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MojitoHooks Module
The hook system provides a way for application or add on developers to access the inner working of mojito. There are two steps to using an hook. First, an addon needs to register an interest in a hook by calling registerHook with the name of the hook and a callback function. The second step involves enabling a hook your addon to recieve hooks. You need to call the enableHookGroup with the name of your addon.


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When I was in high school (yes, that all-girls' school with the honor code), one of my teachers told us never to raise a hand and start a question or a comment with an apology. But I'm going to break that rule just this once, and apologize for having neglected you quite a bit of late. Here's the scoop. I started a new job. I get home and flop on my sofa. I eat a whole head of roasted broccoli for dinner. Or a bowl of cereal. Or maybe a salad. Then fall asleep and wake up only to start all over again.
About a month ago, I went to a 2 1/2 hour dance class (!) on a Sunday morning and ended up in the ER with a torn meniscus. Not that I knew that at the time. All I knew at that point was that I wasn't going to make it to the Idan Raichel concert that evening. Fast forward past weeks on end taking taxis to work every day (that is, when I was able to get to work rather than working from home), limping and limping and limping some more, trying out knee brace after knee brace (the one the ER gave me kept falling off) to Good Friday when I was in the OR for arthroscopic knee repaired.
Lucky for me, some friends took me in for the next few days — practically the entire Chol Ha'moed (the intermediate days of Passover), making sure I was well-fed (recipes to follow, don't you worry) and -rested and didn't need to worry about anything other than sitting in the sun that graced us over the weekend.
Now that Passover is behind us, every time I eat bread, I feel a little jolt of happiness that I can eat whatever I want. And each day as I can walk a little farther and straighten and bend my knee just a little bit more, I remember how good it feels to be healthy. It's one of those things that I rarely think about until a little bit is taken away from me.
So, with this in mind, and now that I can stand long enough to be in kitchen, I figured I'd bake you an apology cake.
Almond Yogurt Cake
Adapted from Chocolate and Zucchini's Gateau au Yaourt and Raspberry Yogurt Cake. I upped the almond content using both ground almonds and almond oil. This cake is not too sweet and the taste of the orange flower water (which I love with almonds) is present without being overpowering.
– 1 C lowfat plain yogurt
– 1 C sugar
– 2 eggs
– 1/3 C vegetable oil (or 1/2 vegetable oil, 1/2 almond oil for a really almond-y flavor)
– 1 t orange flower water
– 1 2/3 C sifted flour
– 1/3 C finely ground almonds
– 1 1/2 t baking powder
– 1/2 t baking soda
Preheat oven to 350°
Mix. Mix together the yogurt, sugar, eggs, oil(s), and orange flower water. Add flour, ground almonds, baking powder, and baking soda.
Bake. Slip greased pan (I used an 8X12 glass rectangle) into oven and bake for ~45 minutes.


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On the heels of his most successful album to date, 2012's "Temple Beautiful," Chuck Prophet will release his new "Night Surfer" on September 23.
"Night Surfer" was recorded in Prophet's beloved San Francisco and in Nashville. Earlier this year, he told WSJ Speakeasy he was working with a familiar team.
"It's much of the same cast of characters from the last album," said Prophet, a linchpin in the legendary cowpunk group Green on Red. "Brad Jones is producing again. Paul Kolderie, who worked on a few Radiohead albums, is helping us improve the sonics. Peter Buck came in to play and bring some jangle to it.
"It's a kind of a dystopian-themed record," he added. "I look around at my hometown and the world and try to imagine where it's going to be 20 or 30 years from now."
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Asked at a press conference about Pennsylvania's rendition of the anti-abortion bill that requires women to undergo an ultrasound prior to the termination of a pregnancy, the Keystone State's Republican governor, Tom Corbett, told a reporter that he didn't feel the legislation went too far because it "exterior not interior" and he wasn't making women watch.
"I don't know how you make anybody watch," Corbett said. "Because you just have to close your eyes."
Not surprisingly, this didn't sit well with Democrats, who slammed Corbett for showing "a lack of understanding of medicine and women's reproductive health issues."
"It's unthinkable that he would so casually dismiss this by advising women to just close their eyes," said former Pennsylvania congressman Patrick Murphy. "Gov. Corbett's comments are disturbingly offensive, insensitive and out of touch."
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will 108Mhz flash work with Arduinoish ATMega MCUs that runnin at 16 Mhz?
8 bits = 1 byteQuote from: bratan on Apr 26, 2013, 08:10 pmwill 108Mhz flash work with Arduinoish ATMega MCUs that runnin at 16 Mhz?Yes.
Looks like an interesting chip.Supports DC to 90-108MHz operation - best you can do with SPI is 8 MHz, about 1 byte transmitted per microsecond if you can do burst of SPI transfers with no looping.(I posted code recently that sends out 41 bytes in ~46uS from an array, added 12uS to loop thru it).Since you have to provide at least the starting address of the locations you want to read from & write to, vs a file name associated with an SD card file, I don't see how the waveshield library will help.
You probably want this part, instead of the other, which sells in qty = 1800.http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/N25Q128A13ESE40E/557-1562-ND/3874288
108Mhz is the max clock speed, and they usually run at slower speeds. Also, notice theseare 3.3V parts, so you'll need level-shifters to interface with 5V Arduino. Most Flash chipsI've seen are 3.3V, and not 5V, devices.
So please forgive my n00bness but I'm a little confused about capacity specs of flash. It seems to be specified in Megabits, not megabytes. I thought Megabits were reserved for measurement of speed not capacity?
Thanks! One more question, does Serial Flash IC (i.e. something like this) have speed comparable to regular SD Cards? I wanted to see if it's feasible to read WAV files from flash IC
with WaveShield library...


