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The Sky Is Falling Less?
A new climate study suggests global warming may not be as dire as predicted.
Last week, Science published a new study by Oregon State University researcher Andreas Schmittner and colleagues who found that an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may result in less warming than predicted. The researchers declared that their results "imply less probability of extreme climatic change than previously thought." Has the global warming apocalypse been called off?
Researchers know from physics that added carbon dioxide tends to increase the temperature of the atmosphere because it blocks the escape of heat from Earth into space. The term climate sensitivity conventionally refers to how much warming can be expected from a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. It is generally agreed that by itself, doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere above pre-industrial levels would boost the average global temperature by about 1.2° Celsius (2.2° Fahrenheit). However, many climate researchers believe that other feedbacks (water vapor, clouds, etc.) add to the effect of carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases).
As humanity has burned fossil fuels, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased from 280 parts per million (ppm) at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to 389 ppm today. Temperature records agree since the late 19th century that the average global temperature has increased by 0.8°C (1.4°F).
The question of climate sensitivity has long been a vexed scientific problem. With regard to climate sensitivity, in 2007 the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that "climate sensitivity is likely to be in the range of 2 to 4.5°C with a best estimate of about 3°C, and is very unlikely to be less than 1.5°C. Values substantially higher than 4.5°C cannot be excluded, but agreement of models with observations is not as good for those values." In IPCC parlance, likely means that there is a 66 percent probability that climate sensitivity falls between 2 and 4.5°C (3.6 to 8.1°F), with 3°C (5.4°F) as the best estimate.
Even more problematic is that previous researchers have been unable to rule out that doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide will not produce even bigger increases, say, in excess of 6°C (13°F), in global average temperature. Researchers have tried to pin down climate sensitivity by analyzing recent observational climate data, by tuning climate computer models to see how accurately they reproduce past climate, and by comparing paleoclimate data to current conditions.
The Science study combines paleoclimate data from the Last Glacial Maximum 21,000 years ago with computer modeling to arrive at a lower climate sensitivity figure. They estimate that climate sensitivity likely (66 percent probability) ranges from 1.7 to 2.6°C (3 to 4.7°F) with a median estimate of 2.3°C (4.1°F). The even better news is that the study finds that climate sensitivities larger than 6°C are "implausible." If carbon dioxide levels double, the world will likely get warmer, but not catastrophically hot. In other words, the article suggests that the sky is falling less.
The new study achieves this result by doing several runs of a moderately complicated climate model plugging in various values for climate sensitivity. The researchers then checked to see if the model outputs matched their new set of paleoclimate temperature data involving 435 temperature proxies, 322 ocean proxies, and 113 land proxies. Proxies like the prevalence of certain kinds of plankton fossils in ocean sediments and pollen on land. Plugging in a 6°C climate sensitivity produced a snowball Earth entirely covered with ice which clearly didn't happen whereas inserting values below 1.4°C generated too warm a world.
Naturally, the new paper landed in the midst of the fraught debate over man-made global warming. The editors at Investors Business Daily assert that "it's a bombshell—another in a long line of revelations showing the scientific fraud at the heart of the anti-global [sic] warming movement." On the other hand, climate change alarmist Joe Romm at the Center for American Progress headlines, "Media Misleads On Flawed Climate Sensitivity Study."
Of course, every study can be criticized and this one is certainly no exception. One of the reasons that comparing the Last Glacial Maximum to today is scientifically intriguing is that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 21,000 years ago were only 190 ppm. Schmittner and his colleagues attempt to work backward from Ice Age temperatures to estimate climate sensitivity.
One of the chief criticisms lodged against the new study is that it significantly underestimates how cold the Last Glacial Maximum was. According to the new study, during the Last Glacial Maximum, the world was on average about 3.3°C (6°F) colder than today. In contrast, the IPCC estimates that Ice Age temperatures were between 4 to 7°C (7.2 to 12.6°F) colder than today. A colder Last Glacial Maximum implies higher climate sensitivities due to lower levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. So figuring out which temperature regime is the more accurate is critical to determining the validity of the new study's estimates.
Another possibility suggested by a Science Perspective by University of Edinburgh researchers Gabriele Hegerl and Tom Russon published simultaneously is that adding carbon dioxide to a colder Ice Age climate will affect different climate feedback mechanisms. If so, adding carbon dioxide to our warmer interglacial climate will yield a different (and perhaps higher) climate sensitivity.
Assuming, however, that the new study's results stand up to further scrutiny, what does this mean in terms of future climate change? At the United Nations' Cancun climate change meeting last year, climate negotiators set a goal of avoiding an increase of more than 2°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial temperatures. The folks over at the RealClimate blog calculate that if the IPCC's climate sensitivity estimate is right, at current rates of carbon dioxide increase this goal will be exceeded in 24 years. Assuming the new estimate is right adds 11 years.
"It is rare that a single paper overturns decades of work," notes Nathan Urban from Princeton University in a New Scientist interview. Urban, a contributing author to the new study, modestly added, "Quite often, it turns out that it's the controversial paper that is wrong, rather than the research it hopes to overturn. Science is an iterative process. Others have to check our work. We have to continue checking our work, too."
If their work ultimately checks out that would mean that while the world will get warmer, it will likely not become catastrophically hot. In other words, the sky would be falling less.
Ronald Bailey is Reason's science correspondent. His book Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution is available from Prometheus Books.
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In other words, the sky would be falling less.
Yes, but if only half the sky falls, what will hold the other half up?
Al Gore's sense of self-importance?
He who is the Oracle who informed the unwashed masses that the interior of the earth is hotter than the sun!
Really now, a world inhabited by someone who could allow that to slip from thier lips, is not a world worth saving. Carbon Dioxide, take us away!
What a wonderful incarnation of a Calgon reference.
That was a Fox News Photoshop job.
He matches up nicely with the average American IQ.
