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Mercury bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in the terrestrial food web of a montane forest
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- , Eric K. MillerAffiliated withEcosystems Research Group, Ltd.
- , Kent P. McFarlandAffiliated withVermont Center for Ecostudies
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We investigated mercury (Hg) concentrations in a terrestrial food web in high elevation forests in Vermont. Hg concentrations increased from autotrophic organisms to herbivores < detritivores < omnivores < carnivores. Within the carnivores studied, raptors had higher blood Hg concentrations than their songbird prey. The Hg concentration in the blood of the focal study species, Bicknell's thrush (Catharus bicknelli), varied over the course of the summer in response to a diet shift related to changing availability of arthropod prey. The Bicknell's thrush food web is more detrital-based (with higher Hg concentrations) in early summer and more foliage-based (with lower Hg concentrations) during late summer. There were significant year effects in different ecosystem compartments indicating a possible connection between atmospheric Hg deposition, detrital-layer Hg concentrations, arthropod Hg concentrations, and passerine blood Hg concentrations.
KeywordsMercury bioaccumulation Food web Catharus bicknelli Montane forests
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The emergency summit was called by the Islamic Society of North America and co-organized by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Representatives from the Reconstructionist movement, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding founded by Rabbi Marc Schneier and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an umbrella organization of more than 125 Jewish community relations councils and 14 national agencies, also were in attendance.
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Mercuria Energy Trading failed to sell North Sea Forties crude at a higher level than in the previous session. Vitol Group sought to buy Russian Urals in the Mediterranean at a lower price than its bid yesterday without success.
Exports of North Sea Oseberg crude for December are planned at eight cargoes of 600,000 barrels each, unchanged from this month, according to a loading program obtained by Bloomberg News.
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Mercuria failed to sell Forties for loading Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 at a discount of 10 cents a barrel to Dated Brent, a Bloomberg survey of traders and brokers monitoring the Platts pricing window showed. The company yesterday sold a cargo for Nov. 13 to Nov. 15 at a discount of 70 cents.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc didn't manage to buy Forties for Nov. 18 to Nov. 20 at a discount of 25 cents to Dated Brent, the survey showed.
BP Plc sold Brent cargo B1105 for Nov. 24 to Nov. 26 to Shell at 15 cents a barrel less than Dated Brent, according to the survey.
BP failed to sell Ekofisk for Nov. 22 to Nov. 24 at 95 cents a barrel more than Dated Brent, while Shell was unsuccessful in bidding the grade at 58 cents above the benchmark for Nov. 15 to Nov. 18 or Nov. 27 to Nov. 30, according to the survey. Mercuria failed to sell Ekofisk for Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 at a premium of $1.
Shell was unable to buy Oseberg for Nov. 19 to Nov. 26 at 78 cents a barrel more than Dated Brent, 4 cents higher than its bid yesterday, the survey showed.
Brent for December settlement traded at $105.71 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange at the close of the window, compared with $105.81 in the previous session. The January contract was at $105.64, a discount of 7 cents to December.
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In northwest Europe, Gunvor Group Ltd. didn't manage to buy 100,000 tons of Urals for Nov. 22 to Nov. 26 loading at a discount of $1.10 a barrel to Dated Brent on a delivered basis to Rotterdam, 5 cents more than its bid yesterday, the survey showed.
Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world's largest crude exporter, reduced the differential for Arab Light crude for loading from the Egyptian port of Sidi Kerir by 35 cents to a discount of $1.10 a barrel to the Brent futures weighted average, or BWAVE, said two traders who received the notice, asking not to be identified because the information is confidential.
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Sorry, I pretty much only keep up with Miami.
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I think we all want to see Touchdowns.
I hate Sparano celebrating fg's. But at least were winning.
My bad, I just remembered he played for the Bills.
I agree, but we didn't win it all with Marino either. I still miss that man, sad how he was treated when he left. What's sad is he still looks like he could play.
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SCEE president David Reeves has admitted that PSP performance has not been good enough but promised a stellar line up for 2009.
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"In Japan, a lot of publishers put their chips on PSP. So games like Monster Hunter, Phantasy Star Portable and Dissidia have caused enormous spikes for PSP in Japan. But there haven't been big platform drivers in Europe.
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Let's make the question more concrete. I inherited a gamer's desktop computer with 4 DVI ports (that can supposedly support up to 8 monitors via DVI splitter cables), and I want to use this computer to work remotely from the other coast.
What exactly do I need to find out about (1) my host machine, (2) my client machine, and/or (3) my company's infrastructure and settings, for someone to tell me definitively, "You can support up to __ monitors of __ x __ resolution."?
Thanks very much in advance. (Also, please note that I do try to accept answers; unfortunately for 3 of 5 questions I've asked, there have not been any suitable answers to accept thus far.)


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IDW G1 has been a victim of it's own success.
Though frankly I prefer IDW Ratchet with a Marvel-style head rather than his current Prime-style head.
Like dual Fall of Cybertron-IDW G1 designs.
And it at least shows that they're allowed to repurpose designs from other universes.
Dark Cybertron was around when things showing up in toyline and comic together became a really major thing.
Given that that Starscream says "Armada Starscream" on his box, I assume the toy was meant to be Armada Starscream and was just re-purposed by IDW to be a body for their Starscream.
Hey, Bass X0. It's nice to see somene else paying attention to the distinctions.
Also, Albino Prime that isn't Magnus.
They made a toy that was IDW Starscream with an entirely Armada look.
Other than a change of gimmicks and physical appearance (i.e. Deluxe Galvatron), Hasbro generally keeps a familiar color scheme for the Generations toys. It may not always be perfect or completely accurate, but I can't think of a Generations toy that looks completely different in color scheme to how they should do. A quick l;ook around my room and I can't see anyone who is completely the wrong color scheme. I'd say the FoC Combaticons and Wreckers are the wrong colors, but they're not supposed to be the G1 characters so they get a pass.
