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Defense officials announced they are ending their own temporary efforts to accelerate payments to all prime contractors, according to a Feb. 25 Federal Register notice.
Sequestration is the cause.
"Yes, this is a direct result of the budget uncertainty DOD is facing with sequestration and the continuing resolution," a DOD spokeswoman said Feb. 25.
Joe Jordan, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said Feb. 25 that it's "unfortunate but understandable" based on DOD's budgetary unknowns.
Jordan, a long-time small business advocate, said OFPP would work with DOD to maximize contracting opportunities for small companies. Unfortunately, he said, "there is no amount of planning that will spare these innovative and entrepreneurial members of our government supply chain from the potentially devastating impacts that these across-the-board cuts will cause."
A Feb. 21 defense acquisition memo gives notice that DOD will curtail the portion of its "Quickpay" initiative that extended accelerated payments to all prime contractors. The initiative was launched in September 2011. DOD set up policies to pay small companies within 15 days. Normally, if a bill is due in 30 days, DOD would hold it until the 30th day, or close to that.
In July 2012, OMB issued a memo, ensuring that prime contractors pay their small subcontractors faster. DOD extended Quickpay to all prime contractors, which resulted in a one-time decrease in cash as it paid more quickly.
Now though, DOD will return to the September 2011 guidance. Quickpay will available only for eligible small businesses.
The spokeswoman said the move should provide a one-time increase of several billion in the department's cash position.
"It's unfortunate that we have to take this step," but it is necessary, she said.
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Asli Aydintasbas, a young Turkish columnist with steely nerves and a keen grasp of Middle Eastern politics, sent a note from Istanbul to a Hoover Institution blog where it will be published later this month. Her title tells the story: "Where Have the Americans Gone? Who Invited the Russians Back?"
It was mission accomplished for John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov. Their diplomacy, so full of twists and surprises and a stunning American reversal, delivered a way out of a tight corner for the two dramatis personae in this Syrian drama, Barack Obama and Bashar Assad.
For Obama, this 11th-hour reprieve came after all his options had led to a blind alley. He had threatened to bomb Syria without having his heart in the thing. He had wanted Congress implicated in the decision to order the strikes, but defeat on Capitol Hill seemed a certainty.
He had cast about for foreign allies, yet he had always been a loner, and he was to meet the usual evasions within the councils of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A dreadful war had been raging in Syria for 30 long months. Obama finally took his stand, drew his red line, on the violence and cruelty of a single day, Aug. 21, when rockets containing the nerve agent sarin hit the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.
Benign neglect of Syria had not worked: It was either an "unbelievably small" strike on Syria — Kerry's words — or abject retreat. It was then that the Russians offered Obama an exit he was more than eager to accept.
He was flexibility itself. The choreography was terrible, but he could live with it. He was more interested in results than style points, he said. Let the naysayers proclaim he was being played by Vladimir Putin; his own spinners would say that the retreat was evidence of his ability to take in new information.
Assad, too, was spared. The Syrian dictator could not be sure of what would befall him and his regime in the face of U.S. strikes. True, there was the Kerry assurance about the "unbelievably small" attack the administration had been readying for him. There were also the countless messages conveyed by U.S. officials that the regime itself would not be the target of a strike, that American diplomacy didn't trust the opposition to his regime — even saw the more viable of his opponents as jihadists who would impose a reign of darkness were the regime to fall.
All this was in the scales, but Assad knew the fate that had overtaken Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. In their domains, these dictators had preened and strutted, and they warned of the hell and the fire that would sweep the Arab world were they to be attacked, of the calamity and reversals that would await U.S. forces. Saddam had been the big neighbor next door and had meekly come out of a spider hole to be sent to the gallows three years later. Gadhafi's end had been particularly gruesome; the bluster and the money and the mercenaries and the secret tunnels had not protected him.
A tyrant who hails from a despised minority sect, the Alawites, who had inflicted death and ruin on his country, Assad wasn't eager to try his luck in the face of the U.S. missiles. Several days of strikes could embolden the Sunni Damascenes, hitherto quiescent in the face of Alawite repression.
The crowd could find its nerve and courage and storm his hideout; the edifice of tyranny built by his father could crack. In the world he ruled — what remains of it — a reprieve offered by the Russians could be passed off as victory. Thus a regime that (by its pronouncements) neither owned chemical stockpiles, nor used them, was ready to sign off on a U.S.- Russian proposal to inspect, then destroy, these stockpiles.
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Reading Informational Tradebooks Aloud to Inner City Intermediate Fourth and Sixth Grade Students : A Comparison of Two Styles
Date: December 1997
Creator: Dougherty, Pamela S.
Description: This study measured the effects of reading aloud informational books to fourth and sixth grade students in the inner city.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Strategies Employed by School Administrators to Prevent or Reduce Gang-Related Activity and Violence in Selected High Schools in a North Central Texas School District
Date: August 1998
Creator: Wood, Sherree F.
Description: This research investigated the strategies used by school administrators in selected high schools to prevent or reduce gang-related activity and violence. Interviews were conducted with six high school principals, six assistant principals, fifteen staff members and eleven students. All of the students were gang members. The results of the study showed that there are gang members in all schools, but that their gang activity at school is curtailed by some specific strategies.
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Intentions and Implementation of the Professional Development and Appraisal System in Texas
Date: December 2000
Creator: Davis-Frost, Diane
Description: The purpose of this study was to describe the intentions of the designers of the Professional Development and Appraisal System (PDAS) in Texas and the perceptions of teachers regarding its implementation. Information for the study was gathered in two phases using two methodologies. The first was a semi-structured interview with four expert informants instrumental in the design and implementation of the PDAS at the state level. The second component of the study was conducted with teachers using a 37-item Likert survey. The population for this phase of the study was 150 elementary and 150 secondary teachers chosen randomly from three school districts in North Central Texas. The districts were selected to represent a variety of sizes in regard to student population and represent diverse student population characteristics and socioeconomic levels. Data from the semi-structured interviews and the returned surveys were analyzed to determine the designers' intentions and areas of emphasis and to describe the alignment the teachers' perceptions and the designers' intentions. Quantitative data gathered from the surveys were analyzed using descriptive statistics as well as a correlation and function analysis and analysis based on a Cronbach alpha coefficient. The analysis of data revealed the following: 1. Teachers perceived that ...
