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Leaky gut can lead to a number of other issues down the road. What is the cause and how can you prevent it? Dr. Tom O'Bryan discusses the most common recognized trigger that's been identified in causing leaky gut. Find out what that is here!
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Interviewer: Can you talk about how Gluten sensitivity is related to Leaky Gut Syndrome? Is there a connection?
Dr. Tom O'Bryan: Really good question. There are two triggers that have been identified as primary and common initiators of intestinal permeability, slang term Leaky Gut. Two. The first one is Gluten, Gluten will trigger a temporary leaky gut within five hours of eating Gluten. Now usually the gut will heal, so that's not a problem. But with Celiac Disease and with people who are extremely sensitive, within 36 hours it's permanent, it can be healed, but it doesn't clear up by itself. So depends on how sensitive you are as to how severe the Leaky Gut is. Now remember I talked about the shags, the shags are covered with a cheesecloth, that cheesecloth only lets the tiny molecules after digestion, the tiny molecules to get through. When you have a tear in the cheese cloth, now you get these big clumps of these peptides that I spoke of earlier, they get through, and those clumps go in the bloodstream and your body produces antibodies to them. So Leaky Gut or intestinal permeability is a primary cause of multiple food sensitivities. So Gluten is the most common trigger that has been identified in causing Leaky Gut. The second common trigger, and least as prevalent as Gluten, is called Lipopolysaccharides, and that's why I'm here this weekend is to teach about Lipopolysaccharides and intestinal permeability.
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The Convention Center's Grand LoftUnited StatesTexasAustin
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Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
The Space
If you are looking for a downtown vacation rental with a touch of luxury, welcome to the Austin Grand. With space for up to 10 individuals, the Austin Grand is the perfect place to stay whether you are attending a conference or looking for a place to sleep after a night of entertainment.
Situated one block from the Austin Convention Center (with a balcony view of the facility), two blocks from the world famous 6th Street and the Warehouse District, and a handful of blocks from every other downtown attraction including hundreds of restaurants, movie theaters, bars, nightclubs, lounges, and live music venues, the location is hard to beat. During events, these units are coveted by everybody in the city, including locals. The town lake walking/jogging trail is just a few blocks away, there is a yoga studio just across the street, Starbucks is 200 feet from the front door, and arrangements can be made for a temporary gym membership two blocks away during your visit, if desired.
This 3 bedroom 2 bathroom unit features accommodations for up to 10 guests (four queen beds and a queen-sized air mattress), central air and heat, a full sized stackable washer and dryer, a small balcony, free cable television, free wireless internet access, wood burning fireplace, and plush furnishings. With upgraded counter tops, renovated kitchen and bathrooms, flat screen televisions mounted on the walls, and a fantastic stereo in the living room, every detail has been considered to make your stay a pleasant one.
A full kitchen with oven, stove, microwave, dishwasher, coffee maker, and all of the tools you need to cook your favorite meals will be included, however there are so many dining options within a few blocks, you may never use it. A few nearby options include: Fleming's Steakhouse, Fogo de Chao, Piranha Sushi, Vince Young Steakhouse, Backspace, PF Changs, 200 Congress, La Condessa, Lamberts, Swift's Attic, Champions Sports Bar, Parkside, Eddie V's, The Onion, Swift's Attic, La Condessa, Trace, Lambert's, and many more...
A wet bar comes stocked with glassware, a blender, and all of the bar tools you will need to fix your favorite cocktails while visiting. Just add liquor and mixers and you are all set. The closest liquor store is 2 blocks away.
You will also receive access to free private gated parking for one car (plus a motorcycle or scooter), if you need it. You will also receive access to free private gated parking for one car (plus a motorcycle or scooter), if you need it. Since you can walk to everything, you might consider taking the Airport Flyer from Austin Bergstrom International for $1 per person. It picks up and drops off in front of the building every 30 minutes, and will save you the hassle and expense of a rental car or taxi.
There is also an outdoor pool area, and one of the most lively neighborhoods in ATX! If you need assistance with tours, transportation services, or anything else, we are here to help. **Please note that we are fully licensed with the City of Austin, and State of Texas. Permit #(PHONE NUMBER HIDDEN) OL
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Guests will have access to the condo complex, the condo, the secured parking area, the pool area, and the best of downtown Austin.
Interaction with Guests
I like to interact with my guests as much or as little as they would like. I am always available (24/7) to answer questions via email, text, or phone, and I enjoy meeting many of my guests. However, I am also very respectful, and allow my guests to determine how much interaction they would like to have. Ever since I setup automatic door locks, there are some guests that I have not ever met in person. Whatever works best for the guest, works fine for me.
The Neighborhood
I love that the downtown neighborhood is so vibrant, and provides the ability to walk to the best restaurants, bars, shopping, and nightlife in Austin. The Railyard is in a unique location that is hard to beat. I also appreciate the convenient access to Town Lake for hiking and biking trails, among other things.
Getting Around
In addition to the Airport Flyer that I already mentioned, there are also pedicabs, taxi cabs, light rail, horse-drawn carriages, limousines, and other forms of public transportation within a block that can be easily accessed.
Other Things to Note
If you are interested in hosting an even larger group, please note that I own and manage a large number of units in the same building complex, as well as some nearby houses. I am happy to host large groups for weddings, convention center trade shows, and other events in Austin.
Check-in is 3pm. Check-out is 11am. These times can be flexible (when possible), but we will need to communicate in advance so we can plan accordingly.
All guests must abide by the rules and regulations set forth by the condominium complex pertaining to noise, trash, and smoking violations, etc. Any fines incurred will be the responsibility of the tenant. Be advised that noise violations start at $250 per occurrence. These fines can be assessed by the HOA without warning, however, we have never heard of a warning not being issued by a neighbor in advance. If somebody asks you to keep it down, please immediately accommodate them. If a fine is assessed, it will be deducted from your security deposit.
Please do not smoke or leave trash outside of the unit in the common areas. Please do not smoke in the unit or an additional cleaning fee will be charged. If you choose to use the alarm system, please be aware that any false alarms that are created (sending for police and the fire department), will be a assessed per occurrence.
