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Tips for Friday, August 16
Andrew Bolt
–, Thursday, August, 15, 2013, (11:45pm)
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Ah, Their ABC reporters, always unbiased, always asking the government the hard questions…
Latika Bourke ?@latikambourke 8h
Voters will go into the election without an independent costing of the Opposition's Broadband plan
No problem really given voters went into the 2007 election without any costing or business case for Rudd's NBN and yet it still went ahead.
And why aren't "journalists" asking "Albo" when he will release that report about the current status of the NBN sitting on his desk??? Hmmm? About the $37billion NBN that's blown out to $90 billion? Lordy, no, can't ask a Labor government about such things.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:53am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:49am)
So your contention, based on a single and indeed, factual Tweet, is that Latika Bourke is somehow inherently biased against the Coalition?
The mind boggles.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:13am)
So it's ok for the coalition to go in without cost analysis then?
I mean, if you're outraged by labor doing it then surely…
... never mind.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:07am)
Where is the NBN Co Corporate Plan?
The Commonwealth Government Business Enterprise Governance and Oversight Guidelines apply to Government Business Enterprises (GBEs) that are Commonwealth authorities and GBEs that are wholly-owned Commonwealth companies.
According to Table 2: Best Practice Timetable for GBE Plans, Reports and Dividends
• Draft Corporate Plan submitted to Shareholder Ministers by 31 May for comment.
• Shareholder Ministers to respond by 15 July.
• Final Corporate Plan submitted to Shareholder Ministers by 31 July.
• The Ministers then release the Corporate Plan
Last year, the NBN Corporate plan (2012-15) was dated 6 August 2012 and was published on the 8 August 2012.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:12am)
Gab If my memory serves me correctly, the original cost of the NBN touted by the Labor government (under Rudd Mark1) was $4.7B. That's Four Billion, Seven Hundred Million Dollars. It seems that the cost is now almost TWENTY TIMES the original claimed cost - and rising!!!
And this lot of charlatans have the hide to attack their opponents on fiscal matters and imaginary Black Holes ??????
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:32pm)
No, Thunderload and Toim
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy and bias of the media and of labor harping on Abbott to "release the costings". I thought that was evident...oh never mind.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:56pm)
@ Tim
So it's ok for the coalition to go in without cost analysis then?
Nope, but in terms of the timing of release of same, what's good for the goose is good for the gander hey Timmy…
A truly fair minded person like yourself would surely concede that- wouldn't you??
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:05pm)
@ Gab
Accusing 'Libtika' Bourke of being biased against the Coalition is incredibly laughable.
You obviously haven't been following her on Twitter for long. Her pro-Liberal bias is quite well known.
As to your question regarding "Albo's" NBN report, I've one word for you: caretaker.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:38pm)
So it's ok for the coalition to go in without cost analysis then?
It isn't they should have costings. But funnily enough you didn't seem to hold your Labor mates to the same lofty standards you expect from the Coalition Timmy.
Labor didn't release their costings until the last week before the 2007 election why should the Libs before hand?
I suspect it is the usual issue of holding the Coalition and Abbott to a higher standard then you expect from Labor.
Also why is Labor holding on to the NBN report.
Quite simply it has blown out again. So in other words what they just released as their costings and budget response is going to blow out again by billions.
But hey why hold the present government to account for anything when you can play smoke and mirrors and point at Abbott.
Andrew Tony Abbotts minders need to urgently find some cough medicine that works. The gagging is bloody awful. Or is he just massively choking up?
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:16am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:40am)
Abbott is probably looking for a way to get the taxpayer to cough up for cough medicine - you know the way we pay for his fitness fetish on 'charity' bike rides (google 'abbott dodgy pollie pedal') or his pretend voluntary work in Aboriginal communities (google 'abbott costly indigenous').
Seeming not doing as Andrew would say (though never about poor persecuted Tony).
Never mind the gagging Custard, the man's speech patterns are terrible with all those ..aaaaahhhs...everywhere. Surely public funding can be sourced to pay for some therapy.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:51am)
No worries. Tony Abbott's voice recovered very quickly as indicated by his appearance at Lindsay Fox's Linfox this morning on the carbon tax. I should also mention that he was congratulating Linfox on their "direct action" efforts to reduce emissions - I think he mentioned 40%.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:53am)
Using your best medical judgement, custard, what sort of medicine should have Gillard's minders used after the Faceplant in India?
Or was it just a portend?
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:54am)
He couldn't stop laughing after Rudd's pathetic performance in the NT yesterday. Every time he starts to speak images of Pasty Face trying to determine the difference between a third of something and to reduce something by one third, TA stifles a laugh and coughs a little. Obviously a cunning Hawker plan to silence TA.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:59am)
Give him a break Custard! He's spending just about every waking moment talking - no wonder the voice isn't perfect.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:00am)
I think the thoughts of the drowned boaties and frazzled uninsulated insulation installers, as well as people who have lost their jobs or people whose businesses have had to close, and all the contractors frozen out of contracts because the unions want to Labor Party like its 1979, can cause Abbott to choke up occassionally - he possesses compassion for other people.
Rudd has no such problem.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:12am)
It's a wonder the poor man has any voice at all with all the talking he is doing everyday. I am interested enough in what he has to say to put up with the annoyance of his cough.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:15am)
He looked and sounded pretty presidental just now with Scott Morrison so I don't think you need worry too much.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:05pm)
Public speaking is not his forte, not by a long shot. Amazing that he's got so far without having his annoying habits weaned out of him. He neeeds to join his local toastmasters
Labor support in the seats of Robertson and Dobell has fallen seven percentage points since the 2010 election on a two-party-preferred basis, which would put Liberal MPs into both seats. If the swing in the two marginal electorates were repeated in other NSW marginal Labor seats, it would be catastrophic for the Rudd government, handing the opposition up to seven other seats, not including New England and Lyne…
According to a Newspoll survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian in Dobell and Robertson last weekend, Labor's primary vote was 35 per cent, eight percentage points down from the 2010 election, and the Coalition primary support was 50 per cent, up eight points since the last election. On a two-party-preferred basis, based on preference flows at the 2010 election, Labor's support is down seven points to 46 per cent and the Coalition's is up seven points to 54 per cent.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:24am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:57am)
As a resident in Robertson I can say that the stench of Thomson has well and truly spread from Dobell. Fair minded people here are ready, willing and impatiently waiting with their baseball bats for eletion day. The nodding head of Deborah O'Neill won't be in view come the next parliament.
Biggest "Spin of the Week"?
Rudd's blatant attempt to claim the development of Northern Australia is his thought /policy not Abbott's.
Just beats the public service advertising which suggests the running and manning of hospitals lies within Federal legislation allowing the Coalition to sack every man and woman employee at will.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:25am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:58am)
Remember Northern Australia is not just the Northern Territory as Rudd seems to think.What about Northern Qld or North West Qld.These places are all part of Abbott's plan.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:10am)
I think that Rudd claiming that he hadn't broken his promise to be positive because what he said was that he'd talk about policy was the most blatant spin of the week.
Warships well worth protecting.
Mr Rudd was on the news today saying how great our commandos were in Afghanistan.
It would again be a case of his seeming.
There is a story that Rudd v1 kept the head of the Army and the head of the RAAF waiting 3 hours after he called them to Canberra.
I understand we have 22 tanks protecting us.
A friends son had 45 flyers sitting around in RAAF Williamstown, doing nothing, as they have no planes to fly.
My assistant is Welsh. Her husband is a Welsh electrician, brought out here as we have a shortage of sparkies. He is helping fit out a warship built for us in Spain! Which ties in with Sheridans story.
So we have bought a capital ship overseas , and brought in workers to make it work, because we have not trained our own. I think it was our Polkadot Premier, Labor, who closed down the tech schools. Thus we have a skills shortage, but it does not matter, because we are sending the work overseas.
