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By Hannah Cruz
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — With 78 years of combined nursing experience, two Norman nurses are retiring from the Norman Regional Health System.
Joan Morehead, a nurse in Norman Regional's Women's and Children's Unit for 42 years, and Joan Kemmet Greenleaf, an emergency room department nurse for 36 years, both recently said their farewells to the hospital that made their nursing dreams come true.
Morehead, a life-long Norman resident and Norman High School graduate, said her love affair with nursing began when she started volunteering as a Candy Striper with her mother.
"I credit it to my mom," she said. "She's the one that led me to be a nurse."
Her Monday retirement saw her leaving a life-long passion of serving new parents. Morehead is credited with starting the hospital support group PRIDE, or Parents Responding to Infant Death Experience, around 1991.
Though she is leaving behind a work culture that Morehead described as a family unit, she said she can't see herself completely walking away. She plans on possibly filling her new-found free time by volunteering again at the hospital.
Greenleaf, longtime Norman resident, said nursing was the only thing she ever longed to do. Serving in various roles at the hospital — including a bulk of her time in the emergency room, as well as operating rooms and the intensive care unit — Greenleaf said retiring is like saying goodbye to her family.
"The hospital has been extremely good to me," she said. "They're my family. I leave knowing they will continue to be my family."
Greenleaf retired last week from her most current position as director of Health System Emergency Services. During her tenure, she has witnessed the creation of five different emergency room departments.
"I was there for 36 wonderful years, and there's not a lot of people who can say their career journey was just wonderful, but mine was," she said.
Though she's only technically been retired for two days, Greenleaf headed back to the hospital Monday to celebrate the retirement of her dear friend, Morehead.
The two women met while in nursing school at the University of Oklahoma. During their years of service, the two women became friends. Greenleaf said they were so close, Morehead used to baby-sit her now adult children.
Now that the celebrating is over, Greenleaf said she plans on filling her time by spending quality time with her five grandchildren. She also plans on taking up gardening and learning how to play the piano.
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City of Morganton fire engineers work more in the field than the station. Check out the YouTube Channel .
The Morganton City Council unanimously approved the City of Morganton 2014-2015 Budget earlier this month. The budget does include some increases in rates. Read more: Rates change with new budget
"The days of sitting around the fire station and playing cards have been gone for a long time," said Morganton Public Safety Department Sgt. Robin Triplett. "Between keeping up with regular duties, and maintaining our training, we stay very busy."
That's one point Sgt. Robin Triplett wants to make clear - fire service duties are a lot different today than they were 30 years ago, and the City of Morganton's fire department is a lot different than almost every other department across the country.Read more...
Burke County's new emergency communications center should help streamline emergency responses to life-threatening situations across the county, but the change will alter the process for answering non-emergency administrative calls after hours.Read more...
Next week, a local contractor plans to burn a brush pile behind Forest Hill Elementary School, and residents will likely see smoke in the area.
Mike Ross Grading, contractor for Burke County Public Schools, has cleared some property behind Forest Hill Elementary and the purpose of the burn is to complete the clearing of the property. The contractor will begin burning the brush pile Tuesday, July 15, 2014, weather permitting. Forest Hills Elementary School is located at 304 Ann St.Read more...
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Scientists say event caused by weather phenomenon termed a 'derecho'
NORTH KINGSTOWN—When one hears the word 'tsunami,' dramatic images of devastated coastlines and rushing surges of sea water come to mind. Although less damaging than the tsunamis that struck Indonesia in 2004 or Japan in 2011, Wickford Harbor was struck by a so-called 'mini tsunami' earlier this month, and local scientists have been trying to figure out the cause.
Chuck Ebersole, a member of the Wickford Yachting Club, witnessed the mini-tsunami first hand on June 13 when the tide began to sweep out of Wickford Harbor.
"I was located in the yacht club here speaking with a member when I noticed the current flowing very strongly out at low tide," said Ebersole. "At that point, we heard a big bang and one of the boats had pulled out of the dock and was pulling out with the current."
Ebersole estimated that the current was flowing out at five to seven knots. Moments later, Ebersole watched as the tide came rushing back in.
"Fifteen minutes after the whole thing started, the current switched and came back into the dock," said Ebersole. "The boat went perpendicular to the dock, we cut the line with help of guys from the Pleasant Street Marina, and this variation in and out occurred four to six hours after that, gradually decreasing."
Wickford Harbormaster Ed Hughes was astonished at the wave action that the mini-tsunami caused, stating that he had never seen such a phenomenon in Wickford Harbor before.
For the rest of this story and more local news, pick up the June 27 issue of the Standard Times.
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Shortly after the start of the school year in September, Kirsten Rucker had scheduled an X-ray appointment for one of her twin sons — both juniors at Oakton High School — after class.
But when she asked him to bring his homework while they waited for the doctor, he said he couldn't. It was all online.
She thought they would find a way to bring it with them. She found quickly she was wrong.
They could access the material, but couldn't print pages. They tried to copy and paste from a PDF file, but were blocked by the software. They pulled up a print screen, but the words ran together, jumbled across the page. It wouldn't load on a reader, or an iPhone.
They went to the appointment empty handed, and when her son returned late that evening, he worked even later into the night grappling with the system trying to finish his assignment. Rucker said he discovered — that night and in the weeks since — there was no search function to locate subjects in the text, no index for the answer guide. It was hard to keep track of complex equations glancing between his worksheet and the screen.
The experience is one shared by a growing number of Fairfax County Public Schools students, their parents and teachers say, as the system makes the jump to an online textbook program in mathematics this year.
The system already has in place online programs for foreign language and social studies, but the switch to online math textbooks was different: Unlike its predecessors, the online math initiative had no pilot program — the success of the online social studies pilot left FCPS feeling like "it was ready to move forward," school officials said.
But parents, teachers, and school board members made clear this week — in PTA meetings, school board forums, mass emails and letters to administrators — that the program is instead pushing achievement and learning back, calling the initiative "a big disaster" with no clear solutions; a "domino"–like tumble of one issue after the next.
Some board members said Thursday they were concerned not only about the immediate technology, access, communication, equity and financial issues the program has created, and how it will affect scores on a new and challenging math SOL, but in a broader context, how the board can prevent decisions like this — made largely without teacher buy-in or informed board discussion — from happening again.
"It's a far more complicated issue than a simple math textbook adoption and I don't think this was a fully informed, vetted decision. This wasn't piloted. The school system didn't realize they made the mistakes we now face ... and if we don't understand the mistakes that got made before we could repeat the process again," said school board member Megan McLaughlin (Braddock), who asked the board Thursday to schedule a December work session on the issue.
