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Has the sun been cooling or warming in recent decades?
What the science says...
Various independent measurements of solar activity all confirm the sun has shown a slight cooling trend since 1978.
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The sun is getting hotter
There is no single continuous satellite measurement of Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). Instead, the data is composited from various satellite measurements. The two most cited composites are PMOD and ACRIM. According to Nicola Scafetta, ACRIM more faithfully reproduces the observations whereas PMOD assumes the published TSI satellite data are wrong and need additional corrections. In particular, PMOD alters the data from the Nimbus7/ERB record from 1989 to 1991. Nimbus7/ERB data during such a short period show a clear upward trend while PMOD during the same period is almost constant. The alteration of the Nimbus7/ERB data is responsible for the different shape between the ACRIM and PMOD TSI composites (Shining More Light on the Solar Factor).
The ACRIM composite shows a slight increase in TSI - the PMOD composite shows a slight decrease. Regardless of which dataset you use, the trend is so slight, solar variations can at most have contributed only a fraction of the current global warming. Scafetta & West 2006 uses the ACRIM composite and finds 50% of warming since 1900 is due to solar variations. However, the warming from solar influence occured primarily in the early 20th century when the sun showed significant warming. As for the global warming trend that began around 1975, Scafetta concludes "since 1975 global warming has occurred much faster than could be reasonably expected from the sun alone."
ACRIM vs PMOD
While the argument over ACRIM vs PMOD has minimal bearing on the global warming debate, determining the more accurate TSI reconstruction is a significant piece in the climate puzzle. The major difference between the two composites is the handling of data between 1989 and 1991. There is a 2 year gap between ACRIM-I and ACRIM-II (tragically due to the Challenger space shuttle explosion). To fill the gap, both composites use the HF data but in dramatically different ways.
Figure 2: PMOD TSI composite (top) versus the ACRIM TSI composite (bottom). Coloured lines give the daily values with the black solid lines giving the 81 day mean.
PMOD applies corrections to the HF data, which has many sudden jumps due to changes in the orientation of the spacecraft and to switch-offs. Figure 2 demonstrates how the HF corrections are responsible for virtually all of the difference between the long-term drifts of the composites.
Figure 3: The difference between the ACRIM and PMOD composites. The grey line gives the daily values, the black line the 81 day running mean. The step in the ACRIM gap during 1989 is clearly seen and is about half the amplitude of the solar cycle variation.
Independent tests of the PMOD and ACRIM composites
So which composite correctly handled the HF data? Does TSI dramatically increase during the HF period as ACRIM supposes and the raw HF data indicates? Or did PMOD get their calibrations right when they adjusted the data to show slight solar cooling over the ACRIM gap? There are a number of independent measurements that can confirm the trend in solar activity over this period.
- Lee et al. 1995 compares the ERBS satellite data with the Nimbus HF data and found the HF data drifted significantly over the period of the ACRIM gap while the ERBS data shows a slight cooling.
- Krivova & Solanki 2003 compares TSI to UV levels. UV levels fluctuate more than TSI - a trend would be more visible. As UV correlates closely with TSI, Krivova concludes PMOD is more accurate and there has been little secular trend in TSI over the past few decades.
- A reconstruction of TSI using sunspot numbers (Krivova 2007) found the minimum of cycle 23 was lower than the minimum of cycle 22, in contrast to the ACRIM composite.
- Zurich sunspot counts during the ACRIM gap show a slight downward trend consistent with the PMOD recalibrated data.
- Ground based measurements of solar magnetograms (Wenzler et al. 2006) show higher correlation with PMOD than with ACRIM. More on magnetograms...
Scafetta & Willson and the SATIRE model
In March 2009, one study claimed the ACRIM composite was independently confirmed by the SATIRE model (Scafetta & Willson 2009). This is a model of TSI created by Krivova and Solanki. In response, Krivova and Solanki published ACRIM-gap and total solar irradiance revisited: Is there a secular trend between 1986 and 1996? (Krivova et al. 2009).
There are several versions of the SATIRE model, each developed from different data and optimised for different time scales. For periods after 1974, they calculate TSI values based on daily measurements of solar magnetograms. For longer periods going back centuries, they used sunspot numbers to reconstruct TSI. When parsing sunspot data, averages over several months must be used. Therefore, the sunspot model is significantly less accurate than the magnetogram model on short time scales.
