The Green River Formation, located in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado contains oil shale. A major industrial project is proposed to mine oil shale, or heat it in place, to produce oil, in large quantities. A Oil Shale and Tar Sands Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been prepared and is on line at http://www.ostseis.anl.gov/documents/dpe is/index.cfm Here are some factors: There is a worldwide shortage of petroleum. There is a huge amount of oil which could be extracted. There are substantial environmental costs should development occur. It is possible until April 20, 2008 to send comments on this proposal to the United States government, see http://www.ostseis.anl.gov/involve/index .cfm This is a real question with real consequences. I asked this question earlier, but seem to have underestimated or not understood the true scale of the project. The US imports about 10 million barrels a day. A single retort installation would produce 50k a day, in situ 200k a day.
I’m somewhat familiar with this project…if memory serves me right, Royal Dutch Shell has the upper hand in the technology used to extract the oil (in situ) from the shale. And with oil over $100/bbl, its certainly cost effective to do so. There is a huge resources there and unlike mining oil sands, I don’t believe the landscape is completely denuded and spoiled. They basically heat up the shale under the ground and suck out the oil that’s released from the shale during the coooking process…no whole-scale mining operations.
I think its a good idea but I don’t live out there. It won’t solve our problems, ie lower gas and other energy prices, but it may help to stabilize prices in the future if the supply is substantial enough.
If I buy a pair of boots from payless in wide, will the calf be wide as well as the foot?
The majority of shoe companies only alter the base of the shoe, not the opening.
DeputyJT | Aug 12, 2007
No. I have bigger calves slightly bigger than average and the shoes that are wide never fit my calves. =(
[:]::Your Favorite Mistake::[:] | Aug 12, 2007
My friend has recently taken the SAT practice test and he wants to know that if the scores that he got were the same as the scores he would get on the real SAT, what type of colleges would they get him into. This is how he did, his range really.
Those scores would most likely not get him into a most selective college. The math especially hurts him. The best thing to do is visit collegeboard.com or princetonreview.com and check out the SAT score ranges for colleges your friend is interested in. Don’t forget that the SATs are only a portion of the college admissions profile. And their is still time for your friend to bring the scores up, if he can get each one of them above 600 that’d be good.
Good luck!
AriesAngel | Feb 28, 2009
thats a horribly inaccurate range, 580 and 710 are very different, so is a 480 and 540. those are not great scores but if he got a 710, 610, 540 he may be able to get into a state school or UC. no better though
Jaxon | Feb 28, 2009
Go to www.mycollegeboard.com then search for colleges. Listed in each college is admission requirements for test scores.
Oh and I also take a Practice SAT. I got…
Critical Reading 470-550
Writing 450-530
Math 600-680
The reason I did horrible in the Critical Reading is b/c I’m so used to non-timed tests that I took my time and didn’t answer some questions. I also did horrible in the writing section b/c I have been struggling with English grammar for a long time. I was born in Russia.
Internet Explorer | Feb 28, 2009
I think the question is pretty obvious, if you don’t know what castle of color is what is the range of lip piercings then?
You will probably pay around thirty dollars where we live, but fifty to sixty dollars depending on where you live.I don’t know anything about casle of colors or where it is located but You shouldn’t pay anymore than sixty dollars period.
Heads Up4 free | Oct 12, 2009
i dont know castle of color.
but lip piercings usually range from 30-60 $
that includes the ring
Cocky Cairns =] | Oct 12, 2009
Why not call them and ask?
I paid around $60 for my lip piercing.
Brittany | Oct 12, 2009
Wanting to be a pirate for Halloween. Does anyone know of some good websites to get some homemade ideas it’s for a women…Thanks
either go on www.ebay.com.au or u could try a deli or you could even buy a cheap made or bought one from a costume shop around 5-15$ bucks depends what you wanna do its your choice id try ebay.com
Wade | Sep 30, 2009
You can print it online or at the airport, either is fine. If you are having trouble with your confirmation number, you might want to call the airline just to double-check there is nothing wrong with your reservation.
To use Online Checkin @ southwest.com and print your Boarding Pass, you must:
Be age verified if traveling on Senior, Youth or Child, or Infant* fares.
Check in beginning 24 hours prior to your scheduled departure
Check in at least one hour prior to your scheduled departure
Have a Ticketless reservation
23.10.09
That year, the Auburn Haunted House grossed around $600. Today, it charges hundreds of people $7 to shuffle timidly through its dimly lit “Dead Before Dawn” haunted house and expect to make about $15,000 for the Ark and Anchor Masonic Lodge 354. McLaughlin and Pritchett are lodge members, and it’s where they first dreamed up the idea of an all-volunteer haunted house.
The house started out with just a dozen volunteers in a now torn-down building on Auburn’s city square. The walls were made of cardboard and other materials John found lying around town and in trash bins.
“We were desperate to make our graveyard scene better, so we tore vines and stuff off the back of an old building,” Pritchett said about his first year haunting the residents of Auburn.
The haunted house has since moved to 217 N. Fifth St., where the lines to get in have grown and can wrap around the block.
Most haunted houses in the area started out this way — with a motley crew and makeshift funeral parlors, hospital rooms and graveyards created out of scrap pieces of metal and used cardboard. But today, the houses’ owners find themselves scrambling to keep up with the crowds’ demands for something more sinister each year.
