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Cuccinelli kibbosh: Supreme Court denies Mann demand
The Virginia Supreme Court rejects Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's demand for UVA to turn over records relating to climate scientist Michael Mann's work. The Roanoke Times has the story.Read more on: ken cuccinellimichael mannUVA
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Finally, some sanity prevails...can you say radical conservative overreach? Yes indeedy!
Pat Robertson is going to be furious that his man has failed again.
Anthroprogenic global warming is real, and it's caused by HAARP and chemtrails! They're admittedly melting the arctic ice with it so they can blame it on gasoline, tax it, make trillions, destroy the economy by driving up prices with the peak oil scam, make even more trillions, take over the world, and kill you all! Sayanara, suckers!
For those of you who aren't wedded to the lie:
"The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
- Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations
"We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public's imagination...
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts...
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC reports
"We've got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
"The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations
on the data. We're basing them on the climate models."
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
"The models are convenient fictions
that provide something very useful."
- Dr David Frame,
climate modeler, Oxford University
"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts
on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
- Al Gore,
Climate Change activist
"It doesn't matter what is true,
it only matters what people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of Greenpeace
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to
frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
- emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and
spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest
opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level."
- Al Gore,
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
"We are on the verge of a global transformation.
All we need is the right major crisis..."
- David Rockefeller,
Club of Rome executive member
"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the
world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a
major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system
into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods,
droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have
ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making."
- Al Gore,
An Inconvenient Truth
"We are getting close to catastrophic tipping points,
despite the fact that most people barely notice the warming yet."
- Dr James Hansen,
NASA researcher
"By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human
population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Revenge of Gaia
"Climate Change will result in a catastrophic global sea level
rise of seven meters. That's bye-bye most of Bangladesh,
Netherlands, Florida and would make London the new Atlantis."
- Greenpeace International
"This planet is on course for a catastrophe.
The existence of Life itself is at stake."
- Dr Tim Flannery,
Principal Research Scientist
"Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming.
It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world."
- Harry Reid,
U.S. Senate majority leader
"Climate Change is the greatest threat that
human civilization has ever faced."
- Angela Merkel,
German Chancellor
"Climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here,
and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new
global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster."
- Barack Obama,
US President
"We simply must do everything we can in our power to
slow down global warming before it is too late."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Governor of California
"Climate change should be seen as the
greatest challenge to ever face mankind."
- Prince Charles
"Climate change makes us all global citizens,
we are truly all in this together."
- Gordon Brown,
British Prime Minister
"We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change.
Failure to act to now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible.
We urgently require a global environmental revolution."
- Tony Blair,
former British PM
"We are close to a time when all of humankind
will envision a global agenda that encompasses
a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the
causes of poverty and suffering and
environmental destruction all over the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"In Nature organic growth proceeds according
to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a 'master plan' is
missing from the process of growth and development of
the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for
sustainable growth and world development based on global
allocation of all resources and a new global economic system.
Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
"We need a new paradigm of development in
which the environment will be a priority.
World civilization as we know it will soon end.
We have very little time and we must act.
If we can address the environmental problem,
it will have to be done within a new system, a
new paradigm. We have to change our mindset,
the way humankind views the world."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
founder of Green Cross International
"The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable,
indeed a sacred principle of international relations.
It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to
the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation."
- UN Commission on Global Governance report
"Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and
it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely.
Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well
suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature
of many of today's problems do not always allow elected
representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."
- Club of Rome,
The First Global Revolution
"The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization
and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global
community will inevitably have multiple political consequences.
Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change
in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must
assume some aspects of a world government."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum
"I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to
be a new form of the ten commandments.
They lay the foundation for a sustainable
global earth community."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
co-author of The Earth Charter
"In my view, after fifty years of service in the United Nations system,
I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper
Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present
political and economic systems are no longer appropriate
and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet.
We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways."
- Dr Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General,
"Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty
to the international community and beginning to create a
new system of international environmental governance
as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises."
- Lester Brown,
WorldWatch Institute
"Regionalism must precede globalism.
We foresee a seamless system of governance from
local communities, individual states, regional unions
and up through to the United Nations itself."
- UN Commission on Global Governance
"A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that
fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order
and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income.
Perhaps only a new and enlightened humanism
can permit mankind to negotiate this transition."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
"The alternative to the existing world order can only
emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress.
We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum
"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily.
Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations,
rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of
appeasement, designed to satisfy the public's desire to believe that
sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation
of society will not be necessary."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"Adopting a central organizing principle...
means embarking on an all-out effort to use every
policy and program, every law and institution...
to halt the destruction of the environment."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound
reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world
has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both
governments and individuals and an unprecedented
redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift
will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences
of every human action be integrated into individual and
collective decision-making at every level."
- UN Agenda 21
"The current course of development is thus clearly unsustainable.
Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal measures.
More of the same is not enough. Radical change from the
current trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity.
Fundamental economic, social and cultural changes that
address the root causes of poverty and environmental
degradation are required and they are required now."
– from the Earth Charter website
"The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society,
which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."
- David Brower,
founder of Friends of the Earth
"If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecologically sound society under socialism.
I don't think it is possible under capitalism"
- Judi Bari,
principal organiser of Earth First!
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme
"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource situation."
- Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies
"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another
United States. We can't let other countries have the same
number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US.
We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are."
- Michael Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund
"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,
reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control."
- Professor Maurice King
"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place
for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and
plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams,
free shackled rivers and return to wilderness
millions of acres of presently settled land."
- David Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on
human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to
discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy,
because of what we might do with it."
- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
"The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the
worst thing that could happen to the planet."
- Jeremy Rifkin,
Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."
- Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath
the surface of the earth is a willful expansion
of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,
doing too well economically and burning too much oil."
– Sir James Lovelock,
BBC Interview
"My three main goals would be to reduce human population to
about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure
and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species,
returning throughout the world."
-Dave Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the
affluent middle class - involving high meat intake,
use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,
and suburban housing - are not sustainable."
- Maurice Strong,
Rio Earth Summit
"Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive,
selfish and unethical animal on the earth."
- Michael Fox,
vice-president of The Humane Society
"Human beings, as a species,
have no more value than slugs."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a
pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Healing Gaia
"The Earth has cancer
and the cancer is Man."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells;
the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.
We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to
the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many
apparently brutal and heartless decisions.''
- Prof Paul Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb
"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history,
but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in
the number of game animals and the need to adjust
the cull to the size of the surplus population."
