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Cardiac arrest is not the same as heart attack. A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to the heart is slowed or stopped because of a blockage. In the case of a heart attack, the heart continues to beat.
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Arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms) such as ventricular fibrillation cause most cardiac arrests. Using an AED can restore the heart's normal rhythm in the event of cardiac arrest.
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Gwynne Dyer: It's abrupt climate change, stupid
This is not how it was supposed to happen.
The standard climate change predictions said that people in the tropics and the sub-tropics would be badly hurt by global warming long before the people living in the temperate zones, farther away from the equator, were feeling much pain at all.
That was unfair, because it was the people of the rich countries in the temperate zone—North America, Europe, and Japan, mainly—who industrialised early and started burning large amounts of fossil fuel as long as two centuries ago. That's how they got rich. Their emissions of carbon dioxide over the years account for 80 percent of the greenhouse gases of human origin that are now in the atmosphere, causing the warming, yet they get hurt least and last.
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"In 2012 we had the second wettest winter on record and this winter is a one-in-250-years event," British opposition leader Ed Milliband told the Observer newspaper on February 14. "If you keep throwing the dice and you keep getting sixes then the dice are loaded. Something is going on."
The "something" is abrupt climate change. In Britain, it's an unprecedented series of great storms blowing in off the North Atlantic, dropping enormous amounts of rain and causing disastrous floods. In the United States and Canada, it's huge blizzards, ice-storms, and record low temperatures that last much longer and reach much further south than normal. Welcome to the "temperate" zone of the northern hemisphere.
There have been extremes in the "temperate" parts of the southern hemisphere, too. Australia has just had its hottest year ever, with record-breaking heat waves and severe bush fires. Argentina had one of its worst-ever heat waves in December, and parts of Brazil had record rainfall, floods and landslides. But that is probably just the result of gradual, relentless warming. The abrupt changes seem to be mainly in the northern hemisphere.
Geography may explain the differences. There isn't all that much land in the southern temperate zone, and the vast expanses of ocean that surround it moderate the land temperatures. Moreover, the polar jet stream in the southern hemisphere simply circles the Antarctic continent, and does not operate over land— whereas the northern polar jet stream flows right across North America and Europe. And it's the jet stream that matters.
The extreme weather trend in North America and Europe is less than five years old, so the science that might explain exactly what is happening is still quite tentative. The first hypothesis that sounded plausible, published in 2012 in Geophysical Letters, blamed a slowing of the northern hemisphere's polar jet stream.
The paper, entitled "Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes", was written by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The authors' methodology has been challenged by other climate scientists, but I think that in the end Francis and Vavrus will turn out to be largely right. That is not good news.
They start with the fact that the Arctic has been warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, so the difference in temperature between the Arctic air mass and the air over the temperate zone has been shrinking. Since that difference in temperature is what drives the jet stream that flows along the boundary between the two air masses, a lower difference means a slower jet stream.
Now, a fast jet stream travels in a pretty straight line around the planet from west to east, just like a mountain stream goes pretty straight downhill. A slower jet stream, however, meanders like a river crossing a flood—and the big loops it makes extend much further south and north than when it was moving fast.
In a big southerly loop, you will have Arctic air much further south than usual, while there will be relatively warm air from the temperate air mass in a northerly loop that extends up into the Arctic. Moreover, the slower-moving jet stream tends to get "stuck", so that a given kind of weather—snow or rain or heat—will stay longer over the same area.
Hence the "polar-vortex" winter in North America this year, the record snowfalls in Japan in 2012 and again this winter, the lethal heat waves in the eastern U.S. in 2012—and the floods in Britain this winter.
"They've been pummelled by storm after storm this winter [in Britain]," said Francis at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago last week. "It's been amazing what's going on, and it's because the pattern this winter has been stuck in one place ever since early December." There's no particular reason to think that it will move on soon, either.
Human beings are fantastic at grabbing great economical deals when given to them. The reason fossil fuels are popular is that people can cheaply dig or pump it out of the ground almost everywhere in the world. And sell it for good money. And the atmosphere continues to be the open sewer for all their CO2 wastes. This will continue disregardless of the flood of very well researched reports... and articles from G. Dyer.
Let's advocate for a cheap lazy and highly profitable alternative to fossil fuels. Thorium technology, more specifically Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors - LFTR, is probably the best substitute for fossil fuels. Cheap, safe, clean, easy to get. If mass produced in scalable modular form, seven billion+ people in the world would barely notice the switch from fossil fuels to nuclear and economies would hum. Businesses and manufacturing would boom to mass produce and service LFTRs in almost every community on the earth.
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How Thorium can save the world: environmentalist Salim Zwein at TEDx-Beirut 2012
The Earth has a Circumference of about 25,000 miles or 40,000 kilometers - 60% of the Equator (15,000 miles) is over the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
The Equatorial Zone over the oceans can heat up to over 80 Degrees Fahrenheit.
If you take a narrow band of Ocean 100 miles north and south of the Equator - that would be an area of 3,000,000 square Miles.
Millions if not billions of tons of ocean water evaporate from this zone and the more heat that hits this area = more evaporation. It is that simple!!
We will see more rain, more snow and in that wind, is the equalization of hot and cold air - more heat = the greater power in storms.
Hurricanes, Tornadoes, winter Blizzards = we can keep on denying this till we either Drown of Freeze an 50 foot snow bank.
