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WATCH LIVE: Elon Musk Reveals How He's Going to Take Us to Mars
It's no secret that Elon Musk wants to take humans to Mars by 2025, but now, for the first time, he will explain how he plans to do it.
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SpaceX and Tesla and chairman of SolarCity is scheduled to speak before the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, today at 2:30 p.m. ET.
In a keynote speech, Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species, Musk "will discuss the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars. His technical presentation will focus on potential architectures for sustaining humans on Mars that industry, government and the scientific community can collaborate on in the years ahead," according to SpaceX.
In a move to generate even more buzz around the highly anticipated speech, Musk shared photos of his Interplanetary Transport System—a powerful rocket engine dubbed Raptor—conducting its first test-firing in addition to some other details:
When compared to the Merlin engines used to power SpaceX's signature Falcon 9 rocket—the one it used to deliver supplies to the International Space Station—Musk said the Raptor's "chamber pressure is almost 3X Merlin, so engine is about the same size for a given area ratio." That means the Raptor is roughly three times more powerful than the Falcon 9's Merlin engine.
Musk's latest reveal shows just how far SpaceX has come since he founded the privately funded aerospace company in 2002. In 14 years, SpaceX went from successfully launching the Falcon 1 rocket into orbit in 2008 to being contracted to launch commercial satellites, as well as resupply the International Space Station.
In previous interviews about his plans for missions to Mars, Musk said the first mission is slated for 2018 when SpaceX plans to launch its so-called "Red Dragon" spacecraft, without a crew and on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket. Then every 26 months—when Earth and Mars's orbits are closest together—SpaceX will launch two more rockets to practice landing large objects on Mars, with full crews expected to make the trip in 2024.
While Musk says his main goal in these trips is establishing a colony for future generations, getting there safely will have its challenges.
Radiation exposure on the way to Mars puts astronauts "at huge risk of cancer [and is] a major open problem that must be solved for the mission to be feasible," Hannah Kerner, executive director of the Space Frontier Foundation, explained to ABCNews.
There are also other issues including the psycho-social effects of space travel as well as the effect of decreased gravity on the human body, Kerner said. And, as with all space travel, she warned, "there will surely be more vehicle failures and potential loss of life on the path to Mars."
So why do it?
At the event in Hong Kong in January, Musk described the desire to go to Mars this way:
"It's really a fundamental decision we need to make as a civilization. What kind of future do we want? Do we want a future where we're forever confined to one planet until some eventual extinction event, however far in the future, that might occur? Or do we want to become a multi-planet species and then ultimately be out there among the stars?"
And while Musk's main purpose to take us beyond our blue planet may be to save us from possible extinction, he also admitted, "What gets me more excited is that this would be an incredible adventure. It would be like the greatest adventure ever."
Watch Musk's speech live streamed today at 2:30 p.m. ET:
Montana Senator Introduces Bill to Ban Gold Mining Near Yellowstone National Park
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester introduced legislation on Tuesday to protect more than 30,000 acres of public land bordering Yellowstone National Park. These public lands in Montana's Park County are the targets of two industrial scale gold mine proposals, which would threaten the national park, the clean water of the Yellowstone River, wildlife and the local economy. The legislation does not affect any recreational use of the land, including hunting or fishing.
Sen. Tester's legislation followed actions made in the fall of 2016, when U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture began a two-year time-out on gold exploration and mining, on the public land near Yellowstone National Park.
"The people in Park County are standing together and saying industrial gold mining doesn't make sense on the doorsteps of Yellowstone. Our river, our wild lands and our wildlife are too valuable to gamble," said Michelle Uberuaga, executive director of the Park County Environmental Council.
"Our local elected officials and the county commission are standing with us and we're grateful to have Sen. Tester's leadership in Washington, DC. Now we need to see this to the finish line," she added.
More than 300 local businesses of the bipartisan Yellowstone Gateway Business Coalition asked for the action, citing risks to their livelihoods and to the strong regional economy. The local calls for action were echoed on a national level, for the potential impacts to the world's first national park and surrounding wildlife habitat, as well the Yellowstone River and its world-famous fishery.
"National Parks Conservation Association applauds Sen. Tester for taking the next step in opposing industrial gold mines next to Yellowstone," commented Stephanie Adams, Yellowstone program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association.
"Concerns over the threats to Yellowstone and its nearby communities and waterways have been echoed by Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and Sen. Steve Daines. It is time for our elected officials at all levels to stand together in forever protecting these priceless lands."
Sen. Tester's legislation protects private property rights while enacting a permanent withdrawal on the public lands.
"Legislation is needed to permanently prevent private corporations from industrializing public lands in the heart of the Yellowstone ecosystem," said Jenny Harbine, attorney for Earthjustice.
"The introduction of legislation is a crucial first step and now we must all fight for Congressional approval of this critical protection for some of our nation's most-prized wild lands."
Mayors Take Bold Step Toward 100% Clean Energy
Mayors from across the nation joined with the Sierra Club's Ready for 100 campaign Wednesday to announce a new effort to engage and recruit mayors to endorse a goal of transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy.
Ahead of the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Miami Beach in June, the launch of Mayors for 100% Clean Energy aims to demonstrate bold local leadership and showcase the depth and breadth of support from city leaders for a transition to 100 percent renewable energy.
The new initiative is co-chaired by Mayor Philip Levine of Miami Beach, Mayor Jackie Biskupski of Salt Lake City, Mayor Kevin Faulconer of San Diego and Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin of Columbia, South Carolina. Benjamin is also a vice president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
"We have already taken steps to expand renewable energy and we will continue to improve our infrastructure and innovate clean energy solutions for a stronger Miami Beach," said Mayor Levine. "Climate change may be the challenge of our generation, but it is also the opportunity of a lifetime. The transition to clean and renewable energy will both help Miami Beach confront climate change and strengthen our local economy."
Mayor Biskupski noted that cities contribute about 75 percent of human greenhouse gas emissions, and said Salt Lake City is warming at a rate twice as fast as the global average.
"We can't ignore climate change because climate change is not ignoring us," she said. "Among many other risks, we face water shortages, decreased snowpack and threats to our $1 billion ski industry. Cities must adapt to cope with these threats, and that's also why we must take action to mitigate them."
Noting that San Diego has become a leading city for solar energy capacity, Mayor Faulconer said that business and environmental groups are cooperating to achieve a mutually beneficial goal of 100 percent renewable energy.
"Clean energy isn't just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do," he emphasized. "We're going green not only because it supports clean air and water, but because it supports our 21st century economy."
Mayoral leadership has been a powerful driver of city-wide action on climate change and clean energy in municipalities across the country. The Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (Climate Mayors) founded by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former Houston Mayor Annise Parker and former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, recently released an electric vehicle request for information to demonstrate demand to automakers for nearly 115,00 vehicles that could be electrified in 30 cities.
Now the co-chairs of Mayors for 100% Clean Energy, a number of whom are Climate Mayors, are further demonstrating their commitment to lead nationally on the shared challenge of reducing climate pollution and contributing to Climate Mayors' framework of local leadership and action.
"Mayors can lead our nation toward a healthier, stronger and more prosperous country by championing a vision of 100 percent clean, renewable energy in their communities," said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. "Cities don't need to wait for Washington, DC to act in order to move the ball forward on clean energy."
Twenty-six cities across the U.S. have now committed to transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy. This growing list of cities most recently includes South Lake Tahoe, California, which last week unanimously voted to transition entirely to renewable energy by 2032. Other big cities including Los Angeles and Denver are studying pathways to 100 percent clean energy. Earlier this month, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a commitment to transition Chicago municipal buildings and operations to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2025.
Bernie Sanders: 'This Is Exactly What We Mean When We Talk About Oligarchy'
Despite the numerous controversies and vocal opposition swirling around President Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Senators voted 52 to 46, largely along party lines, in February to confirm Oklahoma Republican Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator.
It now appears that Koch Industries—the oil and gas conglomerate owned by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch—directly lobbied Congress to confirm Pruitt and spent millions to influence anti-environmental initiatives, a disclosure report shows.
As The Intercept reported:
"The firm's latest disclosure form reports that its in-house corporate lobbying team spent $3.1 million to influence lawmakers over the first three months of the year on a variety of issues affecting its bottom line, including the EPA's Clean Power Rule on carbon emissions, carbon pricing, the Clean Air Act and 'nominations for various positions at the Department of Energy.'"
"This is exactly what we mean when we talk about oligarchy. Multi-billionaires and corporations should not have the power to pick and choose who is in charge of our federal agencies," Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said in response to The Intercept's report. "But that is exactly what happened—Koch Industries spent millions on lobbying Congress to confirm Scott Pruitt, our head of the Environmental Protection Agency who doesn't believe in environmental protection."
Koch Industries has contributed $38.5 million to federal candidates over the last 25 years and spent another $117 million since 1998 on lobbying. DeSmog reported in February that the company's deep pockets are contributing campaign funds to four GOP representatives who have introduced legislation to completely abolish the EPA.
Sanders, who grilled Pruitt during the confirmation hearings, has been outspoken in his criticism of Pruitt as well as the Trump administration's generally dismissive attitude towards climate change.
"It's clear that Trump doesn't represent working families. His agenda benefits the Koch brothers and their billionaire [friends]. Our job is to stand together to defeat the drift toward oligarchy and create a vibrant democracy—not one controlled by corporate interests," Sanders said.
