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Uneasy about raising their pay (currently just over $18,000 a year), legislators generally get by on per diem and mileage, which sometimes exceeds their pay during a typical session. House Speaker Kent Williams sent out a memo last week telling legislators to keep visits to Nashville out of session at a minimum to save money during the current budget crisis. Perhaps coincidentally, a Nashville television station (WKRN) reported total mileage and per diem payments for last session showing Williams arch-rival state Rep. Jason Mumpower topping the list at $24,730. Mumpower lives up in Northeast Tennessee and also has Nashville meetings due to his position as majority leader. Disgraced state Sen. Paul Stanley, from Shelby County, topped the Senate list at $24,194.
The Knox House delegation: Harry Brooks, $20,835; Joe Armstrong, $20,578; Bill Dunn, $18,614; Frank Niceley, $18,193; Harry Tindell, $17,763; Stacey Campfield, $16,862; Ryan Haynes, $16,603. In the Senate: Jamie Woodson, $18,589; Tim Burchett, $17,888.
One other note. State Rep. Chad Faulkner, a new member who works at the Knox County Sheriff's office and represents Union and Campbell counties, came in at a paltry $1,841. Hey, can't one of you guys show him how to fill out the forms?
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On March 3, the second day after the Associated Press released video footage from August 28 and 29, 2005, shedding new light on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to run any new news stories on the videos and Hurricane Katrina. By contrast, The Washington Post, USA Today, and the Associated Press all published second-day follow-up stories on the tapes, which appear to contradict President Bush's September 1, 2005, claim that "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
WASHINGTON - In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President George W. Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing among U.S. officials.The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing in a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about flood waters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking.
So while it was a great presidential photo-op (without the fake turkey)...
Actually, come to think of it, why aren't they doing those follow-ups? With the hysteria that enveloped the media and the leftysphere upon the release of those tapes, you'd think some of them would be doing substantive follow-ups to apologize and examine why they just completely invented a story about Bush being warned of breaches in the levees, when the tapes at the heart of the story contained absolutely no evidence for that story.
McQ:Another in a long line of gaffes, screw ups and incorrect stories brought to you by the collective entity known as the Main Stream Media (MSM) and their "4 levels of editors".
There's no question in my mind he probably had those reports, because we were feeding in the Homeland Security Operations Center, into the White House sit room, all of the information that we were getting. So he had to have had that information. Plus, I think the president knew from our earlier conversations that that was one of my concerns, that the levees could actually breach.
But, d*mn it, at what point does the repetition make malice more likely than stupidity?
And "breached" vs. "overtopped"!? I mean Christ on stick, people. This will be the defense? I guess. It all depends on what your definition of the word "is" is … umm… I mean "breached" is.
The comment was about the absurdity of the defense.
At what point does the repetition make incompetence more likely than the media's malice?
What exactly is the beef here? That the AP actually corrected its story? Or it didn't apologize? Or it didn't apologize and correct to the rightyshpere's satisfaction?
I talked to the President twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One. He remains very, very interested in this situation. He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions abouts reports of breaches. He's asking about hospitals. He's very engaged, and he's asking a lot of really good questions I would expect him to ask.
JOE HAGIN: Yeah, what's the current status of the levee system and the roof of the Superdome?DIRECTOR RHODE: Louisiana, did you receive that question? Louisiana, are you there?GOVERNOR BLANCO: Kathleen Blanco....What was your other question? The levees.We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees. We heard a report unconfirmed. I think we have not breached the levee. We have not breached the levee at this point in time. That could change, but in some places we have floodwaters coming in New Orleans East and the line St. Bernard Parish where we have waters that are eight to ten feet deep, and we have people swimming in there, that's got a considerable amount of water itself.That's about all I know right now on the specifics that you haven't heard. And we are still very concerned, and we will have to have an important search and rescue mission operation, so that as quickly as we can when the winds have stopped and we can reasonably and safely get people in there to check on all the calls that we have received.
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A nationwide effort to get out the vote took root at Butler University.
Tuesday was the first ever National Voter Registration Day.
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ROCKY GAP — The owners of Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort will finance a portion of the conversion of the property into a casino by using the property, furniture and fixtures of the property itself as collateral. Additional collateral for a $17.5 million credit line will be a second mortgage on Lakes Entertainment's real property located in Minnetonka, Minn.
Evitts Resort LLC, which now owns the lodge and resort, is a subsidiary of Lakes. The lodge and resort are located in Rocky Gap State Park.
The deal with Centennial Bank was closed in mid-December.
The loan will finance part of the conversion of existing convention space into a gaming facility, provide replacement meeting room space and refurbish the hotel lobby and guest rooms, a press release and Securities and Exchange Commission filing said.
Draws on the credit line will be charged an interest rate of 10.5 percent a year, documents indicated.
"Completing this financing allows us flexibility with the remaining cash on our balance sheet to look for other opportunities that will enhance shareholder value. We look forward to opening the new gaming facility in the second quarter of 2013, with the new meeting space to be completed soon after," said Tim Cope, president and CFO of Lakes.
Ivan Lanier of Greenwill Consulting Group, which represents Evitts in Maryland, recently said the configuration of the gaming rooms would include more space for table games along with slot machines, now that Maryland voters have approved table games.
The current plan at Rocky Gap calls for renovation of the facilities to convert 20,000 square feet of convention and meeting space into a slots parlor with a minimum of 500 video lottery terminals, a bar and a food outlet, company officials have said.
The total cost of the Rocky Gap acquisition and development project is expected to be between $25 million and $30 million.
The purchase price was about $6.8 million and Evitts signed a lease for 260 acres for 40 years with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, according to company filings with the SEC.
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There will be a "Fallen Angels Bike Ride" for the Doss family (Raney, Dylan, Michael, Bradley and Emily) at 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 3. Registration begins at 10 a.m. The bike ride will begin at Powersville Christian Church in Bracken County.
