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Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 7:30 p.m.
Join the Georgetown Book Club as we discuss Alice McDermott's 2013 novel, Someone.
In the novel, heroine Marie Commeford reflects on coming of age and building her life.
This selection and meeting are part of DC Public Library's celebration of Women's History Month, and part of our discussion will focus on acclaimed author McDermott's writing choices and her depiction of her female protagonist.

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Post-Split, Kraft Foods Continues to Shuffle Brands
By Mike Thiessen - August 16, 2013 | Tickers: KRFT, MDLZ, NSRGY
Less than a year after its blockbuster split with now-independent Mondelez International (NASDAQ: MDLZ), Kraft Foods (NASDAQ: KRFT) has announced plans to separate its already-truncated roster of brands into two distinct divisions. Although the internal split technically occurred in early July, its impacts continues to be felt throughout the company and beyond. It is entirely possible that this move will set up a future spin-off that sees Kraft Foods split more »
Why This Bidding War is Heating Up
By Mike Thiessen - August 16, 2013 | Tickers: KBALB, KKR, LVB
Many investors believed that it would be just a matter of time before another player jumped into Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts's (NYSE: KKR) bid for Steinway Musical Instruments (NYSE: LVB). Their collective wish came true with the Aug. 12 announcement that privately-held investment firm Paulson & Company had decided to raise KKR's offer price by more than 10 percent. The new proposal is widely regarded as superior to KKR's more »
How This Online Travel Retailer Could Possibly Recover
By Mike Thiessen - August 15, 2013 | Tickers: EXPE, OWW, PCLN
The shares of Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) fell dramatically after the company reported their earnings, from $65 per share before the report to a low of $45.75 in the week following. Expedia missed earnings and lowered guidance for the second time in a row. There was a very modest recovery in the stock price most recently to $51 per share. The decline was the result of an earnings miss combined more »
What Will Happen With a Better Offer on the Table?
By Mike Thiessen - August 15, 2013 | Tickers: CQB, DOLE, FDP
According to recent reports, produce distributor Dole Foods's (NYSE: DOLE) long-running bidding war may finally be nearing an end. After trying unsuccessfully to take the firm private with a rather low offer for the bulk of its outstanding shares, CEO David Murdock upped his bid significantly and won the unanimous approval of Dole's board. Although this deal is still subject to customary closing conditions like a shareholder approval more »
What Are the Problems that a Debt-Fueled Stock Buyback Won't Solve?
By Mike Thiessen - August 15, 2013 | Tickers: DNKN, SBUX, THI
Beloved Canadian fast-food giant Tim Hortons (NYSE: THI) has announced plans to expand the scope of its recent buyback initiative amid widespread griping by rank-and-file shareholders. The move comes on the heels of rumors that the company's CEO is fighting for his job and could presage further announcements from the profitable but debt-burdened purveyor of coffee, donuts and breakfast sandwiches.
Tim Hortons's volatile shares have lagged the broader more »
How is a New CEO, a Buyback Program, and a Few News Tricks, Working for This Company?
By Mike Thiessen - August 15, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GRPN, OPEN
It is often said that the fast-moving social media landscape behaves like the weather in San Francisco: If it's foggy and gray one moment, wait five minutes for sunshine and warmth. Although Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is actually based in Chicago, it is nevertheless Exhibit A for this increasingly relevant truism. In late 2012, the company appeared to be on the ropes. Beset by cratering earnings figures and a rudderless more »
How Can Apple Still Grow Its Bottom Line?
By Mike Thiessen - August 15, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares have rebounded off of lows but are still undervalued according to some investors. Others argue that earnings and margins will flatten and contract in terms of the latter, making the shares fairly or even overvalued. The risk/reward on Apple at this point looks somewhat attractive. It does not appear the Street is very aggressive in pricing in success from upcoming production introductions and cost reduction more »
Does Jeff Bezos Know What He's Doing With the Washington Post?
By Mike Thiessen - August 15, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, NYT, WPO
The ramifications of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos' out-of-nowhere decision to invest $250 million of his own money in the Washington Post Company's (NYSE: WPO) flagship newspaper extend far beyond the narrow world of newspaper publishing. Although Rupert Murdoch's 2007 purchase of the Wall Street Journal sent similar shockwaves through the industry, Bezos' foray into print represents the first time that a technology entrepreneur has "crossed over more »
Why Should This Spin-off Be Welcomed?
By Mike Thiessen - August 14, 2013 | Tickers: A, HBIO, TMO
Harvard Bioscience's (NASDAQ: HBIO) management announced on May 1, 2013, a plan to spin-off Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology (HART). The deal will occur after a failed attempt at an initial public offering earlier in the year for HART. HART is a loss incurring, high risk, high reward story, while Harvard Bioscience is steadily profitable. The losses from HART have contributed to flatish share performance for many years prior to more »
How Will This Acquisition Effect a Stagnant Bank?
By Mike Thiessen - August 14, 2013 | Tickers: NA, AMTD, TD
National Bank of Canada (TSX:NA) has reached an agreement with Toronto Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) to buy the group's institutional services unit known as TD Waterhouse Institutional Services for $242.1 million. The agreement is still subject to regulatory approval, but both parties expect it to be finalized before the end of the year. The merger expands National Bank's already robust institutional services division and may provide more »
What Are Blackberry's Options After Its Long, Painful Decline?