Why in Gods Name do we listen or give a voice to the very Folks and Politicians who make their living from Fossil Fuels????
As to the comment by Realist, re the terms Global warming & Climate Change, the term climate change actually predates the term Global warming by a couple of decades. Global warming actually only refers to the average temperature of the earth and has been misused. Gilbert Plass coined the term Climate change in a 1956 study 'The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change. The first use of the term Global warming was in an article in Science by Wallace S. Broecker "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" That was in 1975, 20 years later.
Look it up.
(who knows, but you can be damn sure that someone will sell you carbon credits, green paint or at the very least books, talks and articles to make it (weather) all go away. I very distinctly remember vast differences in winters when I was a kid and no one was blaming fossil. Take a geology course to give you some perspective. If you want to blame someone, blame Mr. Sun, sunspots, solar flares etc. This whole movement is becoming uncomfortably close to a medieval religion where every crop failure or 'unusual' weather happening is blamed on an earthly cause, usually one of your neighbors. I just don't buy this crap anymore)
The land, as well as the sea bed, is continually rising or falling around the world, so using changes of apparent sea level as evidence for or against global warming is simply a propaganda tool.
For those of you good at math or finance here is a more scary way of thinking about what is happening in temperate zones. Consider the week to week variance in weather. For a given place in the world this number has been constant since we started making measurements. This is to be expected from any large complicated system. It is the same with a given stock, the price may go up and down but the rate of it changing for 98% of stocks is remarkably stable. However something started happening 6 or 7 years ago and it has become quite obvious in the last 2 years. The variance has decreased. While most temperate locations haven't seen their average rainfall or temperature change very much how long it rains for or how long it doesn't rain for has increased. We might have an extremely wet June and no rain for July and August. We still got the same amount of rain but it all fell at once. We might get a heat wave for 4 weeks and then a cool period in for 4 weeks. The average temperature is still the same but 10 years ago the longest heat wave would have been less than a week.
It takes a huge change to the fundamentals of a system for the variance to change.
Yes, 300million years of geological records show that current ocean acidification are now @ the highest levels: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/03/ocean-acidification-c...
Oceans play massive roles in the Earth's systems. Phytoplankton produce 40 per cent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. Oceans were being "deoxygenated" because of fertiliser and sewage run-off , and of course global warming.
"Of course it's climate change, climate is always changing. But I thought it was global warming - how come they dropped that term?"
Pop scientists and corporate media ( more so than corporate science ) did much to replace 'global warming' with 'climate change'. Global warming became politically incorrect.
Global warming: the increase in Earth's average surface temperature due to rising levels of greenhouse gases.
Climate change: a long-term change in the Earth's climate, or of a region on Earth.
What's in a name? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efAUCG9oTb8
"Harlech Castle was built with a 'Sea Gate' which stands higher than the road. This means that when it was built between 1282 and 1289 the sea level was more than 10 metres higher than today. This tells us that sea levels were higher due to the Medieval Warm Period. "
From the Wiki entry on Harlech:
"The sea originally came much closer to Harlech than in modern times, and a water-gate and a long flight of steps leads down from the castle to the former shore, which allowed the castle to be resupplied by sea during sieges. "
They wouldn't have built the steps would they, if the Irish Sea were 10 meters higher. Of course, it wasn't, and the shore was well below the gate in the 13th century. Since then, the bay has silted-up and the shoreline has moved seaward. There are golf links in the dunes below Harlech Castle. Been there, seen it myself.
Por ejemplo, the IP*CC* was formed in...guess when? 1988!
er, the earth's interior is a natural nuclear reactor and has been for over 4.6 billion years. What do you think kept the mantle semi-molten and volcanoes active? Fission nuclear activity of mostly thorium. Geothermal just uses this natural reactor heat, in some place like Iceland ground water is "boiled" by the earth's reactor and used as an energy source.
Molten salt thorium reactor technology is safe - no pressure, no water, almost complete "burn", and fully realiable as the reactor fuel is already molten.
Also Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors are intensely radioactive and produce highly toxic 232U chains with an active and lethal radioactive life of hundreds of years.
Highly toxic, radioactive for long periods of time, unproven technology....Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors are just a nuclear "musical chair."
Geo thermal is better, safer and is much more readily available and can be developed much faster. Also too; there is cold fusion and quantum technology that is totally safe; but is withheld from us because the elites can't drain our bank accounts due to it being free energy. THAT technology already exists; for it IS being used.
Sorry Chris.
Sorry for re-posting but for your convenience, see the two videos introducing molten salt Thorium nuclear power. A nice bonus you may have missed is that the fertile/fission fuel in mixed in with the salt and it stay in the reactor until completely "burned". Every so often, fresh thorium is poured and mixed into the LFTR salts to keep the reactor working. Very little is taken out as waste unlike today's solid-core U-Pu water reactors.
LFTRs are an environmentalist's dream come true - here's a practical proven solution to propose for all 7+billion people rich or poor, instead of just yelling out complaints and warnings. Geothermal and most renewables are good but mostly suitable only for the rich and elite communities/nations that can afford their up-front, operating, maintenance, and regular replacement costs.
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How Thorium can save the world: environmentalist Salim Zwein at TEDx-Beirut 2012
I agree with you on this part and can add, molten salt thorium technology "is totally safe; but is withheld from us because the elites can't drain our bank accounts due to it being [cheap] energy."