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Who would have thunk it? Well besides all of you haters that is. Fuck man! Even you fucking haters cant hate this time!! I was behaving! No problems on probation, no going out partying, no fist fights, no nothing! I did a year straight, got released, and TKOd Roger Huerta 3 months later! Signed a contract with @BellatorMMA to fight in their Welterweight tourney on @SpikeTV and @MTV_2. Yup, things were going great, but like all great things in my life, just had to crash and burn. For those of you who dont know: over 3 years ago while working at a club in Vegas, I was involved in an altercation with a co-worker. This guy was 63″ and over 300 lbs. and he did not like me. Long story short, after a couple months of tension it came to a head, and we got in a big argument. Unfortunately, words could not solve this problem and he came at me. Luckily for me, I was quicker, and with my training as an MMA fighter, I was able to protect myself against my much larger opponent.
The fight wasnt shit, one punch landed, and after a brief wrestling match, I landed on top. The problem was that the one punch caused a cut that needed stitches and during our fall his knee was injured. That being said, it shouldnt be a problem at all, but in America, the winner of a fight goes to jail. I guess its like survival of the weakest nowadays, at least in this country. So for the last 3+ years, my lawyer and the D.A. have been in negotiations. D.A. didnt want to risk trial cause his case was pathetic & weak, but didnt want to dismiss charges cause the big guy had medical bills and I didnt want to plea out to something because it was self-defense. So this shit went on and on and then I do a year in San Diego on a different fight. I do my time and just want to get on with my life and put all drama behind me, so I tell my lawyer, fuck it Ill sign their B.S. deal as long as theres no time involved, just med. bills and probation. Bam, I sign it and enter plea of guilty. A month later, I go before the sentencing Judge Valerie Adair, and Im accused of taking steroids and on and on, 1 year in jail! WTF!? Yeah, my attorney conveniently forgot to mention that if the judge doesnt like my physique, profession, and is on the RAG, she can totally disregard the plea agreement and do whatever she wants. Yup, good ole U-S of A. Land of the free (wait, Im in jail), home of the brave (umm
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Demetria Panaligan (Susan Africa) talked to Anessa Panaligan/Diomedes (Judy Ann Santos) about her second pregnancy. Demetria wants Anessa to inform Eros Diomedes (Sam Milby) that she is pregnant so that Eros and his family won't think that she is not decent. Meanwhile, at the NBI office, Alejo Apostol (John Estrada) informed the head of the NBI that they should do a background check on Romulos Diomedes (Tirso Cruz III). On the contrary, Romulos knew from an informant that the NBI agents are going to investigate on him wherein he asked Ramon (Mico Palanca) to take care of the Congressman Romero who mentioned his name to the NBI. Later at night, the Diomedes family prepared themselves to attend a prestigious party. Helena Diomedes (Coney Reyes) appreciated Eros and even let him know that he should continue his life without Anessa's presence. Meanwhile, Anessa visited at the Diomedes residence, looking for Eros so that she could inform Eros about her pregnancy but Romulos did not allow her to talk to Eros. Romulos did not allow Anessa to talk to Eros because he knows that Anessa only wants their money.
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The 'Condor' - four under par for a hole
Scoring a condor is the rarest event in golf. This is normally a hole in one at a par five (a two at a par six would also count, but this has never been done).
Only four condors have ever been recorded:
The first occurred in 1962, when Larry Bruce drove into the hole over a stand of trees on the 480-yard dogleg right par-5 fifth hole at Hope Country Club in Arkansas, USA.
Another condor was achieved by "cutting the corner" of a dogleg par-5 by Shaun Lynch at Teign Valley Golf Club in Christow, England, in 1995, on the 496-yard 17th. Lynch aimed straight at the green with a 3-iron, clearing a 20-foot-high hedge and hitting a downslope on the other side, which allowed his ball to roll down to the green and into the hole.
A condor was scored without cutting over a dogleg by Mike Crean at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in Denver, Colorado, in 2002, when he holed his drive at the 517 yard par-5 9th. This is longest hole in one on record, although it was of course aided by the altitude and thin air of 'mile-high' Denver.
The most recent condor was achieved in Australia by 16 year old Jack Bartlett on the 467 metre par-5 17th at Royal Wentworth Falls Country Club, NSW, Australia, on November 3, 2007.
A condor is also known as a triple-eagle or a double-albatross, although these terms are, of course, mathematically incorrect.
There is no other explanation for the name 'condor' apart from its continuation of the 'bird' theme in naming under-par scores, and the size of the bird becoming bigger as the score gets lower (birdie - eagle - albatross - condor).
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The Redskins took another step to shore up the offensive line Saturday by selecting Iowa right guard Adam Gettis in the fifth round.
Gettis (6'2", 193 at the combine) played left and right guard at Iowa where he earned the Hayden Fry "Extra Heartbeat" Award in 2011.
"That's what football is all about," Gettis said. "Getting after it, working hard, putting people on the ground and getting up and doing it again."
This is the first time since 2000 that the Redskins have spent two picks in the first five rounds on offensive linemen. He joins left guard Josh LeRibeus, who was taken in the third round Friday out of SMU.
Unlike LeRibeus, who came from a man-blocking scheme, Gettis said he is familiar with the Redskins zone-blocking.
"That fits perfect," said the 141st pick. "That's what we do at Iowa. It could be an easy transition."


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WAYNESBORO -- Some middle school students will see some changes in the classroom. Next year, they will be swapping textbooks for tablets in science and civic classes.
The school board approved a $200,000 technology upgrade. The schools will provide tablets for 8th grade classrooms. One hundred tablets will go to teachers for now.
The plan is that in 2015, 7th and 8th graders will get to keep the tablets and by 2016 all middle school students will get one.
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---- — The Newburyport and Pentucket baseball teams met at Pettingell Park for the first time yesterday and the Clippers showed their fans that they can rally, overcoming an early four-run deficit to tame the Sachems 9-4.
"It was a good response by our team after a disappointing loss (Wednesday)," Clippers coach Steve Malenfant said after taking a nine-inning, 2-1 loss to Hamilton Wenham the day before. "We responded well as a team and that's extremely important."
Newburyport left-handed senior Connor MacRae started the afternoon off in fine form at the top of the first inning, going 1-2-3. Pentucket countered with right-handed senior Gerald Scutt, who was making his second varsity start.
MacRae struggled mightily in the top of the second when he hit Connor McGuirk with a pitch, then allowed a triple to Jake Bordeianu to score Pentucket's first run of the day. The second run was scored by the next batter, Pat Beaton, who scored Bordeianu with a single past shortstop; and the third run was driven in with a double from Dylan Wright. D.J. Englke stepped to the plate next, scoring Wright with a single before MacRae would strike out Josh Creamer to end the bleeding, down four.
