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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Friday, January 2, 2009
You Can Help Improve Weather Forecasting
I am working with psychologists at the UW to understand how individuals interpret weather forecasts, and particularly how they deal with uncertainty. How is the best way to describe an uncertain forecast so users get the most valuable information? Below is a link to a short survey that I encourage all of you to try...it will really help us make progress! Thanks, cliff
Please make sure pop-ups and Java-script are enabled...the software needs them.
42 comments:
I tried to do the survey, but the continue button doesn't seem to be live. I couldn't continue.
- January 2, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Same.. Page two
- January 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- pass_the_Advil said...
I am working with Cliff on the survey code. Which browser/OS/platform are you using when these issues arise?
- January 2, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- pass_the_Advil said...
- January 2, 2009 at 4:06 PM
It worked for me.
- January 2, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- J-Ren said...
Worked fine for me up until question 4.2 where it keeps telling me I need to enter an answer. (Apparently the one I entered is not good enough.)
Firefox 3.0.5
Question: Given that this audience is a little more weather savvy than the general population, would you like us to spread the word?
- January 2, 2009 at 4:13 PM
You need to use IE v7
I tried IE8, Mozilla and Chrome - none worked.
- January 2, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- W said...
- January 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Now Cliff you're just laughing at us.
Nothing works.
- January 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Perhaps this is part of the psychological experiment Cliff and co. are conducting...
- January 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM
First page "Continue" button also did not work for me. Using Firefox 184.108.40.206.
- January 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- LJansen said...
Cliff's book on front page of on-line PI today:
- January 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- lizch said...
For those of you having trouble....255 characters is not very many. I thought I hit a bug, but I'd actually just been too verbose. Maybe that's true for most bloggers?
- January 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- pass_the_Advil said...
OK == looks like there are 60 completed surveys in the database so far in the past 50 minutes or so.
Thanks to feedback from an astute blog member, I think we've been able to isolate the problem with the 'continue' button.
I encourage anyone who was *not* able to continue to give it one more try -- if it still fails, please send an email to me with the following information:
* Platform ( PC/Mac/Linux, etc. )
* Operating System and version
* Browser and version
- January 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- JewelyaZ said...
It worked just fine for me. :-) Thanks for doing this kind of survey. In the interest of getting the non-weather-obsessed involved, I'm going to ask my husband to take it too. LOL
- January 2, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- JewelyaZ said...
Here's a better link to the article about Cliff's book: School Zone Blog
- January 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I also had trouble with the 255 character limit--but the 'pop-up' was rather cryptic, telling me that I needed to enter a response, when what it should tell me is, "please edit your reply."
- January 2, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Everything worked fine for me. Please let us know your results & conclusions when you get them! Thanks. (I realize it will be a while)
- January 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Completed! Worked great!
- January 2, 2009 at 5:19 PM
I tied to go back to proof my answers and found only empty pages. I'll try again tomorrow.
Firefox 3.0/Mac 10.4.10
- January 2, 2009 at 5:23 PM
- pass_the_Advil said...
FYI -- the survey will not retain your answers moving backward through the survey. This is feature, while perhaps non-intuitive to some users, is important to the correct application of the survey as specified by the designers. Please consider the information presented on each page independently of any others.
- January 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM
- Jeff said...
Completed the survey with no problems.
- January 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I was able to complete the survey using Opera 9.63. It did warn me that I was using an unsupported browser though.
- January 2, 2009 at 6:25 PM
i had trouble with the continue button as well. eventually i figured out that for some reason the middle of the button was not active, or something, and i could only continue by clicking the outside of the button.
- January 2, 2009 at 6:25 PM
- Steve said...
Dude Diligence, you made me smile on your comments on my "napkin drawing" analysis of the affect of road salt on the sound's salinity.
I have to admit I did think about tidal mixing action (how would I get THAT number) and the dilution factor of all the fresh water inflow (too many streams to analyze) ... but.......that would have been a bit too much work :)
But I agree with you on the short term affect of the run off into the storm system...
Anyway, this is a weather blog - so, lets talk about Calculating Adiabatic Temperature Changes...... ONLY KIDDING CLIFF :)
PS - Cliff, I took your Atmos 101 class in the early 80's. I was either going to go into Atmospheric sciences or Engineering - Civil engr won, but now I'm a Director of Information Technology.
- January 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM
no problem with the survey. will forward to others to take.
- January 2, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I completed the survey with no problems (Mac OS 10.5.6, Firefox 126.96.36.199). My main issue was that we were asked to respond with specific numbers (e.g., '100' for the deg F question), when my preferred response would have been a range (e.g. 90-103). I also would have been happier if the text boxes would not have allowed more than the 255 characters to be entered. Most times I'd type my response, find out that it wouldn't take it, copy it, edit it down to the char. limit in my text editor & paste it back in. ;-)
- January 2, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Vista Home with Google Chrome on default settings worked fine (although it complained about non-standard browser).
- January 2, 2009 at 9:52 PM
I will take it, but thought you might want to know that it is snowing east of Renton (east end of cemetery hill) at about 380feet elevation. Light dusting so far, but it is sticking. 32.4F right now. Was 30 earlier.
- January 3, 2009 at 12:46 AM
I successfully took the survey, looking for questions about wind, but saw none that address my issues: Tall trees surround our house & neighborhood, so wind forecasts are important and scary. The most frustrating things to me are forecasts that for days ahead hype the 'coming wind-Armageddon', and the lack of stating WHERE events will actually occur. I just want to know, will my neighborhood be affected? I thoroughly enjoy the Cliff Mass Weather Blog. Thank you.
- January 3, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- camco said...
