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There is often a lot less than meets the eyes in these types of summaries. The article being quoted may be found at http://www.heritage.org/research/bud...ppl.cfm#_ftn11.
The first argument, labeled "Extraction Costs", is based on Martin Feldstein's concept of "economic burden". This is an accepted principle that there are distinct costs associated with increasing taxes that reduce the effectivenees of tax increases in raising revenues. While this has been analyzed in some detail and is widely accepted, the measurement of that cost is tricky and it is even harder to separate those costs that are related to change and complexity from those that are permanent. The real argument behind much of the econopmetric studies has been to try to identify methods of taxation that minimize distortions associated with tax systems that are complex or that favor some types of behavior over others.
The second argument, labeled "Displacement Costs" basically argues that goernment spending displaces more productive private spending. Most of the references included in the article are actually related not so much at government expenditures as at government deficits, noting that they reduce the amount of capital available for productive investments. Thise same studies (for example the cited EU study, which may be found at http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/...on10063_en.pdf, discuss actual deficits incurred relative to a "desirable" level of deficit that may help to stimulate an economy in trouble. Of course, this same model makes it clear that deficits incurred when an economy is growing rapidly are harmful, a point I have made frequently. A number of other references are based on a labor displacement effect when labor is otherwise fully utilized (Not exactly oour situation today.).
The article then discusses measurement of the effects of government spending. The first reference, from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, is interestingbecause it is an article that basically argues that large disparities of income in an otherwise advanced democracy, or exclusion of large parts of a population from productive resources is generally associated with slow growth. The solution, of course, is to avoid such large distributional discrepancies, a point that seems to have been missed by The Heritage Foundation.
The next reference is a Republican staff report, not research. The next reference from the Dallas Fed states that tax increases to reduce deficits have a contractionary effect -- Duh...that's the whole idea of running a surplus when the economy is in a boom. It helps to avoid bubbles and is a lot less painful than what we face now.
Again, the EC and IMF references are basically studies that say don't run big deficits when the economy is growing or you'll mess it up. Would that we had followed that advice over the last six years. I haven't been able to review the Guseh article but it covered five years of data and apparently said that small governments slow growth and medium sized governments stimulate growth. Most of the "telling" citations are actually theoretical pieces not backed by empirical research. The quantitative studies that are included in the citations are all based on cross country analyses that, in large part, are comparing the growth rates of former Soviet states and developing countries with the growth rates of the US, Japan, European countries, etc. The range of variability in the data are limited and the conclusions are not very dramatic.
On balance, my own reading of this article is that it lacks substance and is more interested in promoting a political message than in analyzing the limited data available.

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By Ben Levisohn
China's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (as well as a slew of others) was released overnight. And while the news wasn't good, it wasn't any worse than investors had expected and these days that's good news for China.
The Wall Street Journal explains:
The official China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index was up slightly for the month, showing gains in almost all the categories it measures, data released Thursday showed, while a private index drawn up by banking giant HSBC Holdings PLC showed a further softening…
The official manufacturing PMI, which is heavily weighted towards larger state-owned enterprises, stood at 50.3 for July, up from 50.1 in June and higher than the 49.8 that economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected. A number above 50 indicates expansion from the previous month; a number below, contraction.
But the HSBC index, which covers a wider range of smaller export-oriented companies, came in at 47.7—an 11-month low, down from June's 48.2 and unchanged from the "flash" or preliminary measure for July issued late last month.
Confused by the divergence in the two gauges? You're not the only one. Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid, for one, finds the difference perplexing, considering that the two measures once tracked each other closely. He writes:
Over the last couple of months, a divergence has opened up between the official manufacturing PMI and the HSBC manufacturing PMI. The gap between the two surveys is now 2.6pts versus 1.9pts in June, 1.6pts in May and 0.2pts in April. The 2.6pt gap is the largest in at least 12 months and will probably make it even more difficult to get a read on the trends in economic activity (although we note the sampling and methodological differences between the surveys). This also comes after Bloomberg reported earlier this month that the Chinese government will suspend the release of industry-specific activity indices from its monthly PMI report.
Investors, however, have decided to focus on the surprise increase in the official gauge, sending Chinese stocks higher. The iShares FTSE China 25 Index ETF (FXI) has gained 1.8% to $34.88, the iShares MSCI China Index ETF (MCHI) has jumped 2.1% to $43.45 and the Market Vectors China ETF (PEK), which tracks shares available primarily to Chinese citizens, has ticked up 0.9% on just 4,200 shares changing hands.
The optimism might be overdone, however. HSBC's Frederic Neumann, for one, worries that Asia's slowing growth might actually be worse than it appears due to the region's massive debt load:


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By Teresa Rivas
Pandora (P) was down about 9.5% after the company's second-quarter earnings report.
The company reported adjusted earnings of 4 cents a share on revenue of $157.4 million.
Analysts were expecting Pandora to earn 2 cents a share on revenue of $155.7 million.
Listener hours grew 18% to 3.88 billion in the quarter. The company's share of total U.S. radio listening in July 2013 was 7.1%, an increase from 6.02% at the same time last year; however, in its last quarterly report it had 7.3%.
For the third quarter, the company sees earnings between 3 cents and 6 cents a share on revenue of $174 million to $179 million. The Street was looking for earnings per share of 8 cents on revenue of $170.7 million.
For the full year, Pandora narrowed its EPS guidance, saying it could break even or earn up to a nickel; it previously said it could lose 2 cents or earn 8 cents. Analysts were looking for 5 cents in earnings.
It raised its revenue guidance to a range of $640 million to $655 million; the consensus is $632.9 million.
In May the shares climbed after the company issued upbeat guidance following its roughly in-line first quarter.
Earlier this week, the company was initiated with a Buy rating at B. Riley & Co.; read the earnings preview here.
Update: The stock has clawed back a fair bit of ground, and was recently down around 4% at 5 PM.
CEO Joe Kennedy told Barrons.com in an interview after the release that the stock was able to pare its initial after-hours losses because "the market has sorted out the real story, and that is Pandora is firing on all cylinders." He cites the company's reduce cost of content, increased mobile monetization and mobile revenue, which he says "cements the company in the No. 3 position only behind Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB)."
Kennedy also says that investors often overlook the most important metrics, urging them to look at non-GAAP total mobile revenue, which grew 92% year-over-year to $116 million—"a key metric"—as well as mobile advertising revenue per 1,000 listener hour (RPM), which grew 58% year-over-year to $37.59. "That is in many ways the No. 1 statistic that the deepest investors pay attention to."


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Looks like you had a bunch of fun. This is what many fall hunters experience especially in late fall early winter and everyone one of those birds is legal making it hunter's choice. After experiencing large flocks coming into calls it makes the spring hunt seem a little tame. Hope you are a fall hunter or if not soon to be fall hunter.
