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ATLANTA (CBSNewYork/AP) — The experienced Syracuse Orange are perfectly content wearing teams down with their octopus-like zone defense. The Michigan Wolverines are youthful and love to run, run, run, which has raised obvious comparisons to the great Michigan teams of the early 1990s.
Michigan's current talents are brushing off any comparison to the Fab Five.
Besides, the Wolverines have a chance to do something that group never did.
Win a national championship.
Michigan, making its first Final Four appearance since the Fab Five era, takes on suffocating Syracuse in a national semifinal Saturday night that presents a clear contrast in styles.
Not so fast.
"We're nowhere near the Fab Five," said Michigan forward Glenn Robinson III, son of the former NBA star. "They changed the face of college basketball. We try to stay away from all that."
Michigan hasn't been to the Final Four since 1993, when the squad featuring Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson lost in the championship game for the second year in a row.
These Wolverines have some of that same vibe, with a lineup that features three freshmen — Robinson, Nik Stauskas and Mitch McGary — and a sophomore leader, Associated Press player of the year Trey Burke.
A couple of weeks ago, King dropped by one of Robinson's classes to talk about an era that is still remembered fondly at Michigan, even though the triumphs were eventually thrown out by the NCAA because of illicit payments to Webber.
"The Fab Five is such a tremendous story, five tremendous guys that did something special," coach John Beilein said Friday, a day when all four teams got a chance to practice in the cavernous, 70,000-seat Georgia Dome that is normally home of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
Syracuse, of course, couldn't care less about some Michigan team from two decades ago.
The Orange are ready to unleash their stifling 2-3 defense on this group of Wolverines.
"It's going to take them a while to adjust to the zone," said junior guard Brandon Triche, who, like the rest of his teammates, was brimming with confidence that defense is going to carry Syracuse to Monday night's title game against either Louisville or Wichita State.
The Michigan players quickly got wind of the comments coming from Syracuse's media session.
"It sounds like cockiness," said guard Tim Hardaway Jr., another son of an ex-NBA star on the Wolverines roster. "But it's not going to come down to just talent or who has the biggest players. It's going to come down to heart and passion."
Having a player such as Burke doesn't hurt, either.
The sophomore already came up huge in the regionals, leading the Wolverines back from a 14-point deficit against Kansas with less than 7 minutes remaining. He knocked down a long 3-pointer at the end of regulation to tie the game, then finished off the upset of the top-seeded Jayhawks in overtime.
But Burke has never played against a defense quite like this.
"We've just got to try to find different ways to attack the zone," he said. "They play a really good 2-3. It's tough. We've got to make sure we knock down uncontested 3s."
The zone is usually viewed as more of a passive defense.
Not the way Syracuse plays it.
Coach Jim Boeheim assembled a bunch of guys with impressive size and surprising quickness. When they're all working together — waving those long arms and moving back and forth in unison, like the ocean lapping at the shore — it can be tough to get an open jumper and nearly impossible to work the ball inside.
Syracuse (30-9) has taken its trademark D to new levels of stinginess in the NCAA tournament.
The Orange have surrendered a paltry 45.75 points per game, holding Montana (34), top-seeded Indiana (50) and Marquette (39) to their lowest scoring totals of the season. Overall, Syracuse's four tournament opponents have combined to shoot just 28.9 percent from field (61 of 211) and 15.4 percent from 3-point range (14 of 91).
None of those teams had a player like Burke.
That doesn't seem to matter to Syracuse.
"It's tough to go against our zone when you've never seen it before," forward C.J. Fair said. "We want to force him to do some things he's not done before."
Michigan (30-7) prefers to get in the open court as much as possible, a style that is even more advantageous against a team such as Syracuse, which has a size advantage at almost every position.
The Wolverines are averaging 75.5 points a game on the season, even more (78.8) in their four NCAA games. Last weekend, after stunning Kansas, they romped past one of the nation's best defensive teams, beating Florida 79-59 in the regional final.
They are certainly not intimidated by Syracuse.
"If their zone was unbeatable, then they would be 39-0," Hardaway scoffed. "We're just going to go out there, play our game, not worry about what they're going to do, and just play Michigan basketball."
Syracuse is playing in its first Final Four since the 2003 team won it all. This will mark the end of the Orange's long tenure in the crumbling Big East (they're moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season), and the players are keenly aware this might be the best chance to give Boeheim one more national title before he retires.
The 68-year-old coach has no plans to step down just yet, but certainly the bulk of his long, successful career is behind him.
Boeheim concedes that he's a little surprised to be in position for another championship, especially after Syracuse closed the regular season with four losses in its final five games, including a 22-point blowout at Georgetown. The Orange were seeded first in both 2010 and 2012, but didn't make it out of the regionals. This season, they advanced to Atlanta as a No. 4 seed.
"I wouldn't have expected going into the tournament that we were going to be here," Boeheim said. "This team has come together. Sometimes that happens at tournament time."
Good timing.
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Announcing the Divas of Daytime TV, Kassie DePaiva, Bobbie Eakes and Kathy Brier, will be at Prohibition in New York City on Sunday, April 19th at 7pm. Tickets are $15 at the door with a 2 drink minimum. Come and party with the Divas!!!
Save The Date:
What: Divas of Daytime TV: Kassie DePaiva, Bobbie Eakes and Kathy Brier
When: Sunday Evening April 19th at 7PM
Where: Prohibition
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Tickets at door - $15. 2 drink minimum
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Divas of Daytime in NYC
Announcing the Divas of Daytime TV, Kassie DePaiva, Bobbie Eakes and Kathy Brier, will be at Prohibition in New York City on Sunday, April 19th at 7pm. Tickets are $15 at the door with a 2 drink minimum. Come and party with the Divas!!!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
See ATWT's Marnie Schulenburg on Stage
Interview Y&R: Christel Khalil Wants to Test Lily's Mettle
Like most characters on a soap opera, Lily Winters has gone through a lot in the span of only a year. From losing the one that she loves, realizing that it wasn't true, then finding out the guy that she's with hasn't been truthful with her, well, that can change a girl.
Christel Khalil, who has played Lily on The Young and the Restless off and on since 2002, realizes that all these things can really have an effect on a girl. Christel says: "She's dealing with things that most people her age don't deal with. That will make someone grow up and mature."
Now that the cat is out of the bag that Chloe's baby really is Billy's, not Cane's, the aftershocks can still be felt. Lily was "shocked and disgusted and hurt. I think Lily always likes to believe the best in people, and to find out that Chloe is just plain evil is pretty sad for her. Lily is just too nice to people most of the time."
Cane and Lily are free to be with one another, but Christel believes this would have happened whether the truth about Chloe's baby had come out or not. She explains: "I think their true love would have prevailed either way. When Cane thought that the baby was his, it didn't matter, because he made it clear that he didn't care about Chloe in that way, and he wanted to be with Lily. I think that no matter what, Cane and Lily would have found their way back to each other."
So, what was the deal with Billy? Did Lily have feelings for him, or was he just a replacement for Cane while they were apart? "Lily was developing feelings for Billy. It started out as a rebound, but then she started to like him. She liked him, and she didn't really care about what anyone said. She was doing something that she really wanted to do and didn't worry about what other people thought."
