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Empress Agrippina
by Stephen Pirsch
State of the Union Address
1. Stop War
A. Beware: The Empire will not tolerate war. Groups engaging in war will be annihilated. As you read this the American military industrial complex has been infiltrated by loyalsts to Agrippina's cause. This has been happening subversively for 20 years, and now all major resistance has been eliminated or replaced. The Empress is now Commander-In-Chief of a military force capable of totally dominating any warring group or country. The Empire's military is the most highly paid, thoroughly trained, and fiercely loyal force in history. The Trusted Few will represent Empress Agrippina, and the military will protect The Trusted Few from assassination. They will have the duties and life similar to the President of a large country. These Presidents, when not working, will live the life of their dreams, in order to make it practically impossible that they will be susceptible to bribery. The Empress will submit commands remotely by encrypted satellite phone. Her location and appearance will change randomly. No one is to be sure where she is or what she looks like. The Empire, generally, will not concern itself in relatively small conflicts involving hundreds of people. The Empire will terminate large scale war affecting thousands ...millions. Caution to those who will say Agrippina is a homicidal maniac and must be killed. Resistance to the Empire will quickly prove to be futile and fatal.
B.The Empress will totally control space, and control earth from space, using cameras, sensing equipment, lasers in satellites, and missiles guided from satellites and drone aircraft.
C. The Empire will enable the capability to simultaneously broadcast over all satellite TV channels.
D. Cessation of war will be initiated by broadcasting (so all earth can watch) a warning to warring groups that they are targeted and will be killed unless hostilities are ended. Tests of space based lasers, drone aircraft, and neutron bombs will be broadcast on all channels, displaying their destructive capabilities.
E. Groups continuing to wage war will be eradicated as the event is broadcast on all TV channels. Close up video of large groups of warring people being turned to a pile of ash, blown to bits, and vaporized, will be shown in high definition. Small warring factions will be targeted mostly by satellite based lasers, drones, jets, and bombers. Large warring factions will be vaporized by a neutron bomb, leaving the infrastructure intact. Infantry, artillery, and navy are to be rarely used. It is understood that innocent people will be killed. The Empress takes full responsibility. The goal is to terrorize the world away from war, and enter into a long period free from large wars (as in the Paux Romanus [Roman Peace] ).
F. Populations in areas of constant historic conflict, such as Palestine/Israel, will be warned, then if needed, relocated and given land and homes in a peaceful area. People dislocated by Palestinians or Israelis are to be sent to the Palestine/Israel area. Any further warring in these areas will be brutally crushed (as in Roman times).
F. Earth will be disarmed. melting weaponry, and refitting most military buildings, ships, planes, etc., for civilian uses. The great majority of all things military will be done away with. A relatively small (by U.S. standards) mostly space, and air force based military force will remain at the Empress' command. The infantry, naval, and armored forces will be mostly disbanded all over the world.
Although many will claim the Empire is a destroyer of personal freedoms, it will soon be clear that the Empire is curiously uninterested in people's personal beliefs, religions, or behaviors, and will only act on violations to the fourteen dictates mentioned herein. It will mostly be the rich who moan about loss of freedom. In time, a cult of Empress worship will arise from the world's burgeoning poor, although she will be referred to as the anti-christ at first.
2. Reduce World Birth Rate
A. The total world population is to be reduced to 2 billion people.
B. All areas of world will be assessed for carrying capacity (maximum human population is to be based on local agriculture and water supply). One birth per couple is to be the maximum in over-populated areas until the assessed maximum is reached - then two and sometimes three births will be allowed. Violators will be left indefinitely at a geographically isolated area - Family Land (San Juan Island, Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, etc.,) with their families, and given minimal supplies (tents, shovels, seeds, heavy clothes, sleeping bags, and enough food and water for three months). Banished families will be monitored from satellites - a remotely activated explosive chip will be implanted onto their carotid artery. The chip will be linked to a GPS device which will be set to detonate when a designated latitude or longitude is reached. If detonated, the artery in the neck which feeds the brain will be blown apart, spraying blood in crimson pulses as the person becomes unconscious in a few seconds. Some sensitive folk will say Agrippina is a brutal and insane tyrant. She will agree she is brutal and if you spread revolt she will prove it by having you tied to a stake and slowly burned while alive. However, Agrippina is not without at least a shred of compassion; Family Land residents will be better supplied and have a better environment than No Man's Land residents below, and, if they survive, have a chance to return to their origins at a later date.
3. Reallocate Wealth
A. The gap between rich and poor will be reduced. Trillions of dollars worth of assets will be reallocated. There will still be major differences between earnings of different people, but this is to mostly reflect ingenuity and hard work, instead of reflecting the bad luck to be born in a poor country. Agrippina will attempt to slowly help the poor lift themselves to a $5000./year world poverty line. $500,000. will be the maximum amount of liquid assets any one person will accumulate. Non liquid assets such as businesses used for the public good will be allowed to accrue without restriction. The Empress is aware resistance and deception will occur. The wealthy beware: You and your associates are being watched. The Empress is monitoring your assets and will banish, torture or kill anyone hiding assets.
B. Much of the assets of the wealthiest 1% of people (who have about 50% of the worlds wealth) such as unused land, unused buildings and liquid assets in excess of $500,000. will be seized. This action, in conjunction with the Empire's overwhelming military, is the basis for the Empire's future plans - the way it will be financed. It will free trillions of dollars to help the worlds developing poor help themselves. These assets will be mostly used to help the 50% of the present world population who have only 1% of the wealth. These seized assets will also be used for the general public good. - such as incentives to: build nuclear power plants, subsidize small electric cars, expand and electrify rail systems, give a small land holding to everyone, and offer micro-loans to the public (as done in India). Although it is often said that the rich benefit from a poor society, this has proved to be fallacious. A person with more, spends more, and thereby makes the wealthy, and everyone else, wealthier. The question is: how much is enough?
1. It is clear to Empress Agrippina that disproportionate distribution of wealth is a major cause of misery, conflict, and war. Probably more than anything, people judge themselves as being happy or unhappy by how much they have in relation to their fellow man. It is the goal of Empress Agrippina to greatly reduce the difference in how much different people have.
2. The Empress understands that the mega- rich will target her and her trusted few with assassination. The mega- rich should be aware that they, and their assets are being constantly monitored and if linked to any assassination attempt, they will slowly have their skin pulled off, arms and legs dislocated, teeth drilled, hands and feet crushed, and then, if alive, left to slowly die while the world watches.
4. Stabilize Money Supply
A. The world's money supply will be standardized using gold, silver, and copper.
1. One standardized form of money will be used everywhere on earth. All money in circulation will be made of precious metals (gold, silver, and copper). Value of currency is to be directly related to the actual value of the metal it is made of. Funds can still be transferred electronically, but the transfer will be backed by precious metal.
2. The government will not be allowed to print or make money that is not actual precious metal even if it is backed by precious metal.
a. Study of history has shown the Empress that Fiat money (paper) never survives, and that usually within 100 years it is worth what it is printed on. The U.S. paper dollar is doomed to become worthless and is now backed by only about 1% gold. One hundred ounces of gold will buy a modest home in America, just as it could 100 years ago.
3. Credit cards are to be disallowed worldwide. Debit cards will be allowed - debiting only what is available in the bank. Fingerprint I.D. will replace debit cards and other I.D. Carrying I.D. will be a thing of the past.
4. Options and hedge funds, are now declared illegal. Traders will be able to bet on the future value of stocks, but only after paying full price for each stock (no margin buying).
5. Charging more than 15% per year on any loan is now illegal. Derivatives are now against the law.
6. Violators to numbers 1 - 5 will have molten copper poured down their throats, as the world looks on.
5. Free Small Land Holding For Everyone on Earth
A. Each 14 year old will be given a minimum 1/4 Acre of land (more in marginal area) capable of growing food, with $100. initial micro-loan for development (more if paid back). This land can be used as homestead or for agriculture alone etc. If left unused ownership will be transferred back to the government for reallocation after 10 years. If improvements (house etc.,) are made, the property can be sold by the owner or transferred to the owners family. This land is to have rainfall of at least 20" per year and be capable of sustaining human life through some form of agriculture. Any unused, vacant land or buildings will eventually be recycled to new owners. People are to have some choice where the land would be located. An example is the thousands of garden plots commonly seen on the outskirts of German towns.
