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Today's color therapy is Pink With Spots
Blazing Cat Fur: Hunger Games remade with Cats
Blazing Cat Fur: Hunger Games remade with Cats.
Sometimes it is good just to laugh at stuff. Laughing is good for your insides. I bet the folks that did this excellent video would have just the purrfect sensibilities to do a version spotlighting the shenanigans of the new UN Human Rights Council featuring new members Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic (?) of China. We'd need lots of plastic ants for that.
Today's color therapy is grey.
…Yuma yummy
I gave my heart to my husband's cardiologist…
It seemed right and proper to give this beautiful thing to someone who could appreciate its structure. It contains Fulgurites; the little glass tubes left in the ground sometimes by lightning strikes. Have no idea how the new Toon Town Big Government Crap Weasel Obamacare World of Medical Delights will go about destroying our little corner of the woods; am sure that when that when it strikes us, the results won't be pretty. Am also sure that our Liberal Elitist Insect Overlords will blame the dysfunctional system they've created on their favorite whipping boys while successfully escaping any responsibility for degrading yet another aspect of life. The progs have been trying to bury their socialist hook deep under our gills for a very, very long time.
And they don't believe in catch and release.
Sin – as defined by Our Dear, Dear Leader
Our Dear Leader Obama's response when asked for his definition of sin was this: "Being out of alignment with my values [i.e., ideology]."
Hard as is it to comprehend that this arrogant little quip was deliberately released into the air, here's a link to the interviewre's source for it:
Obama on faith: The exclusive interview | The Dude Abides.
Thank your prog/liberal/marxist/lo-fo neighbors for this, pals. We're in the tragedy to farce section of the feedback loop, on the way to the Surreal-Super-Fun-Happy-Slide. Rod Serling is sorely missed; he could have narrated this 'new normal' nonsense with the right touch of caution and wonder confronting the absurd.
Words To Remember
"When gold paint flakes from the arms of sculptures,
When the letter falls out of the book of laws,
Then consciousness is naked as an eye.
When the pages of books fall in fiery scraps
Onto smashed leaves and twisted metal,
The tree of good and evil is stripped bare.
When a wing made of canvas is extinguished
In a potato patch, when steel disintegrates,
Nothing is left but straw huts and cow dung."
These stanzas are from the poem "The Spirit of History"
by Czeslaw Milosz, published in 2001 in "A Treatise on Poetry"
Playing In The Ruins Indeed
The Porch Light has been replaced with Dancing Hula Bobble-heads
Check this story out from Moonbattery; the evil of the 'progressive mind' is almost beyone belief. Almost.
Moonbattery » Plumbing the Depths of Moral Depravity With Choice: Texas.
For the Loving Rememberance of a Mentor: Rip Woods
Was thankfully able to visit briefly an 80th birthday celebration for the late Rip Woods given by Dee Dee, his family and friends last Saturday at 934 on Southern Avenue in Phoenix.
Rip was a beloved mentor, to whom I offer two Quotes from Eric Gill:
"The training of artists, therefore, is twofold. First, there is the training of the living. The child brought up in a dark cellar or in an art school will know nothing of humane life. Art training is first of all the training obtained by living the ordinary life of the time. Thus the mind is nourished on reality and not romance."
"….A fool may be a Saint.
A villain may be an artist.
A fool may be an villain.
But a fool cannot be an artist, nor a villain a Saint."
Dear Rip, mentor and friend – Moriendo Modulor.
Next Stop Yuma: Hacienda Motel
Todays Color Therapy
This is my first blog attempt after a handful of unfortunate events partnered up; Cox dropped my webpage, my hard drive and auxiliary hard drive crashed, plus a few assorted non-technical events. Putting something back together from the pieces has been strange in unexpected ways…
In the process of tracking down an article date to verify it, I ran across an auction site that had an older work up for bidding – one that I hadn't documented. A lot of time has gone by since then. Was kinda shocking to sit back, and remember making this thing, this moment, this place to stop, to put things together for a while.
Why make art about/from old Arizona motels?
Honestly, there isn't a simple answer to this question. This isn't nostalgia, wanderlust, or escapism. It's a mystery to me. The colors, the shapes, the history, the surrounding Arizona environment,the cheerful tackiness of it all, even the decay – especially the decay, have captured my attention for well over twenty years. And it's not just any classic period motel that will do – it is the Arizona ones that got caught in my eye.
This aesthetic exploration took an unexpected direction in the late 1990's with the inclusion of beadwork, hammered copper and or recycled aluminum. The larger exclusively beaded works usually require a minimum of six months to bead.
Part of the humor or irony in this latter development dwells in the concept of time. The "classic period" motels themselves were designed for short stays, and are rapidly disappearing. As cultural artifacts, not destined to survive very long. Yet they have inspired this contemplative and vastly time-consuming beadwork; which is then viewed by a contemporary audience with an attention-span that is measured in seconds. . . .
Prior to the incorporation of beadwork, the paintings were typically a minimum of 48" x 60" in size. Here, the Arizona motels became darkly magical and threatening places within the Sonoran Desert environment. Cacti, desert creatures, rocks and that harsh desert light populated a colorful motel world. The motels themselves provide much of the color palette; every element in each work was exploited for it's metaphoric potential. Each one was a multi-layered look at contemporary Arizona weaving together local natural history and sharp observation, through the lens of imaginative interpretation. If you're looking for labels to describe my work, it has been christened "figurative expressionist with surrealist leanings and an abstractionist bent."
Given the connotations of the word "large" today, I hesitate to use it; the current works are so much smaller than these earlier paintings that it's necessary to use "large" as a comparative term when referring to the body of work as a whole. Originally an oil-on-canvas painter, chemical sensitivities forced a switch to acrylics. Technically, the move made me a better painter, but lacks the pleasant aroma of the turp can, and lush textural feel. Had to eliminate the solvents from printmaking processes also. I love working with my hands, and am trying not to poison myself or the ground with chemicals.
Check out the 'Joe Doe' page for kind of an explanation about the motels.
Please forgive the clunkiness here in my little parlor; am not technically savvy. Am just an artist trying to clear the darkness out of my eyes in order to pay attention and learn something about this strange and wonderful place, this gift of place, and time, and love.