The comics aren't beholden to previous G1 material, and the toyline doesn't have a strict need to follow the comics either so...
And yet the comics are not damned. This is G1 Sentinel Prime, not Animated or Movie Sentinel Prime and so he should look the part to how G1 Sentinel Prime has been portrayed so far. An Animated Sentinel Prime color scheme can come later. I don't recall how important the G1 legacy of Primes (Convoys) is in Japan or even if they have Nova Prime, Sentinel Prime, and previous Primes. So maybe Takara will paint him as Animated Sentinel just because its what Japanese fans are most familiar with. Sentinel Prime didn't have to have been a pre-use of the Astrotrain mold, indeed why even choose G1 Sentinel Prime at all after how long neglecting him?
Same here unluckiness. I bought him mostly for the Fire Guts look of the Titan Master.
I kinda like Fire Guts Sentinel Prime TBH. Though, I think the gray would have looked better as black.
I would've been fine with the Bayformers 3 Sentinel colors, he looked slick.
Same as Animated Sentinel Prime then, I bet he's a Functionist fundamentalist too!
Sentinel Prime's colour scheme is awful, they should have painted him in his animated deco, comics be damned.
He's also orange
kinda not enjoying my TR Sentinel Prime now that someone summed up his personality as "Make Cybertron Great Again."
Sounds pretty kinky.
the wind blew the sun into the river. honest!
Sadly no orchestra for me, but we did have the TFA clip as well.
I saw Weird Al at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, playing with a full orchestra. It was pretty special. And yes, Dare To Be Stupid! With an introductory video clip from TFA, no less.
Got to see Weird Al perform Dare to be Stupid in his set last night! That was a nice surprise.
TMW you see a bunch of people have liked something you posted while you were away, and you're like "what did I even say?!"
Regarding MTMTE#55 being released early in some places, its okay to discuss the contents of the issue as long as spoilers are kept within the thread. I refuse to read discussion threads of comics I have yet to read to avoid being spoiled. I also find it pointless to go into a discussion thread and expect to not be spoiled if you have yet to read the issue (unless you don't care).
@Patchy 'cause people like how the kaiser rolls!
I'm officially addicted to the Comics theme. Every other themes are dull and boring now, I can't stand to look at them for more than a few posts.
"Beast Wars anniversary"? Highly dubious.
How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser?
the kaiser stole our beast wars toys
beast wars dicketeth anniversary
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.
its the rye of the kaiser its the thrill of the the fight
Fierce Grape?
The Rye or the Kaiser.
watch?v=gyKOM3469_Y I've found this weird kids video.
Doozer Sticks
Fraggle Rock!
Happy Pop (nauseating just saying it)
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Soggy Rock
Tank Concrete!
the Third.
Flint Chesthair!
Sheeps Butt Ramsbottom
Raider of fridges, eater of food.
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MM just posted that Arnaze Battle may take the starting spot opposite Bruce away from presumed started Josh Morgan. 2 things I get from this:
I love Battle! Although it looked like he may not even make the 53 man roster with Crabtree being drafted, Jones being signed, Bruce coming back, J.Hill/D.Zeigler playing well late last year here he is in contention for a starting gig with Crabtree holding out, Jones hurt Morgan sucking J.Hill being non-existent.
I would hate for Morgan to lose the spot...Bruce/Battle combo is not scary at all and neither one can beat you downfield anymore. We need Morgan to step it up big time since Crabtree won't do much this year when/if he signs a contract.


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Climate Progress at Six Years: Why I Blog
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books….
I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts….
— George Orwell, "Why I write"
I joined the new media because the old media have failed us. They have utterly failed to force us to face unpleasant facts (see here and figure).
What I have learned most from the success of this blog, from the steady growth in page views and visitors and retweets and Facebook likes, along with the increasing number of websites that link to or reprint our posts, is that there is in fact a great hunger out there for the bluntest possible talk.
It is a hunger to learn the truth about the dire nature of our energy and climate situation, about the gravest preventable threat to our children and future generations, about the vast but still achievable scale of the solutions, about the forces in politics and media that impede action — a hunger to face unpleasant facts head on.
Unlike Orwell, I knew from a very early age, certainly by the age of five or six, that I would be a physicist, like my uncle, and I announced that proudly to all who asked.
I knew I did not want to be a professional writer since I saw how hopeless it was to make a living that way. My father was the editor of a small newspaper (circulation under 10,000) that he turned into a medium-sized newspaper (70,000) but was paid poorly, even though he managed the equivalent of a large manufacturing enterprise — while simultaneously writing three editorials a day — that in any other industry would pay several times as much. My mother, a successful interior designer and CEO, also pursued freelance writing for many years, an even more difficult way to earn a living (see also "This could not possibly be more off topic")
Why share this? Orwell, who shares far, far more in his many brilliant essays, argues in "Why I write":
I give all this background information because I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in — at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own — but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, in some perverse mood; but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write.
And no, I'm not operating under the misimpression that my writing can be compared with Orwell's. I know of no essayist today who comes close to matching his skill in writing. On top of that, bloggers simply lack the time necessary for consistently first-rate efforts. I've written more than 3 million words since launching my blog in 2006. Perfection isn't an option.
Orwell does, however, have the soul of a blogger. He has a brutal honesty that puts even the best modern memoirists to shame. And he confronts the toughest of truths, which I think is perhaps the primary quality I aspire to at ClimateProgress.org, a quality captured in the label that Rolling Stone gave me, "America's fiercest climate-change activist-blogger." Orwell asserts, "Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose."
I see more than four great motives to blog, at least for me. But let's start with Orwell's:
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death….
Inarguable. At least Orwell notes that "Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centered than journalists." I make no pretensions to be a serious writer. I'm not certain that bloggers are journalists. I think we are, however, journal-ists. What is a (web) log if not a journal?
(ii) Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement….
I dictate all of my blog posts directly onto my computer or laptop using MacSpeech Dictate. For me the sound of a good phrase, the pleasure of a headline that works, is immense.