Clipper Mike Sweeney started the bottom of the second with a single and steal, then grabbed third on a ground out. MacRae drew a walk next before Travis Wile scored him and Sweeney with a double to deep centerfield to draw Newburyport within two.
MacRae seemed to find his way in the dark in the top of the third, going 1-2-3 again, and his offense kept pace in the bottom the frame. Brian Fiascone reached with a single and stole second before grabbing third on a strike-out, throw-out play and scoring on a ground out.
Newburyport tied things up in the bottom the fourth when freshman Scott Webster hit a lead-off double then moved to third on a MacRae single. Travis Wile hit Webster home with a double out to left field that chased Scutt from the game in lieu of Bordeianu.
"Pentucket came out fired up," Malenfant said. "We made some mistakes as well, but they hit the ball pretty well. When we tied it, it loosened everything up and hitting is contagious."
The Clippers then took the lead thanks to a double down the middle from Andrew Fiascone. Ian Michaels plated Wile before Fiascone scored on a passed ball. Connor Wile scored Michaels with a single to put Newburyport up 8-4 before the inning ended.
Webster started another rally in the bottom of the fifth, drawing a walk, then stole second and moved to third on a ground out. Travis Wile drew a walk himself before stealing second as Fiascone walked to load the bases with one out. Webster then scored on a sacrifice fly from Michaels.
Beaton took the mound for the Sachems in the bottom of the sixth and gave up no runs. MacRae ended up pitching a five-hit, 13-strikeout complete game.
"I was extremely impressed with the way Connor pitched," Malenfant said. "The last five innings, he had control of his breaking pitches. And then his fastball got in there too, so he's changing speeds well. He maintained his composure."
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Off to an 0-5 start to the season, L'Italien saw some light at the end of the tunnel after yesterday.
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The Memorial Day weekend music festival known for decades in Sacramento as the Dixieland Jazz Jubilee may have found its footing with a more diverse lineup of musicians, headliner acts and a new concert venue, organizers say.
Without releasing ticket sales amounts, producers of the Sacramento Music Festival say increases in attendance this year helped the four-day event raise $867,412 in revenue and avoid a deficit.
The festival took some risks in changing its programming and making difficult spending cuts, said Mike Testa, the event's marketing director and senior vice president of the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau.
It trimmed expenditures from $1.1 million in 2012 to just under $800,000 this year.
While the festival took in less money than last year and far from the $2.7 million raised in 2002 operating in the black marks a turnaround from the deficit of $132,424 that the music fair posted last year, organizers said.
"2012 was definitely a turning-point year for us," executive director Vivian Abraham said. "When we looked at where we ended up in 2012, we realized something needed to be done."
Organizers sought to broaden the festival's appeal by moving away from traditional jazz to showcase acts like Los Lobos, the East Los Angeles rock band that performed to a sold-out crowd of 3,100 at the new Turntable on the Green venue, just south of the Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento.
"That sellout was very encouraging for us," Abraham said.
The change in programming has proved controversial with some Sacramentans and jazz aficionados, who said the festival is forsaking a nationally known trademark offering traditional jazz. But the festival has kept many traditional and other jazz offerings, which account for almost half of the acts it presents.
Abraham said organizers will push forward next year with elements that made the festival successful this year, including more name acts and the roundtable stage.
"We're going to move further into bringing in more headliners for each night, though nothing is committed yet," she said.
Aside from Los Lobos, acts like the Blasters, the James Hunter Six and Wanda Jackson were new to the festival this year.
Testa said the festival needed to make changes in order to survive.
"Because of the significant financial losses of 2012, the festival didn't have much choice," said Testa, whose organization has partnered with the festival.
"The organization simply could not have absorbed another significant financial loss and continue to operate," he said.
Aside from retaining the Turntable on the Green venue for headliners, the festival is toying with offering VIP seating and a special family ticket rate next year.
Call The Bee's Edward Ortiz, (916) 321-1071. Follow him on Twitter @edwardortiz.
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A major victory for the blogosphere
The 'obsession with discussing the science basis' deserves comment. I wish the IPCC were more obsessed with the science basis. But I agree that fatigue is justified regarding skydragon type arguments about the greenhouse effect and second law of thermodynamics. But that kind of discussion seems to have pretty much disappeared from the main stream skeptical blogs? In the recent thread Skeptics: make your best case. Part II, I don't recall seeing any greenhouse effect refutations, mainly there were discussions about solar, ocean oscillations, sea level rise and other impacts. Is it possible that the blogospheric discussions on the greenhouse effect (at Climate Etc, Science of Doom, etc) have actually slain the skydragons And John O'Sullivan's threats of legal action that resulted in my removing the skydragon threads from Climate Etc. – has this resulted in the burial of the skydragons and arguments that there is no warming of the earth and atmosphere from CO2? If so, this is a major victory for the blogosphere.
- Judith Curry
Yeah right…
At STP, one cubic meter of pure, dry air has a mass of 1.29 kg and contains 0.00078 kg of carbon dioxide. How can such a small amount of carbon dioxide absorb enough OLR to cause any heating of this large mass of gas?
Exhibit #1
100000000000000000000000 is 393 ppm, correct? So for each CO2 molecule you have 500 oxygen and 1900 nitrogen molecules, and the oscillations of those CO2 molecules due to the fractional IR spectrum absorption at 2,4, and 15um is not only trapping all the heat, but a very slight change in the molecular ratio to 2:500 and 2:1900 (Co2 doubling) is supposed be the driving force in this system?
Exhibit #2
Back radiation is a complete BS. Atmospheric CO2 has no physical property to cause any warming. CO2 does not retain heat content. CO2 is one of the best ingredients that earth living things have to change the sun's energy into stored chemical energy. Thanks to CO2.
Exhibit #3
AGW appears the result of political dogma corrupting proper scientific thought. Convenient misinterpretations of basic science in combination with large amounts of confirmation bias have obscured the scientific method. The scientific foundations of the "greenhouse effect" and "radiative forcing" appear baseless.
Exhibit #4
All real physics basics have been changed to fit in with this imaginary The Greenhouse Effect. It is impossible in the REAL WORLD.
