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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.
In a major speech at Georgetown University, Obama warned Americans of the deep and disastrous effects of climate change, urging them to take action before it's too late.
"As a president, as a father and as an American, I'm here to say we need to act," Obama said.
Obama announced he was directing his administration to launch the first-ever federal regulations on heat-trapping gases emitted by new and existing power plants — "to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution."
Other aspects of the plan will boost renewable energy production on federal lands, increase efficiency standards and prepare communities to deal with higher temperatures.
Even before Obama unveiled his plan Tuesday, Republican critics in Congress were lambasting it as a job-killer that would threaten the economic recovery. Obama dismissed those critics, noting the same arguments have been used in the past when the U.S. has taken other steps to protect the environment.
"That's what they said every time," Obama said. "And every time, they've been wrong."
He touted America's strengths — research, technology and innovation — as factors that make the U.S. uniquely poised to take on the challenges of global warming.
Obama also offered a rare insight into his administration's deliberations on Keystone XL, an oil pipeline whose potential approval has sparked an intense fight between environmental activists and energy producers.
The White House has insisted the State Department is making the decision independently, but Obama said Tuesday he's instructing the department to approve it only if the project won't increase overall, net emissions of greenhouse gases.
"Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interests," Obama said. "Our national interest would be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."
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text: Good away win on the end of a back to back. Its Hilarious how coach just keeps marching in one point guard after another into the game. I truly believe we won this one because Knight got injured, so coach had one less point guard to put in there in the 4th quarter. Knight made several open shots. Good for him. Still not a shooting guard. At least we did see him connect, finally, on a pass from Calderon. Charlotte is a horrible team, no interior D. So they have to pack it in and leave our shooters open. Calderon was 4 for 4 from deep, and mostly there was nobody in the gym with him. Stuckey gave us some scoring from drives. Singler hit some shots. CV hit one three and a couple closer in. Not a bad defensive game for him. I said for him, not that his defense was any good. Kravtsov positively affected this one. Very active both ends. His highlight was a dunk off a pick and roll with Bynum - very well done, but again, against a defense that is notoriously bad at defending that play. Let me see, JJ is back in the rotation, playing backup small forward to Singler. He did not repeat his shooting performance, but its nice to see him out there hustling, and not being asked to play power forward, which he just can't do. Calderon often played off guard, to both Knight and Bynum. Stuckey was often useless, playing positions he can't play. Still got to like the drives in though. Much of my dislike of Bynum - I say he is just in the way of Knight and Stuckey playing the point, with Calderon being the shooting guard. One of those very wide open 3's Calderon made was off penetration by Knight and a sharp kickout from him. But I will admit, Bynum is the guy who finds ways to connect with guys like Drummond and now Kravtsov. (But then again, if Bynum was not playing, who is to say Knight and Stuckey could not be doing that?) JMAX? Could not get the job done as the Bobcats were all over the offensive board. However, I will note we started out the game doing very well defensively - with JMAX in the game. I still would like to see Kravtsov start along side Monroe to see how two actual bigs can do on D for us. Note, Calderon only had two assists. It ain't working for him, as a point guard, not to have a shooting guard along side him. Sometimes we do give him CV to help. We could just start a shooting guard along side him. We have a couple of good young ones to try that with. Middleton and English. Just saying. We need to drop down by two point guards. Meaning trade one or two, and use Calderon at shooting guard. Trade for a big to replace Drummond in the rotation. Monroe did a lot of nice scoring inside. JMAX did some damage inside too. Occasionally, we had a decent unit out there, with one of the points running the point, Calderon at shooting guard, CV in at power forward, and just for a bit Singler still in to add another shooter. But these type of logical units were rare in this game. We won it down the stretch with some good, solid execution. Nice pass from Bynum to Monroe for the easy score inside, for instance. And some more rock steady scoring from Monroe. No stupid shots. Looked basically like a smarter team out there vs. what we used a few weeks back. Maybe Calderon influencing the team?

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Rochester, N.Y. – Junior defender Stephen Farrell scored his first goal of the season 13:30 into the second overtime of the Atlantic Hockey Semifinal to lift the Canisius College hockey team to a 5-4 victory over top-seeded Mercyhurst on Friday night. The Griffs now advance to their second-straight conference title game with a 17-20-3 record, while the Lakers' season ends with a 21-13-7 mark.
Deep into the second extra frame, Farrell fired a shot from the blue line that deflected off a Mercyhurst defender and into the net. Junior Logan Roe and sophomore Ralph Cuddemi both recorded assists on Farrell's fourth goal in his three-year career at Canisius.
"It was a great hockey game tonight where both teams played really well and it was unfortunate somebody had to lose," said Canisius head coach Dave Smith. "We had to play our best today to beat the regular-season champions and a well-coached and highly-skilled team. The bounce went in our favor tonight in overtime and I look forward to regrouping and trying to win another title tomorrow."
Cuddemi led the Griffs with two goals in the winning effort to go along with one assist for three points, while senior Patrick Sullivan and junior Mitch McCrank both netted a goal of their own.
Senior Tony Capobianco set the program's postseason record with a career-best 58 saves to earn the victory in goal.
The Griffs grabbed the early advantage in the game thanks to Cuddemi's 14th goal of the season 7:40 into the contest. Senior defender Duncan McKellar sent a shot toward goal from the blue line. McCrank redirected the puck in the high slot and Cuddemi then redirected it a second time, sending it into the back of the net for the 1-0 advantage.
Mercyhurst squared the game at one exactly two minutes later. From the corner, Alec Shields sent a centering pass that deflected off a Canisius defender in front of the net and into the goal for the 1-1 game. The Lakers then claimed their first lead with just 2:56 remaining in the opening period when Nick Jones scored from the point on the power play.
Cuddemi's second goal of the day knotted the contest at two just 1:19 into the second period. The sophomore beat the Mercyhurst netminder off a rush short side for the 2-2 game. Freshman Shane Conacher registered an assist on Cuddemi's 15th goal of the season.
The Lakers, however, would again reclaim their advantage when Shields scored his second of the day with 8:57 left in the second. A pass from behind the net deflected off a stick and went off Shields into the net for the 3-2 lead.
Sullivan would answer for Canisius this time with his 13th goal of the season. Junior defender Doug Jessey sent a blast from the blue line that senior Kyle Gibbons deflected on goal. Sullivan was there to knock the rebound in, squaring the game at three with 2:50 remaining in the second.
McCrank then gave Canisius the lead with 13:09 remaining in regulation. On a rush, the junior knocked the puck off the back of the Mercyhurst netminder and into the net for the 4-3 lead. Conacher and sophomore Mathew Backhouse both recorded assists on McCrank's eighth goal of the season.
The Lakers, however, would answer with 8:12 remaining in regulation. Daniel O'Donoghue took a pass from behind the Canisius net and knocked it in, sending the game into overtime.
Both teams had numerous chances in the extra frames to earn the win before Farrell finished it off at the 93:30 mark. Just 1:50 into the first overtime, junior Tyler Wiseman had his shot ring off the post. Then with 6:25 remaining in first extra session, junior Doug Beck had his shot deflect off the Mercyhurst netminder and trickle just wide of the goal.
In the second frame, both Beck and freshman Jack Hidi had rebound chances midway through the period but couldn't connect. It was then Capobianco's turn to shine as the senior netminder robbed two Mercyhurst players two minutes apart, leading to Farrell's heroics just minutes later.