By Mike Thiessen - August 14, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, GOOG
Although it did not come as much of a surprise, Blackberry's (NASDAQ: BBRY) recent announcement that it would explore "strategic alternatives" nevertheless made headlines on both sides of the border. As the darling of Canada's technology industry, Blackberry's slide into irrelevance has been lamented and memorialized thousands of times over. At this point, its very ability to turn itself around on its own has come under serious more »
What is the Most Recent Saga at This Boring Retailer?
By Mike Thiessen - August 14, 2013 | Tickers: JCP, KSS, M
The latest developments in the J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) saga were the stuff of a half-baked television drama. After sending an angry, petulant open letter to the company's shareholders and various media organizations, activist investor Bill Ackman got into an explosive boardroom confrontation with his peers on the J.C. Penney board of directors. While the exact circumstances of the almost physical confrontation have not been made public more »
Poor Earnings and Stagnant Growth Are Fueling Cable Merger Talks
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: CHTR, LMCA, TWC
The U.S. pay-TV space is once again abuzz with speculation about the potential for blockbuster mergers and takeovers that could reshape the industry. The latest catalysts for these rumors come in the form of lackluster earnings reports from a slew of big-name cable companies. After years of growth, it appears that the U.S. public's appetite for cable and satellite television services has plateaued. As new media companies more »
How Will This Bid Benefit Investors?
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: CSE, PACW, USB
Los Angeles-based business lender PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ: PACW) recently made a juicy offer for cross-town rival CapitalSource (NYSE: CSE). Valued at around $2.3 billion, the cash-and-stock deal would create a fairly large bank that could immediately challenge regional competitors for dominance in the small and mid-cap lending space. In fact, the combined bank would be among the 10 largest commercial banks in the entire state and could boast combined more »
Is This Offer Too Low, and What Can Investors Do About It?
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: M, SKS
Well-known Canadian retailer Hudson's Bay has officially inked a deal with Saks (NYSE: SKS) that will result in the combination of the two storied firms. With a total value of nearly $3 billion, this is not a small merger. Moreover, it has the potential to reorder the retail landscape on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
Although most market-watchers and handicappers are confident that Hudson's Bay more »
How Will This Deal Affect the Healthcare Industry?
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: CYH, HCA, HMA
Franklin, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH) is on the cusp of picking up an attractive prize in its favored healthcare niche. According to reports, the company will pay about $4 billion in cash and assume nearly as much debt to merge with Health Management Associates (NYSE: HMA). The combination will create a sizable healthcare system that could be better-positioned to compete in the rapidly changing U.S. healthcare landscape more »
As the Government Gets Out, What Should an Investor Do?
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: F, GM, TM
After years of struggling to make ends meet, North America's automobile companies are finally emerging from the basement. General Motors (NYSE: GM), Ford (NYSE: F) and Chrysler continue to turn profits on a consistent basis and have launched ambitious expansion drives that could remake the global automobile industry. Foreign automakers like Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Honda are also doing quite well. Given this momentum, it should come as no more »
Why is This MLP an Opportunity for Investors?
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: DVN, LNCO, LINE
Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN), an independent oil and gas exploration company focused on U.S. and Canadian assets, is planning on spinning off its natural gas gathering and processing assets in Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming into a midstream MLP (Master Limited Partnership) to be filed in Q3 2013 for an initial public offering contingent on market conditions.
Devon will be the general partner of the MLP, and Devon will use more »
After the Crash, Which Fertilizer Stocks Are Safe?
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: AGU, POT, MOS
By now, most investors are aware of the gut-wrenching turmoil that wracked the global fertilizer industry during the last trading days of July 2013. As a result of a huge Russian firm's decision to pull out of a popular, lucrative potash trading consortium, prices for most well-known fertilizer stocks fell by as much as 25 percent in the blink of an eye. Although more diversified firms enjoyed some protection more »
Which Financial Firm Just Blew Away the Competition and Still Looks Cheap?
By Mike Thiessen - August 13, 2013 | Tickers: FBRC, GS, MS
By definition, under-the-radar stock picks are tough to find and even harder to time. By the time the market catches on to a particularly compelling name, it could well be past its top. It is frustratingly difficult to find truly great stocks that produce value year after year.
It is by no means certain that FBR Capital Markets (NASDAQ: FBRC) is one such stock. However, it is impossible to deny more »
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Oaky North mine wins rescue comp
Posted 28 October 2013 by The Mining Advocate, in News
The Oaky North Mine rescue team battled in 39-degree heat to take out first place at the 51st Australian Mines Rescue Competition held at Cook Colliery Mine last week.
Second place went to Broadmeadow Mine, third place to North Wambo Mine (NSW) and fourth place went to Crinum mine.
Operation Manager & Chief Assessor for Queensland Mine Rescue Services, Raymond Smith says the hot weather at this year's event put the teams through their paces.
"The event pushed the teams to their limits and it means that they're prepared for extreme conditions," he said.
"Competitors can then take their knowledge and their skills back to day release and pass it on."
Read more in the November edition of The Mining Advocate
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4. Is RB Felix Jones the next star of the NFL?
SM – Before the preseason, I would have said no. The main reason is that, since his various injuries, I haven't seen the quickness and speed he showed in his rookie season. But after this preseason, I have to say yes. Jones showed surprising agility, quickness, and a hard nose running style I haven't seen from him before. If he can stay healthy, and our offensive line opens some holes, Jones can be huge for us this year.
