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Ultralight planes: a possible future for medium to long distance mass trasportation?
Cheap, easy to pilot, easier to mantain.
ULM aircrafts are modern, two seated, car gas propelled planes, usually flown for leisure and turism. An entry level two seated plane can cost as much as a good scooter, costs a fraction of a general aviation plane to buy and mantain, can fly @200kmh at cruise speed, have an average of 500km range and can take off land anywhere from 500 mt grass strips (some can land on river shores and open sea, too). In Italy there are almost 150 privately held airstrips are available mostly free for landing fees, together with all the minor and medium airports open for general aviation planes.
So, why dont think of it as a means of personal and family transportation for medium to long distances? If we consider an average 4 hr car trip, depending of how far your nearest airstrip could be, and another one at your destination point, and commuting from these two places, it could be faster and cheaper to get there by your own plane.
What are the main problems against this idea, today? Weather, because they need good weather to fly; State endorsement: because, as it is, air transport belongs solely to air companies and thus airports and other facilities, even if airspace within a national domain are State properties properties, and also because car industry lead many countries economies like US, Germany, France, Japan and Italy. Security: in aviation, security is a scarecrow that keeps people away, make them spend much more, makes a tragedy of each and every event. The impossible of making a human activity riskless is killing personal aviation, leaving only the big players. If aviation security were applied to cars, they would cost tenfold and a fraction would ever hit the roads.
If proper investment were available, i think a cheap 4-seated all-weather ultralight plane, with a S-trasponder, and enough technology onboard to dumb piloting processes down to those required to drive a car could be within reach in a very short time
Mark Kurtz
Aug 2 2013: Sorry, as a retired professional pilot, I cannot support your idea.
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Consider human nature, the most dangerous aspect of "free flight", the basic concept you propose here. I do not trust most humans to do what would be needed for a safe environment under this idea. Professional pilots have the training for navigation (with and without electronics), weather conditions including dangerous weather, which also includes icing conditions, proper loading, take off and landing obstruction avoidance, and more. There are legal obligations to take care of folks on the ground too.
Can you imagine the liability issues for accidents and damages from personal flight? Yes, private pilots own personal aircraft and are now operating under rules. Imagine the additional rules needed with increased ultralight craft. Being more maneuverable than heavier craft, ultralights could be used for privacy invasion. Not a pretty imagination.
Enlarged to a broad scale, I cannot see ultralights practically used more than present.
Ed is right.
Aug 3 2013: You are using safety as a scarecrow. Light planes are utterly different than liners. Light planes are easier to fly than a car is to drive. Arent you scared of all the people driving with only that 4 month course they took? No wet,snow, windy weather training? No heavy cargo training? Dont people die because of it? Any idiot can drive a car, and many drivers do reckless things and take other people lives. But the overall interest is to keep access to car licenses low in order to promote mobility. How do you learn how to drive in a highway? By driving in a highway, and taking your risks, building up your experience and confidence.
I dont see why it has to be any different for personal planes. YOU (as a liner pilot) should have all sort of proficiencies because yours is the responsability of carrying around 50+ paying passengers. Me, i go wherever i want to, its my life. Can i operate the plane safely? Can i T/O and land safely? Am i aware about weather hazards and how to cope with it as things are now? Can things be dramatically improved by applying existing technology to nowadayasplanes? Yes, to all.
Will people crash should personal flight become more and more common? Oh yes. People will die, or better people will kill themselves. You have to accept that. There is no such thing as a riskless human activity, and floating several hundred meters from ground certainly doesnt qualify to be on the lower tiers of the risk list. Motorbikes are also a very risky thing to do, would you ban it?
But the higher insterest is to take people off the streets and move them up in the air. Making overall transportation faster will repay society of anything. In due time people will become better everyday pilots, just like your average joe.
Dont make the mistake to apply commercial flight security parameters to light flight. The only thing that will teach you how to fly is flying. A piece of paper, be it a checklist or an additional proficiency wont do nothing when facing trouble.Aug 4 2013: Besides, your point of view is biased, and im telling this to you with the utmost respect of your experience and the time you took to reply to me.
Your position is the same as if you were a train conductor and were asked "which would the best way to organize mass transportation for medium to long range?". Trains, of course. A single professional transportation technician that brings hundreds of people at a time on a single railway, well spaced among other trains, with station personel monitoring that ll goes well. Them cars? Bah! All those swarming little bugs, all those average joes going everywhere, thinking only about their own business. "Consider human nature, the most dangerous aspect of "free drive", the basic concept you propose here. I do not trust most humans to do what would be needed for a safe environment under this idea."
Luckily things have gone differently.
Your position is a general mistrust of personal means of transportation, be it cars, light planes or motorboats.Aug 27 2013: Having "enjoyed" the spectacle of Naples surface traffic with my jaw open in amazement, I would estimate that with 100,000 napolitani in UL aircraft over the city, 50,000 of them would lie scattered dead across the city within an hour.
Aug 28 2013: i thank you for keeping in mind that the proposal is about mid to long range trips, but i would like to remind you that 50,000 people flying over any city would at present be impractical anywhere, not just Naples. You cant use a plane for within city commuting.
Aug 28 2013: Point well taken, Raffaele, though in principle they could be used from rooftop to rooftop. I guess it was your reference to a 4 hour car trip that made me think of a Naples commute ...
But in any case, as a former professional pilot myself, I can't imagine safely accommodating the extra tens of thousands of UL aircraft that would fill the lower airspace. I'm afraid the density would be overpowering and would lead to a great number of accidents, most of them fatal.
Aug 28 2013: if there will be that many planes it means there will be even fewer in the upper space, leaving room. changes will not happen overnight and vertical and horizontal spacing, as well as pressurized small planes can kick in if the market explodes.
As the situation is now there are all the premises to cope with future success problems. Realistically speaking, if there's to make money everything becomes possible.
The only thing we must accept -as flying enthusiasts ourselves- is the fact that accidents will happen, that "zero accidents" is not the proof that all is well but that no one is flying at all, and that for the sake for the greater good of improved mobility we have to swalow the fact that people will make mistake and that people will die, as they die in cars and bikes and no one can do realistically nothing about it in the way of stopping people from driving or making it harder, because the economy and society demands it.
As i wrote to another former commercial pilot, below from here, of course a single skilled transportation technician bringing 300 people from point A to point B from time X to time Y will be safer than 300 people going on their own, but the same can be said by a train conductor blaming car drivers for their recklessness. But people may not need to go from point A, or to point B, or their schedules could be different than Y or X. Thats why they dont choose public transportation and use their own personal means of transportation.
Regional commercial air transport has capped. No more profits can be earned if not asking for subventions to local authorities, or going cheaper on personel wages, security, turnovers and so on. This monopoly cannot go on much longer. IMHO now is the time that short and medium range air travels (i.e. medium and long car travels) will be done by personal planes. If the market asks, the industry will answer.
Besides, here are only so many cars you can sell a family.Aug 4 2013: And why not liberalize (even more) the commercial use of balloons? Recently a balloon with tourists fell down and crashed. Yesterday, here in Spainan ULM also crashed, with victims. Ed, I totally agree. If ULM were for general use, even observing severe laws and instructions, most of us could not feel safe anyway. Your arguments are well balanced and full of good sense.
Rafaelle, your question is very interesant and offers nice outlooks, but in my opinion, if you'll ask to the people about it, 8 of 10 people would't support the idea, I'm afraid.
Aug 4 2013: you are blinded by the news. the news, the news. Do every car accident make it to the news anymore? Who cares about the x-th car accident? People are afraid to fly. This is true. So every paper plane falling is big news. Every non event happened in an airport is worth mentioning "a tragedy was about to happen", while you need at least 5 people dead and at least a child to mention a car incident.