Even though Cane is not the biological father of Delia, he still wants his parental rights. Christel reasons: "For seven months, he thought it was his child, and he grew attached to her. Whether it was his child or not, he didn't care; he really grew to love her. Lily understands his feelings about Delia, but she doesn't really agree with him trying to take the baby away from Chloe."
Behind the scenes, things are far from dramatic. In fact, it's a veritable lovefest. Christel says: "I love working with Elizabeth (Hendrickson, 'Chloe'), because she and I are such great friends. It's so fun to have fighting scenes with her, because we love each other so much. Also, I miss working with my family. I never work with my family anymore; I'm always with Cane's family. I miss working with Kristoff (St. John, 'Neil'). And I love working with Bryton (McClure, 'Devon'), because he and I are really good friends too."
So, Cane and Lily are back together. Now what? "I'd like for them to have some time together where they can be happy for a while, but then, bring on the drama!" Christel offers. "Drama is always more fun — maybe have something bad happen to test their mettle as a couple."
Days: Such a Tease!
•Sami introduces Grace to the family.
•Tony tries to write EJ a note before he takes his final breath.
•Lucas asks Sami if Grace is really her biological child.
•Kate (Lauren Koslow, pictured) offers Chloe a job to host a new talk show.
•EJ shocks Nicole by agreeing to call off the wedding.
Thursday – Anna goes to the DiMera mansion and slaps Stefano.
Friday – Bo asks Roman to stay away from Hope.
B&B: Such a Tease!
•Steffy has a difficult decision to make.
•Ridge and Taylor (Hunter Tylo, pictured) hope for a miracle.
•Katie makes an unsuccessful attempt to make nice.
•A family's secret is revealed.
•Owen acquires a new admirer.
Y&R: Such a Tease!
•Cane, Lily, Billy and Chloe have an angry stand-off over custody of Delia. Will Jill take sides?
•Neil is destroyed when Devon confronts him about sleeping with Tyra.
•After seeing Billy and Sharon together, Phyllis (Michelle Stafford, pictured) gets into a heated confrontation with Sharon. Will Phyllis keep her word to Sharon and not tell Jack?
•With Victor's help, Adam is released in his custody. Will this bring them closer together or tear them further apart?
•Kevin hits rock bottom when he thinks he killed Clint.
GL: Such a Tease!
•Lizzie learns just how far Phillip went to protect her.
•Natalia agrees to marry Frank.
•Beth (Beth Chamberlain, pictured) represents Phillip at his trial.
•Buzz meets his grandson.
ATWT: Such a Tease!
•Lucy gets an ultimatum.
•Jack (Michael Park, pictured) is forced to place Parker under arrest.
•Damian comes to Luke's rescue.
•Vienna gets devastating news.
Monday, March 23, 2009
GH: Such a Tease!
Jax struggles with whether or not to tell Carly what he's learned.
Robin finally admits she has a problem.
Ric blackmails Claudia to do his bidding.
Patrick continues to be frustrated by Robin's behavior.
Nikolas and Lucky clash over Rebecca.
Ric sets out to win Sonny's trust.
Jax confides his dilemma to Olivia.
Johnny tells Sonny he'll do anything to protect Claudia.
Claudia isn't out of the woods yet.
Nikolas and Monica are concerned for Rebecca.
Patrick implies to Robin he knows she's keeping secrets.
OLTL: Such a Tease!
Gigi can't believe how low Stacy is willing to sink.
Natalie and Jared's suspicions are confirmed.
Natalie fears what her newfound knowledge could do to Jessica.
Blair finds an unlikely champion in Tea.
Matthew's tragedy draws Bo and Nora closer together.
Gigi believes she's out from under Stacy's thumb.
Nora make a tough decision when it comes to Cole.
Rex gets devastating news.
Gigi has no choice but to give in to Stacy's demands.
Tea pulls a fast one in court.
Jared and Natalie struggle with whether or not to tell Jessica the truth.
AMC: Such a Tease!
Ryan and Kendall are drawn together in their grief.
Erica gives JR news about Adam.
Erica hopes Zach will fight to save his marriage.
Krystal tells David (Vincent Irizarry, pictured) to do whatever it takes to get Little Adam.
Opal has an eerie felling about Greenlee.
Zach squares off with Ryan.
Erica pulls a fast one on David.
Zach tells Aidan their deal is off.
David's temper flares at the custody hearing for Little A.
Kendall chooses between Ryan and Zach.
Reese is determined to win back Bianca.

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Out for dinner tonight in London, in town for the big premiere tomorrow.
What premiere?
Of course you know what premiere.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the film adaptation of the 6th book in her brilliant 7 book series.
There's no doubt Jo will be there tomorrow night. But tonight a warm-up with her husband, in trendy heels and a little black dress, she is sexy and styling and who's more badass than JK Rowling?
No equal.
I'm attaching this again. Because I know there are some of you who still have not watched. And you MUST. If you already have, I know you'll enjoy it again. And again. And again.
Part 1
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Microsoft Office 2016 now available for faculty and staff
Office 2016 is available from the UAB IT software site.
Office 2016 has new versions of applications including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. The Office 2016 apps are designed for collaboration, with new features that remove barriers for team success and allow co-authoring and Skype in-app integration.
Quick Start Guides for Office 2016 are available here.
Office 2016 is also available for Mac users and is available for UAB students through Office 365.
Mathematica is available for free to UAB faculty, staff and students, thanks to funding from the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering.
To learn more about the product and how to download Mathematica, click here.
Customers have used Mathematica for everything from engineering and math to art and architecture. Mathematica 10 software, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, includes these featured areas:
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Parents who take their children for "annuals" at the pediatrician's office -- is this even a common thing anymore? -- might be shocked to learn that their family doctor is about to give the classic wellness visit a serious upgrade. Whether or not they are at risk for high cholesterol, children between the ages of 9 and 11 will receive cholesterol tests because doctors believe these can reduce the chance that they will suffer from heart disease later on in life, according to new guidelines published this week by the American Academy of Pediatrics. If high cholesterol levels are detected in young children, docs say they can use preventive measures, like making recommendations on how they can change their diets and incorporate more exercise into their lives, in an effort to stop a major problem before it starts. And cholesterol screenings aren't the only change you can expect.
The recent guidelines also recommend that all newborns have their blood oxygen levels tested before leaving the hospital, which is excellent news because only 17 states currently require this cheap and life-saving screening. This test allows doctors to detect whether a baby suffers from congenital heart defects that can be treated prior to mom and dad bringing him home.
The AAP has included a guideline that children ages 11 and older be screened for depression and substance abuse. This isn't exactly new, as many pediatricians focus on psychological and physical well-being, but doctors will now have what sounds like a generic list of questions to ask in order to determine if your child may be at risk for depression and drug or alcohol abuse.
Perhaps the most controversial change to come involves HIV screening. Initially, experts considered recommending HIV/AIDS tests to children as young as 13. Pediatricians are now saying they should be administered to teens between the ages of 16 and 18, but that kids 13 and older could be considered if they are at risk.
Some parents may be opposed to these tests for moral reasons or because they don't agree that children younger than 18 have the right to confidentially receive their HIV test results. One thing is for sure: the wellness visit has certainly evolved and will no longer consist of doctors simply measuring adolescents' weight and height measurements or giving them shots. Time will tell whether families feel these changes are for the better.
