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Jen Dracowyrm Writes About His Comicpalooza Experience!
Nordling here.
Comicpalooza, Houston's version of ComicCon, was last weekend, and I thought it went off rather well, all things considered. It's a new con, started only three years ago in the lobby of Houston's Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks, and quickly grew to fill the third floor of the George R. Brown Convention Center. That's a pretty substantial jump up for three years, as the GRB is pretty huge and Comicpalooza used the space well. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait to go again next year.
My good friend Jen Dracowyrm wrote up his experience at the con and took pictures of the event. edward James Olmos was especially gracious and giving of his time, and I hope the projects he's working on really come to fruition. Here's Jen:
Houston has played host to many cool fests and cons throughout the past couple of decades, including Oni Con (anime), Crypticon, monthly psychic and holistic cons and even gun shows. The sun worshippers go to their fests during the late spring and summer days and the ones where you dress up as your favorite animated character usually have dominion over the fall and winter months. You'd think having a convention named Comicpalooza would fit nicely with the squirreled away nuts of winter, eh? You silly.
Just in its third year, Comicpalooza has swollen the ranks and taken over the spacious third floor of the George R Brown convention center. 'Swollen' and 'rank', we'll get to that in a minute. Good news, John Simons' gamble paid off with a crowd that peaked on Saturday, but still had enough to offer late into the day on Sunday that you didn't feel like you just got kicked out of bed the next day and told to find a ride home.
Among the special guests were convention circuit veterans such as Tony Todd, Sam Trammell, and Jeremy Bulloch. Star Trek was also represented by Marina Sirtis and Steve Jackson was there and has been around making RPG's before they were thought of as a video game genre. A couple of the big draws were actor/director/activist Edward James Olmos and fantasy author Tad Williams. These guys made their presence known all three days of the con, instead of the usual Q&A panel, signing and flight outta here.
I was lucky enough to catch Mr. Olmos' Battlestar Galactica Q&A on Sunday. To give you an idea of what he felt of his role as Commander William Adama on the show, in answer to a fan's question about his biggest regret on the show, his answer was that the show ended. He also spoke of his roles as Gaff in Blade Runner, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver and his early days of acting on stage and in film as El Pachuco in Zoot Suit. He kept the crowd going speaking on subjects as varied as listening to Deva Premal's music while on the set of BSG and turning other people on to it, to his working with Dr. Aubrey de Grey of the SENS foundation which focuses on human longevity. He stated that in his early 60's, he's only middle aged.
Nordling covered EJO's (apparently that's how he's referred to in print) visit and interviewed him prior to the con. I sat in on Friday to an announcement made regarding one of Tad Williams' books, Tailchaser's Song. According to AICN and Fantastic Fest Elder, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, preproduction has started on making Tailchaser's Song into an animated, feature length film. To help him in this task, he has enlisted long time business partner Samantha Inoue-Harte and they believe they have found the animation company that they wish to work with in Japan. The script is finished and they have the blessings of Tad Williams, who wishes to find the right people, and then let them do what they do best. He inadvertently gave me the idea for the title of this article, btw.
Another project based on his work that has had Mr. Williams involved in is an MMORG of his Otherland series. Real U, a company out of Hamburg, has had 70 people working on the project for three years. Mr. Williams believes the game will be released next year on PC and Mac's. Side note: I geeked when I met Tad Williams. I have gotten flack from friends when I say I love the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series above Tolkien's masterpiece, but it's the truth. Love my LOTR, but MS&T has a depth, darkness and humanity that I don't find in most books, let alone high fantasy. Both Mr. Williams and Mr. Olmos were very generous and forthcoming with their time, an example being Nord, Dork Avenger and myself hanging out with Mr. Williams on the last day of the convention for around an hour or so.
Okay, let's see how I can wrap this up? I saw 4 Wonder Women, 3 Leia's and also two Dr's Who that ran circles around one Dalek. Steam Punkers that had to cancel a LARP due to lack of participation, Nordling's disappointment at not being able to participate in a zombie LARP, Houston chapters of Ghostbusters and Stormtroopers, hot ladies in tiny suits and sweaty dudes in suits that were too tiny… shit what else? Well I missed a Roller Derby bout of Star Trek vs. Star Wars (I don't know why Nordling is always surprised that I'm a Trekkie first and foremost), didn't get to see Steve Jackson (smite me for that one), didn't pay Neko Neko's Maid and Host Club (young ladies in French maid outfits) $15 to sit and watch anime with me and I couldn't find a Lovecraftian shirt that didn't say 'S', 'M' or 'L' on the label. How do you go to sell your wares at a convention with the word 'Comic' in the title and not have any double to quintuple X sizes? "That's what happens when you come here on the last day of the show," was the guy's response. Fucker.
On the smaller scale of the film industry, I got to see the 2nd half of Sweatshop, a film by local filmmaker Stacy Davidson, produced by another local, Mel House and starring his wife, Melanie Donihoo. This was a nice throw back to the splatter flix of the 80's, with minimal CG used to enhance the prosthetic FX. Poopoo it all you want, but Coppola started out with Dementia 13, Jackson with Bad Taste and Cronenberg with his crazy, disturbing shit. On the no budget, for-the-love-it-level, I saw a couple of TWABI's (This Was A Bad Idea) Resident Evil: Residential Files, goofy shorts you can view on Youtube. Fun stuff.
Final note: I'd like to thank John Simons for putting this together and getting us in and AICN for being AICN. Free SoyJoy bars was a nice gesture, but dude, if you're not used to soy, don't cram 4 of those to replace a meal, and then make me endure their ghosts escaping you while I sit next to you watching midnight hentai. And as for the volleyball tournament two floors below the con, don't think the irony was lost on me. Don't know who made decision to make us go past the tan and fit to the pale and not, but I don't think that was cool. Little T-shirt guy should've sold his leftovers down there.
Bye ya'll.
Jen Dracowyrm
Look forward to going back next year. Thanks, Jen.
Nordling, out.
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June 4, 2011, 8:34 a.m. CST
Nice Dalek
by Iowa Snot Client
June 4, 2011, 8:35 a.m. CST
Peter Mayhew
by smkovach
This report totally lost credibility with the reporting of Peter Mayhew being in attendance. He had a significant fall and was in surgery last weekend, therefore missed the con. Get better soon, Chewie!
June 4, 2011, 11:09 a.m. CST
great pic of fat guy with steam-punk eye patch...
by maxwell's hammer
...but none of the alleged hot ladies in tiny suits. Visual Aid FAIL!!
June 4, 2011, 11:19 a.m. CST
by BSB
June 4, 2011, 12:20 p.m. CST
I think the steam punk guy is choppah
by frank
June 4, 2011, 1:06 p.m. CST
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn...
by gopher
...was a fantastic series. I bought all the original hardcovers starting in 1988 when the first came out. It is one of the series that George RR Martin quotes when speaking of terrific fantasy; if any series deserves a sequel, this is #1 on my list. I also hope someone in Hollywood considers it for a miniseries in the future...A 2 hour movie wouldn't do it justice.
June 4, 2011, 4:37 p.m. CST
Choppah got caught up at the biker rally
by THE_CHOPPAH
Being held next door. Nothing like table dancing to "tequila" to get my juices flowing. Go 'stros!!
June 4, 2011, 7:03 p.m. CST
I'll try to swing by later.
by THE_CHOPPAH
Gotta deal with this hard-on first. Could be a while.
June 4, 2011, 7:59 p.m. CST
by THE_CHOPPAH
chicks love cons. I met my first three Asian wives at cons. Image search dragoncon. Yup. Banged all of 'em.
June 4, 2011, 8:02 p.m. CST
Oh, and by the way, genderblender ...
by THE_CHOPPAH
What are you doing next Saturday? You like piña coladas? Walks in the rain?
June 4, 2011, 10:34 p.m. CST
by THE_CHOPPAH
you know where you are right? You aren't lost or anything?
June 5, 2011, 11:26 a.m. CST
genderblender...find me on twitter
by THE_CHOPPAH
we can twitter each other.
June 5, 2011, 12:27 p.m. CST
And not one word was spoken of comic books
by Larry Sellers
or anything interesting, for that matter.
June 5, 2011, 5:17 p.m. CST
"like most of the crap that spews from this site, YOU SUCK."
by BlueHawaiiSurfer
Really?!?! Sucks so bad we have to wade through your fucking posts?!?!? Most of your...complex?!?!...thoughts were shared about 10 minutes after the 13 year olds logged on to Xbox live the first time with a mic. If it really sucks so bad then just log on to "that site in your mind that doesn't suck" and try to spare us your Freudian rhetoric eh??
