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As noun
an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports:a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table
such a piece of furniture specifically used for serving food to those seated at it
the food placed on a table to be eaten:She sets a good table
a group of persons at a table, as for a meal, game, or business transaction
a gaming table
a flat or plane surface; a level area
a tableland or plateau
a concise list or guide:The table of contents in the front of the book includes chapter names and page numbers
an arrangement of words, numbers, or signs, or combinations of them, as in parallel columns, to exhibit a set of facts or relations in a definite, compact, and comprehensive form; a synopsis or scheme
(initial capital letter) Astronomy
the constellation Mensa
a flat and relatively thin piece of wood, stone, metal, or other hard substance, especially one artificially shaped for a particular purpose
a course or band, especially of masonry, having a distinctive form or position
a distinctively treated surface on a wall
a smooth, flat board or slab on which inscriptions may be put
the tablets on which certain collections of laws were anciently inscribed: the tables of the Decalogue
the laws themselves
the inner or outer hard layer or any of the flat bones of the skull
a sounding board
the upper horizontal surface of a faceted gem
a gem with such a surface
As verb (used with object), tabled, tabling
to place (a card, money, etc
) on a table
to enter in or form into a table or list
Parliamentary Procedure
Chiefly U
to lay aside (a proposal, resolution, etc
) for future discussion, usually with a view to postponing or shelving the matter indefinitely
to present (a proposal, resolution, etc
) for discussion
As adjective
of, relating to, or for use on a table:a table lamp
suitable for serving at a table or for eating or drinking:table grapes
As Idioms
on the table, Parliamentary Procedure
submitted for consideration
turn the tables, to cause a reversal of an existing situation, especially with regard to gaining the upper hand over a competitor, rival, antagonist, etc
:Fortune turned the tables and we won
We turned the tables on them and undersold them by percent
under the table, drunk
as a bribe; secretly: She gave money under the table to get the apartment
wait (on) table, to work as a waiter or waitress:He worked his way through college by waiting table
Also, wait tables
As noun
Military Air Transport Servicemat [mat] /mæt/ Spell Syllables
As noun
the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth
the condition or quality of being hot:the heat of an oven
the degree of hotness; temperature:moderate heat
the sensation of warmth or hotness:unpleasant heat
a bodily temperature higher than normal:the heat of a fever; the feeling of heat caused by physical exertion
added or external energy that causes a rise in temperature, expansion, evaporation, or other physical change
a nonmechanical energy transfer with reference to a temperature difference between a system and its surroundings or between two parts of the same system
Symbol: Q
a hot condition of the atmosphere or physical environment; hot season or weather
a period of hot weather
a sharp, pungent flavor, as that produced by strong spices
warmth or intensity of feeling; vehemence; passion:He spoke with much heat and at great length
maximum intensity in an activity, condition, etc
; the height of any action, situation, or the like:the heat of battle; the heat of passion
extreme pressure, as of events, resulting in tension or strain:In the heat of his hasty departure he forgot his keys
a single intense effort; a sustained, concentrated, and continuous operation:The painting was finished at a heat
intensified pressure, especially in a police investigation
the police
armed protection, especially a pistol, revolver, or other firearm:All guards carry some heat
a single course in or division of a race or other contest
a race or other contest in which competitors attempt to qualify for entry in the final race or contest
a single operation of heating, as of metal in a furnace, in the treating and melting of metals
a quantity of metal produced by such an operation
sexual receptiveness in animals, especially females
the period or duration of such receptiveness: to be in heat
As verb (used with object)
to make hot or warm (often followed by up)
to excite emotionally; inflame or rouse with passion
As verb (used without object)
to become hot or warm (often followed by up)
to become excited emotionally
As Verb phrases
heat up, to increase or become more active or intense:Business competition will heat up toward the end of the year
As adjective
As noun
a person or thing that resists
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text: Some Low poly examples that I haven't deemed as portfolio quality for a company I worked for a while back called WishB LLC. A social gaming start up that never took flight as many often do. For social gaming this is a good example of what they are looking for. Most of these are less than 300 and even less than 100 and using maps 256k or 128k. I learned a bit from this studio and continue to gain knowledge with each job I get.


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More specifically, a digital marketer
I've spent the last almost dozen years of my marketing career focused on digital marketing. Writing for the web. Social media marketing. Blogging for myself and ghost-blogging for others. Setting up and managing WordPress websites. Creating content in a variety of formats for different campaigns and clients. It's been a blast.
My marketing career goes back 20+ years, with a background that includes stints with several large, well-known firms. But I also have significant experience doing marketing work for small- to medium-sized businesses and nonprofits.
Beginning in January 2016, I became an independent consultant — a digital marketer for hire. It's been great being self-employed again (I was my own boss 20-some years ago, too). I spend my time developing online content, blogging for executives, managing companies' social media channels and working on several websites.
Here are highlights from projects I worked on in the first quarter of 2018. You'll see there is lots of variety here, which I enjoy:
- I managed a Kansas City-area women's gym's Facebook page and created content (including dozens of custom images) designed to stand out in their followers' crowded news feeds. I also created ads the gym used to reach their target audience on Facebook and managed their website and blog, too. I've been working with this client for more than three years.
- I served as the remote social media manager and content marketer for a consulting firm based in San Francisco, where I manage their WordPress website, write and publish blog posts and manage the company's Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. We're almost into year three of my partnership with them, and I couldn't ask for a nicer client. (Well, I could but that would be greedy.)
- I worked on monthly blog posts for a Kansas City-based specialty foods company. I also wrote, published and designed imagery for the company's Facebook page. My relationship with this client goes back almost two years, and I work with the company's PR person as a marketing subcontractor on this account.
- Partnering with this same PR professional, I worked with two of her other clients — an event management company (not quite one year with this relationship) and, new for January 2018, a mental and behavioral health and substance use disorders nonprofit. We're working together on a variety of initiatives for these clients, including social media marketing and their websites.
- I did a small consulting stint with a Phoenix-area realtor and residential and commercial building consultant, where I reviewed an already-in-the-works website and made recommendations to optimize the site for search engines … and humans!
If you're interested in learning more about my capabilities, see my services page for more info. Or contact me today to share how I can help you with your online marketing.


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Kermit the Frog is an entertainment icon known worldwide for his appearances on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, as well as a number of feature films. He attributes much of his success to his thirty-five year partnership with Mississippi native and entertainment visionary, Jim Henson. Kermit has received many honors and accolades for his work, including multiple Academy Award nominations, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a commemorative stamp from the U.S. Postal Service.
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One could argue that slang words like "hangry," "defriend" and "adorkable" fill crucial meaning gaps in the English language, even if they don't appear in the dictionary. After all, who actually decides which words make it into those vaulted pages? Language historian Anne Curzan gives a charming look at the humans behind dictionaries, and the choices they make on a constant basis.
Published on Jun 17, 2014
Posted in bigthink, video Tagged with: dictionaries, engligh, language, TED
Source (also worth a read)
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In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn't become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we've ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.
We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording, with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested. However, we encourage everyone to seek out the full speech (because, in this case, the book is definitely better than the movie).
-The Glossary
(Thanks Jennifer!)
Posted in bigthink Tagged with: graduation, life
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But not the way you think.
The last time I saw something on a trip that gave me an idea to blog about, I didn't do it fast enough and David King beat me to it. Not this time! (Sort of.)
On my way to Massachusetts Library Association conference last week I flew Delta and they had a seat-back in-flight entertainment system. Here's a few photos: (click to embiggen)
Here's the question: what's missing?
How about "Read" as a choice on that main menu? Or, on the second menu, how about "Books" to listen to?
Well, it does seem that Singapore Airlines and the National Library Board have already beat me to the audiobooks idea. (Thanks Dan.)
