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When http://www.youtube.com/ was activated in 2005, it was clear that the founders, three former PayPal employees, had a great idea in creating a platform for internet users to upload, share and view videos online. What wasn't as obvious was just how prevalent personal videos would become - or how persuasive this online medium would be. For the personalities who rose to become its biggest stars, it's also been a career maker. Here we look at some of the unique career paths launched through YouTube.
In Pictures: Celebrities With Big Dreams That Paid Off
Justin Bieber
These days, throngs of young fans are literally storming police barricades to get closer to 16-year-old Canadian pop star Justin Bieber. The pop/R&B singer is currently on tour promoting his first album, "My World 2.0", and he appears to be spreading what the media calls "Bieber Fever" along with him. But this teen sensation may never have caught on (or at least not so soon) without the help of YouTube.
At only 12 years old, Bieber began posting homemade videos on YouTube, which were soon getting tens of thousands of views. His performances attracted the attention of music industry execs, who eventually signed him to a recording contract. By the time his first album hit stores in November 2009, Bieber was already a sensation, and the record was a smash hit. Bieber may be one of the biggest YouTube music stars, but he certainly isn't the first - and he won't be the last.
Michelle Phan (RiceBunny)
When American art student Michelle Phan began posting beauty how-to tutorials on YouTube in 2006, she was just following her passion as she worked her way through art school. But it wasn't long before her unique videos had garnered hundreds of thousands of subscribers on YouTube, making her one of the most subscribed to YouTube "gurus" of all time. By 2009, she was able to quit her job as a waitress to focus on her videos and thanks to YouTube's revenue-sharing program, she was earning money.
But it didn't stop there - as Phan continued producing videos, showing step-by-step how to recreate wild makeup made famous by pop star Lady Gaga (which garnered 14 million views!), or how to get that "romantic valentine look", the tiny Vietnamese beauty began getting significant press, appearing in several major newspapers and magazines. And, in 2010 she scored a major career coup - she was hired by Lancome as its online video producer. (Find out how an arts degree can contribute to career success in The Value Of A "Useless" Degree.)
Ben Steinbauer (and the "Winnebago Man")
When outtake clips from a 22-year-old Winnebago sales video went viral on the internet, film director Ben Steinbauer was intrigued. The foul-mouthed, hot-headed salesman feature in the video - Jack Rebney - combined with the old Winnebago footage was an obvious comedy classic. And, strangely enough, it circulated for years unbeknownst to its hilariously profane star.
Steinbauer's fascination with the "the angriest man in the world" persisted, and he eventually tracked Rebney down to learn more about who this man was - and perhaps why he was so angry. The result is what critics are calling an "insightful" documentary, which has been scooping up awards at North American film festivals and will appear in U.S. theatres this summer. (Find out what types of movies are the most profitable in Movie Genres That Make The Most Money.)
Jodie-Amy Rivera ("VenetianPrincess")
Jodie-Amy Rivera didn't just launch a career through YouTube, she turned her YouTube appearances into a career. As one of the most subscribed females on the site, Rivera, known as "VenetianPrincess", became one of the first YouTube celebrities invited into the company's revenue-sharing program. In her videos, Rivera plays a Venetian princess - along with all the other characters she encounters along the way - but she is best known for her spoof music videos, which have helped her garner hundreds of millions of page views.
Although her exploits involve shooting, starring in and editing her own videos with her home computer, the work has paid off. Besides earning an income through her YouTube channel, she also won Samsung's Juke Box Hero contest in 2008, which included having her original song "Somewhere Else" installed on T-Mobile cell phones.
Lucas Cruikshank ("Fred Figglehorn")
Meet Fred Figglehorn, a furious, fast-talking fictional six-year old. This character was American actor Lucas Cruikshank's ticket to fame. Cruikshank officially introduced his high-pitched character on YouTube in 2008. By 2009, Fred (and Cruikshank) were YouTube celebrities, and Cruikshank's channel became the first YouTube channel to hit one million subscribers.
In 2010, Cruikshank will star in a movie based on his YouTube character, which is to premier on Nickelodeon in 2010. He also promotes the Zipit Wireless Messenger device in internet and television ads, and has made cameo appearances in children's TV shows "Hannah Montana" and "iCarly". Not a bad resume for a 17-year old!
The Bottom Line
YouTube holds out the promise of instant viral fame, which has sent many aspiring singers, actors, comedians and others flocking to their webcams. But achieving fame and fortune - even in the digital realm - may be no easier than it ever was, and hitting on a winning formula may be as much about luck as it is about talent. Finally, even if you manage to produce a viral video, using it to generate real income is a big leap that, unlike the fortunate celebrities here, many YouTube stars never make.
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Learn how to build your own video mixer from scratch with the Processing programming language and the Arduino electronics prototyping platform. If you're familiar with these easy-to-use technologies, this two-hour video course will help you create video mixing software that lets you load video files and live camera input, crossfade between video sources, and display the mix in real time. This fun and engaging class is ideal for artists, designers, students, engineers, and hobbyists, and anyone looking to expand their digital toolkit.
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This video class walks the user through a series of online labs and demos, showing how to build a visual mixer using Processing, and how to interactively control it using an Arduino, hooked up to a set of switches and potentiometers (called a ProjBox). The complete suite of code is also available for download.This class is an excellent exposition of the topic, and shows you how to very quickly put together a workable visual editor, using open source tools. It also does a very good job showing what a powerful and versatile platform Processing is.
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Dattatray Phuge has gotten rich and he'll be damned if he doesn't die trying to get the world's attention. The 40-year old landowner from Pimpri-Chinchwad, India paid an incredible $22,754 for a shirt made of solid gold.
Although there have been reports that Phuge made the shirt to attract females, he is already married and did it just to gain attention.
"I own everything right from chains to rings, bracelets, watches in gold. Now, I wanted something that no one would have," he told Ranka Jewelers of Pune, according to Daily News and Analysis "That's when Tejpal Ranka suggested making a shirt of gold. Just like Shivaraj Maharaj used to wear a chain shirt while going to war, this garment was to be similar. I didn't think it was possible but was excited with the idea as it would help us garner international attention,"
It took Ranka Jewelers two weeks, using 15 goldsmiths, working 16 hours a day to make the shirt made of 3.5 kilograms of gold. Phuge thinks the stunt will earn him a place in the Guinness Book or Limca Book of World Records.
It pieces together 14,000 gold spangles interwoven with 1 lakh rings on a specially imported white velvet cloth. It features six Swavorski crystals as buttons and comes with a gold belt. In addition to the gold shirt, Datta reportedly wears 4 kilos of gold on his body in the form of necklaces, bracelets and rings.
"I am a Maharashtrian, a Maratha hence I like to wear and display gold. I got this idea to stitch a shirt made of gold from one of my friends who said that nobody had done it before," Phuge said. "We wanted to do it below 3 kilios, however we overstepped the mark."
Phuge's wife, Seema, said he would only wear the shirt on special occasions.
"At major public events or where he needs to make a statement, otherwise it will stay in the locker," she said.
Because he wears so much gold, Phuge employs 20 bodyguards to ensure his safety.
"I have been wearing a heap of gold since many years. I am always surrounded by my trusted boys and no one can dare to harm me," he said.