June 6, 2011, 5:53 a.m. CST
i was there too
by joe galindo
u left out a lot of the coolest stuff from the con. my favorite moment was seeing EJO lead a group of cosplayers dressed as rebels and jedi against a group of storm troopers in a game of laser tag Fucking Epic
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Disclaimer: The debates regarding D&D <3.5 (A)D&D alignments is as varied as it is spite- and rage-fueled—primarily among the most reviled and yet gleefully adopted Chaotic Neutral players. As a geek girl in the wild, I freely admit to sticking my foot in it with unabashed tongue in cheek. The writing advice, however, I'll stand behind. … Because that's where rogues do it best.
"When you're CN, You're CN all the way— From your first murdered man To your fated PK!" — The Unofficial Chaotic Neutral Song
It begins with someone in your circle of friends and gamers—most likely the one who has run every campaign under the sun (and the ones in the Underdark, too) speaking up with words very similar to this: "You guys, I have an idea!"
Suddenly, you find yourself with 4-6 other gamers feverishly drafting up the most vile, despicable, evil characters you can possibly imagine. The Lawful Evil childlike necromancer from the one who'd watched way too much anime? Check. The sexy, scantily clad Neutral Evil elf chick played by the one who never realized that getting laid took more than a dice roll? Check. The Chaotic Evil Int-dump barbarian played by the one who really doesn't get this whole roleplay thing and just wants to kill as much as possible in a single session? Double check.
And then there is—there always is—the Chaotic Neutral character. Typically a rogue of some sort, because backstabbing one's friends is almost as much fun as stealing their shit. Or this shining example of psychosis is a sorcerer of some kind, because if you can't steal their shit then setting one's friends on fire is hilarious.
Layer on an "anything goes" template and you've got fiends rolling with vampires and lycanthropy all up in that grill, and you just know nobody's getting through this campaign in one piece.
Which is only partially the point of a good campaign.
D&D: Playing the Game
A crash course, if you will: Dungeons and Dragons is, at its heart, a pen and paper adventure game. For those of you who are not aware, think of it like a video game, but instead of a computer to do all the calculations, you have actual printed character sheets. And instead of a graphics engine, you have something called your imagination.
Much like your standard RPG, you make a character, get together with a handful of other characters, and immerse yourself in a world where your goal is to do quests, solve mysteries, rescue the [whatever got kidnapped] and kill the [whatever kidnapped it]. You gain magic items, upgrade your gear, and everything else you can do on a computer or console game, but it's all done on paper.
Dementedly barbaric, right?
Ah, you just can't go home again…
There is usually one person running said game—that person is called, among other things, the Dungeon Master, the Game Master, the Storyteller, and so on. God. They are the voice of every NPC, ever peasant, every kidnapped spoiled nobility, and (in theory) the impartial die-roller of your fate.
So, in short, you are playing out a story that is one part designated by the DM, and one part designated by the roll of a die.
The Hero's Journey
One of the most engrossing aspects of D&D is the ability to play the quintessential hero's journey character. You begin life as a level 1 nobody. You're lucky to be just a little bit more interesting than Farmboy Jim, who obviously made Charisma his dump stat because he tends to smell like horse manure and Pine-Sol.
As a level 1 fighter/bard/rogue/wizard/sorcerer/etc., you aren't exactly Chuck Norris, but as fate would have it, you probably walk into the right tavern at the right time to hear some sob story about how times are tough and the King's daughter has been kidnapped and that dragon is razing good farmland—so much for Farmboy Jim—and there's really good coin as a reward for solving any one of these.
So you and your adventurous compatriots go off on a journey that will test your mettle, your friendship, your luck, and—most notably—your ability to comprehend basic math.
Oh, THAC0. How I never miss you except as an extremely tired and old joke. Because you were never not funny.
Through fire and brimstone, Drow and dragons, you fight and roll and loot and maim your way into the annals of history—which is to say, somewhere beyond level 20. Congratulations. You are a hero.
But what about the other side of that story? What about the bad guys you're fighting?
What's their jam?
Hint: It should be exactly like yours.
Backing Up, Starting Over
Let's start this all over from a writing point of view.
You know what it takes to create a character who is Destined to Become a Hero(tm). You've given her (let's say her, because waaaugh, rawr, strong female character, whoosh!) a goal that will either start or end up to be extremely heroic, you've given her motivation to justify why she needs to attain this goal, and the conflict that you—as god, and occasionally in the role of story minion—will be throwing in the path to achieve said goal.
This is where the D&D path converges.
"A villain is really just the hero of his or her own story."
As a D&D character, if you happen to have a backstory no more interesting than Farmboy Jim (may Kelemvor have mercy on that poor sod, because we're in the Forgotten Realms, now, bitches), you'll gain one within the first game session. You may also come ready with your own Epic Goal(tm)—take revenge on your father's murderer, hunt down your missing sister after she forsook her vows and fled the convent you put her in for "safekeeping", kill the dragon that wiped out your best friend Jim, whatever.
What is most likely is that you are given your Goal Most Heroic(tm) by the Dungeon Master via particularly pessimistic and/or hysterical non-player character (who insists that times are tough, as if you didn't know). Boom. Ready-made quest. The next few hours are like writing a book—with three to five other people.
As a writer, you know—of course you know—that a villain, an evil character, is really just the hero of his or her own story. Every villain needs a suitably epic goal, a determined motivation, and the conflict—usually in the form of the world and heroic characters—to thwart said suitably epic goal. Whether it's destroying the world, murdering one of the heroes, or taming the dragon, there must be a reason.
And this is where the D&D path diverges.
Everyone who's ever played an evil campaign D&D game will understand me when I say: man cannot live on dreams of carnage alone.
D&D Evil Campaigns are a PK-fest—that's "player kill", for you uninitiated—waiting to happen. Here's why:
- Evil, by nature, does not play well with others. This is because a great deal of easily understood evil comes from selfishness. The selfish need for revenge, the selfish desire for more [insert desire here], the selfish belief that one is the end all, of all and should rule the world—or destroy it so no one else can. Ergo, "selfish" does not lead to trust.
- Campaigners, by nature, only really develop "work together" skills up to a certain level. A D&D campaign is as much about working together as it is shining as an individual, and many gamers are more interested in shining than in sharing. it's a rare group who develops the strength of cooperative gameplay enough to trust and rely on each other to make the right—or at least best they can for the situation—calls at the right time. An evil campaign only widens that gulf: combine the most common view of evil (re: selfish) with a player's innate need to be the most badass mofo on the block, and there is no more trust out of character than there is in character.
- The only thing to fear is fear itself (or a figurehead that embodies said fear), and when there is no reason for an evil character to fear (or respect), there is no reason for him to toe the line—and the key point for any successful party, whether in a D&D group or on the page, is everyone on some level must toe a line. Just like real life, you can't just do anything you want and expect everyone else to fall in with you. The main difference between a good character and an evil character is that in many cases, evil (remember: selfish) sees no reason to cater to the common decency demands that keep us civil. Where there is no need to be civil—whether enforced by social mores or by a greater demand—there is no chance of trust. Compromise is the key to working together.
Do you see a trend here?
Any time a group of evil characters gets together, they must figure out the common denonimator that will keep them from turning on one another: and that must create a certain amount of trust—or at least a guarantee of some kind that keeps the characters in line enough to work together to achieve the goal. Without a Goal and the Motivation to achieve it, per character, an evil party will cannibalize itself.
And let's face it: most of your average D&D gamers aren't so complex that they'll worry about these sorts of things.
Which brings me to the bonus stage: the exception to the above.
Chaotic Neutral: The Alignment of Twats (and Serial Killers?)
A Bonus Mini-Rant
Disclaimer: Yes, I know some of you love this alignment and probably play it well. This probably isn't about you.
When it comes to the Chaotic Neutral member in your party, you can take everything I said and toss it right out the fucking window. Chaotic Neutral—much like the hunter class in World of Warcraft—is very easy to play, and very hard to play well.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the Chaotic Neutral alignment:
A Chaotic Neutral character is an individualist who follows his or her own heart, and generally shirks rules and traditions. Although they promote the ideals of freedom, it is their own freedom that comes first. Good and Evil come second to their need to be free, and the only reliable thing about them is how totally unreliable they are.
In the most shallow of definitions, the things most people pull out of this is: I do what I want, when I want, because I want to at that moment. Or, in a blunter format, I don't believe in consequences, so fuck you.
Chaotic Neutral is the single most reviled alignment in any party. And the primary reason for this is that they have frequently confused Chaotic Neutral with Chaotic Evil.