Most of us are not impacted in any way by the weather forecast. Whether it's going to rain tomorrow , or be 20 degrees or 23 degrees -- it doesn't matter. Only a few workers might actually need and benefit from a weather forecast (fishing?). The rest of us don't. We still have to go to work (or look for work).
What does it matter? Seriously.
- January 3, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- Imaflatlander said...
Cliff and DC,
Is this survey limited to people in the Puget Sound Region?
- January 3, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- Julia said...
Cliff, I hope at some point you can find a source at the school of fisheries to talk to about salt issues- as well as one in the department of forestry. Because either there are good scientific reasons to avoid road salt, or the City of Seattle is responding to political rather than scientific processes.
Union Mills, either frozen fog or a light sprinking of small ice pellets over night. Currently 30.2. Overnight low 26.8, 24 hour high 38.7. Still have about a half-acre of unmelted snow on the NE face of the hill; Lake Lois, which is a low place on the extensive system of kettle lakes and wetlands on this periglacial plain still had extensive ice-cover as of January 1.
- January 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Not everybody works in an office, many of us work outside or drive a vehicle ( or both, like me ). I get up way to early to stay up and watch the news so it's nice to have a forecast. This helps me decide several things, how many layers do I need to wear, do I need to leave early because the snow will add time to not only my commute, but my workday.
I started later than normal a few days the lest couple weeks to wait for the roads to get a little better based on the forecast for a little warmer weather.
Most of you only have to worry about driving to work, once I get to work I have to drive around all day.
I know you feel most are not impacted by the snow, but there is a lot of ups, usps, fed ex, truck drivers, garbage collectors, bread guys, etc, etc, etc out there.
Next time you are at the grocery store or gas station think about how that product gets there, by people like me who have no choice but to drive around in a vehicle much heavier than your car.
- January 3, 2009 at 9:20 AM
A comment about salt use in Seattle: can anyone give perspective on the effect of the rapid melting that occurs here (due to rain and temp rise generally following snow) as a factor in the decision to use salt or not?
I grew up in the Rockies and went to college in New England, where temperatures rarely hover at freezing--they are usually below freezing following a storm.
It seems to me that salt in the environment here would be *in solution*, rather than solid form, due to our conditions, and therefore enter the fresh water system more rapidly and more often as a result.
Also, my experience with salt is that it doesn't work when it's covered with a fresh layer of snow and it works best when temps are below freezing.
Thanks! bowmac
- January 3, 2009 at 9:32 AM
your survey was hard to take...I got about hal way through and it and lost my motivation. Not really sure what you were trying to achieve....
- January 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Got through the survey w/no problems. Vista/Firefox.
Thank you so much for putting this blog out there, and for your engaging and frequent entries, Cliff! Blogs are work, and yours is greatly appreciated!!
- January 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM
The survey ran ok on my Safari (3.2.1) browser on my Mac (os 10.4.11), although I got an error message about the unsupported browser. The questions extended beyond the end of the box, but the screen widened so I could see the question by scrolling. This was the only glitch I noticed.
- Pete
- January 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Took the survey with Mac OSX 10.5.5 and Firefox -- worked fine.
I wonder what proportion of weather folks are mac vs. pc users?
- January 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Mine worked very well, now that the internet seems to have recovered, using Windows XP, Firefox, Comcast, etc. Good survey that we should all help with, stats will be fascinating and the response will be interesting too.
My guess is that most responders will be this blog group; PBS/NPR viewer/listeners; UW-connected folks if UWRA, UUAlum. UW Daily and UW Week. AAUP all distribute the survey link. Might local museums and libraries help out; maybe even Internet Cafes, bookstores, REI, PCC Natural Markets? What other groups can other blog fans suggest?
- January 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Addition to the last post from me, Bob Moore, (not intended to be "Anonymous"!): could we recruit interdenominational religious support? I'll share an Announcement and handout with the survey link at Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Church tomorrow, and I urge other blog fans to do similar things in their churches, synagogues, mosques, shrines, and temples at appropriate times.
- January 3, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Update from Bob Moore:
I did "Announce" Cliff's Survey in church today, with handouts about details for finding Cliff's blog which included a copy of this posting from Cliff, and hand-delivered a copy to my church-friend/UW-colleague who's a retired Ed. Psych. prof and "Positive Psychology" advocate who probably knows the Survey designers and could "test" the Survey and then share a "grade" with us (we hope better than Mayor Salt Nick's B, or 3.0 as we UW profs express it...)
Then, as I'll post above in more detail as a comment for Cliff's more recent forecast posting, I tried to jazz things up by reading this from Jeff's poetry posting above:
"Tires were spinning and just wouldn't go,
And chains lay broken in the dirty old snow.
Then, what to my surprise did my eyes look over and see?
Eight representatives of SDOT,
With a fat politician so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it was Mayor 'Salt Nick'."
I wanted to add another part, but my wife said I was running on too long:
"Sliding down Thomas and onto a wall!
The busses hung over I-5, ready to fall!
Still, he insisted, it wasn't his fault,
As the world's greenest mayor he wouldn't use SALT!
That stuff's corrosive, could hurt the fish.
(But the Puget Sound's SALT WATER you ignorant kish!)"
I'll include some of my email exchange with Jeff about this in my posting above.
In 2 tries, this didn't post, so here's a third try
- January 4, 2009 at 2:48 PM


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Chinky Bucks, Manila
IMG_1744, originally uploaded by Patrick Cowsill.
Posted by Patrick Cowsill at 10:36
Labels: Racist Signs
Tee hee. Sorry but I had to chortle.
Chink(y) is definitely perjorative but a lot lower on most people's register than, say, paki, which - I regret to say - still seems to be perfectably acceptable to way too many people, especially in the North. In modern rhyming slang, there is 'cuff link'.