Scafetta & Willson 2009 used the sunspot model in their analysis. By design, the sunspot model is suitable for decadal to centennial scales but significantly less accurate on time scales of months. The more appropriate model is based on daily measurements of solar magnetograms. Therefore, Krivova and Solanki take the next logical step and analyse the TSI results from the magnetogram model over the ACRIM gap. What they found was TSI does not increase over this period. Thus the SATIRE model is independent confirmation that the PMOD composite is the more accurate representation of solar activity.
To put things into perspective, the ACRIM vs PMOD debate is essentially arguing over whether the sun is showing a slight upwards trend or a slight downwards trend or if there's even a trend at all. This only underscores the sharp breakdown in correlation between sun and climate since temperatures started rising in the mid 1970's.
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For more than a year, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA have been engaged in a tug of war over the release of the so-called torture report.
Chairman Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, says the $40 million, 6,000-page report demonstrates that CIA treatment of detainees was all but useless in terms of gathering actionable intelligence.
For its part, the CIA says the classified committee report contains significant errors and that no one at the agency was interviewed by Senate investigators.
A CIA spokesman points out that in any event, President Obama outlawed waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics in 2009.
That status quo is pretty much where things stand.
Until this week, at least, when Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall insisted the White House throw its weight behind releasing the material.
"I strongly believe that the only way to correct the inaccurate information in the public record on this program is through the sunlight of declassification," Udall said.
The central issue is whether tactics such as long-term sleep deprivation and simulated drowning of detainees helped get information to prevent terrorist attacks — and whether the long-awaited Senate Intelligence study can provide a definitive answer to that question.
New Mexico Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich said he's tired of the issue being politicized.
"Madame Chairman, I am convinced now more than ever that we need to declassify the full report so that those with a political agenda can no longer manipulate public opinion," Heinrich said.
But veterans of the intelligence community say everyone in this story has some kind of political agenda.
There are backstage fights over errors in the Senate report and private disagreements about whether the committee and the CIA have a deal to release the material.
This week, Udall dropped a new detail. He said the CIA conducted its own review of interrogation and detention, a secret study that he says would dovetail with the committee findings.
"And if this is true, it raises fundamental questions about why a review the CIA conducted internally years ago, and never provided to the committee, is so different from the CIA's formal written response to the committee's study," he said. "I think you can see the disconnect there."
The CIA says it's aware of the committee's request for that information and will respond appropriately.
Earlier this year, during his confirmation hearing, CIA director nominee John Brennan promised to take a close look at the interrogation study and its possible release.
Brennan said the agency would learn from its mistakes after Sept. 11 and not repeat them.
"There clearly were a number of things, many things, that I read in that report that were very concerning and disturbing to me and ones that I would want to look into immediately if I were to be confirmed as CIA director," Brennan said. "[Things that] talked about mismanagement of the program, misrepresentations of the information, providing inaccurate information."
The Senate confirmed Brennan, but then nothing else happened.
A CIA spokesman said the agency is working with the Intelligence Committee to correct the report and eventually to make part of it public.
But that could take time, since the politically divided Senate panel needs to vote on the report. And on top of that, the CIA has to agree to declassify what's secret.
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The well authenticated story of the five apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary is briefly related here:
1st Apparition: At dawn on December 9, 1531, Juan Diego, an Indian convert, was going to Tlatelolco to attend catechism class and hear the Mass. As he was passing Tepeyac Hill, he saw a brilliant light on the summit and heard the strains of celestial music. Filled with wonder, he stopped. Then he heard a feminine voice asking him to ascend. When he reached the top he saw the Blessed Virgin Mary standing in the midst of a glorious light, in heavenly splendor. The beauty of her youthful countenance and her look of loving kindness filled Juan Diego with unspeakable happiness as he listened to the words which she spoke to him in his native language. She told him she was the perfect and eternal Virgin Mary, Mother of the true God, and made known to him her desire that a shrine be built there where she could demonstrate her love, her compassion and her protection. "For I am your merciful Mother", she said, "to you and to all mankind who love me and trust in me and invoke my help. Therefore, go to the dwelling of the Bishop in Mexico City and say that the Virgin Mary sent you to make known to him her great desire."
2nd Apparition: The Bishop was reluctant to believe Juan Diego's story. Juan returned to Tepeyac Hill where he found the Blessed Virgin waiting for him, and told her of his failure. She bade him return to the Bishop the next day and repeat her wishes.
3rd Apparition: The Bishop then requested that the Lady give him a sign. Juan reported that evening and she promised to grant his petition on the following morning. But Juan was prevented from coming because of a sudden and severe illness of his uncle, Juan Bernardino.