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A Study of Relationships Between University Interscholastic League Participation and Selected School Characteristics
Date: August 1998
Creator: Wisdom-Walters, Patricia Bowen
Description: The problem of this study was to determine whether differences exist between elementary and middle school campuses that participate in University Interscholastic League (UIL) academic activities and similar campuses that do not participate. The Texas Education Agency Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) furnished data from 1993 through 1997 for this ex post facto comparative research. Using all Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) scores for grades 3 through 8, economically disadvantaged population data, attendance rates and campus accountability ratings, 12 hypotheses and 4 research questions were addressed.
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Accreditation Facilitation Projects: Supporting High Quality Early Childhood Education and Care
Date: May 2013
Creator: Reinke, Stephanie L.
Description: High-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) are linked to positive developmental outcomes for children. Systems have been created to define, measure and promote high-quality ECEC. National accreditation status is deemed the gold standard of a high-quality program, yet many centers are unable to achieve this without assistance. With the help of Accreditation Facilitation Projects (AFPs), many low-income centers are able to achieve accreditation. Centers collaborating with an AFP reap many benefits including financial support, ongoing training and mentoring, and guidance through the accreditation process. AFPs invest greatly in the centers they collaborate with and the longer the center takes to achieve accreditation, the more resources an AFP must expend. The purposes of this study were to understand if the educational level of center director, the total enrollment of a center, or the percentage of children receiving government subsidies could predict the time it takes for a center to complete the accreditation process while receiving assistance from an AFP, and to determine if there are differences in attitudes about program accreditation between center directors and early learning specialists who serve as accreditation mentors to the directors. Findings revealed that a) the higher educational level of program directors is associated with ...
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Secondary Teachers' Concerns about Response to Intervention: Using the Concerns-Based Adoption Model
Date: May 2013
Creator: Isbell, Laura J.
Description: This case study addressed the problem of implementing response to intervention (RTI) in general secondary education. To investigate this problem, one north Texas school's RTI implementation was examined using the theoretical framework of the concerns-based adoption model (CBAM) and defining RTI as the innovation. RTI-related practices were studied for 10 secondary teachers, two from each core subject (i.e., mathematics, English language arts, science, and social studies) and the fine arts who had been implementing RTI for several years. Data regarding participants' stages of concern about and levels of use of RTI were collected across three time intervals using the three diagnostic instruments of CBAM (i.e., Stages of Concern Questionnaire, Levels of Use interviews, and Innovation Configuration Checklist matrix), behavioral observations during instruction and RTI meetings, and structured exit interviews of participants. Overall, findings indicated that the secondary teachers were at similar stages of concern and levels of use of RTI. Teachers' RTI concerns scores remained highest in the Self phase and lowest in the Impact phase of concern at all three intervals of data collection. As levels of RTI use increased, observed RTI use increased; however, teachers' RTI levels of use scores remained in the early levels of RTI implementation ...
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First Amendment Constraints of Public School Administrators to Regulate Off-campus Students' Speech in the Technology Age
Date: May 2013
Creator: Shahzad, Erum H.
Description: In a world where students and teachers both rely on technology in the process of education, understanding the constraints of public school administrators to regulate off-campus student's speech is a vital issue. This dissertation focuses on ways to evaluate legal analysis of cases involved in off campus speech. The methodology of legal analysis is used to identify judicial reasoning concerning established legal principles pertaining to the constitutional right of public school students to freedom of expression, and the application of those principles to off-campus student expression delivered by electronic means. This research produces a number of key findings: Many lower court cases have favored with the students unless the school district could prove substantial disruption to the learning environment or a true threat existed due to the off campus speech. In addition, it is crucial for the districts to have concrete policies in place to educate the students about acceptable usage of technology. The main conclusions drawn from this research are that current approaches to punishing students for their offensive off campus speech does not uphold in the courts and administrators must be resilient to speech that may be unpleasant to them. This research also includes several recommendations for administrators ...
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Parallels Between the Gaming Experience and Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory
Date: May 2013
Creator: Sanders, April
Description: The world of literacy has expanded alongside technology, and new literacies are being used as an alternative or an addition to traditional text. By including video gaming as literacy, the connection can be made between students' multimodal world outside of school with the world of literacy they encounter in school. This study took two approaches of a content study and a case study. A collective case study was used to examine the gaming experience of participants with three commercial video games falling into three separate genres: Sims FreePlay (simulation); Halo 1 (first person shooter); and World of Warcraft (role playing game). The 15 gamers were placed into three sets of five participants for each video game, and interviews were conducted to explore the gaming experience in relation to stance and transaction, which are major components of Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory. Limited research has been conducted regarding reader response theory and the new literacies; by using the reader response lens, the gaming experience was compared to the reading experience to add the new literacies to the existing literature on reader response. As a way to look at both the text and the experience, a content study examined three mainstream video ...
