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Tunnel Fire Snarls Evening Rush at Penn Station
By MICHAEL LUO; Janon Fisher, Jason George and Howard O. Stier contributed reporting for this article.
Published: September 28, 2004
A fire deep underground in one of the tunnels that feed into Pennsylvania Station halted train traffic for hours yesterday and briefly shut down the terminal, causing confusion and long delays for more than 100,000 riders trying to get home for the evening.
The Long Island Rail Road, the biggest user of Penn Station, was unable to operate any trains into or out of the terminal throughout the afternoon into the evening rush. New Jersey Transit and Amtrak riders were stymied as well until limited service was restored about 4 p.m.
Riders cast about for alternatives, shoving their way onto packed subway trains to Brooklyn and Queens, as well as PATH trains to New Jersey, only to find throngs of people clogging the concourses there, all trying to get home as well.
''It's ridiculous,'' said Maurice Vivanco, who tried for more than an hour to get on a train to Elizabeth, N.J., from Newark Penn Station, only to lose out to hordes of others with the same goal. Finally, he decided to try to take a bus.
But some were more sanguine. Richard Stanler, 42, an accountant trying to get home to Merrick on Long Island, decided to try to wait it out at Penn Station in Manhattan.
''This happens occasionally,'' Mr. Stanler said. ''I'm not stressed out. The blackout was a lot worse. I'll wait here. I'll give it a half-hour or an hour and I'll weigh my options.''
Sure enough, the Long Island Rail Road finally started running trains out of Penn Station again about 6:30 p.m., and full train service was restored by 8 p.m. New Jersey Transit was also on or close to schedule by 8 p.m. Amtrak was still experiencing delays late last night.
For this morning's rush, Long Island Rail Road officials warned commuters to expect 20-minute delays and said that some trains could be diverted to Hunters Point Avenue in Queens or Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. Amtrak said it hoped to have all its routes running today. New Jersey Transit said it expected normal service this morning.
Also, heavy rains predicted for this morning could cause additional delays.
Yesterday's problem initially seemed minor, with Amtrak reporting a power surge around 1 p.m. on one of its overhead lines, which provide electrical power to trains, coming into Penn Station from Queens. Somehow, said Marcie Golgoski, an Amtrak spokeswoman, two electrical wires came into contact, causing the surge. As a result, a circuit breaker tripped, knocking out power in all directions and halting trains for all three railroads that use the station: Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit.
But the surge apparently sparked some type of fire inside the tunnel. Firefighters were called to the top of an access shaft on 33rd Street and First Avenue that descends 90 feet to the track bed. Heavy smoke from the shaft had been seeping into New York University Medical Center on First Avenue, fire officials said.
Fire officials characterized the blaze as a transformer fire, while Amtrak officials said it was unclear what had caught on fire.
The delays in restoring service were largely due to the difficulty of fighting the fire, as well as the complexity of fixing electrical problems underground.
The fire caused heavy smoke in the tunnel, said Tim Hinchey, a Fire Department spokesman. Firefighters trying to get at the blaze were slowed by limited visibility as they gingerly descended a narrow spiral staircase to the tunnel floor, he said. They also had to be certain that power had been cut underground.
The fire occurred in a tunnel used by westbound Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains, one of four tunnels under the East River. New Jersey Transit uses the tunnel to ferry trains back and forth to Penn Station from a train yard in Queens, while Amtrak uses it for its Northeast Corridor trains.
There was some initial confusion because some rubbish above ground on First Avenue caught fire as well, and firefighters thought there might be two separate fires. They later concluded that the rubbish had somehow ignited from embers coming from below.
Officials did not declare the blaze extinguished until 5:30 p.m. By then, more than 150 firefighters had been called to help.
According to the Fire Department, five civilians and one firefighter were taken to hospitals for minor injuries including smoke inhalation, but it was unclear whether the civilians were railroad employees or passengers.
There was one passenger train, carrying about 120 riders, that was inside the tunnel at the time of the fire, Amtrak said, but it was already nearing Penn Station and passengers were safely evacuated.
Firefighters barred people from entering Penn Station for about an hour, although people who were already there were allowed to stay.
New Jersey Transit and Amtrak were able to get power back relatively quickly, although they could not run any trains because the Fire Department had shut down the terminal, transit officials said. But the Long Island Rail Road's predicament was worse because it was unable to get power back for its signals.
As a result, transit officials hurried to set in motion contingency plans, some of which had been crafted for the Republican National Convention.
New Jersey Transit riders were directed to the PATH system, as well as New York Waterway ferries, which honored New Jersey Transit tickets and passes, to get to alternate rail hubs in Hoboken and Newark. Hundreds of customer service representatives were dispatched to those places to help direct traffic.
But the representatives were quickly overwhelmed by the hordes of people waiting for trains in the cramped and overheated stations. One worker, wearing a yellow reflective vest, answered questions rapid-fire from customers before hurrying to help a disabled passenger. A police officer with a bullhorn assured passengers that trains were coming. At 6 p.m., New Jersey Transit officials began offering free shuttle buses, and lines began forming for those.
Madhu Kumar, 25, of Woodbridge, N.J., waited in a long line, only to get to the front and stopped by a New Jersey Transit worker because the bus was full. He shrugged off the aggravation, saying he was used to crowds and lines because he was from India. ''That's O.K.,'' he said.
Meanwhile, at the Jamaica station, where the majority of Long Island Rail Road customers went, there were similar headaches. Riders got off standing-room-only subways only to step onto packed waiting platforms to wait for their trains home.
