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02-11-2010 02:26 studiomediacam.com WordPress Blog Tips, WordPress Dashboard Tutorial After you have installed wordpress.org at your host you can access your dashboard by going to the address bar at the top of the screen and typing in your website address followed by You will be asked for your username and password, which you entered at the hosting site when you installed the wordpress.org. Near the upper left of the dashboard you'll see the word Posts. If you click on Posts you'll see Add Posts. Click there and you'll get a box with a title box above it. This will be similiar to the boxes you use to send email. There will be familiar icons that are similar to the ones in Microsoft Word. You can click an icon and browse to upload photos or videos. You can choose font colors and type your article in the box. A little way below the word Posts you'll see the word Links. If you click on that you'll see Add Links. These links show up in the Blogroll on the website. They are links that you add because their sites provide information that you think might be useful or interesting for your website visitors. A ways below Links you'll see Appearance. The choices under Appearance include Themes, Background and Header. This is where you can add your personal design touches to the site. Farther below that you'll see Settings, and General. If you click on General you'll see where you can type in the title of the site. Below that you can add a tag line phrase also. This is a brief overview of highlights ...
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NEW YORK — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic
and political debate as controversial as what it defines.
The word is "fracking" — as in hydraulic fracturing, a
technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and
gas from rock.
It's not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and
President Barack Obama didn't use it in his State of the Union
speech — even as he praised federal subsidies for it.
The word sounds nasty, and environmental advocates have been
able to use it to generate opposition — and revulsion — to what
they say is a nasty process that threatens water supplies.
"It obviously calls to mind other less socially polite terms,
and folks have been able to take advantage of that," said Kate
Sinding, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense
Council who works on drilling issues.
One of the chants at an anti-drilling rally in Albany earlier
this month was "No fracking way!"
Industry executives argue that the word is deliberately
misspelled by environmental activists and that it has become a
slur that should not be used by media outlets that strive for
objectivity.
"It's a co-opted word and a co-opted spelling used to make it
look as offensive as people can try to make it look," said
Michael Kehs, vice president for Strategic Affairs at
Chesapeake Energy, the nation's second-largest natural gas
producer.
To the surviving humans of the sci-fi TV series "Battlestar
Galactica," it has nothing to do with oil and gas. It is used
as a substitute for the very down-to-Earth curse word.
Michael Weiss, a professor of linguistics at Cornell
University, says the word originated as simple industry jargon,
but has taken on a negative meaning over time — much like the
word "silly" once meant "holy."
But "frack" also happens to sound like "smack" and "whack,"
with more violent connotations.
"When you hear the word 'fracking,' what lights up your brain
is the profanity," says Deborah Mitchell, who teaches marketing
at the University of Wisconsin's School of Business. "Negative
things come to mind."
Obama did not use the word in his State of the Union address
Tuesday night, when he said his administration will help ensure
natural gas will be developed safely, suggesting it would
support 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade.
In hydraulic fracturing, millions of gallons of water, sand and
chemicals are pumped into wells to break up underground rock
formations and create escape routes for the oil and gas. In
recent years, the industry has learned to combine the practice
with the ability to drill horizontally into beds of shale,
layers of fine-grained rock that in some cases have trapped
ancient organic matter that has cooked into oil and gas.
By doing so, drillers have unlocked natural gas deposits across
the East, South and Midwest that are large enough to supply the
U.S. for decades. Natural gas prices have dipped to decade-low
levels, reducing customer bills and prompting manufacturers who
depend on the fuel to expand operations in the U.S.
Environmentalists worry that the fluid could leak into water
supplies from cracked casings in wells. They are also concerned
that wastewater from the process could contaminate water
supplies if not properly treated or disposed of. And they worry
the method allows too much methane, the main component of
natural gas and an extraordinarily potent greenhouse gas, to
escape.
Some want to ban the practice altogether, while others want
tighter regulations.
The Environmental Protection Agency is studying the issue and
may propose federal regulations. The industry prefers that
states regulate the process.
Some states have banned it. A New York proposal to lift its ban
drew about 40,000 public comments — an unprecedented total —
inspired in part by slogans such as "Don't Frack With New
York."
The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a
"K," using terms like "frac job" or "frac fluid."
