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Last week we have faced a strange issue, some random PC received popped up a screen inform the user that their PC going to shutdown after 10 seconds.
I have made my research on the server and on the community and I found this article: http://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-6701
first of all we have landesk 10 and I am not very sure if that was a bug before on the landesk and then they fixed it or what.
Here is what I looked for:
I searched into ServiceHost.log on one of the users PC who got this message and I found some logs related to this operation but the problem is we don't know what is the cause from the first place!!
I got freaked out and I removed the power management policy that we were applying on all PCs and return it back to the default. however some user reports that they still receiving this silly message.
I have also looked into the daily, weekly tasks that run on the server but it seems there is no anything to do with this.
Where can I go and track this problem?
and is there is any kind of events or logs on the server where I can find useful information and logs about this problem and why it is happening.
Guys we need help, otherwise I will resign better than get fired!!
It does sound like the issue described in the document. Have you gone through every task? Is there anyone else in your environment that has the rights to schedule tasks? If so, perhaps notifying them all of this issue and the probable cause will 'magically' make it stop.
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Yeah, we have looked into all the tasks but I am not very sure which one of them is the guilty . I have searched inside that servicehost.log in one of the users who got effected from this and I found this line:
Exec: Exec: Launch request <"poweroff.exe" 10> (sync 0, timeout 300)
and before that line commend I found this as well:
Service Host Started, Host ********, Peer **.**.**.***, IP Address **.**.**.***,
Public key path C:\Program Files\LANDesk\Shared Files\cbaroot\certs
X509 Authentication via 76b9ae97
Request Received "POST /services/exec HTTP/1.1"
Not very sure if this a normal behavior before the PC got the shutdown command. I have searched in many logs but nothing was pretty clear which task has ordered the PC to shutdown.
But I have noticed very intersting thing in sdclient_task.log. take a look on this line:
1088: Service shutdown has been requested, setting shutdown event
Do you think it has something to do with that issue, or this is just a service is shutting down?


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For me, Tim Duncan has been the epitome of a class act in basketball. Stayed in college 4 years and IMO will be a first ballot Hall of Famer
Three-Pointers: Tim Duncan carries Spurs to second straight OT win over Grizzlies
The Spurs defeated the Grizzlies 104-93 in overtime to take Game 3 of the Western Conference finals on Saturday. San Antonio now holds a 3-0 series lead.
• Still old, still dominant. Here are the ages of the 10 players who took the court at the start of overtime once the Spurs and Grizzlies finished regulation with 86 points apiece: 21, 25, 28, 28, 31, 31, 31, 33, 35 and 37. The last two numbers in that sequence, of course, belong to the ageless Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan, who helped San Antonio overcome a dreadful start and outlast a Memphis team that was in make-or-break mode. The second-oldest on the list, Ginobili, scored the Spurs' final four points in regulation, craftily beating a great defense to create points out of thin air.
The oldest, Duncan, owned the extra period for the second straight game, scoring seven of his 24 points in overtime after scoring six of his 17 points in Game 2′s overtime period. Playing 44 minutes, the most time he's logged in a game since April 2010, Duncan added 10 rebounds, five assists and two blocks and shot 58 percent from the field (his second-best mark this postseason) against a younger, hungry, desperate, talented front line that's among the league's best. He was the last man standing for the second time in this series and for about the 60-billionth time of his career.
"We've been 'old' probably for eight years now," Ginobili joked to reporters after the game. "I remember in 2007, our last championship, they were saying that we were old."
In a series defined by an insanely high level of defensive intensity and execution and the long stretches of offensive struggles the quality defense has produced, Duncan again looked like the freshest player on the court in the game's biggest moments. His and-one basket, achieved by going straight through Marc Gasol, launched a 12-3 overtime run that essentially buried the Grizzlies' hopes in this series. If that wasn't splendid enough, he followed it up with a no-look touch pass to Tiago Splitter for a layup moments later. Finally, a patented soft-touch finish at the rim to gently plunge the dagger.
"He was huge the other night in overtime and got it done for us and he did it again tonight," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "That's why he is considered as great as he has been for the last 17 years. He's been unbelievable, he feels the responsibility to carry us."
Then, like the rest of us, Popovich ran out of words to describe Duncan's reliable, commanding excellence. "I don't know what else to say," he shrugged.
Although both Game 2 and Game 3 ended with San Antonio dominating in overtime, the two games had inverted plots. In Game 2, the Spurs' offense went dead in the fourth quarter; in Game 3, the Spurs committed eight turnovers and managed just four baskets in a 13-point first-quarter. Popovich actually pulled all five of his starters simultaneously in apparent disgust at a flat start that followed three off days since Game 2.
"It looked like those five guys had been asleep since Tuesday," Popovich said. "We might as well get five guys out there to start to compete. … It was one of the worst starts I've ever seen."
Memphis will regret its inability to pull away then and there, as the Spurs closed the deficit from 18 points to just four by halftime, before taking their first lead of the game early in the fourth quarter. The Grizzlies' predicament here was much the same as it has been: all the effort, heart and guts in the world isn't translating to efficient scoring. Memphis shot below 44 percent for the third straight game in the series; a team-high 20 points from an aggressive Mike Conley, 14 points and 15 rebounds from a re-engaged Zach Randolph and another solid performance from reserve Quincy Pondexter, who added 15 points, all went for naught as Duncan went to work in overtime, knocking down his mid-range shot, plowing through the paint, touch-passing to Splitter, and all the rest of it.
"One of the best wins I've witnessed being a Spur," said Ginobili, who, in addition to being old for eight years, is now in his 11th season in San Antonio. "It really looked ugly, [The Grizzlies were] really inspired, all over us. It wasn't looking good. We come down, we started to do what we do, we started to take care of the ball, things started to change."
