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Actresses, Models & Singers with Clubbed Thumbs… is a Toe Thumb 'Sexy'?
June 21, 2011
In the acting and modelling profession, where outward appearance is important, quite a few people with 'clubbed thumbs' have become successful. Next to Megan Fox (see previous post) being the most well-known example there is a considerable list of models & actresses who have the same thumb abnormality.
Maybe, some might now think that a toe tumb can be 'sexy', but the truth is that brachydactyly type d is a common trait in the general population – though the prevalence varies among populations around the world. According the World of Clubbed Thumbs the statistics are: 0.1% of blacks, 0.4% of whites, 1.6% of Jews and 3% of Arabs.
The list of models & actresses with a brachydactyly type d thumb includes (alphabetic order):
• Malin Akerman (Swedish-Canadian actress & model):
• Megan Fox (US actress & model):
• Sanaa Lathan (US actress):
• Leighton Meester (US actress & singer):
• Vittoria Puccini (Italian actress):
• Ashley Tesoro (US actress, model & singer):
• Anna Walton (UK actress):
NOTICE: A longer list of celebrities who have 'clubbed thumbs' is available at Facebook.
More hands of actors, models, celebrities & movie stars are available here: http://www.handresearch.com/hands-of-fame.htm


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Wild Nation's Ridiculously Early Season Predictions: The Atlantic Division
August is almost upon us, which can only mean one thing – its training camp time.
The time in the NHL where there's hope running through every team's fan base, except for Toronto's of course. But, with that hope in mind, it's time for our ridiculously early season prognostications that will likely be proven to be dead wrong by the second week of the season or just the Ridiculously Early Season Predictions, for short.
We're going to start with the Eastern Conference this season, namely the Atlantic Division so, let's get started.
New Jersey Devils – The NHLPA filed their grievance on Thursday regarding Ilya Kovalchuk's contract and one would assume that, despite their desire to resolve this quickly both sides are digging in for a fight.
Even without Kovalchuk in the fray, however, the Devils remain a much improved team over last season's with the additions of Anton Volchenkov and Henrik Tallinder on defense and Jason Arnott up front. It could, in fact, be argued that the Devils could be a better all around team without Kovalchuk, as they would have to unload a contract in order to come into the season under the salary cap.
Looking at this team, however, Volchenkov and Tallinder should be upgrades over the departed Johnny Oduya and Paul Martin, while Arnott should give the team a solid second-line center that can pitch in on offense.
While these three players alone might not get the Devils back to the promised land, in the Stanley Cup finals, they will certainly go a long way towards making New Jersey more competitive both in the regular season and the post season.
New York Islanders – The Islanders may find themselves in the enviable situation of having to spend money in order to reach the cap floor this season – something that many teams might relish at this point in the off season.
The problem for the Isles, however, is how do they do that?
With the big fish out of the free agency pond, the Isles may have to resort to multiple signings, which could cut down on the amount of playing time that some of their youngsters would get.
It's hard to imagine that forwards Doug Weight and Matt Moulson won't be back with New York this season, so that will take care of some of it, but likely won't resolve the entire issue, but this is good news for a team that only has seven roster players under contract for next season and 13 restricted free agents coming up.
Another year's experience for their big time youngsters will be good for the Isles, and they're headed in the right direction – they're just not there quite yet.
New York Rangers – As has been the case the last few seasons, the Rangers are an enigma wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in a puzzle.
They have Marian Gaborik who, after countless disappointing seasons in Minnesota, came out and showed that he could shoulder the load and be a superstar in the NHL, but past him they don't have many players that chipped in offensively.
Then, this off season they made what many consider to be the shrewdest move, signing Martin Biron as a capable back up for a goalie who has never really had a capable back up, but they then went out and signed enforcer Derek Boogaard to a ridiculous four-year, $1.65 million per contract.
So, as it stands now, the Rangers aren't really much better than they were at the end of last season. Alexander Frolov's agent has stated that his client is close to a deal with the blueshirts and, if that's the case, the team could be looking better going into this season.
But, as it stands right now, they're in the same spot that they were last season, which means that they will likely be on the outside looking in once more.
Philadelphia Flyers – After spending most of the off season pretending like the salary cap didn't apply to them, they're now back under the cap by a whole $327k.
After replacing Simon Gagne with Nikolai Zherdev, which was likely a salary shedding move, it is apparent that the Flyers are anticipated increased production from James Van Riemsdyk, Claude Giroux and Ville Leino next season, along with what Zherdev brings, to make up for the loss of Gagne's production.
But the story here isn't in the team's offense, but in a defensive unit that could easily be the best in the NHL.
After their defense got embarrassed by Chicago through much of the finals, the Flyers responded by going out and trading for Andrei Meszaros and Matt Walker and signing free agent Sean O'Donnell.
That gives them five defensemen that could legitimately be considered top-five defensemen and two more that are legitimate shut down d-men, plus Oscars Bartulis who appears to now be on the outside looking in.
All of this points to the fact that we could very well be looking at a situation much like the Penguins and Blackhawks faced, of having to lose before you can win.
Pittsburgh Penguins – Let's be perfectly honest here. You can never count the Pens out of anything.
While they still have one glaring need to address (a scoring winger), the Pens have upgraded their defensive unit which should be a big help for Marc-Andre Fleury.
Zybnek Michalek and Paul Martin give the Pens two more defensemen that can play in any situation and takes the pressure off of Kris Letang and Alex Gologoski on the powerplay and should help in the wake of losing Sergei Gonchar to free agency.
The best news for the Pens, also, is that they have the cap room to address their need for a winger before free agency is out. With the market value for free agent forwards taking a dive, especially with the signing of Nikolai Zherdev, the Pens can more than afford to improve their forward corps.
That, in and of itself, is encouraging news for Pens fans and they should expect to see the playoffs in Pittsburgh once again.
Well, now that we're done with the previews, let's take a look at how I think the Atlantic Division is going to line up come playoff time this coming season:
1) Philadelphia Flyers
2) New Jersey Devils
3) Pittsburgh Penguins
4) New York Rangers
5) New York Islanders
Through most of the season last season, all five teams were in playoff contention and it should be much of the same this season, though I think that the Rangers and Islanders will fall of towards the end of the season once again and be on the outside looking in. The Flyers, Devils and Penguins, however, should all be back in the dance once again.
Up Next: The Northeast Division

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The search for a "Star Wars" director is over!
After telling Entertainment Weekly in November he wouldn't helm the next installment from Disney, The Wrap reports Abrams will indeed take us once again to (another) galaxy far far away.
Abrams also told Empire magazine he turned down the idea.
"I wouldn't even want to be involved in the next version of those things," said Abrams. "I declined any involvement very early on. I'd rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them."
Currently, Abrams has "Star Trek: Into Darkness" coming out this summer.