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I'd like to send the feed with custom content : for example I don't want the full article to be inserted in the idem <description> but something else like a custom field.
Could I have a clue on that, where shall I should start ?
Thanks a lot !
I'd like to send the feed with custom content : for example I don't want the full article to be inserted in the idem <description> but something else like a custom field.
Could I have a clue on that, where shall I should start ?
Thanks a lot !
podPress does not modify the <description>-element of <item>-elements of RSS feeds. It is only possible to modify the <description>-element of the channel (RSS) or subtitle (ATOM) with podPress.
But WP includes two ways to modify these <description> elements:
- You can choose in the Reading Settings section of your blog whether it should contain the Full Text of the post or a summary.
- You could use the excerpt box below the post editor. If you write something into this box it will be automatically the content of the <decription> element of the Feed <item>s.
If you want to modify or filter the content of <description>-elements of the <item>s in combination with a custom field then you may use a filter plugin which uses the WP Filter Hook 'the_excerpt_rss'. (Although the name suggests it otherwise this hooks works for the equivalent of the <description> element of the ATOM Feeds, too.)
Maybe there is already a plugin which makes what you want to achieve.
But if you are technical minded then you may write your own filter plugin. It is maybe not that difficult.
I would do it like this:
Plugin Name: my personal feed element filter
Plugin URI:
Description: filters the post content in the feeds
Author: my name
Version: 1.0
Author URI:
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'pff_modify_excerpt');
function pff_modify_excerpt($description_content) {
// get the ID of the current post
$post_id = get_the_ID();
// get all values of the custom field(s) with this custom field name of a current post (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom_values for more info)
$customfieldvalues = get_post_custom_values('insert here the name of custom field', $post_id);
if ( TRUE == is_array($customfieldvalues) ) {
// if the current post has at least one custom field with this name then put the contents together as the new description content
foreach ( $customfieldvalues as $key => $value ) {
if ( FALSE == empty($value) ) {
$new_description_content .= $value;
// if the new description content is not empty then replace the current content with the new one
if ( FALSE == empty($new_description_content) ) {
$description_content = $new_description_content;
return $description_content;
Put this code into a file with file name extension .php and store this file in the plugins folder of your blog (e.g. /wp-content/plugins/). Replace
insert here the name of custom field with the custom field name you like to use.
This way you could write also filters for other sub elements of <item>s (or <entry>s).
podPress (especially the upcoming version 8.8.8) has mainly possibilities to modify the channel elements and it adds of course the <enclosure> elements (and in RSS feeds the itunes elements) to the <item>s (and <entry>s).
Thanks a lot, I didn't remember about using resume in rss feeds...
And I'll give a try at your script, I can type some PHP ;)
Thanks again !
Hi Laurent,
I have a further note on that topic:
podPress adds of course the <itunes:summary> and <itunes:subtitle> elements to RSS <item> elements and these elements contains by default also the post content. But it is possible to edit the content of these elements for each post (see "Post specific settings for iTunes" below the post/page editor). But there is no filter hook for these elements.
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In Iraq, ten American soldiers (some say nine) die on the same day the Iraqi government fires the leaders of the infamous Special Police, hoping to curb the rampant death squads.
In alliance: Rice says US will defend Japan from North Korea.
In the meantime, former House Clerk Jeff Trandahl may bring down Dennis Hastert with his testimony later this week — or corroborate his side of the story.
In England, public school kids refuse new gov't-mandated healthy lunches, demand return of french fry and butter sandwiches and "Turkey Twizzlers".
In US public schools, students' math skills are apparently falling behind Korean and Japanese students because we teach "self-esteem, joy and real world relevance."
In case of chemical terror attack: use fish.
In KING 5 debate, the Libertarian is the winner?
In udder news: Skagit County utility was accidentally electrocuting cows.


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Exactly as the company promised it would early last year, Mozilla is proceeding full steam ahead with its rapid release cycle for the Firefox browser. Version 13 of Firefox first arrived in a beta version in April, adding a number of notable features. Now, version 13 is available (although it officially launches tomorrow). Here is what's under the hood.
Among major changes in version 13, When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages in one collection. This works similarly to how the same feature has worked in Google Chrome.
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Fed May Need to Buy More Assets After QE2, Pimco's Clarida Says
The Federal Reserve may be forced to buy more assets if the $600 billion in bond purchases announced yesterday isn't enough to boost growth and inflation, Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Richard Clarida said.
"A year from now, if unemployment is 9, 9.5 or 10 percent, we are going to see more," Clarida, a global strategic adviser for Pimco, said during on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness" with Scarlet Fu. "It may take a different form; it may be concentrated in different assets, but the Fed can't cut interest rates. They are at zero at the short-end. If they are going to ease policy, they have to do it through these quantitative measures."
The central bank will buy about $75 billion of Treasuries a month, or $600 billion through June and "will adjust the program as needed," policy makers said in a statement issued after the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting yesterday. They've kept the benchmark target rate for overnight loans between banks at a record low range of zero to 0.25 percent since December 2008.
"The Fed has indicated very clearly it has a dual mandate of inflation of 2 percent and a low unemployment rate," Clarida said. "Right now the Fed has fallen short on both of those mandates. This is potentially not the end of QE, depending on the data."
U.S. initial jobless claims rose to 457,000 in the week ended Oct. 30 from a revised 437,000 the prior week, Labor Department figures showed today. The median forecast of 50 economists in a Bloomberg News survey was for an increase to 442,000 from a previously reported 434,000.
Preferred Measure
The unemployment rate has been above 9 percent since May 2009. The Fed's preferred annual measure of inflation was unchanged from the prior month and was up 1.2 percent last month from a year earlier, the smallest gain since September 2001, government figures showed Nov. 1. The so-called core PCE rate tracks the personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy.
Gross domestic product rose at a 2 percent annual rate from July through September, in line with economists' forecasts, Commerce Department figures showed Oct. 29. The pace was 1.7 percent in the second quarter and 3.7 percent in the first.
"The transmission mechanism from lower rates to more economic growth is an uncertain one and right now it's not operating as the Fed would like," Clarida said. "Most economists would have thought that with these low interest rates and the quantitative easing we've had, we would have seen more of an impact on job growth and the economy."