Look at statistics. Confront this idea with hard fact. Leave the news to those that make a living out of building hype.
Think about this situation 200 years ago. Think about horses and the first cars. Think about infrastructure dedicated to horse riding and horse propelled carriages. Think about the first cars. arent your concerns exactly the same of those horse riding? Who would youagree with? Who would you side with?
Aug 5 2013: Dear Raffaele:
Not at all. I do also worry about car accidents. Very much. By the way, .. speaking about car accidents, I'd not like to see some of the ones I see driving a car in a certain condiction, at the controls of an airplane. . . flying over our heads. And you?
Please, don't think news are so important. I worked some years as a sort of traffic security surveyor.
Sean.Aug 2 2013: Look at the LA freeway at 7:20 AM on a workday. Imagine every four cars being replaced by a ULM with no brakes or hovering ability zooming along 150 feet in the air. That is a horrifying image! Back to the drawing board, please.
Aug 2 2013: ahaha, ok, now do the effort to think it tridimensionally. no lanes, there's lots of up, not so much down, and waaay lefts and rights to fit everybody.
Aug 2 2013: Thanks anyway, but I prefer to economize on effort by doing a preliminary assessment looking specifically for assured failure of an idea. In this case I see chaotic traffic conditions as assured failure. Your solution for collision avoidance is "tridimensional laneless" corridors? Have you considered the air traffic control system? Have you considered take-off and landing requirements? Have you considered parking requirements both at home and at work? Have you considered the results of minor contact between two, or more, ULM's?....(they all accelerate vertically toward the ground at 32-fps squared). Please, for the sake of humanity, get back to the drawing board.
Aug 2 2013: my solution for collision avoidance in a heavily packed traffic corridor is the same that works today: transponder mode S with a TCAS, plus see and avoid. I remind you that we are talking about medium to long distance travel. Nothing a liner does an ULM cannot do swifter.
I do know that contacts between two airplanes always end with dramatic effect, but also contact between motorbikes and anything bigger than a standing stone does. So what? Don't hit anything, don't do anything stupid.
And keep in mind i am talking about today's ULM. Light airplanes havent got much farther than post WWII planes, they go faster, engines are lighter, control are easier, but the technology is pretty still the same. Commuting ULMs, or just ULm as a means of mass transportation may carry any utility and gadget to ease the travel, including better systems to help avoiding collisions or limiting its effects.
Think as today's ULM as cars from the 1900: donkeys and horses still had an easier way around, so many bad streets, and what about reliability of those damned machines going at those maddening speeds, 50 kmh, are they crazy? what if they lost control? What if they run over someone? Today ULMs are better pioneers that those coaches-with-an-engine. And besides, the sky is big to hold everybody.Aug 5 2013: If your solution to congestion is everybody spread out left right up and down then you are creating a chaotic environment. To really imagine what would happen you should simulate this.
You will have to have some buffer space between vertical lanes and left and right traffic. If people can just go directly to their destination then that becomes more difficult.
If I want a high lane, I have many lower lanes to cross with potential executions at every crossing. If I am going on a course of 320 degrees magnetic I may be crossing dozens of other lanes of people going in other vectors and directions at the same altitude.
I would think that the level of sophistication that navigational software, radar and gps tracking transponders would require before I will fly with the monkeys currently driving on our roads would have to be on the level of independent flight. That is, if the software can fly there itself, I might consider going along. Otherwise I would rather walk.
Aug 5 2013: the solution that exists now is dividing odd and even flight levels for southbound and northbound traffic (or east bound and west bound, depending on the countries). Whether travelling or not on an airway, spacing on airways provided by air traffic control can keep people 1 mile apart vertically and half a mile apart horizontally.
Moreover, there is a tool called TCAS, which is installed onboard: its a sort of passive proximity radar that reads other transponders around the plane and warns if other planes are coming too close.
Transponder mode S allows a much better visualization for traffic controllers, allowing to receive up to 25 foot increments and 24bit of datastream. If you go to sites like flightradar24.com you will see all planes using mode S transponders around the world.
This is the state of the art TODAY. This is what we can do TODAY. It pretty dull to take a technology as it is now (and it works, nonetheless) and apply it as it is to the worst case scenario. It took 2 hundred years of investments for the car industry to invent ABS, ESP, airbags or winter tires, as well as traffic lights, traffic laws and driving school syllaba.
When the need arise, the industry will kick in with better planes and better technology, because revenues and competition will urge everybody to take better care of pilots.
Just ask yourself: in my next mid to long range car travel, what if i took a small plane? Would it be better or worse? What if -not hundred thousand people, just a hundred, as in the most responbile guess one can make if today my idea were magically known to everybody and turned out to be a huge success- what if a hundred planes were flying in your same general direction, not specifically on the same spot you meant to go, would that affect you?Aug 2 2013: The pilots I've known feel that samll planes are dangerous. Wait i know several people who have beenkilled that way.
Aug 2 2013: I know so many people killed in cars, and many werent even their own fault!
Seriously speaking, a small plane is not dangerous because it's small. Light plane incidents almost never happen because of a plane failure, but for human error. Learning to fly a small plane is not as easy as driving a car, it's far easier. Two identical pedals instead of three, a stick, way fewer buttons to click and manage than a car, and most of all far far far less traffic around you than when you drive on a street. And it's fun, it's exhilarating, and adrenaline kills (or adrenaline without skill and proper self evaluation does).
Also, habit kills, the excess of confidence, the repetition of thoughtless actions . But it's not about the size. For one, several national aviation organization, like the FAA, require that commercial pilots (the one piloting your boeing or airbus) go back to basic stick and rudder skills without relying too much on automation and checklists.
But what kills the most is flying too few, the lack of experience. If anyone flew as much as he's driving his survival chances would be equal to those of a habitual driver.
In short, what kills you on a plane could kill you on a car, bar other people carelessness. If something happens, its almost always your fault, something you may have prevented or avoided.
Aug 3 2013: Are these radically different than small cesnas?
Aug 3 2013: not radically. they are cheaper, lighter, easier to mantain, two seated instead of four, but thats the idea.
of course their price is connected to their semplicity: the more technology we add, the higher the final costs will build up.
but thats the idea.Aug 4 2013: Okay raffaele you are saying that they are safer than the old Cesnas
Aug 4 2013: Yep, by being cheaper to buy and mantain they allow you to build up more flying hours thus more experience and confidence. Safety is mainly about these two components.Aug 5 2013: Good raffaele but still be careful. i have had several friends get killed flying. One was a retired Marine Jet Pilot who died flying a sail plane another was an accountant whose friend was flyhing an experimental airplane.
Aug 28 2013: i had two dear childhood friends involved in car accidents, one died the other one killed a man (a father of two) coming from the other direction.
experimental flights are risky for definition, sail planes (you mean gliders? or ) are a means of transportation that dont have the mission of "bring you there" built inside... they are flown for the pleasure of being flown without an egnine and using your skill to harness the winds around you to keep flying farther and closer to where you need to go back to.Aug 29 2013: True but now you've made me afraid of cars, too.
Yes, a sail plane is a glider.


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11 Jan 2009
|Waterbury Area Restaurants Reviewed in NY Times
Big Time NY Times Wanders Into the Backwoods To See What the Woodchucks Are Eating These Days
Mark Bittman, a writer for the Dining section of the NY Times Dining, must spend a good amount of time around the Waterbury VT area - he certainly knows the restaurants here, a couple of them off the beaten path for most visitors and even some locals.
