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The NY Times gets it wrong, again!
Its detractors should note: the L'Aquila conference did move vital climate change legislation forward.
If you believe recent media reports, the two international climate change meetings held last week in L'Aquila, Italy, at best failed to do anything and at worst signal that no serious progress will be made on a global climate agreement this year.
If true, this is bad news. According to the byzantine rules of the Kyoto Protocol, set to expire in 2012, a successor to that treaty must be decided this December at the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen.
The good news is that many of the assessments of these meetings are incomplete, if not inaccurate. A New York Times editorial on Friday, for instance, based its argument in language from a draft of a declaration — not from the document itself. The Times described the recognition by the world's major carbon emitters that temperatures should not increase more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels as an "aspirational" goal. They concluded that "with global climate talks in Copenhagen only five months away, aspirational goals won't carry things very far." But this weakened, "aspirational" language was struck in the final version of the document, rendering this claim obsolete.
All in all, the twin declarations emerging from the G-8 and the Major Economies Forum (MEF) indicate that progress has been made on the road to Copenhagen. So why the rush to publish such dour reports from Italy, whether accurate or not? It's simple: Invested parties had unrealistic expectations of meetings, which have no binding impact on the upcoming U.N. summit.
There were, of course, disappointments. Developed countries in the G-8 failed to agree on the medium-term goal of reducing reductions targets by 2020. Developing nations, especially China and India, refused to embrace the long-term goal of halving global emissions by 2050, a cap most of the world's leading scientists believe is essential to avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
But if we only focus on what did not happen, we miss seeing the achievements made in a very short amount of time. When the United States rejoined the global discussion on a new climate treaty in January, it triggered an 11-month countdown to solve the most complicated problem humanity has ever faced. For the 16 countries responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions to recognize even one marker of failure — a rise in temperature over 2 degrees Celcius — is fantastically impressive. A week before the Italy meetings, negotiators doubted that this language would make the final cut.
Some will argue that it's easy to agree on an abstract target like limiting planetary warming. But the G-8 struck an appropriate balance in creating objectives that are both ambitious and achievable. Industrialized countries finally determined their fair share of long-term emissions cuts: 80 percent by 2050. Plus, U.S. President Barack Obama prudently hedged on setting a 2020 emissions target. The Markey-Waxman climate change bill, which includes emissions cuts, is working its way through Congress. While it does, the president should not signal that he will preempt or undercut the legislature.
What about China and India's apparent intransigence to halving emissions by 2050? The fact is that the United States cannot criticize their behavior. If a Chinese leader had promised to join the world eight years ago in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and then reversed course — as former President George W. Bush did in 2001 — the United States would hardly agree to his demands now. So it is with China and India. It will take incentives, diplomacy, and, most of all, time to bring about world-saving targets from them.
Ultimately, the most promising parts of last week's agreements received only marginal coverage. The MEF announced that developed countries will double clean-energy funding for developing nations — putting pressure on those countries to commit to emissions reductions in exchange, as agreed upon at the Bali summit in 2007. Additionally, the participating countries agreed to determine how they will finance their plans by the G-20 meeting in September.
The countries assembled last week didn't get everything settled on the first go around. But in light of their accomplishments, we should hold off on our rush to proclaim failure.
This post by Andrew Light, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University, was first published here.
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"President Barack Obama prudently hedged on setting a 2020 emissions target."
So, the good news is that Obama isn't going to put pressure on Congress to pass meaningful legislation with strong short term targets? What's the bad news?
Why is there such a strong effort to convince us that our elected officials are doing great? Until they are doing enough to actually avoid catastrophic tipping points, our job is to keep pressuring them and letting them know that we're not happy. Even if they really do have our best interests in mind, they need us to keep showing our dissatisfaction with their half-measures. Our job is to be tough on them, and it's a shame that the New York Times is doing that job better than CAP.
While I agree, the statement regarding a 2 degree commitment is a good step forward – you state that industrial nations agreed in principle to emissions reductions agreements of "80% by 2050". But you failed to mention the fact that no baseline year was agreed to. In fact, the language used by the G8 communique was "We also support a goal of developed countries reducing emissions of greenhouse gases in aggregate by 80 per cent or more by 2050 compared to 1990 or more recent years"
We all know the IPCC targets are based off of 1990 emissions levels, whereas the US has conveniently pushed to use more relaxed 2005 levels – 23% higher than the 1990 baseline domestically. What happened to Obama's promise of restoring science to the White House, rather than using slick rhetoric? Technically speaking – the G8 "agreement" allows them to use whatever baselines they want. 1990, 2005, 2010? We've seen countries exploit every loophole they can on this issue – and this is a major one.
We simply cannot continue accepting one small step after another. We all know the clock is ticking scientifically and politically. Joe, you seem to be regularly dismissing efforts that you see as being outside of the current "political reality" – but the fact is that the current political reality is failing us, and will continue to do so unless we change it. Any overview of the history of social change will show that if our movements are always willing to accept the current political reality, very little will ever change.
I can't say that I agree either. I was pleased by even the modest declaration, even though it came with no mid-term goals.
But less than 24 hours after the declaration, both Canada and Russia broke ranks and said they have no need to make deeper emission cuts, and that the goal is aspirational. (Canada is promising to cut emissions by 60% by 2050, with a 2006 baseline (the baseline meaning that Canada will miss its modest Kyoto target by 30+%).