Chaotic Evil is the alignment of (most) serial killers, those who are evil not because it's unexpected but because they are extremely selfish and have no regard for others. Psychopathy is the hallmark of Chaotic Evil.
And yet legion is the number of Chaotic Neutral characters who will gut a fellow party member to claim the trinket said fellow found, of the sexy sorceress who will sleep with anyone who asks (not that there's anything wrong with that) and then throat them after (definitely something wrong there), of the barbarian who will go slaughter an entire village for no other reason than because it's fun, and so on.
Clearing Up the Misunderstanding
In AD&D—which is primarily Dungeons & Dragons with a new ruleset, and what everyone my generation and younger tend to base all D&D knowledge on—the Chaotic Neutral alignment was mistaken to mean a particular subset of crazy that captured the imagination and lusts of younger minds the world over: to wit, instead of the Captain Jack Sparrow or Snake Plissken brand of CN, they assumed it meant a hardcore version wherein change was always good, and chaos was king, and anarchy in the UK!
As these things are wont to do, this brand of Chaotic Neutral spread like wildfire, and it became part of the cultural memory of the D&D multiverse. Even now, if you ask a room full of people what Chaotic Neutral was, you'd get more "chaos for chaos' sake" than you would "savvy?".
And because of this, CN has not only earned a bad rap, but it's considered the most "fun" you can have in a non-evil party.
Whenever someone tells me they prefer to play Chaotic Neutral, my ass begins to twitch.
A Public Service Announcement
When you are considering making an evil character, either for a D&D game or a book, I want you to consider these things:
"Without a Goal and the Motivation to achieve it, an evil party will cannibalize itself."
- Does your character have a Goal? If not, you can quit right now. No goal means no reason to do anything.
- Is there a strong enough Motivation to keep your character(s) going, to do what it takes—even if it means working with others—to accomplish it? If there isn't, then just like any good-aligned character, the chances of said characters completing anything is minimal. It's the equivalent of waking up one day and going, "You know, I think I'll paint my kitchen. Or… you know, maybe not."
- Does your group—either your campaign group or the party your book character has to work with' have a higher chance than normal to fall apart at the first sign of Conflict? If so, go back into your G/M/C charts and do what you need to do in order to fix that. If everything hinges on the other guy not being a douche, your character is in for some severe disappointment.
- Do you actually mean Chaotic Neutral? Or have you confused that morality with Chaotic Evil? Be sure.Captain Jack Sparrow may be a twat, but he's not a serial killer. There is a difference. If you can't see what that difference is, you need to go back to your G/M/C charts and ensure you have a solid grasp of character traits—what they are and what they aren't.
- Are you (or your character) evil for the sake of being evil? Look, there's nothing wrong with this, but just like any protagonist, you need more to keep going. See PSA #1. Being good just for the sake of being good is the same way. There has to be a why. Nobody is born in a vacuum. If you find the why, you'll find the momentum.
And lastly, if you ever find yourself running, heading, or involved with an evil campaign, remember this: without trust or enough blackmail material to guarantee a certain amount of fear, this will only end in tears. Tears and bloodshed. (And if you're the sort to think about factors like "long term viability" and "working together", the tears and blood shed will probably be yours.)
Good luck, and gods speed.
Where I run we've cultivated a sort of playable Evil, a viable Evil Lite and a definite restandardizing of CN in a sandbox-y setting. A lot of what is written by the OP is extremely sound advice, whether you're running a table top game (in any 'verse) or a story based video game ('specially sandboxy games).
Thankfully our formula seems to weed out a lot of these potentially negative experiences and sets us up to be able to guide player into a pretty rewarding experience for CN or any E (though not CE because, like the OP says, serial killers and the sort are CE and that's pretty much a non-viable team effort, also not Family Friendly).
Oh, the blood and tears though… (but evil, right?)
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The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has deployed rescue and relief teams to evaluate the damage in the areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. You can donate to the Philippine Red Cross by selecting the Supertyphoon Yolanda campaign on their donation page. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Red Cross networks from around the world are supporting the Philippine Red Cross. Many have created specific funds for this disaster, including the American Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross and the British Red Cross.
The Salvation Army is on the ground serving storm survivors, primarily with food, water and shelter. Emergency Disaster Service teams have been providing help since the typhoon hit, but are challenged by the lack of accessible roads to transport goods and medical supplies. The non-profit has set up a designated fund for Haiyan relief efforts, which you can access here. You can also make a donation by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769).
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is working with local authorities, the Filipino Jewish community and their global partners to assist in providing for survivors' immediate needs. You can support their efforts online or by phone at 1-212-687-6200.
CARE's emergency response teams are coordinating with local partners in the Philippines to provide food, water, shelter and health care for those in need. Their teams in Vietnam are preparing for the potential need there as Typhoon Haiyan continues its devastation. You can support CARE's efforts on their website, or by phone at 1-800-521-2273 within the United States or +1-404-681-2252 outside the U.S.
Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the U.S., is on the ground helping with water purification, shelter materials and essential living supplies. You can donate to the organization's efforts online or you can call 1-877-435-7277. You can also type in your phone number on the website and a representative will call you back to take your donation.
Convoy of Hope's Global Disaster Response Team has shipping containers full of food and supplies on the way to the Philippines. The organization is preparing more supplies to be sent like canned goods, hygiene kits and water filtration units. You can visit Convoy of Hope's website to donate funds to their efforts or call 1-417-823-8998.
Mercy Corps is preparing to deliver food, water, temporary shelter and other basic supplies to devastated areas throughout the Philippines. You can support the organization by donating through their website, PayPal, or by calling 1-888-747-7440.
Oxfam America aid teams are on the ground in northern Cebu, northern and eastern Samar and Leyte, in the Eastern Visayas region in the Philippines. They're working to provide immediate access to water and sanitation materials. You can support this effort by donating online to their Typhoon Haiyan Relief and Recovery Fund, or by phone at 1-800-776-9326.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency's (ADRA) emergency response team is working in Manila and in the province of Bohol to provide food, emergency relief and medical aid to those in need. They have launched an emergency appeal that you can support online or by phone at 1-800-424-2372.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has dispatched an emergency team to Manila and launched a $10 million appeal in order to ensure immediate needs like safe water, hygiene and sanitation are met. If you would like to contribute to their efforts, click here.
Operation Blessing International (OBI) has deployed disaster relief teams in multiple locations following the massive devastation from Typhoon Haiyan. The organization is providing clean water and food, emergency shelter materials and medical assistance. To help the charity's mission, you can make a contribution on their website.
Food and water
The World Food Programme was already providing emergency food assistance in the Philippines following the October earthquake. With these emergency food stocks stretched thin, they're now mobilizing additional supplies and are flying in 40 tons of fortified biscuits in the coming days. Additional food supplies are needed. You can help these efforts by donating online or by calling 1-202-747-0722 domestically or +39-06-65131 for international calls.
Samaritan's Purse has sent disaster relief specialists, including water and nutrition experts, to the Philippines to deliver immediate aid. They have launched the Philippines Emergency Relief fund for this disaster, which you can support online or by phone at 1-828-262-1980.
World Vision is responding in the Philippines by first providing emergency food and clean water. They will also work to create child-friendly spaces and help families rebuild from this disaster. They have launched a Philippines Disaster Response Fund that you can support online or by calling 1-888-511-6443.
Action Against Hunger is on the ground providing drinking water and survival kits containing buckets, soap and chlorine tablets. They're also working to distribute sanitation equipment to prevent outbreaks of waterborne diseases. They're requesting assistance and you can help by donating online or by calling 1-877-777-1420.
ShelterBox was already in the Philippines providing shelter after the 7.2 earthquake that hit Bohol on October 15. They are now expanding their operations to provide tents and essential equipment for families left homeless after Typhoon Haiyan. You can support their work in the Philippines either online or by calling 1-941-907-6036.
Habitat for Humanity is already providing help to 30,000 families with shelter repair kits to rebuild their damaged homes. You can support this work by donating from the Philippines to their Re-Build Philippines Fund or from the U.S. by contributing to their Disaster Response Fund. You can also make a donation by phone at 1-800-HABITAT.
Architecture for Humanity is mobilizing to assist with post-disaster reconstruction and the organization's working with local architects to identify the most critical rebuilding needs. You can support their Super Typhoon Haiyan Response online, by calling 1-415-963-3511 or by texting REBUILD to 85944 to make a $10 donation from your mobile phone.
Medical assistance
Americares has an emergency shipment on the way to the Philippines with enough medical aid for 20,000 survivors, including antibiotics, wound care supplies and pain relievers. You can support Americares with an online donation or by calling 1-800-486-4357.