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Stereotype Vulnerability in Elementary Aged African American Students
Date: December 1997
Creator: Jandrucko, Sarah K. (Sarah Kutz)
Description: This study explores a link between "stereotype vulnerability" and the documented under performance of African American students on standardized tests. The subjects were 41 third grade African American students matched according to language arts grades with 41 third grade Anglo students. The students were from predominately middle class suburban schools, with similar educational experiences. The data suggest that third grade African American and Anglo students from predominately middle class schools, with approximately equivalent language arts grades and similar educational experiences, will score comparably to one another regardless of testing conditions. The data also suggest that this sample of third grade students are confident in their academic ability and are not affected by negative stereotyping.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
A Comparative Study of School District Expenditures in Texas Since the Enactment of Senate Bill 7
Date: December 1998
Creator: Odle, B. Neal (Barry Neal)
Description: The purposes of this study were to: (a) determine the effects of Senate Bill 7 on expenditures in Texas school districts, (b) compare similarities and differences in expenditures among property-poor, medium-wealth, and wealthy-districts, (c) analyze spending patterns in light of equalization efforts, and (d) provide useful data to researchers in the area of equalization and adequacy.
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2016 IGHSC - Time, Space, and Place
The International Graduate Historical Studies Conference will host "Time, Place and Space" at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, on April 8-9, 2016. We invite graduate students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational approach but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical topics in more traditional ways. All submissions must be based on original research. In keeping with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be organized into panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. The IGHSC will present cash prizes for the best papers in several categories.
2016 Keynote Speaker
The keynote speaker for the 2016 conference is Dr. William Reddy, the William T. Laprade Professor of History and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He will discuss "Madurai to Rotterdam: Self and Difference in
the Seventeenth Century."
Dr. Reddy received his degrees (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) from the University of Chicago, finishing there in 1974 after a year at the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a post-doc in the Department of Psychology and Social Relations at Harvard. He has been awarded, among others, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, brief visiting fellowships at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and fellowship years at the National Humanities Center and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.
Dr. Reddy's research in the past has dealt with such issues as the social history of industrialization, comparative social history of the modern era, the history of emotions and gender identities in France since 1750, theories of culture, and theories of emotions.


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i am darknigthmare look my fan-game on tv show stargate with the udk engine moddb.com/games/stargate-no-limits
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wot that awesome
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and sl8 is upon the m60
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Definition of erasure in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The removal of writing, recorded material, or data.
Example sentences
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crossing out, striking out, scoring out, blotting out, blanking out, scratching out, cancelling, cancellation;
effacement, expunction, expunging, excision, removal, obliteration, elimination;
censorship, censoring, bowdlerization
rare erasement
1.1The removal of all traces of something; obliteration: the erasure of prior history
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A floral, aquatic men's fragrance that awakens the senses
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Acqua di Giò evokes sea and water with a natural simplicity and authenticity.
Men's Fragrance
Acqua di gio blends fresh notes of melon and pear with an armful of hyacinth, jasmine, rose and lily. At the base, a wake of musk and sandalwood caress the senses with sensuality and serenity.
Perfume on the 3 pulsation points: wrist, inner elbow and neck
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Acqua di Giò Eau de Toilette is rated out of 5 by 16.
Rated 5 out of 5 by BigNB from One of the best; timeless classic This is still one of my favorite fragrances for during the day at work. It reminds me of being at the ocean without the saltiness! It is fresh and feminine--slightly sweet and very clean at the same time. I find it subtle so I can wear it to work without disturbing anyone yet I often receive compliments on it. Sometimes when I spray it on, I close my eyes and I feel like I'm on the beach. It is simple yet modern and sophisticated.
Date published: 2011-10-23
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sherrypie from LOVE ACQUA DI GIO This is the only scent I have wore or ware. Please do not stop making this scent. So many people love this scent and ask me all the time what I am wearing. I love this scent so much and it's my signature scent. Please do not stop making it. I do not think Acqua Di Gioa is as good as this, I am sorry to say that and no offense to you but you have a winner with Acqua Di Gio. It's a classic, why mess with perfection.
Date published: 2014-01-12
Rated 5 out of 5 by Nisee from PLEASE CONTINUE SELLING ACQUA DI GIO ITS PERFECT for any Occassion The best perfume I have ever purchased. I've been a loyal customer for 13 years. I love the fresh, clean, crisp, yet not overpowering smell. Its the perfect perfume. I use this perfume daily when I wake up, during the day and when I go to bed. I am in love with the smell of Acqua Di Gio. Whoever I dated loved Acqua Di Gio. I get compliments from all different age groups. People stop to ask me what I'm wearing. I tell them, and explain they have to order from the company online. Women have been looking for Acqua Di Gio for years in the stores since it was discontinued. I do believe if you restock the Department Stores women will buy this product again. PLEASE DONT DISCONTINUE THIS PRODUCT. I'm sorry, but I honestly don't care for the new perfume trying to replace Acqua Di Gio. So again I beg of you..PLEASE DONT DISCONTINUE THIS PRODUCT! Thank you for your time and our reviews on this product. Acqua Di Gio Fan4ever!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by dale from NO OTHER LIKE IT LIKE NO OTHER FRAGRANCE I HAVE EVER USED. EVERYWHERE I GO, I GET COMPLIMENTS FROM MEN, WOMEN AND EVEN CHILDREN. IT'S NOT OVERPOWERING YET IT'S NOTICEABLE. WHEN I GO SHOPPING; PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW ME AROUND TO ASK WHAT FRAGRANCE I'M WEARING. I HAVE HOPEFULLY SOLD QUITE A FEW BOTTLES FOR YOU. MY ONLY REGRET IS THAT DILLARDS NO LONGER CARRIES IT. EVERY DEPARTMENT STORE SHOULD BECAUSE IT IS A FRAGRANCE FOR YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE. IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF. IT'S TRULY AMAZING.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by osuszq from Acqua Di Gio This has been my all time favorite perfume. Both my niece and daughter have begun to wear it also as we all feel we cannot find anything else to compare. Please do not discontinue this product. I was also devastated when I thought I could no longer purchase this beautiful and unique fragrance. PLEASE do not discontinue!!!! Thank you for making it available on line.