San Antonio is now one win away from its first Finals trip since 2007. If they can pull off the sweep in Game 4 on Monday, the Spurs will enjoy a ridiculous nine full days of rest before The Finals open on June 6. Man, just think about how old they'll be once they get around to playing for the fifth title of the Duncan era.
• The possession that got away. Barring an unprecedented miracle comeback from a 3-0 series deficit, the Grizzlies will look back at their final play in regulation as the moment their 2012-13 season slipped away.
With the game tied and the shot clock turned off, Mike Conley milked the clock before entering the ball to Gasol at the high post and running to the weakside, where he bunched up with Jerryd Bayless and Zach Randolph. Conley then darted out of the pile, using screens from both of his teammates to free himself as he curled back toward Gasol for a running hand-off. The action worked well enough, as Tiago Splitter was forced to leave Gasol and switch onto Conley as he curled towards the paint.
Splitter took a nice defensive angle that prevented Conley from totally turning the corner to get to the rim and, with the clock ticking down, the Grizzlies point guard settled for a fairly wild runner going to his right (off hand) that banked off the backboard and over the rim entirely. A rushed Randolph putback attempt was no good.
"We just drew up a play to try to get into the paint and let me make a play," Conley said."I think I got a little bit too deep so I had to take the shot. It was a good drawn up play; we just didn't execute it as well as we thought."
Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins said he thought perhaps Conley could have fed the ball back to Gasol, who was stationed at the top of the key.
"I tried to get him going to the basket," Hollins said. "Marc was open back at the free throw line, [but] he had already committed to the shot. They crowded the paint and it was a tough shot."
Passing to Tayshaun Prince, stationed in the near corner, was also a possibility once Ginobili flashed at Conley as he drove. Was there time for Conley to settle himself a little better? Should he have taken a harder line towards the rim with the goal of generating contact? Even though this wasn't technically the game-deciding play, as the two teams proceeded to overtime, it certainly felt like Memphis' best chance had been squandered.
• Turnovers, period. Popovich was up to his in-game interview tricks on Saturday. The timing was perfect — or terrible, depending on whether you enjoy his angsty antics — because he was forced to take questions on the broadcast following his team's awful start. All he could do was muster two words in response. Well, actually, one word, repeated twice.
What went wrong on offense?
What went wrong on defense?
This was Popovich at his briefest — but not necessarily his angriest or rudest. After the Spurs pulled off the comeback, he noted that he was actually more critical of his team in the second half.
"The first half, I was grandfatherly," he said. "The second half — what word can I say — I was ugly. I wasn't going to watch [the turnovers] again. … It was a real test of their character to continue to pound and pound and pound. I'm really proud, not really their effort so much, but their ability to mentally hang in and stick with each other and play."
For me, Tim Duncan has been the epitome of a class act in basketball. Stayed in college 4 years and IMO will be a first ballot Hall of Famer
Just what I thought, the whole sitting your players thingy was great theater among two friends on the same page lol. Some bought it, uh I'd said the calls on the floor speak much more than a small fine.
I remember how much I loved watching the Lakers and the Celtics of the 80s go at it. With David departing maybe we can return to real basketball and can this scripted WWE bs.
Memphis are choking up again. Very sad indeed
Ask Popovich this question next time you have a chance, Ben: 'What changed in the Spurs' between the end of game-2 in last year's Conference finals (SA up 2-0 vs OKC) and now that might account for this renaissance?' I thought the San Antonio dynasty was all but over when the Thunder turned-the-tables and took that series (4-2). I guess it's like Yogi Berra said, "It ain't over 'til it's over."
TP was the best scorer of the match and yet, while you mention Duncan's name at least 10 times in your report, you succeed to totaly ignore Tony Parker... Interesting.. Maybe you are more interested by his ex-wife's performance in Cannes? Or simply think there is no place for a nice French guy in your narrative..
Another Spurs win...Critically thinking, are the not the team to beat?
@DougDavis Uh, David Stern has been commissioner since 1984 so many of those Lakers/Celtics games occurred on his watch. Oh, and do you realize how long ago the 80's ended?
@DougDavis are you retarded?
@askido351 Losing to a better team is not choking.
@dami1 Scoring the most points in a basketball game doesn't necessarily mean one is the best scorer in the. Parker and Duncan were very close in this game and not just in points. Shooting percentage plays a role too as well as number of shot attempts. Many in the NBA are volume scorers meaning they take a lot of shots in order to get their points. It's better to be efficient. Parker scored 26 points on 22 shot attempts. Duncan scored 24 points on 19 shot attempts. Also, pure numbers in a sporting event aren't what determines who will be mentioned in an online article about the game. There are probably 5 or 6 articles (more most likely) about this game. Tony Parker suffers from no lack of coverage in the press. Each article about their games doesn't have to highlight him... I'll tell you why Duncan is getting press in this series... The Spurs opponent in this series have good front court players (Randolph and Gasol). Those two are keys for their team... They haven't played as well as they want to, especially Randolph, in this series. Duncan is a front court player and he has more to do with this than does Parker...
@doghockey @DougDavis Hitler was leader of Germany for some time before he started his attempt to take over the world.
Those who need to control everything grow into their power, I mean you have been watching the news recently right?


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James Madison returns to Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park this weekend to host Old Dominion in a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series. Friday and Saturday will feature 6:30 p.m. first pitch followed by a 2 p.m. start on Sunday.
The series will be the final CAA matchup between the schools before the Monarchs leave for Conference USA in July. All three games will be available on MadiZONE with audio coverage on Friday and Sunday and a live video presentation on Saturday, all available free.