5. Who is a player the Jets defense needs to worry about?
SM – I think there's two: Felix Jones and Jason Witten. Jones, for all the reasons previously mentioned and the Jets defensive line issues. But Witten is arguably the best overall tight end in the NFL. He has a knack for finding open space and Romo trusts him completely. While Dez Bryant and Miles Austin are being covered by your outstanding secondary, Witten will be killing it underneath.
6. Who is a player the Cowboys are worried about on the Jets?
SM – Mark Sanchez. The key to our new defensive scheme is creating pressure on the quarterback and confusing him with different looks. If Sanchez can play through that, and be consistent, then it will be a long night for our secondary.


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Despite a concerted campaign by school supporters, Jeffco public schools' ballot issues 3A and 3B went down to defeat on Nov. 4 in the final unofficial tally reported Wednesday.
Ballot Issue 3A, a mill-levy increase, lost with 141,570 votes, or 49 percent, against, compared with 131,378 votes, or 45 percent, in favor.
Ballot Issue 3B, a bond issue, lost with 136,957 votes, or 47 percent, against, compared with 127,741 votes, or 44 percent, in favor.
Writing before the election results are final, I have no idea of the outcome of the presidential race. So from behind a veil of ignorance, this column is an expression of support and good wishes to the newly elected president — whoever he is.
LAKEWOOD — With circumstances piling up against them, Chatfield's boys soccer team were just 12 seconds away from leveling the playing field against Regis.
Yes, the Chargers would have missed dismissed co-captain Billy LaGreca in a penalty shootout, but they would get to hang a lot hope on goalkeeper Aaron Sarfaty, who had played great for more than 109 minutes.
FORT COLLINS — It turns out the only footsteps Evan Appel heard were his own as he sprinted down the home stretch Oct. 25.
The Dakota Ridge senior was driven by a wealth of emotions, from the fear of being caught to the pressure of repeating as Class 5A state champions and the need to give the Eagles a great finish to a frustrating day.
He needed just 15 minutes, 20.24 seconds to do it all.
ARVADA — Columbine is a football team that will enter the 2008 Class 5A state tournament with more than a few concerns.
Primary among them is the health of junior quarterback Danny Spond. Spond was knocked out of the Rebels' Oct. 24 showdown with Pomona in the first quarter after sustaining a hit to his throwing shoulder. Spond, who missed two games earlier in the season nursing a similar shoulder injury, did not return.
LAKEWOOD — Changing things up is sometimes good advice to follow.
Just ask the Columbine volleyball team.
When the Rebels' play started to get stale and they took two big losses to Class 5A Jefferson County League rivals Lakewood and Chatfield late in the season, the Rebels knew change was on the way.
LAKEWOOD — The playoffs begin this week for the Chatfield Chargers and it might not take long for things to look eerily familiar.
Either that or the Chargers will have to call the Class 5A postseason their "Redemption Tour."
The Chargers slumped to fifth in the Big 8 League standings Oct. 24 after suffering a wild 39-37 defeat to Arvada West at Jefferson County Stadium.
Want to make some homemade soap? A kit was selling for $3. Need to expand your movie library? DVDs were going for a dollar each. Do a lot of your friends have birthdays in November? Greeting cards were 10 cents a pop.
And those were just a few of the thousands of items for sale at the Jeffco Action Center's 64th Beautiful Junk Sale at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
LAKEWOOD — The Chatfield Chargers have shown during the boys soccer regular season that they have plenty of talent.
The Chargers have solid goalkeeping, a seamless defense, a midfield that can play the ball direct or wide to either wing, and plenty of forwards and attacking midfielders that can finish. So ee
Columbine held its Senior Night on Oct. 17, but it was Chatfield's lone senior that stole the show.
In a Class 5A Jefferson County League volleyball match that featured big hitters on both sides of the net, Alysa Heath emerged as the most dominant force.
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Cancer patient Jere Carpentier would prefer taking a pill to having intravenous chemotherapy in a doctor's office. But she – and other people like her – are being denied access to newer oral chemotherapy drugs or are required to shoulder hefty out-of-pocket costs. The problem? The IV treatments are covered under a patient's medical plan but the pills are paid for by a patient's drug plan, which tends to be far less generous. (Producer: Renato Perez)
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Here's Aidan Turner at the Q&A session, Odessa International Film Festival, 13 July 2014. Click the picture for video and photos
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Aidan Turner who plays Ross Poldark in the new BBC drama is turning out to be a hero in real life too!
Shock News reports that Aidan, who is in Odessa for the International Film Festival, was outside talking to a colleague when a man on a bicycle rode by and snatched the girl's handbag. Aidan chased after the robber and got the bag and all it's contents back for his colleague.
What a star he is!
BBC Spotlight visited the set of Poldark in Cornwall. Here's their interview with Aidan Turner (Ross Poldark) and Tristan Sturridge (Zacky Martin). Click the picture to see the video.


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Faith Middleton Show: Technology's Promise
The technology revolution that is changing our lives
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With the onset of a knowledge economy, modern nations are hard at work using ever more sophisticated information systems to power a "technology revolution" that is transforming our lives. This book is based on the work of the TechCast Project, conducted over the past decade at the George Washington University. Pooling the knowledge of 100 high-tech CEOs, scientists, engineers, academics, consultants, futurists, and other experts from around the world, the resulting book is the best forecast data ever assembled, covering the entire span of scientific and technological innovation.
