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The Hoganstand.com Meath SFC takes centre stage this weekend with many Round 2 games down to be played. Our Seniors will be out this evening when they take on neighbours Skryne in Páirc Tailteann at 19:45. With the floodlights at the venerable old venue out of action we will be looking for a bright evening or the closing stages could end up being played in near darkness.
Both sides won their opening round encounters so a close game will be expected, rather like the corresponding Round 2 fixture last year when Skryne won out by two points on a day when we missed seventeen scoring opportunities. Our form recently has been promising and hopefully come 21:10 on Friday evening we'll have picked up our second brace of points.
The following Saturday, May 21st the Seniors will be back in League action when St. Peter's Dunboyne visit Fr. Tully Park. Throw in for the Round 7 fixture is down for 19:00.
Junior A
Sunday evening will see our Junior A team play their second match in the Teach na Teamhrach Junior A Football Championship with Meath Hill providing the opposition in Drumconrath.
Meath Hill won their opening match while we lost out to the beaten 2015 finalists Dunsany by three points. The side from North Meath will be very tough opponents but our team is more than capable of picking up their first win of the Championship to date.
Junior C
The Junior C's lost out to Summerhill in Round 2 of the Reserve League on Monday evening in Fr. Tully Park by 2-20 to 3-07.
It was a busy and a mixed few days for the U-16's with a game on Friday evening and another one on Tuesday evening.
Friday saw Ratoath visit Fr. Tully Park and following a tough, hard hitting encounter it was the home side who won out by 5-11 to 4-03.
Seneschalstown: Brian Boyd, Cathal Hickey, Simon Rooney, Jamie Kirwan, Christian McAuley, Ciaran Mongey, Sean Carey (0-01), Daire Finnegan (2-00), Joseph Moore, Alan Mulvany (0-01), Sean Commons (0-06, 0-05 Frees), Cillian Gormley (0-02), Ross Mullen (1-00), Jason Lyons (0-01), Dylan Keating (2-00, 2-00 Penalties).
Seneschalstown Substitutions: Fionn Hall for J. Moore (bc), Liam Maguire for C. McAuley, Padraig Finnegan for D. Keating.
St. Peter's Dunboyne then visited Fr. Tully Park on Tuesday evening and on what turned into a horrible evening for a game with the rain coming down in torrents they held out for a deserved six point victory, 3-07 to 1-07.
Seneschalstown: Joseph Moore, Cathal Hickey, Simon Rooney, Jamie Kirwan, Christian McAuley, Ciaran Mongey, Sean Carey (0-01), Daire Finnegan, Sean Commons, Liam Maguire, Alan Mulvany (0-03, 0-01 Free), Cillian Gormley (0-01), Dylan Keating (1-01, 0-01 Penalty), Padraig Finnegan, Ross Mullen (0-01).
Seneschalstown Substitutions: Fionn Hall for L. Maguire, Josh Ryan for C. McAuley
The U-12's travelled to St. Patrick's in Stamullen for their sixth match of the Group B League. Following two excellent games of football where both clubs saw players put in brilliant performances our boys won out on a cumulative scoreline of 24-19.
Next up for the boys is a home game against Simonstown which is pencilled in for Saturday May 21st.
Senior Ladies
The Senior Ladies had a hectic time in recent days with two matches played in just over twenty-four hours on Sunday and Monday.
On Sunday they played Oldcastle in Fr. Tully Park in a game which saw them pick up their first competitive win of the year as they won out by 1-13 to 0-06.
Seneschalstown: Grainne Nulty, Eve Loughran, Edel McGrane, Orla McMahon, Grace Cahalane, Siobhan Sheridan, Stacey Grimes (0-06), Mena Sheridan, Ruth Commons (0-01), Kiah Geraghty, Nina Murphy (0-01), Aisling Taaffe, Amy Gilsenan (1-01), Louise Coyle (0-02), Eimear O'Carroll.
Subs: Shona Loughran (0-02) for A. Taaffe, Grainne Gordon for E. Loughran, Kelly Smith for R. Commons and Catherine Smith for E. O'Carroll.
Having hosted a team from the north of the county on Sunday they played host to a team from the south on Monday as Dunshaughlin's Royal Gaels came to visit. Buoyed by their win on Sunday the Ladies turned in another impressive performance to win out by 4-13 to 0-04.
Seneschalstown: Lisa Mullen, Orla McMahon, Edel McGrane, Grace Cahalane, Siobhan Sheridan, Stacey Grimes (0-02, 0-01 Free), Mena Sheridan (0-01), Natasha Mullen (1-01), Kiah Geraghty (0-02), Amy Gilsenan (1-02), Eimear O'Carroll, Nina Murphy (0-02), Louise Coyle (2-03), Shona Loughran.
Seneschalstown Substitutions: Kelly Smyth for E. O'Carroll, Grainne Gordon for O. McMahon, Catherine Smyth for G. Cahalane.
Next up for the Senior Ladies is their Round 7 game against Dunboyne on Sunday evening at 19:00 in Fr. Tully Park.
Girls U-14
A home semi-final was the prize if the U-14 Girls beat Simonstown on Monday evening and following a cracking display where the girls showed plenty of grit and determination they defeated the North Side Blue by 4-10 to 2-07 at the Proudstown Road venue.
Seneschalstown: Robyn Murray (1-01), Caoimhe Dunne, Aine Nangle, Sadhbh McLarney, Anna Wogan, Aoibhé Monaghan, Zoe Kirwan, Caragh Monaghan (0-02), Lauren Donnelly, Ella Kilfeather, Mallaidh Breen (2-01), Orla Finnegan (0-01), Ava Jane Ryan (1-03), Sinead McLarney (0-02), Niamh Traynor.
Subs: Lauren McCarthy Zoe Ryan Emily Navagh Burke
Girls U-12
Another side who had two matches in the last week were the U-12 Girls and like their Senior counterparts they came away with two well earned victories.
On Saturday they entertained Clann na Gael in Fr. Tully Park and despite losing the influential Holly Knowles to a broken bone in her arm they won out by 7-05 to 3-01.
Team. Ali Clarke, Amy Kennedy, Charlie Murray, Tara Traynor (1-02), Claire Finnegan (1-00), Maeve Hickey, Robyn Murray, Megan Clarke (1-02), Holly Knowles, Abbey Hewitt, Kellie Stafford, Nicola Mongey (4-01), Kerrie Laverty, Lauren McGuirk, Molly Keating.
Then on Monday evening they hit the road to take on Summerhill and following a brilliant display defeated the girls from the 'Hill by 6-06 to 1-01.
Team: Kerri Laverty, Amy Kennedy, Molly Keating, Carley Lynch, Tara Traynor (1-01), Ali Clarke, Charlie Murray (1-00), Megan Clarke (1-02), Niamh Mulvany (0-01), Nicola Mongey (2-02), Kelly Stafford (1-00), Laura Masterson, Claire Finnegan, Lauren Lynch, Orla Lynch, Lauren McGuirk, Ava Fitzsimons.
Next up for the mighty U-12's is a home game in Kentstown against Ballivor on Tuesday May 17th at 19:15.
Girls U-10
Coaching continues on Mondays from 18:00 – 19:00.
Club Nursery
Coaching continues in Fr. Tully Park on Saturday at 10:00 for our U-6 players.
Friday night at half time of the Senior Championship game our U-8's will play their Skryne counterparts in a half time match.
This is a big occasion for them as they take to the hallowed turf in Páirc Tailteann for the first time.