The Welsh lady had to jump through many hoops, get X-rays, background checks. pay a bond, sign an agreement that they would not use Medicaire for 18 months. But those folk kicking in our back door, are treated like prodigal sons. No checks, only handouts. If you are Welsh you do not get a free mobile phone!
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:36am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:49am)
Its a bit like here in Qld.
Got a Great Barrier Reef at our door.
Want to save it or protect it?
Then don't get yourself $80BN of debt.
Sums up labor/green pretty well.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:01am)
We have to be careful GW as a certain Welsh woman has caused us problems in the past.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:07am)
The welsh lady should have claimed asylum, after all it is a third world dump controlled by militant lefties.
TALK about chutzpah. On Tuesday, Treasury and Finance release the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook showing a cumulative deficit from 2008-09 to 2015-16 of $250 billion; but Kevin Rudd calls it "D Day" for the Coalition, as if it was Tony Abbott who had some explaining to do…
PEFO tells us: in its "underlying trend" projection, Commonwealth revenues climb to nearly 27 per cent of gross domestic product in 2023-24, by far the highest peacetime tax take in Australian history…
Labor quietly released its 2007 costings the night before the election, simply posting them on its website...(d)ismantling Howard's Pacific Solution would save $60 million, they claimed; instead, it cost an additional $10.3bn. Industrial relations reform would mean "less bureaucracy", saving $260m; instead, spending increased by more than that amount. Further millions would be saved by slashing government advertising and entirely eliminating the communications unit; in fact, spending on government spin is reaching record highs…
This year's PEFO does a better job (than in 2010), notably in recognising uncertainties. But substantial concerns persist. Many of PEFO's estimates lack transparency: it is impossible, for example, to replicate the spending totals for programs such as Gonski and DisabilityCare, much less the NBN or industry assistance (which remain shrouded in secrecy). Other estimates may be transparent, but are transparently wrong, such as the projections for the carbon price…
(S)pending restraint is on a scale far greater than Labor has shown since 2007, undermining the projected surplus's credibility.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:52am)
THE Coalition says it will seek to ensure natural justice for the head of the Australian Defence Force Academy, Commodore Bruce Kafer, who had been "treated appallingly" by outgoing Defence Minister Stephen Smith.
Opposition defence spokesman David Johnston said a Coalition government would consider reversing Mr Smith's decision not to provide Commodore Kafer with a copy of (the Kirkham) report…
"Stephen Smith should be decent enough to apologise to Commodore Kafer, and at the very least provide him the full report. Natural justice demands that he does this," Senator Johnston said.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (02:04am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:58am)
My son and his fiance both went to ADFA and both served in Afghanistan.
I applaud the Commodore.
The female cadet was ordered to be in the Commodore's office as per schedule.
Irrespective of circumstance, how many casualties, how many difficulties, that's where you are; on schedule.
Isn't that why we train military cadets?
At considerable expense.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:23am)
1. 'Obtain' a confidential draft letter.
2. Use said confidential draft letter to make a partisan political attack.
3. ????
It's almost like it was planned.
THE government has been rocked by the mass resignation of doctors advising it on its troubled $1 billion e- health system.
The system barely functions a year after it was launched and this week former AMA president Dr Mukesh Haikerwal and Dr Nathan Pinksier and two other advisers quit in frustration.
Although 690,000 Australians have signed up for an e-health record the Department of Health has admitted only 5427 patient records have been provided by doctors.
"There is less than a 0.5 per cent chance that doctors or hospitals will find something of clinical relevance if they consult these records," Australian Medical Association chief Dr Steve Hambleton said.
"There are over 600,000 blank records which are of no use to anybody," he said.
The government is loading prescription medicine information onto the e-health records, but even this has gone wrong.
Patients claim their e-health records show them using medicines for conditions they don't even have.
Karen Dearne, 28 February 2012:
KEVIN Rudd's plan for a popular, patient-centric e-health record system - announced to general head-scratching in early 2010 - has morphed into a lumbering monster that remains frustratingly out of everyone's grasp.
Allocated a mysteriously precise sum of $466.7m over two years in that budget, it now appears the decision was made by the boss in a hurry, without the benefit of proper cabinet consideration as former health minister Nicola Roxon revealed last week.
Expenditure has now reached $760m, meaning Labor has been spending an incredible $1.04m each and every day since - a sizeable increase on the originally budgeted $639,315 a day for delivery of a personally controlled e-health system.
While Roxon was lashing Rudd over his mishandling of "some very big health decisions", she surely compounded difficulties by insisting on a flat, July 1, 2012, launch date for the PCEHR.
Common sense should have dictated a degree of flexibility around the deadline in such a technically complex IT project.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (02:20am)
PolitiFact rates Kevin Rudd's claim that Tony Abbott took $1 billion out of hospital funding for the states "false".
Fri 16 Aug 13 (02:27am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:59am)
Thanks Peter, because I missed this - it was my birthday, but it is one of the most important issues which Labor states time and time again in their quest to paint Tony Abbot as someone who he is not. Who knows, it may even be stated again in my presence next Friday, and to have this information in such detail is imperative for everyone.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:15am)
Oh, that 'left leaving' website?
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:38am)
Good find Peter. It shows you that for the last several years that this 'new' 'politifact' was a normal widely known fact (and openly discussed on these forums). It's an appalling indictment on both the mainstream media and the ALP that this lie was able to be perpetuated so long.
At what point does Labor recant this lie?...and is there any accountability on their part?
EG. A hefty fine and/or public announcement in all major newspaper issuing an apology to the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott and most importantly the voters of Australia who had this lie shoved down their throats in 2007 and 2010?
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:08am)
That is correct. The $1 Billion were reductions in the forward estimates. Funding for hospitals increased year on year while Abbott was Minister for Health.
Funny - Abbott was a very healthy Health Minister. He is also in his prime, ready to be Prime Minister. So Rudd's proper place would be Minister of some Ministry of Spin, or Ministry of Contrived Selfies.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:32pm)
'left leaving'
Yes, Tim—in droves
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:35pm)
Tim will now race out with his smiley face and demand that Kevin Rudd stop telling lies. The same lie he and his party have been spreading now since at least 2007. C'mon Tim… if you have an ounce of integrity you would demand no less of Rudd the Dudd.
Tell me why Ms Bowtell deserves my sympathy?
Cath Bowtell has been so cash-starved in her quest to wrest the seat of Melbourne from the Greens she has had to rely on borrowed mobile phones and computers and an army of volunteers.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (02:41am)
Good. It seems to me that we get a lot of refugees who fail the character test, appeal, get let in, and then bugger off 'home' with their Australian benefits in the back pocket.
A Coalition government would scrap the right of asylum seekers to appeal to the courts, which in the March quarter brought the number of asylum seekers who were granted refugee status from 65.3 per cent to more than 90 per cent.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (02:45am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:29am)
This will only work if the government can legislate that the high court cannot meddle in the decisions regarding asylum seekers because too much money is being made by lawyers and QC in this invasions of our country.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:57am)
Yes and getting an australian citizen pregnant should not be an excuse to obtain residency aka the UK,better to support one fatherless kid than a whole family.And if they return to there home country within a period , say ten years then there residency visa should be cancelled as no case for asylum exists.Peter Adelaide.
A call from the Prime Minister last month to political activist turned businessman Jason Yat-sen Li persuaded him to run for preselection in the marginal seat of Bennelong…
In 1999, Mr Yat-sen Li criticised model Jodhi Meares for declining to support the republican movement when she refused to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Give an Australian the Head Job".
Mr Yat-sen Li said of Ms Meares...: "It's a shame. She had the chance to be the tits of the nation, but she's missed out now."
At the time, Mr Yat-sen Li initially said he did not remember making the comments and they were out of character, but nonetheless apologised.
Fourteen years on, he might just have got away with the issue staying largely under the radar, until Mr Rudd grew sanctimonious this week…
"If any male employer stood up in the workplace anywhere in Australia and pointed out a female staff member and said this person is a good staff member because they've got sex appeal, I think people would scratch their heads at least and the employer would find themselves in serious strife," Mr Rudd said.
