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A smart meter is an electrical meter that records consumption of electric energy in intervals of an hour or less and communicates that information at least daily back to the utility company for monitoring and billing purposes. Unlike traditional automatic meter reading, smart meters enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system. There are concerns regarding the cost, health, fire risk, security and privacy effects of smart meters.
Nevada supposedly is a state that has an "opt out" policy for residents who don't want the so-called Smart Meter. But the utility company Nevada Energy (NVE) sent armed men to disconnect the electricity of a woman who decided against the Smart Meter that had been installed in her home without notice or her permission.
So much for the volitional "opt out" policy!
Here are excerpts from an article by Adonai for The Watchers, September 21, 2012:
Mona Orkoulas lives in the mountains outside Las Vegas, Nevada, where she works in real estate. Like many Americans she has been impacted by the downturn in the economy and is struggling to make ends meet. […] She has always paid her bills on time, and makes protecting her health a priority. […]
The story starts when Nevada Energy (NVE) installed a 'smart' meter on Mona's bedroom wall in January without permission, or even so much as a few days' notice.
Mona reports that she does not have any prior history of medical issues. Shortly after NV Energy installed the smart meter, she started noticing an increase in her heart rate first thing in the morning and an elevated blood pressure. She felt fatigued, and started having headaches. A low grinding sound had started when the meter was installed and this made it difficult for Mona to sleep, or even be in her own home during the day. She tried different things to get rid of the symptoms, but nothing worked. Finally it dawned on her: the only thing which had changed in her life was the meter. When she started researching the issue, she realized she was not alone. Others were experiencing the same annoying humming grinding sound, the same adverse health impacts — and linking it to recent smart meter installations. She has amassed a whole binder of studies about the negative effects of EMF's on health.
A letter from Mona's doctor to NV Energy reads:
Neurological and cardiological findings may be associated with pulsed EMF… EEG, ECG, MRI and sleep study changes may be associated in some hypersensitive individuals to pulsed EMF. If multiple Smart meters are in use in her area, the possibility of constructive and destructive interference between the various EMF signals is a distinct possibility whose effects may be potentially more dangerous. I recommend that this patient be allowed to have NVE reinstall an analog meter at her house.
So she called the power company, expecting that they would remove the unsanctioned meter right away — or at least come out and do an analysis to find out what was causing the grinding noise. Months later, frustrated after at least six failed attempts to have NVE address the problem, Mona finally purchased a standard analog meter and had an electrician install it at her residence. She carefully photographed and recorded the readings on the old and new meter, to be sure that she paid for every kilowatt-hour used. She attempted to return the unwanted smart meter to NVE offices, but was turned away.
On August 6th, at about 10:30am, three men from Nevada Energy, armed with guns, arrived unannounced on her property, removed the analog meter from the socket, took her analog meter as well as the unauthorized smart meter she had removed, and left her living without electricity. One of the men identified himself as an investigator with the company and said that he was investigating her for "criminal tampering."
She was in tears, visibly shaken by the encounter, and recalls asking the men, "Why are you on my property with guns?" Their response: "this is procedure Ma'am." […] More than a month later, the lights are still off and Mona hasn't budged. "They're not putting that thing back on my house," she says.
We asked Angel de Fazio, who has been on the front lines working to fight NVE's smart meter program, what is going on here? Doesn't Nevada have an 'opt out' choice? Angel says "Nevada residents only won the right to be placed on the 'delay list', not a full 'opt out'."
In other words, if you wised up before the installation trucks came and still have your analog, NVE has a 'delay list' you can sign to 'delay' your installation date. But if the power company managed to sneak on your property and install a smart meter — even without permission — then your choice is a smart meter or no power at all, as Mona discovered. Even if you have a letter from your doctor, the power company apparently thinks it knows best what's good for you.
While awareness about smart meter problems has been greater in states like California, Maine, and several other states, the "take a smart meter or lose your power" policy remains quietly in force in other states where awareness may not be as widespread. However, people in these states (like Mona) have had enough and are standing up to the utility industry in increasing numbers.
Angel tells Stop Smart Meters! that Nevada's opt out proceeding has been a sham. "The Nevada PUC will be holding hearings on October 3rd-5th to determine which of the 'non-transmitting' meters they will trial to replace people's analogs and how much they will charge for the 'privilege'. Even the 'right' to have a non-transmitting meter is under threat." In other words, there may be no official 'opt out' at all unless people organize and make more noise.
"NVE has conned the PUC into believing that only a certain number of people can opt out or their Federal Stimulus Grant will be in jeopardy. That is a lie," Angel says.
NVE has been calling people on the 'delay list' who want to 'opt out' and repeatedly pressuring them to accept a smart meter. The company admitted that they lied to utility customers, telling them that the meters are federally mandated (which they are not), and telling people their power would be cut if they didn't accept the meter (which they do not have the legal authority to do). Similar stories abound about other utilities including Southern California Edison, Detroit Edison, Duke Energy, and Oncor.
[…] It's hard to stomach the fact that in 2012 in the United States, men with guns from a private corporation and no warrant show up and threaten us for not accepting a hazardous device on our homes. As a community we must come together and reject these Gestapo tactics. Under the US Constitution, we have a right to be safe and sovereign in our homes. If you turn a blind eye while the rights of your friends and neighbors are being violated, they may be at yourhouse next.
Stop Smart Meters (SSM) has had enough of this utility abuse. SSM has a fund to support Mona's energy needs and see her through the winter safely and without a smart meter, using renewable power. We'll be personally contributing to the fund and we urge you to do the same.
Here's what you can do:
- Please donate to SSM to get some solar panels for Mona (indicate it's a Safe Power Fund donation for Mona Orkoulas).
- Contact Nevada Energy (Southern NV Energy) to express your disgust about how they are treating Mona Orkoulas (and others with smart meter complaints, without allowing an opt-out). If you own stock in NVE – or any utility that aggressively forces smart meters on the public – we encourage you to rethink that.
Contact info for NVE:
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (702) 402-55553.
- Any interested attorneys licensed in Nevada who may wish to help Mona pro bono – or others who wish to help in any way – may contact email@example.com and place "I Want to Help Mona" in the subject line.
- Report this outrage to your member of Congress or NV state legislator.
H/t Infowars


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Richard Littlemore | June 22, 2011
By Richard Littlemore • Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 17:48
The joint conference of the Geological Association of Canada (GAC) and the Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) included a DenierFest sideshow worthy of the Heartland Institute, with guest speakers flown in from as far away as Australia and Europe in an effort to address one organizer's concern about an "unbalanced debate."
Notwithstanding the manipulations of the deluded University of Toronto geologist Dr. Andrew Miall, the conference featured a full helping of honest-to-goodness science. There were occasions galore during which knowledgeable people spoke about matters with which they have legitimate expertise.
Then there were the sessions that featured the likes of Australians Bob Carter and Ian Plimer, people who do no actual work in climate science but who are only too delighted to tell you that everything we understand about human influence on global warming is a carefully constructed fiction. Organizers even brought in the Danish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark - a man who will clutch his chest and fall to the ground rather than offer a straight answer as to why he insists the sun is causing climate change when the sun has been in a long weak cycle even as the earth continues to overheat. (The "heart attack," reported above, was later confirmed to be a stress reaction.)This - all extremely well covered recently by the good folks at Friends of Gin and Tonic - is an embarrassment to the Canadian geological community. While the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has taken the trouble to actually check the science and come to an official position on climate change, the backwoods Canadian geologists are still prepared to entertain compromised confusers such as the oil patch geophysicist and Friends of Science director Norm Kalmanovitch.
The conference also featured the past president of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, A. Neil Hutton, whose abstract suggests that because CO2 was much more plentiful in the atmospher during the Cambrian period than it is today, we have nothing to worry about the current carbon spike that is occurring as a result of the burning of, well, petroleum. (Can't someone please tell Dr. Hutton that the Cambrian period was 500 million years ago - a time when the sun was markedly cooler, and when the earth was still going to evolve for, uh, 500 million years before it would be habitable for humans?)
If you needed any further evidence to suggest that this whole exercise was either an oily put-up job or a mindless ideological intervention, undermining the reputation (and ambient IQ level) of the collected geologists, look no further than the National Post, the Canadian handbook for denier narratives. Its coverage of the conference came courtesy of Tom Harris, with no mention that Harris is an oily public relations guy who helped launch the Friends of Science, who created the energy industry front, the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, and who now fronts for something called the International Climate Science Coalition.
SuzukiisaMotorcycle replied on Permalink
Something tells me they
Something tells me they aren't the least bit embarrassed.
Afterall, geologists are probably some of the most knowledgable people there is on the topic, and they don't buy the CAGW scam at all….