"This isn't the first time that we've had an issue like this," member Patty Reed (Providence) said.
'It Just Kind of Came Out of the Clear Blue'
In the 2010-11 school year, the system launched a pilot for a social studies online textbook program, FCPS spokesman John Torre said. It involved 7,937 students and 113 teachers in seventh grade history and high school government classes, across eight middle schools and 10 high schools.
Based on that program's success, the system decided to bring online textbooks for all core social studies classes in grades seven to 12 the following year, with a contract that included online subscriptions and some text copies available to students during and after school, Torre said.
The system "hadn't purchased new math textbooks in more than 12 years," Torre said, so when the system was due to purchase them this year, they proposed going online. The board authorized the $7.7 million purchase this summer, after the fiscal year 2013 budget was accepted. Unlike the social studies program, the online math textbooks were purchased for students grades k through 12 across the county.
"It was done much too quickly," said Reed, who voted against the purchase. "I had reservations right from the beginning about why all the sudden did we need to do this. It wasn't discussed in the context of the budget deliberations [that spring]. It just kind of came out of the clear blue."
One teachers union says the decision went against a recommendation rejecting a proposal for the program and a specific request from educators to hold off on implementing any new initiatives — with a new teacher evaluation system and changing standards for several state Standard of Learning subject tests.
"What they ended up doing was exactly the opposite of what we asked them to do," said Steve Greenburg, president of the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers. "I get the impression that we're completely ignored half the time."
The 2012 FCFT Member Perspectives Survey, taken by more than 450 members between Oct. 16 and Nov. 2 , shows many respondents think not only was the timing "terrible," but some of the material, training and much of the interface is terrible too.
A copy of the results are attached to this article.
"We were shown the online textbook a week before school opened," one teacher wrote. "We didn't get a hard copy of the new textbook til much later as well."
Torre said demo accounts were available for teachers in April.
Some teachers have abandoned the book altogether and are creating lesson plans from other materials.
How many times that has happened and where is not clear, though Torre noted schools could not opt out of the textbooks. Reed asked for that kind of data before the board discusses the issue in December.
"I have 24 students and only received 5 textbooks and was told I was not getting anymore. I do not have enough access to technology and therefore have to print everything. I have students who have no access at home and I don't have enough books for them to borrow," wrote one teacher in the survey.
Another wrote of a concern the school system hops from trend to trend "without much closure from one to the next."
"It is like people are trying to justify their jobs by creating and pushing certain agendas into the trenches where the teachers are actually working with the TRUE customer which is the students," the teacher continued. "Seems like a lot of top down management decisions are made with no regard for the foot soldiers (teachers) and how they have to SURVIVE each day with the LATEST and GREATEST trend pushed by someone that does not even teach/interact with students. Can we get used to and perfect things that are working well before we change it all up again? Or can we use the new stuff to enhance the current stuff instead of starting over?"
Limited Access to Hard Copies
Hard copy books are available for check out by students, Torre said, but parents and school board members are saying that is not enough. Not all students can stay after class to check out the books because of sports, clubs, activities, doctors' appointments and transportation issues. Some principals have used their discretionary funds to purchase hard copy books for some classes, Rucker said. Some parents have paid out of pocket so their children can use a book in class and at home; Madison High School sold hard copies of some books at its back to school night this year, Rucker said.
Sixty-two percent of teachers who responded to FCFT's survey said they don't have enough textbooks to accommodate students' needs.
At a more basic level, accessing the material at all is an even larger problem for students in high poverty areas.
"A large portion of my students lack the technology at home to access anything online, let alone a math textbook," one teacher wrote.
And parents and schools in that area cannot afford to supplement with hard copies the way schools in more affluent communities can, Rucker said.
"It's the same old, Have's and Have Not's problem," one teachers said.
FCPS is now considering buying additional print copies to address the concerns raised about access, Torre said, also noting "students are not required to purchase or own their own computers. Students have access to school computers during the day and after school," and "... some schools have programs where students can check out computers for use at home and all students are allowed, with parental permission, to bring their own laptops or tablets to school to access online textbooks."
"We've been told we can use the mobile labs, but they are slow (more time), not always available, not always charged, difficult to get.....in other words, their own logistical hurdle and I have no time for any more problems to solve," a teacher responding to the FCFT survey wrote.
Though training for teachers began in June, Torre said, with sessions offered several times since then, some teachers said more time was needed to implement the program successfully.
"I spend too much time learning to navigate this book when trying to plan and too much time getting 'lost' as I plan and teach," a teacher responding to the FCFT survey wrote, noting they ended up printing more material to compensate for the issues with the online material.
As a result, some schools have been burning through paper much more quickly; Rucker, Oakton High School's PTA president, said the building ran out of paper for October by the 10th of the month.
On Thursday, Superintendent Jack Dale told the board he and staff would put together some solutions before a December work session discussion on the issue, to fast-track changes.
When Dale mentioned conducting community engagement, Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield) thought the board needed a public hearing to fully engage all stakeholders on the issue.
Reed said she would like to hold the publishers more accountable for links that are broken and materials that are not performing, noting if they are not delivering services outline in a contract then the system should explore holding payment or cutting the contract until they do, if possible.
Rucker, who led discussion among 40 parents at a PTA meeting organized around the issue Wednesday night and is planning a broader discussion among county high school PTA leaders Nov. 15, said the response she has gotten from system administrators has been one of concern and willingness to work through the issue. But the system needs to act fast, she said.
"I think this is a learning experience. It was a tremendous failure but we don't want to lose the year," Rucker said. "I think the school system needs to react quickly to make sure we don't lose time. We are a community and we are in this together and whether or not they went about that the wrong way, my interest is what we can do going forward."


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Acquiring talent the Twins Way: position players (part 1 of 3)
by, 09-24-2013 at 12:24 PM (1011 Views)
Last Friday Terry Ryan spoke to Paul Allen about Free Agency:
Free Agency is only one of the 6 most common methods of acquiring talent. The others are the Amateur Draft, Amateur Free Agency, Rule 5 Draft, Trades, and Waivers. Using Baseball-references Player registry data, I will examine the Twins' successes at acquiring positional talent via these 6 methods during the period 1995-2013 - the Terry Ryan era. (data here)If we're going to do anything here and succeed in the near and long long-term Paul, it's probably no going to be via free agency. It's going to be drafting and international acquisitions and trades and so forth. Very rarely do you end up succeeding because of free agency.