Although we are animal lovers, pets are strictly prohibited. Please respect this rule or risk forfeiting the security deposit and any fees for damage.
A welcome email will be provided after your reservation is confirmed with all of the details for your stay, including your unique automatic door lock codes and assigned parking. We will also provide suggestions for local attractions, restaurants, bars, and much more.
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I have been in Austin since 1994. As much as I love the city, I also enjoy traveling and photographing vacation destinations and tourist attractions around the world. As a registered travel agent, I am able to work while I enjoy tours and activities in places like London, Paris, Rome, New York, San Francisco, and Hawaii, to name a few.
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High School Science Teacher Investigated For Using Word 'Vagina', Showing Clip Of 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Turns out "climate change" isn't the only thing you can't say in Idaho biology class.
The headline grabber, as Raw Story covered it, was "Idaho teacher investigated for saying 'vagina' during biology lesson." That would be Tim McDaniel, who has been teaching in the Dietrich, Idaho biology department for almost two decades. Here's the part of the Twin-Falls's Times-News story that is germane to Climate Progress:
According to McDaniel, the commission is also investigating a complaint that accuses him of using school property to promote a political candidate. The complaint was because he showed the climate change film "An Inconvenient Truth," also in his science class. McDaniel said he includes the film to spark a discussion on climate change among the students. After watching the film, he asks students to write a response paper explaining their thoughts on climate change. "I'm not looking for one answer, I just want them to be able to explain what they believe," he said.
How do you stop a teacher from showing one of the most popular documentaries of all time? Assert Al Gore is a political candidate. I wonder where they teach people to come up with that kind of logic.
Students have set up a "SAVE THE SCIENCE TEACHER!!" Facebook page and online petition here.
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The made up witch hunt, attacking the messenger. This is so desperate and ignorant, pure stupidity.
Guns and violence good, sex bad: climate destruction good, science and education bad. Somebody should write book called something like 'Animal Farm', ME
Same old neo-Nazi ignoramuses crawling out of the woods to hassle science teachers.
My sister volunteered to supervise an after-school program in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota. She had the little third graders make dream catchers by gluing popsicle sticks together and weaving yarn around them. They could take them home, hang them by their beds, and catch their dreams — then tell their parents about their dreams the next morning.
Most kids did just that. But a few parents showed up to complain that she was having the kids make a symbol of the devil.
As Forest Gump always said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Did they not notice that Al Gore is no longer a politician and is a private businessman now?
Not noticing things is a strategy. During the GW Bush years, Carl Pope called it "Strategic Ignorance". He wrote a book about it.
Any day now they'll accuse somebody of promoting Hubert Humphrey.
Oh my! I wouldn't last long at that school! I've shown students the entire "An Inconvenient Truth" movie. I've brought students to see an early showing of "Chasing Ice". I've shown students "Food Inc". I discuss homosexuality with my students. And I certainly say words like "vagina" and "penis" when ever it is scientifically necessary.
Next they will start suspending students for using dimes in the vending machines. Can't promote that Democratic, socialist, New deal agenda.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried to smooth the worst rift in years with Arab ally and oil producer Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, reassuring the Saudi king that the U.S. remains a steady friend despite support for pro-democracy revolutions in the Middle East.
The Saudi king, looking thin after months of medical treatment in the United States and elsewhere, welcomed Gates for what the Pentagon chief later said was a cordial and warm visit.
The hospitality masked deep unease among Saudi Arabia's aged leadership about what the political upheaval in the Middle East means for its hold on power, its role as the chief counterweight to a rising Iran, and its changed relationship with the United States.
In a sign of the depth of the Obama administration's concern about the political earthquake that has shaken the region, including the island of Bahrain off Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf coast, this was Gates' third trip to the area in the past month. He has echoed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's cautioning of authoritarian Arab governments on the risks of moving too slowly in response to peaceful protests for political freedom.
Saudi Arabia views the threat of a nuclear strike from Iran as a far larger issue than the drive for political freedoms in Egypt and elsewhere.
Although Gates said he and Saudi King Abdullah did not discuss the decision to send Saudi troops into Bahrain last month, the contest for influence in that majority-Shiite country was an important subtext to Gates' visit. The U.S. is selling Saudi Arabia military hardware to upgrade the kingdom's defenses against Iranian missiles.
"We already have evidence that the Iranians are trying to exploit the situation in Bahrain, and we also have evidence that they are talking about what they can do to create problems elsewhere," Gates said following the meeting.
The unrest in Bahrain, which erupted in February, has played out against the region's deep rivalries between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. Protesters from Bahrain's Shiite majority have demanded that the kingdom's Sunni minority rulers grant them equal rights and a political voice.
Saudi Arabia, a largely Sunni nation, has rushed to the aid of Bahrain, while other Gulf countries have accused predominantly Shiite Iran of meddling in Bahrain's affairs by trying to stir Shiite unrest there.
U.S. relations with the Saudi ruling family have been strained for months, dating to the uprising in Egypt and President Barack Obama's call for longtime U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak to give up his presidency. Saudi leaders saw this as the U.S. abandoning a reliable friend with close military and diplomatic ties stretching over decades — not unlike the U.S.-Saudi alliance, which has the added dimension of American dependence on Saudi oil.
Gates has acknowledged tensions in the relationship with the Saudis but insists it remains a strong partnership.
"'It's a great exaggeration to say this relationship's ruptured," Gates said last month on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We have a very strong military-to-military relationship. As you know, the Saudis just made one of the largest purchases of American weapons in their history."
Gates was referring to a $60 billion deal announced last fall to sell the Saudis 84 new F-15 fighter jets and 190 helicopters, as well as upgrade 70 of their existing F-15s. The deal includes a wide array of missiles, bombs and other equipment — mostly with a perceived Iranian threat in mind. Iran, with its Shiite Muslim theocracy in charge, has long been a bitter rival of the Saudis, whose rulers and majority population are Sunni Muslim.
Limited protests in Saudi Arabia reportedly have been confined mainly to Shiites in the eastern oil-producing provinces.