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Summary: | The Tower of Babel illustrates so clearly man's core desire to 'make a name for himself.' At the center of "sIn" is the letter "I" – pride is the root of all sin. The issue of this story is not the mere building of a tower, but the motive for which to do so. Pride caused them to focus their resources and energy on building something that would bring them glory. We may not build physical towers, but we can often find ourselves building our own 'towers of glory' – we can have a tendency to devote time, energy and resources on things that will make us look good, instead of furthering the Kingdom of God. Kids can relate to the pressure to be 'popular' – but they can learn that it is more important to focus on the difference you can make in the world, rather than how many people you. | |||||||||
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Abstract: | This longitudinal quasi-experimental study examines the effects of Word Generation, a middle-school vocabulary intervention, on the learning, maintenance, and consolidation of academic vocabulary for students from English-speaking homes, proficient English speakers from language-minority homes, and limited English-proficiency students. Using individual growth modeling, we found that students receiving Word Generation improved more on target word knowledge during the instructional period than students in comparison schools did, on average. We found an interaction between instruction and home-language status such that English-proficient students from language-minority homes improved more than English-proficient students from English-speaking homes. Limited English-proficiency students, however, did not realize gains equivalent to those of more proficient students from language-minority homes during the instructional period. We administered follow-up assessments in the fall after the instructional period ended and in the spring of the following year to determine how well students maintained and consolidated target academic words. Students in the intervention group maintained their relative improvements at both follow-up assessments. |
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For the most part, [McPherson has been] able to look beneath skin color and clichés of attitude into the hearts of his characters…. This is a fairly rare ability in American fiction where even the most telling kind of perception seldom seems able to pass an invisible color line. Black writers—with the exception of Ralph Ellison—too often see white characters as some configuration of externals, and white writers, perhaps even more grossly, have done the same with blacks.
In McPherson's title story [from his second collection of short stories, "Elbow Room"] Virginia is the wife in an interracial marriage that has proved to be a ruinous struggle for a kind of psychological synthesis. With bitter humor she says: "When times get tough, anybody can pass for white. Niggers been doing that for centuries…. But wouldn't it of been something to be a nigger that could...
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Groton — Police have arrested a Groton City man they say robbed the Payless shoes store on Route 12 Wednesday evening while brandishing a box-cutter style knife.
John D. Bergeron, 59, entered the store with the box-cutter and demanded money, police said. The store employee complied, and the suspect fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash. Neither the employee nor a patron in the store at the time were injured, police said.
Payless, at 220 Route 12, is one of several stores in a shopping plaza anchored by Stop & Shop and Kohl's.
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FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) is expected to report earnings on Wednesday, September 4th. The whisper number is -$0.01, two cents ahead of the analysts' estimate. FuelCell Energy has a 26 percent positive surprise history (having topped the whisper in six of the 23 earnings reports for which we have data).
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I have a feeling that Fall might come early to NYC this year, friends. Can you feel it in the air? The nights are breezy and cool, almost sweater weather. And suddenly all those shades of summer are starting to feel a bit stale. My personal Fall transition started last week when I fell in love with Jampacked lipglass (that's always when I know Fall is coming, when I have an unexplained craving for berry lip colors).
And just this weekend I sealed the deal with a berry nail. That does it. Fall is imminent.
I opened my manicure box this weekend and went straight for my beloved bottle of OPI Kennebunkport. This polish is, in my opinion, the most perfect berry red ever to grace the Earth. It's not too bright, not too dark, just a tinge of berry, dramatic enough to make a statement but still appropriate for the office. I posted about it last year and will probably post about it every Fall until (1) OPI stops making it, or (2) there is such reader outcry over my extreme boring-ness that I am forced to shut up.
Anyhow, I painted my nails with Kennebunkport, admired my handiwork, and then looked down at my toes. Suddenly my once-beautiful Tracy Reese/Sally Hansen pedicure looked so stale and out of place. (The shade was Flame, an orange-red that was my summer staple.) I'm due for a pedicure this week, and needless to say, it will be Kennebunkport.
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Climate Case Studies – Hurricane Sandy (1)
Hurricane / Superstorm Sandy provides a case study of how climate impacts us. Such events demonstrate how many aspects of day-to-day life are interconnected, and how massive disruptions to that day-to-day life have both short-term and long-term consequences.
Previously I have written about the 2010 Pakistani Flood and Russian Heat Wave as climate case studies. In both the Pakistani and Russian cases there was damage across great swaths of land. In the case in Pakistan, there was loss of built infrastructure in regions of political unrest. In the case of Russia, there was threat to the wheat crop that propagated through commodity markets, which caused increases in food prices in, for example, Egypt. In the case of Hurricane Sandy there was great loss along the New Jersey Shore and in New York City. Though limited to a relatively small portion of the U.S., this part of the U.S. is highly populated, with great importance to the industrial and financial base of the country.
If a person chose, then a person could look at the impacts of Hurricane Sandy and maintain that the impacts of hurricane Sandy are due to there being too many people too close to the coast. They can then argue that this is a matter of bad planning, or choices that people make knowing that there is risk. This is a frequent argument made by those trying to dismiss the importance of climate change. The argument being, that this is "just weather," and we have too many people who are in the wrong place. A focus on only population does not, in fact, make any statement about climate or climate change.
People have always lived with their climate, and the successes and failures of societies and civilizations have been influenced by climate. In the case of New York and New Jersey, some people will stay and some people will move. It may be that the people who stay and rebuild will make decisions of climate adaptation. Perhaps they will have higher sea walls, build on stilts, get rid of the basement, or build wetland buffers. They might demand governmental response. The people who move are adapting to the climate as well. They may have resources and decide that it is too risky to stay next to the sea. They may have no resources and can only retreat - to become climate refugees.
A comparison of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey and the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans provides numerous useful contrasts. New Orleans is a city where great portions are below sea level. It is protected by levees that are themselves an adaptation to climate. These levees have been designed as a response to both flooding of the Mississippi River and to the historic hurricanes. The challenges in New Orleans are amplified by a wide array of water management and water use practices that have caused the city to sink. The natural barriers that might help protect New Orleans, especially the wetlands, have been managed and destroyed in way that increases the city's vulnerability. Not only has the city's vulnerability been increased, but also we have placed in those former wetlands houses and a large amount of the nation's petroleum infrastructure. Thus we make ourselves direct risks of known extremes of climate.
Again, if a person takes a narrow view, then the argument could be made that the impacts of Katrina are the result of poor land use, poor environmental engineering, and people making decisions to live too close to the sea. However, this is an oversimplification of a complex problem; it ignores climate. People have already taken climate into account in their planning; they built levees. They already have proof from the present disaster that what they did was not enough. Therefore, it is logical that if they decide to persist in the same place, then they need to take climate into account in a different and more important way.
An important difference between hurricanes Katrina and Sandy is that people of wealth and insurance were more notably impacted in New York. A greater portion of poor people was damaged in New Orleans. The poor people had often not made the decision to live in low-lying areas near the sea because they liked low-lying areas near the sea. Their decision was made by affordability, and a requirement for short-term affordability to make a way of life. They are guided to their climate adaptation decisions by a lack of wealth. The well to do and the insured will be able to rebuild. The cost of the environmental disaster – the cost of climate - will be mitigated by insurance. This is also climate adaptation. I note that insurance companies are one of the sectors of our commercial enterprise that is most actively incorporating climate change knowledge into their business. This is climate-change adaptation, and it will change people's behavior on the decisions that they make.
The concept that Hurricane Katrina lit in my mind was the how our response to climate change will likely be motivated by a series of climate disasters. Each hit will be a blow, and each blow will cause us to accumulate a bit more climate fatigue. The current method of building resilience to climate disruption, buying insurance, will fall to the side as insurance companies refuse to write policies in areas with high climate risk. They will see this risk growing either through model projections of climate change, or through the increasing number of Sandy-like events. This wealth-laden approach to adaptation is short-sighted, and it will prove inadequate. The impact of hurricanes in rich parts of the U.S. is often a small economic revitalization fueled by insurance and rebuilding. This will not always be the case, as the cost of insurance and rebuilding gets too high.