- The Amateur Draft
Since 1995, the Twins have 194 player-seasons from players acquired via the Draft, most of any AL team. They have paid these players a combined $389,248,998, 2nd only to the Yankees. These players have put up an average of 1.26 WAR, good for 6th in the AL.
2. Amateur Free Agency
16 player-seasons have been worth an average of just .26 WAR. Bobby Kielty, Luis Rodriguez, and Luis Rivas own most of those seasons. Josmil Pinto and Oswaldo Arcia own 1 a piece.
3. Rule 5 Draft
Brian Buscher and Jason Pridie are the two Rule 5 position players to stick on the 40 man roster during Ryan's and Smith's tenures. Combined, they provided 0.3 WAR over 5 player-seasons at a cost of just under 2 million. The most active Rule 5 team during this time was the Baltimore Orioles, who kept Jay Gibbons on as DH/outfielder for the 2001-2007 seasons.
4. Trades
The Twins have given 70 player-seasons to players acquired by trade since 1995. Jason Bartlett, Lew Ford, and Christian Guzman accumulated 9.1, 8.4, and 7.4 WARs over 15 player seasons. On the other end, Ron Coomer, David Ortiz, and Alexi Casilla accumulated between 2 and 4 WARs over 6+ seasons each. Overall, the average player-season was worth .54 WAR, last among AL teams (excluding Houston and Milwaukee.)
5. Waivers
The Twins have played 7 Waiver claims in positions 2-9 since 1995. They are (WAR in Parenthesis): Augie Ojeda (1.2), Casey Blake (-0.2), Clete Thomas (0.2), Corky Miller (-0.2), Darin Mastroianni (0.3), Erik Komatsu (-0.2), and Pedro Florimon (3.8). The average waiver claim-season has been worth 0.42 WAR, boosted largely by Florimon's 2013 season which has so far been worth 2.2 WAR.
6. Free Agency
Since 1995, the Twins have 84 Free Agent position player-seasons. WAR likes Paul Molitor (5.2), Josh Willingham (3.9) and Jamey Carroll the most (3.5). On the other end are Rondell White (-1.5), Butch Huskey (-1.0), and Kevin Maas (-0.8). Overall, the Twins average a 0.38 WAR season from Free Agent position players. This is the worst average in the AL (excluding Houston and Milwaukee). Interestingly, they also pay their Free Agents the least of any AL team.
So, in order of average WAR, the Twins' most successful means of positional talent acquisition under Terry Ryan (and 4 seasons of Bill Smith):
1. Amateur Draft (1.26 WAR)
2. Trades (0.54)
3. Waivers (0.42)
4. Free Agency (0.37)
5. Amateur Free Agency (0.26)
6. Rule 5 Draft (0.06)
*Note about the Salary figures - rather than look up days spent on the active roster for all the minimum wagers, I assumed they were paid a full season's worth. Therefore salary figures are a little inflated, specially for waivers, rule 5, and amateur draft guys.


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Dear Editor,
It has been my responsibility the past decade since my father's death to put out the Memorial flags at my family's cemetery plot in the City cemetery.
On Saturday,my grandchild and I made this journey once again. On the way there,she asked me why we do this every Memorial day? I explained to her that this is how we honor the ones that came before us,the ones who fought in wars to protect the freedoms we all enjoy here in the United States,that this is a way to show we have not forgotten the huge sacrifices these loved ones made for us, that we remember.
Upon arrival,I put out the flags as I usually do at each headstone.
My grandchild seemed unusually quiet as she looked over the grounds of the cemetery. I asked her what she was thinking about? After a few moments she said," It makes me sad".
Thinking she was sad for the relatives she never knew interred there, I started trying to console her. She quickly objected,telling me, "Bubba,(her grandmother name for me) I'm sad because so many HAVE forgotten !!" She pointed up at the City's big flagpole situated not far from our lot with no flag flying. Then she pointed down at the grounds with grass growing to our knees, a shabby sight indeed. Finally she looked out and down the hill counting the little flags, less than twenty she tells me,and six of them are ours! Sometimes a child's view has the clarity we adults can miss, I think to myself.
I admitted to her that I too was sad that so few seemed to remember on this day,especially now when our country is so threatened,that maybe this will be a good project for a school,the Scouts,or a service organization, that we can do better than this,that I would see what I can do.
Pat Walker Graham,"Bubba",


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Adobe to Sponsor SQLite
Adobe has joined the SQLite Consortium which promotes the development of the embedded database.
The news was revealed by Adobe's head of Open Source, Dave McAllister in his blog. The move see Adobe join Mozilla and Symbian, who are already members of the consortium.
The members of the SQLite Consortium provide funding to support development of the software. In return, the sponsors receive enterprise support and preferred treatment in case of bugfixes and wishes. The developers try to devote at least 23 man days per year to each sponsor. At the same time, the organization helps to keep the database, which is public domain for the most part, available.
SQLite does not use a database server, but stores records in a file. Adobe uses the embedded database in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). The runtime environment makes it possible to program applications with Web technologies and run them like desktop applications on computers.
Issue 166/2014
Tag Cloud
Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
New Trojan Targets Online Banking
Dyreza malware launches a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises SSL.
HP Rolls Out Massive Cloud Network
New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
New Attack Targets Wireless Logins
A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
Geeks Petition for Free Lenovo BIOS
FOSS community acts to protect freedom of choice for laptop devices.
Firefox Says Yes to DRM
Quintessential open source browser shores up its market share with a step toward the proprietary dark side.
Webcam Hijackers Busted
Authorities in 16 countries take action against users of the imfamous BlackShades malware tool.


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In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and unusual in every way.Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius—an antiquarian, an architect, and a visionary. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Losh combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower—there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs, and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. And everywhere there are pinecones in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life, death, and rebirth.Losh's story is also that of her radical family, friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggles of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology, and the fate of a young northern soldier in the First Afghan War. Above all, it is about the joy of making and the skill of unsung local craftsmen. Intimate, engrossing, and moving, The Pinecone, by Jenny Uglow, the Prize-winning author of The Lunar Men, brings to life an extraordinary woman, a region, and an age.
