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15. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M., by Sam Wasson, Harper
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8. Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris, Ace
9. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Ballantine
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6. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
7. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, by Rick Riordan, Hyperion
8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown
9. Savvy, by Ingrid Law, Puffin
10. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Puffin
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13. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger, Amulet
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8. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, Harper
9. Pinkalicious: School Rules!, by Victoria Kann, Harper
10. The Night Before Kindergarten, by Natasha Wing, Julie Durrell (Illus.), Grosset & Dunlap
11. Good Night, Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann, Putnam
12. Pinkalicious and the Pink Drink, by Victoria Kann, Harper
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15. Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey, Puffin
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3. Twilight (hardcover and paperback), by Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown
4. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback), by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
5. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback), by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover), by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
7. Artemis Fowl (hardcover and paperback), by Eoin Colfer, Hyperion
8. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback), by J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
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text: The Bloated Dragon January 12, 2011 10:09 AM Tweet © Illustration by Paul Vismara TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Fran Howard AgWeb Contributing Writer Email China's central bank raised key interest rates recently in an effort to slow down the hottest economy the country has seen in years. As a result, investors scrambled to find a safe haven for their money, which they found in the U.S. dollar, and prices on commodities of all types tumbled. The moves also set off fears that it could be the first in a series of rate increases as Beijing tries to tame inflation and curtail economic growth. Concern about what that would do to world commodity prices has been escalating ever since. Fading impacts from an earlier economic stimulus package appear to have already helped moderate growth in the world's most populous country (1.32 billion people). However, concerns about future interest rate hikes persist. According to a recently released World Bank report, China's gross domestic product (GDP) slowed from a 10.6% gain for the first half of 2010 to a still strong 9.6% increase for third-quarter 2010, compared with corresponding periods a year earlier. The report's lead author and World Bank senior economist Louis Kuijs expects China's 2010 GDP to grow 10% but sees 2011 growth moderating to 8.7%, with possible easing in subsequent years. The World Bank also recently decreased its 2010 projection for China's consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation, to 3% from 3.7%. However, the World Bank raised its forecast for 2011 inflation to 3.3% from its earlier 2.8%. Kuijs argues that a 3% to 5% rate of inflation in China is not all that worrisome. Other economists say they aren't so certain. "China would like to have inflation closer to 3%," says Bill Lapp, former chief economist for ConAgra Foods and current president of Advanced Economic Solutions LLC in Omaha, Neb. China's October CPI figures (the latest available) rose 4.4% above year-earlier levels, but food prices rose 10.1%. Currency Connection. One of the biggest issues causing mayhem in commodity markets today is the immediate link between the Chinese yuan and the U.S. dollar, which virtually move in lockstep. Thus, Lapp compares the relationship between China's monetary policy and U.S. economic policy to tandem bicycle riders, with one pedaling furiously to get ahead and the other slamming on the brakes. "The challenge is, the U.S. is trying to escalate our economic growth through quantitative easing to get our economy moving," Lapp says. The Federal Reserve's November decision to spend $600 billion on long-term Treasury bonds in the next few months is expected to keep downward pressure on the dollar. "When the dollar weakens, the yuan weakens and China's economy gets another boost," Lapp adds. If the U.S. Federal Reserve were to slow its bond purchases, commodity prices would relax and China would not work so hard to regulate inflation. But is that likely? "One could make a case for it," Lapp says. If U.S. job growth, consumer confidence and manufacturing data were to improve substantially, the Federal Reserve could decide to moderate quantitative easing. If that were to happen, Lapp says, there would be an immediate impact on commodity prices. "The dollar would strengthen, commodity prices would go down, gold prices would back off, crude oil would back off," Lapp explains. "But if we continue down the path we are on, China will continue to put on the brakes." As a result, Lapp says, the yuan will weaken, the dollar will weaken and commodity prices will remain high—unless, of course, demand for commodities in China weakens substantially. Is China Still Hungry? Some worry a slowing economy or food price inflation in China could cut into demand for food products at the consumer level. "That would limit demand for agricultural products globally," says economist Jason Henderson, vice president and Omaha Branch executive with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As a result, the price of all food commodities as well as the price of other commodities would weaken, at least temporarily. Soybeans would be particularly vulnerable to a demand slowdown. Chinese demand for soybeans occurred at record levels this year (49 million metric tons for the 2009/10 crop year), and demand from China continues to be the single most important factor in global oilseed prices, according to Rabobank's latest quarterly report. Short-term, China's monetary policy is expected to slow food price inflation. In late November, demand for corn decelerated in China as processors and feed mills faced tighter credit conditions, which pressured farm prices lower. "It's too early to tell how that will impact retail prices," says Fred Gale, senior economist with USDA Economic Research Service's China team. "But most people in China think any price declines will be temporary. Farmers in China are holding grain because they think prices will go up later." The Chinese government recently announced that support prices for wheat will be 6% to 8% higher this spring. Chinese officials are trying to control food price increases by limiting who can buy food commodities, holding auctions of reserve supplies and stepping up price monitoring, Gale says. With only 10% of the world's cropland and 20% of its population, China has been surprisingly self-sufficient in food production until recently. In the past few years, China has not only dramatically stepped up its imports of soybeans and vegetable oils, it has stopped exporting corn. China has also imported more dairy products since the 2008 melamine crisis, in which the toxic industrial chemical was found in domestically produced infant formulas and other products made with dairy ingredients. Can't Ignore Supply. The global supply of commodities will also play a major role in commodity prices this year. Severe drought reduced Russia's wheat crop and tightened global wheat supplies, Henderson says. Then USDA began cutting its corn production estimate for the 2010/11 U.S. crop, he says. Tight world supplies of several agricultural products will thus fight against any potential decrease in demand that comes from China. No doubt, commodity prices will rise and fall with every move China makes during the next year, but the odds of a major economic slowdown in China is hard to fathom. China Moves Toward GM Adoption Unrest among Chinese soybean growers and record soybean imports are causing China to reassess its soybean policy. China does not allow its farmers to grow genetically modified (GM) soybeans but does allow imports of GM beans. The government has also approved field trials for more than 20 GM crops and this past year it approved its first strains of GM corn and rice, with production slated to begin in two to three years. "Nearly all of the soybeans grown in China today are used for human consumption," says Rob Joslin, chair of the American Soybean Association and 2010 president. "Imported GM beans are fed to livestock and aquaculture." Chinese consumers have yet to embrace food made from GM crops because of perceived safety concerns. Chinese farmers who want to grow GM soybeans, however, argue that the double standard makes them less competitive with their foreign counterparts. "The technology has allowed U.S. producers to produce soybeans with fewer inputs," says Joslin, who believes China will eventually recognize the benefits and adopt the technology. "Worldwide demand for soybeans is going up every year," he states. "Worldwide, we have to find ways to meet that demand." In 2000, when China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), officials wanted to cap imports of soybeans at 110 million bushels, Joslin says, but import quotas were denied. For the 2009/10 crop year, China imported 1.8 billion bushels of soybeans, 825 million of them from U.S. growers. Prior to China joining the WTO, soybeans were subject to a 3% tariff, a 13% value-added tax and quota limits. Today, U.S. exporters still pay the 3% tariff and 13% tax, but the quota has been removed. Top Producer, January 2011 Back to news