(iii) Historical impulse. Desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.
Even more so with a blog. In the event we don't avert catastrophic global warming, I do hope that the reporting and analysis in this blog, which evolves over time, will be of use to those trying to understand just how it is that, as Elizabeth Kolbert put it, "a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself." It will be a great source of bafflement to future generations, and I suspect that as they suffer through the misery and grief caused by our myopia and greed, a literature will emerge aimed at trying to understand what went wrong, how we did this to ourselves. Perhaps ClimateProgress.org will help.
(iv) Political purpose.… Using the word 'political' in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples' idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
Orwell goes on to say of himself (emphasis added):
By nature — taking your 'nature' to be the state you have attained when you are first adult — I am a person in whom the first three motives would outweigh the fourth. In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties. As it is I have been forced into becoming a sort of pamphleteer.
His always careful word choice is telling. The Wikipedia entry on "pamphleteer" asserts, "Today a pamphleteer might communicate his missives by way of weblog."
Orwell explains the source of his evoluton:
I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience…. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.
I couldn't dream of saying it better than that.
And looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.
I also blog for at least two other reasons.
Peace of mind: I would be unimaginably frustrated and depressed if I didn't have a way of contributing to the task of saving a livable climate, a way of responding in real time to the general humbug and sentences without meaning and purple passages of those who wittingly or unwittingly spreading disinformation aimed at delaying action on climate change. I hope the comments section on the blog serves as a similar outlet for readers.
Personal growth: The act of trying to explain the science and the solutions and the politics to a broader audience forces me think hard about what I'm really saying, about what I really know and don't know. The rapid feedback and global nature of the blogosphere mean that I get to test my ideas against people who are exceedingly knowledgeable and articulate. Through this blog I have interacted with people from every walk of life, with widely different worldviews, from many continents, whom I never would have otherwise known. And all from the basement of my home, occasionally with my daughter by my side.
It boggles the mind that I have a profession that did not exist even a decade ago, but that is, in many respects, precisely what my father did, precisely what I never expected to do.
I first became interested in global warming in the mid-1980s, studying for my physics Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and researching my thesis on oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. I was privileged to work with Walter Munk, one of the world's top ocean scientists, on advanced acoustic techniques for monitoring temperature changes in the Greenland Sea.
A few years later, as Special Assistant for International Security to Peter Goldmark, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, I found myself listening to some of the nation's top experts on these issues. Even a generation ago, they knew the gravest threats that would face us today. They convinced me that global warming was the most serious long-term, preventable threat to the health and well-being of this nation and the world.
In the mid-1990s, I served for five years in the U.S. Department of Energy. As an acting assistant secretary, I helped develop a climate technology strategy for the nation. Working with leading scientists and engineers at our national laboratories, I came to understand that the technology for reducing our emissions was already at hand and at a far lower cost than was widely understood — if we had smart government policies to drive those technologies into the marketplace, policies which included putting a price on carbon dioxide pollution. Then I worked with some of the nation's leading corporations, helping them to make greenhouse gas reductions and commitment plans that also handsomely boost their profits.
After my brother lost his Mississippi home in the Hurricane Katrina storm surge and asked me for advice on whether or not he should rebuild there, I started interviewing climate experts for what turned into my previous book, Hell and High Water. Our top climate scientists impressed upon me the fact that the climate situation is far more dire than I had realized, far more dire than 98 percent of opinion makers and politicians understand — a situation that, sadly, remains true today.
I made a decision I would not pull any punches — I would get "political" as Orwell defined the term. I joined the Center for American Progress in 2006 because it had become the cutting edge think tank for both policy and communications on progressive issues. I began part time, posting on this blog once a day. As readership grew and ClimateProgress.org became a leading voice on energy and climate issues, I began posting more. Now I'm a full-time blogger, writing several times a day and also featuring guest posts from some of the best writers and thinkers on the subject. CP also has a terrific clean energy blogger, Stephen Lacey.
A key goal of this blog today is to save you time. There is far too much information on climate science, clean energy solutions, and global warming politics for anyone to keep up with. And the status quo media simply puts out too much analysis, most of it quite bad. And yet everyone needs to follow this issue, needs to have an an informed opinion on the most important issue of the decade and the century.
The terrific commenters on this blog bring facts, links, nuance — and even reasoned push-back — to what gets written here. You often direct me to a breaking story or study I haven't seen, giving me the jump on others in the blogosphere. You are a key reason Time magazine named Climate Progress one of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010." And that's why I worked to bring back the old comments system.
The ultimate reason that I blog is because there's still time to act and make a difference. Just because the catastrophic climate changes we are headed toward will probably be irreversible for hundreds of years or longer, that doesn't mean they are unstoppable.
We are going to adopt the clean energy strategies described on this blog. That is a certainty. But the question of our time is, will we do it fast enough?
Humanity has only two paths forward at this point. "The choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline," as President Obama (!) said in April 2009. Either we voluntarily switch to a low-carbon, low-oil, low-net water use, low-net-material use economy over the next two decades or the post-Ponzi-scheme-collapse forces us to do so circa 2030. The only difference between the two paths is that the first one spares our children and grandchildren and countless future generations untold misery.
As I wrote above, if I have learned anything from the blog, it is that there is in fact a great hunger out there to face unpleasant facts head on. And that is possibly the most reassuring thing I have learned in the past six years. Thank you all for that!
This post is a (slight) revision.
Note: Michael Tobis (and Stephen Ban) gave us the top figure. It is probably time to update that chart, since our inaction has shifted "most informed opinion" to overlap almost exactly with "Considered Unreasonable: Not reported."
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30 Responses to Climate Progress at Six Years: Why I Blog
Thank you Joe!
I am grateful for this blog and the work it does, even though I usually reserve my comments for criticism and "reasoned push-back" (at least, I hope that's how my comments come across, though I'll be the first to say that at times my emotions get too involved).