Molten salt is already being used to store SOLAR energy, and then used to create steam and electricity on demand.
Solar-PV has fallen in price so dramatically in recent years, that it is on par with coal price wise.
Wind power has been shown to aid grid reliability, since it is usually deployed in windy areas, and has less down-time for maintenance than coal, gas, or nuclear power stations.


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Jim Deccan is ambidextrous. He thinks nothing of this other than how great it is when he's bent in half, hanging halfway upside down inside a car when trying to fix it. He can hold a wrench in either hand and twist so no matter where he is digging into an engine to repair something, he can get at it with ease.
"Cars are like cranky children. They can't really tell you exactly what's wrong, but if you listen long enough, their bodies will tell you." Jim holds up his hands and the faint black line under his nails belies his occupation.
Jim's father was a mechanic, and HIS father was a mechanic. His grandfather, James Sr., scrimped and saved to open his first little shop by renting a garage slot in a gas station. He started with specializing in fixing foreign cars, when it wasn't very popular to do so. But as people in the town became wealthier, they wanted to show off their wealth and stroke their egos by flaunting cars flown in from overseas.
James Sr. liked all kinds of cars. He slowly built up his business - most of it from referrals from his church, where they'd send all sorts of small engines to him along with cars. As the electronics and sophistication of the motors increased, James Sr. closed shop for a while and decided to take a few classes at the local community college in Parkersburg. There he learned more about electronics and alongside fixing cars he became the town's "go to" guy for clocks, toasters, radios, vacuums - anything that had an engine inside. This was of course before electronics became so cheap and it's easier to replace than repair them. Back then, everyone repaired everything.
Jim's grandfather built his own little store and prospered as a glorified engine mechanic. His son, Jim's father George, started working in the shop when he was 10 and would rush home to sit on the tall stool behind the counter and help customers as they brought in their broken and busted electronics hoping to squeeze some more life out of them.
James Sr. encouraged his son to go to school. But his son George didn't have the aptitude to excel in the way the school was taught. He couldn't sit still and was forever getting into trouble. He spent more time in the corner or in the principal's office than he did learning in his desk. He wanted to work with his hands and had no inclination towards "book learning."
"There is just something about popping the hood [of a car] and looking inside to try and analyze what's going on that's thrilling."
When Jim's grandfather died of a heart attack at the early age of fifty-three, George took over the business and continued repairing gadgets for people, taking over the what was now a family business. He too continued the tradition of spending hours in the shop working under a magnifying glass at the intricate pieces of electronic gadgetry that people brought in. Jim would bring his homework, and would sit in the same well-worn stool behind the counter and learned the tricks of the trade.
George had instilled one thing in his son, even if the advice had been discarded, but that was the value of education. George knew that he'd been a failure at school, and was determined that his own son would grow up to be a real businessman or doctor or lawyer. Something more respected than a small engine mechanic.
The family scrimped and put Jim through college. He studied electronic engineering and his father maintained a vision of his only son working for a big electronics company designing electronics or appliances in a pristine lab with all the latest technology at his fingertips. Jim helped out by taking a part time job at a local garage while in school. It was here that he felt most comfortable.
"I don't know what to tell you. I certainly didn't know what to tell HIM (my father) when he'd sacrificed so hard to put me through school. There is just something about popping the hood and looking inside to try and analyze what's going on that's thrilling. I truly feel how a doctor must feel when he has a patient come to him with a problem and he gives a true diagnosis to fix his patient."
Indeed, Jim dropped out of school twice. He felt he just wasn't cut out for the academic part of the learning process. He just wanted to build and repair things with his hands! He fixed all his friends' cars from the other scholarship kids like him who drove junkers, to the rich jock who drove a brand new Porsche. Everyone trusted him with their cars, and Jim felt a deep sense of pride knowing that all the students and professors, no matter from what socio-economic background they came, brought their cars to him to repair. They trusted him.
Jim did finish his degree, and for a while went to work for a semi-conductor operations plant in California. But he was still fixing cars of friends and co-workers in the evening and weekends. Many times his bosses made snide comments about his dirty hands, but no amount of scrubbing could ever fully erase all traces of grease that built up over the years.
When Jim was twenty-five, he got a call from his mother that his father had suffered the Deccan family curse of a weak heart - his father had had a heart attack. He would recover, but he wasn't going to be able to work for several weeks. Could Jim come home and help out a bit?
Jim could barely contain his excitement. This was his chance to prove his worth, work at the store that he so loved and felt close to his father and grandfather, and show them how to bring the shop into the 21st century.
He drove his souped-up Camaro cross-country and reveled in the trip. He even stopped a couple of times to help stranded motorists, bandaging their mechanical babies up and sending them on their way.
Today Jim owns a car repair shop in Wheeling, West Virginia. Far from being the rusted out, dusty old shop of yore, the store is now sleek and lined with neon lights that showcase the gleaming cars full of computer electronics over which he manages daily repairs.
"Cars are like extensions of some people's bodies. I don't know how some people would survive without their cars. I just make 'em run!" Jim grins and wipes away a fleck of grease from his face.
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By John A. Byrne
(Poets&Quants) -- For Doug Guthrie, dean of George Washington University's business school, August 22 was like most work days. It was to start off with a meeting.