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Advanced Hybrid Multi Viewfinder of X-Pro2 Part1
We are not trying to exaggerate when we say that we have put all the technology we have upon creating the X-Pro2. X-Pro2 is on the cutting edge of FUJIFILM from all aspects, and we have sought for the original "FUJIFILM" character in it. If we have to say what makes "X-Pro2" different from all the rest, then we would say it is the "Hybrid Multi Viewfinder (hereafter HMVF)".
Why? because you will not find anything like it from any other cameras in the market. This feature is unique to X-Pro1 and X-Pro2.
With the HMVF, you can use OVF in the rangefinder style to see the optical image. You can also set it to EVF like a modern mirrorless cameras to see the 100% coverage of field of view. On top of it, you can also simulataneously view the two modes and change the magnification of the optical image depending on the focal length in OVF.
Maybe the viewfinder is packed with too many features. Of course, there are those who swears by it, but it was also true that there are also those who couldn't find the need for the finder, saying the "HMVF looks great, but I see no need for it".
In modern days, there are less and less photographers who sought for the rangefinder style camera, and the HVMF of X-Pro1 lacked diopter adjustment, which stopped many from trying to use the viewfinder.
There is the concept of "Field of view" to tell the performance of SLR-style finder. Professional high-end models achieves almost 100% coverage. The throughthe window view lets you see outside of the 100% field of view. This is one advantage. The outside of bright frame shown on the OVF (92% coverage for X-Pro2) can be checked.
We often say "Shoot" when taking a photograph. This is more of a SLR style way of photography. They "shoot" to get what they see in the 100% field of view.
Then, there is the "Snap" way of taking photograph, in which the through-the-window view is more appropriate. You view not only the 100% view but also outside of the frame to predict what the composition will be, and wait for the right moment.
Some disregard the OVF as you cannot check the focus or the depth of field. But this is also an advantage, if you think the other way around. You can also view all elements including that are out of depth of field.
With the SLRs that use phase-detection AF, you are viewing the maximum aperture view. It means that the image with depth of field that are shallower than human eye are displayed. This is one of the "Wow!" effect when you look through the SLR finder, but this may not be ideal when you think about the composition. The elements that are not in focus are lost as the blurred image, and you cannot check the depth of the photo.
If you want to make the subject stand out, then SLR style finder is the way to go, but if you want to tell a story about the subject with its surroundings, then the OVF is the better choice.
You can see the difference of "Shoot" and "Snap" way of photography in this aspect as well.
All this said, we are not trying to say which finder is superior. Because each has its own style of photography and subject. What we are trying to tell, is whether if we could grab the good part of the two finders? And the answer is simple: X-Pro2.
If you use the OVF, then it will be in the rangefinder-style, and if you use the EVF, then if will work like a SLR. And you can do both simulatenously if you wanted.
You can compose and wait for the moment through the view of window, and look into the small window at the bottom right to check the exposure. You can also enlarge the view to check the focus.
The front lever is the first thing that we would want you to try when you have the X-Pro2 in your hand. The camera will let you see a different expression just by moving the lever left and right.
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In a new report, the International Labour Organization — the employment research and policy arm of the United Nations — concludes that there is no fast recovery in sight for the global labor market. From an ILO news release and summary:
Despite signs that economic growth has resumed in some regions, the global employment situation is alarming and shows no sign of recovery in the near future, says the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The ILO's "World of Work Report 2012: Better Jobs for a Better Economy" says that around 50 million jobs are still missing compared to the situation that existed before the crisis. It also warns that a new and more problematic phase of the global jobs crisis is emerging.
Four factors
The ILO identifies four key factors contributing to its conclusions:
First, this is due to the fact that many governments, especially in advanced economies, have shifted their priority to a combination of fiscal austerity and tough labour market reforms. . . .
Second, in advanced economies, many job seekers are demoralized and are losing skills, something which is affecting their chances of finding a new job. . . .
Third, in most advanced economies, many of the new jobs are precarious. Non-standard forms of employment are on the rise in 26 out of the 50 economies with available information. . . .
Fourth, the social climate has aggravated in many parts of the world and may entail further social unrest.
Job-friendly public policies
The report acknowledges that there are no easy solutions. However, it "argues that if a job-friendly policy-mix of taxation and increased expenditure in public investment and social benefits is put in place, approximately 2 million jobs could be created over the next year in advanced economies."
The trends and underlying data marshalled by the ILO paint a very disturbing picture that largely mirrors what we're seeing at the ground level. The Great Recession continues to define the world we live in, and the notion of a "jobless recovery" (an all-time oxymoron) has taken hold even in nations where other economic indicators are pointing up.
As I've said many times on this blog, it's not as if we've run out of important, meaningful work that needs doing. Something is fundamentally wrong with economic structures that cannot match those needs with decent jobs at decent pay.
For the ILO's detailed news release and report summary, go here.
For a complete copy of the ILO report (128 pp., pdf, free of charge), go here.


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Trader Joe's Vintage Soda: Look Better Than They Taste
The Serious Eats office houses a few Trader Joe's detractors, but we're not ashamed to admit that we're huge TJ's fans. John loves the Thai and Indian heat-and-eat dishes for too-lazy-to-cook nights; Carey routinely buys them out of Greek yogurt and tuna "Penang" curry (yes, really). Its quirky charm may be all marketing, but it's pretty irresistible.
And as with many of their products, the design of these "Vintage" sodas—Cola, Root Beer, and Orange Cream—is attractive. Classic flavors, throwback looks, cane sugar to sweeten? It all sounded promising... but then we tasted them.
Their Vintage Cola, which they brand as having pure cane sugar, had almost no taste. Yes, it fizzed. Yes, it was sweet. Yes, it poured a rich dark brown. But it had no distinct flavor whatsoever, beyond a slight hint of caramel; we'd rather drink Coke or Pepsi, sweetened with sugar or with corn syrup, any day. The Trader Joe's version reminds you of an attractive human being with zero personality. It does all the right things, it sounds good on paper, and the packaging's nice—but get to know it and there's nothing there.
The root beer wasn't any better—sweet and fizzy, with no real herbal or spicy backup. It reminded us of root beer–flavored candy. Actually, if you like the idea of taking those Bottle Cap candies and turning them into sodas, you'll like the Orange Cream, too. If that's what they were going for, they hit it dead on. But the sweetness is overwhelming, with zero acidity to balance it out. If you're using cane sugar in your sodas, fine, but they shouldn't taste like sugar and just about nothing else.
Sorry, Trader Joe's, but these sodas had no character. It reminds us that, whatever the hype of Mexican Coke and "throwback" sodas these days, just having cane sugar isn't enough to make a great beverage. If you stop there, it's just colored sugar water.
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Ah Disgaea, always going that extra step to make its turn-based strategy gameplay more exciting. Take this zombie, for instance. No one is scared of zombies anymore; they're everywhere you want to be. If you saw a zombie on the street you'd more likely hug it than run screaming.
At least until you saw the horse wiener.
A horse wiener changes things. It doesn't just up the terror factor; it transforms the way you perceive the world. Suddenly what was once a large planet filled with possibility is a tiny globe of dirt, rock, water, fire, and horse genitals (not listed in order of importance).
What's most impressive about Disgaea's inclusion of this life-changing protuberance is that the game was developed by an extremely Japanese company, Nippon Ichi Software. What this means is that there are Japanese game developers with a firm grasp on horse penis and its importance to the continued existence of life as we know it.
See? We're not so different after all.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) Once again, Boise State is in this gambling city for a bowl game to end yet another successful season. Unlike previous years, though, no one is talking about where the Broncos should really be.
There is no BCS controversy for the No. 20 Broncos coming into the Las Vegas Bowl to play Washington. No talk about Boise State being in the chase for a national title, either.
But if this season is what rebuilding is all about, Boise State coach Chris Petersen will gladly take it.
``Part of the problem with sports today, particularly college football, is that you do well and that sets the bar high,'' Petersen said. ``In our case it's set so high that anything but a perfect season is looked upon differently.''
Petersen's team wasn't perfect this year, though the Broncos aren't complaining about a 10-2 season and a national ranking. Not after losing six starters from last year to the NFL draft and having to find a quarterback to replace Kellen Moore, who went 50-3 as a four-year starter for Boise State.
Still, the year could have been even better had the Broncos not lost a 21-19 game at home to San Diego State that might have kept them out of a bigger bowl game.
``Win one more game and we're in the BCS,'' Petersen said.
Instead Boise State is in the Las Vegas Bowl for the third straight year, hoping to come up a winner in the city once again. They're five-point favorites against a Washington (7-5) team that had won four in a row before being upended in overtime by Washington State in the regular-season finale.
In a bit of a twist, it's the first of two straight games between the two schools. Boise State travels to Washington next year to open the season in the newly renovated Husky Stadium.
``It sets the stage for an intriguing offseason for nine months before the rematch here at Husky Stadium,'' Washington coach Steve Sarkisian said when the matchup was announced. ``I think it's pretty cool.''
Boise State has won two straight Las Vegas Bowl games, the first coming after an overtime loss to Nevada cost the then-undefeated Broncos a certain spot in a BCS game in 2010. Last year, Boise State lost 36-35 at home to TCU on its way to a 12-1 season that ended with a blowout win over Arizona State in the bowl.
If playing in the relatively minor Las Vegas Bowl was a disappointment for Boise State the last two years, it's a reward this year after a season that would be good by any standards other than those set by Petersen's teams in Boise.
``It's a good matchup,'' Petersen said. ``And the players are always excited to come to Las Vegas.''
That goes for the players on Washington, too. Aside from a well-stocked gift room for players to select something for their dorms, the city's hotels and casinos are always a lure.
``A lot of people wanted to go the Vegas Bowl,'' quarterback Keith Price said. ``Obviously it's a fun place to be, but we've got to channel the team kind of and set certain limitations and make sure we're focused and ready for the game.''
The Huskies looked like they wouldn't have a postseason during a three-game slide that included blowout losses to Oregon and Arizona. But they rebounded before a startling loss in the Apple Cup.
Price will be trying to rebound from an interception in overtime that led to the loss to Washington State and ended the regular season on a down note.
``We lost a game we shouldn't have lost,'' he said. ``I was mad about it. But I can't do anything about it now. People are going to blow it up or whatever. We should have won the game.''