Thank you for the work you do, Joe. I think there are many ways that this blog could be better, but I'll save that for another time. Congratulations on your accomplishments and success over the last six years.
What's the copyright status on that graphic?
PS I ask because its absolutely awesome and I'd like to use it and maybe tweak it.
Was your brother's place near Bay St. Charles Mississippi? I've been there a couple of times recently and it's never recovered from Katrina.
I have a boat in storage near Kenner with a lot of equipment on it and the airport nearby (Louis Armstrong International) has reported a few gusts to near 50 mph but it's only the 6 PM reporting and Isaac hasn't made landfall yet. the winds have been pretty good so far with 42 mph gusts the highest until the 47 mph gusts reported an hour ago.
There's a mark painted on the Interstate 10 overpass near Pass Christian/Bay St. Charles where the high water from Katrina reached. It was 27′ 8″. The aldermen want it taken off since nobody's rebuilding there.
I just checked the wind at Louis Armstrong and it's NE at 38 with a 55 mph gust. I can't do anything anyway since I'm at relatives in Memphis and Kenner is in a low area although it's got upgraded seawalls and post-Katrina protection.
It's difficult to break into Louisiana but the people are generous and kind, although not very progressive. More than I can say for Tennessee. They're positively regressive in Memphis and they suppress half the population out of spite. They cut off their own noses in this spite.
It looks like Houma is going to get hit and New Orleans may be spared.
Keep up the good work, Joe. Even though there's obviously still a ton of work to be done on the climate and energy fronts, your blog is certainly helping to get the message out on the dangers of unmitigated climate change & the impacts that are already being felt.
When I started commenting on blogs the consensus seemed to be that global warming was a serious, but ultimately manageable problem, even at its worst. Those who said so were deemed alamist.
If the Joe Romms of the word were alarmist then what was I. Hence I chose the nom de doom, as Joe called it, Rabid Doomsayer.
As science filled in the blanks the picture inevitably worsened. As the Science changed so did Joe's tone.
As fast as the science changed, mother nature changed faster. Faster than even my dire predictions. Time to update the graphic Joe, catastrophie is no longer the thin tail of opinion.
Five years ago I felt I was alone, I wasn't but it sure felt that way. Now I find out some of those who chastised my dire position actually were sayning the same things privately.
Not Bay St Charles, but Bay St. Louis. All those saints are hard to keep track of.
Your blog is the best there is on climate change, Joe, and you are providing a service of enormous value to the world, and for that, thank you. I hope that President Barack Obama reads your blog regularly and that he will be inspired, or shamed into, making climate change a key part of his re-election strategy; and that, should he win office again, his second term will focus first and foremost on climate change action. It is certainly the most useful thing he could do. His first term was largely wasted. We should have known from his lacklustre inauguration speech that he wasn't going to live up to the extraordinary promise of his 'Yes we can' campaign, but we didn't. Maybe America will give him a chance to do the right thing this time.
Having read George Orwell's best-known work, 1984, I must say I could hardly find the energy to finish it, the English was so challenging and the plot seemed to be going nowhere. So I can readily attest to the fact that your blog is a much easier and more compelling read, Joe.
As much as I admire this blog, I sure hope we're not all doing this six years hence! But if duty calls I know Joe will be the first to answer
Thank you for this post and for sharing the journey that brought you here.
With all the grim news of late, this was a bright spot.
I think it is very important to keep in mind what makes us human (in a GOOD way) and why we do the things we do.
Fortunately there are people like you—-brilliant, brave, compassionate souls—- who are trying to make the world a better place.
As Rabid Doomsayer writes above, I too, felt alone with my concerns about climate change but less so after discovering your blog.
We are social creatures . . we do need each other!
You may not have all the answers and I must admit — this site can be VERY depressing but thank you, thank you, thank you for doing what you do!!
PS There is a new book on Orwell (his diaries)—-any of these quotes from the book?
If things keep on as they are . . I hope we are here six years hence!
I think there is enough energy/brilliant minds/creativity/passion to move this out of the realm of words/blogs/facts to . . ACTION!
Bill . . Joe . . others?? Let's figure out what we can DO!?
The facts are there, time to focus on action steps while there is time . . .
A lot of that echoes with me, Joe, and I'm sure many others too. It would be hard to find rest without knowing that I was doing something to help, however small my part. And – yes – it is important to maintain a record of these strange times – the leaps forward in understanding yet at the same time the ever-present forces of denial. Thanks for all the good work.
You totally rock. Yes to everything you said and more. As Jared Diamond commented at the end of Collapse – we have an exponentially increasing ability to make things worse, and an exponentially increasing ability to understand that. The question is which exponent has the higher power.
You are a major part of the second trend and we have network effects upping our power!
I was honored to (twice!) shake the hand of Bill McKibben and just got back from Al Gore's training and the message I am seeing everywhere is "They lied. Just like tobacco did. They fooled us once. Not this time. Call out the destroyers of our planet. We KNOW how to fix this."
No more toning it down for the childrens' sake. We need to STOP toning it down – for the childrens' sake
Thank you for everything you do. If I had to choose whether Orwell was born or you were – it's no contest.
Hey Carol (and Bill too if you are 'listening')- Is it time to convene a National (Continental) Climate Change Congress? I just came from Al Gore's (Climate Reality Project) 3 day climate leader's training. I have participated with 350.org. I do my own local climate activism. How about 1 or 2 years from now- the entire spectrum of climate folks (From Gore, Kerry, Hansen, Mckibben, Romm to delegates from every state in the union) gather in a citizen's congress in order to 1) Issue a unified Declaration of Climate Sanity 2) Issue a unified, unequivocal call for a Green Apollo Program 3)Create unified strategies around climate education and activism (E.g.- an effective targeted media strategy where articles by 'mainstream' media that practice false equivalency, etc. are immediately 'called out) 4) Confer upon climate change the gravity and legitimacy that a congress infers. Is it time to come together in such a unified show of focus and support? I would be thrilled to co-ordinate such a project!