On his calendar was an early morning session with University President Steven Knapp to discuss the business school's budget. Guthrie wasn't expecting it to be all that pleasant. After all, the university had asked him to cut the school's budget by $7 million to $57 million this year and he had been resisting.
However, Guthrie would never see Knapp -- and there would be no budget meeting that morning. Instead, the dean was called aside by Provost Steven Lerman and asked to follow him to his office. "As we walked back to his office, I realized something more serious was afoot," recalls Guthrie.
Moments after sitting down, Lerman announced: "We're firing you."
"I was quite stunned," says Guthrie, 44, who had been recruited from New York University's Stern School to become dean in 2010. "I had thought a possible outcome [of the budget issues] would be they would say we can't get this to work and we need you to help us with the transition. But the provost said, 'it seems to us that we've reached a point where there is a lack of trust and a lack of ability for us to work together.'"
Guthrie asked about the university's plans for China, an expansion area he had led for the university as its vice president for China, and about the business school's upcoming re-accreditation plans. The replies were terse, leading Guthrie to believe his firing was given little forethought. Within 15 minutes, he was ushered out of the office, without his job as dean.
Guthrie's abrupt ouster shocked faculty and students alike, but what truly surprised them was the public nature of the dismissal. At 11:30 a.m. on the day of his firing, Provost Lerman issued a statement to the GW community in which he noted that "fundamental differences about financial and operational performance were significant enough to warrant a change in leadership." The following day, in an interview with the student newspaper, Lerman made clear that Guthrie was fired over a spending spree that resulted in the dean going over his school's budget by $13 million in the fiscal year ended June 30.
But there may be more to the dean's dismissal than that. For one thing, the overspending was hardly a surprise to the administration, which had approved the dean's plans for growth along with the investments required to increase the school's revenues and stature. In fact, Guthrie had been hired with a mandate to turn George Washington's business school into an elite player.
While it's true that spending was higher than expected, the administration had been prepared for a significant overruns -- every contract the business school had was approved by the university administration -- but not $13 million. On April 22, at one of the dean's regular check-in meetings with the administration, Guthrie told the university that he expected to overspend his budgeted expenses by about $8 million. But he could cover the full amount of overspending with reserve funds and higher-than-expected revenues. The overage was largely attributed to the costs to launch and market several new online degree programs and executive education programs.
By the time the fiscal year closed, the overrun ballooned to $13 million. Even so, the business school was able to cover most of the additional expenses with its own reserves, except for about $2.5 million out of a total budget of $64 million.
When Guthrie, a professor at NYU Stern, came to GWU in 2010, the university wanted to put its business school on the map. The management professor-turned-dean aggressively raised standards for faculty and put in place more competitive packages to retain the school's best professors and recruit better talent. He also increased spending on marketing to give the school greater visibility.
An expert on China who speaks fluent Mandarin, Guthrie launched two new degree programs in China, a master's of finance, a master's of accounting, and he was working on a new program, a master's in business analytics. He also revamped the GW's undergraduate business curriculum and started a new B.S. in finance, requiring a double major with the liberal arts. And Guthrie plowed ahead in online education, signing a deal with Pearson (PSO) to launch an online MBA program, revamp the school's existing online programs in project management and information systems technology, and a healthcare MBA.
The new programs helped Guthrie exceed his annual revenue targets. In the year ended June 30, the school's revenue came in at $106 million against a target of $102 million. When Guthrie started three years ago, the school's annual revenue was $83 million. The new dean had increased revenue by 27% at a time when many business schools were retrenching.
This year, however, the university expected to keep $51 million of the school's projected $102 million in revenue. Guthrie could retain the rest -- some $51 million -- to run the school. Instead, Guthrie spent $64 million and had only $42 million to hand over.
Guthrie argues that the additional investments were crucial to the school's transformation. "There is one statistic that is a perfect correlation with top 20 rankings," says Guthrie. "It is expenditure per faculty member. The Top 20 schools are spending on average about $450,000 per faculty member, on everything from research to career services. We were at $220,000. The agreement was that they wouldn't completely change our budgeted expenses, but they would move them up gradually and I would pay for them from reserve funds."
In the first year of his deanship, the university invested $7.5 million. In the second, Guthrie tapped into reserves for nearly $6 million more. But the following year, the administration wanted to pull back on the expansion plans. "We had an agreement and they wanted to cut way back," explains Guthrie. "I said, 'We already [are] not where we need to be. If we have to give the university more money, I don't think I'm the right person for this. I didn't come here to be the steward of a cash cow. I came here to build programs and make investments.'"
That conversation happened this past summer. "I was feeling like I could maintain quality and run a school with a $60 million budget," recalls Guthrie. "When I came in, the budget was $40 million and that was low for an elite school. They agreed to an ambitious plan and investment. Each year we knew we were going to be overspending but we would do that through a combination of reserve funds and university investment."
He says the administration wanted his 2014 fiscal budget to be $57 million, some $7 million less than the school spent last year, and its net contribution to the university to rise substantially. Guthrie figures he would have had to cut research funds for faculty, summer salaries for junior faculty, and other expenses. "I didn't think this was the right way to go," he says.
The business school, moreover, was in the middle of an accreditation review that required additional spending on faculty. A written report to the accreditation review committee is due in early September, while a site visit to the school is expected in December.