(I wrote about it here)
I'm embarrassed to be Canadian with Stephen Harper in power. The NGO's are calling Canada a climate bully… I sure as hell wish a few world leaders would, too.
The temperature has not hit 85 degrees this year in all of June. The New York times can proudly write that our goals in lower temps have been attained. It sure wasn't carbon tax that caused the cool season.
[JR: Wow a very tiny part of the Earth was slightly cool for 30 days — you make an impressive argument for screwing the next 50 generations!]
I hope this is a joke, since Joe has just published the report that June is the second hottest on record GLOBALLY:
Otherwise, you really don't understand the meaning of GLOBAL warming.
Hey Gary:
I'll see your cool summer in the US, and raise you a heat wave across India and Europe.
It's called global warming (and I was going to call you dumb a$$ but I figured it was against Joe's rules).
See the story he just posted here.
The final statement I read DID have the 2 degree aspirational goal in it….." We recognize the scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2 degrees C."
This from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Declaration-of-the-Leaders-the-Major-Economies-Forum-on-Energy-and-Climate/ dated July 9, 2009.


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A pre-trial hearing on Friday, February 7 for the woman believed by authorities to be the mother of two newborns whose remains were found in South Dakota in an apparent homicide has been postponed.
Kelly Anderson-Person, 34, of Hendricks, formerly of Clarkfield, informed Yellow Medicine County District Judge DuWayne Knutsen that she had retained private council to represent her. As a result, Knutsen ordered that the pre-trial hearing scheduled for the day be moved back.
The Yellow Medicine County Attorney's filed charges against Anderson-Person for endangering a child stemming from an interview with two South Dakota investigators at her Clarkfield home last August. According to the complaint, she allegedly pointed a gun at her own head, while holding her nine-month old child, after admitting that she disposed of the two infants who were found by authorities in November of 2012 on property located on Fish Lake in Deuel County in eastern South Dakota.
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I'd like to see the (Buddypress activity) "Post" button appear permanently or for it to expand/appear when using an Activity Plus function, so I'm looking for a novel solution.
On the older version of my site I just did some fooling around and made it so that the Post button came before the expand effect, but that is an inferior solution as the activity box expands blankness when the text field is clicked and the post button looks awkwardly aligned.
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Berin Loritsch wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Berin Loritsch" <email@example.com> > To: <email@example.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:39 AM > Subject: ClassLoader issues... > > > My next attempt will be to separate out the XSL pages > > into their own Jar file, and see if that works. It may > > be something flaky like the ClassLoader associated with > > WebSphere does not recognize a package if there are no > > classes in it. Mayby a Dummy class in each of the > > packages with XSL sheets will force it to load. > > > > Any further insight from those who know? > > The Dummy class trick didn't work. It found the class, > but not the resources. This is frustrating. Basically, > unless the resources are in a separate archive, and in > the SystemClassLoader, then Cocoon can't find the resources > in IBM WebSphere. > > What do you guys think? Should we separate out the > XSP/Sitemap resources into another Jar file, or live with > EVERYTHING in the System classpath? Well, I don't know. I can't see which is producing the problem. Is it Tomcat or WebSphere which has implemented something incorrect? If it is WebSphere and we cannt use the war file (because of xml4j) we should suggest putting all into the System classpath. BTW can't we use XML4j instead of Xerces for C2? Is C2 depandant on Xerces? Giacomo > > We might be able to parse the ClassPath setting looking for > cocoon.jar, and build the URL with the format like this: > > jar://path/to/cocoon.jar!/path/to/resource.xsl > > It might be the most portable way to do it... ??
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Is there any way to debug bash script without using echo and logging?
I'm talking about using breakpoints and stuff like that.
Yes there is Bash Debugger Project.
You can also use
good luck!
There several different ways, i.e.:
shellcheck is the best in the town --
you can also integrate with vim, here is the git repo --
To the tune of what NES is saying there are set flags in bash to allow for debugging.
the set -x flag may be set and unset either from the terminal, or from withing your script. using + or -
here is what the set commands do:
set -f Disable file name generation using metacharacters.
set -v Prints (verbose) shell input lines as they are read.
set -x Print command traces before executing command.
set actually has many features, but woefully no man page as it is a shell built in tool The manual for set is here https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-Builtin.html
there are numerous command line tools which could help you gain details about your program like:
stat #display file or file system status
file #determine a file type.
hexdump #filter which displays the specified files in a variety of formats
nohup #Run a script that wont hang
and numerous others. I was trying to think of the command that shows hidden characters, but i cant do it right now. Hexdump will do it but there is a better one.
The key command "ctrl \" will cause a running program or script to core dump. Then you could analyze the coredump. I would probably use gdb to analyze a coredump, but many programs exist for that.
The bash shell has some nifty options for debugging too. options "--debugger", "-v" verbose, "--dump-strings" and other nifty options to assist you. Check them out using $man bash.
The trap command (shell built in) could be very helpful for you. trap says if your program exits unexpectedly, execute something. You read about trap, and other handy Bash Shell built ins here: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bourne-Shell-Builtins.html
Speaking generally for the moment, debugging is a huge topic in any language. Some other topics that can be handy for debugging in any programing language include, shell redirection and, signal processing.
Finally, I realize the example I used is trivial, but that some shell scripts can be hundreds of lines. In those situations, I like to either insert comments tags and block out code I suspect is faulty, or Alternatively, insert an exit command, and try to isolate the functional code from the broken code, using a divide and conquer technique.