Bravo to them for standing up against the hugh multi billion dollar AGW industy and holding to real science.
Martin Clark replied on Permalink
don't buy the CAGW scam
" … rather than offer a straight answer as to why he insists the sun is causing climate change when the sun has been in a long weak cycle even as the earth continues to overheat."
The straight answer is - it isn't overheating. Levelled off and dropped over the last 6 years or so. I'm not a climate scientist, so I don't get a piece of the $US3 billion p.a. spent on AGW research, but I know about modelling, and I know about climate responsive design. The output of the GCMs failed to match subsequent observations, therefore they are junk. Urban Heat Islands are hugely underestimated. Here at 19°S 146°E EVERYONE knows about UHI. A handful of buildings in an adverse configuration causes UHI. The number of terrestrial weather stations has halved in the last decade or so, and most of the loss is in rural locations. Moving stations nearer to buildings (to shorten the data logging links), putting in concrete/bitumen instead of dirt access roads is enough to produce UHI.
troppo http://people.aapt.net.au/jclark19/
Bam replied on Permalink
Oh dear, another misinformer.
Oh dear, another misinformer. Or maybe just misinformed.
See also:
Not a real salespitch there, Martin…
anonymous replied on Permalink
Actually the point Martin is
Actually the point Martin is making is valid.
Just a little research at the Surface stations site will show anyone but the FAITHFUL why the popular rethoric about recent temps is way out of the relm of reality.
UHI, enhanced by rural station closures along with Jimmys Adjustments combine to produce a silly and completely false image of a warming world when in fact it is now cooling.
the next 20 to 30 years are not going to be much fun as crop yield drops due to the shortening of the growing season.
Perhaps we should stop the shameful burning of our food?
Biofuel is immoral….!!!!
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
This is just plain silly
The surfacestations claims are just plain silly (and franky, downright stupid). Here's how to prove that:
Download the raw GHCN data and metadata.
Write a program that computes global-average temperature anomalies from the data, using the standard per-station 1951-1980 baseline approach. If you want to get a bit fancy, implement a simple gridding/averaging procedure; if not, just do a dumb average.
The metadata file allows you to sift/sort stations by rural/urban status.
With modern software tools, it's also quite easy to test the Anthony Watts' claims about rural vs. urban stations, raw vs. adjusted data, as well as his claim that the warming trend was exaggerated by "dropping" a bunch of stations back in the 1990s.
If you do the above (and do it correctly), you will find:
1) Simple "dumb average" global-anomaly calculations on *raw* data will give you results that look very much like NASA's "Northern Latitudes Temperature Index". (The reason is left as an exercise for the reader).
2) A slightly more complicated (but still simple) gridding/averaging approach (once again, using raw data) will give you results that are incredibly similar to NASA's "Land Station Temperature Index". That's right, folks – a very straightforward gridding/averaging procedure peformed on raw data (without making so much as a single data "adjustment") gives you results almost identical to NASA's.
3) Rural stations and urban stations generate very similar results for (1) and (2) above.
4) Raw and adjusted data likewise produce similar global-average results.
5) Results generated by excluding the "dropped stations" are very similar to results generated from all temperature stations, thus falsifying Watts' "dropped stations" claim.
All of the above can be performed in a few days by a competent programmer/analyst (depending on programming speed/skill/motivation).
And yes, Virginia, before you ask… I have personally done all of the above.
And yet, the deniers who *for years* have been making these unfounded claims about the surface temperature record have been unwilling/unable to sit down and peform the few *days* of analysis work needed to test those claims.
anonymous replied on Permalink
You OPINION is noted. and
You OPINION is noted.
and disagreed with.
I find the information at SurfaceStations.org to be much more credible than your Blog opinion.
But you do have the right to be wrong.
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Fact, not opinion...
A copy of the code that I wrote can be found here:
The code is very much an "under construction" hobby project (i.e not a finished/polished product), but it works and it allows someone with some command-line computer skills to run all of the tests I described above.
Compiles/runs on Unix/Linux, Mac, and Windows/Cygwin systems.
No formal documentation, but lots of notes in the header file. A computer-savvy person will be able to figure out how to compile and run it without much trouble.
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Another quick note
More detailed information as to how to run the code can be found in the "Usage" statement that is displayed when the program is run with no command-line args.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Thats nice of you to provide
Thats nice of you to provide and uqite impressive in an of itself.
and it is interesting…
However, (no offence intended) what credentials do you possess and what background do you have that would make me or anyone trust your methodology or even your premise?
From where we stand, you are another blogger with an opinion.
On the other hand, Watts and his associates are well respected, well known researchers.
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Open source -- look at the code
The code is there for inspection.
Not pretty, but it works.
The algorithm is straightforward and well documented on the net.
To understand the code, you'll need to learn some C++/STL.
Watts has not produced *any* code/analysis to support his claims.
There is absolutely no "black magic" involved – it involves high-school math and college-undergraduate programming techniques.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Yes... That is your claim. I
Yes… That is your claim.
I get that.
I still trust him and his collegues.
I still have no idea why I would trust your work.
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Take an introductory C++
Take an introductory C++ programming class and you will learn all you need to know to verify my work.
This is what frustrates scientists so much – most of the "skeptics" who accuse them of being untrustworthy and hiding their data and code wouldn't have the slightest idea what to do with that data/code anyway.
I have presented you with every piece of information you need to verify that what I have done is on the "up and up".
It is now up to you to sit down and make an honest effort to do just that.
anonymous replied on Permalink
This is what frustrates real
This is what frustrates real scientists.
Some nobody whips up some code that make some calculations that may or may not have any relevance to anything and they claim to be credible sources of answers on one of the most complicated subjects in all of science.
So are you really claiming that if I learn some C++ and run your magical code, I will all of a sudden understand climate science.
Hmmmmm… all those PHDs Wasted .
All they had to do was take a simple programming course….
Who knew…?
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
You are hopelessly lazy
Computing global-average temperature anomalies is at the "easy" end of the climate-science scale. It is something that college undergraduates (and even advanced high-school students) can be taught to do.
Other aspects of climate-science, like radiation physics and GCM's, are much harder, and require years of postgraduate education/experience to master.
The fact that you are unwilling/unable to make an effor to learn about what isn't much more than straightforward averaging indicates to me that you, like the typical denier, are just too lazy to sit down and learn even the most basic science/math.
And as for Anthony Watts? He's lazy, dishonest, and not very bright. And if push were to come to shove, I'd be more than happy to repeat that under oath.
At this point, I'd think that I'd have better luck trying to teach C++ program to a cow.
bratisla replied on Permalink
but this is exactly what skeptics try to get rid off
They say that you don't need PhD in climate studies to see temperature trends aka the global cooling, and they are totally right - raw datas are available, and this is a statistic exercise rather than a climate exercise.
Now, if the credential suddenly matter, Anthony Watts has done only one paper vs the climate scientists crunching the datas and producing one paper a year. This is a slippery slope for you.
I sincerely advise you to analyse his code and (constructively) critic it, instead of appealing to authority. You want transparency and debate on ideas, not diploma, do you ?
bratisla replied on Permalink
sorry, wrong place to answer
the message above is not meant towards caerbannog. Mods, sorry for the problem.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Actually, I am just having
Actually, I am just having fun with them.
I dont actually care enough about this silly scam to bother taking the time.
LOL…. It will all be done and forgotten soon enough.
bratisla replied on Permalink
so, if I understand right
since you won't dig that yourself, you will follow what people with the best credential say aka you appeal to authority ?
Just to be sure.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Not really.... I read a
Not really….
I read a greate deal on the subject daily, both for and against. Some of it makes sense, some of it does not.
I do not believe any perticular source based on Authority.
IE: I dont trust much of anything from the UN. Very little from the IPCC since it is a political group. I do trust some of the scientists that contribute to the IPCC.
I find the statements of Science academies to be political propaganda.
Etc etc…
If it make sense I look deepeer, If it is just silly I dont.
bratisla replied on Permalink
but you do believe Anthony Watts ?
And what he writes, especially the papers he is able to publish through peer review ?
peterw replied on Permalink
bratisla don't bother
This guy is a denier troll. Why DESMOGBLOG let's people like this post is beyond me. As this thread demonstrates, these guys don't think, hell he doesn't even understand what an average is. They're just machines working for the fossil fuel PR machine.
Albatross replied on Permalink
The warming in the global
The warming in the global temperatures has been corroborated by independent data sets. I find it astounding that people in denial about AGW are still trotting out long debunked myths about the global temperatures.