Guthrie made his case in a memo that he shared with the deans of several of other schools at the university -- a move that, in retrospect, hurt his standing with the administration. "I knew that the stand I was taking made it a pretty good chance they would say this isn't working and let's see it through accreditation. I decided I would be fine with it because I disagreed with the suggested budget cuts."
GW takes issue with Guthrie's take. "The university strongly disagrees with Doug Guthrie's characterization of the events that led to his departure," says Candace Smith, a university spokesperson. Smith says that the university did not back away from an agreement to invest in its business school. "On the contrary, in a meeting earlier this summer, the provost and the treasurer invited Dean Guthrie to submit a proposal for an additional university investment in the School of Business. That proposal was never received."
Guthrie suspects there was a personality clash with President Knapp, a mercurial leader who prefers that administrators toe the line. "They think I am a little bit uncontrollable," says Guthrie. "And I understand how that makes them uncomfortable. We tried a lot of things here, and maybe it was too much too quickly. I do have a lot of passion for this school, though, and that has made me a successful fundraiser. In the end, I have enjoyed my time here, and I wish the school and the students the best."
For now, the former dean will remain at GW as a tenured professor. But he didn't come to George Washington merely to teach.
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Quiz: What You Don't Know About Climate Change Science
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Every few years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases a new summary of the scientific consensus on climate change. How much do you know about the forces altering the Earth's temperature, according to the IPCC's September 2013 report?
Quiz by Marianne Lavelle
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared with at least 90 percent certainty that humans caused most of the global warming since the mid-20th century. In IPCC's 2013 report, how great was the panel's certainty? More than:
- 80 percent
- 90 percent
- 95 percent
- 100 percent
The IPCC increased its level of certainty on human influence on climate change from "very likely" to "extremely likely"—an increase from at least 90 percent to 95 percent certainty, according to the panel's definitions.
It is extremely likely that human activity caused how much of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010?
- One quarter
- More than half
- Seventy-five percent
- All
The IPCC attributes "more than half" of the temperature change to humans, with "high confidence" this has caused large-scale changes in the oceans, ice cover, and sea level in the second half of the 20th century.
In its 2013 report, the IPCC projected warming will likely be above 2.7°F (1.5°C) What was the "floor" in the panel's previous projection in 2007?
In its 2013 report, the IPCC's lowest projection for likely future warming marks a rollback of its position in 2007, when it ruled out any warming less than 3.6°F (2°C).
Roughly how many scientific publications were cited in the IPCC's 2013 Assessment Report-5 (AR-5)?
- 92
- 920
- 9,200
- 90,200
More than 9,200 scientific publications were cited in the IPCC's 2013 assessment report. More than two-thirds were published after the panel's previous report in 2007.
What region of the world will likely warm most rapidly due to climate change?
- The Arctic
- The tropics
- Antarctica
- Australia and the South Pacific
There is very high confidence that the Arctic region will warm most rapidly, says the IPCC.
In the past two decades, how much has the rate in sea level rise accelerated, compared to the average since 1901?
- 8 percent
- 28 percent
- 48 percent
- 88 percent
The IPCC says it is very likely that the mean rate of global average sea level rise was 3.2 millimeters per year from 1993 to 2010, an increase of more than 88 percent over the mean of 1.7 millimeters per year from 1901 to 2010.
What is the only continental region for which the IPCC expressed significant doubt on human-caused warming?
- Asia
- Antarctica
- Africa
- South America
IPCC says that because of large uncertainties in the observed changes occurring in Antarctica, there's low confidence that human influences have contributed to a surface temperature rise.
How much of the carbon emitted by human activities has been absorbed by the oceans?
- 10 percent
- 20 percent
- 30 percent
- 40 percent
The ocean has absorbed more than about 30 percent of the carbon emitted by human activities, causing acidification that is likely to continue under all of the future scenarios IPCC studied.
How does the rate of global warming in more recent years, from 1998 to 2012, compare to average warming since 1951?
- It has been slower.
- It has stopped.
- It has accelerated.
- It has doubled.
The IPCC says that the rate of warming since 1998, about 0.05°C per decade, has been less than half the rate of 0.12°C since 1951. The panel noted the influence of the strong El Niño warm ocean cycle at the start of this period.
There have been other periods in Earth's history when carbon dioxide concentrations were high. But the current level is unprecedented over at least how many years, according to IPCC?
- 800
- 8,000
- 80,000
- 800,000
Carbon dioxide concentrations are unprecedented in the last 800,000 years, according to IPCC.
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Man, I sure am glad that dude was born...
Man, I sure am glad that dude was born...
Happy B-Day Paul!
So I wonder what he did for his Birthday!? Hopefully he got to jam some!
I'm late! Happy birthday, Paul!
Love for all human beings is like listening to any kind of music. You just don't care.
The 3-Mike-7 devotee.
Happy belated birthday Paul.
How 'bout them Cowboys
happy late birthday Paul
Thanks for my favourite guitar and all the joy it brings me
Wahoo Happy Birthday Paul!
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Happy birthday, Paul.
Sorry I missed this thread as I've been traveling...
But anyway
Happy Bday And blessings to YOU and YOURS!!
Happy Be-lated Birthday Paul....