You can use this small function to drop into "console":
Then, inside your script (EXAMPLE):
It will accept any command, keeping local variables intact. To exit "debug" mode, type "exit" (it won't exit the script) and it will continue with the code. If you use "debug" inside a loop, it will stop each time. You can wrap it inside an "if" (as in the example above), or create a "watch" function:
I also added "vars" command which will dump all the available variables and their values. You can add your own customized commands as well.
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With three people in the car on a roadtrip for 7 days, sometimes the conversation can get a little stale. After all, the average person can not save up enough to talk about and evenly distribute the conversation across the whole trip.
This is not the case when you travel to Port Douglas and the surrounding areas. There was never more than 10 minutes without one of the three of us spotting an opportunity to point, comment wow, then proceed to inform the other two of the sight being witnessed.
From a scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef, to a outback road drive to Cooktown, to a tropical rainforest canopy walk in Daintree National Park, a week in Port Douglas would never be enough. But alas, with 7 days.... we made the most of it!
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Another nice page of you!
Gr8 page here Mark, it brought back a lot of memories of our visit here years ago. I went in the small sub-big mistake I should've gone skin diving like my family (& you) - then I wouldn't have gotten sea sick LOL !
Time to dust off my snorkel and head back here - its been too long!
Isn't Port Douglas a gorgeous part of FNQ! My parents spend their winters there enjoying the mild weather and shopping at the Sunday market!
Glad you found Nemo and had a great first dive!
Another place I WILL get to see one day........ : )
Nice part of the country. I can't wait to see what else you post.
:) Good start, Hey I see you did the Cooktown track....I LOVE this part of the world, I think Cooktown could do with a good cafe'....there is so much one could do there, business wise!
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In the spring of 1915, Jim Mack and "the Doyler," two Dublin boys, make a pact to swim to an island in Dublin Bay the following Easter. By the time they do, Dublin has been consumed by the Easter Uprising, and the boys' friendship has blossomed into love--a love that will in time be overtaken by tragedy. O'Neill's prose, playing merrily with vocabulary, syntax, and idiom, has unsurprisingly drawn comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but in his creation of comic characters (such as Jim's pathetic but irrepressible father) and in the sheer scale of his work, Charles Dickens springs to mind first. But Dickens never wrote a love story between young men as achingly beautiful as this.
In the character of Anthony MacMurrough, who is haunted by voices as he pursues his illegal and dangerous desire for Dublin boys, O'Neill has created a complex and fascinating center to his novel, rescuing the love story from mawkishness, and allowing a serious meditation on history, politics, and desire. For as Ireland seeks its own future free of British government, so Jim, Doyle, and MacMurrough look back to Sparta to find a way to live. As Dr Scrotes, one of MacMurrough's voices, commands:
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Description: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is frequently associated with negative occupational, social and psychological outcomes among community samples of adults; as such, it is expected that college students with ADHD face similar struggles. The research targeting this group of individuals, however, is sparse and tempered by significant limitations. The current study aimed to address methodological limitations in the current literature by including instruments to formally diagnosis ADHD and comorbid disorders, utilizing psychometrically sound instruments and comparing functioning of college students with ADHD across gender and subtype. It was hypothesized that participants with ADHD would report lower GPAs, higher levels of emotional distress and negative relationship characteristics than participants without ADHD. It was also hypothesized that participants with ADHD-combined type (ADHD-C) would report higher levels of substance and alcohol use than participants with ADHD-predominately inattentive type (ADHD-I), and that participants with ADHD-I would report higher levels of anxiety and depression than participants with ADHD-C. Women diagnosed with ADHD were expected to report higher levels of anxiety and depression than men diagnosed with ADHD; whereas, men diagnosed with ADHD were expected to report higher levels of substance and alcohol use than women. MANOVA, ANOVA and Mann-Whitney U tests were conducted to test hypotheses. ...
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Description: The current study examined the role that parent-child attachment plays in the relationship between marital conflict and the development of behavior problems in adolescents. To evaluate the hypothesis that attachment moderates this relationship, 57 families were recruited via e-mail invitation sent to families that participated in local church youth groups, school organizations, and a treatment program designed for adolescents with behavior problems. One custodial parent and his/her adolescent child completed an online or paper version of a survey consisting of the Achenbach's Behavior Checklists, the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, and the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale. Hypotheses were evaluated using Baron and Kenny's (1986) procedures to test moderating effects with multiple regression analyses. Mother attachment demonstrated a significant moderation effect between the intensity of interparental conflict and the parent's report of externalizing behavior problems. Specifically, at low conflict intensity levels, relative to low attachment security, high attachment security was associated with fewer externalizing behavior problems, whereas at high intensities of interparental conflict high attachment security was associated with more externalizing behavior problems.
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Adult Attachment Patterns, Mental Representation of Self, and Faith: Mediators of Childhood Trauma and Affect-Behavior Regulations in Adulthood
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Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate psychological mechanism by which four intra- and inter-personal characteristics of an individual (anxious and avoidant adult attachment patterns, images of self, and religious faith) mediate the relationship between childhood trauma and each of three affect-behavior regulation problems in adulthood (symptoms of depression, disordered eating behaviors, and substance abuse). A total of 401 college student participants completed a packet of 18 surveys including 10 surveys used in the present study. Structural equation modeling was used to test each of three hypothesized structural models (Depression, Eating Disturbances, and Substance Abuse). A series of multi-group analyses conducted to test if each of three hypothesized models is invariant across gender indicated no significant difference between females and males. Thus, the data were combined across gender to test for mediated effects in each of three hypothesized models. The results indicated: (a) for the hypothesized model for depression, anxious attachment patterns, avoidant attachment patterns, and negative self-images, but not religious faith, fully mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and symptoms of depression; (b) for the model for eating disturbances, anxious attachment and negative images of self, but not avoidant attachment and religious faith, fully mediated the association between ...