1. The Empress Agrippina intends to help the poorer 50% of the planet help themselves. 1/4 Acre and $100. may not appeal to a person in a developed country, but more than 2 billion people on earth earn the equivalent of $2. per day. For an amount which will only be inconvenient, the rich can help the poor to lift themselves to relative health and self-sufficiency.
2. Public service broadcasts will encourage whole food plant based diets and discourage animal products. This will prove to be healthier and more effecient, as most disease will decline, and less space, and money will be used for food production. It will be found that most of a persons food can be grown on 1/4 acre. After 2 years, those caught dealing in animal products will be stripped, smeared with blood, and chained to the ground, in a pig stye. Do not mistake any of this for soft heartedness towards animals. Excess animals will be made into cheap fertilizer.
6 . Reduce Government
A. Most governments and government agencies, will be eliminated or gradually replaced with a one world government, private businesses or charities. A unified, simplified government will be instituted for the entire world (separate state, county, and city governments will be phased out from all over earth).
B. On a country wide trial basis, representative government (electing representatives etc.,) is to be replaced - each adult will represent them self alone using the internet to vote. Every adult will vote for extra laws applicable only to their area, but the basic one world government laws will still apply. World laws can be changed by world vote with Empress veto power. New laws will be submitted via the internet for possible approval by popular vote (5% of total possible voters agreeing it is worthy of voting on).
1. The French will say they tried self representation during the revolution, and it did not work. The French did not have the Empress. She will see to it that persons corrupting the system will be branded with CHEAT in one inch letters on their foreheads, whipped in public and made into slaves.
2. On a trial basis the voting age will be reduced to 14.
C. A 10% flat sales tax is now instituted worldwide - a 10% tax on all items sold. All other taxes are now repealed. No state, county, city, property, income, social security, school, hospital, or any other tax. The Empress is aware that this is a ridiculously small amount compared to the total tax most people have been paying. It may be that the flat tax amount will need to be increased but it is the policy of the Empire to reduce government rather than increase taxes. Beware: Those caught cheating on taxes will be branded with CHEAT in one inch letters on their forehead, whipped in public, and used as slaves (length of slavery determined by amount of taxes not paid).
1. Many of the services now offered by government will be eliminated. The Empire refuses to be responsible for risky behavior. The Empire refuses to become an insurance company, a retirement account, school, or hospital. . There will be no FEMA, no Social Security, no government schools, and no universal health care.
C. The law will be reduced, simplified and codified (as in the Napoleonic Code which is still used in many countries). After determining guilt or innocence, locally elected Judges will simply look up the offense in a code book and read the sentence. A person with a sixth grade education will understand the law. Lawyers will mostly be unneeded.
D. No appeals will be allowed. Corrupt judges can be replaced by petition submitted on the internet for vote. Beware: The Empress is monitoring the internet vote. Those caught voting dishonestly (for money etc.,) will be branded with CHEAT in one inch letters on their foreheads, and whipped in public. These cheats will become permanent slaves of the Empire.
E. On an experimental basis, jury trials are to be eliminated. The Empress knows because Judges experience people lying to them routinely, they are more adept at spoting a lier than a jury.
F. All drugs will be legalized and taxed as alcohol and cigarettes are. Prisoners in jail for drug offences are to be let out of jail, slowly. Prisoners jailed for crimes which were committed to support their drug habits will be banished as below.
G. Most two time felons are to be taken to a geographically isolated area (No Man's Land - Devils Island, Alcatraz, Guam etc.) and left there forever with minimal survival items (shovel, seeds, tent, heavy clothes, sleeping bag, and three months food and water). They will be monitored from satellites. A remotely activated explosive chip will be implanted onto the felons carotid artery. As mentioned in Family Land, the felon's neck artery will be blown apart if he tries to escape.
H. Minor offenders and some felons are to be used as temporary labor for public works.
I. Most jails will be closed and used for other purposes. Jails are to be used mostly for short term holding.
J. First degree murderers, rapists, thieves or embezzlers of $500,000., and the criminally insane will be cheaply terminated (broadcast on TV), or used for entertainment as in ancient Roman gladiatorial fights. The public is to be able choose its preference by voting. Rapists will be tried to a pole and confronted by women who have been raped. The raped women will be given clubs, and nutcrackers. Criminals such as the Enron executives, Madoff, Stanford, and countless other corrupt CEO's., will be tortured (broadcast on TV) until the trillions of dollars they have hidden is found and returned to its rightful owners. These executives will then be stoned to death by the people they cheated.
7. Wean World Off Fossil Fuels
A. In order to create a bridge between fossil fuel depletion and renewable energy sources, restrictions will be removed on nuclear power plants. Iincentives will be given to build hundreds of new plants - especially the relatively safe pebble bed reactor plants. Pebble bed reactors are safer because they do not need water for cooling, do not rely on fuel rods to be lowered and raised, and are self limiting as higher temperatures cause less energy to be produced. Pebble bed reactors will function without overheating even with no cooling system, and are extremely unlikely to leak radiation. The simpler design which has safety built into the fuel pebbles eliminates the need of redundant back up cooling systems and the redundant power back ups that go with them. This simplifies the construction and reduces the cost.
B. Wind powered electrical generating corridors will be subsidized (as in Pickens Plan).
C. Electricity will be committed to as the dominant source of energy for future transportation. Electric rail systems will be subsidized and expanded.
D. The Empire will give incentives to car manufacturers to develop a vehicle that takes only 1/2 of the width of a normal car lane. Protypes have already been made. In congested areas one lane in multiple lane areas will be divided into two lanes. The narrow cars will seat one or two people with the second seat directly behind the front seat. The Empress intends to gradually reduce the 60% of total city space that is directly related to vehicles (roads, parking, garages etc.,) Agrippina imagines a world that uses only half the space (saving half the cost) now used for transportation - this is part of the Empire's future in a fossil fuel depleted world.
E. The dependence on personal automobiles, and truck shipping will be slowly phased out. Electric public transport, and electric rail shipping will be expanded and subsidized. Bicycling and walking will become safer, easier and more common.
F. The Empress intends to make it easier for poor people to get around. More and wider sidewalks will be built. Killing a pedestrian or bicyclist with a motorized vehicle will be punished by public execution. The killers will be put against a cement wall, rammed by their own vehicle, then run over. They will be left half alive, on camera, as the vultures tear their flesh.
G. Suburbia will be phased out. The shortsighted and massively wasteful American commitment to suburbia will come to an end. Incentives will be given to suburbanites so they will live and work either near the center of a small city, or town, or in an agricultural setting. The higher cost of energy in the future will cause suburbia to cease to be economical.
H. Life will become more local - an agriculturally based society with food grown mostly locally and consumer items made mostly locally. As fossil fuels deplete, it will become uneconomical to ship most items from the other side of the globe - The Empress for sees this will be a transition filled with denial, blame and suffering, but it need not ruin our economy if we prepare now. Agrippina is sure she will be blamed. She encourages you to blame her if it makes you feel better - complain all you like, but if you do anything about it she will have you crucifiied.
8. Free Internet Service To All County Seat Areas
A. All books in the various libraries worldwide will be loaded on the internet for free public use, along with free classes. Many universities, bookstores, libraries etc., will be closed or re-fitted for another use. Teachers and other contributors will be paid by the Empire for submitting useful information. Pay will be according to usage and ratings by users, with special emphasis on raising the standard of living in developing countries.
B. Voting will be done by any interested adult using the internet at a free county seat terminals or another of their choosing. Voters will represent themselves alone - pure democracy.