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News Founder of Global Community Initiatives Gwendolyn Hallsmith Speaks at Marlboro College, May 8
MARLBORO, VT— (April 30, 2008) — Founder and Executive Director of Global Community Initiatives, Gwendolyn Hallsmith will give a free public lecture, Intentional Cities, Intentional Economies, on Thursday, May 8, at 7:00 p.m. in Whittemore Theater at Marlboro College.
Author of The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems, Hallsmith examines an innovative approach using universal human needs as a basis for engaging in a multi-stakeholder process, building on assets, and using a whole system understanding that identifies leverage points for change.
Hallsmith is also the author of the workbook, Taking Action for Sustainability: The EarthCAT Guide to Community Development, which, along with Sustainable Cities, is being used by several communities to initiate a new planning process, including the City of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and the City of Newburgh, NY.
Hallsmith has worked with municipal, regional and state government in the United States and internationally for over 25 years, including work with the United Nations Environmental Program, the United Nations Development Program and Earth Charter International. She has served as the Deputy Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, a Regional Planning Director and as an international specialist on sustainable community development, among others.
Currently she serves as President of the Vermont Earth Institute and as Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Montpelier, which is in the midst of a sustainability project called enVision Montpelier.
This presentation is part of Marlboro College's ''On the Record'' series of lectures, presentations and performances in celebration of its 60th anniversary.
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Sorry i didn't update this earlier this month, but ive just finished up radiation last week and ive had so many follow up appointments.
Thanks to Ben Whitman/Seminole Hard Rock for being patient with me.
New Years Eve Event DJ Spider at the Hard Rock Café. Friday, December
30, 2011. 12am-4am. Tickets available at the door. $20 cover for guys all
night. Ladies free until 1am, $10 cover 1am-4am. Bust Out Your New Year¹s
Eve Dance Moves to the Sounds of LA¹s Hottest Spinmaster DJ Spider as He
Kicks-Off Hard Rock Cafe Tampa¹s Weekend of Parties. SHRT is the ONLY place
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Comedian Seth Grabel cines to Hard Rock Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 9pm.
Free Admission. Enjoy dinner and a show with the America¹s Got Talent
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Santa¹s Sleigh Mercedes-Benz Giveaway. Win a Mercedez-Benz or $1,000
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WHY HUNGER/ IMAGINE. Seminole Hard Rock Tampa will collect food for the
local Metropolitan Ministries this holiday season as part of the Imagine
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for the fight against childhood hunger and poverty. Nov. 21 Dec. 13: Bags
of Joy program collection of toys, strollers, shoes, books and other
essential items for children. November-December: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &
Casino, Tampa employees will volunteer at the Metropolitan Ministries¹
Holiday Tent. They will sort donations and prepare and serve food.
Throughout the year: Lost and found items including clothing and eyeglasses
are donated to Metropolitan Ministries. Hotel linen and terry are also
donated. Now through Dec. 31, visitors and other supporters can text the
word IMAGINE to 50555 to donate $10 to WhyHunger and help feed a hungry
child. Link: http://www.seminolehardrocktampa.com/gaming/promotions
World Poker Tour. Friday Sunday, December 2-11, 2011. Tickets go on
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and 700 seats for the Championship Event (12/11) on a first-come
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Thanks again to The Seminole for being patient with me and Bens working to get last months gifts sent out to our contest winners.
Everyone, Have a Happy Holiday/ Merry Christmas from all of us at Boobie Wednesday.


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Don't let a bad parenting day bring you downBad parenting days. We all have them. Those of us who've been at this motherhood gig as long as I have have not only had bad days, but weeks and months. (Come to think of it, 2007 was a particularly bad parenting year for yours truly.)
But there's a difference between having a bad parenting day and being a bad parent. The trouble is that sometimes the line between the two can blur.
You might find yourself caught in the comparison trap (The other moms at daycare have it all together!) or you may wonder why you seem to be only mother on earth whose baby isn't sleeping through the night (trust me- you're not). You might lose your temper or call your spouse in tears, or even catch some Zs on the sly during your lunch break.
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I've been there more times than I can count.
I've thought of some techniques to try when you're feeling this way. I hope they'll help you see that a bad parenting day is just that…a day. A whole other one starts tomorrow when the sun comes up.
1. Remember other bad days and how you got through them
It might sound strange to think of bad days when you're, well, HAVING one, but my point is this: you've had plenty of difficult moments in your life and you got through them. Stressful days at work. Fights with friends. You've dealt with bad days of all sorts and that didn't mean that you were a bad employee or friend or student. Use the same skills that helped you cope during tough times of the past to help you cope now.
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2. Think of one thing you did right
Even on the worst of days, SOMETHING goes well. Maybe you got some silly smiles from your baby over breakfast. Maybe you can pat yourself on the back for getting on the floor and playing with your children even though you had so many other things to do. Think of one thing you did right and allow yourself to celebrate that brief moment!
3. Call a friend
If you're like me, sometimes you just need to talk. Call a friend and let her know what you've been going through. More than likely she'll tell you about a bad parenting day of her own and you won't feel so alone. Another benefit of letting someone know what's going on is that you might be experiencing something more serious and reaching out to another person might be an important first step in addressing it.
4. Take it easy on yourself
Lastly, try to remember not to be too hard on yourself. Everyone has bad days sometimes, and one bad day of parenting does not mean that you're a bad parent- just that you're a normal one.