How do you feel about the new guidelines issues by the American Academy of Pediatrics?
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We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts:
What shall we do for our sister, in the day when she shall be spoken for ?
are either the words of the daughters of Jerusalem,10071007So Sanctius in loc. who were concerned for the welfare of the church; or else of Christ,10081008Alcuin in loc. being solicitous for the conversion of the elect uncalled; or rather of the church,10091009So Theodoret. Tres Patres, & alii in loc. who, having in the preceding verse discovered a very strong affection to Christ, here signifies her hearty concern for the good of others, which go under the appellation of a little sister; an own sister, near and dear to her,10101010Germana mea sororclua Plauti Fragment. Cistellar, 5:15. a loving expression; by whom may be meant, either the unconverted elect in general; or else, some new church that was to be set up in some certain age or period of time; or rather, the whole Gentile church, who is called so by the Jewish church: so that they seem to be the words of the old Jewish church, signifying her affection to and concern for the Gentile church, which was then uncalled. In which may be observed,
I.That the Jewish church asserts and owns the relation that the Gentile church stood in, both to her and Christ, at that present time; "we have a little sister."
II.She describes her, 1st, By her being little, 2dly, By her having "no breasts."
III.She manifests her concern for her; "what shall we do for our sister, in the day when she shall be spoken for?"
I.The old Jewish church asserts and owns the relation, in which the Gentile church, though uncalled, stood in both to her and Christ; "we have a little sister." In which may be considered, 1st, In what sense the Gentile church is sister to the Jewish church. 2dly, How she appears to stand in the same relation to Christ. 3dly, How she could be said to be so at that present time.
1st, The Gentile church may be said to be a sister to the Jewish church, for these following reasons: 1. In a more general sense; because Jews and Gentiles are both of one and the same blood; for God "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth," (Acts 17:26), 2. On the account of their being neighbors: thus Samaria and Sodom are said to be sisters to Jerusalem; the one the elder, the other the younger (Ezek. 16:46). 3. Because, in a spiritual sense, those who are Christ's, whether they be Jews or Gentiles, are Abraham's seed (Gal. 3:28, 29). 4. The elect of God, whether among the Jews or Gentiles, belong unto, and are interested in one and the same covenant of grace (Isa. 42:6, 49:6). 5. Believers in Christ, of either race, are born of one and the same Father, brought up in one and the same family, and are heirs together of the grace of life (Eph. 2:19, 4:4). 6. Christ stands in the relation of an elder brother to the Gentile, as well as to the Jewish church; and therefore these two must be sisters (Rom. 8:29). 7. The church catholic or universal, with respect to its several parts, is called a mother, and that frequently in this song; see chapter 1:6 and 3:4 and 8:2 and so agreeably, the parts of it, with respect to themselves, may be called sisters, being mothers children. 8. They are of the same faith and religion, as to the substance of it: it is true, there is some difference as to the circumstantials of worship, which are now laid aside; but the true spiritual nature and object of it are the same: the Old Testament saints "eat the same spiritual meat, and drank the same spiritual drink," as saints do under the New; the articles of their faith are the same; for converted Gentiles believe "none other things than those which Moses and the prophets did say should come," relating to Christ's person, grace, work and office.
2dly, The Gentile church is not only a sister to the Jewish church, but also to Christ; therefore she does not say, I have a little sister, but we have one; which way of speaking perhaps she purposely makes use of, that she might stir up his affection and concern for her the more, she being as much related to him as she was herself: and it may be observed, that Christ is not ashamed to own his church, whether of the Jewish or Gentile race, as standing in this relation to him; nay, rather seems to take pleasure in viewing her under this consideration, as appears from his frequent use of it, in chapter 4:9, 10 and 5:1, 2, where this character is more largely opened.
2dly, There remains a difficulty in this clause to be removed; and that is, how the Gentile church could be said be£ore calling to stand in the relation of a sister, either to Christ or to the Jewish church; for she expresses herself in the present tense, we have a little sister: which difficulty will be removed, if we consider these following things; 1. She was so in divine predestination; just as the elect uncalled are said to be Christ's sheep before conversion (John 10:16), "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring in:" by which are particularly meant the Gentiles; who were sheep, though wandering, though not yet brought in by grace, nor folded in a church-state: the same are called, "the children of God" before conversion (John 11:52), though scattered abroad, and not openly and visibly appearing to be "fellow-citizens of the saints and of the household of God;" for though they are not in the possession of adopting grace, yet: they are "predestinated unto the adoption of children;" on the account of which they may truly be said to be related to the saints, who are called by grace, 2. The Gentile church was brought into this relation in the everlasting covenant; in which Christ not only stood as an elder brother and glorious representative to both churches, but also espoused them both to himself; so that they stood in the relations of sister and spouse to him, and of sisters one to another: thus Christ is said to be the husband of the Gentile church, before her calling and conversion (Isa. 54:5), "Thy maker is thine husband, the Lord of hosts is his name." 3. The calling of the Gentiles being sure and certain in God's promises, all whose "promises are yea and amen in Christ," it is represented as if it was already done: as things only promised anal prophesied of, though not yet fulfilled, frequently are in scripture (see Isa. 9:6, 53:3-5). 4. The Gentile church was a sister in the faith of the Jewish Church, who viewed her future calling as present; which agrees with the nature of faith, defined by the apostle (Heb. 11:1), to be "the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen?"
II.She describes this sister of hers: 1st, By her littleness. 2dly, By her having no breasts,
1st, She calls her "a little sister;" so the Gentile church was to the Jewish church, 1. In respect of age, being a younger sister: the Jewish church was first called, and then the Gentile; which is very fully and aptly expressed in the parable of the two sons, the elder and the younger, as is thought by some (Luke 15:12-25), the elder signifying the Jewish church at that time, which murmured at the grace of God bestowed upon the Gentiles; the younger, the Gentiles, who had lived in all manner of sin and wickedness, and was disregarded of God, but was now embraced with all demonstrations of joy, affection, and tenderness. 2. She is called so as being in some respects, less honorable than the Jewish church; "Who are Israelis," as the apostle says (Rom. 9:4, 5, 3:1, 2), "to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came therefore," as he says, the Jew has the advantage of the Gentile, and that much every way; but chiefly, because to them were committed the oracles of God. 3. The Jewish church calling the Gentile church "a little sister," may express her pity and compassion towards her, being like a young and tender infant, that is in a forlorn and helpless condition (see Ezek. 16:4, 5). 4. She may be called so with regard to her number of converts, either at that time, which were very few, few proselytes being then made among the Gentiles to the Jewish religion; or else, at the time when the gospel first came among them; "for this sect was every where spoken against;" and indeed the whole number of Christ's sheep, either among Jews or Gentiles, are but a "little flock, when compared with the world." 5. She was then more especially, as also at her first calling, but little in spiritual stature; her light, knowledge and faith, being but small, not having as yet arrived "to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ," she was to grow up unto.