- Prince Philip,
preface of Down to Earth
"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society
at the present North American material standard of living
would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard
of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
- United Nations,
Global Biodiversity Assessment
"A total population of 250-300 million people,
a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner,
founder of CNN and major UN donor
"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence
more than 500 million but less than one billion."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind
"One America burdens the earth much more than
twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population,we must eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,
but it's just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau,
UNESCO Courier
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth
as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
patron of the World Wildlife Fund
"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.
It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
"The extinction of the human species may not
only be inevitable but a good thing."
- Christopher Manes, Earth First!
"The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival
for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve every
problem on Earth - social and environmental."
- Ingrid Newkirk,
former President of PETA
"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against
society, unless the parents hold a government license.
All potential parents should be required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing
antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower,
first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
"The fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon
the emergence of a new faith in the future.
Armed with such a faith, we might find
it possible to resanctify the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and
scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament
and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of
international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind
"What an incredible planet in the universe this will be
when we will be one human family living in justice,
peace, love and harmony with our divine Earth,
with each other and with the heavens."
- Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General
"The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on
her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human
species has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution....
Our salvation depends upon our ability
to create a religion of nature."
- Rene Dubos,
board member, Planetary Citizens
"Each element, plant, insect, fish and animal
represents a certain aspect of Gaia's - and our - being.
In a way, we are Gaia's intelligence and awareness
- currently lost in self-destructive madness.
We must acknowledge, respect and love her for being
the Mother she is to us or we deny our very selves.
Nurture the Mother as she nurtures us."
- Prof. Michael J. Cohen,
"It is the responsibility of each human being today to
choose between the force of darkness and the force of light.
We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed
respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature."
- Maurice Strong,
first Secretary General of UNEP
"The spirit of our planet is stirring!
The Consciousness of Goddess Earth
is now rising against all odds,
in spite of millennia of suppression,
repression and oppression inflicted on Her
by a hubristic and misguided humanity.
The Earth is a living entity, a biological organism
with psychic and spiritual dimensions.
With the expansion of the patriarchal religions
that focused on a male God majestically
stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the
Universe, the memory of our planet's innate Divinity
was repressed and banished into the
collective unconscious of humanity."
- Envision Earth
"Still more important is the implication that the evolution of
homo sapiens, with his technological inventiveness and his
increasingly subtle communications network, has vastly increased
Gaia's range of perception. She is now through us awake and aware
of herself. She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the
eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.
Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our capacity
for conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and
drive are hers to share. This new interrelationship of Gaia with man
is by no means fully established; we are not yet a truly collective
species, corralled and tamed as an integral part of the biosphere,
as we are as individual creatures. It may be that the destiny of
mankind is to become tamed, so that the fierce, destructive, and
greedy forces of tribalism and nationalism are fused into a
compulsive urge to belong to the commonwealth of all
creatures which constitutes Gaia."
– Sir James Lovelock,
Gaia: A New Look At Life
"Little by little a planetary prayer book is
thus being composed by an increasingly united
humanity seeking its oneness. Once again,
but this time on a universal scale, humankind is
seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,'
its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus
call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly
see no difference between our earth and the divine.
This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again upon
humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age
and become what we were always meant to be:
the planet of god."
- Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General
"What if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for
virgin birth is no miracle . . . it is a role of Gaia since life began . . .
She is of this Universe and, conceivably, a part of God. On Earth,
she is the source of life everlasting and is alive now;
she gave birth to humankind and we are part of her."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Ages of Gaia
"Nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred;
trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
Green Cross International
"The spiritual sense of our place in nature...
can be traced to the origins of human civilization....
The last vestige of organized goddess worship
was eliminated by Christianity."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed,
we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."
- Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights
"I pledge allegiance to the Earth and all its sacred parts.
Its water, land and living things and all its human hearts."
- Global Education Associates,
The Earth Pledge
"By fostering a deep sense of connection to others and to the earth
in all its dimensions, holistic education encourages a sense of
responsibility to self to others and to the planet."
- Global Alliance for Transforming Education
"The earth is not dead matter. She is alive.
Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk.
You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind.
Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your
heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her
whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you.
Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all
your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.
On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness
for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth"
- US Student Textbook,
"Prayer to the Earth"
The globalists have co-opted the environmental movement so that they can get you to focus on carbon dioxide which we need lots more of on this planet (our planet is offgassing from the holes these same globalists blew in the atmosphere with nukes detonated at super high altitudes in the '50's, CO2 has been as much as fourteen times higher than it is now, plants are going extinct from lack of it as I write this) instead of the real enivronmental problems. For one example, most of the nuclear power plants operating in America are past their operational expiration, the metal framing is corroding from the heat of the nukes and 90% are leaking. Depleted Uranium used to be last resort weaponry now it's in all anti tank artillery and even guns, poisoning the earth for 40 billion years. For one billion dollars they could secure America's electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no power. But they haven't upgraded the transformers. And they're spraying aluminum and barium chemtrails everywhere, poisoing the soil and air. It's not about stopping global warming it's about power and control. It's so simple and it makes me sad that so many have a hard time understanding it.
How 'bout them Hoos?
Ken Cuccinelli scares me. Evil with a law degree...
Well John Walton, your quotes certainly scared me. I am going to join a local environmental group at the first chance I get.
Great, may I recommend Charlottesville Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, a local environmental group trying to get the City Council and County Board to stop dumping toxic waste vats marked with skull and crossbones into the city water, poisoning the water shed not to mention every man, woman, child, dog, cat, and guinea pig that ingests tap water or bathes in it! Are you gonna come to our meeting this evening or did you just want to be a smart ass like always?
Great, may I recommend Charlottesville Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, a local environmental group trying to get the City Council and County Board to stop dumping toxic waste vats marked with skull and crossbones into the city water, poisoning the water shed not to mention every man, woman, child, dog, cat, and guinea pig that ingests tap water or bathes in it! Are you gonna come to our meeting this evening or did you just want to be a smart ass like always?
C'ville Native, Ted Turner says he wants to kill six and half billion people, that's evil with a billion dollars to give to the United Nations. The Cooch is trying to fight that phony environmental eugenical mass extermination control grid known as Agenda 21, and everyone should be cheering him on. If Mann had nothing to hide he would be cooperating with The Cooch however he could. The quotes I included demonstrate the arrogance with which they openly admit it's a lie and plot how best to present the lie as truth so as to extract maximum effect over the pschyes of the subjects and thus cooperation. And you're calling The Cooch evil? What about these people? Or maybe you feel like you're part of this establishment and you and your family won't be killed by the airborne ebola and mouse pox, and you'll be around to enjoy the glorious new world without humans destroying it, and so you identify with them. Good luck to you.