4th Apparition: Two days later, on December 12, as he was going to the Church at Tlatelolco in order to bring a priest to his dying uncle, Juan Diego was stopped by the Lady, who had come down from Tepeyac Hill to meet him in the road. She listened quietly to Juan's excuse for not having kept his appointment with her the day before. When he had finished speaking she said, "It is well, littlest and dearest of my sons, but now listen to me. Do not let anything afflict you and be not afraid of illness or pain. Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Are you not in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else you need? Do not fear for your uncle for he is not going to die. Be assured… he is already well."
Having heard these words, Juan Diego rejoiced and asked for the sign he was to take to the Bishop. He was told to climb to the top of the hill where she had spoken to him on three previous occasions. She said he would find many flowers blooming there which he was to cut and bring to her. Juan Diego did as he was told though he knew no flowers had ever bloomed before on the stony summit. He discovered a marvelous garden of dew-fresh blossoms which he cut as she had asked. Placing them in his rough cloak, or tilma, he brought the flowers to the Lady who rearranged them and told him to take them to the Bishop; that this was the sign to persuade him to carry out her wishes.
When Juan Diego, radiantly happy, stood before Bishop Fray Juan de Zumarraga and told him of the fourth encounter with the Lady, he opened his tilma to show the Bishop the sign; the flowers cascaded to the floor – but to the astonishment of the Bishop and Juan Diego, there appeared upon the coarse fabric of the Indian's mantle a marvelously wrought, exquisitely colored portrait of the Blessed Virgin, just as Juan Diego had previously described her.
5th Apparition: Earlier that same day, December 12, she had also appeared to Juan's uncle, Juan Bernardino, and restored him to health as she had told Juan Diego. Juan Diego was at that time fifty-seven years old; his uncle was sixty-eight. Both had been among the first of the natives to be baptized into the true faith several years before.
The Name of Guadalupe
Juan Bernardino told his nephew the Blessed Virgin had ordered him to relate to the Bishop in what miraculous manner she had cured him. She also told Juan Bernardino her image was to be known as "Santa Maria de Guadalupe" and thus she has been venerated by this title for nearly five centuries.
The Mantle of Juan Diego
The mantle or tilma on which the Sacred Image of the Blessed Virgin is imprinted is handwoven from the fibers of the Maguey cactus, a fabric which has a life span of little more than thirty years. It is six-and-a-half feet long by forty-two inches wide and has a seam running down the middle.
The Sacred Image
Directly on this rough, burlap-like material is the exquisitely delicate figure of Our Lady, four feet, eight inches in height. This authentic portrait of the Virgin Mary has remained fresh and lovely for nearly five centuries and may be viewed today at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City where it occupies the place of honor above and behind the main altar.
The Pictograph
The Sacred Image is a pictograph or picture writing; every detail symbolic. She is brighter than the sun; her foot rests upon the moon; the stars on her mantle are in the same relative configurations as the stars in the heavens on the morning of December 12, 1531; the northern constellations on her right – the southern constellations on her left. Further, the golden filigree over her rose colored gown matches the topography of the Mexican lands once ruled by the Aztecs.
Despite more than twenty-two languages and almost fifty dialects spoken at that time, all were able to read and understand all that is contained in this Sacred Image. So it was in this manner eight million natives were converted to Christianity in the incredibly short span of seven years.
The Chapels
On December 26, 1531, two weeks after its marvelous appearance, the Sacred Image of the Blessed Virgin was moved from the Bishop's oratory to the new Hermitage at the foot of Tepeyac Hill. Thousands of church and civil dignitaries, Indians and Spainards made up the colorful procession. This little chapel was enlarged and renovated several times before 1622 when a second larger church was completed.
In 1667, a chapel was built on the hill to commemorate the first three apparitions. El Cerrito was rebuilt in 1957 and shares the hilltop with a Carmelite convent and a cemetery.
In 1695, the Church of the Indians was completed It was next to the Hermitage, which served as its sacristy, and housed the Sacred Image while the church of 1622 was razed to make room for the first Basilica.
In 1787, the Convent of the Capuchin Sisters was built adjoining the Basilica of 1709 in order to have a place for Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. For the seven years, seven months and seven days prior to completion of the renovation of the Basilica on September 30, 1985, the Sacred Image was housed there.
The First Basilica
The first Basilica was completed in 1709 and the Sacred Image was installed above the high altar for the veneration of all. This Basilica is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful churches in the Western Hemisphere. Constructed of red volcanic rock and sandstone, it is 184 feet long by 122 wide. The bell towers rises 108 feet and the dome 124 feet.