''It's disgusting,'' said Elizabeth Doug, 29, a retail account executive maneuvering through the crowd. ''There's no organization. You don't know how to get through once your train arrives. You don't know which track is which or how to get there.''
Both commuter railroads were hindered trying to get their service back to normal because they were unable to get to many of their trains. New Jersey Transit, for example, had trains stranded in a yard in Queens. Similarly, Long Island Rail Road officials were forced to operate without trains stuck in another yard west of Penn Station.
Amtrak riders had perhaps the most circuitous routes home. People going to the Albany area were told to go to Grand Central Terminal to take Metro-North Railroad trains to Croton-Harmon, N.Y., where they could transfer to Amtrak trains. For Boston, passengers were told to take Metro-North to New Haven and transfer there.
By the end of the evening rush, most service at Penn Station had been restored, rewarding those who had chosen to wait it out with mostly empty trains.
Photos: Long Island Rail Road passengers massed at the Jamaica, Queens, station. The railroad did not regain use of Pennsylvania Station until 6:30 p.m. (Photo by James Estrin/The New York Times)(pg. A1); Outside Pennsylvania Station, police officers and National Guardsmen sought to keep Long Island Rail Road commuters from entering, and told them to seek other mass transit to get home. ''This happens occasionally,'' one commuter said. ''I'm not stressed out. The blackout was a lot worse.'' (Photo by Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)(pg. B5)
Chart: ''A Commuters Nightmare''
Penn Station Closes . . .
1 p.m. -- A power surge causes a fire in a tunnel beneath the East River. The power failure leaves two trains stranded in the tunnel. Train traffic is halted.
1:30 p.m. -- Amtrak restores power to the catenary that powers the trains. The two trains are brought into the station.
3 p.m. -- Penn Station is closed.
4 p.m. -- Penn Station reopens. Amtrak and New Jersey Transit resume limited service.
. . . Resulting In Plan B For Many Commuters.
NEW JERSEY TRANSIT and AMTRAK passengers ride PATH trains through Hoboken to Secaucus and Newark stations.
Northbound AMTRAK passengers are diverted through Grand Central Terminal.
LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD commuters take subways to Woodside and Flatbush to catch trains to Jamaica.
Map of New York City subway system. (pg. B5)


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JEFFREY BROWN: And we return to politics now, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill begin to discuss ways to address the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Margaret Warner has our look.
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY, D-Vt.: The police will restore order.
MARGARET WARNER: It was the Senate's opening hearing on the new push for immigration reform, and the emotions around the issue surfaced early, as protesters briefly interrupted the proceedings.
PATRICK LEAHY: Secretary Napolitano, please continue.
MARGARET WARNER: But, quickly, the secretary of homeland security, former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, told the Judiciary Committee that now is the time to act.
SECRETARY JANET NAPOLITANO, U.S. Homeland Security: I can say without equivocation what everyone who deals with this issue knows well: Our immigration system is not just broken; it is hurting our country. The time to fix it is long overdue. And the way to fix it is with commonsense, comprehensive immigration reform.
MARGARET WARNER: The hearing came two weeks after President Obama laid out his own goals for immigration reform. They include stronger border security, a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million illegal immigrants already here, and expedited visas for highly skilled workers from abroad.
He returned to the issue in last night's State of the Union address.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: And right now, leaders from the business, labor, law enforcement, faith communities, they all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Now's the time to do it.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now's the time to get it done.
MARGARET WARNER: The issue has gained momentum since the election, when the president won 70 percent of Latino votes. And a bipartisan group of eight senators also has unveiled a framework for reform.
Today, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, said opponents need to think twice.
PATRICK LEAHY: There are some stuck in the past who are repeating the demands of enforcement first. I fear that they mean enforcement only. To them, I say this has stalled immigration reform for far too long.
MARGARET WARNER: But Republicans insisted again that securing the border must come first. Even Marco Rubio of Florida, a member of the bipartisan group of eight, said this in the Republican response to the president last night.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO, R-Fla.: We need a responsible, permanent solution to the problem of those who are here illegally. But, first, we must follow through on the broken promises of the past to secure our borders and enforce our laws.
MARGARET WARNER: That history was never far away at today's hearing for many Republicans, including Texas Senator John Cornyn.
SEN. JOHN CORNYN, R-Texas: This is like deja vu for a lot of us. But I believe that the reason that immigration reform failed in 2007 is because the American people don't actually believe that Congress intends to follow through on important measures like border security, work site enforcement, visa overstays, and the like.
MARGARET WARNER: Napolitano told Cornyn that the Obama administration has done much to stem illegal border crossings. And she argued that providing a legal pathway to citizenship and cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers will do more.
JANET NAPOLITANO: We know the main driver of illegal immigration across the Texas border, Arizona, California, whatever, is the ability to work. But we don't have the tools to support the border with effective worker requirements and prosecution tools against employers. So when you think about immigration reform, that's why all these things go together. It is a system.
MARGARET WARNER: South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, another member of the group of eight, said he sees a different obstacle to comprehensive reform, one that was thrown up last time by Democrats.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.: Here's the friction point. Temporary workers are needed in the future, a legal source of labor for American employers. Do you agree with that?
JANET NAPOLITANO: Yes, that concept is one I can agree with.
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Well, and the goal is not to displace an American worker. You can only get a temporary worker when there's no American available at a competitive wage.
JANET NAPOLITANO: The devil is in the details. You have got to have appropriate protections for American workers and indeed for workers who are coming in to work.