Abrams joins Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt who will be writing the script for "Star Wars: Episode VII."
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This article originally appeared in the August 2011 issue of Architectural Digest.
There are many ways to live in Bel Air. You might do it grandly, in one of the neighborhood's noble mansions, with 20-foot ceilings, gilt balustrades, and furniture too important to sit on. Or you might do it the way Hank Azaria does—comfortably, in a 1932 house somehow both modest and major, in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains and with both the ocean and the sparkling lights of Los Angeles in full view.
It helped that Azaria inherited a designer who calls himself an anti-decorator. Trip Haenisch, whose Hollywood clientele includes Courteney Cox and Edward Norton, had been enlisted by the previous owners of the house to decorate an elegant barn addition off the kitchen. The barn went up just as the couple's marriage came down, and when Azaria bought the property, he hired Haenisch to reimagine it as a place the actor could share with his partner, Katie Wright, a former actress who is now studying to become a family therapist, and the couple's two-year-old son, Hal.
"The house was a bit slick," Haenisch says. "We decided we had to organic it up."
An unvarnished aesthetic suits the home's Monterey Colonial architecture, a style developed in the mid-19th century by Thomas O. Larkin, who moved from Boston to Northern California and re-created there the proportions of a typical Federal house in adobe brick; he also popularized a signature second-story veranda. The Azaria house's veranda is just one of many outdoor spots the family uses—the property includes two terraces, a pool, a gazebo, a sports court, and a playhouse. Though the actor asked Haenisch to rework the open-air seating areas, the designer's imprint is felt most keenly inside the house.
"Trip has his own style, but he also knew how to be accommodating to us," says Azaria of the collaboration. "He could steer us in the right direction or compromise when we had different ideas."
The Kansas-born Haenisch worked in the office of Waldo Fernandez—one of L.A.'s established masters of interior design—for almost two decades after moving to the city. Fernandez taught him, among many other things, that before a single object crosses the threshold, the threshold itself must be perfect. The Azaria house already possessed beautiful millwork and a graceful flow. Its 8,500 square feet encompass vast public spaces on the ground floor and five cozy bedrooms above; there is one more bedroom in the barn annex, along with a family room, gym, and screening room. But there was the matter of the floors to deal with. The previous owners had attempted to unify four different materials by ebonizing them all. Haenisch persuaded Azaria to move toward the more natural look of rough-hewn planks, replacing the floors in the bedrooms and the barn, stripping the remaining French-oak boards back to blond, and opening the grain throughout with wire brushes. "They went from floors you had to tiptoe on to floors you can beat up," Haenisch says, "which just looks more charming."
Though the kitchen is the soul of the house—friends often gather around the island as Wright cooks with vegetables from her impressive garden—Azaria's favorite room is his office. Its focal point is a made-to-order poker table surfaced in dove-gray felt and framed in black, nail-studded leather. By day it is strewn with scripts; at night crystal old-fashioned glasses slip into the table's pockets, and Azaria's poker buddies file in. There is a galley kitchen nearby, so that no one has to wake the whole house when glasses go empty.
Elsewhere the spirit of young Hal prevails. For the centerpiece of the playroom, Haenisch took a pine farm table, shortened the legs, and painted its surface to look like a giant checkerboard. That same pattern is picked up in a Moroccan tribal rug that runs the length of the room. (Haenisch calls the current vogue for all things Moroccan "what the Santa Fe look was to the '80s," but he's not afraid to transgress if it's for the perfect Berber carpet.) To organize the trove of games and toys and keep the space uncluttered, the designer stenciled wicker baskets from Pottery Barn with random red numbers and tucked them onto shelves.


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Despite what you might read on sites like TechCrunch on a daily basis, where million dollar deals get tossed around like the merry go, venture capital is actually down after the first quarter of 2012. According to figures published late Thursday by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, 758 companies received just $5.75 billion, or about 11 percent lower than Q1 2011's $6.41 billion.
SquareTrade, an extended warranty services company founded 13 years ago in San Francisco picked up a cool $238 million during the past quarter, the largest single deal over the first three months in 2012. The second highest was Sapphire Energy, a San Diego-based company that "creates algae-based fuel," with its $144 million deal announced earlier this month.
California-based companies took in over $3 billion of VC during that period, over half of the total for the entire country. However, the life sciences and clean tech sectors both saw drops in the dollar value of VC and the volume of deals during the first quarter of this year.
However, one bright spot in the financial world of tech this week has been Splunk, a San Francisco-based startup, whose IPO yesterday hit a high of 109 percent of its opening price, closing the day at over $3 billion.
As the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday: "Splunk set out to build a Google for machine data—essentially a search engine for all the data that servers, network switches and any device such as smartphones with a processor spits out when those devices are in use."
Despite big-name customers like Harvard University, Bank of America, Comcast, and others, the company has yet to turn a profit.


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I don´t known what´s goin´ on....
I´ve burned Samurai Shodown 2, and got a coaster.
Neo4All didn´t load it, said it was not a neogeo cd, I burned it again, and now it worked!!!
Dont´t known what´s it, but the same happened w/ Art of Fighting 1, Art of Fighting 3, Fatal Fury 1, Fatal Fury Special, and others....
They are´nt loaded, and Neo4all sais they´re not Neo Geo CD´s.
Someone known what´s goin´on?
It has something w/ burning method?
I´ve been burning for about 4 years, and never had this kind of problem.... : (
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Griffins rally for 4-3 over Marlies to reach next round of AHL playoffsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
TORONTO - Luke Glendening's goal at 15:57 of the third period spelled the end of Toronto's season as the Grand Rapids Griffins rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the third period to beat the Marlies 4-3 on Tuesday, and win the AHL Western Conference semifinal 4-2. Grand Rapids will face the Oklahoma City Barons in the conference final.
Glendening was in front of Toronto goalie Drew MacIntyre and had an open net to shoot after picking up a rebound.
The Marlies had goals from Carter Ashton, Paul Ranger and Will Acton while Tomas Tatar scored twice and Jan Mursak chipped in one for the Griffins.
MacIntyre made 27 saves for Toronto while Petr Mrazek made 14 for the Griffins.
Ashton gave the Marlies a 1-0 lead at 4:15 of the first period when he led a Toronto rush up the right side. He threw what was a hopeful shot on goal but Mrazek had all kinds of trouble blocking the puck entirely and it somehow ended up getting through.
Toronto made it 2-0 at 19:57 of the period when Mike Zigomanis won a faceoff that went to Ranger. His quick shot also somehow fooled Mrazek and managed to trickle across the line.
The Griffins controlled much of the play in the second period and were quickly rewarded four minutes into the period when Tatar's fine solo goal on the power play cut the margin to 2-1.