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Description: The current study examined the paternal influences on the career development of African American emerging adults. While statistics have shown that many African Americans remain in the lower socioeconomic status bracket and have worse academic and career outcomes, still many African Americans are successful. The literature seems to attribute lack of success to low socioeconomic status, but attributes success to close family relationships. However, most of these studies have focused on maternal relationships and have neglected to include the influence of paternal relationships. Studies that have examined African American fathers have emphasized their negative attributes. Previous studies have also failed to consider the influence of other factors on the career development process such as ethnic identity and psychological adjustment. This study explored the influence of contextual, family, and developmental factors on the career process of African American emerging adults. One hundred sixty-seven African American undergraduate students ages 18 to 25 were recruited for participation in this study. Regression analyses indicated that the quality of the father-child relationship influenced career development, though not in the manner expected. High levels of father support enhanced well-being for individuals with high ethnic identity, but did not produce the same results for individuals with low ...
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Anticipating Work and Family: Experience, Conflict, and Planning in the Transition to Adulthood
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Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the development of work and family plans in young adults, and to clarify the long-term stability, prevalence, and consequences of anticipated work-family conflict. The study utilizes Super's model of career development and social cognitive career theory, as well as research on current work-family interface, as a framework for understanding the period of anticipating and planning for multiple role integration that occurs between adolescence and adulthood. A sample of 48 male and 52 female college students assessed two years prior completed self-report questionnaires measuring work, marriage, and parenting experience; anticipated work-family conflict; and multiple-role planning. Results of this study suggest that students desire both a career and a family, and recognize potential challenges of a multiple-role lifestyle. Such recognition of anticipated work-family conflict varies by conflict domains and measurement methods, but remains stable over two years. Results also suggest that anticipated work-family conflict does not mediate the relationship between experience and planning; instead, marriage experience predicts planning directly. Implications for the findings are discussed as are suggestions for directions of new research concerning anticipated work-family conflict and planning for multiple roles.
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Back on the Home Front: Demand/withdraw Communication and Relationship Adjustment Among Student Veterans
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Description: Today's military encompasses a wide variety of families who are affected by deployments in multiple and complex ways. Following deployments, families must reconnect in their relationships and reestablish their way of life. Appropriate and effective communication during this time is critical, yet many military couples struggle with this process. Moreover, student service members/veterans and their families are in a unique position. In addition to coping with changes in their marital relationship, student veterans may feel isolated or unsupported on college campuses, often experiencing anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress, or suicidality. The current study seeks to bridge the gap between the military family literature and the student service member/veteran literature by examining how deployment experiences, mental health issues, and communication patterns influence post-deployment relationship adjustment among student veterans. Analyses tested whether communication style and/or current mental health concerns mediate associations between combat experiences and couples' relationship adjustment, as well as between experiences in the aftermath of battle and relationship adjustment. Results suggest that although posttraumatic stress is significantly related to deployment experiences among student veterans, participants report no significant negative effects of deployment on relationship adjustment. Communication style, however, was significantly associated with relationship adjustment, and a lack of positive communication was ...
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A Biopsychosocial Model of Dietary Restraint in Early Adolescent Boys
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Description: The current study replicated and extended previous research by examining empirically the direct and indirect influence of social pressure (to lose weight and diet), social body comparisons, internalization of the thin ideal, body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, and cardiorespiratory fitness on self-reported dietary restraint in a diverse sample of middle school boys (n = 663); Mage was 12.49 years (SD = .99). With IRB approval, parental consent, and child assent, during annual FITNESSGRAM testing, participants completed questionnaires that measured the study's constructs. Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) was determined by the boys' performance on the PACER running test. The proposed model was examined using structural equation modeling (SEM). Because measures demonstrated univariate and multivariate normality, the maximum likelihood procedure within EQS to examine the measurement and structural models was used. Fit was determined using a two-index procedure. Participants were randomly split into exploratory (Sample A - 331) and confirmatory (Sample B - 332) samples. For Sample A, the measurement and structural models fit the data well. The structural model was confirmed in Sample B, with the same paths being significant and nonsignficant. For both Sample A and Sample B, 35% of the Dietary Restraint variance was explained. These findings support a multifactorial approach to ...
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Bipolar Disorder in the Family: Impact on Functioning and Adjustment to College
Date: August 2011
Creator: Crandall, Erin
Description: Bipolar disorder is a serious mental disorder, affecting anywhere from 2 to 4 percent of Americans. Though research has indicated that this disorder can be devastating for patients, less is known about how the disorder impacts family members. There is no research that has considered impacts on family members adjusting to college. The purpose of the current study was to determine the extent to which having a family member with bipolar disorder impacts adjustment to college, as well as factors that might account for worse functioning. Two groups were recruited: students with a bipolar family member (n = 25) and students with no family history of the disorder (n = 50). Participants were interviewed regarding their own histories of a mood disorder, as well as mood disorder histories in their immediate families. They then completed surveys assessing adjustment to college, functioning, caregiving burden, parental relationship, and attachment style. Students with a family history of bipolar disorder had significantly lower social adjustment scores, lower personal-emotional adjustment scores, and lower financial functioning scores than students without this history. Lower scores were found even after controlling for psychopathology. Avoidant attachment behaviors, anxious attachment behaviors, and aspects of the paternal relationship were identified as ...