Well JW, You certainly have given me a lot to think about. Perhaps we have put our efforts in the wrong place.
However, to get back on topic, it is obvious to me that Cuckoocinelli is a political animal of the worst type -- an ideologue who has his sights set on power and doesn't care the methods he uses to get there. Just look at the essentials of the UVA / Mann case. Cuckoocinelli went on a crusade to examine the correspondence of 40 separate scientists because he thought that PERHAPS a junior member of a scientific study (Michael Mann) had lied on his resume in order to help his team get a grant to study African savannah way back in 1998. What utter nonsense. If Mann, hadn't had such a high profile, Cuckoocinelli would have never bothered. I hope this political excrement wanders off into the sunset and is never head from again.
An African safari for his whole team on the taxpayer dole? Juicy!
Can I get in on that scam too? I've always dug those giraffe tribe chicks with the neck rings.
Is that your comment? I thought you wanted to be taken seriously -- my mistake.
@John Walton Giuliano - I do believe Global Warming is occuring, I also believe that there are many things our government from local to national are turning blind eyes to when they obtain funding or support from companies dumping toxic wastes. Our birth defect rates have risen all over the world there are direct connections. Truly, I think any politician out there is evil. This guy above is even worse, because he wears his disregard for the law, our systems for all to see - which is to obtain his own agenda.
Science is full of hypothesis, which are tested and either proven or not. Sometimes it isn't that black and white and part is proven or something else entirely is proven. How many drug studies out there have been done and they later learn the compoud can be used for another ailment or issue? A prime example is sildenafil, brand name Viagra which was in testing for pulmonary hypertension (very deadly stuff there) and they discovered it had a side effect the company then took advantage?
As you arogantly stated I was part of "the establishment", I assure you kind sir, I have never been. Mann won those grants after great review, the issue is they were granted by an administration which was of another political party to which the other is on attack at every turn. This isn't about science, this is about politics.
And Ted Turner may not meet that pledge to the UN, you can only give away so much money before you have nothing left...and he does have a point though a bit hypocritical since he has 5 of his own children, the population is a bit out of control in this world.
Funny because you comments here are also hypocritical.
I agree it never was about science with either side, it was about politics from the get go. That's why Cucinelli the politician is there fighting fire with fire. Of course he has an agenda, all politicians do and I should have gotten to go to Africa too since my tax dollars paid for it, the ice caps on Kilimanjaro are back by the way.
JW, You seem a little on edge there my friend. Is it something I said?
No, I was just doing my Sir James Lovelock impersonation! Now for my Prince Phillip: I WANT TO DIE AND COME BACK AS A VIRUS SO I CAN KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU PEONS! AH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Well JW, You certainly are a persuasive blogger and you have completely changed my mind.
Good, now let's destroy the Earth! Ha ha ha!!!!
Mr C should have put John's comments in his legal brief for the Supreme Court of Va. justices to read. The Supreme Court would really know what is going on then.
They already know what's going on they're part of it.


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Jury finds father guilty of third-degree murder in baby's death
Clayton Mibroda gets 15 to 30 years for death of baby Natalee
A man has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for the death of his 20-day-old premature daughter, whose injuries he blames on the baby's mother.
Clayton Mibroda, 26, testified in his own defense and said he didn't abuse his daughter, Natalee, and he accused the girl's mother, Kayla Lichtenfels, who is not facing any criminal charges.
"I just thought, 'What could they go on?' The state did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt," said Mibroda's father, Tim, after the trial in January. "They did not prove it, and I'm not just saying that because he's my son. If it would have been anybody. They did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt."
Assistant District Attorney Barbara Jollie told the sentencing judge on Tuesday, "We all know that crying babies cause frustration ... but the response here was anger or rage."
Natalee was born six weeks premature in December 2011 and suffered severe internal injuries and died 20 days later.
Lichtenfels has told investigators that she was at an appointment for postpartum depression when she returned to find the baby not breathing in the Bolivar home she shared with Mibroda.
Mibroda testified he was smoking outside their trailer when he heard a loud noise. "I heard Kayla starting to get louder with Natalee," he said. "I saw Kayla's hands around her forehead, shaking her."
Mibroda testified he went back inside and saw Natalee exhibiting seizure-like symptoms. "I said, 'Kayla, come back. Look what you did to Natalee.' She said, 'Oh my God! Oh my God! Give me her! Give me her!' I said, 'Get the (expletive) out.' "
Prosecutors questioned Mibroda about why he never told any of that to investigators before the trial. He testified, "Shortly after I was incarcerated and the shock of losing my daughter wore off, I realized this could happen if Kayla ever got custody of Caden (their 2-year-old son, who was in the custody of Mibroda's mother) again."
Mibroda told jurors he promised Lichtenfels he would take care of her and protect her, and that's why he told police he did it. He testified he admits to lying several times in the past but was telling the truth about what happened to Natalee.

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EJ, Rafe, and the doctor help Sami comes to terms with Johnny's fate.
Jennifer discovers that Ben has a connection to the prison.
Will oversees a moment between Gabi and a classmate.
Melanie urges Daniel towards a course of action with Parker.
Bo (Peter Reckell, pictured) learns that Warden Jane has a meeting with the "Big Boss."
Thursday – Hope finds a surprise on her computer.
Friday – Philip and Nathan come to blows.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Days: Such a Tease!
Y&R: Such a Tease!
• Sharon and Nick prepare to go to battle over Faith's best interests.
• Billy decides to risk everything to give Victoria (Amelia Heinle, pictured) a miracle.
• Jack is determined to learn the truth about Skye's disappearance.
• Victor may learn the hard way that he isn't the only one who can play dirty.
• Heather and Paul learn something suspicious.
B&B: Such a Tease!
· Hope holds her own during a confrontation with Amber and Tawny.
· Taylor flips when Ridge tells her of Brooke and Thomas' international press junket.
· Thomas struggles with his feelings while traveling with Brooke.
· Nick (Jack Wagner, pictured) comes through for Jackie and Owen.
· Ridge, Thorne and Eric discuss the impact that Brooke has had on their lives.