So the question arises, are we so entrenched that we have to rely on a series of climate disasters to show us the cost and to light up the path to address climate change? Our current approach to energy policy and land-use policy assures that our climate-related disasters will get larger. There will be increasingly frequent economic blows to fragile economies. There will be more frequent threats on the scale of the Pakistani floods and the Russian heat wave, which might bypass economies and go directly to nation stability. In a small way, Sandy showed us that using information from models to plan helps us reduce damage and risk. That is what the projections from climate change models provide us, the ability to smartly address the question of how do we carry our current adaptations to climate risk in the future of a changed climate.
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Quoting iceagecoming: WOW! I am totally impressed! I had no idea that they had such quality cameras back during the MWP! And pre Brownie cameras too! The MWP is widely considered to have been regional warming and not global warming. |
Viking Greenland was a happening place during the MWP. This blog has reported on the MWP before (see "Medieval Warm Period Rediscovered") and my readers know I place no stock in consensus science. All honest climate scientists will admit that the exact temperatures during the MWP are not accurately known and probably never will be. So why all the fuss every time a paper comes out either for or against a hotter MWP? It is because of the ridiculous claim by the IPCC and its followers that says temperatures today are hotter than they have ever been, or at least during this interglacial. Having put so much emphasis on the "unprecedented" nature of current global warming, the proponents of anthropogenic global warming just cannot back down from the hottest ever claim. The argument is that if the Medieval Warm Period was hotter, then today's temperatures are not anything special and the whole global warming crisis is just so much hokum. This means that skeptics are constantly searching for proof that things were hotter and true believers desperate to discredit that proof. This, my friends, is not a scientific argument, it is a political one, and it would not be so viciously defended by global warming proponents if their scientific case was not so fundamentally weak itself. By Doug L. Hoffman at 10/14/2012 - 16:27 Link This blog captures the heart of the matter. And Dr Frank Hill is afraid to speculate on his finding, other than to say it will get colder. The Most Recent ICE AGE. The effect of minus 2 to 3 degrees Celcius. The Period of 14th to 19th century Weather history + Stradivarious, Frankenstein, dieting, Witches, Church, Vikings, "Hansel and Gretel" and more... |
Quoting spbloom: Sorry Bloomy, I post there as well, on topic, factual and concise. Keep drinking the koolaid. The recent evidence is overwhelming that climate models are completely ineffective at predicting global temperatures, and newer research confirms they have serious problems properly simulating major component/regions of the globe's environment Simulating Earth's Southern Ocean and Its Climate Reference Weijer, W., Sloyan, B.M., Maltrud, M.E., Jeffery, N., Hecht, M.W., Hartin, C.A., van Sebille, E., Wainer, I. and Landrum, L. 2012. The Southern Ocean and its climate in CCSM4. Journal of Climate 25: 2652-2675. Background The authors write that "the Southern Ocean is a region of extremes: it is exposed to the most severe winds on the earth (Wunsch, 1998), the largest ice shelves (Scambos et al., 2007), and the most extensive seasonal sea ice cover (Thomas and Dieckmann, 2003)." And they indicate that various interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere in this region "greatly influence the dynamics of the entire climate system through the formation of water masses and the sequestration of heat, freshwater, carbon, and other properties (Rintoul et al., 2001)." What was learned The nine researchers state that "the CCSM4 has varying degrees of accuracy in the simulation of the climate of the Southern Ocean when compared with observations," some of which we list as follows: (1) "the seasonally ice-covered regions are mildly colder (ΔSST > -2°C) than observations," (2) "sea ice extent is significantly larger than observed," (3) "north of the seasonal ice edge, there is a strong (-4°C < ΔSST < -1°C) cold bias in the entire Pacific sector south of 50°S and in the western Australian-Antarctic Basin," (4) "positive biases (1° < ΔSST < 4°C) are found in the Indian and Atlantic sectors of the Southern Ocean," (5) "significant differences are found in the Indian and Pacific sectors north of the ACC, with the CCSM4 model being too cold (< -2°C) and fresh (0.2 psu)," (8) "in the Indian and Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean, north of 50°S and below 3000 meters, the too-salty AABW penetrates northward, resulting in a denser-than-observed abyssal ocean in CCSM4," (9) "the model underestimates the depth of the deep winter mixed layers in the Indian and eastern Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean north of the ACC," (10) "in the southern Tasman Sea and along the eastern Indian Ocean boundary ... the model mixed layer depth is deeper than observed by more than 400 meters," (11) "in all sectors of the Southern Ocean, Model CFC-11 concentrations in the lower thermocline and intermediate waters are lower than observed," (12) "model CFC-11 concentrations in the deep ocean (below 2000 meters) are lower than observed in the basins adjacent to the Antarctic continent," (13) "model surface CFC-11 concentrations are higher than observed," (14) "the production of overflow waters in the Ross Sea is too low by about a factor of 2 relative to the limited observations," (15) "the depth at which the product water settles was also shown to be too shallow by about a factor of 2," (16) "the subtropical gyre of the South Atlantic is too strong by almost a factor of 2, associated with a strong bias in the wind stress," (17) the mean position of the BMC is too far south in the CCSM4," and (18) "the model variability in the position of the BMC is significantly less than observations." What it means In light of their several findings, Weijer et al. conclude that as the CCSM4 currently stands, it "may underestimate the sequestration of heat, carbon, and other properties to the interior ocean," with the result that its parameterizations may "lead to significant biases in the representation of the Southern Ocean and its climate," which is not a characteristic we would hope to see in our models. Link Have yet to see anyone in the Heat biased clan come to grips with the real history of climate. Feel free to suggest what will happen based on data. What they ignore. |
Quoting NeapolitanFan:You certainly do seem to have difficulty with the basics. Perhaps a website with more beginner-level content might be more to your in sync with your low level of understanding? Here, try this one: http://globalwarmingkids.net/. Catch up, then come back here and try joining the conversation at the grown-up's table. That way you may be able to avoid the humiliation of repeatedly embarrassing yourself. |
co2now.org 391.03ppm Atmospheric CO2 for October 2012 |
BTW, anyone thinking that nymore was posting fact without trying to mislead may want to look up the environmental requirements for the CA rare earth mine now in the process of re-opening. Re the Chinese, all of their mining activities are famously dirty, although they seem to be slowly getting a clue as to what a bad idea that is. While it's no defense, it's been pointed out that ours were about as bad at a similar stage of economic development. Anyway, perhaps nymore can provide us with some pictures of Chinese coal mining for balance. And oh yes, information about how to do baseload with renewables is just a google search away, although nymore can't be bothered. Ducks in a pond. |
Quoting pintada: Thanks, pintada. I'm generally familiar with KA's views and had seen these slides, but didn't know the lecture itself was available. |
Quoting JohnLonergan: My thought: More denial. |
It took me a while to figure out how to listen to the presentation. For those of you old folks like me that need a little help ... This is Kevin Andersons presentation. First, start the lecture, then start the slides. You can follow along flipping the slides yourself. This is the lecture. These are the slides. |
Quoting Xandra: My thought: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death |
Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie: You know, after I had read the article, I asked myself: "What would happen if governments go out and say that we are almost guaranteed to reach 4 degrees of warming, as early as 2050, and may soar far beyond that - beyond the point which agriculture, the ecosystem, and industrial civilization can survive." The first thought that popped into my head was the word "chaos". |
Quoting Xandra: I can well imagine the reasons why governments would downplay the realities of AGW. Since I have no way to support what I imagine then it is pointless for me to name them. I will say that I highly doubt that it is just because of the fossil fuel industry's lobbying influence. While I know this is a contributing factor, this reason alone is not enough to downplay what is probably coming. |
Kevin Anderson: What They Won't Tell You About Climate Catastrophe Are the climate deniers right? Are some scientists colluding with government to hide the truth about climate change? "Yes", according to top British scientist Kevin Anderson - but not the scandal you've heard about. Top scientists and government reports won't tell you we are heading toward catastrophic climate change. Emissions are skidding out of control, leading us to a world six degrees Centigrade hotter on average, much faster than anyone thought possible. Why doesn't the public know? Why are world conferences still talking about staying below 2 degrees, as though that is possible? In a devastating speech at Bristol University Tuesday November 6th, 2012, Dr. Kevin Anderson accused too many climate scientists of keeping quiet about the unrealistic assessments put out by governments, and our awful odds of reaching global warming far above the proposed 2 degree safe point. In fact, says Anderson, we are almost guaranteed to reach 4 degrees of warming, as early as 2050, and may soar far beyond that - beyond the point which agriculture, the ecosystem, and industrial civilization can survive. All this comes from one of the world's top climate scientists, plugged in to the latest research and numbers. Kevin Anderson is from the UK's premier climate modeling institution, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and the University of Manchester. He delivered the speech "Real Clothes for the Emperor, Facing the Challenges of Climate Change" at the Cabot Institute of the University of Bristol in Britain. Read more here |