MARGARET WARNER: The committee also heard from a witness who tried to remind the senators of the human dimension of this debate, Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brought here as a child, who revealed in 2011 that he is an undocumented immigrant.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, Journalist/Immigration Rights Activist: Immigration is about our future. Immigration is about all of us. And before we take your questions here, I have a few of my own. What do you want to do with me? For all the undocumented immigrants who are actually sitting here at this hearing, for the people watching online and for the 11 million of us, what do you want to do with us?
MARGARET WARNER: Committee Chairman Leahy has pledged to send a bill to the full Senate. And in the coming weeks, a House proposal is expected to be unveiled as well.
So, could immigration reform be the rare big-ticket item that passes Congress with bipartisan support?
We explore the question with Norman Ornstein, a longtime Congress watcher and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Manu Raju, a senior reporter with Politico who has been closely covering the issue.
And, Manu, let me begin with you.
Congress in the last couple of years has certainly been so partisan and so dysfunctional. Is there real reason to think that immigration reform this time could be different?
MANU RAJU, Politico: I think there is.
The issues that have divided this Congress within the last two years have been mainly over the fiscal matters. There's a sharp partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats over the issues of taxes and spending.
On immigration, it really cuts across party lines. There are a lot of senators from border states, influential ones, who want a deal, people like John McCain, Marco Rubio, who are seriously invested in the process of putting together a comprehensive bill. They see the politics have changed on this issue. They're trying to convince their party that now is the time to get behind a comprehensive bill that includes border security measures, that includes enforcement mechanisms, and includes a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants that Democrats are pushing.
There is a chance to get it done, but it's not going to be easy. The Senate will be tough, and the House is going to be even harder.
MARGARET WARNER: Norm, do you see it this way, that there is a prospect here, and that you have got a change of mind, at least among some Republicans?
NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Institute: Yes, there's no doubt.
Six months ago, we would have said no way will we do anything on this issue seriously. The election changed all of that, and it's changed the dynamics. But Manu is right that we have a couple of big obstacles here. The first is one that Janet Napolitano basically highlighted. The devil is in the details.
A framework is easy, in the Senate at least. When you start to get down to how you are going to deal with temporary workers, what kinds of limitations you will put on employers, and what you will do with those undocumented 11 million, what kind of path to citizenship, what about somebody who's been here from 30 years — for 30 years, compared to somebody who's been here for three, that's not going to be knocked together in a week.
And the time is relatively short, when you have got this consensus building. And the second problem is the House, where you don't have those border members who are eager to come up with a bill. You have got 100 to 150 House Republicans. When they go back home, they're not hearing, do something to improve the lot of the Republican Party and its standing with Hispanics. They're hearing, amnesty is a four-letter word, and you try and do anything and we're going to erupt.
MARGARET WARNER: Manu, how — the big divide, a big divide at today's hearing seemed to be, it's an old, old argument between the Republicans who say you have got to have tougher, stricter enforcement first, and Democrats and Secretary Napolitano, who said, we also have to provide this clear path to citizenship.
All right. So does the bipartisan group that came up with a bill, have they found a solution or a resolution to that tension?
MANU RAJU: Only broadly.
What they're talking about is creating a system that would lead to secure border mechanisms that would ensure and certify that new border security enforcement measures take effect before the 11 million undocumented immigrants can start to apply for permanent residency, can get green cards, can move on that path to citizenship.
But how do you actually certify that the border is secure? How is that done? That is a very tricky, tricky situation, tricky scenario that they're working through. They're not at an agreement yet. And that's why these negotiations are happening at a pretty fast pace behind closed doors.
They hope to get something together by March to present, but they're not at that conclusion. They don't have a resolution yet on that issue.
MARGARET WARNER: Norm, we have focused a lot on Republicans here, if you want to add something on the rift, the fault line among Republicans, but are there also fault lines among Democrats here?
NORMAN ORNSTEIN: Oh, yes, of course there are.
And you certainly have some Democrats who are uneasy about doing this. They're hearing the same problems from constituents back home, although public opinion overall has changed. But you have, I think, a real concern among Democrats. They want a path to citizenship for the undocumented workers.
An awful lot of Republicans want a path to legalization. There's a real difference between legalization and citizenship. And, of course, one difference is the right to vote. But you are going to see some fault lines develop there. And for Democrats, if they don't get that, and if they view the border problems as being too great, the sanctions as being too strong, you will get some resistance there as well.
This is not a done deal among Democrats, although they don't have the same kinds of rifts that you see among Republicans. And let's face it. One other issue here, Margaret, is you're going to have some Democrats who'd rather have the issue and have Hispanic and Asian Americans still angry with the Republican Party than have this part of the dilemma. It's not just about immigration when it comes to these voters put behind them.
MARGARET WARNER: Very quick response from each of you finally on this.
If, let's say, the Senate manages to pass something, how do you see the House, particularly among the Republicans, Manu and then Norm?
MANU RAJU: Well, it depends on how big of a majority it passes out of the Senate.
If this is approved by a big bipartisan majority, it's going to be very hard for the House Republican leadership to simply ignore this or break it apart and pass something on a piecemeal basis. But if this is done on a very party-line, partisan basis, if they lose that fragile coalition that they have right now in the Senate, it's going to be much easier for the House Republicans to go their own way and probably in the end much harder to reach consensus.
MARGARET WARNER: Do you see it that way, that the House Republicans are going to hang back and wait until they see what the Senate does?
NORMAN ORNSTEIN: Well, there's no doubt they're going to hang back and wait.
But I think the bottom line here is that, if you get a bill through that we can enact into law, it is going to require more Democrats than Republicans. And the dilemma for John Boehner is bringing up yet another bill that violates the so-called Hastert rule, where he has to rely more on the Democrats.