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - it's that time of year again! Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "it's that time of year again!" ImpalermemberMember #Joined: 02 Dec 1999Posts: 1560Location: Albuquerque.NewMexico.USA Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:48 am old threads: Last year 2006 2005 2004 2003 My resolutions for last year: a younger me wrote: 1. Hesitate less 2. Exercise 3. Be Punctual I do hesitate much less than I did a year ago, although I still find myself wandering around my house, reading snippets and blurbs. I think I might have attention deficit disorder. Hey, I actually started exercising! I completely rebuilt my Bianchi mountain bike into a single speed city bomber, I go hiking at least two or three times a month (or sometimes a week) and I even started jogging. I'm nowhere near tip-top shape, but I did lose that belly from last year, As far as punctuality is concerned..? Let's ... let's just not go there. And now for a new segment that I like to call "STUFF I LEARNED THIS YEAR." 1. I'm lactose intolerant! What a cruel fate to befall a lad like me. For years, I've been having serious digestive problems (i'll spare you the details), but i'd never been able to make the logical leap between that and the half gallon of milk I drank every day. Took a doctor to figure that one out. 2. I really, really needed a proper outlet for photography discussion. Up until this year, I didn't talk to basically anyone about photography. None of my friends own a camera, and I always snobbed out over photo forums. I had all of this photo stuff pent up inside of me, so anytime anyone mentioned a camera or photo around me I launched into this long diatribe (see last year's thread, for an example.) I've since found several channels in which I can discuss photography, real life and otherwise, and I'm all better now. I even learned a thing or two. Oh, and I never did buy either that 4x5 or the D40. 3. How to make the perfect poached egg. It's harder than it sounds, but I eat these things almost daily since figuring it out. SO TASTY. Resolutions for 2008! 1. Slow and steady wins the race. That I'm not instantly good at everything I try has been a hard fact to own up to. I tend to rush things in the beginning, make mistakes, get frustrated and give up. I need to learn to break problems down into smaller parts, and work on those smaller parts one step at a time. 2. Be slightly more punctual. To be fair to myself, I went from being consistently 20-30 minutes late to everything (work, school, girlfriend) to 4 or 5 minutes. Getting a wristwatch helped, now I just need to work on organization and leaving a little earlier. 3. Save money. A troubling fact: I've earned probably 50 grand during my college career just from my crappy restaurant job, and I have almost nothing to show for it. Hapless discretionary spending and poor planning has ruined my fiscal responsibility, and I need to put a stop to it. Your turn, guys. I promise no photography diatribes this year._________________QED, sort of. Back to top balisticmemberMember #Joined: 01 Jun 2000Posts: 2599Location: Reno, NV, USA Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:14 pm My only resolution this year is to lose weight. I've managed to pile on 30 extra pounds in the past two years, and that trend's really gotta stop. edit: don't feel bad about being lactose intolerant. Lactose tolerance was a useful mutation for a relatively small group of animal-herding people at one point in human history, but most of the world doesn't have it (or need it). I almost wish I was lactose intolerant ... it would probably help me drop some of my weight. But then I really love a nice mild cheddar._________________brian.prince|light.comp.paint Back to top eyewoomemberMember #Joined: 23 Jun 2001Posts: 2662Location: Carbondale, CO Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:46 pm I do not make resolutions anymore... pointless... _________________HonePie.com tumblr blog digtal art Back to top [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:31 pm Me neither. And looking at all those past years worth of resolutions makes baby Jesus cry.. Back to top JimmyjimjimmemberMember #Joined: 12 Dec 2002Posts: 459 Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:54 pm FROM 2004: "-Start smoking -Gain weight -Exercise less -Eat more fastfood -Draw and paint less -Watch more TV -Start failing some classes -Buy more pornography" I'm happy to say that I accomplished ALL of those except the TV, failing classes, and porn part. W00T!! I rock!!! Back to top JabomemberMember #Joined: 25 Jul 2002Posts: 467Location: Germany Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:31 am You failed the porn part. Nothing to be proud of! Now go back and watch porn!!_________________CA SB|Flickr Back to top TzanmemberMember #Joined: 18 Apr 2003Posts: 755Location: Boston MA Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:38 am I'm not making resolutions this year. But I can share "What I learned last year". 1. I have high cholesterol, good thing I had it checked. I adjusted my diet and take pills now. No more pizza. When I adjusted my diet I lost 10 pounds in 6 months without trying. I didnt really need to lose weight, just bonus. 2. I have failing eyesight. I needed to buy reading glasses to see my monitor clearly, much better now. 3. I like money. I never had much before, but now I do, and I learned that I like having a fat savings account. Back to top [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:59 pm What I learned last year: 1. Nobody in the world really cares about you except yourself. You can only fully rely on yourself. 2. Don't care about other people more than you care about yourself. 3. Everyone has a different perception of what is enough, expensive, successful, professional, good, bad. So don't worry about anyone and just DO YOU. 4. It's not as much about how much you know, but how well you use your knowledge and skill. A genius professor could be a boring bum while a rookie could be the ruler of planet Earth. It's all about wit. 5. New great things cannot be forced upon. The spark of new is created in thin air, inside the boring atmosphere of the old and overused things. e.g. swords -> guns, hairbands -> Nirvana, "sijun annual new year resolutions thread" -> "sijun annual what did you learn last year thread" Maybe. Back to top MaxmemberMember #Joined: 12 Aug 2002Posts: 3210Location: MIND Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:14 pm Heh, cool. Another year passed. Just checked what old max said and it seems I accomplished quite a bit of these things. But not everything as always. Actually the most important things like "get a muse and skip ID to make own movie" didn't happen. It seems I am gonna skip ID this year tho and go in a slightly different direction with the same goal, which is ending up in an artdepartment somewhere with cool people working on a cool project. So, yeah, messing up short term plans like changeing study paths or whatever is fun. Do it, live's gonna be more interesting then even if it's risky. Now I don't have big plans for the new year. Actually I just wanna have more balance and happyness in my life...I wanna be a ZEN master!! Yeah! What I learned? Quite a bit. Never ever play Quake III for 8 hours straight and drink red bull and bear at the same time. It must have felt like,...LSD or something. I saw rockets flying like everywhere for an hour Uh, Shizo, the first point really sounds dangerous,...well, I care about ya ;D Seriously tho. There must be people who care about you,....no? 2. well, might be ture...however. Did you ever though about that caring about other people might be the same thing as caring about yourself? Other people are your "world". Your world influences you. Not caring about the world around you including all people is like messing up yourself....did that make any sense? Easy put: Screw everyone, and noone will be left to be screwed. I fully agree on all other things tho! What I also learned is, that you sometimes simply have to close your eyes, forget about the world around you and focus. Just fucos,...and feel yourself. Get aware of yourself. You'll come to realize quite some things this way,....besides all things you will or will not realise that the world is because of you, not you because of the world. So take action ;D You're Neo!...you just gotta believe, right? So, bring it on!!! Back to top gLitterbugmemberMember #Joined: 13 Feb 2001Posts: 1340Location: Austria Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:44 pm resolution: to become awesome learned: how to not become awesome Back to top neffmemberMember #Joined: 11 May 2002Posts: 1444Location: Germany Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:01 pm very wise glitter_________________* Back to top [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:53 pm Max wrote: What I also learned is, that you sometimes simply have to close your eyes, forget about the world around you and focus. Oh yeah, I noticed that too. When I'm in a crowded place, or when I meet new people, I get nervous. But then I try to imagine like these people are not there.. like I'm the only one in the world. It helps. Because you don't feel any pressure when you're completely alone. Max wrote: the world is because of you, not you because of the world. Yeah, another pearl of wisdom from the wise man. I learned that you shouldn't be afraid to take initiative. Be the leader. Because too many people are afraid to decide what to do by