"In modern Australia sexism or racism or homophobia does not have any place."…
Mr Yat-sen Li appears safe in his endorsement.
Questions put to Mr Rudd's office yesterday about whether the Prime Minister knew about the "tits of the nation" comment at the time he wooed Mr Yat-sen Li went unanswered.
In September 1999, Mr Yat-sen Li said after his comments were reported in Rolling Stone magazine: "I don't remember saying that - it is not something I would say."
His memory appears to have improved with the passage of time.
Mr Yat-sen Li yesterday said his comments about Meares were "immature" and "made more than a decade ago ... I have obviously done a lot of growing up since then and I am embarrassed and very sorry for what I said…
In 2003, Fairfax reported that the comment won Mr Yat-sen Li a nomination for an Ernie, the annual awards for sexist comments named after former Australian Workers Union secretary Ernie Ecob, known for his misogynist remarks.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (02:47am)
Mr Abbott's claim that 40 per cent of the people sent to Manus Island and Nauru were permanently settled in Australia checks out.
AB, a nod to John Barron, who ran this as part of his Fact Check segment on ABC 1's 7 o'clock news last night.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (02:57am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:40am)
Peter. We all have to get to the heart of this, and not quibble about 40% or 70% etc.
In 2001 there were 5500 arrivals by sea, and the numbers-trend was rapidly upwards. This means that in the following 6 years (2002-2007 inclusive) we were expecting AT LEAST 33,000 arrivals.
In fact only about 1500 came, following the Pacific Solution's implementation....a decline of 97%!
This then leads to the blindingly obvious conclusion that the "missing" 97% had decided they had no chance and that they would not waste their dough on trying. These 31,500 had self-processed and saved us billions.
So the result; even if the ENTIRE 100% of the 1500 who did come were genuine and got accepted it would still be ONLY 3% of what would probably have come Pre-Pacific-Solution.
THIS must be hammered home. There were only 1500 no matter what the % of that 1500 ended up in Australia! Cheers
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:37pm)
Spot on, Bean Counter: as you've outlined, the numbers alone point to the real story.
I think Greg Sheridan's June 2011 article (and its accompanying graph) could not have stated the matter any more plainly.
Sheridan put the number of arrivals during the six years of the Pacific Solution at 1,637.
As you say though, this followed 5,516 arrivals in the year prior to the implementation of the policy.
I'm astonished at times that Labor thinks it has any business entering the debate on borders. It has zero credibility on this issue.
Interesting read…
"Obama's Plan to Destroy America Hatched at Columbia Says Classmate"
Australia not far behind under Rudd, Gillard et al. Except, their lack of 'any' plan, the reason for Australia's demise!
Fri 16 Aug 13 (03:04am)
THOUSANDS of asylum-seekers could have their bridging visas cancelled and be returned to immigration detention under a tough new asylum-seeker policy the Coalition is set to announce.
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott are expected to outline plans today to deal with the more than 25,000 asylum-seekers already in Australia, but whose refugee claims have not yet been processed.
At the centre of the new arrangements will be temporary protection visas valid for up to three years, which would be issued to asylum-seekers whose refugee claims were successful.
Mr Morrison said the TPVs would be subject to constant review and there would be "no guarantee" they would lead to permanent residency…
The TPVs would allow refugees to work but would prohibit family reunion rights…
One of the biggest changes proposed by the Coalition relates to refugee processing in Australia, which was suspended from August 12 last year...until last month. During that time more than 25,000 asylum-seekers arrived, creating a massive backlog most in the field expected would take years to clear. Since Tuesday, three boats carrying 252 asylum-seekers have arrived.
Mr Morrison said a Coalition government would "triage" the claims yet to be processed, a figure he put at "almost" 30,000.
He said the priority would be to identify those whose prima facie case was weak and keep them in detention with a view to deporting them…
Mr Morrison said a Coalition government also would aim to restore an administrative refugee processing system, one that deprived asylum-seekers of access to the courts.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (03:08am)
Former Labor minister Graham Richardson has defended Abbott over his "sex appeal" comments. Richardson said Abbott shouldn't apologise; instead he should say: "So what?
Why is Abbot so timid in the face of idiotic media questions? It just encourages them to go in even harder when he backs down. Hey Tony, you're in the frame for the leadfership of the country - show some cojones FFS!
Fri 16 Aug 13 (03:23am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (09:40am)
I have some sympathy for your view, Doc, but Abbott is being smart. He's left the (justified) ridicule to others, remaining above the debate. Bill Leak's cartoon in yesterday's Australian did more damage to the chatterati than he could ever hope to do by rising to the bait.
Labor are putting blatant lies on billboards now…
Fri 16 Aug 13 (03:36am)
This is for Konrad and his six yes, no, questions that once answered will destroy the greenhouse effect idea [ law ] and make every major science group on earth, including NASA look foolish.? mmm . i am sure the physicists working for NASA could answer your questions while playing a game of squash Konrad. But i will answer a couple. and then you can explain the relevance of the questions in relation to undermining greenhouse law.
1,do radiative gases such as C02 and H20 absorb and emit radiation? the answer is YES. both are greenhouse gases.
2/ is convection circulation the primary mechanism for transporting heat from the lower atmosphere to the upper atmosphere? the answer is yes. convection is a major heat transfer mechanism. along with conduction and radiation.
the greenhouse effect is not an hypothesis either. it is a law. please check Kirchhoffs law.
now tell me what the first two questions do to destroy a law of physics?
if you cannot give a logical, informed explanation. i will not proceed with the test.
if you want the answers to the remaining questions if i cannot be bothered. here is the phone number for the UNSW faculty of science. the physics department. 02] 93854553. here is the phone number for NASA. i am sure they are willing to learn from you. [ 202] 358000100
Fri 16 Aug 13 (03:43am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (10:25am)
Suggest you Robert and the NASA idiots look at the history of this planet and how high temperatures and high CO2 content caused massive growth of life, plants, animals and fish.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:24am)
Wow CO2 AND H2O "both are greenhouse gases". Amazing lets put a tax on CO2 AND H2O! Lets call it " Water tax". Thanks for explaining robert. Wahahaha
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:24am)
I looked it up in Wikipedia. You obviously didn't
Before Kirchhoff's law was recognized, it had been experimentally established that a good absorber is a good emitter, and a poor absorber is a poor emitter. Naturally, a good reflector must be a poor absorber. This is why, for example, lightweight emergency thermal blankets are based on reflective metallic coatings: they lose little heat by radiation
For CO2 to act like a reflective blanket, it should not absorb IR radiation.
You got only 2 questions correct, open book and you still took ages. Still you didn't spot that your high school undersdtanding of the Greenhouse Effect didn't include these two important points, but you are convinced because you understand the Law.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:04pm)
it is a law. please check Kirchhoffs law.
Ah ah! Spelling mistake.
It starts with a J.
This is for isobar,as he and his argument concerning the greenhouse effect, burn up in the atmosphere. your analogy of a corpse in a blanket is a very poor one isobar. the earth is not a corpse and neither is a living body. put a blanket around a living body. and the blanket will stop the body's radiation from escaping. and thus will keep the body warm. the blanket does not create the heat itself, it merely stops radiated heat from escaping. just as the greenhouse gases do to the planet. kirchhofff's law clearly states that a substance [ greenhouse gases ] that absorbs thermal radiation will emit thermal radiation [ in all directions ]. and this is how the planet warms, if we were heated directly by the sun as you repeatedly claim, the temp on earth would be similar to the temp on the moon. extreme heat during the day, extreme cold at night [ over 100 degrees centigrade ] hardly a place call home isobar.. Tony N stated that you were out of your depth on this subject. that is obvious. Barney Rubble in a previous post you stated that the warming of the planet was done by the ''other gases'' not C02,H20 or Methane .that means you were calling nitrogen and oxygen greenhouse gases. you also stated that water vapour causes cooling. you have been studying at the isobar school of physics it appears ?