In its first round of purchases, which ended in March, the Fed bought $1.75 trillion in securities, including $300 billion in Treasuries.
"The Fed is much more concerned about a deflationary outcome, falling prices than it is about rising inflation," Clarida said. "The Fed is hoping that leads to economic growth and lower unemployment. That's the transmission mechanism that they can't directly control."


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UGA Provost Pamela Whitten has just visited Oxford, witnessing first-hand the experience of students on the UGA at Oxford program. In her official blog, she writes:
"The UGA at Oxford program gives students an opportunity to study at one of the world's most renowned institutions of higher education, and I recently had the opportunity to see firsthand the types of life-changing experiences it provides.
Oxford University is, of course, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Its exact founding date has been lost to history, but teaching and learning have occurred there since 1096—nearly 700 years before UGA became America's first state-chartered university. Some of the world's greatest thinkers are associated with Oxford University, including philosopher John Locke, Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and author Lewis Carroll.
The UGA at Oxford Program was founded more than 25 years ago and remains one of our most popular study abroad programs, with more than 100 courses in a variety of majors and subjects. Most classes are taught using Oxford's rigorous tutorial format, in which students meet in groups of no more than three with their professor and do a significant amount of independent research and writing to prepare for those meetings. The system demands a high degree of responsibility from students; in return, they gain a deep understanding of the subject matter and a honed ability to synthetize and communicate the knowledge they gain.
I met with a number of exceptionally promising students while at Oxford as well as with faculty and administrators. I can tell you that the UGA at Oxford program is truly immersive; our students are educated by Oxford faculty and stay at UGA's Oxford residential center, an elegantly renovated, three-story Victorian mansion. As associate members of Oxford's Keble College, they dine with Oxford students, have access to the college's libraries and common rooms, and participate in the full range of the college's social activities. Our students are encouraged to explore the culture and history of Oxford, and London is a just an hour away by bus.
Thanks to programs such as UGA at Oxford, UGA has one of the nation's highest study abroad participation rates. The experiential learning requirement recently approved by University Council will help ensure that all UGA students have the kinds of hand-on learning experiences—including study abroad but also service-learning, research and internships—that position them for success after graduation."
See the full post here - http://provost.uga.edu/index.php/blog/red-black-and-oxford-blue
The UGA at Oxford Program is happy to have Dr. Rowena E. Archer as our special guest for this year's Homecoming week. Please see the flyer below for details of her public lecture, and check back here for additional info on opportunities to see our guest!
UGA vs Oxford Union Debate V: 8 October 2014, UGA Chapel, North Campus
The University of Georgia has challenged the Oxford Union Debate Society to a formal debate for the fifth time, and the Oxford Union has accepted this challenge. Several of the organization's best debaters will compete against an elite UGA team in a hybridized British/American-style debate on October 8 at 7 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. This fifth installment will be an opportunity for the UGA team to take the lead in the series and claim bragging rights for another three years.
"Like all previous iterations, the 2014 debate will be an extremely exciting event and it will showcase some of the best young thinkers and speakers from both campuses," said Dr. James McClung, Director of the UGA at Oxford Program. "The topic is timely, provocative, and well chosen. I personally look forward to a hard-fought debate, hopefully ending with a well-deserved UGA victory."
Kavita Pandit, associate provost for International Education at UGA added, "The debate draws attention to the very valuable and long-standing international academic partnership between UGA and Oxford. It also provides an outstanding example of the way in which an international education equips UGA students to compete with the very best and brightest students around the world."
The Oxford Union was founded in 1823 as an arena for the free exchange of ideas among students, and it soon became the forum for political debate in Oxford. Many British prime ministers have served as past presidents of the Oxford Union, and world figures such as Robert Kennedy, Mother Theresa, Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela have addressed its members. The union team will be a hand-selected group of "all-stars."
UGA's team also will be assembled specially for this event. Drawing from the membership of the Georgia Debate Union, the Demosthenian Literary Society, the Phi Kappa Literary Society, the Law School, UGA's Honors Program, and several other student organizations, the "home" team will truly represent the wide variety of programs and schools UGA has to offer.
The debate topic is "Resolved: On balance, United States drone strikes enhance its national security objectives" This topic will address a wide range of issues, both military and otherwise, and offers an excellent opportunity for the attendees to engage directly with the debate teams as well, as this year's format will allow for the audience to question the teams themselves. The teams are currently negotiating which side will argue the affirmative and which side will argue the negative.
The moderator is recent UGA masters graduate, Monica Kaufman Pearson, former WSB-TV lead anchor, who in 1975, became the first African-American and first woman to anchor a 6 p.m. newscast in Atlanta. She then went on to establish a 37-year distinguished career in broadcasting in the city. Distinguished judges for the event will include Cecil Staton, former Georgia state senator who earned his doctoral degree from Oxford University and UGA President Jere Morehead.
For over twenty-five years, UGA has fostered one of the leading study-abroad programs in Oxford. UGA continues to be the only program at a US-public university to operate year-round in Oxford. Many UGA students join the Oxford Union upon arriving in Oxford. Because of UGA's status in Oxford as a respected sister institution (UGA students hold associate membership at Keble College during term); a healthy rivalry has developed between Oxonians and UGA. For more information on UGA at Oxford, see http://oxford.uga.edu.
Virginia McNally, Franklin Spring Semester 2011 alumna, has continued her working relationship with Dr. Nic Cheeseman, Hugh Price Fellow in African Politics at Jesus College, Oxford University. Dr. Cheeseman recently featurd and article by Virginia on his Democracy in Africa online resource. Toi read Virginia's article, please click here. Congratulations, Virginia!
We are happy to recognize that one of our recent alumna, Katherine Arnold, has written a piece that the Bodleian Library in Oxford has published on their Shakespeare First Folio digitization project blog. Katherine was a participant on the Franklin College Spring 2012 Semester Program and studied Shakespeare with Dr. Emma Smith in one of her tutorials. To read Katherine's work, have a look at the Bodleain Library's Sprint for Shakespeare page!
Congratulations Katherine, well-earned!