I'm not sure why 'chink' should be more acceptable. I suspect it is something to do with Chinese/East Asians historically being a less visible/influential/vociferous presence than other minorities (particularly those from the Indian subcontinent), or being perceived as a soft touch that wouldn't fight back, but that is probably changing as people assert themselves more.
Would be interested to know what some of my ethnic Chinese friends think and how they would respond to the slur. I will ask - two guys I know are polar opposites (one a tough northener and the other a quiet guy I worked with in my year back, so it would be interesting to hear their views. Most of my other East Asians friends from childhood I have lost contact with).
I do think this sign being in Asian country with a strong ethnic Chinese contingent makes it a bit different. Were the owners possibly Chinese-Filipinos themselves?
I wonder why they got defensive when you tried to take a picture. That seems like a common enough thing to do if you're obviously a tourist someplace. I also wonder if they think the name is funny. And if, in taking a picture of their sign, you reinforce that idea that they have a (positive) photo-worthy sign. But I guess then they wouldn't get defensive. I would have taken a picture too; it's definitely a face-palm occasion.
Taking picture is one of my hobbies. I carry more than one camera wherever I go. Recently I am in for Sony camera with eSweep Panorama photography that is beside the point. I don't know why but almost all store owners disallow us to take picture in their stores. One coffee shop suddenly changed their attitude once they accepted one of my snapshots. A restaurant owner was so impressed by the picture I took in his restaurant; he lets us have free lunch that day. After all the picture taking is an adventure, isn't it?
"After all the picture taking is an adventure, isn't it?"
With the store owners, it really can be, especially because you don't know how they'll react. With this shot, I think they were worried that I was up to something, like to expose their sanitation or steal secrets. I don't think they were worried about their sign or that people could be offended by it. Plus, I wasn't really looking to make a point, other than, "Wow! Look at this."
James has an interesting point. The owners could even be overseas Chinese (or Taiwanese).
These racial slurs are more an inside joke, with a juvenile tilt at that. They are not taught in English classes anywhere in Asia - the reason why no Chinese would take offense. And why should bucky-teethed be insulting while the Brits, for example, are known to have the world's worst dental appearance.
These Chinky Bucks are a franchise in SE Asia. This owner in Manila is most likely a Singaporean Chinese who was just protecting his investment by refusing photography.
I was born in the north of England, and as a child used the term "chinky" to describe Chinese restaurants without a hint of malice. To me, then, that was simply what they were called. Of course, I wouldn't use it nowadays.
Have to say I doubt that the shop owners mean any offence. It may well be that in the Philippines, a country in which English is widely spoken, these are not offensive terms.
Hope you enjoyed Manila. Last time I was there (early '03) I found the place to be a bit of a shit hole, but I don't think I was seeing the bet side of it.


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It is very sad to hear the discouraging medical reports about Gary Carter. After reading doctors are evaluating their next course of treatment I know from my father this isn't good news. All you can do now is pray and hope he's not in too much discomfort.
Not surprisingly, Carter's illness raised the question of whether his No. 8 should be retired.
There is little question Carter was an integral part of the Mets' 1986 World Series winning team, but in truth he played only four full seasons with the team, and 50 games into a fifth. Retiring a player's uniform number should be based on long term contributions to the team and not as a sympathy gesture because of his illness.
If the Mets were to do it, they should have done it years ago. Doing it now would be cheesy and an almost empty gesture. If the Mets do it now, entering the 50th anniversary of their existence, it wouldn't mean anything unless he went in with company, meaning Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden, the only others from that team worthy of that honor. In looking at Mets history, also worthy – and overlooked – is Jerry Koosman.
I was glad to see Carter inducted into the Hall of Fame, an honor he truly deserved. At the time Carter said he was torn between going in as a Met or Montreal Expo. The Hall of Fame rules state a player would go in wearing the cap of the team where he carved his niche, and with Carter, that was Montreal, regardless of the ring he earned with the Mets.
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I have no difficulty in admitting that Romney performed better than Obama, particularly for those "low information" voters. But I have a little more difficulty in seeing him as the answer, irrespective of his lies. Let's look at his touted performance in Massachusetts:
October 5, 2012
Romney Claims of Bipartisanship as Governor Face Challenge
By MICHAEL WINES
BOSTON He came into office with a mandate to shake things up, an agenda laden with civics-book reforms and a raging fiscal crisis that threatened to torpedo both. He sparred with a hostile legislature and suffered a humiliating setback in the midterm elections. As four years drew to a close, his legacy was blotted by anemic job growth, sagging political popularity and except for a landmark health care overhaul bill a record of accomplishment that disappointed many.
That could be the Barack Obama that Mitt Romney depicted in Wednesdays presidential debate as an ineffective and overly partisan leader. But it could also be Mitt Romney, who boasted of a stellar record as Massachusetts governor, running a state dominated by the political opposition.
Mr. Romney did score some successes beyond his health care legislation, notably joining a Democratic legislature to cut a deficit-ridden budget by $1.6 billion and revamping a troubled school building fund. Some outside experts and former aides say his administration excelled at the sorts of nuts-and-bolts efficiencies that make bureaucracies run better, like streamlining permit approvals and modernizing jobs programs.
As a Republican governor whose legislature was 87 percent Democratic, Mr. Romney said in Wednesdays debate, I figured out from Day 1 I had to get along, and I had to work across the aisle to get anything done. The result, he said, was that we drove our schools to be No. 1 in the nation. We cut taxes 19 times.
But on closer examination, the record as governor he alluded to looks considerably less burnished than Mr. Romney suggested. Bipartisanship was in short supply; Statehouse Democrats complained he variously ignored, insulted or opposed them, with intermittent charm offensives. He vetoed scores of legislative initiatives and excised budget line items a remarkable 844 times, according to the nonpartisan research group Factcheck.org. Lawmakers reciprocated by quickly overriding the vast bulk of them.