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Wilson County offers the best of both worlds - easy access to the bustling city and the beautiful Tennessee countryside. It's located directly east of Nashville, and it's home to three major cities -- Lebanon, Mt. Juliet, and Watertown.
This county is no stranger to shopping opportunities. Boutique and antique shops abound. And as a big plus, the schools are well-respected in the state. The well-known liberal arts college, Cumberland University, is only a short trip from Wilson County.
Wilson County has plenty of outdoor activities, too. At Cedars of Lebanon State Park, you can hike, picnic and see a variety of wildlife. It even offers horseback riding.
In Mt. Juliet, you'll find Charlie Daniels Park, which boasts an amphitheater with music, a playground, a park for toddlers, a skate park and a walking track.
You'll have your choice of home styles in Wilson County, and many homes come with the added benefit of a few acres of land. Prospective homebuyers will find plenty of smaller homes, brick ranch-style homes and even million-dollar estates. No doubt, rehab opportunities abound in this area, making it an affordable option for those who enjoy suburban living near a bigger city.


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Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, D-Endwell, Broome County, wrote to Department of Environmental Conservation chief Joe Martens, expressing concerns she has over an in-progress review of the potential health impacts of hydrofracking and shale-gas drilling.
Specifically, Lupardo lays out six questions for the commissioner that she said she wants addressed at a meeting of the panel, which the assemblywoman serves on.
"I also have several other concerns that I have been waiting to discuss with the panel," Lupardo wrote. "We never fully completed our analysis of potential negative economic impacts and mitigation strategies. As you know, I am especially interested in urban impacts given the nature of my Assembly district."
The hydrofracking panel was unveiled in July 2011 at the same time the DEC released a draft of its environmental review of the controversial technique used with drilling. It was formed to come up with recommendations on a fee structure for drillers that would fund additional regulators, as well as ways to limit or prevent any negative impact on local governments
It met several times between July and December of last year, but postponed and canceled several meetings before it was officially put on hiatus in January of this year. The panel hasn't met since mid-December 2011, and never met in public or issued any recommendations.
Both the DEC and the state Department of Health have been criticized by environmental groups for a lack of public information regarding the health review. Health Commissioner Nirav Shah declined to discuss it yesterday when approached by a reporter.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Kelly Clarkson and I have this in common: We are currently obsessed with Miranda Lambert 's "Mama's Broken Heart." I can't stop singing it, turning it up, dancing to it and quoting it incessantly ("Run and hide your crazy and start acting like a lady" and "I numbed the pain at the expense of my liver" come up in everyday conversation quite often.) And Clarkson can't stop talking about it to Lambert. "Well, I have been on her about that," Clarkson told CMT. "I have! I'm like, 'Why are you not releasing that song? It's like my favorite on the record!' I love that she is a girl that can sing something really sassy and feisty but then sing something like 'The House That Built Me' or 'Over You.' " I heard that a bunch of Nashville's girl singers wanted to record "Mama's Broken Heart," but Lambert won that fight. Hopefully, the ones who didn't get to cut that song will be able to keep it together even when they fall apart.


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When Meyer came out with the new 22690 Pistol Grip they incorporated power out to the plow light Modules to switch on the plow lights. The Touchpad was set to be discontinued as an option. Meyer offered no adapter to replace a Pistol Grip with a 22154 Touchpad. So we made one and offered it for sale. Eventually Meyer decided to keep the Touchpad as an option, and came out with an adapter to replace a 22690 Pistol Grip with a 22154 Touchpad. The problem was (and still is) that you then need to install a switch to turn on the plow lights because the Touchpad does NOT send power out to the Modules. The answer? This modified Genuine Meyer Adapter 07691 allows you to plug in the Meyer Touchpad Controller (PN 22154) with 6 pin plug to a 12 pin Meyer Pistol Grip VEHICLE harness (22691 or 22691S). The Meyer Pistol Grip Controller comes with an Adapter (22717) to go to the 6 pin white rectangular (15764) Touchpad Harness (which is useless with a 22691 harness).
You need this 07691 to use a Touchpad with a 22691 or 22691S Universal Truckside Harness. The problem is if you have a 22690X or 22690DC Pistol Grip controller, it turns on your plow lights, so now you need a switch to turn on the plow lights because the Touchpad does NOT turn on the plow lights. Under the hood or behind the grille is the connection to the Modules (orange wire). Now you need to run a wire from the cab switch out to the Modules connection. You have to find the connection first! So it is not as simple as unplugging the Pistol Grip, plugging in this 07691 Adapter and Touchpad and off you go. You MUST install a switch for the lights. We have made it MUCH easier for you. WE modified the Genuine Meyer 07691 Adapter with an extra (orange) wire that can be connected to the Switch (which we include) so you do not have to make any changes or connections under the hood or behind the grille to the 22691 or 22691S Universal Harness. WE also include a Genuine Meyer Switch Kit with the 07691 Adapter as a package deal. The 07691 Adapter has a List Price of $44.97 and the 08701 Switch Kit has a list price of $16.96, total List Price for these two parts is $61.93.
This is the most painless way to use the Touchpad, and the best part is once installed, you can switch back to the Pistol Grip by simply unplugging the 07691 and plugging in the Pistol Grip! So in a couple of seconds you can switch from one controller to the other if need be, or if one driver prefers one controller over the other. You can also keep the Pistol Grip as a spare should the Touchpad ever fail.
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Edward Mazria is an internationally recognized architect, author, researcher, and educator with a long and distinguished career. His award-winning architecture and planning projects span over a forty-five year period, each employing a cutting-edge environmental approach to design. His comprehensive knowledge of design, planning, climate change and alternative energy sources are focused on a dramatic reduction of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions generated by the Building Sector, as well as building and regional adaptation strategies for projected climactic and environmental changes.
Mr. Mazria has reshaped national and international dialogue on energy and climate change to incorporate building design and the 'Building Sector'. He is the founder of Architecture 2030, an innovative and flexible research organization focused on this issue. He developed and issued The 2030 Challenge, a measured and achievable strategy to dramatically reduce global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030. He speaks nationally and internationally and has taught architecture at several universities including the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, University of Colorado-Denver, and UCLA.
His awards include: AIA Design Awards, Commercial Building Awards from the Department of Energy, "Pioneer Award" from the American Solar Energy Society, Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association, Equinox Award from Earth Alert, National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation, the inaugural Hanley Award from the Hanley Foundation, Mumford Award from Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, and the 2011 Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures. He is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.


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I found these germ fighting tips on a newsletter at work. Germs are bad, people. Germs are bad!
1. Take your shoes off and put them on a rack or in a closet nearest the door where you enter your house. Germs, allergens and other contaminants collect on shoes and can be tracked throughout the house.
2. Keep your toothbrush and toothpaste in the medicine cabinet. Flushing the toilet disperses microbes as far away as six feet, and many of them collect in the bathroom sink.
3. Avoid putting your purse on the kitchen counter or on any surface where food is prepared or eaten. Researchers have found that purse bottoms can contain more than 10,000 bacteria per square inch.
4. Use the end stalls in public bathrooms. The middle stalls harbor the most bacteria.
5. Frequently clean your cell phone and your hands-free headphones or bluetooth with an alcohol swab to remove bacteria.
Do you have any germ fighting tips to share?