Mercyhurst finished the game with a 62-47 advantage in shots in the game but Capobianco was up for the challenge in the winning effort. The Lakers were 1-for-4 with the extra-man advantage, while Canisius didn't score in two power-play chances.
Canisius now advances to the championship game tomorrow night where it will look to defend its title. The Griffs face either Robert Morris or Niagara in Rochester's Blue Cross Arena with game time slated for 7:05 p.m.
Game Notes: The game was the longest in the program's history, surpassing the previous record of 87:00, also in a 5-4 double overtime victory against Mercyhurst in the 2010 Atlantic Hockey Quarterfinals … Capobianco topped his own record of saves in a postseason game (he recorded 50 against Air Force last season in the league's quarterfinals) … Farrell's last goal was against top-ranked Quinnipiac in the NCAA Tournament last season … Cuddemi has scored four goals in two games against Mercyhurst in the Atlantic Hockey Tournament … Canisius advanced to its second Atlantic Hockey Championship – the Griffs defeated Mercyhurst, 7-2, last season … Canisius was 1-2-0 against Robert Morris this season and 0-2-1 against Niagara.


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Oct 11/13| For Immediate Release
Abby Goodrum, Vice-President, Research
Deborah MacLatchy, Vice-President, Academic & Provost
WATERLOO Water: it is essential to life and covers about 362 million square kilometres of the earths surface. Now, thanks to Wilfrid Laurier Universitys new Centre for Cold Regions and Water Science, researchers will have 14,000 square feet of space devoted to leading-edge water research. An event to mark the centre opening will take place Oct. 11, 10 a.m. at 65 Lodge St. on Lauriers Waterloo campus with remarks from MP Peter Braid, Minister Michael Miltenberger of the Government of the Northwest Territories, and Laurier President Max Blouw.
Research within the centre will involve scientists from across Canada and will focus on some of the countrys most pressing questions about water, environmental and resource issues in cold regions, with implications for policy development and resource management.
"This building is a manifestation of the exceptional partnerships that Laurier's researchers have developed with the Government of the Northwest Territories and the institutional members of the Southern Ontario Water Consortium, said Deborah MacLatchy, Lauriers vice-president: academic and provost and a researcher in the centre. It will be a hub of state-of-the-science cold regions and water research and student training for years to come."
The two-storey facility will house Lauriers Canadian Aquatic Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Boreal Ecosystem Research (CALIBER); Lauriers Cold Regions Research Centre (CRRC); and the Laurier Institute for Water Science (LIWS). It will also house the ecotoxicology activities of the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC), including equipment and labs, sample preparation and staging areas for mobile trailers.
Water and cold regions research are clearly areas of research excellence at Laurier, said Abby Goodrum, vice-president: research. Research in these areas is of critical importance in todays world, and we are proud to have some of the leading authorities and researchers in these domains working here at our university.
Research examples include:
Biologist Jim McGeer studies physiological responses to environmental stress in aquatic animals and the environmental toxicology and risk assessment of metals and nanomaterials for application in risk assessment and regulations.
Geographer Bill Quinton, Canada Research Chair in Cold Regions Hydrology, studies the hydrology of cold regions with applications in assuring reliable sources of drinking water, flood planning, road and oil pipeline design and hydroelectric power station operation.
Biologist Jennifer Baltzer, Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change, studies ecosystems in boreal forests to understand species range sizes and patterns of local distribution.
Geographer Mike English studies the hydrology and chemistry of groundwater and surface water and the downstream impacts of river impoundment, and examines acidification in the Canadian Shield and the chemistry of high-Arctic terrestrial drainage.
Biologist Deborah MacLatchy studies the health of aquatic environments by examining the effects of endocrine disrupting substances such as industrial contaminants on the hormone systems in fish and how this affects reproduction, development, and growth.
Support to the centre was provided by: the Government of the Northwest Territories, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and Wilfrid Laurier University. Funding for the SOWC, a key tenant and partner at the centre, was provided by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
For more information about the Centre for Cold Regions and Water Science and its researchers, please visit wlu.ca/research/CCRWS.
The Government of Canada recognizes the importance that freshwater research has on ensuring that our water resources remain healthy, said Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, on behalf of the Honourable Greg Rickford, Minister of State (Science and Technology). Our investment in this world-class centre will provide researchers with the tools they need to understand and preserve Canadas boreal freshwater reserves, thereby improving the quality of life of Canadians today and into the future.
"The Government of the Northwest Territories is pleased to support the centre and the CALIBER program through our on-going partnership with Wilfrid Laurier University, said Northwest Territories (NWT) Environment Minister J. Michael Miltenberger. This partnership is helping us establish a strong foundation for scientific studies on future changes to the NWT landscape, natural resources, communities and people in the face of a changing climate."
Id like to congratulate Wilfrid Laurier on the opening of this cutting-edge research facility, said Reza Moridi, Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation. Ontarios researchers are breaking boundaries every day, and this top notch facility will help them find solutions to many of the pressing questions in this vital area of study. We are proud to support the Centres work through funding to the Southern Ontario Water Consortium.
The opening of the Centre for Cold Regions and Water Science is an excellent example of Wilfrid Laurier Universitys commitment to water research, said Brenda Lucas, SOWC Operations Manager. Lauriers ecotoxicology research plays a crucial role within the Southern Ontario Water Consortium platform. Projects supported within this leading-edge facility will bring researchers one step closer to turning water ideas into water innovations.
Canadas largest reserves of freshwater are contained within the aquatic ecosystems of the boreal forest, said Dr. Gilles G. Patry, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, which helped fund the Canadian Aquatic Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Boreal Ecosystem Research (CALIBER), located within the Centre for Cold Regions and Water Science. Understanding the effects of contaminants on boreal freshwater is becoming increasingly urgent. We are committed to supporting this kind of research by providing researchers with the tools they need to advance our knowledge of these complex ecosystems.
About the Centre for Cold Regions Research (CRRC): The CRRC focuses on mountain and northern cold regions, covering such areas as hydrology, climatology, glaciology, resource management, parks planning, and biogeochemistry.
About the Laurier Institute for Water Science (LIWS): LIWS focuses on both Canadian and global water issues, including the effects of climate change, the sustainability of healthy aquatic and coastal ecosystems, and the development of regulations and policy related to water use. Both LIWS and CRRC are multi-disciplinary, collaborative undertakings, together including researchers from geography and environmental studies, chemistry, biology, math, economics and the social sciences.
About the Canadian Aquatic Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Boreal Ecosystem Research (CALIBER): CALIBER researchers apply a holistic, interdisciplinary, and ecosystem approach based on watersheds, responding to urgent and serious concerns about flows and storage processes and the effects of nutrients and contaminants on boreal freshwater. CALIBER facilities in the centre will include labs for hydrology, aquatic culture and testing, biogeochemistry characterization, molecular biochemistry and imaging, and predictive modeling. CALIBER is funded by the Government of the Northwest Territories, the Government of Canada through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and Wilfrid Laurier University.
About the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC): The SOWC is a platform for turning water ideas into water innovations through research, development, and demonstration of solutions to water problems faced in Ontario and around the world. The SOWC is supported by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Research & Innovation's Ontario Research Fund. The Government of Canada is providing support through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontarios Technology Development Program, which has served as a catalyst for SOWC partnerships such as the one being announced today. Laurier is one of eight university partners of the consortium, which also includes municipalities, not-for-profits, and the private sector. SOWC facilities in the centre include labs for hydrometerology calibration, sample prep and stabilization, fish, and base workstations for mobile trailers for field research.