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Coaches' Influence on Male Adolescents' Achievement Motivation, Psychological Factors, and Sport Participation
Date: August 2011
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Description: The motivational climate, as created by coaches, and athletes' goal orientations are key constructs in understanding children's experiences with sport. In this study, the relationship between the perceived motivational climates, male adolescents' goal orientation, and their experiences of self-esteem, sport competence, enjoyment, and ultimately, intention to continue participating in sport was examined. Participants were 405 male adolescents (Sample A: n = 200; Sample B: n = 205) aged 13-15 years old. Structural equation modeling indicated an overall good fit to the structural model for both data sets. A task goal orientation was predicted by higher levels of coach-created task climate. Participants with higher task goal orientation had greater sport competence, self-esteem, and more enjoyment in sport; enjoyment was the only significant predictor of their intention to continue playing the sport they believe is most important over the next three years.
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Contributing Factors in the Development of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Survivors of Interpersonal Violence
Date: August 2015
Creator: Marchesani, Estee S.
Description: An understanding of factors that contribute to Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is of considerable importance to inform the prevention and treatment of the disorder. Moreover, gaining a better understanding of the factors that contribute to the etiology of CPTSD is of interest since most research to date focuses on the etiology of PTSD. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to test the hypothesized prediction between childhood exposure to violence, childhood attachment, current interpersonal factors, and CPTSD symptoms. Using data from a community clinic and shelter serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, a partial least squares path analysis approach was employed to test the model's strength in predicting contributing factors of CPTSD. Results support the proposed model, however, an alternative and more parsimonious model was found to be superior and revealed relationships between interpersonal variables and CPTSD. Specifically, women who reported child abuse and poor attachment with either parent, a perceived lack of current emotional and tangible support, and recent intimate partner violence (IPV) also reported symptoms of CPTSD. However, other variables, such as adult attachment avoidance and anxiety did not influence IPV or CPTSD as expected. Ultimately, the current findings lend support for Herman's ...
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The ability to delineate the boundaries of an emerging technology is central to obtaining an understanding of the technology's research paths and commercialization prospects. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the case of nanotechnology (hereafter identified as "nano") given its current rapid growth and multidisciplinary nature. (Under the rubric of nanotechnology, we also include nanoscience and nanoengineering.) Past efforts have utilized several strategies, including simple term search for the prefix nano, complex lexical and citation-based approaches, and bootstrapping techniques. This research introduces a modularized Boolean approach to defining nanotechnology which has been applied to several research and patenting databases. We explain our approach to downloading and cleaning data, and report initial results. Comparisons of this approach with other nanotechnology search formulations are presented. Implications for search strategy development and profiling of the nanotechnology field are discussed.
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Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Volume 10, Issue 5 , pp 715-728
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- 2008-05
- 10.1007/s11051-007-9266-y
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Bibliometric analysis
- Nanoscience and engineering
- Nanotechnology publication
- Nanopatenting
- Research profiling
- Search strategies
- Nanoinformatics
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- Alan L. Porter (1)
- Jan Youtie (2)
- Philip Shapira (1) (3)
- David J. Schoeneck (4)
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- 1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
- 2. Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0640, USA
- 3. Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-ASU), Program in Nanotechnology Research and Innovation Systems Analysis, Tempe, AZ, USA
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"He owns two hybrid cars. Well, mercy me! A real environmentalist, unlike someone who lives close enough to work and what he needs to live as to not need a car at all."
Granted it would be ideal to live close to work, but that is just not feasible for most people,
I can see the price of oil leveling off as those other sources come online, but Europe pays around $6 or more for a gallon of gas and their economy hasn't ground to a halt. The higher the price goes, the more the sectors of the economy that profit from oil alternatives will grow. The economy might groan and creak, but it won't grind to a halt because of the price of oil.
If anything, we will finally learn that we never needed oil this badly and were just afraid to try living any other way.
I did not get that he was trying to pump up oil prices. The article states he was seeing the coming "super spike" back at $40 a barrel. I dunno, China and India (soon Brazil) are all needing the stuff and we have yet to truly find massive new reserves. Sounds like demand will outpace supply...now what would that do to prices again?
speculators do have an integral purpose though.
and lets not forget that the fed has made money cheap with it's anti recessionary crap cuts. god forbid we have a much needed recession because it'll hurt poor folks in the short run (but help em in the long run)
Actually based on space-based satellite imaging of the Saudi peninsula I'm going to have to say that, while some of the current price is speculation, and some demand from India and other countries, that he's mostly right in the LONG term.
It will get even higher.
About time we started building high speed rail between cities on the West Coast ...
Man, I could kick myself for not investing in oil (and defense) stocks the second Bush was "elected" in 2000. I joked about doing that at the time, but I could have retired by now had I stopped joking and started trading...
Will, you're wrong. Jonathan, you're right -- there's more oil undiscovered or discovered but unrecoverable with current technology than the known reserves. Saudi Arabia doesn't have anything to do with it.
But the important point is this, as Elenchos was getting at: there are a number of alternative energy ideas that start to become economically feasible when oil hits about $120 a barrel. Algae biodiesel is one of them; switchgrass and wood waste fermentation is another. There are others, including some I don't know about, I'm sure. These things are very sensitive to that price; a dollar below, and no one will bother; a dollar above, and things start to move.