So, who wants to set something up with e-books and Delta?
P.S. Delta's system runs on Linux! (Though all those "Invalid arguments" did make we wonder about the system's stability.)
Posted in bigthink Tagged with: audiobooks, ebooks, travel
In case you haven't noticed I think about Copyright. Author's rights. Libraries' rights. Purchasing vs. accessing. Is copying theft or not. I read about these topics. I think about these topics. I blog and speak about these topics. I don't want to sound like I'm obsessed, but it's something that's important to me as both a librarian and an author.
But now, it's starting to creep into my everyday life. For example, this morning I was reading an Advance Reader's Edition of the next Dean Koontz novel 77 Shadow Street. Very earl in the novel I can across the following paragraph:
Blandon was one of the Jerks. He belonged in jail, but he bought his freedom by loading up on attorneys in five-thousand-dollar suits. No doubt he had also threatened to take half his political party down with him if they didn't put their hands up the backsides of their puppet prosecutors and puppet judges to ensure that the Muppet show called justice would follow the plot he preferred.
Instead of enjoying the image of a lawyer as human Muppet I immediately thought "hey, Muppet is a trademarked term (I think). Did he have to get permission to use that? Even if he didn't have to, did he anyway?" (Ok, technically this isn't a copyright issue, it's a trademark issue, but close enough to make my point.)
Sure, it's probably fair use. But is this a Kleenex vs. facial tissue sort of situation? A Muppet is a type of puppet. Did Dean need to be that specific? If Disney sued and he changed it to "puppet" to settle the suit, would that change the metaphor? Should I be writing Muppet™ every time just to cover myself.
Oh, and let's not forget that this is a edition of a book that clearly states "NOT FOR SALE" on the cover yet I purchased it on eBay. Sure, right of first sale and all, but is that statement on the cover an implicit license to the original owner of this copy? Did they ask for it then resell it, or was it given to them by the publisher unrequested. (Yes, that has actually made a difference in some first sale doctrine court cases.) Oh, and did you know that even though the first sale doctrine most likely applies to selling this copy, you can't sell one on Amazon? (Their site, their rules, but I'm sure it's because they don't want to piss off the publishers, legal or not.)
I guess my point is that copyright in this country has gotten so complex that it just doesn't necessarily make sense, as applied, any more. All of this makes me think of something I recently heard Cory Doctorow say which I'll need to paraphrase as I can't find the actual quote:
Copyright is like banking regulation. Sure we need to regulate banks and those large transactions but that doesn't mean those regulations should kick in if I want to borrow five dollars from a friend.
Yes, copyright has it's place but industrial grade regulations shouldn't necessarily apply to the individual. If for no other reason that it's starting to make my brain hurt.
Posted in bigthink Tagged with: copyright, dean koontz
So, I'm back from Internet Librarian 2011 and as usual my head is full of big hairy audacious ideas but at this point there's only one thing that's blog-worthy; the story of what happened to me around gaming night.
When it comes to gaming I play the occasional video game but I'm more of a player of card and board games. One of my current favorites is a card game called Fluxx from Looney Labs. It's hard to describe since the rules and goal of the game constantly change, hence the name. During gaming night a fellow librarian came up to the table to watch the game and asked "how is this game relevant to libraries?" In my infinite wisdom I answered "uh, just to have fun." Later she asked "why did you bring this game" and my equally stellar answer to this question was "because I enjoy teaching it to others." Both answers were completely accurate but obviously I'd not thought either of these issues through at all.
The next morning the opening keynote at the conference was given by John Seely Brown, former head of Xerox PARC, author of the classic The Social Life of Information and the forthcoming A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. One of his central points was that context is just as, if not more, important than the specifics when it comes to learning. This is something I've believed for years, and try to pass along myself whenever I get a chance. For example, I may not necessarily know how to solve a specific computer problem but I understand the context of the computer and it's software enough (maybe something like, right-clicking in windows generally gets you a menu of options,) that I can apply the context to the specific situation and solve the problem at hand.
The next morning Donna Hopkins, the librarian at Champion Technologies and player of Fluxx the previous evening, came up to me and said "listening to the keynote this morning reminded me of your game last night." At first I didn't understand the connection at all and I asked her to explain it to me. Her basic point was that the basic rules of Fluxx, draw a card then play a card, was the general context of the game. However, as the rules and goals change, you need to take that general context and apply it to the particular situation that you're faced during your turn.
Let's just say that I have a completely different point of view when it comes to this game now. Yes, it's fun. (I've not yet taught it to someone who's later said they never again wanted to play it.) But now I think I can use it as a way to demonstrate the context vs. specifics concept.
So, who's up for a game of Fluxx?
(Image source: Wunderland.com – How to Play Fluxx 3.0)
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The spill was caused by a hydraulic problem due to heavy rains in the area and a pump failure at the Corbin Avenue lift station. The area was cleaned and disinfected with lime.


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A Former Mortgage Pro's 5 Tips for Having Your Dream Home and Living Your Dream Life
With a decade of my life, and thousands upon thousands of hours of experience in this area, I thought you, my readers may find my point of view of some interest. I offer these tips without judgment, and with the utmost love. My wish for you is that you will receive them as some of the surest ways to achieve your dream home and dream life~ After all, we all want the dream.
Tip 1. Look around. Do you see four walls and a roof? A pile of wood or bricks that is doing a decent job of storing your things and your memories and most of all, your love? Great. You are already half way there. You don't need your name on the deed to make this your home.
Its yours if you live there. Be that by contract, family, or circumstance; if you lay your head there, own it. That space is yours to care for and yours to let flourish if you want to. Do you come home and wish you had more? That your home looked different? Was bigger? Cleaner? Had better furniture? In a better town? Let's start here. Your home is exactly the result of how much you love it. Its the product of your efforts. The goal for us all is to be proud of the home we make, whether it was given to you, or you earned it. This is your space, where your life lives.
Tip 2. Look around again. Sorry if you're getting a neck ache. Last time, promise. What do you see? Are there loads of clothes on the floor? Stacks of unpaid bills on the table? What about piles of dishes in the sink? Tons of takeout boxes? Empty soda cans stacked up in the trash? (Bonus points if these made it into the recycle bin.) If you answered yes to any of these, you need to purge.
Not the actual stuff you see lying around in an already discarded, put off fashion, but purge your mind from the habit of consuming more than you need. If you have more of any one item that, say, if you were fleeing from the world to a desert island and you only had room for one of said item in your backpack, then you have too much. And too much is the number one road block I have seen people face over and over in achieving their dream home, and living their dream life. People refuse to accept this fact, and I have seen it cause so many to continue to claw their way to a dream that they will never be able to reach.. but they still refuse to believe this is the reason why they struggle hopelessly. De-clutter your mind from the noise you've always been told about getting what you want. About deserving this intangible dream of more.
Tip 3. Accept that those who love you want the best for you. This one seems simple enough, right? And you may be wondering what this has to do with tips for living your dream life in your dream house. Trust me.
If you have ever had a grandmother, father, boss, mentor- anyone who cares for you, tell you to be careful with money; not to fall victim to spending more than you have, keep track of where your money goes, and learn to live within your means, within your earned life. Then you are rich. To have someone who cares enough about you to share with you one of life's greatest secrets is the best gift we can receive. The secret is: money is a game. Its you, against it. It's purpose is served when it gets you what you need, and if you insist that what you need is to fill your life with everything you want, then money wins. And I promise, because I've seen this so many times I have lost count: you will never have everything you want.