A preemptive homily for all those denialists furiously rubbing their palms together in anticipation of this season's first widespread snowstorm: |
Quoting nymore: It is (still) relatively easy to end the AGW holocaust. The question is, How many more people need to be sacrificed so that the developed world can keep burning fossil fuels and pumping money into the oil companies, at least one of which is an admitted criminal. 1. Revenue Neutral Carbon tax - The Economist has been advocating its use for years. 2. Solar, wind, and high voltage DC transmission - known technology easily applied. 3. There are known technologies to remove CO2 from the air. And we must get the CO2 number back below 350 ASAP. It isn't sufficient to stop the emissions. But the first thing that must happen is that those people that think it is OK sacrifice the lives of others to maintain an addiction to fossil fuels need to HONESTLY look at the morality of the situation. |
Quoting nymore: What you posted is fact. Another fact is that you completely ignored all of the facts that I and others have posted to go along with it. Why? Why do you do this? You want to post how renewable energy sources have a dirty side to them as well? Fine, then do so. Here is my challenge to you then. Show us, show the world how fossil fuels are cleaner than renewable energy sources. Anywhere from the extraction of the raw materials all the way through their use as an energy source! You want the facts? The fact is that not even the cleanest of fossil fuels are cleaner than the dirtiest of renewable energy sources. You want to cry like a baby because renewable energy sources are not pristine throughout their entire process? Those are wasted tears in face of the facts. |
Quoting Ossqss: Not really. Not among the intelligent and informed posters here - they pretty much all agree with the "scientific" consensus that single weather events cannot be linked to global warming - what the article calls "event attribution" - a good name for it. OTOH there is a cadre of sadly uninformed posters here that repeatedly posts comments claiming that the aforementioned "intelligent and informed" say there are links between individual weather and weather-related events, when that assertion is completely false. It's like the tenet of propaganda that says that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. And what you are insinuating is a repeat of that lie. And of course, the melting of glaciers, erosion of coastlines due to rising seas, migration of ecosystems and other thing like them are processes and not events, and can be clearly linked to AGW/CC. Statistical correlations with factors such as frequency of events is a far different issue than individual events, but thick-headedness, ignorance, or willful avoidance of science and logic seems to be pervasive among a small group of denialists here at Dr. Rood's blog - and even more so on Dr. Master's blog. |
Seems some missed the memo. http://www.nature.com/news/extreme-weather-1.1142 8 |
Quoting spbloom:What I posted above is fact you may not like it but it is still fact. Another fact as of now with the technology at hand green energies can not provide base load power. Hopefully one day we will have the capacity to do so but as of now no dice. In fact even when renewable projects are proposed environmental folks and the NIMBY folks sue to stop these projects. If pointing out problems with the magic theory that green energy (is not exactly green) makes me a troll than sir or ma'am I will be the biggest. I live in reality some of you people here seem to live behind a desk in Fantasy Land BTW I was not chased off the main blog and in fact I have taken on the good Dr. directly and had him respond and change his entry before. |
FYI, pintada, the high troll activity here seems to be a result of them having been chased off the main blog. The nest has been cleaned out here several times when it's gotten bad (i.e. worse than this), but for whatever reason the same standard isn't applied. The other pro blogs (Angela, Chris and the new WC ones) seem to be pretty much zero-tolerance (which Jeff's blog isn't, quite, although kept low enough to ignore without too much trouble). You'll be pleased to know that one thing sure to cause the axe to fall quickly on Jeff's blog is the repetitive posting of nonsense as with iceagecoming and nymore here. AFAICT this comment section isn't terribly high-traffic, certainly nothing like the main blog, and I rather suspect most visitors just read the posts and don't even see the comments. |
Arctic Methane: Why The Sea Ice Matters Interviews with: James Hansen - NASA Natalia Shakhova - IARC Peter Wadhams - Cambridge University, UK David Wasdell - Apollo-Gaia Project |
Some1Has2BtheRookie Point taken |
Even when given advance notice,(like Mt St Helens) there will be those who refuse to go, at their own peril. Didn't help in the Katrina instance that 2/3 of the police left as well. So much for loyalty in the Big Easy |
Quoting philhoey: I agree with what you are saying, but I do not think you are looking at the complete picture. You can decide to stay and stockpile what you will need but if the event destroys the stockpile then you are still without. There are those that may wish to leave, but lack the ability to do so. Finances, sick or elderly family/friends that could not be transported safely and even the desire to stay to try to protect property. Those that do evacuate may not have anything left to return to but will come back to try to rebuild. While it would be best to wait until the infrastructure is rebuilt, people will always have the pressing need/desire to try to return to a more normal life as soon as possible. This will cause them to venture in when it may have been better to wait. Money Transportation Congested evacuation routes Illness Old age A desire to preserve what may be all that one has Yes, all that can evacuate should evacuate. Yes, all that choose to stay should be well prepared to stay. No, not all will be able to do this even if they wished to do so. Not all will be able to get out of harms way and not all will be able to see their way through the aftermath. |
Dr. Rood stated: "So the question arises, are we so entrenched that we have to rely on a series of climate disasters to show us the cost and to light up the path to address climate change? Our current approach to energy policy and land-use policy assures that our climate-related disasters will get larger. There will be increasingly frequent economic blows to fragile economies" Spot on. And I think the key word here is "we". We have to make the changes in our personal lifestyle: where we live and how we prepare. An example: Katrina and Sandy pointed out a severe problem in the way individuals, not governments, prepare for major disasters. Any first responder will tell you that people live, not die, when the individual is prepared and has some training in how to handle themselves until the professionals arrive. Katrina and Sandy are perfect examples where a significant number of people failed to be prepared for even a short term, 3 to 5 days, without power, heat, and access to food, water and basic first aid supplies. My point is that it appears, from my very unscientific observations, that people in urban areas and less well prepared, if at all, to care for themselves in the near term when our technology fails us. No offence to anyone close to the water in NJ and NY but did it occur to these people to: 1. Evacuate. 2. If not then stock up on food, water, medicine, gasoline and sources of light and heat. Apparently not. There was sufficient warning of the magnitude of 'Super Sandy' but have we grown so complacent to the 'power of government' that we cannot take a minimum amount of effort to plan ahead? Even the Mayor of NY made a statement something like: "We have never had this kind of flooding before." Not an exact quote – but close enough and very very wrong. Watch the Discovery Channel and see how people in Alaska live, in the cities or on the frontier. As the climate continues to change we can no longer 'assume' that because a major disaster has NOT occurred where I live that it will never happen. If people don't start becoming active participants at least at a minimum level to protect themselves and alter their lifestyle, then a lot of people are volunteering for a Darwin award. |
Quoting yoboi: When you ask someone that question it is as if you are trying to blame the individual for the problems of the world. No single individual will make a difference in how they limit their personal carbon footprint. I do not take any offense from this question being asked because it makes a person think about what else they can do to limit their carbon footprint. We all should be doing what we can to limit our carbon footprint, but individual efforts alone will not make much of a difference. Unless, of course, all take these same measures. |
Quoting Xandra: Another Tory plot to ruin CO2 reduction. EU may delay airline emissions rule By James Kanter | New York Times November 13, 2012 BRUSSELS %u2014 The European Commission said Monday that it would seek to delay for one year a plan to charge foreign airlines for greenhouse gas emissions, potentially removing one of the most contentious issues clouding trade relations with China, India, and the United States. The system, which requires airlines using an airport in Europe to obtain or buy permits corresponding to the amount of gases they emit, had generated intense opposition among foreign governments. They accused the European Union of violating their sovereignty and unfairly raising the costs paid by airlines from developing countries by imposing its environmental standards on the world. Europe had insisted the law was necessary because of a failure to control pollution from air traffic, which represents about 3 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions and is growing much faster than efforts to cut them. Connie Hedegaard, the European� climate commissioner, said she had asked the bloc%u2019s 27 governments to %u2018%u2018stop the clock%u2019%u2019 on the system for one year; the first payments under the program would have been due in April. But she threatened to re-impose the rule if there was not sufficient progress in establishing a global system to cut the emissions. Link |