And the best thing that happens when things start to move is the technology gets better. Algae right now is hopeless for large-scale production; at $120 a barrel oil, it's worth learning how to do it better.
The best possible thing that could happen for alternative energy research and development is expensive oil. This is true even though there are some big negatives, too -- expensive oil ALSO makes it more worthwhile to go after those catastrophic oil sands and shales. But the net is extremely good.
If the price drops back down to $70, we're fucked. I'm rooting for a sustained $150, which would actually be close to a historic high in terms of energy cost per household income (we're way below that high now, despite what you hear on the news).
After reading True Enough I have to wonder what Mr. Murti's motivation really is for doing these types of articles. Sure, he's an analyst, thereby having legitimate cred., but his mentions of hybrid cars lead me to question if he is also doing covert PR for some company.
My reality 2008, I trust no one's message anymore.
Krugman has been asking a while where, if speculation is actually driving up the price of oil, all this hypothetically stockpiled oil has been going. It's not all that compact.
I don't think speculation is a big factor.
elenchos @2:
I can see the price of oil leveling off as those other sources come online, but Europe pays around $6 or more for a gallon of gas and their economy hasn't ground to a halt.
That argument falsely conflates the price of oil with the price of gas. Neither is trivial, but oil is a lot more influential (and globally consistent), and it's oil that we're talking about.
I've mad more money off of oil stocks than you have, Fnarf. You can be right all you want, it won't change it.
made ...
lost boy is right. the price of gas is related to the price of oil but that isn't the only factor determining gas prices. crack spreads are your friend.
I have a fun game we can play. When the inevitable oil crash comes, and all the insanely wealthy oil tycoons come to Capitol Hill looking for a handout to help them make payments on their yachts, we give them each instead a bullet in the brain.
greg, what if they pay me more to slay the belligerents?
The alternatives that you mention -- "like oil sands, oil shale, the probable massive arctic oil fields (revealing themselves thanks to the melting ice cap) and liquefied coal" -- cannot meet the gap between expected demand at current economic growth rates and likely supply.
The world currently consumes just over 85 million barrels of oil per day (mbpd). A mature and declining oilfield will typically see production declines between 3% and 10% per year, depending upon the recovery technology applied and geology of the field: East Texas fields show decline rates around 3%, while Mexico's Cantarell super-giant field has declined in excess of 10% per year. Of the largest five oilfields in the world, only Ghawar in Saudi Arabia has not passed its peak production. In order to replace the loss of production due to aging fields we need to bring 3-5 mbpd of new production online each year just to stand still.
Currently the oil sands in Canada produce just under 1 mbpd; by 2015 they are expected to produce 3 mbpd. In seven years, Canada's increased production will have offset the next six months of decline in conventional oilfields.
Oil shale may be a vast resource in theory, but since we do not yet have a functioning technology to extract its energy profitably, we cannot depend on it in the planning of our future energy supplies. In the oil industry, oil shale is known as the "energy of the future, and it always will be."
Coal to liquids (CTL) is an old idea, but very little is currently produced -- less than 1 mbpd -- that mostly in South Africa. We simply do not presently have the capacity to use CTL to offset much of the decline in existing fields. Even if we had such an industry, the price of coal has climbed just as the price of oil has, and we would not see any relief in oil prices.
The putatively "probable" Arctic oil fields are as yet undiscovered. While we may yet find oil there, the conditions for its extraction will be some of the most severe we've faced, and its entrance to the market is at least five years from the point of discovery, given the difficulty and complexity of deep-water polar drilling.
You are correct in that we will use every technology that we have available to maintain our energy supplies. But that in and of itself does not guarantee the outcome you expect. Simply having a list of alternative supplies is not sufficient to conclude that they will be able to produce adequate volumes both to maintain low oil prices and our high standard of living.
@14 - other factors in gas prices are:
a. more diesel production for China is causing shift in refineries - as diesel has a higher profit factor
b. pre-purchase of diesel and oil futures by China in preparation for the Olympic Games (no, not a joke)
c. dollar valuation compared to asset valuation - USD valuation is down compared to EU and most OPEC holdings
d. intentional speculation by oil firms in taking refineries offline for maintenance during peak demand times for gasoline - timing of these is suspect, as it allows cartels and oil firms to pump up prices and then let them stay at or near peak prices due to artificial increased demand.
Among other things.
Like the Saudi main oil fields being proven to be running out and the likelihood that a Dem president will mean no drilling in offshore and ANWR oilfields, as well as increased pollution and industry regulation.
I'd probably better pick up a barrel or two.
Just in case.
No more oil being pumped. But plenty more dollars being printed. Every day, George goes to the printing press, gets a handful of money, and throws it at military contractors.
And the Chinese are sitting on plenty of dollar reserves they can dump to buy oil as the price rises.
So yes, oil will certainly hit $200/barrel. In part because the group of people wanting to buy oil keeps growing faster than the pool of oil to sell. And in part because the pool of dollars out there keeps growing faster than the pool of oil to sell.
Too bad we didn't build the monorail.
@11, 12: are you bragging, Will? About your STOCK SAVVY? That's...just pathetic.
Next you're going to tell me you can kick my ass at golf, too.
@21 - you got that right.
I don't play golf, franF. But I've been investing for a long time, and even bought and sold options and various other securities. Golf bores me.