Anon's opinion/belief is noted, but facts trump opinion.
bratisla replied on Permalink
Conclusions from surfacestations.org
Surfacestations.org was a joint effort to see the "quality" of the stations. Mr Watts used the datas gathered from this site (note to myself : I shall check if the contributors were thanked / edit yup they are) and published a paper.
Yup, a paper, in a peer reviewed journal.
What does it say ?
It says that, even by taking into account the "bad quality" of the stations, the warming trend is not influenced and thus remains still statistically significant, and matches "mainstream" results ; selecting good stations can however help to get clearer results for short period signals.
We have to salute Mr Watt's efforts to produce once a peer reviewed paper with real science. His work was even quoted - a sure sign of the interest of his work, which draws the same conclusions as "mainstream" science.
I hope you are delighted to see that Watt's efforts were not in vain !
anonymous replied on Permalink
LOL... I would have been
I would have been surprised if they had said anything else actually. Meaningless..
Bam replied on Permalink
Gee, one wonders why that
Gee, one wonders why that diatribe of yours never made it into the actual paper that used this data. Oh, did Anthony not tell you that? How surprising…
mark48 replied on Permalink
AGU is the wrong outfit to compare to Canadian geologists
Nearly all geologists in Canada work for the mineral and petroleum industries, just as most US geologists work in the oil and gas industry. The appropriate comparison of the attitudes of Canadian geologists is with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). While slightly more progressive than their Canadian colleagues, AAPG is still very reluctant to acknowledge the role of fossil fuels and anthropogenic greenhouse gases in global climate change http://dpa.aapg.org/gac/statements/climatechange.cfm
anonymous replied on Permalink
Actually that would be
Actually that would be because they are very knowlegable on the subject and dont buy the CAGW hypothesis.
Who they work for does not alter the facts.
embarased paleo... replied on Permalink
Meteorologists, Geologists, Physicists and AGW
The American Meteorological Society, arguably a group with no profit from either position on AGW, and I think most people would argue, people who know something about both weather and climate, declare they acccept the facts that (1) climate is changing and (2) that human activity is its root cause:
The Geological Society of America, which is the sister organisation to GAC (and not AAPG), also has a similar position, here:
Then we have the American Physical Society, which represents physicists:
A quote from their website "The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring."
How about the Canadian Meteorological & Oceanograpic Society (peak body for meteorologists and climatologists in Canada)?
Seems these guys accept the science of AGW too.
Are they all communists and nazis like Lord Monkcton, the poster boy for the denier movement claimed this week? Cant do math like some here claim? Deluded, perhaps? In the pay of the UN and out to form a world govt? Are they so uneducated that unlike Andy Miall and the few who were there in Ottawa at his "The ice age is coming" symposium, they can`t see that the world is actually cooling? (not!) I think not.
PS Im a card carrying member of GAC, GSA, AGU, and several other geological societies, have been for over 20 years, and most of the geologists, climatologists, and paleoclimatologists I know and work with accept the scientific basis of AGW.
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
Kudos to Richard Littlemore...
for telling it like it is!
Readers of this comment thread shoule also check out:
"Geologists and climate change denial" by John Cook, Skeptical Science http://www.skepticalscience.com/Geologists-climate-change-denial.html
anonymous replied on Permalink
I dont believe for a moment
I dont believe for a moment that geologists deny that climate changes.
Its just that they are better trained to understand how and why it changes than say…. oh… Jimmy Hansen who is a physisist.
or Michael Mann or Al Gore who is a Divinity grad.
etc etc.
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
About surfacestations.org...
In 2007, Anthony Watts founded SurfaceStations.org, to collect information on weather stations that are part of the United States Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN). [21] Watts believed that, with the information collected via the website, "we will be able to demonstrate that some of the global warming increase is not from CO2 but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment."[22],[23]. But the results did not match Watts's expectations; a NOAA analysis of the Surface Stations data showed "no indication from this analysis that poor station exposure has imparted a bias in the U.S. temperature trends."[24]
SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anthony_Watts
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
About Anthony Watts...
Willard Anthony Watts (Anthony Watts) is a blogger, weathercaster and a climate change skeptic. Critics have described him as a politically-motivated college dropout with no climate credentials other than being a radio weather announcer. He runs the climate sceptic site wattsupwiththat.com.
SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anthony_Watts
anonymous replied on Permalink
Typical of this smear
Typical of this smear site.
Do you really think anyone pays attention to your nonsense?
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
The U.S. Temperature Record...
Readers of this comment thread will want to check out:
"Talking Points related to concerns about whether the U.S. temperature record is reliable," NOAA Climate Services, July 6, 2009 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/response-v2.pdf
anonymous replied on Permalink
interesting OPINIONS However
interesting OPINIONS
However I find Watts to be far more credible than bloggers on a Warmist propaganda site.
hands down… any day.
But your entitled to be wrong.
bratisla replied on Permalink
I totally agree with you
Best proof ? His peer reviewed article :
His conclusions shall be brought forth :
"Temperature trend estimates vary according to site classification, with poor siting leading to an
43 overestimate of minimum temperature trends and an underestimate of maximum temperature
44 trends, resulting in particular in a substantial difference in estimates of the diurnal temperature
45 range trends. The opposite-signed differences of maximum and minimum temperature trends are
46 similar in magnitude, so that the overall mean temperature trends are nearly identical across site
47 classifications."
Aka average trends are not significantly influenced by poor stations, and poor stations tend to underestimate the warming trend.
Aka, warming in US is statistically significant (see adj temperature trend on figure 10)
When Mr Watts says so, it must be right.
embarased paleo... replied on Permalink
Mialls denier-fest.
I was at the Geological Association of Canada meeting in late May in Ottawa, and unfortunately was coauthor on a paper presented in the climate session chaired by Miall. My grad student presented our paper, on climates of a past greenhouse period, presenting data on how at this time in the geological past CO2 levels were 4x present day and so temperatures were much higher than the last 40 million years. Our position from such analysis is not as Miall and other people present would have it, that higher CO2 then, now and in the future is therefore OK, but rather that we should see the geological past as a test case for examining the consequences for our future of uncontrolled anthropogenic increases in CO2. When Miall announced sotto voce that we were all there "to hear the truth" that we were in fact heading for another ice age (really!), my grad student and I looked at each other and left. Perhaps we should have stayed and challenged the nonsense being spouted. But having sat through Richard Alley`s wonderfully impassioned lecture on the "Biggest control knob: CO2 in Earths climate history" at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco Dec 2009, I was just embarassed. Embarassed that I had been duped, embarassed that GAC could allow this charade, and embarassed to be an Australian in Canada watching Australian and Canadian geoscientists make fools of themselves.
anonymous replied on Permalink
OK.. so One Cult member
OK.. so One Cult member nutbar is embarrassed.
the rest are not that stupid. (probably paid by Suzuki)
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Richard Alley
Speaking of that lecture, the AGU has been kind enough to make it available on-line for anyone to watch: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/lectures/lecture_videos/A23A.shtml
Also, here's Richard Alley trying to teach a Republican congressman about Milankovitch cycles (he may as well have been reading Shakespeare to a cow): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2m9SNzxJJA
Ben Lawson replied on Permalink
As someone who studied Geology under Dr. Miall but no longer professionally active, I was deeply disappointed by his embrace of false arguments and misrepresentation.
The speakers were an unchallenged who's who of discredited denialists. How could anyone with any intellectual honesty put forth such a stacked one-sided "seminar" on a controversial topic? Shameful.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Ask the nutbar warmists. They
Ask the nutbar warmists.
They put together one sided Propaganda fests all the time.
its all about pushing the scam.
skeptic replied on Permalink
Since when did science become
Since when did science become a religion and people with a different opinion heretics. What happened to skepticism. The last time scientists were this certain, it was called eugenics and we had a genocide.
And what exactly are Mr. Littlemore's qualifications? He's a journalist for heaven's sake! If it bleeds, it leads. Oh, and all those environmental scientists? Well they are in the pay of foundations like Suzuki's or get funding from the environmental ministries of governments pressured to fund environmental research. Do they ever find anything other than what they are paid to find? Why only target the oil industry. The environmental industry is exactly the same. Interest determines scientific findings.
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
More about Anthony Watts
Credentials held
Watts held an American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval (a discontinued credential that does not require a bachelor's or higher degree in atmospheric science or meteorology from an accredited college/university)[7] with a status of "retired".[8]
Credentials not held
Some online lists incorrectly refer to Watts as "AMS Certified"[9], but this is incorrect; the American Meteorological Society reserves its "AMS Certified" designation for its Certified Broadcast Meteorologists and Certified Consulting Meteorologists[10], and Watts posesses neither certification.[11],[12]
SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anthony_Watts
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Just a final note -- here's a
Just a final note – here's a plot of some results generated by the software I linked to above. The plot shows my results vs. NASA's official "Land Temperature Index" results (NASA numbers ware copied/pasted directly from the NASA/GISS web-site):
Note: My results were generated from completely non-manipulated, non-homogenized raw temperature data with a straightforward gridding/averaging program that a college-freshman engineering/comp-sci student should be able to code up.