There will be a number of promotions in place for the series, including JMU Faculty and Staff Appreciation Weekend with two free tickets to a game for all JMU employees with their JACard. Friday will also be Bingo Night with prizes. Saturday will be Pack the Park with free T-shirts for students courtesy of Madison Society. The finale will be a Sandlot Sunday with free admission for kids in eighth grade or younger who wear their baseball or softball uniform.
Coming into the weekend, the Dukes look to break their four-game losing streak, including a 9-7 loss at VMI on Tuesday and a Colonial Athletic Association sweep at Northeastern last weekend. The Dukes (14-13) sit fifth in the league with a 6-5 record. As a team, James Madison ranks fourth in the nation averaging 8.2 runs per game and fourth with 17 triples in just 26 games.
The Dukes' senior center fielder, Johnny Bladel extended his hitting streak to 15 games at VMI. During the streak, he boasts a .509 batting average with a .658 on-base percentage. Bladel's current .550 season on-base percentage at the halfway point of the season ranks second in JMU history and second currently in the nation, just behind the .551 mark by Virginia's Mike Papi. His .471 career mark sits fourth in program history..
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JMU and ODU both fight to break four-game losing streaks. The Dukes sit third in the league batting .320 while they rank eighth with a 5.80 ERA. Meanwhile, the Monarchs enter the series seventh with a batting average of .269 and rank sixth with a 4.35 team ERA.
Junior Ben Verlander, the younger brother of MLB ace Justin Verlander, leads the league with eight home runs and ranks fifth with a .395 batting average. Right-handed pitcher and staff ace Dean Ali ranks third in the league with a 1.98 ERA and holds batters to a .196 batting average at the plate.
Series History
Old Dominion leads the all-time series 55-50-1. Meanwhile, JMU captured two of three games during last year's series, which followed a 10-1 win to crown the Dukes Colonial Athletic Association champions in 2011. The two teams went from playing for the CAA title in 2011 to finishing 10th (JMU) and 11th (ODU) in the CAA a year ago.
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In her on-air dismemberment of the disingenuous National Post columnist Lawrence Solomon last week, Anna Maria Tremonti, host of the CBC radio show, The Current, asked Solomon this:
"In your book (The Deniers), you write that the scientist you talk about are not actually deniers, that most of them quibble with some of the details but not with the fundamental question of whether climate change is happening or whether it is caused by human activity. Do I have that right?"
Solomon responded: "No, you don't have that right at all."
Yet, on Page 45 of his book, Solomon says: ""As these dramatic reversals for the doomsday view mounted, I noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers.
"None of them were deniers."
Solomon then spends a page going over quibbles and concludes that the people in his book are "Affirmers in general. Deniers in particular."
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The "Current" program was well worth the listen, thanks for the link on that.
The comment Jim Prall made may be worth a mention in the above article as well. I had been to Jim's site before but hadn't seen the numbers on the pro/con peer reviewed literature imbalance while there.
Pro 601 - Con 14 ..... sounds a bit shocking really.
Here's an aside, which won't come as a surprise here I'm sure. Posted below is a comment made on a CBC article that is currently up on their site. Thought the sleuth's @DeSmog may enjoy a bit of comic relief.
"With the release of hundreds of e-mails and documents from Hadley on Friday, that details the fraud and manipulation of data by the climate scientists at the IPCC, to manufacture the entire man made global warming / climate change crises. Demands that we now need full and complete investigation into climate gate. For all the profiteers, smear merchants, fabricators and enablers, it's time to lawyer up and worry about staying out of jail."
The real ironic part of that nonsense is the last sentence. Boy is it ever time for that to happen.
I did submit a complaint on it pointing out that most all of it is totally off the wall and the "fraud" claim might even be considered libelous. No reply from CBC yet but we'll see what happens.
Really wanted to get this up to encourage you folks to keep the pressure on. This type of nonsense really needs to be stopped.
Also thought you would like to know that your work is inspiring others to get involved on squashing this kind of crap.
All the best.
One of the critical tests for libel in Canada is that the person making the comment must have reasonable grounds to believe that the comments are true. In light of climategate their is ample grounds to make statements relating to fraud. However the scientists involved are free to test the legal waters, but they would never venture to do so. If they did then the e-mails would be admissable as evidence and therefore become part of the public record and be able to be published in every jusrisdiction in the world. I think they are sticking to the "Hacker" story instead of the truth that it was a whistleblower to keep a lid on the incredible damage the publication of these e-mails in their entirety would do.
Where is this whistleblower? Doesn't the UK have laws protecting whistleblowers? If there is such a person, why hasn't he come forward and corroborated the authenticity of these emails and data? Why hasn't he released everything he has?
Of course if it really was a hacker, I can understand the reluctance to come forward.
If there was a legitimate "discussion", with real scientific research being quoted on both sides, these people wouldn't be called deniers. But when all you do is deny, with no legitimate evidence, then the label is accurate.
But if your definition of "discussion" is just the anti-science side making stuff up, then I'm sorry to say the label doesn't seem to "cut off discussion" at all.
I don't know if you guys are aware of the extent or the occurance of hacked e-mails being released over the weekend. I was made aware by my teenage daughter and her friends. The sysonpsis of the whole situation is that climate change is one giant hoax. The IPCC climate scientists themselves revealed that they are not sure that global warming is occurring and if you read the e-mails they are not even sure that the theory of anthropogenic warming is even accurate at all or even materially atributable to man.
In any event this kind of puts carbon emissions on the backburner as far as priorities to deal with. If my eco freaky daughter is now convinced global warming is not worth dealing with it's only a matter of time before everyone else clues in.