MARGARET WARNER: Where he has to go for a bill that he doesn't have the majority of his majority.
NORMAN ORNSTEIN: And that's not easy.
MARGARET WARNER: Norm Ornstein, Manu Raju, thank you so much.
And you can watch selected excerpts of today's testimony, including more from Jose Antonio Vargas, on the Rundown.


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Great hotel and room, but we found something off...Posted Jun 19, 2012
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On the second night there, as we were about to get into bed around midnight, we noticed that there was no top sheet on the bed, only the comforter. We called the front desk who promptly sent one up (which we had to put on the bed ourselves) and the explanation was that to reduce the environmental impact from the laundry, they didn't use them. For the life of us, we couldn't remember if there was one on the bed the first night, but unless they wash the comforters between occupants, it would seem to be less efficient due to their bulk as well as less than sanitary. Otherwise, it was a great hotel.
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Clean quiet and comfortablePosted May 31, 2012
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When Sarah Phillips got hired by ESPN to be a writer, I was totally clueless – and I still am as to why they hired her. If you want to get caught up in the controversy regarding Sarah Phillips, click XXX, this will get you caught up to speed.
Here's my story.
Last August, the infamous Sarah Phillips tweeted that she was looking for a way to gain followers and to reply if they could help. At the time I had around 2000 followers so I replied back saying that I could do my best to promote her.
I had seen Sarah's articles on Covers.com and was impressed, and at the time I was thinking of the idea of creating my own website. I thought that this could be away to build a future business relationship.
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As seen above, she emailed me our agreement and I was all for helping her out so that I could potentially make some quick cash.
Time went by and I was short a few hundred followers from my goal of getting her 2000 followers. I thought of a solution, why not just sell her my account that had 2000 followers and just pocket a quick $500?
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When I gave Sarah the Twitter account it had 2000 followers – after she got hired by ESPN it was now at about 50,000 followers. I emailed her and pretty much said – if you don't pay me the $500 that you owe me, I will take back MY Twitter account that has accumulated over 50,000 followers. Pretty good investment for me considering 50, 000 Twitter followers is worth A LOT more than $500.
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The Supreme Court's Conservative Activist Judges
Giving post-mortems on the question of health care at the Supreme Court is premature, and as law professor David Cole writes, you can find as much evidence for upholding Obamacare in the text of the arguments as you can evidence for tossing it out.
However, as a political spectacle, with the eyes of the nation upon them, it was clear to see that we have a large contingent, perhaps a majority, of committed judicial activists on the Court. Only they're on the conservative side of the ledger. I think EJ Dionne is largely correct:
Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health-care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Senator, excuse me, Justice Samuel Alito quoted Congressional Budget Office figures on Tuesday to talk about the insurance costs of the young. On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts sounded like the House whip in discussing whether parts of the law could stand if other parts fell. He noted that without various provisions, Congress "wouldn't have been able to put together, cobble together, the votes to get it through." Tell me again, was this a courtroom or a lobbyist's office?
It fell to the court's liberals — the so-called "judicial activists," remember? — to remind their conservative brethren that legislative power is supposed to rest in our government's elected branches […]
Liberals should learn from this display that there is no point in catering to today's hard-line conservatives. The individual mandate was a conservative idea that President Obama adopted to preserve the private market in health insurance rather than move toward a government-financed, single-payer system. What he got back from conservatives was not gratitude but charges of socialism — for adopting their own proposal.
Good for Dionne for saying that out loud. This tactic of triangulation or whatever you want to call it, of stealing your opponent's ideas, never, ever works. Here we were in a court of law, and instead of the main topics being settled precedent like Wickard v. Filburn or recent cases like Gonzalez v. Raich, you had the conservative justices picking through the health care law and sounding like talk-radio hosts, with hypotheticals about broccoli and invocations of the Cornhusker Kickback. And while Jon Walker makes a good point about the implications of the Court striking down the individual mandate, and while some of the Justices and even the legal team on the conservative side agreed that a single-payer plan would be Constitutional, in the rare event that a future Democratic Administration passed such legislation, I have no doubt that conservatives would turn on a dime and find another reason to call THAT unconstitutional. And I have no doubt that this set of judicial activists on the Court, at least, would agree with them.
There's more from Paul Krugman on the bad-faith arguments from the conservative justices, as well as Jon Chait. This is not really about protecting the individual mandate – one which doesn't come with enough of a strong set of social protections to really defend, nor is it strong enough (the penalties are weak, there's a hardship exemption, and there's pretty much no enforcement power) for a strong objection. It's about a majority or near-majority on the Supreme Court quite literally making it up as they go along, in obeisance to raw ideology.


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Maria Sharapova's dominant Australian Open performance came to a screatching hault in her semifinal match against Li Na.
Na, 30, beat the second seeded Sharapova, 25, in straight sets 6-2, 6-2.
Though the score was widespread, the match was closely contested with many long deuce games in Na's favour.
The first set lasted 48 minutes, followed by a 45 minute second set.
To her credit, Sharapova kept her composure during a frustrating match. Something that is not normally the case for the hot-headed Russian star.
Sharapova was storming her way through her side of the draw. In five matches she had not dropped one set (neither had Li), and won five of her ten sets 6-0.
With the win, the fifth seeded Li will go into her second Australian Open final.
She has yet to drop a set this whole tournament.
Na was on top of her game against Sharapova, and dished out 21 winners against 18 unforced errors.