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"[An] entrancing book . . . Always impeccable in her choice of the vivid anecdote and the memorable image with which to conjure life into the northern hillscape that she evidently loves so well, Uglow has produced a quiet masterpiece: a book to savour and treasure." —Miranda Seymour, The Sunday Times (London)"In its intimate tone, its lavishly detailed depictions of Losh's creations, and its seamless interweaving of the local and immediate with the global and the timeless, [The Pinecone] is an exuberant match for the beautiful, ornate and movingly personal nature of Losh's extraordinary church." —Rachel Hewitt , The Guardian"Uglow pieces together an absorbing portrait . . . Like her subject, Uglow triumphs with quiet urgency." —Laura Battle, Financial Times"[An] engaging historical study . . . With her precise sense of history's intellectual and political movements, Uglow is good at explaining [the] artistic background . . . [and] illuminating subjects as diverse as the use of alkalis in industry . . . and Italian politics in the wake of the Napoleonic wars . . . Uglow's telling of [Losh's story] is clearly focused, wonderfully stimulating and surprisingly colourful." —Andrew Lycet, The Telegraph"[In The Pinecone] Jenny Uglow not only proves the importance of Sarah Losh but shows what biography at its very best can do." —Frances Wilson, Literary Review"A riveting story, and Jenny Uglow makes the most of it, exploring the intellectual and social background to Losh's unusual masterpiece . . . She fully explains the impetus for one of the most startling small masterpieces of nineteenth-century architecture in Britain, as well as bringing to life the admirable Miss Losh of Wreay." —John Martin Robinson, The Spectator"Uglow's Pinecone, like Losh's, spins ever outwards, but is at its most beautiful in its return to small perfections, a tiny church and a little life that tells, nonetheless, an epic story." —Ian Kely, The Times (London), Book of the Week
Jenny Uglow's books include prizewinning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as "an extraordinarily gripping account," while Nature's Engraver won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007. A Gambling Man was short-listed for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now lives in Canterbury, England.
Jenny Uglow
Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Book Recommendations, The Economist Magazine Books of the Year, The Independent (UK) Best Books of the Year


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Students can now access most administrative services online through Sydney Student. Log in to enrol, vary your major or unit of study selection (including units of study for which you require special permission), transfer or upgrade course, suspend or discontinue your degree, apply for credit or view your academic transcript.
Degree planning and progression checks
Information to assist students in planning their unit of study selections is available in the Business School Handbook or from the SIO at any time. Students can also obtain a formal progression check by submitting a completed Degree planner to the SIO.
You can use this form if:
- You are a current student in a Business School degree or award course; and You have completed at least half of your award course.
- You have completed at least half of your award course.
You will need:
- To know what major you intend to complete;
- To list all the units of study you have already completed, including core units; and
- To draft a plan for your enrolment for the remainder of your award course.
The SIO will review your plan and email you with comments and an amended plan (if required). You may complete one progression check each year.
Please check the Business School Handbook before submitting your degree planner. If you commenced your studies prior to the current year, you should consult the Handbooks archives link on the left of the handbooks page for the handbook of the year you commenced your studies. Students are generally obliged to follow the rules and resolutions of the year they commenced their degree.
Please note your responsibilities in relation to your studies


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Blue Man Group has turbo‐charged its newest show in Las Vegas with electrifying music, sensational technology, and innovative new ways of interacting with the audience. The new, mega‐enhanced show is a thrilling, energy‐infused performance that introduces wildly inventive musical instruments, a humorous look at robots and creativity, and a mind‐blowing (literally) tour inside the neural network of the human brain.
Each night the Blue Men present an extraordinary spectacle and create a soulful, primal and euphoric experience that makes you feel vibrantly alive and more closely connected with the people around you.
Be sure not to miss the Blue Man Group Procession - A nightly procession of musical joy and luminescence, best described as part parade, part dance party, winds its way through the casino floor. This FREE attraction takes place at 6:15 PM daily at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino. All prices include 10% L.E.T.
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Anybody out there suffering from Carl Paladino fatigue?
Yeah, me too.
I've got extra reason for it. Since the week before he announced, I've been compiling data and crunching numbers trying to determine the extent of Paladino's dealings with the government he is railing against in his campaign for governor. The story is scheduled to run Sunday, so save up your pennies, boys and girls, and spring for a paper.
I'm glad Carl has decided to hang on as a candidate at least through the weekend, so the story remains relevant. Not that he's got much of a campaign left. I mean, when you draw only 35 people to a rally in New York City, well, it's all over but the shouting.
Of course, with Paladino, there could still be a lot of shouting.
My advice to Carl is, well, first, return my phone calls so I can add your two cents to my Sunday story, and stop with the "elite liberal" talk. Take my word for it, it's not just the arugula eaters who are having a hard time getting past you sending those racist and pornographic e-mails, especially the one involving the woman and Mr. Ed.
Speaking of which:
Anyway, on to the news of the day.
Gov. David Paterson has had second thoughts regarding his cockamamie idea to review Paladino's leases with state agencies to determine if there's a way Albany could break them. It seems there are no morality clauses to be found.
Paterson's idea was a dumb one to begin with. If the government is going to stop doing business with offensive people, it would have to knock several noted developers off the list, starting with Bill Huntress of Acquest Development, who is doing a lot of business with the federal government, among others.
Why Huntress? Read this.
Elsewhere, the Tea Party crowd is starting to flail away at each other. Big surprise there, huh?
Why, just yesterday I was telling Donn Esmonde that the Tea Party movement could end up like the IRA -- ya know, Official Tea Party, Provisional Tea Party, Real Tea Party, etc. All shooting at each other, as well as the so-called enemy.
It seems the sniping -- verbal, that is -- has already started, according to a story Jerry Zremski has in today's paper. The warring factions are using terms like "nut case" and "gray-haired old farts" to describe each other.
They're correct, of course. On all counts.
Think not? Read the poll results published yesterday by The New York Times that shows that those with an affinity for Tea Party politics tend to be really white, really conservative and really angry.
Some of them are also kind of kooky. I mean, nine in 10 think Obama has us on the road to socialism, according to the poll.
Consider this quote from The Times story from a Florida retiree:
"I just feel he's getting away from what America is. He's a socialist. And to tell you the truth, I think he's a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction."
Translation: "I'm white and I want my president to be white, too."
The socialist tag has been used by white supremacists against African-American leaders for a century. The prime example is FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's attempts to hang the communist label on Martin Luther King.
None other than Congressman Ron Paul, a darling to much of the right, dismisses the ongoing socialist rants aimed at Obama.
Here's what he had to say at a recent gathering of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference:
"The question has been raised about whether or not our president is a socialist. I am sure there are some people here who believe it. But in the technical sense, in the economic definition of a what a socialist is, no, he's not a socialist."
"He's a corporatist. And unfortunately we have corporatists inside the Republican Party and that means you take care of corporations and corporations take over and run the country."