We would encourage all our supporters to give the players from both clubs a huge reception on Friday evening.
The U-8's will be back in action the following morning when they play Gaeil Colmcille in Grangegodden at 11:00.
The U-10's are also in action on Saturday in Grangegodden when they play Gaeil Colmcille at 11:00.
They also had a match on Wednesday evening away to Ratoath where they showcased the skills they have been working on in training.
Meath Ladies Minor
It's a big weekend for the Meath Ladies Minors who bid to book their place in the Leinster Minor B Final on Saturday. To get there they will need to overcome the considerable challenge posed by Carlow.
Throw in on Saturday is at 14:00 and we wish Natasha Mullen, Róisín Commons and all the panel all the best.
Meath U-16
We're delighted to announce as three players from the U-16 team have been selected on the Meath Development Panel for 2016.
Alan Mulvany, Daire Finnegan and Dylan Keating have all been chosen to form part of the panel and they will don the Meath jersey for the first time as U-16's this weekend when they travel to Athlone to play Cork, Sligo and Westmeath in a series of matches.
All three have had a busy spring as key members of the U-16 and Minor teams in the club and have all displayed excellent form resulting in their selection on the Development Panel.
Alan has operated as a half forward for the club where he has been notable for his industrious play. His high fitness levels allow him to get up and down the pitch and he can be seen as regularly in the half back line getting in a tackle as he can in the forwards linking the play and kicking scores.
Daire is an incredibly versatile player who over the season to date has predominantly played at midfield for both the Minors and U-16's while also at times slotting in as a defender. A tenacious tackler who never gives up Daire gets up and down the field more in a match than most such is the engine he possesses.
Dylan is the sharpshooter of the trio. Whenever the slightest opportunity arises the diminutive attacker goes for the jugular and it's very rare that he fails to take full advantage of a scoring opportunity. Owner of a wizard of a left boot he's well able to act as a creator too and with the Minors he's often been the conductor from the half forward line. Like Alan and Daire he won a Minor Championship last year while only fifteen so he's well able to hold his own against anybody.
Meath U-15's
We're also delighted to announce that three of our players have made the Meath U-15 panel for this year.
Having been part of the U-14 panel last year Joseph Moore, Sean Commons and Simon Rooney have all progressed to the U-15 Development Panel.
Joseph is a key player for the U-16's and Minors at present, playing midfield for the former and wing forward for the latter. A player blessed with an eye for a score and excellent balance he's one to keep an eye on.
Sean is one of the most accurate players in the club. Comfortable off left and right he flits between the half forward line and midfield for the U-16's while he has played at full forward in the last few Minor games.
Simon is the rock in the full back line for the U-16's this year where he loves nothing more than to rise highest to claim possession before bursting out with the ball. An adaptable player he's also comfortable in the forward line where he has an eye catching ability to fire over long range points.
The three boys will be in action this Saturday when the Meath U-15's take part in a blitz in Dunganny.
Royal Stars U-13's
Last Sunday saw Conor McDonnell, Donal Commons and Owen Mullen pull on the Meath jersey for the first time when as part of the Royal Stars U-13's they played a Kildare XV. Well done to all three and we look forward to seeing them continue to progress in the future.
Meath Ladies U-12's
In addition to the two Meath Development panels announced above we also got word over the weekend of four of our U-12 Girls being picked on the Meath panel for 2016.
Robyn Murray, Tara Traynor, Charlie Murray and Megan Clarke have all been rewarded for their excellent form so far this year with selection.
Robyn is an absolute powerhouse, operating in goals for the U-14's and at midfield for the U-12's. The positions couldn't be more different but wherever she plays she excels.
Tara has proven to be a player with a keen eye for a score and last weekend hit 1-02 for the U-12 Girls. Earlier in the year Tara played in Páirc Tailteann in the Mini 7's at half time of a Meath League game.
Charlie is another play anywhere type of player and one who never knows when to quit. Even when carrying an injury, she's liable to refuse to leave the field and will instead slot in between the posts as seen on Saturday.
Megan is a coach's dream. Ask her to do something on the field of play and they know it will be carried out to a t. A midfielder of some repute she, like the other three is a key member of the U-14 panel as well and at the recent Féile turned heads with her outstanding displays.
Well done to all four who now carry on our rich tradition of having players on Meath Ladies teams ever since Megan's mother, Dearbhla O'Carroll came up with the idea of forming the women's section of the club back at our Dinner Dance in January 1995.
Team of the Week.
Congratulations to all selected on our eight Team of the Week based on games played from 02/05/16 – 08/05/16 – Grainne Nulty (Senior Ladies), Richie McKeown (Minors), Edel McGrane (Senior Ladies), Jamie Kirwan (U-16 Boys), Grace Cahalane (Senior Ladies), Ciaran Mongey (U-16 Boys), Stacey Grimes (Senior Ladies), Daire Finnegan (U-16 Boys and Minors), Stephen Finnegan (Junior A), Mallaidh Breen (U-14 Girls), Shane Clarke (Junior A), Claire Finnegan (U-12 Girls), Nicola Mongey (U-12 Girls), Eoin Finnegan (Minors), Charlie Murray (U-12 Girls).
Player of the Week
It takes a great talent to make a huge impact in an U-14 game when still eligible for the U-12 grade but this is exactly what our latest Player of the Week achieved last week.
Charlie Murray was introduced to the fray for the U-14's against Royal Gaels at half time of last week's Division. 1 Championship match with her team holding a slender one point lead.
Not long after her introduction the girls fell four points behind but with Charlie proving to be a revelation in the corner they staged a mighty comeback to win out and Charlie more than played her part as she struck for a vital goal and a point while taking quick frees at every opportunity to keep the pressure on the Dunshaughlin girls defence.
Then on Saturday she played a starring role in the U-12's win over Clann na Gael when showing a willingness to do whatever it took to get the win she slotted in as goalkeeper after picking up an injury.
On top of all this her talent was recognised on a grander stage when she was one of four players off the U-12 team picked on the Meath LGFA U-12 panel.
What a week it was for Charlie and she's a most deserving recipient of this week's award.
Club Lotto
The numbers drawn in this week's Lotto were 4, 6, 7 and 19. There was no winner of the jackpot of €10,000 which means next week's jackpot will once more be worth €10,000. The 5 by €25 winners were Joe McAuley, Stephanie Byrne, Breege Conneely, Dessie Gray and Aidan Lawlor.
Tickets for the Lotto are €2 or 3 for €5. They can be purchased from committee members, Lotto sellers, local shops or you can also play online at http://www.helpourclub.ie/localhome.asp?
Meath Meet and Greet
The Annual Meet and Greet with the Meath Senior Football and Hurling teams takes place in Tayto Park on Friday May 20th between 18:30 and 20:30.
This has proven to be a great evening for the last few years and no doubt will prove to be a huge success once more this year.
Lorteo U-14
Best of luck to Sinéad McLarney, Lauren McCarthy, Lauren Donnelly, Orla Finnegan, Aoibhé Monaghan, Caragh Monaghan and all the Loreto, Navan U-14 team in their Leinster Championship semi-final today at 11:30 in Dunganny.
Having taken care of Loreto Foxrock in the quarter final they face Holy Faith from Clontarf in today's semi-final.
Having accounted for one Dublin school it would take a brave person to say they won't topple another!
Kellogg's Cúl Camp
Once more this year we are delighted to be a host venue for the Kellogg's Cúl Camps. The camp in Seneschalstown will this year be held from Monday July 18th – Friday July 22nd. The cost for the first child in a family is €55 with a sliding scale applying thereafter.