Turkey Dog Vic is a big fan of your video too. He almost knocked the screen over.


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By David Wheeler/Special to the NEMS Daily Journal
Last season, the Tupelo Lady Wave dropped three games to the Columbus Lady Falcons.
Fair to say the Lady Falcons were a thorn in their side.
So out of the box, first game of 2013, first Division 2-6A game of the season, who does Tupelo have on its schedule?
"Our No. 1 goal is to win the division," Lady Wave head coach Matt Justice said. "A step in that direction is to get that win over Columbus."
Both the Lady Wave (9-6) and the Golden Wave (9-7) open division play today at Columbus, with the girls game tipping at 6 p.m. Tupelo will then open its division home schedule Tuesday, hosting South Panola.
The Lady Wave recorded a 2-1 mark over the holidays, playing last week in the Hattiesburg Tournament. Tupelo dropped its first game of the trip, but won its last two, concluding with a 65-47 win Saturday over Prentiss.
"It was a team effort down there," Justice said. "And our bench played better, which was good to see.
"But this will be our toughest division game of the season, and it's the first one. Columbus is a hard place to win."
Senior Casey Marshall paces the Lady Wave at 15 points per game, with sophomore Jaleighia Polk at 13 ppg.
After Columbus (7-5, 1-0), the Lady Wave plays Lafayette on Saturday in the Renasant Bank Relay for Life Challenge in New Albany.
Tupelo's boys, the defending 2-6A champions, also posted a 2-1 mark in Hattiesburg, where they lost on the championship game, 70-58, to the host team.
"I thought the guys played well together, but I was disappointed in the Hattiesburg game," Wave head coach Jeff Norwood said. "Sean Watkins continued to stand out, but I was impressed with how everybody played hard.
"I'm looking for more of that in division play."
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Expressions Dance Co. performs, Nov. 14-16
Posted November 8, 2002; 01:00 p.m.
The student-run, all-female group Expressions Dance Co. will perform "eX-appeal" at 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 14-16, in the Film and Performance Theatre, Frist Campus Center.
Founded in 1970, the dance company is known for its high energy and mix of styles, including hip-hop, jazz, ballet, pointe, modern and tap. The group's choreography is entirely created by students. The "eX-appeal" show features music from the soundtracks of "The Matrix," "Austin Powers," "James Bond: Die Another Day" as well as songs by Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Michael Jackson and others.
Tickets are available at $6 for students, $10 for general audience from the Frist Box Office; call (609) 258-1742.
For more information, contact Lucy Milligan .
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Faculty members to discuss Hemingway story, Oct. 1
Posted September 26, 2003; 12:21 p.m.
Four Princeton faculty members -- Joyce Carol Oates and Edmund White of the Program in Creative Writing, Maria DiBattista of the Department of English and Sean Wilentz of the Department of History -- will discuss Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in the Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau St.
This event is part of a series sponsored by the Council of the Humanities in which faculty from different disciplines analyze a work of art. Anthony Grafton, chair of the council, will moderate the discussion.
For a copy of Hemingway's story or more information, contact the council .
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By Michaela Gibson Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – North Mississippi Medical Center is teaming up with the March of Dimes to get more babies to full term.
NMMC Women's Hospital is one of 100 hospitals around the country participating in a national initiative to reduce the rate of medically unnecessary cesarean deliveries and inductions scheduled before 39 weeks of pregnancy. University of Mississippi Medical Center is the only other Mississippi hospital chosen for the March of Dimes initiative, which is providing $10,000 package of software in addition to other professional development resources.
Choosing to deliver babies before 39 weeks gestation puts them at risk for respiratory and cognitive problems, and obstetric and pediatric professional associations recommend against them unless there is a pressing medical need.
"Babies that make it to 39 weeks or longer have fewer risks than those born prior to that time," said Tupelo obstetrician Dr. Ronny Young, who also serves as chief of the NMMC medical staff.
Mississippi has the highest rates of premature birth and infant mortality in the nation, said Dina Ray, state director for the Mississippi chapter of the March of Dimes. More than half the babies in the state are delivered by cesarean section, although it's not clear what percentage of those deliveries are early and not medically necessary.
NMMC Women's cesarean rate is much lower than the state average, but hospital officials are hoping to reduce it further.
"We've always required physicians to give us a reason," for scheduled cesarean sections and inductions, said Ellen Friloux, NMMC administrator for women's and children's services. But they haven't routinely tracked and reviewed through a peer review process.


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WillowRidgeCalls wrote:No offence guys, but at 15 and 25 yards there should of been a hole big enough to stick your fist through, shooting a .665 choke
I don't work for Winchester, no offence taken, but then it's nearly impossible to offend charlie. If they shot that tight you might as well use slugs, making them worthless for turkeys.
kygobbler wrote:When I talked to the Winchester rep at the NWTF show he told me that they would do good in a more open choke. He said that it will keep people from using .650 chokes.
These were 3". I tried IC because that's what was in my gun to start from shooting the Federal flight control turkey loads last fall. The pattern was spread more than a regular shell. Then I switched to the Carlson Turkey full, which is .665, much better. Perhaps a M or IM would work, didn't have time to try them.
That's interesting, there are some pictures posted by Winchester with 30 pellets in a 10" circle at 60yds. Starting to smell some marketing hype? No matter, all of my turkeys are killed much closer.kygobbler wrote:They had targets that were shot at 60, 66, and 70 yards. IMO, the shot pattern was not very good. It did have about 5 pellets in the kill zone but to me that is still hoping that the magic pellet hits the right spot.


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May 13th, 2014 | by Becky Striepe
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Rosmer himself and Milton E. Kerr, his brother, are a good case in point. I recently found them--despite Rosmer being indexed as "Rosiner"--in the 1910 census. Where were they? In Topeka, Kansas, of all places, working in a hotel at 335 Kansas Avenue, Rosmer as a clerk and Milton as a steward.*
Their ages were given as 19 and 21, respectively (an ink blot makes the "21" an educated guess on my part, as I don't think Milton would have passed for 29). Rosmer was born on September 30, 1892, however, and the census was taken April 26, 1910, so he actually would have been just 17, not 19. And Milton would have been only 18, since he was born the 19th of May, 1891.
But we are not here to talk about them. We are here to talk about May, 1891, the ninth month of Kate Pettis Kerr's first pregnancy, and the mysterious absence (on paper, at least) of her husband, Milton E. Kerr, after whom her first child was named.
Milton (the elder) is another one of those men who disappeared to the oddest of places. Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, he was still at home with his parents in Mercer when the 1880 census was taken. He was 17.