Well at any given time half the sky is beneath us, so naturally gravity would pull it away from the underside of the Earth. If it broke loose, it'd probably just crash into Hades.
I thought it was reasonably well established that CO2 alone had a diminishing effect, and that it wouldn't result in much more than about a 2 degree centigrade increase.
Most of the OMG AGW comes from positing various feedback loops that exacerbate the CO2 effect.
No, most of the AGW comes from Hydronium Hydroxide. It is a well known secret and the science is settled.
I believe it is dihydrogen oxide.
Actually, its hydrolic acid.
Actually it's hocus pocusium
Dude, its a nomenclature game.
He obviously never had a Gilbert chemistry set!
I thought it was reasonably well established that CO2 alone had a diminishing effect, and that it wouldn't result in much more than about a 2 degree centigrade increase.
I've been hearing "ocean heat sinks" which suddenly decided to start sinking heat last decade.
For which, of course, there is zero evidence.
That's typical for these guys. When the facts don't fit the theory, they try to change the facts with pure speculation.
I thought it was reasonably well established that CO2 alone had a diminishing effect
Yes. The theory is that CO2 traps infra red energy and there is only so much that can be trapped until it is all trapped. Any increase in CO2 after that point cannot heat the earth more as all the heat (the IR type of heat) will already be trapped.
The rest of the warming that the warmists say will come will be from increased water vapor...which is also a "green house" gas.
Of course if CO2 already traps all the heat then what the fuck is the water vapor going to trap?
CO2 and water have overlapping, but different absorption bands across the IR spectrum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.....ission.png
So, the relationship between the two is complicated to say the least.
Comparing those absorption bands one wonders why H2O which covers a huge area of the band has not already caused run away global warming on a planet that is mostly covered with water.
But yes I see your point...of course your point only open an even bigger can of worms.
"has not already caused run away global warming on a planet that is mostly covered with water."
When the sun goes down at night does the temperature fall to -200?
Water vapor already traps in a lot of heat.
The diminishing effect only makes sense if the amount of CO2 is fixed. That is to say, a given amount of CO2 can only hold so much heat. However if more CO2 is entering the atmosphere then the heat-retention capacity gets greater.
That's not true. It's not really heat that CO2 absorbs, it's infrared radiation, which is a type of light that's not visible to the eye because it has a longer wavelength.
The critical point is that CO2 absorbs only certain wavelengths of IR radiation. If all the IR radiation at those wavelengths is being absorbed by the CO2 already in the atmosphere, additional CO2 will not absorb more IR radiation.
Consider an analogy with visible light. Imagine a glass of water to which you add red food coloring. Adding a little bit results in light color, maybe a pinkish color. Continuing to add more food coloring will result in a darker color. However, there will come a point where adding more food coloring will not make the water appear any darker.
The reason is that the food coloring is red because it absorbs other colors of light and transmits red light. If there is sufficient food coloring in the glass, it can absorb ALL of the light of other colors that's passing through the glass. Therefore, additional food coloring will not make the glass appear darker. The analogy to CO2 is direct because the color of visible light is determined by its wavelength. The food coloring, like CO2, absorbs only certain wavelengths of light.
"Quite often, it turns out that it's the controversial paper that is wrong, rather than the research it hopes to overturn. Science is an iterative process. Others have to check our work. We have to continue checking our work, too."
This must be his first time doing climate science. We all know the science is already settled.
Seeing as how this has long been obvious to anyone who knew what the IPCC's CO2 climate sensitivity values predicted for the current temperature, I predict that this paper will have several half-assed rebuttals, and then be promptly ignored just like they've been ignoring the thermometor for the last decade.
Is Thermometor a supervillian with the power to determine the temperature?
In the current political climate, that would indeed make him a villian.
the IPCC? isn't that the U.N. group that swore the Hymalayan glaciers were melting based on what turned out to be a half-assed article in some magazine that was cooked up in the writer's eco-terrorist mind?
why on Earth would someone even consider using articles published by this agenda driven pigsty unless, of course, there is some money in it...
Because there is a LOT of money in it. And power, never underestimate the allure of power.
Reality is politicizing the debate.
That's just because the facts are biased.
The researchers declared that their results "imply less probability of extreme climatic change than previously thought."
What's this? Good news?
No! Burn the witch! She turned me into a Newt.
This should help simplify things for those who aren't so good at envisioning logarithmic functions in their heads:
Conclusion: If climate sensitivity were around 3.0, as claimed by alarmists, we should have observed 2.5x more warming since the industrial revelution than we actually have.
Alarmists' response: But...aerosols! And we can't observe all the warming because the heat is trapped deep in the ocean! The science is settled, and if you disagree with it, you're a denier who must be funded by Big Oil and/or the Koch Brothers!
You mean it's not going to get warmer? Now I have to buy all new winter clothes. Damn.
Good, whatever. Do we get to continue our radical experiment to change the chemical makeup of the atmopshere for unprecedented profit for ourselves, and are you guys gonna keep being the unpaid crusaders for our agenda?
It's not a radical experiment to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. What's radical is using the SUN for ENERGY. THAT's CRAZYTALK.
Herp a derp!
Ok, whatever. Do we continue believing that humans should die or just succumb to reality?
We already do use the sun for energy. We always have. The battery the energy is stored in is called Oil.
We already do use the sun for energy. We always have. The battery the energy is stored in is called Oil.
If oil comes from a photosynthetic biological process then why does lifeless Titan have hydrocarbons?
Devils advocate:
Because HCs can arise for different causes under different conditions?
Who says it's lifeless?
A lack of free oxygen leaves both hydrogen and carbon around to play with each other out yonder in the celestial sticks. Because usually, hydrogen like carbon are just panty-losing whores for oxygen. Free oxygen is really, really strange in the universe, it always shacks up with something. Usually hydrogen and sometimes carbon.
