December 18, 2011

Jeffrey Dick: We don't want a quake that knocks down a couple buildings

Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Jeffrey Dick, chairman of Youngstown State University's geology department, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Niquette about the possibility that hydraulic fracturing may be causing earthquakes around Youngstown, Ohio. Fracking is a process of blasting sand, water and chemicals into shale to extract natural gas. Earthquakes didn't happen around the city until D&L Energy Corp. began injecting wastewater from drilling into a 9,300-foot disposal well in December 2010. (Source: Bloomberg at http://www.bloomberg.com/video/82763534/ )


Article here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-14/fracking-has-formerly-stable-ohio-city-aquiver-over-earthquakes.html

September 04, 2011

Youngstown's Turning Grey To Green at Festival

Here's the blurb from the 4th Annual Grey to Green Festival that will be held on
Saturday September 10, 2011, 10 am to 5 pm, Wick Park, Youngstown, Ohio 44505
Grey To Green now has nearly 70 vendors/exhibitors!  Today’s Farmer’s Market was booming with Grey to Green conversation – all with a great backdrop of labor and justice songs by the “Grievance Man for the World,” Mike Stout.
This afternoon organizers sketched a layout for the festival in Wick Park, with spaces laid out for the Green Mother’s tent, Kids’ activities tent, Nature Tent, Neighbors tent, Vendor tents, Alpacas area (still have that possibility of the baby alpaca!), Drop and Shop/ GreenTeam/Yo Litter tent, Youngstown Facebook Garage Sale tent, etc., etc. and buskers and entertainment and education and, and, whew…

And that doesn’t even count all the GREAT farmers, bakers, cooks, herbalists and canners and sale items and etc. etc. who will be over at the Farmer’s Market section of the Festival – remember, that’s where ALL THE FOOD will be!

Join us next Saturday in Solidarity to learn, to experience, to eat and drink, to appreciate art and crafts and enjoy our COMMUNITY!
G2G website/blog: 4th Annual Grey to Green Festival on Saturday September 10, 2011, 10 am - 5 pm, Wick Park, 1221 Elm Street, Youngstown, Ohio 44505
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April 30, 2011

A spammer phishing for some kind of info from this Brazilian who translates anime never realized his made-up address was a real address so now we are getting tons of visitors expecting Brazilian anime on this blog - yah well ~ (( CLICK TO ENLARGE))
Then there's the part about all the little anime addicts - none of which seem over 15 - mistaking each spam comment as a real remark... hmmm... a little trouble negotiating real vs.virtual?

Dimichan and Dimitria are the same person, one is her LiveJournal ID and the other is her blogger ID, and this is all they could say:
Anonymous Dimichan said...
you're going to stay in my Livejournal talking some stuff ... will seek to do
April 27, 2011 7:03 PM
Delete
Blogger ~Dimitria said...
Hi. This coment above is not from me, I swear! I don't know who did this. Probably just a brat. So sorry for the bother =/
April 28, 2011 4:49 AM


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March 30, 2011

This Is What Democracy Looks Like


IMG_0169 a video by nysut on Flickr.   New York  State Capitol, Albany
The Houses of The People across the Land fill with the measured voices of said People. Are they scarey enough? Will the sound rise high enough? Will there ever be a higher than 20% turn out?

Creative Physics

Fun time seeing the creative variety of the annual Physics Hang Ups, 2011 theme was Physics of the Atom, only 22 entries, YSU Physics Olympics. See them all at album here

February 08, 2011

Lion Princess up on Kickstarter


-----  Check out the 3 minute video and pass it on. One can help out with as little as a dollar -- woo -oo for crowd-sourcing and micropayments!  Also it's inspiring to look around other projects on KickStarter - there's everyones' dream from the divine and  mundane to the bewildering and brash.










The last one above is mock-up and image sampler for js while composing the kickstarter project, all the photos are by me except the 2 labeled JS, and the little girl photo labeled Melanie DeFazio is by Melanie DeFazio  PHOTOGRAPHY  For the impatient, please find out more about the book and the project at http://www.pathpublishing.com/lion  The Lion Princess: Journey to an Awakening can currently be obtained at Amazon via this link.

January 31, 2011

THE FABULOUS ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT: INTERVIEW WITH A RESCUER

THE FABULOUS ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT: INTERVIEW WITH A RESCUER: "1. Introduce yourself and where do you hail from? Kimm Koocher from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2. What is your favorite animal? Cats. And ..."

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The carpenters are coming to Cat Ladies Society!

UPDATE ON Cat Ladies Society, Youngstown Ohio:         CAT LADIES UPDATE                         

∞ The clinic is coming, the clinic is coming… ∞


This is from their website/blog: please visit the blog to read more:
"We’re starting to build our clinic!  Randy, our carpenter extraordinaire, has once again volunteered his time and hard work.  This time he is donating his talented hands to convert an old garage into a beautiful clinic space for our rescued cats.  Naturally, the timing couldn’t be worse, we haven’t even begun to recover from the financial devastation left behind by Animal Charity and their big, bad and highly illegal raid of our shelter in September.  We had  been – for once – in reasonable shape prior to the raid and in a position to make this dreamed-of clinic a rocking reality.