To book your child's place please follow the following link – https://www.kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie/booking/?county=23&venue=1044&year=2016
Jack Boothman RIP
It is with great sadness that we learned this morning of the passing of former GAA President Jack Boothman.
Jack will forever be remembered in Seneschalstown as the special guest at our Dinner Dance in 1995 following our Keegan Cup victory the previous Autumn.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh anam dílis.
Championship Double Header
Saturday evening will see Fr. Tully Park play host to a Championship double header with Duleek/Bellewstown playing St. Patrick's at 19:00 in Round 2 of the hoganstand.com Meath SFC and Gaeil Colmcille playing Kilbride in Round 2 of the Seamus Connolly Catering Meath JBFC at 17:30.
Social Media
Don't forget that you can keep up to date with all club activities by following us on Twitter (@SeneschalstownG) or by giving us a like on Facebook (Seneschalstown GFC). We are now also on Instagram (seneschalstown_gfc). There are regularly score updates on our games on Twitter which is a great way to keep informed as to how our teams are doing.


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Xerophthalmia is a progressive disease of the eye due to deficiency of vitamin A.
That this term refers to dryness may be inferred from the prefix "xero-" which means "dry", and is also a part of other terms listed in this section - listed on the left. That this term refers to the eye, i.e. dryness "of the eye" may be inferred from the suffix "-ophthalmia" because "ophthalmos" means "eye".
Xerophthalmia is sometimes (incompletely) defined just as "dry eyes".
Symptoms include the cornea and conjunctiva becoming extremely dry, thickened, and wrinkled. Contributory factors generally include deficiency of tears or conjunctival secretions. Xerophthalmia is also associated with Night Blindness.
If left untreated, xerophthalmia may also begin to affect the cornea in the form of keratoconjunctivis sicca and, if severe, progress to keratomalacia.
In the worst cases xerophthalmia might ultimately lead to blindness.
In addition to systemic deficiency of vitamin A, xerophthalmia may be exacerbated by trauma (such as injury) and / or by exposure.
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- Clinical and surgical procedures re. eyes and human visual system
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President Donald Trump has consistently opposed fighting climate change. His administration loosened fuel economy and emissions standards for new motor vehicles, for example—a measure that automakers had not even requested. He replaced the Clean Power Plan championed by his predecessor, President Barack Obama, with new regulations that permit more carbon emissions from coal- and gas-burning power plants. In November 2019 he even initiated the year-long process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, an agreement that required nothing from its signatories except an unenforced pledge to help keep the rise in global temperatures below two degrees Celsius.
The reasoning behind those actions has been hard to pin down. Trump has repeatedly denounced global warming as a "hoax" and a Chinese plot to undermine U.S. manufacturing. But then, in a January 2019 press conference, Trump also said "nothing's a hoax" about climate change. Many of those he had named to head various agencies, including Rick Perry at the Department of Energy and Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency, questioned or denied the role of carbon dioxide in climate change. But when reporters have directly asked whether Trump believes global warming is real, White House press secretaries have skirted the question. It's hard to tell whether his administration is skeptical about the scientific fact of the climate crisis or simply the urgency of doing anything about it.
Ambiguity has often been weaponized by those who prefer to call themselves "climate skeptics"—although they generally seem to be more dedicated to naysaying than to genuine skeptical inquiry. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course: some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is their dedicated opposition to conceding that there is an actionable problem, often with long-disproved arguments about alleged weaknesses in the science of climate change.
What follows is a partial list of the contrarians' bad-faith arguments and some brief rebuttals of them.
CLAIM 1: Anthropogenic carbon dioxide can't be changing climate, because CO2 is only a trace gas in the atmosphere and the amount produced by humans is dwarfed by the amount from volcanoes and other natural sources. Water vapor is by far the most important greenhouse gas, so changes in CO2 are irrelevant.
Although carbon dioxide makes up only 0.04 percent of the atmosphere, that small number plays a significant role in climate dynamics. Even at that low concentration, CO2 absorbs infrared radiation and acts as a greenhouse gas, as physicist John Tyndall demonstrated in 1859. Chemist Svante Arrhenius went further in 1896 by estimating the impact of CO2 on the climate; after painstaking hand calculations, he concluded that doubling its concentration might cause almost six degrees Celsius of warming—an answer not much out of line with recent, far more rigorous computations.
Contrary to the contrarians, human activity is by far the largest contributor to the observed increase in atmospheric CO2. According to the Global Carbon Project, anthropogenic CO2 amounts to about 35 billion tons annually—more than 130 times as much as volcanoes produce. True, 95 percent of the releases of CO2 to the atmosphere are natural, but natural processes such as plant growth and absorption into the oceans pull the gas back out of the atmosphere and almost precisely offset them, leaving the human additions as a net surplus. Moreover, several sets of experimental measurements, including analyses of the shifting ratio of carbon isotopes in the air, further confirm that fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are the primary reasons that CO2 levels have risen 45 percent since 1832, from 284 parts per million (ppm) to 412 ppm—a remarkable jump to the highest levels seen in millions of years.
Contrarians frequently object that water vapor, not CO2, is the most abundant and powerful greenhouse gas; they insist that climate scientists routinely leave it out of their models. The latter is simply untrue: from Arrhenius on, climatologists have incorporated water vapor into their models. In fact, water vapor is why rising CO2 has such a big effect on climate. CO2 absorbs some wavelengths of infrared that water does not, so it independently adds heat to the atmosphere. As the temperature rises, more water vapor enters the atmosphere and multiplies CO2's greenhouse effect; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that water vapor may "approximately double the increase in the greenhouse effect due to the added CO2 alone."
Nevertheless, within this dynamic, the CO2 remains the main driver (what climatologists call a "forcing") of the greenhouse effect. As NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt has explained, water vapor enters and leaves the atmosphere much more quickly than CO2 and tends to preserve a fairly constant level of relative humidity, which caps off its greenhouse effect. Climatologists therefore categorize water vapor as a feedback rather than a forcing factor. (Contrarians who don't see water vapor in climate models are looking for it in the wrong place.)
Because of CO2's inescapable greenhouse effect, contrarians holding out for a natural explanation for current global warming need to explain why, in their scenarios, CO2 is not compounding the problem.
CLAIM 2: The alleged "hockey stick" graph of temperatures over the past 1,600 years has been disproved. It doesn't even acknowledge the existence of a "medieval warm period" around a.d. 1000 that was hotter than today is. Therefore, global warming is a myth.
It is hard to know which is greater: contrarians' overstatement of the flaws in the historical temperature reconstruction from 1998 by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues or the ultimate insignificance of their argument to the case for climate change.
First, there is not simply one hockey-stick reconstruction of historical temperatures using one set of proxy data. Similar evidence for sharply increasing temperatures over the past couple of centuries has turned up independently while looking at ice cores, tree rings and other proxies for direct measurements, from many locations. Notwithstanding their differences, they corroborate that the planet has been getting sharply warmer.
A 2006 National Research Council review of the evidence concluded "with a high level of confidence that global mean surface temperature was higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period during the preceding four centuries"—which is the section of the graph most relevant to current climate trends. The report placed less faith in the reconstructions back to a.d. 900, although it still viewed them as "plausible." Medieval warm periods in Europe and Asia with temperatures comparable to those seen in the 20th century were therefore similarly plausible but might have been local phenomena: the report noted "the magnitude and geographic extent of the warmth are uncertain." And a research paper by Mann and his colleagues seems to confirm that the Medieval Warm Period and the "Little Ice Age" between 1400 and 1700 were both caused by shifts in solar radiance and other natural factors that do not seem to be happening today.