I was more than a little surprised when I found him living in Omaha in 1886. According to the city directory that year, he was living at 1510 Douglas with an Arthur J. Howe. Both of them, and a third man named Martin M. Marshall, had the designation "(Howe, Kerr & Marshall)" after their names. Marshall's personal listing also said "pres. Omaha Barb Wire Co., res 310 N. 17th."
There was a separate listing that said, "Howe, Kerr & Marshall (Arthur J. Howe, Milton E. Kerr, Martin M. Marshall), furniture 1510 Douglas" (p. 278). Oddly, in the business section under the Furniture heading, the listing said, "Howe & Kerr, 1510 Douglas" with no mention of Marshall (p. 587).
Howe had been in the furniture business in Omaha for awhile already. He was listed in the 1884 city directory this way: "Howe, Arthur J. (Chamberlain & Howe) r 1715 Cass" (p. 221). A separate listing said, "Chamberlain & Howe (Harry L. Chamberlain, Arthur J. Howe), furniture, 310, 312 N. 16th" (p. 122). Milton was not listed before 1886.
The plot thickened with the 1887 listings:
- Howe, Arthur J. (Howe & Kerr), r 2520 Harney (p. 314)
- Howe & Kerr (Arthur J. Howe, Milton E. Kerr), furniture and bedding, 1510 Douglas (p. 315)
- Kerr, Milton E. (Howe & Kerr), res 2520 Harney (p. 362)
- and in the business section under Furniture: Howe & Kerr, 1510 Douglas (p. 798)
At this point, though, there are much more interesting questions to be asked. On September 16, 1886, Milton was in Mercer, Pennsylvania, marrying Bessie Zahniser (Book 1, License 322), daughter of William and Elizabeth C. Zahniser of Mercer.
The Omaha city directory didn't list spouse names. Did Bessie go to Omaha with Milton and live at the Harney address also? I assume she did, because she was, in fact, in Nebraska when she gave birth to their daughter, Bessie Kerr, on July 12, 1887.
Sadly, this young wife and mother died only eight weeks later. She was buried at Mercer Citizens Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Milton returned to his furniture business in Omaha. And the baby Bessie? I don't know for sure, but I believe she was left in the care of her grandparents Kerr in Mercer.
Readers, our work with the Omaha city directories has only just begun. In 1888, two new players burst onto the scene:
- Howe, Andrew J. (Howe, Kerr & Co.) r 1510 Douglas (p. 397)
- Howe, Arthur J. (Howe, Kerr & Co.) r 1510 Douglas (p. 397)
- Kerr, Milton E. (Howe, Kerr & Co.) r 1510 Douglas (p. 459)
- Pettis, Kate E. Miss, air brush artist, r 612-613 Paxton Bldg, res 2205 Douglas (p. 688)
- business section under Artists: Pettis, Kate E. Miss, r 612-613 Paxton Bldg (p. 1021)
- business section under Furniture: Howe, Kerr & Co., 1510 Douglas (p. 1038)
In Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1880, there lived a furniture dealer named A.J. Howe, age 45. Boarding under his roof was a cabinet maker named Arthur J. Howe, age 24. With Meadville just 48 miles from Mercer, I was feeling pretty confident, but there was no Charles L. Howe in the household to seal the deal. With Arthur listed as a boarder, not a son or nephew, there was still some doubt in my mind.
Luckily, I didn't have to look too far. The very next page of the census had just what I needed.
I was surprised to see I hadn't reached the end of A.J. Howe's listing. The last member of his household, another boarder, was none other than H.L. Chamberlain, furniture store clerk who would later be listed with Arthur in the 1884 Omaha city directory.
And if that wasn't enough to convince me I'd found the right people (which it was, of course!), further down the page, I found another Howe household, that of J.W. Howe, yet another clerk in the furniture business, and with him, his son Charles L., age 14, who would one day marry Alice Kerr. I don't have all the Howe family relationships figured out but, for now, this is enough to satisfy my curiosity about this group of Pennsylvanians who went to Omaha to sell furniture.
And what about our other new player in 1888 Omaha, Miss Kate E. Pettis, airbrush artist? What brought her to Omaha? And was she there alone? The next city directory had some interesting information.
Kate's mother, Mrs. Kate E. Pettis, was residing with her at 706 N. 16th. But another Pettis caught my eye. Orange S. Pettis, vice-president of Western Casket Company, was the younger Kate's third cousin, once removed. Did they know each other? Were they aware of their relationship? I don't know, but Orange did spend most of his life in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, about 150 miles west of Winona, where Kate was born and raised. He worked as a teacher there. He was older than Kate by ten years or so.
In 1889 the Howes were no longer listed as being in business with Milton. They were indexed only as residents of 1510 Douglas. Milton was also listed back at 1510 Douglas, but now the business was listed thus: "Kerr & Manington (M.E. Kerr and H.M. Manington), furniture 1510 Douglas." I have no idea who H.M. Manington was and, readers, we are not goin' there!
Instead, we're going straight to the 1890 city directory, where we happily discover that Milton and Kate have not only met but married, thus assuring my eventual existence. In the business section under Artists, Mrs. K.E. Kerr is still listed at 520 Paxton Block. But there are strange doings in the alphabetical listings, where we find this: "Kerr, Mrs. K.E., artist, bds Hotel Esmond." Not only is the Kerr & Manington furniture business missing, Milton himself doesn't even have a residential listing. And the same is true of the 1891 directory.
So... are you still waiting for me to answer the title question: where was Kate's new husband? Here's the thing. I don't know. I do know that Kate gave birth to their first son, who was named after his father, on May 19, 1891. The baby Milton was born not in Omaha but in Chicago and, readers, I can't explain that either!
*How did the Kerr boys end up working in a hotel in Topeka? I don't recognize the name of the hotel manager, Frank Root Cargill, nor his wife, Zella Starks Cargill. The Kerrs do have Root ancestors, but there is no Frank Root Cargill in the index of The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut, so I have not found any relationship that would have sparked a job offer for two young Kerr boys from Pennsylvania. Robert Wood Blair, a lodger at the hotel, was born in Pennsylvania, but I know of no further connection there either.
In case you read beyond the highlighting in the city directory, you might need to know:
pesthouse n (1611): a shelter or hospital for those infected with a pestilential or contagious disease


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Term: channeling
Channeling: A technique of communicating with a non-physical entity. The channeler or trance medium allows a non-physical entity (usual a spirit) to inhabit or take over their body to they can more easily share information, guidance, etc.Donald Michael Kraig
Receiving information from a discarnate entity or a higher spiritual being. It may also refer to communication with an aspect of one's own subconscious mind. It is similar to, but not necessarily the same as, the spirit communication of mediumship. In both, however, one person serves as bridge between a spirit or spiritual intelligence and people of ordinary consciousness. In spirit communication, the medium is more often unaware of the communication; in channeling of spiritual intelligence, the channeler is more often aware and sometimes a participant.