2dly, She says, that "she has no breasts;" that is, 1. She was not arrived to years of ripeness; she was not marriageable; her "breasts were not fashioned," as in Ezekiel 16:7, the time of her open espousal to Christ, by the preaching of the gospel, was not yet come. I call it the time of her open espousal to him; for she, as well as the Jewish church, her elder sister, was secretly espoused to Christ in the everlasting covenant (see Isa. 54:5), but she was not yet espoused to him in that sense in which the apostle Paul says (2 Cor. 11:2), of the Corinthian, which was a Gentile church, "I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ;" the time fixed upon for it in ancient council not being yet come; 2. She had "no breasts;" that is, at this time she had no ministers nor ordinances, from whence she might suck and be satisfied, with the sincere milk of the word: moreover, it was some time after the gospel came among the Gentiles, that they had a settled ministry; which was fixed by the apostles, who "ordained elders in every city."
III.The Jewish church signifies her very great concern for the Gentile church, being thus little, and without breasts, saying, "What shall we do," or "shall be done for our sister?" Which shews, 1. That this little sister was in a state of nature, uncalled, unconverted, poor, miserable, forlorn and helpless. 2. That the Jewish church was concerned for her, was moved with pity and compassion towards her; and would gladly contribute all she could towards her everlasting salvation; as the apostle Paul was for his unconverted kinsmen and relations (Rom. 9:1-3). 3. That she not only wished her well, but was willing to do any thing for her that lay in her power; though she seems, in some measure, to be at a loss what to do; and indeed the converted Jews were very much assisting to the spreading of the gospel among the Gentiles: they were Jews who first carried the gospel into the Gentile world; for it was proper that "out of Zion should go forth the law or doctrine, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem;" and when tidings of the Gentiles reception of the gospel "came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem," they sent forth others also on the same errand; nay, supplied them with money, that so they might not be burdensome to the Gentiles, nor give them any occasion to reproach the gospel; for the fund or stock, which was raised at Jerusalem by the believing Jews, who knew that their land would be laid waste, and their city destroyed in a little time, and therefore sold their lands and possessions, and put the money into the apostles hands; this, I say, seems to be designed, not only for their own use, but for the service of God in spreading the gospel among the Gentiles; who, when they had churches settled among them, upon that consideration were called upon to make collections for these poor saints at Jerusalem. 4. She is not forgetful of the main and principal agent in this work, who is Christ; therefore she says, what shall we do? she was willing to do what she could; but she knew that all her endeavors would be of little significance, without his agency and blessing: she could send her ministers; but if Christ did not: go along with them, and bless them, they would meet but with little success; as it is said, "Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted," says Paul; "Apollos watered, but God gave the increase," (1 Cor. 3:5, 6).
The time that the Jewish church had in view, and is concerned what should be done for her then, is, "the day when she shall be spoken for, or with."10111011hb rbdyç µwyb en huera h ean lalhqh en auth~, Sept. In dic quarrier sermo in ca, Montanus; quando ei colloquendum erit, Figurine version. By which may be meant, either, 1. The time of the first preaching of the gospel among them, which, to them, was the "accepted time and day of salvation" when Christ, by his ministers, spoke to and for them, wooed and beseeched them; treated and communed with them, as David with Abigail, about openly espousing them before the world: it seems to be an allusion to persons treating either with virgins themselves, or with their parents,10121012Vid. Aben Ezram in loc. about their marriage. Or, 2. It may refer to the fame that was spread abroad of the conversion of the Gentiles: when it was first effected, it made a great noise in the world; the faith of a single church, the church at Rome, was "spoken of throughout the whole world:" thus the clause may be rendered, "In the day when she shall be spoken of;"10131013Die quo sermo fict de ca, Mercerus Junius, Brightman; in die quo verba fient de ea, Cocceius. that is, when her fame shall be spread far and near; and some will say one thing of her, and some another: now the Jewish church seems to be concerned how she would behave herself under all this noise and talk about her. Or else, 3. The words may be rendered, "When she shall be spoken against:"10141014Vil. Targum, Shirhashirim Rabba, & Jarchi in loc. & Bereshit Rabba parash. 39. fol. 34. I. this has been the common lot of God's children; this sect, as it is called, has been in all ages and in all places spoken against; and no wonder, for Christ himself is "set for a sign, which shall be spoken against:" now the old church might be concerned for this new church of the Gentiles; that she might be able to stand firm and constant to her profession, notwithstanding all the reviling, reproaches and persecutions of men. Or, 4. They may be read thus, "When she shall be spoken to;"10151015In die quando alolquenda est, Vulgate Laria version. that is, when the great men of the world, as Nero, and other heathen emperors, shall call her before them, and tempt her, either by fair words or severe menaces, to desert the faith, of Christ: O! that she might stand fast then, as if the church should say, and not be moved away from the hope of the gospel; neither be frightened by their threatenings, nor deluded by their promises: she was jealous of her, as the apostle Paul was of the Corinthian church, lest she "should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." Now this should teach us in general, from the example of the Jewish church here, to be concerned for all the elect of God uncalled, and particularly for those among the Jews; we should earnestly pray for them, and use all proper means and methods to bring them to the knowledge of Christ: the time is coming, when they shall be spoken for, shall be called by grace, and openly espoused to Christ; and seeing they were so much concerned for us, when we were little, and had no breasts, we should be as much concerned for them, they being now in the same case and circumstances.
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"The hot-button issue of unregulated health-care costs underscores this engaging memoir of marriage and terminal illness….While retracing the path of [her husband's] terminal prognosis, [Bennett] uncovered a flawed system of mismanaged lab information, astronomical insurance charges and conditional physician reimbursements. The author leaves readers with more questions than answers after dealing with an industry that sets prices "like a giant Chinese bazaar" yet facilitated her husband's participation in experimental clinical trials….A moving, beautifully written chronicle of true love and a clarion call for health-care reform."
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It's not that my kids aren't capable of interesting conversation, or even occasional displays of empathy, it's just hard to consider them good company when I know that they view me as a representation – of boundaries, of safety, of dinner. They cannot fathom that I would have needs and insecurities, or be weighed down by solitude. Mid-week, after going three straight days without adult conversation or changing my juice-stained shirt, my children may sense a bit of melancholy clouding the eyes of their cereal, milk, and pretzel producing mother, but that is where the pondering ends. And that is where it should end, I believe, for they are still too young and fragile to be wincing at the pangs of isolation.
I remember when I first felt it, at the age of ten or eleven. "It's like I'm homesick," I tried to explain to my preoccupied parents "except the weird thing is that I haven't left for anywhere." Over time I would grow to recognize that gnawing sensation as loneliness, as an inability to feel at peace in my surroundings. Marriage couldn't fill it - the gaping hole stuffed to the brim with high expectations that suddenly, and without warning, would chew up those ideals like a garbage disposal, leaving nothing but the familiar emptiness I had carried since adolescence. Motherhood, even with its constant exposure to other human beings, tiny and needy as they were, did not distract me from the underlying awareness that sometimes my skin feels too tight, and my heart too boxy for beating comfortably within its temporary encasement. My spirit, like a caged tiger, paces with the suspicion that it was created to run faster, jump higher, and travel further than is possible behind these hard as metal barriers of skin and bone.
Participating in Divine Liturgy at my neighborhood parish on Sunday mornings is not only refreshing because I get to sing, to worship, to commune, to wear shoes that clap instead of squish when they walk across a floor, but also because of my place within the center of its community. What does a stay-at-home mother of four have in common with a fifty-year-old businessman, or a harried graduate school student facing midterms and 20 page papers? What could she find so fulfilling in cups of coffee with fellow parishioners, as varied as the colors in a rainbow? What, you may ask, is so thrilling about a bunch of normal people listening over the shrills of nap deprived toddlers to a pointed homily from a priest, who is also normal yet miraculously exceptional in that he has been blessed to offer from his imperfect hands the untarnished flesh and blood of our Savior? Everything I tell you, and the only thing that matters!