Six enormous oil paintings and many smaller works of art decorate the walls and depict Guadalupan history. Life-sized sculptures of Bishop Zumarraga and Juan Diego kneel reverently at the sides of the white Carrara marble altar, above which the Sacred Image was enthroned until its transfer to the new Basilica on October 12, 1976. The structure has since been converted to a museum.
The New Basilica
A large cross and the symbolic Marian "M" gracefully top the majestic upsweep of the new Basilica, rising almost 150 feet into the sky from its huge semicircular base. Nine small chapels are arranged around a balcony at the rear of the Basilica, which holds ten thousand people. Easily seen from anywhere inside, ensconced above and behind the red seats for visiting Prelates, behind the main altar, is the Sacred Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Image is behind bullet-proof glass, with three frames: of gold, five inches wide; of silver, five inches wide; and of bronze, fourteen-and-one-half inches wide. Below the Image, three "moving sidewalks" carry pilgrims and devotees past the Image, only thirty-five feet above.
On the left of the main altar is the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. To the right is the Saint Joseph Chapel, where the Canons of the Basilica recite the daily office of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Crown
On the 12th of October, 1895, by decree of Pope Leo XIII, the Image of the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe was crowned with great solemnity. On October 12, 1945, the fiftieth anniversary of the crowning, Pope Pius XII proclaimed her Patroness of all the Americas. Above the frame there is always a replica of the 1895 Crown. Made in Paris, the crown contains jewels and precious stones donated by the ladies of Mexico City. It is valued at more than two million pesos.
A second crown was donated to Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1945 by the people of Mexico. It was made by a team of eigthteen artists who were directed by a famous lapidary. It weighs thirty-two pounds. Other valuable crowns have been donated over the years by many groups, including the goldsmiths and silversmiths of Mexico.
The Mass and Office
Our Lady of Guadalupe has a special Mass in the Roman Breviary for the 12th of December. It is a Holy Day of Obligation in Mexico, with Octave and double rites of the first class. The Sanctuary of Guadalupe is equal in rank to the Lateran Basilica (second only to St. Peter's) and the Abbot and Canons have been assigned vestments different from all others.
Words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego
"Know for certain, least of my sons, that I am the perfect and perpetual Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God through whom everything lives, the Lord of all things near and far, the Master of heaven and earth. It is my earnest wish that a temple be built here to my honor. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. I am your merciful mother, the merciful mother of all of you who live united in this land, and of all mankind, of all those who love me, of those who cry to me, of those who seek me, of those who have condfidence in me. Here I will hear their weeping, their sorrow, and will remedy and alleviate all their multiple sufferings, necessities and misfortunes."


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Regular readers know that American Apparel has long been one of my favorite companies. I love companies that think outside of the box, ignore popular wisdom, and in doing so teach us some lessons. I've discussed this company several times, and will list the various posts at the end of this missive.
Brief background on why I like them so much: this is a $500 million manufacturer of t-shirts, underwear, and the like. Typically low margin products, the kind of thing that usually comes from Asian and Central American sweatshops. Not American Apparel. This company makes over 1 million articles of clothing, per week, from their one factory in Los Angeles and they grew 40% this year. They pay their 5,000-person workforce significantly above minimum wage (average is $12-$15 per hour), give them full subsidized benefits (such as high quality health care insurance for $8 per week), and they turn a profit.
As I say each time, this should basically embarrass the heck out of any company executive that thinks they have to outsource in order to find cheap labor. Or at least call into question their fundamental competence as a leader. If American Apparel can manufacture low margin clothing efficiently enough at a U.S. factory (California no less) to beat the sweatshops, then anyone should be able to. If they try hard enough.
Apparently some of the brass at the company have kept tabs on this blog, as about a month ago I got a phone call inviting me to come down for a visit. On Thursday I finally got the chance to take them up on the offer. It was everything I expected, and more, and in many aspects it rivaled the various Japanese factories I visited the other week.
One of those aspects includes the first impression. You'll recall that when arriving at Saishunkan we were greeted by a gardener who turned out to be the chairwoman of the $270 million company, at another factory we walked in to see the president of a $100 million company on his knees scrubbing the floor. When you arrive at American Apparel you see several massive multi-story warehouse buildings, and at the business address is an open entrance with an old table with a visitor sign-in sheet. That's it. It's on the lower left of building in the photo below. No, not the far left… that would be the company store. The open gap entrance just to the right of the store… which looks like any of the other roll-up dock doors.