Otherwise, you have to bust the oxygen off the carbon and direct it to the hydrogen, which is energy intensive via photosynthesis. And then the other investment in energy comes from the earth itself, when you put that chemistry under pressure and heat for a couple eons and cook off all the volatiles and bake those long chains in peace. Its more than just the Sun. That's why you see long-chainers like kerosene and gasoline on Earth and only simple-simple compounds (methane, ethylene) for the most part out on Titan et' al.
...and coal...and water (hydroelectric). Supernovae have provided us with nuclear power.
Your agenda? I see a lot of people driving cars and using electricity and petrochemicals of all kinds. There seems to be pretty broad and enthusiastic participation in this experiment.
Re: Zeb,
For the Eco-wackos, humans are simply stupid and tools of the corporations, which are populated (seemingly) by something not human, just like the Eco-wackos themselves who presume to know better.
But polar bears eat fish.
It's just like in Jurassic Park when the tyrannosaurus rex changed into the opposite sex and mated with itself.
You can try to drown nature but it just won't stay dead. It just comes back every halloween and tries to murder it's sister.
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"But polar bears eat fish."
Also Harp Seals. And the Harp Seals are probably pleased (if) the population of Polar Bears decreases.
Don't they have a place at the table?
They do until they run into me.
Exxon is only supplying the energy. The purchasers are the ones doing all the actual evil converting of the energy.
[sarcasm] Yes Exxon. The oil industry is designed to melt the ice caps. Heating homes, powering the electric grid, and transporting people is just a tolerable side effect of our quest to watch polar bears starve.[/sarcasm] :))
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"...our radical experiment to change the chemical makeup of the atmopshere for unprecedented profit for ourselves,..."
How much lying innuendo can a brain-dead jam into one sentence?
Pretty sure this beats one of shithead's posts,
Shithead? You're going to have to be far more specific.
Not for me. Tony = Shithead. That's all.
unprecedented profit for ourselves
You get penny or two for each gallon sold while we get 50% of the sales price and don't have to do jack shit for it.
If by "unprecedented profit" you mean a lower profit margin than Google, Apple, Microsoft and a whole bunch of other corporations make, then yeah.
Exxon supports a carbon tax.Exxon CEO Tillerson
so does Shell and BP and Pelosi and Gingrich and George fuciking Bush.
The only reason we don't have a global carbon tax is because the whole idea is so stupid that even the american sheeple are not yet quite dumb enough to support it.
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Dominika started modeling as little as 3 months ago as previously her ex-boyfriend stopped her from doing any kind of modeling.
Small but perfectly formed, this newly born model is a natural in front of the camera!
At the United Nations' Cancun climate change meeting last year, climate negotiators set a goal of avoiding an increase of more than 2°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial temperatures.
"Negotiators"? On whose behalf???
Hey! They're 'negotiating' about who gets to stick a hand in you pocket!
It's not easy figuring out who gets to steal the green!
Re: Sevo,
The "Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for supper" metaphor being appropriate at this time.
See? Now you know what that 'negotiation' is about.
Since they've already technically succeeded, does that mean they're going to cancel their Qatar vacation next year?
If their work ultimately checks out that would mean that while the world will get warmer, it will likely not become catastrophically hot. In other words, the sky would be falling less.
Well I for one see no issue with the sky falling. The only reason we are alive today is because Earths gravity manages to keep the sky nice and close to the surface.
Actually, the Earth's gravity would keep a much thicker atmosphere like Venus. Were it not for our oversized moon, we might not be here.
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Comrades! You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?
manbearpigs. Get it right.
Keep pulling....you may see daylight yet! LOL
"A new climate study suggests global warming may not be as dire as predicted."
No shit.
A new study, huh?
Thank god, because any empirical knowledge of classical political fearmongering certainly didn't make me doubt all the screaming about armageddon if we didn't allow the state to grow even more intrusive.
This^ LOL
+a lot, UJ.
A colder Last Glacial Maximum implies higher climate sensitivities due to lower levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Well, no, a colder Last Glacial Maximum implies that when various things affecting the climate are completely different at some point in the last 120,000 or so years, the climate will be different.
Saying that the only thing that has changed between then and now is carbon dioxide levels, and everything else has stayed the same, is just crazy talk.
And I thought just last year the best scientific guess was that things were WARMER during the Last Interglacial Period, which is what is most directly comparable to now. If CO2 was lower then, why were temperature warmer if CO2 is the only thing that matters?
Well, OK I never thought about it liek that.
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Did the Holocaust happen less?
Nobody cares about your retarded strawman.
I don't even know what this comment is supposed to mean. Spoof perhaps? I just can't tell anymore.
No, Tony, it didn't. But, it's nice to see you have no moral or ethical qualms about comparing the worst atrocity in the last century to a supported disagreement about scientific fact. Because all good science is based on smears and innuendo.
"Did the Holocaust happen less?"
Shithead, that is sleazy even by your despicable standards.
The Holocaust = man-made.
That's the key, Tony.
This is the beginning of the official Great Face-Saving Walkback.
This ^
Exactly. In a few decades, when only sickly geezers are literate, the walkback will end as the warmenists start telling everyone that it was the actions of the IPCC that saved the planet
Without the active support of newly industrializing countries, CO2 is absolutely beyond our control. They are not going to give up the good life that they are steadily gaining by burning fossil fuel Even if they did,
and we did also, the change would hardly dent whatever is going to happen anyway.
This subject is just about dead.
6 degrees C is not 13 degrees F, it's 10.8 degrees F.
jeeeezuz. 6 Degrees Celsius is 42.8 degrees on the F scale. Keep you head while others around you are losing their's.
You misunderstand. I know that 6 degrees C is 42.8 degrees on the standard American thermometer when you start at 32 degrees (0 degrees on the C scale). But 6 degrees C by itself is EQUAL to 10.8 degrees on the F scale. Get it?
Bailey above says "6°C (13°F)" which is wrong.