Fri 16 Aug 13 (03:59am)
Fri 16 Aug 13 (11:12am)
Quote: "the blanket does not create the heat itself, it merely stops radiated heat from escaping."
And here is where roc gets confused.
When you use the blanket analogy, claiming yourself wrapped in the blanket as above, the heat source is inside the blanket.(you)
When you cite the greenhouse effect, you are claiming is that this gas (co2) allows solar (the sun) radiation through downwards towards the surface and then stops it going back the other way.
Not only that but it is supposedly then able to reflect heat back down again.
Unless it is some very fancy composite of different materials. it won't allow heat to pass one way only, plus, reflect it back again.
That's some fancy new physics your touting there, cowboy.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:14pm)
Gasses are heated they don't generate the heat.
Gasses and water vapour act as retardation to the release of radiation of the heat in varying degrees but not emit re-radiating heat to warmer body, you cannot defeat entropy.
Variations in earths temperature are always dictated and are a reaction to by the warming body eg external such as the sun, cosmic, gamma rays etc. The green house theory has been discredited time and time again, we are not in an enclosed system.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (12:41pm)
you are a prone to continued cornfusion/error
you claim the atmosphere acts as a blanket
as it "traps ir radiation and sends it back down to earth to reheat the surface"
what part of the following don't you understand
ist L.O.T.."energy cannot be created from nothing unless external work applied"
back-radiation has the power to raise the earth's surface temp simply by sending ir rad back to ground?...although this superficially seems possible,in practice this would be tantamount to saying
".. ghgases produce a thermodynamic efficiency exceeding 100%,a phenomena never having been observed in nature let alone in any manmade machine" (Miatello 2012)
the 2nd L.o.T Clearly states a cooler(read upper cold air) cannot add thermal energy to a hotter body(read surface air)by simple radiative reflection.
finally roc.."when ir radiation encounters gaseous molecules in the atmosphere,only a tiny portion is absorbed by the molecules,with most radiation passing through without problem,going unabated into space.In case of c02,only 0.2-0.3% of IR radiation is absorbed,with 99.7-99.8% continuing to space
(proff Nasif Nahle "Observations on Back-radiation" during night/daytime")
tell me roc..do you think hot and cold are interchangeable?
Fri 16 Aug 13 (01:13pm)
Yes Robert measurements show that an increase in water vapor shows temperatures FALL. Didn't anyone from the warmists camp bother to take any measurements! All the warmists models contradict themselves by saying water vapor shows a cooling effect over some oceans.
I never said oxygen and nitrogen were "greenhouse gases",they are the heat trappers.
Greenhouse gases don't trap any heat,they COOL.
Robert could you explain this to me
The Coalition's popularity is increasing on the NSW Central Coast in the swing seats of Robertson and Dobell.
Fri 16 Aug 13 (04:17am)
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"One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting 'the good guys' for 'the bad guys.'"
-Thomas Sowell
Last week I indulged myself in a bit of utopia planning. As we say in Oklahoma, "I know it's wrong, but I'm weak."
Well not exactly wrong. Who among us has not had the, "If I were king" fantasy and imagined what they'd do to fix the world if only someone would give us absolute power? Which you can trust me with, really. I wouldn't lie to you.
So take these suggestions as just that, suggestions. I'm not wedded to any of them.
I think we inherited a pretty good system from the Founding Fathers, all things considered. If it's beginning to show some wear and tear, that's to be expected after two and a half centuries of use.
Consider that within that time we've never cancelled an election, not even during a terrible Civil War. But during that time France has had five republics, two kingdoms and an empire.
Obviously we've inherited a system that suits us well enough to make our society reasonably stable while being responsive to change when necessary.
What I would suggest is that we might build on the insight of the Founders that you have to work with human nature, not against it. That is, do not expect to find angels to govern but consider modifying our institutions to provide greater accountability by our governors.
Last week I mentioned a truly original idea by Robert Heinlein to greatly expand representation of citizens in our legislature. The nice thing about that idea is it could be applied locally on a small scale first.
Now I'd like to pass on an idea I saw years ago, by a libertarian named Sandy Cohen.
Almost all political battles are about spending government money. Whether it should be spent on this, or that, or should be spent at all rather than left in the hands of the taxpayers.
Everyone acknowledges taxes are a fact of life, it's what to be done with them we argue so viciously about.
Cohen's idea was to extend democracy to the pocketbooks of the taxpayers. How about letting us decide where some of our money goes?
What if your tax return had a checkoff list? Say X percent of your tax payments could go to: a) military, b) healthcare, c) welfare, d) scientific research on cancer, physics, etc?
Maybe the government would want to control spending on half the tax receipts, or more. So what's wrong with saying, "OK, you can send half your tax payments wherever you like in 10 percent increments."?
We could argue about the percentages, how much they get to decide versus how much we get to decide. Point is, you could vote your convictions, put your money where your mouth is. And you could apply it first on a small scale to test-drive the idea. A criteria we've forgotten about now that every new idea has to be top-down, one-size-fits-all, my-way-or-the-highway.
Would those who spend our money feel more accountable to us if they knew we'd vote them less next time around if we thought they were wasting funds?
Would government bureaucracies have to become more efficient if they had to compete for funding from an informed electorate?
Who knows? I certainly don't.
But I wonder if we ought to be thinking along those lines.
What's your suggestion?


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Cubs Trade Russell and Speedy Neifi to Braves
Yesteday, the Cubs acquired LHP Felix Doubront for a player to be named later from the Boston Red Sox. A trade that I like a whole lot presuming the PTBNL isn't much and considering Doubront's ability to strikeout many hitters. A move to the NL Central certainly won't hurt his numbers either.
Today, the deadline has been rocking and the Cubs big moves were out of the way earlier in the month, but they have just traded Bonifacio and James Russell to the Braves. In return, they got catcher Victor Caratini, the Braves second round pick from last year. Here's what Sickels had to say about him before the season:
10) Victor Caratini, 3B-C, Grade C+: Borderline B-. Solid line drive hitter with good strike zone judgment, hit just one homer in the Appy League but some scouts believe that the homers will come in time. Others aren't sure, but at least he has a good eye. Will be interesting to see how he adapts defensively.
After the jump, a breakdown of some of the other trades from the last few days...
- Cardinals get RHP Justin Masterson for OF prospect James Ramsey
- Cardinals get RHP John Lackey and LHP Corey Littrell from Red Sox for OF/1B Allen Craig and RHP Joe Kelly
- Brewers get OF Geraldo Parra from DBacks for OF Mitch Haniger, LHP Anthony Banda
- A's get LHP Jon Lester, OF Johnny Gomes and cash for OF Yoenis Cespedes and a competitive balance pick
- A's get OF Sam Fuld for LHP Tommy Milone
- Yankees acquire INF/OF Martin Prado for 1B prospect Pete O'Brien (3rd in the minors behind Joey Gallo and Bryant for HR's) and cash.
- Yankees and Red Sox swap INF Stephen Drew for INF/OF Kelly Johnson
- Marlins acquire RHP Jared Cosart, INF Kiki Hernandez, OF Austin Wates from Astros for OF Jake Marisnick, INF Colin Moran, RHP Francis Martes and competitive balance pick
- Tigers acquire LHP David Price in a 3-team swap with Rays getting LHP Drew Smyly, INF Willy Adames and INF Nick Franklin from the Mariners, who get OF Austin Jackson (that seems like an awful trade for the Rays).
- Orioles get LHP Andrew Miller from Red Sox for LHP Eduardo Rodriguez
- Mariners get OF Chris Denorfia for OF Abraham Almonte and RHP Stephen Kohlscheen from the Padres
Huzzah, you step out for 2 hours and all hell breaks loose. Some fun deals, really love how the Red Sox got major leaguers in their deals. Cardinals look well poised for another late season run and the Rays seemed to whiff on a deal, unless Drew Smyly is a lot better than I think he is.