But just 37 seconds later, Toronto capitalized on Mrazek's poor clearance from behind his own goal off a Marlies dump-in. Jerry D'Amigo picked up the clearing attempt and found Acton, whose slap shot from the centre of the ice restored Toronto's two-goal lead.
Mursak got the Griffins' second goal at 10:04 of the third after splitting a pair of Marlies defencemen and beating MacIntyre from close range.
Just 28 seconds later, Tatar tied the game after Francis Pare found him with a no-look backhand pass from right in front of the net. Tatar flipped it over MacIntyre who scrambled in vain to cover his exposed right side.
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Community centers are places where people gather to learn things and stay healthy.
Community centers are places where people gather to learn things and stay healthy.
Why not also make them places where people can learn how to eat healthfully?
That's the thinking behind a partnership between the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department and Local Matters that will introduce "educational gardens" and classes in how to best prepare what's grown in them to eight community centers throughout the city.
These won't be traditional community gardens where people can grow vegetables on their own patches of ground. Rather, they will be garden clubs where children and adults can learn to grow food that's good for them.
"That process can be more impactful in terms of planning and encouraging community leadership," said Michelle Moskowitz Brown, director of operations for Local Matters.
The educational garden at Whetstone Community Center in Clintonville was installed last week. The one at the Northland area's Woodward Park Community Center takes over from one that went in last year, said Christina Snyder, nature programs administrative manager for Columbus Recreation and Parks and educational garden coordinator.
Local Matters, a nonprofit organization with a mission "to transform the food system in central Ohio to be more secure, prosperous, just and delicious," had some funding last year to put gardens in at a few community centers, Brown said.
This year, that was expanded to eight community centers, thanks to funding from Medical Mutual and the Ohio Orthopedic Center for Excellence, Brown said.
The others involved are Blackburn Community Center, 263 Carpenter St.; Dodge Community Center, 667 Sullivant Ave.; Douglas Community Center, 1250 Windsor Ave.; Howard Community Center, 2505 Cassady Ave.; Krumm Park Community Center, 854 Alton Ave.; and Marion Franklin Community Center, 2801 Lockbourne Road.
In addition, Local Matters will sponsor "Food Matters" healthful cooking classes at Sullivan Gardens Community Center, 755 Renick St., Brown said.
The locations are a mix of places where residents wanted community gardens or where center personnel expressed interest.
"We haven't really focused much on healthy eating, and one of the ways to do that was focus on educational gardens," Snyder said.
While nearby residents and some community center personnel have expressed interest in devoting space to vegetable gardens in the traditional sense, "we just can't supervise all that," she said.
By working in partnership with Local Matters and creating gardening clubs at the community centers, the programs shouldn't demand too much time away from regular duties of recreation and parks employees, Snyder said.
"It's a huge undertaking to do this year-round," Brown said. "This will increase our access to healthy food, our education about healthy food and our community engagement. We see this as a great entry point ... We feel this plan could extend further into the city."
"We wanted to get everything started in a way that's going to be sustainable and long-lasting," Snyder said. "We want it to be continually programmed and with a lot of interest going on."
Gardeners in the clubs will grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, corn, beans, spinach, lettuce and okra, among other foods.
Admittedly, the occasional tomato or ear of corn is going to leave the garden by someone other than the person who cultivated it, Snyder said, "but maybe that person really needs that food."
Young gardeners are just going to have to accept that, she added.
"They should get more than enough food that they need and it's OK to share," Snyder said.
Details on how the individual programs operate are available at the centers.


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ALOT of blue glue will drain out!
If there is a problem, or chunks and streaks...
you can easily soak in water and clean off!
Not water proof variety...but I never have fresh flowers
Love that these came out translucent! I did this exact same thing as a blog post last week but mine came out different. You can check it out at www.mycreativelyvintagelife.com/2012/07/mason-jar-makeover.html
I am also your newest follower!
Way cool! I always wondered how they got the color to be clear... :-) Thanks so much for sharing this at The Fun In Functional!
I tried this and mine came out horribly but I watered down my modge podge (I have no idea why!) I'm going to try it again because yous look awesome!
So fun! I love how great they turned out and how easy it was to do! Thanks! We would love to invite you to join us on Saturday Show & Tell on Cheerios and Lattes! I know my readers will love all your kid friendly ideas! Have a great weekend!
Mackenzie :)
Love this, thanks!
Excellent job! Sometimes the simple ideas are the ones no one thinks of but I'm so glad YOU did and you shared it with us. I suppose jars that don't come out so well can be filled with water, disolved (or peeled off) and done over, right?
What temp do you bake these on??
mine didn't really come out translucent, but they still came out cool. A LOT of glue came out on the cookie sheet in the oven. glue ran from the bottom so the bottom of the glass is clear and the top is blue. Any idea what I did wrong? What temp did you do?
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I can't wait to make some for myself. I think I'll finish mine off with clear spray paint to make it water proof. Love it!
http://organizationmatters.net (not the google account that shows up - there wasn't a name/url option)
I love this project, Nat. I'd love to give it a try someday. {I'll add it to my looong list!}
Warmly, Michelle
I did this today, baked in oven for 30 at 400...just as stated...and mine came out streaked and had bubbles...not sure what happened..but we're using them for a Halloween lantern so they will be fine for that....
I just tried this and smoked out my house with only one jar! It smoked so much I couldn't finish the project. I didn't have extra glue...did just as directed. End product after 15 min of cooking was streaked and bubbled.
The Elmer's glue way just makes a big mess! I sprayed insides of old mayo jars with glass spray, it comes in several colors and had perfect results!
I absolutly love this project! I put my own twist on it and put it on my blog (giving you credit of course!) because I just love the idea!
I started this crafts and cooking blog in March but no-one has read it yet :( I'd love it if you could give it a read and tell me what you think, but don't worry if you don't want to. You can delete this comment.
Thanks for reading, and keep posting these great craft ideas! I love them!
That is awesome!
I love the way these turned out! I want to make some for my front porch, just not sure what I'll put in them yet!
Robin @ Fluster Buster
After experimenting with this about six times, I have found that instead of wax paper (as described in the directions), you need to use PARCHMENT PAPER. Also, 30 minutes at 400 degrees IS WAY TOO LONG to bake these. 4 minutes @ 400 degrees is plenty. Also, don't overlap your edges when painting on the Mod Podge - this creates thick seams and bubbles - just nice, light coats next to each other. Good luck! After I made these changes, they turned out beautifully.
Nice post!! This is awesome.I am going to do them myself.


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Here's a telling statistic: When anesthesiologists are involved, there are seven fewer deaths for every 10,000 patients put to sleep. Those numbers matter.
Our state is faced with a need to expand access to health care within a system that already has significant challenges.