As you can see, all the supposed "data manipulation tricks" that deniers have accused NASA of pulling barely affect NASA's results at all.
A reasonably competent programmer (heck, even a *student* programmer) should be able to figure this out for him/herself with just a few days of work, *at most*.
But the loudmouthed denier crowd hasn't been able to figure this out even though they have had *years* to do what a bright student should be able to do in a few days.
anonymous replied on Permalink
The latest Hokey Schtick;
The latest Hokey Schtick; another farce;
Probably the best indicator for weather or not temps are rising at the claimed rate is sea level rise.
Read the above, then ask yourself if you really trust the claims about temps.
then look again at the measurement methods, Adjustments and claims about temperatures.
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
More of the usual denialist bilge
The article relies heavily on the words of a "retired meteorologist" who has no qualifications to speak on this particular topic. Generally "leading" people in their fields are not retired; implying that a retired is a leading authority still active in the field is a common denialist trick.
The article also misrepresents the views of Jens Schroter, who actually told one of the co-authors of the paper in question that the numbers in that paper were reasonable.
From http://www.realclimate.org/?comments_popup=7947#comment-209072
"We estimate that the NC data should track the global mean sea level to within +/- 10 cm (on the time scales we resolve), and so far nobody has challenged this estimate. Specifically, Jens Schröter, quoted in the Spiegel article, has confirmed to me that he also finds this a reasonable estimate. -Stefan]"
Folks, deniers are just downright dishonest – time and time again, they demonstrate that they cannot be trusted.
Albatross replied on Permalink
Anon you are lying-- as
Anon you are lying– as demonstrated by the post below. Only a troll bot could lack any conscience. If lies and misinformation and distortion is all you have, then you have clearly lost.
And there are many Hockey Sticks out there, sad you are ignorant of that fact.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/new-remperature-reconstruction-vindicates.html http://www.skepticalscience.com/Hockey-stick-or-hockey-league.html
anonymous replied on Permalink
Oh Please..... The Hokey
Oh Please…..
The Hokey Schtick has been so completely discredited so many times in so many ways it just isnt worth discussing anymore.
You Posting links to propaganda sites that generate complete crap (skepticalscience) does not help your case in any way.
You guys clearly have no moral conscience since you keep on advocating this distructive and immoral scam…. shamefull….
bratisla replied on Permalink
skeptical science seems to be quite well known
I was referring to that site for a discussion on a french board, and I got the same kind of reaction skeptical science = propaganda. It is not surprising that Anglosaxons know this site, but his reputation goes beyond that. Quite interesting.
Anyway, once again : which "hockey stick" do you refer to ? The 13 years old Mann one ? The 2008 one ? The McShane and Wyner one ?
Please be more precise.

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Posted by Zel Allen's nutgourmet on November 9, 2011
If you're a regular NutGourmet visitor, then you're probably aware I have a passion for chestnuts. Chestnuts are special gems with a very short season. By Christmas they will be a rarity in grocery stores, except for the Asian markets that import Chinese chestnuts.
So many people feel intimidated by chestnuts and haven't the faintest idea how to cook, peel, and even incorporate them into a recipe. American grown chestnuts have just been harvested for the season, so this is the perfect time to jump in and give these wonderful nuts an opportunity to show their stuff in a delicious dish.
With the step-by-step guide that follows, you'll see how easy it is to cook and peel chestnuts and store them until you're ready to add them to a tasty recipe. Chestnuts have totally won me over. Give them a try—I'll bet you'll get hooked on them, too.
Step 1: This post shows a criss-cross cut on the chestnuts. I'm updating the technique to one that produces much better results for cooking and peeling the nuts. Using a firm, sharp paring knife, make a horizontal cut completely across the domed or rounded side of each chestnut. If both sides are flat, choose one of the sides for the wide horizontal cut. The cuts allow the chestnut to release steam and prevents it from bursting open during cooking. Hold the chestnut firmly with one hand and make the cuts with the other. Use a very firm paring knife with a 3-inch pointed blade. Don't be timid. Poke the tip of the knife right into the chestnut, about 1/4-inch to 3/8-inch deep.
Step 2: Put the cut chestnuts into a saucepan and add enough water to cover the nuts by about three inches. Cover the pot and bring it to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer the chestnuts for 25 to 35 minutes. Then, turn off the heat. The shorter time will result in firm chestnuts. Longer cooking will make them softer to use in puddings and creamy recipes.
Step 3: Use a slotted spoon to remove only a few chestnuts at a time from the pot and put them into a small bowl. You'll notice the horizontal cut allowed the shell to pull back, making it much easier to peel. The nuts peel much easier when they are quite warm. Have ready a bowl for the discarded nut shells and another bowl for the peeled chestnuts.
Step 4: Now you're ready to peel. You can use the firm paring knife or a chestnut knife with the very short, curved blade. Fix yourself a nice cup of tea and prepare for a relaxed peeling session that might take 20 to 30 minutes depending on how many chestnuts you've cooked. Poke the point of the knife into the cut and pull up on the peel.
Step 5: Chestnuts have a hard outer shell and an inner soft skin called the pellicle. Sometimes both the outer shell and inner skin will come off together, but occasionally, they'll have to be peeled away separately.
I hope you've rewarded yourself and tasted a few tidbits of broken chestnuts during the peeling session. The cooked and peeled chestnuts are now ready for incorporating into a recipe.
Storing the Chestnuts: If you plan to use the chestnuts within two or three days, cover them with plastic wrap and store them in the coldest part of the refrigerator. For longer storage, put them into a heavy-duty plastic bag and freeze them. Allow several hours to defrost at room temperature before using. Defrosting chestnuts in the refrigerator will result in mushy nuts.
Chestnuts are practically fat free! There's nothing like them on the planet. Their appearance, flavor, and texture are not like any familiar nuts such as almonds or walnuts, yet they are classified as tree nuts. Chestnuts can be eaten raw but deliver far better flavor and texture with cooking. Once cooked, they are sweet with a creamy texture similar to cooked potatoes.
You can incorporate cooked chestnuts into beverages, soups, salads, stir-fries, casseroles, puddings, pies, and baked goods and desserts of all kinds.
Ready for a delicious chestnut side dish for the Thanksgiving feast?
A stunning dish with rich, complex flavors, this delectable stuffed spinach roll is a winning company entrée with irresistible charm. American grown chestnuts, delightful in texture and flavor, add a delicate sweetness that enriches the creamed stuffing. For optimal success, prepare both the spinach roll and the stuffing a day ahead and store them in the refrigerator separately. To prevent the spinach layer from becoming soggy, assemble the dish and warm it at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes close to serving time. The Roulade can be warming while serving the salad or appetizer course.
Yield: 8 servings
Spinach Roll
2 pounds frozen spinach
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons water, divided
2 tablespoons plus 1 1/2 teaspoons powdered egg replacer
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
Chestnut Veggie Stuffing
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 head medium cauliflower, finely chopped
1 large red bell pepper, chopped
1 cup quartered cooked chestnuts
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/3 cup black raisins
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup unsweetened soymilk
1/2 cup cooked whole or coarsely chopped chestnuts
Salt and pepper
Pinch of cayenne (optional)
1 large unpeeled cucumber, sliced
12 cherry tomatoes, halved crosswise
1 tablespoon minced parsley, chives, or arugula
1. TO MAKE THE SPINACH ROLL, preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line a large jellyroll pan with parchment paper. Lightly oil the parchment and set aside.
2. Place the frozen spinach into a 4-quart saucepan, add 1/2 cup of the water, and cover the pan. Cook over high heat for 2 minutes, reduce the heat to medium, and cook about 3 minutes. Lift the cover, stir the spinach, replace the cover and cook about 6 minutes, or until the spinach is fully cooked.
3. Drain the water and squeeze the spinach through the fingers until it is bone dry. This step will take several minutes but is important to the success of the recipe. When the spinach is completely dry, place it into a large bowl.
4. Combine the powdered egg replacer and the remaining 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons water in a small bowl and beat with a fork until thoroughly combined and foamy. Add it to the cooked spinach and mix thoroughly.
5. Add the salt and pepper, mix well, and spoon the spinach mixture onto the prepared jellyroll pan. Use the back of a spoon or a fork to spread the spinach into a rectangle approximately 9 1/2 x 13 inches. Bake the spinach for 20 to 25 minutes, remove it from the oven, and allow it to cool completely. Cover the jellyroll pan entirely with plastic wrap and store it in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.