No fancy lobby with glitzy lighting and display cases, no plush waiting rooms. An open entrance with a guard and a sign-in sheet. For a $500 million company with over 5,000 employees.
As you can tell from this and the other photos, the buildings aren't in that great of shape either. But they serve the purpose, and do it well. They may need a coat of paint, but they're clean, neat, and filled with a lot of happy brains.
You see, the value at American Apparel isn't created by the building, or the machines, but by the people. So many companies, probably the vast majority, think of their people as a cost. Very few recognize the value of the brain that sits slightly north of the pair of hands. American Apparel realizes that the value of that brain more than offsets the traditional cost differential between their hands and a pair of hands in a sweatshop.
What has been added by the brains of their employees? How about this: their highest volume product, a "deep V" t-shirt, was the idea of one of their shop floor folks. Or another: American Apparel makes and sells a variety of unusual products, such as dog sweaters and baby bibs. Why? Because their employees figured out how to design those products with the little remaining scrap that exists after cutting out the patterns for the mainline products. There's still some scrap left, so guess what another idea was: create a machine that would combine and weave it into bikini straps and cords for hoodies… like in the photo on the left. There's still a tiny bit of scrap material left, so that is sent to a recycler, who turns it back into yarn and thread, which is then turned back into cloth for more products.
In fact, sustainability is a big deal to American Apparel. How many of you haven't embarked on sustainability programs because of their cost? Well American Apparel recycles just about everything, obtains 30% of its power from solar cells on the roof (and they are looking into getting much more), and many of their trucks run on biodiesel. They buy as much organic cotton as they can… domestic organic cotton as they believe that the carbon footprint created by sourcing organic cotton from overseas is too much of a negative offset. Anyone interested in growing more organic cotton in the U.S… here's your customer. So once again, if you think sustainability is too expensive, then you should be embarrassed.
But let's get back to the people. Production takes place on each floor of all of these buildings. Multitudes of 4
to 8 person cells (they call them "workcenters"). A kit of cut cloth is wheeled to each cell and they crank through it. A chart of metrics is maintained at each cell. See the column on the right, which I know you can't read? It's dollars… and reflects the dollar value of what the cell has created, and most importantly the actual dollar portion that they get to share. A form of piecework on top of a nice base hourly rate. Each cell has a quality control person, and other quality people roam between the cells.
Do you see that they're smiling? It's no wonder; they are valued and treated very well. Not only do they have a doctor on site, they have a full modern clinic. Back when there was a transit strike in LA, the company bought a couple thousand bicycles and created a bike loan (with free maintenance) program that still exists. How many of you have purposely eliminated phones on your manufacturing floor to cut costs? American Apparel has phones all over the place, and provides free calls… even long distance. A major benefit to their primarily immigrant workforce. And probably most importantly, the company actively solicits their ideas and recommendations, and they actively listen and implement them. It's no wonder their retention rate is over 98%.
A couple other concepts: how about the importance of the gemba. Administration, marketing, design, and other offices are scattered throughout the buildings. They are not adjacent to each other. Because of this everyone must walk through the factory floor multiple times a day. Everyone is continually aware that they are in a manufacturing facility.
Another concept: complete vertical integration. Everything is done at this cluster of buildings, with the exception of some dyeing that is done a few miles away. Design is done, often (and sometimes infamously) tested by Dov Charney himself, and sent to the factory floor. Time from raw concept to when a finished product is in the over 200 stores worldwide? Eight (8) days. Compare that to the weeks and months it can take to send a container across the ocean. Did the Olson Twins wear something unique yesterday? A new design can be created and placed into stores almost immediately to capitalize on the short craze.
Complete advertising development, through photographing the models, to final printing, is also done at the factory. The props for all of the stores are created and sent from this factory. When a new store is opened the fixtures and initial inventory is sent, often pre-hung on hangars so the new retail clerks can focus on… selling.
Since everything is created in the one factory, they can react fast, and therefore the stores don't have to maintain as much inventory. Shipments, globally, are smaller and more frequent. They have a unique way to balance raw material inventory: if raw inventory gets too large, they simply create a new design that will consume that inventory… and sell it. A luxury many of us wish we had.
Remember the company I told you about last January, which had 1,000 employees but no job titles except "plant manager"… the guy in charge of watering the plants in the factory? American Apparel is very similar. Sure there is the CEO, there's a marketing department, and there are cell leaders. But not much more. I asked a couple of my hosts what they did and I got answers like "some strategy stuff, but then I also figure out how to hire people for the stores." Basically whatever needs to be done.