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Quoting Xandra: Yes, the plot was seeded by environ-socialists in the 70's to return the world to a pre human state. enlightenment, the reality: Coal takes the strain...again. Paul Hudson | 16:44 UK time, Monday, 10 January 2011 On BBC Look North on friday I reported that during the recent intense cold weather, it's been our traditional coal and gas fired power stations that have been working flat out to keep our homes and businesses warm. And for the third winter running, the intense cold has gone hand in hand with periods of little or no wind. This should come as no surprise since prolonged cold is invariably associated with areas of high pressure. Peak demand also comes during summer heat waves - as we all turn on our air conditioning units - again usually associated with areas of high pressure, with little or no wind. December 21st 2010 was one of the coldest days on record in Yorkshire. The bar chart below gives an idea of how much electricity was being generated by which type of power facility, when temperatures were at their lowest. With much of the country experiencing very little wind, both onshore and offshore, wind turbines were largely inactive. At the moment that is not a problem. Only 5% of electricity is currently generated by wind farms, and so other power stations can step in and ramp up output. But in only 9 years time, the UK will legally have to generate around 30% of its electricity from renewable sources, of which 25% is expected to come from wind farms alone, as it is seen as a clean, carbon free energy source. So what will happen then, when the wind doesn't blow? If a similar meteorological situation occurred in 2020, then almost 25% of power would have to come from sources other than wind. This means that there would have to be some power stations - using coal or gas, since nuclear power output can't be increased at short notice - that simply exist as a stand-by facility, in case the wind doesn't blow. And that's a very expensive way of producing electricity. And what happens if, as seems at least possible, the next 10-15 years sees an increase in the type of disrupted weather patterns that we have experienced recently, because of solar considerations? Professor Mike Lockwood at Reading University thinks that the UK could indeed experience colder winters on average, compared with the last few decades because of the sun's low activity. This would lead to a higher frequency of 'blocking' weather patterns leading to less frequent windy conditions than would normally be expected if one looks at climatological averages - suggesting we would have to continue to rely on coal and gas fired power generation well into the future - and possibly more than is currently envisaged. Link Have it your way. MOST CARBON FREE SOURCE, MUST BE A NUCLEAR FUTURE. Chu Visits Site of America's First New Nuclear Reactor in Three Decades February 15, 2012 - 12:40pm Share on tweet WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just two days after the Department of Energy requested more than $770 million for nuclear energy in 2013, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu visited the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Georgia and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to highlight the steps the Obama Administration is taking to restart America's nuclear industry as part of an all-of-the-above American energy strategy. http://energy.gov/articles/chu-visits-site-americ a-s-first-new-nuclear-reactor-three-decades I am sure greenpeace just loved this one. Where is Mike Dukakis when you need him? Working at the NRA? |
Quoting yoboi: You are quite correct. Just because i generate my own power and grow my own food I am not blameless. I'm trying to get a few people to do the right thing now. What are you doing to stop the killing and the destruction? |
Quoting yoboi: Your logic is brilliant. You are saying that since I am alive there is no reason for society to do anything to ameliorate problem. There is no reason to at least try to stop the lies and deaths. The logic demonstrated in your question is called moral bankruptcy. |
From Greenpeace UK: SCANDAL: THERE'S A TOXIC PLOT IN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY Our undercover investigation has revealed a militant group of Conservative MPs trying to strangle investment in clean, renewable energy. Right now plans are being drawn up that could see dozens of new dirty gas power stations built in the UK. If their plans go ahead, it risks decades of carbon emissions and losing thousands of new green jobs. Our investigation shows how leading Tories have launched an attack on the Climate Change Act, saying they have the blessing of George Osborne. We also reveal that David Cameron's campaign manager for the Corby by-election was secretly behind the campaign of a rival candidate who ran against the Conservatives on an anti-clean energy platform. Energygate: What we found and why it matters The Guardian: Tory MP running Corby campaign 'backed rival in anti-windfarm plot' The Huffington Post UK: George Osborne 'Helping To Undermine Green Agenda' Senior Tory Claims |
Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie: Point taken. You are of course correct. BUT My point is that this site is: Respected - Never mind Dr. Masters exemplary record, its the weather channel for crying out loud. Competent - "there are far more science literate people here than at Yahoo". Not only that, it is operated by scientists And yet, just as every other site, the lies continue and are not only tolerated, they are encouraged. Society will never take AGW seriously until the media tells the truth and penalizes the ... (i cant even describe the people that should be penalized, or i'll get banned). When i started working as an environmental scientist in the '70's I would always hear things like "Oh, we'll just have to sacrifice that riparian area, (or that species) its people that we care about." I came to understand that was a lie. Those psychopaths were not any more interested in people than they were in the environment. Now, I can/must confront people that are decent and intelligent, but are suffering from massive cognitive dissonance. From Dr. Masters: "Global warming theory (Emanuel, 2005) predicts that a 2°C (3.6°F) increase in ocean temperatures should cause an increase in the peak winds of the strongest hurricanes of about about 10%. Furthermore, warmer ocean temperatures are expected to cause hurricanes to dump 20% more rain in their cores". OK, and when that 10% stronger storm hits a city people will die ... 10% more people. That means that at least one person died (or as many as 10) as a result of Sandy that would have not died without AGW in the mix. I can do some research and provide Dr. Masters with an address of the parents on one of those people. After he spent some time explaining to those parents that their child died because of AGW, he can come back and post an explanation as to why deniers must be encouraged on his site. We are in the mess we are in because the denial industry paid people to create a myth of a debate. Why does WUG support the continuance of that myth?? Rookie, you are a strong patient person and I enjoy reading your posts. I wish in a way that I was as even tempered as you. At this point in my life however, and after the things that I have watched evil people do, my patience is a little thin. |
Quoting pintada: You think this site is bad for all of the denial industry posts? LOL Check out THIS site - Yahoo's "Answers and Questions" Global Warming section The denial industry has a tougher time of it on WUG simply because there are far more science literate people here than at Yahoo. |
Quoting NeapolitanFan: How many times has this obvious falsehood been posted here and refuted? A dozen? More? And yet, WUG encourages more postings like it all the time. Why? Is WUG purposely supporting the myth of a debate about AGW? There has been no legitimate debate about the existence of AGW since the early 1970's. People have been paid to lie, people have lied because they thought it would help their bottom line, but the scientific debate ended decades ago. Catch a clue the earth is warming!! And their are consequences. People are dying because of AGW. It is a crime against humanity to spread lies that are designed to cause people to die. (Never mind that we are living in the greatest extinction event since the Permian.) When one group of people kill off large numbers of others, what is that called genocide? or just mass murder? MEANWHILE: WUG is the biggest clearinghouse for denialist propaganda on the web, and is therefore reinforcing the myth of an AGW debate. That is a serious charge, lets parse out the sentence: biggest? Yup. WUG gets more clicks than any other weather site. clearinghouse? Yup. If you want to find out what the latest lie coming out of the denial industry is, do you check wattsup etc.? No! All you have to do is come to WUG and the lies will be here. denialist propaganda? Read the insulting, inaccurate, nonsensical things the denialists have posted just today! Insulting: Look at post #6 the reader is supposed to believe that a mis-managed mine in China is an equivalent threat to a global ecosystem disaster that is already killing people (i.e. AGW). The person who posted the item obviously is implying that people that visit this site for the education provided by Drs. Rood, Masters, et.al are stupid. |
Quoting TomballTXPride: I understand your sentiments, Tomball. Should you make a journey through the past blogs you will find that NeapolitanFan has posted the same link (or variants of) numerous times here. Nearly every time the link has been addressed by someone here and yet he/she persists in posting it. That is why I suggested he/she must being paid to do so. |
Quoting NeapolitanFan: How Many More Times? Do you get paid for every time you drop this nonsense on a blog? At $0.00000001 a post you must be making a small fortune? How many more times are you going to post this? There have always been short term up and down movements over any 16 year period. What does the overall, long term trend show us for the past 100 years? Do us ALL a favor. Just show us the AGWT is flawed. I, most assuredly, would love to see the theory disproved. |
Quoting NeapolitanFan: It appears that the people at your link overlooked a couple of minor details! From Skeptical Science: |


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Sovaldi, a new pill for hepatitis C, cures the liver-wasting disease in nine of 10 patients, but treatment can cost more than $90,000.