Len and JD on the air saying
Len and JD on the air saying Doubrant is going on the DL and will be "considered a starter down the road" and that Baez will NOT be called up to replace Bonifacio.
Because Doubront is out of
Because Doubront is out of minor league options, the only way the Cubs would be able to get him "stretched-out" as a starter would be to place him on the 15-day DL and then send him on a 30-day minor league rehab assignment. That should give him enough time to get stretched-out as a starter, and then he can be reinstated on September 1st (when rosters expand) and can be used as a starter the last month of the season.
The Cubs would then have to decide by 12/2 whether or not to tender him a 2015 contract (he will be first-time arbitration-eligible post-2014). If he struggles as a starter in September, the Cubs might non-tender him on 12/2 and then try and re-sign him to a 2015 non-guaranteed minor league contract with an NRI to ST.
BTW, if Doubront is placed on the DL, Zac Rosscup would probably be recalled to be the #2 bullpen lefty.
this is the 2nd player the
this is the 2nd player the cubs have placed on "mystery DL" with a
non-existent very minor injury the past few days.
so we got airy/wood/jackson/hendricks/wada moving forward...with doubrant as the new wildcard in the mix.
I don't get the point of Wada
I don't get the point of Wada.
I don't think I've mentally
I don't think I've mentally prepared myself for the Logan Watkins era.
I don't know anything about
I don't know anything about this guy. I just know the Braves have a knack for picking decent catchers.
Hi guys! Perhaps we have
Hi guys! Perhaps we have evolved past the only criteria I have recognized when doing an assessment on a catchin prospect....
1st question: is his last name Molina?
No other questions apply....
Logan Watkins is 1-3
Logan Watkins is 1-3
Javier Baez 3-3, 2 run HR
1, 2 and 8.
That's some exciting
That's some exciting perspective.
I was hoping a few other spare parts would be dealt, but I imagine another player or two could slip passed the deadline.
Wrongway Phil Rogers one
Wrongway Phil Rogers one contribution to the baseball trade deadline twitter frenzy...I think he sent this in by morse code and pony express
Seems like Taijuan Walker is in the 3-team David Price trade but that's unconfirmed.
That would certainly make
That would certainly make much more sense than the hosing that's currently being reported.
Olt 1 for 3 tonight so far
Olt 1 for 3 tonight so far with a STOLEN BASE! Ha! Still batting .343
Straily 3 hit 1 BB 0 ER so far through 5 ip with 4 K's.
Bryant HR just over the RF
Bryant HR (AAA #13, #35 overall) just over the RF wall near the foul pole.
Olt with a BOLT over the LF
Olt with a BOLT over the LF wall, line drive HR. 1st Iowa HR. 4-0 I-Cubs, top 7th.
Batting .361 with 5 Multi hit
Batting .361 with 5 Multi hit games out of 10 at Iowa. Facing mostly RHP of course. Stolen base tonight.
Straily finishes with 6 shutout innings, 4 hits, 5 K, 1 BB . . .
I'd say bring him up, but
I'd say bring him up, but there's no point. He'll just straddle pine as long as Valbuena is around. I like Valbuena a lot, but as a supersub on a contending team, not as someone blocking Olt. That's ridiculous. I'd love to see what a September infield of Olt, Castro, Baez and Rizzo could do for about 30 days in a row. Maybe even Soler in right.
Agreed all around. Keep Olt
Agreed all around. Keep Olt at AAA as long as Captain Moran and Valbuena are in love. It's worth noting that. Luis' batting average is plummeting ... not that it matters.
I think Soler will be up for sure. It makes sense in every way unless he is hurt or falls off the rails performance wise.
For what it's worth, MLB now
For what it's worth, MLB now has Caratini as the Cubs #13 prospect - in between Vogelbach and Candelabra.
Vizcaino with 2 innings of
Vizcaino with 2 innings of shutout pitching. Not quite gorgeous with 2 BB and 1 H but better than most of his recent appearances in Iowa.
With Valaika getting called
With Valaika getting called up I guess they're still not happy with something they are seeing from Baez. Valaika is a 4A guy with a career minor league OPS of .644.
I think it's just a token
I think it's just a token gesture and they are holding onto Baez for service time and to avoid hype about the avalanche of prospects getting called up. Have to lose big this year again and I think next year they'll start the building part of the rebuilding. At the major league level . . .
You meant MAJOR league OPS of
You meant MAJOR league OPS of .644. But that's only in 127 at-bats. Valaika's career minor league OPS is .735 and he's at .768 this year.
And as others pointed out, it's about service time with Baez.
Ok, here's my question: Cubs
Ok, here's my question: Cubs have Vitters, Watkins, BJax, Sczcur on option at Iowa which IMO is a pile of suck. Joe Stevenson of the NW Herald (HS sports) writes last night that former NW Herald POY 2007 - Elliot Soto, has been promoted to Iowa to take Watkins spot on moving up to Chicago. If Epstoyer would rather select Valaika and play Sweeney/Schierholtz over recalling any of these 4 guys, then why are they on the 40-man at all?
I mean it's not like any of these guys are going to have any value, even as 'throw-ins' in a waiver trade. So why not outright them off the roster now? Certainly Hatley, Lopez & Baez offer more value now.
Completely agree. Hoping we
Completely agree. Hoping we see some indication in the next 10 days that front office has a plan for the 40 man and obvious stragglers?
I'm sure Phil will clue us in
I'm sure Phil will clue us in, but it seems there are few reasons to make a 40 man change until you need to.
GEORGE A: A player MUST be
GEORGE A: A player MUST be added to a club's MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) during the season if the player is added to the club's MLB Active List (25-man roster), or during the off season if the player was a free-agent and signed a major league contract, or was selected in the Major League Phase of the Rule 5 Draft, or was claimed off waivers. A player MIGHT be added to an MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) after the season to protect the player from being selected in the Rule 5 Draft and/or to keep the player from becoming a minor league free-agent. So slots on the 40 have a lot of value.
All things being equal, it's good to have 40-man roster slots open. And because players can be claimed off waivers in the process of being removed from the 40-man roster (like when a player is out of minor league options and the club needs to outright the player to the minors to open up a slot for another player), a club wouldn't want to add a player to the 40-man roster too soon in the player's career or if it isn't necessary. (It's sometimes better to not add a player to the 40 and risk losing him in the Rule 5 Draft but with the chance that you can get him back, than it is to add a player to the 40 too soon in his career and then have him run out of minor league options before he is ready to stick in the big leagues and then risk losing him off waivers--without a chance to get him back--when the club tries to outright him to the minors because his roster slot is needed for another player).
Also, if the 40-man roster is full a club might have to DFA (Designate for Assignment) a player it might prefer to keep (at least for a while longer) just to open up a 40-man roster slot, and once a player has been Designated for Assognmernt the club generally must either trade, release, or outright the player to the minors, effectively losing control of the player.
In the cases of Brett Jackson, Matt Szczur, Josh Vitters, and Logan Watkins, the Cubs added Vitters to the 40 post-2011 because he was eligible for selection in the December 2011 Rule 5 and (as one of their top prospects at the time) the Cubs did not want to risk losing him. He has been optioned to the minors in 2012, 2013, and 2014, so he will be out of minor league options in 2015. He also would be a minor league 6YFA after the World Series if he were to be outrighted between now & then.
Watkins was named Cubs Minor League Player of the Year in 2012 and was added to the 40-man roster in November of that year because he was eligible for selection in the December 2012 Rule 5 Draft. He has used two minor league options (2013 & 2014), so he will have one more left next season. He did spend a couple of months in the big leagues at the end of last season, he can play mulitple positions in the INF & OF, and he has had an OK (though not great) year at Iowa in 2014, so he probably will get recalled again at some point this season. Why the Cubs chose to call-up Valaika instead of Watkins right now is unknown, although it could be they want to see if Valaika (who is 28 years old and can play SS-3B-2B-1B) is worth keeping around as an extra man along with Valbuena-Coghlan-Ruggiano as the young future core arrives over the next year or so.