Automatic Writing is a form of Channeling in which a person, sometimes in trance, writes or even keyboards messages generally believed to originate with spiritual beings, or with aspects of the subconscious mind.
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Wiseman: Writing the Divine – How to Use Channeling for Soul Growth & Healing
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This is from our local paper...
This is from our local paper...
Well thats 37000 more votes for Obama
How does crap like this even happen?
"Communism only works in Heaven, where they don't need it, and in Hell, where they already have it" Ronald Reagan
I guess I will answer my own question ACLU and lawyers.
"Communism only works in Heaven, where they don't need it, and in Hell, where they already have it" Ronald Reagan
Our country originally stated you must be a land owner to vote. It still stands, too bad this is not the peoples country anymore. .
Bird Dog Creedo:
If I like it, it's mine. If it's in my mouth, it's mine. If I can take ot from you, it's mine. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine. If I'm chewing something up, all the pieces are mine. If it just looks like mine, it's mine. If I saw it 1st, it's mine. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine. If it's broken, it's yours.
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anyone else catch the reason for the decision? its racists to not allow criminals to vote. Apparently these people think only minorities commit crimes


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So have you had a chance to see "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" yet?
I was a tiny bit nervous going in – after all, it only gets a 36 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. At the same time, I was going to see something called "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" – so what could go wrong?
Forget the critics. I loved it.
I noticed a lot of reviewers yelled at the movie for its lack of "historical accuracy," but, um, hello, you're watching something called "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." Of course it's not historically accurate. Of course it's gonna be campy and silly. Add it up, it all spells "DUH."
I just enjoyed how they took a little bit of history and turned it on its head. We all know our dear Mr. Lincoln was a hero, but this movie makes him into a superhero.
I think the film is a total blast, so long as you suspend every single ounce of your disbelief, expect general silliness and just go with it. Don't question it or try to look for the really bad beards (although they are pretty bad; in fact, the sets/lighting/costumes were the only major critique I had), and just enjoy our 16th president killing bloodsuckers in really cool ways. That's worth the price of admission, hands down.
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IPCC warnings about African crops also bogus
posted at 9:30 am on February 15, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Another key element of the IPCC report on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) turns out to be based on deliberate decisions to use the most hysterical claims by advocates rather than on science. The IPCC warnings of the African crop projections have a more demonstrably corrupt basis, as the report deliberately ignored actual science that showed little risk of crop yields — science funded by the British government at a cost of over £2.5 million. Who compiled the IPCC Synthesis that ignored peer-reviewed science for the speculation of one Moroccan activist, whose report didn't even agree with its cited sources? Rajendra Pachauri's own business — and he got over £400,000 for the work:
One of the most widely quoted and most alarmist passages in the main 2007 report was a warning that, by 2020, global warming could reduce crop yields in some countries in Africa by 50 per cent. Dr Pachauri not only allowed this claim to be included in the short Synthesis Report, of which he was co-editor, but has publicly repeated it many times since.
The origin of this claim was a report written for a Canadian advocacy group by Ali Agoumi, a Moroccan academic who draws part of his current income from advising on how to make applications for "carbon credits". As his primary sources he cited reports for three North African governments. But none of these remotely supported what he wrote. The nearest any got to providing evidence for his claim was one for the Moroccan government, which said that in serious drought years, cereal yields might be reduced by 50 per cent. The report for the Algerian government, on the other hand, predicted that, on current projections, "agricultural production will more than double by 2020". Yet it was Agoumi's claim that climate change could cut yields by 50 per cent that was headlined in the IPCC's Working Group II report in 2007.
What made this even odder, however, was that the group's co-chairman was a British agricultural expert, Dr Martin Parry, whose consultancy group, Martin Parry Associates, had been paid £75,000 by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for two reports which had come to totally different conclusions. Specifically designed to inform the IPCC's 2007 report, these predicted that by 2020 any changes were likely to be insignificant. The worst case they could come up with was that by 2080 climate change might decrease crop yields by "up to 30 per cent".
British taxpayers poured out money for the section of the IPCC report for which Dr Parry was responsible. Defra paid £2.5 million through the Met Office, plus £330,000 for Dr Parry's salary as co-chairman, and a further £75,000 to his consultancy for two more reports on the impact of global warming on world food supplies. Yet when it came to the impact on Africa, all this peer-reviewed work – including further expert reports by Britain's Dr Mike Hulme and Dutch and German teams – was ignored in favour of a prediction from one Moroccan activist at odds with his own cited sources.
However, the story then got worse when Dr Pachauri himself came to edit and co-author the IPCC's Synthesis Report (for which the IPCC paid his Delhi-based Teri institute, out of the £400,000 allocated for its production). Not only did Pachauri's version again give prominence to Agoumi's 50 per cent figure, but he himself has repeated the claim on numerous occasions since, in articles, interviews and speeches –such as the one he gave to a climate summit in Potsdam last September, where he boasted he was speaking "in the voice of the world's scientific community".
In the other IPCC scandals, Pachauri took the blame because he ran the organization. However, in this case, Pachauri played a key role in disseminating erroneous claims, at the very least. He not only included a false claim on the affect of AGW on crop yields — a key argument that Pachauri himself continues to use — but he ignored peer-reviewed science in favor of these hysterical claims.
How many other such decisions still remain in the IPCC reports? We know that one of the IPCC's most important think tanks, the East Anglia CRU, threatened to redefine "peer review" to keep such contradictory evidence out of the AGW reports. This "hide the lack of decline" moment is nothing more than that impulse put into process by Pachauri himself. If he had no problem ignoring science in this case, then it's not too difficult to imagine that he made the same decision on other parts of the IPCC report.
The Washington Post reports today on the discrediting of the IPCC, but curiously doesn't mention any of the reporting done this weekend by the British press about Dr. Phil Jones' admissions or this part of the African crop lies. It does, however, include this strange passage, buried at the end, emphasis mine:
And Christopher Field — co-chair of the second working group for the IPCC's next assessment — said the panel needs to improve its fact-checking, even if it means enlisting report contributors' students to help do the job.
"My goal is to produce a report that's 100 percent error-free, to the maximum extent possible," he said. "The fact that the IPCC runs on volunteer labor makes it a challenge, but it's too important a challenge to ignore."
Volunteer labor? Pachauri got almost a million dollars to write that IPCC synthesis. He wants the AGW gravy train to continue; small wonder he ignored the science in favor of the hysteria. We're not talking typos here, but major claims that turn out to be bogus, based not on science but on speculation from AGW advocates and approved by people with financial interest in maintaining the hysteria.