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DALLAS (AP) - Seeking employment after tech industry cutbacks and other layoffs, Texans are increasingly turning to education as a new career.
For Texas school districts, that's good news in a time of widespread teacher shortages.
Educators say more laid-off workers are applying for teaching jobs. North Texas districts from Garland to Mansfield and in between report an increase in their pool of substitute teachers and more people seeking teacher training or alternative certification.
In the Birdville school district, northeast of downtown Fort Worth, 100 more substitutes are available than a year ago.
"It's not just people from the airlines, but from other industries that have been laying off," Suzy Compton, who coordinates personnel services in the Birdville district, said. "You notice it. It's just not one person coming in saying, 'I got laid off."'
Victor Leos, a personnel director for the Garland district, said: "We've got a flood of them, both subs and permanent teachers. ... Most of them are here on the premise of looking for something to carry them over until something opens in their area."
It's too early to tell whether there are more emergency teacher permits being issued this school year, according to the State Board of Educator Certification. But the two state education service centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area reported increased participation in their certification programs.
The jobless rate in Dallas rose from 3.2 percent to 5.4 percent from September 2000 to September 2001, its highest level since 1994, the Texas Workforce Commission said, equaling almost 51,000 more people out of work.
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Coy McIntosh, who gave up trying to find a computer programming job last year, is now working to become certified while teaching at William James Middle School in Fort Worth.
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He says he will continue teaching even when the economy finally rebounds.
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A while ago I was trying to get this work but it didn't work out, so I have put this plugin aside for a while hoping that the email function improves. Now that wp notified me about version 0.10 I decided to give it a go again.
I opened settings and I saw the same fields on the email tab that made me nervous a bit but I tried filling them. Thing is I am unable to figure out how to get the plugin to send an email to the visitor and to me as well.
I remembered an old thread for tips on this very subject but for some reasons I couldn't find it in the forum. This plugin is great but I just can't use it, because it doesn't make sense to me if a visitor and/or I can't receive an email with the results and the content of the fields.
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5 the visitors email address in the from field of the email I recieve and
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7. get the title of the form element option displayed in the email instead of the value, as it is the title what the visitors see online and not the value. The value is only a mathematical number I use for output calculation. So if someone choose purple from the options 't-shirt color' I would like them to see 't-shirt color: purple' in their email and not 't-shirt color: 0.95'
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I need to present HTML content on a DVD, accessible form a nice autorun menu.
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Her debut book The Ocean of Mrs Nagai: Stories was released in November 2013 by Daily Star Books.
In 2003 she won The First Words Literary Prize for South Asian American Writing for her story "Raisins Not Virgins" which she then turned into a stage play that was performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Dhaka. In 2008 the screenplay version was selected for the Tribeca All Access program at the Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Sharbari is currently a writer for ABC's major new series, Quantico.
She was born in Bangladesh and raised in New York, Connecticut and Ethiopia.
Sharbari is working on her upcoming book Dust Under Our Feet; set against the backdrop of WWII religious riots and the chaos of colonial Calcutta, Sharbari's novel traces the tumultuous relationship of a pair of unlikely lovers; a hard headed Bengali-Muslim business woman and an American Army Officer and how the echoes of their story reverberate over the next three decades.
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The Kats entered the day as the No. 3 qualifier, following a 5-2 day during Thursday's qualifying round. Sam Houston defeated five of the eight seeded teams Thursday including wins over Central Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas State, Vanderbilt and Wisconsin-Whitewater to earn the No. 3 seed in Friday's best-of-seven baker bracket play.
But the Kats got off to a slow start in the opening match against No. 6 Arkansas State.
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Skip to comments.Evolution moves more quickly than scientists thought
Posted on 11/19/2006 1:00:27 PM PST by DaveLoneRanger
ST. LOUIS - Evolution happens. But it can also stop and turn on a dime.
A new study of lizards in the Bahamas shows that the natural selection pressures that drive evolution can flip-flop faster than previously thought - even in months.
"Darwin was right about so many things," said Jonathan Losos, a former Washington University biologist who led the study. "In this case he was wrong. He thought that evolution must occur slowly and gradually."
The lizards and their changing leg lengths are yet another case of evolution occurring in real time. From finches that evolve longer beaks in a few years to bacteria that adapt to strange feeding regimens in days, evolution, as a science, has leapt out of musty museums and into the field.
Scientists say that, from a political perspective, the cases offer a vivid reminder of the continuous process that some people imagine proceeding only in fossilized fits and starts: First monkey, then man.
But for the scientists themselves, the cases show that evolutionary biology has, well, evolved into a predictive, experimental science like any other.
Losos had the perfect Petri dishes: 12 tiny islands in the Bahamas with small populations of insect-eating Anolis sagrei, six-inch long lizards that normally live on the ground but can adapt to life in trees.
On six of the islands, Losos introduced a predator, a large curly-tailed lizard that can gobble up the lizards. He theorized that at first, the fastest prey would survive as they ran for the trees. Natural selection would reward long legs. Then, as the little lizards adapted to life in trees, nimble twig maneuvers and shorter legs would be rewarded.
At the start of the experiment, the scientists, using dental floss nooses on the ends of 10-foot poles, caught all lizards and carefully measured their hind-limbs. After the first six months, their predictions held up. The average leg length of survivors was 2 percent longer than those that were killed. After a year, leg length was 3 percent shorter. The changes were small in absolute terms but statistically very large, said R. Brian Langerhans, a graduate student with Losos.
The study appeared Friday in the journal Science. Losos did the research while at Washington University, but left for Harvard University in June.
The lizard study echoes one of the classic cases of evolution-in-action: Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands. For more than 30 years, Princeton University biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have measured changes in the finches' beaks. After extended droughts, small seeds became more scarce. In a few years, the finches evolved longer beaks to crack the larger, tough seeds that remained. Then as more plentiful times returned, the bird beaks got smaller again.
At Michigan State University, Richard Lenski is studying evolution in test tubes. For almost 20 years, he has reared 12 colonies of E. coli. They have divided more than 30,000 times - which, in terms of human generations, is longer than Homo sapiens has been around. Lenski has challenged the bacteria with strange feeding patterns - feeding them sugars, then starving them.