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Swedish artist Lar Vilks is at the center of a new controversy surrounding his new musical, Dogs, which premiered in Stockholm over the weekend. The musical is a filmed documentation of events surrounding events that happened after he portrayed Muhammad as a roundabout dog. As Vilks tried to discuss his ideas, hundreds of people gathered outside to protest his supposed vile drawings while inside people screamed at him and a woman tried to use her keys to scratch his arm. The co-organizers of the event were "Muslims for Christ" were also attacked by demonstrators. An exhibit of Vilks drawings was stopped at the Kalmar Art Museum which decided it didn't want to get involved in controversy.
Vilks initially created a controversy two years ago when his cartoons depicting Muhammad were published in Swedish newspapers. Vilks refused to allow threats to deter him on the ground "it is part of the rules of the game to be able to criticize religion and politics. It is nothing personal and I do not have it in for anyone."
Most probably, if the work of Vilks had simply been ignored, the world wide publicity for his work would never have occurred. Those who seek harm to him only further his fame. It is also somewhat surprising so many Muslim groups are upset at caricatures of their prophet when throughout the Muslim world caricatures of Jews constantly appear in their press. Why is it permissible to depict Jews in the most nasty manner when similar caricatures are not allowed? Just asking.


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Calling my dad at the end of the day. With my parents still living in my native Upstate New York, I find myself dialing the old man almost every night, just to shoot the bull. With our conversations normally hovering around the matters of the day — politically and socially — we then knock it down a notch, talking about sports, family, or simply telling one tall tale after another, usually with some hearty laughter echoing from the other end of the line.


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As my beltfed collection gets bigger I thought it would be nice to have a universal bench top tripod for all the guns. Shooting the mg34 & 42 off the bipod on a bench is cumbersome and you really need a tripod for the 1919 and FN30 that I will be building. I have a home made tripod for my .50 that I use for the 1919 and an AA tripod for the 34 & 42 and plan on getting a M2 tripod but hauling it all around is cumbersome as my car has a small trunk.
I made a wood mockup of the base unit and made the pintle today. I have an adapter for the 34 & 42 from the AA tripod that fits the 1919 pintle. The next step is to make a T & E mechanism that will work with all the guns. I have some steel tubimg coming next week and hope to have the first prototype soon.
I am also looking into making an adapter for my AK pistols to function like one of the AW-Sim devices.
I got the metal in today and welded up the base. It looks pretty good so far. I have some stuff on order from MSC for the T & E mechanism, I am not sure of all the details on that part yet. It should work pretty good with the spade grips on the 1919


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Flat black
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A little spray paint goes a long way.
Flat black
MG "brown"
grey primer.
Toe spikes by RussRep
you don't happen to have any wip pics do you? i'm looking at my boots thinking about how i'm going to weather them and i'd like to see the steps others have taken to get there.
I don't have any WIP pix but I assure you, it's pretty easy to do.
It only took me 5-10 minutes to do it.
First I masked off the white part of the sole around the bottom of the shoe,
then I held the shoes at a distance and sprayed it with brown and black.
Make sure you don't get too close, you only want to make them look dirty, you don't want to change the actual color of the shoe.
Then I went back and masked off the big part of the shoe leaving the white sole exposed, and I hit that part lightly with some grey primer. Just enough to make sure it's not so white anymore.
After that I think it's really up to your personal preference. Everyone's shoes look a little different. Some people have scratches and scuffs on the instep of their shoe, and some people have scratches on the outward part.
Maybe you wanna go kicking through the dirt with them too for half a day.:lol
Certainly looks good! took a lot less time than mine did, too. I think I would dirty up the soles some, but you'll probably do that naturally.
I would do just a little more weathering bro. like jawafive said, the soles are too clean.
I'm sure the soles will get dirtier when I wear them. I tend to shuffle and rub my feet together when I walk.
I like them :)
I think they look ok and yep the soles will get dirty by themselves :lol
Looking good, just need to hit the black stripe down the middle and the ankles a bit more with gray primer to wash 'em out. :thumbsup
has anyone ever posted a how to guide with pics on weathering the soft parts it would be real popular im sure
There's a boot weathering thread located here:


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Dodge Durango Models and Durango History
Entering the sport utility vehicle market in 1998, Dodge Durango debuted as a competitor to the popular Ford Explorer and the Toyota 4Runner. With the optional forward-facing third row seat, the 1998 Dodge Durango could accommodate up to seven occupants.
Standard engine power of the sport utility vehicle came from a 5.2-liter Magnum V-8 powerplant while a 5.9-liter was presented as an option. All Dodge Durango's built during the first production year were equipped with four-wheel drive while an option of a part-time or full-time transfer case was available. For the 1999 model year, a more affordable two-wheel drive version was offered with the Durango as was a 3.9-liter Magnum V-6 engine as an alternative to eight-cylinder power.
In 2004, the Dodge Durango received a major update that resulted in the sport utility growing in proportions. The wheelbase of the 2004 Durango was three inches longer than its predecessor and was 4.3 inches taller. Increased exterior dimensions reflected in a larger interior space for additional passenger and cargo room. Base power was sourced from a 210-horsepower, 3.7-liter PowerTech V-6. Eight-cylinder propulsion from the Dodge Durango was derived either from a 4.7-liter PowerTech V-8 or from an all-new 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 producing 335 horsepower. In 2006, the HEMI V-8 engine added Multi-Displacement System allowing better fuel management. The convenience equipment on the Dodge Durango was also upgraded in 2004 with satellite radio, automatic temperature control air conditioning and Uconnect hands-free communication with Bluetooth offered for the first time. Briefly in 2009, the Dodge Durango was offered as a hybrid vehicle using a two-mode transmission.
After a one-year hiatus, the Durango was reintroduced in 2011 constructed on an all-new chassis shared with the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Standard power came from a 290-horsepower 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine while the Dodge Durango R/T offered a 360-horsepower version of the 5.7-liter HEMI V-8. In 2014, an eight-speed automatic transmission became standard on all Durango models.
New and Used Durango Prices, Dodge Durango Model Years and History
2017 Dodge Durango
The large Durango crossover SUV offers maximum seating capacity and a long list of upper trim levels and options that truly make it stand out.
2016 Dodge Durango
The ever popular Durango is back with a long list of standard features.
2015 Dodge Durango
A large-sized crossover SUV, the Dodge Durango seats seven, has plenty of towing power and is capable of traversing all types of terrain.
2014 Dodge Durango
With best-in-class standard fuel economy and power, the 2014 Dodge Durango is a full-size SUV with bold styling and a comfortable interior.
2013 Dodge Durango
The 2013 Dodge Durango comes equipped with a 3.6-liter V6 engine, paired with a 5-speed automatic transmission, that produces 290 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque.
2012 Dodge Durango
Fresh off last year's redesign, the 2012 Dodge Durango comes equipped with premium features; AWD, rear back up camera, and heated seats.
2011 Dodge Durango
Reintroduced to the Dodge lineup for the first time since 2008 model year, the once-popular 2011 Dodge Durango regains the sport utility vehicle toughness with interior space for seven passengers.
2009 Dodge Durango
A family-style SUV, the 2009 Dodge Durango seats seven with good safety ratings and improves fuel efficiency with a two-mode hybrid.