International Medical Corps has pre-positioned medical supplies and their team is on the ground coordinating with their partners in the Philippines to distribute and provide medical aid. You can support their Typhoon Haiyan Emergency Response fund online or by calling 1-800-481-4462.
More than 1.5 tons of emergency medicine and medical supplies are en route to the Philippines from Direct Relief. The supplies include antibiotics, pain relievers, nutritional supplements, antifungal medications, wound dressings and chronic disease medicines. You can call in your donation by dialing 1-805-964-4767 or you can go online to support the organization.
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) have emergency teams in Cebu city with an additional 50 people including medical personnel, logisticians and psychologists arriving in the Philippines in the next few days. They'll bring tents, supplies of drugs, medical equipment and material to purify water, as well as essential plastic sheeting, cooking items and hygiene kits. Teams will monitor possible outbreaks of infectious diseases. An additional cargo is being prepared due to leave later this week from Bordeaux with an inflatable hospital and medical material. You can make your donation by calling 1-212- 763-5779 or online.
Helping children
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is helping children and their families in the Philippines receive shelter, clean water, nutrition and vaccines. Their emergency response can be supported online or by calling 1-800-367-5437. You can also donate directly to UNICEF in the Philippines here.
Save the Children is offering disaster relief support for children in the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam after Typhoon Haiyan. The charity has pre-positioned relief material kits for children and families, which will include toiletries, household cleaning items, temporary school tents and learning materials. You can support their Philippines Annual Monsoon and Typhoon Children in Emergency Fund online. You can also donate by phone at 1-800-728-3843.
Emergency response teams from ChildFund International prepositioned supplies, including emergency kits and tents, and made arrangements with local suppliers to access food and non-food relief supplies. The organization is also preparing to setup child- centered spaces where kids can feel safe. Donate to ChildFund online to help children cope and recover confidence after this disaster.
Teams from Plan are also on the ground responding to the needs of children and their families. Their priorities are vulnerable youngsters and communities in rural locations. You can support their appeal on their website.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/09/world/iyw-how-to-help-typhoon-haiyan/index.html
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I'd love to see someone attempt to defend the clothing industry
oh jeez..
YES! Except I spend way more than $30 on bras because my size isn't sold everywhere only specialty bra stores. Last time I went bra shopping I spent close to $400 for 4 bras >_<My bras are like $45 or more
And then we have maternity clothing… which you wear for like, 3-7 months depending. Which all cost 3x as much as the stuff you're suppose to wear for a year.
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The MK7559GSXP HDD features an areal density of 541.4G bit/in^2, making it ideal for mobile applications in which capacity is key, including notebook computers and portable storage products. These HDDs also are well-suited for devices that value high capacity in a smaller footprint with improved acoustic performance and lower power operation compared to larger form factor HDDs. Those applications include all-in-one desktops, televisions and set top boxes.
At 12.5 millimeters-high, the MKxx59GSM series is geared to external add-on and removable storage, tape replacement and docking station applications, as well as addresses the escalating demand for capacity and portability in gaming notebooks, mobile workstations and other capacity-hungry applications. The 1TB MK1059GSM model can store up to 285,000 digital photos, 263,000 digital music files or 820 digital movies.
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Alright...Good to see companies taking the next step!
Now I just wish they would walk a little faster.
I am surprised that it is Toshiba to first hit this mark. Hopefully now we can see those specials at BB start to get 500GBHD's in them?
Personally, I have never had any amazement's with the Toshiba drives. ON the other hand, I have never had any letdowns either.Maybe since they merged with Fujitsu, they will lower prices at the starting gate?
Now the home entertainment side is a whole other matter.
Is it realistic to expect the average consumer to fully saturate a 1TB capacity notebook with enough data in less time than it would likely take to move on to a new notebook? I'm not saying it can't happen, I'm just wondering if this scenario is realistic for the average notebook consumer. Please chime in anyone.
Last year I bought the biggest laptop hard drive out for my netbook. It was 500GBs. That is some crazy progress. I guess with SSDs on there heels they have to step it up with size. That is the only plus hard drives really have for laptops.
Not even much in size Bob. Since you can actually buy 1024GB SSDs, the only thing that 2.5" HDDs have is price.
Oh wow I didn't know they have 1TB 2.5 in SSDs. I knew about the PCIe OCZ one.
Yep, the 1TB SSD came out last year. They actually beat HDDs to that point. So for 2.5" HDDs, the only area they actually win in is price (by a long shot).
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yeah but the price difference is just so gargantuan that for most people i think a hdd would be the only viable option.
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|ABG > SEC Filings for ABG > Form 8-K on 29-Aug-2013
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On August 29, 2013, the Company issued a press release announcing that it has
issued an irrevocable notice of redemption with respect to all of its
outstanding 7.625% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017 (the "Notes"). Pursuant to
the redemption notice and the terms of the indenture governing the Notes, the
Company will redeem the Notes that remain outstanding on September 28, 2013 at
the redemption price set forth in the redemption notice. Following such
redemption, the Company's payment obligations under the indenture governing the
Notes will be terminated. A copy of the press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1
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I posted this on FetLife, and it got an overwhelmingly positive response, so I thought I would share it here as well.
In no particular order…
1) Never take anything at face value. Things are always more than what they seem.
2) You will be wrong. The sooner you learn how to accept it gracefully, the better off you will be.
3) Your friends will be wrong. It doesn't matter who they are, how long they've been in the scene, or what their orientation is. They will still be wrong from time to time, but that doesn't mean that they don't deserve your respect.
4) Allegiances are meaningless. If you are loyal to one person or group, and your friends are loyal to another, don't worry about it. They are right to feel the way they do, and so are you. No single person or group is all good or all bad.
5) Popularity is fleeting. All those friend requests, comments, and "loves" are nice and flattering, but don't read more into them than you should. There will always be someone who comes along that is smarter/prettier/younger/kinkier than you. Enjoy your place in the spotlight while it lasts, and don't be heartbroken when it passes.
6) Your integrity is all you have. In kink, just as in life, integrity is everything. Look it up. Learn what this word means.
7) Respect the journey. If you get the opportunity to try out a new kink, explore it, savour it, and then thoroughly examine your feelings about it. If you don't, you will live to regret it.
8) You are not a snowflake. Whatever you're going through, chances are there is someone else who has gone through something very similar. Make friends and connections and draw upon the experiences of others. Don't let your ego get in the way.
9) Protect your heart. People can be cruel (yourself included). If someone criticizes you or your kink, think about what they've said, but don't let it consume you.
10) Judge not, lest ye be judged. Refer to number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 9 on this list.


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Will Apple iPhone 6 Plus help doom 7-inch tablets?
Phablets, including Apple's first one, won't just impact iPad mini sales. They could kill off an even smaller category of tablet.
John Morris and Sean Portnoy deliver straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.
John Morris is a former executive editor at CNET Networks and senior editor at PC Magazine.
Sean Portnoy is a former executive editor at Computer Shopper magazine and editor at CNET Networks.
Phablets, including Apple's first one, won't just impact iPad mini sales. They could kill off an even smaller category of tablet.
The Android tablet shrinks to just 6mm thick, while featuring an 8.4-inch OLED screen and Intel RealSense 3D camera.
The 8-inch Android tablet tries to entice an untapped market with free 24/7 customer service and a year's membership in AARP for $189.
The updated $299.99 Chromebook 14 is powered by Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor, while the refreshed Chromebook 11 uses an Intel Celeron Bay Trail CPU and starts at $279.99.
The next generation of its all-in-one desktops that be can used laying flat feature smaller and cheaper models than the original Horizon. Will they fare any better with consumers?
The 8-inch tablet runs Android KitKat 4.4, comes with a 1080p HD display, and supports PS4 Remote Play for streaming PlayStation 4 gaming action.
The Iconia Tab 8 W joins other suddenly inexpensive Windows tablets hitting the market, while the Android-powered Iconia One 8 is available in 10 different color choices.
While Intel's first eight-core CPU for client PCs costs $999, its rival is offering one for less than $150.
The display, which sports a 3,440x1,440 resolution and 21:9 aspect ratio, is due by the end of the year.