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Like the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), the atomic force microscope (AFM) uses a probe to scan back and forth over the surface of a sample. But instead of using an electrical signal, the AFM relies on forces between the atoms in the tip and in the sample.
The probe of the AFM is a flexible cantilever—think of a diminutive diving board—with a tip attached to its underside. As the tip scans the sample, the force between them is monitored. To keep the force constant, the cantilever is moved up and down. A detection device, usually a reflected laser beam, measures the vertical movement of the cantilever, which corresponds to the hills and valleys of the sample's surface. A computer translates this vertical movement into an image.
In addition to gathering information about the topography of a sample, the AFM can measure the friction between the tip and the sample, and it can also measure the elasticity, or softness, of a sample.
[1] The AFM can operate in a multitude of different modes. For instance, the tip can be in constant contact with the sample, it can be slightly above the sample, or it can be in "tapping" mode, intermittently tapping gently on the sample. This latter approach works well with soft samples that might be harmed if the tip stayed in contact.
While the STM is generally used with samples that conduct electricity, the AFM can be used with almost any type of material, including biological samples. It's been used to image DNA, individual proteins, and even living cells.
The AFM was developed in 1985 by Gerd Binnig, IBM scientist Christoph Gerber, and Stanford University professor Calvin Quate.


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That's good information. Thanks, Terry.
The intent of the AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT (ARRA) that President Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009 is to reinvigorate our economy with new projects that put Americans back to work. There is also a provision in the act that invokes the BUY AMERICAN ACT, which will help bring more manufacturers into the process and thus compound the economic boost by allowing more industries to support new projects.
Qualifying TOTO Products for ARRA and BAA
TOTO USA, which has significant manufacturing operations outside of Atlanta, GA, offers over 1,000 products that meet the requirements of the ARRA and the BUY AMERICAN ACT (BAA) of 1933. Plus, according to the BAA, products from designated countries qualify as a part of the recovery package. These countries include: World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement countries; Free Trade Agreements countries; Caribbean-Basin countries; or one of several least developed countries around the world.
Click here to download a PDF list of TOTO's compliant ARRA/BAA products
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That's good information. Thanks, Terry.
Looks alright. I also buy products with American in the name.
That's nice, too bad they don't manufacture in the USA like Toto does.Looks alright. I also buy products with American in the name.
The ARRA and BAA include many countries other than the USA.
"designated countries qualify as a part of the recovery package. These countries include: World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement countries; Free Trade Agreements countries; Caribbean-Basin countries; or one of several least developed countries around the world."
For example, one Toto I bought that qualified was made in Vietnam.
Not as American as the title might seem.
I sold a Bone ADA drake to a customer last week, tank and bowl made in USANot as American as the title might seem.
All of the TOTO Ultramax, Soiree, Guinevere, Ultramax II toilets I've been selling are made in USA
The Eco tanks for the Drake have been made in USA
All of the Gerber I sell is made in China
American Standard manufactures in Mexico and Brazil, which are fair trade.
Pegasus, China
Glacier By, China
Maybe that's why I like the TOTO one-piece toilets a bit better.
They make most of them here.
I agree that people should have the choice to buy American and for some things should even be encouraged to.
But I draw the line at being forced to buy American products, which Congress tried to do with the stimulus package, ordering recipients to buy American (under the ARRA).
Some stuff is just not made well here. For example, I would rather walk than own an American car (even a Japanese one built here).
Stick to ball valves, pumps and (perhaps) toilets. Your brasswear is/was first class too. Just leave the difficult stuff to the Japanese & Germans.
And regardless there will always be a market for low-cost, low quality products. I would not want to deny my neighbor access to cheap, low quality Chinese products if those are all he wanted.
I love Government, but it should stay out of what we choose to buy and from where.
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Now if one was designing a program for something else, say energy/water efficiency then the optimization should be neutral toward source.
It's not like the Chinese let you bring in your equipment from outside when you set up a plant. Nope, you have to teach them how to make the gear, then they make it for the plant. (And believe, me they were clueless about basic stuff when we started.) China is incredibly protectionist but the western capitalists have sold their souls and given away their process knowledge to them chasing short term bucks.
But where do you draw the line? Very few things are built entirely in the US nowadays. We are a world that is inter-linked.
Even Totos. Is that American glaze and American clay? Is it American plastic in the guts? I really doubt it. Yes, it might be put together here but its not 100% American value-added.
I don't have any problem seeing a little bit of American taxpayers' money go elsewhere. Like to England for instance. That never did anyone any harm.
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Buy American doesn't necessarily equate to quality just as buying Chinese manufactured products doesn't mean low quality. The issue is the manufacture's design and QA specs. Apple manufactures everything in China and their products are consistent and high quality. Dell produces in China as well (sometimes in the same factories) but their component supply specs are much lower and so you end up with a cheaper product plus they permit sub-component substitutions so they get drifting in the actual product even on the same manufacturing run!
The intent of buy American is not so much about quality but the preservation of manufacturing jobs. Laudable yes. Realistic no. Manufactured in US products will need to compete with lower production costs (read labor & environmental laws, etc.) and so will likely end up substituting cheaper components and other short-term tactics to stay in the game. Great Britain did that for ages, with government protection and other methods yet the quality of their products ended up almost as bad as their food!