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Safely Storing Carbon Dioxide: Dr. James Brydie, Senior Researcher at Alberta Innovates, Technology Future, explains the type of geology that is required.
Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas through activities like transportation and energy development produces greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). These emissions contribute to global climate change.
Climate change is a serious concern for our planet. Governments across the globe are responding to climate change through a number of initiatives, including reducing their GHG emissions. Alberta is no different.
One of the ways Alberta will reduce emissions is called carbon capture and storage (CCS). Understandably, there are concerns about how this works and what effect it will have on Albertans and the environment.
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What men mean when they talk about their "crazy" ex-girlfriend is often that she was someone who cried a lot, or texted too often, or had an eating disorder, or wanted too much/too little sex, or generally felt anything beyond the realm of emotionally undemanding agreement. That does not make these women crazy. That makes those women human beings, who have flaws, and emotional weak spots. However, deciding that any behavior that he does not like must be insane– well, that does make a man a jerk.
And when men do this on a regular basis, remember that, if you are a woman, you are not the exception. You are not so cool and fabulous and levelheaded that they will totally get where you are coming from when you show emotions other than "pleasant agreement."
When men say "most women are crazy, but not you, you're so cool" the subtext is not, "I love you, be the mother to my children." The subtext is "do not step out of line, here." If you get close enough to the men who say things like this, eventually, you will do something that they do not find pleasant. They will decide you are crazy, because this is something they have already decided about women in general."
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A Spring 2014 Fashion Update
April 22, 2014 • Kasey Burke, Staff Writer
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If we ever manage to escape this polar vortex of a winter we are experiencing, maybe this fashion column will be useful. When you finally feel the sun warm on your face and smell the freshly budding flowers, hopefully this will help you with some inspiration on an upcoming spring morning! Florals, Pastels,... Read more »
The "Promposal" Phenomenon
April 10, 2014 • Carina Leggio, Staff Writer
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A new craze has swept Bethel High School. With Junior and Senior Prom right around the corner, the intriguing "promposal" has taken over the social scene and became the talk of the school over the past couple of weeks. "Promposal", the words "prom" and "proposal" shifted together, now... Read more »
Magic Touch: The Importance of Properly Cleaning Pets
April 7, 2014 • Sara Rego, Contributor
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Many will argue that animals were born in their natural form and grooming is a learned behavior. This may be true for animals that are in the wild, but it is also important to groom our domesticated pets for they will not have the wild to rely on. Instead, take them to the groomer so their coats glisten,... Read more »
The Book Nook: Novels Under 200 Pages
April 3, 2014 • Kendall Meenan, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
Spring break is swiftly approaching! Whether you're lounging at home or relaxing on the beach, these quick reads are the perfect companion. The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom This story begins at the end. Yes, Eddie, the main character, dies within the first chapter of the book... Read more »
Book Nook Volume 3
March 7, 2014 • Kendall Meenan, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
If you need stress relief for the next few months plagued with midterms, SATs, and course selections, pick up one of these sensational novels. Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater Grace is fascinated by the wolves that live in the woods behind her house, especially her yellow-eyed wolf. Sam lives a double... Read more »
10 Apps to Keep Your New Years Resolutions
March 4, 2014 • Colton Zuvich, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
Chances are you probably already forgot about your new years resolutions. And the numbers don't lie, according to a Statistic Brain research study only 8% of people follow through with their goals. Basically, we're terrible at keeping to our promises. These are a collection of free and paid apps... Read more »
The Future of Cheating
March 3, 2014 • Colton Zuvich, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
In the face of twenty-first century technological equipment, it's no wonder that students utilize devices for dishonest means. Ask any student, and they've seen it: the phone cleverly placed on the lap, the earbud reading off pre-recorded answers, or even the subtle notes scrawled across one's... Read more »
Valentine's Day Horoscopes
February 15, 2014 • Carina Leggio, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life
Aries- You're so focused on being the confident single person in your friend group, you're ignoring a possible love interest showing up just in time for Valentine's Day. Taurus- Enjoy your evening of watching "The Fault in Our Stars" trailer on repeat. Gemini- So you don't want to get your... Read more »
How to Spend Your Snow Days
January 21, 2014 • Petey Oneto, Website Manager
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
It's midterm week, which means one thing: SNOW! To the best of my knowledge, we haven't had a midterm week without a snow interruption in my 27 years at BHS. Trust me, I know how to spend my snow days so let me give you a few tips on how to spend them: Go sledding – What's that?... Read more »
Winter "Do"s and "Don't"s
January 19, 2014 • Dana Fotheringham, Journalism Student
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
Winter can be a fun time, though not if you ignore these "dos" and "don'ts" of winter. As Lauren Lempereur '15 and Mckenna Leaden '16 say, "DO stay warm!" Also, James Hemphill '17 says "DON'T wear shorts and DO drink hot drinks!" Lempereur also adds, "Don't... Read more »


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Almost all of my users (not very many) are having trouble posting messages either via activity or PM's on my site.
It just seems to labour and then………….nothing.
I have a feeling this might have more to do with my host than the setup, but is there anything I can do to help this ?
