prostrate disease than anything else.
Look at the active men versus the couch potatoes and desk jockeys and then look around the world.(
4) months extra surreal and not to good of a life for $372,000.
How many children could that insure?
Medicare to pay for $93,000 prostate cancer drug - Yahoo! Finance
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
100 years after Triangle fire, horror resonates - Earthlink - Main News
100 Years After Triangle Fire, Horror Resonates
NEW YORK (AP) — It was a warm spring Saturday when dozens of immigrant girls and women leapt to their deaths — some with their clothes on fire, some holding hands — as horrified onlookers watched the Triangle Shirtwaist factory burn.
Just a reminder to the plight of immigrants and labor in general. A story that needs to be told in these days of government intervention in labor rights.
100 years after Triangle fire, horror resonates - Earthlink - Main News
NEW YORK (AP) — It was a warm spring Saturday when dozens of immigrant girls and women leapt to their deaths — some with their clothes on fire, some holding hands — as horrified onlookers watched the Triangle Shirtwaist factory burn.
Just a reminder to the plight of immigrants and labor in general. A story that needs to be told in these days of government intervention in labor rights.
100 years after Triangle fire, horror resonates - Earthlink - Main News
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Common Sense
Common sense, it is said we either have it or don't, and I disagree with that, I think we all are born with it. What is common sense, but natural instinct, survival, or adapting?
As I have traveled the world and watched fear about so many things increase in the peoples, the mass use of entertainment and sports, media, electronic gadgetry, dumb downed education, the exploding growth of fast food, and other "time saving" schemes, I have also seen this natural instinct or survival of the species grow dormant.
I sincerely believe that and have seen common sense grow when those who work for and with me put in 80+ hours a week and find less time to watch TV, etc. The thinking processes start coming back and they become more inquisitive, even though they may be physically tired. Their brains are getting a break from meaningless bombardment and have to actually work.
It is amazing as I watch them become more productive mentally without "entertainment".
As I have traveled the world and watched fear about so many things increase in the peoples, the mass use of entertainment and sports, media, electronic gadgetry, dumb downed education, the exploding growth of fast food, and other "time saving" schemes, I have also seen this natural instinct or survival of the species grow dormant.
I sincerely believe that and have seen common sense grow when those who work for and with me put in 80+ hours a week and find less time to watch TV, etc. The thinking processes start coming back and they become more inquisitive, even though they may be physically tired. Their brains are getting a break from meaningless bombardment and have to actually work.
It is amazing as I watch them become more productive mentally without "entertainment".
Monday, March 14, 2011
IndustryWeek : Exelon CEO Touts Natural Gas as Top Clean-Energy Option
Exelon CEO Touts Natural Gas as Top Clean-Energy Option
Tells Congress to step back from subsidizing clean energy.
IndustryWeek : Exelon CEO Touts Natural Gas as Top Clean-Energy Option
Tells Congress to step back from subsidizing clean energy.
IndustryWeek : Exelon CEO Touts Natural Gas as Top Clean-Energy Option
Thursday, March 10, 2011
TransAlta to phase out coal boilers in Wash. state | Reuters
Lets hope this coal to natural gas practice spreads rapidly eastward toward The Marcellus!!
TransAlta to phase out coal boilers in Wash. state | Reuters
TransAlta to phase out coal boilers in Wash. state | Reuters
Monday, March 7, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Industrial Water Report
Viewpoints on fracking operations form the World of Water side.
Water, another important part of our great industry.
Industrial Water Report
I hope it is found informative.
Water, another important part of our great industry.
Industrial Water Report
I hope it is found informative.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Senators introduce bill to reauthorize pipeline safety act - Oil & Gas Journal
Senators introduce bill to reauthorize pipeline safety act
Feb 3, 2011
Nick Snow
OGJ Washington Editor
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 3 -- Two US senators introduced a bill on Feb. 3 to reauthorize the federal pipeline safety act and strengthen the US Pipeline and Hazardous Safety Administration’s authority to enforce its provisions through fiscal 2014. Oil and gas industry groups immediately applauded the move.