Pruitt has reported ties to the fossil fuel industry and he repeatedly sued the EPA when he was Oklahoma Attorney General. In 2014, he was caught sending letters on state government letterheads to President Obama and federal agency heads asserting that the EPA was overestimating the air pollution from drilling for natural gas in Oklahoma. As it turns out, the letter was written by lawyers for one of the state's largest oil and gas companies, Devon Energy.
Following Trump's executive order, Pruitt plans to kill the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era regulation designed to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. Pruitt also challenged the plan when he was Oklahoma AG.
Pruitt said in March that he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to climate change.
The Intercept also detailed how Pruitt's nomination as EPA head was strongly backed by industry groups:
"The American Energy Alliance, an advocacy group founded by former Koch Industries lobbyist Tom Pyle, issued a letter in support of Pruitt along with other Koch-backed conservative nonprofits. America Rising Squared, a political research outfit that has harassed environmental activists, formed a special website—now deleted—to respond to criticism of Pruitt's record."
Enbridge's Great Lakes Pipeline Has Spilled 1 Million Gallons Since 1968
Enbridge Energy Partners' aging Line 5 pipeline, which runs through the heart of the Great Lakes, has spilled more than 1 million gallons of oil and natural gas liquids in at least 29 incidents since 1968, according to data from the federal Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration obtained by the National Wildlife Federation.
Built in 1953, the 645-mile, 30-inch-diameter pipeline carries petroleum to eastern Canada via the Great Lakes states. As it travels under the Straits of Mackinac, a narrow waterway that connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, Line 5 splits into twin 20-inch-diameter, parallel pipelines.
Line 5 opponents fear that a spill in the Great Lakes, which contains 21 percent of the world's surface fresh water, would be an ecological disaster. Notably, the straits' strong currents reverse direction every few days and a spill would quickly contaminate shoreline communities miles away.
Enbridge is behind a number of major spills, most notoriously in 2010 when an Enbridge line spilled more than 800,000 gallons into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan—creating the biggest inland oil spill in U.S. history.
"We have a pipeline system with a history of problems running through our country's largest source of surface freshwater, and it happens to be operated by the company responsible for one of the largest inland oil spills in North America," said Mike Shriberg, executive director for the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes Regional Center.
"This pipeline system places the Great Lakes and many local communities at an unacceptable risk. The state of Michigan needs to find an alternative to this risky pipeline to protect our drinking water, health, jobs and way of life."
The National Wildlife Federation has released a new interactive map showing what has spilled from Enbridge's pipeline system, the repair methods that have been used, and how leaks and defects are being discovered.
The conservation organization noticed from the records that only one of the 29 recorded incidents was detected by a remote pipeline detection system. By contrast, 15 releases were detected by local personnel or the public.
"This new information causes us grave concern about the integrity of the inland pipe system, inconsistencies with spill reporting, and the effectiveness of leak detection systems, repair methods, and long-term planning for the integrity of the decades-old pipeline system," said Beth Wallace, the National Wildlife Federation pipeline safety specialist who discovered the newly released data.
Wallace added, "a significant number of these releases note manufacturing and construction defects, as well as weld failure, which calls into question the overall integrity of the Line 5 system."
Last September, Enbridge filed a work plan with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency identifying 18 "holidays" on Line 5—an oil and gas industry term that refers to areas on a pipeline where anti-corrosive coating is missing. However, Enbridge's director of integrity programs Kurt Baraniecki said at a Pipeline Safety Advisory Board meeting last month that the report used imprecise language.
Enbridge has dismissed the National Wildlife Federation's findings.
"This is not new information and we have addressed this issue many times in the past," company spokesperson Ryan Duffy said via email to MLive. "Over the past fifteen years, there have been three incidents on Line 5 that have resulted in a total of approximately 21 barrels of product being released off the mainline. All of the product released during these three incidents was recovered. There has never been an incident on Line 5 at the Straits."
Still, as InsideClimate News reported, Line 5 is facing mounting political pressure. In January, the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin voted not to renew easements that allowed the pipeline to pass through tribal lands. Also in January, U.S. Reps. Dave Trott (R-Mich) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) introduced legislation calling for a shutdown of the pipeline if a federal study determines it poses significant threat to the Great Lakes.
Enbridge is not the only pipeline company facing opposition over fears of contamination. On Tuesday, a coalition of more than two dozen organizations launched a new campaign to challenge Energy Transfer Partners' (ETP) operations.
Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners is the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline and the under-construction Rover Pipeline, which just spilled 2 million of gallons of drilling fluids into two of Ohio's wetlands on April 22.
The coalition has fired off an open letter to the company outlining their grievances and demands. The group has also launched the website StopETP.org as an online hub for the campaign.
ETP is expected to vote to merge with Sunoco Logistics on Wednesday.
"Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics have a damning history of pipeline fires, leaks, and spills, causing millions of dollars in property damage and leaving thousands of gallons of hazardous products in the environment," said Marc Yaggi, executive director of Waterkeeper Alliance, one of the participating organizations. "These incidents demonstrate a blatant disregard for the communities and waterways impacted by these pipelines."
Lena Moffitt, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign, said momentum has been building across the nation.
"From Standing Rock, to Texas, to Ohio, to towns across the country, people are mobilizing against Energy Transfer Partners and its reckless agenda that has threatened our communities, our clean air and water, and our climate," Moffitt said. "We the people are organized, we are determined, and together, we will stop Energy Transfer Partners' dirty and dangerous plans."
Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting National Monuments, Could Open Up Lands for Oil and Gas Development
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ordering a review of the Antiquities Act and national monuments on more than 100,000 acres.
The review enables the Department of Interior to examine whether any of the monument designations have led to a "loss of jobs, reduced wages and reduced public access."
"The Antiquities Act does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water," President Donald Trump said during a brief ceremony today flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Sec. of the Interior Ryan Zinke. He added that it was "time to end this abusive practice."
The 1.35-million acre Bears Ears National Monument in Utah is one of the first targets for review. The monument was created by President Obama last year and has sparked major controversy between Republican lawmakers and conservationists. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Utah's congressional delegation led by Congressmen Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz and Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee have launched a campaign to abolish national monument. More than 270 million acres of American land and waters are potentially at risk—an area two and a half times the size of California.
GOP lawmakers have accused President Obama, who designated more monuments than any other president, of abusing the Antiquities Act to protect land from fossil fuel development.
"By potentially rolling back safeguards for lands and waters that are currently protected from destructive development for generations to come, Trump is carving up this beautiful country into as many corporate giveaways for the oil and gas industry as possible," said Diana Best of Greenpeace USA. "People in this country who cannot afford the membership fee at Mar-a-Lago want safe water they can drink and public lands for their communities to enjoy."
National monument designations have protected some of the most iconic places in the country. Dozens of the nation's most treasured national parks were first protected as monuments, including Grand Teton, Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Acadia and Olympic national parks, explained the Center for Biological Diversity.
Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, emphasized that the NRDC will fight the review, and said the president is not authorized to reverse monument designations.
"These public lands belong to all of us," she said. "The U.S. holds them in trust for the benefit of this and future generations. These monuments have been deemed worthy of permanent conservation because of their unique resources and wildlife, ecological importance, and vulnerability to encroachment and destruction. President Trump and Secretary Zinke should not strip away their protection and subject them to industrial exploitation by polluters or other corporate interests."
The Center for Biological Diversity noted that more than 50 national monuments are at risk, including vast marine areas in the Pacific and Caribbean. Congress gave the president the authority to designate national monuments on federally owned land under the Antiquities Act of 1906, which was signed into law by President Teddy Roosevelt, for the express purpose of protecting important objects of historic and scientific importance.
"This is a frightening step toward dismantling the protection of some of America's most important and iconic places: our national parks and monuments," said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. "Trump's tapping into the right-wing, anti-public-lands zealotry that will take us down a very dangerous path—a place where Americans no longer have control over public lands and corporations are left to mine, frack, clear-cut and bulldoze them into oblivion. It starts with Bears Ears and Grand Staircase and only gets worse from there."
National monuments are cherished by Americans for their natural beauty and cultural significance.
"There is no need for a review to demonstrate what families across the country already know first-hand—national monuments provide tangible health, natural, and economic benefits," said Michael Brune, Sierra Club executive director. "Protected outdoor spaces drive the outdoor recreation economy which supports 7.6 million jobs and generates $887 billion in consumer spending each year. National monuments and public lands are vital both for the history they preserve and the future they offer.
"Contrary to the Trump administration's thinly veiled hopes," he added, "this review will reveal what studies, surveys and polls have consistently found across the country—a deep, widespread appreciation for our parks, monuments and other public lands, and a popular belief that they should continue to exist."
As thousands of people across the country and in Washington, DC are expected to join the People's Climate March on Saturday, indigenous leaders and climate activists will, as 350.org Executive Director May Boeve points out, "now have to defend our parks and monuments from Big Oil as well."
Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, put it this way. "This is another Trump action that is another act of aggression against the inherent sovereign rights of our Native Nations to protect the traditional cultural areas and sacred places of American Indian and Alaska Native people," he said.