Dr. William Kretzschmar, Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, is the 2014 recipient of the Friends of UGA at Oxford Award. The award is given yearly to the University faculty, staff, or administrative individual who has contributed the most time and energy to furthering the mission of the UGA at Oxford Program. For more information, please see the Office of International Education website, here.
View the UGA at Oxford Centre on YouTube! (thanks to GA Leasa Weimer for the video work!).
Joseph Netto, SPIA 2009 and Fall 2008 Alumn, has a featured interview in the Michaelmas 2008 issue of The Keble College newsletter, The Brick.


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Package Details: libindicator-gtk3 12.10.1-6
|Git Clone URL:
|https://aur.archlinux.org/libindicator.git (read-only)
|Package Base:
|A set of symbols and convenience functions for Ayatana indicators
|Upstream URL:
|Last Packager:
|First Submitted:
|2009-10-20 20:24
|Last Updated:
|2015-12-12 02:02
Dependencies (3)
- gtk3 (gtk3-aqd, gtk3-donnatella, gtk3-git, gtk3-light, gtk3-nobroadway-nowayland-nocolord, gtk3-optional-csd, gtk3-typeahead, gtk3-ubuntu, gtk3-ubuntu-multilib)
- gtk2 (gtk2-aqd, gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view, gtk2-patched-gdkwin-nullcheck, gtk2-ubuntu) (make)
- gtk3 (gtk3-aqd, gtk3-donnatella, gtk3-git, gtk3-light, gtk3-nobroadway-nowayland-nocolord, gtk3-optional-csd, gtk3-typeahead, gtk3-ubuntu, gtk3-ubuntu-multilib) (make)
Required by (19)
- caffeine-ng (requires libindicator-gtk3) (optional)
- caffeine-ng-git (requires libindicator-gtk3) (optional)
- indicator-multiload
- indicator-session
- indicator-sound
- indicator-sysmonitor-bzr (requires libindicator3)
- lib32-libindicator-gtk3
- libappindicator-activate-gtk2 (make)
- libappindicator-activate-gtk3
- libappindicator-activate-gtk3 (make)
- libappindicator-activate-sharp (make)
- libappindicator-gtk2 (make)
- libappindicator-gtk3 (make)
- libappindicator-gtk3
- libappindicator-sharp (make)
- lightdm-pantheon-greeter
- wingpanel-globalmenu-bzr
- wingpanel-indicator-ayatana-bzr
- xfce4-indicator-plugin
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amagnasco commented on 2016-03-18 05:19
WoefulDerelict commented on 2016-02-04 21:10
We are indeed up to date with the public release here and it works well for most users. I believe a chain supporting the Ubuntu specific releases in in the works for users needing more recent versions dependent upon the Ubuntu patches to GTK to run their applications because options are good.
sl1pkn07 commented on 2016-02-01 12:00
yea, but i don't want install it
is much effort (and i use Qt)
horsemanoffaith commented on 2016-01-20 05:28
sl1pkn07, the dependencies needed should be here in the aur.
sl1pkn07 commented on 2016-01-19 01:00
EDIT: BAH! noting to do, need gtk3-ubuntu and some other dependencies
horsemanoffaith commented on 2015-12-31 20:04
Why is this flagged out-of-date? Libindicator version on launchpad is still at 12.10.1.
yurikoles commented on 2015-12-12 02:03
@Spyhawk, thanks, I always forget about it ;(
Spyhawk commented on 2015-12-11 14:17
Please always update the SRCINFO file when you update this package, otherwise tools that rely on the RPC interface will get outdated information.
sl1pkn07 commented on 2015-10-14 16:48
all yours
yurikoles commented on 2015-10-13 19:52
I have just adopted and uploaded @sl1pkn07's version.
@sl1pkn07, you are in credits. Feel free to ping me if you want to maintain it.
I just tought that quick fix has higher pririty than all this formal staff.


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"My father (Frederick "Fritz" Schnittker) died in the battle of Iwo Jima on Feb. 28 and I was born on March 21. I learned to be independent and enjoy every moment." � Carol Galehouse, Winder, GA.
"I was six-and-a-half when my dad (Frederick "Fritz" Schnittker) died. He taught me perseverance and sacrifice. It makes me cry even now. My dad was so proud to be a U.S. Marine." � Judith Colyer, Grand Rapids
"Humility. He usually does things in a very humble way." � Tori Harrison, Zeeland
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Location-Based Social Networking App Ban.jo Goes 4.0 With New Design And More
The popular location-based social networking app Ban.jo has just gone 4.0.
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I applied in 10/2008 and was approved with a $5K credit line. My bk was discharged in 12/2004 and current credit scores are in the low 700s.
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The Rotch Library Exhibits Program provides members of the MIT community a space to display their ideas and projects. All exhibits (and text associated with them) are imagined, curated, and mounted by the exhibiting artist(s) or sponsoring organization(s). The Rotch Exhibits Coordinator works with MIT community members to prepare and install exhibits.
Once More, With Feelies: Video Game Materials
Curated by Matti Karhulahti and Michał Żmuda
04.23.16 – 05.29.16
When talking about digital games, we often forget the materials that surround them – and the fact that playing those games always happens by means of interacting with physical objects. This exhibition is to remind us about the variety of materiality that is present in "digital" play. Showcased objects range from supplemental materials that are sold with the game to input devices, posters and cheat codes in magazines. All of them delineate the activity of gaming by enabling, enhancing, and informing our understanding of the medium itself.
Location: Entrance Case + Reading Room Case
Yards of Faith
Photographs by Sally Chapman
04.05.16 through 05.31.16
"Living on the Somerville/Medford line, I have been fascinated by the statues of the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and various saints that often decorate the yards in the neighborhood. In an era where one's religious conviction is a private matter, I am drawn to these public proclamations of faith from a previous generation that is often the first on this side of the Atlantic. The shrines have been placed in commemoration of a loved one, of a promise made to God in a time of stress, or as a simple reminder of faith. Some of them are maintained with great care while others have fallen into neglect. They may be left behind to new owners that keep them in the yard out of respect or they disappear with a developer's eye on modernizing. In photographing these shrines, I have strived to show them in the context of the neighborhood. They are part of the flavor of the area that is in a state of flux."