Interview (Desperate Housewives): Joshua Moore Grows Up on Wisteria Drive
Joshua Moore (pictured, left; photo credit: Nathaniel Taylor) has played Parker Scavo on "Desperate Housewives" since 2008, portraying one of Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant's children in their ever-expanding brood. While he is thrilled to be working with the high caliber of stars to come and go on Wisteria Lane, Joshua's first major role in Hollywood had him working with the legendary Clint Eastwood when he was cast as an abducted child in 2008's "Changeling."
Daytime Dial: One of your first roles was in "Changeling." What was it like to be directed by Clint Eastwood?
Joshua Moore: It really was an amazing experience, because it was one of the first big film projects that I had a role in. And working with Clint Eastwood was just amazing, because he's so laid back. He just runs the set and knows exactly how to get people to do what he wants. He's an amazing director -- one of the best directors I've ever worked with. And at the same time, you're just in awe of him because it's Clint Eastwood!
DD: Speaking of being in awe, there have been some huge, high-profile guest stars on "Desperate Housewives." Has there ever been a time when you've been nervous to work with someone?
JM: I'm never usually nervous working with somebody, but my mom -- it's really funny, but John Schneider just came on the show, and my mom used to watch "Dukes of Hazzard" religiously, so she freaked when he came on set. And when I heard Vanessa Williams was coming on the show, I was really excited, because I'm always impressed by her work.
DD: How is she to work with?
JM: She's just great to work with. She's one of the coolest people on set. I think she's a really good actress, and she's great in her role. She's just a very cool person to talk to and hang out with.
DD: Of course things are never quiet on "Desperate Housewives." What have been some of the crazier experiences for your character?
JM: Well, one of the crazier things that happened was when we were all on the street for the Christmas community street meeting, and they wrecked the plane through the street. That was probably one of the largest-scale crazy things that my character was involved in. What they actually did was they attached the plane to a rope, and they just pulled it through really fast. It was really cool to get to see them demolish the set like that.
DD: You work very closely with Felicity Huffman — she must be a wealth of information for you regarding acting and technique and such.
JM: You can learn a lot just by watching, but do I ask for help from her. She's one of the most helpful people I've ever worked with, just in terms of giving advice or just helping you along to where you need to be with the scene. She's amazing to work with.
DD: What are some of your favorite moments on the set, whether acting-wise or personal?
JM: Aside from the plane crash, I would say when we have a church scene. Whenever anybody gets married and everybody has to go down to that church, the whole cast goes. It's always cool, because everybody is just hanging out and having fun.
DD: Do you have any hopes for the direction Parker will take? Do you have an ideal story line?
JM: I don't have an ideal story line. Any story line is good as long as you're a main part of the story line. That's all that really matters, no matter what the content is. I'm just hoping that he gets some more forefront, focus parts where he's a big part of the situation.
DD: I think in a couple of years he should start dating Susan (played by Teri Hatcher) to shake things up a bit.
JM: That's not even that farfetched for "Desperate Housewives," I'm sure.


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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Schlitz Classic 1960s Formula
Editor's Note: Your drinking buddy Will is back, tasting all the cheap booze so you don't have to.
My original holiday disappointment was my sister's disclosure that there was no creepily benevolent fat man who would bring me a bike if I was nice, and it's been all downhill from there. The annual holiday heartbreaks keep on coming, long after the bikes have stopped. There was the year I got dumped, which was an eerie foreshadowing of the other years I got dumped. On several occasions there have been illegal snowfalls before winter even starts. And this year, they came for my beer.
I like cheap beer. I realize low-end macrobrewed Ameri'canned lager sucks by most objective measures having to do with flavor or dignity. But it fares well by this standard: is it tolerable to swallow a drunkard's dozen (14) of these things while fishing, yelling at large strangers running into each other on TV, or waiting patiently in your pajamas for life to finally happen?
For the past dozen years, I've drawn courage from my conviction that Schlitz is the best beer for such circumstances.
I bet you've never had Schlitz. These are the salient facts:
- "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" was the top-selling swill in the world at several points in the first half of the 20th century.
- During my formative drinking years, Schlitz was available for $1.50 per 40-ounce bottle at the liquor store closest to my apartment.
- The label is rad.
- It's really fun to refer to yourself as Schlitz-faced.
- Most important and I swear to you, I truly thought it tasted better than other, better-marketed beers of its kind.
So I was quite excited a few years ago when I heard that the Pabst Brewing Company (purveyors of Schlitz, along with Lonestar, Colt 45, Blue Ribbon, and McSorley's, amongst others) was fixing to replace the stuff I'd been drinking with a recreation of what the deepest thinkers on the matter considered to be the original Schlitz formula, which had been tinkered downward in the 1960s in the name of production efficiency. This new-old brew was rolled out slowly, debuting in the Midwest in 2008 and not washing up on my shore until a few weeks ago.
I was a bit taken aback to see that a new Schlitz sixer cost slightly more than Budweiser, but I was excited to try it in bottles. I'm a can man, myself, but in this category, bottles connote grandeur and ambition, as well as faith that your consumers are refined enough to forgo brand-besmirching smashings and stabbings.
I grabbed the Schlitz and also a few other beers of its kind, so as to conduct the blind tasting that would finally prove that my preference wasn't based on packaging, euphony, or false nostalgia. I settled on Budweiser, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Miller High Life. I was pushing for a more comprehensive study, but my research assistant boycotts Coors due to perceived fascism of some sort and/or its role in at least one of those movies where Clint Eastwood makes Tony Danza drive cross-country with a chimp.
We took turns pouring secret shots for each other and both liked PBR best. I ranked Schlitz last, while she showed the good sense to hate High Life (great bottle, great slogan, bad beer). As a beer lover it pains me to admit that the PBR was the best because it had the least discernible flavor. It was simple and clean and inoffensive, whereas the Schlitz was too ambitious. It was more complex, but that's nowhere near analogous to being better. It was sweeter and yeastier, and those are admirable qualities in a higher-end beer, but at this end of the spectrum it's reminiscent of the way a cinnamon raisin bagel from Dunkin Donuts is worse than a plain one: the more elements you introduce, the more you can screw up.
So I guess I'm relieved that the new official house swill is the cheapest and most readily available in the circles we travel, and I take some comfort in telling myself that even though new-old Schlitz is disappointing, I really did prefer the soon-to-be-defunct second generation version I grew up on. And I am absolutely devastated to begin 2011 believing in one fewer beautiful fairy tale.
About the Author: Will Gordon is an itinerant reader and writer who's not above slinging drinks or pushing commas to pay life's various tabs. He likes cheese and bacon, but not as much as the rest of you weirdos seem to.