"There are many areas in this country, outside of our reserved lands that are of vital importance to our Indigenous peoples' identity and rich cultural and spiritual history. The 1906 Antiquities Act cannot be stripped on its important historical mandates to designate national monuments to protect areas that have cultural, historical and environmental significance. The act is paramount to all the tribes in this country; for our cultural preservation now and into the future. The frontline Indigenous communities in our network see Trump's actions as a way to open up fossil fuel and extractive mineral development within these national monuments designated under the 1906 Antiquities Act. Trump's action must be stopped."
Companies are also outraged at Trump's latest executive order. "Less than 24 hours after joining with our industry to celebrate the economic power of outdoor recreation, in a hypocritical move, the Trump administration took unprecedented steps that could result in the removal of protections for treasured public lands," Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario said.
"We take this as a sign that Trump and his team prefer to cater to fossil fuel interests and state land grabs for unsustainable development, rather than preserve a vital part of our nation's heritage for future generations by protecting federal lands owned by every citizen."
PennEast Pipeline 'Would Cause Massive Increase in Climate Pollution'
A study released Wednesday found that, if built, the controversial PennEast Pipeline for fracked gas could contribute as much greenhouse gas pollution as 14 coal-fired power plants or 10 million passenger vehicles—some 49 million metric tons per year.
The analysis, conducted by Oil Change International, showed that federal regulators are poised to rubber-stamp the PennEast Pipeline based on a woefully inadequate climate review that ignores the significant impact of methane leaks and wrongly assumes that gas supplied by the project will replace coal.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is facing a growing backlash across the country over its routine approval of gas pipeline projects that endanger communities and the climate. Today's study comes on the heels of a federal court hearing in which a judge slammed FERC's shallow and dismissive review of the climate impact of the Sabal Trail gas pipeline in the Southeast.
The new analysis counters FERC's final environmental impact statement for the PennEast project released in early April. It applies a methodology recently developed by Oil Change International to calculate the climate impact of gas pipelines from the Appalachian Basin. In contrast to FERC, the Oil Change methodology reflects the evolving analysis of methane leakage and the full lifecycle of pollution that pipelines cause from fracking well to smokestack.
"Our analysis shows that the PennEast Pipeline would cause a massive increase in climate pollution," said Lorne Stockman, lead author of the study and Oil Change International senior research analyst. "The only way FERC can conclude otherwise is by ignoring both science and economics. The PennEast pipeline is not needed, communities don't want it and it will deepen reliance on fossil fuels that we can't afford to burn."
The PennEast Pipeline, backed by a consortium of gas companies, would run roughly 120 miles from northeastern Pennsylvania to Mercer County, New Jersey, carrying up to 1.1 billion cubic feet of gas per day. The New Jersey Rate Counsel has concluded that New Jersey consumers do not need the gas. The project is facing stiff opposition from landowners and community and environmental groups along its route.
The Oil Change analysis found that the pipeline would be responsible for over 49 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by adding up the pollution from gas extraction and processing, pipeline operation, gas combustion at power plants and methane leaked across the gas supply chain.
The study found three major faults in FERC's review:
• FERC fails to acknowledge that methane leakage makes gas as dirty or dirtier than coal, wiping out any potential benefits of switching from coal to gas;
• FERC ignores the market reality that new gas production is likely to compete directly with clean energy and energy efficiency, especially in New Jersey, which has already phased out coal-fired generation;
• FERC fails to count upstream emissions from fracking operations.
Advocates from the region reacted to the study with concern and reiterated their commitment to stopping the pipeline, which has yet to receive key permits from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Delaware River Basin Commission:
"It is unseemly that the public and nonprofit organizations are having to invest time and money in doing the work FERC should be undertaking," said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper. "This report demonstrates, yet again, that the PennEast pipeline will help push our nation and world over the climate change cliff. FERC is not only legally required to do the kind of analysis included in this report, but is morally responsible."
Tom Gilbert, campaign director for Rethink Energy NJ and NJ Conservation Foundation, agreed. "It cannot be ignored that New Jersey's greenhouse gas emissions are going up, not down, driven by increased emissions from gas-fired electric plants," he said.
"This report shows that the PennEast pipeline would only further move the state in the wrong direction by increasing carbon emissions and methane leaks, putting public health and safety at risk."
New York Times Defends Hiring Climate Science Denier
By Graham Readfearn
The New York Times has been defending the paper's hiring of a climate science denier, fighting off its critics with what it claims is a standard fashioned from hardened "intellectual honesty."
The controversial hire in question is that of Bret Stephens, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, who has joined the New York Times as a columnist and deputy editorial page editor.
While at the Wall Street Journal, Stephens consistently undermined and disparaged climate change, one time describing it as an "imaginary enemy" and another comparing it to religion with a "doomsaying prophecy and faith in things unseen."
Stephens' new boss, editorial page editor James Bennett, told the paper's public editor Liz Spayd: "The crux of the question is whether his work belongs inside our boundaries for intelligent debate and I have no doubt that it does. I have no doubt he crosses our bar for intellectual honesty and fairness."
Suffice to say, there are plenty who disagree. One climate scientist has already canceled his subscription in protest, with others watching closely.
No doubt that Stephens can write—he won a Pulitzer in 2012 for lots of opinions on stuff other than climate.
But like other conservative columnists admired for their poetic prose and strident opinions while attacking climate change, the methods used by Stephens might be compared to those of a fake chef producing a lumpy and unsatisfying word soup.
Crap Soup
There's no real care with the preparation and no quality control over the freshness or blending of the ingredients, but these indiscretions are suitably masked with enough flavor-enhancers to give some short-term satisfaction to unsuspecting diners/readers.
But the New York Times should probably be serving up something far more substantial than crap soup and three-day-old bread to its massive audience.
Let's take, for example, a November 2015 column which Stephens wrote in the build up to the United Nations climate negotiations in Paris.
Stephens wrote that a trend in rising global temperatures was "imperceptible" and that the "hysteria" around climate change ignored how this trend could be "a product of natural variation."
There is a mountain of evidence that global warming is not caused by "natural fluctuations" and this evidence has been in existence for decades. To suggest that it isn't, would be to fall below any bar of intellectual honesty erected in the newsroom of the New York Times or in any science academy around the globe.
In the same column, Stephens chose to highlight "the hyping of flimsy studies—melting Himalayan glaciers; vanishing polar ice" that he said were being used to push a political viewpoint.
Stephens was referring to an error on Himalayan glaciers buried away in a UN report, while choosing to ignore the decades-long trend of melting that has been recorded at glaciers all over the planet.
Climate Agnostic?
Stephens himself has told Huffington Post that he's an "agnostic" on climate change and said while it "seems" the weight of scientific evidence points to human causes for global warming, that evidence might be wrong because "the history of science is replete with consensus positions that have evolved."
Now, the New York Times' own defense of its hiring of Stephens is almost as redundant as the arguments that Stephens borrows from climate science deniers.
In an interview with the Huffington Post, the New York Time's Bennett said there was "more than one kind of denial."
"And to pretend like the views of a thinker like Bret and the millions of people who agree with him on a range of issues, should simply be ignored, that they're outside the bounds of reasonable debate, is a really dangerous form of delusion," he said.
Let's think about what the New York Times opinion page might look like if we based it on the beliefs of millions of Americans.
According to Gallup polling data, some 20 percent of Americans believe in witches, which is roughly half the number of people who think extrasensory perception is actually a thing.
A poll conducted by Harris in 2016 found that two out of five Americans think ghosts are real. Belief in evolution? That's at 49 percent. Creationism? Some 37 percent are down with that.
Lizard people controlling societies? One in 25 Americans fear their presence, but where's their representation in the New York Times editorials?
Arguing that someone should be hired to the editorial desk of one of the world's most influential newspapers because "millions of people" hold a particular belief is a clear path to supporting the sort of delusional thinking that has more Americans believing in the paranormal than accepting that climate change is mostly human-caused.
That 1970s Cooling Myth
Opinions are worth printing when they're based on the preponderance of credible evidence, not the self-interests of fossil fuel–funded "fellows" at so-called think tanks or the whimsy of attention-seeking contrarians.
In an August 2011 interview on Fox News Business, Stephens told viewers "in the 1970s we were supposed to believe in global cooling."
Were we? Well, if you want to base your intellectually robust opinion on a moldy-old myth based on a couple of 1970s news items, then fine.
Alternatively, read a 2008 review of science papers published between 1965 and 1979 finding that only seven papers were predicting cooling against 44 saying temperatures would rise.
Also in that interview, Stephens lauded an essay by the late author Michael Crichton that attacked the consensus on global warming.
In that essay, based on a lecture, Crichton said: "Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
So let's just stop a second and think about what Crichton was advocating here.
The consensus of medical science says smoking will massively increase your risk of getting cancer and heart disease, even if you can't say exactly which cigarette killed your wheezy relative. You're being had, folks.
Crichton was putting up a straw man argument—that science is done by consensus—in order to then attack it.
Climate Consensus
When people talk about a consensus on the causes of climate change, they're describing the collective findings of thousands of peer-reviewed articles published in leading scientific journals over decades using multiple methods from a diverse set of observations.
The consensus that climate change is caused by humans comes from the long-studied physical properties of greenhouse gases to the measurements of warming oceans, the atmosphere and the places on the planet where there is or was, ice.
Don't get me wrong here, folks. You're free to choose a glib sound bite from a science fiction writer based on a misrepresentation of the concept of scientific consensus.
But take care not to be had by charlatans promising to chat to your very dead Aunty Betty or save your soul from the claws of the lizard people.
I think it might be time someone broke into the editorial office of the New York Times and raised that bar of intellectual honesty.
Reposted with permission from our media associate DeSmogBlog.