The big-ticket items that Mr. Romney proposed when he entered office in January 2003 went largely unrealized, and some that were achieved turned out to have a comparatively minor impact. A wholesale restructuring of state government was dead on arrival in the legislature; an ambitious overhaul of the state university system was stillborn; a consolidation of transportation fiefs never took place.
Mr. Romney lobbied successfully to block changes in the states much-admired charter school program, but his own education reforms went mostly unrealized. His promise to lure new business and create jobs in a state that had been staggered by the collapse of the 2000 dot-com boom never quite bore fruit; unemployment dropped less than a percentage point during his four years, but for most of that time, much of the decline was attributed to the fact that any new jobs were being absorbed by a shrinking work force.
Mr. Romney won lawmakers consent to streamline a tangled health and human services bureaucracy, but the savings amounted to but $7 million a year. He entered office considering an eight-state compact to battle climate change, but left office outside the consortium, saying it cost too much.
He put on the table in his inaugural address, and then in his budget, a series of proposed reforms like civil service reform, pension reform going right to the heart of the lions den, Michael Widmer, president of the nonpartisan Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said in an interview. But excepting health care, he never followed up. There was a handful of successes, but there was never a full-blown or focused program in the sense of saying, Heres our vision.
Mr. Romneys former aides vigorously disagree.
Thats an overwrought type of critique, said Timothy Murphy, the health and human services secretary under Mr. Romney. If you take a look at the things the governor set out to do, we accomplished a lot. The budgets were more than balanced we generated surpluses.
And, he said, We did pass the most consequential piece of health care legislation in this state in 25 years.
Mr. Romney was pushing on an open door on the 2006 initiative Democrats had long dreamed of providing health coverage to almost every resident.
Jane Edmonds, who headed the states Labor and Workforce Development agency, recounted a meeting at the start of Mr. Romneys term in which he handed out a list of campaign promises to his staff and ordered them carried out within four years.
My opinion is that he delivered on almost all those promises, she said. We had 8 or 10 of them and we carried them all out.
Some of Mr. Romneys harshest critics concede his competence and his grasp of Massachusetts problems and needs. Many of the initiatives he took into office were arguably nonpartisan; he brought to the job the same gimlet-eyed scrutiny of costs and revenues that he employed as an investment manager to spot potentially profitable companies.
But in contrast to his statements in the debate, many say, Mr. Romney neither mastered the art of reaching across the aisle nor achieved unusual success as governor. To the contrary, they say, his relations with Democrats could be acrimonious, and his ability to get big things done could be just as shackled as is President Obamas ability to push his agenda through a hostile House of Representatives.
Mr. Romney could be appealing and persuasive, they say. But he also could display a certain political tone-deafness and a failure to nurture the constituencies he needed to make his initiatives succeed.
Mr. Romney promoted his record on Wednesday as a bipartisan leader by noting that he met regularly with the Democratic leadership of the Massachusetts legislature. But that apparently was not enough to keep afloat a relationship that had been rancorous from the beginning.
In the opening months of his tenure, Mr. Romney vetoed a House plan to create new committees and raise legislative pay, and the legislators rejected his flagship proposal, a nearly 600-page plan to overhaul the state bureaucracy. They had a deteriorating relationship during the first two years, said Jeffrey Berry, a political science professor and expert on state politics at Tufts University.
Mr. Romney proved to have a taste for vetoes, killing legislative initiatives in his first two years at more than twice the rate of his more popular Republican predecessor, William F. Weld, The Boston Globe reported in 2004.
Some seemed almost designed to rankle legislators: one rejected an increase in disability payments to a police officer who had slipped on an ice patch. Others reflect his ramrod-straight views on ethics and government waste knocking down a special pension deal for a state legislator; rejecting a subsidy to Medicaid payments so nursing homes could provide kosher meals to Jewish residents.
He seemed to take great delight in vetoing bills, recalled his director of legislative affairs, John OKeefe. "Some of the bills we would chuckle when we wrote the veto message.
By 2004, the second year of his term, Mr. Romney was provoked enough to mount an unprecedented campaign to unseat Democratic legislators, spending $3 million in Republican Party money and hiring a nationally known political strategist, Michael Murphy, to plan the battle.
The effort failed spectacularly. Republicans lost seats, leaving them with their smallest legislative delegation since 1867. Democratic lawmakers were reported to have been deeply angered by the campaigns tactics.
On close scrutiny, some of the bipartisan successes that Mr. Romney claimed in the Wednesday debate turn out to by peppered with asterisks.
On education, Mr. Romney was correct in stating that Massachusetts students were ranked first in the nation during his tenure. Students in grades four and eight took top honors in reading and mathematics on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
However, educators largely credit an overarching reform of state schools 10 years earlier under Governor Weld. The reforms doubled state spending on schools and brought standards and accountability to administrators and students.
Governor Romney does not get to take the credit for achieving that No. 1 ranking, said Mike Gilbert, field director for the nonprofit Massachusetts Association of School Committees, but it did happen while he was in office.
Mr. Romneys claim that he was responsible for 19 separate tax cuts is also technically accurate, but not the full story. In 2005, for example, Mr. Romneys administration wrote legislation refunding $250 million in capital gains taxes but the bill came only in response to a court ruling that the taxes had been illegally withheld in 2002.
Many of the other tax cuts were first proposed by the legislature, not Mr. Romney, and others were routine extensions of existing tax reductions or were one-day sales tax holidays.
Michael Barbaro contributed reporting.
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:03 pm
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You'd might be taken more seriously if you'd provide a source link with your posts when you quote soembody, but you rarely do.
Try it sometime.