Before I leave the subject, take a look at this hilarious slide showat the New York Daily News on all the misspelled protest signs at Tea party rallies. The Daily News dubs it "teabonics."
But I digress. This blog is supposed to be about Carl Paladino. But enough about Carl Paladino. Read Sunday's story and blog post and we'll pick up the conversation after that. And then, hopefully, we can move on.
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TRAVERSE CITY — The Women's History Project of Northwest Michigan's book group will discuss "The Kashmir Shawl" by Rosie Thomas at its quarterly meeting.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina - The UNCW women's tennis team continues its four-match home stand on Sunday, Feb. 24, when state rival Elon visits Wilmington for a 1 p.m. test. The match was originally scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22.
The Seahawks, 3-1, are returning to the courts after cruising past Campbell, 4-0, last Saturday in their home opener. Coach Evan Clark's squad will then face Wright State on Monday at 2 p.m. in back-to-back matches for the netters.
Sophomore Kelly Cameron (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) and junior Angie Sekely (Mississauga, Ontario) are still undefeated in singles play. Cameron stands 4-0 and Sekely owns a 3-0 mark. The Seahawks are 16-5 in singles and 4-5 in doubles action early in the season.
Elon, coached by former UNCW standout Elizabeth (Perry) Anderson, is off to a strong 6-1 start. The Phoenix have won six consecutive matches after falling to No. 8 UNC Chapel Hill in their opener, 7-0, on Jan. 23. The Seahawks won last year's installment in the series, 5-2, on Feb. 28, 2012.
Wright State, meanwhile, travels to the coast to play UNCW and Coastal Carolina. The Raiders and Coach Sean McCaffrey are 3-4 this season after dropping a 7-0 decision to IPFW on Feb. 10. The Raiders compete in the Horizon League.
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The first hole was drilled Monday into the bank of the Ohio River marking the unofficial start to construction for the new downtown Interstate 65 span that is part of the Ohio River Bridges Project.
"It's exciting," said Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Project Manager Andy Barber. "It's the first step toward construction."
Walsh Design Build Team drilled a test shaft Monday that will be the basis for what construction crews will eventually use to build the permanent piers that will hold up the planned bridge that is part of the downtown corridor for the bridges project. Kentucky is completing the downtown portion of the Ohio River Bridges Project, which includes a new I-65 downtown bridge, approaches from Indiana and Kentucky and the reconstruction of Spaghetti Junction in Louisville.
Walsh Construction Project Manager Max Rowland explained the purpose for digging the test shaft 50 feet into the ground, 30 feet deep into the rock and 7 1/2 feet in diameter into the ground below the Ohio River.
"This is a special shaft that has to be built separate from the construction," he said. "What we'll do is we'll use it to test our design assumptions that are going to be used to design the shafts for the final structure."
Once the test pier is installed, Walsh and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will test the pier to ensure it holds the amount of weight it is designed to carry.
"You're testing the strength of the pier, the ultimate adequacy, durability and safety of the piers — that's what's going to hold up the bridge once we get to construction," Barber said.
Rowland added that the construction crews and engineers won't just be testing the capacity for weight the pier will hold.
"We'll also be testing in a lateral direction to simulate if a barge would hit the pier," he said.
Before the pier can be tested, crews will drill the hole near the Indiana bank of the river, lift reinforcing steel into the hole, pour the shaft with concrete and then wait for the concrete to harden. The entire process will take about two weeks.
"Once the concrete has got its strength, then we can actually start the testing," Rowland said.
The pier started Monday will be the only test pier constructed, if there are no issues, and Barber said that the decision was made to drill the test pier on the Jeffersonville side of the Ohio River because the rock on the Indiana side is a lot more shallow. If there are no issues with the test pier, crews will begin drilling the permanent piers for the bridge.
Rowland said crews will begin building piers from the Indiana and Kentucky sides of the river and eventually meet in the middle. Each of the permanent piers will extend at least 30 feet into the rock and some may be as deep as 90 feet below the water, according to the project's planners.
A total of five piers — which include four shafts to be drilled for each pier — will be placed in the water. A total of four piers will be along the respective shorelines that will hold up the new bridge.
Construction is still expected to start July 1 and is still on schedule, Rowland said.


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The mobile payments company Square released data on tens of millions of transactions to shed light on which states leave the largest tips, and which states have a lot of people who don't leave one at all.
Quartz broke down the data to show that Alaska left the largest average tip, at 17 percent, while Illinois has the most people who leave a tip at all, at 61 percent.
Of course, Quartz points out that Square's data aren't perfect:
"The tips it logs are paid out not in cash, but using credit cards, which likely tempt customers into doling out a bit more cash than they would otherwise. Studies have shown that as little as a credit card insignia can lead to heftier tips."
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1. Alaska, 17 percent
2. Arkansas, 16.9
T-3. North Carolina, 16.7
T-3. West Virginia, 16.7
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46. California, 15.5 percent
47. Wyoming, 15.4
48. South Dakota, 15.3
49. Hawaii, 15.1
50. Delaware, 14
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District 300 teachers could strike as early as next Tuesday, leaving the district's 20,856 students out of school and their parents scrambling for daycare.
Last night, bargaining teams from LEAD 300, the district's main teachers' union, and the district met to try and iron out details surrounding ongoing contract negotiations.
The main sticking points have centered around compensation and class size, said LEAD 300 president Kolleen Hanetho.
While the union and district are close to reaching a consensus on salaries, the parties remained torn on class size issues, Hanetho said Thursday morning.
In its final offers to LEAD 300, District 300 provided cap sizes at the elementary level but did not address class sizes for middle and high school classrooms, Hanetho said.
"We have some high school classrooms with 40 to 45 students and then another classroom with 20 students...it could be the same exact subject," Hanetho said. "That is not fair."
Hanetho said cap sizes for classrooms is needed at the middle school and high school level as well.
"They want to measure it on average classroom size ... our proposal has said all along that we need to set caps for classrooms for the high school level," she said.
Under District 300's final offers submitted earlier this month, the maximum limit in kindergarten classrooms would change from the current cap of 32 students to a cap of 28 students.
For second and first grades that cap would decrease from the current max of 34 students to 28 students. And for third through fifth grade classrooms, the maximum would change from a 36-student maximum to a 31-student cap.
- READ MORE: District 300's Final Offers to LEAD 300
The earliest teachers could strike is this Tuesday. On Nov. 20, teachers filed a "notice of intent to strike," which gives them the authorization to set a strike date but does not necessarily mean they will strike.