The colonies all adapted, quickly. But they used different genetic tricks to get there. Their DNA is now remarkably different: an example of parallel evolution.
It's difficult to know how an organism will adapt, and also how subtle environmental changes will kick evolution off in a striking new direction, said Ken Petron, a University of Cincinnati ecologist who worked with the Grants on their finches.
For example, on one trip to the Galapagos during a time of seed scarcity, the Grants expected to find the trend toward larger beaks. But a new, larger finch had colonized the island and was eating the larger seeds, Petron said. It was no longer an advantage for the smaller finches to grow larger beaks.
"It's very difficult to predict the outcome of evolution before it happens," he said.
But if biologists can get better at predicting evolution, it could have applications for areas in which humans are altering the environment and causing evolutionary pressures themselves, Langerhans said. Stanford University ecologist Stephen Palumbi has estimated a $50 billion "evolution bill" associated with the antibiotic and pesticide resistance that bacteria, weeds and insects have evolved in medicine and agriculture.
Had the experiment continued, Losos expected the lizard legs to get even shorter with successive generations. But two hurricanes in quick succession submerged the little islands. "All the living lizards were washed away. Bummer," Losos said.
Some eggs survived, however, and hatchling populations are growing. Losos plans to start the experiment over.
I'm with you. If the moon shots had been real I'd be eating imported green cheese.
Then the real problem you have is that you don't understand it.
It occurred to me that the nonsense you're trying to peddle is the idea that geologic events which are determined to have taken thousands or millions of years to unfold may instead have occurred quite swiftly, by a single volcanic eruption or some other similarly brief occurrence.
Let me briefly explain why this is idiotic.
I don't have the original quotes of course, assuming that they exist, but I can readily deduce that if a geologist described the Mount St. Helens eruption as causing 10,000 years of geologic action in one day then what the geologist was quite obviously saying is that in the absence of a volcanic eruption this 'geologic action' would take 10,000 years to occur (actually, it'd take far longer than that even to achieve the same results via sedimentation and erosion).
So what?
Even a reasonably bright fifth grade student could probably learn the same in his science class. Volcanic action achieves very swiftly what takes eons to achieve by virtually any other means. That is well known, and readily evidenced in the geologic record, where it's quite easy to distinguish whether such effects were caused very gradually by erosion/sedimentation or very swiftly by volcanic/seismic action.
Of course, to reiterate, I don't have the original quotes, but it's easy enough to deduce what was meant simply because if the geologist meant it in the way that seems to be implied then said geologist should never have received a degree.
Which ones weren't?
And if I assume a dog's tail is a leg then dogs have 5 legs?
Your assumption is in precisely the place that your inquiry should be
Ha! bear in mind, not everyone believes in it.
BTW, the Darwin Finch business cited above probably involves methylated DNA and not permanent mutations. That's something that can be instantly influenced by diet, and within the same generation.
All of them or, as I said, I'd be eating imported green cheese.
Yes, we are. They can't.
Not my problem.
Ranger? Surveyor?
Again, we are probably looking at processes controlled by DNA methylation and not genetic variation.
This is NOT the kind of "evolution" necessary to get from a chimpanzee to a human
Bzzt wrong answer, chimpanzees and humans evolved from a common ancestor, also what is the barrier that prevents accumulations of changes in DNA sequence leading to speciation?
zero to sixty, in 5.6 million years
Given that youve got at least 100 nucleotide differences in your genome from your parents, exactly why shouldnt 6 million years be enough time?
These kinds of small changes within the species are the kind of "evolution" that is true, and with which creationists have no problem. It is dishonest to say this is evolution as evolutionists propagate it.2
Again I ask you, what is the barrier then that prevents accumulation of change leading to speciation?
Moreover, such unexpectedly rapid change supports a young-earth creationist perspective.
Incorrect, the above is based on your own desire to bend data to fit your untenable hypothesis, if the above were true, how can we see the Andromeda galaxy which is 2.3 million light years away? Oh, and the natural reactors found in Africa indicate that the Fine structure constant has been invariant over the last 1.2 billion years or so, so please no specious rants about the value of C changing or any other unsubstantiated cant on decay rats etc.
It shows that these minor changes do not take thousands or millions of years to occur.
We know that already, perhaps youve heard of Punctuated Equilibrium?
And this is further evidence against neodarwinian evolution.
No the article is in fact further support for ToE, as it is defined as changes in allele frequency in a population over time.
If this "microevolution" takes place quicker than it was thought, that means that the macroevolutionary changes would be more readily observable now, yet they are not.
Speciation events have been observed, for instance you may wish to look at Spartina angelica as but one example.
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As my mechanic likes to say, "There's your problem!"
If my leg is being pulled, it just came off.
If not, track back to post 93, paragraph 2.
I might add the the earth is unquestionably flat since I can see the edges when I drive in Texas. Harder to see in big cities, though.
Back to the news story that starts this thread ~ DNA methylation can create the changes observed without any change whatsoever in allele frequency over time.
This story would be better titled: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Theory".
Monkeys are a different branch and have evolved to where they are and may evolve to something. Lizards are a different branch and fish are a different branch. Branches are not taken as rejoining once they separate. Speciation is the hypothesis, not despeciation.
Assumptions take place on both sides. In this case, limitations aren't only assumed, they're already there.
Perhaps this article will help you see the light.
Human beings have "adapted" to grass, at least in part.
If some change occurs that looks beneficial we might well select that particular cutting for further expansion in the available space.
Who are these Jewish scholars, from 2,500 years ago?
I see. Thanks.
Which reminds me of an old joke. A a chemist, an engineer and an economist are stranded on an island after a shipwreck. They have an ample supply of canned food, but are unable to open the cans. So after some head-scratching, each has his own suggested solution.
The chemist suggests leaving the cans in the hot sun, then tossing them into a shaded pool, over and over. The repeated heated and cooling should make the metal brittle and make it possible to crack them open just by banging them on a rock.