Exhibit #5
I get about 500 comments per day here. I couldn't answer even 10% if I spent all day doing so. The number of insupportable statements on this blog is quite large (a statement regarding runaway greenhouse on Venus is far from the worst). I leave it to the denizens to discuss and sort out.
- Judith Curry
A truly catastrophic change
With regards to the exchange with Nordhaus, IMO the original 16 and the rebuttal written by Cohen, Happer and Lindzen have come out ahead of Nordhaus in this exchange. In the end, it seems to me that Nordhaus is justifying his argument based upon the possibility of truly catastrophic change on the timescale of a century.
- Judith Curry
I think we can bound [climate sensitivity] between 1 and 6C at a likely level, I don't think we can justify narrowing this further.
- Judith Curry
[T]here is a 33% probability that that actual sensitivity could be higher or lower than my bounds. To bound at a 90% level, I would say the bounds need to be 0-10C.
- Judith Curry
It's their own fault after all
In extreme cases, entire fields of inquiry can go down a rathole for years because almost everyone has preference-falsified almost everyone else into submission to a "scientific consensus" theory that is (a) widely but privately disbelieved, and (b) doesn't predict or retrodict observed facts at all well. In the worst case, the field will become pathologized — scientific fraud will spread like dry rot among workers overinvested in the "consensus" view and scrambling to prop it up. Yes, anthropogenic global warming, I'm looking at you!
There an important difference between the AGW rathole and the others, though. Errors in the mass of the electron, or the human chromosome count, or structural analyses of obscure languages, don't have political consequences (I chose Chomsky, who is definitely politically active, in part to sharpen this point). AGW theory most certainly does have political consequences; in fact, it becomes clearer by the day that the IPCC assessment reports were fraudulently designed to fit the desired political consequences rather than being based on anything so mundane and unhelpful as observed facts.
- "Armed and Dangerous", as quoted by Judith Curry
I think this particular article goes over the top in essentially dismissing all of AGW as junk science, but I think his perception is correct in that once you start invoking scientific consensus and deniers, you lay yourselves open to the charge of junk science.
- Judith Curry
Scientists Made People Do It
I strongly suspect that people wouldn't be going after these scientists if they hadn't made overconfident statements about their research in the IPCC and their research and data were transparent.
- Judith Curry
Scientists Made People Do It.
As someone who has (unfortunately) been strongly advised to seek the counsel of m'learned friends, I'd be fascinated to know what "overconfident statements" I'd made about my research in the IPCC and what of my "research and data" were not transparent.
- Gavin Schmidt
If someone has personally called you a fraud, did you ask the person why? The accusations of fraud that I have come across in the technical climate blogosphere are mostly from people working in the fields of engineering, regulatory science or medicine, who do not see what is going on in the IPCC assessments as measuring up to the standards in their own fields.
- Judith Curry
So they knew that 93% of interannual variation in CO2 could be explained by natural responses to temperature and soil moisture content, yet they continued with the charade?
I guess it really was fraud after all.
Scientists must account for general public ignorance; not prey on it as has been done with this AGW hypothesis based on the fraudulent misrepresentation of the effect from greenhouse gases.
Actually all of co2 both MM or natural accounts for less than 5% of GH impact. Which gets to the fraud relating to residence time fraud and "compounding" human inputs in the green AGW narrative.
- the technical climate blogosphere [1] [2] [3]
Curry on dragonslaying
I gave the sky dragons a platform, several threads in fact, it didn't go very well for them as their arguments were debunked. The sky dragon group has been severely marginalized by those threads, which wouldn't have happened if we followed your strategy.
- Judith Curry
When I have a technical post, there is generally some good albeit limited discussion, but comments invariably want to veer onto broader topics. The greenhouse effect remains of enduring interest. On some of the threads, physical chemists and molecular physicists showed up to provide their insights and clarify understanding. But these misconceptions remain in the dragonslayer group, although that group seems to be shrinking.
- Judith Curry
[T]he atmosphere does not act as a 'blanket' reducing the surface infrared cooling to space as maintained by the current GH theory, but is in and of itself a source of extra energy through pressure. This makes the GH effect a thermodynamic phenomenon, not a radiative one as presently assumed!
Together Equations (6) and (8) imply that the chemical composition of an atmosphere affects average air density through the molecular mass of air, but has no impact on the mean surface temperature.
Global surface temperature is independent of the down-welling LW flux known as greenhouse or back radiation, because both quantities derive from the same pool of atmospheric kinetic energy maintained by solar heating and air pressure.
- Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. & Karl Zeller, Ph.D.
"An excellent submission for peer 2 peer review"
"Absolutely fabulous."
"Very convincing"
"Uh-oh.. physics at last. Congratulations."
"What a wonderful end-of-year present. Dr Nikolov has neatly and convincingly explained what others (e.g. 'The Slayers') have been broadly asserting for some time but without, in my opinion, providing an intelligible or convincing argument."
"I applaud the efforts to help rectify physical inconsistencies in the current GH concept."
"Nice update to the science debate."
"Exciting times to live in and WUWT is in the lead in providing a sounding board for alternative ideas. Congratulations."
"Thermodynamics of an ideal gas. The greenhouse effect is INDEPENDENT of the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
"Very good and understandable reasoning."
"This is what I call a "killer" publication.
As the "Unified Theory of Climate" provides us with a great explanation how atmosphhic pressure determines our climate the principal AGW doctrine is completely destroyed by these conclusions"
"Could this be Game Set and Match?.
This is the most sensible theory I have heard to explain how the total atmosphere works."
"If this pans out then Nobel Prizes (at least) are in order."
"Although much of the math is beyond me, this looks to me like an entirely new climate paradigm and is a major game-changer!"
"It's a very pretty poster. Visually balanced between the left and right sides, and colors are well thought out."
"Thank you Drs Nikolov & Zeller for this real science. Well done."
Judith Curry on weak methodologies and important insights
Fred, I reread the Huber/Knutti paper with the intention of starting a thread on this, but I really can't see any merit or conclusions of interest here. It is a weak methodology that agrees with a bunch of previous studies, so there is no surprising result. I can do a post that tears the paper apart, but since I don't think this is a very significant paper, i don't think it is worth the effort?