Szczur was added to the 40-man roster at an odd time (prior to the 2012 season and long before he was eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft) because (just like with Jeff Samardzija) he was given a major league contract to keep him from going to the NFL Combine (Szczur was a football star at Villanove who continued ti play college football even after he signed with the Cubs, and he was considered a definite NFL prospect at the time), and once he was on the 40, the Cubs did not want to take the chance of losing him off waivers, so he remains on the 40 to this day even though he is still not considered ready to play in the big leagues. (BTW, because he was added to the 40 so early in his career, Szczur will get a 4th minor league option in 2015, presuming he remains on the 40-man roster).
B. Jackson was added to the 40-man roster when he was called up from Iowa in August 2012, but he would have been added to the 40 post-2012 anyway to protect him from being selected in the December 2012 Rule 5 Draft (he was considered to be one of the Cubs top prospects at the time).
So each of the the four remain on the 40 (at least for now), but it's also quite possible that one or more of them (especially B. Jackson and/or Vitters) could get dropped (outrighted or even released) at any time to make room for other players the Cubs wish to add to the 40, but probably not until their roster slots are actually needed.
Except for the "26th man" who can be temporarily added to a club's MLB Active List for doubleheaders, all MLB clubs are required to have at least 24 players (but no more than 25 players) on their MLB Active Lists from Opening Day through August 31st (a temporary variance alllowing clubs to go below 24 players is permitted if a club trades multiple players at the same time). So while a club could choose to play with 24 players all the time (to save salary), it would be a competitive disadvantage to do that if all the other clubs play with 25. (There was one year back in the 1980's when all MLB club colluded to play with 24 players, but it didn't last because a couple of clubs "broke ranks" and added a 25th player).
There is no such requirement for the MLB Reserve List (40-man roster), however. A club is not required to keep its 40-man roster full, and in fact there are times during the off-season when a club's 40-man roster might have as few as 31 or 32 players (this happened with the Cubs back in October-November 2004, after several Article XX-B players filed for free-agency but before other players were added to the 40 in preparation for the Rule 5 Draft).
The common practice now is for clubs to take advantage of openings on its 40-man roster (especially at certain points during the off season) to make waiver claims, and then when the roster is full and a slot is needed for a free-agent signing or for a player acquired in a trade, the player claimed off waivers is put back on Outright Assignmemt Waivers as the club tries to outright the player to the minors. Some players are claimed two or three times in a given off season because of this practice. (The Cubs have done this several times over the past couple or three off-seasons).
But duiring Spring Training and the MLB Regular Season, a club's MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) is usually full or nearly-full most all of the time, and sometimes it's so full (like at the end of Spring Training when NRI players who make an MLB 25-man Opening Day roster need to be added to the 40-man roster) that clubs have difficultty finding enough room for everybody. Because players on the 60-day Disabled List do not count against a club's 40-man roster, injured players expected to be out of action for a lengthy period of time are often placed on the 60-day DL (or transferred from the 15-day DLto the 60-day DL) to clear roster slots on the 40, most often right at the end of Spring Training, but also sometimes during the regular season, too. (A player can be placed on the 60-day DL no earlier than the start of Spring Training, and all players on a club's 60-day DL must be reinstated to the 40-man roster no later than the 5th day following the conclusion of the World Series).
Tommy Milone was traded for
Tommy Milone was traded for Sam Fuld.
Can anyone compare and contrast the value of Travis Wood, Tommy Milone, Chris Rusin and Felix Dubront (outside of injuries). Projection including contract and years of control can be included
If Oakland needed a 4th outfielder, clearly Beane thought Santo's little helper (Fuld) must have more value than Sure-outs, Coughlan, Ruggiano. I wonder if Theo/Jed was a at all interested in Milone, or was the Dubront acquisition enough for his near term lefty arsenal and Milone would have been like having Wood lite.
AZ Phil, can you give me an
AZ Phil, can you give me an update on the injuries to Andreoli, Silva, Balanguert? Thanks.
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Well noted. You may also note that Lester's Career Playoff ERA is almost a full point lower, and he has a lower WHIP as well.
Can't have everything, I guess.
i'm happy enough with the Lester signing, but Scherzer has more than earned the extra money so far. If he was in the rotation instead of Lester, this team would feel practically bulletproof to me.
Blaspheme maybe, but I think Scherzer is the best pitcher in the NL right now.
Maddon was pimping Russell for Gold Glove honors recently as a manager should do...
Here's some defensive numbers:
- Crawford (22.2)
- Seager (16.9)
- Cozart (14.2)
- Hechavarria (13.5)
- Russell (12.4)
Baseball Reference
- B. Crawford 2.3
- Russell 2.0
- Hechavarria 1.7
- N. Ahmed 1.6
- Z. Cozart 1.5
13.C. Seager 0.7
Traditional stats
.978 FP, 11 E, 333 A, 162 PO, 562 Chances, 4.27 RF, 72 DP Turned
Let me guess: Land of Contusion? Puppet Prez Reagan mistakenly blows the world up due to a bum thumb?
Favorite Genesis video
Twitterverse reporting that Almora's examination by a hand specialist went okay, it's still just a hand contusion.
Attaboy, Eloy! Jimenez named Midwest League MVP and Best Prospect.
FYI, formatting of the web page is weird.
Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Gabby Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
White Sox new stadium name w apropos logo
it was between that and "more like the CRUNCH REALLY EARLY AM REPORTER because i'm gonna c.r.e.am all over this place."
i chose the classy route.
This picture is everything.
that was the 2nd greatest piece of performance art since Donald Trump's campaign
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You can start the CRUNCH EARLY AM REPORTER. Then you can blog to yourself, and argue with yourself about Jon Lester.


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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a neurological disease in deer, elk, moose and other members of the deer family, known as "cervids." The disease was first recognized in 1967 in captive mule deer in Colorado, and has since been documented in captive and free-ranging deer in 21 states and two Canadian Provinces. This disease presents numerous challenges for state wildlife agencies across North America. Of concern is the potential for decline within deer, elk, or other susceptible cervid populations. In addition, CWD could have indirect impacts on hunting, hunter participation, and economic benefits derived from big game hunting. In Texas, hunting is a $2.2 billon economic engine, supporting many rural towns across the state.
Photo: Warden Micheal Hopper, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism
Because eradication is thought to be impossible once CWD becomes established in a population, it is imperative that a sound CWD management program is established to reduce the severity of implications resulting from the disease. Of course, disease prevention is the best approach to protect cervid populations and prevent social and economic repercussions. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) have developed a cooperative CWD management plan to guide both agencies in addressing risks, developing management strategies, and protecting big game resources from Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in captive or free-ranging cervid populations.
Photo: Warden Micheal Hopper, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism
- Summary of New CWD Rules | PDF
- CWD Stakeholder Report | PDF
- Public Comment - Comprehensive CWD Management Rules | 4/22-5/6/2016
- Interim Deer Breeder/CWD Permit Rules (effective Feb 2, 2016) | PDF
- Executive Order No. 15-006 Chronic Wasting Disease Emergency Rules | PDF
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TPW Commission Adopts New CWD Zones, Deer Movement Rules
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July 1, 2016
Additional CWD Cases Discovered at a Quarantined Captive White-tailed Deer Breeding Facility
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TPW Commission Adopts Amended Deer Movement Rules
CWD Updates
July 22, 2015
In response to the recent discovery of a Chronic Wasting Disease-positive deer in a Medina County deer breeding facility recently, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) have placed a temporary moratorium on movement of all breeder deer in Texas until a proper risk assessment can be conducted. The risk assessment and epidemiological investigation are ongoing, but both agencies agree that the standards associated with achieving a Certified Status with TAHC appropriately mitigate the risk associated with this event.