Leading medical societies recommend the drug as a first-line treatment, and patients are clamoring for it. But insurance companies and state Medicaid programs are recoiling at the price. In Oregon, officials propose to limit how many low-income patients can get Sovaldi.
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The cost of this breakthrough drug is highlighting cracks in the U.S. health care system at a time of heightened budget concerns. The Obama administration has a huge political stake in controlling treatment costs, but its critics may cry rationing.
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For insurers, there's a frustrating twist: For each middle-aged person they pay to cure with Sovaldi, any financial benefits from preventing liver failure are likely to accrue to Medicare, not to them.
More than 3 million Americans carry the hepatitis C virus, and many don't realize it. It's a public health concern since the disease can be transmitted by contact with infected blood, and sometimes through sexual activity. Health officials advise all baby boomers to get tested.
The illness is complex, with distinct virus types requiring different treatments. While it progresses gradually, it ultimately can destroy the liver, and transplants average $577,000.
An estimated 15,000 people died from hepatitis C in the U.S. in 2007, when it surpassed AIDS as a cause of death.
"If it's going to get me the medicine, I'll put my hand out there with a tin cup," said Stuart Rose, a hepatitis C patient in New York City. His insurance would pay only $4,000 a year for medications, but Rose was able to get assistance from charitable foundations. He recently started taking Sovaldi.
Until the drug's approval late last year, standard treatment for the most common type of the disease required daily pills and extended use of interferon, an injection that can produce debilitating flu-like symptoms. "Brain fog," Rose said.
Taken once a day for 12 weeks, Sovaldi greatly reduces the length of interferon treatment, making things more tolerable for patients. Now, many more people might want to try the cure.
A similar drug, Olysio, also approved last year, is priced a bit lower.
The nation's largest care provider for chronic hepatitis C, the federal Veterans Administration, sees promise. With 175,000 patients, the VA has started more than 1,850 of them on Sovaldi.
Private insurers probably will introduce Sovaldi gradually.
In many countries, the government sets drug prices. In the U.S., insurers negotiate with drug companies. Medicare is forbidden from bargaining, a situation that critics say saddles U.S. patients with high costs while subsidizing the rest of the world.


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Loudoun Symphony Orchestra Announces Loudoun's Got Talent Finalist Concert
10 Extremely Talented Finalists to Compete for Scholarships Awards on May 27
The Loudoun Symphony Orchestra will hold the Loudoun's Got Talent! Finalist Competition Concert at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 27 at Franklin Park Arts Center in Purcellville, Virginia. Loudoun's Got Talent! gives Loudoun County high school-aged student musicians, both vocal and instrumental, the chance to compete for $1,750 in scholarship awards. In the initial round of auditions held on May 5, 2012, a panel of judges selected ten finalists to compete in a Finalist Showcase concert from the 35 entrants.
The Loudoun's Got Talent! 2012 Finalists are: Nicholas Brown, Annie Franks, Jacob Kelsey, 'Dominic Mann, Luke Ratcliffe, Matthew Scultheis, Lydia Sohn, Andrew Tufano, Jennifer Turner and Benjamin Yehle.
The Finalists will compete for the following awards: A scholarship of $1000 and a live performance in a Loudoun Symphony concert for the first place winner and Scholarships of $500 and $250 for the second and third place winners. Tickets are $22/Adults, $18/Seniors, $10/Students, and Under 12—Free. Reserve your tickets by calling 540-338-7973 or you can purchase at the box office on the day of the event.
About the finalists (8 of the 10 finalists contributed bios):
Andrew Tufano
I love playing guitar, piano, saxophone, accordion, or whatever I can get my hands on. Performing is one of my favorite parts of music and I gig as much as possible. I also enjoy playing ice hockey and ultimate Frisbee. My dream school is Berklee School of Music. I have a 4-song EP called Right Where We Should Be that should be available on iTunes in approximately 2 weeks (hopefully by May 27th).
Ben Yehle
I am currently a senior at Stone Bridge High School and next year, I will be attending James Madison University for performance on the horn. I am the principle horn for the Stone Bridge High School Wind Symphony as well as the Loudoun Symphony Youth Orchestra. I have played in the Reston Community Orchestra, McLean Symphony, International Youth Orchestra and the Virginia District Band (principle 2012), Regional Orchestra and All State Band. I am also an Eagle Scout in Troop 1154. When I am not practicing horn, I play Frisbee and soccer, fish, hike, play Super Smash Brothers Melee or scooter with my friends.
Luke Ratcliffe
Luke Ratcliffe is a 15 year old home-schooled student who lives in Sterling with his parents and two younger brothers. He's been playing the piano since he was 8 years old, and currently studies with Lisa Emenheiser Sarratt. Luke performs and competes around the DC metro area as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral pianist, including performances on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, and at Strathmore Hall for the Performing Arts. This summer Luke will be attending the Southeastern Piano Festival in South Carolina, and Boston University's Tanglewood Institute. He is passionate about music and loves to study the history of the composers and works they created. His favorite composer is Liszt, and Chopin, and Bach, and Beethoven, and Mozart, and Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin, and Prokofiev, and well, you get the picture. When he's not practicing the piano or listening to music, Luke enjoys spending time with friends and family, participating in his church youth group, reading about world history, and mowing lawns to make money to support his iTunes habit.
Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown is a homeschooled fifteen year old who made his solo orchestral debut at the age of nine and was featured on Fox News at that time. He has won many competitions in the past two years and has had many performances this year, including performances in New York City, on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, at the Strathmore Music Center, and at the Bulgarian Embassy. Nicholas enjoys playing solo, as well as performing chamber music and playing in the McLean Bible Church Orchestra. In addition to his love of the violin, Nicholas loves the outdoors and enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and outdoor survival. He is also an avid photographer who especially loves capturing the many facets of nature. He plans to attend a Music Conservatory when he is older, and he hopes to become a professional violinist one day.