You keep claiming that my sources are from Drudge, but all the links that I have provided, never say "Drudge Report", and they are always clickable, just so you could check to see if anything was edited out.
And you'd like everybody to "get their fair share" oops, I mean "shot", as BHO would say.
If you are going to be a hard core poster, do it properly.
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:40 pm
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And you'd like everybody to "get their fair share"
The penultimate principle of Karl Marx.
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:54 pm
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Are you kidding me? New York Times, October 7, reprinted in yesterday's Chronicle. You should try sources that are required to fact check sometime. I gave you the author and the full article. Iso would tear you a new one for laziness.
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nw30 wrote:
And you'd like everybody to "get their fair share"
The penultimate principle of Karl Marx.
And this from the guy who gets
than his fair share, someone who benefits from Marx's penultimate principle all the while slamming Marx.
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Are you kidding me? New York Times, October 7, reprinted in yesterday's Chronicle. You should try sources that are required to fact check sometime. I gave you the author and the full article. Iso would tear you a new one for laziness.
Mikey's smart enough to know that the oversight had nothing to do with laziness but everything to do with an attempt at a mindless insult.
Even nw30 knows how to Google "Michael Barbaro contributed reporting."
The first hit is your NYT article.
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NW--like most right wing hacks, you have no trouble making up dialogue and assigning it to progressives that actually didn't say it ("fair share"). But did you notice this?
On education, Mr. Romney was correct in stating that Massachusetts students were ranked first in the nation during his tenure. Students in grades four and eight took top honors in reading and mathematics on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
educators largely credit an overarching reform of state schools 10 years earlier under Governor Weld. The reforms doubled state spending on schools and brought standards and accountability to administrators and students.
Governor Romney does not get to take the credit for achieving that No. 1 ranking, said Mike Gilbert, field director for the nonprofit Massachusetts Association of School Committees, but it did happen while he was in office.
Reward the uninvolved?
On tone deafness, Romney went before the NAACP, which favors neighborhood school, and thinks that the "choice" movement is about cherry-picking students away from public schools--and was surprised by the hostile reaction. Tell me again how he understands the educational reform needs of this country. Or maybe just tell me about the rabbits again.
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I agree Boggsman. I also agree with Mrgybe...Politics is getting tiring. Time to vote early, load up the gear, and hit the road.
Dont tell me you're going to Baha, thats downright unfair to us working stiffs!
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Warning: Because El Nino has just begun, it seems there is no High Pressure anywhere near California or Baja. My buddy on Maui said it's been calm over there too. We are in full fall mode with no wind. How about up north?
The valium kicked in after the last debate!
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We are in full fall mode with no wind. How about up north?
For west winds, I've got to guess this has been the lamest fall I've seen. I don't remember getting on the water but about two hours since early September, and that was an evening gamble that paid off with a short 6.2 session.
There have been many windy east wind days, but ya gotta be there (or at least within a quick driving distance) to catch them, as it takes a consistent 30 to create good swell, and that's fleeting and very hard to forecast. I'm sure the slalom guys who don't mind flat water, and who live close enough to make a couple of hours worth the drive, have had a good or even great past 2-3 weeks. Swell snobs who live a couple or hours away, however, have gotten burned by strong forecasts that didn't come through and by weak forecasts that blew hard, at least for a few hours.
And, oh, yes ... I usually sail in board shorts and a 1mm neo vest for 2-3 months in a good summer; I got a week of that this year, with only one day w/o neoprene.
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The next meeting the Other Romney attended after the NAACP was in private.
He said he "tried to reason with the blacks.All they want is a free ride..."
Let's see..NAACP....rich influential Black community leaders who are not on welfare and support GOP candidates at times.
I think the New Romney is much more electable.
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I'm wondering if anyone here might shed some light on the sediment that has accumulated in my Racor filter sediment bowl on boat. I filter my B100 thru a 1 micron filter sock as its being dispensed, so I'm quite confident this is not something in the fuel. My guess is a film thats forming on the inside of the tank perhaps where fuel can dry onto the inside wall, then gets agitated off & ends up as these small flakes. There is almost a shiny crystalline type look to some of them like flakes of varnish.
Another thought is perhaps this is just old petroleum fuel deposits that are finally breaking up. Although its taken 6 years (of running B100) to do so if thats the case, which seems rather long. Can anyone comment on the time period for petroleum fuel deposits to break up?
Has anyone encountered / heard of this before? see photo.
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I can't believe that I'm the only one that has ever experienced this varnish like stuff. Can anyone comment on how soon after running B100 that any old petrol deposits are broken up? In my case it took about 5 years! Logic tells me this seems a little long, but??? We've all heard the old wives tales about this, although in the numerous vehicles I've had experience running B100 in I've never actually seen clogged filters. Maybe this is my first?
Thank you. PD
..or it could be what it appears to be.
Residual glycerol and soap that precipitates from solution with methanol in biodiesel when the methanol completely evaporates. Unless the deposits are occurring in ASTM certified biodiesel then glycerol/soap is the most common and likely sediment.
Simple to find out.... is it soluble in water?
We as farmers have experienced this also, happens more on older tractors that have had red fuel (off road high sulfur)in their tanks for years. It seem's that if you blend bio with red fuel you end up with alot of this brown, red deposit. I do not know if boats run high sulfur diesel fuel or not. We are now going to run only red fuel through the winter then drain it out and switch to 100% bio for summer then drain again for winter , no blending. Also there may be something to condensation mixing with biodiesel so we are also going to never leave the tank partially filled but keep the tank full at all times to reduce condensation.Will let you know how this change works later on.
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I wash my product 5 times with copious amounts of water as part of my process before its considered finished. The water comes out almost clear on final wash. 6 - 7 washes doesn't make the water any clearer. In consideration of this do you think your glyc & soap theory could still be a valid answer to this flaky substance?