Beneath the nearsighted eyes, graying hairs, and wrinkled dress shirts standing in line for the Eucharist, I find God, Himself, burning in the souls of the ordinary. I find an eternal connection through shared prayers, and longings for something greater, something purer, something tangible in this world of illusions, where reality is as foundationless as a snow fort melting in the heat of the sun. Only when I cease to view myself as an entirety, when I accept my place as a toe, or a knuckle in the greater body of Christ, can the life force of heaven pulsate through me, warming my insides with purpose. Only here, in the Church, where mingling with saints and angels is also normal, yet miraculously exceptional, can my spirit get a taste of liberation. Only here, within the context of absolute Truth can my identity become solid and defined.
The fact that your face lights up with recognition when I say, "sinfulness," "redemption," or "eternity," that you come and participate with the "great cloud of witnesses," when you could have slept in or cleaned out your garage, that around your neck I see the glimmer of a silver chain from which dangles a cross silently claiming your allegiance to the death and resurrection of Jesus, gives me courage to keep walking forward. Within a Trinity is how God chose to manifest Himself - three in one, distinctive yet impossible to pin down and separate. This is our example, our justification that the overlapping of joys and sorrows from your life into mine, binding us together through salvation, is holy and right. This is why every self-serving pursuit will undoubtedly disappoint us. Midweek, after dabbling in my share of worldly cares, melancholy calls me Home – back to the body of Christ, where the ordinary become extraordinary, where heaven touches earth, where you and I entwine our lives with faith.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone had a relaxing and nice Thanksgiving! My family and I decorated our house for Christmas all day, ya it's an all day process for my mom. But I love looking at all the Christmas lights. :) Anyway, when John and I went to Hershey we went to their outlets that are right next door and I picked up some earrings for myself, took pictures and thought I'd share. Right now their buy 2 get 1 free! :)
Cute clay cupcake earrings
Cute snowflake earrings, love these ones!
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Suppose $f: X\rightarrow S$ is of finite type, S is Noetherian. Now X=Spec B is affine, but the morphism f is not an affine morphism. S is not affine (or really f does not factor through any affine subscheme on S), nor is S of finite type over $\mathbb Z$. Now my question is, can we have an immersion of $X\rightarrow \mathbb{A}^n_S$ as S schemes?
Remark: If S is affine this is trivial. Moreover when f is an affine morphism I think it can also be done. When S is of finite type over $\mathbb Z$ by transitivity of finite type we get a map $X\rightarrow \mathbb{A}^n_{\mathbb Z}$ therefore by universal property of fiber product we get a map $X\rightarrow \mathbb{A}^n_S$.


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I thought the classic one was chess? Okay, rules, competition and some sort of physical exertion.
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on December 07, 2018, 10:14:23 amI thought the classic one was chess? Okay, rules, competition and some sort of physical exertion.Rules, competition, and an element of skill (i.e. you can't compete just by someone more experienced telling you what to do, like chess).
you forgot poetry
And remember that friends who organise things on Facebook aren't proper friends anyway.
Town Planning?
Quote from: Basil on December 07, 2018, 11:28:05 amTown Planning?Is a sport required to have a winner? If so, I don't think Town Planning qualifies, especially at professional level.
"Along with town planning, the lineup of events also included painting, sculpture, literature and music. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Games, believed art and architecture were a vital component for his vision of the Olympics. The first four decades of the modern Olympic Games saw runners and swimmers competing alongside authors and urban planners."
I can see the evolution skiing to snowboarding, but to skateboaring?
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
I wonder when the last time was that a team scored 16 goals without reply in two matches in 4 days?
Hmm I might go a support them, they clearly have the same level of interest in sportsball as me. Go to the park, have a natter and a laugh with mates, if there is a ball just kick it about in a meandering way and when you get tired of that, head to the pub for a few.
If you are looking for teams which have conceded a lot of goals this year, then look no further than Florence FC from the Staffordshire County Premier http://www.staffordshirecsl.co.uk/TeamFixtures?age=22&division=21196&team=209799That's 110 goals conceded in their last six matches with none scored.IMHO Florence should have been relegated last season after they finished bottom but the league failed to do. However, I would vote them team of the year as they have turned up and tried their best at all the matches they have placed this season.
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Some of you may recall my status as a supporter of the Cleveland Browns (US football) - a team with a rather poor record these last few decades.Today I learned I'm in august company - Friedrich Nietzsche is a Fan of the Cleveland Browns.
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a advocacy group based in Washington DC with long ties to tobacco disinformation campaigns. It calls itself "a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. We believe that individuals are best helped not by government intervention, but by making their own choices in a free marketplace."[1]
Until August 2007 CEI's website CEI stated that it served "as both a think tank—creating intellectual ammunition to support free markets—and an advocacy organization—putting that ammunition to use in persuasive ways."[2]
It postures as an advocate of "sound science" in the development of public policy. However, CEI projects dispute the overwhelming scientific evidence that human induced greenhouse gas emissions are driving climate change. They have a program for "challenging government regulations", push property rights as a solution to environment problems, opposed US vehicle fuel efficiency standards, and spin for the drug industry.
Many of its claims have been debunked. Here are a few examples related to climate change:
- Annenberg Political Fact Check, "Scientist to CEI: You Used My Research To "Confuse and Mislead," May 26, 2006.
- "Thank you for emitting", Real Climate, May 18, 2006
- News Bureau, University of Missouri-Columbia, "MU Professor Refutes National Television Ads Downplaying Global Warming: Engineering Professor Curt Davis says TV Spots are Misrepresenting His Research," May 19, 2006.
See also:
- The Competitive Enterprise Institute And Global Warming; and
- CEI Programs & Projects for more details.
CEI was founded in March 1984. In 1986, it began its "free market legal program," which seeks to overturn government regulations that the CEI regards as inappropriate, such as regulations pertaining to drug safety, rent control, and automobile fuel efficiency (see the case study, Fuel efficiency standards and the laws of physics).
By 1992, CEI's annual budget had reached $765,000. That year it helped coordinate "Earth Summit Alternatives" to counter the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, generating anti-environmental commentary that appeared on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, National Review, Washington Times, Detroit News, Investor's Daily, Inside EPA's Clean Air Report, CNBC, C-SPAN, CBS Radio and Voice of America. It also published its first book, titled Environmental Politics.
In 1992, Jonathan Adler, CEI's director of environmental studies, wrote Implementing the U.S. Clean Air Act in Arizona in conjunction with the Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research, a small think tank headed by Michael Sanera, a former professor of political science at Northern Arizona University and an adjunct scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation.[3] The following year they wrote another report "Reforming Arizona's Air Pollution Policy".