Energy historian Daniel Yergin spells it "fraccing" in his
book, "The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the
Modern World." The glossary maintained by the oilfield services
company Schlumberger includes only "frac" and "hydraulic
fracturing."
The spelling of "fracking" began appearing in the media and in
oil and gas company materials long before the process became
controversial. It first was used in an Associated Press story
in 1981. That same year, an oil and gas company called Velvet
Exploration, based in British Columbia, issued a press release
that detailed its plans to complete "fracking" a well.
The word was used in trade journals throughout the 1980s. In
1990, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher announced U.S. oil
engineers would travel to the Soviet Union to share drilling
technology, including fracking.
The word does not appear in The Associated Press Stylebook, a
guide for news organizations. David Minthorn, deputy standards
editor at the AP, says there are tentative plans to include an
entry in the 2012 edition.
He said the current standard is to avoid using the word except
in direct quotes, and to instead use "hydraulic fracturing."
That won't stop activists — sometimes called "fracktivists" —
from repeating the word as often as possible.
"It was created by the industry, and the industry is going to
have to live with it," says the NRDC's Sinding.
Dave McCurdy, CEO of the American Gas Association, agrees, much
to his dismay: "It's Madison Avenue hell," he says.
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THE Australian Taxation Office and federal law enforcement
agencies want to intensify their campaign against offshore tax
evasion, with increased penalties and greater powers for
investigators expected to be considered by the federal
government this year.
Documents released under freedom-of-information laws reveal the
Tax Office and other agencies participating in the long-running
Project Wickenby, an inter-agency task force targeting offshore
tax evasion, have been developing a comprehensive range of
measures to combat abuse of "secrecy havens" - countries with
secretive tax or financial systems and which offer minimal
taxes for non-residents.
The ATO is seeking the introduction of measures to stem tax
evasion before funding for Project Wickenby expires next year.
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Documents released by the Attorney-General's Department show
the ATO has convened a series of meetings and workshops to
develop tax reform proposals with the Australian Crime
Commission, the Australian Federal Police, the Commonwealth
Director of Public Prosecutions, the Australian Securities and
Investments Commission, the anti-money laundering agency
AUSTRAC, the Treasury and the departments of the
Attorney-General, and Immigration and Citizenship.
New anti-tax avoidance measures being developed include
improved information flows between Australian government
agencies such as better sharing of information obtained through
the use of coercive powers like those exercised by the
Australian Crime Commission; greater use of telecommunications
interception powers; expanding the definition of money in
anti-money laundering laws; greater information exchanges with
foreign governments; strengthened international debt recovery
measures and reciprocal recognition of foreign tax debts.
The Project Wickenby agencies have also been considering
increased penalties for offshore tax evasion; measures aimed at
"addressing delays around legal professional privilege";
amendments to immigration requirements to ''consider failure to
comply with tax obligations'', and greater regulation of
trusts.
A number of "defensive measures" were canvassed in a submission
by Treasury to federal cabinet on May 16 last year. Further
reform proposals were forecast for submission to cabinet late
last year or early this year, with the Treasury and
Attorney-General's Department potentially making a joint
submission.
However, the Attorney-General's Department has declined to
release the detailed policy proposals, saying: "The finer
details of these law reform proposals have not yet been put to
ministers; there have been no major public announcements on
this subject, and the issues are still at the very preliminary
stages of policy development … Full disclosure would … run
contrary to the interests of good government."
Since 2006, Project Wickenby has resulted in 62 people being
charged with serious tax avoidance, money laundering and fraud.
Twenty-one people have been convicted, although the taskforce
has had setbacks, including the abortive legal pursuit of the
actor Paul Hogan.
Nearly $594 million in outstanding tax revenue has been
recovered, while $1.18 billion in tax liabilities has been
raised.
Since 2007-08 there has been a 22 per cent reduction, about $22
billion, in funds flowing from Australia to 13 overseas
"secrecy havens".
There has been a decline in fund flows of 50 per cent to
Vanuatu, 80 per cent to Liechtenstein, and 22 per cent to
Switzerland.
By 2012-13, Project Wickenby operations will have cost $430.9
million.
The Assistant Treasurer, Mark Arbib, confirmed yesterday that a
"multi-agency working group" was working on further measures
aimed at cracking down on illegal offshore tax evasion.
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