6. TO MAKE THE CHESTNUT VEGGIE STUFFING, heat the olive oil in a large, deep skillet. Add the cauliflower, bell pepper, quartered chestnuts, onions, raisins, garlic, and cinnamon. Cook over high heat, stirring frequently, for about 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are softened. Reduce the heat to medium.
7. Combine the soymilk and the 1/2 cup whole chestnuts in the blender and process until creamy. Add the creamy mixture to the cooked chestnut-vegetable medley and cook for about 1 to 2 minutes, stirring frequently, or until the mixture is thoroughly combined and thickened. Season the veggie stuffing with salt, pepper, and cayenne, if using.
8. TO ASSEMBLE THE ROULADE, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Remove the spinach roll from the refrigerator and remove the plastic wrap. Place a clean sheet of parchment over the spinach roll, cover with another jellyroll pan, and invert the pan. Carefully remove the top layer of parchment and bake the spinach roll, uncovered, for 5 minutes to remove excess moisture.
9. Set aside 1 cup of the Chestnut Veggie Stuffing and spoon the remainder onto the spinach layer, placing it lengthwise down the center.
10. Lift one side of the parchment and use a knife to release the spinach roll from the parchment, if needed, folding it over the stuffing. Lift the other side of the parchment and fold the spinach over the stuffing. Use your hands to overlap the spinach roll and completely enclose the stuffing.
11. Bake, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes to warm through. While the Roulade is warming, spoon the reserved stuffing into a small saucepan and warm over medium-low heat.
12. Remove the Roulade from the oven and use a flatware knife to carefully slide it toward the edge of the parchment. Lift the parchment, Roulade and all, off the jellyroll pan and onto an oval or rectangular serving platter. Gently push the Roulade completely off the parchment and center it on the platter. Spoon the warmed stuffing over the Roulade lengthwise down the center.
13. TO GARNISH AND SERVE THE ROULADE, line both sides of the Roulade with the cucumber slices, cut side facing inward, and place a cherry tomato half on top of each cucumber half. Lightly sprinkle the top of the Chestnut Veggie Stuffing with paprika and minced herbs. Use a sharp, serrated knife to cut the Roulade into serving portions.
I place a high value on fresh chestnuts for the seasonal nuance and the ambrosial quality they bring to a dish. I've even attempted to substitute with potatoes or sweet potatoes because of their starchy nature, but neither measures up to the real thing. Nothing quite takes the place of the fresh chestnut. Invite them to dinner and perhaps they'll become as high on your holiday shopping list as they have on mine.
9 Responses to "PEELING AND COOKING CHESTNUTS STEP-BY-STEP"
November 11, 2011 at 2:19 am
Hello there..Red from Rocketand Roses here. Thanks for the follow on Twit and I've stopped by to see you. I really enjoyed this post and I shall most definitely will be trying the Roulade recipe and blogging about it. Hope you stop by and visit me soon?
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December 28, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Very nice detailed write-up you have for chestnuts on your blog. I was just searching around to see what's been written up this year on chestnuts and was happy to see how you've used chestnuts in several great recipes. Thanks, Harvey from Correia Chestnut Farm (hope to have a much bigger crop next year!)
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Thank You for the tip-how to cook Chestnuts quite helpful as I have never cook with Chestnuts before, the receipe I am going to make is a Vegetarian dish called for cook Chestnuts. Thanks Beverley


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Reducing C-Sections For Good?
Fact: In 2011, one in three U.S. women gave birth via C-section.
And while that fact in and of itself isn't necessarily a negative thing, the obvious elephant in the room (besides my pregnant belly) is that the large majority of those surgeries were not necessary in the first place. C-sections, a procedure that can be lifesaving to both a mother and a baby, are also a major surgery that shouldn't be taken lightly. It comes with its own host of problems and complications, like an increased risk for infection and potential to limit the future number of pregnancies a woman can have.
As the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) states, "The rapid increase in cesarean birth rates from 1996 to 2011 without clear evidence of concomitant decreases in maternal or neonatal morbidity or mortality raises significant concern that cesarean delivery is overused." Bottom line? Too many U.S. women are getting too many C-sections.
Why it matters
The matter of the rapid increase in C-sections among mothers as a birthing route is so concerning to ACOG that they issued their own in-depth review of the issue. And while there are a whole host of behind-the-scenes complications with C-sections, such as hospital guidelines, staffing policies and costliness, the inherent medical risks of a C-section are no laughing matter. ACOG breaks down the risks of a C-section compared to a vaginal birth as:
- An almost quadrupled rate of maternal mortality (3.6 in 100,000 versus 13.3)
- Placental abnormalities, a risk that increases with each C-section
- Doubled risk of laceration to the infant
- A huge increase in respiratory difficulties for the infant
- Doubled risk of amniotic air embolisms (a usually fatal complication)
"Any surgery has inherent risks, so you would like to avoid surgery itself, but you can't," comments Dr. Jeff Livingston of MacArthur OB-GYN in Texas. However, he notes that the complications with a C-section are serious for women and their children. "Recovery is longer, pain is longer; [there are increased] risks of infections and blood clots. If you compare the two, the vaginal delivery is the safer route."
A chain reaction
What's even more troubling than the increased risks that a C-section can pose for a woman and baby is the fact that the first C-section can set off a chain reaction of further complications down the road. "The downstream effects are even greater because of the risks from repeat cesareans in future pregnancies," states ACOG. Maternal risks such as surgical injury, blood transfusions, hysterectomies and uterine rupture increase with each subsequent C-section.
Part of the problem with a primary C-section is, of course, that it has the potential to lead to more C-sections — which is why ACOG is determined to lower the rate of C-sections for first-time mothers. Scar tissue weakens the uterus, and doctors fear tissue can become so thin that it will burst open, a complication known as a uterine rupture. One woman I know longs to add a fourth baby to her family, but after three previous C-sections due to medical concerns, is fearful that her uterus won't handle the trauma of another C-section.
What's the solution?
Taking a closer look at the reasons behind C-sections is the first step. ACOG found that "arrest of labor" and "non-reassuring fetal heart tones" accounted for more than half of all C-sections, and in layman's terms, those two reasons can also mean "This labor is taking too long for the doctor's liking" and "There was one dip in the heart rate, which really means nothing but lawyers don't know that, so let's cut." The reasons for those first C-sections aren't always valid reasons to begin with, and therein lies the major problem. According to ACOG, true reasons for a first-time C-section include:
- True emergency fetal heart tones (which, ACOG is quick to point out, are actually very rare)
- After failed attempts to turn a breech baby (ACOG states that doctors simply aren't trying hard enough to turn breech babies before resorting to surgery)
- Twins not in the head-down position (twins in the "head-down" position actually do better with vaginal births)
- Active genital disease (if she's been treated, vaginal birth is recommended)
- An extended second stage of labor (while the first stage of labor is more variable, studies have shown that prolonged pushing can result in negative outcomes)
Other solutions may mean a better understanding that normal labor can take even longer than previously expected, especially when epidurals are involved, and reducing interventions that lead to "emergency" C-sections, such as non-medical inductions, can make a difference in reducing the surgical rate, as well as educating women on their option for having a vaginal birth after a C-section, called a VBAC.
Currently, the success rates for women attempting a vaginal delivery after an initial C-section are as high as 60 to 80 percent, although the rates vary widely based on the cause of the first C-section. And studies show that VBACs are safer and lead to better outcomes, both short- and long-term, for mothers when compared to repeat C-sections. There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but in general, most OB-GYNs are supportive of women choosing to VBAC. "I VBAC'ed just 15 months after having my first and my docs were all for it," comments blogger Brittany Vail. "And they weren't hippy doctors. I was pleasantly surprised and thankful!" "It was a non-issue," echoes Melissa Cohen, who had two VBACs. "Other than telling me that because of my prior [C-section], they'd want me to come in a little earlier, not to wait until the contractions were five minutes apart for an hour."
ACOG also emphasized that, contrary to popular belief, macrosomia, or what's more commonly known simply as "a big baby," is NOT an indication for a C-section. Who knew? Interestingly enough, the organization also states the single biggest factor in reducing our nation's C-section rate is actually surprisingly simple: support during labor.
More on C-sections
C-section recovery tips
Everything you need to know about C-sections
Preventing C-section


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Parliament factions, in uproar, direct explanations
YEREVAN—Armenia's Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian told a National Assembly Wednesday that Hungary had given Armenia "unequivocal assurances" that it would not extradite mattock killer Ramil Safarov, as recently as Aug 24, job into doubt Hungary's tactful honesty.