Money isn't your friend. Its not your access to a dream life. In fact, in mine, for many, many years money was the tool, "the dream" was the carrot, and you were the pawn; used to leverage your dreams against your needs in hopes you would buy in. If you wanted that dream house badly enough, you'd trade your needs for your wants, your existing happiness for the struggle to juggle more– and the result was most certainly that you would owe, dearly for it. Money wins. It makes no difference really whether we are talking about dream homes or dream cars, dream vacations, even dream jeans. Once you see that the dream we've been told is so worth chasing, is actually nothing more than something we already have, then we may have an easier time accepting the truth. That money does not love you. It needs you, but it does not want the best for you. But those who do love you, they truly do. And so, as one of them, take inventory of who is winning in your life right now, and decide if you are happy with it. Ask yourself if you are not happy with what you have, if you are happy risking what you already have for an imaginary more. If you don't consider yourself someone who has yet achieved your dream life, your dream house, your dream whatever- then I will bet I know the answer. Stop buying into the hype. Trust me, its much less costly to decide that what you have, what you can afford to create for yourself within your means, is exactly what your dream should look like.
Tip 4. Accept that you can live a beautiful life regardless of your financial circumstances, then you will be richly rewarded with the only thing that can trump money at its own game- contentment.
Happiness is a word thrown around so often in this life. Where you will find it, how you can reach it, and to never stop pursuing it. The truth is, being happy, being content with the life you are able to provide for yourself by fulfilling your needs, while ignoring money's lure to fulfill your every want; that is the arrival at your dreams. Its pretty simple. Am I suggesting no one should strive to attain their goals, such as home ownership, or buying a bigger, newer, better, whatever? No. What I am saying, is that the greatest heartaches I've seen in my career working with countless people chasing the dream, came not from uncontrollable devastation in their personal lives, but from a false belief that if they could just get their hands on more money, life would finally be a dream. Good people with health, jobs, children, pets, friends, love.. all the riches of life, would practically sell their souls for an opportunity at more. It saddened me, as much as it paid me, and so I continued on selling the lie. The truth is- look around, if your life is already full of these true riches, then you are living your dream life, just wake up and see it.
Tip 5. Life is not all roses, even for those who understand that the dream is just a state of mind. If you are unhappy with something beyond your control, a loss, a struggle, or a misfortune of some sort, believe that this setback does not define your dream life. And your home, whatever and wherever it is, can be your dream home, simply if you believe it is.
As the line goes in the Wizard of Oz,
"You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself." – Glinda, the Good Witch.
So, take it from someone who was paid incredibly well for many years to educate, promote, and sell, all the reasons why money is the necessary means to a dream home and a dream life, because I am here now to share with you this final tip- don't believe it. The truth is, money can break you into a million pieces if you let it. I've seen it divide the richest lives. I've seen it disguise itself as the goal, the choice, the proof, the pride, the happy, the dream. I've seen it crush spirits. I've seen it bring out the worst in people. I've seen it bring out the worst in me. Sure, money can aide you in a reaching a life you think you want, but be prepared for the cost. You already have your dream life if you have any home at all. The tip is to take care of what you already have. And if you don't have a place of your own that you call home, but you have people who love you enough to help you, or even share theirs, then you absolutely have a dream life. If you just choose to believe it, then surprise, you are already living your dream.
The key to enjoying it? Be loving to it, to yourself for creating your dreams. Take care of it, have pride in it. Keep love in it. Because if you have love in your home, the place that is yours, you are beyond rich. And if you are fortunate enough to have the gift of love beyond your walls, out in your life, and you are giving it away as quickly as you get it, then you have arrived somewhere, a dream life: It's a place many will only dream of, without understanding why they are never able to get there. Love is the only currency that makes dreams come true, and we all have access to it. Don't barter with the dreams you already have, to sell yourself short chasing dreams that really don't exist.


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Chronicle director Josh Trank will develop Shadow of the Colossus for Sony
Sony Pictures adaptation of the Playstation video game SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS seems to have found a director. Josh Trank who directed the surprise hit CHRONICLE is developing the film version of the game.
Trank has been linked to several projects recently, including a FANTASTIC FOUR reboot, Marvel Comics' VENOM, and an adaptation of the comic book THE RED STAR.
SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS tells the story of a young man who believes his lover to be dead, so he heads to a "forbidden land" to summon a demon that can wake her. In order to bring the woman back to life, however, he needs to slay 16 colossi. They're massive, "skyscraper-sized giants" that rise from the ground, fly through the air, and dwell in the water. Soon, the man questions his pursuit and wonders if he's made a deal with the devil.
Trank did an excellent job with CHRONICLE, using the low budget to his advantage and crafting a really good superhero movie. Who knows what he would be able to do with a larger budget. I hope that they keep the mood and ominous appearance from the video game for the movie. The game is considered influential in the industry due the unique visual style and gameplay. From a story standpoint there is very little back story so it remains to be seen if a film version would flesh out the plot or keep it simple and drop the viewer right into the action.
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Home remodeling has taken on a new perspective for home owners over the age of 45.
More San Diegans are turning to remodeling their home to accommodate not only their immediate family lifestyle which can include raising children, entertaining family and friends, working at home, but also now can encompass the possibility of taking care of elder parents.
The concept of aging in place and universal design are hot words in the design and remodeling world. What this means is remodeling and designing a home that will accommodate the special needs that come up as we get older and have a desire to stay in our home longer instead of the possibility of moving into a retirement community.
Aging in place remodeling can include changes to a home which enables for easier access to and from rooms, enlarging hallways and doorways, converting bathrooms to allow for use of wheel chairs, walkers and specialty medical equipment.
Some homeowners are now choosing to remodel and update their home with modifications such as:
- Wall mounted sinks
- Raised toilets (taller toilets)
- Sunken showers with zero thresholds
- Bench seats and grab bars in the showers
- Adding a hand held adjustable shower valves
- Roll out drawers that fully extend in kitchen cabinets for easier access
- Raised dishwashers
- Lowered cabinets and sink areas
HK Construction utilizes space planning and universal design for safely, and cost effectively transitioning the layout and use of a home so the family inside can transition just as easily as they age.
The experience and skill sets HK Construction has developed over the years with loft installations, room additions, second story additions, room conversions and new home construction lays a solid foundation for making changes to homes that want a more universal design for aging in place.
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I'm old enough now the things that were popular when I was a kid are coming back in style. Movies, toys, clothing. Some of which were so terrible they should've stayed in the past. Every generation can sympathize, I'm sure.
Yesterday, on Facebook, someone had posted a Christmas toy catalog from 1984. What fun to click on the pages and remember the commercialized items that held me spellbound as a child. You know how kids want everything they see advertized on TV.
This gem here brought back some warm, fuzzy memories. I was five, so it would've been Christmas 1987. Strawberry Shortcake was my favorite and if I could just have her dollhouse, I'd never ask for anything again. Christmas morning, my eyes foggy from sleep, I stepped into our living room lit by glass multi-colored tree bulbs and there sat this magnificent, three floor Strawberry Shortcake dollhouse. I was a happy girl.
I played with that dollhouse for several years. It withstood attacks from my brothers Star Wars action figures and Barbie's constant visits. Memories long forgotten until yesterday.
What was your favorite childhood Christmas gift?
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Every coach needs a good selection of baseball tryout drills that allow each prospect to demonstrate their abilities both on the field and at bat. This will allow the coaches to fully evaluate each prospect's skill set to see if it indeed is strong enough for their team. It also allows coaches to build a team that will be able to work together, playing off each other's strengths and covering up for the weaknesses.
I like to start each of my baseball tryouts with arguable the most fun part of the game: hitting. Since hitting can make or break a team, I run a number of hitting drills at each of my tryouts. The first of the baseball tryout drills to see which are the Babe Ruths and which are merely mediocre is this one which rewards players with the ability to control their hitting.