The engineer suggests finding the longest limb they can and using it as a lever to smash he cans against a rock.
The economist says, "Assume a can opener."
That you have no idea what it is.
No, we don't know it for a fact.
Not fair.
Do I still have a leg and have you seen Elvis?
But only one side questions and tests and actively tries to disprove its assumptions.
Just checking out the definitions of the various actors, there could not have been any "Jewish scholars" before Abraham. Ergo, the folks who first wrote down the oldest stories in Genesis were not "Jewish" ~
Time to catch up. This DNA Methylation explains many things including why there are gay guys, why stuff in your body stops working, how chickens can grow teeth, and so forth.
Dave -- I'd have to agree with Alter Kaker on this one. You either believe evolution or don't. "Micro-evolution" is still evolution.
Belief is for religious dogma, ToE doesnt require belief, you either accept that it is the best explanation for the data if you dont then you have to provide an alternate hypothesis that explains the data in a reproducible and testable manner preferably your alternate hypothesis should make predictions that can be tested.
I, for one, don't believe in evolution (defined as an increase of genetic information transmitted through generations) at all.
Define information, how is this to be quantified? Also you are incorrect, there are a variety of mutational mechanisms, such as insertions, DELETIONS, point mutations, translocations or duplications etc
There is a list of posters who believe the moon landings were faked. For a few moments you sounded like them, but it is clear that you do believe the moon landings happened. Right? You do, don't you?
Look up Spartina angelica, speciation in action. Your hypothesis has therefore been falsified, back to the drawing board for you.
Where did you get the idea that everything from "in the beginning" on came from someone's contemporaneous observations? For the first 25 verses of Genesis 1, that's impossible, because there was no one there to take notes.
The pentateuch is traditionally known as the "Books of Moses," and even if his authorship is apocryphal, it was almost certainly a Jew who first put pen to paper, erm, papyrus, or vellum, or whatever.
No, the ball is not in my court. You agree that evolutionary mechanisms takes place in the short term, and you observe the wide variety speciation extant today, and you're suggesting that the two are still not related. If they're not, you have to explain yourself. How, where, when and why does evolution suddenly stop taking place? Can you find me an example of that happening?
No, the ball is not in my court. You agree that evolutionary mechanisms takes place in the short term, and you observe the wide variety speciation extant today, and you're suggesting that the two are still not related. If they're not, you have to explain yourself. How, where, when and why does evolution suddenly stop taking place? Can you find me an example of that happening?
Didn't I tell you that I don't?
I even gave you a hint of my proof. We all know that the moon is made of green cheese. If we had ever gotten there we'd be mining cheese and selling it at a profit. Simple capitalism. Or are you one of those anti-American people who don't believe in capitalism? What else are capitals for, anyway.
In fact, Abram started out very near the place writing was first developed. Wonder if God revealed a few stories to him, hmmm?!
"What else are capitals for, anyway"
Housing politicians and providing increased sales of sign paint!
From a certain point of view the Moon "landed on" our rockets.
Yes, we do know it for a fact, or at least for as much of a fact as we know just about any fact..
A series of experiments by Soviet researchers in the 1920s failed to produce a human/ape hybrid. In the 1970s another series of experiments established that human sperm will not fuse with other primate eggs and that human chromosomes will not align themselves with chimp chromosomes.
There is no doubt that a human/chimp chimera could be engineered in the lab, but so what? Virtually any kind of chimera theoretically could be engineered in the lab. A chimera is not bred like a hybrid; it's an artificial amalgam.
BTW, please keep in mind that just because someone can navigate a keyboard and mouse well enough to post some ridiculous nonsense doesn't make it true.
I believe what you are describing is the first time an entire species running off the proverbial cliff at the same time.
I found the choice of descriptions & time frame interesting- thus my query of billybudd...
That is.... If it happened AT ALL...
Those experiments in the 1920s were doomed to failure since all they had on hand were examples of "Modern Soviet Man", and you know how worthless those guys were.
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I do not want this work publically displayed. I want to control who has access to it. I have a separate site for public work.
I have been looking for a plugin to lock the site down, and they all seem to rely on the standard WordPress user/password/email set up. But this isn't quite what I'm looking for -
I will be sending my cv out to a number of people and companies over the coming months. In order that it is as simple as possible for these potential clients to access my site, I want to have a single username, or at most a username/password which I can send out to EVERYONE without needing their email and without problems occurring if two clients try to access the blog at the same time using this universal pass/user
To keep it secure I would simply change the details every fortnight or month.
Does anyone know of a plugin or other method for achieving this?
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'Pride involved' as pressing Giants search for answers
Bochy: 'We got what we deserved because we couldn't get a runner in'
Bruce Bochy will forego pregame batting practice in favor of infield drills before Sunday's series finale. (USA TODAY IMAGES)
SAN FRANCISCO – The Giants are just ten months removed from winning six elimination games en route to their second World Series title in the last three seasons, so they're not exactly waving the white flag in July. But after wasting a gem from Madison Bumgarner and two separate late-game situations with the bases loaded and less than two outs in a 1-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs, the quotes tell the story of a squad that's grasping at straws in trying to explain an MLB-worst 23-42 mark since May 14.
Bruce Bochy: "We're trying things. That's all I guess you can do is keep coming out here working… The only thing we can do is keep working here and try to get this thing figured out."
Bumgarner: "You like your chances usually with the bases loaded and no outs. But there's times where it doesn't happen."
Losing pitcher Sergio Romo: "It's just a lot of mishaps and misfortune on our behalf and today was just another example. We had chances to make some noise and it just didn't turn out our way."
Despite committing two early errors to take over the major league lead from the Houston Astros with 76, the Giants found themselves poised to break a scoreless tie in the bottom of the eighth thanks to another brilliant Bumgarner start and a great table-setting job for the 3-4-5 hitters.