themselves, much less tell others what to do. Back to top Drunken MonkeymemberMember #Joined: 08 Feb 2000Posts: 1016Location: mothership Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:58 pm Quote: When I'm in a crowded place, or when I meet new people, I get nervous. I recommend flood therapy for that social anxiety problem you got there. Join Toastmasters. Do they have Toastmasters in China? Or is public speaking frowned upon? _________________"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity" - Sigmund Freud Back to top LunatiquememberMember #Joined: 27 Jan 2001Posts: 3303Location: Lincoln, California Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:06 pm Hahahaha, I was just thinking about posting this a couple of days ago, and I thought "someone probably already beat me to it by now." Anyway, from last year: 1) Help Elena get her driver's license and become a good driver, so I won't have to be worried sick every time she gets behind the wheel. Well, she got her license, but she did not become a good driver--in fact she is probably the worst driver I've ever seen, no matter how she tries, or if I get her a driving coach (they are not cheap), or me teaching her. After realizing she is a serious danger to herself and to others on the road, we decided she should not drive, period. A relative of ours is a cop and he has a video of her (shot from the traffic cam at the intersection) running a red long after it's turned red--she did not even slow down. Three other cars would've hit her had they not stopped in time--she didn't even notice them. See why she shouldn't drive? I could've lost her right then and there if those three other drivers didn't react fast enough. 2) Help Elena get up to speed with her English so she doesn't have to play mute/deaf every time we go hang out with my friends. Didn't happen. She is just very slow with learning a foreign language. It also doesn't help that she doesn't have that extra motivation a lot of people have--like a guy who loves Japanese pop culture/girls and wants to learn Japanese because of it. To her, it's just a chore. 3) Find a stable, full-time job that I will like and feel the pay/benefits are worth the time/energy I devote to it. Yep, I'm the studio art director at a game publisher/developer. Salary is pretty nice, and the work is fairly enjoyable for the most part. 4) Continue building my home recording studio (now I can say that I "need" the missing pieces for legitimate reasons--see below). Yep, spent over $7k on various music/recording gear last year--guitars, basses, near-field monitors, keyboard, amps, mic's, audio interfact, MIDI interface...etc to accessories like cables, stands, pedals (mostly used, so I saved a ton of money--for example, I got the Klein + Hummel O 300D monitors for only $3,000--they cost close to $7,000 new). My studio is fairly complete now. Still need a few things though (will mention later). The total value of my studio is now around $38k, and none of it is luxury stuff--all very usable and practical gear. 5) I just signed a contract to compose the score for my first video game, so I need to complete my recording studio to make the whole experience smoother. This will be my first time composing the score for anything, and it's something I've always wanted to do (I used to write songs for record companies, but I didn't particularly enjoy that. Scoring is more of what I like). I composed some tracks for the game, and I'm quite proud of them, but the game is now on the shelf due to budget issues. I'll still finish all the tracks for myself though, even if just to put them in my music portfolio. 6) After settling down at a new job/new place, I'd like to schedule photo sessions with some models for a few shoots that'll take my photography to the next level. I've been shooting nothing but candids and casual stuff all of last year, and I miss shooting more formal sessions. I sort of did this in a left-handed way. I art directed a huge photography project for one of our games, where I storyboarded all the shots, picked all the models/actors, hired the photographer, and directed a crew. We shot for 4 days and it was grueling (but fun). I pretty much composed all the shots, directed the lighting, acting...etc. So other than actually clicking the shutter and setting the aperture/shutter speed/metering, I pretty much did everything else. That whole experienced sort of cured my desire to want to do photography full-time. I will probably enjoy most of it, but there are certainly aspects that can be frustrating--things that are out of my control (weather, for example, or licenses for location shoots). I think I prefer doing something where I have full control over the process (guess that means film is out for me too), like writing and music. I actually shot a improvised session with some ball-jointed dolls that I'm quite proud of. I used totally makeshift lighting solution and it looked beautiful. 7) If I get the art director job I'm interviewing for at the moment, I'd like to not disappoint my boss and be the best art director they've ever hired. Yep. My boss love me and sing my praises whenever he's got the chance. In fact, when he really loves something I do, he'll say "Robert, you are a rockstar!" Get off my lazy ass and exercise. I'm hoping lots of drum practicing will do it, but I'm guessing playing drums isn't enough--I'd need to do something that involves more parts of the body. Well....I walk 10 minutes to and from work and the train station during work days, so that's 20 minutes total a day. Does that count? I do drums too, but not as much as I want to (lack of free time). Ok, onto what I learned: 1) Once you and your friends get married, things change. It's all about spending time with the spouse from there on--especially if the marriage is a good one. 2) Diplomacy can be the solution for many things, so do not underestimate how much you can accomplish if you just tried to keep your temper down and rephrase what you wanted to say in a more diplomatic manner. But sometimes you have to show a little teeth--that works well for people who don't take you seriously until you scare them a little. 3) Be honest with yourself in how much you can take on/promise others. Being blindly and foolishly optimistic does not all of a sudden turn you into superman. Always leave room for error, because something WILL go wrong and you'll spend more time than you thought you needed. 4) Free time is the new currency of our generation. Making money does not make you any happier if you don't have free time to do the things you enjoy doing. 5) Your mood will affect other people's mood, especially those close to you. For the sake of others, you need to adjust your own mood if you want others to be happy around you. Now, resolution for 2008 1) Complete the modeling of our house in China and build the studio I've always wanted (within reason)--with soundproofing, acoustic treatment...etc. Won't be cheap and won't be easy, but it's where we'll live for the foreseeable future, so we really need to love it. 2) Make a full transition into composing and leave art behind. This might be tricky because I'll have art clients that'll still come to me, and it'll be hard to turn the projects down, especially if the money is good. But I've wanted to make a career change for many years now, and each year that goes by I get a little bit older (just turned 35), it seems less possible. If I don't do it now, it'll never happen. I might not get much paying gigs in 2008 for composing, since I need to ramp up and fill out my portfolio more, but the idea is to be making music at least 8 hours a day. I might start up a China Art department for the company I work for though, so I may not be able to make that transition as quickly as I'd like. 3) Eat healthier. Since moving back to the States, it's been hard to control the junk food intake, since I've missed all the goodies here I couldn't get in China. My bad habits are rubbing off on Elena too, so we really need to reign it in. 4) Move up to the next level in all the instruments I play (guitar, bass, keyboard, drums). I'd like to reach session player level ASAP. My guitar, bass, and drums are about intermediate (compared to my heroes), and my bass is at advanced beginner (my guitar skills carried over for the most part well). It'll take me another few years to become advanced in all of them, but it's something you can't rush, so one step at a time. 5) Once back in China, adjust my own attitude so that I won't be angry all the time with the society/government there like I was last time. I'm going back this time because we have business opportunities that have far more potential than my art directing career here. We are business owners there, with room for expansion and new investments. Being a salaried employee, even if you're an art director, you're still just an employee, with a cap on your potential earnings. Our businesses will allow us to live comfortably, and I get to have more free time to compose. Back to top MaxmemberMember #Joined: 12 Aug 2002Posts: 3210Location: MIND Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:33 pm Hey Luna. It was kind of inspiring to read all that. Thanks for sharing. I hope life goes into the right direction for you. Keep it up! Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Random Musings All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Kevin Grandia | October 2, 2008
By Kevin Grandia • Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 13:50
This new American News Project video nails the history of spin on global warming and tobacco:
Rick replied on Permalink
Energy companies battle AGW.
Energy companies battle AGW. Tobacco companies battled product demonization (they lost and yet somehow cigs are still in every cornier store)
compare smoking to CO2 emission.