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Family: Bufonidae, Toads view all from this family
Description Light orange/yellow mid-dorsal stripe. Spotted brown/black. Large parotoid glands. Dark throat on male.
Dimensions 1.9-3.3cm. (3/4-1 1/4")
Warning Toads have enlarged glands (called the paratoid glands) on the side of the neck, one behind each eye. These glands secrete a viscous white poison that gets smeared in the mouth of any would-be predator, inflaming the mouth and throat and causing nausea, irregular heart beat, and, in extreme cases, death. Toads pose a danger to pets, which may pounce on and bite them. Humans should take care to wash their hands after handling a toad, and to avoid touching the mouth or eyes until having done so.
Voice High pitched whistle. Similar to bird or chick.
Breeding April-October. After warm thunderstorms.
Habitat Temperate forests, temperate shrubland, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.
Range Virginia to Louisiana coastal plain.
Discussion Carnivorous. Nocturnal. Hard to spot due to camouflage skin. Seen during breeding choruses.

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Hey David, how did ya do training today? Are you training tomorrow? . If so i could hook up the dog trailer and take Jimmy to work with me. Let me know.I'll be out of work around 3-330 tomorrow
Your right on. I've hunted w/ a big time outfitter in Canada for many yrs and have seen many nuisance dogs. Afew yrs ago I asked him how many people brought their own dogs-- his response was 80pct. Then I asked him how many should bring their own dog -- his response 2! That's 2 out of maybe 150 to 200 over the course of the season