If Schmittner is right, (doubtful according to Real Climate), I don't understand why Bailey thinks that adding a mere 11 years before we hit the wall is a big deal.
What's the plan, party until you drop?
How long until the Reason editors figure out that Bailey has missed one of the biggest scams in history? The promoters of AGW have been found to cherry pick data to support predetermined conclusions, to prevent peer reviewed papers that disagree with their conclusions to be considered during the IPCC ARs, to manipulate and hide inconvenient data, to have used inappropriate methods that show no crisis when corrected, and admit that there is no adequate way to measure the global anomaly trend or calculate sensitivity from the current data. When will Mr. Bailey begin to see that the revelations are important and that they do matter?
I don't know about other readers but it seems to me that a magazine that shows a prudent and healthy distrust of official pronouncements by government agencies or special interest groups from all sides of the spectrum seems to be very naive when it comes to people who argue that they can determine temperatures within 0.1C in 2050.
Thank you thank you thank you, Reason, for a REASONABLE article on global warming. Both sides of this debate have been full of hot air, with Gore and Limbaugh acting as poster boys for two extreme positions.
I'm not worried about global warming myself, because it stands to reason that as the ice caps melt, they'll drip lots of ice water onto the sun when it goes beneath the earth every night, thereby cooling the earth about as much as the earth is being warmed.
Did anyone actually bother to read the paper? It concludes as follows -
" Our uncertainty analysis is not complete and does not explicitly consider uncertainties in radiative forcing due to ice sheet extent or different vegetation distributions. Our limited model ensemble does not scan the full parameter range, neglecting, for example, possible variations in shortwave radiation due to clouds. Non-linear cloud feedbacks in different complex models make the relation between LGM and 2×CO2 derived climate sensitivity more ambiguous than apparent in our simplified model ensemble (27). More work, in which these and other uncertainties are considered, will be required for a more complete assessment."
The most we can say is the increase of CO2 won't result in as much warming as we thought, as soon as we thought. This really doesn't change the fundamental point of the science at all.
Quote from one of the lead scientists:
"Science is an iterative process. Others have to check our work. We have to continue checking our work, too."
This is the basis of the scientific method. This is what has been missing from prior work from sources like Michael Mann and Phil Jones. If ever someone says "the science is settled" that person does not understand the scientific method. Science is rarely ever "settled". Recent case in point: Relativity, both special and general. Relativity is under attack as a direct result of research in Quantum Physics. These two branchs of physics HATE one another and lead to frequent contradictions, poor Einstein. I agree science can appear ugly at times but the scientific method must be honored. The climate scientists forgot that one tiny detail.
Ooooooooooooooooooooo, Al Gore is spinning like a music-box dancer!
The climate scientists forgot that one tiny detail.
They did? Could you quote something from a journal article that you disagree with from them, and show how the Schmittner paper (or any other paper) conflicts with their statements?
The fact is that the earths atmospheric heat signature does not demonstrate a temperature profile consistant with a greenhouse warming effect. This is admitted by the East Anglia climatologists in the latest email release. If warming is not due to a greenhouse effect even the minimal, theortical effect of increased CO2 mentioned in this article is not happening. It's time science moved on to look for more reasonable causes of inter glacial warming periods.


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'Museums enable people to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment. They are institutions that collect, safeguard and make accessible artefacts and specimens, which they hold in trust for society.' ~ The Museums Association
Learning and access are supposed to be central to the purpose of all museums, but I'm not entirely sure that all museum staff are aware of this. Consistently high numbers of school children trudging around museums throughout the land in groups of thirty at a time suggest that they are welcoming places for those who want to learn, and I thoroughly enjoyed every visit I went on when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Some museums host regular 'handling days', activities for the young and the such like, and with the governmental pressure that's put on them these days to become 'attractions', rather than institutions responsible for safeguarding our heritage, the number of 'social' activities available has risen... with lights, shows and widgets to boot in some cases. But what about those of us whose interests lie beyond these social events, or demonstrations of this ceremony or that, whilst being offered lumps of stale cheese on a stick? What if your desire to study an object or collection goes beyond the normal couple of hours trundling around after a tour guide or teacher, and your request for access involves a curator giving up time to find an object that isn't on display in order to make it available to you?
I've met some wonderful museum staff. They've been so helpful and have given up a huge amount of their time despite being rushed off their feet. I feel very fortunate to have met them and have the greatest respect for them. At the same time, I've encountered some of the most pretentious, self-important... well, not wanting to mince words... plonkers you could ever wish to meet; individuals who weren't just unhelpful, they were deliberately obstructive. The idea that a member of the general public should be permitted access to the collections not on display, the 'inner sanctum' if you like, and that they should be required to actually take part in such sacrilege, was downright offensive to them.
Obviously, the primary concern of a museum is to safeguard the objects themselves. That must always come first. The second concern, surely, is to make those objects available for the purpose of education, research and enjoyment... or else, what is the point of them being in a museum in the first place? They may as well be in the safe of that type of private collector who takes them out twice every decade in dim light before whisking them back in again.
One of those plonkers I referred to felt obliged, though I don't know why (I suppose it may have been the amount of wine he'd consumed), to explain his reasoning when it came to keeping priceless artefacts away from the rabble. Collections, he explained at a gathering of like-minded stuffed shirts (myself excluded from that description), should be made available to those who can understand their significance and advance scholarship... not bus drivers and secretaries. How exactly are we to advance scholarship and understanding, or even inspire a desire in future generations to do so, if we restrict access? And what about the Museums Association's definition of what museums do... they 'safeguard and make accessible' objects which they 'hold in trust for society'. I see 'accessible' and 'society' in there. The former word does not mean 'lock up for all time' and I think the latter includes bus drivers and secretaries.