Expanding the role of nurse anesthetists into administering anesthesia has been suggested. An op-ed column, "Health System Must Be Sustainable," June 25, by Bruce Weiner did so, for example. However, rational review of the data does not support nurse anesthetists in the dangerous arena of administering anesthesia as a solution to this problem.
It is correct that physician "extenders" such as nurse anesthetists are being contemplated for an increased role in the delivery of medical care. Policymakers need to consider three critical factors when they are presented with these doctor alternatives:
1. Does the expansion of care by nonphysicians jeopardize public safety?
2. Does this move really save money?
3. Is there a true care-provider shortage that needs to be addressed?
When measured up, this proposition — equalizing anesthesiology doctors and anesthesia nurses — falls drastically short on all three counts.
On the first criterion, there is no doubt that patient safety will be jeopardized by replacing a physician anesthesiologist with an anesthetist nurse who has at best half the amount of advanced medical training.
While nurse anesthetists are well-respected and highly regarded members of the anesthesia-care team, their level of training and experience — critical elements in the highly complicated areas of anesthesia, intensive care and interventional pain medicine — do not match that attained by their supervising physicians.
The direct participation of anesthesiology doctors dramatically changes patient outcomes vs. care provided by a nurse anesthetist only. Every scientific study to date demonstrates that anesthesiologists, when directing the anesthesia team or performing the anesthetic themselves, do so at lower complication and death rates than an anesthetist providing comparable care alone.
Here's a telling statistic: When anesthesiologists are involved, there are seven fewer deaths for every 10,000 patients put to sleep. Those numbers matter.
That brings me to the second element: Do anesthesia nurses save the system money?
No, for two primary reasons:
Most medical insurers charge the same amount for an anesthesia-related procedure, regardless of who administers it. So putting the nurse on equal footing with a physician will not save insurance dollars.
Further, putting anesthetists in a collaborative role with physicians would increase costs because of the fact that, more — not fewer — physicians would need to be consulted and more costly tests would most likely be performed.
When bad outcomes occur, the expenses to remedy that situation — setting aside the human tragedy that comes with such an event — can often cost tens of thousands of dollars, if not more.
Increasing the independence of CRNAs would compromise the safety of patients — and that will end up costing everyone more in the long run.
Finally, is there a true shortage of anesthesia providers that needs to be addressed?
Not really.
Florida does need more physicians and this shortfall is likely to worsen as we expand access under the Affordable Care Act. But that shortage exists in areas such as primary care, not in specialties such as anesthesia or interventional pain medicine.
As more consumers have access to health insurance and preventive care, the need for surgical procedures or other interventions may decrease.
There is no doubt that the supply of anesthesiology doctors has kept up with the demand for their services.
To verify this, the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists in 2012 surveyed every hospital in the state to determine if there was a need for additional staff in their anesthesiology departments. Not one hospital responded that they were short anesthesiology doctors or mid-level-provider anesthetists.
Medical care in the United States is appropriately under microscopic review, but any changes to the health care system need to be justified as safe, cost-effective and necessary.
An increased scope of practice for anesthesia nurses is not needed and fails to accomplish any of these goals. In fact, this idea would expose the citizens of our state to more risk at greater expense.
[ Dr. Jay Epstein of Clearwater is an anesthesiologist who is board certified in anesthesiology and critical-care medicine. He is president of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists, Miami. ]


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To determine the department of the Roman Curia with responsibility over a particular area of the Church's life, and the current department heads, see the index of departments.
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Fox & Friends coverage of CRU emails disregards facts, context
Research ››› ››› DIANNA PARKER
Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlson have repeatedly advanced the right wing's distortion of emails reportedly stolen from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) by hyping a litany of falsehoods that climate skeptics have propagated about the emails without any regard for facts or context. In fact, despite the hosts' claims, the content of the emails do not "prove" the scientists doctored or destroyed data, nor do they undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activities are causing global climate change.
Fox & Friends claims emails "prove" that scientists are "fudging," "doctoring" numbers
Kilmeade: Hackers "found out" that scientists "are fudging the numbers and massaging the statistics to get conclusions." On December 2, Kilmeade said: "This is huge. They hacked into some accounts -- I don't know how they did it -- but they found out that those people who say that we're in the middle of global warming, climate change, it's cataclysmic if we don't act soon, well, are fudging the numbers and massaging the statistics to get conclusions that would alert the whole world that we have to quickly act." As Kilmeade spoke, the following on-screen graphics aired:
Doocy claimed the emails "prove" scientists were "doctoring" data. On December 3, Doocy said to Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson: "[I]t's interesting, so these emails -- apparently they got them -- somebody hacked into that university's thing. And essentially it proves that over the last number of years, members of academia, the science community who say global warming is caused by man, have been doctoring the figures and facts and stuff like that." Also during that segment, Kilmeade read both emails again and commented, "[H]ide the decline in temperatures? That's called cooling." [Fox & Friends, 12/3/09]
Kilmeade: "They actually say the word 'trickery.' " On December 3, Kilmeade said: "I understand that people don't have their whole lives to dedicate to climate change, but if you read these emails, you don't need to be a scientist to understand. They actually say the word 'trickery' when it comes to numbers and to reach conclusions." In a later segment, Kilmeade referred to the "damning" emails and said: "[N]ow we understand that the scientists have fudged numbers and massaged statistics in order to make it seem like the world is indeed heating up. ... [N]ow that these emails are out you have to wonder, does the Earth need saving?" Doocy and Kilmeade continued:
KILMEADE: The debate is this. We don't know and they don't know. And the statistics that backed up their thesis are fudged and massaged, and they talk about using the term "trickery" in order to get the conclusions that have people like Al Gore get very very rich.
DOOCY: Because all these scientists had said it's clearly man doing it, and now you look at the stuff, and you're not so sure. [Fox & Friends, 12/03/09]
But the emails cited by Fox & Friends don't support their claim that the scientists "fudg[ed] the numbers ... to get conclusions"
Several scientists have stated that the word "trick" is being misinterpreted. Contrary to Kilmeade's claim, the email does not use the word "trickery"; rather, it states, "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline." The (UK) Guardian reported in a November 20 article that Bob Ward, director of policy and communications at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said of Phil Jones' email: "It does look incriminating on the surface, but there are lots of single sentences that taken out of context can appear incriminating. ... You can't tell what they are talking about. Scientists say 'trick' not just to mean deception. They mean it as a clever way of doing something -- a short cut can be a trick." RealClimate also explained that "the 'trick' is just to plot the instrumental records along with reconstruction so that the context of the recent warming is clear. Scientists often use the term 'trick' to refer to ... 'a good way to deal with a problem', rather than something that is 'secret', and so there is nothing problematic in this at all."