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Last Night - Shmi and Jedi training Obi-Wan @ Wal-Mart
This Morn' - Luke X-Wing, Han DS Escape, EW Vader at Target.
Quick reviews:
Shmi - great, but pale-skinned.
Obi - Cool figure; love the duds, helmet.
Vader - another nice figure. Cool effects.
Han - Okay, but that's a caricature of Ford.
Luke - I mean, "Bucky"; what is up with those teeth? Otherwise, nice figure. Great helmet.


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30 acres were burned, mostly grassland open space on the eastern side of the park. The Maidu Library and Community Center; Maidu Museum and Maidu Elementary School were not damaged. There were some children at the Elementary School but they were never in danger. P Events at the park were canceled for tonight but are expected to go on as planned Saturday. Some homes on Johnson Ranch Road and McLaren Drive were evacuated for a short time but are no longer.Many other fire agencies responded, including Sac Metro Fire, Cal Fire, Rocklin, South Placer, Loomis, Penryn Fire. At the peak, approx. 180 fire fighters were fighting the fire. Overnight, 70-80 firefighters will be on scene continuing to put out hot spots and cleaning up. The fire is considered suspicious. There are reports of juveniles running from the origin of the fire. Roseville Fire investigators are on scene now. If anyone has information about the origin of the fire, please call 774-5000.Posted on June, 21 at 8:13 p.m.


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Madison: Rachel Ann Beil, died unexpectedly on March 24, 2013 at Badger Prairie Health Care center in Verona. Born July 24, 1929 in Madison, she was the youngest child of Alois and Margaret Nettecoven Beil. Rachel graduated from Madison Central High School in 1948 and completed her nurses training in Milwaukee. After her retirement from the American Auto Assn. she volunteered for many non-profit agencies, including Chrysalis, Community Action Coalition and the Verona Senior Center. She enjoyed bingo and especially enjoyed playing cards with her dear friend JoAnn Russell.
She was a member of St. James Catholic Church .She had a beautiful voice and was fortunate to sing in the St James choir. She was a proud member of the Sweet Adeline's and a loyal member of St Cecilia's Court 955 of the National Catholic Order of Foresters.
Her sister Dorothy Beil, of Green Valley Ariz, several nieces and nephews and many friends, survive her. Her parents, and her siblings Josephine, Lorraine (Cyril) McGowan and Richard (Elisabeth) and nephew William predeceased her.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at Good Shepherd Catholic Parish at the St. James Church, 1128 St. James Court, Madison, with Father Ron Rank presiding.
Visitation will be at the church on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until the time of Mass. Burial will be at Resurrection cemetery.
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Take a magic carpet ride into the delightful world of Sufi storytelling with these best-loved tales from Persian literature and lore, in which images of madness, passionate love, and self-sacrifice convey the inner experiences of the soul that has surrendered to the Divine Beloved. The tales are retold from the celebrated works of Sufi poets and spiritual masters such as Rumi, Attar, Nizami, and Jami, as well as anecdotes about these famous masters.
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Recipe ( taken from here, this is halve of the original recipe )
For the dough
300gm bread flour
25gm sugar
a little less than 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/8 tsp instant yeast
90ml milk
40ml water
58gm butter
1 large egg
For the filling:
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 tbsp sugar
1/8tsp ground cinnamon
75gm chocolate chips
For meringue:
2 egg whites
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
50gm sugar
egg wash to glaze the cake and icing sugar to dust the cake ( optional )
1. In a large bowl, combine 115gm of the flour, sugar, salt and yeast.
2. In a saucepan, melt the mlk, water and butter over medium heat until butter is just melted.
3.With a mixer on low speed, gradually add in the warm liquid to the flour and yeast mixture, beating until well blended. Increase speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes. Add the egg and 75gm flour and beat for 2 minutes. Beat in the remaining flour to make a dough and continu ebeating till smooth dough is formed. This may take several minutes.
4.Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover the bowl and proof till double its volume.
5.In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon powder.
6.Once the dough has doubled, make the meringue. Beat the egg whites with salt on low speed, then increase speed and beat until foamy. Add in the vanilla and gradually add in the sugar and beat till stiff peaks form.
7.Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Punch down the dough and on a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a 20"x10' rectangle. ( mine was about 15"x10" ) and spread meringue evenly over the rectangle up to about 1/2 inch from the edges. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the meringue folowed by the chopped walnuts and chocolate chips.
8. Roll up the dough from the long side. ( i've wrongly rolled from the shorter side) . Pinch the seam closed. Carefully transfer the log to the baking sheet, seam side down.Bring the sides of the log around and seal the ends together, forming a ring. Using scissors, make cuts along the outside edge at 1 inch interval. Cover the dough and let it rise for 2nd proof for about 30-45 minutes.
9. Preheat oven to 180C. Brush the top of the dough with egg wash before baking and bake in a preheated oven for 25-30minutes until risen and golden brown.
I find that the bread gets hard on later part of the day and even harder on the 2nd day. one thing, i think i might also overbaked the bread a little.
I will be submitting this to the Aspiring Bakers Challenge #9 - Bread Seduction ( June 2011) hosted by Jasmine of Sweetylicious . Also there's is a giveaway happening at Nasi Lemak Lover's blog. Closing date is June21st, 2011, you can check the details on her blog.