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We're not talking typos here, but major claims that turn out to be bogus, based not on science but on speculation from AGW advocates and approved by people with financial interest in maintaining the hysteria.
What our MSM, and even the UK media, seem to be avoiding is the direct impact this latest scandal should be visiting upon the United Nations. Rajendra Pachauri is to the IPCC global warming scandal what Benan Sevan was to the bribe-driven Oil-For-Food program (supposedly benefiting civilian Iraqi's).
It has become readily apparent that the UN is incapable, as a global "force for good", of managing any such programs due to an inability to simultaneously monitor and police any programs so heavily funded by member states. And the lavish expenditures by the UN are a wasteful burden, especially for the United States, which will become extremely difficult to justify after this latest scam is fully exposed.
The only thing not driving the IPCC-AGW scandal story throughout our own MSM is most likely because President Obama was counting on the UN's IPCC and its 2007 report to support his energy policies, especially should he try again to get Congress to vote on Cap and Trade legislation. Plus, the progressive faction of the MSM looks upon the United Nations as one of the primary vehicles for furtherance of a global socialist agenda.
KendraWilder on February 15, 2010 at 11:31 AM
Yes, and what ever happened to Sevan, by the way? Is he living in a jail somewhere? Or in a villa.
Agree with everything you say, just not optimistic the UN and it's elites will feel any consequences.
petefrt on February 15, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Sevan and the Oil-For-Food Program scandal has obviously been swept under the rug, I'm afraid. The Pachauri/IPCC-AGW scandal is too high profile for that to happen this time, though. Still, there are way too many major personalities and countries heavily invested in the theory of AGW, financially. Britain especially has already enacted taxes and fees and restrictive legislation that have negatively impacted their economy and employment.
It will be most interesting to see just how this all not only unravels, but how those major personalities and those countries backpedal and undo the devastating damage to civilians both economically and morally. Within the United States, California is the stepchild of this movement, related legislation, taxes and fees, are all part of what has driven that state to the brink of bankruptcy.
All of it, bottom line, was an issue of control and power: Power to control the masses of unwashed civilians, under the auspices of saving the planet from human destruction. Yet it was nothing more than just another vehicle for progressive control over ordinary, hard-working civilians, their actions, their property, and especially their money.
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This project will provide daily nutrition to stop the cycle of malnutrition, maternal health classes to reduce rates of mortality, and community education training and support for 253 families in the villages of Sre Robong and Arak Svay, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
A detailed Ministry of Health study in 2008 shows almost half of the children below 5 years old in Cambodia suffer from malnutrition. 20% of childbearing-age women are underweight and 8% are so short they risk complications during pregnancy and delivery. Most children do not go to school because of their poor background, having to help their parents, taking care of siblings, or guarding the buffaloes or cows in the fields. Parents have a general disinterest to educate their children
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This project will improve the educational and health of the two villages by providing daily nutrition programs for the malnourished children alongside adult literacy and life skill training for poor communities, teachers and children. The various integrated development activities, as well as agricultural production, health education, and nutrition and education improvement are priorities.
Potential Long Term Impact
By the end of the 4 years, over 300 pre and school children and over 1000 community members at both communities in Arak svay and Sre Robong will benefit directly and 1000 community members of neighbouring villages will benefit indirectly from the projects. This will be achieved through school enrolments, and participation in integrated community health improvement and education activities.
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After the Pol Pot Regime destroyed Cambodian society and my family, I only wanted to help build a new community and to improve the quality of life for my fellow Cambodians. Thanks to GlobeMed at UVA.
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Hunger Banquet: What's on your Plate?
"What should I have for lunch today?" It's a pretty simple question. If you are like most Americans, you will have no trouble accessing food. The biggest problem that this question poses for us is in terms logistics: When should I eat? What type of food do I want? Should I eat healthy, or should I order Wings over Charlottesville?
GlobeMed at UVa, organized a thought provoking banquet where the truth behind food disparity was brought up as a global issue. Here are some facts:
- In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
- Every year 15 million children die of hunger
- For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
- Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion – a majority of humanity – live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people.
How can we accept these facts when most of us have never had suffered from hunger and/or malnutrition? The answer is easy, we eat like most of the world does!
The price of the hunger banquet was $3, participants did not know what they would be eating until they entered the room to be seated. By this time, the participants were assigned one of three labels: upper class, middle class, and low class.
- The upper class represents around 5-10% of the world. They usually eat palatable three course meals in tables with silverware and refined drinks.
- The middle class represents around 25-35% of the world. Their usual meal is represented by rice, beans and water.
- The lower class represents around 55-60% of the world. Their usual caloric intake is scarce and is represented by bread and water. They also have no tables and/or silverware.
GlobeMed members and students discussing the disparity between the different classes.
While everyone ate their food, Parth Shah and Denise Bakar gave a short presentation on hunger and malnutrition.
"You guys have deepened your awareness of world hunger and poverty.The key is how you put this knowledge to use. Our Hunger Banquet ends here, but this is just the beginning for each of you. As I look around the room today, I can see that this experience has had an impact on many of you. If what you've learned or experienced has stirred something in you, take action now. Today. Before you leave."
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Mother, sister, daughter, girlfriend, aunt, teacher, politician, babysitter, actress, chef, nurse – the list can go on and on of all the roles a woman plays in our society today. Within a few years of gaining equal rights as men in society, women have shown their exceptional talents politically, economically, and socially. So much so, that March 8this designated as International Women's Day to honor the accomplishments of women all around the world.
Since it's first event held in 1911, International Women's Day has grown in various countries to not only become an important holiday, but a national holiday. Events held worldwide use this day and the month of March to honor women's achievements in the political, economical and cultural fields, as well as to advocate for gender equality. From the overall theme of "Empower Rural Women- End hunger and poverty" to the various 464 events held in over 70 countries, this year, this day was used to commemorate the kindness, thoughtfulness, and intelligence of women all around the world. This day has been established to remind all of us the importance women have on society and to acknowledge them not just this one day, but everyday. Despite the rising popularity of this day and its importance, in many countries women are still seen as inferiors and do not have the same rights as their male counterparts. Therefore this day is also used to encourage these women to fight for their rights and to surpass the sexual barriers some men have created on society. Although not everyone can make a huge difference or even have an impact on the workings of society in other countries, there are still many ways one can celebrate International Women's Day. From giving flowers to women you know, to standing on a bridge to support the "Join me on the Bridge" campaign, to tweeting about a woman who has inspired or encouraged you, to simply just looking back and acknowledging how far women have come since a 100 years ago when they did not even have the right to vote – everyone can participate in International Women's Day. How will you celebrate it and the women in your life?
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Happy Thanksgiving from GlobeMed at UVA!