Throw pitches at players one at a time. As the pitch sails towards the player call out what type of hit you'd like them to perform: line drive, pop fly, foul ball, grounder. Make sure to tailor the pitches to help players make the right hit. Try to remember which players have already hit what type of pitches so you can see every player attempt to perform every type of hit.
The In's and Out's of Fielding
To maximize productivity, while half the players hit, employ to other half to demonstrate their throwing and catching skills, using these baseball tryout. I like run a different set of drills for infielders and outfielders, since each position requires more finely tuned skills in different aspects of throwing and catching.
For my outfielders, a classic long toss drill helps determine which players will be able to make crucial long throws from deep center and which haven't quite built up the necessary arm strength to be protecting the far corners of the field. Another great outfielder drill has players partnered up and throwing each other a variety of pop-ups, grounders and line drives. This exercise will gauge players' interactions with others as well as their fielding skills in a medium-pressure situation.
For infielders, I like this drill that rewards quick thinking infielders. Stand at the place with a bat and a bucket of ball. Start batting towards the players one at a time, making sure to vary your hits and the players fielding the ball. While the ball is being batted, call out a situation for the players to follow. For example, hit a line drive towards shortstop while yelling "runner on 1st, two outs" to see how the player would react in that situation. Run this drill for at least 5 minutes, giving each player a variety of scenarios before switching the infielders and outfielders.
The Importance of Scrimmage
Baseball tryout drills can only go so far. To truly gage a player's performance on field, the coach must witness them in action during a game scenario. I always end each baseball tryout with a short scrimmage allowing each players at least once chance in infield, outfield and at bat.
For the batting team, always watch players both while they are at bat and how they act when they are idle. Think twice before selecting players who goof off constantly or intentionally distract their fellow prospects, since they may become a handful and difficult to control at practices and during games.


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Spectral: Okay, I know I should be updating Grown Up, but I've had this idea in my head for awhile.
Danny Muse: Yes, and she just HAD to post it.
Spectral: Yeah, so don't go all pitch-forky on me. Grown Up will be updated soon. So for now, enjoy!
Not in this lifetime
Everything happened in slow motion. I didn't even know it was going to happen. If I did I would've stopped it. Even if it meant telling her everything.
I guess I should tell you the whole story. So, for a little while, let's go back in time. I really wish I could, anyway.
"Bethany!" My Mom said. Yep, that's me. Bethany Marie Fenton.
"Coming Mom!" I replied. We were getting ready to go to the Grocery Store. Yes, lame I know. You're probably thinking what's so bad about going to the store. Well, you'll find out soon enough.
I hurry to tie my shoes while my Mom grabs her purse. "Bethany, let's go!" I can see that my Mom's getting impatient, so I hightail it to the door.
"I'm ready" I declare. We walk out the door and jump into the car. My mom turns the key and I hear the low rumble of the engine. My Mom backs out of the driveway and turns left. I look out the window and watch as field after field passes by. Were approaching the interstate and I read the signs telling us about Gas stations, restaurants, yadda, yadda, yadda. I live out in the country, so we have to drive 5 miles before we can even get to wal-mart.
I hear a "whoosh" and a "screech" that should've been the first warning sings. But I ignore it because I trust my Mom's judgement. I look into the rear-view mirror and see a semi going over 70 miles an hour. Way past the speed limit. I open my mouth a little too late and the semi rams into the back of our car. Then everything goes black.
Spectral: Yes I know. A cliffy. Don't worry though. Early tomorrow morning I (might) update.
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Dave Bettin wrote: > Sorry, should have explained that statement a little > better. What I intended to mean, was to allow users to > pick up an application on the .Net port and move it to > cocoon w/o much hassle and vice a versa. Dave, please be aware of the fact that Cocoon lives on the value of its name and its license protects it. I'm personally happy if somebody ports Cocoon in other languages (people already did twice, for Perl and PHP) but I'll be personally pissed if they used 'cocoon' inside the name if they distribute something which is not coming *straight* from this project. So, whatever you end up with, please, don't call it 'cocoon#' or 'Cocoon .NET' or "NCocoon" or anything that contains Cocoon in it, unless you want to donate your code to this project and then the community will decide if we want to maintain two independent codebases written in two different languages. [but it would be easy to guess the answer] As far as C# goes, I think .NET does things better than java in a few circumstances, but for sure this is not a good reason to throw away those millions of lines of code we already have. So, at the end, all I personally ask you is to be respectful of our work by not abusing the name cocoon for your work. For anything else, expect great collaboration from me even if I'm not going to move my programming skills to C# just yet. [and people, please, no language-flamewars, ok? the world is beautiful because it's diverse, we just have to be nice and respectful one another] -- Stefano Mazzocchi <firstname.lastname@example.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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This circa-1930 vintage French Deco rug by Paule Leleu is a study in geometric abstractions in green and red against a beige background in an all-over stepped field design. The daughter of Jules Leleu, arguably the grandfather of the Art Deco design movement, Paule Leleu took over her father's renowned furniture studio and produced a number of award-winning designs in the late 1930s and early 1940s that were knotted by hand domestically. As a product of the early 20th century art movement and her father's singular artistic vision, Paule's work exemplified Art Deco as she continued her father's design legacy. Just as Art Deco furnishings from the Leleu firm have exceptional geometry and sleek lines, Paule Leleu's Art Deco carpets distill shapes and linear motifs to their simplest and most essential form.
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The producers of the hit CW show are worried that Dobrev might quit the series when her contract expires at the end of season six."Ian and Nikki's relationship is causing a lot of drama, to the point where the producers have asked Ian not to bring Nikki to set when Nina is there because they are very worried about losing her.They worry that the show would fall apart without her," a source told Hollywood is currently in its sixth season, which is the last one Dobrev has signed for."It's unlikely that Nina would try to get out of her contract in the middle of this season, but it's something producers are worried about.It would be very costly for Nina to get out of her contract now, but things like that have happened before, so everyone's walking on eggshells with her.
afterparty on Sunday night following the Golden Globe Awards.Nina arrived without her other half, Austin Stowell, while Ian hit the red carpet with his wife, Nikki Reed.The duo was joined by their The Vampire Diaries costars Kat Graham and Paul Wesley, who stepped out without his girlfriend, Phoebe Tonkin, in tow.Not to mention the fact that Nina hasn't signed anything for anything beyond season six," the source added.star, is not paying heed to conflicts on the sets."The general feeling is that Ian is being very insensitive about this, and that's putting it nicely," a source told Hollywood


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Incoming Students FAQ
When can I mail my belongings to Reed?
Reed's mail services asks that packages arrive after mid-August, as they do not have enough room to store them before that time.
To what address do I send packages for myself if I am a new student?
Please send packages and mail to the following address until box numbers are assigned:
Your name here!
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland OR 97202-8199
If you have further questions about mail delivery, you can call Reed's mail services directly at 503/777-7214.
Do I need to pay a housing deposit?
What size are the residence hall beds?
Twin extra long.
When am I going to receive information on my residence hall placement and roommate?
Your room and roommate assignment information will be emailed out to you on the first working day of August.
How are room assignments made?
For more information about room and roommate assignments, please visit this page.
What sort of storage is available?
Most residence halls have storage, which is available through an appointment with your area coordinator. Space is limited, however, so we ask that students store no more than four boxes, and that they are well labeled.
Off-campus storage options
We don't recommend or work with a specific pod style storage company, but we do allow a company to place boxes on campus for students during move-in and move-out. If you are looking for self storage, NW self storage has two self-storage locations near campus. The closest is just off 28th on the west side of campus and the other is across the rail line bridge on Holgate.
How large are the residence hall rooms?
Most rooms are 10 x 12 feet.
What furniture is provided in the rooms?