She won a total of 74 points compared to Sharapova's 58.
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Big Money Still Learning to Lobby
By JENNY ANDERSON
Published: March 13, 2007
On a cold evening in late January, Senator Charles E. Schumer invited a who's who of hedge funds to dinner at Bottega del Vino on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. More than $100 billion worth of wealth sat around the table, including Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Capital; Steven Cohen of SAC Capital; Stanley Druckenmiller of Duquesne Capital; and James Chanos of Kynikos Capital, according to a person who was briefed on the dinner.
Mr. Schumer, the New York Democrat, had some simple advice for the billionaires in his midst: If you want Washington to work with you, you had better work better with one another. (Mr. Schumer and the hedge fund managers declined to comment).
While hedge funds confidently flex their muscles in the markets and in boardrooms, in Washington they are experiencing the awkward growing pains of a relatively new industry coming to grips with its own power. Some hedge funds like D. E. Shaw and Cerberus Capital Management have spent time and money in the capital, but most funds have been content to hope Washington will not rear its regulatory head.
Now, united by a desire to avoid stringent regulation and a healthy sense of competition -- there are three hedge fund lobbying groups -- the industry seems resigned to no longer being a wallflower and looks set to join the dance with Congress.
So far the industry's efforts have witnessed remarkable results. More than two years after the Securities and Exchange Commission required that funds register with the agency -- a move overturned by a federal appeals court last summer -- the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, Congress and the S.E.C. seem to agree: hedge funds are as regulated today as they should be.
''They've been extraordinarily effective in lobbying, which is pretty amazing given Long-Term Capital Management and the number of other cases involving problems with hedge funds,'' said David Tittsworth, head of the Investment Adviser Association, a group which represents registered investment advisers. ''The hedge fund industry -- whoever they are and whoever is representing them -- has been successful in fighting a centralized and comprehensive regulatory scheme.''
Their efforts, though, may have more to do with an unusually benign environment for regulation than any well-oiled and deep-pocketed campaign. Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary, was chief executive of Goldman Sachs, which services hedge funds and runs its own hedge funds; the Federal Reserve continues to take a hands-off attitude toward hedge funds; and the Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Christopher J. Dodd comes from Connecticut, home to a large number of hedge funds.
For an industry drenched in money -- hedge funds manage more than $1.4 trillion today -- hedge funds have spent a pittance on winning over Washington. From 1998 through 2006, 15 hedge funds -- the sum total of those that have registered their activity -- have spent $7.7 million lobbying Congress, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The top spender on lobbying is Cerberus Capital Management, a hedge fund better known for its private equity investments. Cerberus spent $2.1 million from 2001 through 2006. Issues range from registration to asbestos litigation and military spending bills.
''The small proportion of money they are spending is related to the fact that they are not heavily regulated,'' said Tim La Pira, a lobbying researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics. ''Heavily regulated industries like banking or oil and gas spend an enormous amount of money because they have a history and legacy of being regulated.''
The hedge funds' main trade association does not appear to have significant financial influence either. From 1998 through 2006, the Managed Funds Association spent only $752,000 lobbying. Its political action committee raised $169,500 in 2006 and made contributions of $112,600. By way of comparison, Merrill Lynch spent $4 million in 2006 alone, and the Investment Company Institute, representing the mutual fund industry, spent $5.4 million last year.
Political contributions show a similar pattern: the numbers are growing, but pale against the wealth managed by the fast-growing industry. In 2006, individuals at hedge funds as well as their spouses (if the spouse does not list an independent source of income) contributed $6.2 million (69 percent to Democrats and 27 percent to Republicans). That was up from the 2004 election cycle when individuals gave $5 million (67 percent to Democrats and 33 percent to Republicans). Top donors include Richard Perry of Perry Capital and his wife, Lisa ($202,850 in 2006); Kenneth C. Griffin of the Citadel Investment Group and his wife, Anne, who works for Aragon Global Management ($192,857); and Robert Soros and his wife, Melissa, a filmmaker ($171,500), according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
But Washington has turned its attention to the fast-growing hedge fund industry -- as well as other alternative investment vehicles, like private equity. As members of Congress show growing interest, the industry seems increasingly resolved to make its case on Capitol Hill before another major hedge fund blow-up forces it to act on the defensive.


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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 5:47 pm
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Saturday Floyd and I went looking for new areas to find doodles, but had no luck. So we went to the nearest Woodcock ATM that we used last year and found these three. We took my MuttPak, Willa and Abby. French 16 gauge Brun-Latrige.
Today we went to another old area that had some birds. We missed a few, but came out one shy of the limit. Floyd, Sadie, Pop. Floyd shoots a 20 gauge SKB Ithaca.
Floyd, the Woodcock Whisperer, his Sadie, Pop and I had a great day the day after New Year's Day in the lowcountry bottoms.
Heres my Beretta Model 412 single-shot 20 made in 1957. Its a full choke, but I shot Polywad spreader loads that did the trick. At 4 lbs., 13 oz, its a great carry in the woods and I rarely get a second shot anyway. Theres a doodle between Pop and Floyds hand. Floyd shot his Ithaca SKB 20 and he is one fine shot with it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:17 pm
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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Location: Kelso, Tennessee
Great job, Gil! Thanks for sharing
i reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:26 pm
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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Location: Nebraska
MuttPack! Love it.
Bore, n. Shotgun enthusiast's synonym for "gauge" ; everybody else's synonym for "shotgun enthusiast." - Ed Zern
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:48 pm
Joined: 16 Jul 2015
Posts: 601
Location: Hudson,Wy
Nice guns, birds, and dogs. These pics make me yearn for bare ground again.