Smoking is bad for you - everybody knows that and yet… worldwide more people smoke than ever. Tobacco companies are just moving more product to the poorer countries now, while plenty of people continue to smoke in rich countries.
Eliminating or even slowing tobacco is in practice impossible - even though it would have a big upside and the only downside is the temporary discomfort of the addicts.
If eliminating tobacco is fantasy, then killing fossil fuel is insanity. The world runs on fossil fuel and you just can't change gears easily or quickly.
To drastically reduce fossil fuel would mean death and poverty for millions - huge down side - and whats the payoff? - uncertain climate mitigation.
fossil fuel is not just another pack of cigs. Fossil fuel is life.
Jon replied on Permalink
Corny comment Rick
Yet Big Tobacco companies are still reporting record profits - because they are moving into other countries where there are many more people and a lack of regulations, awareness or infrastructure to deal with them.
I have news for you Rick; Tobacco companies don't care about death or poverty for millions and neither does Exxon - the only thing on their minds is profit.
Rick replied on Permalink
try again sport - you have
try again sport - you have no news for me
- corporations are about profit - so what.
fossil fuels are still the line between a semblance of civilization and massive death and destruction.
choose life! hows that for corn?
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Fossil fuels will run out;
peak oil is upon us; according to Professor David Rutledge peak coal will follow in about 2025 CE.
Then what, hmmm?
How about putting sustainable alternatives in place before then.
Rick replied on Permalink
sure - you have to try - I
sure - you have to try - I like the idea of throwing some weight behind solar and wave energy. It just bugs me when we compare tobacco to the energy that has made us rich as humans. Tobacco is really the opposite of fossil fuel.
…and hey - what happened to our 300 years worth of coal?
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
David Rutledge's essay
is on TheOilDrum. Easy to find.
He writes that claims of coal reserves are vastly overstated.
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
Worth the time to watch
Catch22 replied on Permalink
The cult of greed and selfishness
Rick writes - corporations are about profit - so what.
Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna! Greed is Good! Greed is Good! The free market will rescue all of us from all of our ills. The free market is our salvation. Greed is good! Praise be to Gordon Gecko! Hare Krishna!
Free market cult worshipers ascribe much importance to the speech in Oliver Stone's movie "Wall Street" in which Gordon Gecko claims that "Greed is good, greed purifies…". I find this quite amusing, since they usually ignore the ending of the movie, in which that greed brings ruin and destruction.
With banks falling faster than trees in the Amazon, we seem to be witnessing the effects of two decades of economic policies that valued greed over the common good. We borrowed against a future utopia that we were sure was just around the corner, a utopia brought on by low taxes and a free market unleashed. Now we are realizing that the word "utopia" in fact means "no place". The loans are coming due, and it is becoming clear that the so-called economic boom of recent years was a mirage brought on by borrowed money swishing around the economy.
Rick writes - fossil fuels are still the line between a semblance of civilization and massive death and destruction.
Perhaps you can explain to me how Japan manages to be a modern economy while producing a tiny fraction of the carbon dioxide that we do in North America. Or how Europe has already implemented many of the carbon dioxide reduction strategies that are proposed for North America, without your promised economic armagedon.
Rick replied on Permalink
I'm surprised Japan has a
I'm surprised Japan has a low per capita CO2 output.
I mean they import energy and material and build stuff with it. They do a great job for a place without much for natural resources. Aren't they something like 3rd for oil imports? I'm thinking they must put out a decent amount of CO2.
Rick replied on Permalink
Hey Japan puts out twice as
Hey Japan puts out twice as much as evil Canada in total CO2. They have the larger population but my goodness, we have the tar sands. We have the huge expanse of territory. We have evil Steve…. and we still can't keep up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
You live in a fantacy world
Catch22 you name is quite correct. You dislike corporations making a profit in a free enertprice market system, but losing that would mean losing all our social programs including unversal healthcare, education, welfare, etc. Profits generate wealth, wealth pays taxes. We need corporations to make more profit so they can hire more good paying jobs, and pay their taxes. Oh, and your RRSP/Pension fund requres corporations to make a profit.
But I guess you would prefer to live like we did in the Dark Ages.
Oh, and Europe is falling apart big time. Officially in a recession.
Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times, 6 October 2008
The slowing economy and financial crisis are testing Europe's goal of becoming a world leader in greenhouse gas reduction.
Industry has seized on the slowdown to lobby for delayed or watered down regulations, arguing that directives set out by the European Commission earlier this year would force them to cut jobs or relocate factories outside the European Union.
Some politicians also acknowledge that the financial crisis could hinder efforts to forge international agreements on reducing emissions.
Roger Boyes, The Times, 6 October 2008 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4888286.ece
dogomatic replied on Permalink
False analogy Rick
So you're saying that, similarly to how we can't get rid of tobacco, we're never going to be able to get rid of fossil fuels. But the aspect of the comparison you're missing is that, while only nicotine can relieve your nicotine cravings, fossil fuels are completely replaceable with other sources of energy.
And it's not even going to hurt the economy to do it! Europe has already managed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to below 1990 levels and their economy is doing just as well, if not better, than ours.
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
You can't fly planes on electricity
"fossil fuels are completely replaceable with other sources of energy."
That is absolutely false. It is clear you do not know how deep and dependant we are on oil to sustain our modern society. It's all about Energy Return On Energy Invested (EROEI). No other source of energy has the same energy density as oil. In the good old days we consumed 1 unit of energy to get 100 units of energy in oil. Today it's about 25. Alternatives are LUCKY to get 2:1, some, like ethanol, are negative. Others, like hydrogen, are gross net losses of energy (70-85% loss).
Here is an interesting tidbit. One barrel of oil is the same as 7 YEARS of human labour. Thus at 100:1, one day of human labour would give us 100 days of oil energy. But with alternatives, 1 day of human labour only returns just over a day of energy.
It's not how much energy we get out of a fuel, it's how much energy it takes to get that energy out of the fuel. That's everything. Simple example. Hunter-gatherers have no free time, they spend all their time getting food. Thus their EROEI is 1:1. But the invension of farming showed that we can get more energy returned on energy invested. Enough that only a few people were needed to farm so the rest of humanity was freed up to advance civilization. Thus, EROEI is EVERYTHING. And alternatives are closer to the hunter-gatherer EROEI than farmers.
Plus, there is far more in oil than liquid transport fuels. There is no replacement for many oil products at the volume we need as a modern society. Plastics is a clear example. It's a requirement to protect our food, yet cannot be made from any other source in the volume we need.
You can't fly planes on electricity.
You really need to see this series to understand how important oil is, and how important EROEI is.
Secondly, our population is entrely supported by oil. Without oil we simply cannot feed 6.5 Billion people. Again, it's all EROEI.
Paul S replied on Permalink
Must be a slow news day if
Must be a slow news day if the tired old shibboleth equating inaction on AGW with tobacco.
Here's the point. AGW activists have, in spite of huge sums of money spent, failed to persuade the Canadian public that drastic action is required on C02.
Having failed, AGW alarmists are incapable of introspection so must invent a bogeyman: tobacco and yes, the trail of pennies from Exxon.
dogomatic replied on Permalink
Same people using the same approach
It's same "Science for hire" approach used by the tobacco companies, and the oil companies are hiring the same organizations that the tobacco companies did to produce it. Yup, definitely no connection here. This point is, of course, outlined in the video, should you care to watch it.
Oh, and it's CO2, not C-zero-2.
Paul S replied on Permalink
You sure are anal
"Oh, and it's CO2, not C-zero-2." - DOGOMATIC
Who gives a rat's arse? This is the internet, not an English course.