"Hide the decline" refers to unreliable tree-ring data, not actual temperature readings. In a November 26 article, The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported that Penn State scientist Michael Mann -- whose "trick" was referenced in Jones' email -- "said his trick, or 'trick of the trade,' for the Nature chart was to combine data from tree-ring measurements, which record world temperatures from 1,000 years ago until 1960, with actual temperature readings for 1961 through 1998" because "scientists have discovered that, for temperatures since 1960, tree rings have not been a reliable indicator." Jones has also stated that it is "well known" that tree ring data "does not show a realistic trend of temperature after 1960," and the CRU has said that "[t]he 'decline' in this set of tree-ring data should not be taken to mean that there is any problem with the instrumental temperature data." In a November 20 post, RealClimate.org's staff, which is comprised of several working climate scientists, including Mann, similarly stated:
As for the 'decline', it is well known that Keith Briffa's maximum latewood tree ring density proxy diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the "divergence problem"-see e.g. the recent discussion in this paper) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682). Those authors have always recommend not using the post 1960 part of their reconstruction, and so while 'hiding' is probably a poor choice of words (since it is 'hidden' in plain sight), not using the data in the plot is completely appropriate, as is further research to understand why this happens.
Scientist's "travesty" email referred to "inadequate" system of observing short-term variability, not long-term trend. In the October 12 email, Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, cited "my own article on where the heck is global warming" and wrote: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate" [emphasis added].
Trenberth published similar comments in the journal article he cited. Wired's Threat Level blog reported that Trenberth "says bloggers are missing the point he's making in the e-mail by not reading the article cited in it. That article -- An Imperative for Climate Change Planning (.pdf) -- actually says that global warming is continuing, despite random temperature variations that would seem to suggest otherwise." RealClimate.org similarly stated in a November 23 post that "[y]ou need to read his recent paper on quantifying the current changes in the Earth's energy budget to realise why he is concerned about our inability currently to track small year-to-year variations in the radiative fluxes." Indeed, the Trenberth article referred to what he called an "incomplete explanation" of short-term climate variations, and maintained that "global warming is unequivocally happening."
Kilmeade also advanced dubious claim that scientists "dumped" raw data to hide distortions
Kilmeade: "[T]hey dumped out the data from the '80s." Tucker Carlson claimed that "we don't even know what the basic data are because most climate researchers don't release the raw data for others to assess. This whole thing is a house of cards, and it's coming down now." Kilmeade responded: "Right. And they dumped out the data from the '80s." Kilmeade is presumably referring to the conservative media's claim that CRU scientists intentionally "threw out" or "destroyed" the raw temperature data on which man-made global warming theory is based. [Fox & Friends, 12/03/09]
Original data is still held by meteorological services. In fact, according to the scientists, the raw data is still available at the meteorological services where they obtained it; director Phil Jones said, according to an October 14 Greenwire article, CRU simply did not keep copies for "less than 5 percent of its original station data" in its database because those "stations had several discontinuities or were affected by urbanization trends." Jones also said, according to the article, "We haven't destroyed anything. The data is still there -- you can still get these stations from the [NOAA] National Climatic Data Center."
Scientists say the illegally obtained emails do not undermine climate change science
Distortions of illegally obtained documents from one group of scientists do not undermine overwhelming consensus. In a statement on the reported theft of the emails, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), stated that "no individual or small group of scientists is in a position to exclude a peer-reviewed paper from an I.P.C.C. assessment." From Pachauri's statement:
In summary, no individual or small group of scientists is in a position to exclude a peer-reviewed paper from an I.P.C.C. assessment. Likewise, individuals and small groups have no ability to emphasize a result that is not consistent with a range of studies, investigations, and approaches. Every layer in the process (including large author teams, extensive review, independent monitoring of review compliance, and plenary approval by governments) plays a major role in keeping I.P.C.C. assessments comprehensive, unbiased, open to the identification of new literature, and policy relevant but not policy prescriptive.
The unfortunate incident that has taken place through illegal hacking of the private communications of individual scientists only highlights the importance of I.P.C.C. procedures and practices and the thoroughness by which the Panel carries out its assessment. This thoroughness and the duration of the process followed in every assessment ensure the elimination of any possibility of omissions or distortions, intentional or accidental.
IPCC: "Thousands of scientists from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC on a voluntary basis." The IPCC, which is a scientific body established by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, has established that "[w]arming of the climate system is unequivocal." The IPCC "reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide," and its reports are the product of contributions from "[t]housands of scientists from all over the world."
Nature: "Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real." A December 2 editorial in the science journal Nature stated: "Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real -- or that human activities are almost certainly the cause. That case is supported by multiple, robust lines of evidence, including several that are completely independent of the climate reconstructions debated in the e-mails." Also from the editorial:
The stolen e-mails have prompted queries about whether Nature will investigate some of the researchers' own papers. One e-mail talked of displaying the data using a 'trick' -- slang for a clever (and legitimate) technique, but a word that denialists have used to accuse the researchers of fabricating their results. It is Nature's policy to investigate such matters if there are substantive reasons for concern, but nothing we have seen so far in the e-mails qualifies.
AMS: Impact on climate change science of emails "very limited." Following the release of the stolen emails, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) reaffirmed its Statement on Climate Change, stating that it "is based on a robust body of research reported in the peer-reviewed literature." AMS further stated: "For climate change research, the body of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set of research results to the comprehensive understanding of the climate system is very, very small. Even if some of the charges of improper behavior in this particular case turn out to be true -- which is not yet clearly the case -- the impact on the science of climate change would be very limited."
UCS: "The e-mails provide no information that would affect the scientific understanding of climate change." The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has stated that "[t]he e-mails provide no information that would affect the scientific understanding of climate change, as many contrarians are falsely claiming. For years, thousands of scientists working at climate research centers around the world have carefully and rigorously reached a consensus on the extent of climate change, the urgency of the problem, and the role human activity plays in causing it." UCS further stated: "The findings of the USGCRP, IPCC and other scientific bodies are based on the work of thousands of scientists from hundreds of research institutions. The University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) is just one among many such research institutions. Even without data from CRU, there is still an overwhelming body of evidence that human activity triggering dangerous levels of global warming."
Peter Kelemen: "[A]lleged problems with a few scientists' behavior do not change the consensus understanding of human-induced, global climate change." Kelemen, a professor of geochemistry at Columbia University's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, wrote that "I think it is important for scientists to clearly state that if basic data were withheld, or if there was unprofessional tampering with the peer-review process, we do not condone these acts. It is equally essential to emphasize that alleged problems with a few scientists' behavior do not change the consensus understanding of human-induced, global climate change, which is a robust hypothesis based on well-established observations and inferences." Kelemen further wrote: "Outspoken critics often portray climate science as a house of cards, built on a shaky edifice of limited data and broad suppositions. However, it's more realistic to think of the science as a deck of cards, spread out, face up. Some data and interpretations of those data are more certain than others, of course. But pulling out one or two interpretations, or the results of a few scientists, does not change the overall picture. Take away two or three cards, and there are still 49 or 50 cards facing you."