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Lose weight by cutting down on dairy products and nuts
11. Eat less dairy products and nuts
Can one eat as much as one likes, and still lose weight? Yes, it tends to work just fine with a low-carbohydrate diet, as appetite regulation happens effortlessly.
However, despite the fact that a low-carbohydrate diet generally makes it easy to eat just enough, there are foods classified as low carb which become a problem in larger quantities. If you find yourself having a hard time losing weight on a low carb diet, you could try to be more careful with:
- Dairy products (yoghurt, cream, cheese)
- Nuts
Dairy products all contain a varying amount of lactose (the milk sugar), which slows down weight loss. What's more, part of the protein in milk generates an insulin response, which can have the same effect. Consequently, cutting back on dairy products may accelerate weight loss. This applies especially to dairy products typically lacking in fat, such as regular milk and different yoghurts, but be careful with full-fat dairy such as cream and cheese all the same.
Exempt from all these dairy product warnings is butter, which is almost pure fat. Butter may be consumed liberally as desired.
Nuts, which are the second food to watch, contain a fair amount of carbohydrate, and it's very easy to unwittingly scarf down large quantities. Cashew nuts are among the worst carb-wise – you'll find that they contain around 20% carbohydrate by weight. For someone following a strict LCHF diet with a 20 grams of carbs per day allowance, this means that consuming 100 grams (which happens in a flash!) will have filled their daily quota. Peanuts tend to be around 10-15% carbohydrate – not putting them in the clear either.
So, for those of you having trouble losing weight: use nuts sparingly. When in a situation where nuts are an absolute must, know that the most harmless ones carb-wise are macadamia nuts (usually around 5% carbs), or Brazil nuts (around 3%).
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I am a huge fan of Victoria's Secret! The underwear, the girls, the show, the hair, the makeup and those amazing wings. As ever this year's show was spectacular and my favourite angel Adriana Lima looked as beautiful as ever. Though I would not often want to put my picture next to hers needs must
for the greater good... good hair!InStyler. I first spotted this styling tool in a commercial and was intrigued by it's innovative design, which features a rotating curling iron and a brush.
InStyler is a multi functional tool that can both curl and straighten the hair, as well as adding volume and shine. The bristles separate individual strands while the rotating cylinder straightens and polishes. As the heat is spread evenly along the hair with the rotating motion the InStyler uses less heat than traditional tools, which is encouraging as I always worry about using too much heat on my hair! The three heat settings available are 196 °C (for thick, coarse hair), 157 °C (for thin to medium-textured hair) and 140 °C (for fine, thin hair).
To see how I used the InStyler to create sexy, soft curls and sleek, straight hair just watch the video below!
I really like the idea of the InStyler as it creates beautiful, soft curls/waves in an innovative way. However, I did find it a little tricky to use at first, especially as you have to be quite careful with the hot cylinder not to burn your fingers. This tool does come with a heat guard for this purpose, but I found it easier to remove it when curling the hair.
Being accustomed to my Babyliss Big Hair I did find it a little annoying that I could not control the direction of the spin, meaning that you always have to hold it in a certain direction to get the best results, which can be a little awkward if you are not ambidextrous. Though this is a tool that takes a little practice for me it is worth the effort as I absolutely love the shape of the curls created by the InStyler - the perfect big, bouncy, shiny Victoria's Secret waves!
The InStyler retails at £99 on their website here and is also available from Boots here... with 396 clubcard points too ;). For more information, as well as tips and tricks for creating a range of styles you can also visit InStyler's Twitter, Facebook and YouTube channel, which also has a great range of tutorial videos!
Have you seen the InStyler? Are you a fan of multipurpose hair styling tools? Are you tempted to try it? What hair style would you create with it? xxx
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Dad's Understated Choice
I grew up with the lore of my father's Explorer upon his return from war. It was an icon to me. His thick wrist covered in the black face and stainless steel with those beautiful numerals.
Front of photo: Dad in Nha Trang - 1967
I learned to make fires in the Army and it didn't matter how wet the wood was. It always ignited. Thanks to a 5 gallon can of mogas. Despite her vulgar and wasteful ways the Army was not shy about collecting totems within units.
Panmunjom, Korea - 1971
He's showing the Explorer to an anchor cranker or marine. No doubt the young 'El Tee' bought a Rolex before rotating home thanks to that mystical military allure. No, "Joe Shit the Rag Man" here. We're talking clued in. OD Green hipsters. Guys who sniffed out the best: restaurants, booze, cigars, music, reel to reels and wheels.
It was the totem I grew up with. The mysterious watch elicted 'oohhs and ahhs' from those in the know and not so much as a side ways glance from those not. That was the power.
Tintin - Ft Bragg, NC 1977
I pulled the trigger in 1976. Couldn't swing the Explorer but happily settled for the 5513. I was in the Sub Club few understood. Times have changed and the Sub is everywhere. When Dad and I talk about Rolex it's almost as if it's an old language we've grown tired of (Dad chucked his Explorer into a New Mexico desert and I'm close to chucking mine onto 7th Ave.). Inaccurate. Expensive to repair. Anxiety of loss.
But it was his advice I nearly always bought, "Drink the local beer. Be the last to a party and the first to leave. Check out her mother before you marry her. Never take anybody's last anything. Keep the rear sights in focus and you'll hit it every time." These things never seem to run slow or get lost.


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MORE and more carmakers are now joining the rush to have fully electric models in their line-ups and a new era in ŠKODA's history is about to begin with the arrival of the new CITIGOe iV, the brand's first fully-electric production car which arrives here the UK early next year.
Based on the multi-award winning Citigo, the new CITIGOe iV has been completely re-engineered to incorporate a compact battery pack and efficient 61kW electric motor, and has a Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test (WLTP) range of up to 170 miles on a single charge.
Designed to be the perfect vehicle for modern cities, the new CITIGOe iV will be available in two value-packed trim grades that will be familiar to owners and buyers of the current petrol-powered model; SE and SE L. Both models feature the same battery and electric motor and offer identical levels of performance. Despite the addition of the new battery and electric motor, the CITIGOe iV has the same generous levels of boot space as the standard model with 250 litres available with the rear seats in position and 923 litres with them folded flat.
Mounted in the chassis floor, the CITIGOe iV's battery delivers a range of between 140 and 170 miles on the WLTP cycle. Both models can be charged using a domestic or workplace wall box to 80 per cent in four hours 15 minutes, or 12 hours 37 minutes using a lower-powered 3.6kW home charging station.