Location: Main Gallery + Reading Room Columns
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Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Colombia
New York, 16 June 2014
The Secretary-General commends the Colombian people on the holding of Sunday's presidential elections and looks forward to continue working with the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos in ongoing efforts to promote peace, human rights and development for all Colombians.
Today, Colombia is closer than ever to ending the hemisphere's longest armed conflict through negotiations. This is an historic opportunity that should not be missed. The Secretary-General encourages the parties to bring the peace talks to a successful conclusion as soon as possible, building on the important achievements to date. He encourages the parties to listen to the voices of civil society, whose input and support are key to a durable peace.
The United Nations remains committed to supporting -- as requested by the parties -- the conclusion of the negotiations and implementation of the agreements reached.
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Feb.18...Celebrate National Chip Week!
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The week of February 18–24 is National Chip Week!
That's chips as in "Fish and Chips"…the always-better-hot-and-homemade thick-cut flavorful potato kind. 🙂
Oven-roasted Chips
From Jo Pratt via BBC Good Food
6 large floury potatoes , such as Maris Piper, King Edward, Desirée (about 1.6kg/3lb 8oz)
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp celery salt
flaked sea salt , to serve
Chip away…Oven-roasted Chips
According to the Rules of the Interwebs, you shouldn't post someone else's entire recipe, only part of it with a link to the rest, unless you've changed the recipe up bigtime.
More chunky chips…
Cold Oil French Fries from Simon Food Favourites
Fried Potato Chips/Crisps from The Vegetarian/Vegan Society of Queensland
Baked Custom Fries from Chelsey at Like a Vegan
Low Fat Oven Chips from Jeena
Red Skin Potato Chips from Justine at Vegetarian Life Australia
Simplee Crispy Fluffy Easy Home Made Oven Chips from Love Irish Food
Crunchy Potato Wedges from Jewelies via Australian.Food.com
Garlicky Baked Fries from Shaheen of The Purple Foodie
Baked Garlic Curry Fries from Isa Chandra at Post Punk Kitchen
Oven-roasted Chips with Sea Salt and Thyme from Matthew Drennan at delicious. magazine
Oven-baked Chips with Chilli and Thyme from The Mitolo Group
Cajun Wedges from the Irish Potato Federation
Seventies Spicy Wedges with Avocado Dip from the UK Potato Council's Chip Week
Nineties Homemade Chunky Chips with Roasted Tomatoes and Pepper Sauce from the UK Potato Council's Chip Week
For sweetness sake…
Sweet Potato Fries using Cold Oil Cooking Method from Simon Food Favourites
Fried Vegan Sweet Potato Chips from Maggie at veggies.co.uk
Spiced Sweet Potato Chips from Goodall's of Ireland
The whole Fish and Chip experience…
Tempeh "Fish" N'Chips with Tartar Sauce from Rhea of The "V" Word
Chickpea 'Fish' and Chips from Hilda of Triumph of the Lentil
Crispy Beer-Battered Tofu 'Fish' Goujons with Vegan Tartare Sauce & Oven-Baked Fries from Andrea at Chocolate and Beyond
That should last all week. 🙂
What's your favorite thing to eat with chips? Gotta be a vegan burger for me!
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I had some as a snack yesterday, with some spicy new ketchup I just bought!You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
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Ketchup yes!! I do love a hit of sriracha or a sprinkle of garlic powder or flavored breadcrumbs with nutritional yeast now and then.
I've never had a butty so I had to look it up…that.looks.screaminglydelicious!!You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
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Mmm! I don't need an excuse to have chips 😉
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Nikki Reed in 3×1 W3 High Rise Channel Seam in Black No.5
Nikki Reed showed off her signature smile at the Kari Feinstein's Style Lounge during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The actress wore a pair of the 3×1 W3 High Rise Channel Seam in Black No.5 with a sweater and her staple ankle boots.
I just love this cut by 3×1. I even actually say that it is my favorite from the brand because they are so well cut and I have yet to see them look unflattering on anyone who has worn them. I can't wait to see who wears them next. You can click here to purchase these jeans from SHOPBOP for $225.
Nikki Reed in J Brand 620 Skinny Jeans in Blackout
Nikki Reed was spotted making her way to her car at LAX Airport after landing. The actress wore a pair of the J Brand 620 Skinny in Blackout with her signature leather jacket and ankle boots.
I would love to see Kim Kardashian in these as we have been seeing her in the white version. I can see her cutting off the hem and styling them very similar to how she has been styling her other pair. The 620 is definitely a style that looks great on her. You can click here to purchase these jeans from SHOPBOP for $218.
Nikki Reed in 7 For All Mankind The Slim Illusion Skinny in Washed Dark
The lovely Nikki Reed was pictured out and about in Los Angeles, California after doing some shopping and running some errands.
Nikki wore a pair of the 7 For All Mankind The Second Skin Slim Illusion Skinny jeans in Washed Dark for the day, pairing them with boots, a grey tee and a slubby cardigan. These jeans are a part of the brands Second Skin Slim Illusion collection and have super soft/stretchy denim. Have you tried them? Buy 7 For All Mankind online at Revolve.
Images courtesy of StrTraks Photos.
Nikki Reed in MOTHER Denim The Looker Ankle Fray in Spreading Rumors
Nikki Reed showed off her signature smile as she walked the carpet at the People StyleWatch Denim Event in Los Angeles, California. The actress wore a pair of the MOTHER Denim The Looker Ankle Fray in Spreading Rumors with some yellow pumps and a crisp white shirt.
I cannot wait to see more sightings of The Looker Ankle Fray out. It is a style that is so well done and just gets more appealing as I see them. I especially cannot wait to see their Guilty As Sin pair out. Those are my favorite from the new collection. You can click here to purchase MOTHER from SHOPBOP.


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Sherk stripped of belt, but promised another title shot
has beenstripped of his title
after testing positive for a banned substance. Following his successful July title defense against Hermes Franca, Sherk tested positive for Nandrolone, according to the California State Athletic Commission. Joe Stevenson and BJ Penn will fight in January for the vacated belt.