NASA's Gavin Schmidt: "There's nothing in the e-mails that shows that global warming is a hoax." Wired's Threat Level blog reported on November 20 that Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said: "There's nothing in the e-mails that shows that global warming is a hoax. ... There's no funding by nefarious groups. There's no politics in any of these things; nobody from the [United Nations] telling people what to do. There's nothing hidden, no manipulation. It's just scientists talking about science, and they're talking relatively openly as people in private e-mails generally are freer with their thoughts than they would be in a public forum. The few quotes that are being pulled out [are out] of context. People are using language used in science and interpreting it in a completely different way." Schmidt is a contributor to the Real Climate blog, which has stated that some of the stolen CRU emails "involve people" at Real Climate.
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Tickets for the Ben Folds & Ben Kweller concert on February 12 are now sold out.
Any mail orders received from Feb. 8 and beyond will be returned.
Also on the ticket for the evening's performance is Ben Kweller. Kweller joined Folds and Ben Lee for The Bens and have recorded one 4-song CD.
Ben Folds rose to popularity with his Ben Folds Five trio, but the group broke up in the fall of 2000.
Folds is also known for his collaboration with William Shatner. The former Star Trek star released a CD last fall.
Folds released an album, "Super D" late last summer. The pianist/vocalist once described his Ben Folds Five music as "punk rock for sissies." The group was known for innovative songs with catchy melodies. Their unique sound came from piano, bass and drums but no guitars.
Folds' comments on his latest CD can be found on various websites.
Some of the songs on his newest release include:
'Them Got that' – a tribute to Ray Charles;
'Get Your Hands Off My Woman' – "This is a darkness song floating around for years. It started as something I did every few gigs, heavy metal on the piano, but in the studio the spirit of Stewart Copeland came over me on the drum track and I changed it around some."
'Kalamazoo' – "I wrote it when I was about 19 or 20. One of the demos is really upbeat, recorded with my old band, Majosha. The other one was a four track demo that I made of the song by myself in my apartment. I had to consult that version a few times to work out how the hell I was going to play drums, bass and piano on this and stay in time. I got it worked out. I added strings because I could."


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Any-who, The first thing you need to do is cut your plastics down to a usable size. Since the smallest piece I had to work with was my Tootsie Pop bag, I cut the tablecloth and the garbage bag to that size.
|I carefully cut open my Tootsie Pop bags.
|I cut rectangles of the tablecloth that were approximately the same size as the Tootsie Pop bag.
|I cut more rectangles of the garbage bags.
Next, line up your layers. I used four layers of garbage bags, one layer of tablecloth and my Tootsie Pop bag.
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The next step is to iron your layers together. Remember, everything is protected between the layers of paper (sorry, I just had to say it again). Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the ironing because I don't have four arms or someone else around to take the photo. You want to use a hot iron (wool or linen setting). You need to keep the iron moving constantly. Make sure you iron over the entire area of your plastic. I worked in a circular motion. Once you've covered the entire piece, peel off the top layer of paper and see how you did. If you need to go back and fuse some more, you can do that. Just don't over-do it for the plastic will melt completely.
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I've been using my tote bag for my daily lunch bag at work for a month and it is showing no wear whatsoever. So give this technique a shot.
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Today we're headed to a chunk of rock called Torquas -- from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars novels, continuing the long-overdue theme of Mars-related science fiction names. Torquas is ahead of us and to the right, so my plan is to push forward, turn to the right, and head up to it. But a short chat with Ashitey and John convinces me that I'm not using this vehicle's mobility to best effect: I should just twist around the right front wheel toward it, then push forward as far as I need.
And this way lets me name the sequence "Twisting Toward Torquas." So it's definitely a winner.
So we get everything done, and right at the end of the CAM, just as we're wrapping up, we get bad news: New Horizons stole our uplink! And this isn't the first time this sol's uplink has been stolen -- MRO stole it last week, but we were able to carve out an hour when they were occulted. But now NH is in safe mode and wants that hour.
Oh, how have the mighty fallen! We used to beat up other projects and take their uplinks, as well as their lunch money, and now look at us. Well, I suppose we're merely getting our just deserts. But, as so often with this project, the team's rapid and highly capable response saves the day: Cindy, Byron, and others start running through possibilities, and end up working out a way for us to use a different station for the uplink. This window's only five minutes, but we're able to squeeze our sequences into it without modification. Go, team!
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Julio Jones checks in early with today's first wild plays.
First Matt Ryan, standing at his own 45, heaved it about 54 yards, and Julio took care of the rest. He laid out, made the grab, scored the touchdown (despite what referees initially called) and immediately called for his coach to challenge the ruling on the field.
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This week on a very special edition of Raw, Camacho finds a bottle of speed pills in Rosa's gym bag. Also …
Wait, I'm getting "actual Raw" and "Brandon's Raw fan fiction" mixed up again. Here's the actual preview:
Last week's Raw SuperShow redefined the word "fallout" when AJ's lip-lock with WWE Champion CM Punk ended with her putting both Punk and No. 1 contender Daniel Bryan through a table. Elsewhere, Alberto Del Rio responded to becoming No. 1 contender to the World Heavyweight Title with a veritable rampage through the roster. And one of the most exciting Money in the Bank Ladder Match participants picked up a surprise win last week that cost him dearly. How will things play out this Monday on Raw SuperShow?
In other WWE news, "person they should've signed three years ago" Sara Del Rey has reportedly been offered a developmental contract SO EXPECT HER TO DEBUT ON RAW TONIGHT (don't, I'm kidding) and one of the top worldwide trends right now is "Bob Backlund", so get ready for that.
As always, my 10 favorite comments from tonight's open discussion will be featured in tomorrow's Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 7/9/12 column. To nominate a comment for top 10 status, please reply to it with a +1. I urge you to vote for particularly funny, insightful or apropos comments and not just stuff you agree with. "I would have sex with AJ" is not a top comment of the week.
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"How do you solve a problem like Maria?"
On my way home I stop in Mickey Bleu's Deli in town.
It is early evening and I am surprised to see her serving behind the counter. She is dressed in a black and gold long dress, matching turban and, surgical gloves which she waves in the air like a jazz singer. Her smile is wide and her big chestnut eyes regard me carefully as she places steaming coffee on the bar in front of me. We chat as she serves. It's a disjointed conversation about the restaurant, business, and the beautiful weather.
I watch her deft and precise movements and I tell her about my new car.
"I like to keep my hand in. I don't want to become an unknown face." Her voice is baritone. "I'm almost finished here. Fancy driving me home?"