Bed, dresser, wardrobe or closet, desk, chair, and bookshelf.
Will there be ethernet access in all the rooms?
Does the college provide a phone?
No. We suggest that you utilize a personal cellular phone.
If I am out of the country, or otherwise unable to receive the new-student mailings, how will I access the information I need?
Our new student contract, the preference form, and the theme residence hall application are online as PDFs, so these forms can be printed out wherever you are. All accepted first year students will receive this information in the mail at their home addresses, so it is not necessary to use these forms unless you are not going to be home. Information can also be faxed to you. Please return all forms to the residence life office by the stated deadlines.
What stores are nearby for groceries and general household goods?
Bi-Mart: 4315 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97206
Fred Meyer: 3805 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214
New Seasons: SE Woodstock Blvd and 45th Avenue
Safeway: 4515 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97206
Safeway: 3930 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
Trader Joe's: 4715 SE Cesar Chavez Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
What about movie stores, bookstores, theaters, and shopping?
The Hawthorne district is nearby for thrift store shopping, bookstore browsing at a mini-Powell's bookstore, and picking up useful or decorative room accessories.
The Division district is even closer if you're looking for artisan ice cream, the best pastries and coffee, and small but mighty hamburgers.
The Sellwood/Westmoreland neighborhood is just around the corner for the single-film Moreland Theater, cult-classic sushi, and neighborly vibes.


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Nursing Home Spotlight: Elmwood Care, Elmwood Park, IL
Elmwood Care is a large 245 bed nursing home located in Elmwood Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago. According to the government's Medicare website, the facility received only one out of five stars, which is a much below average rating. The facility received only one out of five stars for health inspections, which is a much below average rating. In the past year, the nursing home had 48 health deficiencies, which is an alarmingly high number of deficiencies. This is 40 more deficiencies than the average number of health deficiencies in Illinois and in the United States. This is also a serious increase in the number of yearly deficiencies, up from the 13 health deficiencies in the previous year and the three health deficiencies two years ago.
The nursing home has an obligation to provide a safe and secure facility for its residents and to provide proper care and supervision to achieve and maintain the highest level of well-being for its residents. Nursing homes must meet the Requirements for States and Long Term Care Facilities outlined in 42 CFR Part 483.
Elmwood Care received numerous violations for both quality of care and the facility environment. According to survey reports the facility received violations for failing to:
- Protect residents from mistreatment, neglect, and/or theft of personal property
- Keep each resident free from physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment
- Give each resident care and services to get or keep the highest quality of life possible
- Give residents proper treatment to prevent new pressure sores (also called: pressure ulcers, decubitus ulcers or pressure sores) or heal existing pressure sores
- Make sure that the nursing home area is free of dangers that cause accidents
According to survey reports, Elmwood Care failed to prevent the spread of infection by failing to implement its complete infection control program for residents with infections on two of the three floors in the facility. Nursing home staff members made several errors in technique for the isolation protocol for residents who were in isolation. These errors included allowing visiting family members to use dirty gowns to pick up new clean gowns, lack of running water in isolation room for family and staff to wash their hands, allowing family members to throw away dirty gloves in another resident's room (which was not an isolation room), and staff members failing to wash their hands before and after entering an isolation room. Preventing the spread of infection in nursing homes is very important because many residents have weakened immune systems due to illness or age.
Nursing home residents have the right to personal privacy and confidentiality of personal and clinical records. During the survey, staff members failed to provide visual privacy for several residents. This included failing to close privacy curtains when providing treatment for residents and also failing to close window shades on windows that could be seen from nearby homes and businesses.
Residents have the right to be free from any physical restraints imposed for the purposes of discipline or convenience, and not required to treat the resident's medical symptoms. The facility did not meet this requirement by failing to complete the following activities for several residents: assess residents for the medical need for physical restraints, obtain physician's orders for restraints, create care plans and provide for a reduction of a physical restraint, release the restraint every two hours, and assess alternatives to provide the least restrictive measures. These failures led to one resident developing an injury to his big toe that later developed into a pressure sore from the use of a side rail restraint. This also resulted in the resident needing several restraints at the same time including the use of a chemical restraint. During the survey, the facility was unable to provide an accurate number of residents with physical restraints.
The facility must ensure that all alleged violations involving mistreatment, neglect, or abuse, including injuries of unknown source are immediately reported to the administrator of the facility and to other officials in accordance with State law. This requirement was not met when the facility failed to thoroughly investigate injuries of unknown origin for one resident. In one incident, a resident suffering from Schizophrenia and Dementia was found on the basement floor of the smoking room in the middle of the night. The resident complained of left leg pain and was brought upstairs without being assessed by a nurse before being moved.
After assessment, the resident was sent to a hospital. The nurse notes document that the resident told staff that a tall man had pushed him on the floor. However, there was no investigation or statements of how the resident suffered when the hip fracture. The facility faxed an initial incident report to the state, but failed to conduct an investigation or submit a final report of the investigation to the state.
Elmwood failed to provide housekeeping and maintenance services necessary to maintain a sanitary, orderly, and comfortable interior. The survey revealed odors, unsanitary storage of medical supplies, and failure to maintain a clean, sanitary, and orderly environment. Findings included: dirty shower chairs, food stored in refrigerator with medication, food on activity floor, odor in bathroom, clogged bathroom sink, sewage odor in nursing supply room, no thermometer in freezer, nursing supplies stored on floor of utility room, unclean freezers, dirty feeding tube pump, dark brown stains in some resident bathrooms, urine smell in some resident rooms, cluttered equipment store rooms, and strong urine odor in hallway.
The facility is required to provide residents with the appropriate treatment and services to maintain or improve the residents' abilities. The facility failed to meet this requirement because it lacked any restorative program, which affected every resident with restorative needs. The lack of restorative nursing program led to a physical decline in the following residents:
- Resident 1 – lack of positioning devices which led to pressure ulcers.
- Resident 5 – decrease in range of motion and new pressure ulcers
- Resident 20 – lack of assessment and devices led to the development of a wound.
- This lack of proper restorative nursing program also led to a failure to evaluate residents to ensure that the least restrictive physical restraints were used.
The facility must ensure that a resident who enters a facility without pressure sores does not develop pressure sores unless the individual's clinical condition demonstrates that they were unavoidable. The facility must also ensure that a resident who suffers from pressure sores receives necessary treatment and services to promote healing, prevent infection, and prevent new pressure sores from developing.
Elmwood Care did not meet this requirement as evidenced by its failure to monitor residents at risk for pressure sores, provide devices to prevent the development of pressure sores, provide care and services to residents with pressure sores to prevent the spread of infection and promote healing, and provide education and training to direct care staff in the policy and procedure for wound care. These failures resulted in immediate jeopardy.
The facility must ensure that the resident environment remains free of accident hazards and ensure that each resident receives adequate supervision and assistance devices to prevent accidents. The facility failed to meet this requirement by failing to ensure that residents received adequate supervision to prevent falls and failing to address the increased number of falls per month or the types of interventions being taken to decrease the number of falls.
These failures resulted in a significant number of falls, with one resident's fall requiring treatment at an Emergency Room for a head injury. These failures resulted in immediate jeopardy. It is important that nursing home staff reduce the chance of accidental falls because elderly nursing home residents are more susceptible to bone fractures and injuries because of weak bones.
Elmwood Care received two out of five stars for nursing home staffing. The facility has 177 total residents, compared to the national average of 94.7 and the Illinois average of 103.9. Each resident received 1 hour 7 minutes of nursing home staff time per day, which is less than the Illinois average (1 hour 12 minutes) and less than the national average (1 hour 24 minutes).
This one-star rated facility had an exceedingly high number of deficiencies over the past year, which calls into question the facility's ability to provide residents the proper care and services to achieve the best possible physical and mental health of its residents.