Only catch snowflakes on your tongue AFTER the birds fly south for the winter...
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:17 pm
Joined: 09 Jan 2013
Posts: 1466
Location: Florida
Gil, great hunts .
We have a season for Woodcock but I have never seen any that I know of . I don't think they ever make this far south.
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Rick Grimes
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:12 am
Joined: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 366
Location: thick and uncivilized places in the Allegheny Mts.
Good job Gil. Nice to see pics of those hard working Brits.
Going into coverts becomes less a chase with the sole purpose of killing; it remains important to find game but the gratification-and I keep coming back to that word-is in the beauty of finding it. George Bird Evans A Dog, A Gun, And Time Enough.
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Dave Erickson
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:16 am
Joined: 06 Nov 2009
Posts: 1965
Location: West Coast of WI
Looks like fun, Gil. That Beretta single shot is nifty and perfect for the sport.
What friends I have, what days I treasure most, what places that I think about and smile . . . they are because shotguns are. Without them I would have been empty. They have made my life full. - Gene Hill
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Gil S
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:24 am
Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 1545
Location: Lowcountry Ga.
Thanks, folks. I know it's tough to read about others in the field when your season is over or hasn't started. I've got that tee shirt.
Since making the bold statement about using the single-shot and not being able to get a second shot anyway, I've had to eat those words and have gotten a couple of birds with the second shot out of the Brun-Latrige since then. It's 5 lbs., 13 oz. and with the sling, a good carry. It's all good.
The dogs, mine and Floyd, have really done some great field work. Pop is a real character of a dog. Not a warp-speed runner, but he's sure and steady and will hold a point until hell freezes over sometimes to our chagrin. He trailed a bird into a cat briar hell about 5 yards in. We couldn't get him to move on the bird and flush it. Finally, Floyd had to wade into the briars, get cut-up, and flush the bird. We're thinking about carrying a collapsible crappie fishing pole to poke him in the butt the next time that happens.
On two birds Sunday, when his bell stopped in shoulder high rivercane, we would have never found him without Floyd's gps SportDog tracking collar. Sure enough, he was locked down solid on birds. The cane is so thick that unless we were within 3-5 yards, we couldn't see the dogs.
This is an example of the cane from last year. I was on the edge looking in and Floyd is about 3-5 yards in and Sadie is on the edge.
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Dave Erickson
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:23 pm
Joined: 06 Nov 2009
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Location: West Coast of WI
Gil, I refrained from saying my annual, "Gil, you're killing us up here in the frozen tundra!" or something like that. It's truly heartwarming to see good dogs, guns, and doodles about now.
What friends I have, what days I treasure most, what places that I think about and smile . . . they are because shotguns are. Without them I would have been empty. They have made my life full. - Gene Hill
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:47 pm
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I took my boys out to a friend's Kansas preserve Monday for a tune up on pheasants to be sure they're ready for a big hunt this weekend. We put out three birds for each dog and they did great as opposed to me trying to hit the birds in a 30+mph breeze. They got to hunt a few of them twice thanks to things like me having an empty gun when a runner flushed wild. We finally got all six birds and had a great time doing it. Sorry no gun in the picture, but used my 16 ga BSA Classic by Zabala. Anyone else have their shooting take a furlough when you are working your dogs and watching them closely?
Rebel on the left and the old road warrior Bode on the right.
An elderly gentleman, his faithful dogs, and a 16 ga SXS. All is right with the world.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:45 am
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Very handsome dogs! Looks like you 3 had a great day.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:11 am
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Location: Florida
Rex , what Jeff said , beautiful Dogs .
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:37 am
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Location: Florida
A good morning in the swamp , sorry no dogs just birds and a gun .
Went to different area this morning saw a lot more birds than I have been seeing . Can't seem to get away from taking the SWT16 , man I like this gun.
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Gil S
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:53 am
Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 1545
Location: Lowcountry Ga.
Snipe are a blast to hunt. Good work. I chase them the month of February. Hesitate using dogs on them because of snakes and gators--even in February. Gil
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:28 pm
Joined: 16 Jul 2015
Posts: 601
Location: Hudson,Wy
Snipe are so fun. People who don't hunt them are missing the boat. Tough little buggers to hit compared to doves.
Only catch snowflakes on your tongue AFTER the birds fly south for the winter...
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A daunting murder investigation finds Ann Lindell and her colorful team tracing clues back to a local restaurant and its owner, a man concealing a dark past. But he's not the only person at the restaurant worthy of suspicion.
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"Promising start, but suffered in translation"
I just never really got into this book. I think a lot of the problems comes from the choppy phrasing, which I assume arises from poor translation and not the original narrative. Also, I feel this would have much more gripping if Eriksson had stayed to a strict "police procedural" format instead of veering off into psychoanalysis.
The narrator does a good job with the varying characters.
"Good but not great"
Hardcopy yes, audible no.
The brothers.
His tone range was very poor. His inflections when speaking as a woman were brutual.
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02/08/2014 07:19
The first of three races this weekend has gone to Jamie Whincup has he charges back into championship contention
Mark Winterbottom's championship lead continues to be eroded by the constant barrage of victories from five-time and defending series champion Jamie Whincup. Today, he claimed his eighth win of the year and fifth in the last seven races.
The race came down to battle between the Red Bull duo. Pole-sitter Craig Lowndes ran a little wide with eleven laps remaining, then the two proceeded to swap the top spot three times within a single lap before Whincup was able to permanently prevail.