In 1994 CEI began working on a book with the Alabama Family Alliance and the Arizona Institute for Public Policy Research (also founded and headed by Sanera). Tentatively titled An Environmental Primer for Parents: How to Talk to Your Children About Environmental Issues, the book was eventually published under the title Facts Not Fear, with Sanera and Jane S. Shaw listed as the authors. It claims that environmental education in the classroom is a politicized effort to indoctrinate kids into becoming activists. Sanera was also instrumental in gutting a previously strong environmental education mandate in Arizona. He and CEI have become leading forces behind an ongoing, industry-funded campaign to eliminate funding for environmental education throughout the United States.[4]
In 1995, CEI joined several other think tanks in attacking Our Stolen Future, the book about environmental endocrine disruptors by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and Peter Myer. Just prior to the book's release, CEI released two separate studies belittling "the hypothetical risks to human health" discussed in Colborn's book. On the same day that CEI's reports came out, Consumer Alert (run by Frances B. Smith, the wife of CEI founder Fred Smith) issued its own news release labeling the book "a scaremongering tract."[5]
In March 1996, CEI's Michelle Malkin and Michael Fumento published "Rachel's Folly," which claims that dioxin is good for you.[6] CEI's Jonathan Tolman (who holds a bachelor's degree in political science), published a study that month titled "Nature's Hormone Factory," claiming that naturally-occurring chemicals produced by plants and other living organisms are as dangerous as industrial chemicals.[7] In December of that year, CEI submitted comments opposing the EPA's proposed air quality rule to limit particulate emissions, claiming that "the EPA has failed to consider whether the proposed standard may actually increase mortality due to reductions in disposable income that compliance efforts may produce. ... At all times regulation imposes costs that mean less real income to individuals for alternative expenditure. That deprivation of real income itself has adverse health effects, in the form of poorer diet, more heart attacks, more suicides."[8]
In 1997 Boston Globe reporter Jeff Jacoby described CEI as "one of Washington's feistiest think tanks." The same year CEI's Adler lobbied Congress to cut off federal funding for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.[9]
In July, it participated in an anti-environmental summit sponsored by the conservative Western States Coalition in Spokane, Washington. Under the theme of "Responsible Legislation Through Education: Solutions That Work," the conference showcased Michael Sanera's attacks on environmental education. Ironically, while much of the conference focused on the alleged indoctrination of school children by environmentalists, the event featured a "trade show" of industry-sponsored K-12 curricula and materials.[10]
CEI was also active in opposing the 1997 international global warming negotiations in Kyoto. CEI staff including Fred Smith, James Sheehan, Jonathan Adler and Marlo Lewis featured prominently in a list of "experts" provided to reporters by the industry-funded Global Climate Coalition. "The campaign against the 1997 Kyoto global warming treaty waged by right-wing think tanks has been another area where corporate America has heavily invested in right-wing policy groups that advance its interest" noted author David Callahan in 1999."The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been a particularly aggressive advocate of the notion that global warming is a 'theory not a fact.' Since 1991, CEI's budget has grown from less than $1 million to over $ 4 million."[11] Callahan also noted that although the extent to which conservative think tanks rely on corporate funding support varies widely, CEI and the American Enterprise Institute "have two of the highest levels of corporate support, with both getting roughly 40 percent of their 1996 revenues from corporations."[11]
On October 29, 1999, CEI and Consumer Alert submitted comments opposing a proposed rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms banning makers of alcoholic beverages from labeling their products with statements about the alleged benefits of "moderate consumption" of alcohol.[12] In March 2001, CEI joined other similar think tanks and experts for hire (including the American Council on Science and Health, Steven J. Milloy, Dennis Avery, Consumer Alert and the National Council on Public Policy Research) in an open letter criticizing Starbucks for its decision to serve milk products only from cows not treated with genetically-engineered bovine growth hormone."Your action is unfounded, and harms consumers and the environment," they stated.[13]
CEI has also worked to cultivate a relationship with John Stossel, the controversial correspondent for ABC-TV's 20/20 program. When Stossel came under fire in August 2000 for citing nonexistent scientific studies on a 20/20 segment bashing organic foods, CEI set up a "Save John Stossel" website to help him keep his job.[14] Stossel returned the favor the following year by working with Michael Sanera to put together a program titled "Tampering With Nature" that focused on attacking environmental education. In March 2001, a pesticide industry front group known as Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE) sent out an action alert memorandum to its members. "Mr. Sanera has been contacted by ABC News," the memo stated." A producer for John Stossel is working on a program on environmental education. He needs examples of kids who have been 'scared green' by schools teaching doomsday environmentalism in the classroom. ... He has some examples, but needs more. Would you send out a notice to your group and ask if they know of some examples. Then contact Mr. Sanera ... Let's try to help Mr. Stossel. He treats industry fairly in his programs."[15]
Apparently neither Stossel nor CEI applied similar standards of fairness toward the schoolteachers and students they interviewed. Prior to the program's air date in July, several California parents of children interviewed by Stossel filed a complaint with ABC, stating that they had been misled about the nature of the program and the types of leading questions their kids would be asked. Seattle teacher John Borowski also reported being approached] by ABC producer Ted Balaker, who attempted to trick him into appearing on camera by claiming that he was making a documentary about Earth Day, while denying that he was working with Stossel and Sanera.[16]
CEI's commentaries frequently appear in media venues such as ABC's 20/20, American Spectator, Christian Science Monitor, Consumers' Research, Crossfire, Forbes, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, Moneyline, New York Times, Policy Review, PBS, Reader's Digest, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Washington Times.
CEI belongs to various conservative alliances, including the Alliance for America, Get Government Off Our Backs, Townhall.com, the National Consumer Coalition (a pro-corporate front group headed by Frances B. Smith, the wife of CEI founder Fred Smith), and the Environmental Education Working Group (EEWG), a national umbrella group for organizations working to undermine environmental education in schools. It is linked to the UK-based rightwing think tank, the International Policy Network, via shared staff and an identical US contact address. It also sponsors several other subsidiary organizations, including:
- The Center for Private Conservation, a green-sounding front group that opposes environmental regulations by claiming that "free market" solutions work better.
- The Cooler Heads Coalition, chaired by former CEI director Marlo Lewis and directed by Myron Ebell, CEI's Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy. The Cooler Heads Coalition was formed on May 6, 1997, "to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis." In March 2001, the nonprofit Clean Air Trust named Ebell its "clean air villain of the month," citing his "ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide."
- Michael Sanera's Center for Environmental Education Research, based in Washington, D.C.
CEI employs approximately 40 office people, including support staff and in-house and adjunct policy analysts. The personnel list is so extensive it has been shifted to Competitive Enterprise Institute/Personnel.
CEI's Budget
Since 1991, CEI's budget has grown from less than $1 million to over $ 4 million." David Callahan also noted that although the extent to which conservative think tanks rely on corporate funding support varies widely, CEI and the American Enterprise Institute "have two of the highest levels of corporate support, with both getting roughly 40 percent of their 1996 revenues from corporations." [1]
In its IRS Form 990 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, CEI reported revenues totalling $2,919,537 almost all of which were in the form of contributions from unspecified sources. Its net assets were $1,670,808. [2] (Pdf)
CEI's Foundation Funders
Media Transparency lists CEI as receiving a total of $4,296,645 (unadjusted for inflation) in 123 grants from a range of foundations in the period 1985 through to 2004. [3]
- Armstrong Foundation
- Barre Seid Foundation
- Castle Rock Foundation
- Carthage Foundation Scaife Foundations
- Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation (Koch Family Foundations)
- Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation (Koch Family Foundations)
- David H. Koch Charitable Foundation (Koch Family Foundations)
- Earhart Foundation
- Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
- Jacqueline Hume Foundation
- JM Foundation
- John M. Olin Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
- Randolph Foundation
- Rodney Fund
- Roe Foundation
- Sarah Scaife Foundation (Scaife Foundations)
- Scaife Family Foundations
- Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
- William H. Donner Foundation
Other Funding Sources
The Capital Research Center (CRC) formerly had a profile on CEI in its database on non-profit groups which listed corporate foundations and other groups not identified by Media Transparency. [4] However, since its profile was linked to this page in 2004, the profile on CEI has been removed from the database.