Fascinating. Next you'll be telling me that you can drive a car and use an ATM.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
To the drivers of the world:
RE: high fuel prices
Good! Quit your bitchin' and walk or bike, you lazy asses! You fill the air we breathe with carcinogenic chemicals every time you fire up your filthy automobile. All for your fucking convenience. Selfish pricks!
It's easy to say "Start walking and biking!", but the rest of the US does not live in urban areas, unfortunately, and as sure as Seattle didn't build the monorail, no one else has bothered to do much.
For instance, I have to drive 30 minutes to take the Baltimore subway, and they're not going to extend it, either. Not very environmental, and you can say I could move into the city (of course, Baltimore is a... little different from Seattle), but the facts for me are probably the same as for everyone else: whether by choice or birth, I have too much invested in the status quo to easily break away.
Sadly, truly reducing dependence on earth killing oil is only going to come when politicians and oil companies gain hindsight (saying "invest in alternate energy" is hardly looking to the future now), or when your average joe is slammed against the wall and hurt to the point where it makes an effect on votes.
fnarf, I'm going to shoot a 72 this weekend.
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Skip to comments.Twitter Backlash for People Who Did Not Know Titanic Was Real
Posted on 04/13/2012 9:56:24 PM PDT by grundle
The social news-sharing site Reddit has a knack for exposing people and situations. The latest topic of discussion to generate controversy is a series of tweets from people who did not know that the sinking of the Titanic was a real historical event.
Apparently, an entire generation of people associate "Titanic" with the Hollywood blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Here is the disambiguation for you. The RMS Titanic sank April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. The tragedy is considered one of the deadliest of peacetime maritime disasters. More than 1,500 people died.
"Titanic" the film was released December 19, 1997, and was an instant success. It became the highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years, until "Avatar" debuted in 2009.
For all the history buffs reading this, the next couple of sentences may be too painful to contemplate. A couple of the tweets from the uninformed read, "Nobody told me titanic was real? How am I just finding this out?" Another tweet read, "Guys, the Titanic was real! #mindblown."
Most people aware of the existence of the RMS Titanic are in disbelief. One such person tweeted, "The ignorance is astounding." Another person said he was "weeping for the future" at finding out that so many young people are unfamiliar with such a well-known fact.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Largest maritime loss of life in the US?
For more detail than that, I'd have to look it up...
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Sure do, I incorporate his material, (along with other sources) into what I teach. :)
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Like I said, I have an excellent boss. :D
Thank you. I'll do that. Sounds like something she'd watch many times.
Thank you for the Titanic pings and for this movie reminder, re_nortex! I've got our DVR set for the movie, tonight on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
This is just too painful to even read...those poor ignorant fools who "teach" our children history and geography should be put out of our misery, and the public schools and given a job where they can't hurt anyone but themselves. Making marshmallow by hand...maybe.
Do you suppose this means that World War II really happened, too?
Years ago, I was showing my daughter pictures of my mother and father along with others from the rest of my family that constituted 5 generations of inhabitants of Cobb County Georgia.
We came upon a picture of my mother and father on a boat in Germany. A little preface here. My father served in the AAC in the Med, Siciliy and in the Battle of Rome according to his DD214. He enlisted in 1939 because he was from a sharecropper family in SC (Clinton) having only got through grade 5, and this was a step up for him. He was with the AAC through VE day and was part of the Occupation Forces in Germany (Frankfurt) on through 1949. Along the way, he was transferred to the AF in 1947.
This picture was of him and my mother (who he'd been lucky enough to have join him) on Hitler's former yacht on the Rhein River that had been turned into a floating restaurant.
My daughter asked, "Where is this?"
I said "Hitler's Yacht"
She said, "Who's Hitler".....
That is when I knew we have enemies running our schools.
Here is a sine of 46 degrees.
(What do I get?)
And this is a big surprise because?
Twits can be generally assumed to vote for Obama. After hydrogen, ignorance is the most abundant thing in the universe.
I'll have to tell you about the time I rode in the Ruby Yacht of Victor Kiam.
Conversation from 2 days ago:
A friend of mine just got back from 85 days in Nigeria. We were sitting down at the marina having a cold beer talking about it. A guy that was sitting close asked what country Nigeria was in. Before my friend could answer, his wife chimed in that it was a state in Africa.
She told him that Africa was like the United States, a country comprised of many different states. My friend responded. He said, "Ok, my wife thinks that Africa is a country. It is time for us to go home."
And in the "Mass Killings" category there is always the Bath School Bombing from 1927.
Actually, that describes him pretty well.
He saw no need for learning geography, or any subject other than sports and Accounting. Accounting he needed to know to graduate and find work. Sports was for fun.
Everything else was unnecessary to him.
Was Victor Omar's Cousin?
I can one up everyone here, I work for an international freight forwarder. We move freight in cargo containers world wide. Most of the young kids who come to work don't know the difference between Australia and Austria. We're now in the process of training the entire team as to what countries are in Asia as opposed to Europe etc. It's pathetic how these kids have no knowledge of geography, history, spelling or know how to construct a simple sentence without it reading like a text message. Most are simply illiterate and can barely speak English and they were all born here! I've even had to explain to a team lead what communism is. It's like hiring kindergarten students but we pay crap so this is what we end up with!
Indeed. Even The Federalist Papers, which were given away as pamplets to anyone when they were written, is now graduate level material!
BTW, I graduated high school in 1990. And though I'm not Catholic, I graduated from a Catholic school.
25 years ago, we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
I not suprise
I have friend who daughter didn't know that Ronald Reagan was actor LOL!