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N. One who practises the art of blending a suck up, a brown nose to management
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She can't resist her man in uniform! Suki Waterhouse gets to grips with Bradley Cooper on set of American Sniper
They say women cannot resist a man in uniform.
And that certainly proved tro be the case with Suki Waterhouse as she lustily got to grips with beau Bradley Cooper on the set of American Sniper in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The English model wrapped her arms around the hunk before giving him a lingering kiss as he enjoyed a break from filming on the beach.
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The look of love: Suki Waterhouse looked utterly delighted to be reunited with her long-term love Bradley Cooper as she visited the actor on the set of his latest movie, American Sniper, in Los Angeles
Pucker up, baby: The British model planted a huge kiss on the lips of her camouflage-clad boyfriend in between takes
Proving the stereotype: Suki Waterhouse could not reist her man in uniform Bradley Cooper in Los Angeles on Wednesday
Former World's Sexiest Man Alive title holder Bradley looked in good shape in his combat uniform, though its brown and green camouflage design hardly made him blend in with his surroundings.
And the look certainly had an effect on the 39-year-old's much younger other half, as she could not keep her hands off him.
Suki, 22, was looking reasonably good herself in an ensemble of hooded top, multicoloured blouse, hotpants and brown suede boots.
Locked and loaded: Once Suki had her target in her sights there was not fighting her off
Soldiering on: Bradley did a sterling job of enduring his much younger squeeze's banter during the break in filming American Sniper
Not in front of the lads: Bradley seemed a little worn out as Suki went in for a second helping
Earlier it seemed that when the going gets tough, the tough throw on a pair of short shorts.
But Bradley would have been no doubt praying he did not have to drop down and give anyone 20 when filming kicked off again.
There was no way the ageing star's pants would have taken the strain as they were so tight it seemed like even bending over could lead to an humiliating wardrobe malfunction.
Cuddle time: The catwalk queen treated her leading man to a huge bear hug as they larked around on the beach
Reunited and it feels so good: Suki couldn't keep the smile off her face as she enjoyed her romantic reunion with Bradley after a few weeks apart during her stint in London, Cannes and Marrakech
Romantic soul: Bradley tenderly touched his girlfriend's face as they shared a special moment together
Don't make me get back to work! One of the American Sniper crew members seemed to be urging the hunk to get back to work as he puckered up to pretty Suki on set
Getting into character to play America's deadliest sniper, Chris Kyle, the star was dressed in his eye-wateringly tight khakis, white T-shirt and combat boots to shoot a Navy SEAL training scene.
As if the shorts were not uncomfortable enough, as part of the scene Bradley had to do scissor kicks with his fellow sailors.
And clearly his kicks were not up to scratch, with the actor doused in water by another Navy SEAL for not getting the exercise right.
Trying not to look at the Rawhide: Clint Eastwood did not know where to look as Bradley Cooper sauntered around in hotpants on the set of American Sniper
It gets the hose again: As if the shorts were not uncomfortable enough, as part of the scene Bradley had to do scissor kicks with his fellow sailors while being doused in water
Little to the imagination: Getting into character to play America's deadliest sniper, Chris Kyle, the star was dressed in his eye-wateringly tight khakis, white T-shirt and combat boots to shoot a Navy SEAL training scene
Far out: A whole host of actors and extras were on hand to make the scene more realistic
Return to Heartbreak Ridge: And Bradley surely had tears in his eyes after being forced to do sit-ups for Clint's latest directorial offering
Getting back on his feet: The Hangover favourite will have been relieved when the take was over
While the scene required Bradley to keep going through the hose down, as soon as it was over he sat up and looked exhausted.
Obviously no wanting to do the scene over and over again, the Hangover star checked in with his director Clint Eastwood.
Making more apparent just how short the star's shorts were, the 84-year-old wore long baggy pants on set.
He looks familiar: A recognisable face seemed to be skulking around in the background
Penn pal: Perhaps Sean was there to give his fellow actor some moral support during the trying scenes
In the presence of greatness: Sean looked on as the team worked their magic in front of the camera
Intense training: Bradley looked buffed out in his tight T-shirt
Water works: The Oscar nominee tried to smile ahead of his hose down
One take: Obviously no wanting to do the scene over and over again, the Hangover star checked in with Clint
Down and dirty: Bradley was covered in mud while filming
Just call him Buff-ly Cooper! The actor showed off his muscles on set while he chatted to director Clint Eastwood
Bradley was almost unrecognisable, not because of his pant choice, but because the he has been working out round the clock to gain a staggering 40 pounds of muscle, though it appears he has added on extra blubber too.
His co-star Eric Close, told E! that the two-time Oscar nominee is completely dedicated to the role.
The actor said: '[Bradley] put on like 40 pounds. He's really been working hard. He looks great. He's really taken on this character…He really takes this story personally and wants to do an honorable job for Chris' memory and for his family.'
Gym time: The actor was almost unrecognisable, not because of his pant choice, but because the 39-year-old has been working out round the clock to gain a staggering 40 pounds of muscle
Chris claimed he had 160 confirmed kills in his autobiography and has since become known as America's deadliest sniper.
Kyle himself came to a early end in 2013 when, aged 38, he and friend Chad Littlefield, were allegedly shot at a shooting range in Erath County, Texas, by 25-year-old fellow veteran Eddie Ray Routh.
Eddie remains in jail pending further DNA testing required for death penalty cases.
The film retelling of Chris' life is due in theatres next year and also stars Sienna Miller as Chris wife, Taya.
His turn: The actor got a chance to inflict some pain in the scene making another sailor do crunches
Sharp shooter: The actual Chris Kyle claimed he had 160 confirmed kills in his autobiography and has since become known as America's deadliest sniper
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National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Sena in Peachtree City says the snow fell early Sunday from Columbus northward as the storm moved in from Alabama.