But the news wasn't all bad for Sherk. Following an appeal, his ban from fighting was reduced to six months, meaning he'll be eligible to return to the ring next month. And UFC boss Dana White defended his conduct. "I have nothing but respect for Sean Sherk and I believe he's been honest throughout this whole process," White said. "But BJ Penn and Joe Stevenson will be fighting for the lightweight title at UFC 80 on January 19th and Sean Sherk will fight the winner for the title."
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San Diego Falls 81-50 to Gonzaga - Recap
Gonzaga cruised to victory on Saturday, running San Diego out of the gym and running up an 81-50 score at McCarthey Athletic Center.
Gonzaga was a favorite by 22.5 points and came through with an ATS victory for bettors.
Gonzaga got 18 points from Kevin Pangos and another 14 points from Kelly Olynyk. Gary Bell, Jr. contributed 4 assists, while Kelly Olynyk cleaned the glass with 9 rebounds.
San Diego got 19 points from Chris Manresa in a losing cause and another 8 points from Christopher Anderson. Christopher Anderson contributed 4 assists for them, while Chris Manresa had 3 rebounds.
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Nymex gasoline futures (this isn't the pump price) are up 16% so far this month and 33% for the year. Heating-oil futures are up 5.4% for the month and 17% for the year. And natural-gas futures are up 4.2% for the month and 21% for the year.


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Think Again: A Climate of Conspiracy
Superfreakonomics coauthor officially joins the anti-science crowd
This piece by CAP's Eric Alterman and Mickey Ehrlich, first published here, looks at how "ClimateGate" fits into the broader set of conspiracy theories pushed by conservatives in the Obama era. I wrote about this connection here: "The top 5 ways the 'birthers' are like the deniers." The fact that Superfreakonomics coauthor Stephen Dubner have joined with the anti-science ideologues, as Alterman and Ehrlich discuss, was, sadly, all-too-predictable (see "Superfreakonomics authors abandon climate science" and "Is Superfreakonomics author Levitt again denying the 'unequivocal' scientific evidence for global warming?" and "Dubner ratchets up the rhetoric, claiming his critics have issued a 'fatwa'!" If you want to know what the hacked emails really tell us about climate science, read the editorial in Nature: "Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real "" or that human activities are almost certainly the cause."
On November 19, emails stolen from scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England were leaked onto the web. Conservatives immediately claimed that these proved global warming to be a hoax and part of a worldwide conspiracy run by mad scientists who have quashed debate in order to institute a socialist, business-killing cap-and-trade policy. Thus was yet another conservative conspiracy theory in the age of Obama launched: "Climategate." It's getting hard to keep track of all of them.
We have written in this space about the promotion of baseless beliefs regarding President Obama's birth and the authorship of his books. And while much of the mainstream media continues to ignore the conspiratorial nature of contemporary conservative politics' arguments, the true leaders of the conservative movement in America""Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the like""have been leading the charge for these conspiracies and many more.
Conservative websites and airwaves abound with conspiracy theories to the point where it becomes nearly a full-time job to merely keep up with the various and secretive forces seeking to undermine our country and turn us into""well, it's never quite clear. Terrorists? Communists? Socialists? Gays? Whatever.On his TV show on Monday, Glenn Beck, with the help of Andrew Breitbart of the website Big Government, reasserted that the White House had ordered union members to beat up anti-health care protestors at town hall meetings this summer. Joseph Farah, the editor of World Net Daily, asserted on Tuesday that President Obama "publicly supports ethnic cleansing in the Middle East against Jews." And recent polls indicated that 52 percent of Republicans believe that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Barack Obama, who, by the way, according to nearly half of Republicans recently polled, was born in Kenya. (And hey, did you know ACORN caused the financial crisis? Don't tell me Lou Dobbs would dare to mislead you about that.)
Of course, it's no secret that the noted climatologist Rush Limbaugh thinks global warming is a "scam" and "a hoax." So, too, do many Fox News consumers. An informal online poll at Foxnews.com showed that 80 percent of those who voted said that their views on global warming were unchanged and that they do not believe global warming research is accurate.
The leaked East Anglia emails that allegedly provided the "proof" of this view go back 10 years. Conservatives claim that the emails that were leaked undermine all scientific data that suggest global warming is occurring at the rates scientists say it is and that it is caused by humans. They also claim that the emails reveal an organized effort to silence critics of the climate consensus in the scientific community.
In fact, while the scientists in question were undoubtedly overzealous, and went way overboard in the name of debunking dangerous pseudoscience on the issue, as Jeff Masters has pointed out, "Even if every bit of mud slung at these scientists were true, the body of scientific work supporting the theory of human-caused climate change""which spans hundreds of thousands of scientific papers written by tens of thousands of scientists in dozens of different scientific disciplines""is too vast to be budged by the flaws in the works of the three or four scientists."
Nevertheless, on November 24, Stephen J. Dubner, who wrote about Climategate for the Freakonomics blog at NYT.com, appeared on Fox Business Network with host David Asman. Asman introduced the segment by evoking efforts by Hitler and Stalin to manipulate science to achieve their evil ends. Asman said, preposterously, "Well, it can't happen here, as many people have said, but apparently it has." Asman's guest completely allowed the comparison of climate scientists to the mass murderers to stand.
Dubner then claimed that the emails showed that scientists were "colluding" with Al Gore in "distorting evidence." He insisted that "you can't read these emails and feel that the IPCC's or the major climate scientists' findings and predictions about global warming are kosher." He also claimed, without any evidence, that the hackers who illegally obtained the emails "either wanted to get in there because they knew there was something they should read. Or maybe there's a whistle blower." Dubner's conjecture put him in league with Rush Limbaugh, who, the day before, guessed "maybe there's a whistle blower inside the organization who is just unhappy about what's going on."
No one cites the possibility that the emails were hacked by people fishing for evidence whether it was there or not. The emails are only proof-positive about a global warming conspiracy to people who believed it before the emails were leaked. As Sean Hannity put it on November 24, "Now we find out that this institute is hiding from the people of Great Britain and the world that, in fact, climate change is a hoax, something I've been saying for a long time."