Nalbandian was vocalization during an puncture event of a parliament, that during a ask of a president, convened to plead Hungary's preference to extradite Safarov, who in 2004, brutally murdered Armenian serviceman Lt. Gurgen Margaryan.
Nalbandian explained that Armenia's care frequently told a Hungarian supervision that Safarov's extradition would be unsuitable for Armenia
"The Hungarian side gave undeniable assurances that such a step is excluded. Similar assurances were supposing in answer to a inquiries during a second half of August, including on Aug 22, 23, 24 in
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This is an excerpt from Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine by Lorin A. Cartwright, MS, ATC, and René Revis Shingles, PhD, ATC.
Mexicans have a unique culture of their own. It is important for the athletic trainer to understand the similarities and the differences of this culture to one's own, avoid the generalization that everyone adheres to the same beliefs that are part of this culture, and keep an open mind when working with athletes whose culture may be different than their own.
The acculturation process varies for each person and culture. This section addresses the history of the country of origin and immigration, primary languages and communication, family structure, daily living and food practices, and spiritual or religious orientation.
Mexicans are descendents of Central American Indians, Native Americans, Spanish, Africans, and Europeans. Spanish people came to Mexico (see figure 9.1) as explorers, looted gold and riches from the Aztec Indians, and claimed it for Spain. Other tribes supported the Spanish in conquering the Aztecs.
First-generation Mexican immigrants were able to freely move back and forth between the United States and Mexico until the mid-1940s (Ngai, 2004; Lipson, Dibble, & Minarik, 1996; Downes, 1997).Once it became illegal to cross the border, many Mexicans stayed in the United States but maintained their culture and values. Immigrants who try to cross the border illegally are under stress of getting caught, being deported, or dying.
Mexicans have come to the United States to be with family members who immigrated previously and for employment opportunities, health care, and education. First-generation immigrants have often found only temporary work in fields, doing physical labor, or taking on jobs that Americans refuse to do (Lipson et al., 1996; Downes, 1997). Second- and third-generation immigrants have been able to find white-collar jobs that require college education.
Today the majority of Mexican immigrants to the United States live in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas (Purnell & Paulanka, 2003). The majority of Mexicans live in cities, and many fail to complete a high school education; Los Angeles is the U.S. city with the largest Mexican population (Spector, 2004).
Mexicans speak a variety of languages, including Spanish, English, and an indigenous Indian language (e.g., Nahuatl and Maya) (Purnell & Paulanka, 2005; Erickson D'Avanzo & Geissler, 2003; Lipson et al., 1996). There are several dialects of Spanish and of the Indian language.
It is not uncommon to see three generations living under the same roof. Everyone is expected to contribute, including the youngest and oldest members. The needs of the family are deemed more important than the needs of the individual (Downes, 1997).
Mexicans are oriented toward present time; they are focused on "right now" rather than on the past or on future events or outcomes. Thus a Mexican athlete who completes a questionnaire regarding health may not share past medical conditions or illnesses if they are thought to have no bearing on how the athlete feels now. This tendency may make it more challenging for an athletic trainer to treat an illness or condition.
About 90 percent of Mexicans are Catholic (Erickson D'Avanzo & Geissler, 2003); the secondary religion is Protestantism. Less than five percent of people also adhere to espiritism,a form of belief in God and spirits. Adherents communicate with spirits via a séance while in a trance or channeling (Kardec, 2007). People involved in espiritism believe that they are supported and enriched through prayer and belief.
This section presents the particulars of Mexican health culture in the following categories: biocultural assessment, common sensitivities and conditions, beliefs about illness, preventive health practices, symptom management, and treatments. We would do well to remember, however, that all cultures have their own variations, whether in skin color, health beliefs, sensitivities, conditions, or health threats.
In traditional Mexican culture, it is believed that illness results from three causes: sin, imbalance, and witchcraft. Acculturated immigrants are accepting of Western medicine.
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Dont be alarmed by small
amounts of rust deposits, but alot of rust could again signify poor
Antifreeze is a sign of good ownership and also acts as a corrosion
inhibitor. Open the oil filler cap and check for excessive build up of
white 'mayonnaise' deposits or 'mulsh'. A mixture of oil and
water suggests head gasket failure - although a small build up due to
condensation and weather mean that mulsh can appear on the rocker cap without the
gasket going. Open the boot - lift up the mat and check for repairs or signs of paint/filler suggesting a rear bump. Get
underneath the car - or take someone who knows what to look for. Check the front end for signs of bush wear on lower wishbones
and engine mounts. Check for signs of oil leakage and water leaks. Common oil leaks occur around the rocker gasket, common
coolant leaks occur around the 3 bleed nipples, the oil cooler piping,and the thermostat housing. Check the sills, rust
shouldn't be a problem, but look for signs of 'crimping' where by the car may have had equipment attatched to be 'jigged'.
Backunder the bonnet check for new parts, this can be a sign of good ownership. (new battery, new alternator etc). An
old saying goes like this 'All that glistens isn't gold' so a clean engine bay doens't mean the car is better
mechanically than a dirty engine bayed car.
Many Rallyes have had new engines fitted - making it hard to know what to look for - Check the new engine
has been registered on the V5 and that the engine code/cc matches. Ask for receipts, details, as much info as possible about
this engine - is it guaranteed? cost? who fitted it - is the mileage genuine?? This can be a dark area as this is an area where
by alot of the info can be hazy, but you just have to check as best you can.
Other areas include under bonnet modifications, of which there are far too many to go into detail. I
would as a guide just check for fitment of these (is it good, secure) and can it be changed back to standard easily - and has
the owner got the OE parts still. An airbox can cost up to £80 to buy new!! And be careful, any modification from what the
manufacturer intended can have an effect on the running of the car.
Written by James Higginson.


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"Blade Runner," "The Searchers, " "1984"—all touchstones of American cinematic and literary greatness, which might lead you to believe a mash-up of the trio would create a super-flick, one of unfathomable brilliance and profound meaning.
You would be wrong.
Adapted from the Korean comic, "Priest" is set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans and vampires have warred for centuries, finding awkward peace when the remaining living move inside walled cities overseen by the Church while vampires are contained on reservations.
How do you know that? Thanks to a roughly hewn animated prologue that looks hastily thrown together and does little to inspire confidence in the film to follow.
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But here's what you learn, after the last Vampire War, Priests were abandoned by the people they'd sworn to protect (it's a thinly veiled nod to soldiers after the Vietnam War), while the Church, which broadcasts loops of sermons Big Brother-style around the city, runs everything and those who wish to survive must follow, leading us to wonder, what happened to all the Jews, Muslims, Buddhists or, dare we ask, agnostics after the war.
Regardless, a veteran Priest (Paul Bettany, doing what seems to be an amalgam of his roles in "The Da Vinci Code" and "Legion") is re-enlisted for his warrior ways when his niece (Phil's daughter, Lily Collins) is kidnapped by vampires. With her boyfriend (Cam Gigandet) and a former Warrior Priestess ("Nikita" star Maggie Q, who has a few moments of Thornbirds-ish tempered lust with Bettany), the trio strikes out for a rescue mission of vengeance, against the orders of the Church.
Predictable and underwhelming, the film's strengths lie in Bettany's acting abilites, Karl Urban's zeal at barring his fangs as a baddie cowboy vampire, and the aesthetic of the barren wasteland director Scott Stewart ("Legion") created to stage his post-apocalyptic Western. Still, the film fails to startle with vampires that are less fearsome than tiresome, cartoonish CGI, and a needless post production 3D conversion that doesn't do the shaky script any favors.


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- fat8g
- saturates1g
- carbs21g
- sugars0g
- fibre2g
- protein34g
- salt0.35g
- 1 medium onion, roughly chopped
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- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
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How the fuck did both Larry Gagosian and Damien Hirst make the top 40 in Vanity Fair's New Establishment rankings. While I'm excited to see two artists represented, did they have to pick the dealer client combo? Particularly at #31 and #38? It just seems like a bit much. Throw in Bacon-buyer Roman Abramovich at #8, and you have the entire Bacon supply chain.
Of course, Vanity Fair was not cool enough to show some love to the ultimate Baconian, Nelson Diaz. That's a damned shame, because you can look at his work and see where Bacon was headed.


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As I announced on my last week's post, I want to share with the people of the archdiocese some reflections around the theme of end-of-life issues. Nov. 6 we will be asked to vote on ballot question 2, that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts. It is my hope that the citizens of the Commonwealth will be informed about this issue and will vote no to this initiative that would degrade us as a society.