I have written an article somewhat related to this fact on my new blog. www.cammackay.com
If you are interested please take a look and leave a comment.
Your opening implies that you didn't read any other posts at this website, even though you mention "a favorite blog of mine called Desmogblog.com" in the second post on your own website: http://cammackay.com/?p=5
Your first post on your own website is dated Nov. 6; I don't know if that date can be fiddled with; maybe someone who is computer savvy can check when the website was actually set up.
The only link on the Blogroll is Climate Depot.
You have a cluster map showing no visitors starting from Nov. 23
Did you start your website with the aim of making it a denialist blog? Is it an astroturf blog?
You certainly are suspicious of anyone and anything. I had set up my blog a month ago but I wanted to get some projects completed at work first. Deniers blog, no, global warming is only one topic of many but the coverup is very interesting. Probably the biggest news item that will never be covered by the mainstream.
Astroturfing somehow implies that I'm getting funded by big oil. The only funding I get is from myself and the only motivation I have is to write interesting articles base on factual evidence.
The whole global warming/climate change debate is more interesting now as the leaked documents certainly puts a human face on what has been going on. The leak is also one of the only things that is starting to turn heads and change minds as everyone I have talked to about it upon doing research and due diligence on their own, comes to the same conclusion. What a scam.
AGW is not totally ruined as a theory but it certainly has lost a lot of credibility and will now be examined for the evidence and scientific merit, rather than on personality like it was before. Ie: the consensus is in, all scientists agree with me, your a denier etc...
If you've read it, I think my article on press bias covers a big reason as to why this huge story has been covered by the main stream media as it has.
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"What other blogs should I reference too?"
Deep Climate may be a good one.
I noticed you had commented there and someone pointed out your confusion on where these e-mails were "hacked" from and pointed out they were from CRU and not Hadley which are 2 separate institutions.
Also noticed you have your article tagged "Hadley" & "Hadley hacked". Will you be correcting that error?
You may also want to spend a bit of time going through the 74 "long debunked" skeptic arguments Skeptical Science has posted on their site.
If you go through the list you will note there is a page devoted to glacier loss which relates to your article title. The link below will help get you started....
All the best.
Thanks, for the reply on deepclimate, I think that is the one I'm going to pick as it seems like it is Canadian as well. As for the minor typographical errors relating to the IPCC scientists being uncovered, I think I wll let them stand. The real story is not my spelling or which side of the campus the truth was uncovered, but the fact that the truth has come out.
I can appreciate that some of you have so much vested in global warming. Although in light of the lack of physical evidence supporting the theory, the recent outing of corrupt scientists and the detrimental effects of implementing a plan to fight carbon why are you not giving the whole thing a quick rethink?
No one can really say anything definative on climate change either way although the evidence seems to be mounting in favor of mans impact being very small. I'm not too keen on going broke to fill up a tank of gas but on the other hand my business is carbon neutral and I have no financial interest in fossil fuels other than some small portfolio holdings. I can go either way on climate change, I just want the truth, don't you?
perhaps we should have a royal inquiry here in Canada to get to the bottom of this?
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re: your comment,
"I just want the truth, don't you?
perhaps we should have a royal inquiry here in Canada to get to the bottom of this?"
Couldn't agree more. Getting the truth out is something I have been hoping for almost daily since I realized years ago how serious an issue this is and how many million$ have been spent on the dis-information campaign to "hide" the truth.
Royal inquiry is an excellent idea as long as we brought in someone outside our government to conduct it. Can't say I'm overly impressed with those making the decisions at this point, or for many years previous.
Then again it might be better to simply consider who has already signed on showing agreement to the mountains of peer reviewed literature that establishes AGW and save poor tax payers any further burden.
I would think any "inquiry" would be more than satisfied with so strong a consensus. I'm actually a little puzzled by folks like yourself who still seem to be having a struggle with that. I would have thought it obvious to a stump by now.
You may want to forward your thoughts regarding your skepticism along to some of those mentioned in the above link though it might take a l-o-n-g time to get through the list.
All the best with your efforts, keep us posted on how things go OK.
"The sysonpsis of the whole situation is that climate change is one giant hoax"
Congratulations! Your blogging adventure in right wing paranoia has begun, predictably, with what kids these days call "epic fail".
CamMacKay wrote:
"The IPCC climate scientists themselves...."
If you do a search on Wiki of "IPCC" you'll note that there are NO scientists with the IPCC which is stated quite plainly in the sentence below from that Wiki page.
"The IPCC does not carry out its own original research, nor does it do the work of monitoring climate or related phenomena itself."
The scientists involved work for scientific organizations.
You may want to make note of that on your blog.
All the best.
I think that's the real story, not emails stolen from legitimate climate scientists.
P.S. By the way, I wonder what would have happened if it had been Lawrence Livermore or Los Alamos National Lab's email system that had been hacked, with the results posted on the web for all to see?
Yes, that would have been called a cybersecurity breach that would require a full-scale investigation by the FBI and other bodies - just something to think about. In contrast, the press has been silent on that issue...
"The Government Accountability Office said in a report that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico continues to have significant computer security problems, warning that it is having difficulty "protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information stored on and transmitted over its classified computer network."
"The classified computer network of a major U.S. nuclear laboratory remains vulnerable to cyber attack, according to a congressional watchdog agency. The Government Accountability Office said in a report that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico continues to have significant computer security problems, warning that it is having difficulty "protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information stored on and transmitted over its classified computer network."
Lawrence Solomon has written about his interview and he has suggested a number of questions that Anna Maria Tremonti could have asked James Hoggan in the same program.