After the NRC review was released, another analysis by four statisticians, called the Wegman report, which was not formally peer-reviewed, was more critical of the hockey-stick paper. But correction of the errors it pointed out did not substantially change the shape of the hockey-stick graph. In 2008 Mann and his colleagues issued an updated version of the temperature reconstruction that echoed their earlier findings.
But hypothetically, even if the hockey stick was busted ... What of it? The case for anthropogenic global warming originally came from studies of climate mechanics, not from reconstructions of past temperatures seeking a cause. Warnings about current warming trends came out years before Mann's hockey-stick graph. Even if the world were incontrovertibly warmer 1,000 years ago, it would not change the fact that the recent rapid rise in CO2 explains the current episode of warming more credibly than any natural factor does—and that no natural factor seems poised to offset further warming in the years ahead.
CLAIM 3: Global warming stopped in 1998; Earth has been cooling since then.
This contrarian argument might be the most obsolete and unintentionally hilarious. Here's how it goes: 1998 was the world's warmest year, according to the U.K. Met Office Hadley Center's records; the following decade was cooler; therefore, the previous century's global warming trend is over, right?
Anyone with even a glancing familiarity with statistics should be able to spot the weaknesses of that argument. Given the extended duration of the warming trend, the expected (and observed) variations in the rate of increase and the range of uncertainties in the temperature measurements and forecasts, a decade's worth of mild interruption is too small a deviation to prove a break in the pattern, climatologists say.
If a lull in global warming had continued for another decade, would that have vindicated the contrarians' case? Not necessarily, because climate is complex. For instance, Mojib Latif, then at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Germany, and his colleagues published a paper in 2008 that suggested ocean-circulation patterns might cause a period of cooling in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, even though the long-term pattern of warming remained in effect. Fundamentally, contrarians who have resisted the abundant evidence that supports warming should not be too quick to leap on evidence that only hints at the opposite.
In any case, the claim that a "warming pause" disproved ongoing climate change became completely academic when 1998 stopped being the warmest year on record. That title now belongs to 2016, with 2019 right behind it. In fact, the past 15 years have included all 10 of the hottest years on record.
CLAIM 4: The sun or cosmic rays are much more likely the real causes of global warming. After all, Mars is warming up, too.
Astronomical phenomena are obvious natural factors to consider when trying to understand climate, particularly the brightness of the sun and details of Earth's orbit because those seem to have been major drivers of the ice ages and other climate changes before the rise of industrial civilization. Climatologists, therefore, do take them into account in their models. But in defiance of the naysayers who want to chalk the recent warming up to natural cycles, there is insufficient evidence that enough extra solar energy is reaching our planet to account for the observed rise in global temperatures.
The IPCC has noted that between 1750 and 2005, the radiative forcing from the sun increased by 0.12 watt per square meter—less than a tenth of the net forcings from human activities (1.6 W/ m2). The largest uncertainty in that comparison comes from the estimated effects of aerosols in the atmosphere, which can variously shade Earth or warm it. Even granting the maximum uncertainties to these estimates, however, the increase in human influence on climate exceeds that of any solar variation.
Moreover, remember that the effect of CO2 and the other greenhouse gases is to amplify the sun's warming. Contrarians looking to pin global warming on the sun can't simply point to any trend in solar radiance: they also need to quantify its effect and explain why CO2 does not consequently become an even more powerful driver of climate change. (And is what weakens the greenhouse effect a necessary consequence of the rising solar influence or an ad hoc corollary added to give the desired result?)
Contrarians therefore gravitated toward work by Henrik Svensmark of the Technical University of Denmark, who argued that the sun's influence on cosmic rays needed to be considered. Cosmic rays entering the atmosphere help to seed the formation of aerosols and clouds that reflect sunlight. In Svensmark's theory, the high solar magnetic activity over the past 50 years shielded Earth from cosmic rays and allowed exceptional heating, but now that the sun is more magnetically quiet again, global warming would reverse. Svensmark claimed that, in his model, temperature changes correlate better with cosmic-ray levels and solar magnetic activity than with other greenhouse factors.
Svensmark's theory failed to persuade most climatologists, however, because of weaknesses in its evidence. In particular, there do not seem to be clear long-term trends in the cosmic-ray influxes or in the clouds that they are supposed to form, and his model does not explain (as greenhouse explanations do) some of the observed patterns in how the world is getting warmer (such as that more of the warming occurs at night). For now, at least, cosmic rays remain a less plausible culprit in climate change.
And the apparent warming seen on Mars? Because it is based on a very small base of measurements, it may not represent a true trend. Too little is yet known about what governs the Martian climate to be sure, but a period when there was a darker surface might have increased the amount of absorbed sunlight and raised temperatures.
CLAIM 5: Climatologists conspire to hide the truth about global warming by locking away their data. Their so-called consensus on global warming is scientifically irrelevant because science isn't settled by popularity.
It is virtually impossible to disprove accusations of giant global conspiracies to those already convinced of them (can anyone prove that the Freemasons and the Roswell aliens aren't involved, too?). Let it therefore be noted that the magnitude of this hypothetical conspiracy would need to encompass many thousands of uncontroversial publications and respected scientists from around the world, stretching back through Arrhenius and Tyndall for almost 150 years. A conspiracy would have to be so powerful that it has co-opted the official positions of dozens of scientific organizations, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.K.'s Royal Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics and the American Meteorological Society.
If there were a massive conspiracy to defraud the world on climate (and to what end?), surely the thousands of e-mails and other files stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in England and distributed by hackers in 2009 would bear proof of it. None did. Most of the few statements from those e-mails that critics claimed as evidence of malfeasance had more innocent explanations that make sense in the context of scientists conversing privately and informally. If any of the scientists involved manipulated data dishonestly or thwarted Freedom of Information requests, it would have been deplorable; however, there is no evidence that happened. What is missing is any clear indication of a widespread attempt to falsify and coordinate findings on a scale that could hold together a global cabal or significantly distort the record on climate change.
Climatologists are often frustrated by accusations that they are hiding data or the details of their models because, as NASA's Schmidt points out, much of the relevant information is in public databases or otherwise accessible—a fact that contrarians conveniently ignore when insisting that scientists stonewall their requests. (And because nations differ in their rules on data confidentiality, scientists are not always at liberty to comply with some requests.) If contrarians want to deal a devastating blow to global warming theories, they should use the public data and develop their own credible models to demonstrate sound alternatives.
Yet that rarely occurs. In 2004 historian of science Naomi Oreskes published a landmark analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on global warming, "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change." Out of 928 papers whose abstracts she surveyed, she wrote, 75 percent explicitly or implicitly supported anthropogenic global warming, 25 percent were methodological or otherwise took no position on the subject—and none argued for purely natural explanations. Notwithstanding some attempts to debunk Oreskes's findings that eventually fell apart, her conclusion stands.
Oreskes's work does not mean that all climate scientists agree about climate change—obviously, some do not (although they are very much a minority). Rather the meaningful consensus is not among the scientists but within the science: the overwhelming predominance of evidence for greenhouse-driven global warming that cannot easily be overturned even by a few contrary studies. (Oreskes currently is a columnist for Scientific American.)
CLAIM 6: Climatologists have a vested interest in raising the alarm because it brings them money and prestige.