As he drove away with his 83rd career victory, the fighting continued behind him. Lowndes and Scott McLaughlin filled out the rest of the podium, followed by Fabian Coulthard in fourth.
It was on for the final spot in the top five at the end of the 33 lap sprint race. Championship leader Mark Winterbottom was desperate to grab all the points he could, locking horns with James Courtney and Will Davison in a fight he would eventually lose.
Courtney would finish fifth, Winterbottom sixth, Davison seventh, Tander eighth, Reynolds ninth, and Shane Van Gisbergen was tenth. There were no full-course cautions during the event, but tire issues plagued both Todd Kelly and James Moffat late in the going.
With the win, Whincup cuts Winterbottom's advantage in the title 'bout from 96 to 72 points.


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Let me see if I have this right. Earlier this year, while campaigning for re-election, Barack Obama said he wanted to raise taxes $800 billion on everyone making more than $250,000 a year. Republicans were virtually unanimous in shouting, "No way!"
Then what happened when the Spender in Chief wins the White House for another four years? He promptly doubled down. Now, he says he wants $1.6 trillion in new taxes over the next 10 years. And our "don't call my bluff" President made it abundantly clear that he'll play hardball to get it.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who is serving as Obama's messenger boy to Capitol Hill, declared flatly on Meet the Press December 2: "There's no path to an agreement that does not involve Republicans acknowledging that rates have to go up on the wealthiest Americans."
In other words, it's our way or the highway. So what did the Republicans do? Rather than sticking to their earlier promise, the leadership countered by agreeing to give Obama the $800 billion he originally asked for. Way to fight for principle, guys.
Of course, $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue isn't all that the Democrats are after. Obama also wants $50 billion in new stimulus spending and another $30 billion to extend unemployment benefits. Plus, he wants the death tax to go back up to 45 percent on estates and family farms worth $3.5 million and more.
And it doesn't end there. Geithner, a tax cheater, also says that it's time to abolish the ceiling on the federal debt. No more coming back to Congress, hat in hand, to increase the limit on how much money our bankrupt federal government can borrow. No, if Team Obama gets its way, there will be no limits on how much deeper this country will go in debt. Isn't that a lovely situation to contemplate?
What about cutting some spending? "We'll talk about that sometime down the road" is the best Team Obama will offer. No wonder Charles Krauthammer said that the Democrats' proposal is "not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal." In fact, he added, "Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox and he lost the Civil War."
What happens if House Republicans dig in their heels and just say no? Well, inaction might give the Democrats an even bigger victory. It would mean that the Bush tax cuts (which Obama extended in 2010) would expire on January 1. Those increases, plus all the new taxes and fees that are part of Obamacare, will mean that our taxes will go up even more.
A lot of observers are convinced that Obama and his advisers will be only too happy to see the U.S. plunge over the much-hyped fiscal cliff. Either way, they get the tax increases they want. Plus, under the latter scenario, they get to blame the Republicans for not being willing to compromise. It's a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition, with the big spenders in Washington coming out ahead either way.
By the way, did you see what one top Obama supporter is doing to avoid paying a bunch of those new taxes? Jim Sinegal, the co-founder, director and former CEO of Costco, was so smitten by the job Obama is doing that he agreed to give a prime-time address at this year's Democratic convention. So you'd think he'd be hunky-dory with the Obama tax increases, wouldn't you?
Not on your life. Costco announced November 28 that it would pay a special dividend to all of its shareholders. It is doing it in December — and even borrowing the $3 billion it will cost — so shareholders won't have to pay the higher tax on dividend income next year.
Since Sinegal owns 2 million shares of Costco stock, that's $14 million he'll get in this special dividend. At the current tax rate of 15 percent on dividends, he'll have to fork over a little more than $2 million of it to Uncle Sam. But had Costco waited until January to pay the dividend, Sinegal's tax rate would be 43.4 percent, or more than $6 million.
In other words, the former Costco CEO gets to pocket an extra $4 million that otherwise would have gone to the Internal Revenue Service. Merry Christmas!
So much for the "shared sacrifices" by Obama's wealthiest supporters. Now, please allow me to puncture a few more holes in the Democrats' balloon. Let's turn to the myth that Obama got a huge mandate in the November elections.
Nonsense! Obama won 51 percent of the votes for President on November 6. But only 60 percent of eligible voters even bothered to cast a ballot this year. Winning support from 30 percent of eligible voters is hardly an overwhelming mandate.
Plus, exit polls of the people who voted revealed that a majority of them didn't want taxes increased on people earning $250,000 or more. Obama's claim that the voters this year sent "a very clear message" that they favored higher taxes is a bunch of baloney.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that the problem in Washington isn't too little revenue; it's too much spending! If the federal budget were reduced to what it was four years ago when Obama first took office, we wouldn't need a nickel of new taxes to balance the budget.
In fact, if we held the line on spending and simply stopped increasing it every year, pretty soon Uncle Sam would enjoy surpluses once again. We could even start reducing the national debt, rather than see it go up more than $1 trillion a year.
Of course, there's about as much chance of seeing this happen of a snowball surviving a trip through Hades. While it's not what we wanted or worked for, I'm afraid it is now a virtual certainty we will see higher taxes and fewer new jobs and more new bureaucrats, regulators, tax collectors and other federal busybodies next year.
And after that, it could get even worse.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
Chip Wood was the first news editor of The Review of the News and also wrote for American Opinion, our two predecessor publications. He is now the geopolitical editor of Personal Liberty Digest, where his Straight Talk column appears weekly. This article first appeared in PersonalLiberty.com and has been reprinted with permission.