Matthew Schultheis
Matthew, 14, is a very passionate and enthusiastic musician. He currently studies piano with Lisa Emenheiser Sarratt and has recently received awards in various Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association and Washington Music Teachers Association competitions. Matthew enjoys a variety of music and his favorite composers include Beethoven, Chopin, John Cage, and George Crumb. In addition to piano Matthew is a talented and creative composer. He currently studies composition with Dr. Frances McKay at the Levine School of Music, and recently completed and performed his first work for solo piano. While piano is Matthew's primary instrument, he also enjoys playing guitar, bass, and trombone. He performs in his school's Symphonic Band and is also very active in his church where he accompanies the children's choir, plays drums during services, and frequently plays piano. Playing music and studying music in all its forms are Matthew's consuming passions but he also enjoys participating in Boy Scouts, Latin, reading, and spending time with his family and friends.
Jennifer Turner
Jennifer Turner is an 18-year-old senior, a Virginia resident for almost her entire life. She intends to attend Liberty University in the fall, studying piano performance. She has enjoyed music from a very early age, having participated in choirs and drama programs since elementary school and having played the piano for eight years. In addition to her musical pursuits, Jennifer loves reading just about anything, goofing off with her 10 siblings, and organizing anything within reach.
Jake Kelsey
Jake Kelsey is a senior at Loudoun County High School and is in the advanced guitar program at LCHS under the direction of Jon Signorelli. He also studies privately with William Hart Wells. Jake is a member of the LCHS Guitar Quartet, as well as the Loudoun County Youth Guitar Orchestra under the direction of Miroslav Loncar. Jake has been playing guitar for 8 years and has been studying classical guitar for 3 years. Following high school Jake is continuing to study music at Cleveland Institute of Music under the direction of Jason Vieaux.
'Dominic Mann
'Dominic Mann is a home-schooled High School student in eleventh grade. He has been studying piano for 13 years and is a returning finalist from Loudoun's Got Talent, 2010. Dominic is a music teacher with two young students and enjoys teaching piano as much as he enjoys playing it. His favorite music to listen to is music from the Romantic period (especially Rachmaninoff!), and movie soundtracks. When not at school or work, Dominic enjoys: football, artistic photography, hanging-out with his friends and family –and good food! Dominic is considering a career in film directing. He dedicates his performance to all his loving supporters, but four people in particular: his amazing parents, John and Gina; his wonderful music teacher, Lisa Emenhieser Sarratt; and, his good friend, Rachmaninoff.'


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North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts April 2011 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 0.98
SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 19, 2011 – North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.60 billion in orders in April 2011 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.98, according to the April Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI. A book-to-bill of 0.98 means that $98 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average of worldwide bookings in April 2011 was $1.60 billion. The bookings figure is 1.1 percent more than the final March 2011 level of $1.58 billion, and is 10.8 percent above the $1.44 billion in orders posted in April 2010.
The three-month average of worldwide billings in April 2011 was $1.63 billion. The billings figure is 1.6 percent less than the final March 2011 level of $1.66 billion, and is 27.4 percent more than the April 2010 billings level of $1.28 billion.
"The continued pace of orders for new semiconductor manufacturing equipment coupled with a slight decline in billings moves the book-to-bill ratio toward parity," said Daniel Tracy, senior director of Industry Research and Statistics at SEMI. "Current order and spending activity is aligned with announced 2011 capex plans."
The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.
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November 2010 | 1,567.30 | 1,512.60 | 0.97 | |
December 2010 | 1,760.10 | 1,580.20 | 0.9 | |
January 2011 | 1,786.90 | 1,513.90 | 0.85 | |
February 2011 | 1,839.30 | 1,595.50 | 0.87 | |
March 2011 (final) | 1,657.50 | 1,580.80 | 0.95 | |
April 2011 (prelim) | 1,630.20 | 1,598.30 | 0.98 |
Source: SEMI May 2011
The data contained in this release were compiled by David Powell, Inc., an
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directly by the participants. SEMI and David Powell, Inc. assume no
responsibility for the accuracy of the underlying data.
The data are contained in a monthly Book-to-Bill Report published by SEMI. The report tracks billings and bookings worldwide of North American-headquartered manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture semiconductor devices, not billings and bookings of the chips themselves. The Book-to-Bill report is one of three reports included with the Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS).
SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Beijing, Bengaluru, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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Next SEMI Book-to-Bill: June 16, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. PDT
For information on SEAJ Book-to-Bill Report, visit www.seaj.or.jp
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Testify to the Wilayah in Azan and an Eghame from the Perspective of the Five Religions
Azan is a means to declare, and collect the Muslims to prayer and say it in a prayer congregation of greater emphasis. With regard to the matter in the sayings and traditions about Azan and Eghame is mentioned the question arises why between Islamic schools in conjunction with the outlines and even chapters of Azan and Eghame all this controversy is there?
One of these disputes to the problem of the Leadership and supervision (wilayah) Ali (a.s) in Azan and Eghame Shiite; Sunni opinion this chapter is not part of the original seasons of Azan and Eghame and entering it in the Azan and Eghame is considered a kind of heresy. But the Shiite belief to enter this season without the intention of obligatory. The existence of these differences led to research in this area by examining the sources of juridical and validity of religions to solve ambiguities.
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Rakaan is the smell of desire to win. It opens with fresh notes of grapefruit and lime, followed by the heart of the lotus and the base of oud and amber. Available as 50 ml EDP.
Perfume rating: 4.23 out of 5 with 31 votes.
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i just bought it on recommendation of my friend , 5 out 5 for me.
a very addicted and deep fragrance.
the longevity and silage is extraordinary.
will recommend to anyone who is fond of middle east perfumes.
I keep buying Arabian perfumes to find a special rose perfume I once encountered. I never found it again. Sigh. I do not know this fragrance but I like the poster at the top of the page - the model looks like a normal bloke who wandered into the shoot by accident. I like his expression. I like the fact he does not look like a male model. A fragrance that smells like the endearing expression on his face would be attractive to me. Where? Where? Not amongst the oily ouds I suspect.
One of the best citrusy Oud in the market. Very versatile fragrance. One of the ouds which can be worn during summers without cloying the heck out-of-air surrounding you.
2-3 sprays maximum will stay for 10-12 hrs for sure,even in humid Indian weather condition!
some have said ,it smells toilet cleaner/synthetic/cockroach spray ..yes if you go too much on the trigger may be.. My rule --> test the potency of the frags by adjusting the number of sprays until its the right amount --its like tuning your guitar.. for that perfect frequency..So , its a strong concentrated perfume not CK the ONE so go light on the trigger..
Nothing special, simple citrus and woody. Totally synthetic. Got a sample, nothing I would consider buying.
Great perfume .. highly recommended ..
One of the best Ouds available in the market.
This starts out as an overwheming blast of industrial strength bathroom cleaner. I really hated it the first time I wore it. But then I gave it a few more trys, and now I love. Just let it drydown, and it turns into a beutiful fragrance. Terrific longevity. One of my go to summer frags.
This is great and one of the best of Swiss Arabian perfumes
A supernaturally amplified, sherbert-lemon toilet cleaner from hell. I've scrubbed and scrubbed but I simply cannot remove the stench of this god-awful, nauseating muck. This will hopefully teach me to be cautious when taking speculative squirts from weird crap I find in charity shops...