A Warm and Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at GlobeMed at the University of Virginia! Enjoy your time with family and friends. There will be a lot of food at every household, and there is no better time to take 5 minutes to think about those who are not as grateful. Attempt to reduce your waste in leftovers, or even better find a creative use of the all that food! I am sure that there are programs in every community that can connect you with families who would love nothing more than to have a full meal on thanksgiving. With just a little initiative, you can make a big impact on thanksgiving.
Be excited and expect regular updates on both our partner and efforts on campus as we get going on grounds! The week after thanksgiving is the official launch of our first branding week, which will include multiple events promoting our organization on grounds. With the beginning of thanksgiving and holiday season, we also launch our first ever individual giving campaign. As we shop for family and friends, this is a great opportunity to give back with only a small amount donated. A small 20-dollar donation at http://www.razoo.com/story/Globemedatuva will help feed four children in the village of Arak Syvak for one whole month. We thank everyone who will be supporting us this holiday season!
Happy Thanksgiving from our partner:
Our Partner, BFT in Siem Reap, Cambodia, has projects in community education development, an orphanage center, community health development, and community peace development. You can find our more about our partner at http://www.center-bft.org/. Our partner's story is a perfect story in the theme of being thankful for what we have. During the years of 1975 through 1979 there was genocide in Cambodia that led to almost 20 percent of the population losing their lives. Sedtha Long, founder of BFT, lost 10 members of his family of 14 and was forced to flee. On his way to a border town, he found a group of 20 orphans whose parents had been killed. To my amazement, a man who had already lost so much and had so little took on this group of children without hesitation. He worked and struggled to keep the orphans fed, and he was eventually able to find a home for them in a United Nations camp. From that moment he found a calling to help the orphans and underprivileged children of Cambodia. He gained the support and trust of overseas partners that led to a multifold increase in the impact of the organization. Over time he noticed that there was a need to target the parents of these children as well, so he grew the project. There was and still is a cycle of malnutrition and low levels of education that Sedtha and his team fight to break everyday. We hope to be a small part of his mission as the year progresses!
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This year, GlobeMed at UVA is aiming to fundraise $3,500 dollars for the Safe Child and Mother Care project in the villages of Bos Em, Koy Yieng, and Arak Svay outside Siem Reap.
The project's goals are as following:
I) Eliminate malnutrition in children under 5 years ($1,920). The funds will go towards providing nutritious food supplies for children under 5, training sessions for community cooks, additional hygiene supplies, and a water filter-tank system for the village.
II) Reduce the rate of child and mother mortality ($400). The funds will go towards providing primary awareness through educational classes for pregnant women and new mothers. The classes will involve the importance of pre-natal healthcare, the important groups of food, breast feeding, sexual health, diarrhea, dengue fever, malaria, and general hygiene sanitation.
III) Reduce the rate of children repeating the first class ($200). The funds will go towards providing training to early education center community volunteers and the printing and publishing of necessary materials.


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Ferrets are small, mustelid, four-legged mammals, domesticated forms of the European Polecat. They form a relatively large part of a Hippogriff's diet.
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Squibbert once transformed a teapot into a ferret, which was then chased by a rather large Slytherin student with a net.
During a Ministry raid on Mortlake's house in August 1992 some extremely odd ferrets were found.[1]
In February 1994, during a visit to Rubeus Hagrid's hut, Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley observed Buckbeak enjoying a large plate of dead ferrets.[2]
During the 1994–1995 school year, Barty Crouch Jr (disguised as Alastor Moody) transfigured student Draco Malfoy into a white ferret and bounced him up and down, as punishment for attempting to attack fellow student Harry Potter from behind, earning Draco the nickname of "The Amazing Bouncing Ferret". Professor McGonagall put a stop to this punishment and informed "Moody" that transfiguration was never an acceptable form of punishment.
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Light Bars...
Here in Northwest Washington many small boat owners who frequent the Salt Water launches of Juan de Fuca Strait utilize a simple and "Permanet" cure for the various light problems being disscussed in this thread. The lights are removed from the trailer and attached to a length of wood or light metal bar (I use a wooden 2"x2") the lights can then be attached and removed from the trailer before and after launching and retreival of the boat. Obviously they still need to be connected to the tow vehicle with conventional plug in and ground wire! An added bonus to this is it will work on any other small utility trailer that you may own or have cause to borrow. Not to mention any names but some brave souls own several trailers and put one traler license on the bar and use it for all there trailers.
I also went with the waterproof lights, they work as advertised. The only thing about leaving the harness plugged in is unless everything is sealed 100% the saltwater will toast your wires quicker if you have the juice on. When making your connections for the new wires cut back the wire until you get a nice copper color, get rid of that black stuff it will cause you problems sonner than later. It's unlikely that you have tinned wire on the trailer harness but if you do keep it, the wire will be silver in color and it does not corrode as fast.
For attaching the new lights electrical tape and solder just won't cut it. Go with the butt end connectors that have the glue in them, Crimp 'em, cook 'em. The outside is a heat shrink material The glue inside will seal the wire to the tube and fill any pin holes you make when crimping.
Hmmm--I'll try this again. Forgive me if this is a double post.
The best way to approach your problem, FF, is to replace the wiring in your trailer. By re-wiring the thing, you can get the new waterproof lights, which, in five years of use in saltwater, have yet to fail me. I trailer a lot and have to sink the lights each time I launch and retrieve my boat. Re-wiring takes maybe an hour for an 18-foot trailer, and when you do it, you get all new connections and no corrosion.
Another option is to build a light bar-- something I did way back when I had multiple boat trailers and was constantly fighting the lights battle. I used 2x2 lumber to build a bar that rested across the back of the boat on top of the gunwales. It took a bit of tinkering to ensure that it would'nt roll over or slide off, but it wasn't a big deal. I fastened the bar with bungee cords to the boat and installed the lights on top of the bar. The wiring harness was then taped together and draped over the boat to the connector.
When launching, I simply unplugged the bar, rolled the wire up and placed the bar into the boat. In about 10 years of use, I never had a failure. However, the new waterproof lamps (I have them on three boat trailers) have yet to fail me.
Good luck,
A good vehicle ground is simply attaching a wire to the frame. Sometimes the lead on the connector doesn't give you the best ground, at least when your truck is as old as mine. If reattaching the wire to the trailer works, go with it.
Disconnecting trailer plug from the car before backing down the ramp will extend the life of your wiring harness and lights.
Jim, I did some poking around last night.
The number one problem is that when I opened up my lights, the bulbs were cracked and filled with water
So there's a good place to start !!
I also found that where my ground became disconnected inside the trailer chassis, was right under the tongue, screwed down with a spayde connector.
So I'm assuming I can re-attach right there ?
What do you mean by a "good vehicle ground" ?
As for the lights, d I have to buy whole new fixtures ? The bulbs are very corroded at the base, and I don't think I'll be able to get just the bulbs out.