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I don't know if you can learn inscription without LK, but my point is it's not some insidious hidden conspiracy tinfoil hat motive thing. Even if they wanted to change JC to make it available to everyone--which no one can say for sure, FYI--they simply have better things to be spending their time on. It's one of a long list of things they'd like to tweak but don't have a chance to tweak.
Look, I was just correcting your initial assumption that the trainers were there in the first place to "emphasize the new races." Don't bicker about it. The trainers were limited to Exodar/SMC to limit the new profession to people who bought the expansion. This is true regardless of how their feelings may have changed since the inception of LK and inscription. :)


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Dazed and injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleading for help Wednesday and untold numbers were trapped in tons of rubble brought down by the strongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years.
Destroyed communications made it impossible to tell the extent of destruction from Tuesday afternoon's 7.0-magnitude tremor — or to estimate the number of dead lying among thousands of collapsed buildings in Haiti's capital of about 2 million people.
The ornate National Palace crumbled into itself, the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission collapsed and swaths of rickety shacks lay in shambles. Clouds of dust thrown up by falling buildings choked Port-au-Prince for hours.
The United States and other nations began organizing aid efforts, alerting search teams and gathering supplies that will be badly needed in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. The international Red Cross and other aid groups announced plans for major relief operations.
Associated Press journalists found the damage staggering even for a country long accustomed to tragedy and disaster.
Aftershocks rattled the city as women covered in dust clawed out of debris, wailing. Stunned people wandered the streets holding hands. Thousands gathered in public squares long after nightfall, singing hymns.
It was clear tens of thousands lost their homes and many perished in collapsed buildings flimsy and dangerous even under normal conditions.
"The hospitals cannot handle all these victims," Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles, a former senator, said as he helped survivors. "Haiti needs to pray. We all need to pray together."
An Associated Press videographer saw a wrecked hospital where people screamed for help in Petionville, a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians as well as the poor.
At a destroyed four-story apartment building, a girl of about 16 stood atop a car, trying to peer inside while several men pulled at a foot sticking from rubble. The girl said her family was inside.
U.N. peacekeepers, most of whom are from Brazil, looked for survivors in the ruins of what had been their five-story headquarters. U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said late Tuesday that "as we speak no one has been rescued."
Le Roy said many U.N. personnel were missing, including mission chief Hedi Annabi, who was in the building when the quake struck. Some 9,000 peacekeepers have been in Haiti since a 2004 rebellion ousted the president.
A state newspaper in China said eight Chinese peacekeepers serving in Haiti were known dead and 10 were missing — though officials later said the information was not confirmed. Jordan's official news agency said three of its peacekeepers were killed and 21 others injured.
Much of the National Palace pancaked on itself, but Haiti's ambassador to Mexico, Robert Manuel, said President Rene Preval and his wife survived the earthquake. He had no details.
The quake struck at 4:53 p.m., centered just 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince at a depth of only 5 miles (8 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Survey said. USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti.
The temblor appeared to have occurred along a strike-slip fault, where one side of a vertical fault slips horizontally past the other, said Tom Jordan, a quake expert at the University of Southern California.
Most of Haiti's 9 million people are desperately poor, and after years of political instability the country has no real construction standards. In November 2008, following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60 percent of buildings were shoddily built and unsafe in normal circumstances.
Tuesday's quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, but no major damage was reported there. In eastern Cuba, houses shook but no significant damage was reported.
With electricity knocked out in many places and phone service erratic, it was nearly impossible for Haitian or foreign officials to get full details of the devastation.
In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said that U.S. Embassy personnel were "literally in the dark" after power failed.
"They reported structures down. They reported a lot of walls down. They did see a number of bodies in the street and on the sidewalk that had been hit by debris. So clearly, there's going to be serious loss of life in this," he said.
The Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, said at least two Americans working at its Haitian aid mission were believed trapped in rubble.
"Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken," said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Port-au-Prince. "The sky is just gray with dust."
President Barack Obama offered prayers for the people of Haiti and said the U.S. stood ready to help. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. was offering full assistance — civilian and military — and a national organization of registered nurses called for nurse volunteers to provide care in Haiti.
Elizabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s humanitarian office, said it was working with independent aid agency Telecoms Sans Frontieres to get phone lines working again — a key element in organizing relief efforts.
Venezuela's government said it would send a military plane with canned foods, medicine and drinking water and provide 50 rescue workers. Mexico, which suffered an earthquake in 1985 that killed some 10,000 people, planned to send doctors, search and rescue dogs and infrastructure damage experts.
Italy said it was sending a C-130 cargo plane Wednesday with a field hospital and emergency medical personnel as well as a team to assess aid needs. France said 65 clearing specialists, with six sniffer dogs, and two doctors and two nurses were leaving.
Edwidge Danticat, an award-winning Haitian-American author was unable to contact relatives in Haiti. She sat with family and friends at her home in Miami, looking for news on the Internet and watching TV news reports.
"You want to go there, but you just have to wait," she said. "Life is already so fragile in Haiti, and to have this on such a massive scale, it's unimaginable how the country will be able to recover from this."
Associated Press videographer Pierre Richard Luxama in Haiti and AP writers David Koop and Olga R. Rodriguez in Mexico City; David McFadden and Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Matthew Lee in Washington; Alicia Chang in Los Angeles; Andrea Rodriguez in Havana; Tamara Lush in Tampa, Fla.; and Jennifer Kay and Christine Armario in Miami contributed to this report.