If climate scientists are angling for more money by hyping fears of climate change, they are not doing so very effectively. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, between 1993 and 2014 federal spending on climate change research, technology, international assistance and adaptation rose from $2.4 billion to $11.6 billion. (An additional $26.1 billion was also allocated to climate change programs and activities by the economic stimulus package of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009. Total federal nondefense spending on research in 2014 exceeded $65 billion.) Yet the scientific research share of that money fell sharply throughout that period: most of the budgeted money went to energy-conservation projects and other technology programs. Climatologists' funding therefore stayed almost flat, whereas others, including those in industry, benefited handsomely. Surely the Freemasons could do better than that.
CLAIM 7: Technological fixes, such as inventing energy sources that don't produce CO2 or geoengineering the climate, would be more affordable, prudent ways to address climate change than reducing our carbon footprint.
Critics of standard policy responses to climate change have often seemed to imply that environmentalists are obsessed with regulatory reductions in CO2 emissions and uninterested in technological solutions. That interpretation is at best bizarre: such innovations in energy efficiency, conservation and production are exactly what caps or levies on CO2 are meant to encourage.
The relevant question is whether it is prudent for civilization to defer curbing or reducing its CO2 output before such technologies are ready and can be deployed at the needed scale. The most common conclusion is no. Remember that as long as CO2 levels are elevated, additional heat will be pumped into the atmosphere and oceans, extending and worsening the climate consequences. As climatologist James Hansen of the Earth Institute at Columbia University has pointed out, even if current CO2 levels could be stabilized overnight, surface temperatures would continue to rise by 0.5 degree C over the next few decades because of absorbed heat being released from the ocean. The longer we wait for technology alone to reduce CO2, the faster we will need for those solutions to pull CO2 out of the air to minimize the warming problems. Minimizing the scope of the challenge by restricting the accumulation of CO2 only makes sense.
Moreover, climate change is not the only environmental crisis posed by elevated CO2: it also makes the oceans acidic, which could have irreversibly harmful effects on coral reefs and other marine life. Only the immediate mitigation of CO2 release can contain those losses.
Much has already been written on why schemes for geoengineering—altering Earth's climate systems by design—seem ill advised except as a desperate last-chance strategy for dealing with climate change. The more ambitious proposals involve largely untested technologies, so it is unclear how well they would achieve their desired purpose; even if they did curb warming, they might cause other significant environmental problems in the process. Methods that did not remove CO2 from the air would have to be maintained in perpetuity to prevent drastic rebound warming. And the governance of the geoengineering system could become a political minefield, with nations disagreeing about what the optimal climate settings should be. And of course, as with any of the other technological solutions, reducing the emission and accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere first would only make any geoengineering solution easier.
All in all, counting on future technological developments to solve climate change rather than engaging with the problem straightforwardly by all available means, including regulatory ones, seems like the height of irresponsibility. But then again, responsible action on climate change is what the contrarians seem most interested in denying.


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Te mostramos la letra de La canción Scarlet Town (Scarlet Town), en inglés y traducida al castellano. Si siempre quisiste saber qué decía el tema Scarlet Town, descúbrelo aquí.
Scarlet Town
There's ivy leaf and silver thorn
The streets have names you can't pronounce
Gold is down to a quarter of an ounce
The music starts and the people sway
Everybody says, are you going my way?
Uncle Tom still working for Uncle Bill
Scarlet town is under the hill
Scarlet Town in the month of May
Sweet William on his deathbed lay
Mistress Mary by the side of the bed
Kissing his face, heaping prayers on his head
So brave, so true, so gentle is he
I'll weep for him as he'd weep for me
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
In Scarlet Town where I was born
Scarlet Town in the hot noon hours
There's palm leaf shadows and scattered flowers
Beggars crouching at the gate
Help comes but it comes too late
On marble slabs and in fields of stone
You make your humble wishes known
I touched the garment but the hem was torn
In Scarlet Town where I was born
In Scarlet Town the end is near
The seven wonders of the world are here
The evil and the good living side by side
All human forms seem glorified
Put your heart on a platter and see who'll bite
See who'll hold you and kiss you good night
There's walnut groves and maple wood
In Scarlet town crying won't do you no good
In Scarlet Town you fight your father's foes
Up on the hill a chilly wind blows
You fight 'em on high and you fight 'em down in
You fight 'em with whisky, morphine and gin
You got legs that can drive men mad
A lot of things we didn't do that I wish we had
In Scarlet Town the sky is clear
You'll wish to God that you stayed right here
Set 'em up Joe, play Walking The Floor
Play it for my flat chested junky whore
I'm staying up late and I'm making amends
While the smile of heaven descends
If love is a sin than beauty is a crime
All things are beautiful in their time
The black and the white, the yellow and the brown
It's all right there for ya in Scarlet Town
- Escrita por: Bob Dylan
- Ⓒ Copyright: 2012 by Special Rider Music
- Publicada en los Discos:
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This week we had our last reference group meeting, where our master students presented to the Reference Group the current status of their projects and what would be the best way forward.
We've talked before about these thesis, but to summarize the four different subjects are:
- Facing the challenges of staff attraction and retention
- Tackling the access to medical information, in the context of patient rooms
- Approaching patients' psychological isolation with a service design approach
- Operation Management in the transition to the new wards, as the infectious diseases department is currently growing
They got feedback from the department about how would these impact the ward, what resources to use from now own and personal perceptions and advice. We are very grateful for their time and for getting so involved with our students.
We also had a meeting with Gustav, our psychological support, in his office at Knackeriet, a beautiful co-working space we wished we worked at:
Soon we will be finishing CIF so we addressed with Gustav how to move forward as a team, and how to support each other when motivation goes South (South as vanish, not as to Skåne or Denmark).
(You can always reach us at: firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Athanasius II (Pattelarus) of Constantinople was the Patriarch of Constantinople of the Church of Constantinople from 1450 to 1453. He was the last Patriarch before the fall of Constantinople to Sultan Mehmed II and the Ottoman Turks which ended the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
Little is known about Athanasius other than that he was born in Crete early in the fifteenth century. He was elected patriarch of Constantinople in 1450, succeeding the deposed Gregory III as the Ottoman Turks prepared for their successful attack on the city. Escaping from the fallen Constantinople, he retired to Mount Athos where he settled into a monastic house on the site of the old Monastery of Xistrou that he dedicated to St. Anthony the Great.
At later date he left Athos for a monastery in Ukraine where he reposed at an unknown date.
His cell at Mt. Athos eventually became the base on which the Skete of St. Andrew, a dependency of the Monastery of Vatopedi, was founded.
Athanasius II (Pattelarus) of Constantinople
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Gregory III Mammas
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Gennadius Scholarius


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Kelly just can't stay still for a moment and always has a hot gallery to share with you guys. This is also one of her older galleries and she sure enjoyed taking these pictures. A few weeks about she had some problems with her pipes and ended up getting her backyard full of mud. But that wasn't a problem for her and she grabbed the camera and started taking pics. She always wanted a mud fight and this part of her dream coming true. She will rub her body with that dirt, making sure that her sexiest part are visible, tho. Only that sweet pretty pussy and her big boobs are gonna stay clean just for you to enjoy them on camera. Enjoy everyone and stay tuned for more dirty update to come with our hot blonde!
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Charity Ball
The 67th Annual Charity Ball
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2018
Time: 8:00 pm to 1:00 am
Location: Chattahoochee Country Club
Band: Flavor Band
Tickets are $150 per couple and $75 for individual tickets and include dinner, two drink tickets per person and a signature drink. Tickets for sustaining members are $125 a couple.