This blog will surely have an honoured place when the history of the Great Climate Disaster is written. I hope you never tire of it Joe.
This blog provides my daily dose of climate sanity. I thank you, Joe, for that. At the end of his recent TED talk, Jim Hansen said, "Now you know what I know." Yes, I do, though not nearly as in-depth, and in large part it is due to your blog.
Joe Romm, you are a national treasure, please don't even slow down.
Speaking of Orwell, I strongly recommend Homage to Catalonia, about his time as a Loyalist volunteer during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was seriously wounded in the neck and returned to England, but the book is notable for other reasons.
It turns out that the Loyalists were defeated by Franco because of internal strife. There were two major factions and one minor one, and they turned their guns on each other, demoralizing the troops and energizing the fascists.
There's a lesson for us here. I've heard people quibble on blogs about their allies' approaches, personalities, and politics. We don't have time for that. The mission, and the facts, are clear, and we have to work together against our common enemy: the fossil fuel companies, and their allies in government and media. They are soft targets, and will collapse if we succeed in getting the real story to the American people. It's been a frustrating journey, but I feel privileged to be able to fight for a cause that dwarfs things like wars and ideologies.
It is also a privilege to have been able to meet and work with so many dedicated warriors from all over the world.
This is a very good post and Joe Romm for many years, has been one of the most outspoken individuals pushing for immediate action on climate change.
Climate Change will have profound effects on virtually every aspect of civilization including transportation, yet tragically, transportation advocacy for positive change barely mention climate change; even though net zero mobility solutions have terrific potential in greatly reducing emissions and material waste.
For this reason I have posted a link to this most important post on Streetsblog.Org.
Note that the TeaParty organized from *within* the GOP and then seized the agenda…. and how did they do that? (1) Money, (2) Media, (3)… and this is where you come in…. running candidates for local and state offices in the ____GOP primaries_____. Time for an ecological/climate revolution from within the ranks of the democrats.
Notice that it would pull a lot of Greens (like me) back into the fold.
Thank you! Excellent ideas!
This is what we need.
I am working with a public radio station in the midwest in addition to working with members of the Robert M. (fightingbob) LaFollette organization based in Wisconsin.
Bill M. will be a featured speaker at fightingbobfest in Madison on September 15.
Last year the event drew nearly 10 thousand people!
I'll make sure your points are brought up at this event.
Let me know how I can stay in touch with you as one of the Midwestern representatives for such an endeavor.
Thanks for the continued inspiration and passion, Joe. I promise to keep doing what I can to be part of your echo chamber.
My favourite Orwell quote, hugely applicable to Joe's writing here:
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
I have been a daily reader of climate progress for about 4 years. In that time, this blog has been a primary and valuable source of climate change news for me. Thank You.
I'm also a big fan of Orwell. When drawing inspiration and guidance from his writings, however, it is important to keep in mind how different the social and political milieu of Europe in the 1930-40s was from our own current situation, especially in regard to climate change.
In "Why I Write", Orwell says, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity"
Unfortunately, in light of the record-breaking heat waves, drought, and ice cap melting this summer, we appear to be moving faster than we thought we would to a time when it will be nonsense to write about any major social or political issue without addressing climate change. For now, however, almost half of all Americans appear ready to vote for a presidential candidate who denies the dire severity of climate change and openly shills for a wonton and suicidal expansion of unmitigated fossil fuel use. The vast majority of these American voters are not the kind of totalitarian fascists whom Orwell fought against and wrote about. They work alongside of us at our jobs. They are often our neighbors, and may even be our friends. We frequently have pleasant and rational interactions with them. There are no brownshirts in the streets of our neighborhoods and bombs falling from the sky. The shared threats that we and our children face from climate change are for most Americans still too abstract and distant to motivate meaningful action to address the problem, or even serious discussion about it.
As such, I regard the challenge of building political consensus for immediate action on climate change to be much more like the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, when it was relatively easy for the majority of Americans to look away from the self-desctructive evils of racism. While there much from Orwell to draw on, we should with an equal share look to the teachings of Martin Luther King for guidance on how to loosen the powerful grip that the fossil fuel companies have on our political system, and to rally our friends and neighbors to act with us to save our children from the real and present dangers of anthropogenic climate change.
Thanks for all that you do, Joe. Those of us working to return our country to evidence-based decision making need the knowledge and inspiration that Climate Progress provides.
Hey Carol:
I am glad for the enthusiasm. You can contact me at email@example.com just a bit about me: Stanford University Grad 1985 (International Relations). Climate Activism: *)I put up a response billboard to the Heartland 'UniBomber' billboard- got some media coverage for that. *) Developing a TedTalk interweaving my personal health story with the 'story' of climate change (go to: http://www.itsphysics.org ), my climate website for more details. *) Made a VERY satirical Youtube video about climate change denial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvF97cf6x6c
I really would LOVE to co-coordinate such a National Climate Change Congress. I think it is time- certainly in the 1 or 2 years it would take to organize – things could be mighty interesting in the climate sphere.
I'm relatively new to this blog but am already a devoted follower, and for the exact reasons that Joe cites: "a great hunger … for the bluntest possible talk," and the way the blog distills the best (and worst) of all things climate-related. Please keep up the good work. You do Orwell proud.
Thank you Joe! Terrific work.
Thanks Joe.
Joe, as a regular reader (who so far has never written a comment on your blog), I want to use my first comment to offer you my humble gratitude for your efforts.
Your work keeps me informed in a way none other source does. The information that you collect and contribute is immensely important for my work toward a better future here in Finland. Thank you.