In Great Britain, the blogs at the Telegraph have been awash with outrage over Climategate. On November 20, before the authenticity of the emails had been confirmed, James Delingpole wrote a piece with the hyperbolic title, "Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming?'" Delingpole proceeded to reel off mantras of climate change denial. He wrote, erroneously, that the world is in a period of cooling, and cited scientists who claim that dangerously high concentrations of carbon dioxide provide necessary food for plants.
On "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," George Will falsely asserted that the emails revealed an effort to "delete" evidence that showed a medieval warming period. Will has used his Washington Post column to undermine the evidence of global warming and the urgency for policies addressing it. Most recently he has written on the abundance of fossil fuels.
An editorial in The Washington Times bore the title, "Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling: Junk science exposed among climate-change believers." The article referred to the "baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change." There is never any reference to evidence in the emails that disputes the broad scientific consensus on climate change.
In fact, as CAP's Matthew Yglesias points out, the consensus on global warming extends to all governments in the world, including the world's biggest polluter, China. In the current issue of Time, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, adds, "It is the ice melt from these glaciers [those quickly vanishing in the Himalyas due to global warming], that sustains irrigation. The melting of these glaciers is the most massive threat to food security that we have ever projected." And, as the magazine's Byron Walsh continues, "It is also a threat to global security. In developing nations such as China and India, growing prosperity means ever greater demand for""and potential battles over""water."
Of course, talk like that is just part of the conspiracy. Glenn Beck promises that the upcoming U.N. summit on climate in Copenhagen designed to begin addressing problems like these, even if only in vague and undemanding terms, will mean "the end of U.S. sovereignty."
Just who is actually running things, well, they never do say.
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Well, Dubner knows how to sell a book: find a politically contentious issue where one side is literally starved for evidence backing their views, and sell them what they want to here.
What's ironic about Dubner taking the denialist side here is how it actually proves how every conceivable material incentive should be pushing scientists away from the consensus. The co-author of a book about how humans respond to incentives should know that competition drives down profits and scarcity drives them up; there's just no money to be made or fame to be had in agreeing with other scientists. With 97% of scientists agreeing that humans are warming the planet, there are vast economic rents to be earned by joining the 3% who do not.
Getting research grants from oil companies or think tanks, selling books, getting time on talk shows – it's all easier when people are looking for a viewpoint, and you're one of the few people who's got it.
WAG: Bingo!
Joe: You're going to have to start including a barf bag graphic for the posts that include so many comments from the deranged right.
I shudder at the thought of what parts of the US, the UK, and other countries are turning into as we get ever further down this road of hyperpolarization.
The question I keep asking is:
How can we beat them at their own game?
It's starting to look like it's just too late to rely on the polite, scientific explanations that have gotten us this far. All of us know, regardless of what a few emails might say, that we have that on our side and we can always fall back on that. Anyways, it's getting to the point where approaching global warming from a theoretical/statistical point of view is obsolete – the physical manifestations of ACC are so blatantly obvious that they make any objective case for us, without us needing to explain the greenhouse effect is or what carbon sources and sinks are.
Plus, the name calling – "denialist" "flat-earther" etc. – doesn't really work either. It sort of makes us look desperate.
Instead, it's time to go on the attack in the worst possible way, just like the skeptics and columnists above are doing in the same fantastic, hyperbolic, conspiratorial ways that make them so effective at getting through to the average dumb-ass. Accuse them of betraying future generations in the worst possible way – by denying them the chance to forge a reliable, sustainable livelihood from nature. Accuse them of intellectual terrorism. Rub it in their faces how wrong they are – let them know that ten, twenty, thirty years down the line, every single word they say will be recorded and left for humanity to judge. For christ's sake, get the media's attention!
Obviously the next step is to repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics… They are cruel, absolute and nobody wants to obey them anyway…. Come on Congress!!
Just to fan the only flames that don't give off heat:
Senator John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936…..
WAG and Lou Grinzo: Amen, brothers. There's money in that there friendly, aw-shucks type denialism practiced by Lomborg and the Superfreaks.
One tool in the PR wars (unused so far) is naming (and shaming) the wealthiest CEOs of the big fossil fuel companies. Keep reiterating their names, how much money they make, and how much money they pour into denialism (laundered through CEI, etc.)
And George Will on "This Week" was even worse than described above — he flat-out lied about Kevin Trenberth — completely misquoting his "travesty" e-mail.
I've got to say that I don't like the ____gate habit for scandals at all, and I particularly don't like this one, since it tends to imply that the scandal affects climate science in general, which it does not. If I absolutely have to use a _____gate label, I might say CRUGate, but mostly I'm going to avoid this label and just call it the CRU email hacking event or something like that. Language matters!
Surely a few defamation cases would not go astray?
These people spreading slandering scientists with no evidence need to be dragged through the courts and have their lies exposed and punished.
I tried posting the following comment on the Freakonomics blogs, but it did not pass the moderator. Thoughts?
The leaked climate emails highlight the practice of massaging data to reach desired outcomes.
One can make the argument that ANYONE who publishes what they claim to be an accurate analysis of data, especially if accompanied by a resulting conclusion that casts aspersions on others, ought to feel compelled to make all his/her RAW data available. This is true whether the publication is an article in an academic journal or a popular book about a "rogue economist".
Does Freakonomics plan to make all its RAW data available?
This matter may deserve a ClimateProgress blog post of its own.
Attempted breaches show larger effort to discredit climate science: researcher
An alleged series of attempted security breaches at the University of Victoria in the run-up to next week's Copenhagen summit on climate change is evidence of a larger effort to discredit climate science, says a renowned B.C. researcher.
Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria scientist and key contributor to the Nobel prize-winning work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says there have been a number of attempted breaches in recent months, including two successful break-ins at his campus office in which a dead computer was stolen and papers were rummaged through.
University of Victoria spokeswoman Patty Pitts said there have also been attempts to hack into climate scientists' computers, as well as incidents in which people impersonated network technicians to try to gain access to campus offices and data. However, those incidents took place at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, she said — an Environment Canada facility located at the university. As such, Environment Canada would be the investigating agency.
Caerbannog –
thanks for bringing this chilling news to our attention. From the National Post article you cite:
" . . . incidents in which people impersonated network technicians to try to gain access to campus offices and data."
Wow. Yes – this deserves a post, and followup.