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And I suppose the next thing we'll be hearing is that this was all caused by global warming.
Just like the natural heating and cooling of our planet has been going on for millennia, so, too, have major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions along Earth's tectonic boundaries. Indeed, over time, innumerable volcanoes located along those boundaries have spewed infinitely more "pollution" into our atmosphere than man has ever done.
And while I well realize most citizens of Haiti are too poor to leave their earthquake-prone country, those who FREELY choose to live along our Earth's tectonic boundaries shouldn't be surprised when such massive disasters strike.
It's just one more reminder that the natural, cyclic forces on our planet are FAR more pervasive and powerful than man's piddling ability to influence them one way or the other.
Somebody get Brownie on the phone stat!
I have pretty much given up on trying to convince the flat earthers that global climate change is real and human activity is the primary contributing factor. But every so often someone like Keith comes along and makes some truly uninformed statements that I really can't let slide.
First off volcanic activity tends to cool the atmosphere not warm it. Please refer to the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora and the 1816 year without a summer.
Second we live on a beautiful planet that has had an amazing ability to overall keep things in balance and for the most part keep the planet quite habitable, especially for the past 10,000 years or so. What we have been doing for the past 150 years or so is to put just enough man made CO2 on to one side of the atmospheric scale to make it start to tip. Picture a balance scale that has 1000 lbs of weight on both sides. It quite happily stays in equilibrium. Now slowly start adding a few ounces of weight to one of the sides. And keep adding it. Eventually it starts to tip. It is that simple.
We do NOT need to add more emissions than all the volcanoes that have ever existed, or whatever, all we need to do is to add just enough crap into the atmosphere so that it pushes the planet beyond what it can absorb. And that all that we have done. Remember the bulk of the atmosphere is only about 7 miles think, that's it. We now have almost 7 billion people on this planet, burning things to keep warm, burning coal to make electricity, driving cars, motorcycles, flying in airplanes, and shipping worthless crap from one side of the planet to another on huge ships that burn diesel. And all these things are pumping CO2 into 7 miles of atmosphere, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Where do you think all that CO2 is going? Is the carbon fairy making it disappear and putting a quarter under our pillows? Please wake up people!!
You're joking, right? Uninformed statements? What the last ten thousand years shows is that climate fluctuations are natural cycles primarily caused by the earth's rotational wobble, sun cycles and lunar magnetism.
During the midieval warming cycle temperatures were much warmer and life fluorished. Ice core studies in the Antarctic show the rise in CO2 levels follow the warming trend as oceans warm and emit more CO2.
The list of evidence of the fallacy of anthropogenic global warming is overwhelming and growing.
Lunar magnetism? ROFLMAO! I have to give you an internet point and laugh at. Buddy you are talking to a life long amateur astronomer here.
In general solar cycles have only a minor affect on climate. The exception to that was the Maunder Minimum where almost no sunspots were seen from 1645 to 1715 and the Earth COOLED!
Link to the solar cycles effect on weather and climate.
"For more than 100 years, scientists have wondered if cycles on the Sun and changes of the energy received at Earth because of those cycles affect weather or global climate on Earth. It is now thought that solar cycles on the Sun don't affect weather, but that they do have a very slight effect on global climate."
Link to Lunar magntisim
"Unlike Earth–and almost all of the other planets in the solar system–the Moon has no measurable global magnetic field."
The wobble of the earth is part of the Milankovitch cycle with can have major effects on the climate, like ice ages but it occurs over very long periods of time, not the short periods of time we are seeing with the current changes.
I could also go into the steady rise in the green house gas CO2 that is being observed all over the world but what's the point? You have a false view of the world that you lapped up from big oils PR machine, and no facts that I present to you can change that.
The only evidence against global climate change is the stuff manufactured by big oil. One thing a life of following science gave me is the ability to think critically and to cut through Public Relations B/S."
The fact that changes in climate before humans existed preclude the ability of human activity from changing the climate is a complete failure of reason. Thats like saying that species have gone extinct before humans existed so extinctions can only occur naturally and not by human activity. Tell that to the passenger pigeon and the Dodo bird.
Now I took the time to provide anyone that reads this thread with facts, references and logic to my side of the argument . You provided opinion, false reasoning, and public relations B/S.
I am getting SO TIRED of what repeatedly comes down to mentally shooting fish in a barrel.
So what exactly does amateur astronomy have to do with climate study? That's like asking an amateur blacksmith to change the brakes on my car.
But actually you are correct in that I misspoke about lunar magnetism. Although the moon's magnetic pull does have an affect on tides, it is solar magnetism that affects climate. Gee, what do you know, there's the sun again.
I wish I had more time to dodge your mental bullets, but Wednesday's are a busy day for me. Some other time, yes?
In the meantime, I'll leave you with an excerpt from one of those government-funded "climate scientist's" e-mail concerning solar influence on weather and climate…
"Attachment 4 shows the original Sydney data overlaid against the 11-year periodicity. It would appear that the solar cycle does indeed affect temperature."
There's about 1100 more where that came from.
Regarding flat-earthers, I would say that AGW believers such as yourself are the new flat-earthers. Back in the day, the scientific and political minds of the day believed the earth was flat while a small minority believed it to be round. After much persecution the truth was finally revealed and the persecuted minority was vindicated.