9. Change Building Codes
A. Buildings in cities and towns will be made to last for centuries, using block, brick, or concrete based materials (walls, floors and roofs as seen commonly in Latin America). All buildings, furniture and furnishings will be designed so they will not burn, rot, flood, or be eaten by insects. Fire insurance, and flood insurance will mostly become a thing of the past, as will many insurance companies, and most fire stations.
1. Complete, approved plans and instructions will be available for homes and businesses which can be submitted to a building permit department online. This is to be designed to work as easily as adding items to an online shopping cart and submitting it. The instructions will be designed so an average 14 year old can build an entire homestead, alone with hand tools.
B. People will not be issued building permits to build in areas where disaster is known to strike regularly. Nevertheless, Agrippina knows people will continue to build in risky locatios, such as: Below high tide (New Orleans), on a fault line (San Francisco), on the slopes of a volcano (Naples), where the land cannot support the population (Bangaladesh) or anywhere else history has shown disaster will strike regularly - such as ground level buildings on hurricane prone coast lines. The Empire will sit idly as these gamblers are drowned, crushed by debris, buried in ash, starved, and washed away.
D. On a trial basis, all new homes in selected areas for a number of years are to be self-sufficient - non dependent on outside services. The Empress will pay for the initial extra cost of electric, water, and sewer systems on these new homes, and for retrofitting other existing homes. The cost will be paid back to the Empire in installments.
1. Solar panels and/or wind powered generators will charge batteries and provide all electric power for selected homes. No outside electric lines will be connected to trial homes.
2. Water is to be collected from roof rain run off. A cistern (chlorinated) will be used for drinking, and showers etc. No outside water system is to be connected to trial homes - no new home water wells.
3. Compost toilets will be used for human excreta on trial homes (this can be electric or non electric). These toilets turn human waste into non - pathogenic (harmless) ash or dirt. Decomposed (harmless) compost (ash or dirt) will be spread on the yard, or garden etc. No outside sewer system is to be connected to trial homes. No fecal matter from pets or humans will be allowed to contaminate water anywhere (this can now be traced to it's source by DNA testing). No pet feces is to be allowed in city home yards - the number of pets (and people) in the world will be reduced by more than two thirds. Persons caught contaminating water will be thrown in a pit of liquefied feces. The pit will be surrounded by walls which have been greased so the violater cannot escape. Contaminators need not fear dieing of hunger or thirst; they can eat and drink liquified feces..
a. The current flush sewage system is very expensive, in the long run, and is prone to contamination. Most countries in the world do not have sanitary tap water - this is most often due to the sewer system leaking into the water system.
E. New communities in developing countries are to be designed and redesigned to be self sufficient (not dependent on supplies from thousands of miles away). Food growing, brick making, battery making, house building, tool making, health care, law enforcement etc, will be available in each county seat area - or each 50 square mile area (all over the inhabitable earth. Electric rail lines will link each county seat. This is to be laughed at by people in developed countries, but is revolutionary for the worlds developing poor. Incentives are to be given for people to transition to live in areas that are not dependent on foods, fossil fuels and pumped water from hundreds of miles away to support human life. The Empress forecasts that the desert cities will soon start to lose their recent population boom.
1. The community design mentioned above is to be mostly for new developing areas. Although many will disagree, Agrippina believes the developed countries have no serious problems, and the Empire will mostly ignore them. For the most part the relatively minor problems of the developed world are caused by too much of everything - not a little too much - for most, more than ten times too much. No doubt the people of the developed world will hate the Empress, for making them share.
F. Growth of mega cities will be discouraged. Growth of towns surrounded by good agricultural land with at least 20" of rainfall is to be subsidized. Small, family farms growing food for their own consumption will be given micro loans and incentives.
10. Fund Giant Research Compound
A. Initially, Agrippina will spend more on research than has ever been spent in history. These expenditures are to be reduced as the goals below are met.
B. Priority is to be given to find out what promotes harmony, and a feeling of well being in the populace.
1. What form of government works the best, or has the most fulfilled populace?
2. What economic system works the best, or has the most fulfilled populace?
3. What promotes happiness over a lifetime? Extensive tests will be done with different volunteer groups. Example: Agricultural commune, hunter gatherer tribe, high tech. group, pure capitalist group, pure socialist group, group with everyone having exactly the same amount of material goods.etc A small population of earth will be allowed to live a life as totally unaffected by the rest of the world as is possible, and be monitored remotely.
1. It is clear to Empress Agrippina that having a population of competent, generally satisfied workers is something worth investing in. People who like their jobs are almost always very competent at work and bisaversa. The Empress believes in discovering what each persons special, genetically influenced talents are, and what they will be most satisfied doing. Children will be tested at elementary school levels for talents, and inclinations which will give them advantages in certain occupations, and asked what they would prefer between a number of occupations. For example: people with a mind for mathematics have been shown to also be very good musicians, but seldom does one person enjoy both. Agrippina will pay to have training adapted to talent and inclination from Elementary School level on. Parents and students can opt out of the specialized program, but if they withdraw, The Empress will withdraw financial support, and the students' earnings in later life will no doubt suffer. Of course, any student can quit school at 14 and work the free land they will now own. Many 14 year olds, trained for their occupation from 6, will be finished with their training and released to work. The present haphazard method of job choice by trial and error will be curtailed. Choosing a career because of a childhood fantasy, or more likely, simply not knowing what to choose, then quitting or being fired from job after job in a search for the perfect job is to be discouraged for everyone's sake. The delay of maturity now seen in all developing countries will not exist in the Empire.
2. The Empress knows there is a huge gap between what people say makes them happy and what is good for people generally over a lifetime. This gap will be explored and an attempt will be made to reduce it. It is understood some people will choose to be miserable,
C. Research will be done to benefit the public in the following areas:
1. Energy - nuclear, wind, solar, and passive systems.
2. Transportation - focusing on small, inexpensive, electric vehicles and electric trains (wean off fossil fuels)
3.. Housing - focusing on owner built, self-contained. concrete based homes, which are not dependent on outside sources for energy, water, and sewer.
4. Small family farms - focusing on sustainable methods of growing healthy food for self sufficiency (especially for developing countries).
5. Vaccines - especially for Malaria and AIDS.
D. The progress of the research above will be available to anyone online. A large cash prize (up to $500,000.) will be offered to any person who offers a useful addition to one of the categories above or a new category that will be useful to the Empire.
11. Change Time
A. On a limited trial basis the decimal system will be used for time. A year will consist of 365.2422 days with each day being simply it's number. 10 hour day. 100 minute hour. 100 second minute (We are still using a time system that is based on ancient Egyptian religion and faulty thinking - 12 moon cycles, about 354 days, do not equal a year and our current months do not correspond to moon cycles). 12, 24, and 60 (part of Egyptian religion) are all time consuming. The Egyptians realized the flaws in the system, but, as in other cultures, could not easily remove its acceptance by the public.
B. On a limited trial basis it will be the same time everywhere on earth. This will make it unnecessary to figure different times in different time zones or to reset clocks (our time zones are a remnant of a system created during the early explorations of the world in order to help sailors navigate). Note that people would still go to sleep at the same time relative to the sun. A person in America might go to sleep at 10 while a person in China might go to sleep at 5 (ten hour day). An American traveling to China might think it strange to try to sleep at 5, but is this any worse than to try to sleep at 10 and feel half a day out of sync (jet lag)?
1. It is clear to Empress Agrippina that the measurement of time has been accepted mindlessly by most cultures just as language has. Where cultures have not been exposed to the currently accepted norms they have, at times, improved on them (such as time keeping - The Mayans and the exact determination of May 10 for planting).
12. Institute All World Metric System
A. Institute the metric system for all official measurements worldwide. The U.S. will be forced to surrender it's curiously stubborn adherence to the time wasting English system (which even the English do not use).
13. Provide Limited Health Care
A. Vaccinations will be provided for all infants worldwide (as in developed countries).
B. Swift treatment will be given for diseases threatening to spread outside their local area (quarantine).
C. People showing disregard for the health of others (to the point of death) , will be infected with the Ebola virus, and locked in a sealed concrete room with an online camera. The public can watch as bleeding pustules form a layer of black skin which will slugh off. Blood will flow out of every orifice, as internal organs liquify. All people with HIV/AIDS will be branded with the word AIDS in two inch letters on their foreheads.