LEAD 300 members are set to meet Sunday. Hanetho said Thursday morning she is hopeful she will have a tentative agreement to present. If not, they could decide at that time to strike — and then set a date for a strike — or to continue with negotiations.
"I hope we can come to an agreement," she said. " But we are willing to strike to get an appropriate classroom environment for these children … and get the focus back on the quality of education."
If a strike date is set, parents will be notified through a rapid communication message, and updates will be posted on the District 300 website. All school buildings, activities and events would be closed in the case of a strike.
Meanwhile, District 300 has begun to map out child care plans for parents if District 300 teachers do go on strike next week.
The district has set up three emergency attendance centers that would be available as emergency daycare for students in kindergarten through sixth grade if a strike does occur, according to a rapid communication message from Superintendent Michael Bregy sent out to parents over Thanksgiving weekend.
The centers will be set up at Carpentersville Middle School, Dundee Middle School and Hampshire Middle School. Daycare would be available from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Parents interested in bringing their children to the centers must register by 3 p.m. today by dropping off a registration form at District 300's administration building in Carpentersville. More information and a registration form is available on District 300's website.
The village of Lake in the Hills is also offering daycare in the case of a strike. The daycare will be available from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at village hall, 600 Harvest Gate, and the cost is $25 per day for LITH residents and $30 per day for non-residents for your first child. The second child will be $22.50 per day for residents and $27 for non-residents.
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METHUEN - A Methuen man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for possessing child pornography.
Stephen Hooper, 64, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole to five years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Judge O'Toole also ordered Hooper, who pleaded guilty to the charge, to pay $2,000 in restitution to victims portrayed in the pornography he possessed.
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I'm trying to upgrade to kernel 2.2.5. When I type mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.5.img 2.2.5, the system returns:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a block device Can't get a loopback device
What should I do? What has gone wrong? —Mun Hon Tham, email@example.com
For some reason, automatic module loading is broken (you could do modprobe loop to load the module by hand). I am willing to bet you installed all the updates from the Red Hat FTP site, including the new modutils from the 2.2 directory. Unfortunately, modutils has a completely broken kerneld that causes the message you are seeing. I do not know why Red Hat hasn't taken that broken package off their FTP site. In the meantime, all you need to do is downgrade to the previous modutils by typing:
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The Installation guide says the partition that contains /boot must be below cylinder 1023. My hard drive has 1400 cylinders. How do I find out which cylinders are not being used and if /boot will fit below cylinder 1023?
I will be using a dual-boot system with a DOS partition. My hard drive is 10.9GB and DOS/Windows is the primary partition, using 4.5GB. Can you help? —Jason Hipsher, firstname.lastname@example.com
The most important factor that slips up new users is LBA mode drives. Logical Block Addressing translates cylinders into heads, dividing one by two and multiplying the other by two, so the numbers still work but you have fewer cylinders.
The problem is that with a 10GB drive, you most likely do not have 1400 cylinders. You probably have far more, and LBA is enabled on your drive (this is done in your BIOS and is normally enabled by default). You cannot turn it off without reloading your DOS/Windows partition.
You may be able to use the "linear" addressing feature in LILO to get around this problem, but it doesn't always work. A neat trick I use to get around the issue is to create a small (8MB is usually more than enough) partition at the very start of my drive to store my kernels. You may need PartitionMagic or some other partition-manipulation tool to do this without loss of data, but it will give you a place to store files that is guaranteed to be lower than the 1024th cylinder. You can then mount this at boot time (I put it under /img), so you can store your kernels there. Linux itself can be anywhere on the drive. —Chad Robinson, email@example.com
Using the installation's fdisk (or disk druid), create the partitions you will need with the first one for DOS/Windows. Then separate a small (64-128MB) partition for swap and the rest for Linux. When you finish your installation, make sure you pick "MBR install" for LILO. —Mario Bittencourt, firstname.lastname@example.com
What, if any, is the difference between X11 and X Windows? It seems as though both terms can be used interchangeably, but at the same time, it seems as if they are different servers. Is X Windows a shell or server on top of X11, or are they entirely different? I am not talking about look and feel, but the basic meaning. —Chris, firstname.lastname@example.com
The terms are often used interchangeably, which can be confusing. The "official" name for X is "The X Window System". Some purists get irritated when people say "X Windows", but it's usually safe to say "X".
You are actually talking about the same program. What's different is that the first term (X11) refers to the specific version of X. You're actually missing part of it—an Rx is usually included after it. For example, X11R5 refers to a popular and still commonly seen release. X11R6 is what most new Linux distributions are shipping with now (in the form of XFree86, an open-source distribution of X). —Chad Robinson, firstname.lastname@example.com
When I type startx, the response I get is:
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Now, this is kind of irritating—I have used XF86config, but it doesn't seem to have the driver for the SIS6215 (4MB RAM). We have had X up, but only after we made some adjustments—we could view it in only 16 colors. Since this is just the 2.0.36 kernel, is there a chance that I must upgrade it? Do I need to get the XFree3.3.3 version to get this thing alive? (The school's hardware is a P166, SIS6215 videocard, Digital screen.) Do I have to reconfigure everything, or maybe install the new kernel and XFree version? —Mathias Bakkejord, firstname.lastname@example.com
The newer the X version you use, the better your chances of finding a driver designed for your card. Upgrading your Linux kernel won't help here, although there are other good reasons to do so.
However, you can probably get your card working in at least 256-color mode by using the SVGA driver. This is a good idea anyway, since it will give you a chance to learn what the clock rate and refresh settings for your card and monitor need to be. It would be a good idea to try this before trying to find a specific driver for your card. —Chad Robinson, email@example.com
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How to get right gears for my tires and adjust transmission
I have been running my 265/70/16 tires on my silverado since I got it. The truck is supposed to have 235/75/16 tires. I would like to change the gears in the diff to fit the tires I have, and put in a g80 rear locker at the same time. How do I go about finding the right gears?
I would also like to adjust the transmission to run properly with the bigger tires. I think the shift point would be adjusted but I'm not sure.
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Regarding gear ratio:
You'll need a hand-held programmer that's capable of adjusting gear ratio size so that after you've got the new gears into the vehicle you aren't throwing error codes/idiot lights. You might as well make sure that tuner will also allow you to adjust your shift points. You can do it, yourself, or if the tuner you get is a Diablosport then you can work with someone like Diablew (a site sponsor, here) to get a custom tune. Lew sells bundles (i.e. device + custom tune) and his pricing is very reasonable for his services ... especially if bundled, so you might reach out to him if interested. He goes by @06MonteSS, here.