While Jim is writing his replies, I'll be making pocorn.
(Edited to add): Ha, I just noticed that Solomon wrote "My appearance Thursday morning was, to my knowledge, just about the only time that The Current has ever invited a climate change skeptic."
Meanwhile, in the comments, Tom Harris wrote at 3:54 am Nov 21: "Your piece illustrates well why I turned down being interviewed for The Current a couple of years back..."
Forgive my cupidity, but does the CBC radio program 'The Current' have anything whatsoever to do with THE GOREACLE's flagging, recently employee-culled small screen venture 'Current T.V.?'
With all that's transpired, has there been an outpouring of concern for any re-positioning of THE GOREACLE's investment portfolio? I've been scouring EBAY, etc. for a listing of his 100 foot Houseboat.
I see him as the real victim in all this and would like to help in any way I can.
Bill Gates builds hospitals for the needy, the rest of us do what we can.
The Current is a longtime CBC news program. Could your rather immature comments be referring to Al Gore? I doubt that his use of the word "Current" has any connection to CBC's program.
Did you mean to write cupidity or stupidity in referring to yourself?
These are classic symptoms of emotional trauma and grief, though it appears you have leap-frogged Denial (NOT the river in Africa) to Anger. You must commit yourself to cycling through them, like the 12-step programs with which I'm sure you're familiar.
Your heroes, The CONSENSUS (CON US for short) appear to be Charlatans of the first order so your feelings of abject betrayal are entirely valid. I'm reminded of the Reverend Jim Jones so steer clear of the laced grape Flavor Aid.
The real Heroes are the hackers. One may only hope they're timing the
release of these damning emails like Andrew Breitbart's release of the damning ACORN videos.
ACORN(on life support)and THE CONSENSUS have a lot in common.
Is the MANTRA still the unassailable, unquestionable "the science is settled and the debate is over?" Maybe you should consider, "yeah we got busted; our bad. But everyone else is doing it!"
Lastly, I've always welcomed personal attacks as they identify clearly
a dearth of reason and a weakness of position.
"Your heroes, The CONSENSUS (CON US for short) appear to be Charlatans of the first order so your feelings of abject betrayal are entirely valid."
"Lastly, I've always welcomed personal attacks as they identify clearly
a dearth of reason and a weakness of position."
The problem is: here is creationism at work, meaning no arguments accepted, just belief - which, as we know, does not necessarily rely on facts. Cultish repetition, over and over repeated, out of sync with reality. And, as James Hoggan writes in his book: it creates (sic) uncertainty with the (less informed) public.
Anyway, it is pointless to discuss facts with a creationist.
Came upon this while following another AGW related thread elsewhere.
I felt was worth re-posting here....
Franklin D. Roosevelt in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism:
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."
Sure has a familiar ring when you consider the recent announcements coming from certain elected reps that will go un-named here.
I think Tim ball's post on this issue says it best. This is a deathblow to Climate Science. Here is one of Canada's leading climatologists, fighting back for science. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyXgjfy6008
I just hope the rest of societies scientific endeavors are not tainted with the same brush as Climate science is painted with.
In any event I guess its time to move on.
No Evidence of Warming
No credible scientific research
No Climate scientists behind the AGW theory anymore
No reason to keep up with the carbon credit parade.
Again and again the same bogus. Does repetation create truth?
Are you denialists completely brain dead? Are your "skeptical intellects" so mesmerized? There is nothing, NOTHING, N-O-T-H-I-N-G in this whole matter that changes any of the scientific understanding or evidence of AGW.
By this point you are simply proving yourself deliberately dishonest by making or supporting these claims. This is literally schoolyard taunting on the level of "I know you are but what am I?"
Noted and judged.
Seriously? Tim Ball "one of Canada's leading climatologists"?
You really need to check your sources there. My website ranks authors by number of peer-reviewed works on "climate" and you have to scroll awfully far down to find Tim Ball - or nearly any of the numerous signers of a dozen public letters saying we should stop worrying about climate:
This page has the overall listing sorted by number of climate articles (Tim Ball is #1848 in this ordering):
This page lists just Canadians; Tim Ball is #212 of 259, and the last 30+ are dominated by climate skeptics who published two or fewer works on climate in their lifetimes:
Also, I think you are off the chart with "No Climate scientists behind the AGW theory anymore". How about the following?
A) 1700 UK scientists, from 67 universities and 55 other research institutes, who just signed this statement defending the integrity of climate science:
B) 850 Canadian scientists endorsing this:
C) 1700 U.S. scientists and economists who signed this statement:
How are we supposed to take you seriously when you make this kind of over-the-top claim that there are "No Climate scientists behind the AGW theory anymore" (or, for that matter, "No credible research" - this is ridiculous, unless you have a special definition of "credible" that involves "believed by you" rather than "credible to most people")?
(Prediction: any reply will invoke something from Oregon.)
The wall street Journal has blown the lid on climate gate and is suggesting that congress call in some of these rogue climate scientists. So far the climate scientists are evading reporters and threatening legal action. Looks like it's only a matter of time before these people get reigned in to face the consequences of their actions. You can't pervert science like they have and expect to get away with it.


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It's a long way from Lyons to anywhere, "as the crow flies." Residents of Lyons have known that for some time; many of them live here for just that reason. But now it's official. Local artist Jake Pinello (he of the murals on the sides of the St. Vrain Market and car wash buildings) has just completed the latest addition to the burgeoning sculpture inventory lining the streets, paths, and parks of Lyons.
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Published: Friday, May 10, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.
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The Florida lacrosse team has much in its favor heading into the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
The Gators are playing on their home field.
Advantage: Florida.