*All donations above ticket value will be guaranteed a ticket to the event. If you have any questions please call our office at 770.535.1951.
No one under 21 is allowed admission into the ball.
Introducing the 2018 Charity Ball Belle Candidates
Marimartin Towns
Representing Kiwanis Club of Gainesville
Marimartin Towns is the daughter of Craig and Havilyn Towns and the granddaughter of Julius Hulsey and the late Harriett Hulsey. She is a senior at Gainesville High School and is excited to represent the Kiwanis Club of Gainesville in the 2018 Charity Ball. She is a member of the varsity cheerleading squad, yearbook staff, and Key Club. Marimartin was also selected for this year's Youth Leadership Hall County. She is a member of First Baptist Church, a volunteer at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, and participates in Young Life of Gainesville. Marimartin is proud to be a Belle Candidate and happy for the opportunity to give back to her community.
Macie Lee Reeves
Representing Gainesville Rotary Club
Macie Lee Reeves, the daughter of Dennis and Valarie Reeves, is a senior at North Hall High School where she serves as co-captain of the Varsity Spirit Cheerleading Squad and president of both the Interact Club and Student Council. She is also a DECA officer and member of the Beta Club, National Honor Society, Secretary of State Ambassadors, FCA, Diamond Dolls, Key Club, and Pep Club. She currently maintains a 4.49 GPA as a UGA Merit Scholar and an International Baccalaureate diploma candidate. In her community, Macie Lee has volunteered with Junior Achievement, Mt. Vernon Exploratory School, Jostens Renaissance, The Pulsera Project, and Free Chapel, where she has been a member for twelve years. Macie Lee is excited to raise money for such a great cause!
Caroline Gibson
Representing Braselton Rotary Club
Caroline Gibson, daughter of Tony and Stephanie Gibson, is a Charity Ball Belle candidate representing the Braselton Rotary Club. She is a senior at North Hall High School. She has been a Varsity Spirit Cheerleader for three years and is a member of the BETA and Anchor clubs. She has completed her school's STEM program and currently is part of the International Baccalaureate program and a part time Duel Enrollment student at UNG Dahlonega. Outside of school, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, working at Garment and Grace Boutique, and doing Zumba at Elevation Fitness. During her summers she spends her time volunteering at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center with their Teen Volunteer Program. After graduation, she plans on attending college and majoring in Biology. She is honored to be a 2018 Charity Ball Belle representative and is excited to help support our community by raising money to help childhood hunger.
Emma Kate Park
Representing South Hall Rotary Club
Emma Kathryn Park is the daughter of Sterling and Amy Park and the granddaughter of the late James "Bubba" Park and Lydia Park, Patricia Park, Jim and Debra Bockman and Bill and Lucy Sanders. She has three younger sisters Lucy, Helen and Amelia. She is proud to be representing the South Hall Rotary Club. As a Junior at Lakeview Academy, Emma Kate is involved in the Mane Stage Productions, Varsity football and basketball cheerleading, the position of Junior Yearbook editor, the position of Historian for Troupe 3630, Chorale, Medical Scholars Program, FCA, Wyldlife leader, and is heavily involved in Young Life. Emma Kate attended Frontier Ranch Young Life Camp this summer. She enjoys staying active in school and her community. When she is not involved with her school activities, she enjoys spending time with her friends. Emma Kate hopes to attend the University of Georgia and pursue a degree in pediatric physical therapy. Emma Kate is honored to be a part of Charity ball as a belle candidate.
Jettie Jones
Representing Gainesville Phoenix Woman's Club
Jettie Jones is the daughter of Chris and Mary Frances Jones. She is a senior at Lakeview Academy, where she is a member of the National Arts Honor Society, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Association, InterAct Club, National Spanish Honors Society, National Math Honors Society, Senior Beta Club, and Featherbone Communiversity. She is also the President of the National Art Honors Society and a Co-Captain for the Varsity Basketball Cheerleading squad. Outside of school, Jettie works at 2Dog Café and attends First Baptist Church. After graduation, she plans to attend college and major in International Business and Fashion Merchandising. She is honored to be a Belle this year and give back to her community!
Mary Keys Payne
Representing Gainesville Jaycees
Mary Keys Payne, daughter of Hart and Jeff Payne, is the Charity Ball candidate representing the Gainesville Jaycees. She is a senior at Lakeview Academy. Mary Keys is a member of the Math Honors Society, Senior Beta Club, and a member of the Thespian Honor Society. She is a varsity football and basketball cheerleader and is a member of crew for theater. Outside of school she likes to hang out with family and friends, babysit, and volunteer at Sisu whenever she gets the chance! After graduating, she plans on going to college and majoring in Early Childhood Education. Mary Keys is honored to be a Charity Ball Belle and is excited to raise money for Feeding our Future, the Diaper Drive, and the Signature Grant Fund!
2018 Charity Ball Contributors
The Junior League would like to give a special thank you to our sponsors and in-kind donors for their contributions to the 67th Annual Charity Ball.


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Don Dizy Fire is an inspirational singer and a super music producer a.k.a "Don Dizy The Finest Finger". He has worked with lots of Young Talented Artistes in Nigerian Entertainment both in the Eastern part of Nigeria, Coal City State, Enugu (042) which was the starting point of his music career. Don Dizy Fire is currently the Hottest among the young talented music producers/artiste in Lagos state Nigeria.


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Friends, it's with great excitement that I announce that David and I are expecting our first child! We're expecting very different things, though: Yah. So. We're not exactly on the same page, haha. But! We perfectly balance each other out, don't you think? Yin and Yang? Because, as you can see, we're both a liiiiitle…Read More
When people learn that I'm now an acupuncturist, their first response is often "Oh… how did you decide to go into that?" The note of puzzlement in their voices is unmistakable. What I really hear them asking is "Are you for real—you quit your financial analyst job for this? Is there something worthwhile in this…Read More


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Scottish jokes
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Two robbers broke into a boarding house in Glasgow in search of money. A fierce struggle ensued. "We didn't do too badly," said one of them afterwards. "We came out with twenty pounds." "But we had fifty when we went in," complained the other.
Good Samaritan
The Scottish minister was preaching on the parable of the Good Samaritan. He felt he had better explain to his congregation why the priest had passed the victim by. "And why do you think the priest passed him by?" he asked the congregation rhetorically. "Because he saw that the man had already been robbed," came a voice from the back row.
Taxi ride
A Scotsman took a girl for a taxi ride. She was so beautiful he could hardly keep his eyes on the meter.
Girl born on February 29
And then there was the Scotsman who married a girl born on February 29 so he'd only have to buy her a birthday present every four years.
Scottish baker
There was a Scottish baker who tried to economise by making a bigger hole in his doughnuts. He discovered, though, that the bigger the hole, the more dough it took to go round it.
Strangest Scottish accent
"Where do you come from?" the Scotsman asked an American. "From the greatest country in the world," replied the American. "Funny," said the Scotsman, "you've got the strangest Scottish accent I've ever heard."
Cure for sea sickness
The Scots have found an infallible cure for sea sickness: Lean over the side of the ship with a ten pence coin in your mouth.
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Nikhil (Aftab Shivadasani): Nikhil is a forward thinking young man who works in a multinational bank in America. He originally hails from Delhi, and is coming home to visit his family in India.
Aamna (Aamna Sharif) plays Nikhil's love interest in the film. She also stays in America but is a complete Indian at heart. She is a mild mannered girl who has a modern outlook ...