D. The Empress will subsidize the training of local, rural health care workers with emphasis on prenatal, midwife and infant care (as in India).
E. The time and cost of training doctors and nurses (and other occupations) will be cut in half. Doctors and nurses will have ot choose a specific career path (such as oral surgery) by the end of theri first year in medical training (when they will be exposed to a little of everything). After the first year their curriculum will be for their choosen specialty only, making it about half what it was.
E. Persons who: 1. Are more than 60 lbs overweight. 2. Refuse to quit smoking. 3. Refuse to quit eating animal products. . 4. Are non compliant with treatment requirements (such as a diabetic repeatedly having blood sugar above 200)., will not be allowed to participate in any health care system (unless they pay cash).
F. Lawsuits against health care agencies or health care workers will be only be allowed if malicious intent can be proved. Lawyers and claimants found bringing any lawsuit without merit will have their head severed and stuck on a pike above the court house door.
G. It is questionable whether some procedures, treatments, or surgeries are worth the cost. The following will be considered for restriction or elimination:
1. Intensive care for infants born less than 28 weeks from conception (more than three months premature).. This costs millions the first 6 months, and the problems continue for a liftetime.
2. Triple heart bypass surgery (over $300,000.) and other heart surgeries. The number of heart surgeries doctors will want to do in the near future will stagger the system.
3. Organ transplants (all)
4. MRI, CAT scan, and the endless lab tests (all need to be severly restricted).
It may be found that the only way to contain costs of surgery is to fly the patients to countries such as India, where Indian doctors, trained in the U.S., do surgeries at less than 10% the cost in the U.S. Ofcourse, people able to pay $500,000. in cash for surgery in the U.S. can do so.
Once again, the Empire is not a universal health care agency.
As world population is reduced and dispersed, many health problems will disapear, along with many social and environmental problems.
The Empress believes there is a benefit to future generations by allowing the suvival of the fittest to function as it did in most of human history.
14. Revise The English Language and World Signs
A. Although English, in it's present form is a poor choice for a universal language, the Empress realizes it will continue to be the dominant choice until sometime after the inevitable decline of America. The revisions below have been proposed by many, but have never been adopted due to no one having the power or fortitude to force them into being. The Empress will insure there is one correct form of English for the entire world. All children will be taught a minimum of 100 English words from C. K. Ogden's Basic English (a revised and simplified form of English). These words will comprise common phrases useful for travel and international business. Spelling will be revised according to Noah Webster's essay on spelling reform in 1789, or Newspelling by Douglas Crawford (similar). Those who refuse to adopt the revisions into print will have the revisions below tattooed into the skin of their chest using a mallet, a dull comb and black soot. They will then be used for labor in public works for a period equal to the amount of print violation (one day per page).. The following will save money and time, and facilitate learning:
1. Words are to be spelled as they are spoken. See :http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/DKitchen/new_655/webster_language.htm
2. Double and silent letters will be eliminated. bread = bred
3. Plurals will be made by simply adding s or es; (mouse - mice), (goose - geese), (child - children) will now be (mouse - mouses), (goose - gooses), (child - childs).
4. The past tense will be formed by simply adding ed; (eat - ate), (sit - sat) (sleep - slept) will now be (eat - eated), (sit - sitted), (sleep - sleeped).
5. Many English letters, and letter combinations are illogical, redundant, or useless, including; c, y, x, ph, ou, ie, ei, ea, ch, th, ugh, ique, ck. These will be revised.
5. s will replace the soft c.
6 . k will replace the hard c.
7 . ph = f. phone = fone
8. o will be eliminated from ou. rough = ruf
9. ie, ei, or ea = ee; grieve, ceiling, mean, = greev, ceeling, meen
10. soft ch = sh; machine = mashine
11. hard ch = k; character = karakter
12. th = th or `th; the or `throw
13. ugh = w or f; daughter = dawter. tough = tuf.
14. ique = eek; oblique = obleek
15. g making the j sound = j; logical, magical = lojical, majical.
16. ck = k;. rock, dock = rok, dok.
17. x = ks;. box, sox = boks, soks
18. with x replaced by ks, x can now more properly be used as the sh sound in television and fission = televixion and fixion
19. dipthong ow = o-w
19. Other vowel sound differences would be formed by a mark over the letter o = `o
20. Words with commonly confused multiple meanings will be revised - serve has 18 meanings, measure has 16 meanings, charge has 13 meanings.
21. Words that are confused because they sound the same but have different meanings will be revised - sum & some, dear & deer.
22. English now has more ways to say, utter, declare, state, speak, express, voice, annunciate, and articulate than any other language. Certain unneeded words will be eliminated.
The changes above will make sentences that look like the following: The ruf, meen dawter on the dok, greeved at the karakter on the fone.
. Note: As can be seen above, English is so littered with irregularities that to revise it almost creates a new language. So be it. Agrippina will revise it and regulate it. Be aware that The Empires' English will sound the same as the old English - only the written form will change. The Empress will offer free dictation software so spoken words can be input through a computer microphone and changed to the official written words. The Empress will institute the teaching of C. K. Ogden's Basic English (revised) for the official universal language (now available for free online), and will do feasibility studies on using Esperanto as the universal language in the future (also now free online with audio).
B. Universal symbols will be used worldwide for street signs.
In Conclusion
The Empire will stop war, reduce population, redistribute wealth, stabilize money, give land, reduce government, reduce fossil fuel use, institute self representation, change building codes, fund research, change time, change measurement, change health care, and change language. Many will claim Agrippina and her minions are megalomaniacs, and should be stopped. Those acting on these claims will find themselves: with skin pulled off, with arms and legs dislocated, with fingers and toes crushed, with teeth drilled, with neck arteries exploded, with molten copper poured down their throat, eaten by pigs, banished forever, made into slaves, branded, whipped raw, tattooed, crucified, and stoned.


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Archaeologists may have unearthed the very first career woman. The remains of a female metal worker buried with her tools from the Bronze Age have been excavated north of Vienna.
In terms of women's history, this is a major flashpoint. This working girl is up there with Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Pankhurst. Scientists say the choice of her funeral artefacts – an anvil, hammer, flint chisels and some small pieces of dress jewellery – are the first indication that women did such work at that time.
So she might just have sent sparks flying towards that very first glass ceiling. Not that everyone's made progress since then. Having worked on accessories, our Bronze Age pioneer would be intrigued to know that 5,000 years later some women simply work at being an accessory. Over the past week or so, sport and politics have underlined the role of female as decorative appendage is very much alive.
Take the Ryder Cup. Having been at Medinah for the Practice Day – and sampled the Celtic Manor two years ago – I've been lucky enough to experience at first hand just why this event is one of the great sporting spectacles of our time. I thrilled to the gladiatorial golf – the fascinating battles within the bigger campaign, the emotion of Seve as inspiration and the fabulous human drama of the European comeback.
And then they wheel the women on. The WAGS parade would be just about bearable if they weren't required to wear a uniform. But every year this beaming conga of spouses stand by their men on the victory platform dressed like Pan Am air hostesses. Or this year – thanks to their dubious blazer choice – like Ruth Madoc stunt doubles from Hi di Hi.
Family support is one thing, but these women are treated as Sky Sports camera candy rather than as an essential part of the backroom team. You'll get plenty of cutaways of their attractive faces but you'll never hear them speak – their opinions are rarely sought.
Plus the pressure on the golfer himself to turn up with a stunning birdie for the wives' picture must be intense. What if he's single? Or gay? Or indeed, what if he's Tiger Woods? How could he fit them all on the platform?
There has been lots of talk about legacy in Wales two years on from Celtic Manor's stint as Ryder Cup hosts. Increasing female participation was a key part of the original Welsh bid. Golf Development Wales should be congratulated for their efforts in this area. I was one of those who benefited from the free lessons schemes they launched to encourage women and girls to take up the game. And hugely enjoyable they were too.