I've even heard it suggested that the display cases and walls of museums should be filled with replicas, so that the originals can be locked away. Whilst I can very much see the sense in that when it comes to fragile objects that may be irreparably damaged due to being on public display (I'm thinking of poor old King Tut's tomb here), what on earth would be the point in going to the Louvre to see a copy of the Mona Lisa? Or to the Orsay to see a copy of Manet's Olympia? Turn the Marmottan into a showcase for fake water lillies, and fill the British museum with painted resin 'antiquities', and then twenty academics can study the genuine articles while the rest of us fiddle with interactive displays and gawp at genuine 21st century original Neolithic pottery.
The objects housed in museums can be enjoyed by anyone... any old Tom, Dick or Harry can find himself swept away by a Tissot or a Renoir. It's true, you don't need a masters degree to like art - who knew? And it's that initial feeling of being swept away that can lead to a much deeper interest, a quest for knowledge, and eventually a request for special access to view the rest of a collection. That's how it all started for me with Japanese prints. One minute I was a teenager worrying about my homework, the next I was obsessed and inflicting myself on various museums for hours at a time.
When someone asks me what they should do to learn more about Japanese prints, I tell them to read everything they can get their hands on and then to go and find museums with collections and ask to see them, so they can get a feel for them. I've been surprised by the number of people who've come back to me and said they were made to feel like a nuisance by the staff they contacted. If not for people with a genuine and deep interest and a great desire to learn, who on earth are these collections being preserved for? If not to promote a wider understanding and greater level of appreciation, why do museums exist at all?
So, what do you think? Are museum resources so limited that staff should not waste their time providing access to items not on display to anyone who doesn't have the right credentials (naturally, this excludes bus drivers and secretaries)? Is the move towards widget-infested interactive doo-dahs a good thing? Who doesn't like pressing buttons to make things move/flash after all? Can objects that never see the light of day really be said to have been preserved for 'society'? Do you feel that the atmosphere in museums is generally welcoming? Exclusive? Inspiring? Uncomfortable?


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Officers charged Carey Elliott Harrison, 34, of 1212 Boyer St., with assault on a law enforcement officer, simple assault, communicating threats, injury to personal property and resisting a public officer, and he was being held Monday on a $70,000 bond pending a court appearance.
According to arrest warrants for Harrison, Officer J.S. Santana was one of the officers who answered a call about domestic violence at Harrisons address.
Santana was trying to detain Harrison when he broke Santanas nose, the warrants said.
Harrison also fought police when they were trying to handcuff him, the warrants said, and hit a second officer.
The heart of the dispute, the warrants charged, was that Harrison had threatened a woman by verbally telling her that he was going to kill her.
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Re: Books similar to Hobb's Style?
I second the Empire trilogy and David Gemmell, although IMO Empire is probably closer to Hobb's style. I think because of their collaboration, Empire became rather unique and a completely different animal from anything else either Wurts or Feist wrote on their own (and yes, it's much better than Riftwar). Only problem is there are only three books .
But, if you really want the full dose of anti-heroism, Hobbs' Soldier Son Trilogy is your best bet. I almost got clinically depressed reading it, and will never make it to book 3. Or you can always go for Stephen Donaldson. Any of his series would do (Thomas Covenant, GAP series, Mordant's Need). Donaldson's worlds don't have heroes, only anti-heroes.
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Yeah I am reading the second Empire book and the last Soldier son book right now. I don't let myself get depressed by books any more...although I did stop reading the Donaldson books after the 4th one because I found them so depressing. I was a teenager then and teenagers tend to already be depressed so I found it hard to read...I am planning on doing a reread of the Covenant books so I can finish them.
I like breaking up the emotionally tough books with some lighter ones like Feist or Eddings. I would also suggest reading Brandon Sanderson...very good books.
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If you want good books to read, there are two authors i must suggest.
Brandon Sanderson, and George R R Martin (who has his own subforum here i think)
Both of them are amazing in characterization and plot. Brandon Sanderson has written 5 books that i know of, and George R R Martin has written 4.
Brandon Sanderson first. He has written a trilogy and two stand alone novels. The main reason i love his books is that he is very imaginative. As you know, most books set in fantasy worlds have thier own forms of magic. Indeed, i like Robin Hobbs books alot because of thier interesting magic systems. The Skill + Wit are both pretty different to anything i have seen before.
Brandon Sanderson is very good in that area too, with more then 3 different kinds of magics being juggled around in his trilogy, and both of his stand-alone novels and unique magic systems. Also, if you like the 'assassin' theme, and good fights, you will enjoy his books, because in them i have found some of the most detailed fight scenes i have ever found. (Have you ever noticed that in most books, the fight scenes very quickly degenerate into vague descriptions, leaving you with no real sense of the fight at all. Not so with Brandon Sanderson, in his books, you can imagine every move in your head, because he describes them all.) And of course, alot of jumping and sneaking around in the darkness.
His trilogy is called the Mistborn trilogy, and his stand alone books are called Warbreaker and Elantris. Mistborn is easily the best, but Warbreaker is suprisingly good, with a very solid plot, considering how short it is (around 500-600 pages, i think) Elantris is very good, but not as good as the other two. Yet for his first ever published novel, it was very good.
And then, of course, George R R Martin.
Im sorry all, and while Robin Hobb is among my three favorate authors, no author is as good as GRRM.
No other author has ever given me such a sense of connection to his/her characters, or ever made such a good, realistic world as he. His world really feels like a world to you, and his characters are so great.
He is in the middle of a series called A Song of Ice and Fire, a 7 book long epic series. He is near the end of the fifth book now. The books go - 'A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords (In Britian, is it split into two books, A Storm of Swords, Steel and Snow, and A Storm of Swords, Blood and Gold) and A Feast for Crows. His next book, A Dance with Dragons, has no official release date yet, but is near completion, and the name of the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, has been announced.
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I would suggest Roger Zelazny's 'Chronicles of Amber' starting with Nine Princes in Amber.
Really really good book, has political intrigue, fight for the throne, self-discovery etc and is told in first person, like Hobb.