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Genre: Comedy
Language: Hindi
Status: Released
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Director: Robby Grewal
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Crystal Coast Areas
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Lookout Cruises
Visitors can enjoy the Crystal Coast's most coveted and hard-to-reach shorelines, or just embark on a breezy cruise of the open waters in search of dolphins and sunsets, with a trip that's guided by Lookout Cruises. This local tour company that calls the central town of Beaufort its home port offers a far-reaching range of adventures that will have coastal fans of all ages soaking up the sun and enjoying the best of the Southern Outer Banks.
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Lost Treasure Golf and Raceway - Crystal Coast
Visitors of all ages will have a blast at this destination that is designed for great times along the Crystal Coast shoreline. Professor Hacker's Lost Treasure Golf and Raceway is situated in the centrally located beach community of Salter Path, and is a favorite spot for families who want to have a little fun off the sand.
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Campbell Soup Company (CPB) on Monday reported results from its fiscal third quarter that topped earnings estimates for the fifth straight quarter as the company continues to deliver on its turnaround efforts for its soup business and expansion into healthy beverages and baked snacks.
For the quarter ended April 28, Camden, New Jersey-based Campbell Soup Co., who also makes V8 and Pepperidge Farm products, reported net sales of $2.09 billion; that's up 15 percent from $1.82 billion in the same quarter last year. The acquisition of Bolthouse Farms added 11 percent to the improvement. Third-quarter profits were $181 million, or 57 cents per share, compared to $177 million, or 55 cents per share, in the year prior period. Adjust earnings, which excluded one-time charges for restructuring and acquisitions, were $195 million, 62 cents per share, up from $180 million, or 56 cents per share, in Q3 fiscal 2012.
Wall Street was expecting adjusted earnings of 56 cents per share on revenue of $2.04 billion.
U.S. sales in the simple meals segment, which includes soups and sauces, increased 11 percent to $627 million as U.S. soup sales jumped 14 percent, lead by an 11 percent improvement in Campbell's brand condensed soups. Broth sales increased 18 percent, mostly because of higher sales of aseptic broth.
Operating earnings from simple meals surged 30 percent to $156 million, compared to $120 million last year.
U.S. beverages were the dark spot on the report, declining 5 percent to $198 million from a sales perspective and 27 percent to $33 million with respect to earnings.
The global baking and snacking segment, which includes Pepperidge Farm, improved 5 percent in sales to $568 million, although earnings in the category were flat at $73 million.
"We remain committed to our dual mandate," Morrison continued. "We are strengthening our core portfolio through consistent excellence in execution, optimized investment and sustaining product innovation. We are also expanding into higher-growth categories, adjacencies and geographies," said Denise Morrison, president and chief executive at Campbell Soup.
Looking forward, the company now sees full-year sales growth at the upper end of its 10 percent to 12 percent range and adjusted EPS growth between 6 percent and 7 percent, equating to a range of $2.58 to $2.62. Campbell had previously guided adjusted earnings in the range of $2.51 to $2.57 for fiscal 2013.
Shares of CPB have been steadily trekking north in 2013, rising by about 37 percent so far this year. Shares jumped ahead at the opening bell, but have retraced just as quickly to be printing down by about 35 cents at $47.28 less than one hour into the trading session.


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Can school board member speak during the citizen's comment section?
Can a school board member leave the board table and speak during the citizen comments section? What kind of legal issues might this create for the board?
Dear Nancy,
This indeed is very odd. I truly am puzzled. Did the board prevent the person from speaking to the issues and that is why he stepped down to speak during the citizen comment period? Did he speak as a "citizen" or "board member?" I recommend that you consult with your attorney about this. However, from another point of view, the school board member is a citizen, too. So the question that needs to be answered is: can a person's right as a citizen be taken away because he elected to the school board? I have no answer to this one.
Little Ben
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Frequently Asked Questions
I got married in December of 1992. We had 5 kids (4 boys and a girl, the youngest) and after 12 years my wife decided to leave the marriage, taking the kids with her. In the summer of 2006 she took the kids and moved back home to live with her parents in Safford, AZ. I struggled for many months with the question of how I could find enough work to keep my business going in a small rural town, but in the end I just had to throw all my concerns away and in the spring of 2007 I moved down to Safford to be where I needed to be for my kids. You can read more about this in the notes for my song 'To The Rescue.'
About 6 months later in Safford I met Danielle, whose husband had died the previous year in a tractor accident. They had also been married for 12 years but had never been able to have children. We hit it off very quickly and we were married in February of 2008. She has been a great source of peace and comfort in my life. You can hear more about this in my song 'Now Is The Time.'
I have always remained close to my kids, doing lots of fun things with them and spending one-on-one time with them each week since I moved to Arizona in the spring of 2007. In February of 2010, my second son (who was just turning 15) decided that he no longer wanted to have anything to do with me. I had no idea it was coming (just like the divorce) and it has been probably the most hurtful thing that has ever happened to me. Still, life goes on and I continue to have a very close relationship with my other 4 kids, none of whom understand what is wrong with their brother. We all hope and pray that he will come back someday. You can hear more about this in my songs 'Michael Come Home', 'Tiny Little Box' and 'Straw Man.'
Are these really questions people frequently asked, or questions I frequently hoped they would ask? Maybe both.
I would like to start doing some of my own recordings but I don't have a lot of money to invest. What are your recommendations?
What is your family situation?
If you do so much video work, why aren't there more music videos for your songs?
Who are your greatest musical influences?
What hardware / software do you use?
How long does it take you to write and record a song?
What process do you go through in writing a song?
I notice that a lot of your music has Christian messages and/or scriptural references. What are your religious affiliations?
I want to do something artsy, but I don't think I have a creative or musical bone in my body. How do I get started?


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Confessions of A Hermit Crab
Exploring the secrets of home & life
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Summer in the City
This is one of my favorite times to be in the city. Boston is less crowded but there's a happy buzz. Visitors from out of town are lining up for duck tours. Open markets in Copley Square, free musical concerts at the Boston Public Library and all kinds of surprises are happening on street corners. Along the way, there are always the flowers, a sky, a building's facade to consider and enjoy.
Considering infinity
Impossible not to wonder when looking through this leafy door.
the John Hancock and clouds
A flower sparkler
The generous hydrangea
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ResourcesInformation about researching trees, tree care and general arboricultural knowledge
Below, we have listed some websites that are helpful when researching trees, tree care, and general arboricultural knowledge.
General Links
What is a Consulting Arborist?
The Society of American Foresters
Society of Municipal Arborists
Tree Care
Tree Care Industry Association
Tree Information
Arbor Day Foundation Tree Information
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If you have ever planned to attend a Caribbean Carnival, then you have heard of or planned to attend DJ Private Ryan's, Soca Brainwash (SBW). Started in Trinidad in 2014, this event was one of the few to produce such a quality large scale all inclusive event. From the moment you walked into the venue, you knew, you were getting ready for an EXPERIENCE.
From the overhead decor, to the games, drinks, THE CUPS, food, the media walls to take pictures with; all carefully curated to provide it's patrons with the fete experience of their life. SBW is now considered a staple must attend event no matter where it's happening.
Soca Brainwash in Trinidad, 2014
After much success in Trinidad, the event was then brought to Jamaica, Barbados, New York, Miami and the latest, Toronto.
Though many plan to attend, not everyone makes the cut. I have teased in the past and called the SBW ticket buying process the Hunger Games due to the demand. So how did Private Ryan do it? This is the only carnival event that sells out the same day tickets are released. Year after year, we set up our dual computer screens, laptops, cell phones and iPads for a chance to purchase SBW tickets.