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Global Projects and Tools Committee - Application 2
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|Applicant's Name
|Brad Causey
|Current and past OWASP Roles
|OWASP OpenPGP Extensions for HTTP Reviewer
|Committee Applying for
|Global Projects and Tools Committee
Please be aware that for an application to be considered by the board, you MUST have 5 recommendations. An incomplete application will not be considered for vote.
|Who Recommends/Name
|Role in OWASP
|Recommendation Content
|Arturo Busleiman (a.k.a Buanzo)
|Project Leader
|Brad is an exceptional individual, a through professional. OWASP would only get better with him in the Projects and Tools Committee. I met him during OWASP EU Summit 2008 in Portugal. Matt Tesauro, himself and I worked together to give a presentation on security at the Algarve University with < 12 hours to spare. Brad is great at getting feedback, combining ideas. A must.
|Rogan Dawes
|Project Leader
|I think Brad would make an excellent addition to the Committee. He is an exceptional individual, technically excellent as well as committed to ensuring the success of OWASP.


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Is there any good free online tool to collect coordinate positions given, say a trajectory; or a polygon. For example, retrieve all coordinates between two points, every 500 meters. Many thanks.
You might try using the ArcGIS REST Geometry Service, which gets installed by default with ArcGIS Server.
The Densify method would allow you to create points along a great circle path based on some spacing. You would provide the first an last points, or at least 3 points in the case of a polygon.
For example this url returns points every 200 km. between Longitude 98E, Latitude 24N and Longitude 20E Latitude 55N (degrees). This url makes the same request but asks for an html formatted response instead.


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I am attempting to install OpenTreeMap in a Ubuntu environment. Hosted at DigitalOcean, one of their "Droplets". As part of the install process I have installed and configured Virtual Box and Vagrant to virtualize the environment. I have made it part-way through various
apt-get install and each time, I am disconnected from the Virtual box.
[Unpacking libicu48 (from .../libicu48_22.214.171.124-3_i386.deb) ... [/*varies*/]
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed by remote host.
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.
I execute using:
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
Once virtualized, the connection is closed when downloading/installing packages. Not always the same stop point, but it always forces a disconnect. I am still connected to my box via SSH, and when I run
vagrant status I show the virtual box as "aborted":
Current VM states:
default aborted
The VM is in an aborted state. This means that it was abruptly
stopped without properly closing the session. Run `vagrant up`
to resume this virtual machine. If any problems persist, you may
have to destroy and restart the virtual machine.
UPDATE: Tried the recommendation in the comments, I got further through the process and closer, but it is still forcing a disconnect through normal use of
vagrant. This time, at a
pip install command.
Any clue as to why this might be occurring?


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Police in Birmingham are investigating
the death of a man who was shot and then dropped off at the
Police spokesman Sergeant Johnny Williams Junior says
22-year-old Kirwin King was shot early Saturday and driven to
Princeton Baptist Medical Center. He was pronounced dead on
There have been no arrests. Anyone with information is asked to
call Birmingham police at 254-1764 or CrimeStoppers at 254-7777.
King is the city's 34th homicide victim this year compared to 32
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Rat face and beloved former
firefighter Steve Buscemi:
Outsourcing plastic surgery? Interesting.
No worries, David. Just don't turn into Ken Schram.
There's actually a growing movement by corporations towards outsourcing major surgeries. It's cheaper to fly someone out to India, perform the surgery, stay in the hospital for a few days and fly back than to simply go to a local hospital here.
He just said he wanted the jaw, not to totally look like him. Typical tabloid story - catchy headline, much weaker text in the story itself.
yeah, because an adult having half of his face changed to look like a movie star is like switching the part on your hair, no big deal.
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Democrats will have enough votes to pass healthcare reform in the Senate by next week, said Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday.
Durbin defended concessions made by Democrats to win over centrists' votes, and rejected using the budget reconciliation process to force through a more aggressive health bill.
"We are moving toward 60 — we think we'll have it by next week," Durbin said during an appearance on MSNBC. "There's so many positive things in this bill, I think we see our way to pass it and make things significantly better for most families."
Durbin said that he empathized with liberals' frustration over the compromises, but said they were part of political reality for Senate leaders.
"I am one of those progressives and I support the public option, but I can count. In the Senate, you need 60. And if you don't have 60, you're empty-handed," the Illinois Democrat explained. "And in this case, you need to find a way to get to 60 votes. And that means accommodating and making concessions on a lot of issues we'd rather not make concessions on."
The concessions led Vice President Joe Biden to suggest on Tuesday that Lieberman will now finally support Democrats' health bill.
Durbin also rejected using budget reconciliation, a tactic some liberal activists have urged that would allow Democrats to pass legislation with only 51 votes. The majority whip said that many substantive parts of the health bill would be gutted by such a move.
"Reconciliation is a very spare and thin process with limited opportunities. For example, no insurance reform if we do reconciliation," Durbin said. "I think they understand, as we do, that's a very important element in this package."
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What should I avoid while taking doxepin (Sinequan) (Sinequan)?
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I am trying to install OpenCV in CentOS 6. When I run the command
[root@cosmas opt]# sudo yum install libtiff4-dev libjpeg-dev libjasper-dev
it returned the follow:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirror.fraunhofer.de
* rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
Setting up Install Process
No package libtiff4-dev available.
No package libjpeg-dev available.
No package libjasper-dev available.
Error: Nothing to do
What I am doing wrong? Can anyone help me?


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Nintendo full-year figures – profits down 18%
Nintendo just posted financials for the 12 months ending March 31, 2010, showing a net income decline of 18 percent to ¥229 trillion ($2.45 billion).
Revenue fell 22 percent, down from ¥1.84 trillion ($1.97 billion) to ¥1.43 trillion ($1.53 billion).
The company blamed "price reduction on Wii hardware," "fewer strong Wii software titles in the first half" of the year and the strong yen as reasons for the decline.
Nintendo looked forward to Galaxy 2, the Vitality Sensor, 3DS and Metroid: Other M as highlights for the coming financial year.
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NIFL: Bayou Bucks organizing bus trip for game in Biloxi Saturday
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 11:00 p.m.
Bayou Bucks fans looking for a road trip Saturday may want to contact the team's offices soon. The Houma-based NIFL team is in the process of lining up a bus trip that includes round-trip transportation and a game ticket for $40, Bucks general manager Travis Carrell said. For more information on the bus trip, call (985) 851-3600.