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My Mother passed away this morning at age 90. She was a hunter and fisherwomen up until she could no longer walk. When I'd come home she'd always want to know about the hunt and what we saw or if we got anything. She lived with me since the passing of my Dad back in 2001. She was a great mom and will be missed dearly.
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Baking | One bowl cocoa wholewheat almond brownies … Alice Medrich {#urbandazzle}
"I am endlessly inspired and challenged by ingredients and flavors; the craft involved both in bringing them together and writing about the process."
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Cocoa Wholewheat Almond Brownies are a sweet opening to October, plated on the new Diwali/festival gift collection from Urban Dazzle. Baked out of desperation since I had no good quality baking chocolate on hand, the wholewheat brownies were
good unbelievably good!! They are adapted from a recipe by Alice Medrich – author, dessert chef, chocolatier.Alice Medrich is an iconic baker who changed the way we looked at food, desserts, chocolate and baking of course. She's written a series of cookbooks, the latest one Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts. Of the 9, Bittersweet and Pure Dessert are two of my favourites. Food weaves a magical pattern. I baked an adaptation of her Orange & Olive Oil Cake in 2008. Some time later I made delicious Dark Chocolate, Walnut & Craisin Scones from a recipe @ David Lebovitz , another hugely talented cookbook author, dessert maker, ice cream man, story teller. Turned out that recipe was an Alice inspired one too.In late 2008, me, a very timid and shaky food blogger in far off North India, virtually met Alice via the Daring Bakers Caramel Cake with Caramelised Butter Frosting. Her Golden Vanilla Bean Caramels was an optional part of the challenge. Those caramels didn't happen as we were just back from a trip to Sydney where the daughter fell ill with jaundice, was hospitalised …. and what not! Yet, it was another intriguing window into the creative world of Alice Medrich.Did I just forget to mention the Pebbly Beach Fruit Square cookies pictured above? Adapted from her cookbook "Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy: Melt-In-Your-Mouth-Cookies", these are typical Alice style. Classic, comforting and high on taste. The fruit squares recipe is highly adaptable.
So when I craved baking brownies and googled for a cocoa version, one of the first matches was a Medrich recipe. There was no looking further. I experimented with substitutions mainly because of the high-ish butter content. Using just whole wheat flour and almond meal instead of plain flour, they turned out to be brownie heaven – deep, dark, chewy, moist! Importantly, one bowl cocoa wholewheat almond brownies; hand whisked and with minimal clean up! The bell rang while the brownies were cooling off, and it was the new festive Diwali range of products from Urban Dazzle. Seemed like an early Christmas as I got a staggering array of their recently launched festive ware which includes stunning stoneware, ceramics, porcelain and much more.Stoneware is right up my street and the colours and texture hold instant appeal, the quality excellent too! The soothing blue stoneware platter above with a Mediterranean appeal; and cups, mugs, soup bowls all in pretty colours, stuff you can mix and match. The good thing is the almost inexhaustive choice. You feel like grabbing it all. And that's the good part! If you love it, others will to.Urban Dazzle is quite a dynamic online option. An e-venture based in New Delhi, they are constantly adding aesthetic, stylish and reasonable kitchen accessories and home decor items. With Diwali around the corner, they promise to take some burden of gifting off your shoulders… though the extensive range promises to overwhelm you with what to choose & what not!You might like these stunning glasses, or a banquet footed platter, chic Borgonovo bottles, pot bellied jugs and carafes … the variety is endless!A while ago someone inquired about these white ribbed fruit plates that I recently used for the Empanada Gallegas. I got mine all the way from Sydney two years ago. Imagine my surprise when I saw them on Urban Dazzle a few days ago! Raise a toast, browse the topsellers, … or then just hit the 'Sweet Spot'!
[print_this]Recipe: One bowl Cocoa Wholewheat Almond Brownies
Summary: Single bowl cocoa brownies. Dark, deep, chewy, moist, chocolaty … and made with whole grain. Makes 16-20 squares. Recipe adapted from Alice Medrich.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
- 140g unsalted butter, room temperature
- 80g cocoa powder {3/4cup}
- 110g raw sugar {1 cup}
- 2 eggs
- 30g wholewheat flour {1/4 cup}
- 25g almond meal {1/4 cup}
- 1tsp baking powder
- pinch salt
- 100g dark chocolate chips
- In a large heat proof bowl, melt the butter, cocoa and sugar in a microwave for 1 minute. Whisk well until smooth.
- Whisk in the eggs firmly one by one.
- Whisk in the flour, almond meal, baking powder and salt and then whisk briskly for about 1 minute until the mixture becomes smooth and glossy.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and pour batter into prepared tin
- Bake at 180C for about 25 minutes.
- Cool for about 20-30 minutes before slicing {if you like them warm}, else cool, chill and then slice.
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Don't be afraid to deep-fry--it's easy! Just be sure to maintain the correct oil temperature so that the outside gets crisp and golden brown and the inside stays tender. One of the secrets of success is to fry the doughnuts in batches to keep from overcrowding the pan and causing a drop in the oil temperature.
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To mark the second anniversary of the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs [2], the NCD Alliance has sent an open letter [3] to the incoming president of the UN General Assembly, H.E John Ashe.
The letter, co-signed by the founding federation's Presidents, reflects on progress made to date, and highlights priorities for the year ahead, in particular the UN Review and Assessment for NCDs in 2014. This review will be the first time since the 2011 Summit that Member States return to UNHQ to discuss the global NCD response. It will also be an opportunity for stock-taking on progress, sharing lessons learnt, and agreeing recommendations to guide the NCD response beyond 2014.
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HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — The Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization and Memphis Area Transportation Authority. DeSoto County are sponsoring a study of transportation needs in fast-growing DeSoto County.
The county needs responses to the survey on whether buses, vans or shuttles would attract enough riders across the county or to and from Memphis, said Supervisor Lee Caldwell of Nesbit.
"It's real important that we participate in and take this survey," she told The Commercial Appeal.
The MPO is a regional agency responsible for planning and programming long-range transportation facilities in the Memphis Metropolitan Area, of which DeSoto County is a part.
This is the first year Hernando "actually has been placed within the MPO area," city community development director Shelly Johnstone said.
"The big issue remains whether there's a critical mass, enough people interested in public transit to make it work from a financial perspective," said Johnstone, noting that past mass-transit feelers in DeSoto have faltered due to lack of support.
"People like convenience; that's why they choose to drive a car over public transportation. But driving or parking a car in an urban area miles away can be expensive and inconvenient. That's why we need planning and why this survey is vital," she said.
The MPO and Mata contracted with Nelson/Nygaard, San Francisco-based transportation planning consultants, to consider the possibilities of developing transit services and work with county stakeholders — residents, land and business owners and operators and officials — and to create a broad vision of public transportation in the county.


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On another note Uncle Jimmy was convinced that at some point ( FDR's time in office ) only democrats would be allowed to vote so he registered as one.
I say "don't ask, don't tell". One person one vote, no party affiliation at all ( revamp the whole thing ).
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My political views were formed by my grandfather. I grew up a block down the street from him and lived with him for 6 months after graduating from college while getting started on my first job. He was a hard working guy who ran his own businesses most of his life. He supported several of his brothers and sisters and their families through the depths of the Great Depression. Grandpa loved to tell stories about "the old days" and he was passionate about and loved to talk about politics. Even after he went blind from an accident in his late 90's and living in assisted living he stayed up on current events. Down in the social room he led a discussion group where on person would read a newspaper or magazine article, then the group would debate the issue. Both Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt were heroes of his till the day he died. So if I seem a little liberal, its his fault...
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Top News from the Food Front: GMO Bans, Paleo Nope, & Toxic Jerky
May 24th, 2014 | by Tanya Sitton
DO NOT eat hummus or walnuts before reading about these ongoing food recalls -- also avoid the ground beef. I know, I know, I always say that -- but this time (in addition to many other good reasons!) it's an e. coli contamination thing. The week's food safety issues aren't just bothering 2-legged diners: if you have canine friends, beware the toxic jerky! So, yes, the week's news does feature some ickiness. But don't be scared -- there's also some nifty GMO news, plus research on Paleo diets, cheap food, and obesity. Holy guacamole, but there's much to report this week!


text: I drove down to Disneyland this morning and decided to check out the World of Disney store that's in Downtown Disney. I was very pleased to find the new Boarding Party 5-pack. It's pretty slick actually, minus the $40 price tag. Their supply was running very low as there were only 6 left on the shelf. Glad to have scored this group of characters!!!


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Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 1127
TechForensics writes "A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files." Read on for more details of this user's findings.


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So far my 2008 season has been tougher than woodpecker lips! Bad weather, bad timing and bad luck! Anyone else having that?
Youth season was snowed out. My buddy missed four shots on Iowa's opener. I took my little girl out Saturday and it was so miserable she got an ear infection. I took my son out Sunday and it wasn't much better. We had a tom working and two jakes slipped in and busted us! I hunted Missouri yesterday. It was a beautiful morning but nothing gobbled. I had to come home early to care for my daughter (she is back to school today, thank God).
Don't get me wrong, I have been blessed with a nice gobbler of my own, but it has been uphill all they way. I'll be back at 'em tomorrow morning. Who knows? Maybe it will be one of those awesome mornings!
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The Hawaii Theater in downtown Honolulu is a reminder of the cinematic palaces from the early 20th century.
Built in 1922 by the Consolidated Amusement Company, the Hawaii Theater has been home to vaudeville, orchestras, bands, classical theater, silent and talkie motion pictures, film festivals and the like. It features an orchestra pit, dressing rooms, balconies, ornate art deco trappings, an old world box office and a respectable reception foyer. Over the years the theater fell into disrepair, and in 1984, Consolidated abandoned its land lease. A non-profit corporation was formed in 1986 to save the building from demolition. The theater was renovated and reopened in May, 1996, as a 1,400-seat multipurpose performance facility.
This pano was a bit disappointing in that when we started the pano it was pouring rain and no blue in the sky. We calibrated for the darkness, but 15 minutes into the pano the sun came blazing out. We knew we were blowing out the light and tried to adjust, but didn't do a good job of it.
Outside on the street corner was a different experience, with a different kind of community. Almost everyone was passing by and in a hurry. Though HPD was sauntering around pretty nonchalantly, stopping here and there to chat. The HPN producers as well were lounging around, and getting to see the flow from a different vantage, especially when waiting for trucks and cars to move. You knew they were going, but when, was another story. Richard Palmer was shooting with an HPN crew simultaneously across the street, you can see him at the foot of the green "parking" building on the right hand side.
Pete Britos wanted to shoot the Hawaii Theater for nostalgic reasons. 14 years earlier he was helping Jack Law and Annie Moriyasu to produce the Adam Baran Honolulu Film Festival. The gala event kick off was at the newly renovated Hawaii Theater, "the Pride of the Pacific," as it was called. For the opening Pete recruited the University of Hawaii Student Film and Video Association to dress in black slacks and white shirts like the itinerant cameramen of the early 20th century and shoot on film and video the burlesque stage show and the after-show banquet and reception upstairs in the theater.
Shooting outside on the street corner in precarious conditions was a different kind of time-based experience. The traffic, both foot and vehicular, was pretty intense, though comparatively few people show up in the pano. It was all movement, including the wind, rain and clouds. You had to put a foot next to the tripod legs to keep people from walking right into the camera. After the perceived shortcomings of this pano, HPN took a second pano from the same spot a week or two later, but this time on advice from a cinematographer we tried the aperture priority setting, but of course learned that a thousand plus pics with that setting gets you vast gray. You can see that experiment here:
Of course, some of us plan to take another pano of the Hawaii Theater some time in the future.
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Some bad news: I probably won't be able to complete all Swedish GNOME 2.8 translations in time for the 2.8.0 release. There's just too little time left, even if I worked all hours a day on it. I'm the only one to blame for this, because I've been working much on other stuff lately.
Some good news instead: I just reported my 1000th GNOME bug report. I just wish I had been as good with triaging and resolving bugs.
And in other personal news, I yesterday learned that I had passed the last exam I need to get my M.Sc.EE degree. Huzzah! Now everything that's left is for me to finish the courses I have started, and some bureaucratic moves to actually get this on paper.