Due to demand, trolls and scalpers [okay scammers] attempt to purchase several tickets at a time so that they can then resell them with a higher mark up [which also takes away from the online ticket allotment].
But guess what happens when this occurs? The demand is only driven up more. I recently asked in an Instagram poll, If you are not attending Soca Brainwash because you didn't get a ticket, what are your plans and several people rather stay home or go to the beach than find another fete to attend.
But why does Private Ryan get the flack? (Like many, I view his comments for comedy) Any large scale event that gets thousands of traffic to the website will have delays. [Have you ever tried to get Beyonce tickets the day it released?] I wonder why patrons are flooding the website ? What started that?
What brands like Beyonce have done is released tickets in segments, which has helped tremendously (Ryan maybe that may work). That said, I am always proud of any company that is able to sell their product out AND still provide a quality event. Though the ticket purchasing process may be hell, it still allows everyone a chance to purchase them. [Unless you all would prefer the committee member process instead?]
Private Ryan & Team – Thank you for putting together the SBW experience year after year, I am still dazzled by the decor and streaming from Soca Brainwash Heaven, muchless Wonderland. I cannot wait to see what is done for the 70's theme. A stream of disco balls?
For the newbie carnivalist, plan early, get onto the website in time, set your alarms OR buy your tickets through a carnival concierge. But keep in mind, SBW is not the event to move slowly on. You literally snooze, you lose.
Now who will be inside Soca Brainwash – The 70s?
See ya'll there
Yours in Mas,


text: ESP E-II ST-1 Review WiredGuitarist January 5, 2017 Articles, ESP Guitar Reviews, Reviews, Uncategorized ESP is a company known particularly for their high-end, metal-oriented guitars. With the stigma that metal guitars have to be black and pointy, and ESP does follow this stigma sometimes, it's a real treat to play something entirely fresh every once in a while. A few months back, we reviewed the E-II ST-2, one of my favorite ESPs that I've ever played. More recently, I was finally able to pick up an E-II ST-1, and today we'll be reviewing that one! Let's see if it's as great as the ST-2 model! Features: – Alder Body – Quilted Maple Top w/ Aqua Marine Finish – Thin "U" Shape Maple Neck – Bolt-On Design – Maple Fretboard with 12" Radius – 25.5" Scale Length – 24 X-Jumbo Nickel Frets – Abalone Dot Inlays with ESP Signature at 12th Fret – Floyd Rose Original Bridge – Gotoh Locking Tuners – 42mm Locking Nut – Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Plus/Pearly Gates Pickups – 3-Way Toggle Switch w/ Vol/Tone Knobs Right off the bat, the E-II ST-1 is probably the most beautifully designed ESP guitars that I've played. The Aqua Blue on top of the Quilted Maple is just stunning. I'm usually quite 'anti-pickguard', but the white marble pickguard on the ST-1 really adds a classy aesthetic that suits the finish well. The last piece of aesthetic goodness that ESP has graced us with is the Maple fretboard. Next to the Aqua Blue finish, the Maple looks really clean. One of the best features of this guitar, which seems to be missing in a lot of ESP models, is the satin neck. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with gloss. I even enjoy gloss for rhythm playing, but nothing beats the smooth feel on a satin neck for shredding. The neck is a "Thin U", which is the same as a lot of other ESP models, if you're familiar with the Prestige Wizard profile, is just a bit thicker than that. It's still a shredder's neck, though. The Floyd Rose Original needs no introduction, but if you want to read about it, be sure to check out our Floyd Rose Guide. The Floyd works really well in this model. I've always been a fan of H/S/S configurations with a floating tremolo. It brings out the 80's metalhead in me. Tone: These days, most of the ESP models that have been rolling out feature a Mahogany body. The E-II ST-1 is built with an Alder body, Maple top, and a Maple neck. Alder is a lighter tonewood and is known for having a mellow, yet bright tone. A nice feature of Alder is its ability to sound good with most pickups, due to it's transparent and shapeable nature. If you want to learn more about wood characteristics, you're in luck because we have The Ultimate Guide to Tonewoods! The pickup choice in this guitar is excellent! The extremely versatile Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbucker is one of my personal favorite Seymour Duncan pickups. It's so good that it actually made it onto our Top 5 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers list! The Pearly Gates bridge pickup is a PAF style humbucker that was originally designed for Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top. It has a really sweet midrange that makes for a punchy, aggressive attack. Even though it handles high gain very well and remains punchy under saturation, the Pearly Gate humbucker also maintains it's wide dynamic qualities. The Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Plus single coils bring a really Strat-like sound to the middle/neck position. The neck pickup is round and beefy and it helps to create the perfect Eric Johnson-style lead tones, while the middle position offers a light twang with a little less gain than the bridge. Overall, the pickup configuration is extremely dynamic and versatile and would sit well with just about any guitarist. On top of the pickup selection, the guitar features a Floyd Rose Original for extra sound variety. Build Quality: The Japanese ESP E-II series are some of the most consistent guitars I've ever played are generally found with very few flaws, if any. The finish is outstanding and is one of the best looking ESP guitars I've ever picked up. The Japanese ESP luthiers are extremely precise so no cosmetic issues to be found. If there are any noticeable flaws in the fretwork, they are extremely difficult to find. The Tokyo ESP shop absolutely nails the fretwork consistently. Final Verdict: The ESP E-II ST-1 is a gorgeous, versatile, comfortable guitar made by some of the best luthiers around. Not only does it sound incredible for just about any style of playing, it's one of the best (unique) looking ESP guitars available. This instrument would fit very well in any collection and after playing with it, I'm tempted to buy one for my own. We upload new articles daily so if you liked this one, make sure to check out some more! We are now authorized ESP dealers and can get you any current ESP you'd like at the best price possible! Also, don't forget to join the Wired Guitarist mailing list! We send out occasional alerts for crazy guitar deals and runs. We only send out about one email per month and it's 110% spam free! This article was written by Zac Buras, our editor located in Louisiana.


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When the lovely Jaye whipped up a post on her favourite face masks for summer, I knew immediately I had to throw my own recommendations in the mix. Thankfully, I did ask her and she let me steal her post idea, what a gem.
Lets get cracking then, shall we?
I feel like this guy has lasted me so long, and I bloody love it! (Although I probably should throw mine away and buy a new one by now). It's around £6.00, kind of grainy in texture, but it dries really quickly. My skin always looks super glowy and healthy afterwards, which is definitely what I'm looking for this summer.
I really want to try more of L'oreal's other face masks, so I'd love to hear your recommendations!
Whenever my skin has broken out, this is the face mask I reach for. I'd go as close to say it's a miracle worker. It leaves your skin feeling so much less congested than it was previously, and spots have always shrunk down massively too.
If I had to choose my favourite out of these three, I'd probably pick this one! It's more pricey than a drugstore option, but it honestly can last you so long and there's nothing quite like the feeling it leaves you when you're skin just feels… happy. Even writing about it is making me want to run to the bathroom to put it on!
I've had this face mask for ages, but I've only really start loving these past few months. I use it after my evening moisturiser personally, and in the morning my skin feels so much more plump and hydrated. It can be a bit sticky at first, but it soon sinks into the skin leaving it baby soft!
Most of my skin problems seem to be linked to dehydration, which is funny as I'm forever drinking water, but this is my go-to for most nights of the week and it does a great job. Highly recommend!
What face masks have you been using this summer?