Now, as for the gear ratio choice, you will need to convert your new and old tire sizes from metric to inches. Here's a tool that'll help: http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
From there you can eyeball the proper ratio using a Jeep chart like this one, with the understanding that this chart assumes a manual transmission with a 1:1 ratio (i.e. no overdrive engaged) at 65mph:
You can do more precise, Chevy-specific calculations, using tools here: http://www.4lo.com/calc/gearratio.php
thats not that much of a tire size change between the two sizes. dont know which axle you have, but i would see if i could find a axle in a junk yard that had close the right gear ratio, correct the speedo, and be done with it. to put a set of custom gears in and buy a G80 wouldnt be cheap.
I cant see a junkyard axle costing much more then $250, and if you find the right one, it should bolt right in, dont know how mechanically inclined you are, but it is something u could do in your driveway.
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Yeah sierra is right. Your diameter difference is only like 7/10 of an inch larger on the 265 tires. its only throwing your spedometer off like 2mph at 65. Here is the formula though to figure out your gearing for different size tires.To bring your truck back to stock performance, it is important to re-gear the truck accordingly. A simple calculation will tell you what gear ratio would get you back to your stock equivalent. The calculation is your new tire diameter in inches, divided by your old tire diameter in inches, multiplied by your old axle ratio, will equal your new axle ratio (new tire diameter/old tire diameter x current axle ratio = new axle ratio).
Your stock tire diameter is 29.9 inches and your larger tire diameter is 30.6 inches. Not sure what gear ratio you have but I think this info will tell you what you need to know.
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I personally wouldn't regear for that small a change in tire sizes, either. But hey, some people do...
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Thanks for all the good feedback guys. I don't think ill be going through with the gear change considering all the suggestions. However, I will be putting in a G80. I vaguely remember a link for a website than allows you to put in your vin # and get all the stock equipment your truck came with. Does anyone have that link?
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Here are a couple of links that will help....also, if you have a 4wd, just make sure the gears in the G80 you are getting are the same ratio as your current set up or you will need to change the ones in the front diff to match.
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sweet , Thanks!
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Basin Street Blues
This cocktail, adapted from Domenica in New Orleans, is pretty low in alcohol, but not at all low in flavor. It reminds us of rich caramel and tangy lemon drops, with an essential smoky addition from a few drops of Scotch. Nardini Amaro is a chocolatey amaro with tons of peppermint flavor.
Note: To make turbinado sugar simple syrup, combine 1 cup water with 1 cup turbinado sugar (such as Sugar in the Raw) in a small saucepan and heat over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved. Cool before using. Simple syrup will keep in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
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- 1 ounce Nardini Amaro
- 1 ounce Pimm's No. 1
- 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed orange juice from 1 orange
- 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice from 1 lemon
- 1/4 ounce turbinado sugar simple syrup (see note above)
- 3 drops smoky Islay Scotch, such as Laphroaig Single Malt Quarter Cask
Add Nardini, Pimm's, orange juice, lemon juice, and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice and shake until well chilled, about 20 seconds.
Strain into a cocktail coupe. Float 3 drops Scotch on surface of drink and serve immediately.
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I write about energy and environment issues.
A new batch of 5,000 emails among scientists central to the assertion that humans are causing a global warming crisis were anonymously released to the public yesterday, igniting a new firestorm of controversy nearly two years to the day after similar emails ignited the Climategate scandal.
Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political "cause" rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.
Regarding scientific transparency, a defining characteristic of science is the open sharing of scientific data, theories and procedures so that independent parties, and especially skeptics of a particular theory or hypothesis, can replicate and validate asserted experiments or observations. Emails between Climategate scientists, however, show a concerted effort to hide rather than disseminate underlying evidence and procedures.
"I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI [Freedom of Information] Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process,"writes Phil Jones, a scientist working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in a newly released email.
"Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get – and has to be well hidden," Jones writes in another newly released email. "I've discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data."
The original Climategate emails contained similar evidence of destroying information and data that the public would naturally assume would be available according to freedom of information principles. "Mike, can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith [Briffa] re AR4 [UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment]?" Jones wrote to Penn State University scientist Michael Mann in an email released in Climategate 1.0. "Keith will do likewise. … We will be getting Caspar [Ammann] to do likewise. I see that CA [the Climate Audit Web site] claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!"
The new emails also reveal the scientists' attempts to politicize the debate and advance predetermined outcomes.
"The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid[e] what's included and what is left out" of IPCC reports, writes Jonathan Overpeck, coordinating lead author for the IPCC's most recent climate assessment.
"I gave up on [Georgia Institute of Technology climate professor] Judith Curry a while ago. I don't know what she thinks she's doing, but its not helping the cause," wrote Mann in another newly released email.
Oxygen and nitrogen are not GHG's
To calculate the radiative forcing for a 1998 gas mixture, IPCC 2001 gives the radiative forcing (relative to 1750) of various gases as: CO2=1.46 (corresponding to a concentration of 365 ppmv), CH4=0.48, N2O=0.15 and other minor gases =0.01 W/m2. The sum of these is 2.10 W/m2. Inserting this to the above formula, we obtain CO2e = 412 ppmv.
"In fact we will discover that CO2 cannot increase the global temperature at all."
Oh good! Let me know when the comic book is released.
Hello renewableguy,
It would seem gliderpilot does not know that greenhouse gases are those that absorb *infrared radiation*, those photons with a wavelength of roughly 1 – 1,000 µm. Oxygen and nitrogen are completely transparent at those wavelengths. Oxygen will absorb light but only in the ultraviolet (150–200 nm or "vacuum UV"), not the visible or IR ranges. Nitrogen is the same which is why so little UV reaches the surface of the earth. Most the IR absorbed by GHGs are not the incoming IR from the sun but the IR emitted by the Earth. The Earth is heated by visible light but it emits that energy as IR following the Stephan-Boltzmann Law.
There is in fact almost nothing that he or she wrote that is accurate or useful.
I suppose that since he or she was unable to actually comment on Mr. Taylor's re-treaded "olds"
Thanks for the info Dave:)
Hello David Duh Liar,
But water, a potent GHG, absorbs UV light from the sun before it hits the earth. The more moisture in the atmosphere, the less UV light striking the earth's surface, and the cooler it is at sea level.
I hope you have impressed yourself, then this psudo-science blathering would have accomplished something. would you like a towel now, and a cigarette?