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La Crosse police receive grants for bicycle, pedestrian safety
LA CROSSE, Wis. - The La Crosse Police Department has been awarded grants from the Department of Transportation to place additional patrols in the community.
The grants focus on bicycle and pedestrian laws in hopes to reduce traffic-related injuries and make roadways safer for all modes of transportation. Some of that enforcement will include bicycle patrol, foot patrol, pedestrian and traffic enforcement with both uniformed officers and plain clothes officers.
Officers will be placed in areas of La Crosse that have high traffic with bicyclists and pedestrian.
La Crosse police say these are some locations of concern in the city for pedestrian and bicycle safety:
- West Ave: at State, Cass, King, Pine Street
- Losey Boulevard: at Ward, Mormon Coulee road, corridor in general
- Jackson Street: at 9th, 10th, Market Street
- 4th and La Crosse Street
- 7th and Cass Street
- Campbell Road and State Street
- Gillette Street and George Street
- 33rd Street; No sidewalk area
The goal of the project is to educate the community on the existing laws and ordinances to pedestrian, bicycle and traffic laws.
Here are some of the rules and regulations specific to motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians in the City of La Crosse:
- Bicycling on sidewalks is allowed throughout the city, HOWEVER is prohibited in the downtown business district
- Pedestrians suddenly moving into roadway (failing to yield to vehicle)
- Pedestrian interfering with vehicle at controlled intersection (When crossing on red signal)
- Vehicle failure to yield right-of-way.
- Vehicle turning right on red light in front of pedestrian
- Vehicle failing to yield to pedestrian when entering roadway from alley or driveway
- Bicyclists and pedestrians shall obey traffic control devices-traffic lights, signs and symbols
- Motorists shall yield to a pedestrians and bicyclist crossing within a crosswalk area
- A bicyclist's speed shall be no greater than reasonable and prudent when operating on a sidewalk or bicycle path
- Bicyclists must yield the right of way to any pedestrian on a sidewalk/bicycle path and shall give an audible signal when passing such pedestrian
- When riding in a street, bicycles shall ride with traffic in the same direction, as far right as practicable. The three exceptions are for: overtaking and passing another vehicle in the same direction, making a left turn, and when necessary to avoid unsafe conditions in the roadway
- Use of hand signals is required when turning and stopping
- Bicycling at night requires the use of a white front headlight and a red rear reflector. Front light must be visible to others from 500 feet away and the rear red reflector must be visible between 50 and 500 feet away
- Bicycle registration is required
- It is illegal to carry extra passengers on a bicycle (except a tandem)
Additional information can be found by visiting Chapter 9 of the Municipal Codes.
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REP. PERRY THURSTON, D-FT. LAUDERDALE, reached out to his friends at Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman and prompted Steve Jaffe to ask Lawlor, Winston, White & Murphey and several local businesses to team together and partner with Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity for its Third Annual Broward County Thanksgiving Community Outreach. In addition to donations, these firms and companies prepared Thanksgiving baskets and hand-delivered them. Their efforts provided turkeys with all the "fixin's" for 500 Pompano Beach families in need. Pictured from the left are Jaffe, Gary M. Farmer, Jr., Rep. Thurston, Andrew Winston, and Andrew Lawlor.
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He shot 0% from the floor and missed both his free throws last night. He's also not even a hindrance to LeBron James getting to the rack. I told my wife last night that if they put a 7 foot door in the lane it would defend better.
Likable guy, but Solomon Jones might be better. He is incredibly fortunate to get the pay check he is getting right now.
Something to like about Orlando Johnson even when his shot is not falling:
He is a physical player. He has no problem with contact offensively or defensively and he is good at getting contested rebounds. That's something that I appreciate.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Agreed. We just want him to get his shot back and we'll be good. It seems like his shooting has hit the rookie wall (even though he's not a rookie).
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
I just have to say that Roy Hibbert owns LeBron James. LeBron probably has nightmares of attempting to scale Mt. Hibbert and sliding on its icy peaks all the way to the ground. Will Greg Oden help LeBron? I guess we'll have to wait for that, but I think Granger coming back healthy enough will overcome that bump.
Agree. I think some should maybe review the 2nd qtr. ive seen Mahnimi do the following:
Block to begin 2nd on birdman spurred fast break
Offensive rebound on free throw miss and good pass out to OJ who missed a 3
Couple nice rebounds.
this is only midway through the second. he had some bad fouls but I can forgive that.
F- for a guy making 4M is harsh. very harsh.
I don't think mahinmi played significant in the 2nd half,,, but his 2qtr play was solid.
he has cut back on the bone headed plays but its gonna happen. I like the block on birdman, coulple good boards, solid pass out,,, the fouls were bad. but who cares.
the block out loose ball bobble foul was awful.
at 4M,,,, I do think the team had jetlag or whatever it is with the WC trip. that 1st half was brutal for a lot of players. DWest bouncing the ball off Hibberts face. George Hill airballing a FT. Hill looked awful for a min. All the pacers players looked like they were still in WC time zone.
I honestly felt we were lucky to be down only 7 at the half.
What should we expect from a center at 4M salary in order for him to receive a "B" in a game like this? I guess I don't expect Ian to really give more than he did tonite.
If he never finds his shot I feel the same way with him as I did with AJ. He has effort but we can do better.
I was and still happy to have Ian. He has been struggling this season, but I have to think he will get it together. Ian has been getting drilled by the refs this year, right or wrong, this has to have frustrated him. Acouple things I cherish about Ian, his quick feet and his overall athletic ability at 6'11". Benches around the league tend to be young and quicker feet and Ian has that, along with a great attitude. That's pretty hard to find around the league and that's why he gets paid 4mil per. I'm going to cross my fingers that he will be able to get it together sooner rather then later.
Go Ian, Go Pacers!
Frank Vogel says "Killer instinct, start strong, build a lead and then step on their throats."
It all comes down to him finding his shot again. If he does he will be a great contributor off the bench, if not he is gone after his contract is up.