While much was done on a practical level to make the sport more female-friendly, cultural attitudes are harder to shift. Young girls watching the Ryder Cup would be forgiven for thinking women are no more than pretty appendages to the players. Yet if the husbands and boyfriends of the Solheim Cup teams were forced to parade in identical leisurewear, the absurdity of the WAGS Ryder Cup catwalk would be hit home faster than Rory McIlroy's swing.
Golf has always struggled with gender equality even though women have played since the 16th century. But that's where the trouble started, according to sportswriter Peter Dobereiner: "Let us examine the proposition that women golfers are people. It requires an effort to adjust to this idea, for ever since the beheading of the first woman golfer, Mary Queen of Scots, the golf world has openly regretted that the practice didn't start a trend."
Yet at least the golf world is aware of its sexism. Politics pretends to be, well, politically correct even though British conference season and the American elections are the biggest platform of all for accessory wives.
We've only ever really had Denis Thatcher as a template for male political spouses and while no-one ever took him seriously at least he never suffered constant analysis of his Bobby Charlton comb-over.
First ladies and prospective first ladies, however, must endure in-depth wardrobe analysis and conform to the strictest behavioural guidelines. The media thrive on the fear that behind every great man is a terrifying harpy who wears the trousers. And God help her if those trousers are an unflattering cut.
If she has a successful career of her own she will be deemed non-supportive. Remember Hillary Clinton and Cookie-Gate. When asked by the press if her career as a lawyer conflicted with the responsibilities of first lady, she replied, "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do is fulfil my profession." Gleeful Republicans turned this into an anti-family rant and an affront to home-makers. Similarly, her response to rumours of Bill's infidelity – "I'm not some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette" – was portrayed as a radical feminist tirade, not to mention a vicious attack on country and western fans.
When it comes to smart cookies, many Americans would rather their First Ladies bake them than be one. Indeed the only fact I know about Mitt Romney's wife Ann is she makes a mean Welshcake.
Before her husband and Barack Obama took to the lecterns for their first Presidential Debate this week, she and incumbent First Lady Michelle were brought on stage for the baroque dance of the political wives' embrace. Feverish scrutiny of body language ensued. Who would reach out to who first? Who appeared the "warmer"?
With the coquettish ladies out the way it was time for their knights to do battle. But Barack Obama then extended this feminine curtain-raiser by responding to the first question on the economy by wishing his "sweetie" happy anniversary. It was toe-curling.
Back on this side of the pond, meanwhile, the partners of Britain's political leaders were being forced to play the usual game of doting – and stylish – arm candy. According to the Daily Mail, Ed Miliband was judged to have been outshone by his wife Justine "who wowed delegates in a stunning shift dress – in Labour red – and the nude LK Bennett heels favoured by Kate Middleton."
The paper further informed readers that: "All three party leaders have come to realise their wives are a major political asset, and their fashion choices are closely scrutinised as a sign of being in touch with ordinary voters – and their shopping budgets." Actually as an "ordinary voter" I'm more impressed with the fact that Justine is a Cambridge-educated barrister than where she gets her frocks from, but there we are.
If there's one political spouse who won't have to worry about nude LK Bennett heels it's Ed Balls. Yvette Cooper could prove more impressive than any Labour male at the moment but how would the Daily Mail ever cope with restricting her other half to the fashion pages.
And what would our Bronze Age career woman make of it all? Fast forward 5000 years and our ancient lady smithy might be a bit surprised to find out that some women in the 21st century are expected to be as decorative as the jewellery she created.

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In a recent Ask blog, called "Morph & In-line functions: The power behind the panels" the team discusses how to take advantage of some of the cool features of Ask3D which was launched last week.
The right hand panel of Ask3D has got features like Encyclopedia, Images, Dictionary, Recent Posts from blogs & RSS Feeds, Music Guides, News, Television, the correct time, Videos, Weather, and Songs with in-line play. The search process at Ask3D is done with the help of Morph and In-line functions.
Morph is a new content-matching algorithm that changes the SERPs according to the unique query made by the user. Morph looks in hundreds of structured databases for a particular query and it also checks the previous user behavior for that query. After a detailed analysis, it returns the most relevant matches and ranks the modules on the page in context with the query. And this ranking is done on the basis of relevant signals within the content like keywords, tags, freshness, etc and an aggregate user behavior for a particular query.
The process does not stop here. For more advanced search results, there is In-line functions where one find options like vertical search, rollovers & more. One can find these modules on the right side panel. Here a user can interact and search within them.
Additional features include Image Mouseovers, Video Mouseovers, Music Clips, Geo-Targeted Businesses and Event Listings. These cool gadgets are designed to save your time. To know more about the features have a look at the blog posted by Ask.com


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Epic Games, Inc. has released the October 2011 UDK Beta, the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides access to the award-winning toolset used in blockbuster video games, 3D visualizations, digital films and more. October 2011 UDK Beta Upgrade Notes
God rays and shadows support added on iOS
- Added dialog support for creating wall posts
- Added friends list download support
- Added support to request additional permissions from a user
Input changes
- Added support for tilt/touch outside of MobilePlayerInput, moved support up to Input/PlayerInput - (MobileInputZone handling is still in MobilePlayerInput)
- Added Kismet events for generic key/axis input (for key presses and mouse/tilt)
- Added a new Kismet event for touch handling
- SeqEvent_MobileMotion/MobileRawInput still work, but they are now marked with [Old]
- Added aTouch and aBackTouch axes to PlayerInput.uc, so script code can get touch events easily
Foliage Settings Paint Tool
Added a new paint tool for applying settings to foliage quickly and easily!
The following foliage settings can be painted:
- Slope alignment, randomized angle and scale settings
- Cull instances based new on slope, height or landscape layer criteria
- Minimum radius between foliage instances
- General density of foliage instances (add new foliage, or thin out areas)
New Unreal Landscape and Foliage Features
- Paint tool: Added feature to paint layer weights to a certain fixed weight amount, with stroke history to handle falloff for overlapping strokes
- Flatten tool: Changed behavior for painting layers to be the same as when painting heights
- Noise tool: Added painting to a specified noise value and scale
- LandscapeLayerBlend node now supports order-independent height-based blends between layers
- Added dialog to the move-to-level tool to allow the user to move shared resources (material, layers) out of the persistent level into a shared package
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- Component tool now considers brush size
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- Added hotkeys Ctrl+G for grouping, Shift+G for ungrouping and Ctrl+Shift+G for group mode toggle
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- Node connections can now be moved from node to node or connector to connector by dragging a connection between to 'like' (input/input or output/output) connectors in the Material Editor
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Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by The Hammer, Feb 3, 2014.
Heyyy everybody, late to the party I know,what'd I miss?
Long discussion on opiate addiction
Ahh I see. Well I can't add much to that as I dont use opiates, but yea too bad for Philip. He was a good actor.
As long as Tom hanks doesn't suddenly pass, I'll manage.
Well most of us do not use opiates but it does not mean we cannot talk about it.
Meh no interest TBH.
I see enough people doped up on something I'll skip this convo
I'm sure you can manage to get a few convos going!
Slacking. I don't see nearly enough threads started by you today.
spent most of my day shoveling a foot of snow
Same here, actually.
NY got LUCKY with the Super Bowl.
Yea it was 50 at one point sunday. Then the next day 7-inches and a foot today
Get a snow blower


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When we talk about looks, along with facial features, the look of the body also is also very important. That is the reason that there has been an increase in the introduction of gyms and cosmetic surgery centres. If you are basically good looking but are facing disfigured body then gym is the solution. But for people who suffer certain deficiencies in the look of the body parts then cosmetic surgery is the solution.
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It's not a major issue at this point, but am I the only one having this problem? When I load a saved game, it gets stuck in the generating buildings message.
It just makes it hard for me to share my creations right now. I actually made some cool things I wanted to show off, but I lose them if I exit the game.