The Gators are tournament tested and one of the nation's most experienced teams.
Advantage: Florida.
The Gators get to sit back, relax and watch (and scout) Friday's game between Jacksonville University and Denver, gaining some first-hand knowledge about their opponent in the second round.
Huge advantage: Florida.
"I think a live scout is really important to actually to be able to see (the other teams) on the field," UF coach Amanda O'Leary said. "We can watch (tape), but sometimes the camera angle isn't where we need it to be to see every single player.
"The ability to see the team in person is certainly always helpful, just their physical attributes. There is not a whole lot of time once you see the live scout to do a whole lot with it. But it gives you at least 24 hours to make some decisions."
JU (13-5) and Denver (17-2) play a first-round game Friday at 4 p.m., at Dizney Stadium, with No. 5 overall NCAA seed Florida (17-2) facing the winner in the second round Sunday at 1 p.m.
O'Leary said the Gators already have a pretty good feel for what they will be facing Sunday, regardless of who they play.
"(Both teams) are really very, very good," O'Leary said. "These are two teams that are nationally ranked. They're very, very well coached. Whoever wins this game is going to provide us with a huge challenge."
Whoever it turns out to be, the Gators have to like their chances of advancing. The senior-laden team has the home-field advantage and UF is playing in its third consecutive NCAA Tournament.
A year ago, in only the third year of the program's existence, the Gators advanced all the way to the semifinals, where they were edged out by Syracuse 14-13. The year before, UF fell to Duke in the quarterfinals.
UF seems poised to make a deep run into the tournament and possibly achieve the ultimate goal of winning the national title.
"The postseason is a whole new ball game," O'Leary said. "It's what they work so hard for in those months leading up to it. We're real excited, and the opportunity to host the first round is fun, playing in front of the home crowd. It's all good."
Senior attack Kitty Cullen said the next step for the Gators is to win the national championship.
"We want to go all the way," Cullen said. "We're going to be playing for each other."
Said star senior goalie Mikey Meagher: "We're taking it one day at a time. We're not looking ahead. We're more experienced now. We're older. We'll be able to learn from our mistakes (in last year's semifinal loss) and go from there."
O'Leary said one of the biggest positives in the Gators' favor is UF's strong and big (13) senior class, which helped launch the program four years ago.
"They've made the tournament now three of their four years," O'Leary said. "They understand. They've been here before. It's not as if it's something new and different. They know what it takes. They know how to prepare.
"They're doing a great job with our younger players in just making sure they're enjoying the ride as well."
From the very start, it's been a good ride for O'Leary's program. In only four years, UF has emerged as one of the nation's elite in college lacrosse.
O'Leary said this Florida team is a little different than the first three.
"What kind of sets us apart is our team chemistry," she said. "They are so cohesive. We talk about it being a family, and they are.
"A lot of them come from very far away. Their parents aren't a drive away. They have to rely on each other. I'd say, if anything, this team is definitely a family."
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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans have passed a budget plan that would bring the federal government's finances into balance in 10 years by sharply cutting safety-net programs for the poor and by clamping down on domestic agencies.
It would not raise taxes, in sharp contrast to budget plans offered by Democrats.
Instead, the plan written by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan - which passed on a 221-207 party-line vote - would reduce spending on the Medicaid health care plan for the poor and eliminate "Obamacare" subsidies.
It exempts the Pentagon and Social Security beneficiaries from spending cuts but revives a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher-like system for beneficiaries born in 1959 or later.
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Natalie Portman: Don't Hate Her Because She's Uber Talented
As if it weren't enough to win the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a ballerina coming unhinged in "Black Swan," Natalie Portman is apparently also blessed with science smarts. A 1998 Journal of Chemical Education paper recently came across the Newscripts desk that the 29-year-old actress—then Natalie Hershlag, a high school student in Syosset, N.Y.—coauthored.
The article, "A Simple Method To Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar," was the result of an independent-study project carried out by Portman during her sophomore year at Syosset High. Intended to illustrate "environmentally friendly biotechnology for the utilization of renewable energy sources," the work earned Portman a semifinalist position that year in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search, an annual competition organized by the Society for Science & the Public.
The laboratory instructions Portman helped develop aim to teach high schoolers and undergraduates the principles of enzyme-catalyzed reactions by instructing them how to break down cellulose with a combination of cellulase, glucose dehydrogenase, and hydrogenase. The amount of hydrogen evolved in the process is indicated by a simple redox dye, benzyl viologen.
"Natalie was an excellent student with an excellent work ethic," says Jonathan Woodward, Portman's coauthor and adviser at the time. He was then at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and now teaches high school chemistry in Knoxville, Tenn. "I am certain she would have excelled in chemistry had her career taken that path."
Feb 28th 2011 • 20:02
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The following New York Times article sheds light on Portman and other actors' science backgrounds.
Feb 28th 2011 • 20:02
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Yes, just imagine where she would be in chemistry at age 29….
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On the other hand I am still not sure what's a greater loss for humanity- losing an Academy Award winning actress or losing a potentially world-class chemist. Actually I am kidding, I am quite sure.
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There is only one word to describe Natalie Portman: awesome.
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Chris Judd is training well after wrist and elbow surgery. Photo: Getty Images
Carlton assistant coach Robert Wiley believes Chris Judd is young enough to play for a couple more seasons, but there is no guarantee the champion midfielder will play beyond 2014.
Judd, 30, signed a one-year deal to take him into his 13th season in the AFL and is said to be fresh and training well after wrist and elbow surgery. He has not taken part in the club's pre-season high-altitude camp in Arizona, but is training at Princes Park with several teammates, including vice-captain Andrew Carrazzo, who had his 2013 season derailed by a calf injury.