- Judith Curry
Von Storch refers to Hulme's analysis as "remarkable." I agree. In fact I give this paper a "wow." For those of you wondering when/why I give something a "wow," it implies that the paper or whatever significantly changes the way I think about something. This does not necessarily imply a belief change, but it changes the way I think about a subject. What is a "wow" for me may not be relevant for someone else. This particular paper provides some important insights, and I really like the phrase and concept of "epistemic slippage." This paper deserves to be widely discussed, and I look forward to interesting discussion here.
- Judith Curry
I just finished listening to Murry Salby's podcast on Climate Change and Carbon. Wow. [...] If Salby's analysis holds up, this could revolutionize AGW science. [...] While all this is frustratingly preliminary without publication, slides, etc., it is sufficiently important that we should start talking about these issues.
- Judith Curry
Curry on model tuning, part II
The 20th century aerosol forcing used in most of the AR4 model simulations (Section 18.104.22.168) relies on inverse calculations of aerosol optical properties to match climate model simulations with observations. [...] Schwartz (2004) notes that the intermodel spread in modeled temperature trend expressed as a fractional standard deviation is much less than the corresponding spread in either model sensitivity or aerosol forcing, and this comparison does not consider differences in solar and volcanic forcing. This agreement is accomplished through inverse calculations, whereby modeling groups can select the forcing data set and model parameters that produces the best agreement with observations. While some modeling groups may have conducted bona fide forward calculations without any a posteriori selection of forcing data sets and model parameters to fit the 20th century time series of global surface temperature anomalies, the available documentation on each model's tuning procedure and rationale for selecting particular forcing data sets is not generally available.
- J.A. Curry and P.J. Webster, "Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster"
1) The authors claim that 'The 20th century aerosol forcing used in most of the AR4 model simulations (Section 220.127.116.11) relies on inverse calculations of optical properties to match climate model simulations with observations' and thus claim 'apparent circular reasoning'. This is incorrect. The inverse estimates of aerosol forcing given in 22.214.171.124 are derived from observationally based analyses of temperature and are compared in Chapter 9 with "forward" estimates calculated directly from understanding of the emissions in order to determine whether the two are consistent. But it is critical to understand that such inverse estimates are an output of attribution analyses not an input, and thus the claim of 'circular reasoning' is wrong. The aerosol forcing used in 20C3M (see http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/projects/cmip/ann_20c3m.php) climate model simulations was based on forward calculations using emission data (Boucher and Pham, 2002; references in Randall et al., 2007). Further, detection and attribution methods determine whether model-simulated temporal and spatial patterns of change (referred to as 'fingerprints') that are expected in response to changes in external forcing are present in observations. For example, the aerosol fingerprint shows a spatial and temporal pattern of near-surface temperature changes that varies between hemispheres and over time (see Hegerl et al., 2007 section 220.127.116.11). [...] These patterns make the response to solar and aerosol forcing distinguishable (with uncertainties) from that due to greenhouse gas forcing. The amplitude of those fingerprint patterns is estimated from observations. Therefore, attribution of the dominant role of greenhouse gases in the warming of the past half-century is not sensitive to the uncertainties in the magnitude of aerosol forcing, or of other forcings, such as solar forcing. [...] Thus, Curry and Webster misrepresent the role of forcing magnitude uncertainties in attribution, and do not appreciate the level of rigour with which physically plausible alternative explanations of the recent climate change are explored.
- Gabriele Hegerl, Peter Stott, Susan Solomon and Francis Zwiers, "Comment on Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster by J.A. Curry and P.J. Webster."
Our overall concerns about the IPCC AR4 attribution statement and uncertainty analysis are best illustrated in the context of the recent publication by Gent et al. (2011), showing simulations of the 20th century climate of the NCAR Community Climate System Model Version 4. Figure 1 [the link downloads the file] compares the results of the CCSM3 (used in the AR4) with the CCSM4 simulations (for the AR5). In spite of using a better model and better forcing data for the CCSM4 simulations, the CCSM4 simulations show that after 1970, the simulated surface temperature increases faster than the data, so that by 2005 the model anomaly is 0.4oC larger than the observed anomaly. By contrast, the CCSM3 simulations show very good agreement with the surface temperature data. The critical difference is that the CCSM4 model was tuned for the pre-industrial period and used accepted best estimates of the forcing data, whereas the CCSM3 model was tuned to the 20th century observations and each modeling group was permitted to select their preferred forcing data sets. The contrast between the CCSM3 and CCSM4 simulations illustrate the bootstrapped plausibility of climate model simulations that influenced the AR4 attribution assessment.
- J. A. Curry and P.J. Webster, "Reply to Hegerl et al.'s Comment on "Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster"" (draft)
Abstract. Hegerl et al.'s comment provides us with a further opportunity to emphasize and clarify our arguments as to why the treatment of uncertainty in the IPCC AR4 assessment regarding attribution is incomplete and arguably misleading.
- J.A. Curry and P.J. Webster, "Reply to Hegerl et al.'s Comment on "Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster"" (published version)
More consistency
Do Judith Curry and Richard Muller disagree?
Below is a joint statement by Judith Curry and Richard Muller:
In recent days, statements we've made to the media and on blogs have been characterized as contradictory. They are not.
We have both said that the global temperature record of the last 13 years shows evidence suggesting that the warming has slowed. Our new analysis of the land-based data neither confirms nor denies this contention. If you look at our new land temperature estimates, you can see a flattening of the rise, or a continuation of the rise, depending on the statistical approach you take.
-Judith Curry and Richar Muller, mid-November, 2011
Applying our analysis over the interval 1998 to 2010, we find the land temperature trend to be 2.84 ± 0.73 C / century, consistent with prior decades.
- Robert Rohde, Judith Curry, Donald Groom, Robert Jacobsen, Richard A. Muller, Saul Perlmutter, Arthur Rosenfeld, Charlotte Wickham, Jonathan Wurtele, "Berkeley Earth Temperature Averaging Process", mid-October, 2011
In our data, which is only on the land, we see no evidence of it [global warming] having slowed down.
- Richard Muller, October 21, 2011
This is "hide the decline" stuff. Our data show the pause, just as the other sets of data do. Muller is hiding the decline.