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Duluth muffin macer sprays man following epic SuperAmerica argument [VIDEO]
"There's only like 15 more muffins there -- I can wait," he said, prompting her to come back with this: "There's only like 15 ass whoopins if you don't get the fuck out of my face!"
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We've all been there. You're waiting in line at the gas station, possibly in a hurry to get out of there, and the person checking out in front of you is annoyingly taking their sweet ass time.
Most of us probably bite our lips and suffer through the wait in silence. But for better or worse, that wasn't the approach a customer at a Duluth SuperAmerica took earlier this month when faced with that situation.
Fed up with the hemming and hawing of a cig-purchasing woman checking out in front of him, the man butted in and asked the clerk to get him his cigarettes first. But the woman, appalled by the man's rudeness, told him: "Fuckin' A, you wait!" She finally chose her cigs, then added: "And now I'm not done!"
She then proceeded to purchase a bakery's worth of muffins, one by one, just to piss the impatient customer off.
Things got heated. After two minutes of continued back-and-forth shit talk -- including a threat from the woman that she'd have her boyfriend kick the impatient man's ass -- she ended up spraying the man's face with mace, yelling "don't fuck with me!" as she left the store.
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Seems like the clerk probably should've done something, anything, to prevent the situation from escalating, doesn't it?
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Jadwin Gym
Palmer Stadium, ready for Lacrosse on a very hot day
only 98 years memorially old
Peyton Hall
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Peyton Hall, and the new Lewis Library in the background
Memorial Table
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David opening
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Larry and his poster on rented space
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Another table
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Lewis Library
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Robert Braun
posters on all the hallways
Robert going home
preparing an astro/ph submission?
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Peyton Hall Astronomy ,seen from the other side of Palmer Stadium
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Vineyard in Hopewell
The Band playing
the Vineyard
The Band was i-enabled
Hopewell sunset
CARMA lined up
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Humbolt, the Crestones and Kit Carson Peak.
Anna starting up "LaCholla Jackson", 5.9 at the Cactus Cliff. I took a bunch of photos of Anna and Curt on this route from my comfy vantage point atop the neighboring route "I, Claudius", 5.11a.
Yes, it was this warm.
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This is Florence Firlik (my grandmother) on the right in Detroit, Michigan in 1930, and her mother on the left. Unfortunately I don,t know her mother's name. Both of these pictures are class photos taken when they were both 16. Florence's daughter, Cecilia (my mother) has carried these pics in her wallet since i can remember.
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Valedictorian's speech muted by board policy
Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 10:13 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 11:00 p.m.
Graduation is a time for students to celebrate their achievements that they have worked on for the past 13 years of their lives, right? This wasn't the case at Terrebonne High's graduation.
I am a graduate of Terrebonne, and I happen to be one of the three valedictorians. For everyone who was there, I am the one who did not show up Friday night, May 30. The reason I didn't show was because of my appearance, according to the School Board, it isn't acceptable.
During graduation practice, I was approached by a teacher and told that since I have a tongue ring and since I was in the spotlight and that School Board members would be at the ceremony, I would not be allowed to give my speech with the tongue ring in.
I refused to take out my piercing and said I wouldn't give my speech, simple as that. It was later announced that no one with a tongue piercing among other kinds of piercings would be allowed to participate.
All of a sudden this school rule was applied to the graduation ceremony. I should also mention that I had in more than the allowed amount of earrings on and no mention was made of them. In the School Board's defense, they did not persecute just me; other students who had piercing were not allowed to participate either.
One thing that should be mentioned though is that many students, including myself, had many of these piercing during the past school year, and we were never called out for them. All of a sudden graduation isn't for the students who worked for it; it is about what the School Board wants students to look like and what they define as "normal."
Appearance is preferred over achievement. Which is more important?
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Denon unveils new headphone line-up with £1,000 headset
Denon will introduce eight new model headphones before October as part of a new range of audio products from the manufacturer. However, judging by the first two to be revealed, you'll want to get saving now.
The Denon AH-D7100 is the manufacturer's flagship headphones and will be available for the tidy sum of £1,000. Featuring genuine mahogany-wood earcups and Denon's 50mm "Free Edge Nano Fibre" drivers, the AH-D7100 falls into Denon's Music Maniac category.
There are four categories: Music Maniac, which caters for the audio enthusiast with the headphones tuned to a flat EQ; Urban Power, which targets fans of techno, Hip-Hop and Drum 'n' Bass; Globe Cruiser, which features noise-cancellation technology and is aimed towards the traveller; and Exercise, Freak which has accentuated bass for the sporty types to workout to.
As part of the Globe Cruiser category, Denon has also unveiled the AH-NCW500 (£400) which offers handsfree calling when paired up to any Bluetooth-enabled handset, along with a cable and airline adapter for when you're jet-setting across the world.
Both these and future Denon headphones within their new range will have a host of apps available to them from both the Apple App Store and Google Play for Android.
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|Zephaniah Skinner
|Personal information
|Full name
|Zephaniah Skinner
|Date of birth
|27 June 1989
|Place of birth
|Noonkanbah Station, Western Australia
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|Nightcliff (NTFL)
|No. 88, 2010 National Draft, Western Bulldogs
|189cm / 79kg
|Playing career1
|Games (Goals)
|Western Bulldogs
|8 (5)
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Zephaniah Skinner (born 27 June 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League.
A Yungngora man, Skinner was born at Noonkanbah Station, several hundred kilometres east of Broome, Western Australia.[1] Skinner was taken at number 88 in the 2010 AFL Draft.[2]
Making his debut during the 2011 AFL season, Skinner retired from AFL football at the end of the 2012 season.
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Skip to comments.Amazon slumps after missing expectations (profit falls 73%!)
Posted on 10/25/2011 2:51:00 PM PDT by library user
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc shares slumped after reporting weaker-than-expected results as it spent heavily on a new tablet computer and other long-term projects.