The measure’s provisions would expand civil penalties for violating pipeline regulations and add fines for obstructing regulators, expand excess flow valve requirements to include multifamily buildings and small commercial facilities, and require installation of automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on new transmission pipelines, according to the bill’s sponsors, Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), who chairs the committee’s Surface Transportation Subcommittee.
They said it also would require the US Transportation secretary to establish time limits for pipeline operators to notify local and state government officials and emergency responders when a leak occurs, and to evaluate whether integrity management system requirements should be expanded beyond currently defined high consequence areas and to establish appropriate regulations.
The bill also would make pipeline information, inspections, and standards publicly available on PHMSA’s web site; authorize additional pipeline inspectors and pipeline safety support employees through a phased-in increase over 4 years; allow PHMSA to recover costs for oversight of major pipeline design and construction projects; and authorize the US Department of Transportation agency’s appropriations for fiscal years 2011 through 2014.
The American Petroleum Institute said the bill was a positive starting point for a discussion of pipeline safety. “Pipelines operate 365 days a year with a strong and improving record of safe, reliable transportation of the energy products needed to support the US economy,” said API Pipeline Director Peter Lidiak. “Continuous improvement in safety is an industry priority.”
Excavation damage
Lidiak said API also supports stronger state programs to prevent excavation damage, the leading cause of deaths and injuries from pipeline accidents. “We urge states, Congress, and DOT to strengthen one-call laws and their enforcement, and to remove exemptions from requirements to use one-call before digging,” he said.
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Pres. Donald F. Santa said INGAA, which represents interstate gas pipelines, consider the bill “a constructive starting point” for reauthorizing the law. “It takes a reasoned and balanced approach to pipeline safety, acknowledging the need for strong aspirational goals, but respecting that regulators must apply technical expertise to develop and implement the specific guidelines that will be needed to achieve these goals,” he said.
INGAA also supports regulatory efforts to reduce development encroachment near pipelines and to improve public-private research and development programs to improve pipeline safety technologies, as well as enforcement of laws to prevent excavation damage and refinements of integrity management programs, Santa said.
The American Gas Association, whose members include gas utilities, also welcomed the bill’s introduction as a constructive first step. “The majority and minority staff of the [Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation] committee have worked cooperatively in attempting to address a number of key issues,” said Kyle Rogers, AGA’s vice-president of public affairs. “That sort of collaborative, reasoned process bodes well for getting a bill passed.”
Senators introduce bill to reauthorize pipeline safety act - Oil & Gas Journal
Feb 3, 2011
Nick Snow
OGJ Washington Editor
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 3 -- Two US senators introduced a bill on Feb. 3 to reauthorize the federal pipeline safety act and strengthen the US Pipeline and Hazardous Safety Administration’s authority to enforce its provisions through fiscal 2014. Oil and gas industry groups immediately applauded the move.
The measure’s provisions would expand civil penalties for violating pipeline regulations and add fines for obstructing regulators, expand excess flow valve requirements to include multifamily buildings and small commercial facilities, and require installation of automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on new transmission pipelines, according to the bill’s sponsors, Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), who chairs the committee’s Surface Transportation Subcommittee.
They said it also would require the US Transportation secretary to establish time limits for pipeline operators to notify local and state government officials and emergency responders when a leak occurs, and to evaluate whether integrity management system requirements should be expanded beyond currently defined high consequence areas and to establish appropriate regulations.
The bill also would make pipeline information, inspections, and standards publicly available on PHMSA’s web site; authorize additional pipeline inspectors and pipeline safety support employees through a phased-in increase over 4 years; allow PHMSA to recover costs for oversight of major pipeline design and construction projects; and authorize the US Department of Transportation agency’s appropriations for fiscal years 2011 through 2014.
The American Petroleum Institute said the bill was a positive starting point for a discussion of pipeline safety. “Pipelines operate 365 days a year with a strong and improving record of safe, reliable transportation of the energy products needed to support the US economy,” said API Pipeline Director Peter Lidiak. “Continuous improvement in safety is an industry priority.”
Excavation damage
Lidiak said API also supports stronger state programs to prevent excavation damage, the leading cause of deaths and injuries from pipeline accidents. “We urge states, Congress, and DOT to strengthen one-call laws and their enforcement, and to remove exemptions from requirements to use one-call before digging,” he said.