Cue special effects
John Shoudel of Rochester didn’t have such support — be it financial or in manpower — when he put his lifelong love of Halloween on display in his garage about 10 years ago.
“Even as a kid, Halloween was always a big deal,” Shoudel, 45, said from his office on West Iles Avenue in Springfield, where he practices podiatry by day. “(That year) a friend of mine who was an electrical engineer decided to throw some things together that moved, and we just decided, instead of doing, oh you know, a Christmas display, we decided to do it for Halloween.”
Shoudel’s oldest daughter, Celine, who was 3 at the time, pushed the button for the fog machine.
Since then, the haunts — as those in the haunted house industry call them — have become more elaborate, more frightening, more intense and far more expensive.
At the Boo Crew Haunted House, now owned and operated by the Lions Club in Rochester, Shoudel runs a staff about 25 times larger than that at his office in Springfield.
Just southeast of Rochester on Illinois Route 29 — surrounded by … well, nothing — the house is created inside a metal barn with machinery sitting in its poorly-lit, gravel parking lot — giving its victims an extra sprint in their step leaving the frightening maze.
Each weekend in October, Shoudel puts in contact lenses that turn his eyes wolf-like, and he turns into the “hauntmaster” — which means he takes Fridays off, and his usual bedtime becomes long after the witching hour.
Under Shoudel’s direction are more than 130 volunteers working in departments such as wardrobe, makeup, sound and electrical engineering, script writing, concessions and feeding the more than four dozen “scaractors,” as those doing the scaring call themselves.
“When I’m scaring people, I’m usually out in the cue line and out in the parking lot — kind of like free form scaring,” Shoudel said. “I think it’s harder for the actors in a certain location to do the same thing every two minutes, but some are pretty original.”
Inside the 20 rooms and 20 hallways of “Dr. Griswold’s Experimentorium” are about 55 dressed actors — men, women, teens and children — waiting for you.
Some are trapped behind glass walls, screaming to be let out while others are dressed and acting as deranged clowns, keeping you from finding your way out of a strobe-lit room with black walls and no defined exit in sight.
Another masked man with no concept of personal space follows victims into a small elevator, just big enough for a handful of people, that moves side to side and off its axis instead of up and down.
The sets are elaborate, and the special effects look — and feel — pricey. Behind the scenes sits a laptop computer and $10,000 to $20,000 worth of audio equipment to create the kind of frightening, psychotic atmosphere that the experimentorium needs to make up for lack of gore — an unusual route for haunted houses in the area.
“I think our haunted house is different because our actors don’t go to the point to, typically, people make cry,” Shoudel said. “There’s a point where you’re having fun being scared and a certain point where you’re starting to terrorize a person, and at some haunted houses, they aim to break people down and make them cry.”
‘Sometimes you get a cold draft’
It’s a different story in Auburn.
Dave McLaughlin boasts — and seems proud to have memorized — the number of people he says ran out of the Auburn Haunted House in 2008 (159) and the number who left with wet pants (139).
On this year’s opening night, Auburn High School senior Chance Kodatt was tending to the bonfire built to warm the bevy of teenagers swarming around the concessions area, waiting to enter the house.
Chance is one of the nearly 40 people who make the haunted house happen each night. When he’s not working behind the scenes, he scares people — a mission that the actors in Auburn obviously take seriously, with many of them in acting classes to make those triple digit numbers of people too scared to make it through the house.
“It’s fun to get to scare people and not really get in trouble for it,” said Chance, 17.
About 30 miles northwest of Auburn on another city square, 25-year-old Chelsea Collins is in her second year of not getting in trouble for making people scream.
At Terror on the Square in Petersburg, Collins mans her post in half of a coffin while hundreds of people wait in line each weekend in October for the area’s most-popular haunted house.
“Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I get to celebrate it for a whole month here,” Collins said.
But to prepare for the Halloween season, those in charge are devoted for much longer than just the month of October. Terror on the Square’s founder, Shawn McKinney, said his “creative outlet” keeps him building, researching new technology and planning year-round.
Talk to McKinney, Shoudel, McLaughlin, Pritchett or Bob Gilmer, the past president of the Springfield Jaycees who puts on a popular haunted house in Springfield each year, and they will all tell you they’re pretty sleep deprived long before the haunted houses open — and long after.
Despite having a mission of making the crowds feel justified in paying the $8 admission fee over and over and over each night, Collins says there are times when she is the one jumping.
“Sometimes the other actors are in unexpected places,” she said. “And sometimes you get a cold draft, and it makes you wonder … ”
MOLLY BECK CAN BE REACHED AT 788-1526.
Interactive map of Haunted Houses and other fall events
Pretty please!? I know, i’m shameless! I figured I have nothing to lose by asking. THank you dear fellow internet users!
I totally want one too. I’m still waiting. There’s someone who is giving 20 or something like that away free. He’s picking people randomly over the next few days, I hope he picks me http://waveinvite.info
love2seemovies | Oct 01, 2009
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Dale | Oct 01, 2009
Hey I got my google wave invitation here @ getgooglewavefree(.)blogspot(.)com They have some 3k left..Hurry.
Joseph J | Oct 04, 2009
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