2008 Dodge Durango
The 2008 Dodge Durango SUV offers a choice of 2WD or 4WD on all four trims and is available with seating for up to seven passengers.
2007 Dodge Durango
A full-size SUV with seating for up to seven passengers, the 2007 Dodge Durango has a sporty design and is available with 2WD or 4WD.
2006 Dodge Durango
An eight-passenger SUV, the 2006 Dodge Durango is available with a 3.7L V6, 4.7L V8, or a powerful 5.7L HEMI V8 which can shut down cylinders when not in use to help improve fuel economy.
2005 Dodge Durango
A full-size SUV with seating for up to eight passengers, the 2005 Dodge Durango is offered with an array of engine choices ranging from a 210 hp V6 up to a 335 hp 5.7L HEMI V8.
2004 Dodge Durango
Restyled and now larger, the 2004 Dodge Durango is a full-size SUV that offers seating for up to seven passengers and is offered with 2WD or 4WD.
2003 Dodge Durango
A mid-size SUV available with seating for up to seven, the 2003 Dodge Durango is offered with a choice between a 230 hp 4.7L V8 or a 245 hp 5.9L V8.
2002 Dodge Durango
The 2002 Dodge Durango is a sporty mid-size SUV that can seat up to seven passengers and is available with RWD or 4WD.
2001 Dodge Durango
The 2001 Dodge Durango is a mid-size SUV with room for up to six passengers, and a choice between RWD and 4WD.
2000 Dodge Durango
Seating for up to six passengers and standout styling are just two of the many reasons the 2000 Dodge Durango is such a popular mid-size SUV.
1999 Dodge Durango
The 1999 Dodge Durango is a mid-size sporty SUV that boasts standout styling and a powerful 5.2L V8 engine.
1998 Dodge Durango
A mid-size sporty SUV, the 1998 Dodge Durango can seat up to six passengers and comes standard with 4WD and V8 power.


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Location: Imported Fire Ant and Household Insects ResearchTitle: Mitigating the allergic effects of fire ant envenomation with biologically-based population reduction Author
Submitted to: Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/16/2013
Publication Date: 8/1/2013
Citation: Porter, S.D., Oi, D.H., Valles, S.M., Vander Meer, R.K. 2013. Mitigating the allergic effects of fire ant envenomation with biologically-based population reduction. Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 13:372-378. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: The purpose of this review is to describe current efforts to use biological control agents to reduce fire ant population levels, thus, ultimately reducing the number of human sting and allergic reaction incidents. Climate change and worldwide fire ant expansion will increase the frequency of human encounters and allergenic events putting additional pressure on the public health sector. Six species of fire ant decapitating flies are now established in the United States. The microsporidium Kneallhazia solenopsae is well established and new fire ant hosts have been identified. The fire ant virus SINV-3 shows good potential for use as an environmentally friendly biopesticide because of its virulence and host-specificity. During separate founding events in the United States, Australia, mainland China, and Taiwan, fire ants native to South America escaped their native pathogens and parasites. Consequently, fire ant populations in these introduced regions pose a serious public health threat to the human populations by envenomation and subsequent allergic reactions. Specific, self-sustaining biological control agents have been discovered, studied, and released into fire ant populations in the United States in an effort to re-establish an ecological/competitive balance, resulting in reduced fire ant densities and human exposure.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by roscoe36, Jun 23, 2009.
thats why I CAN NOT watch the draft...all i wanna know is the picks
Daye expected to be drafted in first round - SWX Right Now - Sports and Weather for Spokane and North Idaho-
This bull where they stretch the callout until 4:59 is old. Especially with the 1-4 picks that are essentially give me's. They could shave about 15 minutes off the front end getting us to fifteen in just over an hour if they had any manners....
They have nothing else worth air time to show, so they stretch this as much as they can and to get more advertising $$$.
Thabeet at 260 lbs looks like he could add an easy 50 lbs and still be tight..
CANT stand Stu Scott...anyway ..u cant even trust the picks because of trades..Thabeet AND Gasol in Memphis? Hmm I dont think so
Hardin going next?
I'm at work still and can't get to the tube. ESPN draft tracker SUX!
I guess that's a good thing since I can't stand Stuart Scott either.
Good call, G
Griffin reminds me of Len Bias Thabeet reminds me of Mutumbo Hardin reminds me of Alvin Roberton
Rubio needs to fall one more pick.
I wonder if Marc Gasol is tradeable now that Memphis got Thabeet.
Why is that?
RealGM's is alright RealGM: NBA Draft Night 2009
Yeah I forgot that WAS already traded their pick. NVM
I've been watching it at work using this: Watch Live 2009 NBA Draft
Rubio's gotta go next.
Why do they stick with him? He has got to have the most annoying voice and he never says anything worth listening to.
I have the TV on mute now...watching in PIP mode. SS cant even talk...LOL
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Arsène Wenger has no intention of reporting Barcelona to FIFA following Xavi's remarks about Cesc Fabregas.
The Arsenal captain has been strongly linked with a move to his former club this summer and Xavi has added his voice to the speculation by claiming that Fabregas is "suffering because he wants to come [to Barcelona]".
Wenger has accused the Barcelona midfielder of being disrespectful but, speaking at a press conference in China on Thursday, he admitted he would not take any formal action.
"I don't think it's a sentence big enough to report a club to FIFA," said Wenger. "The impression I had was that it wasn't respectful to our Club or to Cesc. I don't make more than that.
"It has to stop, of course. If there is a transfer negotiation between two clubs, I don't think it is healthy if players come out [and talk] who are not concerned by it. Unfortunately, in this case, it has happened a few times. It will not contribute to sort any problem out.
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Anyone have like drawings for the gauntlets?
So far I only have plans for the left gauntlet, if you want I'll email it to you
Should have some plans for the right one soon
can you please? any help would be much appriecated I just finished my first costume ever which was my Tie pilot one, so im toying with the idea of making the mando armor for my RPG character
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You could try this thread
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that works perfectly thanks everyone for all the help
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But he does not like evidence of my bowel movements. If something does not sufficiently flush, he is upset. If I mention being backed up, he is visibly uncomfortable. If someone brings it up in conversation, he goes suddenly silent.
Though poop, feces, bowel movements are common conversational fodder for men in social conversation and in media depiction, for women they are taboo. In society with men, poop is something we don't mention unless we're desperate to shock, desperate for laughs. Discussing it in public is crass and uncomfortable. "Everybody poops. Except for women," as Sarah Haskins says in one of her hilarious Target: Women sketches.
Women and poop are supposed to stay very far away from each other. We're supposed to be on opposite ends of the spectrum: uncritical unblemished object Women at one end and messy stinky human Bodily Functions at the other end. We're not supposed to do it. We're not supposed to talk about it. Though there's an entire industry around making us poop - Metmucil, MiraLax, etc - it's about Fiber or Cholesterol or [Euphemism], as Haskins ablely points out in the video quoted above.
Women are instilled with a sense of shame about a regular, necessary bodily function. Everybody poops, but we're not supposed to. We're not allowed to talk about it, even as a measure of our health (especially since the only acceptable measure of female health is demonstrated by falling within the narrow range of "reasonably thin"). Bathrooms are a highly-fraught place, particularly for women at an intersection. Bathrooms were once segregated by race. Bathroom panic is a common expression of cissexism and transphobia. Bathrooms are often inaccessible for women with disabilities. Bathrooms are not easy for women anyway, but the stigma surrounding poop makes bathrooms particularly uncomfortable.