It is pointless to talk about water vapor. The greenhouse gases of interest are the ones that our activity causes to be out of proportion, and the ones our activities can influence. Distraction with irrelevant information is a tactic to avoid the corrective action that is required, an excuse for pollutors to continue polluting. There are other reasons to discontinue the use of fossil fuels besides global warming. Air pollution, ocean acidification and particulate pollution, as well as the fact that fossil fuel supplies are running out are all good reasons in addition to global warming for discontinuing use of fossil fuels. This contrived controversy over global warming causes accomplishes nothing of value.
I sure hope you practice what you preach. Surely you realize that if you use any petroleum based products you are a major hypocrite. And the fact that you use a computer means you use petroleum based products. Don't try to argue that you don't have a choice. You could go live in a cave somewhere, which is what you have us all doing if we followed your advice.
Seriously, does "bigtex" really believe the idiocy he spouts?
re post by: allengerhardt who said:
"It is pointless to talk about water vapor. The greenhouse gases of interest are the ones that our activity causes to be out of proportion, and the ones our activities can influence. Distraction with irrelevant information is a tactic to avoid the corrective action that is required, an excuse for pollutors to continue polluting. There are other reasons to discontinue the use of fossil fuels besides global warming. Air pollution, ocean acidification and particulate pollution, as well as the fact that fossil fuel supplies are running out are all good reasons in addition to global warming for discontinuing use of fossil fuels. This contrived controversy over global warming causes accomplishes nothing of value."
This is really ironic. Man has no control over water vapor, but we do over CO2??? Please, try visiting cities such as Las Vegas or Phoenix, and note just how humid it is in the middle of the city as compared to a distance past the outskirts. Consider how much we water lawns and irrigate crops. Factor in the urban effects that literally cause thunderstorms. We use massive amounts of water, much of it in ways that certainly affect atmospheric water vapor content.
As to pollution – calling CO2 pollution is a perversion of the word. CO2 is the building block of all plant life, without which we wouldn't have their waste product, oxygen. We exhale CO2 in every breath. CO2 isn't in any true sense of the word pollution.
Meanwhile, use of fossil fuels in developed nations produces relatively little particulate pollution – nothing compared to third world nation's use of dung and wood for cooking and heating. You want to reduce worldwide pollution, especially particulate pollution, and drastically reduce the incidence of terminal lung diseases and cancer in the process? Then help undeveloped nations gain access to cheap, abundant, energy – then they'll be able to afford scrubbers, cleaner fuels, etc., and they'll also be able to and interested in protecting the environment. It's pretty difficult to worry about pollution or other species when one is starving to death and barely scratching out the most meager sort of living.
Fears over ocean acidification from CO2 are even less scientifically supported than AGW. Meanwhile "peak oil" etc., doesn't hold water either. At this time, there is no reasonable and practical replacement for fossil fuels, other than nuclear power for electricity production… nor is there any evidence that we'll run out of fossil fuels any time soon.
Consider the massive technological advances mankind has made in the past 100 years. Chances are very good that we will have developed other cheaper and better alternatives long before any problems with 'peak fossil fuels' comes about. It doesn't take any arbitrary and harmful draconian actions for that to happen either – people are ALWAYS looking for new, better, different, cheaper ways to accomplish anything and everything.
Allow people the resources, keep the playground as free of corruption as possible, keep the government from trying to pick winners and losers thus making the playground unfair, and the free market will virtually ensure that technological and scientific developments will solve the issue before there is any major problem.


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By ROBIN CAUDELL, Staff Writer
---- — ROUSES POINT — Carole Prevost-Meier's whipped up "Set Sail," a quilt pattern for Row by Row, a statewide shop hop of quilt shops.
"The triangles are half-square triangles," said Prevost-Meier, who owns Fibre Junction in Rouses Point.
"Patchwork is a combination of pieces that make the pattern. If you put all half-triangles together, you can create a pinwheel. That creates the movement."
Her choice of fabric was blue-hued batiks, which are hand-dyed fabrics from Malaysia.
"I have a technique of doing half-square triangles that is really, really quick. There are different methods of doing it. I used the strip method which is really quick. Most people do it with a square. I chose to do a space row meaning that a lot of the quilt shops have a lot of scenery and huge blocks (for rows). I chose to do my block a little bit smaller."
Janet Lutz of Calico Gals in Syracuse started the shop hop last year with 20 participating shops, who created rows.
"This year, I became aware of it and got a hold of her," Prevost-Meier said. "What we ended up making it statewide across New York state. Right now, there are over 62 shops participating."
During the Row by Row shop hop, participant can score free block patterns from quilt shops.
"People collect block patterns. They will piece the patterns they get from the quilt shops and then they will make a quilt. Each shop is designing one row of a quilt. This quilt is not constructed by blocks. It's constructed by rows."
Quilters can visit as many as five shops in a weekend.
"Every shop carries something different. I specialize in 19th century reproductions. I have wool for penny rugs. I'm a folk-art hand embroiderer."
Lutz's Calico Gals has more mainstream fabrics.
"Some contemporary, some children fabric, all different things," Prevost-Meier said.
During the shop hop, participants will receive row patterns.
"We don't kit the row. It's strictly the pattern because everyone has their own style of fabric they like. We're just offering the pattern. Quilters go shop to shop to acquire the patterns. For the contest, they need to put eight different rows together. They have to visit at least eight different shops."
The hop includes Loose Threads at 164 Boynton Ave. Suite 304 in Plattsburgh. "Moose on the Loose" is the title of the 9 x 36 inch row, which features blue sky, trees, pine coast, grasses, water, and of course, a moose. The shop is owned by Jacquie Barshow, Lora Barshow and Dorothy Colby.
Prevost-Meier's shop has a warm ambiance with oak furnishings made by her husband, Stephen, from an old oak gifted to him by Dr. Southwick.
"Quilters look for that. Every shop offers something different."
After more than 18 years in management at Toronto Dominion Bank, she needed a career change. She got a master of arts in history and philosophy of religion.
"Once I had to pay for my masters, I had the opportunity to open a quilt shop. I don't know what I want to do when I grow up. Quilting was my hobby; I got into it 16 years ago."
She studied photography professionally but was ordered by a doctor not to play in chemicals once she became pregnant.
"I had to find a hobby I could do that wasn't harmful to the child I was carrying. I got into quilting. Recently, I got back into photography with a really nice Nikon."
Quilting and other hand arts are a link to the past, to history.
"Dr. Southwick chopping down the tree gives a human element to the quilt shop," Prevost-Meier said. "When a customer comes in, I want them to fill inspired and enjoy being in the shop. Each shop has a different element in that. Even if you are not a quilter, you will see that each one offers something different. That's why shop hops are so much fun."
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