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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Bloomberg not empathetic because he's a great manager
From the NY Times:
If the early days of Hurricane Sandy played to Mr. Bloomberg's strengths — infrastructure expertise, no-nonsense crisis management — the extended and halting recovery has laid bare his limitations. After nearly 12 years of overseeing the nation's largest municipality, he remains deeply uncomfortable with the role of consoling and soothing his city. He is rarely seen at public meeting with storm victims, and when he does interact with them, there are no tears or hugs.
While President Obama, touring the region on Thursday, embraced residents on Staten Island, Mr. Bloomberg hung back. He is more at ease in formal news briefings, where he ticks off facts about food-distribution centers and corporate donations. Asked on Tuesday to reflect on the scenes he had witnessed in the Rockaways, the mayor demurred. "We're just going to deal with it," he said.
Mr. Bloomberg has not been absent: since the storm hit, he has made more than a dozen visits — unannounced to the press — to hard-hit areas in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where he spoke with displaced residents. By design, the trips are kept private. Videos, edited at City Hall, are sometimes posted on a YouTube page, although often without sound, so the mayor's conversations with residents cannot be heard.
Aides said the mayor considered it crass to expose suffering residents to scrutiny.
"His interactions with people who live in these neighborhoods are not designed for the press," Howard Wolfson, the deputy mayor primarily responsible for fortifying Mr. Bloomberg's legacy, said.
His aides said the mayor would ultimately be judged on how the city rebounds, not on empathy, although they are keenly aware that Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire who urged New Yorkers to take in a Broadway show in the wake of a blizzard in 2010, is always at risk of falling into caricature — perhaps never more so than now, as he confronts a staggering crisis at the end of his final term.
"The people in this city didn't elect Mike Bloomberg three times to give him a hug," Mr. Wolfson said. "His focus is helping people restore their lives. That's what he believes government is there to do."
Great. When is he going to start doing that?
9 comments:
- Suzannah B. Troy artist said...
Mike responsible for largest abuse Inckudung theft of tax payer money EVER in history of NYC starting with ECTP 911 system 2 billion 14 mill dollars -- failed again Hurricane Sandy but NYT won't report or investigate. CityTime, NYCAPS, 311 failed during Sandy, FDNY wireless, NYCWiNS, etc.
Not news why? Mike and his mini me who green lighted mega corruption revolving door of corruption and rewarded culture of failure would have to resign.
Green lighted corrupt tsunami of community crushing development and Sandy helped expose that too.
See my new youtube Jill Kelley a one woman terror org. Get in to 911 CityTime Mike Rudy.
See "Zipper" Coney Island doc exposes Bloomberg and u see Amanda burden do much plastic surgery and injections in her face she looks like soulless zombie
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
- Suzannah B. Troy artist said...
ps I created Howard Wolfson resign blog. We r forced to pay him almost 200,000 dollars to tweet and spin and he did not even vote for Bloomberg. Wolfson deputy mayor of lies is a slimy campaign manager who loathed mike until mike bought him like a cheap piece of candy. Besides parking placard and chauffeur how is Mike funneling mula and perks - like he did to Allison Jaffin, Haggerty etc ?
Lucky Mike no actual leaders running for mayors so he can rule nyc via his puppet Christine Quinn - 4 and 5 term from golf course?
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
Look at him with all those bodyguard thugs.
I think its clear that city council is no longer interested in serving the needs of those who pay the taxes that support their lifestyle.
You want something done for your community? Don't ask your councilman. The are building their resume. They are (perhaps) lining their pockets.
You are an annoyance to be dealt with by either ignoring you or paying someone to slit your throat (figuratively of course) to shut you up if you are too stupid to take the hint and your assigned place.
Convince a strongman with deep pockets to adopt your community and make it part of his retainers.
You are no longer a freeman.
You are a surf.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
- georgetheatheist said...
"Serf". Jeezus mee spel gud.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
I've been in hizzoner's presence--up close--on at least 2 separate occasions.
Bloomberg is a basically a bean counter who made it very, very big!
He can only warm up to stock quotations and financial figures. Interacting with people puts him extremely ill at ease.
And, what the hell is John Liu doing at his side?
There's another bean counter for you.
Could these 2 financial "mavens" be possibly dating?
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
George, I've come to a conclusion.
Both "Snake (sic) Plissskin" and "Missing Foundation" have got to be the same guy posting here.
They both make the same type of spelling errors.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
Der Bloomberg is colder than the fish that got washed ashore by Sandy! German Jews are rarely warm and fuzzy like Russian Jews are.
They often harbor contempt for those Jews whom they consider beneath themselves.
"But we are Germans", they cried to the Nazis, as they were herded into the railroad cars.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
You should call him Der Bumbleberg.
He f----d up NYC real good.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
Is gas rationing in Queens still necessary???
- Saturday, November 17, 2012


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Alright fellas, I am going out of town for a few days so it's going to take me a bit to get things sorted, let me know what you are wanting in terms of hits, refractors, rc's and I will get shipping posted later in the week.
Thank you all for participating and sorry the case was not a little better. I will try and get a scan or two posted of the decent hits sometime before I leave.


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Sol Jobrack
Dean's Scholar
Political Science
College of Social Sciences
Why did you choose your major?
I chose Political Science because I have always been fascinated with politics and government. When I transferred to San Jose State University the professors in the Political Science Department were so great and the classes were so much fun, that it was an easy decision to stick with the major.
What does receiving this particular award mean to you?
Like everyone else who has ever been awarded the Presidents or Dean's scholar … it is a remarkable feeling as well as an honor. Being recognized for the hard work I put in day-in and day-out is wonderful, it is great that this University recognizes those of us who work so hard.
Who has been instrumental in your life and/or who has contributed to your academic success?
I really would not be here at SJSU if it were not for my amazing and supportive wife,
Jessica. She works hard everyday to make sure I am able to give the right amount of
dedication and finish my education.
The professors have also contributed to my academic success, because as I have transitioned back into the college life after nearly eight-years, they have made themselves available before and after class as well as in their office to answer or assist me with any question that I have ever had.
Did you overcome any hardships or adversities during your life, that has helped shape who you are today? And if so, could you please briefly elaborate?
I attempted a different career path when I was younger, and it did not work out. Having to get up, brush myself off, get my head straight, and finish my college education was very important to me. I also wanted to make sure that when I came back to college, I took my education serious since I would be paying for it.
What would you say to other students to encourage or inspire them to attain academic excellence?
The thing I would say, is something my parents always used to tell me when I was young and wanted too just squeak by, the harder you work now, the more fun you will have later. If I had taken my education more serious when I was just out of high school, I would already be in a great place with much more opportunities.
Where would you like to be in 5-10 years?
Hopefully in 5 to 10 years I will be working in politics; my goal is to be at the Capital in Sacramento or working at a political consulting firm.
A few words from his nominating professor:
"Sol is a self-supporting student who works fulltime as a conductor on the ACE train.
This is a very responsible position, as he is in charge of the train and all its workers
and passengers. He lives in Stockton, CA with his wife who is a teacher and their
new (December 2012) baby daughter, Ava. He works on the train as it comes from Stockton
early in the morning to San Jose each day. During his daily layover he attends classes
at SJSU, then leaves in time to work on the train as it goes back to Stockton. In
addition to working fulltime, being a husband and father, Sol is also the president
of the Political Science Honors Society, Pi Sigma Alpha. He has rallied that organization
by going to undergraduate POLS classes this fall and recruiting new members. He then
organized a presidential debate-viewing event for all POLS and MPA students at the
Hilton Hotel in October, taking the day off to be present, which was attended by over
100 students, faculty, alumni and locally elected officials. He has worked collegially
with the MPA Student Association leadership to create the 2013 Convocation for our
department. He is an outstanding scholar and student leader."
-Frannie Edwards