Men pooping is funny and normal. It's a part of their lives - it's a little gross, but it's a common comedic note and point of discussion.They talk about it, they brag about it, they joke about it regularly. How many poop-themed episodes has the male-dominated universe of South Park had? But it's a shocking, off-putting note for women in comedy. Since we're not supposed to poop, and unexpected juxtaposition is at the core of comedy, it's effective - but the effect is to remind women that pooping is somehow wrong. It's most often paired for shock value with narrowly-defined beauty, as with Jenny McCarthy above. Because the bodily function of sex is on one end, the bodily function of waste must be on the other. When they come together, it's not funny because it's part of the human experience, as with the normalized poop of men. It's funny because we're not supposed to poop, because poop and women and particularly beauty are supposed to be far apart.
When I wasn't busy hating myself in high school, I was so ashamed of doing something literally everyone does that I would not poop outside of my home bathroom. Wouldn't at school. Wouldn't at friends' houses. Wouldn't at restaurants. Though I had the cis and able privilege to use the bathroom easily and safely, I pooped as little as possible in public. Until I got to college, I pooped infrequently and shamefully.
But through healthy conversation with other women, I got over it. My college friends and I started talking about poop. The experience of pooping, different kinds of poop, poop problems, poop remedies. We talk frequently, and lately more and more in the presence of men (who look uncomfortable, but whatever!) about poop, hemorrhoids, skid marks, and other digestive side effects. My pooping is better, my digestion is better, and my conversations are better, all from discussing poop with women.
Pooping is awesome, and I like discussing it without shame or disgust. Men, my boyfriend included, will have to get used to it.


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Very, very sad. I feel awful for the environmental consequences, the tourism and fishery consequences, and the gas prices we are likely to see this summer. Sure wish we in America would get serious about cutting consumption. And other sources of energy.
I say gas will be 5 to 7 dollars a gallon by mid summer.
I think this challenge will be met by innovative, super smart, creative people
Seeing as you are one person sharing a resource that belongs to the entire planet
Quote from: Irwin on May 01, 2010, 09:16:02 AMI say gas will be 5 to 7 dollars a gallon by mid summer.Prices going down...go figure...
Insert giant straw - get a portion of the oil.Insert giant straw with inflatable donut around it - get it all.I really believe it could be that simple.Just because it is a big problem does not mean there is not a small solution.
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Original post made by Tim Hunt, Castlewood, on Jul 10, 2012
It's counted upon to fill an $8 billion hole—nearly 10 percent of the budget.
A week after cleaning up the budget with its huge gamble, the majority of the Democrats in the Legislature voted to authorize the first $8 billion for the state's high speed rail project that makes the budget look like a sure thing on a slot machine in Las Vegas. The latest estimate cost of the high-speed train is $69 billion—believe the state will hit that number and I have a great deal for you on beachfront property in Nome, Alaska.
The total funding identified now is just $13.3 billion—the fantasies presented by the High Speed Rail Authority envision the feds coughing up another $38.6 billion along with private investors (have you seen them lining up?) contributing $13.1 billion and another $5.2 billion coming from other sources.
Four senators, including Mark DeSaulnier who will represent the Tri-Valley area after the November elections, voted No. Joining him were Joe Simitian from Palo Alto, Alan Lowenthal from Long Beach and Fran Pavley from Santa Monica. Notably, DeSaulnier, Simitian and Lowenthal are the three senators who are the most knowledgeable about the project and all opposed it.
Just what planet their colleagues and the governor are living on is open to question—it brings to mind Gov. Moonbeam from his first term.
The federal government currently borrows 40 percent of every dollar spent under President Obama with the Democrat-controlled Senate that hasn't passed a budget in three years. If voters are foolish enough to return to Democrat control of the presidency as well as both houses of Congress, it's still folly to think the feds are going to throw tens of billions more at a highly questionable project in a state they own from an election standpoint.
Voters—who will be bombarded in the fall with television from the state teachers union and other public employee unions—may actually connect the dots between the absurd spending on the high speed rail and the governor's request for a tax increase that will hit schools hard should it fail. Something about getting the capitol's house in order before asking the hard-pressed taxpayers for more.
That will put pension reform on the front burner come August when the Legislature returns to session.
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a resident of Birdland
on Jul 10, 2012 at 8:34 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
I'm convinced the only reason the 4 senators (who are now on Brownies hitlist) didn't vote for this debacle is that there was nothing in it specifically for them. The other union controlled lemmings who did vote for Brown's choo-choo to nowhere, all stand to personally or professionally gain directly from this new found pot of gold. But, I guess that's nothing new in the political arena.
What's still baffling is how voters can believe that dems in power in our state have their best interests in mind. Nothing could be further from the truth, but the insanity that is the trademark of the left leaning voter, continues to reward these self-serving manipulators.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 10, 2012 at 8:47 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
I believe Simitian, at least, was actually listening to his constituents when he voted. There have been many meetings in Palo Alto and an organized effort to prevent HSR. I would add that the Senator was very accessible and responsive, as were many of the people in his offices.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 10, 2012 at 8:52 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Palo Alto never saw a rail project they liked.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 10, 2012 at 8:53 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Remember when one of the proposed routes was right through downtown Pleasanton on a skyway of some sort? Hehehehe...
a resident of Old Towne
on Jul 10, 2012 at 9:32 am
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Aloha, amigos! It is I, Casanova Frankenstein!
This article couldn't have been posted in a more Timly manner! For this very morning I did read how 37% of the population thinks that pension reform is a priority. Thirty seven percent! Can anyone now deny that this is the single greatest issue facing us, aside from TomKat's divorce and this Fall's finale of Who Wants to Be a Billionaire President?
Thanks also, Tim, for keeping "classic" journalistic alive, like how we'll be "bombarded" by "Moonbeam" and asking "what planet are those Democrats on?" This is the fair, cliche-free, well-researched writing that has made Tim the darling of the Pleasanton Tea Party movement, the crown in the jewel of the mighty PW publishing empire, and the toast of the town!
As a long-time fan of Birch Barlow himself, I welcome Tim's posts like a junkie welcomes tax relief. Encore, amigo, and excelsior!
Auf weidersehen, muchachos!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:24 am
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Here is the article: Web Link
As pointed out, among other good questions from commenters, it doesn't explain Wisconsin or San Jose or San Diego.
a resident of Old Towne
on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:30 am
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Bonjour, Kathleen Ruegsegger!
Thanks for repeating my post, only in link form!
In answer to your riddle, I propose a counter-riddle! If you can explain why some blacks voted for David Duke, I'll explain Wisconsin, San Jose, and San Diego.
Happy riddling and bon giorno, muchachissima!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:59 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Cas, Just making it easy for everyone to read what you were talking about. You could have provided the link. Please, explain for all of us--Duke, Wisconsin, etc.
a resident of Old Towne
on Jul 10, 2012 at 11:10 am
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Salutations, Kathleen! It is I, Casanova Frankenstein! (and not "Cas," please)
I applaud your quest to provide the missing link! However, we all know that Piltdown Man was a fraud to discredit the theory of Intelligent Design. But you and I are too intelligently designed to fall for that trick, despite our liberal brainwashing in non-Texas public schools.