Suicide is always a tragedy
Most people I know have lost a friend, a family member or loved one to suicide. Sometimes the depression and anxiety had been apparent for a long time; other times people are taken completely off guard, not even suspecting the deep torment that a loved one endured secretly.
We have come to appreciate how dangerous depression can be. It is like quicksand that devours a person in the unstoppable urge to self-destruction. Sometimes we experience a rash of suicides in a community, as one depressed person — upon hearing of a friend, acquaintance or even a stranger, who takes his own life — repeats that action. The copycat syndrome is a very real danger. The suffering of a suicide reverberates in the psyche of friends, relatives and co-workers and also in people who have attempted or considered suicide in the past. Suicide always affects other people; it is never an act that only affects the individual involved. Family members, friends and neighbors often are filled with lingering sadness, guilt and confusion. Sometimes those who are closest to the deceased never completely recover, never forgive themselves and are haunted for the rest of their lives by the loss.
There are dedicated suicide prevention organizations like the Samaritans that stand ready to help people in the throes of depression and suicidal thoughts. Many volunteers stand ready on their hotlines, always prepared to try to bring solace and help to those suffering from suicidal impulses. There are also heroic first responders who often risk their lives to help stop someone from taking one's own life. All of us are called upon to be Good Samaritans and to work to prevent suicides in our community.
The World Health Organization (WHO) studies suicides throughout the world. One of their pleas to governments is to avoid presenting suicide as a solution to peoples' problems. In a way, that is what physician-assisted suicide is doing for one group of people — those with terminal diagnoses of six months or less. Oregon, the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, has one of the highest rates of suicide (not including deaths from PAS) of any state in the nation. It begs a logical question: how can a state effectively both try to minimize suicide in some situations and promote it as a legal alternative in other situations? There is no doubt that efforts to prevent suicides will be undermined by legalizing suicide for those with terminal diagnoses and presenting it as normal and acceptable. Suicide, in any form, is always a tragedy — a tragedy that all people of good will should work to prevent.
Suicide has increased dramatically over the last few decades. Suicide is among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-24 years according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Physician-assisted suicide will usually involve, in addition to the physician who writes the prescription, the family, nurses and pharmacists who become accomplices in the suicide.
We need to reflect also on the difficulty of making terminal diagnoses and physician error. These prognoses are just estimates. We should also consider the troubles for human relationships within families and between doctors and patients, as well as the risks to the whole social order from the weakening of our legal prohibition against the participation in assisted suicide.
Fear of tremendous pain is advanced as a reason to support physician-assisted suicide. However, even proponents of PAS readily acknowledge that modern medicine can manage the pain in almost every case. Very few Oregon residents that request PAS indicate unbearable pain as the reason that they requested the lethal prescription.
Another justification that proponents for the proposed law in Massachusetts advance is that PAS provides the patient greater autonomy — the ability to be in absolute control until the very end, and to avoid the fear of humiliations and indignities that catastrophic illness can entail. Disability advocacy groups, who are part of the broad-based coalition against PAS, rebut this argument forcefully. One of these groups, called "Second Thoughts" insists that the "autonomy" offered by physician-assisted suicide may sound like a good idea at first for people who are terminally ill, but on second thought and a deeper review PAS presents several major concerns. They state that the proposed law's principal aim isn't about creating new "rights" for patients, but rather to provide immunity from prosecution to doctors who assist with suicide. This immunity likely will increase the possibilities for mistakes, coercion and abuse for those who are seriously or terminally ill. They also state that PAS advances the idea that people with certain illnesses, disabilities or other conditions are "better off dead."
People with disabilities know what it is to live with the severe limitations brought on by disease or injury. They understand the permanency of conditions that involve paralysis, incontinence, pain and dependence on others. They do not, however, offer suicide as a good option to rescue people from disabilities or other difficult situations. Helen Keller, born blind and deaf, would never agree with suicide as a solution for those like herself.
In almost every instance palliative care can suppress pain. People already have the right to refuse burdensome, life-extending treatments. They also have the option of leaving advance directives to determine their care when they are no longer able to express their wishes. The death that results from withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment has always been separated by a bright line from active measures to cause death. Assisted suicide proponents seek to blur this line.
I am happy that the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation recently testified against the physician-assisted suicide initiative on Beacon Hill and that so many doctors and nurses are speaking out against Question 2 and encouraging a "No" vote.
Last month, a letter appeared in the Ottawa Citizen and in some Florida newspapers. The letter was written by Jeannette Hall from King City, Oregon. In her very poignant testimony she stated that she lives in Oregon and voted for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the late 1990s. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 and told she had six months to live. She first appealed to her doctor to help to end her life. He refused and urged her to try new treatments. Twelve years later she is happy to be alive. She said "If my doctor had believed in assisted suicide, I would be dead. Thank him and all my doctors for helping me choose 'life with dignity.'" She ends with the plea: "Assisted suicide should not be legal. Don't make Oregon's mistake."
All of us should be committed to suicide prevention, to helping those who might consider committing suicide because of fear and depression. As a community we must send a message that suicide is always a tragedy, a bad choice, and an act of abandonment and despair. It never enhances, and always undermines, human dignity. Legalizing physician-assisted suicide falsely presents suicide as a good solution to one's problems. I ask you to join me and work to stop assisted suicide here in the commonwealth by voting no on Question 2 and encouraging others to join us.
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Last Wednesday, I paid a visit to the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge. Sheriff Peter Koutoujian is very interested in the different faith communities helping with ministry to the prisoners.
The Catholic Church has a very active ministry there with Michael Charchaflian and Father Richard Deshaies.
I celebrated Mass for the inmates and then went to visit the cellblocks as well as those in solitary confinement.
We were very impressed by their very beautiful Chapel.
My understanding is that the jail was built about 50 years ago. At that time, I suppose it was a very modern structure.
The Protestant chaplain, who is the chief of chaplains at the jail, was there as well and was very welcoming to us.
We were also very surprised at how overcrowded the jail is. There are plans to relocate for that reason. I believe they have a population that is approximately twice the facilities capacity. This is of course a great concern for the Sheriff.
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Then, later that day, I met with the state leadership of the Knights of Columbus to talk to them about the issue of physician assisted suicide and about ways that they can help in this campaign. They have been very supportive of our efforts and it was a very profitable meeting.
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In the evening, I was very pleased to go to Blessed John XXIII National Seminary for their 31st Annual Lawn Party.
As always, it was a very uplifting evening. Two of the seminarians gave very moving testimonies about their lives and their call to the priesthood. Also, the rector, Father William Palardy, gave a report on the state of the seminary that was very positive.
I think this was the largest group to ever attend the Lawn Party and the evening was very successful, as the seminary is gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary. We want to thank the chair people of the dinner, Scott and Mia Gieselman for their wonderful work orchestrating this enjoyable evening.
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On Thursday I visited Anna Maria College in Paxton. I was asked to give a talk on evangelization and Catholic education at the convocation to begin the academic year.
I was accompanied by Bishop McManus, the Bishop of Worcester. It was my first visit to the college and I was very impressed by the campus and their desire to promote the Catholic identity of the school. I met several of the Sisters of Saint Anne, the community that founded Anna Maria College in 1946. The college actually began in the Archdiocese of Boston, it was located in Marlborough, and then in 1952 went out to the Diocese of Worcester. To this day, the order still has a convent in Marlborough.
During my visit they also very graciously bestowed me with an honorary doctorate of theology.
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Later in the day, we had one of our periodic meetings of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council.
At the meeting, we discussed the final proposed pastoral plan that has been presented to me by the Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Commission headed by Msgr. Willam Fay and Deacon Chuck Clough.
Father Paul Soper, our interim director of pastoral planning, made the presentation of the final document and asked for reactions. There was overwhelming support for the plan among the members of the APC.
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That evening, I went to the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary for the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit to begin the academic year.
I was able to greet three of the four new seminarians who are beginning at the seminary this year. I celebrated the Mass and afterwards we had a very enjoyable dinner.
I was able to say farewell to Joseph, who is being sent to the diocese of Armagh, Ireland where a new seminary as being established. He is a very talented young man. He led us in song after the meal and I suggested they sing "The Wild Irish Rover" to prepare him for life in Armagh!
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Speaking of Ireland, I want to mention that this was brought back for me by Mr. Gormley from St. Theresa's parish in West Roxbury.
He was recently in Ireland for the All Ireland Football Championship, in which my team was playing – the Mayo team – but we lost! The Mayo team and the Red Sox are not having a good year!
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Saturday, it was my joy to ordained 10 men as permanent deacons at the Cathedral the Holy Cross.