One of the most interesting frags I bought! This is a bomb in good way! Can't imagine men complaining about it!))) I 'm a woman who likes floral-aldehids , floral, delicate chypres , but I can't say about this one that it is heavy or weird. I even didn't know that is for men when I bought it for myself ))) Very light and tasty at the beginning and the base is just extraordinary! Overall is very unique scent! Bravo !!
i smell lots of spec and cardamom
Intense citrus opening....with an odd petroleum, almost engine room, type of edge to it. I agree with Aramis that it does have something rather heavy going on - could be this oily aspect together with the intense floral middle which seems to have clearly overtaken the citrus opening and is now masking any base notes.....or maybe it's the base giving the heavy oily quality ?? (Wish I was a trained nose !)
I'm 2-3 hours into my first sample so will update later today - I like it, but haven't fallen in love with it as yet. As an Arabian EDP, it's VERY different from the Occidiental EDT's - I need to take this into consideration.
UPDATE: I've worn this twice now and still find the same odd oily smell to it (could this be the Oud ??). It's very different from anything else I have - an Arabian EDP, which may react completely differently in hotter dryer climates. It's not something I could wear confidently as I don't think it works with my chemistry or climate.
I'm by no means an expert, but I get a distinct feeling a hot arid climate & perspiration would probably set this off a lot better.
This is a very harsh nauseating fragrance, so heavy and trouble-maker! It lasts a lot, but what benefits from a heavy shit? sorry.
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Can someone tell me how to report a spam blog to a registrar? I have one that keeps stealing my posts and crediting them to others – I want to report them, but I'm not sure what the steps are.
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PermalinkI have no ideas, but if you get some, I hope you'll report them here!
PermalinkI did a WhoIs search, but didn't see host contact info – I know others have said that they have contacted hosting providers to get sites shut down .. I just don't know how to do this.
PermalinkYou have to find the internet service provider and have them shut down. You will need to find their ip, which will be tricky. There is no over-arching authority like the do not call list. It is up to the internet service provider to make sure what they are doing is kosher.
PermalinkOne more thing: the only way to prevent this yourself is to either truncate your posts, provide just a header post so people using a reader will click through to your post, or to just chalk it up to the "they suck" part of life.
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Rate Cut Talk Isn't Just Talk
It's no longer a guessing game about whether the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates. The only question remaining: When?
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's somber testimony before Congress on Sept. 23 on the topic of the worsening world economy all but guaranteed that a cut in interest rates will take place this fall, perhaps as early as Sept. 29, which is when the Federal Open Market Committee is scheduled to meet. Fed watchers are looking for a 0.25% cut in the 5.5% overnight federal-funds rate, although a reduction of one-half a point can certainly not be be ruled out.
NO BODY BLOW YET. Greenspan, who went to great lengths to describe all the risks that are currently facing the U.S. economy as a result of the deepening global meltdown, must still convince the Fed inflation hawks that the cut is needed now--since the economy has yet to take a body blow. The Fed chief's arguments: Manufacturing is softening, profits are stalling, and companies are having a tougher time raising funds. Indeed, as Greenspan testified, the Fed was trying to head off a potential banking crisis sparked by massive hedge fund losses in emerging-markets (right).
Many Fed watchers expect to see a half-point cut, but even a quarter-point move could have widespread impact. Any cut would push down the value of the U.S. dollar, thus easing the crunch on American exporters. But more important, a falling dollar would give breathing room to Latin American and Asian borrowers with dollar-denominated debt. "A drop in U.S. rates would directly help these countries," says Michael R. Englund, chief economist at Standard & Poor's MMS.
And the assurance that a rate cut is really in the works operates as a tonic: The Dow Jones industrial average soared 257 points on Sept. 23. Says former Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Manuel H. Johnson Jr.: "A rate move puts a floor under all this global depression talk."


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By Joe Orlando
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He has a room devoted to, arguably, the best basketball player in history. There's a group of 8x10 photos, framed posters that cover his walls, Wheaties boxes on the shelf and even a trash can on the floor. Ervin Boone, Michael Jordan collector extraordinaire, has been at it since the late-1980's. This room, filled with everything Michael, is a result of years of hard work and patience. Ervin was kind enough to share his collecting story with SMR recently.
SMR: When did you start collecting?
EB: I started seriously collecting back in 1986. It was the 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco rookie card that got me interested in collecting once again. I started with baseball cards because I really enjoyed watching the top players and that seemed like the popular choice at the time. Of course, I did collect cards as a kid but, like most people, I didn't take care of them and they were eventually thrown away (laughs). In 1986, a friend of mine brought collecting to my attention once again. He started with coins and then switched to cards. I followed the same path and have enjoyed collecting cards every since.
SMR: When did you start collecting Michael Jordan cards and why?
EB: I watched Jordan in college at North Carolina and then his move to Chicago really sparked me. I thought he would be a good player but not that good (laughs). I waited a couple of years until he was established as a star player before I became really focused on his cards. I got rid of all my baseball cards and traded them in for Jordans. As Jordan's career progressed, I just kept picking up different cards. The funny thing was that it was always just Jordan. The other basketball cards I found in packs were just traded away to get more Jordans.
SMR: What are some of your favorite Jordan cards?
EB: I have 242 Jordan cards and counting so that's a tough one. I would have to say that my first pick would be all the different refractors. They always have a great design and I probably enjoy them the most. There are other cards I like as well like Jordan's first baseball card where he is pictured with the Chicago White Sox. In some cases, I will buy more than one of the same card if I really like it. For instance, I have 4 or 5 1990 Fleer Jordans just because I really like that card. All of my cards are either PSA 9's or 10's. I really want the best.
SMR: What triggered your interest with PSA grading?
EB: I jumped on board pretty early with PSA grading. The first time I saw a PSA graded card was at a show and I really liked the holder and the concept. I figured that, if I have a card graded PSA 9 Mint today, it will be mint 10 years from now. It was basically like an insurance policy. A few years later, I was talking to one of my friends about choosing a grading service. I told him to forget about any gimmicks used by others services and that he should go with the best. I have been fortunate enough to own a nice Cadillac. If I have a choice between an old Volkswagen and my Caddy, which one do you think I am going to choose? I am on the Internet all the time and, when I see cards graded by a service other than PSA, I just zoom right by. I have spent thousands of dollars on graded cards and I only want PSA to grade them. I really did my homework before I started to get involved with grading and this is the best choice for the long run.
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We landed in Panama after having to pay a whopping $40 each to leave Ecuador, a nice surprise!! We were both really excited to start the final leg of the trip and to explore a different part of Latin America. The flights to Panama city were amazing! We had to take one to Bogota and then one on from there and for the first flight we had our own private TVs complete with loads of new films and our own remote controls!!!! Laziness at its best!
However as we were driving from the airport it seemed that the part of Latin America we had just left behind was still very much with us! World cup fever was in full swing and nearly every car had flags all over showing their preferred team... the preferred team of Panama- Brazil!!! and second randomly seemed to be Germany!
Anyway we arrived at the hostel and the heat in the room was ridiculous!!!! Especially considering as when we left Quito it was 13C and raining! We quickly dumped the bags and went to check out the area, though not before we were given a map with all the areas we shouldn`t go in marked on. There was something about the area that had us both more on edge than we had been in South America and was a complete contrast to the other part of the city which you could see on the other side of the bay. On this side rather than decaying colonial houses there are loads of huge skyscrapers and a marina displaying some pretty impressive boats.
The next day we decided we weren`t really feeling Panama city and so booked our tickets into Costa Rica that night! However before we left we went to visit the Panama canal, a 30 minute bus ride away from the city on a funky painted American school bus. The canal was cool to see and the boats going through a touch bigger than the ones steaming through the Bath canal!!! We stayed for a while watching some huge tankers passing through which were paying around $100,000 just to go through the canal!!!
We then thought we`d go check out the city`s skyscraper district! It was fairly uninspiring, its all offices and a couple of bars... not the most exciting place to wonder around!
So that was our brief stop in Panama city! It`s great to be in Central America and we`re hoping other places will have more of a balance between neglected suburbs and sterile centres.