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Hi guys so I have been thinking about getting an ethereal to stick at the back with my Fire Warriors and Pathfinder for 6+ FNP mainly but is it worth the extra points for Aun'Shi?
If a small squad of assault Marines, striking scorpion, Genestealer pop up just 5 could quite possibly drop 10 firewarrior and 5 Pathfinder but if you can kill 1/2 with shooting Aun'Shi could finish what was left surely? Then I would lose 1 squad instead of 3?
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Since 1990 (Annual Festival)
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History & Mission:
In 1990 Dr Paul Steinitz's widow, Margaret, founded the London Bach Festival (later renamed Bachfest). The programmes centre on J.S. Bach, his family and his contemporaries. Usually there is a theme, for example the composer at Weimar (1990) and at Leipzig (1992). The educational part of the society's charitable purpose is expressed in the promotion of groups which deserve wider recognition, in the singing days for young amateur musicians with which the 1993 and 1996 festivals began, in public lectures, above all, in the presentation of works still rarely heard in public.
The highlight of the 1994 festival was the first visit to this country of Thomanerchor Leipzig, under their new Cantor, Professor Georg Christoph Biller. They performed the 1725 version of the John Passion in King's College Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, Birmingham Town Hall and Wells Cathedral. BBC Radio 3 publicised the tour and recorded one of the performances. The concerts enabled the choir to sing a Bach Passion with a period-instrument orchestra, Steinitz Bach Players, for the first time since the 18th century.
UK's close ties with the Continent are marked by the presence of eminent musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, who directed at the LBS Golden Jubilee in 1996. The 1997 festival concentrated on Bach and the Romantic movement (in the figures of Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms), which both provided the impetus for the revival of J.S. Bach's music and was influenced by it. The next two built upon successes in the previous years in order to prepare for the J.S. Bach 250th anniversary in 2000. Inn 2005 the UK 'live' première of a newly discovered Bach Aria Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127 was given.
Sixty years after the foundation of the LBS, Dr Paul Steinitz's vision has been realised and is being taken forward into a new century. The choirs used in the festivals are small and professional; the orchestra plays on period instruments; this country's close ties with the Continent are marked by the presence of eminent musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt (); the participation of young performers and a substantial education programme reflects Dr Paul Steinitz's long association with students and his widow's determination to persuade a new generation of Bach's greatness.
LBS's annual Bachfest has taken the Society's musical priorities and developed them to create a continuing platform for contemporary Bach scholars, players and singers. The programmes place the music performed in the context of J.S. Bach's life and times, drawing on the repertory of his forebears, contemporaries, family and followers. To provide the 'total experience' the music is performed in appropriate buildings and uses forces with which Bach might have been familiar. Sometimes this leads the Bachfest to move away from performing in traditional venues and to step boldly towards those settings that can provide an aesthetic complement, and therefore enhanced experience for the listener.
Also it is no accident that the Festival takes place around 31 October - Reformationsfest/Reformation Festival. This is the annual celebration that marks the foundation of the Lutheran Church, which J.S. Bach served all his life and for which he provided his treasury of church music. Therefore it is an appropriate way to start setting the composer's life and work in context and to launch the LBS annual Bachfest.
The London Bach Society's pioneering performances have changed the way we approach the performance of Bach's music in this country. They use instruments with which the composer would have been familiar and apply the very latest in Bach scholarship in order to enhance your knowledge and enjoyment of his rich treasury of music.
Recent Festivals:
16th Festival: Oct 31-Nov 19, 2006 (LBS's 60th Anniversary)
17th Festival: Nov 11-20, 2007
18th Festival: Nov 2-18, 2008 (Ways to Bach)
19th Festival: Oct 25-Nov 20, 2009 (Ways to Bach)
20th Festival: Oct 31-Nov 19, 2010 (Family Bach)
21st Festival: Nov 2-10, 2011 (The Composer's Art)
22nd Festival: Nov 3+, 2012
23rd Festival: Oct 31-Nov 8, 2013
24th Festival: Oct 31-Nov 10, 2014
25th Festival: Oct 31-Nov 13, 2015
26th Festival: Oct 30-Nov 14, 2016
20st Festival - 2010
21st Festival - 2011
22nd Festival - 2012
23rd Festival - 2013
Bach Notes Mar 2009
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Bach Notes Spring 2012
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Bach Notes Spring 2013
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Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses
The Association of American University Presses has released Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses.
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Within the scholarly communications ecosystem, scholarly publishers are a keystone species. University presses—as well as academic societies, research institutions, and other scholarly publishers—strive to fulfill the mission of making public the fruits of scholarly research as effectively as possible within that ecosystem. While that mission has remained constant, in recent years the landscape in which it is carried out has altered dramatically.
"Sustaining Scholarly Publishing" explores many current scholarly publishing experiments and initiatives, defines characteristics of effective business models and the challenges of transitioning from a traditional sales-based model, and presents several recommendations for sustaining high-quality scholarly publishing throughout this time of change. The AAUP report was prepared by the Task Force on Economic Models for Scholarly Publishing, chaired by Lynne Withey, now-retired director of the University of California Press. . . .
Among the report's recommendations:
- Active and open sharing of lessons learned by participants in existing digital publishing projects should be an ongoing process.
- The support of foundations, libraries, and university administrations in providing funds to work toward the digital future has been, and will remain, crucial.
- Open access is a principle to be embraced, if publishing costs can be supported by the larger scholarly enterprise. University presses, and nonprofit publishers generally, should be fully engaged in these discussions.
- Proposals and plans for new business models should explicitly address the potential impact of the new model on other parts of a press's programs, as well as explicitly address the requirements, both operational and financial, for making the transition to a new model.
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A successful futures trading strategy
Back in 1989, I was 42 and living in Java. I decided it was time to do something about my old age. I knew the traditional pension wouldn't be enough. Nor would buying and accumulating physical stock. It had to be leveraged, but at the same time it had to be safe. My argument went like this :
~ All trading systems are bunkum - no better and no worse than reading steaming entrails.
~ Most market movements are too complex to be reliably predictable simultaneously in both timing and price.
~ The only certainty is that, for the last 400 years, market indices have almost always risen over a period of 5 years or more. One notable exception was 1929 (over 20 years to recover), and almost certainly by now December 1999 (for the FT 100 and the Dow, for example). Raise this to 10 years and it's hard to find an exception except for the years following 1929.
~ So the only reasonably reliable approach is to buy and accumulate over at least 10 years, leveraging one's position only by as much as one can afford assuming a fall of up to 50% in the value of the market at some time during the first five years.
~ Proof that it works, and in spades: look at any long-term graph of the Dow or FT 100 - it doesn't take a mathematical genius to work out that you would have made spectacular profits over almost (and there's your risk : almost) any 10-year period in documented history. And of course you would accumulate as you went, in small increments starting from a humble single futures contract, until after ten years you had a portfolio worth millions in any currency.
Then you continue as before for another 10 years - so you really need to start this before, say, your 50th birthday. Otherwise all you'll get is a very nice funeral.
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Climate change - focus on the means ...
The Australian:
Focus on the means
7 September 2009
Our present approach to solving global warming will not work. It is flawed economically, because carbon taxes will cost a fortune and do little, and it is flawed politically, because negotiations to reduce CO2 emissions will become ever more fraught and divisive. And even if you disagree on both counts, the present approach is also flawed technologically.
Many countries are now setting ambitious carbon-cutting goals ahead of global negotiations in Copenhagen this December to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Let us imagine that the world ultimately agrees on an ambitious target. Say we decide to reduce CO2 emissions by three-quarters by 2100 while maintaining reasonable growth. Herein lies the technological problem: to meet this goal, non-carbon-based sources of energy would have to be an astounding 2.5 times greater in 2100 than the level of total global energy consumption was in 2000.
These figures were calculated by economists Chris Green and Isabel Galiana of McGill University. Their research shows that confronting global warming effectively requires nothing short of a technological revolution. We are not taking this challenge seriously. If we continue on our current path, technological development will be nowhere near significant enough to make non-carbon-based energy sources competitive with fossil fuels on price and effectiveness.