The stock plummeted 14 percent to $194.31 after hours, after closing at $227.15 on Nasdaq.
The world's largest Internet retailer said on Tuesday its third-quarter net income was $63 million, or 14 cents a share, versus $231 million, or 51 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue was $10.88 billion, up 44 percent from the third quarter of 2010, it added.
Analysts had expected Amazon to report third-quarter earnings per share of 24 cents on revenue of $10.95 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
"Lower profit margins would be acceptable, but for the lower-than-expected revenue growth numbers," said Fred Moran, an analyst at The Benchmark Co.
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I think they thought that everyone was going to jump onto Amazon Prime when Netflix screwed up. It didn't happen.
People don't -have- to buy books, or any other product Amazon offers. Savings are now exhausted for many. Non-essentials are taking a hit, as the blight continues. IMO.
Netflix ain't doing well either. They lost 800,000 customers recently. Biggest customer loss since 2004. And Netflix stock was down 35% today alone.
I've certainly done my part as a patriotic consumer. If I don't see a big brown truck in my driveway at least once a week, I get pretty snippy.
It's partially the iPad effect. The price of ebooks had to be slashed this summer as books began being bought on more tablets, and the readers had to be made into a product more competitive with the iPad.
Amazon is more of a general merchandise retailer than bookseller any more. Their torrid growth is slowing as they get bigger. So, I tend to agree with you, the results likely reflect the economy.
As a person that sells used books on Amazon, I can tell you that market has tanked big time.
I ordered 2 Kindle Fire's for my 10 and 8 year old for Christmas.
If I like it, I'll get one for me too!
Wow, is that how much they charge? It would be a hair cheaper per episode to just buy the dvd-sets. Which, is actually, what I tend to do.
I think it's the economy as well. A lot of people are finally realizing that they need to tighten their belts. Don't think it was a surprise that Netflix lost customers either.
For sure.
I got front shocks for my Caddy cheaper there than I could find anywhere else, and they were the same OEM part manufactured by ZF Sachs.
Even if you don't buy anything, the product reviews can be hilarious.
Now thats funny.
I guess the only way to sort it out is to examine the annual report; but, then again, I equate reading those to a quiet Sunday afternoon with the comics section..... offsetting obscene liabilities with tubs of "goodwill" is always good for a chuckle.
Amazon is outstanding from my perspective.
"Ive certainly done my part as a patriotic consumer. If I dont see a big brown truck in my driveway at least once a week, I get pretty snippy."
That sounds like my house recently!
I told them the other day I was helping them keep their jobs, they agreed.
I just can't pass up all the great bargains on things I know I will use, especially when I can find a 20-30% off coupon code on top of the sale!
These days I even buy razor blades on Amazon. I always look for items with free shipping on orders over $25.
Here's the truth. "Independent" analysts are supposed to project a company's earnings (i.e. profits) per share but the truth is they call the company and say "c'mon, I know you're not allowed to tell anybody but you know me, we're buds! what are you guys thinking?" Then the company tells the analyst, who writes his report accordingly.
The issue comes if they don't meet those targets, for two reasons. First, they make the analyst and all the talking heads who parrot their advice look really dumb and that cannot be forgiven. Second, the number came from them! What do you mean you can't meet it?! Don't talk to me about the gobs of money you made, you said you'd make gobs of money plus a little more and you didn't! Don't you even know what's happening in your own company?! Holy smokes, I better sell!
So the stock gets punished.
My daughter's in college, so she set up her own Amazon account and got free Prime for a year. I occasionally ask her to order something if I want it quick or can't find $25 worth of stuff.
I pretty much have a steady stream of items coming to my door. We received several items today, and I have two orders in process.
I bet you love to track those packages too!
States taxing internet sales?
You bet! And I always check woot.com at 1 am Eastern and slickdeals.net at least four times a day. Three more weeks and I'll have all my Christmas shopping done.
I have Amazon.com stock and plan to keep it for the long haul. I said 10 years ago they were going to be bigger than Wal-mart someday and they are still on track to do that.
Prime is a great shipping deal, but the video is fairly limited. There's too much competition from Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Epix, and all the other online streaming video sites. There's only so much time to spend watching a small rectangular screen, while life goes on and bills stack up. Amazon should stick to what it's good at--things people want, shipped fast and free.
Really hoping Amazon doesn't go out of business, would be a disaster for me
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Arctic Sea Ice: The Death Spiral Continues
The story of the decade is the collapse of Arctic sea ice and its impact on our extreme weather (see "CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed").
That merits the latest monthly update of sea ice volume by creative tech guru Andy Lee Robinson showing that "death spiral" is the right visual metaphor:
Many experts now say that if recent volume trends continue we will see a "near ice-free Arctic in summer" within a decade. And that may well usher in a permanent change toward extreme, prolonged weather events "such as drought, flooding, cold spells and heat waves."
It will also accelerate global warming in the region, which in turn will likely accelerate both the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet as well as the release of the vast amounts of carbon currently locked in the permafrost, which in turn will likely add 0.4°F – 1.5°F to total global warming by 2100.
For more on the death spiral, here's Peter Sinclair's latest video, featuring an interview with Walt Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center:
Related Posts:
- NOAA Bombshell: Warming-Driven Arctic Ice Loss Is Boosting Chance of Extreme U.S. Weather
- NOAA: Climate Change Driving Arctic Into A 'New State' With Rapid Ice Loss And Record Permafrost Warming
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True comedy: The Good Lord Monckton fumbles with headphones and settles contentedly for one ear backwards.
That is a truly wonderful (though frightening) graph!
The important thing is that we all stay calm. We don't want to do anything rash. We certainly should not be tempted to do anything hasty or bold. As long as the majority of our scientists and political leaders are not alarmed enough to agitate for a change the rest of us should just sit quietly. After all they are the leaders. The scientist will let us know when to panic.