Warmers have failed to democratically persuade the electorate that their dire warnings should be heeded.
Warmers far, far outspend any anti-AGW groups. You can't seriously pretend it is because of the tiny sums of money spent by anti-AGW proponents, can you?
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
$50 BILLIUN on AGW
Warmers have spent $50B+ in the past 20 years, and many more BILLIONS are coming.
Rick replied on Permalink
they don't call him
they don't call him dogomatic for nothin
Rick replied on Permalink
Science is always for hire.
Science is always for hire. Everybody gets paid and everybody has some kind of bias. Don't be a denier over it.
Catch22 replied on Permalink
Paul S. writes: Here's the point. AGW activists have, in spite of huge sums of money spent, failed to persuade the Canadian public that drastic action is required on C02. Having failed, AGW alarmists are incapable of introspection so must invent a bogeyman: tobacco and yes, the trail of pennies from Exxon.
Now I know what Orwell's 1984 looks like. The above post typifies the "War Against Facts" that certain right wing organizations wage. Their goal is to balance every inconvenient factual assertion with a counterwieght "fact" that is more conducive to their agenda. In the absence of clear facts, the public retreats to an implicit assumption that there is no such thing as fact, only opinion.
How's this for an opinion: I believe that these intellectual saboteurs are helping to destroy the values that we have inherited from the rennaisance. Before the rennaisance, the church was the ultimate source of truth. The church did not need to provide evidence for its assertions. It was enough that the church had political and military power. During the rennaisance, it became a more widespread view that assertions needed to be backed up by EVIDENCE. The church lost power because its assertions could not be backed up by logical argument and facts.
As the public slowly loses sight of actual facts, they will increasingly look to authority figures to form their views. They will look for facts from sources they trust and identify with. But trust is largely an emotional phenomenon, and is thus easily manipulated, especially when the public is afraid.
I'm sure that the right wing GW deniers will accuse me of the same thing that I am accusing them of. But there is a key difference between those who actually understand the science and those whose main purpose is the obfuscate the science: Those who know the science have EVIDENCE to back up their assertions, while those who obfuscate have only half-facts and flawed arguments.
I seriously doubt the parent poster has any real understanding of the arguments he is trying to refute. I challenge him to prove me wrong, by describing why the typical characterization of greenhouse gasses as a plate of glass is incorrect. I'm waiting…
Rick replied on Permalink
glass puts the brakes on
glass puts the brakes on convection flow of heat energy, whereas so called "green house" gas molecules absorb and radiate heat rather than contain it.
am I close on that one?
I have no education beyond reading junk on the internet - but I think I get it.
Catch22 replied on Permalink
Greenhouse effect science
Thank you for responding to my request. Strictly speaking your response is correct. However I wasn't really referring to a literal glass roof, but rather a mechanism by which greenhouse gasses are absorbed. This will be a bit long, but I'd like to describe some of my understanding of the science.
The common understanding of the greenhouse effect is that the greenhouse molecules act as some sort of shield. They allow energy from the sun (short wave radiation) to pass through, while absorbing infrared (long wave radiation) emitted from the ground, making the air warmer in the process. This was the understanding of the greenhouse effect in the early 1900's. Experiments were done in which infrared light was shone through different tubes of CO2. Those experiments showed that CO2 didn't seem to absorb much infrared radiation, and that doubling the length of the tubes had only a small effect. Thus, many scientists of that time were not convinced that CO2 was an important greenhouse gas. The problem was that their model of the greenhouse effect was simplistic and incorrect.
The actual mechanism of the greenhouse effect is subtle and a bit complicated.
Heat Balance
The Sun provides the Earth with short wave radiative energy. The Earth absorbs that short wave radiation and emits long wave infrared radiation, which is emitted into space. If more energy is coming in than is going out, then the Earth warms, increasing the outgoing long wave radiation until the energy output balances the input.
The Infrared Relay
The warm surface of the Earth emits infrared radiation. That radiation travels upwards towards space. But on the way, there is a good chance that the parcel of infrared radiation will run into a greenhouse gas particle, such as CO2 or H2O. The infrared may be absorbed, making the gas molecule warmer. The gas molecule may then re-emit another parcel of infrared radiation out towards space. The new infrared parcel may go through the same process. The infrared parcel may be absorbed and re-emitted several times before leaving the Earth for space.
The Upper Emitting Layer
There is an upper layer from which almost all infrared radiation is emitted to space. The amount of energy emitted by this layer basically controls the heat balance of the Earth. If the amount of infrared energy emitted by this upper layer is reduced, then the Earth warms.
The Effect of Carbon Dioxide
Adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere makes it more difficult for infrared radiation to escape into space. The effect is most important in the upper emitting layer. Adding more CO2 ensures that infrared radiation parcels will be absorbed and re-emitted more frequently. This results in the infrared parcels being emitted to space at HIGHER ALTITUDES. Because temperature decreases with altitude, the CO2 causes the infrared parcel to be emitted from a colder layer of air. This makes the radiation process less efficient, resulting in less energy flow into space. Thus the Earth warms.
It should also be noted that there is little water vapor at in these emitting layers, since the air is so dry. Thus water vapor is not a significant factor in this process.
Complicated, eh.
Paul S replied on Permalink
"How's this for an opinion:
"How's this for an opinion: I believe that these intellectual saboteurs are helping to destroy the values that we have inherited from the rennaisance." - CATCH22
Let's not exxaggerate. Questioning AGW orthodoxy is not detroying any "inheritance". Your example is simply another overwrought exxaggeration warmers like to use to suppress and silence any questioning of the "facts".
"The church did not need to provide evidence for its assertions. It was enough that the church had political and military power. During the rennaisance, it became a more widespread view that assertions needed to be backed up by EVIDENCE."
And that's what skeptics are doing. Demanding more evidence. Climate scientists are claiming an ability to predict climate hundreds of years in advance and at present, much of the populace remains doubtful of this claim. Being a democracy, scientists do not rule, but must instead persuade the public that the drastic measurest they advocate must be taken. So far, climate change activists have been unable to do this.
Rick replied on Permalink
Enviros against Solar Power
I see a future where rabid enviros vandalize solar installations to save the Earth.
good for a laugh
Bob replied on Permalink
I hope those of you that
I hope those of you that want in my pocket to solve global warming will be ready to repay me when you become the emperor with no clothes. Otherwise we should have the option of putting all of you on the shores of Hudson's Bay where you can tend to your imaginary palm trees and your memorials to the Polar Bear. I was in the early phases of my graduate science education when the coming of the new Ice Age phonies were after grants to spread the sky is falling alarm in my University. Now the same climate whores are serving the needs of the neo-socialists that after the fall of the Soviet Union have found a home in the environmental movement. I know both sides of this coin well and am sad to see us hustled by this crowd again.
Dan Pangburn replied on Permalink
AGW mistake
There is only one complete and exact computer of global climate and that is the planet itself. By definition it complies with all laws of nature. Einstein said "no number of tests can prove I'm right but only one is needed to prove I'm wrong". There have been many tests that prove to be wrong the theory that added atmospheric carbon dioxide causes significant global warming. They were run on the planet computer and the results are archived in the Vostok and EPICA ice cores and other proxies. They show that, repeatedly, a temperature increasing trend changed to a decreasing trend and vice versa. For those who understand how feedback works, this temperature trend direction change proves that there is no significant net positive feedback. All that is needed to determine if there is net positive feedback is a temperature trace for a long enough time to average out cyclic variation from random noise and other factors, ENSO, etc. The temperature trace does not even need to be correct in absolute terms just reasonably accurate in relative terms time-wise.