As his December 28, 2008 review shows, he is very impressed with Hen of the Wood restaurant, a quality restaurant that was opened by a pair of chefs here in Waterbury about four years ago if memory serves.
One of the chef's mother stayed with us while the two young men were working to get their new place prepared for opening so we got an early insight into what kind of place they were aiming to establish in a highly competitive market.
As you can see by the newspaper's headline reference to "Backwoods" Vermont, many people come here expecting to be nearly on the edge of civilization, lucky to have a decent diner and maybe a couple of good potluck church dinners.
The fact of the matter is that there about 100 two and three star quality restaurants within a half hour's drive of where I am sitting now. Stowe alone has more than 50 quality restaurants and ranks third in New England for the number of two and three star restaurants (behind Boston and Providence). I've lived here nearly nine years and I'm still working my way through all the restaurants here.
Four quick items about Hen of the Wood that come up most often when I'm speaking to guests about it:
Yes, this is the restaurant with the chef (Eric Warnstedt) mentioned in Food and Wine Magazine as one of the Top 10 New Chefs in the US for 2008.
No, I don't know what they mean by "new." He ain't new - he has been a chef for years.
Hen of the Wood is a type of edible mushroom.
Yes, reservations are almost always needed. The restaurant is small and highly popular.
The other restaurant Mr. Bittman looks at is the Kitchen Table in nearby Richmond VT. It is very close to Exit 11 off I-89 a few minutes south of Burlington.
Like all of the best restaurants in Vermont, the Kitchen Table puts a great emphasis for getting as much of the ingredients locally as they possibly can. This is far more time consuming and expensive than buying from a restaurant supply house but it pays off for the customers in a superior dining experience.
Somehow, Mr. Bittman found the Green Cup quietly located on a small side street in little ole Waitsfield VT. What I thought was a local secret showed up on the radar of a New York restaurant reviewer. I guess that's why they get their jobs - they know how to find the best food no matter where it is. One note on this place - don't expect a fancy schmanchy atmosphere. The food is the only star here.
The Red Hen Bakery was located about a 1/4 mile down the road from our inn until they moved a little over a year ago to a larger facility where they now have a nice cafe. Their bread is served in all or nearly all the best restaurants around these parts. You can get it in some of the local grocery stores and delis too.
I suggest you read over this article - it's very well done and makes for interesting reading and insights into the local culinary scene but it just scratches the surface of what's available here.
(c) 2009 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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10 Jan 2009
|A Brew Pub That Serves Tea - How Vermont!
I was poking around some of my links a while back and discovered on the Alchemist Brew Pub blog that they are now serving tea.
Specifically, it's Kombucha tea, a sweet tea that originated in China centuries ago and is alleged to have some medicinal qualities.
According to the Alchemist blog, Kombucha is "fermented black tea that is loaded with antioxidants, amino acids and many different pro-biotic cultures." Whether or not that is good for you is up to you to decide.
The Alchemist Brew Pub opened about five years ago and was an immediate hit. We have had guests from all over the country tell us that a friend or relative recommended it to them as a "must see."
It is easy to find in downtown Waterbury VT. That link will take you to a Google map page that has another link to 20 reviews of the Alchemist.
They have very good food there by the way. They actually have a chef who prepares a short but wonderful menu. The portions are small but so are the prices - about $10 for an entree.
Be prepared for a wait if you arrive there after 6:00 pm most of the time even during off season for tourists. During holiday and fall foliage time, it is virtually impossible to get in unless you get there at the 4:30 pm opening time.
Our inn is only about four miles away so anytime it is too crowded, I can wait a few days or a week to get in without much of a wait. But if you do have to wait, it is well worth it.
(c) 2009 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus
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8 Jan 2009
|Two Days of Continuous Snow Adds Up
Photo from the Mount Snow Dew Tour
Man, that was a LOT of snow. It has snowed (with a little sleet mixed in at the middle) for two days almost non stop. Weather forecasters call for a little more this weekend, mostly in the form of flurries so the white stuff is going to stay fresh for a while.
If you have been thinking of heading to Vermont for any kind of snow activity, I can say with complete confidence that now is the time.
Mount Snow Resort in southern VT got 10 inches of snow and Jay Peak in far northern VT got 20 inches.
Speaking of Mount Snow, the Winter Dew Tour, sponsored by Mountain Dew soft drink, is there this weekend. The resort is near West Dover VT, about mid-way between Brattleboro and Bennington.
There are some great freeski slopestyle videos here (in the right hand column) so you can get an idea of what you will see this weekend plus snowboards on the pipe. Spectator admission is free all weekend.
Olympic gold medalist and Vermont native Hannah Teter will be there along with other stars.
It will be cold this weekend - bring your warmest stuff.
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6 Jan 2009
|Attention Skiers and Riders: 6 to 12 Inches On The Way
Weather radar 8:30 pm Tuesday, Jan 6.
In technical meteorological terms, the radar picture above shows a "big honkin' storm" that is bearing down on Vermont ski areas. It starts tonight and goes through Thursday.
When it is all said and done, we will get six to twelve inches of snow according to local meteorologist Roger Hill of Weathering Heights Forecasting. He is consistently the most accurate of weather forecasters in this area.
Roger is also calling for some sleet during the storm: "potentially moderate to significant snowfall northern 2/5ths of state, and 'sleety snow middle part of state...to glazing, icy travel southeastern 1/4 of state' all going back to lighter periods of snow before exiting Thursday."
Check your favorite ski resort's web site for trail reports this Thursday and be ready to jump in the car to head for Vermont. It looks like Saturday should be a very good ski and ride day on fresh snow. Temps will be in the teens this weekend so pack your warmest gear.
(c) 2009 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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6 Jan 2009
|Beautiful Fall Foliage Video
I know that now might not be the right time of year for this, but I just ran across a great fall foliage video that is enjoyable to look at no matter when you see it.
It is an unusually well done amateur video with good editing and music. Videographer Roger Shealy shot this footage last October during a visit to Burlington and Lake Champlain.
This video will inspire you to visit VT to see the foliage colors even if you have been here to see it previously. They always look great but last year was a spectacular year for color - many more red leaves than I ever remember seeing before and the orange and yellow leaves were extremely bright too. The season started early but remained a long time.
Start saving your $$$ now and plan to travel to VT and see this year's foliage show!
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5 Jan 2009
|Vermont Ski Areas Assoc Online Game
Here's an entertaining time burner. The Vermont Ski Areas Association has a game on their website called "Peg Your Friend."
You upload a picture of a friend which is then pasted into an animated character. When the game starts, the character/friend moves around the scenery while you use your mouse and cursor to follow and throw a snowball. The number of hits is recorded.
This will no doubt be the most meaningless thing you have done so far this year but you might win prizes such as Kombi gloves, Darn Tough socks, Eider apparel, Cabot cheese and other stuff in a random daily drawing.
Have fun!
(c) 2009 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture were announced in Kuala Lumpur recently and among the nine global projects that received the $500,000 award for the 2004 – 2007 cycle are two architectural restoration projects from The Republic of Yemen. The Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam and The Restoration of the Amiriya Complex in Rada both demonstrate the scope of the Aga Khan Award's efforts to encourage and promote building practices that successfully address the needs and aspirations of today's Muslim societies.
"The selection process emphasizes architecture that not only provides for people's physical, social and economic needs, but that also stimulates and responds to their cultural and spiritual expectations. Particular attention is given to building schemes that use local resources and appropriate technology in an innovative way, and to projects likely to inspire similar efforts elsewhere."