CITIGOe iV's electric motor produces an instantaneous 210Nm of torque, which provides it with exceptional agility and acceleration. 0-62mph takes 12.5 seconds, while top speed is 81mph.
The CITIGOe iV line-up starts with the SE model, which is priced at £20,455. This figure excludes the Government Plug-in Car Grant, that currently allows buyers to receive a £3,500 reduction on the list price of the vehicle. SE models are equipped with climate control air conditioning, three spoke leather steering wheel and handbrake lever, plus Swing DAB radio and remote central locking.
CITIGOe iV will be open for orders on December 10 with prices starting from just £20,455 and with first deliveries expected early next year.
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ROAD safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is warning motorists about the dangerous effects some medications can have on driving.
Some cold and 'flu treatments, painkillers and other drugs can cause drowsiness, reducing a driver's ability to concentrate on the driving task. Driving while affected by drugs of this kind (even those prescribed by a doctor) is not only very hazardous, but also likely to be a criminal offence for which the penalties will be severe, warns GEM.


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Internship Questions
|I'm an international student on the F1 visa and would like to do an internship. What should I do?
I'm an international student on the F1 visa and would like to do an internship. What should I do?
An international student on the F1 visa who would like to have an internship would participate in Curricular Practical Training (CPT) for work authorization purposes. If you are interested in CPT, you must attend a CPT Information Session to learn about eligibility and the process. Please see the Career Center calendar for upcoming CPT session dates:Upcoming Events. You may alsofind more information about CPT.
|I would like to receive academic credit for my internship. What should I do?
I would like to receive academic credit for my internship. What should I do?
Internships may be taken for upper level or general elective credit, depending on your degree program requirements. Your academic advisor will be able to assist you to establish which internship course will best meet these requirements. To earn the credit, you must report the internship via your Handshake account before the internship reporting deadline for the semester (these dates are found in the Internships section), enroll in a course, pay the necessary tuition and fees, and complete the required assignments. Note: You cannot earn retroactive credit for internships. Both the internship work and the internship course enrollment must be in the same semester.
|I do not need academic credit for my internship. May I still get university recognition for my position?
I do not need academic credit for my internship. May I still get university recognition for my position?
Yes, we call this a transcript notation. We can put a notation on your official university transcript showing a 0 credit "co-op" class for a particular semester. There are no fees for doing this; however, we require that you complete initial transcript notation paperwork and internship evaluations at the end of the semester. Transcript notations cannot be awarded retroactively. For more information, please contact your Internship Coordinator. For more information, refer to the Academic Credit or Transcript Notation page.
Front Desk - General Questions
|What do career consultants do?
What do career consultants do?
Career Consultants are interested in educating and empowering you to explore and research your career options, and to prepare for the options that best fit your interests, aptitudes, values,personalities and qualifications. Career assessments and career guidance resources are sometimes used to help you know yourself better and to identify potential career paths. These assessments are administered in the Career Center by professional career consultants.
|Where can I find information about internships?
Where can I find information about internships?
Visit our Internships page for details about the internship program. Engineering and Computer Science students please note - The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science coordinates the Industrial Practice Program (IPP) which handles all internships for these majors. Please see the Industrial Practice Program website for additional information.
|How do I receive help with a resume?
How do I receive help with a resume?
You can receive resume assistance in a couple of ways. We have drop-by times available where you can show up without an appointment and be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. The drop-by times can be found here
If you can't make it during one of these times, you can schedule an individual appointment on Handshake or by calling 972-883-2943. If you aren't able to come in to the Career Center and just need a resume or cover letter reviewed, you can email it to [email protected].
|When is the Career Center open?
When is the Career Center open?
The Career Center's hours are:
- 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday
|How do I schedule an appointment?
DHow do I schedule an appointment?
Appointments can be scheduled on Handshake, in person, or by calling the front desk at 972-883-2943.
On-Campus Employment
|How do I find a part-time job on-campus?
How do I find a part-time job on-campus?
Register with Handshake by clicking on the logo on our homepage. Prepare a resume and upload your resume into the system. Log in to your Handshake account and search for part-time, on-campus jobs. Submit your resume (the resume should be customized for the job for which you're applying) to jobs of interest to you.
|When does the Career Center notify me after I have applied for a job on-campus?
When does the Career Center notify me after I have applied for a job on-campus?
If you have been selected for an interview, the hiring department (not the Career Center) will contact you for an interview.
|How do I qualify for work-study funds?
How do I qualify for work-study funds?
To qualify for work-study funds you must have a completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on file in the Office of Financial Aid and be otherwise eligible. You may visit the Office of Financial Aid or utdallas.edu/student/finaid for additional information.
|I have an F1 visa and have been offered a job on campus. Where can I find the on-campus offer letter?
I have an F1 visa and have been offered a job on campus. Where can I find the on-campus offer letter?
The appropriate form must be completed online by the hiring supervisor (a handwritten letter will not be accepted), then printed after completion.
The supervisor must sign and date the letter, and return it to the Career Center in SSB 3.300 to obtain the appropriate signature. The letter must then be taken to the International Student Services Office to obtain the necessary paperwork for the Social Security Administration. It is the student's responsibility to "walk" the letter and paperwork through the entire process.
Resumes and Cover Letters
|I want a general resume to use for all of the jobs for which I'm applying. That saves time and effort, right?
I want a general resume to use for all of the jobs for which I'm applying. That saves time and effort, right?
You will get more response from employers if you create a targeted version of your resume. There is no need to write a new resume for each job you apply for - rather it is better to create targeted versions for the types of positions or industries that interest you. For example, an accounting major may be interested in tax accounting, auditing, and general accounting. It is better to have three resumes focused on those areas individually instead of having one version that tries to present all skills, abilities and experience combining the three areas. You should recognize the fact that you will be writing new versions or updating your resume for the rest of your career.
|I read that every resume should be written in the same order, starting with an objective and ending with hobbies. Is that correct?
I read that every resume should be written in the same order, starting with an objective and ending with hobbies. Is that correct?
Each individual should present their information in the best, most positive way possible in the resume, while maintaining the accuracy of the information. There are no absolute rules about the way a resume should be formatted. Present the sections in order of relevance to the job you are seeking. Think about what you want the prospective employer to know and then list the sections in the order, from top to bottom, that you want the employer to learn that information.