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RH Reality Check
Pamela Merritt blogs as Shark-Fu at AngryBlackBitch.com. Merritt studied Anthropology at Bard College at Simon's Rock and Brandeis University. Merritt works as an Online Organizer and New Media Specialist in Missouri, a proud mentor through Big Sisters, and teaches at several shelters in St. Louis. Pamela Merritt is a member of the Women's Health Leadership Network at the Center for American Progress and is a founding member of the Trust Black Women Partnership. She is a staff writer for RH RealityCheck, a contributor to Feministing.com and Shakespeare's Sister, and a featured contributor on National Public Radio's (NPR) "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin. Merritt's writing has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian UK, and Salon. In 2008 AngryBlackBitch.com was named one of the world's 50 most powerful blogs by The Guardian UK.
by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check
June 2, 2008 - 7:00 am
A case before the California Supreme Court, brought by a woman refused in vitro fertilization by her doctors because she is a lesbian, serves as a reminder that medical discrimination is still a real threat for many Americans.
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May 19, 2008 - 7:00 am
One third of young women who drop out of high school cite pregnancy and/or motherhood as the reason. But in recent years, special schools for pregnant students have been phased out in favor of mainstreaming. What's next?
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May 12, 2008 - 7:24 am
Have Safe Haven laws — in which women can lawfully relinquish their infants within 30 days of birth — become a substitute for universal health care and comprehensive sexuality education?
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Recent studies have discovered a dramatic decline in breast cancer incidence resulting from a reduction in the use of hormone replacement therapy. It's good news — except that it's not true for African-American women.
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The "coerced abortion" bill Missouri's House just passed devalues the women's intelligence and women's ability to make decisions about their own medical care.
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Currently, Missouri midwives must have a nursing degree and work under a doctor's supervision — otherwise, they are committing a felony. A Senate bill under consideration would expand women's birthing options — but the Missouri State Medical Association is fighting back.
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The impact of anti-immigration policies on women is clear and reflects poorly upon our society. Pamela explores the impact in her home state of Missouri, in her own neighborhood.
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On the front lines healthcare providers and volunteers meet young women who learn prevention post-infection, who explore contraceptive options after a pregnancy and who are growing up in a culture where sophisticated media outlets sell sex as power.


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Tiger Resource Finance Plc is an investment company, which is focused on the resources sector. It primarily invests in natural resources companies globally, capitalizing on early entry level in mineral, oil and gas projects, adding technical and management expertise where necessary. The company was founded on December 21, 1993 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.


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|BMP Modeling Concepts and Simulation (166 pp, 3.3 MB) July 2006
In order to minimize impacts of urban nonpoint source pollution and associated costs of control (storage and treatment) associated with wet-weather flows (WWFs), stormwater runoff volumes and pollutant loads must be reduced. A number of control strategies and so-called "best management practices" (BMPs) are being used to mitigate runoff volumes and associated nonpoint source (diffuse) pollution due to WWFs and include ponds, bioretention facilities, infiltration trenches, grass swales, filter strips, dry wells, and cisterns. Another control option is popularly termed "low impact development" (LID) - or hydrologic source control - and strives to retain a site's pre-development hydrologic regime, reducing WWF and the associated nonpoint source pollution and treatment needs.
Methodologies are needed to evaluate these BMPs, their effectiveness in attenuating flow and pollutants, and for optimizing their cost/performance since most models only partially simulate BMP processes. Enhanced simulation capabilities will help planners derive the least-cost combination for effectively treating WWFs. There is currently a confusing array of options for analyzing hydrologic regimes and planning for LID. Integrating available BMP and LID processes into one model is highly desirable.
This work analyzes several current modeling methods to evaluate BMP performance with the intention of facilitating the integration of improved BMP modeling methods into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). Several other models are examined as part of this study. Options for enhancement of SWMM's LID simulation capabilities are also presented. Two extensive case studies in Portland, Oregon help to clarify current SWMM capabilities and needs for enhancement. The effort documented in this report is linked to a parallel effort at the University of Colorado related to optimization strategies for WWF control.
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Harvard President Drew Faust Announces Initial Steps Towards Carbon Divestment
In a letter to the Harvard University community, president Drew Faust has announced the globally influential institution's endowment will commit to sustainable investment practices. Harvard University has become the first educational institution to become a signatory to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment, and to the Carbon Disclosure Project's climate program.
After increasing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni in support of the climate divestment movement, Faust reversed her previous stance opposing action, recognizing that the "special obligation and accountability to the future" held by Harvard requires action not just in research and policy but also "as a long-term investor."
Harvard's actions should not be interpreted as explicit acceptance of the principle that sustainable investment requires divestment from the fossil-fuel industry. However, looking at the "systemic risks presented by or created by companies" is part of the Principles of Responsible of Investment. Faust has now applied that assessment to the fossil-fuel industry, saying that the Harvard community "must devote ourselves to enabling and accelerating that transition" — "to chart the path from societies and economies fundamentally dependent on fossil fuels to a system of sustainable and renewable energy."
The full text of the announcement letter is below:
Tony Strickland, Republican Candidate for California's 20th District, Believes Global Warming a 'Hoax'
Former California state senator Tony Strickland, vying for the Republican nomination to unseat Democratic Rep. Sam Farr in California's 20th district, rejects the science of manmade global warming. Speaking at a candidate forum at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, Strickland told students that "there are a lot of scientists that say it's a hoax."
When I was a kid it was global cooling — I got a little older and it's called global warming, and now it's called climate change. The problem with that is scientists will be on both sides. There are a lot of scientists that say it's a hoax.
In reality, the carbon-dioxide greenhouse effect is a physical fact known since the 1800s. The only scientifically plausible systematic explanation for the rapid and continuing warming of the planetary climate since 1950 is industrial greenhouse pollution. The world's national scientific societies and the world's practicing climate scientists are in overwhelming agreement about this fact.
Strickland's primary opponent, former Assemblyman and USC visiting fellow Anthony Portantino, also does not seem to understand the science of global warming. "It is hotter in places where it used to be cooler and is it cooler in places where it used to be hotter," he was quoted as saying by the USC Daily Trojan.
Portantino is incorrect. Although there are regional variations in global warming, there is almost nowhere on the planet that is cooler than it was in the middle of the 20th century.
At Science Hearing, Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) Expresses Confusion on Global Warming and Scientific Method
At today's Science Committee hearing to review the President's proposed science budget, freshman member Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) dismissed climate science before expressing his support for the Keystone XL pipeline, which terminates in his district.
"You scientists start with what they call a postulate or theory and you work forward from that direction, is that right?" Weber asked White House Science Advisor John Holdren, before jesting about the science of manmade global warming.
I was wondering how that related to like, for example, global warming and eventually global cooling. I may want to get your cell phone number because if we do go through a couple of cycles, global warming and then back to global cooling, I need to know when to buy my long coat on sale. You know, so I just don't know how y'all prove those hypotheses going back fifty, hundred, you know, what you might say is thousands or if not even millions of years and then postulate those forward.
According to Center for Responsive Politics data, Weber has received $45,000 from the energy sector in campaign contributions, the vast majority — $39,000 — coming from the oil and gas industry. Koch Industries has contributed $10,000 to his campaign coffers.
Despite Environmental Endorsements, Sen. Susan Collins Has Spotty Record on Confronting Climate Change
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), facing reelection this year in a strongly Democratic state, has garnered the support of national environmental organizations despite a conflicted record on climate policy. In September 2013, the League of Conservation Voters launched an ad campaign praising Collins' "environmental leadership." A new advertisement from the Environmental Defense Fund and Moms Clean Air Force praises Collins for "confronting climate change" in marked contrast to the majority of her Republican colleagues. The organizations have not formally endorsed a candidate in the rate.
The EDF ad cites Collins' vote on "S. Amdt 359 to SCon Res 8, Roll Call #76, 3/22/13." That day Collins broke with the Republican caucus to vote against an amendment introduced by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) prohibiting further greenhouse gas regulations for the purposes of addressing climate change.
She cast a similar vote on April 6, 2011, when she broke the Republican ranks to vote against the McConnell amendment prohibiting EPA regulation of greenhouse gases.
On December 11, 2009, Collins and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced climate legislation (S. 2877) in competition with Kerry-Boxer (S. 1733), the Senate version of the Waxman-Markey bill. Cantwell-Collins offered a simpler cap-and-trade system and weaker emissions targets than Kerry-Boxer.
However, a broader review of her voting record finds that Collins repeatedly acted to help Republicans prevent the passage of climate legislation during the Obama presidency and to weaken executive action on climate rules:
- On April 1, 2009, Collins allied with Republicans and conservative Democrats in key votes to preserve the ability of Republicans to filibuster climate legislation during Obama's first term. She voted against non-filibusterable budget reconciliation for green economy legislation, if "the Senate finds that public health, the economy and national security of the United States are jeopardized by inaction on global warming" (Roll Call Vote #125). She then voted to prohibit the use of reconciliation in the Senate for climate change legislation involving a cap and trade system (Roll Call #126. She voted for Sen. Kit Bond's amendment establishing a point of order against climate change or similar legislation that would increase federal revenues (Roll Call #142).