All of the award-winners this year exemplify the best of forward thinking design, particularly in their willingness to look to historic building methods and affordable local materials as a means to create solutions for the seemingly insurmountable problems of community neglect and decay.
The Amiriya Complex in Rada
The restoration of the Amiriya Complex in Rada involved the training and employment of 500 craftsmen and artisans who used traditional methods to rescue the historic 16th century complex, which had been in a precarious state for years. The complex, which encompasses a prayer hall, school and sultan's living quarters, is considered to be one of the richest examples of Islamic architecture in the world.
The Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam
Shibam, with its 500-year-old multi-story mud buildings, was becoming a ghost town despite its inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982. As a recent recipient of the Aga Khan Award funding, builders were able to restore the ancient 'skyscraper' houses and modernize the sewage infrastructure in order to keep Shibam a living city with vibrant public squares and plazas.
Alluvial mud (typically collected from flooded agricultural fields in the vicinity of the city) was mixed with local hay and straw for wall and surface reinforcement. All building materials for the project had to be hauled through the narrow streets of the city and up to the top of the houses during reconstruction.
The hands-on effort between architectural teams and local artisans and builders who worked so diligently on the award-winning Yemenese projects allowed for a melding of urban renewal with the conservation process, as both communities were able to reinforce the link between their unique cultural heritage and improved economic conditions.
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October 1, 2007 at 8:52 am
I heard about the city of Shibam on the BBC, and looked it up as well as the Aga Khan awards. Thank you for the wonderful photos. It truly is amazingly beautiful. I am impressed by the work people have done to repair the city, and the photos share the experience with us. It is wonderful that this work is bringing the city back to life.
September 9, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Dear Zuhair:
Thanks so very much for the word usage correction. "Yemenese" appears all over the Internet, although we know that this is not much of a guarantee for accuracy. We really appreciate your input and helpfulness in setting the record straight. Thanks for reading!
Best wishes,
September 8, 2007 at 2:34 pm
"Yemenese" isn't a word! Things or people of or pertaining to Yemen are called Yemeni. Cool article though!


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I will try to keep this brief, but it was and still is a nightmare.
1). We spoke to a sales representative on the phone and were quoted a monthly fee for the channels that we wanted. I asked for his name and extension number just in case there is any problem, which he gladly provided to us.
2). The installation man came to our house and began installing the equipment?
3). Half way through the job he gave us a brochure listing all of the channels in our package.
4). When we looked at it we noticed that certain channels we requested from the beginning were not in the package. In fact the name of the package was not the same name as what the sales representative told us in the beginning.
5). We immediately told the installer to stop installation while we called DirecTV to find out what was going on.
6). The sales representative told us we were getting the Choice Pkg for the price we were quoted and that it did not include those particular channels that we wanted when we originally spoke to the first sales representative
7). We had the name and date and extension number of the representative who we first spoke to when we ordered an installation. We asked for him, but we were told that there was no way they could connect us to him, that they have thousands of reps all over the world and it would be impossible to find him. So we explained the situation to this sales representative and asked if DirecTV wold be willing to honor the quoted price for the programming we originally were told we would get. He said no. We explained that the installer was in our home for 2 hours and we would have him uninstall everything unless DirecTV would honor their quote, but again, the sales representative said there was nothing he cold do for us. We asked to speak to a supervisor and he said there were nine available. We told him we would have the installer remove all of the equipment he had just installed if they did not give us the program we wanted at the quoted price, and he said there was nothing he could do.
8). The installer heard the complete conversation and we told him to remove everything he installed that day. He was fine, but a little miffed of the time he wasted in our home but he understood our side and removed everything.
As bad and disappointing as that was, our nightmare had not begun.
9). The following we we get a bill from DirecTV for the equipment and first month fees.
We could not believe it, so we called their 800 number and explained the entire situation to
the customer service representative (At this point I started taking notes of names, dates and conversations because I had a bad feeling that the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing at DirecTV). The representative took the info and said he would put in a request to review the bill. We asked for his name and ext. number and he gave us the info. We knew from the previous representative that this info was useless but I knew I might need it in a dispute letter later.
10). The following month I get yet another bill from DirecTV with the fee for the second month fees plus the first and a late fee!
11). Again, I called Customer Service. I asked for the last representative I spoke to and naturally they could not connect me to him. Again we explained the situation, that the man uninstalled all of the equipment on the day of installation due to DirecTV not being willing to honor the package and price they had originally quoted to us. This representative then says to me, "oh, I wish you had spoken to me first because I would have never let it go this far and how he could have contacted a supervisor who wold have honored the quoted package and price." OMG, I thought to myself. What is going on within this company! No one is communicating with anyone. Sales reps are lying to customers just to make a sale and then lying about their contact information and lying again that no one could help us. I even wrote an email detailing all of this to them and I included my concern about how this may affect our good credit rating.
My husband and I have worked very hard and have been very responsible in paying our bills on time and to think that this bozo company could possibly ruin our good credit rating over their incompetence concerned me greatly.
12). One week later we received a large box in the mail from DirecTV requesting that we return the equipment they installed since we cancelled our subscription with them! What? We never cancelled our subscription, we never even had their equipment fully installed! We had them take it out once they refused to honor their quoted programming and price!
13). Again I call Customer Service. At this point there is no reason to ask for the last person you spoke to nor do they keep any records of your conversations with their reps. So each time I call I get a new person and have to go through the entire story over again. It was very frustrating and time consuming and stressful.
14). We figured we would wait another month for them to get their act together and realize there was no equipment for us to return and no bill to be paid, but alas we were wrong.
15). We received yet another over due bill and this time it included the cost of the equipment we did not return! Equipment we never even received! At this point I decided to call our credit card company to ask them to enter a dispute report with DirecTV over the initial fees that DTV charged to our account for the first month's rent. Always pay with a credit card because one of the great features they have is disputing charges that you do not believe you are responsible for, which they did.
16). Our credit card company took all of the information I had written down, dates, fees, etc and said they would contact DirecTV and get to the bottom of this. In the meantime, DTV kept sending us over due bills.
17). 60 days later, our credit card company contacted us and said that they had not heard back from DirecTV and therefore by law they forfeit the charges. I was to surprised that this disorganized, deceitful company completely ignored the dispute report, and so I thought the nightmare was finally over, but I was wrong.
18). Approx. 5 months have passed since this fiasco with DTV started and yet today I get a letter in the mail from a collection agency on behalf of DirecTV telling me we still owe them money! OMG. It's like something from the Twighlight Zone! For the first time in our lives, our good credit is at risk because of this big corporation's incompetence? They are so big that they no longer have to care about quality service or professional responsibility. The left hand doesn't care to know what the right hand is doing at DirecTV. All they know how to do is bait a customer, sign him up by getting his credit card, lie to him about packages and prices, take no responsibility for what they say, harass you for payment, ignore a legitimate dispute request and then in the end, threaten to destroy your credit!! Do not deal with DirecTV.
STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA -- I do not recommend DirecTV. DirecTV "gave" us an NFL package for a few months without consent. The scam is it comes with an auto renewal. We never used it because we didn't even know we had it. DirecTV then added the NFL package to our plan without our consent and started charging us $33 extra every month. They also charge $6 per month for every TV you have set up. Our bill went up to $197 a month! When I noticed it, I called to cancel the NFL pkg. I didn't ask for a refund for the past charges, I just asked to cancel the $33 pkg from that day forward. They said I couldn't cancel because I was bound by contract. They said I should have called within days of the first charge. How could I be bound by contract when I never authorized the extra package in the first place? I wish I could switch to Dish Network but I can't without paying a hefty cancellation fine. I did an online search and DirecTV has a ton of negative reviews and complaints about unauthorized charges. Now I have to check my DirecTV bill line by line for unauthorized charges every single month in case they try and do this again.