American Apparel may be very altruistic, but they still realize they're a business. A business that has to make money to continue to provide the stable solid jobs for their valued workforce. My hosts told me about some other companies with similar values, who focused too heavily on the "communal good" and soon went out of business.
And yes, I saw Dov. He's been in the news quite a bit recently, thanks to a workplace atmosphere that would make most of us cringe. At the risk of offending the more sensitive among us, part of me applauds his guts to run the company as he sees fit, traditional rules be damned. That even earned him a great spoof on Saturday Night Live. By any measure he is a retail genius, and he has the smarts to see outside of the "must outsource to make clothes" traditional mindset.
But here's my final and perhaps most important lesson: do what works. It's that simple. Tools, even lean tools, are just tools. Leadership requires people. At American Apparel there are no cheesy signs with "Teamwork" and "Challenge" on them. There are no glitzy glass lobbies. There is no sign of lean manufacturing in the traditional sense, and they don't profess to be lean. No heavy lean training of employees, no overwhelming visual controls besides the metrics charts at the cells, no Shingo Prizes or Baldrige Awards.
But there are bunch of people recognized and compensated for their knowledge, creativity, ideas, and experience. A group of people that realize that speed creates value, knowledge creates ideas, ideas create profit. They figure out what works, then they do it exceptionally well.
A 5,000 person, $500 million low margin clothing company, operating from a single factory in the least business-friendly state of one of one of the highest "cost" manufacturing countries. Beating the overseas sweatshops and still growing rapidly.
Are you embarrassed yet?
Previous posts on American Apparel:
- June 2006: Crude, Lewd, and Lean
- April 2008: American Apparel Opens the Kimono
- May 2008: Dov's Short Elevator Trip
- September 2008: What's Dov Been Up To?
- October 2008: Gotta Love Dov


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:: 5 inch piece of cardboard folded in half
Step one:
Wind the string around the cardboard. Using the chunky weight yarn, I wound approx. 25 times around.
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Cut the yarn and then cut another 6 inch piece of yarn.
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Use the 6 inch piece of yarn to tie a tight double knot in the center of the yarn "ball".
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Using your scissors, cut the loops - make sure you DO NOT cut the knot you created in Step Four.
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Trim and fluff the edges so they are all fairly even. That's it! You now have a happy little pom-pom!
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Loveless (Loveless Aoyama) is a Japanese luxury clothing store owned and operated by Sanyo Shokai in the Aoyama area of Tokyo, Japan. Loveless Aoyama opened on July 23, 2004. The store is a four story building built on a piece of prime real estate that Sanyo Shokai has owned since 1997 and which cost more than $40 million to develop. Repeatedly named one of the top fashion boutiques in the world, Loveless carries many of the top luxury brands from Japan, Europe, and the United States as well as many exclusive Japanese brands only available at Loveless.
Prior to being transitioned into Loveless the space was operated as a womenswear boutique with high quality clothing and well to do women in mind. Today, the building, rebranded as Loveless in 2004 has become devoted to the avant-garde fashions of Japan's hipster youth with a distinct punk rock influence.
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The Loveless shopping center is a four story building, with the first floor devoted to French luggage carrier Goyard's goods. The remaining three floors were designed and built by creative director Yuichi Yoshii who has served in the same role for many of Japan's top fashion firms. While the top two floors are full of day clothing and normally expected boutique offerings, the bottom two floors, underground, are home to "the dark side", designed to resemble a medieval castle with modern, chic twists. A tunnel-like staircase, massive tome-like coffee ables and massive chandelier make up the space.
In contrast to the dour design of the boutique, the clothing carried is eclectic as possible with brands from across the world representing the newest, trendiest releases by both major and small brands. Brands such as Anne Valerie Hash, Paco Rabanne, and Resurrection are showed in the basement floors where dresses sell for 1.2 million yen and Hollywood inspired cuts are mixed with vintage punk jeans.
Other brands that can be found in Loveless include Helmut Lang, Chloe and Capucci, Manolo Blahnik, Dr. Romanelli, and Mastermind Japan.
In August of 2008 Loveless replaced their previous Colour by Numbers shop in Daikanyama with a new boutique called Loveless Daikanyama.
In 2008, Loveless announced that they would launch their own fashion brand called Loveless.
The Loveless store is located in Aoyama, across from the Prada flagship store and near the Issey Miyake shop.


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When I click on the icon next to the zip file the delete icon at the top of the screen does not light up. As a consequence, I can't delete any zip files that I don't need. What am I doing wrong?