While determination of the magnitude and even the sign of feedback in climate is difficult using climatology, it is trivial, as described above, for someone who understands feedback to deduce from the temperature record alone that significant net positive feedback does not exist. Many climatologists apparently don't know how feedback works so they don't realize this. Unaware of their ignorance, they impose significant net positive feedback in their GCMs which causes them to predict substantial warming from carbon dioxide increase. Without significant net positive feedback, the GCMs do not predict significant Global Warming.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Not science,
what you write. I recommend reading "The Discovery of Global Warming" by Spencer Weart:
Review of above:
Rick replied on Permalink
the tone of those two posts
the tone of those two posts are so similar. If I was on the Frank and Fern team I would speculate they came from the same person.
Rick replied on Permalink
no wait they aren't similar
no wait they aren't similar - they're exactly the same.
I'm calling you on it Dan and Bob. You are the same guy.
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
Interesting trend.
Seems to me that Desmog is getting more and more enlightened people commenting who realize that AGW is a fraud. Interesting trend.
Oh, and about the Cigs in other countries. I saw a program about that on the Discovery Channel a while back. Seems it's their culturial and religeous beliefs that will prevent any attempts to curb smoking. They have a firm belief that God will take them when God wants them regardless if they smoke or not.
dogomatic replied on Permalink
I like how you've just
I like how you've just managed to paint with one brush the attitudes about cigarettes for the *entire* rest of the world. That must have been one long documentary.
Rick replied on Permalink
I think I can paint even a
I think I can paint even a broader stroke. People of all cultures are fools. They prove it by paying good money to suck tar into their lungs. Common sense should overcome cultural pressures to smoke. I conclude that 30% of humanity has no common sense.
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
Oh, much higher
Since 85% of the peoples of the world accept religion over reason, then "I conclude that 85% of humanity has no common sense."
Actually, JR --
I'm just standing by and letting you guys play amongst yourselves for awhile until the new comments policy comes into effect. I imagine that many of the other regular participants are doing the same. I look forward to conversations that are on-topic and civil, with fewer actionable diatribes and outright lies. So enjoy your 15 minutes, guys.
Fern Mackenzie
Rick replied on Permalink
what - you're going to
what - you're going to chase us away to the scary parts of the internet? But Fern - We need you to fix our spelling!
Rick replied on Permalink
oh - so the good guys are
oh - so the good guys are laying low for now eh? - I was wondering what happened to Gary
Gary replied on Permalink
Was away on business. but
Was away on business.
but now
I'mmm BaaaaACK!
Fern Eludes to upcoming censorship on the Blog.
Could this be?
Is Desmog going to admit defeat on the issue and resort to the propaganda methods of reality denier sites like RealClimate?
Time will tell. But I suspect she may be on to something.
Since the left has never needed truth and honesty to promote their agendas, I see no reason they should care about it now.
As the world cools the propaganda will increase.
dogomatic replied on Permalink
When is that coming? I look
When is that coming? I look forward to modding them out of existence a la reddit.
Gotta deal with this Rick spam somehow.
Rick replied on Permalink
great - now I'm gonna be
great - now I'm gonna be modded out of existence by pupomatic - how will I ever go on?
It's up to you, Rick
As I understand it, if you refrain from obscene language, stay on topic, cite valid sources and avoid actionable claims, you can post here all you want.
Maybe, though, I should suggest to Richard L. that he allow no more than 5 spelling errors in any single post;)
Fern Mackenzie
Rick replied on Permalink
I do well with all those
I do well with all those things except the staying on topic part. That will no doubt be my undoing.
gary replied on Permalink
More on the cooling
More on the cooling planet. http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/is_this_the_beginning_of_global_cooling/
Gary replied on Permalink
And This is interesting. Who
And This is interesting.
Who would have thought that natural cycles could possibly have any effect over the ALL POWERFUL CO2 effect?
Can we say "PDO" boy and girls?
Rick replied on Permalink
terrifying graph Gary -
terrifying graph Gary - proves beyond any doubt that the sky is falling and the Oceans are going to boil any minute now.
Gary replied on Permalink
Talking about smoke and
Talking about smoke and Spin.
Remember all the hysterical doom and disaster talk over melting in the arctic?
Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses
Two new studies summarised in a news article in Science magazine point to wind-induced circulation changes in the ocean as the dominant cause of the recent ice losses through the glaciers draining both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, not 'global warming.'
Catch22 replied on Permalink
Thin ice is the real cause
You guys have no shame. The fact is that the wind patterns that increased the melting have occurred in the past. They are in fact not that unusual. What IS unusual is the well documented THINNING OF THE ARCTIC SEA ICE. The thinness of the ice made it extremely vulnerable to wind and current variations. The thin ice was easily blown out of the Arctic waters and into warmer waters. This year's melting accelerated in late August due to some storms which shattered the already thin ice. Once it was broken, the melting accelerated.
Rick replied on Permalink
hey - this place is totally
hey - this place is totally dead except for a few skeptics.
listened to Chris Martenson's crash course the last couple days….wow - If he's even half right, GW is the least of our problems - not even worth thinking about. We've got big population problems, big resource problems, huge energy problems. GW is nothing but a petty distraction.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
GW will make
all those problems much, much worse.
Already starting to do so.
worst situation
This might be worst situation but we should teach people and companies something about these issues. Everybody is making money regardless considering this issue. There should be distance learning high school diploma for all those people who need these kind of education. Government must force them to education themselves from these issues and try to solve them
So true that CO2 is affecting
So true that CO2 is affecting the air to be polluted filled by much destructive substances in the atmosphere. Also the cigarette has much substances turning to the air that was converted to different kinds of harmful elements filling the air. A lot of us would give a no fax cash advance to get Glenn Beck and the growing Chicken Little cabal to pipe down.


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Release Date: 2013 |
Album Rating: 4.0Full album stream: http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/exclusive-hear-the-new-soulfly-album/
Not quite sure if everyone can hear the album from the link above, given that it's Metal Hammer UK.
Review posted originally here: http://meltingalbumreviews.com/2013/10/04/soulfly-savages/
Digging: Acathexis - Acathexis
Have this album sitting on my computer right now. Do I dare hit play?
Good review dude. You should touch on how horrid Max's lyrics are. I don't even need to listen to this to tell you he will make me laugh.
good review, I hope this album is as good as what u said...
Album Rating: 4.0"You should touch on how horrid Max's lyrics are. I don't even need to listen to this to tell you he will make me laugh."
I genuinely don't think his vocals are that bad. Sure, they're not as convincing as they were twenty-plus years ago, but there's life in the old dog yet.
Album Rating: 4.5dark ages + omen = savages
pretty neat
i'm so glad they made up for that terribad album enslaved
this is almost like an apology cause it comes only 1 year after
I genuinely don't think his vocals are that bad. Sure, they're not as convincing as they were twenty-plus years ago, but there's life in the old dog yet.
Digging: Wavves and Cloud Nothings - No Life For Me
Album Rating: 4.0I actually prefer Soulfly's latter material (as in 'Dark ages' and up) but I guess they are pretty divisive nowadays.
Album Rating: 4.5One of the best albums this year for me hope you all will enjoy it like i did. best songs for me are Spiral, Ayatollah of rocknrolla and El comegente
Album Rating: 4.0Ayatollah has such a cool riff :D
Pretty fun stuff here. But the guest vocals on KCS are so damn bad.
Digging: Way Out West - Intensify
I think that last thing I listened to from them was Omen once when it came out.
Album Rating: 4.0"Pretty fun stuff here. But the guest vocals on KCS are so damn bad."