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Pres. Donald F. Santa said INGAA, which represents interstate gas pipelines, consider the bill “a constructive starting point” for reauthorizing the law. “It takes a reasoned and balanced approach to pipeline safety, acknowledging the need for strong aspirational goals, but respecting that regulators must apply technical expertise to develop and implement the specific guidelines that will be needed to achieve these goals,” he said.
INGAA also supports regulatory efforts to reduce development encroachment near pipelines and to improve public-private research and development programs to improve pipeline safety technologies, as well as enforcement of laws to prevent excavation damage and refinements of integrity management programs, Santa said.
The American Gas Association, whose members include gas utilities, also welcomed the bill’s introduction as a constructive first step. “The majority and minority staff of the [Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation] committee have worked cooperatively in attempting to address a number of key issues,” said Kyle Rogers, AGA’s vice-president of public affairs. “That sort of collaborative, reasoned process bodes well for getting a bill passed.”
Senators introduce bill to reauthorize pipeline safety act - Oil & Gas Journal
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Ah, living here in The Marcellus, and meeting many new area people, both native and transplants who share the goal to bring the truth about Horizontal Drilling and Fracking to the public.
We have begun the loose forming of or own group to assemble the most knowledgable and vested people to share the story of The Marcellus and the place where the Oil and Natural Gas businesses started.
From pre Oil City, the Native Americans use of Bitumen, the salt mines and wells that encountered oil, Colonel Drake,the first natural gas well in the city of Pittsburgh for the use of George Westinghouse's industries, the first commercial well in Murrysville, PA, and on to the Shale play today, we have been an innovtive, rugged, risk taking people and industry.
Sure it would be nice if everyone had their own gas well royalties coming in, but since that is not impossible, we need to look at the tax dollars, revenues spent with local companies, well paying jobs & opportunities created, and more taxes to help balance the budget and repair the infrastructure.
No average paying casino jobs with the rise in crime, poverty, and bankruptcy they bring, but family oriented jobs, the values PA was founded on and one we here so often from the citizens.
As we comment and share the good and honest news here, we will surely move forth to a better and more energy independent future.
We have begun the loose forming of or own group to assemble the most knowledgable and vested people to share the story of The Marcellus and the place where the Oil and Natural Gas businesses started.
From pre Oil City, the Native Americans use of Bitumen, the salt mines and wells that encountered oil, Colonel Drake,the first natural gas well in the city of Pittsburgh for the use of George Westinghouse's industries, the first commercial well in Murrysville, PA, and on to the Shale play today, we have been an innovtive, rugged, risk taking people and industry.
Sure it would be nice if everyone had their own gas well royalties coming in, but since that is not impossible, we need to look at the tax dollars, revenues spent with local companies, well paying jobs & opportunities created, and more taxes to help balance the budget and repair the infrastructure.
No average paying casino jobs with the rise in crime, poverty, and bankruptcy they bring, but family oriented jobs, the values PA was founded on and one we here so often from the citizens.
As we comment and share the good and honest news here, we will surely move forth to a better and more energy independent future.
DOE to convert Northeast heating oil reserve to ULSD - Oil & Gas Journal
More good news for the marketers of cheap and efficient natural gas.
DOE to convert Northeast heating oil reserve to ULSD - Oil & Gas Journal
DOE to convert Northeast heating oil reserve to ULSD - Oil & Gas Journal
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Reflections On A Year
2010 was a very tumultuous year for me with extreme valleys and mountain tops causing a lot of reflection on many personal searches.
Like most people, I am constantly seeking the meaning of life, and each year, as I search, I end up back closer to where I was as a youth, but with a greater perspective of what is important.
Spiritually, having grown up in a pretty fundamental, but not Pentecostal group (Free Methodist), I felt it too restrictive and rebelled as a young teenager. My searches lead me to the occult, paganism, hedonism, and just nothing to believe in.
Life was beginning to be a chore, I settled down a bit, got an education, and a new wife. But there was still something missing, so I searched out some churches, mainstream Protestantism, Pentecostal, and Non-Denominational. After a few years, I realized that none fit, and I started drifting again, went to a few Catholic Masses, some open study groups on Judaism, and even started reading the Quran.