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Why is the Chamber of Commerce having secret meetings? According to their own website, they serve as the unifying force and focal point for enhancing the economic, social and cultural well-being of the regional community it serves. "The Chamber shall seek to accomplish its mission by being the voice for business within the community." They need to stay in their own lane.
I challenge the VDT to survey businesses in Valdosta to see what population of race is more employed. Racism is not depicted to one color.
So the local Chamber of Commerce is concerned about the negative stories from the paper on the Water/Sewer mess? What about Valdosta and its growing unemployment, wage decline, number of vacant houses, and no new industry/good-paying jobs in years? Are they doing anything about that? And what in the heck does the Industrial Authority director do, other than collect a big fat salary? The grass is getting much browner around here....and it ain't the water/sewer dumping on it.
VDT, thank you for the facts on the "waste water" issue. I feel better knowing you are investigating how our tax money is being spent. How can the city get awards on openness in reporting when the numbers don't match? Are you investigating the Industrial Authority purchase of new facilities while still under lease at the current facilities that is "rumored" to cost $50,000 to buy out the lease plus a $600,000 purchase. Please report on how the winner was picked in the "downtown" project. Keep up the excellent work; taxpayers have more questions than answers. Sunshine is a wonderful political disinfectant. It will keep our community clean and attractive to businesses.
Rave for Erica with Valdosta City Water and Sewer Department. Her very kind service and the employees who pick up my garbage on Tuesday, thank you.
What is up with the new tag and title fees at the tag office? You have to pay 10 percent of your vehicles worth for a tag and title. Who has $2,000 for a tag and title fees? Ad valorem was crazy outrageous, but this is plain stupid!
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How lucky we are to have Marc Mondavi joining us for our wine tasting at 7 p.m. on Dec. 6. I'm going to put links here for the tech sheets and a link to the website, so you can learn a little more about the wines before we taste.
Here's something impressive: Marc Mondavi is a water witch--he can douse for water. They say his skill at this is mighty impressive, and he'll tell us about that, too. You can noodle around here http://www.thediviningrod.com/ (look under the "story") to get some background.
Link to the cabernet sauvignon tech sheet: http://www.thediviningrod.com/product-i14456-c0-2010_Alexander_Valley_Cabernet_Sauvignon.aspx
To the chardonnay tech sheet: http://www.thediviningrod.com/product-i14457-c0-2010_Santa_Lucia_Highlands_Chardonnay.aspx
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By Col. Gregory Breazile
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KABUL, Afghanistan — As I rode through Kabul, Afghanistan, the other day it struck me that I was viewing signs of a modern society creeping into this ancient environment.
I was passing some very modern apartments being built in the distance. These apartments were about six stories tall and looked like something you would see in any city. While I was staring at these buildings we passed a man wrapped in his winter garb, riding on a wooden cart pulled by a single horse. It appeared he was bringing a harvest of lettuce to sell in the city.
At that moment the realization came to me that the people of this country live in two different worlds - one world where the modern conveniences of plumbing, electricity, television and radio are available and another where they live in mud huts with no running water or electricity.
This contrast of cultures was striking and made me think these people have a long road ahead. Imagine the fact there are more than 28 million people in Afghanistan and only a quarter of them live in urban areas.
This means roughly 21 million Afghans live in the rural communities. I realized the vast majority of Afghans may never have access to such modern comforts as I watched cranes lifting heavy beams to build these apartments for the privileged few.
This dichotomy between what we might call the ancient Afghanistan and the modern Afghanistan is nothing new to many underdeveloped nations around the globe.
The difference here is this country is embroiled in a counterinsurgency where the insurgents want to move the people backward and not forward into the modern era. The insurgents want to take the country back to a time where the people were less educated, had fewer opportunities and could be easily manipulated through coercion and force.
According to Esmatullah Ameen, an interpreter supporting the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, "the Taliban are really bad people." He said, "they put the educated people in jail … my father spent two years in jail during the Taliban years."
He explained that education is a threat to the Taliban because educated people know better than to accept the conditions imposed by the insurgents.
"Literacy is also a big problem … some people don't know anything about the world," Ameen said. "My father is from Badakhshan Province and one time when a car drove into a nearby village people came out and put food on the ground in front of the vehicle thinking it must be hungry from the trip."
He explained without a school or place to gain knowledge that most Afghans only know what they are told by those around them. This is why the Taliban want to keep them uneducated so they will not know any better and support their cause.
My simple assessment of the Afghan society is that they want progress but war, lack of education and corruption have held them back. In my perspective the lack of education is probably the major limiting factor to their development.
These people appear to be very hard working and are no doubt as capable as any other culture in the world but due to their own lack of knowledge they have been held back. When asked why these communities have not modernized, Ameen said "there is still some corruption that keeps the money to build schools from making it to the right people in these villages. If we can stop the corruption and get the money to the right people then we can change the situation for those communities."
There are efforts by the Afghan government to stop these corrupt officials and this past year many have been jailed for their actions but they still have a long way to go before this is not a major issue.
I am somewhat optimistic about the future of Afghanistan since institutions like the Afghan National Security Forces are focusing not only on developing enduring institutions but also on developing literacy programs that will provide even more educated people back into their society.
Additionally, since the coalition forces arrived in Afghanistan they have built many schools, roads, bridges and other aspects of modern life to improve the overall conditions on the ground.
Those serving in Afghanistan feel the momentum shifting and each day there are positive signs of change within this country. Only time will tell if these people can defeat the insurgents and move the population from ancient conditions to a modern society.
Col. Gregory Breazile is the director of communication, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan. Breazile is a combat veteran with 26 years of Marine Corps service. He lives in Stillwater.


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Prosecutor, federal judge spar over 6-year mortgage fraud sentence
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By Martha Neil
A prosecutor seeking 24 years for a mortgage fraud defendant complained Tuesday that the 6½-year term handed down by a federal judge to Vasilia Berger represented the biggest variance he'd ever heard of since sentencing guidelines took effect in 1987.