A DirecTV call center employee anonymously posted on a blog that every customer needs to read ALL of the fine print on their DirecTV contract. The employee stated it is the customer's fault since it is perfectly legal to add packages to a customer's bill. I had Dish Network for over 10 years and they never added anything without our consent. I will switch back to Dish as soon as our DirecTV contract ends in 6 months.
WANTAGE, NEW JERSEY -- I have to start off by saying this: To anyone who is thinking about signing up for DirecTV, think long and hard before you do and do your research. Since our installation on 11/17/12 we have had nothing but problems and instead of DirecTV making them better they have made them worse as each day goes by.
Here is my story:
DirecTV was installed with the new promotion of the Genie + 4 additional clients at no charge, minus a couple of trees we had to cut down. Sounds good, free installation right? Two days later the installer had to come back to hook our Internet up to the Genie and to address the white screen we were sporadically getting on the bedroom TV, OK minor issue at this point we just installed it right? Well since then, we get the white screen in the bedroom still and also occasionally get messages on the TV saying we are not authorized on that client (umm OK? our account is active for 4 clients). Call DirecTV every time we have an issued and all they do is tell you to re set the box every time. Finally the issues became so frequent we called and said we can't take the Genie anymore we want a tech out here and have them swap for the Home DVR set up. They said we could however there is known issues with the Genie's and that they were trying to fix remotely and asked us to give them a week.
Well, we gave them the benefit of the doubt yet again, a week+ went by and the problem got so bad that now we can't get TV because our access card isn't working properly all of a sudden. After 4 hours of troubleshooting and going in circles with no resolution they finally decided a tech needs to come out. Then we were told that a tech couldn't make it for 5 days, now this is after we wanted to schedule a tech a week before but didn't because they said the problem would be fixed by now. Now there is a huge wait b/c they screwed up and we have to pay big time for it. So, I asked for a Supervisor. Well the Supervisor was down right nasty, had an awful tone then proceeds to tell me if we swap out it will cost us $500. $500!!!??? Why I ask? Apparently it is in the contract that once your receiver becomes active, anytime you want to "upgrade" there is a charge per client and receiver in the house.
Now, after calling DirecTV over a dozen times in a 3 week time period reporting serious issues with our receiver, don't you think theres something wrong with the receiver, and after all the frustration if a new customer has had such a horrible experience you would swap their equipment to what they want to keep their business???? No no no not with DirecTV! All said and done today, we have no TV right now, waiting for them to come out b/c if we cancel we will also be charged out the wazoooo. DirecTV is the biggest scam of a company I have ever known. There were a lot of other details I left out too from other times we called them to troubleshoot, I could write a 100 page book about my only 3 week experience with them so far. What the saddest part of this is to me is that they are a large company and have so many customers but can't even give just satisfactory customer service. Never ever dealt with customer service like this and I've dealt with some doosies.....
PENNSYLVANIA -- I have been a Sub Contractor for DirecTV for 2 years now and every once in a while I surf these sites to see what everyone is whining and over-exaggerating about. While you people are bashing the installers for the work they do, or because they arrived late, or it took to long, or they didn't have the proper equipment.. It's NOT the techs fault! Everyday I'm given 4 to 6 huge installs that equate to over 12 hours of work, according to DirecTV time. Which means its more like 15 hours because things go wrong during ALMOST every install because DirecTV's receivers are GARBAGE. I leave my home in the morning at 630 and do not get home till after 7pm almost everyday of the week. I am FORCED to work 6 days a week, sometimes 7 days a week and can't do a damn thing about it because I'll be "fired" if I don't. They call us Sub Contractors but they treat us like employees when it benefits them. The labor board does nothing about it because we are considered Sub contractors. I can't turn down work like a contractor should be able to do because I'll be "fired". If there is 3 feet of snow on the ground I have to work on 2 to 3 story ladders. Rain, lightening, snow, sleet, the don't care. If a customer calls and complains about me being late or they don't like something I did I LOSE ALMOST ALL THE MONEY I MADE ON THAT INSTALL. Yup, DirecTV takes the money back out of my next check! No matter what the reason is! When we are late it's because DirecTV gives us way to much work, yet they take our money because of it. They force us to lie to customers about phone line hook ups. They make us tell the customers who have a house phone that we have to hook each receiver up to the phone line so it can download what ever software updates it needs when really its because they want the customer to be able to order movies so they can make more revenue.. The receivers download their software through the satellite, not the phone line. And, on top of all of this, the contracting companies steal money out of our paychecks every week for made up charges and for equipment rentals. they force us to rent a little handheld computer for $80 a month to activate receivers when we can do the same thing with a cell phone or over the phone.
Anyway, I can go on and on and on about the shady practices of DirecTV, DirectSat USA and all of their little shady contracting companies. So next time you guys and gals want to bash your DirecTV sub contractor think about whose really at fault..
And for those of you who are going to say, "Why don't you get a different job?" are you hiring? Didn't think so!
Your friendly neighborhood DirecTV Sub-Contractor
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS -- Attention homeowners and landlords - consumer alert: Don't let satellite dish companies install satellite dishes on your roof. Landlords should have clauses in leases forbidding roof installation of dishes as well. Dishes can be placed on decks, poles, or on the ground or you can get cable instead.
Our tenants had 3 dishes installed on our house without our permission. One dislodged and blew over leaving open holes on our roof which resulted in damage to the roof and interior walls and ceiling. Damages were more than $3,000. The tenant and DIRECTV assumed no responsibility and we had to pay for the damages ourselves!
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN -- My wife and I have been looking for ways to cut back and save some extra money per month. We are tired of paying close to $150 per month for cable service. We contacted DirecTV who advertised some great rates. I should have known it was too good to be true.
I ordered the service, and the sales representative set up my install appointment. I was given a phone # to confirm my install appointment which I was to call the day before the install. When I called the number, the lady who answered was very rude and didn't seem to care that I was a new customer. She did however, confirm my appointment for the following day and gave me a 5 hour window (2pm - 7pm) for the install guy to arrive. I canceled all my plans for the day of the install and began waiting around the house for 5 hours, because someone over the age of 18 had to be at the home. 715pm came around and no one showed up. I called in to DirecTV using the 800 number customer service line. The customer representative told me that somehow there had been an error and the appointment was never confirmed and somehow got canceled.
I told them that I did not cancel it, but since it was after 7pm there was nothing left to do for this particular day. I was then told that the next available install day was 3 weeks out. I expressed my frustration and told them this was not acceptable since I had already been promised a date and ended up waiting around for 5 hours and no one showed up. I was told there was nothing that could be done. I requested to speak with a supervisor, who was also not helpful at all and didn't seem to care that they had made a mistake. He did however comp me an extra 3 months of HBO, Showtime and Cinnemax that I did not want in the first place.
The supervisor then told me that he would file a claim ticket to the install department indicating what had happened, he said that by filing the claim, it would speed up my install date and would put me towards the top of the list. He said that I should expect a call within 24-72 hours. I waited the full 72 hours and was never contacted. I called in again and a customer service representative told me the same thing, however he indicated that he would file a second claim (since I had threatened to cancel service) to speed up the install date. He told me that it would take an additional 24-72 hours, but since I filed 2 claims it would speed me up faster and they would understand how inconvenienced I was.