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From Loon Lake, the brigaders rode northwest, crossing the range of hills that lay between them and their immediate destination, the Bonaparte River.
The photograph at the top of the page was taken in the Bonaparte River valley, and shows the range of hills that the men crossed as they rode north from Loon Lake.
The map to the right shows the route that the brigaders took once they left the north end of Loon Lake -- according to Alexander Caulfield Anderson's 1867 map, anyway.
The lake at the bottom right of the map is called "Hudson's Bay Lake."
I was unable to determine whether this lake is part of the Brigade Creek system shown on my posting of August 23, 2009 -- New Brigade Trail, Copper Creek to Loon Lake.
I think, however, these names give a pretty clear indication that the brigade trail did once follow the Brigade Creek system to Loon Lake.
The photograph to the right is of the Bonaparte River, and it shows the range of hills the brigaders rode over to reach their next destination, Green Lake.
The brigaders rode around the south end of Green Lake and up its west side for a short distance.Today the place where their trail would have been has been chewed up by the installation of the natural gas line that runs past the south end of Green Lake.
This photograph looks in the direction the brigaders came from, and they rode away from Green Lake to the left and behind the photographer.
At the place where a stream flowed from the west into the lake, they left the lake to ride along the stream's north bank, to the west.
Probably they then mounted an esker -- a gravelly ridge left behind by the glaciers -- and followed that esker as it lead toward the place where their path would join the old brigade trail west of Drowned Horse Lake.
Anderson admired the beauty of Green Lake, and wrote of it in his draft unpublished manuscript, British Columbia: ".... Lac Vert, or Green Lake, so called from the sea-like tint of its waters. This lake, in length some thirty miles, is a beautiful sheet of water. Several streams run into it; but it has no free outlet. There is a slight subterranean drainage only, into the Bonaparte, a tributary of the Thompson. The water, therefore, kept within limits chiefly by evaporation, is brackish."
The photograph above is also of Green Lake, taken from half way up the lake's shore. You can see that we are now in aspen country.
A little while ago I spoke of the furtraders following an esker from Green Lake toward Drowned Horse Lake.
The photograph to the left will show you what an esker is -- but this is a completely different part of the country than the Cariboo.
The narrow sandspit that runs across Osoyoos Lake, in the South Okanagan, is an esker -- the gravelly bed of the stream that once covered the lake that now exists here.
This esker, or sandbar, across Osoyoos Lake was used for thousands of years by the natives who lived here.
Later the fur traders crossed Osoyoos Lake by this natural bridge. In fact Anderson waded across the lake by this natural bridge many times as he brought his Fort Colvile brigade west to the foot of the Coquihalla range, after 1848.


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Have you wondered how much memory was being consumed by SQL Server? Have you wondered if there was a way to find out that information from a tSQL command?
On occasion it would be nice to be able to find this information. A command was provided for this very purpose. Have you heard of DBCC MemoryStatus?
As stated in the MSDN documentation for this command, "The DBCC MEMORYSTATUS command provides a snapshot of the current memory status of Microsoft SQL Server." (MSDN). There is a grundle of information that is provided through this command. I recommend reading the documentation on it to better understand the outputs – otherwise you may completely misunderstand the results.
Sometimes, you may just want to find high-level usage information. For a snapshot of that high-level information, you could try a query such as this:
[codesyntax lang="tsql"]
Declare @MemTable Table
( row_id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(100), value BIGINT );
INSERT INTO @MemTable EXEC ( 'DBCC MEMORYSTATUS' );
SELECT top 1 Name,convert(decimal(16,2),value) / 1024/1024 'MBUsed'
FROM @MemTable
WHERE RTRIM(LTRIM(name)) = 'Working Set';
I got the idea for this query online (slightly adapted) from the following blog. Go check it out. Once you delve into the result set of dbcc memorystatus, you can quickly see how many possibilities there would be for various scripts based on the results.


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Roberts to carry on Blackburn's mission at UVA
In the end, UVA didn't have to look far and wide to find a replacement for its longtime and beloved Dean of Admissions John Blackburn, who died January 21 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Yesterday, the university announced that Greg Roberts, Blackburn's right hand man for the past six years, has been selected to fill the role– a hiring decision Blackburn himself had urged the University to make in a letter to the hiring committee before his death.
In a release announcing the decision, UVA president John Casteen called Roberts "the logical choice," and described him as "seasoned, thoughtful, respected by colleagues here and nationally."
While it's a plum promotion to be savored, for Roberts, climbing to the top rung on UVA's admissions department ladder is "bittersweet" as he grieves the loss of his "fair, honest and humble" mentor whose legacy, he says, he hopes to carry on.
Roberts says he got his first taste of Blackburn's generosity and humility while he was working in the Georgetown University admissions office and applying to work at UVA. After having one interview in Charlottesville, he says, Blackburn called him wanting to spend more time with the candidate before making a hiring decision.
Blackburn didn't, however, want Roberts to have to make the two-hour trip a second time, so he suggested they meet in a less formal setting in-between:
"I'm wearing a suit, but we sat at McDonald's in Madison, talked about life in general, family, sports, books, and things like that," says Roberts. "It was so typical of him."
Although Blackburn was able to work through last summer, by fall, says Roberts, he was too sick to come to work. Roberts has been filling both roles since then, sorting through a record number of applications– about 22,000 to fill the 3,200 slots available. (He says about 6,000 will be offered admission.)
While Roberts says he hopes to continue Blackburn's legacy of inclusiveness– Blackburn was known for increasing diversity at the school and for promoting AccessUVA, which guarantees financial support to students accepted at UVA who can't pay tuition and costs– he expects to face new challenges, particularly with the country's current economic woes.
"We're in a time when people are having difficulty affording college," says Roberts, adding that tuition is not the only cost of college these days.
"There's a widening gap between how students prepare to get into college," he says. "Some have consultants, essay workshops, while [for] others there's no way they can do that."
Technology, too, is rapidly changing the face of college applications. Roberts oversaw UVA's transition to online applications this year, and he says he will continue to look for innovative ways to communicate with and attract prospective students.
The next few months are the busiest time of the year, says Roberts, noting that the application decision deadline is April 1. "This will be Jack's last class," notes Roberts. "That's what's driving us– to bring in a great class for Jack."
After that, says Roberts, it'll be time to look to the future.
"We'll evaluate how we've done this year," he says, "and think about how we can creatively address challenges ahead."
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I guess Moran can now reduce her threats to the classroom by $400K. It is too bad she uses the classroom as the first place to cut spending (to raise public attention) and not any of the high priced executives, directors, coordinators or assistant whatevers positions. Do we REALLY need a bulging administrative staff/salaries Pam?