These votes arguably made the future demise of climate legislation in the Senate inevitable, in contrast to health care legislation, which became law through the reconciliation process despite unified Republican opposition.
- On April 6, 2011, Collins voted for Rockefeller's bill to delay greenhouse-gas regulations for two years (Roll Call #53).
- On March 21 and 22, 2013, Collins voted for Sen. Roy Blunt's amendment to create a point of order against legislation that would create a federal tax or fee on carbon emissions (Roll Call #59) and against Sen. Whitehouse's amendment that would support the creation of a carbon fee (Roll Call #58).
Moreover, Collins has been a consistent supporter of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, voting that "that no additional safety or environmental analysis of the pipeline was necessary" in 2012 (Roll Call #34) and in 2013 (Roll Call #61). Collins is also "the only member of Maine's congressional delegation that has not called upon the State Department to do a full environmental review" of the possibility of the Portland Montreal Pipeline being used to carry tar sands crude, as the Canadian government opens the route from Alberta to Quebec for the carbon-intensive fossil fuel.
Although Collins has expressed a desire for "limiting the worst effects of climate change," when the opportunity has come to display true climate leadership, she has supported her caucus instead more often than not.
At Science Hearing, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) Argues Global Warming is a 'Natural Phenomenon'
At today's Science Committee hearing to review the President's proposed science budget, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) dismissed human influence on the climate. "We've had climate change since the day the earth was formed, whenever that was, depending on whatever it is you believe," he said with a nod to young-earth creationists, "and we'll have climate change until the earth implodes, whenever that is."
Posey questioned White House Science Advisor John Holdren in depth, clearly skeptical that there could be both natural climate changes over the billions of years the earth has existed and human-induced climate change.
Obviously we've had global warming for a long time. You can't have one seamless ice age that encompasses three ice ages. We had to have warming periods between each of those. And so that is a natural phenomenon. Just because we're alive now, the tectonics plate shifts aren't going to stop, the hurricanes tsunamis aren't going to stop, the asteroid strikes aren't going to stop, they've been going on for eons and they're going to continue to go on for eons.
"The difference between the circumstances you're describing and the circumstance we're in now is the changes imposed on the climate in large part due to human activity are faster than the ability of ecosystems to adapt," Dr. Holdren responded, "and maybe even more importantly, faster than the ability of human society to adapt."
"There are a lot of stresses, as you point out, we can't control, but the stresses we can control that are placing burdens on our society we ought to think about controlling," Holdren continued.
"No doubt about that," Posey quickly interjected before challenging Holdren on how much of present-day climate change is due to human behavior.
"The natural changes, which we understand, and which are underway on a long term basis as we speak, would be if they were the only influences, be cooling the planet rather than warming it," Holdren replied. "We would be in a long-term cooling trend as a result of the natural forces affecting climate which we understand. We are instead in a warming trend which suggests that human activity is overwhelmingly responsible for the difference. We would be having cooling based on natural forces, we're having warming."
Interrupting Holdren, Posey latched on to the mention of "cooling" to make a stammering joke about global cooling and Al Gore. "I remember the '70s," he said. "That was the threat, we're going to have a cooling that's going to eventually freeze the planet. And that was the fear before Gore intervented—invented the Internet, you know, or uh, the other terms."
Posey, who represents the coastal Florida district that includes the Kennedy Space Center, had previously expressed similar views on ice ages and global warming in a 2011 interview with conservative activist Victoria Jackson.
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) Rejects Human Responsibility for Climate Change
A few months after the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) rejected the scientific fact of anthropogenic global warming. He made remarks rejecting the linkage between human activity and changes in weather at a Heritage Foundation "Conversations with Conversatives" event on January 22, 2013. Questioned by Heritage's Rob Bluey, Massie said he took "offense" at President Obama's remarks on climate change in the 2013 State of the Union address.
I was disappointed to see him blame the droughts on human activity and then to say that we're denying the evidence of scientists. As someone with a science-type background, I took offense at that. I would challenge him to show us the linkage, the undeniable linkage, between the droughts and the change in weather, and human activity.
"Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend," Obama said in his address. "But the fact is the twelve hottest years on record have all come in the last fifteen. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods — all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science — and act before it's too late."
Obama's words were scientifically well-founded. In August 2010, the World Meteorological Organization issued a statement on the "unprecedented sequence of extreme weather events" that "matches Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming." Climate scientists have concluded that "[m]any lines of evidence — statistical analysis of observed data, climate modelling and physical reasoning — strongly indicate that some types of extreme event, most notably heatwaves and precipitation extremes, will greatly increase in a warming climate and have already done so."
Massie's "science-type background" refers to his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change has a helpful FAQ on climate science which provides answers to Rep. Massie's questions, such as, "Are extreme events, like heat waves, droughts or floods, expected to change as the Earth's climate changes?" The answer: "Yes."According to the Program of Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, which studies the "substantial human interference of the climate system":
- "Over the past 200 years or so, humans have altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere and oceans."
- "There's clear evidence that greenhouse gases have been increasing by very large amounts since preindustrial times, and the vast majority of these increases are due to human activity."
- "Current concerns about future climate change are driven in large part by the observational evidence that several long-lived greenhouse gases are increasing at significant rates."
- "Climate models suggest that both global mean precipitation and the intensity of precipitation extremes will increase in a warmer climate."
- "The total amount and distribution of water in the atmosphere is very sensitive to temperature such that global warming is expected to lead to substantial changes in all aspects of the water cycle."
- "Anthropogenic factors are likely responsible for long-term trends in tropical Atlantic warmth and tropical cyclone activity."
Massie is a freshman member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He has received $87451 in campaign contributions from the energy industry, including $34,451 from the oil and gas industry, of which $12,000 is from Koch Industries.
Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) Counters Climate Science with 'Global Freezing'
Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) rejects the scientific fact of anthropogenic global warming. In a December 2011 interview uncovered by Hill Heat, Posey told conservative activist Victoria Jackson that climate change has nothing to do with human activity:
If we've had at least three ice ages, and some people, some scientists say five, you cannot have five seamless ice ages. You must warm up between, you know, to have them. The earth has had tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions tectonic plate shifts, meteor strikes, asteroid strikes, for millions of years, and it's not going to stop just because we're here now. When you think back twenty years ago, the worry was global freezing. "We're going to freeze again. We're going to have another ice age."
In reality, the carbon-dioxide greenhouse effect is a physical fact known since the 1800s. The only scientifically plausible systematic explanation for the rapid and continuing warming of the planetary climate since 1950 is industrial greenhouse pollution. Paleoclimatologists have identified at least five major ice ages in the past 2.5 billion years of Earth's history. We are currently in an interglacial period within the Quarternary or Pleistoscene ice age, defined by the permanent Antarctic ice sheet which formed 2.58 million years ago. There have been eight cycles of glaciation and retreat in the past 740,000 years. Levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to industrial pollution are at levels not seen in the past 740,000 years, and likely not seen at any point during the current ice age. WIthout global policy to end the combustion of fossil fuels, concentrations are expected to double from current levels within decades.
Posey, elected to Congress in 2008, is a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He has received $33,700 from the energy sector including $19,900 in lifetime political contributions from the oil and gas industry. His district includes the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Eastern Florida State College, and the Florida Institute of Technology.
A Small Sample of Roger Pielke Jr's Ad Hominem Attacks on the Climate Science Community
Roger Pielke Jr, the political scientist recently hired by Nate Silver's new FiveThirtyEight "data journalism" venture, has a long record of harsh criticisms of the climate science community, impugning the motives, ethics, and honesty of climate scientists and communicators. Here is a small sampling of such remarks.