The reason we have labor laws, environmental laws and others is to ensure the social costs of a product are appropriately accounted for. We either have to give up those gains or encourage others to share those same goals. If we don't the marketplace will mercilessly crush any attempt to trick it!
The plant in Morrow Georgia is situated where they have historically had good clay for manufacture.
About 25% of the toilets I'm selling are made of Georgia clay.
And the manufacturing process is industry leading.
A lot of "made in USA" on the boxes.


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A lot of questions but a good thread, Joanne!!
I have never met any of the members of the Memphis Mafia and, to be honest, what I know about some of them is what I've read from books or through documentaries and so on.
I can only say that I have my favourites..those who, according to me, were real friends and didn't care about his success and money...for example Charlie Hodge and Jerry Schilling (although he still pays too much attention to the "widow").
Red and Sonny West...well, they did a really filth with their book in that particular moment of his life...maybe they really told the truth but I'd never hurt a friend in that way.
I don't know enough about the others as Marty Lacker, Lamar Fike, Joe Esposito or Larry Galler (what they did after his death).
Anyway, it's so hard to have an opinion...they all tell different stories about Elvis, their life with him and the facts happened...I'd be curious to know more and to read others posts...


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"Louisa May Alcott: Literary Phenomenon and Social Reformer"
Lecture by Prof. Sarah Wadsworth
November 10, (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m.
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Alcott played a complex and varied role in the literary marketplace as a self-trained and successful professional writer. With reference to a range of genres and texts, including Transcendental Wild Oats, Behind a Mask, and the Little Women series, the lecture and discussion will explore how Alcott negotiated the line between "popular" and "literary" and how her texts advocated a range of progressive reforms while addressing a mainstream audience interested chiefly in entertainment.
Dr. Wadsworth (photo at right), Associate Professor of English, specializes in American literature and children's literature with research interests in history of the book, gender and reading, and literature and "place." Her new book, Right Here I See My Own Books (U. Mass Press, 2012), concerns the Women's Library that was assembled for the 1893 Columbia Exposition. She is also the author of In the Company of Books: Literature and its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America (U. Mass. Press, 2006).
Resource guide: Raynor Memorial Libraries has posted an online resource guide with handy lists of library and digital books by Alcott, as well as books and websites about the author, her period, and her contemporaries. Find the resource guide here.
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T. Eloop Productions in association with Chicago Dramatists and The Second City Training Center present, "Best of the Tens", an hour of one-act comic plays selected for the Chicago Dramatists' 10-minute comedic play workshop. Written by up and coming playwrights, the scenes in "Best of the Tens" are directed by Adam Seidel and Jeff Poole and produced by Jeff Poole, a Second City Training Center Faculty Member.
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4 in-demand social media jobs
Many of us are hooked on social media in some form — and this addiction has not gone unnoticed in the business world: A social media study of Fortune 500 companies this year revealed that 77 percent keep active Twitter® accounts and 70 percent have a Facebook® page.
As companies become more savvy about their social media strategies, the number of jobs in the field has increased. An analysis by Indeed.com found that job ads with "social media" in the description rose 28 percent from 2012 to 2013, and a desire for workers experienced in these platforms also grew.
"At its most basic, this is a huge opportunity for companies to reach their customers," says Noah Brier, BA, co-founder of Percolate, a company that helps brands with their digital content strategies. "Social media offers unique opportunities for brands to move from renting audiences with commercials to owning them through follows [on Twitter or Facebook]."
Since these fields are so new, Brier notes, "any number of educational backgrounds" can serve you well. "Ultimately," he adds, "the job is about creativity, strategy, business, and media and, most importantly, understanding what makes people tick. You can connect almost any major back to at least two or three of them." Here, Brier describes four in-demand social media jobs:
Content strategist
As the person in charge of managing a brand's social presence, this role requires more than just posting to the Facebook website and sending out Tweets on the Twitter network. "You need to have a combination of visual, copy and strategic skills," Brier emphasizes, "as social channels become a more important marketing channel for the enterprise."
Those who hold this position are responsible for establishing and maintaining the brand's social voice while creating content that compels fans and followers to engage with the brand.
Mobile app developer
Many companies are being aggressive about shrinking their sites and messages to fit the array of hand-held devices being used today. "Anything having to do with development right now is a huge opportunity," Brier says. "With the expansion in mobile usage, you have a job" that companies across the globe are hiring for.
Customer service rep/community manager
More than half of consumers use social media to seek help from companies. In this position, you might Tweet step-by-step instructions to a befuddled consumer on how to troubleshoot a leaking dishwasher, for instance, or answer questions people have posted about a company's products or services on its Facebook page. Keeping customers happy by providing critical information is key in this role, Brier notes.
As businesses engage larger audiences, there's always a chance that some consumers will respond negatively. Community managers are company gatekeepers, sometimes handling customer complaints or providing information via social media. For example, FedEx turned to social media to help diffuse consumer backlash when a video of an employee tossing packages went viral on the Internet.
Business analytics manager
As brands extend their reach across more social media platforms, studying the numbers from page hits, likes, comments, shares, Retweets and clicks is becoming increasingly necessary to determine how to increase brand favorability and social impact.
"As brands are investing more money, this role gains importance," Brier says. "It helps identify what's working, what's not and ideally ensures the whole team remains on track."
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