Yeah I guess Mitch Harris isn't the best choice (his screams don't flow well with cavalera's roars) but initially I thought he was a fitting guest vocalist. I was actually surprised that Fallon would be guest on a Soulfly album, but the surprise turned out to be pleasant.
hey good review
you got me
want to hear it now
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffFantastic review. Pos.
Can't understand why some people are giving it low ratings.
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffI don't think I've heard a genuinely bad Soulfly album. The only two I don't rate that highly are Conquer (stuff that wasn't good enough for the CavCon album) and 3 (the most nu-metal of them all) but they're still pretty good and it says a lot that Soulfly's lowest rated album on here has an average of 3.
Album Rating: 4.5Great album. Best since Dark Ages.
I got a little sick of these guys about a year or so after Omen because most of their stuff sounds so samey (it's great when you're in the mood, but every new Soulfly album up to Omen was basically, with minor adjustments, repeating the album that came before it). I skipped Enslaved but people seem to really like this one so I may have to give it a spin and re-ignite my love for Soulfly.
Good review.
Album Rating: 3.5Marc Rizzo
Album Rating: 3.0Who's the generic deathcore cock smoker on "Fallen?"
Good review, this album is really good
Digging: Tyr - Hel
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DIXON – An accessories exchange will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Post House Ballroom, 100 W. Second St.
The public exchange is free to attend; display tables are $5 each. Participants can exchange, sell, or give away anything related to weddings, receptions, and other parties.
Items can include swags, vases, candles, candleholders, lights, branches, card boxes, place card holders, runners, curtains, dresses, shoes, jewelry, pew bows, and charger plates.
Banquet tables in 5- and 8-foot lengths will be available for displays. However, display space is limited. It is acceptable to keep inventory under the table or in a vehicle.
Each vendor must take care of their own setup and money. The ballroom will provide the space and tables only. Call Cathy Reglin at 815-288-0892 to reserve a table or for more information.


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Our next Maker, Adrian Koh, is an engineer in the factory automation sector who recently discovered the joy of incorporating art into his electronic toys, despite his disdain for art during his school days.
At his Singapore Mini Maker Faire 2012 booth "Art and Kits", Adrian will showcase interesting artistic projects made with electronic stuffs and off-the-shelf DIY kits.
How his passion grew
Adrian shared that he has always been fascinated by visual display using lights.
Through our interview, Adrian revealed that the growth of his passion for electronics could be traced to an electronic kit making class that he attended at the Science Centre Singapore in 1986. He was only in Primary 6.
Since then, electronics became both his hobby and his study discipline. During his Polytechnic Final Year Project, he created a 96 by 96 LED matrix board to display graphics via a self developed PC software.
Three years ago, his hobby moved to the next level when his cousin in the advertising line invited him to use his electronics knowledge to create some visual displays for his client.
The PIC micro-controller art piece shown in the picture above is Adrian's pride. He shared that the PIC was used popularly by hobbyists before Arduino came along. The LED bars can be lighted up speedily column by column and the intensity can make it appear like a full screen displaying an animation. Adrian had plotted the animation graphics on an excel sheet which was subsequently converted to meaningful data for the PIC micro-controller, an activity which he strongly advocated for the training of both the left and right brain. To Adrian, there is a great sense of satisfaction doing this despite it being mind-boggling as well!
While he pursues this passion largely on his own, he has a friend who shared the same interest. That is the same friend who introduced Adrian to take part in the Singapore Mini Maker Faire, so that they can promote the learning of electronics via DIY kits.
Fun with Arduino
Besides the PIC micro-controller, Adrian also plays with the Arduino. His first project was a 1-minute count-down device to allow his niece and nephew to monitor the time when playing games! Isn't that cool?
It turns out that Adrian also try to cultivate the interest of his niece and nephew in electronics by getting their help with simple tasks such as placing of components and even simple soldering of some of the DIY kits he puts together. Adrian's niece and nephew must be the envy of many. Not many Singaporean children have the chance to have customised toys, not to mention having the chance to make them!
Adrian's belief
According to Adrian, relearning art gave him a new perspective to things. Contrary to his early belief, he now feels that it is equally important to develop the left and right brain, to allow creative thinking to dream and create ideas and to develop logical thinking to plan and execute those ideas. With this, Adrian began to put together hobby kits to help people develop themselves in these two aspects.
Check out Adrian's booth if you would like to find out more about his projects and his hobby kits.


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Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Mac.
This plugin provides a vim <--> VCS (currently mercurial, git and subversion) integration for your projects. Features:
Partially committing changes (:AuRecord).
Viewing file state at particular revision (aurum://file, :AuFile).
Viewing uncommited changes in a vimdiff, as well as changes between specific revisions (:AuVimDiff). It is also possible to open multiple tabs with all changes to all files viewed as side-by-side diffs.
Viewing revisions log (:AuLog). Output is highly customizable.
Viewing working directory status (:AuStatus).
Commiting changes (:AuCommit), commit messages are remembered in case of rollback (g:aurum_remembermsg).
Obtaining various URL's out of remote repository URL (like URL of the HTML version of the current file with URL fragment pointing to the current line attached: useful for sharing) (:AuHyperlink). For mercurial it also supports git and subversion revisions (in case you are using hg-git and hgsubversion respectively).
aurum#changeset(), aurum#repository() and aurum#status() functions that are to be used from modeline.
Frontends for various other VCS commands.
Most commands can be reached with a set of mappings (see aurum-mappings), all mappings are customizable.
Plugin's mercurial driver is able to use mercurial python API as well as its CLI, but remember that the former is much slower and less tested. In order to use mercurial python API you must have vim compiled with +python (mercurial currently does not support python 3) and have mercurial in python's sys.path (note: on windows msi installer is not adding mercurial to sys.path, so you won't be able to use its python API).
Plugin requires some additional plugins:
(optional) ansi_esc_echo
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for :AuFile prompt option and a number of OpenAny/AnnotateAny mappings.
(with their dependencies).
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Chinese telecoms manufacturer ZTE has launched what it claims is the world's smallest 4G LTE dongle.
The MF823 datacard is only 13mm thick - nearly a third of the size of the first generation LTE datacard - and uses a third less power. It runs on Qualcomm's second generation LTE chip platform and has been optimised to stay cool even after long periods of use.
The dongle supports IPv6, LTE-FDD, UMTS-HSPA+ and GPRS/GSM, with download and upload speeds for LTE at 100Mbps and 50Mbps respectively, while those for UMTS-HSPA+ are 42Mbps and 5.76Mbps.
It also offers high bandwidth, low delay and high communication rate, to reduce the dropping rate of data and voice communication.
The ZTE MF823 has already been launched in Kazakhstan and will launch soon in Europe and Asia-Pacific countries.
ZTE has been investing in LTE terminal products since 2008, and has obtained a number of LTE terminal core technology patents.
Earlier this year the company launched the world's first multi-standard USB modem, the MF820S2, and uFi, the MF91S.
ZTE was also the first Chinese vendor to launch a 4G LTE smartphone, the Grand X LTE (T82). Last month the company announced that its Grand Era LTE smartphone is compatible with LTE networks across Europe.


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GNU Data Access (GDA) is an attempt to provide uniform access to
different kinds of data sources (databases, information servers,
mail spools, etc).