- Judith Curry, October 30, 2011
I mean, what they have done is an old trick. It's how to lie with statistics, right? And scientists can't do that because 10 years from now, they'll look back on my publications and say, 'Was he right?' But a journalist can lie with statistics. They can choose a little piece of the data and prove what they want, carefully cutting out the end. If I wanted to do this, I could demonstrate, for example, with the same data set that from 1980 to 1995 that it's equally flat. You can find little realms where it's equally flat. What that tells me is that 15 years is not enough to be able to tell whether it's warming or not. And so when they take 13 years, and they say based on that they can reach a conclusion based on our data set, I think they're playing that same game and the fact that we can find that back in 1980, the same effect, when we know it wasn't warming simply shows that that method doesn't work. But no scientist could do that because he'd be discredited for lying with statistics.
- Richard Muller, October 31, 2011
The Wall St. Journal Op-Ed by one of us (Muller) seemed to take the opposite view with its title and subtitle: "The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism — There were good reasons for doubt, until now." But those words were not written by Muller. The title and the subtitle of the submitted Op-Ed were "Cooling the Warming Debate – Are you a global warming skeptic? If not, perhaps you should be. Let me explain why." The title and subtitle were changed by the editors without consulting or seeking permission from the author. Readers are encouraged to ignore the title and read the content of the Op-Ed.
-Judith Curry and Richard Muller, mid-November, 2011
But I've never said you shouldn't be a skeptic. I've never said that.
- Richard Muller, October 31, 2011
Without good answers to all these complaints, global-warming skepticism seems sensible. But now let me explain why you should not be a skeptic, at least not any longer.
- Richard Muller, October 21, 2011
Curry has a quiz
How many of these disinformation tactics are used by JC?
3. Create rumor mongers. Avoid discussing issues by describing all charges, regardless of venue or evidence, as mere rumors and wild accusations.
"Let me say that this is one of the most reprehensible attacks on a reputable scientist that I have seen, and the so-called tsunami of accusations made in regards to climategate are nothing in compared to the attack on Wegman." [source]
"On comment regarding my comments on Wegman (not the Wegman report per se). The whole host of issues surrounding whether or not he is biased, the plaigarism accusation, and whatever else, are issues that I have not investigated in any detail (and don't intend to). So my comments on this should not receive any undue consideration; they were made when i thought my mention of the Wegman Report was going to be hijacked by the plaigarism issue being raised at deepclimate. This is last word on that subject, and request that Keith not allow any more comments on this topic of plaigarism." [source]
6. Hit and Run. In any public forum, make a brief attack of your opponent or the opponent position and then scamper off before an answer can be fielded, or simply ignore any answer.
"Gavin, the post I made in #167 was a summary of Montford's book as closely as I can remember it, sort of a review. I did not particularly bring in my personal opinions into this, other than the framing of montford's points." [source]
7. Question motives.
"Once the UNFCCC treaty was in place, there was pressure on the IPCC to back this up with science. Hence the "discernible" in the SAR. Ben Santer has taken huge heat for that, but look at where the pressure was coming from. The whole UNFCCC treaty wouldn't make sense unless there was at least "discernible" evidence that this was actually happening." [source]
8. Invoke authority.
"He is the author of a popular introductory graduate text Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics. He is an excellent lecturer and teacher, which comes across in his podcast. He has the reputation of a thorough and careful researcher. While all this is frustratingly preliminary without publication, slides, etc., it is sufficiently important that we should start talking about these issues." [source]
9. Play Dumb. No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered, avoid discussing issues except with denials they have any credibility, make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic, or support a conclusion.
"The whole point of my remarks to David Rose of the Daily Mail is that the BEST data has very little to say about GLOBAL temperatures, since it is a land only data set that covers ~30% of the earth's surface. That is the context for my statements to Rose." [source]
17. Change the subject.
"I'm hosting a guest post for the authors of two recently published papers, on a topic that everyone seems to want to discuss at the moment: the BEST data set and interpreting the temperature record." [source]
18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents.
People don't like me saying this, but none are defending me from the label of heretic for talking about overconfidence in the IPCC and concerns about treatment of the uncertainty (which stimulated the heretic label). Which seems to support my dogma argument. [source]
19. Ignore proof presented, demand impossible proofs.
20. False evidence.
22. Manufacture a new truth. Create your own expert(s), group(s), author(s), leader(s) or influence existing ones willing to forge new ground via scientific, investigative, or social research or testimony which concludes favorably. In this way, if you must actually address issues, you can do so authoritatively.
23. Create bigger distractions.
A retroactive context
This is "hide the decline" stuff. Our data show the pause, just as the other sets of data do. Muller is hiding the decline.
- Judith Curry
As far as I can tell, there is nothing in the BEST data that says there is no lag/slow down in the warming during the past decade or so.
- Judith Curry
Applying our analysis over the interval 1998 to 2010, we find the land temperature trend to be 2.84 ± 0.73 C / century, consistent with prior decades.
- Robert Rohde, Judith Curry, Donald Groom, Robert Jacobsen, Richard A. Muller, Saul Perlmutter, Arthur Rosenfeld, Charlotte Wickham, Jonathan Wurtele, "Berkeley Earth Temperature Averaging Process"
When asked specifically about the graph that apparently uses a 10 year running mean and ends in 2006, we discussed "hide the decline," but I honestly can't recall if Rose or I said it first. I agreed that the way the data is presented in the graph "hides the decline."
- Judith Curry, posted on October 30, 2011
I have dug into my memory. Rose brought up hide the decline in our first interview, in the context of the plot that ends in 2006. He called me back specifically to discuss this and teased the "hide the decline" out of me. The hide the decline discussion was in this particular context.
- Judith Curry, updated on October 30, 2011
Joshua, this whole issue was particularly in the context of discussion of a graph that used a 10 yr running mean.
- Judith Curry, October 30, 2011 at 2:57pm
However, a week later…
The whole point of my remarks to David Rose of the Daily Mail is that the BEST data has very little to say about GLOBAL temperatures, since it is a land only data set that covers ~30% of the earth's surface. That is the context for my statements to Rose.
- Judith Curry, November 7, 2011 at 9:09am


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Welcome Class of 2017! The students are back and classes started today. Many from the Class of 2017 could be seen taking tours through the town this past weekend, learning about local service organizations and finding their way around town. The sports teams have been back on campus for a while & they're getting ready to kick off their seasons. The Women's soccer team just finished up a two game home stand over the weekend. For the more news about the Class of 2017, check out the Newest Wildcats.