In Copenhagen this December, the focus will be on how much carbon to cut, rather than on how to do so. Little or no consideration will be given to whether the means of cutting emissions are sufficient to achieve the goals.
Politicians will base their decisions on global warming models that simply assume that technological breakthroughs will happen by themselves. This faith is sadly - and dangerously - misplaced.
Green and Galiana examine the state of non-carbon-based energy today - nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, etc - and find that, taken together, alternative energy sources would get us less than halfway towards a path of stable carbon emissions by 2050, and only a tiny fraction of the way toward stabilisation by 2100. We need many, many times more non-carbon-based energy than is currently produced.
Yet the needed technology will not be ready in terms of scalability or stability. In many cases, there is still a need for the most basic research and development. We are not even close to getting this revolution started.
Existing technology is so inefficient that - to take just one example - if we were serious about wind power, we would have to blanket most countries with wind turbines to generate enough energy for everybody, and we would still have the massive problem of storage: we don't know what to do when the wind doesn't blow.
Policymakers should abandon fraught carbon-reduction negotiations, and instead make agreements to invest in research and development to get this technology to the level where it needs to be. Not only would this have a much greater chance of actually addressing climate change, but it would also have a much greater chance of political success. The biggest emitters of the 21st century, including India and China, are unwilling to sign up to tough, costly emission targets. They would be much more likely to embrace a cheaper, smarter, and more beneficial path of innovation.
Today's politicians focus narrowly on how high a carbon tax should be to stop people from using fossil fuels. That is the wrong question. The market alone is an ineffective way to stimulate research and development into uncertain technology, and a high carbon tax will simply hurt growth if alternatives are not ready. In other words, we will all be worse off.
Green and Galiana propose limiting carbon pricing initially to a low tax (say, $5 a tonne) to finance energy research and development. Over time, they argue, the tax should be allowed to rise slowly to encourage the deployment of effective, affordable technology alternatives.
Investing about $100 billion annually in non-carbon-based energy research would mean that we could essentially fix climate change on the century scale. Green and Galiana calculate the benefits - from reduced warming and greater prosperity - and conservatively conclude that for every dollar spent this approach would avoid about $11 of climate damage. Compare this with other analyses showing that strong and immediate carbon cuts would be expensive, yet achieve as little as $0.02 of avoided climate damage.
If we continue implementing policies to reduce emissions in the short term without any focus on developing the technology to achieve this, there is only one possible outcome: virtually no climate impact, but a significant dent in global economic growth, with more people in poverty, and the planet in a worse state than it could be.
Bjorn Lomborg is director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, author of Cool It and The Skeptical Environmentalist, and adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School.
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That article does not say that global warming caused the earthquake that caused the tsunami. It said that the earthquake (somewhat localized) had effects that touched people's lives very, very far away, and that global warming will touch even more lives.
Cheers, Matt
Maybe the world has been coming to an end, just slower than your average Hollywoood movie would have you think it will. Climate change really has happened, and you can talk to plenty of old people living in places like Alaska and they will usually tell you that it used to be colder. There is ample evidence for glacier retreat and ice thinning (the letter from e.g U.S. Navy polar research).
Now, some reports have been overly dramatized - and some people retro-actively exaggerate the reports so they can say that its was all hype. In truth, there is always a range of opinion on something as important as climate change, and you can pretty much alway find someone who says something youi find useful, if you look hard enough.
All that notwithstanding, the large majority of the worlds' climate scientists have over the last 15-20 years consistently been saying that we are causing climate change. There is so much evidence that only someone who wanted to believe otherwise would be in serious doubt.
You make an obvious logical fallacy: the fact that something hasn't happened doesn't prove that it won't happen.
No, climate change will happen over the next 20-100 years. It might be "slow" compared to an asteroid impact, but it will nonetheless happen and it will have an impact on our environment. How much it interfers with civilization is still somewhat up for debate...
There is another example of this sort of thing that I find infomative; when I was a kid I learned about the dangers of over-population, and how diseases were a common consequence. As a kid I thought that there would be a large pandemic that would sweep through the teeming masses and kill millions of people. Of course, I was right - it's just that that pandemic happened slower than I expected (AIDS infects and will kill >20% of some poulations in Africa. That's pretty Malthusian if you ask me).
Why has it better getting progressively colder over the past 20 years in places like Russia and China?
It hasn't. In fact, there are many cities in northern Russia that have a new problem: apartment buildings collapse because the permafrost their foundations sit on has melted. That sounds like warming to me.
While both halves of that are technically true, no one sane would assert that the human effects would result in a run away scenario and Earth turning into Venus. Rather the effect of human activity, if any, will be to push the climate into another relatively stable state.
If nothing else, remember that the carbon we are shoveing into the atmosphere all came from the atmosphere to start with, and a lot more is locked up in carbon rich sedimentary rocks such as limestone and chalk. We're just putting back it back. If we weren't in a run-away situation before life started making mass amounts of cacium carbonate, we aren't going to be after we just put back the relatively small amount of carbon locked up in fossil fuels.
No, that's wrong. Volcanoes on average put in 100-200 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Humans dump about 6 BILLION tons each year. Here is a reference [fs.fed.us]. here is another [csiro.au]
You sure you read that right? Egypt fell either when Alexander, or the Romans invaded (depending on if you think the Ptolemies ruling from Egypt was Egyptian enough). As Egypt's wealth was in their grain, I'm pretty sure the Nile was still flooding quite happily.
What you might be remembering is that the start of the Egyptian kingdom was partly caused by northen Africa changing from a large expanse of lakes into the Sahara desert. That forced tribes more and more into the Nile valley, and all the tasty food therein.
I wonder how many of you people that are joking abut this shit have kids, and if so, do you care about them? Because to me it doesn't sound like it to me. When gas goes up to $7.00 a gallon I don't think you will be laughing as hard. We are are struggling to feed your kids I don't think you will be laughing as hard, then.
Actually, the particulate matter is causing reflection, not absorbtion. And this my friend, causes 'dimming' which cools the Earth. Read a little first before you post.The sunlight is getting to Earth. It's being absorbed in the atmosphere. And guess what the absorption of sunlight causes? heat -- warming, in other words. That's not good news.
Fallout levels depend on whether they are ground or air bursts, and weather patterns. Fallout radiation levels decay quickly. Very little land would be uninhabitable for long periods of time. Contamination is relative. People can live and farm on land that is heavily contaminated by modern radiation safety standards without immediate and severe health problems. Human populations are surprisingly resilient when exposed to non-fatal levels of radiation. If you survive the first 60 days after the event, you will probably live a normal life.
See http://www.rerf.or.jp/top/qae.htm [rerf.or.jp] for data on radiation effects from Japan.
Red herringGetting an extra few hundred dollars back in your taxes is more important to people than the future of their own children (see under: Republicans' fiscal policies).
Another red herring (L.A.'s geography is why the smog is bad there).Driving a Hummer to work is more important than not being able to breathe (see under: LA smog).
Another red herring. I don't worry about killing people who commit acts of murder like blowing up police stations or putting thousands of dissenters and ethnic undesirables in mass graves. They're called "bad guys."And getting your way is more important than killing 15,000+ human beings you don't know (see under: Iraq war).
And how do you produce the hydrogen for your fuel cell?If we were seriously concerned about any of this, starting with the most immediate, breathable air in our cities, we'd have hydrogen cars out there already.
We already make much more food than we need due to advancing agricultural technology. That's why we need fewer farmers. Democrats have made a career out of claiming it's a bad thing - well, I guess it's a bad thing for the farmers. And so it was for all the typewriter repairmen, we don't need many of those to meet demand anymore.I just wonder once people start dying in the US, if the US will try to storm the remaining food/resource reserves by force. (yes, you might argue that Iraq already happened, but I'm talking resources other than oil).