I'm afraid that nowadays you find yourslef among the minority view as people awaken to the fraud being perpetrated by politicians and their cohorts in the scientific community.
Perhaps it is time that you give it up. No one's buying it any more.
Thanks for the support, Griff!
If humans are the sole cause of "global warming", perhaps our friend would now care to tell us how ancient tropical sea fossils wind up in rocks that also show clear evidence of continental glaciation.
I've always found it comical how Al Gore and his minions continue to trumpet irrefutable, "scientific evidence" (via their own global climate models) that we humans are the principal cause of the latest bout of "global warming". But yet, even using their most sophisticated observational equipment and computer models, the worlds best weather forecasters seem to still only be able to give us a reliable local weather forecast three days into the future. And, even then, they only manage to get it right about half the time!
There is also a growing body of evidence to suggest that our Sun has not in the past (and still does not) give our planet a uniform "heat bath". I know this to be true, because I work in the satellite industry and we are always concerned about the cyclic heating and cooling (and hence expansion and contraction) of the upper atmosphere and its drag effect on orbiting satellites. There is also some evidence to suggest that this observed cyclic heating and cooling of our atmosphere may also be related in some way to the 11-year sunspot cycle.
But, even without looking at what's going on in the atmosphere, the fossil and geomorphologic record remains absolutely chockablock full of replicable evidence of cyclic climate change throughout millennia. Indeed, in terms of geologic time, our planet is STILL emerging from the latest (Pleistocene era) ice age that ended just 10,000 years ago.
So, even IF what we have been observing over the last 100-200 years or so IS a warming trend on our planet, for Al Gore and his myopic followers to now make the leap that man is the SOLE cause of that "warming" is just BS. Indeed, such nonsense has everything to do with obtaining or keeping one's university research grants (from like-minded zealots) intact rather than shedding objective light on what's really happening.
The truth is that nobody…NOBODY…has yet been able to develop a global climate model that is not also based on REAMS of assumptions. And, depending on which way you skew those assumptions, one can manipulate that data (and the information the resulting model produces) any way you please.
In the meantime, I'm headed out the door to shovel several more inches of "global warming" that's recently fallen in my driveway.
Wish me luck.
Hi Griff et al.,
"Although the moon's magnetic pull does have an affect on tides" … extract from post
Ordinarily I wouldn't do so, but you should drop the word "magnetic" and use the words/phrase "mass does have…" or "gravitational pull…". The moon's negligible magnetism has no effect on the earth other than when it's in line with the sun it can alter the shape of the mutual fields both sun and earth due to its presence no differently than a"keeper bar" on a shoe magnet although of minor consequence.
I'm also providing a seminal link concerning the real link between atmospheric CO2 and that which is stored within earth's oceans. Our oceans store a massive amount of carbon and it's the ocean currents that play a huge role in recirculating this carbon between the oceans and the atmosphere. It's a cycle that acts like a huge conveyor belt known as Thermohaline Circulation or THHC or geophysical oscillator. As the oceans warm they release evermore CO2 and as warm currents cool down to optimum absorption termperatures they begin to store evermore CO2 plunging to the depths. So as the sun warms the oceans more CO2 is released. As the warming earth cause more glacial melt of the Greenland icecap more cold water is supplied to the oceans, plunging to the depths with the ability to store evermore carbon in the form of dissolved CO2 causing the cycle to throttle back.
During the past several hundred million years the worlds ocean currents have been changed ending up with currents within the Atlantic and Pacific basin along with the massive circumpolar current at the South polar region. The reason for the change is due to continental blockage as a function of drift. It is good that it is this way because once the continents change position and open larger regions for currents with a large uninterrupted fetch then we will move into another global ice age. CO2 is not the cause of global warming, but the result of solar warming which is the power supply that drives THHC which will determine the outcome concerning the warming and cooling of the planet.
Note: It takes 1600 years for the Pacific and Atlantic oceans to balance atmospheric gases as a function of the THHC.
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Keith and griff you need to get your talking points straight before you post. Keith says that we can only reliable forecast weather a few days out then griff points me to weatheraction.com that says they can forecast weather months out. Please discuss this amongst yourselves and get back to me.
So griff it appears that keith has discredited the source you just gave.
The fact that Keith mentioned Al Gore just flushed him out has a right wing hack. Standard meaningless talking point completely pointless, it adds NOTHING to the discussion. Also please note that I never mentioned Gore or used him has a reference.
The fact that you guys think there is vast scientific conspiracy shows that you don't understand how science works. Pier review will flush out fraudulent claims pretty quickly.
Now on the other hand a much more plausible argument for the raging "debate" around climate change is that large corporations want the status quo to continue because the are making big bucks on it. Now I have seen this time and time again. Lobbyists are proof of this. Here is a link to an article showing that Exxon Mobil continues to fund groups that publish misleading and inaccurate information about climate change.
Big oil knows they don't have to win the argument, they just have to muddy it up so nothing gets done about it. Now guys I am your worse enemy in this argument because I have MEMORY. I clearly remember not that many years ago your argument was there was no such thing as climate change. Then once that was shown to be false, the argument changed to; the climate was changing but it was a natural change not caused by man. Now the argument is morphing again to, climate change is real, man is causing it, but it's too late to do anything about it so party on! That will be your guys talking point within 5 years. I guarantee it!
OK guys now I will give you a chance to really shine. Here is a chart showing the rise in CO2 over the last roughly 50 years.