Nice graph. Who wants to make a bet on what year it will be when ice reaches zero in the summer months. My guess is that will be zero before the 2020.
Would be funny if it were not so accurate M. That's exactly one of the major forms of pathology in a hierarchical system, called the basic assumption of dependency. But it can change into fight/flight very quickly if the group decides the leadership is acting against their interest – oh dear! ME
No sweat, even though this hasn't happened for several million years. Everyone stay calm. The leaders have everything under control: an "energy" system that is melting the polar ice sheets, which contain over seven million cubic miles of ice, by turning the air into a planetary gas chamber of carbonic acid.
No sweat. What's a little sea ice anyway.
You are waiting for instructions to panic?
Climate scientists are not advising panic, they are advising extremely urgent action.
Pick on the politicians if you want. I sometimes wonder if politicians privately are in a total panic already, caught between funding and voting, dreading when their constituency may blame them for a lack of preparedness.
Calm scientist's letting us know we should not panic:
Prof. Will Steffan, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute "the situation appears bleak, and there is a growing sense of panic in those who really understand what a 4°C world might be like"
Prof. Jim Hansen, recently retired director of the NASA Goddard Insitute for Space Studies "We are in a planetary emergency"
Sir David King, former Chief Government advisor to the British Government. "Avoiding dangerous climate change" is impossible – dangerous climate
change is already here. The question is, can we avoid catastrophic
climate change?"
Prof. Ross Garnaut
"The failure of our generation on climate change mitigation would lead to consequences that would haunt humanity to the end of time."http://www.petermartin.com.au/2008/09/final-report-of-garnaut-review.html
Sir John Haughton,former co-chair of the IPCC, "climate channge is accelerating more rapidly and dangerously that most of us in the scientific community had expected"
Prof. Lonnie Thompson, Director of the Byrd polar research centre:
"Virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization"
Leading to our unalarmed world leaders to make reassuring statements like this:
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the U.N., "This is an emergency and for emergency situations we need emergency action"
Just yesterday I posted a quick calculation of the amount of additional ocean heat that will accumulate due to a Blue Arctic event:
Even without accounting for further albedo flip I came up with enough heat to warm Lake Ontario by 8.8 degrees F.
Any politician in such a bind and truly wishing to step out of the dilemma has, as you mention, the best possible out: the massive weight of science advising extremely urgent action.
If they are so caught between funding and voting that they can neither act or lead, our system is totally broken.
This "spiral" graph doesn't srike me as the master stroke of scientific visualization that Joseph Romm seems to think it is.
It strikes me as hard to decode. And having decoded it, I find myself mentally trying to compare various quantities which are all twisted around with respect to each other.
I call chart junk. An ordinary straight left-to-right graph would be easier to see and more persuasive. Maybe even better would be to retain only the April and September traces.
I wonder to myself what the next state of "panic" the scientists have to start loudly publicly proclaiming…I think "Scared to death of what's about to happen" would be a good start.
I would expect the politicians to pretend that 2.0C is possible for long after it is not (which I think is the past already), probably right up to actually achieving 450ppm and or 2.0C whichever is achieved first – simply because it lets them off the hook.
If the next IPCC report comes out saying 2.0c is still achievable we'll know the writers cooked the books (watch past and future CO2 emissions assumptions) to keep the politicians off the hook and the public anesthetized enough…
The person running this site, Dr. Joe Romm, actually took a bunch of bets back in 2007 (if memory serves) that the initial Arctic Melt Thru would occur before 2020.
If you look at the minimum from last year (2012) and compare it to the minimum from 3 years prior (2009) you can see it lost more than half its volume in 3 years…not many things can you cut their volume in half every 3 years and still keep around for long.
So psher, you're in good company with the 2020 date, although recently some scientists, off the record, have been talking 2016/17 or so (assuming no volcanic surprises before then).
Lou that was a great article, the amount of energy that is added when we don't have the ice cube in our drink at the top of the world is truly stunning.
Am I reading this correctly? It looks like the yearly max is now approaching the previous ('79) yearly minimum!
You are reading it correctly. The Sep (yearly min) black line of 1979 is fairly close to the Mar (yearly max) yellow line of 2013.
Thanks for pointing that out. And remember: DON'T PANIC
I live on the shore of Lake Superior. The big lake was ice covered in winter back when I was a kid in the 60's. Gradually the lake ice decreased until one year it never came in winter. Now it never comes, except in very small amounts and only for a few weeks. But mostly it remains ice free. I assume this is a feed back, as last year we set another summer water temperature record.
It is safe to assume the arctic will flip very quickly like Lake Superior did. We went from regular ice, to spotty ice and then zero ice in the matter of a few years. It happened very quickly. It has not come back, and water temps are rising in summer so we begin each winter with warmer and warmer water.
the 3d version of Andy Lee Robinson's graph here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Qae244T9o8
from the looks of it, I'm proposing a name for the graph:"The Arctic Water Turbine".
M. Tucker- with your sardonic sense of humor, you might appreciate my latest published article, a climate change satire and fable: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidgoldstein/close-encounters-a-fable-_b_3033586.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change
The author of the Sea Ice Death Spiral graph has just released a 3-D animated version. Watch it here on YouTube, and share it with your friends:
Joe, you may wish to update this Post!
Bet? 2016, +/- 3 years. But there can be no winner.
Thanks David. I read it…
"We can keep right on doing just what we've been doing. We're gonna be just fine!"
Which is exactly what we are doing, what we have been doing and what we plan to do into the future.