I've noticed in the 1000L totes I store finished product in that over the years there is a small accumulation of some kind of sediment of brownish color (more like a stain) in bottom of totes. I believe this is somewhat adhered to the inside. This could be the same film/ stain that could be accumulating in the boat fuel system & ending up in the Racor bowl? As I say maybe like a varnish on the walls of the tank?
Any thoughts?
Thanks. P
This boat is about 27 yrs old, pleasure use only so never had tremendous volumes of fuel processed thru it (not like commercial use). I stopped using petrol diesel about 6 yrs ago & it only sees B100 thru the fuel system, no blending.
Are u saying your tractors never had this substance in tank / filter before your use of BD? I don't suppose you inspected the tank for any type of "varnish" before BD use started? I'm wondering if what you're experiencing is just old petrol deposits breaking up from BD usage???
Yes we have no problem with filters before bio was used. The bio is a great solvent and eats into any deposit that the red fuel left on the surface of the tank but after a few filter replacements it seems like everything is fine ,for a while, then we notice that leaving bio in the tank along with condensation that a shellac like deposit appears on the inside neck and cap then when opening plugged filters there seems to be excess acumulation of a soft brown deposit. This second problem is noticed about 4 to 5 years of bio use.
john galt. I tried soaking some of the brown flakes in water, seems they are insoluble. So I guess that rules out the possibility of it being gly or soap.
cold or hot water?
Soaking in cold water agitated occasionally since Sept 23rd .
See what happens when the water is heated.
When I looked closely at the picture and before reading the other comments, some of the particles look like mouse droppings. If it doesn't dissolve in water you might try some other solvent like gasoline or paint thinner. If it dissolves in either it is likely an organic residue. The other thing it may be is a residue left form using high sulfur (sulphur) diesel fuels in the past or before using B100.Has anyone had this problem when using a blend of say B50?
JPChina. No, not mouse droppings. Davewv above talks about this condition occurring in his tractors when blending w/ petroleum. As I asked above I suspect this may be old petroleum deposits but its taken them 6 yrs of B100 use to dislodge. This seems rather a long time, so I asked earlier if anyone can comment on what a typical time period is for petrol deposits to clean out? Also why the mention of hi sulphur diesel, is it more susceptible to leaving deposits than low sulphur?
I'll try acetone & hot water solubility test & report.
PD Vancouver; Basic organic research, do a melting point test if possible. Or, put about 1/2 gram in a small test tube and put the bottom of the test tube in boiling water, long enough to see if it melts.
What will a melting point test tell you?
A melting point test can narrow down the possibilities of what it is. Once upon a time I was trying to make an organic chemical that should have melted at a particular temperature. Well it didn't melt at all in the melting point test aparatus, my product was an inorganic salt. If you have a polymer of biodiesel, it might melt. A melting point test is cheap to do. A beaker, a thermometer a test tube, ring stand, clamp or clamps, vegetable oil, heat source, time. A real melting point aparatus is expensive, but easy to use.
John Galt. I tested the solubility of the sediment in acetone & hot water, results were hot water did nothing, acetone seemed to effect it slightly by turning the acetone brown in color but the flakes basically remained. The flakes & acetone or hot water were put into a small glass jar, shaken vigorously for several minutes & left for a week.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – The National Basketball Association announced today that the Detroit Pistons will open their eight-game 2011 preseason schedule at home against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, October 9 (6:00 p.m.).
Three of the team's eight games will be played at The Palace, featuring contests against the Minnesota Timberwolves (October 9), Charlotte Bobcats (October 23) and Miami HEAT (October 26).
The Pistons are scheduled to make their ninth consecutive trip to Grand Rapids to play in The Meijer Basketball Classic at Van Andel Arena on Wednesday, October 12 against the Toronto Raptors (7:00 p.m.).
Following is the Pistons 2011 preseason schedule (all times are Eastern Standard Time):
October 9 Minnesota The Palace of Auburn Hills 6:00 p.m.
October 10 at Atlanta Philips Arena 7:30 p.m.
October 12 Toronto Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI 7:00 p.m.
October 14 at Toronto Air Canada Centre 7:00 p.m.
October 21 at Milwaukee Resch Center, Green Bay, WI 7:30 p.m.
October 23 Charlotte The Palace of Auburn Hills 6:00 p.m.
October 26 Miami The Palace of Auburn Hills 7:30 p.m.
October 27 at Orlando Amway Center 7:00 p.m.


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Unscrupulous direct-to-consumer marketers -- with their phony solicitations that tell consumers, "Your warranty is about to expire" -- hurt the extended-service-contracts market for everyone.
Better Business Bureau chapters around the country have warnings about this posted online, not to mention Consumer Reports and the Federal Trade Commission.
Since buying a used car a year ago, I've received several notices in the mail that correctly cite the car's year, make and model. Someone who didn't know better would assume the notices come from the manufacturer or maybe the state motor vehicles department.
In fact, it's a shot in the dark. The sender has no idea whether my warranty is about to expire. According to the fine print, the notices come from an extended-service contract company with a Missouri return address, which is "not affiliated with the DMV, the Dealer or manufacturer."
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The Saints have signed rookie kicker Taylor Mehlhaff to replace Martin Gramatica, who was placed on injured reserve because of a groin injury.
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Searching for their fifth straight win in all competitions, the Revs head to Philly to battle the expansion Union on Saturday at PPL Park
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CHESTER, Pa. – Under normal circumstances, a 10-day break between games would be considered a disruption by a team on a four-game winning streak. Safe to say, the New England Revolution's 2010 season has not been defined by normal circumstances.