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The Asian Women's Circle Group (AWCG) at Augsburg, in collaboration with the Pan Asian Student Services, went on an educational trip to Australia for winter 2009-2010.
There about 2500 Hmong living in Australia. It has been over 30 years since the end of the Indo-china wars (Vietnam War) and the migration of Hmong refugees to Australia. Yet over 90% of the Hmong still live below Australia's poverty rate and high school graduations remain extremely low.
A group of 10 Hmong students researched and examined Australia's social, political, and educational systems and how they affect the Hmong communities contributing to the high poverty rate.
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Biomechanical Evaluations of Various C1-C2 Posterior Fixation Techniques
A biomechanical in vitro study using human cadaveric spine.To compare the biomechanical stability of pedicle screws versus various established posterior atlantoaxial fixations used to manage atlantoaxial instability.Rigid screw fixation of the atlantoaxial complex provides immediate stability and excellent fusion success though has a high risk of neurovascular complications. Some spine surgeons thus insert shorter C2 pedicle or pars/isthmus screws as alternatives to minimize the latter risks. The biomechanical consequences of short pedicle screw fixation remain unclear, however.Seven human cadaveric cervical spines with the occiput attached (C0-C3) had neutral zone (NZ) and range of motion (ROM) evaluated in three modes of loading. Specimens were tested in the following sequence: initially (1) the intact specimens were tested, after destabilization of C1-C2, then the specimens underwent (2) C1 lateral mass and C2 short pedicle screw fixation (PS-S), (3) C1 lateral mass and C2 long pedicle screw fixation (PS-L), (4) C1 lateral mass and C2 intralaminar screw fixation (ILS), (5) Sonntag's modified Gallie fixation (MG) and (6) C1-C2 transarticular screw fixation with posterior wiring (TAS 1 MG). (7) The destabilized spine was also tested.All instrumented groups were significantly stiffer in NZ and ROM than the intact spines, except in lateral bending, which was statistically significantly increased in the TAS 1 MG group. The MG group's NZ and ROM values were statistically significantly weaker than those of the PS-S, PS-L, and the ROM values of the TAS 1 MG groups. The ILS group's NZ values were higher than those of the TAS 1 MG group and for ROM, than that of the PS-S and PS-L groups. In flexion, the NZ and ROM values of the TAS 1 MG group were significantly less than those of the PS-S, PS-L, ILS, and MG groups. In axial rotation, the NZ and ROM values of the MG group were statistically significantly higher than those of the PS-S, PS-L, ISL and TAS 1 MG groups.The TAS 1 MG procedures provided the highest stability. The MG method alone may not be adequate for atlantoaxial arthrodesis, because it does not provide sufficient stability in lateral bending and rotation modes. The C2 pedicle screw and C2 ILS techniques are biomechanically less stable than the TAS 1 MG. In the C1 lateral mass-C2 pedicle screw fixation, the use of a short pedicle screw may be an alternative when other screw fixation techniques are not feasible.
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Maya Angelou Prank Show from tonight's SNL. Her exchange with Cornel West was the hardest I've laughed at an SNL sketch in quite a while. Maya Rudolph is of course hilarious; great episode all around.
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Welcome to the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Psychological Society
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Around The World In 80 Days will change the way you look at adventure games. This recreation of the Jules Verne classic throws into a 3D world filled with late VIctorian-era action and intrigue. When Oliver Lavisheart's eccentric uncle makes an impossible bet, it falls on the very down-to-Earth nephew to keep him on course. It's a wild time and he'll have trouble keeping up, but it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel the world -- and he can't pass it up!
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The Chosewood Park mural that over its nude imagery, is not getting repainted after all.
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11Alive News reported the mural, painted by Argentinean artist Hyuro, will stay, pending the outcome of a Sept. 10 meeting of neighborhood residents.
The mural, which was painted as part of the Living Walls Conference, was to have been , after the owner of the former General Motors Lakewood Plant decided the attention and controversy was too much.
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City leaders unanimously approved spending more than $127,000 for courtyard enhancements including adding a green, seven-foot tall, wrought-iron style fence and gate around the entrance of the . Atop the fence is an arch that parallels the building's signature roof-line.
A similar styled fence would be added around the west terrace and pump house. The work could be complete within three months, said Barbara Pickell, director of the Clearwater Public Library System.
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The , officials have said. It would also keep the homeless from sleeping in front of the building when it is closed.
The cost, initially pegged at $72,000, ballooned to $188,000. However, leaders voted to remove nearly $50,000 for pavers around the front entrance similar to the kind on Cleveland Street. They also reduced the cost of the project by removing the somewhat controversial words "Clearwater Public Library" which cost about $11,000.
Artistic elements, either a decorative planter, mosaic art or other type of sculpture would also be part of the entrance enhancements. The city Public Arts and Advisory Board will decide the type of art element, Pickell said.
The plan was supported by Library groups, including its foundation and an important critic, Alex P. Lamis, a partner at the firm of Robert A. M. Stern, the architect who designed the building.
Lamis initially opposed the design in a letter sent to the city in July. However, a week later Lamis sent another letter:
Thank you for sending along additional renderings and information regarding the proposed gate and fence at the Library entrance. The most recent version seems to be a reasonable solution—one that is in keeping with the overall Library design. We wish you the best for this project.


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A recently updated National Transportation Safety Board report says "there was no evidence of pre-impact airframe, power plant or propeller malfunction or failure" in the June crash at Oakland County International Airport.
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UC Davis's approach to the on-campus Occupy camp shifted dramatically in the days after the now-famous pepper spraying. A consultant that was hired by the UC system in the incident's aftermath might have something to do with that, based on a report in the Davis Enterprise.
Prior to that big moment, authorities had a firm no-camping policy and police approached the Occupation in riot gear, armed with pepper spray. After the incident, police hardly came around at all. And the students were allowed to reoccupy the following Monday. They also vacated during winter break and reoccupied once again at the start of the winter quarter.
Cory Golden reported today in the Enterprise that the UC system paid $100,000 for a crisis-communications consultant to help cope with the pepper spray fallout. Golden also pointed out ties between that consultant and the firm that is "independently" investigating the incident.