I'm with Sam – we know that Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and a sizable chunk of Republicans are outright deniers, are anti-science, and are pretending that Global Warming doesn't exist for political reasons.
What can we do about it? What can other opinion leaders, organizations, campaigners do about it?
Enough of the handwringing – we need some action.
Indeed, such break-ins, whether at CRU, the University of Victoria, or elsewhere, deserve investigation. Publication of the CRU e-mails is being compared with Daniel Ellsberg's disclosure of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. The difference is, the Pentagon Papers actually proved that a national policy was based on lies. The e-mails leaked or stolen from CRU haven't met that test, and I don't think they ever will. (Another difference is that we don't know the identity of the leaker or thief. Ellsberg admitted his involvement, and surrendered to the authorities in Boston.)
In my opinion, these recent break-ins much more closely resemble the Watergate burglary.
This is a most excellent and revealing post about this issue.
Some people are just insane. In trying to pooh-pooh ClimateGate, all they do is try to demonize their opponents, they never try and convince us over and over how and why the Earth is actually warming, and how precisely humans are causing it, and how the Sun and the oceans have nothing to do with it.
They just keep screaming that the 'Science is settled', and so that is that. Period.
Of course, the science is hardly settled; especially when over 31,000 scientists, including over 9,000 PHDs, have signed a petition claiming that in their opinions, based on reading the scientific studies on both sides, global warming/change is NOT man-made.
We all must tell EVERYBODY we know about this! If all they watch is the MSM, they haven't heard much or anything about the real truth of this.
Let's ALL HELP KILL COPENHAGEN!
God bless the people who released the 'Scientists' emails, they are total heroes.
This will make a great movie someday.
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USpace wrote (in part): "Some people are just insane. In trying to pooh-pooh ClimateGate, all they do is try to demonize their opponents, they never try and convince us over and over how and why the Earth is actually warming, and how precisely humans are causing it, and how the Sun and the oceans have nothing to do with it."
That's right, because we don't think you need to be convinced "over and over" that climate change is real. Once per person ought to do the trick. (Did I say "trick"?) Yet, if you care to check, you'll find that people here have explained the facts repeatedly. The problem is that they never seem to sink in. The obvious conclusion is that your side cares nothing for facts because you've got an agenda to push.
How's that working out?
"They just keep screaming that the 'Science is settled', and so that is that. Period."
Rather, you continually choose to misinterpret what that means.
"Of course, the science is hardly settled; especially when over 31,000 scientists, including over 9,000 PHDs, have signed a petition claiming that in their opinions, based on reading the scientific studies on both sides, global warming/change is NOT man-made."
You just proved my point. Anyone still citing the OISM petition has no clue what the real situation is.
We all must tell EVERYBODY we know about this! If all they watch is the CEI, they haven't heard much or anything about the real truth of this.
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Alberta tar sands ongoing underground 'spill'. It has been going on for weeks. No media or public allowed.
That article is disturbing, to say the least.
Natives subsisting off the land will be the first & hardest hit, but nobody will pay attention because they're 'just Natives.'
Peak Solar PV works well with peak AC demand. A Value added. As noted by many others and promptly ignored by those that profit from the pollution of the commons.
Here's the link to the full article:
I'd guess the tar sands operators aren't aware of this concept:
"Society, as trustee of the earth, reasonably expects the natural estate to be returned undiminished at the end of each landholder's tenure". See Joe's excellent post on unsufruct:
There's another 35.0.org event in DC this coming Saturday.
Show of hands?
Arizona Phoenix Extreme Flooding July 21, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnMdLYU2Bs&list=UUiPa-5SJuXzdJpVt9xDV7dw
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A new study suggests that the East Antarctica ice sheet might be less stable than is thought.
New capitalist definition of usufruct-'We use you, then you're left fructed'.
always has been a bit like that. affects now more pronounce with creeping resource depletion and extraction desperation.
The minister of the environment for Canada was invited but did not attend.
Looks more like melt pools than open ocean to me. The markers are still in the orientation they have been in so they are still embedded in ice.
Probably not for long, though.
Then there's this:
Sea level rise: New iceberg theory points to areas at risk of rapid disintegration
In events that could exacerbate sea level rise over the coming decades, stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ocean, according to new iceberg calving simulations from the University of Michigan.
"If this starts to happen and we're right, we might be closer to the higher end of sea level rise estimates for the next 100 years," said Jeremy Bassis, assistant professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences at the U-M College of Engineering, and first author of a paper on the new model published in the current issue of Nature Geoscience.
"Essentially, everything is driven by gravity," Bassis said. "We identified a critical threshold of one kilometer where it seems like everything should break up. You can think of it in terms of a kid building a tower. The taller the tower is, the more unstable it gets."
… A third feature is also required for the most dramatic ice collapses to occur. Icebergs can't float away and make room for more icebergs to break off the main sheet unless the system has access to open water. So areas that border deep, unobstructed ocean rather than fjords or other waterways are at greater risk of rapid ice loss. The researchers point to the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers in Antarctica and the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, which is already retreating rapidly, as places vulnerable to "catastrophic disintegration" because they have all three components.
"The ice in those places gets thicker as you go back. If our threshold is right, then if these places start to retreat as you expose the thicker calving font, they're susceptible to catastrophic breakup," Bassis said.
Been watching the heat around the Arctic circle this year, very warm on the land masses without ice cover, drifting east, the temps in northern Russia this week are going to off the charts. It's going to be over 90F at 70 degrees North latitude in north central Russia.
Watch this as a base line 2 weeks from now north and west of these fires.
Fires in eastern Russia
These events that no one sees , or measure are thawing every bit of peat, and permafrost there is right now, right here. Down to 15 meters deep.
The models work like a fireworks display, but what we have is a fireworks accident.
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Tipping points are dealt with at about minute 30.
At about minute 40, he points out that waiting till 2020 to peak global emissions means requiring a 9% reduction per year in global GDP thereafter till you hit zero carbon emissions in about 2040!
And that's just to have some chance of staying below the too-high 2 degree C limit.
The end-stage feeding frenzy, as the piranha turn on each other. Perhaps rats might be a better, because mammalian, comparison. Or, should we perhaps go Reptilican. There are cannibalistic snakes, are there not?


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