In the past, we held ordinations of permanent deacons every two years. However, going forward, we will now have ordinations every year. This will be a wonderful resource for the archdiocese as this vocation is growing.
This year, I had the special privilege to ordain the first member of the local Brazilian community to graduate from the diaconate program, Deacon Paulo Torrens. I am very pleased to have him as an additional resource for the outreach to our Brazilian community. The Archdiocese of Boston has about 200,000 Brazilian Catholics. We are very dependent on the generosity of Brazilian bishops and religious communities who provide priests to serve them. We are particular grateful for this vocation to the diaconate.
There was also one Deacon who was German, Deacon Michael Joens. They had asked if they could take their vows in their native languages. I was very happy to oblige.
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In the evening, I celebrated the Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Jamaica Plain for the installation of Father Carlos Flor. He is the pastor of three parishes: St. Thomas Aquinas and Our Lady of Lourdes in Jamaica Plain and St. Mary of the Angels in Roxbury.
It was a standing room only crowd composed of members of all three parishes.
It was a bilingual celebration. They had a very energetic choir composed of members of all three parishes as well.
The crowd was very enthusiastic. I was very pleased to see Father Carlos's parents there.
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Sunday morning, we had a beautiful celebration for the installation of Msgr. James Moroney as the new rector of St. John's Seminary. A number of bishops were present including Bishop Arthur Kennedy, Walter Edyvean, Salvatore Matano of Vermont, Robert McManus of Worcester, Bishop Emeritus of Worcester Daniel Reilly and Peter Libasci of New Hampshire.
The installation was held on the seminary's Family Day so many of the seminarians' families were able to join us, as well as a number of the members of the Order of Malta, the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulcher and the Knights of Columbus.
Msgr. Moroney is a priest of Worcester, and at the end of the ceremony Bishop McManus made the official announcement of his being elevated to the second rank of monsignor, Prelate of Honor.
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Each year we have a Mass to celebrate the anniversaries of the religious women in the archdiocese. This year, it was held at on Sunday afternoon once again at St. Theresa of Avila Parish in West Roxbury. The parish is always very gracious to host us there.
It was said that this year's jubilarians represent over 1,900 combined years of service to the Church. There was one sister celebrating her 75th anniversary of religious life.
During the Mass, there was a reflection on religious life offered by a Sister Lisette Michaud, a Sister of St. Chretienne.
Sister Marian Batho, our Delegate for Religious, offered some remarks as well.
Following the Mass, there was a very nice reception held for the sisters in the school hall next door.
I was very pleased to have an opportunity to be able to greet each of the jubilarians, their families and loved ones.
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Tuesday, I met with the Catholic School Education Council at the offices of Peter Lynch to speak about the strategic plan for our schools. This Council has been very helpful in advising the archdiocese.
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Also that evening I attended the wake of Fra Richard Armstrong who is a member of the Order of Malta who was very beloved in the community.
He was a labor lawyer who belonged to the Order of Malta and became a Knight of Justice, which is in the highest of three classes of Knights. Knights of Justice take religious vows of "poverty, chastity and obedience aspiring to perfection according to the Gospel".
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Wednesday I was visited by Bishop George Lungu of the Diocese of Chipata, Zambia who is here to speak in parishes about his diocese and raise support for the missions there. He was accompanied by Maureen Heil and Father Rodney Copp of our of of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
His diocese is, in a great part, a rural diocese and there is great poverty there. He is also trying to help the neighboring diocese in Mozambique that has very few priests and religious. The people of that diocese are of the same ethnic origin even though it is across the border in Mozambique.
He presented me with this shawl, which is commemorative of the anniversary of his diocese. It includes pictures of the different bishops and historical representations of the diocese.
He explained that in his country, particularly women, would wrap this around themselves when they went to Mass.
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For the last four years we have had a Celebration of the Priesthood to support the Clergy Funds, which takes care of the medical and retirement needs of our priests.
This year over 1,300 people gathered at the Seaport World Trade Center in South Boston to show their gratitude and support for our priests.
At the dinner they announced that over $1.1 million was raised for the Clergy Funds which was an 11% increase over the previous year.
There are many people who played a part in making this year's celebration such a success. We of course want to thank the dinner co-chairs Neal Finnegan and Ann Carter, our keynote speaker Don Rodman, as well as John Kaneb, Joe D'Arrigo and all the members of our staff who worked so hard to bring the evening together.
Dinner co-chairs Neil Finnegan and Ann Carter
John Kaneb
Joe D'Arrigo
Don Rodman
And, once again, Father Bob Reed did an excellent job as the emcee.
One of the highlights for me was a very beautiful video highlighting the ministry of five different priests.
The opening prayer was delivered by Father Eric Cadin, the youngest priest in the archdiocese.
The closing prayer was offered by Msgr. Paul McManus, who I believe is ordained 70 years.
After the closing prayer all the priests joined together and sang the Salve Regina.
It was, as always, a beautiful and uplifting event.
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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location: Washington State, USA
Member Type: Professional
Expertise: rigging, modeler, texturer
Tools: Blender, GIMP, 3DCoat, Zbrush, DAZ Studio
I've been into 3d since late 2006, starting when the game Oblivion came out and I started modding for it. I ran into some Poser/DAZ users on a modding forum and started teaching myself the programs in '08 or so. Now I sell content supporting the Genesis series of figures in DAZ Studio, and I post my promotional freebies here (as well as some that are just for fun).
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While holding court with the press Wednesday afternoon inside the visitor's clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, Ricciardi was asked if this year was the worst it's been injury-wise for the GM since taking the helm for the Jays.
After starting to nod his head, running the list of walking wounded through his head (B.J. Ryan, Reed Johnson, Troy Glaus, Gregg Zaun, Brandon League, John Thomson, Davis Romero), Ricciardi aborted a "Yes" answer and cited the 2004 season.
"Now that I'm thinking about it, the year we only won 67 games was pretty horrible," Ricciardi said. "Every time the phone rang, I wanted to run the other way. I mean, we had won 86 games the year before and at the very least we expected to be over .500."
Through June that year, consider the sheer number of players who landed on the DL for Toronto: Carlos Delgado, Vernon Wells, Roy Halladay, Frank Catalanotto, Justin Speier, Orlando Hudson, Chris Woodward, Greg Myers, Kevin Cash, Justin Miller, Kerry Lightenberg, Bobby Estalella, and Valerio De Los Santos.
"I remember listening on the radio one night," Ricciardi continued. "We were playing San Diego and [broadcaster] Jerry Coleman was saying, 'Now batting, Howie Clark and on deck, Frank Menechino. Who the **** are these guys?'"
This season, Ricciardi at least has a little more depth to work with. Adam Lind has been a sound replacement in left field, Toronto could do a whole lot worse than Jason Frasor as its closer, and John McDonald and Jason Smith have done a solid job holding down the fort at third base. Sal Fasano hasn't played yet, but that's another veteran to step in now that Zaun is out.
"We have some positional depth that we didn't have before," Ricciardi said. "We've got some pitchers in place who can step in if need be, too. The one important thing is not to lose the guy who was on the mound [Wednesday] night."
That'd be Mr. Halladay, who is 3-0 with a 2.58 so far this season.
BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT: Jays manager John Gibbons wasn't at all surprised to see all the hype surrounding the big-league debut of Yankees rookie Phil Hughes. After all, Gibbons can recall first hand what the atmosphere was like when Dwight "Doc" Gooden was breaking in with the Mets in 1984.
"As far as the hype, New York can do that for you," Gibbons said. "You could see how good [Gooden] was. It was just whether or not he could handle that hype. He was a rare guy, too. Those guys don't come around too often. This kid might be one."
That "kid" being Hughes, who was touched up for four runs in 4 1/3 innings by the Jays Thursday night. It wasn't all icing on the cake when Gooden started off, either.
On April 13, 1984, Gibbons was behind the plate for the Mets at Wrigley Field for Gooden's second-ever start. The starter's line that evening? 3 1/3 innings, 6 runs, 7 hits, 4 strikeouts and three walks. Gooden finished '84 with a 17-9 record and a 2.60 ERA. So, Hughes might be alright after all.
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wow, isnt it a little early to be comparing him to Doc Gooden? Doc was a beast, hughes is still nothing but potential, which is great but is no Dwight Gooden
The increased payroll has benefitted the team in terms of allowing them to sign and trade for some big names (Glaus, Thomas, Ryan and Burnett) but it has also allowed for them to build up some depth and that is why they're staying afloat right now despite the growing list of injuries. I still say the loss of Ryan is going to hurt them the most but if they can get consistent offense and the bullpen can hold up they can stay in striking distance.
Three wins in a row and now we have Towers on the mound. Clauk up another loss .