She loves my new car and I drive her to Belmont and a modest house in a pretty and shaded tree-lined street. She insists I go inside to meet her husband and their two girls, Cassandra, six and Flore, five.
Emmanuel is serious with a grey goatee beard. His dark skin glistens against his pristine ironed shirt. His handshake is firm and his eyes teasing.
The two girls tentatively take my hand then they run into the garden, shrieking with laughter. The house smells of garlic, cooked tomatoes, onions and fresh herbs.
"It's my Jambalaya Crock Pot," Mickey says, watching me wrinkle my nose in delight. "Simon and Louise love it!"
"Simon and Louise? You'll be telling me next that John has been over for dinner."
"Not yet!" she replies. "I'd have to prepare Emmanuel for that!"
I smile.
"Emmanuel, " she continues, "make this gorgeous girl one of your special tropical fruit juices, she's staying for dinner, and if you are very good she might take you out for a drive - in her dream machine, honey."
I feel the tension easing from my shoulders and I laugh. The family is laid back. Their teasing laughter is contagious, their energy is enviable and their company easy. We eat, laugh and talk, but it doesn't matter what I do, where I go or whom I'm with. I can't stop thinking about Maria. She has seeped into my pores and under my skin and by the time I am alone, and in the car driving home, a silly and familiar song has entered my head.
I sing the words over and over, aloud, louder, frantically and furiously, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" I sing and tears stream down my cheeks.


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Beauregard Appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Clarkson University
Matthew Beauregard has been appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Clarkson University.
He received his bachelor of science degree in mathematics from the University of New Hampshire, graduating magna cum laude. He received both his master of science degree in applied mathematics and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics with a minor in aerospace and mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona.
Before coming to Clarkson, Beauregard was a postdoctoral associate professor in mathematics at Baylor University and a visiting assistant professor in mathematics at the University of Arizona.
His research expertise is in computational mathematics and numerical analysis of various algorithm designs. In particular, he is interested in operator splitting methods for multi-physics applications. His work has accounted for 13 peer-reviewed publications and he has presented at numerous conferences in recent years.
He has also worked as a consultant and statistician for TriSports.com, research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and as a software engineer at Eigensoft Inc.
While at Baylor University, Beauregard was a residence hall faculty advisor and organized and acted on numerous panels exploring the synergy between faith and scientific discovery. He also interacted with area schools, offering enrichment opportunities to advanced calculus courses.
He has earned multiple honors, including a Mortar Board Circle of Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence and a national recognition by the National School of Collegiate Scholars.
He is accompanied by his wife, Rebecca, and children, Caleb and Adeline.
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Desire2Learn (D2L) is LCC's current Course Management System (CMS). A D2L link is available on the myLCC toolbar or by typing d2l.lcc.edu into the URL bar of any browser. Using the myLCC toolbar link doesn't require an additional login.
Two weeks before the start of the semester, all scheduled courses will have D2L course shells created and students added as they enroll. The instructor will have access to the course shell at that time. The course is initially empty and it is the responsibility of the instructor to add content to the site and/or create and maintain an online gradebook.
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Monday, 8 October 2007
Last Post
I am also thinking about the alternative endings to this blog, this record of the prolonged hazing process that has been my pupillage.
In one of these endings, I am rejected. I feel bitter. Unavoidably, I think about all of the things, both big and little, that I could have done differently. Top of this list is not wasting my time and energy writing this blog. I wonder what on earth I am going to do now. I think about my old workplace and whether they will take me back. Would I be a failed wannabe barrister who couldn't make it, or would I be seen as courageous for having tried? Perhaps, I think, one of my other tenancy applications will succeed, although I imagine that to be a hopeless prospect at this point in time. Perhaps I grit my teeth and apply for third sixes, looking to endure more of this ridiculousness. My mind then focusses on the immediate issues. Should I go into chambers tomorrow? What, if anything, will people say to me in the morning? How will I bear their sympathy, knowing they probably voted against me? And what happened to The Other Pupil?
In the other ending, I am accepted. I am delighted, of course. I open the bottle of champagne in the fridge and I consider my potentially glorious future at the bar, as a barrister. After my conversation with The Master last week, I simply cannot see both The Other Pupil and I being taken on, and I will have to embarrass us both with the expected platitudes. Looking slightly further ahead, I will have to start paying rent immediately, and my pupillage grant will come to an end. It is time to get to work.
In this second scenario, would I come to think of pupillage as a tough but effective selection process, being as it managed to select me? Like the Whig view of history, everything will have led to this current, blissful state of affairs. Even if some of the contributing events may have seemed nonsensical or even unpleasant at the time, with hindsight I might see them in 'proper' context, as part of the tough but fair process that all us barristers had to endure, the process which fashioned us into the brilliant, ingenious advocates we are today.
Perhaps most poignantly, from the point of view of Pupilblogger, the persona I now cast aside, how will I treat the new pupils? Will I myself become a pupilmaster in the years to come? Watch out for MasterBlog, should this strange turn of events ever come to pass. In the meantime, only occasionally in and around chambers myself to pick up briefs (and occasional cheques), with my own living to make and no responsibility for their welfare, will I simply fail to see them as others failed to see me?
I hope not. I hope that if I do become a tenant, I will remember.
23 comments:
Don't let it be the last post!! Let us know!! Good luck!!
- 8 October 2007 at 20:56:00 GMT
- Nearly Legal said...
Whatever happens, and heaven knows there are enough of us out there with our fingers crossed, I don't think you should ever regret this blog. For all it might have cost you in time and energy (and other worries), it is something that you should be genuinely proud of, as an educational project, perhaps, but also as an excellent piece (or pieces) of writing.
It has been a great pleasure reading this blog for the last year. Now, for narrative reasons, (and perhaps for sentimental ones too - we care dammit) you have to give us the yes or no, even if that is all.
- 8 October 2007 at 22:16:00 GMT
No!! please you must say! Been following it for a year and without resolution how can it be judged in context. Don't be cruel...please
- 8 October 2007 at 23:51:00 GMT
Ah the cliffhanger ending .... the credits roll and we clamour for the next instalment. And we know you couldn't torture your beloved readers, who have laughed and cried with you, by failing to bring this to a conclusion, could you ?
PS "MasterBlog" - a masterstroke ! I laughed out loud, and look forward to it !
- 9 October 2007 at 09:19:00 GMT
Your blog has been priceless - please don't take it down after the decision! Good luck, I'm hanging on to see the outcome.
- 9 October 2007 at 15:38:00 GMT
- Josephine Bloggs said...
Philosophical and pensive to the last. Pupilblog, I hope you let us know in due course what was the outcome of the tenancy meeting.
- 9 October 2007 at 21:45:00 GMT
- Simon Myerson said...
I would like to know the outcome. I don't think you could attribute an unhappy outcome to this blog, which has been a source of rich amusement and some discerning comments.