Yeah tell me about it somebody said it was George W Bush I hear that one comment
Also I hear comment that Peter O'Toole was real Henry 2 in Lion in Winter
Yeah tell me about it somebody said it was George W Bush I hear that one comment
Also I hear comment that Peter O'Toole was real Henry 2 in Lion in Winter
He liked Omar's yacht so much he bought the company!
Your kids like wine? :p
Having been told that Apollo 13 was real, she is going to be very worried after seeing Apoll 18.
I can totally hear a teenager or twenty-something saying that
Nope, totally implausible. Who would believe something like that can really happen? :p
Ironically, I hear 1 of those, decked out very fancy, was on the Titanic.
That is a great book.
My uncle highly recommended it. He's very learned.
Of course, he continues to vote Democrat even after all the scathing frothing diatribes against Moslems. He's in the "so smart there's no common sense" category.
It happened shortly before I was born -- and it is the reason that natural gas -- supplied commercially -- "stinks" today -- by law...
Thanks for the ping!
It is exactly the cosine of 45 degrees.
From a surveyor.
[Mr] T
You made me spew coffee all over my keyboard.
Good one.
Saw "Titanic" movie when it first came out. James Cammeron did a great job going into detail.
One CT can boast is that the guy who discovered the sunken Titanic, Robert Ballard.
Adjusted for inflation, Star Wars comes closest --$1.39 billion to GWTW's $1.58 billion
I still have that book from my childhood.
I did, but shipwrecks in history are an old hobby of mine.
Perhaps twenty years ago, I read a lengthy, scholarly article on the difference between geography as we perceive it and geography as it exists, and how perceived geography affects us.
The article started off with perhaps a fifty-question quiz, starting with the easier questions such as "which is further north, London or Seattle?", then going into more difficult comparative questions, or questions about distances within a hundred miles, or whether A was further from B than C, or if A was closer to B than C was to D. If you cheated and checked your answers after the first few, you realized that the gut-instinct answer was almost never right.
There's geography as it exists and geography as we perceive it.
LOL! Tactics II, Panzer Blitz, Panzer Leader, Squad Leader and a bunch of add-ons, 1776 (still have it), Campaign for North Africa (nope, never made it through that one), and a bunch of others that I traded or sold. Then it was Micro Armor and modern naval.
Never got into coins, but as long as there was a library or a bookstore in walking distance, there was *always* something to do.
Folks who read Gamow, at least know the difference between a million and a billion, but folks who read Morrison's "Powers of Ten" can't be fooled by eco-freakos quaking in their boots about the minuscule amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere...
Both Gamow and Morrison are very helpful in helping one gain a sense of proportion and perspective.
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Garbanzo Soup
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|1 Ounce (2 Tablespoon Or 25 Gram)
|1 Small, chopped
|1 Clove (5 gm), chopped
|Canned tomatoes
|7 Ounce, mashed, with juice (3/4 Cup Or 200 Grams)
|Canned chickpeas
|14 Ounce, drained (2 Cups Or 400 Grams, Garbanzo Beans)
|Marjoram/1 teaspoon chopped fresh marjoram
|1 Pinch
|Boiling beef stock
|1 Pint (Or Broth , 2 1/2 Cups Or 575 Milliliter)
|Freshly ground black pepper
|To Taste
|To Taste
|Crusty white bread slice
|4 , toasted
|Parmesan cheese
|2 Tablespoon
Put the butter in a large pot and cook for 1 minute, until melted. Add the onion and garlic, cover and cook for 2 minutes.
Add the tomatoes, chick peas (garbanzos) and marjoram. Pour on the beef stock (broth), cover and cook for 6 minutes. Season to taste.
Lay a slice of toasted bread in each of 4 soup plates. Pour over the hot soup and serve with Parmesan cheese.
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I am trying to create a class that implements an interface from the Java library. ResultSet to be specific, though the particular interface shouldn't be relevant to the question. (I need to put a layer on top of a regular ResultSet that provides some additional functionality, but I'd like the "regular" functions to pass through, and I have a couple of functions that should be able to take either a regular ResultSet or my "enhanced" ResultSet.)
My problem is: Is there a way that I can do this so that the class will successfully compile in both Java 5 and Java 6?
There are a number of functions declared in the ResultSet interface in Java 6 that return objects not defined in Java 5. If I include these functions, my class won't compile in Java 5 because I'm referencing undefined types. But if I don't include these functions, then my class won't compile in Java 6 because I don't completely implement the interface. I seem to be stuck in something of a catch-22. I don't actually need any of these functions -- in fact my implementation just throws a "not implemented" exception for all of them.
Some of our programmers are running Java 5 and some are running Java 6. Our production environment is Java 5. I suppose in a more-perfect world we would all be running the same version. But even if I can modify our environment to make the problem moot in this case, surely this issue comes up with open source projects. And if I do modify my code to work with Java 5, then when, sooner or later, we upgrade to Java 6, the class will break, which seems pretty annoying.
Well, thanks for the answers given. I was rather hoping that someone would tell me, "Oh, if you just add this annotation or type the letter 'W' here, it will all work magically." No such luck, I guess.
All the answers received (as of this update, anyway) make good points so I've upvoted all of them and I've given the "best answer" award to the one that best expresses my frustation. :-)
I think my real solution is going to be to abandon the idea of implementing ResultSet and instead create a new interface that includes just the functions from ResultSet that have to be implemented for the beast to work. I find this emotionally unsatisfying but, it appears, better than the alternatives.