I just tried Filezilla and can login to the ftp folder. However, I cannot delete any of the zip files that are listed. I get a 550 permission denied error message in Filezilla.
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Now, we have just added a new feature "Camera Admin logon". After you log on www.cameraftp.com website, click on "My Cameras", you can see a link named: "Log on as Camera Admin" Click on it, and it will ask you to enter your "Secure Password". ( A secure password is just another password. By default, it is the same as your regular password. You can change your secure password to be different from your regular password. The same secure password is also required when you transfer your cash balance to another user.)
Just one question. What is the delete icon used for in the GUI when you open up My Cameras and click on a zip file?
Thank you for your query. To delete folders/files/cameras you will have to logon as camera admin --> Go to your "My Cameras" page and click "Logon as Camera Admin". Once you do this you will see that the red X becomes available. This is an added security step so that if your information cannot be both recovered and changed without your knowledge. Let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
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Glad you were able to find your answer quickly. There is no function for the delete icon until you logon as camera admin. If anything this should be used to remind users that they will have to go through another logon step to delete.
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If the user a has scaled the text to be twice as large as the default a little icon can get lost
Its possible, yes. However – I could have specified the size of the image with the CSS to scale in em units. That would have given us a proportionally sized image that scales with the font size – something we can't do with a background image… Drat – I should have made that point in the article as well ;)


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HIV-positive women respond well to a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), even when their immune system is struggling, according to newly published results of an international clinical trial. The study's findings counter doubts about whether the vaccine would be helpful, said the Brown University medical professor who led the study. Instead, the data support the World Health Organization's recommendation to vaccinate women with HIV.
HPV causes cervical and other cancers. The commonly used HPV vaccine Gardasil had not been tested in seriously immune-suppressed women with HIV, said Dr. Erna Milunka Kojic, associate professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and The Miriam Hospital. Despite the WHO recommendation, she said, skeptics have wondered whether the vaccine would be safe and helpful for women with weakened immune systems who were already likely to have been exposed to HPV through sex. Vaccines are often less effective in HIV-positive people.
To address that debate, Kojic's study, dubbed "AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 5240," measured the safety and immune system response of the vaccine in HIV-positive women aged 13 to 45 with a wide range of immune statuses. In the vast majority of the 315 volunteers who were vaccinated at sites in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa, the vaccine built up antibodies against HPV and posed no unusual safety issues during the 28 weeks they were each involved.
"The vaccine works for HIV-infected women in terms of developing antibodies," Kojic said.
Co-author Dr. Susan Cu-Uvin, professor of public health and of obstetrics and gynecology at Brown, said women with HIV are especially susceptible to cervical cancer from HPV because their weakened immune systems are less able to clear the virus. That makes vaccinating HIV-positive women especially important, so long as it's safe and they respond.
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To investigate that response in the context of HIV, the study grouped women by their CD4 cell count, a measure of immune system health. Group A had CD4 counts above 350, group B rested between 200 and 350. Group C was composed of women with counts below 200, the defining level of AIDS for which response to an HPV vaccine had not yet been studied.
Gardasil is a "quadrivalent" vaccine, in that it protects against four types of HPV (6, 11, 16, and 18). Each group in the study, therefore, had four measures of "seroconversion," or the buildup of a significant army of antibodies against each type of HPV. The researchers determined that seroconversion in at least 70% of patients for each HPV type would define success.
They exceeded that mark in every group for every type, according to the data published in advance online in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
"Seroconversion proportions at week 28 among women in CD4 stratum A were 96%, 98%, 99%, and 91% for HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 respectively; in stratum B, 100%, 98%, 98%, and 85%; and in stratum C, 84%, 92%, 93% and 75% for each type respectively," the authors wrote.
Seroconversion rates were clearly lower for women with the weakest immune systems, but still high enough to be worthwhile, Kojic said. And although some of the women in the study had already been exposed to at least one type of HPV, only 1 in 25 had been exposed to all four, suggesting that even older, sexually active women can benefit from vaccination.
The extent of the benefit, she acknowledged, is not yet clear because the trial did not measure the vaccine's efficacy in preventing cancers. It only measured safety and the number of patients who had the desired immune system response. But that response has been shown to be effective in other studies of other populations of women.
What is clear from the study is that the vaccine produced no more side effects or problems than any vaccine typically does.
"Comparing vaccine reactions, this is a very safe vaccine," Kojic said. "It doesn't have any systemic side effects among these women who are already taking medicine for other conditions."