I waited 1 full week with no call. I finally called yesterday to cancel and the representative told me that I was told the wrong information and would only receive a call within 24-72 hours IF an opening was available in my area due to a cancellation. After expressing my frustration I told her to cancel my installation appointment. She tried telling me how great of a deal I was getting and how wonderful the package/deal I was getting and if I canceled I couldn't receive these incentives in the future. I told her, "What's the point of you telling me how great of a package I am receiving if I can't use it?"
Needless to say, I canceled my order, went back to the local cable provider. It's more expensive but at least I know what I am getting! I will never order DirecTV in the future, and I would highly NOT recommend them. Their customer service is deplorable!
MESA, ARIZONA -- I signed up for what looked like a great bundle package with DirecTV - for combined internet and TV, with 200 channels and 3 DVRs, my bill was to be about $85 a month. Not too bad, right? Well, first of all, when they installer came to my apartment, the FIRST thing he did was ask me for cash so he could go to Home Depot to buy a cinder block. I'm sorry...WHAT??? Either I should have been informed I needed to provide a cinder block, or the tech should have been prepared for what was obviously going to be an apartment install (ie, not allowed to attach the dish to the building). I mean, is that not something that is routinely included with install? I should not have to pay more when I am already paying for "installation". That right there made me super wary of both the tech and the company.
Afterwards, he installed the dish and boxes in one room, then told me he didn't know how to get to one of the other rooms. I'm sorry. Maybe I just had a tech who had NO idea what he was doing, but doesn't it seem like these guys would have come up against everything and be able to figure out how to run wire to another room?
Anyway, after everything was installed, I turned on the boxes and everything seemed to be working, but then suddenly everything went fuzzy. The tech unplugged the box and plugged back in, and it went through the "reloading/rebuffering" for a good 5 minutes before it was back on. This happened no less than 3 times during the tech's visit. He then told me..."Well, hopefully it won't do that again." Guess what? It did. I kept having to unplug and replug it at least twice more that day after he left. A few hours later, he TEXTED me to see if it was working. it just seemed weird to me. Unprofessional.
Fast forward a year. Services worked fairly well, but then I moved into a rented house. I was told that there was a "special" moving deal" and that I would save HUNDREDS! I assumed that meant it would be fairly hassle-free. Nope. I was required to remove the old dis from my patio per my apartment complex, but was told the tech "could not" do that for me, that they would bring a new dish to my new house and just leave the other one there. Sorry...that's not OK! I had to physically cut and remove all the old wires (which were EVERYWHERE by the way), unscrew the giant dish from the 2 cinder blocks, and drag everything down 2 flights of stairs to the dumpster. Why is this my responsibility?
At my new house, I had planned on mounting the dish on cinder blocks before, in the backyard. Well my new tech told me this was not possible. Because the wire would stretch more than 100 feet and I wouldn't be able to get a signal. Not only that, but he said he would have to drill through several outside walls to be able to install in all 3 rooms. I was not allowed per my landlord to mount it on the house. So my only option was to cancel services. I thought I had a very good case, as installation their way was not possible because of my landlord. But apparently that was not good enough for them. I spoke with multiple CS reps, and each one told me they could not waive the early cancellation fee even though it was NOT my fault that I could not install! I mean...what did they expect me to do?? Just pay what was now $150 a month for nothing?? I guess so. I ended up having to pay $240 in early cancellation fees. Now I have Netflix and Hulu and pay $15 a month. DirecTV SO NOT WORTH IT. CS is nonexistent and nobody knows what they're doing.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- When I signed up for DirecTV it was at the end of the NFL season. Since my subscription package included the NFL ticket at no additional charge, I specifically asked their representative if that meant a FULL year and not just the rest of the season. I was assured it was for one FULL year, so I signed up. A week later I referred my son in law, who also wanted to wait for the season to end so he could get a FULL year and not one week. He too was assured by the liars at DirecTV that he would get the NFL ticket for one FULL year so he signed up as well, and I was supposed to receive a $100 credit for referring a friend. I foolishly also convinced a neighbor to sign up and she was told we would get the refer a friend credit as well. Needless to say I never received either credit, and just figured there was a mistake, but when my July bill was $42 and change higher than previous bills, I called and asked why. I was told the charge was for the NFL ticket, billed at $42 and change a month for six months for $250 a year. When I explained that I was told I would get this free for one year, not two weeks, I was told that to DirecTV one FULL year really means two weeks and there was nothing I could do about it! I explained to DirecTV's customer service supervisor that I was lied to and he couldn't care any less and said there was nothing he would do to help me. He suggested that I send an email to the Office of the President and explain the situation. When I did, the answer I received was that to DirecTV one FULL year was actually two weeks for me and one week for my son in law. I was also told that I didn't qualify for the refer a friend credit because my friends didn't call a "special" number to register. They actually called the same exact number that I called when I signed up and I did get one $100 credit because a friend referred me. But I referred two friends and got cheated out of $200 and another $250 for the NFL ticket! To be fair, the office of the president offered me a $100 credit in lieu of the $200 I was promised for referring two friends, but they still cheated me out of $100!
I should have known not to trust DirecTV since my initial experience with a DirecTV installer was not so pleasant. When DirecTV's first installer showed up at my house to run the wires, he told me that I would have to pay $270 ($90 per wire drop that I needed to have run). I explained that I was supposed to have a FREE VIP installation, and he said that didn't include running wires! He even called his dispatcher who confirmed his lie that FREE VIP installation did not include running wires! I wonder how many people have been conned by this liar! Needless to say, I threw the liar out of my home and contacted DirecTV. I was assured that there was no extra charge to run wires! So the installer lied to me at the very start! I wish that I would have been smart enough to see that I don't want to deal with a company that lies and cheats their customers!
To be honest, the office of the president did offer me $100 credit, $50 each for the two referrals I made, not the $200 they promise! That pretty much confirmed to me that they know they are cheating me and don't care, because if I was wrong about the credits, they would not have given me a penny! But they offered me half what I was promised in hopes that I would go away. And I will go away, the day my contract expires. I will leave DirecTV and NEVER look back! DirecTV will not see one more penny from me other than my monthly bill. I will NEVER again watch anything on pay per view, or any of their paid movies on direct cinema. Nor will I ever pay for a premium channel! DirecTV cheated me out of $350 and I refuse to patronize a company that lies to their customers! And to make matters worse, the office of the president doesn't care about the deceitful practices this company uses!
DENVER, COLORADO -- I know that this is just one of the many complaints that you must receive on a regular basis concerning DIRECTV and the way that they deceive their paying customers but I hope that with this complaint added to what must be a very large pile of complaints might do some good and help shed light some of their questionable practices.
I need to start out by saying that I have been a loyal customer of DIRECTV since 2007 and I have never been late with a payment or had to make a partial payment.
I have my DIRECTV service provided through Century link in Denver CO. as part of a bundle.
When I contacted Century link the company that I have had my phone service with for over 40 years and have always paid my bill in full within 24 hours of receiving Century link stated that they could not help me concerning they issues with DIRECTV service even though I make the payment to Century link.
When I contacted DIRECTV and asked why my bill with them was as large as it was ($87.99) they told me that I was on a older plan for my service and that I could change to a newer plan that would give me a better package at a lower cost.
I inquired about the various plans and was sent the information that included the different plans that they had and the price for each plan.
I chose the Choice Extra Package listed on DIRECTVs website and is shown to be $68.99 a month.
The Choice Extra Package cost $68.99 and $5.99 for their protection plan in case there is an equipment failure, which totals $74.99.
I contacted DIRECTV by phone on 6 occasions, talked to six different reps., and asked what the final price per month would be for the Choice Extra Package.
