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Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:21:44 -0700

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EarthFix Snippets: Teen Climate Lawsuit Goes to Oregon Court of Appeals

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:56:58 -0700

EarthFix Snippets: Teen Climate Lawsuit Goes to Oregon Court of Appeals:

The Oregon Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a climate change lawsuit brought by two teens from Eugene.

Kelsey Juliana, 16, and another Eugene teen, 12-year old Olivia Chernaik, are suing the state of Oregon.

Portland attorney Tanya Sanerib is representing the two teens. The suit alleges the…

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Window View ~ Beach Fossils

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Window View ~ Beach Fossils

thedailywhat: Party Tardis of the Day: It’s boozier on the...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:48:26 -0700

thedailywhat:

Party Tardis of the Day: It’s boozier on the inside.

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earthfix: RICHLAND, Wash. – You may think buying light bulbs...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:13:26 -0700

earthfix:

RICHLAND, Wash. – You may think buying light bulbs get more complicated every day. Even home improvement store employee Samantha Supplee thinks so — snd she’s a light bulb specialist.

“We have an entire aisle dedicated to straight light bulbs. There’s so many choices. So many different sizes, so many different shapes. I mean, everything,” Supplee says.

Supplee says people come into her home improvement store with questions all the time. Supplee says she does see more people buying energy-efficient lighting.

There are the compact fluorescents – those pigs tail looking lights. The LEDs – they look a little more traditional, but many have cooling “fins” on the side. And then there are the usual incandescent lights.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have analyzed each of these options. They’ve studied the entire lifecycle of LED, compact fluorescent (CFL), and incandescent bulbs. The study took into account everything from the mining resources used to make the bulbs to the environmental impact of their disposal.

The study projects that in the next five years the technology to make LED light bulbs more efficient will dramatically improve. That’s while compact fluorescent light bulbs, an older technology, remain pretty much the same, says Marc Ledbetter, a manager of emerging technologies at the lab.

“The LED lamps are a very new technology, and so they are improving very, very rapidly. Every year, you can go into the store and find lamps that are significantly improved over the lamps that were available last year,” Ledbetter says.

But don’t go throwing away your compact fluorescent bulbs just yet. Ledbetter says the technology currently on the market is similar. And disposing the CFL bulbs creates waste.

“If it’s working, and it’s working well, it’s best to let that lamp operate until it no longer works, and then replace it with an LED product,” Ledbetter says. “However, the same cannot be said of incandescent lamps.”

One of the trade-offs between LED and CFL bulbs: currently LEDs are more expensive. They can cost $20 to $50 for a light bulb, but they will last about 20 years. That’s compared to CFLs that cost around $10 and are designed to last about 10 years.

Because 20 percent of the nation’s energy use comes from lighting, Ledbetter says, it’s important to understand the different options available.

Ledbetter says right now LEDs work better in directional lighting, like a recessed light, while compact fluorescent lights work better in omnidirectional uses, like a desk lamp.

He says his own lighting choices vary at home because one type of light does not work for every situation.

“I have some LED lamps. I have a number of compact fluorescent lamps, and I also have a number of incandescent lamps. … I need an omnidirectional lamp in my closet, and the thing is hardly ever on. So I use an incandescent lamp, not a compact fluorescent,” Ledbetter says.

Next, researchers will analyze the chemicals found in all three light bulbs and if they meet waste disposal regulations.

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Gagging Order ~ Radiohead

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:37:44 -0700

Gagging Order ~ Radiohead

Rare moment where they’re sharing #fwenship #kittenz ...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:13:40 -0700

Rare moment where they’re sharing #fwenship #kittenz (Taken with Instagram)

A Dedication ~ Washed Out

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:09:17 -0700

A Dedication ~ Washed Out

rulerlord: New music video I directed for Dry River Yacht...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:16:38 -0700

rulerlord:

New music video I directed for Dry River Yacht Club!!

lyriquediscorde: theparisreview: “The fiction I’m most...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:17:49 -0700

lyriquediscorde:

theparisreview:

“The fiction I’m most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. None of my stories really happened, of course. But there’s always something, some element, something said to me or that I witnessed, that may be the starting place. Here’s an example: ‘That’s the last Christmas you’ll ever ruin for us!’ I was drunk when I heard that, but I remembered it. And later, much later, when I was sober, using only that one line and other things I imagined, imagined so accurately that they could have happened, I made a story—‘A Serious Talk.’ But the fiction I’m most interested in, whether it’s Tolstoy’s fiction, Chekhov, Barry Hannah, Richard Ford, Hemingway, Isaac Babel, Ann Beattie, or Anne Tyler, strikes me as autobiographical to some extent. At the very least it’s referential. Stories long or short don’t just come out of thin air. I’m reminded of a conversation involving John Cheever. We were sitting around a table in Iowa City with some people and he happened to remark that after a family fracas at his home one night, he got up the next morning and went into the bathroom to find something his daughter had written in lipstick on the bathroom mirror: ‘D-e-r-e daddy, don’t leave us.’ Someone at the table spoke up and said, ‘I recognize that from one of your stories.’ Cheever said, ‘Probably so. Everything I write is autobiographical.’ Now of course that’s not literally true. But everything we write is, in some way, autobiographical. I’m not in the least bothered by ‘autobiographical’ fiction. To the contrary. On the Road. Céline. Roth. Lawrence Durrell in The Alexandria Quartet. So much of Hemingway in the Nick Adams stories. Updike, too, you bet. Jim McConkey. Clark Blaise is a contemporary writer whose fiction is out-and-out autobiography. Of course, you have to know what you’re doing when you turn your life’s stories into fiction. You have to be immensely daring, very skilled and imaginative and willing to tell everything on yourself. You’re told time and again when you’re young to write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets? But unless you’re a special kind of writer, and a very talented one, it’s dangerous to try and write volume after volume on The Story of My Life. A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.”

—Raymond Carver, The Art of Fiction No. 76

“A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.” I love that.

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harryandthepotters: Punching out stencils so we can make some...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:33:40 -0700

harryandthepotters:

Punching out stencils so we can make some Occupy shirts for the upcoming tour!

heavy-krishna: chrizzzy-s-cult: damn i forgot what this shit...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:22:03 -0700

heavy-krishna:

chrizzzy-s-cult:

damn i forgot what this shit was called!

that’s Hennigans! no-smell, no-tell scotch.

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Hermano likes sleeping under the covers, it’s so cute....

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:30:47 -0700

Hermano likes sleeping under the covers, it’s so cute. Well he also likes hiding there in order to ambush his sister. #hermano #kittenz (Taken with Instagram)

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Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:01:21 -0700

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SOON.. #richpeople #party (Taken with Instagram)

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:04:42 -0700

SOON.. #richpeople #party (Taken with Instagram)