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The Climate of Climate Science
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Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on September 28th, 2012. I am Steve Mirsky. On this episode:
Reporter: What is Le Chatelier's principle?
Bastardi: It simply says that any system in distress, physical or chemical in the atmosphere, tries to return to a normalcy, and that is why you are seeing temperatures level off.
Steve: That's meteorologist Joe Bastardi appearing on Fox News, and what he is saying is utter nonsense as numerous scientists have noted. In this episode, we're going to hear about the results of an analysis of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal's editorial page that demonstrates how the overwhelming majority of their climate coverage is wrong. That analysis was undertaken by the Union of Concerned Scientists and on September 20th, I attended a briefing they held in New York City. The first voice you'll hear is Angela Anderson, director of the Climate and Energy Program for the union. You'll also hear James McCarthy; he's the president of the board of the union. He is also a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the Alexander Agassiz professor of biological oceanography at Harvard, and he holds faculty appointments in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He knows things. And he'll have some fascinating things to say that we don't hear enough about, about Republican senators who are not James Inhofe being much more accepting of the science of climate change. You'll also hear the voice of Bryan Walsh, senior writer for Time magazine.
Anderson: When it comes to climate policy, we know there are legitimate debates about the response to climate change. There is widespread agreement on some responses, such as energy efficiency, conservation; those have clear environmental and economic benefits. But on other proposed responses, such as international climate treaties; there is tremendous contention based on a wide variety of issues that individual countries and individual interests have, be they economic values or ideology and, of course, politics. But we've been troubled at UCS to see anti-science argument creep into debates about responding and adapting to climate change. In North Carolina the state legislature has voted to ignore scientific projections of sea level rise, and in Virginia, legislators have voted to avoid even the term 'sea level rise'; they call it 'recurrent flooding'. We also know that broad media coverage of climate change is decreasing, and some media outlets continue to actively spread disinformation and misinformation that actually distorts the science, and we're talking more about that too. But for now we're going to turn to a good conversation with our two panelists with us: Dr. James McCarthy—I know Jim from being chair of our board, but he is also professor of oceanography at Harvard University, and he is a past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and we also have Bryan Walsh, the senior writer of Time magazine. Jim let me start with you. Let's start first with the state of the science. What can we say with highest confidence that is true about climate change?
McCarthy: It's been very interesting to watch climate science develop over the last 25 years, and one way to look at markers for our understanding of climate science—and by understanding I mean broadly agreed to facts and positions—would be to look at, kind of, 1990 and 1995, about 2000 and mid-2000s, which are the timings of the release of the big international reports. And so if you went back and look at the first one, and I was an author in the first one which was published in 1990—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—there were a lot of scientists who didn't believe the observations were sufficiently robust. We didn't have a long enough record; the signal wasn't large enough, either for land temperatures or ocean temperatures, to say that that something unusual is happening to the climate. There was also no indication that there was an unusual frequency persistence of extreme events. And sea level rise, well sea level had been rising, it looked about the same. By 2000, it was clear that this trend was continuing in a way that could only be explained by human activities and there specifically greenhouse gases—it couldn't be explained by any natural cycles, certainly it couldn't be explained by solar variability. Also for the first time in about 2000, the data were now sufficiently consistent to show that there were some unusual trends in extreme events—that warm events and wet events and dry events were occurring in ways that we hadn't seen in the past. And in every continent we were seeing organisms change patterns of distribution, timing of migrations, egg laying, nest building and the like, indicating that they were responding to a change in the climate. And for the first time we were also seeing that the rise in sea level was tipping up. It was, if you wish, accelerating. So, today you won't find science published in scientific journals that would refute either the statement that the Earth is warming in an unusual way, that it's warming mostly—and you can debate how much mostly is; it's more than half, but is it closer to 90 percent?—most of the warming is due to human activities. And that the implications of that are now widespread for natural and human systems. By natural systems I mean, you look at the ecology of organisms from low latitude to high latitude you see them responding; by natural systems, look at what's happening with respect to our coastal cities, challenges to infrastructure. Look at our agricultural system—look at the way it's being challenged by changes of precipitation. So I think, you know, that part of the science is really so thoroughly established that you won't find papers in scientific literature that challenge any of that.
Anderson: What about the summer of extreme heat, the drought and even that, coming off a very warm winter—can we say that, that is a result of climate change?
McCarthy: Well, that's the problem of saying any one event is a result of climate change. We know that this has been an unusual past couple of years in the equatorial Pacific; one of the climate cycles, the El Niño-La Niña cycle, and we have been locked in a, sort of, now two-year- strong La Niña cycle. The La Niña is a period that brings more aridity to the center of continents., But we also know that if you follow the projections of a warmer world, one of the patterns will be the drying out of the interior of continents, so—the interior versus the coastal areas. So, if you look at the natural cycle and say, "Well we would have normally expected this last couple of years to have been drier, would it have been from previous La Niñas likely to be as dry as it is now, setting record after record of number of days over 100 degrees and number of days without rain?" You can say, "Well, if other than, you know, this year we actually had a point where there were 400 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere; if it was more like 350 or maybe 280, which is what it was in the middle of the 19th century, would this have been as likely?" You would say, "No, the odds of this would have been far less likely. It could have still occurred but it would have been an extremely rare event." And as we look forward this is going to be more common.
Anderson: So it seems like over the time that you've spoken about, there was a time when scientists were projecting impacts and not, you know, what they expected to see given the trends. But now we're really at this, there's, kind of, a new part of climate science where we are really saying, "What of the impacts that we're seeing can be attributed to climate science?" And are we going to get better? Is it going to be easier to attribute a particular weather event to climate in the future? Or is it just, always has to be, we have to be quite careful about those kinds of attributions?
McCarthy: Yeah, well you have to be careful. And I think most people don't realize how cautious scientists are. And the most precious thing that scientists have is their reputation as a rigorous and credible scientist. And if you get out on the edge of this and start speculating that we're going to move in a particular direction, and it doesn't then raises questions about your judgment, and maybe, you know, your projections, your models are based on sound science and they didn't play out, but you have to be really, really careful to be cautious about that. So, what we are seeing, and this is a robust projection from models of the warmer Earth, is the repeat cycle. That is, you look at the 100-year storm, or the 50-year storm or the precipitation of that or a dry period; that the repeat cycles of those are shortening. So, you look at every continent in the last decade, we had events that would have been considered century-scale events, and yet within a decade every continent hit with major precipitation events at magnitudes that you wouldn't expect that frequent. So that's a very likely projection from a warmer world, which spins up the hydrological cycle; more moisture in the atmosphere, warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, and it's more energetic.
Anderson: So, obviously it's hard to have a conversation like this on a TV interview, shall we say…
McCarthy: It's terrible.
Anderson: So, on the other side, when you're watching the TV reports and the news reports of climate science or weather events how do you think the media is doing in terms of covering these connections?
McCarthy: Ah well, not well, not well. And it's hard to talk about the media colossally, but if you do a sampling of, say, daily newspapers you'll find that on average they don't cover the science very well, and they tend to—because, in fact, a lot of newspapers no longer have science reporters, they no longer have in-depth reporting; they're simply calling up a few people and getting a few sound bites. And you would guess from the print media—not the good magazines, but from the newspapers—that there is far more indecision within the scientific community as to what's really happening than is actually the case. And, I think, you know television doesn't do much better. I think certain magazines do, and also, I think, in many regards radio is a better source of information on the state of the science than lot of other media sources.
Anderson: So, how does that compare to your experience, for example, with testifying—your experience with the media—what about testifying before Congress and the level of knowledge with members of, our Congressional representatives in the Senate or the House; is there a parallel there or…?
McCarthy: Well, that's always, sort of, theatrical. I testified for the Senate committee on Environment and Public Works in early August, and the ranking minority member is very vocal on this subject—that's Senator Inhofe from Oklahoma; the chair of the committee is Senator Boxer from California. I've really found those experiences interesting because you do find senators or representatives asking thoughtful questions and often revealing positions that you wouldn't expect. So, for example, in this hearing there were only three other Republicans who came to the hearing—three members of the committee, that's maybe a third of the members, and there are about that twice that many Democrats. And none of the other Republicans who spoke—two of them spoke—would associate themselves with Inhofe's extreme statements. In fact Senator Sessions from Alabama said "Well, I think there's a lot we don't know here," but he said, "I accept the fact that the Earth is warming and that humans have something to do with it." Senator Boozman from Arkansas, afterwards for about 15 minutes, told me, "You know, I think this is a serious problem, but the inflammatory rhetoric is just bogging us down. We've got to figure out how to deal with it." He said, "I'm not a fan of cap and trade, but there have got to be other solutions." So, one of the things you learn from those hearings is something that doesn't come across when you have simply the spokesperson, in this case Mr. Inhofe for the Republican Senate, because he really soaks up all the air time, he's the one who speaks mostly about this. There are some very reasonable people who I think who you can engage in discussions on this, and I wouldn't know that unless I had opportunities like this.
Anderson: That's excellent news. So when you think, all of this conversation, whether it be the media or the Congress, it comes down to, How does the public perceive the issue of climate change? And I just had a meeting with, we probably had about 12 scientists in the room, and we were talking about communicating climate science. And they were, they just knew that if we just could get out more information out to more people, than the public will immediately see how important action on climate is. But we also know, from talking to social scientists, that it's actually not true that simply getting out more information, particularly more scientific, information doesn't necessarily change their minds. We really have to speak to them or connect with their values and be there and, kind of, get folks out of their comfort zones a little bit. Are scientists able to, kind of, make those connections do you think, or are they just too rigorously tied to their training that it makes it difficult for them to talk about these facts, you know, in a way that really does connect to people's lives and values?
McCarthy: Well, most of the public doesn't really have the opportunity to have a conversation with a scientist on certain issues like this. Most of the public, the people they do interact with whose opinions they respect and whose, sort of, values might be close to their own are often not terribly informed on these subjects, and so it's one of the reasons that we've spent a lot of time working with groups who we think could be helpful in validating the message of science. So, one for example, most of us have a good relationship with a physician, and yet I can tell you, it's really very surprising at how little knowledge physicians have of the problems associated with climate change. And increasingly, we're seeing very, very strong public health connections to the climate change that we're experiencing; not just heat waves—all sorts of respiratory disorders, associated either with change in climate or with the fuels that we're burning today and contributing to the quality of air. So we're working with physicians. I have also spent a lot of time over the last handful of years working with a group that I wouldn't have imagined would be as receptive and productive in this regard and these are the associations of Evangelicals, the National Association of Evangelicals, you know, with 40,000 churches and pastors. And a small handful of scientists had been asked to review and critique—and I'm part of this group—all the statements they send out to their pastors about climate change to make sure they're correct; to make sure that if a local church wants to get involved and looks at its carbon footprint, they're not getting confused by what they would find on the Internet, but they're getting something that has been passed to them with a level of authority. And the notion of stewardship is strong and deep in that community, and they're also concerned about the people who are going to be most affected by this. The other community that we've spent a lot of time with over the last few years is the national security community. And I recently, on a committee with half-a-dozen former recently retired admirals and generals—we all had clearance, we did a lot of classified material—and every single one of them are extremely concerned about the implications of climate change for national security. And on that topic, I have met with the staffs of many conservative senators, introduced to them by my colleagues in the evangelical community to talk about national security and climate change. So getting other constituencies involved, people who have respect and authority and have an opportunity to communicate in ways that scientists don't with the public is something we try hard to do at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Anderson: We're going to bring Brian into the conversation here. I wonder how you deal with, particularly on the blogosphere, as there are I imagine, writing pieces knowing that a significant segment of the audience just doesn't accept the basics premise of the science.
Walsh: That's challenging, you know; and you know, there's always a risk in, especially I think, in the past there was way too much of this in terms of what we call 'false balance'; which is to say, you know, pointing out that you need another side to a story that doesn't always have another side. And when it comes again to the scientific basics of climate change that's the case. And you know personally, well I don't feel the need to put in disclaimers or to find one of the smaller number of skeptical scientists for a quote for a story, because I don't think that would accurately, within the bounds of the story, represent what's actually going on. But at the same time, you know, it's difficult because so many of your audience those who are, who do reject that, who are the more skeptical, tend to be the loudest often, and they are often the ones you hear from. And, you know, when you're working in what is essentially, sort of, one of last mainstream publications like the Time magazine is, you know, you are trying to reach a broader based audience and that that means you're challenged in how to do that. I don't, you know, what I look to try to do I think is in many ways the same thing that you're looking to do when it comes to trying to spread that message which is, Alright, what are the areas that we can find more agreement on? So you go to things like business, the business case, for things like alternative energy, energy efficiency—these are areas that have much broader political support, and they don't require you really to delve deeply into climate science or reports anything like that; you just know that this is something that's worthwhile for the United States; ditto with things like energy efficiency that you can, sort of, work on your own. And then maybe even things like health that really get people, that they really get people where they live. You know, one piece I did recently was on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's book. And it's really amazing to see at that time, environmentalism, especially in the aftermath of that book, became a bipartisan issue and that was because it struck people where they live. It was hard to deny that pollution was a problem when, you know, you had rivers, you know, being ignited into flames in Cleveland, and you had obvious clear air problems, and so people really worked on that. Climate change is going to be more diffuse, and it's going to be invisible, and that's going to be hard both the cover; but it's going to be hard to keep people involved in that because it doesn't strike them at home in the same way that other environmental issues have.
Steve: Later in the session the Union of Concerned Scientists released the results of their analysis of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. Here is the brief podcast about that that I produced immediately after the event.
Ekwurzel: We were following up on anecdotal and peer-reviewed assessments to date that suggested that there was bias and mis-representation at the News Corporation of the fact that human-induced climate change is happening; the vast scientific evidence that's out there.
Steve: Brenda Ekwurzel is a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. She announced in New York City on September 21st the results of an analysis of climate change coverage at two major properties of the News Corporation, the Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal.
Ekwurzel: What we found in our analysis was that a staggering 93 percent of all occurrences in the last six months in the prime time news of Fox News were misleading occurrences of climate science. Okay for The Wall Street Journal opinion section in the last year, we found a surprising 81 percent of the occurrences were misleading; and of the accurate ones, these were all letters to the editor that were submitted in response to misrepresentations in editorials or other letters. So, a broad swath of News Corporation viewers and readership are being misled about the science.
Steve: Which brings us back to Joe Bastardi. He is WeatherBELL's chief meteorologist and he is a frequent expert commentator on Fox News. Here he is talking about the impossibility, in his view, that simply increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could have anything to do with an increase in planetary temperatures.
Bastardi: It contradicts what we call the first law of thermodynamics: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. So, to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source. It's already out there, carbon dioxide being a part of it; maybe the sun.
Reporter: What is Le Chatelier's principle?
Bastardi: Well, I will tell you what he…
Reporter: Did I pronounce it pronounce it properly?
Bastardi: Well, I don't know, but you make a mistake with his name, it won't be as bad as if you make a mistake with mine. It simply says that any system in distress, physical or chemical, in the atmosphere, tries to return to normalcy, and that's why you're seeing temperatures level off. We have warmed up overall over the last 20 to 30 years; over the last 200 years because of sun spot cycles, you can trace it to the sun spot cycles, and you can trace it to the movement of the oceans.
Steve: Yikes! Calling these statements wrong would be elevating them to the level of reason. The first law of thermodynamics simply stated is: The energy of an isolated system is constant. Well, the Earth is not an isolated system. We have energy reaching us from a giant ball of gas undergoing constant thermonuclear reactions. Bastardi's statement is an equivalent of saying that you can't boil a pot of water by putting it on a fire. Le Chatelier's principle does not say what he says it says. It describes chemical systems in equilibrium. When you disturb a system that's in chemical equilibrium, it will establish a new equilibrium. Climate is not merely a chemical system, and it's not in equilibrium—that big ball of gas constantly inputs energy. But even if climate could be described by Le Chatelier's principle, he is still wrong—you don't return to normalcy following a shock to the system; you establish a new normal, if you want to call it that. Bastardi's statement here again is not even wrong, it's nonsense—as anybody who took a couple of chemistry or physics courses, which Bastardi presumably did, should know—and this is the stuff that gets fed to Fox viewers as science. Well just listening to that requires me to just spend the next few hours sitting quietly in a dark room to lower my blood pressure. So that's it for this episode. Get your science news at our Web site, http://www.ScientificAmerican.com, where you can check out the new Instant Egg-Head video, "How Do 3-D Glasses Work?" and follow us on Twitter, where you'll get a tweet whenever a new article hits the Web site. Our Twitter name is @sciam, S-C-I-A-M. For Scientific American's Science Talk, I'm Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.