Effective Wednesday, July 22, TPWD and TAHC reinstated "Movement Qualified" status for eligible captive deer breeder herds that have achieved "Certified Status" as a TAHC Chronic Wasting Disease-monitored herd. More information about CWD herd certified status, can be found online here (PDF).
TPWD and TAHC are diligently working on standards and protocol for potential relaxation of current movement restrictions for additional deer breeding facilities.
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TPWD Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan
The Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan (.pdf) will serve to guide Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) in addressing risks, developing management strategies, and protecting big game resources from Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in captive or free-ranging cervid populations. Both agencies recognize the need for full cooperation and partnership among government agencies, conservation organizations, private landowners, hunters, and the general public should CWD occur in Texas. CWD is a reportable disease and TAHC has authority for reporting and tracking this disease in alternative livestock, which includes elk, red deer and sika deer. TPWD has regulatory authority for free-ranging white-tailed deer and mule deer, and both agencies share regulatory authority over captive deer held under the authority of Deer Breeder Permits.
This management plan is intended to be dynamic; management strategies described within are likely to change as both the epidemiology and management of this disease become better understood through time. Specific response plans may be developed and incorporated into this plan following local or regional discoveries of CWD. Three major goals of this CWD management plan are:
- Minimize CWD risks to the wild and captive white-tailed deer, mule deer, and other susceptible species in Texas.
- Establish and maintain support for prudent CWD management with hunters, landowners, and other stakeholders.
- Minimize direct and indirect impacts of CWD to hunting, hunting related economies, and conservation in Texas


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Walmart Moneycard Cant get my new card and all my money is tied up! 2 MONTHS and they STILL HAVE MY MONEY! Internet
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I was hospitalized on August 13 and had an operation. My card still hadnt arrived on or around August 23rd. I called in to the c/s line and and told them. AGAIN, confirmed my mailing address (it was correct) and they were going to resend it.
I gave it about 9-10 days and AGAIN, NO CARD! I must have lost count after that but I can almost guarantee you that I've spent over 8 hours on the phone with this place since 9/1.
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They have up until this past Friday, sent to me via FEDEX, and (to the CORRECT) address ,supposedly, about 7 NEW CARDS! They charged me $20 for a FEDEX fee and AGAIN STILL NO CARD!
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...And 'lo, the days of Bennu drew to a close, and he built himself a pyre from which to be reborn in cleansing fire. But trickery snared his form, blackening radiant feathers to twilight...
Damn 'ol thing it tis. Itches like nuthin I e'er felt. Stupid bugs, your the Poosker ye fool. Help me get rid o' these damnable things.
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No! Just kill me it's less painful that way.
Beard grooming is a life-long process divided between two schools of thought: harsh mineral treatments or more the natural approach. The popular naturalist approach requires beard-spiders that live off lice, fleas and other small insects.
He stood before me, a freankenstien of a man beast that towered twenty feet tall or more. Its rigor colored flesh stunk of eons of decay both sickly sweet and of putrescence beyond what the mortal mind could fathom. I tried to gag it from my throat but my stomach refused to relieve its contents and for that made me more uneasy.
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Those attuned with magic and nature can use this plant to quickly identify what might be traveling or living in its area by their footfalls.
"O'er the Wall Mounts there's this race of creatures. They look humanoid, but big. Mebbe 15, 20 feet tall? There all covered in this hair. Most of the species' hair is an auburn, but theres some that are black or blonde or brown. There faces look kinda like a cat face. The eyes are always one solid color, but the colors differ, like with humans. But the thing that makes them special is that they milk our females, like we milk cows. They breed 'em. They treat us like cattle. They even breed out the aggressiveness and intelligence."
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"Ye've ne'er heard of the Shnickels? Ye must 'ave not grown up in yonder country. The Shnickels are pests. Varmints. They move in, and you're done, son."
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The land of Airithrin is a horrible place, a land of reeking fumes and geysers of flame, lakes of lava and the strange life forms that emerge when elementals breed with mundane creatures
"Aye, lad, the Great Tree- its got a branch in each world, and each branch is a world. If one were to find the place this world, this branch, met the main trunk, like I did, they could go to them other worlds. 'Course, you'd be some kinda poison, or, or, disease to the Tree, and that damn tree got one hell of an immune system. When me an' me buddies entered her trunk, she put up one hell of a fight. We fought for hours through every protection system she had, and all to get lost is this world fulla strange elves who glamoured us, trying to keep us as pets. We barely got back." -Old Gerald, man in the pub
Borrowed shamelessly from Norse mythology (see Yggdrassil, the World Tree), the Great Tree both connects and is worlds.
"Bah, dere be no such thing as no 'peripheral beast'. How can their exist a creature you canno' even look at?"
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Also known as "The Ravager," Chimera Prototype Mk-XXIII is an example of man's hubris. What was supposed to benefit the last bastions of wealth and power in a dying world has become an unstoppable force of destruction.
The sun rises over the city. The great skyscraper's silhouettes from the fresh beams appear almost golden. The city is waking up, with the morning's half asleep citizens going about their daily routines. Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts open up, and revel in the influx of business. People head to work. The clocktower chimes, signaling the time of 9:00. But then a great shadow blocks out the sun. And the citizens of this metropolis start to scream as they are lifted up bodily by these beasts. An hour full of terror and screams goes by. And then another. And when the clocktower chimes again, signaling the time of 11:00, no one heard it. They had all been carried away. There were no flaming wrecks, nor collapsed buildings, as any other giant monster would leave. Simply empty streets, and a forbidding silence.
The Mad Pope is a wandering mercenary. He is very well deranged as he considers himself to be the pontiff of the dominant faith. His robes are tattered, his mitre has seen better days and there are surely lice in his long ratty beard. What sets him apart from most addle-pated would be holy men is that he has armor under his robes and carries a large crossbow and several one-handed swords. While many would discout him as just another lunatic, for some reason, he inspires others around him and has demonstrated the ability to lay on hands and heal the wounded.


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In a region spotted with signs that remind residents that "Every Drop Counts," the news that watershed daily precipitation for July thus far has surpassed the historical average rainfall for the month-although only by a meager 0.02 inches-was still gratefully received.
The corn dogs are hot and the milkshakes cold. The rides are whirling and the cows mooing. The 2015 Stanislaus County Fair has finally arrived. For those fair die-hards making their way to the fairgrounds today, here are five musts for opening day:
Plenty of red, white and blue pride was on display Saturday at Turlock's Fourth of July parade in downtown. Spectators were treated to a bevy of floats, cars and marchers during the celebration, including a recreation of "Betsy Ross" stitching the original flag on The Pursuit of Truth Church float. The Girl Scouts marched with the Stars and Stripes, while Cameron Higgins opted to drive his Corvette along the parade route.
The small Valley town of Hughson is already known for its agricultural products, so when city officials decided to start a summer farmers market, the idea was a natural fit.
Those looking to rent a home in Turlock may have trouble finding an affordable unit as the shortage of units and desirability of the area means rent is often higher than surrounding communities.
One man suffered major injuries when a camping trailer collided with a big rig on Highway 99 in Turlock Tuesday morning.
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The annual Fourth of July parade in downtown Turlock wouldn't be complete without a Grand Marshal, an honorary title bestowed to a notable individual in the community. This year that honor was given to Don Smith, who will be leading the parade in a brand new red convertible Camaro.
Barbara Bawanan, a long-time champion of the United Samaritans Foundation, will be leaving her position as executive director in August and former Turlock City Council member Beverly Hatcher will be stepping into the role.
For the past eight years Foster Farms has had a chicken hatchery in Turlock that has not been utilized, but that is about to change.
A baby battling leukemia in Minnesota will be honored in Turlock on Saturday with "Sweet London's Lemonade," a lemonade stand and bake sale fundraiser that aims to raise $1,000 for cancer research.
Multiple fire crews, including an engine from Ceres, battled to contain a Turlock house fire Thursday evening that broke out in the 2000 block of Royal Wood.