CEI does not publish a list of its institutional donors. However, in a CEI report sent to Philip Morris, the think tank identified a range of companies and foundations as having given $10,000 or more. [5] Contributors included:
- Aequus Institute
- Amoco Foundation, Inc.
- Coca-Cola Company, contributions were $25,000 per annum for the period 1991-1995;
- E.L. Craig Foundation
- CSX Corporation
- Fieldstead and Co.
- FMC Foundation
- Ford Motor Company Fund
- Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation
- Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
- Pfizer Inc.
- Precision Valve Corporation
- Prince Foundation
- Sheldon Rose
- Texaco, Inc.
- Texaco Foundation
- Alex C. Walker Foundation
In a 2006 profile of CEI and other global warming skeptics, Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach noted that "the most generous sponsors" of CEI's 2005 annual dinner were "the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Exxon Mobil, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and Pfizer. Other contributors included General Motors, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council, the Chlorine Chemistry Council and Arch Coal." [6]
Tobacco Industry Funding
A listing of documents specifically about contributions and support from tobacco companies to CEI:
- 1991 - $10,000 donation to CEI from Philip Morris (PM) [7]
- Feb. 9, 1993 - letter from Fred Smith of CEI to Thomas Borelli at PM thanking PM for support.[8]
- 1995: PM gives $200,000 grant to CEI for "general operating support" [9]
- 1995 : PM gives another $10,000 to CEI [10]
- 1997: PM gives $120,000 to CEI [11]
- 1998 PM Public Policy Contributions list. Says PM paid CEI $25,000 via check no. 390006 [12]
- (Non-financial item) 1998: Activity Report of Beverly McKittrick of PM states, "Worked on plan for mobilization of third--party conservative groups. Met with CSE, ATRA, Chamber of Commerce,Frontiers of Freedom, and Competitive Enterprise Institute." [13]
- 1999 Public Policy Contributions (PM): $5,000 paid via check No. 20601 [14]
- 1999 Activity report of PM's Thomas Borelli states: "Secured policy group committee funding to support the Competitive Enterprise Institute dinner" [15]
- Undated Brown & Williamson document listing pro-business organizations BW contributes to. CEI is on the list: [16] (see top of page 5, "Policy Organizations :Total $325,000")
- In 1999 PM budgeted $25,000 for CEI: [17]
Senior Staff Salaries
Salaries and benefits to its top employees for the year to September 30, 2004 were reported as follows:
- Fred L. Smith, president, $175,000
- Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, $100,000
- Sam Kazman, general counsel, $98,000
- Jody M. Clarke, Vice President, $85,000
- Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming, $82,000
- Martha Hutto, Vice President, $80,000
- Angela Logomasini, Director of Risk & Environment, $67,000
- Emily C. Duke, Vice President, $65,000
- Iain Murray, Global Warming Policy, $65,000
- Clyde Wayne Crews, director, competition & regulatory policy, $54,5000. [18] (Pdf)
Environmental Issues
Global Warming
For more information, see Competitive Enterprise Institute And Global Warming.
CEI is an outspoken anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change skeptic and an opponent of government action that would require limits on greenhouse gas emissions. It favors free-market environmentalism, claiming that market institutions are more effective in protecting the environment than is government In March 1992, CEI's founder Fred Smith said of anthropogenic climate change: "Most of the indications right now are it looks pretty good. Warmer winters, warmer nights, no effects during the day because of clouding, sounds to me like we're moving to a more benign planet, more rain, richer, easier productivity to agriculture." [19]
In May 2006, CEI's global warming policy activities attracted attention as it embarked upon an ad campaign with two television commercials. These ads promote carbon dioxide as a positive factor in the environment and argue that global warming is not a concern. One ad focuses on the message that CO2 is misrepresented as a pollutant, stating that "it's essential to life. We breathe it out. Plants breathe it in... They call it pollution. We call it life."[17] The other states that the world's glaciers are "growing, not melting... getting thicker, not thinner."[17] The other states that the world's glaciers are "growing, not melting... getting thicker, not thinner." It cites Science articles to support its claims. However, the editor for Science stated that the ad "misrepresents the conclusions of the two cited Science papers... by selective referencing". The author of the articles, Curt Davis, director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said CEI was misrepresenting his previous research to inflate their claims. "These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate," Davis said.[20]
Some of CEI's work on global warming policy includes:
- *Participating in (and reporting on) the UNFCCC negotiations in Montreal as an NGO in December 2005.
- A letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2006, after the Archbishop urged Christians to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The CEI wrote that reducing these levels, even in "baby steps," would "result in the deaths of more people in the U.S. than global warming would worldwide."[21]
- The Cooler Heads Coalition, which operates the website globalwarming.org. The chairman is Myron Ebell, the Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at CEI.
- In 2010, coincident with CEI's financial ills, the pace of CEI's work on climate change slowed significantly: national advertising campaigns ceased and, through the first half of the year, CEI's only studies on the topic were two letters written to regulators. and a disingenuous attack on mountaintop removal regulation.
Mountaintop removal
In January 2011, William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst with the the Competitive Enterprise Institute, charged that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) revocation of a permit for a West Virginia mountaintop removal mining operation - Spruce 1 Mine - "would trade jobs for protection of an insect that lives for a day and isn't even an endangered species."[18] The EPA, however, did not veto the permit because of a bug, but because the operation would have "buried more than six miles of high-quality streams" and "polluted downstream waters as a result," with inadequate mitigations offered by petitioner Arch Coal.[19]
Case Studies
- Fuel efficiency standards and the laws of physics
- Smoking as a civic duty
- The Competitive Enterprise Institute And Global Warming
Contact Information
Competitive Enterprise Institute
1001 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 1250
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 331-1010
Fax: (202) 331-0640
Website: http://www.cei.org
Articles and Resources
- ↑ Competitive Enterprise Institute, "About CEI", accessed March 2008.
- ↑ Competitive Enterprise Institute, "Economic Liberty", August 2007.(This page was on CEI's website between February 2005 and August 2007.)
- ↑ "Implementing the U.S. Clean Air Act in Arizona", Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research, 1992. ASIN B0006RW03C.
- ↑ John Stauber, "Facts Not Fear Wants to Make the World Safe for Styrofoam", PR Watch, Second Quarter 2000, Volume 7, No. 2.
- ↑ David Helvarg, "Poison Pens: When science fails, try public relations: the chemical industry's attempt to discredit Our Stolen Future", Sierra, Volume 82, Number 1, Januray/February 1997.
- ↑ Michael Fumento, Rachel's Folly: The End of Chlorine, Competitive Enterprise Institute, February 29, 1996.
- ↑ Jonathan Tolman, "Nature's Hormone Factory: Endocrine Disrupters in the Natural Environment", Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 31, 1996.