On all contacts that were recorded and can be confirmed by the recordings, I was told that the price for the package would be $74.99 per month.
I made sure that asked all six of the Reps. if the $74.99 total per month was the full price per month and as the recordings can verify the answer was always the same.
The monthly total would not exceed $74.99 per month.
On Sunday Dec. 16, I received an order conformation showing the $68.99 Choice Extra Package and contacted DIRECTV to ask them why the $5.99 for the protection plan did not show on the conformation.
After speaking to four Reps, I was told that the $68.99 was only part of my monthly charges and the correct cost per month will be $97.97.
I was never told that there were any hidden or additional costs just the total of $74.98 per month.
On Sunday Dec. 16th I found out that DIRECTV was included a lot of hidden charges for their service.
The charges including the hidden are listed here
Choice Extra Package $68.99
Protection Plan $5.99
DIRECTV Extra Pack $4.99
HD Charge $10.00
DVR Charge $8.00
Total For new Program Plan $97.97
The hidden Charge is $22.99 per month.
While $22.99 does not seem like a large amount when you multiply it 1by 12 is is now 266.28 per year.
With the creative way that DIRECTV is charging their customers, the amount that they are getting from their customers through their hidden charges and the number of times they are doing this creative pricing the number of hidden charges becomes very large and can represent a great deal of money.
It probably would be a great idea if some federal agency that can do something to stop this kind of underhanded billing practice look at this and do what they can to stop the customer abuse.
Dang, after a year the Showtime price kicked in, and some sort of 'Protection Plan' started... so our bill went from $55 to $85... for TV. Gimmie a break. I called and canceled the protection plan which of course means I need to pay a $10 early cancellation fee... ugh...
When you call you get the, 'oh, I need to transfer you to the department that handles that..' run around.
And forget about changing satellite services, our contract locked us in for 2 years.. so no canceling UNLESS you want to pay some outrageous fee for every month you leave on the contract.
I'm not saying the service is bad, I just don't like the run-around and fees associated with being their customer.


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It was the defining moment of the 2004 Tour de France - Le Maillot Jaune, Lance Armstrong, furiously fighting his way up to L'Alpe d'Huez through hostile fans, catching his two-minute-man Ivan Basso on the approach to the finish, and cementing his place at the top of the standings. With the best climber in the world blowing away the competition by at least a minute each, it was apparent that no one would catch Lance on his road to #6! This fantastic poster celebrates the moment with absolute brilliance, displaying the never-more-determined Armstrong reaching the limits of human endurance in his sprint to the finish at the end of the Tour's most legendary climb. With sharp white-bordered design and a crystal-clear photographic image from the lens of the world's greatest cycling photographer, Graham Watson, this poster is perfect for the wall of any cycling enthusiast, and any fan of Lance Armstrong's amazing career!
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Belvedere Vodka Bottle Tumblers - Set of Four
Handcrafted, eco-friendly Belvedere Tumblers! A fun way to drink … straight from the bottle!
Beautiful tumblers handcrafted from 1L Belvedere Vodka bottles!
White tree branches wrap around the frosted glass, surrounding the graphic of the Polish Presidential Palace and making it the most picturesque tumbler you could own. You will love the look and feel of these frosted tumblers, even if this Polish vodka is not your libation of choice. Sold as a set of four.
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Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!
First, we need to get straight on just what we might be talking about when referring to "The Theory of Global Warming." There's a natural tendency to identify such a theory with the statement that "The Earth is Warming." That's wrong because it confuses a theory with observations that might be used to test a theory. It's also wrong because it would imply that the only reason we think that the Earth will continue warming in response to increased CO2 is that we already see it warming today; it loses the chain of physical causation. Somewhat better would be the statement, "The Earth is warming, and the warming is largely due to increases in atmospheric CO2 and other long lived greenhouse gases." This is defensible as a hypothesis, but I think it would be far better to consider this statement, too, as more properly in the domain of one of the tests we might apply to the Theory of Global Warming.
My own preferred statement of The Theory of Global Warming is this:
- An increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other long lived greenhouse gases requires the surface temperature to ultimately increase so as to maintain a balance with the absorbed solar radiation. The increase is amplified by water vapor (also a greenhouse gas), which increases with temperature in such a way as to keep relative humidity approximately constant. Melting of ice will further amplify the warming, particularly in high latitudes. The resulting widespread warming corresponding to a doubling of CO2 will be large enough and rapid enough to be well outside the range of past experience of the human species, by an amount comparable to the difference between a glacial and interglacial climate. Changes in atmospheric cloud properties may somewhat reduce or increase the sensitivity, but do not substantially alter the conclusion.
The last part of the statement of the theory is, of course, the hard part, and the most uncertain.
I have deliberately left the matter of the severity of the impacts of such a climate change out of the hypothesis. Theories regarding the impact are nascent and in many regards still rather ill-formed, in comparison to the theory dealing with the physical dimensions of climate change. Also, insofar as there are uncertainties about the severity of the impacts of climate change, it is a matter for the political apparatus to decide how to deal with the uncertainties, and the extent to which one should pay attention to the worst case vs. the most likely case. The question of how to factor in the uneven distribution of harms (and possibly benefits) across the peoples of the Earth, and between human societies and natural ecosystems, is also at heart a matter of ethics and values. These are questions that can be informed by science, but they are not themselves scientific questions.
Finally, one must be careful not to be confused by the usage of the word "theory" in common everyday English. Statements like, "Oh, that's just a theory, not a fact" have little to do with the scientific understanding of the word "theory." Linguistic confusion goes the other direction as well: Scientists often talk about "believing" in a theory, but this expresses a judgement of whether the balance of tests of a theory against observations lends sufficient support to the theory to rely on it in drawing further inferences. It does not declare that subscribing to the theory or not is an article of faith, to be left to one's conscience. If I say that I "believe in" quantum theory, that is expressing a different kind of judgement than if I say I "believe in" the tenets of Buddhism.
Judge Jones on "What is Science"
Judge Jones (a George W. Bush appointee, by the way) of the Middle District Court of Pennsylvania, presided over the case Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which dealt with the constitutionality of an attempt to introduce some limited teaching of Intelligent Design into science classes. His decision that teaching ID in public school science classes would be an unconstitutional establishment of religion, is a masterpiece of wit, scholarship and clear thinking. Most of the decision deals with application of tests (such as the "Lemon Test") of whether a government action constitutes an establishment of religion. These make fascinating reading, and show Judge Jones' wide ranging intellect, but they are not of concern to me here. What's relevant to the point at hand is the rather extensive part of the decision devoted to the question "How do we know whether something is science?" This question wasn't entirely central to the basis of the Judge's decision, but he devoted a lot of attention to it because, in his words,
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Victory was bittersweet for Wayne Matthew Price after a Montgomery County jury acquitted him of first-degree murder Monday in the shooting death of his son in May.
"He can celebrate, but he has still had a significant loss to his family," said Steven Kupferberg, Price's defense attorney, after hearing the verdict at 6 p.m. Monday. "He will always have to live with that loss."
Tears poured down Price's face as he shook hands with several departing jurors, thanking them profusely before turning to Kupferberg and giving him a hug.
"Thank you, Mr. Kupferberg," he said, his voice heavy with emotion. "Thank you."
Price himself declined to comment on the verdict, which was handed down after about five hours of deliberation Monday. In the decision, the jury acquitted Price, 51, of first- and second-degree murder, manslaughter and a handgun offense in the May 5 shooting and killing of his 23-year-old son, Matthew Eugene Price.