"Then came the raid, like a tornado out of a clear blue sky.  Stealing our cats, our records, and pretty much anything that wasn’t nailed down in one fell swoop.  We tried very hard to take the high road here, which isn’t easy while listening to yourself being described as everything from a crazy cat hoarder who meant well but got overwhelmed to an actively evil human being who pocketed money meant for food and medicine while watching cats suffer and die.  I’ve heard that I’m an incoherent drug addict, an escaped mental patient, a brooding sociopath, a woman on the edge… of what, God alone knows.

"Anyhoo, here we be.  The carpenters are available for a few precious weeks between  jobs and we have to build now, before they have to leave us to earn an actual living.  And the fact that the raid left us financially devastated can’t be allowed to stop this from happening.
And this is where you, our friends and adopters and even those of you who aren’t cat nuts like the rest of us, can help us.  We’re begging you to please help us.  We’ve been able to scrounge enough 2 x 4′s to frame the room out.  We received 2 small grants that paid for spray insulation on the ceiling and the walls.  Randy and our wonderful landlord Gary have found enough pipe and parts to make the sinks a reality.  But, even insulated, it is cold in there.  And by summer, it will be hot in there.

"So here we are, once again begging you, our friends, for your help.  We need to raise $6500.00 to finish this project and we have to do it while we still have carpenters here to finish it up.  Please, please consider making a donation to our clinic fund.  You can send a check directly to the shelter or use the button on our CLS website to donate online.  Or, even better, drop by the shelter with your donation and see for yourself what we’re doing with it.  Who knows, you might walk into one of our cat rooms and emerge with a new best friend!
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It’s happening, but we need your help!

 "And we need YOUR help to do it right.  Thanks to our local “humane society” the funds that we were going to use to build our clinic went instead towards keeping our shelter alive during the six weeks that we voluntarily closed to allow their investigation to proceed.  Six weeks of paying rent and utilities for our building and retail vet care prices for the lucky cats in foster care who escaped the raid were enough to seriously deplete our finances.  Add to that replacing the things that mysteriously vanished while the building was out of our hands and me having to pay a substantial legal bill with money that I wanted to donate to the shelter and you can understand why money is tight, tight, tight around here. So, you may ask, why start on the clinic project when finances are not exactly optimum?  The answer is twofold.  The first part is good news – our wonderful carpenter Randy had some time between jobs and offered to come up and do the building.  The second part is even better news, we received a $1200.00 grant that was earmarked for our veterinary clinic.  So, the timing stinks, but the time is now.

"If you’ve ever done a project like this, you know that even with volunteers doing the building materials add up to a lot more than $1200.00.  The studs and insulation alone cost over $1500.00.  Then there is drywall, wiring, windows, doors, primer, paint, counter-top and faucets.  We have scavenged a lot of the materials we need, but we still have to purchase a lot of building materials.  The most important – and expensive – part of this project is the climate control unit.  The new clinic is very well insulated, but it did start life as a garage, hot in summer and cold in winter.  We have been taking bids for furnaces, and the lowest bid so far comes to $5300.00. This clinic means a lot to The Cat Ladies Society.  With it, we can continue with our primary mission of helping the cats and kittens that need us most, those who come through our doors battered and bruised and sometimes ill.  This will insure adequate facilities for our vet tech, vet assistant and visiting veterinarian volunteers to isolate and properly care for cats who just need a little extra help before they are ready to become peoples’ beloved pets.
Please, please help us by donating to this project.
Checks can be mailed to:  The Cat Ladies Society
                                 2217 Mahoning Ave.
                                 Youngstown, Ohio   44509
"Or just click on the Donate button on the CLS blog.  Or, better yet, stop by and donate in person.  You can tour the shelter, visit (and maybe even adopt!) our wonderful cats and check out the progress of the construction for yourself.
Please help us to keep helping them, and keep improving the ways in which we can help!"

Read the entry on their blog
 UPDATE to the Update!!:                  UPDATE      UPDATE                                  
From Cat Ladies Society, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 11:28pm:

"Last night the most amazing thing happened! A donor (who wants to remain anonymous) has offered to match all donations made for our clinic fund. This means that for every cent donated we will get two cents, one from the original donor and one from our wonderful benefactor. Please, make your donations count! You can go on our website and click the Paypal button to donate online. If you prefer snail mail, that is fine, too! Better yet, you can stop by the shelter, meet the Cat Ladies and the carpenters who are donating their time and labor, and meet the wonderful feline shelter residents!
"Our address is 2217 Mahoning Ave. on Youngstown's very happening West Side. Stop by, donate, volunteer, adopt or just schmooze! We'd love to see you".

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 11:28pm
By the way Kimm was interviewed by The Fabulous Animal Rescue Project --- it can be read here.