Dressing just 15 players for their most recent game on July 20 – a 1-0 win over Mexican club Monarcas Morelia in the SuperLiga group stage finale – the Revs were in dire need of a recovery period not only to give their injured players a chance to heal, but to let the players who've picked up the workload catch their breath.
Luckily, the Revs (4-9-2, 14 pts.) were presented with an opportunity to do just that with a full 10 days between their SuperLiga match against Morelia and this weekend's meeting with the expansion Philadelphia Union (4-8-2, 14 pts.). Kickoff from PPL Park in Chester, Pa., is set for 3:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.
"I think any time you can get a break, it's good," said goalkeeper Matt Reis, who himself returned from a pair of offseason surgeries in mid-June. "Especially if you look at our roster and you see [training sessions] where we're down to 15 or 16 players. So it's always good to have a break, especially in the middle of the season."
The players who've been overtaxed in recent weeks were given the chance to get their legs back under them – save MLS All-Stars Kevin Alston and Shalrie Joseph, who played against Manchester United on Wednesday night – but the Revs are still unlikely to be able to fill their entire game-day roster against the Union.
Veteran defender Cory Gibbs will be available for the first time since early July after recovering from a left quad strain, although it's unclear whether he'll slot immediately back into the starting lineup. The central defensive pairing of Darrius Barnes and Emmanuel Osei has anchored the Revs' backline to four consecutive shutouts and a 365-minute shutout streak since Barnes returned to action against the LA Galaxy on July 10.
Meanwhile, Kheli Dube has joined the Revolution's lengthy injury list with a sprained knee and he looks set to miss out on the Philadelphia trip along with Zak Boggs (concussion), Nico Colaluca (R ankle sprain), Jason Griffiths (L hamstring strain) and Edgaras Jankauskas (L adductor strain). That almost certainly means rookie Zack Schilawski will get the start up top alongside Marko Perovic, who has scored three goals in the last four games.
As for the Union, the first-year club is close to full health with only Shea Salinas (L fibula fracture) ruled out for this weekend's game. On top of that, Philadelphia is likely to hand debuts to newly-acquired midfielders Eduardo Coudet and Justin Mapp. Argentine playmaker Coudet was signed on July 22 after making a pair of appearances in friendlies for the Union, while Mapp arrived in Philly via trade with the Chicago Fire on July 26.
Coudet and Mapp bolster the Union's midfield and add some attacking flair to a club which has been solid in the last month, especially at home in the recently-opened PPL Park. The expansion side is 2-1-0 in three league games in its new home – not to mention another victory over Scottish giant Celtic FC – and that's precisely why the Revs aren't approaching the Union like an expansion team.
"You have to respect them going in," said Barnes. "They're a quality side. They have some great players – they have a lot of young players. We can't go in thinking that way; that they're an expansion team and expansion teams aren't supposed to win in their first year, because we know that's not the case in MLS. Teams come in and have quality seasons.
"They've been playing well as of late, so we have to go in and be playing our best soccer, as well," he continued. "We have to match them, and more."
A healthy dose of respect will be necessary – especially for MLS All-Star Sebastien Le Toux, who has racked up team-high marks in both goals (7) and assists (7) – and as is often the case on the road, the Revolution's first task will be to remain tight defensively. That hasn't been an issue in recent weeks, as the Revs will be in search of their fifth consecutive shutout in all competitions.
"What we need to do is just [continue] what we've been doing in SuperLiga and that's playing good team defense," said Reis. "It's not giving them a lot of chances. We have to play good team defense and really limit their attacking opportunities. If we can keep them off the board as long as possible, it gives us the best chance to win."
While maintaining a solid defensive shape and not allowing their opponents room to roam will be priority number one for the Revs, head coach Steve Nicol said the plan is not to set up a bunker and merely hit on the counterattack.
"We're in there to win it, that's for sure," he said. "Obviously we want to put them under pressure, because the less defending we have to do, the better."


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EVENT: 14th Revival [February 22nd 2014]
Event: 14th Revival
Start: February 22nd, Saturday (17:00 GMT+1)
Description: A rerun on Hard mode with the same conditions as when the game was released (start from scratch). Get one of the many FNJ's transfered to your real team if you want to! Auto-accept ON for everyone. Chakra Plus by default. 2 LW on start. +10 chakra on start. 2x energy. +120 ryo/day! Start with +600 ryo! Compete for the custom LWs and the latest Hard mode LWs - Prizes for top 20! The energy/ryo refills will be adjusted during the course of the event.
How is it different from the first event?
* It's on Hard mode, so Hard mode rules and chakra apply (with +10 upgrade). You will be able to use 1 FNJ throughout this play (FNJ with 40 stat points), and also 2 bonus FNG chosen at the start.
* Prize LW power increased, added the FM Mode-animation to them too.
* Auto-Accept is turned ON for everyone.
* Chakra Plus (+10 chakra effect) ON by default.
* Premium max limit of 100 Euro per week.
* 2x energy gain.
* 100 ryo/day bonus. (Which will be adjusted/increased)
* Finishing 11-20 will grant you one of the new Hard mode LWs of your choice. You can select any of them.
* If your team is moved to Beginner mode afterwards (not connected or completed the event), it will have its chakra reduced to 70 (down from 114). This is to prevent teams from purposefully using the event to create strong camping and/or clan teams.
How do I participate?
You will have to create a new account. You cannot play with your existing account/team. Simply create a new account and choose EVENT when selecting difficulty model, it will be put on the "event server" where only "event players" can play against each other. There is a rule with a max number of 2 accounts, this rule is however expanded to include 1 "event account". If you already have an event account not being used, feel free to reset it and choose the new Event when selecting difficulty.
Do I get any prizes/benefits?