A leadoff walk and two misplayed sacrifice bunts loaded the bases for none other than Buster Posey. But the reigning N.L. MVP's nine-pitch at-bat culminated in a broken bat fielder's choice that forced Gregor Blanco out at home. Pablo Sandoval, batting .368 with runners in scoring position this season, had a chance to pick Posey up, but chased the first pitch for another fielder's choice out at home. (Sandoval also went after the first offering he saw with runners at first and second in the sixth inning.) At least the Giants' Nos. 3-4 hitters put the ball in play, though. Hunter Pence followed with a four-pitch at-bat that ended with an off-balance swing at a low and away slider out of the zone.
"You have the guys up there that you hope to have up there in that situation," Bochy said. "We couldn't get a fly ball or a cheap hit or anything."
Romo, who took the loss on Friday despite allowing no earned runs, fell to 3-6 thanks to former teammate Nate Schierholtz's solo home run in the ninth.
"Fastball. Tried to go inside and it tailed right over the plate. Nothing other than a bad pitch," Romo explained. "This is the big leagues. You make bad pitches and they're going to hurt you."
The Giants had another chance to give that hurt right back to the Cubs and their closer. Once again, they did not take advantage. Kevin Gregg got a quick first out, but gave up a single to Joaquin Arias and walked Gregor Blanco and Brandon Belt to load the bases. Bochy sent up Tony Abreu to pinch-hit for the pitcher's spot with the game on the line and ended up watching the career .254 hitter ground into a rare 3-1-3 double play to end the game.
"We had great chances and hoped we'd find a way to cash in and we didn't do it," Bochy said. "That's why we lost the game. You look at the job Bum did and it was an impressive outing. We're just not swinging these bats."
Despite the offensive struggles, Bochy plans to cancel batting practice before Sunday's series finale in lieu of more defensive drills. But there's no workout regimen for players that are understandably pressing.
"It's quiet in that clubhouse, believe me," Bochy said. "Those guys, I know they're trying hard and they're probably pressing a little bit trying to get out of this. These are games we normally win but right now we're not executing."
Thanks to a Padres win Saturday, the Giants fell into a tie for last place in the N.L. West so there's no time like the present to start executing.
"You've got to keep going forward and keep working hard," Bumgarner said. "You can't stop and start taking it easy and coasting. You've got to keep pushing. You never know what might happen the rest of the season.
"We haven't really been able to find consistency. But I think everybody in here believes in the guys that we do have. It's just about putting it all together and coming together. We know what we got to do and we know how to do it, we just have to get it done."
It's hard to believe every member of the 25-man roster shares Bumgarner's optimism considering the hole the Giants are in. That's why Bochy's job is more than just orchestrating double-switches and playing the matchups with his bullpen arms. Maintaining morale may be a manager's toughest task.
"You try to keep them going…stay positive," Bochy said. "We're being tested. Why? I don't know, but we're really being tested. Hopefully when you get tested, you get stronger. That's why these two games are disappointing because the pitching's been there."
Bochy said he met with his players before the game. It's unclear whether the Giants will face another matinee meeting with their manager before Sunday's series finale.
"They're coming out with a lot of energy, but right now we just have some guys that aren't swinging the bats that well, to be honest, and we're getting shut down," Bochy said. "There's a lot of baseball left and there's a lot of pride involved. The only thing we can do is just give it our all tomorrow."
Playing for pride is a concept rarely promoted by the manager of a team defending a title, but motivational tactics are hard to come by when you're nine games out of first place.


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Rich Chocolate Almond Coconut Bars
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 40 mins
We love sweets and this one does not disappoint. I got this recipe from a local paper 10 years ago. A lovely bittersweet chocolate crust with almonds and coconut filling. Toasting the coconut creates a nice nutty, dark, deep flavor. Sounds like a chocolate bar doesn't it. Yummy!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 2 ounces chocolate, bittersweet
- 1 tablespoon milk, chocolate
- 2 eggs, large
- 1 cup sugar, brown, dark, lightly packed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract, pure
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract, pure
- 1 cup almonds, salted, coarsely chopped
- 3⁄4-1 cup coconut, lightly toasted (the toasting is optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small pot melt the butter and chocolate, slowly over a low heat.
- Add the flour to a bowl and mix the melted chocolate mixture into the flour.
- The mixture should be crumbly, next add the milk, mixing with a fork, until the crumbs are large and moist.
- Press the dough into an ungreased 11 x 7 " pan, bake for 10 minutes, remove and cool.
- In a medium size bowl lightly beat the eggs then add the brown sugar, baking powder, flour, vanilla and almond extracts, nuts and coconut, blending well.
- Spread the filling over the crust and bake for 25 - 30 minutes longer.
- Cool completely before cutting into 18 large squares.
- Keep any leftovers in the freezer.
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These are really good and has just enough chocolate, but not too overpowering. I coarsely chopped the almonds, but I think next time I will chop them more fine, DH said there were big chuncks and he would prefer smaller. Other than that they were perfect. Made for Holiday PRMR December 2009.
Another one of your recipes that I made for a group I host, & since they're to be served along with a number of other sweet things, I was able to get 24 bars from this recipe! GREAT TASTING THINGIES, & now if I can just hold off until tomorrow, I'll have some left to serve the group! Loved your recipe & will keep this one around, too! [Tagged & made in Please Review My Recipe]
These are amazing. I used sliced almonds, almond milk for the milk and 1/2 a cup of Splenda Brown. As the nuts weren't salted I added a nice pinch of Fleur de Sel. The recipe is easy to follow and delivers scrumptious bars that should be popular with most everyone. Holiday perfect. :D


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Energy and Global Warming News for April 14: Volt meeting goal of 40-mile electric range — GM says; Green LEDs for Efficient Lighting; Big Coals Stealth Mode Campaign to Kill the Climate Bill
Volt meeting goal of 40-mile electric range, GM says
The first Chevrolet Volt cars to roll off production lines at a General Motors Co. plant in Michigan are going 40 miles on a single battery charge as promised, the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle's head engineer said yesterday.
"I'm very confident that the batteries are delivering the energy that they need to deliver and that the vehicle's efficiencies are where it should be," chief engineer Andrew Farah told the Detroit Free Press. "We're still doing a few last-minute tweaks and tunes on the aerodynamics but, again, that's just to stabilize some things."