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The U.S. is literally funding Iranian nuclear capabilities.
As CNN reports, the U.S. state department has given millions of dollars to two Russian institutes which, in turn, are directly helping to ramp up Iran's nuke capacity at Bushehr and other facilities.
This is especially ironic given that the U.S. has accused Iran of producing fuel for nuclear weapons at Bushehr.
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First off let me apoligize for the lack of baseball entries. Although I couldn't be more proud of the Rockies right now I can't concentrate on writing as my mind is elsewhere.
Most of you that know me know my oldest came out to stay with us a couple of weeks ago. She was here for five days and on the sixth day she walked into Nederland, CO to make a phone call and we haven't seen or heard from her since.
Her taking off unexpectedly is not uncommon, but her leaving without any of her belongings is. I really don't know what to do so I'm reaching out to my friends and the baseball community and asking if you see my little girl please let me know.
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Naomi was involved in a violent Domestic Violence Incident in Reno, Nevada on 07/15/09 with a suspect named Robert Amata DOB 04-05-58. Amata is possibly associated with the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club and has a history of Obstruction, Resisting Arrest, Dangerous Weapons, Drug Possession, and various Domestic Violence offenses. Naomi is needed to testify against Amata in the case in Nevada and her family is concerned for her welfare in that she disappeared from their home in Colorado without taking any of her belongings. If Naomi is contacted please check on her welfare and contact Boulder County Sheriff's Office Detective Ali Thompson at 303-441-3643.
I realize this is a shot in the dark but it's all I've got and worth a shot. I'm not looking for your pity I'm just looking for my daughter. Please if you see her or even think you did shoot me a message.
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After talking about International Archives Day recently, I have asked Patricia Owen, who has spent many years hunting down books and manuscripts in libraries and archives, to write a guest post about her experiences of using them.
The papers kept by a family, a firm, all the way up to the London Metropolitan Archives and the National Archives at Kew – all give us access to the original documents which record the past.
To see the very words written to commute the sentence of hanging for my Irish rebel ancestor, Nicholas Delaney, to transportation to an ultimately prosperous life in Australia was a memorable result of visiting the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.
The first I knew about him was when I walked into the Old Post Office in Hartley, New South Wales, to ask if they had any information about the farm my father grew up on. I was handed a transcript of my great-great-grandfather's trial deposited by a relative of ours.
But consulting the archives at Borough level has become more difficult in this time of cuts. Hammersmith and Fulham [in London] was reduced to opening two days a month, with one trained archivist and volunteer helpers struggling to cope with a roomful of enquirers.
The co-operation of the borough with Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea has just given us a day a week; a help, if not what we used to take for granted.
Ancestor tracing and local history are as popular today as they are valuable in bringing the past to life; we need to support the archives that let us see and handle its records for ourselves.
Patricia Owen was for many years a lecturer in teacher education. She has been an announcer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was the second-ever winner of BBC Television's Mastermind. She writes about local history and is also the co-author of A Rebel Hand: Nicholas Delaney of 1798.
The UK National Archives have just published a blog post guide to preparing for a visit to archives. I think it's well worth reading.
Update: Patricia Owen died on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Rest in peace.