I wonder which lobby has more actual power to control Congress, the NRA or the massive fossil fuel industry. Proponents of gun safety can get actual human faces in the news and in front of recalcitrant representatives and we will be lucky to get universal background checks. Madmen can still get 30 round clips! The best we can do is to try to improve the unsatisfactory background check system. And that might still fail. And that is with memorials to little children and pictures of those little children and news personalities talking about it every night. That is not possible with climate legislation. That does not happen with catastrophic weather events. We don't hear every night about what the future has in store if we continue with business as usual.
The thing about gun safety legislation or civil rights or equal rights for gays or immigration reform or voter's rights or women's rights or nuclear disarmament, they don't have a time limit. If it takes 10 years for us to pass a law to ensure equal rights for all Americans, well we pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. If it takes the US 10 more years to even begin to reduce CO2 emissions, well many of those scientists say we are looking at more than 2 deg C of warming. Most Americans, even those protesting Keystone, don't have a clue what that even means for the stability of the climate. 2 to 3 degrees of cooling from pre-industrial levels puts us into an ice age. 2 to 3 degrees (or more) of warming over a time period of 50 to 90 years is completely unprecedented in the geologic record in the past 65 million years. It is not just about sea level rise and expansion of the worlds deserts into the temperate zones. It is about extinction and ocean acidification. And we hardly hear about that. Scientists say things like, "this makes me a little nervous."
I hope the activists like McKibben and Hansen can get more attention in the popular media because it will take large public support to make the kind of changes necessary to avoid the worst. Too bad Hansen and Lonnie Thompson and Bernie Sanders are moving up in age. Why are all the best ones also so advanced in age? I'm glad McKibben is still a young man. It looks like Lonnie will need a new ticker. For such an active man to get congestive heart failure is unheard of, sounds like a smokers fait, but that is what high altitude work can do I guess. We have very few scientists like Hansen and Thompson. Most will just say "I'm a little worried."
Interesting! Perhaps a poison chalice?
I was just playing with the data and the perl program I wrote to translate it into scripts that PovRay can render (www.povray.org). There are so many ways of animating it and I can only do 0.00001% of what's possible!
I'll do more versions, and keep them up to date as new data appears – this September will be interesting, but could still go either way.
March volume recovered a lot since January, and now on a par with last year, but with most of the ice being first year ice, it's looking odds on for a new record this year.
Thanks for the plug, Lodger.
Had over 500 views today… only 7 billion left to go!
Meanwhile, at the other pole…
Have some respect. Baron Monckhausen is in mourning for his 'Immortal Beloved' the late unlamented human hand-baggage from Finchley.
Considering the foul stench now emerging from the putrescent corpse of what was once the universally admired CSIRO, euthanased, 'market-style' by the vile Howard obscenity, I can see just why scientists keep quiet.
If politicians possessed consciences and the senses of shame and guilt, they would be in quite a great degree of mental torment by now. Fortunately such effete baggage is jettisoned before anyone enters the 'real world' of business greed and political complicity.
Great! We can go fishing for barracuda!
We have plainly set climate destabilisation in motion, its momentum is growing, inexorably, although much is hidden from our eyes. When this Kraken wakes, heaven help us all, and he is stirring.
Well BlackDragon, our system IS comletely broken. Well, one can split hairs about what "completely" means – let's say it's "sufficiently" broken. There are moral monsters in politics but the time we spend as climate hawks or progressives lambasting the middle ground or weak-liberal ones for doing so little, misses the point that their hands really are tied. If they spoke the truth out loud, they would in all but the most progressive disctricts, be losing the next election. We DO have a case to say, "then quit politics and become an activist if your only choice is to do far far too little far far too late" That would be a reasonable criticism. But for those not ready to do that their logic (sadly for planet earth) is not entirely wrong when they think "I can push our totally broken political system away from 99% bad policy to 98% bad policy, or I can tell the truth and lose the election and then I'm not donig anyone any good" so they water down and "compromise"…repeat that 100s of times and you get what you see on TV…they should just resign. I am NOT a "mild liberal" but we need to stop saying how eeeevil the mild-liberals are. The system is what's evil.
Do you really think that if Obama was Senator from Vermont (a progressive state) he'd have the same policies? Or that if Bernie Sanders (whose work I much admire) was President that he'd do the same? We know that's not the case. Does this "Excuse" Obama? No, but the tactics we need to employ is to change the system (long term) and change the cost/benefit calculus (in short term) for the President by being loudly and public against..and getting more Americxans to do the same
Supposedly FDR said to activists, "I agree with you..now you need to [go protest in the street and] make me do it"
Graphic is great in some ways, not in others. For ealier years, great. But notice what happens by 2012: one can't visually tell Sept 2012 from what will be Sept 2013..the tiny circle makes the two too close..
For more recent, I like the regular graph (sq mi on y axis) for surface…and or course, also the volume graph is helpful as well.
It could be very useful visualizing what a successful ramp up to major Net Zero climate action achievements by 2020 will be like in a massive international initiative coordinating the world's largest cities C40Cities.org civil defence / offense network . . ., US Army Net Zero strategic . . . , Earth Institute science & information . . . , UN Millienium Design coordination planetary peoples . . . , World Bank Financial Instrumentation . . . , London School of Economics . . . , MIT machines of positive change, World Resources International . . . .
A world of a multiplicity on unilateral extreme efforts of positive change successes roiling in dynamic open source framework to bring accelerating climate change under control.
Have you heard that 'The wicked witch is dead' is back in the charts? – a fitting requiem, ME
Communication channels are already existent.
The task is to dig out positive signals from deep within the noise for further amplification and control.
As a continual mind map of civilization in a most extraordinary adventure.
I'm humming it now.
I'll attempt to be suitably respectful, and give it the Le Petomane interpretation after dinner.


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He has been a negative in each of his last nine games. In that time, he is a minus-14. The last time he was a plus was Feb. 8.
He has been a negative in each of his last nine games. In that time, he is a minus-14. The last time he was a plus was Feb. 8.
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