Pre-production of the Volt began about two weeks ago. The car is scheduled for launch in November.
Unlike the all-electric Nissan Leaf, also slated for launch late this year, the Volt is equipped with a gasoline engine to keep the car running once it uses up its electric charge. Total electric range varies depending on terrain and weather, but the car is meeting expectations, Farah said.
"This weekend alone, I had at least two cycles that were over 40 miles," Farah said. "I think I drove one at 41.5 and another 42.5" miles.
Green LEDs for Efficient Lighting
A new approach to fabricating light-emitting diodes (LEDs) could be used to increase their efficiency by 20 percent while yielding higher-quality light than conventional LEDs. Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, have demonstrated the approach by making a yellow-green LED that could soon be combined with other colored LEDs to yield white light. The new LED could help replace current, inefficient methods of generating white light.
LEDs, devices that emit photons when an electrical charge is applied to them, are more efficient and last longer than incandescent lightbulbs. By varying the composition of the semiconductor LEDs, materials scientists can coax the devices into emitting different colors. At the minimum, producing white light requires combining red, blue, and green, but so far, only red- and blue-light-emitting diodes are well developed. To produce green light, LED manufacturers typically apply one or more phosphor materials to blue LEDs. The phospors convert high energy blue spectrum light into lower-energy light through a process that reduces overall luminosity by approximately 20 percent.
To eliminate this loss of efficiency, researchers have tried to develop efficient green LEDs that don't require phosphors. But a major stumbling block is that the different known semiconductor materials that can be combined to emit green light, typically indium and gallium nitride, have different-sized crystal lattice structures. For semiconductors to work efficiently, each layer of the device has to have a similarly sized lattice structure as the layer above or below it.
To get around the lattice-size mismatch, NREL researchers used a fabrication method that they had previously developed for building highly efficient multi-junction solar cells. Their method relies on using additional layers of other semiconducting materials with intermediate-sized lattice structures that bridge the gap between the disparate-sized semiconductors. "If you try to do it in one shot, the whole thing will be defective," says Angelo Mascarenhas, team leader for solid state spectroscopy in the Center for Basic Sciences at NREL. "You have to grow a sequence of layers in a step-wise fashion."
Big Coal's "Stealth Mode" Campaign to Kill the Climate Bill
The coal industry includes companies that profess to support climate legislation but are in fact operating behind the scenes in "stealth mode" to deny climate science and thwart needed action on climate change.
Consider two of the coal companies that keep their heads down and yet still do a lot of damage: Peabody Energy Company, the world's largest private-sector coal producer, and Arch Coal, the second largest U.S. coal producer.
Peabody claims to support climate legislation, but it has been identified as a key figure in opposition to climate legislation.
Climate change could raise cost of U.S. allergies
Climate change could push the cost of U.S. allergies and asthma beyond the current $32 billion annual price tag, conservation and health groups reported on Wednesday.
A warming planet makes for longer growing seasons that would produce more allergy-provoking pollen in much of the heavily populated eastern two-thirds of the United States, the National Wildlife Federation and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America said in their report.
The cost of coping with allergies and allergen-driven asthma in the United States is at $32 billion in direct medical costs, lost work days and lower productivity, the report said.
"Climate change could allow highly allergenic trees like oaks and hickories to start replacing pines, spruces and firs that generally don't cause allergies, exposing many more people to springtime allergy triggers," said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist at the wildlife federation.
Obama Seeks Local Action for Earth Day
President Obama today urged Americans to honor the upcoming 40th anniversary of Earth Day by acting to improve the environment around them and launched a Web site, Whitehouse.gov/EarthDay, compiling citizens' success stories.
In the video message above, Mr. Obama describes how the first Earth Day was prompted in part by vivid incidents like a fire on the pollution-stained Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. He listed that era's suite of environmental laws, most of which were enacted under a Republican president in a time of environmental bipartisanship that long ago vanished from Capitol Hill.
Clearly with today's Washington paralysis in mind, Mr. Obama notes that people shouldn't count on elected officials to solve all environmental problems and "should take steps in their own homes and their own communities." That's always a fine message. Little acts are valuable, even in the face of planet-scale problems.
South Could Benefit From a Little Efficiency
That the American South is both a voracious consumer of energy and a laggard on implementing efficiency measures has long been a matter of some concern for policymakers and energy analysts.
A 2007 report by Forbes magazine, for example, ranked states according to a composite score in six categories: carbon footprint, air quality, water quality, hazardous waste management, policy initiatives and energy consumption.
Top honors went to states like Vermont, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Maryland, Connecticut and New Jersey. The first Southern state east of Texas listed was Florida "" at number 20. And as noted at the time by Robert Hawley "" then a renewable energy researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory "" Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and West Virginia made up seven of the bottom eight on the list. (The were joined by Indiana.)
None of that would be a surprise to the authors of a study released Monday by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University. Among the chief conclusions: introducing aggressive efficiency measures to industrial processes as well as to the residential and commercial building sectors (transportation was not considered) could well offset the expected growth in energy demand in the South over the next 20 years.
11 Responses to Energy and Global Warming News for April 14: Volt meeting goal of 40-mile electric range — GM says; Green LEDs for Efficient Lighting; Big Coals Stealth Mode Campaign to Kill the Climate Bill
LEDs – they have so far to go in terms of cost.
GE is releasing a 9 watt (40 watt equivalent) LED for $40. It does have an expected lifespan of 25,000 hours.
GE sells a 10 watt (40 watt equivalent) CFL for less than $5. It has an 8,000 hour lifespan.
Three CFLs for less than $15 gives you the lifespan of a $40 LED.
And you save only 10% in power. (1 watt, 25,000 hours, 25kWh, $0.105 per kWh, $2.63.)
With a standard DC voltage, plug and socket combination, we could power LEDs without having to build AC to DC conversion in every LED light bulb. Plus we could power our billions of electronic devices directly . . .
You'd have to rewire buildings with a DC loop. That's a lot of material and labor that might never pay back.