John Holdren's Epic Fail: To accuse an academic of holding views that lie outside the scientific mainstream is the sort of delegitimizing talk that is of course common on blogs in the climate wars. But it is rare for political appointee in any capacity — the president's science advisor no less — to accuse an individual academic of holding views are are not simply wrong, but in fact scientifically illegitimate. . . In a nutshell, Holdren's response is sloppy and reflects extremely poorly on him. [3/1/14]
When the White House publishes an error-strewn 6-pg attack on you, should you feel (a) flattered, (b) intimidated, (c) happy to have tenure? [3/1/14]
Climate activists warn that the inhabitants of poor countries are especially vulnerable to the future climate changes that our greenhouse gas emissions will cause. Why then, do they simultaneously promote the green imperialism that helps lock in the poverty that makes these countries so vulnerable? [Financial Times, 2/26/14]
Of course, there are scientists willing to go beyond what can be supported empirically to make claims at odds with the overwhelming scientific consensus on this subject—e.g., [Michael] Mann, [Jennifer] Francis, [Jeff] Masters are always good for inscrutable and unsupportable quotes. [11/11/13]
The IPCC implied that increasing temperatures were causing increasing disaster losses. And the scientific literature just doesn't support that. [NPR, 9/24/13]
Will be interesting to see if anyone on the side of climate action will care that Obama's plan begins w/ false claims about disaster trends [6/25/13]
Misleading public claims. An over-hyped press release. A paper which neglects to include materially relevant and contradictory information central to its core argument. All in all, just a normal day in climate science! [4/10/13]
Fixing the Marcott Mess in Climate Science: [H]ere I document the gross misrepresentation of the findings of a recent scientific paper via press release which appears to skirt awfully close to crossing the line into research misconduct, as defined by the NRC. The paper I refer to is by Marcott et al. 2013, published recently in Science. . . . Does the public misrepresentation amount to scientific misconduct? I'm not sure, but it is far too close to that line for comfort. Saying so typically leads to a torrent of angry ad hominem and defensive attacks, and evokes little in the way of actual concern for the integrity of this highly politicized area of science. . . . There are a few bad eggs, with the Real Climate mafia being among them, who are exploiting climate science for personal and political gain. Makes the whole effort look bad. [3/31/13]
Unfortunately, as is so often a case when leaders in the climate science community find themselves before an audience of policy makers, on extreme events they go rogue, saying all sorts of things with little or no scientific basis. . . . [AMS President J. Marshall] Shepherd seems a great guy, and he has a fantastic demeanor on Twitter. But I'm sorry, this is horsemeat. . . . As President of the AMS Shepherd does not have the luxury of using that platform to share his personal opinions on climate science that may diverge from that of the community which he represents, much less stretch or misrepresent broader findings. . . . In formal settings such as the briefing yesterday where experts meet politicians, I fully expect Democrats and Republicans to cherrypick experts convenient to the arguments they wish to see made. That is politics as usual. Leading scientific institutions play that same game with some considerable risk to their credibility. [2/15/13]
Extreme Misrepresentation: USGCRP and the Case of Floods: Questions should (but probably won't) be asked about how a major scientific assessment has apparently became captured as a tool of advocacy via misrepresentation of the scientific literature—a phenomena that occurs repeatedly in the area of extreme events. . . . Given the strength of the science on this subject, the USGCRP must have gone to some effort to mischaracterize it by 180 degrees. . . . [G]iven the problematic and well-documented treatment of extremes in earlier IPCC and US government reports, I'd think that the science community would have its act together by now and stop playing such games. So while many advocates in science and the media shout "Alarm" and celebrate its depiction of extremes, another question we should be asking is, how is it that it got things so wrong? [1/15/13]
How does a draft of the most authoritative US climate assessment get floods 100% wrong, contrary to IPCC and sci lt? [1/15/13]
Roger Pielke Jr's First Post for Nate Silver's Venture Relies on False Claim about Climate Science
In fact, today's climate models suggest that future changes in extremes that cause the most damage won't be detectable in the statistics of weather (or damage) for many decades.
This claim is false, even under Pielke's terms. Pielke defines "extremes that cause the most damage" as "floods, droughts, hurricanes and tornadoes," excluding "heat waves and intense precipitation," because "these phenomena are not significant drivers of disaster costs." (That exclusion is made without a supporting reference.)In fact, climate models, checked against observations, have already detected changes in the most damaging extremes in the statistics of weather, even under Pielke's carefully chosen terms:
- Anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution to flood risk in England and Wales in autumn 2000, Pall et al, Nature 2011
- Atlantic hurricanes and natural variability in 2005, Trenberth and Shea, Geophysical Research Letters 2006
- Global warming increases flood risk in mountainous areas, Allamano, Claps, and Laio, Geophysical Research Letters, 2009
- Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models, Dai, Nature Climate Change 2012
Given a sensible policy toward risk, that uncertainty should increase our concern about the continued pollution of our weather system, not decrease it.
Nate Silver Hires Climate 'Trickster' Roger Pielke Jr
Nate Silver's new ESPN venture has hired political scientist and blogger Roger Pielke Jr. as one of its first contributing writers, Silver announced Friday. Pielke Jr., a fellow at the University of Colorado's CIRES program, is known primarily for defending climate deniers like Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and attacking climate scientists and environmental advocates in the public sphere. Pielke Jr. is the son of climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr., one of the handful of contributing climatologists who question the scientific consensus of the threat of anthropogenic warming. Silver's embrace of Pielke Jr. is surprising, as Pielke's record of misusing statistics and misinterpreting scientific information goes against Silver's record of data-based analysis and reporting.In 2009, prominent climate scientist Stephen Schneider harshly criticized Pielke Jr. for engaging in "sleazy" semantic games to mislead the public.
I can't figure him out, except that one consistent pattern emerges-he is a self-aggrandizer who sets up straw men, knocks them down, and takes credit for being the honest broker to explain the mess-and in fact usually adds little new social science to his analysis.


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The latest TV series to use Atlanta as its home is AMC's "Walking Dead," developed by Frank Darabont ("Shawshank Redemption").
It begins shooting next month. AMC is being fairly conservative, ordering just six episodes for airing in the fall. The network has two hits in its original lineup now: "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men."
"Walking Dead" is based on the comic book series created by Robert Kirkman. Survivors of a zombie apocalypse, led by police officer, Rick Grimes, travel the country in search of a safe home.
The cast includes "The Shield" actress Laurie Holden, who plays Andrea, one of two sisters who join the survivors of the zombie plague, and Steven Yeun as Glenn, an expert scavenger. Others include relative unknown Andrew Lincoln (as Rick Grimes), "Prison Break" star Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes), "The Class" and "Eastwick" star Jon Bernthal (Rick's police partner, Shane), and Jeffrey DeMunn (undisclosed role).
Currently, metro Atlanta is home to several other scripted shows, including "Drop Dead Diva" (Lifetime), "The Vampire Diaries" (the CW), "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS) and "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns" (TBS). TBS also recently shot a pilot called "Franklin and Bash" starring Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
May 7th, 2010
10:49 pm
May 7th, 2010
11:55 pm
Stay off MARTA! Ya damned Zombies!
May 8th, 2010
12:15 am
Wow… I have a feeling that they're never going to do the comic justice. It sounded like a really awesome idea to begin with, but since it will be shown on cable television, there will be so much dilution, compression, and deletion that it won't be worth it :\
May 8th, 2010
12:45 am
Well gee Megara, aren't you just a ray of sunshine? How do you live with so much optimism in your life? Failure is NOT the worst that can happen in your life, never doing ANYTHING is. Stop being such a downer pill; many of us are very happy that more work is coming to Atlanta, whether or not it is up to your high artistic standards. Get a life.
May 8th, 2010
2:32 am
So…. my guess is they're just going to use the 10,000 vagrants that slowly walk back and forth in the Five Points area as the extras for this show? We already have the zombies!
May 8th, 2010
6:22 am
I can't wait for this.
Megara, I can understand your hesitation, but because this program WILL be on a cable network, and a quality one at that, means that there is at least a chance that it will be successful.
" Mad Men ", and " Breaking Bad " are two examples of quality cable shows, but my favorite one, ( that was also on cable ), in terms of subject matter, gritty realism, and characters will always be " The Shield ".
I think I'm going to prepare myself by reading some " Walking Dead " comics right now.
May 8th, 2010
7:02 am
Damn! I thought it was going to be a series about the 9th Marines. NVA called the 1st Battalion the Walking Dead just before the Marines butchered them. Oh well, the NVA gave them a cool nickname, anyway. Mess with the best, die like the rest.
May 8th, 2010
9:01 am
Hopefully this zombie series will be as good as the BBC series "Dead Set". That one was fun to watch if you love zombie movies.
As for it being bad because it's on a cable network, I'd much rather see it on a cable network than one of the big four networks. The big four manage to completely screw up most of their shows by making them as bland and generic as possible. Shows like "Sons of Anarchy" or "Mad Men" would never have been as good on a big network if they aired at all.
May 8th, 2010
9:03 am
Any chance they'll have an open set or have an open call for extras?
May 8th, 2010
9:28 am
SpecialK, just what I was thinking!
May 8th, 2010
9:38 am
I gotta get in on this. Please give us an update on open calls.