The Bucks are 2-7 after a 50-43 loss to the Louisiana Rangers Saturday in the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center.
The FireDogs, who won the league title last season with a 15-1 record, are 2-6 this season.
In the team's earlier meeting this season, the Bucks stymied the FireDogs, 26-7 at the Civic Center.
Saturday's game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The Bucks, who are in their inaugural season, will be searching for the franchises first victory on the road. So far, Houma is 0-4 on the road.
At the end of Saturday's game, Louisiana's Troy Wright was pushed into the wall after returning a blocked field-goal attempt for a score. Wright left on a stretcher for precautionary reasons. Rangers coach Jim Goodman said Tuesday that Wright suffered a moderate concussion on the play and will probably not play Saturday at Winston-Salem. Because of severity of the concussion, Goodman was ordered by doctors to closely observe Wright during the week.
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[AMP] One More Goal [Final]
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It is an cool song
I love this song it the coolest.
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Yes! I was waiting for the final!
So glad it made it to the top of the week!
Rated 4 / 5 stars
I like it but..
Criticism time. I like how it sounds when your not singing. It's pretty well done. Whenever you start singing though i feel it could be put together better. Not your voice. But making the progression sound more natural between the instrumental parts and the vocal parts. It kinda just jerks. If that makes sense. It doesn't flow very well. It does sound good though. Good job on this one.


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Losing Weight During Pregnancy?
I just found out I'm pregnant, and I'm actually losing weight. Is this normal? Should I be worried?
It certainly seems strange to lose weight when you're creating a whole new person, but it's probably nothing to fret about. Morning sickness and the accompanying loss of appetite can cause you to shed a few pounds in the first trimester. Don't worry — you'll more than make up for this loss in the upcoming months. And remember, most women only gain between two and five pounds in the first trimester.
Still, you can (and should) take action to ensure you and baby get the nutrients you need. Prenatal vitamins are the way to go,though you might want to ask your doctor about one with a low dose of iron (the mineral can actually make nausea worse). And, try to eat whenever you can stand it. An empty stomach can actually trigger nausea, as can low blood sugar,so eat before you are hungry and always keep snacks nearby. Getting extra sleep and cutting down the stress will also work wonders for your appetite.
For an alternative remedy, try ginger. (Ginger ale, ginger candies, ginger beef with snow peas…) It has a long history of making tummies feel better. Or slip on an acupressure band, found at most drugstores.The bands — meant to ward off seasickness —help many a mom fight the queasies. If you continue to lose weight or simply can't keep anything down, talk with your doctor.


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Hello everyone.
I have encountered a weird problem.
I am using static frontpage and when I click on my browser's subscribe to this page via RSS. It takes me to the actual Page url.
However, I want to force it to subscribe to the main website not that individual page that I am using as a Static home page.
For example.
Viewing the main page at http://localhost/
When I click on Browser (Firefox) Subscribe to this page.
It takes me to the permalink of that actual page.
Which looks something like this http://localhost/mypage/feed/
Though I want to get it to open http://localhost/feed/ when I click on Subscribe to this page via Browser.
Any Solution to that?


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Lefty, Dale and Sapo, ready to head out.
Setting up at the rally. Rick's standing by the banner
Manolo, from CMA Mexico, showed up, too.
Waiting for the ride to start.
Los Cuerudos, Cd. Victoria 4x4 club.
Interesting trike.
Blessing a hot dog cart.
Airing up some tires.
Gold wings are cheap in Mexico.
Rally site seen from the hotel.
Rally ride route, out of town on 126, back on the old road.


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Released: Feb 01st, 2005
Running Time: 123
Director: Jim Powers
Company: Heatwave Gold
Cast: Gina (I), Alex Knight, Tina Fine, Tyla Wynn, Hillary Scott, Devon (I), Johnny Thrust (I), Jeremy Steele (I), Anthony Hardwood, Gia Paloma
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: All-Sex
College girls and circus porn.
The packaging is unassuming, but inside is a party waiting to explode. Director Jim Powers has mastered the college fuckfest and fully exploits it. Five impressive scenes feature hot, adventurous college-age girls - some simply willing and others extremely enthusiastic - who get thoroughly fucked, choked and ass-banged in front of a heavy crowd of thickheaded fraternity boys.
Girls like Tyla Wynn and Devon show up to numerous scenes simply to be party favors. But every girl is noteworthy. And most scenes have more than one.
The shining moment, perhaps, is when one frat dude pours his beer all over one girl's pussy and another's face. Pre-nom for Best All-Sex Release.


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Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common form of sleep apnea. It is characterized by frequent starts and stops in breathing while asleep. This type of apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax and block the airway. These muscles help to support oral and pharyngeal structures like the tongue, uvula, soft palate, and tonsils.
When the airway is either completely or partially blocked, there is usually 10 to 20 seconds of breathing cessation, which can lower blood oxygen levels. The brain panics when this happens and rouses the body to restart breathing. Generally, this is a very brief awakening that most people do not even notice or remember. It can happen over 30 times an hour all throughout the night, which significantly disrupts restful sleep cycles.
Symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
The most obvious and common sign of this type of apnea is loud snoring.
Other signs and symptoms that may occur during the night or in the daytime include:
- Excessive sleepiness during the day, leading to difficulty with focus and concentration
- Waking up in the middle of the night short of breath
- Breathing cessation throughout the night, which is usually observed by someone else
- Dry mouth and sore throat in the morning
- Chest pain upon waking up
- Morning headaches
- Mood instability like frequent bouts of depression, anxiety, or excessive irritability
- Insomnia, problems staying asleep, and/or restless sleep
- Hypertension
Not everyone who snores has obstructive sleep apnea. This type of snoring is extremely loud and identifiable through the long periods of deafening silence when breathing stops.