If you have a friend or family member who has sustained in injury during an admission to Elmwood Care or any other skilled nursing facility, we would be honored to speak with you about the circumstances. All consultations are confidential and free of charge. (800) 926-7565
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"The West will have to stop abusing its dominant historic position before it is too late. And emerging powers must realize that they, too, have much to lose from a broken world." - Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group President
New York, New York (PRWEB) September 30, 2016
The global order, characterized by an absence of leadership, stands at a turning point, argues Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer in a new paper, produced for an international seminar series hosted by the International Monetary Fund.
In "After the G-Zero: Overcoming fragmentation," Bremmer examines how, after two generations of increasing global interconnectedness and cooperation in economic and security relations, questions are arising regarding the popular support for both trends. For decades, the global economy – supported by the role that the IMF has played in building consensus on economic policy – grew rapidly as it became more interconnected.
Now, in the face of more mediocre economic outcomes and mounting concerns about the vulnerabilities that accompany interconnectedness, many are asking whether the benefits of globalization have been oversold.
"Emerging powers have begun creating new and alternative institutions of global governance, as their power and influence in global institutions is not keeping pace with their growing international importance and interests," Bremmer writes. "Instead of focusing on whether this trend should be feared or welcomed, observers would do well to recognize that it will persist regardless and that there is more to be achieved by interconnectedness and cooperation than ever."
The paper argues that the stability of the next global order depends on whether countries view it as being in their interests to cooperate and coordinate before it is too late.
"The West will have to stop abusing its dominant historic position before it is too late. And emerging powers must realize that they, too, have much to lose from a broken world. The recipe to save global governance doesn't require genius. It requires goodwill."
This topic will form the basis of an international seminar series hosted by the IMF, featuring Bremmer, David Lipton, first deputy managing director of the IMF, and other experts.
The first event will take place at the 2016 IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings Program of Seminars in Washington on 7 October at 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm GMT). A second event will continue the conversation in Beijing, China, on 22 November, with Bremmer, Lipton, and Chinese economic and geopolitical experts.
For details about the program, registration, or the live webcast, click here.
Explore the paper on our website or by downloading the attachment.
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Metropolis launches Call for Entries to the Next Generation Design Competition
Published by Alexandra Tichinoff, December 03, 2012.
Enter by February 12, 2013 to win the grand prize of $10,000. Metropolis challenges students and those practising for 10 years or less to develop solutions that empower, advance, and include groups often overlooked in the design process (including but not limited to, our rapidly increasing aging population and citizens with disabilities).Up to three submissions will be accepted from an individual or team of collaborators. A separate application and entry fee is required for each project submitted.
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Union Minister of Shipping GK Vasan informed that the cabinet cleared the proposed Rs 1,700-crore second dock complex project at Haldia recently.
It is learnt that the West Bengal government allocated around 160 acre of land for the proposed facility.
Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), however, failed to attract private participants for the project. Though the port authorities claimed that companies such as Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure, Gammon India, JSW Infrastructure, Jindal ITF showed interest in the project, none of the participants submitted final bid documents last month.
Lack of cargo coupled with alleged law and order problems had forced ABG-LDA run Haldia Bulk Terminals (HBT) to withdraw operations from existing Haldia dock complex in October last year.
The proposed second dock project at Haldia in Salukhali is one of the three new projects proposed by KoPT. The other two projects are Diamond Harbour container terminal, and a new deep-sea port at the Sagar Island.
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Software Defined Everything (SDx)
The much-touted value of SD(x) is the ability to open the API so that the application (client/server or peer to peer) can communicate directly with SDN or SDDC based controllers and provision their own storage, end-to-end service, and so on. Now that the intelligence has been taken out of individual network devices, and the API potentially opened for network-aware application development, the software developer is truly king. However, this is also true for a would-be attacker. Self-provisioning via an API without proper security is something new to the land of networking. Proper considerations, design, and testing must be integral.
This working session will discuss the hypothesis that while proper controls may be desirable and preordained, given that we already have considerable issues with building security into "conventional" applications, are we not at risk of adding another layer of complexity and another potential version of the OWASP Top 10?
Within the IT industry, SDx or software-defined everything is still a buzz word. Whilst its ultimate position in predictions like the Gartner Hype cycle is a matter of fierce debate, there is an underlying, creeping problem that is not being fully addressed. Software defined networks are still being looked at in terms of infrastructure security and NOT their application security components. The implications of this view are vast and may be crucial to ISP, datacenter, and enterprise security, as the layers of the OSI model continue to merge and transform.
- Exploring the security considerations around SDx, what are the attack surfaces for Software Defined Everything (SDx)?
- Which of the OWASP Top 10 are applicable to SDx applications?
- Exploring potential ways to build more robust application security into the software definition process
- How can SDx be simulated/emulated effectively for SDN/SDDC applications, especially where central controllers and the API are concerned?
- Preparing the future direction in terms of an all-inclusive approach to SDx security, including a holistic view of both application and infrastructure aspects
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Temperature Impacts & Carbon Dioxide
Having looked in Part 1 at the frequency and size of extreme weather events, we now need to look at temperatures to see if any changes there also suggest a warming world, and then at changes induced by changing temperatures. The most logical thing to look at is temperature itself, but while we are conventionally shown the mean global temperature chart since about 1850 (which is below), why don't we first consider what high and low temperature records are being broken? After all, if we have a warmer climate, high records might be being broken.
World High Temperature Records – set in 2010
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|Qatar (world cup football venue)
And now the low temperatures and guess what? Look at where they were:
World Low Temperature Records – set in 2010
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There were 15 record highs covering much of the planet and only 2 record lows but these lows were here and maybe caused by the warmer world. Perhaps I should explain the possible connection but so often with climate it is neither simple nor does what the weather does appear logical.
[In the warming Arctic there is now about 6M sq kms less summer sea ice; the additional 6M sq kms of ocean surface absorbs much more of the sun's heat than the ice it replaces, so the Arctic is much warmer through autumn and early winter. This produces a warm air mass over the Polar region; causing a high pressure area; so the winds blow from the Pole rather than to it - which makes us very cold. Of course, the warmer the Arctic the more ice melts; the more ocean there is; the warmer it gets, and even more ice melts. It is that dramatic as time will show, but the Jet Stream has also moved to pass south of the UK bringing those Polar winds right through us].
However if we take the decade from 2000 to 2010, there were 29 high records and only 5 lows [which apart from the 2 in the UK were in East Antarctica, on an Andean pass in Argentina and in Germany]. Whichever period you take we seem to be getting warmer.
Finally under 'Temperature' we should look at the mean global temperature record as produced by NASA so here it is:
Plot of Temperature against time since 1880
The sceptics often argue against this chart complaining it is not comparable through the time period. They like to take short lengths of it, as from 1940 to 1970 which they then argue show the temperature was dropping while CO2 was rising, but selecting sections to try to prove a point is not just disingenuous but scientifically questionable. Anyway, as we can now see it is in total accord with every other indicator. If events around our planet were telling us one thing and the temperature chart another – I would have a lot of difficulty – but as we can see all agree and I am absolutely confident in those who produce it. They are incredibly competent people and totally aware of potential issues like the heat island effect of urban areas. They are scared for their children as many thinking people are.
Clearly, however we read the temperature record it is also telling us the climate is warming, but there is one final marker that I have already argued is crucial to understanding what the climate is doing which involves the Polar regions. There is another White Paper specifically on that subject (Is There an Early Warning System?) where it is explained why they should be key climate indicators.
So what is happening to the Ice?