Good luck.
- 9 October 2007 at 22:38:00 GMT
- Paranoid Pupil said...
Good luck Pupilblogger - although given the timing I suppose that the die is cast. I hope that the outcome was a good one for you. Having just started this scary journey I find that writing the blog is helping me to make sense of things, so I hope that you don't feel that it has cost you your tenancy if things do go the wrong way. There is always going to be an element of luck/personal chemistry and if you are not taken on you mustn't give up. Lots of hugely successful people (bar and non-bar) have had knockbacks in life and the experience has made them more determined and much more effective. I know that it seems like everything to all of us at the moment (it certainly does to me) it is just one chapter.
Keep writing whatever happens - please!
- 10 October 2007 at 11:52:00 GMT
"A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse"
- 11 October 2007 at 06:10:00 GMT
You've got to tell us the outcome!!
The system in Victoria (Australia) seems more egalitarian -'chambers' can be just a room one rents (although it's desirable to take / enter chambers with like-minded counsel)... and one's 'clerk' or 'list' is settled before starting pupillage ...
- 12 October 2007 at 08:21:00 GMT
- Bystander said...
- 13 October 2007 at 10:46:00 GMT
- Verity said...
Come on then? What was the outcome? We are all dying to know!
- 15 October 2007 at 12:41:00 GMT
I have ALL my fingers crossed for you - I'm sure its gone really, REALLY Well!
Spill already - what happened?? if it went as we all hoped it did for you, are you still drunk?!?!?
- 15 October 2007 at 15:28:00 GMT
Pupilblogger, I have faithfully followed your journey through pupillage, since you started this blog.
Please, please (see reduced to pitiful begging) let us know what the decision was!
I wish you every success for the future, whatever the outcome.
- 15 October 2007 at 17:06:00 GMT
I've also followed this blog from the start and I can't bear not knowing the outcome! Perhaps if enough of us ask, you'll take pity on your poor readers...
Good luck with whatever you do.
- 15 October 2007 at 22:58:00 GMT
All the best.
This was the first blawg that I ever read.
- 16 October 2007 at 07:50:00 GMT
- Pupilblogger said...
Thanks, all, for your comments and your well wishing. I had not planned to finish this way. It only occurred to me as I started to write that last post, but I am afraid I am rather taken by the idea.
- 16 October 2007 at 19:13:00 GMT
- Simon Myerson said...
Well think again then. Your reward to loyal and supportive readers is to not tell them whether their loyalty and support saw you home, or consoled you. Hmmm. Writers need readers or else they are simply self-satisfying.
- 17 October 2007 at 22:35:00 GMT
- The Chief said...
Rather taken by which idea? Leaving us all on tenterhooks even longer? Cruel, cruel move. Still, thanks for a thoroughly enjoyable read over the year and good luck with whatever happens next.
- 18 October 2007 at 12:35:00 GMT
- Pupilblogger said...
Many thanks, Chief. For the less generous out there, this has always been a self-reflective and no doubt self-satisfying journey for me. See my
first post.
I feel those purposes have now been fulfilled and that the blog's job is done. Many thanks for the support of my readers, though, which was genuinely helpful to me at times this last year, particularly during my first six.
- 18 October 2007 at 21:23:00 GMT
- Mr Pineapples said...
Pupilblogger - have you considered a career in accountancy? It pays well and you dont have the problem and trials of pupillage. in fact in the big firms they treat you like an adult and really do try and train you up.
Money's sensible too.
Good luck in your new career - whatever you decide to do.
- 20 October 2007 at 16:59:00 GMT
This was such a let down in the end!
- 29 October 2007 at 22:57:00 GMT
- Lucky_Luccano said...
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman as the new U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan at the Department of State on March 31, 2011. In a statement announcing this appointment, President Barack Obama said, "...Just as the United States depended on his diplomatic skills to help support the peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy when he was U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, I am confident that Ambassador Lyman's deep knowledge of the African continent will advance U.S. interests and the aspirations of the Sudanese people during this time of transformative change in Sudan."
In her remarks, Secretary Clinton said, "Ambassador Lyman is taking over the helm of our important work as the special envoy to Sudan from another very dedicated public servant, Scott Gration. And Scott has been instrumental to our work in Sudan over the last two years. We are absolutely delighted that the President has nominated him to be our next Ambassador to Kenya, and we will continue to rely on his passion and skills for the people of the region, and we thank you for your service.
"This is a critical moment in Sudan's history. Two months ago, in a peaceful display of democratic values, the people of Southern Sudan expressed their clear unequivocal choice. They want to live in a free, independent country, and now we look forward to a peaceful separation of these two states in July. The Government of Sudan played an important role by creating the conditions that allowed voters to express their will without fear, intimidation, or coercion. And since the vote, the government has continued to move this process forward with the same spirit of cooperation.
"But as Princeton and I were just discussing with Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, who's been our partner in this endeavor, there is still so much work to be done and so much in the way of challenges that lie ahead. One of the most important tasks is to end the conflict in Darfur and to alleviate, and hopefully end, the suffering of its people. I continue to call on all parties to come together immediately to reach a peaceful solution. To do this, all parties should join the peace process in Doha. The Liberation and Justice Movement, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Government of Sudan must engage in direct face-to-face negotiations and reach a settlement that includes a ceasefire.
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"We are also concerned about the dangerous standoff in the Abyei region of Sudan. We call on both sides to take immediate steps to prevent future attacks and restore calm. Violence is simply unacceptable. The deployment of forces by both sides is in violation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and undermines the goodwill from January's referendum, which was a very important foundation for the peaceful future of Sudan. Before July's deadline, as outlined by the CPA, both sides must reach an agreement on Abyei that meets the needs of all communities in the region and is consistent with the CPA's Abyei protocol.
"The United States is committed to the peace, security, and prosperity of both the North and the South, which is why the President has chosen Ambassador Lyman for this important job. His experience as U.S. Ambassador during South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy will prove invaluable during the next few months. His diplomatic skills were on display during the mediation talks between the North and South, and he is well positioned to advise the Sudanese people at this critical juncture. With Princeton guiding our efforts, the United States will continue to support both sides as they work to fulfill the CPA and make the transition to independence. In this new role, Ambassador Lyman will help the Sudanese people make good on the work they've already accomplished.
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"Madam Secretary, thank you so very, very much. The support that President Obama and Secretary Clinton have given to this process has been extraordinary and sustained, and with all that's on your plate I don't know how you do it. But we have worked so hard in this Administration and so many people to keep Sudan from falling back into civil war, where millions of people die, and to achieve a peaceful outcome. I'm very grateful to you and to the President for the privilege of taking on this position.
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You can read the Secretary's remarks here and Ambassador Lyman's remarks here.


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