Typically, adults and children will differ in symptoms. For example, the hallmark of OSA in adults is excessive daytime sleepiness, to the point where they may fall asleep for short periods throughout regular daily activities.
Children with OSA may suffer from hyperactivity, malnutrition, and failure to thrive, which is where their growth rates are significantly reduced.
The poorer growth can happen for one of two reasons:
- The work of breathing is burning off a lot more calories.
- There is so much nasal and airway obstruction that it is difficult to swallow food and drink.
Symptoms can be present for years without the person knowing they have the disorder. Many will have issues for only a short period, with symptoms disappearing after weight loss, surgery, or other lifestyle changes. Symptoms may also be the result of a respiratory infection, congestion, throat swelling, etc.
Causes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
In children, enlarged tonsils or adenoids most often cause OSA. Surgical removal often leads to resolution of OSA symptoms. For adults, causes may vary and include:
- Age
- Obesity, which may cause increased soft tissue around the airway
- Structural deformities that obstruct the airways
- Decrease in muscle tone, which can be caused by alcohol, substance abuse, neurological disorders, or some other underlying health conditions.
Some scientific evidence suggests that snoring for years at a time can lead to the development of lesions in the throat, just as the vibrations from snoring can lead to nerve or neuron lesions all around the body.
Women are typically less likely to suffer from OSA than men, as men in middle years are more likely to have changing anatomy in their neck and soft tissues. Women could also be at decreased risk because of the higher levels of progesterone, but they are more likely to suffer symptoms during pregnancy and after menopause.
Furthermore, there seems to be a genetic component to OSA. Studies have shown that sufferers often have a positive family history. Lifestyle factors like drinking, smoking, and overeating increase the chances of developing the condition.
Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea
OSA is diagnosed through a series of exams and tests. A thorough history and physical is taken by the primary care physician, which includes questioning how the patient is performing in daily activities and family history. The physical exam includes examining the back of the throat for any abnormalities, checking blood pressure, and measuring neck and waistlines.
Tests used to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea are polysomnography and home sleep study sleep apnea test……
……….Read the complete article on obstructive sleep apnea.


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Corvettes to challenge Porsches and Ferraris in ALMS GT2 in 2008
General Motors still hasn't announced whether the factory GT1 Corvette C6Rs will be return to the American Le Mans Series in 2008, but there will be 'Vettes on the grid next year. Riley Technologies is building a pair of GT2 C6 Corvettes that will be run by Lou Gigliotti's team. GM has approved of the program, but they are not directly involved. They aren't the only new entrants in the GT2 class. Primetime Race Group will be preparing a customer Dodge Viper with factory support that is expected to debut at Sebring and Doran Racing is prepping a Ford GT. The GT2 class looks like it might the series to watch in 2008 with Porsches, Ferraris, Corvettes, Vipers and a Ford GT.
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(AP) Three zebras from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus briefly escaped from their downtown venue, but were quickly corralled by their trainer and two handlers.
Mali, Giza and Lima spotted an open door at the 1st Mariner Arena on Thursday and dashed onto Hopkins Place, but were rounded up a half block away.
Carrie Coleman, a veterinary technician for the circus, said it was a frightening incident, because the animals were in traffic lanes before returning to the sidewalk.
"They may have thought they were headed home," Coleman said, adding that the zebras were not hurt.
The same three zebras, plus a fourth, made a similar escape in June during the circus' visit to Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Governor Paterson: 'The Terrorists Are Laughing'
So, he still wants the mosque to be moved, and for everybody to just stop bickering.
"The longer we have this feud the more the terrorists are laughing. With worldwide terrorism on the increase, we need to be together even though we have political differences. The latest [on the 'Ground Zero Mosque'] as of this weekend is [developers] are really waiting for the Imam to come back from a trip overseas. I'm still hopeful we'll have a meeting." —Governor Paterson reiterates his position on the mosque planned near the World Trade Center site, calling on its developers to move the project to another location in Manhattan, and asking for a meeting with them to discuss offering state land as an incentive to move, during a radio interview with Monica Crowley yesterday. [NYDN]


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NBSTC launches 4 new bus services to north Bengal
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In spite of the losses incurred by the North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) because of the turmoil in Darjeeling, it has gone ahead with promoting tourism in the region.
The corporation launched its website and the schedule of its bus service on Tuesday to help people get more tourism-related information.
"Besides NSBTC, there are other government undertakings which are also coming up with tourism packages. Such initiatives are part of the infrastructure development vision which the state government has undertaken," said state Tourism Minister Manabendra Mukherjee. "If these buses start earning profit then private investors will also be encouraged to invest in tourism infrastructure in Bengal," the minister added.
For residents of Kolkata, the NBSTC has launched 10 new tourism packages during the Pujas. Besides its 12 tourist buses, which ply from Kolkata, two new ones were added on Tuesday linking the city with the Dooars.
The NBSTC in the past one year has extended its tourism services to other divisions in Siliguri, Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Malda, Beharampur and Raigunj. According to some officials, it was important to extend the tourism in the region beyond Darjeeling.
"We have been operating bus services for a long time. But for the past few years, we have been thinking of promoting tourism in Bengal by also offering tourism packages and buses solely dedicated for it. In the past, we had introduced such services in other divisions but from today we will include Kolkata too," said Samir Bandopadhay, MD, NBSTC.
Four new bus routes of NBSTC from Kolkata have been launched that include Kolkata to Dooars, Kolkata to Siliguri, Kolkata to Sikkim, Kolkata to Bhutan. "We are trying to promote areas in the Dooars, which are yet to be exploited. From Kolkata the tourist flow is usually to Darjeeling and Kalimpong but with continuous unrest, people are trying out newer options like Gorumara forest, Jaldapara in the Dooars and places like Thumpu, Rocky Island among others," said Utam Gon, Divisional Manager, NBSTC (Siliguri). "From the 10 new tourist packages, we hope to draw a net profit of Rs 5 lakh," Gon added.