Remember, too, that it is not necessary to include an objective on every version of your resume. Different versions with different goals may or may not have an objective or summary. Hobbies should only be included if they are directly relevant to your career goal or the company where you are applying.
|Can I list classes in my Relevant Coursework section if I plan to take them next semester?
Can I list classes in my Relevant Coursework section if I plan to take them next semester?
No. Only list courses you are currently enrolled in or have already completed. Future plans can be included in the cover letter, but not in the resume.
|Should I meet with the Resume Editor for a Critique?
Should I meet with the Resume Editor for a Critique?
Absolutely! A Resume Editor can critique resumes, cover letters, graduate or professional school applications essays, and other job search documents.
|I don't want to spend much time writing my resume. Is it okay to use a template?
I don't want to spend much time writing my resume. Is it okay to use a template?
The choice is up to you. However, remember that if you found that template easily on the Internet, so did thousands of other students. So the prospective employer may have seen that format hundreds of times. It is better to create a format that fits your information and needs rather than trying to make your information fit the template format.
Also, templates have background formatting that make it difficult to rearrange and reformat information. So you may spend more time trying to make the template work for you than if you simply start with a blank Word document and create your own format.
|Why do I need a cover letter?
Why do I need a cover letter?
A cover letter allows you to tell the prospective employer more about yourself than the resume does. The resume is strictly facts about your experience, skills, education, and abilities. The cover letter is another opportunity for you to sell yourself. What information on the resume can you expand out into a more interesting selling point for the employer? Or add new information that did not fit into that resume. What hobbies, interests, or activities do you have that demonstrate skills, knowledge, or abilities that the prospective employer should know about you? This is information that can be presented easily in the cover letter, but does not belong in the resume.
|When should I send a cover letter?
When should I send a cover letter?
Send a cover letter any time you are not personally handing your resume to the prospective employer. If your good friend says, "Let me have your resume and I'll take it to my boss," send a cover letter. If your good friend says, "Come with me and I'll introduce you to my boss," you don't need a cover letter. You are there in person to explain and add more details than your resume provides.
|What do I do if I don't know the name of the person I'm sending my cover letter to?
What do I do if I don't know the name of the person I'm sending my cover letter to?
There are several ways to handle the salutation problem. We provide you with several options and you can decide which is best for your particular letter. You could use:
Dear Sir or Madam: Dear Hiring Manager: To Whom It May Concern: However, if you feel that none of those suggestions is appropriate, then the recommendation is to leave out the salutation. Provide two blank lines between the employer's contact information and the first paragraph of your letter. No one will ever miss being called "To Whom It May Concern."
Remember to use a colon after any salutation you choose. Colons are for business letters and commas are for personal letters.
|What should I do if I don't have work experience to include on my resume?
What should I do if I don't have work experience to include on my resume?
You should not panic if you don't have "work experience" to include on your resume. Consider creating other categories highlighting relevant coursework and class projects. In addition, you can highlight outside activities that my offer some transferable skills that are relevant to the position for which you are applying.
|How far back should I go with my work experience if I'm a current student?
How far back should I go with my work experience if I'm a current student?
Unless you are applying for a position that requires you to submit your life history, try to avoid including work history that is more than a decade old. Include only those positions that are relevant to the position, where you can feature strong, transferable skills. For more detailed assistance, be sure to meet with a Resume Editor!
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The comedy world took a huge hit when Mitch Hedberg died of a drug overdose in 2005. The talented comedian with a growing cult following was still working on new material at the time of his death (as indicated in our interview with him in September 2004), material that surely would have broken him even bigger than he already was. As if this needed reinforcing, the web-based short documentary series Modern Comedian, the project of Scott Moran, visited with Lynn Shawcroft, Hedberg's widow. In this episode, Lynn shares insights into Mitch's process and his beloved notebooks full of jokes. It's a touching tribute to an astounding comic mind that was lost way too early (way better than any cobbled-together, posthumous live album is, anyway). [via The Aggregate]
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A Clock for Eternity (Aug, 1951)
Article about an incredible clock designed and built by a Danish Locksmith that was supposed to be accurate for several millenia. In addition the clock was to provide a dozen different kinds of astronomical data such as the the phases of the moon, precession and the orbits of the planets (Pluto is absent, I don't think it had been discovered when the design was started).
In 1991 it was noted that many of its measurements were wrong. An examination found that grime and corrosion had were the culprits and from 1995-97 the clock was dismantled and restored.
More information on the restoration here.
A very similar, but much more ambitious and technically complex project is currently being undertaken by the Long Now Foundation. Led by Danny Hillis (founder of Thinking Machines and general all round genius) they are attempting to build a clock that will run for 10,000 years. Check out the project page for more information.
A Clock for Eternity
Jens Olsen, a little Danish craftsman — you'd have taken him for Santa Claus -— died before he finished the incredible task he set for himself. His countrymen have completed his life's work for him—
By Kai Norredam
LATE THIS YEAR a new clock will start ticking away in the old Town Hall at Copenhagen, Denmark. It is not an ordinary clock, for this is a timepiece built for eternity, a mechanism that will keep an accurate record of the time throughout the solar system, a clock we expect to tick away for three or four thousand years.
The maze of gears and shafts in our clock is so accurate that the pointer showing the eclipses of the sun and moon makes one revolution in precisely 6798.36152 days!
The clock is a finer timepiece than even the famous astronomical clock at Strasbourg, according to engineers and astronomers who have studied it. It is the lifework of Jens Olsen, a locksmith's apprentice who died shortly before the clock was finished.
Olsen was born nearly 80 years ago. When his journeyman's probation as a locksmith was completed, he strapped a knapsack on his back and started wandering throughout Europe. In every town he studied the old clocks and read every book in the local library on the subject of timekeeping. He was determined to make the finest clock in history.
In 1902 Olsen returned to Denmark and, between odd jobs, worked on the plans for his masterpiece. For 30 years he toiled over drawings of the mechanism. Then in 1935, the drawings were completed and he already had constructed some of the clock's thousands of intricate parts. An article in a scientific journal, in which he described the astronomical clock in detail, astonished the astronomists. Immediately a committee was set up to back the construction of the clock, and an excellent engineer appointed as an aid to Olsen.
For 16- years the work has gone forward on the clock. Not long ago Olsen died. But the important element of his work, the drawings which had been traced for a lifetime, remained. Now our clock is complete except for the details of mounting it.
Once it starts ticking away the centuries, here is what the face of the clock will tell:
1. Standard Central-European time.
2. Mean solar time, true solar time and sidereal time for the locality where the clock is erected; also the difference between mean and true solar time.