Many in the football world expect next season to be Judd's last but a strong team and individual campaign could prompt him to play on.
''Obviously, he is really keen for 2014. I am sure that he will weigh that [retirement] up with how he is feeling. He is still young enough to be able to play for a few more years,'' Wiley said.
Mick Malthouse's long-time lieutenant was Judd's first mentor when the schoolboy prodigy was drafted by the West Coast Eagles. As the Blues' midfield coach, Wiley now has the job of helping the dual Brownlow medallist deal with the final years of his grand career.
''The signs so far are that he has come back really fit. He obviously had a bit of an operation at the end of the year, but he is really keen, positive. When you have that mental preparation of wanting to have a good year, I think he will do that. We are really pleased that Chris will continue to provide support, and lead the way as well,'' Wiley said.
Another who the Blues need to lead the way is skipper Marc Murphy, who finished last season strongly. After an injury interrupted 2013 campaign, in which his pre-season was restricted and he fractured his cheekbone mid-season thanks to a bump from Luke Hodge, Murphy has been in mint condition in Arizona.
Wiley said Murphy was continuing to develop in terms of handling the playing group.
''We certainly need for that to continue. That's just a natural maturation or natural development that will occur,'' he said.
''He has certainly been here in Flagstaff and shown great leadership qualities, so he is really enjoying it. We are confident that we have a fantastic leader.''
Wiley said the Blues' top draft pick, Patrick Cripps, a 91-kilogram inside midfielder likened to Jobe Watson, had impressed and would almost certainly push for senior selection early in the season.
''With Cripps, a first-year player, you can never expect too much, but the early signs are that he is certainly training well,'' Wiley said.
''He has a good-size body. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't put up his hand early. Obviously, he needs an uninterrupted pre-season, but at the moment, he is heading in the right direction.''


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'Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to your health,' says Dr. Thomas M. File, Jr., an infectious disease specialist and president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). 'It's important to know which vaccines you need as an adult to avoid serious illness.'
One such vaccine helps prevent pneumococcal (pronounced noo-muh-kok-ul) disease. Those with children or grandchildren may know that kids receive pneumococcal vaccinations as part of the routine childhood immunization schedule. Few are aware, though, that adults also need protection from pneumococcal disease which kills thousands of adults in the United States every year and sickens many more, leading to more than 175,000 hospitalizations annually.
A bacterial infection, pneumococcal disease can cause pneumonia, meningitis, and blood poisoning (sepsis). The bacteria are spread through coughing, sneezing, or direct contact, such as kissing. Anyone can get pneumococcal disease, but it's most dangerous for those age 65 and older and adults of any age who smoke or have common health conditions such as: asthma; diabetes; heart, liver, lung or kidney disease; or HIV/AIDS or other conditions that weaken the immune system. This is true even if the condition is well controlled with medication or other treatment.
Most adults only need to receive one pneumococcal vaccination in their lifetime, though some will need more than one dose depending on age and personal health.
Dr. File advises that flu season is a good time to ask your health care provider about protection against pneumococcal disease - a common complication of the flu - but he emphasizes that adults can receive a pneumococcal vaccination at any time of year. He also urges adults to ask about other vaccines they may need including shingles, pertussis, or hepatitis.
'Vaccines are a simple and effective tool you can use to help protect your health now and in the future,' says File.
NFID stresses five reasons why you should get vaccinated for pneumococcal disease if it's recommended for you:
1. Pneumococcal disease is a potentially deadly infection that can strike quickly.
2. In its worst forms, pneumococcal disease kills one out of every four to five people over the age of 65 who get it.
3. Getting vaccinated is the safest, most effective way to protect yourself.
4. Even if vaccination does not stop you from getting the infection, it can reduce the severity, helping to keep you out of the hospital.
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5:45 AM CST, November 7, 2012
California is, of course, a solid blue state. But it's got plenty of red patches, as we know, sometimes in close proximity to blue. On election day, I drove from one color to another, and the contrasts were so striking, I felt like an interplanetary explorer.
My first stop was at the Republican Party headquarters on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, where campaign workers were managing last-ditch efforts to get out the vote.
My next stop was at Tolliver's Barber Shop on West Florence Avenue in South Los Angeles, where proprietor Lawrence Tolliver had created an amphitheater for customers to watch the televised coverage of the presidential campaign.
One location had a framed Time magazine cover of anti-tax rebel Howard Jarvis shaking a fist, the other had a portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. At one location, the TV was tuned to Fox News, at the other it was MSNBC.
Any guesses which was which?
In both places, the hope was that there'd be an evening celebration. The Pasadenans had shopped for party food at Costco. The gang at Tolliver's threw some ribs onto the oil-drum grill out back, and smoky funnels rose to the heavens.
"I'm a liberty Republican," Cesar Montoya, 21, told me at the GOP office.
By that, he meant he was a libertarian-leaning Republican, a mind-set he formed while studying political science and economics at Cal State Long Beach. Montoya is a smaller government, lower taxes kind of guy, and in this election, that spelled R-O-M-N-E-Y.
In the back of the Pasadena GOP's office, a life-size cardboard cutout of Mitt Romney stood next to one of Ronald Reagan, and I couldn't resist suggesting that Reagan wouldn't stand a chance in today's GOP. After all, he raised taxes and signed an abortion rights bill as governor of California, and as president, he amnestied illegal immigrants and nearly tripled the national debt.
A guy like that would be pilloried today on Fox News.
"Times have changed, and he was a strong leader," Lynn Gabriel, president of the Pasadena Republican Club, said of Reagan.