May 8th, 2010
12:34 pm
"Closed Set" heh, just walk on up if you see them filming and act like you should be there…..
If you want to get casted as an extra, look on facebook for casting groups in Atlanta. Or try calling the Georgia Film Commission.
May 8th, 2010
4:50 pm
BRAIIIIIINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I'm ready for my close up!
May 8th, 2010
4:51 pm
You folks should check out the source material. I had not picked up a comic in almost 20 years, before a friend suggested I read a few of his "The Walking Dead" paperbacks. Greatly looking forward to the series. Hopefully AMC handles it as well as it has handled "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad." A high standard to live up to, that is for sure. Robert Kirkman's creation, in my opinion, deserves nothing less.
May 8th, 2010
10:39 pm
I'll try that. Thanks heh.
May 8th, 2010
11:44 pm
[...] Continue Reading Atlanta's ultimate TV series: AMC's 'Walking Dead' – Atlanta Journal … [...]
May 9th, 2010
3:08 am
I agree as well even if you don't like comics you need to read this series it's really good.
Also the guy ripping on basic cable, AMC has some really good shows. Mad men and Breaking Bad are both really good and I bet that AMC is going to have a 3rd hit on it's hands with this series. Breaking Bad got a 7 episode first season and then came back with a full on 13 episodes it's second season.
Awesome news for Atlanta!
May 9th, 2010
11:11 am
Atlanta has enough zombies already, most of them driving on our roads.
I'll take a good book over TV trash like this.
May 9th, 2010
3:41 pm
I call them zombies too. They hang out everywhere, looking for a handout.
May 10th, 2010
10:55 am
Do you have any information about how to become an extra in any of the shows being filmed here?
May 10th, 2010
2:54 pm
Frank Darabont had nothing to do with Speed, Rodney…that was Jan de Bont. Good god, it's called the Internet. Use it for something other than copying and pasting press releases..
May 10th, 2010
7:28 pm
[...] AMC TV adaptation of The Walking Dead will shoot in Atlanta, which is fitting, since that is where it is set. (Access Atlanta: Radio & TV [...]
May 14th, 2010
9:44 am
that link about extras doesnt work, and ive been looking for extras information for so long, anyone know anything? its supposed to start shooting tomorrow!
May 16th, 2010
12:53 pm
The Southern Casting Call has audtions being held all over the USA. There is one specifically for Georgia, amongst others. I did not see an open call for "The Walking Dead" but for future reference, bookmark the site. My granddaughter was cast as the young girl zombie in the first few scenes. I cannot wait to see the show!
May 16th, 2010
12:55 pm
May 19th, 2010
4:03 pm
[...] Redemption director Frank Darabont is developing "The Walking Dead," which shoots its first six episodes in Atlanta, beginning in [...]
May 20th, 2010
12:49 pm
extras casting atlanta is now looking for extras for this….
May 27th, 2010
7:50 pm
@Half Full – Nice troll.


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The Wrathgate cinematic conlcusion to the questline in Dragon Blight. The questline was so long and tedious and I thought it would never end. But the fight with Thrall and Sylvanus made just scream with NERD enthusiasm. I told my guild that all my healers and tanks were fired...I wanted Thrall and Sylvanus! And that was after the most awesomesauce cinematic scene that WoW had treated me too. I found my self going back to the Wrathgate to watch the dang thing over and over....was definitely my biggest WOW WoW moment!


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In Spite of Years of Silence0 Reviews
A poem Kim wrote that helps you understand her more.
When you worked late and
Couldn't see me.
I forgive you for the times
You didn't come home at all.
I forgive you for not loving my brother,
As he wasn't your child,
But not for rejecting me.
I forgive you for telling me miserable things
About my beloved mother.
But I cannot forgive the times you hit her,
Your wife.
I find it difficult to forgive
How you brainwashed me for years.
Maybe you shouldn't be forgiven for that.
But most of all, my father,
I cannot forgive how you
Tried to drown your daughter,
Your baby.
I can't forgive how you attempted to freeze me to death
After you failed the first time around.
I can't forgive that you beat the shit out of me for not forgiving my step mother
For throwing a vase at me.
I can't forgive you for buying me off every time you hurt me.
I can't forgive you for kidnapping me more than three different times
And telling me we were playing hide-and-seek with the cops.
I can't forgive you
For trying to destroy me.


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15 Modern Holiday Decorations | Apartment Therapy
Well I finally got the tree up, and have been slowly decorating the rest of the house! After seeing all of these amazing modern holiday decorations I feel like I need to keep going, especially to make the cute wreath pictured. Even better, all the Christmas decorations are on sale at the moment so I can make it on the cheap!


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David Giuntoli
On Saturday, Grimm stars David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Reggie Lee, Sasha Roiz, Bree Turner and Claire Coffee joined executive producers Jim Kouf, David Greenwalt and Norberto Barba at Comic-Con to greet all of their Grimmsters. As fans may recall, our Grimm (Giuntoli) was stripped of his powers on Monroe (Mitchell) and Rosalee's (Turner) wedding day, thanks to that annoying Hexenbiest Adalind (Coffee)...
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Derek Mears
'Tis the season for giving, and Grimm is giving double this year. NBC's fantasy crime procedural will air two back-to-back episodes Friday at 9/8c, featuring Wesen that will put an extra chill in your winter.
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Claire Coffee
What's a poor, powerless Hexenbiest to do? When Grimm returns for its third season Friday (9/8c, NBC), Nick's Scooby gang will still be battling zombies, but Adalind Schade (Claire Coffee) has more important matters to take care of: getting her Hexenbiest mojo back!
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David Giuntoli
Are you going through Wesen withdrawal? Grimm won't return for its third season until late October, but here's a little refresher that will take the edge off and keep you from woge-ing. With this "rapid recall" recap of Season 2, you'll get all of last year's action...
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p>Grimm isn't taking it easy in Season 3.
During the Comic-Con panel Saturday for the NBC fantasy crime procedural, producers revealed more monsters around the bend and bad news for one of our beloved characters. And that's on top of the sticky situation Nick (David Giuntoli) & Co. were facing in last season's cliff-hanger finale.
Danny Pudi
Comic-Con is almost here! On Tuesday, NBC released its full 2013 lineup for the geektastic international convention held each summer in San Diego.In addition to panels and screenings of fan favorites such as Community and Hannibal, NBC will also showcase some of its anticipated new series, including The Blacklist and Late Night with Seth Meyers.Series stars and creative teams scheduled to attend are subject to change, but check out the anticipated schedule below.
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Sasha Roiz and Claire Coffee
Did you enjoy Grimm's Wesen-butt-kicking return? [Warning: The following contains spoilers from Grimm's "Face Off" episode. Proceed at your own risk.]
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Silas Weir Mitchell and David Giuntoli
When NBC's Grimm returns for its spring premiere Friday at 9/8c, Nick (David Giuntoli) has just discovered that his girlfriend Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) has been seeing his boss Capt. Renard (Sasha Roiz) on the sly. And even though Nick is a Grimm, Renard is half Hexenbiest, which makes for quite a matchup in this world. While Grimms are known for trouncing Wesen, fans of the show know that Renard is known for his rage — shirtless rage that is. TV Scorecard: What's canceled? What's renewed? Check out this exclusive video of the cast discussing the origins of shirtless rage, hashtags and the evolution of Nick's unique Grimm skill. Continue reading for more scoop on Grimm's return:
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Grimm fans can look forward to lots of action when the NBC fantasy procedural returns in March.
In particular, Portland's resident Grimm, Det. Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli), will finally confront Sean Renard (Sasha Roiz), the police captain who has reluctantly become the object of Nick's girlfriend Juliette's affection, thanks to a magical side effect of a potion.
Revolution and more NBC scoop from the TCA Winter TV previews
"It's going to be a powder keg," Roiz told critics at Grimm's winter TV previews on Sunday. Giuntoli added that in the "big, angry kerfuffle... he has a height advantage on me, but I have a rage advantage on him."
Grimm fans don't have to wait until Thanksgiving to feel thankful.
Viewers can "Thank Grimm It's Friday" with the series' fall finale (9/8c, NBC), in which Det. Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) is a man possessed when he finds out that his cop partner Hank (Russell Hornsby) has been pummeled to a pulp. Apparently, that impotent Hexenbiest Adalind (Claire Coffee) has hit Portland and has set her sights on those Nick holds near and dear. Speaking of, his girlfriend Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) — whose selective amnesia has set back their relationship — is adding to his stress levels with her obsessive attraction to Capt. Renard (Sasha Roiz).
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