Kojic said she hopes that by confirming that women with HIV are responsive to the vaccine without unusual adverse effects, more doctors will vaccinate HIV-positive patients.
Date: April 16, 2014
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At the heart of Staind's loud, angst-laden music are the confessional lyrics and introspective personality of frontman Aaron Lewis. While other post-grunge bands were successful in mining the dark caverns once explored by Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, Lewis allowed his sensitivity to pour freely from his words and often pensive vocals, enabling Staind to strike a balance between heavy metal bombast and thoughtful, melodic rock. Born in Springfield, Vermont, Lewis listened to folk music as a child. The son of divorced parents, he chronicled the emotional turmoil in his childhood with Staind, namely on tracks like "Epiphany" and "For You," from Break the Cycle. Like the late Kurt Cobain from Nirvana, Lewis cast an unpretentious, no-frills image, exhibiting a brooding disposition and emotional vulnerability that troubled youths could relate to.
Lewis recorded his first album with Staind, Tormented, in 1996. Staind remained on the fringes of mainstream acceptance until "Outside," a live collaboration between Lewis and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst during the 1999 Family Values Tour, blew up on alternative and mainstream rock stations a year later. With only his acoustic guitar as his musical backing, Lewis delivered a raw, anguished performance of a song that Staind would later record in the studio for Break the Cycle. The track carved the path for Staind's subsequent commercial breakthrough. Staind sustained a decade of popularity before Lewis broke free with a solo career in 2011, refashioning himself as a conservative country singer on his 2011 EP, Town Line. He had some success with the album but before he could capitalize on his country career, he reunited with Staind for an eponymous album in 2011. In 2012, he prepped his full-length country debut, The Road, which appeared toward the end of the year.
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by Nature - Wednesday, 17 September 2008 However, these old growth forests around the world are not protected by international treaties and have been considered of no significance in the national "carbon budgets" as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol. That perspective was largely based on findings of a single study from the late 1960s which had become accepted theory, and scientists now say it needs to be changed. "Carbon accounting rules for forests should give credit for leaving old growth forest intact," researchers from Oregon State University and several other institutions concluded in their report. "Much of this carbon, even soil carbon, will move back to the atmosphere if these forests are disturbed." The analysis of 519 different plot studies found that about 15 percent of the forest land in the Northern Hemisphere is unmanaged primary forests with large amounts of old growth, and that rather than being irrelevant to the Earth's carbon budget, they may account for as much as 10 percent of the global net uptake of carbon dioxide. In forests anywhere between 15 and 800 years of age, the study said, the net carbon balance of the forest and soils is usually positive – meaning they absorb more carbon dioxide than they release. "If you are concerned about offsetting greenhouse gas emissions and look at old forests from nothing more than a carbon perspective, the best thing to do is leave them alone," said Beverly Law, professor of forest science at OSU and director of the AmeriFlux network, a group of 90 research sites in North and Central America that helps to monitor the current global "budget" of carbon dioxide. Forests use carbon dioxide as building blocks for organic molecules and store it in woody tissues, but that process is not indefinite. In the 1960s, a study using 10 years worth of data from a single plantation suggested that forests 150 or more years old give off as much carbon as they take up from the atmosphere, and are thus "carbon neutral." "That's the story that we all learned for decades in ecology classes," Law said. "But it was just based on observations in a single study of one type of forest, and it simply doesn't apply in all cases. The current data now makes it clear that carbon accumulation can continue in forests that are centuries old." When an old growth forest is harvested, Law said, studies show that there's a new input of carbon to the atmosphere for about 5-20 years, before the growing young trees begin to absorb and sequester more carbon than they give off. The creation of new forests, whether naturally or by humans, is often associated with disturbance to soil and the previous vegetation, resulting in decomposition that exceeds for some period the net primary productivity of re-growth. Old growth forests, the study said, continue to sequester carbon for many centuries. And when individual trees die due to lightning, insects, fungal attack or other causes, there is generally a second canopy layer waiting in the shade to take over and maintain productivity. One implication of the study, Law said, is that nations with significant amounts of old forests may find it somewhat easier to offset greenhouse gas emissions if those forests are left intact. It will also be necessary, she said, for land surface models that attempt to define carbon balance to better characterize function of old forests. Many of the conclusions from the study were based on data acquired from the AmeriFlux and CarboEurope programs, researchers said. Multiple funding sources included the U.S. Department of Energy, CarboEurope, the European Union, and others. Authors were from institutions in the U.S., Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom. Adapted from materials provided by Oregon State University, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS. |
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