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EDMUNDSTON N.B. - It survived 14 combat missions over Nazis Germany, but can it survive another winter standing unprotected in the New Brunswick wilderness?
That's what keeps Troy Kirkby awake at night. He was still eight years away from being born when Lancaster Bomber KB882 rolled to a stop for the final time in 1964 to retire at a small rural airport beside the TransCanada Highway just east of Edmundston. Yet Kirby has become this bomber's most loyal protector.
He is spearheading a campaign to build a protective hangar for the bomber. Plus, he has spent hundreds of hours crawling through the airplane to maintain its good looks and its structural integrity.
Only 17 of the 7,377 Lancaster Bombers built during World War II still survive as complete airframes. Victory Aircraft built 430 of those Lancasters at Malton, Ontario and KB882 is one of only four known to still exist.
More than 3,300 of them were lost in battle.
After surviving its missions over war-torn Europe, KB882 served another 12 years with RCAF 408 Squadron mapping Canada's high Arctic and keeping an eye on Soviet ice stations.
Kirkby never served in the air force and never went to war, but over the years has created one of Canada's largest personal museums of World War II aviation paraphernalia.
The Spitfire Arms Alehouse on Water Street overlooking the Avon River in Windsor, Nova Scotia, was the home for Kirkby's aviation collection since he opened the pub in 2003. "It was a dilapidated 104-year-old abandoned building, but I thought it would be a good location for a pub. We removed more than 20,000 pounds of debris during six months of restoration," said Kirkby. Out went the debris and in went the huge accumulation of Battle of Britain memorabilia that Kirkby had been collecting since he was a kid.
"My grandmother Vicki mesmerized me with her stories about living through the blitz. She was a WAAF (women's auxiliary air force) in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and she could recognize airplane types just by their engine sounds."
That triggered his passion for World War II aircraft and their stories.
During that same war, his grandmother's brother operated the Packington Arms, a pub in the Islington area of London. Hearing the family's stories of pub life generated his passion to own and operate a pub.
But the Spitfire Arms was primarily a place to display his air war collection. When Kirkby's passion for travel got too strong last summer, he sold his pub.
Mychele Poitras came to the rescue as to what would happen to his truckload of air war memorabilia. She is public relations director for the city of Edmundston and found an area at Madawaska Historical Museum in Edmundston to house Kirkby's Lancaster collection and to promote his dream of creating a protective hanger for the famous airplane.
Kirkby's Lancaster display opened in the museum in September and by year's end more than 3,000 visitors have heard the story of Lancaster KB882.
The four-engine bomber is wearing its post-war RCAF reconnaissance colours. The 50-caibre machine guns were removed from its nose turret to be replaced by survey cameras.
Only a short steel-link fence surrounds KB822 as it stands on its large rubber tires 30 metres off the TransCanada Highway and about 100 metres west of the large "Welcome to New Brunswick" tourist centre.


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This video was taken in Salem, Oregon at the capitol on March 14, 2013. We decided to stroll up and ask some questions – the answers get really interesting at the 3:00 mark of the video. Initially, a young woman began to answer our questions but very quickly she was pulled back so a staffer could take control. The staffer proceeds to explain that Multnomah County has very different values and politics and as such, makes decisions for school based health clinics based upon those values and politics. The audio is not great but you can still understand, turn up on the volume on your speakers when listening. There were a lot of high school students milling around so there was quite a bit of back ground noise.
There were many children present at this school based health clinic booth that were brought in by the bus load. At least three school buses were seen in the capitol parking lot that Thursday. Interesting to note that after many of these children were set loose in the capitol with their talking points, a charter bus full of Planned Parenthood folks showed up and followed right behind the kids as they talked to legislators. Coincidence?
Thanks to Carlton Tilley for taking the video