Check out: this link [worldviewo...arming.org]. Scroll down to the plot of CO2 vs temperature and then tell me there isn't a correlation. Now recall that CO2 levels are at 370 ppm and rising... Before you run off an put the cart before the horse (that warming causes CO2), know that we have good, sound physical reasons to expect CO2 rises to cause warming, but few reasons to expect the converse.
Besides, wouldn't the sun be a better analogy for the burner as opposed to CO2? Especially seeing as how solar output has gone up?
If you care to take an analogy too far, then adding CO2 to the atmosphere is like putting a lid on the pot. As for your comment about solar output - that is very unclear, and even the ones who published that said it can't explain all of the observed warming. Not to mention that its a result that doesn't have a lot of back-up, whereas CO2 increases, the observed warming, and the effect of CO2 increases on radiative transport are all things that have been studied by hundreds of researchers.
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Bible: 1 John 3:4-10
3:4 Everyone who practices sin 1 also practices lawlessness; 2 indeed, 3 sin is lawlessness. 3:5 And you know that Jesus 4 was revealed to take away 5 sins, and in him there is no sin. 3:6 Everyone who resides 6 in him does not sin; 7 everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him. 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness 8 is righteous, just as Jesus 9 is righteous. 3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, 10 because the devil has been sinning 11 from the beginning. For this purpose 12 the Son of God was revealed: to destroy 13 the works of the devil. 3:9 Everyone who has been fathered 14 by God does not practice sin, 15 because 16 God's 17 seed 18 resides in him, and thus 19 he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. 3:10 By this 20 the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian 21 – is not of God.


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In 2013 a group of ICIM members gathered to discuss an integrative, preventative approach to the Saving a Million Hearts initiative, including chelation therapy. Here are video clips of their conversations. The event was organized by Terry Chappell MD, and Jeannette Soriano MD is the facilitator.
Saving a Million Hearts Outline
Saving a Million Hearts Introduction from an Integrative Medicine Perspective
Dr. Terry Chappell, Dr. Lambert Parker, and Dr. James Carter discuss the "Saving a Million Hearts" initiative of the CDC and other medical groups. These three integrative doctors talk about the importance of going beyond pharmaceuticals.
Saving a Million Hearts: Stress and Lifestyle
Dr. John Wilson, Dr. James Carter, Dr. Ellie Campbell discuss diet, stress, and lifestyle as they relate to cardiovascular disease. Includes reference to an Alpha-Stim study by ICIM member William Eidleman MD.
Saving a Million Hearts: Informed Consent
Dr. Terry Chappell and Dr. Russ Jaffe discuss the importance of having informed consents as part of the patient education process for integrative medicine and chelation therapy for cardiovascular disease.
Saving a Million Hearts: Testing for Risk Factors
Dr. Conrad Maulfair, Dr. Ellie Campbell, Dr. Robban Sica, and Dr. Joe Hickey discuss what cardiovascular risk factors should be explored for effective prevention of heart attack and stroke.
Saving a Million Hearts: Metabolic Syndrome
Dr. Joe Hickey, Dr. Robban Sica, Dr. Ellie Campbell, Dr. Conrad Maulfair talk about the testing they do to screen for Metabolic Syndrome in their integrative practices, and discuss what treatments they recommend to their patients.
Saving a Million Hearts: Testing and Treating Cholesterol
Dr Rick Mason, Dr. Joe Hickey and Dr. Garry Gordon discuss cholesterol's role in heart disease- to test or not to test! What is the dietary impact? What kind of cholesterol should we focus on? HDL, LDL, lipids, proteins, triglycerides… what wisdom will the future of medicine hold? Is there a cholesterol propaganda scheme? What are treatment strategies?
Saving a Million Hearts: Blood Pressure
Dr. Joe Hickey, Dr. Lambert Paker, Dr. Muhammad Ashraf discuss blood pressure tips for check ups, monitoring and treatment.
Saving a Million Hearts: Toxic Metals Q&A
Dr. Robin Bernhoft, Dr. Jim Smith, Dr. John Wilson answer questions from some of the most experienced chelation doctors in the country about diagnosing and treating heavy metal toxicity, with a focus on EDTA chelation.
Saving a Million Hearts: Chelation Protocols I
Dr. Robban Sica, Dr. Terry Chappell, and Dr. Garry Gordon discuss the IV chelation protocols that they have used.
Saving a Million Hearts: Chelation Protocols II
Dr. Robban Sica, Dr. Terry Chappell, and Dr. Garry Gordon discuss the IV chelation protocols that they have used.
Saving a Million Hearts: Micronutrients
Dr. Chuck Mary and Dr. Rick Mason, CoQ10, Magnesium, Copper and other micronutrients' role in the body and for prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Saving a Million Hearts: Women's Health and Allergy Testing in Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Robban Sica, Dr. Russell Jaffe, Dr. Ellie Campbell, and Dr. John Wilson discuss the role allergies can play in cardiovascular disease, laboratory testing, and special considerations for women's health.
Dr. Chappell's article "Saving a Million Hearts can be found here


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Surviving…an Awkward Date
I am the self-proclaimed Queen of creating awkward dating situations. (Okay, I'm the self-proclaimed Queen of a lot of things, and this is one of them.) I have stories about awkward dates that can keep us here for hours, so I won't go into those. What I will do, though, is give you a couple of suggestions for things to say and/or do when you realize that you're really not that into somebody on your date (usually the first one) and have nothing to say. These are for your entertainment only, and note that you will probably end up being one of those "one time I had this weird date" stories. My friends have also chipped in their awkward date stories, so buckle up, because I have some very…creative friends.
1. Start talking about all of your favorite childhood television shows.
Proclaim your love for your chosen Pokemon. Tell them about how you tried to become the Pink Power Ranger. Explain, very seriously, that Digimon will take over and that we should start training now, in case we get lost in a forest and find a refrigerator full of eggs (weirdest episode ever). The most important part about this is to keep on talking. Just watch their reactions.
2. Use your fork as your knife and your knife as your fork.
Try to cut your protein with your fork, and act genuinely confused when it doesn't work properly. When you finally get a decent sized piece of meat, stab it with your knife and eat it. Act like you are doing nothing out of the ordinary. If you really want to take this one over the top, ask them why they are cutting their meat with their knife.
3. Talk about every single one of your habits.
Do you only eat ice cream in the dark? Do you think that Nutella tastes better standing up and straight out of the jar? Do you always start washing your left arm first in the shower? Tell them absolutely everything about your routines. It's funny to start with your morning routine, like how many times you hit the snooze button before you get out of bed, and the precise method that you use to floss your teeth. Just skip the toilet humor…that might be going a little too far.
4. Act overly interested in everything that they say.
I imagine by now that you aren't saying many things to your date, and if they're like most of my awkward first dates, they will ask you random questions that come out of nowhere. Answer each of these with conviction and great detail. "Are you a morning person?" <insert two-minute speech here>.
Awkward dates don't need to be totally boring. You can have fun with it your own way, but you might go down as the weirdest person they've ever met. I haven't used any of these except for the first one (which I use profusely), so there are no guarantees for how these will turn out. Nonetheless, enjoy!
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Halp Jon Carry
A message from our stupid troops in Irak.
The RNC ad asking Kerry to apologize.
Bush calling Kerry comment shameful.
Soldiers turn on Kerry, again.
(Via HotAir.)
Democrats turn on Kerry.
Scott Ott of Scrappleface salutes Kerry.
Who can John Kerry turn to while being a truculent idiot? Yup, the nutroots.
It seems to me that Kerry is fighting this battle the way he wished he had fought the Swift Boat Vets. The sterling advice from Bob Shrum to ignore the SBVs hurt Kerry badly. However, the best way to handle this is to sheepishly apologize, not angrily half apologize. I was listening to Kerry's positively scalding response to his gaffe yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Rush cut into it and the whole while was repeating over Kerry's speech, "Say my name." When Kerry did Rush cracked up. Blaming others for his misspoken joke was the worst thing Kerry could have done. To paraphrase, it is not the poorly told joke that got him in trouble, it was his response to criticism of the poorly told joke.
Honestly, you Democrats are making it very hard to fear you.
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