A bad ground can do some pretty flaky things. If one wire is bad it's possible one of the others may have a bad connection. Try strapping any 16 gauge wire from a good vehicle ground to the trailer frame.
I just rewired my Jeep from the 7pin round connector to a flat 4 and the new connections make for nice bright lights. Those 7pin connectors always get corroded quick.
My trailer problems...
My ground wire (the white one, right?) became disconnected from where it goes inside the trailer. Its still connected to the harness, trailer side, but where it feeds down into the trailer chassis, it came undone. Now I only have a the right light lit, no brake light on right, no turn on right, and the left light is dead.
Is all of this from the ground being disconnected ?
Wouldn't the right light not work also ?
Not sure where to start.
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Well, it's fixed....one simple 10 amp fuse replaced on the Pathfinder and everything is all right.
Thanks guys. As usual, very helpful.
Ah .. the ground wire... sheesh
Wish I had half my money back trying to correct a similar "problem" on 5th wheels, drift boat trailers, etc., and etc.
Maybe being my age has some minor bennies .. just drive it up to the shop and say "FIX THE SON OF A .... AND call me when it's ready."
How could something so simple in context, be such a PAIN IN THE ...????
Sheesh ...
Yup, you probably popped the fuse in the truck. I find that a ground wire (the white one on a flat 4) grounded to the bumper on the vehicle side and the trailer on the fun side help tremendously. Sometimes the rusty ball doesn't find a ground until you go over a few bumps.
Good luck with the repair.
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I'll keep that in mind, although the headlights on the Pathfinder remained lit.
Edit: Upon further review, you may definitely be on to something here. The headlights are functional, but the parking lights are not.
I'll check it out in full tomorrow and let you know how it goes.
I have had a lot of trials with wiring on trailers but I have never scene a fuse on a trailer. Whenever I have had a short on a trailer light it usually blew the Automotive fuse in the Car or truck that was attached to the trailer. In so much as it was a wheel well light I would suggest starting with the automotive fuse for the headlights, they sometimes work in tandem with the headlights and parking light circut.
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Trailer light question
Okay everyone, talk me back from the ledge here...
A few hours ago I was readjusting the contacts on my trailer brake/turn signal lights. Everything was okay. Then I went to one of the wheel well lights that was not lit and made an adjustment with that contact....zap, and all lights went out. I checked all bulbs, and they're okay. I got frustrated and annoyed, and went inside for the night.
I'm assuming that I blew some fuses, but please tell me that those fuses are in the same boxes as the bulbs. I don't feel like rummaging through the entirety of the wiring of my trailer tomorrow. If the fuses usually aren't right in the contact areas of the bulbs, where might they be?
I'm probably making more out of this than I should, but I hate solving one problem and then creating another.
Thanks for any input.
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Where the heck is Yolo County?
Yolo County may not be a major destination for wine lovers, but that's okay by us. Our neighbor to the west, Napa County, gets all the tourists, while Sacramento County, to the east, gets all the politicians (and hot air!). We're in between, in one of California's original 27 counties, which has stayed a rural oasis that is now home to a large community of artists and craftspeople, as well as California's greatest concentration of organic farmers. The name Yolo is from the native Poewin Indian word "yo-loy," meaning "abounding in the rushes," but some locals insist it's an acronym for "You Only Live Once."
Our estate vineyards in Yolo's Dunnigan Hills, a designated American Viticultural Area (AVA) on the eastern side of California's Coast Range Mountains, are perched on rolling hillsides with well-drained gravelly loam soils. It gets warm in the Dunnigan Hills in summer, but cooling breezes from the Sacramento Delta and San Francisco Bay reduce evening temperatures to between 55° and 65° F. This enables our grapes to cool down quickly at night, preserving their fresh flavors and crisp natural acidity.
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San Francisco Bay AVA, a sprawling AVA that covers Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, to name a few. Wine that holds only the California AVA is typically a wine that includes grapes from a number of different AVAs, which leads to the general labeling of the wine as California. This does not denote the quality of the wine, only the diversity of where the grapes originate.
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DeForest-Beverly J. Mayr, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away on Friday, December 7, 2012 at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg at the age of 75. She was born on July 10, 1937, the daughter of Clarence and Irene (Keick) Robarge. Beverly married her high school sweet heart on June 21, 1958 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in East Bristol. Beverly loved reading, gambling, and ceramics, but most of all she enjoyed her family.
Beverly is survived by her husband Bernard Mayr; her children, Dan (Tami) Mayr, Mike (Julie) Mayr, and Lisa Pullen; grandchildren, Steve, Brandon (Brooke), Trent (Angie), Crystal, Danielle, Coyt, Nikki, Keylee, and Casey; great-grandchildren, Teryn, Blake, Alexis, Taylor, Gavin, and Isaac; her sister JoAnn Buck; nephew Jim (YangSuk) Buck; and a niece, Renee (Rob) Campbell; and many other nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents Clarence and Irene; her brother-in-law Ken Buck.
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How many different rock types are in this photo?
A beach or river bed is a good place to see a lot of different rock types since the rocks there represent the entire drainage system. How could you tell how many different rock types were in the photo? What characteristics would you look for?
What Are Rocks?
A rock is a naturally formed, non-living Earth material. Rocks are made of collections of mineral grains that are held together in a firm, solid mass (Figure below).
The different colors and textures seen in this rock are caused by the presence of different minerals.
How is a rock different from a mineral? Rocks are made of minerals. The mineral grains in a rock may be so tiny that you can only see them with a microscope, or they may be as big as your fingernail or even your finger (Figure below).
A pegmatite from South Dakota with crystals of lepidolite, tourmaline, and quartz (1 cm scale on the upper left).
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Rock samples.
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|Crystals, visible to naked eye
|Magma cooled slowly
|Sample 2
|One type of crystal visible, rest microscopic
|Magma erupted and cooled quickly
As seen in Table above, these two rocks have the same chemical composition but they do not have the same texture. Sample 1 has visible mineral grains, but Sample 2 has some visible grains in a fine matrix. The two different textures indicate different histories. Sample 1 is a diorite, a rock that cooled slowly from magma (molten rock) underground. Sample 2 is an andesite, a rock that cooled rapidly from a very similar magma that erupted onto Earth's surface.
A few rocks are not made of minerals because the material they are made of does not fit the definition of a mineral. Coal, for example, is made of organic material, which is not a mineral. Can you think of other rocks that are not made of minerals?
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4. What mineral produces the white pieces?
5. What mineral produces the black pieces?
6. What is a mineral?
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Los Angeles, Calif., May 20th, 2008—Red Herring announced that SOA Software is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 North America, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the region.