And speaking of schools, I've read how much you value others on this forum doing their own homework on issues, so I have to assume that when you just asked me to do your homework for you, you were testing me. Well fear not! I have passed your little test with colores volante, and now you may go do your homework with a clear conscience!
Viva con dias, mi amiga!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 10, 2012 at 11:55 am
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Casanova, I did do the homework on Duke, but I don't find it relevant to this topic.
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Jul 10, 2012 at 1:51 pm
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Tim, Well done, as usual. Simple, clean, and most importantly, truthful. Thanks. As for the Wisconsin innuendoes, I am not certain what the underlying issue is. If it is related to Scott Walker NOT getting impeached as governor, then I can tell you why. When Scott first ran for governor, he had a very strong agenda. He made a promise. The people liked what they heard and voted him in. The amazing thing was that he immediately followed that agenda and the state has had a remarkable turn-around that no one is complaining about. At least no one that is capable of understanding how it all works for the better of all. Unions are what they are: bullies with a deep pocket and rift with self-serving attitudes. Tim, think this will get a rise out of some? =0)
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The post 9/11 hysteria is not merely an opportunity for those hating Muslims to raise fears about foreigners, it also has allowed anti-immigrant bigots to emerge from the woodwork and cast their fears on the nation. Joseph Cerao, a United States citizen of Hispanic background, went to purchase some plumbing supplies when he made the terrible mistake of speaking Spanish to a friend. The storeowner, David Richardson, was upset that someone in his store was speaking in a foreign tongue which aroused suspicion they might be some foreign spy. He demanded that the Spanish speaking person provide some proof that he belonged in America and insisted Cerao should produce his social security card. Richardson later explained that in Rhode Island anyone who speaks a foreign language must be assumed to be a potential threat to the community.
After being cited for bigotry, Mr. Richardson insisted all he wanted to do was generate a dialogue about illegal immigration and offered to donate money to charity. "I now know that it is not legal to ask anyone for their social security number."
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slept with a friends girlfriend under an open umbrella and a black cat ran over us
With the exception of sleeping with someone else' husband, I have done all of the above. Then again, I believe that we make our own luck. I suppose that's good, seeing as my mother owns 5 black cats...
Being left handed in a right handed world.
Haven't ever slept with a friend's spouse/significant other, but I've probably done everything else on this list. I'll add myself to the list of people who don't really believe luck. I think there are good things that happen and bad things that happen; sometimes we can influence events and sometimes we can't. I think though that our choices can influence future possibilities, in that some things become more or less likely to happen as a result of past actions.
Played at the blackjack table after having won at the slots.
Well, unlike most on here, I do believe in luck, but I'm not superstitious -- and good thing, too. I'm a network engineer, and regularly walk under my ladder while I'm pulling wires, I'm always tripping over my black cat (we're talking 2 or 3 times a day -- she's kind of a dumb cat), and I've broken a few mirrors back when I was a dentist's assistant, enough to give me a couple lifetime's bad luck.
But hey, 2011 turned out to be a pretty good year in spite of it :-) I guess I'm more of a "it's me vs. luck/fate, and I'm gonna come out on top if it kills me!" sorta guy.
handcuffed myself to the cutest girl in high school
seahokedrama wrote:I sold my soul to Satan for a Terry's Chocolate Orange.
- turns out it had expired. Bloody Beelzebub!
I Love those chocolate oranges. So Good !
Bought none Ford vehicles. Every time I do someone rear ends me at a light or stop sign. Or this last time I made a Geico commercial, except not a squirrel, damn cats....
Yep. I'm with the "no such thing as luck" group. Mathematically speaking, there's a good probability that everything will eventually happen.
All of the above, except it was my best friend's sister that I slept with, not his wife.
I am obviously not in the minority on unlucky... but I remain convinced my worst luck ever came about when I placed an order with Nutritionland... now that experience leaves all others in the dust of unlucky. I will stick with Wooting.
I left the room to pee during the last 25 woot-offs and a BAG OF CRAP came up. Missed every one.
Other: Thought about giving a child up for adoption, then lost the child when I changed my mind at birth.
All of the above, except the spouse thing. My friends are too young for that. Haha. Anyway, I actually had to open an umbrella the other day for a customer because she believed it was bad luck. People these days... The only "bad" luck from all of the above is as follows: the ladder if it falls on you, the cat if it attacks you, the mirror if it cuts you, and the umbrella if it pinches you. But then these days with the button automatic ones that's not really possible. There's also the stepping on the cracks in the sidewalk. That just trips you, as I've learned too many times. Oops...
Actually, did you know where the broken mirror story came from? In the olden days, a mirror was a luxury for poor families. Parents told their kids it was bad luck because it usually took about seven years for them to save enough money for another new mirror.
Looks like I've done everything on the list, and slept with my best friends boyfriend for two years.... Damn, I sound evil!
slept under a ladder with an open umbrella
All above except sleep with best freinds dude>
Woke up after a night of drinking next to the mother-in-law.....with the father-in-law on also in the bed
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Woody1 wrote:I left the room to pee during the last 25 woot-offs and a BAG OF CRAP came up. Missed every one.
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That's why I bought three Xooms from woot and a Thrive from Amazon. Using my Thrive now, so if you want to send me a bag today, I'll gladly pay you $8 tomorrow!
got married
I've always had generally good luck, so I picked the black cat option since, well, I have a cat. That's black. He's my baby. :3
for you that have slept with a friends spouse...imagine that happening to you. This has to be the worst thing a friend can do to another friend.
301 people (almost 24%) have slept with their best friend's spouse? Wakko Talks Faboo!
thumperchick wrote:All except sleeping with best friend's spouse.
I'm a bit dismayed that 21% have slept with their best friend's spouse...
Agreed. I nearly had to destroy a best friend. But my wife shut him down ;~)
{His friend status was revoked with extreme prejudice} 8-D
I don't believe in luck, so I have never done anything unlucky.
I have done all of these things (except that they weren't/aren't married and we had his permission).
I was on a ladder and my black cat walked underneath it. I'm not sure what that signified.
All the above several times each, except sleeping with best friend's spouse.
Actually having done everything on the list several times and have had wonderful luck through out my fifty plus years. The only unlucky thing that has happened to me has been being born in the later half of the twentieth century in America. Fortunately creating my own luck has been enough to even over come that.
Oh man...too funny!!
anarkitty wrote:I don't believe in luck, so I have never done anything unlucky.
I have done all of these things (except that they weren't/aren't married and we had his permission).
Go on...
mattryan wrote:Well, they weren't married then and they were on a break ... Unluckiest thing I ever did was enlist in the Air Force.
Me, too, except the Marine Corps. However, I did learn how to cuss well.
And I swear I didn't know she was married.
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Can the media's climate change deniers ignore the latest temperature record?
Research ››› ››› DIANNA PARKER & JOCELYN FONG
This January, major meteorological organizations throughout the world -- including NASA -- released reports showing that the past decade, 2000-2009, was the warmest on record. The reports undermine the right-wing media's numerous claims that recent snow and cold weather shows that climate change does not exist or has slowed over the past 10 years.
Conservative media's climate change denial obliterated by temperature data
IBD claimed that "the earth hasn't been warming at all, at least not in the last decade." A January 20 Investor's Business Daily editorial falsely claimed, "As it turns out, the earth hasn't been warming at all, at least not in the last decade, and reputable scientists have said it may continue to cool for decades to come."