Assistant State's Attorneys Jeffrey Wennar and Teresa Casafranca portrayed Price as the aggressor in a confrontation in the elder Price's apartment May 5. Kupferberg said Price was the victim in a struggle with his son, who Kupferberg said beat him and choked him at one point before Price retrieved his gun from a back bedroom as a last resort, shooting Matthew only after the younger man threatened to kill him and lunged at him, Kupferberg said.
Wennar declined to comment but Ramon Korionoff, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, expressed disappointment with the jury's decision when reached for comment Tuesday morning.
"Shooting your own son to death is a tragedy no matter how you look at it," he said. "And seemingly, the jury might have felt it was punishment enough for the father to deal with his own conscience for the rest of his life at the death of his one-and-only, Matthew. We accept the jury's verdict but respectfully disagree with it."


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Thursday, May 16, 2002Johnson City, Tenn. (May 16, 2002) � East Tennessee State University's annual John Robert Bell Golf Tournament is set for Saturday, May 18 from Cattails at Meadowview Golf Course in Kingsport, Tenn. Tee times will begin at 11:30 a.m. and former collegiate and NFL head coach Bobby Ross will appear as a guest speaker. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the ETSU football program. For more information on the tournament, contact the ETSU Pirate Club at (423) 439-8398.


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Sunrise View of Tycho Crater's Peak
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic sunrise view of Tycho crater. Tycho crater's central peak complex, shown here, is about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide, left to right (southeast to northwest in this view).
Tycho is one of the most prominent craters on the moon. It appears as a bright spot in the southern highlands with rays of bright material that stretch across much of the nearside. Its prominence is not due to its size: at 85 km in diameter, it's just one among thousands of this size or larger. What really makes Tycho stand out is its relative youth. Tycho's features are so steep and sharp because the crater is only about 110 million years old -- young by lunar standards.
Over time micrometeorites and not-so-micro meteorites, will grind and erode these steep slopes into smooth mountains. For a preview of Tycho's central peak may appear like in a few billion years, look at Bhabha crater.
Many rock fragments ("clasts") ranging in size from some 33 feet (10 m) to hundreds of yards are exposed in the central peak slopes. Were these distinctive outcrops formed as a result of crushing and deformation of the target rock as the peak grew? Or do they represent preexisting rock layers that were brought intact to the surface?
LRO captured a top-down view of the summit, including the large boulder seen in the images to the right. Also note the fractured impact melt deposit that surrounds the boulder. And the smooth area on top of the boulder, is that also frozen impact melt? These images from the LRO Camera clearly show that the central peak formed very quickly: The peak was there when impact melt that was thrown straight up during the impact came back down, creating mountains almost instantaneously. Or did the melt get there by a different mechanism? The fractures probably formed over time as the steep walls of the central peak slowly eroded and slipped downhill. Eventually the peak will erode back, and this massive boulder will slide 1.24 miles (2 km) to the crater floor.
Tycho is of great scientific interest because it is so well preserved, it is a great place to study the mechanics of how an impact crater forms. A very popular target with amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.37 degrees S, 348.68 degrees E, and is about 51 miles (82 km) in diameter. The summit of the central peak is 1.24 miles (2 km) above the crater floor. The distance from Tycho's floor to its rim is about 2.92 miles (4.7 km).
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It was the home of one of the greatest, some would say the greatest, kabbalists of all time, Yitzack Luria, commonly known as the Ari. It was also one of four holy cities in Eretz Yisrael where jews lived before the beginning of the modern Aliyahs


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Pedigree: Architect James Biber created this award-winning oceanfront compound when he was a partner at Pentagram Design; it consists of a low-slung main house and, just across the courtyard, a glass-walled guest lodge dramatically raised on steel beams. Completed in 1999, the residence was inspired by icons of midcentury modernism, from California's Case Study homes to '50s motels.
Property Values: Set on a bluff 75 feet above the shoreline, the buildings occupy four acres, with an infinity pool and a private path to the beach. Thanks to favorable currents, erosion is not a concern.
Talking Point: Red and blue fireplaces as well as a yellow spiral staircase add splashes of primary color.
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Police are set to begin issuing tickets for violations caught at a new red light camera in Rockville.
The camera went up in late July, but did not begin issuing warnings and citations until Monday.
The 10th city-operated camera is at the intersection of Wootton Parkway and Preserve Parkway. Drivers can receive tickets when they run a red light or make a right turn on red, where permitted, without first coming to a complete stop.
Tickets issued for violations caught by the camera are $75. Camera flashes do not always mean that a violation has occurred, according to a city news release.
The City of Rockville now operates 10 red light cameras:
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Took the court for 32 of the Bobcats' 33 games ... Averaged 3.8 points, 1.9 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game ... Scored a career-high 14 points at Monmouth, 1/2 ... Added double-figure outputs with 10 points apiece against Fairleigh Dickinson (12/5) and Columbia (12/23) ... Scored nine points and added a season-high six rebounds against Sacred Heart, 2/6 ... Also grabbed six rebounds and dished out a season-high six assists, 1/11 against Brown ... Matched his season-high assists total with six more against Fairleigh Dickinson (12/5) ... Also made a season-high three steals against the Knights on 12/5 ... Made two steals on five different occasions.
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Played for the St. Mark's School in Southborough, Mass...Averaged 14 points and eight rebounds to help St. Mark's to a 24-6 record and the 2008-09 New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Championship... As a senior at St. Mark's, he was ranked as highly as the 26th-best point guard recruit in the country by ESPN.com...He averaged 11 points and eight assists in leading St. Marks to the Class C New England Championship during his junior season...Also helped St. Mark's to the 2007-08 NEPSAC Championship...ISL First-Team selection...Also a 2008-09 McDonald's All-American nominee.
The son of Keisha and David Johnson, Sr...Has two younger brothers, Daniel and Matthew, and one younger sister, Kelly...Undecided on a major...Born in Jackson, N.J.
Career and 2009-10 Season Highs:
Points - 14 at Monmouth, 1/2/10
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Winter is full of cold weather emergencies. You should be prepared in case you are stranded in your car on the side of the road, at a job site, or if you lose power and heat in your home. Be prepared for what Mother Nature has in store this year with a Cold Weather Emergency Kit. It contains lifesaving food, water and essential items to get through the night, dig your vehicle out of the snow, signal for help, and more!
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In the Summer of 2013, Ringling College of Art and Design alumnus Andrew Burhoe (Digital Filmmaking, Class of 2012) had the opportunity to work on the set of Jeff Baena's film Life After Beth, starring Aubrey Plaza.
Thanks to the collaboration of film producers Starstream Entertainment, American Zoetrope, and Studio Lab co-founders Future of Films, LLC and Semkhor, Ringling College attended the 2014 Sundance Premiere of Life After Beth this January in Park City, Utah.
Follow Andrew as he travels with the cast and crew behind the scenes in Park City, Utah. Through photos and filmmaker interviews, we'll take you to the heart of the action as seen from one young filmmaker's journey! Videos will be posted soon...
Watch the Official trailer of Life After Beth it's a must see, anticipated release late spring/early summer 2014.
Image info: Shown above, during the Life After Premiere at 2014 Sundance (L to R) are Writer/Director Jeff Baena, starring Aubrey Plaza who played lead character Beth Slocum, Cheryl Hines who played Judy Orfman, and Matthew Gray Gubler, who played Kyle Orfman, Judy's eldest son


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Take a tram ride through the Dominion Garden of Lights Holiday display. Complimentary hot chocolate will be available 15 minutes prior to the tram tour.
Registration is $10 per person/$8 for NBG Members. Infants under 2 are free if riding on the lap of an adult.
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