"We are in an age of technological metamorphosis," wrote Hermann Minkowski, the guy who taught Einstein the mathematics of General Relativity: "Mechanics is rapidly changing into electronics."
It was just a few short years ago that flat screen TVs, cell phones, etc. were the stuff of science fantasy; now, they're ubiquitous; so with computers, etc., etc., etc.
Moving to LED lighting is very encouraging.
re: LEDs vs CFLs
The color quality from CFLs is poor – you'll ruin your eyes if you try to read by them regularly. I use a 25W halogen instead. They're slow to come to full brightness, which means they don't get turned off as frequently as other types. They're also nowhere near as reliable as promised – I've already had to replace several. After several years of using them now, I'd be happy to pay more for a better bulb with the same energy savings.
I used to think that the allergy and asthma connection to AGW was exaggerated- until the last couple of years. In the last few years, I have apparently developed an asthmatic reaction to colds and flu, so that the coughing lasts for weeks, instead of days.
It's going around at work, this persistent cough. I know several mature people, never bothered to any great extent by asthma before, who have a similar persistent cough. This is a very bad county (Sonoma county, CA) for allergies and asthma.
One individual case, or even a cluster of cases that I know about, does not make a trend. I'm not a doctor, of course. And the connection to AGW cannot be demonstrated by one case, or even several. But, projecting this apparent growth of asthmatic reactions to normal colds and the flu into the future, it has me wondering what the future holds.
We may be in for an ecological unraveling the likes of which the planet has not seen for a couple of hundred million years. We can expect many "unknown unknowns" to arise. I'm wondering if this possible asthma effect is one of those unexpected side effects to AGW.
Leland Palmer #6: "We can expect many "unknown unknowns" to arise."
Our official scientific predictions don't even fully incorporate the "known unknowns" like various feedback cycles. I'm starting to read a few reports that 2 deg C as a goal is no longer achievable and 4 deg C is very possible. Just a few years ago, climate advocates were saying we have to limit warming to 2 deg C.
"I'm wondering if this possible asthma effect is one of those unexpected side effects to AGW."
Studies have shown that the allergens produced by plants grow bigger and more numerous in an elevated CO2 environment.
"We may be in for an ecological unraveling the likes of which the planet has not seen for a couple of hundred million years."
We "may be"? I sense a degree of denial here.
I hate to spoil the comfort of denial, but the sooner we acknowledge the full implications of climate change, the more effective response we can make. Any plan that does not include a goal of net zero emissions is insufficient to stabilize the climate. Any net zero emissions goal that is not set for the near future is insufficient.
My biggest recurring fear is that climate advocates will settle for an interim target (like 450 ppm or 350 ppm). Nature does not compromise or negotiate the way politicians and businessmen do.
I second the complaints about CFLs, not so much on the light quality, but on the burnout time. There's no way in hell they're lasting 8000 hours. Some are ok on the speed-to-full-brightness, but the reflector bulbs for recessed sockets (e.g. PAR30) are bad for that. Finally, a few CFLs have been noisy.
I'm not hating on them – I use them, but I really wish VU-1 would hurry up and get to market.
And for another take on lighting. Even more efficient than LED. The quiet kid on the block.
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Hi Wonhyo-
Oh, I agree. It's just that my own personal anecdote is based on personal experience, not on sound science or a valid statistical study. This makes me cautious about coming to a firm conclusion – about an asthmatic connection to AGW, not about AGW itself.
I have often advocated seizing the coal fired power plants and forcibly converting them to enhanced efficiency "carbon negative" Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) power plants.
From Wikipedia- BECCS
Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon emissions by combining biomass use with carbon capture and storage.[1] It was pointed out in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a key technology for reaching low carbon dioxide atmospheric concentration targets.[2] The negative emissions that can be produced by BECCS has been estimated by the Royal Society to be equivalent to a 50 to 150 ppm decrease in global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.[3]
The concept of BECCS is drawn from the integration of biomass processing industries or biomass fuelled power plants with carbon capture and storage. BECCS is a form of bio-energy with carbon storage(BECS). BECS also includes other technologies such as biochar and biomass burial.[1]
The main appeal of BECCS is in its ability to result in negative emissions of CO2. The capture of carbon dioxide from bioenergy sources effectively removes CO2 from the atmosphere.[4]
The technological solutions implemented so far are quantitatively insufficient to deal with the problem, IMO. BECCS is a synergistic solution, and could change the numbers by a lot, because it simultaneously avoids fossil fuel use, puts carbon back underground, generates electricity to run electric vehicles, and avoids methane producing decay of carbonaceous trash. All the other solutions proposed so far are equivalent to trying to drain a tub by just running water into it more slowly. BECCS drains the tub.
Chu is actively looking into carbon sequestration, as he should, IMO. If we can start sequestering carbon, especially if we can get practical and cheap in situ mineral carbonation going, this could have a big impact on the numbers.
As you say, the climate speaks the language of billions of tons of carbon, and so far we are communicating entirely the wrong message to it. We're talking about slowing the growth of emissions, when we should be talking about putting carbon back underground, hopefully in the form of a carbonate, for true geological timescale sequestration.
CFLs – they now come in several different "colors". If you want daylight you can buy daylight and if you want cooler you can buy cooler.
Bulb life. Buy off-name brands and you might not get adequate life. That's not the case with brand name bulbs.
Slow to turn on. Sure, the first ones were. I'm still using an ~18 year old CFL and it's slow to come up to full power. So I stuck in a room where I seldom go at night. I've got fast-on bulbs in the rooms where I live.
Noisy. Never experienced that and I've got nothing but CFLs in my house. If you're experiencing noise try another brand. Remember, they're pretty cheap now.
CFLs are inexpensive. LEDs are still expensive.
CFLs save tremendous amounts of energy and the world would be better off if people cut their electricity consumption. LEDs do save more energy, but their current high cost will keep people using incandescents if they aren't aware of the CFL alternative.
LEDs are a great choice for places where bulb replacement (labor costs) are expensive. Places like street lights, traffic lights, etc. But for most households changing a CFL in your table lamp every ten years isn't exactly asking a lot….


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