It shows CO2 rising at a very steady rate from under 320 ppm to almost 390 now. Nice steady rise of about 30 degrees or so.
The chart is a FACT
CO2 is a green house gas, FACT.
So please explain to me what is causing this nice steady rise? It can't be volcanos. They have been erupting for billions of years? Plus eruptions would show as spikes in the graph. If it is not us causing the rise, and it is natural then if you follow the slope of the graph backwards then CO2 in the atmosphere would be 0 somewhere around 400 years ago. We know that isn't true.
So if we are not the source of the very STEADY rise in CO2 then please explain what the natural source is?
Thank you.
Here you go. Check out realclimate.org It is a site dedicated to climate science run by climate scientists. (what a concept!) You can search out all the references to the fact that the oceans have absorbed a fair percentage of what we have been pumping into the air but that may be coming to an end.
You're kidding again, right? Isn't that the site that's run by the same scientists that have just been caught fudging and cherry-picking the data, manipulating the climate models using programming tricks, controlling the peer-review process, abandoning the scientific method, and overall chicanery?
I believe it is.
Again, it's the sun. Just like it was for millions of years before SUV's.
Thanks for the link giving-up-in-nc. I'll check it out later today.
Carl Nemo **==
Do you honestly think that a small group of scientists could fool most of the worlds, governments, scientists, news papers, and televisions stations, citizens…?
Seriously giff I think your B/S meter is sadly broken.
Actually, yes. But over this past summer more than 31,000 independent scientists sent a letter to the Congress disputing this theory. Not only that, but several scientists' names were added to the IPCC panel without their consent and were later asked to be removed.
Al Gore refused to testify before the Congress if he was forced to share the stage with some one that disagrees with this. And of course, the Congress obliged.
If you were interested in truth over propaganda, I would suggest reading the e-mails and associated documents pertaining to what the media has termed "climategate."
My B/S meter is finely tuned and in good working condition, but thanks for your concern.
And frankly, for some one that opened this conversation by saying that you've given up on trying to convince others to join this religion, you're putting plenty of effort into trying to convince me.
I can assure you that you are indeed wasting your time. I do not believe it and I never will. End of story. And to imply that I don't believe this is because I'm somehow less educated or less intelligent than yourself is exactly the kind of elitist thinking that I despise.
This area of the Carribean has suffered major earthquakes of equal or greater magnitude in the past 300 years the most recent in 1907 until the current one in Haiti.
On June 7, 1692 at 11:43 am, Port Royal, Jamaica was struck by an estimated 8.0 + earthquake which sunk two thirds of the city. Underwater archeologists discovered clocks of that era stopped at that time. Today the former city of Port Royal lays under 25 feet of ocean water.
Port Royal was a watering hole for 17th century pirates and was considered the most evil city on earth in that time. Mind-blowing debauchery was engaged by the pirates and interlopers who visited the port city.
Jamaica is due West of Haiti.
So this current quake is just another example of ol' Mother Earth rolling over in the sack and dragging the sheets; ie., the earths crust along with her. Mankind the equivalent of "bedbugs" went along for the ride.
Carl Nemo **==
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A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons-loving wife along for the ride. And that's just the beginning. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one armchair liberal's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year—while still living in New York City—and see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no air-conditioning, no television . . .
What would it be like to try to live a no impact lifestyle? Is it possible? Could it catch on? Is living this way more fun or less fun? More satisfying or less satisfying? Harder or easier? Is it worthwhile or senseless? Are we all doomed or can our culture reduce the barriers to sustainable living so it becomes as easy as falling off a log? These are the questions at the heart of this whole mad endeavor, via which Colin Beavan hopes to explain to the rest of us how we can realistically live a more "eco-effective" and by turns more content life in an age of inconvenient truths.
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I'm pulling an all nighter tonight,staying up a full night.
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Amy,I'm starting your one shot.
I'll get up the lyrics to the song you want it based on,I've never heard of the song before.
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Danny Granger Out For 3 Months
11/7/12 in NBA | aaronjchung | 264 respect
The Indiana Pacers will be without Danny Granger for approximately 3 months. Granger had an injection to treat his patellar tendinosis in left knee on Tuesday, which he originally suffered during the Eastern Conference semifinals last year.
The Pacers will now look to Paul George and Gerald Green to ltake on most of the small forward duties until Granger fully rehabs his knee.


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North span of Portsmouth bridge to arrive overnight
The float-in of the second span of the bridge is scheduled to take place around 1 Wednesday morning when it will leave the state pier aboard the barge Cape Cod.
Once the barge is in position between piers three and four on the Kittery, Maine, side of the river, the crew will adjust the span's elevation using the temporary jacking system to lower the span onto the bearings on the top of each pier.
During the Wednesday afternoon low slack tide, the barge will be moved out from under the new span and return to the Port Authority Pier where assembly of the center span will begin.
The center span is scheduled to be floated in sometime in June.The new bridge is scheduled to be open to traffic this summer, and plans for the grand opening are already under way.
Former Portsmouth Mayor Eileen Foley was just 5 years old when she cut the ribbon to open the brand new Memorial Bridge on Aug. 17, 1923, and she is the first person to be invited to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new bridge when it is completed. Foley celebrated her 95th birthday on Feb. 27.
Updated information on the bridge-construction project may be found at www.memorialbridgeproject.com.
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