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text: Ben Rudiak-Gould <Benjamin.Rudiak-Gould at cl.cam.ac.uk> schrieb am 21.01.05 02:37:34: > If you're reading from a random-access file, there's no way [select] can tell > you when the file data is buffered, because it doesn't know which part > of the file you plan to read. The OS may try to guess for readahead > purposes, but select()'s behavior can't depend on that guess. The Glibc documentation says, "select determines if there is data available (more precisely, if a call to read(2) will not block)." I think, this is reasonably precise. The OS does know, where you are going to read (at the file pointer) and if you seek() or pread() instead, well, that is no call to read(2) and may change everything. Thus the question is, does select() reliably tell if read() would block or does it check for something else? Is the documentation wrong (on some platforms)? > This is another example of why the world would be better off with the > file/stream model. Have I convinced anyone? Uhm, well, me thinks, open() and read() on files quite accurately model a stream already... Udo. __________________________________________________________ Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201


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Name: Tommie Mae CLAUDY
Date of Death: 12-27-1950
Race: C. Sex: F Marital Status: Single
Date of Birth: 10-23-1933
Age at Last Birthday : 17 years
Place of Death: County: Davidson, Civil Dist.: 13, City or Town: Rural
Length of Stay in This Place: 2˝ Mos.,
Name of Hospital or Institution: Dav. Co. Tbc. Hospt.
Usual Residence: State: Tenn., County: Davidson, Civil Dist.: 1
City or Town: Nashville, Street Address: 1908 Haiman St.
Usual Occupation: School Girl
Armed Forces?: no
Birthplace: Nashville, Tenn.
Citizen of What Country?: U. S. A.
Father's Name: Andrew CLAUDY
Mother's Maiden Name: Mattie E. BRACEY
Informant: Pearl BRACEY, 1908 Haiman St.
Cause of Death: Cardiac Hypertrophy due to Tuberculous pericarditis with
Due to: Cardiac decompensation, and renal insufficiency
Interval Between Onset and Death: 3 Mos.
Due to: Pulmonary tuberculosis acute
Interval Betwee Onset and Death: about 4 or 5 Mo.
Signed by: R. R. Crowly?, M. D. Address: Davidson County Tbc. Hospt.
Date: 12-27-1950
Burial, Cremation, Removal: Burial Date of Burial: 12-29-1950
Name of Cemetery: Mt. Ararat Location: Nashville, Tenn.
Funeral Director: Protective Funeral Service Address: ?00 Jefferson
Reg. Dist. No.: 191 Date Signed by Local Reg.: 01-10-1951
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text: I have both an OM2 and an OM2n. Both work well. The OM2 has a little dent on the top cover right corner. The OM2n is in great shape all around. Both need new seals. *note the OM2 is a high serial number so it may not have any foam on the prism. I was thinking of selling one to fund a full CLA on the other. From reading online, it almost seems like the OM2 is the one to keep if I want to use it for fill flash and long exposures. Is there any other advantage of the OM2n that I am missing?


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Thursday, 11 October 2007
Science-based policy making. This often discussed goal has proven difficult to implement in practice. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made it look relatively easy. The recognition that the IPCC's work has garnered for the climate change issue, topped off by the announcement that it would receive the Nobel Peace Prize, has resulted in a great deal of IPCC-envy in the international environmental community. What lessons does the IPCC experience offer?
Lynn Wagner, Ph.D.
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The credibility attributed to the IPCC's assessments highlights the importance of engaging respected scientists from a broad range of backgrounds, although this has been a challenge for the scientific bodies of many multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). The Rio conventions have adopted models that permit all member governments to nominate representatives to their scientific subsidiary bodies, but the resulting discussions are often criticized for sounding more like "mini Conferences of the Parties" rather than scientific exchanges. Several MEAs, including the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, have developed formulas to ensure that the relatively few scientific representatives selected to serve on their scientific bodies represent a range of expertise and geographic criteria. Recognition that the
Developing a procedure that creates an assessment for policy makers based on the scientific advice is another challenge altogether. Policy makers ultimately need to take ownership of the scientific findings and incorporate the recommended actions into their decisions, but a mechanism through which this will take place has not always been incorporated into the scientific advice process or implemented in a transparent manner. During 2007, the IPCC held three meetings during which political decision makers discussed summaries for policy makers line-by-line. Our Earth Negotiations Bulletin reports record the debates and trade-offs involved in approving the summaries for policy makers (http://enb.iisd.org/climate/ipwg3/). A transparent process can provide information on the expected winners and losers, including in the natural environment, from the policies that ultimately move forward as recommendations to negotiators in the policy arena.
Inevitable calls to replicate the IPCC model for other issue clusters should keep in mind that the IPCC pre-dates, and in fact spurred decision makers to adopt, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Furthermore, the IPCC produces assessments of existing research that is relatively advanced and has increasingly converged in its findings of climate change's global implications.Among the many lessons that will no doubt be drawn from the IPCC experience, another might focus on what the IPCC can do for other MEAs and issue areas. Delegates at recent meetings of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and the Convention on Biological Diversity have asked if the IPCC could be asked to examine issues related to their agendas. It might also prove fruitful to examine the IPCC outputs in this respect. IPCC 26 was informed by the UN International Strategy on Disaster Reduction secretariat that it will be writing a document on links between adaptation to climate change, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, using material from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (http://enb.iisd.org/download/pdf/enb12321e.pdf). Other environmental agreements might find this to be a worthwhile approach to address their IPCC-envy in an effort to pursue scientific-based policy making.