- ↑ Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute on the Environmental Protection Agency's Proposed Rule Changing the Ambient Air Quality Standards For Particulate Matter", NAAQS on the Web, December 13, 1996.
- ↑ Written Testimony of Jonathan H. Adler, Director of Environmental Studies for the Competitive Enterprise Institute", Submission to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, September 25, 1997.
- ↑ Western States Center, " Western States Coalition Summit VIII: The Anti-Environmental Lobby and Environmental Education", Western States Center, Jult 1997 (approx).
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 David Callahan, "The Think Tank As Flack: How Microsoft and other corporations use conservative policy groups", Washington Monthly, November, 1999.
- ↑ "Benefits of Moderate Alcohol Consumption to Get Their Day in Court", Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 11, 2001.
- ↑ "Consumer Groups Protest Starbucks Decision Not to Serve Milk From Growth-Hormone Supplemented Cows", Media Release, March 20, 2001.
- ↑ "More Than 1,200 Sign Petition Supporting Stossel", Competitive Enterprise Institute, August 22, 2000.
- ↑ 'Message from Allen James to RISE Members Alerts Team", March 27, 2001.
- ↑ Cheryl Seal, "Scared Green: How John Stossel, ABC, Rightwing Think Tanks and the Chemical Industry Are Colluding to Trash Environmental Education", Democrats.com, May 13, 2001.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Bank, Justin (2006-05-26). Scientist to CEI: You Used My Research To "Confuse and Mislead". FactCheck.org. Retrieved on 2006-05-30.
- ↑ Edward Flattau, "Corporate Hyperbole" HuffPo, Jan. 21, 2011.
- ↑ Ken Ward Jr., "Breaking news: EPA vetoes Spruce Mine permit" Coal Tattoo, Jan. 13, 2011.
Related SourceWatch articles
Internal CEI Correspondence With Tobacco Companies
- Competitive Enterprise Institute, "The Human Cost of Regulation: Reframing The Debate on Risk Management: A Proposal of The Competitive Enterprise Institute", Bates Number: 2047099454/9464, 1994.
- F.L. Smith Jr, "Letter to Dr Thomas J. Borelli, Director of Scientific Affairs, Philip Morris Management Corporation", Bates Number: 2046558291/8294, May 11, 1994.
- "CEI Science Policy: Clips and Highlights: January 1993 - April 1994", Bates Number: 2046558295/8296, May 11, 1994. (Pdf)
- F.L. Smith Jr, "Competitive Enterprise Institute", Bates Number: 2046558088/8099, March 1994.
- Philip Morris, "Invoice and Copy of Cheque to Competitive Enterprise Institute", Bates Number: 2046557956, July 20, 1994. (Pdf)
- T.J.Borelli, "Letter to Fred Smith", July 27, 1994. (Pdf)
- Fred L. Smith, Jr., "Letter to Ms. Maura Payne, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company", Bates Number: 525291068/1069, October 16, 2000. (Pdf)
General external articles
- Jeff Jacoby "Feds slow to wake up to alcohol's healthful effects", Op-Ed, Boston Globe, January 9, 1996. (Jacoby was a staff reporter).
- "Show Me the Science." The Clearinghouse for Environmental Education, Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) takes a look at a directory of "environmental experts" supplied by the CEI and other conservative think tanks. "Despite the claim that the directory is intended to provide a listing of scientists and economists to counter the prevalence of environmentalist political activists posing as self-appointed experts, over half of the people listed in the directory are described not as 'scientists' or 'economists,' but as 'public policy experts," CLEAR observes. Moreover, "their field of 'experts' is so thin that most of them need to 'specialize' in numerous policy fields in order to cover their bases." For example, CEI's Ike Sugg (whose academic credentials consist in their entirety of a bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science) "is listed as an expert in 5 different fields including animal rights, endangered species, innovative environmental solutions, land issues, and wilderness issues."
- Michael Dolny, ""The Think Tank Spectrum.", FAIR/Extra, May/June 1996. (This report studied the influence of think tanks on the media by doing a Nexis database search of major newspapers and radio and TV transcripts for 1995. It found a strong bias in favor of conservative think tanks like CEI, which were cited 7,792 times in news stories, compared to 6,361 citations for centrist think tanks, and only 1,152 for progressive think tanks.)
- Barbara Ruben, "Getting the Wrong Ideas: Conservative Think Tanks," Environmental Action Magazine, Vol. 27, no. 1, March 22, 1995, p. 21. This article provides an excellent overview of the funding, ideology and strategies of CEI and several other leading conservating think tanks in the United States.
- Timothy Noah and Laurie McGinley, "Tobacco Industry's Figures on Political Spending Don't Reflect Gifts to Think Tanks, Other Groups," Wall Street Journal, March 25, 1996.
- John Canham-Clyne, "Following the Money," Public Citizen newsletter, Fall 1996.
- David Helvarg, "Poison Pens:When science fails, try public relations: the chemical industry's attempt to discredit Our Stolen Future", Sierra, Volume 82, Number 1 January/February 1997.
- David Callahan, "The Think Tank as Flack," Washington Monthly, Vol. 31, No. 11, November 1, 1999, p. 21. Historical overview and analysis of the rise of corporate-funded think tanks as PR vehicles for corporate interests.
- John Stauber, "Facts Not Fear Wants to Make the World Safe for Styrofoam"", PR Watch, Volume 7 No. 2, 2nd Quarter 2000.(This is a review of Facts Not Fear, a book trashing environmental education by CEI's Michael Sanera).
- INFACT, "Pulling Out All the Stops: Philip Morris' Fight to Block Regulation of Tobacco," March 21, 2000. This report shows how the tobacco industry coordinated lobbying, lawsuits and advertising with media attacks on the Food and Drug Administration by the CEI and other tobacco-funded front groups.
- Lisa DePasquale, "CEI to Launch Ads Exposing Truth about Gore's Movie," Townhall.com, May 16, 2006.
- Competitive Enterprise Institute, ""CEI Launches Ad Campaign to Counter Global Warming Alarmism; Television Ads to Air in 14 U.S. Cities and on www.cei.org,", News Release, May 17, 2006. (Thus is a news release carried by US Newswire).
- Faiz Shakir, "Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore," Think Progress, May 17, 2006.
- Josh Marshall, "Big oil astroturf group, Competitive Enterprise Institute, launches new attack on Al Gore," Talking Points Memo, May 17, 2006.
- Judd Legum, "CEI Founder on Global Warming: 'It Looks Pretty Good… We're Moving To A More Benign Planet'," Think Progress, May 17, 2006.
- Tim Lambert, "CO2: We call it life", Science Blogs, May 18, 2006.
- Eric Pfeiffer, "Ads aired to answer Gore film 'alarmism'," Washington Times, May 18, 2006.
- Joel Achenbach, "The Tempest: As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth's climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback", The Washington Post Magazine, May 28, 2006.
- Media Mouse, Grand Rapids Think-Tank Brings ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptic to Town, Mediamouse.org, February 8, 2007.
- Media Mouse, Grand Rapids Acton Speaker: Corporations should not do anything other than Generate Wealth, Mediamouse.org, February 17, 2007.
- Matt Corley, "Right Wing Launches Dishonest, Misinformed Attacks Against Live Earth," Think Progress, July 7, 2007.
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