Gabriel said she's not looking for a president who will lower her taxes, but a president who will spend her taxes more efficiently. She insisted that's not Obama, who runs a big, overreaching government.
I asked what she thought of those who believe Obama is a Muslim. Gabriel didn't respond directly, but she did say she thinks the strength of foreign "Islamo-fascists" has grown since Obama took office, and she believes his Middle East polices show a certain sympathy to Muslim interests. She also said she was concerned about his exposure to black liberation theology based on his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Gabriel is also sick of the liberal media, especially the three major TV networks, which she believes didn't show the extent of Hurricane Sandy's damage because it would reflect negatively on Obama's response. I asked if she'd watched those three networks, and she said no, but her husband had.
Twenty miles away, the patrons of Tolliver's Barber Shop wondered how Obama's critics could ignore the president's accomplishments in the last four years.
Roger McGee, the man at the barbecue, said he got a lower mortgage rate and improved medical services at the VA in Long Beach, thanks to Obama's efforts.
Duane Clark said Obama's achievements included healthcare for those who had none, more school funding and help on student loans. As for Romney's comments about 47% of Americans feeling a sense of entitlement, Clark said you could count him in. He feels entitled to good parks and libraries, and he's worked to pay the taxes that support those institutions.
Clark and his wife, Debbie, had a treat Tuesday. They went with their son, Duane Jr., to the polls. Their son is 18; this was his first vote and he cast it for Obama.
"It felt awesome," said the young man.
To the extent that Obama didn't deliver more, said Lawrence Tolliver, there's plenty of blame to go around.
"It was their goal to stop Obama," he said of congressional Republicans and the constituents they answered to. "Forget about the country, just stop Obama."
Four years ago, I accompanied Tolliver as he went to the polls, swelling with pride at the chance to vote for an African American in a country that not so long ago had different rules for white and black. On Tuesday, Tolliver wore a U.S. flag fashioned as a shirt, saying it was in response to the chorus of Obama critics crying that it's time to take their country back.
"They don't like leadership being held by an African American. For some reason, that's un-American…and they've gotta take it back. That's why I wear this flag shirt and fly the American flag. I'm just as American as any of them."
Tolliver said he respected Romney and agrees with some of the ideas he hears from conservatives, and he'd like to think reasonable people can find common ground.
"Hopefully, when he wins this time, they'll say we have him for four more years, so now we can work with him because he's not going to run for reelection."
Well, I don't know how likely that will be, given the deep shades of red and blue in this country. But we'll get a chance to find out.
When the election was called in Obama's favor Tuesday night, I called the barbershop to speak to Mr. Tolliver.
"We did it," he said, half out of breath after coming back inside the shop from the middle of Florence Avenue with his friends and customers. "We were dancing in the street again."
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We did something! The Texans signed DT Jerrell Powe, who weighs a massive 331 pounds.
Starks is back with the Packers after considering the Steelers.
The Falcons have now been in free agency for a week. Are any further signings coming?
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Packers free agent running back James Starks will visit the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday.
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The Texans continue to see exponentially more players depart in free agency than sign with Houston. Early reports are today should result in at least one more player becoming an ex-Texan. Talk about that and all the other free agent buzz on BRB.
The Houston Texans finally saw fit to make a move in free agency yesterday. Sure, it was a single move, but it's progress. Talk about that, as well as any rumors, signings, and/or rumored signings in Battle Red Blog's open thread for Day 4.
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - For many investors, the idea of who their manager is can be amorphous - a blend of numbers guru and life planner with unclear methods and strategies.
For Ric Edelman, though, his job is simple: Just think of him as the guy who changes the oil in your car.
"I'm Jiffy Lube, that's what I am," he told a group of his fellow investment pros here. "I'm not going to give you better investments than you can get on your own. I simply save you the time and trouble of having to do it."
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When Edelman looks under the hood of his clients' investments he prefers not to see a twisted mash of tubes and belts and pistons and gears but instead multiple elements blended for a singular purpose.
While many of his peers preach diversity and complexity, Edelman instead holds to four criteria that he sees as the key to proper client service.
First, clients "must be homogeneous"; advice must be "strategic" and "consistent," and whatever he does must be "scalable" in that it should be applicable for all his clients.
"I am not at all interested in doing something for a client. I am interested in doing something for 1,000 clients," he said. "If I can't do it a thousand times I'm not going to do it at all."
Put all those requirements and philosophies together and it adds up to a firm that is 17,000 clients strong and manages $8 billion for clients, some of whom start with as little as $5,000 as an initial investment.
Edelman Financial Services was ranked first among advisory firms in Virginia by Barron's.
The firm's leader, then, carried some cachet with attendees at the first day of the Inside ETFs Conference presented by Index Universe. 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the exchange-traded fund, which now occupies a huge footprint in the market with $1.4 trillion in assets under management and average daily trading volume in excess of $54 billion.
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"Can you tell me who your clients are? I can tell you who my clients are in a single word. Can you do that?" he asked. "The single word I would use to describe my clients is they're 'delegators.'"
They're people who want someone to do their investment thinking for them. Edelman sees the best way to do that as by having all 85 of his advisors being single-minded in their approach.
"Merrill Lynch has 15,000 brokers and they're doing 15,000 different things," he said. "As long as whatever they're doing is ethical, legal and profitable Merrill doesn't care what they do or how they do it."
Edeleman prefers a different track.
The Jiffy Lube metaphor again? No, actually he sees his firm also as akin to a certain coffee chain.
"We are Starbuck's," he said. "You can go into any Starbuck's in the world and know exactly what you're going to get."
-By CNBC.com's Jeff Cox. Follow him on Twitter at @JeffCoxCNBCcom