But the judge said the prosecutor was the one who had cut an amazing break to a co-defendant in the Pittsburgh case, Berger's estranged husband, Jay, who cooperated with the feds and got only 15 months as a result of a plea bargain, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The couple owned a mortgage company, Steel City Mortgage Services Inc. The feds said guidelines called for a six- to eight-year prison term for Jay Berger. They contended that Vasilia Berger, who didn't cooperate, should get a sentence three or four times greater for her wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conviction because of new information that came to light about victims' losses since Jay Berger entered into a plea, the newspaper explains.
U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti disputed this, saying that the government had informally changed the sentencing guidelines for Jay Berger because of his cooperation in the case. She called it "very troubling" that the feds should seek such dramatically different prison terms for a husband and wife who committed essentially the same crime.
Jay Berger entered into a plea in 2008 but was not sentenced until September of last year.
As assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan Conway complained to Conti that the light sentence for Vasilia Berger would discourage other defendants from entering into plea bargains, the judge told him: "You can take this up on appeal, Mr. Conway," the Post-Gazette recounts.
Conti gave Vasilia Berger until April 30, 2014 to report to prison, so that she can make arrangements to find a guardian to care for her 6-year-old daughter. Although Jay Berger will be out of prison before then, he has advanced cancer.
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As part of its Long Play program, the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) presents the Australian premiere of Woody Allen: A Documentary. Spanning the remarkable career of arguably America's premier auteur, comedian and neurotic, it will screen from 1 - 18 June.
For 40 years, Woody Allen has been a prolific filmmaker giving us cause to laugh, cry, contemplate and at times cringe. His distinctive voice has developed over the years from a comedy writer for television to producing some of the most seminal films in cinematic history. Featuring interviews with Allen, his collaborators and admirers, such as Diane Keaton and Penelope Cruz, Martin Scorsese; this documentary explores his career and artistic practice comprehensively for both those new to Allen, and for those who have been with him since the early days.
Including his 'funny works' like Bananas and Take the Money and Run, the Oscar winning Annie Hall and Manhattan and even his most recent Midnight in Paris; writer, director and producer Robert Weide (best known for his long time pursuits directing/producing Curb Your Enthusiasm) takes us on a journey through Allen's early days outside film as a stand-up comic and sometimes writer for The New Yorker, and explores the artistic journey of his writing practice and relationships with his actors. A plethora of interviews with colleagues and those close to Allen studs the documentary providing insight and background.
Taking a year and a half to make, Weide stated that ". Woody will have made three features just in the time it's taken me to make this one documentary."
This level of detail and unfettered access to one of the world's movie greats gives us a unique and intimate view into a world that is often caged in self-deprecation and elusiveness. ". it's those small moments that stay with you .." noted the Hollywood Reporter; ".Allen sitting on the side of his bed, glancing at the random scraps of paper where he jots down movie ideas and then forgets them and moves on, or admitting that he really doesn't have anything to say, in short uncomfortable social situations, to the actors who work in his films."
ACMI Film Programmer Kristy Matheson said "as well as being rapturous love letters to the city of New York, Allen's films wear their obsessions on their sleeves." Through his ongoing love affair with jazz, his homage's to film heroes Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to his quest to find meaning in the absence of god, Allen is a true original.
Woody Allen: A Documentary screens as an extended run from 1 to 18 June in conjunction with ACMI's Jazz On Film program (3 to 9 June) within this year's Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Two other Woody classics will show at ACMI during Jazz On Film, Sweet and Lowdown and Bullets Over Broadway. For program information, session times and tickets please visit: acmi.net.au
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An Open Letter to the Senate Finance Committee: Eliminate -- Don't Expand -- the Antiquated Federal Excise Tax On Communications Services
February 3, 2005
Dear Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Baucus, and Members of the Committee:
On behalf of the 350,000 members of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU), I write to offer our views concerning the Joint Committee on Taxation's (JCT's) January 27th report Options to Improve Tax Compliance And Reform Tax Expenditures. While this study contains many ill-advised proposals, we specifically urge you to rule out consideration of the report's suggestions for expanding the federal excise tax on communications services. Instead, we urge you to pass out of committee legislation that would either eliminate this age-old burden on taxpayers and the economy, or at least prohibit its expansion to new services.
Although NTU understands that the JCT report is an advisory document, we are also aware that such papers can produce bad ideas that proceed to get pushed down the path to enactment. Additionally, we fail to understand why the JCT would include options for raising excise taxes in a report dealing with tax compliance and reforming tax "expenditures."
The fact is the telecommunications landscape is evolving too fast for regulators and politicians to keep up with and interpret. The decision in the mid-1990s to leave "communication" services subject to taxation, but not "information" services, is evidence of this conflicted stance. The result has been incalculable time and money being wasted on regulatory petitions and judicial proceedings at both the federal and state level over how services the government officials never envisioned should be taxed and regulated.
At a time when business models in the telecommunications industry are completely restructuring to deliver on the promise of new technologies, the last thing Congress should do is expand a stale old tax regime that is guaranteed to leave consumers with higher prices and fewer choices. To expand the reach of this tax to include all forms of communication including broadband, VoIP, or any other emerging technology would not only inhibit further technological progress?it would harm the very core of our information-based economy.
The federal excise tax on communications is the lingering artifact of a levy that was originally passed in 1898 to pay for the Spanish-American War. It disappeared and reappeared until 1941, from which point it has remained permanent. Several attempts have been made to phase it out, but each time Congress's desire for revenues halted its demise. However, given that the economic costs of the federal communications tax far outweigh the relatively insignificant revenues it generates for the U.S. Treasury, Congress should do away with this nuisance once and for all.
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West Cumbria's own Meerkat Manor is a tourist draw
Last updated at 20:31, Thursday, 19 April 2012
A Cockermouth woman's obsession with meerkats has turned her into a town tourist attraction.