Apart from the prizes given to the top 20 teams (see below), you will also be able to transfer the Forbidden Ninja Jounin you receive to your "real" account/team. If you are a new player (first/second account), then you can simply move your whole "event account" to the main server where everyone else is playing, and continue there.
To be able to transfer your FNJ to your main account after the event is over, you will have to fill out a form right after you have begun playing on the "event server". Upon starting, you will be able to connect your "event account" with your "real account". If you do not previously have an account, or just wish to continue playing with this "event account" as your second team (max 2 accounts allowed), then simply do not connect this account using the form. After the event is over, all "event accounts" will freeze and be unable to play on, unless you have opted to continue using it on the main server (which mean you have NOT connected it to another account).
How do I win?
You beat the game before anyone else. Beating the game means defeating the final boss in The Otherworld. The 20 first to complete the game get special prizes.
Custom Legendary Weapons will be awarded to the top 10 teams. This means you choose the name as well as the stats/attributes. The LW/prizes will be placed on either your real account, or the event account if it was not connected (for example if this is your first time playing). Also, as mentioned above, you will get a Forbidden Ninja Jounin to your main team as long as you beat the game before the event is over (and connect your account to your real account).
A new featured that is added is the teleport animation found on FM Mode LWs.
*Attack Value is based on this table below (thanks Firehydrant) and comes with a set of rules that must be followed. These rules generally mean you can only use a maximum of amount of a certain attribute. Please note that this table may change during the course of the event.
Attribute Attack Value Max amount -------------------------------------------------- Attack 1 40 Taijutsu 0.5 80 Ninjutsu 0.5 80 Stamina 0.3 Resist 0.175 100 Specific Resist 0.09 Elemental Immune 0.25 40 Elemental Adv. 0.175 100 Specific Ele Adv. 0.1 100 Specific Ele Dmg. 0.25 40 Endurance 1 10 Reroll 0.5 20* Critical Damage 1 10* Critical Chance 0.5 5* Negative Atk -1 -10 Negative Tai -0.5 -20 Negative Nin -0.5 -20 Negative Sta -0.3 -30 Negative Res -0.175 -50 Enemy Atk Down 1 10 Enemy Sta Down 0.3 Taijutsu Immune 1.4 15 Ninjutsu Immune 1.4 15 EnemyTai Imm Down 1 20 EnemyNin Imm Down 1 20 Ninja Exp 0.5 25 Level5 Death 0.25 50 Ryo gain 0.8 20 Item finding 0.25 35
When does it end?
The 14th Revival event ends around 60 days after the first team has beaten the game. This may however be adjusted depending on how long it actually takes to complete the game. An exact date will be announced later. If you start playing around the time it starts and plays every day, you should have no problem at all of finishing in time. Just like for the previous event, the energy refills will be increased after some time has passed if things go slower than expected.
Other notes
* You will be able to challenge and play against other teams on the "event server". This means battle arena, sneak attack, defend village will be against new teams. Ladder and ninja prices will however not be separate from the main server.
* As the custom LW won is treated as a regular LW in regards of bring back when reseting, winners will be given the option to give it to their alt/second team if it turns out it is worse than their current LW equipment (not worth bringing back).
* As the accounts used in this event are completely new, no one starts with previously found LWs or FNs.
* If you chose to connect the "event account", it means it will be frozen after the event is over. You will however be able to reset it and use it for upcoming events of similar kind in the future.
* All accounts created during the event will automatically be "event accounts". Some might not know about the event, but they shouldn't experience a worse time playing because they will have a lot more teams on their own level. As mentioned before, all accounts will be moved to the real server afterwards, unless they connect their account to their real one.
* You can only connect to your real account one time, and you must authenticate with your password. This means you cannot create multiple "event accounts" (forbidden) or have your friends try and win the prizes for you.
* A few examples on how the FNJ you receive is treated;
1. My team is currently on Hard mode and I participate in the event (with a different account) and connect it to my Hard mode team. I complete the event and select to freeze my event account and transfer the FNJ. A lvl 1 FNJ is added to my Hard mode team and can be used right away, it will also be treated as any other FN I have and thus be brought back when reseting.
2. My team is camping on beginner mode and I participate in the event (with a different account) and connect it to my camping team. Just as above, event is completed and the FNJ transfers. This FNJ also gets +40 stat points because your main team is on Beginner mode.
3. I'm either new to the game or this is my second account. I choose not to connect it and play the event. Even if I do not complete it, my account will be moved to the server where everyone else plays and I can continue as usual. My FNJ however cannot be transfered to any other team I it will be kept on this team.
* You can create your new account ANY TIME you want to, the important thing is to RESET AFTER the event has started.
Final Notes
Time to plan Hard mode setups (with chakra plus)! Good luck :)
Might be some changes before starting...!
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wew... the next event is starting sooooo soon... hmmm.....
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Event after event after event.. how very wonderful.
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*Smiles* Alright! Time to add a new FNJ to my collection. *chuckles* i just realized that half of them have come from hard events right now. Gonna get Tsunade since i desperatly need more female FNJ's
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So, do we start with 2 FNGs or not ? Since in the other Thread its not mentinoed at all, it just mentions the 2 starting LWs there, and in the notifier in ninjamanger itself ( they yellow box to the left from where your ninjas are ) it ain't mentioned either.
I am just curious, because to me it looks like we DON'T get them and instead we have 2 LWs from the start ? Am I wrong ?
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Covered by the Associated Press, California governor Jerry Brown signed two privacy bills today that halts businesses and colleges from demanding social media passwords from employees and students. Specifically, Assembly Bill 1844 makes it illegal for employers to request an employee or job applicant's username and password to social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google+. This bill also makes it illegal to fire or discipline an employee that refuses to give up their social network account information. Similar in design, Senate Bill 1349 stops all public and private universities from making it mandatory that students and prospective students supply the same information.
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