A warmer world will with certainty melt ice but there is yet another odd situation we should know about before we go on which the sceptics focus on if they can find examples. We have already understood that a warmer world will produce more rain – or precipitation which includes snow. Taking the Poles, the warmth will melt ice but the additional snowfall will add to it. So long as the additional melt rate exceeds the additional snowfall – the ice will shrink – but if it is the other way round the ice mass will grow. Both situations result from a warmer world though the sceptics seem to assume simply that if the ice mass increases it shows there is no warming. WRONG. As we can see it supports that hypothesis. But we should note that maybe surprisingly central Antarctica is technically a desert and that is not a joke. Precipitation is incredibly low.
Back to what is happening now and because it is so important I have published a solid well illustrated White Paper (What is happening to the ice?) just on the subject of changes in the ice mass. While we can feel temperatures and hear about floods and fires – we cannot see or feel the Polar Regions and the media don't tell us much when even multi-billion ton chunks of ice break free. So let's look at it briefly here:
The Antarctic:
- The Larson A ice shelf had disintegrated almost totally by 1995
- Larson B followed in 2002 but it had been there for at least the last 12,000 years (so certainly for 110,000 years or almost since modern man walked the earth).
- Larson C is expected to go in the next decade.
- 40% of the Wilkins ice shelf has collapsed between 1990 and 2010.
- The Jones, Wordie, Mueller and Prince Gustav ice shelves have all either gone completely or nearly.
- Major icebergs are calving (breaking) off the Ronne and Filchner ice shelves which are huge by comparison with the Larsen or Wilkins. To understand huge, it is about 400 miles from the seaward end to the start of the shelf (the distance from London to Edinburgh) – and if just these connected shelves were to disintegrate, sea level would rise by between 3½ and 5 metres.
I have said that floating ice shelves don't raise sea levels when they melt, but this is such a huge 'shelf' that much of the inland part is grounded and that part does actually rise significantly above the ocean – so Goodbye to many major cities.
- No shelves are growing.
The Arctic:
- The permafrost in the Arctic is melting fast all over the place with two major greenhouse gases being released automatically – carbon dioxide and methane. A recent documentary with Ian Stewart demonstrated this ('dangerously' if you saw it).
- Arctic summer sea ice cover has generally been reduced by about 6M sq kms by the end of the summer season.
- Mean annual temperatures are already up a full 5° in the Arctic.
- The region is warming so much that huge amounts of methane are now being spewed out from the continental shelf north of Siberia, and I believe off the pacific coast of North America. Technically it is coming from methane clathrates (solid methane gas) which change back to gas as they warm. This is roughly where BP is now planning to drill for yet more oil.
- The Jakobshaven glacier is retreating ever faster (image in the White Paper) with a single one mile break in 2010, so that image is already well out of date. Bad isn't it?
- The Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers are similarly retreating and with the Jakobshaven drain some 16% of the entire Greenland ice sheet. As the whole sheet would raise sea level by some 7m if (or when) it all melts, if just this 16% dropped into the ocean it would rise by more than 1 metre. Now we know why scientists are watching and measuring it so intensely.
- The Petermann glacier is disintegrating fast with 25% breaking on one day in 2010.
- · No glaciers are growing.
The Canadian Arctic:
- What used to be the Ellesmere ice shelf started disintegrating in the last century breaking into 6 separate shelves. The Ayles (one of them) collapsed completely in 2005 and the others are going.
The North West Passage – the fabled route for ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific north of Canada – is clearing have had experimental passages made in 2008 & 2009.
Mountain Glaciers:
These are retreating almost all over the world and at an ever accelerating rate, but just as we have had 3 very cold and harsh winters, not all the world warms evenly so there are just a few glaciers growing, but doing so very slowly by comparison and we know where they are. There is a global image in the Paper and a personal photo.
The icy regions of the world are behaving exactly as every other climatic region, showing the impact of a warming climate, but we ought to notice the amazing rates of ice change since 1990.
Might I now leave you with some information that I will develop in due time involving CO2 as we cannot in all honesty consider what climate is doing without also considering carbon.
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Several of you will possibly know the infamous chart of atmospheric CO2 since 1850 (in the film 'An Inconvenient Truth' and called 'The Hockey Stick'), but as carbon is now rising almost vertically on that chart it is hard to interpret. Is it getting ever worse or not? Is it getting better? What does it mean?
So here we have a new Antarctic record covering the last 800,000 years, or way before modern man walked planet earth. We will also look at a chart I have produced which shows how fast atmospheric CO2 is growing each year, comparing it over the last 50 years and comparing that with how it was rising during the near vertical historic rises in CO2 which are shown by the horizontal blue line – when we get there.
To interpret the chart: The red plot is the temperature (degrees on the left vertical axis with zero being the pre-industrial figure), and the three blue plots between them show the CO2 (ppm on the right vertical axis).
We should firstly notice the incredible similarity between the plots – they go up and down almost absolutely together – but then, for as long as the climate record provides data, carbon has been between 180ppm and 300ppm (182 to 298) – a range of 120ppm. Uncanny if you really think about that.
In 1850 at the start of the industrial revolution (which we started in the UK) it was 285ppm which is where the blue plot hits the right axis, after which it is actually vertical. It has now reached 387.18 or more than 100ppm higher as shown by the horizontal arrow above that. By itself that ought to scream at us because we have almost doubled the range and pushed carbon to where it has not been for a very long time indeed. And through that carbon range the temperature spanned at least 11°. Through each climate cycle the rise from deep glacial to the warm world took about 6,000 years with a full climate cycle taking about 100,000 years. Left to the planet these changes occur extremely slowly. Over at least 5,000 generations in fact.
But here is the important thing: through climate history during the rises from deep glacial to the warm periods, carbon rose at 0.02ppm/year (shown as the blue line on the chart) so what is it doing now? This is where we need to see if that carbon plot in the chart above is getting steeper or not. The data box below gives the numbers and the chart shows the annual rate of rise of CO2, but only from 1960 to 2010.
|Time Period
|Year 2010
Source NOOA – National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- Please note this chart shows the annual rate of increase of CO2 and not the CO2 levels.
- The circles are the 5 year average carbon rise figures as in the table left above.
- There is a circle with a cross above the 2005 to 2010 figure which I have taken the licence to add. I explain. The recent recession depressed energy consumption through 1998 so this shows the 4 year average for the period excluding 1998.
- The 2010 circle is not a 5 year average but the figure for 2010. This could be an exception, but we know China and India are building coal fired power stations at an incredible rate and that positive feedbacks are kicking in (due to a warmer world emitting CO2 all by itself), so at least we should take note of it. I have long predicted that the carbon curve is about to go vertical. I have given the real data so you can decide which plot to assume, but as so often we can draw different 'curves' through the data to indicate the trend. You decide.
- The horizontal blue line is the annual rate of carbon increase on the 800,000 year 'Temperature and CO2' chart above – during the near vertical rise of the blue line about 132,000 years ago. THAT is a measure of what modern industrial man is doing to the atmosphere.
- In an earlier publication (see Planet Earth: Are we Running out of time?)
I argued the climate models are not working and the problem is hugely bigger than the IPCC reports suggest. Towards the end I argue the 'tipping point', where we are losing control of climate, is when CO2 is around 325ppm or was around 325ppm as we are so far above that. The new methane emissions from the continental shelf north of Siberia is but one example. Jim Hansen (head of climate science at NASA) has since published that we need to get back below 350ppm. We are now at 387ppm and from the chart above we are likely to be at 415ppm by 2020 and it could be a deal higher. Jim argues we are close to a point where climate chaos is a certainty and how could I disagree.
In 1960 we were increasing CO2 some 40 times faster than ever in recorded history, but that figure is approaching 150 in 2010. And with the progress our political leaders are making it will rise even faster. So let's get it into some sort of perspective. Since 1850 – over 150 years – we raised atmospheric carbon by 105ppm but we will raise it by a further 25 to 35ppm every decade from now if we carry on as we are.