Not finding what I wanted, I went back to drifting, did a lot of Internet searches and read, read a lot.
Recently I realized that my career which has been successful was bound by strict rules to perform the Quality Functions I love to do and get paid well to do. Strict rules, that if were broken, caused the whole Quality to program to collapse.
I realized that I liked the rules and the Old Testament teachings of my youth started coming back to me. I finally found out that in the majority they were based on practical ways of living my, not restrictive rules that limited me to expression, wants, needs, and pride in my accomplishments as the New Testament Non- Denominational churches do. This along with the Wealth, Riches, and Prosperity Ministries, along with the rife judgement so prevalent in these mega and cultish churches caused me to drift away.
I decided that I would check out Quaker teachings, some more about Judaism, and make a choice. Old Testament ways became more important and I reflected more on the Creation/Evolution arguments, make a few other queries, and find out where the Free Methodist church stood today.
As I checked out the website, I found that the spin-off was really more about slavery issues than anything else, the Free Methodists being staunchly anti-slavery. Having traveled the world and seen exploitation at it's worse in sexual slavery (pre-teens), natives being held in virtual slavery or forced to the dangerous jobs for only a few pennies, ex-pat workers being exploited in the ultra rich countries like the UAE, immigrants seeking a future ridiculed, exploited, and arrested in "the super power nations", and even the penal system in the USA being used to fill prisons and work in the prison industries that are owned, controlled by, or having vested interests of the politicians and the ultra wealthy.
So now, I am going to visit a local Free Methodist congregation to see what it is like today. I know that the teachings and the simplicity I seen there is important to me and I wonder if I am the prodigal son, going back to his roots. I do not proselytize, but I hope my search ends as I near my 65th year. More on this later.
Like most people, I am constantly seeking the meaning of life, and each year, as I search, I end up back closer to where I was as a youth, but with a greater perspective of what is important.
Spiritually, having grown up in a pretty fundamental, but not Pentecostal group (Free Methodist), I felt it too restrictive and rebelled as a young teenager. My searches lead me to the occult, paganism, hedonism, and just nothing to believe in.
Life was beginning to be a chore, I settled down a bit, got an education, and a new wife. But there was still something missing, so I searched out some churches, mainstream Protestantism, Pentecostal, and Non-Denominational. After a few years, I realized that none fit, and I started drifting again, went to a few Catholic Masses, some open study groups on Judaism, and even started reading the Quran.
Not finding what I wanted, I went back to drifting, did a lot of Internet searches and read, read a lot.
Recently I realized that my career which has been successful was bound by strict rules to perform the Quality Functions I love to do and get paid well to do. Strict rules, that if were broken, caused the whole Quality to program to collapse.
I realized that I liked the rules and the Old Testament teachings of my youth started coming back to me. I finally found out that in the majority they were based on practical ways of living my, not restrictive rules that limited me to expression, wants, needs, and pride in my accomplishments as the New Testament Non- Denominational churches do. This along with the Wealth, Riches, and Prosperity Ministries, along with the rife judgement so prevalent in these mega and cultish churches caused me to drift away.
I decided that I would check out Quaker teachings, some more about Judaism, and make a choice. Old Testament ways became more important and I reflected more on the Creation/Evolution arguments, make a few other queries, and find out where the Free Methodist church stood today.
As I checked out the website, I found that the spin-off was really more about slavery issues than anything else, the Free Methodists being staunchly anti-slavery. Having traveled the world and seen exploitation at it's worse in sexual slavery (pre-teens), natives being held in virtual slavery or forced to the dangerous jobs for only a few pennies, ex-pat workers being exploited in the ultra rich countries like the UAE, immigrants seeking a future ridiculed, exploited, and arrested in "the super power nations", and even the penal system in the USA being used to fill prisons and work in the prison industries that are owned, controlled by, or having vested interests of the politicians and the ultra wealthy.
So now, I am going to visit a local Free Methodist congregation to see what it is like today. I know that the teachings and the simplicity I seen there is important to me and I wonder if I am the prodigal son, going back to his roots. I do not proselytize, but I hope my search ends as I near my 65th year. More on this later.
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