The fifth annual Fresno Food Expo is fast approaching meaning several local companies are eager to introduce their new and improved products to the public for the first time.
This Fourth of July marks the 239th year of the United States of America's independence, but for many individuals the holiday will also mark their first national holiday as an American citizen.
Nearly a year after it was announced that the Brandon Koch Memorial Skate Park would relocate from Starr Avenue to Donelly Park, the revamped skaters ...
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The Turlock general manager of the Olive Garden in town has earned recognition from the corporation for the eatery's guest services and community involvement.
As the Nov. 8 Presidential General Election nears, the Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters office is hoping a few citizens will step up and help ...
Foster Farms announced that its board of directors has appointed Laura Flanagan as the poultry company's newest president and chief executive officer. Flanagan will ...
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Motorists should be prepared to detour around a number of roads around town as maintenance work is planned in the upcoming weeks.
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is hoping area residents can help avoid a spike in ozone levels by refraining from idling vehicles ...
For any five-year-old, reading 1,000 books before they begin school may seem like a daunting task. Thanks to a program provided by the Stanislaus ...
A rise in a bacterial infection that is causing residents to become ill, particularly with diarrhea is prompting Stanislaus County health officials to remind the ...
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A lot of folks may not realize it, but there's not one, but two ETFs devoted to timber trading in the U.S. today. One them is the Guggenheim Timber ETF (NYSE: CUT), which will turn five years old later this year. With its appropriate ticker, CUT is unheralded as a diverse way of playing multiple economic scenarios.
As what appears to be a commodities fund, CUT benefited from the return of the risk on trade earlier this year and now finds itself up almost 9% on a year-to-date basis. That sword cuts both ways, no pun intended, and as the demand for riskier assets has waned in the past, CUT has fallen 4.6%. Part of the reason for that tumble is that investors take one look at CUT and assume it's a direct play on the housing market. Residential real estate data points have slumped recently and that has led to some selling pressure on CUT.
CUT tracks the Beacon Global Timber Index, which includes firms that own or lease forested land and harvest the timber for commercial use and sale of wood-based products, including lumber, pulp or other processed or finished goods such as paper and packaging, according to the Guggenheim Web site. In other words, this ETF is not a pure housing play.
Home to 31 stocks, CUT is home to a few companies with housing exposure, but most of the ETFs constituents dwell in the paper universe. CUT even offers 18.3% exposure to the financial services sector an allocation of almost 4.4% to consumer discretionary stocks. The ETF's top-10 holdings combine for about 45% of the fund's weight.
CUT is also international in nature. More than half of the fund's holdings are foreign companies or securities and CUT offers exposure to 11 countries. The U.S. leads the pack with a weight of almost 38%, but Japan and Brazil combine for another 28.4%.
Along those lines, CUT's country weights are arguably a drag on the fund at the moment. On a year-to-date basis, Brazilian stocks look good, but drill down on the past five or six weeks, and that story turns ugly. Japan isn't helping CUT's cause. No matter how cheap Japanese equities, global investors are still only nibbling at Japan's stocks. Not only that, but CUT features exposure to five European countries, and while the allocations to Portugal and Spain are relatively scant, they might be enough to give investors some pause about CUT.
There is a bull case for CUT and it comes from two factors. First, timber is actually a great, though often ignored inflation fighter. Second, some emerging markets such as South Africa, are experiencing timber shortfalls and that could prove to be a boon for CUT. Maybe it is worth taking a small of slice of CUT at the moment, but do so only if the ETF finds support at its 200-day line in the even of a pullback.
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This game can be better.. I love to play this game to release my tension..but sometime it added more tension to me.. i could not pass the last chapter because of that 90 invaders..so please try to make some sniper with a grenade bullet (can afford by gold.) to ease me and others :) and more importantly..make the aim system can be choose between 'tilt' and 'swipe'.. sometimes i want to play this game in car..i'd aimed the target but the car turned and my target had passed me.. so far the game was good :D
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I love it! I'd downloaded it before on my old phone. There were no ads back then, and moving the phone around to aim was alot easier. I feel like there are simply too many ads, in a sense that the ads pop up way too quickly. I'm glad to see more situations (eg. PSY fraud) too! I also hope there will be other ways to obtain other guns besides paying using real money.
I've played better. Needs to be a way to invert aim and reset where your "0" is. If I start the game looking at the floor, then I have to keep playing looking at the floor. And not everyone enjoys the up is down orientation. These simple option additions would change this score so much.
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I have two accounts with Transtech. I will write two complaints. Signed up 7/22/05. Discover Card was processed with Discover Card. Had my own deal with me with a signed contract. June 1 2008, Transtech sent me a letter stating they will process my Discover Card transaction for $59.95. I called Transtech stating that won't be neccessary. I haven't signed anything. I didn't need it. And I don't want it. They said "tough".
urbana, Illinois
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Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is the Ultimate Online Strategic Shooter:
an objective-driven, class-based first person shooter set in the Quake universe.
WWW: http://www.enemyterritory.com/
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/games/linux-etqw-demo-server/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install linux-etqw-demo-server
cd /usr/ports/games/linux-etqw-demo-server/ && make install clean
pkg install linux-etqw-demo-server
PKGNAME: linux-etqw-demo-server
SHA256 (ETQW-demo2-server-full.r1.x86.run) = df92281b8bc7ab33c7bbb0eba613f7387ebcb42e6bf75a0df5029eb013cae5d3
SIZE (ETQW-demo2-server-full.r1.x86.run) = 141326146
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
===> The following configuration options are available for linux-etqw-demo-server-2.0.r1:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Number of commits found: 13
Convert tab after WWW: in pkg-descrs to single space as per PHB
Approved by: portmgr blanket
While having a distfile of 400MB 10 years ago was big, it is not a
problem any more.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6512
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [g-n]*
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Typos, whitespace and capitalization fixes (G-P).
MASTER_SITES cleanup.
- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.
While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.
Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.
Checked by: make fetch-urlall-list
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- Use more correct MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD
- Drop @dirrm* from plist
Add DOCS to OPTIONS for ports that have PORTDOCS in the plist.
Multiple ports: reset maintainers
Maintainers for these ports have been notified on 5 separate occasions
over the course of several months about pending actions required.
We really appreciate the time and effort you put in to maintain
these ports.
If you are still interested in helping to maintain these ports just
reply to me or file a PR and I will happily assign the port to you
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Convert g* to USES=zip
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
-remove MD5
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Demo Server is the Ultimate Online Strategic
an objective-driven, class-based first person shooter set in the quake universe.
WWW: http://www.enemyterritory.com/
PR: ports/123009
Submitted by: ayu <ayunyan at gmail.com>
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
11 vulnerabilities affecting 47 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
All vulnerabilities


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France 24: Arabic Lesson, Bill Gates
Advertising Agency: Marcel, Paris, France
Creative Directors: Anne de Maupeou, Frederic Témin
Art Director: Youri Guerassimov
Copywriter: Gaëtan du Peloux
Agency Producer: Timothé Rosenberg
Production company: Marcassin
Directors: Alexandre Vivet, Gabriel Malaprade
Executive Producer: Jérémie Morichon
Sound design & Mix: Boris Nicou
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Funny one. Last expression is priceless.
"Ubi hubave lubearned thubat ubanuby fubool cuban wrubite uba bubad ubad, bubut thubat ubit tubakes uba rubeal gubenubiubus tubo kubeep hubis hubands uboff uba gubood ubone."
-Lubeo Buburnubett
People who don't like this ads obviously aren't Arabs and don't speak Arabic to fully appreciate the effort and quality of the ad. If you're not in the target demographic why do you bother commenting on something you don't understand?


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I can't get the About page etc menu to show up on this theme. It shows it in the preview at the top of the page, with writing nder the header next to the header image, but none of these things happen for me when trying to edit this theme using its given options?
Can anyone help?
Many thanks