I hope we have considered all the elements on earth that would either validate the climate to be warming or show it not to be. I have not been selective with the information.
Whether we take floods, droughts, fires, temperatures or the melting ice, the same conclusion has to be reached – that the climate is warming and substantially so. In the first Paper on Climate I showed that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and that if we have more of it the temperature on Earth must rise. By how much is what the debate is all about. But here we have also considered CO2 alongside all the above, and like all the events – it is rising inexorably and I argue is well into the danger zone already.
Welcome to our warmer world.
While I cannot say with 100% certainty, hand on heart, that all the changes in these two papers are due and only due to anthropogenic (manmade) emissions, this is what a warmer world will do and our greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.
What we all have to decide is whether the balance of probability tells us we have a huge problem – especially if we carry on – or whether we should ignore what I argue is the obvious. What you have to decide if you choose to ignore this is – at what level will you decide we have to react? And remember, the longer we wait, the bigger the hurdle we have to get over; the greater the cost, and the greater the disruption to our civilisation.
Not only does every single element unequivocally point to a warming climate but the rate of warming seems to be highly significant no matter which you take, and each points to the rate of warming increasing rapidly. I invite you to reach your own conclusions but the notion that the climate scientists have to prove beyond doubt that the climate is warming and that we are largely responsible is absurd. The balance of probability is now so heavily weighted towards the hypothesis that the planet is warming and we are doing it that it should be the task of the sceptics to prove it isn't.
If you feel I have missed something of importance, and if there is scientific data to support your view then I would like to hear from you. It is our duty to get it right and not pervert the evidence or data. If you feel you still want to take the view that I am wrong then I wonder why that would be? Many are worried about the impact on our lives if we reduce the amount of energy we use, but I am satisfied we can all be at least as happy if not happier using much less energy. Much of our 'happiness' is transient and I promise there are ultra-low energy solutions to all problems.


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Medievil Hero tries to shed label of underachiever
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Medievil Hero was trained by Bill Mott before being transferred to Mary Jo Lohmeier in April 2000.
And if fate had cooperated with the story line, Medievil Hero would have been looking to upstage the Mott-trained Del Mar Show in Saturday's featured Connaught Cup at Woodbine.
But when 17 horses passed the entry box for the Connaught, the race was split and Medievil Hero drew into the first division with Del Mar Show in the second.
Lohmeier, not surprisingly, is not complaining.
"When I look at Del Mar Show's pp's, I remember my first impression when I saw him on the nominations list," said Lohmeier. I thought 'I hope he doesn't come.'"
Medievil Hero, owned by Joseph Lacombe, is a half-brother to Favorite Trick, the Eclipse Award winner as Horse of the Year and champion male 2-year-old in 1997.
Although he graduated in his second lifetime outing, Medievil Hero came to Lohmeier with two wins and nine in-the-money finishes from 18 starts and a reputation as an underachiever.
Since then he's 4 for 14, with nine in-the-money finishes, and has a legitimate shot at becoming a stakes winner in his Woodbine debut.
"He's bigger and stronger, physically, this year," said Lohmeier. "But he's changed probably more mentally; he's a lot more confident. A lot of it is just maturity."
Medievil Hero has won two of five outings this season, including a smart allowance score over 1 1/16 miles of turf at Keeneland last time out, but Lohmeier believes his record would be much better were it not for a couple of unfortunate trips in his first two races at Gulfstream.
"In his first race there was a very slow pace; they were just crawling," said Lohmeier, noting that Medievil Hero had made up 10 lengths only to fall a head short. "The next time he was boxed in, and checked, and boxed in again . . .
"He's a nice horse. When he gets a good trip, he fires every time. Actually, he even fires with a rough trip. He's just been unlucky."
Rea Sea intends to stick around
Red Sea also is coming off an impressive allowance victory at Keeneland and will be making his first start at Woodbine in the first division of the Connaught Cup.
But unlike Medievil Hero, Red Sea will be staying awhile.
"There's lots of racing here for him," said Roger Attfield, who trains Red Sea for Prince Fahd Salman.
Red Sea, an English-bred 5-year-old, raced in England and France at 2 and his second-place finish in the Group 2 Grand Criterium at Longchamp earned him a trip to Churchill Downs for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
He finished 12th of 13 there after breaking through the gate prior to the start and then returned to England for another campaign with trainer Paul Cole before being sent to California and conditioner Neil Drysdale.
After making just two starts for Drysdale, Red Sea was missing from action for more than 13 months before resurfacing with Attfield for a turf allowance at Gulfstream Park. Although Red Sea finished 11th that day, Attfield was encouraged by the performance.
"I didn't like the way the turf course was down there but he did handle it; he just had all kinds of trouble," said Attfield.
"He was smashed around; he was stopped three times. He ran a good race, actually, and it set him up for the Keeneland race."
Red Sea indeed was a horse of a different color in that next start in Kentucky, rallying to a 1 3/4-length victory in a 1 1/16-mile turf allowance.
Muntej may prefer more ground
Attfield also will be represented in the Connaught's second split.
Muntej, owned by the trainer and a host of partners, twice saw action on the Keeneland turf this spring, finishing a close fourth in a 1 1/16-mile allowance and then ending a non-threatening sixth in the Grade 3 Elkhorn over 1 1/2 miles.
A 4-year-old who also was bred in England and began his career there, Muntej became a stakes winner in the Grade 2 Sky Classic over 1 3/8 miles of yielding going here last September.
"This race is probably a bit short for him," acknowledged Attfield. "But there's nothing else right now for him."


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The engineer who was piloting the Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday evening, causing eight fatalities so far, is claiming that he has "no memory" of the accident and "no explanation" for why it occurred.
Engineer Brandon Bostian's attorney says that the 32-year-old employee suffered leg injuries and received 14 staples to close a gash in his head. The attorney also says that Bostian "has absolutely no recollection of the event."
Bostian, a gay rights activist from California, has been an engineer with Amtrak since 2009, having started with the company as a conductor in 2007.
"He remembers driving the train," attorney Robert Goggin said on Thursday. "He remembers going to that area generally, [but] has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. The next thing he recalls is being thrown around, coming to, finding his bag, getting his cell phone, and dialing 911."
Goggin also says that Bostian is "distraught" over the incident.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators have confirmed that the train was going up to 107 miles per hour as it came into a turn in the track in the northeast area of Philadelphia's city center Tuesday evening. The speed limit for the turn is only 50 miles per hour.
Investigators also confirm that the emergency brake was applied just before the derailment.
Bostian's attorney claims that no drugs, alcohol, or other medication played any role in the accident. Cell phone records also find that his phone was turned off, as per Amtrak regulations.
The NTSB is also reporting that, as of Thursday morning, a dozen people are still unaccounted for.
As more information about the engineer emerges, it has been discovered that he is a gay rights activist who once lived in San Francisco.
A 2012 interview in the Midtown Gazette revealed that Bostian feels gay marriage is a civil right. The article reported that he worked for the Prop 8 campaign in California.
"It's kind of insulting to have to beg people for my right to marry," Bostian said to the paper in 2012. "I feel like we shouldn't even have to have this fight."
He is also a self-described "train nerd" who always loved trains growing up in Memphis, Tennessee.
"When you heard the name Brandon Bostian, the first thing you would think is trains," Bostian's childhood friend Lee Allen said. "His walls were covered with pictures, he had several model sets. Sometimes we'd just go down to the tracks that ran through town and watch trains and shoot the breeze."
Many are already blaming the derailment on operator error. But NTSB officials warn it is still too early to definitively claim that the accident is the engineer's fault.
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