3. Mean solar time at different longitudes.
4. The times when certain stars rise and set, and when they cross the meridian.
5. The precession, and the extent to which this influences the rising and setting of the stars.
6. The time when the sun passes the meridian; sunrise; sunset.
7. The phases of the moon.
8. The geocentric longitudes of the moon and sun.
9. The longitude of the lunar nodal line and the time of future eclipses of the moon and sun.
10. The longitude of the lunar line of apsides (line coinciding with the axis of the moon's orbit).
11. The varying distances of the great planets from the sun.
12. A fully automatic Gregorian calendar that, on every New Year's Eve at 0.00 hours, calculates all the chronological elements of the calendar, such as: the cycle of the sun (a period of 28 years); the Roman indiction (a fiscal period of 15 years reckoned originally by the Romans); the golden number (after each period of 19 years, the new and full moons return on the same days of the month as before); the epact (the excess of solar over lunar year); the Sunday—or Dominical—Letter (days of the month on which the Sundays fall during each year of the cycle); the weekdays and holidays of future years. 13. The year, the day of the week, the date, the month and the number of the day in the Julian period of 7980 years.
Several astronomical clocks have been constructed in the past. The finest is the clock in Strasbourg, justly famous throughout the world. It is far surpassed, however, by Jens Olsen's clock in astronomical exactness. The calendar is much superior in the Danish clock, and what is of great importance to the observer, the astronomical phenomena are so clearly presented as to be readily seen and understood by everyone.
The clock is mounted on a green granite base and enclosed in a large glass case. The mechanism cannot stand the slightest vibration so it is necessary that the foundation go deep into the earth to the firm undersoil. Warm, dry air is let through the case, thereby creating slight pressure inside and preventing the entrance of dust.
The timepiece is made of 12 independent mechanisms; they are, however, mutually connected by axles or gearing, or by a steel band.
Just beneath the ordinary clock dials is a smaller dial which shows sidereal time in hours, minutes and seconds. Sidereal time —or stellar time—has an interesting explanation. It is brought about by the fact that, while the earth rotates 365 times about its own axis in relation to the sun during a mean year, it will, during the same period, rotate 366 times in relation to a fixed star. It follows that a sidereal day is 3 minutes 56.666 seconds shorter than a solar day. The hands showing sidereal time and mean time are driven by the same mechanism. They are connected by a transmission which consists of three pairs of wheels with different cogs, the sizes of which are calculated so exactly that during 300 years there will be a deviation of only 0.4 second in sidereal time.
Two special hands on the sun-and-moon mechanism have peculiar, bowed extensions which show the eclipses. Another dial shows the courses of the planets. The dial consists of eight movable rings, each of which represents a planet and rotates with a speed corresponding to that of the planet. The planet nearest the sun, Mercury, goes around its orbit in 88 days, whereas Neptune, which is farthest from the sun, takes no less than 165 years to go once around its orbit.
Jens Olsen completed a model of the clock and a new set of construction plans in 1943. The plans consisted of 46 sheets with 14 diagrams and 214 detail drawings, all done in six copies which, for the sake of safety, were kept in different places throughout the country. The clock cost $150,000 to build, a sum that was realized through contributions, small and large, from an immensely interested public which, through the press, also took an active part in the discussion of the clock's site of erection and its artistic embellishments.
It is the clock of all Denmark, of all the solar system.


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In 1988, Topps released its Dinosaurs Attack! trading cards — an extraordinarily graphic and brutal collection of artwork, featuring all the horrible things that could go wrong in the unfortunate event that dinosaurs (inexplicably) made their way to the present day. The series, which consisted of 55 cards and 11 stickers, is a tribute to a bygone era when trading card manufacturers were allowed to produce ridiculously gory cards for unsuspecting children.
Here's a sampling from the series:
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Michael John Hurley was born in Baldoyle County Dublin in June 1950. He has harboured a lifelong interest in the history of the local hinterland. Michael has written the following books on the locality:'Where Came Dark Stranger', 'The View from The Grandstand', 'The Train to Howth', 'Articles, Particles, & Facts, 'Tales of Old Baldoyle', 'Baldoyle The Racecourse Village', 'Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Sutton - A Local History','The Light of Other Days', 'An Introduction to The Wild Flowers of Baldoyle', 'A Quick Guide To Old Baldoyle', 'The Story of Stapolin'. 'Cill Fhionntáin', 'Sutton, Baldoyle Musical Society 40th Anniversary', 'Baldoyle 1911 - The Census Year', 'The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in the areas of Baldoyle, Howth, Sutton, County Dublin','The Howth Peninsula From Old Postcards' (with Anne Murphy). He has also released two DVD programmes on the locality. He has a photo collection of some 3,000 local images and gives talks and photo presentations to community groups in the area of north Dublin. For family reasons Michael has lived in County Galway since 2013. His latest e-books are on the subject of the Galway General Omnibus Company Limited, Galway Horse Trams, Galway Bay Steamboat Company, Wild flowers in Lackagh, and Wild Birds in Lackagh .


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The number of jobless American workers receiving unemployment checks rose to the highest level since the government began keeping records in 1967. A Labor Department spokesman said the number of Americans drawing jobless benefits for a week or longer rose to 4,776,000 in the week ended Jan. 17, the latest data available. The number eclipses the prior mark set in November 1982, when 4,713,000 million Americans drew benefits. Americans who moved to collect their first unemployment checks rose for the third consecutive week, to 588,000, according to a government report released Thursday. The number of Americans filing for unemployment claims has surged by 61% from this time a year ago. The Labor Department said initial filings for state jobless benefits rose by 3,000 for the week ended Jan. 24 from a downwardly revised 585,000 claims filed the prior week. Economists polled by Briefing.com expected the reading to fall to 575,000 claims. Ian Shepherdson, an economist at High Frequency Economics, said that initial claims data are a proxy for the trends in gross firings. Mass firings hit a seven-year high in 2008. "The net result of this is soaring unemployment, and we see no chance of this picture changing in the foreseeable future. We expect net job losses of about three million through the first half of this year," Shepherdson said. The four-week average of new unemployment claims, used to smooth fluctuations in data, grew by 24,250 to 542,500 from the prior week. A year ago, it was at 333,750. Over the previous four weeks, the number of people on unemployment for one week or more increased by 66,500 to an average of 4.63 million a week, the government said. A year ago, it was at 2.70 million.
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