Cal Thomas claimed climate change consensus "suffered a severe blow" from European winter storms. Asserting that "global warming is a falling doctrine," conservative columnist Cal Thomas falsely claimed on January 14 that the climate change consensus "suffered a severe blow" from recent winter storms in Europe.
NewsBusters' weather report: "Hey Al -- 'Frostproof, Florida' Forecast: 22 Degrees." On January 10, NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein falsely suggested cold weather in Florida contradicts global warming, stating, "Check out the Weather Channel's forecast for the town of 'Frostproof, Florida' for tonight: 22 degrees -- a full 10 degrees below freezing. Yikes!" Finkelstein added, "Hey Algore: we want our global warming, and we want it now."
Cavuto's flawed "global warming alert": "It is freezing across the entire globe." On the January 9 edition of his Fox News show, Neil Cavuto introduced a segment by saying, "This is our Fox News global warming alert for you," and falsely claimed that "[i]t is freezing across the entire globe"; guest Ben Stein later suggested that "maybe all this talk about global warming needs to be rethought" because of recent cold weather.
Limbaugh climate change rant: "Why don't you man-made global warming" folks "go out and shovel everybody's driveway and sidewalks for free." During the January 8 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh stated, "For all these years we've been hearing about global warming, and nobody forecast this cold front. Nobody forecast this cold spell. Nobody forecast this deep freeze." He later added that "man-made global warming" is "a total hoax" and proposed, "All you man-made global warming B.S. holdouts, do us a favor, why don't you man-made global -- why don't you go out and shovel everybody's driveway and sidewalks for free?"
Hannity touts ice sculptors who cited cold temperatures to claim that global warming "hasn't exactly reached Alaska." Fox News' Sean Hannity stated on the January 7 edition of his Fox News program, "You are looking at a two-ton ice sculpture of the former VP and, yes, he's blowing smoke as he always does. Now, the work of art sits outside a Thrifty liquor store in Fairbanks, Alaska. Now, the artists say that they created the sculpture to show Mr. Gore that global warming hasn't exactly reached Alaska quite yet. In fact, they say that when it was sculpted, the temperatures were 32 below. I like that."
Hannity repeatedly falsely claimed 2009 was the "coldest year on record." As Media Matters for America has noted, on several occasions, Hannity has also falsely claimed that 2009 was the "coldest year on record."
BigJournalism.com debuts with big myth: "[T]he planet is actually cooling." A January 7 post on Andrew Breitbart's BigJournalism.com listed global warming as the top "faux media scares of the past decade," asserting that the threat of global warming "works, except the planet is actually cooling."
Doocy on cold weather: "That global warming thing is really kicking into high gear, isn't it?" On January 5, 6, and 7, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy repeatedly falsely suggested that cold weather contradicts global warming. On the January 5 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy said of cold weather in parts of the United States, "That global warming thing is really kicking into high gear, isn't it?" On the same day, Doocy posted two Twitter messages stating, "I wonder if Al Gore is shivering somewhere." And on the January 6 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy said of the weather, "It's not global warming, I'll tell you that!" On the January 7 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy agreed with global warming critic Lord Nigel Lawson after he asserted that "mind you, there is no warming going on. There's been no warming so far this century at all, as the figures show."
Ingraham and CEI's Horner cited December snowstorms to cast doubt on global warming. On the December 21 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, guest host Laura Ingraham cited a major East Coast winter storm and said, "But what about global warming, Al Gore? Come on." Ingraham hosted the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner, who said that "[w]e've got about 25 inches of global warming the last two days." After Ingraham said that "there's a lot of stuff being shoveled, and it's not just snow," Horner replied: "Well, God exists and has a great sense of humor, and he tends to show it in this context: chasing Al Gore around the world with freezing record temperatures."
Right-wing media seized on snow at Copenhagen conference to deem climate change a "fraud." Right-wing media also highlighted snowfall during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, often suggesting that the winter storm is evidence that climate change is, in Limbaugh's words, "a fraud."
2000-2009 was "by far" warmest decade on record
NASA: "January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record." NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) stated on January 21 that "January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record. Throughout the last three decades, the GISS surface temperature record shows an upward trend of about 0.2°C (0.36°F) per decade." GISS also said that 2009 "was only a fraction of a degree cooler than 2005, the warmest year on record, and tied with a cluster of other years -- 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007 1998 and 2007 -- as the second warmest year since recordkeeping began," according to a NASA analysis of global surface temperature. From GISS:
NASA states that "[t]emperature anomalies are computed relative to the base period 1951-1980."
NOAA: "The 2000-2009 decade is the warmest on record." The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stated in its "Global Analysis" of 2009 that "[t]he 2000-2009 decade is the warmest on record, with an average global surface temperature of 0.54°C (0.96°F) above the 20th century average. This shattered the 1990s value of 0.36°C (0.65°F)." NCDC further noted that based on global combined land and ocean surface temperature data, 2009 tied with 2006 "as the fifth warmest [year] since records began in 1880."
Met Office: 2000-2009 "has been, by far, the warmest decade on the instrumental record." The U.K. Met Office stated on December 7 that "[t]he first decade of this century has been, by far, the warmest decade on the instrumental record" and that "despite 1998 being the warmest individual year -- the last ten years have clearly been the warmest period in the 160-year record of global surface temperature, maintained jointly by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia."
WMO: "2000-2009, The Warmest Decade." In a December 8, 2009, press release, the World Meteorological Organisation reported that "[t]he decade of the 2000s (2000-2009) was warmer than the decade spanning the 1990s (1990-1999), which in turn was warmer than the 1980s (1980-1989)."
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - For the second year in a row, North Carolina has earned the top seed in the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Tournament. The Tar Heels, 20-1 overall and ranked No. 1 in the nation, will open play at home on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. against Stanford.
Michigan and Old Dominion will meet in the other first-round game in Chapel Hill, on Saturday at 2 p.m. The winners play Sunday at 2 p.m. for a spot in the national semifinal the following Friday in Norfolk, Va.
"As always, we're thrilled to be in the NCAA Tournament field and especially excited to be hosting," said UNC coach Karen Shelton, who has led her program to its 29th NCAA tournament berth in her 32nd season at UNC. "Winning the ACC Tournament on our home field last Sunday was really special and now we're hoping to keep that momentum rolling in the NCAA Tournament.
"We prepare all year long for the postseason. Our players have worked hard, as has our staff. We feel like we've improved as the season has gone on, and we hope we'll continue to do that. Winning a championship last weekend was great, but the next game is always the one we're focused on. The players had a couple of days off and now we're ready to get back on the field and prepare for Stanford."
Saturday's game will be the second meeting this season between UNC and Stanford. The Cardinal visited Henry Stadium on Sept. 23 for a game the Tar Heels won 6-2.
Carolina also has played the other two teams headed for Chapel Hill. UNC beat Michigan 5-1 in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Aug. 25 and has faced ODU twice, winning 3-2 in Chapel Hill on Sept. 14 and 3-1 in Norfolk on Oct. 26.
Carolina won the program's 18th ACC Championship last Sunday on its home field, beating Maryland 4-2 in the final. Now the Tar Heels will shoot for their seventh NCAA title. They have played in the NCAA Championship game in four of the last five years, winning titles in 2007 and 2009 and finishing as the runner-up to Maryland in overtime in 2010 and 2011.
Tickets for the games are $5 for adults and $3 for students and will be available at the Henry Stadium entrance on Saturday and Sunday.