It is a complete architecture that provides all you need to access
your data, defined by a set of CORBA interfaces as generic as possible
(but very powerful at the same time) so that any kind of data source
can be accessed through them.
libgda is an interface to the GDA architecture, providing a nice
wrapper around the CORBA interfaces, for both the client and the server
parts. It also provides a bunch of tools to help you both in the
development and management of your data sources, all done through
the GDA model's set of CORBA interfaces.
libgda was part of the GNOME-DB project, but has been separated from it
to allow non-GNOME applications to be developed based on it.
WWW: http://www.gnome-db.org/
make generate-plist
Dependency line: libgda5-bdb>0:databases/libgda5-bdb
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By Reginald Kaigler (DEMCAD)
Here's a pretty interesting question from a viewer on my Youtube channel:
DEMCAD, I have a question about my next gun purchase. I want to get either a Mossberg 100 ATR (308), or a Wasr 7.62x39. If everything did hit the fan say next year, what would be the best one of these two to get?
I'm not qualified to answer that. I'm not a survivalist, nor have I pretended to be an expert. But I will attempt to describe my thinking.
It depends on your situation and what you want to use it for. 308 is a caliber that the U.S. military uses so it should be easier to find. However, you shouldn't expect to find ammo during a SHTF situation. Since I live in an urban area, I value FIREPOWER over ACCURACY.
After all, if you're in the city or suburbans, any fight you will get into will be probably be short or medium range. The 308 would be a great sniper weapon, but you're not likely to be using a sniper rifle in an emergency situation. At least not if you're in a city. So I would prefer the AK, because of it's 30 round magazine. The ATR will limit you to 5 rounds or less. Plus, the bolt action will slow down your response time and there's no detachable magazines for a reload. If I were in the country, hunting and shooting range would be a higher priorities, so I would consider the 308.
So here's how I would view the matchup.
Urban: AK definitely
Suburban: AK probably, ATR maybe
Rural: ATR probably, AK maybe


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After early slip, Flames topple Mountaineers
January 12, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
It didn't take West Virginia long to break the scoring ice in Saturday night's men's Division II hockey game against Liberty University at the LaHaye Ice Center. Tristan Shorter rifled a slapshot from the right side of the blue line that deflected past goalie Nick Devine into the cage just 11 seconds after the opening faceoff.
However, that was the only time the Mountaineers found the net on the night in an 11-1 massacre by the Flames.
Liberty wasted no time in retaliating, netting four goals over the next seven minutes, including a hat trick by team points leader Brad Docksteader, to establish early control.
"The boys responded," Flames head coach Chris Lowes said. "We had a good first period. Five-on-five, our four lines outplayed their four. Even strength, we looked dominant."
Docksteader, who finished with five goals to up his season total to 55 points, took a pass behind the cage from Peter Kazmierczak, cut into the left crease and pocketed a backhanded shot to knot the score at 1-1 at the 17:50 mark.
"That was my first goal on first shift," Docksteader said. "It was good, it was fun. I had good linemates who helped out a lot."
Three minutes later, Neal Henderson trapped a cross-ice pass from Clinton Nigh and slapped a short shot from in the left circle past Mountaineers goalie James Orr.
Exactly a minute after that, Bobby Cervone hooked up with Docksteader for the first of two goals in a span of 52 seconds. Working behind the net, he spotted Docksteader posting up in the left crease for a quick finish and a 3-1 lead. Then, Cervone checked a WVU attacker off the boards and stole the puck in the process before starting a breakaway to Docksteader, who followed a rebound of his one-on-one miss off Orr for a point-blank putback.
A night after being outshot 45-22, the Flames put 42 shots on goal and allowed only 24 by the Mountaineers, with Devine making 21 saves and posting a shutout for the final 59:49.
"They weren't as skilled as Penn State last night," Docksteader said. "They were a little more laid back, so we were able to recuperate and we really took advantage and it worked out well for us."
The Flames scored twice more over the next seven minutes to build a commanding 6-1 lead with 6:01 left in the first period. DJ Dinnison capped a break up the left side with a backhanded wrist shot that he snuck past Orr before Nate Arbour received a pass from Nigh in the left circle, deked past a defender and cooly deposited a left-handed slapshot into the upper right corner of the cage.
Even when Liberty was a man-down, it generated its share of scoring chances. With the final seconds of a Mountaineer power play ticking away late in the first period, the Flames sent the puck up ice and when Orr came out to clear it off the board, Henderson picked it off and cleaned it up with an open-net goal from in the right circle.
"We got two short-handed goals tonight and we killed three five-minute penalties," Lowes said. "That's great for our penalty kill, but obviously a point for us to focus on, staying out of the box."
Docksteader added a fourth goal midway through the second period, finishing a left-handed shot from in the left circle into the upper-right corner of the net, and Jeff Boschman assisted Caleb Allison on a backhanded shot from in the left crease to make it 9-1.
That's how it stayed for more than 20 minutes, as the Flames killed a five-minute penalty that spanned the second and third periods before adding two more goals in the final five minutes of play. Cervone scored unassisted on a powerful shot on transition before Arbour came up with a steal in the left circle and assisted Docksteader's fifth goal on a two-on-one in the crease.
"Dock's a leader for us, on the ice, off the ice and that's his game," Lowes said. "He's a natural goal-scorer. His line did a good job tonight. Four of his five goals were even strength so they're doing a good job of feeding him the puck and working down low."
Liberty (14-6-1), which reeled off seven wins in a row from Sept. 22 through Oct. 27, continued a trend over the past 10 games in which it has followed a loss with a win, going 5-4-1 over that stretch. West Virginia fell to 5-11 a night after losing a tight match at rival Virginia Tech.
The Flames hope Saturday night's triumph is the start of at least a four-game winning streak with games next weekend against Kennesaw State, Delaware, and Christopher Newport in a three-day showcase at LaHaye.
"We'd like to go 3-0 next weekend," Lowes said. "That's our goal. We have three more weekends until the playoffs and we want to keep improving and becoming more consistent."
Liberty is currently ranked eighth in the Southeast region with the top 10 teams qualifying for the regional playoffs and the top two automatically securing the first of four national bids.


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World Class Spanish based yacht designers Botin & Carkeek, have joined together with Croatian design house MURTIC to deliver the first in a unique new range of performance cruising yachts. The mission is to push the boundries of yacht design and in doing so create a breed of yachts, that will raise the bar and set new standards. The MURTIC 72 delivers a unique synthesis of modern form and funtion together ith comfort, elegance and style. This yacht is aimed at the client who appreciates quality, outstanding looks, breathtaking performance and meticulous attention to detail. The MURTIC 72 has been developed using state-of-the-art design tools, including Americ's cup CFD codes for both hydrodynamic and aerodynamic aspects. The three time Copa Del Rey winners, three time IMS European two time IMS Worls Champions and now official designers for the Team New Zeland America's Cup syndicate, and Spanish Royal family, their track record speaks for itself. Botin and Carkeeks' client base extends world wide with current projects in Argentina, Staes, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa and New Zealand. Botin & Carkeek have also been appointed official designers for the Grand Soleil production range, strengthening their name globally in both the racing and cruising markets. Although the market is global, this is essentially a European project aimed at the European owner. The Mediterranean is the main stage and the designers have been specifically chosen not only for their abilities but also for their strong reputation.
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Keel: Other
Hull Shape: Monohull
LOA: 71 ft 5 in
Beam: 17 ft 9 in
LWL: 59 ft 5 in
Minimum Draft: 8 ft 5 in
Maximum Draft: 14 ft 10 in
Displacement: 40895 lbs
Ballast: 19081 lbs
Dry Weight: 40895 lbs
Engine Options
Engine Option 1: 1x
Fresh Water Tanks: (243 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (235 Gallons)
*This price is based on today's currency conversion rate.
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