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Not that I'm overly excited about the World Cup that is upon us - quite the contrary, actually - but while I was browsing through my feeds I caught myself wondering about the calendar and the schedule set for each match. Couple of seconds later and I arrive at one of Cameron Moll's links, which is none other than an iCal remote calendar with the complete schedule (also available for other applications from that link).
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ticklishtompro wrote:We don't have a website yet, but I may have to do that to yet. There is a facebook page for any of you all on there. The page is Talk'n Turkey,
http://www.facebook.com/TalknTurkey?ref ... alknTurkey. I will see what I can do about the website.
I just took a look at your Facebook page, & I'd say that it's good enough so that you don't need a dedicated website. Spend your time instead getting ready for your March event.


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Is this restriction still in place? I see a lot of people (even some staff) with bulging signatures these days. Has the size limit increased?


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Teflon, I agree somehow they just have the taste thing down. I have to say it's probably a very picky QA department - probably a bunch of ladies just like our moms with veto power
Eddie -
I wish! The weight has come off and I am getting fit but look more like a "mr.natural" guy. You know the one comparatively scrawny guy in the obligatory "natural training" article in the muscle magazines among the supplemented gorillas.
By getting my arse kicked by librarian types and 14 year olds (who call me sir) it may be my humility that is gaining most.
|Everything from Land o' Lakes seems to taste a little bit better than the same products from their competitors.....
No thanks, I'll have a heart attack instead. I had a couple of eggs and some toast and butter this morning. Mmmmm and some coffee with whole milk.
Juro, you must be some kind of monster with your new Jack Lelane/Jean-Claude Van Damme routine.
New product from Land O Lakes
I just had a big fat omelet.
However it had 30 calories, ZERO carbs, ZERO fat, ZERO cholesterol and just as much high quality protein. With an assortment of chopped veggies and a sprinkle of skim mozzarella, paprika and dill.
It was AMAZING
I tried all the other egg white products, and they ranged from visually repulsive to chemical tasting. I've noticed that while searching for the non-fat coffee creamer the Land O Lakes tasted better than the other brands.
So I tried the new "Healthy Lifestyles" egg product from Land O Lakes. All I can say is they must have a picky bastard like me in their QA department.
Tastes great and it's a great way to start the day - high protein and feeling like I got to indulge when it was innocent. I washed it down with Knudsen's low sodium veggie drink which is packed with potassium and other good stuff. That should get me through to the handful of almonds and water to tide me over to lunch and keep my metabolism up so I can get my workout in today.
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Big congrats to Tim, Bobby & Connie!!
Huge kudos to Rob and Carma for Lady GaGa - we have her sister so we are among her biggest cheerleaders!! And there are a lot of good derby dogs that competed so LGG really had to stand out!! More to come on the realllllllllly big tests in the 4th series of both the am and open- congrats to all who survived! But what to expect when there are slots to nat'ls involved.
The weather was perfect all weekend and the workers were great- we send out thoughts to all those on the east coast you are just trying to figure out where to air their dogs!! Hopefully Montgomery, Texas will have some good weather for the upcoming nat'l and best of luck and stay safe for all you who are fortunate and talented enough to compete!!
I would like to Thank everyone at the Metro FT, it was an amazing trial. I am really a Rookie in regards to training time. I am fortunate that for the past 4 months Mark Edwards has been working with my baby girl. I ran against Icons as far as I am concerned this weekend, and even though we were competing against one another, I am just overwhelmed by the support, the help, the cheering and encouragement that I experienced. It is a weekend I will never forget!! The Russells and their talent and grace, Sharon with her encouragement, advice and she gave me binoculars to use (without them I could not have seen the water blind it was so dark), the Mizes, Marv and his encouragement, Bill...and for my Team mates to stay till the end with me knowing they had a long drive home late Sunday night. The whole group wanted everyone to succeed, it truly gave me goose bumps to be among such class!!!
Thank you Mark and Becky for everything you do, for everything!!!
And thank you to Scott and Alice for allowing us all to run on such incredible grounds.
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The results for the National Amateur Pick Em are up. The Retriever News and Entry Express would like to congratulate Trey Lawrence as this years winner. CONGRATULATIONS! Trey will receive a years subscription to Retriever News as well as some Retriever News Gear. WAY TO GO, TREY! Since by now, everyone is aware of the glitch we had in programming with this years Pick Em, please be aware that in the future, Picks will close at Midnight -- 12:00 am Sunday morning before the event starts.
We at Retriever News hope that you all enjoyed the coverage as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you. It was a tricky location as far as connectivity as so many of you can attest to if you have been in this area of rolling hills in northwest Wisconsin. There were long hours...a typical day was 15-18 hours for team members: Tera Lanczak, Gwen Jones, Sara Sommerfeld and myself. And, of course, we could not have covered the event without the unending help from all the countless volunteer committee members whose hard work made the National Amateur Championship the premier event that it is. THANK YOU! And also a Thank You goes to Lainee for keeping up with the Summary so diligently on RTF.
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Mora Himel Lincoln
To my dear friends who knew Aunt Mora:
Mora Himel Lincoln died on Thursday Sept 19 at 2:19 PM. Had she waited until evening there would have been a full moon in play. Mora turned 104 in July and had a wonderful birthday party with many friends from Madison.
She was born in 1909 in Chicago Illinois (really Park Ridge). Mora had a great education and was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She spent 2 years in Europe. She lived in Paris and in Leipzig, Germany. Book binding was her focus of study. She had many adventures and recorded them in her diary. She met Garrison Lincoln when she was at the University and married him soon after she arrived home from Europe.
Mora had a passion for flowers. Ikebana was her chosen form for arrangements. She studied with a Japanese Ikebana Master. She was an active flower arrangement teacher for years.
She loved living in her house on Lake Monona, and her favorite place to sit was next to the window looking out on the lake. Her garden was her daily delight, she had flowers growing throughout the summer and always had fresh arrangements during the growing season. In the fall and winter seasons she would plan her garden for the following year.
Mora was an investor and enjoyed the stock market and it idiosyncrasies. She and her husband spent many years studying what and when to invest. She also loved genealogy and researched her husband's family, the Lincolns (related to Abe) and then her own family. Mora has been a lifelong learner, and she always had a book or two that she was reading.
She is survived by her brother Chester Mora Himel, her niece Mary Ellen Owens, who has been especially close to Mora. She has many nieces, nephews, grand nieces and nephews and great-grand nieces and nephews who have been in touch over the years and many of whom were present for a 100th birthday party. Mora will be missed by her many friends and care takers. Particularly Diane Rider who has taken care of Mora for 13 years and Mary Lou Burczyk, a friend and neighbor for many years.
Since Mora loved the spring, summer and flowers: family and friends will gather next year at Olbrich Gardens for a private remembrance.


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When Diane Gaston was a little girl, she'd learn all the words to popular love songs. When she played, her dolls acted out tragic love affairs with the current heartthrob on TV or in the movies. She thought everyone in the world made up romantic stories in their heads to fall asleep at night.
Even as a little girl, Diane loved the romances in the books she read, enjoying Nancy Drew's relationship with Ned more her mystery-solving. And she will never forgive Louisa May Alcott for not giving Jo a happy ending with Laurie. When Diane discovered romance novels in college, she was in heaven, especially if the romance was set in historic England. Diane even majored in English literature in college, but the closest her coursework came to romance was a smattering of Jane Austen.
In her first career, Diane helped others craft their own happy endings. She earned masters degrees in both psychology and social work and became a county mental health therapist. She also experienced her own romance, getting married and raising a daughter and son.
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CHERRY — Carol Bodnum, 72, of Cherry passed away Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, at St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley.
Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in the Fiocchi Funeral Home, Cherry, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Cherry. Interment will follow in Holy Trinity Cemetery, Cherry.
Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home with a rosary service at 5:45 p.m.