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As a young boy growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, I had a daily selection from among twelve newspapers ranging from the Communist Daily Worker on the left to the right wing Daily Mirror. There was no need to have a computer access these periodicals, one simply hung around the newstand and read whatever one desired. However, recent news indicates the United States is witnessing the death of a large segment of its newspapers. The Gannett news chain has given all employees a week of unpaid vacation in order to save money. Circulation is down even at the New York Times, and hundreds will shortly be dismissed. Once upon a time important newspapers maintained reporters on a permanent basis in cities throughout the world, but today such events are handled by CNN or a few other outlets.
The New York Times website has announced in December its online newspaper received 18.2 million hits which was a rise of six percent and other key newspapers like USA Today and the Wall Street Journal had similar experiences. Total visits to the top ten newspapers was 252 million, a rise of 34% over previous years.
Nielsen Online figures indicate the average web surfer spends about a minute on a page. To read an excellent columnist requires time and thinking. We are entering the world of non-thinkers and short term readers. Will that world produce a better educated population?


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On the Hill video ski report: Vail reports 9 new inches
December 24, 2012
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Vail official report: 9″ in last 24 hours; 2″ overnight
Vail Daily field report: Felt like 2 inches in some spots, but also felt like the full 9 inches in others
Weather: Overcast and cold but the sun is threatening to show itself
Liftline status: By 9:30 a.m. Chair 8 and the Eagle Bahn in Lionshead were packed. Chair 6 had no wait whatsoever at 9 a.m.
Run of the Day: The Chair 10 terrain didn't get beat up too bad yesterday
Breakdown: After a phenomenal day at Vail yesterday, where we saw 7 inches fall during the day and another 2 overnight, today (Friday) is a great day to get out and enjoy some turns. Tree runs and stash spots will be powdery, and the few inches that fell last night over yesterday's packed down terrain will make you feel like you're floating over that surface.-
Snowcast: 20-30 percent chance for another storm Sunday-Monday
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I struggle a lot with the idea/decision of euthanizing. I mostly look at whether they are suffering but sometimes with a chronic illness it is difficult to realize when the time comes because the decline is gradual and you tend to get used to the new "level" they are at, if that makes sense, or with dealing with ups and downs and so you think, maybe they will get better again.
This happened with my cat who had CRF, she was always grumpy and not very active/not playful or anything even before she got sick since I got her when she was about 10-11 which may have made it more difficult to judge quality of life things. She had also had a bout of anorexia for unknown reasons long before she got sick (possibly due to acidic stomach) and I had to force-feed her to get through that but she was fine afterwards, so when she was older and didn't want to eat (common for CRF cats) I was never sure. When she was diagnosed she was in a crisis and she came out of it very well, she had several more over time, including at least once needing to be hospitalized, but she always bounced back. This made it harder to tell when it was really time.
With my previous few dogs they had cancer and it was hard because you could say, well they aren't going to recover so you should just put them to sleep right away. I know some people take this route, but personally I didn't feel right to "give up" on them. I felt like they would want to have as much time as they could. They don't know what's wrong or that there is a "time limit". For one of my dogs I did basically hospice care. He had lung cancer and was not a candidate for chemo due to his heart murmur. My vet knew that I was knowledgeable about providing medical treatment, and so we did palliative care with him. My other two dogs we did chemo, sadly with my Golden the chemo turned out to be too much of a strain on her body. She passed away at home in my arms the evening after a treatment. I do not regret the decision to try the chemo though.
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We recently laost our very beloved and darling orange tabby, Nacho. Nacho would have been 13 in May. She was rescued from our vet when we lived in Kentucky. She and her siblings were dumped in a box on the vet office step on a Sunday afternoon in May. Half of them died of heat stroke before the vet found them when he came to check on animals in hospital.
Nacho had a few medical issues but nothing so earth shattering that it would end her life early.
We noticed at Christmas that she was losing weight and thought her hyperthyroidism maight have been back. She had radioacative iodine for that a year ago and it sometimes fails. So we took her in for a thorough exam, thyoroid check and full blood panel a month ealier than she should have gone in.
Long story short, she had cancer. Very aggressive fast growing cancer. She had xrays and then an exploratory surgery to try to figure out what the mass in her abdomen was. When doc said pancreatic cancer we knew we would lose her soon and decided to give her as many quality days as we could. We never realized the day before we took her for the exam would be her last good day. She played in the yard with us while I did yard work on a lovely day.
She never bounced back from the surgery. We temped her with eveyting she loved, force fed and tube fed her once thinking she just needed a jump start. Vet was okay with this but we alos knew he was ready to tell us enough. We knew this ourselves and helped her over the bridge.
Was it too late or too early? It was too late if we knew she would never bounce back. It was too early if she would have bounced back.
I know with the diagnosis and then pathology that came back the day we lost her that she had a very short time remaining. Her cancer was very aggressive and fast growing.
I know she is not suffering but I miss my little Nacho-cat. I miss her sleeping with me everynight.
Hard hard decisions. I think this is the first time we have ever really struggled with the question of was this the right ime? It was so shocking to us to know we were going to lose her, we had so little time to prepare.
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|I've waited to long, a few times. When the time comes and I have to make that really tuff decision, I try my hardest not to wait to long.
|To be honest, I am the person that thinks I can do everything to save a dog. My husband is more of the realist and will tell me enough is enough. In my heart I know my husband is right, but I'm just the kind of person that wants to save them.
|I think I have always done too late. In retrospect I have put some of my animals through way too much, just hoping they would get better. My last dog in particular I kept seeking more and more vet care and putting him through all kinds of treatments. He seemed pretty defeated by the end.
When its time I think the owner just knows. For me I had to put down my last dog, and even though I knew it was time it was a very tuff decision.
About 18months before I put him down I came to the realization that he was completely deaf. After I realized this, I started teaching him all the commands he already knew in sign language. I made up hand gestures for various commands, and even at age 12 he was able to catch on really quick.
I really enjoyed that old dog, we had spent so much time together, that we just knew what each of us expected out of each other.
The day finally came when he was 13 1/2, his hips progressively gave out on him, and one morning he woke up, and was unable to stand under his own power. He was still in good spirits, ate well, still wanted to chew his toys, and had no other health issues, but that was the day.
I was always told better day too soon than a day too late.
It's not an easy thing to think about, that's for sure.
|It is difficult to think about. With Cody I still wonder if it was too soon. With Clipper I was more at peace with due to his decline, but with both, when I think back over on their health issues, it was the decision that had to be made. I think reading about signs to look for, others experiences help, but when it's there in reality, your daily life, you will know. I miss my boys, always will. You will have doubt, you will grieve before the decision is made and after. But when you look back, deep in your heart for sure, you'll know it was the right time.
|I think for many its later than it should be but its because dogs mask pain and suffering very well. It's not until the pain'or discomfort is very obvious that we come to our senses and "know" it's really time. I too think I am guilty of leaving it too long. I become so emotional that it makes some things cloudy. The week following after putting your pet to sleep is a blur for me.
|Charlie W
|I had my old Dalmatian to sleep too late, I picked a time when I had a week off work, for selfish reasons (so that I could grieve in peace), and a week before that he collapsed and had to be euthanized. I had been putting the decision off for too long, it is a decision that will haunt me forever and a mistake I hope I won't make again. I say, once you know it has to be done, don't wait for a "sign," don't wait for "you dog to tell you it's time", that may be too late
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