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Rolled in the X-Mas season with a December 1st office christmas party. It was a decent affair. We partook of shots of whiskey and cherry brandy in the late afternoon at Art's place, and upon arrival at Bridges Restaurant, I moved onto Jim Beam at the bartenders suggestion.
The turnout was good. Over eighty people, including the not-too-often-seen-at-social-functions Mehrdad and his wife.
The food was not too interesting, but that was OK, as I wasn't that interested in eating. I didn't want a big meal "slowing me down". Drinks were a little pricey (or a lot pricey, as I was laying out $15 for a double after a generous tip). There was a speech by Marco, and there was swag and gifts given out.
There was to be dancing, but the music was too eclectic a mix for any serious dancing sessions. Scientists aren't always the most eager to get out and there and cut a rug either. Some techs were dancing and Chris L. was a young Don Juan-type on the floor.
Dinner took some time to be served, and it wound up being too late to go out, and too early to go home, so we shuffled off to Boston Pizza and Justin and I recounted old tales of the legendary Stormix trade shows.
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I find it ironic that you defend them so, considering that all of their excuses for being in a position of self-defense are entirely without merit.
Firstly, let me say that I hate America. I couldn't stand the idea of living there which is why I moved away as soon as I was able. I have never even dated an American person, despite having grown up there. Not that I dislike America people themselves, just the overall culture. I also hate the North Korean culture of impoverishment, yet I have dated a North Korean. So each individual person is fine no matter his or her origin, but I refuse to live in America and that is final.
(A keen observer will recognize the irony that I have dated a North Korean but never a Westerner, not even an American.)
Firstly, Hodgman, your way of thinking was correct for the previous leader. Not the current one.
For a few reasons.
#1: America may have a spotty history of invading countries without reason, but that was Bush and there was a selfish reason to invade. We aren't Bush anymore and there is nothing in North Korea America wants. No invasion could possibly be justified. Invasion requires justification to the rest of the world, and the ironic thing is that while Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction whereas North Korean actually does, those weapons of mass destruction that actually exist would merit to the world an invasion by America to get rid of them, yet America has never made any suggestion that it would do so because there is nothing in North Korea that America wants except a strategic outpost. That is not oil. Not even close. Nowhere near what America needs to actually pursue war.
Which means Kim Fat is an idiot. His excuse is that America is planning to invade him.
And yet if America ever did, the only reasons would be that he himself caused it to happen. Either by starting a war with South Korea as has happened or by making nuclear weapons.
#2: You claim he is all in defense and cite the American/South Korean military practice as a reason for that defensive stance.
Those military practices have taken place every year for the last 60 years, none of which have lead to an invasion of his country.
First-off, he has to be an idiot for thinking that this year is somehow different. Oh, unless he considers his own role in making escalating threats. Guess what. This year America did put a little bit more umph in its military practice. Because of his increasing threats in the months prior.
And you cite that as a reason for him to be defending his country?
You hate America I take it.
America should not go through with a yearly practice because of him? That would be the definition of giving in to him. America did the same thing it does with all of its allies on a yearly basis. That is not America's fault.
Every year North Korea plays the same act, claiming that military drills with South Korea are part of some big plan to invade North Korea.
And for 60 years it has been wrong.
The risk of an invasion on North Korea is exactly equal to the world view of North Korea as a threat, which is exactly with Kim Fat has been betraying since he took leadership.
Calling out America in this case as the bad-guy who prompted them into this situation generations ago is just bullshit.
By that logic Japan would be even more fierce towards America, and why not South Korea too since they felt the same heat from America as North Korea did? They were the same country back then.
Down to how you spin the story?
What has America done except reply to threats towards North Korea?
America was the aggressor in a military exercise that they hold annually? Just because it pissed off North Korea does not mean America actually did anything aggressive or provocative. North Korea is looking for excuses, so that much is obvious. You can't even omit hands or heads from photos of their statues of leaders without pissing them off.
Were you aware of that? How much do you really know North Korean culture?
America may have done things generations ago that you would want to use as an excuse to support North Korea's side, but if that were valid then we could look back more and find that North Korea started the fight. Or maybe it was America further beyond that still, or another country before that still.
If all we did was hold grudges, no one would be alive right now.
And I personally am not going to take slack for ancestors of mine who I know to have been dimwitted and less responsible.
If America is not allowed to learn from its mistakes, neither is North Korea.
For the last 60 years America would be happy enough to just let North Korea be. North Korea is obviously the provocateur here.
America has never talked about or thought about North Korea during that whole time except when they suddenly come up with threats towards America and when they claim that daily life—yearly military drills in South Korea—are an exercise to invate North Korea, which has proved false for 60 years.
Growing up ion America, we learned about Iraq and Iran. The middle east. One of my classmates didn't even know Korea was a country.
North Korea isn't on the map unless it is shouting threats. That is how Americans feel. So when trouble starts, they brought it on themselves.
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The Fungus Among Us
Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) in northern Alabama
Ecology of Chytid Fungus
Why It Matters
What? No More Ribbits?
Hopefully, you are aware that amphibian populations worldwide have been declining for at least decades. Researchers have looked hard at this problem only to find, like many real world problems, it is multifaceted and not easily solved. The demise of the amphibians has been blamed on many things like pollution and increased CO2 in the atmosphere, but the problem just isn't that simple. These factors certainly stress amphibians but by themselves can't explain the scale of decline in amphibians. For example, water pollution certainly harms amphibians but they are declining even in areas with no apparent pollution. One thing that is certain is a type of chytid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) is a big part of the problem. Whether this fungus is killing amphibians all by itself or other stressors are making the amphibians vulnerable to the fungus is still an open question. Watch this video to find out how scientists are investigating the ecology of this chytid fungus to help people manage the amphibian populations we have left.
- In Search of Chytid Fungus from USGS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbu1HUmf-_g
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Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
- When do chytid fungi appear in the fossil record? How do they differ from other types of fungi? What does this suggest about the first fungi?
- How do researchers check amphibians for chytid fungus? How much does this hurt or disrupt the animals? Can you think of a better way to collect samples?
- How is measuring amphibians like carpentry? Do you think this connection applies to other areas? Why or why not? How important is this connection to field research?
- Why are researchers interested in the ecology of the chytid fungus? What do they hope to accomplish? Do you feel this is worthwhile research why or why not?
- In your opinion, how significant is the fact that most amphibian die-offs from fungal infection have occurred in populations which breed in permanent bodies of water as opposed to ephemeral bodies of water or on land? Can you think of any way to use this information to help the amphibians?
Resources Cited
- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/fungilh.html
- http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/ecology-intro.html
- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/chytrids.html
- http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/10/6
- http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/publications/c-disease/pubs/c-disease.pdf
- http://www.amphibiaweb.org/amphibian/facts.html