Until 2010, that same consultant, a division of Marsh Risk Consulting, had ties to Kroll Inc.— the outside firm hired by UC to provide an independent account of what happened that day on the Quad.
Lynn Tierney, the UC's Associate Vice President of Communications, told Golden that they didn't want to put out misinformation on such a big issue, so they hired the help at a rate of $375 per hour. Check out the Enterprise story to see what else UC Davis spent during the fallout.
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place is a dive bar lame disco bands and old poeple pass go some were else
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I haven't been here either, but the comments on Yelp are hilarious! http://www.yelp.com/biz/katiejakes-bar-and-grill-covina To Frank: Some people like dive bars, but it sounds like if you want avoid cougars and old fogeys hitting on you, stay away!
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If I could give this perfume no stars, I would. I tried it after I read all the reviews, I wanted to find out what all the fuss is about: I still haven't found out. It smells like my grandmother's great grandmother.
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lemme start off by saying is not for the girl with fantasy and pink sugar and viva la juicy in their perfume collection you might want to steer clear as this is more of a mature sent, however i don't think granny when i smell this (like i do with white diamonds). which is what i was afraid of, however i do think, classy, sophisticated, clean but yet warm and musky and a touch of glamour. I really like it myself. i find that it lasts pretty long and can be a bit strong at first spray but the dry down is lovely. I've never sampled the original but a lot of people say its a way weaker version, I however find it pretty strong and cant even stray it on my chest because its really overwhelming, so i stick to wrists and behind the ears. anyway i like it, and I'll probably be buying a larger size after i save up a bit.
i bought this for my mom during my spore trip this weekend and i tried it myself. smells really good. softer than the original version. i like it but not my signature scent.
love this scent. surprisingly my husband and my son likes it but my daughter doesn't. the guys say its a lovely floral scent while my daughter thinks its grandma scent. i however think its more of a sophisticated powdery scent. most fragrance changes on me, this one does not. it last a decent amount of time. lovely the packaging.
Chanel is my favorite fragrance house hands down. I love the original Number 5 and I'm so happy that Chanel did a beautiful job updating this fragrance in Eau Premiere. The whole thing from top note to drydown is gorgeous. The initial opening of bergamot and lemon on my skin stay on throughout till the fragrance fades on me about 6 hours later. The jasmine and rose notes on this are so well done and perfect, not sharp or overly sweet and flowery, rather just keep everything clean and fresh. I thought inititally this would be perfect for me in summer and warmer weather. Surpringsingly, I love this and wear it more in winter. It felt to heavy and cloying in summer, but I have allergies and can get headaches from fragrances. In winter it becomes a fresh clean floral but still with a warmth that is perfect for me.
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I had tried to wear the original 5 but it only seemed appropriate at work. I live a pretty casual life and the original No 5 just seemed to demand a better ambiance than that found at a beach or BBQ;-)
This incarnation is less uptight and we get along very well.The attributes that make the original great are still there but she has let her hair down a little. Love.
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I sprayed this today from a tester, and have been wearing it for about 4 hours now. I immediately recognized it as a No. 5 (I am not a fan of the original), and although it is an interesting scent, it's not for me. It's very unique, and the smell has developed in an interesting way over the past several hours, but it's not something that agrees with my nose unfortunately. The smell is just too mature for my taste, and reminds me of my elderly aunt for some reason. I was hoping it would be a bit more "fresh" smelling based on these reviews.
I have always admired the original No.5 from afar. So beautiful, sharp, accomplished, but very aggressive. Then came in Eau Premiere. Just as beautiful and smart as No.5, but with the sweetness and approachability that her sister lacked. Where No.5 was often hard to interpret and needed to be pleased, Eau Premiere greets you with a smile and a hug and wants to make you feel happy and welcome! You can definitely tell the fragrances are related, but personality-wise, they are night and day!
Elegant yet light-hearted at the same time - and always so feminine is Eau Premiere. On first spritz, my eyes became wide-eyed at the same time the corners of my mouth became upturned - what a fresh and light surprise from Chanel - a beauty so different from the rest of the other Chanel sisters. Where the other sisters are chiseled and immaculately groomed, she is all rosy cheeked and cherubic with dimples - youthful and charming. This fragrance will work for women of any age who are young at heart;)
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This perfume is the first "grown-up" perfume I fell in love with. I just got out of school and have always been on a budget so I've never had a chance to wear any high-end perfumes, especially since my mother was never so interested in fragrances, so there wasn't much to "borrow" from her, either. But I've always liked to smell nice! I used to really like the Pacifica French Lilac perfume, but Eau Premiere felt like a HUGE step in a more elegant direction for me. I know, it might not seem like much to write home about for a very particular connoisseur of perfumes, but I feel like if you're just starting to explore fragrances and like something classic and floral and light, then this is PERFECT. I actually first tried it as a sample I got in my Birchbox several months ago, and after I sprayed it on, I honestly felt more beautiful and elegant with it on. I mean, I had just gotten dressed and put my makeup on and felt pulled together, but the light touch of this perfume was just what I needed to step back from the mirror and feel beautiful. I also got like 3 guys' numbers that night, which hardly EVER happens to me. So I don't know WHAT this did but it was awesome and I immediately asked for this for my graduation present. I wear it all the time and it is the loveliest. I'm not as familiar with the original No. 5 and can't compare the two, but from what I understand, this is a variation that has a different vibe. I like how light and delicate it is, and while it doesn't last super long on my skin, a spritz or two once I notice it's fading refreshes it enough to last the rest of the day/night. I also think that, along with the fragrance itself being pretty, it also blends well with my particular skin chemistry. I even like it when I catch a whiff of it on my clothes randomly, it's one of those fragrances that is subtle enough to never be overpowering and to take a backseat sometimes, but then you notice it again just for a moment and think, "Oh, how pretty that is." That's how I like perfume to be, so this works perfectly for me.
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I guess I'm right in Chanel's target audience, because I would wear this over the traditional No. 5. I notice much less of the aldehydes (not a fan), much more citrus, rose and jasmine, and kind of a coca-cola note. But: I wouldn't buy it in that giant, expensive bottle. If Chanel ever decided to make this and No. 19 EDT in a one-ounce bottle I would snatch them up, but until then I think I may hold off.
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