Wendy Brown dresses the cuddly toys up in different costumes and displays them in her window.
Dozens of people make a special detour to Wendy's home in Crown Street to look at the ever-changing displays.
Wendy, 68, has 13 of the toys, made famous in the TV advert for an insurance comparison website.
She said: "The meerkats have their own fan club and I can't really stop it especially when you see the children's little faces.
"However, the adults like it just as much as the children."
She displayed them in Easter costumes this month and has dressed them up in Georgian costumes in preparation for the town's Georgian Fair on May 5.
She will then have a Queen's Diamond Jubilee theme in June, she said.
Wendy, a member of Cockermouth Speakers Club, got her first meerkat when she was doing a speech about it.
She said: "It all started out as a bit of a joke and I was going to put the first one in the garden but I thought it was too nice to go in there.
"Then someone bought me another for Christmas, then another was bought for me and so I started displaying them in the window.
"The kids started seeing them and they come now nearly every week to see what they are doing."
First published at 19:25, Thursday, 19 April 2012
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God getting on your back? Satan won't stop calling you? David Letterman keeps peering in your windows to watch you change? Keep them away the easy way with a Paranormal Restraining Order. At only $5 a pop, these babies are a steal for sure-fire protection against the above mentioned entities, as well as constant pests like extra-terrestrial visitors, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and even the Grim Reaper himself! Check 'em out, and tell them Uncle Frank sentcha!
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A restraining order can be a powerful tool to help you keep yourself safe from an abusive paranormal entity, however, it is not your only choice and there are limitations to what a restraining order can do. A restraining order is not right for everyone in every situation and it cannot guarantee your safety.
Making the decision to apply for a restraining order can be very difficult, but it must be your decision. The following lists may help you decide whether a restraining order against a paranormal entity is the right choice for you.
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Have some compassion for superstition. Even if it is funny LOL.
Where I am lately I have to smile a lot and say nothing.
You are so funny... Eugene. Thank you, and I always thought you would do good in a court of sorts... at least you would make them lough :)
Eugene, here is something for you to think about, since we payed 5 bucks for your services...
if we can't be bothered by all those bad things anymore, after using your service... what can we do with our lives now.
Please be serious this time, if you can.
I think they were working on it when the deparment of justice wanted to assemble a committee to establish a date to get together and choose the approriate people who can determine a meeting mandate for the actual date needed to hold a meeting in order to determine the best decision makers in government to decide on the legitimacy of a document which in effect denies the very body that is supposed to enforce it.
The latter part of this sentence being the noose conundrum that creates the interesting phenomena where it keeps turning back on itself and then reapeat again and again and.........
Well....not anytime soon
hehe thats so much fun... it reminds me of the document circulating around back in communist Poland. It consisted of few columns of words, adjectives, verbs to built the sentence. No matter which combination of words you have chosen from the columns you end up with the sentence that kind of make sense, creating a speech for a politician to carry like 30 hours worth of talk. It all made sense if you can imagine,
kind of speech that you can hear often when one of those clowns speak, yet not say anything.
Another would be a card that has written words on it... if you want to know what an idiot does every day - turn this card, and on the other side you would have the same thing written.
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11:59am Monday 12th November 2012 in Redbridge By Melanie Attlesey
AN event will celebrate religious diversity in Redbridge.
Turkish and Mediterranean food will be cooked by Kaftan restaurant's head chef on Monday as part of Interfaith Week.
Tickets for the event organised by Redbridge Faith Forum costs £10 in advance or £12.50 on the door.
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NEWBURYPORT — The Newburyport High School Environmental Club's latest collaboration is a new composting and recycling project called the ECube. Concerned with the lack of recycling and the number of items going into the waste bin, the club has designed, built and is now artistically painting the ECube to draw the attention of their school community.
"The idea is that everyone would sort out organic waste and put any meats, vegetables and fruits in the ECube's compost section," said Lindsay Ford, co-president of the Environmental Club.
The current receptacles recycle bottles and cans. The ECube's design is unique. It has four compartments: compost, bottle recycling, terracycling and trash.
According to Co-President Phoebe Lanham, "TerraCycle means to recycle things that you normally wouldn't be able to recycle, like candy wrappers, chip bags and Pop-Tarts wrappers. We even called the Pop-Tarts company to be sure the wrapper could be recycled."
The Environmental Club also called the city's recycling coordinator, Molly Ettenborough, to coordinate removal of the cardboard and food waste in the ECube's compost section. A company called Black Earth Haulers will remove the compost.
The club has been working on this project since September. It has been a very detailed process to measure, build and find the right-size bins, all to accommodate the needs of a high school cafeteria.
The ECube will be placed in the cafeteria in the coming weeks. Eventually, the club hopes to replace all the receptacles with the ECube. The club will work to educate students during lunch and study halls as to its use.
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We have reached the final matchup in the first round of the Metstradamus Hall of Hate … it's the 1 seed vs. the winner of the play-in vote at 16:
(1) The Wilpons vs. (16) Matt Cain
Why you should hate the Wilpons:
Oh, come on. I really gotta explain it to you? If I have to explain to you why you should hate Mets owner Fred Wilpon and his son Kim Kardashian, then this is obviously your first visit to any Mets blog, ever. This is the Wilpons' first appearance on the hate list vote and they debut as a one seed. Honestly, the Wilpons can hang out in the clubhouse eating chicken, drinking beer, and playing MLB The Show on Playstation, and win this vote by a hefty margin.
How Matt Cain got here:
Matt Cain defeated Cardinals crybaby Jack Clark in the play-in vote by a score of 33-29 to win the right to face the Wilpons in Round 1. Cain might have to throw a 99 mph pitch at the Wilpon's head to win this vote. Then again, that would automatically make Cain very popular in Queens. The only question here is whether Cain can get a single vote in this battle.